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BBC News", "Storm Christoph flooding: Financial help offered to victims - BBC News", "Storm Christoph: Travel disruption as snow and rain sweep in - BBC News", "Troubles victims: Thousands of relatives call for action - BBC News", "Glastonbury 2021: Festival axed 'with great regret' - BBC News", "Covid rules: What are the restrictions in your area? - BBC News", "Biden's inauguration speech calls for unity - it won't be easy - BBC News", "Saga cruises says all customers must be vaccinated - BBC News", "Amanda Gorman: Inauguration poet calls for 'unity and togetherness' - BBC News", "Kamala Harris becomes first female, first black and first Asian-American VP - BBC News", "Covid: Infections 'must be brought down' to help NHS - BBC News", "Covid-19: What might a 'tighter' NI lockdown look like? - BBC News", "Manchester sinkhole: Houses collapse in Gorton street - BBC News", "Covid: £800 house party fines to be introduced in England - BBC News", "Brexit: 'I was asked to pay an extra £82 for my £200 coat' - 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BBC News", "President Joe Biden inauguration speech: 'Democracy has prevailed' - BBC News", "Dartford mother-of-three died after liposuction in Turkey - BBC News", "Biden inauguration in pictures - BBC News", "Covid vaccine: 'Patience and perspective' needed in Wales - BBC News", "Racism in ballet: Black dancer's 'humiliation' at racist comments - BBC News", "Lockdown children forget how to use knife and fork - BBC News", "Coronavirus: BMJ urges NYT to correct vaccine 'mixing' article - BBC News", "Edinburgh's giant pandas may 'return to China' over Covid losses - BBC News", "Families rescued in Peak District after getting trapped in snow - BBC News", "Covid: Liverpool's leaders call for new national lockdown - BBC News", "Covid-19: Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine arrives at hospitals - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Scottish cabinet to consider further measures - BBC News", "Cold snap creates 'pop-up' ice hockey rink - BBC News", "Covid in Wales: Schools' phased return defended by first minister - BBC News", "Covid: Sweden official defends Christmas trip to Canary Islands - BBC News", "Irish Eurovision singer and Bagatelle frontman Liam Reilly dies - BBC News", "Zoe Davison: Racing trainer dies on same day two of her horses win at Plumpton - BBC Sport", "West Brom 0-4 Arsenal: Arsenal see off Baggies in ruthless display - BBC Sport", "Covid in Scotland: New strain of virus 'accelerating' spread - BBC News", "Coronavirus: India approves vaccines from Bharat Biotech and Oxford/AstraZeneca - BBC News", "Reading stabbing: Five teenagers arrested after boy, 13, dies - BBC News", "EuroMillions: Jackpot of more than £39m won by UK ticket-holder - BBC News", "Covid rules: What are the restrictions in your area? - BBC News", "Covid: Not much room for lockdown changes, Wales' first minister warns - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Twelve fined for playing dominoes in Tier 4 breach - BBC News", "Boris Johnson says indyref vote should be once-in-generation - BBC News", "Liverpool FC anthem singer Gerry Marsden dies aged 78 - BBC News", "New Year snow flurries fall across England - BBC News", "Covid-19: New variant 'raises R number by up to 0.7' - BBC News", "Suspected Islamists kill dozens in attacks on two Niger villages - BBC News", "Covid: What could 'tougher' measures mean for us? - BBC News", "Pep Guardiola: Man City boss may stay in management longer than planned - BBC Sport", "Covid-19: Anti-lockdown protesters arrested at Hyde Park demo - BBC News", "Benjamin Mendy: Man City 'disappointed' after defender breaches Covid-19 protocols - BBC Sport", "Ryan Garcia stops Luke Campbell after surviving knockdown in Dallas - BBC Sport", "County Antrim poultry flock to be culled after bird flu detected - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Restrictions 'could continue' amid rising cases - BBC News", "Hospitals across UK 'must prepare for Covid surge', senior doctor warns - BBC News", "Covid: Regional rules 'probably going to get tougher', says Boris Johnson - BBC News", "Covid: Cardiff Central MP Jo Stevens in hospital with virus - BBC News", "As it happened: Boris Johnson warns of tougher measures amid Covid surge - BBC News", "US Election 2020 - BBC News", "Covid: Snowdonia National Park wardens 'getting abuse' during lockdown - BBC News", "Leicester City 2-0 Southampton: James Maddison and Harvey Barnes send Foxes second - BBC Sport", "Covid: Nurseries 'teetering on the edge' during pandemic - BBC News", "Archie Lyndhurst: CBBC star died in his sleep, says mother - BBC News", "SLS: Nasa's 'megarocket' engine test ends early - BBC News", "Covid-19: Protect us from unlawful killing charges - medics - BBC News", "Phil Spector: Pop producer jailed for murder dies at 81 - BBC News", "Covid-19: Man said he had travelled 100 miles 'for a McDonald's' - BBC News", "RAF veteran receives Covid jab at Salisbury Cathedral - BBC News", "Covid-19: France begins 6pm curfew - BBC News", "Liverpool 0-0 Man Utd: Alisson saves thwart leaders at Anfield - BBC Sport", "Chris Cramer: Tributes paid after former BBC and CNN journalist dies aged 73 - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: 'Patchy supply' hampering vaccine rollout - BBC News", "Covid-19: NI hospitals prepare for peak of latest virus surge - BBC News", "Branson's Virgin rocket takes satellites to orbit - BBC News", "Covid-19: Nisra records highest ever weekly deaths - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Parents' joy as free childcare resumes - BBC News", "Online clothes sellers targeted by 'creepy' messages - BBC News", "Covid-19: BBC's Fergal Keane revisits St Mary’s and Charing Cross Hospital 10 months on - BBC News", "Sudan's Darfur region: 'More than 80 killed' in clashes - BBC News", "Lai Chi-Wai raises HK$5.2m for charity climbing Nina Towers - BBC News", "Covid: Airport support scheme to open in England - BBC News", "As it happened: NHS England under extreme pressure, says NHS chief - BBC News", "Virtual library gives children in England free book access - BBC News", "Gerry Marsden: Funeral held for Pacemakers star - BBC News", "Covid: Church of England services hit by pandemic - BBC News", "Sri Lanka v England: Tourists wobble chasing 74 after Jack Leach takes 5-122 - BBC Sport", "Universal Credit: Benefit increase only 'temporary', says Raab - BBC News", "G7: UK to host Cornwall seaside summit in summer - BBC News", "Statues to get protection from 'baying mobs' - BBC News", "Home Office 'working to restore' lost police records - BBC News", "Eurostar: Government urged to 'safeguard' rail firm's future - BBC News", "Covid-19: Running a roadside van when a pandemic cuts traffic - BBC News", "Coronavirus: William and Kate hear from emergency workers - BBC News", "Covid: People broke lockdown rules in 200-mile drive to see friends - BBC News", "Covid-19: More mass jab centres, airport support and a virtual library - BBC News", "Covid-19: England delivering 140 jabs a minute, says NHS chief executive - BBC News", "Mount Semeru: Erupting volcano spews ash above Indonesia's Java island - BBC News", "Universal credit: MPs urge PM to keep £20 benefit 'lifeline' - BBC News", "Covid-19: Further 1,295 deaths recorded in the UK - BBC News", "Archbishop of Glasgow Philip Tartaglia dies with Covid aged 70 - BBC News", "Covid-19: Bedworth Pokemon player fined for lockdown breach - BBC News", "Manchester Arena and Parsons Green bombers charged with prison officer attack - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Freeman targets 400,000 vaccinations every week - BBC News", "Lockdown Christmas hits: Lidl pink prosecco and takeaways - BBC News", "Covid-19: BBC's Fergal Keane revisits St Mary’s and Charing Cross Hospital 10 months on - BBC News", "'Discriminatory' mental health system overhauled - BBC News", "Fresh calls for NI mother and baby homes inquiry - BBC News", "Covid-19: Welsh Government update - BBC News", "Covid: Police cancel fine for couple visiting care home - BBC News", "Human remains found in search for missing cyclist Tony Parsons - BBC News", "Johnson: 24-7 Covid-vaccine hubs as soon as supply allows - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: The six new lockdown rules - BBC News", "Coronavirus: British tourist blamed for Lauberhorn ski race cancellation - BBC News", "Coronavirus: 'How long can we keep going like this? About a week' - BBC News", "Covid-19: We can make this the peak by following rules, says Hancock - BBC News", "Morrisons to be first UK supermarket to pay minimum £10 an hour - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: How do the rules compare to last year? - BBC News", "Edinburgh Woollen Mill rescue deal to save 2,000 jobs - BBC News", "Furlough fraud: I'm still registered as furloughed for a job I quit' - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Stricter rules within days - BBC News", "China: Senior Conservatives call for reset of UK policy - BBC News", "Media billionaire David Barclay dies, aged 86 - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Lockdown lifting 'unlikely' as deaths pass 5,000 - BBC News", "Huawei patent mentions use of Uighur-spotting tech - BBC News", "PMQs: Some food parcels are an 'insult to families' - PM - BBC News", "Earl of Strathmore admits sex attack at Glamis Castle home - BBC News", "Covid rules: What are the restrictions in your area? - BBC News", "Sinovac: Brazil results show Chinese vaccine 50.4% effective - BBC News", "Covid-19: More than 100,000 vaccine doses administered in NI - BBC News", "Customs staff: Vaccinate us to keep trade flowing - BBC News", "Four arrested over 'public nuisance' at Redditch and Birmingham hospitals - BBC News", "Covid: Birmingham hospitals move 200 doctors to intensive care duties - BBC News", "Plastic bag charge to double to 10p from April in Scotland - BBC News", "Naomi Campbell's Kenya tourism role causes row - BBC News", "Heavy snow causes widespread disruption in Scotland - BBC News", "Covid-19: New test rule for England arrivals pushed back to Monday - BBC News", "David Attenborough to front government-funded 5G AR app - BBC News", "GCSE and A-level pupils could sit mini exams to aid grading - BBC News", "Covid-19: Lockdown measures 'starting to show signs of some effect' - PM - BBC News", "Covid-19: Alabama crowds ignore coronavirus to celebrate championship - BBC News", "Covid-19: New treatment, NHS staff struggles and free meals row - BBC News", "Trump impeachment process: Who are the key players? - BBC News", "Gurlitt's last Nazi-looted work returned to owners - BBC News", "Cramlington woman celebrates 100th birthday with covid jab - BBC News", "People's sonic boom surprise caught on camera - BBC News", "Libby Squire murder trial: Pawel Relowicz 'prowled streets for victim' - BBC News", "Battery lodged in baby's throat for four months - BBC News", "As it happened: Record number of daily deaths reported in UK - BBC News", "Covid vaccine: Pfizer v Oxford AstraZeneca v Moderna - BBC News", "Covid-19: Special school staff want jab priority - BBC News", "Tottenham Hotspur 1-1 Fulham: Ivan Cavaleiro earns a point for Premier League strugglers - BBC Sport", "Call for better coronavirus masks for all medical staff - BBC News", "Covid: Play your part in fight against virus, says Patel - BBC News", "YouTube suspends Donald Trump's channel - BBC News", "Covid: UK reports record 1,564 daily deaths - BBC News", "Mohamud Mohammed Hassan: Hundreds march over arrested man's death - BBC News", "Covid: Three Democratic lawmakers test positive after Capitol riot - BBC News", "Tesco, Asda and Waitrose ban shoppers without face masks - BBC News", "Trump impeached for second time - BBC News", "YFN Lucci: US rapper wanted in Atlanta for suspected murder - BBC News", "Covid: Many NHS staff 'traumatised' by first wave of virus, study shows - BBC News", "Duchess of York: From Budgie the Helicopter to Mills & Boon - BBC News", "Capitol riots: Who broke into the building? - BBC News", "Britain's Got Talent: Filming postponed due to coronavirus concerns - BBC News", "Boris Johnson condemns 'disgraceful scenes' in US - BBC News", "National Express to suspend all services - BBC News", "Fears schools will be overwhelmed by laptopless pupils - BBC News", "Trump allowed back onto Twitter - BBC News", "Trump auction for Arctic oil rights sees little interest - BBC News", "Reading stabbing: Three teenagers charged with murder after boy, 13, dies - BBC News", "Capitol riot: Biden says BLM protest would have been treated 'very differently' - BBC News", "Essex lorry deaths: Dad learned of son's fate on social media - BBC News", "As it happened: PM sets out Covid vaccine rollout plan - BBC News", "Teachers' grades to replace A-levels and GCSEs in England - BBC News", "Adrian Chiles confirmed in Emma Barnett 5 Live slot - BBC News", "Covid: Seven mass vaccination hubs announced for England - BBC News", "Capitol riots: World media see Trump ignite an 'insurrection' - BBC News", "Coronavirus: 'How long can we keep going like this? About a week' - BBC News", "Breonna Taylor: Two Louisville officers fired over roles in shooting - BBC News", "Stella Tennant: Family confirms model's death was suicide - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: 'Well over half' of care home residents vaccinated - BBC News", "Two more life-saving Covid drugs discovered - BBC News", "Capitol riot: What does a deadly day mean for Trump's legacy? - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Belfast Trust cancels urgent cancer surgeries - BBC News", "Capitol riots: How a Trump rally turned deadly - BBC News", "Capitol riots: A visual guide to the storming of Congress - BBC News", "Muted response as Clap for Heroes returns - BBC News", "Capitol riot: Five startling images from the siege - BBC News", "Capitol riots: Moment protesters storm US legislature - BBC News", "Capitol riots: Boris Johnson condemns Donald Trump for sparking events - BBC News", "Ryanair scraps most UK and Irish lockdown flights - BBC News", "Covid: UK travel curbs to keep out South Africa variant - BBC News", "Capitol riots: Pro-Trump protesters storm the US legislature - in pictures - BBC News", "'Mr Christmas' lights switched off for last time in Croxley Green - BBC News", "Inside one GP surgery's Covid vaccine roll-out - BBC News", "Covid-19: Baby's mother issues mottled skin warning - BBC News", "Trump’s Twitter downfall - BBC News", "ICU hospital staff: 'Scared, sad, petrified, worried' - BBC News", "Elon Musk becomes world's richest person as wealth tops $185bn - BBC News", "Capitol siege: Trump's words 'directly led' to violence, Patel says - BBC News", "Reading stabbing: Murder-accused teenagers appear in court - BBC News", "US Election 2020 - BBC News", "McDonald's pauses walk-in takeaways in lockdown - BBC News", "US Capitol riots: World leaders react to 'horrifying' scenes in Washington - BBC News", "'Show us it's safe' to be open, say nursery staff - BBC News", "Alex Rodda murder: Matthew Mason guilty of killing schoolboy - BBC News", "Covid-19: Boris Johnson makes daily jab pledge as Army helps rollout - BBC News", "Organ donor mum wishes she could help her children in need of kidneys - BBC News", "Meat factories warn Covid absences could hit supplies - BBC News", "Covid tests for Channel hauliers to continue 'until further notice' - BBC News", "Aston Villa plan to play youngsters against Liverpool in FA Cup after Covid outbreak - BBC Sport", "Covid-19: Vaccine rollout widens as hospital pressure rises - BBC News", "Sainsbury's Christmas sales rise despite smaller turkeys - BBC News", "Analysis: Can lockdown stop the new coronavirus variant? - BBC News", "Covid: China places 11m under lockdown after outbreak in northern city - BBC News", "The Wanted's Tom Parker says brain tumour has 'shrunk significantly' - BBC News", "Lockdown: 'I've borrowed £4m just to remain closed' - BBC News", "Capitol siege: An eyewitness account from inside the House chamber - BBC News", "Asos frontrunner to buy Topshop, Topman and Miss Selfridge brands - BBC News", "Boohoo 'set to buy Debenhams brand and website' - BBC News", "Covid-19: Top adviser warns France at 'emergency' virus moment - BBC News", "Covid-19: Essex student helps 600 refugees out of 'period poverty' - BBC News", "Covid: Israel vaccinates 16 to 18-year-olds ahead of exams - BBC News", "Covid: School return in Wales 'unlikely' for all in February - BBC News", "Care home worker thought cancer misdiagnosis was a 'cruel joke' - BBC News", "Skewen flood victims could be out of homes for days - BBC News", "SpaceX: World record number of satellites launched - BBC News", "England in Sri Lanka: Tourists complete six-wicket win and take series 2-0 - BBC Sport", "Boeing 737 Max cleared to fly again 'too early' - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Pressure on NHS front line 'relentless' - Hancock - BBC News", "Covid: Teachers 'not at higher risk' of death than average - BBC News", "Fraud epidemic 'is now national security threat' - BBC News", "Snow: Severe weather warnings in place across UK - BBC News", "Covid-19: MPs call for school reopening plan, and will France have a third lockdown? - BBC News", "Putin condemns Navalny protests as Western concern grows - BBC News", "Covid: 'Not a moment to ease measures,' says Matt Hancock - BBC News", "Robert Rowland: Former Brexit MEP dies in Bahamas diving accident - BBC News", "Pandemic prompts Super Bowl ad rethink in US - BBC News", "Covid: Schools will be told of reopening plans 'as soon as we can' - BBC News", "South Africa coronavirus variant: 77 cases found in UK - BBC News", "US police vehicle ploughs into crowd watching 'burnouts' - BBC News", "Barclaycard customers face higher minimum payments - BBC News", "Skewen flood: Is Wales' coalmining past behind home evacuations? - BBC News", "'Droves' of Pampas grass pickers at South Shields beach - BBC News", "Covid-19: Mansfield newlyweds, 90 and 86, in vaccination plea - BBC News", "'Knackered and confused.' That's just the parents - BBC News", "Covid: Call for long-term plan to help 'burnt-out' nurses - BBC News", "Heatwave sweeps Australian cities and raises bushfire danger - BBC News", "Dylan Freeman: Mother admits killing disabled son - BBC News", "'Running Man' robber jailed after nearly 13 years on the run - BBC News", "Travellers: Shocking lack of pitches for families, charity warns - BBC News", "Skewen flood victims face 'months' before returning home - BBC News", "Jenners: Building's owner says store 'will remain' despite Frasers move - BBC News", "PTSD: Eyes can reveal previous trauma, study reveals - BBC News", "Covid: 'More deadly' UK variant claim played down by scientists - BBC News", "Moderna vaccine appears to work against variants - BBC News", "Channel 4 Deepfake Queen complaints dropped by Ofcom - BBC News", "Debenhams shops to close permanently after Boohoo deal - BBC News", "Covid: Dutch curfew riots rage for third night - BBC News", "Gordon Brown: Trust has broken down in way UK is run - BBC News", "Q&A: Cwm Taf maternity problems - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Over-70 vaccine letters start but blue envelope delay - BBC News", "Cwm Taf maternity: Failings 'affected two-thirds of women' - BBC News", "Mastercard to push up fees for UK purchases from EU - BBC News", "Frank Lampard: Chelsea sack manager with Thomas Tuchel expected to replace him - BBC Sport", "Covid-19: Mexican President López Obrador tests positive - BBC News", "Janet Yellen to be first female US treasury secretary - BBC News", "Covid: Hays Travel to close 89 shops as lockdown delays 'bounce back' - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer self-isolates for third time - BBC News", "Covid in Scotland: Ways to 'accelerate' vaccine plans being examined - BBC News", "Welsh Valentine's Day: 'Why we mark St Dwynwen's Day' - BBC News", "Cwm Taf maternity: Mothers ignored and made to feel worthless - BBC News", "Keon Lincoln: Mother 'heard gunshots' that killed teen - BBC News", "Covid-19: Police investigate potential breaches at republican funeral - BBC News", "Skewen flooding: Villagers warned not to return to homes - BBC News", "Kickstart: Most job roles for youths not yet filled - BBC News", "Covid: Volunteers in Maesteg clear snow for vulnerable to get vaccine - BBC News", "Manchester United 3-2 Liverpool: Bruno Fernandes settles FA Cup thriller - BBC Sport", "Covid: Early years staff safety 'cause for concern' - BBC News", "Couple killed in Cameron House Hotel fire named - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Police support Crown probe into care home deaths - BBC News", "Covid: Sir Billy Connolly receives his first vaccine jab - BBC News", "Covid: Fire Brigades Union safety demands 'unworkable', says report - BBC News", "Shipping crisis: I'm being quoted £10,000 for a £1,600 container' - BBC News", "Covid: School return in Wales 'unlikely' for all in February - BBC News", "Coronavirus: Majority of discretionary self-isolation support applications rejected, Labour say - BBC News", "Festival season 'still possible' despite Glastonbury cancellation - BBC News", "Coronavirus: 'New variant may be associated with higher mortality' - PM - BBC News", "Inquiry uses legal powers to seek Salmond evidence - BBC News", "Bus driver jailed after passenger's death in Swansea crash - BBC News", "Covid: James Bond film No Time To Die delayed for third time - BBC News", "Covid: How a £20 gadget could save lives - BBC News", "Birmingham mosque becomes UK's first to offer Covid vaccine - BBC News", "Hotel quarantine for UK arrivals to be discussed - BBC News", "St Agnes Cold War bunker for sale - BBC News", "Covid: Side-by-side in a London mosque - funerals and a food bank - BBC News", "Brexit: Retailers warn they could burn goods stuck in EU - BBC News", "Skewen flood: Is Wales' coalmining past behind home evacuations? 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east London.", "Boris Johnson says the gap between referendums on Europe - 41 years - is \"a good sort of gap\" for independence referendums.", "The Gerry and the Pacemakers singer's number one hit became a football terrace anthem.", "Driving conditions on many roads will become \"hazardous\" next week, the Met Office warns.", "A study finds the new coronavirus variant is responsible for pushing the R rate above the crucial 1.0 mark.", "The government said soldiers had been sent to protect the area, close to Niger's border with Mali.", "After the PM hints at tighter measures in England, our science editor looks at what they could entail.", "Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola says he may stay in management much longer than he anticipated.", "Up to 300 people gather in London's Hyde Park to protest at Covid-19 restrictions.", "Manchester City say they are disappointed after defender Benjamin Mendy breaches Covid-19 rules by hosting a New Year's Eve party.", "Mexican-American Ryan Garcia gets up from the canvas to stop Britain's Luke Campbell with a body shot in Dallas, Texas.", "About 30,000 birds are to be culled at the farm near Clough in north Antrim.", "The latest government figures show a further 2,137 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Scotland on Friday.", "It comes as a further 57,725 people test positive for the virus, a new daily high.", "Boris Johnson says more areas may need tougher rules, as Labour urges England-wide curbs within 24 hours.", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer describes her as a \"dear friend and colleague\", and wishes her well.", "Boris Johnson says regional restrictions in England are \"probably about to get tougher\".", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "The decision to keep car parks open is under \"constant review\", says one national park.", "Leicester City edge a keenly contested Premier League encounter with Southampton to maintain their push for a top-four place.", "Calls are made for \"front-line\" nursery staff to be supported with funding and vaccines.", "CBBC star's mother, Lucy Lyndhurst, says his death has had a \"catastrophic effect\" on their family.", "A critical engine test for Nasa's new \"megarocket\" - the Space Launch System (SLS) - ends early.", "Health groups say NHS staff fear prosecution over decisions if hospitals are overwhelmed.", "Spector, who was jailed for killing actress Lana Clarkson, transformed pop music with his \"wall of sound\".", "He told police he drove to Devizes for a McDonald's even though the town does not have a branch.", "Louis Godwin, 95, said he was \"so pleased\" to get his Covid-19 vaccination at Salisbury Cathedral.", "Prime Minister Jean Castex said the measures would be in place for at least 15 days.", "Leaders Manchester United are thwarted by the second-half heroics of keeper Alisson in a goalless draw with title rivals Liverpool at Anfield.", "The \"fiercely competitive\" but \"kind, thoughtful and caring\" news executive has died aged 73.", "Doctors say the \"patchy supply\" of vaccine to GPs is slowing down efforts to deliver it to patients.", "Northern Health Trust chief says system is under \"huge pressure\" with patients waiting for beds.", "Sir Richard Branson's rocket company succeeds in putting its first satellites in space.", "Statistics agency Nisra says 145 deaths were registered last week, bringing its pandemic total to 1,976.", "Mother Sara Powell-Davies welcomes its return, but nurseries say they fear for the future.", "Women are sent sexually explicit messages and requests for \"worn\" garments.", "As the UK records its highest death toll, Fergal Keane has been to see the strain the NHS is under for the second time.", "Fighting erupted after a man was stabbed in a row between two men from different ethnic groups.", "Former climbing champion Lai Chi-Wai raised HK$5.2 million for spinal cord patients.", "The government is aiming to provide grants by April to mitigate the impact of Covid travel rules.", "Patient numbers have risen by 15,000 since Christmas, but infections are stabilising, says Sir Simon Stevens.", "Pupils in England can read works by popular authors online while schools stay closed in lockdown.", "The Gerry and the Pacemakers singer died from a blood infection at the age of 78.", "More than half of the Church of England's 14,000 parishes will not open for Sunday services later.", "England need 36 runs on the final day to win the first Test against Sri Lanka despite losing three wickets in a chaotic final session in Galle.", "A decision on whether to extend £20 Universal Credit rise is unlikely before March's Budget, minister says.", "The leaders of the US, France, Germany and other leading economies will meet in Cornwall in June.", "The government is planning new laws to stop England's monuments being removed \"on a whim\" by protesters.", "Hundreds of thousands of DNA and arrest records were deleted after a human error, the Home Office says.", "A group of London firms has written to ministers calling for financial support for the rail firm.", "With traffic down and more people working from home, what is the future for these lay-by businesses?", "Prince William says he \"really worries\" about the effect of the pandemic on front-line workers.", "Drivers from Scotland and Portsmouth caught breaking lockdown rules in north Wales.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Sunday.", "But Sir Simon Stevens says the health service has never been in a more precarious situation.", "Mount Semeru has erupted, pouring volcanic matter miles into the air and placing locals on alert.", "Pressure grows on PM after non-binding motion on universal credit top-up is passed by 278 votes.", "The latest death and case figures should be a \"bitter warning for us all\", Public Health England says.", "The Most Reverend Philip Tartaglia tested positive for the virus shortly after Christmas but the cause of his death is not clear.", "The man told police he had travelled 14 miles from his home to search for the fictional characters.", "Hashem Abedi and Ahmed Hassan are accused of assaulting an officer in HMP Belmarsh in May.", "Scotland's health secretary says 400,000 jabs could be administered every week by the end of February.", "Lidl, Just Eat and Asos say demand for fizz, takeaways and clothes all rose during December.", "As the UK records its highest death toll, Fergal Keane has been to see the strain the NHS is under for the second time.", "Black people are more than four times more likely to be detained under the Mental Health Act in England.", "Amnesty International says the issue of forced adoptions also needs close scrutiny.", "Details and reaction to a briefing by Wales' chief medical officer and NHS Wales chief executive.", "Carol and David Richards had been fined £60 for driving 20 minutes to see her mother.", "Tony Parsons from Tillicoultry vanished more than three years ago during a charity cycle ride.", "The prime minister wants round-the-clock vaccination but adds supply is currently the limiting factor.", "Nicola Sturgeon announces the areas where restrictions will be tightened in Scotland from Saturday.", "The famous Lauberhorn ski event is cancelled after a spike in Covid-19 cases linked to one tourist.", "Staff at one of London's busiest hospitals say it's not going to take much for services to soon break.", "The health secretary urges people to follow rules, saying \"individual decisions\" make a difference.", "Rival supermarkets defend their pay, with Asda saying looking at hourly rates does not tell the whole story.", "Some restrictions have been tightened amid concerns the \"stay at home\" message has not had the same impact.", "Investors have agreed a deal to save the chain, along with Ponden Home and Bonmarché.", "Amid reports of mass furlough fraud the BBC hears from one worker who quit work but still gets furlough pay.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says because of the \"precarious\" situation in relation to the pandemic more restrictions will be brought in.", "A report from a group of Tory MPs adds to internal pressure on the government to harden its stance.", "Together with his twin brother, Sir David built a business empire spanning hotels, retail and newspapers.", "Scotland's first minister says the current restrictions are \"very unlikely\" to be lifted at the end of the month.", "The company denies selling technology that can identify the ethnic group and plans to reword the patent.", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer challenged Boris Johnson over the provision of \"disgraceful\" food parcels.", "The Earl of Strathmore attacked a woman in her room during an event he was hosting at Glamis Castle.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "Latest results show Sinovac's Covid-19 vaccine is less effective in Brazil than previously suggested.", "The health minister says it is a \"strong start\" but there is more to do.", "One operator told the BBC his staff were working up to 16 hours a day to help traders.", "Earlier this month videos showing supposed empty hospitals were shared on social media.", "A leaked memo warns several Birmingham hospitals risk being \"overwhelmed\" by coronavirus patients.", "The increase is to further discourage shoppers from buying single-use plastic bags.", "Tweeters query why it has not been given to a prominent Kenyan like actress Lupita Nyong'o.", "A Met Office yellow weather warning for ice is in place after heavy snow caused road closures and travel disruption.", "A negative test had been due to be required from Friday, but ministers said people needed time to prepare.", "Sir David will showcase an augmented reality app as part of a drive to prove the uses of 5G.", "Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said this would help teachers to decide \"deserved grades\".", "But Boris Johnson does not rule out tougher restrictions in England, saying they are kept under review.", "Fans of the University of Alabama football team gathered in the streets of Tuscaloosa, ignoring social distancing.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning.", "These are the lawmakers with a big influence on the impeachment process against the former president.", "The last of 14 works identified as looted from Jewish collectors is returned to the owner's heirs.", "Isabella Curry said she now feels safe and will be able to go out and meet friends soon.", "An RAF aircraft breaking the sound barrier causes a loud bang in skies across the East of England.", "Pawel Relowicz committed \"sexually motivated\" burglaries before Libby Squire's death, jurors hear.", "Doctors believed 11-month-old Sofia-Grace Hill was rejecting food because she had tonsillitis.", "It comes as Boris Johnson is quizzed by MPs on the government's coronavirus response.", "Three vaccines have been approved in the UK - what are the differences between them?", "Parents of disabled children are calling for teachers in special schools to receive the Covid-19 vaccine.", "Ivan Cavaleiro's late header earns Premier League strugglers Fulham a hard-fought draw against Tottenham in their hastily rearranged London derby.", "Doctors leaders' want staff to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care.", "The home secretary says she will back police to enforce virus rules, as another 1,243 die in the UK.", "The Google-owned service said the president had broken its rules over the incitement of violence.", "The prime minister warns there is a \"very substantial\" risk of intensive care being \"overtopped\".", "Mohamud Mohammed Hassan was arrested at home on Friday but released without charge on Saturday.", "The Democrats say they sheltered in a safe room alongside others who refused to wear masks.", "It follows similar moves by Morrisons and Sainsbury's, but those with medical reasons will be exempt.", "Ten members of his own party voted against the president over his role in the deadly riots at the US Capitol.", "Police in Atlanta want to question YFN Lucci, 29, over a fatal shooting in the city last month.", "More than 700 intensive care staff at nine hospitals were asked about their experiences for a study.", "Her novel Heart for a Compass is a fictional historical saga inspired by her great-great-aunt.", "There's speculation over who was involved in the protests and whether they belong to organised groups.", "Production was to begin later this month but filming and transmission will now be later than hoped.", "The PM leads UK politicians from all parties condemning the riot at the US Capitol building.", "The firm says tighter Covid restrictions and falling passenger numbers have prompted the decision.", "Allowing pupils without laptops into schools could limit the impact of the closures, say head.", "The president will be banned \"permanently\" if he breaks the platform's rules again.", "An Alaska state agency emerged as the main bidder at the sale, which was opposed by environmentalists.", "Two boys and a girl, all aged 13 or 14, are charged with murder after the death of Olly Stephens, 13.", "Joe Biden says it is \"totally unacceptable\" police showed more leniency in the Capitol riot than at anti-racism protests.", "Nguyen Huy Hung was one of 39 people who died in a container en route from Belgium to Essex.", "Boris Johnson has \"no doubt\" there is enough supply to vaccinate the first four priority groups by 15 February.", "Gavin Williamson will \"trust in teachers rather than algorithms\" in awarding this year's results.", "The broadcaster will be a part-time replacement for the new Woman's Hour host.", "The sites, including football stadiums and racecourses, will begin operations next week.", "Events in Washington spark dismay and criticism of America's politics and leader.", "Staff at one of London's busiest hospitals say it's not going to take much for services to soon break.", "The police officer who the FBI said fired the fatal shot is dismissed for breaching policy.", "Her family said the British model, who died in December aged 50, had been \"unwell for some time\".", "More than 113,000 Scots have now been given their first dose of a vaccine against Covid-19.", "The drugs, which save an extra life for every 12 intensive care patients treated, can be used immediately, say experts.", "The president is accused of inciting a riot with his divisive rhetoric - he's unlikely to stay silent.", "Health officials say it was the only option due to the demand for beds as a result of Covid-19.", "A ceremony meant to showcase a peaceful power transfer turns into a dark day. Here are the key moments.", "Breakdown of what happened when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol amid a key Senate vote.", "The weekly applause is back - but its founder distances herself from the initiative.", "News photographers captured extraordinary scenes as Trump supporters stormed the building.", "The US Capitol has gone into lockdown amid violent clashes between police and Trump supporters, who broke security lines and are inside the building.", "The UK prime minister also says the US president is \"completely wrong\" over his election fraud claims.", "The airline warns few, if any, flights will operate to or from Ireland or the UK from the end of January.", "Travellers from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana and Mauritius will be barred from entry.", "US lawmakers and staff are seen wearing protective gas masks as police draw guns on protesters.", "Dave Edwards lit up his home for 42 years but died before the recent festive season.", "At Fullwell Cross Medical Centre in north London, they are now vaccinating almost 1,000 people a week.", "George is recovering after spending three nights in hospital with coronavirus.", "How Trump's favourite social media site banned him - permanently.", "On Wednesday the UK recorded more than 1,000 daily Covid deaths and hospitals are struggling to cope.", "The Tesla and SpaceX owner replaces Jeff Bezos as the richest man on the planet.", "The home secretary says the US president fuelled the violence, as the PM condemns the \"disgraceful scenes\".", "Two boys and a girl are accused of murdering 13-year-old Olly Stephens in Reading.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Drive-through and delivery services will still be available while it reviews its safety procedures.", "Leaders from around the world call for peace and a peaceful transfer of power in Washington.", "Worried childcare staff call on ministers to prove it's safe for them to open in England.", "Matthew Mason beat 15-year-old Alex Rodda to death to stop their sexual relationship being revealed.", "Boris Johnson says the armed forces will use \"battle preparation techniques\" to help vaccinate millions.", "Sarah Bingham's son and daughter have the same rare illness and she is a donor match for both.", "Industry body calls for the early vaccination of workers to keep supply chains running smoothly.", "Lorry drivers will need a negative result to cross into France until further notice, the government says.", "Aston Villa are preparing to field a team of youngsters in Friday's FA Cup third-round tie at home to Liverpool.", "GPs in England receive doses of the Oxford Covid jab as medics warn of \"stretched\" wards.", "Families had smaller gatherings, but sales still rose 9.3% in the Christmas trading period, it says.", "There are concerns the new variant may spread too easily to be controlled by lockdown.", "Residents of Shijiazhuang are banned from leaving and will be tested en masse after an outbreak there.", "The Wanted member shares some good news with his fans, three months on from his cancer diagnosis.", "The new lockdown has pushed pubs and restaurants into yet more debt, some of which may never be repaid.", "Jamie Stiehm was in the House of Representatives press gallery when protesters smashed at the door.", "The online retailer wants to buy the brands, not their shops, suggesting any deal would cost jobs.", "The fast fashion retailer is not purchasing the stores or taking on its staff, the BBC understands.", "The head of France's scientific council suggests a third lockdown is needed amid spread of variants.", "Ella Lambert says the period pain she experiences inspired her to help others.", "Israel has vaccinated more than a quarter of its population and now high school students are eligible.", "Ministers have said schools would stay closed until half term unless Covid cases fall significantly.", "Janice Johnston had 18 months of needless chemotherapy, causing her numerous physical problems.", "Underground investigations are due to begin on Saturday after flooding linked to old mine shaft.", "Entrepreneur Elon Musk's SpaceX company delivers 143 satellites to orbit on a single rocket flight.", "England complete a thrilling victory on day four of the second Test against Sri Lanka to take the series 2-0.", "A former Boeing manager says more investigations are needed on the plane, grounded after two crashes.", "Nearly 38,000 people are in hospital in the UK with coronavirus, the health secretary says.", "The highest-risk job roles were in restaurants, care work and manufacturing.", "From credit card fraud to benefit fraud, the problem costs the UK up to £190bn a year, a report says.", "Motorists are urged to take care with sub-zero temperatures forecast into Monday.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning.", "The crackdown on Alexei Navalny and his supporters fuels calls in the EU for tougher sanctions.", "The health secretary says it is \"difficult\" to put a timeline on when England's lockdown will be lifted.", "Tributes are paid to Robert Rowland following the accident near his home in the Bahamas.", "Budweiser will not advertise during the Super Bowl for the first time in 37 years.", "Boris Johnson says he understands parents' frustrations but the infection rate is \"still very high\".", "Ministers are due to meet on Monday to consider whether to tighten the UK's border restrictions further.", "Footage shows a police car apparently driving through a group at a street race in Washington state.", "The changes affecting some customers take effect as finances are squeezed by Covid and Christmas.", "A geologist says tens of thousands of old mine shafts must be monitored to help stop more flooding.", "An interior decor trend is blamed for the removal of the grass, which forms part of a wind defence.", "Geoff and Jenny Holland married in August after having to twice postpone their wedding.", "The lack of certainty about schools returning is fraying the exhausted nerves of parents.", "A Royal College of Nursing survey found almost 80% were more stressed because of the Covid pandemic.", "As temperatures continue to remain high, parts of Australia are facing their worst fire risk in a year.", "Three psychiatric reports found Olga Freeman was suffering from a severe depressive illness.", "Ambrose O'Neill disappeared after the first day of his trial in 2008.", "Only 18 out of 251 registered traveller sites have any available spaces, research from a charity suggests.", "Some will be able to return on Tuesday but others are urged to stay away due to safety fears.", "The building's owner vows it will continue as a department store despite the departure of current tenant, the House of Fraser.", "The eyes of people with PTSD behave differently when they see exciting images, researchers say.", "One says he is surprised Boris Johnson shared the early data when it is \"not particularly strong\".", "Laboratory tests suggest antibodies can recognise and fight the UK and South Africa variants.", "The media regulator decided not to pursue complaints about decency over the channel's satire.", "Online retailer Boohoo will buy the brand for £55m, but not its shops, putting 12,000 jobs at risk.", "Police describe it as the worst unrest in the Netherlands for decades, with more than 180 arrests.", "The UK's nations and regions are being treated as if they were \"invisible\", the former PM warns.", "What is behind the review of specialist care for mothers and babies in the south Wales valleys?", "Vaccination appointments for over-70s in Scotland will arrive on Monday as planned - but in white envelopes.", "A new report focuses on the experiences of pregnant women at Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board.", "The move sparks concerns that customers could see prices rise if merchants pass on the higher cost.", "Chelsea sack manager Frank Lampard after 18 months in charge, with former Paris St-Germain and Borussia Dortmund boss Thomas Tuchel expected to replace him.", "Andrés Manuel López Obrador, 67, announces he is receiving medical treatment for the coronavirus.", "The Senate has confirmed Janet Yellen as first female treasury secretary in US history.", "The third national lockdown and travel ban meant the travel firm \"had to act\", a spokeswoman says.", "Sir Keir Starmer says he will be working from home until next Monday.", "A pilot programme for 24/7 vaccinations is among options being considered by the Scottish government.", "Why one family finds St Dwynwen's Day - the Welsh patron saint of lovers - more relevant to their heritage.", "Mothers speaking to the Cwm Taf maternity review \"overwhelmingly\" had distressing experiences.", "The mother of Keon Lincoln, 15, who was shot and stabbed, pleads for information about his death.", "Images circulated on social media show mourners at the funeral of an IRA man in Londonderry.", "First Minister Mark Drakeford earlier visited the site of the flooding which led to 80 people being evacuated.", "About 118,000 placements for young people are yet to be filled due to coronavirus lockdowns.", "Community spirit praised as helpers clear 7cm of snow so vulnerable patients could get Covid jab.", "Bruno Fernandes comes off the bench to fire Manchester United past fierce rivals Liverpool in a pulsating FA Cup fourth-round tie.", "Nurseries, pre-schools and childminders call for rapid testing and priority access to vaccines.", "The two men were guests at Cameron House Hotel on the shores of Loch Lomond when the blaze broke out.", "The force said its role is designed to inform prosecutors and does not indicate a crime has taken place.", "The 78-year-old Scottish comedian received his first dose of the vaccine near his home in Florida.", "A report criticises the union after it told its members not to volunteer due to safety concerns.", "A shortage of shipping containers, rising costs, and congestion at ports are holding back imports from China.", "Ministers have said schools would stay closed until half term unless Covid cases fall significantly.", "The majority of applications for the discretionary part of the test and trace grant are unsuccessful.", "Despite Glastonbury's cancellation, smaller festivals could still go ahead, experts say.", "Boris Johnson says it's more important than ever to be vigilant in following rules and staying home.", "The probe into the handling of harassment claims against Alex Salmond wants to see messages between SNP and government officials.", "Eric Vice, 64, was driving to Swansea University when he hit a bridge.", "The premiere of No Time To Die, Daniel Craig's final 007 outing, is pushed back again due to Covid.", "Doctors say people should buy a pulse oximeter to monitor their oxygen levels at home.", "The imam, Sheikh Nuru Mohammed, hopes the centre will dispel false information about the vaccination.", "Boris Johnson has not ruled out further action to secure the borders amid concerns over Covid variants.", "A bunker built during the Cold War is being auctioned with a guide price of £25,000.", "Worship has been suspended as burials average 15-a-day, yet still there is denial about the disease.", "UK retailers may abandon goods EU customers want to return because it is cheaper than bringing them home.", "A geologist says tens of thousands of old mine shafts must be monitored to help stop more flooding.", "The UK's chief medical adviser warns that \"a very small change and it could start taking off again\".", "Health Minister Robin Swann warns restrictions are likely to continue after latest extension.", "Scottish postie Nathan Evans has quit his job and signed to a record label after storming TikTok with sea shanties.", "The TV presenter says Mr Trump went on with the conversation, believing it to be Morgan.", "A 14-year-old boy is suspected of murder over \"inconceivable violence\" before Keon Lincoln's death.", "The Mavisbank care home in Bishopbriggs was recently rated \"weak\" by the care inspectorate for its Covid response.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday morning.", "A national charity renews its plea for donations to help museums hit by the coronavirus pandemic.", "Paula Badosa reveals she has the virus and apologises for making complaints about quarantine rules.", "'This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge' - the new president knows how daunting his task is.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 15 and 22 January.", "The chief rabbi has described the event as a \"shameful desecration of all that we hold dear\".", "A £500 payment is already available for those on low incomes who cannot work from home, No 10 says.", "Thirty-nine Vietnamese migrants suffocated in a sealed container en route to Essex in October 2019.", "A teachers' union says a review delivers a \"scathing\" verdict on how exams were handled in 2020.", "Fines of £800 will be handed to anyone attending a house party of more than 15 people from next week.", "Thousands of files hacked from Scotland's environment watchdog appear on the \"dark web\" after it rejected a ransom demand.", "Boris Johnson says England's measures will be reviewed once the priority groups have had the vaccine.", "Paddy McElhone, 24, was shot in the back by a soldier near his home outside Pomeroy in August 1974.", "Investigators have been targeting offenders who operate online since the first coronavirus lockdown.", "CCTV footage has been released showing fire breaking out in a hotel after a porter put a bag of ash and embers in a cupboard.", "Vitinha's superb goal sees Wolves into the fifth round of the FA Cup at the expense of non-league Chorley.", "Two people died in the blaze at the Cameron House hotel in West Dunbartonshire three years ago.", "A consortium including the fashion chain will no longer bid to buy Topshop and Topman out of administration.", "Evidence suggests the variant that emerged in the UK may be more deadly as well as faster-spreading.", "Clothing was the hardest-hit sector last year, seeing a 25% drop in sales overall.", "Liverpool's 68-game unbeaten home run in the Premier League comes to an end as Ashley Barnes fires home a late winner from the penalty spot to secure a famous victory for Burnley.", "The Japanese car maker has told the BBC its Sunderland plant is secure for the long term.", "Police hold aides to Putin critic Alexei Navalny as opposition activists start a string of rallies.", "Parts of Skewen remain underwater with people unable to return to their flooded homes.", "Andy Murray will miss the Australian Open after failing to find a \"workable quarantine\" solution following his positive test for coronavirus.", "Simon Midgley's mother says she still does not have answers about how her son died in the fire at Cameron House.", "Campaigners say a government fund to pay for the removal of dangerous cladding is woefully inadequate.", "The minority \"blatantly flouting\" restrictions will face enforcement action, a senior officer says.", "The couple paid themselves the sum despite heavy losses at Mrs Beckham's fashion brand.", "Muller Milk & Ingredients in Somerset confirms 47 dairy workers have tested positive for Covid-19.", "NHS staff rally to arrange a wedding for a couple as the groom's condition deteriorates in hospital.", "Many of those who took part in the Capitol riot are believed to have subscribed to extremist views.", "The curbs may even continue until Easter in an attempt to drive down Covid-19 case numbers.", "Stars of the Essex-based reality show pay tribute to a \"true gentleman\" and \"one of the good guys\".", "Under coronavirus restrictions a maximum of 30 people are meant to attend a funeral.", "Abimbola Ajoke Bamgbose had been fed up with people asking if she was pregnant, an inquest hears.", "AstraZeneca is the latest company, after Pfizer, to warn of delivery issues, frustrating officials.", "Investigations are ongoing into what caused the road surface to give way, United Utilities say.", "As Covid patients waited at Royal Glamorgan Hospital the nurse had a fear of \"wanting to leave\".", "Under house arrest in Canada on bank fraud charges, Ms Meng has reportedly received death threats.", "As the UK records its highest death toll, Fergal Keane has been to see the strain the NHS is under for the second time.", "Richard Sharp says the BBC represents good value, but how it is funded \"may be worth reassessing\".", "The S21 Ultra's support for an S Pen will fuel speculation that the Note range's days are numbered.", "But the expert says the new Covid variant means any relaxation of rules will be a \"gradual process\".", "Amnesty International says the issue of forced adoptions also needs close scrutiny.", "Carol and David Richards had been fined £60 for driving 20 minutes to see her mother.", "Reports from Manaus say medical staff are begging for help in a critical situation due to Covid-19.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Thursday evening.", "But researchers warn there is still a risk of catching and passing the virus on to others again.", "Nicola Sturgeon announces the areas where restrictions will be tightened in Scotland from Saturday.", "One in three trusts in England was running above safe levels of bed occupancy by the end of 2020.", "Tui, the UK's largest tour operator, says 50% of bookings on their website are currently by over-50s.", "The famous Lauberhorn ski event is cancelled after a spike in Covid-19 cases linked to one tourist.", "Some urgent procedures including cancer surgery are postponed in one health board area due to Covid.", "Six chemists have been chosen initially, with 200 more offering vaccinations in the next fortnight.", "Hundreds of students say it is not right they will have to wait months for rebates during Covid-19.", "Some housed in the military camp say the conditions are so bad it causes them psychological trauma.", "Police and rail bosses condemn a social media post featuring a car parked on a level crossing.", "Armie Hammer dismisses supposedly leaked messages and says he can now not be apart from his children.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "Jack Dorsey acknowledges that banning the president undermines the ideals of an open internet.", "Homes worry about being sued if people contract the virus while they are staying there.", "The health minister says it is a \"strong start\" but there is more to do.", "Arrivals from most of South America - and from Portugal - will be stopped from Friday.", "Dozens cancel Covid jabs and poor road conditions have a \"severe impact\" on Yorkshire's ambulances.", "Founder Charlie Mullins says it is a \"no-brainer\" that workers should get immunised.", "Scientists are racing to find out more about variants of the coronavirus that are spreading fast.", "The co-founder for Cyberpunk 2077's developer is explaining what went wrong with the launch.", "Samantha Hicks attributed her baby's kicking to sickness having been in hospital with Covid-19.", "The footballer joins celebrities and campaigners to call for action in a letter to the prime minister.", "The prime minister has suggested there could be restrictions on travel from Brazil to the UK.", "Services in England are being cut from 87% of normal levels to 72%, the Rail Delivery Group says.", "A Met Office yellow weather warning for ice is in place after heavy snow caused road closures and travel disruption.", "A negative test had been due to be required from Friday, but ministers said people needed time to prepare.", "Post-primary schools get extra time to decide how they will admit pupils after transfer tests are cancelled.", "A Scottish shellfish firm owner says he is on the brink of bankruptcy as EU customers desert his business.", "The 19-year-old mounted pavements and jumped red lights through London and three counties.", "Nintendo's first theme park, modelled on levels of its Mario games, was due to open on 4 February.", "More than 45% of this priority group has now been vaccinated, compared with about 30% in London.", "Travellers from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana and Mauritius will be barred from entry.", "New Brexit trade rules mean Britain's biggest supermarket faces problems importing some fruit, meat and ready meals.", "James Howells threw away a hard drive containing bitcoin - now worth £210m - by mistake in 2013.", "The last of 14 works identified as looted from Jewish collectors is returned to the owner's heirs.", "It tops up doses already promised as officials worry that Africa is at the back of the vaccine queue.", "England's cancer, critical care, A&E and routine treatments all hit as hospitals accommodate virus patients.", "Boris Johnson pledged to end rough sleeping by 2024, but a watchdog says plans need reviewing post-Covid.", "The government defends its plan to switch to a grant scheme to feed children at half term.", "Our voter panel is divided over the charge of incitement with Trump supporters warning it will deepen divisions.", "A respiratory doctor at the Mater Hospital warns that oxygen supplies are under \"extreme pressure\".", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Ministers could bring in possible measures after a new Covid variant was found in South America.", "Ivan Cavaleiro's late header earns Premier League strugglers Fulham a hard-fought draw against Tottenham in their hastily rearranged London derby.", "The couple, who both have coronavirus, were given \"precious\" time together, their daughter says.", "Doctors leaders' want staff to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care.", "The scientists investigating the origins of the coronavirus have landed in the city of Wuhan.", "The prime minister warns there is a \"very substantial\" risk of intensive care being \"overtopped\".", "The home secretary says her focus is on enforcement but doesn't rule out tougher restrictions next week.", "Dom Bess takes 5-30 as a dreadful Sri Lanka batting display leaves England in control after day one of the first Test at Galle.", "A blind social media star could wait years for a new guide dog due to delays linked to the pandemic.", "The government wants bosses to do more to help victims as reports of domestic abuse soar in lockdown.", "Andy Murray is still hopeful of playing in the Australian Open despite not travelling to Melbourne after testing positive for coronavirus.", "On Thursday, 16 more deaths related to Covid-19 were recorded along with 973 new positive cases.", "Ten members of his own party voted against the president over his role in the deadly riots at the US Capitol.", "Illusionist Siegfried Fischbacher and partner Roy Horn were an institution in Las Vegas and beyond.", "Mr Leonard says it is in the best interests of the party if he stands down as leader immediately.", "The retailer insists it has no plans to move online, despite warning shop closures could cost it £1bn.", "A total of 1,596 patients are in Scottish hospitals with Covid as pressures on the NHS continue to build.", "The woman, who was Tasered by officers, is taken to hospital with non life-threatening injuries.", "Sarah Link lived in a caravan on her own drive so she could carry on working and protect her mother.", "Vincent Kane does not know when his operation will happen, having been delayed due to the pandemic.", "The property investment firm is accused of trying to \"jump the queue\".", "It said there may be \"an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks\".", "Officers \"will not hesitate\" to take action against those breaking the rules, home secretary says.", "The vaccines were administered on Saturday by a household doctor at Windsor Castle, a royal source says.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says social media giants are \"taking editorial decisions\".", "The Labour leader urges ministers to give councils more money instead to protect family budgets.", "Three people were arrested during an anti-lockdown protest, including the woman seen in the video.", "Eleanor Wadsworth flew hundreds of aircraft, including Spitfires and Hurricanes, to the front line in WW2.", "People who cannot work from home should be prioritised for rapid tests in England, the government says.", "Bernard Thomas was rescued from the rubble of Pantglas primary school on 21 October, 1966.", "But for now, people must stay at home during lockdown and alleviate 'serious' pressure on the NHS.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says the NHS is under \"very serious pressure\" and warns people to stay home.", "Electricity is gradually being restored after a huge outage triggered by a power station fault.", "The riots of 6 January took many by surprise, but to those tracking conspiracy and extreme right groups online, the warning signs were all there.", "Extra measures are taken to distribute Covid vaccines amid fears the snow could turn to ice.", "Crawley Town produce one of the FA Cup third round's most emphatic upsets as they stun Premier League side Leeds United.", "US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says contact between officials should no longer be \"shackled\".", "There are concerns the new variant may spread too easily to be controlled by lockdown.", "At least six police vans are deployed to Clapham Common where about 30 protesters gathered.", "The farm has been left with over 4,000 surplus eggs after schools suddenly closed to most pupils.", "The government says a draft agreement saying flat owners need its approval first is \"standard\".", "Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove says \"work is ongoing\" to improve trade from GB to NI.", "Scott McTominay celebrates captaining Manchester United for the first time with an early winner to see off Watford in the FA Cup third round.", "A 107-year-old woman from County Meath is attempting to attend a virtual Mass in every county.", "Increasing numbers of seriously-ill patients add to the pressure facing Scotland's health service.", "Four deaths are reported as Storm Filomena dumps snow and triggers floods across the country.", "A \"significant step-up\" in rolling out vaccines is promised by the health minister.", "If Parler fails to find a new web hosting service by Sunday, the entire network will go offline.", "The Labour leader calls for tougher coronavirus restrictions and says help for low earners must continue.", "Almost 50,000 people in Wales have been given a first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.", "He hopes to beat his own lockdown bulge with his \"Get Buzzin' With Bez\" YouTube classes.", "Two landslides hit the same village in Indonesia within hours, leaving emergency teams trapped.", "Another 1,035 people have died, taking the total since the start of the pandemic to 80,868.", "Patients, many shielding, have been offered appointments miles away from their homes.", "The Labour leader rejects a second independence referendum but calls for other changes to devolution.", "More than 100 cars are turned away from a beauty spot in north Wales, police say.", "Boris Johnson will make a televised address at 20:00 GMT to outline further steps as virus cases rise.", "Lockdown measures will see schools closed until half term, and GCSEs and A-levels unable to go ahead as normal.", "The British coin collection will also mark the 75th anniversary of the death of novelist HG Wells.", "Four boys and a girl are held on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder after the Reading attack.", "An NHS chief executive says it 'beggars belief' people took pictures of empty corridors.", "Four people were accused of being a \"supporting cast\" for burglars who targeted west London homes.", "Boris Johnson says the gap between referendums on Europe - 41 years - is \"a good sort of gap\" for independence referendums.", "The PM says the number of vaccine doses will amount to \"tens of millions\" by the end of March.", "Mainland Scotland faces tougher restrictions from midnight, and schools will remain closed until February.", "The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine programme is being rolled out less than a week after it became the second approved in the UK.", "Dr Radha Modgil shares tips on staying mentally and emotionally well during the coronavirus lockdown.", "Dan Eliasson, head of the civil contingencies agency, flew to the Canary Islands to see his daughter.", "Tributes have been paid to trainer Zoe Davison, who died from cancer on the same day two of her horses claimed wins at Plumpton.", "The first minister warns Scotland could be entering the most dangerous period since the outbreak began.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "The group of more than 200 engineers say Google must live up to its 'Don't be evil' pledge.", "Nóra Quoirin's family say they are disappointed at the ruling and still think she was abducted.", "Boris Johnson warns of \"tough\" weeks ahead, as coronavirus infection rates continue to surge.", "The first minister says restrictions \"similar to March\" will come into force in mainland Scotland from midnight and schools will not re-open in January.", "The border crossings between the UK and the European Union face their first day of significant traffic under new rules.", "Professional sport in England will be allowed to continue behind closed doors, despite a new national lockdown announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.", "The Labour leader calls for an immediate lockdown in England to get the virus \"back under control\".", "The Department of Health's aim is for all people older than 80 to receive a jab by the end of January.", "Lockdown losses mean renewing the 10-year contract to lease Yang Guang and Tian Tian may be unaffordable.", "Police help dozens of motorists who became stranded after heavy snow fell in the Peak District.", "Parliament will be recalled for Nicola Sturgeon to make an \"urgent statement\" as case numbers rise by 2,464.", "Schools in Wales given a flexible approach to ensure a \"safe return\", despite concerns by unions.", "Economy Minister Diane Dodds writes to Cabinet Office Secretary Michael Gove over the issue.", "UK nationals resident in Spain say they were wrongly turned back when their flight landed in Barcelona.", "Four boys and a girl are held on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder after the Reading attack.", "Rutherglen MP Margaret Ferrier is charged by police with \"alleged culpable and reckless conduct\".", "After the PM hints at tighter measures in England, our science editor looks at what they could entail.", "Her Majesty said the now 75-year-old show had \"played a significant part in the evolving of women\".", "Schools will close for most pupils from Tuesday as people are told to stay at home in new lockdown.", "The latest government figures show a further 2,137 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Scotland on Friday.", "The government said suspected jihadists ambushed the two villages near Niger's border with Mali.", "Boris Johnson says more areas may need tougher rules, as Labour urges England-wide curbs within 24 hours.", "The news comes following confusion after her death was prematurely announced on Monday.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "The Championship club said \"several first-team staff and players\" had tested positive.", "England all-rounder Moeen Ali tests positive for Covid-19 upon arrival at Hambantota airport in Sri Lanka.", "The Love Island star is alleged to have \"breached quarantine\" regulations on holiday in Barbados.", "Stay-at-home orders are issued in England and Scotland, as UK classrooms face further disruption.", "The executive also plans to give its stay at home message legal force, with new travel restrictions.", "The Gerry and the Pacemakers singer's number one hit became a football terrace anthem.", "The bid approach is the latest attempt by a casino operator to tap into the online gambling boom.", "The locally-produced Covaxin jab was approved on Sunday before completion of third stage trials.", "Supermarkets say card payment problems that led to long queues are resolved, but cause still unknown", "Total deaths involving Covid pass 6,000, including 467 in the week ending 15 January.", "A Cardiff head teacher says keeping schools closed affects disadvantaged pupils most severely.", "The money comes from the liquidation of a firm co-founded by the disgraced film producer.", "Before Wuhan was locked down in January 2020 officials said the outbreak was under control - but the virus had spread inside and outside the city.", "Boris Johnson says he takes \"full responsibility\" for the UK government's response to the pandemic.", "Trinidadian-born British writer Monique Roffey says she is \"pinching herself\" over her win.", "Another 7,700 registered with coronavirus on the death certificate brings the total to nearly 104,000.", "The 71-year-old Lib Dem peer says she is wearing her \"I've had the jab\" badge with pride.", "The tunnel is a danger to public safety, an HS2 spokeswoman told the BBC.", "The UK is the second market - after the US - to get Facebook's latest news feature.", "The NHS says any invitation which asks for vaccine payment or bank account details is a scam.", "The shadow justice secretary calls for seven-member juries to deal with cases delayed by the pandemic.", "Scientists propose 10 golden rules for restoring forests to maximise benefits for the planet.", "Parents reveal the perils of juggling teaching with work and family life.", "The new measures are likely to apply to British residents arriving in England from high-risk countries.", "Boris Johnson says he takes \"full responsibility for everything that the government has done\".", "Major incidents were declared in north and south Wales as Storm Christoph causes flooding.", "The health secretary says it is \"difficult\" to put a timeline on when England's lockdown will be lifted.", "Ex-cabinet minister wants \"Britain's favourite animal\" to get same protections as bats and badgers.", "Budweiser will not advertise during the Super Bowl for the first time in 37 years.", "Boris Johnson says he understands parents' frustrations but the infection rate is \"still very high\".", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning.", "Several pupils at the school admitted visiting other households, breaking Covid-19 lockdown rules.", "Demand for the video game and cloud computing services helped push Microsoft sales to a new quarterly record.", "A geologist says tens of thousands of old mine shafts must be monitored to help stop more flooding.", "Lawyers for SMG deny claims it was penny-pinching before the 2017 Manchester Arena attack.", "An interior decor trend is blamed for the removal of the grass, which forms part of a wind defence.", "There will be \"a lot more deaths\" before the effect of vaccines is felt, England's chief medical officer says.", "Crew are asking to be designated 'key workers' so they can go home without risking public health.", "Campaigners claim changes to the way decisions were made led to a \"shocking\" fall in cases going to court.", "Comedians Meera Syal, Romesh Ranganathan and Adil Ray make a video urging people to get the vaccine.", "The Met says it was a \"poor decision\" to hire a barber to give cuts to 31 officers in the workplace.", "Some will be able to return on Tuesday but others are urged to stay away due to safety fears.", "Nadhim Zahawi says supply is tight, but he expects the UK to meet its February target of 15 million doses.", "The Belfast grammar school says it will use \"other academic criteria\" in the absence of transfer tests.", "As the UK records its 100,000th death from Covid within 28 days of a positive test, Catherine Burns speaks to some of the people behind the figures.", "It comes as the foreign secretary says the UK will return to spending 0.7% of GDP on aid \"as soon as possible\",", "Police describe it as the worst unrest in the Netherlands for decades, with more than 180 arrests.", "The government gives its support to a project to use oral contraceptives to control grey squirrels.", "As the number of people who died reaches six figures, the factors that led to this terrible total.", "The BBC brought a judicial review over reporting restrictions in a now abandoned legal case against Scotland's child abuse inquiry.", "An extra £50m is being directed towards grassroots sport after a \"significant hit\" to activity levels amid the coronavirus pandemic.", "The pharmaceutical giant said the late signing of contracts limited time to sort out supply glitches.", "Part of the grade II-listed bridge over the River Clwyd was swept away during Storm Christoph.", "Chelsea sack manager Frank Lampard after 18 months in charge, with former Paris St-Germain and Borussia Dortmund boss Thomas Tuchel expected to replace him.", "The Senate has confirmed Janet Yellen as first female treasury secretary in US history.", "The company acknowledges its \"Birdwatch\" idea could be \"messy\", but says it is worth trying.", "Parents and teachers are frustrated and worried about the impact of school closures on children.", "Before Wuhan was locked down in January 2020 officials said the outbreak was under control - but the virus had spread inside and outside the city.", "A plan to put the anti-slavery activist on the banknote was delayed under ex-President Donald Trump.", "The third national lockdown and travel ban meant the travel firm \"had to act\", a spokeswoman says.", "The Stormont-commissioned research examined institutions run by churches and other religious groups.", "English-speaking parents whose children go to Welsh-language schools say they struggle to help them.", "Three nights of rioting will not halt night curfews aimed at stopping coronavirus, say Dutch ministers.", "Claudia Marsh had recently qualified as a teacher and also volunteered for two charities.", "We must remember that every one of the lives lost during the pandemic leaves a legacy of sorrow.", "Images circulated on social media show mourners at the funeral of an IRA man in Londonderry.", "The mother of Keon Lincoln, 15, who was shot and stabbed, pleads for information about his death.", "The Welsh Government misses its target of giving 70% of over-80s the vaccine by last weekend.", "Leaders in the House have brought their article of impeachment against Donald Trump to the Senate.", "The border closure is likely to remain even with widespread vaccinations, a top official says.", "Alex Davies-Jones said \"like so many others\" she put off having a test for months.", "The convicted murderer and music producer was described as \"talented but flawed\" in an online story.", "The Welsh Ambulance Service boss warns that difficult weeks lie ahead in Covid-19 fight.", "An eyewitness speaks publicly for the first time about the 2015 death of a man being restrained by police.", "Lisbet Stone was turned away from her flight to London due to having an outdated Covid test.", "The number of people needing intensive care is expected to continue rising for at least two weeks.", "Passengers must also quarantine for up to 10 days following the closure of all UK travel corridors.", "Spector, who was jailed for killing actress Lana Clarkson, transformed pop music with his \"wall of sound\".", "At the age of 14, he sent encrypted messages inciting an Australian teenager to murder police officers.", "The owner of a toy retailer says high transport costs may mean larger toys become more expensive.", "Jonny Bairstow and Dan Lawrence help England seal victory over Sri Lanka on the final morning of the first Test in Galle.", "Ex-Marine John Deacy, 81, died with Covid-19 just two weeks after his last shift at the supermarket.", "A group of pensioners seek compensation for what they say was the excessive pricing of landlines.", "Leaders Manchester United are thwarted by the second-half heroics of keeper Alisson in a goalless draw with title rivals Liverpool at Anfield.", "Northern Health Trust chief says system is under \"huge pressure\" with patients waiting for beds.", "Doctors say the \"patchy supply\" of vaccine to GPs is slowing down efforts to deliver it to patients.", "The \"fiercely competitive\" but \"kind, thoughtful and caring\" news executive has died aged 73.", "Nóra Quoirin's parents do not accept the findings of an inquest into her death in Malaysia.", "Sir Richard Branson's rocket company succeeds in putting its first satellites in space.", "Jonathan Brooks is charged with the attempted murder of Graeme Perks, who was attacked in his home.", "Police have described the killers of 15-year-old Keelan Wilson as a \"pack of animals\".", "Brazil has the world's second-highest Covid death toll but has seen delay and discord over vaccines.", "A red deer had to be put down after being savaged by a red setter in London's Richmond Park.", "David Urpeth says smart motorways without a hard shoulder carry \"an ongoing risk of future deaths.\"", "Former climbing champion Lai Chi-Wai raised HK$5.2 million for spinal cord patients.", "Phil Neville leaves his role as manager of England's women and takes over at Major League Soccer side Inter Miami.", "Students call for more support as they continue their studies through another lockdown.", "The Jewish employee had warned co-workers about the danger of Nazis during the Capitol Riots.", "A group of London firms has written to ministers calling for financial support for the rail firm.", "Small armed groups gathered in several US cities but most state capitols were quiet amid high security.", "Annual growth of 2.3% puts China on course to be the only major economy to have expanded in 2020.", "Boris Johnson promises £23m in compensation for exporters which have lost orders due to delays.", "Someone is being admitted to hospital with coronavirus every 30 seconds, the health secretary says.", "The Perth-born actor was best known for screen roles including \"Chancer\" in City Lights and \"Pete Galloway\" in River City.", "Students at Aberystwyth are told not to return unless \"absolutely necessary\".", "Ambulance service staff in London explain the unique pressures of working during a pandemic.", "A shortage of computer chips is leading to car factories shutting down for days at a time.", "Drivers from Scotland and Portsmouth caught breaking lockdown rules in north Wales.", "Pressure grows on PM after non-binding motion on universal credit top-up is passed by 278 votes.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "There are very few spare beds for the most seriously ill patients in parts of the country, the NHS says.", "Police found evidence of sub-standard care at the Caerphilly home, an inquest hears.", "Democrats plan to start impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump on Monday, for inciting the invasion of the US Capitol, sources say.", "There's speculation over who was involved in the protests and whether they belong to organised groups.", "As Covid patients waited at Royal Glamorgan Hospital the nurse had a fear of \"wanting to leave\".", "The Welsh Government is in discussions with supermarkets about bringing \"more visible\" regulations.", "While GCSEs and A-levels are cancelled, IGCSEs, often used in independent schools, will continue.", "Terence Glover \"ploughed\" into a group of children in his car as they were leaving school.", "The firm says tighter Covid restrictions and falling passenger numbers have prompted the decision.", "The man charged the 92-year-old £160 and came back a week later asking for a further £100.", "Seventeen million doses have been ordered by the UK and are expected to arrive in spring.", "Sweet Melody becomes the band's fifth number one, and their first since Jesy Nelson left.", "But some performances may be pre-recorded if artists can't travel to Rotterdam.", "The deaths of a further 93 people have been recorded - with the number of patients in hospital at record levels.", "When Trump supporters stormed the Capitol they took out their cameras to record the chaos inside.", "He is remembered for the 7 Up documentary series which followed the lives of 14 children since 1964.", "Secret recordings revealed \"enough profanity, casual sexism and racism to last a lifetime\".", "Criticism of new Brexit trade rules is growing as firms warn of more bureaucracy, higher costs and delays.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "Students say they will refuse to pay for accommodation they cannot use during lockdown.", "It is the third vaccine to be approved for UK use, after the Pfizer and Oxford jabs.", "Ross Kemp and Christopher Biggins do readings at the funeral of the EastEnders and Carry On actress.", "The Competition and Markets Authority will explore whether Google is abusing its market dominance.", "Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove says \"work is ongoing\" to improve trade from GB to NI.", "Her family said the British model, who died in December aged 50, had been \"unwell for some time\".", "We asked people around the US how they responded to the chaotic scenes from the US Capitol.", "The drugs, which save an extra life for every 12 intensive care patients treated, can be used immediately, say experts.", "Shark attacks are rare in the country and it is thought to be the first such death since 2013.", "Breakdown of what happened when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol amid a key Senate vote.", "The weekly applause is back - but its founder distances herself from the initiative.", "The lender says it expects \"downward pressure on house prices\" in 2021 following annual rise of 6% last year.", "Business Secretary Alok Sharma becomes full-time president of November's COP26 conference in Glasgow.", "Data leaked to BBC News shows a rise in the number of hours before patients are offloaded.", "Marks & Spencer's clothes sales overall fall nearly a quarter, but pyjamas are back in fashion.", "The UK prime minister also says the US president is \"completely wrong\" over his election fraud claims.", "The men were detained when special forces stormed the Nave Andromeda off the Isle of Wight.", "Travellers from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana and Mauritius will be barred from entry.", "Top Democrats call for the president to be removed as he commits to an \"orderly\" transition of power.", "A London fashion student made the \"social distancing bandeau\" out of a Chiltern Railways seat cover.", "The mayor says in some parts of London 1 in 20 people has Covid-19, as he declares a \"major incident\".", "It comes as all of Wales has snow and ice warnings for the next few days.", "The Korean car company originally said it was in talks with the tech titan before backtracking.", "Two women were fined £200 after driving five miles to walk around Foremark Reservoir, Derbyshire.", "Worried childcare staff call on ministers to prove it's safe for them to open in England.", "Boris Johnson says the armed forces will use \"battle preparation techniques\" to help vaccinate millions.", "Vincent Kane does not know when his operation will happen, having been delayed due to the pandemic.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 1 and 8 January.", "Satellite data shows that 2020 and 2016 are essentially tied as the hottest years since records began.", "Lorry drivers will need a negative result to cross into France until further notice, the government says.", "A record 68,053 cases are also reported as a third vaccine is approved for use in the UK.", "Details and reaction as First Minister Mark Drakeford confirms an extended closure of schools.", "The Duke of Cambridge says he wants his three children to appreciate sacrifices made during Covid.", "He claims her evidence to an inquiry into sexual harassment allegations against him was \"untrue\".", "The Wanted member shares some good news with his fans, three months on from his cancer diagnosis.", "Meanwhile almost half of people took advantage of Christmas bubble rules, a national survey suggests.", "Kelvin Hopkins has previously denied claims by a party activist of inappropriate physical contact.", "A series of streamed music events, shows and releases will mark five years since the singer's death.", "With attendance as high as 50% in some areas, heads call for pupil limits in England's lockdown schools.", "Ramsey was loved by fans for her role as Officer Laverne Hooks in the Police Academy film series.", "Lockdown measures will see schools closed until half term, and GCSEs and A-levels unable to go ahead as normal.", "Four boys and a girl are held on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder after the Reading attack.", "That includes some of the most vulnerable patients who should soon have \"significant\" protection against the virus.", "Four people were accused of being a \"supporting cast\" for burglars who targeted west London homes.", "Mainland Scotland faces tougher restrictions from midnight, and schools will remain closed until February.", "The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine programme is being rolled out less than a week after it became the second approved in the UK.", "President Trump initially accused China of the hack against US government agencies in December.", "The first cyclone of Australia’s season has been downgraded but continues to cause danger.", "Reversing earlier assurances, officials say tracing data can be used for criminal investigations.", "Boris Johnson tells a briefing that nearly a quarter of people over 80 have received a Covid-19 jab.", "Dr Radha Modgil shares tips on staying mentally and emotionally well during the coronavirus lockdown.", "Enrique Tarrio was detained as he entered the city ahead of a pro-Trump protest this week.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "BBC Two and CBBC will show content for primary and secondary pupils to watch without the internet.", "Sea Shepherd says the collision happened after it came under attack in the Gulf of California.", "Business groups welcomed the new help as a good start but said more aid and a clear plan would be needed.", "Boris Johnson made the decision on restrictions \"in the face of new information\", the chancellor says.", "The first minister says restrictions \"similar to March\" will come into force in mainland Scotland from midnight and schools will not re-open in January.", "Professional sport in England will be allowed to continue behind closed doors, despite a new national lockdown announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.", "The children's commissioner for England and Labour's leader call on firms to help low-income families.", "The Department of Health's aim is for all people older than 80 to receive a jab by the end of January.", "A growing divide over education, jobs, and ethnicity threaten the fabric of society, says Nobel laureate's study.", "Economy Minister Diane Dodds writes to Cabinet Office Secretary Michael Gove over the issue.", "UK nationals resident in Spain say they were wrongly turned back when their flight landed in Barcelona.", "You may be happy to let your phone recognise your face - but what about the police?", "Virgin Holidays joins Tui and Thomas Cook in cancelling holidays after latest coronavirus restrictions.", "In a TV address, Labour's leader says millions of doses need to be given each week by the end of January.", "Rutherglen MP Margaret Ferrier is charged by police with \"alleged culpable and reckless conduct\".", "The cancellations, although rare, reflect the pressure some hospitals are under from Covid.", "Roughly one in 50 people in England has got the virus, Prof Chris Whitty says.", "Demand surges as shoppers rush to secure online delivery slots following news of another lockdown.", "In the tightening of restrictions across the UK there is much that's an echo of March - but a lot that's different too.", "It's been a \"Herculean achievement\" for Marieme and Ndeye, who survived against the odds.", "The news comes following confusion after her death was prematurely announced on Monday.", "Former Manchester City and England midfielder Colin Bell dies aged 74 after a short illness, the Premier League club announces.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "YouTube says the broadcaster posted banned Covid content, but it has decided to reinstate its channel.", "First Minister Nicola Sturgeon thinks Celtic have questions to answer on the grounds for their winter trip to Dubai and says the club's social distancing \"should be looked into\".", "The stationery chain which has 127 stores and around 1,500 employees says shop closures hit it hard.", "Doctors leaders' want staff to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care.", "Former Buckingham Palace caterer Adamo Canto attempted to sell some items on eBay, a court hears.", "Vocational exams such as BTECs are not being cancelled by the lockdown like GCSEs and A-levels.", "A hearing will decide whether Khairi Saadallah was motivated by a religious or ideological cause.", "The Love Island star is alleged to have \"breached quarantine\" regulations on holiday in Barbados.", "Stay-at-home orders are issued in England and Scotland, as UK classrooms face further disruption.", "The executive also plans to give its stay at home message legal force, with new travel restrictions.", "The famous building on London's Oxford Street has been put on the market by administrators.", "Strict new Covid-19 restrictions come into force in Scotland, prohibiting people from leaving their homes.", "A fresh move to make non-fatal strangulation a specific criminal offence is under way.", "The personal trainer says he wants to \"give children structure\" during lockdown.", "Regulators say the plane is safe to resume service after two fatal crashes led to its grounding.", "Insurers reject claims that by covering ransomware bills they are funding organised crime.", "But loss of taste and smell may be less likely to affect those with the new strain, a study suggests.", "Travellers share their experiences of isolating in hotels, as the UK announces a similar scheme.", "Boris Johnson says he takes \"full responsibility\" for the UK government's response to the pandemic.", "Nicola Sturgeon says she is \"not ecstatic\" about reports the PM will visit Scotland on Thursday.", "The tunnel is a danger to public safety, an HS2 spokeswoman told the BBC.", "The 71-year-old Lib Dem peer says she is wearing her \"I've had the jab\" badge with pride.", "Philippa Day was found collapsed beside a letter rejecting her request for an at-home assessment.", "The 83-year-old Hollywood royalty is also known as an active climate change campaigner.", "The shadow justice secretary calls for seven-member juries to deal with cases delayed by the pandemic.", "Karen Hobbs' sister says she is in shock, and urges people to follow lockdown rules.", "Boris Johnson says most people in Scotland are focused on defeating Covid rather than another referendum.", "Images of Jonathan Mok's swollen eye were posted on Facebook and shared thousands of times.", "Robin Swann says all health workers are valued and have worked tirelessly during the pandemic.", "A collection of your tributes to some of the thousands of people in the UK who have died with coronavirus.", "The financial regulator will consult \"shortly\" on a rise from the current limit of £45.", "Ministers are due to meet on Monday to consider whether to tighten the UK's border restrictions further.", "Footage shows a banned driver in a stolen car drive into a police officer on his motorbike.", "The PM sets the date he hopes England's lockdown will begin to ease, but warns of a \"perilous situation\".", "Boris Johnson also says he shares the \"frustration\" of parents who want to get children back to school.", "Already 100,000 people in the UK have died with Covid. This is the story of one of them.", "Demand for the video game and cloud computing services helped push Microsoft sales to a new quarterly record.", "Families loaded up on the latest technology and sales increased in China.", "The maps depict the famous sea battle in which the English fleet was victorious in 1588.", "There will be \"a lot more deaths\" before the effect of vaccines is felt, England's chief medical officer says.", "The lack of certainty about schools returning is fraying the exhausted nerves of parents.", "The Army sends a bomb disposal unit to a site where the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is produced.", "Already 100,000 people in the UK have died with Covid. This is the story of one of them.", "The Met says it was a \"poor decision\" to hire a barber to give cuts to 31 officers in the workplace.", "The Oscar-nominated actor and his choreographer wife describe as \"difficult\" their decision to split.", "It is the first time the world-famous event will take place in the autumn.", "Nadhim Zahawi says supply is tight, but he expects the UK to meet its February target of 15 million doses.", "A \"legacy of poor decisions\" in 2020 and before the pandemic led to 100,000 deaths, scientists say.", "Scientists say sharks and rays are disappearing from the world's oceans at an \"alarming\" rate.", "As the UK records its 100,000th death from Covid within 28 days of a positive test, Catherine Burns speaks to some of the people behind the figures.", "Bailiffs move in to remove people who dug a 100ft tunnel to block the high-speed rail line.", "Nicola Sturgeon says she is concerned the UK's travel restrictions will not go far enough.", "The government gives its support to a project to use oral contraceptives to control grey squirrels.", "Leon Briggs was \"like a child crying out for a toy\" as he was held down by officers, a jury hears.", "As the number of people who died reaches six figures, the factors that led to this terrible total.", "Nurse Eva Gicain says when she held Elleana for the first time she \"didn't want to let go\".", "The pharmaceutical giant said the late signing of contracts limited time to sort out supply glitches.", "Has the PM effectively admitted we're heading for a full year of limits on our lives?", "Lockdown led to a surge in reports of fraudsters imitating genuine investment firms, regulator says.", "Jagtar Singh Johal has been held in an Indian jail without conviction for more than three years.", "Labour calls for key workers to be added to the first phase of the vaccination programme.", "Residents hit upon the idea after the annual street parade was cancelled because of the pandemic.", "Boris Johnson faced questions from MPs why the UK's coronavirus death toll is the highest in Europe.", "Claudia Marsh had recently qualified as a teacher and also volunteered for two charities.", "The social media platform removed posts after wrongly identifying the place name as offensive.", "We must remember that every one of the lives lost during the pandemic leaves a legacy of sorrow.", "Details from a briefing by the chief medical officer and chief scientific adviser for health.", "David Solomon is being punished for the bank's involvement in the fraudulent Malaysian investment fund.", "Josh Quigley, from Livingston, suffered multiple fractures after coming off his bike at 40mph while training in Dubai.", "The “phased” lifting of restrictions will depend on data on hospitalisations, deaths and vaccinations.", "The government faces legal action over its decision to allow the use of a pesticide that harms bees.", "UK residents can apply for the new card to access emergency medical care when their EHIC card runs out.", "Khairi Saadallah murdered three friends in a Reading park in a \"ruthless and brutal” terror attack.", "Cardiff City defender Sol Bamba is undergoing chemotherapy after being diagnosed with cancer, the Championship club has announced", "County Mayo man howls with laughter while trying to record a birthday message for his son.", "Derbyshire Police apologises to two women fined £200 for driving five miles for a countryside walk.", "New Covid curbs are necessary but they will hit the economy, Chancellor Rishi Sunak warns.", "Thousands of National Guard troops are being deployed to bolster security in Washington DC.", "Dutch TV films officials confiscating ham sandwiches from UK drivers under new food import rules.", "Unison chooses Christina McAnea to replace Dave Prentis, who has been in the job for 20 years.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says 2.3 million people in the UK have now had a Covid-19 vaccine dose.", "James Brokenshire will take leave from his Home Office job during further surgery for lung cancer.", "Medical director warns Wrexham Maelor is under huge pressure as numbers of seriously ill patients rise.", "It said there may be \"an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks\".", "The new Welsh Government vaccine plan says all eligible adults will be offered a jab by the autumn.", "M&S is buying the brand out of administration, but not Jaeger's scores of shops and concessions.", "University of Surrey tests for BBC News found no evidence of any effect.", "The decision follows a rise in cases across the emirates in the past week, officials say.", "A document advises doctors that the minimum level of oxygen required in the blood is being reduced.", "Scotland's first minister says she has doubts about whether Celtic's trip to Dubai was \"really essential\".", "\"Numbers are increasing not decreasing\" - inside an emergency body storage facility in Surrey.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning.", "Three people were arrested during an anti-lockdown protest, including the woman seen in the video.", "A number of Scottish schools, pupils and parents report Microsoft Teams running slowly or not at all.", "People who cannot work from home should be prioritised for rapid tests in England, the government says.", "Luke Evans portrays the policeman who brought John Cooper to justice for two double murders.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says the NHS is under \"very serious pressure\" and warns people to stay home.", "Extra measures are taken to distribute Covid vaccines amid fears the snow could turn to ice.", "Crawley Town produce one of the FA Cup third round's most emphatic upsets as they stun Premier League side Leeds United.", "As countries look to quickly vaccinate people, BBC reporters explain what's happening across Europe.", "There are concerns the new variant may spread too easily to be controlled by lockdown.", "Manchester United will host Premier League champions Liverpool in the fourth round of the FA Cup.", "Seven mass vaccination centres have opened across England to help deliver the Coronavirus vaccine.", "A study finds that the financial burden on poorer families has increased during the pandemic.", "The much-loved TV series is back with a new name but only three of the original four leads will star.", "The government says a draft agreement saying flat owners need its approval first is \"standard\".", "An industry group wants more state help for people like Jon Wilding, whose business is hit by the pandemic.", "Kitchen robots, new TVs, smart masks and a toilet that analyses your poo are among the new products.", "Doctors at the hospital say they're treating more younger patients than in the first wave.", "Boris Johnson was spotted at the Olympic Park on Sunday, despite government advice to \"stay local\".", "Nicola Sturgeon acknowledges technical problems on the first day the vast majority of pupils in Scotland begin the new term at home.", "About 560,000 people will have been vaccinated by the beginning of next month, the health secretary says.", "He wants businesses to do more to protect the planet as he marks 50 years of environmental campaigning.", "It comes after a Celtic player tested positive less than 48 hours after the squad returned from a training trip there.", "People refusing to wear face coverings who are not medically exempt will not be allowed to shop inside.", "Increasing numbers of seriously-ill patients add to the pressure facing Scotland's health service.", "Celtic's only regret about their Dubai trip was Chris Jullien contracting Covid-19, said coach Gavin Strachan, after the draw with Hibernian.", "Details and reaction to Health Minister Vaughan Gething's vaccination rollout plan.", "Justice Secretary Robert Buckland says too many abusers' sentences are not tough enough.", "Lisa Montgomery's lawyers argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who deserved mercy, but her victim's community said otherwise.", "A \"significant step-up\" in rolling out vaccines is promised by the health minister.", "The Labour leader calls for tougher coronavirus restrictions and says help for low earners must continue.", "The social network has hit back asking a federal judge to order it to be reinstated.", "Two landslides hit the same village in Indonesia within hours, leaving emergency teams trapped.", "The content will not count in a mobile data allowance to help keep costs of online learning down.", "Patients, many shielding, have been offered appointments miles away from their homes.", "The health secretary says UK vaccine rollout is on track but urges everyone to play their part by following Covid rules.", "The warning from England's chief medical officer comes as seven mass vaccination centres open.", "Joe Biden's presidential Twitter account launches with no followers transferred from President Trump.", "Some areas could see freezing temperatures and 5-10cm of snow on Saturday, the Met Office says.", "The Daily Telegraph must publish a correction over Covid claims, press regulator Ipso rules.", "Police and rail bosses condemn a social media post featuring a car parked on a level crossing.", "A negative test had been due to be required from Friday, but ministers said people needed time to prepare.", "Post-primary schools get extra time to decide how they will admit pupils after transfer tests are cancelled.", "Plastic surgeons express shock at the stabbing of \"highly respected\" Graeme Perks in his home.", "Red tape plus a \"poor\" Brexit deal mean fishermen fear for the future, says an industry body.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 8 and 15 January.", "In one health board, 30% of four and five-year-olds are overweight or obese.", "The couple, who both have coronavirus, were given \"precious\" time together, their daughter says.", "Even experienced exporters are struggling with the system, says the British Meat Processor Association.", "Details and reaction as First Minister Mark Drakeford promises more protection to shop workers.", "It comes after reports that protections including the 48-hour work week could be dropped.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday morning.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the action is needed to protect against the risk of new Covid strains.", "He helped kick-start punk and new wave, and was an influence on the Sex Pistols and Guns N' Roses.", "Move follows concern over a new Covid variant which an expert says has already been found in the UK.", "Statistics agency Nisra says 145 deaths were registered last week, bringing its pandemic total to 1,976.", "The show of military strength comes days before the inauguration of Joe Biden as US president.", "Craig Ross was quoted as saying food bank users were \"far from starving\" and more at risk of diabetes.", "The Home Office says it is working to \"assess the impact\" of the issue, which has been resolved.", "Homes worry about being sued if people contract the virus while they are staying there.", "Richard Sharp says the BBC represents good value, but how it is funded \"may be worth reassessing\".", "Scientists warn UK deaths will continue to rise as the global death toll passes two million.", "Coronavirus restrictions in England affected services, with pubs and hairdressers badly hit.", "Antonio says he felt he was discriminated against because of his skin colour when he was sectioned.", "Reports from Manaus say medical staff are begging for help in a critical situation due to Covid-19.", "The NHS fears some communities are being targeted with misinformation, a leading doctor says.", "Replacement exam grades are likely to arrive earlier and be decided by teachers and a test.", "Donations of plasma from people who have recovered from the virus have been suspended.", "A variant that is thought to be more infectious has not been found in the UK, scientist says.", "A letter from police chiefs also says 213,000 records were lost - more than first thought.", "Pharmacist Llyr Hughes said 50 patients would be given the Covid vaccine at his pharmacy on Friday.", "The R number in the UK is officially estimated at 1.2-1.3 as a further 1,280 deaths are reported.", "Hospitals with large critical care capacity are taking patients from other areas to ease pressures.", "The Saved by the Bell actor became ill last week and was taken to hospital.", "Network Rail said a 24m section of side wall fell away from a bridge between Carmont and Stonehaven.", "On Thursday, 16 more deaths related to Covid-19 were recorded along with 973 new positive cases.", "The earthquake struck the island of Sulawesi on Friday, injuring hundreds and destroying a hospital.", "US police held back a mob for hours in a \"barbaric\" battle at the Capitol. Here are their stories.", "A respiratory doctor at the Mater Hospital warns that oxygen supplies are under \"extreme pressure\".", "Wayne Rooney is named as Derby County's new manager, with the ex-England captain also announcing his retirement from playing.", "David Chambers is accused of charging the woman £160 for a bogus jab.", "The footballer joins celebrities and campaigners to call for action in a letter to the prime minister.", "Mr Leonard says it is in the best interests of the party if he stands down as leader immediately.", "The government says the funding will connect \"left-behind\" communities.", "Tens of thousands of people join some of the largest rallies against President Vladimir Putin in years.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Saturday morning.", "It is claimed they were seen drinking on Welsh Parliament premises when a ban on its sale in pubs was in force.", "Campaigners say a government fund to pay for the removal of dangerous cladding is woefully inadequate.", "One says he is surprised Boris Johnson shared the early data when it is \"not particularly strong\".", "It brings the total number of deaths to 97,329.", "Keon Lincoln was attacked by a group of youths in the Handsworth area of Birmingham.", "Police uncover a string of late-night \"incredibly selfish\" parties in Kensington and Chelsea.", "Pressures on intensive care units are seeing one in 10 patients transferred to a different site.", "Photographs of National Guard members sheltering underground spark anger among lawmakers.", "Some elderly people have been told to travel miles to get the jab or face having to wait to get it.", "A shortage of shipping containers, rising costs, and congestion at ports are holding back imports from China.", "Presented as a safe pair of hands, he struggled to make himself heard during tumultuous times.", "Some will enable women to have overnight visits with their children, the Ministry of Justice says.", "Underground investigations are due to begin on Saturday after flooding linked to old mine shaft.", "Booking a jab by following a link in an email meant \"depriving someone else\" of a vaccine, he said.", "Vitinha's superb goal sees Wolves into the fifth round of the FA Cup at the expense of non-league Chorley.", "As the UK rejects £500 Covid pay outs, how are others countries getting people to stick to the rules?", "A study finds the new coronavirus variant is responsible for pushing the R rate above the crucial 1.0 mark.", "Injections are to be delivered at Black Country Living Museum where the series has in part been filmed.", "The vaccination centres temporarily closed in south Wales as a weather warning was extended.", "The popular US broadcaster conducted about 50,000 interviews, from Nelson Mandela to Lady Gaga.", "Pavithra Wanniarachchi, Sri Lanka's health minister, tested positive for Covid on Friday.", "Anybody struggling to get to an appointment will be able to rearrange, a health board says.", "Boris Johnson said he looked forward to \"deepening the longstanding alliance\" between the UK and US.", "NHS staff rally to arrange a wedding for a couple as the groom's condition deteriorates in hospital.", "Evidence suggests the variant that emerged in the UK may be more deadly as well as faster-spreading.", "In the city where the virus first emerged there is now an insistence that it came from elsewhere.", "The chief rabbi has described the event as a \"shameful desecration of all that we hold dear\".", "Delaying second Pfizer doses to give more people their first is \"difficult to justify\", says BMA.", "Inadequate PPE and a new variant may be putting the lives of nurses at risk, says nursing union.", "Manchester City score three times in the last 10 minutes to defeat League Two side Cheltenham and avoid one of the biggest shocks in FA Cup history.", "Thirty-nine Vietnamese migrants suffocated in a sealed container en route to Essex in October 2019.", "Police hold aides to Putin critic Alexei Navalny as opposition activists start a string of rallies.", "Under coronavirus restrictions a maximum of 30 people are meant to attend a funeral.", "Boris Johnson has not ruled out further action to secure the borders amid concerns over Covid variants.", "Worship has been suspended as burials average 15-a-day, yet still there is denial about the disease.", "AstraZeneca is the latest company, after Pfizer, to warn of delivery issues, frustrating officials.", "The UK's chief medical adviser warns that \"a very small change and it could start taking off again\".", "An intensive care doctor says medics are seeing \"unprecedented\" numbers of people dying.", "They were hit while licking freshly laid salt on a road which is a black spot for animal accidents.", "And another 964 people died within 28 days of a positive test, only slightly down on Wednesday's figure.", "Objects are thrown and officers threatened as they break up the New Year's Eve party in Essex.", "As the UK prepares to sever EU ties, Stanley Johnson says he has always regarded himself as French.", "Campaigners say cutting of the 5% VAT rate on tampons and sanitary towels ends a 'sexist' tax.", "Japan's prime minister says the delayed Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will go ahead this summer despite concern over rising coronavirus cases.", "Doctors urge public to \"take it seriously\" and follow coronavirus restrictions amid rising cases.", "The British dance band make some of their biggest hits available for the first time.", "The new year celebrations featured a tribute to the NHS and a message from David Attenborough.", "Bishop, who recently tested positive for Covid-19, said boarding the Tardis was \"a dream come true\".", "Joe Anderson says Labour should pick another candidate while he seeks to clear his name.", "Former Manchester United and Scotland manager Tommy Docherty dies at the age of 92 following a long illness.", "The first minister warns Scotland could be entering the most dangerous period since the outbreak began.", "Manchester United move level on points with Premier League leaders Liverpool as a Bruno Fernandes penalty seals victory over Aston Villa.", "NHS England says the facility is available to help the capital's hospitals as Covid-19 cases rise.", "The designer of the scene says it is not the first time it has been targeted.", "Several hundred people gathered at Edinburgh Castle despite warnings to stay away.", "Education Secretary Gavin Williamson drops plan to keep primaries open in 10 boroughs in the city.", "Footage is released of the first police-involved death in the US city since George Floyd's in May.", "Staff absences and the new Covid variant are creating a \"challenging situation\", NHS Providers warn.", "A study finds the new coronavirus variant is responsible for pushing the R rate above the crucial 1.0 mark.", "Primary schools in only 10 of London's boroughs are due to reopen next week.", "One of hip-hop's most influential MCs, masked rapper MF Doom died in October, his family confirm.", "It comes as most people heeded warnings to stay home - but police issued fines to those who didn't.", "With a Brexit deal done, we look at the challenges to come at British borders.", "The UK’s new single market is not as big as the country, it now needs to encompass the whole world.", "Some lorries heading for Ireland have already been turned away from Welsh ports over wrong paperwork.", "Health Minister Vaughan Gething urges \"patience\" as the vaccine programme steps up in Wales.", "Nine people are still missing, two days after a hillside collapsed due to flowing clay mud.", "The finance minister had visited the Caribbean while his province is under strict Covid lockdown.", "The UK will now leave a 12-week gap between both parts of the Covid vaccination, rather than 21 days.", "The trade border means most commercial goods entering NI from GB now require a customs declaration.", "Boris Johnson celebrates the \"freedom in our hands\" as the long Brexit process comes to a conclusion.", "Firework displays and some religious rituals go ahead, although Covid mutes celebrations.", "The station will reflect on the world's longest-running serial drama across its output on Friday.", "The deal - yet to become a treaty - enables Spanish workers to continue entering Gibraltar freely.", "Omar Elabdellaoui, who plays for Turkish club Galatasaray, suffers burns and is taken to hospital.", "A new campaign is launched to urge people not to become complacent about the Covid restrictions.", "A total of 1,596 patients are in Scottish hospitals with Covid as pressures on the NHS continue to build.", "Kim Jong-un calls the US his \"biggest enemy\" and says plans for a nuclear submarine are nearly complete.", "Two women were fined £200 after driving five miles to walk around Foremark Reservoir, Derbyshire.", "A self-employed father-of-three calls on UK government to be \"more flexible\" with its Covid support.", "Breakdown of what happened when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol amid a key Senate vote.", "Vincent Kane does not know when his operation will happen, having been delayed due to the pandemic.", "The property investment firm is accused of trying to \"jump the queue\".", "As Covid patients waited at Royal Glamorgan Hospital the nurse had a fear of \"wanting to leave\".", "Advertising campaign warning people not to get complacent comes as 1,325 deaths are recorded in the UK.", "Criticism of new Brexit trade rules is growing as firms warn of more bureaucracy, higher costs and delays.", "The vaccines were administered on Saturday by a household doctor at Windsor Castle, a royal source says.", "The Welsh Government is in discussions with supermarkets about bringing \"more visible\" regulations.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "A record 68,053 cases are also reported as a third vaccine is approved for use in the UK.", "Bernard Thomas was rescued from the rubble of Pantglas primary school on 21 October, 1966.", "The gym owners were given a £1,000 fine after three people were found inside on Friday.", "The friends said they were relieved people would not have to fear being fined for taking a walk.", "Terence Glover \"ploughed\" into a group of children in his car as they were leaving school.", "A timeline of international air crashes from 1998 to the present.", "West Ham manager David Moyes says footballers must not be \"picked on\" for breaching coronavirus guidelines.", "Councillor Kevin Hughes missed his mother's funeral after testing positive for coronavirus.", "US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says contact between officials should no longer be \"shackled\".", "There are concerns the new variant may spread too easily to be controlled by lockdown.", "Apple will also remove the social network from its App Store if it does not change its policies.", "As countries look to quickly vaccinate people, BBC reporters explain what's happening across Europe.", "At least six police vans are deployed to Clapham Common where about 30 protesters gathered.", "Ross Kemp and Christopher Biggins do readings at the funeral of the EastEnders and Carry On actress.", "The farm has been left with over 4,000 surplus eggs after schools suddenly closed to most pupils.", "The Duke of Cambridge says he wants his three children to appreciate sacrifices made during Covid.", "He claims her evidence to an inquiry into sexual harassment allegations against him was \"untrue\".", "Thousands more people have taken up fishing during the pandemic, figures show.", "Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove says \"work is ongoing\" to improve trade from GB to NI.", "Meanwhile almost half of people took advantage of Christmas bubble rules, a national survey suggests.", "How Trump's favourite social media site banned him - permanently.", "A London fashion student made the \"social distancing bandeau\" out of a Chiltern Railways seat cover.", "Kelvin Hopkins has previously denied claims by a party activist of inappropriate physical contact.", "He is remembered for the 7 Up documentary series which followed the lives of 14 children since 1964.", "Eva Williams was unable to travel to the United States for treatment due to coronavirus.", "Four deaths are reported as Storm Filomena dumps snow and triggers floods across the country.", "He hopes to beat his own lockdown bulge with his \"Get Buzzin' With Bez\" YouTube classes.", "The new more infectious variant requires tougher measures to control the spread of Covid, say scientists.", "Another 1,035 people have died, taking the total since the start of the pandemic to 80,868.", "The mayor says in some parts of London 1 in 20 people has Covid-19, as he declares a \"major incident\".", "More than 100 cars are turned away from a beauty spot in north Wales, police say.", "The total number of deaths within 28 days of a positive test during the pandemic is now above 90,000.", "The convicted murderer and music producer was described as \"talented but flawed\" in an online story.", "Police in Greater Manchester and South Yorkshire say they are expecting flooding in their regions.", "An eyewitness speaks publicly for the first time about the 2015 death of a man being restrained by police.", "Tory rebels hope to get another chance to outlaw trade deals with countries involved in mass killings.", "Lisbet Stone was turned away from her flight to London due to having an outdated Covid test.", "US tariffs on Scotch whisky and cashmere remain in place as UK fails to reach deal with Washington.", "Marion Dawson from Renfrewshire is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.", "Europe is gradually easing lockdown measures ahead of the tourist season.", "People accused of crimes in England and Wales - and alleged victims - wait years for a resolution.", "One person is killed and at least 10 are injured after vehicles collide on the Tohoku Expressway.", "Top medical adviser suggests schools in England may reopen region by region after lockdown.", "The Duchess of Sussex is suing the Mail on Sunday over the publication of her letter to her father.", "But researchers warn there is still a risk of catching and passing the virus on to others again.", "Out of 23,000 professors in UK universities only 155 are black, official figures reveal.", "Court cases face serious delays in the UK and lawyers say more investment in technology would help.", "The government is being scrutinised over trade deals with countries with poor human rights records.", "People who say Boris Johnson does not want Joe Biden as president are \"mistaken\", says Lord Sedwill.", "Police found evidence of sub-standard care at the Caerphilly home, an inquest hears.", "Matt Hancock says he will stay at home and urged others to do the same if \"pinged\" by the app.", "A collection of your tributes to some of the thousands of people in the UK who have died with coronavirus.", "The UK's push to secure a deal over fossil fuels is being undercut by a decision to allow a new coal mine, MPs warn.", "The number of people needing intensive care is expected to continue rising for at least two weeks.", "Ex-Marine John Deacy, 81, died with Covid-19 just two weeks after his last shift at the supermarket.", "Mainland Scotland and some islands to remain under toughest coronavirus rules until at least mid-February.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday evening.", "Labour accuses Kwasi Kwarteng of \"unpicking\" workers' rights, as minister confirms he will review rules.", "The unnamed man lived in Verbier, where the incident happened, police said.", "Boris Johnson promises £23m in compensation for exporters which have lost orders due to delays.", "Many parents struggle to meet their children's needs during the pandemic, say researchers.", "Alex Davies-Jones said \"like so many others\" she put off having a test for months.", "Paul Reid was the first person to reach Saffie-Rose Roussos, eight, after the bomb was detonated.", "Nicola Sturgeon says although there is \"cautious grounds for optimism\" on case numbers, the strictest rules will remain in place.", "Live updates from Trump's last hours in office before Democrat Joe Biden is sworn in as president on Wednesday.", "The artwork has been returned to an Italian museum - whose staff were unaware it was missing.", "A survey by consumer group Which? raises concerns over coronavirus leading to more cashless stores.", "Creator of the BBC crime drama says he \"always wanted to end Peaky with a movie\".", "University of Edinburgh scientists are a step closer to being able to reverse the damage caused by MND.", "Tory MPs want Parliament to debate ending trade deals with countries deemed responsible for genocide.", "Orthodox Christians, Putin among them, take an icy dip to commemorate a special day.", "The BBC speaks to Nirmal Purja, from the team of the first climbers to reach the K2 summit in winter.", "The UK has not always \"lived up to its values\" under Boris Johnson, his predecessor Theresa May says.", "Ambulance service staff in London explain the unique pressures of working during a pandemic.", "Pressure grows on PM after non-binding motion on universal credit top-up is passed by 278 votes.", "Are court backlogs creating miscarriages of justice? Helen Grady investigates.", "The Protection of Workers Bill will make it a new specific offence to assault, abuse or threaten Scottish retail staff.", "India pull off an astonishing run-chase to inflict Australia's first defeat at the Gabba since 1988 and take one of the all-time great series.", "The first minister says her statement to MSPs will concern the duration of Scotland's restrictions.", "Some 10% of the UK population is showing signs of recent infection, a doubling since October, says ONS.", "David Urpeth says smart motorways without a hard shoulder carry \"an ongoing risk of future deaths.\"", "A further 1,610 people die with Covid in the UK as Scotland extends its lockdown to mid-February.", "Campaigners are bringing a judicial review for indirect sexual discrimination on Thursday.", "All practices will have their own rollout plan but they have to meet official targets, says GP committee.", "Staff say there was a Covid outbreak after the \"party\" in a shut patisserie at Marylebone station.", "Hackers are selling Depop app account details on the dark web for as little as 77p each online.", "The bank has named the branches that will close between April and September, but aims to avoid redundancies.", "Large parts of northern and central England are expected to face sustained heavy rain from Tuesday.", "The PM leads UK politicians from all parties condemning the riot at the US Capitol building.", "One hospital boss said a two-week \"lag\" meant things could get worse before they get better.", "He wrote 30 novels about relationships and adventures involving young African American characters.", "That includes some of the most vulnerable patients who should soon have \"significant\" protection against the virus.", "He will lead negotiations with the government over the future of the licence fee.", "New 2020 car registrations sink to a 30-year low and see biggest one-year drop since the Second World War", "The bakery chain says it does not expect profits to return to pre-Covid levels until 2022 at the earliest.", "President Trump initially accused China of the hack against US government agencies in December.", "Joe Biden says it is \"totally unacceptable\" police showed more leniency in the Capitol riot than at anti-racism protests.", "All eyes are on the Senate runoff in Georgia, a key race that could help define Biden's presidency.", "Latest figures show more than 90,000 people in Scotland had received a first vaccination by late December.", "But there are fears bottlenecks in the system may hamper how fast NHS can deliver vaccines.", "The 19-year-old suffered life-changing injuries during the \"vicious\" assault in north London.", "Founder Annemarie Plas says the initiative will return on Thursday under the new name of Clap for Heroes.", "The US star says she had \"no idea\" what questions were included in a game bearing her image.", "Gavin Williamson will \"trust in teachers rather than algorithms\" in awarding this year's results.", "The hip-hop star and producer says he is \"doing great\" and \"getting excellent care\".", "A hearing is deciding whether Khairi Saadallah was motivated by a religious or ideological cause.", "The sites, including football stadiums and racecourses, will begin operations next week.", "Staff at one of London's busiest hospitals say it's not going to take much for services to soon break.", "BBC Two and CBBC will show content for primary and secondary pupils to watch without the internet.", "The police officer who the FBI said fired the fatal shot is dismissed for breaching policy.", "The government closed schools to help reduce the virus spread but says nurseries should stay open.", "Investment company Hipgnosis buys a half share of 1,180 songs by the Canadian folk rocker.", "The latest executive order by the US president will only take effect after he has left office.", "Cases have fallen below England's but the new variant is spreading fast, the health minister says.", "As Trump supporters entered the US Capitol building, politicians halted debate inside.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning.", "The US Capitol has gone into lockdown amid violent clashes between police and Trump supporters, who broke security lines and are inside the building.", "The investigators were turned back, with Beijing saying \"there might be some misunderstanding\".", "President Trump and others have made unsubstantiated claims of fraud in two Senate election run-offs.", "US lawmakers and staff are seen wearing protective gas masks as police draw guns on protesters.", "In a TV address, Labour's leader says millions of doses need to be given each week by the end of January.", "One scam tells recipients they are \"eligible to apply for your vaccine\" with a link to a bogus NHS website.", "At Fullwell Cross Medical Centre in north London, they are now vaccinating almost 1,000 people a week.", "Gordon Ramsay remembers late chef Albert Roux as \"the man who installed gastronomy in Britain\".", "The streaming giant is criticised for \"unfortunate\" timing during the new lockdowns.", "Roughly one in 50 people in England has got the virus, Prof Chris Whitty says.", "Details and reaction to a briefing by Wales' chief medical officer and the head of NHS Wales.", "Stores seek to reassure shoppers that there is no need to bulk-buy in new lockdown.", "It's been a \"Herculean achievement\" for Marieme and Ndeye, who survived against the odds.", "A top Chinese scientist addresses claims the coronavirus leaked from her lab in the city of Wuhan.", "The overnight temperature plunged below -12C in the north west Highlands.", "Former Manchester City and England midfielder Colin Bell dies aged 74 after a short illness, the Premier League club announces.", "The Trump administration pushes ahead with first oil lease sales in an Arctic wildlife refuge.", "A driver, who caused a Fife crash that led to his passenger losing her baby, admits causing death by dangerous driving.", "The news comes following confusion after her death was prematurely announced on Monday.", "All the latest news and results for the US Election 2020 from the BBC.", "Judge rules he has an incentive to abscond if allowed to leave jail before major appeal hearing.", "Drive-through and delivery services will still be available while it reviews its safety procedures.", "Head teachers warn replacement grades for GCSEs and A-levels must not repeat last year's \"disaster\".", "Leaders from around the world call for peace and a peaceful transfer of power in Washington.", "YouTube says the broadcaster posted banned Covid content, but it has decided to reinstate its channel.", "Poet Helen Mort is calling for a change in the law after images of her were edited with porn.", "Vocational exams such as BTECs are not being cancelled by the lockdown like GCSEs and A-levels.", "The government says it is considering the move to prevent the virus spreading \"across the UK border\".", "Stay-at-home orders are issued in England and Scotland, as UK classrooms face further disruption.", "There are concerns the new variant may spread too easily to be controlled by lockdown.", "The House of Commons approves the government's decision to impose tough restrictions across the country.", "FTSE 100 chiefs will by Wednesday have earned more this year than the average worker's annual wage.", "The BMA in Scotland says it is concerned about the potential impact of delaying the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine.", "There will be a \"gradual unwrapping\" of England's lockdown, Boris Johnson tells MPs ahead of a vote later.", "Police say organisers padlocked the door from the inside to stop officers getting in.", "Tributes are paid to Robert Rowland following the accident near his home in the Bahamas.", "The first minister denies claims she knew about harassment allegations earlier than she told parliament.", "The online retailer wants to buy the brands, not their shops, suggesting any deal would cost jobs.", "It's been 10 years since New Zealand's Pike River mine disaster, and families of victims still feel raw.", "Philip Gannaway served in Wales in World War One and his grave lies thousands of miles from home.", "Tens of thousands of people join some of the largest rallies against President Vladimir Putin in years.", "Despite the furlough scheme, employers decided to cut a record number of jobs during 2020.", "The fast fashion retailer is not purchasing the stores or taking on its staff, the BBC understands.", "Ministers are due to meet on Monday to consider whether to tighten the UK's border restrictions further.", "Firms say they have been advised by officials to set up EU hubs, but the government says it is not policy.", "One says he is surprised Boris Johnson shared the early data when it is \"not particularly strong\".", "Pressures on intensive care units are seeing one in 10 patients transferred to a different site.", "Footage shows a police car apparently driving through a group at a street race in Washington state.", "Israel has vaccinated more than a quarter of its population and now high school students are eligible.", "The claim comes after a coroner ruled two deaths on the M1 motorway were avoidable.", "As high risk groups continue to be immunised there are growing concerns that people with learning disabilities have been missed out.", "Ministers are urged to intervene amid rising Covid infection numbers at the Swansea office.", "Booking a jab by following a link in an email meant \"depriving someone else\" of a vaccine, he said.", "Some of those leading the nation's vaccination effort have told of their experiences.", "A study finds the new coronavirus variant is responsible for pushing the R rate above the crucial 1.0 mark.", "The vaccination centres temporarily closed in south Wales as a weather warning was extended.", "A Sunday Times poll shows 51% of people in favour of holding a border poll in NI within five years.", "The popular US broadcaster conducted about 50,000 interviews, from Nelson Mandela to Lady Gaga.", "Entrepreneur Elon Musk's SpaceX company delivers 143 satellites to orbit on a single rocket flight.", "Pavithra Wanniarachchi, Sri Lanka's health minister, tested positive for Covid on Friday.", "Boris Johnson said he looked forward to \"deepening the longstanding alliance\" between the UK and US.", "Keon Lincoln was attacked by a group of youths in the Handsworth area of Birmingham.", "He replaces Paul Davies who quit after drinking alcohol with other politicians in the Senedd.", "Conor McGregor is left stunned on his return to the UFC as Dustin Poirier wins their rematch at UFC 257 by technical knockout.", "The UK health secretary also says the UK has identified 77 cases of the Covid South Africa variant.", "Bruno Fernandes comes off the bench to fire Manchester United past fierce rivals Liverpool in a pulsating FA Cup fourth-round tie.", "Tens of thousands braved a police crackdown to show support for jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny.", "Vaccination appointments for over-70s in Scotland will arrive on Monday as planned - but in white envelopes.", "Manchester City score three times in the last 10 minutes to defeat League Two side Cheltenham and avoid one of the biggest shocks in FA Cup history.", "Some guests were found hiding in cupboards when police raided student flats in Birmingham.", "Motorists are urged to take care with sub-zero temperatures forecast into Monday.", "England's deputy chief medical officer urges those who have had the jab to stick to lockdown rules.", "TV footage from China shows the first miner being brought to the surface, as emergency workers applaud.", "The extraordinary life of an American who invited hundreds of thousands to his Paris home for dinner.", "UK residents can apply for the new card to access emergency medical care when their EHIC card runs out.", "County Mayo man howls with laughter while trying to record a birthday message for his son.", "New Covid curbs are necessary but they will hit the economy, Chancellor Rishi Sunak warns.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock says 2.3 million people in the UK have now had a Covid-19 vaccine dose.", "The Countryfile star will present the Friday and Saturday editions of the BBC Radio 4 programme.", "A 20-year-old man who spent a week in intensive care says many young people are in denial about Covid.", "Home Secretary Priti Patel says the \"horrifying\" death toll underlines the need to follow restrictions.", "Seven mass vaccination centres have opened across England to help deliver the Coronavirus vaccine.", "Kitchen robots, new TVs, smart masks and a toilet that analyses your poo are among the new products.", "Customers will only be able to collect from Waitrose stores following a \"change in tone\" from the government.", "The father of a Reading terror attack victim asks why the killer was not considered a danger.", "Deliveries may be delayed in 28 areas due to \"resourcing issues\", the postal group says.", "Khairi Saadallah murdered three friends in a Reading park in a \"ruthless and brutal” terror attack.", "Anna Wintour hit back at claims that the informal picture downplayed Ms Harris's achievements.", "Investors have agreed a deal to save the chain, along with Ponden Home and Bonmarché.", "Officials say 170 individuals involved in deadly Capitol riots have been identified, and many more will be.", "Scotland's first minister says the current restrictions are \"very unlikely\" to be lifted at the end of the month.", "The celebrated 94-year-old broadcaster is the latest celebrity to have a first dose of the vaccine.", "The decision follows a rise in cases across the emirates in the past week, officials say.", "The Earl of Strathmore attacked a woman in her room during an event he was hosting at Glamis Castle.", "Use our search tool to find out about coronavirus rules and restrictions where you live.", "A supermarket worker says door staff are facing abuse when they challenge those not wearing masks.", "The facility at the ExCeL Centre also has the capital's first mass vaccination centre on site.", "Overall, patients are now more likely to survive, but death rates are high in intensive care.", "Earlier this month videos showing supposed empty hospitals were shared on social media.", "A leaked memo warns several Birmingham hospitals risk being \"overwhelmed\" by coronavirus patients.", "Boris Johnson was spotted at the Olympic Park on Sunday, despite government advice to \"stay local\".", "A slump in demand for fashion and homeware during lockdown left many retailers struggling.", "Last year saw 697,000 deaths registered in the UK - 14% above what would be expected.", "Eugene Goodman was hailed for luring a mob away from the Senate - now new heroics have emerged.", "Tweeters query why it has not been given to a prominent Kenyan like actress Lupita Nyong'o.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning.", "People are still holding house parties, raves and gambling gatherings, the UK's most senior police officer says.", "Dutch TV films officials confiscating ham sandwiches from UK drivers under new food import rules.", "The increasing number of staff off work could prevent the NHS Louisa Jordan opening to Covid patients.", "The Northern Lights were visible overnight from Shetland, Moray and the Highlands.", "The manager of a care home says they were promised the jab on New Year's Eve - but none have arrived.", "Downing Street defends the PM, while the Met Police chief says he did not act \"against the law\".", "Fans of the University of Alabama football team gathered in the streets of Tuscaloosa, ignoring social distancing.", "We share the stories of some of the 12,000 people who have died with coronavirus in Scotland.", "There has been speculation over moves to make lockdown stricter, as infection rates remain high.", "Isabella Curry said she now feels safe and will be able to go out and meet friends soon.", "An RAF aircraft breaking the sound barrier causes a loud bang in skies across the East of England.", "Three vaccines have been approved in the UK - what are the differences between them?", "Derbyshire Police apologises to two women fined £200 for driving five miles for a countryside walk.", "Cwm Taf Morgannwg saw the highest number of weekly deaths and the highest number since April.", "More than a third of people using screens more in lockdown reported eyesight changes, a study suggests.", "The home secretary says she will back police to enforce virus rules, as another 1,243 die in the UK.", "New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick turns down Donald Trump's offer, citing the Capitol riots.", "Mohamud Mohammed Hassan was arrested at home on Friday but released without charge on Saturday.", "As countries look to quickly vaccinate people, BBC reporters explain what's happening across Europe.", "Donald Trump made the decision days before Joe Biden, who wants friendlier US-Cuban ties, takes office.", "The laptops and tablets will be delivered to schools in England to support disadvantaged pupils.", "It follows similar moves by Morrisons and Sainsbury's, but those with medical reasons will be exempt.", "Doctors at the hospital say they're treating more younger patients than in the first wave.", "People refusing to wear face coverings who are not medically exempt will not be allowed to shop inside.", "The social network has hit back asking a federal judge to order it to be reinstated.", "Ministers are reluctant to make the rules even tougher at the moment - but would never rule it out.", "A Typhoon aircraft \"safely escorts\" a civilian aircraft to Stansted Airport, an RAF spokesman says.", "Leicester City edge a keenly contested Premier League encounter with Southampton to maintain their push for a top-four place.", "Health and frontline workers are first in line for jabs at vaccination centres across the country.", "The number of incidents reported to the child safeguarding panel in England rose by a quarter.", "Some areas could see freezing temperatures and 5-10cm of snow on Saturday, the Met Office says.", "CBBC star's mother, Lucy Lyndhurst, says his death has had a \"catastrophic effect\" on their family.", "Sea port managers fear the shift may be part of a long-term trend to ship from the Irish Republic.", "A critical engine test for Nasa's new \"megarocket\" - the Space Launch System (SLS) - ends early.", "Heavy rain is causing flooding and travel disruption, with a warning for ice also forecast.", "Douglas Jones had been enjoying his dream job before the pandemic forced him to return home to southern Scotland.", "Sir Iain Duncan Smith and Joanna Lumley speak out about employees allegedly owed a total of £200,000.", "The Daily Telegraph must publish a correction over Covid claims, press regulator Ipso rules.", "Plastic surgeons express shock at the stabbing of \"highly respected\" Graeme Perks in his home.", "The UK prime minister wants girls' education in developing countries to be a key international focus.", "Everyone has heard about doctors and nurses catching Covid-19 but cleaners and porters have been worse hit.", "Health groups say NHS staff fear prosecution over decisions if hospitals are overwhelmed.", "Red tape plus a \"poor\" Brexit deal mean fishermen fear for the future, says an industry body.", "Louis Godwin, 95, said he was \"so pleased\" to get his Covid-19 vaccination at Salisbury Cathedral.", "People in parts of eastern England woke to a thick covering of snow on Saturday morning.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the action is needed to protect against the risk of new Covid strains.", "Prime Minister Jean Castex said the measures would be in place for at least 15 days.", "Statistics agency Nisra says 145 deaths were registered last week, bringing its pandemic total to 1,976.", "Holiday firms are expecting a \"bumper year\" once lockdown restrictions are lifted.", "As the UK records its highest death toll, Fergal Keane has been to see the strain the NHS is under for the second time.", "Five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Saturday.", "The latest UK government data also shows a further 1,295 deaths with 28 days of a positive test.", "Lahiru Thirimanne's unbeaten 76 frustrates England as a spirited Sri Lanka rally on the third day of the first Test in Galle.", "The Gerry and the Pacemakers singer died from a blood infection at the age of 78.", "Hundreds of thousands of DNA and arrest records were deleted after a human error, the Home Office says.", "Centrist Armin Laschet is now in a good position to succeed Angela Merkel as Germany's chancellor.", "Health officials warn the highly contagious UK Covid variant could become the dominant strain in the US by March.", "Replacement exam grades are likely to arrive earlier and be decided by teachers and a test.", "Donations of plasma from people who have recovered from the virus have been suspended.", "Prince William says he \"really worries\" about the effect of the pandemic on front-line workers.", "A letter from police chiefs also says 213,000 records were lost - more than first thought.", "Network Rail said a 24m section of side wall fell away from a bridge between Carmont and Stonehaven.", "US police held back a mob for hours in a \"barbaric\" battle at the Capitol. Here are their stories.", "David Chambers is accused of charging the woman £160 for a bogus jab.", "A Belfast mother says there is \"compelling evidence\" that her daughter was abducted in Malaysia.", "Mount Semeru has erupted, pouring volcanic matter miles into the air and placing locals on alert.", "The latest death and case figures should be a \"bitter warning for us all\", Public Health England says.", "The total number of deaths within 28 days of a positive test during the pandemic is now above 90,000.", "At least three people have died in a suspected gas blast that destroyed four floors of a building.", "Police in Greater Manchester and South Yorkshire say they are expecting flooding in their regions.", "Some 1,820 deaths have been reported in the past 24 hours - surpassing yesterday's previous high.", "The package will also see police target dealers and health services help people with addictions.", "Congratulating Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, the PM said it was a \"big moment\" for the UK and US.", "Marion Dawson from Renfrewshire is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.", "Boris Johnson faced questions on the UK's border policy, and the deletion of police records.", "The Duchess of Sussex is suing the Mail on Sunday over the publication of her letter to her father.", "There has been a fourfold increase in mortgage products for those offering a 10% deposit.", "The president responds to reports he is considering presidential pardons over alleged Russia collusion.", "Doris Hobday's family say they are \"totally heartbroken\" to lose her in this way.", "The big social networks are clamping down on threats of violence amid a tense wait for results.", "Some of the UK's biggest music stars sign an open letter demanding action over post-Brexit touring.", "The President-elect has a laundry list of priorities for his first 100 days in the White House.", "A collection of your tributes to some of the thousands of people in the UK who have died with coronavirus.", "The riots of 6 January took many by surprise, but to those tracking conspiracy and extreme right groups online, the warning signs were all there.", "Mainland Scotland and some islands to remain under toughest coronavirus rules until at least mid-February.", "Taking down pictures and clearing out desks is part of a huge operation readying for a new president.", "Labour accuses Kwasi Kwarteng of \"unpicking\" workers' rights, as minister confirms he will review rules.", "'This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge' - the new president knows how daunting his task is.", "Holidaymakers in 2021 must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, the travel firm says.", "Boris Johnson calls it an \"outrageous\" error which officers are working \"round the clock\" to rectify.", "The new president is sworn into office by Chief Justice John G Roberts.", "The 22-year-old from LA is the youngest poet to perform at a presidential inauguration.", "Kamala Harris makes history as she is sworn in as US vice-president.", "Delays to smear tests in lockdown prompt cervical cancer charities to call for home-testing kits.", "It comes as industry workers warn their livelihoods are at risk due to Brexit border problems.", "Nine Met Police officers who broke lockdown rules have been asked to \"reflect on their choices\".", "Paul Pogba scores a superb winner as Manchester United reclaim top spot in the Premier League by coming from behind for a club-record equalling away win at Fulham.", "'This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge'. Read the 46th president's address in full.", "Online audiences for singalongs in the Llangollen church have \"exploded\", Father Lee Taylor says.", "Out-of-date tax systems mean people are falling through the cracks for help, MPs say.", "Orthodox Christians, Putin among them, take an icy dip to commemorate a special day.", "The ex-government adviser said the Tories would be seen as the \"nasty party\" by ending the top-up.", "They are all laughing at the camera, but what are the stories of the women next to Kamala Harris?", "More than 2,000 properties in Manchester are affected as police warn some occupants will have Covid.", "Services and waiting times must improve at the NHS's child gender-identity service, inspectors say.", "A further 1,820 people die in the UK within 28 days of a positive test - another all-time high.", "The UK has not always \"lived up to its values\" under Boris Johnson, his predecessor Theresa May says.", "The role of a president's inaugural cabinet goes beyond just policy - let's take a closer look.", "The body of Joy Morgan was found two months after a man was convicted of her murder.", "From \"the best talent in politics\" to \"Sloppy Steve\" and fraud charges - what went wrong for Steve Bannon?", "The Protection of Workers Bill will make it a new specific offence to assault, abuse or threaten Scottish retail staff.", "Donald Trump won a surprise victory in 2016 partly because he promised to shake things up. And boy, did he.", "The health minister asks the Ministry of Defence to help out, primarily at a number of hospitals.", "A National Audit Office report calls on the corporation to produce \"a long-term financial plan\".", "The last four years have been a whirlwind - we asked the experts to break down Trump's key moments.", "More work is needed to understand its benefits in schools in England given the new variant, health officials say.", "The BBC's James Cook returns to Monklands Hospital eight months on to find the staff struggling against the odds.", "President Biden inked 15 executive orders, moving to rejoin the Paris climate accord.", "His most famous Discworld novels were written in the house in Somerset, the estate agent says.", "Police say the van \"careered\" off the road and the man was rescued from the overturned vehicle.", "President Biden has said that democracy and 'freedom' are at stake in the upcoming 2024 election.", "All practices will have their own rollout plan but they have to meet official targets, says GP committee.", "The Duchess of Sussex is suing the Mail on Sunday over the publication of a letter to her father.", "Members of our voter panel all wish Joe Biden well, but they're divided over his chances of success.", "As Donald Trump prepares to leave office, here are some of the key moments of his presidency.", "A tearful President-elect Joe Biden says goodbye to his home state on the eve of his inauguration.", "Joe Biden makes his inaugural address as the 46th president of the United States.", "Parts of England prepare for widespread floods as Boris Johnson announces emergency Cobra meeting.", "Images from Joe Biden's swearing-in and first day as the 46th US President.", "The cupped clap of a butterfly's wings may be the key to their flying abilities and their survival.", "Relegation-threatened Fulham lose some of the momentum built up by their win at Everton but show battling qualities to claim a point at Burnley.", "The medical journal's editor says UK guidelines don't recommend giving different coronavirus jabs.", "They were hit while licking freshly laid salt on a road which is a black spot for animal accidents.", "Objects are thrown and officers threatened as they break up the New Year's Eve party in Essex.", "Former Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino is named Paris St-Germain boss following Thomas Tuchel's sacking.", "People driving to visit beauty spots in Wales are breaking Covid rules, a Snowdonia park warden says.", "The first doses of the latest coronavirus vaccination to be approved are due to be given on Monday.", "Japan's prime minister says the delayed Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will go ahead this summer despite concern over rising coronavirus cases.", "Doctors urge public to \"take it seriously\" and follow coronavirus restrictions amid rising cases.", "Bishop, who recently tested positive for Covid-19, said boarding the Tardis was \"a dream come true\".", "Arsenal continue their Premier League resurgence with a ruthless victory over strugglers West Brom at The Hawthorns.", "Manchester United move level on points with Premier League leaders Liverpool as a Bruno Fernandes penalty seals victory over Aston Villa.", "NHS England says the facility is available to help the capital's hospitals as Covid-19 cases rise.", "New detectorist Owen Thomas says \"the link with a life that's gone\" appeals to him.", "Just one ticket matched all seven numbers in the New Year's Day draw.", "A court has ruled that Lisa Montgomery can be executed on 12 January, despite appeals from lawyers.", "A last-ditch attempt to overturn the result is overturned, days before the White House changes hands.", "Education Secretary Gavin Williamson drops plan to keep primaries open in 10 boroughs in the city.", "Footage is released of the first police-involved death in the US city since George Floyd's in May.", "The New Year's Eve event, held in a warehouse in a village in Brittany, was shut down on Saturday.", "Volunteers at All Saints Church in East Horndon have praised those who donated £8,700 for repairs.", "A study finds the new coronavirus variant is responsible for pushing the R rate above the crucial 1.0 mark.", "Amanda Quinn, diagnosed with rapid early onset dementia, says lockdown has been a \"scary\" time.", "Up to 300 people gather in London's Hyde Park to protest at Covid-19 restrictions.", "Nine people are still missing, two days after a hillside collapsed due to flowing clay mud.", "It comes as a further 57,725 people test positive for the virus, a new daily high.", "Tottenham manager Jose Mourinho says he is \"disappointed\" after three of his players breached coronavirus rules by attending a party over Christmas.", "The frontman, who found success with songs such as Summer in Dublin, \"passed away suddenly\" aged 65.", "The cryptocurrency's gain so far this year was almost $5,000 - after the value surged 300% in 2020.", "The government said soldiers had been sent to protect 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Video footage showed the aftermath of the deadly explosion\n\nAt least three people have died following an explosion that caused a building to partially collapse in centre of the Spanish capital, Madrid.\n\nA fourth person was missing and several others were hurt, officials said.\n\nCity officials said the blast, which destroyed four floors of the building, had been caused by a gas leak.\n\nMayor José Luis Martínez Almeida told reporters after the blast that a fire was raging inside the building, which belongs to the Catholic Church.\n\nThe blast happened shortly before 15:00 local time (14:00 GMT) as gas workers were repairing a boiler at the back of the building in the central Puerta de Toledo area of Madrid.\n\nAn 85-year-old woman passer-by and two men were killed while a third man who had been working on the boiler was missing, Spanish media reported. One of the injured was in a serious condition and taken to hospital, according to officials.\n\nSpanish reports said the upper floors affected were being used to house local priests.\n\nRescue workers evacuated more than 50 people from a care home next-door to the building in Caille de Toledo, but a school on the other side was closed at the time of the blast.\n\nFour floors of the building were destroyed in the explosion, which could be heard in many areas of Madrid. Images shared on social media showed billowing smoke and debris strewn along the street.\n\nEmergency services said nine fire crews and 11 ambulances were at the scene and some of those caught up in the blast were treated on the street.\n\nFour floors of the building were destroyed in the explosion\n\nPolice officers cleared the area, closing it to all traffic and pedestrians, and appealed to local residents not to come near.\n\n\"The noise was very loud, very loud, really,\" Lorenzo Fomento, who was working from home at a nearby apartment, told AFP news agency. \"I never heard anything so loud before,\" he added.\n\nThe director of the nursing home, Antonio Berlanga, said all the elderly residents were fine and places were being found for them to spend the night.", "The EU has maintained its diplomatic mission in the UK after Brexit\n\nA diplomatic row has broken out between the UK and EU over the status of the bloc's ambassador in London.\n\nThe UK is refusing to give Joao Vale de Almeida the full diplomatic status that is granted to other ambassadors.\n\nThe Foreign Office is insisting he and his officials should not have the privileges and immunities afforded to diplomats under the Vienna Convention.\n\nIt is understood not to want to set a precedent by treating an international body in the same way as a nation state.\n\nAs it stands, the ambassador would not have the chance to present his credentials to the Queen like other diplomatic heads of mission.\n\nThe British decision is in marked contrast to 142 other countries around the world where the EU has delegations and where its ambassadors are all granted the same status as diplomats representing sovereign nations.\n\nJosep Borrell, the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs, has written to the Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, to express his \"serious concerns\".\n\nThe issue is expected to be discussed by EU foreign ministers next Monday when they meet for the first time since the post-Brexit transition period ended on 31 December.\n\nThe Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office wants to treat the EU delegation only as representatives of an international organisation.\n\nThis means EU diplomats would not have the full protection of the Vienna Convention, giving them immunity from detention, criminal jurisdiction and taxation.\n\nThe rights given to staff of international organisations are more ad hoc and less fixed.\n\nThe EU argues it is not a typical international organisation because it has its own currency, judicial system and the power to make law.\n\nIn his letter to Mr Raab last November, seen by the BBC, Mr Borrell says: \"Your service have sent us a draft proposal for an establishment agreement about which we have serious concerns.\n\nAmbassadors of nation states have certain privileges - including being able to present their credentials to the Queen\n\n\"The arrangements offered do not reflect the specific character of the EU, nor do they respond to the future relationship between the EU and the UK as an important third country.\n\n\"It would not grant the customary privileges and immunities for the delegation and its staff. The proposals do not constitute a reasonable basis for reaching an agreement.\"\n\nEU officials privately accuse the Foreign Office of hypocrisy because when the EU's foreign service - known as the External Action Service - was set up in 2010 as a result of the Lisbon Treaty, the UK signed up to proposals that EU diplomats be granted the \"privileges and immunities equivalent to those referred to in the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 18 April 1961\".\n\nOne EU source said: \"It seems petty. This is not about privileges, it's about principle. What does it say about the UK, about how much the British signature is worth?\"\n\nSome in the EU also fear hostile states might copy the UK and downgrade the protections granted to EU diplomats in their own countries. This could open them up to being harassed and make them easier for them to be expelled.\n\nA European Commission spokesman said: \"The UK, as a signatory to the Lisbon Treaty, is well aware of the EU's status in external relations, and was cognisant and supportive of this status while it was a member of the EU.\n\n\"The EU has 143 delegations, equivalent to diplomatic missions, around the world. Without exception, all host states have accepted to grant these delegations and their staff a status equivalent to that of diplomatic missions of states under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, and the UK is well aware of this fact.\"\n\nHe added: \"Nothing has changed since the UK's exit from the European Union to justify any change in stance on the UK's part.\n\n\"The EU's status in external relations and its subsequent diplomatic status is amply recognised by countries and international organisations around the world, and we expect the United Kingdom to treat the EU Delegation accordingly and without delay.\"\n\nA Foreign Office spokesperson said: \"Engagement continues with the EU on the long-term arrangements for the EU delegation to the UK. While discussions are still ongoing, it would not be appropriate for us to speculate on the detail of an eventual agreement.\"", "\"You need to take care of each other,\" President Macron told students in Paris\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron has promised all university students two meals a day for one euro (88p; $1.21) to help them cope during lockdown.\n\n\"We must be able to provide better support,\" he said at a meeting with students in Paris on Thursday.\n\nIt follows protests in which students called for more help to tackle loneliness and financial problems.\n\nFrance is currently under a 18:00-06:00 curfew, and coronavirus cases have risen steadily in recent weeks.\n\nMr Macron, who addressed students at Paris-Saclay university, also said the government would provide subsidies to pay for counselling and other mental health services.\n\nThe subsidies would take the form of a voucher which students can redeem if they feel the need to talk to a mental health professional, the president said.\n\nHe added that the discounted meals would be available from university canteens and other nearby outlets that are providing takeaways.\n\n\"We remain in a period of uncertainty,\" Mr Macron said. \"We will have a second semester that will have the virus and a lot of constraints.\"\n\n\"You need to take care of each other,\" he added.\n\nThe president spoke a day after students took to the streets to demand more attention from the government. They sought to raise awareness of the rising mental health problems many say they are suffering as a result of the pandemic.\n\nA combination of isolation, inactivity and concerns about the job market has left many students close to breakdown, according to university psychologists.\n\nRyan Kennedy says the French government is failing to take student issues seriously\n\n\"I've lived alone in a studio apartment since September - it's the first time I've ever lived alone,\" Ryan Kennedy, a 19-year-old law student in Montpellier, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"Not a day goes by without a friend calling me because they're struggling with their mental health.\"\n\nHeïdi Soupault, a political science student from Strasbourg, sent a letter to Mr Macron last week. \"I no longer have dreams,\" she said. \"If we have no hope or prospects for the future at 19, what do we have left?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Our mental health goes downhill in situations like this.\"\n\nMany of the protesting students are calling for a return to face-to-face teaching. Some first-year students will be able to return to the classroom from 25 January.\n\nBut, on Thursday, Mr Macron said all students should be allowed on campus once a week providing certain measures are in place.\n\n\"Given what your generation has already gone through, we cannot but take into account your right to some on-site presence, to exchange with your teachers, and to meet with other students,\" he said.\n\nFrance has had a curfew in place since December, but this was tightened on 16 January to the current hours of 18:00-06:00.\n\nBars, restaurants, theatres, cinemas and ski resorts remain shut. Schools, however, are open with extra testing in place.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"It's a big moment for us - we have things we want to do together.\"\n\nThe inauguration of President Joe Biden is a \"step forward\" for the United States, which has \"been through a bumpy period\", Boris Johnson has said.\n\nCongratulating Mr Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris, the UK PM said it was a \"big moment\" for the UK and the US and their \"joint common agenda\".\n\nMr Johnson said he looked forward to working with the US on tackling climate change and the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMaking his inaugural address, Mr Biden said \"democracy has prevailed\".\n\nHe promised to be a president \"for all Americans\" and said his \"whole soul is in putting America back together again\".\n\nOutgoing President Donald Trump, who has not formally conceded to Mr Biden, did not attend the ceremony.\n\nPresident Biden began work straight away on reversing a number of his predecessor's policies, including rejoining the Paris climate change agreement - gaining the praise of Mr Johnson.\n\nThe PM tweeted it was \"hugely positive news\", adding: \"I look forward to working with our US partners to do all we can to safeguard our planet.\"\n\nEarlier this week the former head of the civil service Lord Sedwill suggested Mr Johnson would be glad Mr Trump had not been re-elected for a second term as US president.\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, Lord Sedwill said those who believed Boris Johnson would have preferred Mr Trump to win again were \"mistaken\".\n\nThe former cabinet secretary - who stepped down in September - said a second term for Mr Trump \"would not have been to the benefit of British or European security, to transatlantic trade, let alone the environmental agenda to which the prime minister is so committed\".\n\nBoris Johnson with Donald Trump at the G7 summit in 2019\n\nMr Johnson's public stance toward the former president has varied over the years.\n\nIn 2015, when he was Mayor of London, Mr Johnson accused Mr Trump of \"stupefying ignorance\" over his comments about violence in the city.\n\nBut as foreign secretary, following Mr Trump's election as president, he said there was a \"lot to be positive about\", and in 2019, praised his \"many good qualities\".\n\nFor his part, Mr Trump has appeared largely supportive of Mr Johnson, backing his flagship Brexit policy and at one point saying of the British PM: \"They call him Britain Trump.\"\n\nAnd echoing his predecessor, in 2019 Mr Biden described the UK prime minister as a \"physical and emotional clone\" of Mr Trump.\n\nAfter winning the presidential election Mr Biden phoned Mr Johnson ahead of other European leaders and expressed his desire to strengthen the historic \"special relationship\" between the two countries.\n\nSpeaking on Wednesday, Mr Johnson said it was the job of all UK prime ministers to have a \"good, close working relationship\" with US presidents but, right now, there were many things the two countries \"wanted to do together\".\n\n\"When you look at the issues which unite me and Joe Biden, the UK and the US right now, there is a fantastic joint common agenda,\" he said. \"For us and America, it is a big moment.\"\n\nHe said he hoped the UK could help the US commit to a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050 in the run up to the climate change conference COP 26, to be held in Glasgow this year.\n\nUK prime ministers like to consider American presidents as their best diplomatic friend.\n\nThat relationship, particularly when it comes to security and defence, is unusually close.\n\nWhen, as with Donald Trump, that friend has been unpredictable and unconventional, that has made for some very awkward political moments.\n\nSo for the government, this a really important and positive turning of the page.\n\nThe terribly over-used phrase the 'special relationship', which provokes neurotic behaviour on this side of the Atlantic, has meant the most when there has been a genuine personal chemistry between the two leaders - whether Thatcher and Reagan, or Bush and Blair.\n\nThere is nothing automatic about Mr Biden and Mr Johnson developing that kind of political friendship.\n\nBut in the words of one former senior minister, for the UK Biden means \"we will lose exclusivity but gain predictability: easier to work with, less cringeworthy and more dependable, but we may not be the only girlfriend on speed dial\".\n\nSpeaking to the Guardian, shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy described Mr Biden as \"a woke guy\".\n\nAsked if he agreed, Mr Johnson said: \"I can't comment on that. What I know is that he's a firm believer in the transatlantic alliance and that's a great thing.\"\n\nHe added that there was \"nothing wrong with being woke - I put myself in the category of people who believe that it's important to stick up for your history, your traditions and your values, the things you believe in.\"\n\nOpposition leader Sir Keir Starmer also sent his congratulations to the new president and vice-president.\n\n\"The US begins a new chapter in its history, one of hope, decency, compassion and strength,\" the Labour leader said, adding \"together, our two nations can build a better, more optimistic future for our world.\"\n\nAnd First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon tweeted: \"Warm congratulations and best wishes to President Biden and Vice President Harris.\n\n\"Scotland and the USA share long-standing bonds of friendship and co-operation. We look forward to building on these in the years ahead.\"\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, former UK Prime Minister Theresa May said Mr Biden's election presented the UK with a \"golden opportunity\" for Western democracies to reverse the trend towards \"absolutism\" - and a \"few strongmen facing off against each other\" - in global affairs.\n\nThe Queen sent a private message to Mr Biden before his inauguration, Buckingham Palace has said.", "Food supply problems into Northern Ireland from Great Britain are \"clearly a Brexit issue\", Ireland's foreign affairs minister has said.\n\nSimon Coveney said the shortages were \"part of the reality\" of the UK leaving the EU.\n\n\"Let's not pretend Brexit doesn't force that kind of change,\" he said, speaking on ITV's Peston programme\n\nOn Tuesday, the NI secretary said images of empty supermarket shelves had \"nothing to do with the protocol\".\n\nRather, Brandon Lewis argued the disruption caused by coronavirus before Christmas was responsible for the shortages of some food products.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Protocol between the UK and the EU requires health certifications on animal-based food products entering NI from the rest of the UK.\n\nMr Coveney said it meant \"very real change\" for some businesses, as there now had to be a \"certain number of checks\" on goods from Britain into Northern Ireland.\n\nHe said that some companies were not ready for this.\n\nMr Coveney said the Republic of Ireland would work with the UK and EU to \"make sure\" supermarket shelves were not empty in the future.\n\nHe said the Brexit divorce deal agreed with the EU by then-prime minister Theresa May would have caused less separation from Northern Ireland from the UK.\n\nAsked about Mr Coveney's comments, International Trade Secretary Liz Truss said the disruption had been \"down to both\" Covid and Brexit - but defended the situation.\n\nSpeaking on the Peston programme she said \"there was always going to be a period of adjustment for businesses\" and \"we are now seeing a more rapid flow of goods into Northern Ireland those supermarket shelves are being stocked\".\n\nMs Truss said the government would continue to support businesses, and that \"predictions of Armageddon haven't happened\".", "The education secretary has said he would \"certainly hope\" schools in England could reopen before Easter.\n\nGavin Williamson said he was \"not able to exactly say\" when pupils would go back but schools would be given two weeks' notice before reopening.\n\nPrimary and secondary schools remain closed, apart from to vulnerable pupils and the children of key workers.\n\nDowning Street said the prime minister wanted schools to open as quickly as possible but would follow the evidence.\n\n\"If we can open them up before Easter then we obviously will do but that is determined by the latest scientific evidence and data,\" the prime minister's official spokesman said.\n\nThe Downing Street spokesman was also less specific about the promise of two weeks' notice, saying: \"We want to give schools as much notice as possible.\"\n\nSchools have been closed to most pupils so far this term, with primary schools closing after one day back, in response to rising Covid levels.\n\nPupils have been told they will be learning at home until at least half-term in mid-February.\n\nBut Mr Williamson was pressed on BBC Radio 4's Today programme whether he could guarantee that schools would reopen at all this term, before the Easter holidays.\n\n\"I want to see them, as soon as the scientific and health advice is there, open at the earliest possible stage - and I certainly hope that would be certainly before Easter,\" said the education secretary, who's responsible for schools in England.\n\nHe said schools and parents would have \"absolutely proper notice\" of when children were going to return, which he said would be a \"clear two weeks\" for teachers and families to get ready.\n\nA lesson from the first lockdown was that it's much harder to reopen schools than to close them.\n\nParents and teachers have to be persuaded again it's safe to go back, families need advance notice to plan their work and childcare, schools need to organise their staffing.\n\nAnd there are other parents who will be pushing for schools to go back as soon as possible, in addition to the vulnerable and key workers' children already attending.\n\nFor Education Secretary Gavin Williamson, already under pressure, it means a high-stakes balancing act - and it clearly remains uncertain whether this will happen for all schools before the Easter holidays.\n\nWhat seems likely, from Mr Williamson and England's deputy chief medical officer Jenny Harries, is that this could be a patchwork return beginning after half-term, rather than a single starting date, depending on local levels of the virus.\n\nThe biggest teachers' union, the National Education Union, said schools and parents needed certainty and not a \"stop-start approach\".\n\nLast week Mr Williamson indicated to the Commons education committee that schools in some parts of the country might stay closed at the end of the lockdown, with a return to the \"contingency\" arrangements, under which schools in areas of high infection would be shut.\n\nOn Tuesday, England's deputy chief medical officer Jenny Harries also said schools might reopen region by region in a phased return after half-term.\n\nLabour has accused the education secretary of causing \"chaos and confusion\" and called on him to resign.\n\nParty leader Sir Keir Starmer said providing two weeks' advance notice of opening was \"good news coming from an education secretary who normally gives them about 24 hours' notice\".\n\nSir Keir said the government needed to \"give children the ability to learn at home now\" and \"get on with the blindingly obvious\" task of getting testing in place in schools.\n\nAsked about his own future, Mr Williamson said: \"Our focus is making sure that we get the very best of remote education out to all children across the country, making sure that we return schools at the earliest possible moment.\"\n\nIn terms of his own achievements, the education secretary said: \"I'll let other people do the grading.\"\n\nSchools have also been closed by other governments in the UK. In Scotland and Northern Ireland they will remain closed until at least the middle of February, while in Wales the next review of restrictions will be on 29 January.\n\nThe government has also paused plans to roll out rapid daily coronavirus testing in all but a small number of secondary schools and colleges, with health officials saying the new variant meant the risk of missing infections had risen.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer on Gavin Williamson: \"You would struggle... to find many people who would give him more than an F.\"\n\nBut Mr Williamson emphasised that mass testing in schools would continue, clarifying that it was the daily tests for those who had been in contact with a positive case which had been stopped.\n\nThe education secretary was also challenged on the fairness of setting tests as part of the replacement for cancelled GCSEs and A-levels, considering pupils will have missed different amounts of time in school.\n\nMr Williamson said the tests were only \"one element\" for deciding replacement results, which would be based on teachers' grades.\n\n\"That's why we're asking teachers to make a judgement in the round. We're asking teachers to look at the work they've been doing over the whole period of time they've been studying the course,\" he said.", "Low-deposit mortgages have made a return as the market emerges from a Covid-related slowdown.\n\nMortgage products for homeowners with a deposit of 10% of their property's value have risen more than fourfold compared with last summer's low.\n\nThe increase, based on figures from financial information service Moneyfacts, could offer some relief to first-time buyers.\n\nBut the cost of mortgages will remain an issue for many.\n\nIn early September last year, there were only 44 mortgage products available for those able to offer a 10% deposit. At the same time, first-time buyers putting money aside for a deposit were faced with pressures of poor savings rates and rising house prices.\n\nThat choice has now risen to 197 products, according to the Moneyfacts figures, with some big lenders returning in recent weeks.\n\nMortgage products for those able to offer a 15% deposit have also risen sharply, although the choice was already much greater.\n\n\"First-time buyers who may have been concerned that with record low savings rates and increasing house prices, their homeownership dreams may have had to be shelved, may have been pleased to note that we are now seeing some providers return products for those with 10% deposits,\" said Eleanor Williams, from Moneyfacts.\n\nLenders had been grappling with the practical effects that the coronavirus pandemic brought to their business.\n\nWhile some new businesses targeted first-time buyers on social media, many traditional lenders withdrew products from the market.\n\nStaff shortages, and employees working from home, meant they were unable to process applications as fast as they had before the pandemic.\n\nThere were also concerns among lenders that, despite strong activity in the housing market, riskier - and younger - first-time buyers could find it difficult to make mortgage repayments during an economic slowdown caused by the pandemic.\n\nResearch has shown that younger workers are more at risk of redundancy.\n\nAaron Strutt, from mortgage broker Trinity Financial, said lenders were now working more efficiently despite staff still being at home.\n\nHe said that some of the biggest mortgage lenders had returned to the market. Some of the mortgage rates they were offering were not as attractive as they had been, but competition would help push down costs.\n\n\"If you are planning to purchase a property and have a 10% deposit the mortgage rates are not as cheap as they used to be, but they are getting better,\" he said.\n\nMany thousands of existing mortgage-holders who had struggled to make their repayments during the pandemic had taken payment \"holidays\", which are deferrals on payments.\n\nThe latest figures from UK Finance, which represents lenders, show that 130,000 mortgage payment holidays were in place at the end of December 2020, down from a peak of 1.8 million in June last year.", "US President Joe Biden is now speaking from the White House about how his administration will tackle the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe says he has been meeting with his Covid response team, and it will “take months” to turn around the situation in the country.\n\nToday he is going to unveil a “national strategy” on Covid-19, he says, which is “comprehensive” and is based on “science and not politics”.\n\nThe plan, which consists of 198 pages, will start with an “aggressive, safe and effective” vaccination campaign.\n\nBut it will take months to protect everyone, he says, so in the meantime, \"mask up\", he tells the American people.\n\nWearing a mask, he says, is \"a patriotic act\".\n\nTo follow our coverage of his first day, head here.", "The emergency department at Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital is the biggest and busiest in Scotland.\n\nAmbulances keep arriving, bringing more patients. In a curtained cubicle, one man is explaining to the doctor that he's been in pain for days, but he put off coming in \"because of everything that's going on\".\n\nDr Alan Whitelaw, who runs the department, says that while there might be fewer patients coming through his door, there are no longer any \"easy wins\".\n\n\"Those that are coming are the sick people,\" he says. \"We are undoubtedly seeing the effects of people not seeking healthcare for six to 10 months.\n\n\"We are seeing disease that we wouldn't always see and we are seeing it further down the road.\n\n\"We are making more diagnoses that potentially would be made in primary care or outpatient clinics. On top of that we've got lots of Covid patients coming through the door.\n\n\"So it is those two things together that currently put the NHS under that significant pressure.\"\n\nAll over Scotland, hospitals are under severe pressure, with some treating significantly more coronavirus patients than they did during the first wave of the pandemic.\n\nPublic visitors are not allowed at the QEUH, but BBC Scotland was given special permission to film to highlight the impact of Covid and the importance of following lockdown rules.\n\nOn the day of the BBC's visit, there are 244 Covid patients. Critical care is running at capacity, and across the whole hospital it's a constant challenge to find space for new patients.\n\nDr Whitelaw says the level of unpredictability is extreme. His team has run out of spare beds.\n\n\"We are ten months into strange and difficult times. It's winter, no-one's had a holiday, no-one's had much downtime.\n\n\"Hospitals are fuller in winter, beds are tighter and patients are sick\".\n\nUpstairs, one ward that previously treated patients with infectious diseases like flu or norovirus, is now a Covid ward. All 28 beds are full.\n\nSome patients here are recently diagnosed, others are coming to the end of their isolation, while some have been stepped down from critical care, but need rehabilitation.\n\nSenior charge nurse Karen Paton says it feels like patients are now sicker for longer.\n\n\"We've had this going on for more or less a year now and staff are beginning to feel the emotional distress of it,\" she says.\n\n\"Having to deal with patients succumbing to coronavirus, and just having the emotions of all the patients not being able to have contact from their families.\n\n\"I think it's beginning to take its toll on everybody.\"\n\nCovid patient Gerry Gilroy says QEUH staff have been \"superb\"\n\nIn one room on the ward is Gerry Gilroy, who tested positive for Covid in late December. By 8 January, the day of his 66th birthday, he could barely get out of bed and couldn't eat.\n\n\"It just hit me and I knew there was something not right,\" he says.\n\n\"I know how serious it is. I never thought it would hit me. It's been a bit of an experience but thankfully I'm on the mend.\n\n\"The staff here are superb. When I get out of here, if I can do something for the NHS I'm going to. Doctors, cleaners, nurses, all top drawer.\"\n\nThe impact of Covid is being felt across the hospital. The acute receiving area used to be the first stop for people who needed urgent surgery.\n\nNow it's where medics like Dr Colin Perry assess Covid patients sent in by their GP or NHS 24. It's another area that's full.\n\n\"In the first wave our ICU was busy and it remains very busy, but during that period we had free beds,\" says Dr Perry.\n\n\"This time we have much more pressure on the downstream ward areas, so it is harder to manage the wider needs of the hospital and make room for patients to move through the system.\n\n\"The numbers are far higher than they were a year ago.\"\n\nRepurposing so many wards to treat coronavirus patients has meant some routine work had to be postponed, but staff are working to prioritise all different kinds of treatment.\n\nHelen Dorrance is a senior surgeon who specialises in bowel cancer at the QEUH. On the day the BBC visits she is operating on patients from another hospital to help relieve pressures there.\n\nDemand for critical care makes it difficult to operate some services, but cancer treatment is still running.\n\n\"We work together as a team across the region to make sure people who are the highest priority get dealt with,\" she says. \"But everyone gets their fair share and access to the care they need.\n\n\"It's not a choice, we do have to provide the best care we can for Covid patients and my critical care colleagues are stepping up to the mark.\n\n\"But the rest of us are making sure the rest of the service runs the way it should, so if you have your heart attack or stroke the right people are there to give you the best care.\"\n\nComing to hospital for any reason during the pandemic is a different experience, and services are stretched.\n\nBut the emergency department's Dr Whitelaw adds that no matter what happens, they will cope.\n\n\"We don't come to work to worry or be fearful, we come to work to do our best and to help,\" he says.\n\n\"I think there's an uncertainty about what the next two to three weeks look like.\n\n\"It might be very, very challenging but I have absolute faith that the staff here will continue to do everything that is required.\n\n\"I think the public should be reassured that no matter what is thrown at us we will definitely get through it.\"", "A council worker in Didsbury, Manchester, checks a bridge for damage, after heavy rainfall. On Thursday morning, there were more than 200 flood warnings in place across the country", "There is still no long-term decision on whether to cut fees as a review recommended\n\nUniversity tuition fees in England will be frozen at a maximum of £9,250 for the next academic year.\n\nThe Department for Education (DfE) said a longer-term decision on cuts to fees would be delayed until the next Comprehensive Spending Review.\n\nBut education sector groups said the government \"is wasting an opportunity\" to help university students.\n\nMinisters also set out plans to improve post-16 vocational education including student loans for adult learners.\n\nThe DfE also launched a consultation on changing the timetable for applying to university - to a so-called \"post-qualification admissions\" system.\n\nThis would mean admissions being based on the grades achieve by students, rather than not relying on predictions.\n\nThe government outlined its plans for higher education reforms for over-18s in response to a landmark review, commissioned by the government from finance expert Philip Augar. Its recommendations were published in May 2019.\n\nPlanned reforms include making £2.5bn available for technical qualifications for adult learners through the National Skills Fund, a lifelong student loan entitlement for up to four years of higher education and the prioritising of funding for STEM subjects.\n\nBut the Augar review's recommendations to reduce tuition fees to £7,500, alongside implementing reforms to minimum entry standards and foundation years at universities, were not addressed in this latest response.\n\nThe DfE said given the pandemic \"now is not the right time to conclude the review in full\".\n\nAny further reforms are expected to be announced at the next Spending Review.\n\nMr Augar also suggested the return of maintenance grants for poorer university students as part of his review, but there was not mention of this in the interim response.\n\nUniversity and College Union general secretary Jo Grady said: \"Sadly this interim response confirms that there will not be a radical change to the current system.\n\nThe Augar review recommended tuition fees should be cut to £7,500 and maintenance grants reintroduced\n\n\"The Westminster government is wasting an opportunity to make a real difference for students and institutions.\"\n\nProf Julia Buckingham, president of Universities UK , welcomed the prospect of lifelong loans, saying \"it is encouraging to see government's commitment to making lifelong learning opportunities more accessible to all\".\n\nHowever, Prof Buckingham said \"government should provide maintenance grants for those who need them the most, including those considering studying shorter courses on a modular basis\".\n\nAs part of its Skills for Jobs White Paper, published alongside higher education reforms, the DfE said it wanted to \"put an end to the illusion that a degree is the only route to success and a good job and that further and technical education is the second-class option\".\n\nA white paper is a policy document produced by the government to set out their proposals for future legislation.\n\nIn December, the government announced that tens of thousands of adults without an A-level or equivalent would be able to benefit from nearly 400 fully-funded courses from April.\n\nIt was the first major development in Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Lifetime Skills Guarantee (LSG) scheme, which was launched in September.\n\nThe government wants to boost the status of vocational education\n\nMr Johnson said it would mean \"everyone will be given the chance to get the skills they need, right from the very start of their career\".\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said: \"These reforms are at the heart of our plans to build back better, ensuring all technical education and training is based on what employers want and need, whilst providing individuals with the training they need to get a well-paid and secure job.\"\n\nBritish Chamber of Commerce director general Adam Marshall welcomed the plans to put the skills needs of businesses at the heart of further education.\n\n\"As local business leaders look to rebuild their firms and communities in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, it is essential to ensure that the right skills and training provision is in place to support growth,\" he added.\n\nBut organisations representing school and college leaders are also sceptical that there is enough funding for the further education sector to deliver on the proposals.\n\nIn November, an the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said FE colleges and sixth forms faced significant financial uncertainty.\n\nChief executive of the Association of Colleges David Hughes said: \"Colleges have been calling for this, after years of being overlooked and underutilised, but government has to not only recognise the vital college role, it also needs to increase funding.\"", "Video caption: David Olusoga learns the stories of the first inhabitants of the house in the 1840s-50s.\n\nDavid Olusoga learns the stories of the first inhabitants of the house in the 1840s-50s.", "One of the mysteries of Covid-19 is why oxygen levels in the blood can drop to dangerously low levels without the patient noticing.\n\nIt is known as \"silent hypoxia\".\n\nAs a result, patients have been arriving in hospital in far worse health than they realised and, in some cases, too late to treat effectively.\n\nBut a potentially life-saving solution, in the form of a pulse oximeter, allows patients to monitor their oxygen levels at home, and costs about £20.\n\nThey are being rolled out for high-risk Covid patients in the UK, and the doctor leading the scheme thinks everyone should consider buying one.\n\nA normal oxygen level in the blood is between 95% and 100%.\n\n\"With Covid, we were admitting patients with oxygen levels in the 70s or low-or-middle 80s,\" said Dr Matt Inada-Kim, a consultant in acute medicine at Hampshire Hospitals.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Inside Health: \"It was a really curious and scary presentation and really made us rethink what we were doing.\"\n\nDr Inada-Kim became the national clinical lead of the Covid Oximetry@home project.\n\nA pulse oximeter slips over your middle finger and shines a light into the body. It measures how much of the light is absorbed in order to calculate oxygen levels in the blood.\n\nIn England, they are being given to people with Covid who are over 65, younger but have a health problem, or anyone doctors are concerned about. Similar schemes are being rolled out across the UK.\n\nPeople measure and record their oxygen levels three times a day.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Health Education England - HEE This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nIf oxygen levels drop to 93% or 94%, then people speak to their GP or call 111. If they go below 92%, people should go to A&E or call 999 for an ambulance.\n\nStudies, which have not been reviewed by other scientists, have shown even small drops below 95% are linked to an increased risk of dying.\n\nDr Inada-Kim said: \"The point of this whole strategy is to try to get in early to prevent people getting that sick, by admitting patients at a more salvageable point in their illness.\"\n\nChris Harris, who is 70, was one of the first patients to benefit from the scheme.\n\nHe was being treated for a urinary infection in November last year, but then when he developed unexpected flu-like symptoms his GP sent him for a Covid test. It was positive.\n\n\"I don't mind admitting I was in tears, it was a very stressful, frightening time,\" he told Inside Health.\n\nHis oxygen levels dropped a couple of percentage points below the normal zone, so after a call with his GP, he went to hospital.\n\nAt this point he was still feeling fine, but things changed the day after he was admitted.\n\n\"My breathing started to get a little bit laboured, I had a high temperature as the days went on, [my oxygen levels] were progressively getting lower, they were in their 80s,\" he told me.\n\nChris was treated, did not need intensive care and has made a full recovery.\n\nHe said: \"I may have gone [to hospital] as the very last resort and that's the frightening thing. It was the oxygen meter that forced me to go, I would have just sat it out thinking I would recover.\n\n\"I am extremely lucky and very, very grateful.\"\n\nHis GP, Dr Caroline O'Keefe, says she has seen a massive increase in the number of people being monitored.\n\nShe said: \"On Christmas Day we were monitoring 44 patients, today I have 160 patients who I am monitoring daily. So we are certainly busy.\"\n\n\"We've had to quadruple the size of our team in the last two weeks.\"\n\nOverall, NHS England has supplied around 300,000 pulse oximeters for the home-monitoring scheme.\n\nDr Inada-Kim says there isn't definitive proof that the gadget saves lives and it could take until April to know for sure. However, the early signs are all positive.\n\n\"What we think we can see are the early seeds of a reduction in the length of stay after a hospital admission, an improvement in survival and a reduction in the pressures on the emergency services,\" he said.\n\nHe is so convinced of their role in tackling silent hypoxia that he said everyone should consider buying one.\n\n\"Personally I would, and I know a number of colleagues who have bought pulse oximeters to distribute to their loved ones,\" he said.\n\nHe advised checking they had a CE Kitemark and to avoid apps on smartphones, which he said were not as reliable.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA mosque has become the first in the UK to open as a Covid vaccination centre.\n\nThe Al-Abbas Islamic Centre in Balsall Heath, Birmingham is expected to vaccinate up to 500 people a day.\n\nThe imam, Sheikh Nuru Mohammed, said he hoped it would help dispel false information that the vaccine was forbidden in Islamic law.\n\nNHS England said it fears disinformation could be causing some in the UK's South Asian communities to reject the Covid vaccine.\n\n\"It will send a strong message to our Muslim brothers and sisters. We are doing this to say a big 'no' to fake news and a big 'yes' to the vaccine,\" Sheikh Nuru said.\n\n\"Muslim scholars advise us to get the vaccine because the sanctity of life is important in Islam.\"\n\nImam Sheikh Nuru Mohammed said he hopes the opening of the vaccination centre will help dispel false information\n\nDr Rizwan Alidina, a trustee of the mosque and member of the Birmingham and Solihull Clinical Commissioning Group said: \"The significance of the venue is obviously quite evident with particularly the Muslim community being one of the communities with a bit of a lower uptake than we would otherwise have expected.\"\n\nHe said there had been a good response to the opening of the centre at the mosque and hoped it would soon be carrying out between 300 and 500 vaccinations a day.\n\nNHS England regional medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar told a Downing Street press conference some communities had \"legitimate and understandable concerns about the vaccines\".\n\nHe said despite it being a \"safe and effective vaccine\", for some Asian and black communities there were \"longstanding concerns\" that \"go back generations\".\n\nDr Diwakar said some people were \"told by their grandparents that experiments were done in the early part of the last century, that unethical experiments were done way back in the 60s\".\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street briefing, Home Secretary Priti Patel also sought to counter disinformation targeted at people from minority ethnic backgrounds.\n\n\"This vaccine is safe for us all,\" she said.\n\n\"It will protect you and your family... So I urge everyone from across our wonderfully diverse country to get the vaccine when their turn comes to keep us all safe.\"\n\nOne of the first to get the jab at he Birmingham mosque, retired GP Dr Masud Ahmad, said his message to others in the local community was \"that it's quite safe to have it and they should have it\".\n\nOther places of worship, including Salisbury Cathedral and Lichfield Cathedral, opened as vaccine centres last week.\n\nThe Al-Abbas Islamic Centre is administering the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands of London taxi drivers plan to sue Uber for damages alleging the ride-hailing firm operated unlawfully.\n\nThe planned group legal action could, if successful, hit Uber with a bill for millions of pounds.\n\nThe action, part of a planned anti-Uber campaign by black-cab drivers this year, claims it didn't follow private hire rules between 2012 and 2018.\n\nUber said it \"operates lawfully in London and these allegations are completely unfounded\".\n\nThe group action, which will be launched by law firm Mishcon de Reya, will allege that for six years Uber operated unlawfully in London.\n\nTaxi rules in London mean that people have to contact a centralised office for minicabs, whereas they can hail a black cab on the street.\n\nThe lawsuit will claim that between 2012 and 2018, Uber let people hail its drivers directly, contravening those rules.\n\nLitigation specialist RGL Management, which is also working with the cabbies to bring the case, said more than 4,000 had signed up so far.\n\nThere are about 5,200 further registrations being processed, with hundreds of enquiries per day, it said. The firm is funding a marketing campaign, and is looking to sign up as many as 30,000 eligible drivers.\n\nA full-time driver over those six years could claim about £25,000 in lost earnings, it added. The group action is aiming to bring a case to the High Court no later than the first quarter of 2022.\n\nThis is not the first time that London's black cabs have done battle with Uber, but today's announcement shows neither side have conceded defeat.\n\nThe proposed claim itself is huge - loss of earnings for up to 30,000 drivers for nearly 6 years - and comes at a time when London black cabs and private hire vehicle drivers are struggling for work after nearly a year of lockdowns and restrictions.\n\nUber might now have its licence back, but the black cabs aren't willing to give them an easy ride.\n\nAn Uber spokeswoman said: \"Uber operates lawfully in London and these allegations are completely unfounded.\n\n\"We are proud to serve this great global city and the 45,000 drivers in London who rely on the app for earnings opportunities, and are committed to helping people move safely.\"\n\nUber has had a torrid history in the UK capital including previous lawsuits.\n\nIn February 2019 cab drivers lost a legal challenge which argued that Uber's London operating licence was granted by a biased judge.\n\nUber then went on to lose its licence to operate in London in November 2019 after safety concerns.\n\nBut in September last year it was spared a London ban after a judge upheld an appeal against Transport for London's decision over safety.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drone footage captures the extent of the damage the bridge over the River Clwyd\n\nFinancial help has been promised to those affected by serious flooding, the Welsh Government has announced.\n\nPeople have been forced to leave their homes and a major incident declared after Storm Christoph struck.\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated during flooding thought to be related to mine works in Skewen, Neath, while 30 were evacuated in Bangor-on-Dee, Wrexham.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it would work with councils to deliver £500-£1,000 payments to affected households.\n\nEnvironment minister, Lesley Griffiths, said people across Wales were facing the \"twin problems\" of floods and the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nShe said: \"We will support people in these circumstances just as we did in the aftermath of storms Ciara and Dennis last year, by working with local authorities to make support payments of between £500 and £1,000 available for each household flooded.\"\n\nSevere flood warnings remain in place across Wales as river levels remain high.\n\nIn the Lower Dee Valley a severe flood warning remains in force, from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadow, and a major incident was declared in Bangor-on-Dee.\n\nWrexham council leader Mark Pritchard said teams worked to ensure the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, made on Wrexham Industrial Estate, was not lost in the floods.\n\nFirefighters in Skewen waded through water up to their thighs amidst reports of evacuated homes\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated in Skewen, including residents of a care home, after at least eight streets were left under water.\n\nEmergency services said there were no injuries and all those evacuated had been found accommodation, but people are asked to avoid the area.\n\nIn Denbighshire, a bridge linking Trefnant to Tremeirchion over the River Clwyd collapsed in the storm. The council said it would be investigating the cause of the flooding, which forced road closures and evacuations.\n\nNatural Resources Wales (NRW) said the River Dee, which runs through Bangor-on-Dee, was at its highest recorded level since the water gauge became operational in 1996 - 16.45m (54ft).\n\nIt urged people across Wales to remain vigilant, with river levels not set to have peaked until late Thursday evening, adding they would remain high until Friday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Met Office said over the past two days Wales had the highest rainfall of the four UK nations.\n\nBetween 19 and 21 January, Aberllefenni in Gwynedd saw 188mm (7.5in) of rain, more than average rainfall for Wales for the whole of January, which is 156.89mm (63in).\n\nThat was followed by 180mm (7in) in Crai reservoir, Powys, 169.8mm (6.6in) in Treherbert, Rhondda Cynon Taf, and 166mm (6.5in) in both Maerdy, RCT, and Capel Curig, Conwy.\n\nLlechryd bridge in Ceredigion has been completely submerged by the River Teifi\n\nUp to 30 people were forced out of their homes in Bangor-on-Dee, Wrexham\n\nNatural Resources Wales said the River Dee was at its highest level since the water gauge became operational\n\nThe flooding threatened the supply of the coronavirus Oxford vaccine, which is produced at Wrexham Industrial Estate.\n\nWrexham council leader Mr Pritchard said it had to work to \"make sure we didn't lose the vaccinations in the floods\".\n\n\"I've been up all night... it's a very difficult time for us,\" he added.\n\nNorth East Wales Search and Rescue helped people whose homes were flooded in New Broughton, Wrexham\n\nWockhardt UK, which manufactures the vaccine, said at about 16:00 GMT on Wednesday, excess water surrounded part of its buildings.\n\n\"The site is now secure and free from any further flood damage and operating as normal,\" it said.\n\nThe clean-up has begun in Ruthin\n\nA multi-agency statement described the situation in Bangor-on-Dee as a \"major incident\".\n\nIt said: \"As a severe weather warning indicates that there is a risk to life...\n\n\"The evacuation effort continues, with all routes in and out of the village currently closed to the public due to the flooding.\"\n\nEarlier, some residents in Ruthin were told to leave their homes - people have been told Covid rules allow them leave their homes in an emergency.\n\nMeanwhile, a man's body was recovered from the River Taff near Blackweir in Cardiff.\n\nDozens of ducks and chickens, and 12 huskies were rescued by the RSPCA from a flooded farm in Bangor, while they also took hay to two donkeys stranded by flood water in Mold.\n\nSome 12 huskies had to be rescued after their kennels flooded\n\nDave Brown said the flooding in his home in Broughton, Flintshire, was horrific and his mother-in-law was rescued by firefighters.\n\n\"You don't realise the damage water does and everything that floats - the sheer volume of water. I am 6ft tall and it almost took me out,\" he said.\n\nDave Brown's mother-in-law was rescued from their home in Broughton, Flintshire\n\nWrexham council said some of the people forced to leave their homes were with relatives, while it found others accommodation after having to initially seek refuge in a church hall.\n\nNine properties in Berse Road in New Broughton were also evacuated.\n\nThe situation in Ruthin, Denbighshire, overnight was \"horrendous\", town councillor Stephen Beach said.\n\n\"The whole of Ruthin was on edge,\" he said.\n\n\"Some people were accommodated at the leisure centre, and others were offered places to stay by local residents. The community was superb.\n\n\"It was the sheer volume of water that came down - there was no stopping it.\"\n\nA yellow weather warning for ice for Wales has been issued by the Met Office until 10:00 GMT on Friday, with concerns it could lead to travel disruption, slips and falls.\n\nNumerous flood warnings and alerts remain in place across Wales, including two severe flood warnings.\n\nThe agency said flood defences were being used and river levels at Holt, Wrexham, would remain high for some time.\"There is therefore a significant risk of localised flooding problems and due to that the severe flood warning will remain in place until the levels drop,\" Keith Iven of NRW said\n\nIn Monmouthshire roads were closed following flooding, and the council said while water levels at the River Usk were dropping, a \"second peak\" on the River Wye had been expected on Thursday night.\n\nThe council had warned people living in Riverside Park, Monmouth, may be impacted and council workers were prepared to offer support.\n\nRiver Tywi has burst its banks in Carmarthen, affecting nearby businesses\n\nMid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it had attended 98 flooding-related incidents\n\nIt said it deployed swift water rescue teams to rescue 13 people from vehicles in floodwater. It also winched vehicles from water and pumped water from properties.\n\nIn Cardiff, emergency services attended a crash involving a number of vehicles at about 07:40 on the A4232 between Culverhouse Cross and the M4.\n\nNo-one was seriously injured, but both carriageways were closed for just over an hour. The road has since reopened.\n\nIn Carmarthen, people were treated for the effects of fumes after using a generator to pump water from their homes.\n\nIn Knighton and Crickhowell in Powys, crews spent Wednesday night pumping out a number of properties.\n\nIn Borth, Ceredigion, floodwater hit the water treatment plant, an electrical substation and eight properties.\n\nOgwen Valley Mountain Rescue Team had to rescue a man from the roof of his car.\n\nIt said he had tried to drive through the river ford along the road from Llandygai to Bangor, in Gwynedd, but had become stuck in deep water and had climbed onto the roof. He was not injured.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Derek Brockway - weatherman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf council said it was aware of a minor landslip on the mountainside above Pentre.\n\nIt said an initial inspection determined there was no immediate threat to the area and a further detailed inspection would be carried out on Friday. It asked people to avoid the area.\n\nBangor-on-Dee has been badly hit by Storm Cristoph\n\nDozens of roads have been closed across Wales, and while Covid rules are in place stopping people from travelling apart from for essential reasons, people are being warned not to travel in affected areas due to widespread flooding.\n\nChris Lloyd from North Wales Mountain Rescue Association warned people to not visit flood-hit areas to view the damage.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Wales: \"People who are going out to look at the floods are not only putting themselves at risk, but putting additional people on the roads which professional emergency services don't want - we don't want any more incidents.\"\n\nDenbighshire council said Ysgol Bodfari in Denbigh and Ysgol Caer Drewyn, Corwen, which had been open for vulnerable children and the children of critical workers, have been closed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The A9 south of Inverness was among the worst affected routes\n\nHeavy snowfall during Storm Christoph has caused travel disruption in parts of Scotland.\n\nVehicles were stuck on the A9 south of Inverness and many roads in the Borders were affected by snow.\n\nThe Queensferry Crossing was closed for a time earlier due to the risk of falling ice before later reopening.\n\nAn amber alert for south-east Scotland was lifted at 08:00 but yellow alerts are in place in other parts of the country until Friday.\n\nTraffic was queued on the A9 after lorries and cars became stuck in snow between Tomatin and Carrbridge.\n\nTractors were used to tow lorries on to cleared stretches of the road.\n\nHeavy snow has also closed the main route to Applecross at the Bealach na Ba.\n\nThe Queensferry Crossing has been reopened after being closed earlier due to the risk of falling ice\n\nThe A939 Cock Bridge to Tomintoul road in Moray was closed after Police Scotland shut the snowgates due to the wintry conditions.\n\nSnow had also affected traffic on parts of the M8.\n\nOn the Highlands' Far North Line, a landslip between Fearn and Tain stations has affected services.\n\nNetwork Rail Scotland said a section of the railway was open with a 5mph speed restriction in place.\n\nChris Tracey, Bear Scotland's south east unit bridges manager, said the Queensferry Crossing was temporarily closed for the safety of bridge users.\n\nHe said: \"We had already mobilised additional ice patrols in response to the weather forecast and the bridge was closed at 04:00 when staff observed ice falling from the structure.\"\n\nThe bridge was reopened after the risk had passed.\n\nEdinburgh is one of the areas where heavy snow has fallen\n\nPolice Scotland has urged people to avoid travelling in the affected areas.\n\nChief Superintendent Louise Blakelock said: \"Government restrictions on only travelling if your journey is essential remain in place and with an amber warning for snow, please consider if your journey really is essential and whether you can delay it until the weather improves.\n\n\"If you deem your journey is essential, plan ahead and make sure you and your vehicle are suitably prepared by having sufficient fuel and supplies such as warm clothing, food, water and charge in your mobile phone in the event you require assistance.\"\n\nAvalanche debris on Turnhouse in the Pentland Hills photographed from Penicuik\n\nPeople heading for the Pentland Hills, south-west of Edinburgh, have been urged to be aware of potential avalanche risk after avalanche debris was spotted on Turnhouse Hill.\n\nTweed Valley Mountain Rescue Team said the \"full depth\" avalanche had enough snow to knock a person off their feet, or even bury them.\n\nTeam leader Dave Wright said avalanches in the Pentland Hills were unusual and walkers, skiers and snowboarders might not appreciate the potential risk.\n\nHe said there had been heavy snowfalls in the hills this week and the avalanche occurred at some point on Thursday afternoon.\n\nMeanwhile, the potential avalanche hazard in all six mountain areas covered by the Scottish Avalanche Information Service - Glen Coe, Lochaber, Creag Meagaidh, Torridon and Northern and Southern Cairgorms - has been classed as \"considerable\".\n\nThe amber weather warning for snow covered a slice of Scotland from south of Edinburgh to close to the Scotland-England border and was valid until Thursday morning.\n\nHowever, further alerts remain in place.\n\nA Bear NW Trunk Roads' tractor clears snow ahead of a lorry on the A9 at the Slochd\n\nIn north-east Scotland and Orkney, a yellow warning for heavy rain and potential flooding is in place until 04:00 on Friday.\n\nYellow warnings for snow and ice are also in place in parts of northern and western Scotland until 12:00 on Friday.\n\nTransport Scotland said it was \"closely monitoring\" the road network and a multi-agency response team would be operational during the weather warnings.\n\nA snow-covered car in Carlops, in the Scottish Borders\n\nDrivers woke up to snow-covered cars in Haddington, East Lothian\n• None In pictures: Scotland in the snow", "Last March, the government set out new thinking on dealing with Northern Ireland's past\n\nThousands of relatives of Troubles victims have signed an open letter calling for the British and Irish governments to fully investigate decades of violence.\n\nIt calls for the long-delayed set up of an independent team of detectives to pursue new prosecutions and other measures to recover information.\n\nThese are measures included in the 2014 Stormont House Agreement.\n\nThe letter is addressed to Taoiseach Micheál Martin and UK PM Boris Johnson.\n\nIt asks for their assurances that their \"human rights as victims will no longer be disregarded or denied\".\n\n\"The peace process has repeatedly failed to deliver on our rights to truth, justice and accountability,\" they said.\n\nThe letter, signed by 3,500 relatives, is being published in the Irish News, Andersonstown News, and US publication the Irish Echo.\n\nThe letter is being printed in several newspapers\n\nMore than 3,600 people were killed during the 30 years of Northern Ireland's Troubles and thousands more injured.\n\nThe UK government has pledged to \"intensify\" engagement with victims' groups in addressing the legacy of the past.\n\nThe Stormont House proposals included a new independent investigation unit to re-examine all unsolved killings and a separate truth recovery mechanism to enable families to gain answers in cases where prosecutions are unlikely.\n\nLast March, the government set out new thinking on dealing with the past, which radically departed from what had been proposed in the Stormont House Agreement.\n\nHe proposed that after a paper review exercise, most unsolved cases would be closed and a new law would be enacted to prevent the investigations from being reopened.\n\nMark Thompson, chief executive of Belfast-based lobby group Relatives for Justice, said about half of those who signed the open letter are 35 years and under.\n\nHe said the letter \"represents the current and future generations\" and that it \"underlines the ongoing trauma and intergenerational impact that the killing of a relative has also had on surviving families\".", "Glastonbury Festival has been cancelled for a second year running due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe news was announced on Thursday on the Worthy Farm event's Twitter page.\n\n\"With great regret, we must announce that this year's Glastonbury Festival will not take place,\" said festival organisers Michael and Emily Eavis.\n\n\"And that this will be another enforced fallow year for us. Tickets for this year will roll over to next year. Michael & Emily.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Glastonbury Festival This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt comes in the same week that the future of UK music was up for debate at a DCMS inquiry into streaming, and in Parliament regarding post-Brexit music touring visas.\n\nThe full statement on the festival website read: \"In spite of our efforts to move heaven and earth, it has become clear that we simply will not be able to make the Festival happen this year. We are so sorry to let you all down.\"\n\nIt confirmed that as with last year, anyone with a ticket will now be offered the opportunity to roll their £50 deposit over to next year, when the festival will hopefully resume. It had been due to take place in June 2021.\n\n\"We are very appreciative of the faith and trust placed in us by those of you with deposits, and we are very confident we can deliver something really special for us all in 2022!\"\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden shared his \"disappointment\" at the lack of a Glastonbury 2021, on Twitter.\n\n\"This regrettable but understandable decision is recognition that public health comes first\" he posted, \"and that right now, getting 200k fans together in just a few months looks very difficult to make safe\".\n\nHe added: \"We continue to help the arts on recovery, including looking at problems around getting insurance. I'm Glastonbury will be back bigger and better next year.\"\n\nJulian Knight MP, chair of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport committee, said news of this year's cancellation was \"devastating\".\n\nSir Paul McCartney headlined Glastonbury in 2004, and was supposed to do so again in 2020\n\n\"We have repeatedly called for ministers to act to protect our world-renowned festivals like this one with a government-backed insurance scheme. Our plea fell on deaf ears and now the chickens have come home to roost,\" he said.\n\n\"The jewel in the crown will be absent but surely the government cannot ignore the message any longer - it must act now to save this vibrant and vital festivals sector.\"\n\nOn 5 January the government responded to a report by UK Music called Let the Music Play: Save Our Summer 2021, which outlined a range of measures that could help the industry get back up and running.\n\nThe government said: \"We know these are challenging times for the live events sector and are working flat out to support it.\n\n\"Our £1.57bn Culture Recovery Fund has already seen more than £1bn offered to arts, heritage and performance organisations to support them through the impact of the pandemic, protecting tens of thousands of creative jobs across the UK, including festivals such as Deer Shed Festival, End of the Road and Nozstock.\"\n\nLast year's 50th anniversary Glastonbury was meant to be headlined by Sir Paul McCartney, Taylor Swift and Kendrick Lamar, but it was cancelled during the initial national lockdown in March 2020.\n\nMichael and Emily Eavis previously said that Glastonbury \"lost millions\" after cancelling in 2020\n\nLast month, organiser Emily Eavis told the BBC she hoped this year's festival could go ahead, despite the \"huge uncertainty\" surrounding live music in the pandemic.\n\n\"We're doing everything we can on our end to plan and prepare,\" she told the BBC, \"but I think we're still quite a long way from being able to say we're confident 2021 will go ahead.\"\n\nEavis said Glastonbury lost \"millions\" in 2020. Her father, Michael, has previously warned the festival \"would seriously go bankrupt\" if they had to cancel again next year.\n\nBut that scenario is unlikely \"as long as we can make a firm call either way in advance\", Eavis clarified to the BBC.\n\nNo line-up details had been confirmed for 2021. But just before Christmas, Sir Paul McCartney told the BBC the event was not in his calendar, as it would be a \"superspreader\".\n\nAt the start of January, MPs were told that some of the UK's biggest music festivals could be called off by the end of this month.\n\nThe festival normally welcomes 200,000 people to Pilton in Somerset every year\n\nEvents are \"rapidly approaching the determination point\", after which they'll have to pull the plug, said the Association of Independent Festivals.\n\nOrganisers will be in \"absolutely dire straits\" financially if the season is cancelled, added Anna Wade, of Winchester's Boomtown Fair.\n\nThey were speaking to MPs examining the plight of music festivals in the UK.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "At 12:01, in the midst of his inaugural address, Joe Biden officially became the 46th president of the United States.\n\nHe was already well into outlining exactly how daunting a task he - and the nation - have ahead in what he called its \"winter of peril\".\n\nAmerica is facing a devastating pandemic which has resulted in massive job losses and business closures, a threatened environment, urgent cries for racial justice and resurgence in \"political extremism, white supremacy and domestic terrorism\".\n\nHis speech was not a laundry list of proposals and solutions. Those were reserved for his first 17 executive actions as president - on immigration, climate change, transgender rights and public health, among others.\n\nThe Biden administration has also frozen all of Trump's last-minute regulations pending further review.\n\nInstead, Biden used his speech to offer hope - and to argue, at times forcefully, that the nation must be united in facing the challenges ahead; that it has to move past its current \"uncivil war\".\n\n\"Without unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury,\" he said. \"No progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos.\"\n\n\"This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge,\" he continued. \"And unity is the path forward\".\n\nAt times, Biden's speech seemed a direct rebuttal to his predecessor's administration, although he did not mention Donald Trump by name.\n\nWhere Trump frequently spoke of American greatness and glorified its founders, Biden noted that the nation's history has been a \"constant struggle\" between its ideals and sometimes harsh realities.\n\nWhere Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway spoke of \"alternative facts\" almost four years ago, Biden said: \"There is truth and there are lies - lies told for power and for profit.\"\n\nBiden wrapped up his inaugural address by warning that America must not \"turn inward\" - both as individuals retreating into \"competing factions\" and as a nation on the world stage.\n\n\"We will repair our alliances and engage with the world once again,\" he said.\n\nRhetorically, Biden turned the page from Trump's days of \"America first\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe first 100 days of any administration are always important to a new president. What are his priorities? What will he try to accomplish when his political capital is at its highest?\n\nJoe Biden and his presidential team have had nearly three months to plan out his first actions upon taking the oath of office, but executive action is the (relatively) easy part.\n\nHis speech reflected the reality that he enters office with his top priorities already determined for him.\n\nHis government will be responsible for distributing the coronavirus vaccine in an efficient and equitable way. After that, he will have to focus on the societal and economic disruptions caused by the pandemic.\n\nThe virus has exacerbated income inequality and pushed many households to the brink of economic ruin. It's devastated the travel and hospitality industries and placed incredible strain on the finances of state and local governments.\n\nHis pledge to seek unity will be tested early, as he pushes a sharply divided Congress to pass another, massive round of pandemic stimulus aid. If he wants to enact it quickly, he will need Republican support in the Senate, and already there are signs that some on the right may be lining up in opposition to more spending.\n\nThen there's Trump's Senate impeachment trial, which will present yet another challenge to national unity. It will keep Trump's name in the news for weeks, as his defenders rally to his side and his detractors call for consequences for his actions.\n\nAfter that, Biden's potential political paths diverge. He has said he wants to improve healthcare in the US, address growing college debt, make new investments in infrastructure and tackle climate change.\n\nHe's pledged to push immigration reform legislation that includes a pathway to citizenship for undocumented migrants - a political lightning rod that helped fuel Trump's first presidential run.\n\nWhat he prioritises, and how successful his first efforts are, could determine the overall success of his administration. To make lasting change - policies that can't be undone by future presidents - he will have to work with Congress.\n\nThe inauguration ceremony is over. But, as Biden noted in his speech, the American people face one of the most challenging times in their nation's history.\n\n\"We will be judged by how we resolve these cascading crises of our era,\" he said.\n\nBiden campaigned against Trump for the opportunity to face those crises. Now he has his chance.", "Anyone going on a Saga holiday or cruise in 2021 must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, the tour operator has said.\n\nSaga, which specialises in holidays for the over-50s, said it wanted to protect customers' health and safety.\n\nThe firm said it would delay restarting its travel packages until May to give customers enough time to get jabs.\n\nPeople over 50 in the UK have been rushing to book holidays as vaccinations boost confidence.\n\n\"The health and safety of our customers has always been our number one priority at Saga, so we have taken the decision to require everyone travelling with us to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19,\" Saga said in a statement.\n\n\"Our customers want the reassurance of the vaccine and to know others travelling with them will be vaccinated too.\"\n\nThe firm's holidays were due to restart in March and its cruises in April after a long hiatus, but they will now both be delayed.\n\nSaga said that meant all trips before May would no longer go ahead as planned, acknowledging it would be \"a huge disappointment\" to customers.\n\n\"We will be contacting all guests affected to discuss their options,\" it said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Singapore's 'cruises to nowhere' set back by Covid scare\n\nThe firm said its vaccination policy added to stronger safety processes already planned for when its holidays resume.\n\nThese include requiring cruise passengers to have a Covid-19 test before their trip, as well as a full medical screening.\n\nCapacity on its ships will also be kept to a maximum of 800 people.\n\nThere were some severe covid outbreaks on cruise ships early on the pandemic, before coronavirus restrictions were imposed.\n\nBritish-registered ship the Diamond Princess, owned by the company Carnival, was quarantined for nearly a month in February in the Port of Yokohama in Japan.\n\nMore than 700 of its 3,711 passengers and crew were infected, and 14 died.\n\nThe UK has embarked on a mass vaccination programme as Covid-19 cases surge.\n\nPeople in England are being vaccinated at a rate of 140 jabs per minute, NHS England boss Sir Simon Stevens said this week.\n\nExperts believe in future that airlines, concert venues and restaurants could routinely ask customers to prove that they have been vaccinated.\n\nAnd last week, London plumbing firm Pimlico Plumbers said that all of its staff would be contractually obliged to get the jab.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Hill We Climb: Watch 22-year-old Amanda Gorman's poem reading at Joe Biden's inauguration\n\nAmanda Gorman has become the youngest poet ever to perform at a presidential inauguration, calling for \"unity and togetherness\" in her self-penned poem.\n\nThe 22-year-old delivered her work The Hill We Climb to both the dignitaries present in Washington DC and a watching global audience.\n\n\"When day comes, we ask ourselves where can we find light in this never-ending shade?\" her five-minute poem began.\n\nShe went on to reference the storming of the Capitol earlier this month.\n\n\"We've seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it, would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy,\" she declared.\n\n\"And this effort very nearly succeeded. But while democracy can be periodically delayed, it can never be permanently defeated.\"\n\nThe poet was applauded by Vice President Kamala Harris\n\nIn her poem, Gorman described herself as \"a skinny black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother [who] can dream of becoming president, only to find her self reciting for one\".\n\nAmerica's first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate did her job, which was to find the right words at the right time.\n\nIt was a beautifully paced, well-judged poem for a special occasion, but it will live long beyond the time and space of the moment.\n\nAmanda Gorman delivered her piece with grace, the words it contained will resonate with people the world over: today, tomorrow, and far into the future.\n\nThe writer and performer, who became the country's first National Youth Poet Laureate in 2017, followed in the footsteps of such famous names as Robert Frost and Maya Angelou.\n\n\"I really wanted to use my words to be a point of unity and collaboration and togetherness,\" Gorman told the BBC World Service's Newshour programme before the ceremony.\n\n\"I think it's about a new chapter in the United States, about the future, and doing that through the elegance and beauty of words.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS broadcaster and actress Oprah Winfrey tweeted that she had \"never been prouder to see another young woman rise\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Oprah Winfrey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlso on Twitter, Joanne Liu, the former head of aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières, described the poem as \"the most inspiring 5:43 minutes for the longest time\".\n\nFormer First Lady Michelle Obama praised Gorman's \"strong and poignant words\" adding: \"Keep shining, Amanda!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Michelle Obama This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUS politician and rights activist Stacey Abrams said the poem was \"an inspiration to us all\".\n\nFormer presidential candidate Hillary Clinton tweeted that Gorman had promised to run for president in 2036 and added: \"I for one can't wait.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIllinois poet laureate Angela Jackson said the recitation was \"so rich and just so filled with truth\".\n\n\"I was stunned that she was so young and so wise,\" Jackson told the Chicago Sun-Times.\n\nGorman said she \"screamed and danced her head off\" when she found out she had been chosen to read at President Biden's swearing-in ceremony.\n\nShe said she felt \"excitement, joy, honour and humility\" when she was asked to take part, \"and also at the same time terror\".\n\nAnd she added that she hoped her poem, completed on the day supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol, would \"speak to the moment\" and \"do this time justice\".\n\nGorman, pictured with actor Morgan Freeman in 2018, became LA's youth poet laureate at 16\n\nBorn in Los Angeles in 1998, Gorman had a speech impediment as a child - an affliction she shares with America's new president.\n\n\"It's made me the performer that I am and the storyteller that I strive to be,\" she said in a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times.\n\n\"When you have to teach yourself how to say sounds [and] be highly concerned about pronunciation, it gives you a certain awareness of sonics, of the auditory experience.\"\n\nGorman became LA's youth poet laureate at 16. Three years later, while studying sociology at Harvard, she became National Youth Poet Laureate.\n\nShe published her first book, The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough, in 2015 and will publish a picture book, Change Sings, later this year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kamala Harris was sworn into office by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.\n\nKamala Harris has made history as the first female, first black and first Asian-American US vice-president.\n\nShe was sworn in just before Joe Biden took the oath of office to become the 46th US president.\n\nMs Harris, who is of Indian-Jamaican heritage, initially ran for the Democratic nomination.\n\nBut Mr Biden won the race and chose Ms Harris as his running mate, describing her as \"a fearless fighter for the little guy\".\n\nPrior to taking the oath at the US Capitol, Ms Harris paid tribute to the women who she says came before her.\n\n\"I stand on their shoulders,\" she said in a video.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kamala Harris This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEugene Goodman, the Capitol police officer who was hailed as a hero for steering a pro-Trump mob away from Senate chambers during the 6 January riot, escorted Ms Harris at the inauguration.\n\nMs Harris, 56, was born in Oakland, California, to two immigrant parents: an Indian-born mother and Jamaican-born father.\n\nKamala, left, as child with her mother and younger sister Maya\n\nShe went on to attend Howard University, one of the nation's preeminent historically black colleges and universities. She has described her time there as among the most formative experiences of her life.\n\nMs Harris says she's always been comfortable with her identity and simply describes herself as \"an American\".\n\nAfter four years at Howard, Ms Harris went on to earn her law degree at the University of California, Hastings, and began her career in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office.\n\nShe became the district attorney - the top prosecutor - for San Francisco in 2003, before being elected the first female and the first African American to serve as California's attorney general, the top lawyer and law enforcement official in America's most populous state.\n\nIn her nearly two terms in office as attorney general, Ms Harris gained a reputation as one of the Democratic party's rising stars, using this momentum to propel her to election as California's junior US senator in 2017. She was only the second black woman ever elected to the US senate.\n\nShe launched her candidacy for president to a crowd of more than 20,000 in Oakland at the beginning of 2019.\n\nBut Ms Harris failed to articulate a clear rationale for her campaign, and gave muddled answers to questions in key policy areas like healthcare.\n\nShe was also unable to capitalise on the clear high point of her candidacy: debate performances that showed off her prosecutorial skills, often placing Mr Biden in the line of attack, most notably criticising his praise for the \"civil\" working relationship he had with former senators who favoured racial segregation.\n\nShe dropped out of the presidential race in December 2019.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut Mr Biden chose her as his number two in August, calling her \"one of the country's finest public servants\".\n\nAfter Mr Biden was announced as the next president in November, Ms Harris tweeted a video of her congratulating her running mate.\n\n\"We did it, we did it Joe. You're going to be the next president of the United States!\" she beamed.", "Scientists tracking the spread of coronavirus in England say infection levels in the community may have risen at the start of the latest lockdown.\n\nInfections in 6-15 January were up by 50% on early December, with one in 63 people infected, Imperial College London's initial findings suggest.\n\nSwab tests from 143,000 people indicate 1.58% had the virus during in early January - up from 0.91% in December.\n\nMinisters say the report does not yet reflect the impact of the lockdown.\n\nThe latest round of results from Imperial College's React-1 infection survey - one of the country's largest studies into Covid-19 infections - are interim with the full set of results to be published in a week's time.\n\nBut Imperial College London's Prof Paul Elliott warned if the high prevalence continues \"more lives will be lost\".\n\nThe report also says there are \"worrying suggestions of a recent uptick in infections\" and Prof Elliott said the third lockdown - introduced on 6 January - was not having the same impact as the first, in April.\n\nLondon had the highest level in the January period - 2.8%, up from 1.21% in early December.\n\nProf Elliott old BBC Radio 4's Today programme the current R rate - which represents how many people an infected person will pass the virus on to - was \"around 1\".\n\n\"We're seeing this levelling off, it's not going up, but we're not seeing the decline that we really need to see given the pressure on the NHS from the current very high levels of the virus in the population,\" he said.\n\n\"To prevent our already stretched health system from becoming overwhelmed, infections must be brought down,\" Prof Elliot added.\n\nBefore the Covid rules were tightened, the restrictions faced by people in England varied depending on where they lived.\n\nThe researchers say the government's latest daily case figures, which show a slowdown, may reflect a drop in cases just after Christmas, which is only now being registered.\n\nAnd they suggest infection levels may have gone up in early January as a result of people's activity increasing after the Christmas holiday period.\n\nThey admit there is some uncertainty in their data amid a \"fast-changing situation\" but say it is more up to date than the daily government figures because it does not rely on those being tested developing symptoms and then waiting to have their infections confirmed by a laboratory.\n\nThe UK recorded another all-time high of daily coronavirus deaths on Wednesday. A further 1,820 people died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, according to government figures - taking the total number of deaths by that measure to 93,290.\n\nThe findings of the study are seemingly at odds with recent figures from NHS Test and Trace, which has been reporting recent decreases in daily infections and has prompted some experts to suggest that we might be beginning our journey out of the woods.\n\nThe researchers behind the study say the test and trace figures may be reflecting an initial drop in infections just after Christmas, which is only now being registered on the official figures.\n\nThe study's more up to date findings indicate that infection levels did not continue to fall in the first two weeks of January and may even have gone up. So why has this happened?\n\nData on people's movements has shown that there's been increased activity which the scientists involved say has kept transmission of the virus at a high level. The Department of Health says that the study does not yet reflect the impact of the lockdown in England.\n\nBut if this trend continues, say the scientists, the numbers admitted to hospital with severe Covid illness, will not fall in the short term, as some had hoped.\n\nThis is one set of figures over a short number of days so there might be a more optimistic picture when the study reports its full set of results in a week's time. But there is no getting away from the fact that ministers will be disappointed not to have seen a fall at this stage.\n\nUnless things change, even tougher measures will have to be considered.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said there will be \"tough weeks to come\" but he hoped there would be a \"real difference\" by spring as the vaccine programme accelerates.\n\nIt comes as another 60 NHS Covid-19 vaccination centres in England, including a mosque in Birmingham and a cinema in Aylesbury, will welcome their first patients later.\n\nMinisters have sought to reassure people in the top four priority groups for the Covid vaccination that they will get their jab by the government's mid-February target, following complaints from some GPs about unpredictable supplies.\n\nSome 4.6m people in the UK have now received the first dose of a Covid vaccine.\n\nFacebook mobility data, which tracks people's movements, suggested a fall in activity at the end of December but a rise at the start of the new year.\n\nAnd Prof Elliott said everyone should \"reduce their mobility as much as we can\".\n\nA new, more transmissible variant and the fact larger households and deprived communities were more likely to be affected, may also be factors.\n\nThe Imperial survey is one source of data used to estimate the UK's reproduction (R) number, along with other surveys, from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) for example, and figures on confirmed cases and hospital admissions.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the React findings showed \"we must not let down our guard over the weeks to come\".\n\n\"It is absolutely paramount that everyone plays their part to bring down infections,\" he said.\n\n\"This means staying at home and only going out where absolutely necessary, reducing contact with others and maintaining social distancing.\"", "Police checkpoints have seen officers questioning people about whether their travel is essential\n\nNorthern Ireland has been in lockdown since 26 December, in a bid to control the spread of Covid-19.\n\nRestrictions had been eased in the run-up to Christmas, which led to a sharp spike in cases in January, causing severe pressure on the health service.\n\nMedically-trained military personnel will be deployed to help, but a union has questioned the move and said NI should have entered a stricter lockdown sooner.\n\nWith Stormont ministers extending the current lockdown, could other measures could be on the table?\n\nIt's worth bearing in mind that NI is already in tight lockdown restrictions and has been for almost a month.\n\nBut the current measures are now set to remain in place until at least 5 March.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said health officials had not requested any other measures be toughened up at this time, given the duration and extent of the current rules.\n\nThe initial lockdown began last March, with non-essential retail not permitted to open again until 12 June.\n\nBy law people are required to stay at home during the lockdown unless they have a reasonable excuse, such as going out for exercise, medical or food needs.\n\nPeople are also required to wear face masks in shops and on public transport, with only a limited number of exemptions.\n\nThose who breach the rules can face fines, with businesses that break the law also able to be fined if they do not follow the rules.\n\nHowever, DUP minister Edwin Poots has expressed concern that not enough has been done by the PSNI to enforce the laws.\n\nIt is a difficult balance for the executive to strike.\n\nThey previously announced that \"Covid marshals\" would be deployed in the retail sector to ensure social distancing in queues and adherence to the rules.\n\nMinisters want to ensure as many people as possible follow the restrictions voluntarily while ensuring the PSNI has enough powers to manage the situation.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann has not ruled out revisiting whether the level of fines people can face should be increased, and said he would raise the matter with his executive colleagues.\n\nThe 2020 lockdown saw many businesses right across Northern Ireland forced to close, with retail and hospitality among them.\n\nThere was confusion over whether construction and manufacturing should stop, with the executive later clarifying that essential work on building sites could continue.\n\nIn the latest lockdown, the sector has been permitted to remain fully open.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, all non-essential construction has been ordered to stop during a fresh lockdown there.\n\nLike in the previous lockdown, people have again been told to work from home unless they cannot.\n\nBut it is worth pointing out many companies have had time to prepare since last March, making their workplaces Covid-secure to allow more staff to attend in person.\n\nThe executive has a defined list of essential businesses here.\n\nFace coverings in shops are mandatory in Northern Ireland's shops\n\nThere has also been confusion about what elements of the retail sector can operate.\n\nAll but essential retail shops were told to close on 26 December, and click-and-collect is only allowed for those essential retailers.\n\nBut concerns were later raised that some larger chains were \"gaming\" the regulations by selling non-essential items, with smaller independent shops who had to close arguing they were being treated unfairly.\n\nThe executive met with retailers last week to discuss this, but it seems unlikely it will act to define essential items in regulations.\n\nA similar situation in Wales last year led to criticism after supermarkets were told by law not to sell certain items.\n\nThe majority of pupils are in an extended period of remote learning until after half-term in February, but some children of key workers and vulnerable children are still permitted to attend the classroom.\n\nLast week it emerged that at least eight times as many pupils in Northern Ireland attended schools in the first week of term in 2021 compared to the first lockdown in 2020.\n\nThough part of this is due to special schools remaining open for all pupils, unlike in March to June last year.\n\nThe executive could potentially revisit the list of services it defines as meeting the \"key worker\" definition for childcare, if it wanted to reduce this further.\n\nIt is also possible schools could remain closed to most pupils for a longer period, in line with extending the lockdown to 5 March.\n\nThe executive says workers, builders, tradespeople and other professionals can continue to go into people's houses to carry out work such as repairs, installations and deliveries.\n\nBut it does not define further what this type of work should include.\n\nIt is possible ministers could tighten the circumstances in which work can be carried out in someone's home, but the guidance already specifies a limited number of exemptions for allowing others inside your home during the lockdown.\n\nHouse moves are also allowed under the regulations, although they were paused in the first lockdown.\n\nMusic lessons and private tutoring are permitted in someone's home, with mitigations.\n\nDuring the first week of lockdown from 26 December, people were told not to leave their homes between 20:00 and 06:00 every day - effectively amounting to a curfew.\n\nMinisters could decide to impose the measure again, if they felt that was necessary - but initially it was imposed to stop house parties over New Year's Eve.\n\nAll but essential travel is not permitted outside of Northern Ireland, and anyone entering Northern Ireland must self-isolate for 10 days on arrival or face a fine.\n\nHowever, there is no formal travel ban on passengers from Great Britain or the Republic of Ireland entering Northern Ireland.\n\nThe executive had voted by a majority before Christmas not to impose such a ban, despite calls from Sinn Féin for it to happen.\n\nOther parties argued that the public health advice did not propose a ban in law, and that travel from the Republic of Ireland to NI should be restricted as well due to its rise in cases.\n\nThe current guidance states that anyone coming into NI from within the Common Travel Area who is staying for more than 24 hours should self-isolate for 10 days, but there are exemptions for those who \"cross the border\" regularly for work or other essential reasons.\n\nThe executive also does not have a formal limit in law for travelling to exercise, unlike in the Republic of Ireland where it is 5km (3 miles).\n\nJustice Minister Naomi Long said there is an \"advisory limit\" of 10 miles for exercise in Northern Ireland.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo houses have partially collapsed after a sinkhole measuring 10ft (3m) opened up on a Manchester street.\n\nFour homes were evacuated on Wednesday evening after the hole appeared on Walmer Street in Abbey Hey, Gorton.\n\nFire crews returned hours later after the front of two of the empty properties crashed to the ground.\n\nUnited Utilities said it was dealing with a collapsed sewer but was investigating all possible causes including the recent heavy rain.\n\nThe fire service was first called to Walmer Street just after 21:00 GMT on Wednesday to reports an unoccupied car had fallen down a hole in the road.\n\nA cordon was put in place and residents evacuated as a precaution, the fire service said.\n\nAfter leaving the scene four hours later, the fire service was alerted to the partial collapse of two houses at 11:00 on Thursday.\n\nNo-one was injured in either incident.\n\nEmergency services remain at the scene on Walmer Street\n\nNearby residents Maureen and Louise Kennedy spoke of their shock after the houses collapsed.\n\n\"You're just waiting for your world to crumble. It's not just the bricks and water, said Ms Kennedy.\n\n\"I've lived in there since I was three. It's the memories.\"\n\nResident Nathaniel OKeleafor said he was \"terrified\" when the sinkhole appeared in the street on Wednesday evening.\n\n\"This morning we are out. We are just trying to find somewhere to live,\" he added.\n\nUnited Utilities said it was dealing with a collapsed sewer on Walmer Street\n\nThe collapse comes as rising levels on the River Mersey in Manchester came \"within centimetres\" of breaching flood defences following heavy rain caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nStation Manager Andrew O'Brien, from Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, praised firefighters who worked \"at the height of the stormy weather\".\n\n\"The safety of the public was our primary concern overnight and again today, and I'm pleased to say no-one has suffered any injuries,\" he said.\n\nUnited Utilities said: \"When it is safe for engineers to go back into the immediate area we will set up emergency drainage and water supply connections to restore services to the area and begin to assess how best to carry out repairs.\n\n\"It is not known what caused the sinkhole but this will be investigated.\"\n\nBBC Radio Manchester and BBC Radio Lancashire will be on air throughout Storm Christoph, bringing you all of the latest information and news updates\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel says police have her \"absolute backing\" to enforce coronavirus restrictions\n\nFines of £800 for anyone attending a house party of more than 15 people will be introduced in England from next week, under new Covid measures.\n\nThese will double for each repeat offence to a maximum of £6,400.\n\nAt a No 10 news conference, Home Secretary Priti Patel said there remained a \"small minority that refuse to do the right thing\".\n\n\"To them my message is clear. If you don't follow rules then the police will enforce them,\" she said.\n\nCurrently in England the fine for those attending illegal indoor gatherings stands at £200 - or £100 if paid early.\n\nFines of up to £10,000 for holding large illegal gatherings of more than 30 people will still only apply to the organisers.\n\nPolice will continue to follow the strategy of engaging with the public, explaining the rules and encouraging compliance, but the Home Office has warned that in severe breaches of lockdown rules, offenders should expect to receive a fine.\n\nMs Patel said the government would \"not stand by while a small number of individuals put others at risk\".\n\nShe was joined at the briefing by NHS England regional medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar, who compared breaking the rules to turning on a light in the middle of a blackout during the Blitz.\n\n\"It doesn't just put you at risk in your house, it puts your whole street and the whole of your community at risk,\" he said.\n\nWelcoming the fines announcement, Martin Hewitt, chairman of the National Police Chiefs' Council, said large gatherings were \"dangerous, irresponsible, and totally unacceptable\".\n\nHe added: \"I hope that the likelihood of an increased fine acts as a disincentive for those people who are thinking of attending or organising such events.\"\n\nOfficial figures will be released next week showing how many fines have been given out since the start of this latest national lockdown, Mr Hewitt said.\n\nHowever, he stressed that \"forces are telling us there has been a significant increase\" in recent weeks.\n\n\"That's reflecting the fact that we've had more officers out on dedicated patrols taking targeted action against those small few who are letting everybody down,\" he said.\n\nAccording to Mr Hewitt, three police officers were injured in Brick Lane, east London, last week, after more than 40 people were found cramped indoors at a house party.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 150 people were found at a party in Hertfordshire, complete with music equipment including mixing decks and amplifiers, and another officer was injured.\n\nHe said forces in England had issued 250 fixed penalty notices (FPNs) to people organising large gatherings between late August, when regulations were introduced, and 17 January.\n\nIn some other recent examples of lockdown breaches:\n\nThe latest fines announcement comes after figures showed that assaults on emergency workers made up more than a quarter of Covid-related crimes prosecuted in the first six months of the pandemic.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said there were 1,688 such offences between 1 April and 30 September in England and Wales.\n\nThey were among almost 6,500 crimes related to coronavirus in that period.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSome 1,137 charges were brought for breaking coronavirus laws, according to the figures published by the CPS - which cover completed prosecutions.\n\nOn Thursday, it was reported that another 1,290 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 in the UK, bringing the total to 94,580.\n\nAnd a further 37,892 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus were announced, bringing the total number of cases in the UK to 3,543,646.\n• None What powers do police have?", "\"I had no idea at all I was going to be charged any more for deliveries after Brexit. The extra costs were definitely a bit of a shock.\"\n\nEllie Huddleston, a 26-year-old Londoner, thought she would treat herself to some new work clothes in the January sales.\n\nHaving spotted a bargain, she placed an order for a coat and a number of blouses from two of her favourite clothes brands based in Europe.\n\nBut both deliveries were delayed, held up in customs checks for at least a week, she says.\n\nShe was surprised when she then received a text from courier company DPD, containing a link asking her to pay £58 in customs duties, VAT and additional charges for her £180 order.\n\nOn top of that, the UPS courier for the second parcel showed up at her door several days later, asking for an extra payment of £82 for her £200 coat.\n\nThese charges, imposed by new government rules, have to be collected by the courier firms on the authorities' behalf.\n\n\"I didn't even know when the parcels would be coming - so I sent both back without paying the extra fees and won't be ordering anything from Europe again any time soon,\" Ellie says.\n\nWhen the UK was part of the European Union's customs union, goods could move freely between the country and other member states without import taxes being charged.\n\nBut Ellie was one of the shoppers caught unaware of the fact that those rules have changed since the UK's official exit.\n\nEU retailers sending packages to the UK now need to fill out customs declaration forms. Shoppers may also have to pay customs or VAT charges, depending on the value of the product and where it came from.\n\nHowever, customs charges are the responsibility of the customer, not the retailer, who often has no idea of how much the eventual extra cost might be.\n\nThey cannot be paid in advance and are levied only when the item reaches the UK.\n\nAnother unhappy customer, Graeme from Manchester, paid £300 to buy two pairs of suede winter boots from a German firm online.\n\n\"You couldn't get them anywhere in the UK, so I had no choice but to order them from Europe,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe next thing he knew, courier UPS had sent him a text message saying he had to pay £147 extra before the boots could be delivered. He paid up, but is still waiting for the goods to arrive.\n\n\"It was virtually impossible to find out what the charges would be beforehand,\" he says, \"so I had to take a shot in the dark.\n\n\"I didn't imagine that it would be half as much again.\"\n\nCourier companies are adding charges to some deliveries from the EU\n\nUnder the new rules, anyone in the UK receiving a gift from the EU worth more than £39 may now face a bill for import VAT - with many items charged at 20%.\n\nFor goods costing more than £135, customs duties may also apply, which can range from 0% to 25% of the product you're buying if they have not been paid by the sender already.\n\nThe extra charges are usually collected by the courier on behalf of the government, with customers asked to pay before they can pick up their package.\n\nSome specialist European retailers, such as bicycle part firm Dutch Bike Bits and Belgium-based Beer On Web, recently said that they would stop all deliveries to the UK because of the VAT changes, which came into force on 1 January.\n\nSome firms have started charging additional \"handling fees\" to shoppers to cover costs associated with extra customs checks and paperwork that must be filled out.\n\nRoyal Mail, for example, is charging an £8 fee it says \"reflects the cost of clearing items through customs and presenting them to Border Force\".\n\nMeanwhile, delivery firm DHL says it is charging UK customers 2.5% of the amount paid to clear customs, with a minimum charge of £11.\n\nMail and freight company TNT is also adding £4.31 on all shipments from the UK to the EU and vice versa. It has said this reflects the increased investment it has had to make in adjusting its systems to cope with Brexit.\n\nA spokeswoman for Logistics UK told the BBC that the handling fees were \"a commercial decision by individual businesses\".\n\nBut Michelle Dale, senior manager at accountants UHY Hacker Young, said that new charges could present a major problem for firms in the coming weeks.\n\n\"I think what we'll find is that a lot of trade with the EU from a business-to-customer perspective will come to a stop until some of these rules are eased,\" she said.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"The new VAT model ensures goods from EU and non-EU countries are treated in the same way and that UK businesses are not disadvantaged by competition from VAT-free imports.\n\n\"The new system also addresses the problem of overseas sellers failing to pay the right amount of VAT when they sell goods in the UK. We anticipate this will bring in £300m in tax every year, to fund essential UK public services.\"\n\nThere is speculation the rules may change, but until they do, Ellie says she won't be buying from European firms.\n\n\"With all that uncertainty around things and whether or not these charges might change, I'd rather just avoid the hassle,\" she says.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHomes have been evacuated as Storm Christoph batters Wales with a three-day rainstorm.\n\nNorth Wales Police were called to help some residents in Ruthin who were being told to leave their homes.\n\nThey tweeted that \"people who do not live locally are driving to the area to 'see the floods'\".\n\nA rain warning issued by the Met Office is in place until midday on Thursday, with an ice warning for parts of north and mid Wales.\n\nSouth Wales fire crews pumped out water from homes in Pontypridd and Porth, in Rhondda, and roads were blocked in Powys and Flintshire.\n\nVehicles were pulled from floods by firefighters in Tenby, Llandovery, Llandeilo and Whitland, Mid and West Wales fire service said.\n\nUp to 20cm (8in) of rain is expected to fall, with the heaviest rain forecast for the north west of Wales.\n\nThere were flood warnings in 58 areas as forecasters warned heavy rain and melting snow could affect roads. There were also 57 flood alerts - meaning flooding is possible.\n\nA yellow warning for ice was issued for the north and parts of mid Wales, starting at 01:00 on Thursday and lasting until 10:00, as rain clears.\n\nA minor landslip was reported on the mountainside above Pentre in Rhondda Cynon Taf. Natural Resources Wales, who have responsibility for the land, said there is no immediate threat after an initial inspection, but the council urged residents to keep away from the area.\n\nThe River Taf at Llanglydwen in Carmarthenshire\n\nFlood warnings are in Carmarthenshire - the River Towy and isolated properties between Llandeilo and Abergwili, the River Gwendraeth Fawr at Pontyates and Ponthenry, the River Hydfron at Llanddowror and the River Taf at Trevaughan in Whitland.\n\nThe other flood warnings cover the River Ely at Peterston-Super-Ely in Vale of Glamorgan, the River Vyrnwy in the Meifod area in Powys, the River Rhyd Hir at Riverside Terrace in Gwynedd, two for the River Wye at Glasbury and Builth Wells, the Lower Dee Valley from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows, the River Dyfi at Pont ar Dyfi, the River Usk from Brecon to Glangrwyne, two at the River Severn at Abermule to Fron and Aberbechan and the River Lower Clydach at Clydach Bridge, Swansea.\n\nIn River Aeron at Aberaeron, in Ceredigion, the River Loughor at Ammanford and Llandybie and the River Wye at Builth Wells, Powys, are also covered by the warning.\n\nA person had to be saved from a car stuck in floodwater in Corwen, Denbighshire, North East Wales Search and Rescue tweeted.\n\nRest centres have been opened in St Asaph and Ruthin after some localised flooding following heavy rainfall throughout the day. Denbighshire council invited affected residents to use the facilities at the towns' main leisure centres.\n\nAnd Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said crews were called to help a motorist whose vehicle had become stuck in 3ft of water in Machynlleth.\n\nThe waters lapped the doors of Ruthin's Ocean Pearl restaurant\n\nIn Broughton, Flintshire, Ray and Jacqui Littler said they and their daughter waited all afternoon for help at their flooded bungalow after emergency services told them they were \"flat out\".\n\nThey eventually decided to leave their home on Main Road, which was under 10 inches of water, to stay with friends.\n\nNeighbours blamed a blocked culvert on the fields opposite the road. Police closed the road at about 16:00 GMT and Flintshire council attended, after three houses were affected, with the gardens of two pensioners' bungalows also under water.\n\nOverflowing banks of the River Usk at Brecon\n\nSouth Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it had been called to two incidents overnight with reports of water entering properties in Pontycymmer in Bridgend and Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent.\n\nOn Wednesday morning, it dealt with flooding at properties in Tyfica Road, Pontypridd, and Trebanog Road in Porth, Rhondda, where a crew was helping residents divert and pump out water.\n\nFirefighters also had to rescue 46 sheep from land surrounded by water at Merthyr Road, Llanfoist, Monmouthshire.\n\nCrews from Abergavenny and Ebbw Vale were called to help the stricken animals near the River Usk.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWater in the grounds of Gwydir Castle in Llanrwst\n\nJudy Corbett, owner of 16th Century Gwydir Castle in Llanrwst, Conwy, which flooded last year, told BBC Radio Wales things were \"looking pretty dire here this morning\".\n\nShe said: \"We've been obviously monitoring the levels overnight so we've had another sleepless night worrying about the weather but the levels are rising and the water is very violent this morning and of course, we've got another a whole day ahead of us.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Sabrina Lee This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSeveral roads have been hit by flooding, including the B5106 between Llanrwst and Trefriw\n\nThe Met Office warned spray and flooding could lead to \"difficult driving conditions and some road closures\" and the downpours could cause delays.\n\nTraffic Wales said restrictions were in place on the M48 Severn Bridge where traffic is coming off eastbound at junction two or westbound at junction one before being directed back on to cross the bridge, which remains open.\n\nIn Flintshire, the A548 Coast Road has been closed at Tan Lan and Mostyn, the A5118 at Padeswood, the A541 between Llong to Pontblyddyn, Bagillt High Street and the B5101 between Treuddyn and Llanfynydd.\n\nThe A485 in Garreg is also closed from the Brondaw Arms to Pont Aberglaslyn.\n\nThe Dyfi Bridge near Machynlleth is closed\n\nIn Powys, the A487 over the Dyfi Bridge, near Machynlleth, is closed while the A458 at Llanfair Caereinion is blocked in both directions from Bridge Street to Guilsfield turn-off because of flooding.\n\nThe A483 in Builth Wells at the station is also closed along with the bridge over the River Wye.\n\nCapel Bangor in Ceredigion has temporary traffic lights on the A44 at Lovesgrove Roundabout due to flooding, which is affecting traffic between Aberystwyth and Llangurig.\n\nIn Bridgend, New Inn Road has been closed in both directions at The Dipping Bridge, affecting traffic between Ewenny village and the A48.\n\nSouth Wales Police warned people not to attempt driving through floodwater after the A4118 at Llanddewi on Gower became blocked.\n\nIn Gwynedd, the council tweeted that Ffordd Siliwen, Bangor, had been closed following a landslip.\n\nA section of the A470 Dolgellau Bypass has also been closed along with the A4085 at Garreg.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNational Rail said some lines between North Llanrwst, Conwy, and Blaenau Ffestiniog in Gwynedd were blocked due to heavy rain while services were also disrupted between Shrewsbury and Machynlleth in Powys.\n\nAlterative road transport will run in place of cancelled services, it said.\n\nThe Met Office said 56mm (2.2in) of rain had fallen at Capel Curig in Snowdonia by 18:00 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nA yellow warning for rain is in place for virtually the whole of Wales until Thursday\n\nForecasters also said fast flowing and deep floodwater \"could cause a danger to life\".\n\nThe Met Office warned flooding could lead to some communities being cut off and possible power cuts.\n\nStrong winds will also follow the torrential rain, with forecasters predicting this may cause \"travelling difficulties across areas higher and more exposed routes\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nPaul Pogba scored a superb winner as Manchester United reclaimed top spot in the Premier League by coming from behind for a club-record equalling away win at Fulham.\n\nIn what is becoming a familiar pattern for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side outside Manchester this season, they fell behind early in the game, with Ademola Lookman beating the offside trap before firing in an angled drive.\n\nBut for the seventh time away from Old Trafford in 2020-21, United found a winning response - taking their run to 17 games unbeaten away in the Premier League - courtesy of a gift from their opponents and a bit of magic from their French midfielder.\n\nGoalkeeper Alphonse Areola has been a good addition for the Cottagers but in dropping Bruno Fernandes' cross at the feet of Edinson Cavani, he gifted his former Paris St-Germain team-mate the simplest of equalisers.\n\nAnd on the hour mark, Pogba stepped up to decide the contest, firing a superb angled drive across the diving Areola and into the far corner from 20 yards.\n\nThe France international has come in for criticism at times this season but received nothing but praise from his manager after his winner.\n\n\"I am very happy with his performances,\" said Solskjaer.\n\n\"I know what he can do. He does everything. Now he is putting all the elements together in his performances and it is great to see.\n\n\"It was about getting him fit. He is enjoying his football, he is happy and physically in a good shape.\"\n\nThe win takes United to 40 points, two more than both Leicester and Manchester City, who had briefly taken top spot from the Foxes with a 2-0 win over Aston Villa on Wednesday.\n\nSolskjaer, though, was reluctant to get drawn into discussing his side's title credentials with so much of the campaign to go.\n\n\"It is always going to be talked about that when you are halfway through and top of the league, but we are not thinking about this, we just have to go one game at a time,\" he added. \"It is such an unpredictable season.\"\n\nFulham remain in the bottom three, four points behind 17th-placed Burnley.\n• None Man Utd or Man City to end day top? Cassia bassist Lou Cotterill takes on Lawro\n\nSolskjaer felt his side missed a big opportunity to fully assert their title credentials in failing to make the most of their chances in Sunday's 0-0 draw at champions Liverpool.\n\nUnited were clearly in no mood to repeat such a mistake at a wet and windy Craven Cottage on Wednesday against a less daunting and defining opposition, but one that is far more robust now than they were in the season's first month.\n\nThe visitors fell behind, but this is par for the course for this side, who once again did not panic, wrestled control of the game away from their opponents and took the win.\n\nIt is a handy trick for a title-challenging side to have in their locker, although one they would rather not have to repeatedly pull.\n\nIn truth, they should have won more handsomely.\n\nThey had the far greater share of possession and territory and were well ahead of their opponents on shots taken until a frantic finale in which the Cottagers threw in all they had in pursuit of a point.\n\nFred felt he should have had a penalty in the first half courtesy of being caught in the box by a loose challenge from Ruben Loftus-Cheek, but both on-field and VAR officials disagreed.\n\nHarry Maguire twice headed wide from corners, the first from a far less forgivable, unmarked position than the second.\n\nEqually, though, it is a game that could have seen them drop points, especially in light of Fulham's late barrage, which saw David de Gea save superbly with his legs to deny Loftus-Cheek, and the ball pinballing around the United box on more than one occasion.\n\nThe Cottagers demonstrated that they are no pushover, but they are making of habit of being on the rough end of fine margins.\n\nFive straight draws followed by two defeats by a single goal suggests their battle against the drop will go right down to the wire.\n\n\"I'm really pleased but I'm disappointed at the same time, which shows how far we've come,\" said Cottagers boss Scott Parker.\n\n\"I saw a team today that looked threatening and tried their hardest to get back into the game, but we go again. The next challenge is to maintain where we are and don't let defeat sink us.\n\n\"No doubt we can win and operate in this division and we just need to push on and keep improving.\"\n\nUnited lead the way in early concessions\n• None No side has conceded more goals in the opening five minutes of Premier League games this season than Manchester United (4). Manchester United have won seven Premier League games having gone behind this season - only Newcastle in 2001-02 (10) and Man Utd themselves in 2012-13 (9) have done so more in a single campaign.\n• None Manchester United are unbeaten in their last 17 Premier League away games (W13 D4), equalling their longest ever unbeaten run on the road in top-flight history (17 between December 1998 and September 1999).\n• None This was the 41st different game in which Fulham had led in all competitions under Scott Parker, but the first time they had lost such a game (W34 D6).\n• None Edinson Cavani became the first Man Utd player whose first four Premier League goals for the club were all scored away from home.\n• None Since his return to the club in 2016, no Man Utd player has scored more league goals from outside the box than Paul Pogba (6).\n• None Ademola Lookman has been involved in more Premier League goals than any other Fulham player this season (6 - 3 goals, 3 assists).\n• None Bruno Fernandes has gone three Premier League games without a goal or assist for the first time since his Manchester United debut in February 2020.\n\nFulham's next game is in the FA Cup, against Burnley on Sunday (14:30 GMT). Their next league fixture, an away game on Wednesday, 27 January, is a big one. Opponents Brighton are two places and five points above them in the table.\n\nManchester United host Liverpool in the FA Cup on Sunday at 17:00, live on the BBC. They are also in league action the following Wednesday hosting the league's bottom club Sheffield United in a 20:15 kick-off.\n• None Attempt missed. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Fulham) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Kenny Tete with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ademola Lookman (Fulham) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mario Lemina.\n• None Offside, Fulham. Aboubakar Kamara tries a through ball, but Kenny Tete is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Mario Lemina (Fulham) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Aboubakar Kamara.\n• None Attempt blocked. Joe Bryan (Fulham) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Fulham) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right following a fast break.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fred (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Harry Maguire with a headed pass. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis is America's day. This is democracy's day. A day of history and hope, of renewal and resolve. Through a crucible for the ages, America has been tested anew and America has risen to the challenge. Today we celebrate the triumph not of a candidate but of a cause, a cause of democracy. The people - the will of the people - has been heard, and the will of the people has been heeded.\n\nWe've learned again that democracy is precious, democracy is fragile and, at this hour my friends, democracy has prevailed. So now on this hallowed ground where just a few days ago violence sought to shake the Capitol's very foundations, we come together as one nation under God - indivisible - to carry out the peaceful transfer of power as we have for more than two centuries.\n\nAs we look ahead in our uniquely American way, restless, bold, optimistic, and set our sights on a nation we know we can be and must be, I thank my predecessors of both parties for their presence here. I thank them from the bottom of my heart. And I know the resilience of our Constitution and the strength, the strength of our nation, as does President Carter, who I spoke with last night who cannot be with us today, but who we salute for his lifetime of service.\n\nI've just taken a sacred oath each of those patriots have taken. The oath first sworn by George Washington. But the American story depends not on any one of us, not on some of us, but on all of us. On we the people who seek a more perfect union. This is a great nation, we are good people. And over the centuries through storm and strife in peace and in war we've come so far. But we still have far to go.\n\nWe'll press forward with speed and urgency for we have much to do in this winter of peril and significant possibility. Much to do, much to heal, much to restore, much to build and much to gain. Few people in our nation's history have been more challenged or found a time more challenging or difficult than the time we're in now. A once in a century virus that silently stalks the country has taken as many lives in one year as in all of World War Two.\n\nMillions of jobs have been lost. Hundreds of thousands of businesses closed. A cry for racial justice, some 400 years in the making, moves us. The dream of justice for all will be deferred no longer. A cry for survival comes from the planet itself, a cry that can't be any more desperate or any more clear now. The rise of political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism, that we must confront and we will defeat.\n\nTo overcome these challenges, to restore the soul and secure the future of America, requires so much more than words. It requires the most elusive of all things in a democracy - unity. Unity. In another January on New Year's Day in 1863 Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. When he put pen to paper the president said, and I quote, 'if my name ever goes down in history, it'll be for this act, and my whole soul is in it'.\n\nMy whole soul is in it today, on this January day. My whole soul is in this. Bringing America together, uniting our people, uniting our nation. And I ask every American to join me in this cause. Uniting to fight the foes we face - anger, resentment and hatred. Extremism, lawlessness, violence, disease, joblessness, and hopelessness.\n\nWith unity we can do great things, important things. We can right wrongs, we can put people to work in good jobs, we can teach our children in safe schools. We can overcome the deadly virus, we can rebuild work, we can rebuild the middle class and make work secure, we can secure racial justice and we can make America once again the leading force for good in the world.\n\nI know speaking of unity can sound to some like a foolish fantasy these days. I know the forces that divide us are deep and they are real. But I also know they are not new. Our history has been a constant struggle between the American ideal, that we are all created equal, and the harsh ugly reality that racism, nativism and fear have torn us apart. The battle is perennial and victory is never secure.\n\nThrough civil war, the Great Depression, World War, 9/11, through struggle, sacrifice, and setback, our better angels have always prevailed. In each of our moments enough of us have come together to carry all of us forward and we can do that now. History, faith and reason show the way. The way of unity.\n\nWe can see each other not as adversaries but as neighbours. We can treat each other with dignity and respect. We can join forces, stop the shouting and lower the temperature. For without unity there is no peace, only bitterness and fury, no progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos. This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge. And unity is the path forward. And we must meet this moment as the United States of America.\n\nIf we do that, I guarantee we will not failed. We have never, ever, ever, ever failed in America when we've acted together. And so today at this time in this place, let's start afresh, all of us. Let's begin to listen to one another again, hear one another, see one another. Show respect to one another. Politics doesn't have to be a raging fire destroying everything in its path. Every disagreement doesn't have to be a cause for total war and we must reject the culture in which facts themselves are manipulated and even manufactured.\n\nMy fellow Americans, we have to be different than this. We have to be better than this and I believe America is so much better than this. Just look around. Here we stand in the shadow of the Capitol dome. As mentioned earlier, completed in the shadow of the Civil War. When the union itself was literally hanging in the balance. We endure, we prevail. Here we stand, looking out on the great Mall, where Dr King spoke of his dream.\n\nHere we stand, where 108 years ago at another inaugural, thousands of protesters tried to block brave women marching for the right to vote. And today we mark the swearing in of the first woman elected to national office, Vice President Kamala Harris. Don't tell me things can't change. Here we stand where heroes who gave the last full measure of devotion rest in eternal peace.\n\nAnd here we stand just days after a riotous mob thought they could use violence to silence the will of the people, to stop the work of our democracy, to drive us from this sacred ground. It did not happen, it will never happen, not today, not tomorrow, not ever. Not ever. To all those who supported our campaign, I'm humbled by the faith you placed in us. To all those who did not support us, let me say this. Hear us out as we move forward. Take a measure of me and my heart.\n\nIf you still disagree, so be it. That's democracy. That's America. The right to dissent peacefully. And the guardrail of our democracy is perhaps our nation's greatest strength. If you hear me clearly, disagreement must not lead to disunion. And I pledge this to you. I will be a President for all Americans, all Americans. And I promise you I will fight for those who did not support me as for those who did.\n\nMany centuries ago, St Augustine - the saint of my church - wrote that a people was a multitude defined by the common objects of their love. Defined by the common objects of their love. What are the common objects we as Americans love, that define us as Americans? I think we know. Opportunity, security, liberty, dignity, respect, honour, and yes, the truth.\n\nRecent weeks and months have taught us a painful lesson. There is truth and there are lies. Lies told for power and for profit. And each of us has a duty and a responsibility as citizens as Americans and especially as leaders. Leaders who are pledged to honour our Constitution to protect our nation. To defend the truth and defeat the lies.\n\nLook, I understand that many of my fellow Americans view the future with fear and trepidation. I understand they worry about their jobs. I understand like their dad they lay in bed at night staring at the ceiling thinking: 'Can I keep my healthcare? Can I pay my mortgage?' Thinking about their families, about what comes next. I promise you, I get it. But the answer's not to turn inward. To retreat into competing factions. Distrusting those who don't look like you, or worship the way you do, who don't get their news from the same source as you do.\n\nWe must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue, rural versus urban, conservative versus liberal. We can do this if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts, if we show a little tolerance and humility, and if we're willing to stand in the other person's shoes, as my mom would say. Just for a moment, stand in their shoes.\n\nBecause here's the thing about life. There's no accounting for what fate will deal you. Some days you need a hand. There are other days when we're called to lend a hand. That's how it has to be, that's what we do for one another. And if we are that way our country will be stronger, more prosperous, more ready for the future. And we can still disagree.\n\nMy fellow Americans, in the work ahead of us we're going to need each other. We need all our strength to persevere through this dark winter. We're entering what may be the darkest and deadliest period of the virus. We must set aside politics and finally face this pandemic as one nation, one nation. And I promise this, as the Bible says, 'Weeping may endure for a night, joy cometh in the morning'. We will get through this together. Together.\n\nLook folks, all my colleagues I serve with in the House and the Senate up here, we all understand the world is watching. Watching all of us today. So here's my message to those beyond our borders. America has been tested and we've come out stronger for it. We will repair our alliances, and engage with the world once again. Not to meet yesterday's challenges but today's and tomorrow's challenges. And we'll lead not merely by the example of our power but the power of our example.\n\nFellow Americans, moms, dads, sons, daughters, friends, neighbours and co-workers. We will honour them by becoming the people and the nation we can and should be. So I ask you let's say a silent prayer for those who lost their lives, those left behind and for our country. Amen.\n\nFolks, it's a time of testing. We face an attack on our democracy, and on truth, a raging virus, a stinging inequity, systemic racism, a climate in crisis, America's role in the world. Any one of these would be enough to challenge us in profound ways. But the fact is we face them all at once, presenting this nation with one of the greatest responsibilities we've had. Now we're going to be tested. Are we going to step up?\n\nIt's time for boldness for there is so much to do. And this is certain, I promise you. We will be judged, you and I, by how we resolve these cascading crises of our era. We will rise to the occasion. Will we master this rare and difficult hour? Will we meet our obligations and pass along a new and better world to our children? I believe we must and I'm sure you do as well. I believe we will, and when we do, we'll write the next great chapter in the history of the United States of America. The American story.\n\nA story that might sound like a song that means a lot to me, it's called American Anthem. And there's one verse that stands out at least for me and it goes like this:\n\n'The work and prayers of centuries have brought us to this day, which shall be our legacy, what will our children say?\n\nLet me know in my heart when my days are through, America, America, I gave my best to you.'\n\nLet us add our own work and prayers to the unfolding story of our great nation. If we do this, then when our days are through, our children and our children's children will say of us: 'They gave their best, they did their duty, they healed a broken land.'\n\nMy fellow Americans I close the day where I began, with a sacred oath. Before God and all of you, I give you my word. I will always level with you. I will defend the Constitution, I'll defend our democracy.\n\nI'll defend America and I will give all - all of you - keep everything I do in your service. Thinking not of power but of possibilities. Not of personal interest but of public good.\n\nAnd together we will write an American story of hope, not fear. Of unity not division, of light not darkness. A story of decency and dignity, love and healing, greatness and goodness. May this be the story that guides us. The story that inspires us. And the story that tells ages yet to come that we answered the call of history, we met the moment. Democracy and hope, truth and justice, did not die on our watch but thrive.\n\nThat America secured liberty at home and stood once again as a beacon to the world. That is what we owe our forbearers, one another, and generations to follow.\n\nSo with purpose and resolve, we turn to those tasks of our time. Sustained by faith, driven by conviction and devoted to one another and the country we love with all our hearts. May God bless America and God protect our troops.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM: It's too early to give a lockdown end date\n\nIt is \"too early\" to say whether England's Covid restrictions will be able to end in the spring, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said.\n\nOnce the four priority groups have been vaccinated, by mid-February, \"we'll look then at how we're doing,\" he said.\n\nNearly two million people in the UK have had their first dose of vaccine in the past week, government figures show.\n\nScientist Marc Baguelin, who advises the government, has said restaurants and bars should not reopen before May.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson has said he \"certainly hopes\" schools in England can fully reopen before Easter, while Downing Street refused to be drawn on whether this would happen by then.\n\nA further 1,290 people have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test and there have been another 37,892 cases, according to the latest government figures.\n\nAnd almost five million people in the UK have had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine.\n\nSpeaking after a study suggested infections might have increased at the start of the latest lockdown in England, Mr Johnson said it was \"absolutely crucial\" that people observed the restrictions.\n\nReferring to figures from the Imperial College London survey, he said they showed the new variant of the virus was \"not more deadly but it is much more contagious and the numbers are very great\".\n\nFigures published by Public Health England show cases - meaning people who come forward to get tested while they are infected - have fallen across England since early January.\n\nWith the two sets of figures pointing in different directions, it will be some time before it is known for sure how long it will take for lockdown to relieve the pressure on hospitals.\n\nDr Baguelin, from Imperial College, who sits on a sub-group of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) said the premature opening of the hospitality sector would lead to a \"bump\" in Covid-19 cases.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme even a partial reopening would generate \"an increase in the R number\". An R number above one means the epidemic is growing.\n\n\"Something of this scale, if it was to happen earlier than May, would generate a bump in transmission, which is already really bad,\" he said.\n\n\"So you have a lot of pressure on hospitals, you will have another wave of some extent. At best you will keep on having very, very unsustainable level of pressure on the NHS.\"\n\nNHS England figures show one in 10 major hospital trusts had no spare adult critical care beds last week.\n\nThis is a debate that is going to start to dominate public discourse.\n\nWith the vaccination programme under way, there is huge clamour to know what will happen once the most vulnerable are vaccinated, by mid-February.\n\nThe problem is there are still so many unknowns.\n\nFirstly, it is hard to predict by how much lockdown will have reduced infection levels, considering there is a new faster-spreading variant to deal with.\n\nThe level of uptake will also be crucial. Surveys suggest as many as one in five may not have the vaccine - although the older, more vulnerable groups tend to be the most willing to be vaccinated.\n\nAnd the fact that no vaccine is 100% effective means come February there could still be significant numbers of very vulnerable people who are not protected.\n\nAnother factor is whether the vaccine stops transmissions - so-called sterilising vaccination.\n\nTrials have shown the vaccines are good at stopping symptoms developing. But that does not mean someone who has received a jab will not pass on the virus.\n\nIf it does not, that, of course, has implications on how many control measures have to be kept in place. It will take us at least until spring to know the answer to this.\n\nAt this stage, it seems hard to see much beyond the possible reopening of schools come March.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was an \"impossible question\" to ask how long the lockdown would need to last.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, coronavirus lockdown restrictions will be extended until 5 March, BBC News understands.\n\nIn Scotland, lockdown has been extended until at least the middle of February, with most school pupils to continue learning from home.\n\nAnd in Wales health minister Vaughan Gething has said no \"significant easing\" of Wales' Covid restrictions should be expected when the current guidelines are reviewed this month.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSir Keir added that the coronavirus vaccines were \"really good news\" but \"should not mask the fact that we have still got a very serious problem\".\n\nThe government is aiming to offer a vaccine to all over-70s, the extremely clinical vulnerable and health and care workers by mid-February.\n\nSixty-five new vaccination centres are opening in England, including a mosque in Birmingham and a cinema in Aylesbury.", "Paddy McElhone was shot in the back by a soldier in 1974\n\nThe shooting dead of a man by the Army in County Tyrone in August 1974 was unjustified, a coroner has ruled.\n\nPaddy McElhone, 24, a farmer, was shot in the back near his home in Limehill, Pomeroy.\n\nAn inquest heard the shot was fired by a soldier from the First Battalion, Royal Regiment of Wales.\n\nJudge Siobhan Keegan said Mr McElhone was an \"innocent man shot in cold blood without warning when he was no threat to anyone\".\n\nThe soldier, now deceased, had been cleared of murder but the circumstances were re-examined in a new inquest ordered by the Attorney General.\n\nPaddy McElhone's family said he was killed without justification, explanation or apology\n\nAfterwards, a statement issued by the McElhone family said it had been a \"very long road\" to reach Thursday's ruling and that the truth \"has been heard\".\n\nIt reads: \"Our family always knew that Paddy was an innocent young man, taken from his home and shot by a British soldier for no reason.\"\n\nEvidence presented to the inquest found Mr McElhone was not on any list associated with the IRA and was an innocent man from a humble background.\n\nThe family said Mr McElhone's parents \"went to their graves broken-hearted knowing that their innocent son had been killed, without justification, explanation or apology\".\n\n\"We feel that, today, Judge Keenan at this inquest has, at long last, exonerated Paddy in full,\" the statement continued.\n\n\"As a family we can grieve Paddy, and respect his memory as an innocent young man.\"\n\nThe inquest into Mr McElhone's death was the first in a series of coroners' investigations into deaths associated with Northern Ireland's Troubles.\n\nIt was held in Omagh courthouse in County Tyrone.", "Nearly nine million people had to borrow more money last year because of the impact of coronavirus, government figures show.\n\nSince June last year, the proportion of workers borrowing £1,000 or more had increased from 35% to 45%, said the Office for National Statistics.\n\nSelf-employed people were more likely than employees to borrow money.\n\nThere was also a large increase in the proportion of disabled people borrowing similar sums, the ONS added.\n\nThis was adding to a \"widening financial gap\" between households.\n\nOverall, young people and low earners have been worst hit by the pandemic, according to the ONS survey.\n\nThose aged under 30 and those with household incomes of less than £10,000 were about 35% and 60% respectively more likely to be furloughed than the population as a whole.\n\nMeanwhile, higher-paid workers were more likely to be on full pay if they were unable to work.\n\nThere has been much focus on a glut of savings ready to be unleashed into the economy when pandemic restrictions are lifted.\n\nThis ONS report shines a light on the reality of this for many ordinary Britons, having to borrow more, amid a hit to incomes during the recession.\n\nDisproportionately this has hit the low paid and the young, and this would have been far worse without the government's support package.\n\nMore homeowners and the over-30s by December expected to be able to save for the year ahead. Fewer renters and under 30s expected to be able to save.\n\nThough the analysis does not include the latest national lockdown, the economic impact of schools closure is also clear.\n\nEmployed parents were twice as likely to experience income loss, though that gap closed when schools reopened. The fear is that this trend will have returned over the past month.\n\nGueorguie Vassilev from the ONS said: \"Many people took a financial hit in the first months of the pandemic, either being furloughed or working fewer hours.\n\n\"What we are seeing now, though, is a widening financial gap between households, where some people are relying on savings or borrowing to make ends meet. Those hardest hit are people on low pay, young people and parents of dependent children.\"\n\nParents living with children were almost twice as likely to report a reduction in income as the rest of the population, the ONS added.\n\nThis gap gradually narrowed throughout the year as schools reopened. Parents were less likely to have a reduced income during the November lockdown than in the first lockdown, as schools stayed open.\n\nHave you needed to borrow a substantial amount of money because of the impact of the pandemic? Tell us your story by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Biden invited Taiwan's envoy to his inauguration - what does it mean?\n\nBiden’s inauguration was marked by many historic “firsts”, and one of them could be a sign of potential future clashes between Beijing and Washington. Bi-khim Hsiao, Taiwan’s top envoy to the US, was formally invited to the inauguration - the first time this has happened in more than four decades. A video shared on her social media shows her standing in front of the US Capitol ahead of the inauguration ceremony. “Democracy is our common language and freedom is our common objective,” Taiwan’s de facto ambassador to the US said. China views the self-ruled island as part of its territory that it will eventually retake, by force if necessary. And the status of Taiwan has long been a thorny issue in US-China relations, as the US is by far Taiwan’s most important friend. Hsiao’s presence at the inauguration signals the US may continue to demonstrate strong support for Taiwan, despite the fact that many Taiwanese people are concerned that Biden will take a less confrontational stance towards Beijing compared with Trump. By contrast, it’s unclear whether China’s ambassador to the US, Cui Tiankai, attended Biden’s inauguration. Earlier today, China’s foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Cui had been invited, but did not confirm whether he was present in the ceremony. Hua reiterated China’s position of opposing official interactions between Taiwan and the US. It’s a long-running unspoken rule that Beijing and Taipei’s top diplomats in Washington do not attend the same event, because sharing a stage could be seen as Beijing acknowledging Taiwan as an independent sovereign country.", "Education Minister Peter Weir says that from an educational point of view, he wants \"to keep the extent to which they [children] are out of school to a minimum\".\n\nBut Mr Weir said that decisions about schools during the Covid-19 pandemic must \"be weighed up against the wider public health advice\".\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Evening Extra programme after it was announced that current restrictions will be extended, Mr Weir said that \"nobody wants to see restrictions last longer than they have to\".\n\nHe said the decision to extend lockdown was taken \"very reluctantly but there is a broad consensus in the executive that these are necessary measures that have to be taken to ensure we remain on top of the virus\".\n\nMr Weir added that schools have operated on a slightly different timetable to the rest of the restrictions, and that next week's discussions will consider keeping them closed until 5 March, in line with decisions taken by ministers today.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. While some young people have found it hard at times, others have learnt new skills\n\nYoung people have been asked to share their experiences of how they have coped during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nChildren's Commissioner for Wales Sally Holland said her national survey was important because sometimes views of younger people can be \"surprising\".\n\nShe said the information provided would also help inform the Welsh Government ahead of some tough decisions it will need to make in the future.\n\nA similar survey was carried out in the first lockdown last year.\n\nA recent Prince's Trust Youth Index survey asked young people across the UK about their thoughts and feelings towards the pandemic.\n\nMore than 2,000 responded including 200 from Wales.\n\nIt found 63% of 16 to 25-year-olds said the pandemic had left them \"always\" or \"often\" feeling anxious - 64% said they were feeling like they were \"missing out on being young\".\n\nBBC Wales spoke to a number of children and young people about their thoughts on a variety of issues including home schooling, loneliness and finding out what they are doing to stay positive.\n\nAngel, 16, from Cardiff, is studying for her GCSEs.\n\n\"I've just been confused a lot of the time. All the information out there and it's really hard to process and get to a point where you're in a mindset where you know what's happening.\n\n\"There's such a high level of uncertainty you're constantly worried or actually doubting what's going to happen next.\n\n\"When you have goals for the future it's something to help you get through this but when you're in the circumstances we're in now, it's really hard to find the motivation and a purpose for what you're doing now.\"\n\nTo try and stay positive Angel has been trying to get out for walks during her school breaks or watch Netflix.\n\nShe said she has also tried to learn some sign-language during lockdown and attempted yoga.\n\nEmrys and Clara have been learning home skills\n\nEmrys, 11, from Bridgend, said he misses not having the structure of a school day and seeing his friends.\n\nHe added: \"I'm a social person. I have friends, I chat with them, I play with them, and it's hard not being with my friends but I mean the family will have to do.\"\n\nHe and his six-year-old sister, Clara, have enjoyed going for walks with their parents and have been learning some new skills including washing dishes, cooking dinner and baking cakes.\n\nMeanwhile, 11-year-old Sophie has found it difficult to not get bored during long periods of time in the house.\n\n\"I'd say I cope OK with it at some points, but then not okay with it at other points,\" she added.\n\nSophie said it can be hard sometimes to find things to do\n\nAlicia is studying for her A-levels and has friends who have dropped out of their studies this year because of the stress and anxiety caused by the uncertainty about exams and their futures.\n\nThe 17-year-old also said it was \"heart-breaking\" not being able to see many of her close friends for almost a year.\n\nShe added: \"My thoughts are, it's less of a luxury now, I need to be able to go out to see them and to work.\"\n\nBefore the pandemic, Sarah, 16, from Swansea enjoyed going to her local youth club and took part in a local drama group but it how now moved online, giving a different experience.\n\n\"It's quite sad because I used to enjoy being able to do those things whenever it was on, but I think I'm getting used to do everything online,\" she said.\n\nAs a person who does not cope very well with not knowing what will happen next, the pandemic has caused anxiety at times for Sarah.\n\n\"I am finding it quite scary but hopefully things will change and I'll be able to go back soon,\" she said.\n\n\"I think if you're really struggling with something, talking really helps so it would be nice to see people in person.\"\n\nChildren's commissioner Sally Holland conducted a survey of pupils in Wales during the first lockdown\n\nChildren's helpline MEIC Cymru said it had seen a 10% increase in the number of calls from young people, parents, and carers during the pandemic compared with previous years.\n\nStephanie Hoffman, Head of Social Action at Promo Cymru, the charity which runs the helpline, said: \"We're seeing what I'd say are many more substantive contacts, so a lot more contact dealing with really serious issues to do with social well-being, mental health and relationships, as opposed to what we might have seen more of in the past.\n\n\"Now we're dealing with situations which can be quite complicated.\"\n\nOf the survey, Ms Holland said: \"We've heard a lot from adults showing concern for children at the moment, such as parents, carers and professionals working with children about the potential impact of the lockdown on children.\n\n\"Those voices are important to hear, but it's also important we hear directly from children and young people because sometimes they can be surprising.\"\n\nWe know that Covid-19 vaccinations have been on people's minds in Wales - with many wanting to know when they or their loved-ones will receive theirs.\n\nIf you have a question about this issue, a story you'd like to share or a query about anything else related to coronavirus, you can sent it to us using the form below.\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "Fashion chain Next has said it will no longer bid to buy Sir Philip Green's Arcadia retail brands Topshop and Topman out of administration.\n\nIt comes after a consortium including the fashion chain was named as frontrunner to buy the brands.\n\nIn a short statement, Next said the consortium had been \"unable to meet the price expectations of the vendor\".\n\nSome 13,000 jobs were put at risk when Arcadia, which also owns Burton and Dorothy Perkins, went bust in November.\n\nIt leaves a clutch of others in the race to buy the 440-store group, including Mike Ashley's Frasers Group, which owns House of Fraser and Sports Direct.\n\nAccording to reports, Authentic Brands, the US owner of the Barneys department store, and JD Sports have tabled a joint offer, while online retailers Asos and Boohoo are also said to be interested.\n\nAdministrators Deloitte have been looking for buyers for some or all of Arcadia, after a slump in sales caused by the pandemic triggered its collapse.\n\nNext, which has 550 UK shops and has weathered the pandemic well, was seen as a good fit to take over the group's assets.\n\nIt had been bidding in partnership with the US hedge fund Davidson Kempner, which was going to put up most of the money.\n\nNext said it wished \"the administrator and future owners [of Arcadia] well in their endeavours to preserve an important part of the UK retail sector\".\n\nExperts expect Arcadia to be broken up, with bidders taking on different parts of the business and brands potentially hived off from their stores.\n\nIn December, Australian collective City Chic said it would buy Arcadia's Evans brand, commerce and wholesale business for £23m but not its store network.\n\nLast year was the worst for the High Street in more than 25 years as the coronavirus accelerated the move towards online shopping, according to the Centre for Retail Research (CRR).\n\nNearly 180,000 retail jobs were lost, up by almost a quarter on the previous year, as shops faced strict curbs and prolonged closures.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool's 68-game unbeaten home run in the Premier League came to an end as Ashley Barnes fired in a late winner from the penalty spot to secure a famous victory for Burnley.\n\nBarnes was tripped in the box by goalkeeper Alisson with seven minutes remaining and converted the spot-kick as Burnley won at Anfield for the first time since 1974.\n\nLiverpool's last league loss on their own ground came nearly four years ago, against Crystal Palace in April 2017, and they are now six points behind leaders Manchester United at the midway point in the campaign.\n\nDivock Origi was given his first start of the season and should have scored when he ran free on goal after pouncing on Ben Mee's error but struck the crossbar.\n\nThe hosts pushed to find the net in the second half but ran out of ideas, Nick Pope making a stunning save to deny Mohamed Salah and fellow substitute Roberto Firmino flicking an effort wide.\n\nBurnley's shock win lifts them up to 16th in the table, seven points clear of the relegation zone.\n• None Klopp takes blame but what has happened to Liverpool?\n\nJurgen Klopp said before the game he was \"not worried\" by his side's poor run, but the latest setback means this has now turned into a real problem for the Liverpool manager.\n\nAfter 19 games, Liverpool are out of form and out of confidence, failing to find the net in their last 440 minutes of top-flight action and awaiting their first league victory of 2021.\n\nThey looked to be hitting their stride on 19 December when they took apart Crystal Palace 7-0, but have not won in the league since and scored just a solitary league goal in that time, against relegation strugglers West Brom.\n\nTheir drop-off from the same stage last season is extraordinary - after 19 games last term the Reds were 13 points clear at the top with 55 points, but they have 21 fewer points now.\n\nAside from Pope's save to thwart Salah and stops from Origi and Trent Alexander-Arnold, Liverpool did not look a side who were threatening to find the net.\n\nThey had 72% possession but much of it was slow and ponderous, and although they had spaces out wide and put 30 crosses into the box, the resolute Burnley defenders headed and hacked clear every ball that came in.\n\nLiverpool won 18 of 19 league games at Anfield as they cantered to the title last term.\n\nBurnley were the spoilers on that occasion - earning a 1-1 draw in July 2020 - and they bettered that showing here with another solid and well-organised display.\n\nCaptain Mee had 14 clearances and made two tackles, while centre-back partner James Tarkowski contributed five interceptions and won the ball back four times.\n\nBurnley are a well-drilled outfit and know their limitations, happy to sit back and soak up the pressure before looking to take their chances on the counter-attack.\n\nThey had sniffs on the break but were unable to get the final ball right and while Barnes forced an excellent save out of Alisson, the assistant referee's flag would have ruled it out.\n\nThey remain the lowest scorers in the league with just 10 goals - level with bottom side Sheffield United - but their defensive solidity means they will always pose a threat, even to the biggest teams.\n\n'We dealt with the basics' - manager reaction\n\nBurnley boss Sean Dyche to Match of the Day: \"Performance, we had to work very hard, as you do in these places, be diligent and do your jobs - shape was good, energy was good.\n\n\"We had a golden chance, kept searching, but you have to deal with the basics and we did that very well.\n\n\"We were close last year, you get a feel of a performance and I said 'you are used to playing against these players, working without the ball, there's always a chance and you have to take it'. Barnsey sticks it in there, gets a toe, it's a penalty and he sticks it away very well.\"\n• None This was Burnley's second Premier League win away against the reigning champions (also v Chelsea in August 2017). Indeed, since the 2017-18 season, Burnley are the only side with two away league wins over the reigning English champions.\n• None Liverpool have gone four league games without scoring for the first time since May 2000. The Reds have had a total of 87 shots since Sadio Mane's 12th-minute strike against West Brom, 25 days ago.\n• None This is the first time a Jurgen Klopp side has gone four league games without scoring since his Mainz side did so in the Bundesliga from November to December 2006.\n• None Liverpool have gone five Premier League games without a win (D3 L2) for only the second time under Klopp (also from Jan-Feb 2017).\n• None Liverpool have conceded two penalty goals at Anfield in this season's Premier League (also Sander Berge for Sheff Utd); they had only conceded two penalty goals at the ground under Klopp before 2020-21.\n• None Liverpool had 27 shots without scoring against Burnley, the most they have had in a single league match without finding the net since April 2013 v Reading (28), and most at Anfield since April 2012 v West Brom (30).\n• None Ashley Barnes' penalty for Burnley was his first away goal in the Premier League in 11 appearances on the road, since netting against Watford back in November 2019.\n• None Since the start of last season, no goalkeeper has made more saves against a single opponent in the Premier League than Burnley's Nick Pope against Liverpool (19). Pope has made 14 saves in his last two games at Anfield, including six tonight.\n\nLiverpool have another big game on Sunday against rivals Manchester United in the FA Cup. That game is live on the BBC (17:00 GMT). Burnley travel to Fulham in the same competition on the same day (14:30).\n• None Offside, Burnley. Dwight McNeil tries a through ball, but Chris Wood is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Takumi Minamino (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Dwight McNeil (Burnley) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Ashley Barnes.\n• None Attempt blocked. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Trent Alexander-Arnold.\n• None Attempt missed. Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Sadio Mané with a cross.\n• None Joel Matip (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Sadio Mané.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 0, Burnley 1. Ashley Barnes (Burnley) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Penalty conceded by Alisson (Liverpool) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt blocked. Sadio Mané (Liverpool) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Andrew Robertson. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "There is a photograph of Kamala Harris, taken in 1986, while she was a student at Howard University.\n\nShe and two other friends, all shoulder pads and plaid, are smiling and laughing, a crowd behind them. It's a picture brimming with energy and hope.\n\nIt's been used a lot in telling the extraordinary story of her rise to become the first black and Asian American woman to be vice-president and the first person who attended one of America's HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) to get to such a position.\n\nBut this is the story of the other women in the photograph, her two best friends - Valarie Pippen and Karen Gibbs - as well as of others who might have been milling about in the background there.\n\nThis was the 1980s, when the children of America's civil rights generation came of age. Being at Howard University, an HBCU at a time when solidarity with the global anti-apartheid movement was reaching fever pitch and at the height of Reaganism, was a formative experience for many of them.\n\nNow they are about to witness one of their own become vice-president. What have their journeys been like and what does this moment feel like?\n\nHistorically Black Colleges, like Howard University, were founded in order to educate African Americans who were otherwise prohibited from attending college, after slavery.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAlthough that has now changed, a core part of the Howard message remains its focus on cultivating black leaders - it is not just about academic achievement, but social activism too.\n\nKamala Harris has made clear the influence Howard University had on her career and life goals. Last week, on the anniversary of her sorority's founding date, she posted on Instagram, paying homage to her Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, and referring to her days at Howard, attending anti-apartheid marches and being part of the debate team: \"Howard taught me that while you will often find that you're the only one in the room who looks like you, or who has had the experiences you've had, you must remember: you are never alone.\"\n\nLike Ms Harris, I also went to Howard University and became a member of that same sorority decades later.\n\nI became intrigued by the stories of the other women and graduates who ventured out into the same world during the same time as Kamala.\n\nIn that photograph, Valarie Pippen is on the right and smiling with confidence at the camera.\n\nHer parents attended historically black colleges after moving north with the great migration, which was the movement over decades of millions of African Americans to the North from the South, where economic uncertainty and segregation prevailed. They settled in the Chicago region and forged successful careers.\n\nShe was led to Howard, specifically, after her older brother attended and brought home a yearbook that intrigued her.\n\nHoward had a festive celebratory atmosphere that the friends made the most of while they were there\n\n\"The culture was festive and lively yet focused on academic and cultural advancement of oppressed people,\" says Ms Pippen. \"We knew that our generation would make a difference with our success.\"\n\nMs Pippen says that at Howard University \"we all had more of a striving to do well, a striving to live with integrity and to make your mark on the world\".\n\nComing from a high-achieving and proud black family with high expectations of their children, she was brought up knowing that her college experience was going to be important.\n\nShe is now a healthcare consultant, and after graduating from Howard she attended medical school at Yale.\n\nShe recalls the commitment to academic excellence, the need to prove your worth out there in the world and how that also translated into many nights studying with her good friend Kamala.\n\n\"There was one year at Howard, we both stayed for summer school. We worked during the day, did night classes and we studied together afterwards. We did that for the whole summer and we had fun.\n\n\"She was born for the job. Her dedication - like mine - was to academics, being an all around good person and to integrity.\"\n\nIn the 1990s, 52% of black pharmacy recipients, 30% of dentistry degree recipients, and 27% of theology degree recipients were all educated at HBCUs.\n\nToday, the two oldest HBCU medical schools - Meharry Medical College and Howard University - are responsible for more than 80% of black doctors and dentists practising in the US.\n\nHBCUs have educated three-quarters of all black people holding a doctorate; three-quarters of all black officers in the armed forces; and four-fifths of all black federal judges, according to the US Department of Education.\n\nThe culture they fostered was hugely important for many ambitious and successful middle- and upper-class class black families going out into a world to become leaders in their field, within one generation of getting the right to vote.\n\nKaren Gibbs, pictured on the left in that photo, remains best friends with the vice-president elect and Valarie Pippen.\n\nShe is now an attorney and speaks of her time at Howard in the same way Kamala Harris has in the past.\n\nThere was \"a lot of black pride and a lot of black love\" in the Howard community, says Ms Gibbs.\n\n\"We had black professors who loved us. That was the beauty of going to Howard. They nurtured us, they groomed us. They were realistic to tell us what we would confront when we left Howard - but they equipped us to realise and achieve our dreams.\"\n\nThat environment was especially important as an escape from the realities of society.\n\n\"I was raised in a rural area in Delaware, and the people there were really racist. I had been called bad names by a lot of people, despite having a black family and smaller community filled with educators and proud of their roots,\" says Ms Gibbs.\n\nThat is one of the reasons that she wanted to attend Howard University, to become a civil rights lawyer. She made the move so that she could be surrounded by \"love\" and \"support\".\n\n\"It was never a matter if I would go to an HBCU,\" it was just a matter of which she would go to.\n\nMs Gibbs and Ms Pippen's experience at Howard University strikes a chord with others who were also there in the 1980s.\n\nThey speak of the open fostering of social awareness and political activism in movements happening off campus.\n\nBeing in the nation's capital, Howard in particular had a front-row seat to some memorable episodes in politics.\n\nThe debate team in 1981 at Howard University. Kamala Harris was one of the few women to join the club.\n\nDexter Cole, a Howard alumnus and now top executive at TV One, told the BBC that \"our parents actively participated in the civil rights movements and were at the forefront, and we came to Howard with a sense of commitment to not only improve the lives of ourselves, but others as well\".\n\nAcross the nation, HBCUs were training a generation who would have a large impact on the world, and the progression of the broader African-American community.\n\n\"We understood that we were agents of change.\"\n\nMr Cole explained that \"social unrest was very prevalent, but as a student body we knew that we had a seat at the table because of those we saw who went before us\".\n\n\"I remember marching on Capitol Hill on the National Mall. There was a group of students going to protest to make Martin Luther King Jr's birthday a national holiday, and now I look there is a memorial just where I marched.\n\n\"We knew what our rights were and we were determined to invoke our right. That's why there were so many of us active in the anti-apartheid movement - we saw it play out in the US,\" says Ms Gibbs.\n\n\"It was a time when a lot of people from the era transcended into important places in different parts of society,\" says Lita Rosario-Richardson.\n\nMs Rosario-Richardson is currently an entertainment lawyer. On campus, she recruited Ms Harris on to the debate team.\n\n\"The election of Kamala Harris has really made crystal clear that Howard prepares you for anything,\" she adds.\n\nAlthough it is no surprise to those who knew Kamala Harris that she is now the vice-president of the United States, it feels like a vindication for their own personal journeys and the philosophy they took forward with them into the wider world.\n\n\"It was instilled that with your education comes a responsibility to improve the world - specifically our own people. And, we see that that has benefited everyone in America.\n\n\"Kamala is a child of desegregation, like myself. Her nomination seemed historically fit, and she's the right person for it,\" Ms Rosario-Richardson adds.\n\nDexter Cole is now a top executive at TV One\n\n\"Alumni like Thurgood Marshall - the first black Supreme Court Justice - who attended Howard laid the framework.\"\n\nEven during their time as students, these alumni felt that they were connected to greatness and expected to make big strides in the world.\n\nIt was not a feeling confined to Kamala Harris. The stories of these women show many have become movers and shakers in their own fields.\n\n\"All this has come full circle,\" says Andrea Holmes, a graduate who is now a marketing executive.\n\n\"The vice-presidency is where she belongs. She is the role model of the world and to all women and little girls.\"\n\nThe original photograph of Kamala, Valarie and Karen was taken in 1986 at Howard University's famous Homecoming.\n\nAt most schools in the US, homecoming is an annual tradition marked by an American football game and partying. At Howard University, homecoming is marked by a football game as well as a week of events where all generations come back to meet and celebrate. Notable graduates as well as celebrities and artists come to perform, join discussions, and be part of the week.\n\nAs a graduate, I know Homecoming remains a highly anticipated annual event, an experience like no other. That picture captures the energy, friendship and ambition of a group of women, at Howard in an electric era, who felt capable of anything.\n\nValarie Pippen remembers the moment: \"The weekend was truly exhilarating, and you can see from the looks and smiles on our faces we were having the time of our lives.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 2,000 homes in parts of Manchester are being evacuated due to flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nThe Environment Agency (EA) has issued two severe flood warnings, which means danger to life, for the Didsbury and Northenden areas.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Nick Bailey of Greater Manchester Police has warned some of those affected would \"be Covid-positive or isolating at home\".\n\nHe said the government was working to ensure it was \"totally prepared\" for floods \"in every part of the UK\".\n\nA major incident was earlier declared for the Greater Manchester area where up to 3,000 properties were feared to be at risk.\n\nMr Johnson urged people not to stay in their homes if they were told to evacuate.\n\n\"If you are told to leave your home then you should do so.\n\n\"People may think this is a minor issue at the moment, still relevantly minor by standards of previous floods, but never underestimate the suffering, the misery, that floods can cause people.\"\n\nUnder government restrictions due to the current national lockdown people are allowed to leave their homes to escape harm.\n\nIn an alert to those affected, ACC Bailey said: \"A basin at Didsbury to take water from the Mersey is full. It will over-top in the next few hours. As a result we will be issuing a flood warning to homes.\n\n\"This will be through texted flood alerts to some people, and police officers, PCSOs, firefighters, and volunteers will be knocking on doors.\"\n\nHe said police will be supported by North West Ambulance, the British Red Cross and St John Ambulance.\n\n\"I think it's important to stress that if you are contacted and advised to evacuate then we would strongly urge you to do so,\" he added.\n\nWater levels in the area were expected to peak at about 23:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nA major incident has also been declared in Derbyshire, where authorities believe a small number of evacuations are \"likely\" on Thursday morning, when the River Derwent is expected to peak.\n\nCounty council leader Barry Lewis said it could rival levels seen in November 2019, depending on the weather overnight.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM says the government is making sure it is “totally prepared in every part of the UK” for flooding after Storm Christoph.\n\nSpeaking after a Cobra emergency meeting on Wednesday, Mr Johnson said work was under way to ensure transport and energy networks, and local council services, were prepared.\n\nHe added that work was also taking place to ensure the necessary numbers of sandbags were available.\n\n\"We want to make sure that we are totally prepared in every part of the UK for flooding, because it is coming on top of the stress people are already under fighting Covid,\" he said.\n\n\"We looked at particularly Manchester, we've got a situation potentially developing there,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"We are looking at a pattern of rainfall possibly not as bad at the end of this week, maybe worse next week.\"\n\nPeople in Greater Manchester have also been advised not to travel.\n\nStephen Rhodes, from Transport from Greater Manchester, said there was disruption across the network.\n\n\"Let's work together and not put our emergency services and the NHS - who are already working extremely hard due to the Covid-19 pandemic - under any more pressure,\" he said.\n\nIn Merseyside, the M57 has been closed in both directions between junction 6 and 7 due to flooding.\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued more than 100 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected and immediate action required, while there are also more than 200 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible.\n\nRiver levels have risen rapidly in parts of northern England\n\nThe North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands have been preparing for widespread flooding following the Met Office's amber weather warning for heavy rain until midday Thursday.\n\nThe Met Office said some isolated areas could see up to 200mm (7.8in).\n\nSandbags have been distributed as Storm Christoph batters parts of England\n\n\"Once again the government's response to inevitable flood events has been slow and uncoordinated,\" the Barnsley East MP said.\n\n\"We must ensure councils are supported to protect people, businesses, and local communities, and that all of the necessary precautions are also in place to protect those fighting the floods in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sheila Evans was among those to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine at the Al Abbas Mosque in Birmingham\n\nNearly two million people in the UK have received their first dose of a Covid vaccine in the past week, government figures show.\n\nBy the end of Tuesday 4.61 million people had received their initial jab, up from 2.64 million the week before.\n\nBut Boris Johnson warned there were \"unquestionably going to be a tough few weeks\" while the vaccine was rolled out and urged people to observe lockdown.\n\nSpeaking during a visit to flood-hit Didsbury in Manchester, the prime minister said it was still \"too early\" to say when some lockdown restrictions could be lifted in England.\n\nHe said figures from an Imperial College London survey showed the new variant of the virus to be \"not more deadly but it is much more contagious and the numbers are very great\".\n\nThe study suggests there was a rise in infections in the community at the start of the latest lockdown in England.\n\nMeanwhile, NHS England figures show one in 10 major hospital trusts had no spare adult critical care beds last week.\n\nThe UK recorded another all-time high of daily coronavirus deaths on Wednesday. A further 1,820 people died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, according to government figures - taking the total number of deaths by that measure to 93,290.\n\nSixty-five new vaccination centres have opened in England, including a mosque in Birmingham and a cinema in Aylesbury.\n\nTwo million jabs a week are needed for the government to achieve its target of offering a vaccine to all over 70s, the extremely clinical vulnerable and health and care workers by mid-February.\n\nGiving a statement in the Commons, Health Secretary Mr Hancock said the country had an \"immense infrastructure in place that, day by day, is protecting the vulnerable and giving hope to us all\".\n\nDescribing this as a \"huge feat\", he said the government was making \"good progress\" towards its target.\n\nAsked about difficulties in getting vaccines to rural areas and whether the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine could be prioritised for these as it is easier to store, Mr Hancock said the challenge was that supply was \"lumpy\", with manufacturers working \"as fast as possible\".\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said new variants of the virus showed vaccination needed to go \"further and faster\".\n\nHe asked if there was a contingency plan in place in case vaccines needed to be redesigned to contain mutations.\n\nMr Hancock said the early indications were that the new variant was dealt with by the vaccine \"just as much as the old variant\".\n\nHe also said 63% of residents in elderly care homes had now received a vaccine.\n\nFormer Conservative health secretary Jeremy Hunt, who is now chairman of the Common's Health Select Committee, asked about establishing \"quarantine hotels\" to combat new strains, as well as whether there should be further restrictions on household mixing outside bubbles and mandating FFP2 masks in shops and on public transport.\n\nMr Hancock said the clinical advice was that the current guidelines on personal protective equipment (PPE) were \"right and appropriate\" and said \"very significant measures\" had been brought in for international travel.\n\nIn Northern Ireland more than 160,000 people have received a first vaccine dose, while in Wales, where more than 175,000 people have received a jab, people waiting for theirs have been urged to show \"patience\" and \"perspective\".\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon insisted her country's vaccine programme was not lagging behind, during First Minister's Questions on Wednesday.\n\nIn England the rollout of the vaccine started with people aged 80 and over. In some regions where the majority of these have been vaccinated, the programmes are now moving on to the over 70s.\n\nHome Secretary Priri Patel, who will lead a Downing Street press conference later, said ministers were working to ensure police and other front-line workers are moved up the priority list, while Education Secretary Gavin Williamson told BBC Breakfast he hoped teachers and support staff could be moved up the list.\n\nMeanwhile, pumps and sandbags were brought in to protect supplies of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from the risk of flood water at a warehouse in Wrexham, north-east Wales.\n\nYoung people in Wales have been asked to share their experiences of the pandemic in a survey by the nation's Children's Commissioner.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned there will be \"tough weeks to come\" as the UK reported another all-time high of daily coronavirus deaths.\n\nA further 1,820 people have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, according to government figures.\n\nIt means the total number of deaths by that measure is now 93,290.\n\nMr Johnson said there was now a \"race against time\" to vaccinate the vulnerable but he hoped there would be a \"real difference\" by spring.\n\nIn an interview with broadcasters, he said the high number of deaths was \"appalling\" and a reflection of the peak infection rates seen a couple of weeks ago.\n\nHe said: \"I must warn people there will be tough weeks to come, but as the vaccine goes in and that programme accelerates, there will be, I think, a real difference by spring.\"\n\nJust under half of the newly reported deaths occurred on Tuesday, while a further quarter took place on Monday or Sunday with the remainder last week or even earlier.\n\nThe previous highest number of daily deaths was the 1,610 reported on Tuesday.\n\nSome 4,609,740 people have now received the first dose of a vaccine - a rise of 343,163 from yesterday.\n\nThere were also a further 38,905 cases, with 3,887 more patients admitted into hospital.\n\nIt is the second consecutive day deaths have hit a new high.\n\nThat, sadly, was to be expected as it is a reflection of the surge in cases seen during December.\n\nIt takes a week or two from the point of infection for someone to become seriously ill - and they can then spend some time in hospital. The high number is also a result of delays reporting deaths - a quarter happened last week or even before.\n\nBut make no mistake the death toll is going up. If you look at the average over the course of a week, the numbers being reported at the moment are twice what they were just two weeks ago.\n\nHowever, we also know they should soon start coming down. Daily infections are falling, with signs lockdown is taking effect. For four days in a row new diagnoses have been below 40,000 - after averaging 60,000 at the start of year.\n\nIt could be another week or so before we start to see the impact of that in the death figures. The hope then would be that within a few weeks we could start seeing a more rapid fall as the impact of the vaccination programme begins to bite.\n\nBut before that happens the daily totals reported could, sadly, go even higher.\n\nNew coronavirus cases are down by 21.5% over the last seven days. But the number of patients being admitted into hospital in the same period has not yet fallen (up by 0.5%).\n\nThe prime minister said it looked as though infection rates across the country overall might now be peaking or flattening, but he cautioned that \"they're not flattening very fast\".\n\nAsked if daily deaths would continue to rise, he said it was \"difficult to predict\".\n\nHe added: \"We must hope that by getting the numbers of daily infections down in the way that perhaps has been happening since the lockdown that will feed through into a reduction in deaths as well.\n\n\"But I must stress that we have tough weeks to come now as we roll out the vaccine.\n\n\"The light will only really begin to dawn as we get those vaccination numbers up.\"\n\nEarlier, the government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, told Sky News: \"This is very, very bad at the moment, with enormous pressure, and in some cases it looks like a war zone in terms of the things that people are having to deal with.\"\n\nHe said there was \"light at the end of the tunnel\" in the form of the vaccination programme.\n\nBut he said vaccines were \"not going to do the heavy lifting for us at the moment, anywhere near it\".\n\nMilitary personnel are going to be deployed to a number of hospitals to help staff cope with high numbers of cases, including in Northern Ireland and Exeter.\n\nAnd this week 10 hospital trusts across England consistently reported having no spare adult critical care beds.\n\nIn other developments, Home Secretary Priti Patel said ministers were working to ensure police and other frontline workers were moved up the priority list for the Covid vaccine.\n\nMr Johnson said the government must rely on advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, but wanted front-line workers to be immunised \"as soon as possible\".\n\nHe also said the vaccination programme remained \"on track\" despite \"constraints on supply\".", "Politicians in pearls, the colour purple and warm woollen mittens - these are just a few of Washington's favourite things from the 2021 Inauguration.\n\nWith America's leaders in the spotlight on the inauguration - and world - stage, sometimes what they wear can say more than their speeches.\n\nDC-based fashion consultant Lauren Rothman says Americans have always taken an interest in what political leaders don for inaugural celebrations. And in 2021, with an ongoing pandemic and economic crisis as well as the swearing-in of the first female vice-president, things feel \"even more loaded\".\n\nIt's all about optics for the politically fashion-minded, says Ms Rothman, who helps style politicians for events including inaugurations past.\n\nSo let's see how outspoken this year's inauguration crowd really was, from the Bidens to Bernie Sanders - with a little help from some real fashion experts.\n\nVice-President Kamala Harris' purple ensemble has already made an impact.\n\n\"Symbolically, it's a bipartisan colour because it marries [Republican] red and [Democratic] blue,\" says Ms Rothman, noting a number of elected officials or spouses had opted for purple today.\n\nBut that's not the only reason purple has a special place for US women in politics. The suffragettes often wore the colour in the 1900s while campaigning for women's right to vote.\n\nProfessor Elka Stevens, coordinator of the fashion design programme at Howard University, also notes it's a colour of significance in the black community - one tied to the Christian experience as well. Ms Harris' pearl necklace also made reference to a tradition in her Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the oldest all-black sorority in the US.\n\nAdd it all up and Ms Harris' choice of pearls and a purple sharp-cut Christopher John Rogers coat was \"an excellent first building block on what the legacy is of how to look like a woman in power\", Ms Rothman says.\n\nBoth Mrs Biden and Ms Harris also took care to choose emerging US brands for their inaugural looks. Ms Harris' outfit, from head-to-toe, showed off African-American designers.\n\nAnd we can't forget Doug Emhoff either, America's \"first second gentleman\".\n\n\"He chose to do everything that he should, which is to not distract and perfectly fit in,\" says Rothman.\n\nWe can't discuss political fashion without bringing up Michelle Obama.\n\nHer purple Sergio Hudson sweater and palazzo pants plus coat look, along with perfectly curled hair, did not disappoint fans of the former first lady.\n\n\"It's a different dress code and different expectation for women who are first ladies versus people who aren't, like women who are elected,\" says Ms Rothman.\n\nFrom baring her arms to wearing both high-end and High Street fashion, Mrs Obama was \"legacy-making\" in a way that hearkened back to Nancy Reagan and Jackie Kennedy, Ms Rothman says.\n\nShe also put many \"independent and ethnic American designers\" on the map during her eight years in the White House.\n\nNewly former First Lady Melania Trump, too, had a clear style, often spotted in sleek looks from well-known brands (think Chanel, Hermès).\n\nOne of her favourite designers was French-American Hervé Pierre, but Prof Stevens also notes she faced a challenge dressing all-American as many US labels said they would not dress her.\n\nFor her final look of the day, Melania swapped out the all-black suit she left the White House in for a Gucci dress with a bold orange print.\n\n\"The curtain is down and she's onto the next phase of her life,\" says Ms Rothman of the sharp contrast. \"I think that's what she's using her clothing to signal: that DC is over.\n\nHe may not win the best-dressed award any time soon, but veteran Senator Bernie Sanders certainly won Twitter with his extra large mittens.\n\nMr Sanders' pair of eye-catching woolly mittens were given to him two years ago by a Vermont schoolteacher who made them from repurposed sweaters and recycled plastic bottles. Those, coupled with a snap of him alone in a crossed-arm pose, made for prime meme fodder.\n\n\"What we love about it is that it's so authentically Bernie,\" says Ms Rothman.\n\nWhen asked for his thoughts on all the stir his inauguration look caused, Mr Sanders simply said: \"In Vermont we dress warm...and we're not so concerned about good fashion. We want to keep warm. And that's what I did today.\"\n\nInauguration 2021 featured performances from Jennifer Lopez (in a crisp white ensemble) and Lady Gaga.\n\nBut it was Gaga's custom black-and-red Schiaparelli gown that stole the show or, more specifically, the large golden dove-shaped brooch she wore atop it.\n\nAside from the Hunger Games comparisons, the almost operatic outfit served another fun purpose in Ms Rothman's eyes.\n\n\"She brought the inaugural ball to the stage in a year where you're not going to get all of the dress up, the ball gowns that we have come to look at and adore and criticise.\"\n\nYouth poet laureate Amanda Gorman was another star on today's stage.\n\nThe self-described \"skinny black girl, descended from slaves and raised by a single mother\", touched on many heavy themes in her verses, but her outfit was a breath of fresh air.\n\nYellow is a colour of hope, energy, light. And her bright red Prada headband was a bold complement. To Prof Stevens, it was almost crown-like.\n\n\"It also honed attention on her hair, because no one else had that particular hairstyle. And we know that hair can be political as well.\"\n\nOur last noteworthy youthful garb of the day was Ella Emhoff, stepdaughter to the vice-president.\n\nHer dainty white collar atop a bejewelled plaid Miu Miu coat was particularly striking - or in the words of Teen Vogue, \"just *chef's kiss*\" - and to Prof Stevens, reminiscent of late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.\n\n\"I really thought about our democracy, justice, the collars [Ginsburg] wore and the messages she would send. I think this was [also] an ode to femininity.\"\n\nAnd as for her brother Cole's look? Prof Stevens' takeaway was: \"You need some gloves, young man.\"\n\nAnd last but not least, let's consider the new president and first lady.\n\nProf Stevens says the political dress mirrored a desire to project comfort and to reassure the nation that US democracy is safe and its way of life is \"going back to something familiar\" despite Covid-19.\n\nThere may not have been anything ground-breaking in Mr Biden's Ralph Lauren suit; perhaps the more interesting aspect is the way he wore it.\n\n\"As a Washington insider he's been wearing suits for decades,\" says Ms Rothman. \"He showed that he knows what works.\"\n\nAlso notable with both Biden's ensembles today: the colour blue. Prof Stevens notes that blue is recognised as a colour of trustworthiness; of stability; of confidence, especially for men.\n\nAs for Jill Biden's custom-made, Swarovski-crystal-accented aquamarine coat from the up-and-coming New York Makarian label?\n\nBoth Prof Stevens and Ms Rothman say it signalled responsibility and modesty.\n\n\"We already know [the Bidens] are very united, but it signalled that they're here and ready to do the work,\" Ms Rothman says.", "More than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed\n\nMembers of the military are to be brought in to help medical staff in Northern Ireland in the fight against Covid-19.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann has asked the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to help out, primarily at a number of hospitals across NI.\n\nMore than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed.\n\nThose brought in will assist nursing staff and help on the wards in a move designed to ease the pressure on staff.\n\nIn the past, the use of the military in Northern Ireland has provoked controversy.\n\nWhile military help has already been used during the pandemic to transport equipment and patients, this is the first time military staff will be used in hospitals.\n\nIt is thought the first military staff will be made available as early as next week.\n\nMr Swann said it would have been an abdication of responsibility if he did not avail of help from the military.\n\nHe said while coronavirus cases were lower than two weeks ago, the challenge posed remained \"intense\" and intensive care pressures were expected to increase further in the next eight to 10 days.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe confirmed that a request for military assistance for NI's health service had been accepted by the MoD.\n\nThe health minister thanked the MoD for the Military Aid to the Civil Authorities agreement, which is being provided in other UK regions.\n\n\"The armed forces have provided invaluable support in this pandemic, including aeromedical evacuation, real-estate and ongoing logistical planning,\" he said.\n\n\"Our hospitals are under immense pressure and an additional staffing complement will be very welcome on the front line.\n\n\"This is a health decision and I am confident it will be supported on that basis.\"\n\nNI Secretary Brandon Lewis tweeted: \"Battling #COVID19 is a national effort. I'm pleased that 110 medically-trained personnel from our Armed Forces will support health and social care teams across Northern Ireland in their vital work on the frontline against coronavirus.\"\n\nThe move has been welcomed by the Democratic Unionist Party.\n\nWhen it was announced last April that the health minster had made requests for military help, Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill said Mr Swann had taken that decision unilaterally.\n\nHowever, she later said her party would not rule out any measure necessary to save lives.\n\nReacting to the latest request for help, Sinn Féin said its priority throughout the pandemic had been to save lives, keep people safe and protect the health service.\n\n\"The Minister of Health has made a request for staffing support from the British Ministry of Defence,\" the party said.\n\n\"We do not rule out any measures to do so, and any effort to make the threat posed by Covid-19 into a green and orange issue is divisive and a distraction.\"\n\nAs of Wednesday, there were 832 people in hospital in Northern Ireland with coronavirus, of whom 67 were in intensive care, with 57 ventilated.\n\nA further 22 people with coronavirus died, bringing the Department of Health's total to 1,671 while there were 905 new cases.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 61 new Covid-19-related deaths were recorded on Wednesday, bringing the country's death toll to 2,768.\n\nA further 2,488 new cases of the virus were also confirmed by the Irish Department for Health.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's press briefing on Wednesday, Mr Swann confirmed the executive would review the current lockdown regulations on Thursday.\n\nNorthern Ireland began a six-week lockdown on 26 December, in a bid to bring the virus under control.\n\nMinisters promised to review the regulations after four weeks.\n\nMr Swann said he would not pre-empt the outcome of Thursday's meeting but confirmed he would bring recommendations from his officials to the meeting.\n\n\"This is not the time to open floodgates or take premature decisions that would lead to another spike in cases,\" he added.\n\n\"We must stay the course.\"\n\nThe minister also provided the latest update on the number of vaccinations - 160,396 doses have now been administered in NI, with 21,690 of those second doses.\n\nHe said he understood the frustration of some people that they were still waiting to hear when their elderly or vulnerable relatives would receive their vaccine, but he urged patience.\n\n\"We cannot go faster than supplies allow,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Relatives of some older people in Wales called the vaccinations \"poorly organised\"\n\nA housebound 84-year-old woman said she was told she may have to wait up to two months to have her coronavirus vaccine if she could not get to her GP surgery.\n\nStuart Wilson said his mother Julia was immobile and she required two people with a hoist to get her up.\n\nHe said her surgery in Sketty, Swansea, called on Tuesday offering a jab but they were told it would take time to arrange a house visit.\n\nWelsh Government said a mobile service could take a jab to the housebound.\n\nDr Chris Johns, from Sketty Medical Centre, said: \"I can give assurances that no housebound patient is being asked to wait this long for their vaccination.\n\n\"This is a massive undertaking by GPs and we would ask older patients, if they are mobile, to attend one of our vaccination clinics instead.\"\n\nHe said teams have already made close to 200 house calls to vaccinate those unable to come to the surgery and over the next few weeks GPs would continue to go to patients' homes \"where necessary\".\n\nMore than 175,000 vaccines have been administered across Wales so far.\n\nUnder Welsh Government plans, the goal is for everyone over the age of 70 to be offered a vaccination by mid-February.\n\nMr Wilson said the call left his mother \"concerned and distressed\" so with her permission he spoke to the GP surgery himself.\n\nShe has been with the surgery, which is the Sketty branch of Sketty and Killay Surgeries, for about five years, and they are familiar with her condition as she receives home visits for flu jabs.\n\n\"What I can't understand is how they can invite somebody for a vaccination and then turn around and say because you're housebound, they can't give it yet,\" he added.\n\n\"I'm not asking for preferential treatment; we're not asking to be bumped up the list. I was disgusted by the total lack of information.\"\n\nMr Wilson said he knew of three other cases where patients have been given the same information.\n\nHe said disabled people should receive equal treatment. He has also taken the issue up with the disability rights association, Disability Wales, who have been asked to comment.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesperson said: \"Those who cannot attend their appointment or cannot travel to the vaccination venue can let your health board know through the NHS booking system. They will then be offered another appointment on another day or at a more convenient location.\n\n\"There are also plans in place for people who are housebound and for care homes, which will mean the vaccine can be safely taken to them using a mobile service if they are unable to attend a GP surgery or mass vaccination centre.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Welsh Government has been criticised over the speed of rolling out vaccines to the over 80s age group.\n\nSteve Hockridge's 92-year-old mother Sheila suffers from Alzheimer's disease and lives alone in Cardiff.\n\nHe contacted her surgery but was told they had \"no information\" about when she would receive a vaccine.\n\n\"My confidence in the Welsh Government has been knocked,\" he said.\n\n\"After all the clarity during this pandemic, with this area they seem to be very, very secretive, giving different messages [which are] quite often conflicting.\"\n\nIn Wrexham, Helen Field said her mother, Eileen, 94, was also still waiting to hear about her vaccine.\n\n\"Our relations over the border in the Wirral area who are in a similar age group of over 80s and 90s have all received their second vaccine,\" she said.\n\n\"The difference is quite alarming and I just want to know what's going on in Wales and why they are so slow in putting the vaccines out?\n\n\"Nobody can seem to give us any information and it seems to be so poorly organised.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government spokesperson said: \"Every day in Wales we are speeding up the vaccination programme.\n\n\"Thousands more people are receiving their first dose of the Covid vaccine and more clinics are opening with 45 vaccination centres operating or due to be operating shortly, and more than 250 GP surgeries being involved by the end of this month. As of 20 January, more than 175,816 people in Wales have been vaccinated.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The company said its milk processing was highly automated with no risk to the products caused by the virus outbreak\n\nOne worker at a dairy has died after contracting coronavirus and 95 others are self-isolating.\n\nMuller Milk & Ingredients said 47 staff members who work at the company's dairy near Bridgwater, Somerset, have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nIt said it was now testing all 300 workers at its site in North Petherton.\n\nA spokesman for the firm said the safety of its products had not been affected by the outbreak at its factory.\n\nIt was working with Public Health England and the council to help with mass testing, he added.\n\nThe employee was taken to hospital but died. The firm said its thoughts were with the worker's family and friends.\n\nProduction has since been reduced at the site.\n\nThe spokesman added: \"It is important to stress that fresh milk processing is highly automated ensuring no risk to products, with our Bridgwater facility one of the most modern dairies in the UK.\n\n\"As we have done throughout the pandemic, we are placing the safety of our employees first and following best practice as set down by the Health and Safety Executive.\n\n\"Standard measures in place include the use of facemasks, distancing, enhanced deep cleaning and hygiene, underpinned by a programme of e-learning, information and audits to ensure compliance and awareness of the measures.\"\n\nSomerset County Council said it was working closely with Public Health England and the factory and that further testing was being done throughout Thursday.\n\n\"The [council's] rapid outbreak testing team is carrying out further workforce testing today, for workers who were not present on Monday shifts.\n\n\"The testing on Monday identified a number of staff who were positive but asymptomatic, who are now isolating,\" a spokesman said.", "Gabriel is an ardent 'Latino for Trump' who is active in New York Republican circles. He wishes the Biden/Harris administration well but doesn't believe Democrats really want unity and thinks they'll reverse a lot of good Trump policies.\n\nHow did Joe Biden's inaugural speech on unity sit with you?\n\nI caught bits and pieces of the inauguration, but I did not watch the speech. I'll give it a watch when I'm not as busy. Hopefully, his message is not like what we saw on 6 January, when he tried to lambast people as white supremacists for showing up at the Capitol, because that will just alienate people.\n\nThis country has come a long way in terms of race relations and, if we really want unity, let's regain the sense of what an American is. An American isn't white, black or Jewish; it is a person within the United States that takes part in our republic.\n\nWhat do you think of the executive actions he is taking today?\n\nI knew Biden would come out swinging while he stills holds the majority in the legislative branch. It's certainly a statement in the same vein as President Trump's first few days of office, but I think it's horrible. As someone of Hispanic descent, the idea of potentially granting 11 million immigrants citizenship is a slap in the face to everyone who came through the legal process.\n\nJoining the Paris climate agreement again is widely regarded as a farce, even by some ecologists, because nations that are members in the agreement didn't actually hit their targets. The removal of the Keystone Pipeline is not only going to cost people jobs but it could potentially increase our carbon footprint. When it comes to the WHO, they failed us during the Covid pandemic. It's all just smoke and mirrors to undo what President Trump did and stick it in the face of Republicans.", "The former Western Daily Press journalist lived in the property from 1970 until 1994\n\nAn \"inspiring\" house previously owned by fantasy writer Sir Terry Pratchett has been put on the market.\n\nThe creator of the Discworld series lived in the 18th Century property, called Gaze Cottage, in the village of Rowberrow, Somerset, from 1970 until 1994.\n\nSir Terry died aged 66 in 2015, eight years after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.\n\nHe wrote more than 70 books during his career and completed his final book in 2014.\n\nAt the turn of the century, Sir Terry was Britain's second most-read author, beaten only by JK Rowling.\n\nIn August 2007, it was reported he had suffered a stroke, but the following December he announced that he had been diagnosed with a very rare form of early-onset Alzheimer's disease.\n\nThe fitted kitchen is in the older half of the house\n\nRuth Treasure-Smith, from Robin King Estate Agent, said: \"He wrote most of his most famous novels in that house in the 80s.\n\n\"The house must have been inspiring. The current owner purchased the property from Terry Pratchett and has lived at the house since.\"\n\nShe said he had received letters to the house addressed to the \"Hogfather\", a quirky and satirical character from the Death collection in the Discworld series.\n\nThe sitting room has an inglenook fireplace complete with bread oven\n\nThe house is being sold at a guide price of £800,000\n\nThe first floor houses the master bedroom which overlooks the garden\n\nThe property has four bedrooms\n\nThe cottage sits on a plot comprising almost a third of an acre\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "More than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed\n\nNI's largest healthcare union has said it has not objected to military personnel being brought in to help medical staff deal with Covid-19.\n\nHowever, Unison said it had questions over the move and there had \"disappointingly\" been no consultation.\n\nAn initial statement from the union on the subject was criticised by some politicians.\n\nUlster Unionist leader Steve Aiken described it as \"appallingly inappropriate\".\n\nA new statement issued on social media, from the union's regional secretary Patricia McKeown, said the first statement had been \"misunderstood\".\n\nSpeaking to Good Morning Ulster, she acknowledged the initial statement had caused \"stress and hurt\" to Unison members and apologised for that.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann has asked the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to help out, primarily at a number of hospitals across NI.\n\nMore than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed.\n\nIn the union's initial statement, issued on Wednesday, it said it would ask Mr Swann for \"detailed reasons\" for the move.\n\nIt said this would include \"seeking information as to what other avenues of support have been sought, such as securing additional staffing from private sector healthcare providers\".\n\nHowever, following criticism, Ms McKeown said in a new statement on Thursday morning that the union was \"happy to clarify\" its position.\n\n\"To be absolutely clear, Unison has not objected to assistance from military personnel.\"\n\nShe added: \"In our experience the deployment of military personnel into public services is a decision taken as a last resort.\n\n\"We were immediately concerned that a request for aid of this nature indicates a crisis that is moving out of control.\n\n\"This is why it is important that we know in advance what options are being explored.\"\n\nThe union said it was important to get detailed information on how, when and where external personnel would be deployed and what the management and accountability structures will be in place for them.\n\nSteve Aiken described the first Unison statement as appallingly inappropriate\n\nSpeaking on Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster on Thursday, Ms McKeown said: \"We put a statement out last night, it said what we were going to do, but it didn't say why we were going to do it.\n\n\"That caused stress and hurt to our members and I am very, very sorry for that. That's why we corrected it.\"\n\nShe added that if military personnel were being brought in \"it means that all options have been exhausted, there's a big decision facing us now and that decision is a stronger lockdown\".\n\nThe earlier statement from the union, issued on Wednesday night, had been criticised by some politicians.\n\nUlster Unionist leader Steve Aiken said: \"Judging by the number of healthcare workers who have contacted me tonight they are absolutely incredulous at the Unison statement this evening.\n\n\"Getting help is what is needed - time for Unison to withdraw its appallingly inappropriate remarks.\"\n\nDUP assembly member Jonathan Buckley said: \"This statement from Unison is extremely disappointing and is out of step with both Unison's own members and the wider public.\n\n\"I have already been contacted by health service staff making clear that this does not represent their views.\"\n\nHis party colleague Paul Frew tweeted: \"Utterly appalling. A lot of anger tonight for a union that is supposed to support its membership.\"\n\nSpeaking on Good Morning Ulster, West Belfast People Before Profit assembly member Gerry Carroll said: \"We all recognise that we're in a really desperate situation, a really difficult situation.\n\n\"But people want to see the health service expanded permanently and not just a short-term fix which people have questioned on a number of grounds.\"\n\nHowever, Ulster Unionist Doug Beattie said nurses and doctors were exhausted.\n\n\"What we're really talking about here is a surge of some personnel in order to support out frontline nurses who are dead on their feet,\" he said.\n\n\"The here and now is about saving lives.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, Sinn Féin responded to Mr Swann's decision by saying it would not \"rule out\" any measures that help save lives and that \"any effort to make the threat posed by Covid-19 into an orange and green issue is divisive and a distraction\".\n\nThe chief executive of the Belfast Health Trust, Dr Cathy Jack, told Stormont's health committee that the move would ensure staff can continue to deliver care to as many patients as possible.\n\nShe said the military personnel are \"band 4 medically-trained technicians\" who will \"be working under normal management structures\".\n\n\"This is another group of highly-trained individuals that will support staff and I welcome this.\"\n\nDr Jack said discussions were \"ongoing\" about how private health care providers could help in this phase of the pandemic.\n\nShe said a small number of private lists were being used for surgeries with low-risk cancers and more would be freed up in March \"to allow us to try and catch up on the backlog\".\n\nThe Military Aid to the Civil Authorities (MACA) request means armed forces staff will assist nurses and help on the wards in a move designed to ease the pressure on staff.\n\nIt is thought the first military staff will be made available as early as next week.\n\nMr Swann said the Army has previously carried out pandemic roles in Northern Ireland with \"aeromedical evacuation, real-estate and ongoing logistical planning\".\n\nThe health minister added it would have been an abdication of responsibility if he did not avail of help from the military.\n\nHe said while coronavirus cases were lower than two weeks ago, the challenge posed remained \"intense\" and intensive care pressures were expected to increase further in the next eight to 10 days.\n\nAs of Wednesday, there were 832 people in hospital in Northern Ireland with coronavirus, of whom 67 were in intensive care, with 57 ventilated.\n\nA further 22 people with coronavirus died, bringing the Department of Health's total to 1,671 while there were 905 new cases.", "An algorithm is trained to pick out an elephant against a complex backdrop such as a forest\n\nAt first, the satellite images appear to be of grey blobs in a forest of green splotches - but, on closer inspection, those blobs are revealed as elephants wandering through the trees.\n\nAnd scientists are using these images to count African elephants from space.\n\nThe pictures come from an Earth-observation satellite orbiting 600km (372 miles) above the planet's surface.\n\nThe breakthrough could allow up to 5,000 sq km of elephant habitat to be surveyed on a single cloud-free day.\n\nAnd all the laborious elephant counting is done via machine learning - a computer algorithm trained to identify elephants in a variety of backdrops.\n\n\"We just present examples to the algorithm and tell it, 'This is an elephant, this is not an elephant,'\"Dr Olga Isupova, from the University of Bath, said.\n\n\"By doing this, we can train the machine to recognise small details that we wouldn't be able to pick up with the naked eye.\"\n\nAfrican elephants are listed as vulnerable to extinction\n\nThe scientists looked first at South Africa's Addo Elephant National Park.\n\n\"It has a high density of elephants,\" University of Oxford conservation scientist Dr Isla Duporge said.\n\n\"And it has areas of thickets and of open savannah.\n\n\"So it's a great place to test our approach.\n\n\"While this is a proof of concept, it's ready to go.\n\n\"And conservation organisations are already interested in using this to replace surveys using aircraft.\"\n\nConservationists will have to pay for access to commercial satellites and the images they capture.\n\nBut this approach could vastly improve the monitoring of threatened elephant populations in habitats that span international borders, where it can be difficult to obtain permission for aircraft surveys.\n\nThe scientists say it could also be used in anti-poaching work.\n\n\"And of course, [because you can capture these images from space,] you don't need anyone on the ground, which is particularly helpful during these times of coronavirus,\" Dr Duporge said.\n\n\"In zoology, technology can move quite slowly.\n\n\"So being able to use the cutting-edge techniques for animal conservation is just really nice.\"", "Four royal aides say they do not wish to \"take sides\" over a letter from the Duchess of Sussex to her father, the High Court has been told.\n\nIn a letter lawyers for the four said they believed their clients could \"shed some light\" on the letter's drafting but the four were \"strictly neutral\".\n\nMeghan is suing the Mail on Sunday and Mail Online publisher over articles that reproduced parts of the letter.\n\nShe claims her privacy and copyright were breached by the newspaper group.\n\nHer lawyers are asking for summary judgement - a dismissal of Associated Newspapers' (ANL) defence instead of a trial.\n\nThe five articles, published in February 2019, were a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of the duchess's privacy, correspondence and family, the lawyers claim.\n\nShe is seeking damages from the newspaper group for alleged misuse of private information, copyright infringement and breach of the Data Protection Act over the articles.\n\nANL claims Meghan wrote her letter \"with a view to it being disclosed publicly at some future point\" in order to \"defend her against charges of being an uncaring or unloving daughter\", which she denies.\n\nOn the second day of the hearing on Wednesday, ANL's barrister Antony White QC told the court that a letter from the so-called \"palace four\" showed that \"further oral evidence and documentary evidence is likely to be available at trial which would shed light on certain key factual issues in this case\".\n\nHe said it was \"likely\" there was also further evidence about whether Meghan \"directly or indirectly provided private information\" to the authors of an unauthorised biography of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Finding Freedom.\n\nThe four aides are: Jason Knauf, former communications secretary to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Christian Jones, their former deputy communications secretary, Samantha Cohen, formerly the Sussexes' private secretary, and Sara Latham, their ex-director of communications.\n\n\"None of our clients welcomes his or her potential involvement in this litigation, which has arisen purely as a result of the performance of his or her duties in their respective jobs at the material time,\" their lawyers said in a letter sent on their behalf.\n\n\"Nor does any of our clients wish to take sides in the dispute between your respective clients. Our clients are all strictly neutral.\n\n\"They have no interest in assisting either party to the proceedings. Their only interest is in ensuring a level playing field, insofar as any evidence they may be able to give is concerned.\"\n\nTheir letter said that their lawyers' \"preliminary view is that one or more of our clients would be in a position to shed some light\" on \"the creation of the letter and the electronic draft\".\n\nIt also said they may be able to shed light on \"whether or not the claimant anticipated that the letter might come into in the public domain\" and whether or not the duchess \"directly or indirectly provided private information, generally and in relation to the letter specifically, to the authors of Finding Freedom\".\n\nBut Justin Rushbrooke QC, representing the duchess, said the letter from the four \"contains no information at all that supports the defendant's case on alleged co-authorship (of Meghan's letter), and no indication that evidence will be forthcoming that will support the defendant's case should the matter proceed to trial\".\n\nMeghan, 39, sent a handwritten letter to her father in August 2018, following her marriage to Prince Harry in May that year, which Mr Markle did not attend. The couple are now living in the US with their son Archie.\n\nThe full trial of the duchess's claim had been due to be heard at the High Court this month, but last year the case was adjourned until autumn 2021.\n\nAt the conclusion of the hearing on Wednesday afternoon, Mr Justice Warby reserved his judgement, which he said he would deliver \"as soon as possible\".", "Michelle O'Neill and Arlene Foster were advised restrictions may have to remain in place until after Easter\n\nCoronavirus lockdown restrictions in Northern Ireland will be extended until 5 March, the first and deputy first ministers have said.\n\nThe executive backed the health minister's proposal on Thursday and will review the move on 18 February.\n\nBut ministers were also told that restrictions may have to remain in place until after the Easter holidays.\n\nA lockdown closing non-essential retailers and encouraging employees to work from home began after Christmas.\n\nFamily gatherings are prohibited and people have been ordered to stay at home for all but essential reasons.\n\nSchools are closed to most pupils until after February's half-term but a paper looking at reopening will be put to ministers at next week's executive meeting.\n\nThe lockdown came in response to a spike in the number of cases of coronavirus, which followed a relaxation of some rules in the run-up to Christmas.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said extending the restrictions was an \"appropriate and necessary response\" to tackle the \"imminent threat\" posed by Covid-19.\n\nShe said she understood it would be difficult for many people to accept, given the uncertainty facing families and businesses, but added: \"To not press forward would risk all of the hard-won gains.\"\n\nThe first and deputy first ministers were right to state just how tough this decision will be for many people.\n\nBut there's an acceptance among the public that restrictions would have to be extended, given how bad things are in our hospitals.\n\nTheir decision also suggests politicians have perhaps learned from the last wave of the pandemic, when restrictions were turned on and off sporadically, and the impact that had both on cases and the messaging.\n\nThey're not alone in sustaining tough lockdown measures, with other UK nations and the Republic of Ireland also keeping their restrictions in place for several more weeks.\n\nBeyond that, it is thought health officials also want to ensure the vaccination programme is also \"well advanced\" before any restrictions are relaxed.\n\nThe hope is that, by spring, the picture will have improved significantly.\n\nUntil then the price we are paying for relaxations before Christmas looks likely to keep rising.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said she recognised the executive was asking a lot of everybody but insisted the measures were important.\n\n\"We don't know what will come after [5 March],\" she said.\n\nMs O'Neill said there was a commitment not to keep restrictions in place longer than necessary but decisions would have to be taken in line with the health advice and concerns about a new variant of the virus which is more transmissible.\n\nThe executive's decision comes as another 21 deaths were recorded by the Department of Health on Thursday.\n\nThe reproductive rate of the virus - known as the R-number - had risen to about 1.8 due to Christmas relaxations.\n\nBut the latest estimate from the Department of Health says it is sitting between 0.65 and 0.85 for cases within the community but is still above one for hospital admissions and intensive care.\n\nWhile some may wonder why are restrictions are being extended when the executive's policy has always been based on this rate of infection, the difference is that this time around there are three times as many people in Northern Ireland's hospitals than there were in last April's peak.\n\nDaily case numbers are still significantly higher too.\n\nWhile ministers have agreed to keep the current restrictions in place until March, Health Minister Robin Swann said it was possible they could be needed until Easter, which this year falls in the first week of April.\n\nMinisters say they understand the extension of the lockdown will be difficult for people\n\nIt is understood this plan is being discussed across the four UK nations but ministers will have to consider that in the review next month.\n\nMinisters were also warned that restrictions would be eased on a step-by-step basis in line with reducing pressures on the health service and ensuring the vaccination programme is \"well advanced\" before any relaxations are agreed.\n\nMrs Foster pleaded with people struggling with their mental health during the lockdown to \"please seek help\".\n\nMore than 100 medically-trained military personnel are to be deployed to help health staff deal with the pressure the latest phase of the pandemic is placing on hospitals.\n\nThe chief medical officer Dr Michael McBride said the \"sustained pressure on our health service\" would probably last for three to four weeks.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 51 Covid-19 related deaths and 2,608 new cases of the virus were recorded on Thursday.\n\nSimon Hamilton, the chief executive of the Belfast Chamber of Trade and Commerce, said the extension of the lockdown would be of \"little surprise to most businesses\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Stormont executive has agreed how to allocate almost £300m to help businesses, education, tourism and transport during the next phase of the lockdown.\n\nA total of £100m is going towards the Local Restrictions Support Scheme, the grant for business premises forced to closed due to the restrictions.\n\nThere will also be £16m for tourism and hospitality, two sectors which have largely been unable to operate.\n\nIn addition, two more support schemes for the sector have been opened.\n\nOne aimed at large tourism and hospitality businesses is offering a pot of £26m, with the Department for Economy having identified 250 businesses that will be eligible.\n\nThe other is a £4m scheme to support those who provide bed-and-breakfast accommodation.\n\nMore money is being made available to help businesses affected by the lockdown\n\nJanice Gault from the trade body the Northern Ireland Hotels Federation said the schemes were a \"real lifeline for the sector\".\n\n\"Trading over the last year has been limited with reserves now severely depleted and businesses operating in survival mode,\" she added.\n\nAlso among those to receive the extra cash will be limited company directors, who had not received support since March.\n\nLast week, a scheme was announced to give directors £1,000 grants which one director described as a \"kick in the teeth\" given that he had little to no income for the past 10 months.\n\nBut that scheme is to be boosted with another £20m so the payments on offer will more than treble to £3,500.\n\nLocal newspapers will also benefit from 12 months of rates relief.", "Assaults on emergency workers made up more than a quarter of Covid-related crimes prosecuted in the first six months of the pandemic, figures show.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said there were 1,688 such offences between 1 April and 30 September in England and Wales.\n\nMany of these involved police officers being \"coughed and spat on\" by suspected rule-breakers, the CPS said.\n\nThey were among almost 6,500 crimes related to coronavirus in that period.\n\nAssaults on emergency workers, which were the most common prosecution, were \"particularly appalling\" and incidents were still taking place, said director of public prosecutions Max Hill.\n\nHe added: \"I will continue to do everything in my power to protect those who so selflessly keep us safe during this crisis.\"\n\nAccording to the figures published by the CPS - which cover completed prosecutions - there were 1,137 charges brought for breaking coronavirus laws.\n\nThese included a man who claimed 15 people having a party at his house in Manchester were part of his support bubble and another man in Wales caught travelling between counties to solicit the services of a sex worker.\n\nOverall, 2,106 defendants were prosecuted for 6,469 coronavirus-related offences, with a conviction rate of 90%, according to the CPS.\n\nOther crimes flagged as being coronavirus-related by the CPS, included 480 charges for public order offences, 466 for criminal damage and 464 for common assault.\n\nThese included offences such as coughing and spitting while threatening to infect another person with the virus, thefts of essential items and fraudsters taking advantage of the crisis.\n\nMr Hill added: \"The CPS has had to adapt to a raft of new laws and regulations intended to keep the public safe during the pandemic.\n\n\"Our guiding principle throughout has always been to support the police in ensuring the right person in charged with the right offence.\"", "Marmite is one of Unilever's many brands\n\nUnilever has said that by 2030 it will refuse to do business with any firm that does not pay at least a living wage or income to its staff.\n\nThe consumer goods giant defined a living wage as one that covered a family's basic needs \"and helped them break the cycle of poverty\".\n\nIt said it wanted to raise wages for people outside its own workforce in order to promote economic inclusion.\n\nUnilever is one of the first big companies to make such a commitment.\n\nOxfam called the move a \"step in the right direction\".\n\nUnilever, whose products include Marmite, Ben & Jerry's ice cream and Dove soap, said it was committed to helping to build \"a more equitable and inclusive society\".\n\n\"Our ambition is to improve living standards for low-paid workers worldwide,\" it said.\n\n\"We will therefore ensure that everyone who directly provides goods and services to Unilever earns at least a living wage or income, by 2030.\"\n\nThe wage should be enough to cover food, water, housing, education, healthcare, transport and clothing, and also include a provision for unexpected events, Unilever said.\n\nThe firm said it was working with partners to establish exact rates of pay in the 190 countries where it operates.\n\nHowever, Unilever's chief human resources officer Leena Nair said it would pay twice as much as the minimum wage in some countries.\n\nUnilever said it already paid its own employees at least a living wage, but it wanted to secure the same for more people beyond its workforce, specifically focusing on the most vulnerable workers in manufacturing and agriculture.\n\nWhile there is no doubting Unilever's desire to improve the lot of those who make its products, there is also a commercial reason for its living wage initiative.\n\nIt wants all of its suppliers to pay their staff a decent wage by 2030, a plan that has the potential, given Unilever's enormous size and global reach, to change the lives of millions of people.\n\nBut the company also believes the move will give it an advantage in the fierce battle to attract buyers.\n\nAlan Jope, Unilever's Scottish-born chief executive, says customers want to buy products with good credentials, and that this desire has only increased during the pandemic.\n\nMr Jope's comments suggest that the next consumer battlegrounds might not be price, convenience or range of product, but environmental and social considerations.\n\nUnilever wants to get ahead of that trend, and plans to do well by doing good.\n\n\"We will work with our suppliers, other businesses, governments and NGOs - through purchasing practices, collaboration and advocacy - to create systemic change and global adoption of living wage practices,\" it added.\n\nIt has more than 60,000 direct suppliers worldwide, from smallholder farmers to major companies.\n\nAll of them will be covered by its commitment, it said, with millions of people set to benefit.\n\nUnilever already audits its suppliers over climate change commitments, and will use these existing arrangements to make sure workers are being paid a living wage.\n\nSuppliers not willing to sign up may lose their contracts with the firm, Ms Nair said.\n\nAlso by 2030, Unilever said, it would equip 10 million young people with essential job skills.\n\nAdditionally, it committed to spending €2bn (£1.8bn) with suppliers owned and managed by people from under-represented groups by 2025 in an effort to improve diversity.\n\n\"The two biggest threats that the world currently faces are climate change and social inequality,\" said Unilever chief executive Alan Jope.\n\n\"The past year has undoubtedly widened the social divide, and decisive and collective action is needed to build a society that helps to improve livelihoods, embraces diversity, nurtures talent, and offers opportunities for everyone.\"\n\nUnilever chief executive Alan Jope says the firm wants to be a \"positive force in the world\"\n\nHe told the BBC's Today programme that Unilever wanted to be a \"positive force in the world in tackling this persistent and worsening issue of social inequality.\"\n\n\"Without healthy societies, we don't have a healthy business,\" he said.\n\nThe move is the latest in a series of ethical initiatives by Unilever, including promoting vegan food products and experimenting with a four-day working week.\n\nGabriela Bucher, executive director at Oxfam International, welcomed Unilever's announcement, calling it \"an important step in the right direction\".\n\nShe said: \"Unilever's plan shows the kind of responsible action needed from the private sector that can have a great impact on tackling inequality and help to build a world in which everyone has the power to thrive, not just survive.\"\n\nLaura Gardiner, director of the Living Wage Foundation, said commitments such as Unilever's show how some employers \"are leading the way in spreading the living wage through both their business networks, and across their global operations\".\n\nFood services giants Sodexo and Compass Group, which are on the Living Wage Foundation's list of recognised service providers, have made similar supply chain commitments in the UK.", "Joe Biden has been sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, at a low key inauguration ceremony outside the US Capitol in Washington DC.\n\nIn his maiden speech as president, Mr Biden said: \"We've learned again that democracy is precious, democracy is fragile, and at this hour, my friends, democracy has prevailed.\"\n\nRead more: Joe Biden replaces Trump as US president", "Mr Olowo said his wife was \"as near perfection as it's possible to be\"\n\nA woman who died after having liposuction in Turkey had been fed up with people asking if she was pregnant, an inquest heard.\n\nAbimbola Ajoke Bamgbose, 38, of Dartford, Kent, died in August after having the treatment in Izmir.\n\nHusband Moyosore Olowo said he believed she was on holiday with friends until she called to say she was in pain.\n\nHe went to Turkey after she stopped calling and found she had been rushed to hospital for more surgery.\n\nMrs Bamgbose, who also had a Brazilian butt lift, died there two weeks later, the inquest in Maidstone heard.\n\nMr Olowo, a rail safety officer, said his wife paid £5,000 for the package with Mono Cosmetic Surgery as UK treatment was too expensive.\n\nDescribing why she wanted it, he said: \"When a woman is unhappy and getting feelings about her looks, the clothes she buys do not fit and people ask if she is pregnant because of her tummy, sometimes there is nothing we can do. We are powerless.\n\n\"I wasn't concerned. I told her 'you have three children'. I told her my tummy is bigger than hers.\"\n\nHe said his wife, a social worker who graduated with a first class degree, was \"as near perfection as it's possible to be\".\n\nMr Olowo said the medical director in Turkey \"confessed it had been a mistake\".\n\nAssistant coroner Alan Blundson recorded a narrative conclusion, and said: \"This is a tragic case, the more so because the surgery was elective cosmetic surgery.\n\n\"Whilst Mrs Bamgbose was determined to have it performed, her husband had not seen it in any way as necessary.\"\n\nA post-mortem examination found Mrs Bamgbose had a perforated bowel and her death was caused by peritonitis with multiple organ failure as a complication of liposuction surgery.\n\nMr Olowo has said he is suing Mono and the surgeon, Dr Hakan Aydogan, for £1m in the Turkish courts, claiming medical negligence.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Biden took his oath on a Bible that has been in his family since 1893 and was also used each time he was sworn in as Delaware senator. The book itself is five inches (12.5cm) thick with a Celtic cross on the cover", "Wales' former Chief Medical Officer Dame Deirdre Hine thinks the vaccine targets are achievable\n\nPeople waiting for the Covid vaccine need to show \"patience\" and \"perspective\", Wales' former chief medical officer has said.\n\nDame Deirdre Hine said Wales had made a \"very good start\" on delivering jabs.\n\nAged 83, she needs the vaccine herself and accepted there was \"understandable anxiety\" for those still waiting, but said: \"I think we should all quieten down and wait.\"\n\nThere has been criticism of the speed of the roll-out in Wales.\n\nStuart Wilson said he was \"appalled\" his 84-year-old housebound mother had been told she may have to wait up to two months to have her coronavirus vaccine if she cannot get to her GP surgery.\n\nDame Deirdre is regarded as one of Wales' leading medical experts, having not only held the chief medical officer post, but being the woman who established the Welsh breast cancer screening programme.\n\nA past president of the British Medical Association and Royal Society of Medicine, she also oversaw the official inquiry into the 2009 swine flu pandemic in the UK.\n\nIt's not surprising that people are worried and concerned... but I would say to them, let's keep it in proportion, let's look at the perspective\n\nShe told BBC Wales the response from governments had moved forward since then.\n\n\"I can detect some lessons that have been learned from the previous pandemic, the one I reported on. Because, although we had a vaccine then, the arrangements for delivering it were very much less clear and much more protracted than it has been this time.\n\n\"The arrangements for the GPs to deliver, and now pharmacists to deliver, all of that is a tremendous improvement on what I saw at the last pandemic.\"\n\nIn September, Dame Deirdre accused successive governments across the UK of taking \"their eye off the ball\" and failing to prepare for a global pandemic.\n\nShe also correctly warned of the \"real danger\" of a damaging second wave of Covid and has remained critical of failures to get adequate testing and tracing capability up and running in the early stages of the pandemic.\n\nShe added: \"I would say the testing and tracing is another matter, and I think there has been justifiable criticism of that.\"\n\nDame Deirdre, who lives in Cardiff, said she was still \"waiting impatiently\" for her vaccine appointment, but called on people to see the bigger picture.\n\n\"Let's get it in perspective. This is a massive logistical exercise, together with a narrow pipeline of supply of the vaccine, and so I'm not a bit surprised that it's taking as long as it is to get round to everybody. But I have every confidence that they will.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government, along with other UK nations, has committed to vaccinating all four of the highest priority groups by the middle of February, including the over-80s.\n\nLatest figures on vaccination in Wales show that, as of 20 January, there had been 175,816 people to get a first dose of either the Pfizer-BioNTech or Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nThis accounts for 5.6% of the population in Wales, while 7.1% have received a vaccination in England, 7.3% in Northern Ireland, and 5.7% in Scotland.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething has denied Covid-19 vaccines were being held back, following comments from First Minister Mark Drakeford that the supply had to last until February to prevent \"vaccinators standing around with nothing to do\".\n\nMr Drakeford later said on social media that \"nobody is holding back vaccines\" and Mr Gething added: \"We're rolling out the vaccination programme as quickly as possible.\"\n\nDame Deirdre said she believed the targets were achievable, but people's anxieties were \"understandable\".\n\nShe added: \"Some recent research by Imperial College shows that people in my age group, people over 70, are the people most worried about this pandemic and about their own safety.\n\n\"So it's not surprising that people are worried and concerned, dismayed, when they don't get the letter and then that turns to anger. But I would say to them, let's keep it in proportion, let's look at the perspective.\n\n\"If you'd asked me last May and June whether we would even have a vaccine, I would have been highly sceptical.\n\n\"Then once you've got the vaccine, there is the whole logistical exercise of the publicity, letting people know what's likely to happen, getting the personnel assembled to do that, getting the premises.\n\n\"And it's not easy, it's not easy to do all that very, very quickly.\"", "Chloé Lopes Gomes says she has faced racial harassment while being a ballet dancer.\n\nThe French performer is the first black female dancer at Berlin's principal ballet company Staatsballett.\n\nMs Gomes claims she was told she did not fit in because of her skin colour, and was asked to wear white make up so she would 'blend in' with the other dancers.\n\nThe company has responded by saying her allegation \"deeply moves us\" and an internal investigation is underway into racism and discrimination at Staatsballett.", "The pandemic has seen most children in England slipping back with their learning - and some have gone significantly back with their social skills, says Ofsted.\n\nA report from the education watchdog warns some young children have forgotten how to use a knife and fork or have regressed back to nappies.\n\nOlder children have lost their \"stamina\" for reading, say inspectors.\n\nThe Department for Education says it shows the need to keep schools open.\n\nOfsted has examined the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on children, based on visits to 900 schools and early years providers this autumn - and found that it has been a very divided experience.\n\nThe chief inspector, Amanda Spielman, says there are three \"broad groups\" to describe what has happened:\n\nBut Ms Spielman says this did not divide along the lines of advantage and deprivation, but instead factors such as whether parents were able to spend time with children and families having what she described as \"good support structures\".\n\nAmong older children, Ofsted warns of a loss of concentration among those returning to school and that \"online squabbles\" that started on social media during the lockdown are now \"being played out in the classroom\".\n\nThere are also reports of a loss of physical fitness, while other pupils are showing \"signs of mental distress\", with concerns over eating disorders and self-harm.\n\nThere are concerns about pupils who have so far not returned to school - and in a third of schools there has been an \"increase in children being removed from school to be educated at home\".\n\nBut inspectors say schools are still \"firefighting\" practical problems about keeping going during the pandemic, with the challenge of operating bubbles and responding to Covid outbreaks.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said the report \"starkly shows the educational and emotional impact of school closures, and why we need to do everything possible to keep schools open\".\n\nBut he warned that it was becoming financially unsustainable to keep schools running, with the cost of safety measures and the need to pay for supply staff when teachers had to self-isolate.\n\nA Department for Education spokeswoman said: \"The government has been clear that getting all pupils and students back into full-time education is a national priority.\"\n\nShe said the £1bn catch-up fund, including support for tutoring, would help to make up for lost learning.", "The editor of the British Medical Journal has asked the New York Times to correct an article that says UK guidelines allow two Covid-19 vaccines to be mixed.\n\nThe US publication reported that UK health officials would allow patients to be given a second dose that is a different vaccine to their first.\n\nFiona Godlee pointed out in her letter to the NYT that it was not a recommendation.\n\nShe said the NYT's headline claiming UK guidelines say such substitutions \"may happen\" was \"seriously misleading\".\n\nThe UK has approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab - but both require two doses which are now to be administered 12 weeks apart\n\nMs Godlee said the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) does not make any recommendation to mix and match - in other words, having a shot of one vaccine and then a different one 12 weeks later.\n\nDr Mary Ramsay, Public Health England's head of immunisations, said: \"We do not recommend mixing the Covid-19 vaccines - if your first dose is the Pfizer vaccine you should not be given the AstraZeneca vaccine for your second dose and vice versa.\"\n\nDr Ramsay added that on the \"extremely rare occasions\" where the same vaccine is unavailable or it is unknown which jab the patient received, it is \"better to give a second dose of another vaccine than not at all\".\n\nMs Godlee urged the New York Times to print a \"highly visible correction\" as soon as possible.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Princess Royal Hospital at Haywards Heath was among the hospitals receiving a delivery\n\nMeanwhile, health staff have criticised the paperwork needed to gain NHS approval to give the coronavirus vaccine, with some medics being asked for proof they are trained in areas such as preventing radicalisation.\n\nThe first doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine are due to be given on Monday after the jab was approved for use in the UK last week.\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was the first vaccine approved in the UK, and 944,539 people have had their first jab.", "Tian Tian arrived in Scotland, along with Yang Guang, from China in 2011\n\nEdinburgh Zoo's giant pandas may have to return to China next year because of financial pressures.\n\nYang Guang and Tian Tian cost about £1m a year to lease from China.\n\nThe zoo, which had hoped to breed the pair, is nearing the end of its 10-year contract with the Chinese government and may be unable to renew the deal.\n\nCovid lockdown closures led to a £2m loss for the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, which runs Edinburgh Zoo and the Highland Wildlife Park.\n\nDavid Field, chief executive of the society, said the charity would have to \"seriously consider every potential saving\", including its giant panda contract.\n\nMr Field said closures had had a \"huge financial impact\" on the charity because most of its income was from visitors.\n\n\"Although our parks are open again, we lost around £2m last year and it seems certain that restrictions, social distancing and limits on our visitor numbers will continue for some time, which will also reduce our income,\" Mr Field said.\n\n\"Yang Guang and Tian Tian have made a tremendous impression on our visitors over the last nine years, helping millions of people connect to nature and inspiring them to take an interest in wildlife conservation.\n\n\"I would love for them to be able to stay for a few more years with us and that is certainly my current aim.\"\n\nYang Guang was given a new enclosure in 2019\n\nThe zoo has already taken a government loan, furloughed staff, made redundancies and launched a fundraising appeal, but was not eligible for the UK government's zoo fund, which was aimed at smaller zoos.\n\n\"The support we have received from our members and animal lovers has helped to keep our doors open and we are incredibly grateful,\" Mr Field added.\n\n\"At this stage, it is too soon to say what the outcome will be. We will be discussing next steps with our colleagues in China over the coming months.\"\n\nThe zoo is part of a number of conservation projects, including one to reintroduce Scottish wildcats.\n\nWork to reintroduce Scottish wildcats in to the Highlands may also suffer from the Zoo's funding problems\n\nHowever, Mr Field said projects like that may also have to be scrapped because of Brexit and being unable to apply for grants from the European Union.\n\n\"We received a £3.2m grant from the EU Life programme to support our Saving Wildcats partnership project, which aims to restore wildcats in Scotland by breeding and releasing them into the wild.\n\n\"Wildcats are on the brink of extinction in Britain and this is the last hope for the species' survival.\"\n\nHe added: \"As we are no longer part of the European Union, our charity is no longer eligible to apply for funding from programmes like EU Life, which have proven critical for our wildlife conservation work and wider efforts to protect animals from extinction.\"\n\nEdinburgh Zoo's conservation genetics laboratory, which supports conservation projects around the world, has lost access to both funding and other researchers as a result.\n\nIt also faces challenges around moving animals, many of which are part of European endangered species breeding programmes.\n\nThe programme is currently about £900,000 short, meaning it may have to be cancelled.\n\nMr Field said: \"We still need to reduce costs to secure our future. It may be that some of our incredibly important conservation projects, including the vital lifeline for Scotland's wildcats, may have to be deferred, postponed or even stopped.\"", "Police rescued 22 people from the snow in Cheshire including a two-year-old child\n\nDozens of people, including a two-year-old child, had to be rescued when they became stranded on rural roads.\n\nPolice and volunteers came to the aid of people whose vehicles were stuck in the Derbyshire Peak District on Saturday.\n\nThere were similar scenes in Cheshire where 22 people, had to be rescued from stranded cars.\n\nThe wintry weather is set to continue with a Met Office warning for ice in the East Midlands and North East.\n\nAt around 20:00 GMT on Saturday, Derbyshire Police reported \"sudden snow\" had left dozens of vehicles and their occupants stranded in the Goyt Valley.\n\nSome visitors to the area were caught off-guard by how quickly the weather changed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Adam White This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDerbyshire Police posted on Twitter: \"We are shuttling people back to Buxton as quickly as we can.\n\n\"Sit tight and we will get to you.\"\n\nThe A57 Snake Pass - a road notorious for becoming dangerous in the snow - had been closed earlier in the day because of the weather.\n\nIn Cheshire, police spent three hours helping families stuck in their vehicles in the White Peak area.\n\nIn total 22 people, including eight children - the youngest of whom was two - were recovered from nine vehicles.\n\nCheshire Police Rural Crime Team said: \"The snow had well and truly caught them all out on the back roads.\n\n\"We were three miles (4.8km) from the nearest village, and the light was fading on us quickly.\n\n\"It was decided to get everyone out of their cars and so began a mile walk in the snow.\"\n\nThey were led to a nearby farm where they could be taken to safety in police vehicles.\n\nMost of those rescued from snow in Cheshire had travelled to the area despite coronavirus restrictions\n\nThe force was critical of the families for travelling into the area, that is under tier four coronavirus restrictions.\n\nIt said: \"All except one car was from out of Cheshire. We had people from Sale, Stockport and Salford with the closest being Congleton.\n\n\"Sadly these people have put all of us at risk today.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Liverpool City Council issued their call after local cases nearly trebled in the past fortnight\n\nLiverpool's leaders have called on the government to impose a new nationwide lockdown to halt the spread of the new variant of Covid-19.\n\nActing mayor Wendy Simon and the city council's cabinet said urgent action is needed because the rise in coronavirus cases had reached \"alarming levels\".\n\nThey said it was \"self-evident\" the tier system has not curbed the variant.\n\nIt had been concentrated in London and south-east England but is believed to be spreading north.\n\nCases in Liverpool have almost trebled in the past two weeks to 350 per 100,000.\n\nThis is despite the city successfully leading the national pilot for community testing, which resulted in it becoming the first city to be taken out of tier 3 and moved into tier 2.\n\nHowever, the recent rise in cases meant Liverpool returned to tier three on Thursday.\n\nWendy Simon is the acting mayor for Liverpool\n\nSpeaking to the BBC News Channel, Ms Simon said: \"I think the difficulty with this new strain of the virus is the speed at which it is infecting.\n\n\"What we have seen in these last weeks is that the tier system hasn't worked with this particular strain of the virus.\n\n\"The way the numbers are going, we're likely to go into tier four very, very quickly.\"\n\nMs Simon said officials wanted to \"pre-empt that catastrophe\" and \"recover the economy quicker\", adding: \"We feel these three things - the mass vaccination, the mass testing and certainly a lockdown for a period - is what we need to get the city up and running again.\n\n\"There's a responsibility on us all to act promptly and bring it under control as soon as we can.\"\n\nIn an earlier statement, Ms Simon joined officials at the Labour-run city council to urge the government to \"listen to those at the frontline, both in our hospitals and frontline services\".\n\n\"We as a nation can cope with a lockdown,\" the statement said. \"We have before and we can again.\"\n\nThe city's leaders also called for \"an additional package of welfare and economic support\" to address the \"pain for our retail and hospitality sectors\".\n\nA further 57,725 confirmed cases were announced by the government on Saturday.\n\nThe sharp rise in numbers is partly down to a lag in reporting over the holiday period but, according to Public Health England, is \"largely a reflection of a real increase\".\n\nAlthough the new variant is now spreading more rapidly than the original version, it is not believed to be more deadly.\n\nLiverpool launched the national pilot for community testing in November\n\nOn Sunday, the prime minister said regional restrictions in England were \"probably about to get tougher\".\n\nHe said possible changes included keeping schools closed, although this is not \"something we want to do\".\n\nBoris Johnson said the government was \"entirely reconciled to doing what it takes to get the virus down,\" and warned of a \"tough period ahead\".\n\nHe said increasing vaccination would provide a way out of restrictions and that he hoped \"tens of millions\" would be vaccinated in the next three months.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has started to arrive in hospitals, with the first doses due to be given on Monday.\n\nThe Princess Royal Hospital at Haywards Heath in West Sussex was one of the hospitals taking a delivery on Saturday.\n\nThe UK has ordered 100 million doses of the new vaccine - enough to vaccinate 50 million people.", "The Scottish cabinet will meet later to consider further measures to help tackle coronavirus, as 2,464 new cases are reported.\n\nThe Scottish Parliament will then be recalled for First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to make an \"urgent statement\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said the \"rapid increase in Covid cases driven by the new variant\" was of \"very serious concern\".\n\n\"We are in a race between this faster spreading strain of Covid and the vaccination programme,\" she tweeted.\n\nShe warned on Friday that the next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid.\n\nThe latest government figures for coronavirus cases showed that 15.2% of Saturday's 17,328 tests were positive.\n\nIt is higher than the 2,137 cases reported on Friday, but still lower than Thursday's 2,539 positive results.\n\nFigures for hospital admissions and deaths over the holiday weekend will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nThe cabinet is likely to consider a further delay to the return of Scottish schools and restrictions that are closer to the stay-at-home lockdown in March.\n\n\"All decisions just now are tough, with tough impacts,\" Ms Sturgeon wrote on twitter. \"Vaccines give us way out, but this new strain makes the period between now and then the most dangerous since start of pandemic.\"\n\nThe Scottish government's emergency resilience committee heard on Saturday that \"quick and decisive action is needed\" as the new variant of the virus is becoming the dominant one in Scotland.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"The even steeper rises and severe pressure on the NHS that is being experienced in some other parts of the UK is a sign of what may lie ahead in Scotland if we do not take all possible steps now to slow the spread of the virus, while the vaccination programme progresses.\n\n\"The strong message remains - people should stay at home as much as possible and avoid non-essential interaction with others.\"\n\nThis is just the fifth time the Scottish Parliament has been recalled and the second time within the last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Linda Bauld says Scots should be prepared a longer period living with level four restrictions\n\nPublic health expert Prof Linda Bauld, from the University of Edinburgh, has said Scotland should be prepared for Covid restrictions to be extended as infection rates continue to rise.\n\nShe said there were no signs yet that the infection rate was levelling off, having risen suddenly from a daily rate of fewer than 1,000 to more than 2,000 per day in recent days.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"It definitely is a fragile situation and you can see that we have more cases than we would expect at the current time.\n\n\"We may be starting to see some of the impacts of the Christmas mixing, but also we know around four in 10 cases, from recent data, are of the new variant.\n\n\"I would imagine that the new variant is playing a role in these higher rates of infection and if these numbers continue to sit at where they are we are going to have more people in hospital in a week or two's time, and that is very worrying.\"\n\nThe new year offers new hope in the struggle against coronavirus with two vaccines now authorised for UK use - but it looks as if the situation will get worse before it gets better.\n\nMinisters are worried by the rapid spread of the new strain of coronavirus during a holiday period when the highest level of restrictions are already in place.\n\nThey think more needs to be done to suppress the virus, to give the vaccination programme a chance to accelerate and give increasing numbers of people protection.\n\nWhen the Scottish cabinet meets they are likely to consider tightening the current restrictions to something closer to the stay at home lockdown of March 2020.\n\nThat will almost certainly mean a further delay to the return of schools into February.\n\nMinisters will take decisions on Monday morning with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon expected to make a statement at Holyrood in the afternoon.\n\nDaily confirmed cases in Scotland reached record highs on the last three days of 2020, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nMs Sturgeon warned last week there might be changes to the plans for reopening schools. Children start online learning from 11 January and are set to return to class by 18 January.\n\nThe education recovery group will meet on Monday.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said the situation was \"deteriorating and fast-moving\" but any decision to extend school closures should be clearly explained to parents and teachers.\n\nHe said: \"We have been here before so if schools remain closed, the Scottish government must show that it has learned from past mistakes in order to minimise disruption to education.\"\n\nScottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie said the Scottish government should prioritise teachers and school staff as vaccines were rolled out.\n\nHe added: \"We must be honest and accept that most pupils, teachers and support staff cannot go back to schools until the situation is brought under control.\"\n\nScottish Labour leader Richard Leonard called for ministers to publish the evidence behind all of its decisions to ensure public consent and compliance.\n\n\"What is clear is that we need to see an acceleration of the vaccine rollout and a step-change in testing,\" he said.\n\n\"It is also clear that financial support from government has simply not been nearly sufficient to make up for the damage that lockdown measures have done to jobs, livelihoods and businesses. The SNP government must distribute additional funds to the frontline now.\"\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said: \"With tighter restrictions on movement and in schools comes a greater responsibility on the government to show its workings.\n\n\"If we are to restrict people's movement then we need to see what the benefit will be. We need an exit plan to give people hope, as well as to show them what is required to ease the restrictions on our freedoms.\"", "A farmer's field in Scotland has been transformed into a \"pop-up\" ice hockey rink.\n\nLocals in Bishopton, Renfrewshire, have been taking advantage of the clear skies and icy conditions.\n\nOne said the frozen rink had been playing host to skaters and hockey players of all ages and abilities, from six to 60.", "Some schools are due to reopen this week in Wales\n\nSchools are being given a flexible approach to ensure a \"safe return\", according to Wales' first minister.\n\nMark Drakeford said experts would be \"looking at all the evidence again early next week\".\n\nUnions have called for a national decision on reopening schools rather than leaving it to local councils.\n\nAccording to local authorities many secondary schools aim to return from 11 January, with some fully open on 6 January.\n\nA joint statement from nine unions called on the Welsh Government to give a \"centralised, coherent response\" regarding all educational settings \"rather than leaving decisions at local levels\".\n\nThe statement from ASCL Cymru, GMB, NAHT Cymru, NASUWT Cymru, NEU Cymru, Ucac, Unison, Unite and Voice continued: \"We are extremely worried that schools will be opening for face-to-face learning from next Monday, whilst Welsh Government continues to gather information about the nature and impact of the new variant of Covid-19...\n\n\"We strongly believe that we need to err on the side of caution and ensure, in advance, that we have the medical 'evidence and information' to ensure that any decisions are the correct ones.\"\n\nThe National Education Union Cymru has called for in-person learning to be delayed until at least 18 January.\n\nThe NASUWT has also threatened \"appropriate action in order to protect members whose safety is put at risk\", while head teachers' union NAHT Cymru said it had taken legal action.\n\nBut Mr Drakeford said: \"We reached an agreement with our local education colleagues that in Wales we will have a phased and flexible return to school.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday parents should send their children to primary school as long as they are open in their area.\n\nMark Drakeford: \"No evidence that young people get the illness more severely as a result of the variant\"\n\nJackie Parker, head of Crickhowell High School in Powys, which reopens for some form years from Wednesday, said \"it would have been more sensible to have had a national decision for the time being until the 18th\".\n\nShe said it would have allowed time to see if cases of Covid had increased over the holiday period.\n\n\"People may have been together during the Christmas holiday,\" she said.\n\nFigures published by Public Health Wales on Sunday showed 56 new deaths from Covid and 4,011 new cases of the virus.\n\nWales has been in lockdown since 20 December with restrictions on people meeting others on all but Christmas Day when it was limited to another household and a person living alone.\n\nMr Drakeford said: \"There is no evidence that young people get the illness more severely as a result of the variant.\n\n\"Our technical advisory group will be looking at all the evidence again early next week.\n\n\"And, of course, we will continue to make decisions in the light of the best knowledge, research and information that's available to us at the time,\" he told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement.\n\nHe also said mass testing in schools would begin as planned this month, in a decision which has been criticised by NAHT Cymru.\n\n\"It will allow more children and more teachers to stay safely in the classroom without having to be sent home because another child or another staff member has tested positive,\" he said.\n\nThe joint unions' statement also said the Welsh Government's testing proposals were unworkable for most schools.\n\n\"Due to the chaotic and rushed nature of this announcement, the lack of proper guidance, and an absence of appropriate support, the Welsh Government's proposals will be inoperable for most schools and colleges,\" it said.\n\nThe statement continued: \"Any suggestion that schools can safely recruit, train and organise a team of suitable volunteers to staff and run testing stations on their premises by an as yet unspecified date in the new term is simply not realistic.\"\n\nSian Gwenllian, Plaid Cymru's education spokeswoman, said \"parents and teachers need to know what the plan is for the next few weeks\".\n\n\"We don't really know very much about this new variant in the way that it transmits within the school community,\" she said.\n\n\"And if it is becoming inevitable that schools will have to close, well, an early decision is better for everybody.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative education spokeswoman Suzy Davies said: \"We've had conflicting reports in the press and on social media about the effect of the new variant on younger children and their role in transmitting the disease - complete confusion reigns...\n\n\"The Welsh Government hasn't succeeded in reassuring teachers and in some cases parents as well.\"", "A top Swedish official involved in the coronavirus response has defended a Christmas holiday in the Canary Islands in the face of heavy criticism.\n\nDan Eliasson is head of the civil contingencies agency, which earlier in December had texted all Swedes urging them to avoid travel.\n\nHe was photographed in Las Palmas airport on the island of Gran Canaria.\n\nMr Eliasson insisted the trip was necessary \"for family reasons\".\n\nHe told Swedish media that he had \"given up a lot of trips during this pandemic\" but thought this one was necessary because he had a daughter living in the Canaries.\n\n\"I celebrated Christmas with her and my family,\" he told Expressen newspaper. He also said he had been worked remotely while in the Canaries.\n\nSweden has had 437,000 confirmed cases and 8,700 deaths - many more than its Scandinavian neighbours. The country has never imposed a full lockdown.\n\nHowever, alarmed by rising numbers of cases last month, the Swedish government reversed some of its guidance and sent a text message to all Swedes asking them to read updated guidelines.\n\nThe guidelines included asking Swedes to avoid unnecessary trips and not to make new contacts during a journey or at the destination.\n\nMr Eliasson was then photographed several times in Gran Canaria, including at the airport.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Expressen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere have been calls for Mr Eliasson, an experienced official who has worked at several important departments, to be fired.\n\nPrime Minister Stefan Löfven and other ministers have not yet commented, according to Swedish media.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From the pandemic to measles, Smitha Mundasad looks at global health challenges in 2021", "Liam Reilly fronted Bagatelle for more than 40 years\n\nIrish Eurovision singer and frontman of the rock band Bagatelle, Liam Reilly, has died aged 65.\n\nA family statement confirmed that Mr Reilly \"passed away suddenly but peacefully at his home\" on 1 January.\n\nMr Reilly fronted Bagatelle for more than 40 years and they had success with songs including Summer in Dublin and Second Violin.\n\nHe also came joint second at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1990 with the song Somewhere in Europe.\n\nThe song finished on 132 points, joint with France's entry sung by Joëlle Ursull, in the contest in Zagreb.\n\nMr Reilly, from Dundalk, County Louth, also composed Ireland's Eurovision entry for the contest in Rome in 1991, when Kim Jackson performed his song Could It Be That I'm In Love, which was placed 10th.\n\n\"We know that his many friends and countless fans around the world will share in our grief as we mourn his loss, but celebrate the extraordinary talent of the man whose songs meant so much to so many.\" the family statement added.\n\nJoe Gallagher, the band's promoter from Strabane, County Tyrone, told BBC Radio Ulster \"the talent that Liam brought to the music industry in Ireland is second to none\".\n\n\"Some of the songs that he has written are up there with some of the better songs written in Ireland,\" he said.\n\n\"He is one of the best singer-songwriters Ireland has ever seen or produced.\"\n\nMr Reilly also wrote songs for others, including The Wolfe Tones. The Irish group paid tribute to him on social media, describing him as \"a master songwriter\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Wolfe Tones 🇮🇪 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The Wolfe Tones 🇮🇪\n\nStephen Travers, a member of the Miami Showband, said Mr Reilly was a \"national treasure\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nTributes have been paid to trainer Zoe Davison, who died from cancer on the same day two of her horses claimed wins at Plumpton.\n\nDavison, who had breast cancer for four-and-a-half years, died at her Shovelstrode Racing Stables in Sussex.\n\nBrown Bullet and Mr Jack, both trained at the family's stable, had raced to victory at the Sussex track on Sunday.\n\nSimon Clare, part-owner of Brown Bullet, said: \"Zoe was just the most wonderful human being imaginable.\"\n\nHer husband Andrew Irvine - who she married in 2018 - was by her side, along with family.\n\nHe said: \"She was the most wonderful, incredible person. I am blessed to have spent the last 24 years of my life with her.\"\n\nDaughter Gemelle Johnson, who was assistant to her mother, said: \"I just feel a bit numb inside because of everything.\n\n\"I'm a bit overwhelmed we've had a double for mum. Hopefully we have made her proud. It's surreal. Our team is a family business and we put everything into it. She will be thoroughly missed as she is the glue that holds us together.\n\n\"We've had a few winners around here and it is one of our local tracks. It means everything to us as we want to do her proud.\"\n\nDavison sent out the first of over 100 winners when Sails Legend, with AP McCoy in the saddle, won at Towcester in November 1997.\n\nShe enjoyed her best season with 15 winners in the 2017-18 campaign.\n\nJockey Page Fuller has a long association with the stable and should have ridden Mr Jack but had been stood down from an earlier fall.\n\nShe said: \"You couldn't have written it any better today. She was just a kind and genuine person who was a real horsewoman. She loved her horses and did her best by them.\n\n\"She has been struggling for a long time, but fortunately her strength has rubbed off on everybody else and they showed that by sending out the winners today.\n\n\"It has been a great team effort and it is great she has gone out like that. I don't know anybody who would have a bad word to say about her - she was just one of those really nice people.\"\n\nEd Arkell, ex-Fontwell clerk of the course and now at nearby West Sussex track Goodwood, said: \"Zoe was a huge part of the southern racing circuit. I'm so sorry for her family and she will be very much missed. She was a friendly, happy person who everybody loved.\n\n\"As a trainer, she ran a wonderful family operation. There are less of those these days. She supported her local tracks and became a big part of them.\"\n\nClare added: \"Zoe was the most talented horsewoman imaginable. What she didn't know about horses wasn't worth knowing.\n\n\"She is so incredibly well loved and will be desperately missed by everyone who knew her.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nArsenal continued their Premier League resurgence with a ruthless victory over strugglers West Brom at The Hawthorns.\n\nDefender Kieran Tierney's excellent solo run and curling finish put the Gunners in front in the first half, before the impressive Bukayo Saka rounded off a stunning passing move to make it 2-0.\n\nAlexandre Lacazette added the third and fourth goals after the break - smashing in a rebound from Emile Smith Rowe's shot before he was set up by Tierney.\n\nIt was Arsenal's third league victory in a row after they had failed to win their previous seven.\n\nWest Brom, playing their fourth match under new manager Sam Allardyce, remain second from bottom and six points from safety.\n• None Confidence? Youth? How have Arsenal turned relegation talk into European hopes?\n\nArsenal boss Mikel Arteta said he wanted his players to \"show confidence\" at The Hawthorns, and they certainly did that in a dominant and eye-catching display.\n\nHector Bellerin forced Sam Johnstone into a save within two minutes after Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang broke down the left, and Saka tormented full-back Dara O'Shea on the opposite wing constantly during the opening half.\n\nIt was Saka's ball that fizzed past the back post, inches away from the toe of Aubameyang, after the 19-year-old had got the better of O'Shea and hit it straight at Johnstone.\n\nWest Brom were being suffocated and Tierney's burst of pace to get around Darnell Furlong, before bending it into the far corner, was the perfect way to open the scoring.\n\nSaka made it 2-0 by rounding off a slick, one-touch passing move that former Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger would have been proud of.\n\nWest Brom could offer no response after the break either and Arsenal were 3-0 up on the hour when Lacazette eventually blasted in the rebound from a catalogue of errors by defender Semi Ajayi.\n\nThat was game over but Lacazette was allowed to add a fourth when he was left unmarked to divert Tierney's cross into the roof of the net four minutes later.\n\nArteta, knowing the job was done, was able to bring off Saka and Emile Smith Rowe following impressive performances from both youngsters, while Arsenal continued to create chances to round off a very enjoyable evening in the snow.\n\nAllardyce's first match in charge of West Brom - a 3-0 drubbing by Aston Villa after captain Jake Livermore had been sent off - was a sign of just how tough this job was going to be.\n\nThen that 1-1 draw with Liverpool at Anfield provided hope. The Baggies were resilient, organised and tireless.\n\nBut heavy back-to-back defeats by Leeds United and now Arsenal at home have brought things back down to earth.\n\nWest Brom were overawed in defence, out-run in midfield and frustrated by a lack of opportunities in attack throughout this confidence-crushing defeat.\n\nTheir rare sniffs at goal came from a Granit Xhaka error in the first half - Matheus Pereira chipping it through to Matt Phillips who struck it straight at Bernd Leno - before Callum Robinson's finish was ruled out for offside in the second half.\n\nSubstitute Rekeem Harper's long-range strike deep in stoppage time was also comfortably turned behind by Leno.\n\nIt was West Brom's third home loss in three under Allardyce and they have conceded 12 goals with no reply in those games.\n\n'Everything looks much better' - what they said\n\nWest Brom manager Sam Allardyce: \"Another game gone by where we learn more about the players we have. We have learnt an awful lot about what we can and cannot do.\n\n\"We need to work out a way of not trying to be as sloppy as we have been at conceding goals. It appears when we try to open up we leave opportunities for the opposition and we cannot cope.\"\n\nArsenal manager Mikel Arteta: \"We had a big week, three games in seven days, and we managed to win them and everything looks much better. It was difficult conditions but the team looked sharp from the start. It's a big win.\n\n\"After the results we had before we had to lift things straight away. Now we have got some discipline back. We look more creative in the final third and we look solid at the back.\"\n\nThe best of the stats\n• None West Brom are the first side to lose consecutive home Premier League games by at least four goals since Wigan in August 2010.\n• None Arsenal have scored in all 25 of their Premier League meetings with West Brom, the best 100% scoring record by one side against an opponent in the competition's history.\n• None There were 20 passes in the build-up to Arsenal's first goal scored by Kieran Tierney - since Mikel Arteta's first game in charge on Boxing Day 2019, the Gunners have scored more goals following a sequence of 20+ passes than any other Premier League side (3).\n• None Tierney became the first Scottish player to score an away Premier League goal for Arsenal and the first to do so in the top flight since Charlie Nicholas against Ipswich Town in March 1986.\n• None Alexandre Lacazette has scored five away Premier League goals in 2020-21, his best such tally in a single season in the competition.\n\nWest Brom travel to Blackpool for an FA Cup third-round tie on Saturday, 9 January (15:00 GMT kick-off), before returning to Premier League action on Saturday, 16 January against Wolves (12:30 GMT).\n\nArsenal host Newcastle in their FA Cup match on the same day (17:30 GMT), before facing Crystal Palace at home in the league on Thursday, 14 January (20:00 GMT).\n• None Offside, West Bromwich Albion. Charlie Austin tries a through ball, but Kyle Bartley is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Rekeem Harper (West Bromwich Albion) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Matheus Pereira.\n• None Attempt saved. Willian (Arsenal) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Dani Ceballos.\n• None Attempt missed. Joseph Willock (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Willian with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Conor Gallagher (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Callum Robinson.\n• None Attempt blocked. Charlie Austin (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Dara O'Shea.\n• None Dani Ceballos (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kieran Tierney.\n• None Attempt missed. Charlie Austin (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Matt Phillips. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "Cases have reached record highs in the past week\n\nThe next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid, the first minister has warned.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said the new variant of the virus was \"accelerating spread\" across Scotland.\n\n\"If you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others and the NHS at risk,\" she tweeted.\n\nA further 2,539 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed on Friday.\n\nThe number is slightly down on Thursday's figure, but Ms Sturgeon said cases numbers were still \"worryingly high\".\n\nDaily confirmed cases have reached record highs on each of the previous three days, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nThe percentage of positive cases also reached 14.4% on Wednesday - the highest it has been since the second wave of the pandemic began in the summer.\n\nMs Sturgeon tweeted: \"Today's case numbers are worryingly high again. The new variant is accelerating spread.\n\n\"PLEASE do not visit other people's homes just now, even today - if you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others & the NHS at risk.\"\n\nShe said the \"vaccine cavalry\" was on the way, offering \"real hope for 2021\", but she added: \"With this new variant, the next few weeks may be the most dangerous we've faced since Mar/April.\n\n\"We must act together to suppress it, to save lives and protect the NHS. Folded hands stick with it.\"\n\nThe number of daily confirmed cases has reached record highs this week\n\nA new study by London's Imperial College has found that the new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nThe Scottish government's most recent estimate of the R number in Scotland has put it between 0.9 and 1.1.\n\nEmma Thomson, a professor of infectious disease at the University of Glasgow, said it was important to get people vaccinated quickly.\n\nThe professor, who has been working on the sequencing of the new Covid mutation, told the BBC that lockdown was not controlling the infection \"on its own\".\n\n\"At least we come in armed into the new year with two vaccines which are highly effective at preventing severe disease. We have that,\" she said.\n\n\"We need to roll it out now to add to the public health measures.\"\n\nParties, traditional \"first-footing\" and social events were banned this Hogmanay, with all of mainland Scotland and Skye being under the highest level of Covid restrictions.\n\nAll official events were cancelled, but police had to disperse a crowds of people who gathered at Edinburgh Castle and Calton Hill to see in the new year.\n\nIt has also emerged that 32 people were charged with reckless conduct after police found them gathered at a rented property in Aberfoyle on 27 December.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"As the first minister has pointed out, the sharp rise in cases is evidence that the new strain seems to be speeding up transmission.\n\n\"This is why we are asking people to please stay at home as much as possible and avoid non-essential interaction with others.\n\n\"There is light at the end of the tunnel, but we ask everyone to be patient as we work our way through the vaccination programme, and continue to follow FACTS to keep us all safe.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIndia has formally approved the emergency use of two coronavirus vaccines as it prepares for one of the world's biggest inoculation drives.\n\nThe drugs regulatory authority gave the green light to the jabs developed by AstraZeneca with Oxford University and by local firm Bharat Biotech.\n\nIndia plans to inoculate some 300 million people on a priority list this year.\n\nIt has recorded the second-highest number of infections in the world, with more than 10.3 million confirmed cases to date. Nearly 150,000 people have died.\n\nOn Saturday India held nationwide drills to prepare more than 90,000 health care workers to administer vaccines across the country, which has a population of 1.3 billion people.\n\nThe Drugs Controller General of India said both manufacturers had submitted data showing their vaccines were safe to use.\n\nHowever, opposition politicians and some doctors have criticised a lack of transparency in the approval process.\n\nDr Swapneil Parikh, an infectious diseases researcher based in Mumbai, told the BBC doctors were in a difficult position.\n\n\"I understand there is a need to go through the process quickly, remove regulatory hurdles,\" he said. \"However... [governments and regulators] have a duty to be transparent about the data they have reviewed and the process involved in making the decision to authorise a vaccine, because if they don't do this, it can affect the public's faith in the process.\"\n\nThe Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is being manufactured locally by the Serum Institute of India, the world's largest vaccine manufacturer. It says it is producing more than 50 million doses a month.\n\nAdar Poonawalla, the company's CEO, told the BBC in November that he aimed to ramp up production to 100 million doses a month after receiving regulatory approval.\n\nThe jab, which is known as Covishield in India, is administered in two doses given between four and 12 weeks apart. It can be safely stored at temperatures of 2C to 8C, about the same as a domestic fridge, and can be delivered in existing health care settings such as doctors' surgeries.\n\nThis makes it easier to distribute than some of the other vaccines. The jab developed by Pfizer/BioNTech - which is currently being administered in several countries - must be stored at -70C and can only be moved a limited number of times - a particular challenge in India, where summer temperatures can reach 50C.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Adar Poonawalla This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe local vaccine, however, was approved despite the absence of data on how efficient it can be. It has yet to go through large-scale trials.\n\nThe Drugs Controller General, V.G. Somani, said Bharat Biotech's Covaxin was \"safe and provides a robust immune response\".\n\nMr Somani said it had been approved \"in public interest as an abundant precaution, in clinical trial mode, to have more options for vaccinations, especially in case of infection by mutant strains\".\n\nIndia, which makes about 60% of vaccines globally, plans to immunise about 300 million people by July 2021. It will prioritise health care workers, the emergency services, and those who are clinically vulnerable because of age or pre-existing conditions.\n\nIndia's existing vaccination programme already reaches about 55 million people a year, administering 390 million free jabs against a dozen diseases. It stocks and tracks the vaccines through a well-oiled electronic system.\n\nIndia immunisation programme is one of the largest in the world\n\nPfizer, whose vaccine has already been approved for use in jurisdictions including the UK, the US and the EU, is also seeking emergency authorisation in India.\n\nIn all, some 30 vaccine candidates are being developed in India.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olly Stephens was pronounced dead in Bugs Bottom fields in Emmer Green, Reading\n\nFour boys and a girl have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder after a 13-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Reading.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green, on Sunday.\n\nThe five teenagers, all aged 13 or 14, remain in custody, according to Thames Valley Police.\n\nDet Supt Kevin Brown said: \"Our thoughts remain with Olly's family at this incredibly difficult time.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is a tragic and shocking incident which has resulted in the death of a young boy.\"\n\nThe victim's family are being supported by specially trained officers.\n\nFloral tributes to Olly have been left outside Highdown School\n\nHighdown School and Sixth Form Centre said it was \"reeling from the tragic news\".\n\nIn a statement, head teacher Rachel Cave said: \"This student was part of our community and many students and staff knew him well.\n\n\"For a life to be ended at such a young age is a total tragedy. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family.\"\n\nThe school, in Emmer Green, said it was arranging counselling support for students and setting up an electronic book of condolence.\n\nThames Valley Police said a \"considerable police presence\" would be in place in the area for several days\n\nOfficers were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack.\n\nOfficers are appealing for anyone who was in the area between 15:00 and 16:30 who might have taken photos or camera footage to contact them if they notice anything suspicious.\n\nDet Supt Brown said he believed there would have been witnesses to the \"dreadful incident\" as the area is popular with dog walkers.\n\nA man said his wife was walking their dog through the park on Sunday afternoon when she saw a boy on the ground with several people around him trying to give him first aid.\n\nAnother dog walker said she saw a group of young people standing in the woods in Bugs Bottom fields at about 15:30 and described it as \"slightly unusual\".\n\nReading East MP Matt Rodda has offered his \"deepest condolences\" to the boy's family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matt Rodda This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSt Barnabas Church in Emmer Green has invited residents to pray and light a candle in memory of the boy.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A UK ticket-holder has started the new year by winning the EuroMillions jackpot of nearly £40m.\n\nOne ticket matched all five regular numbers and two lucky stars in the draw on Friday night to win the £39,774,466.40 prize.\n\nCamelot's Andy Carter, senior winners' adviser at the National Lottery, said: \"What an amazing start to 2021 for UK EuroMillions players.\"\n\nA ticket-holder has now come forward to claim their prize.\n\nCamelot, which operates the lottery, said checks were being made on the claim.\n\nMr Carter said: \"It is fantastic news that the jackpot winning lucky ticket-holder has now claimed this enormous prize. We will now focus on supporting the ticket-holder through the process.\"\n\nThe winning numbers were 16, 28, 32, 44 and 48 with the lucky stars 01 and 09.\n\nTen other ticket-holders each won £1m in the UK Millionaire Maker New Year's Day event.\n\nIn 2019, a UK ticket-holder won the full £170m EuroMillions jackpot, making them Britain's richest ever lottery winner.\n\nAnd last year, a £57m EuroMillions prize claim was validated just before the deadline. The ticket had been bought in South Ayrshire.\n\nThe winning ticket holder's newfound cash means they are now wealthier than former One Direction singer Zayn Malik, who is worth £36m, according to the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nAnd if they have a bit more money in the bank, they could buy one of the UK's most expensive homes, which went on the market last year.\n\nNobody won the EuroMillons Hotpicks jackpot on Friday, which uses the same numbers as the main draw, but one winner scooped the Thunderball top prize of £500,000.\n\nThe Thunderball numbers were 13, 17, 30, 34, 35 and the Thunderball was 01.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Wales went into a new lockdown on 20 December\n\nWales is likely to remain in lockdown for the rest of January as the first minister said he does not \"see much headroom for change\".\n\nMinisters are to review restrictions ahead of an announcement on Friday.\n\nBut Mark Drakeford said it was \"very hard to see where the room for manoeuvre is at the moment\" with the NHS \"under huge pressure\".\n\nWithout further changes, restrictions could be kept until the next three-week review at the end of January.\n\nMr Drakeford also said the Welsh Government was unlikely to tighten restrictions despite the emergence of a new more contagious variant of the virus.\n\nHe said there could be some tweaks \"at the margins\" but no wholesale changes because \"it's difficult to see what more could be done\".\n\nThe government introduced a new four-level system of Covid-19 restrictions on 20 December with people told to stay home and avoid all but essential travel.\n\nA study has found the new variant of Covid-19 to be \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nBut Mr Drakeford does not believe the Welsh Government needs to change the system of restrictions it introduced before details of the new variant emerged.\n\n\"We'll keep our plans under review but level four restrictions in Wales are very strict indeed and it's difficult to see what more could be done to them,\" he said.\n\n\"If they need to be tweaked at the margins to take account of the new variation that's what the cabinet here will consider.\"\n\nHe has dismissed calls by teaching unions to suspend the phased return of face-to-face teaching.\n\nThe government's cabinet will meet on Wednesday to review the current restrictions ahead of an announcement by the first minister on Friday.\n\nBut when asked whether he expected any changes, Mr Drakeford said: \"It's very hard to see where the room for manoeuvre is at the moment.\n\n\"Our health service remains under huge pressure and the coming weeks will be very difficult indeed with winter pressures on the one hand and growing numbers of people suffering with coronavirus in our hospitals on the other.\n\n\"We'll review it, as we said we would, but when I look at the figures I don't see much headroom for change.\"\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives have not criticised the decision to remain in lockdown, but have called for greater scrutiny.\n\nSuzy Davies, Member of the Senedd for South Wales West, said questions would remain \"about how legitimate the decisions of the Welsh Government are\" until MSs had the opportunity to question them in the Welsh Parliament.\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price said the announcement was unsurprising given the pressures on the NHS, but called on the Welsh Government to ensure a \"rapid rollout\" of the Covid vaccine.\n\nMr Price also called for financial support for people forced to self-isolate and businesses \"during the hardest winter of our time\".\n\nAfter Friday's decision, the next three-week review announcement is not expected until 29 January.\n\nA further 56 people have died after contracting coronavirus in Wales, along with 4,011 new cases, according to data published by Public Health Wales on Sunday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A dozen people were fined in London for playing dominoes\n\nTwelve people have been fined after they were caught playing dominoes in a restaurant in east London.\n\nPolice officers found the group hiding in a dark room when they entered the building in Whitechapel on Tuesday.\n\nThe owner initially claimed those inside were workers, before admitting they were playing the game.\n\nTower Hamlets Council has been asked to consider issuing a fine to the owner of the restaurant for breaching tier four Covid-19 restrictions, the Met said.\n\nA video released by the Met shows the restaurant owner saying: \"They're playing dominoes.\"\n\nCh Insp Pete Shaw said: \"The rules under tier four are in place to keep all of us safe, and they do not exempt people from gathering to play games together in basements.\n\n\"The fact that these people hid from officers clearly shows they knew they were breaching the rules and have now been fined for their actions.\"\n• None Met breaks up more than 50 New Year's Eve parties\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson has reiterated his position that a Scottish independence referendum should be a \"once-in-a-generation\" vote.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, the prime minister said the gap between referendums on Europe - the first in 1975 and the second in 2016 - was \"a good sort of gap\".\n\nHowever, Mr Marr suggested that now \"things had changed\" for Scotland.\n\nNicola Sturgeon wants to see an independent Scotland join the EU.\n\nAndrew Marr asked the prime minister what a voter in Scotland should do if they decided that a second independence referendum was now something they wanted, and what were the \"democratic tools\" to now do that?\n\nMr Johnson replied by saying: \"Referendums in my experience, direct experience, in this country are not particularly jolly events.\n\n\"They don't have a notably unifying force in the national mood, they should be only once-in-a-generation.\"\n\nAsked what the difference was between a referendum on EU membership being granted and one on Scottish independence being requested, he said: \"The difference is we had a referendum in 1975 and we then had another one in 2016.\n\n\"That seems to be about the right sort of gap.\"\n\nThe 2014 independence referendum resulted in a 55.3% vote against Scotland going alone.\n\nOn Hogmanay, Nicola Sturgeon said Europe should \"keep a light on\" as Scotland will be \"back soon\".\n\nThe first minister tweeted just after the Brexit transition period formally ended at 11:00 on 31 December 2020.\n\nScotland's trading and travel relationships with EU countries will now be governed by the agreement announced by the UK government on Christmas Eve.\n\nMs Sturgeon reiterated the SNP's call for an independent Scotland to join the EU.\n\nTweeting a picture of the words Europe and Scotland joined by a love heart, she wrote: \"Scotland will be back soon, Europe. Keep the light on.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nicola Sturgeon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSNP depute leader Keith Brown said: \"It may be a new year but it's the same old incoherent bluster from Boris Johnson. The prime minister pretends otherwise but he knows he can't keep on denying democracy.\n\n\"Even his American pal Donald Trump has learned that if you try to stand in the way of the democratic choice of a nation you get swept away.\n\n\"The people who will decide our future are the people of Scotland, not Boris Johnson and the Westminster Tories.\"\n\nFormer Labour prime minister Tony Blair said it was \"extremely difficult\" to challenge the SNP on independence when the party was \"virtually uncontested\" in Scotland.\n\nHe said: \"We had a referendum that rejected Scottish independence, but Brexit put it back on the agenda again. And it's going to require very careful management. The truth of the matter is it's still not in Scotland's interest to separate from England.\n\n\"There are huge economic and political reasons for the United Kingdom to stay the United Kingdom but we're going to have to examine whether there's different constitutional settlements.\n\n\"I also think it's incredibly important, the single most important thing politically to my mind, is that we get a really capable opposition in Scotland - which should be the Labour Party - that's capable of contesting the Scottish nationalist position in Scotland in a way that prevents them from doing what they do at the moment, which is govern Scotland but pretend they're in opposition.\"\n\nScottish Greens co-leader Lorna Slater said: \"Only the people of Scotland have the right to determine Scotland's future.\n\n\"Seventeen consecutive opinion polls have demonstrated majorities in favour of independence, with the most recent indicating a record 58% support.\n\n\"Whether it's the botched handling of the coronavirus crisis, the Brexit catastrophe or just the heartlessness of Tory governments we haven't voted for, it's clear that the UK isn't working for Scotland.\"", "Gerry Marsden was awarded an MBE in 2003 for services to Liverpudlian Charities.\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers singer Gerry Marsden, whose version of You'll Never Walk Alone became a football terrace anthem for his hometown club of Liverpool, has died at the age of 78.\n\nHis family said he died on Sunday after a short illness not linked to Covid-19.\n\nMarsden's band was one of the biggest success stories of the Merseybeat era, and in 1963 became the first to have their first three songs top the chart.\n\nThe band's other best known hit, Ferry Cross The Mersey, came in 1964.\n\nIt was written by Marsden himself as a tribute to his city, and reached number eight.\n\nMarsden was made an MBE in 2003 for services to charity after supporting victims of the Hillsborough disaster.\n\nAt the time, he said he was \"over the moon\" to have received the honour, following his support for numerous charities across Merseyside and beyond.\n\nGerry Marsden in 2009 on the Mersey ferry, which he made famous with his song Ferry Cross The Mersey, as he received the Freedom of the City in Liverpool\n\nMarsden's daughter, Yvette Marbeck, said he went into hospital on Boxing Day after tests showed he had a serious blood infection that had travelled to his heart.\n\nMs Marbeck told the PA news agency: \"It was a very short illness and too quick to comprehend really.\"\n\nHe died in hospital, Ms Marbeck said, adding: \"He was our dad, our hero, warm, funny and what you see is what you got.\"\n\nLiverpool FC posted on social media that Marsden's words would \"live on forever with us\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers worked the same Liverpool club circuit as The Beatles in the 1960s and were signed by the Fab Four's manager Brian Epstein.\n\nEpstein gave Marsden's group the song How Do You Do It, which had been turned down by The Beatles and Adam Faith, for their debut single.\n\nSir Paul McCartney described Gerry and the Pacemakers as The Beatles's \"biggest rivals\" on the Merseyside scene.\n\n\"I'll always remember you with a smile,\" Sir Paul said in his tribute to Marsden.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Paul McCartney This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd the other surviving Beatle, Sir Ringo Starr, sent \"peace and love\" to Marsden's family in a tribute on Twitter.\n\nWhile Marsden was a songwriter as well as a singer, his most enduring hit was actually a cover of a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical number from 1945, which he had to convince his bandmates to record as their third single.\n\nIn many interviews over the years, he explained how fate played a part in his band ever recording the song. He was watching a Laurel and Hardy movie at Liverpool's Odeon cinema in the early 1960s and, only because it was raining, he decided to stay for the second part of a double feature.\n\nThat turned out to be the film Carousel - which featured that song on its soundtrack - and Marsden was so moved by the lyrics that he became determined that it should become part of his band's repertoire.\n\nIn a 2013 interview, Marsden told the Liverpool FC website how You'll Never Walk Alone was adopted by the club's fans as soon as it topped the chart in 1963: \"I remember being at Anfield and before every kick off they used to play the top 10 from number 10 to number one, and so You'll Never Walk Alone was played before the match. I was at the game and the fans started singing it.\n\n\"When it went out of the top 10 they took the song off the playlist and then for the next match the Kop were shouting 'Where's our song?' So they had to put it back on.\n\n\"Now, every time I go to the game I still get goose pimples when the song comes on and I sing my head off.\"\n\nSir Kenny Dalglish, who managed Liverpool at the time of the Hillsborough tragedy, tweeted that he was \"saddened\" by the news of Marsden's death, and that You'll Never Walk Alone was an \"integral part of Liverpool Football Club, and never more so than now\".\n\nLiverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram posted a tribute on Twitter, saying he was \"devastated\" by the news.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Steve Rotheram This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGerry was an entertainer. He loved being an entertainer; he loved people seeing him in the street and asking him for his autograph and the like.\n\nHe had a very distinctive voice, and that is terribly important. You knew instantly it was him on those records. He was best on those ballads.\n\nI think he really did them very well indeed. You'll Never Walk Alone was a big show song that had been around for years and years, and lots of people had done it.\n\nJust before Gerry brought his version out, Johnny Mathis brought his out. If that version had been played on the Kop, I don't think the Kop would have taken to it because you couldn't sing along with Johnny Mathis - he had too big a range and too perfect a voice.\n\nBut Gerry sounded like everyman and it was absolutely perfect for the Kop. I think it's the greatest football anthem of the lot.\n\nAs well as being a Liverpool anthem, You'll Never Walk Alone has also been adopted by fans at both Celtic in Scotland and Borussia Dortmund in Germany.\n\nMarsden's career began at legendary live music venue, The Cavern Club, where The Pacemakers played nearly 200 times.\n\nThe club said on Twitter that Marsden was \"not only a legend, but also a very good friend of The Cavern\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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End of twitter post 4 by The Cavern Club\n\nGerry and The Pacemakers achieved nine hit singles and two hit albums between 1963 and 1965, before splitting up.\n\nMarsden pursued a solo career before the band reformed in 1974 for a world tour.\n\nIn 1985, Marsden was back in the pop spotlight when he was invited to be one of the vocalists of a charity version of You'll Never Walk Alone, which was released to raise funds for victims of a fire at a Bradford City match.\n\nIn doing so, Marsden set another chart record by becoming the first person to sing on two different chart-topping versions of the same song.\n\nSo when, after the Hillsborough tragedy in 1989, the other Pacemakers classic of Ferry Cross The Mersey was chosen to raise funds for its victims and a group of famous Liverpudlian singers was gathered, Marsden was again included and was back at number one once more for a cause he held dear for the rest of his life.\n\nMarsden was awarded the Freedom of Liverpool in April 2009, an occasion he marked by boarding a ferry across the Mersey and getting out his guitar to sing his famous hit which described the scene.", "A woman takes her dog for an early walk in Allendale in Northumberland\n\nMany parts of England have seen snow flurries accompany the arrival of New Year.\n\nAreas which welcomed in 2021 with several centimetres of snow included Northumberland, parts of Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.\n\nThe Met Office has warned worse is to come with more wintry showers forecast.\n\nDriving conditions on many roads will become \"hazardous\" as the cold weather continues next week, it said.\n\nSeveral football matches were cancelled this weekend due to frozen pitches.\n\nGround staff at West Bromwich Albion were faced with heavy snowfall prior to their Premier League match with Arsenal at The Hawthorns on Saturday evening.\n\nGround staff clear snow from the pitch prior to the Premier League match at The Hawthorns, West Bromwich on Saturday\n\nFurther snow is predicted mainly inland and particularly over higher ground where above 200-300m a further few centimetres of snow is possible.\n\nThe chill in the air is due to high pressure to the north of the UK, which is dragging air from the east \"which at this time of year is cold\", the Met Office said.\n\nThe cold easterly winds are set to develop next week, bringing wintry showers - particularly around eastern parts - while hazardous freezing fog, frost and ice risks will all continue, forecasters said.\n\nSledging in the snow around Silverdale Country Park in Newcastle-under-Lyme\n\nTwo women looking out over the snow covered Huntcliff sea cliffs in Saltburn on the North Yorkshire coast\n\nMeteorologist Alex Burkill said: \"Obviously it's very cold and it's going to stay cold through this week.\n\n\"Whilst there will be some wintry hazards around, it's not really until the end of the week until we see any significant snow.\"\n\nColston Bassett in Nottinghamshire got a light dusting of snow on Saturday\n\nA buried garden Buddha after heavy overnight snow in Buxton in Derbyshire\n\nRAC Breakdown spokesman Simon Williams said: \"The message for those who have to drive is to adjust their speed according to the conditions and leave extra stopping distance so 2021 doesn't begin with an unwelcome bump and an insurance claim.\n\n\"Snow and ice are by far the toughest driving conditions, so if they can be avoided that's probably the best policy.\"\n\nA plough clears snow from the roads in Allendale, Northumberland\n\nA man takes his dogs for an early morning walk through the snow in Allenheads, Northumberland\n\nWaterfowl were still active at a snowy Chapel en le Frith in the Derbyshire Peak District\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Researchers have been tracking changes to the \"spike\" of the virus\n\nThe new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version, a study has found.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy of London's Imperial College said the differences between the viruses types was \"quite extreme\".\n\n\"There is a huge difference in how easily the variant virus spreads,\" he told BBC News. \"This is the most serious change in the virus since the epidemic began,\" he added.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nCases of Covid-19 have begun to increase rapidly during the second spike, and the number of cases recorded in a single day reached a new high on Thursday.\n\nEarly results indicated that the virus was spreading more quickly among under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children.\n\nBut the very latest data indicates that it was spreading quickly across all age groups, according to Prof Gandy who was a member of the research team.\n\n\"One possible explanation is that the early data was collected during the time of the November lockdown where schools were open and the activities of the adult population were more restricted. We are seeing now that the new virus has increased infectiousness across all age groups.\"\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said he believed that the new findings indicated that even tougher restrictions would soon be needed.\n\n\"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread, more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person infects. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nThe most chilling finding from this piece of research is that the November lockdown in England, hard though it was for many people, would not have stopped the variant form of the virus spreading. The same severe restrictions that saw cases of the previous version of the virus fall by a third, would see a tripling of the new variant. This is why there has been such a sudden tightening of restrictions across the country.\n\nIt is unclear whether the current restrictions will be enough to control the spread of the virus. Given the fact that it has taken two lockdowns to stop the earlier version of the virus overwhelming the NHS, many scientists fear that further tightening will be necessary.\n\nInfection levels will begin to drop as enough people are vaccinated. But until then it is now more important than ever for people to follow social distancing guidelines, wear masks where required and to regularly wash their hands.\n\nThe new year brings with it hope of a more normal life in the next few months but also a new form of the virus that all of us will have to combat in the coming days and weeks.\n\nProfessor Lawrence Young, of Warwick University, said early indications suggested that vaccines would be effective against the new form of the virus.\n\n\"Variants virus have been around since the beginning of the pandemic and are a product of the natural process by which viruses develop and adapt to their hosts as they replicate.\n\n\"Most of these mutations have no effect on the behaviour of the virus but very occasionally they can improve the ability of the virus to infect and/or become more resistant to the body's immune response.\"\n\nFurther research is needed to understand why the variant is spreading so quickly. But early indications are that vaccines should be effective against it.\n\nThe new virus has been designated \"Variant of Concern 202012/01\" or VOC by Public Health England.\n\nIt was detected in November and thought to have originated in the south-east England in September.\n\nThere is no evidence to suggest that it is more deadly, but it will increase the number of cases which in turn will add further pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe variant can now be found across the UK, except Northern Ireland, but it is heavily concentrated in London, as well as south-east and eastern England.", "The aftermath of an attack in August in Niger, which has suffered a number claimed by jihadist groups\n\nSuspected Islamist militants have attacked two villages in Niger, with reports of dozens of civilians killed.\n\nAround 49 died and 17 were injured in the village of Tchombangou, while another 30 died in Zaroumdareye - both near Niger's western border with Mali, Reuters reports.\n\nThere have been several recent violent incidents in Africa's Sahel region, carried out by militant groups.\n\nFrance said on Saturday that two of its soldiers were killed in Mali.\n\nHours earlier, a group with links to al-Qaeda said it was behind the killing of three French troops in a separate attack in Mali on Monday.\n\nFrance has been leading a coalition of West African and European allies against Islamist militants in the Sahel.\n\nBut the region continues to be affected by ethnic violence, banditry, and human and drug trafficking.\n\nIn light of Saturday's attacks, Interior Minister Alkache Alhada said soldiers had been sent to the area, according to French outlet RFI. But Mr Alhada did not say how many casualties there had been across the two villages.\n\nA local official, quoted by AFP news agency, said many people were killed, and a local journalist spoke of up to 50 deaths.\n\nNiger's Tillabéri region, where the villages are situated, lies within the so-called tri-border area between Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, which has been plagued by jihadi attacks in recent years.\n\nTravel by motorbike has been banned in the region for a year, as part of efforts to stop incursions by Islamic militants, who often launch attacks from the vehicles.\n\nAreas of Niger are also facing repeated attacks by jihadists from Nigeria, where the government is fighting an insurgency by Boko Haram.\n\nLast month, members of the group killed at least 27 people in Niger's south-eastern Diffa region.\n\nThe latest attacks in Tillabéri come amid national elections in Niger, as President Mahamadou Issoufou steps down after two five-year terms.\n\nElection officials announced provisional results on Saturday, showing a lead for Mohamed Bazoum - a former minister and a member of Niger's ruling party.\n\nA second round of votes is expected to be held on 21 February, once ballots have been validated by the country's constitutional court.", "The prime minister has said that tougher measures could be needed to help cope with a surge in coronavirus cases.\n\nHe has not yet said whether we will need school closures, or even overnight curfews like those imposed in France.\n\nBut clues about such measures to tackle the new more infectious variant come from the government's Sage advisory committee.\n\nThe headline is that whether we see a return to only being allowed one form of daily outdoor exercise, or stricter controls on travel around the country, we'll be hearing a lot more about something already very familiar: hand hygiene, social distancing, wearing masks and ensuring there is fresh air.\n\nThese may sound familiar but the advisers believe that because the new variant spreads so easily, the measures need to be applied with \"a step change in rigour\" - in other words, a lot more forcefully.\n\nThey suggest considering a return to the two-metre rule because it's more effective than the one-metre plus guidance adopted last year.\n\nMasks need to be made of three layers, not just one, and worn in more locations than now - including workplaces, schools and crowded outdoor spaces.\n\nThe key message is that it is vital to reduce social contact - being close to people, especially indoors for long periods of time, carries the highest risk of infection.\n\nSo expect tier four-type bans on visiting other households to become normal.\n\nThe advisers also say many people still do not recognise the key symptoms of Covid-19 - so ministers need to spell them out and help people understand why they should self-isolate.\n\nBut they also say it is essential to praise the efforts made so far, to recognise sacrifices and emphasise how they've kept infection numbers lower than they would otherwise have been.\n\nWhatever new measures are picked, the advice to ministers is to offer \"clear and convincing explanations\" to motivate people.\n\nThat could be a hint that the government's current \"hands, face, space\" slogan may need to make way for something stronger.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola says he may stay in management much longer than he anticipated.\n\nGuardiola, 49, has previously talked of limiting his time in football to pursue other interests.\n\n\"Before, I thought I was going to retire soon. Now I'm thinking I'm going to retire older. So, I don't know,\" Guardiola said.\n\nThe Spaniard signed a new two-year deal at City in November and has won six major trophies at the club.\n\nPrior to his arrival in Manchester, Guardiola, who turns 50 this month, spent four years as manager of Barcelona and three in charge of Bayern Munich.\n\n\"Experience helps you, especially the way I live my profession,\" he added.\n\nGuardiola's five-year stay at City represents the longest commitment he has made to a club in his management career.\n\nHe has won two Premier League titles, the FA Cup and three League Cups since joining them in 2016.\n\nDespite going into Sunday's match at Chelsea on the back of a six-game unbeaten run and with two games in hand on most clubs around them in the table, he is cautious about talk of winning a third league title.\n\n\"If you think about what [can] happen in January, February - the two games [in hand], we can lose these two games and anything can happen,\" he said.\n\n\"So, in the Premier League, every game is so tough and it is better to be calm. The real Premier League, the people I spoke to before I landed here, said everyone can lose to everyone. I didn't see this until now.\n\n\"Now is the first time when I see in the Premier League, one team is able to lose or win seven, and after draw, and after lose. The results are unpredictable.\"\n\nAmong the challengers this season are arch rivals Manchester United, who City face in the Carabao Cup semi-finals.\n\nOle Gunnar Solskjaer's side have been rejuvenated in recent weeks, shrugging off the disappointment of a Champions League exit with some excellent domestic form.\n\n\"Ole is happier than me,\" said Guardiola, whose preparations have been affected by five players testing positive for Covid-19.\n\n\"But I am not much concerned about United. I am so busy with what we have to do and what we can do with the players.\n\n\"They are there because they deserve it. Since I arrived I expected them to be there all the time. Sometimes in the last seasons it has not been possible, especially in the Premier League.\"\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "Police made 17 arrests at the demonstration in Hyde Park\n\nPolice have made arrests at an anti-lockdown demonstration in central London.\n\nCrowds of between 200 to 300 people began to gather in Hyde Park, which is in a tier four coronavirus area, at about 13:30 GMT on Saturday, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nSeventeen people were arrested on suspicion of breaching public health regulations.\n\nMost demonstrators had left the park by 16:45, police said.\n\nThe Met tweeted: \"Officers continue to engage with groups of people who have gathered in the Hyde Park area.\n\n\"A number of people have been arrested under health protection regulations and taken into custody.\n\n\"We urge those in the area to leave immediately.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Metropolitan Police Events This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMore than two people are generally not allowed to meet in public under tier four rules.\n\nThe police force added: \"Officers will take enforcement action where we see clear breaches of the tier four rules.\n\n\"It's up to all of us to make the right choices and slow the spread of the virus.\"\n\nA group called The People's Lockdown, Stand For Your Human Rights, had said it was going to hold a event at Hyde Park on Saturday afternoon.\n\nIn an online post, it called on people to \"stand with your loved ones\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City say they are disappointed after defender Benjamin Mendy breached Covid-19 rules by hosting a New Year's Eve party.\n\nA spokesperson for the France international said the 26-year-old held a dinner party with guests from outside his household.\n\nThe mixing of households indoors is banned under the UK government's tier four restrictions.\n\nCity said they would conduct an internal investigation.\n\nMendy was named on the bench for City's Premier League game away to Chelsea on Sunday (16:30 GMT).\n\n\"While it is understood that elements of this incident have been misinterpreted in the reports [carried by newspapers earlier], and that the player has publicly apologised for his error, the club is disappointed to learn of the transgression and will be conducting an internal investigation,\" the club said in a statement.\n\nA spokesperson for Mendy said: \"Benjamin and his partner allowed a chef and two friends of his partner to attend his property for a dinner party on New Year's Eve.\n\n\"Ben accepts that this is a breach of Covid-19 protocols and is sorry for his actions in this matter. Ben has had a Covid test and is liaising with Manchester City about this.\"\n\nExplaining why Mendy was in his matchday squad on Sunday, manager Pep Guardiola told Sky Sports: \"First of all the club made a statement; second Benjamin already had Covid in the past - he's been tested every day like all of us and he's negative. He knows what he has done and he will learn in the future.\"\n\nMeanwhile, goalkeeper Ederson, forward Ferran Torres, and midfielder Tommy Doyle are among six City players out of the Chelsea game because of coronavirus.\n\nThe trio have tested positive for the virus, adding to the cases of Kyle Walker, Gabriel Jesus and Eric Garcia.\n\nEarlier on Sunday, defender Garcia became the sixth City player to test positive for coronavirus.\n\nGarcia, along with a member of staff who also returned a positive test, will now self-isolate.\n\nCity previously postponed their match against Everton on 28 December because of positive tests.\n\nThere have been a number of apparent coronavirus breaches by players at Premier League clubs in recent days.\n\nTottenham criticised three of their players after they attended a party over Christmas, while Fulham are looking into reports that striker Aleksandar Mitrovic allegedly broke coronavirus rules.\n\nCrystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson also apologised after midfielder Luka Milivojevic was pictured with Mitrovic at a gathering in London.\n\nFulham's match against Burnley on Sunday was postponed after an increase in positive cases at the club.\n\nCity also had to cancel their match against Everton on 28 December because of positive tests.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nLuke Campbell's hopes of another world title shot suffered a severe blow as Ryan Garcia rose from the canvas to land a superb stoppage in Dallas.\n\nIn a gripping lightweight fight, Briton Campbell landed a left hook in round two to floor Mexican-American Garcia.\n\nSome asked how the much-hyped Garcia might respond to adversity and while he fought on emotion, he found answers.\n\nCampbell survived a tough attack in the fifth, but a well-placed body shot ended the contest two rounds later.\n\n\"You taught me a lot,\" Garcia, 22, told 33-year-old Campbell as the opponents embraced in the beaten man's corner at the American Airlines Center.\n\nThe jubilant reaction from Garcia's team - including gym-mate Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez - hinted at relief, but unquestionably emphasised the statement they knew their man had made.\n\nIn beating a fighter of Campbell's pedigree - and by rising from the canvas to do so - this win served up plenty of answers about Garcia, whose social media following led him to be identified as the world's 12th most marketable athlete in October.\n\n\"I think I showed a lot of people who I really am. I showed today I am special,\" he told DAZN.\n\n\"They wanted to show me as a social media fighter. Anybody who puts you down, remember you're not who people tell you who you are - you are who you choose to be. I chose to be a champion tonight.\n\n\"He caught me, I was like, 'I got dropped, this is crazy'. I've never been dropped in my life. I had to adjust. I knew I could beat him, I just had to get back up.\"\n\nGarcia is the first man to beat Campbell by stoppage. Shortly after the fight Campbell told Garcia in his dressing room that he punched harder than anyone he had ever faced. The London 2012 Olympic gold medallist then told his Twitter followers that Garcia has a \"massive future ahead\".\n\nThis stoppage win will add to the kind of hype that has led some American broadcasters to suggest Garcia's star status could bring new fans to the sport in the years to come.\n\nThe 1-3 bookmakers' favourite was carried to the ring on a throne while Campbell waited in the ring in Texas.\n\nBut within two rounds a heavy left hook put Garcia on his back and it is to his credit he got up, took the fight to his rival and won rounds in the aftermath.\n\nGarcia had only twice gone past round four, and his last two bouts had lasted less than 180 seconds in total. He carried a fizz in his punches throughout and a left hook-right hand combination in the fifth rocked Campbell and sent him into the ropes as the bell sounded.\n\nIn a contest that ebbed and flowed, Campbell found some poise after a relentless attack from Garcia when the action resumed at the start of the sixth.\n\nBut a round later, Campbell braced for an attack to his head only for Garcia to beautifully drive a left hand to the body that left him on all fours.\n\nGarcia's team raced into the ring, lifted their man and placed a crown on his head.\n\nHis 21st win in as many fights could earn him a world title shot next, or his preferred bout with American Gervonta Davis.\n\nFor now, it has justified the hype and underlined his threat. After the fourth loss of his career, Campbell will need to regroup if he is to attempt to win a world title for the third time.\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "A large poultry flock is to be culled in County Antrim, after an outbreak of bird flu.\n\nThirty thousand birds are to be destroyed as a precautionary measure at the farm near Clough.\n\nIt is the first time the disease has been detected in a commercial flock in Northern Ireland since 1998\n\nThe outbreak affected a business rearing young hens for egg production and it is understood there are other poultry farms in the area.\n\nIt will mean certain movement restrictions in 3km and 10km protection zones around the affected farm, with potential trade implications for other poultry businesses there.\n\nBird flu is a notifiable disease carried by migratory wild birds. It can spread quickly and rapidly causes death in affected flocks.\n\nRestrictions were put in place earlier in the winter in an attempt to prevent transmission to commercial flocks which make up a key part of Northern Ireland's important agri-food industry.\n\nSince 23 December there has been a requirement for all poultry flocks, no matter how small, to be housed.\n\nPublic health advice is that bird flu- or avian influenza - poses a low risk to human health and the Food Standards Agency advises that it does not present a food risk.\n\nPoultry is a £750m a year industry in Northern Ireland which employs 5,000 people. There are around 24 million birds on 650 farms, most of them in counties Tyrone and Antrim.\n\nThe disease has been detected in a number of wild birds in Northern Ireland this winter and in commercial flocks in both Great Britain and in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nIn the short term it will mean no movements on or off poultry farms in the area, with a licensing system being introduced in the coming days.\n\nPoultry products from outside the restricted zone can continue to be traded with EU member states and products from within the zones can be sold on home markets.\n\nOther countries will apply their own rules depending on their assessment of the situation.\n\nNorthern Ireland's chief vet Robert Huey repeated his message for poultry owners to apply rigorous biosecurity measures.\n\n\"Given the level of suspicion and the density of the poultry population around the holding, it is vital that as a matter of precaution, we act now and act fast,\" he said.\n\n\"I have therefore taken the decision to cull the birds as well as introduce temporary control zones around the holding in an effort to protect our poultry industry and stop the spread of the virus.\n\n\"An epidemiological investigation is under way to determine the likely source of infection and determine the risk of disease spread.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Linda Bauld says Scots should be prepared a longer period living with level four restrictions\n\nScotland should be prepared for Covid restrictions to be extended as infection rates continue to rise, a public health expert has said.\n\nThe latest government figures show a further 2,137 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Scotland on Friday.\n\nProf Linda Bauld described it as a \"fragile situation\", despite the rate dropping below Thursday's 2,539 cases.\n\nThe latest figures for hospital admissions and deaths will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon warned on Friday that the next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid as the new variant of the virus was \"accelerating spread\" across Scotland.\n\nDaily confirmed cases reached record highs on the last three days of 2020, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nThe percentage of positive cases also reached 14.4% on Wednesday - the highest it has been since the second wave of the pandemic began in the summer.\n\nIt had dropped to 10.8% on Friday. A percentage of lower than 5% is needed to show the virus is under control, according to the WHO.\n\nProf Bauld, a public health expert at the University of Edinburgh, said there were no signs yet that the infection rate was levelling off, having risen suddenly from a daily rate of fewer than 1,000 to more than 2,000 per day in recent days.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"It definitely is a fragile situation and you can see that we have more cases than we would expect at the current time.\n\n\"We may be starting to see some of the impacts of the Christmas mixing, but also we know around four in 10 cases, from recent data, are of the new variant.\n\n\"I would imagine that the new variant is playing a role in these higher rates of infection and if these numbers continue to sit at where they are we are going to have more people in hospital in a week or two's time, and that is very worrying.\"\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is under level four restrictions in an attempt to slow down the rate of virus spread\n\nThis would bring \"real challenges\" for hospitals, especially in the central belt, Prof Bauld said, adding that it was \"absolutely imperative that we do not see these number rise more than they are now\".\n\nShe said it would take some time to see the impact of level four restrictions introduced in mainland Scotland on Boxing Day.\n\n\"Mentally we just need to be prepared for the fact that we may be living with the level four restrictions for longer than the Scottish government currently plans,\" Prof Bauld said.\n\nShe said the new, more transmissible coronavirus variant would make it harder to get the R number below one in Scotland and schools may not be able to fully reopen on 18 January.\n\nThe government's education recovery group was preparing with schools for blended learning to go on longer if necessary, she added.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is under level four restrictions in an attempt to slow down the rate of virus spread.\n\nA new study by London's Imperial College has found that the new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nIt concludes that the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe Scottish government's most recent estimate of the R number in Scotland has put it between 0.9 and 1.1. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nThe government has described the vaccination programme as a \"light at the end of the tunnel\" and has urged people to stay at home as much as possible in the meantime.", "Hospitals across the UK are being told to prepare to face the same Covid pressures as the NHS in London and south-east England.\n\nSenior doctor Prof Andrew Goddard said the virus's highly infectious new variant was spreading nationwide.\n\nCase numbers were \"mild\" compared with where he expected them to be next week, he said, with doctors \"really worried\".\n\nIt comes as a further 57,725 people have tested positive for Covid - a new daily high.\n\nThis is the fifth day in a row new daily cases have been over 50,000 and brings the total number of cases to 2,599,789.\n\nAnother 445 deaths, of people who had tested positive within the previous 28 days, were reported on Saturday - bringing the total number of deaths to 74,570, according to government figures.\n\nThe UK-wide total for people in hospital with Covid has already passed the spring peak.\n\nHalf of the major hospital trusts in England are said to be dealing with more Covid-19 patients than at the worst point of the first wave in April, with the NHS facing its \"busiest winter ever\".\n\nProf Goddard, of the Royal College of Physicians, told BBC Breakfast: \"There's no doubt that Christmas is going to have a big impact, the new variant is also going to have a big impact, we know that is more infectious, more transmissible, so I think the large numbers that we're seeing in the South East, in London, in south Wales, is now going to be reflected over the next month, two months even, over the rest of the country.\"\n\nHe said: \"It seems very likely that we are going to see more and more cases, wherever people work in the UK, and we need to be prepared for that.\"\n\nPressure has been so great on hospitals in London and south-east England that some patients have been moved out of the area.\n\nLondon's weekly rate of coronavirus cases is 858 per 100,000 people, double the UK figure.\n\nDominic Harrison, director of public health for Blackburn and Darwen, said a decision on a new lockdown had to be decided \"in the next week\" - instead of waiting for the North to get to the same rates as the capital \"and 'call it late' which has been our pattern of response too often\".\n\nThe most recent UK-wide statistics, from 28 December, showed there were 23,823 people in hospital with Covid. That was already significantly higher than the spring peak, which saw 21,683 in hospital on 12 April.\n\nOnly English hospitals have released figures for the final three days of December - and these show that a further 2,302 Covid patients were occupying hospital beds on 31 December.\n\nLondon's Nightingale emergency hospital is ready to admit patients, the NHS has said, while other sites currently not in use are being readied.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nProf Goddard said it was vital the public did not \"let their guard down\" and continued to follow government guidelines, including wearing a face mask, maintaining social distancing and washing hands.\n\n\"Until the vaccination hits and does its job - that's what our best defence is going to be,\" he said.\n\nDr Ami Jones, an intensive care consultant in Wales, told BBC Breakfast that \"hospitals are absolutely bursting\", adding that a quarter of her staff were currently off sick or self-isolating, making managing patients even more challenging.\n\n\"When we see the daily figures - we know that will sting us in about 10-12 days' time in the hospital,\" she said. \"We are not even at day 10 post-Christmas yet and it's already exceedingly busy.\n\n\"We are going to get to the point where we physically don't have the staff to look after people safely anymore.\"\n\nDr Jones also urged the public to \"please just obey the rules\", adding: \"Stop mixing with other households because it is spreading like wildfire - and we haven't got much more space in the hospitals left.\"\n\nDo you work in a hospital? Have you recently been treated in a hospital, or due to be treated? Email your experiences: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRegional restrictions in England are \"probably about to get tougher\" to curb rising Covid infections, the prime minister has warned.\n\nBoris Johnson told the BBC stronger measures may be required in parts of the country in the coming weeks.\n\nHe said this included the possibility of keeping schools closed, although this is not \"something we want to do\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has called for new England-wide restrictions within 24 hours.\n\nSir Keir said coronavirus was \"clearly out of control\" and it was \"inevitable more schools are going to have to close\".\n\nIt comes as the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the sixth day in a row, with 54,990 announced on Sunday.\n\nAn additional 454 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result have also been reported, meaning the total by this measure is now above 75,000.\n\nSpeaking on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show, Mr Johnson said he stuck by his previous prediction that the situation would be better by the spring, and he hoped \"tens of millions\" would be vaccinated in the next three months.\n\nBut he added: \"It may be that we need to do things in the next few weeks that will be tougher in many parts of the country. I'm fully, fully reconciled to that.\"\n\n\"And I bet the people of this country are reconciled to that because, until the vaccine really comes on stream in a massive way, we're fighting this virus with the same set of tools.\"\n\nThe PM added that ministers had taken \"every reasonable step that we reasonably could\" to prepare for winter, but \"could not have reasonably predicted\" the new, more transmissible variant of the virus that has emerged over the autumn.\n\nSpeaking after Mr Johnson's interview, Sir Keir said introducing new nationwide restrictions in England \"has to be the first step to controlling the virus\".\n\n\"There's no good the prime minister hinting that further restrictions are coming into place in a week or two or three,\" he told reporters on Sunday. \"That delay has been the source of so many problems.\"\n\n\"Let's not have the prime minister saying 'I'm going to do it, but not yet',\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson defended plans for primary schools to reopen in most of England on Monday, amid opposition from teaching unions and some local councils.\n\nIt came after Amanda Spielman, the head of Ofsted, England's schools watchdog, said closures should be kept to an \"absolute minimum\".\n\nThe rapidly rising infection rates mean it should come as no surprise that tougher measures are being considered.\n\nInfection levels are nearly four times higher now than they were at the start of December - and that in turn has put more pressure on hospitals.\n\nThere are signs the restrictions have started slowing the rises in London, the East of England and the South East.\n\nBut that on its own is not enough. Ministers want to get cases down.\n\nSo what extra can be done? After all most of England is effectively in lockdown already with tier four in place. Those places not in tier four could, of course, follow.\n\nBut some public health experts are warning more needs to be done.\n\nThere is a determination to get primary school children back - they have among the lowest rates of infection if you look at symptomatic cases.\n\nBut infection rates are higher among secondary school age children. The government has bought itself time by delaying their return.\n\nA further 20 million people in England were added to tier four - \"stay at home\" - the toughest set of rules, on 31 December in a bid to stem a surge in Covid cases.\n\nIt means 78% of the population of England is now in tier four, under which non-essential shops are closed and people can only leave their homes for a certain number of reasons.\n\nThe Scottish government will meet on Monday to consider \"further action\" to limit the spread of the disease, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is currently under its own level four restrictions - with only some islands under less stringent tier three measures.\n\nWales entered a nationwide lockdown on 20 December, with First Minister Mark Drakeford saying on Sunday it was \"difficult to see\" how the rules could be strengthened further.\n\nHe said Welsh ministers would consider whether restrictions could be \"tweaked at the margins\" at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the second week of a six-week lockdown that began on Boxing Day. Stricter measures, including a \"stay-at-home curfew\", ended on Saturday.\n\nIn another development, an academic has said there is a \"big question mark\" over whether a vaccine developed at Oxford University will be as effective against a new variant of the virus that has emerged in South Africa.\n\nProf Sir John Bell, Regius professor of medicine at the university, said the team there were currently investigating this question \"right now\".\n\nHe added it was \"unlikely\" the variant would \"turn off the effect of vaccines entirely,\" and in any case it would be possible to tweak the vaccine in around 4-6 weeks.\n\n\"Everybody should stay calm - it's going to be fine,\" he told Times Radio.\n\n\"But we're now in a game of cat and mouse - because these are not the only two variants we're going to see.\"", "Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer described Jo Stevens as a \"dear friend and colleague\"\n\nCardiff Central MP Jo Stevens is being treated in hospital for Covid-19.\n\nA statement was released on her Twitter account on Saturday night in which her team thanked people for their good wishes.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer described Ms Stevens as a \"dear friend and colleague\", and wished her well.\n\nOn New Year's Eve, her Twitter account said she had been \"laid low with Covid for a while\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Keir Starmer This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Stevens, who is Labour's shadow culture secretary, was elected as an MP in May 2015.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford tweeted: \"All of our thoughts and best wishes are with Jo for a speedy recovery.\n\n\"Thank you to Jo's constituency team for continuing to support Cardiff Central constituents at this difficult time.\"", "The rapidly rising infection rates mean it should come as no surprise that tougher measures are being considered.\n\nInfection levels are nearly four times higher now than they were at the start of December – and that in turn has put more pressure on hospitals.\n\nThere are signs the restrictions have started slowing the rises in London, the East of England and the South East. But that on its own is not enough. Ministers want to get cases down.\n\nSo what extra can be done? After all, most of England is effectively in lockdown already with tier four in place. Those places not in tier four could, of course, follow.\n\nBut many public health experts are warning more needs to be done.That’s why we have seen so much debate about schools in recent days.There is a determination to get primary school children back – they have among the lowest rates of infection if you look at symptomatic cases.\n\nBut infection rates are higher among secondary school-age children. The government has bought itself time by delaying their return.\n\nIt looks like there is going to be a very difficult trade-off that needs to be made between the damage to education and wellbeing of children and the risk of further spread of the virus.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Police said a car which had been parked on a bend in the road in Snowdonia was an \"accident waiting to happen\"\n\nStaff looking after a car park in a Welsh national park have been \"getting abuse\" as crowds continue to gather at popular beauty spots.\n\nA spokeswoman for Snowdonia National Park said the decision to keep car parks open was under \"constant review\".\n\nShe explained closing them could lead to unauthorised parking and would exclude locals with mobility issues.\n\nWales is at alert level four, meaning non-essential travel is banned and exercise must start and finish at home.\n\nOn Saturday, North Wales Police said officers had \"turned away\" people who wanted to walk up Snowdon in breach of stay-at-home rules, including some some from Milton Keynes and London.\n\nA red Honda was towed away at Pen y Pass, near Llanberis, after police said it had been parked unsafely on a bend, in snowy conditions.\n\nAt the start of the first lockdown in March, campsites, caravan parks and tourist hotspots were closed by the Welsh Government after \"unprecedented\" crowds gathered at beauty spots.\n\nThe Welsh Government decided to close beauty spots during the first lockdown after scenes like this at Pen y Gwryd in Snowdonia\n\nSnowdonia National Park Authority said it had chosen not to close its car parks again because the areas remained open to people living nearby.\n\n\"Closing car parks can lead to unauthorised parking on roads, so we are keeping them open at the moment,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\n\"The mountains are open for people to be able to exercise from their front doors. Keeping car parks open allows people with mobility issues to exercise as well.\n\n\"We are working closely with police and Gwynedd council and we are reviewing it constantly.\"\n\nNorth Wales Police say beauty spots have been \"disappointingly busy\" since Christmas\n\nShe said its busiest car park, at Pen y Pass near Snowdon, had been overseen by wardens over the Christmas and New Year period, but in a more educational role than in previous years.\n\n\"Places like Pen y Pass are usually manned anyway but their role has changed slightly. They are getting some abuse, which is a shame,\" she continued.\n\n\"We are adopting a similar approach to police: engaging with people, asking what their plans are then educating them.\n\n\"The majority of the time people are going 'I misunderstood that', or people are saying 'I'm doing what I want anyway'.\"\n\nA breach of Covid rules can incur a £60 fine, which rises to £120 for a second breach.\n\nWales is in an alert level four lockdown\n\nPenny Brockman, of Central Beacons Mountain Rescue Team, called on people to help protect themselves and others, including rescue volunteers, by following government guidelines.\n\n\"It is important for people's well-being to walk, but there are probably lots of wonderful places in their own local areas,\" she added.\n\nSouth Wales Police tweeted a picture of Hamilton the police horse \"staying at home\" in his stable, urging people to be \"more like him\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLeicester City climbed to second in the Premier League as they won a keenly contested encounter with fellow top-four hopefuls Southampton at King Power Stadium.\n\nJames Maddison fired in from a tight angle after 37 minutes, the Foxes midfielder instructing his team-mates to stand back as he performed a socially distanced celebration, before Harvey Barnes added a second deep into second-half stoppage-time.\n\nVictory takes Leicester within one point of leaders Manchester United, who travel to third-placed Liverpool on Sunday, while Southampton are eighth, three points outside the top four.\n• None How Leicester followed guidance on celebrations - and others didn't\n• None Reaction to Leicester v Southampton, plus the rest of Saturday's Premier League action\n\nThe Saints dominated in the opening stages and created the first opening when Che Adams stretched the home defence on the counter-attack, while Leicester's Barnes' powerful drive forced Alex McCarthy into action with the game's first shot after 19 minutes.\n\nThe visitors, without talisman Danny Ings after the striker tested positive for Covid-19 last week, went close to a response through Ryan Bertrand and Will Smallbone either side of half-time but neither could find a way past Kasper Schmeichel.\n\nIn an entertaining conclusion, Stuart Armstrong rattled the Leicester crossbar with an excellent strike from the edge of the penalty area, while Jan Bednarek produced a superb goalline clearance to deny Barnes and the returning McCarthy saved from Jamie Vardy as both sides pushed for a late goal.\n\nIt took Leicester until the 95th minute to seal the three points, Barnes calmly slotting past McCarthy on the break.\n\nLeicester manager Brendan Rodgers challenged his side to \"disrupt the Premier League hierarchy\" after a 2-1 win over Newcastle in their last league outing maintained their top-four hopes.\n\nVictory in this stern test ensured they continue to do just that.\n\nEnjoying their longest unbeaten run of the season, their streak now at six matches in all competitions since defeat by Everton a month ago, Rodgers' side delivered an assured performance to remain firmly in contention at the top.\n\nDespite their lofty position as the halfway stage approaches, Leicester have struggled at home this campaign - their four defeats at King Power Stadium in 2020-21 is as many as they suffered in the entirety of last season.\n\nThough largely frustrated in the early exchanges as the visitors retained possession, Leicester's superior quality in attack eventually ensured that record was improved with Maddison turning sharply to meet Youri Tielemans' through-ball before drilling home.\n\nThe in-form Barnes once again impressed and eventually got the goal his performance deserved to equal his best season tally of 10 after just 24 games.\n\nUnlike last season's post-Christmas collapse, the Foxes are yet to show signs of falling away. Maddison - involved in six of Leicester's last 12 league goals - and Barnes are easing the pressure on Vardy to deliver every week and there appears the strength in depth to better maintain this challenge.\n\nThe only concern for Rodgers at the end of a pleasing night was the sight of Vardy appearing to limp off as he was replaced by Kelechi Iheanacho in the final minutes.\n\nWhen Southampton claimed victory in the corresponding fixture last January, the 2-1 win marked a remarkable short-term recovery from a club-record defeat by the Foxes less than three months earlier.\n\nOne year on, this match served as another reminder of how quickly the Saints are progressing under Ralph Hasenhuttl.\n\nThey were, however, unable to set a club top-flight record of seven consecutive away games without defeat in the absence of frontman Ings. That was despite their relative freshness, having not played for 12 days after their FA Cup tie against Shrewsbury Town was postponed last weekend because of a Covid-19 outbreak at the League One club.\n\nFollowing their impressive 1-0 victory over Liverpool on 4 January, a triumph which left Hasenhuttl with tears in his eyes, Southampton once again applied themselves with commendable determination but ultimately failed to produce in the final third.\n\nAdams ran out of space at the byeline after breaking clear from the halfway line in the game's first opening, and neither Bertrand nor Smallbone were able to place past Schmeichel as the equaliser their hard work perhaps deserved evaded them.\n\nAt the back, Bednarek produced the heroics to keep his side in the game and full-back Kyle Walker-Peters provided a regular outlet on the right, but Southampton, who named four teenagers on their bench because of an injury crisis, have now scored only once in five league games.\n\nThat is an obvious concern for Hasenhuttl as he looks to ensure his side do not fade after their promising start.\n\n'We took social distancing to the letter' - what the managers said\n\nLeicester boss Brendan Rodgers told BBC Sport: \"It's a very good win against a good team. We were too passive at the start, we took social distancing to the letter and didn't get close to them. After that we had some sustained attacks and ended up getting a brilliant goal.\n\n\"At half-time we had to reiterate the importance of fighting, you have to fight for every result and Southampton keep going. We were outstanding second half and should have scored more goals. We did the dirty work much better and Harvey Barnes showed again that he is a finisher now.\"\n\nOn Maddison's celebration: \"I said to them there is lots of negativity around it but see it as a positive and be creative. Supporters still want to see players celebrate, the happiness, so be creative with it.\"\n\nSouthampton boss Ralph Hasenhuttl said: \"It's never nice to lose a game but we had chances. We hit the bar, we fought with everything we have. We are definitely a team that is never giving up. The quality of the opponent was better than ours today.\n\n\"The first goal, you don't shoot at goal like that every day, it was fantastic from Maddison. We had good chances but we couldn't finish and that was the difference.\n\n\"It doesn't look good at the moment, we have a lot of injuries and not many alternatives. The good news is we have 29 points and they don't take them away from us. We did our best with the options we have. We have nine injured but we are fighting for everything.\"\n• None Leicester earned their first home league victory against Southampton since April 2016, ending a run of four without a win against the Saints at King Power Stadium.\n• None Southampton's first 12 Premier League games in 2020-21 witnessed 41 goals (24 scored) at an average of 3.4 per game. Their past six games have seen just six goals (two scored).\n• None Jamie Vardy had seven shots for Leicester, his highest tally without scoring in a single Premier League match in his career.\n• None Vardy has faced Southampton seven times at home in the Premier League, more than any other side at King Power Stadium without scoring in the competition.\n• None James Maddison scored in consecutive Premier League games for Leicester for the first time since October 2019, matching his goal tally at home from each of the previous two campaigns (three).\n\nBoth sides return to action on Tuesday. Leicester host Chelsea in the Premier League at 20:15 GMT, while Southampton welcome Shrewsbury to St Mary's in their postponed FA Cup third-round tie (20:00).\n• None Goal! Leicester City 2, Southampton 0. Harvey Barnes (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Youri Tielemans following a fast break.\n• None Attempt missed. Stuart Armstrong (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right following a corner.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Marc Albrighton tries a through ball, but Ayoze Pérez is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Wilfred Ndidi (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Marc Albrighton.\n• None Attempt saved. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by James Justin.\n• None Attempt missed. Daniel N'Lundulu (Southampton) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Kyle Walker-Peters with a cross.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Timothy Castagne tries a through ball, but Ayoze Pérez is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ayoze Pérez with a cross.\n• None Marc Albrighton (Leicester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. James Ward-Prowse (Southampton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Stuart Armstrong. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Hear how David Bowie always managed to stay ahead of his time\n• None Joe Wicks and guests are here to bring positivity to your day", "Nurseries have stayed open during the latest lockdown, unlike schools\n\nNurseries are \"teetering on the edge\" and will \"find it hard to survive with next-to-no funding\" as children are kept home in lockdown, an owner said.\n\nLittle Stars near Pontypool has seen numbers drop by 35% - and Emma Matthews says nurseries are \"running on empty\".\n\nUnlike schools, they have remained open and an industry association wants support so they are around to \"provide places for children in the future\".\n\nA Welsh Government spokeswoman said funding was available through councils.\n\nDescribing childcare workers as \"front-line\", the National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA) Cymru also called for anxious staff to be made a priority for the Covid vaccine as they work with little protective equipment.\n\n\"We feel we have poured our heart into serving families and want acknowledgement for the early years and the vital part we play in the community,\" Ms Matthews said.\n\nLittle Stars furloughed some staff during the lockdown last March, with nurseries open for children of keyworkers only.\n\nLittle Stars nursery near Pontypool has seen numbers drop by more than a third\n\nThey reopened fully last summer and this has remained under Welsh Government guidance.\n\nHowever, many parents have decided not to send children - some because they are adhering to stay-at-home rules, are self-isolating, have lost their jobs and are struggling to pay bills, or are on furlough.\n\n\"The reasons are varied and valid why parents decide to pull children out,\" Ms Matthews added.\n\n\"The situation isn't great and some say 'we will wait and see next week'. It's very difficult to formulate a plan then or to furlough. We are teetering on the edge.\"\n\nLittle Stars is down the road from the new Grange hospital that opened in Cwmbran last November\n\nBefore coronavirus, the nursery looked after 65 children each day - but last week, 47 attended, made up of babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers.\n\nThere were also 11 babies due to start in January - but only one is attending because of reasons such as new mothers extending their maternity leave.\n\nMs Matthews believes facilities should be open for children of keyworkers only - allowing nurseries to access support for those not attending.\n\nA baby, a toddler and a staff member from Little Stars had coronavirus - and employees are worried for themselves and their families.\n\nIn Wales eligible children can access 30 hours of early-years education and childcare per week for 48 weeks of the year\n\nThey are unable to wear personal protective equipment because of their close contact with children, and describing workers as \"front-line\" who \"keep the economy going\", Ms Matthews said they should be in the priority group for the vaccine and weekly testing.\n\n\"Social distancing is the challenge,\" she added.\n\n\"Face, space and hands... we can only do hands. The others are impossible.\"\n\nThe facility received a grant of £10,000 at the start of the pandemic and a rate relief grant of £1,000, but Ms Matthews wants more support.\n\n\"It's about valuing the service,\" she said. \"It wasn't a very stable industry pre-Covid. But it's made it very fragile now.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government has been urged to give more help, allowing nurseries to survive and \"provide places for children in the future\" by NDNA Cymru.\n\nIt also said early years staff \"must be a priority for the vaccine to enable them to continue providing support for our youngest children and their families\".\n\nWhile nurseries were closed to all but keyworkers initially, they have been open since summer 2020\n\n\"We all know it's impossible to social distance from toddlers and babies who need close care from nappy changing to the contact and affection that supports their development and learning,\" added chief executive Purnima Tanuku.\n\nA Welsh Government spokeswoman said while the rates of coronavirus in Wales remain high, cases in children under five continue to be relatively low.\n\n\"Childcare providers have worked very hard to ensure settings are safe, with low numbers of children on site,\" she added.\n\nThe spokeswoman said funding is provided to councils, enabling them to help childcare settings experiencing financial difficulties and the Childcare Offer for Wales continues to be in place for all eligible children.\n\n\"We are following the advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation about the people who should be vaccinated first - all those in the priority groups will be immunised as safely and as quickly as possible,\" she added.\n\nMost school children in Wales will learn from home until at least February half-term, unless there is a big drop in Covid cases\n\nChildren's commissioner Sally Holland said she\"empathises with the concerns of staff\" and thanked them for their work \"during an extremely difficult period\".\n\n\"Nurseries play a really important part in young children's wellbeing and development,\" she said.\n\n\"Any services that can remain open for children is to be welcomed due to the importance for their health and wellbeing.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "CBBC star Archie Lyndhurst, the son of Only Fools and Horses actor Nicholas Lyndhurst, died in his sleep from a brain haemorrhage, his mother has said.\n\nLucy Lyndhurst said a second post-mortem exam had revealed his death was caused by a condition called Acute Lymphoblastic Lymphoma/Leukaemia.\n\nShe described Archie as \"the most magical human being we have ever met\".\n\nThe 19-year-old's death on 22 September had had a \"catastrophic effect\" on their family, she wrote on Instagram.\n\nArchie with his father Nicholas and mother Lucy Smith in 2017\n\nLucy said she and husband Nicholas were assured by the doctor who explained the post-mortem results to them that there \"wasn't anything anyone could have done as Archie showed no signs of illness\". She said it was \"not leukaemia as we know it\" and that acute in medical terms meant \"rapid\".\n\nThe couple were \"utterly floored\" to think something like this could happen, she wrote, adding: \"It's very rare and around only 800 people a year die from it.\"\n\nShe said that just days earlier he had been celebrating his birthday with \"the love of his life Nethra\".\n\n\"Life is fragile, precious and sometimes incredibly cruel,\" Lucy wrote.\n\nShe also criticised some media outlets for attempting to garner information about how her son had died from the coroner, before they knew the results of the post mortem themselves.\n\n\"To have a coroner call you a few days after your child has died to say the press have been calling for the results of Archie's post mortem, I think stoops to an all time low for us,\" she noted.\n\n\"What gives the press the right to badger a coroner's office solely to find the cause of death before the parents? The complete lack of empathy is astounding. We released no information at the time as we had no idea what he had died from.\"\n\nNicholas appeared alongside his son in an episode of So Awkward in 2019\n\nArchie began his acting career at the Sylvia Young Theatre School at the age of 10 and was best known for playing Ollie Coulton in the CBBC comedy show So Awkward.\n\nHe appeared in the sitcom, which followed the lives of a group of friends in secondary school, from its first series in 2015.\n\nNicholas appeared alongside his son in a 2019 episode of the programme.\n\nArchie's other roles included recurring appearances as a younger incarnation of comedian Jack Whitehall in various TV programmes.\n\nThese included BBC Three sitcom Bad Education, in which he was seen as a younger version of Whitehall's Alfie Wickers character.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The four main engines were fired in unison for the first time, but had to be shut down early\n\nA critical engine test for Nasa's new \"megarocket\" has ended early, but the agency denied it amounted to a failure.\n\nShortly before 22:30 GMT (17:30 EST) on Saturday, the four engines ignited, burning for more than a minute before the event was aborted.\n\nThe core stage of the Space Launch System (SLS) was being evaluated at Stennis Space Center, in Mississippi.\n\nThe engines were supposed to fire for eight minutes to simulate the rocket's climb to orbit.\n\nThe SLS is part of Nasa's Artemis programme, which aims to put Americans back on the lunar surface in the 2020s.\n\nWhen it makes its maiden flight - possibly later this year - the SLS will become the most powerful rocket ever to have flown to space.\n\nTeams at Stennis are still poring over the data to find out what happened. John Honeycutt, SLS program manager at Nasa's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, said there were \"a lot of dynamics going on\" when the engine shut down.\n\nThe engines' power levels were being throttled down and up again; they were also being prepared to pivot - or gimbal. This movement allows the rocket to be steered during flight.\n\nThe RS-25 engines are the same type that powered the space shuttle orbiter\n\n\"We did see a little bit of a flash come from around the interface between the thermal protection blanket on engine four at the time when we had initiated the gimbal,\" Honeycutt told reporters at a post-test briefing at Stennis.\n\nThe as-yet unknown problem triggered what Nasa calls a failure identification (Fid), followed by a major component failure (MCF). As a result of the fault, an onboard computer known as the engine controller sent a message to another computer called the core stage controller, which took a decision to shut down the vehicle.\n\n\"Any parameter that went awry on the engine could have sent that failure ID,\" said John Honeycutt.\n\nIt was the first time all four RS-25 engines had been ignited together, in a test known as a \"hotfire\".\n\nThe core stage of the rocket was anchored to a massive steel structure called the B-2 test stand on the grounds of the Stennis facility.\n\nTo prepare the core stage, engineers filled its tanks with more than 700,000 gallons (2.6 million litres) of super-cold liquid hydrogen and oxygen propellant.\n\nThis was the eighth and final test in the Green Run, a programme of evaluation carried out by engineers from Nasa and Boeing - the rocket's prime contractor.\n\nAlthough the test was intended to run for eight minutes, engineers would have received all the data required to certify the rocket for flight after 250 seconds.\n\nThey wanted to iron out any problems before the core stage is used for the first SLS launch, in which it will send Nasa's next-generation Orion spacecraft on a loop around the Moon.\n\nNasa's outgoing administrator Jim Bridenstine declined to call Saturday's event a failure: \"This is why we test,\" he said, adding: \"Before we put American astronauts on American rockets, that's when we need it to be perfect.\"\n\nOfficials have not yet decided whether to re-run the hotfire, or proceed with shipping the core stage to Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida to prepare it for the rocket's uncrewed maiden flight, a mission called Artemis-1.\n\n\"It depends what the anomaly was and how challenging it's going to be to fix it,\" said Bridenstine.\n\nNasa administrator Jim Bridenstine said perfection wasn't a realistic expectation for the first engine test\n\nAsked whether a launch this year was still feasible, he added: \"I think it's too early to tell. As we figure out what went wrong, we're going to know what the future holds.\"\n\nHowever, if one or more of the engines needs to be replaced, there are spares waiting to be used at Stennis Space Center.\n\nThe Artemis-1 mission will evaluate how both the SLS and Orion capsule perform prior to Nasa staging a repeat of this lunar loop with astronauts in 2023.\n\nThis will be followed by the first landing on the Moon by humans since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.\n\nThe SLS consists of the 65m (212 ft) -long core stage with two smaller solid rocket boosters (SRBs) attached to the sides. Engineers at KSC have begun stacking the individual SRB segments for Artemis-1.\n\n\"This powerful rocket is going to put us in a position to be ready to support the agency and the country in deep space missions to the Moon and beyond,\" John Honeycutt said during a media briefing on Tuesday.\n\nArtwork: The initial version of the SLS - known as Block 1 - during the climb to orbit\n\nOfficials have been planning to ship the core stage to Florida in February.\n\nIts engines are of the same type that powered the spaceplane-like shuttle orbiter - America's crewed space vehicle for 30 years from 1981-2011.\n\nNasa is re-using flown hardware: the RS-25 engines used in this test helped launch 21 shuttle missions. Two were used on the last shuttle flight - STS-135 in 2011.\n\nThe four RS-25s can generate 1.6 million lbs (7 Meganewtons) of thrust - the force that propels a rocket through the air.\n\nWhen the solid rocket boosters are added to the core stage, the combined system will produce 8.8 million pounds (39.1 Meganewtons) of thrust. This will make it 15% more powerful than the giant Saturn V rocket that sent astronauts to the Moon in the 1960s and 70s.\n\nPrior to Saturday's test, John Shannon, vice president and SLS program manager at Boeing praised teams at Stennis for keeping the Green Run on track despite the pandemic and this year's particularly active hurricane season.", "Doctors and nurses need protection from prosecution over Covid-19 treatment decisions made under the pressures of the pandemic, medical bodies have said.\n\nGroups including the British Medical Association have written to ministers saying medical workers fear they could be at risk of unlawful killing charges.\n\nIt comes as the UK's chief medical officers said the NHS could be overwhelmed in weeks.\n\nThe government said staff should not have to fear legal action.\n\nThe letter from the health organisations points out that the prime minister warned in November that the NHS being overwhelmed would be a \"medical and moral disaster\", where \"doctors and nurses could be forced to choose which patients to treat, who would live and who would die\".\n\nIt said: \"With the chief medical officers now determining that there is a material risk of the NHS being overwhelmed within weeks, our members are worried that not only do they face being put in this position but also that they could subsequently be vulnerable to a criminal investigation by the police.\"\n\nCo-ordinated by the Medical Protection Society (MPS), the letter was signed by the British Medical Association, the Doctors' Association UK, the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin and Medical Defence Shield.\n\nIt calls for emergency legislation to protect doctors and nurses from \"inappropriate\" legal action when dealing with circumstances outside their control.\n\nExisting guidance for doctors and nurses on when to administer or withdraw treatment does not give legal protection, the letter says.\n\nIt also says the guidance does not consider the circumstances of the pandemic where demand for healthcare may outstrip supply.\n\n\"The first concern of a doctor is their patients and providing the highest standard of care at all times,\" the medical bodies said.\n\n\"We do not believe it is right that healthcare professionals should suffer from the moral injury and long-term psychological damage that could result from having to make decisions on how limited resources are allocated, while at the same time being left vulnerable to the risk of prosecution for unlawful killing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nThe medical organisations said no healthcare professional should be \"above the law\" and that the emergency legislation should only apply to decisions made \"in good faith\" and \"in circumstances beyond their control and in compliance with relevant guidance\".\n\nThey said the change in the law should be temporary and should apply retrospectively from the start of the pandemic.\n\nMedical staff in the NHS are protected financially from clinical negligence claims by indemnity schemes where the state pays the costs of claims.\n\nBut if someone dies as a result of a lack of treatment, doctors and nurses fear prosecutors could bring charges such as gross negligence manslaughter, which can carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.\n\nEarlier this month, a survey by the MPS of 2,420 of its members found that 61% were concerned about facing an investigation following a decision made in a high-pressure situation.\n\nAbout 36% were concerned about being investigated for a decision to withdraw or withhold life-prolonging treatment due to pressure on resources during the pandemic.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said: \"Dedicated frontline NHS staff should be able to focus on treating patients and saving lives during the pandemic without fear of legal action.\"\n\nNHS staff have been told that existing indemnity arrangements will continue and will cover \"the vast majority of liabilities\", the spokesman said.", "Phil Spector pictured in court during his murder trial\n\nUS music producer Phil Spector has died at the age of 81, while serving a prison sentence for murder.\n\nSpector, who transformed pop with his \"wall of sound\" recordings, worked with the Beatles, the Righteous Brothers and Ike and Tina Turner.\n\nIn 2009, he was convicted of the 2003 murder of Hollywood actress Lana Clarkson.\n\nHis death was confirmed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\n\n\"California Health Care Facility inmate Phillip Spector was pronounced deceased of natural causes at 6:35 p.m. on Saturday, January 16, 2021, at an outside hospital. His official cause of death will be determined by the medical examiner in the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office,\" it said.\n\nSpector produced 20 top 40 hits between 1961 and 1965. His production methods influenced major artists including the Beach Boys and Bruce Springsteen.\n\nHis life was ultimately blighted by drug and alcohol addiction, and he all but retired from the music scene during the 1980s and 1990s.\n\nIn February 2003, actress Lana Clarkson was found dead at his house in Alhambra, California with a bullet wound to her head. Clarkson, who was known for her work in the sword-and-sorcery genre and starred in films including Barbarian Queen, had met Spector hours earlier at a nightclub.\n\nSpector claimed the shooting happened when Clarkson \"kissed the gun\" - but his trial heard from four women who claimed Spector had threatened them with guns in the past when they had spurned his advances.\n\nFollowing an initial mistrial, Spector was convicted of second degree murder and given a sentence of 19 years to life.\n\nLana Clarkson was an actress and model who starred in the film 1985 Barbarian Queen\n\nHarvey Phillip Spector was born in New York in 1939, to Russian-Jewish parents. His father killed himself when Spector was a boy, and his mother moved her family to Los Angeles.\n\nHe began his career in his teens as a performer, forming a band - the Teddy Bears - with three high school friends. They had a hit single in 1958 with a song that took its title from the wording on his father's gravestone: \"To know him is to love him.\"\n\nThe record went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100, but the group split the following year.\n\nSpector founded his own record label, Philles, in 1961. He produced high-profile 1960s girl groups such as Crystals and the Ronettes, including on 1963 hits Be My Baby and Baby I Love You.\n\nHe also worked on The Righteous Brothers' hits You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' and Unchained Melody.\n\nSpector produced hits for The Ronettes, later marrying their lead singer Ronnie Bennett\n\nHis signature production technique, the \"Wall of Sound,\" involved layering several instruments, including strings, woodwind and brass, to give a lush, orchestral sound.\n\nIn the early 1970s, Spector collaborated with The Beatles on their final album Let It Be, as well as producing John Lennon's solo album Imagine.\n\nAs the decade progressed, the much-feted producer became reclusive and disturbing accounts of his behaviour became widespread. Spector is said to have held a gun to singer Leonard Cohen's head during sessions for his album Death of a Ladies' Man.\n\nRonettes lead singer Veronica \"Ronnie\" Bennett, who became Spector's second wife and divorced him in 1974, wrote in her 1990 autobiography that he subjected her to years of horrific abuse. She said he had threatened to kill her and display her body in a glass-topped coffin he kept in her basement.\n\n\"I can only say that when I left in the early '70s, I knew that if I didn't leave at that time, I was going to die there,\" Ronnie wrote of the time.\n\nWriting on Instagram after her ex-husband's death, Ronnie Spector said he had been \"a brilliant producer but a lousy husband\".\n\n\"When I was working with Phil Spector, watching him create in the recording studio, I knew I was working with the very best,\" she wrote. \"He was in complete control, directing everyone. So much to love about those days.\n\n\"Meeting him and falling in love was like a fairytale,\" she continued. \"The magical music we were able to make together was inspired by our love. I loved him madly, and gave my heart and soul to him.\n\n\"Unfortunately Phil was not able to live and function outside of the recording studio. Darkness set in, many lives were damaged.\"\n\nSinger Darlene Love, who sang on several songs Spector produced, said he \"changed the sound of rock 'n' roll\" but likened their relationship to \"a bad marriage\".\n\n\"The problem I have with Phil is that he wanted to control Darlene Love's talent,\" she told Variety. \"If he couldn't do that, he was going to do everything in his power to keep my talent from shining.\"\n\nWeeks before Lana Clarkson was shot dead, Spector gave a rare interview to British broadsheet The Telegraph.\n\n\"I would say I'm probably relatively insane, to an extent,\" he told the paper, adding that he had \"devils inside that fight me\".\n\nResponding to news of the producer's death, Blondie guitarist Chris Stein tweeted: \"When we went to Phil Spector's house in the 70s he came to the door holding a bottle of diet Manischewitz wine in one hand and a presumably loaded 45 automatic in the other. Long story.", "The man from Luton was fined £200 for travelling to Devizes and also had his car seized for having no insurance\n\nA man told police he had driven from Luton to Devizes to visit a McDonald's, even though the town does not have a branch of the burger chain.\n\nWiltshire Police called his actions a \"flagrant breach\" of lockdown regulations and fined the man £200.\n\nThe 34-year-old was stopped on Estcourt Street in Devizes, a distance of more than 100 miles (160km) from Luton.\n\nHis car was also seized for having no insurance, police added.\n\n\"The distance travelled across numerous counties to Devizes, which doesn't have a McDonald's restaurant, is a flagrant breach of the regulations currently in place.\n\n\"The majority of people across Wiltshire continue to act responsibly and we thank you for that, however, it is important to protect the NHS that we all stick to the rules,\" said police.\n\nThe man was stopped on Thursday evening.\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Louis Godwin said receiving the vaccine was \"no trouble at all\" and encouraged others to have it as soon as they could\n\nSalisbury Cathedral has been transformed into a vaccination centre with an RAF veteran being one of the first to receive the Covid-19 jab.\n\nFormer Flight Sergeant Louis Godwin, 95, gave a thumbs-up after being vaccinated in the cathedral, which dates back more than 800 years.\n\n\"I was so pleased to get it, especially in a setting like this,\" he said.\n\nOrganisers were aiming to vaccinate 1,000 people aged over 80 with the Pfizer/BioNTech jab on Saturday.\n\nPeople queuing to receive their vaccines at Salisbury Cathedral on Saturday\n\nMr Godwin, a great-grandfather of 12, joined the RAF aged 18 in 1943 and served as an air gunner during World War Two.\n\n\"I've had many jabs in my time, especially in the RAF. After the war, I was sent to Egypt and I had a couple of jabs which knocked me over for a week,\" he said.\n\n\"This one, the doctor said to me 'well that's done' and I thought he hadn't started. So it's no trouble at all and no pain.\"\n\nA health worker prepares the vaccine to be administered at the cathedral\n\nStella Bennett, 88, said she felt \"safer\" after receiving the jab.\n\n\"It was easy. I live on my own so it has been hard but I've managed. At least I'm at home and not in hospital with it,\" she said.\n\nDerek Burnett was also among those inoculated against the virus on Saturday.\n\n\"I feel unbelievably relieved as lockdown has been a big strain. It takes a big weight off my mind,\" said the 81-year-old.\n\nOrganisers hoped to vaccinate 1,000 people aged over 80 during the day\n\nThe Very Rev Nicholas Papadopulos, Dean of Salisbury described the vaccines as \"a real sign of hope for us at the end of this very, very difficult year\".\n\n\"I doubt that anyone is having a jab in surroundings that are more beautiful than this so I hope it will ease people as they come into the building,\" he said.\n\nThe Very Rev Nicholas Papadopulos, Dean of Salisbury, described hosting the event as \"absolutely wonderful\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The French government has imposed a nationwide curfew from 6pm - 6am to fight the surge in cases of coronavirus.\n\nWhile some departments were already under these restrictions, the majority of France was under an 8pm - 6am curfew.\n\nFrench Prime Minister Jean Castex said the measures would be in place for at least 15 days.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester United \"missed an opportunity\" to beat Liverpool, said boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer after his side stayed top of the Premier League with a goalless draw against the champions.\n\nIt was a game that failed to justify the pre-match anticipation and Solskjaer will know his side had the better chances to claim a statement victory at Anfield.\n\nLiverpool, without a recognised centre-back and with midfielders Jordan Henderson and Fabinho in defence, dominated possession in the first half but it was United who came closest when Bruno Fernandes' 20-yard free-kick curled inches wide.\n\nFernandes was then thwarted after the break by the outstretched leg of Liverpool keeper Alisson before Thiago Alcantara's long-range effort finally brought the previously unemployed David de Gea into action.\n\nAlisson was Liverpool's hero late on when he blocked Paul Pogba's drive from point-blank range.\n\n\"It was an opportunity missed with the chances we had but then again we were playing a very good side.\" Solskjaer told BBC Sport. \"I'm disappointed but, still, a point is OK if you win the next one.\n\n\"We have improved and progressed. It's not just the result we're disappointed with, it's some of the performance. I know these boys can play better.\"\n\nUnited are now two points ahead of Manchester City, who moved up to second by beating Crystal Palace 4-0, and Leicester City in third. Liverpool, who have scored just one goal in their past four league games, have dropped to fourth, a point behind the Foxes.\n\n\"The performance was good enough to win it but to win a game you have to score goals and we didn't do that, so that's why we had that result,\" said Reds boss Jurgen Klopp.\n\n\"We try not to not score. We obviously have to ignore the fact and hope it will be good again.\"\n• None 'From dejection to frustration in 12 months, Anfield draw underlines Man Utd progress'\n• None Lawro's predictions v You Me At Six drummer Dan Flint\n\nKlopp cut a frustrated figure pretty much from the first whistle, his voice booming around Anfield with a tone of displeasure, showing unhappiness with his own players and officials.\n\nThe German's team, so used to steamrollering all before them in recent times, are going through a very dry spell and barely created an opening worthy of the name here against a resolute Manchester United defence.\n\nToo often, Liverpool's approach play ended with a careless pass or an aimless cross and the longer this game went on the more United looked the most likely winners.\n\nIt was perhaps inevitable Liverpool would be unable to maintain their relentless style, but there will be concerns they have now gone four league games without a win since Crystal Palace were demolished 7-0 at Selhurst Park.\n\nBefore this draw, West Bromwich Albion left Anfield with a point, while Liverpool also had a goalless draw at Newcastle United and lost at Southampton.\n\nSadio Mane and Mohamed Salah are feeding off scraps, while Roberto Firmino's impact was so minimal that he was withdrawn near the end, even with the hosts chasing a goal.\n\nA team as good as Liverpool will not remain off the boil for too long, but there is no doubt they are struggling for form and spark. The fact this is their longest barren sequence in the league since February and March 2005 tells the tale.\n\nManchester United may have a taken a point before this game and there will be justified satisfaction that they subdued Liverpool so completely, created the game's best chances and remain top of the table.\n\nAnd yet there must also be disappointment that they could not cash in completely on an off-colour Liverpool, with reality dawning on them very late that they could take all three points.\n\nFernandes, despite being poor in general, almost unlocked Liverpool twice, while Solskjaer and his backroom team threw their hands up in frustration as other good positions were wasted late on.\n\nIn the final reckoning, however, there will be few complaints at this outcome, which leaves them three points ahead of Liverpool with the visit to Anfield negotiated without mishap.\n\nUnited were well organised and grew into the game after a poor opening half-hour and had real defensive heroes in captain Harry Maguire and left-back Luke Shaw, with the latter particularly outstanding.\n\nIt is a display that will give them increased confidence and belief as they lead the pack - although they might just look back and think a point could so easily have been three.\n\n'It was an opportunity missed' - reaction\n\nManchester United manager Solskjaer said: \"They are a good side and they have some injury problems but we didn't pounce on that.\n\n\"I felt we grew into the game and got stronger and stronger and were closer to winning.\n\n\"We were a bit disappointed in the performance, not just the result. We didn't do well enough to cause them problems in the first half but we defended well and they didn't create too many chances.\"But I think everyone was a bit disappointed with the way we started the game but that is a good feeling to have - that we were disappointed in the performance.\"\n\nLiverpool boss Klopp told BBC Sport: \"The performance was good and the first half was exceptionally good.\n\n\"With all the things that were said before the game - United are flying and we were struggling - and then to play this kind of game, I was happy with that.\n\n\"We tried in the second half again, but you cannot deny United over 90 minutes, not with the counter-attacking threat they have. So they had two really good chances, I have to say, but we had our chances in the second half as well.\n\n\"The way we understood the game, the way we felt the game, the way we read the moments were really good. But it is not exactly how it should be so we have space for improvement, absolutely. We will keep working on that.\"\n• None Liverpool and Manchester United have drawn 0-0 at Anfield in the league three times in the past five seasons, as many times as in the previous 48 top-flight campaigns.\n• None United are unbeaten in their past 16 away matches in the Premier League (W12 D4) - only once have they gone longer without a defeat on the road in the competition (17 games ending in September 1999).\n• None Liverpool are now unbeaten in their past 68 league games at Anfield, earning 178 out of a possible 204 points over this run.\n• None United are the first side to stop Liverpool scoring at Anfield in a Premier League match since Manchester City in October 2018 - this was Liverpool's 43rd home league game since then.\n• None Under Klopp, Liverpool are unbeaten in all seven of their Premier League games at Anfield when facing the side starting the day top of the table (W3 D4).\n• None Marcus Rashford was caught offside five times in this match, the most of any Premier League player this season and the most by a United player since Robin van Persie (six) against Spurs in January 2013.\n\nUnited are at Fulham in the league on Wednesday (20:15 GMT) and Liverpool host Burnley on Thursday (20:00). Next Sunday, Manchester United and Liverpool will meet again - at Old Trafford this time - in the FA Cup fourth round, a match you can watch live on BBC One and the BBC Sport website.\n• None Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Curtis Jones (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Paul Pogba tries a through ball, but Marcus Rashford is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Luke Shaw with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Thiago (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Georginio Wijnaldum. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Missed all the goals, highlights and talking points from Saturday's Premier League action? Match of the Day is streaming now", "Chris Cramer, a major figure in BBC News and later CNN International, has died at the age of 73 after a period of ill health. Former BBC director of news Richard Sambrook looks back at his life.\n\nChris Cramer's legacy will be the major change in attitudes and support for journalist safety he championed through the BBC and across the wider industry, as well as many achievements in newsgathering and international news.\n\nHe began his career as a teenager on the Portsmouth Evening News, moving to BBC Radio Solent when it launched in 1970.\n\nAfter a year's secondment in Brunei he found his way to the BBC TV Newsroom in the 1970s and developed his reputation as a highly competitive and effective news editor and field producer.\n\nIn 1980 he and a BBC team were in the Iranian Embassy in London collecting visas when it was seized by gunmen opposed to Ayatollah Khomeini. A standoff and siege followed, with Chris among 26 hostages.\n\nHe managed to feign serious illness and was released by the gunmen allowing him to give vital information to the authorities before the SAS stormed the embassy and rescued the hostages.\n\nAt a time when no-one understood or spoke of PTSD, it had a marked effect on his life.\n\nArmed police on the adjoining balcony to the Iranian Embassy during the siege in 1980\n\nMany journalists and crew subsequently spoke of his care and attention when they had difficult experiences and he went on to drive major changes in understanding and support for journalists' safety.\n\nWith BBC Safety manager Peter Hunter, Chris introduced the first hostile environment training courses, risk assessments and equipment for those covering conflicts.\n\nFormer correspondent Martin Bell recalls: \"From Vietnam to Croatia I had covered 10 wars without protection. Then in June 1992 we were shot up crossing the airport runway in Sarajevo in a soft-skinned vehicle. Within two weeks Chris had procured our first armoured Land Rover, the redoubtable 'Miss Piggy', and the body armour to go with it.\"\n\nHe later introduced the first confidential counselling service for news teams, recognising PTSD, and helped found the International News Safety Institute, which spearheaded safety across the news industry.\n\nDuring the 1980s he was at the forefront of organising and overseeing major news coverage, including Michael Buerk's reporting from the Ethiopian famine, coverage of the IRA Brighton bomb attack on the British government, the Zeebrugge ferry disaster, Kate Adie's reporting from Tiananmen Square, the fall of eastern Europe, the first Gulf War and many more major events.\n\nHis fierce competitiveness delivered a series of major exclusives and awards for BBC News.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jeremy Bowen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn the 1990s he oversaw major investment in BBC Newsgathering and the integration of radio and TV reporting - often against internal resistance. His managerial style could be uncompromising and tough, but he was also bitingly funny, shrewd and his hard exterior hid a warm-hearted and generous core.\n\nHe was crucial to establishing the integrated News division as it exists today.\n\nIn 1996 he left the BBC to move to Atlanta as managing director and executive vice-president of CNN International.\n\nThere he took his passion for news safety and his competitive news edge to develop the network into a greater global force.\n\nAs his former BBC and CNN colleague Tony Maddox has said: \"Among his many accomplishments Chris was a pioneer and innovator in field safety for journalists. He led the development of guidelines and practices now widely adopted across the industry.\"\n\nCramer moved to CNN after his time with the BBC\n\nHe was a larger-than-life figure who generated affection and respect in equal measure, often wielding a rapid and disarming wit.\n\nHe is also remembered for supporting women into senior and executive positions and helping them succeed.\n\nDirector of BBC News Fran Unsworth recalls: \"He was one of journalism's enormous characters and a legend in the television news industry. But the legend and the reported image always belied the man.\n\n\"He was immensely kind, thoughtful and caring underneath that image he sometimes projected.\"\n\nFormer deputy director general Mark Byford said: \"He was probably the greatest newsgathering executive ever in the broadcast news business and his organisational skills, competitiveness, eye for a story and steel were extraordinary.\n\n\"He was also, behind the facade, a gentle giant who cared for his people with amazing passion and love.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by John Simpson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Many editors, correspondents and presenters in BBC News owe their success to his mentorship - myself included.\"\n\nAfter 11 years he left CNN and took up roles first with Reuters TV and then the Wall Street Journal, where his experience and expertise were used to develop their digital video services.\n\nHe leaves his wife, Nina, son Richard and daughter Nicolette and his daughter Hannah by an earlier marriage to Helen, a former BBC producer.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BMA Scotland GP chief says doctors \"can't plan\" for vaccines\n\nDoctors leaders say the \"patchy supply\" of vaccine to GP surgeries across Scotland is hampering the speed of delivery to patients.\n\nMinisters have pledged a first dose of the vaccine to 1.4 million of the most vulnerable Scots by mid-February.\n\nBut the British Medical Association in Scotland said inconsistencies in supply made it difficult to plan patient appointments to receive the vaccine.\n\nThey also said some GP surgeries had yet to receive any vaccine at all.\n\nThe Scottish government said it was working with health boards to resolve the issues.\n\nCurrently, about 16,000 vaccinations a day are being carried out in Scotland. However, that is expected to rise significantly as efforts to deliver the vaccine are scaled up.\n\nOn Sunday, 1,341 new cases of Covid-19 were reported - the lowest daily figure since 28 December. However, the numbers being admitted to hospital have continued to rise, reaching 1,918.\n\nNo new deaths were registered.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman has pledged that the workforce and infrastructure will be in place to vaccinate 400,000 people each week by the end of February.\n\nThe government has already announced plans for large vaccination centres in Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh.\n\nIt comes after more than 5,000 front-line health and care staff were vaccinated at the NHS Louisa Jordan in Glasgow on Saturday.\n\nGP practices across Scotland are currently providing vaccination services to those aged over 80.\n\nAbout 16,000 vaccinations are currently being carried out a day in Scotland\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Politics Scotland programme, Dr Andrew Buist, who chairs the British Medical Association's (BMA) GP committee in Scotland, said there was inconsistencies across the GP network.\n\nHe said the vaccine deployment plan was \"ambitious\" and so far \"good progress\" had been made in giving it to priority groups such as care homes residents and front-line health staff.\n\nHowever, he told the programme: \"The current problem lies with the next priority group, which is the 80-plus group, which GPs in Scotland are set to vaccinate because the supply of the vaccine so far has been quite patchy.\n\n\"Some practices have a good supply, some have had none so far.\"\n\nHe said his practice had received 100 doses of the vaccine for 600 patients over the age of 80, who all needed to be vaccinated by 5 February.\n\nHe added: \"I then have to do another 1,200 patients in the 70-plus group and the extremely clinically vulnerable by the middle of February, so we need to do 1,700 vaccines in the next four weeks.\n\n\"Now we can do that. We are used to providing large number of flu vaccinations and it is possible, we have our workforce in place, but we need the vaccine, otherwise we can't do it.\"\n\nWhen asked if his practice was running out of vaccine at the end of each day, Dr Buist said: \"Yes - we can't plan, that's the key thing. We can't send out appointments to patients until we're sure we have the vaccine in our fridge.\n\n\"We were given 100 doses on Monday. We used that all up by Friday. We don't want to send out appointments to patients until we know that we can definitively vaccinate them otherwise patients get very upset.\"\n\nVaccinators have reported being able to extract one additional dose from vaccine vials\n\nDr Buist said vaccinators were regularly managing to extract higher numbers of doses from vaccine vials despite claims that some doses were being wasted.\n\nHe said there was widespread experience of six doses being extracted from Pfizer vaccine vials, which were marketed as having five doses, while 11 doses were regularly being taken from AstraZeneca vials.\n\nBut Dr Buist criticised issues around the red tape some retired health professional had faced when volunteering to become vaccinators.\n\n\"I have reports that arrangement to get doctors and nurses back into the system have been quite bureaucratic and I think it's something we need to look at.\"\n\nThe Scottish government acknowledged that there had been delays in vaccine supplies reaching some GP surgeries.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"GPs have a significant role to play in delivering the vaccine - and we thank them for their hard work and patience as we roll out more vaccines to those in the communities.\n\n\"We know there have been some initial delays in supply reaching some practices and are working with health boards to resolve this. Vaccines are being manufactured as quickly as possible and we will continue to explore all options available to increase supply.\"\n\nThe government said health boards were providing order information for their GP practices to National Procurement who in turn advised the distribution partner.\n\nThe spokeswoman added: \"Once stock is released for ordering, the distribution partner inputs the GP orders on to their ordering system. Once the order has been placed, GP practices will receive an automated email providing an indication of the delivery day.\n\n\"We too want to vaccinate as many people as quickly as possible and are continually working hard to see if distribution can be made faster in any respect.\"", "Hospitals are preparing for the expected peak of the latest Covid-19 surge this week, the Northern Trust's chief executive has said.\n\nJennifer Welsh said there was \"huge pressure across the (healthcare) system\" with more intensive care admissions expected.\n\nThirty patients were awaiting admission to Antrim Area Hospital on Sunday morning, she said.\n\nThere were 25 more deaths linked to Covid-19 reported in NI on Sunday.\n\nThe total number of deaths recorded by the Department of Health since the start of the pandemic is now 1,606.\n\nIt was also reported that there had been 822 more positive cases, with 67 people in intensive care and 50 people on ventilators.\n\nThere are 840 patients being treated for Covid- 19 across Northern Ireland, according to the latest available figures with hospitals working at 93% capacity.\n\nMeanwhile, Northern Ireland has been continuing its vaccination programme having distributed 140,559 first doses and 20,174 second doses.\n\nThe total number of jabs administered in the UK, including both first and second doses, is 4,307,002 according to government data.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Sunday, there were 13 further deaths related to Covid-19, bringing the total number to 2,608 since the start of the pandemic.\n\nThere was also a further 2,944 positive cases, bringing the total number of cases in the state to 172,726.\n\nThe Republic of Ireland's Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan said the situation in the country's hospitals was \"stark\" and that people of all ages were being admitted and taken into intensive care.\n\nAt the beginning of January, Health Minister Robin Swann said that modelling indicated the \"peak of the third surge\" would hit in the third week of January.\n\nFrontline health staff have spoken to BBC News NI about their \"exhaustion\" and stress, as the pressure on the system continues to increase amid the surging number of cases.\n\nNorthern Ireland is currently in the third week of a six-week lockdown, with ministers scheduled to review measures next week.\n\nHowever, health officials have warned that an extension of the restrictions could be required to reduce pressure on the health service.\n\nNorthern Trust chief executive Jennifer Welsh said hospitals were \"coping but at great cost\"\n\nMs Welsh told BBC NI's Sunday Politics programme that the \"ICU surge is yet to come\" and that the Northern Trust - where two major hospitals, Antrim Area and Causeway, are located - has had to redeploy staff to prepare for the coming days.\n\nShe said both hospitals had been \"under significant pressure and have been for some time\".\n\nShe said 30 patients in Antrim Area's Emergency Department are waiting on a bed after a decision was made to admit them - 24 of those patients have been waiting longer than 12 hours.\n\nMs Welsh added that almost half of all patients in Antrim Area Hospital have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\n\"At the peak of the first wave in Antrim and Causeway the highest number of Covid positive patients was 73.\n\n\"In November, the highest number was 102 and we peaked on Thursday at 202. We have now dropped below that slightly.\"\n\nThe chief executive said the hospitals were \"coping but at great cost\", with many urgent surgeries cancelled.\n\n\"Emergency surgery is being done but we are not being able to do any other in the Antrim Area site.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by bbctheview This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We have been able to deliver some red flag cancer surgery at Causeway but we would like to do more.\"\n\nDespite these emergency measures already in place, the worst of the current surge is only expected to arrive this week.\n\nShe added: \"We are not going to get out of this quickly. It's going to be a challenge for us as a system.\n\n\"It's been building from October.\"\n\n\"We're not yet at the peak of intensive care admissions and we expect that this week.\n\n\"Antrim has doubled its intensive care beds from seven to 14 in anticipation of the coming surge - 11 are already being used.\n\n\"All hospitals have doubled their ICU footprint. There are more than 160 inpatients in Antrim Area Hospital.\"", "Within seconds of being dropped, LauncherOne had ignited its engine\n\nSir Richard Branson's rocket company Virgin Orbit has succeeded in putting its first satellites in space.\n\nTen payloads in total were lofted on the same rocket, which was launched from under the wing of one of the entrepreneur's old 747 jumbos.\n\nSir Richard is hoping to tap into what is a growing market for small, lower-cost satellites.\n\nBy using a jet plane as the launch platform, he can theoretically send up spacecraft from anywhere in the world.\n\nIn reality, of course, his Virgin Orbit system has to be licensed in the locality where it is used, which at the moment is solely California. But there are well-advanced plans to bring the 747 and its rockets to Cornwall in south-west England, for example.\n\nSunday's success was a big fillip for Sir Richard's team who had tried and failed to launch a rocket in May last year. That effort was thwarted by a breached propellant line feeding liquid oxygen to the booster's first-stage Newton-3 engine.\n\nNo such problems occurred this time.\n\nThe modified 747, named Cosmic Girl, left its base in California's Mojave desert at 10:50 PST (18:50 UTC) to fly out over the Pacific Ocean.\n\nA little under 60 minutes later, and cruising at 35,000ft (10,500m), the jet banked hard to the right, dropping as it did so the 21m-long rocket that had been clamped to its underside.\n\nWithin seconds this booster, called LauncherOne, had ignited its engine and was climbing to space.\n\nCorrect deployment of the various spacecraft onboard at an altitude of roughly 500km was confirmed a couple of hours later.\n\n\"A new gateway to space has just sprung open,\" said Virgin Orbit CEO Dan Hart. \"That LauncherOne was able to successfully reach orbit today is a testament to this team's talent, precision, drive, and ingenuity.\"\n\nSir Richard has been trying to find the right solution to get into the satellite launch business since 2009. His concrete proposal was first put before the public at the Farnborough International Air Show three years later.\n\nThere is an emerging market for small, lower-cost spacecraft, whose developers are seeking more flexible and affordable ways of getting their assets above the Earth.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVirgin Orbit is one of a number of companies now racing to meet this demand. Other contenders include the Rocket Lab outfit, which sends up its vehicles from a ground launch pad in New Zealand. But there are tens of other small rocket start-ups at various stages of maturation, and some of these plan to operate from the UK as well.\n\n\"Virgin Orbit has achieved something many thought impossible. It was so inspiring to see our specially adapted Virgin Atlantic 747, Cosmic Girl, send the LauncherOne rocket soaring into orbit,\" Sir Richard said.\n\n\"This magnificent flight is the culmination of many years of hard work and will also unleash a whole new generation of innovators on the path to orbit. I can't wait to see the incredible missions Dan and the team will launch to change the world for good.\"\n\nSir Richard presented the LauncherOne concept at Farnborough in 2012\n\nWill Whitehorn is the president of UKSpace, the trade body representing the space industry in Britain. He's also a former president of Virgin Galactic, Sir Richard's other space company which hopes soon to start flying fare-paying passengers above the atmosphere in a rocket plane.\n\nHe said Virgin Orbit's success on Sunday was hugely significant.\n\n\"This is a momentous day for the small satellite world, as we will be able to launch satellites responsively; and for the UK this event promises sovereign launch capability very soon,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"I plan to push hard for a launch from Cornwall to coincide with the G7 meeting this year if at all possible!\"\n\nSunday's payloads were mostly shoebox-sized and developed by universities\n\nThe air-launched system has the flexibility to operate anywhere - in theory", "Northern Ireland's statistics agency has recorded its highest weekly Covid-19 related registered deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nNisra said 145 deaths were registered in the first week of 2021, although administrative delays over Christmas may have affected the number.\n\nThat brings the agency's death toll to 1,976 by 8 January.\n\nThe figures come as the chief medical officers from NI and the Republic issued a joint stay-at-home plea.\n\nDr Michael McBride and Dr Tony Holohan said they were \"gravely concerned\" about the \"unsustainably high level of Covid-19 infection\" across the island of Ireland.\n\nConcern was raised in the Republic of Ireland this week as figures showed it has the world's highest number of confirmed new Covid-19 cases per million people.\n\nOn Friday evening, the Irish Department of Health reported 50 further deaths with Covid-19 and 3,498 new cases of the virus. More than half (54%) of those newly diagnosed are under the age of 45.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the third week of a six-week lockdown, with ministers scheduled to review measures next week.\n\nHowever, health officials have warned that an extension of the restrictions could be required to reduce pressure on the health service.\n\nOf the 2,019 deaths recorded by Nisra by 8 January, 1,247 (62%) occurred in hospital, 622 (31%) in care homes, 12 (0.6%) in hospices and 138 (7%) at residential addresses or other locations.\n\nPeople aged 75 and over account for just over three-quarters of all Covid-19 related registered deaths (77.6%) between 19 March 2020 and 8 January 2021.\n\nJust over a fifth (22.2%) of all Covid-19 related registered deaths have been of people with an address in the Belfast council area.\n\nMeanwhile, the Department of Health reported 26 further Covid-related deaths on Friday.\n\nFive of these deaths did not occur in the past 24 hours.\n\nThe Department of Health bases its figures on a positive test result being recorded, whereas Nisra figures are based on mentions of the virus on death certificates, so people may or may not have been confirmed to have contracted the virus prior to death.\n\nA further 1,052 individuals have tested positive for Covid-19 and 63 patients are being treated in intensive care units, 47 of whom are on ventilators.\n\nThe chief medical officers warned the high infection rate was having a \"significant impact\" on the health of the population and the \"safe functioning\" of the healthcare systems.\n\nThey said the public should avoid all unnecessary journeys, including cross-border travel.\n\nPointing out that many of the patients admitted to hospital in January have been younger than 65, they warned coronavirus could affect anyone, \"regardless of age or underlying condition\".\n\n\"It highlights the need for us all to protect one another by staying at home,\" said the medical officers.\n\nNorthern Ireland's spike in infections has been put down to an easing of restrictions over Christmas.\n\nAsked if he regretted being part of the decision to ease restrictions, Health Minister Robin Swann said the executive had tried to be balanced in its approach.\n\n\"I regret the pressures we see now in our hospitals, but let's remember it's caused by this virus, we have it in our power to bring it back under control and get us back to where we were in the summer,\" he told BBC News NI on Friday.\n\nMr Swann pleaded with people to follow the current restrictions.\n\n\"We're in the middle of a very tough six-week scenario, and how we come out of this will be a more graduated approach to make sure we get the benefits of what we've already done, and also the benefits of the vaccine.\"", "Sara Powell-Davies said she was lucky her nursery was able to open following lockdown\n\nA mother with two young children has said it was \"incredibly stressful\" trying to manage without free childcare during lockdown.\n\nThe Welsh Government's scheme was suspended in April, with funds redirected to pay for childcare for key workers' children.\n\nNow the offer, available to working parents of three and four-year-olds, has been reinstated.\n\nBut there are concerns many nurseries have been operating at a loss.\n\nWorking parents of three and four-year-old children are able to claim up 30 hours of early-years education and childcare a week for 48 weeks a year under the Childcare Offer for Wales.\n\nThose whose children become eligible in the autumn term, can apply from September.\n\nSara Powell-Davies, from Caerphilly, said it had been really hard to manage without the help during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe mother to three-year-old Tirion and one-year-old Cadel said the free childcare saved the family about £200 a month.\n\n\"It does make a massive difference to our finances every month,\" she said.\n\nMrs Powell-Davies said, while she was lucky Cadel's nursery was open, after-school clubs would not run in September due to the coronavirus pandemic, which would make juggling childcare around work a challenge.\n\n\"It's incredibly stressful trying to manage this anyway,\" she said.\n\n\"We do rely on support like private nursery provision, after-school care [and] wraparound because we don't have any family that is able to support us.\n\n\"So, this is our lifeline.\"\n\nChildcare Offer for Wales gives those eligible 30 hours of early-years education and childcare per week for 48 weeks of the year\n\nChildcare providers are paid £4.50 per hour for every child who takes up a place through the childcare offer.\n\nBut the National Day Nurseries Association said many of its members were operating at a loss as fewer children had been attending and costs had gone up to comply with Covid-19 safety regulations.\n\nIts chief executive Purnima Tanuku called on the Welsh Government to set up a \"transformation fund to be able to support the sector until occupancy levels pick up and to really review the hourly rate to reflect the additional cost they've had to incur\".\n\nLyn Bourne, of Britannia Day Nursery, said nurseries were a \"forgotten industry\"\n\nBefore the coronavirus pandemic, around 70 children attended Britannia Day Nursery in Caerphilly - now there are about 40.\n\nOwner Lyn Bourne said the nursery was losing money every week, but was determined to keep going.\"It is hard financially and emotionally, but we decided we wanted to keep going so we've just done our best to do that,\" she said.Ms Bourne said she hoped the childcare offer would help some parents to bring children back, but said nurseries needed extra financial help from the government too.\"Nurseries are closing every week,\" she said.\"We seem to be a forgotten industry, but we're so important.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government confirmed that coronavirus guidance restricting children to groups of eight in childcare would be lifted.\n\nDeputy Minister for Social Care Julie Morgan said: \"Bringing the offer back will not only help parents, but it is crucial for providers too in supporting their businesses to recover after what has been a period of great uncertainty and anxiety for many.\"\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said the hourly rate was under review and it was considering extending the offer to parents in education or training or \"on the cusp\" of returning to work.\n\nHe added: \"The childcare offer being restarted funded childcare for an average of 13,000 children per month before the pandemic, a significant investment in the Welsh childcare sector.\n\n\"We have also relaxed some of the regulatory requirements on childcare settings in the national minimum standards to make it easier for them to operate under the current restrictions.\"", "Women selling clothes online are being sent explicit messages, with requests for sex and \"worn\" garments.\n\nBoth businesses and private individuals have experienced the problem when advertising on mainstream platforms.\n\nWomen have been sent '\"creepy\" messages on Facebook, Instagram, eBay, and Depop, the BBC has learned.\n\nSome were asked for additional items including worn tights, explicit photos and used underwear.\n\nWhen inappropriate profiles were blocked or reported, some would reappear with a different account, sources told the BBC.\n\n\"During lockdown, the messages have gotten really creepy,\" said Sara Faye, who has sold her clothes on Depop for years.\n\n\"They always want to know how many times it has been worn and if it is dirty.\"\n\nMs Faye used to post images of herself in the clothes on the platforms but has now stopped because of the messages.\n\nWomen often model the clothing they're selling in the photos\n\n\"Don't message me on an innocent second-hand website, just because you can see a hot girl in the photos,\" she added. \"It feels like a violation, you should be able to sell your clothes online without getting harassed.\"\n\nSellers were sometimes offered additional money for used clothing or explicit images.\n\nJennifer Savin - a Cosmopolitan features writer, who recently investigated the topic - was offered ��5 for more than 50 intimate images after posting items on eBay.\n\n\"I think there are a lot of users out there, just trying their luck,\" she told the BBC. \"Who knows if they'd even pay up if they were to be sent the explicit content in the first place?\"\n\nOne online seller, who relies on the profits made on these platforms for a living, said \"it was a balance between feeling safe and needing the money.\"\n\nEstablished clothing brands have also reported receiving inappropriate messages and requests on Facebook and Instagram.\n\nLovely's Vintage Emporium sells vintage clothes and receives many such comments every week.\n\nLovely's Vintage Emporium says it receives many inappropriate messages every week\n\n\"I get a lot of messages about the model, especially if there are shirts with close-up images,\" said owner Lynnette Peck.\n\n\"I had a fetishist asking what [shoes] smelt like, who wore them and if I could take a photo of myself wearing them.\"\n\nShe has now stopped selling certain items on the website, after receiving explicit photographs through Facebook Messenger.\n\nNaomi Edmondson, who runs lingerie brand Edge o'Beyond, said the business was \"constantly bombarded with creepy comments from men\", often asking for sex.\n\n\"We get so many creepy messages and comments it's too time-consuming to report them all,\" she said. \"A few times I have felt concerned for safety.\n\n\"We create lingerie to empower women, we do not welcome the minority of men who think it's acceptable to send explicit pictures.\"\n\nSome of the women the BBC spoke to said they hadn't reported the messages because they were \"embarrassed\", \"ashamed\" or \"didn't want to risk losing their accounts\".\n\nFacebook, Instagram, Depop and eBay all said they take these kinds of messages seriously and would take action against those who violated policy.\n\nThey all urged users to report and block any accounts which break the rules.\n\nFacebook - which also owns Instagram - said it has built a \"global safety and security team as well as powerful technology\" to remove accounts as quickly as possible.\n\nDepop said it aims to respond to 95% reports of inappropriate behaviour within three hours, during business hours.\n\n\"The issue of women receiving creepy messages when selling clothes online is not a new phenomenon,\" said Jo O'Reilly, digital privacy expert at ProPrivacy.\n\n\"This is particularly concerning because to sell on most popular online selling platforms, including eBay and Depop, it is mandatory for users to provide a postal address - likely to be their home address.\"\n\nBut that is technically against the terms and conditions of most selling platforms.\n\n\"The very nature of selling second-hand clothes means that sellers will often post photos of themselves wearing the items,\" she says.\n\n\"That can, unfortunately, attract unwanted attention from buyers who might wish to buy worn clothes rather than just second-hand items.\"\n\nAlthough sites restrict the selling of certain used items, such as underwear, private messaging provides a \"loophole\", she added.", "Boris Johnson has said there is still a very substantial risk of intensive care units in hospitals being overwhelmed by the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nIt comes on a day when the UK has recorded the highest number of deaths in a single day in Europe.\n\nFergal Keane last visited the Imperial Healthcare Trust’s St Mary’s and Charing Cross hospital in London last April.\n\nHe's been back to see how they're coping.", "UN peacekeepers ended their mission in Darfur last month\n\nThe number of people killed in clashes between different ethnic groups in Sudan's West Darfur state has risen to 83, a medical body has said.\n\nThe fighting in the state capital, El Geneina, began on Saturday after a row in which a man was stabbed to death.\n\nA state-wide curfew has been imposed and Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has sent a delegation to investigate.\n\nA conflict in Darfur that began in 2003 forced millions to flee and, despite a peace process, tensions remain.\n\nSaturday's violence comes less than three weeks after peacekeepers from the United Nations and African Union handed over security to the Khartoum authorities after 13 years there, reports the BBC's Youssef Taha.\n\nSimilar clashes in El Geneina last year, which saw Arab pastoralists fight with non-Arab groups, caused hundreds of casualties.\n\nThe most recent fighting was centred around a camp for people who had been displaced by the Darfur conflict. A deadly row between two men escalated into a fight involving armed militias, the AFP news agency reports.\n\nThe Central Committee of Sudan Doctors said the death toll had risen from 48 to 83, and the number of wounded from around 100 to 160.\n\nMembers of the armed forces were among the victims, it said.\n\nCasualties were likely to rise further as fighting was continuing, the medical body added.\n\nThe government said on Sunday that troop reinforcements would be sent to the area\n\nThe announcement was made after army chief Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan met top security officials to discuss the violence.\n\nA peace deal involving most, but not all, groups in Darfur was signed last year.\n\nThe Darfur conflict began under the presidency of Omar al-Bashir, who was overthrown in 2019 and is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged war crimes and genocide in the region.\n\nJustice for the people of Darfur was a key rallying cry for civilian groups who backed the ouster of the president after nearly three decades in power.\n\nThe Sudanese Professionals' Association, which was at the forefront of the anti-Bashir movement, called for the current transitional government to deal with the \"unruly armed groups which have been freely moving and terrorising civilians since the collapse of the former regime\", Sudan's news agency reports.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nLast year Mohanad Hashim visited Kalma camp where some of the millions of people who fled flighting ended up:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The ongoing struggle for peace in Darfur", "A man has scaled a Hong Kong skyscraper in his wheelchair to raise money for spinal cord patients.\n\nLai Chi-Wai, who became paralysed after a road accident ten years ago, climbed 250 metres (820ft) of the Nina Towers building.\n\nBefore his accident, Lai Chi-Wai was a rock-climbing champion in Asia and eighth best in the world.\n\nHe said that \"knowing there was a possibility...that I could be a climber again, I found some direction in life\".", "A financial support scheme for airports in England will open this month, the government says, as the aviation sector faces new Covid travel curbs.\n\nAviation minister Robert Courts said the move was a response to the closure of all UK air corridors from Monday.\n\nThe aim was to provide grants by the end of this financial year, he said.\n\nIndustry groups had warned there was only so long airports could \"run on fumes\", following the announcement of the new quarantine rules.\n\nUnder the new rules beginning at 04:00 GMT on Monday, all travel corridors - which have been in place to allow arrivals from some countries to forgo quarantine - will close.\n\nAll arrivals to the UK after that time will need to isolate for up to 10 days, although the quarantine period can be cut short with a negative test after five days.\n\nPeople will also have to show proof of a negative test taken in the previous 72 hours before travelling.\n\nOn Sunday, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab also told the BBC'S Andrew Marr Show that Public Health England would also be stepping up checks on travellers who must self-isolate, while enforcement checks at borders would also be \"ramped up\".\n\nHe added that asking all arrivals to self-isolate in hotels was a \"potential measure\" the government was keeping under review.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Courts said the Airport and Ground Operations Support Scheme \"will help airports reduce\" additional costs faced due to the pandemic and that further details would follow soon.\n\nThe scheme had first been announced in November, but without a set start date. It will involve grants of up to £8m per applicant, to be used to cover fixed costs, such as business rates.\n\nIn a statement at the time, the Airport Operators Association said the scheme would be a relief. However, it said support equivalent to business rates would only go so far and with the pandemic crisis deepening, a broader package of support was needed for all four nations, to see the sector through the next few months.\n\nAOA chief executive Karen Dee said the measures would \"provide much-needed support to many embattled airports, helping them through the challenging months ahead\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson announced the changes to the UK's travel rules at a Downing Street briefing on Friday, saying they would \"protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new strains\" of Covid.\n\nThe new rules will be in place until at least 15 February, he said.\n\nA ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde also came into force on Friday, having been imposed over concerns about a new variant identified in Brazil.\n\nNew variants causing concern have previously been identified in the UK and South Africa, with many countries imposing restrictions on arrivals from both nations.\n\nScientists fear the variants seen in South Africa and Brazil may interfere with the effectiveness of vaccines and evade parts of the immune system.\n\nThe government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told the press briefing on Friday that some of the new variants may be able to \"get round\" the Covid vaccines but it was \"really quite easy\" to adjust the vaccines to deal with mutations in the virus.\n\nThe travel industry said closing the travel corridors was understandable due to the health emergency, but warned it would deepen the crisis for the sector.\n\nTim Alderslade, chief executive of Airlines UK, said the system had been \"a lifeline for the industry\" last summer but \"things change and there's no doubting this is a serious health emergency\". He said he assumed the government would remove the latest restrictions as soon as it was safe.\n\n\"We've had no revenue now effectively for 12 months, give or take a few months in the summer last year. If we're going to have an aviation sector coming out of this we need to open up in the summer,\" he told the BBC.\n\nTravel operators had already been forced to cancel holidays before the latest restrictions were announced.\n\nEarlier this week, Jet2 suspended all flights and holidays until 25 March over \"ongoing uncertainty\" and budget travel provider EasyJet on Thursday began cancelling holidays up to and including 24 March.\n\nThe Department for Transport has said it is supporting the travel industry with an extension to the furlough scheme until the end of April, business rates relief and tax deferrals.\n\nWith all parts of the UK under strict virus rules amid high levels of infection, only essential travel is permitted.\n\nOn Saturday, another 1,295 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test were reported in the UK, and a further 41,346 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from overseas? Do you work in the travel industry? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Pilot Douglas Jones, 27, was enjoying his dream job, working for Aegean Airlines and living in Greece, when the pandemic began last spring - and borders began to close.\n\nFearing being stranded in Greece, he booked a flight home to Scotland and within a couple of weeks learned his job was gone.\n\nBack home, in the small Scottish town of Moffat, in Dumfries and Galloway, he found himself “desperate to do something”.\n\n\"When you have been used to living in Berlin and Athens and you move back to Moffat, living with your dad, it is a bit of slowdown,\" he says.\n\nIt was a relative of a friend who spotted south of Scotland firm Alpha Solway was hiring new workers to meet demand for personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\nIt certainly marked a change of pace – the nine-to-five office-based routine was difficult to adjust to for someone accustomed to navigating the skies of Europe – but Douglas says he was \"surprised\" by what parts of his old job he could bring to his new post.\n\n\"A lot in commercial aviation is about awareness - situational awareness - and a lot of that can be built into manufacturing as well,\" he says.\n\nWhile looking forward to returning to the skies one day, he adds: “I have learned a huge amount here.\n\n“There are good people here doing a good job and I am helping at least with that.\"", "Children in England will be able to access books online free during school closures via a virtual library.\n\nInternet classroom Oak National Academy created the library after schools moved to remote learning for the majority of pupils until February half-term.\n\nFormed with The National Literacy Trust, the library will provide a book a week from its author of the week.\n\nThe aim is to increase young readers' access to e-books and audiobooks, particularly the most disadvantaged.\n\nOak National Academy is funded by the Department for Education and has provided more than 28 million lessons since the start of the school term on 4 January.\n\nIn the last two weeks, 4.1 million pupils accessed its resources.\n\nThe latest lockdown has seen schools in England close except for children of key workers and vulnerable pupils.\n\nMatt Hood, principal of Oak National Academy, said: \"It's incredible to be able to add to our offer something vital for children's literacy and their mental wellbeing.\"\n\nJonathan Douglas, chief executive of the National Literacy Trust, said it was \"essential\" to enable as many children as possible to \"access a world of great literature\".\n\nHe added: \"Many children's literacy skills were profoundly affected by the first lockdown and school closures.\n\n\"We will do everything in our power to support children, families and teachers during this new lockdown period.\"\n\nDescribing the virtual library as a \"fantastic resource\", Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said learning and children's development must continue while schools remain closed.\n\nHe said: \"Reading is hugely beneficial not only for children's literacy skills, but also their mental health and wellbeing.\"\n\nThe first book to feature will be Dame Jacqueline Wilson's The Story Of Tracy Beaker, and will be available to access free for a week from 17 January.\n\nDame Jacqueline said with schools closed, the free online library is needed more than ever, adding: \"I think it's vitally important that every child should have an opportunity to access books.\"", "The funeral of Gerry and the Pacemakers singer Gerry Marsden has been held at a church near his beloved River Mersey.\n\nMarsden died, aged 78, in hospital on 3 January following a blood infection.\n\nAs the frontman in the band Gerry and the Pacemakers, his hits included Ferry Cross The Mersey and a cover version of You'll Never Walk Alone.\n\nEx-Liverpool boss Sir Kenny Dalglish was among the mourners at the funeral which had to remain small because of Covid restrictions.\n\nSir Kenny managed the club at the time of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, which led to the deaths of 96 fans who were attending an FA Cup game between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.\n\nGerry Marsden sings You'll Never Walk Alone before an Anfield match in 2010\n\nSir Kenny said: \"You'll Never Walk Alone has huge meaning to the lives of Liverpool supporters around the world and is synonymous with the club.\n\n\"He will be sadly missed by those who knew him and the millions he never got to meet.\"\n\nYou'll Never Walk Alone became a football terrace anthem for Marsden's hometown club soon after it topped the charts in 1963.\n\nThe song was played during the funeral by a guitarist while a version of Marsden singing Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying, a song he wrote for his wife Pauline, also featured.\n\nShe said: \"We, his family, are totally devastated and have been so moved and amazed at the extent of the respect, love and affection received from all over the world.\n\n\"When the time is right and we have come out of this terrible pandemic we hope a fitting memorial can be held for him in the city he loved so much.\"\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers was one of the biggest British bands in the 1960s\n\nReferring to the lyrics from Ferry Cross the Mersey, close friend Arthur Johnson said: \"He lived close to the banks of the Mersey for all his life and as the words of his song say: 'This land's the place I love and here I'll stay'.\"\n\nLiverpool City Region mayor Steve Rotheram said: \"I feel privileged he let me into his life, although that makes his passing even more painful.\"\n\nIn 1962, Beatles manager Brian Epstein signed up Gerry and the Pacemakers and, a year later, they became the first band to have their first three songs top the charts - How Do You Do It, I Like It and You'll Never Walk Alone.\n\nA flag on the Royal Iris Mersey ferry flew at half mast after the death of Gerry Marsden\n\nThey were one of the successes of the Merseybeat era, with former Beatles star Sir Paul McCartney saying at the time of Marsden's death that: \"Gerry was a mate from our early days in Liverpool\".\n\n\"He and his group were our biggest rivals on the local scene.\"", "More than half of the Church of England's 14,000 parishes will not open for Sunday services later, as places of worship are hit hard by Covid-19.\n\nMany of the Church's clergy are shielding, while some parishes have decided it is not safe enough to admit worshippers.\n\nMost mosques in London did not open for Friday prayers.\n\nThe Catholic Church in England and Wales says parishes that are able to follow guidelines will still open.\n\nDespite coronavirus restrictions, places of worship in England and Wales can open - but many are struggling to do so safely.\n\nPlaces of worship remain closed throughout Scotland, while Northern Ireland's main church denominations are to cease public worship until early February.\n\nThe Church of England has told the BBC more than half of its parishes - including some cathedrals - will not open for communal prayer on Sunday. Many have moved their worship online.\n\nThe Church said some of its clergy were shielding, and all parishes were making their own decision.\n\nLincoln Cathedral took the decision to suspend in-person worship and move services online earlier in the week.\n\nRev Canon Nick Brown, Precentor of Lincoln, said the decision was taken \"with a very heavy heart\" but explained: \"To bring people together in worship is at the very heart of our purpose, but having considered expert advice we believe that the best way to help limit the spread of Covid-19 is to suspend public services for the time being.\"\n\nThe Catholic Church in England and Wales says it will keep its churches under review to make sure \"the highest standards of safety are maintained\". It is also organising online masses in many parishes.\n\nBritain's most senior Catholic, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, had criticised previous orders for churches to close.\n\nWith more than half of the Church of England's parishes closed for communal worship, thousands of Christians are being deprived of spiritual sustenance, at a time when many feel sorely in need of it.\n\nOther religions are also grappling with the issue and have worked hard to make their places of worship Covid-compliant by, for example, introducing strict booking and ticketing systems.\n\nMany church parishes have adapted by moving services online, a trend mirrored in some Jewish and Muslim denominations. These have been largely successful, and in some cases attracted new audiences from thousands of miles away. However, it's difficult to replicate the sense of community when people can physically and regularly meet up.\n\nOne Rabbi I spoke to last summer admitted he was worried some of his synagogue regulars, kept away by Covid-19, might never return.\n\nThere's also a financial aspect. Places of worship rely heavily on the generosity of believers. Weekly donations have been hit by church closures, and many revenue-generating schemes, such as hiring out church halls, have been cancelled. Many of the country's ancient cathedrals make much of their income from tourist admission fees.\n\nDifferent parts of the UK have taken different approaches, with all places of worship currently closed in Scotland, for example. Some Christian leaders, largely accepting of initial closures during the first lockdown, have gradually spoken out in favour of being able to make the decision themselves.\n\nBut with most shops and sporting facilities closed in England, some campaigners, such as the National Secular Society, have railed against what they say is \"a worrying deference to religious entitlement\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board has told the BBC although most mosques in England and Wales did open for Friday prayers, the majority in London did not - and it says it has asked its members in areas where the infection rate is rising to work closely with Public Health England and local authorities.\n\nUnder the latest lockdowns in the UK, there are changes to usual practices for worshippers of all religions.\n\nIn the areas of the UK where communal worship is allowed, a number of measures are in place, such as carrying out services in the shortest possible time, and ensuring worshippers do not mingle with anyone not in their own household or support bubble.\n\nFaith leaders have accepted the need for restrictions.\n\nThe Muslim Council of Britain urges \"strong caution for mosques wishing to continue remaining open to the public for worship... and for tremendous care to be exercised\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Bishop of London, the Rt Rev Sarah Mullally, who has been in charge of the Church of England's plans for resuming services, has said \"some may feel that it is currently better not to attend in person... Clergy who have concerns, and others who are shielding, should take particular care and stay at home\".\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n• None What are the rules for places of worship?", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland need further 36 runs to win\n\nEngland need 36 runs on the final day to win the first Test against Sri Lanka despite losing three wickets in a chaotic end to the fourth day in Galle.\n\nChasing only 74, the tourists slipped to 14-3 as Dom Sibley and Zak Crawley fell to left-arm spinner Lasith Embuldeniya before captain Joe Root was run out after a mix-up with Jonny Bairstow.\n\nBairstow, who survived a run-out chance of his own, and debutant Dan Lawrence saw England to 38 without further loss before bad light ended play early.\n\nBairstow and Lawrence will resume on 11 and seven respectively at 04:15 GMT on Monday.\n\nEarlier, Sri Lanka were bowled out for 359, with Lahiru Thirimanne scoring 111 - his first century for almost eight years - and Angelo Matthews 73.\n\nJack Leach, playing his first Test since 2019, took 5-122 and Dom Bess 3-100 to finish with match figures of 8-130 and set up what should still be a comfortable England victory despite a wearing pitch.\n\nEngland won their most recent series in Sri Lanka 3-0, but their record in Asia - and playing spin - is poor and it reared its head again in a remarkable start to their fourth-innings chase.\n\nSibley, whom many feel is vulnerable against spin, was bowled for two not offering a shot, while Crawley, who was dropped on one, added only eight before a drive was superbly caught at gully by Kusal Mendis.\n\nEngland contributed to their own problems as captain Root, who scored a magnificent 228 in the first innings, was run out by a direct hit by wicketkeeper Niroshan Dickwella, colliding with bowler Dilruwan Perera after Bairstow called for a risky single.\n\nBairstow and Lawrence restored calm in a 24-run stand to steer England to stumps, and they remain firm favourites to take a 1-0 lead in the two-match series.\n\n\"If Sri Lanka had run Bairstow out just after Root it would have been very interesting,\" former England captain Michael Vaughan said on BBC Test Match Special.\n\nSri Lanka, whose first-innings effort of 135 in just 46.1 overs was described as \"one of the worse we've ever seen\", showed significantly more character and application in the second.\n\nOpener Thirimanne, 76 not out as the hosts resumed on 156-2, moved to his second Test century - 54 innings after his first, the third longest gap in Test history - with a cut for four off Bess.\n\nThe left-hander averaged 22 in 36 Tests before this match and his place was in serious doubt, only for captain Dimuth Karunaratne to be ruled out before the game with a thumb injury.\n\nAfter Thirimanne got a faint inside edge to the excellent Jos Buttler off Sam Curran, former captain Mathews played a dogged 219-ball innings containing only two fours to ensure Sri Lanka at least wiped out a 286-run first-innings deficit.\n\nWhen he edged Leach to Root at slip to be last man out, Sri Lanka were left wondering what might have been had they shown the same discipline first time round.\n\nBess, who took 5-30 in the first innings despite struggling with his length, improved throughout the second innings and took a wicket in the first over of his three spells on Sunday.\n\nHe had nightwatchman Embuldeniya caught by Sibley at short cover off the 12th ball of the day, before returning to have stand-in captain Dinesh Chandimal held at slip by Root, and Dickwella caught behind as he attempted to guide the ball to third man.\n\nLeach, who has missed England's past 11 Tests - in part due to illness - yorked Dasun Shanaka and had the dangerous Wanindu Hasaranga superbly taken by Root at slip, before Perera became Buttler's first stumping in Test cricket.\n\nThe wicket of Mathews rounded off Leach's five-wicket haul, the first time two England spinners had achieved the feat in the same match since Derek Underwood and John Emburey in Sri Lanka in 1982.\n\n'It will only mean something if we win' - reaction\n\nEngland spinner Jack Leach on BBC Test Match Special: \"I wouldn't say I bowled well. It has been hard graft out there and I have certainly found I am probably a little rusty.\n\n\"At times I felt I could have done a better job, but the pleasing thing is I felt I bowled better as the game went on.\n\n\"We will come back tomorrow, knock these off and then I can be happy about my five wickets. It will only mean something if we win.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"It has been an exciting day's play. Sri Lanka hung in there.\n\n\"Credit to Sri Lanka - we pelted them but on days three and four have shown they are a team that can compete in home conditions.\"\n\nFormer Sri Lanka all-rounder Russel Arnold: \"The start of England's innings was hectic. We saw panic from England, but Bairstow and Lawrence now look like they have it under control.\"\n• None Find all the resources you need to help with education at home\n• None The hilarious hit history podcast is back for a new series", "There are warnings more children could be plunged into poverty\n\nA decision on whether the £20 weekly rise in Universal Credit will be kept in place is unlikely before March's Budget, a top minister has indicated.\n\nCampaigners say the uplift, worth more than £1,000 a year, has been a lifeline for the vulnerable during the pandemic.\n\nLabour will use a Commons debate on Monday to add pressure on ministers to agree now to extend it beyond 31 March.\n\nBut Dominic Raab told the BBC it was a \"temporary measure\" and the Budget would spell out support \"in the round\".\n\nIn an interview with Andrew Marr, the foreign secretary confirmed that Conservative MPs would be told to abstain in Monday's debate, meaning Labour's \"opposition day\" motion will be approved.\n\nWhile the motion will not be binding on ministers and won't change policy, the BBC's Ben Wright said not opposing it represented an attempt by the government to \"neutralise\" the issue for the time being.\n\nIt showed, he added, how concerned ministers were about the prospect of a rebellion by Tory MPs - many of whom want an end to the uncertainty over the issue - if they had been asked to vote against it.\n\nThe standard Universal Credit allowance, which is claimed by more than 5.5 million households, was increased by £20 a week in April 2020 as part of Chancellor Rishi Sunak's early Covid economic response.\n\nWhile it was designed as a temporary response to help those unable to work or struggling due to the lockdown, opposition parties and charities say failing to extend will cause real hardship for hundreds of thousands of people.\n\nThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation has suggested about 16 million people will be directly affected, with millions of households facing an income loss equivalent to £1,040 a year.\n\nThe organisation has warned 500,000 more people will be driven into poverty, including 200,000 children, while a further 500,000 of those already in poverty will find themselves in even worse hardship.\n\nIts director Helen Barnard said a decision could not be delayed any longer.\n\n\"The chancellor has said the economy is going to get worse before it gets better and our evidence shows it is those with the least who are often suffering the most,\" she said.\n\n\"No one can seriously argue that cutting support for those on the lowest incomes in April will do anything other than weaken our already fragile economy.\"\n\nAsked whether the government should act now, Mr Raab said Monday's debate was a \"political\" move by the opposition and not about the government's overall financial support during the pandemic.\n\nHe promised to \"look at everything in the round\" to make sure support for the most vulnerable was available.\n\n\"Obviously in March there will be a Budget where again that holistic approach can be taken by the chancellor, but we've put that support in place to make sure that the most vulnerable communities can be protected at this very difficult time,\" he told Andrew Marr.\n\nThe government says it has injected an extra £7bn into the welfare system during the pandemic, including boosting Working Tax Credits by more than £1,000 a year for a 12-month period.\n\nLabour has urged the government to \"see sense\" on Universal Credit, saying that it would be both morally and economically wrong to \"take £1,000 a year from Britain's families\" at the peak of the unemployment crisis.", "The leaders of most of the world's biggest economies will get a brief taste of the English seaside this June as they gather for the G7 summit.\n\nCornwall's Carbis Bay, known for its sandy beach and clear waters, will be the venue for discussions on debt, climate change and post-Covid recovery.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson called it the \"perfect location for such a crucial summit\".\n\nThe UK, US, Germany, France, Canada, Italy and Japan make up the G7.\n\nLeaders from Australia, India, South Korea and the EU will also attend the event, from 11 to 13 June, as guests.\n\nVisit Cornwall estimates the county will make £50m, with the summit providing a boost to tourism and the area's international profile.\n\nBut the likes of US President Joe Biden, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron are unlikely to enjoy an ice cream and a barefoot stroll through Carbis Bay's surf.\n\nG7 summits require security cordons, with anti-globalisation protests having affected several previous get-togethers.\n\nMeasures in place for the meeting in Biarritz, France, in 2019, saw the seaside resort likened to a temporary \"fortress\".\n\nThe Cornish meeting will be the first face-to-face G7 since the pandemic started. Last year's event - scheduled to take place at Camp David, Maryland - took place online instead.\n\nThe previous two UK-hosted meetings were at Lough Erne, Co Fermanagh, in 2013, and Gleneagles, Perth and Kinross, in 2005.\n\nBoris Johnson invoked the leading role of Cornwall's mining communities in the industrial revolution\n\nThis year, delegates will be put up - with Covid restrictions in place - at the Tregenna Castle Resort, overlooking nearby St Ives, and other locations.\n\nThe National Maritime Museum Cornwall in Falmouth will host international media.\n\nThe UK is hosting the summit as president of the G7 for the year.\n\n\"As the most prominent grouping of democratic countries, the G7 has long been the catalyst for decisive international action to tackle the greatest challenges we face,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nHe added that leaders should approach the economic challenges of Covid \"by uniting with a spirit of openness to create a better future\".\n\n\"Two-hundred years ago Cornwall's tin and copper mines were at the heart of the UK's industrial revolution and this summer Cornwall will again be the nucleus of great global change and advancement,\" the prime minister said.\n\nVisit Cornwall chief executive Malcolm Bell said the summit would \"not only showcase the beauty of Cornwall but give us the opportunity to communicate our heritage, culture and the connections\".\n\nLocal leaders said it would provide a \"fantastic opportunity\" to showcase the county on the world stage.\n\nThe government said it would announce more of its plans \"in due course\".\n\nThe G7 meeting comes five months ahead of UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow in November.", "A statue of Edward Colston was thrown into Bristol Harbour last June, after being pulled down and rolled through the streets\n\nThe government is planning new laws to protect statues in England from being removed \"on a whim or at the behest of a baying mob\", Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick has said.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, he said generations-old monuments should be \"considered thoughtfully\".\n\nThe legislation would require planning permission for any changes and a minister would be given the final veto.\n\nIt will be revealed in Parliament on Monday.\n\nThe plans follow the toppling of a statue of slave trader Edward Colston last year and a wider discussion on the removal of controversial monuments.\n\nFour people were later charged with criminal damage over the removal of the Colston statue, and six people accepted conditional cautions over their involvement.\n\nIn the paper, the communities secretary said Britain should not try to edit or censor its past.\n\nMr Jenrick said any decision to remove heritage assets in England would require planning permission and a consultation with local communities, adding that he wanted to see a \"considered approach\".\n\nHe wrote: \"Our view will be set out in law, that such monuments are almost always best explained and contextualised, not taken and hidden away.\"\n\nMr Jenrick added that he had noticed an attempt to set a narrative which seeks to erase part of the nation's history, saying this was \"at the hand of the flash mob, or by the decree of a 'cultural committee' of town hall militants and woke worthies\".\n\nHe said: \"We live in a country that believes in the rule of law, but when it comes to protecting our heritage, due process has been overridden. That can't be right.\n\n\"Local people should have the chance to be consulted whether a monument should stand or not.\n\n\"What has stood for generations should be considered thoughtfully, not removed on a whim or at the behest of a baying mob.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Metropolitan Police say they are seeking to identify those responsible for the damage\n\nThe death of George Floyd while in the custody of police in Minneapolis sparked anti-racism protests across the world.\n\nDuring largely peaceful demonstrations in the UK, the controversial Colston statue was dumped into Bristol Harbour and a memorial to Sir Winston Churchill was vandalised with the words \"was a racist\".\n\nSpeaking in June, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"The statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square is a permanent reminder of his achievement in saving this country - and the whole of Europe - from a fascist and racist tyranny.\n\n\"It is absurd and shameful that this national monument should ... be at risk of attack by violent protesters.\n\n\"Yes, he sometimes expressed opinions that were and are unacceptable to us today, but he was a hero, and he fully deserves his memorial.\"\n\nColston made his fortune in the slave trade and bequeathed his money to charities in Bristol, which led to many venues, streets and landmarks bearing his name.\n\nThe Society of Merchant Venturers, the Bristol charity which runs institutions named after Edward Colston, said it was right that the statue was removed, along with other memorials to \"a man who benefited from trading in human lives\".\n\nThey said it was part of acknowledging Bristol's \"dark past\" and building \"a city where racism and inequality no longer exist\".\n\nFollowing the toppling of the statue, Colston's Girls School changed its name to Montpelier High School and the city's Colston Hall music venue is now known as the Bristol Beacon.\n\nA statue of a Black Lives Matter protester was placed on the empty plinth without permission in July and was removed shortly afterwards.", "Work to restore hundreds of thousands of fingerprint, DNA and arrest records accidentally wiped from police databases is ongoing, the Home Office has said.\n\nAround 400,000 records were lost, according to The Times, which first reported the story.\n\nThe Home Office did not comment on how many records were likely to be restored, or how long it would take.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the issue was \"a result of human error\".\n\nData was wiped from the Police National Computer (PNC) - which stores and shares criminal records information across the UK - after being inadvertently flagged for deletion.\n\nThe PNC is used in police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nThe coding that caused the problem was introduced in November 2020, and the deletions started earlier this week.\n\nInitially, it was thought some 150,000 records were lost, but it since has emerged the number could be significantly higher.\n\nCommenting on the error, Ms Patel said: \"Engineers continue to work to restore data lost as a result of human error during a routine housekeeping process earlier this week.\n\n\"I continue to be in regular contact with the team, and working with our policing partners, we will provide an update as soon as we can.\"\n\nEarlier, Labour shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds called on Ms Patel to take responsibility for the error and be clear about the impact it had had.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, he described the situation as \"extraordinarily serious\", adding: \"Priti Patel will be responsible for criminals walking free.\n\n\"We're not going to be able to link suspects to crime scenes without the DNA and fingerprint evidence.\"\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council said the lost data had resulted in a couple of \"near misses\" for serious crimes when trying to identify an offender.\n\nPolicing minister Kit Malthouse insisted the affected records \"apply to cases where individuals were arrested and then released with no further action\".\n\nHe added: \"We are working to recover the affected records as a priority. While we do so, the Police National Computer is functioning and the police are taking steps to mitigate any impact.\"", "A group of London business leaders has written to the government calling for financial support for the struggling rail firm Eurostar.\n\nIn a letter to the Treasury and Department for Transport, they urge \"swift action to safeguard its future\".\n\nBosses of firms such as Fortnum & Mason signed the letter asking for access to government loans and business rates relief \"at the very least\".\n\nThe government says it is \"working closely\" with Eurostar.\n\nThe cross-Channel rail company is threatened by a large drop in passenger numbers due to coronavirus-related travel restrictions.\n\nIt reported in November that passenger numbers had been down 95% since March 2020.\n\nWith two trains an hour normally scheduled in peak hours, it now runs just two services a day from London to Paris and Brussels.\n\nThe letter, coordinated by business campaigning group London First and seen by the BBC, describes the firm as one that has \"fallen through the cracks\". Unlike some airlines, it has not been eligible for government-backed loans.\n\n\"If this viable business is allowed to fall between the cracks of support - neither an airline, nor a domestic railway - our recovery could be damaged,\" it says.\n\nCo-signed by 28 leaders, including the vice-chancellor of Middlesex University, the chief executive of West End property company Shaftesbury, as well as the boss of the ExCeL conference centre, the letter points out that the company currently employs 1,200 people in the UK.\n\nThe firm is 55% owned by French state rail firm SNCF. The UK government sold its stake in the business to private companies for £757m in 2015.\n\nThe letter also credits Eurostar with reducing carbon emissions. Since it launched in 1994, it has transported more than 190 million passengers between Britain and mainland Europe.\n\nA spokesman for Eurostar said: \"Without additional funding from government there is a real risk to the survival of Eurostar, the green gateway to Europe.\n\nHe described the current situation as \"very serious\".\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Transport said: \"We recognise the significant financial challenges facing Eurostar as a result of Covid-19 and the unprecedented circumstances currently faced by the international travel industry.\"\n\nHe added the government had been in contact with Eurostar \"on a regular basis\" since the start of the coronavirus crisis and would continue to work closely with the firm.\n• None How are travel rules being relaxed?", "Few people get as unique a take on the movement, mood and feelings of the public than the business owners that sit in its lay-bys.\n\nSince the start of lockdown they have juggled highs and lows.\n\nFrom supporting lorry drivers unable to stop at closed service stations to seeing their customers told to stay at home - and in turn not spend money with them.\n\nSome are now questioning their future and role in a workforce predicted to change its patterns and work from home more in the future.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke of Cambridge shared his own experiences of seeing \"death and so much bereavement\"\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have been told the pandemic will leave many emergency workers \"broken\".\n\nMany police and NHS workers are too concerned with battling the pandemic to look after their mental health, they were told.\n\nInsp Phil Spencer from Cleveland Police said staff did not engage enough with counselling \"because we don't want to take anybody else's valuable time\".\n\nPrince William said he \"really worries\" about the effect on front-line workers.\n\n\"When you're surrounded by that level of intense trauma and sadness and bereavement, it really does, it stays with you at home, it stays with you for weeks on end,\" he said.\n\nInsp Spencer said emergency workers \"run towards danger, run towards a terrorist attack, we run towards the pandemic\".\n\n\"Perhaps further down the line when all this is gone we're going to have some broken police officers and emergency services staff, because we're too busy focusing on protecting the most vulnerable,\" he said.\n\nThe couple also spoke to counsellors from Hospice UK's Harrogate-based Just B support line for NHS staff, social care workers, carers and emergency services, which their foundation helps financially.\n\nThe prince said he feared \"you're all so busy caring for everyone else that you won't take enough time to care for yourselves\".\n\nHe and Catherine said the stigma surrounding seeking help for mental health issues must end.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n• None The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two drivers from Scotland were stopped by police on Anglesey going to see friends.\n\nPeople who drove more than 200 miles to visit friends in Wales and a group having a party in a garden shed have been caught breaking Covid rules.\n\nPolice forces in Wales have broken up parties, football matches and fined people for visiting beauty spots this weekend while Wales is in lockdown.\n\nTwo motorists were reported by North Wales Police in Anglesey after driving from Scotland to visit friends.\n\nWhile in Swansea, eight people were fined after a party was held in a shed.\n\nThe drivers from Scotland were stopped by police at Valley, near Holyhead, and reported for driving without insurance and breaching Covid travel restrictions.\n\nOfficers from North Wales Police on Saturday also stopped a car from Portsmouth as the driver was travelling to \"collect a front bumper\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by South Wales Police Vale of Glamorgan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by South Wales Police Vale of Glamorgan\n\n\"Travelling nearly 300 miles for a piece of cosmetic plastic for your car is not essential at this time,\" said North Wales Police's Intercept team.\n\n\"The regulations have been broadcast far and wide. Please be mindful you will be reported if your journey is not essential.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEven though national parks have shut car parks in a bid to stop people visiting, North Wales Police said it received about 100 calls on Saturday about potential Covid breaches - and officers told people they need to take \"personal responsibility\" and \"stay home\".\n\nSouth Wales Police officers issued fixed penalty notices after finding people from \"all different households\" in a shed - which had been converted into a bar - in the Sketty area of Swansea all \"mixing together\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Mark Drakeford This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA further nine fixed penalty notices were given out in the Townhill area of the city after different households attended a baby reveal party on Sunday.\n\nFive people were warned about breaking laws in Neath Port Talbot after a group travelled to a field to play football, while four people were fined after a house party in Aberavon.\n\nUnder coronavirus rules people are only allowed to leave their homes for \"essential\" reasons, including to shop for food, get medical treatment and to exercise.\n\nWhile exercise is allowed, people are not allowed to drive to a spot for a walk, run or cycle, and the law means exercising with people you do not live with (or who are your bubble if you live alone) is banned.\n\nThose found to be in breach of Covid laws can be fined £60 for the first offence, with the penalties increasing up to £1,920. If prosecuted, however, a court can impose an unlimited fine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid lockdown: 'This is why we say to you do not come out'\n\nUntil recently police had been using an education first approach, but the Welsh Government has repeatedly said it wants to see stricter enforcement of the rules.\n\nIn Powys, road officers from Dyfed-Powys Police stopped cars and turned around people driving to exercise.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Traffic Wales North & Mid #KeepWalesSafe This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn Port Talbot, two people sat on a bench drinking alcohol were fined by South Wales Police for \"leaving home without a reasonable excuse\".\n\nGwent Police officers broke-up a house party in Glyn-Gaer, Caerphilly county, on Friday evening and issued fines.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Sunday. We'll have another update for you on Monday.\n\nTen new mass Covid vaccination centres are to open in England from Monday, as the government bids to meet its target of offering 15 million people in the UK a dose by 15 February. Blackburn Cathedral and St Helens Rugby Ground are among the venues chosen to join the seven hubs already in use. NHS England said the new centres would offer \"thousands\" of jabs a week. It comes as another 324,233 vaccine doses have been administered across the UK, taking the total above 3.5 million. Check when you will be eligible for a jab.\n\nA financial support scheme for airports in England will open this month, the government says, as the aviation sector faces new Covid travel curbs. Aviation minister Robert Courts said the move was a response to the closure of all UK air corridors from Monday. The aim is to provide grants before the end of this financial year, he said. Industry groups had warned there was only so long airports could \"run on fumes\", following the announcement of the new quarantine rules. Under the new rules beginning at 04:00 GMT on Monday, all travel corridors - which have been in place to allow arrivals from some countries to forgo quarantine - will close.\n\nMore than half of the Church of England's 14,000 parishes will not open for Sunday services today, as places of worship are hit hard by Covid-19. Many of the Church's clergy are shielding, while some parishes have decided it is not safe enough to admit worshippers. It has also been revealed that most mosques in London remained closed on Friday, meaning Muslims had to make alternative arrangements for Friday prayers. Despite current coronavirus restrictions, places of worship in England and Wales can open - but many are struggling to do so safely. Places of worship remain closed throughout Scotland, while Northern Ireland's main church denominations are to cease public worship until early February. Remind yourself of the rules where you live for places of worship.\n\nChildren in England will be able to access books online free during school closures via a virtual library. Internet classroom Oak National Academy created the library after schools moved to remote learning for the majority of pupils until February half-term. Formed with The National Literacy Trust, the library will provide a book a week from its author of the week. The aim is to increase young readers' access to e-books and audiobooks, particularly the most disadvantaged. The latest lockdown has seen schools in England close to all but children of key workers and vulnerable pupils.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has expressed his pride at the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh for stepping up and having their Covid-19 vaccinations. In a video call with frontline workers, Prince William spoke about his grandparents after being told medics have witnessed \"vaccine hesitancy\" among some communities during the jab rollout. He praised NHS staff behind the rollout of the vaccine, and described the programme as \"tremendous\", saying it didn't \"just happen\". Staff joked they had been \"thinking and dreaming\" of vaccines all day and night with some describing working seven-day weeks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In a video call, the Duke of Cambridge said the vaccination programme was \"tremendous\"\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nAnd it's been almost a month since people in some parts of the UK were allowed to meet in Christmas \"bubbles\", so what impact did this have?\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The boss of NHS England reveals Covid-19 jabs are being done much faster than people are newly catching the virus\n\nPeople in England are being vaccinated four times faster than new cases of the virus are being detected, NHS England's chief executive has said.\n\nSir Simon Stevens told the BBC that 140 people a minute were now being given the jab, usually the first dose of two.\n\nBut he said the NHS had never been in a more precarious position, with 75% more Covid patients than at the April peak.\n\nIt comes as a further 298,087 people received their first dose of the vaccine on Saturday.\n\nThere were also 671 more deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test, and another 38,598 positive tests.\n\nSir Simon told the Andrew Marr Show some hospitals would open for vaccinations 24 hours a day, seven days a week on a trial basis in the next 10 days.\n\nHe said England was on course to deliver 1.5 million doses this week. Scotland has delivered a total of more than 224,000 first doses, Wales has given over 126,000 and Northern Ireland nearly 118,000 - although Scotland and Wales do not report figures at the weekend.\n\nHalf of all over-80s have now been vaccinated, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said. \"Each jab brings us one step closer to normal,\" he said.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab told the BBC that the UK was making \"good progress\" in ensuring every adult was offered a vaccine by September and \"if it can be done more swiftly, that's a bonus\".\n\nMore people have now been vaccinated than have had positive tests since the pandemic began, with 10 more mass vaccination sites due to open in England on Monday.\n\nSir Simon said hospitals and staff were under \"extreme pressure\", however. Asked if the NHS has ever been in a more precarious situation, he said \"no\", adding that the pandemic was a \"unique event\" in its 72-year history.\n\nSomeone was being admitted to hospital with coronavirus every 30 seconds, Sir Simon said, and since Christmas patient numbers had risen by 15,000 - the equivalent of 30 full hospitals.\n\nIt means there are 75% more Covid-19 patients in hospital than there were in the April peak, the NHS chief executive said.\n\nAlthough there were promising signs infection rates were falling, he said they were still too high and rising in some areas and age groups, including the over-60s.\n\nHe said the number of critical care beds had been increased by 50% since the first wave of the pandemic but a \"very small number\" of patients were still having to be transferred between regions when hospitals were full.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The foreign secretary said there would be increased UK border checks next week\n\nAsked about the ratio of nurses to patients in London intensive care units, Sir Simon said there were sometimes three patients for every nurse rather than the one-to-one ratio normally expected. But patients were receiving the \"highest quality care possible\".\n\nAbout 53,000 NHS staff are currently off work due to the virus, he added.\n\nSir Simon said the health service would only be able to maintain the vaccination rate and \"hold the line if people continue to do the right thing and prevent the transmission of coronavirus\".\n\nVaccinating priority groups by the spring would not mean that \"with one bound we are free\" of coronavirus restrictions, he said. But he added: \"I don't think we will have to wait until the autumn.\"\n\nHe said he suspected that there would be enough supply of the vaccine - \"the crucial thing\" - to begin lifting restrictions before then.\n\nSir Simon also warned that although starting with the most vulnerable groups reduced the risk of deaths, a quarter of hospital patients with the virus were currently under 55 - and therefore not a priority unless they have a medical condition that puts them at additional risk.\n\nAsked about suggestions that some vaccination centres were having to throw away leftover doses, he said: \"The guidance from the chief medical officer is crystal clear: every last drop of vaccine should be used.\"\n\nMany centres were finding they were able to get six doses out of a five-dose vial, and Sir Simon said they should keep a reserve list of staff and high-risk patients who could be contacted to receive a vaccination at short notice.\n\nDr Rosie Shire from the Doctors' Association UK told the BBC that as well as sometimes getting six doses out of the five-dose Pfizer vials, they had also got 11 or 12 doses out of 10-dose AstraZeneca vials.\n\nBut she said the uncertain dose count made it harder to know how many last-minute appointments to book in order to use up the supply.\n\nMr Raab said that he was not aware of any delays to supplies from manufacturers Pfizer and AstraZeneca and said he was \"confident we have the flexibility\" to deliver enough doses.\n\n\"It is an enormous challenge. We are meeting it,\" he said. \"But we take nothing for granted.\"\n\nThe foreign secretary said the risk that new variants could prove resistant to vaccines or more deadly meant the UK had to take the \"precautionary approach\" of requiring all travellers to quarantine on arrival from Monday, closing the travel corridors which previously been exempt.\n\n\"We don't want to find in two or three weeks time that our vaccine roll out is imperilled because we haven't taken the precautionary measures on travel corridors,\" he said.\n\nChecks by Border Force on the passenger locator forms filled out on arrival would be increased, Mr Raab said, as would the follow-up calls by Public Health England intended to ensure people were isolating for up to 10 days.\n\nAsked whether the UK would introduce quarantine hotels to ensure people maintained their isolation, he said all potential measures were under review but there was a challenge in the \"workability\" of the proposal.\n\nHow have you been affected by the issues relating to coronavirus? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Smoke rises from Mount Semeru, the highest volcano on the Indonesian island of Java\n\nIndonesia's Mount Semeru has erupted, pouring ash an estimated 5.6km (3.4 miles) into the sky above Java, the country's most densely populated island.\n\nNo evacuation orders have so far been issued, and no casualties reported.\n\nThe National Disaster Mitigation Agency (NDMA) warned villagers living on the mountain's slopes to be alert for ongoing volcanic activity.\n\nFootage showed ash from the 3,676m (12,060ft) volcano looming over homes.\n\n\"The villages of Sumber Mujur and Curah Koboan [in Lumajang municipality] are located in the trajectory of the hot clouds,\" local official Thoriqul Haq said on Saturday.\n\nResidents of the Curah Kobokan river basin have been urged to watch for possible \"cold lava\" mudflow, which can be triggered by intense rainfall combining with volcanic material.\n\nMount Semeru erupted at about 17:24 local time (10:24 GMT), authorities said.\n\nA picture from the Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management shows ash rolling over the landscape\n\nIndonesia sits on the Pacific \"Ring of Fire\" where tectonic plates collide, causing frequent volcanic activity as well as earthquakes.\n\nSemeru - also known as \"The Great Mountain\" - is the highest volcano in Java and one of the most active. It is also one of Indonesia's most popular tourist hiking destinations.\n\nThe volcano previously erupted in December, when about 550 people were evacuated.", "A non-binding Labour motion calling for the universal credit top-up to be kept in place beyond 31 March passed by 278 votes to none after a Commons debate.\n\nSix Tory MPs defied party orders to abstain and voted with Labour, adding to the pressure on the PM on the issue.\n\nThe prime minister said the government had provided £280bn worth of support during the pandemic but all measures would be kept under \"constant review\".\n\nThe motion, which will not automatically lead to a change in policy, was put forward by Labour as a way to put additional pressure on the government to continue the increase, worth £1,000 a year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Carl, a roofer, describes going from \"not having enough to barely having enough\" on universal credit.\n\nFormer Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb was among six Conservative MPs to rebel, along with Peter Aldous, Robert Halfon, Jason McCartney, Anne Marie Morris and Matthew Offord.\n\nAhead of the vote, Mr Crabb told the BBC that although there were \"difficult pressures on the chancellor\" extending the increase for 12 months was \"the right thing to do\".\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said there were dozens of Conservative MPs who were \"deeply uneasy\" about ending the £20 weekly increase to universal credit.\n\nShe added that it was also understood the cabinet minister with responsibility for benefits, Therese Coffey, was arguing that the uplift should not be dropped in April.\n\nCharities and anti-poverty campaigners are pleading with the government to keep the support in place, describing it as a lifeline for more than 5.5 million families who receive the standard universal credit allowance.\n\nFood poverty campaigner and chef Jack Monroe told the BBC that the £20 increase \"has been a lifeline\" for millions of people who have needed to top up their income or rely on universal credit payments in order to get by.\n\nSir Keir said the increase was a vital safety net for those who had lost their jobs, seen their working hours slashed or who were not eligible for the government's wage subsidy furlough scheme.\n\n\"If we don't give a helping hand to families through this pandemic, then we are going to slow our economic recovery as we come out it.\n\n\"We urge Boris Johnson to change course and give families certainty today that their incomes will be protected.\"\n\nSix billion pounds of the benefits bill - the difference between poverty or not for 1.2 million families, according to a think tank.\n\nThe £1,040 a year increase to universal credit is a very emotive issue.\n\nThere's even a battle over what to call it.\n\nTo the government, its introduction was a one-off boost to cope with a crisis. For Labour, taking it away is a cut.\n\nMinisters would prefer we looked at the overall level of support they've provided for workers and businesses during the pandemic. The opposition say the £20 a week boost is a powerful symbol of the state's willingness to help.\n\nEven the act of debating it today is disputed. Labour say they've got the right occasionally to set the agenda in Parliament. Boris Johnson said his MPs risk abuse from campaigners and protestors if they engage.\n\nThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation has suggested about 16 million people will be directly affected if the £20 is rolled back.\n\nIt says 500,000 more people will be driven into poverty, including 200,000 children, while a further 500,000 of those already in poverty will find themselves in even worse hardship.\n\nHowever, free market think tank the Institute for Economic Affairs has argued that \"across-the-board benefit increases are a wasteful use of taxpayers' money\" at a time when the government is borrowing \"a hair-raising amount of money\".\n\nUniversal credit is a single payment replacing old benefits such as housing benefit and child tax credits.\n\nYou can claim universal credit if you are on a low income or are out of work.\n\nThe standard allowance varies from around £340 to just under £600 a month, depending on your age or whether you are single.\n\nYou may be eligible to receive more money on top of the standard allowance if, for example, you have children or a health condition.\n\nSpeaking on behalf of the Northern Research Group, Conservative MP John Stevenson said the £1,000 increase had been \"a real life-saver for people throughout this pandemic\".\n\n\"To end it now would be devastating for the 6 million individuals and families who are already struggling to stay afloat,\" he added.\n\nWhile the vote is not binding, and will not lead to a change in policy, it will increase pressure on the government to keep the increase or come up with an alternative.\n\nLabour said the Conservatives' decision to abstain created \"unnecessary uncertainty\" but minister Nadhim Zahawi described the vote as \"a political stunt\".\n\nThe government says it has strengthened the welfare system with an extra £7bn of funding during the pandemic while families struggling with food and household bills can get help through the £170m Winter Grant Scheme.\n\nMinisters also point to extra support for housing costs, through an increase in local housing allowance for those on housing benefits and hardship payments worth £670m next year for those unable to pay their council tax bills.", "A further 1,295 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test have been reported in the UK, the third-highest daily total since the pandemic began.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths by this measure to 88,590.\n\nThere have also been a further 41,346 lab-confirmed cases, and 4,262 more people have been admitted to hospital.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director for Public Health England, said the \"continuous rise in cases and deaths should be a bitter warning for us all\".\n\n\"We must not forget the basics,\" she added. \"The lives of our friends and family depend on it.\n\n\"Keep your distance from others, wash your hands and wear a mask.\"\n\nThe latest figures come ahead of Monday's change in travel rules for the UK, with all travel corridors closing, meaning arrivals from every country will have to quarantine.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson announced the changes at Downing Street on Friday, saying they would \"protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new strains\" of Covid.\n\nWhile daily figures can fluctuate due to delays in reporting, the seven-day average of Covid deaths in the UK has now risen slightly to 1,103.\n\nFor cases, however, there has been a drop in the seven-day average, with the figure now at 48,565.\n\nThere are currently 37,475 people in hospital with the virus, government figures show, while a further 324,233 people have received their first vaccine dose.\n\nThe government has promised all the over-70s, the extremely clinically vulnerable and front-line health and care workers - about 15 million people - will be offered a jab by mid February.\n\nCurrently, just over 3.5 million doses have been administered.\n\nThe government has also announced £120m in funds for the social care sector to be used by local authorities to increase staffing levels.\n\nStaff absence rates have risen in care homes and among home care staff, due to them testing positive or having to self-isolate.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the money would bolster staffing numbers in a \"controlled and safe way, whilst ensuring people continue to receive the highest quality of care\".\n\nA further £149m funding was announced in December to support rapid testing of care home staff.\n\nSpeaking alongside the PM on Friday, England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, said the number of patients being admitted to hospital with coronavirus was set to peak within the next 10 days, while the peak for deaths was also yet to come.\n\nHe added, however, that he hoped the peak in infections had already happened in the South East, East and London, where there was a surge in the new, more transmissible variant.\n\n\"The peak of deaths I fear is in the future, the peak of hospitalisations in some parts of the country may be around about now and beginning to come off the very, very top,\" he said.\n\n\"Because people are sticking so well to the guidelines we do think the peaks are coming over the next week to 10 days for most places in terms of new people into hospital.\"\n\nHowever, chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance stressed it was a \"suppressed peak\" that would \"boil over for sure\" if controls were eased.\n\nHe said: \"This is not the natural peak that's going to come down on its own, it's coming down because of the measures that are in place.\n\n\"Take the lid off now and it's going to boil over for sure and we're going to end up with a big problem.\"\n\nMeanwhile, on Saturday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer suggested he would back further coronavirus measures, as \"the tougher the restrictions now the quicker we get the virus back under control\".\n\nSir Keir said he was \"still worried\" by the number of infections, despite signs they are falling - and that the \"sense that we are through the worst\" of the third wave was wrong.\n\n\"Nobody likes restrictions but the tougher the restrictions now the quicker we get the virus back under control, the quicker we reduce the number of hospital admissions and the quicker we get that number of deaths, tragically, down,\" he added.", "The Archbishop of Glasgow, the Most Reverend Philip Tartaglia, has died suddenly at his home in the city.\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia had tested positive for Covid-19 shortly after Christmas and was self-isolating.\n\nThe Catholic Church said the cause of his death was not yet clear.\n\nHe was ordained a priest in 1975 and had served as leader of Scotland's largest Catholic community since 2012.\n\nA statement from the Archdiocese of Glasgow said: \"It is with the greatest sorrow that we announce the death of our Archbishop.\n\n\"The Pope's Ambassador to Great Britain, Archbishop Claudio Gugerotti, has been informed.\n\n\"It will be for Pope Francis to appoint a new Archbishop to succeed Archbishop Tartaglia, but until then the Archdiocese will be overseen by an administrator.\"\n\nScotland's Catholic bishops described Archbishop Tartaglia as a \"gentle, caring and warm-hearted pastor\".\n\nThey said in a statement: \"His loss to his family, his clergy and the people of the Archdiocese of Glasgow will be immeasurable but for the entire Church in Scotland this is a day of immense loss and sadness.\n\n\"He was a gentle, caring and warm-hearted pastor who combined compassion with a piercing intellect.\n\n\"His contribution to the work of the Bishops' Conference of Scotland over the past 16 years was significant and we will miss his wisdom, wit and robust Catholic spirit very much.\"\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia had been self-isolating at home after contracting coronavirus\n\nThe statement concluded: \"On behalf of the Bishops of Scotland, we commend his soul into the hands of God and pray that he may enjoy eternal rest.\"\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia was a lifelong Celtic fan and the club tweeted their tribute to him: \"We are saddened to hear of the death of Archbishop Philip Tartaglia who was a huge supporter of the club and regularly attended matches at Celtic Park.\n\n\"Everyone at Celtic offers their sincere condolences to Philip's family and Scotland's Catholic community at this sad time.\"\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the archbishop was \"a fine man who was much loved within the Catholic community and beyond\".\n\nMs Sturgeon tweeted: \"I always valued my interactions with him and he will be greatly missed. My thoughts are with his loved ones and wider community. May he rest in peace.\"\n\nThe leader of the Scottish Conservatives, Douglas Ross, tweeted: \"Tragic news about the sudden passing of Archbishop Philip Tartaglia. My condolences to his friends and family.\n\n\"His death will be keenly felt within the Catholic Church and across the wider community.\"\n\nThe leader of Glasgow City Council described the archbishop as \"a true Glaswegian\" who \"knew its people and the challenges faced by ordinary citizens, regardless of their faith or beliefs\".\n\nCouncillor Susan Aitken added: \"He was also unafraid to use his position to challenge deprivation, austerity and the ill-effects of welfare reform when he believed it was his duty to call them out.\"\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia was born in Glasgow on 11 January 1951 - the eldest son of Guido and Annita Tartaglia.\n\nAfter attending St Thomas' Primary in Riddrie, he began his secondary education at St Mungo's Academy before moving to the national junior seminary at St Vincent's College, Langbank.\n\nHe later attended St Mary's College, at Blairs, Aberdeen, before completing his ecclesiastical studies at the Pontifical Scots College, and the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.\n\nOn returning to Scotland, he was an assistant and then parish priest at Our Lady of Lourdes, Cardonald, St Patrick's, Dumbarton, and St Mary's, Duntocher.\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia was ordained by then Archbishop Thomas Winning in the Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel, Dennistoun, on 30 June 1975.\n\nHe was a leading opponent of proposals to legalise same-sex marriage in Scotland and also criticised ministers over anti-bigotry legislation.\n\nThe Archdiocese of Glasgow is the largest of Scotland's eight dioceses with an estimated Catholic population of about 200,000. It comprises 95 parishes and is served by about 200 priests.\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia was the eighth person to hold the office since the restoration of the Catholic hierarchy in Scotland in 1878.\n\nHe followed Archbishop Mario Conti and Archbishop Thomas Winning, who later became Cardinal Winning.", "The player told police he had travelled from his home in Bedworth to hunt the characters\n\nA man has been fined for breaking lockdown rules after travelling 14 miles to play Pokemon Go.\n\nHe admitted to Warwickshire Police he had driven from his home in Bedworth to look for the characters in Kenilworth.\n\nHe was fined £200 for \"contravening the requirement to not leave or be outside the place they live without a reasonable excuse\".\n\n\"Everyone has a part to play in ensuring they slow the spread of the virus,\" a police spokeswoman said.\n\n\"We would like to remind people they must not leave or be outside their home unless they have a reasonable excuse.\"\n\nPokemon Go is a Japanese augmented reality game for smartphones. First launched in 2016, it allows players to hunt for characters that \"appear\" in real-life places.\n\nIt has been downloaded around the world more than one billion times.", "Hashem Abedi (left) and Ahmed Hassan are due to appear at Bromley Magistrates' Court\n\nThe Manchester Arena and Parsons Green bombers have been charged with assaulting a prison officer together, the BBC has learned.\n\nHashem Abedi, 23, and Ahmed Hassan, 21, are accused of assaulting an officer in HMP Belmarsh, south London, in May last year.\n\nAnother man who is awaiting sentencing for terror offences is also charged with assaulting the same person.\n\nThe three men are due to appear at Bromley Magistrates' Court on 7 April.\n\nAbedi, who was jailed in August for murdering the 22 victims of the May 2017 Manchester Arena attack, is also charged with assaulting a second prison officer during the same incident on 11 May.\n\nHassan, from London, whose Parsons Green tube bomb injured 51 people in September 2017, was jailed for attempted murder the following year.\n\nMuhammed Saeed, 22, from Manchester, is the third person charged. Last year, he admitted possessing terrorist documents.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Up to 400,000 people could be given the Covid-19 vaccine every week by the end of February, Scottish Health Secretary Jeane Freeman has told MSPs.\n\nHealth teams are ramping up the rollout of jabs, with 1,100 vaccination centres now open and using two vaccines.\n\nMinisters aim to vaccinate care home residents, NHS staff and over-80s by the first week of February.\n\nThey then hope to have completed the over-70 group by mid-February and over-65 and vulnerable groups by March.\n\nThis would see 1.4m people given the jab, and Ms Freeman said the government's \"priority is to vaccinate as many people as quickly as possible\".\n\nHowever, the BMA Scottish GP Committee has warned the vaccine supply is \"stuttering\" and blamed \"bureaucratic hold-ups\" for delaying distribution.\n\nIn a statement at Holyrood, the health secretary said Scotland faces \"a more perilous situation than at any point in this pandemic\", with the new variant of coronavirus \"increasing in its dominance\" of infections north of the border.\n\nHowever Ms Freeman said there was hope in the form of the vaccination programme, which she said was \"scaling up rapidly\".\n\nA first dose of vaccine has now been given to just over 80% of care home residents and 55% of staff, along with 52% of frontline NHS staff.\n\nAnd in the eight days since 4 January, just over 2% of those aged 80 or over in the community have been given a first dose.\n\nMs Freeman said that age was \"the greatest risk factor for serious illness and death from Covid, and represents well over 90% of preventable mortality\".\n\nThe government is prioritising giving a first dose to as many people as possible, which Ms Freeman said provides \"very high protection\", with a second dose of the same vaccine then administered within 12 weeks.\n\nMs Freeman said that by the end of February, an average of 400,000 people should be getting a jab per week.\n\nJeane Freeman said the vaccine programme was \"scaling up rapidly\"\n\nThe government is also working to set up large vaccination centres in the community, which could handle up to 20,000 vaccinations a week in a single location.\n\nSites include the Event Complex conference centre in Aberdeen, Ravenscraig Regional Sports Facility in Motherwell, Queen Margaret University in Musselburgh and the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, and Ms Freeman said work was ongoing to secure more centres in the Glasgow area in particular.\n\nA total of 4.5m adults in Scotland are in line to be vaccinated.\n\nMs Freeman said she was aware that people would \"want to know when it will be their turn\", saying a national advertising campaign would be established to \"inform the public\".\n\nScottish Conservative health spokesman Donald Cameron said it was \"clear not enough people are being vaccinated each day and timetables are slipping\".\n\nHe also asked Ms Freeman whether there were delays to the creation of a national booking system, after speculation that it could hold up the start of mass vaccinations.\n\nThe health secretary said she did not believe it was the case that timetables were slipping, and said there were no delays to the national booking system - adding that it would be \"ready from the beginning of February to do its job\".\n\nMeanwhile Scottish Labour's Monica Lennon asked how quickly the country could move to a 24 hours a day rollout of vaccines.\n\nMs Freeman said this was \"entirely possible\" once the mass vaccination centres are open, saying she \"would anticipate that would be by the end of February or early March\".\n\nShe said: \"The will is there to do that, if that is what it takes, because the objective is to get as many people vaccinated as possible.\"\n\nThe BMA Scottish GP Committee has said practices \"don't know when their next supply is coming in\".\n\nIts chairman, Dr Andrew Buist, told BBC Scotland's Drivetime programme the Scottish government \"must do everything possible to ensure vaccine supply is as good as it can be\".\n\nHe said: \"I've spoken with the chief medical officer about this and emphasised we should remove any bureaucratic hold-up to the distribution of this vaccine.\n\n\"People are obviously very anxious to get it as soon as possible.\n\n\"We know what the priority groups are, we have the practices ready and running to give it to their patients. We just need to get the vaccine to them.\"\n• None All over-80s to be vaccinated by February", "More than six million glasses of pink prosecco were enjoyed by Lidl customers over the festive period as strict Covid rules prompted people to indulge.\n\nThe discount supermarket reported record total sales for the four weeks to 27 December with revenue up 18%.\n\nTakeaway firm Just Eat and online fashion retailer Asos have also reported stellar sales for the period.\n\nAll three benefited as restaurants and non-essential shops faced strict curbs or were forced to close.\n\nDemand was so strong, Lidl said it had shifted 7,000 glasses of mulled wine and almost 17,000 deluxe mince pies every hour in the run up to Christmas.\n\nIt also sold more than 2.7 million servings of panettone, the festive Italian cake.\n\nLidl continued to press ahead with its store expansion programme in the period, opening four new stores in December at a time when many businesses are closing down.\n\nBoss Christian Härtnagel said: \"Despite this Christmas being a difficult time for many across the country, we are pleased to have been able to help our customers enjoy themselves.\n\n\"As we look ahead to this year, we remain committed to our expansion and investment plans,\" he added.\n\nJust Eat said delivery orders in the UK surged 58% in the last three months of 2020 compared with the same period last year.\n\nThe takeaway firm, which operates around the world, said this had been its third consecutive quarter of growth, reflecting the huge demand for takeaway food as restaurants have faced curbs and closures.\n\nBoss Jitse Groen said the firm's progress in the UK was \"particularly exciting\" with demand up nearly five-fold in the fourth quarter of 2020 compared with the same period in 2019.\n\nIts UK sales force has also doubled compared with last year.\n\nIt was a similar story for Asos, whose sales for the four months to 31 December rose 36% to £554.1m, something it credited in part to restrictions on non-essential shops.\n\nThe fashion retailer, which also operates across Europe and the US, said its active customer base was now 24.5 million, up 1.1 million on the same period last year.\n\nRichard Lim, head of analysts Retail Economics, said: \"Lockdowns, fewer opportunities to mix socially and cancelled Christmas parties have decimated the demand for new outfits this year.\n\n\"But what consumers did spend was focused towards casual-wear and channelled online where the retailer was well position to leverage this opportunity.\"", "Boris Johnson has said there is still a very substantial risk of intensive care units in hospitals being overwhelmed by the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nIt comes on a day when the UK has recorded the highest number of deaths in a single day in Europe.\n\nFergal Keane last visited the Imperial Healthcare Trust’s St Mary’s and Charing Cross hospital in London last April.\n\nHe's been back to see how they're coping.", "Plans have been announced to overhaul the mental health system - with the aim of making it less discriminatory towards black people.\n\nMinisters say changes to how people are sectioned in England and Wales will see them treated \"as individuals, with rights, preferences, and expertise\".\n\nBlack people are over four times more likely to be detained under the Mental Health Act, relative to population.\n\nThe mental health charity Mind said the changes \"cannot come soon enough.\"\n\nPeople are detained under the mental health act - or sectioned - for their own safety, or the safety of others.\n\nHow long they are detained for varies - but once detained, they are immediately considered to be \"sectioned\".\n\nUse of the Mental Health Act has increased markedly - from 2005/6 to 2015/16, the number of people detained in hospital increased by 40%.\n\nNHS data for England shows there were at least 50,893 new detentions under the Mental Health Act in 2019/20 - but the overall total will be higher as not all providers submitted data.\n\nOf those detentions, 5,336 people were black or black British.\n\nThe data also shows that in 2019/20 there were 321 detentions per 100,000 population for people who were black or black British - while there were 73 detentions per 100,000 for white people.\n\nWith the act disproportionately used against black people, the reforms will see a Patient and Carers Race Equality Framework introduced across all NHS mental health trusts - which the government describes as a practical tool to improve the outcome for BAME communities.\n\nWhat ministers call \"culturally appropriate advocates\" will also be developed, so patients from all ethnic backgrounds can be supported.\n\n\"We need to bring mental health laws into the 21st Century,\" said Health Secretary Matt Hancock.\n\n\"I want to ensure our health service works for all, yet the Mental Health Act is now 40 years old.\n\n\"This is a significant moment in how we support those with serious mental health issues, which will give people more autonomy over their care and will tackle disparities for all who access services - in particular for people from minority ethnic backgrounds.\"\n\nThe reforms will also ensure that autism or a learning disability cannot be a reason for detaining someone under the act.\n\nIn future, a clinician will have to identify another psychiatric condition to order their detention.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is it like to be sectioned?\n\nThe current Mental Health Act dates from 1983 and the aim of these reforms, which are widely supported, is to give people greater say over their care and to rebalance the system between the state and the individual.\n\nAmong the recommendations are plans to introduce statutory advance choice documents which will allow people to express their preferred treatment before they reach a crisis and need hospitalisation.\n\n\"This is just the beginning of what is now a long overdue process,\" said Sophie Corlett, director of external relations at the mental health charity Mind.\n\n\"At the moment, thousands of people are still subjected to poor, sometimes appalling, treatment, and many will live with the consequences far into the future.\n\n\"Our understanding of mental health has moved on significantly in recent decades but our laws are rooted in the 19th Century.\"\n\nThe recommendations, set out in a government White Paper, build on the proposals from an independent review of the act, which was ordered by then prime minister Theresa May in October 2017 and which published its conclusions in December 2018.\n\nMinisters intend to publish a Mental Health Bill in 2022, following a consultation on their plans.", "Amnesty says about 7,500 women and girls gave birth in the Northern Ireland homes,\n\nThere have been calls for an inquiry into mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt comes as the Irish government is to apologise after an investigation found an \"appalling level of infant mortality\" in the Republic of Ireland's homes.\n\nAbout 9,000 children died in the 18 institutions under investigation.\n\nMothers and babies who were in similar homes in Northern Ireland want a full inquiry to be held in NI too.\n\nStormont commissioned research into whether or not there should an inquiry held into the homes which operated in Northern Ireland, is due to be published by the end of January.\n\nPatrick Corrigan from Amnesty International said the issue of forced adoptions also needs close scrutiny.\n\n\"We have had cases of mothers telling us that ultimately, many decades later, when they tried to track down their long-lost children they found adoption certificates where they said their signature had actually been forged,\" he said.\n\n\"So I think that there is criminality to investigate here and that it behoves the Northern Ireland Executive to set up the inquiry that has long been sought here and long been denied.\"\n\nIn 2017 research into infant mortality rates at former mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland had prompted initial calls for a public inquiry.\n\nBBC News NI previously spoke to Eunan Duffy who was 47 years old when he found out he was adopted from Marianvale mother and baby home in Newry, County Down.\n\nIt was one of a network of institutions in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland which offered women the voluntary option, for those who were unmarried, to give birth in private and give their babies up for adoption\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Marian Vale was one of a network of mother and baby institutions in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland\n\nAmnesty says there were more than a dozen mother-and-baby institutions in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt said about 7,500 women and girls gave birth in the Northern Ireland homes, operated by both Catholic and Protestant churches and religious organisations.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, research into mother and baby homes and Magdalene laundries was commissioned three years ago and was initially expected to take 12 months.\n\nIt was completed in February last year, but was then sent to those facing criticism to give them an opportunity to reply.\n\nA Department of Health spokesperson said: \"A paper will be brought to the executive shortly for its consideration. Subject to executive approval, it is intended to publish the research report before the end of January 2021.\"\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, the commission that investigated the homes found that the number of children who died was about 15% of all those who were born in the institutions.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Mícheál Martin said the report, which can be read in full here, described a \"dark, difficult and shameful chapter\" of Irish history.\n\nSolicitor Claire McKeegan, who represents the Birth Mothers for Justice group, welcomed the apology in the Republic of Ireland, but said mothers and children in NI had not received one.\n\n\"The crimes perpetrated on them have yet to be investigated,\" she said.\n\n\"Those perpetrators who forced them into arbitrary detention, hard labour and colluded in the forced adoption of their babies, remain unchallenged in this jurisdiction.\"\n\nMary O'Neill became pregnant when she was 18 and was sent to Marianvale in Newry in the late 1970s.\n\nThere she gave birth to a baby girl who was taken away from her almost immediately after the birth.\n\nShe wanted to keep the baby, but was not allowed and was told the baby would be put up for adoption.\n\nThe mother and baby scandal became an international news story when 'significant human remains' were found on the grounds of a former home in County Galway\n\nMs O'Neill told Good Morning Ulster she eventually tracked down her daughter after 40 years.\n\n\"It was a long search, everywhere you went you were up against a brick wall,\" she said.\n\n\"There was no help, the social workers didn't want to tell you anything.\"\n\nShe finally found out her daughter was living in America but was coming home for her 40th birthday.\n\nShe said when she met her it was like meeting a stranger.\n\n\"But thank God we have met and we have a good relationship. She's still keeping in touch,\" Ms O'Neill said.\n\n\"It means the world to me, because you always wondered where was she? Was she happy? Did she know about you?\n\n\"It was always in the back of your mind. It never went away, the tears and the heartache.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs O'Neill said she was happy the victims in the Republic of Ireland were getting an apology, but wishes the homes in Northern Ireland could have been included.\n\nMechelle Dillon's mother was 21 and pregnant when she was sent to Marianvale in Newry in 1969.\n\nShe was placed in foster care a few months after her birth.\n\nHer mother returned to her home village and then moved to England. But she came back for Mechelle when she was around eight or nine-months-old.\n\nShe said she believed she was not adopted because she was born with a cyst on her mouth.\n\n\"I would have maybe been classed as a reject, if you want to put it that way,\" she said.\n\n\"It's the same as if you go to look for a little puppy and if the puppy doesn't feel right and you think 'Oh God, I'll have a lot of vet bills here, I don't want that puppy' - I would have probably been classed the same because I would have had that defect.\"\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said \"the executive should move quickly to publish the research report and then call a full public inquiry\".", "The numbers of care home residents and staff testing positive for Covid-19 have hit their highest levels.\n\nThere were 1,507 positive tests in care homes in Wales in the most recent week, a 78% rise on the week before.\n\nAcross Wales, 37,026 residents and staff were tested by either the NHS or the Lighthouse laboratories the week beginning 4 January, according to Public Health Wales.\n\nBroken down, 6,466 care home residents were tested in the most recent week and 582 (9%) were positive in results from NHS laboratories.\n\nAlso, 248 care home workers tested positive, with about 96% of tests negative.\n\nBut there were another 677 positive test results from Lighthouse labs, which do not distinguish between residents and care home staff.\n\nAll of these categories saw the highest numbers yet recorded.\n\nResidents and staff are supposed to be tested weekly at care homes in Wales.\n\nCare Home Inspectorate Wales also now publish separate figures around testing , which showed 137 care homes in Wales (13%) had notified one or more positive cases in staff or residents in the most recent week available and 31.8% within the last month.\n\nSwansea had 17 care homes which had notified at least one case in the week ending 1 January; Cardiff had 15 homes with at least one case and Bridgend was next with 13 care homes.", "Decima Minhinnick, pictured at her 90th birthday party, lives in a care home and has vascular dementia\n\nA couple who were fined £60 for driving 20 minutes to see a relative in a care home have had their fine cancelled by police.\n\nCarol and David Richards from Bridgend travelled seven miles to Porthcawl to visit her mother Decima Minhinnick, 94.\n\nOn Tuesday, police defended the fine, claiming the couple had broken lockdown rules.\n\nOn Wednesday, South Wales Police said it had \"since been reviewed and the notice has been rescinded\".\n\n\"The individual concerned has been notified\".\n\nIn a statement, it added: \"Wales remains at alert level four and South Wales Police will continue to patrol our communities to ensure the legislation, which has been enacted to slow the spread of coronavirus, is complied with\".\n\nMrs Richards has said she was \"mortified\" they were stopped by police while returning on Sunday from what she said was a compassionate visit.\n\nShe said on Tuesday she did not believe they breached lockdown rules.\n\nMrs Richards said the couple had arranged the visit to Picton Court Care Home in advance with the permission of staff, and spoke to her mother, who has vascular dementia, through the window of her ground-floor room from the car park.\n\nDavid and Carol Richards complained about the £60 fine\n\nShe told the Local Democracy Reporting Service that when she was issued with the fine it was like \"a sort of dystopian novel\", adding that the officer involved was \"pedantic and inflexible\".\n\n\"I was angry - she just would not listen to any protestations, and so she said 'you're going to be issued with a £60 fixed penalty fine'.\n\n\"It's not about the 60 quid, it's about the principle.\"\n\nThe home is just over seven miles from where the couple live", "Tony Parsons was last seen on 29 September 2017\n\nPolice have discovered human remains during a search for a man who went missing more than three years ago during a charity cycle ride.\n\nTony Parsons, from Tillicoultry, was last seen on 29 September 2017 outside the Bridge of Orchy Hotel.\n\nDetectives said the discovery was made during a detailed search of a remote site close to a farm near the A82 at Bridge of Orchy.\n\nPolice said that Mr Parsons' family have been made aware of the discovery.\n\nEfforts to recover the remains will continue over the coming days before a post mortem is held to establish their identity.\n\nTwo men, both aged 29, were arrested and then released pending further inquiries in December in connection with the disappearance of Mr Parsons.\n\nPolice have been carrying out searches in the area in recent days\n\nDet Ch Insp Alan Somerville said: \"This is clearly a significant development and extensive work is ongoing to recover the remains and confirm their identity.\n\n\"We have informed Mr Parsons' family, who are being supported by specialist officers.\n\n\"The thoughts of everyone involved in the investigation are with them at this difficult time.\"\n\nMr Parsons cycled through Glencoe village and was last seen at the Bridge of Orchy Hotel\n\nThe former navy officer, who was 63 when he went missing, was last seen outside the hotel at about 23:30. He then continued south along the A82 in the direction of Tyndrum but there were no more sightings of him after that.\n\nExtensive searches were carried out in the area, involving local mountain rescue teams, volunteers, Police Scotland dogs and the force's air support unit.\n\nMr Parsons had caught the train to Fort William on the day he was last seen with the intention of cycling the 104-mile (167km) journey home to Tillicoultry.", "Covid vaccinations will be offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week as soon as supply allows, Boris Johnson says.\n\nThe prime minister said the plan was to extend opening hours of vaccination centres - at the moment, most sites run from 08:00 to 22:00.\n\nThe 24-7 service will be piloted in a small number of places first - with NHS staff likely to be offered the option of overnight vaccinations first.\n\nBut Mr Johnson said supply was the limiting factor at the moment.\n\nThe NHS had just over a million doses available last week and used up most of them.\n\nThis week, there are thought to be more but not yet enough to vaccinate two million people - the weekly target the government is aiming to reach in the coming weeks.\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said there would be 24-7 vaccination \"as soon as possible\".\n\nThe UK has access to two vaccines at the moment - the Pfizer-BioNTech jab and another produced in partnership by Oxford University and AstraZeneca.\n\nA third vaccine made by the US company Moderna has been approved but is not yet available to the UK.\n\nMr Johnson praised the work of the more than 200 hospitals and 1,000 GP-led NHS vaccination sites running at the moment.\n\n\"They are going exceptionally fast,\" he added.\n\nBy the end of Monday, 2.4 million people had received their first vaccine dose.\n\nThe government has promised all the over-70s, the extremely clinically vulnerable and front-line health and care workers - about 15 million people - will be offered a jab by mid February.\n\nThere is actually enough vaccine in the country to vaccinate all the highest at-risk groups.\n\nThe problem is that not all of it has been packaged into vials or passed through the final safety checks.\n\nThere should soon be two million doses available each week for the NHS to use.\n\nBut the key question once that is achieved is how quickly and by how much supply can increase from there.\n\nTo make full use of the network of vaccination centres - the ambition is to have 2,700 up and running - many millions of doses will be needed each week.\n\nThere is huge global demand for these vaccines.\n\nAnd while the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab is made in the UK, the Pfizer-BioNTech one is made abroad as is the Moderna vaccine.\n\nSupplies of the latter are not expected until the spring.\n\nThis is an issue the government is likely to be grappling with for some time.\n\nBut despite the concerns, it should also be recognised the UK has been quick out of the blocks.\n\nOnly two countries have vaccinated a larger proportion of the population than the UK.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was vital the government moved quickly.\n\nSpeaking about the planned 24-7 vaccination, he said: \"I obviously welcome that and urge the prime minister and the government to get on with this.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Nadhim Zahawi, the minister in charge of the vaccination programme, was also asked about supply, at an appearance before the Science and Technology Committee.\n\nHe said he had a \"clear line of sight\" for the expected numbers that would be available to the NHS for the next few months but refused to give any more detail.\n\n\"The more we show off about how many vaccine batches we're receiving, the more difficult life becomes for the manufacturers,\" he said.\n\nAstraZeneca vice president Sir Mene Pangalos said one of the issues the firm was facing was that infections among staff had begun to hinder production.\n\n\"I feel that it is critical that those who are working on vaccines are immunised because if you have an outbreak at one of the centres, which we've had actually or in one of the groups in Oxford that's working on new variants, or those working on the regulatory files everything stops.\"", "Changes to Scotland's lockdown restrictions have been announced. The tightening of the rules follows concerns the \"stay at home\" message is not having the same impact it did during last year's lockdown. The changes will come into effect on Saturday.\n\nThe availability and operation of click and collect services will be limited to retailers selling essential items such as clothes, footwear, baby equipment, homeware and books. Also, outlets that sell electrical goods; do key cutting; undertake shoe repairs, plus garden centres and plant nurseries can continue the collect service.\n\nFor qualifying businesses, staggered appointments will need to be offered to avoid any potential for queuing, and access inside premises for collection will not be permitted.\n\nCustomers in Scotland will no longer be allowed to go inside to collect takeaway food or coffee. Businesses will have to operate from a serving hatch or doorway.\n\nThe aim is to reduce the risk of customers coming into contact indoors with each other, or with staff.\n\nIt will be against the law in all level four areas of Scotland to drink alcohol outdoors in public.\n\nThis will mean that buying a takeaway pint and consuming on the street will not be permitted.\n\nIt is intended to underline the message that people should only be leaving home for essential purposes.\n\nThe Scottish government is strengthening the obligation on employers to allow their staff to work from home whenever possible.\n\nThe law already says that people should only be leaving home to go to work if it is work that cannot be done from home. This is a legal obligation that falls on individuals.\n\nHowever, statutory guidance is being introduced to make clear that employers should support employees to work from home wherever possible.\n\nThe Scottish government is strengthening provisions in relation to work inside people's houses.\n\nCurrent guidance says that in level four areas work is only permitted within a private dwelling if it is essential for the upkeep, maintenance and functioning of the household. This guidance is now being put into law.\n\nThe final change is an amendment to the regulations requiring people to stay at home.\n\nThis is intended to close an apparent loophole rather than change the spirit of the law. It will also bring the wording of the stay at home regulations in Scotland into line with the other UK nations.\n\nCurrently the law states that people can only leave home for an essential purpose.\n\nThe amendment will make it clear that people \"must not leave or remain outside\" the home unless it is for an essential purpose.\n\nThe Scottish government's full lockdown guidance is available here.", "The Lauberhorn course is the longest downhill run in the world (file image)\n\nA British tourist has been blamed for a spike in coronavirus cases that led officials to cancel Switzerland's famous Lauberhorn ski race.\n\nThe resort of Wengen, where the race is held, had recorded only 10 cases of the virus by mid-December.\n\nBut the number soon began to rise and many cases have since been linked to the new highly infectious variant of Covid-19 first identified in the UK.\n\nAt least 27 cases are connected to one British tourist, contact tracers say.\n\nThe tourist stayed in a hotel in Wengen over the holiday period.\n\nThe Lauberhorn course is the longest downhill run in the world, and racers can reach speeds of 160km/h (100 mph).\n\nOfficials desperately tried to save the race, shutting schools and offering to close off the resort to everyone but the competitors.\n\nSwiss health officials initially agreed with the plan, but a further jump in cases at the start of this week prompted them to pull the emergency brake and cancel the event.\n\nThe Lauberhorn track is 4,480m (14,700ft) long - and the race will now have to wait until 2022\n\nWengen is devastated. The Lauberhorn is one of the top competitions on the World Cup ski circuit. It is dearly loved by the Swiss, who have watched with delight as some of their own homegrown talent, such as Beat Feuz and Carlo Janka, have triumphed there.\n\nMoreover, the long love affair between Switzerland and British winter tourists has frosted over to some extent.\n\nIt was only last month that the vanishing Brits of Verbier, who reportedly fled Switzerland rather than accept the government mandated quarantine, triggered a flurry of negative headlines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Italy's Foppolo ski resort was closed until 6 January and missed the all-important Christmas ski season\n\nNow the high point of Switzerland's skiing calendar has been abruptly cancelled, and some Swiss blame the British.\n\nOthers say Switzerland only has itself to blame.\n\nWhile neighbours France and Italy closed their resorts over the festive period, the Swiss government opted for a precarious balancing act. It kept its slopes open, but closed all bars and restaurants and limited ski lifts to two-thirds capacity.\n\nMost Swiss resorts are quiet, with just a few locals enjoying the runs. But still some tourists arrived and, as Wengen's experience shows, just one infected guest is enough to cause major damage.\n\nInstead of hosting a major ski race, Wengen officials are now racing to control the virus. Mass testing has already begun in the resort.\n\nSwitzerland's government has extended the closure of bars, restaurants, museums, and theatres until the end of February in a bid to control the new variant. It has also ordered non-essential shops to close and made working from home obligatory.\n\nAs for the Lauberhorn, Switzerland's oldest and fiercest skiing rival, Austria, will now host the postponed event. Nothing could have been calculated to upset the Swiss more.\n\nThe event was first moved to the Austrian ski resort of Kitzbühel, but an outbreak of coronavirus there has prompted another move, this time to Flachau, 100km to the east.\n\nThe cluster of cases in Jochberg near Kitzbühel broke out among a group of mainly British trainee ski instructors.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nI'm standing in what should be an operating theatre - but instead it's been converted into an intensive care unit for Covid-19 patients on ventilators.\n\nThis is the first time I have seen it full of patients like this. Normally this theatre would be busy with major cancer surgery, but that's been transferred to another building.\n\nA children's recovery area, still decorated with colourful stickers of cartoons, is once again filled with desperately sick adults. Every day, more wards are being transformed into ICU - ready for the next influx of patients.\n\nWe have been given access to University College Hospital, in central London. This is the same intensive care unit that I first visited in April, during the first peak.\n\nIt is one of the busiest hospitals in the capital and intensive care here is expanding across a hospital that is under pressure like never before, from a relentless rise in Covid admissions.\n\nI am struck by the toll the pandemic is taking on staff. It's immense - both physically and mentally. They are shell-shocked. \"My emotions are all over the place. Scared, sad, petrified, worried,\" one ICU nurse tells me.\n\nI asked one of the consultants who I've met several times in the last year, Dr Jim Down, how long they can keep going like this - and the answer was stark. \"At this rate, about a week. After that we really need to see it slow down or we're going to see the care we can deliver suffering.\"\n\nThey have got three times as many critically ill patients in the hospital as normal. The number of Covid admissions to London hospitals has doubled in just two weeks - they're more stretched now than at the peak last April. Senior staff are worried.\n\nDr Alice Carter compares it to an elastic band that is close to snapping. \"It gets to a point where you stretch so far it never returns back to its baseline. I think that's probably where we are now. It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break, and that's the real fear for us at the moment.\"\n\nDr Alice Carter: 'It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break'\n\nThat could have very serious consequences, she adds. \"If we get to that point, we can't offer anyone ICU, not just Covid patients, but anyone who has a traffic accident or a heart attack or a stroke - whatever it is, to take them in.\"\n\nFor 38-year-old Rachel Arfin, one of the three pregnant women in intensive care with Covid-19, treatment is more complicated. Her baby is due in five weeks and the staff have to monitor them both.\n\n\"They can't do anything that will harm the baby,\" she says. \"All the time [they are] checking, monitoring the baby.\" She is reassured by the \"beautiful sound\" of her baby's heartbeat.\n\n\"They are looking after two people in one. They're saving lives,\" says Rachel. But her children - she has seven - keep asking when she's coming home.\n\nRachel Arfin's baby is due in five weeks - both are doing well\n\nI've reported from here several times during the pandemic and am always struck by the professionalism and dedication of staff. It's always quiet and calm, but that belies what's actually happening. This is a system under strain like never before.\n\nThe warning signs are clear, the NHS is on the brink. Unless infection rates fall, soon it will have a serious impact. The pressure on staff is unrelenting. I saw two nurses in tears.\n\nCompared to when I visited in April, it's a lot busier. In some ways, it's more structured - they now know what they're dealing with. They've got new treatments, such as the drug dexamethasone, which they didn't have last time. And many of the staff have now had the first dose of the vaccine.\n\nBut other aspects don't get any easier, such as the emotional burden of breaking bad news over a telephone or video call. It is very different to being able to hold someone's hand.\n\nStaff say they don't know which patients to help first\n\nICU staff have incredibly high standards. They're used to doing everything meticulously and perfectly. And they're doing all they can. But sometimes they go home and feel guilty that they can't do more. The impact on nurses - the bedrock of care in intensive care - is visible.\n\nThe highly specialised staff are usually one-to-one with patients. Deputy sister Ashleigh Shillingford is looking after three or four ventilated patients at a time, with one other junior member of staff. It's emotional and often devastating work.\n\n\"We are so stretched we have to prioritise and prioritising care is not the NHS that I grew up in - we shouldn't have to choose which patient gets what care first.\" She says she's never had to make decisions like these before.\n\n\"You just don't know who to help first. The patients are losing their lives at a dramatic speed, we're not just getting old people,\" she says, \"these are young people that we're getting.\"\n\nGerald Williams, 58, is awaiting chemotherapy for lung cancer and had been shielding, but he still caught coronavirus. \"All of a sudden, out of the blue, Covid came knocking on my door and it's frightening - you don't know how you're getting your next breath,\" he says.\n\nGerald Williams had been shielding but he still caught coronavirus\n\nHe wants to get home to his daughters, the youngest of whom is 13. And he's annoyed at those who don't take it seriously. \"People are moaning and groaning. Even in A&E. They need to get a life. Don't be idiots, forget about meeting your mate, stay home. No-one is invulnerable.\"\n\nFor now the Trust is coping better than many others in London and is still taking Covid patients from other hospitals. But the next few weeks could be the biggest challenge the NHS has ever faced - and it will be its doctors and nurses who will bear the brunt for all of us.\n\nAs the BBC's medical editor, Fergus Walsh has been reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic and its immense impact on the UK.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: 'Together we can make this the peak'\n\n\"We can make this the peak\" of the coronavirus pandemic \"if enough people follow the rules\", Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast it was \"those individual decisions\" that determine the virus's spread and it \"comes down to the behaviour of everyone\".\n\nPeople \"shouldn't take the mickey out of the rules,\" he said.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nLatest figures show there are now more than 35,000 people in hospital with Covid - an increase on the spring peak.\n\nIt comes as Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to be questioned by MPs on the vaccine rollout later.\n\nMeanwhile, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is also due to announce whether there will be any changes to lockdown restrictions later. Ministers have been discussing the possibility of tightening the current restrictions.\n\nWhen asked on BBC Breakfast if this was the peak of this wave of the pandemic, Mr Hancock replied: \"I want it to be, but that comes down to the behaviour of everyone.\n\n\"Together we can make this the peak if enough people follow the rules which are incredibly clear.\"\n\nMr Hancock said England's lockdown measures were \"always under review\", but he would be \"very reluctant\" to remove the rule of meeting one other person outside for exercise as \"it is a lifeline\" for some people, including those who live alone. Mr Hancock has already ruled out scrapping support bubbles.\n\n\"What I'd rather is that everybody follow that rule and doesn't stretch it or flex it,\" he said.\n\nOn the news that patients at a hospital in London are to be discharged early and sent to a hotel to help free up beds for critically ill coronavirus patients, Mr Hancock said moving patients to hotels \"isn't something we are actively putting in place\".\n\nKing's College Hospital said it would help to create space for the \"high numbers\" of new admissions and would \"temporarily accommodate mainly homeless patients who are ready to safely leave hospital and will benefit from further support from community partners\".\n\nThere are very early signs that infections may have peaked - although as always we should be careful about reading too much into a few days' worth of data.\n\nThe past two days have seen newly diagnosed cases hover around the 46,000-mark. Up to the weekend, the average was close to 60,000.\n\nThe drop has largely been driven by falls in new cases in London, the South East and East of England.\n\nThe national picture does mask some regional differences. Cases are rising in the North West, which is causing particular concern.\n\nIt is too early for the vaccination programme to be having any significant impact so a combination of the national lockdown on top of the tier four restrictions that were imposed in some areas before Christmas look like they may be beginning to have an impact.\n\nThere is also some evidence the new variant may not be quite as fast-spreading as first feared - a Public Health England study suggested rather than being 70% more transmissible it may actually be somewhere between 30% to 50%.\n\nAnd, if it does represent the start of a continuous fall, it is important to remember it will still take some time to translate into fewer hospital cases - people being admitted at the moment are those who would have caught the virus a week or two ago.\n\nBut after six weeks of pretty sustained rises, it is at least an encouraging sign.\n\nAsked about images of elite footballers celebrating goals with hugs, Mr Hancock said: \"I think elite sport is important because these are tough times, and being able to watch the football on the telly is really important because there's loads of things that you can't do.\"\n\nHe said the Premier League has \"special arrangements to ensure that players are safe\" as well as a testing regime.\n\nThe health secretary told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the rollout of the coronavirus vaccine will accelerate over the coming weeks, saying they were \"on track\" to deliver it to 14 million people by mid-February.\n\nVaccines deployment minister Nadhim Zahawi later told the Commons' science and technology committee that he was \"confident\" of achieving this target.\n\nMore than 2.4 million people have now had a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, while 412,167 people have had a second dose. Mr Hancock said 40% of the 3.4m people over 80 in England had been vaccinated so far.\n\n\"We have the capacity to get that vaccine out. The challenge is that we need to get the vaccine in,\" Mr Hancock said.\n\n\"What I know is that the supply will increase over the next few weeks and that means the very rapid rate that we are going at at the moment will continue to accelerate over the next couple of weeks.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, NHS Providers chief executive Chris Hopson said it was \"pretty clear\" that because of the new strain the Covid-19 infection rate was not going to go down as quickly as it did during the first wave.\n\n\"It now looks like the peak for NHS demand may actually be in February,\" he said.", "Morrisons will become the first UK supermarket to pay at least £10 an hour from April.\n\nIt will increase its minimum pay for up to 96,000 workers from £9.20.\n\nRetail trade union Usdaw negotiated the £10 per hour basic rate which is 50p an hour above the voluntary Living Wage Foundation rate.\n\nHowever, other big supermarkets appear unlikely to follow any time soon, with Asda saying that just looking at hourly rates does not tell the full story.\n\nMorrisons said for the majority of its workers the pay increase will be approximately 9%.\n\nPart of the increase will result from changing the company's annual bonus scheme from a discretionary yearly payment into a guaranteed amount in workers' hourly rates.\n\nIt will boost the weekly pay of someone working 36.75 hours a week from £330.10 to £367.50.\n\nUnion members still need to approve the deal. The result will be announced on 12 February and, if accepted, the new rates will be paid from 5 April 2021.\n\n\"The new consolidated hourly rate is now the leading rate of the major supermarkets,\" said Joanne McGuinness, Usdaw national officer after the Morrisons announcement.\n\n\"It's been a tough time for food retail staff who have worked throughout the pandemic in difficult circumstances,\" said Ms McGuinness.\n\n\"They provide the essential service of keeping the nation fed and deserve our support, respect and appreciation. Most of all they deserve decent pay and this offer is a welcome boost.\"\n\nIn addition to the hourly pay increase, Morrisons will pay a higher London weighting.\n\nRates for inner London will be 85p and for outer London 60p per hour, up from 75p in inner London and 50p in outer London.\n\nDavid Potts, Morrisons chief executive said: \"It's a symbolic and important milestone that represents another step in rewarding the incredibly important work that our colleagues do up and down the country.\"\n\nMorrisons' move propels it to the top of the supermarket pay league, leapfrogging Aldi and Lidl. Will other big rivals follow suit?\n\nSupermarket staff have become frontline heroes in this pandemic and there's a new-found respect for the vital work they do in keeping us fed day-in day-out.\n\nMany consumers may welcome the idea of higher rewards for those staff.\n\nBut supermarkets have already taken on a lot of extra costs in ramping up their operations as well as recruiting thousands of extra staff.\n\nAnd there are no shortage of workers looking for jobs right now, which could keep a lid on pay.\n\nLidl has already announced plans to increase its hourly wage for staff from March, increasing the rate for 20,000 workers from £9.30 to £9.50.\n\nWithin London's M25 motorway boundary the rate has increased from £10.75 to £10.85 an hour.\n\n\"It is only right that we increase the income for our colleagues who are the backbone of our business.,\" said chief executive Christian Härtnagel.\n\n\"This is about recognising their hard work and dedication in keeping the nation fed during a year like no other.\n\nAsda, which pays £9.18 outside London and either £9.76 or £10.31 inside the capital, pointed out that it pays above National Living Wage rules and never employs on 'zero hours' contracts.\n\nAn Asda statement said: \"On top of a competitive wage structure, Asda colleagues also receive a host of benefits which contribute to their yearly earnings, these including colleague discount in our stores and online, special discounts for shops and a yearly performance-based bonus.\n\n\"So simply looking at the hourly rate doesn't tell the full story.\"\n\nSainsbury's basic hourly pay is £9.30, and a statement to the BBC made no mention of any immediate intention to raise the rate.\n\nA spokesperson said, \"Our colleagues do a brilliant job and we are so proud of how they continue to go above and beyond for our customers.\n\n\"We have made two thank you payments to frontline workers in recognition of this in the last year and regularly review colleague pay to make sure we offer leading rates.\"\n\nA Waitrose spokesperson said: \"Our hourly minimum starting pay across the UK for non-management Partners in Waitrose is currently £9.10 following a short induction period, with scope for higher pay according to performance.\n\n\"We review Partner pay annually each April and will do so again this year.\"\n\nM&S said their minimum pay for workers is £9.00 an hour, but pointed out that those that worked during the pandemic last April and May were handed a 15% pay reward on top of the rate.\n\nLatest available data suggests Aldi currently pays £9.40 an hour, Tesco £9.30 and Co-op £9.", "As Scotland's hospitals fill with Covid patients and the daily-registered death toll passes 5,000, there are concerns the \"stay at home\" message has not had the same impact it did during last year's lockdown.\n\nSome of the restrictions announced by Nicola Sturgeon in early January have now been tightened even further.\n\nHow do Scotland's current lockdown rules compare to those imposed last March?\n\nLast March outdoor exercise was allowed only if people were alone or with someone from the same household. It was initially limited to once a day, before this restriction was eased in May 2020.\n\nAll exercise had to be done close to home. No mixing with other households or other any outdoor relaxation was allowed.\n\nNow up to two people from separate households can meet for outdoor sport or exercise. Children under 12 years old do not count towards this number.\n\nThere is no limit on how many times you can go out to exercise each day, but you should still stay close to home and avoid crowded areas.\n\nProf Jason Leitch, Scotland's clinical director, says police enforcement is used as \"last resort\" against people who break the rules.\n\nThese rules are not expected to change in Scotland. However, the UK government has warned that exercise restrictions may be tightened after \"large groups\" have flouted their own two-person rule.\n\nLast March non-essential shops were ordered to shut along with cafes, bars, restaurants and cinemas. Supermarkets and pharmacies were among premises which could stay open.\n\nIn July a new law made it compulsory to wear a face covering in shops across Scotland.\n\nAll pubs, restaurants and cafes must remain closed in Scotland's level four areas - although they can still serve takeaway food. The definition of \"essential retail\" has also been narrowed, forcing homeware shops and garden centres to close once again.\n\nRules on click and collect will be tightened from 16 January. The service will be limited to retailers selling essential items and access inside premises for collection will not be allowed.\n\nTakeaway customers will also no longer be allowed inside premises for pick-up from 16 January. Businesses will have to operate from a serving hatch or doorway.\n\nSchools and nurseries were closed last March, with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon saying there were too many absent staff to continue.\n\nMany teachers prepared homeworking packs and some online learning. Parents and pupils had to get used to home schooling.\n\nChildren of essential workers and vulnerable pupils were looked after by staff in childcare hubs.\n\nSchools began the January 2021 term largely via online and remote learning.\n\nAs before, only children of key workers and vulnerable children are allowed in classrooms - but this time there is more focus on learning than simply child care.\n\nThe number of pupils attending school is much higher than last year.\n\nProf Leitch suggests this may be because Scotland has \"too much open\" in the rest of society with working adults in greater need of childcare. He said a \"sweet spot\" needs to be found to keep children and adults safe.\n\nThe Scottish government hopes pupils can return to the classroom in February, but this plan is to be kept under review.\n\nSee where coronavirus case rates have been rising in Scotland with this interactive map.\n\nPeople were told to stay at home except for essential shopping for food or medicine, going out for their daily exercise, or to care for the vulnerable.\n\nEmployers were asked to make provisions for staff to work from home. Wearing of face coverings on public transport was not initially required, but became mandatory in Scotland in June.\n\nIt is a legal requirement not to leave home for anything other than essential purposes. A \"reasonable excuse\" can include essential shopping, exercise or caring responsibilities.\n\nPeople should only go out to work if it absolutely cannot be done from home. It is illegal to travel between Scotland and other parts of the UK unless the journey is essential.\n\nThere are no expectations of enhanced travel restrictions, as the rules are already \"pretty tight\" says Prof Leitch.\n\n\"We have a stay at home law, it is illegal to fly overseas, it is illegal to travel, it is illegal to leave your home without a reason to do so,\" he added.\n\nThe latest contact tracing figures from Public Health Scotland show that since November, shops have accounted for 19% of the places visited by people the week before their positive test.\n\nWhile these figures don't tell us whether people contracted the virus in a specific location, they do suggest the most likely sources.\n\nThe number of cases traced to shopping-related locations increased by 83% between 27 December and 3 January.\n\nOther large increases were seen when:\n\nIn March \"essential\" was the key word for all employers. Businesses were told they could only stay open if what they do was \"essential\" to the effort of tackling Covid or the wellbeing of society.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said building sites should close unless they involved work on an \"essential building\" such as a hospital. Visits from tradespeople were allowed only for \"essential repairs\".\n\nOutdoor workplaces, construction, manufacturing, veterinary services and film and TV production can remain open. Employers have been told to plan for the minimum number of people needed on site to operate safely and effectively.\n\nHome visits by tradespeople are still allowed for essential maintenance. This guidance is being put into law from 16 January.\n\nProf Leitch says the Scottish government continues to examine rules around what constitutes essential and non-essential construction.", "A deal has been agreed for the sale of the Edinburgh Woollen Mill, Ponden Home and Bonmarché chains, which were on the brink of closure.\n\nThe businesses went into administration last year after a collapse in sales due to the pandemic.\n\nAlmost 2,000 staff will be kept on but as many as 260 stores could close.\n\nThe buyers are a consortium of international investors who will inject fresh funds into the business, led by the existing management team.\n\nEdinburgh Woollen Mill, which sells mid-price knitwear and other clothing to older shoppers, is part of a stable of retail brands owned by billionaire businessman, Philip Day.\n\nIt is understood that Mr Day will effectively lend the group the money to buy the businesses which will be paid back over a number of years.\n\nThe deal also covers two other brands in the group, value retailer Bonmarché, and Ponden Home, an interiors chain based in the south east of England.\n\nThe new owners plan to operate 246 stores across both the Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home brands, retaining 1,453 staff in those stores, the head office and distribution centres in Carlisle.\n\nHowever, 85 Edinburgh Woollen Mill stores and 34 Ponden Home stores have been closed permanently, with the loss of 485 jobs.\n\nWakefield-based Bonmarché will retain 72 of its stores and 531 staff including head office and distribution centre staff.\n\nThe majority of its stores, 148 outlets, remain under review with staff on furlough.\n\nAdministrators representing Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home said the deal represented the best chance to save stores and jobs, given the difficult outlook for UK retail.\n\n\"We regret that not all of Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home could be rescued,\" said Tony Wright, partner at FRP. \"This has resulted in a significant number of redundancies at a particularly challenging time of year and period of economic uncertainty.\"\n\nRetail has been particularly hard hit by measures to curb the spread of Covid-19. Even when shops have been open many shoppers stayed away, wary of the health risks.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium said consumers bought 5% less last year than the year before (not including food). Much of that custom switched from the High Street to online, making it harder for chains whose customers usually shop in person. Physical stores saw sales drop by a quarter, the BRC said.\n\nOther major brands including Topshop-owner Arcadia and Debenhams have also gone into administration, costing hundreds of jobs.\n\n\"Lockdowns have proved hugely damaging for mid-range fashion chains like Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Bonmarché whose traditional customer base has not adapted so quickly to online shopping as younger shoppers,\" said Susannah Streeter, analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"The backers of this rescue deal clearly believe there is pent-up demand amongst core customers which will be released once the doors are flung open once more,\" she added.\n\nOn Monday, Marks & Spencer announced it was buying Jaeger, another brand that had belonged to Philip Day's portfolio.\n\nPeacocks, another High Street fashion brand in the EWM group remains in administration.", "Sally told the BBC she is still waiting for her P45 despite handing in her notice in November\n\nHairdresser Sally had a surprise when she looked at her tax record with HM Revenue and Customs: \"It said I'd still been getting furlough pay from a job I left in November.\"\n\nShe told BBC Radio 5 Live's Wake up to Money: \"That was a revelation - none of it had landed in my bank account.\"\n\nHers is among more than 21,000 reports of suspected furlough fraud currently being handled by HMRC.\n\nThe money is either due to fraudulent claims, or is being paid out in error.\n\nThe Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme, commonly called the furlough scheme was launched in March 2020, at the start of the coronavirus crisis, to minimise unemployment. Under the scheme, the government pays 80% of employees' wages up to £2,500 a month.\n\nThe number of tip offs to the taxman has spiralled since last April, from 3,000 to 21,378 reports of suspect payments by early January.\n\nSally's former employer told the BBC she did not know Sally had resigned\n\nAt the peak of its use in early May, the scheme was supporting 8.9 million jobs.\n\nIt was extended in January until the end of April 2021 and now also applies to those who are unable to work due to caring responsibilities, or because they are clinically extremely vulnerable.\n\nThe scheme has been widely supported for its role in supporting employers and jobs during the pandemic, but it has been found to be open to abuse.\n\nTax lawyer Anita Clifford said at the 'extreme end' of furlough fraud were 'dormant companies being resurrected' and 'fake employees'\n\nSally believes her former employer broke the rules after she resigned from the salon last year.\n\nShe told the BBC she sent her resignation letter and returned her uniform to her employer in the post in November, but \"heard nothing back\". A client later contacted her asking if she was OK, as they had heard she was off work, \"sick\".\n\nSally started to get her paperwork together to register as self-employed but when she opened her online HMRC account, she noticed she was registered as receiving payments equivalent to those she was getting while on furlough - although the money was not reaching her account.\n\nShe left it a couple of weeks in case her resignation was taking a few weeks to be processed.\n\nTo date, Sally has still has not received a P45, and says she is still registered as being paid through the furlough scheme.\n\nHMRC has called on anyone concerned about suspected abuse of the team to get in touch with the department\n\n\"In the middle of the pandemic, where people are losing homes because they can't get any help, I think it's quite sickening,\" she said.\n\n\"It's wrong, and it makes a mockery of all those people who are suffering.\"\n\nThe BBC contacted Sally's former employer, who has denied the claims, saying she did not know that Sally had resigned, and had struggled to get in touch with her.\n\nTax barrister, Anita Clifford, from the firm Bright Line Law, said Sally's experience was \"a classic example\".\n\n\"Whether it's a mistake, or whether some actors are doing it deliberately, continuing furlough payments for former employees is a classic way of defrauding the system.\"\n\nHMRC has previously stressed that some employers may accidentally be committing furlough fraud.\n\nMs Clifford told the BBC that she was seeing businesses coming forward, \"worried about the mistakes that they've made\".\n\nBut she added examples of furlough fraud could be more extreme, where some businesses \"are seeking to claim money for completely fake employees\".\n\n\"In time to come, we'll certainly see enforcement activity, and people very worried about being on the receiving end of a criminal prosecution for some of these things.\n\n\"Certainly where you have dormant companies being resurrected, in order to claim money from the furlough scheme, you have fake employees... businesses being quite unscrupulous, you're not using the funds to pay salaries, I think those are the businesses you'll eventually see being looked at very seriously for criminal prosecution,\" she said.\n\nHMRC told the BBC: \"The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme is part of the collective national effort to protect jobs. This is taxpayers' money and fraudulent claims limit our ability to support people and deprive public services of essential funding.\"\n\nNames have been changed to protect identities\n• None What happens when furlough ends?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Archbishop of Glasgow, Philip Tartaglia, has died suddenly at his home in Glasgow.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Catholic Church said that Archbishop Tartaglia had tested positive for Covid-19 shortly after Christmas and was self-isolating at home.\n\nThe cause of death is not yet clear.\n\nArchbishop Tartaglia, who was 70, was ordained a priest in 1975 and served as Archbishop of Glasgow since 2012.\n\nThe spokeswoman said it would be for Pope Francis to appoint a new archbishop, but until then the Archdiocese will be overseen by an administrator.", "Senior Conservatives have called for a \"reset\" in UK policy towards China, including sanctions against officials responsible for human rights abuses.\n\nThe Conservative Human Rights Commission demanded a rethink in relations after hearing evidence of abuses from torture to slavery.\n\nIt urged the UK to work with allies to respond to China's behaviour.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab has said the UK plays a \"leading role\" in highlighting abuses.\n\nThe Commission made the recommendations in a new report endorsed by two former Conservative foreign secretaries, Lord Hague and Sir Malcolm Rifkind.\n\nIt adds to growing internal pressure on the government from Conservative circles to harden its line on China.\n\nThe Commission says it has heard first-hand evidence of human rights violations in China from dissidents, lawyers, and human rights campaigners.\n\nThis included violations of media freedom, clampdowns on Uighur Muslims, modern day slavery, and the establishment of an \"Orwellian surveillance state,\" it added.\n\nThe group said this showed the need for a \"comprehensive review\" of China policy across UK government departments.\n\nIt also called for the UK to diversify its supply chains to reduce \"strategic dependency\" on China and further efforts to highlight rights issues at the United Nations.\n\nMr Raab announced fines on Tuesday for UK firms doing business in China if they cannot show that their products aren't linked to forced labour in the country's Xinjiang region.\n\nIn December, the BBC revealed new evidence that China is forcing hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other minorities into hard, manual labour in the cotton fields of Xinjiang.\n\nMPs and peers are separately pushing for new laws to block trade deals with countries found guilty of genocide, something which for now the government is resisting.\n\nMr Raab told MPs the idea was \"well-meaning\" but it would be wrong to \"sub-contract\" the issue of when to break off trade talks to the courts.\n\nThe Conservative Human Rights Commission, established in 2005, aims to highlight human rights concerns and keep the issue high on the party's agenda.", "David (right) and Frederick Barclay receiving their knighthoods in 2000\n\nSir David Barclay, the co-owner of the Daily Telegraph newspaper, has died at the age of 86.\n\nSir David, together with his twin brother Sir Frederick, built up a business empire spanning hotels, retail and media.\n\nHis death was announced in the Telegraph, which reported that he died on Sunday after a short illness.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson, a former columnist for the paper, paid tribute to Sir David.\n\n\"Farewell with respect and admiration to Sir David Barclay who rescued a great newspaper, created many thousands of jobs across the UK and who believed passionately in the independence of this country and what it could achieve,\" he tweeted.\n\nThe Barclay brothers, who had an estimated wealth of £7bn according to the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List, were known for being media shy and rarely gave interviews.\n\nBorn in Hammersmith, west London, in 1934, Sir David was profoundly shaped by his childhood memories of war, and the death of his father when he was 12.\n\nHe and his twin Frederick - who was 10 minutes younger - started out as painters and decorators, before moving into property and eventually hotels.\n\nTheir success in property and hotels helped them take over Ellerman Lines, a shipping business with interests in brewing, in 1983.\n\nThis provided a launch pad from which they would become billionaires.\n\nAt various times, their hotel portfolio has included a number of trophy assets, including the Ritz Hotel in London, which they sold in March last year.\n\nIn 2012, the BBC’s Panorama reported that the Ritz had not paid any corporation tax since it had been taken over by the Barclays in 1995.\n\nAt the time, Sir David said they had “acted in a responsible way with regard to taxation and have never been involved in any tax avoidance scheme.”\n\nIn 2015, the twins sold off the hospitality group Maybourne, which included luxury hotels like Claridges.\n\nThe brothers first ventured into media ownership with their 1992 purchase of The European, a pan-European newspaper that shut down in 1998.\n\nThey also bought The Scotsman in 1995 and Sunday Business in 1997.\n\n“After these ventures in the publishing arena, the brothers had nurtured since the 1980s an ambition to own the Telegraph group,” The Telegraph said.\n\nThey acquired the Telegraph Group in 2004 for £665m from Canadian media magnate Conrad Black's Hollinger group.\n\nThe brothers also had a number of forays into retail, including Shop Direct, fashion retailer Very and delivery firm Yodel.\n\nThe pair were knighted in 2000 for services to charity. By this point their foundation was thought to have donated about £40m to charity and medical research.\n\nThe notoriously private twins' relationship was the subject of an extraordinary legal case last year, in which Sir David's three sons were accused by his brother of bugging conversations at the Ritz Hotel, which they previously owned.\n\nIn its obituary the Telegraph said Sir David had been a voracious reader, obsessed with newspapers, business, economics and politics, and had always said he had been educated at the \"university of life\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: Lockdown likely to extend to February\n\nScotland's first minister has said the country's current lockdown is \"very unlikely\" to be lifted at the end of the month.\n\nNicola Sturgeon was speaking as she confirmed that more than 5,000 people have now died after testing positive for the virus.\n\nA review of the current restrictions is due to be carried out at the end of January.\n\nMs Sturgeon said it was possible that there would be no easing at that point.\n\nA further 54 deaths have been recorded in the past 24 hours - bringing the total by that measure to 5,023.\n\nBut the most recent figures from the National Records of Scotland - which record all deaths registered in Scotland where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate - put the total at 6,686.\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily briefing that the figures were a reminder of the toll the virus had taken.\n\nAnd she said every death had caused heartbreak to friends, families and loved ones across the country.\n\nThe first minister also said Scotland's NHS would be under far greater pressure if the current restrictions had not been put in place on Boxing Day.\n\nAnd she urged people not to raise their expectations about what will be announced when the lockdown review is completed in a fortnight as wholesale lifting of the restrictions was \"very unlikely\".\n\nShe added: \"There may not even be any lifting of these restrictions as soon as the end of January - we will have to consider all of that carefully and set it out in due course.\"\n\nAll of mainland Scotland and some islands were placed into level four restrictions on 26 December, with schools remaining closed to most pupils until at least the end of the month.\n\nA further 1,875 positive cases of the virus were recorded on Monday, bringing the total since the pandemic began to 153,423.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with the virus stands at 1,717 - an increase of 53 since yesterday and higher than the peak of about 1,500 in the first wave in April.\n\nOf these, 133 patients are intensive care units, with Ms Sturgeon saying that the virus was putting \"very acute pressure\" on hospitals.\n\nThe first minister also said that 175,942 people in Scotland had received their first vaccine dose by Monday.\n\nOpposition parties have claimed that the rollout of the vaccine has been \"sluggish\" in Scotland compared to south of the border - a charge that the government denies.\n\nAnd they have called for greater transparency over how many people are being given the jab every day.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman said on Monday that the government was aiming to vaccinate about 560,000 people in Scotland by 31 January.\n\nNon-essential shops have been closed in Scotland since 26 December\n\nThe Scottish government has previously said it is concerned that too many people have not been following the \"stay at home\" rules that are in place across the whole of the mainland and some islands.\n\nMinisters have been discussing the possibility of imposing tougher rules on click and collect shopping and takeaway food, with an announcement expected to be made on Wednesday.\n\nRetail industry representatives have described click and collect services as a \"lifeline\" for struggling businesses amid the forced closure of all non-essential shops.\n\nAnd they said they had not been shown any evidence that click and collect was driving transmission of the virus.\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily coronavirus briefing that the government may not stop click and collect services altogether.\n\nBut she added: \"If we are saying to people right now that you should not be out of your home for shopping unless it is essential, then do we need to have click and collect for non-essential services instead of having that for delivery?\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross told BBC Scotland that he did not want to see further restrictions put in place unless there was evidence that they would have the desired effect.\n\nHe also suggested that restricting click and collect would simply result in more people going back into supermarkets to do their shopping.\n\nThe Scottish government is also under pressure to lift the the current ban on public Sunday worship, with a group of 500 church leaders from across the UK - including 200 in Scotland - insisting that there is \"no evidence of any tangible contribution to community transmission through churches in Scotland\".\n\nIn a letter to the first minister, they claim that the ban may be unlawful and accuse the government of failing to understand that \"Christian worship is an essential public service, and especially vital to our nation in a time of crisis\".\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said: \"Test and Protect tells us where people were in their 48-hour infectious period.\n\n\"So we know that on one day last week the seven-day number for places of worship was 120, and data from yesterday shows the seven-day number for places of worship is 38, underlining the essential decision to require places of worship to close for public health reasons.\"\n\nMeanwhile, it has been confirmed that everyone arriving in Scotland from overseas will need to show proof of a negative test from Friday.\n\nThe test will need to be \"highly reliable\", the first minister said, and will need to have been from the previous three days - although young children may be exempt from the restriction.\n\nThose travelling from countries not on the quarantine exemption list will still need to self-isolate on arrival.\n\nThe new rules, which will also come into force in England, were first outlined last week.", "A Huawei patent has been brought to light for a system that identifies people who appear to be of Uighur origin among images of pedestrians.\n\nThe filing is one of several of its kind involving leading Chinese technology companies, discovered by a US research company and shared with BBC News.\n\nHuawei had previously said none of its technologies was designed to identify ethnic groups.\n\nIt now plans to alter the patent.\n\nThe company indicated this would involve asking the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) - the country's patent authority - for permission to delete the reference to Uighurs in the Chinese-language document.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUighur people belong to a mostly Muslim ethnic group that lives mainly in Xinjiang province, in north-western China.\n\nGovernment authorities are accused of using high-tech surveillance against them and detaining many in forced-labour camps, where children are sometimes separated from their parents.\n\nBeijing says the camps offer voluntary education and training.\n\nChina's technology companies deny selling software that can be used to pick out Uighur people from the rest of the population by their appearance\n\n\"One technical requirement of the Chinese Ministry of Public Security's video-surveillance networks is the detection of ethnicity - particularly of Uighurs,\" said Maya Wang, from Human Rights Watch.\n\n\"While in the rest of the world, such targeting and persecution of a people on the basis of their ethnicity would be completely unacceptable, the persecution and severe discrimination of Uighurs in many aspects of life in China remain unchallenged because Uighurs have no power in China.\"\n\nHuawei's patent was originally filed in July 2018, in conjunction with the Chinese Academy of Sciences .\n\nIt describes ways to use deep-learning artificial-intelligence techniques to identify various features of pedestrians photographed or filmed in the street.\n\nIt focuses on addressing the fact different body postures - for example whether someone is sitting or standing - can affect accuracy.\n\nBut the document also lists attributes by which a person might be targeted, which it says can include \"race (Han [China's biggest ethnic group], Uighur)\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC News visited the camps where China’s Muslims have their \"thoughts transformed\", in 2019\n\nA spokesman said this reference should not have been included.\n\n\"Huawei opposes discrimination of all types, including the use of technology to carry out ethnic discrimination,\" he said.\n\n\"Identifying individuals' race was never part of the research-and-development project.\n\n\"It should never have become part of the application.\n\n\"And we are taking proactive steps to amend it.\n\n\"We are continuously working to ensure new and evolving technology is developed and applied with the utmost care and integrity.\"\n\nThe patent was brought to light by the video-surveillance research group IPVM.\n\nIt had previously flagged a separate \"confidential\" document on Huawei's website, referencing work on a \"Uighur alert\" system.\n\nIn that case, Huawei said the page referenced a test rather than a real-world application and denied selling systems that identified people by their ethnicity.\n\nOn Wednesday, Tom Tugendhat, who chairs the UK Parliament's Foreign Affairs Select Committee and leads the Conservative Party's China Research Group, told BBC News: \"Chinese tech giants supporting the brutal assault on the Uighur population show us why we as consumers and as a society must be careful with who we buy our products from or award business to.\n\n\"Developing ethnic-labelling technology for use by a repressive regime is clearly not behaviour that lives up to our standards.\"\n\nIPVM also discovered references to Uighur people in patents filed by the Chinese artificial-intelligence company Sensetime and image-recognition specialist Megvii.\n\nSensetime's filing, from July 2019, discusses ways facial-recognition software could be used for more efficient \"security protection\", such as searching for \"a middle-aged Uighur with sunglasses and a beard\" or a Uighur person wearing a mask.\n\nA Sensetime spokeswoman said the references were \"regrettable\".\n\n\"We understand the importance of our responsibilities, which is why we began to develop our AI Code of Ethics in mid-2019,\" she said, adding the patent had predated this code.\n\nMegvii's June 2019 patent, meanwhile, described a way of relabelling pictures of faces tagged incorrectly in a database.\n\nLike Huawei, Megvii now plans to withdraw the original version of its patent\n\nIt said the classifications could be based on ethnicity, for example, including \"Han, Uighur, non-Han, non-Uighur and unknown\".\n\nThe company told BBC News it would now withdraw the patent application.\n\n\"Megvii recognises that the language used in our 2019 patent application is open to misunderstanding,\" it said.\n\n\"Megvii has not developed and will not develop or sell racial- or ethnic-labelling solutions.\n\n\"Megvii acknowledges that, in the past, we have focused on our commercial development and lacked appropriate control of our marketing, sales, and operations materials.\n\n\"We are undertaking measures to correct the situation.\"\n\nIPVM also flagged image-recognition patents filed by two of China's biggest technology conglomerates, Alibaba and Baidu, that referenced classifying people by ethnicity but did not specifically mention the Uighur people by name.\n\nAlibaba responded: \"Racial or ethnic discrimination or profiling in any form violates our policies and values.\n\n\"We never intended our technology to be used for and will not permit it to be used for targeting specific ethnic groups.\"\n\nProtests have been held across the world to highlight China's treatment of Uighur people\n\nAnd Baidu said: \"When filing for a patent, the document notes are meant as an example of a technical explanation, in this case describing what the attribute-recognition model is rather than representing the expected implementation of the invention.\n\n\"We do not and will not permit our technology to be used to identify or target specific ethnic groups.\"\n\nBut Human Rights Watch said it still had concerns.\n\n\"Any company that sells video-surveillance software and systems to the Chinese police would have to ensure that they meet the police's requirements, which includes the capacity for ethnicity detection,\" Ms Wang said.\n\n\"The right thing for these companies to do is to immediately cease their sale and maintenance of surveillance equipment, software and systems, to the Chinese police.\"", "At Prime Minister’s Questions, Boris Johnson said that “the lockdown measures we had in place, combined with tier four measures, are starting to show some signs of effect.”\n\nLooking at cases of Covid-19 in England, the average for the week ending 1 January was almost 55,000 cases.\n\nThese people will have been infected before England’s lockdown came in on January 6, although much of the country was under very strict measures before then.\n\nSo, using publicly available data, it might be too early to make this assessment.\n\nAnd in the past month, we’ve seen that a couple of days of decline can quickly be followed by a sustained increase in cases.\n\nBut what is clear is that hospital admissions from coronavirus appear to be increasing (they usually peak up to a couple of weeks after high numbers of cases).\n\nThe latest seven day average (ending on January 7) saw 3,705 people admitted to hospital daily in England – that’s the highest throughout the entire pandemic.", "A Scottish earl has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a woman at his ancestral home in Angus.\n\nThe Earl of Strathmore, Simon Bowes-Lyon, forced his way into the sleeping woman's room during a weekend event he was hosting at Glamis Castle.\n\nHe repeatedly assaulted the 26-year-old victim and tried to pull off her nightdress during the 20-minute attack.\n\nBowes-Lyon, 34 - who is the Queen's first cousin twice removed - has been placed on the sex offenders register.\n\nHe was granted bail at Dundee Sheriff Court and sentence was deferred.\n\nSheriff Alistair Carmichael also ordered Glamis Castle be assessed for its suitability to house Bowes-Lyon while under a tagging order.\n\nThe court heard the woman fled the castle the morning after the attack on 13 February last year and flew home to report the matter to police.\n\nBoth Police Scotland and the Metropolitan Police were involved in the investigation.\n\nGlamis Castle was the childhood home of the Queen Mother\n\nOutside court, Bowes-Lyon said he was \"greatly ashamed\" of his actions.\n\nHe added: \"Clearly I had drunk to excess on the night of the incident. I should have known better. I recognise, in any event, that alcohol is no excuse for my behaviour.\n\n\"I did not think I was capable of behaving the way I did but have had to face up to it and take responsibility.\n\n\"My apologies go, above all, to the woman concerned, but I would also like to apologise to family, friends and colleagues for the distress I have caused them.\"\n\nGlamis Castle, near Forfar, has been the seat of the Bowes-Lyon family since 1372.\n\nIt was the childhood home of the Queen Mother, and the Queen's sister Princess Margaret was born there.\n\nBowes-Lyon was a great-great nephew of the Queen Mother.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "The Chinese vaccine is one of two that the Brazilian government has lined up\n\nA coronavirus vaccine developed by China's Sinovac has been found to be 50.4% effective in Brazilian clinical trials, according to the latest results released by researchers.\n\nIt shows the vaccine is significantly less effective than previous data suggested - barely over the 50% needed for regulatory approval.\n\nThe Chinese vaccine is one of two that the Brazilian government has lined up.\n\nBrazil has been one of the countries worst affected by Covid-19.\n\nSinovac, a Beijing-based biopharmaceutical company, is behind CoronaVac, an inactivated vaccine. It works by using killed viral particles to expose the body's immune system to the virus without risking a serious disease response.\n\nSeveral countries, including Indonesia, Turkey and Singapore, have placed orders for the vaccine.\n\nLast week researchers at the Butantan Institute, which has been conducting the trials in Brazil, announced that the vaccine had a 78% efficacy against \"mild-to-severe\" Covid-19 cases.\n\nBut on Tuesday they revealed that calculations for this figure did not include data from a group of \"very mild infections\" among those who received the vaccine that did not require clinical assistance.\n\nWith the inclusion of this data, the efficacy rate is now 50.4%, said researchers.\n\nBut Butantan stressed that the vaccine is 78% effective in preventing mild cases that needed treatment and 100% effective in staving off moderate to serious cases.\n\nThe Sinovac trials have yielded different results across different countries.\n\nLast month Turkish researchers said the Sinovac vaccine was 91.25% effective, while Indonesia, which rolled out its mass vaccination programme on Wednesday, said it was 65.3% effective. Both were interim results from late-stage trials.\n\nThe latest figures for China's coronavirus vaccine show just how difficult it is to compare vaccines.\n\nOn the face of it, the 50% effectiveness figure isn't as good as Oxford's 70% or Pfizer and Moderna's 95%. But trials are run very differently in different countries - the numbers of volunteers enrolled varies wildly, as do the criteria used to test how much protection the vaccines offer.\n\nA figure for efficacy is reached by looking at how many people developed Covid after being given the vaccine, compared with how many were affected when given a dummy injection. Normally, that is based on people developing obvious symptoms but in this Brazilian trial, people with no symptoms also appear to have been included.\n\nSo it's only when the full data from all trials of this vaccine are published that scientists can analyse its real efficacy, and compare like with like. Only limited data for this Sinovac vaccine is currently available - and experts say that is confusing the picture.\n\nIn the long term, many vaccines against Covid are needed to vaccinate the world and, inevitably, some will perform better than others - but giving as many people as possible some protection is the priority.\n\nThere has been concern and criticism that Chinese vaccine trials are not subject to the same scrutiny and levels of transparency as its Western counterparts.\n\nBoth the Sinovac vaccine and the vaccine developed by Oxford University and pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca have requests for emergency use authorisation pending with regulators in Brazil.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe latest news comes as Brazil is dealing with a major spike in cases. The country currently has the third highest number of Covid-19 cases in the world at over 8.1 million, just behind the US and India.\n\nThe BBC World Service's Americas editor Candace Piette says the country is suffering one of the world's deadliest outbreaks but as yet, has not announced when its vaccination programme will begin.\n\nThe delay has been caused in large part by the government's haphazard and divided approach to vaccination, says our correspondent.", "More than 100,000 Covid-19 vaccinations had been issued in Northern Ireland by Tuesday evening, Robin Swann has said.\n\nThe health minister said, of that figure, 91,419 people had received their first vaccine dose.\n\nHe added that 95% of care home residents had received their first dose and about 20% of those aged over 80 have received their first dose.\n\nIt comes as leading GP said the goal to begin a mass vaccine rollout by summer is \"achievable\" but hinges on supply.\n\nThe Department of Health published its plan to deliver vaccines in Northern Ireland on Tuesday.\n\nDr Alan Stout said the timeline was \"very sensible\" but was \"almost 100%\" dependent on getting enough of the vaccine.\n\nAt Wednesday's health briefing, Mr Swann said the programme had made a \"strong start\" but there was more to do.\n\nHe also said he has decided to issue tighter visiting guidelines for hospitals.\n\n\"I have ensured visiting will be permitted to hospices and care homes, but visits to general medical wards will no longer be permitted from this Friday\", he said.\n\nThe minister added that the measure would be kept under constant review.\n\nMr Swann also confirmed a new rapid test for Covid-19, which can return results in 12 minutes, would be used in emergency departments.\n\nHe said a pilot programme has been carried out using the LumiraDX nasal swab, which will enable health staff to \"very quickly identify patients who do not have Covid-19\".\n\nHe also repeated that the current lockdown restrictions were working and had helped to reduce NI's rate of infection, but warned the executive would still have \"difficult decisions\" to take in relation to decisions about whether to extend some restrictions in the coming weeks.\n\nOn Wednesday, a further 19 Covid-related deaths were announced by the Department of Health in Northern Ireland.\n\nA further 1,145 new cases of the virus were also reported.\n\nMeanwhile, Northern Ireland's chief medical officer warned there was \"no doubt\" that levels of the new, more transmissible variant of coronavirus are rising in Northern Ireland.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's executive briefing, Dr Michael McBride said that the new variant was making the job to contain it \"twice as difficult\".\n\nThe new variant is said to be up to 70% more transmissible, but there is no evidence it is more dangerous.\n\nThe first confirmed case of the new strain was detected in Northern Ireland on 23 December, but officials had said levels in Northern Ireland remained lower than in other areas of the UK.\n\nDr McBride said there would now be situations where the variant could spread, where previously it may not have.\n\n\"We need to be extremely cautious in the weeks ahead,\" he warned, adding that the virus would not \"magically disappear\" on 6 February, when the current lockdown is due to end.\n\nStormont ministers have to review the regulations on or before 22 January, with that scheduled for next Thursday.\n\nDr McBride said Northern Ireland had some distance to go before restrictions are lifted\n\nDr Stout, the chair of NI's GP committee, said practices needed another 22,000 doses to finish vaccinating people aged over 80.\n\nSpeaking to BBC's Good Morning Ulster, he said he was \"very confident\" the next doses would come through shortly.\n\n\"I have been overwhelmed by the desire of practices, the determination just to get going and the one thing we need to give them is vaccine - we need to get the supply in as quickly as possible.\n\n\"This is such a good news story that everybody wants the vaccine and everybody wants to give it.\"\n\nThe plan is for the vaccine to be given to the general population in summer 2021.\n\nGP clinics should have received their first delivery of the vaccine by Tuesday.\n\nResponding to reports in The Daily Telegraph that GPs administering the vaccine in England had been asked to \"slow down\" to let other regions \"catch-up\", Dr Stout said Northern Ireland had taken a different approach to how it rolled out vaccines to GPs.\n\nHe said vaccines were shared among all practices in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"We just don't have the full amount of vaccine in practice to give. We could have given all of the vaccine that a certain number of practices needed to start with but there were issues with inequality and discrimination ... so that's why an amount has gone to every single practice, so at least they have some.\"", "Customs operators have pleaded with the government to prioritise vaccinations for staff they insist are key front-line workers in the effort to keep vital supplies flowing into the UK.\n\nOne operator told the BBC his staff were working flat out - often up to 16 hours a day - to help traders comply with the new post-Brexit customs requirements.\n\n\"A Covid outbreak would be disastrous. Customs clearance staff should be identified as key workers and fast-tracked for vaccination.\"\n\nAnother said he had written to Transport Secretary Grant Shapps and his local MP for Ashford, Damian Green saying any coronavirus-related staff shortages could force them to close.\n\n\"We have 14 staff. Two have already had to self-isolate, if we lose any more we would have to consider closing\".\n\nRod McKenzie of the Road Haulage Association supports the argument to accelerate vaccinations of port and customs staff.\n\n\"Customs agents are absolutely swamped, they are understaffed by tens of thousands and although volumes have been light thanks to pre-Christmas and pre-Brexit stockpiling, we are approaching a critical point:\"\n\nSteve Cock of logistics firm KGH said that volume would begin to build this week and described Friday as \"a moment of truth\" as volumes would be close to normal, imposing the first serious test of the system's capacity.\n\nThe government told the BBC that vaccination priorities were based on clinical vulnerability determined by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation.\n\nAlthough the government said it would be looking at key workers beyond the current priorities - like teachers - that would not come till after phase 1 of the current programme ends. That is not expected till late March at the earliest.\n\nAlthough the ports themselves have been running reasonably smoothly, that is because many traders aren't getting as far as the ports as their documentation is not complete.\n\nThe Dover-Calais crossing last week saw only 40% of its usual traffic for this time of year. Many foreign hauliers have been avoiding the UK for fear of getting stuck on the wrong side of the channel or raising their prices by as much as six times to compensate for the additional risks of congestion.\n\nCracks in the system have already started to show with large European delivery firm DPD cancelling road deliveries from the UK to the EU while Ocado, M&S, and Fortnum and Mason have cited problems delivering to customers in the EU and Northern Ireland.\n\nFish and seafood exports have been particularly hard hit.\n\nMany small traders who usually club together to share the cost of space on large lorries headed to their primary markets in the EU have hit serious roadblocks.\n\nProducts of animal origin now need Export Health Certificates signed off by veterinary professionals.\n\nThe burden of getting multiple certificates for single lorries has brought exports to the EU to a virtual standstill for some traders.\n\nThe focus in the UK is understandably primarily on food supplies into the UK and although there are some limited shortages being reported in fruit and vegetable supplies, shelves in the UK are showing very few gaps.\n\nThe problems are more acute in Northern Ireland, which for the purposes of trade is still part of the EU customs area. For that reason, what is happening to food exports from GB to Northern Ireland is perhaps a useful proxy for what is happening to UK food exports to the EU.\n\nThe last thing the UK-EU trade machinery can afford right now is for critical staff - caught in the crossfire of pandemic and Brexit - to be laid low.", "The men were arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance at hospitals in Birmingham and Worcestershire\n\nFour men have been arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance at hospitals in the West Midlands.\n\nThe men, aged between 31 and 37, were held in relation to incidents in Birmingham and Worcestershire between 31 December and 9 January.\n\nEarlier this month, police said they were investigating after people posted videos of supposedly empty hospital corridors on social media.\n\nThe videos claiming Covid-19 was a hoax sparked an outcry from medical workers.\n\nWest Mercia Police launched a joint investigation with West Midlands Police, after incidents were reported at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital and the Alexandra in Redditch.\n\nHospitals in Worcester and Kidderminster also featured, before the footage was deleted.\n\nThe West Mercia force confirmed it had arrested two men from Bromsgrove aged 31 and 34 as well as a 37 year-old man from Kidderminster and a fourth man, aged 34, from Droitwich.\n\nThey were also detained relating to incidents in a park in Bromsgrove as well as the town centre.\n\nAll four men have since been bailed with conditions not to enter any hospital in England unless they have a medical reason to do so.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Birmingham has one of the largest intensive care capacities in the whole country\n\nTwo hundred doctors will be redeployed to one of England's largest intensive care units amid fears it could be \"overwhelmed\".\n\nA leaked memo warned hospitals in Birmingham were \"in a position of extremis\" as Covid-19 cases rise.\n\nElective surgeries at the city's main Queen Elizabeth Hospital will stop as staff move to critical care duties.\n\nA spokesperson said the approach ensured \"the greatest good for the greatest numbers of people\".\n\nThe trust's decision to redeploy doctors was revealed in a leaked email to the Health Service Journal, which has been verified by the BBC.\n\nSent by consultant Peter Hewins, it said hospitals in Birmingham risked being \"overwhelmed\" amid a \"period of absolute emergency\".\n\nThe University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) said there were 873 patients with Covid-19 across its sites, with 125 in intensive care.\n\nThis was significantly more than in April 2020, it said, as it announced plans to double its intensive care capacity to more than 250 beds.\n\nTime-critical surgery, including cancer operations, will continue, the trust said, but elective procedures at the Queen Elizabeth will be paused, and reduced elsewhere.\n\nThere will also be a \"further reduction of outpatient activity\", a spokesperson said, adding: \"Every member of staff will be supported by the Trust in delivering the best care wherever they are working.\"\n\nThere are currently 873 Covid-19 patients being treated at the trust\n\nNeighbouring University Coventry and Warwickshire Hospitals Trust confirmed it had started taking Covid patients from Birmingham.\n\nUniversity Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in England.\n\nIt runs several hospitals, including Birmingham Heartlands, the Queen Elizabeth, Solihull Hospital and Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield. It also runs Birmingham Chest Clinic.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The minimum cost of carrier bags in Scotland is set to double to 10p from 1 April.\n\nThe Scottish government has said it is important to increase the charge periodically to encourage the use of reusable options instead.\n\nEnvironment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham said the move was to deter the use of single-use plastic bags.\n\nThe 5p charge was introduced in 2014, with plastic bag usage dropping by 80% by the following year.\n\nMs Cunningham said: \"Thanks to the people of Scotland, the introduction of the charge has been successful in reducing the amount of single-use carrier bags in circulation.\n\n\"While the 5p bag charge was suitable when it was first introduced, it is important that pricing is updated to ensure that the charge continues to be a factor in making people think twice about using a single-use carrier bag.\"\n\nSome retailers have pledged to donate their carrier bag charges to good causes, with £2.5m raised in 2019.\n\nPrior to the charge being introduced in 2014, 800 million single use carrier bags were issued annually in Scotland.\n\nBy 2015 this fell by 80% with the Marine Conservation Society noting in 2016 that the number of plastic carrier bags being found on Scotland's beaches dropped by 40% two years in a row with a further drop of 42% recorded between 2018 and 2019.\n\nKeep Scotland Beautiful chief executive Barry Fisher said: \"Since 2014 the single use carrier bag charge has significantly helped reduce the number of bags being given out by retailers - saving thousands of tonnes of single use plastic realising a significant net carbon saving and reducing the chances of these items becoming littered.\n\n\"However, there is still an opportunity to challenge individual behaviours and improve consumer awareness which the doubling of the charge will help do.\n\nDue to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Scottish government is looking into creating an exemption on the bag charge for certain deliveries and collections, as was the case last year at the onset of the pubic health crisis.", "Naomi Campbell and Kenyan Tourism Minister Najib Balala sealed the deal over the weekend\n\nThe appointment of British supermodel Naomi Campbell as Kenya's tourism ambassador has caused a Twitter storm in the East African nation.\n\nMany queried why it had not been given to a prominent Kenyan like Hollywood actress Lupita Nyong'o.\n\nOthers leapt to her defence, saying the debate already justified her role.\n\nKenya's tourism sector has been badly hit by coronavirus, with visitor numbers down by 72% between January and October last year.\n\n\"The sector hence lost over 110bn Kenyan shillings [$1bn, £738m] of direct international tourists' revenue due to the Covid-19 pandemic,\" Kenya's Tourism Research Institute reported last month.\n\nThe country is famous for its wildlife safaris and beach resorts.\n\nKenyan Tourism Minister Najib Balala said the deal with Ms Campbell was done over the weekend after he met the model, who is currently on holiday in Kenya.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Ministry of Tourism & Wildlife-Kenya\n\nThe 50-year-old style icon and philanthropist has been posting images of her stay on Instagram, where she has 10 million followers.\n\n\"We welcome the exciting news that Naomi Campbell will advocate for tourism and travel internationally for the Magical Kenya brand,\" Mr Balala said, without giving further deals of the contract.\n\nBut the statement, posted on Twitter on Tuesday, prompted instant outrage from some, and the supermodel's name has since been trending in the country.\n\nOne tweeter cited other Kenyan celebrities better suited to the ambassadorial role, including models Ajuma Nasenyana and Debra Sanaipei, as well as Nyong'o.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Syombua A. 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This mentality is what causes nepotism and tribalism in Kenyan institutions, it should be about the most suitable candidate not 'one of our own' thing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Campbell's defenders praised her for visiting Kenya several times and said it was not only the model's social media following that made her the perfect appointment.\n\nHer circle of friends were equally important as she would attract wealthy tourists willing to spend money.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Mlolwa🐬 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe tourism industry usually contributes about 8.8% to Kenya's annual Gross domestic product (GDP), according to Kenya's East African newspaper.\n• None The supermodel and the warlord", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Large parts of Scotland woke up to a blanket of snow on Thursday, including in Rutherglen where conditions became challenging for drivers\n\nMotorists continue to face difficult conditions after heavy snow across parts of Scotland caused road closures.\n\nA Met Office yellow warning for ice will be in place overnight and for all of Friday for mainland Scotland.\n\nThe A9 at Dunblane was closed due to snow but has now reopened, while driving conditions on the M90 and M8 were reported as difficult.\n\nThere have also been problems in the Scottish Borders where up to a foot of snow fell overnight.\n\nTraffic Scotland has reported difficult driving conditions on the M77 at Fenwick, M80 around Cumbernauld and the A9 at Greenloaning.\n\nA woman walks through the snow in Braco near Dunblane\n\nThe impact of the overnight freeze on a hedgerow near Strathaven, South Lanarkshire\n\nIn the Borders several lorries got stuck on the A7 between Selkirk and Hawick, while difficult driving conditions were also reported on the A68 at the Carter Bar and Soutra.\n\nThere were also delays on the A83 Old Military Road diversion and the A82 at Tyndrum.\n\nMeanwhile, police have urged drivers to properly clear their car windscreens before setting off in the wintry conditions.\n\nOfficers in Dumfries and Galloway shared a picture of a driver they stopped and charged for failing to do this.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPeople should only be leaving home to make essential journeys in parts of Scotland under level four Covid measures, under current Scottish government lockdown regulations.\n\nCh Supt Louise Blakelock, of Police Scotland, said: \"Government guidance on only travelling if your journey is essential remains in place and so with an amber warning for snow, please consider if your journey really is essential and whether you can delay it until the weather improves.\n\n\"If your journey really is essential, plan ahead and make sure you and your vehicle are suitably prepared by having sufficient fuel and supplies such as warm clothing, food, water and charge in your mobile phone in the event you require assistance.\"\n\nA motorist brushes snow off a car in Braco near Dunblane\n\nThe village of Bowden near Melrose woke up to snow\n\nA snowy scene at Fountainhall in the Scottish Borders\n\nPolice in Shetland have also warned of ice badly affecting roads on the islands.\n\nScotRail said its services could be affected, particularly on the Highland mainline.\n\nScottish Borders Council said the effects of the adverse weather could cause disruption into Friday morning.\n\nEmergency planning officer Jim Fraser said: \"With widespread snow and some freezing rain possible over the course of Wednesday and Thursday, there is the strong potential for disruption across our road network and communities.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome of the deepest snowfalls in recent weeks have been in the Highlands, including the Cairngorms.\n\nEarlier this month, the UK had its coldest night of the winter so far after a temperature of -12.3C was recorded in the north west Highlands.\n\nThe temperature was recorded at Loch Glascarnoch, near Garve, south of Ullapool in Wester Ross.\n\nThe record lowest temperature in the UK is -27.2C, which was recorded in Braemar, Aberdeenshire, in 1895 and 1982 and at Altnaharra in the Highlands in 1995.", "Pre-departure Covid-19 testing will now be required for everyone travelling to England from 04:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nThe rules had been due to come into force on Friday, but the government said people needed time \"to prepare\".\n\nThose arriving by plane, train or boat, including UK nationals, will have to take a test up to 72 hours before leaving the country they are in.\n\nAnyone arriving from places not on the UK's travel corridor list must still self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe Scottish government is planning to impose the same rules and has had to defer them coming into effect as a result of changes in England.\n\n\"This meant Scotland was also obliged to delay implementation as we need sight of their final regulations in order to properly draft and approve the relevant Scottish regulations,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nIt is expected the requirement will come into force in Scotland at 04:00 GMT on Monday as well. Wales and Northern Ireland are expected to announce plans for pre-arrival testing in the coming days.\n\nAnnouncing the deferral on Twitter, Transport Secretary Mr Shapps said: \"To give international arrivals time to prepare, passengers will be required to provide proof of a negative Covid-19 test before departure to England from Monday 18 January at 4am.\"\n\nHe also reminded travellers to fill out the Passenger Locator Form - used in track and trace - and added that those without proof of a negative test faced a fine of £500.\n\nProblems with testing availability and capacity mean some countries will initially be exempt.\n\nFor instance, the requirement will not apply to travellers from St Lucia, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda until 04:00 GMT on 21 January.\n\nTravellers from Falkland Islands, Ascension Islands and St Helena are exempted permanently.\n\nHauliers are exempt to allow the free flow of freight, as are air, international rail and maritime crew.\n\nThe government has said all forms of PCR test will be accepted, as will other forms of test with \"97% specificity, 80% sensitivity\".\n\nThe move comes as a further 1,564 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nWednesday's figure brings the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said there had now been more deaths in the second wave than the first.\n\nMeanwhile on Wednesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"concerned\" about a new coronavirus variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil.\n\nHe acknowledged it was not yet clear how effective existing vaccines would be against the latest new variant.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK was taking steps to make sure it was not brought into the country.\n\nA government Covid committee is meeting on Thursday to discuss the possibility of stopping flights from Brazil.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from Brazil? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Sir David will appear in \"very high-resolution holographic video\"\n\nSir David Attenborough is to front an augmented reality app letting users see exotic plants and animals in their own surroundings, as part of a government drive to prove the uses of 5G.\n\nThe Green Planet AR app has been given £2.3m government funding as one of nine 5G test projects given a total of £28m.\n\nIt will be released alongside The Green Planet, Sir David's forthcoming BBC series that will show plants in detail.\n\nThe five-part documentary series is expected to be broadcast in 2022.\n\nAugmented reality superimposes virtual objects on to the world around us, meaning the app's users will be able to use their smartphones to see Sir David and \"meticulously detailed graphics of exotic plants and animals\" as if they were in front of them.\n\nThe app will help prove \"how new technology can reconnect us with the natural world whilst demonstrating the power of 5G to a huge new audience\", according to Minister for Digital Infrastructure Matt Warman.\n\nThe app will be available in \"set locations\" around the UK. Developer Factory 42 said it does not yet know how many locations, but they could include parks, visitor attractions like Kew Gardens and urban settings. Users will need a 5G-enabled device.\n\nThe other projects sharing the £28m funding include one to provide live, multi-angle HD video streams and replays on phones at sporting events; one to allow people to experience exhibits at The Eden Project in Cornwall from their own homes; and one to control the 113 cranes at the Port of Felixstowe in Suffolk.\n\nThey follow nine other 5G trial projects that were awarded a total of £35m in February 2020.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Pupils are currently learning remotely from home\n\nA-level, AS and GCSE students in England could be asked to sit mini external exams to help teachers with their assessments after formal exams were cancelled last week.\n\nIn a letter to the exams regulator, Ofqual, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said this would help teachers to decide \"deserved grades\".\n\nHe promised not to use an algorithm which led to controversy last summer.\n\nHead teachers said the \"devil was in the detail\" for these plans.\n\nThe letter was published on Wednesday morning, as Mr Williamson appeared before the education select committee to answer questions on the impact of Covid-19 on education.\n\nIn the letter to Ofqual he said: \"A breadth of evidence should inform teachers' judgments, and the provision of training and guidance will support teachers to reach their assessment of a student's deserved grade.\n\n\"In addition, I would like to explore the possibility of providing externally set tasks or papers, in order that teachers can draw on this resource to support their assessments of students.\"\n\nMr Williamson's pledge not to use an algorithm to determine grades comes after thousands of A-level students had their results downgraded from school estimates last summer - before Ofqual announced a U-turn allowing them to use teachers' predictions.\n\n\"We have agreed that we will not use an algorithm to set or automatically standardise anyone's grade,\" the letter says.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gavin Williamson: \"The top priority is for all those that work in schools\"\n\n\"Schools and colleges should undertake quality assurance of their teachers' assessments and provide reassurance to the exam boards. We should provide training and guidance to support that, and there should also be external checks in place to support fairness and consistency between different institutions and to avoid schools and colleges proposing anomalous grades.\"\n\nBut he added: \"Changes should only be made if those grades cannot be justified, rather than as a result of marginal differences of opinion.\n\n\"Any changes should be based on human decisions, not by an automatic process or algorithm.\"\n\nA consultation on plans for this year is being launched later this week.\n\nGeoff Barton, head of the Association of School and College Leaders, said the letter set out \"broad and sensible parameters\" for assessing GCSEs and A-levels after exams were cancelled.\n\n\"But, as ever, the devil will be in the detail of how this is turned into reality,\" Mr Barton said.\n\nHe welcomed confirmation that no algorithm would be applied this year \"following last summer's grading debacle.\"\n\nBut he questioned how any system of externally set assessment would work and how it could ensures fairness for students whose education had been heavily disrupted.\n\n\"It is vital that the final plans not only provide fairness and consistency but that they are also workable for schools, colleges and teaching staff who will have to put them into practice,\" he added.\n\nNational Education Union joint general secretary Dr Mary Bousted said: \"Had the government listened to the NEU and put in place a contingency plan sooner we would be in a better position now to make sure grades could be awarded reliably and without creating severe workload issues for education staff and students.\n\nShe said the union would continue to work with the Dfe and Ofqual, but they needed to see the full details of the plans as soon as possible to ensure grades are fair and the process is manageable for staff.\n\nTaking questions from MPs on the education select committee, Mr Williamson said he wanted to see schools re-opening at the earliest opportunity and that he would \"never apologise for being the biggest champion for keeping schools open\".\n\nHe said attendance rates of vulnerable and key worker pupils in schools since the start of term were higher than in the first lockdown.", "The prime minister has said lockdown measures are \"starting to show signs of some effect\", but he has refused to rule out extra restrictions in England.\n\nAt PMQs, Boris Johnson said measures were kept under \"constant review\" after Labour's Sir Keir Starmer said it was obvious more restrictions were needed.\n\nMr Johnson added that vaccine centres would move to 24-7 \"as soon as we can\".\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nLater, Mr Johnson told the Commons Liaison Committee there was a \"very substantial\" risk of intensive care capacity in hospitals being \"overtopped\", and appealed to people to follow lockdown rules.\n\nHe said the situation was \"very, very tough\" in the NHS and the strain on staff was \"colossal\".\n\nMeanwhile, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced new restrictions in Scotland from Saturday, including limiting click and collect services to essential items only and restricting takeaways.\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions, Sir Keir said stronger restrictions were needed in England and accused Mr Johnson of being \"slow to act\".\n\nHe asked the prime minister why restrictions were weaker in this lockdown compared with March.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says the government acted \"within 24 hours\" of advice on the new Covid-19 variant\n\n\"We keep things under constant review,\" Mr Johnson replied. \"If there is any need to toughen up restrictions - which I don't rule out - we will of course come to this House.\n\n\"The lockdown measures we have in place combined with tier four measures that we were using are starting to show signs of some effect and we must take account of that too.\"\n\nHe added it was early days and urged people to abide by the rules.\n\nQuestioned by the liaison committee on Wednesday afternoon, Mr Johnson said it was \"far, far too early\" to say there could be any relaxation of the lockdown in the middle of February, and \"we've got to work very hard to achieve that\".\n\nHe acknowledged that it was a \"tragedy\" that so many children were missing face-to-face teaching at school and said reopening schools was \"the priority\".\n\nTier four - the highest level in England's tier system which bans households mixing indoors - was introduced on 21 December in parts of south-east England, including London.\n\nIt was then widened to include more of southern England on Boxing Day. England has been in a national lockdown since 5 January.\n\nMr Johnson also said the vaccination programme was going \"exceptionally fast\" but \"at the moment the limit is on supply\" of the vaccine.\n\n\"We will be going to 24/7 as soon as we can,\" he told MPs, saying Health Secretary Matt Hancock will set out further details \"in due course\".\n\nMore than 2.4 million people have had a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, while 412,167 people have had a second dose.\n\nScotland's Health Secretary Jeane Freeman said it was \"entirely possible\" to offer round-the-clock vaccinations in Scotland once mass sites were up and running by late February or early March.\n\nThere are very early signs that infections may have peaked - although as always we should be careful about reading too much into a few days' worth of data.\n\nThe past two days have seen newly diagnosed cases hover around the 46,000-mark. Up to the weekend, the average was close to 60,000.\n\nThe drop has largely been driven by falls in new cases in London, the South East and East of England.\n\nThe national picture does mask some regional differences. Cases are rising in the North West, which is causing particular concern.\n\nIt is too early for the vaccination programme to be having any significant impact so a combination of the national lockdown on top of the tier four restrictions that were imposed in some areas before Christmas look like they may be beginning to have an impact.\n\nThere is also some evidence the new variant may not be quite as fast-spreading as first feared - a Public Health England study suggested rather than being 70% more transmissible, it may actually be somewhere between 30% to 50%.\n\nAnd, if it does represent the start of a continuous fall, it is important to remember it will still take some time to translate into fewer hospital cases - people being admitted at the moment are those who would have caught the virus a week or two ago.\n\nBut after six weeks of pretty sustained rises, it is at least an encouraging sign.\n\nEarlier, Health Secretary Matt Hancock questioned whether there would be demand for a round-the-clock vaccination operation, saying: \"Most people want to get vaccinated in the daytime, and also most people who are doing the vaccinations want to give them in the daytime, but there may be circumstances in which that would help.\"\n\nHe said England's lockdown measures were \"always under review\", but he would be \"very reluctant\" to remove the rule of meeting one other person outside for exercise as \"it is a lifeline\" for some people, including those who live alone. Mr Hancock has already ruled out scrapping support bubbles.\n\n\"What I'd rather is that everybody follow that rule and doesn't stretch it or flex it,\" he said.", "Fans of the University of Alabama football team gathered in the streets of Tuscaloosa in Alabama, ignoring social distancing.\n\nThey were celebrating the university's third national championship in the past six years.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nThe first Covid patients have begun receiving a new treatment it's hoped will prevent sufferers becoming seriously ill. The patients are part of a large-scale trial testing the effect of inhaling a protein called interferon beta which the body produces when it gets a viral infection. Developed at Southampton University Hospital and produced by biotech company, Synairgen, early findings suggest the treatment cuts the odds of severe illness by almost 80%. Find out more here.\n\nKaye Flitney is one of those enrolled on the clinical trial\n\nMany hospital staff treating the sickest patients during the first wave of the pandemic have been left struggling to cope, a new study suggests. Researchers at King's College London questioned 709 workers at nine units in England and nearly half reported symptoms of severe anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder or problem drinking. Lead researcher Prof Neil Greenberg said it should be a \"wake-up call\" for managers about the need to provide more mental health support. Some staff are they're also facing abuse online and at protests from Covid sceptics and anti-lockdown activists.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChildren's minister Vicky Ford says caterers must urgently improve the quality of food parcels being provided for low-income families. Catering company Chartwells has apologised after photographs of some parcels were shared online and heavily criticised. The packages - more on them here - are being sent to children who would normally receive free school meals in England. The row could well come up when Education Secretary Gavin Williamson faces MPs' questioning later. Our education correspondent looks closely at Mr Williamson - a man whose political obituary has been written so many times he must sometimes feel like the walking dead.\n\nTwitter user Roadside Mum complained about the parcel she received\n\nNurse Kate Fraser said administering the vaccination to Ms Curry had been \"emotional\"\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, Britain's top police officer, Dame Cressida Dick, says it's \"preposterous\" to suggest some people are not aware of what the lockdown laws now tell them to do. So how much do you know? Try our quiz.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Democrats, including Jamie Raskin (centre), voted to impeach President Donald Trump, as did 10 Republicans\n\nThe US House of Representatives has voted to impeach President Donald Trump for a second time over his alleged role in the 6 January deadly assault on the Capitol.\n\nHis impeachment for \"incitement to insurrection\" was approved by 232 representatives including 10 Republicans.\n\nDemocrats led the effort to charge Mr Trump with encouraging the riots.\n\nBut some Republicans had backed calls for impeachment.\n\nSo, who are these key players, and what do we know about them?\n\nWhen the impeachment charges go to the Senate for trial, the case for the prosecution will be made by a team of lawmakers, led by Mr Raskin, a Democratic representative from Maryland since 2017 and a former professor of constitutional law.\n\nThe impeachment of Mr Trump represents the continuation of an extremely challenging start to 2021 for Mr Raskin, 58.\n\nJamie Raskin (left) helped to draft the article of impeachment against President Trump\n\nThe congressman's 25-year-old son, Tommy Bloom Raskin, took his own life on New Year's Eve and was laid to rest in early January.\n\nA day after the funeral, Mr Raskin found himself hunkering down with colleagues, shielding from a violent mob that rampaged through the Capitol where lawmakers were meeting to certify November's presidential election result.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn the day of the assault, Mr Raskin helped to draw up an article of impeachment against President Trump.\n\nSpeaking to the Washington Post, Mr Raskin said his son, who was studying law at Harvard University, would have considered last week's violence \"the absolute worst form of crime against democracy\".\n\n\"It really is Tommy Raskin, and his love and his values and his passion, that have kept me going,\" Mr Raskin said.\n\nIn total, nine Democrats, including Mr Raskin, have been named as impeachment managers. One is Representative Madeleine Dean, from Pennsylvania, who is one of three women on the team.\n\nMs Dean started her career in law, opening her own three-woman practice in Pennsylvania before teaching English at a university.\n\nHaving been active in state politics for decades, she was elected to the House in 2018, using her seat to champion women's reproductive rights, gun law reform, and healthcare for all, among other issues.\n\nMadeleine Dean has called for a quick trial of President Trump in the Senate\n\nIn an interview with MSNBC, Ms Dean, 68, said she favoured a \"speedy trial\" in the Senate if Mr Trump was impeached.\n\n\"This isn't about a party. This isn't about politics. This is about protection of our constitution, of our rule of law,\" Ms Dean said.\n\nAs the Speaker of the House, Ms Pelosi has been in the spotlight since the riots in the Capitol.\n\nMs Pelosi leads the Democrats in the lower chamber of Congress, so the 80-year-old had a huge influence over the decision to introduce an article of impeachment against Mr Trump.\n\nMs Pelosi had the House proceed with impeachment after former Vice-President Mike Pence did not invoked constitutional powers to force out Mr Trump, who was then president.\n\nMr Pence said at the time he believed such a move was against the country's interests.\n\n\"This president is guilty of inciting insurrection. He has to pay a price for that,\" Ms Pelosi said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The storming of the US Capitol\n\nMr McConnell, a 78-year-old Republican senator for Kentucky, is one to watch in the Senate.\n\nThe upper chamber's former majority leader remains the man at the helm of the upper chamber's Republican caucus.\n\nDubbed the \"Grim Reaper\" by Democrats, Mr McConnell was a thorn in the side of former President Barack Obama, often manoeuvring to frustrate his legislative agenda and judicial appointments.\n\nHe was also the driving force behind Mr Trump's acquittal in his first impeachment trial in 2019.\n\nIn his last few weeks as Senate leader, Mr McConnell also delayed Mr Trump's trial until after the former president left office, saying there was no time for a \"fair or serious trial\" ahead of Mr Biden's inauguration.\n\nMr McConnell has not publicly commented on whether he supports convicting or acquitting Mr Trump, but he has sent some mixed messages.\n\nMitch McConnell had been loyal to President Trump until the Capitol riots\n\nThough he spent the last four years in the president's corner, the minority leader said the rioters were \"provoked by\" Mr Trump and that he plans to hear out both sides in the trial.\n\nBut later on in January, he also joined the majority of Republican senators to vote for a motion to toss out the impeachment case as unconstitutional now that Mr Trump is no longer in the White House.\n\nMr McConnell may no longer have the final say on all things impeachment, but as Democrats need Republican support to convict Mr Trump with the required two-thirds majority, he still has a key role to play in the upcoming proceedings.\n\nWith just over a week to go before the trial, Mr Trump parted ways with his legal team, including attorneys Butch Bowers and Deborah Barbier.\n\nThey were quickly replaced by David Schoen, a trial lawyer, and Bruce Castor, a former district attorney, who will lead the defence efforts for the former president.\n\nIn a statement, both attorneys said they didn't believe the push to impeach Mr Trump is constitutional.\n\nDavid Schoen, left, and Bruce Castor will lead the defence efforts for the former president\n\nMr Castor added: \"The strength of our Constitution is about to be tested like never before in our history.\n\n\"It is strong and resilient. A document written for the ages, and it will triumph over partisanship yet again, and always.\"\n\nMr Schoen has previously represented Roger Stone, former adviser to Mr Trump. Stone received a presidential pardon in December.\n\nThe lawyer also made headlines in the past for meeting with Jeffrey Epstein in his final days to discuss possible representation, and for later saying he did not believe the death of the US financier and sex offender was suicide.\n\nMr Castor, a former Pennsylvania district attorney, is known for declining to prosecute Bill Cosby for sexual assault in 2005. The comedian was eventually convicted on three counts of sexual assault in a 2018 retrial of his case.\n\nMs Cheney, 54, is third-highest-ranking Republican leader in the House. As the daughter of former Republican Vice-President Dick Cheney, she has a high profile in the party.\n\nSo, her support for impeachment is particularly significant.\n\nLiz Cheney has accused President Trump of inciting the attack on Congress\n\nMr Trump had \"summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack\", Ms Cheney said of the Capitol riots.\n\n\"There has never been a greater betrayal by a president of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution,\" the Wyoming representative said.\n\nHowever, in a recent test of support for conviction on impeachment charges that Mr Trump incited his supporters to mount an insurrection at the US Capitol, 45 out of 50 Senate Republicans voted last week to consider stopping the trial before it even starts.\n\nMs Cheney survived a House Republican vote - 145-61 - to oust her from her leadership position after breaking ranks with other GOP lawmakers last month to impeach the former president.\n\nShe is also now facing a primary challenger for her Wyoming congressional seat after voting to impeach Mr Trump.\n\nBlocking Mr Trump from ever running for office again is one rationale that may motivate some Republicans to impeach the president.\n\nThat reasoning could be attractive to Republican senators like Mr Sasse, who is seen as a possible contender for the presidency in 2024.\n\nElected to the Senate in 2014, the 48-year-old has been an ardent critic of Mr Trump.\n\nBen Sasse refused to overturn the results of November's presidential election in Congress\n\nMr Sasse was firmly opposed to a Republican effort - cheered on by Mr Trump - to overturn the certification of President-elect Joe Biden's election victory in Congress.\n\nOn the question of impeachment, Mr Sasse said he would \"definitely consider whatever articles they might move\" in the House.\n\nA two-thirds majority would be needed to convict Mr Trump in the Senate, meaning at least 17 Republicans - including Mr Sasse - would have to vote for it.\n\nIn Mr Trump's first impeachment trial in 2020, it was Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts who presided over the proceedings.\n\nThis time, he declined to participate, handing the job over to the 80-year-old Vermont Democrat, who will take the gavel in this second impeachment trial.\n\nMr Leahy was first elected to the Senate in 1974, and is the longest serving lawmaker in the upper chamber.\n\nHe will be presiding in his role as the Senate's president pro tempore - a constitutional officer, responsible for presiding over the Senate in the absence of the vice-president.\n\nIn a statement, he said \"the president pro tempore takes an additional special oath to do impartial justice according to the Constitution and the laws\" when presiding over an impeachment trial.\n\n\"It is an oath that I take extraordinarily seriously.\"", "Many of the works in Gurlitt's collection were in poor condition when they were discovered in 2012 (file photo)\n\nWhen a trove of 1,500 artworks hoarded by the son of a Nazi-era art dealer was discovered in 2012, an investigation began to find out how many were looted from Jewish owners.\n\nEventually only 14 were conclusively identified as looted, and now Germany has declared the last of those works has been returned to the owner's heirs.\n\nDas Klavierspiel (Playing the Piano) by Carl Spitzweg was owned by music publisher Henri Hinrichsen.\n\nHe was murdered at Auschwitz in 1942.\n\nGerman Culture Minister Monika Grütters said the return of the work sent an \"important signal\", and that while it could not make up for the deep suffering, it could \"make a contribution to historical justice and fulfil our moral responsibility\".\n\nThe 19th-Century work by Spitzweg was confiscated by the Nazis in 1939, the same year that Hinrichsen had bought it.\n\nDas Klavierspiel by Carl Spitzweg was seized by the Nazis in 1939\n\nIt was bought in 1940 by Hildebrand Gurlitt, a Nazi-era dealer who had been given the task by Adolf Hitler of dealing in art seized from Jewish collectors and of buying up so-called \"degenerate art\" removed from museums for a planned Führermuseum in the Austrian city of Linz.\n\nThe money for the Spitzweg work was paid into a blocked account, so Hinrichsen would never have received it.\n\nIn 2015, the piece was identified as looted, and it was handed over to the auctioneers Christie's on Tuesday, according to the wishes of Hinrichsen's heirs.\n\nAlthough his collection of 1,500 works, plundered from museums as well as individuals, was initially confiscated after the war by the Allies, Hildebrand Gurlitt eventually managed to get it back.\n\nGurlitt died in the 1950s and when German authorities approached his widow in 1961 in search of part of his collection, she claimed the works had been destroyed at the end of World War Two by Allied bombing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Stephen Evans was granted exclusive access to look at some of the long-lost masterpieces in 2014\n\nIt was only when tax investigators searched the Munich flat of his son Cornelius Gurlitt in 2012 that they found more than 1,400 of the works. Another 60 pieces were discovered at his Austrian home in Salzburg the following year.\n\nThe son died in 2014 with questions still hanging over the ownership of the collection - as he was protected by a statute of limitations.\n\nA court ruled that the works could be bequeathed to the Museum of Fine Arts in the Swiss capital Bern, as Cornelius Gurlitt had requested.\n\nWhile some of the works were deemed to belong to the family, the German Lost Art Foundation then tried to find out, with the Swiss museum, who were the rightful owners of the rest.\n\nFourteen pieces have now conclusively identified as belonging to Jewish owners and returned.\n\nAmong the many masterpieces in the collection was this work by Edouard Manet", "Isabella Curry urged others to get the jab and said it was just a little \"prick in the arm\"\n\nA woman has celebrated her 100th birthday by getting a covid vaccination at home.\n\nIsabella Curry, known as Ella, from Cramlington, was among some of the most vulnerable people in Northumberland to receive the vaccine.\n\nMs Curry, who lives alone, urged others not to be afraid to get the jab and said it was just a little \"prick in the arm\" and she now felt safe.\n\nHer birthday was also marked by the arrival of a card from the Queen.\n\nShe said: \"This vaccine means I'll be able to go out, meet my friends soon and feel safe.\"\n\nIsabella Curry's nephew Neil Curry thanked the \"army\" of helpers who cared for his aunt\n\nMs Curry's nephew, Neil Curry from Bristol, said he was delighted she had had the vaccination but sad the whole family could not get together for the milestone birthday.\n\n\"We had a family reunion for Ella's 90th - we all got together in Newcastle. We would have all got together again to mark this occasion, but we couldn't,\" he said.\n\nHe also said he wanted to thank the \"army\" of people who looked after his aunt including Noreen and Jim Hutchinson, who did her shopping and cut her grass.\n\nHe also thanked June and Peter Marshall and all the other people who collected her prescriptions and mobile library books.\n\nKate Fraser, the community nurse who administered the vaccination, said: \"It's been an emotional time being able to give Isabella her vaccination.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "People's reaction to a sonic boom heard across the East of England has been caught on camera.\n\nIt happened after a Typhoon aircraft took off from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire to escort a plane to Stansted Airport because it had lost communications at about 13:05 GMT.\n\nPeople in Cambridgeshire, Essex and parts of London posted videos on social media, with one person heard asking if it was thunder.\n\nHeather Eastlake, who was filming herself exercising near Cambridge, described her reaction as being like \"a deer in the highlights\".", "Libby Squire was not seen alive after travelling to Oak Road playing fields with Pawel Relowicz, a court heard\n\nA man accused of raping and murdering a student committed a string of \"sexually motivated\" burglaries in the months before her death, a court has heard.\n\nJurors heard \"trophies\" - underwear and sex toys - stolen from other women were found after his arrest.\n\nProsecutors claim he was \"prowling the streets\" of Hull's student area in search of a victim when he intercepted the \"extremely vulnerable\" Ms Squire.\n\nSheffield Crown Court previously heard the defendant drove Ms Squire - who had earlier been refused entry to a nightclub - to the Oak Road playing fields.\n\nOnce there, jurors were told, he subjected her to an \"act of sexual violence\" before he disposed of her body in the River Hull.\n\nHer remains were found in the Humber Estuary almost seven weeks later.\n\nProsecutor Richard Wright QC said Mr Relowicz would claim Ms Squire had \"instigated consensual sexual intercourse\", and he had left her \"safe and well\" on the fields.\n\nRichard Wright QC continued to outline the case against Pawel Relowicz on Wednesday\n\nHowever, Sam Alford, who lives nearby, reported hearing a woman's \"desperate screams\" coming from the direction of the river, the court heard.\n\nProsecutors allege the screams were Ms Squire's and a man seen \"emerging from the darkness\" and fleeing the area was the defendant.\n\n\"Libby was never seen again\", Mr Wright told jurors.\n\nThe screams, and scratches to the defendant's face were evidence Ms Squire had \"fought him off\", the court heard.\n\nMr Wright said the evidence established \"that she was raped by a man whose entire motivation for coming into contact with her that night was to take her away from safety to a remote area well known to him and there to subject her to his uncontrollable sexual urges\".\n\nThe prosecutor said a pathologist concluded he could not establish how Ms Squire died despite \"an obvious bruise\" to the inside of her right thigh.\n\nMr Wright told jurors a CCTV recording made after the last sighting of Ms Squire showed Mr Relowicz performing a sex act in the middle of a street.\n\nA condom found at the scene days later yielded a DNA profile matching the defendant, the court heard.\n\nIn the year leading up to Ms Squire's disappearance, Mr Relowicz exposed himself to women in public and watched them through windows as they changed or had sex, the court heard.\n\nHe also \"burgled their homes with the purpose of stealing their underwear and sexual toys or other objects,\" Mr Wright said.\n\nUniversity of Hull student Libby Squire was last seen in the early hours of 1 February 2019\n\nFollowing his arrest on 6 February, Mr Wright said, police recovered the pink holdall \"full of sex toys... and some photographs of young women and several pairs of women's knickers and thongs\".\n\nA statement made by Ms Squire's mother, Lisa Squire, was read out in court describing her daughter having battled mental health issues including an eating disorder, self-harming - cutting the top of her arms, legs and chest - and depression.\n\nShe said her eldest child had been afraid of water since she was young, to the point she would not go near a swimming pool when on holiday. She was also scared of the dark, jurors were told.\n\nStatements by Ms Squire's boyfriend Connor James-Pye were also read out, in which he described Libby as being \"a happy drunk\" and that she \"didn't understand moderation\".\n\nHowever, on the night she disappeared, the court heard Ms Squire \"didn't want to go out because she had a lecture the next morning, but she didn't want to let the girls down\".\n\nMr James-Pye last heard from his girlfriend at about 22:30 on 31 January, jurors heard.\n\nThe 21-year-old's body was recovered from the Humber Estuary on 20 March 2019\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The button battery was stuck in Sofia-Grace's throat for four months\n\nAn 11-month-old girl who was rejecting solid food had a button battery lodged in her throat for four months.\n\nDoctors thought Sofia-Grace Hill had tonsillitis or a viral infection until an X-ray revealed the battery the size of a 10p in her oesophagus.\n\nShe underwent a two-hour operation to remove it and is now on a liquid only diet.\n\nA surgeon said her survival may be due to the battery being old and without charge.\n\nDad Calham, from Swindon, first noticed something was wrong in January 2020 and had countless paramedic call-outs and visits to the GP and local hospital.\n\nShe had a two-hour operation to remove the battery\n\nHe was convinced there was something else going on as Sofia-Grace would only eat pureed food.\n\nAfter another hospital trip in May, she was given an X-ray which showed the battery lodged in her oesophagus was causing serious damage as it had corroded.\n\nMr Hill said: \"I was gutted when I saw it and angry at myself. I blamed myself, but now I realise there was nothing we could have done to know.\"\n\nThe button battery is the size of a 10p\n\nSofia-Grace had a feeding tube fitted to help her with food and to stop her throat from closing.\n\nEvery two weeks she has a general anaesthetic to stretch her oesophagus but faces the prospect of further surgery.\n\nMr Hill said: \"The damage has left a pocket in her oesophagus which needs to close but Sofia is improving week by week with regular dilations which is improving her oesophagus.\n\n\"But I know the chance of survival in the first weeks after this happens is very low so we are moving in the right direction.\"\n\nSofia-Grace is improving week by week, her dad said\n\nMr Hill is unsure how Sofia-Grace, now almost two-years-old, got hold of the button battery and warned parents about the dangers.\n\nHe said: \"Just get rid of them or lock them away and don't give your child car keys to play with. Always trust your instincts as a parent.\"\n\nJanet McNally, consultant paediatric surgeon at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, who is treating Sofia-Grace, said her survival may be because the battery was old and had lost its charge.\n\nShe said that without someone seeing a child swallow a battery or obvious symptoms it was not unusual for it to be missed.\n\n\"Clinicians and the government have been warning of the dangers of button batteries for a long time. But not all parents are aware of how dangerous they can be.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Brazil's variant: Two 'spike' changes flagged up\n\nAs MPs have been mentioning today - a coronavirus variant has been found circulating in the Amazonas state of Brazil, and was picked up in Japan in travellers from the region. It’s different from the UK and South African variants, but it contains common mutations - two changes to the virus’ \"spike\" in particular which have been flagged as potentially making the virus more infectious. This is not going to be the last mutation we hear about. At the moment changes are mainly being picked up in areas that do lots of genetic tracking of the virus - it’s almost certain there are other mutations already circulating unseen in other parts of the world. And the virus will continue to mutate - it’s just a question of how, how much and how fast. For now there’s no evidence the virus is becoming more dangerous - but if more people catch it then, left unchecked, more will potentially become ill or die. But the vaccines, which target several different areas of the virus’ spike, should still work - though that’s something that scientists the world over will be monitoring very closely.", "The three main Covid-19 vaccines are from Pfizer-BioNTech, the University of Oxford and Astra-Zeneca and Moderna.\n\nThe Pfizer, Oxford and Moderna vaccines each require two doses and you are not fully vaccinated until you have had both shots.\n\nBut there are many differences between them.\n\nThe BBC's Laura Foster looks at how much immunity they give, how they prevent infection and how they compare.", "Parents say teachers at special schools often provide medical care and should be treated like other front-line workers\n\nParents of children with special educational needs and disabilities are calling for teachers in special schools to be vaccinated against Covid-19.\n\nMany parents have been told their children cannot attend school because of safety concerns about the virus.\n\nNow they want staff in special schools to be prioritised for the vaccine and considered front-line workers.\n\nThe government said special schools should encourage pupils to attend.\n\nLaura cares for son Oscar alone and says their respite support collapsed during the pandemic\n\nStaff in special schools are often required to provide personal and medical care for pupils, such as clearing tracheotomies, on top of regular teaching responsibilities.\n\nThe schools also offer precious respite to many families of disabled children who require a lot of additional care.\n\nLaura Godfrey, 33, from Norwich, is mum to nine-year-old Oscar, who usually attends a school for children with complex needs. His return was delayed at the start of term, despite government advice for these schools to remain open.\n\n\"His school provision is essential to us as a family. Oscar's mental health suffered a lot in the first lockdown, as did mine. It was a very dark time.\"\n\nHe is currently attending school, but Laura worries it could be forced to close in the event of an outbreak.\n\nShe is calling for staff at special schools to be given PPE and access to the vaccine, to keep schools open and protect vulnerable pupils.\n\n\"They should be recognised and treated as front-line staff and afforded the same protections.\"\n\nLaura's calls have been echoed by Mark Powell, CEO of the Dorset-based Diverse Abilities charity which runs a special school in Poole.\n\nStaff at Langside School in Poole were provided with PPE at the start of the pandemic\n\nThe school bought its own PPE in order to remain open during the pandemic but said it was \"very difficult and extremely costly\".\n\nMr Powell described PPE as a \"wonderful barrier to prevent the spread of the virus\" but said it had also been \"a devastating barrier to the development and well-being of our pupils\".\n\n\"The fact we have nurses, physiotherapists, and occupational therapists on site to form part of our children's school provision means that our school can be classified as a health setting, which are at the top of the list for priority vaccinations.\"\n\nThe Department for Education said the impact of being out of education \"can be greatest on vulnerable children and those with education, health and care plans\".\n\nIt said special schools should \"continue to welcome and encourage pupils to go into school full-time\" where possible and \"ensure pupils with Send can successfully access remote education\" if they are unable to attend.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nIvan Cavaleiro scored a late header to earn Premier League strugglers Fulham a hard-fought draw against Tottenham in their hastily rearranged London derby.\n\nThe Portuguese forward's finish cancelled out Harry Kane's first-half diving header and came just minutes after Son Heung-min hit the post in search of Spurs' second.\n\nCavaleiro sealed a remarkable turnaround for a side whose manager Scott Parker said it was \"scandalous\" to be given just two days' notice to face Jose Mourinho's men after Spurs' game at Aston Villa was postponed because of a Covid-19 outbreak in the Villa camp.\n\nTottenham boss Mourinho had little sympathy for the visitors as the derby itself was a rearranged fixture, having been called off three hours before kick-off when originally scheduled on 30 December.\n\nFor all the complications surrounding the fixture, the intensity from two sides at opposite ends of the table was high at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, with Fulham's fifth successive league draw a valuable point in their efforts to escape the relegation zone.\n• None Relive Tottenham v Fulham as it happened and analysis\n\nFulham made a bright start and Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa's fierce shot to test Hugo Lloris was a warning of what was to come from a side who remain 18th despite the draw.\n\nThe excellent Alphonse Areola twice denied Son in the first 45 minutes, first blocking a toe-poked effort before palming a header away.\n\nAreola could do nothing, however, to deny Kane the opener in the 25th minute, with the striker beating the Frenchman with a thumping diving header from an excellently-placed Sergio Reguilon cross.\n\nKane was off target with another header and Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Kenny Tete threatened to respond for the visitors, who had the woodwork to thank for denying Son in the second half after the South Korean scuffed a shot past Areola.\n\nSubstitute Ademola Lookman was instrumental following his introduction, creating the equaliser for Cavaleiro seven minutes after coming off the bench.\n\nThe powerful finish extended Fulham's unbeaten run to five league matches, which is their longest such sequence in the top flight in three Premier League campaigns since 2012-13.\n\nThis latest draw highlights just how resolute Parker's men have become after a slow start to the campaign, in which they collected just one point from their first six matches.\n\nSpurs punished for reliance on Kane and Son\n\nWhile the Cottagers may be in the relegation places and had lost a record 13 successive top-flight matches to London rivals, they presented a significantly sterner test of Mourinho's men than non-league side Marine - a team made up of NHS workers, teachers and a refuse collector - which Spurs cruised past in the third round of the FA Cup on Sunday.\n\nThe prolific pair of Kane and Son, a duo that has now scored 23 of Tottenham's 30 league goals this term, were among 10 to return to Spurs' starting line-up.\n\nSon was an unused substitute on their trip to Crosby but Kane, along with Lloris, Eric Dier, Serge Aurier and Harry Winks came back from being rested.\n\nWhile Kane was clinical with the nodded finish, he reacted in frustration as he flicked another header off target.\n\nThat miss, as well as the wastefulness of Reguilon - who sent an early effort over - and Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg's tame strike, ensured Fulham were still in it at half-time.\n\nMoussa Sissoko also dithered in the box when an early second-half chance presented itself, allowing Tosin Adarabioyo to superbly block.\n\nSon's effort off the post, and their reliance on him and Kane for goals, ultimately proved costly as Cavaleiro ended the hosts' run of three clean sheets in January.\n\nAnd while Reguilon did have the ball in the back of the net again for Tottenham in the final minute, it was immediately disallowed for offside as Spurs missed the chance to move up to third in the table.\n\n'Some players had one day's training' - what the managers said\n\nTottenham manager Jose Mourinho, speaking to BBC Sport: \"In the first half Alphonse Areola made some impossible saves, a couple of others in the second, too.\n\n\"We have to kill a game and we didn't - but you have to keep a clean sheet, not make mistakes, so it was a very avoidable goal. The markers are there, there wasn't even an advantage in terms of numbers.\n\n\"Fulham were intelligent enough to understand the way they play, they change, they become more defensive and they are getting results. I thought they were a bit lucky but they were good.\n\n\"We have bad results and we should - and we could have - avoided these results.\"\n\nFulham boss Scott Parker, speaking to BBC Sport: \"I'm very proud of this team for what we've been through. There's a lot of talk around - everyone assumes about what happened. I know what we've been through the last two weeks.\n\n\"We had players out there today who had one day's training. What pleased me most was a desire and a passion and a real quality at times tonight.\n\n\"There's a real determination and hard work from this group of players. They've never shied away from anything.\"\n\nOn Monday's announcement of the game with Tottenham: \"We were told, in the end, at 9:30. It was put to me on Saturday, if there was a possibility, but I just batted it off thinking 'no chance'.\n\n\"This game was supposed to be scheduled 16 days ago - for 10 days some of these boys were locked up in their houses. I was surprised but it wasn't in terms of preparing for this game, we've prepared in two days for a game before, it was more just getting told of the consequences that you face.\"\n\nBest of the stats\n• None Tottenham and Fulham played out their first draw in the Premier League since December 2009, with Spurs winning 10 of the last 11 encounters (L1).\n• None Tottenham are unbeaten in their last eight London derbies in the Premier League (W3 D5), they've never gone longer without defeat against sides from the capital in the competition.\n• None Fulham have drawn five consecutive Premier League games, their longest such run since January 2007 (six games).\n• None Fulham have gained five points in their last four Premier League away games (W1 D2 L1), more than they collected in their previous 13 on the road in the competition (W1 D1 L11).\n• None Only Brighton (12) and Sheffield United (11) have dropped more points from winning positions than Spurs (10) in the Premier League this season.\n• None Tottenham's Harry Kane has become just the third player to score 25 Premier League goals with his head (25), his right foot (94) and his left foot (34) - after Robbie Fowler and Andy Cole.\n• None Ademola Lookman has been directly involved in five goals (two goals, three assists) in the Premier League this season, more than any other Fulham player.\n\nTottenham travel to Bramall Lane on Sunday (14:05 GMT) to face the Premier League's bottom side Sheffield United, who on Tuesday earned their first top-flight win of the season.\n\nFulham face Chelsea in another derby, hosting their west London rivals on Saturday (17:30 GMT).\n• None Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Erik Lamela tries a through ball, but Son Heung-Min is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Antonee Robinson (Fulham) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Aboubakar Kamara. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Can the TV personality make it as a pro footballer?\n• None New drama brings the chilling crimes of Charles Sobhraj to life", "Doctors' leaders have called for urgent improvements in personal protective equipment for health workers.\n\nThe British Medical Association is appealing for a higher grade of face mask to guard against coronavirus infection.\n\nIt says there is 'growing evidence' that the virus is being spread through the air by aerosols.\n\nThese are tiny virus particles that can build up in stuffy rooms and they have been linked to outbreaks of Covid-19.\n\nThis follows an open letter from more than 1,500 health professionals for staff on general wards to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care units.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) has issued guidance on what PPE staff in different settings require. It was last updated in October 2020.\n\nEarly in the pandemic, it was widely believed that to catch the disease you had to either be close to an infected person and hit by droplets from their coughs or sneezes or touch a surface they had contaminated.\n\nBut research during the course of last year highlighted how it is also possible for the virus to be carried in what are called aerosols, drifting and accumulating in the air.\n\nMost infections are thought to have occurred indoors in badly ventilated rooms, and many studies have shown that the 'airborne route' can be an important factor.\n\nAcross the UK, the guidance for hospital staff is to wear surgical masks in most areas.\n\nMore sophisticated masks - a type known as FFP3 that includes an air filter - are only required in intensive care or when certain procedures are carried out that are known to generate aerosols.\n\nIn their letter, the consultants, doctors and nurses say healthcare workers are three to four times more likely to become infected than the general population.\n\nBut they point out that staff in intensive care units, who have the best level of protection, have about half the risk of catching the virus than colleagues on general wards.\n\nThe letter states: \"It is now essential that healthcare workers have their PPE upgraded to protect against airborne transmission\".\n\nBarry McAree, a consultant surgeon in Northern Ireland, is one of many healthcare workers to be ill with Covid.\n\nHe is self-isolating at home right after his testing positive for the second time.\n\nA signatory to the letter, he says his hospital in Antrim followed the guidance about which type of masks should be worn in which areas, but he became infected nonetheless. It is not clear how and when he caught it.\n\n\"There's so much evidence that we are talking about an airborne infection that it has to be said that it is not appropriate just to wear FFP3 in environments when aerosol generating procedures take place.\"\n\nHe believes that with such high levels of the virus in the community and in hospitals, staff should be wearing the higher-grade masks whenever they're close to patients.\n\nSurgical masks can be bought online for about 10p each, while the FFP3 masks are far more expensive about £5.00.\n\nDr Barry Jones, a retired gastroenterologist and leading expert on aerosols, says that's nothing compared to the cost of a patient with Covid,\n\nHe points to data showing that roughly a fifth of people needing hospital treatment for Covid may have acquired the infection in hospital in the first place.\n\n\"We should do everything we can to reduce that possibility - it's the air we share that's killing us.\"\n\nA few hospitals have decided to break with official guidance.\n\nIt's understood that hospitals in Cambridge, Plymouth and Exeter have decided to equip staff with FFP3 masks if they face patients diagnosed with Covid or suspected of having it.\n\nOne consultant, who did not want to be named, said: \"When you realise patients are more infectious at an earlier stage of disease and are presenting at general wards with poorer ventilation than intensive care units and staff are wearing a poorer quality of PPE, you really want those in a position of leadership to listen and to act.\"\n\nRCN General Secretary Dame Donna Kinnair, said: \"Without delay, they must state whether existing PPE guidance is adequate for the new variant.\n\n\"While more research is carried out, we ask for the precautionary principle to be applied and staff to be given a higher level of PPE if working with suspected or confirmed cases.\"\n\nPublic Health England said this was a matter for NHS England to comment on.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"The safety of NHS and social care staff has always been our top priority and we continue to work tirelessly to deliver PPE that protects those on the frontline.\n\n\"UK guidance on the safest levels of PPE is written by experts and agreed by all four chief medical officers. Our guidance is kept under constant review based on the latest evidence and data.\n\n\"Emerging evidence and data, including on variant strains, will be continually monitored and reviewed, and the guidance updated accordingly if needed.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel: \"Our selfless police officers... will enforce the regulations and I will back them to do so\"\n\nPeople have been urged to \"play your part\" and follow Covid rules by Home Secretary Priti Patel, who says she will back police to enforce laws.\n\nAt a No 10 briefing, Ms Patel said a minority were \"putting the health of the nation at risk\" by flouting rules.\n\nPolice are \"moving more quickly to issuing fines\", she added, with nearly 45,000 fixed penalty notices issued across the UK.\n\nAnother 1,243 people have died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid.\n\nAnd there have been a further 45,533 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK.\n\nMeanwhile, another 145,076 people have received a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, and 20,768 a second dose, bringing the totals respectively to 2,431,648 and 412,167.\n\nAt the briefing, Ms Patel said: \"My message today to anyone refusing to do the right thing is simple: if you do not play your part, our selfless police officers - who are out there risking their own lives every day to keep us safe - they will enforce the regulations.\n\n\"And I will back them to do so, to protect our NHS and to save lives.\"\n\nIt comes after the UK's most senior police officer said lockdown rule-breakers were more likely to be fined as Covid laws would be enforced \"more quickly\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick said her officers had been forced to break up parties, despite hospitals in London struggling to cope with rising patient numbers.\n\nChairman of the National Police Chiefs' Council Martin Hewitt, who also spoke at the Downing Street briefing, said people should be asking themselves whether their reason for leaving home was \"truly essential\".\n\nHe stressed that police officers had been \"putting themselves at risk in order to keep people safe\", and said it had been \"disappointing\" to see some of the behaviour by rule-breakers.\n\nHe said examples of recent breaches included:\n\nMr Hewitt said he made \"no apology\" for police issuing fines, and warned people breaking rules - such as by organising parties or not wearing face coverings on public transport - to \"expect\" a fine.\n\nAsked if there needed to be more clarity on the guidance around exercise and staying local, Mr Hewitt said it would be wrong to put a \"particular distance\" on how far people could exercise from their home - as it would be too difficult for police to enforce.\n\nHe said it was right there was an exception to allow people to exercise, but insisted it was the public's responsibility to make sure they were doing so safely.\n\nThere is a big focus on adherence to lockdown rules. But what has almost gone unnoticed is the fact that cases may have actually started falling.\n\nThere has now been two consecutive days where newly diagnosed cases have hovered around the 46,000 mark. Up to the weekend, the average was close to 60,000.\n\nThe drop has largely been driven by falls in new cases in London, the south east and east of England.\n\nIn some regions, cases are still going up. The north west of England is causing particular concern.\n\nIt is too early for the vaccination programme to be having any significant impact, so a combination of the national lockdown on top of the tier four restrictions that were imposed in some areas before Christmas look like they may be beginning to have an impact.\n\nCare must be taken in reading too much into a couple of days' data.\n\nHospital cases are still rising - patients being admitted at the moment are the ones who were infected a week or so ago - but it does at least offer a glimmer of hope.\n\nLater in the news conference, NHS medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar said the capital's Nightingale hospital has reopened and was admitting patients to help with the coronavirus spread.\n\nHe told reporters it was taking non-Covid patients to help free up beds in London's hospitals.\n\nDr Diwakar warned that if levels of hospitalisation in the capital continued to rise then more patients would need to be transferred out of London, adding that the NHS across the country was under pressure.\n\nIn Birmingham, 200 doctors are being redeployed to one of the country's largest intensive care units as it nears capacity.\n\nThe University Hospitals Birmingham Trust said there were 873 patients with Covid-19 in their hospitals, with 125 in intensive care.\n\nEarlier, crime and policing minister Kit Malthouse said people have a \"duty\" to make this lockdown \"the last one\".\n\n\"We are urging the small minority of people who aren't taking this seriously to do so now, and [we say] to them that, if they don't, they are much more likely to get fined by the police,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nDame Cressida told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the move towards greater enforcement was \"common sense\" rather than a show of \"dictatorial policing\".\n\nFines start at £200 in England and Northern Ireland, and £60 in Wales and Scotland. Large parties can be shut down by the police, with fines of up to £10,000.\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - all of which are in charge of deciding and enforcing their own coronavirus restrictions.\n• None Could I be fined for exercising?", "YouTube has become the latest social network to suspend President Trump.\n\nThe Google-owned service has prevented his account from uploading new videos or live-streaming material for a minimum of seven days, and has said it may extend the period.\n\nThe firm said the channel had broken its rules over the incitement of violence.\n\nThe president had posted several videos on Tuesday night, some of which remain online.\n\nGoogle has not provided details of what Mr Trump said in the video it banned, however the BBC has discovered it was a clip from a press conference he had given on Tuesday.\n\nThe move came hours after civil rights groups had threatened to organise an ads boycott against YouTube.\n\nPresident Trump's YouTube channel remains live but he cannot post new videos\n\nJim Steyer - who previously helped coordinate similar action against Facebook last year - had called on Google to go further and take the president's channel offline.\n\n\"We hope they will make it permanent. It is disappointing that it took a Trump-incited attack to get here, but appears that the major platforms are finally beginning to step up,\" he tweeted after the suspension.YouTube suspends Donald Trump's channel\n\nGoogle said that Mr Trump could still face his page being closed if he falls foul of its three-strikes policy.\n\n\"After review, and in light of concerns about the ongoing potential for violence, we removed new content uploaded to Donald J Trump's channel for violating our policies,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"It now has its first strike and is temporarily prevented from uploading new content for a minimum of seven days.\n\n\"Given the ongoing concerns about violence, we will also be indefinitely disabling comments on President Trump's channel, as we've done to other channels where there are safety concerns found in the comments section.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Apple chief Tim Cook told CBS News that those involved with the riots on the US Capitol last week should be held accountable.\n\n\"Everyone that had a part in it needs to be held accountable. I think no one is above the law. We're a rule of law country.\"\n\nHe did not mention President Trump by name, but added: \"I don't think we should let it go. This is something we've got to be serious about.\"\n\nMr Trump had already been suspended by Facebook and Instagram following last week's rioting on Capitol Hill, until at least the transition of power to Joe Biden on 20 January.\n\nTwitter has gone further by imposing a permanent ban.\n\nAmazon's Twitch has also disabled his account on its platform. And Snapchat has locked his account.\n\nShopify, Pinterest, TikTok and Reddit have also taken steps to restrict content associated with the president and his calls for the results of the US election to be challenged.\n\nYouTube has often been behind its social media rivals when it comes to moderating user-posted content.\n\nOver the years it has come under fire from campaign groups and big advertisers for not acting swiftly.\n\nNow it has followed Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat in restricting Donald Trump's access to its platform.\n\nAnd as so often, there's a lack of transparency about exactly what prompted the President's suspension.\n\nIt's only saying that a video violated its policies on incitement to violence, but is indicating that the issue was the President's remarks to reporters on Tuesday where he refused to take responsibility for the attack on Congress.\n\nOf course, those comments were broadcast on TV channels, including the BBC, and are still widely available.\n\nIt's not long ago that the social media landscape was being described as the Wild West when it came to moderating content - now the platforms suddenly seem eager to appear more cautious than the mainstream media.\n\nIt's amazing what the threat of regulation can do.", "A further 1,564 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said there have now been more deaths in the second wave than the first.\n\nAnd the prime minister warned there was a \"very substantial\" risk of intensive care capacity being \"overtopped\".\n\nSpeaking to the Commons Liaison Committee, Boris Johnson said the situation was \"very, very tough\" in the NHS and the strain on staff was \"colossal\".\n\nHe appealed to the public to follow lockdown rules, which require people in England to stay at home and only go out for limited reasons, such as for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nA further 47,525 new cases have also been recorded.\n\nPerhaps the most distressing element about the latest Covid deaths is that the numbers are almost certainly going to rise from here.\n\nPeople who are dying now are likely to have been infected three or so weeks ago, around Christmas time.\n\nThat was at a point when infection rates were rising quite steeply, so in the coming days and weeks we should, sadly, expect to see more deaths than this being reported.\n\nToday's figures are affected by the weekend, which sees delays in reporting deaths that tend to translate into higher figures from Tuesday onwards.\n\nCurrently around 1,000 people a day on average are dying once you take this into account.\n\nBut the figures also provide some hope. For the third day in a row the number of newly diagnosed infections are well below 50,000.\n\nThere have been several days where they have exceeded 60,000.\n\nIf that trend continues, and the number of new cases keeps coming down, that will eventually translate into the number of deaths falling.\n\nBut it is going to take some weeks for that to happen.\n\nThese are, as many have been saying, the darkest days of the pandemic so far.\n\nEarlier, during Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said lockdown measures were \"starting to show signs of some effect\".\n\nLabour's Sir Keir Starmer called for tougher restrictions in England, asking why they were weaker in this lockdown compared with March.\n\nDuring the first lockdown, nurseries were closed to most children and it was not permitted to exercise with someone from another household.\n\n\"We keep things under constant review,\" Mr Johnson replied. \"If there is any need to toughen up restrictions - which I don't rule out - we will of course come to this House.\"\n\nHe stressed that it was early days, but said: \"The lockdown measures we have in place combined with tier four measures that we were using are starting to show signs of some effect.\"\n\nLater, asked by the Commons Liaison Committee whether schools could reopen after February half-term, Mr Johnson said: \"It is far, far too early for us to say [early signs of progress mean] we can go into any kind of relaxation in the middle of February, we've got to work very hard to achieve that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson took questions from MPs on the Commons Liaison Committee\n\nThe prime minister also said on Wednesday that Covid vaccinations will be offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week as soon as supply allows.\n\nThe number of people in the UK who have received the first dose of a vaccine has risen to 2,639,309 - up by 207,661 from the day before.\n\nCommenting on the latest daily figures, PHE's Dr Doyle said: \"With each passing day, more and more people are tragically losing their lives to this terrible virus.\"\n\nShe added: \"It is essential that we stay at home, minimise contact with other people and act as if you have the virus.\"\n\nThe vast majority of the deaths reported on Tuesday happened over the past week. However, at least 100 were in 2020, with one death dating back to May.\n\nThe previous highest daily death toll was on Friday, when 1,325 people were reported to have died.\n\nThese government figures count people who died within 28 days of testing positive, but there are other ways of measuring the total number of deaths.\n\nWhen all deaths where coronavirus is mentioned on the death certificate are counted, plus deaths known to have occurred more recently, the number of deaths involving Covid in the UK is more than 100,000.\n\nAnother method is to count excess deaths - all deaths over and above the usual number at the time of year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"We are taking steps to ensure that we do not see the import of this new variant\".\n\nMeanwhile, the prime minister has said he is \"concerned\" about a new coronavirus variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil. He acknowledged it is not yet clear how effective existing vaccines will be against the latest new variant.\n\nThe UK is taking steps to make sure it is not brought into the country, Mr Johnson said.\n\nA government Covid committee is meeting on Thursday to discuss the possibility of stopping flights from Brazil.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nAnd from Monday, anyone arriving into the UK from any country will have to present a negative Covid test. The new rule had been due to come into force this week but the government said it was being put back to give travellers more time to prepare.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHundreds of people have joined a march organised following claims a man died hours after being released by police in Cardiff.\n\nThe family of Mohamud Mohammed Hassan, 24, claim he was assaulted in custody.\n\nMore than 300 people took part in a march from the city centre to Cardiff Bay police station.\n\nSouth Wales Police said it found no evidence of excessive force. The police watchdog said initial tests showed Mr Hassan was not killed by any injuries.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said toxicology tests were now being carried out and it was awaiting the full post-mortem results.\n\nEarlier, First Minister Mark Drakeford said the reports of Mr Hassan's death were \"deeply concerning\".\n\nMr Hassan was arrested at his Roath home on Friday on suspicion of breach of the peace but released without charge on Saturday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Hassan's aunt Zainab Hassan told BBC Wales she had seen Mr Hassan within an hour of his release.\n\n\"He was released on Saturday morning with lots of wounds on his body and lots of bruises,\" she said.\n\n\"He didn't have these wounds when he was arrested and when he came out of Cardiff Bay police station, he had them.\"\n\nIn a virtual session of the Welsh Parliament on Monday, Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price said: \"Every effort should be made to seek the truth of what happened.\"\n\nHe said he wanted to know why Mr Hassan was arrested and what happened during his arrest.\n\nMr Hassan's aunt Zainab Hassan said she saw him after his release\n\n\"Why did this young man die?,\" he added.\n\nMr Price said any inquiry should not be prejudged, but asked if the first minister would \"help the family find those answers\".\n\nIn response, Mr Drakeford said reports of the story were \"deeply concerning\".\n\n\"Our thoughts must be with the family of a young man who was... a fit and healthy individual,\" the Cardiff West MS said.\n\nMark Drakeford said he was deeply concerned by the reports\n\nMr Drakeford, who said the death must be \"properly investigated\", said the first step in any inquiry would be to allow the IOPC to carry out their work, which he said he expected \"to be done rigorously and with full and visible independence\".\n\nHe added that if there were things the Welsh Government could do \"I will make sure that we attend properly to those\".\n\nProtesters on Tuesday afternoon chanted \"no justice, no peace\" and called for the police force to release CCTV of Mr Hassan's time in custody.\n\nProtesters on Tuesday afternoon marched from the city centre to Cardiff Bay\n\nIn a statement on Monday, South Wales Police said Mr Hassan was arrested at his home in Newport Road on Friday night and taken to Cardiff Bay police station.\n\nHe was released at 08:30 GMT on Saturday and officers returned to the property at about 22:30 following his death.\n\nIt added: \"As part of the South Wales Police investigation CCTV and body-worn video has already been, and will continue to be, examined.\n\n\"This will assist in establishing and understanding the events that took place.\n\n\"Early findings by the force indicate no misconduct issues and no excessive force.\"\n\nProtesters were heard chanting \"no justice, no peace\"\n\nCatrin Evans, the IOPC's director for Wales, said its investigation would focus on Mr Hassan's arrest, the journey in a police van to custody and his time at Cardiff Bay police station, including whether relevant assessments were made before he was released.\n\nShe said they would be \"urgently examining the extensive relevant CCTV footage and body-worn video\" and would be speaking to the officers involved as well as witnesses who saw his arrest on Friday evening and his movements the next day after leaving custody.\n\nShe added: \"I send my condolences to Mr Hassan's family and friends, and to everyone affected by his sad death.\n\n\"We are aware of concerns being expressed and questions being asked about use of force by police officers. We will look carefully at the level of force used during the interaction and I would urge people show patience while our inquiries, which will take some time, are made.\"\n\nMs Evans added: \"An interim report from a post-mortem examination is awaited.\n\n\"Preliminary indications are that there is no physical trauma injury to explain a cause of death, and toxicology tests are required.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bonnie Watson Coleman is one of three Democratic lawmakers to have tested positive since the invasion of the US Capitol\n\nThree US lawmakers have tested positive for the coronavirus after sheltering for hours with colleagues during last week's deadly assault on the Capitol.\n\nHouse Democrats Bonnie Watson Coleman, Pramila Jayapal and Brad Schneider have announced their diagnoses.\n\nLast Wednesday they hunkered down in secure rooms, seeking refuge from an invasion of Congress in which five people died.\n\nSome Republicans were not wearing masks during the ordeal, footage suggests.\n\nVideo shared by Punchbowl News shows several lawmakers apparently refusing facemasks offered to them.\n\nHowever, CBS pictures from inside the chamber show Ms Jayapal was herself not wearing a mask at one point.\n\nMedical experts fear more lawmakers may have contracted the disease, potentially amounting to a super-spreader event at a time when coronavirus infections and deaths continue to rise in the US.\n\nThe US has recorded the highest number of coronavirus infections (22.6 million) and deaths (367,000) in the world, with no sign of the epidemic abating, despite the limited roll-out of vaccines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When a mob stormed the US capitol\n\nOver the weekend, top congressional doctor Brian Monahan told lawmakers and congressional staff who sheltered together from the riots to get tested.\n\n\"The time in this room was several hours for some and briefer for others,\" Mr Monahan said. \"During this time, individuals may have been exposed to another occupant with coronavirus infection.\"\n\nMr Monahan did not say how many lawmakers were in the room, but called on them to observe social-distancing measures and wear masks.\n\nNew Jersey Democratic Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman was the first lawmaker to confirm she had tested positive on Monday. In a tweet, the 75-year-old cancer survivor said she was resting at home with \"mild, cold-like symptoms\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Jayapal, a Democrat from Washington state, and Illinois congressman Mr Schneider revealed they had tested positive on Tuesday.\n\nAll three Democrats accused Republican lawmakers of refusing to wear masks as they huddled together for safety last Wednesday.\n\n\"Any member who refuses to wear a mask should be fully held accountable for endangering our lives,\" Ms Jayapal wrote, calling for mask transgressors to be fined.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe wearing of masks has been an explosive political issue throughout the pandemic in the US, with some lawmakers openly refusing to don a face covering.\n\nA Republican congressman, Jake LaTurner of Kansas, tested positive for Covid-19 after participating in a House vote to reject Arizona's presidential election results on Wednesday.\n\nBut on Tuesday, Mr LaTurner's spokesperson told the Topeka Capital-Journal newspaper that he was not in the secure area of the Capitol building where multiple members have since tested positive.\n\nOn Friday Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), had warned that Wednesday's rioting would probably have significant health consequences.\n\n\"You have to anticipate that this is another surge event,\" he told the McClatchy news agency. \"You had largely unmasked individuals in a non-distanced fashion, who were all through the Capitol.\"\n\nCoronavirus has swept through the heart of the American political establishment during the pandemic. One notable outbreak happened in September last year, when an event was held at the White House to announce the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett as a Supreme Court justice.\n\nSoon after, US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump tested positive for the virus, along with numerous other senior government officials.", "Tesco, Asda and Waitrose have become the latest supermarkets to say they will deny entry to shoppers who do not wear face masks unless they are medically exempt.\n\nIt follows a similar move by Morrisons, while Sainsbury's says it will challenge those who flout the rules.\n\nRetailers have been criticised for not doing enough to stop people breaking Covid rules as infections spread.\n\nBut enforcement of face coverings is officially a police responsibility.\n\nHowever, supermarkets can deny entry to their premises which is private property, and can call the police if someone refuses to follow the rules or becomes abusive.\n\nSenior police figures have reportedly said there is little officers can do to enforce the rules in shops because they are so busy.\n\nBut policing minister Kit Malthouse said that they would offer \"backup if things go seriously wrong\".\n\n\"What we hope is that in the vast majority of cases the enforcement, or the reminders if you like, put in place by the store owners will be enough,\" he told BBC News.\n\nA Tesco spokeswoman said the supermarket chain had decided to strengthen its policies.\n\n\"To protect our customers and colleagues, we won't let anyone into our stores who is not wearing a face covering, unless they are exempt in line with government guidance,\" she said.\n\n\"We are also asking our customers to shop alone, unless they're a carer or with children. To support our colleagues, we will have additional security in stores to help manage this.\"\n\nAn Asda spokesman said if customers had forgotten their face coverings, it would continue to offer them one free of charge.\n\nBut he added: \"Should a customer refuse to wear a covering without a valid medical reason and be in any way challenging to our colleagues about doing so, our security colleagues will refuse their entry.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to wear your mask. Hint: it's not any of these three options\n\nAndrew Murphy, executive director of operations at Waitrose, said: \"We've listened carefully to the clear change in tone and emphasis of the views and information shared by the UK's governments in recent days.\n\n\"By insisting on the wearing of face coverings, over and above the social distancing measures we already have in place, we aim to make our shops even safer for customers.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Sainsbury's told the BBC it did not have the power to deny entry to shoppers without masks. However, trials showed customers complied more when asked to wear masks by security guards at the door, it said.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, Sainsbury's boss, Simon Roberts, said \"we are not going to ban customers\".\n\nBut he urged shoppers to wear a mask and shop alone.\n\n\"By doing that we will help keep everybody safe,\" he said.\n\nThe Co-op also said it would not ban shoppers without masks from entering, and instead urged customers to take responsibility for wearing a face covering when visiting its stores, as it was mandatory by law.\n\nBoss of Co-op Food Jo Whitfield said: \"We've increased our in-store messaging to remind customers and government guidance does state that the police can take measures if members of the public don't comply with this law.\"\n\nIceland said it would take a similar approach, adding the vast majority of its customers continued to shop in compliance with the law.\n\n\"In view of the rising tide of abuse and violence being directed at our store colleagues, we do not expect them to confront the small minority of customers who aggressively refuse to comply with the law,\" a spokesman added.\n\nIn England, the police can issue a £200 fine to someone breaking the face covering rules. In Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, a £60 fine can be imposed. Repeat offenders face bigger fines.", "President Trump has just become the first sitting president to be impeached twice by the US House of Representatives.\n\nWe asked members of our BBC voter panel to weigh in as well.\n\nHere's what they said:\n\nQuote Message: Everything he has done is unconstitutional and, as a president, the number one thing he should be doing is upholding the Constitution. If not for him continually fighting the election results and claiming the election was stolen, if not for him holding that rally near the Capitol, if not for him talking about 'uprising', last week would very likely not have happened. Unfortunately it was completely predictable. from Melissa Dangaran 51, from Minnesota Everything he has done is unconstitutional and, as a president, the number one thing he should be doing is upholding the Constitution. If not for him continually fighting the election results and claiming the election was stolen, if not for him holding that rally near the Capitol, if not for him talking about 'uprising', last week would very likely not have happened. Unfortunately it was completely predictable.\n\nQuote Message: Unprecedented. He should not have been impeached at all. There is no justification, no legal basis, no constitutional basis for it. It's a rush to judgment for ulterior motives and a dark stain on our country. I'm concerned about the double standard and I'm afraid our Constitution is on its deathbed. Why would anybody who's rational think that our president meant for people to go break into the Capitol? from Belinda Noah 45, from Florida Unprecedented. He should not have been impeached at all. There is no justification, no legal basis, no constitutional basis for it. It's a rush to judgment for ulterior motives and a dark stain on our country. I'm concerned about the double standard and I'm afraid our Constitution is on its deathbed. Why would anybody who's rational think that our president meant for people to go break into the Capitol?\n\nQuote Message: It's more of a symbolic impeachment at this point because he'll be out soon, but it's necessary nonetheless. Not only is he a threat to our national security, but he doesn't condone white supremacy and other threats. It's deeply saddening to me. from Williams Morales 19, from Georgia It's more of a symbolic impeachment at this point because he'll be out soon, but it's necessary nonetheless. Not only is he a threat to our national security, but he doesn't condone white supremacy and other threats. It's deeply saddening to me.\n\nQuote Message: I was in DC at the rally - not near the Capitol - but I saw the president speak with my own eyes and he did not call for anyone to storm the building or cause harm. It's just a way to ensure he will not run in the next four years. It is political and it will create a bigger divide between left and right. All violence should be condemned fairly and justly. It was a very sad outcome, but I do not believe it was the most horrible day in our country's history. from Gabriel Montalvo 21, from New York I was in DC at the rally - not near the Capitol - but I saw the president speak with my own eyes and he did not call for anyone to storm the building or cause harm. It's just a way to ensure he will not run in the next four years. It is political and it will create a bigger divide between left and right. All violence should be condemned fairly and justly. It was a very sad outcome, but I do not believe it was the most horrible day in our country's history.", "US rapper YFN Lucci is wanted by police in Atlanta, Georgia, for his alleged involvement in the murder of a local man last month.\n\nTwo suspects have been arrested over the killing of the 28-year-old victim.\n\nAuthorities have appealed for help in locating YFN Lucci, 29 - whose birth name is Rayshawn Bennett.\n\nHe is wanted on suspicion of murder, aggravated assault and participation in criminal street gang activity, police told US media.\n\nThey say another man was wounded in the incident.\n\nLast month YFN Lucci released new material under the title Wish Me Well 3.\n\nIn 2018 rapper Cardi B was forced to defend her then-fiancé Offset against allegations of homophobia after he used a lyric by YFN Lucci that included the word \"queer.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Many hospital staff treating the sickest patients during the first wave of the pandemic were left traumatised by the experience, a study suggests.\n\nResearchers at King's College London asked 709 workers at nine intensive care units in England about how they were coping as the first wave eased.\n\nNearly half reported symptoms of severe anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder or problem drinking.\n\nOne in seven had thoughts of self-harming or being \"better off dead\".\n\nNursing staff were more likely to report feelings of distress than doctors or other clinical staff in the anonymous web-based survey, which was carried out in June and July last year.\n\nVictoria Sullivan, an intensive care nurse at Queen's Hospital in Romford, said she often can't sleep because she's thinking about what is happening at the hospital.\n\nHer worst moment was breaking the news of a death on the phone, she said, adding that the screams from the patient's relatives \"will honestly stay with me forever\".\n\n\"Telling someone over the phone and all you can say is 'I'm really sorry', whilst they're crying their heart out, is quite traumatising,\" she said.\n\n\"Although you're saying how sorry you are, in the back of your mind, you're also thinking: 'I've got three other patients I've got to go and see, the infusions need drawing up, and meds need to be given and a nurse needs support'.\n\n\"The guilt is just too much.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn the study, which has been published online but has not yet been peer-reviewed:\n\nThe researchers say the findings are, in some ways, not surprising given the pressures ICU staff have faced.\n\nTheir workload has been relentless, caring for more patients than is ideal and under extremely challenging circumstances.\n\nLead researcher Prof Neil Greenberg said the findings should be a \"wake-up call\" for NHS managers.\n\nHe said: \"The severity of symptoms we identified are highly likely to impair some ICU staff's ability to provide high-quality care as well as negatively impacting on their quality of life.\"\n\nProf Greenberg said it was important to have \"occupationally focused\" mental health care to try to keep staff fighting fit or, where this was not possible, to ensure they got help to access the right sort of care.\n\nAnd he said that, while their work suggested things may have improved over the summer, there were signs the numbers experiencing mental health problems would rise in November and December.\n\nProf Partha Kar, diabetes consultant at Portsmouth Hospitals NHS trust, said it was \"really, really difficult seeing people battling through all sorts of odds\".\n\nHe added: \"We've got sickness rates high all around us and colleagues from all specialities, where they're not accustomed to seeing such ill patients, coming out and trying to help.\n\n\"Understandably the impact of that on everybody's mental health is not insignificant either... it's such a tough place to be in.\"\n\nPTSD is an anxiety disorder caused by very stressful, frightening or distressing events.\n\nSomeone with PTSD often relives the traumatic event through nightmares and flashbacks, and may experience feelings of isolation, irritability and guilt.\n\nThey may also have problems sleeping, such as insomnia, and find concentrating difficult.\n\nThese symptoms are often severe and persistent enough to have a significant impact on the person's day-to-day life.\n\nCauses of PTSD can include:\n\nAn NHS spokesperson said: \"This is an incredibly tough time for NHS staff working on the front line which is why we have invested £15m in support, including 38 local mental health and well-being hubs and a service for staff with complex mental health needs, such as trauma and addiction.\n\n\"The public can also help to support doctors and nurses by following the 'hands, space, face' guidance to reduce pressure on hospitals and save lives.\"\n\nIf you or someone you know has been affected by mental health issues, the organisations listed at this link might be able to help", "Sarah Ferguson has a long-held interest in history, especially that of the royals and the aristocracy\n\nSarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, has written her first novel for adults, to be released by the leading romantic fiction publisher Mills & Boon.\n\nHer Heart for a Compass is based on the life of the duchess's great-great-aunt, Lady Margaret Montagu Douglas Scott.\n\nShe has previously written children's books, non-fiction about Queen Victoria, and her own memoirs.\n\nShe said: \"I am proud to bring my personal brand of historical fiction to the publishing world.\"\n\n\"It all started with researching my ancestry. Digging into the history of the Montagu-Douglas Scotts, I first came across Lady Margaret, who intrigued me because she shared one of my given names,\" she added.\n\n\"But although her parents, the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, were close friends with Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, I was unable to discover much about my namesake's early life, and so was born the idea which became Her Heart for a Compass.\"\n\nThe story will include some real people and events and also draw on the duchess's own experiences but she said \"my imagination took over\".\n\n\"I have long held a passion for historical research and telling the stories of strong women in history through film and television,\" she added.\n\nFor the big screen, she conceived the idea for the 2009 movie Young Victoria, starring Emily Blunt and written by Julian Fellowes.\n\nShe was a producer on the film and her daughter, Princess Beatrice, had a minor part. The duchess also worked on a documentary about Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Prince Albert's mother.\n\nShe recently revived her children's book series, Budgie the Helicopter.\n\nHeart for a Compass was written with the collaboration of established Mills & Boon novelist Marguerite Kaye, who has created more than 50 novels for the imprint, set in a variety of eras.\n\nThe duchess's novel is a saga that takes in events at Queen Victoria's court and the grand country houses of Scotland and Ireland, and crosses into the slums of London and on to the bustle of 1870s New York.\n\nMills & Boon described the story as a \"fascinating journey of a woman, born into the higher echelons of society, who desires to break the mould, follow her internal compass (her heart) and discover her raison d'être - and falling in love along the way\".\n\nMills & Boon is the UK's top publisher of romantic fiction and says it sells one of its novels every 10 seconds.\n\nThe stories are \"written by women, for women, it has a romance for every reader promising a happily-ever-after ending every time\", it adds.\n\nOther well-known names to venture into the Mills & Boon world include Made in Chelsea and I'm A Celebrity star Georgia Toffolo, whose debut romance novel, Meet Me in London, came out last year.\n\nBest-selling authors have also created stories for Mills & Boon under a pseudonym, including Destiny writer Sally Beauman (Vanessa James) and The Shell Seekers author Rosamunde Pilcher (Jane Fraser). PG Wodehouse also contributed a story in 1912.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Who were the protesters that broke into buildings on Capitol Hill after attending a rally in support of Donald Trump?\n\nSome were carrying symbols and flags strongly associated with particular ideas and factions, but in practice many of the members and their causes overlap.\n\nImages show individuals associated with a range of extreme and far-right groups and supporters of fringe online conspiracy theories, many of whom have long been active online and at pro-Trump rallies.\n\nOne of the most startling images, quickly shared across social media, shows a man dressed with a painted face, fur hat and horns, holding an American flag.\n\nHe's been identified as Jake Angeli, a well-known supporter of the baseless conspiracy theory QAnon. He calls himself the QAnon Shaman.\n\nHis social media presence shows him attending multiple QAnon events and posting YouTube videos about deep state conspiracies.\n\nHe was pictured in November making a speech in Phoenix, Arizona, about unproven claims the election was fraudulent.\n\nHis personal Facebook page is filled with images and memes relating to all sorts of extreme ideas and conspiracy theories.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAnother group spotted at the storming of the Capitol were members of the far-right group Proud Boys.\n\nThe organisation was founded in 2016 and is anti-immigrant and all male. In the first US presidential debate President Trump in response to a question about white supremacists and militias said: \"Proud Boys - stand back and stand by.\"\n\nThe individual on the right is Nick Ochs, who describes himself as a \"Proud Boy Elder\".\n\nOne of their members, Nick Ochs, tweeted a selfie inside the building saying \"Hello from the Capital lol\". He also filmed a live stream inside.\n\nWe haven't identified the individual standing on the left in the above image.\n\nMr Ochs' profile on the messaging app Telegram describes himself as a \"Proud Boy Elder from Hawaii.\"\n\nIndividuals with large followings online were also spotted at the protests.\n\nAmong them was the social media personality Tim Gionet, who goes under the pseudonym \"Baked Alaska\".\n\nTim Gionet, better known as \"Baked Alaska\", livestreamed himself from the Capitol on Wednesday\n\nHis livestream from inside the Capitol posted on a niche streaming service was watched by thousands of people and showed him talking to other protesters.\n\nA Trump supporter, Mr Gionet has made a name for himself as an internet troll.\n\nYouTube banned his channel in October after he posted videos of himself harassing shop workers and refusing to wear a face-mask during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nOther platforms that have previously shut down his accounts include Twitter and PayPal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nA photo that went viral of a man who'd entered the office of senior Democrat politician Nancy Pelosi has been named as Richard Barnett from Arkansas.\n\nRichard Barnett left a message for US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying \"we will not back down\"\n\nOutside Capitol Hill buildings, he told the New York Times that he took an envelope from the speaker's office and says left a note calling her an expletive.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matthew Rosenberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nReacting to the New York Times interview, Republican congressman Steve Womack said on Twitter: \"I'm sickened to learn that the below actions were perpetrated by a constituent.\"\n\nLocal media reports say Mr Barnett is involved in a group that supports gun rights, and that he was interviewed at a 'Stop the Steal' rally following the presidential election - a movement that refused to accept Joe Biden's victory and supports the president's unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud.\n\nIn the interview at the rally organised by 'Engaged Patriots' he said: \"If you don't like it, send somebody out to get me 'cause I ain't going down easy.\"\n\nThe group associated with Mr Barnett held a fundraiser in October with proceeds going towards body cameras for the local police department, according to the Westside Eagle Observer local paper.\n\nAs the events were unfolding, many social media users, especially those associated with QAnon and supporters of President Trump, were claiming that agitators from the loose-knit left-wing group antifa were involved.\n\nThe implication was that these activists were disguised as Trump supporters to create disruption.\n\nA number of prominent Republican politicians, such as US Representative Matt Gaetz, claimed it was antifa masquerading as Trump supporters.\n\nOne widely-shared post claimed one protester had a \"communist hammer\" tattoo, as evidence that he wasn't a Trump supporter.\n\nOn closer inspection, the symbol is from the video game series Dishonored.\n\nThere have also been suggestions that Mr Angeli, the man wearing fur and horns, was a Black Lives Matter supporter, with users sharing an image of him at a BLM event in Arizona.\n\nMr Angeli was indeed at that event, but he was there as a counter-protester. In images taken there, he's seen holding a QAnon sign.\n\nAt least one of the rioters was holding a Confederate flag, which represented US states that supported the continuation of slavery during the American civil war. For this reason, it is considered by many to be a symbol of racism and there have been calls to ban it across the US. Others see it as an important part of southern US history.\n\nA protester carries the Confederate flag after breaching US Capitol security\n\nIn July it was announced that the flag could no longer be flown on American military properties because of a new policy to reject \"divisive symbols\".\n\nPresident Trump has defended the use of the Confederate flag in the past, saying: \"I know people that like the Confederate flag and they're not thinking about slavery...I just think it's freedom of speech.\"\n\nThere were also protesters holding aloft flags featuring a coiled rattlesnake on a yellow background, often accompanied by the phrase \"don't tread on me\". This is known as the Gadsden flag, harking back to the American revolution and the war to expel British colonialists.\n\nIt was adopted by libertarians in the 1970s, according to an article in the New Yorker, and more recently became a favourite symbol of conservative Tea Party activists.\n\nThe flag has been adopted by the right over the past couple of decades, says Prof Margaret Weir, a political science expert at Brown University.\n\nIt is also used by anti-government, white supremacist groups who embrace violence, she says.", "The Christmas Day special saw Ashley Banjo (r) sit in for Simon Cowell\n\nThe filming of the next series of ITV show Britain's Got Talent has been postponed due to coronavirus concerns.\n\nProduction on the show was due to begin later this month but will now start at a later date yet to be confirmed.\n\nITV said it had decided to move \"the record and broadcast\" of the show's 15th series\" to safeguard \"the well-being of everyone involved\".\n\nThe filming of the programme's audition shows typically involves hundreds of people congregating en masse.\n\nIt is understood this has been considered to be unviable due to lockdown restrictions currently in place.\n\nWriting on Twitter, ITV thanked viewers for their \"continued love and support\" for the long-running programme.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BGT This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe filming of last year's Christmas special was also postponed after at least three crew members tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe Christmas Day programme saw former contestants return to perform again alongside the show's panel of celebrity judges.\n\nThe show saw Ashley Banjo sit in for Simon Cowell, who spent much of last year recovering from an electric bicycle accident.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has condemned the \"disgraceful scenes\" in the US, after supporters of President Donald Trump stormed Congress and clashed with police.\n\nRioters breached the Capitol building where lawmakers met to confirm Joe Biden's presidential election victory.\n\nThe PM said it was \"vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power\".\n\nAnd Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was a \"direct attack on democracy\".\n\n\"The United States stands for democracy around the world and it is now vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power,\" Mr Johnson tweeted.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, meanwhile, called the events \"utterly horrifying\".\n\nFriend of President Trump and leader of Reform UK - formerly the Brexit Party - Nigel Farage tweeted: \"Storming Capitol Hill is wrong. The protesters must leave.\"\n\nThe US Congress has now reconvened after the violence - spurred on by Mr Trump's unproven claims of electoral fraud - to certify Mr Biden's victory in the US election in November\n\nHundreds of the president's supporters stormed the Capitol, and staged an occupation of the building in Washington DC.\n\nBoth chambers of Congress were forced into recess, as protesters clashed with police and tear gas was released.\n\nFour people died on Capitol grounds during the violence, including a woman shot by police and three others, who died as a result of \"medical emergencies\", local police said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nUK MPs from across the political spectrum have criticised the events in the US.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said there was \"no justification for these violent attempts to frustrate the lawful and proper transition of power\", while Home Secretary Priti Patel called the scenes \"unacceptable and undemocratic\".\n\nShe added: \"There is no justification for this violence and Donald Trump must condemn it.\"\n\nHer Conservative colleague, and former Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt directly addressed President Trump for telling the crowd to march on Congress, tweeting: \"He shames American democracy tonight and causes its friends anguish - but he is not America.\"\n\nLabour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner said: \"The violence that Donald Trump has unleashed is terrifying, and the Republicans who stood by him have blood on their hands.\"\n\nAnd shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said the events were \"the legacy of a politics of hate that pits people against each other and threatens the foundations of democracy\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile, Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey has defended the prime minister's response to the rioting.\n\nAsked on ITV's Peston programme why Mr Johnson hadn't criticised Mr Trump, she said: \"The prime minister has been clear tonight that we need a peaceful and orderly transition.\"\n\nMs Coffey added that events in the US were a \"reminder that democracy is something precious - and will only continue to thrive as long as we protect institutions that make this country important and not demean each other when the majority of what we want to achieve is similar outcomes\".\n\nDonald Trump and Boris Johnson at a Nato summit in 2019\n\nMeanwhile, the SNP's leader in Westminster, Ian Blackford, said the end of Mr Trump's presidency \"cannot come quick enough\".\n\nHe tweeted: \"What a legacy the events of today are to his time in office. Shameful, shocking, an affront to democracy.\"\n\nLeader of the Liberal Democrats, Ed Davey, called the scenes \"absolutely horrendous\", while his party's foreign affairs spokeswoman, Layla Moran, said: \"The scenes coming out of Washington tonight are an attack on democracy.\"", "National Express has announced that it is suspending its entire national network of coach services from midnight on Sunday.\n\nThe firm said tighter Covid restrictions and falling passenger numbers had prompted the decision.\n\nIt added that it hoped to restart services in March.\n\nAll customers whose travel has been cancelled will be contacted and offered a free amendment or full refund, the company said.\n\nAll journeys before Monday 11 January will be completed to ensure any passengers making essential journeys are not stranded.\n\nChris Hardy, managing director of National Express UK Coach, said: \"We have been providing an important service for essential travel needs. However, with tighter restrictions and passenger numbers falling, it is no longer appropriate to do this.\n\nHe added that as the vaccination programme was rolled out and government guidance changed, the company would regularly review when services could restart.\n\n\"We plan to be back on the road as soon as the time is right and have put a provisional restart date of Monday 1 March in place,\" he said.\n\nNational Express first suspended coach services during the coronavirus crisis in April, then restarted in July.\n\nServices have been operating at half capacity, with strict cleaning and Covid protocols. As the tier structure came into operation, demand for services reduced.\n\nAs with the previous suspension, employees will be furloughed.\n\nFirms that transport passengers, including coach, rail and aviation businesses, have been under intense pressure during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nAvanti West Coast, the train operating company running services on the West Coast mainline, has confirmed it will cut its timetable from 18 January.\n\nAvanti says the new timetable will 'more closely reflect the current demand for our services whilst still allowing key workers, and those needing to make essential journeys, to travel with confidence'.\n\nDuring the first major lockdown in March, services on key intercity routes were reduced from three an hour to one. This included services from both Manchester and Birmingham to London.\n\nThe Department for Transport has been consulting with all train operators about service reductions during the latest lockdown.\n\nThe exact scale of reduction is still being worked on, but the DfT says service levels may fall to as low as 40% of the normal timetable by some operators.\n\nThe focus is to ensure essential workers can still make essential journeys.\n\n\"Following discussions with the Department for Transport we will be introducing a new timetable on Monday 18 January. This will more closely reflect the current demand for our services whilst still allowing key workers, and those needing to make essential journeys, to travel with confidence.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Ryanair also announced that it would make big cuts to its flight schedule from 21 January, with few, if any flights to or from the UK or Ireland until \"draconian travel restrictions are removed\".\n\nTrain services are expected to be reduced in lockdown, with some in the industry anticipating reductions of between 50% and 60% compared with normal service.\n\nIn the first national lockdown in England, services were reduced to almost half.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Work to get pupils connected in Wolverhampton is well under way\n\nThere are concerns some schools in lockdown could be inundated with pupils without laptops after a change to the vulnerable pupil list.\n\nPupils are learning remotely in England after schools were closed on Tuesday to all but children of key workers and those deemed vulnerable.\n\nBut those without laptops or space to study are now eligible to attend school, under government guidance.\n\nHeads' union, NAHT, said the move could reduce the effect of the shutdown.\n\nSchools were ordered to close to most pupils as a way of limiting the spread of the virus.\n\nNational Association of Head Teachers general secretary Paul Whiteman said demand for key worker and vulnerable places in schools had risen substantially since the last school shutdown.\n\nNearly a third of the 2,000 head teachers who joined an online union meeting on Wednesday afternoon reported having between 20 and 30% of pupils in school, the NAHT said.\n\nMr Whiteman said: \"It is critical that key worker child school places are only used when absolutely necessary to truly reduce numbers and spread of the virus.\n\n\"We have concern that the government has not supplied enough laptops for all the children without them and so has made lack of internet access a vulnerable criteria - only adding to numbers still in school.\n\n\"It is important that all vulnerable pupils have access to a school place, but the government must provide laptops and internet access for every pupil that needs one, so that they can access home learning to take some of the strain off the demand for school places.\n\n\"Nearly half of head teachers who we polled during a webcast on Wednesday evening said that had received fewer than 10% of the laptops they'd requested.\n\n\"It is essential that this is rectified immediately, so that we can keep school attendance figures at a level which will have the desired impact on getting transmission rates under control.\"\n\nJane Girt, head teacher of Carlton Bolling College in Bradford, said the rule change could leave her having to accommodate an extra 200 pupils on top of those already on the key worker and vulnerable children list.\n\nShe told BBC News that having so many pupils in school would \"defeat the object\" of closing amid the England-wide lockdown.\n\nMrs Girt said her secondary, which has more than 1,500 students, had received 261 laptops from the government since March but about 50% of pupils were sharing a device with another family member.\n\nThe prime minister told MPs on Wednesday that 560,000 devices had been given out to schools in 2020 and a further 50,000 so far this week.\n\nAnd Gavin Williamson reiterated that those without access to remote learning via digital devices could attend school.\n\nHe said: \"Schools are much better prepared to deliver online learning, with the delivery of hundreds of thousands of devices at breakneck speed, data support and high quality video lessons.\"\n\nBut Ofcom estimates there are up to 1.5m pupils without digital devices in their homes, on which they can learn.\n\nAmanda Bailey, director of the child poverty commission in north-east England, said pupils without internet access tended to be concentrated in disadvantaged areas and this meant some schools would be \"largely fully open\", she said.\n\n\"And we know that the most deprived communities are the ones most vulnerable to the health impact of the pandemic,\" she added.\n\n\"Our main concerns are that we're now nine months into this situation and we're still talking about families not having sufficient access to digital devices or data or the internet.\"\n\nLabour Councillor Beverley Momenabadi, Wolverhampton's champion for digital innovation, said the guidance massively expands the number of children who are entitled to go into school.\n\nShe said although plans to support those needing access while self-isolating in her city are at an advanced stage, with rental schemes being accessed and donations sought, the new lockdown changes the game completely.\n\nShe called for a national plan for the transition to remote learning.\n\nCouncillor Momenabadi said: \"Even after Gavin Williamson's statement in the Commons, children across the country are still waiting for that national plan.\n\n\"And even on the devices they've said will arrive; how will these be distributed, when will they arrive, will they arrive in time to ensure that no child misses out on their education?\"\n\nWill you have to send your child back to school because you are unable to supervise home learning? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has been allowed to Tweet again, after being locked out of his account for 12 hours.\n\nPosting a more conciliatory message, he refrained from reiterating false claims of voter fraud.\n\nTwitter said that it would ban Mr Trump \"permanently\" if he breached the platform's rules again.\n\nThe move from Twitter puts clear water between it and Facebook, which suspended him \"indefinitely\" on Thursday.\n\nTwitter has instead given the outgoing president a final warning.\n\nEarlier on Thursday, the popular gaming platform Twitch also placed an indefinite ban on Mr Trump's channel, which he has used for rally broadcasts.\n\nMr Trump tweeted several message on Wednesday, calling the people who stormed Capitol Hill \"patriots\". He also said \"We love you.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When a mob stormed the US capitol\n\nA spokesperson for Twitter said: \"After the Tweets were removed and the subsequent 12-hour period expired, access to @realDonaldTrump was restored.\n\n\"Any future violations of the Twitter Rules, including our Civic Integrity or Violent Threats policies, will result in permanent suspension of the @realDonaldTrump account.\"\n\nEarlier in the day, the president was suspended from Facebook and Instagram. That suspension will be reviewed after the transition of power to Joe Biden on 20 January.\n\nThe social network had originally imposed a 24-hour ban after the US Capitol attack.\n\nFacebook's chief, Mark Zuckerberg, wrote that the risks of allowing Mr Trump to post \"are simply too great\".\n\nMr Zuckerberg said Facebook had removed the president's posts \"because we judged that their effect - and likely their intent - would be to provoke further violence\".\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Facebook The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Facebook content may contain adverts. Skip facebook post by Mark This article contains content provided by Facebook. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nHe said it was clear Mr Trump intended to undermine the transfer of power to President-elect Joe Biden.\n\n\"Therefore, we are extending the block we have placed on his Facebook and Instagram accounts indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks until the peaceful transition of power is complete,\" he wrote.\n\nMr Trump's favoured platform, Twitter, suspended the president for 12 hours on Wednesday.\n\nThe company said it required the removal of three tweets for \"severe violations of our Civic Integrity policy\".\n\nIt said the president's account would remain locked for good if the tweets were not removed.\n\nTwitter has now confirmed the offending tweets have been removed, and he is free to tweet again.\n\nSnapchat also stopped Mr Trump from creating new posts, but did not say if or when it would end the ban. YouTube also removed Wednesday's video.\n\nThe president's supporters stormed the seat of US government and clashed with police, leading to the death of one woman.\n\nThe violence brought to a halt congressional debate over Democrat Joe Biden's election win.\n\nIn the House and Senate chambers, Republicans were challenging the certification of November's election results.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We will never give up, we will never concede\", Trump tells supporters\n\nBefore the violence, President Trump had told supporters on the National Mall in Washington that the election had been stolen.\n\nHours later, as the violence mounted inside and outside the US Capitol, he appeared on video and repeated the false claim.", "The controversy over drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has been ongoing since 1977\n\nThe Trump administration has held the first sale for rights to drill for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge - but it drew no interest from major companies.\n\nAn Alaskan state agency emerged as the primary bidder at the auction, which has been heavily criticised by environmental groups.\n\nThe sale raised less than $15m (£11m) - far less than the government had hoped.\n\nThe tepid interest comes amid big changes in the energy industry.\n\nMajor companies, including oil giant Exxon, Shell and BP, have said they are focusing their spending on renewable energy, amid a huge slump in oil prices, in part triggered by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAdam Kolton, executive director of the Alaska Wilderness League, said the sale was an \"epic failure\" for the Trump administration and the Alaska Republicans, who had backed the move as a way to create jobs and reduce American dependence on foreign oil.\n\n\"After years of promising a revenue and jobs bonanza they ended up throwing a party for themselves, with the state being one of the only bidders,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"We have long known that the American people don't want drilling in the Arctic Refuge, the [Alaska native] Gwich'in people don't want it, and now we know the oil industry doesn't want it either.\"\n\nThe refuge is home to more than 200 species of bird including the Northern shrike\n\nMr Kolton said his organisation would continue to fight in court to reverse the sale of the land, which is home to caribou, polar bears and millions of migratory birds.\n\nThe wildlife refuge is estimated to hold some 11 billion barrels of oil.\n\nOpening the wilderness for drilling and development has been a long-term priority for Alaska Republicans, but development was expected to be costly since the area has minimal roads and infrastructure.\n\nAfter decades of controversy, the sale was finally authorised by the US Congress in 2017 as part of a major package of tax cuts. The auction comes just weeks before Donald Trump is due to leave office on 20 January.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden had vowed to protect the refuge and environmental groups have also challenged the sale, which they say threatens land that provides a vital home to wildlife.\n\nA federal court rejected arguments by environmental groups seeking to block the auction on Tuesday.\n\nPolar bears are particularly at risk of dying in oil spills\n\nAt Wednesday's auction, the Bureau of Land Management said it had received bids for 12 of the 22 tracts of land offered, covering more than 600,000 acres.\n\nThe Alaska Industrial Development and Industrial Authority, a state agency, was the sole bidder on at least eight of the 12 tracts.\n\nSome bids submitted were \"incomplete\", the bureau said.\n\nThe state agency has said it plans to work with private companies on development of the refuge, which encompasses more than 19,000 million acres overall.\n\nOn social media platform Twitter, Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy called the sale \"historic for Alaska and tremendous for America\".\n\n\"Opening [Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge] for responsible resource development could put more oil in our pipeline, put Alaskans to work, bring billions of dollars of investment to our state, support American energy independence, and provide critical revenues to our state and local communities,\" he wrote.\n\n\"Alaskans have waited two generations for this moment; I stand with them in support of this day.\"", "Olly Stephens was stabbed to death in Emmer Green in Reading on Sunday\n\nThree teenagers have been charged with murder and conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm after a boy, 13, was stabbed to death in Reading.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green, on Sunday.\n\nTwo boys, aged 13 and 14, and a girl, aged 13, will appear in Reading Magistrates' Court on Thursday.\n\nTwo other boys, also aged 13, have been released on bail, with strict conditions, until 1 February.\n\nThe girl has also been charged with perverting the course of justice.\n\nIn a statement, Oliver's family said: \"An Olly-sized hole has been left in our hearts.\"\n\nHis parents said their son was \"an enigma\", and having both autism and suspected pathological demand avoidance meant \"he became a challenge we never shied away from\".\n\nThe family described the ordeal as \"every parents' worst nightmare\".\n\nThey also sought to highlight those who helped at the scene, including \"a Good Samaritan that tried valiantly to save Oliver\", an off-duty doctor who offered help, and the emergency services.\n\nOfficers were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack in fields on the boundary of Emmer Green and Caversham Heights.\n\nParents laying flowers at nearby Highdown School called the killing \"utterly senseless\" and said their children who attended school with Olly were \"devastated\".\n\nDet Supt Kevin Brown urged anyone with information to contact police and not to share any images or footage on social media.\n\n\"This continues to be a very difficult time for the family of Olly. Our thoughts remain with them,\" he said.\n\n\"The Stephens family appreciate all of the kindness shown to them but they have asked that their privacy is respected at this very difficult time.\"\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.", "South Vietnam flags were seen during the unrest Image caption: South Vietnam flags were seen during the unrest\n\nOn Wednesday, as protesters gathered outside before swarming the Capitol building, the yellow flags of the old South Vietnam regime could be seen.\n\nIn fact, the yellow flags of the former South Vietnam are a common sight at pro-Trump rallies across the United States.\n\nVietnamese Americans, especially those of the older generation who fled Vietnam after Saigon fell in 1975, are known for their support for the Republican party and Donald Trump.\n\nA pre-election survey by the group Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote found that Vietnamese Americans are the only major East Asian ethnic community that favoured Trump over Biden . Trump’s anti-China and anti-communist rhetoric resonated greatly with the former refugees who risked their lives to escape communism.\n\nBut the support for President Trump has also become an increasingly divisive issue amongst the Vietnamese American community.\n\nHours after the Capitol riot, there are still calls on pro-Trump internet forums like the \"ABC Trump\" Facebook page for Vietnamese Americans to “take to the streets in support of President Trump” as “the battle continues”.\n\nBut there have also been condemnations.\n\n“This is embarrassing,” one young Vietnamese American wrote on Twitter, adding: “They’ve brought shame to the flag”.", "Nguyen Huy Hung was one of 39 people who died in a container en route from Belgium to Essex\n\nThe father of a 15-year-old boy who was one of 39 people to die in a lorry trailer said he learned of his son's death through social media.\n\nNguyen Huy Hung died in the sealed container en route from Belgium to Purfleet, Essex, in October 2019.\n\nHis father, Nguyen Huy Tung, said the family could not believe it until \"we saw his body by our own eyes\" at the hospital.\n\nEight men are being sentenced for their role in the people-smuggling operation.\n\nThe bodies of 39 Vietnamese nationals were discovered in a refrigerated trailer on 23 October last year\n\nThe 39 Vietnamese migrants, aged 15 to 44, were sealed inside the container for at least 12 hours.\n\nThe Old Bailey heard how it became a \"tomb\" as temperatures reached an \"unbearable\" 38.5C (101F).\n\nThe people trapped inside had used a metal pole to try to punch through the roof, but only managed to dent the interior.\n\nAt a sentencing hearing set to last three days in front of Mr Justice Sweeney, some of their final desperate phone messages were played in court.\n\nIn one message, a man spoke with ragged breaths as he apologised to his family.\n\n\"I can't breathe,\" he said. \"I want to come back to my family. Have a good life.\"\n\nIn the background, a voice could be heard pleading: \"Come on everyone. Open up, open up.\"\n\nProsecutor Jonathan Polnay read out statements from the victims' families, and the mother of another 15-year-old who died, Dinh Dinh Binh, said her family had \"not been able to get back to our normal life yet\".\n\n\"Our economic conditions and work are negatively affected,\" she said. \"We have had to sell some properties of the family to afford our life.\"\n\nThe 39 people who died in the back of a trailer as it crossed the North Sea between Zeebrugge and the UK\n\nTran Hai Loc and his wife Nguyen Thi Van, both 35, were found huddled together in the trailer, and left behind two children, aged six and four.\n\nThe children's grandfather, Tran Dinh Thanh, said: \"At the moment their children are very small - this incident will affect their future.\n\n\"Every day, when they come home from school they always look at the photos of their parents on the altar. The decease of both parents is a big loss to them.\"\n\nThe moment lorry driver Maurice Robinson opened the trailer door and discovered the bodies inside was captured on CCTV\n\nPhan Thi Thanh, 41, had sold the family home and left her son with his godmother before setting off on the journey.\n\nHer son, who is now being looked after by his father in the UK, said he felt \"very heartbroken with mum not around\".\n\nHaulier boss Ronan Hughes, 41, of Tyholland, County Monaghan, Ireland, was described as a ringleader of the operation. He closed his eyes as the phone messages were played to the court. Other defendants hung their heads.\n\nBoth Maurice Robinson (l) and Ronan Hughes (r) admitted 39 counts of manslaughter in connection with the case\n\nHughes had previously admitted manslaughter, as had 26-year-old lorry driver Maurice Robinson, from County Armagh, who discovered the bodies in the trailer.\n\nEamonn Harrison, 24, of Newry, County Down, who dropped off the trailer at Zeebrugge port, and people-smuggler Gheorghe Nica, 43, were convicted of the same charge by a jury.\n\nThey will be sentenced alongside Christopher Kennedy, 24, from County Armagh, Valentin Calota, 38, from Birmingham, Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga, 28, of Hobart Road, Tilbury, Essex, and Gazmir Nuzi, 43, of Tottenham, north London, who were convicted for their role in the smuggling.\n\nGheorghe Nica and Eamonn Harrison were both found guilty of manslaughter\n\nMr Polnay said: \"These defendants were party to a sophisticated, long-running and profitable conspiracy to smuggle [mainly] Vietnamese migrants to the UK, in the back of lorries, in a deliberate and intentional breach of border control.\"\n\nThe fee was between £10,000 and £13,000 for each migrant, for the \"VIP route\", the court heard.\n\nMr Polnay said seven smuggling trips were identified between May 2018 and 23 October 2019, but there was \"an irresistible inference that there were more events than those that were fortuitously detected\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "It is inevitable that part of the politics of a pandemic is the perceived relative performance of different countries.\n\nYou can pick your metric to make your comparison, and plenty have.\n\nThe death toll in the UK, and the economic slump, have come in for particular criticism.\n\nBut the government has, for some time, sought to emphasise how the UK is ahead of the game on vaccinations.\n\nThe UK was considerably quicker than the EU, for instance, in licencing the first vaccine, from Pfizer-BioNTech.\n\nAt today's news conference, the Prime Minister has pointed out that the UK has already given more people a first jab for Covid than all the other countries in Europe put together.\n\nSir Simon Stevens, the Chief Executive of the National Health Service in England, added that the UK has jabbed four times as many people as Germany and 300 times more than France.\n\nBut he acknowledged the scale of the ongoing challenge - trying to vaccinate as many people in the next five weeks as normally happens in five months with the flu jab.\n\nOne final thought: ministers tend to suggest international comparisons are pointless or premature when the comparisons are less than flattering.\n\nThey're rather keener on them when the numbers look better.", "Teachers' estimated grades will be used to replace cancelled GCSEs and A-levels in England this summer, says Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.\n\nHe told MPs he would \"trust in teachers rather than algorithms\", a reference to the U-turn over last year's exams.\n\nFor primaries, he confirmed there would be no Year 6 Sats tests this year.\n\nMr Williamson promised parents it would be \"mandatory\" for schools to provide \"high-quality remote education\" of three to five hours per day.\n\nHe said this would be \"enforced\" by Ofsted, with inspections where there were \"serious concerns\" about what was provided for children now studying at home.\n\nLabour's Shadow Education Secretary, Kate Green, accused Mr Williamson of \"chaos and confusion\" - and said he had failed to listen to the \"expertise of professionals on the front line\".\n\nShe said he had given a \"cast-iron commitment\" that exams would go ahead - and Ms Green said: \"At that moment, we should have known they were doomed to be cancelled.\"\n\nMr Williamson, in a statement to the House of Commons, said there would be \"training and support\" for teachers in estimating grades, \"to ensure these are awarded fairly and consistently\".\n\nHe also told MPs there would be no Sats tests for those at the end of primary school.\n\n\"I can absolutely confirm that we won't be proceeding with Sats this year. We do recognise that this will be an additional burden on schools\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said rather than a \"vague statement\" of how A-levels and GCSEs would be graded, ministers should already have a system ready in place - and it was a \"dereliction of duty\" that it was not already prepared.\n\nAnd he warned against repeating the \"shambles\" of last summer's cancelled exams.\n\nThe education secretary confirmed to MPs that GCSEs and A-levels are not going ahead - after this week's decision that it was no longer feasible with so much time lost in the Covid pandemic and the latest lockdown.\n\nThe exams watchdog Ofqual will draw up proposals for an alternative way of deciding results, for qualifications that could be used for jobs, staying on in school or university places.\n\nSimon Lebus, the watchdog's interim head, said evidence for replacement grades could include tests, homework, mock exams and teachers' observations - and would take into account how much of the syllabus had been covered.\n\nA consultation is expected to begin next week, with plans to be decided by the end of February or possibly sooner.\n\nLast year's attempts to find an alternative approach to exam results, which initially used an algorithm, descended into chaos - and eventually switched to using teachers' grades.\n\nAnd without any exam papers or standardised mock exams, the use of teachers' assessments, with some process of moderation between schools, will be used for this summer's candidates.\n\nOn vocational qualifications, Labour's Ms Green said the education secretary was \"failing to show leadership on exams in January\".\n\nVocational exams, such as BTecs, are carrying on, if schools and colleges decide to continue with them - but college leaders had complained that there needed to be a national decision to avoid confusion.\n\nIf students cannot take BTec exams this month as planned, they will still be awarded a grade, if they have \"enough evidence to receive a certificate that they need for progression\", says the awarding body Pearson.\n\nAn Ofqual spokeswoman said they would consider options for replacement exam results, academic and vocational, \"to ensure the fairest possible outcome in the circumstances\".\n\nThe exams watchdog's decisions will face much scrutiny - with the previous head of Ofqual resigning after last summer's U-turns over grades.\n\nMr Williamson's statement in the Commons came as all GCSE, AS and A-level exams in Northern Ireland were cancelled due to the Covid-19 crisis.\n\nEducation Minister Peter Weir announced the decision in the Stormont assembly on Wednesday.\n\nScotland has already cancelled its Nationals, Highers and Advanced Highers.\n\nGCSEs and A-levels in Wales were scrapped in November.", "Adrian Chiles first joined 5 Live for its launch in 1994\n\nAdrian Chiles has been confirmed as the broadcaster who will replace Emma Barnett on BBC Radio 5 Live on Thursday mornings.\n\nNaga Munchetty now presents the same show from Monday to Wednesday.\n\nChiles has previously presented the same time slot on Fridays, along with the BBC's The One Show and Match of the Day 2, as well as ITV's Daybreak show.\n\n\"Adrian is a wonderful broadcaster who our audience trust and respect,\" said 5 Live controller Heidi Dawson.\n\n\"He has that unique ability to put listeners at ease and make them smile, whilst remaining relentless in his questioning of those in positions of power.\"\n\nChiles, who will present the show on Thursdays and Fridays, joined the station at its launch in 1994 and has featured regularly on shows like Wake Up To Money, and 5 Live Drive.\n\nFollowing his move to mid-morning, Chiles' Question Time Extra Time show will be replaced by a new programme, hosted by Colin Murray.\n\nBarnett, who has moved to BBC Radio 4 to host Woman's Hour, defended herself this week after a guest who was booked to appear on the BBC Radio 4 programme dropped out due to remarks the presenter made about her off-air.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Epsom Racecourse in Surrey will be one of seven mass vaccination hubs announced by the government\n\nSeven new mass Covid vaccination hubs across England have been announced by the government.\n\nCentres in London, Newcastle, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Surrey and Stevenage are due to begin operations next week.\n\nVarious venues will be converted into regional centres in a bid to meet the government's target of vaccinating 14 million people in the UK by February.\n\nIt is expected the hubs will be staffed by NHS staff and volunteers.\n\nThe seven sites announced by Downing Street are:\n\nAshton Gate Stadium, home to Bristol City FC, will be used to help the government meet its vaccination target\n\nSupermarket chain Morrisons has confirmed car parks at its stores in Yeovil, Wakefield and Winsford would be used to drive-through vaccinations from Monday. It has also offered an additional 47 sites to the government.\n\nPremier League club Tottenham Hotspur has also offered the use of its stadium to the NHS as a venue to provide the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nThe sites across England will begin operations next week", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. US Capitol riots: How the world's media reacted\n\nShock and contempt for the violent storming of the US Capitol by Donald Trump's supporters is evident in many reports and commentary on the event from around the world.\n\nFrom Germany's Die Welt daily describing \"disturbing, sad, terrifying scenes\", to the Nigerian Tribune saying \"Trump supporters defile US democracy\", many criticise the outgoing president for what what they see as his role in degrading America's institutions and democracy.\n\nOne commentator in Argentina's leading daily Clarin called it \"the 'scorched earth' legacy of Donald Trump\".\n\n\"Narcissism prevailing over all dignity, he harasses institutions, tramples on democracy, divides his own camp,\" says an editorial in France's Le Figaro.\n\n\"In refusing to quit, Donald Trump exposes the fragility of the American system in a final destructive offensive,\" a columnist says in France's Le Monde. Another headline in the paper calls him \"the insurrectional president\".\n\nIn Turkey, the pro-government Turkiye paper notes: \"Trump's stubbornness stirred the US\".\n\n\"I expect Trump to be tried after this turmoil,\" said one pundit on Egypt's MBC Misr TV, adding that \"the US is no longer a superpower in the full sense of the word\".\n\nSeveral of America's adversaries seized the opportunity to portray the incident as an example of the country's structural weaknesses and what they see as its hypocrisy.\n\n\"@SpeakerPelosi once referred to the Hong Kong riots as 'a beautiful sight to behold' — it remains yet to be seen whether she will say the same about the recent developments in Capitol Hill,\" tweeted China's daily Global Times.\n\n\"Capital vandals show fragility of US democracy,\" claimed a headline in the paper.\n\nIn Iran, state TV and radio inaccurately reported that the mayor of Washington DC had imposed \"martial law\", instead of the 12-hour curfew on the capital, which is what actually happened.\n\nAnd in Russia, where the first day of the Orthodox Christmas is currently being celebrated, footage of Trump's supporters ransacking the Capitol dominates state TV.\n\nMorning bulletins have focused on the events in America\n\nRolling news channel Rossiya 24 has played scenes of the violence at length, with no comment other than the caption \"Attack on the Capitol\".\n\nSome channels have also shown sympathy for the pro-Trump supporters, suggesting that they had cause to feel \"cheated\" over November's presidential election, and talked up claims that the event represents a crisis for US and even Western democracy.\n\nRossiya 24 said they were \"dissatisfied with the most scandalous election in US history\", while Rossiya 1 said it was the US system of democracy that was \"to a large degree the cause of today's events\".\n\nEven for those not necessarily unfriendly to America, the incident shows serious rifts in society that Trump's departure won't address.\n\nIt is \"a spectacular demonstration of frustration that has been building in the USA for decades,\" says one commentator in Poland's conservative daily Rzeczpospolita.\n\n\"Behind the façade of plastered smiles… and phrases about 'the best country in the world' lies the drama of a gigantic income gap, society in which more and more people struggle to make ends meet, while the few do not even know how many billions they own.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nI'm standing in what should be an operating theatre - but instead it's been converted into an intensive care unit for Covid-19 patients on ventilators.\n\nThis is the first time I have seen it full of patients like this. Normally this theatre would be busy with major cancer surgery, but that's been transferred to another building.\n\nA children's recovery area, still decorated with colourful stickers of cartoons, is once again filled with desperately sick adults. Every day, more wards are being transformed into ICU - ready for the next influx of patients.\n\nWe have been given access to University College Hospital, in central London. This is the same intensive care unit that I first visited in April, during the first peak.\n\nIt is one of the busiest hospitals in the capital and intensive care here is expanding across a hospital that is under pressure like never before, from a relentless rise in Covid admissions.\n\nI am struck by the toll the pandemic is taking on staff. It's immense - both physically and mentally. They are shell-shocked. \"My emotions are all over the place. Scared, sad, petrified, worried,\" one ICU nurse tells me.\n\nI asked one of the consultants who I've met several times in the last year, Dr Jim Down, how long they can keep going like this - and the answer was stark. \"At this rate, about a week. After that we really need to see it slow down or we're going to see the care we can deliver suffering.\"\n\nThey have got three times as many critically ill patients in the hospital as normal. The number of Covid admissions to London hospitals has doubled in just two weeks - they're more stretched now than at the peak last April. Senior staff are worried.\n\nDr Alice Carter compares it to an elastic band that is close to snapping. \"It gets to a point where you stretch so far it never returns back to its baseline. I think that's probably where we are now. It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break, and that's the real fear for us at the moment.\"\n\nDr Alice Carter: 'It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break'\n\nThat could have very serious consequences, she adds. \"If we get to that point, we can't offer anyone ICU, not just Covid patients, but anyone who has a traffic accident or a heart attack or a stroke - whatever it is, to take them in.\"\n\nFor 38-year-old Rachel Arfin, one of the three pregnant women in intensive care with Covid-19, treatment is more complicated. Her baby is due in five weeks and the staff have to monitor them both.\n\n\"They can't do anything that will harm the baby,\" she says. \"All the time [they are] checking, monitoring the baby.\" She is reassured by the \"beautiful sound\" of her baby's heartbeat.\n\n\"They are looking after two people in one. They're saving lives,\" says Rachel. But her children - she has seven - keep asking when she's coming home.\n\nRachel Arfin's baby is due in five weeks - both are doing well\n\nI've reported from here several times during the pandemic and am always struck by the professionalism and dedication of staff. It's always quiet and calm, but that belies what's actually happening. This is a system under strain like never before.\n\nThe warning signs are clear, the NHS is on the brink. Unless infection rates fall, soon it will have a serious impact. The pressure on staff is unrelenting. I saw two nurses in tears.\n\nCompared to when I visited in April, it's a lot busier. In some ways, it's more structured - they now know what they're dealing with. They've got new treatments, such as the drug dexamethasone, which they didn't have last time. And many of the staff have now had the first dose of the vaccine.\n\nBut other aspects don't get any easier, such as the emotional burden of breaking bad news over a telephone or video call. It is very different to being able to hold someone's hand.\n\nStaff say they don't know which patients to help first\n\nICU staff have incredibly high standards. They're used to doing everything meticulously and perfectly. And they're doing all they can. But sometimes they go home and feel guilty that they can't do more. The impact on nurses - the bedrock of care in intensive care - is visible.\n\nThe highly specialised staff are usually one-to-one with patients. Deputy sister Ashleigh Shillingford is looking after three or four ventilated patients at a time, with one other junior member of staff. It's emotional and often devastating work.\n\n\"We are so stretched we have to prioritise and prioritising care is not the NHS that I grew up in - we shouldn't have to choose which patient gets what care first.\" She says she's never had to make decisions like these before.\n\n\"You just don't know who to help first. The patients are losing their lives at a dramatic speed, we're not just getting old people,\" she says, \"these are young people that we're getting.\"\n\nGerald Williams, 58, is awaiting chemotherapy for lung cancer and had been shielding, but he still caught coronavirus. \"All of a sudden, out of the blue, Covid came knocking on my door and it's frightening - you don't know how you're getting your next breath,\" he says.\n\nGerald Williams had been shielding but he still caught coronavirus\n\nHe wants to get home to his daughters, the youngest of whom is 13. And he's annoyed at those who don't take it seriously. \"People are moaning and groaning. Even in A&E. They need to get a life. Don't be idiots, forget about meeting your mate, stay home. No-one is invulnerable.\"\n\nFor now the Trust is coping better than many others in London and is still taking Covid patients from other hospitals. But the next few weeks could be the biggest challenge the NHS has ever faced - and it will be its doctors and nurses who will bear the brunt for all of us.\n\nAs the BBC's medical editor, Fergus Walsh has been reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic and its immense impact on the UK.", "Two US police officers linked to a notorious raid in which young black medic Breonna Taylor was fatally shot have been fired, authorities have said.\n\nDetectives Myles Cosgrove and Joshua Jaynes are the latest officers to be dismissed over the shooting in March last year.\n\nThe incident in Kentucky caused outrage, spurring protests against racism and police brutality.\n\nMs Taylor, 26, died when police raided her home in connection to a drug case.\n\nThe FBI said Mr Cosgrove fired the shot that killed Ms Taylor at her home in Louisville.\n\nLouisville police dismissed Mr Cosgrove for violating procedures for use of force and failing to use a body camera during the search, the Louisville Courier Journal reported on Wednesday.\n\nMr Jaynes, the newspaper said, was fired for violating the police force's policy for truthfulness and search warrant preparation.\n\nDuring the raid, Ms Taylor's boyfriend fired at the officers who he said he believed were attackers breaking into their home.\n\nPolice say they knocked on the door to announce their presence before breaking down the door with a battering ram.\n\nMs Taylor's boyfriend said police did not make their presence known, and he fired out of self-defence. Three officers returned fire with 32 shots, six of which hit Ms Taylor.\n\nMs Taylor's name became a global rallying cry as people demanded a thorough investigation into her death.\n\nBlack Lives Matter activists in the US have demanded that Louisville police take stronger action against the officers in the case and say that police too often escape unpunished after killing members of the public.\n\nBut despite the outcry against Ms Taylor's shooting, no criminal charges were sought relating to her death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Questions still aren't answered\": Breonna Taylor's family are worried about a \"cover-up\"", "Tennant was remembered as \"a beautiful soul\" and \"a sensitive and talented woman\"\n\nBritish model Stella Tennant took her own life after being \"unwell for some time\", her family has confirmed.\n\nIn a statement, her family said it was \"a matter of our deepest sorrow and despair that she felt unable to go on.\"\n\nTennant, who made her name in the early 1990s modelling for designers like Karl Lagerfeld and Versace, died in December five days after her 50th birthday.\n\nHer family said they were \"humbled by the outpouring of messages of sympathy and support\" they have received.\n\nTennant was \"a beautiful soul, adored by a close family and good friends, a sensitive and talented woman whose creativity, intelligence and humour touched so many\", they said.\n\n\"In grieving Stella's loss, her family renews a heartfelt request that respect for their privacy should continue.\"\n\nBorn in London on 1970, Tennant was known for her androgynous sultry looks and aristocratic heritage.\n\nShe shot to fame after being photographed for British Vogue at the age of 22 in 1993, going on to work with such designers as Alexander McQueen and Jean Paul Gaultier.\n\nTennant retired from the catwalk in 1998 but later returned. She also worked on campaigns to promote saving energy and reducing the environmental impact of fast fashion.\n\nShe had four children with French-born photographer David Lasnet. The couple married in the Scottish borders in 1999 and announced their separation last year.\n\nTennant with David Lasnet on their wedding day in 1999\n\nStella McCartney, Victoria Beckham and fellow model Naomi Campbell were among those to pay tribute after her death was announced last month.\n\nCampbell said she had been \"a class act in every way\", while Beckham remembered her as \"an incredible talent\".\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues in this article, information and support is available from BBC Action Line.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Medical staff are \"well over half way through\" vaccinating Scotland's care home residents with their first dose against Covid-19.\n\nThe first minister said this was \"extremely important\", as care homes accounted for more than a third of Covid-related deaths in the past week.\n\nBy Sunday more than 113,000 people in Scotland had been given their first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nSome 1,100 vaccination centres are set to be operational within a week.\n\nThe government has set a target of giving a first dose to everyone over the age of 80 in Scotland within the next four weeks.\n\nScotland has about 30,000 residents living in care homes for older people.\n\nA further 78 deaths of people who had tested positive for Covid-19 were announced on Thursday, the highest daily number during the second wave of the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, the National Records of Scotland said the virus had been mentioned on 183 death certificates in the week to Sunday - with 63 of these deaths occurring in care homes.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said this underlined the importance of rolling out the vaccine in care homes, saying it would hopefully start to significantly reduce the risk of residents dying due to coronavirus.\n\nAnd she said the government would start issuing a daily update on how many people had been given the jab from next week.\n\nThe first minister said: \"Vaccination ultimately is what will provide us with the route out of this pandemic, so we are absolutely determined to make sure as many people as possible are vaccinated just as quickly as it is possible to do so.\"\n\nAs of Sunday, a total of 113,459 people had been given their first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in Scotland.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine began to be rolled out on Monday, and will be reflected in statistics from next week.\n\nA total of 36 people have had a second dose of the vaccine, with efforts now focused on giving a first jab to as many people as possible\n\nThis means that people will now not receive their second dose for up to 12 weeks rather than within 21 days - a move that has been criticised by some medics.\n\nBut Chief Medical Officer Dr Gregor Smith said the first dose gave \"substantial\" protection against the virus.\n\nThe vaccine is being rolled out to health and social care workers in the first instance, then care home residents and other over-80s.\n\nEventually everyone in Scotland over the age of 18 - a total of 4.4m people - will be given a jab, although the government has refused to set targets beyond the initial phase due to uncertainty over supplies.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said Scotland is in a race between the vaccine and the virus\n\nThe UK government had already committed to publishing vaccination figures on a daily basis, and the Scottish Conservatives had been pushing for the Scottish government to follow suit.\n\nTory leader Douglas Ross said that \"publishing these numbers will increase transparency and give the public confidence that progress is being made in our fight against Covid-19\".\n\nThe MP told BBC Scotland that he had been getting inquiries from constituents about when they could expect to get a jab, saying people \"need to know roughly where they are on that list and when they can expect to receive that vaccine\".\n\nScottish Labour called on the government to backdate the statistics and to publish \"a detailed breakdown of how many people in each priority group has been vaccinated\".\n\nThe party's health spokeswoman, Monica Lennon, said: \"Quicker progress must be made on securing vaccinations sites and vaccinators, including the contribution that community pharmacy teams can make.\"\n\nAt her daily briefing, Ms Sturgeon said over-80s should not worry if they had not yet been contacted about a vaccine appointment.\n\nShe said these were being \"aligned with availability of supply\" in different local areas.\n\nThe first minister said there was \"no need to phone your GP\", and that people would be \"contacted with an appointment as soon as possible\".\n\nShe also said the government was considering \"as a matter of ongoing review\" whether tighter restrictions may still be needed.\n\nScotland has been in a new lockdown since Tuesday, and Ms Sturgeon said it was \"probably too early\" for this to be reflected in the number of new infections.\n\nHowever she warned that the number of interactions people are having needed to be \"radically\" cut in order to slow the spread of the virus.\n\nShe said shutting down construction, manufacturing and click-and-collect businesses was \"the kind of thing we need to look at if we have a concern that we are not sufficiently reducing the number of people who are out and about and interacting\".", "Two more life-saving drugs have been found that can cut deaths by a quarter in patients who are sickest with Covid.\n\nThe anti-inflammatory medications, given via a drip, save an extra life for every 12 treated, say researchers who have carried out a trial in NHS intensive care units.\n\nSupplies are already available across the UK so they can be used immediately to save hundreds of lives, say experts.\n\nThere are over 30,000 Covid patients in UK hospitals - 39% more than in April.\n\nThe UK government is working closely with the manufacturer, to ensure the drugs - tocilizumab and sarilumab - continue to be available to UK patients.\n\nAs well as saving more lives, the treatments speed up patients' recovery and reduce the length of time that critically-ill patients need to spend in intensive care by about a week.\n\nBoth appear to work equally well and add to the benefit already found with a cheap steroid drug called dexamethasone.\n\nAlthough the drugs are not cheap, costing around £500 per patient, on top of the £5 course of dexamethasone, the advantage of using them is clear - and less than the cost per day of an intensive care bed of around £2,000, say experts.\n\nLead researcher Prof Anthony Gordon, from Imperial College London, said: \"For every 12 patients you treat with these drugs you would expect to save a life. It's a big effect.\"\n\nIn the REMAP-CAP trial carried out in six different countries, including the UK, with around 800 intensive care patients:\n\nProf Stephen Powis, NHS national medical director, said: \"The fact there is now another drug that can help to reduce mortality for patients with Covid-19 is hugely welcome news and another positive development in the continued fight against the virus.\"\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"The UK has proven time and time again it is at the very forefront of identifying and providing the most promising, innovative treatments for its patients.\n\n\"Today's results are yet another landmark development in finding a way out of this pandemic and, when added to the armoury of vaccines and treatments already being rolled out, will play a significant role in defeating this virus.\"\n\nThe drugs dampen down inflammation, which can go into overdrive in Covid patients and cause damage to the lungs and other organs.\n\nDoctors are being advised to give them to any Covid patient who, despite receiving dexamethasone, is deteriorating and needs intensive care.\n\nTocilizumab and sarilumab have already been added to the government's export restriction list, which bans companies from buying medicines meant for UK patients and selling them on for a higher price in another country.\n\nThe research findings have not yet been peer reviewed or published in a medical journal.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We will never give up, we will never concede\", Trump tells supporters\n\nThis is how the Trump presidency ends. Not with a whimper, but with a bang.\n\nFor weeks, Donald Trump had been pointing to 6 January as a day of reckoning. It was when he told his supporters to come to Washington DC, and challenge Congress - and Vice-President Mike Pence - to discard the results of November's election and keep the presidency in his hands.\n\nOn Wednesday morning, the president and his warm-up speakers set the whirlwind in motion.\n\nRudy Giuliani, the president's personal lawyer, said the election disputes should be resolved through \"trial by combat\".\n\nDonald Trump Jr, the president's oldest son, had a message to members of his party who would not \"fight\" for their president.\n\n\"This isn't their Republican Party anymore,\" he said. \"This is Donald Trump's Republican Party.\"\n\nThen the president himself encouraged the growing crowd, which had chanted \"stop the steal\" and \"bullshit\" at the president's prompting, to march the two miles from the White House to the Capitol.\n\n\"We will never give up. We will never concede,\" the president said. \"Our country has had enough. We will not take it anymore.\"\n\nAs the president was concluding his remarks, a different kind of drama was playing out within the Capitol itself, as a joint session of Congress prepared to tabulate the state-by-state results of the election.\n\nFirst, Pence - disregarding the president's urging to throw out the results from contested states - released a statement that he did not have such powers and his role was \"largely ceremonial\".\n\nThen Republicans issued their first challenge, to Arizona votes, and the House and Senate began their separate deliberations on whether to accept Joe Biden's victory there.\n\nThe House proceedings were raucous, with both sides cheering as their speakers made their remarks.\n\n\"The oath that I took this past Sunday to defend and support the Constitution makes it necessary for me to object to this travesty,\" said newly elected Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, who had recently made headlines for insisting that she would carry a handgun with her in Congress. \"I will not allow the people to be ignored.\"\n\nProtesters gathered outside the Capitol as the joint session started\n\nIn the Senate, the debate was taking on a different tone. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, dressed in the kind of dark suit and tie that befits a funeral, was coming to bury Donald Trump, not praise him.\n\n\"If this election were overturned by mere allegations from the losing side, our democracy would enter a death spiral,\" McConnell said. \"We'd never see the whole nation accept an election again. Every four years would be a scramble for power at any cost.\"\n\nThe Kentucky senator, who will become the Senate minority leader as a result of his party's two recent defeats in Georgia, said that the chamber was designed to \"stop short-term passions from boiling over and melting the foundations of our republic\".\n\nHis words were practically still hanging in the air when the passions outside the Capitol boiled over, and the Trump supporters, perhaps inspired by the earlier speeches, stormed the building. They swamped the insufficient security in place and brought the proceedings to a grinding halt, as lawmakers, staff and media rushed to find shelter from the rioters.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How a Trump rally near the White House turned deadly at the Capitol\n\nThe drama unfolded in fits and starts. Television cameras broadcast images of protesters dancing and waving flags on the steps of the Capitol. Photos and snippets popped up on social media of rioters inside the building, attempting to break into the legislative chambers and posing in the offices of elected legislators; of security officers, guns drawn in the House of Representatives, behind barricaded doors.\n\nIn Wilmington, Delaware, President-elect Joe Biden scrapped a planned speech on the economy and condemned what he called an \"insurrection\" in Washington.\n\n\"At this hour our democracy is under unprecedented assault unlike anything we've seen in modern times,\" he said. \"An assault on the citadel of liberty, the Capitol itself.\"\n\nHe concluded his short remarks with a challenge to Trump: to go on national television to condemn the violence and \"demand an end to this siege\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joe Biden: The scenes of chaos at the Capitol do not reflect a true America, do not represent who we are\n\nMinutes later, Trump would offer his message to the nation - but it was not the one Biden suggested.\n\nInstead, sandwiched between his now familiar complaints about the election being \"stolen\", he told his supporters \"to go home, we love you, you're very special\".\n\nIt was the kind of kid gloves way the president has routinely responded to transgressions from his supporters - whether it was their violent treatment of protesters at his rallies, the \"very fine people on both sides\" statement after the clashes at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville or his \"stand back and stand by\" message to the far-right Proud Boys group during the first debate with Biden.\n\nTrump's tweet, and two subsequent ones which also praised his supporters, were flagged and then removed by Twitter, which took the unprecedented step of locking the president's account for 12 hours. Facebook followed suit, banning Trump for a full day.\n\nFor the first time in his presidency, for the first time in his long, intimate relationship with social media, Donald Trump had been silenced.\n\nIf this is the \"at long last, have you left no sense of decency\" moment for Donald Trump, it arrives as they're cleaning up blood and broken glass in the US Capitol.\n\nAs the afternoon stretched into the evening, and police finally secured the US Capitol, a growing chorus of voices - from the left and right - condemned the violence. It was not surprising that Democrats, like soon-to-be Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, laid the riots at the feet of the president.\n\n\"January 6 will go down as one of the darkest days in American history,\" he said. \"A final warning to our nation of the consequences of the demagogic president, the people who enable him, the captive media that parrot his lies and the people who follow him as he attempts to push America to the brink of ruin.\"\n\nMore noteworthy, however, were the Republicans who followed suit.\n\n\"We just had a violent mob assault the Capitol in an attempt to prevent those from carrying out our Constitutional duty,\" tweeted Congresswoman Lynne Cheney, a frequent Republican critic of the president's. \"There is no question that the president formed the mob, the president incited the mob, the president addressed the mob.\"\n\nThe condemnations were not limited to Trump's reliable intraparty critics, however. Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas, who frequently sides with the president, also spoke out.\n\n\"It's past time for the president to accept the results of the election, quit misleading the American people, and repudiate mob violence,\" he said.\n\nFirst Lady Melania Trump's Chief of Staff Stephanie Grisham and Deputy White House Press Secretary Sarah Matthews both resigned in protest, and there are reports that more administration officials will head for the exits in the next 24 hours.\n\nCBS has reported that Trump administration Cabinet officials are discussing the 25th amendment to the US constitution, which outlines how the vice-president and a majority of the Cabinet can temporarily remove a president from office.\n\nWhether Pence and the Cabinet act or not, Trump's presidency will be over in just two weeks. At that point, Republican Party leaders will have to grapple with a future where it has lost control of the Congress and the White House and has a former president whose reputation is badly tarnished but who still has strong sway over a sizeable segment of the party's base.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mitt Romney warns fellow Republicans not to be complicit in attack on democracy\n\nWednesday's events could presage a pitched battle for the direction of the party, as conservatives within the party attempt to wrest control away from Trump and his loyalists. McConnell, given his remarks earlier in the day, appears willing to chart such a course. Others, like Utah Senator Mitt Romney, a former Republican presidential nominee, may also take a leading role.\n\nThey will be challenged by others within the party who may be more interested in laying claim to Trump's populist mantle. It was notable that Josh Hawley of Missouri, the first senator to announce he would object the results of the election in the Senate, did not step away from his challenge even after the Senate reconvened following the violence in the Capitol.\n\nCrisis can bring political opportunity, and there are many politicians who will not hesitate to use it to gain advantage.\n\nMeanwhile, Trump - for now - is still in power. And while he may be chastened, he may be sitting in the White House residence watching television temporarily without his social media outlet, he will not be silent for long.\n\nAnd once he decamps for his new Florida home, he could begin making plans to settle scores and, perhaps, someday return to power and rebuild a legacy that, for the moment, lies in tatters.", "The Belfast Health Trust has said it has no other option but to cancel urgent cancer surgery.\n\nThese are known as red flag cancer cases where an operation is expected to impact on a person's recovery and even surviving the disease.\n\nThe Department of Health has confirmed to the BBC that it's estimated that one in 60 people in NI have Covid-19.\n\nIt is understood the trust expects \"many 100s\" of new Covid patients in the next three weeks.\n\nThe demand for bed space is described as \"highly significant\", while a source added that all is being done to \"find beds and staff\".\n\nThey continued: \"People in here are moving heaven and earth to find beds in anticipation of what is coming and that's why some cancer patients even those who have been told their case is urgent are having their surgery cancelled.\"\n\nEffectively the move means that choices are already being made within the health service about who should receive critical treatment.\n\nThe daughter of a 66-year-old woman who was told her surgery has been cancelled has described the move as \"deeply worrying\".\n\n\"Mummy was diagnosed with cancer of the lining of the bladder in November, it's since spread to the muscle wall of her bladder. She was told in December her surgery was urgent - but now it's been cancelled.\n\n\"She is so frightened, it is just horrendous and I'm sure mum is not alone.\"\n\nWhile a cancer patient might have been told their case is critical and that treatment is necessary within weeks, some Covid patients are also being told that in order to survive they require treatment immediately.\n\nWith the number of cases soaring this is worse than the first lockdown and according to health professionals there is worse to come.\n\nThe BBC understands that the health minister is expected to respond to the problem in the coming days.\n\nIt is hoped that he will announce a regional approach to tackling cancelled surgeries among the various health trusts.\n\nNorthern Ireland's other health trusts have also begun to cancel operations due to pressures created by coronavirus.\n\nThe Northern, Western, Southern and South-Eastern trusts have said they will be cancelling planned surgeries.\n\nHospitals have said they were facing a surge in coronavirus cases following Christmas.\n\nOn Thursday, 599 people were in hospital with Covid-19.\n\nThe Belfast Trust apologised for the \"distress\" caused by the cancellations.\n\n\"Belfast Trust has made the difficult decision to cancel all planned inpatient surgery this week due to rising numbers of Covid cases,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nThe trust said it was contacting those affected and \"will rearrange this surgery as soon as possible and we will do everything we can to ensure continuity of care throughout this challenging time\".\n\nThe Northern Trust said it had \"regrettably\" cancelled the majority of its planned or elective surgeries to \"both free up staff to support the significant COVID-19 surge experience in the Trust and to reduce the clinical risk to patients who are or may be exposed to the virus\".\n\nIt apologised and said it would contacting people.\n\nThe Western Trust said it is \"facing unprecedented pressures due to the escalating rate\" of Covid infections.\n\nDirector of Acute Hospitals, Geraldine McKay, said routine elective inpatient, outpatient and day case surgeries have now been postponed until further notice.\n\nShe said the decision was \"very regrettable, but necessary\".\n\n\"Red flag and some time critical procedures and clinics will continue, but will be reviewed daily,\" she said.\n\nShould the number of Covid patients further increase, she added, the trust will \"have no option but to move to perform emergency and trauma surgery only\".\n\nA spokesperson for the South Eastern Trust said it was still carrying out some planned surgery, but the majority would be cancelled by next week.\n\nThe Southern Trust said it had taken its decision in response to the \"very significant recent increase\" in the number of Covid-19 cases.\n\nIt said this had been compounded by an increase in trauma workload and recent icy weather.\n\nThe trust said it would continue to provide day surgery and endoscopy across its hospital sites.\n\nOf the 3,359 planned procedures scheduled across NI between 29 December 2020 and 4 January, 3,267 went ahead as planned, according to the Health and Social Care website.\n\nThere were 92 cancellations which amounted to about 3% of all surgeries.", "During a speech earlier in the day, President Trump had asked his supporters to march towards the Capitol in protest. They breached the building while Congress was certifying Joe Biden's win.\n\nProtesters made it all the way to the Senate floor and the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.\n\nHere are the key moments in a dark day for US democracy.", "The US is reeling after supporters of President Trump stormed the Capitol building in Washington DC on the day Congress was meeting to confirm Joe Biden's election victory.\n\nLawmakers were forced to take shelter, the building was put into lockdown and four people died in the chaos that followed a pro-Trump rally near the White House.\n\nHere's a breakdown of how events unfolded on Wednesday.\n\nJust before midday local time (17:00 GMT) thousands of people gather at the Ellipse, near the White House, to hear the president speak at a \"Save America\" rally.\n\nHe tells them: \"We're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue... and we're going to the Capitol and we're going to try and give… our Republicans, the weak ones... the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.\"\n\nAs the speech ends, crowds start to drift towards the Congress building, about a mile and a half away, where they are met by police barriers.\n\nThe Capitol is home to the two chambers of the US government that make up Congress - the House of Representatives and the Senate.\n\nChanting crowds start to gather on both sides of the building at around 13:10, grappling with police at the metal barricades.\n\nTear gas and pepper spray are used to try to keep the protesters at bay.\n\nPolice officers struggle to maintain control of the situation as protesters advance on the building on multiple fronts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nOn the east side, the crowd force their way through barricades on the Capitol Plaza and move on the main entrance, quickly gaining access to the Great Rotunda.\n\nOnce inside, they head for the House and Senate chambers.\n\nIgor Bobic, a journalist for the Huffington Post, captures a group of men forcing a police officer to retreat up a set of stairs as they continue their advance.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Igor Bobic This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSenators are forced to abandon the process of confirming President-elect Biden's victory and the building goes into lockdown.\n\nThe doors of the House chamber are locked and a makeshift barricade is erected in front of them. Security officials guard the entrance, guns drawn.\n\nWithin an hour, protesters have also broken police lines on the west side of the Capitol, scaling walls to reach the building itself before smashing windows and forcing doors open.\n\nOther videos and images show rioters storming through the building's ornately-decorated corridors and chambers chanting \"USA!\" and \"Stop the steal\".\n\nShortly before 15:00, gunshots are reportedly heard inside the building.\n\nPhotos and video footage later show a female protester being shot as she tries to break through the barricaded doors of the Speakers' Lobby.\n\nDespite efforts by police and others at the scene to save her, she is later reported to have died.\n\nOn the other side of the building, protesters break into the Senate chamber, one taking seat in the Speaker's chair.\n\nAnother protester is photographed nearby sitting in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office, with his foot on the table.\n\nAfter growing condemnation of the riots, President Trump eventually calls for calm, telling the protesters to leave peacefully: \"Go home. We love you, you're very special.\"\n\nBy 17:40, the building is cleared and made secure ahead of the 18:00 curfew ordered by DC Mayor Muriel Bowser.\n\nSeveral thousand National Guard troops, FBI agents and US Secret Service are deployed to help.\n\nMore than six hours after the storming of the building, senators return and resume the day's business of certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election.\n\nAt 03:41 on Thursday, Congress confirms President-elect Joe Biden will succeed President Trump on 20 January.", "Young women clap for heroes outside Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London\n\nA revived initiative to applaud the heroes of the pandemic has returned - but much more quietly than last year.\n\nIt comes after the founder of Clap for Carers distanced herself from its return after facing online abuse.\n\nAnnemarie Plas wanted to bring back the weekly applause under a new name of Clap for Heroes to lift spirits in the new lockdown but it fell a little flat.\n\nSome health workers have said they would rather people stay at home and wear a mask than clap for them.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he participated at 20:00 GMT on Thursday, but clapping \"isn't enough\".\n\n\"They need to be paid properly and given the respect they deserve,\" he tweeted., of the health workers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The weekly clap returned but Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said clapping alone \"wasn't enough\"\n\nThe idea of clapping and banging pots from doorsteps originally began as a one-off to support NHS staff on 26 March - three days after the UK went into lockdown for the first time.\n\nAfter proving popular it was expanded to cover all key workers and continued every Thursday for 10 weeks last year, with millions of people across the UK taking part.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family and politicians including Prime Minister Boris Johnson also joined in with the show of support.\n\nHowever, the event faced criticism for becoming politicised, with some suggesting the NHS would benefit more from extra funding than applause.\n\nPeople in some streets stood on doorsteps and leaned out windows to clap for the pandemic's heroes, and landmarks in London were illuminated blue for the occasion - but reports suggested the applause was noticeably quieter than last year.\n\nAnnemarie Plas and her family were threatened online for her efforts\n\nOn Wednesday, Ms Plas, a 36-year-old mother-of-one, announced the return of the initiative, saying she hoped to \"lift the spirit of all of us\" including \"all who are pushing through this difficult time\".\n\nBut some NHS workers were less than enthusiastic. Ami Jones, an intensive care consultant from Wales, tweeted: \"No thanks. I'd rather you obey the rules, stay at home, wear masks and wash your hands.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rachel Clarke 💙 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke said: \"Please don't clap us. Just wear a mask, wash your hands and respect lockdown.\"\n\nIn a tweet posted hours before the weekly clap was due to return, Ms Plas, a Dutch national living in south London, said she had been targeted with personal abuse and threats against her and her family by \"a hateful few\" on social media.\n\n\"I have no political agenda, I am not employed by the government, I do not work in PR, I am just an average mum at home trying to cope with the lockdown situation,\" she said, in a statement.\n\nShe said the newly revived clap could and should still happen at 20:00 GMT.\n\n\"It's up to each person to decide how relevant or worthwhile they feel it is to participate,\" she said.\n\nThe fountains in Trafalgar Square were illuminated blue for the initiative on Thursday\n\nSome incorporated pots and pans during their weekly claps in warmer months", "As violent Trump supporters surged past barricades and into the US Capitol, news agency photographers - who were there to document the vote certifying Joe Biden's election win - captured extraordinary scenes.\n\nThe last time government buildings were breached in Washington was in 1814 and the invaders were British soldiers.\n\nBut in 2021 a Trump supporter, carrying the Confederate flag, is walking freely through the halls near the entrance to the Senate, encountering little resistance.\n\nThe Confederacy was the group of southern states that fought to keep slavery during the American Civil War. In this image, the oil paintings of political figures in the background emphasise this imagery of the past.\n\nThere have been renewed calls for the Confederate flag to be banned across the US following the anti-racism protests sparked by the police killing of George Floyd, a black man.\n\nHowever Mr Trump has defended use of the flag, calling it a matter of free speech.\n\nOne man in a Trump beanie here walks between the red guide ropes, as many visitors might do on a guided-tour to view the Crypt, the Statuary Hall and the Rotunda.\n\nBut this man is carrying a podium bearing the seal of the Speaker of the House, as he poses in front of a painting depicting the surrender of Gen Burgoyne in the war of independence.\n\nAnother man, identified as Jake Angeli, an ardent Trump supporter who has attended a number of the president's rallies, shouts as he makes his way to the Senate Chamber.\n\nHis incongruous garments set him apart from other protesters wearing black hoodies. These Trump activists stand by taking selfies, but he has clearly come here to be photographed by others.\n\nThe apparent lack of a security presence is in sharp contrast to other Washington protests where there is a highly visible presence of heavily armed security forces protecting US institutions.\n\nAnother Trump supporter, identified as Richard Barnett, sits with one boot disrespectfully on a desk that is at the very centre of power in Congress. It is in the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.\n\nIn the scene, unimaginable days earlier, Barnett in his baseball cap and checked shirt resembles a raconteur regaling friends with tales of his exploits.\n\nThe image went viral as did pictures of the notes he and others left on Ms Pelosi's desk.\n\nThis dramatic image shows how the formal proceedings came to a violent halt as Capitol police officers drew their guns on doors being attacked by protesters intent on entering the House Chamber.\n\nMany commentators asked if they were watching a coup unfold as doors were barricaded and firearms brandished.\n\nThe composition is reminiscent of a scene in a Hollywood Western, the lawmen bracing for the doors to be breached.\n\nUS President-elect Joe Biden made an impassioned TV address describing the scenes as \"an assault on democracy\" - this chilling picture encapsulates what he meant.", "A Joint Session of Congress to certify the election of Joe Biden has gone into an unexpected recess, and the Capitol building into lockdown, after Trump supporters breached security lines.\n\nEarlier, President Trump addressed supporters at a rally outside the White House and encouraged them to protest the election result.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"I condemn encouraging people to behave in the disgraceful way they did in the Capitol\"\n\nDonald Trump was \"completely wrong\" to cast doubt on the US election and encourage supporters to storm the Capitol, Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThe UK prime minister said he \"unreservedly condemns\" the US president's actions.\n\nFour people died after a pro-Trump mob stormed the building in a bid to overturn the election result.\n\nMr Trump had urged protesters to march on the Capitol after making false electoral fraud claims.\n\nHe later called on his supporters to \"go home\", while continuing to make false claims - Twitter and Facebook later froze his accounts.\n\nThe president has now said there will be an \"orderly transition\" to President-elect Joe Biden, whose November election victory has now been certified by US lawmakers.\n\nBut he added that he continued to \"totally disagree\" with the outcome of the vote, repeating his unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud.\n\nOn Wednesday night, Mr Johnson condemned the \"disgraceful scenes\" and called for a \"peaceful and orderly transfer of power\".\n\nBut asked by the BBC's political correspondent Alex Forsyth if President Trump was directly responsible, he said: \"All my life America has stood for some very important things. An idea of freedom, an idea of democracy.\n\n\"As you say, in so far as he encouraged people to storm the Capitol, and in so far as the president has consistently cast doubt on the outcome of a free and fair election, I believe that was completely wrong.\n\n\"I believe what President Trump has been saying about that has been completely wrong and I unreservedly condemn encouraging people to behave in the disgraceful way that they did in the Capitol.\"\n\nThe PM, speaking at a Downing Street briefing, then welcomed the confirmation of President-elect Biden, saying \"democracy has prevailed\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHundreds of the president's supporters stormed the Capitol on Wednesday - where lawmakers were meeting to confirm Mr Biden's election victory - and staged an occupation of the building in Washington DC.\n\nBoth chambers of Congress were forced into recess, as protesters clashed with police and tear gas was released.\n\nA woman died after being shot by police, and three others died as a result of \"medical emergencies\", local police said.\n\nUK politicians from different parties have all condemned Mr Trump's actions in encouraging the storming of the Capitol.\n\nEarlier, Home Secretary Priti Patel said the president's comments had \"directly led\" to the events and he \"didn't do anything to de-escalate that\".\n\nShe added: \"He basically has made a number of comments yesterday that helped to fuel that violence and he didn't actually do anything to de-escalate that whatsoever... what we've seen is completely unacceptable.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Priti Patel says Donald Trump was wrong for not condemning the violence\n\nSpeaking on Thursday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Trump should \"take responsibility\" for what happened, calling it the \"culmination of years of the politics of hate and division\".\n\nSir Keir added he welcomed the outgoing president's agreement to an orderly handover, but told reporters \"he should have said it a long time ago.\"\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Mr Trump had been \"inciting insurrection in his own country,\" and called it a \"dark period\" in US history.\n\n\"What we witnessed last night is not that surprising. In some senses, Donald Trump's presidency has been moving towards this moment almost from the moment it started,\" she told ITV's Good Morning Britain.\n\nScotland's Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf said the home secretary should \"give serious consideration\" to denying Mr Trump entry to the UK after he leaves office.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said certification of Mr Biden's victory was \"good to see\" after the \"shocking events\" on Wednesday, adding the UK condemned the violence \"unequivocally\".\n\nFormer Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May, who shared time in office with Mr Trump, said there should be \"no place for the rule of the mob\".\n\nBut senior Welsh Conservative Andrew RT Davies has been criticised after comparing the rioting to politicians who supported a second referendum on Brexit.\n\nMr Davies, a member of the Welsh Parliament, later tweeted that \"violence must never be tolerated\".\n\nHis party colleague, the Conservative MP Simon Hoare, suggested Mr Trump could be sent to the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Simon Hoare MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has written to express his \"solidarity\" with US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose empty office was broken into by protesters.\n\n\"Seeing your office trashed in that way and its occupation by one of the rioters was particularly outrageous. I am just so relieved you were not hurt,\" he wrote.\n\nTrump supporters left this note on the desk of Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives.", "Ryanair is making big cuts to its flight schedule from 21 January in response to the latest Covid lockdowns.\n\nIt warned that few, if any, flights would operate to or from Ireland or the UK from the end of January until \"draconian\" restrictions were removed.\n\nCustomers hit by the cancellations will be advised by email of entitlements to free moves or refunds, it said.\n\nRyanair also cut its full year traffic forecast from currently \"below 35 million\" to 26-30 million passengers.\n\nThe airline said that new Covid restrictions could reduce traffic in February and March to as little as 500,000 passengers each month. It expects January traffic to fall below 1.25 million.\n\nIt said it did not expect these latest flight cuts and further traffic reductions to materially affect its net loss for the year to 31 March 2021, since many of the flights would have been loss-making.\n\nRyanair hit out at Irish and UK governments for the latest lockdowns.\n\n\"The WHO have previously confirmed that governments should do everything possible to avoid brutal lockdowns, because lockdowns 'do not get rid of the virus',\" Ryanair said in a statement.\n\n\"Ireland's Covid-19 travel restrictions are already the most stringent in Europe, and so these new flight restrictions are inexplicable and ineffective when Ireland continues to operate an open border between the Republic and the North of Ireland.\"\n\nIt called on the Irish Government to accelerate the rollout of vaccines.\n\n\"The fact that the Danish Government, with a similar five million population, has already vaccinated 10 times more citizens than Ireland shows that emergency action is needed to speed Covid vaccinations in Ireland.\"\n\nRival low-cost carrier Norwegian said its traffic figures had been hit heavily by the pandemic, with customer numbers down 94% compared to the same period the previous year.\n\nIn December, 129,664 customers flew with Norwegian, with the capacity and total passenger traffic both down by 98%.\n\n\"2020 has been a very challenging year and we now find ourselves fighting for survival,\" said Jacob Schram, chief executive of Norwegian.\n\n\"The vaccination is now being rolled out across the world and is good news for both the aviation industry and those who want to travel.\"", "Mauritius has been removed from the safe list\n\nTravellers from countries near South Africa are to be banned from entering England to stop the spread of the South African Covid variant.\n\nArrivals from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana, as well as island nations Mauritius and Seychelles, will be affected.\n\nThe rule will take effect on 9 January but there will be an exemption for British and Irish nationals.\n\nThey will need to follow existing quarantine procedures.\n\nA ban by visitors to the UK from South Africa started on 24 December.\n\nThe latest restriction brought in by the Department for Transport also affects travellers arriving from Eswatini, Zambia, Malawi, Lesotho and Mozambique.\n\nIt will apply from 04:00 GMT on Saturday to people who have travelled from or through any of the specified countries in the last 10 days.\n\nIt is understood most flights from the affected countries arrive at airports in England, although it is expected the policy will be formally adopted by the other UK nations.\n\nThe measures will be in place for an initial period of two weeks.\n\nMeanwhile, Botswana, and the islands of Seychelles and Mauritius, are being removed from the UK list of safe travel corridors as there is a high frequency of travel between the islands and South Africa.\n\nThe new variant of coronavirus circulating in South Africa is already being seen in other countries, including the UK.\n\nThe variant, much like the new UK variant first seen in Kent, appears to be more contagious than previous ones.\n\nAnyone arriving into the UK from most destinations must quarantine for 10 days.\n\nBut there are a list of countries exempt from the rules, meaning returning travellers do not need to self-isolate, called the travel corridor list.\n\nUnder the latest announcement, the travel corridor with Israel will also end amid concerns about rising infection levels in that country.\n\nHowever, rules in place across the UK currently ban travel abroad unless for specific reasons.", "Protesters in support of US President Donald Trump swarmed the Capitol building, forcing officials to order lawmakers to shelter in place and halting debate in both the House and Senate. Congress was meeting to confirm President-elect Joe Biden's electoral college victory.", "Mr Christmas' light displays attracted thousands of visitors over the years\n\nThe family of a man known affectionately as Mr Christmas has turned off his festive lights for the last time.\n\nDave Edwards, 86, lit up his home in Croxley Green, Hertfordshire, with extravagant light displays for 42 years to raise money for charity.\n\nHe died from cancer on the eve of his annual switch-on in November.\n\nHis daughter Sharon Markham called on local residents to \"continue to light up Croxley every year\".\n\nMr Edwards started putting up the light display with his wife - who died three years ago - as a competition with a house across the street, and continued to build on the set over the years.\n\nDave Edwards was dubbed Mr Christmas due to the illuminations at his home in Croxley Green\n\nPeople would travel miles to see the festive lights\n\nMrs Markham said each year they raised about £5,000 for charity, but this year a \"record amount\" of more than £10,000 had been donated.\n\nWhen his family said the 2020 display would be the last due to Mr Edwards's failing health, people across the village rallied together by installing their own displays in his honour.\n\nSharon Markham said her parents were \"such amazing people but their light will always be shining\"\n\nResidents of Croxley Green placed a banner opposite Mr Christmas' home to thank him for his displays and fundraising\n\nTurning off the lights at 21:23 GMT on Wednesday, in an event filmed for the Mr Christmas Facebook page, Mrs Markham thanked the community for its support over the years.\n\n\"Without you we could not have achieved the things we have done,\" she said.\n\n\"I thought turning the lights on was hard enough but switching them off - this moment has been worrying me for months and now it's finally here.\n\n\"For now, though, we say goodbye and we thank Mr and Mrs Christmas for all the joy they have brought us all.\n\n\"We ask you all to continue to light up Croxley every year.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Dr Anil Mehta, a GP at Fullwell Cross Medical Centre in North London, told the BBC that staff were working from 7 in the morning until 10pm at night during the three days of their weekly Covid-19 vaccine rollout, describing the process as a 'full team effort.\n\nDr Mehta was also keen to encourage people who might be nervous about the vaccine to take up the offer, emphasising that the evidence behind the vaccine 'was very strong'.\n\nThis message was echoed by Zahin Ahmed, whose grandfather Shafiquz Zaman has now received both doses of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine at the clinic. Mr Ahmed, who is from the Bangladeshi community, also said it was important that minority communities took up the offer of the vaccine when called upon to do so.", "George had mottled skin, swelling on his lips, a high temperature and could not keep fluids down\n\nThe mother of a baby who was treated in hospital for Covid-19 has urged parents to be alert to symptoms such as mottled skin and sickness.\n\nMyer Rudelhoff's four-month-old son George spent three nights in Basildon hospital, in Essex.\n\nHe had patchy skin, swelling on his lips, a high temperature and could not keep fluids down.\n\nShe said: \"I thought it was a sickness bug. I had no idea it was caused by coronavirus.\"\n\nDiarrhoea, vomiting and abdominal cramps in children can be a sign of coronavirus according to some researchers, but the officially recognised symptoms are a fever, cough and loss of smell or taste.\n\nMrs Rudlehoff, who lives in Basildon, noticed her son had a temperature on New Year's Eve but put it down to teething.\n\nGeorge began vomiting the following evening and on 2 January she called NHS 111, who told her to take him to hospital.\n\nShe said: \"I really did not want to go. I was so scared about him getting the virus there, I had no idea he had it.\n\n\"He got so poorly so quickly when we arrived and was really lethargic. They took a swab and, when they said he was positive, I burst into tears. It was such a shock.\"\n\nMyer Rudelhoff was scared to take her son to hospital but realised he was too poorly and needed treatment\n\nThe mother-of-two said she presumed it was not Covid-19 because he did not have a cough, though he did develop a mild one a few days later while in hospital.\n\nShe said the staff were \"amazing\" and she wanted to reassure parents \"not to be afraid to go to hospital\" if their children were ill.\n\nNurses told her they had treated several other children with the same mottled skin and sickness and asked her to share her story to raise awareness of these symptoms.\n\nMrs Rudelhoff's post on Facebook was shared nearly 7,000 times within three days.\n\nIn the post, she said she felt \"upset, angry and frustrated\" because she had taken the illness very seriously but George had still managed to catch it. He was the only member of the family who tested positive.\n\nGeorge was discharged from hospital and was making a good recovery at home, she said.\n\nGeorge is now making a good recovery at home and is being looked after by his big brother Stanley\n\nDr Kilali Ominu-Evbota, paediatric consultant at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust, said: \"It's great to hear that George is now back home and on the road to recovery.\n\n\"George's family did the right thing and we encourage parents to seek medical advice with their GP or via the NHS 111 service in order to get the correct treatment for their child.\"\n\nBasildon has an infection rate of 1,265 cases per 100,000 people - compared to the average England rate of 606.9.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n• None 'Upset stomach' in children may be coronavirus\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The president says he hates Big Tech. Yet he has loved using Twitter.\n\nHe's used it as a way, for more than 10 years, to bypass the media and speak directly to voters.\n\nThe 280 characters fits neatly with his style of political engagement - broad brushstrokes rather than details.\n\nAnd Twitter has undoubtedly benefited from President Trump too, the place to go to hear the latest musings from the most powerful person on the planet.\n\nThat decade-long symbiosis has been ended with a shuddering halt.\n\nImmediately after the deadly riots, Twitter locked the President's Twitter feed and asked Mr Trump to delete three tweets for violations around its Civic Integrity policy., which he promptly did.\n\nAfter the suspension he tweeted as a new man, the nonsense claims of mass voter fraud replaced with a more conciliatory tone.\n\nPrivately though Twitter was pondering whether it had gone far enough. Facebook had already acted, banning Donald Trump \"indefinitely\".\n\nAfter more than 48 hours of consideration, Twitter acted. It made unquestionably the most important moderation decision in its history. It banned the president of the United States.\n\nSome have asked why he wasn't kicked off sooner.\n\nMr Trump or one of his associates appears to have deleted some of his most recent tweets\n\nWell, Twitter has very specific rules about world leaders.\n\n\"We recognise that sometimes it may be in the public interest to allow people to view tweets that would otherwise be taken down,\" Twitter's rules say.\n\n\"At present, we limit exceptions to one critical type of public-interest content - tweets from elected and government officials.\"\n\nChief executive Jack Dorsey had felt it was in the public interest to keep the account active, albeit with warning messages.\n\n\"No one is turning a blind eye,\" a senior source told the BBC before the ban.\n\nIn short, Mr Trump had been allowed to remain on Twitter - despite numerous breaches of its rules - because he is the president.\n\nWith less than two weeks to go of Trump's presidency, many social media companies have now decided enough is enough.\n\nCritics say the outgoing president's words on social media, for years, helped to incite Wednesday's storming of Capitol Hill.\n\nAll the big social media companies have made it clear that - as a private citizen - if you continually look to peddle conspiracy theories and promote extremism, you should expect to be kicked out. With just a few days of his presidency left, Mr Trump is already being held to a different standard - his privileges stripped.\n\nWhat's driving this? To be cynical, social media companies are acutely aware that President-elect Joe Biden believes Big Tech hasn't done enough to quell fake news and hate speech on their platforms.\n\nRioters broke into Congress after a speech by Mr Trump on Wednesday\n\nThey are now desperate to show that they can, in fact, police their own platforms without the need for stringent legal reforms.\n\nWhat better way to show you're serious than to act on Mr Trump's misinformation?\n\nWhat will Mr Trump do next? Well he's already said he's looking into the possibility of building his own platform in the future.\n\nBut for now he's consigned to the fringes of the internet. Can Trumpism survive without Big Tech? We're about to find out.\n\nJames Clayton is the BBC's North America technology reporter based in San Francisco. Follow him on Twitter @jamesclayton5.", "For the first since April the UK has recorded more than 1,000 daily Covid-related deaths – one of the highest figures of the pandemic.\n\nRight now, London is at the epicentre of this crisis. Hospitals now have more Covid patients being admitted every day than they did at the peak in April. Many doctors and nurses say they're reaching breaking point.\n\nThe BBC's medical editor Fergus Walsh has been allowed to film inside the intensive care unit at London's University College Hospital, which is one of the busiest in the capital.\n\nRead more: 'How long can we keep going like this? About a week'", "Elon Musk has become the world's richest person, as his net worth crossed $185bn (£136bn).\n\nThe Tesla and SpaceX entrepreneur was pushed into the top slot after Tesla's share price increased on Thursday.\n\nHe takes the top spot from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who had held it since 2017.\n\nMr Musk's electric car company Tesla has surged in value this year, and hit a market value of $700bn (£516bn) for the first time on Wednesday.\n\nThat makes the car company worth more than Toyota, Volkswagen, Hyundai, GM and Ford combined.\n\nMr Musk reacted to the news in signature style, replying to a Twitter user sharing the news with the remark \"how strange\".\n\nAn older tweet pinned to the top of his feed offered further insight into his thoughts on personal wealth.\n\n\"About half my money is intended to help problems on Earth, and half to help establish a self-sustaining city on Mars to ensure continuation of life (of all species) in case Earth gets hit by a meteor like the dinosaurs or WW3 happens and we destroy ourselves,\" it reads.\n\nThe tycoon's fortunes have been buoyed by politics in the US, where the Democrats will have control of the US Senate in the forthcoming session.\n\nDaniel Ives, an analyst with Wedbush Securities wrote: \"A Blue Senate is very bullish and a potential 'game changer' for Tesla and the overall electric vehicle sector, with a more green-driven agenda now certainly in the cards for the next few years.\"\n\nExpected electric vehicle tax credits would benefit Tesla, \"which continues to have an iron grip on the market today\", he added.\n\nMr Bezos is also using his personal wealth to fund space exploration\n\nMr Bezos has also seen his fortunes rise over the past year. The coronavirus pandemic has meant Amazon benefited from stronger demand for both its online store and cloud computing services.\n\nHowever, he gave a 4% stake in the business to his ex-wife MacKenzie Scott after they split, which helped Mr Musk overtake him.\n\nIn addition, the threat of regulation has meant Amazon's stock has not risen as high as it might otherwise have done.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who is Elon Musk? Meet the meme-loving magnate behind SpaceX and Tesla...published in 2021\n\nThe owner of a business which has only just made its first annual profit and is still a minnow compared to the likes of Toyota - or Amazon - is now the world's richest person.\n\nIt is the fact that Tesla's share price has increased more than seven-fold in the past year that has sent Elon Musk's fortune rocketing past that of Jeff Bezos.\n\nTo believe the electric car-maker's worth could rise so rapidly in just 12 months is the ultimate example of irrational exuberance.\n\nIt means that Musk will have to show within the next five years that Tesla can make more profits than just about the whole of the rest of the motor industry combined to justify the valuation.\n\nMind you, his many fans will point out that the somewhat eccentric tycoon has constantly confounded the sceptics who bet that he would go bust.\n\nAnd of course 20 years ago another tech visionary was staring disaster in the face when the dot com bubble burst and big profits seemed a distant dream - but Jeff Bezos went on to make those who bet on Amazon very rich indeed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Priti Patel says Donald Trump was wrong for not condemning the violence\n\nDonald Trump's comments \"directly led\" to his supporters storming Congress and clashing with police, Home Secretary Priti Patel has said.\n\nFour people have died after a pro-Trump mob stormed the building in a bid to overturn the election result.\n\nPresident Trump had urged protesters to march on the Capitol after making false claims of electoral fraud.\n\nMs Patel said the president's words had fuelled the violence and he \"didn't do anything to de-escalate that\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has condemned the \"disgraceful scenes\" and called for a \"peaceful and orderly transfer of power\".\n\nOn Wednesday evening, President Trump later called on his supporters to \"go home\", while continuing to make false claims of electoral fraud.\n\nHe has been suspended from his Facebook and Instagram accounts for at least two weeks, and possibly indefinitely. Twitter has also frozen his account.\n\nThe president has now said there will be an \"orderly transition\" to Democrat Joe Biden, whose November election victory has now been certified by US lawmakers.\n\nBut he added that he continued to \"totally disagree\" with the outcome of the vote, repeating his unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud.\n\nHundreds of the president's supporters stormed the Capitol - where lawmakers were meeting to confirm Mr Biden's election victory - and staged an occupation of the building in Washington DC.\n\nBoth chambers of Congress were forced into recess, as protesters clashed with police and tear gas was released.\n\nMs Patel told BBC Breakfast the scenes were \"awful beyond words\".\n\nThe home secretary said: \"His comments directly led to the violence, and so far he has failed to condemn that violence and that is completely wrong.\"\n\nShe added: \"He basically has made a number of comments yesterday that helped to fuel that violence and he didn't actually do anything to de-escalate that whatsoever... what we've seen is completely unacceptable.\"\n\nA woman died after being shot by police, and three others died as a result of \"medical emergencies\", local police said.\n\nPoliticians across the UK's political parties lined up to condemn the scenes in Washington.\n\nSpeaking on Thursday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Trump should \"take responsibility\" for what happened, calling it the \"culmination of years of the politics of hate and division\".\n\nSir Keir added he welcomed the outgoing president's agreement to an orderly handover, but told reporters \"he should have said it a long time ago.\"\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Mr Trump had been \"inciting insurrection in his own country,\" and called it a \"dark period\" in US history.\n\n\"What we witnessed last night is not that surprising. In some senses, Donald Trump's presidency has been moving towards this moment almost from the moment it started,\" she told ITV's Good Morning Britain.\n\nScotland's Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf said the home secretary should \"give serious consideration\" to denying Mr Trump entry to the UK after he leaves office.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said certification of Mr Biden's victory was \"good to see\" after the \"shocking events\" on Wednesday, adding the UK condemned the violence \"unequivocally\".\n\nFormer Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May, who shared time in office with Mr Trump, said there should be \"no place for the rule of the mob\".\n\nBut senior Welsh Conservative Andrew RT Davies has been criticised after comparing the rioting to politicians who supported a second referendum on Brexit.\n\nMr Davies, a member of the Welsh Parliament, later tweeted that \"violence must never be tolerated\".\n\nHis party colleague, the Conservative MP Simon Hoare, suggested Mr Trump could be sent to the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Simon Hoare MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFriend of President Trump and leader of Reform UK - formerly the Brexit Party - Nigel Farage tweeted: \"Storming Capitol Hill is wrong. The protesters must leave.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey has defended the prime minister's response to the rioting.\n\nAsked on ITV's Peston programme why Mr Johnson hadn't criticised Mr Trump, she said: \"The prime minister has been clear tonight that we need a peaceful and orderly transition.\"\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has written to express his \"solidarity\" with US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose empty office was broken into by protesters.\n\n\"Seeing your office trashed in that way and its occupation by one of the rioters was particularly outrageous. I am just so relieved you were not hurt,\" he wrote.\n\nTrump supporters left this note on the desk of Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives.\n\nIt is a truism of British diplomacy that every occupant of 10 Downing Street has to get on with every occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, regardless of their politics or character.\n\nPersonal consideration is pushed aside. What matters is the national interest and staying close to one of Britain's closest allies.\n\nThus even now, even after Donald Trump's incitement of the Capitol mob, even though there are less than two weeks until the inauguration, even as close Republican allies jump ship, Boris Johnson and Dominic Raab were reluctant to criticise the president by name in their initial response overnight.\n\nYes, they condemned the violence. But of Mr Trump, not a word. This caution was matched by the Prime Ministers of fellow so-called Five Eyes intelligence allies, Australia and New Zealand, both of whom also both failed to mention Mr Trump in their condemnatory tweets.\n\nIn contrast, European leaders were quick to blame the president personally.\n\nIt was only this morning that a British minister, Home Secretary Priti Patel, felt able to follow suit in strong terms.\n\nSo was this natural and sensible diplomatic caution in the midst of a febrile crisis?\n\nOr was this, as some Labour figures are already claiming, a function of the closeness between the current UK government and the Trump administration?\n\nIt was only a few weeks ago that Defence Secretary Ben Wallace told The Sun that he would miss Donald Trump because he was a good friend to Britain.\n\nWhatever one's views, it is certainly the case that the British government is seen on the international stage by some has having ideological proximity to Mr Trump.\n\nChanging that reputation is seen by many diplomats as a priority in the months ahead, a task made more urgent by events overnight.", "Olly Stephens was stabbed to death in Emmer Green in Reading on Sunday\n\nThree teenagers accused of murdering a 13-year-old boy who was stabbed to death have appeared in Crown Court.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green in Reading, on Sunday.\n\nTwo boys, aged 13 and 14, and a 13-year-old girl have been charged with murder and conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm.\n\nThey have all been remanded in youth detention custody and a provisional trial date has been set for 21 June.\n\nThe three teenagers, who cannot be identified because of their ages, had appeared at Reading Youth Court earlier on Thursday before the Crown Court hearing.\n\nThe defendants only spoke at the youth court to confirm their names, ages and addresses.\n\nThe court heard the girl has also been charged with perverting the course of justice.\n\nThe Crown Court hearing was told a potential trial was estimated to last five or six weeks.\n\nPolice were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack in fields on the boundary of Emmer Green and Caversham Heights.\n\nOlly was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nIn a statement released on Wednesday, his family said: \"An Olly-sized hole has been left in our hearts.\"\n\nHis parents said their son was \"an enigma\", and having both autism and suspected pathological demand avoidance meant \"he became a challenge we never shied away from\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "McDonald's is pausing walk-in takeaway services in the UK as new lockdown restrictions come into force.\n\nDine-in meals and walk-in takeaways will not be available temporarily while it reviews safety procedures, it said.\n\nIts UK boss said it will be testing \"additional measures that may further enhance the safety of our takeaway service.\"\n\nRival food chains Burger King, Subway, KFC and Pret A Manger are still offering takeaways in-store.\n\nMcDonald's UK and Ireland chief executive Paul Pomroy said that safety measures across the firm's 1,300 restaurants will be reviewed by an independent health and safety body.\n\nHe added that customers would be kept updated via the restaurant's app and its website. Drive-through and delivery services across the fast food chain will remain open.\n\nUnder new lockdown restrictions which came into force in England and Scotland this week, hospitality firms are allowed to offer takeaways and deliveries.\n\nBut rules which previously allowed takeaways or click-and-collect services for alcoholic drinks have been scrapped.\n\nWales and Northern Ireland were already in lockdown, which meant that pubs, restaurants and cafes were restricted to takeaway-only too.\n\nAfter the first nationwide lockdown in March, many chains including McDonald's, Burger King and Pret closed their doors to hungry customers.\n\nThey gradually reopened with additional safety measures in place, such as plastic screens in front of the tills, hand sanitiser dispensers and restrictions on the number of customers allowed in at any one point. Some also pared back the number of dishes on offer.\n\nA Burger King spokesperson said that takeaway was still available in some branches and that it would continue to offer click-and-collect and delivery services \"in line with guidance issued\".\n\nSandwich chain Pret A Manger told the BBC that it is keeping some outlets open for both takeaways and delivery, but it would keep the number under review in the coming months.\n\n\"Last year we shifted our business to focus on delivery and expanded our delivery platform partnerships, to make Pret available to a wider customer base\", a spokesperson said.\n\n\"Since then, we have seen a significant increase in the use of delivery.\"\n\nSubway and KFC also confirmed that they remain open for in-store takeaways, deliveries and click-and-collect orders across the UK.\n\nFast food firm Leon, which has 65 outlets, said that 28 of their sites will remain open for takeaways and deliveries.\n\n\"We will continue to keep as many restaurants open as possible, as we did in the previous two lockdowns in line with government guidelines,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nDespite adapting their business models, many casual dining chains have been forced to make job cuts in the last year as lockdown restrictions hit sales. Pret, for example, announced 3,000 job cuts in August, while Greggs made 820 job cuts at the end of 2020.", "Supporters of US President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday\n\nWorld leaders have condemned violent scenes in Washington after supporters of US President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol building on Wednesday.\n\nThe riot forced the suspension of a joint session of Congress to certify Joe Biden's electoral victory.\n\nMany leaders called for peace and an orderly transition of power, describing what happened as \"horrifying\" and an \"attack on democracy\".\n\n\"The United States stands for democracy around the world and it is now vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nOther UK politicians joined him in criticising the violence, with opposition leader Sir Keir Starmer calling it a \"direct attack on democracy\".\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel told the BBC that Mr Trump's comments \"directly led\" to his supporters storming Congress and clashing with police.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel says Donald Trump was wrong for not condemning the violence\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted that the scenes from the US Capitol were \"utterly horrifying\".\n\nIn Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel said those who stormed the US legislature were \"attackers and rioters\" and that she felt \"angry and also sad\" after seeing pictures from the scene.\n\nShe told a meeting of German conservatives: \"I regret very much that President Trump has still not admitted defeat, but has kept raising doubts about the elections.\"\n\nChina meanwhile attempted to draw comparisons between the rioters who entered Congress to try and subvert the US election result and pro-democracy protesters who stormed Hong Kong's Legislative Council last year.\n\nForeign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying claimed events in Hong Kong were more \"severe\" than those in Washington but \"not one demonstrator died\".\n\nThe comparisons between the two incidents has caused outrage among Hong Kong's pro-democracy activists and their supporters.\n\nRussia blamed the \"archaic\" US electoral system and the politicisation of the media for Wednesday's unrest in Washington.\n\n\"The electoral system in the United States is archaic, it does not meet modern democratic standards, creating opportunities for numerous violations, and the American media have become an instrument of political struggle,\" foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.\n\nElsewhere in Europe, a chorus of leaders condemned the scenes in Washington as an attack on democracy.\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said: \"I have trust in the strength of US democracy. The new presidency of Joe Biden will overcome this tense stage, uniting the American people.\"\n\nIn a video on Twitter, French President Emmanuel Macron said: \"When, in one of the world's oldest democracies, supporters of an outgoing president take up arms to challenge the legitimate results of an election, a universal idea - that of 'one person, one vote' - is undermined.\n\n\"What happened today in Washington DC is not American, definitely. We believe in the strength of our democracies. We believe in the strength of American democracy\" he added.\n\nSwedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven described the incident as \"worrying\" and said it was \"an assault on democracy\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by SwedishPM This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTop EU leaders have also made their views known. European Council President Charles Michel said he trusted the US \"to ensure a peaceful transfer of power\" to Mr Biden, while European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she looked forward to working with the Democrat, who \"won the election\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Charles Michel This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLike many other global figures, the Secretary-General of the Nato military alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, said that the outcome of the election \"must be respected\".\n\nFor his part, UN Secretary-General António Guterres was \"saddened\" by the events at the US Capitol, his spokesman said.\n\nThe events also shocked America's close ally and neighbour to its north. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canadians were \"deeply disturbed and saddened by the attack on democracy\".\n\n\"Violence will never succeed in overruling the will of the people. Democracy in the US must be upheld - and it will be,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When a mob stormed the US capitol\n\nFrom New Zealand, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, tweeted that \"democracy - the right of people to exercise a vote, have their voice heard and then have that decision upheld peacefully - should never be undone by a mob\".\n\nMeanwhile Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia - another close US ally - condemned the \"distressing scenes\" and said he looked forward to a peaceful transfer of power.\n\nIn India, the world's largest democracy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi - who has enjoyed a good relationship with President Trump - said he was \"distressed to see news about rioting and violence\" in Washington.\n\n\"Orderly and peaceful transfer of power must continue,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTurkey, an ally through Nato, said it invited \"all parties\" to show \"restraint and common sense\".\n\nThe Venezuelan government, which the US does not recognise as legitimate, said \"with this regrettable episode, the United States suffers the same thing that it has generated in other countries with its policies of aggression\".\n\nIn statements on Twitter, Argentina's President Alberto Fernández and Chile's President Sebastián Piñera also condemned the scenes in Washington. Mr Piñera said Chile \"trusts in the solidity of US democracy to guarantee the rule of law\".\n\nIn Japan, one of America's closest allies and partners, Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said the government hoped for a \"peaceful transfer of power\" in the United States.\n\nFrom Fiji, Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama, who led a coup in 2006, also expressed outrage at the events that took place.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Frank Bainimarama This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd in Singapore, Senior Minister Teo Chee Hean said he had watched as the \"shocking\" scenes took place, adding: \"Its a sad day.\"", "Nursery staff are not advised to wear face coverings\n\nChildcare organisations are demanding to see evidence that it is safe for them to remain open while schools and colleges have closed to most pupils.\n\nStaff have close contact with children and babies daily, when they change nappies and receive them by the hand from parents, for example.\n\nMinisters have insisted early years settings are safe as young children have very low rates of the virus.\n\nNurseries argue the evidence cited is based on data about old variant Covid.\n\nEngland's three main nursery organisations, the Early Years Alliance, the National Day Nurseries Association and childminders' group, Pacey, have joined together to mount a #ProtectEarlyYears campaign.\n\nThey want the government to provide clear scientific evidence on the risks to early years staff of staying open, particularly in light of the increased transmissibility of the new variant of Covid-19.\n\nSue Cardy, owner and manager of Ready Teddy Go Pre School, in Shoeburyness, Essex said: \"There isn't anyone who has asked: 'Is it 100% safe for us to remain fully open? No one can see the virus and staff may be asymptomatic, and so we all run an element of risk of catching or spreading it.\"\n\nShe added: \"Staff have families and are not all young... 50% of my staff are over 50 and some have underlying medical conditions.\"\n\nVicky, the manager of a church pre-school in Cheshire West and Chester said she could potentially have 30 children plus 10 staff in a church hall, with no PPE recommended, and limited social distancing.\n\n\"As an early years provider, I am increasingly worried about the safety of both staff and children, yet if we chose to partially close, we could be financially penalised.\"\n\nAnd Georgie Morrell from Brighton and Hove said: \"Since re-opening, I have had four households tell me. they are Covid positive.\n\n\"This is clearly very close to home and yet we have been given no choice or support but to remain open and carry on.\"\n\nNeil Leitch, chief executive of the Early Years Alliance, said: \"It is simply not acceptable that, at the height of a global pandemic, early years providers are being asked to work with no support, no protection and no clear evidence that is safe for them to do so.\n\n\"We know how vital access to early education and care is to many families, but it cannot be right to ask the early years workforce to put themselves at risk. That is why it is vital that the government takes the urgent steps needed to safeguard those working in the sector, particularly mass testing and priority access to vaccinations.\n\nNursery providers are calling for staff to be tested, priority for vaccination and for state funding lost due to lower numbers during the pandemic, to be replaced by government.\n\nPurnima Tanuku, chief Executive of National Day Nurseries Association, said nurseries were determined to support families during the current lockdown.\n\nBut, she added: \"Time and again, whether it's on PPE, cleaning costs, testing or staffing, early years providers have been overlooked by the Department for Education.\n\n\"Now, they are the only part of the education sector fully open to all children and must be given priority.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, vaccines minister Nadim Zahawi said there was very little risk to younger children.\n\n\"The nursery sector has taken tremendous care in making sure the premises are also Covid safe. It is the right thing to do.\"\n\nThe Department for Education is yet to comment on the #ProtectEarlyYears demands.", "Matthew Mason will be sentenced later this month\n\nA man who killed a schoolboy after paying him to stop their sexual relationship being revealed has been found guilty of murder.\n\nMatthew Mason admitted bludgeoning 15-year-old Alex Rodda with a wrench in Ashley, Cheshire, in 2019.\n\nThe 19-year-old paid Alex more than £2,000 after he contacted his then girlfriend about \"flirty\" messages, Chester Crown Court heard.\n\nMason, of Ash Lane in Ollerton, will be sentenced on 25 January.\n\nLawyers acting for Mason, who denied murder, had claimed the killing was the result of self-defence or a loss of control.\n\nBut the jury rejected this and found him guilty of murdering Alex by a majority of 10 to two.\n\nAs the verdict was returned, Mason appeared to be crying in the dock.\n\nMembers of Alex's family were also in tears. In a statement, they said they had \"never come across a more selfish, cold and calculating person\" as Mason.\n\n\"Mason has attempted to blame Alex and discredit his name throughout this trial and thankfully the jury were able to see through his web of deceit,\" they said.\n\nSpeaking outside the court, Alex's father Adam Rodda said the trial had been \"very difficult\" for the family and they were relieved Mason had been found guilty of murder.\n\n\"We wouldn't have accepted anything else, we would have been distraught if any other verdict had been given. We prayed and we are obviously delighted that justice has been done,\" he said.\n\nAlex Rodda was killed in woodland in Cheshire\n\nOn the evening of 12 December, Mason said he had picked Alex up from his home and drove him to a remote area of woodland where he told him he could not afford to give him any more money.\n\nThe agricultural engineering student, who was the son of a farmer, told the court he had taken the wrench with him to \"scare him\".\n\nHe claimed that, once in the woods, Alex had threatened to ruin his life \"financially or socially\" and pushed him to the floor, grabbing the wrench and hitting Mason with it.\n\nMason said he managed to get the wrench from Alex and recalled hitting him with it twice, although the court heard evidence of further blows.\n\nAlex, a pupil at Holmes Chapel High School, was struck at least 15 times to the head and his body was found by refuse collectors the next morning.\n\nEvidence showed Alex had been struck at least 15 times with the wrench\n\nThe jury heard Mason had paid Alex more than £2,000 to stop him reporting their \"intimate sexual relationship\".\n\nIn the month before the murder, Alex contacted Mason's girlfriend to tell her that her boyfriend had been messaging him \"in a flirty way\" and had sent an explicit photo and video.\n\nMason denied the claim but began making payments to the 15-year-old's bank account.\n\nBy the time of Alex's death, Mason had transferred more than £2,200 and was asking friends and family to borrow money, the court was told.\n\nGiving evidence, Mason, who lived with his family on a farm near Knutsford, admitted having sex with Alex but said he thought it was \"wrong\".\n\nHe told the court he did not believe his friends would accept him if he was gay or bisexual.\n\nIn the week before Alex's death, Mason made internet searches for phrases including \"what would happen if you kicked someone down the stairs\", \"everyday poison\" and \"the mysteries of Cheshire unsolved deaths of missing people\".\n\nBut he told the court he had been searching the terms because he was suicidal.\n\nAlex's body was found in woodland by refuse collectors\n\nAfter killing Alex, Mason had a drink with friends in the Red Lion pub in Pickmere and The Golden Pheasant pub in Plumley, Cheshire Police said.\n\nHe later returned to the woods and the prosecution believe he dragged Alex's body to the side of the road and attempted to put him inside his car.\n\nAfter failing to do this, he drove away. But a witness had taken a photo of his Renault Clio car parked on the track and reported this to police.\n\nMason was identified as the owner and arrested the next day.\n\nPolice said Mason had dried blood on his hands and there was a bin bag in his boot with a blood-stained fleece, the wrench and Alex's jacket in it.\n\nDet Insp Nigel Reid said: \"Mason had murder on his mind as he drove Alex to his death under the pretence of sexual activity.\n\n\"He chose a secluded place to kill him in cold blood, a place he believed he would go unseen and his crime undetected.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The coronavirus vaccine rollout is a national challenge requiring an unprecedented effort - involving the armed forces - Boris Johnson says.\n\nThe PM confirmed almost 1.5 million people in the UK have now received at least one dose of a Covid vaccine.\n\nMore than 1,000 GP-led sites in England will be able to offer a total of \"hundreds of thousands\" of jabs each day by 15 January, he said.\n\nThe Army will use \"battle preparation techniques\" to help achieve that goal.\n\nIt came as a further 1,162 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were reported on Thursday - the second consecutive day of more than 1,000 recorded fatalities - and 52,618 new cases.\n\nAnd as Simon Stevens, head of the NHS in England, warned 10,000 patients with Covid had been admitted to hospital since Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street news conference, Mr Johnson said there would likely be \"lumpiness and bumpiness\" in the rollout of vaccines.\n\nHe said: \"Let's be clear, this is a national challenge on a scale like nothing we've seen before and it will require an unprecedented national effort.\n\n\"Of course, there will be difficulties, appointments will be changed but... the Army is working hand in glove with the NHS and local councils to set up our vaccine network and using battle preparation techniques to help us keep up the pace.\"\n\nAlongside GPs, there will be 223 hospital sites and seven \"giant vaccination centres\" - as well as an initial 200 community pharmacies - offering jabs, Mr Johnson said.\n\nEveryone will have a vaccination centre within 10 miles of their home, he added, with a \"full vaccination deployment plan\" to be published on Monday.\n\nHe also said there would be a national booking system for vaccinations - but did not give any more details.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brigadier Phil Prosser said his task was to ensure everyone in England had equal access to the vaccine\n\nBrigadier Phil Prosser, commander of military support to the vaccine delivery programme, told the news conference his team was \"embedded\" with the NHS.\n\nHe said his \"day job\" is to deliver combat supplies to UK forces in time of war, \"at speed in the most arduous and challenging conditions\".\n\nThe government has set a target to offer vaccination slots to 15 million in the top four priority groups - including all over-80s - by 15 February.\n\nAnd Mr Johnson said that, with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine available, he could pledge one of those groups - care home residents - would all receive their jab by the end of January.\n\nThe widespread rollout of the vaccine has begun in earnest with the first doses delivered during the day to family doctors for distribution.\n\nBut there were concerns from some GPs over supplies, as Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the levels of vaccine supply was the \"rate-limiting\" factor as jabs would be delivered as quickly as stock is available.\n\nIt comes as some hospitals in England are at risk of becoming Covid-only sites, with rising admissions for the virus forcing trusts to cut back on other services.\n\nThe latest NHS statistics also show that there were 30,370 patients with Covid in UK hospitals on Tuesday, a much higher figure than the first peak in the spring of 2020.\n\nHospital leaders have warned medics are becoming increasingly stretched with \"untrained staff\" used to fill gaps.\n\nAt 20:00 GMT, people in some streets stepped out onto doorsteps to clap for the heroes of the pandemic, following a weekly initiative which gained popularity during the UK's first lockdown.\n\nHowever, Thursday's clap for heroes was more muted than those seen last year, perhaps reflecting criticism the initiative had become politicised.\n\nLots of detail has been given about how the NHS - working hand-in-hand with the military - will be able to deliver the vaccines.\n\nThere will be more local vaccination centres, hospital hubs and even mass vaccination at sports stadiums.\n\nThousands of extra vaccinators have already been trained - and thousands more are waiting in the wings.\n\nBut the biggest hurdle the UK faces is vaccine supply.\n\nIf it is not available, it cannot be put in arms no matter how good the vaccination network is.\n\nIn the long-term, supply is not likely to be a problem - but in the coming weeks it could be tight.\n\nThere is enough vaccine in the country to offer all those at highest risk a jab by mid-February.\n\nBut it is not yet all ready for the NHS to use, either because the final safety checks have not been done or the vaccine has not been put into vials.\n\nThe former depends on lab work by the medicines regulator, while the latter is the job of a plant in Wrexham.\n\nEach stage takes some time. The target is achievable, but a lot has to go right.\n\nSir Simon Stevens said there were 50% more coronavirus patients in England's hospitals now compared to the peak last April, affecting every region across the country.\n\nHe said: \"That number is accelerating very, very rapidly... the pressures are real and they are growing.\"\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the Belfast Health Trust has said it has no other option but to cancel all of its urgent cancer surgery amid \"highly significant\" demand for bed space.\n\nThe cancelled operations will affect those patients for whom surgery could impact recovery and even survival, the trust said.\n\nBoris Johnson said all parts of government would be throwing everything at the vaccination effort \"round the clock\"\n\nIn one positive development for hospitals, two more life-saving drugs that can cut deaths by a quarter in patients who are sickest with Covid have been cleared for widespread use, with immediate effect.\n\nThe anti-inflammatory medications, given via a drip, save an extra life for every 12 treated, researchers said, following NHS trials.\n\nElsewhere, the UK has implemented restrictions on travellers to England from countries near South Africa to stop the spread of the South African Covid variant.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson and Sir Simon were asked about persistent social media claims that coronavirus does not exist - and that reports of packed hospital wards of people being treated are just a myth.\n\nSir Simon said that such misinformation was an \"insult\" to hard-working critical care staff.\n\n\"There is nothing more demoralising than having that kind of nonsense spouted when it is most obviously untrue,\" he said.", "Sarah Bingham said she is a match donor for her daughter Ariel and eldest son Noah (far right)\n\nA mother with two children who need kidney transplants said she wishes she could help both of them, but can only donate one organ.\n\nSarah Bingham's son Noah, 20, and daughter Ariel, 16, have the same rare genetic condition.\n\nMrs Bingham, 48, is a donor match for her children and said her maternal instinct is to donate to both of them.\n\nBut her organ was always due to go to her daughter and two family friends are matches for her son.\n\nHer husband Darryl, 49, is not a match, so cannot be a donor for their children.\n\nBoth Noah and Ariel have nephronophthisis, which causes inflammation and scarring to the kidneys.\n\nMrs Bingham, of Hexham, Northumberland, said although her son is \"very poorly\", he undergoes regular dialysis and is in a stable condition.\n\nHer daughter's kidney function \"has been deteriorating more in the last year\" and she will probably need a transplant first.\n\nMrs Bingham said: \"I was all set to give a kidney to my daughter and then my son went into renal failure and he also needs a kidney. Obviously, I've only got one that I can donate.\n\n\"The renal teams don't push you [to make a decision], because you're putting yourself on the line to donate a kidney.\n\n\"You have to make that call yourself, but obviously as a mum when you've got two children who both need kidney transplants and you've expected to give your kidney to one, and suddenly the other one needs one as well, you feel this dilemma.\"\n\nNoah Bingham is in a stable condition thanks to regular kidney dialysis\n\nProblems began in 2016 when Ariel started to feel constantly tired.\n\nHer fatigue was initially put down to exam stress, but tests at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary found she had the kidney condition.\n\nMrs Bingham was told she would be a suitable donor for Ariel when the time came.\n\nThen, in 2019, Noah became ill and was diagnosed with the same condition.\n\nHe is stable, but would need to put on weight to undergo a transplant.\n\nThe couple have another son Casper, 12, who is being tested to see if he also has the condition.\n\nDarryl Bingham is not a suitable match for his two eldest children\n\nProf John Sayer, a kidney specialist at Newcastle's Freeman Hospital who is treating Noah, said nephronophthisis affects about one in 100,000 people.\n\n\"There's clearly a dilemma because there's a shortage of donors for patients needing kidney transplants.\n\n\"But kidney failure itself is not rare. There are 4,500 people across the country waiting for a transplant.\"\n\nHe added patients often face a \"gruelling and terrifying\" wait of about three years for a donor organ.\n\nIn December, Mr Bingham completed the challenge of walking 12,000 steps every day for 12 days to raise money for Kidney Research UK, which has supported the family.\n\nMrs Bingham said that if Ariel's condition was to deteriorate first she would get her kidney\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some supermarkets faced issues over the festive period due to ports disruption\n\nThe UK meat industry has called for the early vaccination of workers to keep food supplies running smoothly during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIt warned that absences during the pandemic, coupled with disruption at ports, could hit food supply chains.\n\nAn early vaccination call for supermarket staff was also made by the boss of Sainsbury's on Thursday.\n\nThe government said the food industry remains \"well-prepared\" to make sure people have the food they need.\n\nThe British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) said coronavirus and disruption at ports due to new systems brought in after the Brexit transition period were \"a severe challenge to the industry and to the smooth running of the nation's food supply chain\".\n\nIt argued frontline workers in meat factories should get early vaccinations due to the risk of a rapid spread of the new strains of the virus among key workers.\n\nThe government has set out who will get vaccinated first, which starts with care home residents and the oldest and most vulnerable people.\n\nBut Nick Allen, chief executive of the BMPA, said it would be logical to also prioritise key workers in the food industry.\n\n\"As the new coronavirus variant takes hold across the whole of the UK, we are hearing widespread reports of rapidly rising absences in the food supply chain,\" he said.\n\nSome firms supplying supermarkets \"are seeing a tripling of staff having to take time off work through illness or enforced self-isolation\", he added.\n\nPressures on staff during the lockdown include illness, having to self-isolate, and childcare while some schools are closed under England's lockdown.\n\nDue to the specialised nature of meat production, if even a few key factory personnel such as the foreman or managers are absent, production can stop, Mr Allen said.\n\nEarly vaccinations should not be restricted to the meat industry, according to Mr Allen. All key workers in the food industry should get early vaccinations, he said.\n\nEven supermarkets themselves are having problems with absences, he suggested.\n\n\"The key food supply chains ought to be prioritised,\" he said. \"All food industry key workers should be prioritised [for vaccination]\".\n\nThe government is advised on vaccinations by a group of experts called the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).\n\nProfessor Wei Shen Lim, Covid-19 Chair for the JCVI, said the committee's advice on vaccine prioritisation \"was developed with the aim of preventing as many deaths as possible.\"\n\n\"As the single greatest risk of death from Covid-19 is older age, prioritisation is primarily based on age,\" he said.\n\n\"It is estimated that vaccinating everyone in the priority groups would prevent 99% of deaths, including those associated with occupational exposure to infection,\" the professor added.\n\nSainsbury's boss Simon Roberts also called for early vaccinations for key workers on Thursday.\n\n\"My view is that priority has to be given to those that need it first,\" he said. \"Those on the frontline should be part of that as and when capacity becomes available.\"\n\nAbsence rates for Sainsbury's staff are lower than at the peak of the crisis, but are rising, and have stepped up in the last few days, he said.\n\nThe Sainsbury's absence rate is currently 8%. The business has 172,000 employees.\n\nAsda said that it had seen an increase in employees self-isolating and shielding in line with the rising UK infection rate.\n\nHowever, it said that absence rates were still lower than at the peak of the pandemic.\n\n\"We are taking proactive steps to manage colleague absences by retaining temporary colleagues hired over the Christmas period and are bringing in additional temporary colleagues in those stores that need them the most,\" and Asda spokesman said.\n\nTesco has asked clinically vulnerable staff to stay at home.\n\nMorrisons, meanwhile, is also seeing more absences, but the rate is still more than half that of the peak of the pandemic. It is also a bigger business having taken on 26,000 extra staff during the crisis.\n\nAndrew Opie, director of food and sustainability at the British Retail Consortium said: \"While absence rates are currently rising, retailers are closely monitoring the situation in stores and distribution centres and supply chains continue to run smoothly.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs said: \"As we have seen in recent months, the UK has a large, diverse and highly resilient food supply chain.\n\n\"We continue to closely monitor the situation and are working closely with the food industry on the workforce and absence related challenges presented by the pandemic.\"\n\nThey added that the food industry remains \"well-prepared\" to make sure people across the country have the food they need.\n\nUK ports have seen disruption due to the effects of coronavirus on trade and new systems brought in after the Brexit transition period.\n\nMr Roberts of Sainsbury's said that, so far, the flow of goods from Europe is in decent shape, but there had been some problems in sending food to Northern Ireland.There is still some backlog in general merchandising, he added.\n\nHowever, Scottish seafood exporters warned on Thursday that they had been hit by the \"perfect storm of Brexit disruption\".\n\n\"Weakened by Covid-19, and the closure of the French border before Christmas, the end of the Brexit transition period has unleashed layer upon layer of administrative problems, resulting in queues, border refusals and utter confusion,\" said Donna Fordyce, chief executive of Seafood Scotland.\n\nShe said IT problems in France meant consignments were diverted from Boulogne-sur-Mer to Dunkirk, \"which was unprepared as it wasn't supposed to be at the export frontline.\"\n\nThere have also been IT issues on the UK side with HMRC, she added.\n\n\"These businesses are not transporting toilet rolls or widgets,\" she said. \"They are exporting the highest quality, perishable seafood which has a finite window to get to markets in peak condition. If the window closes these consignments go to landfill.\"\n\nThe National Federation of Fishermen's Organisations also warned of delays to fish exports due to \"a brick wall of bureaucracy\".", "Lorry drivers crossing the Channel will continue to need a recent negative Covid test result \"until further notice\", the UK government has said.\n\nHauliers have been required to prove they have tested negative since the border with France reopened last month.\n\nThe decision to continue testing comes from the French government, the Department for Transport said.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps urged \"all hauliers to get tested before getting to the border\".\n\nThe decision comes as the introduction of new trading rules between the UK and European Union prompts disruption for some businesses and hauliers.\n\nMr Shapps said the government was \"offering support to businesses to set-up testing facilities at their own premises, assisting the smooth passage of trucks and good across the border, as well as setting up testing at information and advice sites around the country\".\n\nDrivers and crew of heavy goods vehicles (HGVs), drivers of large goods vehicles (LGVs) and van drivers are advised to obtain a negative test before arriving in Kent or at other Channel crossing points.\n\nThere are now 34 testing sites for hauliers situated in key \"stopping spots\" across the UK, with further sites being set up, the DfT said.\n\nTests must be authorised and taken 72 hours before entry into France.\n\nIn addition to a negative Covid test result, some hauliers require a new 24-hour permit to enter Kent since the introduction of the new UK-EU rules.\n\nFrance reported 21,703 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, while the UK reported 52,618.\n\nLast month, the border crisis saw France refuse arrivals from the UK for 48 hours between 20 and 22 December due to a new virus variant initially discovered in Kent.\n\nPassenger ferries and lorry freight bound for France were suspended from Dover, Portsmouth and Newhaven.\n\nAn emergency procedure devised as part of post-Brexit preparations allowed lorries to be \"stacked\" - leaving thousands of foreign drivers stranded throughout southern England.", "Last updated on .From the section Aston Villa\n\nAston Villa are preparing to field a team of youngsters in Friday's FA Cup third-round tie at home to Liverpool after a \"significant\" Covid-19 outbreak at the club.\n\nA final decision on whether the game will take place at all will be made on Friday.\n\nVilla manager Dean Smith, his coaching staff and the rest of the club's first-team squad will not be involved after the outbreak forced the closure of the club's Bodymoor Heath training headquarters on Thursday.\n\nThe club is in discussions with the Football Association and want to fulfil the fixture (kick-off 19:45 GMT) but final confirmation on whether the tie is played is still on hold pending the results of further testing on the young players who are now being considered for selection.\n\nMark Delaney, Villa's under-23 coach, is scheduled to take charge in the absence of Smith and his backroom staff. He will be accompanied by a doctor, physiotherapist and kit staff.\n\nThe game was thrown into doubt when Villa confirmed the shutdown of the training ground after \"a large number of first-team players and staff\" returned positive Covid-19 results after being tested on Monday.\n\nThose affected went into isolation and a second round of tests was carried out immediately, which produced more positive results on Thursday.\n\nVilla are keen to play the game against Jurgen Klopp's Premier League champions, who they thrashed 7-2 earlier this season. Manager Smith had planned to rest several stars for the game but the Covid-19 outbreak has thrown the club's plans into chaos.\n\nThey will now be hoping the additional Covid-19 testing returns a clean bill of health with Villa liaising closely with the FA in the hope of getting the game played on Friday night.\n\nThe meeting between in-form Villa and Liverpool is one of the most attractive ties of the third round, even if both managers were set to field unfamiliar line-ups.\n\nIt also remains to be seen whether Villa's scheduled Premier League home game against Tottenham Hotspur at Villa Park on Wednesday goes ahead.\n• None What sport has been hit by Covid-19 this weekend?\n\nElswhere, Southampton's FA Cup third-round game against Shrewsbury on Sunday was called off on Thursday after a significant number of Shrews players and staff tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nWayne Rooney and Derby's first-team squad will miss their FA Cup tie at Chorley on Saturday following a Covid-19 outbreak which closed their training ground on Monday.\n\nThe Rams' team for the game at Victory Park will be made up of under-23 and under-18 players.\n\nVilla will be doing all they can to ensure Friday's tie goes ahead but the Covid-19 outbreak could also have Premier League ramifications.\n\nVilla are scheduled to face fourth-placed Spurs at Villa Park on Wednesday and they currently stand only three points behind Jose Mourinho's team.\n\nThere must now be question marks over whether that game will take place.\n\nIf the game is off it will only add to the fixture congestion both clubs are likely to face in an already crowded calendar this season.\n\nVilla, even though they planned to leave out several established first-team players against Liverpool, still had high FA Cup ambitions and would have wanted to maintain the momentum that has given them such an impressive start to the season after only surviving in the top flight on the final day of last season.\n\nThey will hope the latest testing brings no further complications in the FA Cup context - then attention will turn to what has the potential to be a hugely significant game on Wednesday.\n• Stream eight live FA Cup third-round games this weekend on BBC iPlayer, the BBC Sport website and app. Find out more here.", "GPs in England are receiving doses of the Oxford Covid jab as medics warn about overstretched hospitals.\n\nThe rollout of the Oxford vaccine is part of the NHS's biggest-ever effort and aims to offer jabs to 13 million by mid-February - including all over-80s.\n\nBirmingham's NHS said there are enough supplies with more to come as politicians warned doses may run out.\n\nSome hospitals in England are at risk of becoming Covid-only sites, with rising admissions for the virus forcing trusts to cut back on other services.\n\nAnd hospital leaders have warned medics are becoming increasingly stretched with \"untrained staff\" used to fill gaps.\n\nIt came as a further 1,162 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were reported on Thursday - the second consecutive day of more than 1,000 recorded fatalities - and 52,618 new cases.\n\nThe latest NHS statistics also show that there were 30,370 patients with Covid in UK hospitals on Tuesday.\n\nThe rollout of the Oxford vaccine to GPs will help increase vaccinations among the top four priority groups who are first in line to receive doses.\n\nThe Department of Health said 1.3 million people in the UK, including almost a quarter of those aged over 80 in England, have received at least one dose so far.\n\nWriting to Health Secretary Matt Hancock, the Birmingham political leaders criticised communication around the vaccination programme in the city.\n\n\"We acknowledge that the vaccination rollout is in its early days, but we have also learned today that Birmingham has not yet been supplied with any AstraZeneca stock, while current Pfizer stocks are scheduled to run out on Friday this week with currently no clarity on when further supplies will arrive.\"\n\nThey added \"it remains unclear who is responsible for overseeing the vaccination programme in Birmingham, and whom we should hold accountable for progress and delivery\".\n\nThe letter is signed by Labour leader of Birmingham City Council, Ian Ward; Liam Byrne MP, Labour's candidate for the West Midlands mayor, and by Conservative MP and ex-minister Andrew Mitchell.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Liam Byrne This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut NHS Birmingham and Solihull told the BBC: \"Thousands of people in Birmingham and Solihull have already been vaccinated and this continues at pace.\n\n\"We have sufficient supplies and more will be coming.\"\n\nWest Midlands mayor Andy Street said he has been assured supplies of the Oxford vaccine will be delivered to Birmingham on Friday.\n\nElsewhere, Gillian McLauchlan, deputy director of public health at Salford Council, described \"teething\" issues with the vaccine rollout there.\n\nShe told councillors at a local scrutiny committee: \"We have no control over vaccine supplies. We are told literally two days in advance 'your next lot of vaccines are coming'.\"\n\nEngland's vaccination programme is described as the biggest in NHS history, with an aim to offer jabs to most care home residents by the end of January and the most vulnerable by mid-February.\n\nOfficials leading the vaccination programme are adamant rollout is going to plan - and are cautioning against judging performance too early.\n\nOf course, there will be teething problems, but the fact remains the UK has vaccinated more per head of population than any other country apart from Israel and Bahrain.\n\nWhile rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine started on Monday, it was actually only being used at the hospital hubs up to Thursday.\n\nDeliveries are now being made to hundreds of local vaccination centres. There are 17 in the Birmingham region so they should start to receive doses imminently.\n\nThat should mean there is a vaccine available if they do run out of the Pfizer-BioNTech jab.\n\nAlthough disruption to the rollout of the programme in the city may still happen as local centres are warning they cannot book patients in until they know they have stock available.\n\nBut the fact the city's leaders felt compelled to write to the health secretary to warn about this is an illustration of the pressure in the system at the moment.\n\nGiven the high level of infections and current lockdown, there is a desperation in all quarters to get the most at-risk vaccinated as quickly as possible.\n\nAnd until the nation sees that translate into significant numbers of people getting vaccinated - 2 million a week is the goal - people will remain on edge.\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was approved for emergency use on 2 December but requires specialist storage unsuitable for most GP practices, with doses largely delivered in hospitals.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca jab was approved on 30 December and does not require specialist storage. It was first rolled out on Monday to hospitals and to GPs in England from Thursday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One medical centre in London is now vaccinating almost 1,000 people a week\n\nMr Hancock visited a GP surgery in London to promote the roll out earlier - but staff there said delivery of the Oxford vaccine had been delayed.\n\nThe health secretary said he was \"delighted\" care home residents would begin receiving their first Oxford jabs from GPs this week.\n\n\"This will ensure the most vulnerable are protected and will save tens of thousands of lives,\" he said.\n\nGP Ammara Hughes, a partner at Bloomsbury Surgery, told broadcasters its first delivery of the Oxford jab had been pushed back 24 hours to Thursday.\n\nShe said: \"It's just more frustrating than a concern because we've got the capacity to vaccinate. And if we had a regular supply - we do have the capacity to vaccinate three to four thousand patients a week.\"\n\nMr Hancock described supply of vaccine as a \"rate-limiting\" step.\n\nHe said: \"For the first three days with the Oxford vaccine we did it in hospitals to check that it was working well and it's working well so now we can make sure that it gets to all those GP surgeries that like this one can do all the vaccinations that are needed.\n\n\"The rate-limiting step is the supply of vaccine. We're working with the companies - both Pfizer and AstraZeneca - to increase the supply.\"\n\nMore than 700 local vaccination sites will administer jabs, with the government announcing a further seven mass vaccination sites across England.\n\nAnother 180 GP-led sites, 100 new hospital sites and a pilot scheme involving local pharmacies will open this week.\n\nMeanwhile, nearly 19,981 second doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech jab - which was the first to be approved for emergency use in the UK last month - were administered between 29 December and 3 January, NHS England said.\n\nIt came as Rupert Pearse, professor of intensive care medicine and a consultant at the Royal London, said his own intensive care staff are having to care for far more sick patients.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme there would usually be a ratio of one fully-trained intensive care nurse for each patient in a unit but staff are becoming increasingly stretched.\n\n\"Right now we are diluting down to one [intensive care] nurse to three [patients] and filling those gaps with untrained staff and in some instances doctors helping nurses deliver their care... and we're even facing diluting that further to one in four,\" he said.\n\nAll of the UK is now under strict virus curbs, with Wales, Northern Ireland and most of Scotland also in lockdown, and vaccinations are progressing across the devolved nations.", "Supermarket giant Sainsbury's has reported a bumper Christmas, with sales up 9.3% for the festive trading period.\n\nMore customers bought their food online than ever before, it said.\n\nIn the 10 days leading up to Christmas, it delivered 1.1 million online orders, twice last year's number.\n\n\"Many customers had to change their Christmas plans at the last minute and we sold smaller turkeys and more lamb and beef than normal,\" said chief executive Simon Roberts.\n\nSainsbury's Christmas trading period covered the nine weeks from 1 November 2020 to 2 January 2021.\n\nFor the 15 weeks to 2 January, like-for-like sales, which strip out the impact of new store openings, were up 8.6%.\n\n\"We now expect, after forgoing business rates relief of £410m, to report underlying profit before tax of at least £330m in the financial year to March 2021,\" the supermarket said.\n\nThat is down from the previous year's figure of £586m.\n\nSainsbury's has delivered bumper festive sales. It's invested heavily in boosting online capacity to keep up with the soaring demand.\n\nSupermarkets have struggled to make money from doing online deliveries, but Sainsbury's says its operation has become more efficient and profitability has improved. As volumes have increased, there are more orders in every van delivering to a smaller radius of customers.\n\nClick-and-collect is a lot cheaper to do than home deliveries. And this accounted for about a quarter of online sales in the final week.\n\nArgos generated more than half its sales from online well before the pandemic. More than 300 Argos counters are now inside Sainsbury's supermarkets, making it easy for people to pick up goods and gifts. Its fast-track delivery service can deliver to customers' homes and collection points within hours and this has seen growth of 62%.\n\nThis is a business that's been well placed to benefit from the huge shift to digital this Christmas.\n\nChristmas and New Year celebrations were constrained by coronavirus restrictions, which limited the number of people and households allowed to meet up.\n\nSainsbury's said that while people had smaller gatherings, they still treated themselves, with sales of the supermarket's premium Taste the Difference range up 11%.\n\nPremium champagne sales were up 52%, it added, echoing similar findings by rival Morrisons.\n\n\"People did more home baking than usual, with mincemeat sales up 24%. Customers still wanted New Year's Eve at home to feel special and we sold a record number of steaks,\" Sainsbury's said.\n\nSales of groceries, general merchandise and clothing were stronger than expected throughout the quarter, particularly since the start of England's second national lockdown, it added.\n\nClothing benefited from better-than-anticipated full-price sales, driven by customers shopping earlier for Christmas and changes to the supermarket's Black Friday trading strategy.\n\nSeparate figures issued by discount retailer B&M indicated that it too had a good Christmas, with like-for-like revenues at its UK stores up 21.1% year-on-year in the 13 weeks to 26 December.\n\n\"With our combination of exceptional value and convenient out-of-town locations, we are confident that our business model will prove highly relevant to the needs of customers in 2021,\" said chief executive Simon Arora.", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"\n\nThe coronavirus spreads when we come into contact with each other so moving classrooms online, telling people to stay at home and closing shops breaks many of those opportunities for human contact.\n\nIf we consider the R number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - it was about 3.0 in the run up to the first lockdown and anything above 1.0 means cases are climbing.\n\nR fell to 0.6 during the first lockdown.\n\nThen every 1,000 infected people passed the virus on to 600 others, who passed it on to 360 others and so on.\n\nBut if the new variant is 50% more transmissible then the R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be about 0.9.\n\nThen 1,000 infected people would pass the virus onto 900 others, then 810 and so on.\n\nAs you can see this leads to far slower decline.\n\nAnd that assumes lockdown can get R down to 0.9 in areas where the new variant has become the most common form of the virus.\n\nIf, as some studies suggest, the variant is about 70% more transmissible then R may stay above 1.0 and cases may not fall at all.\n\n\"We'd at best flatten the curve, keep numbers at a roughly constant level, and that's frankly why there is so much emphasis on getting vaccine into people's arms as quickly as possible,\" said Prof Ferguson.\n\nIt is hard to lock down even harder as there are some parts of society - hospitals, supermarkets - that need to be kept open.\n\nWhat happens to the number of cases over the coming weeks will be closely monitored. If this lockdown is less effective then we will have to live with it for longer.\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs over the Christmas break, which was a bit like a lockdown due to school holidays and other restrictions.\n\n\"We are in a very difficult situation here, but my initial assessment of the last few days is that the rate is slowing which is good news,\" Prof John Edmunds, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"It looks likes those restrictions should be sufficient to stop the increase, whether they will be sufficient to bring cases down sufficiently we are yet to see.\"\n\nEventually the vaccine will give people immunity so we do not need the same controls on our lives.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.", "Shijiazhuang authorities have started mass-testing residents following an outbreak in the city\n\nChina has placed 11 million people in the northern city of Shijiazhuang under lockdown after more than 100 new Covid cases were confirmed there.\n\nResidents are banned from leaving the city and schools have also been closed.\n\nMore than 5,000 testing sites have been set up so every resident can be tested.\n\nThe new figures are the highest China has seen in more than five months. The country has been able to contain such outbreaks by immediately taking tough action.\n\nThis has involved consistently using mass testing when new clusters of cases appear, even if they seem relatively small.\n\nHebei province, where Shijiazhuang is located, reported 120 new cases on Thursday and all but one of those infections was in the city. Elsewhere in the country, 22 new cases were confirmed.\n\nThe virus was first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019 before spiralling into a global pandemic.\n\nThursday's lockdown comes just weeks ahead of Chinese New Year, a time when people in China travel en masse to spend the holiday with their families.\n\nBut residents in the Gaocheng district of Shijiazhuang, considered to be the epicentre of the outbreak, are now not allowed to leave their local area. Other residents are banned from leaving the city.\n\nIn terms of transport, bus travel has been halted and many flights have been cancelled.\n\nResidents have been banned from leaving the city\n\nIn a sign of just how seriously the authorities see the situation, even the postal service in and out of Shijiazhuang has been suspended for three days. And the restrictions are being tightly enforced - police were photographed in protective hazmat suits guarding the entrance to an expressway.\n\nThree officials in Shijiazhuang's Gaocheng district have been punished for \"negligence\", according to the state-run China Daily newspaper.\n\n\"Villages should identify, report, isolate and treat cases as early as possible, so as to cut off the transmission,\" Wu Hao, a national health official, was quoted as saying.\n\nFive hospitals in Shijiazhuang have been cleared for Covid-19 patients, with three others standing by, the city's Vice-Mayor Meng Xianghong said.\n\nThursday's lockdown comes just weeks ahead of Chinese New Year - a time when families gather\n\nIt is not the first time China has locked down a city in response to a cluster of cases since the outbreak in Wuhan.\n\nIn October, all nine million residents of the Chinese city of Qingdao were tested in five days after a dozen cases were confirmed. The cases were linked to a hospital treating coronavirus patients arriving from abroad.\n\nThe same month, authorities in Kashgar, in Xinjiang, tested around 4.7m people after an outbreak there.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Many businesses in Beijing say that customers are still staying away", "The star thanked fans for their messages of support\n\nThe Wanted's Tom Parker has told fans he is \"responding well\" to treatment for his brain tumour.\n\nThe singer praised the NHS as he wrote on Instagram: \"Significant reduction: These are the words I received today and I can't stop saying them over and over again.\"\n\nSharing a picture with his wife Kelsey Hardwick and their two children, he added: \"Today is a good day.\"\n\nThe 32-year-old was found to have an inoperable brain tumour last year.\n\nThe diagnosis came after he suffered two seizures last summer. Because of Covid-19 restrictions, his wife was not allowed in the hospital during three days of tests and he received the news alone.\n\nAt the time he vowed to fight the cancer \"all the way\". Two weeks later he became a father for the second time after Hardwick gave birth to a baby boy.\n\nThe singer shared a photo of his young family alongside the latest update on his health\n\nSharing an update on his condition on Thursday, Parker said: \"I had an MRI scan on Tuesday and my results today were a significant reduction to the tumour and I am responding well to treatment.\n\n\"I can't thank our wonderful NHS enough,\" he continued. \"You're all having a tough time out there but we appreciate the work you are all doing on the front line.\"\n\nThe star also thanked his wife, calling her \"my rock\", and thanked fans for their support. \"Your love, light and positivity have inspired me,\" he wrote. \"Every message has not been unnoticed they have given me so much strength.\"\n\nParker achieved fame in the early 2010s as part of The Wanted, reaching number one with the singles All Time Low and Glad You Came.\n\nSince the band went on hiatus in 2014, he has played Danny Zuko in a touring production of Grease and reached the semi-finals of Celebrity Masterchef.\n\nHe married Hardwick, an actress, in 2018. As well as Bodhi, the couple have an 18-month-old daughter.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Just when the hospitality sector thought things couldn't get any worse, it has been hit by another lockdown.\n\nLast year's rolling closures forced Martin Wolstencroft to borrow £4m just to ensure the survival of Arc Inspirations, a bar chain with 17 venues across the north of England that he has spent the last two decades building into a successful business.\n\nAnd the latest lockdown has forced Mr Wolstencroft to ask his bank to lend him another £1m.\n\nHe is far from alone. UK Hospitality says the closure of pubs, restaurants and hotels is costing business owners such as Mr Wolstencroft a total of £500m a month, even allowing for any government support. And that has led to a huge rise in debt.\n\n\"The money that we are borrowing is really just to stand still,\" Mr Wolstencroft said.\n\n\"We'll be coming out of this in a far worse position with far greater debt and it totally reduces our ability to grow our business for the future.\n\n\"And all of this has been brought about through no fault of our own.\"\n\nHe reckons the debt he has taken on so far will take the business six years to pay back, which leaves him facing some difficult decisions.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a package of grants worth up to £3,000 a month per property to keep retail, hospitality and leisure businesses afloat until the spring.\n\nBut Mr Wolstencroft, who pays rents of more than £16,000 a month on some of his bars, described the grants as a \"mere drop in the ocean\".\n\nThe effect of taking on huge debts with no prospect of reopening soon is a major threat to millions working in the hospitality sector.\n\nMore than 1,600 restaurants closed last year, costing 30,000 jobs, says property adviser Altus.\n\nWhen bars, hotels and other hospitality businesses are included, almost 300,000 jobs were lost last year as a result of the pandemic, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics.\n\nAnd that figure is expected to more than double in the first three months of this year alone.\n\nKate Nicholls, the boss of UK Hospitality, predicts the total will hit 660,000 by the end of March.\n\nUK Hospitality chief executive Kate Nicholls is calling for further support for the industry\n\n\"The longer that these restrictions are in place, the more rapidly businesses will simply run out of cash and be unable to to remain open,\" she said.\n\nA survey of the trade body's members revealed that 80% of businesses did not have enough cash to make it through to April. \"It's going to be unbelievably brutal in the first quarter,\" Ms Nicholls said.\n\nThe latest lockdown follows a bruising Christmas period for the hospitality sector, which typically depends on a busy December to tide it over during January, traditionally a quiet month for pubs and restaurants.\n\n\"It's obviously very worrying for our industry,\" says Tim Hughes, who runs the Plough pub at Sleapshyde in Hertfordshire.\n\n\"They have banned takeaway sales of alcohol from pubs, but off-licences and supermarkets can carry on selling it,\" he said.\n\nBetween them, Mr Hughes, his brother and his father run three pubs in the St Albans area. They have already borrowed £350,000 and Mr Hughes says the latest lockdown will force them to take on even more debt just to survive.\n\nMonthly fixed costs at each of the pubs run to £9,500 and only one of their venues qualifies for the full £3,000 grant, so Mr Hughes says the Treasury's support \"doesn't touch the sides\".\n\nIt's the fourth time Mr Hughes has been forced to close the doors to the Plough - and each time it has cost him about £5,000.\n\nThis time, he also had to give away £4,000 worth of jumbo pork, vegetarian and vegan Bavarian bratwursts, bought to give 2,000 customers a substantial meal in the pub's \"winter garden\" during the festive period.\n\nThat was before an unexpected decision to put St Albans into tier three forced him to close the pub. He cancelled those bookings and refunded customers their £16,000.\n\nThe Plough's \"winter garden\", which was booked up for the Christmas period, stands empty\n\nRalph Findlay, the boss of Marston's, which has 1,700 pubs across the country and employs 14,000 people, said some pubs that had been forced to close their doors because of the lockdown would never reopen.\n\nHalf of Marston's employees are under 25, he said. \"I really worry about the impact of this on their employment prospects in places where it's very difficult to find employment.\"\n\nHe has called for pubs to be given more time before they are required to pay business rates again, which will leave pubs facing an £800m bill as soon as the current rates holiday expires in March, according to the British Beer & Pub Association.\n\nThat would force landlords, including Mr Hughes, to foot a bill that works out at £25,000 a pub.\n\n\"We are kidding ourselves if we think that more debt upon more debt is going to be sustainable,\" said Stephen Welton, executive chairman of the Business Growth Fund.\n\n\"Past recessions have shown very clearly that it's coming out of a recession - when companies are short of working capital - that they fall over.\"\n\nFor Mr Hughes at the Plough, he is looking for all the support he can get to avoid being put into a \"bigger black hole\".\n\nA Treasury spokesman said: \"\"We've taken swift action throughout the pandemic to protect lives and livelihoods.\"\n\nHe said the grant scheme would continue to support businesses and jobs through to the spring.", "Jamie Stiehm is a US political columnist who was in the Capitol building in Washington DC when it was stormed by pro-Trump rioters. Here's what she saw from the press gallery in the House of Representatives.\n\nI had told my sister earlier: \"Something bad is going to happen today. I don't know what, but something bad will happen.\"\n\nOutside the Capitol, I encountered a group of very boisterous supporters of President Donald Trump, all waving flags and pledging their allegiance to him. There was a sense that trouble was brewing.\n\nI went inside to the House of Representatives and up into the press gallery, where we were assigned seats, looking down at the rather sombre gathering. Speaker Nancy Pelosi was holding the gavel, and keeping people to their five-minute statements.\n\nAs we went into the second hour, all of a sudden we heard breaking glass. The air began getting fogged. An announcement from the Capitol Police said, \"An individual has breached the building\". So everyone looked around and then it was business as usual. But after that, the announcements kept coming. And they were getting more and more urgent.\n\nThey announced that the intruders had breached the rotunda, which is under the famed marble dome. The sacred house of democracy was under fire.\n\nMany of us are hardened journalists - I've seen my share of violence covering homicides in Baltimore - but this was very unpredictable. The police didn't seem to know what was happening. They weren't coordinated. They locked the chamber doors but at the same time, they told us we would have to evacuate. So there was a sense of panic.\n\nI was afraid. I'll tell you that. And I've spoken to other journalists who said they were a little ashamed of themselves for feeling afraid.\n\nThere was a sense of \"nobody's in charge here, the Capitol Police have lost control of the building, anything can happen\".\n\nIf you think back to the September 11 attacks in 2001, there was one plane that went down and didn't hit its target. That target was the Capitol. There were echoes of that. I made a call to my family, just to let them know that I was here and it was a dangerous situation.\n\nThere was a shot. We could see there was a standoff in our chamber. Five men were holding guns at the door. It was a frightening sight. Men were looking through a broken glass window and looked like they could shoot at any second.\n\nThankfully there was no gunfire inside the chamber. But for a while there, it felt like it would be a real possibility. Because things were going downhill very fast.\n\nWe had to crawl under railings to get out of the way. I was not dressed to do that. A lot of women were dressed up, wearing heels, because they had come for a formal ritual.\n\nI sheltered in the House cafeteria alongside others. I'm still shaking now.\n\nI have seen a lot as a journalist, but this was something more. This was the collective public sphere being undermined, assaulted, degraded. And I think this was why the Speaker wanted to return and hold the gavel again and go on.\n\nAfterwards I had to decide whether I was going to go back to the chamber too. I decided l probably would, because the message that is sending is: \"You can incite a mob, but we're going to go on\". I think that is a very important political message.", "Asos says it is in \"exclusive\" talks to buy Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT brands out of administration.\n\nBut the online retailer said it only wanted the brands, not their shops, suggesting any deal would cost jobs.\n\nThe current owner of the brands, Sir Philip Green's Arcadia Group, fell into administration last November putting 13,000 jobs at risk.\n\nAsos said it was \"a compelling opportunity\" to buy \"strong brands that resonate well with its customer base\".\n\n\"However, at this stage, there can be no certainty of a transaction and Asos will keep shareholders updated as appropriate,\" it added.\n\nLast week, a consortium including fashion chain Next dropped its bid to buy Topshop and Topman because it could not meet the price tag.\n\nOthers interested in some or all of Arcadia - which also owns Dorothy Perkins and Burton - include Mike Ashley's Frasers Group, a consortium including JD Sports, and the online retailer Boohoo.\n\nIn addition, the Issa brothers, who recently bought supermarket chain Asda, and Chinese fast fashion giant Shein are said to have made bids for Topshop.\n\nAsos has seen strong sales in the pandemic and is already one of the biggest wholesalers for Topshop, Topman, Burton and Miss Selfridge.\n\nAdministrators from Deloitte requested that final bids be submitted last Monday, with the auction expected to conclude at the end of January.\n\nSir Philip Green is under pressure to use his own money to plug an estimated £350m hole in Arcadia's pension fund, which has about 10,000 members.\n\nLast year the retail tycoon had an estimated fortune of £930m, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nArcadia employed about 13,000 people and had 444 shops at the time of its collapse.", "Boohoo is set to buy the Debenhams brand and website, the BBC understands.\n\nHowever, the fast fashion retailer will not be taking on any of the company's remaining 118 High Street stores or its workforce.\n\nThe announcement could come as early as Monday morning.\n\nThe 242-year-old chain is already in the process of closing down, after administrators failed to secure a rescue deal for the business, with the likely loss of 12,000 jobs.\n\nA closing down sale at 124 Debenhams stores began in December, as administrators continued to seek offers for all, or parts of the business.\n\nIn the last week or so, the company announced that six shops would not reopen after lockdown, including its flagship department store on London's Oxford Street.\n\nBoohoo has already bought a number of High Street brands out of administration. It snapped up Oasis, Coast and Karen Millen, but not the associated stores.\n\nDebenhams has struggled for years with falling profits and rising debts, as more shopping has moved online. It called in administrators twice in two years, most recently in April.\n\nMike Ashley has bought other struggling businesses including House of Fraser and Evans Cycles\n\nHowever, its position became untenable during the coronavirus pandemic as non-essential retailers were forced to close for prolonged periods.\n\nThe firm had already trimmed its store portfolio and cut about 6,500 jobs since May, as it struggled to stay afloat.\n\nBusinessman Mike Ashley, who founded Sports Direct and also owns House of Fraser, had already made an offer for Debenhams after it was initially put up for sale in April.\n\nHowever the takeover offer, thought to be in the region of £125m, was rejected as being too low, leaving JD Sports as the last remaining bidder.\n\nMr Ashley had previously built up a 29% stake in the chain, but saw his £150m holding wiped out in 2019, when the company fell into administration and then ended up in the hands of its lenders - a consortium led by hedge fund Silverpoint.\n\nIn early December, the Frasers Group confirmed that it was working on a possible last minute rescue of Debenhams.\n\nThe announcement came five days after staff were informed and liquidators moved in to Debenhams' stores to start clearing stock, after a potential rescue deal with JD Sports fell through.\n\nBut Frasers said there was \"no certainty\" it could save the chain.\n\nOne of the biggest issues, it said, was the collapse into administration last week of another High Street giant, Arcadia, which is the biggest concession holder in Debenhams department stores.", "More than 26,000 are now in hospital with the virus, according to government data\n\nFrance's top medical adviser said on Sunday that a third national lockdown would probably soon be needed to combat coronavirus in the country.\n\nA strict curfew was implemented last weekend, but cases continue to climb.\n\nProf Jean-Francois Delfraissy, head of the scientific council that advises leaders on Covid-19, said \"there is an emergency\" and this week was critical.\n\nHe called for swift government action, amid rising concerns about the spread of new variants of the coronavirus.\n\nProf Delfraissy said data showed a new more transmissible variant first detected in the UK now makes up between 7-9% of cases in some French regions and will be hard to stop.\n\nHe said the country was in a better situation than others in Europe, but described the new variants as the \"equivalent of a second pandemic\".\n\n\"If we do not tighten regulations, we will find ourselves in an extremely difficult situation from mid-March,\" the advisor warned during an interview with BFM television.\n\nThe French government is expected to meet on Wednesday to decide if further measures are needed.\n\nOfficials have so far resisted implementing a third national lockdown, preferring an overnight curfew system which allows schools to stay open.\n\nBut daily infection numbers are rising - with the seven-day moving average now above 20,000 despite the 18:00 curfew.\n\nFrench Prime Minister Jean Castex previously said restrictions could be imposed \"without delay\" if the situation deteriorated further.\n\nThe country's virus death toll topped 73,000 on Sunday, as the country tightened restrictions on arrivals into the country.\n\nUnder new rules anyone entering from inside the EU by air or ferry must now present a negative Covid-19 test result within 72 hours of travel. Those entering France from the EU by road, including cross-border workers, will not be required to take a test.\n\nPresident of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said last week that all non-essential travel \"must be strongly advised against\" but EU nations have so far agreed to keep borders open.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police in Paris ensure shops close at 6pm as France begins a new curfew to tackle Covid-19", "Ella Lambert had never sewn before but borrowed a friend's machine to learn how to make sanitary pads made from cloth\n\nA student whose \"terrible period pains\" inspired her to start a reusable sanitary pad project has helped 600 refugees get out of \"period poverty\".\n\nElla Lambert, 20, from Chelmsford, Essex, started The Pachamama Project during the first coronavirus lockdown.\n\nShe said she wanted to help women who were unable to buy period products.\n\nNearly 2,500 pads sewn by 150 volunteers have been sent to camps in Greece and Lebanon.\n\nWomen are given four pads each, which are washable and can be reused for about five years, she said.\n\nThe pads are distributed to women in refugee camps\n\nMs Lambert said: \"In March I had terrible period pain, I was being sick, it was awful, and it made me think, I know I'm not the only person going through this.\n\n\"The people I want to help, in these camps, they're experiencing period pain and having to use random tissue paper, cardboard, socks, scraps of material and even leaves - whatever they can get hold of.\"\n\nThe University of Bristol languages student set up her not-for-profit group in March and launched her sanitary product - Pacha Pads - in August, with the help of charities and groups in the two countries to distribute them.\n\nThousands of pads have been made by hundreds of volunteers since August\n\nIt started when she put appeals for material on community groups, she said.\n\nVolunteers from all over the UK came forward to make the products after she developed a pattern, created a guide and explained how to source material for free.\n\nThe products are then sent back to her to be posted abroad, after quality checks.\n\nSome of the sewers came from groups formed to make scrubs for NHS workers during the first lockdown, and who still wanted to be useful, she said.\n\nAlice Corrigan, from The Free Shop of Lebanon, said the project helped with the \"fight against period poverty in Lebanon\"\n\nAlice Corrigan, founder of The Free Shop Lebanon, which hands out the products for free in its shop, said: \"Sustainable menstrual products are very new to many Lebanese and in particular Syrian women.\"\n\nShe added it is not common for them to talk about menstrual activity, so it was important they could be helped to understand its importance and accept it as part of their routine.\n\nKaty Chadwick, technical adviser at the charity ActionAid UK, said: \"For too many women and girls and people who menstruate a lack of access to products impacts on their ability to move freely and to access education and other opportunities.\n\n\"It's encouraging to see new initiatives to support the most marginalised women and girls access sustainable products.\"\n\nAll the sanitary pads are washable so they can be reused for up to about five years\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It is hoped that vaccinating teenagers will allow them to sit exams\n\nIsrael has started vaccinating 16 to 18-year-olds against Covid-19, in an effort to enable them to sit exams.\n\nMore than a quarter of Israel's population of nine million have received at least one dose of the Pfizer vaccine since 19 December, its health ministry says.\n\nIt started with the elderly and others at high risk, but people aged 40 and over can also now get the jab.\n\nIsrael hopes to start reopening its economy in February.\n\nThe inclusion of 16 to 18-year-olds - with parental permission - is meant \"to enable their return (to school) and the orderly holding of exams\", an education ministry spokeswoman said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe matriculation exams that Israeli students sit at the end of high school play an important role in deciding where they will go to university. Their results can also affect their placement in the military, where many young Israelis do compulsory service.\n\nThe education ministry has said it is too early to say whether schools will reopen next month.\n\nIsrael started its rapid vaccination drive - the fastest in the world - on 19 December, reaching 10% of its population by the end of 2020.\n\nIsrael has recorded more than 596,000 cases and 4,392 deaths with Covid-19, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University.\n\nOn Sunday, the government said it would ban passenger flights in and out of the country from Monday night for the rest of January, in an effort to halt the spread of new virus variants.\n\n\"Other than rare exceptions, we are closing the sky hermetically to prevent the entry of the virus variants and also to ensure that we progress quickly with our vaccination campaign,\" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.\n\nForeigners have largely been blocked from entering Israel during the pandemic.", "All schools moved to online learning before Christmas, following concerns from unions over the new coronavirus variant\n\n\"Wholesale\" return of pupils to school after February half term is \"unlikely\", Wales' first minister has said.\n\nMark Drakeford said there were \"intermediate positions between where we are today, with very few children in school, and everybody being back\".\n\nPreviously, ministers said schools would stay closed to most until February half term unless Covid cases fell significantly.\n\nThose preparing for qualifications and very young children may return first.\n\nMr Drakeford told a coronavirus briefing on Friday he had recently chaired a meeting of the teaching unions and local education authorities.\n\n\"We all agreed that we would work purposefully together to find ways of bringing more young people back into the classroom,\" he said.\n\n\"Does that mean that we will see a wholesale return of every child in every classroom, every day of the week across Wales? I do think that that is probably unlikely.\n\n\"But there are intermediate positions between where we are today, with very few children in school, and everybody being back.\"\n\nHe said there had been \"practical, creative, imaginative\" proposals put forward which could mean some children being back in the classroom for some of the week.\n\nMinisters previously said schools would stay closed until half term unless Covid cases fell significantly\n\nThese could include \"children preparing for qualifications [and] very young children for whom online learning really isn't a genuine possibility\".\n\n\"I certainly don't rule out making some of those things happen after the February half term, but I do think it's unlikely in the way you said that we would see every child back full-time in every classroom in the way that we would ideally wish to do,\" he added.\n\nAll schools and colleges moved to online learning before Christmas, following concerns from unions over the new coronavirus variant.\n\nThey have remained open for children of critical workers and vulnerable learners, as well as for learners who needed to complete essential exams or assessments.\n\nEarlier this month, when Education Minister Kirsty Williams said schools and colleges would stay closed to most pupils until the February half term, unions welcomed the news, saying the health and safety of pupils and staff \"had to be a priority\".\n\nBut, they added, teachers must now be given the vaccine as a priority, and pupils and staff must be protected before talks about reopening schools could begin.\n\nTeachers are still not on the priority list for immunisation, and have to wait to get the jab dependent on their age and if they have a medical condition.\n\nAt the time, Laura Doel, director of The National Association of Headteachers Cymru, said: \"Any plan that sees school staff return to face-to-face learning should be afforded as much protection as possible against the virus.\n\n\"Once these issues have been addressed, then we can discuss the orderly return to school we all want.\"\n\nOpposition parties have called for clear plans on how schools would return and for support to make sure pupils from poorer backgrounds did not fall behind due to a \"digital divide\".\n\nPlaid Cymru's education spokeswoman Sian Gwenllian said: \"The Welsh Government must plan now for the gradual and safe reopening of schools, putting in place safety measures, and should lay out plans for a vaccination programme for schools staff.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative education spokeswoman Suzy Davies called for the Welsh Government to publish evidence on its reasons for closing schools, bring forward vaccines for teachers, and said money must be made available for all pupils to access laptops for online learning.", "Janice Johnston says doctors who misdiagnosed her \"took so much away from me\"\n\nA care home worker who was wrongly diagnosed with cancer said she thought it was a \"cruel joke\" when she was told doctors had made a mistake and she did not have cancer at all.\n\nMum-of-four Janice Johnston said her \"world crumbled\" when she learned she had a rare form of blood cancer at Kent and Canterbury Hospital in 2017.\n\nShe had 18 months of oral chemotherapy treatment, during which she experienced weight loss, nausea and bone pain, and had to give up her job as an auxiliary nurse.\n\nWhen the treatment did not appear to be working, she says, medics upped the dosage.\n\nIn 2018, she sought alternative treatment at Guy's Hospital in London. It was there a specialist told her she did not have cancer at all but a different condition.\n\nMrs Johnston was awarded £75,950 in damages after East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust admitted liability. Staff at the hospital had failed to do the necessary ultrasound scan and bone marrow biopsy before diagnosing her.\n\nMrs Johnston, 53, said: \"The cancer diagnosis was an absolute shock. They said my life span would be shortened.\n\n\"I was at high risk of a fatal stroke or heart attack and I could drop down at any minute. It was heartbreaking and devastating.\n\n\"It didn't sink in until I saw the haematologist. I was in a room with people having serious chemotherapy who looked incredibly ill. I thought: 'I'm like them'.\"\n\nMrs Johnston says doctors told her she would need chemotherapy for life.\n\nThe side-effects led to her feeling \"wiped out\", her hair thinning, her teeth becoming loose and her gums receding.\n\nShe says occupational health told her that her immune system was jeopardised and she could pick up infections easily. That meant she was forced to resign from her job.\n\n\"Giving up work was horrible,\" Mrs Johnston says.\n\nShe was also worried she would not get to see some of her daughters get married or her grandchildren grow up.\n\nThe trust admitted failing to carry out vital tests before diagnosing Mrs Johnston\n\nAfter searching on the internet to find out more about the blood cancer she was told she had - Polycythaemia vera (PV) - she learned that Guy's Hospital offered a different type of chemotherapy and asked her consultant for an appointment there.\n\nMrs Johnston recalls: \"The specialist at Guy's looked over my blood counts and said: 'I don't think you have blood cancer'.\"\n\nThe doctor told Mrs Johnston she had a different condition called secondary PV which is not cancer.\n\n\"She asked if I'd had a bone marrow test and scan of the spleen to confirm the diagnosis - I hadn't had either. My husband thought it was fantastic but I was angry.\n\n\"I thought it was a cruel joke on me. It didn't sink in. My husband couldn't understand why I wasn't jumping for joy - but it had taken my life.\"\n\nOne of the hardest things to cope with for Mrs Johnston was thinking she had been a \"fraud\".\n\n\"I'd been doing some fundraising to try and have something positive to focus on. Cancer Research UK asked if I'd be guest of honour at a charity run in Margate. I stood on stage in front of 3,000 women saying I had cancer.\n\n\"I'm mortified that people will think I made it up. It has made me feel awful and like I have lied to everyone,\" she said.\n\nMrs Johnston now has severe anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).\n\n\"I still get flashbacks to it,\" she says. \"It was two years of my life. They took so much away from me.\"\n\nShe says she wants to \"raise awareness\" about her experience, and for \"anyone that does get diagnosed with it, to ask questions and learn as much as they can about it and if they feel any doubt, to get a second opinion\".\n\nA spokesperson for East Kent Hospitals said: \"A misdiagnosis of this kind is exceptionally rare and we wholeheartedly apologise to Ms Johnston.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\nFlood victims will not be able to return to their homes until their safety can be assured, a council leader has said.\n\nThe Coal Authority has said initial checks suggested water built up in a mine shaft causing a \"blow out\" that flooded properties in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot.\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated as water rushed through the village on Thursday.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones said it was unlikely residents could return Monday.\n\nHe said underground investigations would begin on Saturday and the work could take two to three days.\n\n\"Safety is the paramount concern for us,\" he said.\n\n\"Because we can't guarantee the site safety - that's the reason why people will remain away from their properties until such time as we can give the all clear.\n\n\"We don't know what the water has done underground.\"\n\nThe fire service said on Saturday morning the pumping operation was \"making good progress\".\n\nMr Jones told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast people may be able to return next week but \"did not want to raise hopes\" it will be Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said the flooding was \"more than likely\" related to old mine workings with six mines known about in area. He said the industry dated back 300 years.\n\nSkewen resident John Thomas returned home from a funeral with wife Lynne on Thursday to find their house had turned into \"a lake\".\n\nHe said: \"The water was around the level of the bottom of the doors so we couldn't go in, so we just had to stand there and watch this orange-coloured water just piling up and up and up.\n\n\"Other people who were evacuated had the chance to move things upstairs, I didn't have a chance to do that because I couldn't get in to it.\"\n\nAt least 80 people had to leave their homes in the village after flooding\n\nLocal MP Stephen Kinnock said affected residents were staying in \"lots of different places\" across the region.\n\nAnd he praised the \"extraordinary\" generosity of the community and the support of the Salvation Army with donations of food, clothing and toiletries.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNatural Resources Wales (NRW) said officers were continuing to look at how to minimise the risk of pollution to nearby rivers, and investigating any impacts on the River Neath.\n\nThe Coal Authority, which manages the effects of past coal mining, is investigating the incident.\n\nChief executive Lisa Pinney said equipment, due on site on Saturday, would be used to drill into mine workings to \"fully investigate what has happened\".\n\n\"The blow out is likely to have been caused by a blockage underground which has caused water to back up and to break out using the easiest path,\" she said.\n\n\"The excessive rainfall of the past few days and the prolonged rainfall this winter, will have put additional pressure on the system.\n\n\"We know that people will want to get back to their homes and we will continue to progress these works as soon as possible, but public safety has to come first.\"\n\nThere are a number of historical mine workings in Skewen dating back beyond 1850.\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Jones said water was still pouring out of the affected site so workers were diverting it, while machines cleared gulleys and drains to give the water the chance to enter drainage systems.\n\nA residents' incident support centre has been set up at Abbey Primary School to offer help and information over the weekend, between 09:00-17:00 GMT.\n\nThe council has asked residents to be \"patient as the investigation continues\" and has set up a helpline. Tel. 01639 686868.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA new world record has been set for the number of satellites sent to space on a single rocket.\n\nThe 143 payloads, of all shapes and sizes, rode to orbit on a SpaceX Falcon rocket that launched out of Florida.\n\nThe number beats the previous record of 104 satellites carried aloft by an Indian vehicle in 2017.\n\nIt's further evidence of the major structural changes taking place in space activity that are allowing many more actors to get involved.\n\nThis shift is the result of a revolution in robust, miniaturised, low-cost components - many taken direct from consumer electronics such as smartphones - that mean pretty much anyone can now build a capable satellite in a very small package.\n\nAnd with SpaceX offering to transport those packages to orbit for just $1m, the commercial opportunities will continue to open up.\n\nGuatemala's Santa María volcano: Planet is imaging the entire Earth daily with its Dove satellites\n\nSpaceX itself had 10 satellites on the Falcon - the latest additions to its Starlink telecommunications mega-constellation, which is going to deliver broadband internet connections around the globe.\n\nSan Francisco's Planet company had the most satellites of all on the flight - 48.\n\nThese were another batch of its SuperDove models that image the Earth's surface daily at a resolution of 3-5m. The new spacecraft take the firm's operational fleet now in orbit to more than 200.\n\n\"Internet of things\": SpaceBees will connect to all manner of objects on the ground\n\nThe SuperDoves are the size of a shoebox. Many of the other payloads on the Falcon rocket were little bigger than a coffee mug, however; and some were smaller even than a paperback book.\n\nSwarm Technologies is rolling out what it calls the SpaceBees. They're just 10cm by 10cm by 2.5cm.\n\nThey'll act as telecommunications nodes to connect devices that are attached to all manner of objects on the ground, from migrating animals to shipping containers.\n\nThe satellites were mounted on a dispenser that ejected them in sequence\n\nSome of the larger items on the Falcon rocket were suitcase-sized. Among these were several radar satellites. Radar has been one of the major beneficiaries of the revolution in componentry.\n\nTraditionally, radar satellites were big, multi-tonne objects that cost hundreds of millions of dollars to fly, which essentially meant only the military or major space agencies could afford to operate them.\n\nBut the adoption of new materials and compact \"off the shelf\" parts have dramatically shrunk the size (to under 100kg) and price (a couple of million dollars) of these spacecraft.\n\niQPS artwork: The radar satellites unfurl large antennas once they are in space\n\nIceye from Finland, Capella from the US, and iQPS of Japan all took the ride to orbit on Sunday. These start-ups are establishing constellations in the sky that will return rapid, repeat imagery of the Earth.\n\nRadar has the advantage over standard optical cameras of being able to pierce cloud, and to sense the Earth's surface whether it is day or night. We're entering an age when any change on the planet, wherever it happens, will be picked up almost immediately.\n\nThe Falcon carried the 143 satellites into a 500km-high path that runs from pole to pole. This is one of the drawbacks of a big rideshare mission: you go where the rocket goes, and for some that might not be ideal.\n\nA number of satellite missions will want an orbit that's higher or lower in the sky, or on a different inclination to the equator.\n\nThis can be achieved by mounting the satellites on \"space tugs\" which, after coming off the top of the rocket, modify the final parameters for their \"passengers\" over the course of several weeks. Sunday's Falcon carried two such tugs.\n\nBut for some missions a bespoke ride is going to be the only satisfactory solution. It's why we're now witnessing a rush to produce small rockets that can run dedicated flights.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne rocket blasts its way to space\n\nThese smaller rockets will not be able to compete on cost with the big vehicles, such as SpaceX's Falcon-9, but they should attract the custom of those with very specific or urgent needs.\n\nDan Hart, the CEO of Virgin Orbit, which has developed a small rocket that can be launched from under the wing of a Boeing 747, says the start-ups are becoming more discerning.\n\n\"These small satellites used to be points of fascination and interest, and it was a case of finding the cheapest way possible to get into space,\" he explained.\n\n\"That's rapidly changing. These are now businesses with critical missions that risk losing revenue if they have to wait on others or go into an unsuitable orbit. And that's why you're going to see people who will pay that little bit more to get to where they want to go when they absolutely need to go there,\" he told BBC News.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Will Marshall: \"Our satellites 'phoned home' and they are healthy\"\n\nWith the roll call of satellites going into orbit now accelerating rapidly, the issue of traffic management is becoming a hot topic.\n\nFull-on collisions are currently rare, but a surprisingly large number (10%) of satellites will even now experience sudden, unexpected momentum changes, most probably the result of being hit by some small fragment from a previous mission.\n\nThe space sector needs to find smarter ways to track objects in orbit and to command timely avoidance manoeuvres, otherwise certain altitudes could ultimately become unusable because of the presence of dangerously dense debris fields.\n\nJonathan McDowell from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is a noted historian of astronautics.\n\nHe commented: \"There are now over 3,000 working satellites in orbit. The number of satellites launched last year at over 1,200 is over twice as many as in any previous year. And the ones launched today - that used to be the number you'd launch in a whole year. So it's getting really crowded up there.\"\n\nWill Marshall, the CEO of Planet, said his company, and indeed all of the companies on Sunday's flight, were accutley aware of the issue.\n\n\"We are seeing crowded areas in certain orbits,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"Most of the crowded piece that is in danger of what they call Kessler Syndrome (runaway collisions) is quite high up. So one of the tricks that all of these satellites that were launched today use is to just stay really low where there's still a lot of atmospheric drag and eventually those satellites just come down.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nSecond Test, Galle (day four of five)\n\nEngland completed a thrilling victory on day four of the second Test against Sri Lanka to take the series 2-0.\n\nChasing a tricky 164, England were 89-4 on a turning pitch but opener Dom Sibley hit 56 not out to lead them to a six-wicket win.\n\nSibley, who had not reached double figures in the series, put on 75 with Jos Buttler, who made 46 not out.\n\nEarlier, England capitalised on reckless batting to dismiss Sri Lanka for 126 in their second innings.\n\nDom Bess and Jack Leach took four wickets each and the hosts would have been dismissed even more cheaply but for 40 from number 10 Lasith Embuldeniya, who finished with match figures of 10-210.\n\nResuming on 339-9 in their first innings, England conceded a first-innings deficit of 37 when Jack Leach was dismissed with only five runs added.\n\nSri Lanka were favourites at that point but England completed a turnaround on a dramatic day when 15 wickets fell.\n\nThe series win is England's fourth in a row and they are also unbeaten in 10 successive Tests under Joe Root's captaincy, going into a difficult series in India which starts on 5 February.\n\nEngland are fourth in the World Test Championship table, 0.5% behind third-placed Australia.\n• None Root urges England not to 'stand still'\n• None TMS podcast: What does England's series win mean for India tour?\n\nThis was also England's fifth consecutive away Test win, the first time they have achieved that feat since World War One. They are developing an impressive winning habit.\n\nSri Lanka's batting, perhaps spooked by the turning pitch, was inept and their effort in the field lacklustre, but England were clinical.\n\nBess and Leach bowled well - far better than their wicketless showing in the first innings - while James Anderson took a brilliant high catch and Zak Crawley two excellent grabs at short leg.\n\nSri Lanka were leading only by 115 when their eighth wicket fell, before Embuldeniya, who had a remarkable game in defeat, dragged them to a score.\n\nThe target looked competitive - the hosts were possibly even favourites - but the manner England in which overhauled it was mightily impressive.\n\nThere was a wobble when Jonny Bairstow was trapped lbw for a useful 28-ball 29, Root - the dominant player in the series - was bowled for 11 and Dan Lawrence edged behind with a further 85 needed.\n\nHowever, Sibley played the anchor role while Buttler provided impetus in his typically attacking style.\n\nSibley, so at sea in his previous three innings, calmly nudged singles into the leg side. Buttler played thumped drives to the extra-cover boundary, smacked a reverse sweep through point and launched a slog sweep through mid-wicket.\n\nIn the end, England won with ease, Sibley sealing a fine win by tapping for one.\n\nSri Lanka threatened better in this match, having been convincingly beaten by seven wickets in the first.\n\nThey batted well in the first innings and in Embuldeniya they have a fine spinner, playing only his ninth Test.\n\nBut their fourth-day performance was abysmal. Their batting was akin to their performance on day one of the series when they were bowled out for 135.\n\nThe dismissals of captain Dinesh Chandimal - skying a slog sweep to Anderson at mid-on having hit a four a ball earlier - and Niroshan Dickwella, who drove Bess to extra cover two minutes before lunch, were the worst of a series of needlessly aggressive shots.\n\nSri Lanka also disappointed in the field. They were a little unfortunate that Sibley survived three tight lbw reviews, all of which were umpire's call, but their tactics were baffling.\n\nChandimal set the field back and allowed an accumulator in Sibley to tick along as he wished.\n\nThis tour, while important for points in the World Test Championship, always felt like the warm-up act in a huge year for England's Test team.\n\nNext they face a far bigger challenge in India before a summer against New Zealand, top of the Test rankings, India again, and an Ashes series in Australia the winter.\n\nThe biggest plus of this series has been the emphatic run-scoring of Root. He did not score a century in 2019 but made 228 and 186, albeit against a poor Sri Lanka. The skipper amassed 426 runs at an average of 106.50 in the series.\n\nBess and Leach were by no means perfect - they bowl too many bad balls - but finished the series with 12 and 10 wickets respectively.\n\nThe match-winning fifty for Sibley is also a significant boost going into the four Tests in India. Having been dismissed by Embuldeniya in every innings on tour previously, he showed he can grind out a score.\n\nEngland's veteran bowlers, Anderson and Stuart Broad, proved once again they can perform in unhelpful conditions.\n\nThere are question marks, however, about opener Crawley, whose top score in four innings was 13.\n\nThe issues at the top of the order are complicated by the fact Bairstow, who has done well at number three, has been rested for the first two Tests in India.\n\nEngland opener Dom Sibley on Test Match Special: \"I didn't think I'd left any stone unturned with regards playing spin, but then you go back to your room in the evening and think 'maybe I'm not up to this' and have those doubts.\n\n\"It is about accepting those and just believing. It just feels like pure relief at the moment.\"\n\nSri Lanka captain Dinesh Chandimal: \"We were outplayed today. We have done all the hard work in the last three days but as a batting unit we made the same mistakes of the first Test. There are no excuses for the batsmen and we've got to learn how to bat like Joe Root.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"A really, really strong performance from England. If you look down from one to 11, most people have contributed.\n\n\"They will have to bowl better in India. But the confidence that this will do for the team, and for Joe Root at the start of a huge year, is huge.\"", "A former senior manager at Boeing's 737 plant in Seattle has raised new concerns over the safety of the company's 737 Max.\n\nThe aircraft, which was grounded after two accidents in which 346 people died, has already been cleared to resume flights in North America and Brazil, and is expected to gain approval in Europe this week.\n\nBut in a new report, Ed Pierson claims that further investigation of electrical issues and production quality problems at the 737 factory is badly needed.\n\nRegulators in the US and Europe insist their reviews have been thorough, and that the 737 Max aircraft is now safe.\n\nIn his report, Mr Pierson claims that regulators and investigators have largely ignored factors, which he believes, may have played a direct role in the accidents.\n\nHe explicitly links them to conditions at the company's factory in Renton, near Seattle at the time. Boeing says this is unfounded.\n\nInvestigators believe both accidents were triggered by the failure of a single sensor. It sent inaccurate data to a piece of flight control software, called MCAS.\n\nThis automated system then repeatedly forced the nose of the aircraft downwards, when the pilots were trying to gain height. Ultimately each aircraft was pushed into an unrecoverable dive.\n\nEfforts to make the 737 Max safe have focused on redesigning the MCAS software, and ensuring it can no longer be triggered by a single sensor failure.\n\nFor Ed Pierson, this does not go nearly far enough. A US Navy veteran, who had a senior role on the 737 production line from 2015-2018, he was a star witness during congressional hearings into the disasters involving the Max.\n\nHe told lawmakers he had become so concerned about conditions at the factory, he had told his bosses that he was hesitant about taking his own family on a Boeing plane.\n\nEd Pierson (centre), seated next to his attorney Eric Havian (right), at a House Transportation Committee hearing on oversight of the Boeing 737 Max certification, on 11 December 2019\n\nHe testified that during 2018, the factory was in a \"chaotic\" and \"dysfunctional\" state as, he claimed, staff there struggled under pressure from managers to build new planes as quickly as possible.\n\nNow, he is worried that these issues have been overlooked in the rush to get the 737 Max back in the air.\n\nHis report draws on material from the official investigations. It claims that both of the crashed aircraft suffered from - what he believes were - production defects, almost from the moment they entered service.\n\nThese included intermittent flight control system problems and electrical anomalies that occurred in the days and weeks before the accidents.\n\nHe claims these may have been symptoms of flaws in the aircrafts' highly complex wiring systems, which could have contributed to the erroneous deployment of MCAS.\n\nHe also points out that sensor failures contributed to both accidents and asks why such failures were happening on brand new machines.\n\nIn the case of the Lion Air plane, a faulty sensor was replaced with another part that was not properly calibrated.\n\nAll signs, Mr Pierson says, \"point back to where these airplanes were produced, the 737 factory\".\n\nHowever, he insists that the possibility of production defects playing a role in the accidents has not been addressed by regulators.\n\nHe claims this could lead to further tragedies, involving the Max or even a previous version of the 737.\n\nMr Pierson's concerns are supported by the celebrated aviation safety campaigner Captain Chesley Sullenberger.\n\nBest known as \"Sully\", one of the pilots who safely ditched a crippled and engineless Airbus plane in the Hudson river off Manhattan in 2009, he too believes that modifications to the Max do not go far enough.\n\nHe believes changes are needed to warning systems aboard the plane, which were carried over from a previous version of the 737 and are \"not up to modern standards\".\n\nCaptain Chesley \"Sully\" Sullenberger (centre) testifies during a House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing on the status of the grounded Boeing 737 Max in June 2019\n\n\"Ed Pierson's report is very disturbing, about manufacturing issues in the Boeing factories that go well beyond just the Max, and also affect… the previous version of the 737,\" says Capt Sullenberger.\n\n\"There are many critically important unanswered questions that must be answered.\n\n\"Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) must finally become more transparent, and begin to provide information and data, so that independent experts can determine the worthiness of the work that's been done.\"\n\nThe BBC has also spoken to a former senior inspector with the UK's Air Accident Investigations Branch (AAIB), who now works as a safety specialist. He warns that Mr Pierson's findings should be viewed in a wider context.\n\nThe report, he says, does make some \"valid observations\" about the pressures on Boeing's production line and quality control, and concerns about specific components.\n\nHowever, he adds that \"taking the limited information in any accident report… and making fresh interpretations of it, is not the same as conducting a new investigation\".\n\nThe issues highlighted, he adds, \"may have been investigated and dismissed already, for good reason\".\n\nThe FAA, meanwhile, insists it only approved the return to service of the Max, following a \"comprehensive and methodical safety review process\".\n\nA worker stands by a Boeing 737 Max plane on the tarmac at the Boeing Renton factory in Washington\n\nIt adds: \"None of the many investigations of the two accidents produced evidence that a production flaw played a role\", and emphasises that \"every aircraft leaving the factory is inspected by a team of FAA inspectors before it is cleared for delivery\".\n\nBoeing itself will not comment on whether the electrical and flight control problems highlighted by Mr Pierson may have played a factor in the two accidents, on the grounds that this is a matter for the investigating authorities.\n\nIt has, however, described suggestions of any link between conditions at Renton and the two accidents as \"completely unfounded\", emphasising that none of the authorities investigating the crashes has found any such link.\n\nPatrick Ky, the head of Europe's aviation safety agency, EASA, has previously told the BBC he is \"certain\" the plane is safe to fly.\n\nBut relatives of those who died aboard ET302 are continuing to urge the agency not to allow the 737 Max to operate in Europe, \"until continuing concerns about the aircraft's safety have been fully and openly addressed\".", "People in Lebanon are living under one of the world's strictest lockdowns. Under the round-the-clock curfew, citizens who are not \"essential workers\" have been barred from leaving their homes since 14 January.\n\nLaila, 12, is in Beirut trying to study while her family works from home.\n\n\"We all have our own work to do and when we have meetings we hear each other. It can be a real distraction and stop you from finishing your work on time,\" she says.\n\n\"Sometimes I can't study well because I get stressed with all the work they're giving us. It is definitely not the same studying online as it is in the physical world.\"\n\nFor hairdresser Walid Kanaan this year has been \"extremely difficult psychologically and economically\".\n\n\"I own my shop but still I cannot afford it. I pay the workers' salary so I am really broke,\" says the 45-year-old.\n\n\"It is hitting hard. You can't go out at all or do anything. My wife works in a bank and she is also collapsing. She doesn't know if she will still have her job or not.\n\n\"We don't trust the government that if they bring a vaccine it will be safe to take it. We can only pray for God to protect us.\"\n\nRead more stories from people in lockdown in Lebanon here.", "Teachers were not at significantly higher risk of death from Covid-19 than the general population, Office for National Statistics figures suggest.\n\nRestaurant staff, people working in factories and care workers had among the highest death rates, followed by taxi drivers and security guards.\n\nNurses were more than twice as likely as their peers to die of coronavirus.\n\nSecondary school teachers may have been at slightly, but not measurably, higher risk than the average.\n\nThe ONS looked at death rates from coronavirus in England and Wales between 9 March and 28 December 2020.\n\nIt found 31 in every 100,000 working-age men and 17 in every 100,000 working-age women had died of Covid-19.\n\nThis equated to just under 8,000 deaths among 20-64-year-olds.\n\nBut care workers, security guards and people working in certain manufacturing roles died at more than three times the rate of their peers.\n\nTwo-thirds of deaths were among men.\n\nAs well as being more likely to be male, working-age people who died of Covid last year had other things in common: they were much more likely to work in jobs where they were either regularly exposed to known Covid cases or working in close proximity with other people more generally.\n\nMany of the highest-risk jobs were also relatively low paid and may be more likely to be casual or insecure, without sick pay, including hospitality, care work and taxi driving.\n\nAmong teachers, there were 18 deaths per 100,000 among men and 10 per 100,000 among women.\n\nBreaking that down by role, secondary school teachers appear to have a very slightly elevated risk at 39 deaths per 100,000 people in men and 21 per 100,000 in women.\n\nPer 100,000 men aged 20-64, 31 died in the population as a whole compared with:\n\nPer 100,000 women aged 20-64, 17 died in the population as a whole compared with:\n\nThese are illustrative examples, not an exhaustive league table.\n\nThe ONS calculated the rate by dividing the number of deaths by the number of workers in each job role.\n\nBecause the numbers for secondary teachers were comparatively small - 52 deaths in total - it's difficult to be certain about their exact risk, but any increase there might be compared with the general population was not considered statistically significant.\n\nHowever, while teachers were not at higher risk than the average, they did appear to be at higher risk than some other professional job roles, which have seen very few or no deaths.\n\nThe ONS excluded from its analysis any occupation that had seen fewer than 10 deaths, and the average death rate for the whole population masks this variation.\n\nThe study also covers periods where there were limited numbers of children attending school.\n\nBut the figures do tell us teachers didn't have an elevated risk of the magnitude faced by health and care staff and by lower-paid manual and service workers.\n\nOther groups of staff studied with higher death rates, including hospitality and some factory and construction workers, also had their usual work paused for similar chunks of that period.\n\nWhile these figures tell us the death rates in each occupation group, they do not tell us the jobs are themselves causing more infections.\n\nThe ONS looked at age and sex but did not adjust for ethnicity, health or socioeconomic status which might influence an individual's risk.\n\nONS analyst Ben Humberstone said: \"As the pandemic has progressed, we have learnt more about the disease and the communities it impacts most. There are a complex combination of factors that influence the risk of death; from your age and your ethnicity, where you live and who you live with, to pre-existing health conditions.\n\n\"Our findings do not prove that the rates of death involving COVID-19 are caused by differences in occupational exposure,\" he added.\n\nThis also just refers to deaths, not infections which may result in serious illness.\n\nSome earlier ONS data suggested certain types of teacher may have an increased risk of catching coronavirus, although again the body did not consider this to be statistically significant.\n\nDirector of policy for the Association of School and College Leaders teachers' union, Julie McCulloch, said: \"When trying to understand rates of coronavirus-related deaths, there are likely to be many complex factors and we need to be careful not to jump to conclusions about the relative risks of different workplaces.\n\n\"What we do know is that, when schools are fully open, education staff are asked to work in environments that are inherently busy and crowded. In order to give them reassurance, and to minimise the disruption to education, it is vital that they are prioritised for vaccination as soon as possible.\"\n\nWhether teachers should be prioritised for vaccines has been a matter of debate.\n\nAt the moment the programme is being rolled out based on what will save the most lives and prevent the most severe illness.\n\nAfter the oldest age groups, people with health conditions and frontline staff who are regularly exposed to the virus, the government will have to publish a new raft of priorities.\n\nVaccines minister Nadim Zahawi has indicated more people could be prioritised on the basis of their job role, including teachers, shop workers and police officers.", "Fraud has reached epidemic levels in the UK and should be seen as a national security issue, says think tank the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).\n\nThe scale of credit card, identity and cyber-fraud makes it the most prevalent crime, costing up to £190bn a year.\n\nUK intelligence agencies should play a greater role in responding, the RUSI argues in a report.\n\nPolicing should be better resourced, working more closely with the private sector, it adds.\n\nThe report argues that the scale of fraud against the private sector has an impact on the reputation of the UK as a place to do business.\n\nMeanwhile, the amount lost by the government in fraudulent claims represents a \"heist\" on the public purse, undermining faith and trust, it says.\n\nIt is the crime UK citizens are most likely to fall victim to, but the failures in responding risk undermining public confidence in the rule of law.\n\nThe Crime Survey for England and Wales found 3.7 million reported incidents in 2019-20 of members of the public being targeted by credit card, identity and cyber-fraud.\n\nThe private sector takes the biggest financial losses. One estimate from 2017 put the cost of fraud to businesses at £140bn.\n\nFraud against the public sector, including benefit, tax credit and student loan fraud, is estimated to cost £31-48bn a year, the upper figure larger than the UK's annual defence budget.\n\nThe losses go beyond the financial, the authors say.\n\n\"Fraud has the potential to disrupt society in multiple ways, by psychologically impacting individuals, undermining the viability of businesses, putting pressure on public services, fuelling organised crime and funding terrorism,\" they add.\n\nThe report cites evidence that terrorist groups and lone actors turn to fraud in order to finance their activities.\n\nIn one case, eight supporters of the Islamic State group were convicted of defrauding UK pensioners out of more than £1m, which was alleged to be used in part to fund travel from the UK to Syria.\n\nThe men carried out a type of courier fraud in which they pretended to be police officers, telling victims that their bank accounts had been compromised and needed to be transferred.\n\nBut despite the growing scale of the problem, there is no national strategy for tackling the issue, while the police response is underfunded and lacking focus.\n\nThis makes fraud \"everyone's problem but no-one's priority\", according to the report, written by RUSI experts Helena Wood, Tom Keatinge, Keith Ditcham and Ardi Janjev.\n\nThe digitisation of everyday life - accelerated by Covid - has only increased the risks, with organised crime groups showing increased sophistication in their tactics.\n\n\"The UK has become a target destination for global fraudsters,\" the RUSI argues.\n\nBut the extent to which international criminals focus on the UK is hard to gauge, because intelligence agencies have not traditionally focused on the issue.\n\nOne senior fraud professional interviewed by the researchers said that despite 30 years of investigating fraud, they still had no idea what proportion of the threat emanated from overseas.\n\nClassifying fraud as a national security issue would help ensure the right level of resourcing and prioritisation, the authors argue.\n\nThey also recommend more focused intelligence direction from the National Security Council, including greater tasking for GCHQ as well as the National Crime Agency to understand the issue.\n\nThey call for better information-sharing and use of data analytics, as well as more money and attention from police forces to address what they call a \"responsibility vacuum\".", "People made the most of the snowy slopes of Gold Hill in Shaftesbury, Dorset\n\nSevere weather warnings are in place across much of the UK after large parts of the country saw heavy snowfall.\n\nThe blanket of snow drew people outside for sledging and winter walks, but motorists have been warned to take extra care on icy roads with sub-zero temperatures forecast overnight.\n\nSeveral coronavirus vaccination and testing centres were closed in England and Wales due to the conditions.\n\nPolice reminded the public to keep to lockdown rules while out in the snow.\n\nOfficers in Wandsworth, south-west London, encouraged people with gardens to play in the snow at home.\n\nAnd police in Rutland, Leicestershire, were among several forces questioning why people were leaving their homes to go sledging.\n\nContinuing coronavirus lockdowns across the four UK nations mean most of the population must stay at home, except for a limited number of reasons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. For cats Bonny and Freddy, the snow is a chance to explore. Credit: Rachel Prew\n\nAs well as four vaccination centres in Wales, six Covid testing centres in the West Midlands had to close due to heavy snow on Sunday.\n\nHighways England warned that the snow had caused collisions on the M3, M27 and M25 in southern England, with the agency urging drivers to only travel if absolutely necessary.\n\nThose using the roads for essential journeys have been urged to allow plenty of extra time for their travel and pedestrians and cyclists are also advised to be cautious.\n\nThe Met Office put a yellow weather warning for snow in place on Sunday, stretching from coast to coast in southern England and ending just south of Manchester.\n\nIt is also in place for western and northern areas of Scotland, most of Northern Ireland and all of Wales apart from Anglesey.\n\nAn amber warning for snow in Nottingham and Stoke meant travel disruption and power cuts were likely on Sunday evening.\n\nYellow weather warnings for ice are in place until 11:00 GMT Monday for all of Wales and Northern Ireland, northern and eastern Scotland and much of southern England and the Midlands.\n\nMany people swapped their usual daily bout of exercise for sledging on Parliament Hill on Hampstead Heath, north London, but police urged people to stay at home\n\nGritters leapt into action near Touchen-end in Berkshire\n\nIn Wales, appointments at the Bridgend, Rhondda, Abercynon and Merthyr Tydfil coronavirus vaccination centres were rescheduled for safety reasons, the Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board said.\n\nUp to 1in (3cm) of snow was forecast to fall in most areas of Wales, with 4-6in (10-15cm) expected in the Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia.\n\nIn the West Midlands, coronavirus testing centres at Castle Vale Stadium, the Arcadian Centre and Maypole Youth Centre were closed, Birmingham City Council said.\n\nFacilities in Moat Street, Coventry and The Place in Oakengates in Shropshire also closed, along with one in Lichfield, Staffordshire, local MP Michael Fabricant said.\n\nAnd in Devon, a gritting lorry overturned on Dartmoor. Devon County Council urged people to avoid travel unless it was absolutely essential and not to travel to find snow.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Devon County Council This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMet Office forecaster Simon Partridge said a band of hail, sleet, snow and rain moved in through Wales and south-west England in the early hours before sweeping across the UK and stalling over the Midlands, which saw some of the heaviest snow.\n\nColeshill, near Birmingham, had seen had 3.5in (9cm) by Sunday lunchtime.\n\nThe snow clouds eased away on Sunday evening but overnight temperatures could be as low as -4C to -6C (25F to 21F) for a lot of the south of the UK, the forecaster added.\n\n\"Some localised spots, likely in the Midlands, could see it as low as -10C (14F),\" he said.\n\nSnowmen popped up in the grounds of Guildford Castle, Surrey\n\nAs shown on the M1 in Bedfordshire, the wintry showers have caused hazardous driving conditions\n\nChris Fawkes of BBC Weather said some stretches of the M4 and M5 had been completely covered in snow at some points on Sunday morning.\n\nHe said this was partly because traffic has been low due to lockdown restrictions - and vehicles are needed to help grit mix into snow to make it melt.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning. We'll have another update for you this evening.\n\nMost pupils across the UK have not been in school since before the Christmas holidays - and now Tory MPs are calling for a \"route map\" for the reopening of schools in England. Pupils have been told they will be learning from home until at least the February half-term holidays. And Education Secretary Gavin Williamson says schools will be given at least two weeks' notice to reopen - which he \"hopes\" will happen before Easter. So, with no firm timetable, the chairman of the education select committee, Robert Halfon, has called for a plan to be laid out to MPs. He has asked for an urgent question in the Commons - if granted, Mr Williamson must respond. No part of the UK has yet announced a firm date for schools' reopening - you can read about the different nations' plans here.\n\nThe UK must reform how it is governed or risk becoming a \"failed state\", former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown has warned. Writing in the Daily Telegraph, he says Covid has exposed \"tensions\" between Whitehall and the nations and regions. Recent polls have suggested rising support for Scottish independence - and a potential border vote in Northern Ireland. \"The complaint is that Whitehall does not fully understand the country it is supposed to govern,\" says Mr Brown.\n\nFrance's top medical adviser says a third national lockdown will probably soon be needed to combat Covid-19. Prof Jean-Francois Delfraissy says \"there is an emergency\", adding that the \"UK variant\" now makes up between 7-9% of cases in some French regions. A strict curfew was implemented last weekend but cases continue to climb. You can see police enforcing the 6pm shutdown below.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police in Paris ensure shops close at 6pm as France begins a new curfew to tackle Covid-19\n\nRiot police in the Netherlands have clashed with protesters who are angry at new coronavirus restrictions. Officers used water cannon and tear gas to clear demonstrators in Eindhoven. They had gathered in defiance of a new 9pm curfew. Some protesters threw fireworks, looted supermarkets and smashed shop windows. There were smaller demonstrations in the capital, Amsterdam.\n\nAustralia has suspended a travel bubble with New Zealand - after NZ's first Covid case in months was confirmed to be the South African variant. The infected patient had served 14 days in quarantine and tested negative twice before developing symptoms later. Travellers coming from New Zealand to Australia in the next 72 hours will now have to go through hotel quarantine. Health Minister Greg Hunt said the suspension was done out of an \"abundance of caution\".\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page. This explainer looks at various questions - including whether the vaccine stops you spreading the disease.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Supporters of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny protest against his arrest across Russia\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin has condemned as \"illegal and dangerous\" the mass rallies in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny.\n\nTens of thousands defied a heavy police presence to join the rallies across Russia on Saturday. More than 3,500 were detained, monitors say.\n\nEU foreign ministers discussed the protests on Monday, but did not agree on further sanctions on Russia.\n\nIn Moscow riot police were seen beating and dragging away demonstrators.\n\nThe foreign ministers of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are demanding \"restrictive measures against Russian officials responsible for arrests\".\n\nPoland's President Andrzej Duda also urged the EU to step up sanctions on Russia following the arrest of Mr Navalny. A week ago he was sentenced to 30 days in jail for violating parole conditions - a case he condemns as fabricated.\n\nMr Navalny, President Putin's most high-profile critic, called for protests after he was arrested at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, on arrival from Berlin on 17 January.\n\nDemonstrations were held on Saturday in about 100 cities and towns from Russia's Far East and Siberia to Moscow and St Petersburg.\n\nFrench Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian described the arrests as a \"slide towards authoritarianism\" and called for further sanctions against Russia.\n\n\"Change is in the air in Russia,\" declared Lithuania's new Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis, as he arrived for his first meeting with EU counterparts.\n\nBut he soon discovered that change is not always in the air in Brussels.\n\nA couple of years ago, one seasoned Spanish politician lamented the meetings of the 27 EU foreign ministers as being \"more a valley of tears\" than a place for decision-making: \"We express our condolence and concern… but no capacity for action comes out of it.\"\n\nUnfortunately for that same politician - Josep Borrell - he's now the man who chairs these gatherings.\n\nThe EU has already imposed sanctions on six senior Russian officials - including the head of the FSB security service - over the nerve agent attack on Mr Navalny last August.\n\nBut MEPs are urging the EU to go further and hit Mr Putin's administration \"where it really hurts - the money\".\n\nIn December, the EU unveiled a tougher sanctions regime, including asset freezes and travel bans for foreign individuals accused of human rights violations. It puts the bloc alongside the US and UK, which adopted so-called Magnitsky Acts.\n\nThey take the name of the lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in a Moscow prison in 2009 after reporting massive fraud by Russian tax officials. The EU version does not bear his name, to avoid alienating Russia-leaning member states.\n\nAgreeing on EU sanctions is always tough, as it requires all 27 countries to agree and we're told no concrete proposal was discussed by foreign ministers today.\n\nObservers say the scale of the Russia-wide demonstrations was unprecedented for recent years, and the Moscow protest was the capital's largest in almost a decade.\n\nThey appeared to enjoy widespread passive support, with trolley bus passengers waving to the crowds and large numbers of car drivers beeping their horns.\n\nProtesters, like these in St Petersburg, braved freezing cold to rally for Mr Navalny\n\nThe protests were also notable for the high proportion of young Russians who turned out. Opposition rallies have attracted more young people since Mr Navalny began releasing online investigations into alleged government corruption.\n\nMany protesters said they were angered by the findings of that report, and chants of \"Putin is a thief!\" were heard during Saturday's demonstrations.\n\nSocial media also played a key role in driving young people - many of whom have only ever known a Putin-led Russia - to take to the streets. Posts promoting the demonstrations were viewed hundreds of millions of times on TikTok.\n\nThe flood of videos prompted Russia's official media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, to demand the app take down any information \"encouraging minors to act illegally\".\n\nMr Putin has said no underage children should take part in the protests: \"One must under no circumstances push forward underage people. After all, it is terrorists who act like that, when they drive in front of them women and children. The emphasis is slightly different, but essentially, this is the same thing.\"\n\nPolice should also act within the law, he said.\n\nNo-one should seek to advance \"their ambitious objectives and goals, particularly in politics\" through protests, he added, in an apparent reference to Mr Navalny.\n\nMr Navalny's video report into this Black Sea resort has been viewed 85 million times\n\nOn Sunday Mr Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov criticised a message from the US embassy in Moscow warning people to avoid the demonstrations, branding the warning an \"interference in our domestic affairs\".\n\nThe embassy said such warnings were a \"common and routine practice\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Russian embassy in the UK also accused Western nations of using their embassies to encourage the protests.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Russian Embassy, UK This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Secretary Matt Hancock says lifting restrictions can only happen when \"facts on the ground\" show it is safe\n\nIt is \"difficult to put a timeline\" on when England's lockdown could be lifted, Matt Hancock has said.\n\nThe health secretary said there were \"early signs\" the measures were working but it was \"not a moment to ease up\".\n\nHe said there were 37,000 people in hospital with coronavirus in the UK and \"more people on ventilators than at any time in this whole pandemic\".\n\n\"The pressure on the NHS remains huge and we've got to get that case rate down,\" he said.\n\nThe number of coronavirus cases in the UK has been falling, but the number of people in hospital remains high, as does the UK's daily death numbers.\n\nA further 592 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 22,195 cases have been recorded, according to Monday's government figures.\n\nThe are 4,076 people in hospital on ventilators.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAt Monday's Downing Street press briefing, Mr Hancock said: \"I understand the yearning people have to get out of this.\n\n\"The thing is that we have to look at the facts on the ground and we have to monitor those facts.\n\n\"And of course, everybody wants to have a timeline for that, but I think most people understand why it is difficult to put a timeline on it because it's a matter of monitoring the data.\"\n\nHe set out the factors the government would take into account when reaching decisions over lifting the restrictions, including: the death rate, the number of people in hospital, whether there were new coronavirus variants and the success of the vaccine rollout.\n\nAlmost four in five of the UK's over-80s have had the vaccine, Mr Hancock said, with nearly 6.6m people in total having had their first dose.\n\nThe falling numbers of infections being reported and the rising rate of vaccination are incredibly promising - even if the drop in infections reported on Monday may have been partly an artefact of fewer people coming forward for a test because of the snow.\n\nBut that does not offer any guarantees of a rapid lifting of lockdown.\n\nWhat is concerning ministers are the high numbers in hospital.\n\nThe number of new admissions seems to have plateaued - but at a very high rate.\n\nClose to 4,000 patients a day are being admitted to hospital.\n\nTo put that in context, that is four times the total number of all types of respiratory admissions the NHS would normally see in winter.\n\nIt means the numbers in hospital are at nearly twice the level they were at the peak in the spring during the first wave.\n\nWith better treatments available, patients are spending longer in hospital.\n\nSo come mid-February the pressures in hospital are likely to be very high, leaving ministers little wriggle-room to relax restrictions.\n\nThe big unknown, however, is what impact and how quickly vaccination will have an effect on admissions.\n\nThere is encouraging early news from Israel that hospitalisation really starts to drop three weeks after the first dose.\n\nIf that is repeated here, the picture could quickly change.\n\nBut until that happens the government - in the words of Health Secretary Matt Hancock - is urging the country to hold its nerve.\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street press conference, Jenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer for England, warned: \"We are not out of this by a very long way.\"\n\nShe said current coronavirus rates were still causing concern, patience was needed about the vaccination programme and the NHS still faced its usual winter pressures.\n\nSusan Hopkins, from Public Health England, said the UK need to see the death rate \"fall much lower\" before any decision to ease measures.\n\nShe said teams were currently studying the impact on the UK's vaccine programme of the variant first identified in South Africa.\n\nBut she added the \"consensus view\" from four UK laboratories suggested that \"the current vaccine works against the variant that was first discovered in the UK\".", "Former Brexit Party MEP Robert Rowland was described as a larger than life character\n\nA former Brexit Party MEP has died in a diving accident near his home in the Bahamas.\n\nRobert Rowland, 54, represented the south east of England at the European Parliament from July 2019 until January 2020.\n\nNigel Farage paid tribute to the \"larger than life character\" and \"enthusiastic\" Brexit supporter.\n\nHe announced the death of his former colleague in a statement on Sunday.\n\nThe Royal Bahamas Police Force said it had \"received reports of a drowning incident\" on Saturday and was \"conducting inquires\".\n\nMr Farage said: \"It is with great sadness that I have to announce the death of Robert Rowland, after a diving accident near his home in the Bahamas.\n\n\"Following a successful career in the City, Robert was an enthusiastic Brexit Party MEP and larger than life character.\"\n\nHe said he wished to extend his \"sincerest condolences\" to Mr Rowland's family, including his wife and four children.\n\nFormer Brexit Party MEP David Bull said he was \"beyond devastated,\" adding: \"Robert was a wonderful friend and colleague.\"\n• None Farage's Brexit Party officially changes its name\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Budweiser has said it will not advertise its beer during the Super Bowl this year, joining a growing number of big brands sitting out the annual American football championship.\n\nThe event remains one of the most-watched in the US each year, drawing more than 100 million viewers in 2020.\n\nThe advertisements are often as much a conversation-starter as the game itself, sometimes sparking controversy.\n\nFirms say the virus has made finding the right message especially difficult.\n\nOthers are grappling with financial hits caused by the pandemic, which has dampened spending on many items, while also casting more than 10 million Americans out of work, resurfacing racial and economic inequalities and sharpening political divisions.\n\nBudweiser's parent company, Anheuser-Busch, said it planned to reallocate the money it would have spent on a 30-second Budweiser spot during the game to support an Ad Council campaign promoting coronavirus vaccination.\n\nIt is the first time the flagship brand will not make a game-time appearance in 37 years.\n\n\"This commitment is an investment in a future where we can all get back together safely over a beer\", it said, adding that it would still promote some of its other brands, such as Bud Light, during the game.\n\nOn Monday, Budweiser released a full 90-second Super Bowl ad on YouTube entitled \"Bigger Picture\", which showed US citizens overcoming pandemic challenges together and aimed to raise awareness about Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nCoke, Pepsi and Hyundai are among the other major names also planning to forego airtime during the broadcast.\n\nCoca-Cola said it had made the \"difficult choice\" to \"ensure we are investing in the right resources during these unprecedented times\". The firm did not advertise during the 2019 game either.\n\nHyundai cited \"marketing priorities\" and the timing of upcoming vehicle launches.\n\nPepsi has also said it would not promote its flagship soda during the game. Instead, it is spending money on an advert airing to promote the Super Bowl halftime show it has sponsored for almost a decade.\n\nThe Super Bowl boasts some of the most expensive advertising slots all year\n\nGiven all the economic, political and health questions of 2020, companies may have felt it was prudent to pull back - especially several months ago, when they would have had to start planning for such a high-profile night, said Kimberly Whitler, professor at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business\n\n\"It's the biggest night of TV watching and so they have to plan it months in advance,\" she said. \"There was so much uncertainty that to go and invest in a Super Bowl ad might have actually felt or seemed frivolous at the time.\"\n\nThe decision goes \"beyond finances\", she added. \"It's also, 'How do we identify the right tone that will match the moment'.\"\n\nThis year's Super Bowl will see star quarterback Tom Brady's Tampa Bay Buccaneers face off against reigning champions the Kansas City Chiefs on 7 February.\n\nLast year, firms spent an average of $5.25m (£3.8m) for a 30-second spot during the championship, driving Super Bowl ad spending to a record $450m, according to Kantar consultancy.\n\nThe firm has said its research suggests Super Bowl ads are \"typically 20 times more effective\" in changing a brand's perception than a normal advert.\n\nAnheuser-Busch, an official sponsor of the National Football League, is typically one of the night's top spenders, so the absence of its flagship brand may create its own buzz, said Satya Menon, a Chicago-based managing partner of of ROI practice at Kantar.\n\nChipotle's very first Super Bowl commercial is entitled, \"Can a burrito change the world?\"\n\n\"Budweiser in particular is a very established brand ... so for them, it's all about generating love and goodwill and maybe this is another way,\" she says.\n\n\"They do have a lot of pre-game advertising out there. When people have the expectation that they wil be there and then they don't see the brand, they'll start thinking why are they not.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the sports showdown still seems to be finding plenty of firms ready to fill spots left by the stalwarts. Names of newcomers include Chipotle and Fiverr, a freelance platform that has seen business soar during the pandemic.\n\n\"It doesn't get any bigger than the Super Bowl from a branding and marketing perspective,\" said Fiverr's chief marketing officer Gali Arnon. \"We believe this is a major opportunity for us to introduce the world to Fiverr in a unique and creative way.\"\n\nMany of this year's advertisers are firms coming from the e-commerce sector, which have benefited from the pandemic, Ms Menon said.\n\nAnd though audience numbers for NFL games have slipped this year, for those firms making their game-night debuts, Ms Menon says she still expects ads to have a big impact - even if the pandemic puts a damper on the traditional Super Bowl parties and other festivities, which can make championship feel like an unofficial national holiday.\n\n\"There isn't very much going on in life, so it will always have that great reach,\" she says. \"Some of that excitement may not be there, but watching will definitely be there.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says teachers and pupils will be told “as much as we can, as soon as we can” about reopening schools\n\nThe government will tell teachers and parents when schools in England can reopen \"as soon as we can\", the prime minister has said.\n\nMPs have called on the government to set out a \"route map\" for reopening amid concerns for children's education.\n\nBoris Johnson said he understood why people wanted a timetable but he did not want to lift restrictions while the infection rate was \"still very high\".\n\nHe would not guarantee schools would reopen before April's Easter break.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"We've now got the R [reproduction rate] down below 1 across the whole of the country, that's a great achievement, we don't want to see a huge surge of infection just when we've got the vaccination programme going so well and people working so hard.\n\n\"I understand why people want to get a timetable from me today, what I can tell you is we'll tell you, tell parents, tell teachers as much as we can as soon as we can.\"\n\nHe said the government would be \"looking at the potential of relaxing some measures\" before mid-February, with Downing Street clarifying that this meant looking at the data to decide \"what we may or may not be able to ease from 15 February onwards\".\n\nA further 592 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 22,195 cases have been recorded, according to Monday's government figures.\n\nAt Monday's Downing Street press briefing, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said almost four in five of the UK's over-80s have had the vaccine, with nearly 6.6m people in total having had their first dose.\n\nBut he said the NHS continues to be under \"intense pressure\", with Jenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer for England, saying there are \"twice the number of people in hospital than we had in the first wave\" of the pandemic.\n\nRobert Halfon, chairman of the education select committee, told BBC Breakfast there was \"enormous uncertainty\" and called for the government to set out what the conditions needed to be for pupils to return to schools.\n\nThe Conservative MP for Harlow suggested the government could consider tighter restrictions in other parts of society and the economy, in order to enable schools to open.\n\nTory MPs were enraged by reports over the weekend that schools might not re-open fully until after the Easter holidays.\n\nMinisters say it's the progress of the pandemic that will determine their decision rather than a pre-agreed timetable.\n\nYet whenever the government speaks, parents hear dates. Whether it's that the situation will be reviewed at half-term. Or a pledge to give two weeks' notice when classes will come back.\n\nMPs are now pushing for more transparency from the government about how they'll assess the data, and for some ideas between school being mostly closed or totally open.\n\nThis issue is a perfect metaphor for the situation facing the entire country. Too much hope breeds disappointment, but living with uncertainty is just as hard. And you can come up with a plan but it might have to be junked if the virus has other ideas.\n\nChildren's Commissioner for England Anne Longfield joined the call for clarity and told the BBC: \"Children are more withdrawn, they are really suffering in terms of isolation, their confidence levels are falling, and for some there are serious issues.\"\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said the government wanted to \"see all children back at the very earliest moment\".\n\nSchools in England have been closed to most pupils since the national lockdown began on 5 January due to high levels of Covid transmission in the community.\n\nThere have been calls for teachers to be vaccinated sooner, although it is not clear if that would allow schools to reopen earlier.\n\nThe majority of pupils in England are learning from home with schools only open to the children of key workers, vulnerable children and those who cannot learn at home\n\nCovid death rates among educational professionals are not \"statistically significantly different\" to those in the general population, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) data, but secondary school teachers appeared to have an elevated risk compared particularly with people working in office-type jobs.\n\nAmong secondary school teachers Covid death rates were 39.2 deaths per 100,000 males, compared with 31.4 for all males aged 20 to 64, and 21.2 per 100,000 females, compared with 16.8, but the ONS said these were \"not statistically significantly different than those of the same age and sex in the wider population\".\n\nSchools will remain closed in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales until at least the February half-term - with the Welsh first minister saying it is \"unlikely\" all pupils will return after the break.\n\nGemma Cocker with her children Charlie and Lyla\n\nGemma Cocker from Brighton is one of the many parents struggling to balance childcare, home learning and work.\n\nShe says she's having to share her work laptop with her son, who has already missed learning time after the family moved home and did not have internet access. \"We didn't have any internet. The school said they had reached their limit so couldn't take him,\" she says.\n\nAnd because her children are young, she says: \"They're never just going to watch a classroom by themselves, you have to be with them the whole time.\"\n\nKitty Jones, 11, is in her last year of primary school and she says home learning is \"tricky\" because she is not used to using different remote platforms like Google Classroom and she wants to return \"as soon as possible\".\n\n\"I still think that I'm learning a bit, but I don't think I'm learning as much as I would be in person,\" she tells BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.\n\nHolly Agbukor, 18, is studying for her A-levels, says it is \"quite stressful\" learning at home, as it is a \"different environment, so it is not as easy to be fully present in the lessons\".\n\nBut, she says, while is it \"difficult\" working at home, \"I don't think it is worth the cost of reintroducing the virus into society and making things worse overall\".\n\nHow has home-schooling been going for your family? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The UK has identified 77 cases of the coronavirus variant first detected in South Africa, the health secretary has said.\n\nCases are linked to travellers arriving in the UK, rather than community transmission, Matt Hancock added.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr cases were under \"very close\" observation and enhanced contact tracing was under way.\n\nMinisters are due to meet on Monday to consider imposing tougher restrictions on people arriving from abroad.\n\nScientists have said there is a chance the South African variant may harm the effectiveness of current vaccines.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Hancock said that \"three quarters of all the 80-year-olds in the country and a similar number of care homes\" have received their first doses of the vaccine.\n\nBoth the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses, and figures so far reflect those given the first dose.\n\nMr Hancock said that it was \"far too early to say\" what proportion of the population needed to be vaccinated before lockdown restrictions could be eased.\n\nAll viruses, including the one that causes Covid-19, mutate, and variants have been first located in the UK, South Africa and Brazil.\n\nThe South Africa variant has been found in at least 20 other countries, including the UK.\n\nMr Hancock said that all the South Africa variant cases in the UK were linked to travel.\n\n\"That's why we have got such stringent border measures in place against movement from South Africa,\" he added.\n\nThe UK closed all travel corridors last week until at least 15 February, with almost all travellers arriving in the country now required to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has not ruled out bringing in tougher measures at UK borders, telling a Downing Street news conference on Friday: \"We don't want to put that (efforts to control Covid) at risk by having a new variant come back in.\"\n\nMinisters are set to discuss whether to tighten border restrictions further, including the possibility of hotel quarantines for travellers.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"We have got to be cautious at the borders.\"\n\nAsked for a date on when lockdown restrictions might end, Mr Hancock said it was \"one of the many things that we don't yet know the answer to\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock on easing restrictions: \"We don't know the answer\"\n\nGovernment data on 14 January showed there were 35 confirmed cases of the South Africa variant identified in the UK, and a further 12 \"probable\" cases.\n\nMr Hancock said nine cases of the Brazil variant had been found in the UK, adding \"we are monitoring each and every one very closely\".\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that Labour had been \"pushing the government to take tougher measures at the border since last spring\".\n\nShe said: \"We would fully expect the government to bring in tougher quarantine measures, we would expect them to roll out a proper testing strategy and we would expect them as well to start checking up on the people who are quarantining.\n\n\"Only three out of every hundred people who are asked to quarantine when they arrive into the UK actually face any checks at all - that's just simply not sufficient.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Johnson said there was \"some evidence\" the UK variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nThe UK government's chief scientific officer, Sir Patrick Vallance, said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nThe PM said on Friday that there was evidence that both the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine and Oxford-AstraZeneca jab were effective against the variant first detected in the UK.\n\nSir Patrick has warned that the variants in South Africa and Brazil might \"have certain features which means they might be less susceptible to vaccines\".\n\nBut he said \"there is no evidence\" that the two variants have transmission advantages over those already in the UK and so having cases here doesn't mean \"they will take off\".\n\nMeanwhile, England's deputy chief medical officer warned that people who have received a Covid-19 vaccine could still pass the virus on to others and should continue following lockdown rules.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam stressed that scientists \"do not yet know the impact of the vaccine on transmission\".\n\nHe said vaccines offer \"hope\" but infection rates must come down quickly.\n\nIt's a key question but the fact is that no one can be sure.\n\nThat's because the trials of the vaccines explored the safety of the drugs and how well they prevent people from becoming ill - with good results for both.\n\nBut they did not investigate whether vaccination also stops infection and therefore whether people who've been immunised can still spread the virus to others.\n\nIf a vaccinated person did become infected, they probably wouldn't realise because they wouldn't have any symptoms. That's why health officials and ministers are so concerned.\n\nIt's possible that the antibodies boosted by the vaccine suppress the effects of the virus but don't eliminate it from the upper airway.\n\nMany scientists are cautiously hopeful that in this scenario, the amount of virus would be reduced but they're waiting for the results of studies under way now.\n\nAnd until there's an answer, it's difficult to calculate how and when it's safe to ease restrictions and allow people to mix again.\n\nA further 610 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Sunday - down from 671 deaths last Sunday - in addition to 30,004 new infections.\n\nThe number of positive cases has fallen for the fourth day in a row and is the lowest figure since before Christmas.\n\nThe death figures tend to be lower on a Sunday and Monday because of weekend lags in reporting of the data.\n\nMeanwhile, more than six million people have had their first dose of a Covid vaccine - with the figure now standing at 6,353,321.\n\nNadhim Zahawi, the minister responsible for the vaccine rollout, said on Twitter that 6,353,321 of the \"most vulnerable and frontline heroes\" had received a first dose of the vaccine, but there was still \"much more to do\".\n\nThere were 4,076 Covid patients in mechanical ventilation beds in UK hospitals as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video filmed in Tacoma, Washington, shows a police car apparently ploughing through a crowd of people\n\nA police officer is under investigation in the US after his vehicle ploughed into a group of people, running over at least one, in Tacoma, Washington.\n\nNobody was killed in the incident, although one person was rushed to hospital with injuries.\n\nA video shows a large group of people surrounding the police car as it revs its engine in an apparent effort to drive off.\n\nThe group refuses to move, and police say people started hitting the car.\n\nThe police officer then speeds through the group, hitting numerous people. One person is dragged under the car.\n\nTacoma Police Department said multiple vehicles and approximately 100 people were blocking an intersection when officers arrived on the scene. The group was apparently watching street racers doing \"burnouts\".\n\n\"During the operation, a responding Tacoma police vehicle was surrounded by the crowd. People hit the body of the police vehicle and its windows as the officer was stopped in the street,\" police said in a statement.\n\n\"The officer, fearing for his safety, tried to back up, but was unable to do so because of the crowd,\" it said.\n\n\"While trying to extricate himself from an unsafe position, the officer drove forward striking one individual and may have impacted others,\" it said.\n\nThe person who was run over was rushed to hospital. Their condition is as yet unclear.\n\nThe Pierce County Force Investigation Team is investigating the incident, the statement said. The police officer has not been identified.\n\n\"I am concerned that our department is experiencing another use of deadly force incident,\" Interim Police Chief Mike Ake said in the statement.\n\n\"I send my thoughts to anyone who was injured in tonight's event, and am committed to our department's full co-operation in the independent investigation and to assess the actions of the department's response during the incident.\"\n\nThe incident comes at a time of rising anger over the use of excessive force by police in the US.\n\nPeople across the world took to the streets last year to demonstrate their anger at the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis, and to demand an end to police brutality and what they see as systemic racism.", "Some Barclaycard customers will see their minimum repayments rise from Tuesday, at a time when finances are already stretched owing to Covid and Christmas.\n\nThe new requirements are tailored to each customer, although some may see a significant rise in demands.\n\nBut the changes will also see charges for exceeding a credit limit scrapped.\n\nJanuary is a pinch point for many in debt and borrowers are being urged to seek help if they are in trouble.\n\nBarclaycard signalled the changes to their pricing structures in November, although some borrowers may have missed the notice, which was titled \"changes to your terms and conditions\".\n\nThe new repayment rates will affect those with Platinum, Initial, Freedom, Forward, Cashback, Littlewoods, Rewards and Hilton Honors cards, but not Premier or Woolwich cards.\n\nFor cardholders who started using their cards in the last decade, the minimum repayment each month has been calculated as the highest of 2.25% of the full balance, 1% of the balance plus interest, or £5. This differed slightly for longer-standing customers.\n\nThe new charges mean minimum repayments will be the highest of between 2% and 5% of the full balance, between 1% and 3% of the balance plus interest, or £5.\n\nThis means some people could see the minimum repayment rise, although some other charges - such as the late payment fee - will be limited.\n\nThe exact percentage depends on the customer and would have been outlined in the November message.\n\nA Barclaycard spokesman said: \"We are increasing minimum payments for some customers to help them pay off debt quicker and reduce the overall interest they pay.\n\n\"This is part of our ambition to ensure that no Barclaycard customer gets into persistent debt - where they pay more in interest and charges than reducing their debt and take a long time to pay this debt off - and is being put in place to support our customers.\"\n\nSara Williams, who writes the Debt Camel blog, said that the higher minimum payment may well come as a \"nasty shock\".\n\n\"January is always the tightest month for money for most people. December pay is often early, so the money has to stretch further, and if you put any Christmas presents or expenses on your Barclaycard, this month's bill will be high anyway,\" she said.\n\n\"For people who were hardly managing before, the increase to the minimum payments may tip the bill over into being unaffordable.\"\n\nDebt charities had already warned that the coronavirus pandemic meant the UK was \"sleepwalking into a debt crisis\".\n\nThe government-backed Money and Pensions Service - which offers free guidance - said it was expecting a call about debt at least every four minutes throughout January.\n\nBarclaycard said the timing of the changes - which coincide with lockdown and many people on a reduced furlough income - was unintentional and had been signalled some time ago.\n\nAny borrowers who feel the new repayment levels are unaffordable are being asked to contact the company.\n\nMore broadly, anyone struggling to make debt repayments of any kind is being urged to face their difficulties and seek help.\n\n\"Financial worries negatively affect our 'cognition', which are the thinking processes that support and maintain our mental health. When in a poor state, financial worries cause stress and our cognition fails,\" said Keiron Sparrowhawk, a cognition expert from the Being Well Group, which runs the MyCognition app.\n\nThis could lead to depression and hasty, ill-thought-out decisions, he said.\n\n\"Together, depression and anxiety are distressing and disabling, causing us to spiral out of control and enter a pit of hell,\" he said.", "The water is warmer than the air and is creating a mist along Dynevor Road\n\nThe coalmining heritage of Wales has been implicated in flooding of homes - but what has happened in Skewen?\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated from the Neath Port Talbot village, with at least eight streets left under water.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones says the flood appears to be related to mine works - but the volume of water involved has hampered a full assessment so far.\n\nThe Coal Authority is investigating how \"historic underground mining features\" in the area exacerbated the problem.\n\nA geologist says there are tens of thousands of old mine shafts across the former south Wales coalfield and it is \"incredibly difficult\" to monitor them all.\n\nSkewen lies within an old coal mining hotspot, with several former colliery sites near the village that operated in the 19th and early 20th Century.\n\nThere were colliery sites near what is now Drummau Road, in the north of the village and another close to Old Road, near Neath Abbey.\n\nSkewen was part of a collection of collieries that stretched between Neath and Llanelli on the western side of south Wales' coalfield.\n\nGraham Levins, secretary of the Welsh Mines Preservation Trust, said old mines often contain groundwater which can flood in heavy rain.\n\nHe said: \"A lot of them go very, very deep down, much below the local water level and that's why they had all the big wheels to pump the water out.\n\n\"It fills up with water and will find a way out. Normally rainfall you get it doesn't cause a lot of problems but when you get really heavy rain, the water drains down through the ground and builds up.\"\n\nStreets were turned into rivers in Skewen\n\nGeologist Tom Backhouse said water was coming out of an area near the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where there is a record of a mine shaft dating from the turn of the 20th Century.\n\nIt then started \"rushing down\" Drummau Road, causing the flooding that forced evacuations.\n\n\"What we can expect to have happened is that the water level in the mines rose to a point where it's burst out of that entry point from the mine workings below.\n\n\"Also, there are images of very ochre like orange-coloured water and again, that may well be issuing from the mine workings on the highlands to the east of the property on the hill behind.\n\n\"That may be where the shallow workings have flooded.\"\n\nHe said old mine working across the former coalfield area hold water at a certain depth, but when an event such as Storm Christoph drops \"a huge amount in a small area\", the levels rise quickly.\n\n\"As it gets closer and closer to the surface, it basically looks for an escape, the pressure builds up,\" he continued.\n\n\"What it looks like has happened on the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where the mine shaft is recorded, is that pressure has built up at that point and then burst out through the shaft which is very likely to have been capped with wood or something like that.\n\n\"Where you've got those mine shafts, which ultimately are vertical tunnels down into the mine workings below, the water has literally forced itself up through that shaft, and the pressure is obviously so great it's caused this devastating flash flood.\"\n\nAs well as properties, vehicles were submerged in water\n\nThere are about 13 shafts recorded within about 820ft (250m) of the one in Goshen Park, so Mr Backhouse said it is possible more than one may have burst.\n\nThere are tens of thousands in south Wales and he said it was \"incredibly difficult\" to check them all, but there were \"tell tale signs\" as to why they may collapse such as age or what type of developments are around them.\n\nThe clean up has continued on Friday morning\n\n\"Not to try and fear-monger or anything but of course this sort of thing can happen again,\" he said.\n\n\"If another event like Storm Christoph happens, the water levels in the mine rises as quickly as it did, there's absolutely nothing to say that it wouldn't happen again in the future.\n\n\"And obviously as climate changes and we have many more events like Storm Christoph, they are going to increase in frequency, they are going to be much more severe.\n\n\"The Coal Authority will have to consider the risk in places like Skewen, and they'll have to understand how it will affect residents and proactively manage that and look at how to reduce the risks for residents.\"", "Pictures of the Pampas grass on social media are thought to have made the area in South Shields popular\n\nA boom in the popularity of Pampas grass with interior decorators has led to \"droves\" of people picking the plant which grows wild near a beach.\n\nThe grass, near Littlehaven Beach in South Shields, forms part of a wind defence to stop sand blowing onto roads and helps protect the coastline.\n\nSouth Tyneside Council warned anyone found removing it could be prosecuted.\n\nCouncillor Ernest Gibson said while the grass may look \"beautiful in vases\" people were \"damaging the environment\".\n\nThe grass, which was popular in the 1970s, can sell for up to £40 a bunch and has proved a popular addition to people's homes.\n\nIt is thought that photographs on social media sites such as Instagram may have influenced people turning up and taking it, Mr Gibson added.\n\n\"Pampas grass is quite expensive to buy if you went to a florist. It's cheaper to come to South Tyneside and take it away,\" he said.\n\n\"But what we are doing is urging people not to come here and take it away, it's there for a reason.\"\n\nPampas grass and Marram grass form part of a defence along the coast at South Shields\n\nThe Pampas grass helps to bond poor soils found at the coast, while Marram grass helps to prevent erosion in the dunes.\n\nSigns are to be erected warning people not to pick the grass because it is already in need of replenishment, the council said.\n\n\"Through Covid, we have a massive amount of people coming to the coastal town, it's Benidorm without the sunshine,\" he added.\n\n\"It's great to see people at the seaside enjoying it [the grass] and that's what it's part of. It's there for everybody to view.\"\n\nGarden designer George Wright said Pampas grass was \"very popular\" and he had seen demand increase two or three times at his nursery in West Boldon. He also expressed concern for the area.\n\n\"Once they take the flower heads themselves they take the seeds. Eventually this will become very much a patchy area and they will all start to decline.\n\n\"Pampas grass is becoming more and and more popular at the moment and I think a lot of it is people are starting to extend their houses into the garden so they want something nice in there, and also it's being used for interior decoration in houses.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Geoff and Jenny Holland married in August after two previous attempts to wed were delayed by the pandemic\n\nTwo newlywed pensioners are urging everyone to get vaccinated as they were among the first to receive a dose at a new centre.\n\nGeoff Holland, 90, and 86-year-old wife Jenny married in August after meeting at Town View independent living centre in Mansfield.\n\nThe pair tied the knot after being forced to postpone their nuptials twice due to the pandemic.\n\nThey both received the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nThe couple made their vaccination plea as a centre at an old DIY store on Chesterfield Road South, in Mansfield, opened on Monday.\n\nIt has joined 31 other new sites opening across England this week, with anyone aged 75 and over who lives within a 45-minute drive encouraged to book their injections.\n\nMrs Holland praised staff at the vaccination site for the care she and her new husband received.\n\n\"We've been well looked after while we've been here,\" she said.\n\n\"People have worked long and hard to get this vaccine so I think people ought to have it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Time-lapse footage shows how a DIY store was transformed into a vaccine centre in three weeks\n\nMr and Mrs Holland said they both tested positive for coronavirus a couple of months ago after Mr Holland reported feeling unwell.\n\nBoth managed to recover without developing major symptoms.\n\nDespite the delay to their wedding and the ongoing after-effects of the pandemic, Mrs Holland said married life was turning out to be \"brilliant\".\n\n\"Hopefully, one day soon, we'll be able to have a get together and celebrate with our family and friends who couldn't be there on the day,\" she said.\n\nKathryn Turner, Mr Holland's daughter, said the family was thrilled the pair received their jabs.\n\n\"It's fantastic that they are getting the vaccine so their love story can continue,\" she said.\n\n\"Hopefully this will help us all get back to some sort of normality.\"\n\nThe Hollands met in the summer of 2019 and were engaged the following New Year's Eve\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n• None COVID-19 Vaccination in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire - NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire CCG The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Parents are struggling with the sense of uncertainty, says psychologist\n\nHome schooling can be tough. It's difficult to concentrate, there's emotional exhaustion, boredom, a lack of motivation and it's really hard not going out to see friends. And that's just the parents.\n\nThis winter lockdown is taking its toll on families, now struggling even more on the black ice of uncertainty as no-one can say when schools in England are going to reopen for most pupils again.\n\n\"There's a sense of fatigue,\" says Jacqueline Smallwood, who is at home with three secondary-school children. She says her own \"concentration levels have fallen dramatically\".\n\n\"It's so repetitive that it just makes you feel tired,\" she says of the latest lockdown and the \"silent struggle\" facing both parents and their children to try to get motivated.\n\nHome school shows no sign of coming to an early end\n\nThere might have been some guilty enjoyment at the start of the year when the school term was initially delayed, not having to get up and out on cold January mornings.\n\nUntil it dawned on them that this was becoming something much longer than a few weeks.\n\nIt's morphed from early January to half term in mid-February and now maybe Easter in early April or even later. And Jacqueline says, as a matter of \"respect\", parents need to know what's happening about schools.\n\nThe confusion over a return date seems to have further frayed the nerves of parents.\n\nThe mother, who lives outside Canterbury in Kent, says she worries about the pressures building up on young people.\n\nFor teenagers like her sons, she says this \"should be a pivotal time in their lives,\" when they're beginning to get some independence and when social lives are hugely important - but instead they're stuck inside with their parents.\n\n\"We can't live like the Waltons forever,\" she says, referencing the US TV series of a folksy family relying on each other.\n\nJacqueline says families are finding this latest lockdown tougher than the spring or summer\n\nThe first lockdown created an unexpected sense of togetherness, an \"enforced bonding\" that she says turned out to be a \"massive positive\".\n\nBut Jacqueline, who works as a writer, sees no such upside to the latest lockdown. There is a collective frustration - and she says it has been made even worse by the confusion about when schools will go back.\n\nThe online home-schooling seems to be working, she says, with teachers trying to boost the enthusiasm levels, but it's no real substitute for being in school. And she wants much more clarity about when they will go back.\n\n\"I've tried not to be political about decisions being made, but you can't help but feel disappointed. They don't seem to understand how real people are living,\" she says.\n\nShe says when politicians say maybe schools will or won't be back by Easter, they don't realise how much that uncertainty affects families trying to plan for what comes next.\n\nEducational psychologist Dan O'Hare says the \"key word is 'uncertainty'\".\n\nLiving on a laptop can take its toll on parents having to work and home school their children\n\nNot knowing what is coming next adds to the pressure, he says, and children out of school are already facing big unknowns such as what's going to happen about exams or when will they see their friends and teachers.\n\n\"It's really stressful for children and their families,\" says Dr O'Hare, who is co-chair of the British Psychological Society's division for educational and child psychology. \"They need a sense of a plan.\"\n\nThis lockdown is also in the depths of winter - and he says employers need to think about making sure staff working from home are able to take a break in daylight hours, so that families can get outside.\n\nIt's no use asking parents to answer work emails all day and expect them to go out when it's dark.\n\nSchools have been providing more online lessons in this lockdown\n\nFor some families it has got very difficult.\n\n\"It's affected her emotionally a lot,\" says Dave in Bolton, who is worrying about his six-year-old daughter, who has been crying because she misses her friends.\n\n\"It's awful, you can't put a positive spin on it. She's at that age where she's enjoying her friends, becoming more socialised,\" he told BBC 5 Live.\n\n\"She's quite a confident little girl and I can't help worry that being stuck at home is going to impact her in the longer term.\"\n\nThe father says many of her classmates are still going into school - and that makes it even harder when she sees her friends on school Zoom calls.\n\nEmployers should make sure that parents' working hours allow them to get out in daylight, says psychologist\n\nJen Locke in Newcastle makes the point that women can often be \"the most adversely affected by the decision to keep schools closed\".\n\nShe says home schooling has \"fallen squarely on my shoulders\", helping her children in the day and then shifting her work with an IT company into the evening, so it's an early start through to a very late finish.\n\n\"It's a huge mental strain… I'm knackered from it all,\" she says, right down to trying to get children to bed who aren't tired because they're not going out.\n\nA lockdown weariness seems to be out there, despite the best efforts of schools.\n\nSimon Armstrong in Bristol, whose son is in secondary school, says: \"Virtual lessons, no matter how well delivered, are a woeful substitute for real lessons.\"\n\n\"I am at the end of my tether,\" he says.\n\nThe Department for Education said: \"We are committed to reopening schools as soon as the public health picture allows, and will inform schools, parents and pupils of plans ahead of February half term.\"\n\nBut Labour has accused the government of causing \"chaos and confusion\" for parents and schools.\n\nThe National Association of Head Teachers said: \"Now is the moment for calm heads to decide on a sustainable return to school, not another chaotic and last-minute set of decisions that could easily result in a yo-yo return to lockdown.\"", "Of 2,000 Welsh members of the Royal College of Nursing who took part in a survey, 75.9% reported increased stress over the past year\n\nA long-term plan is needed to help nurses cope with post-traumatic stress resulting from the coronavirus pandemic, union officials have said.\n\nLast year the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) ran a survey looking at its impact on front-line staff and how it had changed nurses' lives.\n\nOf 2,000 Welsh members who took part, 75.9% reported increased stress and 52% were worried about their mental health.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it recognised the pressures on NHS workers.\n\nCarol Doggett, senior matron at Swansea's Morriston Hospital, said nurses were often becoming patients' \"next of kin\" during the pandemic, due to the \"absence of family, particularly at end of life\".\n\n\"Which we would do anyway, naturally, but in the absence of family it's far more profound than supporting them in a holistic way if they were present with us,\" she said.\n\nSenior matron Carol Doggett says the extreme pressure experienced in intensive care had been felt throughout the hospital\n\nMs Doggett said the extreme pressure experienced in intensive care had been felt throughout the hospital.\n\n\"Patients are coming in through [the emergency department]. They are sicker. The number of sicker patients has definitely increased,\" she said.\n\n\"That results in them having an extended period in hospital. They can stay beyond Covid. They continue to suffer with those conditions that present themselves as a result of Covid.\"\n\nOn Sunday, Ms Doggett's colleague, Morriston intensive care consultant John Gorst, said as many as five patients are dying with Covid during a single 12-hour shift.\n\nNicky Hughes, associate director of nursing at RCN Wales, said: \"The Welsh Government needs to set a long-term plan in place to deal with post-traumatic stress and other mental health issues amongst nurses as a result of the pandemic.\n\n\"Nurses are exhausted, stressed and nearing burnout. Every day they tell us that they feel that they have nothing left to give and feel devalued.\"\n\nAlmost a year on from the start of the pandemic nurses have had to find \"ever more physical and emotional strength\" to cope with Covid-19, said Ms Hughes.\n\nMental health charity Mind Cymru agreed with the RCN that a \"coherent long-term strategy\" was needed to help front-line workers deal with the pandemic's effect on their mental health.\n\n\"We urge Welsh Government to factor this in to their plans and take the necessary steps to give people the support they need,\" said Simon Jones, Mind Cymru's head of policy.\n\n\"Nursing staff and other healthcare professionals have played, and continue to play, a vital role in combatting the pandemic, often putting their own health and wellbeing at risk.\n\n\"Even before the outbreak, we heard from many healthcare professionals struggling with the mental health impact of things like long working hours without breaks, unsociable shift patterns, and dealing with traumatic events.\"\n\nA mental health support hotline for front-line NHS staff in Wales - Health for Health Professionals (HHP) Wales - has been set up by Cardiff University and has received Welsh Government funding.\n\nThe hotline's director Prof Jonathan Bisson said he was \"encouraged\" by the Welsh Government's investment in HHP Wales along with Traumatic Stress Wales, which helps people who have experienced traumatic events.\n\n\"These two initiatives are taking a long term strategic approach to support health workers exposed to traumatic events,\" Prof Bisson said.\n\n\"HHP Wales offers access to mental health support for any member of NHS staff in Wales and has linked with Traumatic Stress Wales to provide evidence-based treatment to health workers who are experiencing post traumatic stress disorder as a result of traumatic experiences related to the pandemic and other causes.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru said the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on health and care workers \"mustn't be underestimated\".\n\n\"The Welsh Government must demonstrate that they're taking this seriously with a robust workforce strategy that takes into account the mental health needs of workers, including sufficient down time after the pandemic, and addresses the need to retain and recruit more staff,\" said Plaid's health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth.\n\nThe Welsh Government called the \"commitment and tireless hard work\" of nurses across Wales \"truly remarkable\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"We recognise the pressures the NHS workforce is experiencing and have worked closely with NHS employers and trade unions to create a comprehensive wellbeing package to help support them, which includes a dedicated and confidential Samaritans listening support helpline.\n\n\"We have also expanded our Health for Health Professionals Wales service which offers psychological and mental health support, as well as a number of free-to-access health and wellbeing support apps.\"\n\nRCN Wales said it was glad the Welsh Government was backing projects supporting health workers.\n\nIt said it encouraged the continued development of a \"long-term strategy to deal with the lasting impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on our nursing workforce.\"", "A heatwave sweeping south-east Australia has sent temperatures soaring in the nation's biggest cities and escalated the threat of bushfires.\n\nA large blaze has been contained in Adelaide, South Australia after it burned through 2,500 hectares.\n\nNeighbouring Victoria state is facing its worst fire risk in a year.\n\nTemperatures in those states have started to cool but New South Wales and Queensland will see their heatwave continue into Tuesday.\n\nSydney recorded temperatures of above 40C by Monday afternoon.\n\nHealth officials have urged people to stay inside and to avoid physical activity, and for those near bushfires to avoid inhaling smoke.\n\nThe blaze in the Adelaide Hills has been contained but is expected to continue to burn for the next few days, local media reports.\n\nIt is believed to have destroyed several houses but has not caused injuries.\n\nThe blaze has burned through more than 2,500 hectares\n\nPeople in the area have been warned to take care.\n\n\"Smoke will reduce visibility on the roads and there is a risk of trees and branches falling,\" a statement from SA police said.\n\nImages taken on Monday show smoke over Adelaide obscuring parts of the city skyline and prompting some residents to wear face masks.\n\nAdelaide was blanketed by smoke on Monday\n\nAfter the hot spell began on Friday, the Bureau of Meteorology (Bom) issued heatwave warnings for South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania and Queensland.\n\nOn Monday, Victoria's state capital Melbourne recorded temperatures of 41.5C at 12.40pm (01.40 GMT).\n\nPeople in Victoria have been urged to be careful when in water after the state recorded seven drownings over the past 10 days, ABC News reports.\n\nPeople in Sydney flocked to beaches at the weekend seeking relief from the heat\n\nThe heat is expected to linger until mid-week as the hot air mass tracks east across the country.\n\nAfter extreme bushfires and heatwaves a year ago, Australia's summer this year has so far been cooler and wetter. Meteorologists say the conditions are influenced by a La Nina phenomenon.\n\nAustralia has warmed on average by 1.4C since national records began in 1910, according to its science and weather agencies.\n\nThat's led to an increase in the number of extreme heat events, as well as increased fire danger days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hell to high water: Australia’s summer of extremes in 2019-20\n\n\"In summer we now see a greater frequency of very hot days compared to earlier decades,\" said BoM and the national science agency, CSIRO, in their 2020 State of the Climate report.\n\nThe same report noted that 2019 - Australia's hottest year on record - had 33 days where the national maximum temperature exceeded 39C. That surpassed the total number of days over 39C in the previous six decades.\n\nHeatwaves are Australia's deadliest natural disaster and have killed thousands more people than bushfires or floods.", "Police found Dylan Freeman in his mother's bed surrounded by toys\n\nA woman has admitted suffocating her severely disabled son after suffering a breakdown.\n\nDylan Freeman's body was found in Acton, west London, on 16 August with a sponge in his mouth.\n\nHis mother Olga Freeman pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility.\n\nThree psychiatric reports said Freeman was suffering from a severe depressive illness with psychotic symptoms at the time of the killing.\n\nFreeman attended Acton Police Station to report herself following the killing.\n\nOfficers later found Dylan in his mother's bed surrounded by toys.\n\nDylan had autism, Cohen syndrome - which is linked to abnormalities in many parts of the body - and significant difficulties with language and communication.\n\nIn the week leading up to the killing, Freeman had spoken about saving the world and being a Messiah, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.\n\nOlga Freeman had booked flights abroad the night before Dylan's body was found\n\nFreeman appeared by video-link to enter her plea and will be sentenced on 11 February.\n\nSpeaking after the hearing, the CPS's Kristen Katsouris described the death as \"tragic\".\n\nShe added: \"Olga Freeman had loved and cared for Dylan for many years, but the strain and pressures of her son's severe and complex special needs had built up and that, combined with her impaired mental health, led to heart-breaking consequences.\"\n\nA post-mortem examination at Great Ormond Street Hospital recorded Dylan's cause of death as upper airway obstruction.\n\nThe Met Police said Freeman had spoken to friends about struggling with the responsibility of caring for Dylan.\n\nOn the night before his body was found, Freeman booked two seats on a flight to Tel Aviv and told her friend not to go into Dylan's room.\n\nThe body of Dylan was found at a house in Cumberland Park, Acton\n\nAt the time of his death, his father, celebrity photographer Dean Freeman, was in Spain.\n\nHe described his son as \"a beautiful, bright, inquisitive and artistic child who loved to travel, visit art galleries and swim\".\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ambrose O'Neill was sentenced in his absence in 2008\n\nA violent robber who went on the run for nearly 13 years has finally been caught and jailed.\n\nAmbrose O'Neill - dubbed \"The Running Man\" due to his ability to evade capture - skipped his 2008 trial over an attack on an antiques dealer.\n\nHe was sentenced to eight years in prison in his absence but spent years at large, until police got a tip-off he was in hiding in Lincolnshire.\n\nThe 42-year-old was arrested on Friday and is now beginning his sentence.\n\nNottinghamshire Police said in 2007, O'Neill, of Ludgate Close in Arnold, knocked on his victim's front door in Seagrave, Leicestershire, posing as a pizza delivery man.\n\nWhen his victim opened the door, O'Neill pushed him over, punched him in the face and demanded he open a safe, threatening to kill him.\n\nBut he ultimately left empty-handed and was later arrested.\n\nO'Neill attended the first day of his trial at Leicester Crown Court but then went on the run.\n\nPolice said they launched Operation Gladiolus in December 2020 in a bid to track him down.\n\nPC James Gill, from Nottinghamshire Police's \"wanted squad\", said: \"We knew he had changed his appearance and lived in an area where people do not know him and he had an assumed identity,\" he said.\n\n\"He was laughing at the police, so we were determined to do everything to find him.\"\n\nA major breakthrough came from an anonymous tip-off suggesting O'Neill may be living with a woman in the Wyberton area, in Lincolnshire.\n\nPolice narrowed it down to a house in Causeway and arrested the \"surprised\" O'Neill in the early hours of Friday.\n\nPC James Gill worked in his free time to bring O'Neill to justice, Nottinghamshire Police said\n\nOfficers also arrested a 41-year-old woman on suspicion of assisting an offender. She remains in custody.\n\nO'Neill is due to appear at Leicester Crown Court on 29 January, where his sentence could be extended, the force added.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bethany and her two children have been on a waiting list for more than a year\n\nThere is a \"shocking\" lack of places for traveller families to live in England, according to a charity.\n\nOnly 18 out of 251 registered traveller sites have any spaces available, research from Friends, Families and Travellers (FFT) suggests.\n\nIt says the government must \"do more\" to identify land for the community to live on.\n\nThe government says councils are \"best placed\" to assess the local need for permanent traveller sites.\n\nIn October, FFT wrote to all local authorities and private registered site providers in England to ask how many pitches they had available.\n\nIt received responses relating to 251 out of 266 traveller sites - which represented 3,482 permanent pitches and 304 transit pitches.\n\nA transit pitch is a short-term place where people can stay for a set period of usually up to three months.\n\nBethany says she's near the bottom of the waiting list for a pitch in her local area\n\nBethany Rose, 26, and her two children have been on a waiting list for a pitch in West Sussex for more than a year.\n\nShe is currently staying with her parents in their caravan on a registered traveller site. But this is against the rules of their tenancy contract and she will have to move out once the coronavirus pandemic is over.\n\nBethany has a health condition which means she can often be paralysed from the waist down and she needs to be close to her mum who is her carer.\n\n\"It's frustrating, annoying, aggravating, I feel let down,\" she says. \"I'm disabled. I'm homeless and I have two kids.\n\n\"For anyone normally it would just be like, 'Boof, there you go, there's a property, go and live there'. But I can't do that. I can't even get a house, I can't buy a plot of land, I can't do anything.\"\n\nBethany and her children are currently living with her parents on a traveller site in West Sussex\n\nIt's estimated about 1.1 million households are on local authority housing waiting lists, but Bethany believes it would be easier for her to get a home if she wasn't a traveller.\n\nShe says being a traveller is a huge part of her identity and she wants to live on a site so she can continue to be connected to her heritage.\n\n\"A whole community is there if you need something or something happens,\" she said. \"If you fall or you go to hospital, you can guarantee your neighbour will watch the kids until you come back. If you need a cup of sugar, you can just go round.\"\n\nThe research from FFT comes as MPs were due to debate a petition on Monday against government proposals to criminalise trespassing. However, this has been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe new measures could see travellers facing a fine or prison if they set up unauthorised encampments - currently it's a civil offence.\n\nIn a consultation paper published in 2019, the Home Office said there had been \"long-standing concerns\" about the distress they caused to local communities.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sarah Tanner posted a video saying she was \"disgusted\" by mess left by travellers in Dorset\n\nIn June 2020, residents in Dorset complained about mess left by travellers on a local park - which included a car being abandoned in the middle of a cricket pitch, rubbish dumped in green spaces and human waste deposited in the pond and lake.\n\nFFT says councils are failing to provide enough sites for travellers to live on.\n\nIn January 2019, plans to spend £5m on new traveller pitches in Milton Keynes were put on hold after a \"heated\" meeting with local residents.\n\nBethany believes councils are not doing more to provide extra sites because of discrimination towards travellers.\n\n\"They're building 50,000 new houses in West Sussex, not one of those places is having a site,\" she said. \"So you've got the Nimby (Not In My Back Yard) culture attached to that.\n\n\"For every 50 houses, they could put a site of five which is a whole little community that they can get used to and go, 'Yeah, OK, they're not as bad as people say.'\n\n\"That also means we're not pulling up the side of the roads. We're not being moved off. We're just trying to live like everyone else.\"\n\nMilton Keynes Council changed its plan to build a new traveller site after listening to residents\n\nWest Sussex County Council says when a vacancy comes up on a permanent site all those who have expressed an interest in that location are considered for the pitch.\n\nThe FFT wants the government to reintroduce pitch targets and a statutory duty on local authorities to meet the assessed need for Gypsy and traveller sites.\n\nIt also calls on the government to abandon its proposal to criminalise trespassing.\n\nSarah Sweeney, policy and communications manager at FFT, said: \"It is deeply unfair that while the government is dramatically failing to identify enough land for Gypsy and traveller families to live on, the home secretary is working to create laws to imprison, fine and remove the homes of families living on roadside camps for the 'crime' of having nowhere else to go.\"\n\nThe Local Government Association says it wants the government to publish \"better data\" on the scale of unauthorised encampments and the availability of authorised sites to help councils in England meet their planning obligations.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said: \"Unauthorised encampments cause distress and disruption for many people across the country so it's right we are giving the police the powers they need to address this issue.\n\n\"Councils are best placed to assess the local need for permanent traveller sites and decide where they should be, and can apply for funding through our Shared Ownership and Affordable Homes Programme to help build them.\"", "At least 80 people had to leave their homes in the village after flooding\n\nPeople whose homes were flooded after a \"blow out\" at a mine shaft are said to be \"devastated\" as they face months before they can return home.\n\nSteve Morris said his son Gareth and his girlfriend's home in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, was inundated by \"orange\" flood water containing sewage.\n\nBut some will be allowed back to their properties on Tuesday.\n\nResidents of Goshen Park and Sunnyland Crescent who have yet to contact Neath Port Talbot council are urged to do so in the next 24 hours.\n\nThe council said access to these properties would continue to be affected beyond 26 January and the Coal Authority wished to have early discussions with them.\n\nMr Morris told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast that his son called him on Thursday to say his house was about to be flooded.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\n\"I live about half a mile away... and by the time I got to his address I could see the water levels were rising rapidly up the road,\" he explained.\n\n\"Then it was so quick - the water came through his rear patio doors firstly, then the gardens and then the drains couldn't cope on the main road and came through the front door, then the side door.\n\n\"His ground floor was four feet under water, and it was this orange coloured water. There was sewage in the house, so his ground floor needs totally gutting.\"\n\nMr Morris said Gareth and his girlfriend are staying in a hotel as they wait to be allowed back to assess the damage.\n\nHe hopes their insurance firm will pay to rent a home for them, adding: \"I can honestly see them being out of their house for between six and 10 months.\n\n\"They are obviously devastated - they have only been in there for 12 months so everything was near enough brand new.\"\n\nCerys Thomas was at her mother's house with her son, in Goshen Park, when she saw water coming through the front door.\n\nThe stairs at the home of Cerys Thomas' parents were left caked in mud\n\nShe said: \"I said to my mother to get my son and herself out and up toward the street. I phoned the police then, because I could see it was going to be an emergency, and within minutes my parents' conservatory doors just blew through.\n\n\"The pressure of the water just blew through the house and the water, within minutes, was up to my waist.\n\n\"Trying to get out of the house was very scary because the pressure of the front door was getting pushed back.\"\n\nShe said the street was under water \"within seven minutes\".\n\n\"It was something you would see in a movie,\" she said.\n\nWithin minutes of water entering the house Ms Thomas was up to her waist in water\n\nMeanwhile, the Coal Authority said it has identified the cause of the \"blow out\".\n\nChief executive Lisa Pinney told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast: \"Firstly, I just want to say our thoughts are with everyone affected by this flooding and we are genuinely sorry people have been affected in this way.\n\n\"What we know so far is the blow out was caused by a blockage underground which caused water to break out, basically to find the easiest path, and there's no doubt the excessive rainfall in the days before was also a factor in that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Pinney said crews had been able to find the site of the collapsed mineshaft which had caused the flooding, and the authority had started to \"develop options\".\n\n\"We really understand people want to get back into their homes, they want to collect things, they want to know what the next steps are,\" she continued.\n\n\"We are working as fast as possible to make that happen and we hope to be able to provide some more information in the next day or so, but you will understand that we have to be sure for public safety.\"\n\nMs Pinney said there are almost 300 mine shafts or entries across the Skewen mine works, which covers an area of about 12 sq km (7.6 sq miles).\n\nShe added: \"We have checked all recorded shafts in the immediate area and we are doing continued checks over the coming days. We have found no problems. They are all safe.\"", "Jenners department store in Edinburgh has been at the site since 1838\n\nThe owner of the Jenners building in Edinburgh has promised that it will remain a department store - despite the departure of its current tenant, the House of Fraser.\n\nFrasers Group said it would cease trading at the site on 3 May, with the loss of 200 jobs.\n\nThe building is owned by Danish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen.\n\nA company spokesman said it would continue as a store and that \"advanced\" talks were taking place with operators.\n\nThe Jenners building has occupied a prime location on Princes Street for 183 years.\n\nIt was bought by Mr Povlsen - who is one of Scotland's biggest landowners - in 2017, reportedly for £53m.\n\nThe store is currently operated by the Frasers Group, which owns the commercial rights to the Jenners trading name.\n\nIt said it would be quitting the site in May after the two sides were unable to come to an agreement.\n\nA Frasers spokesman claimed that the landlord had not been able to \"work mutually on a fair agreement\".\n\nHe said this had led to \"the loss of 200 jobs and a vacant site for the foreseeable future, with no immediate plans.\n\n\"Our commitment to our Frasers strategy remains but landlords and retailers need to work together in a fair manner, especially when all stores are closed.\"\n\nAnders Holch Povlsen is one of Scotland's biggest landowners\n\nHowever, Anders Krogh Vogdrup - the director of AAA United, which owns the Jenners building - said it had given Frasers a substantial rent reduction and rent-free periods to cover the lockdowns.\n\n\"Frasers has made the decision that it does not wish to continue in occupation,\" he said.\n\n\"This will see the end of the 16-year association between House of Fraser and this building, but not of the 180 years of Jenners department store.\"\n\nMr Vogdrup told BBC Scotland that it had bought the Jenners building \"out of passion for its architecture and history\".\n\n\"We have been sad to read on social media that we are to close the department store, as that is not the case,\" he said.\n\n\"We fought to keep the current tenant and we are now in advanced talks with other partners.\"\n\nHe said their \"first priority\" was to keep it as a department store, while there were also plans to turn some unused parts of the building into a hotel.\n\n\"The Jenners department store and building is the jewel in the crown of Edinburgh,\" he added.\n\n\"We are not turning it into a hotel. It will remain a department store.\"\n\nHe also expects the Jenners name will remain on the side of the building.\n\nMr Povlsen, whose parents set up Scandinavian fashion company Bestseller, is believed to be worth £4.5bn. As well as owning Bestseller he is a major shareholder in online retailer Asos.\n\nHe has previously revealed plans to use parts of the Princes Street building for a hotel, with the rest reserved for retail.\n\nThe plans included the restoration of the building's Victorian facade and central atrium, which is a three-storey, top-lit grand saloon. A rooftop restaurant and bar would overlook nearby St Andrew Square.\n\nMr Vogdrup said the plans to refurbish the store were now on hold due to the current economic climate.\n\nJenners has dominated Edinburgh's main shopping thoroughfare since the mid-19th Century.\n\nIt was opened in 1838 by local drapers Charles Jenner and Charles Kennington, who found themselves out of work after being sacked for taking a day off to go to the races in Musselburgh.\n\nInitially called Kennington & Jenner, the boutique store proved popular for keeping the people of Edinburgh in fine silks and linen, which could normally only be found in London.\n\nBy 1890 the shop had changed name to Charles Jenner & Co and had expanded to adjoining buildings, making it one of the biggest stores in Scotland.\n\nBut just two years later fire destroyed the shop and ambitious plans - backed by the local council - were launched for a new look Jenners.\n\nCelebrated architect William Hamilton Beattie, who also designed the Balmoral and Carlton Hotel, was brought in for the redesign.\n\nCharles Jenner died in 1893 before the work was completed in 1895.\n\nIn 1911 the popular store was given a Royal Warrant.\n\nAfter struggling in the the 21st Century, the Jenners brand was sold to rivals House of Fraser for £46m in 2005.\n\nIn 2018, House of Fraser was bought by Mike Ashley's Sports Direct group.", "The pupils of someone with PTSD have an exaggerated response when viewing exciting or dangerous images, the study found\n\nA person's pupils can reveal if they have suffered a traumatic experience in the past, according to new research.\n\nThe joint Swansea and Cardiff universities study found the eyes of people with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) behave differently.\n\nIt found their pupils have an exaggerated response when viewing exciting or dangerous images.\n\nThose behind the study said it could be useful in diagnosis, treatment and in bench-marking progress.\n\nNormally pupil size fluctuates with changing light levels, but it can also alter when a person is scared, excited, or even concentrating hard.\n\nShocking or surprising images can cause pupils to enlarge, however the researchers discovered this reaction was highly exaggerated in people who have experienced a traumatic event.\n\nThree groups of people were tested - some with diagnosed PTSD, others who had experienced a traumatic event but had no PTSD, and a control group of people with no previous issues.\n\nProf Nicola Gray, of Swansea University, co-authored the study with Prof Robert Snowden of Cardiff University.\n\nShe said: \"The pupil normally shows a fast constriction when the person sees a new image, but then the pupil gets bigger - especially if the picture is arousing, such as a scary image of, for example, fierce animals or weapons.\n\n\"However, the patients with PTSD behaved differently in both phases. First, their pupil did not constrict much when shown a new picture, and then it expanded more to the scary images than for people without PTSD.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Could virtual reality help treat PTSD in veterans?\n\nOne man with PTSD who wished to remain anonymous described how, after his time in the Army, he was left unable to drive at night because his pupils could not contract sufficiently in response to street lights and on-coming headlights, leaving him dazzled and unable to see properly.\n\nThe research found the PTSD group showed enlarged pupils to images which were positive and exciting.\n\n\"When we displayed exciting scenes, such as a sporting triumph or an image of a person sky-diving, these images elicited the same enhanced pupil response in the PTSD group as the frightening pictures,\" Prof Snowden said.\n\n\"The subjects weren't frightened by these images, but the images were arousing. Once again, the people with PTSD showed a far greater response, indicating that they were even more aroused by these images than the other participants\".\n\nAccording to Prof Gray this finding could help to develop new therapies for PTSD.\n\n\"If exciting, but non-threatening, images elicit the same response, then it may be possible in the future to use them to gradually reduce the arousal levels of people experiencing PTSD.\"\n\nPTSD is an anxiety disorder caused by very stressful, frightening or distressing events.\n\nSomeone with PTSD often relives the traumatic event through nightmares and flashbacks, and may experience feelings of isolation, irritability and guilt.\n\nThey may also have problems sleeping, such as insomnia, and find concentrating difficult.\n\nThese symptoms are often severe and persistent enough to have a significant impact on the person's day-to-day life.\n\nCauses of PTSD can include:\n\nThe pupil is the opening in the middle of the iris\n\nProf Gray said the research may also be useful from a diagnostic perspective.\n\n\"PTSD comes in many forms, from people who have experienced a one-off sudden event like a car crash, to those who have gone through many traumatic events over a period of months or years via abuse.\n\n\"Sometimes people struggle to express these thoughts, or might even play them down in order to please the therapist.\n\n\"Having a more objective method to look for these signs of hypervigilance and hyperarousal may be useful in order to obtain a more accurate benchmark of how the person is progressing.\"", "Scientists say signs a new coronavirus variant is more deadly than the earlier version should not be a \"game changer\" in the UK's response to the pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson has said there is \"some evidence\" the variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nBut the co-author of the study the PM was referring to said the variant's deadliness remained an \"open question\".\n\nAnother adviser said he was surprised Mr Johnson had shared the findings when the data was \"not particularly strong\".\n\nA third top medic said it was \"too early\" to be \"absolutely clear\".\n\nAt a Downing Street coronavirus news conference on Friday, the prime minister said: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the South East - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\"\n\nSpeaking alongside the PM, the government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, Sir Patrick said if 1,000 men in their 60s were infected with the old variant, roughly 10 of them would be expected to die - but this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nThe announcement followed a briefing by scientists on the government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag) which concluded there was a \"realistic possibility\" that the variant was associated with an increased risk of death.\n\nBut one of the briefing's co-authors, Prof Graham Medley, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The question about whether it is more dangerous in terms of mortality I think is still open.\"\n\n\"In terms of making the situation worse it is not a game changer. It is a very bad thing that is slightly worse,\" added Prof Medley, who is a professor of infectious disease modelling at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.\n\nAnother 1,348 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Saturday, in addition to 33,552 new infections, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nThere is huge uncertainty in the evidence on how lethal the variant is.\n\nThe scientific experts that reviewed the data used a precise phrase saying it was a \"realistic possibility\" the new variant is more deadly.\n\nThat means there's a roughly 50-50 chance it will turn out to be true.\n\nWith time, and sadly more deaths, the picture will become clearer.\n\nWhile people debate the uncertainties though, we already know this variant has the ability to kill more people than the old ones.\n\nA virus that spreads faster (this one is 30-70% faster) will infect more people, more quickly, putting a greater strain on hospitals and leading to a sharper spike in deaths.\n\nIt is why viruses becoming more transmissible can be a bigger problem than ones becoming more deadly.\n\nNervtag's chairman Prof Peter Horby defended the government's \"transparency\" in making the announcement.\n\n\"Scientists are looking at the possibility that there is increased severity... and after a week of looking at the data we came to the conclusion that it was a realistic possibility,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to be transparent about that. If we were not telling people about this we would be accused of covering it up.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance: \"There is evidence that there's an increased risk for those who have the new variant\"\n\nBut Dr Mike Tildesley, a member of Sage subgroup the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M), agreed it was too early to draw \"strong conclusions\" as the suggested increased mortality rates were based on \"a relatively small amount of data\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast he was \"actually quite surprised\" Mr Johnson had made the early findings public rather than monitoring the data \"for a week or two more\".\n\n\"I just worry that where we report things pre-emptively where the data are not really particularly strong,\" Dr Tildesley added.\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle also said it was not \"absolutely clear\" the new variant was more deadly than the original.\n\n\"There is some evidence, but it is very early evidence. It is small numbers of cases and it is far too early to say,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nMeanwhile, senior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe British Medical Association told Prof Chris Whitty an extension to the maximum gap between jab from three weeks to 12 weeks, to get the first dose to more people, was \"difficult to justify\".", "Moderna's Covid vaccine appears to work against new, more infectious variants of the pandemic virus found in the UK and South Africa, say scientists from the US pharmaceutical company.\n\nEarly laboratory tests suggest antibodies triggered by the vaccine can recognise and fight the new variants.\n\nMore studies are needed to confirm this is true for people who have been vaccinated.\n\nThe new variants have been spreading fast in a number of nations.\n\nThey have undergone changes or mutations that mean they can infect human cells more easily than the original version of coronavirus that started the pandemic.\n\nExperts think the UK strain, which emerged in September, may be up to 70% more transmissible.\n\nCurrent vaccines were designed around earlier variants, but scientists believe they should still work against the new ones, although perhaps not quite as well. There are already some early results that suggest the Pfizer vaccine protects against the new UK variant.\n\nFor the Moderna study, researchers looked at blood samples taken from eight people who had received the recommended two doses of the Moderna vaccine.\n\nThe findings are yet to be peer reviewed, but suggest immunity from the vaccine recognises the new variants.\n\nNeutralising antibodies, made by the body's immune system, stop the virus from entering cells.\n\nBlood samples exposed to the new variants appeared to have sufficient antibodies to achieve this neutralising effect, although it was not as strong for the South Africa variant as for the UK one.\n\nModerna says this could mean that protection against the South Africa variant might disappear more quickly.\n\nProf Lawrence Young, a virus expert at Warwick Medical School in the UK, said this would be concerning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC health and science journalist Laura Foster compares the three different Covid-19 vaccines\n\nModerna is currently testing whether giving a third booster shot might be beneficial.\n\nLike other scientists, the company is also investigating whether redesigning the booster to be a better match for the new variants will be beneficial.\n\nStephane Bancel, chief executive officer of Moderna, said the company believed it was \"imperative to be proactive as the virus evolves\".\n\nUK regulators have already approved Moderna's vaccine for rollout on the NHS, but the 17m pre-ordered doses are not expected to arrive until Spring.\n\nThe vaccine works in a similar way to the Pfizer one already being used in the UK.\n\nMore than 6.3 million people in the UK have already received a first dose of either the Pfizer or the AstraZeneca vaccine.", "Media regulator Ofcom has decided not to take any action over Channel 4's use of a \"deepfaked\" video of the Queen.\n\nThe \"alternative Christmas message\" attracted 354 complaints about decency after it aired on Christmas Day.\n\nIt showed an AI-generated version of the Queen, who made jokes about the Royal Family and the prime minister, and danced on top of a table.\n\nBut after assessing things, Ofcom decided not to pursue the complaints about disrespecting the monarch.\n\n\"In our view, Channel 4 made clear that the images were deliberately manipulated as a device to question societal trust in what we see online,\" a spokeswoman for the regulator said.\n\n\"We also consider that the satirical tone of the film was in keeping with audience expectations of this broadcaster,\" it added.\n\nThat decision is similar to Channel 4's own defence of the satire, in which it argued that the parody left viewers \"in no doubt that it was not real\".\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Channel 4 This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nIt also argued the message of the video as a whole was a warning about the importance of trust, and how easily convincing fake images and video can be created - even uploading a behind-the-scenes video about its creation.\n\nAfter airing on national television in the UK, the video has spread widely online, racking up nearly two million views on YouTube alone.\n\nIt has not, however, been universally popular - on top of the formal complaints to Ofcom, it has a poor ratio of likes-to-dislikes on YouTube - with more than 19,000 likes, but nearly 5,000 dislikes.\n\nDeepfakes work by training a computer to draw a person's face by showing it thousands of photographs of that person, ideally from many different angles and in different lighting conditions.\n\nThe computer can then draw that person's face on top of another actor's performance.\n\nThe more varied and numerous the images used in training the model, the better the result - which is why it is almost universally used to fake the appearance of celebrities, who already have hours of available film or television footage available.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut there are other limitations on the technology, too.\n\nThe similarity in facial structure, size, and appearance of the actor whose face is being replaced affects the realism of the finished deepfake. It is also far easier to produce a convincing result if the person remains still, as movement can often reveal the artificial nature of the animation.\n\nThe voice must also be replaced by an impersonator and the entire process is incredibly demanding, even for high-end computers, often taking many days of computation.\n\nHowever, the technique is advancing rapidly, and the results are becoming more convincing with each passing year, with major film firms such as Disney actively exploring the technique and developing their own variants.", "Fashion retailer Boohoo has bought the Debenhams brand and website for £55m.\n\nHowever, it will not take on any of the firm's remaining 118 High Street stores or its workforce.\n\nBoohoo said it was a \"transformational deal\" and a \"huge step\". But the deal means that up to 12,000 jobs at the department store chain are set to go.\n\nThe 242-year-old Debenhams chain is already in the process of closing down, after administrators failed to secure a rescue deal for the business.\n\nIn a separate development, Asos says it is in \"exclusive\" talks to buy the Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT brands out of administration.\n\nBut the online retailer said it only wanted the brands, not their shops, suggesting any deal would cost jobs.\n\nThe current owner of the brands, Sir Philip Green's Arcadia Group, fell into administration last November putting 13,000 jobs at risk.\n\nA closing-down sale at 124 Debenhams stores began in December, as the administrators continued to seek offers for all or parts of the business.\n\nThe company announced recently that six shops would not reopen after lockdown, including its flagship department store on London's Oxford Street.\n\nThe administrators of Debenhams UK, FRP Advisory, said they had undertaken a \"thorough and robust process\" to achieve \"the best outcome for Debenhams' stakeholders\".\n\n\"This transaction will allow a new Debenhams-branded business to emerge under strong new ownership, including an online operation and the opportunity to secure an international franchise network that will operate under licence using the Debenhams name,\" they added.\n\nBoohoo has already bought a number of High Street brands out of administration. It snapped up Oasis, Coast and Karen Millen, but not the associated stores.\n\nIts executive chairman, Mahmud Kamani, said: \"This is a transformational deal for the group, which allows us to capture the fantastic opportunity as ecommerce continues to grow. Our ambition is to create the UK's largest marketplace.\n\n\"Our acquisition of the Debenhams brand is strategically significant as it represents a huge step which accelerates our ambition to be a leader, not just in fashion ecommerce, but in new categories including beauty, sport and homeware.\"\n\nBoohoo said Debenhams was expected to relaunch on Boohoo's web platform later this year.\n\nIn the meantime, Debenhams will continue to operate its website for an agreed period.\n\nBoohoo's fast-fashion model has come under scrutiny\n\nBoohoo has recently come under fire over workers' pay and conditions and its ultra-low pricing.\n\nAs well as facing questions about the environmental impact of its fast-fashion business model, there have been accusations of widespread abuse of employment law at some of Boohoo's suppliers in Leicester.\n\nInvestigations last year suggested workers were being paid below the minimum wage.\n\nAfter an independent review of the claims found a series of failings, Mr Kamani said last month that the firm was working to fix the problems, adding: \"We will make a better Boohoo.\"\n\nWhile online retailers have been whittling away at their High Street rivals for years, few could have predicted how quickly bricks-and-mortar stalwarts have collapsed. The pandemic has fatally undermined their already parlous finances. Businesses that appeared to have a chance of survival just a year ago have been wiped out and their brands bought by online players.\n\nThe scale of the change is profound: when Debenhams listed on the stock exchange in 2011, investors valued it at £1.6bn. Boohoo, which was founded only in 2006, already has a stock market value of £4.4bn. Asos, a bit player two decades ago when Sir Philip Green's Arcadia group was riding high and toying with a bid for Marks & Spencer, is now valued by the stock market at £5bn.\n\nNeither Boohoo or Asos see any value in the Debenhams or Topshop High Street estates. Instead, they will concentrate on development of the brands and the associated customer data. This is bad news for the 19,000-odd people who work in the branches of Debenhams and Topshop, and will leave councils around the country wondering how they will fill town centres that were based on retail.\n\nBut just as canny entrepreneurs and private equity companies are gearing up to buy struggling pub chains, in the hope of a recovery once lockdown restrictions are eased, so will some investors be wondering what next for the High Street. The British love affair with shopping will not end overnight and a well-placed punt now could have big rewards.\n\nDebenhams has struggled for years with falling profits and rising debts, as more shopping has moved online. It called in administrators twice in two years, most recently in April.\n\nHowever, its position became untenable during the coronavirus pandemic as non-essential retailers were forced to close for prolonged periods.\n\nThe firm had already trimmed its store portfolio and cut about 6,500 jobs since May, as it struggled to stay afloat.\n\nBusinessman Mike Ashley, who founded Sports Direct and also owns House of Fraser, had already made an offer for Debenhams after it was initially put up for sale in April.\n\nHowever, the takeover offer, thought to be in the region of £125m, was rejected as being too low.\n\nMeanwhile, one of House of Fraser's flagship outlets, the Jenners department store in Edinburgh, is to leave its Princes Street home after 183 years. It will close on 3 May with the loss of 200 jobs.\n\nThe building's owner, Danish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen, announced in November 2019 that he intended to convert the site, replacing Jenners with a hotel, cafes, a rooftop restaurant and luxury shops.\n\nHowever, a spokesperson for Frasers Group said it had been \"unable to reach an agreement\" with Mr Povlsen and that the closure of Jenners would leave \"a vacant site for the foreseeable future with no immediate plans\".\n\nDo you work for Debenhams? Has your job been affected? Please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dutch police have described it as the worst unrest in four decades\n\nMore than 180 people were arrested in 10 Dutch cities as protesters defying a curfew clashed with riot police for a third night running.\n\nShops in Rotterdam were looted and police used water cannon, as rioters resisted latest Covid restrictions.\n\nPrime Minister Mark Rutte condemned \"criminal violence\" and the justice minister said the curfew would remain.\n\nThe Dutch chief of police said the riots no longer had \"anything to do with the basic right to demonstrate\".\n\nThe Netherlands has had nearly one million confirmed Covid cases since the start of the outbreak, with more than 13,500 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University in the US, which is tracking the pandemic.\n\nThe government recently introduced a night-time curfew which runs from 21:00 (20:00 GMT) to 04:30. Anyone caught violating it faces a €95 (£84) fine.\n\nThere were further violent scenes in many towns and cities. Riot police clashed with protesters in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, as well as Amersfoort, Den Bosch, Alphen and Helmond.\n\nSome of the worst disturbances were in the south of Rotterdam where police said 10 officers were hurt. Across the country 184 people were arrested. Amsterdam's mayor appealed to parents to keep young people indoors.\n\nSeveral cities have vowed to introduce emergency measures in an effort to prevent more disturbances\n\nThe windows of some shops were smashed in Rotterdam\n\nFires were lit on the streets of The Hague, where police on bicycles attempted to move small clusters of men who threw stones and fireworks. There was violence in the southern city of Den Bosch, where rioters set off fireworks, broke windows, looted a supermarket and overturned cars.\n\nA woman living near Den Bosch train station told Dutch radio that masked youths had left a trail of destruction in the city centre. \"I saw windows smashed and fireworks going off. Really crazy, just like a war zone,\" the woman said. Roads into the city were closed to stop people joining the rioters and Mayor Jack Mikkers imposed an emergency order banning gatherings on Tuesday.\n\nThe ignition of discontent has rocked the core of Dutch society.\n\nIn the absence of any legitimate way to socialise, is this simply an outlet for young men to feel part of something, their masks concealing their identities and enabling them to violently channel their frustrations?\n\nThere are more sinister influences at play. Messages on social media, overt and covert, have whipped up anger. Misinformation has even been spread by some politicians.\n\nSome of the worst violence was in Rotterdam\n\nSome feared a curfew would be a tipping point, as Dutch restrictions tighten while some neighbouring countries relax their rules. The vast majority of people in the Netherlands are peacefully observing the curfew.\n\nThe unrest was initially seen as a response to the first \"stay-at-home\" order imposed since Nazi occupation during World War Two. That notion has been dismissed by Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who said the rioters were simply criminals and would be treated as such.\n\nBut there are simmering anxieties in Dutch towns and cities, and with less than two months before a general election, voters are vulnerable and the streets volatile.\n\nThere has been widespread shock at the violence. In Rotterdam, where police used water cannon during clashes with rioters, Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb signed an emergency decree, giving police broader powers of arrest. He reacted furiously to shops being looted in the south of the city, condemning \"shameless thieves, I can't call it anything else\".\n\nThe prime minister said the police had the government's full support: \"The riots have nothing to do with protesting or fighting for freedom.\"\n\nRotterdam shop-owner Emrah Köker said he had no words for what he had seen. \"How can this happen in the Netherlands?\" he asked Dutch daily newspaper Algemeen Dagblad. Justice Minister Ferd Grapperhuis challenged anyone to explain what looting a shop had to do with coronavirus.\n\nThe mayor of Den Bosch said police had struggled to respond to the violence because they were needed in other nearby towns.\n\nFootball fans of the Willem II club took to the streets of Tilburg to \"protect their city\" against rioters, news site Brabants Dagblad reports.\n\nMayors in several cities have vowed to introduce emergency measures in an effort to prevent more disturbances.\n\nThe Dutch prime minister has condemned the violence\n\nThere has been widespread shock in the Netherlands over the violence", "The public's trust in the way the UK is run is breaking down, former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown has warned.\n\nHe said Covid-19 had exposed \"tensions\" between Whitehall and the nations and regions, who were often treated by the centre as if they were \"invisible\".\n\nMr Brown is urging Boris Johnson to set up a commission to review how the country is governed and powers shared.\n\nBut the PM said his focus was on the pandemic, stressing the benefits of the union could be \"seen everywhere\".\n\nMr Brown's intervention comes amid a looming clash between Mr Johnson and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who has demanded the UK agree to another Scottish independence referendum if the SNP wins a majority in May's Holyrood elections.\n\nThe Court of Session is hearing arguments about whether Holyrood can legislate to hold one even if the UK government continues to object.\n\nWriting in the Daily Telegraph, Mr Brown - who advocates a federal system with more power for nations and regions - says the pandemic has \"brought to the surface tensions and grievances that have been simmering for years\" between Downing Street and the various parts of the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Conservatives election win was not 'a signal that the country is at ease' warns Brown\n\nHe points to \"bitter disputes\" over issues such as lockdown restrictions and furlough and said unless underlying tensions were resolved, the UK risked becoming a \"failed state\".\n\nIn an interview with BBC Radio 4's Today, he said at a time \"when all should be pulling together and intensifying co-operation across the UK\" there was division and claims by the leaders of Scotland and Wales and the English regions that they were not being properly consulted.\n\nLast year there were rows between the government and local authorities over coronavirus tiers, with the Labour mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, objecting to plans to put the region into the strictest level of restrictions.\n\nMr Brown told Today that while he was \"confident\" that Scotland would still be part of the UK in ten years time, the way the UK was governed had to change.\n\n\"I think the public are fed up. I think in many ways, they feel they are being treated as second class citizens, particularly in the outlying areas, that they are invisible and forgotten.\"\n\n\"Something has broken down in trust and has to be repaired.\"\n\nMr Brown is advising the Labour Party on its devolution strategy - but has also held talks with government ministers including Michael Gove in recent weeks.\n\nGovernment sources say they are focused on taking tangible steps to demonstrate the value of the UK.\n\nThe idea of a fundamental review of the UK's power structures has been suggested as one possible way to counter support for Scottish independence ahead of May's Holyrood election.\n\nBut a series of polls now suggest support for independence is higher than support for the union - and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will demand another referendum if, as seems likely, her party - the SNP - wins in May.\n\nHe is calling on Boris Johnson to immediately set up a commission on democracy to review how the UK is governed, something the Conservatives promised in their manifesto before the last general election.\n\nIn his Telegraph article, he suggests it would find that the UK needs a Forum of the Nations and Regions, citizens' assemblies, and a greater focus on the benefits of cooperation in areas such as the NHS and the armed forces.\n\nThe current Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer also supports devolving more powers from Westminster but opposes another Scottish independence referendum.\n\nThe SNP said last week that there would be a \"legal referendum\" after the pandemic if May's Holyrood election returned a pro-independence majority.\n\nAsked if he would stand in the way of this, Mr Johnson said what the British public wanted was for its political leaders to focus on beating coronavirus, adding that the advantages of the UK's four nations working together \"spoke for themselves\".\n\n\"I think people can see everywhere in the UK the visible benefits of our wonderful union,\" he said.\n\n\"A vaccine programme that is being rolled out by a National Health Service, a vaccine that was developed in labs in Oxford and is being administered by the British Army.\"\n\nBut the SNP said the Scottish people, not Westminster-based politicians, should decide the country's future.\n\n\"No amount of constitutional tinkering from Labour would protect Scotland from Brexit or the Tory power grab - only independence can do that,\" said Kirsten Oswald, the party's deputy Westminster leader.\n\n\"The Scottish people will see right through this attempt to deny their democratic right.\"\n\nA poll commissioned by the Sunday Times in Northern Ireland found 51% of people wanted a referendum on Irish unity in the next five years.\n\nDUP leader and Northern Irish First Minister Arlene Foster said such a vote would be \"absolutely reckless\".\n\nNumbers supporting Wales breaking away from the UK also appear to be rising. The pro-independence campaign group Yes Cymru has said membership swelled from 2,000 at the start of 2020 to more than 17,000.\n\nPlaid Cymru has also promised to hold an independence referendum if it wins the next Senedd election.\n\nResponding to Mr Brown's intervention, the party's Westminster leader Liz Saville Roberts said: \"It's been clear for many years that the UK doesn't work for Wales - I'm glad that the Labour Party are starting to see that.\"", "Prince Charles Hospital now has an expanded special care baby unit and six en-suite delivery rooms\n\nIt followed concerns that emerged in late 2018 that women and babies may have come to harm because of staff shortages and failures to report serious incidents.\n\nThe review by experts from two royal colleges was in addition to the health board's own investigation. Maternity services in Cwm Taf are now in special measures and an independent panel was set up to drive improvements.\n\nHow many incidents are we talking about?\n• None 150cases from 2016-2018 reviewed so lessons can be learnt\n\nThe health board's own investigation looked at 43 cases, including 25 serious incidents. Of these initial cases, 20 were at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant and 23 at Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil. The serious incidents include eight stillbirths and five deaths shortly after birth, all between January 2016 and last September.\n\nThey came to light after concerns were raised that staff had not been reporting serious incidents.\n\nThe health board said it faced \"extreme\" staff shortages and was urgently trying to make improvements.\n\nBut the review team cast doubt on the ability of the health board to make changes, without more support. It said it was \"dismayed\" that an internal report, written by a consultant midwife, highlighting many safety concerns last September was not acted upon, \"thereby continuing to expose women to unacceptable risks\".\n\nA consultant midwife also identified 67 stillbirths, going back to 2010, which had not been reported by the health board.\n\nThe independent panel decided to widen its scope to look at 350 cases of women who were transferred out of the health board area.\n\nIn October 2019, the panel said it was looking at a total of 150 cases between 2016 and 2018 - including the 43 cases initially investigated. There is still scope to look back at further years.\n\nWho has been investigating?\n\nThe health minister Vaughan Gething ordered an \"independent external review\" by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecology and the Royal College of Midwives last October.\n\nIts findings, published in April 2019, were damning and found services \"under extreme pressure\" and \"dysfunctional\", while mothers had distressing experiences in how they were treated.\n\nCwm Taf's maternity services were placed in special measures and the independent panel overseeing changes has indicated as well as looking back in detail at past cases it wanted to ensure improvements were robust and to look at lessons that could be learned across Wales.\n\nHave any changes been made?\n\nThe royal colleges review team ordered urgent action after visiting hospitals in January 2019 - finding \"a number of immediate quality and safety concerns\".\n\nMeasures included more cover by doctors, strengthened processes for flagging up problems and more support for junior doctors. Cwm Taf now says these have all been completed.\n\nThe latest progress report from the independent panel in January 2020 found the most urgent improvements had been made.\n\nStaffing levels and training had improved, there was a better system for flagging up complaints and surveys found \"high levels of satisfaction\" from women using Prince Charles Hospital.\n\nThe panel was \"cautiously optimistic\" that long term improvements would be made.\n\nChioma Udeogu, who has moved back home to Nigeria\n\nThe review's parallel report on how families were dealt with was perhaps the most powerful testimony on the problems at Cwm Taf.\n\nMothers were said to have been ignored or made to feel worthless.\n\nThey spoke of being ignored or patronised.\n\nOne mother said: \"I want having a baby to be a good experience. It's ruined it.\"\n\nThere was the case of Sarah Handy, who was sent home from hospital in pain with laxatives, before giving birth prematurely at home. Her daughter died.\n\nChioma Udeogu's daughter was delivered stillborn after failings in her care at the Royal Glamorgan hospital in January 2017. An internal investigation has already found midwives failed for 12 hours to carry out antenatal checks on Mrs Udeogu, an engineering student at the University of South Wales at the time.\n\n\"I believe that if I was properly monitored in the hospital I wouldn't have lost her,\" she said.\n\nJessica Western, from Rhoose, in the Vale of Glamorgan, said she was not listened to when she could not feel her baby move in the month before the birth.\n\nJessica Western says she was not listened to at different points before and after the birth of her baby\n\nHer daughter Macie died in March 2018, 19 days after she was born.\n\n\"I'm only young and I do want to have more kids eventually, but I'm not prepared to put myself through a pregnancy if this could happen again,\" she said.\n\nAnother, Monique Aziz, from Coedely, Rhondda Cynon Taff, whose baby son died days after leaving hospital, said: \"I just want to know if he would have still been here if things had been done differently.\"\n\nWhat else has been happening?\n\nIn the background, there have been long planned changes in how maternity services are organised.\n\nFrom March 2019, doctor-led care for mothers in labour or for babies needing specialist neonatal care is now only provided on one site - Prince Charles Hospital. The Royal Glamorgan still has a 24-hour midwife unit for less complicated births and will continue to provide all antenatal services, clinic appointments, scans and tests during pregnancy.\n\nThe changes follow long-standing concerns that specialist maternity staff had been spread too thinly. The health board says those changes will help address challenges, including over staffing.\n\nAfter the critical report, the health board's chief executive went on sickness leave and then resigned in August 2019.\n\nStress and sickness absence was reported to be an issue among midwives, in the aftermath of the review.\n\nHow far back to those concerns go?\n\nThe fragility of maternity services in the area can be traced back for at least a decade. In a review in 2011 the Wales Audit Office raised concerns about staffing, skill mix and absences and the health board's ability to deliver maternity services on two sites.\n\nConcerns about the quality of maternity care were also at the heart of a controversial plan in 2014 to centralise some specialist services in fewer hospitals along the M4 corridor. It recommended moving doctor-led care for mothers and children (along with A&E) from the Royal Glamorgan hospital.\n\nCwm Taf health board initially rejected the plan and several months of wrangling followed.\n\nFour years later, the proposals on maternity services are only now being finally implemented.\n\nWhat is the independent panel doing?\n\nThe chairman Mick Giannasi - who has a track record going into troubled organisations, like Anglesey Council and the Welsh Ambulance Service - brings clinical expertise. He is also setting up a system so families can be involved and kept fully informed.\n\nIn the first progress report in October 2019, the panel said there had been progress - around a third of the action points in the improvement plan had been delivered - but a \"significant amount of work\" still needed to be done.\n\nThere had been \"significant\" progress by January 2020 although with more than two thirds of recommendations it was still \"work in progress\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Vaccination appointments for people aged 70-79 are being delivered from Monday - but plans to use distinctive blue envelopes in some parts of the country have been delayed.\n\nThe aim is to have this group receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nOn Sunday morning, the Scottish government said some letters would be sent out in blue envelopes and given Royal Mail priority.\n\nBut in a statement published later it said the envelopes were not yet ready.\n\nIt added that the change has no impact on the vaccination programme timetable.\n\nVaccinations for over-80s are continuing, with Nicola Sturgeon revealing on Sunday that about 40% of this age group had received a first dose of the vaccine.\n\nAll appointments will initially be sent out in white envelopes which will have a window and a black NHS logo on the right hand side.\n\nThe blue envelopes were due to be sent out in Fife, Forth Valley, Ayrshire and Arran, Lanarkshire, Greater Glasgow and Clyde, and Lothian as part of a new booking system.\n\nUnder the system, patients are scheduled in order of priority and more boards are expected to make use of the technology as the vaccination programme expands.\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said the blue envelopes would be introduced \"as quickly as possible\".\n\nHe added: \"The blue envelopes we hoped to use were not ready in time for the first tranche of vaccine appointment invitations so distinctive NHS branded white envelopes are being used as a temporary measure.\n\n\"The absolute priority remains the roll-out of vaccinations and this temporary change to the envelope colour has absolutely no impact to our timetable.\n\n\"We continue to strongly urge everyone in the 70-79 age group to check all their post in the coming weeks and take up the offer of the vaccine when it is received,\" he added.\n\nAccording to the Scottish government's vaccine deployment plan, the 470,000 people aged in the 70 and 79 age bracket should receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nSome patients may receive a phone call from their local health board as part of the appointment process.\n\nAnd all patients aged 75 to 79 in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde will be invited via phone.\n\nA Royal Mail spokesman said \"clearly marked envelopes\" would be used to make it easier for the postal service to identify and prioritise this mail during sorting and delivery process.\n\nHe added: \"We are poised to make these letters even more noticeable in the coming weeks as we have agreed.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Scottish government has said it is on track for all those aged 80 and over to have received their first dose of the vaccine by the end of the first week in February.\n\nThis age group are being contacted by telephone or another form of letter.\n\nMinisters have faced criticism over the pace of the vaccine rollout, and accusations that Scotland is \"lagging behind\" England on the vaccine roll-out.\n\nOpposition parties say vaccines are not being supplied to GPs' surgeries fast enough.\n\nAnd they point to the latest official figures which show that 13% of over 80s in Scotland had their first dose by Sunday 17 January, while 56.3% of same age group had been vaccinated in England.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that, a week on, the figure had reached about 40%.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon says the over 70s are to receive their vaccine date\n\nThe UK government Health Secretary Matt Hancock told Andrew Marr on Sunday that 75% of over-80s and three-quarters of UK care homes had received a first Covid vaccine in England.\n\nAbout 95% of Scottish care home residents have received their first dose, Ms Sturgeon told the Scottish government briefing on Friday.\n\nShe said the over-80s roll-out has been slower because the Scottish government has \"very deliberately\" concentrated on vaccinating care home residents first, which is \"more time consuming and labour intensive\".\n\nThis was designed to target the most vulnerable and was in line with the priority list compiled by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises on vaccine rollout across the UK, she said.\n\nScotland's national clinical director Prof Jason Leitch has defended the plan, which has been challenged by the British Medical Association (BMA) for not getting second doses out quickly enough.\n\nProf Leitch told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"The difficulty with the BMA's position is that we would have to de-prioritise another group, either care home residents or the over-80s, in order to give a second dose to younger people.\n\n\"And that's what the Joint Committee on Vaccination have told us not to do.\n\n\"They have told us in very clear terms - give the first dose to as many vulnerable people as you can and that gives us the best chance of saving the most lives.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Deputy First Minister John Swinney told Politics Scotland that the Scottish government was \"actively exploring\" the possibility of stricter rules around facemasks.\n\nHe said the issue was being \"looked at\" after new rules announced in Germany last week required people to wear medical-grade facemasks on public transport and in shops.\n\nMr Swinney said progress was being made in reducing cases but hospitals were still under \"enormous pressure\" and it would be \"foolish\" to rule out strengthening restrictions further in the future.", "Concerns emerged in late 2018 that women and babies may have come to harm because of staff shortages and failures to report serious incidents\n\nTwo-thirds of women at the heart of a review into maternity services at a Welsh health board could have had very different outcomes if they had received better care, a report has found.\n\nThe Independent Maternity Services Oversight Panel (Imsop) focused on the experiences of pregnant women at Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board.\n\nIts maternity services have been in special measures since \"serious failings\" were found two years ago.\n\nConcerns emerged in late 2018 that women and babies may have come to harm because of staff shortages and failures to report serious incidents.\n\nThis sparked a major independent review, which gave a damning verdict on maternity services in the health board area that covers about 450,000 people living in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Bridgend and Merthyr Tydfil.\n\nPublished on Monday, the Imsop report focuses on the care of 27 women, most of whom were admitted to an intensive care unit during 28 \"episodes of care\" between January 2016 and September 2018.\n\nIt found that 19 reviews of maternal care (68%) revealed at least one factor where \"different management would reasonably have been expected to alter the outcome\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kayden was born with severe brain damage following mistakes in his mother's maternity care\n\nThe panel's chairman, Mick Giannasi, said: \"These findings will be concerning and potentially distressing for the women and families involved, and it will be difficult for staff.\n\n\"Of the 28 episodes of care, we concluded that in 27 of them, our independent teams who reviewed the care would have done something differently. Put simply, what went wrong, might not have gone wrong if things had been done differently.\"\n\nTwo further reviews of stillbirths and neonatal mortality and morbidity will follow later this year. In total, all three independent reviews will looks at 160 cases.\n\nImsop's findings reinforce those of the Royal College of Midwives and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.\n\nThe royal colleges' 2019 investigation found mothers faced \"distressing experiences and poor care\" at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant and Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil, with maternity services deemed \"dysfunctional\".\n\nFour key areas have been identified by Imsop as factors which contributed to poor care. These are:\n\nWales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething said the latest report recognises things are moving in the right direction for the health board, but more needs to be done.\n\n\"The report highlights that women weren't always at the centre of their care and that women weren't always listened to, and that led to harm that could have been avoided,\" Mr Gething told reporters at the latest Welsh Government press briefing.\n\n\"Nothing will be able to change what these women and their families experienced at these two hospitals or the outcome for those families whose babies died or came to harm.\n\n\"I am deeply sorry for everything that happened.\"\n\nVaughan Gething says he is \"deeply sorry\" women and their families were not listened to\n\nHe said he hoped \"families can take some comfort\" from the reviews that have provided answers to questions they were asking.\n\n\"My thoughts are with everyone affected by this report today and those who are still awaiting the outcome of their reviews,\" Mr Gething added.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board said it has been \"working with the panel and families\" to put in place a \"comprehensive maternity and neonatal improvement programme\".\n\n\"It has been a period of reflection during which we have examined the regrettable failings in maternity services of the former Cwm Taf University Health Board and we acknowledge the fact that we still have some way to go,\" said Greg Dix, the health board's executive director of nursing and midwifery.\n\n\"We will never forget the tragedies suffered by women, their families and our staff, and the learning from these cases is a key corner stone on which we are building our improvement plans.\"", "Credit card giant Mastercard is to raise the fees it charges EU merchants when UK cardholders buy goods and services from them online by fivefold.\n\nIt has sparked fears that consumer prices could rise if merchants choose to pass on those costs, especially on items not available from UK retailers.\n\nTransactions with airlines, hotels, car rentals and holiday firms based in the EU could all be affected.\n\nMastercard attributed the move to the UK's decision to leave the EU.\n\nIt said that only online sales would be affected and that \"in practice\" UK consumers would not notice the change.\n\nThe change affects the \"interchange\" fees Mastercard sets on behalf of big banks, so that its customers can use their payment networks.\n\nFrom October, Mastercard said it would increase these fees to 1.5% on every transaction, up from 0.3%.\n\nThe EU introduced a cap on such fees in 2015 after concerns they pushed prices up for consumers and unfairly burdened companies.\n\nBritish customers makes tens of billions of pounds of purchases every year from European merchants on credit cards alone - and the hike in fees from Mastercard will affect the majority of those.\n\nThe increase may be relatively small but it's significant, coming at a time when retailers may face extra paperwork and checks - higher costs - for goods coming into the UK.\n\nWith Covid restrictions bringing their own challenges, businesses, especially smaller ones, may be compelled to pass on the costs to consumers.\n\nAnd it's not just items crossing borders. The payments for most items bought on Amazon in the UK are processed via its Luxembourg headquarters.\n\nWith the increase not coming in for several months, international companies may look at ways to reclassify UK sales, to avoid the charges.\n\nMastercard is implementing the rises simply as it's no longer bound by the restrictions imposed by the UK being in the EU. The banks which receive the fees have said in the past that they are invested in areas such as card security and innovation. This time, however, the trade body which represents them has declined to comment on the rises.\n\nBut Mastercard said that since the end of the Brexit transition period, the cap no longer applied to many payments between the UK and European Economic Area (which also includes Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway).\n\n\"As a result of the UK leaving the EEA, Mastercard will adapt interchange rates on UK cards to the commitments it gave the European Commission in 2019 for non-EEA card transactions,\" the company said.\n\n\"In practice, only EEA merchants making e-commerce sales to UK cardholders will see a change.\"\n\nKevin Hollinrake, chair of the parliamentary group on Fair Business Banking, told the Financial Times, which first reported the story, that the move \"smacks of opportunism\".\n\nAnd Callum Godwin, chief economist at CMSPI, the global payments consultancy, said airlines, hotels, car rentals and travel groups would be hit.\n\n\"[This will happen] anywhere the consumer is in the UK and the merchant is in the EU,\" he said.\n\nHe added that many firms in these industries were already struggling due to the pandemic.\n\nVisa, Mastercard's larger rival, has not announced plans to change its fees but told the FT it was keeping the issue under review.\n\nCompanies in the UK and EU are already facing added costs and delays due to post-Brexit trade rules brought in on 1 January.\n\nSome EU exporters have already stopped deliveries to the UK because of new VAT related charges.\n\nMeanwhile, UK consumers who have bought goods from firms based in the bloc have found themselves facing hefty charges to cover customs duties, taxes and administration.", "Chelsea have sacked manager Frank Lampard after 18 months in charge, with former Paris St-Germain boss Thomas Tuchel expected to replace him.\n\nLampard, 42, leaves with the club ninth in the Premier League after last week's defeat at Leicester City, having won once in their past five league matches.\n\nHis final game was Sunday's 3-1 FA Cup fourth-round win against Luton.\n\nLampard was appointed on a three-year contract when he replaced Maurizio Sarri at Stamford Bridge in July 2019.\n• None Watch Monday Night Club: Is Tuchel right man for Chelsea?\n• None 'Lampard had seen enough Chelsea managers go to know the score'\n• None Why Tuchel will be a popular appointment in the Chelsea dressing room\n• None Tuchel set to come in after Lampard sacking - reaction\n\nIn a statement released on Monday night, Lampard said he was \"disappointed not to have had the time to take the club forward\" and added that it had been a \"huge privilege and an honour\" to manage the club.\n\n\"When I took on this role I understood the challenges that lay ahead in a difficult time for the football club,\" he continued.\n\n\"I am proud of the achievements that we made, and I am proud of the academy players that have made their step into the first team and performed so well. They are the future of the club.\"\n\nChelsea are hopeful that new manager Tuchel will be on the bench for Wednesday's Premier League game against Wolves at Stamford Bridge.\n\nHe will not be exempt from coronavirus quarantine.\n\nBut if Tuchel tests negative on entry to the United Kingdom and then negative again in order to enter a Premier League club's bubble, he will be granted an exemption by the Football Association for attending matches and training.\n\nHe will still have to serve a quarantine period outside of those environments, which will last five days.\n\nFormer Chelsea midfielder Lampard guided them to fourth place and the FA Cup final in his first season in charge, and a 3-1 win against Leeds in early December put the club top of the Premier League.\n\nHowever, the Blues have suffered five defeats in their past eight league games, as many as they had in their previous 23.\n\nIn a statement, Chelsea said: \"This has been a very difficult decision, and not one that the owner and the board have taken lightly.\n\n\"We are grateful to Frank for what he has achieved in his time as head coach of the club. However, recent results and performances have not met the club's expectations, leaving the club mid-table without any clear path to sustained improvement.\n\n\"There can never be a good time to part ways with a club legend such as Frank, but after lengthy deliberation and consideration it was decided a change is needed now to give the club time to improve performances and results this season.\"\n\nOwner Roman Abramovich said Lampard's status as an \"important icon\" of the club \"remains undiminished\" despite his dismissal.\n\n\"This was a very difficult decision for the club, not least because I have an excellent personal relationship with Frank and I have the utmost respect for him,\" said Abramovich.\n\n\"He is a man of great integrity and has the highest of work ethics. However, under current circumstances we believe it is best to change managers.\"\n\nLampard did not sign a single player during his first season as the club were operating under a transfer embargo, but spent more than £200m on seven major signings last summer, including £45m on Leicester's Ben Chilwell and £71m on midfielder Kai Havertz from Bayer Leverkusen.\n\nIt is the most Chelsea have spent in one summer, eclipsing the £186m they invested at the start of the 2017-18 season.\n\nLampard is Chelsea's all-time record scorer, with 211 goals for the club between 2001 and 2014, and is also joint-seventh on the list of most capped England players, having made 106 appearances for his country over 15 years from 1999.\n\nDuring his 13 seasons as a player at Stamford Bridge, he made 648 appearances and won 11 major trophies - including four Premier League titles and the 2012 Champions League.\n\nHis first managerial job was at Derby. In his one season in charge, they reached the Championship play-off final, where they lost to Aston Villa.\n\nLampard became the 10th full-time manager appointed by Abramovich since the billionaire bought the club in 2003.\n\nAccording to football finance journalist Kieran Maguire, Abramovich had spent £110m on sacking managers before Lampard's dismissal.\n\nHaving finished with 66 points last season after 20 wins and 12 defeats, Chelsea have lost six times in their opening 19 league games this season.\n\nLampard's points-per-game average of 1.67 is the lowest of any permanent Chelsea manager in the Premier League. During the Abramovich era, only Andre Villas-Boas (47.5%) has a worse win rate than Lampard's 52.4%, in all competitions among permanent Chelsea bosses.\n\nIn contrast, Jose Mourinho's win rate in all competitions during his first spell in charge was 67.03%, while Sarri, Antonio Conte, Avram Grant, Carlo Ancelotti and Claudio Ranieri all had win rates over 60%.\n\nAnalysis - lack of confidence among squad key to sacking\n\nLampard was sacked because the club could not see him reversing a slide in form.\n\nAfter qualifying for the Champions League last season and spending more than £200m on players in the summer, the aim this campaign was to close the gap on the leaders, but that has not been achieved.\n\nAlthough links will be made between Tuchel's heritage and the poor form of fellow Germans Kai Havertz and Timo Werner, the change was made because of the lack of confidence among the whole squad.\n\nIt is hoped that Tuchel can rejuvenate a team that is five points outside of the top four, and an announcement could be made within 24 hours.\n\nThe decision to sack Lampard was very difficult for Abramovich, who has never made a statement when changing Chelsea managers previously.\n\nIn the end, Lampard paid for his relative inexperience as a manager, which cannot be said of Tuchel.\n\nBest of reaction to Lampard sacking\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola: \"People talk about projects and ideas. They don't exist. You have to win or you will be replaced. I am not judging Chelsea's decision. I respect their decision. But our world is to win as much as possible.\n\n\"I hope to see Frank soon and go to a restaurant with him when lockdown is finished.\"\n\nTottenham boss Jose Mourinho: \"It is the brutality of football. Anything can happen in football now, every time somebody loses their job it is sad news but he is a big boy, [with] a strong personality and strong mentality.\n\n\"I am pretty sure he will be back when he wants to be back and his career will be good. I hope so.\"\n\nWest Ham boss David Moyes: \"I'm disappointed for Frank as I saw him as one of the most up and coming young English managers in the country.\n\n\"It's a big thing we try to encourage our own British managers into the big leagues, if we can. I'm sure he'll come back and learn from it.\n\n\"He did a great job last year - he did a really good job with so many youngsters coming through the academy. It seemed a little bit harder for him this year. I'm sure he'll take time off, come back and get better.\"\n\nLeicester boss Brendan Rodgers: \"Clearly I'm really sad for Frank and his staff. I know how much the club means to him.\n\n\"Looking at the squad and how young they are, they need time. He hasn't been given that time. I really feel for him. He did great at Derby.\n\n\"He had the courage to step out of an amazing career and could have taken an easier route. It was a job he couldn't turn down, even though he didn't have a lot of experience.\n\n\"Results haven't been what he would have wanted, but I feel it's a job that needed time.\"\n\nCrystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson: \"It saddens me. I thought he did an excellent job last season. I was rather hoping that the idol of the fans and Chelsea legend that he is, he'd get a longer shot than 18 months.\n\n\"Managers who have had short stays at Chelsea have gone on to have good careers elsewhere. When you're sacked for the first time, it is a devastating blow. There's no doubt he has a pedigree to be a very good manager.\"\n\nFormer Chelsea striker Chris Sutton speaking on BBC 5 Live's Monday Night Club: \"It is 52 days since Chelsea were top of the Premier League and 48 days ago that Chelsea had been on an unbeaten run of 17 games.\n\n\"So in the space of 48 days the owner has decided to write Frank Lampard off. How are we ever going to know if Frank Lampard is a good manager? You only every really learn about people and their characteristics and traits when they go through a little bit of adversity and Frank has gone through a little bit of adversity.\n\n\"Frank has basically been sacked for the owner's expectations. I feel sorry for Frank because he is a club legend.\n\n\"They are five points off fourth place, but the bottom line is that the owner wants to win the Premier League and that was always going to be the pressure.\n\n\"Chelsea should have been more loyal. We know the owner's track record - he is ruthless, he is brutal and guillotined Frank.\"\n\nScott G: Been a Chelsea fan since Nevin, Speedie and Dixon and admit I've enjoyed all the success money has brought us over the last 20 years. However, there's a sadness about that decision. Some things money can't buy. #SuperFrank\n\nFil Harris: Isn't the whole point of appointing a younger manager to give him time to build and develop? Craziness from Chelsea to sack Lampard after such a short time.\n\nSimon Kirk: Been a Chelsea fan since 1969 and have never been so annoyed at a sacking of a Chelsea manager. He needed at least another 18 months. Shame on you Abramovich and the Chelsea board for supporting such a decision.\n\nRyan Howard: I find it such a weird sacking - a month or so ago Chelsea were in a nice groove, Zouma and Silva were scoring and keeping clean sheets, now after one bad run he gets sacked. Chelsea could be a world-class club if they just gave a manager proper time to build a team.\n\nPeter Josi: Chelsea are totally right to sack Lampard, he lacked the experience or coaching prowess to lead the side. The next phase should start with an investigation into our transfer policy and how our last two record signings turned out to be flops.\n\nThomas Wilson: Why are people surprised Lampard was sacked? Chelsea have been ruthlessly successful for 15 years. They are not going to suddenly resort to being generously unsuccessful because of a club legend being at the helm.\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Sunday's fourth-round ties are", "The leader says he is \"optimistic\" and is recieving medical treatment\n\nMexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has announced he has tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe 67-year-old said on Twitter that his symptoms were mild and that he was \"optimistic\" following the diagnosis.\n\nThe development comes as Mexico grapples with an upsurge in infections, with deaths nearing 150,000.\n\nMr López Obrador says he will continue working from home, including speaking to President Vladimir Putin about acquiring a Russian-made vaccine.\n\nIt was announced earlier on Sunday that a call between the two leaders will take place on Monday to discuss their bilateral relationship and the possible supply of Sputnik V jabs.\n\nThe Mexican president said last year he would try and acquire 12 million doses of the Russian-made vaccine if it proved effective.\n\nMexico has not yet approved the jab for use, but officials want to expand the country's vaccination program for the population of 128 million people amid delivery delays from Pfizer-BioNTech.\n\nSputnik V has already received authorisation in a number of other countries, including Brazil and Argentina. Hungary became the first in the EU to give it the green light this week.\n\nJosé Luis Alomia Zegarra, a senior health official, described Mr López Obrador's condition as stable and told a news briefing that \"a team of medical specialists\" were attending to the president.\n\nMexico has recorded more than 1.75m virus cases since the pandemic began, according to Johns Hopkins University tracking.\n\nThe nation's confirmed death toll of 149,614 is one of the highest in the world - behind only the US, Brazil and India.", "Janet Yellen has been confirmed as the first ever female US treasury secretary in a Senate vote.\n\nMs Yellen, who headed the US central bank from 2014 to 2018, earlier won bipartisan support from members of the Senate Finance Committee.\n\nShe will be responsible for guiding the Biden administration's economic response to the pandemic.\n\nThe US is struggling to rebound economically from the hit caused by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAt her confirmation hearing on 19 January, Ms Yellen urged Congress to approve trillions more in pandemic relief and economic stimulus, saying that lawmakers should \"act big\" without worrying about national debt.\n\nIn response, Republican senators warned the former Federal Reserve head this was not the time for \"a laundry list\" of liberal reforms.\n\nMs Yellen disagreed, highlighting the fact that many families whose incomes have fallen were not reached by jobless programmes. She argued that plans to raise taxes must be seen in the context of financing bigger investments necessary to make the US economy competitive.\n\n\"The focus now is not on tax increases. It is on programmes to help us get through the pandemic,\" she stressed.\n\nJanet Yellen was previously chair of the US Federal Reserve. She was known for focusing more attention on the impact of the central bank's policies on workers and the costs of America's rising inequality.\n\nBefore then-President Barack Obama named her to lead the Fed in 2014, she had served as one of its board members for a decade, including four years as vice-chair.\n\nJanet Yellen speaking at a press conference in 2017 as US Federal Reserve Chair\n\nDonald Trump bucked Washington tradition when he opted not to appoint Ms Yellen to a second four-year term at the Fed.\n\nHowever, her climb to the top of the economics profession had made her a feminist icon in the economics world.\n\nWhen she left the Fed in 2018, many paid tribute to her leadership by imitating her signature look of a blazer with a popped collar.\n\nMs Yellen is seen as someone able to satisfy both progressive and centrist members of Mr Biden's Democratic party. Her nomination to lead the Fed in 2014 won support from some Republicans.\n\nHer focus on employment, rather than inflation, gave her a reputation of favouring low interest rates, which spur economic activity by making it less expensive to borrow money.\n\nBut under her leadership, the Fed raised interest rates for the first time since 2008 - albeit less aggressively than some more conservative commentators supported.\n\nHer stewardship of that process has won praise on Wall Street, even as it remains hotly debated.", "Sunderland-based Hays Travel took over Thomas Cook's stores and staff in 2019\n\nTravel firm Hays Travel is to close 89 of its 535 shops following a review into its take over of Thomas Cook.\n\nThe Sunderland-based firm bought the collapsed company in October 2019 and deferred a review into the performance of its shops until 2021.\n\nA Hays Travel spokeswoman said the third national lockdown and travel ban meant \"the company had to act\".\n\nShe said 388 staff affected by the closures would be offered \"alternative work options\" to minimise redundancies.\n\nChief operating officer Jonathon Woodall said the \"first priority\" was to \"look after our customers\" and ensure \"the highest standards of customer service\".\n\nHe added that the firm was \"continuing with our robust two-year business plan and continue to be ready for the bounce back when it comes\".\n\nDame Irene Hays said business had not bounced back as had been hoped\n\nDame Irene Hays, owner and chair of the Sunderland-based firm, said it was \"always our intention to review the performance of our shops at the end of the licence period\".\n\n\"We had hoped the business would bounce back in January and it has not,\" she said.\n\n\"We have done everything we could to safeguard jobs and the business thus far, and we have come up with a range of options for those at risk of redundancy to help as many colleagues as we can.\"\n\nOptions for staff include working from home or filling vacancies in other shops.\n\nThe spokeswoman said the firm employed about 7,700 people, many of whom were \"working from home taking bookings for holidays for 2021 and beyond\".\n\nThe company has yet to confirm which of its locations will be affected.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Keir Starmer is isolating after a contact tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer is self-isolating for the third time, after coming into contact with someone who tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nHe said he would be working from home until next Monday after being notified of the contact earlier.\n\nSir Keir confirmed on Twitter that he had no symptoms.\n\nThe Labour leader last self-isolated in December after a member of his staff tested positive for Covid-19, but he never showed any symptoms of the virus.\n\nHe also self-isolated in September after a member of his family showed symptoms - but they later tested negative, allowing Sir Keir to get back to Westminster.\n\nIf you are contacted by NHS Test and Trace and told you have been in contact with someone who has tested positive for the virus, you have a legal obligation to self-isolate.\n\nYou then have to stay at home, not going out for any reason, for 10 days from the time you last saw the contact.\n\nIf you don't stick to the rules, the police can issue you with a fine, starting at £1,000.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Keir Starmer This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFor Sir Keir, he needs to stay indoors until next Monday and cancel all his upcoming plans for the week.\n\nHe will still be able to take part in Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday via video link.\n\nThe current list of MPs set to question Boris Johnson, shows that only one will now physically be in the Commons with the PM.\n\nA number of politicians have had to self-isolate during the pandemic, including the prime minister.\n\nThe latest was Health Secretary Matt Hancock, who got a notification from the NHS app to stay at home.\n\nHe had the virus last March, but said self-isolation was \"perhaps the most important part of all the social distancing\" and urged others to do the same if contacted.\n\nMr Hancock's isolation period was due to end on Sunday, so he is expected back in Whitehall this week.", "Health and social care staff have been vaccinated at the NHS Louisa Jordan Hospital in Glasgow\n\nThe Scottish government is \"looking at all sorts of ways\" to accelerate its Covid-19 vaccine programme, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nThe government is considering a pilot of 24/7 vaccine arrangements, chiefly aimed at younger age groups.\n\nA total of 46% of over-80s in Scotland have now had a first dose, along with 95% of older care home residents.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the programme was \"picking up pace\" and \"on track\" to reach all over-70s by mid-February.\n\nShe said the government was \"looking at all options\" to get the vaccine out to people as quickly as possible.\n\nThe government aims to have the top priority groups - including care home residents and staff, frontline health workers and all those aged over 80 - given a first dose by the end of the first week in February.\n\nFrom Monday, letters are being sent out to people aged 70 to 79 inviting them to receive their first doses. Ms Sturgeon says the programme is \"on track\" to having this group complete by the middle of February.\n\nThere has been some criticism of the speed of the rollout in Scotland, with a greater proportion of over-80s having already received a jab in England.\n\nHowever Ms Sturgeon said the programme was \"making good progress\" and said any differences with the rest of the UK were because of an early focus on vaccinating older care home residents - 95% of whom have now had their first dose.\n\nShe said she was \"absolutely confident\" that the government would hit its targets.\n\nAnd the first minister said consideration was being given to how to speed up the programme further, saying her government is \"looking at all sorts of ways to accelerate things\".\n\nShe said: \"We are looking at piloting 24/7 arrangements so that when we get into wider groups of the population, people will have choices about the time they turn up for vaccines.\n\n\"There's been debate about whether people will want to turn up in the middle of the night to get vaccinated - some will and some won't. If that sort of thing is going to add to what we are able to do, it is likely to have the greatest impact when you get down into the relatively younger age groups.\n\n\"If we think it is appropriate there may be some things we try just to see if they would work, and if they don't we won't continue with them.\n\n\"We are looking at all of these options to make sure that as the supply increases, we can get it to people as quickly as possible.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said there was \"some early evidence\" that lockdown was reducing the number of new Covid-19 cases, although she said the government would take a \"cautious\" approach to restrictions - which are currently due to run into mid-February at the earliest.\n\nShe also voiced some \"cautious grounds for optimism\" that admissions to hospital are starting to \"tail off slightly\", although she warned that pressure on the NHS would remain \"acute\" for some time.\n\nOpposition leaders called for the vaccine programme to be accelerated and for support to be targeted at key workers.\n\nA mass vaccination centre is being set up at the P&J Live Arena in Aberdeen\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said: \"People are talking about a 24/7 approach here in Scotland - I think based on the figures so far we need to focus just on a seven day approach, because we are not vaccinating people quickly enough.\n\n\"We are not making the progress we need to, to get people vaccinated as quickly as possible.\"\n\nScottish Labour MSP Sarah Boyack said the vaccine programme \"needs to be accelerated as fast as possible\"\n\nShe said: \"We are all behind this vaccine being rolled out - but it has to be as soon as possible, because people are getting nervous.\n\n\"Whether it's police staff, construction staff, care staff who have been worried for weeks - the vaccine has got to be the top priority, along with the test and trace so we can monitor the impact on the ground and get targeted support to people.\"\n\nScottish Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie said Scotland was \"slipping further and further behind England\" and added: \"The first minister's excuses on the rollout of the vaccine are wearing very thin.\"", "The Francis family said they would be exchanging cards and having a special meal for their lockdown St Dwynwen's Day\n\nIt may not be as well-known as Valentine's Day but St Dwynwen's Day is a special time for some in Wales.\n\nSian and Trystan Francis from Rhiwbina in Cardiff do not celebrate Valentine's Day but on Monday will exchange St Dwynwen cards and have a special meal.\n\nMr Francis, 40, said: \"It's just a part of my culture - I didn't know about Valentine's Day until about Year 6.\n\n\"My parents didn't celebrate Valentine's Day at all but they did send cards on Santes Dwynwen.\"\n\nSian and Trystan Francis perform as Do Re Mi Canu\n\nThe Welsh patron saint of lovers St Dwynwen - or Santes Dwynwen in Welsh - was a 4th Century princess who lived in what is now the Brecon Beacons National Park.\n\nThe story goes she was unlucky in love, became a nun and went on to pray for true lovers to have better luck than she did.\n\nMrs Francis, who grew up in Mountain Ash, Rhondda Cynon Taf, said her family did not speak Welsh but she went to a Welsh medium school and her mother learnt the language as an adult.\n\nMrs Francis, 38, said: \"I think if you're going to celebrate anything that says that you love your partner, then this one is loads more relevant to us because it's part of our heritage and our culture - Valentine's Day is not really that much to do with us.\"\n\nThe family have been busy organising cards and treats for their children, Jac, two, and Mimi, seven.\n\n\"I bought a card for Mimi from a mystery person and that's being delivered tomorrow,\" she said.\n\nShe added Covid had meant the celebration was a bit more low-key this year.\n\n\"I bought some cupcakes but we would normally go out for food and stuff,\" she said.\n\nMenna Llinos and her family celebrated with heart-shaped pizza in Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan\n\nThere was a time when they also marked Valentine's Day before they had a change of heart, she said.\n\n\"Over time we just went, 'actually, it's a bit irrelevant to us',\" she said.\n\n\"And you can never get a restaurant [on Valentine's Day],\" Mr Francis added.\n\nCarys Ingram from Llantwit Major, Vale of Glamorgan, has been making heart-shaped cookies with her children\n\nMr Francis, who grew up speaking Welsh at home, said their choice was not unusual among their friends.\n\n\"My friends, people within the Welsh-speaking community definitely, celebrate Santes Dwynwen,\" he said.\n\n\"There is a subculture within Wales that does exist within Welsh-speaking communities so I would say Santes Dwynwen is part of that.\"\n\nMrs Francis said it meant they were able to avoid the commercialisation of the better-known celebration.\n\n\"Santes Dwynwen isn't particularly commercialised because it is so niche,\" she added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jessica Western says she is still fighting to find out why her daughter Macie died\n\nThe full extent of the problems with maternity services at two hospitals in the south Wales valleys rings out when the voices of women and families are listened to.\n\nAs one said: \"I want having a baby to be a good experience. It's ruined it.\"\n\nWomen repeatedly stated they were not listened to and their concerns were not taken seriously or valued.\n\nThey spoke of being ignored or patronised while being cared for at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant and Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil.\n\nOften, their suspicions and concerns were found to have reflected a genuine problem that emerged later, but at the time they were dismissed when they tried to voice their concerns.\n\nA major independent review has found Cwm Taf health board's maternity services were \"under extreme pressure\" and the health minister has ordered them be put into special measures.\n\nIt was prompted by 25 serious incidents, including eight stillbirths and four neonatal deaths, between January 2016 and last September.\n\nThe independent review team has released a separate, damning 78-page report, which shares the views of 140 family members, including mothers about their experiences at the hospitals.\n\nNearly two thirds of women questioned felt they had not had good quality care during their pregnancy.\n\nThe review said: \"Many women had felt something was wrong with their baby or tried to convey the level of pain they were experiencing but they were ignored or patronised, and no action was taken, with tragic outcomes including stillbirth and neonatal death of their babies.\"\n\nOne woman said she felt worthless, adding: \"I'm broken from the whole experience, the lack of care and compassion.\"\n\nOn the care itself, repeatedly the review team heard from mothers who did not always believe the right level of skills and expertise were available at the right time.\n\nThere was a failure to seek a second, more senior opinion, and to escalate concerns, especially with women with complex pregnancies.\n\nOne mother said: \"He told me there was no point calling the consultant on a Sunday as no one would come.\"\n\nAnother said: \"I never saw the same consultant. They didn't know me, and they didn't want to know me. I was pushed in and out of rooms with all sorts of people.\"\n\nMothers faced too many variables in the service offered - from the time of day they used it, to staffing levels and the communication skills of the staff they met.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We picked the wrong day to be ill'\n\nSarah Handy's experience is highlighted in the report as illustrating a number of serious issues.\n\nIn pain, she was begging to see a doctor when she arrived in hospital in April 2017 and was left for nearly three hours without examination before being told it was constipation.\n\nMs Handy, 33, was sent back home to Merthyr Tydfil with laxatives and pain relief and that evening her baby Jennifer was delivered prematurely by her husband and mother-in-law.\n\nDespite their efforts to give CPR to save her life, Jennifer died.\n\nThe review said it showed:\n\nMs Handy said after the report came out: \"Today it's been proven in black and white that we were right to highlight our concerns and push for further investigation into our Jennifer's death.\n\n\"We just wish that this report will now do what it promised and improve the quality of care so that no other family has to go the traumatic experience we went through.\"\n\nOn communication, although individual staff were spoken of as excellent, many women felt during their care this aspect was extremely poor.\n\nWhen concerns were raised, there was a \"significant dissatisfaction\" with how they were dealt with, with dismissive attitudes.\n\nMany women were not listened to or taken seriously, one saying she was \"laughed at\" when she expressed concern.\n\nOther responses included: \"I was never asked, never believed.\n\n\"If only they had asked the right questions.\n\n\"Most importantly, we were not listened to. By the time we were it was too late.\"\n\nThe review said women reported an \"almost callous and brutal use of language\" and disregard for feelings.\n\nWhen one mother was concerned that she may be losing her baby she was told to \"prepare for the worst - it could be a miscarriage\" and then told to go home as \"there wasn't a lot she could do.\"\n\nYounger mothers in particular often felt their concerns were dismissed, which became an \"emerging theme\" for the review team.\n\nThere were failures to apologise, lack of access to notes and comprehensive investigations over concerns.\n\nWith high risk pregnancies, one woman interviewed believed that there was a lack of expertise and that \"anything different from the norm, they didn't seem set up to deal with it\".\n\nAnother described the antenatal clinic as being \"like a cattle-market\".\n\nWhen babies were lost, \"many women and families received no bereavement counselling or support and continue to experience emotional distress\".\n\nOne mother talking about the demand on midwives and doctors in the Royal Glamorgan Hospital, said it was \"no way a reflection on them\".\n\n\"They would always spend as much time as possible with me but unfortunately when needs must I was left with some questions but again this was due to staff shortages,\" she said.\n\nAnother said: \"There were so many jobs for one midwife to do and then people wonder why mistakes get made. They are human and are exhausted\".\n\nThe review published two parallel reports into Cwm Taf maternity services and the experiences of mothers\n\nThe review team said it was disappointing that lessons had not been learnt from a review of Furness General Hospital services four years ago.\n\nProf Jean White, chief nursing officer, said: \"It should be a joyous occasion giving birth to a child. Many of the women who shared their stories had care well below the standards we expect and that's not right.\n\n\"I think over time there appears to be a culture that has developed rather than an open culture where people are encouraged to say what's gone wrong, there is a blame culture.\"\n\nIn the words of another parent: \"Listen to women and families and believe what they tell you when they are in pain.\"\n\nThe review team concludes: \"The strong message heard from women and families in Cwm Taf is that they don't want their experiences to happen to anyone else and the importance to them that the organisation learns from these experiences to ensure that improvement and change occurs.\"\n\nCwm Taf chief executive Allison Williams said she was deeply sorry, is taking the findings very seriously but recognised \"significant work\" was still needed.\n\n\"Some of the feedback we have received from patients is extremely distressing and their experience in our maternity service has been totally unacceptable,\" she added.\n\nIf you have been affected by stillbirth, the following organisations might be able to help:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe mother of a 15-year-old boy attacked by a group of youths said she heard the gunshots that killed him.\n\nKeon Lincoln was \"set upon\" at about 15:30 GMT on Thursday on Linwood Road in Handsworth, Birmingham, and died later in hospital, police said.\n\nIn an emotional appeal, Sharmaine Lincoln pleaded with the local community to \"help us understand why this has happened\".\n\nFive teenage boys have so far been arrested over his death.\n\nA post-mortem examination revealed Keon was shot and stabbed to death.\n\nKeon Lincoln's mother said not a day would go by when she would not hear her son's \"unbelievable\" laugh\n\nRemembering that afternoon, Ms Lincoln said: \"I heard the gunshots and my first instinct was, 'Where's my son?'\n\n\"A few minutes went by, we heard somebody was in the road and it was my boy.\"\n\nWest Midlands Police arrested three teenagers over the weekend on suspicion of Keon's murder - a 14-year-old boy from Birmingham and two others, aged 15 and 16, at an address in Walsall.\n\nThis is in addition to two 14-year-old boys arrested on Friday, one of whom remains in custody and the other released under investigation.\n\n\"The community needs to step up and put themselves in the shoes of the family,\" police say\n\nDet Ch Insp Alastair Orencas, from West Midlands Police, said the attack on Keon was \"the most pointless use of extreme violence I've witnessed in my 24 years in the police force\".\n\n\"The level of violence has not just caused shock to the family, but to hardened police officers,\" he said. \"It was an absolutely pointless attack, one I can't clear my mind of.\"\n\nThe force is appealing for information and Det Ch Insp Orencas said the community response was \"not where it should be\".\n\n\"These are multiple offenders in broad daylight. I simply don't believe there's not information out there that can help me with the inquiry,\" he said.\n\nKeon Lincoln was attacked on Linwood Road, a residential street in the Handsworth area of Birmingham\n\nMs Lincoln remembered her son as a joker, cheeky - a \"loving child with a jolly spirit\" whose \"unbelievable laugh\" would echo daily around her home.\n\n\"It doesn't make sense, the type of person Keon was, it doesn't make sense as to why someone would want to harm him or take his life in such a brutal way,\" she said.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pictures of the funeral have led to criticism from unionists\n\nPolice have begun an investigation into potential breaches of Covid-19 regulations at the funeral of an IRA man in Londonderry.\n\nEamon McCourt, 62, who reportedly died with Covid-19, was buried on Monday.\n\nUnder current Covid-19 restrictions funerals in Northern Ireland are limited to 25 people.\n\nThe police said a \"significant number of people\" had gathered, in a manner \"likely to be in breach\" of the coronavirus regulations.\n\nPSNI Ch Supt Darrin Jones said anyone found in breach of public health regulations would be reported to the Public Prosecution Service.\n\nHe said police had \"engaged with representatives of the family of the deceased, the local church and local political representatives\", prior to the funeral.\n\n\"As a result, police were given a number of assurances as to the conduct of the funeral, and that people would seek to pay their respects to the deceased from outside their homes rather than gather at the funeral.\"\n\nPictures of the leading republican's funeral show men in white shirts and black ties flanking the cortege and dozens of others behind them.\n\nCh Supt Jones added: \"Regrettably at the funeral on Monday morning, a significant number of people gathered as part of the cortège, in a manner likely to be in breach of the health protection regulations.\"\n\nUnionist politicians had called on the police to act after images circulated online of mourners.\n\nDUP MLA Gary Middleton said those who had abided by Covid-19 restrictions would view the scenes from the funeral \"with dismay\".\n\nHe said it was \"hard to put into words the sheer recklessness of those involved\".\n\n\"Within republicanism it seems that certain individuals are viewed as being more important than public health regulations,\" Mr Middleton said.\n\n\"In those minds the reality of Covid-19 has not been brought home, or at the very least it is viewed as less important than having a public display at a funeral.\n\n\"Such sights are most painful for relatives who have recognised the need for such painful restrictions to be put in place and have abided by them.\"\n\n\"Eamon 'Peggy' McCourt who passed away on Saturday morning was buried from his family home in Creggan, a right accredited to us all.\n\n\"However, it was evident that social-distancing measures and permitted mourner numbers were completely ignored by those in attendance.\n\n\"Again, the majority of people in Northern Ireland who have followed lockdown measures since March 2020 are asking themselves why can republicans do whatever they like?\"\n\nHe called on the police to explain why such \"a large funeral procession was permitted to take place and what actions will follow\".\n\nIn a statement, Sinn Féin said: \"Everyone has a responsibility to follow the public health guidelines.\n\n\"Sinn Féin held its own tribute to his memory online.\"\n\nIn June last year, about 1,800 people attended the funeral of leading IRA member Bobby Storey in west Belfast.\n\nAmong them was Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill, the Sinn Féin vice-president, who later admitted the public health message had been undermined.\n\nIn May, Assistant Chief Constable Alan Todd said there had been social-distancing breaches at funerals in Northern Ireland in both the unionist and nationalist communities.\n\nThis story was amended on 27 January 2021 to remove the phrase 'IRA veteran'. Whilst referring to Mr McCourt's long history in republicanism, we accept the phrase was open to misinterpretation.", "The first minister visited the site of the flooding, where 80 villagers were evacuated from their homes\n\nResidents have been urged to stay away from homes flooded after a \"blow out\" at a mine shaft following reports some had returned against advice.\n\nEighty people had to be evacuated from Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, on Thursday and the Coal Authority is investigating the cause of the flooding.\n\nOn Sunday First Minister Mark Drakeford visited the village.\n\nSpecialists said mine shafts in the area were stable, but villagers were told it was not safe to return home.\n\nNeath Port Talbot Council tweeted on Sunday afternoon that some evacuated residents had ignored the warnings.\n\nIt said: \"We are getting reports that some residents who have been evacuated are returning to their homes.\n\n\"Investigations are ongoing at the site, including safety checks by utility companies. They have asked us to reiterate the request for residents to stay away and that it is not safe to return today or tomorrow.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mark Drakeford This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is not known how many residents were thought to have returned to their flooded homes or how long they were there for.\n\nBigger equipment is being brought in to \"understand in detail what has caused the blow out\", according to Coal Authority chief executive Lisa Pinney.\n\nThe Coal Authority, which manages the effects of past mining on communities, said it believed the \"blow out\" was likely to have been caused by a blockage underground which caused water to back up before breaking out.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones warned residents it was unlikely that they could return home by Monday.\n\nMs Pinney said a hand-drilling crew \"determined the precise location and extension of the collapsed mine shaft\" on Saturday.\n\nThe village was flooded after a mine shaft \"blow out\"\n\n\"This now allows us to bring in larger equipment to investigate the wider mine workings and drainage channels in the area around it, so we can understand in detail what has caused the blow out,\" she said.\n\n\"We have checked all recorded shafts in the immediate area and found them all to be safe.\n\n\"We will be checking over a wider area in the days ahead.\"\n\nDuring his visit to the village Mr Drakeford was shown the sinkhole which had opened up on Thursday, leading to the flooding.\n\nOn Friday the Welsh Government confirmed financial support would be made available to people affected by the floods, up to £1,000 per household.\n\nMr Drakeford said on Sunday: \"Particularly for families who have no insurance, this is a devastating event.\n\n\"They will know that the Welsh Government is there to help and we will do that through the local authority which has been here very visibly, helping people in the last couple of days.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rishi Sunak: 'We’re throwing absolutely everything at it'\n\nFewer than 2,000 young people have so far started new roles under the government's £2bn Kickstart jobs scheme, data shows.\n\nThe programme, which launched in September, has created 120,000 temporary jobs to date.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak told the BBC coronavirus restrictions were making it harder for more young people to get started.\n\nHowever, he expected the number to rise once restrictions are lifted.\n\n\"Obviously because of the lockdowns and restrictions, that hampers businesses' ability to bring people into work,\" said Mr Sunak,\n\n\"What we can look forward to, as the restrictions ease, is more of these young people starting those placements.\n\n\"But taking a step back, we announced this scheme first week of July, it went live the first week of September and here we are, just a few months later, with 120,000 jobs having being vetted, funded and created.\"\n\nThe Chancellor insisted that the government had moved at an \"enormous pace\" to set up the programme, which targets youths at risk of long-term unemployment.\n\n\"I've always said my priority through this crisis is to protect, support and create as many jobs as possible, and young people in particular have been at the forefront of my mind,\" said Mr Sunak.\n\n\"We know that they're most likely to work in affected sectors, they're twice as likely to be furloughed, and the ones leaving college are entering a really difficult labour market.\"\n\nYouth unemployment rose to 14.5% between August to October 2020, with 597,000 people aged 16 to 24 unemployed, up from 11% in the same period in 2019.\n\nLatest data from the Department of Work Pensions shows that as of 15 January, 1,868 young people had begun their placements.\n\nHayden Finlayson, recipient of a Kickstart work placement with Whistl in Bedford\n\nHayden Finlayson, 24, is one of them. He was made redundant from a retail job last summer.\n\nLooking for work during the pandemic proved difficult: \"You start thinking about things - whether you're going to find work again.\"\n\nHe has secured a Kickstart placement at a Whistl distribution centre in Bedford, an opportunity for which he is grateful.\n\n\"I gave it a go. It's a new experience and I want to do new things,\" he said. \"[I'm learning] different skills every day, things I've never done before.\"\n\nBusinesses apply to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to create Kickstart places, which are then vetted for suitability.\n\nYoung people aged between 16 and 24 who are on Universal Credit are matched to roles by their job centre work coaches.\n\nThey are then interviewed by the prospective employer, which decides whether to take them on.\n\nFor each successful placement, the government covers the National Minimum Wage for a six-month period, at 25 hours per week.\n\nA further £1,500 grant is available per placement to help cover setup costs and assist in the development of employability skills. The current £2bn budget allows for around 250,000 roles.\n\nFSB's Craig Beaumont says the decision to allow small firms offer placements through a faster, more direct process is four months late\n\nFollowing criticism from small businesses, firms who wish to create just a handful of roles will have the option of applying direct to the Department for Work and Pensions.\n\nPreviously, small firms who wanted to create fewer than 30 Kickstart jobs had to group together, or use a \"gateway\" provider as an intermediary.\n\nMore than 600 gateways have now been approved, but small businesses complained that they found the process slow and difficult.\n\n\"The decision should have been made in September,\" said Craig Beaumont, chief of external affairs at the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).\n\n\"There is now a backlog of cases of people who've been appointed through intermediaries, who've not been able to access that work yet. So we need a real focus from the government to clear that.\"\n\nAsked if the scheme would need extending because continuing restrictions could prevent its aims being achieved this year, Mr Sunak left the possibility open.\n\nAnna Szymanowska runs Fighter Shots, which makes ginger-based remedy drinks. She is keen to create three digital marketing Kickstart roles as soon as possible.\n\nHowever, she says her application - which was done in a pool with other businesses - took a long time.\n\nSmall business owner Anna Szymanowska would like to hire three young people for digital marketing roles\n\n\"It was a little bit lengthy, because the first time I heard of the scheme was July or August,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"We applied within a month [of hearing about it], and just yesterday we received a contract to sign. So it was lengthy but otherwise well managed.\"\n\nThe Chancellor told the BBC that the changes hadn't been made earlier because Kickstart had been set up \"at speed\". He pointed out other interventions aimed at supporting young people's jobs, including investment in employment support schemes, training and apprenticeships.\n\nTracy Fishwick is the managing director of Transform Lives Company, a social enterprise which helps people into work.\n\nShe believes that the young people chosen to have Kickstart placements will be very important.\n\n\"The young people who really probably would already get a job with a little bit of help - we don't want all the Kickstart jobs going to those young people,\" said Ms Fishwick, who previously worked with the Future Jobs Fund - a scheme for young people created by Labour in 2009.\n\n\"We need to be able to put things in place to support those young people who were already unemployed before Covid.\"", "Volunteers responded to an appeal on social media on Saturday night\n\nVolunteers helped to clear up to 7cm of snow at a community hospital so Covid-19 vaccines could be given to about 300 vulnerable patients.\n\nMore than a dozen people cleared the car park at Maesteg community hospital in Bridgend county on Sunday where the Pfizer-BioNtech jab is being given.\n\nPeople with brushes and shovels came to the rescue after a Facebook appeal and Bridgend council provided a plough.\n\nOne local councillor said their community spirit \"knows no bounds\".\n\nThe Maesteg area had been at or near the top of Wales' Covid case rate chart for a few weeks before Christmas - with an infection rate of more than 1300 cases per 100,000 at its height.\n\nVaccinations were delayed for about an hour on Sunday and Maesteg West councillor Ross Thomas, who helped organise the clear-up, said it would have been a \"disaster\" to have cancelled the appointments.\n\nCovid jabs at four other locations in south Wales had to be cancelled after snow cause widespread disruption across the UK.\n\nAnd Mr Thomas praised the local community for preventing their centre from also falling victim to the weather.\n\n\"With a few Facebook call-outs we had a dozen or so volunteers within the hour together with surgery staff, a number of the GPs,\" Mr Thomas told BBC Radio Wales.\n\nCouncillor Ross Thomas said there would be some aching backs on Monday morning\n\n\"The grounds of the hospital are not small by any stretch of the imagination. It was a valiant effort over two-and-a-half hours to ensure we could allow access to Maesteg community hospital.\n\n\"It's thanks to them that 300 more people in the 80 and over priority group in the Llynfi valley received their jab yesterday.\"\n\nAnother 40 vulnerable patients will receive their Covid jabs on Monday.\n\nMr Thomas said the spirit in his community \"knows no bounds\" and added: \"People rally round, it's a sense of belonging, its genuinely instilled in our DNA in Maesteg and it was on show.\n\n\"Not only did people want to help, I think it's clear there's anxiety in the community about the virus.\n\n\"Ahead of Christmas some local wards here in the Llynfi valley had the highest case rates in Europe.\n\n\"There was the realisation yesterday that it wasn't just shovelling snow out of the way, it was about getting on top of this virus and ensuring the most vulnerable people in this community have a fighting chance moving forward.\"", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nBruno Fernandes' superb 78th-minute free-kick gave Manchester United victory in a thrilling FA Cup tie with old rivals Liverpool at Old Trafford.\n\nLiverpool led a fantastic contest through Mohamed Salah, who then equalised after Mason Greenwood and Marcus Rashford had struck for the hosts either side of the break.\n\nBut in a game which had everything last week's drab stalemate between this pair at Anfield lacked, Fernandes came off the bench to have the final word after Fabinho had fouled Edinson Cavani on the edge of the area.\n• None Don't worry about us, says Reds boss Klopp\n\nFernandes might have been slightly off the pace in recent games but when Ole Gunnar Solskjaer needed his £47m inspiration to come up with another special moment, the Portuguese delivered, bending his shot round the wall and beyond Allison's reach.\n\nThe victory earns United a home meeting with an in-form West Ham side managed by former boss David Moyes in the fifth round.\n\nBut the search for form goes on for Liverpool, whose only win in seven games since that seven-goal hammering of Crystal Palace came against Aston Villa's kids in the last round, and who have a meeting with Jose Mourinho's Tottenham looming on Thursday.\n• None Watch all the goals from the FA Cup fourth round\n\nIt was not quite the ending Solskjaer served up when he won a previous fourth-round meeting between these sides but, as in 1999, they had to come from behind.\n\nAnd while Fernandes applied the devastating finish, that goal should not be allowed to overshadow Rashford's contribution to United's victory.\n\nSo much has been said about the England forward as a social crusader it is sometimes easy to forget he also needs to be judged as a footballer.\n\nAt only 23, he is still a long way off his prime but he is developing into an outstanding forward, with vision to match his speed and finishing ability.\n\nThe pass that created Greenwood's equaliser was superb. Taking possession just inside his own half, Rashford delivered a 60-yard pass with such accuracy all Greenwood needed to do was take one touch to control with his chest before drilling low into the far corner.\n\nRashford's raw pace put Liverpool's defence under constant stress and the delicate touch that took him past Rhys Williams by the touchline in a move that ended with Paul Pogba curling wide was sensational.\n\nAnd then there was his goal, which needed a perfectly-timed run to go beyond the Liverpool defence and reach Greenwood's through ball, and then a cool head to apply the finish.\n\nAt that point, it seemed United had the game under control. It did not quite work out that way and once again, Fernandes, who has won four Premier League player of the month awards out of the seven he has been eligible for since leaving Sporting Lisbon less than 12 months ago, underlined his credentials as English football's most influential player at present.\n\nSalah's effort was the first time Liverpool had been ahead at Old Trafford since January 2017, since when Liverpool have won both the Champions League and Premier League, a clear indication that whatever issues Jurgen Klopp is wrestling with at the moment, they are not insurmountable.\n\nThe finish for the striker's 18th goal of the season did not hint at a lack of confidence as he raced on to Roberto Firmino's precise through ball, having escaped the attentions of Victor Lindelof, and lifted his shot beyond the reach of Dean Henderson.\n\nEvidently, what Klopp needs is to find a solution in defence. Williams was shaky and at fault for Rashford's goal, while Fabinho was exposed by United in this game and Cavani exploited the Brazilian's defensive inexperience to earn the free-kick that won the game.\n\nEven so, after Salah equalised from close range after United had lost possession to James Milner and never recovered their position after working their way up-field from a short goal-kick, the visitors did have chances to win it themselves.\n\nBut Dean Henderson saved from Trent Alexander-Arnold and Salah before Fernandes struck - so Liverpool's wait for a first FA Cup win since 1921 at Old Trafford, and Jurgen Klopp's for a first win at United full stop, goes on.\n\nManchester United are next in action against Sheffield United in the Premier League at Old Trafford on Wednesday, 27 January (20:15GMT). Liverpool play at Tottenham on Thursday, 28 January (20:00GMT).\n• None Manchester United have eliminated Liverpool from the FA Cup proper for the 10th time; in the competition's history, only Liverpool themselves (12 v Everton) have knocked a particular side out more times (including finals).\n• None Liverpool have won just one of their past 15 matches at Old Trafford in all competitions (D4 L10), and are winless in their last eight at the ground (D4 L4).\n• None Manchester United have won each of their past eight home games in the FA Cup; only from 1908 to 1912 have they had a better winning run on home soil in the competition (9 games).\n• None Liverpool are the first reigning Premier League champion to be eliminated from the FA Cup as early as the fourth round since Manchester City in 2014-15.\n• None Liverpool have lost back-to-back games in all competitions for the first time since March 2020.\n• None Roberto Firmino has assisted Mohamed Salah for 18 goals in all competitions for Liverpool, the most any player has set up another for the Reds under Jurgen Klopp. Since they first played together in 2017-18, this is the most one player has assisted another for all Premier League sides in all competitions.\n• None Mason Greenwood scored his first goal for Man Utd in 11 appearances in all competitions, ending his longest run of games without a goal for the club. Aged 19 years and 115 days, he was the youngest Man Utd player to score against Liverpool since Wayne Rooney in January 2005 in the Premier League (19y 83d).\n• None Marcus Rashford has scored more goals at Old Trafford against Liverpool than he has against any other opponent on home soil for Manchester United (4).\n• None Since his Man Utd debut in February 2020, Bruno Fernandes has scored more goals than any other player for Premier League clubs (28).\n• None No player has scored more goals for Premier League clubs in all competitions this season than Salah for Liverpool (19, level with Harry Kane).\n• None Attempt missed. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right following a set piece situation.\n• None Paul Pogba (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Victor Lindelöf (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Edinson Cavani (Manchester United) hits the right post with a header from the centre of the box. Assisted by Bruno Fernandes with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Aaron Wan-Bissaka.\n• None Goal! Manchester United 3, Liverpool 2. Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Saturday's fourth-round ties are", "Early years educational providers in England have been told to remain open\n\nMany staff at nurseries, pre-schools and childminders \"don't feel safe at work\", says the Early Years Alliance.\n\nThe group, representing early years providers, wants staff in this sector to be a higher priority for Covid testing and vaccinations.\n\nNurseries and settings for young children in England have been told to remain open during lockdown.\n\nThe government said the under-fives were \"unlikely to be playing a driving role in transmission\".\n\nThe Early Years Alliance received more than 3,500 responses in a survey of staff in nurseries or childcare settings and said these suggested widespread concerns - with half of those who replied saying they did not feel safe at work.\n\nNeil Leitch, chief executive of the group, said the safety worries were \"a cause for serious concern\".\n\nHe called on the government to implement rapid coronavirus testing among early years staff \"as a matter of urgency\", adding they should be \"given priority access to vaccinations in phase two of the rollout\".\n\nThere are currently no confirmed plans for lateral-flow testing in nurseries and pre-schools.\n\nBut the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) is looking at whether some high-risk professions should be prioritised for vaccination.\n\nAnd Education Secretary Gavin Williamson told the BBC's Breakfast programme he would \"very much like to see it\" once the most vulnerable groups had received their jabs.\n\nA Department for Education (DfE) spokesman said: \"Keeping nurseries and childminders open will support parents and deliver the crucial care and education for our youngest children.\n\n\"Current evidence suggests that pre-school children are less susceptible to infection and are unlikely to be playing a driving role in transmission.\"\n\nThe Early Years Alliance survey also found concerns that staff shortages would make it difficult for some nurseries and pre-school settings to stay open.\n\nDr Amelia Massoura, who runs Stepping Stone pre-school, in Sittingbourne, Kent, said: \"Out of six members of staff, four have contracted Covid-19.\n\n\"Fortunately, all have recovered well.\"\n\nVanessa Linehan, manager of Sandbrook Community Playgroup in Hackney in London, said: \"We are happy to stay open to support our families.\n\n\"But we want our staff to have testing and vaccinations as a priority.\n\n\"We encourage local authorities to prioritise appropriate testing for early-years staff through their community testing programmes,\" said the Department for Education spokesman.\n\nThe Department for Education says the under-fives are \"unlikely\" to drive up coronavirus transmission\n\nHowever, Labour's shadow education minister Tulip Siddiq accused the government of \"incompetence and neglect\", saying early-years staff \"deserve... proper access to testing\".\n\nShe questioned why \"the government has refused to publish the scientific basis for keeping early-years settings open in lockdown\" and called on it to \"urgently pull back from the brink of funding changes that could lead to viable early-years providers going bust\".\n\nThe government changed the funding formula for the early years sector in December, basing it on current attendance rather than pre-pandemic levels.\n\nAccording to the DfE, early years attendance is at 54% of the usual daily level, as of 14 January, leading to a shortfall in revenues.\n\nIn primary and secondary schools, which are open to vulnerable children and children of key workers only, average attendance levels have fallen to just 14%.\n\nRoughly half of nurseries and pre-schools and a third of childminders expect to be operating at a loss by the end of the spring term, based on current levels of government support, according to the survey.\n\n\"Early years providers are the only part of the education sector that the government has asked to remain open to all families,\" said Mr Leitch\n\n\"It is surely not too much to ask for the protection - both practical and financial - needed to ensure that we can continue to do so.\"", "Richard Dyson and Simon Midgley were thought to be on a winter break in Scotland\n\nTwo men who died when a fire tore through a luxury five-star hotel on the shores of Loch Lomond have been named.\n\nSimon Midgley and Richard Dyson, believed to be from London, were staying at Cameron House Hotel when the blaze broke out on Monday morning.\n\nPolice have not confirmed the identity of those who died, but relatives have paid tribute on social media.\n\nThe hotel's director has praised the actions of the emergency services in preventing further tragedy.\n\nFirefighters who brought a couple and their baby to safety from an upper floor have been hailed as \"heroes\".\n\nA baby was rescued by firefighters from an upper floor of the hotel\n\nAndrew and Louise Logan, and their son Jimmy, from Worcestershire, were taken to hospital after being brought to safety, but were later discharged.\n\nMore than 200 guests were evacuated from the building when the blaze broke out. A joint investigation into the cause of the fire is under way.\n\nSocial media posts suggested that Mr Midgley and Mr Dyson were on a winter break in Scotland.\n\nA post on Mr Midgley's Instagram account on Saturday showed pictures of Cameron House Hotel and said: \"Home for the weekend.\"\n\nRelatives have been expressing their shock at news of the couple's deaths.\n\nMr Midgley's sister posted a picture of her brother and his partner on Facebook, while another relative wrote: \"I'm beyond heartbroken.\"\n\nKate Baxter wrote on Twitter: \"Such unbearably sad news.. RIP @SimonMidgleyPR, a shining star in our wonderfully close-knit industry.\"\n\nAccording to his Facebook page, Mr Midgley was a freelance journalist at the London Evening Standard and ran his own PR company, while Mr Dyson is believed to be a TV producer.\n\nPolice and firefighters remained at the scene on Tuesday morning, with the scale of the damage becoming more apparent.\n\nBBC Scotland's Andrew Black was allowed on site and said: \"The damage to the building is pretty extensive, especially the upper floors. There's a smell of burning wood and we could hear a fire alarm from part of the building still going off.\"\n\nThe BBC understands that a wedding due to take place at Cameron House hotel this weekend has been moved to another luxury hotel.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drone footage from above Loch Lomond shows the extent of the damage at Cameron House\n\nIn a new statement, Cameron House's director, Andy Roger, praised the \"very swift actions of the emergency services\".\n\nHe said: \"Everyone associated with Cameron House Hotel is still coming to terms with the events of yesterday and we are all hugely conscious that two people tragically lost their lives in the fire.\n\n\"Their families and friends are foremost in our thoughts as we co-operate fully with the investigation teams to try to establish the circumstances surrounding this terrible incident.\n\n\"The emergency services were on the scene long into the night and I cannot praise their efforts highly enough. They are true heroes. The firemen bringing out a couple and their young child by ladder from a second-floor room was a heart-stopping moment for all those who witnessed it.\n\n\"We're also enormously grateful for the many, many offers of practical support and good wishes from the UK hospitality industry and also from the local community, which has rallied around to help. It's been a humbling experience, but we are a small, tight-knit community on Loch Lomond and a response like that is typical of our many friends and neighbours.\"\n\nMr Roger said the hotel had made arrangements for the vast majority of the guests to travel home or continue with their breaks and he thanked them for their patience and \"good spirits\".\n\nHe also paid tribute to the staff at Cameron House who he said had shown \"an enormous degree of care and teamwork throughout the last two days\".\n\nLocal people have been speaking of their shock and sadness at what happened at the hotel.\n\nOne woman told BBC Scotland: \"We are just very sad for all the families involved and so sorry for the people who work there.\"\n\nAnother added: \"It's absolutely horrific. I think the local community really feels it.\"\n\nReverend Ian Miller, a retired minister who lives locally and was called in to offer guests support in the aftermath of the fire, said those affected \"fell into two groups\".\n\n\"There were those in the side bedrooms which weren't really touched and they just realised they had escaped something terrible,\" he said.\n\n\"But for those in the main building then there were degrees of trauma. Some had escaped with virtually nothing.\n\n\"One man came out in his underwear. Another woman told me she just grabbed her baby, change bag and moved out.\"\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue service remained at the scene on Tuesday morning\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme, John Gow, from forensic investigations firm IFIC, said: \"There will be a number of strands to this investigation, running in tandem.\n\n\"Obviously, sadly, there is the death investigation due to the fatalities that occurred.\n\n\"There is the origin and cause investigation which is establishing how the fire started and spread throughout the property.\n\n\"It is also likely there will be an investigation to establish if the fire precaution measures were adequate and operated as they should.\"\n\nCameron House, an 18th Century mansion, was converted into a luxury hotel and resort in 1986.\n\nIt is a popular wedding venue and houses the Michelin-starred Martin Wishart at Loch Lomond restaurant.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Covid-19 has been reported in 60% of Scotland's care homes\n\nPolice Scotland has confirmed it will support the dedicated Crown Office unit which has been set up to investigate Covid-19 deaths in care homes.\n\nThe force said its involvement does not indicate that crimes have been committed but is designed simply to inform prosecutors.\n\nCases of the virus have been reported in 60% of Scotland's care homes, with a total of 5,635 residents affected.\n\nThe first minister described the impact on the sector as \"heartbreaking\".\n\nEarlier this month Lord Advocate James Wolffe QC announced the new unit and said it would help determine if Fatal Accident Inquiries were to be held into the deaths.\n\nThe outbreaks across Scotland include one on Skye which is under police investigation.\n\nOfficers are looking into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of three women - aged 84, 86 and 88 - at Home Farm in Portree.\n\nOn Friday police outlined the support officers will provide to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) review.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Duncan Sloan said: \"We understand the significant public anxiety caused by reports of deaths among those being cared for and staff in the health and care sectors as a result of coronavirus.\n\n\"This is a matter of great concern for us all.\"\n\nMr Sloan said COPFS is working with a number of agencies and asked the force to gather \"additional information\".\n\nHe added: \"Our involvement does not necessarily indicate that crimes are being investigated and the information we gather on behalf of COPFS will help inform its decision on whether further action is required.\n\n\"These are challenging times for everyone but Police Scotland will continue to work with COPFS and other partner agencies to maximise public safety, to support and protect the vulnerable in our communities and to support the work of colleagues in the health and care professions.\"", "The comedian's wife shared a picture online of the 78-year-old after he received the vaccination\n\nSir Billy Connolly has received his first dose of the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nThe comedian's wife Pamela Stephenson shared an image on social media of the 78-year-old wearing a mask with a plaster on his left arm.\n\nAlongside the picture, Ms Stephenson wrote: \"Thank God... Billy had his first Covid vaccine today!\"\n\nSir Billy, who lives in Florida, was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2013 and announced he was \"finished with stand-up\" last year.\n\nHe said at the time: \"The Parkinson's has made my brain work differently and you need to have a good brain for comedy.\"\n\nSir Billy now lives in Florida with his wife Pamela Stephenson\n\nSir Billy joins famous faces including actress Dame Judi Dench, broadcaster Sir David Attenborough and actor Sir Ian McKellen in receiving the vaccine.\n\nHollywood star and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger also shared a video of him receiving the jab earlier this week.", "The Fire Brigades Union has held back firefighters from efforts to tackle the pandemic in England with \"unreasonable\" safety demands, a report claims.\n\nIn it, the fire service watchdog says the union has insisted on \"unworkable\" rules for testing and self-isolation.\n\nThousands of firefighters assisted health and emergency services last year but in December, as vaccinations began, the FBU asked members not to volunteer.\n\nThe union says it cannot be sure its members will be safe if they do.\n\nThat is because councils and fire chiefs have pulled out of an agreement on health protection measures, it added.\n\nFor most of last year the agreement allowed firefighters to perform a range of additional duties, including delivering meals, driving ambulances and transporting bodies.\n\nFirefighters returning from roles in potential contact with Covid victims would spend several days self-isolating and being tested to show they were not infected.\n\nBy December, when there was the prospect of firefighters helping with vaccinations, a row over the deal resulted in the union giving new advice to members\n\nThe FBU said in message on 9 December: \"At this time, members are asked not to volunteer and to suspend any expression of interest that they have registered until such time as satisfactory arrangements can be secured that allow a national agreement to be reached.\"\n\nOn 13 January, local councils, which employ firefighters, decided the agreement with the union \"was no longer sustainable or appropriate\", partly because of the requirements for staff to have tests and self-isolate.\n\nThey said these made it impossible to run the fire service flexibly. Fire chiefs argued that police officers and paramedics did not have to isolate and await test results.\n\nThe union says it cannot be sure its members will be safe if they volunteer\n\nThe FBU general secretary, Matt Wrack, told the BBC he still was not able to advise firefighters about additional Covid-related duties because the union did not know what the safety risks would be locally.\n\n\"I'm not prepared to ask people to volunteer if there aren't safety measures in place,\" he said. \"I don't want to see a deadly virus brought into workplaces when we have measures in place which have avoided it in the past several months.\"\n\nThe fire minister, Lord Stephen Greenhalgh, said: \"Brave firefighters have been prevented from stepping up to support the pandemic response because of the actions of the Fire Brigades Union.\"\n\nZoe Billingham, an inspector at Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Fire and Rescue Services, said many firefighters had contributed to the effort during the Covid crisis, but much more could have been done.\n\nShe described the union's position as \"deeply regrettable\" and \"not what the public would expect of a fire service\".\n\nThe inspectorate has released several reports calling for the modernisation of fire service working practices and criticising the FBU.\n\nLancashire Fire and Rescue Service said it had begun testing its staff twice a week\n\nAccording to this one, the dispute between firefighters and their employers has held up vital work to protect lives.\n\nIn Greater Manchester requests to the fire service to help with NHS Track and Trace were delayed by 12 weeks.\n\nIn Cleveland, the fire and rescue service had to use non-operational support staff, rather than firefighters, to carry out temperature testing for the local authority.\n\nIn Suffolk and South Yorkshire, there were delays to plans for firefighters to help get into properties where residents were suffering from Covid.\n\nThe FBU says it was not given an opportunity to respond to these claims before the report was published. Mr Wrack dismissed it as poorly-sourced and politically-motivated.\n\nSome fire services have reached agreements with local branches of the union instead so that they can volunteer for the vaccination effort.\n\nLancashire Fire and Rescue Service said it had begun testing its staff twice a week and those giving vaccinations had also received them first.", "Helen White's lighting business is struggling to absorb a six-fold increase in freight costs.\n\n\"We were paying £1,600 per container in November, this month we've been quoted over £10,000,\" says Helen White.\n\nThe founder of start-up Houseof.com, which imports lighting from China, says the rise in shipping costs means she's making a loss on what she sells.\n\nShe's one of many UK importers facing soaring freight costs amid a global shipping crisis that may last months.\n\nA shortage of empty shipping containers in Asia and bottlenecks at the UK's deep sea ports are behind the problems.\n\nIt was hoped the backlogs could be cleared during the Chinese New Year holiday in February, but instead a coronavirus outbreak in China is adding to the uncertainty facing firms.\n\nIn the UK the difficulties in international shipping have coincided with problems faced by businesses trading with the EU after Brexit.\n\nOne Manchester-based freight forwarder said the logistics industry is facing the most challenging conditions he's seen in the 17 years he's been in the business.\n\nCraig Poole from Cardinal Maritime said during lockdowns, people have been turning to online shopping, and that's causing a surge in demand for goods from China.\n\nFreight forwarder Craig Poole says the logistics industry is facing hugely challenging conditions\n\nBut some companies can't absorb the skyrocketing freight costs that shipping lines are charging. That could lead to higher prices for consumers or businesses having to close.\n\n\"The really unfortunate thing is, the small businesses who can't afford to pay those rates are going to go under as a result,\" Mr Poole said.\n\nHelen White's lighting range is designed in the UK and manufactured in Guangzhou, China.\n\nShe said the six-fold increase in shipping costs is hard to take, especially when getting hold of a container \"is like gold dust\".\n\n\"It's really hard for a small business to absorb those costs. We'll be making a loss on the goods we're selling.\"\n\nLighting seller houseof.com is struggling to import stock from China\n\nAt the other end of the supply chain, Chinese manufacturers and logistics firms say they are equally frustrated.\n\nJohnny Tseng is the owner and director of Hong Kong-based J&B Clothing Company Ltd., which manufactures garments for some of the UK's most popular fashion sites including Boohoo and Pretty Little Thing.\n\nHe's been supplying clothes to British retailers for more than 40 years, but he says his family-run firm won't be able to absorb inflated shipping rates for much longer.\n\n\"To be honest I don't even know how we can survive if we carry on shipping things at this kind of cost.\"\n\nJohnny Tseng says sky-high shipping rates are putting his business at risk.\n\nHe says he's now being quoted $14,000 to ship a container to the UK, when the usual price is $2,500.\n\nThe shortage of empty containers in China and congestion at UK ports caused some of his stock to miss the busy Christmas trading period. Now some customers are holding orders for their Autumn-Winter collections until next year.\n\n\"It's chaos,\" he said. \"We are making a loss. We take it as a loss leader and keep our fingers crossed it will go back to normal after Chinese New Year, but it is a major issue if it persists this way.\"\n\nUsually during the Chinese New Year holiday, factories in China shut down for two weeks. There were hopes the pause in production would give UK ports a chance to clear the backlog of ships waiting to dock, and encourage shipping lines to move more empty containers back to Asia, which is a less profitable journey.\n\nChinese workers usually travel home for the Chinese New Year holiday.\n\nBut rising numbers of coronavirus cases have prompted the Chinese authorities to stagger factory closing dates so that not all workers are travelling to their home regions at the same time. A worsening outbreak could lead to travel restrictions, in which case some factories may not stop production at all.\n\nCraig Poole says some companies have been caught out by factories closing earlier than planned.\n\n\"A lot of businesses that can't get those goods away are delaying orders until after Chinese New Year, so this situation could continue 'til March,\" he said.\n\nPatrick Lee from the Hong Kong-based Unique Logistics International said it could be even longer than that.\n\n\"Middle of the year at the earliest is what we're hearing from end customers in the UK, and also from some of our people in the industry. Some of the carriers as well,\" he said.\n\nMr Lee has called on the shipping lines to add more ships to help ease the backlog of stock orders building up at warehouses across China.\n\n\"They are increasing sailing but can increase a lot more. There are idle ships out there that they can reactivate without too much difficulty,\" he said.\n\nThe disruption could last for several months, according to logistics specialist Patrick Lee\n\nBut a spokeswoman for the World Shipping Council said carriers are using all available capacity.\n\n\"The demand for transportation service far exceeds supply. As in any free market, this puts upward pressure on rates,\" she said.\n\nShipping lines have been trying to drive down demand from British importers by charging a premium for deliveries to the UK, or bypassing the country's ports altogether.\n\nOne shipping line recently offered freight rates of $12,050 for a 40ft container from China to Southampton, but charged just $8,450 for the same container to travel from China to Rotterdam, Hamburg, or Antwerp.\n\nThe UK's largest container port at Felixstowe has been experiencing long delays since October. Congestion has also been a problem at the Port of Southampton, albeit to a lesser extent.\n\nThe bottlenecks were initially caused by a surge in imports as business activity picked up after the first wave of the pandemic. Huge shipments of PPE and the usual Christmas rush added to container volumes and ports struggled to cope.\n\nThe UK's largest container port at Felixstowe has been experiencing bottlenecks for months\n\n\"Most of the carriers just don't want UK cargo because of the issues when the vessels dock, so mainly they're favouring European ports and we are having to truck containers over,\" said freight forwarder Craig Poole.\n\nHe said that adds a cost of up to £2,000 per container, and takes an extra seven to ten days to reach the delivery point in the UK.\n\nFor business-owners like Helen White, the difficulties affecting the shipping industry can't be solved quickly enough.\n\n\"Lots of little start-ups are really hurting,\" she said. \"It has been paired with logistical nightmares across Europe as well. It just feels like logistics is falling apart at the moment. It's hard to see where the resolution is.\"", "All schools moved to online learning before Christmas, following concerns from unions over the new coronavirus variant\n\n\"Wholesale\" return of pupils to school after February half term is \"unlikely\", Wales' first minister has said.\n\nMark Drakeford said there were \"intermediate positions between where we are today, with very few children in school, and everybody being back\".\n\nPreviously, ministers said schools would stay closed to most until February half term unless Covid cases fell significantly.\n\nThose preparing for qualifications and very young children may return first.\n\nMr Drakeford told a coronavirus briefing on Friday he had recently chaired a meeting of the teaching unions and local education authorities.\n\n\"We all agreed that we would work purposefully together to find ways of bringing more young people back into the classroom,\" he said.\n\n\"Does that mean that we will see a wholesale return of every child in every classroom, every day of the week across Wales? I do think that that is probably unlikely.\n\n\"But there are intermediate positions between where we are today, with very few children in school, and everybody being back.\"\n\nHe said there had been \"practical, creative, imaginative\" proposals put forward which could mean some children being back in the classroom for some of the week.\n\nMinisters previously said schools would stay closed until half term unless Covid cases fell significantly\n\nThese could include \"children preparing for qualifications [and] very young children for whom online learning really isn't a genuine possibility\".\n\n\"I certainly don't rule out making some of those things happen after the February half term, but I do think it's unlikely in the way you said that we would see every child back full-time in every classroom in the way that we would ideally wish to do,\" he added.\n\nAll schools and colleges moved to online learning before Christmas, following concerns from unions over the new coronavirus variant.\n\nThey have remained open for children of critical workers and vulnerable learners, as well as for learners who needed to complete essential exams or assessments.\n\nEarlier this month, when Education Minister Kirsty Williams said schools and colleges would stay closed to most pupils until the February half term, unions welcomed the news, saying the health and safety of pupils and staff \"had to be a priority\".\n\nBut, they added, teachers must now be given the vaccine as a priority, and pupils and staff must be protected before talks about reopening schools could begin.\n\nTeachers are still not on the priority list for immunisation, and have to wait to get the jab dependent on their age and if they have a medical condition.\n\nAt the time, Laura Doel, director of The National Association of Headteachers Cymru, said: \"Any plan that sees school staff return to face-to-face learning should be afforded as much protection as possible against the virus.\n\n\"Once these issues have been addressed, then we can discuss the orderly return to school we all want.\"\n\nOpposition parties have called for clear plans on how schools would return and for support to make sure pupils from poorer backgrounds did not fall behind due to a \"digital divide\".\n\nPlaid Cymru's education spokeswoman Sian Gwenllian said: \"The Welsh Government must plan now for the gradual and safe reopening of schools, putting in place safety measures, and should lay out plans for a vaccination programme for schools staff.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative education spokeswoman Suzy Davies called for the Welsh Government to publish evidence on its reasons for closing schools, bring forward vaccines for teachers, and said money must be made available for all pupils to access laptops for online learning.", "Three quarters of applications for a £500 discretionary grant, which aims to help those on low incomes self-isolate, have been rejected, figures suggest.\n\nEmployed or self-employed people in England who do not qualify for the Test and Trace Support Payment because they do not receive benefits can apply.\n\nData obtained by Labour and shared with BBC Newsnight suggests just 12,069 of 49,877 applications were successful.\n\nThe government said it was assessing how the scheme is supporting people.\n\nThe cumulative figures obtained by Labour suggest that between October and December last year, 35,252 applications to local authorities in England for the discretionary part of the test and trace support payment scheme were rejected, while 12,069 were granted.\n\nThe government introduced the Test and Trace Support payment in late September as a way of topping up any benefits or Statutory Sick Pay a person receives.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care says it is a targeted scheme designed to help people on low incomes.\n\nThere is a list of specific criteria applicants must meet for the grant, but those who do not qualify for this payment and who are on a low income or may face financial hardship as a result of self-isolating, can apply for a discretionary payment.\n\nLocal authorities in England oversee the entire support scheme, with the qualifying criteria set by the government. They blame overly strict criteria and inadequate government guidance for people being rejected who feel they should qualify for a grant.\n\nThe Local Government Association, which represents councils in England as well as the London boroughs, said some councils were having to turn down applications for the discretionary support because \"people are ineligible or have failed to provide the evidence needed\".\n\nLast month, the self-isolation period for contacts of people with confirmed coronavirus was shortened from 14 to 10 days after the time of exposure.\n\nPeople who are contacted by NHS Test and Trace and told to self-isolate, face fines of up to £10,000 if they fail to comply. Those who don't self-isolate risk spreading the virus to others.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDr Nishant Joshi, a GP trainee working at a practice in Luton, says he meets, on a daily basis, people who are faced with what he calls a \"Sophie's choice\".\n\nHe says: \"People come to me with essentially a Sophie's choice situation - I know I have to isolate but also I don't have enough money to put food on my table.\n\n\"If I say to somebody who comes to me with a health problem, you need to take a couple of weeks off work, I've had patients who have come to me and they're in tears.\"\n\nRachel, a shop worker from East London with a disabled son, tested positive in early January and was left in a desperate situation after having to self-isolate.\n\nShe says: \"I didn't have a hot meal for 10 days. I had two bowls of cornflakes and a hot dog. I was hungry. I was petrified\".\n\nShe adds: \"It's been probably the worst two weeks of my life. On a personal level I knew I had no choice but to isolate to keep my son safe.\n\n\"Had I not been in that position I can't guarantee that I would have done the whole self isolation thing because you get desperate.\"\n\nHer local councillor eventually dropped off a hot meal. Rachel was fortunate and received a £500 grant at the end of her isolation.\n\nJosie Tothill said missing two weeks of work \"could be the difference between feeding your kids or not, or paying rent or not\"\n\nJosie Tothill from Manchester didn't qualify for the scheme, even though her job, as a personal assistant to a woman who needs mental health support, means she is on a low income.\n\nShe had to self-isolate in October after her sister tested positive. But she did not receive a call from Test and Trace despite being a contact. Only people with a Test and Trace number are eligible.\n\nJosie says: \"It was difficult, but I got by. But for a lot of people, especially if you work in care, you are already on poverty wages, so to miss two weeks of work - that could be the difference between feeding your kids or not, or paying rent or not.\n\n\"So you can see, for some people, it's impossible to do that isolation, so it's much harder to control the virus.\"\n\nThe Labour Party, which obtained the figures from local authorities under the Freedom of Information Act, says the government must make sure everyone can afford to self isolate.\n\nShadow communities secretary Steve Reed said it was vital that people who self-isolated were not \"punished for doing the right thing\".\n\nHe told the BBC: \"The problem is the government established a fixed pot of money and, in some cases, councils have eked it out so much that many people applying for the funding haven't received it.\n\n\"In other cases councils have used up all the money because they have more people applying than were expected.\n\n\"So, we end up with a postcode lottery, if you live in one area you might get the funding, if you live in another area you might not.\"\n\nAnalysis of the figures by the BBC shows that of the applications to the discretionary scheme:\n\nWhile most of councils that responded rejected the majority of applications to the discretionary scheme, a smaller number bucked the trend.\n\nLambeth granted 77% of applications, Haringey and Wakefield 75%, and Solihull 64%.\n\nWhile it's impossible to rule out that applications may be coming from people who are taking a chance, it's also clear that some councils are apparently more flexible about the criteria used on the discretionary scheme.\n\nThe government is putting £70 million into funding the scheme. It said: \"Local authorities are responsible for decisions when it comes to making additional discretionary payments to people who fall outside the scope of the main scheme and are facing financial hardship as a result of having to self-isolate.\n\n\"We continue to work closely with the 314 local authorities in England to assess how the scheme is supporting people experiencing financial difficulties.\"\n\nThe Local Government Association said the government \"needs to ensure its £500 self-isolation payment support scheme is available to those in need of financial support\".\n\nIt says it is \"good\" that councils will receive extra government funding \"to support people on low incomes who do not meet the strict criteria for this main scheme, but who may face financial hardship because of the requirement to self-isolate\".", "Because of its scale, work on Glastonbury's site must begin earlier than most festivals\n\nMusic festivals are \"still possible\" this summer, despite the cancellation of Glastonbury, says the head of the Association of Independent Festivals.\n\nPaul Reed said Glastonbury \"is a different beast to most festivals and most likely ran out of time due to the size and complexity of the event\".\n\nSmaller events could still happen if the government ensures organisers can access cancellation insurance, he said.\n\n\"For most festivals, the cut-off point is more likely the end of March.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Glastonbury organisers Michael and Emily Eavis called off their festival for the second year in a row because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"In spite of our efforts to move Heaven & Earth, it has become clear that we simply will not be able to make the festival happen,\" they said in a joint statement. \"We are so sorry to let you all down.\"\n\nTickets for the festival, which normally attracts 200,000 people and was due to take place in June, will roll over to 2022.\n\nGlastonbury is the UK's biggest music festival, but it was not the only event to cancel its plans on Thursday. The Country To Country festival, which was due to take place in March, also said its 2021 edition would not happen.\n\nThe three-day event, which attracts some of country music's biggest names to indoor venues in London, Dublin and Glasgow, said it had pulled the plug due to the \"current restrictions on mass gatherings and international travel\".\n\nThe announcements came as coronavirus deaths soared in England, with more than 8,500 deaths recorded in the past week. On Thursday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said it was \"too early\" to say whether England's Covid restrictions would be lifted by the spring.\n\nStormzy has already been announced as a headliner for August's Reading and Leeds festivals\n\nGlastonbury's cancellation has raised fears for other music festivals this summer. However, the organisers of Glasgow's TRNSMT said there was \"reason to be optimistic\" that it could go ahead in July, with headliners Lewis Capaldi, Liam Gallagher and the Courteeners.\n\n\"Glastonbury is the biggest festival in the world and it's sad to see that, due to its enormous scale and taking several months to get the city-sized festival site ready, it's unable to go ahead this year,\" boss Geoff Ellis told Scotland's Daily Record.\n\n\"By comparison, TRNSMT is a much smaller city centre event with no camping. As such it takes us days rather than months to build TRNSMT. Therefore, we will continue to listen to and follow the advice from the government and remain positive about events later in the summer.\"\n\nHis comments were echoed by Bestival co-founder Rob Da Bank, who tweeted that \"festival season will happen in the UK this summer\", adding: \"Sadly Glasto is such a mammoth beast to plan it ran outta time.\"\n\nSacha Lord, co-founder of Manchester's Parklife festival, added that Glastonbury's cancellation was \"yet another blow\" to freelancers who work in the live music sector.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast on Friday, Mr Reed said the UK was at a \"serious point in the pandemic and festivals only want to return when it is safe to do so\".\n\nHe added that festivals were currently struggling to get insurance for coronavirus-related cancellations. Last week, MPs from the House of Commons culture select committee wrote to the chancellor, urging him to launch a Covid-19 insurance scheme to protect live music.\n\nThe appeal was backed by more than 100 industry figures, including organisers of the TRNSMT and Parklife festivals. \"We do need government to intervene in this issue,\" said Mr Reed.\n\nIn a tweet on Thursday, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden expressed his regret at Glastonbury's cancellation and said the government was \"looking at problems around getting insurance\".\n\nA government spokeswoman said on Friday they are in \"regular dialogue\" with public health experts to \"agree a realistic return date for festivals and other large events\". They added they were still helping festivals with the £1.5bn Culture Recovery Fund, \"with many already receiving this support\".\n\nLatitude Festival has been held at Henham Park, near Southwold, since 2006\n\nOther European countries, including Austria and Germany, have launched schemes to cover events that cannot be rescheduled, including music festivals. At present, England has a scheme protecting film and TV shoots, but not music.\n\nHowever, some festivals have been given support by the government's £1.57bn Culture Recovery Fund, including Womad, End of the Road and Nozstock.\n\nMelvin Benn, whose company Festival Republic organises the Latitude, Download and the Reading & Leeds festivals, said that without an insurance scheme, other events would be left \"staring into the same barrel that Glastonbury stared into\".\n\n\"People can't afford to take that financial risk,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nThe government is holding \"early stage talks\" with insurers, confirmed Tim Thornhill of Tyser's Insurance, which counts Glastonbury amongst its clients.\n\n\"We have helped to put in place the film and TV restart scheme, which the chancellor explained saved 14,000 jobs,\" he said. \"So if we can do something for events, that would be welcome across the industry\".\n\nWhile there is \"no guarantee\" that insurance could be provided, he said there was \"significant urgency\" to finding a solution \"within the next few months\".\n\n\"It's really important that the government supports the industry,\" added Radiohead's Colin Greenwood. \"And they need to start thinking about that now, and not when we reach that point - say in October this year - when there are enough people vaccinated for [live music] to become safe.\n\n\"Nobody wants to go to anything, or take part in anything, that's going to turn into a super-spreader event,\" he said.\n\n\"But obviously there has to be a way out of this, through vaccination. And I think we need to make sure that systems are in place so we can get back into doing what we love.\"\n\nJulian Knight MP, chair of the culture select committee, said the government was working on insurance plans, because of the importance of festivals to British culture and the economy.\n\n\"I've been in to see the chancellor,\" he told BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat. \"Finally I think there is some movement. I understand that they are dropping some of the objections that they may have had, and that we may end up with an insurance scheme.\n\n\"However, there's a danger that it's too little too late.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "PM: We are enforcing lockdown with increasing toughness\n\nSky News's Sam Coates asks whether, if the new variant is more dangerous, it is right that more people are \"out and about\" during the current lockdown than the first one last year. The PM says that \"we are enforcing the law very strictly with increasing toughness\", meaning increased fines to dissuade risky behaviour. \"It depends on everybody doing the right thing and avoiding transmission,\" he says, adding that is what will be more effective than police action. On why the new variant may be transmitting more readily, Sir Patrick Vallance says it is not believed the new variant has a higher viral load, meaning people \"shed more virus\". He suggests it may be other factors that make it more transmissible. On the current infection rate, Chris Whitty says that while infections are slowly going down \"it is at a very, very high level\". He says that among some age groups - including those 20 to 30 - infections may still be increasing. And on hospitalisations, he says that they are \"broadly flat\" for the UK as a whole, but there are variations between regions. \"That peak is not yet definitely going down yet,\" he says. Deaths will be delayed further with the peak expected in the future, he adds. Video caption: Infection level 'very, very high' and 'extremely precarious' - Prof Whitty Infection level 'very, very high' and 'extremely precarious' - Prof Whitty", "The Holyrood inquiry into the handling of harassment claims against Alex Salmond is using legal powers to seek documents from the Crown Office.\n\nThe documents include messages between SNP officials, civil servants and advisers relating to Mr Salmond's legal challenge to the complaints process.\n\nIt is the first time MSPs have issued such a formal request in the history of the Scottish Parliament.\n\nConvener Linda Fabiani said the action was necessary to continue its work.\n\nThe committee was established in the wake of a judicial review court case where the Scottish government admitted its internal investigation of two harassment complaints against Mr Salmond had been unlawful.\n\nThe government had to pay out more than £500,000 in legal expenses to the former first minister, who was later acquitted of 13 charges of sexual assault in a separate criminal trial.\n\nThe notice, formally issued by Holyrood chief executive David McGill, states that the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) \"may hold documents relevant and necessary for the committee to fulfil its remit\".\n\nThe committee is seeking the release of documents detailing text or WhatsApp communications between SNP chief operating officer Susan Ruddick and Scottish government ministers, civil servants or special advisers between August 2018 and January 2019, that may be relevant to the inquiry.\n\nIt also wants to see any documents linked to the leaking of complaints to the Daily Record newspaper in August 2018.\n\nMs Fabiani said: \"Throughout this inquiry, the committee has been determined to get as much information as possible to inform its task.\n\n\"This is a step that hasn't been taken lightly, and is a first for this Parliament, but which the committee felt was needed as it continues its vital work.\"\n\nThe Crown Office has been given until 17:00 on 29 January to respond to the notice.\n\nNever before in Holyrood's history has it attempted to use this legal power of compulsion.\n\nSection 23 of the Scotland Act makes it possible to force a witness to give evidence in person or - as in this case - to hand over documents.\n\nIt sounds straightforward but lots of legal terms and conditions apply.\n\nThat's especially true in this case where MSPs are trying to compel the Crown Office - in charge of prosecutions and headed up by the Lord Advocate.\n\nThe Lord Advocate has potential get-outs if he considers releasing documents would \"prejudice criminal proceedings\" or otherwise be \"contrary to the public interest\".\n\nThat public interest test could be key.\n\nClearly, MSPs think social media messages and other material held by the Crown Office could be relevant to their inquiry and should be released.\n\nThe Crown Office has argued that disclosing evidence gathered in a criminal case for other purposes risks undermining confidence in the police and prosecutors.\n\nThe Lord Advocate has a big call to make - has the prosecution service (which he runs) or the parliament (to which he is answerable as a minister) got the better sense of where - on balance - the public interest lies?\n\nIn other developments, Mr Salmond has been given a deadline by which to appear before the committee.\n\nThe former SNP leader has been given the option of giving evidence to the committee either in person in the Parliament or by appearing remotely on a number of dates in the first week of February.\n\nMs Fabiani said if this was not possible then the \"committee regrets that it will not be able to take oral evidence from you\" although he would be free to submit further written evidence.\n\nMr Salmond's lawyers had said he was only available in the second week of February.\n\nIn a letter to the committee, the former first minister said this was because he had still to complete two further submissions but the process had been \"hampered\" by the Scottish government's \"failure\" to release its legal advice and the ongoing bid to recover documents from the Crown Office.\n\nMr Salmond's appearance is much anticipated following his written submission earlier this month in which he alleged that Nicola Sturgeon misled parliament.\n\nMs Sturgeon, who \"entirely rejects\" his claims, is expected to give evidence in the coming weeks and has said she is looking forward to putting her side across.\n\nMeanwhile, the committee has once again written to the Scottish government urging it to waive legal privilege and release the advice it received from lawyers regarding the case.\n\nA Crown Office spokesman said: \"COPFS has received the correspondence from the committee and will respond in early course.\"\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said: \"We will consider the committee's letter - but the Scottish government has already taken unprecedented steps to provide the committee with access to relevant information to allow it to fulfil its remit.\n\n\"The government has, exceptionally, provided the committee with access to a summary of the legal advice on the judicial review on a confidential basis.\"", "Eric Vice, 64, was on his way to Swansea University when he crashed into a bridge\n\nA bus driver who crashed his double-decker bus into a bridge, killing a passenger, has been jailed.\n\nJessica Jing Ren, 36, died 11 days after the bus, which was going to Swansea University, hit a bridge on Neath Road on 12 December 2019.\n\nEric Vice, 64, pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving and causing serious injury by dangerous driving at Swansea Crown Court.\n\nHe was sentenced to two years and six months.\n\nMs Ren had been on the front row of the upper deck of the bus and was on her phone at the time of the crash, the court heard.\n\nShe was a visiting academic at the university's accounting and finance department from Huanghuai University in China, where she had a five-year-old son with her husband, who is also a lecturer.\n\nProsecutor Carina Hughes said the crash left trapped passengers covered in debris and forced to crouch down in the flattened upper deck while they waited to be rescued.\n\nOlympic gold medallist and 400m hurdles world record holder Kevin Young, who was studying at the university, saw Ms Ren hit the front windscreen.\n\nEric Vice is \"consumed with guilt\" his defence barrister said\n\n\"Mr Young says that she was slowly trying to mouth some words to him, but it was inaudible.\n\n\"He described that he held her hand to try and comfort her until the police and paramedics arrived.\"\n\nMs Hughes said Ms Ren had been unconscious when cut out of the bus by firefighters 90 minutes later and was airlifted to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, with spine injuries, leg fractures, lacerations and a severe brain injury.\n\nAerospace engineering student Richard Thompson, 20, was seriously injured in the crash and required facial reconstruction. Mr Young suffered a head wound and two broken ribs.\n\nThe court heard passenger statements saying the bus appeared to be running late and the driver had been waving passengers on to the bus without scanning their tickets.\n\nMs Hughes said when Vice encountered traffic between Swansea University's Singleton campus and its Swansea Bay campus, he decided to take a different route, one he had taken several times before when driving a single-decker bus.\n\nShe said 21 passengers has been on board, 13 of whom were on the top deck.\n\nMs Hughes said Vice had driven past two height restriction warnings on the route.\n\nThe bus went under the stone arch of the railway bridge, but hit the lower steel bridge.\n\nIan Ibrahim, defending, said it had been \"without doubt a catastrophic error of judgement.\"\n\nHe added: \"He is consumed with guilt - he's been diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder and severe depression.\"\n\nJessica Jing Ren was a visiting academic at Swansea University from Huanghuai University in China\n\nJudge Geraint Williams said: \"That fatal error of yours resulted in the death of a promising young academic.\n\n\"Following the crash you stayed at the scene where you witnessed first-hand the carnage you had created.\n\n\"I can't think of a word short of carnage to describe the scene on the upstairs of that bus - but it could have been many, many times worse.\n\n\"The stark reality in this case is that your impatience that day robbed you of the care which ordinarily you applied to your professional driving.\"\n\nThe scene inside the bus after it crashed into a railway bridge in Neath Road, Swansea\n\nAt the time of her death, Ms Ren's family said in a statement: \"Jessica was the loving wife of Wenquang Wang, a devoted mother to five-year-old Yushu Wang and the cherished Daughter of Mingqi Ren.\n\n\"A much loved and talented academic, Jessica will be deeply missed by her family and her friends both in China and in Swansea and will leave a great void in their lives.\"\n\nIn a statement released after Ms Ren died, Swansea University said: \"We are deeply shocked and saddened to hear of the death of Jessica Jing Ren.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with Jessica's family at this time and we extend our deepest condolences at their tragic loss.\"", "Daniel Craig with director Cary Joji Fukunaga on the No Time To Die set in 2019\n\nThe release of the next James Bond film has been delayed for a third time because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nNo Time To Die had already been pushed back twice, and will now debut globally on 8 October, an announcement on the film's website said.\n\nIt had originally been due to hit screens in April 2020.\n\nThe film is the 25th instalment in the Bond franchise, and marks Daniel Craig's final appearance as British secret service agent 007.\n\nIt also features Lea Seydoux and Rami Malek.\n\nThe delay will come as a further blow to cinemas that have been forced to shut for months at a time because of lockdowns.\n\nEarlier this week, leading film-makers including Danny Boyle and Sir Steve McQueen wrote to the UK Government, calling for financial support for cinema chains because \"UK cinema stands on the edge of an abyss\".\n\nCineworld said in October, when No Time To Die was pushed back for the second time, that delays to big budget releases meant the industry was \"unviable\".\n\nBond's latest move sparked a flurry of other delays to major releases. Sony has pushed back Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Peter Rabbit 2, Jared Leto's Morbius, Tom Holland's Uncharted and Cinderella, which will star singer Camila Cabello; while Universal has moved Tom Hanks' Bios from April to November.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by James Bond 007 This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe UK Cinema Association said the decision to postpone No Time To Die again, \"while clearly disappointing, is at the same time not surprising given the current situation around Covid-19 in the UK as well as the US and other major film territories\".\n\nThe postponement of Daniel Craig's swansong and other films \"underlines the need for ongoing support for the UK cinema sector\", the trade body's chief executive Phil Clapp said.\n\nThe association is calling on the government to provide \"direct funding\" to chains, which represent 80% of ticket sales.\n\nOne of the major chains, Vue, said the delay was \"understandable\", and that the continuing attempts to release the film in cinemas \"is further testament to our shared belief in a bright future for the big screen\".\n\nHowever, the latest postponement could stoke speculation that the film may ultimately skip cinemas and be released on a streaming platform.\n\nMajor Disney titles like Pixar's Soul and its live-action remake of Mulan bypassed cinemas, premiering instead on the Disney+ streaming service.\n\nWonder Woman 1984, meanwhile, was made available in the US on the HBO Max streaming service on the same day it received a limited cinema release.\n\nLast year, Warner Bros announced its 2021 titles - including sci-fi epic Dune and The Matrix 4 - would all adopt a similar dual release pattern, escalating tensions between Hollywood and US movie theatres.\n\nRami Malek plays the villainous Safin in the thrice-delayed film\n\nThe Dig, a new historical drama starring Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan, was due to be released in selected UK cinemas this month. Now, the film will only be available on Netflix from 29 January.\n\nAsked whether No Time To Die might go down the same route, Fiennes - who will reprise his role as M in the film - recently told BBC News: \"That's a good question and I'm not really in a position to answer it.\n\n\"I would love the idea that people could go to the cinema and have the full effect of the big-screen energy behind the Bond, but I'm sure it's something the people who make these executive decisions are probably considering.\n\n\"I really hope we come through this so people can go to the cinema. Maybe they just have to hold their nerve. But of course we don't know, and there may be financial reasons or imperatives that [mean] they have to put it on a streaming system.\"\n\nIf No Time To Die is indeed released in cinemas in October, it will arrive a full six years on from the release of its 2015 predecessor Spectre.\n\nThat won't be far behind the six years and four months that separated the release of Licence to Kill in summer 1989 and GoldenEye in late 1995 - the biggest gap between two Bond films.\n\nThe last Bond film, 2015's Spectre, took almost $900m (£690m) at worldwide box offices.\n\nOther blockbusters to have been delayed by the pandemic include action sequel Top Gun: Maverick and Marvel's Black Widow.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "One of the mysteries of Covid-19 is why oxygen levels in the blood can drop to dangerously low levels without the patient noticing.\n\nIt is known as \"silent hypoxia\".\n\nAs a result, patients have been arriving in hospital in far worse health than they realised and, in some cases, too late to treat effectively.\n\nBut a potentially life-saving solution, in the form of a pulse oximeter, allows patients to monitor their oxygen levels at home, and costs about £20.\n\nThey are being rolled out for high-risk Covid patients in the UK, and the doctor leading the scheme thinks everyone should consider buying one.\n\nA normal oxygen level in the blood is between 95% and 100%.\n\n\"With Covid, we were admitting patients with oxygen levels in the 70s or low-or-middle 80s,\" said Dr Matt Inada-Kim, a consultant in acute medicine at Hampshire Hospitals.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Inside Health: \"It was a really curious and scary presentation and really made us rethink what we were doing.\"\n\nDr Inada-Kim became the national clinical lead of the Covid Oximetry@home project.\n\nA pulse oximeter slips over your middle finger and shines a light into the body. It measures how much of the light is absorbed in order to calculate oxygen levels in the blood.\n\nIn England, they are being given to people with Covid who are over 65, younger but have a health problem, or anyone doctors are concerned about. Similar schemes are being rolled out across the UK.\n\nPeople measure and record their oxygen levels three times a day.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Health Education England - HEE This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nIf oxygen levels drop to 93% or 94%, then people speak to their GP or call 111. If they go below 92%, people should go to A&E or call 999 for an ambulance.\n\nStudies, which have not been reviewed by other scientists, have shown even small drops below 95% are linked to an increased risk of dying.\n\nDr Inada-Kim said: \"The point of this whole strategy is to try to get in early to prevent people getting that sick, by admitting patients at a more salvageable point in their illness.\"\n\nChris Harris, who is 70, was one of the first patients to benefit from the scheme.\n\nHe was being treated for a urinary infection in November last year, but then when he developed unexpected flu-like symptoms his GP sent him for a Covid test. It was positive.\n\n\"I don't mind admitting I was in tears, it was a very stressful, frightening time,\" he told Inside Health.\n\nHis oxygen levels dropped a couple of percentage points below the normal zone, so after a call with his GP, he went to hospital.\n\nAt this point he was still feeling fine, but things changed the day after he was admitted.\n\n\"My breathing started to get a little bit laboured, I had a high temperature as the days went on, [my oxygen levels] were progressively getting lower, they were in their 80s,\" he told me.\n\nChris was treated, did not need intensive care and has made a full recovery.\n\nHe said: \"I may have gone [to hospital] as the very last resort and that's the frightening thing. It was the oxygen meter that forced me to go, I would have just sat it out thinking I would recover.\n\n\"I am extremely lucky and very, very grateful.\"\n\nHis GP, Dr Caroline O'Keefe, says she has seen a massive increase in the number of people being monitored.\n\nShe said: \"On Christmas Day we were monitoring 44 patients, today I have 160 patients who I am monitoring daily. So we are certainly busy.\"\n\n\"We've had to quadruple the size of our team in the last two weeks.\"\n\nOverall, NHS England has supplied around 300,000 pulse oximeters for the home-monitoring scheme.\n\nDr Inada-Kim says there isn't definitive proof that the gadget saves lives and it could take until April to know for sure. However, the early signs are all positive.\n\n\"What we think we can see are the early seeds of a reduction in the length of stay after a hospital admission, an improvement in survival and a reduction in the pressures on the emergency services,\" he said.\n\nHe is so convinced of their role in tackling silent hypoxia that he said everyone should consider buying one.\n\n\"Personally I would, and I know a number of colleagues who have bought pulse oximeters to distribute to their loved ones,\" he said.\n\nHe advised checking they had a CE Kitemark and to avoid apps on smartphones, which he said were not as reliable.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA mosque has become the first in the UK to open as a Covid vaccination centre.\n\nThe Al-Abbas Islamic Centre in Balsall Heath, Birmingham is expected to vaccinate up to 500 people a day.\n\nThe imam, Sheikh Nuru Mohammed, said he hoped it would help dispel false information that the vaccine was forbidden in Islamic law.\n\nNHS England said it fears disinformation could be causing some in the UK's South Asian communities to reject the Covid vaccine.\n\n\"It will send a strong message to our Muslim brothers and sisters. We are doing this to say a big 'no' to fake news and a big 'yes' to the vaccine,\" Sheikh Nuru said.\n\n\"Muslim scholars advise us to get the vaccine because the sanctity of life is important in Islam.\"\n\nImam Sheikh Nuru Mohammed said he hopes the opening of the vaccination centre will help dispel false information\n\nDr Rizwan Alidina, a trustee of the mosque and member of the Birmingham and Solihull Clinical Commissioning Group said: \"The significance of the venue is obviously quite evident with particularly the Muslim community being one of the communities with a bit of a lower uptake than we would otherwise have expected.\"\n\nHe said there had been a good response to the opening of the centre at the mosque and hoped it would soon be carrying out between 300 and 500 vaccinations a day.\n\nNHS England regional medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar told a Downing Street press conference some communities had \"legitimate and understandable concerns about the vaccines\".\n\nHe said despite it being a \"safe and effective vaccine\", for some Asian and black communities there were \"longstanding concerns\" that \"go back generations\".\n\nDr Diwakar said some people were \"told by their grandparents that experiments were done in the early part of the last century, that unethical experiments were done way back in the 60s\".\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street briefing, Home Secretary Priti Patel also sought to counter disinformation targeted at people from minority ethnic backgrounds.\n\n\"This vaccine is safe for us all,\" she said.\n\n\"It will protect you and your family... So I urge everyone from across our wonderfully diverse country to get the vaccine when their turn comes to keep us all safe.\"\n\nOne of the first to get the jab at he Birmingham mosque, retired GP Dr Masud Ahmad, said his message to others in the local community was \"that it's quite safe to have it and they should have it\".\n\nOther places of worship, including Salisbury Cathedral and Lichfield Cathedral, opened as vaccine centres last week.\n\nThe Al-Abbas Islamic Centre is administering the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ministers will discuss at a meeting on Monday whether to tighten restrictions at UK borders - including the possibility of hotel quarantines for travellers, the BBC has been told.\n\nAt a Downing Street news conference on Friday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson did not rule out taking further action.\n\nIt comes amid increased concerns over the spread of new coronavirus variants.\n\nUnder current travel curbs, almost all people arriving in the UK must test negative for Covid to be allowed entry.\n\nThe test must be taken in the 72 hours before travelling and anyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500.\n\nAll passengers are also required to quarantine for up to 10 days, although the isolation period can be cut short with a second negative test after five days in England.\n\nThe only people not subject to the conditions are children under 11, hauliers, air, international rail and maritime crew, and passengers from the Common Travel Area - comprised of the Republic of Ireland, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have their own quarantine rules, which differ slightly.\n\nAs of Monday, travel corridors, which exempted passengers arriving from some countries from quarantine, were suspended throughout the UK.\n\nAsked whether the government would bring in further measures at UK borders, Mr Johnson said: \"I really don't rule it out, we may need to take further measures still.\n\n\"We may need to go further to protect our borders.\n\n\"We don't want to put that [efforts to control Covid] at risk by having a new variant come back in.\"\n\nOne more infectious variant , which was first identified in Kent, has already spread widely across the UK.\n\nAnd, at the briefing, the prime minister announced that early evidence suggests this variant may be more deadly.\n\nOther new variants causing concern have been identified in South Africa and Brazil in the weeks since the Kent variant was discovered.\n\nThose discoveries led to direct flights to the UK from all South American countries and several southern African countries being suspended.\n\nScientists fear these variants discovered in other countries may interfere with the effectiveness of vaccines and evade parts of the immune system.\n\nWhile those travelling into the UK are asked to abide by the 10-day isolation and told they can be subject to checks, London mayor Sadiq Khan is among those who have called for the UK to adopt the use of enforced quarantine in hotel rooms.\n\nThe policy is among the measures in Australia that has limited the country to just 28,750 positive cases during the entire pandemic, fewer than the UK currently has every day.\n\nTravellers who choose to go to Australia have to pay for their rooms at one of a number of selected quarantine facilities - and have all their meals delivered to their room throughout a stay of at least 14 days. They get tested twice for Covid during that period and if they test positive their quarantine is extended for a further 14 days.\n\nMeanwhile, passengers arriving into London's Heathrow airport this week have complained of queues at passport control and what they described as poor social distancing, after the latest travel restrictions - requiring travellers to show proof of their negative Covid tests - came into force.\n\nOn Friday, former British ambassador Peter Westmacott posted a picture on Twitter of long queues at the airport.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Peter Westmacott This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA government spokesman said people \"should not be travelling unless absolutely necessary\".\n\nThe statement added: \"You must have proof of a negative test and a completed passenger locator form before arriving.\n\n\"Border Force have been ramping up enforcement and those not complying could be fined £500.\n\n\"It's ultimately up to individual airports to ensure social distancing on site.\"\n\nWith all parts of the UK under strict virus rules amid high levels of infection, only essential foreign travel is permitted in the current advice from the Foreign Office.\n\nA further 40,261 cases, and 1,401 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported on Friday in the UK.", "The bunker is in a rural location near St Agnes, Cornwall\n\nAn \"eerie\" underground bunker built during the Cold War has been put up for sale with a guide price of £25,000.\n\nThe former monitoring post near St Agnes, Cornwall was built in 1961 and is accessed down a 14ft (4.2m) ladder.\n\nSellers have suggested \"a variety of uses\" for the \"out of the ordinary\" property, subject to planning permission from Cornwall Council.\n\nIt was used in the Cold War to monitor aircraft and any potential nuclear threats, said auctioneer Adam Cook.\n\nThe auction will be held online in February\n\nThe bunker was manned by volunteers and consists of an access shaft, a toilet and a monitoring room.\n\nIt is being auctioned online as part of a triangular piece of land on 18 February.\n\nThe site was first opened in 1961 and closed in 1991 and is accessed down a \"rustic vehicular track\", according to the online advert.\n\nMr Cook said it is a former Royal Observer Corps Monitoring Post \"but people love calling it a nuclear bunker\".\n\nHe said the bunker would have been one of around 1,500 monitoring posts built in coastal regions in the UK between the 1960s and 1990s.\n\nOld bunk beds remain in the bunker\n\nAccessed by a hatch, Mr Cook described the reinforced concrete bunker as \"a little bit eerie when you're there on your own\".\n\n\"I'm glad I've been down there...[to have] half a chance of explaining it to customers.\"\n\nHe said there was still a sense of what it used to be with an \"old bunk bed\" and a toilet \"which I don't think you'd fancy using but it certainly gives you the atmosphere\".\n\nMr Cook explained it is \"difficult to pigeon hole it onto any one kind of purchaser\" and said the buyer could be anyone from a history enthusiast to a landowner.\n\n\"All kinds could be interested and we're already getting lots of calls about it.\"\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your comments and story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Cold War bunker up for sale for £25,000", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some of the volunteers are working to prepare bodies for burial\n\nA mosque in east London has closed for all communal prayer. Instead it is serving two purposes - providing funerals and feeding the local community. Michael Buchanan finds a team of volunteers there battling to deal with the pandemic.\n\nThe family shuffled quietly past a crate of milk cartons. They came through the small porch, towards the open coffin. Inside was a woman - a loved one - who died of Covid two days ago. The coffin sat feet away from tins and packets to be distributed by the local food bank. The milk was the latest delivery.\n\nIt is impossible to capture the enormous consequences of the pandemic. But last Saturday lunchtime, this tragic image - one of grief and hardship coming together - came close, for me at least.\n\nCovid-19 has made extraordinary demands of so many different people, but what is currently happening at the Masjid Ibrahim and Islamic Centre in east London is truly remarkable. Situated on a busy road, with the noise of ambulance sirens regularly shattering its peaceful interior, the mosque has closed to communal prayer and is open for two other purposes - to provide a funeral service and a food bank to the local community. Both are inundated.\n\n\"We've had so many bodies coming in. It's quite shocking. It's one after another after another. We've never had that situation before,\" says Sofia Bhatti. Alongside her friend, Tabassum Khokhar - known as Tabs - the pair are unheralded heroes. They volunteer to wash the bodies of Covid-positive women prior to burial.\n\nThe practice, called Ghusl, is a sacred Islamic ritual and is usually performed by the deceased's relatives, who cleanse and shroud the body. But Covid restrictions mean families are currently denied that religious honour, so volunteers like Sofia and Tabs are taking on what they consider to be a privileged task.\n\n\"We actually believe that when we are shrouding here, that God is shrouding the soul at the same time,\" says Tabs, standing by a coffin. By day, she works as a teaching support worker in a local school, so the PPE that the mosque provides - bodysuit, footwear, two sets of gloves, masks and visors - is crucial for her. \"I make sure my PPE is secure because it's not just about me, it's about my family. I have an 81-year-old mother.\"\n\nThe women are seeing first hand - and in graphic detail - the pressure the NHS is under. \"Very often we see bodies coming in with a lot of medical equipment still attached to them,\" says Sofia. \"Tubes and pipes and catheters still attached. So it makes our job a little bit harder.\" One of the women they washed during my visit had died in the ambulance, never actually reaching hospital.\n\nVery often we see bodies coming in with a lot of medical equipment still attached to them. Tubes and pipes and catheters\n\nThere are far more bodies than during the first peak and there is a larger age range. One day this week, the mosque was handling seven bodies. A few days earlier they said they'd processed 10 funerals, all arranged for free and paid for by donations. Before the pandemic, they'd handled two to three funerals a week. The two local hospital trusts in east London have each had more than 1,000 Covid deaths since the start of the pandemic. More have died at home.\n\nThe borough of Newham, where the mosque sits, has suffered a disproportionate number of deaths. Home to the Olympic Park, the 2012 London games were meant to regenerate this area. Yet it retains high levels of poverty and overcrowded housing. Add in a diverse population, rich in south Asian culture, and large numbers of people who can't work from home and the virus has sadly ripped through its residents.\n\nIsfand Aslam said he's shocked by what's going on. His father, Mohammad, died on 3 January, a week after falling ill. His positive Covid test result arrived two days after his death. The 85-year-old was a committee member at the Masjid Ibrahim and despite his age had been in good health. \"It took a week between him passing away and getting buried. Initially I was getting a lot of condolences from friends. But by the end of that week I am giving condolences to three friends because their fathers had passed away. It's now got to the stage where everybody we know knows somebody who has passed away.\"\n\nThe sheer number of deaths is impacting the area's main Muslim cemetery. Normally, the Gardens of Peace buries three to four people each day. They're currently carrying out an average of 15 funerals daily. Overall, they are about 50% busier than usual. They can no longer promise burials within 24 hours, as per Muslim custom.\n\nDespite this, there is still a concerning number of people in the local area who either don't think Covid is real or are resistant to taking a vaccine. There was anger among some community leaders before Christmas when it emerged the Bangladeshi High Commission in London held a cultural evening to celebrate its independence. Photos from the event, on 16 December, showed a group - including the High Commissioner herself - standing close together with no masks or social distancing. The High Commission said performers had been Covid tested and it had issued 10 videos in Bangla urging British-Bangladeshis to adhere to UK government guidance.\n\nIt's now got to the stage where everybody we know knows somebody who has passed away\n\nTo counter disinformation among its members, an imam at the Masjid Ibrahim, Mohammad Ammar, filmed a short video of himself being injected with the vaccine and urged his congregation to follow suit. Imam Ammar has actually been furloughed by the mosque as it focusses all its resources on battling the pandemic, including feeding its local community.\n\nThe virus forced the mosque to open a food bank in March. It is still running 10 months on. On Monday night, I watched a steady stream of people gather in the gloom at the rear of the mosque to fill their bags. Most were collecting on behalf of a larger household, and the mosque says they're currently feeding 350 families each week, including students, refugees, people with no access to public funds and those who've lost income.\n\nAmong those collecting food on Monday was Mohammad Rahman. A 42-year-old chef, he lost his job in an Indian restaurant three months ago. The married father of two boys - aged eight and six - told me he was already in rent arrears and struggling to pay his energy bills. \"My son says 'where is the pizza'? But I have no money. He says '[can I have] chicken and chips'? But I have no money. The shops are open, but no money\", he adds, taking his hands from his pockets.\n\nIn normal times, the Masjid Ibrahim would attract about 1,100 worshippers over three floors for Friday prayers, and there has been some pressure on the leadership to reopen for communal worship. But Asim Uddin, chairman of the mosque, says now is not the time. \"Prayers, yes, it's important. But right now what is the need? The need of the community is they want to be fed and they want a place where they can respectfully bury their loved ones. And the demand is overwhelming. Right now, it's better they stay home, and they can pray at home until the situation goes back to normal.\"\n\nMichael Buchanan is the BBC's social affairs correspondent and has been reporting on the impact of the pandemic on communities in the UK. Last year, he visited the town of Pontypool to find out what impact coronavirus restrictions were having in Wales.", "UK retailers could abandon goods EU customers want to return, with some even thinking of burning them because it is cheaper than bringing them home.\n\nThey say the new EU trade deal has put costly duties on returns at a time when firms are already struggling.\n\nThe BBC has been told UK High Street and luxury brands have a mounting volume of goods stuck with courier services on the continent.\n\nNone of the retailers would comment on the problem.\n\nAdam Mansell, boss of the UK Fashion & Textile Association (UKFT), said it's \"cheaper for retailers to write off the cost of the goods than dealing with it all, either abandoning or potentially burning them.\"\n\nSince 1 January, lots of European customers have been presented with an unexpected customs invoice when signing for goods they've ordered from the UK. These new customs charges are a result of the new EU trade deal with the UK.\n\n\"It's part of the ongoing small print of the deal,\" said Mr Mansell. \"If you're in Germany and buying goods from the UK, you as the German customer are the importer bringing goods into the EU.\n\n\"You then have a courier company knocking on the door giving you a customs clearance invoice that you need to pay to receive your goods.\"\n\nMany customers automatically reject the goods, refusing to pay the additional surcharges, leaving couriers to take them away.\n\nAbout 30% of items bought online are returned, according to figures from Statista. That has meant large volumes of goods are heading back to the UK.\n\nWhen goods arrive back at depots on the Continent, there is new customs paperwork to complete. \"Export clearance charge, import charge arrival, import VAT charge and depending on the goods a rules of origin document as well,\" said Mr Mansell.\n\n\"Lots of large businesses don't have a handle on it, never mind smaller ones.\"\n\nThe BBC has seen a document that states four major UK High Street fashion retailers are stockpiling returns in Belgium, Ireland and Germany. One brand will incur charges of almost £20,000 to get the returns back.\n\nCouriers and freight businesses that ship from the UK to Europe are also experiencing delays getting goods to the Continent because of the new customs clearances.\n\n\"It's a bigger change than we thought possible,\" explained Shona Brown from Speedy Freight, a courier service. \"Before, we'd get the order to Germany and off the driver would go.\n\n\"Now we've got to do export entry detailing where was it made, the driver needs to go to the customs office at Dover, then customs in Germany on arrival and then sort out the VAT. There are so many hoops to jump through, it's so laborious.\"\n\n\"You've got to have manpower to figure out what to do. And with people working from home it's difficult. For small businesses, it is a huge thing for people to do,\" she added.\n\nUlla Vitting Richards runs her sustainable fashion brand VILDNIS from the UK. She has stopped exporting to her fastest growing market, the EU, because of the new customs processes.\n\n\"I've been involved in logistics before. I expected it to be bad and I am used to shipping to the USA which is difficult. But this is just mind-blowing,\" she said.\n\n\"Every day there is another layer. In the first two weeks we couldn't get answers. For two years we were told to get ready for Brexit. But for these we couldn't prepare.\"\n\nShe added: \"I don't think we can increase prices but we might just have to say that we can't make the business with the EU work. It is a real shame. There is a huge interest in sustainable fashion in Europe and we might have to walk away from it.\"\n\nUlla did speak with the Department for International Trade for help and advice. She was told that setting up a subsidiary distribution hub in Europe might be a good idea: \"He told me we'd be best off moving stock to a warehouse in Germany and get them to handle it.\"\n\nRetailers in the UK and Europe that trade across the new customs border are all still adapting to the rules. Hauliers and customs agents are facing a steep learning curve too.\n\nThe government said: \"Now the UK has left the EU customs union and Single Market, there are new rules and processes businesses will need to follow.\n\n\"We have encouraged companies new to dealing with customs declarations to appoint a specialist to deal with import and export declarations on their behalf - and we made more than £80m available to expand the capacity of the customs agents market.\"\n\nIt added: \"Most businesses use a specialist such as a customs broker, freight forwarder or fast parcel operator to deal with this.\n\n\"The government will continue to work closely with businesses to ensure they are able to trade effectively under the new rules.\"", "The water is warmer than the air and is creating a mist along Dynevor Road\n\nThe coalmining heritage of Wales has been implicated in flooding of homes - but what has happened in Skewen?\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated from the Neath Port Talbot village, with at least eight streets left under water.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones says the flood appears to be related to mine works - but the volume of water involved has hampered a full assessment so far.\n\nThe Coal Authority is investigating how \"historic underground mining features\" in the area exacerbated the problem.\n\nA geologist says there are tens of thousands of old mine shafts across the former south Wales coalfield and it is \"incredibly difficult\" to monitor them all.\n\nSkewen lies within an old coal mining hotspot, with several former colliery sites near the village that operated in the 19th and early 20th Century.\n\nThere were colliery sites near what is now Drummau Road, in the north of the village and another close to Old Road, near Neath Abbey.\n\nSkewen was part of a collection of collieries that stretched between Neath and Llanelli on the western side of south Wales' coalfield.\n\nGraham Levins, secretary of the Welsh Mines Preservation Trust, said old mines often contain groundwater which can flood in heavy rain.\n\nHe said: \"A lot of them go very, very deep down, much below the local water level and that's why they had all the big wheels to pump the water out.\n\n\"It fills up with water and will find a way out. Normally rainfall you get it doesn't cause a lot of problems but when you get really heavy rain, the water drains down through the ground and builds up.\"\n\nStreets were turned into rivers in Skewen\n\nGeologist Tom Backhouse said water was coming out of an area near the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where there is a record of a mine shaft dating from the turn of the 20th Century.\n\nIt then started \"rushing down\" Drummau Road, causing the flooding that forced evacuations.\n\n\"What we can expect to have happened is that the water level in the mines rose to a point where it's burst out of that entry point from the mine workings below.\n\n\"Also, there are images of very ochre like orange-coloured water and again, that may well be issuing from the mine workings on the highlands to the east of the property on the hill behind.\n\n\"That may be where the shallow workings have flooded.\"\n\nHe said old mine working across the former coalfield area hold water at a certain depth, but when an event such as Storm Christoph drops \"a huge amount in a small area\", the levels rise quickly.\n\n\"As it gets closer and closer to the surface, it basically looks for an escape, the pressure builds up,\" he continued.\n\n\"What it looks like has happened on the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where the mine shaft is recorded, is that pressure has built up at that point and then burst out through the shaft which is very likely to have been capped with wood or something like that.\n\n\"Where you've got those mine shafts, which ultimately are vertical tunnels down into the mine workings below, the water has literally forced itself up through that shaft, and the pressure is obviously so great it's caused this devastating flash flood.\"\n\nAs well as properties, vehicles were submerged in water\n\nThere are about 13 shafts recorded within about 820ft (250m) of the one in Goshen Park, so Mr Backhouse said it is possible more than one may have burst.\n\nThere are tens of thousands in south Wales and he said it was \"incredibly difficult\" to check them all, but there were \"tell tale signs\" as to why they may collapse such as age or what type of developments are around them.\n\nThe clean up has continued on Friday morning\n\n\"Not to try and fear-monger or anything but of course this sort of thing can happen again,\" he said.\n\n\"If another event like Storm Christoph happens, the water levels in the mine rises as quickly as it did, there's absolutely nothing to say that it wouldn't happen again in the future.\n\n\"And obviously as climate changes and we have many more events like Storm Christoph, they are going to increase in frequency, they are going to be much more severe.\n\n\"The Coal Authority will have to consider the risk in places like Skewen, and they'll have to understand how it will affect residents and proactively manage that and look at how to reduce the risks for residents.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Infection level \"very, very high\" and \"extremely precarious\" - Prof Whitty\n\nThe UK is at an \"extremely precarious\" point, according to the chief medical adviser, despite signs Covid infections are beginning to fall.\n\nThe virus's reproduction rate is estimated to be at or below one for the first time since early December.\n\nAnything below one means the epidemic is shrinking.\n\nBut cases are falling from a \"very, very high level\", Prof Chris Whitty said - and may still be increasing in some areas.\n\n\"A very small change and it could start taking off again from an extremely high base,\" he warned.\n\nSpeaking at a Number 10 press conference on Friday evening, the UK's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, said the \"awful\" death rate would stay high \"for a little while before it starts coming down\".\n\n\"That was always what was predicted...and I think the information about the new variant doesn't change that\".\n\nEarly evidence suggests the variant of coronavirus that emerged in the UK may be more deadly, although findings are preliminary and there is a high level of uncertainty.\n\nDr Susan Hopkins at Public Health England said there was \"evidence from some but not all data sources which suggests that the variant of concern which was first detected in the UK may lead to a higher risk of death than the non-variant.\n\n\"Evidence on this variant is still emerging and more work is under way to fully understand how it behaves.\"\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said while the UK's R or reproduction number, might be below one - meaning a shrinking epidemic - overall, \"cases remain dangerously high and...it is essential that everyone continues to stay at home, whether they have had the vaccine or not.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures suggested cases were decreasing slightly or levelling off across Britain.\n\nBut infections are falling more slowly than they did during the first lockdown - by somewhere around a quarter every fortnight compared with a halving back in April.\n\nA further 40,261 cases, and 1,401 deaths were recorded on Friday in the UK.\n\nMore than five million people had been given a first dose of the vaccine by 21 January, and about half a million had received their second dose.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has previously said it is \"too early\" to say whether England's Covid restrictions will be able to end in the spring.\n\nWhile cases are falling or stable across the rest of the UK, in Northern Ireland cases have continued to rise and the new, more infectious strain has overtaken the older variant of the virus as of the start of January.\n\nDuring the week ending 16 January, about one in 55 people in England had the virus, the ONS estimated, with one in 35 in London testing positive.\n\nOne in 100 people had the virus in Scotland and one in 70 in Wales.\n\nBut in Northern Ireland infections have shot up from an an estimated one in 200 people testing positive in the week to 2 January, to one in 60 last week.\n\nONS statistician Sarah Crofts said while fewer people were testing positive in England, \"rates remain high and we estimate the level of infection is still over one million people\".\n\nAnd, she pointed out, \"the picture across the UK is mixed\".\n\nA survey by tech company ZOE and King's College London, based on swabs of people with and without symptoms, also suggested the R number could be at 0.8.\n\nAnd it estimated symptomatic cases had fallen by a quarter since last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is the R number and what does it mean?\n\nMeanwhile, the proportion of people testing positive for the new Covid variant has risen considerably in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, ONS data suggest.\n\nBut the new strain, which remains by far the main source of infections in England, has yet to overtake the old strain in Scotland and Wales.\n\nWithin England, the proportion of infections that appear to be due to the new variant remained stable, but the gap between the regions is narrowing.\n\nIn the figures covering 2 January, 80% of infections looked like the new variant in London compared to 30% in the North East.\n\nTwo weeks later, that gap had narrowed to 70% in London versus 50% in the North East.\n\nIt is not clear what is behind the small fall in London, but it may be down to behaviour change, or other variants like the South Africa strain now in circulation and diluting the numbers.", "It would be unrealistic to expect all lockdown restrictions in Northern Ireland to be lifted on 5 March, Health Minister Robin Swann has said.\n\nOn Thursday, the executive announced that the current restrictions, which have been in place since 26 December, would be extended to 5 March.\n\nBut ministers were also told restrictions may have to remain in place until after the Easter holidays.\n\nMr Swann said the decision to extend restrictions had not been easy.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme, he said: \"Can I say that'll we'll have to extend them at that point [5 March]? At this time, no I can't.\n\n\"But it would, I think, be unrealistic to think that we'd be able to lift every restriction come that date because we do see where this virus is going, the trajectory it's taking, the large number of positive cases that we are managing but also the large number of hospital admissions that we currently have.\n\nRobin Swann says the decision to extend the restrictions had not been easy\n\n\"There has to be a consideration and planning put into place - we know Covid's going to be with us for a very long time, we also know it will take time for our vaccination process to kick in and have that major effect.\"\n\nA lockdown closing non-essential retailers and encouraging employees to work from home began after Christmas.\n\nFamily gatherings are prohibited and people have been ordered to stay at home for all but essential reasons.\n\nSchools are closed to most pupils until after February's half-term break but a paper looking at reopening will be put to ministers at next week's executive meeting.\n\nThe Catholic Church, the Church of Ireland, the Presbyterian Church and the Methodist Church have all confirmed that in-person worship will continue to be suspended until 5 March in accordance with the executive's decision on the restrictions.\n\nThe churches say there are exceptions for weddings and funerals and private prayer.\n\nTwelve more Covid-19 related deaths were recorded in Northern Ireland on Friday, taking the overall death toll recorded by the Department of Health to 1,704.\n\nIt is a story that changes not only by the day but by the hour and is dictated by numbers.\n\nNever before have we scrutinised hospital figures so closely, especially this week.\n\nAnd the numbers are important as we know how many intensive care unit (ICU) beds are available across Northern Ireland and potentially how many will be required in the next 24 hours.\n\nOn Wednesday, 33 ICU beds were available - on Friday that dropped to 18.\n\nBut as we enter a difficult 72 hours, there is a feeling that the health system will cope.\n\nA regional approach to the crisis means no hospital is left to shoulder responsibility on its own.\n\nEvery afternoon a call is made about whether an additional \"pod\" - a bay of beds - is required to be opened at the Nightingale facility at Belfast City Hospital.\n\nIf not, it is felt that hospitals can hold their own for another 24 hours.\n\nCoping is good but comes at a terrible cost - keeping a lid on Covid-19 is only possible because so much else within hospitals has been cancelled.\n\nA heavy price has been paid and will continue to be paid for months, possibly years to come.\n\nOn Wednesday it was announced more than 100 medically-trained military personnel would be deployed in Northern Ireland to help hospital staff deal with Covid-19 pressures after a request by Mr Swann.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's Health Committee on Thursday, Sinn Féin MLA Pat Sheehan said: \"My only concern is that they [military personnel] don't get in the way of the real professionals who are doing the work to save lives.\n\n\"This is slamming the dead cat down on the table to deflect attention away from the inadequacies in the health department at the minute.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Swann responded by saying he was \"disappointed and disgusted\" by Mr Sheehan's comments.\n\nHe added: \"The majority of our health service workers are actually welcoming them because this is a tough period of time that we are entering into in the health service.\n\n\"To hear some of the comments where he's actually, I think, criticising the level of delivery that our health service has given over these past 10-12 months, I think is disappointing.\"\n\n\"It wouldn't be the language that would be reflective of his party leadership in regards to the assistance that we're receiving from the Army.\"\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill, the Sinn Féin vice-president, had previously said her party's priority had \"always been to save lives\" and she would \"never rule out anything that actually supports the health service\".\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster, the DUP leader, said on critics of the move to deploy military medics were putting \"political intolerance before patients\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Swann also said the executive would \"not be found wanting\" in enforcing Covid-19 regulations.\n\nIt came after a district judge said on Wednesday that \"the powers-that-be made a significant error\" in making breaches of some rules punishable only with fines.\n\nDistrict Judge Michael Ranaghan told Dungannon Magistrates' Court he would have remanded two defendants from Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, in custody if he had \"the power to do so\".\n\nShania Devenney, 21, of Kilmacormick Drive, and Nathan Maguire, 20, of Carnmore Lodge, were charged with contravening the regulations when arrested by police who were alerted to anti-social behaviour.\n\nA police officer told the court there had been repeated parties at Ms Devenney's address this month.\n\nThe judge, granting bail, said: \"I cannot consider remanding in custody as these matters are fine-only.\n\n\"The powers-that-be made a significant error when drafting legislation in making these fine-only offences.\n\n\"Had I the power to do so I would definitely be remanding these two in custody.\"\n\nThe PSNI has issued more than 2,000 Covid-19 fines during the pandemic\n\nThe health minister said the executive had asked people \"to work with us\" and had increased the level of fines.\n\nAsked about the judge's comments about enforcement, Mr Swann said he was \"content enough to raise it with executive colleagues and ask the justice minister to have a look at that\".\n\nMr Swann added that the vast majority of people in Northern Ireland were abiding by the regulations as it is the \"right thing to do\".\n\nOn Tuesday, police revealed that 2,159 penalty notices had been issued during the pandemic, with fines starting at £200.\n\nThere have been 55 failure-to-isolate fines, which incur a £1,000 fine.", "Scottish postie Nathan Evans has quit his job and signed to a record label after storming TikTok with sea shanties.\n\nNathan said the singalong craze for his The Wellerman rendition exploded in just a matter of weeks.\n\nAnd Friday sees an official release of the shanty, after he was picked up by Polydor records.\n\nThe 26-year-old from Airdrie said it goes to show that if you keep going anything can happen.", "Mr Trump was duped by the prankster, Morgan said\n\nDonald Trump was called on Air Force One last year by a prankster posing as Piers Morgan, the TV presenter says.\n\nThe president, as he was at the time, only realised he had been tricked when he phoned the real Morgan while on his way to vote in Florida last year.\n\nThe alleged security breach is said to have happened in October, but only emerged in an interview Morgan gave to the BBC's Americast podcast.\n\nThe two recently had a falling out over Mr Trump's handling of the pandemic.\n\nAsked by the BBC's Jon Sopel why Mr Trump had called Morgan out of the blue this past October, the presenter described \"an absolutely hilarious story, where somebody had called [Trump] pretending to be me the day before and got through to him on Air Force One\".\n\nThe 45th US president didn't realise he had been duped, Morgan said. \"They had a conversation with Trump thinking he was talking to me.\"\n\nIt is not clear who the alleged hoaxers were, but if the story is true President Trump would not be the first political leader to have been pranked.\n\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, while he was foreign secretary, have both been tricked on the phone in recent years.\n\nBut it would revive long-running questions about the security of President Trump's phone conversations.\n\nMorgan became increasingly critical of Mr Trump in the final months of his presidency\n\nThe BBC has asked the Secret Service for comment.\n\nMorgan was a high-profile tabloid editor in the UK who took over from Larry King with a primetime CNN chat show in 2011. He now presents a breakfast show in the UK.\n\nHe was initially supportive of President Trump after his surprise election win but became increasingly critical in the last 12 months.\n\n\"We had a very nice conversation... I always got on well with Trump,\" Morgan said of their October call, but added that Mr Trump's \"character flaws - the chronic narcissism, the desire to make everything about himself\" made him a \"useless leader\".\n\nOn their friendship, Morgan described Mr Trump's behaviour since the November presidential election as \"egregious\" and \"so obviously on a pathway\" to the Capitol Hill riots on 6 January.\n\n\"I just felt - no, I'm done with you now,\" Morgan said.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The recording of the conversation between Elton John and the man he believed was Vladimir Putin", "Keon Lincoln died after being subjected to \"inconceivable violence\"\n\nA 15-year-old boy has died after being attacked in a residential street by a group of youths \"armed with knives\".\n\nPolice said Keon Lincoln was \"set upon\" at about 15:30 GMT on Thursday on Linwood Road, in Handsworth, Birmingham, and died later in hospital.\n\nThe attackers fled the scene in a car which crashed into a house a short distance away, added police, who said they had since seized the vehicle.\n\nA 14-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder and is in custody.\n\nThe investigation is progressing \"at pace\", according to the West Midlands force, which detained the suspect on Friday morning.\n\nDet Ch Insp Alastair Orencas, who is leading a murder inquiry, said Keon died \"in the most violent of circumstances\".\n\nKeon was attacked on Linwood Road, a residential street in the Handsworth area of Birmingham\n\nWitnesses who reported the carrying of knives to officers also said shots were heard.\n\nPolice confirmed Keon, who lived locally, was attacked with weapons but did not specify which sort.\n\nThe motive remained unknown said police, who urged those who could identify the attackers to contact the force.\n\n\"We are not sure of all the details at the moment, but we do know that Keon was set upon by this group and suffered a series of serious injuries,\" said Ch Supt Steve Graham, adding that five or six youths were believed to have been involved.\n\nPolice have not disclosed the nature of Keon's injuries. They say they are unable to say how he died before a post-mortem examination takes place.\n\nOfficers are searching Linwood Road after the attack on Thursday afternoon\n\nDet Ch Insp Orencas said: \"The death of Keon has shocked the whole community.\n\n\"This level of violence in broad daylight on a residential street is inconceivable, let alone the fact the target was a 15-year-old boy.\"\n\nHe said the family, who were being supported by specialist officers, \"had the worst shock imaginable\".\n\nIn a statement issued by police, the family said they were \"devastated\" by their loss, and remembered Keon as \"fun-loving\" and \"full of life and love\".\n\nThe tribute added: \"He had an infectious laugh that lit up the room whenever he was in it.\"\n\nPolice have seized a crashed car they believe to be a getaway vehicle\n\nDetectives are examining a white car they believe to be the getaway vehicle which crashed into a house on Wheeler Street.\n\nCCTV footage has been seized and the area is cordoned off while investigations continue.\n\nA resident of Linwood Road, who did not wish to be named, said she was shocked to hear someone had been killed.\n\nShe said: \"We've lived here 45 years and I've never heard of anything like this.\n\n\"It's just shocking and really, really sad.\"\n\nPolice have appealed for dash cam and CCTV footage as they piece together the events of Thursday afternoon\n\nLocal Labour MP, Khalid Mahmood, described the death as \"extremely tragic\" and \"a needless thing to have happened\".\n\nHe said: \"We must work with police as much as we can to stop this happening again.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A coronavirus outbreak at Mavisbank care home has led to the deaths of 13 residents\n\nA total of 13 residents at an East Dunbartonshire care home have died in a Covid-19 outbreak.\n\nThe owners of Mavisbank care home in Bishopbriggs confirmed the deaths and said that a further seven residents had also tested positive for the virus.\n\nAnother 11 staff members were self-isolating following positive tests.\n\nThe Care Inspectorate rated the home in Lennox Crescent as \"weak\" in its Covid-19 response in an inspection last month.\n\nAt the unannounced check on 26 October, inspectors found the cleanliness of the home a \"significant concern\".\n\nIt went on to describe the cleanliness of the environment and the overall fabric of the building as \"poor\".\n\nInspectors said in their report that they were \"very concerned about the potential risk of infection for residents\".\n\nSenior managers responded immediately and maintenance staff were deployed to clean the home.\n\nHowever, the operators were ordered to carry out a deep clean of the facility by 11 November.\n\nMavisbank owners HC-One said they were monitoring the situation closely.\n\nMavisbank was given a rating of \"weak\" in October\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"Our thoughts and sympathies are with all families who have lost a loved one from coronavirus.\n\n\"As we navigate this outbreak, we continue to work closely with all the relevant authorities to contain the virus and safeguard our residents.\n\n\"We are pleased that a number of residents have now recovered, and we continue to closely monitor the health and wellbeing of all those affected.\n\n\"This includes following all government guidance in relation to infection prevention and control.\"\n\nResponding to the Care Inspectorate report, the company said the health, safety and wellbeing of its residents and staff was a priority.\n\nThe spokeswoman said: \"We were disappointed that inspectors found some elements of our robust infection control plan were not being fully implemented and we acted urgently to respond to this feedback. These issues were immediately rectified so that when inspectors returned, they were able to see and approve of the work that had been completed.\n\n\"Senior staff are also supporting the home and our learning and development team are ensuring that all colleagues complete refresher training which includes our specific coronavirus training modules on the virus, enhanced infection control procedures, and the correct use of PPE.\n\n\"These training modules have been regularly updated to reflect all changes in the guidance over recent months.\"\n\nCaroline Sinclair, of East Dunbartonshire Health and Social Care Partnership, said, \"We are aware of this very sad situation and have been working with Mavisbank care home to provide a high level of clinical support to residents at this difficult time. Our thoughts are with the families of those who have passed and others affected by their loss.\"", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday morning. We'll have another update for you this evening.\n\nMinisters wrestling with how to ensure people with coronavirus obey laws to self-isolate are to consider paying £500 to anyone who tests positive. It's among options drawn up for England by the Department of Health to encourage people to stay at home, amid fears the current support leaves some unable to afford the time away from work. However, Treasury sources say funding a universal payment to the tune of £453m a week is unlikely.\n\nBritish retail sales saw their largest annual fall in history last year as the impact of coronavirus took its toll. Sales fell by 1.9% in 2020, when compared with 2019, official figures show. Clothes shops were hit hard, with a record annual fall of more than 25%. Meanwhile, UK government borrowing hit £34.1bn last month, the highest December figure on record, as the cost of pandemic support weighed on the economy, the Office for National Statistics says.\n\nA Crown Office unit set up to probe Covid-related deaths is investigating cases at 474 care homes in Scotland, ahead of prosecutors' decisions on whether they should be the subject of a fatal accident inquiry or prosecution. Care homes say the investigation is \"disproportionate\". But Linda Duncan, whose 91-year-old mother Anne died last April, argues: \"A lot of the focus has been on the government response but we need this investigation to look at the private operators.\"\n\nHalf of all staff at nurseries, pre-schools and childminders \"don't... feel safe at work\", with about one in every 10 having tested positive since 1 December, according to an Early Years Alliance survey of more than 3,000 staff. Providers in England have been told to remain open to all children during lockdown and the government says under-fives are \"unlikely to be playing a driving role in transmission\".\n\nAs lockdown has forced families apart, grandparents have had to find new ways of keeping in touch with their grandchildren. Annette Landy tells us how reading over video calls to Alicia, eight, and Sadie, two, has made things a little easier.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Harry Potter and The Secret Garden have proven to be favourites\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nIf you're struggling to understand why vaccinating the most vulnerable won't immediately end lockdown, health correspondent Nick Triggle explains the reasoning.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "The Florence Nightingale Museum announced it would close for the foreseeable future\n\nMuseums and galleries are \"fighting for survival\" amid the current lockdown, a national charity has warned.\n\nThe Art Fund has predicted that small institutions are likely to suffer most and said more help is needed.\n\nSo far, the charity has only been able to help 15% of applicants to its emergency response fund.\n\nEarlier this month, it was announced London's Florence Nightingale Museum is to close for the foreseeable future due to the impact of the pandemic.\n\nThe Williamson Art Gallery & Museum in Birkenhead is also under threat of closure, according to the Art Fund.\n\nThe charity's director Jenny Waldman said: \"The latest lockdown is a body blow and is leaving our museums and galleries fighting for survival.\n\n\"Smaller museums in particular, which are so vital to their communities, simply do not have the reserves to see them through this winter.\n\nResearch previously conducted by the charity found six in 10 museums, galleries and historic houses were worried about their own survival.\n\n\"Tragically, we are now seeing well-known and much-loved museums facing mothballing or permanent closure,\" Waldman said.\n\nIn November, the charity offered limited edition artworks to members of the public who donated to help coronavirus-hit museums.\n\nSir Anish, Lubaina Himid, David Shrigley and Michael Landy were among the artists who provided their works to the appeal.\n\nArt Fund has renewed its appeal for people to donate to the crowdfunding campaign, which is called Together For Museums.\n\nNew works of art from Howard Hodgkin, Jeremy Deller and Cornelia Parker have been added to the items on offer.\n\nJeremy Deller worked on the 2016 Somme commemoration project featuring 'Ghost Tommies' appearing across UK locations\n\nSir Anish said: \"Museums are where we go to engage with art, witness our psychic history and understand ourselves. Today they face great difficulty.\n\n\"The Art Fund campaign gives us an opportunity to help museums to continue to provide access to all in spite of the difficulties of this time.\"\n\nArt Fund has also announced £750,000 of new grants to help 23 museums respond to the pandemic - taking its total spend so far to £2.25 million.\n\nBut that is only a small proportion of the applications the charity has received, which total over £16 million.\n\nRecipients include the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham, for a health and wellbeing project, and Portland Museum, Dorset, for a plan to recreate Rufus Castle digitally.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Spanish player Paula Badosa has revealed that she has the virus\n\nA Spanish tennis player who was among many Australian Open competitors to complain about quarantine rules has revealed she has coronavirus.\n\nPaula Badosa said she had felt unwell with symptoms before testing positive for the virus in Melbourne on Thursday.\n\nBadosa is believed to be the fourth competitor to test positive in hotel quarantine, but is the first to identify herself publicly.\n\nOn Friday, she said \"sorry guys\", adding quarantine rules were \"pivotal\".\n\n\"Please, don't get me wrong. Health will always comes first & I feel grateful for being in Australia,\" tweeted Badosa, who is ranked 67th globally in singles.\n\nThe 23-year-old said she had been taken to a separate hotel in Melbourne to \"self-isolate and be monitored\".\n\n\"I'll try to recover as soon as possible listening to the doctors,\" she said.\n\nVictoria state health authorities said on Wednesday a total of 10 infections had been linked to the event, but a few were \"viral shedding\" cases where the person was not infectious.\n\nMelbourne endured one of the world's longest lockdowns last year and many locals have concerns about the potential Covid risk posed by the tournament.\n\nTennis Australia chartered 15 flights to bring players and their entourages into the country, but three flights had passengers who later tested positive for the virus.\n\nBadosa is one of 72 players who have been confined full-time to their hotel rooms for 14 days - under a state health order - after the infections were discovered. She has already spent seven days in isolation.\n\nPlayers who arrived on flights with no infections are also in quarantine but are allowed five hours of court practice a day.\n\nSeveral players have complained about the impacts to their tennis preparation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Confined players have been training in their hotel rooms\n\nEarlier this week, in a tweet reported by Australian media that has since been deleted, Badosa wrote: \"At the beginning the rule was the positive section of the plane who was with that person had to quarantine. Not the whole plane.\n\n\"Not fair to change the rules at the last moment. And to have to stay in a room with no windows and no air.\"\n\nBut Tennis Australia and state officials have rejected assertions that any rules were changed or not clear ahead of time.\n\n\"We're thinking of you Paula, and hoping you feel better soon,\" the Australian Open's Twitter account replied in a message to Badosa on Friday.\n\nOrganisers have said that despite the infections, the Grand Slam will go ahead on 8 February.", "At 12:01, in the midst of his inaugural address, Joe Biden officially became the 46th president of the United States.\n\nHe was already well into outlining exactly how daunting a task he - and the nation - have ahead in what he called its \"winter of peril\".\n\nAmerica is facing a devastating pandemic which has resulted in massive job losses and business closures, a threatened environment, urgent cries for racial justice and resurgence in \"political extremism, white supremacy and domestic terrorism\".\n\nHis speech was not a laundry list of proposals and solutions. Those were reserved for his first 17 executive actions as president - on immigration, climate change, transgender rights and public health, among others.\n\nThe Biden administration has also frozen all of Trump's last-minute regulations pending further review.\n\nInstead, Biden used his speech to offer hope - and to argue, at times forcefully, that the nation must be united in facing the challenges ahead; that it has to move past its current \"uncivil war\".\n\n\"Without unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury,\" he said. \"No progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos.\"\n\n\"This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge,\" he continued. \"And unity is the path forward\".\n\nAt times, Biden's speech seemed a direct rebuttal to his predecessor's administration, although he did not mention Donald Trump by name.\n\nWhere Trump frequently spoke of American greatness and glorified its founders, Biden noted that the nation's history has been a \"constant struggle\" between its ideals and sometimes harsh realities.\n\nWhere Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway spoke of \"alternative facts\" almost four years ago, Biden said: \"There is truth and there are lies - lies told for power and for profit.\"\n\nBiden wrapped up his inaugural address by warning that America must not \"turn inward\" - both as individuals retreating into \"competing factions\" and as a nation on the world stage.\n\n\"We will repair our alliances and engage with the world once again,\" he said.\n\nRhetorically, Biden turned the page from Trump's days of \"America first\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe first 100 days of any administration are always important to a new president. What are his priorities? What will he try to accomplish when his political capital is at its highest?\n\nJoe Biden and his presidential team have had nearly three months to plan out his first actions upon taking the oath of office, but executive action is the (relatively) easy part.\n\nHis speech reflected the reality that he enters office with his top priorities already determined for him.\n\nHis government will be responsible for distributing the coronavirus vaccine in an efficient and equitable way. After that, he will have to focus on the societal and economic disruptions caused by the pandemic.\n\nThe virus has exacerbated income inequality and pushed many households to the brink of economic ruin. It's devastated the travel and hospitality industries and placed incredible strain on the finances of state and local governments.\n\nHis pledge to seek unity will be tested early, as he pushes a sharply divided Congress to pass another, massive round of pandemic stimulus aid. If he wants to enact it quickly, he will need Republican support in the Senate, and already there are signs that some on the right may be lining up in opposition to more spending.\n\nThen there's Trump's Senate impeachment trial, which will present yet another challenge to national unity. It will keep Trump's name in the news for weeks, as his defenders rally to his side and his detractors call for consequences for his actions.\n\nAfter that, Biden's potential political paths diverge. He has said he wants to improve healthcare in the US, address growing college debt, make new investments in infrastructure and tackle climate change.\n\nHe's pledged to push immigration reform legislation that includes a pathway to citizenship for undocumented migrants - a political lightning rod that helped fuel Trump's first presidential run.\n\nWhat he prioritises, and how successful his first efforts are, could determine the overall success of his administration. To make lasting change - policies that can't be undone by future presidents - he will have to work with Congress.\n\nThe inauguration ceremony is over. But, as Biden noted in his speech, the American people face one of the most challenging times in their nation's history.\n\n\"We will be judged by how we resolve these cascading crises of our era,\" he said.\n\nBiden campaigned against Trump for the opportunity to face those crises. Now he has his chance.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 15 and 22 January. Send your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you follow current coronavirus guidelines and take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nHot dog: Ann Baldwin thinks it looks warm enough for a swim in this shot looking towards Inchcolm Island and Arthur’s Seat from the sailing club in Dalgety Bay, Fife, 10 minutes before sunrise.\n\nLittle sucker: Tessa McAndrew helped this beautiful octopus back into the water after finding him clinging to driftwood on the beach at Lower Largo.\n\nWindswept: Bad hair day for these trees in the Pentland Hills Regional Park in Edinburgh. Claire Dunbar took this picture during one of the many recent snow dumps in the area.\n\nIntricate web: The sun was making an attempt to defrost this frozen spider web in Colin Sergeant's back garden in Motherwell.\n\nHindsight: David Fox thinks this roe deer fawn that he captured on his camera at Strathbraan in Perthshire will be \"a future Monarch of the Glen\".\n\nTrue snowman: Only Gordon Brandie knows what this Highland fling snowman is wearing under his kilt and peg sporran in Faskally, Perthshire.\n\nStill life: Artistic beauty found when looking through a drainage hole in the Arbroath sea wall.\n\nBlurred lines: Sunrise on top of Falkland Hill in the early hours of the morning, taken by Jordan Moreham.\n\nStick together: Judith McIntyre spotted these wooden friends huddling to keep warm this winter in Kingston, Moray.\n\nHowling wind: Three-year-old Poppy enjoying a very windy afternoon walk on Craiglockhart Hill in Edinburgh with her mum, Sophia Lyons.\n\nCollectivism vs Individualism: Victor Tregubov took this shot of birds in countryside near Glasgow.\n\nStrike a pose: Colin Little on the bank of the River Lossie in Elgin, said: \"This otter posed for a couple of shots before diving under again.\"\n\nBlack and white: Derek Brown took this snowy scene in Stow just outside Galashiels in the Scottish Borders.\n\nEbb and flow: Michelle Moggach said it was \"Baltic but beautiful\" at Aberdeen Beach while she gazed at the sea.\n\nAlan Kemp said about 100 fieldfares descended on his pink berry Rowan trees in Murthly, Perthshire and devoured the lot in one sitting.\n\nMindfulness: Shirley Faichney captured a zen moment during a recent sunrise at West Wemyss beach in Fife.\n\nBridge to nowhere: Rachel Abbie was left puzzled as to where her walk was leading at Belhaven Beach in Dunbar.\n\nWinter wonderland: The path for Ross McKellar looks bright in High Blantyre in Glasgow.\n\nAutumn meets winter: Agnes Neal observed a sole woman walking through this peaceful scene in Queen's Park in Glasgow.\n\nSquirrel Nutkin: David Doogan loves it when this bushy-tailed friend joins him for a picnic in his garden in Glencoe, Argyll.\n\nTop of the world: ...well it was for Katie Gillingham and her friends on Goatfell on the Isle of Arran this week.\n\nEthereal moonlight: Arletta Babicz thought there was a \"magical vibe\" when he took this shot of the most photographed tree in Scotland at Loch Lomond.\n\nFollow the herd: Christopher Barrow thought it was funny when this flock of sheep kept following him while he was out skiing in Almondbank, Perthshire.\n\nPillars of the community: Poll nan Crann pier, known locally as Stinky Bay due to the large amount of seaweed blown onto the beach by storms which then rots in the sun. Seonaidh MacInnes took this picture at night on the Isle of Benbecula.\n\nRising above the herd: Jim Clark thought this beast could have been thinking outside the box when he captured this shot at Glanderston Dam, Barrhead.\n\nVirgin powder: Dan Price-Davies enjoyed Alpine conditions at Clashindarroch Forest while Nordic skiing with his son, Lestin, this week.\n\nCloud inversion: Steve Mitchell took in this stunning view overlooking a snowy drystone dyke at the top of the Cairn o' Mount (B974) road between Banchory and Fettercairn.\n\nWinter Washingland: Louise Harper took this picture of colourful plastic pegs with no job to do during heavy snow in Motherwell.\n\nThe Night Walker: Tamar Lewis thought there was an eerie glow in the sky as she took an evening stroll through Pollok Country Park.\n\nStripped bare: This dead-looking tree brings life to Dave Cullen's picture of the Cramond landscape in Edinburgh.\n\nDuck down: All but one mallard enjoying the food thrown to them at St Fillans in the snow, taken by Kenn Begley.\n\nWinter coat: Glen Tanar cleansed in white, near the summit of Baudy Meg in Aberdeenshire, taken by Neil Marchant.\n\nFyrish sunrise: It's as if Sir Hector Munro ordered his monument to be put in the best light possible for Laura Steel who took this picture in Evanton near Alness.\n\nSun and shadows: Michal Markowski took this eye-catching picture in West Linton using a drone.\n\nHair ice: Jane Tweedie noticed this rare phenomenon while out walking at Craigellachie, Moray. It is also known as ice wool or frost beard and is a type of ice that forms on dead wood and takes the shape of fine, silky hair.\n\nUdderly mootiful: Izabela Bodzioch took this picture of cows admiring the view of Ben Cruachan covered in snow.\n\nIce bath: Jan Overmeer said he changed his mind about going for a swim in Loch Carron when he was greeted by this frozen scene.\n\nJack Frost: Graeme Mackay was mesmerised by the patterns Mother Nature had made on the sunroof of his car in Aberdeen.\n\nSwan Lake: Bob Smart captured the sheer power and might of this magnificent bird at Townhill Loch in Fife.\n\nFine sunset: James MacArthur captured the fresh breath of brightness burning the last corner of Loch Fyne as the sun dropped below the skyline.\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "Guests fled when officers arrived at the Stamford Hill school, where the windows had been covered\n\nPolice broke up a wedding party in north London, where they now say about 150 people had gathered.\n\nOfficers found the windows at the Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School, in Stamford Hill, had been covered when they arrived at 21:15 GMT on Thursday.\n\nGuests fled from the strictly Orthodox Charedi Jewish school when the police arrived. The organisers face a £10,000 fine for breaking lockdown rules.\n\nThe Met originally claimed that about 400 guests were at the gathering.\n\nIn a statement, the school said its hall had been leased out.\n\nA spokesman for the school, whose principal Rabbi Avrahom Pinter died in April after contracting coronavirus, said \"we had no knowledge that the wedding was taking place\".\n\nHe added: \"We are absolutely horrified about last night's event and condemn it in the strongest possible terms.\"\n\nBoris Johnson supports the police for \"taking action against people who flagrantly and selfishly ignore the rules\", according to the prime minister's official spokesman.\n\nThe spokesman said: \"Large gatherings such as that pose a health risk, not just to those who attend but those who they live with or others who they may come into contact with.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nChief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, meanwhile, said the \"overwhelming majority\" of the Jewish community would be appalled at the event.\n\nRabbi Mirvis, who serves as the head of the UK's orthodox Jewish community but is not the leader of the Charedi group, called the wedding party \"a most shameful desecration of all that we hold dear\".\n\nFive guests were issued with £200 fixed penalty notices, according to police, who said their inquiries had established those present at the school had gathered for a wedding.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A video shared with the Jewish Chronicle shows officers in Stamford Hill\n\nVideo shared with the Jewish Chronicle shows officers in Stamford Hill speaking with a man to explain why they are there, although he is not accused of any wrongdoing.\n\nThey are then seen arriving at the Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School.\n\nDet Ch Sup Marcus Barnett of the Met Police said: \"This was a completely unacceptable breach of the law.\n\n\"People across the country are making sacrifices by cancelling or postponing weddings and other celebrations and there is no excuse for this type of behaviour.\n\n\"My officers are working tirelessly with the community and we will not hesitate to take enforcement action if that is required to keep people safe.\"\n\nOn Friday morning, a security guard at the school told the BBC there were more like 100 guests at the party than the much higher number given out by police.\n\nThe Met later said in a statement: \"Although initial calls suggested some 400 people had attended the wedding, it is now believed that approximately 150 people were in attendance.\"\n\nStamford Hill is part of the borough of Hackney, which has a Covid-19 infection rate of 625.43 cases per 100,000 people. The England average rate is 471.31 per 100,000 people.\n\nThe mayor of Hackney, Philip Glanville, said he was \"deeply disappointed\" that the wedding party had taken place, despite \"the number of lives that have already been lost in the Charedi community and across the borough\".\n\nHe added: \"Unfortunately, similar events have taken place even at this venue before and we need to be really clear how unacceptable it is.\n\n\"We will be meeting with the Rabbinate and our community partners over the coming days to see how we can prevent further incidents of this nature.\"\n\nLondon is under an England-wide lockdown, which prevents social mixing between households.\n\nLondoners are asked to only leave home for limited reasons such as shopping, going to work, seeking medical assistance, or avoiding domestic abuse.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nDo you have any information to share about this incident? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There are no plans to pay everyone in England who tests positive for Covid £500 to self-isolate, No 10 has said.\n\nThe PM's official spokesman said there was already a £500 payment available for those on low incomes who could not work from home and had to isolate.\n\nA universal £500 payment was among suggestions in a leaked Department of Health document.\n\nThere are fears the current financial support is not working because low paid workers cannot afford to self-isolate.\n\nBut a senior government source said the idea of extending the £500 payments to everyone who tests positive had been drawn up by officials and had not been considered by the prime minister.\n\nBBC Newsnight's Katie Razzall said ministers were aware self-isolation was crucial for stopping the spread of coronavirus and the \"options paper\" had been drawn up by civil servants at the Department of Health.\n\nShe said it would be discussed soon by the Covid operations committee chaired by Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove, adding the move suggested there was an admission in government that too many people were not staying at home and a decision needed to be made quickly.\n\nThe story was first reported by the Guardian which said the options paper suggested the proposal could cost up to £453m per week - 12 times the cost of the current payouts.\n\nEnvironment Secretary George Eustice told the BBC he had not seen the leaked document but said the issue of financial support for people self-isolating was \"always kept under review\".\n\n\"We've got to consider all sorts of policies in order to make sure that people abide by the rules, are able to abide by the rules and we get the infection rate down,\" he said.\n\nBut the prime minister's official spokesman denied the government was planning to introduce the new payment, telling reporters: \"We've given local authorities £70m for the scheme and they are able to provide extra payments on top of those £500 if they think it necessary.\n\n\"That £500 is on top of any other benefits and statutory sick pay that people are eligible for.\"\n\nAsked about document, the spokesman said he would not comment on a leaked paper.\n\nIt's impossible to say exactly what proportion of people stay at home for the full 10 days after being in contact with someone who has tested positive, however some evidence suggests the minority of people do.\n\nA government-backed study from September 2020 suggests that just 10.9% of people remained indoors for the full time.\n\nLabour has often cited this report when arguing that people cannot afford to miss work, but a closer look at it suggests that, of those who break the rules, just 8.9% do \"to go to work\".\n\nMost people reported going out for things like shopping or exercise, but also because they didn't think they needed to quarantine as they didn't develop symptoms.\n\nThis research is quite old (done before self-isolation grants came in) and has a relatively small sample size of just 400 people.\n\nHowever, the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) has also highlighted research that shows that most people don't completely follow the rules.\n\nThis research also suggests that those on lower incomes felt they were three times less able to self-isolate than those better off.\n\nBBC political correspondent Ben Wright said there was concern in government about the huge cost of the proposal for the Treasury.\n\nHowever, he said the issue of financial incentives and trying to get people to self-isolate was clearly a live discussion within government.\n\nIt became a legal requirement last September for anyone in England testing positive for coronavirus to self-isolate.\n\nThe £500 grant already available in England is funded by the government but administered by local authorities.\n\nThe same level of payment is available in Scotland and Wales with similar conditions attached. Northern Ireland offers a discretionary self-isolation grant that covers expenses, such as the cost of groceries.\n\nThere is a list of specific criteria applicants must meet for the grant, but those who do not qualify for this payment and who are on a low income or may face financial hardship as a result of self-isolating can apply for a discretionary payment.\n\nHowever, there have been high rejection rates for this discretionary grant in England, figures obtained by Labour and reported by the BBC this week suggest.\n\nBetween October and December last year, three-quarters of the 49,877 applications were rejected, the data showed.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said the Scottish government would welcome the introduction of a £500 payment, as the additional funds it would generate for Scotland could allow for a similar scheme to be set up.\n\nSpeaking at her regular coronavirus briefing, she said: \"We will see whether that transpires or not, but any extra resources for self-isolation we would use to support self-isolation.\"\n\nProf Susan Michie, an adviser on the government's Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme just 18% of people with symptoms were self-isolating for the full 10 days they were meant to.\n\nShe said financial support currently offered to people having to self-isolate was a \"key weakness\" of the government's pandemic strategy.\n\nSharon, a cleaner from Kent, told the BBC if no money were to come in for two weeks she would not be able to afford to self-isolate.\n\n\"I have a mortgage to pay,\" she said.\n\n\"I can't even afford to heat my property at the moment because my wages were cut and that £500 payment would make all the difference. I would be able to self-isolate.\n\n\"It wouldn't be enough money, but it would help.\"\n\nThe DoH said it would not comment on a leaked paper but stressed it was incumbent on everyone to help protect the NHS by staying at home and following the rules at \"one of the toughest moments of this pandemic\".\n\nA spokesman said £50m was invested at the time the Test and Trace Support Payment scheme launched and it was providing a further £20m to help support people on low incomes who need to self-isolate.\n\nPeople who have tested positive for coronavirus and those considered at risk of having been exposed to it must self-isolate.\n\nOther legal obligations to self-isolate in the UK include:\n\nWould £500 be enough to help you to self-isolate? Please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The 39 people who died in the back of a trailer as it crossed the North Sea between Zeebrugge and the UK\n\nFour men have been jailed for the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese migrants found dead in a lorry trailer in Essex.\n\nThe migrants died \"excruciatingly painful\" deaths, having suffocated in the container en route from Belgium to Purfleet in October 2019, a judge said.\n\nRonan Hughes, 41, and Gheorghe Nica, 43, played \"leading roles\" in the smuggling conspiracy and were jailed for 20 and 27 years respectively.\n\nAt the Old Bailey, two lorry drivers were also jailed for manslaughter.\n\n[Left to right] Eamonn Harrison, Ronan Hughes, Gheorghe Nica and Maurice Robinson were all jailed for manslaughter\n\nEamonn Harrison, 24, who towed the trailer to the Belgian port of Zeebrugge before their journey to the UK, was sentenced to 18 years.\n\nMaurice Robinson, 26, was given 13 years and four months, having collected the trailer and opened it in an industrial estate to find the migrants dead.\n\nThree others members of the people-smuggling gang were also sentenced for conspiracy to facilitate unlawful immigration.\n\nChristopher Kennedy, 24, from County Armagh, was jailed for seven years; Valentin Calota, 38, of Birmingham, for four-and-a-half years; and Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga, 28, of Hobart Road, Tilbury, Essex, was given a three-year sentence.\n\n[Left to right] Valentin Calota, Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga and Christopher Kennedy were also sentenced on Friday\n\nSentencing, Mr Justice Sweeney said: \"I have no doubt that the conspiracy was a sophisticated, long-running and profitable one to smuggle mainly Vietnamese people across the channel.\"\n\nHe said on the fatal trip the temperature had been rising along with the carbon dioxide levels throughout, hitting 40C (104F) while the container was at sea on 22 October 2019.\n\n\"There were desperate attempts to contact the outside world by phone and to break through the roof of the container,\" the judge said.\n\n\"All were to no avail and, before the ship reached Purfleet, [the victims] all died in what must have been an excruciatingly painful death.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video evidence showed how the trainer containing 39 Vietnamese migrants made its way to the UK\n\nThe victims had used a metal pole to try to punch through the roof but only managed to dent the interior.\n\nThe court heard some of their final desperate phone messages, including one where a man spoke with ragged breaths as he apologised to his family.\n\n\"I can't breathe,\" he said. \"I want to come back to my family. Have a good life.\"\n\nJustice Sweeney added: \"The willingness of the victims to try and enter the country illegally provides no excuse for what happened to them.\"\n\nThe bodies of 39 Vietnamese nationals were discovered in a refrigerated trailer on 23 October 2019\n\nDuring the trial, jurors were given a snapshot of the victims - who included a bricklayer, a university graduate and a nail bar technician - and their dreams of a better life.\n\nMany of their families borrowed heavily to fund their passage, relying on their potential future earnings once they got into the UK.\n\nThe father of Nguyen Huy Tung, one of two 15-year-olds in the container, later learned of his son's death via social media.\n\nHarrison, of Newry, County Down, claimed he did not know there were people in the trailer when he towed it to the Belgian port, and that he watched \"a wee bit of Netflix\" in bed as they were loaded on.\n\nAfter receiving this message from his boss, Robinson got out of his cab, opened the trailer door and discovered the bodies\n\nRobinson, from County Armagh, collected the trailer when it arrived on UK shores just after midnight on 23 October.\n\nHis boss, Hughes, had messaged him: \"Give them air quickly don't let them out.\"\n\nRobinson gave a thumbs-up in reply. When Robinson stopped on a nearby industrial estate, he found that the migrants were all dead.\n\nHis barrister said Robinson, who admitted manslaughter, being part of the trafficking plot and money laundering, was \"horrified by what he saw\".\n\nThe moment lorry driver Maurice Robinson opened the trailer door and discovered the bodies inside was captured on CCTV\n\nThe trial examined three smuggling attempts by the gang - two that were successful on 11 and 18 October, and the final trip on 23 October.\n\nOn all three runs, Nica, of Basildon, Essex, had arranged cars and a van to transport the migrants at the UK end.\n\nWhen Robinson discovered the bodies, there was a series of telephone conversations between him and Nica and Hughes, of Tyholland, County Monaghan, Ireland, before the driver eventually dialled 999.\n\nIn his evidence, Nica said Robinson told him: \"I have a problem here - dead bodies in the trailer.\"\n\nWhile Hughes admitted manslaughter, both Nica and Harrison were convicted by a jury.\n\nMr Justice Sweeney said that in the conspiracy \"two played leading roles, namely - in order of importance - Hughes and Nica\".\n\nHe accepted Hughes was \"not at the very top of the conspiracy\" but said his role was \"pivotal... in that he ran a haulage business and supplied the trailers and drivers used to transport the migrants\".\n\nThe judge said Nica \"recruited and paid the drivers whose job it was to collect the migrants when they reached the drop-off site in this country and to drive them to the safe house(s) where they were to be held until payment\".\n\nHe added at the top of the conspiracy was a Vietnamese man called \"Fong\", who was based in London.\n\nMr Justice Sweeney told the defendants jailed for manslaughter they would serve two-thirds of the term in custody, instead of the usual half.\n\nEarlier this month, Gazmir Nuzi, 43, of Barclay Road, Tottenham, north London, was sentenced, having admitted his limited role in the people-smuggling operation. It was accepted he was not a member of the organised crime group behind the smuggling operation.\n\nDet Ch Insp Daniel Stoten said: \"May this serve as a warning to those who think it's OK to prey on the vulnerabilities of migrants and their families, transporting them in a way worse than we would transport animals.\n\n\"My message to you is that we will find you and we will stop you.\"\n\nHe said the victims died in an \"unimaginable way, because of the utter greed of these criminals\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Last summer's A level results prompted an outcry from students - leading to an independent review\n\nThere was a \"significant failure\" in the way exam bodies in Wales handled awarding student grades in 2020, a report says.\n\nThe independent review found there was \"too much confidence\" in statistical models, and the appeals process in place was inadequate.\n\nQualifications Wales (QW) said it had learnt many lessons and WJEC exam board will look \"in detail\" at the findings.\n\nTeaching union UCAC described the report's findings as \"scathing\".\n\nIts release comes after it was announced this week that teachers will make 2021 grade assessments\n\nThe review was ordered by the Welsh Government following the outcry over initial examination results awarded in August for A-level students.\n\nThe assessment approach resulted in a \"significant breakdown\" in trust, says the review\n\nIn the weeks after the coronavirus pandemic took hold, formal external exams in Wales were scrapped, with schools asked to provide grade assessments for sixth-form and GCSE pupils.\n\nHowever, it later emerged 42% of the A-level grades were lower than those submitted by teachers.\n\nIn her foreword the report panel's chairwoman Louise Casella, said substantial numbers of young people across Wales \"were left feeling bewildered and distressed as they received A level results that bore no relation to their expectation and their abilities\".\n\nThe result decision was reversed, and school's predicted grades reinstated, but not before \"some learners lost their university place and some were not able to progress as planned in 2020\", noted Ms Casella, who is also director of The Open University in Wales.\n\nThe review found that QW and the WJEC board would have known the \"scale of the outliers\" and had \"an insight\" into the likely number of appeals.\n\nBut the bodies failed to fully test \"alternative routes or approaches\" to the statistical models they used to standardise results.\n\nThe review added it was \"surprising\" QW did not explore additional safeguards, after having being previously warned about, and acknowledging that there were potential problems with the statistical process.\n\nThe report said it could not find evidence either WJEC or QW \"acknowledged, accepted or anticipated the scale of the issues\" nor the risk of unfairness to learners, and that it considered this a \"significant failure\".\n\nThe approach last summer had resulted in a \"significant breakdown\" in trust between the teaching profession and the regulator and examining body, added the report authors.\n\nIt said fairness must now be central to planning for 2021, avoiding automated algorithms to predict individual grades, and developing an appeals process.\n\nDelivering the report, the review panel chair added: \"There is now a real opportunity for the education sector of Wales to come together to develop and deliver a qualifications system that puts learners at its heart, not only for the cohort facing qualifications in 2021, but for the longer term.\"\n\nQW said the review had \"some useful findings and recommendations that we are already addressing\".\n\nChair David Jones and Chief Executive Philip Baker said: \"We would have welcomed greater engagement with the review panel so there was full consideration of all the issues.\"\n\nChief Executive of WJEC Ian Morgan, said he was \"disappointed with some aspects of the report\" but the exam board would \"look in detail at the findings to identify areas where we need to take action to continuously improve as an organisation.\"\n\nEducation Minister Kirsty Williams has already said teachers will assess grades in 2021\n\nEducation Minister Kirsty Williams has welcomed the report and how it would help drive how students are graded by teachers and schools this summer.\n\n\"It is my sincere hope and expectation that our education system can continue to work together to support the progression of our learners in exam years, both through the delivery of these assessment arrangements and through a wider package of support,\" she said.\n\nUCAC Deputy General Secretary Rebecca Williams, said the report supported its call for external moderation of grades, to improve fairness to students.\n\n\"There are longer-term recommendations, including the need to be more ambitious in terms of reform of qualifications and assessment in relation to the new curriculum, and we look forward to discussing these over the coming months,\" she said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel says police have her \"absolute backing\" to enforce coronavirus restrictions\n\nFines of £800 for anyone attending a house party of more than 15 people will be introduced in England from next week, under new Covid measures.\n\nThese will double for each repeat offence to a maximum of £6,400.\n\nAt a No 10 news conference, Home Secretary Priti Patel said there remained a \"small minority that refuse to do the right thing\".\n\n\"To them my message is clear. If you don't follow rules then the police will enforce them,\" she said.\n\nCurrently in England the fine for those attending illegal indoor gatherings stands at £200 - or £100 if paid early.\n\nFines of up to £10,000 for holding large illegal gatherings of more than 30 people will still only apply to the organisers.\n\nPolice will continue to follow the strategy of engaging with the public, explaining the rules and encouraging compliance, but the Home Office has warned that in severe breaches of lockdown rules, offenders should expect to receive a fine.\n\nMs Patel said the government would \"not stand by while a small number of individuals put others at risk\".\n\nShe was joined at the briefing by NHS England regional medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar, who compared breaking the rules to turning on a light in the middle of a blackout during the Blitz.\n\n\"It doesn't just put you at risk in your house, it puts your whole street and the whole of your community at risk,\" he said.\n\nWelcoming the fines announcement, Martin Hewitt, chairman of the National Police Chiefs' Council, said large gatherings were \"dangerous, irresponsible, and totally unacceptable\".\n\nHe added: \"I hope that the likelihood of an increased fine acts as a disincentive for those people who are thinking of attending or organising such events.\"\n\nOfficial figures will be released next week showing how many fines have been given out since the start of this latest national lockdown, Mr Hewitt said.\n\nHowever, he stressed that \"forces are telling us there has been a significant increase\" in recent weeks.\n\n\"That's reflecting the fact that we've had more officers out on dedicated patrols taking targeted action against those small few who are letting everybody down,\" he said.\n\nAccording to Mr Hewitt, three police officers were injured in Brick Lane, east London, last week, after more than 40 people were found cramped indoors at a house party.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 150 people were found at a party in Hertfordshire, complete with music equipment including mixing decks and amplifiers, and another officer was injured.\n\nHe said forces in England had issued 250 fixed penalty notices (FPNs) to people organising large gatherings between late August, when regulations were introduced, and 17 January.\n\nIn some other recent examples of lockdown breaches:\n\nThe latest fines announcement comes after figures showed that assaults on emergency workers made up more than a quarter of Covid-related crimes prosecuted in the first six months of the pandemic.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said there were 1,688 such offences between 1 April and 30 September in England and Wales.\n\nThey were among almost 6,500 crimes related to coronavirus in that period.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSome 1,137 charges were brought for breaking coronavirus laws, according to the figures published by the CPS - which cover completed prosecutions.\n\nOn Thursday, it was reported that another 1,290 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 in the UK, bringing the total to 94,580.\n\nAnd a further 37,892 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus were announced, bringing the total number of cases in the UK to 3,543,646.\n• None What powers do police have?", "Cyber criminals who stole thousands of digital files belonging to environmental regulator Sepa have published them on the internet.\n\nThe public body had about 1.2GB of data stolen from its digital systems on Christmas Eve.\n\nSepa rejected a ransom demand for the attack, which has been claimed by the international Conti ransomware group.\n\nContracts, strategy documents and databases are among the 4,000 files released.\n\nThe data has been put on the dark web - a part of the internet associated with criminality and only accessible through specialised software.\n\nSepa chief executive Terry A'Hearn said: \"We've been clear that we won't use public finance to pay serious and organised criminals intent on disrupting public services and extorting public funds.\n\n\"We have made our legal obligations and duty of care on the sensitive handling of data a high priority and, following Police Scotland advice, are confirming that data stolen has been illegally published online.\n\n\"We're working quickly with multi-agency partners to recover and analyse data then, as identifications are confirmed, contact and support affected organisations and individuals.\"\n\nThe attack locked Sepa's emails and contacts centre but Sepa said \"priority regulatory, monitoring, flood forecasting and warning services were continuing to adapt and operate\".\n\nSepa said the theft was the equivalent to a fraction of the contents of an average laptop hard drive.\n\nSepa chief executive Terry A'Hearn said the organisation had faced a \"significant and sophisticated cyber-attack\"\n\nSome of the information stolen was already publicly available but other files included data about staff and suppliers was not.\n\nWhere information has been identified to date, staff have been contacted and are being supported.\n\nBrett Callow, of cyber security company Emsisoft, has been tracking the Sepa ransomware attack.\n\nHe said: \"Conti may well be the work of the same people behind another type of ransomware called Ryuk.\n\n\"There are similarities in the code, ransom note and attack mechanisms.\n\n\"When the complete haul of data is posted like this, it usually means the group has given up hope of being able to extract payment from the victim of monetise the data in other ways.\n\n\"It's a loss for them. At this point, they've lost all leverage and the action is intended to serve as a warning to future victims.\"\n\nDet Insp Michael McCullagh, of Police Scotland's cybercrime investigations unit, said: \"This remains an ongoing investigation.\n\n\"Inquiries remain at an early stage and continue to progress including deployment of specialist cybercrime resources to support this response.\"\n\nThe authorities will be pleased.\n\nIt looks like Sepa decided not to play ball with the cyber criminals.\n\nRansomware is a scourge that is costing organisations billions of pounds and every time a victim pays, it fuels further attacks.\n\nSadly for Sepa this is far from over.\n\nBy the looks of the stash of files that the hackers stole and encrypted, Sepa will have months of work ahead to try to recover important documents and spreadsheets from backups and rebuild their records.\n\nIt's also telling that, according to the hackers website, almost 1,000 people have so far looked at the documents.\n\nWho knows what other criminals or hackers are poring over the files right now.\n\nMaking the documents open to all means that information can be extracted to potentially be used against Sepa in further attacks or extortion attempts.\n\nIt will be months, perhaps even years until the organisation can say it is safe once more and can put this cyber attack behind it.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM: It's too early to give a lockdown end date\n\nIt is \"too early\" to say whether England's Covid restrictions will be able to end in the spring, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said.\n\nOnce the four priority groups have been vaccinated, by mid-February, \"we'll look then at how we're doing,\" he said.\n\nNearly two million people in the UK have had their first dose of vaccine in the past week, government figures show.\n\nScientist Marc Baguelin, who advises the government, has said restaurants and bars should not reopen before May.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson has said he \"certainly hopes\" schools in England can fully reopen before Easter, while Downing Street refused to be drawn on whether this would happen by then.\n\nA further 1,290 people have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test and there have been another 37,892 cases, according to the latest government figures.\n\nAnd almost five million people in the UK have had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine.\n\nSpeaking after a study suggested infections might have increased at the start of the latest lockdown in England, Mr Johnson said it was \"absolutely crucial\" that people observed the restrictions.\n\nReferring to figures from the Imperial College London survey, he said they showed the new variant of the virus was \"not more deadly but it is much more contagious and the numbers are very great\".\n\nFigures published by Public Health England show cases - meaning people who come forward to get tested while they are infected - have fallen across England since early January.\n\nWith the two sets of figures pointing in different directions, it will be some time before it is known for sure how long it will take for lockdown to relieve the pressure on hospitals.\n\nDr Baguelin, from Imperial College, who sits on a sub-group of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) said the premature opening of the hospitality sector would lead to a \"bump\" in Covid-19 cases.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme even a partial reopening would generate \"an increase in the R number\". An R number above one means the epidemic is growing.\n\n\"Something of this scale, if it was to happen earlier than May, would generate a bump in transmission, which is already really bad,\" he said.\n\n\"So you have a lot of pressure on hospitals, you will have another wave of some extent. At best you will keep on having very, very unsustainable level of pressure on the NHS.\"\n\nNHS England figures show one in 10 major hospital trusts had no spare adult critical care beds last week.\n\nThis is a debate that is going to start to dominate public discourse.\n\nWith the vaccination programme under way, there is huge clamour to know what will happen once the most vulnerable are vaccinated, by mid-February.\n\nThe problem is there are still so many unknowns.\n\nFirstly, it is hard to predict by how much lockdown will have reduced infection levels, considering there is a new faster-spreading variant to deal with.\n\nThe level of uptake will also be crucial. Surveys suggest as many as one in five may not have the vaccine - although the older, more vulnerable groups tend to be the most willing to be vaccinated.\n\nAnd the fact that no vaccine is 100% effective means come February there could still be significant numbers of very vulnerable people who are not protected.\n\nAnother factor is whether the vaccine stops transmissions - so-called sterilising vaccination.\n\nTrials have shown the vaccines are good at stopping symptoms developing. But that does not mean someone who has received a jab will not pass on the virus.\n\nIf it does not, that, of course, has implications on how many control measures have to be kept in place. It will take us at least until spring to know the answer to this.\n\nAt this stage, it seems hard to see much beyond the possible reopening of schools come March.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was an \"impossible question\" to ask how long the lockdown would need to last.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, coronavirus lockdown restrictions will be extended until 5 March, BBC News understands.\n\nIn Scotland, lockdown has been extended until at least the middle of February, with most school pupils to continue learning from home.\n\nAnd in Wales health minister Vaughan Gething has said no \"significant easing\" of Wales' Covid restrictions should be expected when the current guidelines are reviewed this month.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSir Keir added that the coronavirus vaccines were \"really good news\" but \"should not mask the fact that we have still got a very serious problem\".\n\nThe government is aiming to offer a vaccine to all over-70s, the extremely clinical vulnerable and health and care workers by mid-February.\n\nSixty-five new vaccination centres are opening in England, including a mosque in Birmingham and a cinema in Aylesbury.", "Paddy McElhone was shot in the back by a soldier in 1974\n\nThe shooting dead of a man by the Army in County Tyrone in August 1974 was unjustified, a coroner has ruled.\n\nPaddy McElhone, 24, a farmer, was shot in the back near his home in Limehill, Pomeroy.\n\nAn inquest heard the shot was fired by a soldier from the First Battalion, Royal Regiment of Wales.\n\nJudge Siobhan Keegan said Mr McElhone was an \"innocent man shot in cold blood without warning when he was no threat to anyone\".\n\nThe soldier, now deceased, had been cleared of murder but the circumstances were re-examined in a new inquest ordered by the Attorney General.\n\nPaddy McElhone's family said he was killed without justification, explanation or apology\n\nAfterwards, a statement issued by the McElhone family said it had been a \"very long road\" to reach Thursday's ruling and that the truth \"has been heard\".\n\nIt reads: \"Our family always knew that Paddy was an innocent young man, taken from his home and shot by a British soldier for no reason.\"\n\nEvidence presented to the inquest found Mr McElhone was not on any list associated with the IRA and was an innocent man from a humble background.\n\nThe family said Mr McElhone's parents \"went to their graves broken-hearted knowing that their innocent son had been killed, without justification, explanation or apology\".\n\n\"We feel that, today, Judge Keenan at this inquest has, at long last, exonerated Paddy in full,\" the statement continued.\n\n\"As a family we can grieve Paddy, and respect his memory as an innocent young man.\"\n\nThe inquest into Mr McElhone's death was the first in a series of coroners' investigations into deaths associated with Northern Ireland's Troubles.\n\nIt was held in Omagh courthouse in County Tyrone.", "Some 320 of the UK's most dangerous child sex offenders have been arrested since the first coronavirus lockdown, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said.\n\nInvestigators have been focusing on tracking down offenders who operate online.\n\nThe operation led to a total of 4,760 arrests and 6,500 children safeguarded between April and September last year.\n\nMeanwhile, the Home Office has launched a strategy to collect detailed data about child grooming gangs.\n\nThe Tackling Child Sexual Abuse Strategy aims to identify and convict offenders who operate in groups by gathering more information about their characteristics, including ethnicity.\n\nIt also involves investing in the national child abuse image database to identify offenders more quickly, protecting police from frequently being exposed to indecent images, and enabling parents to ask officers if someone with access to their child is known to them for cases of abuse.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said some who had suffered child sexual abuse had told her they felt \"let down by the state\", and insisted she was \"determined to put this right\".\n\nRob Jones, an NCA director, welcomed the initiative \"at a time when the threat to children is more severe than it has ever been\", highlighting that last year there were at least 300,000 people posing a sexual threat to children in the UK.\n\nHe said the NCA was focusing on the most dangerous offenders \"as part of the whole system approach\".\n\n\"Many feel they can operate with impunity online - using anonymisation techniques, secure accounts and the dark web - but as we have shown with this operation they are wrong and we have the capabilities to track them down,\" he said.\n\nMr Jones added: \"These are not just images or videos being viewed online.\n\n\"What we are uncovering here is evidence of the horrific, real-world sexual abuse of children.\"\n\nOut of the 320 arrested as part of the NCA's operation targeting the UK's most dangerous child sex offenders, 122 were targeted by NCA officers.\n\nSeventeen were in positions of trust, including a volunteer with the Scouts, church youth group leaders, a social worker, primary school and college teachers, a hospital care assistant, a police officer, and a civil servant.\n\nIn the year ending March 2020 the NCA and UK policing made 7,212 arrests and safeguarded and protected 8,329 children. This was a 50% increase in arrests and a 10% increase in safeguards compared with the year ending March 2019.\n\nMs Patel said that the national strategy would tackle and respond to \"all forms of child sexual abuse, relentlessly going after abusers, whilst better protecting victims and survivors\".\n\nShe added: \"Crucially, it contains a commitment to collect higher quality data on the characteristics of offenders, so that the government can build a fuller picture of perpetrators, and tackle the abuse that has blighted many towns and cities across our country.\"\n\nThe government has pledged to support local authorities' responses to exploitation through funding for The Children's Society's Prevention Programme initiative, which has so far trained 13,363 professionals to spot signs of child abuse.\n\nThrough the Online Safety Bill, the Home Office has also said it will ensure technology companies are held to account for harmful content on their sites.\n\nThe Children's Society's chief executive, Mark Russell, has described the strategy as a \"golden opportunity to improve support for child victims of horrific crimes and send a clear signal that child sexual abuse and exploitation are crimes that will not be tolerated\".\n\nThe scheme was also welcomed by GCHQ and charity NSPCC, which said it has received more than 40 calls a day about child sexual abuse since the pandemic began.\n\nGCHQ's director of serious and organised crime said: \"Our work to tackle systemic internet problems, the insight we provide into offender behaviour and our efforts alongside law enforcement to identify and pursue the worst offenders will help to ensure there is no safe space online for these people to operate.\"\n\nNSPCC chief executive Sir Peter Wanless said it \"rightly puts the emphasis on early intervention and action across government but added it \"must be backed up with serious investment in support for victims\" - and that children were still being exposed to abuse from teachers and social workers.\n\nSir Peter said: \"It's crucial that no young person is left unprotected which is why it's disappointing the government has not committed to closing the legal loophole that enables some adults to abuse their position of power to have sexual contact with 16 and 17-year-olds in their care.\"", "CCTV footage has been released of the moment a fire took hold in a hotel after a porter put a bag of ash and embers in a cupboard.\n\nSimon Midgley and his partner Richard Dyson died in the fire at Cameron House next to Loch Lomond in December 2017.\n\nCameron House admitted charges under the Fire Scotland Act of failing to take fire safety measures.\n\nChristopher O'Malley, who put the bag in the cupboard, admitted breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nNon-league Chorley were unable to emulate the heroes from 1986 by causing an FA Cup sensation against Wolves - but the National League North side came away with all the credit from their fourth-round tie at Victory Park.\n\nVitinha's superb 30-yard shot after 12 minutes proved enough to secure an all-Premier League tie against Arsenal or Southampton at Molineux in the fifth round.\n\nBut Nuno Espirito Santo's side were less than impressive against their part-time opponents.\n\nChorley had the first shot of the match through Elliot Newby, and after Vitinha had struck his first Wolves goal with the visitors' only shot on target, it was the hosts who had the best chances.\n\nCrucially, they also pocketed around £120,000 in prize money, plus TV fees, to sustain them through what could be a difficult period after their league was suspended for two weeks amid funding concerns earlier in the day.\n\n\"If you are going to lose, I would prefer to lose to a goal like that than a scruffy goal,\" said Chorley boss Jamie Vermiglio.\n\n\"I am proud of what we have done for our community, my kids at school will remember that their head teacher got this far in the FA Cup. Hopefully it can inspire some of them.\n\n\"We are approaching up to half a million [in earnings from the cup run], we have people who are isolating, and those players have given them a little bit of happiness.\n\n\"If it is 2-0 or 3-0 at half-time the game is done and people are turning their TVs off. That did not happen. I felt we were in the game. Every player was outstanding.\"\n• None How to follow FA Cup fourth round on the BBC\n\nIf this does end up being Chorley's last game of the season, it is one they will remember for some time, not only for the action on the pitch but also for the huge volley of fireworks that went off behind the main stand minutes into the contest.\n\nFor visiting Wolves, it was a step into the unknown. Their starting line-up got changed in the away dressing room, while their substitutes - European Championship winner Rui Patricio and Spain international Adama Traore among them - readied themselves in a sponsors' lounge.\n\nSeemingly those starting the game on the bench got the better deal.\n\nWolves boss Nuno paid Chorley the compliment of picking a strong starting line-up, including £35.6m record signing Fabio Silva and England international Conor Coady.\n\nAnd had this match been played in more imposing surroundings, it could have been mistaken for one of those Premier League games where one side sits back, challenges the opposition to break them down and then hits them on the counter.\n\nWolves' return of 76% possession and one shot on target, set against Chorley's five shots on target, suggests home manager Vermiglio got his tactics spot on.\n\nIndeed, had Andy Halls, a personal trainer by day, not had his goal-bound header tipped over by John Ruddy after an hour, Chorley might have forced a different outcome.\n\n\"The scene was set for us to lose this game,\" said Nuno. \"John Ruddy did his job, everybody knows his quality. He helped us to win the game.\"\n\nIt was nevertheless a typically English FA Cup tie, enlivened by Vermiglio yelling \"nothing wrong with that\" when two Wolves players went down under agricultural challenges, and then laughing in Traore's face amid a brief skirmish.\n\nIt was fantastic knockabout stuff. Sadly, the enduring disappointment was that other than staff, media and stewards, no-one was there in person to witness it.\n• None Wolves have reached the FA Cup fifth round in three of the last five seasons, as many as in the 21 seasons prior to this.\n• None Premier League teams have progressed from 45 of their 47 FA Cup ties against non-league teams (96%), with only Norwich vs Luton in 2013 and Burnley vs Lincoln in 2017 failing to progress.\n• None Separated by 120 years and 362 days, Chorley have lost both of their FA Cup games against top-flight opponents, losing against Notts County in January 1900 and Wolves.\n• None Vitinha became the 32nd different Wolves player to score a goal for Nuno Espirito Santo in all competitions and the 11th different Portuguese player to do so, with what was his third shot in his 12th appearance.\n• None Since the start of 2017-18, Wolves have had 11 different Portuguese scorers - more than twice as many as any other English league team in that time (Nottingham Forest, five).\n\nWolves are next in action against Chelsea in the Premier League at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday, 27 January (18:00 GMT).\n• None Attempt blocked. Rayan Aït-Nouri (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Rúben Neves.\n• None Harry Cardwell (Chorley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Pedro Neto (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Rúben Neves.\n• None Arlen Birch (Chorley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fábio Silva (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Pedro Neto. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA hotel fire which claimed the lives of two men started after a porter put a bag of ash and embers in a cupboard containing kindling and newspaper.\n\nSimon Midgley and his partner Richard Dyson died in the fire at Cameron House next to Loch Lomond in December 2017.\n\nCameron House pled guilty to charges under the Fire Scotland Act of failing to take fire safety measures.\n\nChristopher O'Malley, who put the bag in the cupboard, admitted breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act.\n\nO'Malley's lawyer said the night porter - from Renton in West Dunbartonshire - deeply regretted his actions, and did not deliberately start the fire.\n\nDumbarton Sheriff Court also heard that Cameron House did not have proper procedures in place for the disposal of ash, or for training staff.\n\nThe owners also failed to keep cupboards that contained potential ignition sources free of combustibles.\n\nAt about 04:00 on 18 December 2017, O'Malley, 35, cleared ash and embers from a fireplace in the Cameron House reception into a metal bucket.\n\nHe then emptied the contents of the bucket into a plastic bag, which he put into the concierge cupboard.\n\nThe cupboard also contained flammable materials including kindling, newspapers and cardboard.\n\nRichard Dyson, left, and Simon Midgley, right, who both died, had been on a winter break in Scotland\n\nAt about 06:40 an initial fire alarm sounded and staff noticed smoke coming from the concierge cupboard.\n\nO'Malley opened the door and flames took hold, spreading to the hall.\n\nHe and two others tried to fight the blaze with fire extinguishers, but were overcome by the flames.\n\nAdvocate depute Michael Meehan QC told the court the cupboard was well alight and the \"blaze immediately took hold and spread from there\".\n\nHe added: \"As a result of [Cameron House's] failure to keep the cupboard free of combustibles, ash and embers ignited and fire spread in the main building.\"\n\nThe night manager sounded the alarm and called 999. Firefighters arrived within 10 minutes to find a \"well developed\" fire in the mansion, which is near Balloch in West Dunbartonshire.\n\nMore than 200 guests were staying in the hotel.\n\nThe court heard one family-of-three on the second floor had to be rescued by firefighters while a couple on the first floor had to crawl to safety because corridors and fire escape pathways were filling with smoke and gases.\n\nIt was after 08:00 when it was discovered that Mr Dyson, 38, and Mr Midgley, 32, were missing.\n\nFirefighters wearing breathing apparatus found Mr Dyson on a landing at the top of a staircase.\n\nMr Midgley was lying in a fire escape passageway. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene.\n\nMr Dyson was taken to hospital, where he was also pronounced dead.\n\nPost-mortem examinations said the men's causes of death had been inhalation of smoke and fire gases.\n\nThe couple had travelled from London, and were staying at the five-star resort as the final stop on their winter break to Scotland.\n\nSheriff William Gallacher also heard of an incident three nights before the fatal fire, where O'Malley and another night porter were told not to put ash into plastic bags because it was a fire hazard.\n\nCameron House QC Peter Gray said it was therefore \"extremely difficult to understand\" why O'Malley did not follow this guidance on the night of the fire.\n\nThe court also heard that Cameron House staff were not properly trained in the safe disposal of ash and that no written procedures were in place.\n\nThere was also no procedure in place for emptying the metal ash bins outside the hotel on a regular basis.\n\nThat was contrary to recommendations made in two fire risk assessments carried out by an independent company in 2016 and 2017.\n\nAfter the first report was received by Cameron House management in January 2016, the resort manager agreed there was a lack of a formal procedure for disposing of ash and delegated the responsibility for this to his deputy.\n\nMr Meehan said this report \"should have been a game-changer\" for Cameron House.\n\nWhen the issue was raised again in a follow-up report a year later, managers believed it had already been dealt with.\n\nMr Gray said: \"The resort manager understood incorrectly that all the actions had been completed, including in relation to the written procedure for disposing of ash from open fires.\"\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service had also warned Cameron House managers about the risks of storing combustibles in the concierge cupboard in August 2017.\n\nThe audit highlighted the potential danger of fire spreading rapidly through the building because of its age and voids.\n\nA follow-up letter was sent to management in November 2017 - one month before the fire - but combustibles continued to be stored in the cupboard.\n\nCameron House's lawyer added that the failings were not deliberate breaches but occurred \"as a result of genuine errors\".\n\nHe also told the court the fire had gone undetected for a long period before being discovered, and that the hotel had a \"suite of measures in place\" to deal with fire safety.\n\nAn absence of formal procedures for dealing with ashes and embers gave staff the opportunity to improvise, he added.\n\nMr Gray continued: \"I am instructed to extend my deepest sympathies from the accused to the families of Mr Midgley and Mr Dyson.\n\nHe said the hotel takes its duties to ensure the safety of its guests extremely seriously.\n\nDetails of what happened at Cameron House were first revealed in court on 14 December last year, but reporting restrictions meant they could not be published until now.\n\nSentencing is due to take place on 29 January.", "Fashion chain Next has said it will no longer bid to buy Sir Philip Green's Arcadia retail brands Topshop and Topman out of administration.\n\nIt comes after a consortium including the fashion chain was named as frontrunner to buy the brands.\n\nIn a short statement, Next said the consortium had been \"unable to meet the price expectations of the vendor\".\n\nSome 13,000 jobs were put at risk when Arcadia, which also owns Burton and Dorothy Perkins, went bust in November.\n\nIt leaves a clutch of others in the race to buy the 440-store group, including Mike Ashley's Frasers Group, which owns House of Fraser and Sports Direct.\n\nAccording to reports, Authentic Brands, the US owner of the Barneys department store, and JD Sports have tabled a joint offer, while online retailers Asos and Boohoo are also said to be interested.\n\nAdministrators Deloitte have been looking for buyers for some or all of Arcadia, after a slump in sales caused by the pandemic triggered its collapse.\n\nNext, which has 550 UK shops and has weathered the pandemic well, was seen as a good fit to take over the group's assets.\n\nIt had been bidding in partnership with the US hedge fund Davidson Kempner, which was going to put up most of the money.\n\nNext said it wished \"the administrator and future owners [of Arcadia] well in their endeavours to preserve an important part of the UK retail sector\".\n\nExperts expect Arcadia to be broken up, with bidders taking on different parts of the business and brands potentially hived off from their stores.\n\nIn December, Australian collective City Chic said it would buy Arcadia's Evans brand, commerce and wholesale business for £23m but not its store network.\n\nLast year was the worst for the High Street in more than 25 years as the coronavirus accelerated the move towards online shopping, according to the Centre for Retail Research (CRR).\n\nNearly 180,000 retail jobs were lost, up by almost a quarter on the previous year, as shops faced strict curbs and prolonged closures.", "Early evidence suggests the variant of coronavirus that emerged in the UK may be more deadly, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said.\n\nHowever, there remains huge uncertainty around the numbers - and vaccines are still expected to work.\n\nThe data comes from mathematicians comparing death rates in people infected with either the new or the old versions of the virus.\n\nThe new more infectious variant has already spread widely across the UK.\n\nMr Johnson told a Downing Street briefing: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the south east - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\n\n\"It's largely the impact of this new variant that means the NHS is under such intense pressure.\"\n\nPublic Health England, Imperial College London, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Exeter have each been trying to assess how deadly the new variant is.\n\nTheir evidence has been assessed by scientists on the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag).\n\nThe group concluded there was a \"realistic possibility\" that the virus had become more deadly, but this is far from certain.\n\nSir Patrick Vallance, the government's chief scientific adviser, described the data so far as \"not yet strong\".\n\nHe said: \"I want to stress that there's a lot of uncertainty around these numbers and we need more work to get a precise handle on it, but it obviously is a concern that this has an increase in mortality as well as an increase in transmissibility.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance: \"There is evidence that there's an increased risk for those who have the new variant\"\n\nPrevious work suggests the new variant spreads between 30% and 70% faster than others, and there are hints it is about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, with 1,000 60-year-olds infected with the old variant, 10 of them might be expected to die. But this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nThis difference is found when looking at everyone testing positive for Covid, but analysing only hospital data has found no increase in the death rate. Hospital care has improved over the course of the pandemic as doctors get better at treating the disease.\n\nThe new variant was first detected in Kent in September. It is now the most common form of the virus in England and Northern Ireland, and has spread to more than 50 other countries.\n\nThe Pfizer and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine are both expected to work against the variant that emerged in the UK.\n\nHowever, Sir Patrick said there was more concern about two other variants that had emerged in South Africa and Brazil.\n\nHe said: \"They have certain features which means they might be less susceptible to vaccines.\n\n\"They are definitely of more concern than the one in the UK at the moment and we need to keep looking at it and studying this very carefully.\"\n\nThe prime minister said the government was prepared to take further action to protect the country's borders to prevent new variants from entering.\n\n\"I really don't rule it out, we may need to take further measures still,\" he said.\n\nLast week the government extended a travel ban to South America, Portugal and many African countries amid concerns about new variants, while all international travellers must now test negative ahead of departure to the UK and go into quarantine on arrival.", "Shoppers bought far fewer clothes last year as lockdowns meant people had less opportunity to socialise and go out.\n\nClothes sales slumped 25%, the biggest drop in 23 years when records began, official figures suggest.\n\nWhile shops have reported demand for certain clothing such as pyjamas and loungewear has risen, demand for going-out items has fallen sharply.\n\nAnd despite a pick-up in December, clothing sales remain lower than before the pandemic struck.\n\n\"With few opportunities to socialise during lockdown and many people working from home, the clothing sector has been one of the \"worst-affected by restrictions\", the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.\n\nEarlier this month, Marks & Spencer said sales of sleepwear had soared\n\nGrowing numbers of High Street shops have faced financial difficulties due to the temporary store closures imposed during lockdowns.\n\nTopshop-owner Arcadia and competitors Debenhams, Edinburgh Woollen Mill Group, Oasis and Warehouse have all slid into insolvency since lockdown measures were first imposed last March.\n\nThe inability to try clothes on in bricks-and-mortar shops, as well as restrictions on eating out meaning consumers are going out less, have all affected sales, the ONS suggested.\n\nAnd the slump in demand for fashion meant that British retail sales saw their largest annual fall on record in 2020.\n\nSales fell by 1.9% last year, when compared with 2019, the largest year-on-year fall since records began in 1997.\n\nRetail sales, including fuel, did see a small increase last month, growing by 0.3% when compared with November.\n\nIt came following the end of England's national lockdown on 2 December. Sales had slumped by 4.1% in November during a month-long shutdown.\n\nBut \"this was very clearly not a Merry Christmas for most of the High Street\", said Susannah Streeter, senior investment and markets analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"For most retailers it's the most crucial month of the year to get profit back on track but the large upswing in sales after the pain of the November lockdowns didn't materialise,\" she said.\n\nONS deputy national statistician for economic statistics Jonathan Athow said that some sectors, however, had been \"able to buck the trend\" last year.\n\n\"The increased popularity of click-and-collect and people buying more items from home led to a strong year for overall internet sales, with record highs for food and household goods sales online.\"\n\nIn a sign of the way the pandemic has changed shopping habits, the value of online retail sales jumped by 46.1% in 2020 when compared with 2019 - the highest annual growth reported since 2008.\n\nOnline trade now accounts for more than one-third of all retail sales.\n\nRichard Lim, chief executive of Retail Economics, explained that the rise of online had \"polarised industry performance\".\n\n\"The gap widened between those retailers with the most sophisticated online propositions from those with legacy store-dependent business models,\" he said.\n\nOnline-only retailers such as Boohoo and Asos, for example, have reported strong sales figures in 2020.\n\nSupermarkets in particular have embraced the shift to digital, with online food store sales up 79.3% last year.\n\nThere was also better news from the John Lewis Partnership, which owns Waitrose, on Friday. It said that it would return a £300m emergency coronavirus loan to the government as trading went \"better than anticipated\" over Christmas.\n\nToday's figures show just how badly the clothing sector has been affected these last 12 months.\n\nFashion is the big retail loser from this pandemic. Who needs to splash out on the latest trends when we're working from home and not going out? And even when clothing shops are open, chances are you can't try things on.\n\nWith all of the Covid-19 measures in place, the fun has been sucked out of shopping. We haven't stopped spending, but most of it is going online. Boohoo and Asos have seen very strong sales growth, for instance.\n\nThe going's far harder for retailers with large numbers of physical stores. The pressures have already taken their toll on the likes of Sir Philip Green's Arcadia Group and Debenhams.\n\nAnd things may well get worse on the high street before they better. Many retailers are worried about the end of the business rates holiday and of the temporary ban on eviction for non payment of rent in April. These will result in a big increase in costs when sales have yet to fully recover.\n\nBut Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the British Retail Consortium, called for more help for non-essential shops and High Street retailers who continue to be affected by lockdown restrictions.\n\n\"With no end in sight for retailers closed in lockdown, many will struggle to survive under a mounting rent burden, and a return to full business rates in April,\" she said.\n\nShe called on government to offer \"targeted\" business rates relief to businesses worst-affected by the pandemic.\n\n\"Decisive action is needed to save jobs, shops and local communities, with town and city centres looking to be particularly hard hit unless the government acts now.\"\n\nEarlier in January, a report from the Centre for Retail Research said that 2020 was the worst for High Street job losses in more than 25 years, because of the acceleration towards online shopping.\n\nNearly 180,000 retail jobs were lost last year, up by almost a quarter from 2019, it said.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLiverpool's 68-game unbeaten home run in the Premier League came to an end as Ashley Barnes fired in a late winner from the penalty spot to secure a famous victory for Burnley.\n\nBarnes was tripped in the box by goalkeeper Alisson with seven minutes remaining and converted the spot-kick as Burnley won at Anfield for the first time since 1974.\n\nLiverpool's last league loss on their own ground came nearly four years ago, against Crystal Palace in April 2017, and they are now six points behind leaders Manchester United at the midway point in the campaign.\n\nDivock Origi was given his first start of the season and should have scored when he ran free on goal after pouncing on Ben Mee's error but struck the crossbar.\n\nThe hosts pushed to find the net in the second half but ran out of ideas, Nick Pope making a stunning save to deny Mohamed Salah and fellow substitute Roberto Firmino flicking an effort wide.\n\nBurnley's shock win lifts them up to 16th in the table, seven points clear of the relegation zone.\n• None Klopp takes blame but what has happened to Liverpool?\n\nJurgen Klopp said before the game he was \"not worried\" by his side's poor run, but the latest setback means this has now turned into a real problem for the Liverpool manager.\n\nAfter 19 games, Liverpool are out of form and out of confidence, failing to find the net in their last 440 minutes of top-flight action and awaiting their first league victory of 2021.\n\nThey looked to be hitting their stride on 19 December when they took apart Crystal Palace 7-0, but have not won in the league since and scored just a solitary league goal in that time, against relegation strugglers West Brom.\n\nTheir drop-off from the same stage last season is extraordinary - after 19 games last term the Reds were 13 points clear at the top with 55 points, but they have 21 fewer points now.\n\nAside from Pope's save to thwart Salah and stops from Origi and Trent Alexander-Arnold, Liverpool did not look a side who were threatening to find the net.\n\nThey had 72% possession but much of it was slow and ponderous, and although they had spaces out wide and put 30 crosses into the box, the resolute Burnley defenders headed and hacked clear every ball that came in.\n\nLiverpool won 18 of 19 league games at Anfield as they cantered to the title last term.\n\nBurnley were the spoilers on that occasion - earning a 1-1 draw in July 2020 - and they bettered that showing here with another solid and well-organised display.\n\nCaptain Mee had 14 clearances and made two tackles, while centre-back partner James Tarkowski contributed five interceptions and won the ball back four times.\n\nBurnley are a well-drilled outfit and know their limitations, happy to sit back and soak up the pressure before looking to take their chances on the counter-attack.\n\nThey had sniffs on the break but were unable to get the final ball right and while Barnes forced an excellent save out of Alisson, the assistant referee's flag would have ruled it out.\n\nThey remain the lowest scorers in the league with just 10 goals - level with bottom side Sheffield United - but their defensive solidity means they will always pose a threat, even to the biggest teams.\n\n'We dealt with the basics' - manager reaction\n\nBurnley boss Sean Dyche to Match of the Day: \"Performance, we had to work very hard, as you do in these places, be diligent and do your jobs - shape was good, energy was good.\n\n\"We had a golden chance, kept searching, but you have to deal with the basics and we did that very well.\n\n\"We were close last year, you get a feel of a performance and I said 'you are used to playing against these players, working without the ball, there's always a chance and you have to take it'. Barnsey sticks it in there, gets a toe, it's a penalty and he sticks it away very well.\"\n• None This was Burnley's second Premier League win away against the reigning champions (also v Chelsea in August 2017). Indeed, since the 2017-18 season, Burnley are the only side with two away league wins over the reigning English champions.\n• None Liverpool have gone four league games without scoring for the first time since May 2000. The Reds have had a total of 87 shots since Sadio Mane's 12th-minute strike against West Brom, 25 days ago.\n• None This is the first time a Jurgen Klopp side has gone four league games without scoring since his Mainz side did so in the Bundesliga from November to December 2006.\n• None Liverpool have gone five Premier League games without a win (D3 L2) for only the second time under Klopp (also from Jan-Feb 2017).\n• None Liverpool have conceded two penalty goals at Anfield in this season's Premier League (also Sander Berge for Sheff Utd); they had only conceded two penalty goals at the ground under Klopp before 2020-21.\n• None Liverpool had 27 shots without scoring against Burnley, the most they have had in a single league match without finding the net since April 2013 v Reading (28), and most at Anfield since April 2012 v West Brom (30).\n• None Ashley Barnes' penalty for Burnley was his first away goal in the Premier League in 11 appearances on the road, since netting against Watford back in November 2019.\n• None Since the start of last season, no goalkeeper has made more saves against a single opponent in the Premier League than Burnley's Nick Pope against Liverpool (19). Pope has made 14 saves in his last two games at Anfield, including six tonight.\n\nLiverpool have another big game on Sunday against rivals Manchester United in the FA Cup. That game is live on the BBC (17:00 GMT). Burnley travel to Fulham in the same competition on the same day (14:30).\n• None Offside, Burnley. Dwight McNeil tries a through ball, but Chris Wood is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Takumi Minamino (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Dwight McNeil (Burnley) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses the top left corner. Assisted by Ashley Barnes.\n• None Attempt blocked. Roberto Firmino (Liverpool) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Trent Alexander-Arnold.\n• None Attempt missed. Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool) right footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Sadio Mané with a cross.\n• None Joel Matip (Liverpool) is shown the yellow card for hand ball.\n• None Attempt blocked. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Sadio Mané.\n• None Goal! Liverpool 0, Burnley 1. Ashley Barnes (Burnley) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner.\n• None Penalty conceded by Alisson (Liverpool) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt blocked. Sadio Mané (Liverpool) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Andrew Robertson. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "Nissan's car plant in Sunderland is the UK's biggest and employs 6,000 people directly\n\nJapanese car maker Nissan has told the BBC its Sunderland plant is secure for the long term as a result of the trade deal reached between the UK and the EU.\n\nIt said it will move additional battery production close to the plant where it has 6,000 direct employees and supports nearly 70,000 jobs in the supply chain.\n\nCurrently, the batteries in its Leaf electric cars are imported from Japan.\n\nNissan would not confirm if this would mean additional jobs at Sunderland, which is the UK's largest car plant.\n\nManufacturing the more powerful batteries in the UK will ensure its cars comply with trade rules agreed with the EU requiring at least 55% of the car's value to be derived from either the UK or the EU to qualify for zero tariffs when exported to the EU.\n\nSome 70% of the cars made in Sunderland are exported and the vast majority of them are sold in the EU.\n\nNissan had issued stark warnings last year that if the UK left the EU without a trade deal, the resulting tariffs on cars and components would make the Sunderland plant \"unsustainable\".\n\nNissan's chief operating officer Ashwani Gupta told the BBC: \"The Brexit deal is positive for Nissan. Being the largest automaker in the UK we are taking this opportunity to redefine auto-making in the UK.\n\nNissan's Ashwani Gupta said the Brexit deal had created a 'competitive environment'\n\n\"It has created a competitive environment for Sunderland, not just inside the UK but outside as well.\n\n\"We've decided to localise the manufacture of the 62kWh battery in Sunderland so that all our products qualify [for tariff-free export to the EU]. We are committed to Sunderland for the long term under the business conditions that have been agreed.\"\n\nIt came as Nissan paused one of its two production lines in Sunderland on Friday as disruption at ports caused by the pandemic affected its supply chain.\n\nThe company said the move would affect the line which produces the Qashqai and Leaf, but work would resume next week.\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng welcomed the firm's endorsement of Sunderland as a manufacturing base.\n\n\"Nissan's decision represents a genuine belief in Britain and a huge vote of confidence in our economy thanks to the certainty our trade deal with the EU delivers,\" he said.\n\n\"For the dedicated and highly-skilled workforce in Sunderland, it means the city will be home to Nissan's latest models for years to come and positions the company to capitalise on the wealth of benefits that will flow from electric vehicle production.\"\n\nIt's particularly welcome after the more guarded comments from the boss of Vauxhall's parent company last week.\n\nSpeaking as the tie-up between Fiat Chrsyler and Peugeot Citroen was christened with new umbrella name Stellantis, boss Carlos Tavares said that the future of its Ellesmere Port plant depended on the support the UK government was prepared to offer after its decision to ban sales of new petrol and diesel cars after 2030.\n\n\"If you change, brutally, the rules and if you restrict the rules for business then there is at one point in time a problem,\" he said.\n\nLooking forward, he said it would make more sense to locate an electric vehicle factory closer to the larger EU market.\n\nIndustry voices welcomed the news from Nissan but reinforced the message from Vauxhall's owners that the government needs to do more to secure the future of the car industry as it electrifies.\n\n\"This is obviously good news and will help the Nissan Leaf avoid any future tariffs, but we are going to need to see a lot more investment in battery production in the UK if we are to preserve the UK as a car manufacturer and exporter,\" said Professor David Bailey of Warwick University.\n\nThe head of trade body the Society for Motor Manufacturers and Traders agreed.\n\n\"The battery plant in Sunderland may be enough for Nissan's near-term plans to build tens of thousands of electric cars but the UK made 1.5 million cars last year and all will be partly electric by 2030,\" Mike Hawes said.\n\nAndy Palmer, former boss of Aston Martin and current chairman of electric bus maker Switch Mobility, has gone further. He says that 800,000 jobs are at risk if the UK government doesn't act now to foster battery investment.\n\n\"Without electric vehicle batteries made in the UK, the country's auto industry risks becoming an antiquated relic and overtaken by China, Japan, America and Europe.\"\n\nHe urged the UK government to use every lever at its disposal to make the UK attractive.\n\nUK car investment has fallen sharply since the UK voted to leave the EU.\n\nIn the five years to 2016 it averaged £3.5bn per year. In the four years since it has averaged around £1bn - a fall of 71% at a time when the technology and map of car production are going through their biggest revolution since the car was invented.\n\nThe Nissan decision is therefore a very welcome boost to the UK which is in an international scramble for the investment of the future which is happening right now.", "Police warned that unsanctioned protests would be \"immediately suppressed\"\n\nRussian police have detained close aides of the jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny, as a string of nationwide protests gets under way.\n\nPolice have broken up demonstrations in the eastern Khabarovsk region, amid stern warnings for people to stay home.\n\nMr Navalny's supporters flooded social media with calls to rally at protests expected in dozens of cities later.\n\nHe is Russian leader Vladimir Putin's most high-profile critic.\n\nHe was arrested last Sunday after he flew back to Moscow from Berlin, where he had been recovering from a near-fatal nerve agent attack in Russia last August.\n\nOn his return, he was immediately taken into custody and found guilty of violating parole conditions. He says it is a trumped-up case designed to silence him.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alexei Navalny was filmed by the BBC saying goodbye to his wife and then being led away by authorities\n\nMore than 60m people have watched his new video about President Vladimir Putin's alleged luxury Black Sea palace.\n\nThe Kremlin denies the property belongs to the president.\n\nAmong those detained in Moscow on Thursday were his spokeswoman, Kira Yarmysh, and one of his lawyers, Lyubov Sobol. They face fines or short jail terms.\n\nMs Sobol, who has a young child, was later released. But Ms Yarmysh has now been jailed for nine days.\n\nProminent Navalny activists are also being held in the cities of Vladivostok, Novosibirsk and Krasnodar.\n\nUnauthorised rallies are being planned in more than 60 cities across Russia for Saturday. Moscow police say any unauthorised demonstrations and provocations will be \"immediately suppressed\".\n\nA thousand people were reported to have come onto the streets in the Khabarovsk region, with some of them already detained.\n\nMr Navalny's wife Yulia, who travelled back to Russia with him from Germany, said she would demonstrate in Moscow \"for myself, for him, for our children, for the values and the ideals that we share\".\n\nAlexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) has drawn millions of followers on social media, through slickly produced videos alleging large-scale official corruption. He has long denounced Mr Putin's administration as \"feudal\" and full of \"crooks and thieves\".\n\nFor a long time the Russian authorities made out that Alexei Navalny was irrelevant. Just a blogger. With a tiny following. No threat whatsoever.\n\nRecent events suggest the opposite. First Mr Navalny was targeted with a nerve agent, allegedly by a secret group of FSB state security hitmen. Instead of investigating the poisoning, Russia is investigating him: on his return from Germany the Kremlin critic was arrested.\n\nHaving put Mr Navalny behind bars, the authorities are putting pressure on his supporters. The Kremlin's greatest fear is of a Ukraine-style revolution in Russia that would sweep away those in power.\n\nThere's no indication that such a scenario is imminent. But with economic problems growing, the Kremlin will worry that Mr Navalny could act as a lightning rod for protest sentiment. That explains the police crackdown on Navalny allies ahead of Saturday's potential protests.\n\nPlus, this is getting personal. Mr Navalny's video about \"Putin's Palace\" on the Black Sea was designed to cause maximum embarrassment to the Russian president.\n\nIn the \"Putin's palace\" video Mr Navalny alleges that rich businessmen close to Mr Putin paid for a sumptuous 17,691sq m (190,424sq ft) palace for him at Gelendzhik, by the Black Sea.\n\nIt is alleged to have a casino, a theatre and many other comforts, including a vineyard and tea house in the sprawling grounds. The Kremlin dismissed the YouTube video as a \"pseudo-investigation\" aimed at earning money for Mr Navalny.\n\nProsecutors have warned people against protesting in support of Mr Navalny on Saturday. Russia's education ministry has told parents not to allow their children to attend.\n\nSome Russian celebrities in the arts and sports have pledged support for Mr Navalny. They include ice hockey star Artemi Panarin.\n\nFormer world chess champion Garry Kasparov - now a leading anti-Putin activist based in the US - tweeted that pro-Navalny posts were being widely blocked in Russia.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Garry Kasparov This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a phone call to President Putin on Friday, EU Council President Charles Michel voiced \"grave concern\" about the jailing of Mr Navalny.\n\nMr Michel said the EU was \"united in its call on Russia to swiftly release Mr Navalny and proceed with the investigation into the assassination attempt on him, in full transparency and without further delay\".\n\nIn October, the EU imposed sanctions on six top Russian officials and a Russian chemical weapons research centre over the Novichok poisoning of Mr Navalny.\n\nThe Kremlin retaliated with tit-for-tat sanctions, denying any role in the attack and rejecting the expert finding that the Russian nerve agent had been used.\n\nThe Black Sea palace allegedly features a casino, an ice rink and a vineyard\n\nThe social media app TikTok has a flood of videos from Russians promoting the protests planned for Saturday. The messages about Mr Navalny have been going viral for several days.\n\nA well-known Russian TikTok user, Slava Varfolomeyev, told BBC Russian: \"I go on TikTok and find that every third video is about 'Putin's palace', the detention of Navalny and the 23 January rally!\"\n\nHe said that on Thursday \"this swelled to a maximum: practically seven out of every 10 videos were on that topic [Navalny]\". TikTok's popularity is based on short-form videos.\n\nOn Wednesday Russia's official media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, demanded that TikTok take down any information \"encouraging minors to act illegally\", threatening large fines.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\nSerious flooding which forced villagers from their homes was potentially caused by a mine shaft \"blow out\" during Storm Christoph, authorities have said.\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated as water rushed through Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, on Thursday.\n\nResidents have been told they will not be able to return home this weekend or \"possibly longer\".\n\nThe Coal Authority said initial checks suggested water had built up in the shaft and flooded the village.\n\nCarl Banton, from the Coal Authority, said there had been a \"tremendous amount\" of rain recently and potentially a blockage in the drainage system could have caused the mine shaft to \"blow out\".\n\nMr Banton reassured people that officers had visually checked other mine shafts in the area and were \"not concerned\" any would collapse.\n\n\"The mine shaft in question is the one that was on actually on the water level, it has found its point of weakness,\" he said.\n\nCarl Banton said that while investigations were ongoing heavy rain may have overwhelmed the mine shaft\n\nA major incident was declared as water rushed into the village on Thursday, leaving eight streets underwater as Storm Christoph caused widespread flooding across Wales.\n\nOn Friday, as firefighters continued to pump water out of the village, Natural Resources Wales (NRW) confirmed the Tennant Canal had been polluted \"from mine water\".\n\nLate on Friday evening, Neath Port Talbot council said, for safety reasons, people forced to leave their homes would \"not be able to return home this weekend, and the wait could possibly longer\".\n\nA support centre will open at Abbey Primary School from Saturday, with council officers on site to help people access emergency support.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Coal Authority, which manages the effects of historical coal mining, are investigating the cause of the flooding.\n\nMr Banton said initial findings showed there may have been a build-up of water on the hillside which had \"found its way out\" through the mine shaft, flooding the village.\n\n\"The flow appears to be subsiding... but what we are unsure of is if there is a feed of additional water into the mine workings, from the extensive mine workings on the hillside,\" he added.\n\nAt least 80 people have had to leave their homes in the village after flooding\n\nMr Banton said officers would drill down into the shaft and investigate on Saturday, in the hope that people could soon be allowed back into their homes.\n\n\"A lot of the mining in this area is very old... some of it dates back to the early 1800s... we have no details of how the shaft in question here was originally filled or capped,\" he said.\n\n\"We will ensure the mine shaft is properly capped and sorted out.\"\n\nMartyn Evans, of NRW, said officers were looking at how to minimise the risk of pollution to nearby rivers, and investigating any impacts on the River Neath.\n\n\"We have also carried out tests on other watercourses in the vicinity of the incident. Results indicate there has been no significant impact on those at present,\" he said.\n\nOn Thursday night a further 20 homes were evacuated by emergency services as the water continued to rush through the village.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford confirmed on Friday financial support would be made available to people affected by the recent floods, up to £1,000 per household.\n\n\"This is the same level of support available a year ago when storms Ciara and Dennis hit Wales, just before the pandemic,\" he said.\n\nThe water is warmer than the air and is creating a mist along Dynevor Road\n\nSkewen resident John Thomas said he returned home from a funeral with wife Lynne on Thursday to find their house had turned into \"a lake\", he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\nHe said: \"The water was around the level of the bottom of the doors so we couldn't go in, so we just had to stand there and watch this orange-coloured water just piling up and up and up.\"\n\nMr Thomas said that with water up to his waist, he was unable to get in to rescue possessions.\n\nHe added: \"We're in a bit of a dip on the road, so you could see it gradually coming up, they were worried it might have been a sinkhole because of the coal mines.\n\n\"It's definitely mine workings, just by looking at the colour of the water, it's an orange colour.\n\n\"Other people who were evacuated had the chance to move things upstairs, I didn't have a chance to do that because I couldn't get in to it.\"\n\nThe couple are now staying with their daughter, with everyone else who was evacuated from their homes finding accommodation and told to avoid the area.\n\nMore than 30 residents of Cwrt-Clwydi-Gwyn care home were among those moved as a precaution.\n\nIt was a sleepless night for Skewen resident Teresa Dalling\n\nTeresa Dalling, who lives in Dynevor Road, said she had spent the night fearing for her safety.\n\n\"I haven't slept. I was up the back door every two hours checking the water level,\" she said.\n\n\"I didn't know we lived near old mines and if there's been a collapse, my fear is more could follow and that's terrifying.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Stephen Kinnock This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAs well as properties, vehicles were submerged in water\n\nUp to 45 firefighters were involved at the scene at the height of the flooding.\n\nIn a joint statement, the police, fire service and Neath Port Talbot Council urged people not to return to their homes until it was safe.\n\nCh Supt Trudi Meyrick said: \"We appreciate people are eager to get back to their homes and we are working with partners to allow this to happen as soon as it is safe to do so.\n\n\"In the meantime we ask people to please be patient as their safety is our top priority.\"\n\nIn one home, floodwater can be seen filling the living room\n\nFirefighters are continuing to pump water out of the village where people were forced to leave their homes\n\nDeputy Chief Fire Officer Roger Thomas, of Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service, said firefighters remained in the village, pumping out water.\n\nHe said: \"We will continue to monitor the situation and support our partner agencies and those affected over the next few days.\"\n\nHomes were evacuated at Goshen Park, in Skewen\n\nNeath Port Talbot council said a local rest centre was available, and measures had been put in place to protect against Covid-19.\n\nChief executive Karen Jones said they would continue to support residents who had to leave their homes and they would ensure others had a safe place to go if further evacuations were necessary.\n\nNetwork Rail said engineers had checked for any potential damage to the railway line, but had found no \"cause for concern\".\n\nThe water has rushed through the streets of the town\n\nA severe flood warning remains in force for the Lower Dee Valley, from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows.\n\nThree flood warnings are in place for the River Wye at Monmouth, River Ritec at Tenby, and Bangor-on-Dee, where people were forced to leave their homes on Thursday as flooding saw a major incident declared. Eleven flood alerts are also in place.\n\nSnow and ice could also exacerbate issues for emergency services and those forced to leave their homes, with temperatures forecast to plummet in coming days.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nFive-time finalist Andy Murray will miss the Australian Open after a solution to find a \"workable quarantine\" following his positive test for coronavirus could not be found.\n\nThe 33-year-old Briton was set to fly out to Melbourne last week, but was not allowed to travel on a charter flight after being found to have Covid-19.\n\nThe former world number one had hoped to travel safely and compete as planned on the back of a negative test.\n\nMurray said he was \"gutted\" not to go.\n\nHe was asymptomatic and is now out of self-isolation, but finding a way for him to travel to Australia and then going into quarantine before the tournament starts on 8 February proved too difficult.\n\n\"We've been in constant dialogue with Tennis Australia to try and find a solution which would allow some form of workable quarantine, but we couldn't make it work,\" said Murray.\n\n\"I want to thank everyone there for their efforts. I'm devastated not to be playing out in Australia. It's a country and tournament that I love.\"\n\nMurray was able to play only seven official matches in 2020 because of a lingering pelvic injury, and the five-month suspension of the tours because of the pandemic.\n\nAt 123rd in the world, he was ranked too low to gain direct entry into Australian Open so the three-time Grand Slam champion was given a wildcard.\n\nThe Australian Open at Melbourne Park is starting three weeks later than usual because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nPlayers had to test negative before taking one of the 15 chartered flights - which were put on last week by tournament organisers and operated at 25% capacity - to Australia.\n\nOn arrival, the players and their support staff went straight into a 14-day quarantine under the conditions imposed by the Australian government.\n\nThat agreement allowed them out of their rooms for up to five hours a day for food and practice.\n\nHowever, 72 players have been confined to their rooms in a tougher quarantine - which led to some complaints and creative ways of staying fit - after they travelled on three flights where positive cases were found on arrival.\n\nHaving missed his flight to Melbourne, and therefore last weekend's window for the players to begin 14 days of quarantine, Murray was always up against it.\n\nThere are no health issues, and no injury concerns, and Murray had been hoping he could make it to Australia to complete quarantine in time to play a first-round match on either 8 or 9 February.\n\nBut the only \"workable quarantine\" would have included five hours out of his room every day. This was no longer available, and no player - irrespective of age or injury history - would want to play a Grand Slam first-round match just hours after two weeks in a hotel room.\n\nMurray is understandably devastated: he knows that at 33, and with two hip operations behind him, he cannot guarantee there will be another opportunity.\n\nBut it would have been a long way to travel potentially to lose in the first round, and receiving a special exemption may not have sat well with Murray over time.\n\nInstead, he will work with his team on his next move. Montpellier and Rotterdam are the next two ATP tournaments in Europe, although nothing is easy with Covid travel restrictions.\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "Jane Midgley says she needs answers about the death of her son, Simon\n\nThe mother of a man killed in a fire at a hotel on the shores of Loch Lomond more than two years ago has said it is \"torture\" not knowing why he died.\n\nSimon Midgley, 32, and Richard Dyson, 38, died in the fire which fire broke out at the Cameron House Hotel in 2017.\n\nJane Midgley said she needs answers about what led to Simon's death.\n\nThe Crown Office said it was committed to ensuring the circumstances around the deaths were aired in an \"appropriate legal forum\".\n\nMs Midgley said every day without answers was like the day she found out about his death.\n\n\"I just live it every single day and I can't cope with it much longer,\" she said. \"I need to know why they are not here and it's so difficult.\n\n\"I need answers. Why are these boys not here anymore? Why did this happen? Nearly three years on, no one is telling me.\"\n\nRichard Dyson and Simon Midgley were thought to be on a winter break in Scotland\n\nShe told BBC Scotland she wakes up during the night thinking about her son, asking herself \"has this really happened?\".\n\n\"Nearly three years on, should I still be feeling this hurt and pain?\"\n\nAfter the fire, the emergency services conducted investigations.\n\nWhile this can be a lengthy process, reports from the fire service and the police were passed to the Crown months ago.\n\nMs Midgley criticised prosecutors for not providing her with more information. She added she thinks they should be in contact with her more regularly than every four weeks.\n\nShe said: \"When the Crown say that they regularly update the family and are in regular contact that is always to say... 'it's still ongoing', 'we'll update you with anything significant', 'it's complicated'.\"\n\nShe added that there were many questions she still wanted answers to.\n\n\"The most important thing is finding out why Simon couldn't get out of that hotel that night - what went wrong. I have no idea, I've got to understand, I just need the answers.\n\n\"I need to know how it happened. I need to know why the boys didn't get out of that hotel when it was on fire, how it started, where it started, why they could not get out, could it have been prevented... it is pure torture.\"\n\nFire broke out at the Cameron House hotel in 2017\n\nMr Midgley was a freelance writer with the Evening Standard. Following his death the newspaper's editor, George Osbourne, paid tribute to Mr Midgley's \"adventurous spirit\".\n\nA spokesman for the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service said: \"Our staff have been in regular contact with the nearest relatives and provided them with information at every stage.\n\n\"The information that can be shared while a case is being investigated is limited so as not to prejudice any potential proceedings.\n\n\"The Crown‎ is committed to ensuring that the facts and circumstances surrounding the deaths of Simon Midgley and Richard Dyson are thoroughly investigated by the relevant agencies, fully considered by COPFS and, in due course, aired in an appropriate legal forum.\n\n\"The nearest relatives will continue to be kept updated in relation to any significant developments.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Amy says her flat isn't worth anything until it is made safe\n\nThe government's fund to pay for the removal of dangerous cladding is woefully inadequate, oversubscribed and taking too long to make buildings safe, campaigners say.\n\nMore than three and a half years since the Grenfell Tower fire which killed 72 people, an estimated 700,000 people are still living in high-rise blocks with flammable cladding.\n\nThe £1.6bn Building Safety Programme was set up in 2019. Concerns have emerged about the contract that the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government requires applicants to the fund, usually managing agents or building owners, to sign.\n\nA clause in the contract, seen by the BBC, indicates applicants will be financially liable for any repair work not covered by the fund.\n\nThe BBC has learnt that some managing agents are refusing to sign the document, further delaying the repair work, and have written to the government asking ministers to clarify the position.\n\nChristian Hansen, a solicitor at Bindmans LLP specialising in housing law and fire safety claims, said the contract showed that \"there's going to be a significant shortfall between the costs of the [repair] works that are required and the funding provided under the scheme\".\n\n\"Someone is going to need to pick up the bill and pay the difference. This contract makes clear it's going to be the leaseholders and for many, this could be tens of thousands of pounds, potentially ruinous costs,\" he warned.\n\nMr Hansen said that leaseholders wanted the focus of government action \"to be on the manufacturers of the defective materials and construction companies who built these buildings\".\n\n\"At the moment, they are the ones profiting from putting people's lives at risk.\"\n\n\"It is absolutely terrifying knowing that you are stuck here,\" says Amy\n\nFirst-time buyer Amy Cottenden, who is 28, bought a one-bed flat in Metis Tower in the centre of Sheffield for £85,000 in 2017.\n\nInspections of the 14-storey building in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy revealed it had the same type of flammable ACM cladding and other safety faults.\n\nWork to remove the cladding started last month, but Ms Cottenden, who is a frontline NHS health worker, is frustrated at what she describes as a lack of progress.\n\n\"The pace of work is extremely slow. So far, they've put scaffolding up and removed three panels. They have told us it's going to take between 12 and 24 months just to take the cladding off,\" she said.\n\n\"It is absolutely terrifying knowing that you are stuck here. With lockdown, they are saying not to go out, but you are in a building where all you want to do is not be in it. You can't leave. You can't sell. My flat isn't worth anything until it is made safe.\"\n\nWhile the government's Building Safety Fund is paying for the Grenfell-style cladding to be removed, the building has other fire safety faults, including missing fire breaks, that aren't covered by the scheme.\n\nIt could cost up to £6m to fix. Flat owners fear they may face huge bills of up to £50,000 each.\n\n\"We can't pay it and we shouldn't have to pay it. It is not our fault. We could all go bankrupt because of this,\" Ms Cottenden said.\n\nA spokesperson for Rendall & Rittner, the company which manages Metis Tower, said government funding to remove ACM cladding had been approved totalling £6.3m.\n\nHowever, an application to the same fund to pay for the removal of other types of unsafe cladding was rejected and the company has appealed against that decision.\n\nThe company added: \"We understand and sympathise with residents and owners about the uncertainty that this situation is causing and will do all we can to assist.\"\n\nWhat started as a cladding scandal has now become a much wider building safety crisis, exposing decades of regulatory failure.\n\nSafety inspections have revealed that many buildings have other serious faults, including missing fire breaks, flammable balconies and defective insulation. None of that is covered by the government's Building Safety Fund.\n\nDr Nigel Glen, the chief executive of ARMA, the trade association for residential leasehold management, said the additional costs that leaseholders were currently facing for non-cladding-related issues remained a huge concern.\n\n\"In the longer term, the draining of reserve funds will also mean that in the years to come, any major works that were being saved up for, such as a new roof or lift repairs, will have to be funded anew by the leaseholders,\" he added.\n\nA spokesperson for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said that despite the pandemic, significant progress had been made to remove dangerous cladding, but \"building safety remains the responsibility of the building owner and we expect them to ensure any necessary work is carried out safely and effectively\".\n\n\"All applicants to the Building Safety Fund are told the amount of funding they have been awarded before being asked to sign contracts - this is clearly explained in the guidance,\" the spokesperson added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This is the moment a police officer broke up a house party on Saturday\n\nA minority still breaking Covid lockdown rules could make the pandemic \"stretch longer\" in Wales, a senior police officer has warned.\n\nThe \"gold commander\" for policing lockdown across the Gwent force area said he wanted to thank the vast majority for sticking to the law.\n\nBut Chief Superintendent Mark Hobrough said those \"blatantly flouting\" rules would face enforcement action.\n\nNearly 3,800 fines have been issued in Wales for Covid rule breaches.\n\nThe latest figures released by UK police forces revealed nearly three-quarters of those fines went to men, and the largest group falling foul of Covid rules were aged between 18 and 24.\n\nCh Supt Hobrough, who oversees Gwent Police's response to Covid-19, said he and his officers had seen a change in the way the public responded to the restrictions since the first lockdown was announced in March 2020.\n\n\"When it first started there was certainly a lack of understanding among the public,\" he said.\n\n\"We were called for advice and questions on what was allowed or not allowed, which we've certainly seen diminish.\"\n\nHe said initially his force was dealing with breaches of regulations by pubs and bars, or people holding house parties.\n\n\"That has changed over time. We still have experiences of house parties and people congregating in houses, which just isn't allowed obviously.\n\n\"But I think we are also seeing breaches in relation to people congregating in beauty spots and maybe not exercising in line with the requirements.\"\n\nAccording to the National Police Chiefs' Council, there were 3,770 fixed penalty notices issues by the four Welsh forces between the last Friday in March and 20 December last year.\n\nOf those fines, 2,188 were for breaching rules on movement restrictions, while 823 faced penalties for gathering in private properties outside their own households.\n\nA further 113 notices were issued to individuals for staying in Wales when it was not their main residence, and 89 were hit with fines for entering or leaving local health protection areas, when many counties in Wales had separate travel restrictions in place in the autumn.\n\nThe figures also reveal that just two fines were issued in the period for failing to wear a face covering in designated indoor areas.\n\nSgt Dan Wise says enforcement is sometimes the only option for his team\n\nOut on the streets of Newport, and around the rest of the Gwent force area, the officers on the ground said they wanted to educate the public whenever rules changed, but they will enforce clear breaches.\n\n\"Some of the things people have been stopped for are travelling into Wales to look at the snow,\" said Sgt Dan Wise, as he carried out checks on motorists in Newport.\n\n\"Others are travelling to local beauty spots to exercise. Obviously, these are things that are not acceptable.\"\n\nHe said as the pandemic continues, with high numbers of cases and given how easily the virus can spread, \"we will look to enforce where people are blatantly flouting the rules\".\n\nAt the Gwent Police headquarters, Ch Supt Hobrough said he had this message for the minority of \"those people who aren't abiding\" by the rules: \"It would very much be within everybody's interest for them to reflect on the way they are conducting themselves.\n\n\"Because that minority of people who aren't abiding are possibly making this pandemic stretch longer.\"\n• None Coronavirus legislation and guidance on the law - GOV.WALES The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "David and Victoria Beckham have paid themselves £21m from their sports and media business since 2019, according to the their latest accounts.\n\nThis is despite continued heavy losses at Ms Beckham's fashion business, where trade has worsened during the pandemic.\n\nProfit at David Beckham Ventures Limited (DBVL), the brand management firm owned by the former footballer and his wife, fell £3.5m to £11.3m in 2019.\n\nThis was in part due to money spent on expansion and charitable donations.\n\nHowever, the celebrity couple still paid themselves a £14.5m dividend at the end of 2019, accounts show, and took a further £7.1m in 2020.\n\nA spokesman attributed the payments to \"profitable performance\" at DBVL, which among other things manages Mr Beckham's strategic partnerships with Adidas and Haig Club whisky.\n\nHe also noted that the company's revenue climbed by £600,000 in 2019 to £16.2m.\n\nHowever, Victoria Beckham Holdings (VBHL), which manages the former Spice Girl's fashion label, fared much worse during that time.\n\nLosses at the business - which is also backed by the Beckhams' former business partner Simon Fuller and private equity firm NEO investment Partners - widened to £16.6m during the year, following a loss of £12.5m in 2018.\n\nIt marked the seventh year the brand has been in the red since it was founded in 2008.\n\nVBHL blamed costs associated with the launch of the Victoria Beckham Beauty business, a new cosmetics range in which the group has an 85% shareholding.\n\nIt also noted that total sales across the whole business were up by 7% in 2019.\n\nNevertheless, auditors BDO, who signed off on the accounts, warned that the business was now reliant on shareholder support to keep going which could \"cast significant doubt on the company's ability to continue as a going concern\".\n\nAs the pandemic hammered the business last April, VBHL had to borrow £9.2m from its shareholders to repay an outstanding bank loan to HSBC after breaking its debt covenants.\n\nVBHL said it was doing all it could to \"navigate\" the coronavirus crisis, including taking \"all actions possible to conserve cash\".\n\n\"All non-essential expenditure is being deferred and hiring freezes have been implemented for open positions.to enable the company to navigate through this pandemic,\" it said.", "The company said its milk processing was highly automated with no risk to the products caused by the virus outbreak\n\nOne worker at a dairy has died after contracting coronavirus and 95 others are self-isolating.\n\nMuller Milk & Ingredients said 47 staff members who work at the company's dairy near Bridgwater, Somerset, have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nIt said it was now testing all 300 workers at its site in North Petherton.\n\nA spokesman for the firm said the safety of its products had not been affected by the outbreak at its factory.\n\nIt was working with Public Health England and the council to help with mass testing, he added.\n\nThe employee was taken to hospital but died. The firm said its thoughts were with the worker's family and friends.\n\nProduction has since been reduced at the site.\n\nThe spokesman added: \"It is important to stress that fresh milk processing is highly automated ensuring no risk to products, with our Bridgwater facility one of the most modern dairies in the UK.\n\n\"As we have done throughout the pandemic, we are placing the safety of our employees first and following best practice as set down by the Health and Safety Executive.\n\n\"Standard measures in place include the use of facemasks, distancing, enhanced deep cleaning and hygiene, underpinned by a programme of e-learning, information and audits to ensure compliance and awareness of the measures.\"\n\nSomerset County Council said it was working closely with Public Health England and the factory and that further testing was being done throughout Thursday.\n\n\"The [council's] rapid outbreak testing team is carrying out further workforce testing today, for workers who were not present on Monday shifts.\n\n\"The testing on Monday identified a number of staff who were positive but asymptomatic, who are now isolating,\" a spokesman said.", "Elizabeth Kerr and Simon O'Brien were married moments before he was put on a mechanical ventilator\n\nAn engaged couple taken to hospital in the same ambulance with Covid-19 were able to marry moments before the man was sedated and put on a ventilator.\n\nElizabeth Kerr, 31, and Simon O'Brien, 36, were taken to Milton Keynes University Hospital with breathing difficulties on 9 January.\n\nStaff rallied to arrange a wedding as the groom's condition worsened.\n\nThey held off intubating Mr O'Brien so the ceremony could go ahead. The couple are now recovering in hospital.\n\nMrs Kerr, a nurse, and Mr O'Brien had planned to marry in June.\n\nBoth contracted the disease and were taken to hospital together when their oxygen levels fell dangerously low.\n\nThey were placed on separate wards but when Mrs Kerr told nurse Hannah Cannon about their wedding plans, she asked her if they would like to marry in the hospital.\n\nMrs Kerr said she was told it could be their only chance.\n\n\"Those are words I never, ever want to hear again,\" she said.\n\nA photo on Mrs Kerr's phone shows the wedding took place in the beds of the intensive care unit\n\nHowever, while staff were securing the wedding licence, Mr O'Brien's condition further deteriorated and on 12 January he was placed on the intensive care unit, to be put on a ventilator.\n\nThey waited to intubate him just long enough for the ceremony to go ahead.\n\nMs Cannon said: \"With lots of teamwork... we were able to give them a wedding, not necessarily the wedding that they would have initially intended, but certainly something positive, remarkable and memorable for them to really hold on to.\"\n\nShe filmed the marriage for the couple's families and friends, and catering staff at the hospital provided a cake.\n\nShortly after saying \"I do\", Mr O'Brien was placed on the ventilator.\n\nThe couple have now been reunited on a recovery ward and were able to kiss for the first time since being married.\n\nMrs Kerr said having the wedding meant \"everything\" to them.\n\n\"If we hadn't had each other and we hadn't been given that opportunity to get married, I don't think both of us would be here now,\" she added.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The White House has just put out a statement marking the 48th anniversary of Roe v Wade, the Supreme Court decision that essentially legalised the right to abortion.\n\n\"In the past four years, reproductive health, including the right to choose, has been under relentless and extreme attack,\" the statement from Biden and Harris begins .\n\nThey go on to say they are committed to \"codifying\" the judgement, which means pass legislation through Congress that enshrines abortion access into law.\n\nThey will also appoint judges who will support abortion access, they say. Trump, during his time in office, was able to give the Supreme Court a conservative majority, making anti-abortion activists hopeful that Roe v Wade could eventually be overturned.\n\nBiden was the only candidate during the primary to say he endorsed the so-called Hyde Amendment, which says that no federal funds can go towards abortions. After nearly all 22 other candidates came out against the Hyde Amendment, he reversed his stance.\n\nAlthough abortion is technically legal across the US, multiple states have instituted laws that make it nearly impossible in practice. Abortion activists hope that a law would make it more difficult for local governments to restrict access.", "Michelle O'Neill and Arlene Foster were advised restrictions may have to remain in place until after Easter\n\nCoronavirus lockdown restrictions in Northern Ireland will be extended until 5 March, the first and deputy first ministers have said.\n\nThe executive backed the health minister's proposal on Thursday and will review the move on 18 February.\n\nBut ministers were also told that restrictions may have to remain in place until after the Easter holidays.\n\nA lockdown closing non-essential retailers and encouraging employees to work from home began after Christmas.\n\nFamily gatherings are prohibited and people have been ordered to stay at home for all but essential reasons.\n\nSchools are closed to most pupils until after February's half-term but a paper looking at reopening will be put to ministers at next week's executive meeting.\n\nThe lockdown came in response to a spike in the number of cases of coronavirus, which followed a relaxation of some rules in the run-up to Christmas.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said extending the restrictions was an \"appropriate and necessary response\" to tackle the \"imminent threat\" posed by Covid-19.\n\nShe said she understood it would be difficult for many people to accept, given the uncertainty facing families and businesses, but added: \"To not press forward would risk all of the hard-won gains.\"\n\nThe first and deputy first ministers were right to state just how tough this decision will be for many people.\n\nBut there's an acceptance among the public that restrictions would have to be extended, given how bad things are in our hospitals.\n\nTheir decision also suggests politicians have perhaps learned from the last wave of the pandemic, when restrictions were turned on and off sporadically, and the impact that had both on cases and the messaging.\n\nThey're not alone in sustaining tough lockdown measures, with other UK nations and the Republic of Ireland also keeping their restrictions in place for several more weeks.\n\nBeyond that, it is thought health officials also want to ensure the vaccination programme is also \"well advanced\" before any restrictions are relaxed.\n\nThe hope is that, by spring, the picture will have improved significantly.\n\nUntil then the price we are paying for relaxations before Christmas looks likely to keep rising.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said she recognised the executive was asking a lot of everybody but insisted the measures were important.\n\n\"We don't know what will come after [5 March],\" she said.\n\nMs O'Neill said there was a commitment not to keep restrictions in place longer than necessary but decisions would have to be taken in line with the health advice and concerns about a new variant of the virus which is more transmissible.\n\nThe executive's decision comes as another 21 deaths were recorded by the Department of Health on Thursday.\n\nThe reproductive rate of the virus - known as the R-number - had risen to about 1.8 due to Christmas relaxations.\n\nBut the latest estimate from the Department of Health says it is sitting between 0.65 and 0.85 for cases within the community but is still above one for hospital admissions and intensive care.\n\nWhile some may wonder why are restrictions are being extended when the executive's policy has always been based on this rate of infection, the difference is that this time around there are three times as many people in Northern Ireland's hospitals than there were in last April's peak.\n\nDaily case numbers are still significantly higher too.\n\nWhile ministers have agreed to keep the current restrictions in place until March, Health Minister Robin Swann said it was possible they could be needed until Easter, which this year falls in the first week of April.\n\nMinisters say they understand the extension of the lockdown will be difficult for people\n\nIt is understood this plan is being discussed across the four UK nations but ministers will have to consider that in the review next month.\n\nMinisters were also warned that restrictions would be eased on a step-by-step basis in line with reducing pressures on the health service and ensuring the vaccination programme is \"well advanced\" before any relaxations are agreed.\n\nMrs Foster pleaded with people struggling with their mental health during the lockdown to \"please seek help\".\n\nMore than 100 medically-trained military personnel are to be deployed to help health staff deal with the pressure the latest phase of the pandemic is placing on hospitals.\n\nThe chief medical officer Dr Michael McBride said the \"sustained pressure on our health service\" would probably last for three to four weeks.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 51 Covid-19 related deaths and 2,608 new cases of the virus were recorded on Thursday.\n\nSimon Hamilton, the chief executive of the Belfast Chamber of Trade and Commerce, said the extension of the lockdown would be of \"little surprise to most businesses\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Stormont executive has agreed how to allocate almost £300m to help businesses, education, tourism and transport during the next phase of the lockdown.\n\nA total of £100m is going towards the Local Restrictions Support Scheme, the grant for business premises forced to closed due to the restrictions.\n\nThere will also be £16m for tourism and hospitality, two sectors which have largely been unable to operate.\n\nIn addition, two more support schemes for the sector have been opened.\n\nOne aimed at large tourism and hospitality businesses is offering a pot of £26m, with the Department for Economy having identified 250 businesses that will be eligible.\n\nThe other is a £4m scheme to support those who provide bed-and-breakfast accommodation.\n\nMore money is being made available to help businesses affected by the lockdown\n\nJanice Gault from the trade body the Northern Ireland Hotels Federation said the schemes were a \"real lifeline for the sector\".\n\n\"Trading over the last year has been limited with reserves now severely depleted and businesses operating in survival mode,\" she added.\n\nAlso among those to receive the extra cash will be limited company directors, who had not received support since March.\n\nLast week, a scheme was announced to give directors £1,000 grants which one director described as a \"kick in the teeth\" given that he had little to no income for the past 10 months.\n\nBut that scheme is to be boosted with another £20m so the payments on offer will more than treble to £3,500.\n\nLocal newspapers will also benefit from 12 months of rates relief.", "Mick Norcross, 57, was found dead at his home in Essex on Thursday\n\nFormer The Only Way Is Essex star Mick Norcross has died at the age of 57.\n\nThe businessman and father of Kirk Norcross, who also appeared in the ITV show, was found dead at his home in Bulphan at 15:15 GMT on Thursday.\n\nEssex Police said the death was not being treated as suspicious.\n\nIn tributes on social media, fellow Towie stars past and present, including Gemma Collins and James \"Arg\" Argent, called him \"one of the good guys\" and a \"true gentleman\".\n\nNorcross first appeared in the reality show in 2011 in his position as owner of Sugar Hut, a Brentwood nightclub which was often attended by the cast.\n\nHe left the show two years later, stating that the venue's prominent place in Towie had damaged its brand.\n\nThe star posted a tweet to his 505,000 followers on Thursday morning saying: \"At the end remind yourself that you did the best you could. And that's good enough.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sugar Hut This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe club tweeted that \"Mr Sugarhut\" had been a \"very talented, friendly and fun guy\" and a \"true Essex legend, who will be sorely missed\".\n\nCollins, who briefly dated Norcross during their time on the show, shared a photo of them together on Instagram and said he had been \"one of the good guys\", while Argent tweeted that he had been \"a true gentleman and a very kind man\".\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by gemmacollins This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTributes were also shared by Towie stars Lauren Goodger and Mario Falcone, with the latter tweeting that he was \"thankful I got the privilege of having you in my life\".\n\nIn another tweet, Mark Wright, the Towie star turned TV presenter and professional footballer, said he was \"a great man, an inspiration to many, always so polite and welcoming\".\n\nPresenter Denise Van Outen tweeted that he was \"such a lovely man\" while TV chef James Martin, posted that he was \"a true gentleman, who I had the pleasure to meet and spend evenings with over the years\".\n\nThe Only Way Is Essex posted a tribute on Instagram, saying the team behind the show were \"shocked and deeply saddened\".\n\nThey said: \"He was hugely popular with cast, crew and the audience alike. Charming, generous and host to many of Essex's most glamorous events, Mick will be missed by us all.\"\n\nAn Essex Police spokesman said officers \"were called to an address in Brentwood Road, Bulphan shortly before 15:15 on Thursday\" and \"sadly, a man inside was pronounced dead\".\n\nThe police spokesman said the death was \"not being treated as suspicious and a file will be prepared for the coroner\".\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues in this article, information and support is available from BBC Action Line.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Police said they had been in contact with the family before the funeral took place \"in an attempt to ensure safety\"\n\nA funeral director has been fined £10,000 after police were called to a funeral with close to 150 people in attendance.\n\nHertfordshire Police said the large gathering in Welwyn Garden City on Thursday was reported to them by members of the public.\n\nCoronavirus rules mean a maximum of 30 people can attend a funeral.\n\nA second person was fined, by Bedfordshire Police, for when the gathering was in Arlesey, Bedfordshire.\n\nSupt Nick Caveney, of Hertfordshire Police, said: \"This was a clear and blatant breach of the current restrictions.\"\n\nHe said the fine was given to the funeral director \"for not managing this event correctly and advising their clients of the rules\".\n\n\"We implore all business owners to ensure they are following the restrictions safely and responsibly,\" he said.\n\n\"Flagrant breaches such as this will not be tolerated.\"\n\nThe force said it had worked with other agencies and the family in advance of the funeral \"in an attempt to ensure the safety of those attending and that of the wider public\".\n\nBut when officers attended they found the large number of people at the church, and a 41-year-old man from Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, was handed the £10,000 fine after police served a fixed penalty notice.\n\nSeveral members of the public had contacted the force about the funeral at the Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady, Queen of Apostles on Woodhall Lane.\n\nBedfordshire Police said a man in his 30s was issued with the fine over the gathering.\n\nCh Supt John Murphy from the force said: \"Fines and enforcement are a last resort for us, and we will always engage and work with families in the first instance.\n\n\"But we need to take firm action against those who brazenly decide to go against the guidelines outlined by the government and put a large number of people at risk.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Mr Olowo said his wife was \"as near perfection as it's possible to be\"\n\nA woman who died after having liposuction in Turkey had been fed up with people asking if she was pregnant, an inquest heard.\n\nAbimbola Ajoke Bamgbose, 38, of Dartford, Kent, died in August after having the treatment in Izmir.\n\nHusband Moyosore Olowo said he believed she was on holiday with friends until she called to say she was in pain.\n\nHe went to Turkey after she stopped calling and found she had been rushed to hospital for more surgery.\n\nMrs Bamgbose, who also had a Brazilian butt lift, died there two weeks later, the inquest in Maidstone heard.\n\nMr Olowo, a rail safety officer, said his wife paid £5,000 for the package with Mono Cosmetic Surgery as UK treatment was too expensive.\n\nDescribing why she wanted it, he said: \"When a woman is unhappy and getting feelings about her looks, the clothes she buys do not fit and people ask if she is pregnant because of her tummy, sometimes there is nothing we can do. We are powerless.\n\n\"I wasn't concerned. I told her 'you have three children'. I told her my tummy is bigger than hers.\"\n\nHe said his wife, a social worker who graduated with a first class degree, was \"as near perfection as it's possible to be\".\n\nMr Olowo said the medical director in Turkey \"confessed it had been a mistake\".\n\nAssistant coroner Alan Blundson recorded a narrative conclusion, and said: \"This is a tragic case, the more so because the surgery was elective cosmetic surgery.\n\n\"Whilst Mrs Bamgbose was determined to have it performed, her husband had not seen it in any way as necessary.\"\n\nA post-mortem examination found Mrs Bamgbose had a perforated bowel and her death was caused by peritonitis with multiple organ failure as a complication of liposuction surgery.\n\nMr Olowo has said he is suing Mono and the surgeon, Dr Hakan Aydogan, for £1m in the Turkish courts, claiming medical negligence.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Reports suggest AstraZeneca may have warned of a 60% cut to doses available\n\nA second coronavirus vaccine manufacturer has warned of supply issues to the European Union, compounding frustration in the bloc.\n\nAstraZeneca said a production problem meant the number of initial doses available would be lower than expected.\n\nThe fresh blow comes after some nations' inoculation programmes were slowed due to a cut in deliveries of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nThe EU Health Commissioner expressed \"deep dissatisfaction\" at the news.\n\nOfficials have not confirmed publicly how big the shortfall will be, but an unnamed EU official told Reuters news agency that deliveries would be reduced to 31m - a cut of 60% - in the first quarter of this year.\n\nThe drug firm had been set to deliver about 80 million doses to the 27 nations by March, according to the official who spoke to Reuters.\n\nThe AstraZeneca vaccine, developed with Oxford University, has not yet been approved by the EU's drug regulator but is expected to get the green light at the end of this month, paving the way for jabs to be given.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA spokesman for AstraZeneca said on Friday that \"initial volumes will be lower than originally anticipated\" without giving further details.\n\nHis written statement blamed the discrepancy on \"reduced yields at a manufacturing site within our European supply chain\" and said the firm was continuing to ramp up production volumes.\n\nNews of the delay comes amid criticism and frustration across the region about the speed of vaccination roll-outs.\n\nIsrael, the United Arab Emirates, the UK, and the US are all well ahead of EU nations in terms of doses given per capita so far.\n\nThe European Commission has co-ordinated orders for all member states, with vaccines then distributed based on their population size.\n\nVaccines are increasingly seen by experts as the only way out of the Covid-19 crisis, with many European nations struggling to cope with a deadly surge of the virus over the winter period.\n\nAustrian media have reported that only 600,000 of two million AstraZeneca doses promised by the end of March will arrive in the country on time, with the remaining 1.4m now being delivered in April.\n\nA delay would be \"completely unacceptable\", Austrian Health Minister Rudolf Anschober said on Friday.\n\nAs for Pfizer, the US firm said it had to cut shipments for the next few weeks while it worked to increase capacity at its Belgian processing plant. The EU has ordered 600 million doses from Pfizer.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Ursula von der Leyen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome regions, including Germany's most populous state North-Rhine Westphalia and parts of Italy, said earlier this week that they were suspending giving first jabs of the two-dose vaccine because of the shortages.\n\nItaly and Poland have threatened to take legal action in response to the reduction in vaccine supply.\n\nMeanwhile Hungary's government, which has complained over the time it is taking EU regulators to approve the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, has reached a deal with Russia to buy up large quantities of its Sputnik V vaccine, even though it has not received EU approval.\n\nEuropean Council President Charles Michel, who led a call of EU leaders this week, said Thursday that officials were considering all ideas to try and stop future vaccine delays.\n\n\"All possible means will be examined to ensure rapid supply, including early distribution to avoid delays,\" he said.\n\nEuropean Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and Mr Michel both say they are still aiming for the target of 70% of the EU population being vaccinated by summer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid vaccine safety: How does a vaccine get approved?\n\nThe total number of German Covid deaths climbed above 50,000 on Friday - a day after the country warned that it could close its borders if other EU countries were less strict in controlling the virus. Berlin sounded the alarm amid rising concern about new variants.\n\nEU leaders agreed late on Thursday to keep their internal borders open but warned non-essential travel might need to be restricted to curb the spread of the virus.\n\nMs von der Leyen said Thursday that more testing and \"targeted measures\" were needed throughout the EU in order to keep internal and external borders open.\n\nFor its part, France said it would impose tighter travel restrictions for European arrivals from Sunday, requiring a negative PCR Covid test within three days of travel.\n\nIn the Netherlands, a ban on all flights from the UK, South Africa and South American countries came into effect on Saturday to try and prevent new coronavirus variants gaining a foothold.\n\nLooking forward to the future, officials from EU nations reliant on tourism - including Spain and Greece - have floated the possibility of using vaccination certificates to allow for cross-border travel but there has been scepticism within the bloc.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwo houses have partially collapsed after a sinkhole measuring 10ft (3m) opened up on a Manchester street.\n\nFour homes were evacuated on Wednesday evening after the hole appeared on Walmer Street in Abbey Hey, Gorton.\n\nFire crews returned hours later after the front of two of the empty properties crashed to the ground.\n\nUnited Utilities said it was dealing with a collapsed sewer but was investigating all possible causes including the recent heavy rain.\n\nThe fire service was first called to Walmer Street just after 21:00 GMT on Wednesday to reports an unoccupied car had fallen down a hole in the road.\n\nA cordon was put in place and residents evacuated as a precaution, the fire service said.\n\nAfter leaving the scene four hours later, the fire service was alerted to the partial collapse of two houses at 11:00 on Thursday.\n\nNo-one was injured in either incident.\n\nEmergency services remain at the scene on Walmer Street\n\nNearby residents Maureen and Louise Kennedy spoke of their shock after the houses collapsed.\n\n\"You're just waiting for your world to crumble. It's not just the bricks and water, said Ms Kennedy.\n\n\"I've lived in there since I was three. It's the memories.\"\n\nResident Nathaniel OKeleafor said he was \"terrified\" when the sinkhole appeared in the street on Wednesday evening.\n\n\"This morning we are out. We are just trying to find somewhere to live,\" he added.\n\nUnited Utilities said it was dealing with a collapsed sewer on Walmer Street\n\nThe collapse comes as rising levels on the River Mersey in Manchester came \"within centimetres\" of breaching flood defences following heavy rain caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nStation Manager Andrew O'Brien, from Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, praised firefighters who worked \"at the height of the stormy weather\".\n\n\"The safety of the public was our primary concern overnight and again today, and I'm pleased to say no-one has suffered any injuries,\" he said.\n\nUnited Utilities said: \"When it is safe for engineers to go back into the immediate area we will set up emergency drainage and water supply connections to restore services to the area and begin to assess how best to carry out repairs.\n\n\"It is not known what caused the sinkhole but this will be investigated.\"\n\nBBC Radio Manchester and BBC Radio Lancashire will be on air throughout Storm Christoph, bringing you all of the latest information and news updates\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA nurse felt \"overwhelming fear\" as 13 ambulances queued at her hospital's A&E department - in the Welsh region currently hardest hit by Covid deaths.\n\nTo date Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board, which runs Royal Glamorgan Hospital, has reported 1,091 deaths of patients with coronavirus.\n\nBBC Wales was granted access to A&E at the hospital in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nSenior doctor Amanda Farrow said the whole hospital had faced \"unrelenting\" pressure last Saturday.\n\nSarah Fogarasy was the senior nurse on duty as 13 ambulances queued up outside her A&E department\n\nSenior A&E nurse Sarah Fogarasy, who was on shift as the ambulances arrived, said there was no capacity at the unit - a situation that left her wanting \"to leave\".\n\n\"We had to escalate it to our site manager and deputy head of nursing who were liaising with the executive team on call,\" she said.\n\n\"And then it got to 13 patients outside - I had no capacity in this unit, no resuscitation capacity, no capacity to put a patient on CPAP [continuous positive airway pressure] should they require that and no physical areas to put a patient in.\n\nOn Saturday, 13 ambulances queued outside the hospital's A&E department\n\nShe said she found it hard to keep going.\n\n\"This bit makes me quite emotional… for the first time I was sat trying to coordinate this department and I had that overwhelming fear that I just wanted to leave,\" Ms Fogarasy continued.\n\n\"I was just - 'I'm done. I'm done with this'... and it's scary, it fills you full of fear when you have got 13 ambulances outside, queuing around the carpark. Where do you go from that?\"\n\nShe said it was the team that kept her going: \"I started looking around to all the staff working tirelessly and just trying to remember what we're here for and why I became a nurse.\n\n\"I know it sounds soppy but it's literally the humanitarian effort that has gone into [fighting] this pandemic that has kept people going.\n\n\"It's the sheer determination and guts of the staff working in these times that is so powerful, that keeps the shift going.\"\n\nEmergency Medicine Consultant Amanda Farrow said it was a \"very emotional time for everyone\"\n\nDr Farrow, emergency medicine consultant, said staffing and bed numbers were of particular concern.\n\n\"In the emergency department the challenge we have is with regards to flow, so that is our daily challenge,\" she explained.\n\n\"And we say it's like playing a game of Tetris trying to work out which patient you can put where.\"\n\nStaff reported feeling overwhelmed as they work through the second Covid wave\n\nShe said the second wave of the virus had also seen more staff off sick with Covid and isolating - with some becoming very ill.\n\n\"We've had staff in as patients and one of my colleagues - I saw them when they were critically ill and ended up going to intensive care,\" continued Dr Farrow.\n\n\"So it's very emotional time for everyone as well you know, looking after the sick patients and looking after your colleagues.\n\n\"There's a level of anxiety still around - will you be the next person to get this disease?\"\n\nShe said although fewer people were attending A&E, they were seeing more people arriving by ambulance and presenting with more complex needs.\n\n\"The group of patients we are seeing this time I think is different, we're definitely having more younger people with Covid that are becoming sick, the volume is very high in the community.\n\n\"I think people are afraid of come into the hospital as well, so there are still quite a lot of patients who leave it maybe a bit too late before they're seeking hospital attention.\"\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, Helen Whatmore said she was extremely grateful to staff\n\nHelen Whatmore, 45, from Beddau, has been hospital since early December after developing Covid symptoms.\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, she said she had been unwell in February so assumed she had already caught the virus.\n\n\"I honestly didn't believe it was as bad until I caught [Covid] this time,\" she said.\n\n\"This time it's absolutely knocked the socks off me. It's nearly killed me.\n\n\"A friend of mine passed away as I came into hospital and I came down very rapidly with Covid, kidney problems and pneumonia.\"\n\nShe said she was grateful for the care she had received: \"The nurses are coming in [working] all shifts, they're fighting for your loved ones, from the time they enter right until the time they leave, then they're changing over and doing the same again.\n\n\"People are passing away… how much more have they got to do? We're asking them to protect our children and our families. Why are we not protecting them ourselves? Saving our families and our own children.\"", "Top Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou has been sent bullets in the mail while under house arrest in Vancouver, according to court testimony.\n\nIt was one of several alleged death threats revealed on Wednesday by the company providing her security.\n\nMs Meng was detained in 2018 on charges relating to allegedly misleading HSBC about Huawei's dealings in Iran.\n\nHer case has created a rift between China and Canada, with Beijing repeatedly calling for her release.\n\nThe chief financial officer of Huawei was arrested at Vancouver International Airport on a warrant from the US, where she is facing charges of bank fraud and potentially causing HSBC to break US sanctions.\n\nDays after she was released on bail, she was placed under house arrest in Vancouver. She has been fighting against her extradition to the US, which wants her to stand trial.\n\nThe threats were revealed at the British Columbia Supreme Court by Doug Maynard, chief operating officer of security firm Lions Gate Risk Management.\n\nHe said Ms Meng received \"five or six\" threatening letters at her residence in June and July 2020 and that the letters were \"easily identifiable by markings on the outside\". He added that \"sometimes there were bullets inside the envelopes\".\n\nThe role of the Vancouver police and any investigations is unclear.\n\nMs Meng has been in court pushing for conditions of her bail to be loosened, including dropping the daytime security detail that constantly follows her.\n\nShe is permitted to leave home between 6am and 11pm and pays for a round-the-clock security detail. She also wears a GPS tracking anklet as stipulated by her bail conditions.\n\nThe government has also granted family members of Ms Meng permission to travel to Canada, sparking controversy.\n\nConservative MP Raquel Dancho said the exception was an \"insult to the millions of Canadians who were told by this government not to visit loved ones\" over the holidays.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Raquel Dancho This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe called the move disappointing, noting that Beijing detained two Canadians soon after Ms Meng's arrest in December 2018 and has held them in prison ever since, subjecting them to interrogations.\n\nMs Meng's defence lawyer has argued that Canada is effectively being asked \"to enforce US sanctions\".\n\nHuawei has been one of the main targets of the Trump administration's attack on Chinese companies that it deems are security threats and pass data to the government.\n\nThe US has placed harsh restrictions on Huawei and has banned its 5G equipment from its networks. It also added 38 names linked to Huawei to a trade blacklist.\n\nThis week Huawei came under fire for technology that identifies people who appear to be of Uighur origin among images of pedestrians.\n\nHuawei had previously said none of its technology was designed to identify ethnic groups.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Boris Johnson has said there is still a very substantial risk of intensive care units in hospitals being overwhelmed by the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nIt comes on a day when the UK has recorded the highest number of deaths in a single day in Europe.\n\nFergal Keane last visited the Imperial Healthcare Trust’s St Mary’s and Charing Cross hospital in London last April.\n\nHe's been back to see how they're coping.", "The licence fee is the \"least worst\" way of funding the BBC, its incoming chairman Richard Sharp has said.\n\nBut Mr Sharp told MPs he had an \"open mind\" about how the corporation should be funded in the future, and it \"may be worth reassessing\" the current system.\n\nHe also said he didn't think the BBC's Brexit coverage was biased overall, but \"there were some occasions when the Brexit representation was unbalanced\".\n\nQuestion Time \"seemed to have more Remainers than Brexiteers\", he said.\n\nBBC Three's Normal People was one of the corporation's biggest hits last year\n\nThe £157.50 licence fee is due to stay in place until at least 2027, when the BBC's Royal Charter ends, with a debate about how the broadcaster should be funded after that.\n\nMr Sharp, who spent 23 years working as a banker for Goldman Sachs, told the House of Commons digital, culture, media and sport select committee: \"At 43p a day, the BBC represents terrific value.\"\n\nThe government is currently reviewing whether its cost should continue rising with inflation from 2022, and whether non-payment should remain a criminal offence. Mr Sharp said he was \"not in favour of decriminalisation\".\n\nHe said other possible options for funding the BBC in the future could include a household tax like the one used in Germany, \"which amounts to the same amount of money\".\n\nHe added: \"So when we next get the chance to review the structure of this then it may be worth reassessing.\"\n\nAsked whether he believed the BBC's coverage of Brexit had been unbalanced, he replied: \"No, actually I don't.\n\n\"I believe there were some occasions when the Brexit representation was unbalanced.\n\n\"So if you ask me if I think Question Time seemed to have more Remainers than Brexiteers, the answer is yes, but the breadth of the coverage I thought was incredibly balanced, in a highly toxic environment that was extremely polarised.\"\n\nQuestion Time has said it has robust processes in place to ensure balance on its panels.\n\nMr Sharp said he was \"considered to be a Brexiteer\" and had donated around £400,000 to the Conservative Party over the past 20 years.\n\nHe said the biggest issue now facing the BBC is impartiality, and that \"trust in leadership and trust in processes\" must be rebuilt after high-profile equal pay cases with journalists such as Carrie Gracie and Samira Ahmed.\n\n\"Clearly some of the problems it's had recently are really rather terrible and reflect a culture that needs to be rebuilt, so everybody who cherishes the BBC and works at the BBC feels proud and happy to work there,\" he said. \"Then in my view that would produce a better output inevitably.\"\n\nMr Sharp also told the committee he would give his £160,000 salary as BBC chairman to charity.\n\nWhen asked \"what's in it for you?\" Mr Sharp, whose heritage is Jewish, said: \"We're all a product of our upbringing and I was very fortunate with the parents I have, my great grandparents came to this country escaping tyranny.\n\n\"I think I won the lottery in life to be British and if I can make a contribution, I couldn't be happier to.\n\n\"The BBC is part of the fabric of all our national identities, it offers education and enrichment and is also important for our position in the world... It is a massive privilege to be chair of the BBC.\"\n\nSir David Clementi, the current BBC chairman, steps down in February. The post-holder is officially appointed by the Queen on the recommendation of the government.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The Galaxy S21 Ultra has hardware built into it to make use of the firm's S Pen stylus\n\nSamsung's new flagship Galaxy S smartphone works with its stylus for the first time.\n\nThe S Pen is an optional add-on for the Galaxy S21 Ultra. But the move will fuel speculation the firm will phase out its separate Note handset range.\n\nSamsung told the BBC it had yet to make a decision about this.\n\nThe company's handset sales have declined more quickly than the wider market. One expert said a streamlined line-up might help address this.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: First look at Samsung's S21 Ultra phone\n\n\"There's increasing logic for Samsung to converge the Galaxy S and Note platforms, because there's so little differentiation between the two kinds of devices now,\" said Ben Wood, from the CCS Insight consultancy.\n\n\"That would align them with Apple, which also has one big phone launch event a year.\n\n\"My concern is that every time Samsung has announced its Note products in the past, it has planted a seed in consumers' minds that the Galaxy S products have become kind of the old ones.\"\n\nThe benefit of having a stylus is that it is easier to write, draw or annotate notes than using a finger. But to work it requires special hardware under the glass of the phone's display to pass power to the stylus and to track its tip.\n\nThe Android-based Galaxy S21 Ultra has a 6.8in (17.3cm) display, which is only slightly smaller than the top-end 6.9in Note.\n\nIn years past, the Note phones were known as \"phablets\", and their size was the other key distinguishing factor with the S range.\n\nUnlike the Note series, the S21 Ultra requires a special case to stow away the pen\n\nProduct manager Mark Notton said \"we haven't decided\", when asked whether Samsung planned to continue the Note family.\n\n\"It does not mean that Samsung is not committed to the Note category, but is expanding the Note experience across device categories,\" the firm said in a follow-up statement.\n\n\"We will actively listen to consumers' feedback and reflect it in our continued product innovation.\"\n\nThe S21 Ultra will start at £1,149 when it goes on sale on 29 January. The S Pen costs an extra £35 on its own, or £85 when bundled with a case that stores it.\n\nThat puts it in the ballpark of the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra's £1,179 starting price, which comes with a stylus that slots into its body.\n\nThere are also two other lower-cost models in the new range, neither of which works with the S-Pen stylus: the 6.2in S21 and 6.7in S21+.\n\nAll three models feature a redesigned camera module on their back.\n\nAll the Galaxy S21 phones feature a redesigned camera module on their back\n\nBut while the two lower-end models have three lenses - ultra-wide, wide and 3x-zoom telephoto - the S21 Ultra adds a further 10x-zoom telephoto lens, letting owners shoot action from even further away.\n\nThe handsets also benefit from a new Director's View facility. It lets users film video while getting thumbnail previews superimposed on-screen of what it would look like if they switched to another lens.\n\nAll three phones can film in 8K - double the maximum resolution of the competing iPhone 12 range's native video app.\n\nThe Director's View mode lets users preview how the recorded shot will change in a video if they switch to a different lens while filming\n\nHowever, the handsets may be more notable for following Apple in two regards.\n\nThey have abandoned a slot for a microSD memory card.\n\nAnd they will be sold without either a charger - a decision over which Samsung had mocked its rival. - or earphones.\n\nSamsung posted this ad in October on social media before deleting it\n\n\"We discovered that more and more Galaxy users are reusing accessories they already have,\" the firm said.\n\nSamsung typically unveils its Galaxy range in late February, but has brought forward this year's launch to coincide with the CES tech show.\n\n\"Samsung needs S21 to be a success given that S20 was launched in the middle of Covid first wave in Europe and didn't gain many fans,\" commented Marta Pinto, from research firm IDC.\n\nShe added the earlier launch date could help it compete in the \"premium market\" with Apple, whose iPhones were released later than normal last year.\n\nThe South Korean firm should also benefit from collapsing sales of Huawei's devices in the West, caused by US sanctions that prevent them offering the Google Play store and some of the search giant's other services.\n\nSamsung dedicated a segment of its Unpacked launch presentation to its partnership with Google\n\nBut Mr Wood said Samsung was facing growing competition from other Chinese brands including Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo.\n\n\"Samsung's differentiator is going to be its ability to market its strong brand, and the fact it has a very wide product portfolio,\" he commented.\n\nSamsung also aims to widen its appeal with two further accessories.\n\nIt has a new pair of £219 wireless earbuds that monitor what the user is doing.\n\nSamsung's earbuds should automatically adapt their audio output according to what the user is doing\n\nIf they detect the wearer is talking, they automatically turn down the volume of music and amplify the sounds of the nearby environment picked up by their microphones, allowing the owner to have a brief conversation without needing to take them out or manually adjust their settings.\n\nSamsung also is launching the £30 Galaxy SmartTag - a Bluetooth-enabled tracker that can be attached to belongings or pets.\n\nIt will allow an app to show their location, so long as the tag is in range of the owner or anyone else's compatible Samsung device.\n\nThe tracker will compete with similar products from the current market leader Tile.\n\nThe SmartTag will challenge Tile, which already sells a range of Bluetooth trackers\n\nApple is widely rumoured to be working on similar devices of its own.", "The coronavirus growth rate is slowing in the UK and the number of infections is starting to level off in some areas, a top scientist has said.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson told the BBC that in some NHS regions there is a \"sign of plateauing\" in cases and hospital admissions.\n\nBut he warned the overall death toll would exceed 100,000.\n\nOn Wednesday, the UK saw its biggest daily death figure since the start of the pandemic, with 1,564 deaths.\n\nIt has taken the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767. There were also 47,525 new cases.\n\nIt comes after Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the national lockdown measures were \"starting to show signs of some effect\", but it was early days and urged people to abide by the rules.\n\nPeople in England are required to stay at home and only go out for limited reasons, such as for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nProf Ferguson, an epidemiologist at Imperial College London whose modelling led to the first lockdown in March, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it was \"much too early\" to say when the number of cases would come down.\n\nBut he said: \"It looks like in London in particular and a couple of other regions in the South East and East of England, hospital admissions may even have plateaued.\n\n\"It has to be said this is not seen everywhere - both case numbers and hospital admissions are going up in many other areas, but overall at a national level we are seeing the rate of growth slow.\"\n\nProf Ferguson added: \"I would hope the hospital admissions might plateau… sometime in the next week, but hospital bed occupancy may continue to rise slowly for up to two weeks.\"\n\nHe warned the overall death toll would be \"well over 100,000\", adding \"there's nothing we can do about that now\".\n\nProf Ferguson added Covid restrictions could be in place for many months to come, adding the new variant's increased transmissibility would mean relaxation of the rules will be a \"gradual process to the autumn\".\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said on Thursday that the government will not be introducing tougher social distancing rules \"today or tomorrow\" and insisted that ministers are focusing on increasing enforcement of the current restrictions.\n\nAsked about speculation further measures could include a three-metre social distancing rule or a requirement to wear masks outside, she told ITV's This Morning: \"This isn't about new rules coming in - we're going to stick with enforcing the current measures.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a major study led by Public Health England has shown most people who have had Covid-19 are protected from catching it again for at least five months.\n\nPast infection was linked to an 83% lower risk of getting the virus, compared with those who had never had Covid-19, scientists found.\n\nProf Susan Hopkins, who led the study, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the finding \"doesn't eliminate\" the risk of people catching Covid-19 again, and infecting others.\n\nShe said: \"We found people with very high amounts of virus in their nose and throat swabs, that would easily be in the range which would cause levels of transmission to other individuals.\"\n\nProf Hopkins said she hoped that after Easter, \"we will start to see reduced infection rates, as we did at that time last year\" and the number of people who have been vaccinated at a \"very high level\".\n\nThe UK is continuing efforts to ramp up the rollout of the Covid vaccine, with the prime minister saying that Covid vaccinations will be offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week as soon as supply allows.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock tweeted on Thursday to say that \"three million vaccines have now been administered\" in the UK.\n\nOn Thursday, NHS England published a breakdown of vaccinations by age and region for the first time.\n\nMr Johnson told the Commons Liaison Committee on Wednesday that he was \"concerned\" about a new Covid variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil and said that the UK was taking steps to ensure it is not brought into the UK.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said ministers met this morning to discuss \"urgent measures to reduce the potential spread to the UK of the Brazilian variant\".\n\nThey could include a ban on flights from Brazil. Arrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nMeanwhile, the Deputy Scottish First Minister John Swinney told BBC Breakfast \"the virus is not accelerating as fast as it was\" in Scotland.\n\nHe said \"there are some early signs of optimism\" but emphasised people should follow all guidance as the \"virus is still at a very strong level\".", "Amnesty says about 7,500 women and girls gave birth in the Northern Ireland homes,\n\nThere have been calls for an inquiry into mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt comes as the Irish government is to apologise after an investigation found an \"appalling level of infant mortality\" in the Republic of Ireland's homes.\n\nAbout 9,000 children died in the 18 institutions under investigation.\n\nMothers and babies who were in similar homes in Northern Ireland want a full inquiry to be held in NI too.\n\nStormont commissioned research into whether or not there should an inquiry held into the homes which operated in Northern Ireland, is due to be published by the end of January.\n\nPatrick Corrigan from Amnesty International said the issue of forced adoptions also needs close scrutiny.\n\n\"We have had cases of mothers telling us that ultimately, many decades later, when they tried to track down their long-lost children they found adoption certificates where they said their signature had actually been forged,\" he said.\n\n\"So I think that there is criminality to investigate here and that it behoves the Northern Ireland Executive to set up the inquiry that has long been sought here and long been denied.\"\n\nIn 2017 research into infant mortality rates at former mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland had prompted initial calls for a public inquiry.\n\nBBC News NI previously spoke to Eunan Duffy who was 47 years old when he found out he was adopted from Marianvale mother and baby home in Newry, County Down.\n\nIt was one of a network of institutions in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland which offered women the voluntary option, for those who were unmarried, to give birth in private and give their babies up for adoption\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Marian Vale was one of a network of mother and baby institutions in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland\n\nAmnesty says there were more than a dozen mother-and-baby institutions in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt said about 7,500 women and girls gave birth in the Northern Ireland homes, operated by both Catholic and Protestant churches and religious organisations.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, research into mother and baby homes and Magdalene laundries was commissioned three years ago and was initially expected to take 12 months.\n\nIt was completed in February last year, but was then sent to those facing criticism to give them an opportunity to reply.\n\nA Department of Health spokesperson said: \"A paper will be brought to the executive shortly for its consideration. Subject to executive approval, it is intended to publish the research report before the end of January 2021.\"\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, the commission that investigated the homes found that the number of children who died was about 15% of all those who were born in the institutions.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Mícheál Martin said the report, which can be read in full here, described a \"dark, difficult and shameful chapter\" of Irish history.\n\nSolicitor Claire McKeegan, who represents the Birth Mothers for Justice group, welcomed the apology in the Republic of Ireland, but said mothers and children in NI had not received one.\n\n\"The crimes perpetrated on them have yet to be investigated,\" she said.\n\n\"Those perpetrators who forced them into arbitrary detention, hard labour and colluded in the forced adoption of their babies, remain unchallenged in this jurisdiction.\"\n\nMary O'Neill became pregnant when she was 18 and was sent to Marianvale in Newry in the late 1970s.\n\nThere she gave birth to a baby girl who was taken away from her almost immediately after the birth.\n\nShe wanted to keep the baby, but was not allowed and was told the baby would be put up for adoption.\n\nThe mother and baby scandal became an international news story when 'significant human remains' were found on the grounds of a former home in County Galway\n\nMs O'Neill told Good Morning Ulster she eventually tracked down her daughter after 40 years.\n\n\"It was a long search, everywhere you went you were up against a brick wall,\" she said.\n\n\"There was no help, the social workers didn't want to tell you anything.\"\n\nShe finally found out her daughter was living in America but was coming home for her 40th birthday.\n\nShe said when she met her it was like meeting a stranger.\n\n\"But thank God we have met and we have a good relationship. She's still keeping in touch,\" Ms O'Neill said.\n\n\"It means the world to me, because you always wondered where was she? Was she happy? Did she know about you?\n\n\"It was always in the back of your mind. It never went away, the tears and the heartache.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs O'Neill said she was happy the victims in the Republic of Ireland were getting an apology, but wishes the homes in Northern Ireland could have been included.\n\nMechelle Dillon's mother was 21 and pregnant when she was sent to Marianvale in Newry in 1969.\n\nShe was placed in foster care a few months after her birth.\n\nHer mother returned to her home village and then moved to England. But she came back for Mechelle when she was around eight or nine-months-old.\n\nShe said she believed she was not adopted because she was born with a cyst on her mouth.\n\n\"I would have maybe been classed as a reject, if you want to put it that way,\" she said.\n\n\"It's the same as if you go to look for a little puppy and if the puppy doesn't feel right and you think 'Oh God, I'll have a lot of vet bills here, I don't want that puppy' - I would have probably been classed the same because I would have had that defect.\"\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said \"the executive should move quickly to publish the research report and then call a full public inquiry\".", "Decima Minhinnick, pictured at her 90th birthday party, lives in a care home and has vascular dementia\n\nA couple who were fined £60 for driving 20 minutes to see a relative in a care home have had their fine cancelled by police.\n\nCarol and David Richards from Bridgend travelled seven miles to Porthcawl to visit her mother Decima Minhinnick, 94.\n\nOn Tuesday, police defended the fine, claiming the couple had broken lockdown rules.\n\nOn Wednesday, South Wales Police said it had \"since been reviewed and the notice has been rescinded\".\n\n\"The individual concerned has been notified\".\n\nIn a statement, it added: \"Wales remains at alert level four and South Wales Police will continue to patrol our communities to ensure the legislation, which has been enacted to slow the spread of coronavirus, is complied with\".\n\nMrs Richards has said she was \"mortified\" they were stopped by police while returning on Sunday from what she said was a compassionate visit.\n\nShe said on Tuesday she did not believe they breached lockdown rules.\n\nMrs Richards said the couple had arranged the visit to Picton Court Care Home in advance with the permission of staff, and spoke to her mother, who has vascular dementia, through the window of her ground-floor room from the car park.\n\nDavid and Carol Richards complained about the £60 fine\n\nShe told the Local Democracy Reporting Service that when she was issued with the fine it was like \"a sort of dystopian novel\", adding that the officer involved was \"pedantic and inflexible\".\n\n\"I was angry - she just would not listen to any protestations, and so she said 'you're going to be issued with a £60 fixed penalty fine'.\n\n\"It's not about the 60 quid, it's about the principle.\"\n\nThe home is just over seven miles from where the couple live", "The governor of Amazonas state warned of a \"critical\" moment and has implemented a curfew\n\nHospitals in the Brazilian city of Manaus have reached breaking point while treating Covid-19 patients, amid reports of severe oxygen shortages and desperate staff.\n\nThe city, in Amazonas state, has seen a surge of deaths and infections.\n\nHealth professionals, quoted by local media, warned \"many people\" could die due to lack of supplies and assistance.\n\nBrazil has recorded more than 205,000 virus deaths - the second-highest tally in the world, behind the US.\n\nA new coronavirus variant has recently emerged in Brazil, with several cases in travellers arriving in Japan traced back to the Amazonas region.\n\nAmazonas suffered heavy losses in the first wave of the pandemic but is also being badly hit by a new rise in infections.\n\nRefrigerated containers were brought to hospitals to help store bodies last week, as authorities declared a state of emergency.\n\nJessem Orellana, from the Fiocruz-Amazonia scientific investigation institute, told the AFP news agency that some hospitals in Manaus had \"run out of oxygen\" with some centres becoming \"a type of suffocation chamber\" for patients.\n\nThe researcher told Brazilian media she had received reports from the front-line of \"dramatic\" scenes playing out in some hospitals.\n\nReports in the daily Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper described desperate staff having to try to keep patients alive through manual ventilation.\n\nIn a widely shared video from the region, a female medical worker asks the internet for help: \"We're in an awful state. Oxygen has simply run out across the whole unit today.\"\n\n\"There is no oxygen and lots of people are dying,\" she says in the clip. \"If anyone has any oxygen, please bring it to the clinic. There are so many people dying.\"\n\nThe UK has banned travellers from much of Latin America over a new variant detected in Brazil\n\nAmazonas Governor Wilson Lima said the state was \"in the most critical moment of the pandemic\" and has announced a nightly curfew will begin at 19:00 local time (23:00 GMT) on Friday to try to stem the spread.\n\nMarcellus Campelo, a local health secretary, said the state needed three times the amount of oxygen it can produce locally and appealed for help.\n\nBrazil's vice-president shared images on Twitter of the air force transporting hospital supplies, including oxygen cylinders and stretchers, to the city as reports of the situation spread throughout the country.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHealth officials also say some patients will be airlifted to other states for treatment due to the demand for intensive care units, Reuters reports.\n\nFelipe Naveca, deputy director of research at the state-run Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, told the BBC's South America correspondent Katy Watson that the new variant had evolved separately from those in the UK and South Africa, but that it showed some of the same characteristics: \"Some of these mutations have been linked to increased transmission and that is of concern.\"\n\nMr Naveca said that they did not yet have any data to suggest that existing vaccines would be any less effective against the new variant. \"We have to do a lot more sequencing of samples to answer that question,\" he said.\n\nHowever, on Thursday UK officials announced a ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde due to the new strain.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Thursday evening. We'll have another update for you on Friday morning.\n\nTravel from South America and Portugal to the UK is being banned, other than for British or Irish citizens and foreign nationals with residence rights. The new ruling is being brought in because of concerns about the new Brazilian coronavirus variant and comes into force from 04:00 GMT on Friday. The ban applies to people who have travelled from, or through, these countries in the 10 days before their departure for the UK: Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Cape Verde, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela. Find out more about the new variants here.\n\nDoctors have warned that the recent surge in Covid hospital cases has left key hospital services in England in crisis. Accident and Emergency departments are facing rising delays in admitting extremely sick patients on to wards, NHS data shows. The total number of people facing year-long waits for routine treatments is more than 100 times higher than it was before the pandemic - and cancer specialists are warning of a \"terrifying\" disruption to their services that would cost lives.\n\nThe government has told schools not to provide free meals to eligible pupils' families over half term, with food to be provided by councils under the Covid Winter Grant Scheme instead. The Department for Education said vulnerable families would continue to receive meals outside of term time through the welfare support they have made available. But councils say the government should be responsible for providing food vouchers during the February half-term, like it did over summer.\n\nA top scientist has said the coronavirus growth rate in the UK is slowing, with the number of infections starting to level off in some areas. Prof Neil Ferguson told the BBC that in some NHS regions there is a \"sign of plateauing\" in cases and hospital admissions. But he warned the overall death toll - currently standing at over 80,000 - would exceed 100,000. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said the national lockdown measures in place across the UK are \"starting to show signs of some effect\" but warned that it was still early days.\n\nMany people feel they've put on weight during the pandemic, due to staying indoors more and turning to comfort food. Samantha Hicks, from Portishead, North Somerset, thought she was one of them - but what she believed was a few extra pounds of weight was actually a baby. She gave birth to her daughter Julia just 10 days after discovering she was pregnant. Her pregnancy was even missed when she was taken to hospital in November with Covid-19. She said: \"My tummy was a bit swollen but again, because I felt sick and I wasn't great, it never occurred to me I was pregnant.\"\n\nThe UK travel rules have been updated again. Find out all the details you need here.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Most people who have had Covid-19 are protected from catching it again for at least five months, a study led by Public Health England shows.\n\nPast infection was linked to around a 83% lower risk of getting the virus, compared with those who had never had Covid-19, scientists found.\n\nBut experts warn some people do catch Covid-19 again - and can infect others.\n\nAnd officials stress people should follow the stay-at-home rules - whether or not they have had the virus.\n\nProf Susan Hopkins, who led the study, said the results were encouraging, suggesting immunity lasted longer than some people feared, but protection was by no means absolute.\n\nIt was particularly concerning some of those reinfected had high levels of the virus - even without symptoms - and were at risk of passing it on to others, she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Susan Hopkins from Public Health England said immunity from having Covid-19 is \"not 100% protective\"\n\n\"This means even if you believe you already had the disease and are protected, you can be reassured it is highly unlikely you will develop severe infections but there is still a risk that you could acquire an infection and transmit to others,\" she added.\n\n\"Now more than ever, it is vital we all stay at home to protect our health service and save lives.\"\n\nFrom June to November 2020, almost 21,000 healthcare workers across the UK were regularly tested to see whether they:\n\nOf those who had no antibodies to the virus, suggesting they may have never had it, 318 developed potential new infections within this timeframe.\n\nBut among the 6,614 with antibodies, this figure was just 44 potential new infections.\n\nResearchers received various different pieces of evidence suggesting these people had become re-infected - including new symptoms more than 90 days after their first infection, new positive swab tests and blood tests.\n\nSome tests are still being run and researchers say their results will be updated as they come in.\n\nScientists will continue to monitor the healthcare workers for 12 months to see how long immunity lasts.\n\nThey will also look closely at cases with the new variant - which was not widespread at the time of this first analysis - and observe the immunity of participants who receive the vaccine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Can you become immune to coronavirus?\n\nDr Julian Tang, a virus expert at the University of Leicester, said the results were reassuring for healthcare workers.\n\n\"Having the vaccine after recovering from Covid-19 is not an issue... and will likely boost the natural immunity,\" he added.\n\n\"We also see this with the seasonal flu vaccine.\n\n\"So hopefully the results from this paper will reduce the anxiety of many healthcare-worker colleagues who have concerns about getting Covid-19 twice.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Changes to Scotland's lockdown restrictions have been announced. The tightening of the rules follows concerns the \"stay at home\" message is not having the same impact it did during last year's lockdown. The changes will come into effect on Saturday.\n\nThe availability and operation of click and collect services will be limited to retailers selling essential items such as clothes, footwear, baby equipment, homeware and books. Also, outlets that sell electrical goods; do key cutting; undertake shoe repairs, plus garden centres and plant nurseries can continue the collect service.\n\nFor qualifying businesses, staggered appointments will need to be offered to avoid any potential for queuing, and access inside premises for collection will not be permitted.\n\nCustomers in Scotland will no longer be allowed to go inside to collect takeaway food or coffee. Businesses will have to operate from a serving hatch or doorway.\n\nThe aim is to reduce the risk of customers coming into contact indoors with each other, or with staff.\n\nIt will be against the law in all level four areas of Scotland to drink alcohol outdoors in public.\n\nThis will mean that buying a takeaway pint and consuming on the street will not be permitted.\n\nIt is intended to underline the message that people should only be leaving home for essential purposes.\n\nThe Scottish government is strengthening the obligation on employers to allow their staff to work from home whenever possible.\n\nThe law already says that people should only be leaving home to go to work if it is work that cannot be done from home. This is a legal obligation that falls on individuals.\n\nHowever, statutory guidance is being introduced to make clear that employers should support employees to work from home wherever possible.\n\nThe Scottish government is strengthening provisions in relation to work inside people's houses.\n\nCurrent guidance says that in level four areas work is only permitted within a private dwelling if it is essential for the upkeep, maintenance and functioning of the household. This guidance is now being put into law.\n\nThe final change is an amendment to the regulations requiring people to stay at home.\n\nThis is intended to close an apparent loophole rather than change the spirit of the law. It will also bring the wording of the stay at home regulations in Scotland into line with the other UK nations.\n\nCurrently the law states that people can only leave home for an essential purpose.\n\nThe amendment will make it clear that people \"must not leave or remain outside\" the home unless it is for an essential purpose.\n\nThe Scottish government's full lockdown guidance is available here.", "Covid-19 patients in England's busiest intensive care units in 2020 were 20% more likely to die, University College London research has found.\n\nThe increased risk was equivalent to gaining a decade in age.\n\nBy the end of 2020, one in three hospital trusts in England was running at higher than 85% capacity.\n\nEleven trusts were completely full on 30 December, and the total number of people in intensive care with Covid has continued to rise since then.\n\nThe link between full ICUs and higher death rates was already known, but this study is the first to measure its effect during the pandemic.\n\nTighter lockdown restrictions are needed to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed, says study author Dr Bilal Mateen.\n\nResearchers looked at more than 4,000 patients who were admitted to intensive care units in 114 hospital trusts in England between April and June last year.\n\nThey found the risk of dying was almost a fifth higher in ICUs where more than 85% of beds were occupied, than in those running at between 45% and 85% capacity.\n\nThat meant a 60-year-old being treated in one of these units had the same risk of dying as a 70-year-old on a quieter ward.\n\nThe Royal College of Emergency Medicine sets 85% as the maximum safe level of bed occupancy.\n\nHowever, the team found there was no tipping point after which deaths rose - instead, survival rates fell consistently as bed-occupancy increased.\n\nThis suggests \"a lot of harm is occurring before you get to 85%\".\n\nPatients admitted to ICUs that were less than 45% full were 25% less likely to die than average.\n\nUsually if a very sick patient's heart stops, everyone on the ward will rush to help them, Dr Mateen explained.\n\nBut when there are too many patients, staff's time is inevitably split, so \"it makes sense that the quality of patient care would be sacrificed\", he said.\n\nWhile extra beds and equipment can, and have, been provided through the Nightingale hospitals and the private sector, finding enough qualified staff has been an issue.\n\n\"You can't just create an ICU nurse who knows how to operate a mechanical ventilator overnight,\" Dr Mateen told the BBC.\n\nThese are highly-skilled roles that take years of training and sometimes decades of experience, he added.\n\nInstead, a \"robust vaccination programme\" and tighter lockdown restrictions are needed to bring down cases and hospitalisations, he believes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nCo-author Prof Christina Pagel at UCL added: \"This paper highlights for the first time that putting such strain on ICUs during pandemic peaks does, sadly, mean that that chances of someone dying in intensive care are higher.\n\n\"Our work underlines the urgency of both vaccinating vulnerable groups as soon as possible and reducing Covid transmission in the community to relieve pressure on intensive care.\"\n\nIt's difficult to say for sure that fuller ICUs are actually causing more deaths - it's possible that as they get fuller, only the sickest patients are admitted.\n\nBut Dr Mateen says there was no evidence of rationing - of sick patients being turned away.\n\nEven pre-Covid, data suggests larger ICUs had lower death rates - with a 25% increase in bed numbers linked to a corresponding 25% fall in mortality.\n\nAnd the findings are supported by a wealth of evidence from before the pandemic and from around the world.", "Coach and tour operators have seen an unexpected growth in bookings in the last fortnight.\n\nWhilst there is no doubt that the pandemic continues to put huge pressure on lives and the NHS, this is a small amount of sunshine for the travel industry, which has had a tough year.\n\nTUI, the UK's largest tour operator, says 50% of bookings on their website are currently by over-50s.\n\nThis was previously a smaller market for them.\n\nNational Express's coach holiday businesses say bookings made by those 65 and over have increased by 185% in the last fortnight compared to last year.\n\n\"Since the announcement of the vaccine, it's given our customer base, predominantly those over 65, increased confidence to book and have that summer getaway in 2021\" says Jit Desai, head of holidays and travel at National Express.\n\n\"We launched the brochure for spring-summer 2021 just this weekend gone, and on Monday we took a week's worth of bookings in a day and that's continued so far,\" says Mr Desai. \"What the vaccine does is give certainty and confidence.\n\n\"That then allows the customer and ourselves the ability to plan ahead\".\n\nThe pandemic has been devastating for the travel sector. Tens of thousands of jobs have gone in the UK. Millions of Britons cancelled breaks because the health situation was in flux across the world.\n\nBut National Express now points to returning confidence to travel.\n\n\"Many we've spoken to have had the first jab. They know in 12 weeks they'll get a second jab. It gives them certainty that they can enjoy and look forward to their 2021 holiday. It is something to look forward to, to being with people, with friends, like minded and from the same generation.\"\n\nDawn and Ray - 75 and 78 years old - are from Hampshire and are due to have their first jab soon. They have just booked five UK holidays.\n\n\"We are raring to go once we've got that vaccine, we are really looking forward to it - both of us. We are going to Wales, Leicestershire, to York where there is a mystery tour - and to the Cotswolds'\", Dawn said.\n\nFor Dawn and Ray, it's the ease of coach travel that's appealing, as well as the safety. She adds \"they've looked after us so well in the past, the coaches are clean, we'll all wear masks, we all look after each other.\"\n\nAt the moment, 90% of the bookings with National Expresses coach businesses are UK based, so it looks like another good year for the staycation.\n\n\"European bookings are lower because of the uncertainty on the continent,\" says Mr Desai.\n\n\"The UK wins because of the lack of need to quarantine. And uncertainty about the moves other governments might make whilst away also creates fear.\"\n\nIt's not just UK breaks that are selling. The UK's largest tour operator TUI, famous for its sun-drenched European beach holidays, says there has also been a change in the last fortnight.\n\n\"We're seeing a customer base or age group that wasn't booking before, that is starting to book,\" says Andrew Flintham the MD of TUI UK. \"The over 50s, we assume, is on the back to the vaccine news.\"\n\nWhilst TUI UK boss acknowledges that \"the market is still depressed and it's not where we want it - we are seeing glimmers of hope.\"\n\nTrips to towns in England are among those being booked\n\nThere are also interesting changes emerging in the types of breaks holidaymakers plan to take and the months they're planning to travel.\n\n\"People are booking later into the summer, hedging their bets\" said Mr Flintham. \"More July and August and a lot of demand for September and October.\n\n\"People are booking longer holidays, we're seeing more people booking ten or eleven or 14 nights rather than seven. People are maybe catching up on what they've missed.\"\n\nAs TUI analysed its recent booking data, one trend they spotted is the emergence of large, multigenerational group bookings.\n\n\"It is family time we've all missed. We can't get away from our own families, but our broader families we can't see, and that's feeding into our choices\" Mr Flintham explains.\n\nAfter such a bad 10 months, and TUI cancelling all holidays until the middle of February at the earliest because of the new lockdown, how does the rest of the summer look?\n\n\"I think the summer holiday is on\" says Mr Flintham, \"I think we just need time for people to get that confidence, but yes, we think there will be a good summer this summer\".\n\nFor those who've watched the paralysis brought upon the travel industry since last winter, a morsel of good news about customers booking again is being celebrated.\n\n\"This is fantastic news and to be hugely welcomed by an industry that has been utterly devastated by the pandemic\", says Sophie Griffiths, editor of Travel Trade Gazette.\n\n\"Ten months into this crisis and the industry has still received zero dedicated support from the government despite being unique as a sector in terms of giving out thousands in refunds while getting next to nothing back in for 2020.\"", "The Lauberhorn course is the longest downhill run in the world (file image)\n\nA British tourist has been blamed for a spike in coronavirus cases that led officials to cancel Switzerland's famous Lauberhorn ski race.\n\nThe resort of Wengen, where the race is held, had recorded only 10 cases of the virus by mid-December.\n\nBut the number soon began to rise and many cases have since been linked to the new highly infectious variant of Covid-19 first identified in the UK.\n\nAt least 27 cases are connected to one British tourist, contact tracers say.\n\nThe tourist stayed in a hotel in Wengen over the holiday period.\n\nThe Lauberhorn course is the longest downhill run in the world, and racers can reach speeds of 160km/h (100 mph).\n\nOfficials desperately tried to save the race, shutting schools and offering to close off the resort to everyone but the competitors.\n\nSwiss health officials initially agreed with the plan, but a further jump in cases at the start of this week prompted them to pull the emergency brake and cancel the event.\n\nThe Lauberhorn track is 4,480m (14,700ft) long - and the race will now have to wait until 2022\n\nWengen is devastated. The Lauberhorn is one of the top competitions on the World Cup ski circuit. It is dearly loved by the Swiss, who have watched with delight as some of their own homegrown talent, such as Beat Feuz and Carlo Janka, have triumphed there.\n\nMoreover, the long love affair between Switzerland and British winter tourists has frosted over to some extent.\n\nIt was only last month that the vanishing Brits of Verbier, who reportedly fled Switzerland rather than accept the government mandated quarantine, triggered a flurry of negative headlines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Italy's Foppolo ski resort was closed until 6 January and missed the all-important Christmas ski season\n\nNow the high point of Switzerland's skiing calendar has been abruptly cancelled, and some Swiss blame the British.\n\nOthers say Switzerland only has itself to blame.\n\nWhile neighbours France and Italy closed their resorts over the festive period, the Swiss government opted for a precarious balancing act. It kept its slopes open, but closed all bars and restaurants and limited ski lifts to two-thirds capacity.\n\nMost Swiss resorts are quiet, with just a few locals enjoying the runs. But still some tourists arrived and, as Wengen's experience shows, just one infected guest is enough to cause major damage.\n\nInstead of hosting a major ski race, Wengen officials are now racing to control the virus. Mass testing has already begun in the resort.\n\nSwitzerland's government has extended the closure of bars, restaurants, museums, and theatres until the end of February in a bid to control the new variant. It has also ordered non-essential shops to close and made working from home obligatory.\n\nAs for the Lauberhorn, Switzerland's oldest and fiercest skiing rival, Austria, will now host the postponed event. Nothing could have been calculated to upset the Swiss more.\n\nThe event was first moved to the Austrian ski resort of Kitzbühel, but an outbreak of coronavirus there has prompted another move, this time to Flachau, 100km to the east.\n\nThe cluster of cases in Jochberg near Kitzbühel broke out among a group of mainly British trainee ski instructors.", "Some 13 ambulances queued outside the Royal Glamorgan Hospital hospital's A&E department on Saturday\n\nHospitals in the area with Wales and England's worst Covid death rates are only coping by postponing urgent surgery such as cancer operations.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg had already suspended some non-emergency services but the boss of the health board said they have now paused some urgent procedures.\n\nCwm Taf covers Rhondda Cynon Taf and Merthyr Tydfil, which have the highest and second highest Covid death rates.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said he \"would not be surprised\" if other health boards were forced to do the same soon, if case rates did not come down.\n\n\"There is real harm being done... because of the level of hospital admissions,\" he said.\n\n\"Our critical care units are at 150% of their capacity and that has very real consequences.\n\n\"It reinforces why all of us need to do the right thing in reducing our contacts with other people and follow the rules, otherwise greater harm will be caused.\"\n\nThe news comes as NHS bosses said the number of Covid patients in Welsh hospitals is double April's peak.\n\nOn Thursday, Public Health Wales (PHW) said a further 54 people had died with coronavirus in Wales, taking the total number of deaths since the start of the pandemic to 4,117.\n\nMr Lyons said on Wednesday night their field hospital Ysbyty Seren in Bridgend had 74 patients, people they \"wouldn't have been able to accommodate within our usual hospitals\".\n\n\"We are coping, but that's coping because we've been cancelling urgent surgery.\n\n\"We even had to cancel some cancer surgery over the last few weeks,\" Mr Lyons told BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"My heart goes out to families and to patients with all the stress and the worry that gives.\n\n\"It's tough times and we're all in it together, and we do see that optimism, that glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel but it's hard.\"\n\nNearly half of hospital beds in the health board - which covers Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf- are taken up with Covid-19 patients, including 31 in critical care or on ventilation.\n\nThey outnumber those in critical care with other conditions by three to one.\n\nLatest NHS Wales figures show 2,806 hospital patients in Wales with Covid-19 - 35% of all patients. This is twice the proportion in May.\n\nIn Rhondda Cynon Taf, the Covid death rate is 283.9 per 100,000 population - followed by Merthyr Tydfil where the death rate is 253.6.\n\n\"It's an absolute tragedy for the families and the loved ones and very sobering,\" said Mr Lyons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. See how case rates have changed in each part of Wales\n\n\"We're coping but only because of the dedication of our staff, and it's immensely humbling to see people giving up their spare time coming in doing extra shifts, but the toll on them is immense.\n\n\"In practice our hospitals are full and although we are coping that we're only coping because we've cancelled all but the most urgent surgery.\n\n\"We've redeployed staff who've been incredibly flexible from places they normally work such as outpatients.\"\n\nThe health board oversees three hospitals - Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil, Princess of Wales Hospital in Bridgend and the Royal Glamorgan in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nA nurse at Royal Glamorgan Hospital, near Llantrisant, said earlier this week how she felt \"overwhelming fear\" as 13 ambulances queued outside her hospital's A&E department.", "Six pharmacies will be vaccinating people invited by letter to make an appointment online\n\nSome High Street pharmacies in England will start vaccinating people from priority groups on Thursday, with 200 providing jabs in the next two weeks.\n\nSix chemists in Halifax, Macclesfield, Widnes, Guildford, Edgware and Telford are the first to offer appointments to those invited by letter.\n\nBut pharmacists say many more sites should be allowed to give the jab, not just the largest ones.\n\nMore than 2.6 million people in the UK have now received their first dose.\n\nAcross the UK, the target is to vaccinate 15 million people in the top four priority groups - care home residents and workers, NHS frontline staff, the over-70s and the extremely clinically vulnerable - by mid-February.\n\nThe vaccines - made by either Oxford-AstraZeneca or Pfizer-BioNTech - are being administered at hospitals, care homes, GP surgeries and vaccination centres.\n\nIt comes as the UK saw its highest number of daily reported coronavirus deaths since the pandemic began, with the government announcing a further 1,564 deaths of people within 28 days of a positive Covid test.\n\nOn Wednesday evening, the Scottish government published its detailed 16-page plan for rolling out the vaccine, including details of how many vaccines it expects to receive every week until the end of May.\n\nThe first pharmacy sites in England to deliver a vaccine have been chosen because they are capable of delivering large numbers of vaccines quickly while allowing space for social distancing.\n\nPeople will be invited by letter to make an appointment at one of the pharmacies, or a vaccination centre, through the NHS Covid-19 vaccination booking service.\n\nAnyone who doesn't want to travel to these sites can still be vaccinated by their local GP or hospital service, but they may have to wait longer.\n\nUp to 70 more pharmacies will be taking bookings for appointments for next week, with 200 in total offering slots over the next fortnight, according to NHS England.\n\nVaccines are currently being offered at more than 1,000 sites, including :\n\nAn Asda supermarket in Birmingham will also host a vaccination centre, with pharmacy staff giving jabs in the store's former clothing section from 25 January.\n\nBut the National Pharmacy Association says the rules on which pharmacies qualify to deliver Covid vaccines should be relaxed to allow more to take part.\n\nHow people awaiting vaccines will queue and socially distance in the Halifax store of Boots\n\nAt present, pharmacies have to be able to deliver 1,000 vaccines a week, have enough fridge space to store all the doses, and be able to open seven days a week.\n\nAndrew Lane, of the National Pharmacy Association, said now that the Oxford vaccine had been approved, community pharmacies could store and administer it in the same way as they deliver the flu jab.\n\nThe Oxford vaccine only needs to be stored at fridge temperature, as opposed to the freezer temperatures of -70C required by Pfizer.\n\n\"We're here, we're trained, we will deliver,\" said Mr Lane, who represents Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Northamptonshire.\n\nNHS England has said that as more supplies of vaccine become available, more community pharmacists will be able to play a role in the programme.\n\nThe government's vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said staff across the NHS had \"pulled out all the stops to help ramp up vaccinations\" and were working day and night to keep people safe.\n\nProf Claire Anderson, chair of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's English Pharmacy Board, said pharmacy teams in hospital, primary care and the community were \"working flat out to support the nation's health\".\n\nShe said she looked forward to the vaccination programme being expanded through pharmacies to benefit patients.\n\nBoris Johnson said on Wednesday that vaccinations would also start being offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week \"as soon as possible\" - but supply of doses was currently the limiting factor.\n\nIt comes as hospitals struggle to cope with the rising numbers of patients being admitted with Covid.\n\nA study published today has shown the impact of packed intensive care units on death rates, finding that patients in England's busiest ICUs in 2020 were 20% more likely to die.\n\nMeanwhile, a government committee is meeting later to discuss whether to stop flights from Brazil coming to the UK because of concern about a new variant of the virus believed to have emerged there.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe strain is one of a small number of new variants which have been spreading, including ones first spotted in the UK and South Africa.\n\nScientists are racing to understand what it means for the vaccines - but most experts think vaccines will still be effective.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bangor student Michelle Francis said students had hardly used rooms and had not been able to use facilities on campus\n\nHundreds of students are preparing to take part in rent strikes after paying for \"hardly used\" rooms during the pandemic.\n\nSome Welsh universities have already offered refunds to students who have been living away due to Covid-19.\n\nBut students in Cardiff, Swansea and Bangor claim they are being treated unfairly and are threatening to withhold rent.\n\nUniversities said they were trying to work out the implications of Covid-19.\n\nAnd a solicitor warned students they could face legal action for not paying rent, with long-term implications possible if they lose.\n\nFace-to-face teaching was suspended and many students moved back home before Christmas as coronavirus cases continued to rise.\n\nStaggered returns are being introduced in order to \"help stop the spread of the virus in student accommodation\", according to the Welsh Government.\n\nThey said they had not been living in the rooms or using facilities, despite paying for them, because they were abiding by Welsh Government guidelines.\n\nCardiff Metropolitan University, Aberystwyth University, Swansea University, Bangor University and Cardiff University have now offered eligible students rebates or discounts for time not spent living on campus.\n\nUniversity of South Wales said it will be offering a \"rent holiday\" on university-owned accommodation in Treforest, Rhondda Cynon Taf, for the period 4 January to 12 February.\n\nUniversity of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD) said on Thursday it is now offering refunds to students who have not returned to university-owned accommodation while teaching is solely online.\n\nBut students say the offers are inadequate for students already paying £9,000-a-year tuition fees at a time when most of the teaching was online, and they had been unable to use facilities in halls.\n\nWhile the students cannot hold their protests in person due to coronavirus laws, hundreds are now planning to cancel their direct debits, withholding thousands of pounds of rent from universities.\n\nMichelle Francis, who formed the Bangor Rent Strike campaign, said the university's offer of a 10% discount to eligible students living in university-owned accommodation did not go far enough.\n\nShe said students who had chosen to go home for Christmas were not eligible, despite being unable to use facilities paid for during the first term.\n\n\"[We were] advised to have left university from the beginning of December and to come back at 8 February,\" she said.\n\n\"That's 25% of our halls that we've been paying and we're not there... we should be allowed to have that back.\"\n\nSo far over 300 students have joined the campaign to cancel their direct debits paid to Welsh universities and campaigners said the numbers were growing daily.\n\nOn Wednesday, Cardiff University joined other Welsh universities in offering a rent rebate to students living in university-owned accommodation during the pandemic.\n\nBut the full rebate, for the time students are unable to return to live in their accommodation, will not be applied until April.\n\nSwansea University has also confirmed a rent reduction to students in university halls who have been asked to remain at home.\n\nOisin Mulholland of Swansea Rent Strike said the group wanted the university to commit to fairly \"assessing the situation\", including for the coming term, and students who had already moved in should be given rebates as well.\n\n\"There was a window in January, where the Welsh Government said return, but the English government said don't return, and the university said nothing,\" he said.\n\n\"Many students came back and are now trapped in Swansea and can't go back because of lockdown\"\n\nIbrahim Khan said students were struggling and needed the rebate immediately\n\nIbrahim Khan, of the Cardiff Rent Strike campaign, said the rebate was \"too late\" for students struggling financially now.\n\n\"The university should be giving us the rebate this January as opposed to the third instalment in April,\" he said.\n\nLawyers have warned that students would in breach of contract if they cancel the direct debit for their rent.\n\nSiôn Fôn, a solicitor at Darwin Gray, encouraged students to discuss the issue with their families and student unions before taking action.\n\n\"I think a case could be brought forward pretty easily against somebody not paying rent,\" he said.\n\nBut he said students may have a case against the university due to not being able to access advertised facilities, but if the university took legal action it could have long-term consequences for individuals.\n\n\"If the students lose, and even after losing don't pay the rent, that would come up on credit scores, or with the bank, if they're trying to get a mortgage or a credit card it would come up on their record,\" he warned.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"How am I going to afford to do my food shop... if I can't go to work?\"\n\nA spokesperson for Cardiff University said technical reasons meant they had to wait until the April instalment of accommodation fees to provide the rebate.\n\nSwansea University said some students had already returned when the stay at home guidance was issued, and it was working through the \"implications of this\".\n\n\"To help with this the university will not generate invoices for any students with university accommodation until May when we have been able to look at these cases,\" a spokesman said.\n\nBangor University said it did not wish to add anything further following its rebate announcement.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it had provided an extra £40m to help universities, including £10m for towards student hardship and support.\n\n\"It would seem fair that students should be eligible for a rebate for the period when a course is online only and we welcome moves by universities to address this,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"We are actively considering how we can support our students and universities even further.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Residents of an asylum seeker camp in Pembrokeshire says life is 'very bad'\n\nAsylum seekers housed in a military training camp have claimed the \"very bad\" conditions are making them feel increasingly desperate.\n\nThe Home Office decided to house up to 250 asylum seekers at the site in Penally, Pembrokeshire, from September.\n\nBut some housed at the camp claim the conditions are unsafe and putting them at risk of coronavirus.\n\nPlaid Cymru has called for an urgent inspection, but the Home Office said it was safe and \"Covid-compliant\".\n\nOn Thursday afternoon, the independent chief inspector for borders and immigration David Bolt said he hoped an inspection can begin \"within a few weeks\" and was awaiting further details he requested from the Home Office.\n\nProtests and counter-protests have taken place at the camp, with concerns conditions breach human rights.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford has said the facility was \"unsuitable\" for vulnerable people who have \"fled terror and suffering\".\n\nNow, asylum seekers have spoken to the BBC about their experiences of living in the camp during the pandemic, with some claiming the site does not abide by Covid-19 rules.\n\nPhotos taken inside the camp show the living conditions in one of the rooms\n\nOne man, who wishes to remain anonymous, arrived at the camp on 1 October.\n\nHe said he had pain from \"old injuries\" obtained in Syria, but had to wait \"four days\" to see a doctor. He also has concerns about hygiene facilities at the camp.\n\n\"There is no observance of the Covid safety laws,\" he said, claiming \"six men\" share a small bedroom, dozens eat in the same room, and some staff preparing food do not wear face masks.\n\nVideo footage and photographs of the camp, seen by BBC Wales, show bathroom floors covered with water, every toilet in one bathroom blocked, beds in communal rooms less than 2m (6ft) apart and a bathroom where all the soap dispensers are empty.\n\nThe Home Office said medical need determined GP appointments, social distancing was required, and soap was replenished at the site.\n\nThe man said the camp's conditions had left him in a \"bad psychological state\" and others had attempted self-harm: \"Should I try to hurt myself to get out of here?\"\n\nHe said he and other residents were able to leave the camp as long as they are back by 22:00 GMT, but said he was reluctant to go out due to the \"humiliation, abuse and racism\" he has experienced.\n\nThe site has attracted protests in recent months\n\nWhile some have welcomed the refugees, posting welcome notes outside the gates, the camp has been described as a target for \"hard-right extremist\" protesters.\n\nThe Home Office said that, where someone claims their mental health is suffering, it would consider if their needs can be met at the site.\n\nAnother resident, from Eritrea, north-east Africa, said life in the camp was stressful, and people were being \"treated like prisoners\".\n\n\"For the Eritrean community in this camp, the most difficult thing is we escaped from our country from indefinite military service and illegal imprisonment,\" he said.\n\n\"So we feel like we are imprisoned in a military camp. It is all coming back to us.\"\n\nOne resident said it was impossible to maintain social distancing in a room with six people\n\nThe man said he had been told to be careful and to abide to Covid rules, but there was \"no protection\" as he was sleeping in a room with five others.\n\n\"Most of the bathrooms - they are broken,\" he said.\n\n\"They are filled with tissues, masks, everything you can find, they are blocked, they don't work.\"\n\nHe said he had not been offered a coronavirus test since arriving about three months ago.\n\nThe Home Office said residents had often entered the UK some time ago, and had been mainly placed in the camp after being in the south-east of England and around London.\n\nIt added that coronavirus tests were only necessary in line with Welsh Government guidance.\n\nIt added that Clearsprings Ready Homes, which manage the camp, took immediate steps to repair damage.\n\nSome have welcomed the asylum seekers in the community\n\nBut Plaid Cymru's leader in Westminster, Liz Saville Roberts, has called for an \"urgent\" and \"transparent\" inspection of the site.\n\nIn a letter to the UK's Independent chief inspector of borders and immigration, David Bolt, the MP said: \"We are now not only in the middle of winter, but cases of Covid-19 in Wales are rising at an alarming rate.\n\n\"I am extremely worried that the conditions at the old military barracks are wholly unsuitable to deal with the cold weather and to facilitate effective social distancing.\n\n\"This shows a clear disregard for the health and wellbeing of those being kept in the camp.\"\n\nAbout 40 men took part in the protest outside the camp in November over claims their human rights were being breached\n\nShe told BBC Radio Wales: \"If we aspire to be a nation of sanctuary, surely we should be looking at how people, while they are with us, are integrated into our communities and given all the services that they need, rather than putting them in a convenient enclosed space in a tiny community which is ill equipped itself to deal with this... Let alone far right protests outside and all the pressure that's put on the local population.\n\n\"We need to make sure that this doesn't set a precedent into the future.\"\n\nMr Bolt told Ms Saville Roberts he had \"received assurances\" from the Home Office that the Penally camp had an independent Covid-19 audit on 4 November.\n\nIn a letter, he said he hoped an inspection could be held \"within a few weeks\".\n\nHe said he was keen to understand how the Home Office \"was assuring itself\" individuals who were particularly vulnerable, including torture victims, potential victims of modern slavery, and those with complex health and other needs, were being identified and action taken to safeguard them.\n\nHe said: \"While on site I would expect the only restrictions to be those relating to Covid-19 and that inspectors would be free to examine the premises and facilities, observe daily life and interview staff and service users, and I would look to the Home Office to ensure that whoever is responsible for managing the site understands that they must cooperate with the inspection team.\"\n\nIn December, the Welsh Labour Government deputy minister Jane Hutt called on the Home Secretary Priti Patel to close the camp, describing the conditions as \"unsafe\" and \"inhumane\".\n\nTom Nunn, a solicitor representing some of the residents at camp, said the Home Office had said the camp should only be used as short-term accommodation for single, asylum-seeking males with no known vulnerabilities.\n\nBut he said 20 clients had been transferred away from the camp due to being vulnerable, and feared a serious incident would happen if things did not change.\n\n\"The majority of them have been detained and/or tortured in their country of origin, many have been exploited on their journey to the UK and a large number have fairly severe mental health problems,\" he said.\n\n\"It should not be the case that the only effective way of being transferred out is through making submissions through lawyers, and we are concerned about a large number of individuals who for a myriad of reasons may be unable to obtain this representation.\"\n\nThe UK's Minister for Immigration Compliance, Chris Philp, said: \"We provide asylum seekers in Penally with safe, Covid-compliant and weather-proof accommodation along with free, nutritious meals, all paid for by the taxpayer.\n\n\"We take the welfare of those in our care extremely seriously and asylum seekers can contact the 24/7 helpline run by Migrant Help if they have any issues.\n\n\"We are fixing our asylum system to make it firm and fair. We will be bringing forward legislation which will stop abuse of the system while ensuring it is compassionate towards those who need our help, welcoming people through safe and legal routes.\"", "The TikTok clip was reported to police by Network Rail\n\nA TikTok stunt featuring a car parked on a level crossing has been branded \"staggeringly stupid\".\n\nThe \"reckless\" social media post, recorded on the line at Bromley Cross, Bolton, showed a camera and tripod set up on the railway to record the scene.\n\nAn accompanying caption asked viewers: \"Would you take the risk to get the shot no-one else would?\"\n\nInsp Becky Warren, from British Transport Police, said: \"No picture or video is worth risking your life for.\"\n\nNetwork Rail, which reported the footage after it appeared on the video-sharing app, blasted the \"staggeringly stupid and dangerous\" clip.\n\nIt issued a reminder that trespassing on railway lines is against the law.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ManchesterPiccadilly This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNorth West route director Phil James said using the tracks \"as a backdrop for a photo shoot beggars belief\".\n\n\"Lives could so easily have been lost by this reckless behaviour,\" he said.\n\nInsp Warren added: \"There is simply no excuse for not following safety procedures at level crossings. The behaviour shown by the individuals in this video is incredibly dangerous and reckless.\"\n\nMany instances of trespass involve people using railway lines as backdrops for selfies and even wedding photos.\n\nLast year, Network Rail and British Transport Police launched a You vs. Train campaign to highlight the issue of young people trespassing.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Armie Hammer has starred in The Social Network and Call Me By Your Name\n\nUS actor Armie Hammer has pulled out of a new film with Jennifer Lopez after what he described as \"vicious and spurious online attacks against me\".\n\nHammer had been set to appear in the action comedy Shotgun Wedding.\n\nHowever, the star's role will now be re-cast after private messages he supposedly sent were circulated online.\n\nIn a statement, Hammer dismissed the messages and said the subsequent abuse meant he could no longer spend months away from his children while filming.\n\n\"I'm not responding to these [false] claims but in light of the vicious and spurious online attacks against me, I cannot in good conscience now leave my children for four months to shoot a film in the Dominican Republic,\" the 34-year-old said, according to Deadline and Variety.\n\nThe Social Network and Call Me By Your Name actor added that film studio Lionsgate \"is supporting me in this and I'm grateful to them for that\".\n\nHammer has two children aged six and three with TV host Elizabeth Chambers. The couple announced their divorce last summer.\n\nHis name began trending over the weekend after explicit messages detailing disturbing sexual fantasies, which were purportedly sent by him, appeared online.\n\nA spokesman for Shotgun Wedding told the PA news agency that the film's producers accepted his decision.\n\n\"Given the imminent start date of Shotgun Wedding, Armie has requested to step away from the film and we support him in his decision,\" they said.\n\nHammer played the Winklevoss twins in 2010's The Social Network and starred opposite Timothée Chalamet in 2017's acclaimed drama Call Me By Your Name. He also appeared alongside Lily James in the Netflix adaptation of Rebecca, which came out last year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Twitter boss Jack Dorsey has said banning US President Donald Trump was the right thing to do.\n\nHowever, he expressed sadness at what he described as the \"extraordinary and untenable circumstances\" surrounding Mr Trump's permanent suspension.\n\nHe also said the ban was in part a failure of Twitter's, which hadn't done enough to foster \"healthy conversation\" across its platforms.\n\nTwitter has been praised and criticised for freezing Mr Trump's account.\n\nGerman leader Angela Merkel and Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador - neither an ally of the outgoing US president - spoke out against the tech titan's move.\n\nIn a long Twitter thread, Twitter's chief said he did not celebrate or feel pride in the ban - which came after the Capitol riot last week.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by jack This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe reiterated that removing the president from Twitter was made after \"a clear warning\" to Mr Trump.\n\n\"We made a decision with the best information we had based on threats to physical safety both on and off Twitter,\" Mr Dorsey said.\n\nHe also accepted that the move would have consequences for an open and free internet.\n\n\"Having to take these actions fragment the public conversation. They divide us….And sets a precedent I feel is dangerous.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nHe also addressed criticism that just a handful of tech bosses can make decisions on who does and doesn't have a voice on the internet - and on accusations of censorship.\n\n\"A company making a business decision to moderate itself is different from a government removing access, yet can feel much the same,\" said Mr Dorsey.\n\nThe decision to remove users, posts and tweets has been criticised by some for violating First Amendment - free speech - rights.\n\nHowever, big tech firms generally argue that as they are private companies, and not state actors, this law does not apply when they moderate their platforms.\n\nFacebook and YouTube have taken steps to silence the president, while Amazon shut down Parler, an app widely used by his supporters.\n\nNow Snapchat has also announced that Mr Trump will be permanently banned from its platform too.\n\nIt had already announced an indefinite suspension, but has now decided that \"in the interest of public safety and based on his attempts to spread misinformation, hate speech, and incite violence\" to permanently terminate his account.\n\nOn Monday, the German chancellor's spokesperson said she found the social media ban \"problematic\". And the Mexican president said: \"I don't like anybody being censored.\"\n\nIncoming US President-elect Joe Biden has said he wants companies like Facebook and Twitter to do more to take down hate speech and fake news.\n\nHe has previously said he wants to repeal Section 230, a law protecting social media companies from being sued for the things people post.\n\nIt's not clear how Mr Biden intends to regulate Big Tech, though it's likely to be a legislative focus of his.", "Despite the huge need to free up space in hospitals, some care homes say insurance issues make it impossible for them to accept Covid-19 patients.\n\nIn October, the government launched a scheme for designated care homes to take patients recovering from the virus but insurance is a stumbling block.\n\nSir David Behan, head of the UK's largest care home company, HC-One, says insurance has become a major concern.\n\nThe government says it is working to resolve the issue.\n\n\"We are aware the adult social care insurance market is changing in response to the pandemic, and recognise some care providers may encounter difficulties as their policies come up for renewal,\" said a Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson.\n\nOne Hampshire care home says it will have to stop taking patients within days because its insurance will expire.\n\nWaterside House in Netley, Hampshire usually provides holidays and respite care for people with disabilities.\n\nBut since the autumn it has been taking Covid-positive patients discharged from hospitals on the south coast.\n\nThey are looked after on a separate floor from other residents, and the home has had to meet high infection control standards.\n\nHome manager Sarah Knight said demand for the 31 beds is unparalleled and added: \"I've been in nursing a long, long time, and I have never known anything like this.\n\n\"People end up in an ambulance sat outside hospitals for hours and hours, or they end up on a trolley in A&E in a corridor for hours and hours.\n\n\"By offering the best that we've got here, we can reduce some of that burden.\"\n\nJan Tregelles is chief executive of the charity Revitalise which runs Waterside House\n\nThe government originally hoped there would be 500 designated care homes taking in Covid-positive patients.\n\nBut Waterside House is one of only 129 which have been set up to take those who have not completed 14 days in isolation.\n\nHowever, its public indemnity insurance protection, which it needs in case someone contracts Covid there, runs out at the end of January.\n\nWaterside House is run by the charity Revitalise, whose chief executive, Jan Tregelles, said they have tried everything, but will soon have to start turning away people.\n\n\"It's shocking,\" she says. \"We are truly helpless. We have a fantastic team of nurses and colleagues already.\n\n\"The facilities are here, everything's arranged and we can't step up to support our communities at this time.\"\n\nOne resident, Alan Washbourne, who has been living at Waterside House since he was discharged from hospital during the first wave of the pandemic, said: \"I feel quite safe here.\"\n\nHe is not on the Covid floor of the home, and added: \"If I were to go to somewhere else, which is possible, I might not feel quite so safe.\"\n\nAlan Washbourne has been at Waterside House since April last year\n\nAfter so many deaths last spring, many care homes will not consider taking patients who are Covid-positive, even with extra infection control measures.\n\nMeanwhile, growing numbers of staff are off sick or self-isolating, leaving care homes facing shortages.\n\nAnd many are also finding it difficult to get the public indemnity insurance.\n\nSir David Behan is chairman of HC-One, the UK's largest care home provider\n\nSince November, HC-One, which is the UK's largest care home provider, has had to cover its own Covid risks because it cannot get the insurance.\n\nSir David said it is one of the reasons why they have not taken part in the designated places scheme.\n\n\"You've got solicitors' firms advertising, taking cases up against care companies,\" he says.\n\n\"So, this isn't a theoretical risk that there may be proceedings, it's an actual risk, and therefore we need cover.\n\n\"The NHS wouldn't operate without similar liability cover and that's what we need to see, and I think governments have a role to play working with the insurance industry to work to find a solution.\"\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care said it was making efforts to determine what actions it could take.\n\n\"Our priority is to ensure everyone receives the right care, in the right place, at the right time,\" said a spokesperson.", "More than 100,000 Covid-19 vaccinations had been issued in Northern Ireland by Tuesday evening, Robin Swann has said.\n\nThe health minister said, of that figure, 91,419 people had received their first vaccine dose.\n\nHe added that 95% of care home residents had received their first dose and about 20% of those aged over 80 have received their first dose.\n\nIt comes as leading GP said the goal to begin a mass vaccine rollout by summer is \"achievable\" but hinges on supply.\n\nThe Department of Health published its plan to deliver vaccines in Northern Ireland on Tuesday.\n\nDr Alan Stout said the timeline was \"very sensible\" but was \"almost 100%\" dependent on getting enough of the vaccine.\n\nAt Wednesday's health briefing, Mr Swann said the programme had made a \"strong start\" but there was more to do.\n\nHe also said he has decided to issue tighter visiting guidelines for hospitals.\n\n\"I have ensured visiting will be permitted to hospices and care homes, but visits to general medical wards will no longer be permitted from this Friday\", he said.\n\nThe minister added that the measure would be kept under constant review.\n\nMr Swann also confirmed a new rapid test for Covid-19, which can return results in 12 minutes, would be used in emergency departments.\n\nHe said a pilot programme has been carried out using the LumiraDX nasal swab, which will enable health staff to \"very quickly identify patients who do not have Covid-19\".\n\nHe also repeated that the current lockdown restrictions were working and had helped to reduce NI's rate of infection, but warned the executive would still have \"difficult decisions\" to take in relation to decisions about whether to extend some restrictions in the coming weeks.\n\nOn Wednesday, a further 19 Covid-related deaths were announced by the Department of Health in Northern Ireland.\n\nA further 1,145 new cases of the virus were also reported.\n\nMeanwhile, Northern Ireland's chief medical officer warned there was \"no doubt\" that levels of the new, more transmissible variant of coronavirus are rising in Northern Ireland.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's executive briefing, Dr Michael McBride said that the new variant was making the job to contain it \"twice as difficult\".\n\nThe new variant is said to be up to 70% more transmissible, but there is no evidence it is more dangerous.\n\nThe first confirmed case of the new strain was detected in Northern Ireland on 23 December, but officials had said levels in Northern Ireland remained lower than in other areas of the UK.\n\nDr McBride said there would now be situations where the variant could spread, where previously it may not have.\n\n\"We need to be extremely cautious in the weeks ahead,\" he warned, adding that the virus would not \"magically disappear\" on 6 February, when the current lockdown is due to end.\n\nStormont ministers have to review the regulations on or before 22 January, with that scheduled for next Thursday.\n\nDr McBride said Northern Ireland had some distance to go before restrictions are lifted\n\nDr Stout, the chair of NI's GP committee, said practices needed another 22,000 doses to finish vaccinating people aged over 80.\n\nSpeaking to BBC's Good Morning Ulster, he said he was \"very confident\" the next doses would come through shortly.\n\n\"I have been overwhelmed by the desire of practices, the determination just to get going and the one thing we need to give them is vaccine - we need to get the supply in as quickly as possible.\n\n\"This is such a good news story that everybody wants the vaccine and everybody wants to give it.\"\n\nThe plan is for the vaccine to be given to the general population in summer 2021.\n\nGP clinics should have received their first delivery of the vaccine by Tuesday.\n\nResponding to reports in The Daily Telegraph that GPs administering the vaccine in England had been asked to \"slow down\" to let other regions \"catch-up\", Dr Stout said Northern Ireland had taken a different approach to how it rolled out vaccines to GPs.\n\nHe said vaccines were shared among all practices in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"We just don't have the full amount of vaccine in practice to give. We could have given all of the vaccine that a certain number of practices needed to start with but there were issues with inequality and discrimination ... so that's why an amount has gone to every single practice, so at least they have some.\"", "A ban on travellers to the UK from South America has left one family fearing it could leave them stranded abroad for months.\n\nThe restriction comes into force at 04:00 GMT on Friday amid fears of a new Covid variant identified in Brazil.\n\nBritish and Irish citizens and foreign nationals with residence rights will still be able to travel but must isolate for 10 days.\n\nHowever many flights have now been cancelled.\n\nJon Den travelled to Brazil with his wife Carla, 32, in October so that her family - who live in Goiania - could meet their one-year-old daughter Luiza for the first time.\n\nThe couple, who live in Wolverhampton, are due to fly back to the UK on 6 February but Jon now fears they may be stuck out there for months due to the travel ban.\n\n\"We had planned to visit in February 2020 but we had to postpone because of the lockdown and that was rough on my wife, she suffered a lot,\" the 31-year-old says.\n\n\"Now I think my mum is suffering as she's expecting Luiza to be back, but who knows now?\n\n\"My initial reaction was worry because it's so unknown. The thought of not being able to return home and being stranded is not a nice feeling.\n\n\"I'm hoping British residents will be able to get home but I don't know if the government will organise flights. I think it's a long shot. I hope we can get home and not be stranded out here for months.\n\n\"We've got to be patient but at the same time flexible.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Several Leeds bus drivers were faced with challenging conditions in the snow.\n\nHigh demand and heavy snow have had a \"severe impact\" on Yorkshire's ambulances, with bad weather also affecting coronavirus vaccinations.\n\nThe county ambulance trust declared a major incident, urging calls only in a \"serious or life-threatening emergency\" due to poor road conditions.\n\nA vaccination centre in Barnsley was closed, with patients told to await new appointments.\n\nCovid testing centres in Kirklees and Bradford also suspended operations.\n\nA yellow Met Office warning for snow and ice is in force until 21:00 GMT.\n\nMark Millins, strategic commander at Yorkshire Ambulance Service, said \"very snowy conditions across West, South and North Yorkshire\" had caused gridlock and made driving difficult.\n\nStaff were \"working extremely hard to reach patients\", he said, but \"hazardous driving conditions and blocked roads mean that it is taking us longer than normal in the worst-hit areas.\"\n\nVaccinations taking at the Priory Campus in Lundwood, Barnsley, were suspended from 15:00 GMT\n\nIn Barnsley, the town's Clinical Commissioning Group issued a tweet advising that it had postponed all Covid vaccinations at one centre from 15:00 on Thursday.\n\nIt asked those due to receive jabs at the Priory Campus in Lundwood after this time not to travel, and said patients would be contacted with a rescheduled appointment.\n\nThe group said its two remaining centres at Goldthorpe and Apollo Court, in Dodworth, remained open, but those unable to attend would also get a new time and date.\n\nWest Yorkshire Police said it had also seen a surge in calls and urged people not to call 101 for \"non-urgent matters\".\n\nSupt Chris Bowen said the force had received 300 calls to the 999 and 101 numbers in the space of an hour on Thursday morning.\n\nA large snowball fight on Woodhouse Moor in Leeds was criticised for an apparent lack of social distancing after footage was posted on social media.\n\nLiam Ford, who recorded the video, said he saw the \"awful scenes\" after he \"heard the commotion while on a walk round the block\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A large group of people have been filmed in a snowball fight in Leeds\n\nPolice urged drivers to stay at home until the roads cleared\n\nMotorists reported hazardous driving conditions on many routes and police warned people to stay at home or allow extra time for essential journeys.\n\nPhil Airey said his usual 30-minute commute from Boston Spa to Harrogate took 90 minutes due to the poor conditions.\n\n\"The gritters have been doing their job but any sort of hill then it's not very good and if you go off onto the little roads well they are not good at all,\" he said.\n\nWest Yorkshire's road policing unit said it was dealing with a number of crashes while the North Yorkshire force said the A59 was blocked near Skipton due to a number of vehicles getting stuck in the snow.\n\nThe Met Office has not issued a weather notice for Friday, but a yellow warning for snow and ice on Saturday is in place across most of northern England and Scotland.\n\nPolice say they have dealt with a number of collisions and accidents\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk or send video here.", "Charlie Mullins said workers getting vaccinated is \"a no-brainer\".\n\nA large London plumbing firm plans to rewrite all of its workers' contracts to require them to be vaccinated against coronavirus.\n\nPimlico Plumbers chairman Charlie Mullins said it was \"a no-brainer\" that workers should get the jab.\n\nIf they do not want to comply with the policy, it will be decided on a case-by-case basis whether they are kept on, he said.\n\nEmployment lawyers said the plan carried risks for the business.\n\nThe NHS is seeking to vaccinate 15 million people from priority groups by mid-February as part of efforts to try to control the spread of Covid-19.\n\nBut Mr Mullins said he was prepared to pay for private immunisations for people at the firm, should they become available, which would be done on the company's time.\n\nDoctors have warned that key hospital services in England are in crisis, with reports of hospitals cancelling urgent operations after a surge in Covid patients in recent weeks.\n\nPimlico Plumbers plans to change its contracts for new joiners to require immunisation. It will rewrite its contracts with existing workers and employees as soon as is practical, depending on vaccine availability.\n\nThe firm has about 350 plumbers working as contractors and about 120 employees.\n\nMr Mullins said the firm was \"not putting anyone under any pressure\" to have the jab.\n\nHowever, new starters who were not immunised would not be taken on, he said.\n\nMr Mullins said employees approved of the policy.\n\n\"It's a no-brainer,\" he said. \"I've talked to people who have said: 'I will queue up all night to get the vaccine.'\n\n\"I think it will be the norm in five or six months. To go into a bar or cinema, or go on a plane, you have to have a vaccine,\" he added.\n\nMr Mullins said he had set aside £800,000 to pay for private vaccinations, but estimated costs more in the region of £100,000.\n\n\"Whatever it costs, I will pay,\" he said. \"I would pay £1m tomorrow to safeguard our staff.\n\n\"If people don't want the vaccine, let them sit at home and not have a normal life,\" he added.\n\nHowever, employment lawyers said this vaccination policy could be risky.\n\nLegally, companies cannot force employees to take a vaccine, said Thrive Law managing director Jodie Hill.\n\n\"They can't jab a vaccine in your arm,\" she said.\n\nPeople who refuse vaccination and are dismissed may have grounds to make a legal claim, she said.\n\n\"Even if they put that [requirement] in a new contract, I don't think they'd get away with it,\" she said.\n\nEmployees with more than two years' service could claim unfair dismissal. But this option is not open to workers and self-employed contractors.\n\nBroadly, people can refuse a vaccination for legitimate reasons such as being pregnant or breastfeeding, for religious reasons, because of disability or allergy, or for ethical vegan reasons if the jab contains animal products.\n\nThe two vaccines approved for use in the UK, from Oxford-AstraZeneca and Pfizer/BioNTech, do not contain any components of animal origin, a Department for Health and Social Care spokesman confirmed.\n\nDismissal for employees with one or more of these protected characteristics could give rise to a discrimination claim.\n\nPeople who are hesitant about taking the vaccine for personal reasons would not be able to claim discrimination, but could potentially claim unfair dismissal if they have been with the firm for two years or more.\n\nPeople with strong anti-vaccination beliefs may be protected under equality law, Ms Hill added.\n\nThe company and Mr Mullins have previously faced a lengthy legal battle with one of its former contractors, Gary Smith.\n\nIn 2018, Mr Smith won a Supreme Court ruling over holiday and sick pay. However, an employment tribunal later ruled that he was not entitled to make a claim for the back pay, as he had not completed the necessary paperwork.\n\nMr Mullins insisted that the vaccination change to contracts \"will be done legally\", but said that he was willing to take this matter to the Supreme Court as well, if necessary.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The rapid spread of coronavirus variants has put the world on alert and triggered a new lockdown in the UK. What are these variants and why are they causing concern?\n\nAll viruses naturally mutate over time, and Sars-CoV-2 is no exception.\n\nSince the virus was first identified a year ago, thousands of mutations have arisen.\n\nThe vast majority of mutations are \"passengers\" and will have little impact, says Dr Lucy van Dorp, an expert in the evolution of pathogens at University College London.\n\n\"They don't change the behaviour of the virus, they are just carried along.\"\n\nBut every once in a while, a virus strikes lucky by mutating in a way that helps it survive and reproduce.\n\n\"Viruses carrying these mutations can then increase in frequency due to natural selection, given the right epidemiological settings,\" Dr van Dorp says.\n\nThis is what seems to be happening with the variant that has spread across the UK, known as 202012/01, and a similar, but different variant, recently identified in South Africa (501.V2).\n\nHundreds of thousands of viral genomes have been analysed across the world\n\nThere is no evidence so far that either causes more severe disease, but the worry is that health systems will be overwhelmed by a rapid rise in cases.\n\nIn a rapid risk assessment of these \"variants of concern\", the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said they place increased pressure on health systems.\n\n\"Although there is no information that infections with these strains are more severe, due to increased transmissibility, the impact of Covid-19 disease in terms of hospitalisations and deaths is assessed as high, particularly for those in older age groups or with co-morbidities,\" the EU agency said.\n\nThe variants have different origins but share a mutation in a gene that encodes the spike protein, which the virus uses to latch on to and enter human cells.\n\nScientists think this could be why they appear more infectious.\n\n\"The UK and South African virus variants have changes in the spike gene consistent with the possibility that they are more infectious,\" says Prof Lawrence Young at the University of Warwick.\n\nBut as Dr Jeff Barrett, director of the Covid-19 genomics initiative at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Hinxton, UK, points out, it's the combination of what the virus is doing and what we're doing that determines how fast it spreads.\n\n\"With the new variant, the situation changes more quickly as restrictions are relaxed and tightened, and there is less room for error in controlling the spread,\" he says.\n\n\"We don't have any evidence, however, that the new variant can fundamentally evade masks, social distancing, or the other interventions - we just need to apply them more strictly.\"\n\nThe spike protein (foreground) enables the virus to enter and infect human cells\n\nWith vaccine roll-out underway, scientists are racing to understand the repercussions for vaccines, which are based on the spike protein sequence.\n\nThere is particular concern about the South Africa variant, which has several changes in the spike (S) protein.\n\nMost experts think vaccines will still be effective, at least in the short term.\n\nDr Julian W Tang, a virologist at the University of Leicester, says vaccines can be modified to be \"more close-fitting and effective against this variant in a few months\".\n\n\"Meanwhile, most of us believe that the existing vaccines are likely to work to some extent to reduce infection/ transmission rates and severe disease against both the UK and South African variants - as the various mutations have not altered the S protein shape that the current vaccine-induced antibodies will not bind at all.\"\n\nMink outbreaks are a \"spillover\" from the human pandemic\n\nScientists are carrying out laboratory studies to find out more about the variants. And they are tracking every move of the virus as it hopscotches around the world.\n\nBy taking a swab from an infected patient, the genetic code of the virus can be extracted and amplified before being \"read\" using a sequencer.\n\nThe string of letters, or nucleotides, allows genomes and mutations to be compared.\n\n\"It is thanks to these efforts, and UK testing laboratories, that the UK variant has been flagged so quickly as a potential cause of concern,\" Dr van Dorp says.\n\nProf Julian Hiscox, chair in infection and global health at the University of Liverpool, says that, through the efforts of scientists to sequence the virus, \"we've got a really good handle on variants that emerge\".\n\nIn the short-term, only the harshest of lockdowns will reduce case numbers, he says.\n\n\"What lockdown does is reduce the number of people with the virus and reduce the amount of virus out there and that's a good thing.\"\n\nBut in the long term, Prof Hiscox suspects, we may face a scenario like flu, where new vaccines are developed and administered every year.\n\n\"The problem is, the more variants we get, the greater the chance the virus will be able to escape part of the vaccine - and this may reduce [its] efficacy,\" he says.\n• None New coronavirus variant: What do we know?", "The co-founder for Cyberpunk 2077's developer has released a new video explaining what went wrong with the game.\n\nCD Projekt's Marcin Iwiński admitted they \"underestimated the task\" of adapting the game for consoles like the PS4 and Xbox One.\n\nMarcin says he's \"deeply sorry for this and this video is me publicly owning up\".\n\nThe game was arguably the most anticipated release of 2020 but the launch just before Christmas was a disaster.\n\nThe problems led to Sony and Microsoft removing the game from online stores and gamers were offered refunds.\n\nCyberpunk 2077 is a set in the fictional Night City - a dystopian future where pollution and crime are rampant and social inequality is the norm.\n\nIn the video, Marcin explains issues originated from Cyperpunk's \"huge\" scope, particularly the high number \"of custom objects, interacting systems, and mechanics\", making it a complex game.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Cyberpunk 2077 This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAs this was \"condensed in one big city\" rather than spread over a bigger space - it needed greater hardware capability.\n\nSo despite working well for high-end PCs, it couldn't be adjusted to older generation consoles such as the PS4 and Xbox One, making in-game streaming difficult.\n\n\"We hit the ground running on PC. While not perfect, it's a version of Cyberpunk we're very proud of.\"\n\nMarcin adds that testing did not \"show a big part of the issues\" that gamers experienced.\n\n\"As we got closer to the final release, we saw significant improvements each and every day.\"\n\nHe also blames the coronavirus pandemic for creating issues for CD Projekt as they tried to improve performance after launch.\n\n\"A lot of the dynamics we normally take for granted got lost over video calls or email. And we took that hit too.\"\n\nLooks good right? But this wasn't what the game looked like for a lot of console gamers\n\nMarcin added the \"incredibly hard working and talented\" development team should not be blamed for problems, saying the final decision came down to him and the board.\n\n\"Believe me, we never ever intended for anything like this to happen. I assure you that we will do our best to regain your trust\".\n\nAs part of that, he says they intend to fix the problems and improve the game across platforms.\n\n\"Our ultimate goal is to fix the bugs and crashes,\" he says, with updates to the game expected to arrive in the coming days and weeks.\n\n\"We treat this entire situation very seriously and are working hard to make it right.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Julia is doing well after her surprise arrival into the world\n\nA mother who gave birth just 10 days after discovering she was pregnant thought she had put on weight in lockdown.\n\nSamantha Hicks, from Portishead, North Somerset, attributed her baby Julia's kicking to sickness having been ill.\n\nHer pregnancy was missed even when she was in Southmead Hospital in Bristol with Covid-19 in November .\n\n\"It never occurred to me I was pregnant as I had taken two previous tests which both came back negative,\" she said.\n\nWhen Mrs Hicks was taken to the Covid ward in hospital, doctors asked if she was pregnant and she said no.\n\nShe said she had noticed a small amount of weight gain but put it down to lockdown and that she thought she might have Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) as it runs in the family.\n\nMrs Hicks said: \"I felt a bit of movement but I thought it was because I had not been well.\n\n\"My tummy was a bit swollen but again, because I felt sick and I wasn't great, it never occurred to me I was pregnant.\"\n\nHer husband Joe said: \"On Christmas Day, I asked her if she was sure she wasn't pregnant, but she said no and she knows her own body.\n\n\"Then on January 1, I had my hands on Sammy and we felt a baby kick.\n\n\"We took another pregnancy test which came back positive.\"\n\nAt that stage, Mrs Hicks thought she was only five or six months into her term and returned to her job in a care home, walking 40 minutes to get there.\n\nTen days later, her contractions began and Mr Hicks rushed her to hospital\n\n\"It was unreal, the doctors only realised Julia was full term when she was born,\" he said.\n\nThe couple, who have two sons aged three and eight, said they had not planned on having more children.\n\nThey have since been \"inundated\" with gifts from friends, family and strangers in Portishead, who have offered blankets and essentials to help out.\n\n\"We want to say thank you to everyone really,\" Mr Hicks said.\n\nHelen Blanchard, Director of Nursing and Quality at North Bristol NHS Trust said: \"We would like to pass our congratulations to Mrs Hicks and her family on their new arrival.\n\n\"As Mrs Hicks experienced when she was cared for at Southmead, it is routine practice to ask people if they are, or could be, pregnant upon admission.\n\n\"However, we would ask a patient to do a pregnancy test if they were undergoing specific operations or procedures.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Marcus Rashford and a group of celebrity chefs and campaigners have called on Boris Johnson to review the government's free school meals policy.\n\nThe group, including Jamie Oliver, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Tom Kerridge, have written to the PM asking him to \"fix\" the system long-term.\n\nThey called for a strategy to help \"end child food poverty\" before the summer holidays.\n\nNo 10 said \"no child will ever go hungry\" because of the Covid pandemic.\n\nThe call for a wide review comes after another row over free school meals during February half-term.\n\nThe government has said food will be provided to children by councils under the Covid Winter Grant Scheme while schools are closed for the holiday.\n\nCouncils and unions say the government should provide food vouchers instead, with the Local Government Association's Councillor Richard Watts telling BBC Radio 4's PM programme the grant had already been allocated for other support.\n\nBut Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We are down to semantics whether it is the school delivering the meal or whether it is the local authority - fortunately there is quite a lot of different support available.\"\n\nAs well as getting the backing of Rashford - who has led campaigns around child poverty over the course of the pandemic - the letter has been signed by chefs Oliver, Kerridge and Fearnley-Whittingstall, along with actor Dame Emma Thompson and over 40 charities and education leaders.\n\nOrganised by the Food Foundation charity, the letter said it was time to \"step back and review the policy in more depth\".\n\nThey called for an \"urgent comprehensive review into free school meal policy across the UK\" to feed into the government's next Spending Review, saying it should look at:\n\nThe signatories praised the Department for Education's \"swift response\" to reports earlier this week of inadequate food parcels sent to families, saying the \"robustness of the message from you and the secretary of state on this issue was very welcome\".\n\nBut, they added that \"following the series of problems which have arisen over school food vouchers, holiday provision and food parcels since the start of the pandemic\", now was the time for a review.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tom Kerridge: There has to be a solution to free school meals\n\nAnna Taylor, executive director of the Food Foundation charity, said the last few months had seen \"crisis after crisis with the provision of free school meals\".\n\n\"The result of that is disadvantaged children have often paid the price,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"Our view is that really unless we do a root and branch review these problems are going to still keep appearing.\"\n\nChef Fearnley-Whittingstall also called for a more consistent, long-term response to the issue of food poverty.\n\n\"We need to get out of this fire-fighting, highly reactive series of actions by the government,\" he told the same programme.\n\nThe signatories want a review to be published and debated in Parliament before the 2021 summer holidays.\n\n\"We are ready and willing to support your government in whatever way we can to make this review a reality and to help develop a set of recommendations that everyone can support,\" the letter said.\n\n\"School food is essential in supporting the health and learning of our most disadvantaged children.\n\n\"Now, at a time when children have missed months of in-school learning and the pandemic has reminded us of the importance of our health, this is a vital next step.\"\n\nAnti-poverty campaigner and food writer Jack Monroe welcomed the letter to the PM, but told the BBC: \"We need to be feeding children right now.\"\n\nShe added: \"While it is great to be looking longer term... having an underpinning strategy that means that children aren't put into poverty in the first place, we need to also immediately be putting resources in to ensure people aren't going hungry, today, tonight, next week and in the February half-term.\n\n\"This isn't a rhetorical thing. It isn't a dinner party discussion. We need to be doing this now.\"\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson said: \"It is great that celebrities and groups across society see the importance of school food. The PM thanks Marcus Rashford for his letter and will reply soon.\n\n\"School food is essential in supporting the health and learning of the most disadvantaged pupils. The prime minister has been clear that no child will ever go hungry as a result of the pandemic\".", "The prime minister has suggested there could be restrictions on travel from Brazil to the UK - but a final decision has not been taken.\n\nBoris Johnson was asked by Labour MP Yvette Cooper why checks on people arriving from Brazil have not been strengthened, given that a new variant of coronavirus has been identified there.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"We are taking steps to ensure that we do not see the import of this new variant from Brazil.\"\n\nThe UK government’s 'Covid-O' committee is expected to discuss the new Brazil variant of coronavirus at a meeting on Thursday.", "People needing to travel by rail during lockdown are being urged to double-check train times, as services are being reduced.\n\nServices in England are being cut from 87% of normal levels to 72%, industry body the Rail Delivery Group said.\n\nIt said the number of trains would reflect the drop in passengers, and provide better value for money for taxpayers who are subsidising services.\n\nPeak services will be prioritised to help key workers, it added.\n\nWhile some timetables have already changed, others will be altered in the next few weeks.\n\nSince the early days of the pandemic, the government has spent billions of pounds covering the fall in ticket revenues for rail companies, owing to low passenger numbers.\n\nCutting some services will save public money, the government said.\n\nRail minister Chris Heaton-Harris said: \"It is critical that our railways continue to deliver reliable services for key workers and people who cannot reasonably work from home, and that they respond quickly to changes in demand.\"\n\nRail usage has slumped, with passenger journeys falling more than 90% to 35 million journeys for the three-month period to June, according to the Office of Rail and Road.\n\nThe figures recovered a little to 134 million for the three months to September - the latest published.\n\nWith fewer passengers, the government argues, it makes sense to run fewer services.\n\nNot least because right now, the government are footing much of the bill; since the start of the pandemic, the government has spent more than £4bn covering the fall in ticket revenues because of low passenger numbers.\n\nThe cuts aren't as deep as they were in March - then services were running around 55% of pre-pandemic levels - which is partly because the train companies want to make sure it doesn't take as long getting the services back up again when they are needed.\n\nLonger term, rail companies are nervous about how quickly passengers, particularly commuters, will return, but for now the message is still firmly \"stay at home\".\n\n\"Train timetables must still meet the needs of those who have to travel, said Transport Focus chief executive Anthony Smith.\n\n\"Many key workers rely on the first and last services of the day so it's important that these are maintained. Providing enough capacity for those who are travelling to properly social distance remains vital.\"\n\nAlthough timetables were restored when restrictions were eased over the summer, rail franchising has since been scrapped and replaced with a model which means the taxpayer is currently liable for the losses on the railways.\n\nIn September, the bill had run to more than £3.5bn - and the Department for Transport has said \"significant\" support is still needed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Large parts of Scotland woke up to a blanket of snow on Thursday, including in Rutherglen where conditions became challenging for drivers\n\nMotorists continue to face difficult conditions after heavy snow across parts of Scotland caused road closures.\n\nA Met Office yellow warning for ice will be in place overnight and for all of Friday for mainland Scotland.\n\nThe A9 at Dunblane was closed due to snow but has now reopened, while driving conditions on the M90 and M8 were reported as difficult.\n\nThere have also been problems in the Scottish Borders where up to a foot of snow fell overnight.\n\nTraffic Scotland has reported difficult driving conditions on the M77 at Fenwick, M80 around Cumbernauld and the A9 at Greenloaning.\n\nA woman walks through the snow in Braco near Dunblane\n\nThe impact of the overnight freeze on a hedgerow near Strathaven, South Lanarkshire\n\nIn the Borders several lorries got stuck on the A7 between Selkirk and Hawick, while difficult driving conditions were also reported on the A68 at the Carter Bar and Soutra.\n\nThere were also delays on the A83 Old Military Road diversion and the A82 at Tyndrum.\n\nMeanwhile, police have urged drivers to properly clear their car windscreens before setting off in the wintry conditions.\n\nOfficers in Dumfries and Galloway shared a picture of a driver they stopped and charged for failing to do this.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPeople should only be leaving home to make essential journeys in parts of Scotland under level four Covid measures, under current Scottish government lockdown regulations.\n\nCh Supt Louise Blakelock, of Police Scotland, said: \"Government guidance on only travelling if your journey is essential remains in place and so with an amber warning for snow, please consider if your journey really is essential and whether you can delay it until the weather improves.\n\n\"If your journey really is essential, plan ahead and make sure you and your vehicle are suitably prepared by having sufficient fuel and supplies such as warm clothing, food, water and charge in your mobile phone in the event you require assistance.\"\n\nA motorist brushes snow off a car in Braco near Dunblane\n\nThe village of Bowden near Melrose woke up to snow\n\nA snowy scene at Fountainhall in the Scottish Borders\n\nPolice in Shetland have also warned of ice badly affecting roads on the islands.\n\nScotRail said its services could be affected, particularly on the Highland mainline.\n\nScottish Borders Council said the effects of the adverse weather could cause disruption into Friday morning.\n\nEmergency planning officer Jim Fraser said: \"With widespread snow and some freezing rain possible over the course of Wednesday and Thursday, there is the strong potential for disruption across our road network and communities.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome of the deepest snowfalls in recent weeks have been in the Highlands, including the Cairngorms.\n\nEarlier this month, the UK had its coldest night of the winter so far after a temperature of -12.3C was recorded in the north west Highlands.\n\nThe temperature was recorded at Loch Glascarnoch, near Garve, south of Ullapool in Wester Ross.\n\nThe record lowest temperature in the UK is -27.2C, which was recorded in Braemar, Aberdeenshire, in 1895 and 1982 and at Altnaharra in the Highlands in 1995.", "Pre-departure Covid-19 testing will now be required for everyone travelling to England from 04:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nThe rules had been due to come into force on Friday, but the government said people needed time \"to prepare\".\n\nThose arriving by plane, train or boat, including UK nationals, will have to take a test up to 72 hours before leaving the country they are in.\n\nAnyone arriving from places not on the UK's travel corridor list must still self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe Scottish government is planning to impose the same rules and has had to defer them coming into effect as a result of changes in England.\n\n\"This meant Scotland was also obliged to delay implementation as we need sight of their final regulations in order to properly draft and approve the relevant Scottish regulations,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nIt is expected the requirement will come into force in Scotland at 04:00 GMT on Monday as well. Wales and Northern Ireland are expected to announce plans for pre-arrival testing in the coming days.\n\nAnnouncing the deferral on Twitter, Transport Secretary Mr Shapps said: \"To give international arrivals time to prepare, passengers will be required to provide proof of a negative Covid-19 test before departure to England from Monday 18 January at 4am.\"\n\nHe also reminded travellers to fill out the Passenger Locator Form - used in track and trace - and added that those without proof of a negative test faced a fine of £500.\n\nProblems with testing availability and capacity mean some countries will initially be exempt.\n\nFor instance, the requirement will not apply to travellers from St Lucia, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda until 04:00 GMT on 21 January.\n\nTravellers from Falkland Islands, Ascension Islands and St Helena are exempted permanently.\n\nHauliers are exempt to allow the free flow of freight, as are air, international rail and maritime crew.\n\nThe government has said all forms of PCR test will be accepted, as will other forms of test with \"97% specificity, 80% sensitivity\".\n\nThe move comes as a further 1,564 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nWednesday's figure brings the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said there had now been more deaths in the second wave than the first.\n\nMeanwhile on Wednesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"concerned\" about a new coronavirus variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil.\n\nHe acknowledged it was not yet clear how effective existing vaccines would be against the latest new variant.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK was taking steps to make sure it was not brought into the country.\n\nA government Covid committee is meeting on Thursday to discuss the possibility of stopping flights from Brazil.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from Brazil? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Post-primary schools have been given extra time to decide how they will admit pupils in 2021 following the cancellation of transfer tests.\n\nOn Wednesday the AQE said it would not hold any transfer tests in the 2020-21 school year.\n\nThey had originally planned to go ahead with a test in late February after cancelling tests in January.\n\nThe other test provider, PPTC, had also previously announced it would not hold tests this year.\n\nAttention will now focus especially on what criteria grammar schools will use to select pupils.\n\nSome have already published what criteria they would use in the event transfer tests were cancelled but it is not clear if those will now change.\n\nAll post-primaries were to submit their admissions criteria to the Education Authority (EA) by this Friday.\n\nBut following the AQE's move the Department of Education (DE) has written to schools to tell them they do not have to provide criteria to the EA until Friday 22 January.\n\n\"This will allow them to meet the statutory deadline for publication on their website of 2 February 2021,\" the DE letter said.\n\n\"I would also remind you that boards of governors should ensure that any admissions criteria are robust and are able to clearly and objectively rank order applicants.\"\n\nIt is unclear how most grammar schools who have used transfer tests to select pupils in previous years will admit children in 2021.\n\nPatrick Allen, principal of Foyle College in Londonderry, said his school's board of governors was now working to determine this year's admissions criteria.\n\n\"This is and continues to be an exceptional year. It is a very difficult circumstance,\" he said.\n\n\"We are trying to do the best and what is right for as many pupils as possible in looking at various permutations and combinations of criteria\".\n\nEducation Minister Peter Weir said it was \"a very disappointing day\" for many families.\n\n\"The transfer test, while it has never been about being compulsory for either a school or indeed an individual parent, does enable a level of parental choice and that has been dramatically reduced as a result of that,\" he told Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\n\"But sadly what we have seen is for this year, the pandemic has prevented those transfer tests taking place, and I am very disappointed and entirely understand the disappointment and frustration of many families today.\"\n\nMr Weir said there had been \"a lack of consistency\" from AQE.\n\n\"I don't think the way things have worked out from AQE's point of view, particularly over the last couple of weeks, have been particularly helpful,\" he said.\n\nThe minister also apologised for \"clumsy language\" in a statement he issued on Wednesday night.\n\nWriting on Twitter about the cancellation of the transfer test, Mr Weir said: \"This severely limits parental choice and children's opportunities.\"\n\n\"There was no adverse intention towards non-selective schools,\" he said in relation to his tweet.\n\n\"I think both selective and non-selective schools have got excellent records in Northern Ireland.\"\n\n\"But once the opportunities for entry to any school is reduced then that is a reduction in opportunities for all.\"\n\nUUP MLA Robbie Butler has proposed that pupils' results in tests in primary schools could be given to parents and then used by grammar schools to decide which children get a place.\n\nMr Butler said that he had some favourable responses from some grammars and some primary schools to that proposal.\n\n\"Whilst I don't think my solution is absolutely perfect I do believe it to be absolutely fair and absolutely compassionate,\" he told MLAs on the committee.\n\n\"We have the genesis of a solution for these P7 pupils.\"\n\nBut, speaking on Wednesday, Mr Weir replied that there were issues with that approach.\n\n\"There are very major problems, I'm being honest with you, in terms of the models that have been put forward for academic selection without the test,\" he said.\n\nThe minister said it would be difficult to get comparable information for pupils across all primaries.\n\n\"While it's not entirely ruling out those and there is the option for schools to do it, it does leave them in a very difficult position making comparability between pupils on a fair basis,\" he said", "Jamie McMillan said delays in exporting his shellfish would result in them arriving dead\n\nA Scottish shellfish firm has warned it is on the brink of bankruptcy as delays continue at ports following the introduction of post-Brexit red tape.\n\nLochfyne Langoustines managing director Jamie McMillan said his firm had already lost some consignments after they were found to be rotten by the time they arrived in France.\n\nHe also warned EU customers were now going to Denmark to buy langoustines.\n\nMr McMillan described it as a \"very, very serious situation\".\n\nHis comments came after transport company DFDS announced a further delay in exports of group consignments of seafood to the EU.\n\nIt halted groupage exports last week after delays in getting new paperwork for EU border posts in France.\n\nDFDS said it would not resume those exports until Monday.\n\nMr McMillan told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"We've been screaming for the last six months - eight months - that we have to get our produce to market within 12 to 24 hours.\n\n\"Any delays in that process, our shellfish will arrive in France dead.\n\n\"We lost two pallets last week. It took five days to arrive in Boulogne from Scotland, so our goods were rotten on arrival.\"\n\nTransport company DFDS has said it will not resume groupage exports until Monday\n\nHe added: \"Customers are not buying from us any more - we have become unreliable suppliers.\n\n\"Everybody has stopped buying. This has happened for the past two weeks. We can't continue this to happen for another week because we will be out of business.\n\n\"We have had no sales to the EU, our biggest market for live shellfish, in the last two weeks.\n\n\"If we go another week without that, we are finished.\"\n\nMr McMillan said there were \"sticking points\" in both the UK and France, with transportation hubs in Scotland struggling with increased paperwork and checks by vets.\n\n\"There are sticking points down in France as well,\" he said.\n\n\"There are delays at the borders in France for up to 30 hours, I'm hearing, to clear customs by the time they do all their checks.\"\n\nThe UK government's Scotland Office minister David Duguid said he did not underestimate the struggles the industry was facing with paperwork, IT and ports.\n\nHe said the UK and Scottish governments, fish exporters and the EU needed to come together to work through the issues, which he estimated would last \"weeks\" and not months.\n\nHe told Good Morning Scotland: \"What I can commit to is that the UK government, whether that's through Defra or the Scotland Office, we are working day and night in resolving the issues that we know about and that we can fix directly.\n\n\"The other issues that are maybe the responsibility of the Scottish government, or indeed the EU on the other side of the channel, Defra are engaging heavily with those parties as well.\"\n\nHowever, when asked directly on the programme how long the problems would last, Mr Duguid responded: \"How long is a piece of string?\"\n\nFish ate up a lot of the time in negotiating the deal for departing the European customs union and single market.\n\nNow grown to become a much bigger political predator, it has started the post-Brexit era by threatening to devour UK ministers with the task of making the deal work.\n\nThe fisheries minister admitted she was preparing for Christmas rather than seeing how the deal had turned out on 24 December. Asked how long it will take to sort out delays, a Scotland Office minister asked: \"How long's a piece of string?\"\n\nThe prime minister says there will be compensation, but it seems that is due to come from the fund intended to expand the fishing fleet.\n\nAnd Michael Gove, who appears to have more of a grasp of the detail, was in the Commons on Wednesday, acknowledging there's a vast amount for the government yet to sort out - and that was only for Northern Ireland.\n\nAt least the province got a grace period before consignments of food require the paperwork now needed to send fish to France. That was sought by fish and meat exporters.\n\nIt's not clear if the request was made of EU negotiators, but it hasn't materialised. Yet coming the other way, the UK has given a six-month preparation period for EU exporters to Britain.\n\nBecause seafood is freshly delivered, it is the product that hit the obstacles first. Meat and dairy are sure to follow.\n\nBeef exporters to Europe are beginning to face delays, while Brexit chickens are coming home to roast.", "A teenage motorcyclist who led police on a 30-minute pursuit at speeds of up to 180mph (290km/h) through London and three counties has been sentenced.\n\nOfficers in Haringey, London, spotted a speeding rider at about 21:20 BST on 20 May and were joined by a police helicopter as they followed it along the M1, through Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire.\n\nThe biker mounted pavements, drove through multiple red lights and the wrong way down the motorway hard shoulder before he was arrested at a service station.\n\nMarian Vasilica Dragoi, 19, of Teynton Terrace, Haringey, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving, failing to stop for police, driving without a licence and being uninsured and was sentenced at Wood Green Crown Court to 46 weeks' detention.", "The opening of Nintendo's first theme park has been delayed because of rising coronavirus cases in Japan.\n\nSuper Nintendo World, modelled on levels of the company's Mario games, had been due to open on 4 February.\n\nBut Japan has expanded its state of emergency, due to last until at least 7 February, beyond Tokyo to include Osaka prefecture, where the park is located.\n\nThe opening, at Universal Studios Japan, had already been postponed from mid-2020 because of the pandemic.\n\nBut in December, Nintendo posted a video tour of the park in December, starring Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Mario, Zelda, and Donkey Kong, among others.\n\nIt is not the first theme park to suffer problems during the pandemic - the shuttered Disneyland theme park in California is set to become a large-scale vaccination centre.\n\nThe state of emergency in Japan, which has so far avoided the types of lockdowns seen in the UK and other European nations, prohibits non-essential trips outside the home.\n\nOn Tuesday, the country's total number of cases reached 300,000, with more than 4,000 deaths.\n\nAnd many of those have been in the past three months.\n\nThe rising number of cases has also led to some doubts over the fate of the Tokyo Olympics, scheduled for this summer, having already been postponed last year.\n\nOrganisers, however, insist the Games will go ahead.", "Nearly 46% of over-80s in England's North East and Yorkshire region have been given their first dose of a Covid vaccine - more than any other area, official figures show.\n\nThis compares with about 30% of over-80s in both London and the East of England who have received a first jab.\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan claims the capital is not getting its fair share of vaccine doses.\n\nIn total, more than 2.2 million people in England have had one vaccine dose.\n\nAbout 400,000 second doses have also been administered, despite guidance from the UK's chief medical officers and vaccine advisers, the JCVI, that giving a first dose to as many people as possible was a public health priority.\n\nThe NHS England figures cover Covid-19 vaccinations given to people at hospital hubs and GP practices between 8 December 2020 and 10 January 2021.\n\nAmong the over-80s alone, most first doses - 204,140 - were administered in north-east England and Yorkshire, while the lowest number (92,398) were given to this age group in London.\n\nOverall, more than one-third of people aged 80 and over in England have received at least one dose.\n\nThe figures show that in the Midlands more vaccine doses had been administered to all people in the top priority groups - 387,647 - than in any other area of England. In London, a total of 199,986 first doses were given and in the East the figure was 186,291.\n\nThese include care home residents, frontline heath and care staff, the over-80s and people who are clinically extremely vulnerable, who are most at risk of becoming seriously ill and dying from the Covid-19.\n\nThe percentage of the whole population to have received a first dose so far ranged from 4.3% in the north-east and Yorkshire to 2.2% in London.\n\nMr Khan said he was \"hugely concerned\" that Londoners had received only one-tenth of the vaccines that had been given across the country.\n\n\"The situation in London is critical with rates of the virus extremely high, which is why it's so important that vulnerable Londoners are given access to the vaccine as soon as possible,\" he said.\n\nHe said he would hold talks with vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi to ensure more vaccines were delivered to reflect the level of need in the city.\n\nLondon has a younger average population than other parts of England and the smallest number of people aged over 80 compared with other regions.\n\nDr Mary Ramsay, head of immunisation at Public Health England, said vaccinating over a third of all over-80s was \"a great achievement\".\n\nBut she said people must continue to follow the guidance that is in place to protect themselves and their loved ones.\n\n\"These data will help us to evaluate the protection from the vaccine and to effectively target the roll-out of the programme to help control the virus and save lives,\" she added.", "Mauritius has been removed from the safe list\n\nTravellers from countries near South Africa are to be banned from entering England to stop the spread of the South African Covid variant.\n\nArrivals from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana, as well as island nations Mauritius and Seychelles, will be affected.\n\nThe rule will take effect on 9 January but there will be an exemption for British and Irish nationals.\n\nThey will need to follow existing quarantine procedures.\n\nA ban by visitors to the UK from South Africa started on 24 December.\n\nThe latest restriction brought in by the Department for Transport also affects travellers arriving from Eswatini, Zambia, Malawi, Lesotho and Mozambique.\n\nIt will apply from 04:00 GMT on Saturday to people who have travelled from or through any of the specified countries in the last 10 days.\n\nIt is understood most flights from the affected countries arrive at airports in England, although it is expected the policy will be formally adopted by the other UK nations.\n\nThe measures will be in place for an initial period of two weeks.\n\nMeanwhile, Botswana, and the islands of Seychelles and Mauritius, are being removed from the UK list of safe travel corridors as there is a high frequency of travel between the islands and South Africa.\n\nThe new variant of coronavirus circulating in South Africa is already being seen in other countries, including the UK.\n\nThe variant, much like the new UK variant first seen in Kent, appears to be more contagious than previous ones.\n\nAnyone arriving into the UK from most destinations must quarantine for 10 days.\n\nBut there are a list of countries exempt from the rules, meaning returning travellers do not need to self-isolate, called the travel corridor list.\n\nUnder the latest announcement, the travel corridor with Israel will also end amid concerns about rising infection levels in that country.\n\nHowever, rules in place across the UK currently ban travel abroad unless for specific reasons.", "Tesco says it has seen some disruption to food supplies in Northern Ireland since trading arrangements with the EU changed on 1 January.\n\n\"We see this as a challenge at the moment, but not a crisis,\" boss Ken Murphy said.\n\nBut he said the retailer was working closely with government on both sides of the Irish Sea to \"smooth the flow\".\n\nSince 31 December, Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that has stayed in the EU's single market for goods.\n\nMr Murphy said certain foodstuffs had faced supply chain disruption going into both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.\n\n\"Ready meals have been the most affected as they have an eight-day shelf life so any wait is more likely to have an impact,\" he said.\n\n\"Some processed meat and some citrus fruit has also been impacted, but it is important to stress that our availability in the Republic and Northern Ireland is strong and is very strong in the mainland UK.\n\nLast week, all the major grocers wrote to Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove asking him to take urgent action.\n\nBut Tesco said its \"comprehensive preparations and... strong relationships with suppliers\" had allowed it to maintain strong levels of availability during the Brexit transition period.\n\nMr Murphy said he was confident Tesco would have the right measures in place to supply Northern Ireland after end of a three month grace period on certain rules and regulations with the EU on 31 March.\n\nHe also said there had also been \"teething problems\" with supply flows from continental Europe to Great Britain.\n\n\"Inevitably there are bedding-in issues, teething issues, that you would expect with any new process that's been set up at relatively short notice,\" he said.\n\n\"We're working our way through those and we would hope over the coming weeks and months that we will end up with a much smoother flow of product.\"\n\nUnder new trading arrangements, food products entering Northern Ireland from Britain need to be professionally certified and are subject to new checks and controls at ports.\n\nMarks & Spencer has temporarily reduced its range of food products in Northern Ireland\n\nA three month \"grace period\" means that supermarkets currently don't need to comply with all the EU's usual certification requirements until 1 April - but there has still been disruption.\n\nM&S has temporarily reduced its range of food products and Sainsbury's has been sourcing Spar-branded products from an NI wholesaler.\n\nThis week the bosses of Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda, Iceland, Co-Op and Marks & Spencer warned that trade into Northern Ireland would become \"unworkable\" if further new certification requirements were introduced in April .\n\nThe government said a new dedicated team has already been set up and will be working with supermarkets, the food industry and the Northern Ireland Executive to develop ways to streamline the movement of goods.\n\nTesco's comments came as the supermarket giant reported record sales for the Christmas period after customers looked to \"treat themselves\" amid tough Covid restrictions across most of the UK.\n\nUK like-for-like sales were up 8.1% in the six weeks to 9 January, as the supermarket saw a surge in demand for goods in its Tesco Finest range.\n\nBig grocers have benefited at a time when most non-essential shops and restaurants are closed, prompting consumers to spend more on their weekly shop. But they have faced criticism too.\n\nLast month, Tesco said it would repay £585m of business rates relief after it was criticised for paying dividends to shareholders during the crisis. Most big grocers followed suit.\n\nTesco was later criticised for keeping its shops open on Boxing Day despite union calls to give staff the day off.\n\nIn its results the grocer said it had given all frontline staff a 10% bonus over Christmas. It also said it had shielded vulnerable staff and taken on nearly 35,000 additional temporary staff for the season.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Howells says he wishes he had never thrown away the hard drive\n\nA man who threw away a laptop hard drive containing bitcoin he believes is now worth about £210m wants his council to let him search for it in landfill.\n\nJames Howells had 7,500 bitcoins, a virtual currency, on the hard drive, which he mistakenly threw away in 2013.\n\nHe said he was willing to donate 25% of the value of the bitcoins to his home city of Newport in south Wales - about £52.5m - if he found the hard drive.\n\nNewport council said excavation was not possible under its licensing permit.\n\nMr Howells said if he was to recover the hard drive, he would want the money to be put into a \"Covid relief fund\" for people in Newport to use \"no questions asked\".\n\n\"Imagine how great it would be to say 'I've given everyone in the city a few hundred pounds',\" he told the BBC.\n\nMr Howells bought the bitcoins for almost nothing in 2009, but the hard drive ended up in a drawer after he spilled a drink on his laptop.\n\nHe kept the hard drive in his office drawer and \"totally forgot about bitcoin all together\" - so when he had a clear out, he believed everything had been taken off it.\n\nWhen he threw the hard drive away in 2013, the value of the bitcoins was about $7.5m (£4.6m).\n\nBut now they are worth almost 50 times more, with the cost of a single bitcoin currently just over £28,000 after a surge in value.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Howells: \"When I went up to the landfill site yesterday my first thought was 'I've got not chance'\"\n\nHe said he has asked Newport council if he could search the landfill several times, but had not been granted permission.\n\n\"I offered the local authority 10% of the recovered funds in order to give me permission to search on their property and unfortunately they said no at the time,\" Mr Howells told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"What actually happened after that was the value of bitcoin skyrocketed even further. In 2017 the value of my hard drive was approximately £125m, at which point I made them another offer of 10% and unfortunately that offer was refused as well.\n\nJames Howells said he wants to donate a quarter of the money to the people of Newport\n\n\"I haven't actually made an offer to them today, but I'm willing to increase my offer to them to 25%. On today's valuation that would be £52.5m and I'd like to put that into a Covid relief fund for the citizens of Newport.\"\n\nMr Howells said searching for the discarded hard drive would \"not be as hard as you might think\" as he would employ a professional team - and knows when he threw it away so could use that to find a grid reference of where the hard drive is buried.\n\nHe added investors had offered to cover the cost of excavating the landfill, in exchange for a large proportion of the recovered bitcoin.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Howells said he wants to meet with the council to discuss what he said would be a \"win-win-win\" situation for him, the council and the city.\n\nBut a spokeswoman for the council said: \"Newport City Council has been contacted a number of times since 2013 about the possibility of retrieving a piece of IT hardware said to contain bitcoins.\n\n\"The first time was several months after Mr Howells first realised the hardware was missing.\n\n\"The council has told Mr Howells on a number of occasions that excavation is not possible under our licencing permit and excavation itself would have a huge environmental impact on the surrounding area.\n\n\"The cost of digging up the landfill, storing and treating the waste could run into millions of pounds - without any guarantee of either finding it or it still being in working order.\"", "Many of the works in Gurlitt's collection were in poor condition when they were discovered in 2012 (file photo)\n\nWhen a trove of 1,500 artworks hoarded by the son of a Nazi-era art dealer was discovered in 2012, an investigation began to find out how many were looted from Jewish owners.\n\nEventually only 14 were conclusively identified as looted, and now Germany has declared the last of those works has been returned to the owner's heirs.\n\nDas Klavierspiel (Playing the Piano) by Carl Spitzweg was owned by music publisher Henri Hinrichsen.\n\nHe was murdered at Auschwitz in 1942.\n\nGerman Culture Minister Monika Grütters said the return of the work sent an \"important signal\", and that while it could not make up for the deep suffering, it could \"make a contribution to historical justice and fulfil our moral responsibility\".\n\nThe 19th-Century work by Spitzweg was confiscated by the Nazis in 1939, the same year that Hinrichsen had bought it.\n\nDas Klavierspiel by Carl Spitzweg was seized by the Nazis in 1939\n\nIt was bought in 1940 by Hildebrand Gurlitt, a Nazi-era dealer who had been given the task by Adolf Hitler of dealing in art seized from Jewish collectors and of buying up so-called \"degenerate art\" removed from museums for a planned Führermuseum in the Austrian city of Linz.\n\nThe money for the Spitzweg work was paid into a blocked account, so Hinrichsen would never have received it.\n\nIn 2015, the piece was identified as looted, and it was handed over to the auctioneers Christie's on Tuesday, according to the wishes of Hinrichsen's heirs.\n\nAlthough his collection of 1,500 works, plundered from museums as well as individuals, was initially confiscated after the war by the Allies, Hildebrand Gurlitt eventually managed to get it back.\n\nGurlitt died in the 1950s and when German authorities approached his widow in 1961 in search of part of his collection, she claimed the works had been destroyed at the end of World War Two by Allied bombing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Stephen Evans was granted exclusive access to look at some of the long-lost masterpieces in 2014\n\nIt was only when tax investigators searched the Munich flat of his son Cornelius Gurlitt in 2012 that they found more than 1,400 of the works. Another 60 pieces were discovered at his Austrian home in Salzburg the following year.\n\nThe son died in 2014 with questions still hanging over the ownership of the collection - as he was protected by a statute of limitations.\n\nA court ruled that the works could be bequeathed to the Museum of Fine Arts in the Swiss capital Bern, as Cornelius Gurlitt had requested.\n\nWhile some of the works were deemed to belong to the family, the German Lost Art Foundation then tried to find out, with the Swiss museum, who were the rightful owners of the rest.\n\nFourteen pieces have now conclusively identified as belonging to Jewish owners and returned.\n\nAmong the many masterpieces in the collection was this work by Edouard Manet", "A provisional 270 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines have been secured by the African Union (AU) for distribution across the continent.\n\nAll of the doses will be used this year, promises current AU head South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.\n\nThis is on top of 600 million doses already promised but is still not enough to vaccinate the whole region.\n\nThere are fears that poorer countries globally will wait far longer than richer nations to be inoculated.\n\nAlthough infection numbers and death rates are comparatively lower across most of Africa, cases are spiking again in some areas.\n\nA new variant of Covid-19 in South Africa is causing particular alarm and makes up most of the new cases.\n\n\"As a result of our own efforts we have so far secured a commitment of a provisional amount of 270 million vaccines from three major suppliers: Pfizer, AstraZeneca (through Serum Institute of India) and Johnson & Johnson,\" President Ramaphosa said on Wednesday.\n\nAt least 50 million of the doses will be available \"for the crucial period of April to June 2021,\" he said.\n\nIn addition, the region is expecting around 600 million doses from the global Covax effort which aims to provide vaccines to lower-income countries.\n\nBut officials are still waiting for details and are now \"happy we have alternative solutions,\" Nicaise Ndembi, senior science adviser for the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told the AP news agency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid vaccines in Africa: What you need to know\n\nMr Ramaphosa said officials are worried that the doses from the Covax effort released in the first half of 2021 will only be enough to inoculate health care workers. With a population of 1.3 billion people and each person requiring two vaccine jabs, Africa would need around 2.6 billion doses to eventually vaccinate everyone.\n\n\"These endeavours aim to supplement the Covax efforts, and to ensure that as many dosages of vaccine as possible become available throughout Africa as soon as possible,\" he explained.\n\nAfrica has recorded more than three million cases of Covid-19 and nearly 75,000 deaths. By contrast, the US has reported close to 23 million infections and more than 383,000 fatalities.\n\nThere has been a global rush to buy vaccines, with richer countries accused of buying up most of the supply.\n\nAs many had feared, Africa appears to be at the back of the queue to get Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nThe announcement of 270 million doses by South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa - who is also the current chair of the African Union - is good news. This is in addition to those secured by the Covax facility, which is led by the World Health Organisation and the Vaccine Alliance, Gavi. The facility has secured 600 million doses - enough to vaccinate only a fifth of the continent.\n\nBut it may be a while before any of them get to the continent. The announcements are agreements to supply vaccines. There is still the actual procurement process that needs to happen. Negotiations are ongoing.\n\nWealthier nations had a head start. They already acquired the bulk of the early doses being produced through advance purchase deals with manufacturers. The race is on to meet that demand.\n\nAfrica, on the other hand, still faces funding deficits. There are questions also about the continent's readiness to receive the vaccines. Ultra-cold refrigeration is needed for both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. Countries are working on building their cold chains. But even this is marred by a shortage of funds.\n\nSo, the continent can only wait.", "The surge in Covid hospital cases has left key hospital services in England in crisis, doctors are warning.\n\nNHS data showed A&Es were facing rising delays admitting extremely sick patients on to wards.\n\nMeanwhile, the total number of people facing year-long waits for routine treatments is now more than 100 times higher than it was before the pandemic.\n\nCancer experts are also warning the disruption to their services was \"terrifying\" and would cost lives.\n\nReports have emerged of hospitals cancelling urgent operations - London's King's College Hospital has stopped priority two treatments, which are those that need to be done within 28 days.\n\nAnd Birmingham's major hospital trust has temporarily suspended most liver transplants.\n\nIt comes after a surge in Covid patients in recent weeks.\n\nOne in three patients in hospital have the virus - and at some sites it is more than half.\n\nNHS England medical director Prof Stephen Powis said the NHS was facing an \"exceptionally tough challenge\", adding services would continue to be under pressure until the virus was under control.\n\nBut he stressed non-Covid treatment was still happening - with three times as many diagnostic tests and twice as many operations being carried out than in the spring when the pandemic first hit.\n\nThe data published by NHS England showed the scale of the impact from dealing with Covid on key hospital services.\n\nThe figures for cancer date back to November, before the surge in cases.\n\nAt that point, the number of urgent cancer check-ups and treatments being started was at normal levels.\n\nBut since then, concerns have been raised that services have been reduced.\n\nProf Pat Price, of the Catch Up With Cancer campaign, said services were facing the \"biggest crisis\" of her 30-year career.\n\n\"This is a truly terrifying scenario,\" she added.\n\nAnd the Royal College of Surgeons warned the pandemic was having a \"calamitous impact\" on waiting times for planned surgery.\n\nSarah Scobie, from the Nuffield Trust think tank, said services were under \"intolerable strain\", adding \"the worst is yet to come\".\n\nSaffron Cordery, of NHS Providers, which represents hospital bosses, agreed: \"The next few weeks are no doubt going to be the most testing in NHS history.\"", "The government must review its strategy to end rough sleeping in England by 2024 after coronavirus showed it to be \"out of step\", a watchdog warned.\n\nA National Audit Office report praised the 'Everyone In' scheme, which housed about 33,000 people in the crisis.\n\nBut the plan highlighted issues with the current strategy - with thousands more needing help than expected.\n\nThe government said it was \"regularly taking into account the lessons learned\" from the pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson made the pledge to end rough sleeping by the end of this Parliament shortly before he won the general election in 2019.\n\nAt the time, a snapshot figure taken by the government one evening showed 4,266 people were sleeping on the streets in England.\n\nBut it did not include people in night shelters or assessment centres, and could have missed people sleeping hidden from view.\n\nResearch by the BBC carried out in February 2020 showed more than 28,000 people across the UK had been recorded as sleeping rough in the previous 12 months - and in England, councils were seeing figures five times higher than the snapshot.\n\nThe 'Everyone In' scheme, launched in March 2020, aimed to provide emergency shelter for all rough sleepers during the first wave of the pandemic.\n\nFunding was ended two months later to the anger of many charities, but the government said it had made a number of more targeted funding pledges to tackle the issue since.\n\nThe National Audit Office (NAO) carried out an investigation into the housing of rough sleepers in the pandemic and praised the \"considerable achievement\" of 'Everyone In'.\n\nThe head of the watchdog, Gareth Davies, said the government \"acted swiftly to house rough sleepers and keep transmission rates low during the first wave\".\n\nBut the NAO investigation found between the end of March and November 2020, 33,139 people were given accommodation through the scheme - a number almost eight times greater than the annual snapshot of rough sleepers.\n\nExamples included Bristol City Council which reported it accommodated 400 people in March, despite its most recent snapshot count being 98 rough sleepers.\n\nAnd the London Borough of Southwark had 25 known rough sleepers in March 2020, but within hours of 'Everyone In' launching, it had taken 200 people into hotels, with nearly 1,000 accommodated by November.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How the UK's homeless are coping during the coronavirus pandemic\n\nThe government pledged to carry out a review of its strategy to end rough sleeping early in 2020, but the plans took a back seat as the crisis unfolded.\n\nThe NAO said there was \"an ongoing need for a review of the strategy as it is out of step with the government's target\", adding there were now \"important lessons from Everyone In to consider\".\n\nMr Davies said the scale of the rough sleeping population in England has now been made clear, and it \"far exceeds\" previous government estimates.\n\n\"Understanding the size of this population, and who needs specialist support, is essential to achieve its ambition to end rough sleeping\", he added.\n\nThe report also highlighted the large number of people remaining in emergency accommodation unable to move on as they have no recourse to public funds - a condition put into the residence permit of some immigrants meaning they cannot access benefits.\n\nThe NAO also called on the government to \"keep under close review\" its more targeted response to the current coronavirus resurgence, whether it will \"protect vulnerable individuals as decisively\" as 'Everyone in'.\n\nA spokesman from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said they were pleased the NAO recognised its achievements with 'Everyone In'.\n\nHe added: \"By November, we had supported around 33,000 people, with nearly 10,000 in emergency accommodation and more than 23,000 in longer-term accommodation.\n\n\"We recently announced an additional £10m to help accommodate rough sleepers and ensure they are registered with a GP to receive the vaccine, and we will invest £750m next year as part of our commitment to end rough sleeping.\"\n\nAsked whether the review into the ending rough sleeping strategy would take place, the spokesman said: \"Our ambition to end rough sleeping within this parliament still stands, and we are regularly taking into account the lessons learned from our ongoing pandemic response, including 'Everyone In'.\"", "The government has defended its scheme to offer free food to struggling families in England over half term - after criticism from teachers' unions and council leaders.\n\nFood will be provided for children by councils under the Covid Winter Grant Scheme, rather than through schools.\n\nBut councils say the government should provide food vouchers over half term.\n\n\"Vulnerable families will continue to receive meals,\" said a Department for Education (DFE) spokeswoman.\n\n\"Our guidance is clear: schools provide free school meals for eligible pupils during term time.\n\n\"Beyond that, there is wider government support in place to support families and children via the billions of pounds in welfare support we've made available,\" said the DFE spokeswoman.\n\nBut the Local Government Association (LGA), representing councils, said \"the government should provide food vouchers to eligible families during February half-term as it did last summer\" - and that the £170m Covid Winter Grant Scheme should be used for other support.\n\n\"During the last full national lockdown, government recognised the significant extra pressures on low income families and extended free school meal provision into the school holidays,\" said Richard Watts, chairman of the LGA's resources board.\n\n\"Government was explicit that the Covid Winter Grant Scheme was not intended to replicate or replace free school meals, but was to enable councils to support low income households, particularly those at risk of food poverty as we moved towards economic recovery.\"\n\nThe row follows the DFE's publication of guidelines on free meals, after an outcry over pictures of food packages to replace free school meals during the lockdown.\n\nThe prime minister and other ministers criticised the quality of what was being sent out by some school food firms.\n\nMarcus Rashford has spear-headed a campaign for holiday food\n\nThe DfE guidance says: \"Schools do not need to provide lunch parcels or vouchers during the February half term.\n\n\"There is wider government support in place to support families and children outside of term-time through the Covid Winter Grant Scheme.\"\n\nThe DFE insists that even though schools will not provide food parcels or vouchers during half term, children will still be supplied with food through the Covid Winter Grant Scheme.\n\nThis aims to support those most in need with the cost of food, energy, water bills and other essentials.\n\nCouncils are required to work out their own local approach to eligibility, using benefits data and their local knowledge to decide how to support vulnerable families.\n\nMoving to this scheme for a replacement for school meals during half term, with the added pressure of a lockdown, has drawn criticism from head teachers and teachers.\n\nKevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, warned that switching schemes meant \"yet more disruption to free schools meals could lie ahead in half term\".\n\nHe said using this scheme could cause an \"unnecessary logistical nightmare\", suggesting continuing with providing meals through schools would be more simple.\n\nMr Courtney said: \"This week, Matt Hancock, Gavin Williamson and Boris Johnson made public statements about how appalled they were by the quality of food parcels shared on Twitter,\" said Mr Courtney.\n\nBut he said ministers should now \"hang their heads in shame\" for threatening more \"chaos and confusion\" over providing food.\n\n\"These are battles which should not have to be repeatedly fought,\" said Mr Courtney.\n\nNational Association of Head Teachers general secretary Paul Whiteman accused the the government of \"badly thought out and last-minute schemes to help with holiday hunger\" which he said were \"leaving families and children anxious\".\n\n\"The government must urgently clarify for families how they will be helped during the upcoming half term holiday so they can be assured that they will not go hungry,\" said Mr Whiteman.\n\nLabour's Tulip Siddiq, shadow minister for children and early years, said: \"Time and time again this government has had to be shamed into providing food for hungry children over school holidays.\"\n\nFood charities and anti-poverty campaigners, including footballer Marcus Rashford, have repeatedly clashed with the government over the issue of food for poor pupils during the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly over school holidays.\n\nThe footballer forced the government to back down in the summer over its plans not to offer free meals in the holidays to poor pupils, whose families were likely to be suffering with reduced incomes.\n\nBut over the October half-term when the provision was withdrawn many local authorities continued to offer them from their own budgets.", "President Donald Trump has just become the only US president to be impeached twice by the House of Representatives. He was impeached on Wednesday for \"incitement of insurrection\" following last week's riot at the US Capitol. However, a recent poll suggests that a majority of Republicans still support President Trump and don't hold him responsible for the violence.\n\nWe've been hearing from lawmakers - but what do Americans think? We asked members of our BBC voter panel to weigh in.\n\nBelinda is an attorney and devoted Trump supporter of Native American and African American ancestry. She says this second impeachment vote is wrong and misconstrues the facts of what happened last week in favour of political expediency.\n\nThis is unprecedented. There is no justification, no legal or constitutional basis for this impeachment. He did not even receive due process. It's a rush to judgment for ulterior motives and a dark stain on our country. I'm afraid our Constitution is on its deathbed. I hope the American people will stand up against this outrage. It's indicative of what would happen in a communist country where we have no free speech rights.\n\nThose who broke in should be charged appropriately for whatever laws they violated. But why would anybody who's rational think that our president meant for people to go break into the Capitol? His rallies have always been peaceful and most of the people on Wednesday were middle-aged and elderly, with children and grandchildren.\n\nIndividuals who violated the law should definitely be prosecuted but I don't see how you can blame someone for a speech and someone else's criminal activity. It can't be selective enforcement of the law.\n\nMelissa is a Filipino American small business owner with two children who had told us the country could not afford four more years of Donald Trump. She says the behaviour he displayed last Wednesday was undoubtedly an impeachable offense.\n\nEverything he has done is unconstitutional and, as a president, the number one thing he should be doing is upholding the Constitution.\n\n[Republican Congresswoman] Liz Cheney said that, if not for the president, last week would not have happened and she's right. If not for him continually fighting the election results, if not for him repeatedly sending the false message the election was stolen, if not for him holding that rally near the Capitol, if not for him talking about an 'uprising', last week would very likely not have happened.\n\nEven three months ago, before all the lawsuits and everything else he was saying, I was not shocked by his behaviour. It's all completely predictable because it's just within his character. So the argument by politicians that impeachment could divide us more, I don't see that as the goal of impeachment.\n\nIt can't help but I don't think it will have any impact on deterring violence. There needs to be some kind of statement that the president is not allowed to attack another branch of government. It's a chance for the Republican Party to rid itself of Trump's stranglehold on them.\n\nGabriel is a regional coordinator for the New York Young Republicans and is an outspoken 'Latino for Trump'. He condemns the violence of last Wednesday but says the reaction has been unfair and worries about where the party will go from here.\n\nI do not think that Donald Trump should be impeached. I was in DC at the rally on 6 January - I did not go near the Capitol and went back to my hotel room - but I saw the president speak with my own eyes and he did not call for anyone to storm the building or cause harm.\n\nThis is just a way to ensure he will not run in the next four years. It is political and it will create a bigger divide between left and right. I fear that people will become reactionary and elected officials will use impeachment in the future not as a last resort to uphold our republic but as a tool to remove whoever they don't agree with.\n\nAll violence should be condemned fairly and justly. It was a very sad outcome, but I do not believe it was the most horrible day in our country's history and it was not a coup. It's important to dictate that violence is not the answer. The day was supposed to be different. January 6 did something to the Republican Party. The actions of the few will discourage many of the new voters that Trump brought in and made his base.\n\nWilliams is a first-generation Mexican American college student in Atlanta who has been extremely concerned about what he has seen in his country over the past four years. He says the events of the past week justify today's vote in the House.\n\nI believe he should have been impeached. Not only is he a threat to our national security, but he doesn't condemn white supremacy and other threats. That affects us internally within the United States as well as abroad.\n\nIt's more of a symbolic impeachment at this point because he'll be out soon, but it's necessary nonetheless. Impeachment failed once, but now he has set the precedent that a president can be impeached more than once.\n\nIn processing the past week, all I could do at first was to ignore it and joke about the situation. It's deeply saddening to me.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA respiratory doctor at Belfast's Mater Hospital has warned that hospital oxygen supplies are under \"extreme pressure\".\n\nDr Nick Magee also said more younger patients were now being treated in hospital than during the first and second waves of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nHe said in the past they did not have to consult other NI hospitals about how much oxygen they had.\n\n\"That was never a thing in previous January flu problems,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"But that is something we are now having to think of,\" he added.\n\nEarlier this week Northern Ireland's Chief Medical Officer Dr Michael McBride said there is enough oxygen to cope with the current demand.\n\nBut according to Dr Magee the current level of oxygen being used in \"bays\" at the Mater means patients cannot charge their mobile phones by their bedside because of the \"fire risk\".\n\n\"It is all well controlled and we are making sure that we can share out that oxygen burden. That is something we are having to think about,\" he said.\n\n\"I can't say specifically about other regional hospitals but I know that they are under extreme pressure and it's just something we have to think of as a region.\n\n\"Can we supply oxygen adequately for the amounts of oxygen we are using in hospitals?\"\n\nThe number of Covid positive hospital in-patients has increased significantly since last week - up from 599 a week ago to 850 on Thursday.\n\nThe number of people in ICU has also risen from 44 to 58 in the past week.\n\nDr Magee said staff were concerned about having to cope with \"large volumes\" of patients requiring respiratory support.\n\nHe said the number of younger patients becoming increasingly sick with the virus was growing.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Mater Hospital moved six patients who had been on wards into ICU and also took patients from the Southern Health Trust.\n\n\"Recently I saw a 29-year-old patient, also three who were in their mid 30s that all required respiratory support on a ward,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"They are frightened they are wearing specialist masks CPAP masks that help them breathe. They are scared.\"\n\nThe relentless pressure of the past 10 months and the prospect of a further surge in admissions over the next fortnight is weighing heavily on the minds of medics.\n\n\"We are really worried about next week,\" said Dr Magee.\n\n\"It's very busy this week, we are coping well but we are particularly concerned about next week.\n\n\"Normally, if we had somebody who needed a lot of respiratory support we would involve a high dependency unit but all the respiratory wards are becoming like high dependency units.\n\n\"Volume of sicker, younger patients is much greater and it's not something that I would [have] ever seen before,\" he added.\n\nThe Southern Health and Social Care Trust said its hospitals had limited infrastructure to manage high numbers of patients requiring oxygen so a regional agreement was in place to share resources across Trusts to support Covid-positive patients.\n\n\"As a result some patients have been diverted to Belfast or SE Trust to help reduce pressure on the Southern Trust hospital system,\" a statement said.\n\n\"Craigavon and Daisy Hill hospitals remain very busy with high numbers of Covid-19 positive patients who are dependent on oxygen therapy.\n\n\"These protocols are in place as part of regional surge planning to ensure that we can safely manage the current high volume of Covid-19 patients needing hospital care.\n\n\"Patients who are currently being treated in Craigavon and Daisy Hill have secure supplies of oxygen.\"", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Travel from Brazil to the UK could be banned in response to the discovery of a new coronavirus variant.\n\nMinisters have met to discuss possible measures and a block on flights could also be extended to other South American countries in a bid to stop its spread.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said he is \"concerned\" about the new variant and \"extra measures\" were being taken.\n\nArrivals from Brazil are currently required to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nCabinet Office minister Michael Gove chaired a meeting earlier to discuss whether measures should be put in place.\n\nNew variants of Covid-19 have also been identified in the UK and South Africa.\n\nDuring a two-hour appearance in front of the Commons Home Affairs Committee on Wednesday Mr Johnson stopped short of promising a ban on travel from Brazil.\n\n\"We already have tough measures ... to protect this country from new infections coming in from abroad,\" he said.\n\n\"We are taking steps to do that in respect of the Brazilian variant.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"We are taking steps to ensure that we do not see the import of this new variant\".\n\nProf Susan Hopkins, who is Strategic Response Director for Covid-19 with Public Health England, told BBC Breakfast experts were looking at the Brazilian variant and needed to grow the virus in the UK in order to perform laboratory experiments.\n\n\"So we need to understand the biology of these [new strains], as well as understanding mutations,\" she said.\n\n\"We will be watching them all to make sure that they can't escape your immune response, which is the key thing that we're looking at the moment.\"\n\nA travel ban was put in place on arrivals from South Africa on 24 December, which was later extended to several other nearby countries, following the discovery of a new variant.\n\nLuiz Amorim, a graphic designer in London, said he had travelled to Brazil to spend Christmas with his family and was now worried he may not be able to get home.\n\n\"My wife was also supposed to come but didn't in the end,\" he said. \"Now I am worried I won't be able to get back to her in London.\"\n\nMr Amorim said his workplace had been supportive but he may have to take leave if he was unable to return, with his original flight back having been cancelled.\n\nHe has now booked another flight on 27 January and is \"watching the news closely to see what will happen\".\n\nThe discussion comes after it was announced a requirement for arrivals into England to test negative for coronavirus 72 hours before their journey will now come into force at 04:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said the new rules had been delayed from Friday \"to give international arrivals time to prepare\".\n\nLabour's Yvette Cooper, chairwoman of the Commons Home Affairs Committee, described the delay in introducing the new rules as \"truly shocking\".\n\nScotland is taking the same approach to international travellers but will implement the policy on Friday, while Wales and Northern Ireland are expected to announce their own plans in the coming days.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer criticised the government for delaying pre-departure testing for arrivals to England, describing the situation as a \"complete mess\".\n\n\"Priti Patel has talked tough about the borders but other countries have been doing testing for months and months,\" he said.\n\nSir Keir said people were \"really worried\" about strains in other parts of the world, including Brazil, and people would be \"bewildered and they will feel that we're exposed\".", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nIvan Cavaleiro scored a late header to earn Premier League strugglers Fulham a hard-fought draw against Tottenham in their hastily rearranged London derby.\n\nThe Portuguese forward's finish cancelled out Harry Kane's first-half diving header and came just minutes after Son Heung-min hit the post in search of Spurs' second.\n\nCavaleiro sealed a remarkable turnaround for a side whose manager Scott Parker said it was \"scandalous\" to be given just two days' notice to face Jose Mourinho's men after Spurs' game at Aston Villa was postponed because of a Covid-19 outbreak in the Villa camp.\n\nTottenham boss Mourinho had little sympathy for the visitors as the derby itself was a rearranged fixture, having been called off three hours before kick-off when originally scheduled on 30 December.\n\nFor all the complications surrounding the fixture, the intensity from two sides at opposite ends of the table was high at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, with Fulham's fifth successive league draw a valuable point in their efforts to escape the relegation zone.\n• None Relive Tottenham v Fulham as it happened and analysis\n\nFulham made a bright start and Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa's fierce shot to test Hugo Lloris was a warning of what was to come from a side who remain 18th despite the draw.\n\nThe excellent Alphonse Areola twice denied Son in the first 45 minutes, first blocking a toe-poked effort before palming a header away.\n\nAreola could do nothing, however, to deny Kane the opener in the 25th minute, with the striker beating the Frenchman with a thumping diving header from an excellently-placed Sergio Reguilon cross.\n\nKane was off target with another header and Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Kenny Tete threatened to respond for the visitors, who had the woodwork to thank for denying Son in the second half after the South Korean scuffed a shot past Areola.\n\nSubstitute Ademola Lookman was instrumental following his introduction, creating the equaliser for Cavaleiro seven minutes after coming off the bench.\n\nThe powerful finish extended Fulham's unbeaten run to five league matches, which is their longest such sequence in the top flight in three Premier League campaigns since 2012-13.\n\nThis latest draw highlights just how resolute Parker's men have become after a slow start to the campaign, in which they collected just one point from their first six matches.\n\nSpurs punished for reliance on Kane and Son\n\nWhile the Cottagers may be in the relegation places and had lost a record 13 successive top-flight matches to London rivals, they presented a significantly sterner test of Mourinho's men than non-league side Marine - a team made up of NHS workers, teachers and a refuse collector - which Spurs cruised past in the third round of the FA Cup on Sunday.\n\nThe prolific pair of Kane and Son, a duo that has now scored 23 of Tottenham's 30 league goals this term, were among 10 to return to Spurs' starting line-up.\n\nSon was an unused substitute on their trip to Crosby but Kane, along with Lloris, Eric Dier, Serge Aurier and Harry Winks came back from being rested.\n\nWhile Kane was clinical with the nodded finish, he reacted in frustration as he flicked another header off target.\n\nThat miss, as well as the wastefulness of Reguilon - who sent an early effort over - and Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg's tame strike, ensured Fulham were still in it at half-time.\n\nMoussa Sissoko also dithered in the box when an early second-half chance presented itself, allowing Tosin Adarabioyo to superbly block.\n\nSon's effort off the post, and their reliance on him and Kane for goals, ultimately proved costly as Cavaleiro ended the hosts' run of three clean sheets in January.\n\nAnd while Reguilon did have the ball in the back of the net again for Tottenham in the final minute, it was immediately disallowed for offside as Spurs missed the chance to move up to third in the table.\n\n'Some players had one day's training' - what the managers said\n\nTottenham manager Jose Mourinho, speaking to BBC Sport: \"In the first half Alphonse Areola made some impossible saves, a couple of others in the second, too.\n\n\"We have to kill a game and we didn't - but you have to keep a clean sheet, not make mistakes, so it was a very avoidable goal. The markers are there, there wasn't even an advantage in terms of numbers.\n\n\"Fulham were intelligent enough to understand the way they play, they change, they become more defensive and they are getting results. I thought they were a bit lucky but they were good.\n\n\"We have bad results and we should - and we could have - avoided these results.\"\n\nFulham boss Scott Parker, speaking to BBC Sport: \"I'm very proud of this team for what we've been through. There's a lot of talk around - everyone assumes about what happened. I know what we've been through the last two weeks.\n\n\"We had players out there today who had one day's training. What pleased me most was a desire and a passion and a real quality at times tonight.\n\n\"There's a real determination and hard work from this group of players. They've never shied away from anything.\"\n\nOn Monday's announcement of the game with Tottenham: \"We were told, in the end, at 9:30. It was put to me on Saturday, if there was a possibility, but I just batted it off thinking 'no chance'.\n\n\"This game was supposed to be scheduled 16 days ago - for 10 days some of these boys were locked up in their houses. I was surprised but it wasn't in terms of preparing for this game, we've prepared in two days for a game before, it was more just getting told of the consequences that you face.\"\n\nBest of the stats\n• None Tottenham and Fulham played out their first draw in the Premier League since December 2009, with Spurs winning 10 of the last 11 encounters (L1).\n• None Tottenham are unbeaten in their last eight London derbies in the Premier League (W3 D5), they've never gone longer without defeat against sides from the capital in the competition.\n• None Fulham have drawn five consecutive Premier League games, their longest such run since January 2007 (six games).\n• None Fulham have gained five points in their last four Premier League away games (W1 D2 L1), more than they collected in their previous 13 on the road in the competition (W1 D1 L11).\n• None Only Brighton (12) and Sheffield United (11) have dropped more points from winning positions than Spurs (10) in the Premier League this season.\n• None Tottenham's Harry Kane has become just the third player to score 25 Premier League goals with his head (25), his right foot (94) and his left foot (34) - after Robbie Fowler and Andy Cole.\n• None Ademola Lookman has been directly involved in five goals (two goals, three assists) in the Premier League this season, more than any other Fulham player.\n\nTottenham travel to Bramall Lane on Sunday (14:05 GMT) to face the Premier League's bottom side Sheffield United, who on Tuesday earned their first top-flight win of the season.\n\nFulham face Chelsea in another derby, hosting their west London rivals on Saturday (17:30 GMT).\n• None Offside, Tottenham Hotspur. Erik Lamela tries a through ball, but Son Heung-Min is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Antonee Robinson (Fulham) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Aboubakar Kamara. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Can the TV personality make it as a pro footballer?\n• None New drama brings the chilling crimes of Charles Sobhraj to life", "Gerry and Barbara Jarrett were admitted to hospital with Covid-19 two weeks ago\n\nAn elderly couple with coronavirus have been helped by a hospital to say their last goodbyes to each other after the wife's condition deteriorated.\n\nGerry and Barbara Jarrett, from Bracknell, Berkshire, are in separate wards at Frimley Park Hospital, Surrey.\n\nTheir daughter Chloe, who posted a picture of one reunion on Twitter, said her mother \"looked to be at the end\".\n\nShe said her parents had \"precious\" extra time together thanks to the hospital's \"incredible\" efforts.\n\nMrs Keljarrett said her 79-year-old father and mother, 76, who have been together for 50 years, were admitted to hospital with Covid-19 two weeks ago.\n\nOn Tuesday she posted: \"In the midst of a pandemic peak, staff (namely a consultant, a surgeon and a HCA) at FPH just made sure my dad saw my mum for what is likely the last time.\"\n\nShe said another meeting happened on Wednesday when \"mum looked to be at the end\".\n\nFrimley Park Hospital said the reunions were the sort of \"care that matters the most\"\n\nShe said: \"Dad was wheeled in, crying, touched her hand and her eyes flew open. She was awake and bright and could talk.\n\n\"We got a precious extra hour or two before her breathing got worse again and got to say what we wanted.\n\n\"All thanks to the staff who made these meetings possible. In current times I just find that incredible.\"\n\nMrs Keljarrett, a teacher at The Brakenhale School, said her father was \"showing signs of improvement but has a very long journey to complete\".\n\n\"He has a number of other health issues that will make recovery that bit trickier, but I have to remain positive that he will overcome this horrendous virus,\" she added.\n\nShe said she had met hospital workers who were \"pulling unexpected double shifts\" due to short-staffing.\n\n\"How they are managing such compassion when they are stretched to their emotional and physical limits I do not know,\" she added.\n\nResponding to Mrs Keljarrett's Twitter post, the hospital wrote: \"Our hearts go out to you and your family.\n\n\"We are so glad that our staff managed to make this time just a little bit easier for you all.\n\n\"This truly is some of the care we give that matters the most.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Doctors' leaders have called for urgent improvements in personal protective equipment for health workers.\n\nThe British Medical Association is appealing for a higher grade of face mask to guard against coronavirus infection.\n\nIt says there is 'growing evidence' that the virus is being spread through the air by aerosols.\n\nThese are tiny virus particles that can build up in stuffy rooms and they have been linked to outbreaks of Covid-19.\n\nThis follows an open letter from more than 1,500 health professionals for staff on general wards to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care units.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) has issued guidance on what PPE staff in different settings require. It was last updated in October 2020.\n\nEarly in the pandemic, it was widely believed that to catch the disease you had to either be close to an infected person and hit by droplets from their coughs or sneezes or touch a surface they had contaminated.\n\nBut research during the course of last year highlighted how it is also possible for the virus to be carried in what are called aerosols, drifting and accumulating in the air.\n\nMost infections are thought to have occurred indoors in badly ventilated rooms, and many studies have shown that the 'airborne route' can be an important factor.\n\nAcross the UK, the guidance for hospital staff is to wear surgical masks in most areas.\n\nMore sophisticated masks - a type known as FFP3 that includes an air filter - are only required in intensive care or when certain procedures are carried out that are known to generate aerosols.\n\nIn their letter, the consultants, doctors and nurses say healthcare workers are three to four times more likely to become infected than the general population.\n\nBut they point out that staff in intensive care units, who have the best level of protection, have about half the risk of catching the virus than colleagues on general wards.\n\nThe letter states: \"It is now essential that healthcare workers have their PPE upgraded to protect against airborne transmission\".\n\nBarry McAree, a consultant surgeon in Northern Ireland, is one of many healthcare workers to be ill with Covid.\n\nHe is self-isolating at home right after his testing positive for the second time.\n\nA signatory to the letter, he says his hospital in Antrim followed the guidance about which type of masks should be worn in which areas, but he became infected nonetheless. It is not clear how and when he caught it.\n\n\"There's so much evidence that we are talking about an airborne infection that it has to be said that it is not appropriate just to wear FFP3 in environments when aerosol generating procedures take place.\"\n\nHe believes that with such high levels of the virus in the community and in hospitals, staff should be wearing the higher-grade masks whenever they're close to patients.\n\nSurgical masks can be bought online for about 10p each, while the FFP3 masks are far more expensive about £5.00.\n\nDr Barry Jones, a retired gastroenterologist and leading expert on aerosols, says that's nothing compared to the cost of a patient with Covid,\n\nHe points to data showing that roughly a fifth of people needing hospital treatment for Covid may have acquired the infection in hospital in the first place.\n\n\"We should do everything we can to reduce that possibility - it's the air we share that's killing us.\"\n\nA few hospitals have decided to break with official guidance.\n\nIt's understood that hospitals in Cambridge, Plymouth and Exeter have decided to equip staff with FFP3 masks if they face patients diagnosed with Covid or suspected of having it.\n\nOne consultant, who did not want to be named, said: \"When you realise patients are more infectious at an earlier stage of disease and are presenting at general wards with poorer ventilation than intensive care units and staff are wearing a poorer quality of PPE, you really want those in a position of leadership to listen and to act.\"\n\nRCN General Secretary Dame Donna Kinnair, said: \"Without delay, they must state whether existing PPE guidance is adequate for the new variant.\n\n\"While more research is carried out, we ask for the precautionary principle to be applied and staff to be given a higher level of PPE if working with suspected or confirmed cases.\"\n\nPublic Health England said this was a matter for NHS England to comment on.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"The safety of NHS and social care staff has always been our top priority and we continue to work tirelessly to deliver PPE that protects those on the frontline.\n\n\"UK guidance on the safest levels of PPE is written by experts and agreed by all four chief medical officers. Our guidance is kept under constant review based on the latest evidence and data.\n\n\"Emerging evidence and data, including on variant strains, will be continually monitored and reviewed, and the guidance updated accordingly if needed.\"", "It was initially believed that Covid-19 originated at a market in Wuhan\n\nA World Health Organization (WHO) team has arrived in the Chinese city of Wuhan to start its investigation into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe long-awaited probe comes after months of negotiations between the WHO and Beijing.\n\nA group of 10 scientists is set to interview people from research institutes, hospitals and the seafood market linked to the initial outbreak.\n\nCovid-19 was first detected in Wuhan in central China in late 2019.\n\nThe team's arrival on Thursday morning coincides with a resurgence of new coronavirus cases in the north of the country, while life in Wuhan is relatively back to normal.\n\nThey will undergo two weeks of quarantine before beginning their research, which will rely upon samples and evidence provided by Chinese officials.\n\nTeam leader Peter Ben Embarek told AFP news agency just before the trip that it \"could be a very long journey before we get a full understanding of what happened\".\n\n\"I don't think we will have clear answers after this initial mission, but we will be on the way,\" he said.\n\nThe probe, which aims to investigate the animal origin of the pandemic, looks set to begin after some initial hiccups.\n\nChina resisted this investigation because it doesn't want to look back. It sees the potential for more blame, from a group of foreigners. It has its official version of what happened already.\n\nThe government paper published months ago declared \"victory\" in the war against the virus. But it didn't have a verdict - not one it made public anyway - on where the new coronavirus came from nor how it passed to humans. There's been global pressure to answer that, to prevent repeat pandemics.\n\nThe WHO team will be heavily reliant on their Chinese hosts for access: to key places in Wuhan and beyond, and crucially to research material, human and animal samples and data gathered by China's authorities over the past year. The man leading the WHO team said he is open minded. No theories - and there is a range of theories - are off the table. All sides have talked about the importance of the science. But the investigators arrived here as a propaganda effort, lead by China's state media, is in full swing, to question whether the pandemic originated here in the first place.\n\nDespite a lack of any credible evidence it's reported for months now that it was in Spain, Italy or maybe the US before it was seen in China. A campaign intended to undermine the very reason the WHO is, finally, here in Wuhan.\n\nEarlier this month the WHO said its investigators were denied entry into China after one member of the team was turned back and another got stuck in transit. But Beijing said it was a misunderstanding and that arrangements for the investigation were still in discussion.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid-19: How everyday life has changed in Wuhan\n\nChina has been saying for months that the although Wuhan is where the first cluster of cases was detected, it is not necessarily where the virus originated.\n\nProfessor Dale Fisher, chair of the global outbreak and response unit at the WHO, told the BBC that he hoped the world would consider this a scientific visit. \"It's not about politics or blame but getting to the bottom of a scientific question,\" he said.\n\nProf Fisher added that most scientists believed that the virus was a \"natural event\".\n\nThe visit comes as China reports its first fatality from Covid-19 in eight months.\n\nNews of the woman's death in northern Hebei province prompted anxious chatter online and the hashtag \"new virus death in Hebei\" trended briefly on social media platform Weibo.\n\nThe country has largely brought the virus under control through quick mass testing, stringent lockdowns and tight travel restrictions.\n\nBut new cases have been resurfacing in recent weeks, mainly in Hebei province surrounding Beijing and Heilongjiang province in the northeast.", "A further 1,564 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said there have now been more deaths in the second wave than the first.\n\nAnd the prime minister warned there was a \"very substantial\" risk of intensive care capacity being \"overtopped\".\n\nSpeaking to the Commons Liaison Committee, Boris Johnson said the situation was \"very, very tough\" in the NHS and the strain on staff was \"colossal\".\n\nHe appealed to the public to follow lockdown rules, which require people in England to stay at home and only go out for limited reasons, such as for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nA further 47,525 new cases have also been recorded.\n\nPerhaps the most distressing element about the latest Covid deaths is that the numbers are almost certainly going to rise from here.\n\nPeople who are dying now are likely to have been infected three or so weeks ago, around Christmas time.\n\nThat was at a point when infection rates were rising quite steeply, so in the coming days and weeks we should, sadly, expect to see more deaths than this being reported.\n\nToday's figures are affected by the weekend, which sees delays in reporting deaths that tend to translate into higher figures from Tuesday onwards.\n\nCurrently around 1,000 people a day on average are dying once you take this into account.\n\nBut the figures also provide some hope. For the third day in a row the number of newly diagnosed infections are well below 50,000.\n\nThere have been several days where they have exceeded 60,000.\n\nIf that trend continues, and the number of new cases keeps coming down, that will eventually translate into the number of deaths falling.\n\nBut it is going to take some weeks for that to happen.\n\nThese are, as many have been saying, the darkest days of the pandemic so far.\n\nEarlier, during Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said lockdown measures were \"starting to show signs of some effect\".\n\nLabour's Sir Keir Starmer called for tougher restrictions in England, asking why they were weaker in this lockdown compared with March.\n\nDuring the first lockdown, nurseries were closed to most children and it was not permitted to exercise with someone from another household.\n\n\"We keep things under constant review,\" Mr Johnson replied. \"If there is any need to toughen up restrictions - which I don't rule out - we will of course come to this House.\"\n\nHe stressed that it was early days, but said: \"The lockdown measures we have in place combined with tier four measures that we were using are starting to show signs of some effect.\"\n\nLater, asked by the Commons Liaison Committee whether schools could reopen after February half-term, Mr Johnson said: \"It is far, far too early for us to say [early signs of progress mean] we can go into any kind of relaxation in the middle of February, we've got to work very hard to achieve that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson took questions from MPs on the Commons Liaison Committee\n\nThe prime minister also said on Wednesday that Covid vaccinations will be offered 24 hours a day, seven days a week as soon as supply allows.\n\nThe number of people in the UK who have received the first dose of a vaccine has risen to 2,639,309 - up by 207,661 from the day before.\n\nCommenting on the latest daily figures, PHE's Dr Doyle said: \"With each passing day, more and more people are tragically losing their lives to this terrible virus.\"\n\nShe added: \"It is essential that we stay at home, minimise contact with other people and act as if you have the virus.\"\n\nThe vast majority of the deaths reported on Tuesday happened over the past week. However, at least 100 were in 2020, with one death dating back to May.\n\nThe previous highest daily death toll was on Friday, when 1,325 people were reported to have died.\n\nThese government figures count people who died within 28 days of testing positive, but there are other ways of measuring the total number of deaths.\n\nWhen all deaths where coronavirus is mentioned on the death certificate are counted, plus deaths known to have occurred more recently, the number of deaths involving Covid in the UK is more than 100,000.\n\nAnother method is to count excess deaths - all deaths over and above the usual number at the time of year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"We are taking steps to ensure that we do not see the import of this new variant\".\n\nMeanwhile, the prime minister has said he is \"concerned\" about a new coronavirus variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil. He acknowledged it is not yet clear how effective existing vaccines will be against the latest new variant.\n\nThe UK is taking steps to make sure it is not brought into the country, Mr Johnson said.\n\nA government Covid committee is meeting on Thursday to discuss the possibility of stopping flights from Brazil.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nAnd from Monday, anyone arriving into the UK from any country will have to present a negative Covid test. The new rule had been due to come into force this week but the government said it was being put back to give travellers more time to prepare.", "The home secretary has said the government will not announce new Covid restrictions on Thursday or Friday, but did not rule out further measures being announced next week.\n\nPriti Patel told ITV her focus was on enforcing the current lockdown rules.\n\nIt is thought ministers are considering measures like requiring masks outside or allowing people to exercise only with people from the same household.\n\nOn Wednesday, the UK recorded 1,564 new deaths, the highest daily total so far.\n\nMrs Patel emphasised the current stay-at-home rules, under which people are only allowed to go out for a limited number of reasons, including work, essential shopping and providing care to a vulnerable person.\n\nAsked whether further restrictions could include a three-metre social distancing rule, or the requirement to wear masks outside, the home secretary told ITV's This Morning: \"The plans are very much to enforce the rules.\n\n\"This isn't about new rules coming in - we're going to stick with enforcing the current measures.\"\n\nBut Ms Patel did not rule out new measures being announced next week, saying: \"We are not thinking about bringing in new measures today or tomorrow.\"\n\nAt a press conference on Monday, she said police would move more quickly to fine people who break the rules.\n\nOver the course of the pandemic, more than 30,000 such fines have been issued.\n\nA senior backbench Conservative MP has written to his colleagues to criticise the government's approach to coronavirus restrictions.\n\nSteve Baker, deputy chairman of the Covid Recovery Group of MPs, which is sceptical of lockdown measures, said that if the government did not change its strategy, \"inevitably the prime minister's leadership will be on the table: we strongly do not want that after all we have been through as a country\".\n\nHe asked his colleagues to impress upon the party's chief whip the need for \"a clear plan for when our full freedoms will be restored, with a guarantee that this strategy will not be used again next winter\".\n\nHowever, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has questioned why the current lockdown restrictions are \"weaker\" than those imposed in March last year, when deaths and hospitalisations were lower than they are now.\n\nHe questioned why nurseries were open when primary schools were closed, and whether estate agents should be allowed to continue with house viewings.\n\nRules have been further tightened in Scotland this week, with new restrictions on click and collect and takeaway services.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nSpinner Dom Bess took 5-30 as a woeful Sri Lanka batting display left England in control after the opening day of the first Test in Galle.\n\nThe hosts were bowled out for 135 in only 46.1 overs despite winning the toss on a pitch that offered only a little spin.\n\nEngland closed on 127-2, with Joe Root unbeaten on 66, Jonny Bairstow 47 not out and their third-wicket stand worth 110.\n\nDom Sibley and Zak Crawley fell to left-arm spinner Lasith Embuldeniya for four and nine respectively.\n\nSri Lanka's total was the lowest in a first innings in a Galle Test, and was a pitiful exhibition of indiscipline and poor strokes which demonstrated a clear lack of understanding of how to build a Test innings.\n\nEngland, who made five changes from their previous Test in August, were disciplined with the ball and tidy in the field, aside from a drop from debutant Dan Lawrence, with Stuart Broad superb in taking 3-20.\n\nTheir reward was a strong position on their first day of overseas Test cricket since the coronavirus pandemic took hold, and their opening action of a year that includes home and away series against India, a likely two-Test series against world number one side New Zealand and a bid to regain the Ashes in Australia.\n\nThe second day starts at 04:30 GMT on Friday.\n• None 'Right up there with the worst we've seen' - Sri Lanka collapse shocks pundits\n\nWith England's most recent Test being played five months ago, and Sri Lanka playing in South Africa over Christmas and the new year, there was concern that the tourists would not be as prepared as the hosts.\n\nBroad, who had Lahiru Thirimanne caught at leg slip and Kusal Mendis, who has now made a duck in four successive Test innings, caught behind in the seventh over, showcased his experience and guile by turning to off-cutters almost immediately.\n\nBess, playing his 11th Test, may have taken his second five-wicket haul in Tests but struggled to find a consistent line and length.\n\nKusal Perera reverse swept Bess' second ball to Root at slip, while Niroshan Dickwella slapped a long hop to Sibley at point to fall for 12.\n\nAfter getting Dasun Shanaka in fortunate circumstances as a sweep rebounded off Bairstow at short leg into wicketkeeper Jos Buttler's hands, Bess produced a beautifully flighted delivery to bowl Dilruwan Perera between bat and pad for a duck.\n\nHe rounded off the innings by bowling the reverse-sweeping Wanindu Hasaranga for 19 as the hosts lost their last five wickets for 30 runs.\n\nStand-in captain Dinesh Chandimal and Angelo Mathews offered some fight with a stand of 56 for the fourth wicket, the former becoming the 12th Sri Lankan to reach 4,000 Tests runs and Mathews the fifth to 6,000.\n\nHowever, both fell tamely in the space of three balls as Broad - who had taken three wickets in 80 overs in Sri Lanka before this match - had Mathews slashing to slip, before Chandimal looped a simple catch to Sam Curran at cover to give Jack Leach his first Test wicket since November 2019.\n• None Why the Sri Lanka tour matters for the Ashes\n\nFor England this two-Test tour, which was cut short in March 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic, is a build-up to the four-Test series in India that follows.\n\nTo stand any chance of beating Virat Kohli's side England must play spin well, and they will be concerned by the early inroads that Sri Lanka made.\n\nOpener Sibley, whom many feel is vulnerable against spin, edged to slip via his back pad as he attempted to work Embuldeniya to leg.\n\nCrawley, promoted to open given Rory Burns' absence to be at the birth of his first child, looked to take Embuldeniya over the top - a shot he played superbly last summer - but mistimed it to mid-off.\n\nHowever, Root, whose fifty was his 50th in Test cricket, will be buoyed by the way he and the recalled Bairstow nullified the spin threat as they shared England's highest partnership in Galle.\n\nIt was a chanceless stand, although Root overturned an lbw decision on 20 with replays showing the ball would have gone over the stumps.\n\nBoth he and Bairstow scored around the wicket, with Root playing the sweep to good effect, and Bairstow cutting and flicking through mid-wicket well.\n\nThey will hope to build a substantial first-innings lead and turn the match into a three-innings game.\n\n'England didn't have to work hard at all' - reaction\n\nEngland spinner Dom Bess on BBC Test Match Special: \"We have put ourselves in a really good position. Rooty and Jonny batted really well because the wicket started to spin.\n\n\"I felt I was quite nervous. I hadn't bowled in a game since the Test matches last summer.\n\n\"I didn't feel I bowled as well as I know I can. That's cricket, isn't it? There might be days bowl exceptionally well and go 1-100.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"It was a fantastic day for England.\n\n\"The partnership with Root and Bairstow was exactly what was required by Sri Lanka.\n\n\"Mathews and Chandimal are experienced pros. They were playing nicely and then played two rash shots. It was so poor from Sri Lanka.\"\n\nSri Lanka batting coach Grant Flower: \"I'm at a loss for words, I've never seen us bat that badly. They know these conditions well and it should have been a big advantage.\n\n\"England's batsmen showed us there's nothing wrong with the pitch. We batted terribly.\"\n\nFormer Sri Lanka all-rounder Russell Arnold: \"It is not a minefield. It was very poor from Sri Lanka. England didn't have to work hard at all.\n\n\"It is very, very disappointing. It surprised me and I expected a lot more.\"\n• None Can the TV personality make it as a pro footballer?\n• None New drama brings the chilling crimes of Charles Sobhraj to life", "Lucy Edwards, pictured with dog Olga, became BBC Radio 1's first blind presenter when she guested in 2019\n\nA blind social media star said she could be waiting for years for a new guide dog because of delays connected with the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nLucy Edwards creates videos on living with sight loss, which have been watched millions of times.\n\nThe 25-year-old has used a guide dog since she was 17 and said she had lost her independence since her latest dog was retired four months ago.\n\nShe said it was like losing her \"eyesight all over again\".\n\n\"It has really knocked my confidence that in a pandemic I don't have my dog any more,\" Ms Edwards, from Sutton Coldfield, in the West Midlands, said.\n\n\"I don't feel comfortable going outside on my own.\"\n\nLucy Edwards says she struggles to socially distance using her cane alone, as she does not know where people are around her\n\nShe now relies on her cane and her sighted partner, but added she found it difficult to socially distance with just a cane and felt \"scared\" without the support of her dog Olga.\n\nThe Guide Dogs for the Blind Association said the pandemic meant it had been forced to stop dog training for five months last year.\n\nIt said 52 dogs had been trained and become qualified in the Midlands in 2020, compared with 125 in 2019, and added the monthly figures showed a big impact in April.\n\nWhile general dog training is continuing during the third England lockdown, with social distancing measures in place, some orientation and other work has stopped, along with puppy training classes.\n\nWest Bromwich marathon runner Dave Heeley, who was appointed an OBE in the New Year Honours, has been waiting for a dog for more than two years.\n\n\"The dog is your best friend, your dog is your mobility and I don't feel that from a stick,\" he said.\n\nDave Heeley has been waiting two years for a dog\n\nThe Guide Dogs for the Blind Association said over the past two years it had matched 80% of people with a guide dog within 16 months.\n\nThe charity currently has about 5,000 guide dogs working in the UK and within the next few years said it was targeting 1,000 new guide dog partnerships a year.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Employers \"have a duty\" to support staff who suffer domestic abuse but few have adequate policies in place, the government says.\n\nIt said bosses were in a unique position to help but a \"lack of awareness and stigma\" held them back.\n\nCalls to domestic abuse services have surged in the pandemic as couples spend more time at home.\n\nBusiness Minister Paul Scully said employers could be a \"bridge between a worker and the support they need\".\n\n\"It was once taboo to talk about mental health, but now most workplaces have well-established policies in place. We want to see the same happen for domestic abuse, but more quickly and more effectively,\" he said in an open letter to employers.\n\nManagers and colleagues are often the only other people outside the home that victims talk to each day and so \"uniquely placed\" to spot signs of abuse, he said.\n\nThese include becoming more withdrawn than usual, sudden drops in performance, mentions of controlling or coercive behaviour in partners, or physical signs such as bruising.\n\nEmployers did not have to become \"specialists\" in handling domestic abuse, Mr Scully said, but could do more to help, including:\n\nFirms already taking action include Vodafone, which offers specialist training to HR and line managers and support for victims including counselling and additional paid leave.\n\nIn August, law firm Linklaters strengthened its policies and now offers people who need to flee their home but can't stay with others three nights' accommodation in a hotel.\n\nIt also offers the option of paid leave, plus one-off payments of £5,000 to help victims trying to become financially independent.\n\nDomestic violence charity Refuge said it saw an 80% increase in calls to its helpline during the first national lockdown, a trend the government believes has continued.\n\nAnd in November, 43% of respondents to a survey by charity Surviving Economic Abuse showed an abuser had interfered with someone's ability to work or study from home during the crisis.\n\nExamples included hiding phones or computers, removing wi-fi connections, and phoning an employer claiming a breach of lockdown rules, in an apparent effort to get them sacked.\n\nDomestic abuse isn't a new problem, nor does today's call to businesses apply only during a pandemic.\n\nBut coronavirus has highlighted new and existing risks.\n\nFor many victims and survivors, work is a place of respite.\n\nBeing based at home, or on furlough, can reduce communication with team members, and prevent face-to-face chats with colleagues.\n\nI've heard of employers finding simple yet effective ways of supporting staff during the pandemic.\n\nFor example, finding a plausible reason for an employee whose remote communications were being overlooked, to go into the office as a one-off, so they could talk freely and hand over an ID document for safe keeping.\n\nOf course, not every business can afford to offer emergency accommodation or financial support to those in urgent need. But the focus of today's letter is on awareness, using free support and removing stigma.\n\nThe charity Surviving Economic Abuse wants the government to go further, and put paid leave for domestic abuse victims into law.\n\nElizabeth Filkin, who chairs the Employer's Initiative on Domestic Abuse, argues there are real benefits in supporting staff - including around productivity, loyalty and reputation.\n\nEmployment lawyer Sarah Chilton, a partner at CM Murray, told the BBC that all employers have a duty to protect their staff's health and safety while working from home. That includes if they are being subjected to domestic abuse.\n\n\"Where an employee is required to work at home during, for example, the pandemic, the employer should take account of any risk to that person's physical and mental health and safety in the environment in which they work.\"\n\nAngela Ogilvie, global director of HR at Linklaters, said training was vital to spot signs of abuse, especially now.\n\n\"Victims may avoid calls or videos for example. They may become quiet, anxious or tearful, secretive about their home life.\n\n\"And it's being conscious of how you start those conversations because they may be overheard, so you may have to switch your conversation to email or text.\"\n\nMr Scully said the government would consult on ways to help domestic abuse victims at work, for instance by making it easier to request flexible working.\n\nThe government's Domestic Abuse Bill also continues to make its way through parliament.\n\nIt will bring into law a statutory definition of domestic abuse that includes coercive or controlling behaviour as well as emotional and economic abuse.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nFormer world number one Andy Murray's participation at the Australian Open is in doubt after the Briton tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe 33-year-old Scot was set to fly out to Melbourne on a chartered flight arriving there over the next 36 hours.\n\nInstead he remains in quarantine and isolating at home in London.\n\nMurray, who is said to be in good health, remains hopeful he will be allowed to travel safely at a later date and compete as planned.\n\nThe five-time Australian Open runner-up pulled out of last week's ATP event in Delray Beach as he wanted to \"minimise the risks\" of catching a transatlantic flight to Florida.\n\n'He will be refused'\n\nThe Australian Open will start on 8 February at Melbourne Park, three weeks later than usual, because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nPlayers must test negative before taking one of the 15 chartered flights - which have been put on by tournament organisers and will operate at 25% capacity - to Australia.\n\nOnce they have arrived, they will have to pass a series of Covid tests during a 14-day quarantine in Melbourne before the Grand Slam.\n\n\"Mr Murray, and the other 1,240 people as part of the program, need to demonstrate that if they're coming to Melbourne they have returned a negative test,\" said Victorian state health minister Martin Foley.\n\n\"So should Mr Murray arrive, and I have no indication that he will, he will be subject to those same rigorous arrangements as everyone else. Should he test positive prior to his attempts to come to Australia, he will be refused.\"\n\nMurray's planned appearance at Melbourne Park would come two years after he played there in what he feared would be his final match as a professional.\n\nAt 123rd in the world, Murray is ranked too low to gain direct entry into the tournament so the three-time Grand Slam champion has been given a wildcard.\n\nMurray was able to play only seven official matches in 2020 because of a lingering pelvic injury, and the five-month suspension of the tours because of the pandemic.\n\nThe Scot is among a number of players to have their plans disrupted.\n\nAmerican Madison Keys, who reached the Australian Open women's singles semi-finals in 2015, said she would not be playing in Melbourne after testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nWorld number two Rafael Nadal is travelling to Melbourne in search of a record 21st Grand Slam men's singles title without coach Carlos Moya, who has decided to stay at home in Spain with his family because of the health situation.\n\nWorld number three Dominic Thiem's coach Nicolas Massu has also not travelled after a positive Covid test, Thiem's father Wolfgang told Austrian newspaper Kurier.\n\n'Change of year, but not a change of luck' - analysis\n\nA change of year does not appear to have brought about a change of luck for Andy Murray.\n\nHe is now hoping he will be given permission to arrive in Melbourne late - and outside the window Tennis Australia painstakingly negotiated with the Victorian state government.\n\nIf he does get the green light to travel, having completed self-isolation in the UK and returned a negative test, he will still have to spend 14 days in quarantine on arrival.\n\nThat means he won't be able to play in the warm-up events the week before the Australian Open.\n\nBut it would keep alive his hopes of playing in the first Grand Slam of the year, as players will be allowed out of their rooms to practise for five hours a day during quarantine.\n\nAmerican player Tennys Sandgren, meanwhile, boarded a charter plane to Melbourne despite testing positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe world number 50, a two-time Australian Open quarter-finalist, tweeted that after testing positive in November he had returned another positive on Monday and might not be able to fly on Wednesday.\n\nBut Australian Open organisers said his medical file had been reviewed by Victoria state authorities and he had then been cleared to fly.\n\nThey explained that players are only allowed to enter Australia with proof of a negative test done just before departure or \"with approval to travel as a recovered case at the complete discretion of an Australian government authority\".\n\nSandgren posted on social media that he had been ill in November but was \"totally healthy now\".\n\n\"My two tests were less than eight weeks apart,\" he wrote. \"There's not a single documented case where I would be contagious at this point.\"\n\nLisa Neville, minister for police and emergency services, tweeted: \"Tennys Sandgren's positive result was reviewed by health experts and determined to be viral shedding from a previous infection, so was given the all clear to fly.\n\n\"No-one who is Covid positive for the first time - or could still be infectious - will be allowed in for the Aus Open.\"\n• None Alerts: Get tennis news sent to your phone\n• None Can the TV personality make it as a pro footballer?\n• None New drama brings the chilling crimes of Charles Sobhraj to life", "Passengers will need to provide a negative Covid-19 test taken within 72 hours before departure\n\nPassengers arriving into NI from outside the UK and Republic of Ireland will soon have to produce a negative Covid-19 test before departure.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster confirmed the executive had agreed the plan on Thursday.\n\nPeople arriving from countries not on the government's travel corridors list will also still have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe move has already been agreed in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nPassengers arriving there will be subject to the new rules from Saturday, with the measure taking effect in England and Scotland from Monday.\n\nNegative tests 72 hours prior to arrival are already a requirement in the Republic of Ireland for passengers travelling from Great Britain and South Africa.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's press conference on Thursday, the first minister said Northern Ireland's R-number had also fallen to between 0.7 and 0.9 for new cases of the virus.\n\nThe reproductive rate of the virus - known as the R rate, measures the infection rate of Covid-19 and had risen to about 1.8 due to Christmas relaxations.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said the drop showed the \"very real\" effect of lockdown restrictions imposed on 26 December, but she warned there was still \"no room for complacency\".\n\nShe said she still believed there needed to be an \"two-island approach\" to travel restrictions, including discussions with the British and Irish governments as a \"matter of urgency\".\n\nMrs Foster said Stormont ministers had also expressed frustration at the executive meeting over a lack of data-sharing from authorities in the Republic of Ireland, and called for it to be escalated.\n\nPSNI Chief Constable (centre) Simon Byrne attended Stormont's press briefing on Thursday with the first and deputy first ministers\n\nPSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne said 40 penalty notices a day are being handed out to those who breach the Covid-19 regulations.\n\nHe told the press briefing that if people continued flouting rules, they could expect \"firm and swift enforcement\".\n\n\"We won't turn a blind eye when people break the rules.\"\n\nOn Thursday, 16 more deaths related to Covid-19 were reported by the Department of Health in Northern Ireland, bringing its total to 1,533.\n\nThere have been 973 new cases diagnosed in the past 24 hours, while 58 Covid-19 patients are being treated in ICUs across Northern Ireland, of which 44 are on ventilators.\n\nMrs Foster said she found it \"incredible and frankly unbelievable\" that some people were still holding house parties and gatherings, despite the pandemic rates and the lockdown.\n\nOn Wednesday, health officials warned that levels of the new, more transmissible variant of the virus are rising.\n\nMr Swann said that meant more \"difficult decisions\" on lockdown restrictions could be required.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the third week of a six-week lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19.\n\nThe executive is due to review the current restrictions on 21 January.\n\nThe first and deputy first ministers said they would take evidence from health officials before deciding whether an extension of the lockdown would be required.\n\nMinisters have expressed concerns about keeping non-essential parts of businesses open\n\nMinisters have also expressed concerns about some larger retailers \"gaming\" the regulations and keeping open non-essential parts of their businesses.\n\nA meeting between the first and deputy first ministers and representatives of the retail sector is due to happen on Friday afternoon.\n\nElsewhere, the Chief Medical Officer has confirmed that unpaid carers looking after Clinically Extremely Vulnerable individuals should receive the first dose of their vaccine when phase two of the vaccination programme begins next month.\n\nDr Michael McBride told Stormont's Health Committee they are provided for on a list of prioritisation provided by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, which decides the order of vaccination delivery.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Department of Health This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Department of Health\n\nMr Swann was asked if his department was \"putting all its eggs in the vaccine basket\".\n\nHe said it was \"not the entirety of the answer\", adding: \"It will take time for the benefits of it to bed in.\n\n\"And while it is doing it, we still have to follow those restrictions that are in place.\n\n\"We may actually have to introduce more.\"\n\nOn Thursday afternoon the department tweeted that 121,711 vaccines have been administered in Northern Ireland.\n\nMrs Foster said that by end of this month, it is hoped all care home residents, health staff and those aged over 80 in Northern Ireland will have received their first vaccination.\n\nShe said that would be an \"incredible achievement\" and make Northern Ireland one of the top-performing countries in rolling out its vaccination programme.\n\nMeanwhile, the chairman of the Police Federation for NI (PFNI) has said officers need more powers to enforce Covid-19 regulations.\n\nAt present officers can only issue guidance and advice on the public health regulations.\n\nPFNI chairman Mark Lindsay said that puts officers in a \"difficult position\".\n\nThe federation represents thousands of rank and file PSNI officers.\n\n\"I think we are well past the stage where police officers are the people that should be giving advice around the guidance,\" Mr Lindsay told BBC Radio Foyle.", "President Trump has just become the first sitting president to be impeached twice by the US House of Representatives.\n\nWe asked members of our BBC voter panel to weigh in as well.\n\nHere's what they said:\n\nQuote Message: Everything he has done is unconstitutional and, as a president, the number one thing he should be doing is upholding the Constitution. If not for him continually fighting the election results and claiming the election was stolen, if not for him holding that rally near the Capitol, if not for him talking about 'uprising', last week would very likely not have happened. Unfortunately it was completely predictable. from Melissa Dangaran 51, from Minnesota Everything he has done is unconstitutional and, as a president, the number one thing he should be doing is upholding the Constitution. If not for him continually fighting the election results and claiming the election was stolen, if not for him holding that rally near the Capitol, if not for him talking about 'uprising', last week would very likely not have happened. Unfortunately it was completely predictable.\n\nQuote Message: Unprecedented. He should not have been impeached at all. There is no justification, no legal basis, no constitutional basis for it. It's a rush to judgment for ulterior motives and a dark stain on our country. I'm concerned about the double standard and I'm afraid our Constitution is on its deathbed. Why would anybody who's rational think that our president meant for people to go break into the Capitol? from Belinda Noah 45, from Florida Unprecedented. He should not have been impeached at all. There is no justification, no legal basis, no constitutional basis for it. It's a rush to judgment for ulterior motives and a dark stain on our country. I'm concerned about the double standard and I'm afraid our Constitution is on its deathbed. Why would anybody who's rational think that our president meant for people to go break into the Capitol?\n\nQuote Message: It's more of a symbolic impeachment at this point because he'll be out soon, but it's necessary nonetheless. Not only is he a threat to our national security, but he doesn't condone white supremacy and other threats. It's deeply saddening to me. from Williams Morales 19, from Georgia It's more of a symbolic impeachment at this point because he'll be out soon, but it's necessary nonetheless. Not only is he a threat to our national security, but he doesn't condone white supremacy and other threats. It's deeply saddening to me.\n\nQuote Message: I was in DC at the rally - not near the Capitol - but I saw the president speak with my own eyes and he did not call for anyone to storm the building or cause harm. It's just a way to ensure he will not run in the next four years. It is political and it will create a bigger divide between left and right. All violence should be condemned fairly and justly. It was a very sad outcome, but I do not believe it was the most horrible day in our country's history. from Gabriel Montalvo 21, from New York I was in DC at the rally - not near the Capitol - but I saw the president speak with my own eyes and he did not call for anyone to storm the building or cause harm. It's just a way to ensure he will not run in the next four years. It is political and it will create a bigger divide between left and right. All violence should be condemned fairly and justly. It was a very sad outcome, but I do not believe it was the most horrible day in our country's history.", "Siegfried and Roy were one of the hottest tickets in Las Vegas\n\nSiegfried Fischbacher, one half of celebrated magic double act Siegfried and Roy, has died from pancreatic cancer in Las Vegas at the age of 81.\n\nThe pair were among the biggest names in the world of magic and were known for working with lions and tigers.\n\nPaying tribute, David Copperfield called him a \"legend in magic\", and Penn Jillette said Siegfried and Roy were \"pure showbiz and pure class\".\n\nRoy Horn died from Covid-19 complications last May.\n\nThe pair \"invented the full length magic show headlining Vegas\", according to Jillette, who is known as part of the duo Penn and Teller.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSiegfried and Roy teamed up in their native Germany in the 1950s, and the highlight of their extravagant shows was their performances with white lions and white tigers.\n\nHorn was attacked by a 400lb white Bengal tiger named Montecore during a performance in Las Vegas in 2003, leaving him partially paralysed and using a wheelchair.\n\nHe underwent lengthy rehabilitation and was later able to walk again, but the attack ended the duo's long-running Las Vegas residency.\n\nRoy Horn (left) had to use a wheelchair after the tiger attack\n\nFischbacher and Horn, whose real name was Uwe Ludwig Horn, had met on a cruise ship and were later signed up by a liner company.\n\nAfter being spotted and signed to perform at a nightclub in Bremen, they went on to tour Europe and brought tigers into their act.\n\nBut they shot to worldwide fame after launching their Las Vegas shows in the 1960s.\n\nTheir unique brand of magic and artistry consistently attracted sell-out crowds. They performed an estimated 5,000 shows for 10 million fans in the city after 1990, when they began performing at the Mirage hotel-casino.\n\nThey were also estimated to have grossed more than $1bn by 2001, which included their thousands of shows at other venues in earlier years.\n\nIn 2004, their act became the basis for the animated comedy Father of the Pride, about the mischievous adventures of a family of white lions who perform with Siegfried & Roy in Las Vegas.\n\nHorn's condition improved and by 2006 he was able to talk and walk with assistance from Fischbacher.\n\nIn 2009, the duo staged a final appearance with a tiger (said to be Montecore, but this was disputed by some) at a benefit for the Lou Ruvo Brain Institute in Las Vegas.\n\nSiegfried Fischbacher was devoted to his partner Roy\n\nThey retired from showbusiness in 2010. After Horn's death last year, Fischbacher said: \"Today, the world has lost one of the greats of magic, but I have lost my best friend.\n\n\"From the moment we met, I knew Roy and I, together, would change the world. There could be no Siegfried without Roy, and no Roy without Siegfried.\"\n\nFischbacher recently had a 12-hour operation to remove a malignant tumour. He had been receiving care at home from two hospice workers in recent days.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRichard Leonard has resigned as Scottish Labour leader, saying it is in the best interests of the party for him to stand down.\n\nMr Leonard said he believed speculation about his leadership had become a \"distraction\".\n\nAnd he said he would be stepping down with immediate effect.\n\nHis resignation comes just months ahead of the Scottish Parliament election, which is scheduled to be held in May.\n\nMr Leonard had been leader of the party for three years after succeeding Kezia Dugdale.\n\nThe former union official had faced open calls to quit from some of his own MSPs last year amid concerns that his leadership style could damage the party in the forthcoming Scottish Parliament election.\n\nPolls have suggested that many Scottish Labour supporters struggle to recognise him, and he is closely associated with former UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nScottish Labour had dominated politics in Scotland for decades, but is currently the third largest party at Holyrood behind the SNP and Conservatives.\n\nAnd Mr Leonard's critics had questioned whether he was capable of turning the party's fortunes around.\n\nMr Leonard was seen as a close ally of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn\n\nIn a statement, Mr Leonard said the decision to resign had not been easy - but he felt it was the right one for him and his party.\n\nHe said: \"I have thought long and hard over the Christmas period about what this crisis means, and the approach Scottish Labour takes to help tackle it.\n\n\"I have also considered what the speculation about my leadership does to our ability to get Labour's message across. This has become a distraction.\n\n\"I have come to the conclusion it is in the best interests of the party that I step aside as leader of Scottish Labour with immediate effect.\"\n\nHe also insisted that Scotland now needs a Labour government more than ever, and accused both the Scottish and UK governments of mishandling the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Leonard added: \"While I step down from the leadership today, the work goes on - and I will play my constructive part as an MSP in winning support for Labour's vision of a better future in a democratic economy and a socialist society.\"\n\nHis decision leaves Scottish Labour looking for its fifth leader since the independence referendum in 2014 - with Johann Lamont, Jim Murphy and Kezia Dugdale all having held the job since then.\n\nA Procedures Committee, to oversee the election of Mr Leonard's successor, has been formed and will have its first meeting on Friday.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour's Scottish Executive Committee will also meet in the coming days to agree a timetable for the process.\n\nMSP Jackie Baillie, who was Scottish Labour's deputy leader, has taken charge of the party on an interim basis.\n\nThis sudden resignation four months from the Holyrood elections seems to have taken Scottish Labour by surprise.\n\nMSPs I've spoken to said they did not see it coming.\n\nThere have been times when Richard Leonard has been under severe pressure from some in his party to stand down.\n\nWhen several MSPs publicly called for him to quit because the party had gone backwards at successive elections on his watch, he stood firm.\n\nHis critics seemed to have accepted that he would lead them and a divided party into the Holyrood election.\n\nThat has now changed and interim leader Jackie Baillie has to quickly organise a contest to replace him.\n\nIt's a contest in which Anas Sarwar, if he stands, would be an obvious frontrunner - even although he lost last time to Mr Leonard, who was seen as much closer to the then UK party leader, Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Leonard should be \"very proud\" of his achievements as leader of the party in Scotland.\n\nSir Keir added: \"I would like to thank Richard for his service to our party and his unwavering commitment to the values he believes in.\n\n\"Richard has led Scottish Labour through one of the most challenging and difficult periods in our country's history, including a general election and the pandemic.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Neil Findlay MSP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Leonard had been due to face a confidence vote at the party's ruling Executive Committee last September - but the motion was withdrawn at the last minute.\n\nIt came after four Scottish Labour MSPs called for him to go, warning that the party faced \"catastrophe\" at the ballot box under his leadership.\n\nThey pointed to the party's dismal performance in previous elections under Mr Leonard.\n\nScottish Labour finished fifth in the European election in May 2019, and then lost all but one of its MPs in the general election in December of the same year.\n\nMr Leonard insisted at the time that he intended to lead the party into this year's Holyrood election, and accused his opponents of waging \"internal war\" against him.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who faced Mr Leonard in her weekly question session in the Scottish Parliament, tweeted that she had \"always liked Richard Leonard\" despite their political difference.\n\nShe added: \"He is a decent guy and I wish him well for the future.\"\n\nRuth Davidson, who quit as leader of the Scottish Tories in 2019 before returning to lead the party at Holyrood, said she had always found Mr Leonard to be a \"thoroughly decent man and a committed campaigner.\"\n\nAnas Sarwar, who was defeated by Mr Leonard in the leadership contest in 2017 and is seen as one of the favourites to replace him, said he was sure Mr Leonard would \"continue to fight for a fairer, more just and more equal society today, tomorrow and long into the future.\"\n\nBut Labour MSP Neil Findlay, an outspoken supporter of Mr Leonard, took aim at those who had sought to oust him last year - describing them as \"flinching cowards\" and \"sneering traitors\".", "Primark stores have been hit hard by lockdown\n\nPrimark says it has no plans to sell its clothes online despite warning that lockdown store closures could cost it more than £1bn in lost sales.\n\nSome 305 of Primark's 389 global stores are shut - including all 190 UK outlets - but unlike rivals it has no online arm to fall back on.\n\nCustomers have said they would welcome the retailer setting up an online shop.\n\nBut Primark, which saw a 30% sales fall to £2bn in the 16 weeks to 2 January, says the cost would mean price rises.\n\nIt contrasts with online only fashion retailers such as Asos and Boohoo, whose sales rose by around 40% in the last four months of 2020.\n\nOn Thursday, consumers called on Primark to embrace e-commerce with one tweeting: \"Online sales are thru the roof during the pandemic. You're missing out on a LOT of money.\"\n\nBut the retailer tweeted back: \"We prefer to sell our products in our physical stores but thanks for the suggestion.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Primark This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSince March last year, non-essential shops in the UK and overseas have faced strict curbs and prolonged closures and all are currently shut in England.\n\nIn a statement, Primark said that if all of its stores stayed closed until 27 February 2021, it expected to miss out on £1.05bn of sales - up from a previous estimate of £650m.\n\nThe retailer said it would partially mitigate this by cutting its costs, but did not say if that would mean job losses. It added that it only expected to break even in the first half of the financial year, after seeing healthy operating profits of £441m last time around.\n\nIn the past Primark has said it won't sell online because the cost of manning the operation and processing high volumes of returns would mean it could no longer offer low prices.\n\n\"As a fast fashion retailer they are on a low margins anyway - they have to be very competitive on price,\" Patrick O'Brien, UK retail research director at GlobalData told the BBC.\n\nHe said pure online players like Asos and Boohoo could make it work because they were \"geared up for it in terms of logistics\".\n\nPrimark shops saw strong sales when they reopened after the first lockdown\n\n\"But Primark would be starting from scratch, and would have to integrate any new online operation with its existing store structure which would be costly.\"\n\nDespite this Mr O'Brien said the retailer was still likely succeed, pointing to the surge in sales it saw when its shops reopened after the first lockdown.\n\nBut Retail Economics' Richard Lim said Primark was at risk of \"potentially alienating its customers\" who increasingly expect to be able to shop online.\n\n\"They have very loyal customers who love the brand, but they are crying out to be able to access it online.\n\n\"The longer they are not online, the more disruptive it is. The more their customers are discovering new brands and ways to shop.\"\n\nAssociated British Foods also owns food and agriculture businesses. Sales across the group were down 13% in the 16 weeks to 2 January at £4.8bn.\n\nThere are always winners and losers in retail but this Christmas the picture is more polarised than ever thanks to the effects of the pandemic. Just contrast the fortunes of Primark, which doesn't sell online, with Boohoo and Asos which have both reported soaring growth in sales.\n\nAll our big supermarkets have now reported bumper Christmas trading, too, which is no real surprise given we can't go out to eat and so many of us are working from home. This growth has also been driven by an extraordinary rise in internet orders.\n\nWhile Primark is bracing itself to lose £1bn in business as a result of store closures, Tesco says it added £1bn of extra sales online this festive quarter. It's been very tough for many traditional non-food retailers, big and small, who've been unable to make up for all the lost sales from their High Street shops. Looking ahead, the big question is where the online dial will settle when our lives eventually return to normal.", "The number of people being treated in Scotland's hospitals for coronavirus has reached another record daily high.\n\nLatest Scottish government figures show a total of 1,596 people are in hospital with recently confirmed Covid.\n\nThis is up from Friday's figure of 1,530 patients.\n\nThe deaths of a further 93 people who had tested positive for the virus have been recorded in the past 24 hours, the same tally as Friday which was the highest daily figure of the pandemic.\n\nIt is the second day in a row there has been a record figure for Covid hospital patients.\n\nOf the 1,596 people in hospital, a total of 109 are in intensive care, up seven on Friday's figure.\n\nNational clinical director Prof Jason Leitch said Scotland's hospitals were \"very busy and fragile\" but coping so far.\n\nHe said: \"People should not be worried we have reached capacity but the best way of getting those numbers down is to reduce the prevalence of the virus.\"\n\nProf Leitch said the NHS could create more intensive care capacity if needed but \"all of that has a cost in what we won't be able to do\" elsewhere in the health service.\n\nThe NHS Louisa Jordan temporary hospital in Glasgow can be used to care for the sickest of Covid patients if the spike in admissions continues, but officials are trying to avoid this \"if we can manage without it\", Prof Leitch added.\n\nThis is because it is better for patients and staff for Covid patients to be in traditional intensive care units, he explained.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has described the latest Covid figures as \"a big concern\".\n\nOn Twitter, she said: \"Covid case numbers still a big concern and putting huge pressure on the NHS, as hospital and ICU cases increase.\n\n\"Also, 93 further deaths remind us just how dangerous the virus can be - my thoughts are with all those grieving.\"]\n\nThe Scottish government data shows a further 1,865 new cases of Covid have been reported in the last 24 hours, down from the 2,309 cases reported on Friday.\n\nHowever, the daily test positivity rate is 8.7%, up from 8.1% on the previous day.\n\nThis breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.\n\nYou can receive Breaking News on a smartphone or tablet via the BBC News App. You can also follow @BBCBreaking on Twitter to get the latest alerts.", "A 28-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after two men died at a property in east London.\n\nPolice were called to an address in Tavistock Gardens, Ilford, at 04:24 GMT to reports of a disturbance.\n\nTwo men were found seriously injured inside the property and both died at the scene.\n\nThe woman, who was Tasered during the arrest, also suffered non life-threatening injuries. She has been taken to hospital, the Met Police said.\n\nA man who lives a short way down the street said he was awoken by the sounds of a woman screaming.\n\nKuddus Miah, 44, said: \"She was screaming 'help, help, call the police'.\n\n\"The police and ambulances were there very quick.\"\n\nThe men who were found seriously injured on Sunday morning died at the scene\n\n\"I got changed out my PJs and went outside and asked one of the neighbours opposite what happened.\n\n\"She said a woman was coming in and out of the house crying out for help.\n\n\"Apparently they were new tenants. We've lived here around 15 years and it's a very quiet neighbourhood, it's shocking.\"\n\nSeveral forensics officers were seen outside the house and a large police cordon has been put in place.\n\nForensic officers have been seen working in the house\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sarah and her husband Gary lived in the caravan on the drive for nine months\n\nA nurse who lived in a caravan for nine months to protect her mother from coronavirus says moving back into her house was like \"winning the lottery\".\n\nSarah Link and her husband Gary, who usually share a home with her mother, bought the caravan in March to allow them to isolate.\n\n\"I have cried a river in the caravan, if it wasn't for Gary, I wouldn't have got through it,\" Mrs Link said.\n\nThey moved back home for Christmas after her mother received the vaccine.\n\nThe caravan, bought for £600 and parked on their own drive in Cradley, in the Black Country, allowed Mrs Link to continue working at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital and her husband at his fishmonger's business.\n\n\"I'd do it again tomorrow. I would do it every time, I would have done anything to protect mum,\" she said.\n\n\"We were thinking it would be four weeks, 12 weeks max, then the summer came and went and nine months later we were still there. It was incredible, I just can't believe we did it,\" Mrs Link, who has been a nurse for 17 years, said.\n\nThe couple both contracted coronavirus in December, but carried on living in the caravan so they could self-isolate and continue to protect Mrs Link's 84-year-old mother.\n\nMrs Link said her Christmas this year was \"magical\" after moving out of the caravan\n\n\"I went back to work properly last week. I still get tired easily and suffer with fatigue, but I'm OK,\" Mrs Link said.\n\n\"It's getting ridiculous the cases... some people still walk around and don't believe it's real. If people came on my ward and see what I've seen.\"\n\nMrs Link said she had not hugged her mother since before March as they were still taking precautions to keep her safe.\n\nShe said Christmas and new year had been \"magical\" adding it was the \"best\" she had ever experienced after being able to move back home.\n\n\"We all cried when it turned midnight, that year we'd all had.\n\n\"It was like winning the lottery, waking up in a proper bed.\n\n\"We're in the warm... I wouldn't be happier if I'd won a million pounds.\"\n\nThe couple decorated the caravan throughout the year\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Vincent Kane - pictured with his grandson Sonny - is facing uncertainty about his operation\n\nThe son of a man with pancreatic cancer has said the last-minute cancellation of his surgery has been \"devastating\".\n\nJodie Kane said his father Vincent was due to have his operation on Friday.\n\nHowever, that procedure was cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust on Tuesday as the worsening coronavirus crisis increases the pressure on hospitals.\n\nThe trust apologised, saying it had faced an 80% rise in the number of patients with Covid-19 admitted to hospitals since Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Nolan Show, Jodie said that there was now \"no guarantee\" his 68-year-old father would get the treatment.\n\n\"To be told we had the chance of a very successful surgery on offer and then to have it taken away at the last minute is pretty devastating,\" he said.\n\n\"Even the surgeon himself said they would be concerned if it was to go on more than four weeks.\n\n\"There is an uncertainty hanging over us now that we don't know when he'll actually get that surgery or what the impact on his health is going to be.\"\n\nVincent Kane - pictured with his with wife Karen - has been suffering other health issues arising from his cancer\n\nVincent, from Newtownards, County Down, did not receive treatment for some of his other symptoms as it was planned that the surgery would help with those.\n\n\"Because they were hoping to get him straight into surgery he hasn't had the blockage in his gall bladder addressed so he's jaundiced, he's covered in a rash, can't sleep, he's lost a lot of weight,\" Jodie said.\n\n\"Undoubtedly there are people worse off than us out there but it is still a critical illness that he has got and it is one that we don't have an end in sight for, in terms of treatment.\n\n\"There must be a way of helping all those in need, or I suppose if you were being really honest about it those who stand the best chance of surviving - making the decisions for the benefit of them.\n\n\"There's no guarantee that in six weeks' time surgery is going to be an option because who knows what's going to happen with Covid?\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it had to reduce the number of ill patients on wards to protect them from coronavirus\n\nJodie called on those who were breaking Covid-19 regulations to think about the the \"direct and indirect impacts\" of their actions.\n\n\"We've every sympathy for anyone who has a loved one who needs [intensive] care because of Covid but cancer and Covid are both life-and-death situations.\n\n\"We can minimise the risks of one of them as a collective society just by taking the necessary precautions.\n\n\"It could be someone they love or their neighbour or someone in their community that's in the same situation as us in the very near future.\"\n\nFlo McClements, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in December, found out on Tuesday that her surgery - scheduled for Thursday - had been cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Foyle, her son Gregg said the pressure was \"mounting day by day\" on the the 72-year-old from Ballymoney, County Antrim.\n\n\"She had waited all through Christmas for the date and due to the Covid-19 restrictions we as a family had stayed away from her,\" he added.\n\nFlo McClements' family wants to \"give her a hug\" after her operation was cancelled\n\n\"We left her on her own with my dad just to make sure she didn't catch Covid and risk the operation.\n\n\"When you get the date you like to think it's the next step to recovery but unfortunately that didn't happen.\"\n\nGregg said his mother was \"putting on a brave face\" but it was difficult for the family to not be with her in person during what was a difficult time.\n\n\"That's actually the hardest part that we can't go up and have a cup of tea with her or give her a hug to make her feel a bit better even for a few minutes.\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it \"would like to sincerely apologise\" to those affected by the postponement of surgeries.\n\nIt said the decision was taken to reduce the number of ill patients on wards that would be more at risk from the virus than others.\n\n\"This was an incredibly difficult decision to make and we did not take it without considering all the information available to us,\" said the trust.\n\n\"We do not underestimate the anxiety and distress this causes the patients and families affected and we deeply regret this.\n\nIt said it would do \"everything in our power\" to reschedule their operations \"as soon as possible\".", "The company offered to pay surgeries a £5,000 charitable donation \"or to the staff member directly\" in emails\n\nThe Hacking Trust's medical division approached surgeries in Bristol and Worthing offering to pay the money to charity \"or the staff member directly\".\n\nRobyn Clark, from the Institute of General Practice Management, said it was \"just appalling\".\n\nThe company, based in London, has apologised, saying its \"good intentions\" were \"misinterpreted\".\n\nNHS England said people \"will rightly take a dim view of anyone who tries to jump the queue\".\n\n\"The NHS is free at the point of access for everyone who needs it,\" said Mrs Clark.\n\n\"What we felt this company was trying to do was jump the queue.\"\n\nThe Bristol-based manager said she worried it could \"create more health inequality\".\n\nShe said: \"The JCVI [Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation] is trying to prioritise the vaccine based on the vulnerability to Covid.\"\n\nThe e-mail sent to the GP surgery in Worthing said The Hacking Trust was aware that \"many appointments\" for vaccinations are not kept, and that it would be interested in being informed of \"any no-shows\".\n\nA donation of £5,000 would be paid to a staff member or given to charity for each dose it could secure, the e-mail said.\n\nIn a statement, the Battersea-based company said it \"offered charitable donations to staff or surgeries in this difficult time for any vaccines which were unused\".\n\nIt added: \"We had heard that some vaccines were being unused due to missed appointments. We would apologise that our good intentions have been misinterpreted.\"\n\nNHS England said it knew \"these particular emails were received across the country\".\n\nDr Nikki Kanani, GP and NHS medical director for primary care, said hundreds of NHS teams across the country were \"working hard to deliver vaccines quickly to those who would benefit most\".\n\n\"NHS staff will never ask for, or accept, cash for vaccines,\" she said.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said vaccinations were available from the NHS \"for free\" and \"cannot be sold privately in the UK\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Online supermarket Ocado has become the first big retailer to warn of shortages of some products.\n\nIt told customers in an email that there may be \"an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks\".\n\nStaff sickness and self-isolation means some food producers are cutting the number of product lines they offer.\n\nWhile customers might not get their exact product choice, plenty of food should be available, Ocado said.\n\n\"Staff absences across the supply chain may lead to an increase in product substitutions for a small number of customers as some suppliers consolidate their offering to maintain output,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nThe news comes after a rush of online food orders for supermarkets, as shoppers try to stay at home after the new lockdown started.\n\nWithin a couple of hours of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's speech to the nation on Monday, shoppers reported problems with Sainsbury's and Tesco, while Ocado customers were placed in a virtual queue.\n\nOcado told its customers that from Friday \"changes to the UK supply chain have affected some of our suppliers and may result in an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks.\"\n\nIt added: \"We apologise for any inconvenience caused and we are working hard to mitigate any impact.\"\n\nFood suppliers are grappling with staffing problems, hospitality clients who have closed their doors and delays at the border with the EU.\n\nWholesalers the BBC spoke to this week said they faced throwing away thousands of pounds worth of food because of cancelled orders following new restrictions.\n\nThe UK meat industry has called for the early vaccination of its workers to keep food supplies running smoothly during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIt warned earlier this week that absences during the pandemic, coupled with disruption at ports, could hit food supply chains.\n\nAn early vaccination call for supermarket staff was also made by the boss of Sainsbury's on Thursday.\n\nThe government said the food industry remains \"well-prepared\" to make sure people have the food they need.\n\nThe British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) said coronavirus and disruption at ports due to new systems brought in after the Brexit transition period were \"a severe challenge to the industry and to the smooth running of the nation's food supply chain\".", "Home Secretary Priti Patel has said officers \"will not hesitate\" to enforce lockdown rules as she defended the way police have handled breaches.\n\nShe said rising numbers of coronavirus cases and deaths illustrated the need for \"strong enforcement\".\n\nIt comes after the National Police Chiefs' Council published guidance saying officers should issue fines more quickly when rules are broken.\n\nMore than 30,000 fines have been handed out by forces in England and Wales.\n\nNPCC figures show 32,329 fixed penalty notices were issued between 27 March and 21 December last year.\n\nThe number of people who have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test surpassed 80,000 on Saturday, and a further 59,937 people tested positive.\n\nMinisters have launched a new campaign urging people to act like they have the virus and scientists have warned that lockdown measures in England need to be stricter.\n\n\"The vast majority of the public have supported this huge national effort and followed the rules,\" Ms Patel said.\n\n\"But the tragic number of new cases and deaths this week shows there is still a need for strong enforcement where people are clearly breaking these rules to ensure we safeguard our country's recovery from this deadly virus.\n\n\"Enforcing these rules saves lives. It is as simple as that. Officers will continue to engage with the public across the country and will not hesitate to take action when necessary.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has warned the public to follow the lockdown restrictions, telling the BBC's Andrew Marr programme that \"every time you try to flex the rules, that could be fatal\".\n\nBut Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer criticised the government for not providing \"absolute clarity of messaging\", telling the BBC's Andrew Marr that there had been \"mixed messaging over the last nine months\".\n\nNPCC guidance, published on 6 January, says officers should still offer people \"encouragement\" to comply with the regulations and explain any changes.\n\n\"However, if the individual or group does not respond appropriately, then enforcement can follow without repeated attempts to encourage people to comply with the law,\" the NPCC said.\n\nOn Saturday 12 people were arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nElsewhere, North Wales Police turned away more than 100 cars at Moel Famau in Flintshire by Saturday lunchtime, and Norfolk Police fined one couple who had travelled about 130 miles (209km) to see a seal colony.\n\nHowever, Derbyshire Police has launched an urgent review into how fines were issued after two women were charged £200 each.\n\nThe pair were stopped by officers for walking five miles from their home with hot drinks, which they were told were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nJohn Apter, chair of the Police Federation of England and Wales, said officers were under \"immense pressure to do the right thing\" and said with \"such a changing landscape politically and legally\" there were going to be things which did not go right.\n\nHe said the police had to balance the relationship with the public.\n\n\"It's not easy because all we are trying to do in policing is keep as many people safe as possible,\" he said.", "The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have received Covid-19 vaccinations, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nA royal source said the vaccinations were administered on Saturday by a household doctor at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe source added the Queen decided to let it be known she had the vaccination to prevent further speculation.\n\nThe Queen, 94, and Prince Philip, 99, are among around 1.5 million people in the UK to have had at least one dose of a Covid vaccine so far.\n\nPeople aged over 80 in the UK are among the high-priority groups who are being given the vaccine first.\n\nThe couple have been spending the lockdown in England at their Windsor Castle home after deciding to have a quiet Christmas at their Berkshire residence, instead of the traditional royal family gathering at Sandringham.\n\nLast month, the Queen appeared alongside several other senior members of the royal family for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began.\n\nIn 2020 she went seven months - between March and October - without carrying out public engagements outside of a royal residence.\n\nDuring that time, her eldest child, Prince Charles, 72, contracted coronavirus and displayed mild symptoms.\n\nPalace sources also told the BBC that her grandson Prince William tested positive in April - although Kensington Palace refused to comment officially.\n\nThe Queen made a private pilgrimage to the grave of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey in November\n\nThe Queen used her Christmas Day message to reassure anyone struggling without friends and family this year that they \"are not alone\".\n\nShe said the pandemic had \"brought us closer\" despite causing hardship, adding that the Royal Family has been \"inspired\" by people volunteering in their communities.\n\nOn Friday a third coronavirus vaccine - made by US company Moderna - was approved for use in the UK, joining the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines already approved by UK regulators.\n\nIt is not known which vaccine the Queen and Prince Philip have received.\n\nAll the approved vaccines require two doses to provide the best possible protection, with the second dose being given up to 12 weeks after the first.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said the aim is to vaccinate 15 million people in the UK by mid-February, including care home residents and staff, frontline NHS staff, everyone over 70 and those who have been categorised as clinically extremely vulnerable.", "Bans imposed by Twitter, Facebook and Instagram on Donald Trump's accounts raise a \"very big question\" about how social media is regulated, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.\n\nThe companies acted after supporters of the US president stormed Washington DC's Capitol building on Wednesday.\n\nMr Hancock said the bans showed they were now \"taking editorial decisions\".\n\nCampaigners want social media to be treated as \"publishers\", rather than \"platforms\", meaning more regulation.\n\nBut opponents of the idea argue that it could allow governments to limit debate.\n\nMr Trump faces an impeachment charge, with Democrats accusing the Republican president of encouraging the Washington riots, in which five people died.\n\nTwitter permanently suspended his @realDonaldTrump account on Saturday, citing the \"risk of further incitement of violence\".\n\nBut Mr Trump called this an attack on free speech and suggested he would look at \"building out our own platform in the future\".\n\nThere has been a long-running debate over whether social media companies should be treated in law as \"publishers\", with greater responsibility for dealing with libellous, discriminatory, misleading or incendiary content posted by users.\n\nMr Hancock, a former culture secretary, told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show: \"The scenes, clearly encouraged by President Trump - the scenes at the Capitol - were terrible - and I was very sad to see that because American democracy is such a proud thing.\n\n\"But there's something else that has changed, which is that social media platforms are making editorial decisions now. That's clear because they're choosing who should and shouldn't have a voice on their platform.\"\n\nMr Hancock said that development was likely to have \"consequences\".\n\nAsked earlier about Twitter's decision to ban Mr Trump's account, he told Sky News: \"I think it raises a very important question, which is it means that the social media platforms are taking editorial decisions.\n\n\"And that is a very big question because then it raises questions about their editorial judgements and the way that they're regulated.\"\n\nTwitter's ban on Mr Trump's account followed the increasing use of warning labels on his posts referring to the coronavirus pandemic and the result of the US presidential election.\n\nIn a blog on Friday, the company said its public interest framework existed \"to enable the public to hear from elected officials and world leaders directly\".\n\nIt added: \"However, we made it clear going back years that these accounts are not above our rules and cannot use Twitter to incite violence. We will continue to be transparent around our policies and their enforcement.\"\n\nFacebook and Instagram banned Mr Trump \"indefinitely\" on Thursday, with Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg saying this sanction would not be lifted until at least 20 January, when Joe Biden is sworn in as the new US president.", "\"Absurd\" council tax rises should be scrapped to ease the pressure on family budgets, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said.\n\nLocal authorities in England will be able to raise council tax by 5% from April, with 3% used to top up adult social care budgets.\n\nSir Keir said this meant those living in a band D property could see bills rise by an average of £90.\n\nHe added that the prime minister should provide extra funding to councils.\n\nBut the government says the rise in council tax bills, plus extra money from central government, will ensure a real-terms increase in support for local services.\n\nSir Keir wrote in the Sunday Telegraph: \"It is absurd that during the deepest recession in 300 years, at the very time millions are worried about the future of their jobs and how they will make ends meet, Boris Johnson and [Chancellor] Rishi Sunak are forcing local government to hike up council tax.\n\n\"The prime minister said he would do 'whatever is necessary' to support local authorities in providing vital services - he needs to make good on that promise.\"\n\nSir Keir urged Mr Johnson to \"give families the security they need\" by dropping the tax increase.\n\nHe said families had been treated as an \"afterthought\" by the government during the pandemic, adding that Labour would become the \"party of the family\" under his leadership.\n\nA Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government spokesperson said: \"Council tax plays an important role in helping fund the frontline services needed to respond to the pandemic.\n\n\"Our approach strikes a balance between allowing local authorities to address service pressures and ensuring local residents have the final say on excessive increases.\"\n\nA £500m fund to support people struggling with finances meant councils could \"cut bills further for some of the most vulnerable households\", they added, while a £7.2bn support package would help meet \"the major Covid-19 service pressures in their local area\".\n\nThe chancellor's Spending Review in November set out the cost to the UK economy so far of dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Sunak warned the \"economic emergency\" caused by the pandemic had only begun, with lasting damage to growth and jobs.\n\nInterviewed on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show, Sir Keir said there was no scope for a \"major renegotiation\" of the UK's post-Brexit trade deal with the EU, but added that there were \"bits already that need to be improved on\".\n\nAnd, asked about the possibility of another Scottish referendum on independence from the UK, he said that a \"further, divisive\" vote was not \"the way forward\".\n\n\"But I do accept that the status quo isn't working\", Sir Keir added. \"I don't accept the argument that the status quo isn't working, the next thing you do is go to a referendum.\"\n\nThe prime minister has said such a vote - last held in 2014 - should be a \"once-in-a-generation\" event.\n\nBut Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said a referendum should take place.", "Dorset Police said officers dispersed dozens of demonstrators from the town centre as they attempted to march\n\nA video shared online apparently showing a woman being arrested in breach of lockdown for sitting on a bench was \"stage-managed\", police said.\n\nDorset Police believe the video was planned and recorded by anti-lockdown protesters during a demonstration in Bournemouth on Saturday.\n\nThree people were arrested for not giving their details so officers could issue fines for breaking Covid rules.\n\nThe BBC has asked one of the protesters who posted the video to comment.\n\nThe force said two of those held were later de-arrested when they confirmed their details in police custody and a third was released when his details were verified - all three were then issued fixed penalty notices.\n\nOfficers also issued at least seven other fines and 10 dispersal notices.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Mark Callaghan, from Dorset Police, said: \"We believe this video was planned, stage-managed and recorded by members of the protest group who turned up in multiple areas, several of whom refused to engage or provide their details.\n\n\"If people refuse to give their details in such circumstances then it leaves officers with little option, but to arrest until the details are established. Our officers would only arrest as a last resort.\n\n\"It was clear that the group was deliberately organising their activities, walking around in twos and then trying to come together in a 'flash mob'-style approach, as they have done previously. This activity went on for a couple of hours.\"\n\nThe force's chief constable James Vaughan earlier said: \"I condemn the actions of these selfish individuals who knowingly flouted the lockdown restrictions.\"\n\nThe force said there were \"repeated attempts\" to engage with the organisers to stop the planned protest and found a number of the protesters had \"travelled considerably\" from out of the Dorset area.\n\nMr Vaughan added: \"Our county is gripped with infections and yet these irresponsible individuals have ignored what is being asked of them and have left their homes to protest. Shame on them.\"\n\nSam Crowe, director of public health for Dorset, said its hospital services were \"close to being overwhelmed\".\n\nMr Crowe said: \"Infection rates locally have been doubling in less than a week. If this carries on, our hospitals will not be able to cope with caring for those needing life-saving treatment. Stay at home means exactly that.\"\n\nLatest figures show Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole has reached 745.2 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nAlso on Saturday, 16 people were also arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Eleanor Wadsworth was a civilian pilot with the Air Transport Auxiliary\n\nOne of the last surviving \"Spitfire Women\", who ferried aircraft to the front line in World War Two, has died.\n\nEleanor Wadsworth, who was 103, was part of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA), a civilian service that transported fighter aircraft and crew.\n\nThe ATA Association said she was among 165 women who flew without radios or instrument flying instructions.\n\nMrs Wadsworth, who lived in Bury St Edmunds, died in December after a month of illness.\n\nDuring the war, about 1,250 men and women from 25 countries transferred some 309,000 aircraft of 147 different types.\n\nMrs Wadsworth said the \"thought of learning to fly for free was a great incentive\" to join the ATA\n\nMrs Wadsworth, who was born in Nottingham, joined the ATA in 1943 after seeing an advertisement for female pilots and was one of the first six successful candidates to be accepted with no or little previous flying experience, historian Sally McGlone said.\n\nIn 2020, the former pilot told her housing association's in-house magazine that she had been \"looking for a new challenge\" when she joined the service.\n\n\"The thought of learning to fly for free was a great incentive [so] I put my name down and didn't think much about it,\" she said.\n\nShe added that she had enjoyed flying Spitfires the most, which she did 132 times.\n\n\"It was a beautiful aircraft, great to handle,\" she said.\n\nTributes have been paid to her bravery on social including one from former RAF Tornado navigator and Gulf prisoner of war John Nichol.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs McGlone said Mrs Wadsworth and her fellow ATA pilots \"will remain an inspiration to women worldwide\", while fellow historian Howard Cook said she and her fellow \"Spitfire Women\" had been \"incredibly brave\".\n\nAuthor Karen Borden, who interviewed Mrs Wadsworth for an upcoming book, added that \"like many of the women pilots, she was incredibly humble about her contribution to the war effort\".\n\n\"She joked about how flying 'straight and level' was her mark... and how marvellous it was to take to the air on her own.\"\n\nEleanor Wadsworth (bottom row, far left) joined the ATA in 1943\n\nHer son Robert said she had been \"a wonderful mother, an adoring grandmother and great-grandmother\", who had been \"matter of fact\" about her wartime service.\n\nHe said she would say that \"we had a job to do [and] we just got on and did it\".\n\nHer funeral will take place on Tuesday.\n\nMrs Wadsworth had been one of three surviving female ATA pilots, alongside American Nancy Stratford and Briton Jaye Edwards, who lives in Canada.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Asymptomatic testing for Covid can help \"break the chains of transmission\", Matt Hancock says\n\nRegular rapid testing for people without coronavirus symptoms will be made available across England this week, the government has said.\n\nThe community testing regime - expanded to cover all 317 local authorities - uses rapid lateral flow tests, which can return results in 30 minutes.\n\nLocal councils are being encouraged to prioritise tests for those who cannot work from home during the lockdown.\n\nThe health secretary said asymptomatic testing can help break transmission.\n\nMeanwhile, NHS England has invited tens of thousands of people over 80 to book vaccinations.\n\nA further 563 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 54,940 cases reported, according to government figures on Sunday.\n\nThe total number of deaths in the UK after a positive test passed 80,000 on Saturday.\n\nThe government has launched a campaign telling people to act like they have got the virus in a bid to tackle the rise in infections.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said expanding the Community Testing Programme to more people without symptoms was \"crucial given that around one in three people\" who contract Covid-19 show no symptoms.\n\nIt said regular community testing using the rapid tests had already identified more than 14,800 positive Covid-19 cases.\n\nSo far, 131 local authorities in England have enrolled in the government's community testing programme, with Milton Keynes, Slough, Doncaster and Essex the latest to join.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said targeted asymptomatic testing and subsequent isolation was \"highly effective in breaking chains of transmission\".\n\nBut Angela Raffle, a consultant in public health at the University of Bristol Medical School, said increasing lateral flow testing was \"very worrying\" and warned the benefits of finding symptomless cases \"will be outweighed by the many more infectious cases that are missed by these tests\".\n\nDefending lateral flow tests on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme Mr Hancock said mass asymptomatic testing in Liverpool had seen the case rate drop \"more sharply than it did in other similar areas where only restrictions were brought in\".\n\nNHS Test and Trace will also work closely with other government departments to scale up workforce testing, the Department of Health and Social Care said.\n\nMany are already piloting regular workforce testing, with 15 large employers having taken up this offer already across 64 sites, \"including organisations operating in the food, manufacturing, energy and retail sectors, and within the public sector including job centres, transport networks and the military\".\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said plans were already in place for rapid testing of staff and students in schools and colleges and staff in primary schools.\n\nAsked when schools could reopen by the BBC's Andrew Marr, Mr Hancock said there were four conditions: that there is not a major new variant, the vaccine rollout is proceeding effectively, the number of deaths is falling and there is an easing of pressure on the NHS.\n\nMatthew Fell, of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), which represents 190,000 UK businesses, said: \"This expansion of testing will help more critical workers and those unable to work from home to operate safely, while also catching new cases more swiftly.\"\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said the safety of the workforce had been an \"absolute priority\" and said the expansion of testing means \"we can keep our economy on the move while giving individuals in key sectors complete confidence that their workplace is safe\".\n\nBut Prof Susan Michie, professor of health psychology at University College London, told BBC Breakfast the country would continue a \"yo-yoing of lockdown\" without a \"test, trace and isolate system that actually works\" and warned there needed to be tighter restrictions and tougher messaging than in March to prevent \"tens of thousands of avoidable deaths in the next few weeks\".", "Bernard Thomas was interviewed by BBC Wales at the time of the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster\n\nA survivor of the Aberfan disaster has died after contracting Covid-19.\n\nAs a nine-year-old Bernard Thomas was rescued from the rubble of Pantglas primary school after one of the biggest tragedies in Welsh history.\n\nA total of 144 people were killed in the disaster on 21 October, 1966, after thousands of tonnes of coal slurry slid from a tip. Of those 116 were primary school pupils.\n\nLater Bernard was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress.\n\nHe told S4C he \"still heard the sounds of children screaming.\"\n\nPaying tribute to Mr Thomas, 63, who died on Wednesday, his brother Andrew told BBC's Newyddion: \"Bernard was a real character and his death has come as a shock to us as a family and the community of Aberfan.\"\n\n\"We can't be sure where he caught Covid, but he had an eye appointment at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital on 21 December.\n\n\"A few days later, he became ill and at Prince Charles Hospital, he tested positive for Covid-19.\"\n\n\"Although he had been receiving oxygen through a mask, we spoke regularly on the phone and he told us he was getting better.\n\n\"But on Wednesday morning he removed his mask to eat his breakfast, and 10 minutes after eating he faded away.\"\n\n\"It's a huge shock but I don't blame anybody.\"\n\nOn the 50th anniversary of the disaster Bernard told the BBC: \"I still wonder what the others would have been doing if it hadn't happened. Who would have got married to who, you know.\"\n\nBernard is survived by his 90-year-old mother Gwen, with whom he shared a home, and brothers Andrew and Robert.", "Coronavirus does not show much sign of \"abating\" in Scotland, says the deputy first minister as he refused to rule out tougher restrictions.\n\nScotland is facing \"a very alarming situation\" with the virus, according to John Swinney, whose comments come as the country records its highest death toll so far in the pandemic in the last two days, where 93 Scots died from the virus.\n\nSwinney tells Politics Scotland: \"I don't think I'm revealing a state secret when I say that the debate within cabinet [on Monday] was not whether we were going too far but whether we were going far enough.\"\n\nMr Swinney says Scotland recorded around 130 cases per 100,000 people on Boxing Day, but the figure shot up to 300 just 10 days later.\n\nDespite the new measures put in place, Mr Swinney said: \"It doesn't show much sign of abating to any extent.\n\n\"We're seeing case numbers which are hovering around 2,000 per day... so we've got an accelerating situation on our hands and we have to constantly review whether more restrictions are required.\"\n\nHe added: \"We remain open to considering further restrictions if they are necessary.\"", "Flexing the coronavirus lockdown rules could be fatal, the health secretary has warned as hospital admissions soar.\n\nMatt Hancock did not rule out strengthening current restrictions and told the BBC's Andrew Marr the NHS was under \"very serious pressure\".\n\nIt comes after almost 55,000 new cases of coronavirus were reported in the UK and the number of deaths after a positive test passed 80,000.\n\nScientist Prof Peter Horby warned the UK was in \"the eye of the storm\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the rules were tough but \"may not be tough enough\" and called for the government to hold daily press conferences to avoid \"mixed messages\".\n\nThe UK recorded another 563 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test on Sunday, down from 1,065 deaths on Saturday.\n\nHowever, there tends to be fewer deaths reported on Sundays, due to a reporting lag over the weekend. There were also a further 54,940 daily cases.\n\nMr Hancock told Andrew Marr \"every time you try to flex the rules that could be fatal\" and said staying at home was the \"most important thing we can do collectively as a society\".\n\nThe health secretary said he did not want to speculate on whether the government would further strengthen restrictions, after warnings from scientists on Saturday that they may need to be stricter.\n\n\"People need to not just follow the letter of the rules but follow the spirit as well and play their part,\" he said.\n\nHis comments came after Home Secretary Priti Patel defended police over enforcing lockdown rules following the case of two women who were fined for going for a walk five miles from their homes - a decision which is now under review.\n\nThe government has launched a campaign telling people to act like they have got the virus in a bid to tackle the rise in infections.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty said that if the virus continued on its current trajectory \"many hospitals will be in real difficulties, and very soon\".\n\nIn a statement released on Sunday, he said that unless people started to follow the rules more strictly, emergency patients will have to be turned away from hospitals, causing \"avoidable deaths\".\n\nProf Horby, chairman of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), said there may be \"early signs that something is beginning to bite\" due to the restrictions - but if they did not then stricter measures would be needed.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: \"I really hope people take this very seriously. It was bad in March, it's much worse now.\n\n\"We've seen record numbers across the board, record numbers of cases, record numbers of hospitalisations, record numbers of deaths.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Peter Horby explains why the new Covid-19 variant is up to 70% more transmissible\n\nProf Horby said tougher measures might include those during the March lockdown, such as people only being able to exercise once a day and stricter rules about meeting people.\n\n\"We are in a situation where everything that was risky in the past is now more risky,\" he said.\n\nProf Horby said early signs were encouraging that the vaccines would be effective against the new Covid variants - first identified in the UK and in South Africa - and he did not want people to \"hide under the duvet\".\n\n\"We can see the end game now,\" he said.\n\nHigher cases inevitably mean more hospitalisations and more deaths.\n\nThe most recent figures show that, on average, 894 people per day are now dying within 28 days of a positive Covid test, up from 438 at the start of December.\n\nThe spike in cases since Christmas means that figure is almost certain to get worse before the most recent lockdown measures can start to have any effect.\n\nScientists think the new variant of the disease is more \"transmissible\", possibly because each infected individual produces more of the actual virus - sometimes referred to as the viral load.\n\nVaccination should help to protect the most vulnerable from serious symptoms but we don't yet know if receiving the jab stops an individual contracting the virus and passing it on to others.\n\nScientists say that may mean even tougher restrictions will be needed to bring the R-number below one and start to reduce the overall size of the pandemic.\n\nMass community testing is to be rolled out this week, the government has said, and the health secretary said around two million people had been vaccinated in the UK, with some 200,000 jabs being given in England daily.\n\nMr Hancock said by autumn every adult in the UK would be offered a vaccine.\n\nHe said the government was on course to reach its target of 15 million people vaccinated by mid-February, with the opening of seven mass vaccination centres this week likely to increase the rate of jabs.\n\nMr Hancock told Sky News' Sophy Ridge he hoped coronavirus could be treated like seasonal flu with an annual vaccination programme in the future.\n\nProf Horby said the vaccines may have to be updated \"every few years\" as the virus mutates and said it was unlikely the virus would go away completely.\n\n\"We're going to have to live with it,\" he said. \"But that may change significantly.\n\n\"It may well become more of an endemic virus that's with us all the time and may cause some seasonal pressures and some excess deaths but is not causing the huge disruption that we're seeing now.\"", "Electricity is gradually being restored in Pakistan following a huge power cut across the country, which led to every city reporting outages.\n\nHomes nationwide were suddenly plunged into darkness from about midnight.\n\nPower is now back in most cities but officials warn that it could still be a few hours before electricity is fully restored.\n\nThe outage is believed to have been caused by a fault at a power plant in the south of the country.\n\nPower cuts are not uncommon in Pakistan. Essential facilities such as hospitals often use diesel-fuelled generators as a back-up power supply.\n\n\"A countrywide blackout has been caused by a sudden plunge in the frequency in the power transmission system,\" Pakistan's power minister, Omar Ayub Khan, wrote on Twitter in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nHomes across the country were plunged into darkness at about midnight\n\nMr Khan later said that power had been restored in most major cities but that it would take a few more hours for the grid to go completely back to normal.\n\nHe added that the outage occurred after a fault developed at the Guddu power plant in Sindh province shortly before midnight on Saturday (19:00 GMT).\n\nInvestigators were at the site to ascertain the cause of the fault, Mr Khan said.\n\nBlackouts sometimes occur in Pakistan because of chronic power shortages, with many areas having no electricity for several hours a day. The issue has previously led to street protests.\n\nIn 2013, Pakistan's electricity network broke down completely after a power plant in south-western Balochistan province developed a technical fault.\n\nPakistanis seem to have largely taken this power cut in their stride. Outages lasting a number of hours are not uncommon, though they are rarely on this scale, and normally occur during the hotter summer months. The last time there was a near national blackout like this was in 2015.\n\nSo far, there have been no reports of problems at hospitals, which have their own back-up supplies. A senior member of staff at a major hospital in the city of Karachi told me they could maintain services for 48-72 hours without mainline power.\n\nMany businesses and richer families invariably own diesel or petrol fuelled generators too, allowing them to continue using electricity whenever power cuts occur. There were reports of queues at some petrol stations earlier in the day as people tried to keep refilling their generators.\n\nOthers will have been without internet and phone access, or hot water, but - already used to periods without electricity - appear to have accepted the outage with an air of resignation.", "Many were taken by surprise by the events in Washington, but to those who closely follow conspiracy and extreme right groups online, the warning signs were all there.\n\nAt 02:21 Eastern Standard Time on election night, President Trump walked onto a stage set up in the East Room of the White House and declared victory.\n\n\"We were getting ready to win this election. Frankly, we did win this election.\"\n\nHis speech came an hour after he'd tweeted: \"They are trying to steal the election\".\n\nHe hadn't won. There was no victory to steal. But to many of his most fervent supporters, these facts didn't matter, and still don't.\n\nSixty five days later, a motley coalition of rioters stormed the US Capitol building. They included believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory, members of \"Stop the Steal\" groups, far-right activists, online trolls and others.\n\nOn Friday 8 January - some 48 hours after the Washington riots - Twitter began a purge of some of the most influential pro-Trump accounts that had been pushing conspiracies and urging direct action to overturn the election result.\n\nThen came the big one - Mr Trump himself.\n\nThe president was permanently banned from tweeting to his more than 88 million followers \"due to the risk of further incitement of violence\".\n\nThe violence in Washington shocked the world and seemed to catch the authorities off guard.\n\nBut for anyone who had been carefully watching the unfolding story - online and on the streets of American cities - it came as no surprise.\n\nThe idea of a rigged election was seeded by the president in speeches and on Twitter, months before the vote.\n\nOn election day, the rumors started just as Americans were going to the polls.\n\nA video of a Republican poll watcher being denied entry to a Philadelphia polling station went viral. It was a genuine error, caused by confusion about the rules. The man was later allowed into the station to observe the count.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Will Chamberlain This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Will Chamberlain\n\nBut it became the first of many videos, images, graphics and claims that went viral in the days that followed, giving rise to a hashtag: #StopTheSteal.\n\nThe message behind it was clear - Mr Trump had won a landslide victory, but dark forces in the establishment \"deep state\" had stolen it from him.\n\nIn the early hours of Wednesday 4 November, while votes were still being counted and three days before the US networks called the election for Joe Biden, President Trump claimed victory, alleging \"a fraud on the American public\".\n\nMr Trump did not provide any evidence to back up his claims. Studies carried out for previous US elections have shown that voter fraud is extremely rare.\n\nBy mid-afternoon a Facebook group called \"Stop the Steal\" was created and quickly became one of the fastest-growing in the platform's history. By Thursday morning, it had added more than 300,000 members.\n\nMany of the posts focused on unsubstantiated allegations of mass voter fraud, including manufactured claims that thousands of dead people had voted and that voting machines had somehow been programmed to flip votes from Mr Trump to Mr Biden.\n\nBut some of the posts were more alarming, speaking of the need for a \"civil war\" or \"revolution\".\n\nBy Thursday afternoon, Facebook had taken down Stop the Steal, but not before it had generated nearly half a million comments, shares, likes, and reactions.\n\nDozens of other groups quickly sprang up in its place.\n\nThe idea of a stolen election continued to spread online and take hold. Soon, a dedicated Stop the Steal website was launched in a bid to register \"boots on the ground to protect the integrity of the vote\".\n\nOn Saturday 7 November, major news organisations declared that Joe Biden had won the election. In Democratic strongholds, throngs of people took to the streets to celebrate. But the reaction online from Mr Trump's most ardent supporters was one of anger and defiance.\n\nThey planned a rally in Washington DC for the following Saturday, dubbed the Million MAGA (Make America Great Again) March.\n\nTrump tweeted that he might try to stop by the demonstration and \"say hello\".\n\nPrevious pro-Trump rallies in Washington had failed to attract large crowds. But thousands gathered at Freedom Plaza that sunny morning.\n\nOne extremism researcher called it the \"debut of the pro-Trump insurgency\".\n\nAs Trump's motorcade drove through the city, supporters screaming with delight rushed to catch a glimpse of the president, who beamed at them wearing a red MAGA hat.\n\nWhile mainstream conservative figures were present, the event was dominated by far-right groups.\n\nDozens of members of the far-right, anti-immigrant, all-male group Proud Boys, who have repeatedly been involved in violent street protests and were among those who would later break into the US Capitol, joined the march. Militia groups, far-right media figures and promoters of conspiracy theories were also there.\n\nAs night fell, clashes between Trump supporters and counter-protesters broke out, including a brawl about five blocks from the White House.\n\nThe violence - although largely contained by police on this occasion - was a clear sign of things to come.\n\nBy now, President Trump and his legal team had invested their hopes in dozens of legal cases.\n\nAlthough a number of courts had already dismissed fraud allegations, many in the pro-Trump online world became fascinated with two lawyers with close ties to the president - Sidney Powell and L Lin Wood.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood promised they were preparing cases of voter fraud so comprehensive that when released, they would destroy the case for Mr Biden having won the presidency.\n\nMs Powell, 65, a conservative activist and former federal prosecutor, told Fox News that the effort would \"release the Kraken\" - a reference to a gigantic sea monster from Scandinavian folklore that rises up from the ocean to devour its enemies.\n\nThe \"Kraken\" quickly became an internet meme, representing sprawling, unsubstantiated claims of widespread election fraud.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood became heroes to followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory - who believe President Trump and a secret military intelligence team are battling a deep state made up of Satan-worshipping paedophiles in the Democratic Party, media, business and Hollywood.\n\nThe lawyers became a conduit between the president and his most conspiracy-minded supporters - a number of whom ended up inside the Capitol on 6 January.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood were successful in whipping up sound and fury online, but their legal efforts came to nothing.\n\nWhen they released almost 200 pages of documents in late November, it became clear that their lawsuit consisted predominantly of conspiracy theories and debunked allegations that had already been rejected by dozens of courts.\n\nThe filings contained simple legal errors - and basic misspellings and typos.\n\nStill, the meme lived on. The terms \"Kraken\" and \"Release the Kraken\" were used more than a million times on Twitter before the Capitol riot.\n\nDeath threats were made against a Georgia election worker, and Republican officials in the state - including Governor Brian Kemp, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and the official in charge of the state's voting systems, Gabriel Sterling - were branded \"traitors\" online.\n\nMr Sterling issued an emotional and prescient warning to the president in a press conference on 1 December.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"This has to stop... someone's gonna get killed\": Mr Sterling calls on President Trump to condemn the threats\n\n\"Someone's going to get hurt, someone's going to get shot, someone's going to get killed, and it's not right,\" he said.\n\nIn Michigan in early December, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, had just finished trimming her Christmas tree with her four-year-old son when she heard a commotion outside her Detroit home.\n\nAbout 30 protesters with banners stood outside, shouting \"Stop the steal!\" through megaphones.\n\n\"Benson, you are a villain,\" one person yelled.\n\nOne of the demonstrators live-streamed the protest on Facebook, stating that her group was \"not going away\".\n\nIt was just one of a rash of protests targeting people involved in the vote.\n\nIn Georgia, a constant stream of Trump supporters drove past Mr Raffensperger's home, honking their horns. His wife received threats of sexual violence.\n\nIn Arizona, demonstrators gathered outside of the home of Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, at one point warning: \"We are watching you.\"\n\nOn 11 December, the Supreme Court rejected an attempt by the state of Texas to throw out election results.\n\nAs the president's legal and political windows continued to close, the language in pro-Trump online circles became increasingly violent.\n\nOn 12 December, a second Stop the Steal rally was held in the capital. Once again, thousands attended, and once again prominent far-right activists, QAnon supporters, fringe MAGA groups and militia movements were among the demonstrators.\n\nMichael Flynn, Mr Trump's former national security advisor, likened the protesters to the biblical soldiers and priests breaching the walls of Jericho. This echoed the rally organisers' call for \"Jericho Marches\" to overturn the election result.\n\nNick Fuentes, the leader of Groypers, a far-right movement that targets Republican politicians and figures they deem too moderate, told the crowd: \"We are going to destroy the GOP!\"\n\nThe march once again turned violent.\n\nThen two days later, the Electoral College certified Mr Biden's victory, one of the final steps required for him to take office.\n\nOn online platforms, supporters were becoming resigned to the view that all legal avenues were dead ends, and only direct action could save the Trump presidency.\n\nSince election day, alongside Mr Flynn, Ms Powell and Mr Wood, a new figure had rapidly gained prominence among pro-Trump circles online.\n\nRon Watkins is the son of Jim Watkins, the man behind 8chan and 8kun - message boards filled with extreme language and views, violence and extreme sexual content. They gave rise to the QAnon movement.\n\nIn a series of viral tweets on 17 December, Ron Watkins suggested President Trump should follow the example of Roman leader Julius Caesar, and capitalise on \"fierce loyalty of the military\" in order to \"restore the Republic\".\n\nRon Watkins encouraged his more than 500,000 followers to make #CrossTheRubicon a Twitter trend, referring to the moment when Caesar launched a civil war by crossing the Rubicon river in 49BC. The hashtag was also used by more mainstream figures - including the chairwoman of Arizona Republican Party, Kelli Ward.\n\nIn a separate tweet, Ron Watkins said Mr Trump must invoke the Insurrection Act, which empowers the president to deploy the military and federal forces.\n\nMr Trump met Ms Powell, Mr Flynn and others at a strategy meeting at the White House the following day, 18 December.\n\nDuring the meeting, according to the New York Times, Mr Flynn called on Mr Trump to impose martial law and deploy the military to \"rerun\" the election.\n\nThe meeting further stoked online chatter about \"war\" and \"revolution\" in far-right circles. Many came to see the joint session of Congress on 6 January, normally a formality, as a last roll of the dice.\n\nA wishful story began to take hold among QAnon and some MAGA supporters. They hoped that Vice-President Mike Pence, who was set to preside over the 6 January ceremony, would ignore the electoral college votes.\n\nThe president, they said, would then deploy the military to quell any unrest, order the mass arrest of the \"deep state cabal\" who had rigged the election and send them to Guantanamo Bay military prison.\n\nBack in the land of reality, none of this was remotely feasible. But it launched a movement for \"patriot caravans\" to organise ride shares to help transport thousands from around the country to Washington DC on 6 January.\n\nLong processions of vehicles flying Trump flags and sometimes towing elaborately decorated trailers gathered in car parks in cities including Louisville, Kentucky, Atlanta, Georgia, and Scranton, Pennsylvania.\n\n\"We are on our way,\" one caravaner posted on Twitter with a picture of about two dozen supporters.\n\nAt an Ikea parking lot in North Carolina, another man showed off his truck. \"The flags are a little tattered - we'll call them battle flags now,\" he said.\n\nAs it became clear that Mr Pence and other key Republicans would follow the law and allow Congress to certify Mr Biden's win, the language towards them became vicious.\n\n\"Pence will be in jail awaiting trial for treason,\" Mr Wood tweeted. \"He will face execution by firing squad.\"\n\nOnline discussion reached boiling point. References to firearms, war and violence were rife on self-styled \"free speech\" social platforms such as Gab and Parler, which are popular with Trump supporters, as well as on other sites.\n\nIn Proud Boys groups, where members had once supported police, some turned against authorities, whom they deemed to no longer be on their side.\n\nHundreds of posts on a popular pro-Trump site, TheDonald, openly discussed plans to cross barricades, carry firearms and other weapons to the march in defiance of Washington's strict gun laws. There was open chatter about storming the Capitol and arresting \"treasonous\" members of Congress.\n\nOn Wednesday 6 January, Mr Trump addressed a crowd of thousands at the Ellipse, a park just south of the White House, for more than an hour.\n\nEarly on he encouraged supporters to \"peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard\", but he ended with a warning. \"We fight like hell, and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore.\n\n\"So we're going to, we're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue… and we're going to the Capitol.\"\n\nTo some observers, the potential for violence that day was clear from the outset.\n\nMichael Chertoff, former secretary of homeland security under President George W Bush, blamed the Capitol Police, who reportedly turned down offers of assistance from the much larger National Guard ahead of time. He characterised it as \"the worst failure of a police force I can think of\".\n\n\"I think it was a very foreseeable potential negative turn of events,\" Mr Chertoff said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"To be blunt, it was obvious. If you read the newspaper and were awake, you understood that you've got a lot of people who have been convinced there was a fraudulent election. Some of them are extremists, and violent. Some of the groups openly said, 'Bring your guns'.\"\n\nStill, many Americans were astonished by Wednesday's scenes, like James Clark, a 68-year-old Republican from Virginia.\n\n\"I find it absolutely shocking. I didn't think it would come to this,\" he told the BBC.\n\nBut the signs were there for weeks. A hodgepodge of extreme and conspiratorial groups were convinced that the election was stolen. Online, they repeatedly talked about arming themselves, and violence.\n\nPerhaps the authorities didn't think their posts were serious, or specific enough to investigate. They now face pointed questions.\n\nFor Joe Biden's inauguration on 20 January, Mr Chertoff is expecting a \"much stronger showing\" by security services than last Wednesday night.\n\nBut that hasn't stopped many on extreme platforms calling for further violence and disruption on the day.\n\nThere are questions, too, for the major social media platforms, which enabled conspiracy theories to reach millions of people.\n\nLate on Friday, Twitter deleted the accounts of Mr Flynn, the former Trump advisor, the \"Kraken\" lawyers Ms Powell and Mr Wood, and Mr Watkins. Then Mr Trump himself.\n\nArrests of those who stormed the Capitol continue. But most of the rioters still live in a parallel online universe - a subterranean world filled with alternative facts.\n\nThey have already come up with fanciful explanations to dismiss Mr Trump's video statement, posted on Twitter the day after the riots, in which he acknowledged for the first time that \"a new administration will be inaugurated on 20 January\".\n\nHe can't possibly be giving up, they contend. Among their new theories - it's not really him in the video but a computer-generated \"deep fake\". Or perhaps the president is being held hostage.\n\nMany still believe Mr Trump will prevail.\n\nThere's no evidence behind any of this, but it does prove one thing.\n\nNo matter what happens to Donald Trump, the rioters who stormed the US Capitol are not backing down anytime soon.", "Spain is in a race against time to clear roads covered by heavy snow, and get Covid vaccines and food supplies to areas affected by Storm Filomena.\n\nUp to 50cm (20 inches) of snow fell on the capital Madrid, one of the worst hit areas, between Friday and Saturday.\n\nAt least four people died and thousands of travellers were left stranded.\n\nOvernight, temperatures plunged to -8C (18F) in parts of Spain, amid warnings by meteorologists that the snow was turning to perilous ice.\n\nThe unusual cold wave on the Iberian peninsula is expected to last until Thursday.\n\nThe Spanish government said it had taken extra steps - including police-escorted convoys - to ensure its expected shipment of some 300,000 coronavirus vaccines can be distributed as planned to regional health authorities later on Monday.\n\n\"The commitment is to guarantee the supply of health, vaccines and food. Corridors have been opened to deliver the goods,\" Transport Minister Jose Luis Abalos said on Sunday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Madrid has been hit by heavy snowfall after Storm Filomena\n\nSoldiers have been deployed to clear some of the 700 major roads.\n\nSome 3,500 tonnes of salt were later brought on lorries to the capital, Spain's El Mundo website reported on Monday.\n\nThe record-breaking snowfall has triggered some unprecedented scenes here in Madrid. People have skied along the city's main commercial street, Gran Vía, and one man was pictured being pulled through the district of Hortaleza on a sled by five huskies.\n\nBut other responses to the snow have been more controversial due to concerns about Covid-19. Dozens of young people had a snowball fight in Callao square, for example, and many of them were without facemasks.\n\nNearby, in Puerta del Sol, others celebrated the snow by dancing a conga. The daily Marca newspaper branded it \"the conga of shame\".\n\nAlthough the snowfall has now stopped, low temperatures have left snow and ice piled up across the capital and the surrounding region. And with residents advised to avoid using their cars, public transport has seen a surge in demand.\n\nThis has compounded coronavirus concerns as many metro train carriages were packed at rush hour on Monday morning, making social distancing impossible.\n\nMadrid's international airport began gradually resuming operations on Sunday afternoon, having cancelled all flights on Friday.\n\nSome 500 people across the Madrid region were forced to spend the night in temporary shelter, including sports centres, after they were trapped by the whiteout.\n\nAbout 100 shoppers and staff spent two nights at a shopping centre in Majadahonda, a town north of the capital. \"There are people sleeping on the ground on cardboard,\" one restaurant employee told TVE television.\n\nSpain's Meteorological Agency said Saturday's snowfall was the heaviest in Madrid since 1971\n\nBut there were stories of heroism too, including doctors and medical workers who abandoned their cars and walked for hours to get to work. One doctor, Alvaro Sanchez, said on social media he had walked 17km (10 miles) over nearly two hours to get to work, while two nurses, Paco and Monica, said they had walked 22km to their hospital.\n\nThey were praised by Spanish Health Minister Salvador Illa, who tweeted: \"The commitment that the entire group of health workers is showing is an example of solidarity and dedication.\"\n\nSome 4x4 vehicle owners offered to transport medical workers, while other volunteers helped to clear hospital entrance ways.\n\n\"Health staff have been working (hard) for more than a year and this is just a short moment for us, so as citizens, we are trying to help; it is everyone's responsibility,\" said Fernando de la Fuente, 60, who helped clear the entrance to Madrid's Gregorio Maranon Hospital.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpaniards in large parts of the country have been warned to take care in the coming days as temperatures could fall to -12C (10F) in some areas until Thursday.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nCrawley Town delivered one of the FA Cup third round's most emphatic upsets as the League Two underdogs tore apart Marcelo Bielsa's Leeds.\n\nThree second-half goals rewarded a fantastic performance from John Yems' side as they made light of the 62 places between themselves and their Premier League visitors.\n\nNick Tsaroulla, playing only his seventh game in senior football, set the ball rolling, beating three Leeds defenders to fire home a superb solo opener.\n\nUnited keeper Kiko Casilla's error allowed Ashley Nadesan to double the lead before Jordan Tunnicliffe added a third for Crawley, who could have won by more.\n• None Watch all of the goals from the FA Cup third round\n• None Can Mark Wright make it as a pro at Crawley?\n\nBielsa made seven changes to his side but Leeds fielded England midfielder Kalvin Phillips among several regular top-flight starters including Pablo Hernandez, Ezgjan Alioski and club record signing Rodrigo.\n\nHowever, after an even first half, they were completely outplayed in the second period by a Crawley side who have reached the fourth round for only the third time, having spent most of their 125-year existence in non-league football.\n\nCrawley even had the luxury of bringing on reality TV celebrity Mark Wright in stoppage time for the former The Only Way Is Essex star's debut, having signed for the club on non-contract terms in December.\n\nLeeds' loss is the first time in 34 years a top-flight side has lost to a fourth-tier team by three or more goals and only the second ever instance since a fourth division was added to the Football League in 1958.\n\nThey may be the lesser-known of the two Red Devils but Crawley's efforts were no less impressive than Manchester United's 6-2 dissection of Leeds last month.\n\nWhile Bielsa rested first-choice stars such as Patrick Bamford, Luke Ayling, Stuart Dallas and Mateusz Klich, there was still plenty of experience mixed in with the youth in Leeds' line-up.\n\nBut the hosts, sixth in League Two after an eight-game unbeaten run, never gave them the chance to settle and while neither side could break the deadlock before the interval, it was Crawley who went closest as Casilla kept out Tom Nichols' close-range header.\n\nHe was helpless, however, to prevent Tsaroulla - a former Tottenham trainee who spent a year out of the game because of injuries sustained in a car crash - firing Crawley ahead after a twisting run into the area that beguiled the Leeds back-line.\n\nRather than protect their lead, Crawley went for the jugular and Nadesan soon doubled their advantage, although his strike owed much to a bobble that beat Casilla at his near post.\n\nTunnicliffe then fired into the roof of the net after Casilla parried from Nadesan and Crawley could have had a fourth after top scorer Max Watters came off the bench to round the keeper, only to be denied by a covering defender.\n\nThe win marked the first time in four attempts that Crawley have beaten a Premier League side in the FA Cup and so comfortable was the victory that TV personality Wright was given his late cameo.\n\nAnother name added to Leeds' list of cup woes\n\nBielsa was left to mull over back-to-back 3-0 defeats, albeit this one coming in a much different context to Leeds' Premier League loss at Tottenham on 2 January.\n\nThis was the former Argentina manager's first taste of an FA Cup shock, after far more mundane exits against Arsenal and QPR in Bielsa's two previous campaigns since taking the Elland Road reins in 2018.\n\nBut it was not unfamiliar ground for Leeds as Crawley - who have finished in the bottom half of League Two for five successive seasons - emulated non-league pair Histon and Sutton United, as well as lower-league clubs Rochdale and Newport, in upsetting the Whites this century.\n\nThe visitors only forced one real save from Crawley keeper Glenn Morris, who reacted well to push away Ian Poveda's strike from an acute angle in the first half.\n\nLeeds might point to a penalty they perhaps should have had before the interval when Crawley defender Tony Craig got away with pulling back Rodrigo as he attempted to meet Helder Costa's volleyed cross.\n\nBut there was no video assistant referee system at the game, and they offered very little going forward after Rodrigo was substituted at half-time.\n\nIt was a fourth successive third-round exit in a competition they could have looked to with some hope, given their relatively comfortable position in the Premier League.\n\n\"We've got 11 star men\" - what they said\n\nCrawley manager Yems to BBC Sport: \"You have to enjoy these games - you work hard enough for it. It was a really good team performance and it's clear that we've got 11 star men.\n\n\"These players have got a lot to prove to the clubs who have released them and we've showed what we can do against a really good side.\n\n\"Let's see who we get in the next round and enjoy the moment.\"\n\nLeeds midfielder Alioski to BBC Radio 5 Live: \"We are really disappointed and it wasn't the result that we wanted. We took the game really seriously and we wanted to win and go on a run, so it is disappointing.\n\n\"Crawley played the game of their lives, and congratulations. To beat us 3-0 - I still can't believe it.\n\n\"The manager said what he wanted to say. It's important for every player to know what this means. He is sad and the players are sad.\"\n• None Attempt blocked. Sam Greenwood (Leeds United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Raphinha (Leeds United) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Pablo Hernández.\n• None Jake Hessenthaler (Crawley Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Hélder Costa (Leeds United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Pablo Hernández.\n• None Jamie Shackleton (Leeds United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Max Watters (Crawley Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Tom Nichols. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None All the goals and highlights from a huge Saturday of third-round matches are", "Mike Pompeo said the US-Taiwan relationship should not be \"shackled\" (file photo)\n\nThe US is lifting long-standing restrictions on contacts between American and Taiwanese officials, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says.\n\nThe \"self-imposed restrictions\" were introduced decades ago to \"appease\" the mainland Chinese government, which lays claim to the island, the US state department said in a statement.\n\nThese rules are now \"null and void\".\n\nThe move is likely to anger China and increase tensions between Washington and Beijing.\n\nIt comes as the Trump administration enters its final days ahead of the inauguration of Joe Biden as president on 20 January.\n\nThe Biden transition team have said the president-elect is committed to maintaining the long-standing US policy towards Taiwan.\n\nAnalysts say they will be unhappy with such a policy decision being made in the final days of the Trump administration, but that the move could be reversed easily by Mr Pompeo's successor Antony Blinken.\n\nChina regards Taiwan as a breakaway province, but Taiwan's leaders argue that it is a sovereign state.\n\nRelations between the two are frayed and there is a constant threat of a violent flare up that could drag in the US, an ally of Taiwan.\n\nIn a statement on Saturday, Mr Pompeo said the US state department had introduced complicated restrictions limiting the communication between American diplomats and their Taiwanese counterparts.\n\n\"Today I am announcing that I am lifting all of these self-imposed restrictions,\" he said. \"Today's statement recognises that the US-Taiwan relationship need not, and should not, be shackled by self-imposed restrictions of our permanent bureaucracy.\"\n\nHe added that Taiwan was a vibrant democracy and a reliable US partner, and that the restrictions were no longer valid.\n\nFollowing the announcement, Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu thanked Mr Pompeo, saying he was \"grateful\".\n\n\"The closer partnership between Taiwan and the US is firmly based on our shared values, common interests and unshakeable belief in freedom and democracy,\" he wrote in a tweet.\n\nLast August, US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar became the highest-ranking US politician to hold meetings on the island for decades.\n\nIn response, China urged the US to respect what it calls its \"one China\" principle.\n\nThe US also sells arms to Taiwan, though it does not have a formal defence treaty with the country, as it does with Japan, South Korea and the Philippines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChina and Taiwan have had separate governments since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949.\n\nBeijing has long tried to limit Taiwan's international activities and both have vied for influence in the Pacific region.\n\nTensions have increased in recent years and Beijing has not ruled out the use of force to take the island back.\n\nAlthough Taiwan is officially recognised by only a handful of nations, its democratically-elected government has strong commercial and informal links with many countries.", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"\n\nThe coronavirus spreads when we come into contact with each other so moving classrooms online, telling people to stay at home and closing shops breaks many of those opportunities for human contact.\n\nIf we consider the R number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - it was about 3.0 in the run up to the first lockdown and anything above 1.0 means cases are climbing.\n\nR fell to 0.6 during the first lockdown.\n\nThen every 1,000 infected people passed the virus on to 600 others, who passed it on to 360 others and so on.\n\nBut if the new variant is 50% more transmissible then the R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be about 0.9.\n\nThen 1,000 infected people would pass the virus onto 900 others, then 810 and so on.\n\nAs you can see this leads to far slower decline.\n\nAnd that assumes lockdown can get R down to 0.9 in areas where the new variant has become the most common form of the virus.\n\nIf, as some studies suggest, the variant is about 70% more transmissible then R may stay above 1.0 and cases may not fall at all.\n\n\"We'd at best flatten the curve, keep numbers at a roughly constant level, and that's frankly why there is so much emphasis on getting vaccine into people's arms as quickly as possible,\" said Prof Ferguson.\n\nIt is hard to lock down even harder as there are some parts of society - hospitals, supermarkets - that need to be kept open.\n\nWhat happens to the number of cases over the coming weeks will be closely monitored. If this lockdown is less effective then we will have to live with it for longer.\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs over the Christmas break, which was a bit like a lockdown due to school holidays and other restrictions.\n\n\"We are in a very difficult situation here, but my initial assessment of the last few days is that the rate is slowing which is good news,\" Prof John Edmunds, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"It looks likes those restrictions should be sufficient to stop the increase, whether they will be sufficient to bring cases down sufficiently we are yet to see.\"\n\nEventually the vaccine will give people immunity so we do not need the same controls on our lives.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.", "Dozens of demonstrators were walking and chanting along Clapham High Street as police attempted to keep them contained to the area\n\nSixteen people have been arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nPolice officers clashed with some of the maskless protesters who arrived in Clapham Common, some shouting \"take your freedom back\".\n\nSix police vans were deployed to the scene while officers moved the crowd of about 30 people away from the area.\n\nGathering for the purpose of a protest is not an exemption to the rules, the Met Police said.\n\nOne woman shouted from her car at the protesters \"there's a pandemic going\", while another bystander shouted \"idiots\".\n\nOne anti-lockdown protester, who was detained at Clapham Common park, said \"I stand under common law, not maritime law and this is assault\" as he was put into handcuffs by police officers.\n\nA large police presence remains around Clapham Common station, but almost all protesters had left the area as of 14:00 GMT.\n\nIt comes as a \"major incident\" was declared as the spread of Covid-19 threatens to \"overwhelm\" London hospitals.\n\nCity Hall said Covid-19 cases in the capital had exceeded 1,000 per 100,000, while there were 35% more people in hospital with the virus than in the peak of the pandemic in April.\n\nPolice could be seen questioning several people at the demonstration\n\nPolice battled to disperse the protestors gathering in Clapham Common\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ben Jackson said the closure of the farm's bulk-buyers like hotels and schools has left thousands of eggs unsold\n\nA fall in bulk egg orders due to the lockdown could lead to chickens being culled, a poultry-farmer has warned.\n\nFluffetts Farm near Fordingbridge had been supplying free range eggs to 350 Hampshire schools, but orders stopped when schools suddenly closed.\n\nFarm owner, Ben Jackson said: \"If you can't sell the eggs you can't still keep feeding the chickens and therefore something has to give.\"\n\nHe said he hoped to work out a local delivery system to avoid culling birds.\n\nMr Jackson, who has been selling some of the surplus eggs off on social media, has more than 13,000 chickens laying 12,000 eggs each day.\n\nThe cancellation of his school orders has left him with about 4,000 spare eggs a day. The farm has also been hit by restaurants and pubs closing again.\n\nThe farm has a surplus of about 4,000 eggs each day from its 13,000 chickens\n\nHe said: \"If we can't find a home for the eggs the worst-case scenario is that we may have to look to get rid of some of our chickens, but that's what we're trying to avoid.\n\n\"Other chicken farmers are in the same situation - they are talking about potentially having to cull birds in the next week or so - it's not a decision that anyone wants to make.\n\n\"We just want to get through this dark time - we're just taking it a day at time.\"\n\nChickens at the farm are currently in a bird lockdown.\n\nSince 14 December strict biosecurity regulations have been in place following a number of outbreak of avian influenza throughout England.\n• None 'I'll have to throw away £6,000-worth of milk'", "Flat owners applying to a fund to help pay to remove flammable building cladding will be told not to talk to the press without government approval.\n\nA draft agreement, uncovered by the Sunday Times, says that even where there is \"overwhelming public interest\" in speaking to journalists, the government must be told first.\n\nThe government said the wording was \"standard\".\n\nIt set up a £1.6bn fund last year to repair the most dangerous buildings.\n\nBut it warned that the fund might not cover all the costs of removing the cladding.\n\nThe clause might affect building owners and professional managing agents but also residents who manage their building.\n\nSome types of the covering, often added to newer blocks of flats, have been proven to be a fire hazard.\n\nAfter the 2017 Grenfell fire, the government pledged that safe alternatives to dangerous cladding would be provided on all buildings in England taller than 18m.\n\nIt set up the £1.6bn fund to help foot the costs.\n\nThe agreement, between the building owner or leaseholder and the government, says: \"The Applicant shall not make any communication to the press or any journalist or broadcaster regarding the Project or the Agreement (or the performance of it by any Party) without the prior written approval of Homes England and [the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government ]\" and its press offices.\n\nIt says an exception can be made \"where such disclosure is in the overwhelming public interest (in which case disclosure will not be made without first allowing Homes England and MHCLG to make representations on such proposed disclosure).\"\n\nThe UK Cladding Action Group tweeted that it was \"clearly a matter of public interest\" that these issues were aired in public.\n\n\"No department should be hiding behind non-disclosure agreements to stop scrutiny of their actions,\" the group said.\n\nAnother campaign group, Manchester Cladiators, said the existence of the \"gagging clause\" was \"shocking but not necessarily that surprising\".\n\nSpokesperson Rebecca Fairclough said residents would feel \"intimidated\" by it, adding: \"We ask the government to remove this unfair clause immediately and focus on the priority of solving this institutional failure, which still exists and is only growing over three and a half years after the Grenfell tragedy.\"\n\nThe government insists that the wording in the agreement, under the heading \"Marketing material\", is there to ensure applicants come to the government first.\n\n\"The terms set out are standard in commercial agreements and are not specific to this fund - to suggest otherwise is misleading and inaccurate,\" the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) said in a statement.\n\n\"We want a constructive working relationship with building owners who apply to the fund and applicants are asked to work with the department on public communications relating to the project.\"", "Edwin Poots said he has asked senior UK government figures to consider unilaterally revoking the NI Protocol\n\nThe Stormont minister whose officials are responsible for the new Irish Sea border has said some food will be unavailable if changes are not made.\n\nDUP Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots has also said jobs could be at risk.\n\nHe said problems at the ports were being caused by new rules applied on imports of food and other products from Britain to Northern Ireland.\n\nEarlier Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said trade from GB to NI \"will get worse before it gets better\".\n\nMr Gove said that \"work is ongoing\" and it is \"all part of the process of leaving the European Union\".\n\nHe added that he had spoken to ministers from all parties in the Northern Ireland Executive.\n\nAfter speaking with hauliers, supermarkets and processors this week, Mr Poots predicted the loss of jobs and rising costs.\n\n\"A wide range of frozen and chilled foods will be unavailable after the temporary exemption period ends,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Edwin Poots MLA This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThat exemption period applies to supermarkets and other food importers and runs out in April.\n\nAfter that they will have to comply with all the paperwork required to ship food in, or find suppliers on the island of Ireland or elsewhere in the EU.\n\nNew rules - called the Northern Ireland Protocol - were introduced because while the UK has left the EU, Northern Ireland has remained in the Single Market for goods and is continuing to apply EU customs rules.\n\nThe arrangement was agreed between the UK and the EU to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland.\n\nMr Poots said he had spoken to senior UK government figures to ask them to consider unilaterally revoking the protocol as it was \"damaging Northern Ireland at the economic and societal level\".\n\nAnd he hit out at members of Sinn Fein, the SDLP, and Alliance Party who he claimed had supported it.\n\nMembers of those parties have countered similar claims from other DUP politicians in recent days.\n\nThey said DUP MPs had voted against alternative arrangements that would have been simpler to manage before the government pushed ahead with the protocol plan.\n\nResponding to Mr Poot's tweet on Friday evening, SDLP leader Colum Eastwood wrote: \"You broke it, you own it.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Colum Eastwood This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson accused Mr Poots of being \"asleep at the wheel\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Martina Anderson MLA This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) has called for the assembly to be recalled to discuss difficulties over trading between Great Britain and Northern Ireland due to Brexit.\n\nUUP MLA Roy Beggs said: \"The impact of the Irish Sea border is causing horrendous difficulties for hauliers and this is being seen in shops and businesses across Northern Ireland.\n\n\"It is damaging the Northern Ireland economy and the situation is escalating.\"\n\nEarlier on Friday, Michael Gove said it had been expected that there would be \"some initial disruption\" to trade between GB and NI, but that the government is \"ironing\" issues out.\n\nHe said discussions with the executive in Northern Ireland were \"in order to make sure that the [Northern Ireland] protocol works\".\n\n\"[To make sure] that businesses in Northern Ireland can continue to have access to the rest of the UK market, and that Northern Ireland businesses can have the goods that they need on the shelves, that they have access to at the moment,\" he said.\n\nNorthern Ireland has remained a part of the EU's single market for goods while the rest of the UK has left.\n\nThis means food products from Great Britain are subject to checks when they enter Northern Ireland.\n\nSimilar processes and checks also apply when moving food products from Great Britain into the Republic of Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, an organisation representing haulage firms has called on the UK and Irish government to relax some of the new Irish Sea trade border rules.\n\nThe Road Haulage Association (RHA) said there is serious disruption to freight movements into the island of Ireland.\n\nThe RHA said relaxing the controls on food products and customs declarations \"would help traders to ship goods that have struggled to move over recent days.\"\n\n\"The problems have led to gaps in supermarket shelves and lorries delayed at ports because of problems with red-tape and the situation is worsening,\" the organisation added.\n\n\"We are facing an inflexible, cumbersome and time consuming process just to move goods.\"\n\nThe UK government said the flow of goods \"between GB and NI has been smooth overall and arrivals of freight have continued to increase substantially over this week\".\n\n\"There are no significant queues at NI ports and supermarkets are reporting healthy supplies into their Northern Ireland stores,\" a spokesperson added.\n\n\"We recognise the need to provide as much support to the haulage sector as possible as industry adapts to new processes. That's why hauliers can benefit from the Trader Support Service, which provides free advice and support to businesses of all sizes moving goods under the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\n\"We have been engaging intensively with the Irish authorities and hauliers on the issues that have been encountered for goods transiting through Dublin port.\"\n\nOn Thursday customs authorities in the Republic of Ireland announced a temporary relaxation of one customs process.\n\nHauliers will be able to use an override code to complete a piece of administration known as ENS.\n\nThe letters ENS refer to an entry summary declaration, an online form which goods carriers are now legally obliged to submit to Irish customs when transporting goods from Great Britain into Ireland.\n\nLorries arriving in Ireland from Great Britain have faced new checks since 1 January\n\nOn Thursday night the Irish Revenue Commissioners said it recognised that \"some businesses are experiencing difficulties on lodging their safety and security ENS declarations\".\n\nIt said that in response it was providing a \"temporary easement\" which would allow an ENS to be produced without all the normally required information.\n\nAn Irish government spokesperson said it is \"absolutely essential that Ireland fulfils its obligations as a member of the EU and that we protect the integrity of the single market and the customs union\".\n\n\"We appreciate that the new requirements and customs formalities present significant challenges and impose additional burdens on businesses.\"\n\nMeanwhile Stena, the ferry company, said it was cancelling a dozen sailings between Wales and Ireland next week due to \"a decline in freight volumes during the first week of Brexit.\"", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nScott McTominay's fourth-minute header was enough to give Manchester United an unconvincing victory in their FA Cup third-round tie against Watford on Saturday.\n\nWearing the captain's armband for the first time in a much-changed side from Wednesday's Carabao Cup semi-final defeat by Manchester City, McTominay found the net after rising to meet Alex Telles' corner.\n\nThe hosts did have chances to increase their lead, but Juan Mata failed to find a finish to an excellent three-man move just before half-time, then Daniel James and substitute Marcus Rashford had shots saved after the break.\n\nBut none of those opportunities were better than that for Hornets defender Adam Masina, who saw his effort blocked by United keeper Dean Henderson not long after McTominay had struck.\n• None Watch all the goals from the FA Cup third round\n• None How all of Saturday's FA Cup action unfolded\n• None How to follow FA Cup third round on the BBC\n\nNow under their fifth manager in two years, Xisco Munoz, Watford had other chances too - Joao Pedro's header went straight to Henderson and Ken Sema was off target with his.\n\nMason Greenwood and Donny van de Beek did little to press their claims for a regular starting slot in manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side, while Jesse Lingard - making only his third appearance of the season and the subject of interest from a number of clubs in the January transfer window - showed glimpses of form but eventually faded.\n\nUnited will go into the hat for Monday's fourth and fifth-round draws, while Watford are left to focus on winning promotion back to the Premier League at the first attempt.\n\nGiven the increasing awareness of the effects of concussion, the decision of United's medical staff to take no risks with defender Eric Bailly when he was caught in the head by Henderson's knee as the keeper punched clear was a welcome one.\n\nThe Football Association had hoped to introduce concussion substitutes by now but it has not yet been able to as detailed protocols are yet to be received from Ifab, the world game's rulemakers.\n\nAs Bailly was guided towards the tunnel in the last minute of the first half, Harry Maguire replaced him and helped United keep the clean sheet which ensured they reached the fourth round for the 34th time in their past 36 attempts.\n\nAfterwards, United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said: \"I think it was his neck. I don't think it was concussion so that is a positive. But we have got to do scans.\"\n\n'I wanted to test McTominay and he delivered' - post-match quotes\n\nManchester United manager Solskjaer said: \"Scott has got everything a leader has to have. I wanted to test him by making him captain and see how he would react.\n\n\"He delivered and he always does. He was brilliant today.\n\n\"We have always trusted our young men coming through and Scott is one who we believe has the Manchester United DNA in him and knows what it is to be a Manchester United player.\"\n\nMcTominay on captaining the side: \"When the manager told me it was a surreal moment. I've been here since I had just turned five, so that's 18 or 19 years associated with the club and it is a huge honour.\n\n\"I love this club and it has been my whole life.\"\n\nUnited turn their attentions to a big week in the Premier League. Solskjaer's side travel to Burnley on Tuesday (20:15 GMT) knowing victory will send them top of the table above Liverpool - who they then play at Anfield on Sunday (16:30 GMT).\n\nWatford's miserable run at Old Trafford continues - stats of the day\n• None The last time Manchester United failed to progress in the FA Cup third round was January 2014, when they lost 2-1 to Swansea.\n• None Watford have lost on 10 consecutive visits to Old Trafford, scoring just three goals.\n• None United have progressed from each of their past 17 FA Cup matches against opposition from a lower division, since a 1-0 home defeat by League One side Leeds United in January 2010.\n• None McTominay has scored four goals in 22 matches this season, one short of his best tally in a campaign (five goals in 37 appearances in 2019-20). Three of those goals have been scored in the first five minutes of games.\n• None Watford attempted 18 shots in the match - only in their 2-0 loss at Huddersfield (21) have they had more shots on the road this season.\n• None Attempt blocked. Marc Navarro (Watford) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Will Hughes (Watford) wins a free kick in the attacking half.\n• None Attempt missed. Juan Mata (Manchester United) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right from a direct free kick.\n• None Joseph Hungbo (Watford) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Joseph Hungbo (Watford) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Joseph Hungbo (Watford) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by João Pedro. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Calculate the impact and how to change it\n• None Sir David Attenborough shows us the forces of nature that support the Earth", "A 107-year-old woman from Clonard, County Meath is attempting a virtual Mass tour across Ireland while in lockdown.\n\nNancy Stewart and granddaughter, Louise Coghlan, have been shielding together since March last year, and have set themselves the spiritual challenge.\n\nThey are attending Mass services across the 32 counties on the island from the comfort of their own kitchen.\n\nLouise said that because they have been shielding for so long together, she is constantly trying to find \"different ways of keeping granny entertained\".\n\nShe said that when she asks Nancy if she wants to watch Mass her \"eyes light up like I'd just given her a million euros\".\n\nNancy, whose favourite saint is St Anthony, said she can hardly believe she is able to watch Mass on a computer or a phone from her comfy armchair.\n\n\"I feel so happy and so refreshed sitting happily in my own kitchen, in my armchair looking at Mass,\" she told BBC News NI.\n\n\"I can't believe it, I'm trying to believe it's true.\"", "The number of patients in intensive care with Covid has risen sharply, amid warnings that tougher lockdown measures may be needed.\n\nLatest Scottish government figures show 1,877 new cases of Covid were reported in the last 24 hours\n\nThe number of people in intensive care has risen from 109 to 123, the highest daily jump since October.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney said a tightening of restrictions could not be ruled out.\n\nA total of 1,598 people are currently in hospital with recently-confirmed Covid, up from Saturday's figure of 1,596 patients which was the highest number since the outbreak began.\n\nThe daily test positivity rate was10%, up from 8.7% on Saturday, when 1,865 positive cases were recorded.\n\nThe deputy first minister said the country was facing \"a very alarming situation\" with the virus.\n\nSpeaking on Politics Scotland, Mr Swinney said coronavirus does not show much sign of \"abating\" and he would not rule out tougher lockdown measures.\n\nHe said: \"We're seeing case numbers which are hovering around 2,000 per day... so we've got an accelerating situation on our hands and we have to constantly review whether more restrictions are required.\"\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs in recent days with average positivity rates falling, a possible indicator that the lockdown is having an impact, but Prof Linda Bauld, of Edinburgh University, urged caution.\n\nShe said: \"The numbers are not reducing at the rate which we want them to, so [it is] still a very fragile situation.\n\n\"The measures we have now I hope are working but it's not clear whether they are tough enough.\n\n\"I think the key change the government could make is in the sectors which are still open, particularly workplaces but also things like takeaways and click and collect.\"\n\nMr Swinney said the Scottish government is \"open to considering further restrictions if they are necessary\"\n\nProfessional sport, along with manufacturing and construction work have been allowed to continue in this lockdown, whereas they were not in the first wave in March.\n\nThe deputy first minister said the meeting of the cabinet which agreed the latest lockdown saw ministers wondering if they had gone far enough to stop the spread.\n\nMr Swinney added: \"I don't think I'm revealing a state secret when I say that the debate within cabinet was not whether we were going too far but whether we were going far enough.\"\n\nA total of three deaths were recorded in the past 24 hours but these figures are lower at weekends because register offices are generally closed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Madrid has been hit by heavy snowfall after Storm Filomena\n\nStorm Filomena has blanketed parts of Spain in heavy snow, with half of the country on red alert for more on Saturday.\n\nRoad, rail and air travel has been disrupted and interior minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said the country was facing \"the most intense storm in the last 50 years\".\n\nMadrid, one of the worst affected areas, is set to see up to 20cm (eight inches) of snow in the next 24 hours.\n\nFurther south the storm caused rivers to burst their banks.\n\nFour deaths have been reported so far as a result of Filomena. Officials said two people had been found frozen to death - one in the town of Zarzalejo, north-west of Madrid, and the other in the eastern city of Calatayud. Two people travelling in a car were swept away by floods near the southern city of Malaga.\n\nAs snow fell on Madrid on Friday evening, a number of vehicles became stranded on a motorway near the capital.\n\nThe city's Barajas airport has closed, along with a number of roads, and all trains to and from Madrid have been cancelled.\n\nFirefighters were called in to assist drivers who had become stuck. In some areas the military were called in to help clear roads.\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez urged people to stay at home and to follow the instructions of emergency services. King Felipe and Queen Letizia took to Twitter to urge \"extreme caution against the risks of accumulation of ice and snow\".\n\nThe country's AEMET weather agency said the snowfall was \"exceptional and most likely historic\".\n\nA number of people were seen making the most of the snowy scenery, walking through Madrid's Puerta del Sol square.\n\nLarge parks in Madrid have since been closed as a precaution, AFP news agency reports.\n\nOne man was pictured skiing along the Gran Via, the capital's famous shopping street.\n\nIn Cañada Real, the largest shanty town in western Europe, residents were seen creating a bonfire to keep warm.\n\nThe cold weather is set to continue beyond the weekend with temperatures in Madrid predicted to hit -12C on Thursday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Wales has received 275,000 doses of the two Covid-19 vaccines to deal with the pandemic.\n\nAbout 70,000 people received a first dose after the first month of the vaccine rollout.\n\nThe Welsh Government confirmed it has had more than 250,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 25,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab.\n\nThe health minister promised a \"really significant step-up\" in the roll-out after opponents criticised its speed.\n\nThe Pfizer jabs were first administered in early December at seven sites across Wales as part of the UK-wide immunisation programme.\n\nThis 82-year-old woman was one of 100 to receives her vaccine at a special clinic in Swansea on Saturday\n\nApproximately 1.6% of people were vaccinated up to 3 January - fewer than all other UK nations.\n\nIn England, about 1.9% of the population had received the first dose, while 2.1% of people in both Scotland and Northern Ireland had received their first jab.\n\nThe Welsh Government has dismissed criticism it is lagging behind, with health officials saying the new Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine would help speed up the programme \"considerably\".\n\nTwo full doses of the Oxford vaccine gave 62% protection, a half dose followed by a full dose was 90% and overall the trial showed 70% protection.\n\nThe rollout of the Oxford vaccine started on Monday, with 25,000 doses received this week, according to the Welsh Government.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said on Friday that Wales would receive another 25,000 Oxford doses next week and 80,000 the week after that.\n\nWhen asked how many doses of the Pfizer vaccine Wales had received, he said he could not recall the exact figure but further deliveries had been received \"on the 23rd and the 27th of December\".\n\nPressed on a figure, he said: \"It's the low hundreds of thousands\", adding: \"The Pfizer vaccine has particular challenges in terms of the conditions that it's got to be stored in and in parts of Wales that is a very particular challenge because it is a hard vaccine to transport over long distances to relatively scattered and remote communities.\n\n\"But the fact that we've got it and the fact that we're able to use more of it than we originally anticipated means we'll be able to accelerate the use of it over the next couple of weeks.\"\n\nThese were the latest comparative weekly totals - daily updates are promised from this week onwards in Wales\n\nOn Sunday, the Welsh Government confirmed it had received 25,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in the first week but the quantity would increase, allocated to Wales based on a population share on a weekly basis.\n\n\"We are confident in the assurances we have been given that this will increase over the next few weeks to around 100,000 per week,\" they said.\n\n\"We are delivering all the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine allocated to Wales directly to GPs, other primary care providers and hospitals as soon as it is available.\"\n\nConservative MP for the Vale of Clwyd, Dr James Davies, said: \"We all know that the Pfizer vaccine is difficult to transport and store and needs to be stored at -70 degrees, that's understood.\n\n\"But the issue is that actually, if you look at the rest of the UK, including very rural areas, they've managed to deal with it... and it is difficult to see why they haven't been in a position to be organised earlier and to ramp-up the delivery.\"\n\nRhun ap Iorwerth, Plaid Cymru's health spokesman, called for transparency: \"It is very worrying to find out that we have had in Wales more than 250,000 doses but only a relatively small proportion of that have yet ended up in people's arms, protecting people, because that's what we want to happen.\"\n\nHe has written an open letter to Health Minister Vaughan Gething calling for greater clarity on the vaccine deployment programme, asking for a dashboard of information which would allow the public to track the rollout's progress for themselves, including volume of doses delivered and administered by health board and by the nine priority groups.\n\nDr Olwen Williams, vice-president for Wales at the Royal College of Physicians, also called on health boards and Welsh Government to publish regular data showing which groups of people have been vaccinated, with patient-facing health workers prioritised over other colleagues.\n\n\"I think that would give assurance to people working in the NHS and the population in general, that the programme is progressing as planned,\" she said.\n\nAll data will be published daily from Monday but Mr Gething conceded that Wales, from last week's figures, was \"slightly behind on the population share and I'm not getting away from that.\"\n\nHe said the race was not \"necessarily against other UK nations\" but against the virus.\n\nHe also told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement that, in the next two to three weeks, he expected to see a \"really significant step-up in the delivery of the vaccine\" as more GP practices and community pharmacies help.\n\n\"We're going to get through many more people, giving them significant protection with a first vaccine,\" he said.\n\n\"And that will mean that we're going to be able to prevent most of the avoidable deaths.\"\n\nIt is hoped the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will speed up the process.\n\nBy the end of last week, it was being offered to patients aged over 80 at 73 GP practices.\n\nMore than 100 are expected to be offering the jabs next week, Mr Gething said, \"and then we get into several hundred thereafter and we'll bring community pharmacies on board.\"\n\nThe UK and Scottish governments did not provide the numbers of Pfizer vaccines supplied to England and Scotland. BBC Wales is still waiting for a response from the Northern Irish Executive.\n\nMeanwhile, regular rapid testing for people without coronavirus symptoms will be made available in England.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it would evaluate its mass testing pilots in Merthyr Tydfil and lower Cynon Valley, as well as elsewhere in the UK, to inform its approach to community testing.\n\nA spokesman added: \"We have announced regular asymptomatic testing of health and social care workers, in education and daily contact testing in South Wales Police.\n\n\"A pilot has also started at the Tata Port Talbot site. We are also exploring other opportunities for regular testing to support critical services.\"", "Amazon is removing \"free speech\" social network Parler from its web hosting service for violating rules.\n\nIf Parler fails to find a new web hosting service by Sunday evening, the entire network will go offline.\n\nParler styles itself as an \"unbiased\" social media and has proved popular with people banned from Twitter.\n\nAmazon told Parler it had found 98 posts on the site that encouraged violence. Apple and Google have removed the app from their stores.\n\nLaunched in 2018, Parler has proved particularly popular among supporters of US President Donald Trump and right-wing conservatives. Such groups have frequently accused Twitter and Facebook of unfairly censoring their views.\n\nWhile Mr Trump himself is not a user, the platform already features several high-profile contributors following earlier bursts of growth in 2020.\n\nTexas Senator Ted Cruz boasts 4.9 million followers on the platform, while Fox News host Sean Hannity has about seven million.\n\nThe move comes after Apple suspended Parler from its app store. The suspension will remain in place for as long as the network continued to spread posts that incite violence, it said.\n\nGoogle removed the app from its store on Friday.\n\nResponding to Google's move earlier, Parler's chief executive John Matze said: \"We won't cave to politically motivated companies and those authoritarians who hate free speech!\"\n\nHe also warned that Parler could be offline for up to a week while \"we rebuild from scratch\".\n\nIt briefly became the most-downloaded app in the United States after the US election, following a clampdown on the spread of election misinformation by Twitter and Facebook.\n\nIn a letter obtained by CNN, Amazon's AWS Trust and Safety team told Parler's Chief Policy Officer Amy Peikoff that the social network \"does not have an effective process to comply with the AWS terms of service\".\n\n\"AWS provides technology and services to customers across the political spectrum, and we continue to respect Parler's right to determine for itself what content it will allow on its site\", the letter said.\n\n\"However we cannot provide services to a customer that is unable to effectively identify and remove content that encourages or incites violence against others.\".\n\nParler will be removed from Amazon's web hosting service shortly before midnight on Sunday Pacific Standard Time (07:59 GMT on Monday).\n\nOn Saturday, Apple removed Parler from its app store after warning the network to remove content that violated its rules or face a ban.\n\n\"Parler has not taken adequate measures to address the proliferation of these threats to people's safety\", it said in a statement announcing the app's suspension on Saturday evening.\n\nFor months, Parler has been one of the most popular social media platforms for right-wing users.\n\nAs major platforms began taking action against viral conspiracy theories, disinformation and the harassment of election workers and officials in the aftermath of the US presidential vote, the app became more popular with elements of the fringe far-right.\n\nThis turned the network into a right-wing echo chamber, almost entirely populated by users fixated on revealing examples of election fraud and posting messages in support of attempts to overturn the election outcome.\n\nIn the days preceding the Capitol riots, the tone of discussion on the app became significantly more violent, with some users openly discussing ways to stop the certification of Joe Biden's victory by Congress.\n\nUnsubstantiated allegations and defamatory claims against a number of senior US figures such as Chief Justice John Roberts and Vice-President Mike Pence were rife on the app.\n\nGoogle and Apple say they are taking necessary action to ensure violent rhetoric is not promoted on their platforms.\n\nHowever, to those increasingly concerned about freedom of speech and expression on online platforms, it represents another example of draconian action by major tech companies which threatens internet freedom.\n\nThis is a debate which is certain to continue beyond the Trump presidency.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer calls for families to be put \"at the heart of our recovery\" from the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has urged the government to \"protect family incomes\" as it deals with the economic effects of coronavirus.\n\nIn his first speech of the year, he demanded teachers, the armed forces and care workers are left out of the public sector pay freeze.\n\nSir Keir also called for tougher restrictions to be considered for tackling coronavirus.\n\nNo 10 said the government had \"shown it is prepared to act\".\n\nWith coronavirus restrictions and lockdowns shutting thousands of businesses, the economy was 7.9% smaller in October last year than it had been six months earlier.\n\nAnd the government's independent forecaster, the Office for Budgetary Responsibility, predicts that unemployment will rise to 2.6 million by the middle of this year.\n\nIn his speech, Sir Keir attacked the government for \"having been found wanting at every turn\", accusing Boris Johnson of being \"indecisive\" and acting \"too slow\" over further lockdowns and support for business and families.\n\nHe said: \"The British people will forgive many things. They know the pandemic is difficult.\n\n\"But they also know serial incompetence when they see it - and they know when a prime minister simply isn't up to the job.\"\n\nBut the PM's official spokeswoman rejected the criticism, saying: \"This government has shown it is prepared to act. When given evidence in the morning it has taken action that evening.\"\n\nAsked by the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg whether the government should tighten restrictions, such as closing nurseries, Sir Keir said there \"probably is more that we could do [and we] may have to get tougher\".\n\nBut he did not outline what measures he would recommend, instead saying it was \"time to hear from the scientists what else can be done - and that probably should be done in the next few hours\".\n\nThe Labour leader said ministers must \"protect family incomes and support businesses\" from the economic effects of previous restrictions and the current lockdown.\n\nHe added policies must \"make a real difference to millions of people across the country\" and \"put families at the heart of our recovery\".\n\nSir Keir argued the £20-a-week rise given to Universal Credit claimants last April must continue beyond this April's cut-off point.\n\nCouncil tax increases in England of up to 5% this April must not happen, he said, while calling for the ban on evictions and repossessions to be extended.\n\nThe government's pay freeze for at least 1.3 million public sector workers - which does not apply to NHS frontline staff and those earning below £24,000 a year - must not go ahead, said Sir Keir.\n\n\"I know this isn't everything that's needed,\" he added, \"and after so much suffering we can't go back the status quo.\n\n\"We cannot return to an economy where over half our care workers earn less than the living wage, where childcare is among the most expensive in Europe, where our social care system is a national disgrace and where over four million children grow up in poverty.\"\n\nAn opposition leader has no policy leavers to pull. They have to rely on words to persuade the public they are worthy of power.\n\nWith the next general election an eternity away, Sir Keir Starmer knows the question of competence matters far more to voters than ideology right now.\n\nThe Labour leader was unsparing in his criticism of the government's handling of the pandemic - accusing the prime minster of serial incompetence, dithering and delay.\n\nSir Keir said the government could reverse planned changes to council tax and universal credit to ease the financial pressure on families.\n\nBut pressed on how lockdown might be different today if he was in No 10, the Labour leader mirrored the government's messaging.\n\nHe said there was \"probably\" more that could be done around nurseries and estate agent viewings, but Sir Keir's mantra was listen to the scientists.\n\nIt's what ministers say endlessly too.\n\nSir Keir argued that, just as a Labour government \"built the welfare state from the rubble\" of World War Two, a future one can \"secure our economy, protect our NHS and rebuild our country so that Britain is the best country to grow up in and the best country to grow old in\".\n\nBut Conservative Party co-chairman Amanda Milling accused Sir Keir of \"calling for actions the Conservatives are already taking in government\".\n\n\"We have delivered an unprecedented £280bn package of support to protect jobs, livelihoods and public services through this pandemic,\" she added, including the furlough scheme, the temporary increase to Universal Credit and extra funding for councils.\n\n\"The Conservatives will continue to put families and communities at the heart of every decision we take as we deliver on our promises to the British people,\" Ms Milling said.\n\nIn his Spending Review in November, Chancellor Rishi Sunak warned that the \"economic emergency\" caused by the pandemic had only begun.\n\nHe promised to take \"extraordinary measures to protect people's jobs and incomes\".", "The Oxford vaccine rollout started in Wales earlier this week - those figures are not yet included\n\nMore than 14,000 people had their first dose of the Covid-19 jab in Wales in the past week, the latest figures show.\n\nIt takes the numbers on the priority list to have got the Pfizer-BioNTech jab to 49,403 since the rollout started on 8 December.\n\nBut Wales is lagging behind the rest of the UK so far, with a lower proportion of people getting a first dose.\n\nThe Welsh Government said that by next week, 60 GP practices and 20 centres would be vaccinating.\n\nHealth officials said the new Oxford vaccine would help speed up the programme \"considerably\".\n\nThe numbers do not include the first people to receive the new vaccine, which began to be given this week.\n\nPublic Health Wales (PHW) said the real numbers were likely to be higher, with the figures a snapshot based on those vaccines recorded electronically so far.\n\nThey give a breakdown by health board and also show how many people have been given their first dose.\n\nThe figures also include people, such as NHS staff, who work in Wales but live over the border, but do not yet give details of people in different priority categories.\n\nRhun ap Iorwerth, Plaid Cymru's health spokesman, said: \"We need real transparency on progress of the vaccination process.\n\n\"This must include clear targets and data on how many vaccines come to Wales, and how many are distributed and given out by each health board to each priority group - both the first and second doses - so we can measure this against the targets. This is how confidence can be built that Wales is on track.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"These are early days in our mass vaccination programme. Momentum will continue to build and the speed of our vaccination programme will increase each week.\n\n\"From Monday, the number of people vaccinated will be published daily and we will publish our vaccination rollout plan early next week.\"\n\nThe figure in Wales means approximately 1.6% of people have been vaccinated up to 3 January - fewer than other UK nations - and the gap appears to be growing compared to last week.\n\nIn England, nearly 1.1 million people were given the first dose by 3 January. This is about 1.9% of the population. NHS England said 60% of doses have gone to people aged over 80.\n\nIf vaccinations were being given at the same rate in Wales as in England, a further 13,000 people would have been given a dose.\n\nIn both Scotland and Northern Ireland, 2.1% of people have been given a first dose.\n\nHow many people have had a Covid-19 vaccine? Residents in Wales vaccinated by health board, to 3 January Source: Public Health Wales, 7 January. Excludes 224 unknown and 1,024 doses for priority groups living in England\n\nSamantha is keen to have the vaccine as soon as possible and return to work\n\nDental nurse Samantha Davies, 47, who has shielded since March, was overjoyed at the prospect of having the coronavirus vaccine and returning to work.\n\nBut she is now in limbo after confusion over whether she could have the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab because of her ongoing treatment for Crohn's Disease.\n\nAfter filling out a questionnaire sent by PHW, a consultant recommended she should have the Pfizer-BioNTech jab instead.\n\nThis is because of the inflectra infusion treatment she receives every eight weeks to treat her Crohn's Disease - a type of inflammatory bowel condition.\n\nHowever, the Pfizer vaccine is in shorter supply than the Oxford vaccine and the Swansea practice where Samantha works was only offered 10 vaccinations.\n\nAs Samantha, from Foelgastell, Carmarthenshire, is shielding and not in work, she was not considered a priority for one of these.\n\nSwansea Bay health board has since said the advice about vaccines was given in error and pledged to arrange an appointment for her as soon as possible.\n\n\"It's just being home all the time. Some people I know had it two or three weeks ago. The government put me shielding since March on sick pay and I just want to return to work,\" she said.\n\nWhile she was furloughed from April to August, Samantha has been on statutory sick pay since.\n\nDr Gillian Richardson, the senior officer responsible for the Covid-19 vaccine programme in Wales, said the efforts from NHS Wales and PHW had been \"exceptional\".\n\n\"The number of doses unable to be used have been incredibly low - around 1% - and significantly below anticipated levels, thanks to the robust appointment planning and reserve lists,\" she said.\n\n\"The NHS is providing vaccines as quickly and as safely as possible to people in the priority groups.\"\n\nDerek Hinchliffe, 80, says he is \"frustrated\" at not knowing when he will get his first dose of vaccine\n\nHowever, 80-year-old Derek Hinchliffe, who is eligible for a first dose of a Covid vaccine during this period of the rollout, said he was \"frustrated\" because he has had no information about getting the first dose.\n\nMr Hinchliffe, who lives with his wife in Penpedairheol in Caerphilly county, said: \"We've had nothing - no communication.\n\n\"We've got friends the same as us who live in England who have had their first dose, and some of them are having their second vaccination.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nConservative health spokesman Andrew RT Davies renewed his call for a vaccinations minister to be appointed to take control.\n\n\"Of course we welcome the increase in the number of vaccinations, but the rough calculation is that one in 65 people in Wales has had their jab compared to one in 50 in England,\" he said,\n\n\"Factor in the postcode lottery emerging in Wales, and the picture's not looking great.\n\n\"You're twice as likely in south Wales to have had the vaccination and three times more likely to have had it in mid Wales than in north Wales.\"\n\nDr Richardson called the second Covid vaccine - Oxford-AstraZeneca - which began its roll-out on Monday a \"real game-changer\".\n\nShe said it would help speed up vaccinations considerably.\n\nThere are challenges with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine because it has to be stored at extremely cold temperatures, while the Oxford vaccine can be be kept in a fridge.\n\nBoth vaccines will be available in Wales and the Welsh Government said 40,000 doses of the Oxford jab would be available within the first two weeks - with 22,000 jabs this week.\n\nTwo full doses of the Oxford vaccine gave 62% protection, a half dose followed by a full dose was 90% and overall the trial showed 70% protection.", "Bez in training for his new exercise classes in a park in Manchester\n\nHappy Mondays star Bez is to launch his own lockdown fitness classes to inspire the nation like Joe Wicks.\n\nThe former maraca-shaking dancer, 56, wants to rival Joe Wicks with his online YouTube classes \"Get Buzzin' With Bez\" to be launched on 17 January.\n\nBez, whose on-stage \"freaky dancing\" made him an icon of the 'Madchester' music scene, has admitted he also wants to budge his own lockdown bulge.\n\nHe won Celebrity Big Brother in 2005 and even made a bid to become an MP.\n\nBez, whose real name is Mark Berry, will be shown being trained in the fitness classes rather than acting as the instructor himself.\n\nHe said: \"I'd like to think I'm somewhere between Joe Wicks and Mr Motivator.\n\n\"I've started this new year seriously unfit, with a fat belly and creaky hips, and I can't stop eating chocolate.\n\n\"Last lockdown I got unfit, fat, lazy and into some seriously bad eating habits.\n\nBez being put through his paces with a personal trainer\n\n\"This year, this lockdown, I need to sort it out sharpish.\"\n\nHe said that people can join him on \"on this mad journey or just sit on the sofa and have a good laugh at me\".\n\nBez said he has \"started this new year seriously unfit, with a fat belly and creaky hips\"\n\nThe former dancer added: \"At the very least, I know I'll be making people smile, at best I'll be helping people get fit and mentally happier alongside me.\"\n\nThe Happy Mondays, along with bands like The Stone Roses and Inspiral Carpets, spearheaded the indie music 'Madchester' scene of the late 80s and early 90s.\n\nBez dancing with his maraca on BBC One's Top of the Pops as the band perform Step On in 1989\n\nBez's bug-eyed dance routines were said to have inspired the group's song Freaky Dancin' and made him one of the best-known members of the group, alongside frontman Shaun Ryder.\n\nTheir hits included Step On, Kinky Afro, Hallelujah and 24 Hour Party People.\n\nHowever, serious drug habits and infighting led to the Salford band's breakup in 1993.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An ambulance had to be lifted out of the mud\n\nRescuers searching for victims of a landslide in Indonesia were buried by a second mudslide just hours later, officials say.\n\nThe first landslide, in Cihanjuang village, West Java, was triggered by torrential rain.\n\nAnother struck as survivors were still being evacuated. At least 12 people died and dozens more are missing.\n\nLandslides are common in Indonesia during rainy season, and often blamed on deforestation.\n\nThe latest disasters hit the villagers in Sumedang regency, about 150km (95 miles) southeast of the capital Jakarta, three and a half hours apart on Saturday.\n\nThe first happened at 16:00 (09:00 GMT) and the second at 19:30 (12:30 GMT), disaster agency spokesman Raditya Jati said in a statement.\n\n\"The first landslide was triggered by high rainfall and unstable soil conditions. The subsequent landslide occurred while officers were still evacuating victims around the first landslide area,\" he added.\n\nRescuers are believed to be among those killed, he added. A six-year-old boy was also among the dead, according to AFP news agency.\n\nSome 27 people were believed to be missing late on Sunday, local media quoted Deden Ridwansah, the head of the local search and rescue agency as saying. About 46 were known to have survived.\n\nBad weather had forced the search to be suspended, he said, but it was expected to resume on Monday.\n\nIndonesia frequently suffers floods and landslides. Thousands of people had to be evacuated in the capital Jakarta this time last year as the city was inundated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n• None The fastest-sinking city in the world", "More than 80,000 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test since the start of the pandemic, official figures have shown.\n\nA further 1,035 deaths in the UK were reported on Saturday, taking the total by that measure to 80,868.\n\nThe number of daily cases of people who tested positive for coronavirus increased by 59,937.\n\nOnly the US, Brazil, India and Mexico have recorded more Covid deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nIt is the fourth day in a row that the UK has reported more than 1,000 daily deaths.\n\nIt comes as scientists advising the government have warned that lockdown measures in England need to be stricter to achieve the same impact as the March shutdown.\n\nMinisters have launched a new campaign urging people to act like they have the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, Buckingham Palace has said the Queen, 94, and the Duke of Edinburgh, 99, received Covid-19 vaccinations on Saturday.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics recently estimated as many as one in 50 people in England had coronavirus between 27 December and 2 January, while in London it was one in 30.\n\nOn Friday, mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of Covid in the capital was \"out of control\".\n\nOfficial figures from Public Health England showed London had the highest regional case rate in the UK, exceeding 1,000 per 100,000 people.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can only go out for essential reasons. Similar measures are in place across most of Scotland, in Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nProf Robert West, a participant in the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviours (SPI-B), which advises the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), said the current rules were \"still allowing a lot of activity which is spreading the virus\".\n\nHe said the new variant of Covid was around 50% more infectious compared to the virus that infected people last March.\n\n\"That means that if we were to achieve the same result as we got in March we would have to have a stricter lockdown, and it (the current regime) is not stricter,\" he added.\n\nThe professor of health psychology at University College London also told the BBC more children were going to school, compared to during the first lockdown.\n\nHe said schools were \"a very important seed of community infection\".\n\nMore children are at school, after the Department for Education widened the categories of vulnerable and key worker pupils allowed to attend. Attendance rates have risen to 50% in some places.\n\nProf Susan Michie, who is also a member of Sage, said the spread of the new, more infectious variant meant current restrictions were \"too lax\".\n\n\"When you look at the data, it shows that almost 90% of people are overwhelmingly adhering to the rules - despite the fact that we're also seeing more people out and about,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nShe said, in comparison to the first lockdown in spring 2020, more people were allowed to go out to work and children's nurseries were open, making public transport busier.\n\nThe number of people travelling by public transport in London has decreased since the latest national lockdown began, with tube journeys now at 18% of the pre-pandemic demand and bus journeys at 30%, according to figures from Transport for London.\n\nHowever, during the first lockdown passenger numbers fell below 10% at some points.\n\nScientists believe the new variant spreads between 50 and 70% faster compared to previous forms of the virus.\n\nProf Kevin Fenton, London regional director for Public Health England, said there were \"things we could do better\" to reduce the number of infections, including greater compliance with mask wearing and social distancing when shopping and using public transport.\n\nTorsten Bell, chief executive of the Resolution Foundation think tank, told BBC Radio 4's PM programme that the UK's statutory sick pay system was \"not fit for purpose for a pandemic\" and more effective measures to encourage people to isolate were needed.\n\nAs cases and deaths soar, the government has launched an advertising campaign, which will be shared across television, radio, newspapers and on social media, urging people to stay at home and not to get complacent.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"I know the last year has taken its toll - but your compliance is now more vital than ever.\"\n\nGovernment sources say there is also likely to be more focus from police on enforcing rather than explaining rules.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon, 12 people were arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nIf you would like to send us a tribute to a friend or family member who died after contracting coronavirus, please use the form below.\n\nPlease remember to include a photo of your loved one and their name. Upload your pictures here. Don't forget to include your contact details, so we can get in touch with you.\n\nWe would like to respond to everyone individually and include every tribute in our coverage, but unfortunately that may not be possible. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMary McGarry from Leamington Spa in Warwickshire told BBC News that her letter points to an NHS online booking page which suggests she would have to take her husband, who has cancer and a lung disease, 20 miles to Birmingham.\n\n\"We're very reluctant to go into Birmingham city centre,\" she said.\n\n\"If we can't get somebody to take us, we'd have to go on the train but we're shielding because my husband's got poor health.... we want to know why we've got to travel that far?\"\n\nKay Hayward, from Whitwick in Leicestershire, said she went online to book an appointment for her 85-year-old husband Kenneth and was offered five different places including Widnes in Cheshire and Stevenage in Hertfordshire.\n\n\"I thought they must be joking... we talked about it and we thought it was actually safer to stay here and for him not not have it.\n\n130,000 letters have been sent out by NHS England so far\n\n\"But we were worried if we turned this down, we'd be off the list.. the letter doesn't say anything about having the vaccines anywhere else locally.\"\n\nAndrea Eaton, from Coventry, said she was so angry that her 81-year-old mother, who has heart problems and leukaemia, was offered Birmingham for her appointment that she attempted to ring Downing Street on Saturday night to complain.\n\nShe said she reached the press office and said: \"I want you to give Boris a message please that he has lied to the British public.\n\n\"He has told them they never need to go more than 10 miles... they were really rude and just put the phone down on me.\"\n\nAndrea Eaton said she wanted to get a message to Boris Johnson so rang Downing Street on Saturday evening\n\nA spokesperson from Number 10 told BBC News that they did not wish to comment, but wanted to remind the public to use the government website to write to the prime minister or contact their constituency MP.\n\nCouncillor Shaun Davies, the Labour leader at Telford and Wrekin Council in Shropshire, said he had been contacted by dozens of people who have found the letters misleading, thinking this is their only chance to get the vaccine.\n\nHe said he had spoken to Trafford Council and was aware of people in Shropshire being sent to Manchester and residents there being directed to Birmingham to get their jabs.\n\n\"For many people they have been told consistently to wait for the NHS to contact you in order to get a vaccine and that's what they've had for the first time as a piece of communication.\n\n\"This is really, really concerning for people in their 80s or 90s because of the importance of getting the vaccine.\"\n\nThe letters are not \"going to the heart\" of the public health message which is staying home and staying local, he said.\n\nMore than 500,000 letters will be sent out to homes offering people appointments at the centres over the next seven days\n\nDr Sarah Raistrick, from Coventry and Rugby Clinical Commission group (CCG), said people did not have to travel to the centres but admitted the letter did not make that clear.\n\n\"You can wait and be contacted by your local GP service and have it locally if you'd prefer.\n\n\"If you sit tight, you will be contacted and I'm hopeful that if you're 80 or over, by the end of this month you will have had your vaccination whether that is locally or whether you have chosen to travel,\" she said.\n\nWork will be done with the NHS locally and nationally to make that message clearer, she added.\n\nThe seven centres were chosen to give a geographical spread covering as many people as possible and are capable of delivering thousands of jabs per week, NHS England has said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Keir Starmer has said the \"status quo isn't working\" for Scotland but has again rejected calls for a second independence referendum.\n\nThe Labour leader, who backs devolving more powers from Westminster, claimed another vote would be \"divisive\".\n\nHowever, he said he did not agree with Boris Johnson's assessment that there should not be another referendum for at least 40 years.\n\nThe SNP said a vote would allow Scots to choose how to rebuild after Covid.\n\nLast year Sir Keir said he would set up a constitutional commission to offer a \"positive alternative to the Scottish people\".\n\nHe told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show: \"I don't think there should be another referendum, I don't think a further divisive referendum is the way forward.\n\n\"But I do accept that the status quo isn't working. I don't accept the argument that the status quo isn't working, the next thing you do is go to a referendum.\n\n\"I think there are other things you can do, other arguments that can be made in support of the United Kingdom.\"\n\nAsked about Boris Johnson's 40-year position, Sir Keir replied: \"I heard the prime minister say that and I don't agree with him on that.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Politics Scotland, Deputy First minister John Swinney rejected suggestions that the recovery from the Covid crisis should be a greater priority than another independence vote.\n\nHe said: \"An independence referendum is an essential priority of the people of Scotland because it gives us the opportunity to choose how we rebuild as a country from Covid.\n\n\"It would give us the opportunity to decide on our constitutional future and to determine the nature of our economy and how we deal with and support our citizens.\"\n\nEarlier this month Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the BBC he thought the 41-year interval between the UK's referendums on joining the EU and leaving it was a \"good sort of gap\".\n\nMr Johnson said in his experience, such votes \"don't have a notably unifying force in the national mood, they should be only once in a generation\".", "This car was one of many turned away by police at Moel Famau on Saturday\n\nPeople are \"blatantly\" ignoring rules on lockdown restrictions despite repeated warnings, police have said.\n\nMore than 100 cars had been turned away from Moel Famau on the Flintshire border by Saturday lunchtime, with some driving past \"road closed\" signs.\n\nIn Snowdonia, Gwynedd, a warden said a group from Leicester would have \"probably ignored our advice\" if police had not arrived and told them to leave.\n\nLevel four restrictions mean travelling for exercise is not allowed in Wales.\n\nKeith Ellis, a warden at Pen y Pass in Snowdonia, said while it had been much quieter this weekend, people were still travelling, despite the restrictions.\n\n\"We've had three from Leicester first thing this morning and if the police hadn't turned up they would have probably ignored our advice and carried on up the mountain,\" he said.\n\n\"What they were wearing was totally inappropriate and they would have probably got into danger.\n\n\"We've had people also from Liverpool and some locals turning up knowing full well what the rules are, but just trying it on.\n\n\"Luckily there are a lot more police officers around and all these people have been spoken to and advised by the police as well.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"Cases of coronavirus are very high in Wales at the moment and there is a new strain of the virus circulating, which is highly infectious and moving quickly.\n\n\"At alert level four, exercise should always be undertaken from home, unless you have special circumstances which requires some flexibility - such as disability or autism.\n\n\"The more people gather, the greater the risk of spreading or catching the virus.\"", "Boris Johnson is expected to announce a set of new national restrictions for England, similar to the March lockdown, in a televised address at 20:00 GMT.\n\nThe PM is likely to urge the public to follow the new rules from midnight.\n\nIt is expected people will be told to work from home if possible and schools will close for most pupils.\n\nIt is not yet clear when the measures will be reviewed, but MPs are likely to be given a vote to approve them retrospectively on Wednesday.\n\nMeanwhile, the UK's chief medical officers warned of a \"material risk of healthcare services being overwhelmed\" in several areas over the next 21 days.\n\nScotland announced a legal requirement to stay at home from midnight, with schools to be closed.\n\nMr Johnson will set out plans for England as the UK's devolved nations have the power to set their own coronavirus regulations.\n\nBoth Wales and Northern Ireland are already under national restrictions.\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nAs of 08:00 GMT, there were 26,626 Covid-19 patients in hospital in England, according to the latest figures.\n\nThis is a week-on-week increase of 30%, and a new record high.\n\nMr Johnson is expected to tell people to work from home unless they are a key worker, or it is not possible for them to do so, for example if they work on a construction site, according to BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg.\n\nIt is also understood that England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, has told the prime minister the new variant of coronavirus is now spreading throughout the country.\n\nThe new variant - first identified in Kent and since seen across the UK and other parts of the world - has been found to spread much more easily than earlier variants.\n\nA No 10 spokesman said the spread of the new variant had led to \"rapidly escalating case numbers across the country\".\n\n\"The prime minister is clear that further steps must now be taken to arrest this rise and to protect the NHS and save lives,\" he added.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer - who called for a national lockdown in England within 24 hours on Sunday - said: \"I hope the prime minister has been listening to the clear calls for tough national restrictions.\"\n\nHospitals have said they are under \"extreme pressure\" and one of Britain's most senior doctors warned on the weekend that trusts across the UK should prepare themselves for a surge in cases.\n\nThe number of Covid-19 patients in UK hospitals is currently above the level seen in spring 2020.\n\nA further 58,784 cases and an additional 407 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result were reported on Monday, though deaths in Scotland were not recorded.\n\nWhat worked before may not work again - even a repeat of the March lockdown may not be enough to contain the new variant.\n\nConsider the R number - the number of people each infected person passes the virus onto on average.\n\nThe March lockdown brought R down to 0.6 and led to a sharp decline in cases.\n\nEvery 100 infected people passed the virus onto 60 others, who passed it onto 36, then 21, then 12 and so on.\n\nBut the new variant is thought to be around 50% more transmissible so its R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be around 0.9.\n\nThen 100 infected people would pass the virus onto 90 others, then 81, then 73, then 66 and so on.\n\nThis is a far slower decline.\n\nHowever, uncertainty around the new variant means there are scenarios where its levels plateau rather than fall during lockdown conditions.\n\nIt is going to be a tough start to the year. Even with immediate and tough restrictions there are a projected 20,000 additional deaths in the first months of 2021.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.\n\nMr Johnson's address comes as UK chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nIt means the NHS may soon be unable to handle a further sustained rise in cases, the medical officers said in a joint statement.\n\nNHS Providers, which represents health service trusts, said hospitals were at a \"critical point\" and that \"immediate and decisive action\" is needed.\n\nPreviously, the government described level five as requiring stricter social distancing measures. The first lockdown, which began in March 2020, was when the UK was under level four.\n\nThese Covid threat levels are separate to the regional tier system of restrictions in England.\n\nAnnouncing tougher measures in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"It is no exaggeration to say that I am more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year.\"\n\nThe new restrictions in Scotland mean it will be a legal requirement to stay at home except for certain essential purposes, similar to the first lockdown last March. Schools will be closed to pupils until February.\n\nIn Wales, all schools and colleges will move to online learning until at least 18 January.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Stormont Executive are also meeting to discuss possible new measures in light of Mr Johnson's televised address - which will air on BBC One and the BBC iPlayer from 19:35 GMT.\n\nThe prime minister will speak amid continued uncertainty over whether schools will remain open to all pupils in England, after several councils requested classrooms stay shut.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 82-year-old Brian Pinker is given the Oxford vaccine at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford\n\nEarlier on Monday, an 82-year-old retired maintenance manager became the first person in the UK to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nBrian Pinker said he was \"really proud\" to receive a jab developed in the UK, which will form a large part of the country's mass vaccination plan.\n\n\"The nurses, doctors and staff today have all been brilliant and I can now really look forward to celebrating my 48th wedding anniversary with my wife Shirley later this year,\" Mr Pinker said.", "Most pupils will be studying from home for the rest of this half term\n\nSchools and colleges in England are to be closed to most pupils until at least half term, Boris Johnson has announced.\n\nThe prime minister said the new lockdown had to be \"tough enough\" to stop the variant virus from spreading - and teaching will go online.\n\nA-Levels and GCSEs will be cancelled, a government source confirmed to BBC News - although vocational exams will go ahead.\n\nThe National Education Union accused the government of causing \"chaos\".\n\nIn a television address, Mr Johnson announced the biggest changes to schools since the early days of the first lockdown in March.\n\n\"Because we now have to do everything we possibly can to stop the spread of the disease, primary schools, secondary schools and colleges across England must move to remote provision from tomorrow,\" said the prime minister.\n\nThis means a return to online learning for pupils of all ages - apart from vulnerable children and the children of key workers who can continue to go into school.\n\nPrimary schools went back today - and will then close again tomorrow\n\n\"We recognise that this will mean it's not possible or fair for all exams to go ahead this summer, as normal,\" said Mr Johnson.\n\nIt is understood that vocational exams will continue, but GCSEs and A-levels will be cancelled - and that the exam watchdog Ofqual will make \"alternative arrangements\" for delivering results.\n\nAn attempt to produce replacement exam grades last summer turned into one of the biggest U-turns of the pandemic.\n\nTeachers' unions accused the government of failing to react more swiftly to \"mounting evidence\" about Covid transmission in schools and to make preparations for remote teaching and alternatives to written exams.\n\nBut Mary Bousted, co-leader of the National Education Union, said Education Secretary Gavin Williamson had \"become an expert in putting his head in the sand\".\n\nGeoff Barton of the ASCL head teachers' union criticised ministers for having issued legal threats to keep schools open at the end of last term - and then \"made a series of chaotic announcements about the start of this term\".\n\nThe new term, which began on Monday for primary pupils, has only lasted a day before it has been suspended.\n\nThe prime minister said he hoped that schools would be \"reopening schools after the February half term\".\n\nThere have been assurances that there will be a more thorough approach to home learning than in the first lockdown last year.\n\nThe Department for Education has provided hundreds of thousands of computer devices - with the aim of supporting those without the equipment needed to work online from home.\n\nThere have also been suggestions Ofsted inspectors will play a more active role in checking on what support schools are providing to pupils in their online learning.\n\nUniversities in England had already planned a staggered return for this term - but there will now be even fewer students on campus this month.\n\nThe latest lockdown guidance says university students who are taking hands-on courses such as medicine or veterinary science should return for face-to-face lessons as planned.\n\nThese students will be expected to take two Covid tests or self-isolate for 10 days when they return.\n\nBut students on all other courses are being told not to come back to university if possible and to start their term online \"until at least mid-February\".", "The Queen's 95th birthday will be commemorated on one of five new coins released this year, the Royal Mint has announced.\n\nThe 2021 British coin collection will also mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of novelist Sir Walter Scott, and the 75th anniversary of the death of author HG Wells.\n\nThe release of a £5 coin is typically reserved for significant royal events.\n\nIn April the Queen will become the first UK monarch to reach 95.\n\nThe new £5 coin depicts the royal cypher \"EIIR\", above the words \"my heart and my devotion\", a nod to part of her 1957 Christmas broadcast, which was the first to be televised.\n\nDuring that speech, the Queen told the nation: \"In the old days the monarch led his soldiers on the battlefield and his leadership at all times was close and personal.\n\n\"Today things are very different. I cannot lead you into battle, I do not give you laws or administer justice, but I can do something else, I can give you my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.\"\n\nThe anniversary of the birth of Sir Walter Scott, who wrote the novels Waverley, Rob Roy and Ivanhoe and is considered one of Scotland's most famous figures, will be celebrated with a £2 coin.\n\nThe 75th anniversary of the death of science fiction author HG Wells, who penned works such as The Time Machine and The War Of The Worlds, will also be marked on a £2 coin, with a depiction of images from his novels.\n\nThe 50th anniversary of decimalisation, when Britain's modern coins came into force, will be featured on a 50p coin.\n\nThe 75th anniversary of the death of the inventor John Logie Baird, famous for his early prototypes of the television, will be commemorated on another new 50p coin.\n\nAs the Queen's head already appears on one side of all coins in circulation, these five coins will each offer a different depiction from the various stages of her reign.\n\nClare Maclennan, of the consumer division at the Royal Mint, said this year's commemorative coins marked \"some of the biggest anniversaries in 2021\", with each coin \"a miniature work of art\" designed as \"a treasured keepsake or gift\".\n\nThe commemorative set will be available to purchase from the Royal Mint website.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olly Stephens was pronounced dead in Bugs Bottom fields in Emmer Green, Reading\n\nA school says its community has been left \"reeling\" after a 13-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Reading.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green, on Sunday.\n\nFour boys and a girl, all aged 13 or 14, have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder. They remain in custody.\n\nHighdown School and Sixth Form Centre head teacher Rachel Cave described the boy's death as a \"total tragedy\".\n\nIn a statement, she said: \"This student was part of our community and many students and staff knew him well.\n\n\"Many have been deeply affected by this tragedy.\n\n\"In normal circumstances we would open the school and welcome in students for support before the start of the term.\n\n\"We are currently unable to do this, of course, but are arranging counselling support and will be establishing an electronic book of condolence.\"\n\nFlowers have been left outside Highdown School\n\nMs Cave said the school was \"a supportive and close-knit community\" which would \"work together over the coming days and weeks\".\n\nDet Supt Kevin Brown, of Thames Valley Police, said: \"Our thoughts remain with Olly's family at this incredibly difficult time.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is a tragic and shocking incident which has resulted in the death of a young boy.\"\n\nThe victim's family are being supported by specially trained officers.\n\nThames Valley Police said a \"considerable police presence\" would be in place in the area for several days\n\nOfficers were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack.\n\nOfficers are appealing for anyone who was in the area between 15:00 and 16:30 who might have taken photos or camera footage to contact them if they notice anything suspicious.\n\nDet Supt Brown said he believed there would have been witnesses to the \"dreadful incident\" as the area is popular with dog walkers.\n\nA man said his wife was walking their dog through the park on Sunday afternoon when she saw a boy on the ground with several people around him trying to give him first aid.\n\nAnother dog walker said she saw a group of young people standing in the woods in Bugs Bottom fields at about 15:30 and described it as \"slightly unusual\".\n\nReading East MP Matt Rodda has offered his \"deepest condolences\" to the boy's family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matt Rodda This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSt Barnabas Church in Emmer Green has invited residents to pray and light a candle in memory of the boy.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nick Hulme said intensive care units at Colchester and Ipswich hospitals were \"at capacity\"\n\nSecurity officers removed Covid-19 \"deniers\" who were taking pictures of empty corridors at a NHS hospital where the intensive care unit is at maximum capacity, its chief executive said.\n\nThe incident took place at Colchester Hospital at the weekend.\n\nChief executive Nick Hulme said it \"beggars belief\" some people were calling the pandemic a hoax.\n\nHe said it was \"the right thing to do\" to keep corridors in outpatients units as empty as possible.\n\nMr Hulme said hospital security had to \"remove people who were taking photographs of empty corridors and then posting them on social media, saying the hospital is not in crisis\".\n\n\"When you've got that sort of social media pressure and those people denying the reality of Covid it really concerns us. Words fail me,\" he said.\n\n\"Why would people do that when we all know somebody who has died from Covid?\n\n\"Of course there are empty corridors at the weekend in outpatients, because that's the right thing to do.\n\n\"We are facing the biggest health challenge we've ever seen and we are still seeing people flouting the [social distancing] rules.\"\n\nPeople had to be removed from Colchester Hospital's outpatients ward for taking pictures of empty corridors and claiming Covid-19 was a hoax\n\nUnder coronavirus pandemic restrictions on social distancing, many outpatient consultations had been moved online or were taking place over the telephone, he added.\n\nPhysical appointments, tests and procedures had been organised differently to avoid crowded waiting areas.\n\nMr Hulme is chief executive of East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust which also runs Ipswich Hospital and he said there were currently 320 patients being treated for Covid-19 across both sites.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "The homes of Frank and Christine Lampard, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and Tamara Ecclestone and her husband were broken into in December 2019\n\nFour people have been cleared of being involved in a plot to raid the luxury homes of celebrities in west London.\n\nItems belonging to Frank Lampard, Tamara Ecclestone and the family of tycoon Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha were among the items taken during three burglaries in December 2019.\n\nProsecutors said Maria Mester, 48, Emil Bogdan Savastru, 30, Sorin Marcovici, 53, and Alexandru Stan, 49, were a \"supporting cast\" for the burglars.\n\nBut a jury found all four not guilty.\n\nIsleworth Crown Court heard the three burglaries had netted \"big money\" for the raiders, with \"fabulous jewellery\" stolen and the majority of it having never been recovered.\n\nJay Rutland, Tamara Ecclestone and their daughter had left for Lapland on the morning of the burglary\n\nJewellery and cash worth £25m was taken from Ms Ecclestone's Kensington home while she was on holiday in Lapland with her husband Jay Rutland and their daughter.\n\nMr Lampard and his TV presenter wife Christine had about £60,000 in watches and jewellery stolen when they were out, while raiders also ransacked the family home of Mr Srivaddhanaprabha, who died in 2018 in a helicopter crash, the jury was told.\n\nThe four defendants were accused of eight charges including conspiracy to burgle.\n\nHowever, each denied their involvement with the plot, saying they had no knowledge that the alleged burglars were criminals.\n\nJurors were shown an image from Maria Mester's Facebook account, in which she was said to be wearing Tamara Ecclestone's necklace\n\nThe court heard escort Ms Mester had flown into the UK from Italy on 7 December.\n\nPolice described her as the plot's \"matriarch\", but the 48-year-old told jurors she was only in London after being paid £5,000 to accompany one of the alleged burglars for the week.\n\nSavastru was arrested at Heathrow Airport on 30 January as he prepared to leave for Japan, wearing Mr Srivaddhanaprabha's Tag watch and carrying a Louis Vuitton bag stolen from Mr Rutland.\n\nHe told the court he thought the items had been left behind by the alleged burglars at the Airbnb property he had helped them rent.\n\nThe four Romanian nationals were cleared of all charges apart from Savastru, who was convicted of one count of attempting to conceal criminal property.\n\nThe 30-year-old will be sentenced at a later date.\n\nA group of alleged burglars, who cannot be named for legal reasons, are accused of carrying out the raids.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson has reiterated his position that a Scottish independence referendum should be a \"once-in-a-generation\" vote.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme, the prime minister said the gap between referendums on Europe - the first in 1975 and the second in 2016 - was \"a good sort of gap\".\n\nHowever, Mr Marr suggested that now \"things had changed\" for Scotland.\n\nNicola Sturgeon wants to see an independent Scotland join the EU.\n\nAndrew Marr asked the prime minister what a voter in Scotland should do if they decided that a second independence referendum was now something they wanted, and what were the \"democratic tools\" to now do that?\n\nMr Johnson replied by saying: \"Referendums in my experience, direct experience, in this country are not particularly jolly events.\n\n\"They don't have a notably unifying force in the national mood, they should be only once-in-a-generation.\"\n\nAsked what the difference was between a referendum on EU membership being granted and one on Scottish independence being requested, he said: \"The difference is we had a referendum in 1975 and we then had another one in 2016.\n\n\"That seems to be about the right sort of gap.\"\n\nThe 2014 independence referendum resulted in a 55.3% vote against Scotland going alone.\n\nOn Hogmanay, Nicola Sturgeon said Europe should \"keep a light on\" as Scotland will be \"back soon\".\n\nThe first minister tweeted just after the Brexit transition period formally ended at 11:00 on 31 December 2020.\n\nScotland's trading and travel relationships with EU countries will now be governed by the agreement announced by the UK government on Christmas Eve.\n\nMs Sturgeon reiterated the SNP's call for an independent Scotland to join the EU.\n\nTweeting a picture of the words Europe and Scotland joined by a love heart, she wrote: \"Scotland will be back soon, Europe. Keep the light on.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Nicola Sturgeon This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSNP depute leader Keith Brown said: \"It may be a new year but it's the same old incoherent bluster from Boris Johnson. The prime minister pretends otherwise but he knows he can't keep on denying democracy.\n\n\"Even his American pal Donald Trump has learned that if you try to stand in the way of the democratic choice of a nation you get swept away.\n\n\"The people who will decide our future are the people of Scotland, not Boris Johnson and the Westminster Tories.\"\n\nFormer Labour prime minister Tony Blair said it was \"extremely difficult\" to challenge the SNP on independence when the party was \"virtually uncontested\" in Scotland.\n\nHe said: \"We had a referendum that rejected Scottish independence, but Brexit put it back on the agenda again. And it's going to require very careful management. The truth of the matter is it's still not in Scotland's interest to separate from England.\n\n\"There are huge economic and political reasons for the United Kingdom to stay the United Kingdom but we're going to have to examine whether there's different constitutional settlements.\n\n\"I also think it's incredibly important, the single most important thing politically to my mind, is that we get a really capable opposition in Scotland - which should be the Labour Party - that's capable of contesting the Scottish nationalist position in Scotland in a way that prevents them from doing what they do at the moment, which is govern Scotland but pretend they're in opposition.\"\n\nScottish Greens co-leader Lorna Slater said: \"Only the people of Scotland have the right to determine Scotland's future.\n\n\"Seventeen consecutive opinion polls have demonstrated majorities in favour of independence, with the most recent indicating a record 58% support.\n\n\"Whether it's the botched handling of the coronavirus crisis, the Brexit catastrophe or just the heartlessness of Tory governments we haven't voted for, it's clear that the UK isn't working for Scotland.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 82-year-old Brian Pinker is given the Oxford vaccine at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford\n\nDialysis patient Brian Pinker, 82, has become the first person to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe retired maintenance manager got the jab at 7:30 GMT from nurse Sam Foster at Oxford's Churchill Hospital.\n\nMore than half a million doses of the vaccine are ready for use on Monday.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said it was a \"pivotal moment\" in the UK's fight against the virus, as vaccines will help curb infections and then allow restrictions to be lifted.\n\nBut Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned on Monday there was \"no question we will have to take tougher measures\", which will be announced in \"due course\", as the UK struggles to control a new, fast-spreading variant of the virus.\n\nOn Sunday more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases were recorded in the UK for the sixth day running, prompting Labour to call for a third national lockdown in England.\n\nNorthern Ireland and Wales currently have their own lockdowns in place and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced a fresh lockdown will begin in Scotland from 00:01 on Tuesday.\n\nThe rollout comes as rows continue over whether pupils should return to school with the current high levels of Covid infections.\n\nSix hospital trusts - in Oxford, London, Sussex, Lancashire and Warwickshire - have begun administering the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab, with 530,000 doses ready for use.\n\nMost other available doses will be sent to hundreds of GP-led services and care homes across the UK later in the week, according to the Department of Health and Social Care.\n\nMr Pinker, who has been having dialysis for kidney disease at the Churchill Hospital for a number of years, said he was \"really proud\" the vaccine was developed in Oxford.\n\n\"The nurses, doctors and staff today have all been brilliant and I can now really look forward to celebrating my 48th wedding anniversary with my wife Shirley later this year,\" he said.\n\nMusic teacher and father-of-three Trevor Cowlett, 88, and Prof Andrew Pollard, a paediatrician working at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and lead investigator of the Oxford vaccine trial, were also among the first to be vaccinated.\n\nChief nurse Ms Foster, who administered the first dose, told the BBC it was a \"huge privilege\", saying: \"Every single patient that we have vaccinated over the last couple of weeks have got their own personal stories to the difference it's going to make, so it is no different this morning.\"\n\nSpeaking during a visit to London's Chase Farm Hospital, to meet some of the first people to receive the Oxford vaccine, the prime minister said there were \"tough, tough\" weeks to come.\n\nThere will now be a \"massive ramp-up\" in vaccination numbers \"in the weeks ahead\", Mr Johnson said, and the number of vaccine doses will amount to \"tens of millions by the end of March\".\n\nAsked when the government will be able to vaccinate two million people a week, Mr Johnson said the government will give more details \"in the next few days... as soon as we have better numbers to give\".\n\nMr Hancock told BBC Breakfast the Oxford vaccine rollout was a \"pivotal moment\" in the fight against coronavirus, saying: \"It's going to be a tough few weeks ahead, but this is the way out.\"\n\nAsked about reports potential volunteers were being deterred by the additional training and forms, Mr Hancock said they were going to \"reduce the amount of bureaucracy\".\n\n\"For instance there's one of the training programmes about how to tackle terrorism, I don't think that's necessary, we're going to stop that,\" he said.\n\nHowever, he said this was not delaying the delivery of the vaccine, adding that the next delivery of the vaccine will be \"early this week\" to be \"deployed next week\".\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Chris Whitty said the vaccines \"give us a route out in the medium term\" but warned the NHS was \"under considerable and rising pressure in the short term\".\n\nFormer health secretary and Conservative chairman of the Commons' health committee Jeremy Hunt tweeted that it was \"time to act\" and the government needed to close schools and borders, ban all household mixing and impose a 12-week national lockdown in England.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jeremy Hunt This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLabour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth agreed that a national lockdown was needed, as well as \"rapidly scaled-up vaccine distribution\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock: 'This way can save more lives'\n\nAs the recent rise in Covid cases puts increased pressure on the NHS, the UK has accelerated its vaccination rollout by planning to give both doses of the vaccine 12 weeks apart, having initially planned to leave 21 days between jabs.\n\nThe UK's chief medical officers have defended the delay to second doses, saying getting more people vaccinated with the first jab \"is much more preferable\".\n\nMake no mistake, the UK is in a race against time.\n\nThat much is clear from the decision to delay the second dose of the vaccine to focus on giving as many people as possible their first doses.\n\nSo how fast can the NHS go? Ultimately it wants to get to two million doses a week.\n\nThat will not be achieved this week.\n\nBut Monday marks the start of the NHS putting the accelerator to the floor.\n\nA rapid increase in the vaccination rate should follow.\n\nBut how quickly the UK can go is dependent on several complex processes.\n\nFirst, the vaccine has to be manufactured, then it has to be put into vials and packaged up (known as fill and finish). After that each batch has to be checked and certified before being sent to NHS vaccination sites where there needs to be enough vaccinators and support staff to ensure those doses are given as quickly as possible.\n\nProblems at any one stage can disrupt how quickly the vaccination programme can be rolled out.\n\nWhile there are millions of doses of each vaccine in the country and a total of 140 million of both vaccines pre-ordered, there are currently just over one million - around 500,000 of each - ready to be given this week.\n\nNHS medical director Professor Stephen Powis said: \"The NHS' biggest vaccination programme in history is off to a strong start, thanks to the tremendous efforts of NHS staff who have already delivered more than one million jabs.\"\n\nHe said the Oxford vaccine rollout was \"chalking up another world first that will protect thousands more over the coming weeks\".\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was the first jab approved in the UK, and more than a million people have had their first one.\n\nThe first person to get the jab on 8 December, Margaret Keenan, has already had her second dose.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Nikita Kanani, NHS England's medical director for primary care, says it's crucial to get more patients the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine\n\nThe Oxford jab - which was approved for use in late December - can be stored at normal fridge temperatures, making it easier to distribute and store than the Pfizer jab. It is also cheaper per dose.\n\nThe UK has secured 100 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, enough for most of the population.\n\nCare home residents and staff, people aged over 80, and frontline NHS staff will be first to receive it.\n\nGPs and local vaccination services have been asked to ensure every care home resident in their local area is vaccinated by the end of January, the Department of Health and Social Care said.\n\nSome 730 vaccination sites have already been established across the UK, with the total set to surpass 1,000 later this week, the department added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon announces stay at home rules in new lockdown\n\nScots are to be ordered to stay at home amid a fresh Covid-19 lockdown which will see schools remain closed to pupils until February.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said new curbs would be introduced at midnight in a bid to contain the new, faster-spreading strain of the virus.\n\nNew laws will require people to stay at home and work from home where possible.\n\nOutdoor gatherings are also to be cut back, with people only allowed to meet one person from one other household.\n\nPlaces of worship are to be closed, group exercise banned, and schools will largely operate via online and remote learning.\n\nThese rules will apply across the Scottish mainland until at least the end of January, and will be kept under review.\n\nIsland areas will remain in level three - but Ms Sturgeon said they would be monitored carefully.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson later announced similar lockdown measures for the whole of England with all schools and colleges closing to most pupils until mid February.\n\nA further 1,905 new cases were reported in Scotland on Monday - with 15% of tests returning a positive result, something Ms Sturgeon said \"illustrates the severity and urgency of the situation\".\n\nThe first minister said she was \"more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year\", with the new coronavirus strain now accounting for half of new cases.\n\nAnd she said a \"steeply rising trend of infections\" was threatening to put \"significant pressure\" on NHS services, saying hospitals could breach capacity within three to four weeks.\n\nThe new rules - which will be put down in law - mean Scots will only be allowed to leave home for essential purposes, such as shopping for food and medicine, exercise and caring responsibilities.\n\nNo limit is to be put on how many times people can go out to exercise, but outdoor meetings are to be limited to a maximum of two people from two households.\n\nEveryone who can work from home will be required to, and people in the \"shielding\" category are advised not to go in to work at all.\n\nThe construction and manufacturing industries will remain open, but Ms Sturgeon said this would be kept under review.\n\nPlaces of worship are to close, the number of people who can attend weddings is to be cut to five, and funeral wakes will no longer be allowed.\n\nSchools are to remain closed to the majority of pupils until February, with Ms Sturgeon saying community transmission of the virus must be brought to a lower level amid concerns that the new variant of the virus spreads more easily among young people.\n\nShe said she knew remote learning presented \"significant challenges\" for parents, teachers and pupils, adding: \"I want to be clear that it remains our priority to get school buildings open again for all pupils are quickly as possible and then keep them open.\"\n\nThe first minister said she was considering whether teachers could be given the Covid-19 vaccine as a priority.\n\nMore than 100,000 people have been given a first dose of the vaccine in Scotland, and the government expects to have access to just over 900,000 doses by the end of January.\n\nHowever Ms Sturgeon said the best way to get schools open again was to drive down transmission of the virus - urging Scots to abide by the rules.\n\nThese are the toughest restrictions Scotland has faced since the lockdown of March 2020.\n\nIt is - once again - becoming compulsory to stay at home except for essential purposes like food shopping, exercise and medical care.\n\nThe extended closure of schools to most pupils is something the Scottish government was particularly keen to avoid.\n\nThese decisions are a measure of how worried ministers are about the rapid spread of the new variant of coronavirus, which is fast becoming the dominant strain.\n\nWith 225 cases per 100,000 people, Scotland is thought to be about four weeks behind London, which already has four times as many cases and NHS services under considerable pressure.\n\nThe Scottish government believes that without further action the NHS here would run out of beds for Covid patients within a month.\n\nThis new alert comes at the start of a new year which also brings new hope for a route out of the pandemic with two vaccines now beginning to offer protection.\n\nAround 100,000 doses have already been administered in Scotland but it is likely to take several months to reach all in the most vulnerable groups.\n\nThe first minister said Scotland was now in \"a race between the vaccine and the virus\".\n\nShe said: \"The Scottish government will do everything we can to speed up distribution of the vaccine. But all of us must do everything we can to slow down the spread of the virus.\n\n\"We can already see - by looking at infection rates in the south of England - some of what could happen here in Scotland. To prevent that, we need to act immediately and firmly.\n\n\"For government, that means introducing tough measures - as we have done today. And for all of us, it means sticking to the rules.\"\n\nScottish Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson raised concerns about online learning, saying it was vital that pupils had \"equal access to high-quality education\".\n\nAnd Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard said teachers and working parents would need support to make the remote learning system work.\n\nMs Sturgeon said her government had \"agonised\" over the decision on schools, and said the \"fundamental priority\" was to re-open them in full as soon as possible.\n\nShe said: \"Just as the last places we ever want to close are schools and nurseries - so it is the case that schools and nurseries will be the first places we want to reopen as we re-emerge from this latest lockdown.\"\n\nThe NHS has coped so far in Scotland - more so than many other parts of the UK.\n\nBut in places like Glasgow and Lanarkshire it has been very, very tight. And here like everywhere else staff are bracing themselves for the post-Christmas effects of rising cases.\n\nThe first minister gave some stark figures on hospital and ICU occupancy - suggesting we are just weeks away from reaching limits.\n\nThere is so little give in the system they will be glad to see everything possible done to prevent stretched services being overwhelmed at a time when we are on our way to getting out the other side.\n\nThere is real anxiety about what the next few weeks might bring.\n• None Covid in Scotland: New lockdown from midnight", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Shaw, from Dundee, was among the first to receive the jab\n\nThe first Scottish recipients of the new Oxford University and AstraZeneca vaccine have received their jabs.\n\nJames Shaw, 82, and his 82-year-old wife Malita were among the first to be vaccinated in Dundee.\n\nThe couple received their first doses at Lochee Health and Community Care Centre.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said she hoped all over-50s and those with underlying health conditions will have been vaccinated by early May.\n\nJames said: \"My wife and I are delighted to be receiving this vaccination. I have asthma and bronchitis and I have been desperate to have it so I am really pleased to be one of the first to be getting it.\n\n\"I know it takes a little while for the vaccine to work but after today I know that I will feel a bit less worried about going out. I will still be very careful and avoid busy places but knowing I have been vaccinated will really help me.\n\n\"All of my friends have said they are going to have the vaccine when it is their turn and I would encourage everyone who is offered this vaccination to take it.\"\n\nJames Shaw, 82, was one of the first people in Scotland to receive the AstraZeneca/Oxford Covid-19 vaccine, administered by advanced nurse practitioner Justine Williams\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine programme is being rolled out less than a week after it was approved by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). It is the second vaccine approved for use in the UK.\n\nNHS Tayside is rolling out the vaccine through GP practices in the community and will also vaccinate elderly residents and staff in care homes.\n\nIts associate director of public health Dr Daniel Chandleris said: \"The efforts of our vaccination teams have been amazing and it is testament to a real whole team approach that sees the first over-80s in the general population have their jabs today in Tayside.\n\n\"The availability and mobility of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine gives us the opportunity to start to roll out the biggest vaccine programme that the UK has ever seen across our communities.\n\n\"Over-80s are the first priority group and patients will be contacted directly to attend a vaccination session.\"\n\nScottish Secretary Alister Jack added: \"This is another important moment in our fight against the virus - every vaccination takes us a step closer to getting back to our normal lives as soon as possible.\n\n\"As with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, the UK is the first country in the world to approve and roll out the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, with the UK Government ordering and paying for millions of doses for people in all parts of the UK.\"\n\nThe milestone came as First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced a new stricter lockdown.\n\nWith the exception of essential travel, people in mainland Scotland will have to remain at home from midnight.\n\nStatistics released on Monday showed a further 1,905 people had contracted Covid-19.\n\nFigures for hospital admissions and deaths over the holiday weekend will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nMs Sturgeon likened the situation to a race between the vaccine and the virus.\n\nShe said: \"In one lane we have vaccines - our job is to make sure they run as fast as possible.\n\n\"But in the other lane is the virus which - as a result of this new variant - has just learned to run much faster and has most definitely picked up pace in the last couple of weeks.\n\n\"To ensure that the vaccine wins the race, it is essential to speed up vaccination as far as possible. But to give it the time it needs to get ahead, we must also slow the virus down.\"\n\nThe new vaccine will initially be available in the hospitals that have been delivering the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine, and new community settings will be able to deliver the jabs from 11 January.\n\nPeople in Scotland will be contacted by their health board when it is their turn to be vaccinated.\n\nThe Oxford vaccination marks a major turning point in the pandemic and will lead to a massive expansion in the UK's immunisation campaign, with enough to vaccinate 50 million people throughout the UK already on order.\n\nIt is easier to transport and store than the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, which needs cold storage of about -70C.\n\nThe Oxford vaccine is logistically much easier to distribute\n\nThe UK government has said 530,000 doses of the Oxford vaccine will be available to the UK from Monday, with \"millions due by the beginning of February\".\n\nScotland will ultimately get an 8.2% share of these vaccines, based on its population.\n\nChief Medical Officer Dr Gregor Smith has said he expects the NHS in Scotland to receive 440,360 doses of the vaccine during January.\n\nThe first minister said on Monday about 100,000 people in Scotland have already received a first dose of vaccine.\n\nBoth vaccines require two doses to be administered with an interval of between four and 12 weeks.\n\nPreviously the advice was for the vaccines to have a four-week gap between doses.\n\nThe Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) then recommended as many people as possible in the top priority groups should be offered a first dose as the initial priority.", "Dr Radha Modgil from BBC Radio 1’s Life Hacks shares her top five tips on how to stay mentally and emotionally well during the coronavirus lockdown, all beginning with the letter C.\n\nSticking to a routine, making sure we take care of ourselves, and using our creativity in new ways are all ways she suggests we can ease the psychological toll that staying inside is having on all of us.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "A top Swedish official involved in the coronavirus response has defended a Christmas holiday in the Canary Islands in the face of heavy criticism.\n\nDan Eliasson is head of the civil contingencies agency, which earlier in December had texted all Swedes urging them to avoid travel.\n\nHe was photographed in Las Palmas airport on the island of Gran Canaria.\n\nMr Eliasson insisted the trip was necessary \"for family reasons\".\n\nHe told Swedish media that he had \"given up a lot of trips during this pandemic\" but thought this one was necessary because he had a daughter living in the Canaries.\n\n\"I celebrated Christmas with her and my family,\" he told Expressen newspaper. He also said he had been worked remotely while in the Canaries.\n\nSweden has had 437,000 confirmed cases and 8,700 deaths - many more than its Scandinavian neighbours. The country has never imposed a full lockdown.\n\nHowever, alarmed by rising numbers of cases last month, the Swedish government reversed some of its guidance and sent a text message to all Swedes asking them to read updated guidelines.\n\nThe guidelines included asking Swedes to avoid unnecessary trips and not to make new contacts during a journey or at the destination.\n\nMr Eliasson was then photographed several times in Gran Canaria, including at the airport.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Expressen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere have been calls for Mr Eliasson, an experienced official who has worked at several important departments, to be fired.\n\nPrime Minister Stefan Löfven and other ministers have not yet commented, according to Swedish media.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. From the pandemic to measles, Smitha Mundasad looks at global health challenges in 2021", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nTributes have been paid to trainer Zoe Davison, who died from cancer on the same day two of her horses claimed wins at Plumpton.\n\nDavison, who had breast cancer for four-and-a-half years, died at her Shovelstrode Racing Stables in Sussex.\n\nBrown Bullet and Mr Jack, both trained at the family's stable, had raced to victory at the Sussex track on Sunday.\n\nSimon Clare, part-owner of Brown Bullet, said: \"Zoe was just the most wonderful human being imaginable.\"\n\nHer husband Andrew Irvine - who she married in 2018 - was by her side, along with family.\n\nHe said: \"She was the most wonderful, incredible person. I am blessed to have spent the last 24 years of my life with her.\"\n\nDaughter Gemelle Johnson, who was assistant to her mother, said: \"I just feel a bit numb inside because of everything.\n\n\"I'm a bit overwhelmed we've had a double for mum. Hopefully we have made her proud. It's surreal. Our team is a family business and we put everything into it. She will be thoroughly missed as she is the glue that holds us together.\n\n\"We've had a few winners around here and it is one of our local tracks. It means everything to us as we want to do her proud.\"\n\nDavison sent out the first of over 100 winners when Sails Legend, with AP McCoy in the saddle, won at Towcester in November 1997.\n\nShe enjoyed her best season with 15 winners in the 2017-18 campaign.\n\nJockey Page Fuller has a long association with the stable and should have ridden Mr Jack but had been stood down from an earlier fall.\n\nShe said: \"You couldn't have written it any better today. She was just a kind and genuine person who was a real horsewoman. She loved her horses and did her best by them.\n\n\"She has been struggling for a long time, but fortunately her strength has rubbed off on everybody else and they showed that by sending out the winners today.\n\n\"It has been a great team effort and it is great she has gone out like that. I don't know anybody who would have a bad word to say about her - she was just one of those really nice people.\"\n\nEd Arkell, ex-Fontwell clerk of the course and now at nearby West Sussex track Goodwood, said: \"Zoe was a huge part of the southern racing circuit. I'm so sorry for her family and she will be very much missed. She was a friendly, happy person who everybody loved.\n\n\"As a trainer, she ran a wonderful family operation. There are less of those these days. She supported her local tracks and became a big part of them.\"\n\nClare added: \"Zoe was the most talented horsewoman imaginable. What she didn't know about horses wasn't worth knowing.\n\n\"She is so incredibly well loved and will be desperately missed by everyone who knew her.\"", "Cases have reached record highs in the past week\n\nThe next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid, the first minister has warned.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said the new variant of the virus was \"accelerating spread\" across Scotland.\n\n\"If you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others and the NHS at risk,\" she tweeted.\n\nA further 2,539 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed on Friday.\n\nThe number is slightly down on Thursday's figure, but Ms Sturgeon said cases numbers were still \"worryingly high\".\n\nDaily confirmed cases have reached record highs on each of the previous three days, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nThe percentage of positive cases also reached 14.4% on Wednesday - the highest it has been since the second wave of the pandemic began in the summer.\n\nMs Sturgeon tweeted: \"Today's case numbers are worryingly high again. The new variant is accelerating spread.\n\n\"PLEASE do not visit other people's homes just now, even today - if you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others & the NHS at risk.\"\n\nShe said the \"vaccine cavalry\" was on the way, offering \"real hope for 2021\", but she added: \"With this new variant, the next few weeks may be the most dangerous we've faced since Mar/April.\n\n\"We must act together to suppress it, to save lives and protect the NHS. Folded hands stick with it.\"\n\nThe number of daily confirmed cases has reached record highs this week\n\nA new study by London's Imperial College has found that the new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nThe Scottish government's most recent estimate of the R number in Scotland has put it between 0.9 and 1.1.\n\nEmma Thomson, a professor of infectious disease at the University of Glasgow, said it was important to get people vaccinated quickly.\n\nThe professor, who has been working on the sequencing of the new Covid mutation, told the BBC that lockdown was not controlling the infection \"on its own\".\n\n\"At least we come in armed into the new year with two vaccines which are highly effective at preventing severe disease. We have that,\" she said.\n\n\"We need to roll it out now to add to the public health measures.\"\n\nParties, traditional \"first-footing\" and social events were banned this Hogmanay, with all of mainland Scotland and Skye being under the highest level of Covid restrictions.\n\nAll official events were cancelled, but police had to disperse a crowds of people who gathered at Edinburgh Castle and Calton Hill to see in the new year.\n\nIt has also emerged that 32 people were charged with reckless conduct after police found them gathered at a rented property in Aberfoyle on 27 December.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"As the first minister has pointed out, the sharp rise in cases is evidence that the new strain seems to be speeding up transmission.\n\n\"This is why we are asking people to please stay at home as much as possible and avoid non-essential interaction with others.\n\n\"There is light at the end of the tunnel, but we ask everyone to be patient as we work our way through the vaccination programme, and continue to follow FACTS to keep us all safe.\"", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nThe first patients have been given the Oxford vaccine - five days after it was approved for use in the UK. Dialysis patient Brian Pinker, aged 82, was the first to receive it. It's a \"pivotal moment\" in the fight against the virus, according to Health Secretary Matt Hancock. More than 500,000 doses are ready to go, with care home residents and staff, people aged over 80, and NHS workers at the front of the queue. Some 730 vaccination sites have already been established, we're told, with the total set to surpass 1,000 later this week. The Oxford jab is easier to distribute and store than the Pfizer version, which was the first to be approved. It's also cheaper per dose. Find out more about how it was developed, and when you might receive one.\n\nThe vaccine news may be positive, but few deny the coronavirus situation in the UK right now is bleak. On Sunday, more than 50,000 new cases were recorded for the sixth day running and Labour is calling for a third national lockdown in England. Boris Johnson has admitted tougher restrictions are likely. Nicola Sturgeon is expected to announce new restrictions for Scotland later, while Northern Ireland and Wales already have their own lockdowns in place. The obvious next step for England would probably be to move more areas into tier four - a reminder of what that means - but our science editor David Shukman says there are other steps under discussion too.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJanuary is normally a boom time for gyms, but coronavirus restrictions mean many are closed and others can't offer any group classes. At the same time, there's been an explosion in fitness tech, allowing more of us than ever to work out at home. So what does this mean for the future of the gym sector? Our reporter Eleanor Lawrie looks closely. Meanwhile, wherever you are in the UK, see 21 simple ways to get fitter in 2021.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sports expert Ruth Lowry says exercising outdoors could help us cope with Covid this winter\n\nThe pandemic has prompted many of us to change direction, career-wise, whether out of choice or necessity. Our CEO Secrets series has been documenting some of those forging a new path here in the UK, but the same trends are going on elsewhere too. In India, Shalini Sharma and Mrinali Hariyal have gone from stay-at-home mums cooking for their families to chefs providing meals for paying customers. They're plugging the gap left by restaurant closures and finding new identities for themselves. Watch their stories.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, are pandemics the new normal?\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "More than 200 workers at Google-parent Alphabet have taken steps to form a labour union in a rare development for an American tech giant.\n\nThey said the organisation will give staff greater power to voice concerns about discriminatory work practices at the firm and how it handles issues like online hate speech.\n\nThe move follows walkouts and other actions by staff in recent years.\n\nGoogle said it would \"continue engaging directly with all our employees\".\n\n\"We've always worked hard to create a supportive and rewarding workplace for our workforce,\" Kara Silverstein, director of people operations, said in a statement.\n\n\"Of course our employees have protected labour rights that we support. But as we've always done, we'll continue engaging directly with all our employees\".\n\nThe announcement of the Alphabet Workers Union comes weeks after Google's firing of a high-profile black artificial intelligence and ethics researcher generated uproar.\n\nThe US National Labor Relations Board also recently ruled the firm had unlawfully fired employees for attempting to organise a union.\n\nGoogle staff stage a walkout in 2018 over the company's handling of sexual misconduct allegations\n\nStaff have also mobilised against the firm's \"Project Maven\" work with the Department of Defense and the company's handling of sexual harassment complaints.\n\n\"This union builds upon years of courageous organizing by Google workers,\" Nicki Anselmo, program manager, said in the announcement.\n\n\"From fighting the 'real names' policy, to opposing Project Maven, to protesting the egregious, multi-million dollar payouts that have been given to executives who've committed sexual harassment, we've seen first-hand that Alphabet responds when we act collectively.\n\n\"Our new union provides a sustainable structure to ensure that our shared values as Alphabet employees are respected even after the headlines fade.\"\n\nThe group was organised by software engineers but is open to all ranks at the company's US and Canadian workforce, including temporary workers and contractors.\n\nIt is affiliated with the larger labour group, Communication Workers of America, but is not seeking formal recognition from the federal government, limiting its bargaining power.\n\nIt represents a small fraction of Alphabet's workforce, which includes more than 130,000 people as of September and roughly as many contractors, vendors and temporary staff.\n\nMembers who join will contribute about 1% of their compensation to the effort.\n\n\"We want Alphabet to be a company where workers have a meaningful say in decisions that affect us and the societies we live in,\" organisers wrote on Twitter.", "Nóra Quoirin was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder that affects brain development\n\nA girl whose body was found in a jungle during a holiday in Malaysia died by misadventure, a coroner has recorded.\n\nNóra Quoirin, 15, from Balham, south-west London, was discovered dead nine days after she went missing from an eco-resort in August 2019.\n\nThe family said they were \"utterly disappointed\" with the verdict, which ruled out any criminal involvement.\n\nThey believe \"layers of evidence\" that were heard at the inquest point towards Nora having been abducted.\n\nThe family were staying in Sora House in Dusun eco-resort near Seremban, about 40 miles (65km) south of Kuala Lumpur, when they reported Nóra missing, the day after they had arrived.\n\nNóra, who was born with holoprosencephaly - a disorder which affects brain development - was eventually found by a group of civilian volunteers in a palm-oil plantation less than two miles from the holiday home.\n\nThe Quoirins, whose lawyers had asked the coroner to record an open verdict, said in a statement after the ruling that they have a number of reasons for the abduction theory. These include:\n\nSearch and rescue teams were deployed in an effort to locate Nora\n\nIn the statement, issued through the Lucie Blackman Trust, the family said they witnessed 80 slides presented in court as the verdict was given, adding that none of them \"engaged with who Nóra really was - neither her personality nor her intellectual abilities\".\n\nThey said: \"The coroner made mention several times of her inability to rule on certain points due to not knowing Nóra enough.\n\n\"It is indeed our view that to know Nóra would be to know that she was simply incapable of hiding in undergrowth, climbing out a window and making her way out of a fenced resort in the darkness unclothed.\"\n\nThe statement added: \"We believe we have fought not just for Nóra but in honour of all the special needs children in this world who deserve our most committed support and the most careful application of justice.\n\n\"This is Nóra's unique legacy and we will never let it go.\"\n\nFom the outset Meabh Quoirin believed her daughter had been abducted but Malaysian police insisted Nóra's disappearance had always been a missing persons case and ruled out any criminal involvement.\n\nThe authorities closed the case in January 2020, and Nóra's parents pushed for the inquest.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police played the sound of Nóra's mother's voice through a loudspeaker in the jungle\n\nDuring the inquest, a British pathologist who carried out a second post-mortem examination said Nóra's body had no injuries to suggest she was attacked or restrained.\n\nOn the final day of evidence, an investigating officer who was on duty the morning Nóra was reported missing said he was confident there were no criminal elements involved in her disappearance.\n\nFollowing the coroner's verdict, the Quoirins' legal team have discussed the family's rights moving forward, which include the possibility of applying for a revision of the misadventure verdict at the High Court of Seremban.\n\nLouise Azmi, one lawyer for the family, said they had pressed for an open verdict to reflect the lack of positive evidence in the case regarding what happened to Nora.\n\nAn open verdict would leave open the possibility that a criminal element was involved in Nora's death, Mrs Azmi said.\n\nShe told the BBC based on everything the family know of Nora, \"they continue to believe it is impossible she would have willingly walked away into the jungle\".\n\nThe family's legal team say parents Meabh and Sebastien Quoirin are \"disappointed\" with today's verdict.\n\nBut, Coroner Maimoonah Aid said her verdict was made not on \"theories\" and \"speculation\" surrounding the case, but on the balance of probabilities of the evidence presented before her.\n\nWith no evidence to the contrary she ruled out foul play.\n\nMoving forward, the Quoirin family now have the possibility to apply for a revision of the verdict with the High Court of Seremban.\n\nThere is precedent of a verdict being overturned in Malaysia before.\n\nIn 2019, following an appeal, a Malaysian coroner's verdict of misadventure concerning the death of 18-year-old model Ivana Smit was overturned in Kuala Lumpur and reopened as a murder investigation.\n\nAccording to Quoirin family lawyer Sakthy Vell, the family say they now need time to consider their next course of action.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM: 'No question we're going to have to take tougher measures'\n\nBoris Johnson has said there is \"no question\" the government will announce stricter measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus \"in due course\".\n\nHe predicted \"tough, tough\" weeks to come, with more than three-quarters of England's population already under the highest - tier four - restrictions.\n\nOn Sunday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the sixth day in a row.\n\nLabour is calling for new England-wide restrictions to come in immediately.\n\nLeader Sir Keir Starmer said it was \"inevitable\" more schools would have to close to lessen the spread of coronavirus.\n\nIn Scotland, further new restrictions are to come into force at midnight, including a \"legal requirement\" for people to stay at home. except for essential purposes.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Scotland was effectively returning to conditions similar to Spring's nation-wide lockdown, with the curbs in place until at least the end of January.\n\nAn additional 454 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result were reported across the UK on Sunday, meaning the total by this measure is now above 75,000.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the \"old tier system\" in England was \"no longer strong enough\" to contain increasing infections.\n\nHospitals are coming under increasing pressure, as cases mount up.\n\nThe old tier system is no longer enough…the figures are only heading in one direction.\n\nThese are the words of the health secretary and a health minister.\n\nBoris Johnson says stricter measures are coming, which immediately sparks the questions \"when?,\" and \"what are you waiting for?\"\n\nDowning Street wants to push a tougher message on adherence to the current rules in England while it assesses the latest Christmas data, but is coming under growing pressure to act sooner.\n\nWith Nicola Sturgeon about to go further in Scotland and the Labour leader calling for an immediate national lockdown, it's difficult to see how the prime minister can wait much longer.\n\nAsked what further restrictions would be put in place, Mr Johnson said: \"What we have been waiting for is to see the impact of the tier four measures on the virus and it is a bit unclear, still, at the moment.\n\n\"But if you look at the numbers, there is no question that we are going to have to take tougher measures and we will be announcing those in due course.\"\n\nHe said the faster-spreading coronavirus variant that has developed in south-eastern England required \"extra-special vigilance\".\n\nBBC science editor David Shukman said new measures could include limits on outdoor exercise and a return to the two-metre (rather than one-metre-plus) social distancing rule, as applied during the first lockdown last year.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to Chase Farm Hospital in north London, the prime minister argued that closing primary schools must remain a \"last resort\", adding that the \"risk to kids\" was \"very, very small\".\n\nSecondary schools in England are currently closed until 18 January, except for pupils in their final GCSE and A-level years, who are due to return on 11 January.\n\nAsked whether they could remain closed, Mr Johnson said: \"We are keeping things under review.\"\n\nBut former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt urged the government to close all schools and UK borders \"right away\", while banning \"all household mixing\".\n\nThe Conservative MP, who now chairs the Commons Health Committee, said these restrictions should be \"time-limited\" to \"12 weeks or so\", after which the roll-out of vaccines would provide \"light at the end of the tunnel\".\n\nMore than 500,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine are now available for use, with the Pfizer BioNTech jab having been issued since early last month.\n\nThe virus is winning at the moment, despite science fighting back with a vaccine. New daily cases of Covid have been rising to record levels, which means hospital numbers and deaths will increase too.\n\nMinisters say more measures are coming, but it is not clear yet what that will mean in practice.\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are already in lockdown, and most of England is under tier four rules.\n\nIn recent days the focus has shifted to schools and whether they can be kept open without making the epidemic worse.\n\nExperts agree that the risk the virus poses to children is still low, but they can spread the disease.\n\nWith a new, more transmissible variant of Covid circulating, the government may have to enact this unpalatable \"last resort\" of closing classrooms.\n\nSome 78% of the population of England is now in tier four, under which non-essential shops are closed and people can only leave their homes for a certain number of reasons.\n\nThe Scottish government meets later to consider \"further action\", with all of mainland Scotland currently under its own level four restrictions - only some islands are under less stringent tier three measures.\n\nWales entered a nationwide lockdown on 20 December, while Northern Ireland is in the second week of a six-week lockdown that began on Boxing Day.\n\nIn another development, an academic has said there is a \"big question mark\" over whether a vaccine developed at Oxford University will be as effective against a new variant of the virus that has emerged in South Africa.\n\nProf Sir John Bell, Regius professor of medicine at the university, said the team there were currently investigating this question \"right now\".\n\nHe added it was \"unlikely\" the variant would \"turn off the effect of vaccines entirely\", and in any case it would be possible to tweak the vaccine in around four to six weeks.\n\nBut Matt Hancock told Today he was \"incredibly worried\" about the South African variant, saying: \"This is a very, very significant problem.\"\n\n\"We have shown that we are prepared to move incredibly quickly, within 24 hours if we think that is necessary, and we keep these things under review all the time,\" added the health secretary.", "Quote Message: The return of lockdown for at least the rest of January is a severe blow for much of the Scottish economy. It could be worse: this is not the peak Christmas season for retail and hospitality, though the season they’ve just had was very hard going for many, and non-existent for others. This is also the quietest part of the tourism year, so January is a relatively good month to lose one’s bookings. For many firms, it is better than last spring, because they have infection controls in place. And there is a less harsh closure scheme, meaning construction sites and others can stay open, subject to tight rules. Many employers have settled into patterns of working from home, so this does not carry the shock of last March. There was little expectation of getting staff back into offices for months yet. But that doesn’t make this time any easier for workers who are also parents. They know, from last year, how tough it is to handle childcare and lessons while schools are shut - and this time, they have to manage without good weather. The other, more negative comparison with last spring is that firms now are, typically, deeper in debt and with less spare cash to pay the bills that don’t stop - rent, and utility bills, for instance. Some delayed payments are getting tougher to keep on hold. Their frustration with the slow movement of government grant schemes is showing. They aren’t disputing the case for further lockdown but they are making their own case for support through it, and for a recovery strategy once restrictions are lifted, including a boost to consumer confidence and spending.\" from Douglas Fraser Scotland business & economy editor\n\nThe return of lockdown for at least the rest of January is a severe blow for much of the Scottish economy. It could be worse: this is not the peak Christmas season for retail and hospitality, though the season they’ve just had was very hard going for many, and non-existent for others. This is also the quietest part of the tourism year, so January is a relatively good month to lose one’s bookings. For many firms, it is better than last spring, because they have infection controls in place. And there is a less harsh closure scheme, meaning construction sites and others can stay open, subject to tight rules. Many employers have settled into patterns of working from home, so this does not carry the shock of last March. There was little expectation of getting staff back into offices for months yet. But that doesn’t make this time any easier for workers who are also parents. They know, from last year, how tough it is to handle childcare and lessons while schools are shut - and this time, they have to manage without good weather. The other, more negative comparison with last spring is that firms now are, typically, deeper in debt and with less spare cash to pay the bills that don’t stop - rent, and utility bills, for instance. Some delayed payments are getting tougher to keep on hold. Their frustration with the slow movement of government grant schemes is showing. They aren’t disputing the case for further lockdown but they are making their own case for support through it, and for a recovery strategy once restrictions are lifted, including a boost to consumer confidence and spending.\"", "Northern Ireland's First Minister Arlene Foster has said there \"is a gateway of opportunity\" for the UK and Northern Ireland after Brexit.\n\nShe told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show on Sunday that the trade deal also tackled \"some of the great difficulties that there are with the (Northern Ireland) Protocol\".\n\nThe purpose of the Protocol is to prevent a hardening of the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. It does that by keeping Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods and by having Northern Ireland apply EU customs rules at its ports.\n\nAs a result, an 'Irish Sea border' now exists, with most commercial goods entering Northern Ireland from Great Britain requiring a customs declaration.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), which Mrs Foster leads, opposed the protocol and had criticised the establishment of such a border. She told The Andrew Marr show that her party \"didn't want the protocol but it is here\".\n\n\"I have to mitigate against that and my job from now on is to mitigate against those excesses and to hold the government to account,\" Mrs Foster added.", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nProfessional sport in England can continue behind closed doors, despite a new national lockdown announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nIt means Premier League football and elite leagues in other sports are allowed to carry on.\n\nThe sport and leisure rules in England are similar to those announced in Scotland earlier on Monday.\n\nPeople living in England have been told to stay at home and schools will shut for most pupils from Tuesday.\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nFor those in England, exercising outside is allowed once a day. Venues such as gyms, tennis courts and golf courses will be closed.\n\nOrganised outdoor sport for disabled people is exempt from the new measures.\n\nGames and training in non-elite football - which includes all adult and youth grassroots, except for disabled people - have been suspended.\n\nThe Women's FA Cup is among the non-elite competitions placed on hold. All but one of the second-round matches scheduled to take place on Sunday were postponed because of Covid-19 regulations.\n\nTeams from the Women's Super League and Women's Championship enter the draw from the fourth round onwards.\n\nWhich non-elite football has been suspended? Steps three to six of the National League System (all divisions below the National League North and South) Tiers three to seven of the Women's Football Pyramid (all divisions below the Women's Championship) Women's FA Cup (classified as 'non-elite' up to and including the third round) All indoor and outdoor youth and adult grassroots football, including under-18s (except organised outdoor football for disabled people, which is allowed to continue)\n\nFollowing Monday's announcement by the prime minister, this week's sporting fixtures in England are set to go ahead as planned.\n\nIn football, the Carabao Cup semi-finals are being played on Tuesday and Wednesday, while the FA Cup third round - which has 32 fixtures spanning four days - starts on Friday.\n\nThere are also several Women's Super League, English Football League and National League games set to take place, as well as English Premiership and Premier 15s rugby union matches, plus the Masters snooker event in Milton Keynes.\n\nEarlier on Monday, Rochdale chief executive David Bottomley said he believes it is \"inevitable\" that the EFL will have to temporarily suspend fixtures because of rising coronavirus cases.\n\nSeven of last Saturday's EFL games - and 52 across the season - have been called off as teams are affected by the virus.\n\nFour Premier League matches have also been postponed this season because of coronavirus cases.\n\nWhat does the new lockdown mean for sport in England?\n\nThe UK government published its guidance for England's new national lockdown shortly after the prime minister's televised address at 20:00 GMT.\n\nHere are the points relating to sport and physical activity:\n• None Elite sportspeople (and their coaches if necessary, or parents/guardians if they are under 18) - or those on an official elite sports pathway - to compete and train\n• None Outdoor sports courts, outdoor gyms, golf courses, outdoor swimming pools, archery/driving/shooting ranges and riding arenas must also close\n• None Organised outdoor sport for disabled people is allowed to continue\n\nWhile golfing has been allowed to continue in Scotland under strict rules, courses will be closed in England.\n\nEngland Golf said it was \"extremely disappointed\" with the decision, adding it had made a \"strong case\" to keep the sport open in recent months.\n\nWhere can I exercise and who can I exercise with?\n\nYou can exercise in a public outdoor place:\n• None with the people you live with\n• None with your support bubble ( if you are legally permitted to form one)\n• None or, when on your own, with one person from another household\n• None public gardens (whether or not you pay to enter them)\n\nUK Active, a not-for-profit organisation that promotes health and fitness, says the government must act immediately to \"minimise the damaging impact of lockdown\".\n\n\"We know from the millions of people that depend on gyms, pools, and leisure centres to support their physical and mental health, how essential they are,\" said UK Active chief executive Huw Edwards.\n\n\"We cannot afford to wait until the vaccine rollout is advanced before we act, so the government must explore all options at this time and provide a credible plan for maintaining this support to millions of people who rely on these Covid-secure facilities to stay strong and healthy.\n\n\"Furthermore, the UK governments must protect this sector before it becomes too late.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBoris Johnson must bring back \"the spirit of March\" to get control of coronavirus in England, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said.\n\nSir Keir said the virus was \"out of control\" and a second \"national lockdown\" - including the closure of all schools - was needed.\n\nThe PM had to give a firm \"stay at home message\", Sir Keir told the BBC.\n\nMr Johnson will make a televised address at 20:00 GMT to set out further restrictions amid surging cases.\n\nIt comes as Scotland announced a legal requirement to stay at home from midnight.\n\nSir Keir said Labour would support any move towards tighter restrictions in England, but urged the prime minister to \"stop dithering\" and take action.\n\nThe Labour leader said it was \"inevitable\" that schools would need to close.\n\n\"There is complete chaos, with parents not knowing what is going on. We need to create space for the vaccine now, to be rolled out safely.\n\n\"The virus is out of control. We have got to get it back under control. The more we delay, the worse it will be. The more we delay, the longer schools will be closed.\"\n\nIn March last year, Boris Johnson told people in England they could only leave home to exercise once a day, travel to and from work when it is \"absolutely necessary\", shop for essential items and fulfil any medical or care needs.\n\nCurrently, shops selling non-essential goods have been told to shut and gatherings in public of more than two people who do not live together are prohibited in tier four areas.\n\nSir Keir said the government's message needed to be firmer and backed by law, if necessary, to encourage people to comply.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC's deputy political editor Vicki Young, he urged the country to get back to \"the spirit of March, where there was a very strong stay at home message\".\n\n\"You only need to go out on the streets now and you see lots of people out and about, you see trains that are half full,\" said the Labour leader.\n\n\"We need to go back to where we were in March with very very strong messaging about staying at home.\n\n\"And I'm afraid that the closure of schools is now inevitable, and therefore that needs to be part of that plan, as part of the national plan for further restriction.\n\n\"And that means that we need to have measures in place to protect working parents, most in place to enable children to learn at home, and a plan to get schools safely reopened again and that goes back to vaccination. It must be mission critical now.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eileen Lynch, 94, was the first person in Northern Ireland to receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine this week.\n\nThe aim is to ensure everyone in that age group will be offered the vaccine by the end of January.\n\nThirty GP practices will be administering 50,000 doses of the vaccine, which was approved for use in the UK on 30 December.\n\nIt is the second vaccine to be approved in the battle against coronavirus in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt comes ahead of a UK-wide announcement by the prime minister, set to be made at 20:00 GMT on Monday, in which further restrictions will be announced.\n\nIn a statement, a No 10 spokesman said the new variant of Covid-19 had \"led to rapidly escalating case numbers across the country\" and \"further steps must now be taken to arrest this rise\".\n\nOn Monday, Northern Ireland recorded a further 1,801 Covid-19 cases and 12 more virus-related deaths.\n\nThese latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,366, while 79,873 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic started.\n\nMore than 12,000 cases have been reported in the past seven days, more than double the week before.\n\nThe seven-day rate per 100,000 people is now 660 positive cases, compared to 200 per 100,000 two weeks ago.\n\nMedical experts believe that is down to the two-week easing of restrictions over the Christmas period.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Monday, an additional 6,110 confirmed cases of Covid-19 were announced, with six further deaths linked to the virus.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the second week of a six-week lockdown in which non-essential retail is closed.\n\nThe first doses of the vaccine were given delivered at a GP surgery on the Falls Road in West Belfast on Monday afternoon.\n\nThe first person in Northern Ireland to receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine was 94-year-old Eileen Lynch.\n\nSpeaking after receiving the vaccine, Ms Lynch said she was \"delighted and privileged\" to receive it.\n\n\"I feel like I can really look forward to the year ahead now that I have been vaccinated,\" she said.\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine has already been used to vaccinate care home residents and staff.\n\nBy mid December, 50,000 doses of that vaccine had been made available and by 30 December, Northern Ireland's Department of Health reported that 33,000 people had been vaccinated.\n\nThis included 8,940 care home residents, 10,484 care home staff and 14,259 health and social care staff.\n\nAccording to the latest NI statistics, for the first time the percentage positive cases in the over 80s is down - an indication the vaccination process is working.\n\nThere are approximately 82,000 people over 80 in NI and BBC News NI understands that if deliveries of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine happen as planned, it is thought that all of those over 80, as well as GPs and their staff, could be vaccinated within three weeks.\n\nWhile 50,000 doses have been delivered to Northern Ireland, a further 23,000 vaccines are expected on 19 January while another 68,000 are due on 24 January.\n\nDr Alan Stout, who is a GP in Belfast, told BBC News NI that members are \"very optimistic\" that 11,000 people can be vaccinated this week.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is the second coronavirus vaccine to be approved in the UK\n\nNI's chief medical officer said the Oxford-AstraZeneca rollout would run alongside the ongoing vaccination programme.\n\nDr Michael McBride said: \"First and foremost we must act to protect those most at risk of severe disease and death.\n\n\"The evidence shows that the initial dose of vaccine offers as much as 70% protection against the effects of the virus.\n\n\"Providing that level of protection on a large scale will have the greatest impact on reducing mortality and hospitalisations, protecting the health and social care system.\"\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine has to be kept at an extremely low temperature which complicates handling constraints.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is considered easier to store and distribute.\n\nIts rollout consists of two full doses of the vaccine, with the second dose to be given four to 12 weeks after the first.\n\nGPs are appealing to the public to remain calm and wait to be called for their vaccine either by telephone or by letter.\n\nDr Stout said as demand grows worldwide for the vaccine, that schedule could easily change.\n\n\"The public have to be patient, we have a system and must be allowed to get on with it - it really is 'don't call us - we will call you'.\"\n\nWhile some vaccinations will take place in surgeries others will happen in a drive-through system.\n\nCovid-19 is deadlier than flu, which means January 2021 is going to be even tougher than usual.\n\nAlso, Covid patients tend to stay much longer in hospital with more severe symptoms requiring additional beds and care.\n\nBut those rising patient numbers aren't matched by an increased workforce.\n\nInstead it is expected that the nurse-patient ratio will increase (even though many aren't trained to work in critical care) as there simply aren't enough nurses available.\n\nSome health unions fear this will only add to Northern Ireland's excess mortality rate, which is greater than that in Great Britain.\n\nOnce again, this highlights Northern Ireland's failing health care system, which was already below par well before the start of the pandemic.\n\nCoronavirus infection figures here are expected to peak between 15 and 21 January. That will be felt not only in hospitals but also in GP practices as they continue to roll out the vaccine.\n\nWhile at this stage the six weeks look bleak it's hoped that the additional Astra-Zeneca vaccine and the low incidence of flu will go a long way in not only saving lives, but also protecting the health service.\n\nDr Stout said much planning had gone into ensuring the programme happened as smoothly as possible.\n\n\"People will literally stay in their cars and be asked to roll up their sleeves - it has to be safe and efficient in order for us to get through it and safely.\"\n\nThe UK has ordered 100 million doses of the new vaccine - enough to vaccinate 50 million people.\n\nMeanwhile, Dr Tom Black, chair of the British Medical Association in Northern Ireland, said it was \"appalling\" that the Pfizer vaccine was not to be administered in two doses within 21 days as instructed by the company and threatened legal action.\n\nDr Black was responding to news that the UK will give both parts of the Oxford and Pfizer vaccines 12 weeks apart.\n\n\"They have left care workers in Northern Ireland with a gap in their expected immunity,\" he told BBC NI's Radio Foyle on Monday.\n\n\"In that period doctors, nurses, porters or health care professionals could infect patients because they will not be protected against the transmission of the infection to patients.\"\n\nThe UK's chief medical officers have defended their Covid vaccination plan.\n\nThey said getting more people vaccinated with the first jab was \"much more preferable\" and that the great majority of the initial protection from clinical disease is after the first dose of vaccine.\n\nDr Black is to meet NI Health Minister Robin Swann later to express health care workers' concern over the change in vaccine policy.", "Tian Tian arrived in Scotland, along with Yang Guang, from China in 2011\n\nEdinburgh Zoo's giant pandas may have to return to China next year because of financial pressures.\n\nYang Guang and Tian Tian cost about £1m a year to lease from China.\n\nThe zoo, which had hoped to breed the pair, is nearing the end of its 10-year contract with the Chinese government and may be unable to renew the deal.\n\nCovid lockdown closures led to a £2m loss for the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, which runs Edinburgh Zoo and the Highland Wildlife Park.\n\nDavid Field, chief executive of the society, said the charity would have to \"seriously consider every potential saving\", including its giant panda contract.\n\nMr Field said closures had had a \"huge financial impact\" on the charity because most of its income was from visitors.\n\n\"Although our parks are open again, we lost around £2m last year and it seems certain that restrictions, social distancing and limits on our visitor numbers will continue for some time, which will also reduce our income,\" Mr Field said.\n\n\"Yang Guang and Tian Tian have made a tremendous impression on our visitors over the last nine years, helping millions of people connect to nature and inspiring them to take an interest in wildlife conservation.\n\n\"I would love for them to be able to stay for a few more years with us and that is certainly my current aim.\"\n\nYang Guang was given a new enclosure in 2019\n\nThe zoo has already taken a government loan, furloughed staff, made redundancies and launched a fundraising appeal, but was not eligible for the UK government's zoo fund, which was aimed at smaller zoos.\n\n\"The support we have received from our members and animal lovers has helped to keep our doors open and we are incredibly grateful,\" Mr Field added.\n\n\"At this stage, it is too soon to say what the outcome will be. We will be discussing next steps with our colleagues in China over the coming months.\"\n\nThe zoo is part of a number of conservation projects, including one to reintroduce Scottish wildcats.\n\nWork to reintroduce Scottish wildcats in to the Highlands may also suffer from the Zoo's funding problems\n\nHowever, Mr Field said projects like that may also have to be scrapped because of Brexit and being unable to apply for grants from the European Union.\n\n\"We received a £3.2m grant from the EU Life programme to support our Saving Wildcats partnership project, which aims to restore wildcats in Scotland by breeding and releasing them into the wild.\n\n\"Wildcats are on the brink of extinction in Britain and this is the last hope for the species' survival.\"\n\nHe added: \"As we are no longer part of the European Union, our charity is no longer eligible to apply for funding from programmes like EU Life, which have proven critical for our wildlife conservation work and wider efforts to protect animals from extinction.\"\n\nEdinburgh Zoo's conservation genetics laboratory, which supports conservation projects around the world, has lost access to both funding and other researchers as a result.\n\nIt also faces challenges around moving animals, many of which are part of European endangered species breeding programmes.\n\nThe programme is currently about £900,000 short, meaning it may have to be cancelled.\n\nMr Field said: \"We still need to reduce costs to secure our future. It may be that some of our incredibly important conservation projects, including the vital lifeline for Scotland's wildcats, may have to be deferred, postponed or even stopped.\"", "Police rescued 22 people from the snow in Cheshire including a two-year-old child\n\nDozens of people, including a two-year-old child, had to be rescued when they became stranded on rural roads.\n\nPolice and volunteers came to the aid of people whose vehicles were stuck in the Derbyshire Peak District on Saturday.\n\nThere were similar scenes in Cheshire where 22 people, had to be rescued from stranded cars.\n\nThe wintry weather is set to continue with a Met Office warning for ice in the East Midlands and North East.\n\nAt around 20:00 GMT on Saturday, Derbyshire Police reported \"sudden snow\" had left dozens of vehicles and their occupants stranded in the Goyt Valley.\n\nSome visitors to the area were caught off-guard by how quickly the weather changed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDerbyshire Police posted on Twitter: \"We are shuttling people back to Buxton as quickly as we can.\n\n\"Sit tight and we will get to you.\"\n\nThe A57 Snake Pass - a road notorious for becoming dangerous in the snow - had been closed earlier in the day because of the weather.\n\nIn Cheshire, police spent three hours helping families stuck in their vehicles in the White Peak area.\n\nIn total 22 people, including eight children - the youngest of whom was two - were recovered from nine vehicles.\n\nCheshire Police Rural Crime Team said: \"The snow had well and truly caught them all out on the back roads.\n\n\"We were three miles (4.8km) from the nearest village, and the light was fading on us quickly.\n\n\"It was decided to get everyone out of their cars and so began a mile walk in the snow.\"\n\nThey were led to a nearby farm where they could be taken to safety in police vehicles.\n\nMost of those rescued from snow in Cheshire had travelled to the area despite coronavirus restrictions\n\nThe force was critical of the families for travelling into the area, that is under tier four coronavirus restrictions.\n\nIt said: \"All except one car was from out of Cheshire. We had people from Sale, Stockport and Salford with the closest being Congleton.\n\n\"Sadly these people have put all of us at risk today.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Scottish cabinet will meet later to consider further measures to help tackle coronavirus, as 2,464 new cases are reported.\n\nThe Scottish Parliament will then be recalled for First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to make an \"urgent statement\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said the \"rapid increase in Covid cases driven by the new variant\" was of \"very serious concern\".\n\n\"We are in a race between this faster spreading strain of Covid and the vaccination programme,\" she tweeted.\n\nShe warned on Friday that the next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid.\n\nThe latest government figures for coronavirus cases showed that 15.2% of Saturday's 17,328 tests were positive.\n\nIt is higher than the 2,137 cases reported on Friday, but still lower than Thursday's 2,539 positive results.\n\nFigures for hospital admissions and deaths over the holiday weekend will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nThe cabinet is likely to consider a further delay to the return of Scottish schools and restrictions that are closer to the stay-at-home lockdown in March.\n\n\"All decisions just now are tough, with tough impacts,\" Ms Sturgeon wrote on twitter. \"Vaccines give us way out, but this new strain makes the period between now and then the most dangerous since start of pandemic.\"\n\nThe Scottish government's emergency resilience committee heard on Saturday that \"quick and decisive action is needed\" as the new variant of the virus is becoming the dominant one in Scotland.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"The even steeper rises and severe pressure on the NHS that is being experienced in some other parts of the UK is a sign of what may lie ahead in Scotland if we do not take all possible steps now to slow the spread of the virus, while the vaccination programme progresses.\n\n\"The strong message remains - people should stay at home as much as possible and avoid non-essential interaction with others.\"\n\nThis is just the fifth time the Scottish Parliament has been recalled and the second time within the last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Linda Bauld says Scots should be prepared a longer period living with level four restrictions\n\nPublic health expert Prof Linda Bauld, from the University of Edinburgh, has said Scotland should be prepared for Covid restrictions to be extended as infection rates continue to rise.\n\nShe said there were no signs yet that the infection rate was levelling off, having risen suddenly from a daily rate of fewer than 1,000 to more than 2,000 per day in recent days.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"It definitely is a fragile situation and you can see that we have more cases than we would expect at the current time.\n\n\"We may be starting to see some of the impacts of the Christmas mixing, but also we know around four in 10 cases, from recent data, are of the new variant.\n\n\"I would imagine that the new variant is playing a role in these higher rates of infection and if these numbers continue to sit at where they are we are going to have more people in hospital in a week or two's time, and that is very worrying.\"\n\nThe new year offers new hope in the struggle against coronavirus with two vaccines now authorised for UK use - but it looks as if the situation will get worse before it gets better.\n\nMinisters are worried by the rapid spread of the new strain of coronavirus during a holiday period when the highest level of restrictions are already in place.\n\nThey think more needs to be done to suppress the virus, to give the vaccination programme a chance to accelerate and give increasing numbers of people protection.\n\nWhen the Scottish cabinet meets they are likely to consider tightening the current restrictions to something closer to the stay at home lockdown of March 2020.\n\nThat will almost certainly mean a further delay to the return of schools into February.\n\nMinisters will take decisions on Monday morning with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon expected to make a statement at Holyrood in the afternoon.\n\nDaily confirmed cases in Scotland reached record highs on the last three days of 2020, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nMs Sturgeon warned last week there might be changes to the plans for reopening schools. Children start online learning from 11 January and are set to return to class by 18 January.\n\nThe education recovery group will meet on Monday.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said the situation was \"deteriorating and fast-moving\" but any decision to extend school closures should be clearly explained to parents and teachers.\n\nHe said: \"We have been here before so if schools remain closed, the Scottish government must show that it has learned from past mistakes in order to minimise disruption to education.\"\n\nScottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie said the Scottish government should prioritise teachers and school staff as vaccines were rolled out.\n\nHe added: \"We must be honest and accept that most pupils, teachers and support staff cannot go back to schools until the situation is brought under control.\"\n\nScottish Labour leader Richard Leonard called for ministers to publish the evidence behind all of its decisions to ensure public consent and compliance.\n\n\"What is clear is that we need to see an acceleration of the vaccine rollout and a step-change in testing,\" he said.\n\n\"It is also clear that financial support from government has simply not been nearly sufficient to make up for the damage that lockdown measures have done to jobs, livelihoods and businesses. The SNP government must distribute additional funds to the frontline now.\"\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said: \"With tighter restrictions on movement and in schools comes a greater responsibility on the government to show its workings.\n\n\"If we are to restrict people's movement then we need to see what the benefit will be. We need an exit plan to give people hope, as well as to show them what is required to ease the restrictions on our freedoms.\"", "Some schools are due to reopen this week in Wales\n\nSchools are being given a flexible approach to ensure a \"safe return\", according to Wales' first minister.\n\nMark Drakeford said experts would be \"looking at all the evidence again early next week\".\n\nUnions have called for a national decision on reopening schools rather than leaving it to local councils.\n\nAccording to local authorities many secondary schools aim to return from 11 January, with some fully open on 6 January.\n\nA joint statement from nine unions called on the Welsh Government to give a \"centralised, coherent response\" regarding all educational settings \"rather than leaving decisions at local levels\".\n\nThe statement from ASCL Cymru, GMB, NAHT Cymru, NASUWT Cymru, NEU Cymru, Ucac, Unison, Unite and Voice continued: \"We are extremely worried that schools will be opening for face-to-face learning from next Monday, whilst Welsh Government continues to gather information about the nature and impact of the new variant of Covid-19...\n\n\"We strongly believe that we need to err on the side of caution and ensure, in advance, that we have the medical 'evidence and information' to ensure that any decisions are the correct ones.\"\n\nThe National Education Union Cymru has called for in-person learning to be delayed until at least 18 January.\n\nThe NASUWT has also threatened \"appropriate action in order to protect members whose safety is put at risk\", while head teachers' union NAHT Cymru said it had taken legal action.\n\nBut Mr Drakeford said: \"We reached an agreement with our local education colleagues that in Wales we will have a phased and flexible return to school.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday parents should send their children to primary school as long as they are open in their area.\n\nMark Drakeford: \"No evidence that young people get the illness more severely as a result of the variant\"\n\nJackie Parker, head of Crickhowell High School in Powys, which reopens for some form years from Wednesday, said \"it would have been more sensible to have had a national decision for the time being until the 18th\".\n\nShe said it would have allowed time to see if cases of Covid had increased over the holiday period.\n\n\"People may have been together during the Christmas holiday,\" she said.\n\nFigures published by Public Health Wales on Sunday showed 56 new deaths from Covid and 4,011 new cases of the virus.\n\nWales has been in lockdown since 20 December with restrictions on people meeting others on all but Christmas Day when it was limited to another household and a person living alone.\n\nMr Drakeford said: \"There is no evidence that young people get the illness more severely as a result of the variant.\n\n\"Our technical advisory group will be looking at all the evidence again early next week.\n\n\"And, of course, we will continue to make decisions in the light of the best knowledge, research and information that's available to us at the time,\" he told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement.\n\nHe also said mass testing in schools would begin as planned this month, in a decision which has been criticised by NAHT Cymru.\n\n\"It will allow more children and more teachers to stay safely in the classroom without having to be sent home because another child or another staff member has tested positive,\" he said.\n\nThe joint unions' statement also said the Welsh Government's testing proposals were unworkable for most schools.\n\n\"Due to the chaotic and rushed nature of this announcement, the lack of proper guidance, and an absence of appropriate support, the Welsh Government's proposals will be inoperable for most schools and colleges,\" it said.\n\nThe statement continued: \"Any suggestion that schools can safely recruit, train and organise a team of suitable volunteers to staff and run testing stations on their premises by an as yet unspecified date in the new term is simply not realistic.\"\n\nSian Gwenllian, Plaid Cymru's education spokeswoman, said \"parents and teachers need to know what the plan is for the next few weeks\".\n\n\"We don't really know very much about this new variant in the way that it transmits within the school community,\" she said.\n\n\"And if it is becoming inevitable that schools will have to close, well, an early decision is better for everybody.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative education spokeswoman Suzy Davies said: \"We've had conflicting reports in the press and on social media about the effect of the new variant on younger children and their role in transmitting the disease - complete confusion reigns...\n\n\"The Welsh Government hasn't succeeded in reassuring teachers and in some cases parents as well.\"", "Economy Minister Diane Dodds has written to Cabinet Office Secretary Michael Gove to call for urgent action to be taken on deliveries to NI.\n\nSince Christmas some orders have been cancelled or delayed and some retailers have suspended deliveries.\n\nThe problem is related to uncertainty about post-Brexit transition rules.\n\nHM Customs announced a grace period on New Year's Eve confirming most parcels from GB-NI will not need customs declarations until at least April.\n\nThe problems have not affected all companies with many continuing to take orders and deliver as normal.\n\nHowever, some companies had already suspended deliveries, including John Lewis.\n\nThe government said the three-month grace period \"recognises the unique circumstances of Northern Ireland, the impacts of any disruption to parcel movements in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and specific challenges for operators moving express consignments\".\n\nA government spokesman said further details will be published in the new year, adding: \"Our priority is to have a pragmatic approach that allows us to comply with the [Northern Ireland] Protocol without causing undue disruption to businesses and citizens.\n\n\"HMRC is engaging with operators to finalise arrangements.\"\n\nSome changes have already come into effect.\n\nA Northern Ireland-based business receiving goods valued at £135 or more through an express carrier or Royal Mail will need to submit a customs declaration.\n\nThey will need to do this within three months of receiving the goods and can use the government's Trader Support Service to do so.\n\nExcise goods, which mostly refers to alcoholic drinks, will also need a declaration when being sent from GB to NI.\n\nThe government has advised retailers of those goods to contact their delivery company.\n\nIt said: \"They will then tell you if they carry the type of goods you want to send and, if they do, they will ask you to provide any additional information that they need so that a declaration can be made.\"", "About 10 UK nationals resident in Spain say they were wrongly turned back when their flight landed in Barcelona.\n\nThey left Heathrow on the Saturday morning British Airways flight, but were refused entry on arrival.\n\nThey were stopped by border police and ultimately flown back to the UK.\n\nSpain has banned all but Spanish nationals and residents flying from the UK to Spain since 22 December in the hope of containing the spread of the new UK strain of Covid-19.\n\nOne passenger on the flight, who did not wish to be named, said that those on board had been told repeatedly that only Spanish nationals or residents would be allowed to enter the country and that their residency certificates, also known as green certificates, were shown to airline staff several times.\n\nHowever, on arrival, British passengers with green residency certificates were prevented from entering Spain.\n\nBA has confirmed that about 10 people were denied entry into Barcelona, as they did not meet the Spanish authorities' required criteria.\n\nOne of those affected, Ruth O'Leary, said: \"I was very confused, obviously. I asked them what other documents I could provide.\n\n\"They seemed to be just flat-out refusing anything I had and just wouldn't let me on the flight. Very upsetting really.\n\n\"Quite an awful feeling not to be able to go back to your own house and to not really be given an explanation why you can't go home.\"\n\nOther British expat passengers have also said that they have been stopped from boarding planes to Spain.\n\nOne passenger on board said that seven British citizens were prevented from boarding a British Airways/Iberia flight from Heathrow to Madrid on Saturday evening, despite having their green residency certificates, as well as negative Covid tests.\n\nThe exact number of flights and passengers affected has not been released by the Foreign Office.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, Iberia said that on 1 January, it received an email from the border police saying that registration as a European citizen was no longer considered to be a valid document to prove legal residency in Spain as a British citizen.\n\nHowever, by 19:30 on 2 January, the airline received a second email, confirming that the document could be used if it had not expired.\n\nA British Airways spokesperson said: \"In these difficult and unprecedented times with dynamic travel restrictions, we are doing everything we can to help and support our customers.\"\n\nThe Spanish Embassy in London tweeted a letter stating it was aware that during the current travel restrictions, there had been some problems for British nationals resident in Spain who had not been allowed to return.\n\nThe embassy clarified that green certificates were valid proof of residency.\n\nThe Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said: \"We have worked closely with the Spanish government to resolve these issues.\n\n\"The Spanish Embassy in London has re-confirmed today that both the green residence certificate and the new residence TIE card [Photo-ID card] are equally valid in terms of proving residence in Spain, as set out in the [Brexit] Withdrawal Agreement.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olly Stephens was pronounced dead in Bugs Bottom fields in Emmer Green, Reading\n\nFour boys and a girl have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder after a 13-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Reading.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green, on Sunday.\n\nThe five teenagers, all aged 13 or 14, remain in custody, according to Thames Valley Police.\n\nDet Supt Kevin Brown said: \"Our thoughts remain with Olly's family at this incredibly difficult time.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is a tragic and shocking incident which has resulted in the death of a young boy.\"\n\nThe victim's family are being supported by specially trained officers.\n\nFloral tributes to Olly have been left outside Highdown School\n\nHighdown School and Sixth Form Centre said it was \"reeling from the tragic news\".\n\nIn a statement, head teacher Rachel Cave said: \"This student was part of our community and many students and staff knew him well.\n\n\"For a life to be ended at such a young age is a total tragedy. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family.\"\n\nThe school, in Emmer Green, said it was arranging counselling support for students and setting up an electronic book of condolence.\n\nThames Valley Police said a \"considerable police presence\" would be in place in the area for several days\n\nOfficers were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack.\n\nOfficers are appealing for anyone who was in the area between 15:00 and 16:30 who might have taken photos or camera footage to contact them if they notice anything suspicious.\n\nDet Supt Brown said he believed there would have been witnesses to the \"dreadful incident\" as the area is popular with dog walkers.\n\nA man said his wife was walking their dog through the park on Sunday afternoon when she saw a boy on the ground with several people around him trying to give him first aid.\n\nAnother dog walker said she saw a group of young people standing in the woods in Bugs Bottom fields at about 15:30 and described it as \"slightly unusual\".\n\nReading East MP Matt Rodda has offered his \"deepest condolences\" to the boy's family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matt Rodda This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSt Barnabas Church in Emmer Green has invited residents to pray and light a candle in memory of the boy.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Margaret Ferrier admitted travelling back from London to Glasgow after testing positive for coronavirus\n\nScottish MP Margaret Ferrier has been arrested by police after she admitted using public transport while infected with Covid-19.\n\nMs Ferrier apologised for what she called a \"blip\" in September.\n\nShe was suspended from the SNP group at Westminster and leaders, including First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, urged her to quit as an MP over the row.\n\nPolice Scotland said she had been charged in connection with \"alleged culpable and reckless conduct\".\n\nMs Ferrier apologised in September after travelling from London to Glasgow having tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe Rutherglen and Hamilton West MP said she had experienced \"mild symptoms\" and taken a test, but had then decided to travel to Westminster because she was \"feeling much better\".\n\nShe then travelled home again on a train after receiving the positive test result, and said she \"deeply regretted\" her actions.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesman said: \"We can confirm that officers today arrested and charged a 60-year-old woman in connection with alleged culpable and reckless conduct.\n\n\"This follows a thorough investigation by Police Scotland into an alleged breach of coronavirus regulations between 26 and 29 September 2020.\n\n\"A report will be sent to the procurator fiscal and we are unable to comment further.\"\n\nMs Ferrier has been contacted for comment.", "The prime minister has said that tougher measures could be needed to help cope with a surge in coronavirus cases.\n\nHe has not yet said whether we will need school closures, or even overnight curfews like those imposed in France.\n\nBut clues about such measures to tackle the new more infectious variant come from the government's Sage advisory committee.\n\nThe headline is that whether we see a return to only being allowed one form of daily outdoor exercise, or stricter controls on travel around the country, we'll be hearing a lot more about something already very familiar: hand hygiene, social distancing, wearing masks and ensuring there is fresh air.\n\nThese may sound familiar but the advisers believe that because the new variant spreads so easily, the measures need to be applied with \"a step change in rigour\" - in other words, a lot more forcefully.\n\nThey suggest considering a return to the two-metre rule because it's more effective than the one-metre plus guidance adopted last year.\n\nMasks need to be made of three layers, not just one, and worn in more locations than now - including workplaces, schools and crowded outdoor spaces.\n\nThe key message is that it is vital to reduce social contact - being close to people, especially indoors for long periods of time, carries the highest risk of infection.\n\nSo expect tier four-type bans on visiting other households to become normal.\n\nThe advisers also say many people still do not recognise the key symptoms of Covid-19 - so ministers need to spell them out and help people understand why they should self-isolate.\n\nBut they also say it is essential to praise the efforts made so far, to recognise sacrifices and emphasise how they've kept infection numbers lower than they would otherwise have been.\n\nWhatever new measures are picked, the advice to ministers is to offer \"clear and convincing explanations\" to motivate people.\n\nThat could be a hint that the government's current \"hands, face, space\" slogan may need to make way for something stronger.", "The Queen said she wished Woman's Hour \"continued success\" in the programme's \"important work\"\n\nThe Queen has sent her \"best wishes\" to Woman's Hour to mark the BBC Radio 4 show's 75th year.\n\nThe 94-year-old noted that the show had \"played a significant part in the evolving role of women\".\n\n\"As you celebrate your 75th year, it is with great pleasure that I send my best wishes to the listeners and all those associated with Woman's Hour,\" she said in a letter sent to the programme.\n\nEmma Barnett read out the message on her first day as the show's presenter.\n\n\"During this time, you have witnessed and played a significant part in the evolving role of women across society, both here and around the world,\" the Queen added in her message.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Presenter Emma Barnett reads a message from Her Majesty to Woman's Hour listeners.\n\n\"In this notable anniversary year, I wish you continued success in your important work as a friend, guide and advocate to women everywhere.\"\n\nSpice Girl Melanie C also performed a rendition of The Beatles track Here Comes the Sun, after presenter Barnett had declared that 2021 \"has to be better\" than the previous year.\n\nLater, guest Imelda Staunton, who will play Her Majesty in the upcoming series five of Netflix's royal drama, The Crown, described her as being like \"the original Spice Girl\".\n\n\"The Queen, you think, might be an original Spice Girl because girl power is what she is,\" said the actress, who is due to take over the role from Olivia Colman. \"She became the head of state and all that sort of thing.\n\n\"It's the continuity of The Queen that has been so important... Whether you're a royalist or not, this person has got up and gone to work every day for 60 years, and I sort of admire that.\"\n\nLast month, the Queen used her Christmas Day message to reassure anyone struggling without friends and family this year that they \"are not alone\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe message helped to mark a memorable opening day in the hot seat for Barnett, which also saw her discuss Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian under house arrest in Tehran, with her husband Richard and the MP and former foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt.\n\nBarnett - known for hosting Newsnight and shows on 5 Live - has replaced Jane Garvey, who presented her final edition of Woman's Hour after 13 years last week, saying the programme \"needs to move on, and now it can\".\n\nGarvey's exit came three months after her co-host Dame Jenni Murray also left the long-running show after 33 years.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Emma Barnett This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBarnett's 5 Live show has been taken over by BBC Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty, who also broadcast her first show on Monday.\n\nMunchetty told listeners she was \"absolutely delighted to be here with you on the first Monday of 2021\".\n\n\"I am so excited to be on board with you on this, the morning show we are making together,\" she added. \"We are going to get to know each other, I promise. There is so much to talk about.\"\n\nEmma Barnett interviewed former prime minister Theresa May on her 5 Live show\n\nWoman's Hour is a topical, conversation-led programme; Barnett has a strong news pedigree. Her previous 5 Live show involved thorough interrogation of politicians, and she has made no secret of her love of politics, not least in her outings on Newsnight.\n\nIt doesn't get any bigger than the Queen, obviously. Interestingly, the other big 'get' for her first show is Sonia Khan, former special adviser to the Chancellor.\n\nSo Barnett's first show indicates very clearly that she will make Woman's Hour newsier and more political.\n\nIt's also a safe bet that short, visual clips of the kind that allowed Barnett's 5 Live show to dramatically increase its impact will also be a big feature of her time in the job.\n\nOne early challenge: getting an even bigger name for next Monday. Any thoughts?\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The lockdown announcement contained the clearest indication yet of how quickly the government hopes to vaccinate the at risk groups.\n\nA target of mid February for vaccinating all the over 70s and those deemed extremely clinically vulnerable and frontline health and care staff opens up a pathway to a significant easing of restrictions by the start of March.\n\nBut it will require a rapid acceleration in vaccination rates.\n\nSo far nearly one million people have been vaccinated.\n\nBy the end of the week that number is expected to double.\n\nThe hope is that later in January two million doses a week will be given.\n\nThat will be the minimum needed – there are around 12 million in those priority groups.\n\nBy vaccinating them, there is the potential to prevent close to nine in 10 deaths.\n\nBut achieving that requires a lot to go right.\n\nThere is enough vaccine in the country to vaccinate that many people, but not all of it has been through the final “fill and finish” process which involves packaging it in glass vials (and there is a shortage of those) and then the batches have to be checked and signed off by the regulator – a process that is taking weeks at the moment.\n\nAnd all of that is before it is sent out to the NHS vaccination centres to inject it into people’s arms.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Linda Bauld says Scots should be prepared a longer period living with level four restrictions\n\nScotland should be prepared for Covid restrictions to be extended as infection rates continue to rise, a public health expert has said.\n\nThe latest government figures show a further 2,137 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in Scotland on Friday.\n\nProf Linda Bauld described it as a \"fragile situation\", despite the rate dropping below Thursday's 2,539 cases.\n\nThe latest figures for hospital admissions and deaths will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon warned on Friday that the next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid as the new variant of the virus was \"accelerating spread\" across Scotland.\n\nDaily confirmed cases reached record highs on the last three days of 2020, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nThe percentage of positive cases also reached 14.4% on Wednesday - the highest it has been since the second wave of the pandemic began in the summer.\n\nIt had dropped to 10.8% on Friday. A percentage of lower than 5% is needed to show the virus is under control, according to the WHO.\n\nProf Bauld, a public health expert at the University of Edinburgh, said there were no signs yet that the infection rate was levelling off, having risen suddenly from a daily rate of fewer than 1,000 to more than 2,000 per day in recent days.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland: \"It definitely is a fragile situation and you can see that we have more cases than we would expect at the current time.\n\n\"We may be starting to see some of the impacts of the Christmas mixing, but also we know around four in 10 cases, from recent data, are of the new variant.\n\n\"I would imagine that the new variant is playing a role in these higher rates of infection and if these numbers continue to sit at where they are we are going to have more people in hospital in a week or two's time, and that is very worrying.\"\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is under level four restrictions in an attempt to slow down the rate of virus spread\n\nThis would bring \"real challenges\" for hospitals, especially in the central belt, Prof Bauld said, adding that it was \"absolutely imperative that we do not see these number rise more than they are now\".\n\nShe said it would take some time to see the impact of level four restrictions introduced in mainland Scotland on Boxing Day.\n\n\"Mentally we just need to be prepared for the fact that we may be living with the level four restrictions for longer than the Scottish government currently plans,\" Prof Bauld said.\n\nShe said the new, more transmissible coronavirus variant would make it harder to get the R number below one in Scotland and schools may not be able to fully reopen on 18 January.\n\nThe government's education recovery group was preparing with schools for blended learning to go on longer if necessary, she added.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is under level four restrictions in an attempt to slow down the rate of virus spread.\n\nA new study by London's Imperial College has found that the new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nIt concludes that the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe Scottish government's most recent estimate of the R number in Scotland has put it between 0.9 and 1.1. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nThe government has described the vaccination programme as a \"light at the end of the tunnel\" and has urged people to stay at home as much as possible in the meantime.", "Security has been stepped up in Niger's Tillabéri region, where the two villages are situated\n\nNiger's prime minister says 100 people are now known to have been killed in Saturday's attacks by suspected jihadists on two villages.\n\nBrigi Rafini said 70 people were killed in the village of Tchombangou and 30 others in Zaroumdareye - both near Niger's border with Mali.\n\nIt was one of the deadliest days in living memory, as Niger grapples with ethnic violence and Islamist militancy.\n\nNo group has said it carried out the attacks.\n\nAccording to local mayor Almou Hassane, those responsible travelled on \"about 100 motorcycles,\" AFP news agency reports.\n\nThey split into two groups and carried out the attacks simultaneously.\n\nFormer minister Issoufou Issaka told AFP that jihadists launched the assaults after villagers killed two of their group members, though this hasn't been officially confirmed.\n\nMayor Hassane said 75 other villagers were left wounded in the aftermath, and some have been evacuated for treatment in Ouallam and the capital, Niamey.\n\nPrime Minister Rafini visited both of the villages on Sunday.\n\n\"This situation is simply horrible... but investigations will be conducted so that this crime does not go unpunished,\" he told reporters.\n\nNiger's Tillabéri region lies within the so-called tri-border area between Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, which has been plagued by jihadist attacks for many years.\n\nNiger's Prime Minister Brigi Rafini visited the two villages on Sunday\n\nLast month, seven Nigerien soldiers were killed in an ambush in the region.\n\nAreas of Niger are also facing repeated attacks by jihadists from neighbouring Nigeria, where the government is fighting an insurgency by Boko Haram.\n\nAs part of efforts to quell the violence, France has been leading a coalition of West African and European allies against Islamist militants in the Sahel.\n\nCoalition forces have become targets, and last week five French soldiers were killed in two separate incidents in Mali.\n\nThe latest attacks in Tillabéri also come amid national elections in Niger, as President Mahamadou Issoufou steps down after two five-year terms.\n\nElection officials announced provisional results on Saturday, showing a lead for Mohamed Bazoum - a former minister and a member of Niger's ruling party.\n\nA second round of votes is expected to be held on 21 February, once ballots have been validated by the country's constitutional court.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRegional restrictions in England are \"probably about to get tougher\" to curb rising Covid infections, the prime minister has warned.\n\nBoris Johnson told the BBC stronger measures may be required in parts of the country in the coming weeks.\n\nHe said this included the possibility of keeping schools closed, although this is not \"something we want to do\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has called for new England-wide restrictions within 24 hours.\n\nSir Keir said coronavirus was \"clearly out of control\" and it was \"inevitable more schools are going to have to close\".\n\nIt comes as the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the sixth day in a row, with 54,990 announced on Sunday.\n\nAn additional 454 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result have also been reported, meaning the total by this measure is now above 75,000.\n\nSpeaking on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show, Mr Johnson said he stuck by his previous prediction that the situation would be better by the spring, and he hoped \"tens of millions\" would be vaccinated in the next three months.\n\nBut he added: \"It may be that we need to do things in the next few weeks that will be tougher in many parts of the country. I'm fully, fully reconciled to that.\"\n\n\"And I bet the people of this country are reconciled to that because, until the vaccine really comes on stream in a massive way, we're fighting this virus with the same set of tools.\"\n\nThe PM added that ministers had taken \"every reasonable step that we reasonably could\" to prepare for winter, but \"could not have reasonably predicted\" the new, more transmissible variant of the virus that has emerged over the autumn.\n\nSpeaking after Mr Johnson's interview, Sir Keir said introducing new nationwide restrictions in England \"has to be the first step to controlling the virus\".\n\n\"There's no good the prime minister hinting that further restrictions are coming into place in a week or two or three,\" he told reporters on Sunday. \"That delay has been the source of so many problems.\"\n\n\"Let's not have the prime minister saying 'I'm going to do it, but not yet',\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson defended plans for primary schools to reopen in most of England on Monday, amid opposition from teaching unions and some local councils.\n\nIt came after Amanda Spielman, the head of Ofsted, England's schools watchdog, said closures should be kept to an \"absolute minimum\".\n\nThe rapidly rising infection rates mean it should come as no surprise that tougher measures are being considered.\n\nInfection levels are nearly four times higher now than they were at the start of December - and that in turn has put more pressure on hospitals.\n\nThere are signs the restrictions have started slowing the rises in London, the East of England and the South East.\n\nBut that on its own is not enough. Ministers want to get cases down.\n\nSo what extra can be done? After all most of England is effectively in lockdown already with tier four in place. Those places not in tier four could, of course, follow.\n\nBut some public health experts are warning more needs to be done.\n\nThere is a determination to get primary school children back - they have among the lowest rates of infection if you look at symptomatic cases.\n\nBut infection rates are higher among secondary school age children. The government has bought itself time by delaying their return.\n\nA further 20 million people in England were added to tier four - \"stay at home\" - the toughest set of rules, on 31 December in a bid to stem a surge in Covid cases.\n\nIt means 78% of the population of England is now in tier four, under which non-essential shops are closed and people can only leave their homes for a certain number of reasons.\n\nThe Scottish government will meet on Monday to consider \"further action\" to limit the spread of the disease, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland is currently under its own level four restrictions - with only some islands under less stringent tier three measures.\n\nWales entered a nationwide lockdown on 20 December, with First Minister Mark Drakeford saying on Sunday it was \"difficult to see\" how the rules could be strengthened further.\n\nHe said Welsh ministers would consider whether restrictions could be \"tweaked at the margins\" at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the second week of a six-week lockdown that began on Boxing Day. Stricter measures, including a \"stay-at-home curfew\", ended on Saturday.\n\nIn another development, an academic has said there is a \"big question mark\" over whether a vaccine developed at Oxford University will be as effective against a new variant of the virus that has emerged in South Africa.\n\nProf Sir John Bell, Regius professor of medicine at the university, said the team there were currently investigating this question \"right now\".\n\nHe added it was \"unlikely\" the variant would \"turn off the effect of vaccines entirely,\" and in any case it would be possible to tweak the vaccine in around 4-6 weeks.\n\n\"Everybody should stay calm - it's going to be fine,\" he told Times Radio.\n\n\"But we're now in a game of cat and mouse - because these are not the only two variants we're going to see.\"", "Former Bond actress and Charlie's Angel Tanya Roberts has died in hospital in Los Angeles at the age of 65.\n\nRoberts appeared with Sir Roger Moore in his final Bond film, 1985's A View To A Kill, and had a recurring role in That '70s Show.\n\nShe also starred in the final series of Charlie's Angels on TV in 1980.\n\nHer death was prematurely announced on Monday, only for doctors to say she was still alive. However, her death was then confirmed on Tuesday.\n\nRoberts had collapsed while walking her dogs on 24 December and was admitted to Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre.\n\nHer partner Lance O'Brien mistakenly thought she had died on Sunday after visiting her in hospital. After getting a call from doctors to say she was deteriorating quickly, he went to her bedside, her eyes closed and she \"faded\", TMZ reported.\n\nDevastated, he walked out of the room and then the hospital without speaking to medical staff before informing Roberts' agent that he had \"just said goodbye to Tanya\".\n\nBut while being interviewed for US TV show Inside Edition on Monday, Mr O'Brien got a call from the hospital to say she was alive.\n\nThe moment was captured on film, as he picked up his phone and said: \"Now you're telling me she's alive? Thank the Lord.\" However, she died on Monday night.\n\nShe appeared in A View To A Kill alongside Sir Roger Moore and singer Grace Jones\n\nBorn Victoria Leigh Blum in 1955, Roberts grew up in New York before moving to Hollywood in 1977.\n\nHer big break came when she replaced Shelly Hack in Charlie's Angels, joining Jaclyn Smith and Cheryl Ladd as third 'Angel' Julie.\n\nAfter the show's cancellation, she appeared in such fantasy adventure films as The Beastmaster and Hearts and Armour.\n\nShe also played comic book heroine Sheena in a 1984 film that saw her nominated for a Golden Raspberry award for worst actress.\n\nRoberts received another Razzie nomination for her role as geologist Stacey Sutton in 1985 Bond film A View to a Kill.\n\nRoberts in the title role in Sheena: Queen of the Jungle\n\nShe admitted being \"a little cautious\" about taking the role, but said it would have been \"ridiculous\" to have turned it down.\n\nRoberts' subsequent films included Night Eyes and Inner Sanctum, erotic thrillers that did little to advance her career.\n\nShe went on to play Midge Pinciotti in more than 80 episodes of That '70s Show between 1998 and 2004.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Derby County said several staff members and first-team players tested positive for the virus\n\nChampionship side Derby County has said \"several first-team staff and players\" have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nIn a statement, the club said it had closed its Moor Farm training ground and was speaking to the EFL and the Football Association about forthcoming fixtures.\n\nThe club said it would not reveal the names of those who had tested positive, due to medical confidentiality.\n\nIt added they would be isolating in line with government guidelines.\n\nThe outbreak at Derby comes after Sheffield Wednesday closed their Middlewood Road training ground following a Covid-19 outbreak at the club.\n\nThe Rams were beaten 1-0 by Wednesday in their most recent match on New Year's Day at Hillsborough.\n\nDerby, who are third from bottom in the Championship, are due to travel to Chorley on Saturday for a third round FA Cup tie.\n\nFormer England striker Wayne Rooney took over as interim manager at Derby after the club sacked former head coach Phillip Cocu in November\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland all-rounder Moeen Ali has tested positive for Covid-19 upon the squad's arrival in Sri Lanka.\n\nThe 33-year-old, who tested negative before departure, will now isolate for 10 days in accordance with the Sri Lanka government's quarantine protocol.\n\nFellow all-rounder Chris Woakes has been deemed as a possible close contact, and will observe a period of self-isolation and further testing.\n\nEngland's two-Test tour of Sri Lanka starts in Galle on 14 January.\n\nEngland had lateral flow tests and a PCR test at Hambantota airport upon arrival, with Moeen's PCR test returning the positive.\n\nThe rest of the touring parting will be retested on Tuesday morning, before being allowed to train for the first time on Wednesday.\n\nMoeen is the first England player to test positive for the virus, with a full summer of games against West Indies, Pakistan, Australia and Ireland being completed without any cases.\n\nEngland's last overseas tour, in South Africa, was cut short in December after positive cases in the Cape Town hotel where England were staying. England returned two positive tests - that were later verified as false positives.\n\nLast week England captain Joe Root said he did not expect the tour to be postponed if there were one or two isolated cases of the virus.\n\nSince England's tour of South Africa was called off, Pakistan's tour of New Zealand and Sri Lanka's of South Africa have both continued despite positive cases.\n\nEngland flew on a chartered flight from London to Hambantota on Saturday evening.\n\nAll of the players, and touring party, tested negative before their departure and were sprayed with disinfectant upon their arrival in Sri Lanka.\n\nThe series was scheduled to take place last year but England flew home after the tour was called off on 13 March as the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic took hold.\n\nSri Lanka has seen 44,774 coronavirus infections and 213 deaths during the pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nGiven the circumstances of their abandoned trip to South Africa, this is clearly alarming for England, however it's important to make the distinction between the two tours. In South Africa, they felt their bubble was breached, whereas this is an issue internal to the tourists.\n\nMoeen will be moved to Galle, the location of the two Tests, for his period of isolation, but given that is not due to end until the day before the first match, he must be considered a huge doubt.\n\nEngland have planned for this sort of issue, travelling with seven reserves in addition to the squad of 16. Three of those reserves - Mason Crane, Amar Virdi and Matt Parkinson - are spinners, but have only Crane's one Test cap between them.\n\nAt the moment, England have not discussed promoting a player to the main squad but should they feel the need to supplement frontline spinners Dom Bess and Jack Leach in their Test XI, then an inexperienced name is set for a big opportunity.", "Zara Holland appeared on the second series of Love Island\n\nLove Island star Zara Holland is to be prosecuted for allegedly breaking Covid rules on holiday in Barbados.\n\nIsland police say the former Miss Great Britain is expected to appear in court on Wednesday, accused of \"breaching quarantine\".\n\nStation Sergeant Michael Blackman told Newsbeat she was \"intercepted\" at the airport and later presented herself at a police station.\n\nIt's not clear whether she will appear in court in person or by video link.\n\nAn apology from the 25-year-old for what she described as \"a massive mix-up and misunderstanding\" was published by the Barbados Today website.\n\nShe told the publication: \"I have been a guest of this lovely island in excess of 20 years and would never do anything to jeopardise an entire nation that I have nothing but love and respect for and which has treated me as a family.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEveryone in England must stay at home except for permitted reasons during a new coronavirus lockdown expected to last until mid-February, the PM says.\n\nAll schools and colleges will close to most pupils and switch to remote learning from Tuesday.\n\nBoris Johnson warned the coming weeks would be the \"hardest yet\" amid surging cases and patient numbers.\n\nHe said those in the top four priority groups would be offered a first vaccine dose by the middle of next month.\n\nAll care home residents and their carers, everyone aged 70 and over, all frontline health and social care workers, and the clinically extremely vulnerable will be offered one dose of a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nSchools in Northern Ireland will have an \"extended period of remote learning\", the Stormont Executive said.\n\nSpeaking from Downing Street, Mr Johnson told the public to follow the new lockdown rules immediately, before they become law in the early hours of Wednesday.\n\nAll the new measures in England will then last until at least the middle of February, he said, as a new more infectious variant of the virus spreads across the UK.\n\nThe PM added that he believed the country was entering \"the last phase of the struggle\".\n\nHospitals were under \"more pressure from Covid than at any time since the start of the pandemic\", he said.\n\nAnd he reiterated the slogan used earlier in the pandemic, urging people to immediately \"stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives\".\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nA further 58,784 cases and an additional 407 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result were reported, though deaths in Scotland were not recorded.\n\nAs of 08:00 GMT, there were 26,626 Covid-19 patients in hospital in England, according to the latest figures.\n\nThis is a week-on-week increase of 30%, and a new record high.\n\nThose who are clinically extremely vulnerable will be contacted by letter and should now shield once more, Mr Johnson said.\n\nSupport and childcare bubbles will continue under the new measures - and people can meet one person from another household for outdoor exercise.\n\nCommunal worship and life events like funerals and weddings can continue, subject to limits on attendance.\n\nWhile Mr Johnson said end-of-year exams would not take place as normal in the summer, he said alternative arrangements would be announced separately.\n\nThe government has published a 22-page document outlining the new rules in detail.\n\nThe House of Commons has been recalled to allow MPs to vote on the new restrictions on Wednesday.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his MPs would \"support the package of measures\", saying \"we've all got to pull together now to make this work\".\n\nOnce again it is the threat to the NHS that has forced the hand of ministers.\n\nIn England there has been a 50% rise in the number of patients in hospital with Covid since Christmas day.\n\nTo put that into context, it equates to 18 hospitals being filled.\n\nCurrently around three out of 10 beds are occupied by patients with the disease.\n\nIn some hospitals it is more than six in 10.\n\nBut what is worrying ministers and NHS leaders is that the number is just going to increase.\n\nIn the spring it took nearly three weeks after lockdown for hospital cases to peak.\n\nThe last six days have seen in excess of 50,000 new infections confirmed each day across the UK - a number of these infections are next week's hospital admissions.\n\nIt is why the UK's chief medical officers were warning there was a \"material risk\" of some hospitals being overwhelmed if something did not change.\n\nMr Johnson spoke after UK chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nLevel five means the NHS may soon be unable to handle a further sustained rise in cases, the medical officers said in a joint statement.\n\nNHS Providers, which represents health service trusts, said hospitals were at a \"critical point\" and that \"immediate and decisive action\" was needed.\n\nAnnouncing tougher measures in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"It is no exaggeration to say that I am more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year.\"\n\nFor pupils who returned for their first day of the new term at primary school on Monday, it's turned out to be an extremely short-lived visit.\n\nBoris Johnson's announcement will see primary, secondary and further education colleges closed for at least the next six weeks, except for vulnerable and key workers' children.\n\nIt's a much bigger shift in policy than had been anticipated, even a few days ago.\n\nEven the return date will depend on the progress in tackling the virus.\n\n\"I hope we can steadily move out of lockdown, reopening schools after the February half term,\" said the prime minister.\n\nKeeping schools open was the government's most definite of red lines, a few weeks ago they were threatening councils that wanted to close them - but it's now been overtaken by the spiking lines on the Covid infection charts.\n\nEven after the chaos of last year's replacement grades, GCSEs and A-levels are being cancelled again - with a replacement system still to be decided. Vocational exams are to continue.\n\nFor parents dreading home schooling, there are plans for it to be better supported this time - with more computer devices available and suggestions that Ofsted inspectors will check what schools are offering.\n\nBut there's no escaping that this will feel like another sudden and chaotic change of direction for schools and parents.\n\nMr Johnson's pledge on vaccinations comes after an 82-year-old retired maintenance manager became the first person in the UK to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 jab\n\nSome 13.9 million people are among the four priority groups who will receive a vaccine dose by about 15 February, vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? What questions do you have? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill met throughout Monday\n\nThere will be an extended period of remote learning for schools in Northern Ireland, the executive has said.\n\nMinisters met on Monday night as other parts of the UK tightened their coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe Stormont executive also plans to give its stay at home guidance legal force, with new restrictions on travel.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said details would be formalised on Tuesday.\n\nThe health and education ministers will bring separate papers on the issues to the executive at the meeting, she added.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Education Minister Peter Weir had previously announced a staggered return to school for pupils during the month of January.\n\nThe first transfer test, used by many grammar schools to select pupils, is due to take place on Saturday but there have been calls from some teaching unions and political parties for the test to be cancelled this year, in light of the uncertainty with the pandemic.\n\nIn England, all schools and colleges will close to most pupils and switch to remote learning until the middle of February, and end-of-year exams will not take place this summer as normal.\n\nRecommendations on exams in Northern Ireland are also expected to be brought forward by the executive on Tuesday.\n\nIt is understood ministers will update the assembly on Wednesday about their decisions.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said the new restrictions were unfortunate, but necessary.\n\nShe said she believed the stay-at-home message will be in place \"for the rest of January, probably into February\".\n\n\"We will of course review it, as we're legally bound to do every couple of weeks.\"\n\nShe added that ministers would \"much prefer\" for face-to-face education to continue, but said they had to \"take into account the very serious situation that we find ourselves in tonight.\"\n\nBoth organisations which organise transfer tests will be making announcements on Tuesday, she said.\n\n\"We'll wait to hear what they have to say. They do of course have to abide by public health advice, but they are private organisations and they will make their own announcements.\"\n\nThe Irish government is considering a proposal to close schools for the rest of January.\n\nOn Monday, the Department of Health reported that a further 1,801 people had tested positive for the virus in the past 24 hours.\n\nThere have also been 12 more Covid-19 related deaths.\n\nThese latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,366, while 79,873 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic started.\n\nMore than 12,000 cases have been reported in the past seven days, more than double the week before.\n\nThe seven-day rate per 100,000 people is now 660 positive cases, compared to 200 per 100,000 two weeks ago.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Monday, an additional 6,110 confirmed cases of Covid-19 were announced, with six further deaths linked to the virus.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has already announced a fresh lockdown there from midnight, with schools closed until February.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme, Dr Michael McBride said Scotland's measures were \"prudent and sensible\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine rollout has begun in Northern Ireland.\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the this week, with some of the first doses delivered at a GP surgery on the Falls Road in West Belfast on Monday afternoon.\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca\n\nThe SDLP has called for the assembly to be recalled on Tuesday to discuss the rolling out of the vaccine.\n\nIt can be recalled if at least 30 MLAs sign a petition.\n\nOn Monday, Justice Minister Naomi Long welcomed the opening of Northern Ireland's first Nightingale venue, which will be used for courts and tribunals business.\n\nThe facility was approved by a meeting of the executive on 17 December, and will sit in the International Convention Centre in Belfast (ICC).\n\nActivity at the centre will be phased in, in line with Covid-19 regulations.\n\nIn other coronavirus-related developments on Monday:", "Gerry Marsden was awarded an MBE in 2003 for services to Liverpudlian Charities.\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers singer Gerry Marsden, whose version of You'll Never Walk Alone became a football terrace anthem for his hometown club of Liverpool, has died at the age of 78.\n\nHis family said he died on Sunday after a short illness not linked to Covid-19.\n\nMarsden's band was one of the biggest success stories of the Merseybeat era, and in 1963 became the first to have their first three songs top the chart.\n\nThe band's other best known hit, Ferry Cross The Mersey, came in 1964.\n\nIt was written by Marsden himself as a tribute to his city, and reached number eight.\n\nMarsden was made an MBE in 2003 for services to charity after supporting victims of the Hillsborough disaster.\n\nAt the time, he said he was \"over the moon\" to have received the honour, following his support for numerous charities across Merseyside and beyond.\n\nGerry Marsden in 2009 on the Mersey ferry, which he made famous with his song Ferry Cross The Mersey, as he received the Freedom of the City in Liverpool\n\nMarsden's daughter, Yvette Marbeck, said he went into hospital on Boxing Day after tests showed he had a serious blood infection that had travelled to his heart.\n\nMs Marbeck told the PA news agency: \"It was a very short illness and too quick to comprehend really.\"\n\nHe died in hospital, Ms Marbeck said, adding: \"He was our dad, our hero, warm, funny and what you see is what you got.\"\n\nLiverpool FC posted on social media that Marsden's words would \"live on forever with us\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers worked the same Liverpool club circuit as The Beatles in the 1960s and were signed by the Fab Four's manager Brian Epstein.\n\nEpstein gave Marsden's group the song How Do You Do It, which had been turned down by The Beatles and Adam Faith, for their debut single.\n\nSir Paul McCartney described Gerry and the Pacemakers as The Beatles's \"biggest rivals\" on the Merseyside scene.\n\n\"I'll always remember you with a smile,\" Sir Paul said in his tribute to Marsden.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Paul McCartney This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd the other surviving Beatle, Sir Ringo Starr, sent \"peace and love\" to Marsden's family in a tribute on Twitter.\n\nWhile Marsden was a songwriter as well as a singer, his most enduring hit was actually a cover of a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical number from 1945, which he had to convince his bandmates to record as their third single.\n\nIn many interviews over the years, he explained how fate played a part in his band ever recording the song. He was watching a Laurel and Hardy movie at Liverpool's Odeon cinema in the early 1960s and, only because it was raining, he decided to stay for the second part of a double feature.\n\nThat turned out to be the film Carousel - which featured that song on its soundtrack - and Marsden was so moved by the lyrics that he became determined that it should become part of his band's repertoire.\n\nIn a 2013 interview, Marsden told the Liverpool FC website how You'll Never Walk Alone was adopted by the club's fans as soon as it topped the chart in 1963: \"I remember being at Anfield and before every kick off they used to play the top 10 from number 10 to number one, and so You'll Never Walk Alone was played before the match. I was at the game and the fans started singing it.\n\n\"When it went out of the top 10 they took the song off the playlist and then for the next match the Kop were shouting 'Where's our song?' So they had to put it back on.\n\n\"Now, every time I go to the game I still get goose pimples when the song comes on and I sing my head off.\"\n\nSir Kenny Dalglish, who managed Liverpool at the time of the Hillsborough tragedy, tweeted that he was \"saddened\" by the news of Marsden's death, and that You'll Never Walk Alone was an \"integral part of Liverpool Football Club, and never more so than now\".\n\nLiverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram posted a tribute on Twitter, saying he was \"devastated\" by the news.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Steve Rotheram This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGerry was an entertainer. He loved being an entertainer; he loved people seeing him in the street and asking him for his autograph and the like.\n\nHe had a very distinctive voice, and that is terribly important. You knew instantly it was him on those records. He was best on those ballads.\n\nI think he really did them very well indeed. You'll Never Walk Alone was a big show song that had been around for years and years, and lots of people had done it.\n\nJust before Gerry brought his version out, Johnny Mathis brought his out. If that version had been played on the Kop, I don't think the Kop would have taken to it because you couldn't sing along with Johnny Mathis - he had too big a range and too perfect a voice.\n\nBut Gerry sounded like everyman and it was absolutely perfect for the Kop. I think it's the greatest football anthem of the lot.\n\nAs well as being a Liverpool anthem, You'll Never Walk Alone has also been adopted by fans at both Celtic in Scotland and Borussia Dortmund in Germany.\n\nMarsden's career began at legendary live music venue, The Cavern Club, where The Pacemakers played nearly 200 times.\n\nThe club said on Twitter that Marsden was \"not only a legend, but also a very good friend of The Cavern\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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End of twitter post 4 by The Cavern Club\n\nGerry and The Pacemakers achieved nine hit singles and two hit albums between 1963 and 1965, before splitting up.\n\nMarsden pursued a solo career before the band reformed in 1974 for a world tour.\n\nIn 1985, Marsden was back in the pop spotlight when he was invited to be one of the vocalists of a charity version of You'll Never Walk Alone, which was released to raise funds for victims of a fire at a Bradford City match.\n\nIn doing so, Marsden set another chart record by becoming the first person to sing on two different chart-topping versions of the same song.\n\nSo when, after the Hillsborough tragedy in 1989, the other Pacemakers classic of Ferry Cross The Mersey was chosen to raise funds for its victims and a group of famous Liverpudlian singers was gathered, Marsden was again included and was back at number one once more for a cause he held dear for the rest of his life.\n\nMarsden was awarded the Freedom of Liverpool in April 2009, an occasion he marked by boarding a ferry across the Mersey and getting out his guitar to sing his famous hit which described the scene.", "US casino giant MGM Resorts has made an $11bn (£8.1bn) offer for British gaming company Entain, which owns Ladbrokes.\n\nThe move is the latest attempt by a casino operator to move into the online gambling business.\n\nIn addition to its chain of High Street betting shops, UK-based Entain also owns a number of online sports betting and gambling sites.\n\nEntain confirmed the offer, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, but said the price was too low.\n\nIt had recently rebuffed an earlier $10bn (£7.3bn) all-cash approach from MGM, the newspaper said.\n\nIn a statement, Entain said the latest bid approach \"significantly undervalues the company and its prospects\".\n\nMGM Resorts, which runs the Bellagio casino in Las Vegas, now has until the beginning of next month to decide whether to make a formal bid or to walk away.\n\nFTSE 100-listed Entain. which renamed itself from GVC Holdings last month, describes itself as \"one of the world's largest sports betting and gaming groups operating in the online and retail sector\".\n\nAlong with Ladbrokes, it also owns brands such as Bwin, Partypoker, Coral, Eurobet, Gala and Foxy Bingo.\n\nAfter news of the latest offer for the firm, investors started betting on Entain, pushing its share price up by more than 25% to £14.30 a share - above MGM's offer of roughly £13.83 a share - a sign that market watchers are expecting a higher bid.\n\nIf the two firms do reach an agreement, it would follow another deal in September when MGM rival Caesars Entertainment agreed to buy UK-based William Hill for $3.7bn (£2.9bn).\n\n\"Following Caesar's offer for William Hill last year, a bid by MGM for Ladbroke's owner Entain isn't exactly a surprise,\" said Nicholas Hyett an analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"The two are working together to take advantage of the recent legalisation of sports betting in the US, a market worth many billions of dollars a year.\"\n\nPredictions about the stockmarket have a habit of making the person trying to guess the future look foolish. No such problem for Laura Foll, a fund manager at the investment firm Janus Henderson. On the Today programme on Monday, she forecast more takeover offers for household names in Britain, noting that the UK markets remained unloved by investors and so - perhaps - undervalued.\n\nAn hour after the prediction a big offer duly landed, with Entain, the London-listed company that owns Ladbrokes and other gambling brands, saying it had received a takeover proposal from MGM Resorts, an American rival.\n\nThe US company is offering to pay shareholders in Entain not in cash, but in new MGM shares - an obvious move given the sky-high rating of US shares compared to those listed in London.\n\nIt looks a carbon copy of last year's deal where Caesars, best known for its Las Vegas properties, bought another venerable name in British bookmaking, William Hill. Get ready for more acquisitive foreign companies looking for deals in bargain basement London.\n\nThe new bid for Entain comes with financial backing from MGM's largest shareholder, InterActiveCorp (IAC), which took a 12% stake in MGM Resorts last August.\n\nAt the time, IAC's chief executive Barry Diller said it planned to work with MGM to expand its online gambling portfolio.\n\nThe attempted acquisition comes as the casino industry faces headwinds from the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe economy of Asian casino hub Macau shrank 49% in the first quarter of this year, while unemployment in Las Vegas reached 30% earlier in the year and remains well above the US average.\n\nMGM Resorts, which is the operator of the Bellagio casino in Las Vegas, laid off 18,000 furloughed employees in the US in August.\n\nMany online gambling companies, by contrast, saw a boost during Covid-19 restrictions, prompting many casino owners to pivot their businesses towards online.", "Experts have raised concerns over India's emergency approval of a locally-produced coronavirus vaccine before the completion of trials.\n\nOn Sunday, Delhi approved the vaccine - known as Covaxin - as well as the global AstraZeneca Oxford jab, which is also being manufactured in India.\n\nThe head of Bharat Biotech, which makes Covaxin, defended the approval process, but health experts warn it was rushed.\n\nHealth watchdog All India Drug Action Network said it was \"shocked\".\n\nIt said that there were \"intense concerns arising from the absence of the efficacy data\" as well a lack of transparency that would \"raise more questions than answers and likely will not reinforce faith in our scientific decision making bodies\".\n\nThe statement came after India's Drugs Controller General, VG Somani, insisted Covaxin was \"safe and provides a robust immune response\".\n\nHe added the vaccines had been approved for restricted use in \"public interest as an abundant precaution, in clinical trial mode, to have more options for vaccinations, especially in case of infection by mutant strains\".\n\n\"The vaccines are 100% safe,\" he said, adding that side effects such as \"mild fever, pain and allergy are common for every vaccine\".\n\nThe All India Drug Action Network, however, said it was \"baffled to understand the scientific logic\" to approve \"an incompletely studied vaccine\".\n\nOne of India's most eminent medical experts, Dr Gagandeep Kang, told the Times of India newspaper that she had \"not seen anything like this before\". She added that \"there is absolutely no efficacy data that has been presented or published\".\n\nEven social media users were quick to point out that approving the vaccine before trials were complete was a matter of concern irrespective of how safe or effective the vaccine eventually turned out to be.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Joy This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut Krishna Ella, chairman of Bharat Biotech, met reporters on Monday and said the approval of Covaxin had not been rushed. He cited previous examples where emergency authorisation approvals had been given based only on immunogenicity data.\n\n\"Under Indian laws we can get emergency approval for the vaccine based on fulfilling five parameters after Phase 2 trails. That is what has happened with our vaccine. So it is not a premature approval,\" he said.\n\n\"We will complete the Phase 3 trials soon and provide the efficacy data for the vaccine by February.\"\n\nThe company currently has 20 million doses available and plans to produce about 700 million doses this year, Dr Ella said.\n\n\"We have four facilities coming up and we are planning [to make] around 200 million doses in Hyderabad, 500 million doses in other cities.\"\n\nMany scientists and opposition politicians have raised questions over what they say is the hasty authorisation of Covaxin.\n\nBharat Biotech has developed the vaccine with the state-run Indian Council of Medical Research - and the effort has been touted as an example of India's might in vaccine development and production.\n\nRegulators say the vaccine is safe and effective. The firm says phase 1 and phase 2 trials have shown good results.\n\nBut scientists say that the government's decision not to release data on the vaccine's efficacy for peer review has raised concerns.\n\nMr Modi has welcomed the approval, saying Covaxin is a shining example of his ambitious Atmnirbhar (self-reliance) India campaign.\n\nBut experts worry that questions over the approval process don't bode well for the campaign. And there could be deeper issues. Many believe that the government needs to be more transparent about the authorisation process because the success of the Covid-19 vaccine programme depends on public trust.\n\nThe emergency authorisation also sparked a fierce debate on Indian Twitter on Sunday night between ministers and opposition leaders.\n\nIndia's health minister Dr Harsh Vardhan called out opposition leaders for failing to \"applaud\" the country's \"prowess\" in locally producing a vaccine. India makes about 60% of vaccines globally.\n\nMembers of the main opposition Congress party, Shashi Tharoor and Jairam Ramesh, and former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh state, Akhilesh Yadav, were among those who raised concerns about the manner in which Covaxin was approved.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Shashi Tharoor This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Dr Harsh Vardhan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe approval comes as India gears up to vaccinate its population of more than 1.3 billon people. Amid fears that richer countries are buying up much of the vaccine supply, India too appears to be stockpiling vaccines.\n\nIn an interview with the Associated Press, Adar Poonawalla, whose Serum Institute of India (SII) is manufacturing the AstraZeneca Oxford vaccine, said the jab was given emergency authorisation on the condition that it would not be exported outside India.\n\nMr Poonawalla said his company, the world's largest vaccine maker, was also not allowed to sell the shot in the private market.\n\nThis has raised concerns in India's neighbouring countries, including Nepal and Bangladesh, which were primarily depending on the SII to start vaccinating their populations.\n\nBangladesh had already ordered 30 million doses of the vaccine in the first phase, Reuters reported, but now the fate of the order is unclear. The country's health secretary told local media in December that it expected the first batch of the jab by February.\n\nIndia plans to vaccinate some 300 million people on a priority list by August.\n\nIt has recorded the second-highest number of infections in the world, with more than 10.3 million confirmed cases to date. Nearly 150,000 people have died.\n\nBoth vaccines approved on Sunday can be transported and stored at normal refrigeration temperatures.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Co-op, Morrisons and their payments processing provider ACI say they are investigating an IT glitch that created problems for card payments in stores.\n\nLong queues were seen outside some of the Co-op's convenience stores from Sunday amid the snow, with some shoppers asked to use cash.\n\nCo-op and Morrisons said customers were no longer experiencing problems but they, and ACI, were studying the cause.\n\nOne MP said the problem exposed the risks of letting cash use \"wither\".\n\nACI, which provides real-time payments processing for the retailers, said: \"We are working closely with the IT teams at our partners to resolve the problem as quickly as possible. We apologise to shoppers for any inconvenience caused.\"\n\nThe issue comes as contactless payments have taken off in the UK during the pandemic, with fewer consumers using cash to pay for groceries.\n\nCustomers complained about the issue on social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jen Bartram This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Co-op spokesman told the BBC: \"All card transactions are being processed as usual and our payment process partner is investigating after we experienced an intermittent issue.\n\n\"We would like to apologise to customers for any inconvenience caused during that time.\"\n\nThe BBC witnessed the card processing issue affecting some of The Co-op's stores meant that self-service checkouts had to be closed, requiring customers to queue to be served at tills manned by staff.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by David of Nottingham This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 2 by David of Nottingham\n\nAt some stores, customers queuing outside were warned on Monday evening that transactions had to be \"cash-only\" due to the ongoing issue.\n\nSome customers said they had to use the convenience store's cash machine to withdraw money to pay for purchases.\n\nHowever in other stores, the problem was intermittent, impacting some payment card brands, but not others.\n\nShadow economic secretary to the Treasury Pat McFadden said: \"This shows the dangers of letting the cash network just wither away as use declines.\n\n\"The government promised legislation to secure nationwide access to cash a year ago. It hasn't been brought forward.\"", "The case rate in Bridgend peaked just before Christmas, but now we are seeing deaths in hospitals\n\nThe total number of deaths involving Covid-19 in Wales has reached its highest weekly total of the pandemic.\n\nThere were 467 deaths in the week ending 15 January, which is 13 more than the week before.\n\nThis was nearly 40% of all registered deaths, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nBoth Betsi Cadwaladr and Cwm Taf Morgannwg health boards saw their highest weekly numbers, more than experienced during the first wave.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr had 74 deaths while Cwm Taf Morgannwg had 116.\n\nUnlike during the peak in the first wave in 2020, Wales is also now seeing higher numbers of deaths in north Wales and west Wales.\n\nIn north-east Wales, where there have been the highest case rates of Covid-19 in recent weeks, there were 30 deaths of Flintshire residents, including 25 in hospital. In Wrexham, there were 27 deaths - with 21 in hospital.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board saw 49 hospital deaths in Bridgend - the highest weekly number in Wales. There were also 33 patients who died in Rhondda Cynon Taf (RCT) and six in Merthyr Tydfil.\n\nAll counties recorded at least three deaths involving Covid-19 and the total number of deaths in Wales, up to and registered by 15 January, was 5,884.\n\nWhen deaths registered over the following few days are counted, there is now a total of 6,074.\n\nRCT, with 752 deaths, has the largest number in Wales, followed by Cardiff with 637, up to the latest week.\n\nWhen looking at crude mortality rates, the highest number of deaths - when taking into account the size of populations in England and Wales - are Welsh areas: RCT, followed by Merthyr Tydfil and Blaenau Gwent.\n\nSo-called excess deaths, which compare all registered deaths with previous years, continue to be above the five-year average.\n\nLooking at the number of deaths we would normally expect to see at this point in the year is seen as a useful measure of how the pandemic is progressing.\n\nIn Wales, the number of deaths from all causes fell from 1,198 in the previous week - the highest recorded during the pandemic - to 1,170. But this was still 314 (36.7%) higher than the five-year average for that week.\n\nThis means deaths have been more than the peak in the first wave of the pandemic - 1,169 deaths in the week ending 17 April 2020 - for two weeks in a row.\n\nThe highest proportion of excess deaths was 84.1% in London.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Schools and colleges in Wales moved to online learning before Christmas\n\nKeeping schools shut during the Covid pandemic is \"almost like systematic neglect\" to disadvantaged pupils, a head teacher has said.\n\nCardiff head Armando Di-Finizio said there was a \"fair degree of trauma\" among pupils because of the lockdowns.\n\nOne expert said children from disadvantaged backgrounds were falling furthest behind academically.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it ensured vulnerable children could continue to attend school.\n\nBefore the pandemic the proportion of pupils receiving free school meals who achieved five or more GCSEs was 32% lower than the figure for other pupils in Wales.\n\nAt Eastern High School, where 47% of children receive free school meals, Mr Di-Finizio said the challenges of lockdown were greater for pupils who may not have support or structure at home for learning.\n\nArmando Di-Finizio, head teacher of Eastern High School, says the the attainment gap among pupils is \"widening\"\n\nMr Di-Finizio told Wales Live he did not think the balance was right \"between those who are genuinely vulnerable\" with the virus and young people who are vulnerable in terms of their welfare and wellbeing and their academic progress.\n\n\"I think there would have been other ways to handle this because we are seeing students struggling because of it and the attainment gap is widening for this generation,\" he said.\n\n\"It's almost like systematic neglect of young people that is going on day after day, week after week, month after month.\n\n\"We have to somehow pull this back because I do wonder one day, how the children will look back and judge us in terms of our responses.\"\n\nAnother concern since the pandemic began, he said, was the fact the number of child protection cases at his school has doubled.\n\n\"I don't want to sound alarmist, but I do believe it will take a number of years for us to unpick the traumas that young people go through because we don't know yet just what this lasting impact will be,\" he added.\n\nProfessor Chris Taylor says home learning reduces the ability to provide a \"level playing field\" for education\n\nWelsh Chief Inspector of Schools Meilyr Rowlands, has previously said there was evidence of widening inequality in performance as a result of the pandemic.\n\nSocial Sciences Prof Chris Taylor, from Cardiff University, said this gap was continuing to widen.\n\n\"Closing schools exposes and accentuates the deep disadvantage that many families have across Wales in the different circumstances that they're in,\" Prof Taylor said.\n\nHome learning reduces the ability of schools \"to provide that level playing field\" for educational opportunities.\n\n\"Instead, we're relying on what families and households can produce and provide to support that learning,\" he said.\n\nProf Taylor added some children would \"feel like they've left school at the age of 14 or 15, instead of 18\" in terms of their learning, and the focus for them should be preparing for the next step in their education rather than exams that are not going to happen this summer.\n\nHe said some pupils who may have been planning to leave school at 16 should remain in education until they are 18 to \"remedy some of the missed opportunities\", and that summer school and activities should be put on to help address isolation.\n\nAlmost half of all pupils receive free school meals at Eastern High School in Cardiff\n\nSiân Gwenllian MS, Plaid Cymru's education spokeswoman, has called on the Welsh Government to publish a plan on how pupils will be helped to catch up with \"lost education\".\n\n\"Those children in more deprived areas have been doubly disadvantaged - coronavirus has been more prevalent in these areas, meaning they will have lost more school prior to the lockdown, and these children are less likely to have the means to access online learning,\" she said.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said it had provided \"more than 130,000 [electronic] devices\" since the start of the pandemic for pupils' home learning.\n\n\"We've also recruited more than 1,000 teaching and support staff to provide additional support for learners who may have missed out on teaching time due to the pandemic,\" he said.\n\nThe government has ensured vulnerable children, as well as children of critical workers, could continue to attend school throughout the pandemic, he added.", "A US bankruptcy judge has agreed a $17m (£12.4m) payout to women who accused disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct.\n\nWeinstein, 68, was convicted last year and jailed for 23 years for rape and sexual assault.\n\nThe payout for his victims will come from the liquidation of the Weinstein Co, which filed for bankruptcy in 2018.\n\nThe judge overruled an objection from some accusers looking to pursue appeals outside of bankruptcy court.\n\nJudge Mary Walrath said without the settlement, the plaintiffs would get \"minimal, if any, recovery.\"\n\nThe Weinstein Co was set up as an independent film studio with the disgraced Hollywood mogul one of its co-founders.\n\nThe company collapsed in late 2017, following widespread claims of sexual misconduct against Weinstein, who was convicted of sexually assaulting a former production assistant and raping an actress.\n\nThe US judge said that 83% of sexual misconduct claimants in the bankruptcy \"have expressed very loudly that they want closure through acceptance of this plan, that they do not seek to have to go through any further litigation in order to receive some recovery, some possible recompense... although it's clear that money will never give them that\".\n\nThe $17m fund will be divided among more than 50 claimants, with the most serious allegations resulting in payouts of $500,000 or more.\n\nThe settlement was put to a vote of Weinstein's accusers, with 39 voting in favour and eight opposed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThey will have the option to forgo most of their payout under the plan if they want to continue pursuing their claims.\n\nInsurers contributed $35m under the liquidation plan, which also provides $9.7m to the former officers and directors of the Weinstein Co, allowing them to pay a portion of their legal bills over the last several years.\n\nThe directors and officers, who include Weinstein's brother, Bob, also received releases that absolve them of any potential liability for enabling Weinstein's conduct.\n\nThe Weinstein Co sold its assets to Lantern Entertainment, which later became Spyglass Media Group, for $289m.", "A year ago, the Chinese government locked down the city of Wuhan. For weeks beforehand officials had maintained that the outbreak was under control - just a few dozen cases linked to a live animal market. But in fact the virus had been spreading throughout the city and around China.\n\nThis is the story of five critical days early in the outbreak.\n\nBy 30 December, several people had been admitted to hospitals in the central city of Wuhan, having fallen ill with high fever and pneumonia. The first known case was a man in his 70s who had fallen ill on 1 December. Many of those were connected to a sprawling live animal market, Huanan Seafood Market, and doctors had begun to suspect this wasn't regular pneumonia.\n\nSamples from infected lungs had been sent to genetic sequencing companies to identify the cause of the disease, and preliminary results had indicated a novel coronavirus similar to Sars. The local health authorities and the country's Center for Disease Control (CDC) had already been notified, but nothing had been said to the public.\n\nAlthough no-one knew it at the time, between 2,300 and 4,000 people were by now likely infected, according to a recent model by MOBS Lab at Northeastern University in Boston. The outbreak was also thought to be doubling in size every few days. Epidemiologists say that at this early part of an outbreak, each day and even each hour is critical.\n\nWuhan’s Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market was sealed off on 1 January 2020\n\nAt around 16:00 on 30 December, the head of the Emergency Department at Wuhan Central Hospital was handed the results of a test carried out by sequencing lab Capital Bio Medicals in Beijing.\n\nShe went into a cold sweat as she read the report, according to an interview given later to Chinese state media.\n\nAt the top were the alarming words: \"SARS CORONAVIRUS\". She circled them in bright red, and passed it on to colleagues over the Chinese messaging site WeChat.\n\nWithin an hour and a half, the grainy image with its large red circle reached a doctor in the hospital's ophthalmology department, Li Wenliang. He shared it with his hundreds-strong university class group, adding the warning, \"Don't circulate the message outside this group. Get your family and loved ones to take precautions.\"\n\nWhen Sars spread through southern China in late 2002 and 2003, Beijing covered up the outbreak, insisting that everything was under control. This allowed the virus to spread around the world. Beijing's response invoked international criticism and - worryingly for a regime deeply concerned about stability - anger and protests within China. Between 2002 and 2004, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) went on to infect more than 8,000 people and kill almost 800 worldwide.\n\nRobert Maguire of the WHO and a Chinese doctor visit a Sars patient in Guangzhou, China – April 2003\n\nOver the coming hours, screen shots of Li's message spread widely online. Across China, millions of people began talking about Sars online.\n\nIt would turn out that the sequencers made a mistake - this was not Sars, but a new coronavirus very similar to it. But this was a critical moment. News of a possible outbreak had escaped.\n\nThe Wuhan Health Commission was already aware that there was something going on in the city's hospitals. That day, officials from the National Health Commission in Beijing arrived, and lung samples were sent to at least five state labs in Wuhan and Beijing to sequence the virus in parallel.\n\nNow, as messages suggesting the possible return of Sars began flying over Chinese social media, the Wuhan Health Commission sent two orders out to hospitals. It instructed them to report all cases direct to the Health Commission, and told them not to make anything public without authorisation.\n\nWithin 12 minutes, these orders were leaked online.\n\nIt might have taken a couple more days for the online chatter to make the leap from Chinese-speaking social media to the wider world if it wasn't for the efforts of veteran epidemiologist Marjorie Pollack.\n\nThe deputy editor of ProMed-mail, an organisation which sends out alerts on disease outbreaks worldwide, received an email from a contact in Taiwan, asking if she knew anything about the chatter online.\n\nDr Marjorie Pollack is an epidemiologist based in New York\n\nBack in February 2003, ProMed had been the first to break the news of Sars. Now, Pollack had deja vu. \"My reaction was: 'We're in trouble,'\" she told the BBC.\n\nThree hours later, she had finished writing an emergency post, requesting more information on the new outbreak. It was sent out to ProMed's approximately 80,000 subscribers at one minute to midnight.\n\nAs word began to spread, Professor George F Gao, director general of China's Center for Disease Control [CDC], was receiving offers of help from contacts around the world.\n\nChina revamped its infectious disease infrastructure after Sars - and in 2019, Gao had promised that China's vast online surveillance system would be able to prevent another outbreak like it.\n\nBut two scientists who contacted Gao say the CDC head did not seem alarmed.\n\n\"I sent a really long text to George Gao, offering to send a team out and do anything to support them,\" Dr Peter Daszak, the president of New York-based infectious diseases research group EcoHealth Alliance, told the BBC. But he says that all he received in reply was a short message wishing him Happy New Year.\n\nDirector of the Chinese Center for Disease Control, George F Gao – 22 January 2020\n\nEpidemiologist Ian Lipkin of Columbia University in New York was also trying to reach Gao. Just as he was having dinner to ring in the New Year, Gao returned his call. The details Lipkin reveals about their conversation offer new insights into what leading Chinese officials were prepared to say at this critical point.\n\n\"He had identified the virus. It was a new coronavirus. And it was not highly transmissible. This didn't really resonate with me because I'd heard that many, many people had been infected,\" Lipkin told the BBC. \"I don't think he was duplicitous, I think he was just wrong.\"\n\nLipkin says he thinks Gao should have released the sequences they had already obtained. My view is that you get it out. This is too important to hesitate.\"\n\nGao, who refused the BBC's requests for an interview, has told state media that the sequences were released as soon as possible, and that he never said publicly that there was no human-to-human transmission.\n\nThat day, the Wuhan Health Commission issued a press release stating that 27 cases of viral pneumonia had been identified, but that there was no clear evidence of human to human transmission.\n\nIt would be a further 12 days before China shared the genetic sequences with the international community.\n\nThe Chinese government refused multiple interview requests by the BBC. Instead, it gave us detailed statements on China's response, which state that in the fight against Covid-19 China \"has always acted with openness, transparency and responsibility, and … in a timely manner.\"\n\nBBC This World's 54 Days: China and the pandemic can be seen on BBC Two at 21:00 GMT on Tuesday 26 January, or 23:30 on Monday 1 February (except BBC Two Northern Ireland). Or watch on BBC iPlayer.\n\nPart two - 54 Days: America and the Pandemic - will be on BBC Two on Tuesday 2 February at 21:00.\n\nInternational law stipulates that new infectious disease outbreaks of global concern be reported to the World Health Organization within 24 hours. But on 1 January the WHO still had not had official notification of the outbreak. The previous day, officials there had spotted the ProMed post and reports online, so they contacted China's National Health Commission.\n\n\"It was reportable,\" says Professor Lawrence Gostin, Director of the WHO Collaborating Center on national and global health law at Georgetown University in Washington DC, and a member of the International Health Regulations roster of experts. \"The failure to report clearly was a violation of the International Health Regulations.\"\n\nDr Maria Van Kerkhove, a WHO epidemiologist who would become the agency's Covid-19 technical lead, joined the first of many emergency conference calls in the middle of the night on 1 January.\n\n\"We had the assumptions initially that it may be a new coronavirus. For us it wasn't a matter of if human to human transmission was happening, it was what is the extent of it and where is that happening.\"\n\nIt was two days before China responded to the WHO. But what they revealed was vague - that there were now 44 cases of viral pneumonia of unknown cause.\n\nChina says that it communicated regularly and fully with the WHO from 3 January. But recordings of internal WHO meetings obtained by the Associated Press (AP) news agency some of which were shared with PBS Frontline and the BBC, paint a different picture, revealing the frustration that senior WHO officials felt by the following week.\n\n\"'There's been no evidence of human to human transmission' is not good enough. We need to see the data,\" Mike Ryan WHO's health emergencies programme director is heard saying.\n\nThe WHO was legally required to state the information it had been provided by China. Although they suspected human to human transmission, the WHO were not able to confirm this for a further three weeks.\n\n\"Those concerns are not something they ever aired publicly. Instead, they basically deferred to China,\" says AP's Dake Kang. \"Ultimately, the impression that the rest of the world got was just what the Chinese authorities wanted. Which is that everything was under control. Which of course it wasn't.\"\n\nThe number of people infected by the virus was doubling in size every few days, and more and more people were turning up at Wuhan's hospitals.\n\nBut now - instead of allowing doctors to share their concerns publicly - state media began a campaign that effectively silenced them.\n\nOn 2 January, China Central Television ran a story about the doctors who spread the news about an outbreak four days earlier. The doctors, referred to only as \"rumour mongers\" and \"internet users\", were brought in for questioning by the Wuhan Public Security Bureau and 'dealt with' 'in accordance with the law'.\n\nOne of the doctors was Li Wenliang, the eye doctor whose warning had gone viral. He signed a confession. In February, the doctor died of Covid-19.\n\nThe Chinese government says that this is not evidence that it was trying to suppress news of the outbreak, and that doctors like Li were being urged not to spread unconfirmed information.\n\nBut the impact of this public dressing down was critical. For though it was becoming apparent to doctors that there was, in fact, human-to-human transmission, they were prevented from going public.\n\nA health worker from Li's hospital, Wuhan Central, told us that over the next few days \"there were so many people who had a fever. It was out of control. We started to panic. [But] The hospital told us that we were not allowed to speak to anyone.\"\n\nThe Chinese government told us that \"it takes a rigorous scientific process to determine if a new virus can be transmitted from person to person\".\n\nThe authorities would continue to maintain for a further 18 days that there was no human-to-human transmission.\n\nLabs across the country were racing to map the complete genetic sequence of the virus. Among them was a renowned virologist in Shanghai, Professor Zhang Yongzhen who began sequencing on 3 January.\n\nAfter having worked for two days straight, he obtained a complete sequence. His results revealed a virus that was similar to Sars, and therefore likely transmissible.\n\nOn 5 January, Zhang's office wrote to the National Health Commission advising taking precautionary measures in public places.\n\n\"On that very day, he was working to try and get information released as soon as possible, so the rest of the world could see what it was and so we could get diagnostics going\", says Zhang's research partner, Professor Edward Holmes an evolutionary virologist at the University of Sydney.\n\nBut Zhang could not make his findings public. On January 3, the National Health Commission had sent a secret memorandum to labs banning unauthorised scientists from working on the virus and disclosing the information to the public.\n\n\"What the notice effectively did,\" says AP's Dake Kang, \"is it silenced individual scientists and laboratories from revealing information about this virus and potentially allowing word of it to leak out to the outside world and alarm people.\"\n\nNone of the labs went public with the genetic sequence of the virus. China continued to maintain it was viral pneumonia with no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission.\n\nIt would be six days before it announced that the new virus was a coronavirus, and even then, it did not share any genetic sequences to allow other countries to develop tests and begin tracing the spread of the virus.\n\nThree days later, on 11 January, Zhang decided it was time to put his neck on the line. As he boarded a plane between Beijing and Shanghai, he authorised Holmes to release the sequence.\n\nThe decision came at a personal cost - his lab was closed the next day for \"rectification\" - but his action broke the deadlock. The next day state scientists released the sequences they had obtained. The international scientific community swung into action, and a toolkit for a diagnostic test was publicly available by 13 January.\n\nDespite the evidence from scientists and doctors, China would not confirm there was human-to-human transmission until 20 January.\n\nIllustration of spike proteins (red) of Covid-19 binding with receptors (blue) on a target human cell\n\nAt the beginning of any emerging disease outbreak, says health law expert Lawrence Gostin, it's always chaotic. \"It was always going to be very difficult to control this virus, from day one. But by the time we knew [the international community] it was transmissible human to human, I think the cat was already out the bag, it already spread.\n\n\"That was the shot we had, and we lost it.\"\n\nAs Wang Linfa, a bat virologist at Duke-Nus Medical School in Singapore, says: \"January 20th is the dividing line, before that the Chinese could have done much better. After that, the rest of the world should be really on high alert and do much better.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 100,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, after 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said he took \"full responsibility\" for the government's actions, saying: \"We truly did everything we could.\"\n\n\"I'm deeply sorry for every life lost,\" he said.\n\nA total of 100,162 deaths have been recorded in the UK, the first European nation to pass the landmark.\n\nEarlier, figures from the ONS, which are based on death certificates, showed there had been nearly 104,000 deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nThe government's daily figures rely on positive tests and are slightly lower.\n\nMr Johnson told Tuesday's Downing Street news conference that it was \"hard to compute the sorrow contained in this grim statistic\".\n\nHe gave his \"deepest condolences\" to those who had lost loved ones, including \"fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, and the many grandparents who've been taken\".\n\nThe UK is the fifth country to pass 100,000 deaths, coming after the US, Brazil, India and Mexico.\n\nA surge in cases in recent weeks - driven in part by a new, fast-spreading variant of the virus - has left the UK with one of the highest coronavirus death rates globally.\n\nA further 20,089 coronavirus cases were recorded on Tuesday, continuing a downward trend in the number of UK cases seen in recent days. The number of people in hospital remains high, as do the UK's daily death figures.\n\nMr Johnson said the coronavirus infection rate remained \"pretty forbiddingly high\" despite lockdown restrictions which have been in place in England since 5 January.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons - including for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nMr Johnson said he would set out more detail in \"the next few days and weeks\" about \"when and how we want to get things open again\".\n\nIt's a terrible milestone - and one that represents unimaginable loss.\n\nMost of the deaths have come in two waves - the sharp, sudden surge in the spring followed by a slow and sustained rise throughout autumn and winter.\n\nMistakes have been made - the delay locking down back in March is one that is often cited even by the government's own advisers.\n\nThe UK, like much of Europe, was also woefully underprepared with limited testing and contact tracing systems.\n\nBut the ageing population, high rates of obesity, the fact the UK is a global hub and its inter-connectedness with Europe are also factors that meant we were tragically never going to escape lightly once the virus got a foothold.\n\nSpeaking alongside the prime minister, Prof Chris Whitty, England's chief medical officer, described it as a \"very sad day\".\n\nHe said the number of people dying \"will come down relatively slowly over the next two weeks - and will probably remain flat for a while now\".\n\nProf Whitty added the new coronavirus variant had changed the UK's situation \"very substantially\" with infection rates \"just about holding\" due to lockdown restrictions.\n\nBut he said the number of people testing positive for Covid-19 in the UK \"has been coming down\" and the number of people in hospital with Covid has \"flattened off\" - including in London, the South East and East of England.\n\nHowever, there were \"some areas\" where the hospital figures were \"still not convincingly reducing\", he said.\n\nNHS chief executive Sir Simon Stevens said there had been \"continuing improvements in hospital treatment for severely sick coronavirus patients\".\n\nHe said he expected more treatments within the next six to 18 months, adding: \"We can see a world in which coronavirus may be more treatable, but for now, it's a combination of reducing infections and getting vaccinations done.\"\n\nOne day there will be a public inquiry - maybe several - seeking to understand why so many died.\n\nLast summer, back when the government was subsidising people to eat out at restaurants, Boris Johnson said there would be an independent inquiry into the government's handling of Covid, but gave no details or dates.\n\nHe still hasn't, despite a recent call from bereaved families, trade unions and charities for lessons to be learnt now.\n\nThe gravest public health crisis for a century would have tested any government.\n\nBut as the pandemic has worsened, the criticisms and questions have mounted - about the timing of lockdowns, the rollout of test and trace and the failure to protect care homes last spring.\n\nThere is now pressure on Boris Johnson from some Tory MPs to ease restrictions as soon as the most vulnerable are vaccinated.\n\nBut this evening a sombre prime minister said the government would first do everything it could to minimise further loss of life.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said it was a \"sobering moment in the pandemic\", saying: \"Each death is a person who was someone's family member and friend.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was a \"national tragedy\" to have reached 100,000 deaths.\n\nThe government had been \"behind the curve at every stage\" of the pandemic and had not learnt lessons over the summer, he added.\n\nThe epidemiologist whose modelling in part prompted the UK's first national lockdown said more action in the autumn of last year could have saved lives.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson told BBC Radio 4's PM programme: \"Had we acted both earlier and with greater stringency back in September when we first saw case numbers going up, and had a policy of keeping case numbers at a reasonably low levels, then I think a lot of the deaths we've seen, not all by any means, but a lot of the deaths we've seen in the last four or five months, could have been avoided.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the death toll was \"heartbreaking\" and warned there was a \"tough period ahead\".\n\n\"The vaccine offers the way out, but we cannot let up now,\" he added.\n\nMore than 6.8 million people in the UK have had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, according to the latest figures.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nIf you would like to send us a tribute to a friend or family member who died after contracting coronavirus, please use the form below.\n\nPlease remember to include a photo of your loved one and their name. 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Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your tribute.", "The Mermaid of Black Conch, a dark love story about a fisherman and a mermaid torn from the sea, has won the Costa Book of the Year award.\n\nTrinidadian-born British writer Monique Roffey beat four other contenders with her sixth novel to scoop the £30,000 prize.\n\nJudges said the book was \"utterly original... and feels like a classic in the making\".\n\nA \"delighted\" Roffey said her win was a vote for Caribbean literature.\n\n\"A huge thank you to the judges for exposing my book to a wide readership. I'll be pinching myself for weeks to come,\" she added.\n\nBased on a Taino legend of a beautiful woman transformed into a mermaid, the story is set in the Caribbean village of St Constance.\n\nDavid, a fisherman, unexpectedly attracts the attention of Aycayia, a mermaid who is drawn to his singing. When she is captured from the sea during an annual fishing competition, he does all he can to save her, with dramatic consequences.\n\nProfessor Suzannah Lipscomb, chair of judges, said: \"The Mermaid of Black Conch is an extraordinary, beautifully written, captivating, visceral book - full of mythic energy and unforgettable characters, including some tremendously transgressive women.\"\n\nThe Costa Book Awards have a reputation for picking popular reads: books you would recommend to a friend. And I would definitely recommend The Mermaid of Black Conch.\n\nAt first, the novel might sound a bit odd. Set on a Caribbean island in the 1970s, it is a bittersweet love story between a beautiful young woman cursed to live as a mermaid and a fisherman.\n\nBased on a legend passed down by the indigenous people of the Caribbean, the Taino, there are touches of magic and snippets of poetry. The book was also shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize last year, which rewards fiction that breaks the mould or extends the possibilities of the novel.\n\nBut while it is unusual it is also a joy to read, brimming with memorable characters and vivid descriptions.\n\nWe see the mermaid's \"hair flying like a nest of cables\" while we are told \"sea moss trailed from her shoulders like slithers of beard\" and \"barnacles speckled the swell of her hips.\"\n\nFor me, this was a hugely entertaining and thought-provoking novel and a worthy winner.\n\nRoffey, a senior lecturer in creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University, secured her publishing deal through Peepal Tree Press, an independent publisher supporting Caribbean writers.\n\nShe then crowd-funded her publicity campaign with the support of fellow authors.\n\nThe Mermaid of Black Conch is set in the Caribbean\n\nRoffey's entry was also named Costa's Novel of the Year earlier this month, alongside winners from four other categories:\n\nThe Mermaid of Black Conch is the thirteenth novel to take the overall prize. Days Without End by Sebastian Barry was the last novel to be named Costa Book of the Year in 2016.\n\nTuesday's virtual ceremony also saw London-based writer Tessa Sheridan receive the 2020 Costa Short Story Award.\n\nSheridan won the public vote and £3,500 for her story, The Person Who Serves, Serves Again.\n\nThe Costa Book Awards, formerly the Whitbread Book Awards, were established in 1971 to encourage, promote and celebrate the best contemporary British writing.\n\nIt is open to UK and Irish authors.\n\nSeamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and Sebastian Barry are among the authors to have won the book of the year award more than once.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The number of people to have died with coronavirus in the UK has exceeded 100,000.\n\nThere have been nearly 104,000 deaths since the pandemic began, data from the UK's national statisticians shows.\n\nThe figures, which go up to 15 January, are based on death certificates. The government's daily figures, which rely on positive tests, are slightly lower.\n\nIt follows a surge of cases last month, leaving the UK with one of the highest coronavirus death rates globally.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics and its counterparts in Scotland and Northern Ireland registered 7,776 deaths with coronavirus on the death certificate in the most recent week.\n\nThat total is the third highest of the epidemic.\n\nLast April, there were two weeks with more than 9,000 coronavirus deaths registered across the UK - but there have been no other weeks with more than 7,000 deaths registered.\n\nAbout nine in 10 death certificates citing coronavirus registered Covid as the cause of death.\n\nMost of the deaths have been in older age groups - nearly three-quarters of those who have died with the virus were over 75. One in three deaths were care home residents.\n\nChris Hopson, of NHS Providers, which represents health service managers, described the milestone as a \"tragedy\".\n\n\"Behind each death will be a story of sorrow and grief,\" he said.\n\n\"We pay tribute, once again, to NHS and care staff who have done everything they can throughout the long months of this pandemic to avoid each one of these deaths and reduce patient harm.\n\n\"We won't know the true impact of Covid-19 for a long time to come because of its long-term effects.\n\n\"But, as well as the high death rate, it's particularly concerning that this virus has widened health inequalities and affected black, Asian and minority-ethnic communities disproportionately.\"\n\nSarah Scobie, of the Nuffield Trust think tank, said it was a \"harrowing figure\".\n\nShe added: \"While the vaccine rollout for the most vulnerable is continuing at impressive speed, it will be a while until the benefits feed through to the figures.\"\n\nWe were one of the worst hit countries, if not the worst, in the spring - certainly in Europe and the G7.\n\nTwo big drivers of that were the timing of the first lockdown and the terrible numbers of deaths in care homes.\n\nAs a result, the UK could always rank among the hardest hit nations overall.\n\nBut comparing experiences in second waves is harder.\n\nSome countries have very clearly done better than the UK.\n\nAustralia, for example, has seen very few coronavirus deaths overall, and deaths quite close to usual levels throughout 2020.\n\nBut the US, which had a milder first wave than the UK, has seen steady numbers of coronavirus deaths throughout summer and autumn.\n\nIts death toll has been catching up with that of the UK in the most recent data, covering up until Christmas.\n\nAnd some countries that missed the first wave entirely - such as Poland (shown above) or Germany - have seen significant spikes in deaths in recent months.\n\nWith deaths rising since then in many countries and vaccination programmes only getting up and running, there is still a long way to go before we will know who has had the toughest second wave.\n• None Lockdown needs to be stricter, scientists warn", "Baroness Floella Benjamin has spoken of her pride after receiving a first coronavirus vaccine dose.\n\nThe 71-year-old actress said she would wear a badge saying \"I've had the jab\" after being vaccinated.\n\nThe Lib Dem peer, who came to Britain in 1960 and was born in Trinidad, is known for appearing in the children's programme Play School and received a damehood last year.\n\nOver 6.8m people in the UK have now received a first vaccine dose.\n\nAs a member of the House of Lords, Baroness Benjamin has spoken regularly about the disproportionate effect of Covid-19 on black, Asian and minority ethnic communities as well as the knock-on impact of the pandemic.\n\nIn September, she told peers she knew two people who had taken their own lives \"because they could not cope with the uncertainty of the future\".\n\nShe is also a member of the Lords Covid-19 Committee.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Floella Benjamin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe government has set a target for all those in the top four priority groups - around 15 million - to be offered a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nTwo vaccines - developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca - are being used. A third, from Moderna, has been approved.\n\nAll have been shown to be safe and effective in trials with two doses needed to offer the best protection - now timed 12 weeks apart.\n\nIt comes as British Asian celebrities united to dispel myths about the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nComedians Romesh Ranganathan and Meera Syal and cricketer Moeen Ali appear in a video urging people to get a jab.\n\nA study from the Royal Society for Public Health found 57% of black, Asian and minority ethnic people said they would take the vaccine.\n\nThis figure compared with 79% of white people who would do so.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One protester said: \"This is the only way I can effect change\"\n\nPeople campaigning against the HS2 rail project have dug a tunnel near Euston station, in a bid to prevent their eviction from a protest camp.\n\nIn September, members of HS2 Rebellion set up a Tree Protection Camp in Euston Square Gardens in central London to protest against the £106bn scheme.\n\nThey claim the tunnel is 100ft (30m) long and has taken two months to dig.\n\nActivists say the tunnel - codenamed \"Kelvin\" - is their \"best defence\" against being evicted.\n\nOne protester, identified only as Blue, told the BBC: \"It is all very dangerous and life-threatening but it is all worth it. This is the only way I can effect change, I would sacrifice everything for the climate ecological emergency to not be happening.\"\n\nThe 18-year-old added: \"We want to be as safe as possible. It is not about us martyring ourselves, it is about delaying and stopping HS2.\"\n\nDemonstrators have previously built tree houses and scaled cranes near the HS2 Euston site\n\nA spokeswoman for HS2 said tunnel protests were \"costly to the taxpayer\".\n\nShe added: \"These are a danger to the safety of the protesters, HS2 staff, High Court enforcement officers and the general public, as well as putting unnecessary strain on the emergency services during the pandemic.\n\n\"Safety is our first priority when taking possession of land and removing illegal encampments.\"\n\nBritish Transport Police said it was aware of the tunnel but it was a matter for the Met Police, which said no complaint yet had been made.\n\nHS2 is set to link London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. It is hoped the 20-year project will reduce rail passenger overcrowding and help to rebalance the UK's economy.\n\nThe campaign group alleges HS2 is the \"most expensive, wasteful and destructive project in UK history\" and that it is \"set to destroy or irreparably damage 108 ancient woodlands and 693 wildlife sites\".\n\nHowever, HS2 bosses have said seven million trees will be planted during phase one of the project and that much ancient woodland will \"remain intact\".\n\nSeasoned activist Daniel Cooper - better known as Swampy - has been at Euston supporting the campaigners\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps told MPs in September that the first phase of the high-speed rail link between London and Birmingham would not open until 2028 at the earliest.\n\nThe second phase, to Manchester and Leeds, was due to open in 2032-33 but that has been pushed back to 2035-40.\n\nNetwork Rail, which owns the land, has been approached for a comment about the tunnel.\n\nHS2 protester Dr Larch Maxey said the tunnel was \"warm and quiet\"\n\nTunnelling as a form of environmental protest has a long history in the UK.\n\nIn the 1990s it was one of the ways that pushed environmental concerns into the headlines and changed perceptions.\n\nIn one of the environmental protesters' tunnelling guides, written by \"Disco Dave\", it says:\n\n\"In the world of NVDA (non-violent direct action) there are few defence tactics that can compare with the protest tunnel. Dangerous, laborious and time consuming, tunnelling is the ultimate and desperate tactic of desperate people in desperate times.\"\n\nThe first protest tunnel goes back to the M11 and 1993 but they only really developed during the Newbury Bypass protests in 1996.\n\nProtest tunnels against the A30 in Devon and Manchester Airport's second runway then followed.\n\nNot only did they make household names of environmental campaigners like \"Swampy\" but they arguably changed transport policy - road-building reduced massively.\n\nWe have seen tunnels more recently in 2017 in Coldharbour in Surrey in a protest against fracking so it's not a massive surprise we are seeing tunnels again.\n\nTunnelling in particular as a direct action slows down developers and it is expensive to dig out protesters safely.\n\nDisco Dave wrote: \"That ultimately is the purpose of tunnels and tree houses. To act as a deterrent warning the authorities that should they decide to evict, then it will hurt them where for them it hurts most - in the pocket.\"\n\nWhat will be interesting is if these tunnels have the same impact on HS2 as they did on the road-building programme of the late 1990s.\n\nWill it reframe HS2 so it will be seen in the same way as fracking or road building? Or can the argument still be made that it is a low-carbon form of travel even though it does cause some destruction of habitat?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Facebook News, the social network's dedicated section for news content, is launching in the UK.\n\nThe UK is the second market to get Facebook News, which launched in the United States last year.\n\nSeveral major news publishers, including Channel 4, Sky News, and The Guardian have signed deals with Facebook to provide content.\n\nIt comes as the tech industry's relationship with the media comes under increased scrutiny.\n\nAnd French publishers recently agreed a deal with Google on how a new EU copyright law about news excerpts should be applied.\n\nFacebook News is the social network's own attempt to address the long-running friction between it and news publishers, as advertising spend has increasingly moved to the large tech firms instead of individual news outlets.\n\nThe new feature is set to go live on Tuesday afternoon, Facebook said.\n\nThe new feature is a dedicated tab within the Facebook mobile app, accessible by tapping the three-line icon for more options.\n\nThe tab features a mix of major daily news stories and \"personalised\" news selected for each reader based on their interests, as decided by Facebook's algorithm.\n\nFacebook says it pays publishers \"for content that is not already on the platform\", and says the feature will also provide publishers with new advertising and subscription \"opportunities\".\n\nThe dedicated news feed will have personalisation controls, Facebook says\n\nThat may be partly based on data from the United States, which Facebook says shows more than 95% of traffic on Facebook News is from people who have not read those publications before.\n\nThe social network says the new product is a \"a multi-year investment that puts original journalism in front of new audiences\".\n\nAnd news organisations, for which new readers are often in short supply, are signing up.\n\nIn November, when it first announced the product was heading to the UK, major names such as The Economist, The Independent, and Cosmopolitan were already on board.\n\nAhead of Tuesday's launch, The Daily Mail, Financial Times and Telegraph were also announced, among others.\n\nBBC News has not signed a commercial deal with Facebook News, but may still appear on the tab through public posts it makes on the Facebook platform.\n\nFacebook also says that this new product is a direct result of discussions with the news industry, with which it has often been at loggerheads.\n\nThe tech giant is responsible for driving a lot of traffic around the internet, and a story which performs well on Facebook will often attract more readers than one which does not.\n\nBut Facebook has also repeatedly made changes to its algorithms over the years which have affected news organisations, sometimes with little notice. It has also encouraged organisations to use its features such as instant articles, or to make video content for Facebook.\n\nHowever, it envisions Facebook News as a better solution than earlier attempts, and one it plans to roll out to other countries - including France and Germany - in the near future.\n\n\"Our goal has always been to work out the best ways we can support the industry in building sustainable business models,\" Facebook said in its blog post about the UK launch.\n\n\"As we invest more in news, and pay publishers for more content in more countries, we will work with them to support the long-term viability of newsrooms.\"", "The fake email looks like it has come from NHS Test and Trace\n\nThe NHS has warned people to be vigilant about fake invitations to have the coronavirus vaccination, sent by scammers.\n\nThe scam email includes a link to \"register\" for the vaccine, but no registration for the real vaccination is required.\n\nThe fake site also asks for bank details either to verify identification or to make a payment.\n\nThe NHS says it would never ask for bank details, and the vaccine is free.\n\nCyber-security consultant Daniel Card told BBC News that traffic data indicates thousands of people had clicked the link to the fake site - although it is unclear how many then filled in the form.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by NHS This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe urged people to remain vigilant: \"These things spring up, we take them down and then they spring up again.\"\n\nBoth the National Cyber Security Centre and Action Fraud have asked anyone who receives a scam email or text to report it.\n\n\"Vaccines are our way out of this pandemic,\" said health secretary Matt Hancock.\n\n\"It is vital that we do not let a small number of unscrupulous fraudsters undermine the huge team effort under way across the country to protect millions of people from this terrible disease.\"\n\nAt the start of January, Derbyshire police issued a warning about a text message scam which offered Covid vaccinations.\n\n\"If you receive a text or email that asks you to click on a link or for you to provide information, such as your name, credit card or bank details, it's a scam,\" the force said.\n\nLast year, tech firms warned that coronavirus was a popular hook for scammers. In April 2020 Google said it was blocking 18 million scam emails a day on the subject.", "Labour is calling for juries to be cut from 12 members to seven, to stem the \"gravest crisis\" in the justice system since World War Two.\n\nShadow justice secretary David Lammy said action was needed to clear the backlog of thousands of cases.\n\nHe argued that smaller juries and the use of more temporary courts would allow socially distanced trials.\n\nThe government has not ruled out such a move but insists measures it is taking to clear the backlog are working.\n\nLast week four criminal justice watchdogs warned that courts in England and Wales were straining under pressure from the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nJury trials ground to a halt at the start of the first lockdown, when people were advised to stay at home except in limited circumstances.\n\nWhen they resumed, there were severe delays and numerous cancellations due to social-distancing requirements.\n\nRecent figures revealed that the number of unheard cases in crown courts had reached a record 54,000.\n\nThe backlog means some from last year may not go before a jury until 2022, and it could be years before the courts get back on track.\n\nLabour wants the temporary return of so-called \"wartime juries\" of seven rather than 12 members to speed up the process.\n\n\"Victims of rape, murder, domestic abuse, robbery and assault are facing delays of up to four years because of the government's failure to act,\" Mr Lammy said.\n\nHe also urged the government to speed up the rollout of temporary \"Nightingale courts\" to hear civil, family and tribunals work, as well as non-custodial crime cases.\n\nTen of these were announced in July 2020 to help deal with the backlog in court proceedings, and 20 are now in operation across England and Wales.\n\nLeading lawyers are sceptical about Labour's proposal to reach back into wartime history.\n\nThe Criminal Bar Association - representing barristers who prosecute and defend trials - says a panel of seven may allow more courtrooms to be used, but it wouldn't solve what it says is chronic underfunding - and potentially undermines one of the most important safeguards in our society.\n\nThe Law Society, for solicitors, wants to see evidence that smaller panels would ease backlogs without risking injustices.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice's internal modelling calculated last year that reduced juries would lead to a 10% increase in cases - but that was before courtrooms received new Covid-proof screens that have allowed more trials to run.\n\nScotland's courts are using cinemas to host juries - and while that is not being actively discussed in England, it's not been ruled out either.\n\nEven if juries were slimmed, courts would still need to tightly control the number of defendants who can use their cells and courtroom docks to meet Public Health England's guidelines.\n\nIn April last year, the head of judiciary in England and Wales, Lord Burnett, backed the idea of reducing the number of jurors if social distancing continued.\n\nIn June, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland told the BBC he was \"very attracted\" by the idea of smaller juries, as had happened in wartime, and judge-only trials in less serious cases.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice says it has now installed plastic screens in more than 450 courtrooms and jury deliberation rooms to reduce Covid risks.\n\nIt says the safety measures are designed for 12-person juries and that the impact of lowering the number of jurors would be negligible.\n\nHowever, a spokesman said nothing was being ruled out and ministers were continuing to consider every option available to ensure courts recover quickly.\n\n\"This approach is already delivering results, with magistrates' backlogs falling significantly and the number of cases being dealt with in the crown courts reaching pre-Covid levels last month,\" he added.\n\nThe spokesman also said: \"We know more must be done and are investing £110m into a range of measures to drive this recovery further, including opening more Nightingale courts.\"", "Trees must be able to cope with projected climate change\n\nScientists have proposed 10 golden rules for tree-planting, which they say must be a top priority for all nations this decade.\n\nTree planting is a brilliant solution to tackle climate change and protect biodiversity, but the wrong tree in the wrong place can do more harm than good, say experts at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.\n\nThe rules include protecting existing forests first and involving locals.\n\nForests are essential to life on Earth.\n\nThey provide a home to three-quarters of the world's plants and animals, soak up carbon dioxide, and provide food, fuels and medicines.\n\nBut they're fast disappearing; an area about the size of Denmark of pristine tropical forest is lost every year.\n\n\"Planting the right trees in the right place must be a top priority for all nations as we face a crucial decade for ensuring the future of our planet,\" said Dr Paul Smith, a researcher on the study and secretary general of conservation charity, Botanic Gardens Conservation International, in Kew.\n\nIt takes at least a century to restore damaged forests\n\nA raft of ambitious tree-planting projects are underway around the world to replace the forests being lost.\n\nBoris Johnson has said he is aiming to plant 30,000 hectares (300 sq km) of new forest a year across the UK by the end of this parliament.\n\nAn African-led movement to plant a 5,000-mile (8,048km) forest wall to fight the climate crisis is set to become the largest living structure on Earth, three times the size of the Great Barrier Reef.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A solution that's slowing desertification on the front lines of climate change\n\nHowever, planting trees is highly complex, with no universal easy solution.\n\n\"If you plant the wrong trees in the wrong place you could be doing more harm than good,\" said lead researcher Dr Kate Hardwick of RBG Kew.\n\nAll too often natural forests teeming with plants, animals and fungi are replaced by commercial plantations with row upon row of timber trees, which will be harvested after a few decades, she told BBC News.\n\n\"What we're trying to do is to encourage people, wherever possible, to try and recreate forests which are similar to the natural forests and which provide multiple benefits to people, the environment and to nature as well as capturing carbon.\"\n\nThe review of research, published in the journal Global Change Biology, found that in some cases, planned tree planting does not increase carbon capture and can have negative effects.\n\nKeeping forests in their original state is always preferable; undamaged old forests soak up carbon better and are more resilient to fire, storm and droughts. \"Whenever there's a choice, we stress that halting deforestation and protecting remaining forests must be a priority,\" said Prof Alexandre Antonelli, director of science at RGB Kew.\n\nPut local people at the heart of tree-planting projects\n\nStudies show that getting local communities on board is key to the success of tree-planting projects. It is often local people who have most to gain from looking after the forest in the future.\n\nReforestation should be about several goals, including guarding against climate change, improving conservation and providing economic and cultural benefits.\n\nSelect the right area for reforestation\n\nPlant trees in areas that were historically forested but have become degraded, rather than using other natural habitats such as grasslands or wetlands.\n\nUse natural forest regrowth wherever possible\n\nLetting trees grow back naturally can be cheaper and more efficient than planting trees.\n\nSelect the right tree species that can maximise biodiversity\n\nWhere tree planting is needed, picking the right trees is crucial. Scientists advise a mixture of tree species naturally found in the local area, including some rare species and trees of economic importance, but avoiding trees that might become invasive.\n\nMake sure the trees are resilient to adapt to a changing climate\n\nUse tree seeds that are suitable for the local climate and how that might change in the future.\n\nPlan how to source seeds or trees, working with local people.\n\nCombine scientific knowledge with local knowledge. Ideally, small-scale trials should take place before planting large numbers of trees.\n\nThe sustainability of tree re-planting rests on a source of income for all stakeholders, including the poorest.\n• None Will millions more trees really stop climate change?", "Clare Ferguson-Walker says she has struggled with home-schooling her two children\n\nAs kitchen tables are turned back into classrooms across Wales, parents admit they are struggling with the return to home-schooling.\n\nFor Clare Ferguson-Walker from Tavernspite, Pembrokeshire, the experience has been a \"nightmare\".\n\nShe said trying to educate her two children alongside work has resulted in her relying on universal credit.\n\nGetting to grips with home-schooling in the first lockdown was \"a shock to the system\".\n\n\"My heart goes out to teachers, I can't imagine what it was like for them putting together all these packages,\" she said.\n\n\"My son is 12 and loves gaming so he's quite tech-savvy. When I have managed to pin him down he's been 'go away, dinosaur mother, I know how to do it!'\n\n\"I'm not au fait with these subjects I haven't done for years. It's different to how I learned at school.\"\n\nAs a single parent, Clare said she had found it difficult to juggle home-schooling with her work.\n\n\"At first, in the summer, we were doing Joe Wicks exercises every day then some work. Then it fell into chaos. I tried really hard at the beginning to be organised.\n\n\"I'm an artist and sculptor - that work ended and my income has dried up so I'm on universal credit.\n\n\"It's incredibly tough financially. Life has revolved around looking after the kids,\" she said.\n\nBy the end of the year, she said the pressure had all become too much.\n\n\"The thought of going through that again in the winter months - without sunny days in the garden - the stress really got to me.\n\n\"I was finding myself going repeatedly from the kettle to the fridge and back again in this weird loop, thinking what do I do now?\n\n\"It was like being a caged animal, like one of those bears that starts to pace in a cage. The kids had gone feral by then.\n\n\"I think it's been horrendous for young people and families - we can't even rely on grandparents. Mental health struggles are at an all-time high,\" she said.\n\n\"The one positive is I've got to know my kids a hell of a lot more and there have been times that have been lovely.\n\n\"I think they've learned more sat around the kitchen table when we've been talking about what's going on, they've learned about rational thinking, the importance of science and not jumping to conclusions.\n\nJayne Palmer advises not sitting down at a desk\n\nJayne Palmer from Cardiff, who home-educated both her sons, said there was too much pressure on parents to replicate traditional classroom learning.\n\n\"This is not an ideal circumstance for home-education families either because they are not used to being locked indoors.\n\n\"I think there's far too much emphasis in continuing the set curriculum. Right now it's a complete waste of time. There's pressure to compete in a system parents weren't even involved in.\n\nIt is far more important to \"create and interest in learning,\" she said.\n\n\"There's been a tendency of families to rush to buy desks and chairs and pens. What we find is the best way forward is not to sit down and teach your children - watch documentaries with them, play online games with historical content, practise reading to them, do some cooking, Lego or gardening.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSome travellers coming to England will have to quarantine in hotels amid concerns about new Covid variants, the government is expected to announce.\n\nBoris Johnson will discuss proposals with ministers later, but a decision may not be announced until Wednesday.\n\nMost foreign nationals from high-risk countries are already denied UK entry, so the new rules will mainly affect returning UK citizens and residents.\n\nQuarantine rules are set by each of the UK nations but tend to be similar.\n\nThe requirement to isolate in a hotel for 10 days will apply to arrivals from most of southern Africa and South America, as well as Portugal, because many flights from Brazil come via Lisbon, according to BBC Newsnight's political editor Nicholas Watt.\n\nHe said there had been \"no definitive decision yet\" on arrivals from other parts of the world and this was \"still a live issue\".\n\nWhitehall sources said those quarantining in hotels would have to pay for the costs of their own accommodation.\n\nThe prime minister will later chair a meeting of the Covid operations committee, attended by senior ministers, to discuss the options.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 100,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, after 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nAt the moment, almost all arrivals to the UK need to have tested negative for Covid-19 within the 72 hours before they set off to be allowed entry. Then they still have to quarantine for up to 10 days, although this can be done at home.\n\nIn England, this self-isolation period can be cut short with a second negative test after five days.\n\nQuarantine rules are set separately in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland but have only tended to differ slightly, and there has been a \"four nations\" approach to discussions around hotel quarantine, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said.\n\nBut deputy first minister John Swinney said his government would \"go at least as far\" as any Westminster policy, adding: \"If these UK restrictions are at a minimal level, we will look at other controls we can announce - including additional supervised quarantine measures - that can further protect us from importation of the virus.\"\n\nHotel quarantine is already in use in countries including New Zealand and Australia.\n\nJessica Gold (centre), her son William Copsey (left), and her mother, Rossana Gold, are trying to get home to the UK from South Africa\n\nJessica Gold, from London, has been trying to get home from South Africa with her mother, 77, and son, 13, since 1 January - but their flights have been cancelled three times.\n\nShe says the idea of having to quarantine in a hotel when she eventually manages to get home is \"absolutely absurd\".\n\n\"Now we are booked to return on 16 Feb, and there is no way we can or will stay in a hotel to quarantine when I have my own place and we can quarantine there, as we have done in the past,\" says Jessica, who flew out to her safari lodge in Greater Kruger National Park, on business, at the end of November.\n\nJessica, 42, wants the government to get tougher on enforcing travellers' home quarantines, rather than bringing in the hotel rule which she says is \"ridiculous and an extra unnecessary expense during these very tough times\".\n\nJessica adds that she's looking into other ways of getting home earlier, before any potential new rules kick in.\n\nShadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds told MPs on Tuesday that bringing in hotel quarantine plans for arrivals from a small number of countries would leave \"gaping holes\" in the UK's defences against any new, unknown variants of coronavirus coming from across the globe.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said all current travel measures were being kept under review and the government \"will not hesitate to take further action\" to combat variants, especially as they could effect the efficacy of Covid vaccines.\n\nTravel writer Simon Calder told BBC Breakfast it was \"going to be tricky\" to identify people arriving from the high-risk countries, as travellers could go to a third country before coming to the UK.\n\nHe said British citizens in Portugal, for example, could travel to Madrid in order to fly back to the UK.\n\nPassengers in Australian quarantine hotels have all meals delivered to their room\n\nIn Australia, travellers are allocated a hotel room on arrival and taken there by bus. Often, entire flights are accommodated in the same hotel.\n\nThe New South Wales government promises to make \"every attempt\" to find suitable accommodation for travellers and families. But availability of rooms means there are severe limits on the number of people who can arrive in the country on any given day.\n\nThe hotel quarantine lasts a minimum of 14 days up to 24 days, providing a person tests negative twice.\n\nThe passenger must cover the cost of quarantine - at about £2,800 for a family of two adults and two children.\n\nFees are waived for those who can prove they are unable to pay, and there are certain exemptions.\n\nBut not following the rules is a criminal offence, and in New South Wales carries fines of around £6,000 for individuals, six months in prison, or both - with an extra fine for each day the offence continues.\n\nHotel quarantine is among the measures credited with limiting cases of coronavirus in Australia - which has a population of around 25 million - to just 28,777 positive cases during the entire pandemic, a smaller number of cases than is currently being recorded in the UK every day.\n\nBut international arrivals to Australia have fallen dramatically since its hotel quarantine policy was introduced in March 2020.\n\nBetween July and October 2020, just 72,111 people arrived in Australia to live, work or visit - compared with 7.5 million people in the same period in 2019, according to Australian government figures.\n\nRob Paterson, chief executive of Best Western Hotels, said his hotels would be well-prepared for the expected new policy.\n\nSome already have Covid infection controls in place, he said, as they have been used to host \"step-down\" patients who complete their recovery in hotels to free up hospital beds.\n\nMr Paterson told BBC Breakfast quarantining customers would like to see reduced prices, a contact arrival process, CCTV and security to stop people leaving and meals delivered three times a day outside the door - along with clean linen and towels.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: “That idea of looking at hotels is certainly one thing we are actively now working on.”\n\nJoss Croft, chief executive of UKinbound, which represents the tourism sector, said he hoped hotel quarantine rules would cover as few countries as possible and told the BBC's Newsnight the industry had been \"decimated\".\n\nIn a joint statement, the Airport Operators Association and Airlines UK said the country already had \"some of the highest levels of restrictions in the world\" and tougher rules would be \"catastrophic\".", "President Joe Biden has said that the US might be able to boost its daily vaccination roll-out targets after criticising the Trump administration’s record.\n\nBiden, who has described the previous vaccine programme as a \"dismal failure\", has committed to getting 100 million vaccine doses done in his first 100 days and has since said: \"I think we may be able to get that to 1.5 million a day, rather than one million a day.\"\n\nIs he right about the vaccine roll-out under the Trump administration?\n\nAs of 20 January, when Biden became US president, about 16.5 million vaccines had been administered.\n\nThat is some way off the Trump administration's target of vaccinating 20 million people by the end of 2020. In fact, fewer than three million people had received a jab by 31 December.\n\nVaccinations have sped up since the start of the year.\n\nThe daily average for the week before Trump left office was less than 900,000, according to Our World in Data .\n\nThat figure has since risen above one million doses a day, and Biden has come under some scrutiny for not setting a more ambitious target.\n\nWhen you look at the countries doing the most vaccinations by population, the US is fourth after Israel, the UAE and the UK in terms of doses per 100 people.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drone footage captures the extent of the damage the bridge over the River Clwyd\n\nFinancial help has been promised to those affected by serious flooding, the Welsh Government has announced.\n\nPeople have been forced to leave their homes and a major incident declared after Storm Christoph struck.\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated during flooding thought to be related to mine works in Skewen, Neath, while 30 were evacuated in Bangor-on-Dee, Wrexham.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it would work with councils to deliver £500-£1,000 payments to affected households.\n\nEnvironment minister, Lesley Griffiths, said people across Wales were facing the \"twin problems\" of floods and the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nShe said: \"We will support people in these circumstances just as we did in the aftermath of storms Ciara and Dennis last year, by working with local authorities to make support payments of between £500 and £1,000 available for each household flooded.\"\n\nSevere flood warnings remain in place across Wales as river levels remain high.\n\nIn the Lower Dee Valley a severe flood warning remains in force, from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadow, and a major incident was declared in Bangor-on-Dee.\n\nWrexham council leader Mark Pritchard said teams worked to ensure the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, made on Wrexham Industrial Estate, was not lost in the floods.\n\nFirefighters in Skewen waded through water up to their thighs amidst reports of evacuated homes\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated in Skewen, including residents of a care home, after at least eight streets were left under water.\n\nEmergency services said there were no injuries and all those evacuated had been found accommodation, but people are asked to avoid the area.\n\nIn Denbighshire, a bridge linking Trefnant to Tremeirchion over the River Clwyd collapsed in the storm. The council said it would be investigating the cause of the flooding, which forced road closures and evacuations.\n\nNatural Resources Wales (NRW) said the River Dee, which runs through Bangor-on-Dee, was at its highest recorded level since the water gauge became operational in 1996 - 16.45m (54ft).\n\nIt urged people across Wales to remain vigilant, with river levels not set to have peaked until late Thursday evening, adding they would remain high until Friday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Met Office said over the past two days Wales had the highest rainfall of the four UK nations.\n\nBetween 19 and 21 January, Aberllefenni in Gwynedd saw 188mm (7.5in) of rain, more than average rainfall for Wales for the whole of January, which is 156.89mm (63in).\n\nThat was followed by 180mm (7in) in Crai reservoir, Powys, 169.8mm (6.6in) in Treherbert, Rhondda Cynon Taf, and 166mm (6.5in) in both Maerdy, RCT, and Capel Curig, Conwy.\n\nLlechryd bridge in Ceredigion has been completely submerged by the River Teifi\n\nUp to 30 people were forced out of their homes in Bangor-on-Dee, Wrexham\n\nNatural Resources Wales said the River Dee was at its highest level since the water gauge became operational\n\nThe flooding threatened the supply of the coronavirus Oxford vaccine, which is produced at Wrexham Industrial Estate.\n\nWrexham council leader Mr Pritchard said it had to work to \"make sure we didn't lose the vaccinations in the floods\".\n\n\"I've been up all night... it's a very difficult time for us,\" he added.\n\nNorth East Wales Search and Rescue helped people whose homes were flooded in New Broughton, Wrexham\n\nWockhardt UK, which manufactures the vaccine, said at about 16:00 GMT on Wednesday, excess water surrounded part of its buildings.\n\n\"The site is now secure and free from any further flood damage and operating as normal,\" it said.\n\nThe clean-up has begun in Ruthin\n\nA multi-agency statement described the situation in Bangor-on-Dee as a \"major incident\".\n\nIt said: \"As a severe weather warning indicates that there is a risk to life...\n\n\"The evacuation effort continues, with all routes in and out of the village currently closed to the public due to the flooding.\"\n\nEarlier, some residents in Ruthin were told to leave their homes - people have been told Covid rules allow them leave their homes in an emergency.\n\nMeanwhile, a man's body was recovered from the River Taff near Blackweir in Cardiff.\n\nDozens of ducks and chickens, and 12 huskies were rescued by the RSPCA from a flooded farm in Bangor, while they also took hay to two donkeys stranded by flood water in Mold.\n\nSome 12 huskies had to be rescued after their kennels flooded\n\nDave Brown said the flooding in his home in Broughton, Flintshire, was horrific and his mother-in-law was rescued by firefighters.\n\n\"You don't realise the damage water does and everything that floats - the sheer volume of water. I am 6ft tall and it almost took me out,\" he said.\n\nDave Brown's mother-in-law was rescued from their home in Broughton, Flintshire\n\nWrexham council said some of the people forced to leave their homes were with relatives, while it found others accommodation after having to initially seek refuge in a church hall.\n\nNine properties in Berse Road in New Broughton were also evacuated.\n\nThe situation in Ruthin, Denbighshire, overnight was \"horrendous\", town councillor Stephen Beach said.\n\n\"The whole of Ruthin was on edge,\" he said.\n\n\"Some people were accommodated at the leisure centre, and others were offered places to stay by local residents. The community was superb.\n\n\"It was the sheer volume of water that came down - there was no stopping it.\"\n\nA yellow weather warning for ice for Wales has been issued by the Met Office until 10:00 GMT on Friday, with concerns it could lead to travel disruption, slips and falls.\n\nNumerous flood warnings and alerts remain in place across Wales, including two severe flood warnings.\n\nThe agency said flood defences were being used and river levels at Holt, Wrexham, would remain high for some time.\"There is therefore a significant risk of localised flooding problems and due to that the severe flood warning will remain in place until the levels drop,\" Keith Iven of NRW said\n\nIn Monmouthshire roads were closed following flooding, and the council said while water levels at the River Usk were dropping, a \"second peak\" on the River Wye had been expected on Thursday night.\n\nThe council had warned people living in Riverside Park, Monmouth, may be impacted and council workers were prepared to offer support.\n\nRiver Tywi has burst its banks in Carmarthen, affecting nearby businesses\n\nMid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it had attended 98 flooding-related incidents\n\nIt said it deployed swift water rescue teams to rescue 13 people from vehicles in floodwater. It also winched vehicles from water and pumped water from properties.\n\nIn Cardiff, emergency services attended a crash involving a number of vehicles at about 07:40 on the A4232 between Culverhouse Cross and the M4.\n\nNo-one was seriously injured, but both carriageways were closed for just over an hour. The road has since reopened.\n\nIn Carmarthen, people were treated for the effects of fumes after using a generator to pump water from their homes.\n\nIn Knighton and Crickhowell in Powys, crews spent Wednesday night pumping out a number of properties.\n\nIn Borth, Ceredigion, floodwater hit the water treatment plant, an electrical substation and eight properties.\n\nOgwen Valley Mountain Rescue Team had to rescue a man from the roof of his car.\n\nIt said he had tried to drive through the river ford along the road from Llandygai to Bangor, in Gwynedd, but had become stuck in deep water and had climbed onto the roof. He was not injured.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Derek Brockway - weatherman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf council said it was aware of a minor landslip on the mountainside above Pentre.\n\nIt said an initial inspection determined there was no immediate threat to the area and a further detailed inspection would be carried out on Friday. It asked people to avoid the area.\n\nBangor-on-Dee has been badly hit by Storm Cristoph\n\nDozens of roads have been closed across Wales, and while Covid rules are in place stopping people from travelling apart from for essential reasons, people are being warned not to travel in affected areas due to widespread flooding.\n\nChris Lloyd from North Wales Mountain Rescue Association warned people to not visit flood-hit areas to view the damage.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Wales: \"People who are going out to look at the floods are not only putting themselves at risk, but putting additional people on the roads which professional emergency services don't want - we don't want any more incidents.\"\n\nDenbighshire council said Ysgol Bodfari in Denbigh and Ysgol Caer Drewyn, Corwen, which had been open for vulnerable children and the children of critical workers, have been closed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Secretary Matt Hancock says lifting restrictions can only happen when \"facts on the ground\" show it is safe\n\nIt is \"difficult to put a timeline\" on when England's lockdown could be lifted, Matt Hancock has said.\n\nThe health secretary said there were \"early signs\" the measures were working but it was \"not a moment to ease up\".\n\nHe said there were 37,000 people in hospital with coronavirus in the UK and \"more people on ventilators than at any time in this whole pandemic\".\n\n\"The pressure on the NHS remains huge and we've got to get that case rate down,\" he said.\n\nThe number of coronavirus cases in the UK has been falling, but the number of people in hospital remains high, as does the UK's daily death numbers.\n\nA further 592 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 22,195 cases have been recorded, according to Monday's government figures.\n\nThe are 4,076 people in hospital on ventilators.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons.\n\nThis includes for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAt Monday's Downing Street press briefing, Mr Hancock said: \"I understand the yearning people have to get out of this.\n\n\"The thing is that we have to look at the facts on the ground and we have to monitor those facts.\n\n\"And of course, everybody wants to have a timeline for that, but I think most people understand why it is difficult to put a timeline on it because it's a matter of monitoring the data.\"\n\nHe set out the factors the government would take into account when reaching decisions over lifting the restrictions, including: the death rate, the number of people in hospital, whether there were new coronavirus variants and the success of the vaccine rollout.\n\nAlmost four in five of the UK's over-80s have had the vaccine, Mr Hancock said, with nearly 6.6m people in total having had their first dose.\n\nThe falling numbers of infections being reported and the rising rate of vaccination are incredibly promising - even if the drop in infections reported on Monday may have been partly an artefact of fewer people coming forward for a test because of the snow.\n\nBut that does not offer any guarantees of a rapid lifting of lockdown.\n\nWhat is concerning ministers are the high numbers in hospital.\n\nThe number of new admissions seems to have plateaued - but at a very high rate.\n\nClose to 4,000 patients a day are being admitted to hospital.\n\nTo put that in context, that is four times the total number of all types of respiratory admissions the NHS would normally see in winter.\n\nIt means the numbers in hospital are at nearly twice the level they were at the peak in the spring during the first wave.\n\nWith better treatments available, patients are spending longer in hospital.\n\nSo come mid-February the pressures in hospital are likely to be very high, leaving ministers little wriggle-room to relax restrictions.\n\nThe big unknown, however, is what impact and how quickly vaccination will have an effect on admissions.\n\nThere is encouraging early news from Israel that hospitalisation really starts to drop three weeks after the first dose.\n\nIf that is repeated here, the picture could quickly change.\n\nBut until that happens the government - in the words of Health Secretary Matt Hancock - is urging the country to hold its nerve.\n\nSpeaking at the Downing Street press conference, Jenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer for England, warned: \"We are not out of this by a very long way.\"\n\nShe said current coronavirus rates were still causing concern, patience was needed about the vaccination programme and the NHS still faced its usual winter pressures.\n\nSusan Hopkins, from Public Health England, said the UK need to see the death rate \"fall much lower\" before any decision to ease measures.\n\nShe said teams were currently studying the impact on the UK's vaccine programme of the variant first identified in South Africa.\n\nBut she added the \"consensus view\" from four UK laboratories suggested that \"the current vaccine works against the variant that was first discovered in the UK\".", "A group of MPs is calling for hedgehog nesting sites to get the same protections as those for bats and badgers, in an effort to boost numbers.\n\nFormer Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has tabled an amendment to the Environment Bill, which he said would help \"Britain's favourite animal\".\n\nThe spiky mammals should be on developers' \"radar\" when they are planning a project, he added.\n\nA report in 2018 suggested UK hedgehog numbers had halved since 2000.\n\nRough estimates put the population at one million, compared with 30 million during the 1950s.\n\nMr Grayling's amendment would add hedgehogs the list of protected animals under the Wildlife and Countryside Act.\n\nThis would place a legal obligation on developers to search for the animals and take action to reduce the risk to them from building.\n\nChris Grayling said hedgehogs should feature on property developers' surveys\n\nIt is illegal to kill or capture hedgehogs using certain methods but Mr Grayling said: \"It seems wrong to me, for example, that whenever a developer has to carry out a wildlife survey before starting work on a project that the hedgehog is not on anyone's radar.\n\n\"It is Britain's favourite animal, its numbers are declining and it should be as well protected as any other popular but threatened British animal.\"\n\nFormer cabinet ministers Liam Fox, Andrew Mitchell and Dame Cheryl Gillan are among 13 fellow Conservative MPs supporting Mr Grayling's amendment.\n\nLabour's Hilary Benn and Debbie Abrahams have also signed it.\n\nThe Environment Bill - which seeks to write environmental principles into UK law for the first time - will be debated in the House of Commons on Tuesday.\n\nIt includes setting legally binding targets to improve air quality, water, biodiversity and waste reduction by 2037.\n\nBut some Conservative backbenchers say this is much too slow. They want the targets brought forward to 2030 at the latest.\n\nAn amendment from the Conservative MP, Chris Loder, calls for unmissable targets to reduce plastics waste.\n\nIt comes as a report from Greenpeace and the Environmental Investigation Agency claims that the UK's 10 largest supermarket chains put plastic equivalent to the weight of 90 Eiffel Towers on to the market in 2019.\n\nThe study found that while the number of single-use carrier bags fell by more than a third, more than one and a half billion plastic \"bags for life\" were issued by the top brands, and that 2.5 billion plastic water bottles were sold or given away.\n\nThe Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said the bill would help \"improve the environment for future generations\".\n\nIt added that ministers were \"ambitious\" to \"drive a world-leading programme of environmental reform\".\n\nFor Labour, shadow environment secretary Luke Pollard said the bill should be prioritised to complete its passage in this session of Parliament.\n\nHe added that the UK needed legislation that \"recognises the urgency of the crisis and doesn't go backwards\".", "Budweiser has said it will not advertise its beer during the Super Bowl this year, joining a growing number of big brands sitting out the annual American football championship.\n\nThe event remains one of the most-watched in the US each year, drawing more than 100 million viewers in 2020.\n\nThe advertisements are often as much a conversation-starter as the game itself, sometimes sparking controversy.\n\nFirms say the virus has made finding the right message especially difficult.\n\nOthers are grappling with financial hits caused by the pandemic, which has dampened spending on many items, while also casting more than 10 million Americans out of work, resurfacing racial and economic inequalities and sharpening political divisions.\n\nBudweiser's parent company, Anheuser-Busch, said it planned to reallocate the money it would have spent on a 30-second Budweiser spot during the game to support an Ad Council campaign promoting coronavirus vaccination.\n\nIt is the first time the flagship brand will not make a game-time appearance in 37 years.\n\n\"This commitment is an investment in a future where we can all get back together safely over a beer\", it said, adding that it would still promote some of its other brands, such as Bud Light, during the game.\n\nOn Monday, Budweiser released a full 90-second Super Bowl ad on YouTube entitled \"Bigger Picture\", which showed US citizens overcoming pandemic challenges together and aimed to raise awareness about Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nCoke, Pepsi and Hyundai are among the other major names also planning to forego airtime during the broadcast.\n\nCoca-Cola said it had made the \"difficult choice\" to \"ensure we are investing in the right resources during these unprecedented times\". The firm did not advertise during the 2019 game either.\n\nHyundai cited \"marketing priorities\" and the timing of upcoming vehicle launches.\n\nPepsi has also said it would not promote its flagship soda during the game. Instead, it is spending money on an advert airing to promote the Super Bowl halftime show it has sponsored for almost a decade.\n\nThe Super Bowl boasts some of the most expensive advertising slots all year\n\nGiven all the economic, political and health questions of 2020, companies may have felt it was prudent to pull back - especially several months ago, when they would have had to start planning for such a high-profile night, said Kimberly Whitler, professor at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business\n\n\"It's the biggest night of TV watching and so they have to plan it months in advance,\" she said. \"There was so much uncertainty that to go and invest in a Super Bowl ad might have actually felt or seemed frivolous at the time.\"\n\nThe decision goes \"beyond finances\", she added. \"It's also, 'How do we identify the right tone that will match the moment'.\"\n\nThis year's Super Bowl will see star quarterback Tom Brady's Tampa Bay Buccaneers face off against reigning champions the Kansas City Chiefs on 7 February.\n\nLast year, firms spent an average of $5.25m (£3.8m) for a 30-second spot during the championship, driving Super Bowl ad spending to a record $450m, according to Kantar consultancy.\n\nThe firm has said its research suggests Super Bowl ads are \"typically 20 times more effective\" in changing a brand's perception than a normal advert.\n\nAnheuser-Busch, an official sponsor of the National Football League, is typically one of the night's top spenders, so the absence of its flagship brand may create its own buzz, said Satya Menon, a Chicago-based managing partner of of ROI practice at Kantar.\n\nChipotle's very first Super Bowl commercial is entitled, \"Can a burrito change the world?\"\n\n\"Budweiser in particular is a very established brand ... so for them, it's all about generating love and goodwill and maybe this is another way,\" she says.\n\n\"They do have a lot of pre-game advertising out there. When people have the expectation that they wil be there and then they don't see the brand, they'll start thinking why are they not.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the sports showdown still seems to be finding plenty of firms ready to fill spots left by the stalwarts. Names of newcomers include Chipotle and Fiverr, a freelance platform that has seen business soar during the pandemic.\n\n\"It doesn't get any bigger than the Super Bowl from a branding and marketing perspective,\" said Fiverr's chief marketing officer Gali Arnon. \"We believe this is a major opportunity for us to introduce the world to Fiverr in a unique and creative way.\"\n\nMany of this year's advertisers are firms coming from the e-commerce sector, which have benefited from the pandemic, Ms Menon said.\n\nAnd though audience numbers for NFL games have slipped this year, for those firms making their game-night debuts, Ms Menon says she still expects ads to have a big impact - even if the pandemic puts a damper on the traditional Super Bowl parties and other festivities, which can make championship feel like an unofficial national holiday.\n\n\"There isn't very much going on in life, so it will always have that great reach,\" she says. \"Some of that excitement may not be there, but watching will definitely be there.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says teachers and pupils will be told “as much as we can, as soon as we can” about reopening schools\n\nThe government will tell teachers and parents when schools in England can reopen \"as soon as we can\", the prime minister has said.\n\nMPs have called on the government to set out a \"route map\" for reopening amid concerns for children's education.\n\nBoris Johnson said he understood why people wanted a timetable but he did not want to lift restrictions while the infection rate was \"still very high\".\n\nHe would not guarantee schools would reopen before April's Easter break.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"We've now got the R [reproduction rate] down below 1 across the whole of the country, that's a great achievement, we don't want to see a huge surge of infection just when we've got the vaccination programme going so well and people working so hard.\n\n\"I understand why people want to get a timetable from me today, what I can tell you is we'll tell you, tell parents, tell teachers as much as we can as soon as we can.\"\n\nHe said the government would be \"looking at the potential of relaxing some measures\" before mid-February, with Downing Street clarifying that this meant looking at the data to decide \"what we may or may not be able to ease from 15 February onwards\".\n\nA further 592 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 22,195 cases have been recorded, according to Monday's government figures.\n\nAt Monday's Downing Street press briefing, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said almost four in five of the UK's over-80s have had the vaccine, with nearly 6.6m people in total having had their first dose.\n\nBut he said the NHS continues to be under \"intense pressure\", with Jenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer for England, saying there are \"twice the number of people in hospital than we had in the first wave\" of the pandemic.\n\nRobert Halfon, chairman of the education select committee, told BBC Breakfast there was \"enormous uncertainty\" and called for the government to set out what the conditions needed to be for pupils to return to schools.\n\nThe Conservative MP for Harlow suggested the government could consider tighter restrictions in other parts of society and the economy, in order to enable schools to open.\n\nTory MPs were enraged by reports over the weekend that schools might not re-open fully until after the Easter holidays.\n\nMinisters say it's the progress of the pandemic that will determine their decision rather than a pre-agreed timetable.\n\nYet whenever the government speaks, parents hear dates. Whether it's that the situation will be reviewed at half-term. Or a pledge to give two weeks' notice when classes will come back.\n\nMPs are now pushing for more transparency from the government about how they'll assess the data, and for some ideas between school being mostly closed or totally open.\n\nThis issue is a perfect metaphor for the situation facing the entire country. Too much hope breeds disappointment, but living with uncertainty is just as hard. And you can come up with a plan but it might have to be junked if the virus has other ideas.\n\nChildren's Commissioner for England Anne Longfield joined the call for clarity and told the BBC: \"Children are more withdrawn, they are really suffering in terms of isolation, their confidence levels are falling, and for some there are serious issues.\"\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said the government wanted to \"see all children back at the very earliest moment\".\n\nSchools in England have been closed to most pupils since the national lockdown began on 5 January due to high levels of Covid transmission in the community.\n\nThere have been calls for teachers to be vaccinated sooner, although it is not clear if that would allow schools to reopen earlier.\n\nThe majority of pupils in England are learning from home with schools only open to the children of key workers, vulnerable children and those who cannot learn at home\n\nCovid death rates among educational professionals are not \"statistically significantly different\" to those in the general population, according to Office for National Statistics (ONS) data, but secondary school teachers appeared to have an elevated risk compared particularly with people working in office-type jobs.\n\nAmong secondary school teachers Covid death rates were 39.2 deaths per 100,000 males, compared with 31.4 for all males aged 20 to 64, and 21.2 per 100,000 females, compared with 16.8, but the ONS said these were \"not statistically significantly different than those of the same age and sex in the wider population\".\n\nSchools will remain closed in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales until at least the February half-term - with the Welsh first minister saying it is \"unlikely\" all pupils will return after the break.\n\nGemma Cocker with her children Charlie and Lyla\n\nGemma Cocker from Brighton is one of the many parents struggling to balance childcare, home learning and work.\n\nShe says she's having to share her work laptop with her son, who has already missed learning time after the family moved home and did not have internet access. \"We didn't have any internet. The school said they had reached their limit so couldn't take him,\" she says.\n\nAnd because her children are young, she says: \"They're never just going to watch a classroom by themselves, you have to be with them the whole time.\"\n\nKitty Jones, 11, is in her last year of primary school and she says home learning is \"tricky\" because she is not used to using different remote platforms like Google Classroom and she wants to return \"as soon as possible\".\n\n\"I still think that I'm learning a bit, but I don't think I'm learning as much as I would be in person,\" she tells BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.\n\nHolly Agbukor, 18, is studying for her A-levels, says it is \"quite stressful\" learning at home, as it is a \"different environment, so it is not as easy to be fully present in the lessons\".\n\nBut, she says, while is it \"difficult\" working at home, \"I don't think it is worth the cost of reintroducing the virus into society and making things worse overall\".\n\nHow has home-schooling been going for your family? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning. We'll have another update for you this evening.\n\nRules for people entering the UK could get tighter later - with the government expected to enforce hotel quarantine in England for some arrivals. Currently, people arriving in the UK must test negative before setting off, and then self-isolate for 10 days on arrival. This can be reduced to five days in England after a second negative test. But it's feared that not everyone follows the rules - so people could now be told to stay in hotels, where the isolation will be enforced. It's thought the rules will definitely apply to UK citizens and residents arriving from southern African, South America, and Portugal (foreign nationals are already banned from arriving from those \"high risk\" areas). The rules could also apply to other countries. And it's expected that people will have to pay their own way. Although each part of the UK sets its own travel rules, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said a \"four nations\" approach is being discussed. Here's a glimpse from last year of hotel quarantine in Australia.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK's unemployment rate rose to 5% in the three months to November, up from 4.9%, as the pandemic continued to hit the jobs market. In November, Chancellor Rishi Sunak said unemployment could peak at 2.6 million by the middle of this year - that's 7.5% of the working population.\n\nThe EU has been criticised for a slow vaccine rollout - which is partly down to delays from manufacturers Pfizer and AstraZeneca (although the latter's jab hasn't actually been approved in the EU yet). Now the EU says vaccine makers must provide \"early notification\" when they want to export vaccines outside the bloc. This could mean more doses stay inside the EU. The UK minister responsible for vaccine deployment, Nadhim Zahawi, has said he is confident Pfizer - which manufactures its vaccine in Belgium - will deliver for both the UK and the EU. This tweet is from the EU's health commissioner.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Stella Kyriakides This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRiot police in the Netherlands have again clashed with people defying a curfew, following a weekend of unrest. More than 150 were arrested. In Rotterdam, police fired warning shots and tear gas, after an emergency order failed to move demonstrators.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dutch police described the rioting as the worst unrest in four decades\n\nDespite Covid and the strains on the system, there is still kindness - and new life - in NHS hospitals. The BBC's Hugh Pym went to Kings Mill Hospital, part of Sherwood Forest Hospitals Trust, to meet the patients and staff.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: ‘Among all the doom and gloom there’s positives’\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page. This page analyses UK data - including the recent fall in daily cases.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "The school's head teacher said it was unacceptable staff were being put at risk\n\nA school has threatened to withdraw places for pupils who have told teachers they are visiting people outside their households.\n\nYew Tree Community School in Oldham said several children had admitted visiting friends, neighbours and family contrary to Covid-19 lockdown rules.\n\nHead teacher Martine Buckley said she would take the action when \"parents were putting staff in danger\".\n\nThe Department for Education said \"all vulnerable\" pupils should go to school.\n\nDuring the current lockdown schools are open only to pupils listed as vulnerable and the children of key workers.\n\nFamilies can form \"childcare bubbles\" with one other household, and children who live with two parents who live separately can move between households - but any further mixing is forbidden.\n\nIn a letter posted on the Chadderton school's Facebook page, Mrs Buckley said she was \"upset\" to be writing it \"but I feel I must\".\n\n\"Our lovely children are open and honest and they tell us about their lives and activities,\" she said.\n\n\"A number of them are telling us that they are visiting friends, neighbours and family which is against the law.\n\n\"Our teachers and support staff are putting their own safety at risk to look after your children and they should be confident you are doing your bit to follow the lockdown rules.\n\n\"I am afraid I will have to withdraw the offer of a place in school to children whose parents are putting us in danger.\"\n\nWhile a number of parents applauded the message, others have been angered.\n\nOne man told the BBC his two grandchildren were at the school and children as young as four have been asked about their activities at home, which was \"out of order\".\n\n\"My granddaughters are pretty intimidated by the tone,\" he said.\n\n\"Asking them questions like that and then the answers off the back of that. They come to a decision of whether they are going to displace them or not.\"\n\nThe school has about 660 pupils aged between four and 11.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department for Education said during the current lockdown, schools were \"open for vulnerable children and the children of critical workers\".\n\n\"We expect schools to work with families to ensure all critical worker children are given access to a place if this is required,\" she added.\n\n\"We encourage all vulnerable children to attend.\"\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Microsoft has reported booming demand for its Xbox gaming consoles as the pandemic continues to lift the fortunes of the American tech giant.\n\nIts Azure cloud computing services also got a boost due to a surge in working and learning from home.\n\nThe gains helped push the firm's overall revenue up 17% to a record $43.1bn (£31.4bn).\n\nBut its growth came as the virus continues to weigh on other industries.\n\nMicrosoft boss Satya Nadella said the firm is benefiting from a long-term shift in behaviour.\n\n\"What we have witnessed over the past year is the dawn of a second wave of digital transformation sweeping every company and every industry,\" he said.\n\nXbox sales jumped 40% in the three months to 31 December while Azure services soared 50%.\n\nThe virus continues to weigh on industries outside of tech\n\nThe pandemic has prompted many firms to switch to remote working, while keeping many entertainment options outside of the home off-limits.\n\nMicrosoft has seized on the changes, focusing energy on updating its remote work software options.\n\nThe firm also released two new Xbox consoles in November, helping to boost the performance of its personal computing unit.\n\nMicrosoft's gaming business topped $5bn in quarterly sales for the first time ever due to gaming subscriptions and sales as well as new consoles.\n\nThe firm said profits in the quarter rose 33% compared with last year to $15.5bn.\n\nIts shares - which climbed roughly 40% last year - were up another 4% in after-hours trade,\n\n\"These were blow out numbers that will be another feather in the cap for the tech sector as the cloud growth party is just getting started,\" said Dan Ives, an analyst at Wedbush Securities.\n\nBut the gains enjoyed by tech firms like Microsoft stand in contrast to the ongoing struggles seen in other industries such as hospitality, retail and travel.\n\nCoffee chain Starbucks on Tuesday said its sales in the last three months of 2020 fell roughly 5% compared to 2019, driven by a drop in business in the US where concerns about Covid-19 have prompted authorities to urge people to stay at home.\n\nIn China, where the virus is under more control, sales rose 5%, the company said.\n\nThe firm said it expected business to return to growth in the next few months, including in the critical US market.\n\nBut profits in the quarter dropped 30% to $622.2m compared with last year, sending the firm's shares lower in after-hours trade.", "The water is warmer than the air and is creating a mist along Dynevor Road\n\nThe coalmining heritage of Wales has been implicated in flooding of homes - but what has happened in Skewen?\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated from the Neath Port Talbot village, with at least eight streets left under water.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones says the flood appears to be related to mine works - but the volume of water involved has hampered a full assessment so far.\n\nThe Coal Authority is investigating how \"historic underground mining features\" in the area exacerbated the problem.\n\nA geologist says there are tens of thousands of old mine shafts across the former south Wales coalfield and it is \"incredibly difficult\" to monitor them all.\n\nSkewen lies within an old coal mining hotspot, with several former colliery sites near the village that operated in the 19th and early 20th Century.\n\nThere were colliery sites near what is now Drummau Road, in the north of the village and another close to Old Road, near Neath Abbey.\n\nSkewen was part of a collection of collieries that stretched between Neath and Llanelli on the western side of south Wales' coalfield.\n\nGraham Levins, secretary of the Welsh Mines Preservation Trust, said old mines often contain groundwater which can flood in heavy rain.\n\nHe said: \"A lot of them go very, very deep down, much below the local water level and that's why they had all the big wheels to pump the water out.\n\n\"It fills up with water and will find a way out. Normally rainfall you get it doesn't cause a lot of problems but when you get really heavy rain, the water drains down through the ground and builds up.\"\n\nStreets were turned into rivers in Skewen\n\nGeologist Tom Backhouse said water was coming out of an area near the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where there is a record of a mine shaft dating from the turn of the 20th Century.\n\nIt then started \"rushing down\" Drummau Road, causing the flooding that forced evacuations.\n\n\"What we can expect to have happened is that the water level in the mines rose to a point where it's burst out of that entry point from the mine workings below.\n\n\"Also, there are images of very ochre like orange-coloured water and again, that may well be issuing from the mine workings on the highlands to the east of the property on the hill behind.\n\n\"That may be where the shallow workings have flooded.\"\n\nHe said old mine working across the former coalfield area hold water at a certain depth, but when an event such as Storm Christoph drops \"a huge amount in a small area\", the levels rise quickly.\n\n\"As it gets closer and closer to the surface, it basically looks for an escape, the pressure builds up,\" he continued.\n\n\"What it looks like has happened on the junction of Goshen Park and Drummau Road, where the mine shaft is recorded, is that pressure has built up at that point and then burst out through the shaft which is very likely to have been capped with wood or something like that.\n\n\"Where you've got those mine shafts, which ultimately are vertical tunnels down into the mine workings below, the water has literally forced itself up through that shaft, and the pressure is obviously so great it's caused this devastating flash flood.\"\n\nAs well as properties, vehicles were submerged in water\n\nThere are about 13 shafts recorded within about 820ft (250m) of the one in Goshen Park, so Mr Backhouse said it is possible more than one may have burst.\n\nThere are tens of thousands in south Wales and he said it was \"incredibly difficult\" to check them all, but there were \"tell tale signs\" as to why they may collapse such as age or what type of developments are around them.\n\nThe clean up has continued on Friday morning\n\n\"Not to try and fear-monger or anything but of course this sort of thing can happen again,\" he said.\n\n\"If another event like Storm Christoph happens, the water levels in the mine rises as quickly as it did, there's absolutely nothing to say that it wouldn't happen again in the future.\n\n\"And obviously as climate changes and we have many more events like Storm Christoph, they are going to increase in frequency, they are going to be much more severe.\n\n\"The Coal Authority will have to consider the risk in places like Skewen, and they'll have to understand how it will affect residents and proactively manage that and look at how to reduce the risks for residents.\"", "Twenty-two people were killed and hundreds more injured in the 2017 bombing\n\nThe operator of the Manchester Arena has denied it \"deliberately sacrificed safety\" in the aftermath of the 2017 bombing.\n\nAn inquiry has heard how security failures contributed to the arena being unsafe on the night of the attack.\n\nVenue operator SMG has disputed claims it \"was akin to the worst kind of Dickensian factory owner, deliberately and cynically sacrificing safety\".\n\nTwenty-two people were killed and hundreds more injured when Salman Abedi detonated a home-made device as fans left the arena following an Ariana Grande concert.\n\nAndrew O'Connor QC, representing SMG, told the inquiry the firm had always accepted responsibility for security in the City Room, where the bomb exploded.\n\nBut he denied the firm had sought to \"blame others,\" adding it had \"simply sought to explain how SMG discharged its responsibilities\".\n\n\"It is for that purpose and not for prevarication, finger-pointing or buck passing that we have sought to explain to you SMG's relationship with all the other organisations involved,\" he added.\n\nMr O'Connor said the company accepted there were \"shortcomings\" with its written risk assessments but maintained it \"did have a system for assessing terrorism-related risk\".\n\nThe public inquiry into the bombing will look at whether the attack could have been prevented\n\nPatrick Gibbs QC, representing BTP, told the inquiry the force made five key mistakes on the night of the bombing.\n\nThis included having no officers on patrol at Victoria station when Abedi made his final journey to the arena and not having an officer in the City Room at the end of the concert.\n\nOther mistakes included failing to complete a written risk-assessment for the concert, officers not following instructions from their duty sergeant and that PC Stephen Corke, the most experienced officer on duty, was not at the arena complex for the end of the event.\n\nBTP has since made significant changes to its procedures since the attack, the inquiry was told.\n\nThese include monthly meetings with the arena operators to discuss events.\n\nThe inquiry, which began in September, continues.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pictures of the Pampas grass on social media are thought to have made the area in South Shields popular\n\nA boom in the popularity of Pampas grass with interior decorators has led to \"droves\" of people picking the plant which grows wild near a beach.\n\nThe grass, near Littlehaven Beach in South Shields, forms part of a wind defence to stop sand blowing onto roads and helps protect the coastline.\n\nSouth Tyneside Council warned anyone found removing it could be prosecuted.\n\nCouncillor Ernest Gibson said while the grass may look \"beautiful in vases\" people were \"damaging the environment\".\n\nThe grass, which was popular in the 1970s, can sell for up to £40 a bunch and has proved a popular addition to people's homes.\n\nIt is thought that photographs on social media sites such as Instagram may have influenced people turning up and taking it, Mr Gibson added.\n\n\"Pampas grass is quite expensive to buy if you went to a florist. It's cheaper to come to South Tyneside and take it away,\" he said.\n\n\"But what we are doing is urging people not to come here and take it away, it's there for a reason.\"\n\nPampas grass and Marram grass form part of a defence along the coast at South Shields\n\nThe Pampas grass helps to bond poor soils found at the coast, while Marram grass helps to prevent erosion in the dunes.\n\nSigns are to be erected warning people not to pick the grass because it is already in need of replenishment, the council said.\n\n\"Through Covid, we have a massive amount of people coming to the coastal town, it's Benidorm without the sunshine,\" he added.\n\n\"It's great to see people at the seaside enjoying it [the grass] and that's what it's part of. It's there for everybody to view.\"\n\nGarden designer George Wright said Pampas grass was \"very popular\" and he had seen demand increase two or three times at his nursery in West Boldon. He also expressed concern for the area.\n\n\"Once they take the flower heads themselves they take the seeds. Eventually this will become very much a patchy area and they will all start to decline.\n\n\"Pampas grass is becoming more and and more popular at the moment and I think a lot of it is people are starting to extend their houses into the garden so they want something nice in there, and also it's being used for interior decoration in houses.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Chris Whitty said it was a very sad day, as the UK surpassed 100,000 Covid deaths\n\nThe number of daily coronavirus deaths in the UK is likely to come down \"relatively slowly\", England's chief medical officer has warned.\n\nProf Chris Whitty said the UK was going to see \"a lot more deaths\" over the next few weeks before the effects of the vaccination programme were felt.\n\nCurrent restrictions were \"just about holding\" in lowering infection rates, he told a Downing Street briefing.\n\nIt comes as the UK surpassed 100,000 coronavirus deaths on Tuesday.\n\nA further 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nAnd 20,089 coronavirus cases were reported on Tuesday, continuing a downward trend in the number of UK cases seen in recent days.\n\nProf Whitty told a Downing Street news conference the rolling seven-day average for deaths was 1,242 - \"an incredibly high number\" - and unlikely to come down quickly.\n\n\"I think we have to be realistic that the rate of mortality, the number of people dying a day, will come down relatively slowly over the next two weeks - and will probably be flat for a while now.\"\n\nProf Whitty said the number of people testing positive for coronavirus was \"still at a very high number, but it has been coming down\".\n\nBut he cautioned against relaxing restrictions \"too early\", as Office for National Statistics data showed a \"rather slower\" decrease.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with Covid-19 in the UK had \"flattened off\", he said, but was still an \"incredibly high number\" and \"substantially above the peak in April\".\n\nProf Whitty said the new, more transmissible variant discovered in the south east of England at the end of last year had altered the UK's situation \"very substantially\" and had made it \"much harder\" to bring infection levels down.\n\n\"We were worried two weeks ago that the measures we have at the moment were not enough to hold this new variant,\" he told the news conference.\n\n\"I think what the data I showed you at the beginning of the slide sessions shows is that the rates are just about holding with the new variant, with what everybody's doing.\n\n\"It's going to be much harder because of this new variant and I think we have to be realistic about that.\"\n\nSir Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, said that more than a quarter of a million severely ill coronavirus patients have been looked after in hospital since the pandemic started last year.\n\n\"This is not a year that anybody is going to want to remember nor is it a year that across the health service any of us will ever forget,\" he said.\n\nThe daily Covid figures have seen the number of deaths top 100,000. But they also contain some signs of hope.\n\nJust over 20,000 new infections have been reported - down from 22,000 yesterday.\n\nThis compares to an average of 60,000 at the start of the year.\n\nIt is a sharp fall, although Prof Whitty cautions it may actually be a little slower than that.\n\nNot everyone who is infected comes forward for testing and the government surveillance programme which involves random testing of the population suggests the fall has not been quite so great.\n\nNonetheless, it is clear the infection rate is coming down - and that offers hope.\n\nHospital cases have plateaued and should soon start falling. That will eventually lead to a reduction in the number of deaths.\n\nThen, in February, the vaccination programme should start having an impact, leading, hopefully, to a rapid drop in deaths.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson told the briefing the coronavirus infection rate remained \"pretty forbiddingly high\" to ease lockdown restrictions, which have been in place in England since 5 January.\n\nBut he said \"at a certain stage we will want to be getting things open\".\n\nHe added: \"What I will be doing in the course of the next few days and weeks is setting out in more detail, as soon as we can, when and how we want to get things open again.\"\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons - including for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, the epidemiologist whose modelling prompted the UK government to impose the first lockdown has told BBC Radio 4's PM he believes more action in autumn last year could have \"drastically reduced\" the number of lives lost in the second wave - some 60,000.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson said: \"They couldn't have been eliminated, but they could have been drastically reduced by earlier action, unfortunately.\n\n\"How much is difficult to judge, the new variant was unpredictable and did change our understanding of how much was needed to control spread, but we did just let the autumn wave get to far, far too high infection levels.\"\n\nReacting to the UK's death toll, Mr Johnson said he took \"full responsibility\" for the government's actions, but added: \"We truly did everything we could.\"", "The fate of more than 200,000 seafarers who play a crucial role in keeping global trade flowing is being labelled a \"humanitarian crisis at sea\".\n\nMore than 300 firms and organisations are urging for them to be treated as \"key workers\", so they can return home without risking public health.\n\nMore than 90% of global trade - from household goods to medical supplies - is moved by sea.\n\nBut governments have banned crew from coming ashore amid Covid-19 fears.\n\nLarge firms including shipping titan AP Moller-Maersk, oil firms BP and Shell, consumer giant Unilever and mining groups Rio Tinto and Vale, as well as maritime transporters, unions, the World Economic Forum (WEF) and other supply chain partners have signed the Neptune Declaration on Seafarer Wellbeing and Crew Change.\n\nThey are calling for all countries to designate seafarers as key workers and implement crew change protocols.\n\nThe signees of the Neptune Declaration are warning global leaders that ignoring the risk to crews' mental and physical wellbeing threatens global supply chains, which are crucial to vaccinating the world from coronavirus.\n\nThe firms and organisations hope that world leaders, gathering at this year's virtual Davos Forum, will heed their call.\n\n\"Unified, prompt action from governments and other key stakeholders is needed to protect the lives and livelihoods of the 1.6 million seafaring men and women who serve us all across the seas, and who continue to face extreme risk to their safety and earnings,\" said WEF's head of supply chain and transport Margi Van Gogh.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. India coronavirus: The stranded sailor yet to meet his daughter\n\n\"By granting stranded seafarers key worker status, and by prioritising vaccine allocation for transport crew, we can prevent a deepening humanitarian and economic crisis.\"\n\nAccording to latest data from the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) and international ship owners body Bimco, there are 1.6 million seafarers serving on internationally trading merchant ships worldwide.\n\nTypically, ICS estimates around 100,000 seafarers are rotated every month, with 50,000 staff disembarking and 50,000 crew embarking ships to comply with international maritime regulations, governing safe working hours and crew welfare.\n\nSeafarers usually work 10-12 hours shifts, seven days a week to man ships, on four or six-month-long contracts, followed by a period of leave.\n\nBut due to the coronavirus crisis and travel bans brought in by many governments to combat new variants of Covid-19, hundreds of thousands of crew are spending extended periods at sea, far beyond the expiry of their contracts.\n\nFor those who have been at sea for months longer than their contract stipulates, there is a growing risk to their mental and physical wellbeing.\n\n\"Seafarers are the unacceptable collateral damage on the war on Covid-19 and this must stop,\" said ICS secretary general Guy Platten.\n\n\"If we want to maintain global trade seafarers must not be put to the back of the vaccine queue. You can't inject a global population without the shipping industry and most importantly our seafarers. We are calling on the supply chain to take action to support seafarers now.\"", "Changes were made to rape prosecution policy that led to a \"shocking\" fall in offences before courts in England and Wales, the Court of Appeal has heard.\n\nThe End Violence Against Women (EVAW) coalition is challenging what it said was an \"unlawful\" move by the Crown Prosecution Service in 2016-18.\n\nThe CPS said there was no \"substantial change\" in how cases were treated.\n\nAnd it denied the coalition's claim it had been taking on only \"strong cases\" to keep conviction rates up.\n\nAccording to the EVAW, the CPS adopted what is known as the \"bookmaker's approach\" to cases, which saw prosecutors considering what may happen based on past experience of similar cases, rather than its earlier \"merits-based approach\" based on objective assessment of the evidence.\n\nIn documents before the court, Phillippa Kaufmann QC said that from September 2016 prosecutors were \"trained away\" from the former CPS policy, including through a series of roadshows.\n\nIn 2017 legally binding guidance on the old approach was removed, and the CPS introduced a 60% conviction rate target in relation to rape cases.\n\nMs Kauffmann said both the volume of cases and the charging rate fell.\n\nShe cited figures showing an average of 3,446 rape cases were charged per year between 2009 and 2016, compared with 2,822 in 2017, a fall of 23%.\n\nAt the same time the charging rate \"declined precipitously\" from 56% in 2016, to 47% in 2017 and 34% in 2018.\n\nThe court documents note the conviction target was removed at some point between 2017 and 2019, and guidance relating to the \"merits-based approach\" to prosecutions was reintroduced.\n\nThe campaigners are aiming to show there was a policy change and the way the CPS went about it was unlawful.\n\nIf a ruling goes in its favour, the EVAW hopes some cases could be looked at again by the CPS.\n\nLawyers for the CPS argue the case was not suitable for a legal challenge.\n\nIn written submissions, Tom Little QC, says the move away from a \"merits-based approach\" was out of a concern that \"some people were being prosecuted when the case ought not to have been charged\".\n\nHe added the decision to initiate the roadshows and remove the guidance \"did not result in any substantial change in the application of the evidential test in the code for Crown prosecutors\".\n\nIn a statement, the CPS said: \"Independent inspectors have found no evidence of a risk-averse approach and have reported a clear improvement in the quality of our legal decision-making in rape cases.\"\n\nThe judges are expected to give their ruling in the case at a later date.", "Celebrities including comedians Romesh Ranganathan and Meera Syal and cricketer Moeen Ali have made a video urging people to get the Covid vaccine.\n\nThe video was co-ordinated by Citizen Khan creator Adil Ray, who said he wanted to dispel vaccination myths for those from ethnic minority communities.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan and former Conservative Party Chairman Baroness Warsi are among the others taking part.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Adil Ray OBE 💙 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We all just feel we needed to do something,\" Ray told the BBC.\n\nFake news about the vaccine, particularly in the South Asian community, has led to concerns about uptake.\n\nRay appears in the five-minute video alongside stars like former Coronation Street actress Shobna Gulati, who tells viewers: \"We will find our way through this. And we will be united once again with our friends and our families. All we have to do is take the vaccination.\"\n\nSomali-born British journalist Rageh Omaar and his ITV colleague Ranvir Singh join comedians like Sanjeev Bhaskar, Asim Chaudhry and Ranganathan to debunk common vaccine misinformation and misconceptions.\n\nRanganathan says: \"There's no chip or tracker in the vaccine to keep watching where you go. Your mobile phone actually does a much better job of that.\"\n\nAfter posting the video, Ray told BBC Radio Leicester: \"For the British Asian and black communities, at the very beginning of the pandemic we were told they were perhaps the most vulnerable, that there was a disproportionate number of cases and even deaths.\n\n\"Even now there are a disproportionate number of deaths. But nothing was really done about it and that was really quite confusing for a lot of the community. So we felt that we've got to try and take the lead a little bit here and dispel some of these myths.\"\n\nHe added: \"This was recorded entirely independently from the government - the only thing we did do was we went to the NHS website for the correct medical guidance.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWith the UK aiming to offer Covid vaccinations to every adult by autumn, vaccine minister Nadhim Zahawi said confidence in the vaccines was high in the UK, with 85% saying they would accept the jab.\n\nBut he said that those who were hesitant \"skew heavily\" towards black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.\n\nThe UK is recording the ethnicity and occupations of people who receive the vaccine and figures would be published soon, Mr Zahawi added.\n\nLast month, a poll commissioned by the Royal Society of Public Health suggested 57% of black, Asian and minority ethnic people would be happy to have the coronavirus vaccine, compared with 79% of white people.\n\nDr Harpreet Sood, who is leading an NHS anti-disinformation drive, recently said fake news was likely to be causing some people from the UK's South Asian communities to reject the vaccine.\n\nSuch warnings have led the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board to urge places of worship and community hubs to be used as vaccination centres in an attempt to inspire confidence.\n\nThe board's chairman, Imam Qari Asim, said: \"As an imam, my message is simple - do not trust 'fake news', verify before you amplify.\"\n\nThe Al Abbas Mosque in Birmingham is being used as a Covid vaccination centre\n\nMany mosques are using their Friday sermons to urge people to have the jab, while some imams are sharing photos of themselves getting the jab on social media.\n\nMeanwhile, the government has announced £23m funding for a network of \"community champions\" to spread accurate information and provide support for people in at-risk groups including older people, disabled people and ethnic minorities.\n\nOn Monday, Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick visited the UK's first vaccination centre to be opened in a mosque, at Al-Abbas Islamic Centre in Birmingham.\n\n\"It is absolutely brilliant to see faith communities like this stepping up and playing their part in the vaccine programme,\" Mr Jenrick said.\n\n\"We have to build trust, ensure that we counter misinformation and ensure that everyone, regardless of their faith, regardless of what community they're from, gets access to the programme.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The police officers were on duty when they had their hair cut, the Met says\n\nThirty-one Met Police officers who broke coronavirus rules to get haircuts are facing £200 fines.\n\nTwo officers who hired a barber to give the cuts to staff at Bethnal Green Police Station, on 17 January, are also facing misconduct investigations, the Met said.\n\nUnder current lockdown restrictions in England, barbers and hairdressers are not allowed to work.\n\nDet Ch Supt Marcus Barnett said he was \"deeply disappointed\" in the officers.\n\n\"Although officers donated money to charity as part of the haircut, this does not excuse them from what was a very poor decision,\" he said. \"I expect a lot more of them.\n\n\"Quite rightly, the public expect police to be role models in following the regulations, which are designed to prevent the spread of this deadly virus.\"\n\nThe investigation comes after fines were handed out to nine officers who were caught eating breakfast together in a Greenwich café.\n\nAll those officers were issued with a £200 fixed penalty notice.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "At least 80 people had to leave their homes in the village after flooding\n\nPeople whose homes were flooded after a \"blow out\" at a mine shaft are said to be \"devastated\" as they face months before they can return home.\n\nSteve Morris said his son Gareth and his girlfriend's home in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, was inundated by \"orange\" flood water containing sewage.\n\nBut some will be allowed back to their properties on Tuesday.\n\nResidents of Goshen Park and Sunnyland Crescent who have yet to contact Neath Port Talbot council are urged to do so in the next 24 hours.\n\nThe council said access to these properties would continue to be affected beyond 26 January and the Coal Authority wished to have early discussions with them.\n\nMr Morris told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast that his son called him on Thursday to say his house was about to be flooded.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\n\"I live about half a mile away... and by the time I got to his address I could see the water levels were rising rapidly up the road,\" he explained.\n\n\"Then it was so quick - the water came through his rear patio doors firstly, then the gardens and then the drains couldn't cope on the main road and came through the front door, then the side door.\n\n\"His ground floor was four feet under water, and it was this orange coloured water. There was sewage in the house, so his ground floor needs totally gutting.\"\n\nMr Morris said Gareth and his girlfriend are staying in a hotel as they wait to be allowed back to assess the damage.\n\nHe hopes their insurance firm will pay to rent a home for them, adding: \"I can honestly see them being out of their house for between six and 10 months.\n\n\"They are obviously devastated - they have only been in there for 12 months so everything was near enough brand new.\"\n\nCerys Thomas was at her mother's house with her son, in Goshen Park, when she saw water coming through the front door.\n\nThe stairs at the home of Cerys Thomas' parents were left caked in mud\n\nShe said: \"I said to my mother to get my son and herself out and up toward the street. I phoned the police then, because I could see it was going to be an emergency, and within minutes my parents' conservatory doors just blew through.\n\n\"The pressure of the water just blew through the house and the water, within minutes, was up to my waist.\n\n\"Trying to get out of the house was very scary because the pressure of the front door was getting pushed back.\"\n\nShe said the street was under water \"within seven minutes\".\n\n\"It was something you would see in a movie,\" she said.\n\nWithin minutes of water entering the house Ms Thomas was up to her waist in water\n\nMeanwhile, the Coal Authority said it has identified the cause of the \"blow out\".\n\nChief executive Lisa Pinney told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast: \"Firstly, I just want to say our thoughts are with everyone affected by this flooding and we are genuinely sorry people have been affected in this way.\n\n\"What we know so far is the blow out was caused by a blockage underground which caused water to break out, basically to find the easiest path, and there's no doubt the excessive rainfall in the days before was also a factor in that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Pinney said crews had been able to find the site of the collapsed mineshaft which had caused the flooding, and the authority had started to \"develop options\".\n\n\"We really understand people want to get back into their homes, they want to collect things, they want to know what the next steps are,\" she continued.\n\n\"We are working as fast as possible to make that happen and we hope to be able to provide some more information in the next day or so, but you will understand that we have to be sure for public safety.\"\n\nMs Pinney said there are almost 300 mine shafts or entries across the Skewen mine works, which covers an area of about 12 sq km (7.6 sq miles).\n\nShe added: \"We have checked all recorded shafts in the immediate area and we are doing continued checks over the coming days. We have found no problems. They are all safe.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nadhim Zahawi: \"We have 367m vaccines from seven different manufacturers that we have contracted with\"\n\nSupplies of vaccines are \"tight\" but the UK believes it will receive enough doses to meet its targets, the vaccine minister has said.\n\nNadhim Zahawi told BBC Breakfast manufacturers were \"confident\" they would deliver for the UK amid warnings of production delays.\n\nIt comes as the EU said it might tighten vaccine export controls.\n\nCountries should avoid \"vaccine nationalism\" and ensure a fair global supply, Mr Zahawi said.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 100,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, after 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nMr Zahawi said the vaccination programme was still on track to deliver a first dose to 15 million of the most vulnerable by mid-February and to offer all adults their first dose by autumn.\n\nHe said the UK had supplies of the Oxford vaccine manufactured domestically by AstraZeneca as well as the Pfizer one, which is made in Belgium.\n\nThe government is also planning to publish figures on the take-up of the vaccine by ethnicity from Thursday, following concerns that some black, Asian and ethnic minority communities were more hesitant to get the jab.\n\n\"I'm confident we will meet our mid-February target and continue beyond that,\" Mr Zahawi told the BBC.\n\n\"Supplies are tight, they continue to be, these are new manufacturing processes,\" he added. \"It's lumpy and bumpy, it gets better and stabilises and improves going forward.\"\n\nBut he declined to say that he had received guarantees about the number of doses the UK would receive from Pfizer or other manufacturers and refused to confirm how many doses had already arrived.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said AstraZeneca had committed to delivering two million doses a week to the UK, and the government was not expecting any changes to that supply.\n\nDowning Street also rejected German media reports claiming a very low efficacy rate for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine among older people, saying they had been denied by Oxford University, AstraZeneca and the German health ministry.\n\nChief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told the cabinet the trials showed similar immune responses in younger and older adults.\n\nAnd England's chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, has defended the UK's strategy of extending the time between first and second doses of coronavirus vaccines from three to 12 weeks in order to immunise more people.\n\nHe told the Downing Street coronavirus briefing on Tuesday that the \"great majority\" of protection came from the first dose.\n\nHe also said there was \"no evidence\" that immunity waned between three and 12 weeks after the first dose was administered.\n\nProf Whitty said: \"We thought very carefully about what the balance of this is, but the balance of risk in terms of reducing the number of deaths in the community - and I really want to stress that, that is the aim of this - is to maximise the number of people who get that first dose, where the great majority of protection comes from.\"\n\nThe latest tension over supply of the Covid vaccine is another illustration of just how fragile this issue is.\n\nThere are huge global demands for Covid vaccine, limited raw materials and constraints on manufacturing.\n\nThe UK already has enough vaccine to jab all the highest-risk groups by mid-February, although not all of it has been packaged up or been through the final safety checks.\n\nThis explains why ministers are confident about the immediate target for the over-70s, health and care workers and the extremely clinically vulnerable.\n\nBut what is in doubt is how quickly the UK can vaccinate in the medium term.\n\nWith the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine manufactured in the UK those supply routes are more guaranteed.\n\nBut the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is made in Belgium. The UK, like the rest of Europe, is affected by the problems with manufacturing that are being experienced with that vaccine.\n\nWith Europe experiencing major problems rolling out its vaccination programme - per head of population five times fewer vaccines have been delivered - this is a story that is going to rumble on for months.\n\nThe UK has placed orders for 367 million doses of vaccines from seven manufacturers, Mr Zahawi said. \"As vaccines come along we will get more volume, millions more in the weeks and months to come,\" he added.\n\nThe tension over vaccine supplies increased after UK-based AstraZeneca warned the EU it would have to reduce planned deliveries because of production problems. Pfizer-BioNTech has also said supplies will be temporarily lower as it works to increase capacity at its Belgian factory.\n\nIt has prompted the EU to accuse AstraZeneca of failing to meet its commitments and to warn that it might require all companies producing Covid vaccines to provide \"early notification\" whenever they planned to export supplies out of the EU.\n\n\"The thing to do now is not to go down the dead end of vaccine nationalism. It's to work together to protect our people,\" Mr Zahawi said.\n\n\"No-one is safe until the whole world is safe.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock subsequently said the UK government \"oppose protectionism in all its forms\" and urged all international partners to \"be collaborative\" and \"work closely together\" on vaccine distribution.\n\nHe added that the EU's warning that it could restrict exports of vaccines made in the bloc was \"unfortunate and especially so in the midst of a pandemic\".\n\nMeanwhile, the head of NHS England earlier told MPs coronavirus could become a \"much more treatable disease\" over the next six to 18 months, with the hope of a return to a \"much more normal future\".\n\nSir Simon Stevens told the Health and Social Care Committee: \"The first half of the year, vaccination is going to be crucial.\n\n\"I think a lot of us in the health service are increasingly hopeful that in the second half of the year and beyond we will also see more therapeutics and more treatments for coronavirus.\"\n\nHe also said it \"would be great\" if the Covid vaccine and flu vaccine were combined into a single jab, if not for next winter then future ones.\n\nAnd he said vaccines were being used as fast as they arrived in the NHS, with more than half of those aged 75-79 having now had their first dose.\n\nThe UK aims to offer Covid vaccination to every adult by autumn.\n\nMr Zahawi said confidence in the vaccines was high, with 85% of people saying they would accept the jab.\n\nBut he said those who were hesitant \"skew heavily\" towards black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.\n\nThe government is providing £23m of funding to 60 local councils and voluntary groups to boost vaccine take-up among groups such as older people, disabled people, and people from ethnic minority backgrounds.\n\nIt comes as celebrities such as comedians Romesh Ranganathan and Meera Syal and cricketer Moeen Ali appeared in a video urging people in their communities to get vaccinated.\n\nMr Zahawi told ITV's Good Morning Britain his uncle had died from Covid-19 last week. He had been eligible for vaccination but caught the virus before he could receive it, the minister said.\n\nThis \"grim and horrible\" experience made him determined to ensure that the most vulnerable were protected as quickly as possible, Mr Zahawi said.\n\nSir Simon said there was concern about vaccine hesitancy in some groups, where there were access problems as well as \"systematic attempts to misinform and lie about the vaccine programme targeted particularly at minority populations, and - in some cases - long-standing mistrust of public services\".\n\nHe said disruption to vaccine deliveries from EU export restrictions was not thought to be likely.\n\nIn other developments, the UK has offered to carry out genomic sequencing for other countries around the world to help identify further new variants.\n\nPublic Health England said it would give \"crucial early warning\" of any mutations that might cause the virus to spread faster, make people more ill or possibly reduce the effectiveness of vaccines.", "Transfer tests normally used by grammar schools have been cancelled this year\n\nOne of NI's most prominent grammar schools has said it will use primary school test scores to decide which pupils to admit in 2021.\n\nRoyal Belfast Academical Institution said it would \"adopt other academic criteria for admission to the school\".\n\nThat is despite the vast majority of grammar schools not planning to use academic criteria this year.\n\nThe tests run by the AQE and the Post-Primary Transfer Consortium (PPTC) were cancelled in early 2021.\n\nAs a result, grammar schools - which are attended by about 45% of post-primary pupils in Northern Ireland - are drawing up new criteria for how they will select pupils in 2021.\n\nBanbridge Academy, Bangor Grammar, Belfast Royal Academy and Regent House are among those to have published their admissions criteria for 2021.\n\nNone of those schools are using academic criteria, but pupils applying will have to have entered the AQE transfer test.\n\nSome other grammars like Thornhill College and St Columb's College in Londonderry, which decided in 2020 not to use the PPTC transfer test in 2021, have also published admissions criteria.\n\nIn a statement to BBC News NI, Royal Belfast Academical Institution (RBAI) said it was \"committed to the principle that a child should be placed in a school which offers a curriculum best suited to the aptitudes of that child\".\n\n\"For this reason RBAI believes that the use of academic criteria for admission to grammar schools is the outworking of that principle,\" the school said.\n\n\"Accordingly, in the absence of AQE and PPTC tests for admissions, RBAI will adopt other academic criteria for admission to the school.\"\n\nRBAI said scores in practice AQE or PPTC transfer tests will be taken into account\n\nThe school is planning to use standardised scores in the Progress Test in English (PTE) and Progress Test in Maths (PTM) which pupils sat in Primary Five to decide which pupils to admit.\n\nRBAI said that school year was \"the most recent one which has not been interrupted\".\n\nPupils scores in practice AQE or PPTC transfer tests taken under supervision by a teacher will also be taken into account.\n\n\"RBAI is satisfied that this is a reasonable and robust way of selecting pupils based on academic aptitude in the absence of a bespoke test,\" the school said.\n\nRBAI normally admits 150 pupils each year, but received 227 applications for places in 2020.\n\nThe admissions criteria for all post-primary schools will be published on the Education Authority (EA) website on 2 February.\n\nThe UUP assembly member Robbie Butler had proposed that pupils' results in tests in primary schools could be given to parents and then used by grammar schools to decide which children get a place.\n\nBut Education Minister Peter Weir had said there would be \"major problems\" with that approach.", "In March 2020, we were told it would be a ‘’good outcome’’ if coronavirus killed 20,000 people across the UK.\n\nNow the bleakest milestone has been reached: 100,000 deaths.\n\nIn a statement, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said \"behind these heart-breaking figures are friends, families and neighbours. The vaccine offers us the way out, but we cannot let up now and we sadly still face a tough period ahead. The virus is still spreading and we're seeing over 3,500 people per day being admitted into hospital.\"\n\nHealth correspondent Catherine Burns looks at the past year of the UK’s epidemic and hears from families who have lost loved ones.\n\nFilmed and edited by Julius Peacock. Additional filming by Emily Brooks", "The UK government should cancel the debt owed by developing countries struggling with the impact of Covid-19, MPs have said.\n\nThe International Development Committee warned that the pandemic was fuelling extreme poverty and food insecurity.\n\nIt was also disrupting routine healthcare, such as tuberculosis immunisations, it added.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was spending £1.3bn to protect livelihoods, improve health systems and distribute vaccines.\n\nMore than two million people around the world have died after contracting coronavirus, with almost 100 million cases reported.\n\nAppearing before the Commons International Development Committee, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said he wanted the UK to be a \"force for good in the world\" as it fought the pandemic.\n\nHe defended the government's decision to cut overseas aid spending next year, saying there were \"no easy choices\" given the hit to the public finances from the pandemic.\n\nThe cuts mean the UK will fail to meet the UN target of spending 0.7% of national income on overseas aid in 2021-2, a target that was enshrined into UK law in 2015.\n\nMr Raab said he hoped the UK would be able to reach 0.7% again as \"soon as possible\" but this would only happen once the long-term damage to the UK's balance sheet had been \"corrected\".\n\nLabour said the government was \"betraying the world's poorest.\"\n\nShadow international development secretary Preet Kaur Gill said: \"This move signals a retreat from the world stage, damages the UK's reputation and will only show our allies and detractors that Britain under Boris Johnson is no longer interested in fulfilling our moral or legal responsibilities.\n\n\"Labour are committed to spending 0.7% of Gross National Income on aid to tackle global poverty and injustice and will oppose any attempt from this government to damage this country's reputation.\"\n\nMr Raab said he took seriously warnings from Conservative MPs and ex-ministers that to press ahead with the cuts without passing new legislation would be unlawful.\n\nFormer Solicitor General Lord Garnier said earlier on Tuesday that Mr Raab's \"reputation\" and the government's domestic and international standing would be damaged if it was seen to \"flout a clear legal obligation\".\n\nIn tough financial times, Mr Raab said the UK needed to \"make the most\" of its £10bn spending, avoiding \"salami-slicing\" budgets and focusing on a handful of priorities such as climate, biodiversity, conflict prevention and helping the \"bottom billions\" out of extreme poverty.\n\n\"I think we should unabashedly be proud and confident about the moral responsibility we have to make the world a better place,\" he said.\n\n\"At the same time, I see a range of grittier strategic interests in dealing with climate change and humanitarian suffering and indeed trade.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office took over responsibility for overseas aid in September after absorbing the Department for International Development.\n\nOn debt cancellation, the committee said that, due to disruption caused by the pandemic, millions of people in developing countries were more at risk from diseases such as tuberculosis because of missed immunisations.\n\nMillions were more likely to lose their livelihoods because of the global recession and millions of women were more exposed to sexual violence.\n\nThe MPs want the government to provide more aid to address the problems and cancel long-term national debt that was diverting cash away from those in need.\n\nA Foreign Office spokesperson said: \"We'll only be safe from coronavirus when we're all safe - which is why the UK is leading global efforts to fight this pandemic, committing up to £1.3bn of new UK aid to find and equitably distribute a vaccine, strengthen health systems, protect livelihoods and support the global economy.\"\n\nThey added that the UK would use its 2021 presidency of the G7 group of leading economies \"to help the world build back stronger and fairer after the pandemic\".\n\nThis would include \"promoting open societies, championing gender equality and girls' education, and setting out new international approaches to global health security and climate action\", the spokesperson said.\n\nThe UK has announced it will step up its efforts to help other countries, including some of the poorest in the world, to find new variants of Covid-19.\n\nIn a speech in London, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the UK would share its world-leading genomics expertise worldwide to help countries identify new mutations of the virus and protect global health security.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dutch police have described it as the worst unrest in four decades\n\nMore than 180 people were arrested in 10 Dutch cities as protesters defying a curfew clashed with riot police for a third night running.\n\nShops in Rotterdam were looted and police used water cannon, as rioters resisted latest Covid restrictions.\n\nPrime Minister Mark Rutte condemned \"criminal violence\" and the justice minister said the curfew would remain.\n\nThe Dutch chief of police said the riots no longer had \"anything to do with the basic right to demonstrate\".\n\nThe Netherlands has had nearly one million confirmed Covid cases since the start of the outbreak, with more than 13,500 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University in the US, which is tracking the pandemic.\n\nThe government recently introduced a night-time curfew which runs from 21:00 (20:00 GMT) to 04:30. Anyone caught violating it faces a €95 (£84) fine.\n\nThere were further violent scenes in many towns and cities. Riot police clashed with protesters in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, as well as Amersfoort, Den Bosch, Alphen and Helmond.\n\nSome of the worst disturbances were in the south of Rotterdam where police said 10 officers were hurt. Across the country 184 people were arrested. Amsterdam's mayor appealed to parents to keep young people indoors.\n\nSeveral cities have vowed to introduce emergency measures in an effort to prevent more disturbances\n\nThe windows of some shops were smashed in Rotterdam\n\nFires were lit on the streets of The Hague, where police on bicycles attempted to move small clusters of men who threw stones and fireworks. There was violence in the southern city of Den Bosch, where rioters set off fireworks, broke windows, looted a supermarket and overturned cars.\n\nA woman living near Den Bosch train station told Dutch radio that masked youths had left a trail of destruction in the city centre. \"I saw windows smashed and fireworks going off. Really crazy, just like a war zone,\" the woman said. Roads into the city were closed to stop people joining the rioters and Mayor Jack Mikkers imposed an emergency order banning gatherings on Tuesday.\n\nThe ignition of discontent has rocked the core of Dutch society.\n\nIn the absence of any legitimate way to socialise, is this simply an outlet for young men to feel part of something, their masks concealing their identities and enabling them to violently channel their frustrations?\n\nThere are more sinister influences at play. Messages on social media, overt and covert, have whipped up anger. Misinformation has even been spread by some politicians.\n\nSome of the worst violence was in Rotterdam\n\nSome feared a curfew would be a tipping point, as Dutch restrictions tighten while some neighbouring countries relax their rules. The vast majority of people in the Netherlands are peacefully observing the curfew.\n\nThe unrest was initially seen as a response to the first \"stay-at-home\" order imposed since Nazi occupation during World War Two. That notion has been dismissed by Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who said the rioters were simply criminals and would be treated as such.\n\nBut there are simmering anxieties in Dutch towns and cities, and with less than two months before a general election, voters are vulnerable and the streets volatile.\n\nThere has been widespread shock at the violence. In Rotterdam, where police used water cannon during clashes with rioters, Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb signed an emergency decree, giving police broader powers of arrest. He reacted furiously to shops being looted in the south of the city, condemning \"shameless thieves, I can't call it anything else\".\n\nThe prime minister said the police had the government's full support: \"The riots have nothing to do with protesting or fighting for freedom.\"\n\nRotterdam shop-owner Emrah Köker said he had no words for what he had seen. \"How can this happen in the Netherlands?\" he asked Dutch daily newspaper Algemeen Dagblad. Justice Minister Ferd Grapperhuis challenged anyone to explain what looting a shop had to do with coronavirus.\n\nThe mayor of Den Bosch said police had struggled to respond to the violence because they were needed in other nearby towns.\n\nFootball fans of the Willem II club took to the streets of Tilburg to \"protect their city\" against rioters, news site Brabants Dagblad reports.\n\nMayors in several cities have vowed to introduce emergency measures in an effort to prevent more disturbances.\n\nThe Dutch prime minister has condemned the violence\n\nThere has been widespread shock in the Netherlands over the violence", "The greys were introduced to Britain from North America in the 19th Century\n\nThe UK government has given its support to a project to use oral contraceptives to control grey squirrel populations.\n\nEnvironment minister Lord Goldsmith says the damage they and other invasive species do to the UK's woodlands costs the UK economy £1.8 billion a year.\n\nThe bizarre-sounding plan is to lure grey squirrels into feeding boxes only they can access with little pots containing hazelnut spread.\n\nThese would be spiked with an oral contraceptive.\n\nLord Goldsmith says the damage from squirrels also threatens the effectiveness of government efforts to tackle climate change by planting tens of thousands of acres of new woodlands.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) told BBC News: \"We hope advances in science can safely help our nature to thrive, including through the humane control of invasive species.\"\n\nA partnership of conservation and forestry organisations called the UK Squirrel Accord (UKSA) is behind the proposal.\n\nIt says grey squirrels, which were first introduced from North America in the late 19th century, cause huge damage to woodlands by stripping bark from trees aged between 10-50 years, the younger trees in a forest.\n\nThey particularly target broad-leafed varieties including oak, which are particularly ecologically important because they support so many other species.\n\nIt is estimated the UK is home to some three million of these invasive rodents.\n\nRed squirrels are now confined mainly to Scotland and Ireland\n\nThey have displaced the native red squirrel across most of the UK.\n\nLord Goldsmith says the government supports the plan as well as a longer-term effort to breed infertility into female grey squirrels to reduce their numbers.\n\nInvasive non-native species such as grey squirrels threaten our native biodiversity, he argues.\n\nWhen regulating grey squirrels with oral contraceptive was first proposed in 2017, the government's Animal and Plant Health Agency said it thought it could reduce their numbers by as much as 90%.\n\nThe project also has royal approval.\n\nPrince Charles was instrumental in founding the UK Squirrel Accord with the objective of \"managing the negative impacts of invasive grey squirrels in the UK\".\n\nHe has written of the importance of protecting Britain's remaining red squirrels.\n\n\"These charming and intelligent creatures never fail to delight\", he wrote last week in his capacity as patron of the Red Squirrel Survival Trust, describing red squirrels as the \"symbol and benchmark\" of healthy woods.\n\nJason Gilchrist, an ecologist from Edinburgh Napier University, has written in defence of the grey squirrel but he says he supports the oral contraceptive plan.\n\nHe acknowledges there is a need to manage grey squirrel populations.\n\n\"It is better than the alternative: a shotgun\", he told BBC News.\n\nIt is the same argument the UKSA makes: dosing the animals with contraceptives provides a humane alternative to culling them.\n\nLast week, the Royal Forestry Society, a member of the Squirrel Accord, called for just such a cull.\n\nSimon Lloyd, its chief executive, says efforts to tackle global warming and improve biodiversity will be undermined unless grey squirrel numbers can be reduced.\n\nNew trees will not survive to \"deliver the carbon capture or biodiversity objectives if grey squirrels cannot be controlled\", he told the Daily Telegraph.\n\nThe UKSA has been experimenting with ways to deliver oral contraceptives to squirrels for more than three years now.\n\nLast year, it tested special feeding stations designed so only grey squirrels can gain access in woodland in East Yorkshire.\n\nInstead of contraceptives, the hazelnut paste bait was dosed with a dye that, when ingested, causes squirrel hair to fluoresce under UV light.\n\nThe researchers found that more than 90% of the grey squirrel population being studied visited the traps.\n\nThey concluded that it was possible to deliver repeat doses of a contraceptive to the majority of grey squirrels in a wood.", "More than 100,000 people in the UK have died from a virus, that, this time last year, felt like a far-off foreign threat. How did we come to be one of the countries with the worst death tolls?\n\nThere is no quick answer to that question, and there is sure to be a long and detailed public inquiry once the pandemic is over. But there are plenty of clues that, when pieced together, help build a picture of why the UK has reached this devastating number.\n\nSome will point a finger at the government - its decision to lock-down later than much of western Europe, the stuttering start to its test-and-trace network and the lack of protection afforded to care home residents.\n\nOthers will spotlight deeper rooted problems with British society - its poor state of public health, with high levels of obesity, for example.\n\nOthers, still, will note that some of the UK's great strengths - its position as a vibrant hub for international air travel, its ethnically diverse and densely-packed urban populations - exposed its vulnerability to a virus that spreads effortlessly between people.\n\nIn some people's eyes, the UK's island status might have helped it. New Zealand, Australia and Taiwan managed to stop the virus getting a foothold and deaths have been kept to a minimum - Australia has seen fewer deaths throughout the pandemic than the UK is recording every day on average.\n\nAll introduced strict border restrictions immediately and lockdowns to contain the virus before it had spread. The UK did not. It was not until June that quarantine rules were introduced for all arrivals and even then travel corridors were soon set up, relaxing the rules for travellers from certain countries. Only this month were these scrapped.\n\nProf Devi Sridhar, an expert in public health from Edinburgh University, is one of those who has been critical of the approach the UK has taken from the start.\n\nShe says the UK, like much of Europe, was \"complacent\" about the threat of infectious disease - choosing to treat the new coronavirus \"like flu\" and allowing it to spread, while talking about the desire to achieve herd immunity.\n\nThis all changed in late March, when a full lockdown eventually came. But there was a crucial delay of a week which is estimated to have cost more than 20,000 lives, according to government modeller Prof Neil Ferguson, because of how quickly infection rates were doubling at that point.\n\nThis, of course, is said with the benefit of hindsight. Government modellers themselves acknowledge the data was \"really quite poor\" making it difficult to make a decision that would have significant repercussions. It is a point acknowledged by Prof Chris Whitty, the UK's chief medical adviser. Speaking in the summer he said there had been \"very limited information\" in early March.\n\nBy then, the virus was ripping through care homes. Around 30% of deaths in the first wave happened in care homes; 40% if you include care home residents who died in hospital.\n\nThose at the heart of government acknowledge mistakes were made. UK chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said recently: \"The lesson is go earlier than you think you want to, go harder than you think you want to, and go a bit broader than you think you want to in terms of applying the restrictions.\"\n\nBy May, restrictions were beginning to be eased. But was this too soon?\n\nThe government seized on the relative lull to focus on building what the prime minister promised would be a \"world-beating\" test-and-trace system. The idea was that new outbreaks could be nipped in the bud, with comprehensive tracking by a centralised team of tracers.\n\nThe mere fact this had to be done some months after the virus had struck, illustrates another factor behind the high number of deaths - the UK was simply not prepared for a pandemic of this nature in the way some Asian nations had been. Countries such as South Korea and Taiwan had established test-and-trace systems in place that were ready to be activated.\n\nThe UK had a chance to bed in its system in the summer but it was riven with teething problems, with tracers struggling to reach many contacts and the testing capacity slowing down as demand rose.\n\nLow levels of infection over the summer had created a false sense of security.\n\nDesperate to boost the economy, the government launched the Eat Out to Help Out scheme, offering people discounted meals out during August. To what extent it contributed to the rise in the autumn is much argued about but certainly some doctors blame it in part for an increase in patients seen.\n\nThe truth is the virus never went away. Testing in the summer showed even at the lowest levels there were still around 500 cases a day being diagnosed - and random testing in the population subsequently showed the true level may have been twice that.\n\nIn late August around 1,000 people a day were testing positive. By mid-September that had trebled and from there it rose five-fold to 15,000 by mid October. The numbers testing positive have never returned below 10,000 a day on average since.\n\nAnother decision that has been heavily criticised was the refusal of ministers to introduce a short two-week lockdown, or \"circuit breaker\", in September - despite their advisers on Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) recommending such a step. The argument was it would have set the spread of the virus back by at least a month, giving test and trace time to regroup.\n\nWales, however, did introduce its own \"fire-breaker\" - a 17-day lockdown in October. It got infection rates down, but as soon as it was lifted they rebounded. This is, of course, why lockdowns have been criticised.\n\nEdinburgh University infectious diseases expert Prof Mark Woolhouse, one of the modellers who feeds data into Sage, is on the record in the autumn questioning the logic of them for this very reason. It remains up for debate how effective a circuit-breaker would actually have been.\n\nThis after all is the time of year when respiratory illnesses start to increase. Schools had returned as had university students, creating new environments for the novel coronavirus to spread.\n\nWhen a lockdown was eventually introduced in England in November it was to last four weeks, with Sage members lamenting the delay. \"The absence of a decision is a decision in itself,\" says Wellcome Trust director Sir Jeremy Farrar.\n\nBut even before that lockdown was lifted cases had started going up in the south-east of England. Within weeks it became clear what was happening. The virus had mutated and a new faster-spreading variant was on the rise.\n\nBy mid-December the clamour for lockdown was growing again, but the plan for a Christmas relaxation of restrictions had already been announced. In every nation of the UK, ministers waited.\n\nAt the start of 2021, with hospital admissions rising rapidly, the UK's four chief medical officers intervened, issuing a joint statement warning the NHS was at \"material risk\" of being overwhelmed. Within hours the UK was back in lockdown.\n\nWhat has struck some is just how similar the mistakes have been in terms of locking down late.\n\n\"It will take years to unpick why Covid has gone so badly in the UK,\" says University College London infectious diseases expert Dr Neil Stone. \"But the failure to learn from wave one stands out.\"\n\nBut it must also be recognised that there are factors outside the control of the government - certainly in terms of its pandemic response - that have contributed to the high number of deaths.\n\nOne of the reasons the virus was able to take a hold and spread so quickly was because of geography and the fact the UK - and London in particular - is a global hub. Genetic analysis has shown the virus was brought into the UK on at least 1,300 separate occasions, mainly from France, Spain and Italy, by the end of March.\n\nIt was here before we knew it. That's not something Australia or New Zealand had to deal with on such a scale.\n\nDensity of population is also a factor. The UK is among the 10 most densely populated big nations - those with populations of more than 20 million. What is more, our cities are more inter-connected than they are in many places.\n\nIt meant the virus was able to seed everywhere quite quickly. Contrast this with Italy which saw the vast majority of cases in the north of the country in the first wave.\n\nThe ageing population also needs to be taken into account. Once you do this, and adjust for the size of the population - known as age-standardised mortality - deaths have risen, but not by as much as some of the headline figures suggest.\n\nThe health of the nation has also been a factor. The UK has one of the highest rates of obesity in the world. And obesity increases the risk of hospitalisation and death, according to Public Health England. One study found the risk of death was almost double for those who are severely obese.\n\nConditions such as diabetes, kidney disease and respiratory problems also increase the risk - a fifth of Covid deaths have listed diabetes on the death certificate.\n\nAgain the UK has relatively high rates of these illnesses.\n\nBut many have argued that these high levels of ill-health have been compounded by the levels of inequality in the UK.\n\nLevels of ill health and life expectancy have always been worst in the poorest areas, but the pandemic certainly seems to have exacerbated this.\n\nOffice for National Statistics data shows mortality rates have been twice as high in deprived areas as they have been in wealthy areas. The Health Foundation is carrying out its own inquiry into the issue, arguing the Covid death toll needs to be seen through the \"lens\" of inequality to fully understand it.\n\nIt is something that has also been raised by Prof Michael Marmot, one of the country's leading experts on health inequalities. \"The UK's dismal record is telling us something important about our society.\"\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by bereavement, here is a list of organisations that may be able to help.", "A senior judge prevented the BBC from properly reporting a £2.6m legal claim against Scotland's child abuse inquiry, a court has been told.\n\nThe Court of Session heard how Lady Smith, chairwoman of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry (SCAI), faced an employment tribunal claim in 2019.\n\nLady Smith passed orders which stopped detail of the action being reported.\n\nThe top judge denied any wrongdoing in regard to the claim that was later abandoned.\n\nThe employment tribunal case alleging discrimination, harassment and victimisation was from a former senior member of the inquiry legal team.\n\nBBC Scotland has raised a judicial review of the SCAI restriction orders, arguing they were beyond the powers of Lady Smith and her involvement in the case meant any restriction decision should have been made by the employment tribunal.\n\nBut Roddy Dunlop QC, advocate for the SCAI, told the Court of Session the corporation's case was academic as the original restriction order had been overtaken by another order.\n\nMr Dunlop also argued the BBC had not spelled out to the SCAI what detail it wanted to publish in relation to the tribunal.\n\nKenneth McBrearty QC, acting for the broadcaster, told the court the purpose of the original restriction order was, \"not merely to prohibit disclosure or publication of the documents. It was to prohibit disclosure or publication of the very existence of the proceedings\".\n\nHe said: \"It is in effect what is equivalent to what in England has been described as a super injunction. That is what in effect it amounts to because it prohibits even the disclosure of the proceedings.\n\n\"The importance of this case lies with the way the Restriction Order impinged on the open justice principle. If there was a need for an order restricting the disclosure of any material, that is an order to be sought from the employment judge.\"\n\nThe case before Lord Boyd is being heard at the Court of Session\n\nThe Court of Session heard the employment tribunal claim for £2.6m damages was brought in July, 2019, by the inquiry's former lead junior counsel, John Halley.\n\nA news release, issued by SCAI in October 2019, confirmed existence of the claim and a denial that Lady Smith had discriminated against Mr Halley. An initial hearing took place that month and Mr Halley abandoned the tribunal two months later.\n\nBut Mr McBrearty QC said the SCAI press release did not include the full outline of the claim\n\nHe said: \"All that the media was to be entitled to publish was that which the respondent had considered able to include in a press release in circumstances to which the respondent was herself party in the proceedings.\"\n\nThe BBC is seeking declarators from the Court of Session stating that Lady Smith's restriction orders were unlawful.\n\nRoddy Dunlop QC said the BBC had the option to present to Lady Smith what it wanted to report on in the case, as per the detail of the media restriction order, and then get her permission to publish but failed to do so.\n\nHe said: \"That simple request is all that needed to be done and it wasn't resorted to. That's why the alternative remedy aspect of this is a problem to the BBC.\n\n\"There needs to be a practical effect, the entitlement to publish could have been obtained at any point by asking.\"\n\nMr Dunlop pointed out that the original restriction orders objected to by the BBC have now been replaced by a new order issued in March last year.\n\nHe said: \"What is the point of challenging orders which cease to have any potency.\n\n\"Why is it we continue to expend grey matter, and more importantly public funds on both sides, in fighting on something which is in any view within the terms of the reference [of the SCAI inquiry] and within article ten [of Human Rights legislation].\"\n\nOn Wednesday Mr Dunlop will continue his submissions before Lord Boyd.", "An extra £50m is being directed towards grassroots sport after a \"significant hit\" to activity levels amid the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nFunding agency Sport England - which has already invested £220m since the start of the crisis - announced the additional money as part of a new 10-year strategy.\n\nThousands of clubs, swimming pools, leisure centres and gyms have been forced to shut in recent months.\n\nWith many children having done no sport outside of PE lessons since the start of November, and schools now shut across the county, emphasis will be placed on supporting young people to get active.\n\nEarlier this month, figures showed the majority of young people failed to meet the recommended 60 minutes of daily exercise in the last academic year. Almost a third of children were classed as 'inactive' as a result of the first lockdown, not even doing 30 minutes.\n\nAnother focus in the new 'Uniting the Movement' strategy will be tackling the long-standing inequalities that have existed within the sport sector and reinforced by the recent disruption.\n\nNew data shows the pandemic has disproportionately affected people from lower socio-economic groups and BAME backgrounds, for whom there was already a clear pattern of low activity.\n\n\"This strategy comes at a critical time\" said Tim Hollingsworth, the chief executive of Sport England.\n\n\"We have made significant funding available, but many organisations are struggling, and activity levels have taken a significant hit.\n\n\"At the heart of all this is a ruthless focus on providing opportunities to people and communities that have traditionally been left behind.\"\n\nAndy Reed, Chair of the Sport for Development Coalition, said: \"The impact of the pandemic, growing social challenges and subsequent widening inequalities mean we urgently need a new social contract with sport and physical activity, focused on the wider social outcomes that sport can deliver.\"\n\n\"We must expand understanding, recognition and investment in the contribution that sport can make beyond health and wellbeing, to addressing loneliness and social isolation, improving educational attainment and employability, to community cohesion, and reducing anti-social behaviour and entry into the justice system.\"\n\nA group of more than 50 sports bodies have called for a new government action plan and emergency funding to help them survive the pandemic. The Save Our Sports campaign has warned that the activity sector - which employs nearly 600,000 people in the UK and contributes £16bn to the economy each year - faces an unprecedented crisis.\n\nHuw Edwards, the chief executive of Ukactive, which represents the physical activity industry, said: \"Crucially, before the sector begins its recovery from the impact of Covid-19, it must first survive it.\n\n\"The publication of this strategy needs to be accompanied by a new level of urgency and commitment from the government that it will not leave parts of this sector behind, and provide the necessary financial and regulatory support so desperately needed.\"\n\nBut Sports Minister Nigel Huddleston said it was \"placing sport and physical activity at the heart of its coronavirus recovery plan, and Sport England's new strategy provides a strong base to invest in sports organisations, facilities and people\".\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Sunday's fourth-round ties are", "The head of AstraZeneca has defended its rollout of the coronavirus vaccine in the EU, amid tension with member states over delays in supply.\n\nPascal Soriot told Italian newspaper La Repubblica that his team was working \"24/7 to fix the very many issues of production of the vaccine\".\n\nHe said production was \"basically two months behind where we wanted to be\".\n\nHe also said the EU's late decision to sign contracts had given limited time to sort out hiccups with supply.\n\nMr Soriot, chief executive of the UK-Swedish multinational, said a contract with the UK had been signed three months before the one with the EU, giving more time for glitches to be ironed out.\n\nHe told La Repubblica that problems in \"scaling up\" vaccine production were being experienced at two plants, one in the Netherlands and one in Belgium.\n\n\"It's complicated, especially in the early phase where you have to really sort out all sorts of issues,\" he said.\n\n\"We believe we've sorted out those issues, but we are basically two months behind where we wanted to be.\"\n\nHe added: \"We've also had teething issues like this in the UK supply chain. But the UK contract was signed three months before the European vaccine deal. So with the UK we have had an extra three months to fix all the glitches we experienced.\n\nAstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot said a vaccine targeting the South African variant was being worked on\n\n\"Would I like to do better? Of course. But, you know, if we deliver in February what we are planning to deliver, it's not a small volume. We are planning to deliver millions of doses to Europe, it is not small.\"\n\nMr Soriot also said AstraZeneca was working on a vaccine with Oxford University that would target the South African variant of the coronavirus.\n\nScientists have warned there is a chance the South African variant may harm the effectiveness of current vaccines.\n\nThe AstraZeneca vaccine is already being used in the UK but has not yet been approved by the EU, although the European Medicines Agency (EMA) is expected to give it the green light at the end of this month.\n\nThe bloc signed a deal in August for 300 million doses, with an option for 100 million more. The EU had hoped that, as soon as approval was given, delivery would start straight away, with some 80 million doses arriving in the 27 nations by March.\n\nThe EU has ordered 600 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which is already being used on patients around the bloc.\n\nBut Pfizer-BioNTech said last week it was delaying shipments for the next few weeks because of work to increase capacity at its Belgian plant.\n\nIn response to the delays, the EU has said it might restrict exports of vaccines made in the bloc.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sofia Bettiza explains why some countries are far ahead of others in the vaccination race\n\nHealth Commissioner Stella Kyriakides said companies making Covid vaccines in the bloc would have to \"provide early notification whenever they want to export vaccines to third countries\".\n\nShe said the 27-member EU bloc would \"take any action required to protect its citizens\".\n\nEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, addressing the virtual version of the annual World Economic Forum (WEF), usually held in Davos, said: \"Europe invested billions to help develop the world's first Covid-19 vaccines. And now, the companies must deliver. They must honour their obligations.\"\n\nHave you been affected by vaccine supply issues? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drone footage captures the extent of the damage the bridge over the River Clwyd\n\nIt could take 18 months to draw up plans to rebuild a bridge which was swept away during last week's Storm Christoph, a council has warned.\n\nLlanerch bridge, between Trefnant and Tremeirchion in Denbighshire, is a backroad link to the A55.\n\nThe grade II-listed bridge crosses the River Clwyd and villagers now face a seven-mile detour.\n\nMeanwhile, some people in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, can return home later after flooding caused by the storm.\n\nDenbighshire council said diversions would go through St Asaph while Llanerch bridge was repaired.\n\n\"It means it takes much longer now to go from Tremeirchion to Trefnant or St Asaph,\" he said.\n\n\"I know of one couple that have a horse in stables on the other side of the river - so it's a seven-mile journey each way, twice a day, for them now.\n\n\"It's quite a challenge and we're starting to think about how long we'll need to live with it. Are we talking a year, two, three, or maybe much longer than that?\"\n\nVale of Clwyd Conservative MP James Davies said the bridge should be rebuilt: \"There are many who would wish to see the bridge replaced like-for-like, although I appreciate that the new structure will need to take into account the challenges posed by modern-day and projected river flows.\"\n\nDenbighshire council's Meirick Lloyd Davies suggested the structure could be widened, similar to the one in Llangollen.\n\nBut the Trefnant ward councillor added: \"We will need money from the Welsh Government and I hope the UK government are also ready to throw something into the bucket because it is very expensive.\"\n\nA council spokesman said: \"We will seek to resolve this as soon as we are able.\n\n\"Final plans for the bridge will involve a number of third parties and it could take up to 18 months or more to resolve.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said the condition of the structure was the responsibility of the owner, with local authorities having powers to ensure listed structures were preserved.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cerys Thomas said her mother's conservatory windows were blown open by the force of the water\n\nSouth Wales was also hit by Storm Christoph on Thursday and in Skewen about 80 people were evacuated as water rushed through the village on Thursday.\n\nThe Coal Authority said initial checks suggested water built up in a mine shaft, causing a \"blow out\" which flooded properties.\n\nThose living in Jubilee Crescent and Dunevor Road have been told they can return home, but others will have to wait until the Coal Authority has made further investigations.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones told Breakfast with Claire Summers: \"We haven't got the exact figures of the number of people who will be able to return home today, there's going to be further assessments this morning.\n\n\"As early as we can, we will release the names of the streets of those people who will be able to go back, but it will be conditional. They need to go back in a controlled manner. We've still got Covid around.\"\n\nHe added houses would need to have their electrics checked and information would be provided on how to do this.\n\nOther people have been warned it could take months before they can go home.", "Chelsea have sacked manager Frank Lampard after 18 months in charge, with former Paris St-Germain boss Thomas Tuchel expected to replace him.\n\nLampard, 42, leaves with the club ninth in the Premier League after last week's defeat at Leicester City, having won once in their past five league matches.\n\nHis final game was Sunday's 3-1 FA Cup fourth-round win against Luton.\n\nLampard was appointed on a three-year contract when he replaced Maurizio Sarri at Stamford Bridge in July 2019.\n• None Watch Monday Night Club: Is Tuchel right man for Chelsea?\n• None 'Lampard had seen enough Chelsea managers go to know the score'\n• None Why Tuchel will be a popular appointment in the Chelsea dressing room\n• None Tuchel set to come in after Lampard sacking - reaction\n\nIn a statement released on Monday night, Lampard said he was \"disappointed not to have had the time to take the club forward\" and added that it had been a \"huge privilege and an honour\" to manage the club.\n\n\"When I took on this role I understood the challenges that lay ahead in a difficult time for the football club,\" he continued.\n\n\"I am proud of the achievements that we made, and I am proud of the academy players that have made their step into the first team and performed so well. They are the future of the club.\"\n\nChelsea are hopeful that new manager Tuchel will be on the bench for Wednesday's Premier League game against Wolves at Stamford Bridge.\n\nHe will not be exempt from coronavirus quarantine.\n\nBut if Tuchel tests negative on entry to the United Kingdom and then negative again in order to enter a Premier League club's bubble, he will be granted an exemption by the Football Association for attending matches and training.\n\nHe will still have to serve a quarantine period outside of those environments, which will last five days.\n\nFormer Chelsea midfielder Lampard guided them to fourth place and the FA Cup final in his first season in charge, and a 3-1 win against Leeds in early December put the club top of the Premier League.\n\nHowever, the Blues have suffered five defeats in their past eight league games, as many as they had in their previous 23.\n\nIn a statement, Chelsea said: \"This has been a very difficult decision, and not one that the owner and the board have taken lightly.\n\n\"We are grateful to Frank for what he has achieved in his time as head coach of the club. However, recent results and performances have not met the club's expectations, leaving the club mid-table without any clear path to sustained improvement.\n\n\"There can never be a good time to part ways with a club legend such as Frank, but after lengthy deliberation and consideration it was decided a change is needed now to give the club time to improve performances and results this season.\"\n\nOwner Roman Abramovich said Lampard's status as an \"important icon\" of the club \"remains undiminished\" despite his dismissal.\n\n\"This was a very difficult decision for the club, not least because I have an excellent personal relationship with Frank and I have the utmost respect for him,\" said Abramovich.\n\n\"He is a man of great integrity and has the highest of work ethics. However, under current circumstances we believe it is best to change managers.\"\n\nLampard did not sign a single player during his first season as the club were operating under a transfer embargo, but spent more than £200m on seven major signings last summer, including £45m on Leicester's Ben Chilwell and £71m on midfielder Kai Havertz from Bayer Leverkusen.\n\nIt is the most Chelsea have spent in one summer, eclipsing the £186m they invested at the start of the 2017-18 season.\n\nLampard is Chelsea's all-time record scorer, with 211 goals for the club between 2001 and 2014, and is also joint-seventh on the list of most capped England players, having made 106 appearances for his country over 15 years from 1999.\n\nDuring his 13 seasons as a player at Stamford Bridge, he made 648 appearances and won 11 major trophies - including four Premier League titles and the 2012 Champions League.\n\nHis first managerial job was at Derby. In his one season in charge, they reached the Championship play-off final, where they lost to Aston Villa.\n\nLampard became the 10th full-time manager appointed by Abramovich since the billionaire bought the club in 2003.\n\nAccording to football finance journalist Kieran Maguire, Abramovich had spent £110m on sacking managers before Lampard's dismissal.\n\nHaving finished with 66 points last season after 20 wins and 12 defeats, Chelsea have lost six times in their opening 19 league games this season.\n\nLampard's points-per-game average of 1.67 is the lowest of any permanent Chelsea manager in the Premier League. During the Abramovich era, only Andre Villas-Boas (47.5%) has a worse win rate than Lampard's 52.4%, in all competitions among permanent Chelsea bosses.\n\nIn contrast, Jose Mourinho's win rate in all competitions during his first spell in charge was 67.03%, while Sarri, Antonio Conte, Avram Grant, Carlo Ancelotti and Claudio Ranieri all had win rates over 60%.\n\nAnalysis - lack of confidence among squad key to sacking\n\nLampard was sacked because the club could not see him reversing a slide in form.\n\nAfter qualifying for the Champions League last season and spending more than £200m on players in the summer, the aim this campaign was to close the gap on the leaders, but that has not been achieved.\n\nAlthough links will be made between Tuchel's heritage and the poor form of fellow Germans Kai Havertz and Timo Werner, the change was made because of the lack of confidence among the whole squad.\n\nIt is hoped that Tuchel can rejuvenate a team that is five points outside of the top four, and an announcement could be made within 24 hours.\n\nThe decision to sack Lampard was very difficult for Abramovich, who has never made a statement when changing Chelsea managers previously.\n\nIn the end, Lampard paid for his relative inexperience as a manager, which cannot be said of Tuchel.\n\nBest of reaction to Lampard sacking\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola: \"People talk about projects and ideas. They don't exist. You have to win or you will be replaced. I am not judging Chelsea's decision. I respect their decision. But our world is to win as much as possible.\n\n\"I hope to see Frank soon and go to a restaurant with him when lockdown is finished.\"\n\nTottenham boss Jose Mourinho: \"It is the brutality of football. Anything can happen in football now, every time somebody loses their job it is sad news but he is a big boy, [with] a strong personality and strong mentality.\n\n\"I am pretty sure he will be back when he wants to be back and his career will be good. I hope so.\"\n\nWest Ham boss David Moyes: \"I'm disappointed for Frank as I saw him as one of the most up and coming young English managers in the country.\n\n\"It's a big thing we try to encourage our own British managers into the big leagues, if we can. I'm sure he'll come back and learn from it.\n\n\"He did a great job last year - he did a really good job with so many youngsters coming through the academy. It seemed a little bit harder for him this year. I'm sure he'll take time off, come back and get better.\"\n\nLeicester boss Brendan Rodgers: \"Clearly I'm really sad for Frank and his staff. I know how much the club means to him.\n\n\"Looking at the squad and how young they are, they need time. He hasn't been given that time. I really feel for him. He did great at Derby.\n\n\"He had the courage to step out of an amazing career and could have taken an easier route. It was a job he couldn't turn down, even though he didn't have a lot of experience.\n\n\"Results haven't been what he would have wanted, but I feel it's a job that needed time.\"\n\nCrystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson: \"It saddens me. I thought he did an excellent job last season. I was rather hoping that the idol of the fans and Chelsea legend that he is, he'd get a longer shot than 18 months.\n\n\"Managers who have had short stays at Chelsea have gone on to have good careers elsewhere. When you're sacked for the first time, it is a devastating blow. There's no doubt he has a pedigree to be a very good manager.\"\n\nFormer Chelsea striker Chris Sutton speaking on BBC 5 Live's Monday Night Club: \"It is 52 days since Chelsea were top of the Premier League and 48 days ago that Chelsea had been on an unbeaten run of 17 games.\n\n\"So in the space of 48 days the owner has decided to write Frank Lampard off. How are we ever going to know if Frank Lampard is a good manager? You only every really learn about people and their characteristics and traits when they go through a little bit of adversity and Frank has gone through a little bit of adversity.\n\n\"Frank has basically been sacked for the owner's expectations. I feel sorry for Frank because he is a club legend.\n\n\"They are five points off fourth place, but the bottom line is that the owner wants to win the Premier League and that was always going to be the pressure.\n\n\"Chelsea should have been more loyal. We know the owner's track record - he is ruthless, he is brutal and guillotined Frank.\"\n\nScott G: Been a Chelsea fan since Nevin, Speedie and Dixon and admit I've enjoyed all the success money has brought us over the last 20 years. However, there's a sadness about that decision. Some things money can't buy. #SuperFrank\n\nFil Harris: Isn't the whole point of appointing a younger manager to give him time to build and develop? Craziness from Chelsea to sack Lampard after such a short time.\n\nSimon Kirk: Been a Chelsea fan since 1969 and have never been so annoyed at a sacking of a Chelsea manager. He needed at least another 18 months. Shame on you Abramovich and the Chelsea board for supporting such a decision.\n\nRyan Howard: I find it such a weird sacking - a month or so ago Chelsea were in a nice groove, Zouma and Silva were scoring and keeping clean sheets, now after one bad run he gets sacked. Chelsea could be a world-class club if they just gave a manager proper time to build a team.\n\nPeter Josi: Chelsea are totally right to sack Lampard, he lacked the experience or coaching prowess to lead the side. The next phase should start with an investigation into our transfer policy and how our last two record signings turned out to be flops.\n\nThomas Wilson: Why are people surprised Lampard was sacked? Chelsea have been ruthlessly successful for 15 years. They are not going to suddenly resort to being generously unsuccessful because of a club legend being at the helm.\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Sunday's fourth-round ties are", "Janet Yellen has been confirmed as the first ever female US treasury secretary in a Senate vote.\n\nMs Yellen, who headed the US central bank from 2014 to 2018, earlier won bipartisan support from members of the Senate Finance Committee.\n\nShe will be responsible for guiding the Biden administration's economic response to the pandemic.\n\nThe US is struggling to rebound economically from the hit caused by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nAt her confirmation hearing on 19 January, Ms Yellen urged Congress to approve trillions more in pandemic relief and economic stimulus, saying that lawmakers should \"act big\" without worrying about national debt.\n\nIn response, Republican senators warned the former Federal Reserve head this was not the time for \"a laundry list\" of liberal reforms.\n\nMs Yellen disagreed, highlighting the fact that many families whose incomes have fallen were not reached by jobless programmes. She argued that plans to raise taxes must be seen in the context of financing bigger investments necessary to make the US economy competitive.\n\n\"The focus now is not on tax increases. It is on programmes to help us get through the pandemic,\" she stressed.\n\nJanet Yellen was previously chair of the US Federal Reserve. She was known for focusing more attention on the impact of the central bank's policies on workers and the costs of America's rising inequality.\n\nBefore then-President Barack Obama named her to lead the Fed in 2014, she had served as one of its board members for a decade, including four years as vice-chair.\n\nJanet Yellen speaking at a press conference in 2017 as US Federal Reserve Chair\n\nDonald Trump bucked Washington tradition when he opted not to appoint Ms Yellen to a second four-year term at the Fed.\n\nHowever, her climb to the top of the economics profession had made her a feminist icon in the economics world.\n\nWhen she left the Fed in 2018, many paid tribute to her leadership by imitating her signature look of a blazer with a popped collar.\n\nMs Yellen is seen as someone able to satisfy both progressive and centrist members of Mr Biden's Democratic party. Her nomination to lead the Fed in 2014 won support from some Republicans.\n\nHer focus on employment, rather than inflation, gave her a reputation of favouring low interest rates, which spur economic activity by making it less expensive to borrow money.\n\nBut under her leadership, the Fed raised interest rates for the first time since 2008 - albeit less aggressively than some more conservative commentators supported.\n\nHer stewardship of that process has won praise on Wall Street, even as it remains hotly debated.", "Twitter is asking its users for help in combating fake news.\n\nIt has announced a pilot that allows people to submit notes on tweets that may be false or misleading.\n\nThe initiative, named 'Birdwatch', is being trialled among a small group in the US initially. The firm acknowledged the new system would have to be \"resistant to manipulation attempts\".\n\nCompanies like Twitter are looking at how they can better moderate their platforms.\n\nTwitter said on Monday: \"We know this might be messy and have problems at times, but we believe this is a model worth trying.\"\n\nTwitter, along with other large social media companies, has struggled to deal with disinformation on its platform.\n\nThe pilot will allow users to flag tweets they believe to be \"misleading or false\", provide evidence to the contrary and discuss them with other - on a separate 'Birdwatch' site.\n\nAdditional notes and flags would then be placed on to content.\n\nTwitter says this new approach could help it respond more quickly when misleading information spreads.\n\n\"Eventually we aim to make notes visible directly on Tweets for the global Twitter audience, when there is consensus from a broad and diverse set of contributors,\" Twitter said.\n\nTwitter already adds labels to some misleading news. For example, many of Donald Trump's false claims of voter fraud were labelled by the company.\n\nTwitter also reserves the right to remove tweets - and in extreme circumstances ban users - which it did with the US president after the riots in Washington earlier this month.\n\nTwitter, though, wants to go further: \"We don't want to limit efforts to circumstances where something breaks our rules or receives widespread public attention,\" said Twitter's Vice-President Keith Coleman.\n\nParticipants will have to provide a verified phone number and email to take part, in a bid to keep bots and bad actors away, as well as having no recent rule violations against their Twitter account.\n\nPresident Biden said in his inauguration speech that: \"We must reject a culture where facts are manipulated, or even manufactured.\"\n\nJames Clayton is the BBC's North America technology reporter based in San Francisco. Follow him on Twitter @jamesclayton5.", "Parents and teachers say they are \"frustrated\" schools will be shut until the February half term and fear the impact it will have on children.\n\nSpeaking to Radio Wales' phone-in, one caller said they felt young people were being \"thrown under the bus\".\n\nOthers said they were fed up with \"bitty information\" from the Welsh Government.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said it was the \"best certainty\" he could offer \"in a world which is highly uncertain\".\n\nSo how have parents, pupils and professionals reacted to the announcement that schools may not reopen until 22 February?\n\nDr Dai Samuel welcomed the news as a consultant treating Covid patients - but as a dad he feels some \"trepidation\"\n\nDr Dai Samuel, a consultant at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant, Rhondda Cynon Taf, is also a father and lives in one of the worst-hit areas in Wales.\n\nHe said he had mixed feelings about the decision as he had \"two hats on\" - one as an NHS doctor treating Covid patients and the other as a dad.\n\n\"The hospitals are full and the ITU units only have beds now because they've expanded that capacity,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a very precarious position and I just hope that this measure now for the next three to six weeks will hopefully allow us to get through this winter, allow the vaccines to take effect and get us out of this mess come the spring and summer.\n\n\"I'm a doctor so, from a medical point of view, yes [the decision is] a massive sigh of relief, but as a father and someone who lives in Merthyr - a town that's been hit already significantly by the virus and the economical impacts of that - I've got some sort of trepidation because I fear that those businesses now that still remain closed will suffer and will go under.\n\n\"What will happen to that generation of children now who might not get the education they deserve and would have had otherwise… who won't achieve what they could have?\"\n\nTrying to home-school four young children and work is a \"challenge\", said Kaarina Rutta Reuter from Sully, Vale of Glamorgan.\n\n\"It's a challenge trying to help all four at the same time and also having in the back of your mind, 'I should also be working and doing other things',\" she said.\n\n\"I was quite sure that this was going to happen. It didn't come as a surprise I have to say, because the situation is just so bad I think there is no other way out of it at the moment. I just wish we had known earlier on and it would have been easier to plan.\"\n\nThe pressures of juggling home-schooling with her career mean she is working at night when the children have gone to bed.\n\n\"I don't even try to work during the day with the children around because I've just realised it's just not possible.\n\n\"My husband is working full-time but I'm only working part-time, I'm teaching at university so I still have quite flexible hours - apart from obviously teaching hours - it just means that I have to work in the evening or over the weekend, just organise yourself differently.\"\n\nShe said it was \"best not to have too high expectations\" when it came to guessing when lockdown would end and schools would reopen.\n\n\"Like we saw in the first lockdown in spring, in the end it was quite a bit longer than we had all thought,\" she said.\n\n\"I would hope they could go back in March, that's my hope for now but I think we'll just have to wait and see what will happen with the numbers over the next few weeks, months and just take it from there really.\"\n\nA father called Ron, from Bridgend, told the phone-in with Dot Davies he was predominantly worried about the effects on children, particularly in the south Wales valleys.\n\n\"I just see children deteriorating on a regular basis. I can only speak about my own - I have a teenage daughter and her mental health, her lack of access to her school, her teachers, to her peers, will cause more harm than the virus will cause children.\n\n\"It feels like we are asking our children to donate their kidneys to the vulnerable. We are throwing them under the bus as far as I'm concerned.\"\n\nAnna, 16, who is studying for her GCSEs at Ysgol Gyfun Gwyr, Swansea, said the decision to keep schools and colleges closed was \"a big disappointment\".\n\n\"The idea of staying in the house until February fills me with dread because we've been in the house for months,\" she told Newyddion.\n\nAfter a case of Covid-19 in her school, she said she had to self-isolate, adding: \"It's been an age since I last saw my friends, went to school, and really learned.\n\n\"It's really hard. We've been back in school since Wednesday and doing everything online but it's nigh-on impossible. It's not the same.\n\n\"It's really hard to learn. There's this feeling of 'why am I even bothering?' - I really want to go back but I appreciate that might not be possible because people are dying. It's not an easy situation.\"\n\nHer mock assessments before her final assessments - which were brought in to replace exams - have been cancelled until the return to school, which she said has taken away some of the pressure.\n\n\"Without practising, there's a lot of uncertainty. What's going to be in the assessment? So, it is nice to hear they've cancelled them. It's a difficult situation so cancelling them takes a bit of the pressure off children and young people my age.\"\n\nMother-of-three Amanda Williams from Bridgend told the Local Democracy Reporting Service she was glad schools would remain closed and hoped it would minimise the spread of the virus.\n\n\"I don't believe schools are safe to open at the moment,\" she said.\n\n\"Until they can classify exactly what the main symptoms are in children I think it's a risk to send children back to school and it's a risk with these new variants.\"\n\nMrs Williams lives in Bridgend county borough, where infection rates are the highest among all Welsh local authority areas. One of her relatives is currently on a ventilator at Bridgend's Princess of Wales Hospital with Covid-19.\n\n\"In the last week I've heard of a lot of people passing away such as friends of friends. It's starting to get closer to home.\"\n\nSarah Curley, a maths teacher and mother of twins, also from Bridgend, said she would \"rather be in school\" but agreed schools remaining shut was the \"safest option\".\n\nShe said: \"In school each day I come into contact with 100-odd pupils and we don't wear PPE.\"\n\nMs Curley said she was glad her school, Coleg Cymunedol Y Dderwen in Bridgend, would not be welcoming students back on Monday, as originally planned, because of the area's high infection rates.\n\n\"My anxiety was through the roof around Christmas. I could see the numbers going up and I was thinking, 'I've got to go back into school next week'.\"", "A year ago, the Chinese government locked down the city of Wuhan. For weeks beforehand officials had maintained that the outbreak was under control - just a few dozen cases linked to a live animal market. But in fact the virus had been spreading throughout the city and around China.\n\nThis is the story of five critical days early in the outbreak.\n\nBy 30 December, several people had been admitted to hospitals in the central city of Wuhan, having fallen ill with high fever and pneumonia. The first known case was a man in his 70s who had fallen ill on 1 December. Many of those were connected to a sprawling live animal market, Huanan Seafood Market, and doctors had begun to suspect this wasn't regular pneumonia.\n\nSamples from infected lungs had been sent to genetic sequencing companies to identify the cause of the disease, and preliminary results had indicated a novel coronavirus similar to Sars. The local health authorities and the country's Center for Disease Control (CDC) had already been notified, but nothing had been said to the public.\n\nAlthough no-one knew it at the time, between 2,300 and 4,000 people were by now likely infected, according to a recent model by MOBS Lab at Northeastern University in Boston. The outbreak was also thought to be doubling in size every few days. Epidemiologists say that at this early part of an outbreak, each day and even each hour is critical.\n\nWuhan’s Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market was sealed off on 1 January 2020\n\nAt around 16:00 on 30 December, the head of the Emergency Department at Wuhan Central Hospital was handed the results of a test carried out by sequencing lab Capital Bio Medicals in Beijing.\n\nShe went into a cold sweat as she read the report, according to an interview given later to Chinese state media.\n\nAt the top were the alarming words: \"SARS CORONAVIRUS\". She circled them in bright red, and passed it on to colleagues over the Chinese messaging site WeChat.\n\nWithin an hour and a half, the grainy image with its large red circle reached a doctor in the hospital's ophthalmology department, Li Wenliang. He shared it with his hundreds-strong university class group, adding the warning, \"Don't circulate the message outside this group. Get your family and loved ones to take precautions.\"\n\nWhen Sars spread through southern China in late 2002 and 2003, Beijing covered up the outbreak, insisting that everything was under control. This allowed the virus to spread around the world. Beijing's response invoked international criticism and - worryingly for a regime deeply concerned about stability - anger and protests within China. Between 2002 and 2004, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) went on to infect more than 8,000 people and kill almost 800 worldwide.\n\nRobert Maguire of the WHO and a Chinese doctor visit a Sars patient in Guangzhou, China – April 2003\n\nOver the coming hours, screen shots of Li's message spread widely online. Across China, millions of people began talking about Sars online.\n\nIt would turn out that the sequencers made a mistake - this was not Sars, but a new coronavirus very similar to it. But this was a critical moment. News of a possible outbreak had escaped.\n\nThe Wuhan Health Commission was already aware that there was something going on in the city's hospitals. That day, officials from the National Health Commission in Beijing arrived, and lung samples were sent to at least five state labs in Wuhan and Beijing to sequence the virus in parallel.\n\nNow, as messages suggesting the possible return of Sars began flying over Chinese social media, the Wuhan Health Commission sent two orders out to hospitals. It instructed them to report all cases direct to the Health Commission, and told them not to make anything public without authorisation.\n\nWithin 12 minutes, these orders were leaked online.\n\nIt might have taken a couple more days for the online chatter to make the leap from Chinese-speaking social media to the wider world if it wasn't for the efforts of veteran epidemiologist Marjorie Pollack.\n\nThe deputy editor of ProMed-mail, an organisation which sends out alerts on disease outbreaks worldwide, received an email from a contact in Taiwan, asking if she knew anything about the chatter online.\n\nDr Marjorie Pollack is an epidemiologist based in New York\n\nBack in February 2003, ProMed had been the first to break the news of Sars. Now, Pollack had deja vu. \"My reaction was: 'We're in trouble,'\" she told the BBC.\n\nThree hours later, she had finished writing an emergency post, requesting more information on the new outbreak. It was sent out to ProMed's approximately 80,000 subscribers at one minute to midnight.\n\nAs word began to spread, Professor George F Gao, director general of China's Center for Disease Control [CDC], was receiving offers of help from contacts around the world.\n\nChina revamped its infectious disease infrastructure after Sars - and in 2019, Gao had promised that China's vast online surveillance system would be able to prevent another outbreak like it.\n\nBut two scientists who contacted Gao say the CDC head did not seem alarmed.\n\n\"I sent a really long text to George Gao, offering to send a team out and do anything to support them,\" Dr Peter Daszak, the president of New York-based infectious diseases research group EcoHealth Alliance, told the BBC. But he says that all he received in reply was a short message wishing him Happy New Year.\n\nDirector of the Chinese Center for Disease Control, George F Gao – 22 January 2020\n\nEpidemiologist Ian Lipkin of Columbia University in New York was also trying to reach Gao. Just as he was having dinner to ring in the New Year, Gao returned his call. The details Lipkin reveals about their conversation offer new insights into what leading Chinese officials were prepared to say at this critical point.\n\n\"He had identified the virus. It was a new coronavirus. And it was not highly transmissible. This didn't really resonate with me because I'd heard that many, many people had been infected,\" Lipkin told the BBC. \"I don't think he was duplicitous, I think he was just wrong.\"\n\nLipkin says he thinks Gao should have released the sequences they had already obtained. My view is that you get it out. This is too important to hesitate.\"\n\nGao, who refused the BBC's requests for an interview, has told state media that the sequences were released as soon as possible, and that he never said publicly that there was no human-to-human transmission.\n\nThat day, the Wuhan Health Commission issued a press release stating that 27 cases of viral pneumonia had been identified, but that there was no clear evidence of human to human transmission.\n\nIt would be a further 12 days before China shared the genetic sequences with the international community.\n\nThe Chinese government refused multiple interview requests by the BBC. Instead, it gave us detailed statements on China's response, which state that in the fight against Covid-19 China \"has always acted with openness, transparency and responsibility, and … in a timely manner.\"\n\nBBC This World's 54 Days: China and the pandemic can be seen on BBC Two at 21:00 GMT on Tuesday 26 January, or 23:30 on Monday 1 February (except BBC Two Northern Ireland). Or watch on BBC iPlayer.\n\nPart two - 54 Days: America and the Pandemic - will be on BBC Two on Tuesday 2 February at 21:00.\n\nInternational law stipulates that new infectious disease outbreaks of global concern be reported to the World Health Organization within 24 hours. But on 1 January the WHO still had not had official notification of the outbreak. The previous day, officials there had spotted the ProMed post and reports online, so they contacted China's National Health Commission.\n\n\"It was reportable,\" says Professor Lawrence Gostin, Director of the WHO Collaborating Center on national and global health law at Georgetown University in Washington DC, and a member of the International Health Regulations roster of experts. \"The failure to report clearly was a violation of the International Health Regulations.\"\n\nDr Maria Van Kerkhove, a WHO epidemiologist who would become the agency's Covid-19 technical lead, joined the first of many emergency conference calls in the middle of the night on 1 January.\n\n\"We had the assumptions initially that it may be a new coronavirus. For us it wasn't a matter of if human to human transmission was happening, it was what is the extent of it and where is that happening.\"\n\nIt was two days before China responded to the WHO. But what they revealed was vague - that there were now 44 cases of viral pneumonia of unknown cause.\n\nChina says that it communicated regularly and fully with the WHO from 3 January. But recordings of internal WHO meetings obtained by the Associated Press (AP) news agency some of which were shared with PBS Frontline and the BBC, paint a different picture, revealing the frustration that senior WHO officials felt by the following week.\n\n\"'There's been no evidence of human to human transmission' is not good enough. We need to see the data,\" Mike Ryan WHO's health emergencies programme director is heard saying.\n\nThe WHO was legally required to state the information it had been provided by China. Although they suspected human to human transmission, the WHO were not able to confirm this for a further three weeks.\n\n\"Those concerns are not something they ever aired publicly. Instead, they basically deferred to China,\" says AP's Dake Kang. \"Ultimately, the impression that the rest of the world got was just what the Chinese authorities wanted. Which is that everything was under control. Which of course it wasn't.\"\n\nThe number of people infected by the virus was doubling in size every few days, and more and more people were turning up at Wuhan's hospitals.\n\nBut now - instead of allowing doctors to share their concerns publicly - state media began a campaign that effectively silenced them.\n\nOn 2 January, China Central Television ran a story about the doctors who spread the news about an outbreak four days earlier. The doctors, referred to only as \"rumour mongers\" and \"internet users\", were brought in for questioning by the Wuhan Public Security Bureau and 'dealt with' 'in accordance with the law'.\n\nOne of the doctors was Li Wenliang, the eye doctor whose warning had gone viral. He signed a confession. In February, the doctor died of Covid-19.\n\nThe Chinese government says that this is not evidence that it was trying to suppress news of the outbreak, and that doctors like Li were being urged not to spread unconfirmed information.\n\nBut the impact of this public dressing down was critical. For though it was becoming apparent to doctors that there was, in fact, human-to-human transmission, they were prevented from going public.\n\nA health worker from Li's hospital, Wuhan Central, told us that over the next few days \"there were so many people who had a fever. It was out of control. We started to panic. [But] The hospital told us that we were not allowed to speak to anyone.\"\n\nThe Chinese government told us that \"it takes a rigorous scientific process to determine if a new virus can be transmitted from person to person\".\n\nThe authorities would continue to maintain for a further 18 days that there was no human-to-human transmission.\n\nLabs across the country were racing to map the complete genetic sequence of the virus. Among them was a renowned virologist in Shanghai, Professor Zhang Yongzhen who began sequencing on 3 January.\n\nAfter having worked for two days straight, he obtained a complete sequence. His results revealed a virus that was similar to Sars, and therefore likely transmissible.\n\nOn 5 January, Zhang's office wrote to the National Health Commission advising taking precautionary measures in public places.\n\n\"On that very day, he was working to try and get information released as soon as possible, so the rest of the world could see what it was and so we could get diagnostics going\", says Zhang's research partner, Professor Edward Holmes an evolutionary virologist at the University of Sydney.\n\nBut Zhang could not make his findings public. On January 3, the National Health Commission had sent a secret memorandum to labs banning unauthorised scientists from working on the virus and disclosing the information to the public.\n\n\"What the notice effectively did,\" says AP's Dake Kang, \"is it silenced individual scientists and laboratories from revealing information about this virus and potentially allowing word of it to leak out to the outside world and alarm people.\"\n\nNone of the labs went public with the genetic sequence of the virus. China continued to maintain it was viral pneumonia with no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission.\n\nIt would be six days before it announced that the new virus was a coronavirus, and even then, it did not share any genetic sequences to allow other countries to develop tests and begin tracing the spread of the virus.\n\nThree days later, on 11 January, Zhang decided it was time to put his neck on the line. As he boarded a plane between Beijing and Shanghai, he authorised Holmes to release the sequence.\n\nThe decision came at a personal cost - his lab was closed the next day for \"rectification\" - but his action broke the deadlock. The next day state scientists released the sequences they had obtained. The international scientific community swung into action, and a toolkit for a diagnostic test was publicly available by 13 January.\n\nDespite the evidence from scientists and doctors, China would not confirm there was human-to-human transmission until 20 January.\n\nIllustration of spike proteins (red) of Covid-19 binding with receptors (blue) on a target human cell\n\nAt the beginning of any emerging disease outbreak, says health law expert Lawrence Gostin, it's always chaotic. \"It was always going to be very difficult to control this virus, from day one. But by the time we knew [the international community] it was transmissible human to human, I think the cat was already out the bag, it already spread.\n\n\"That was the shot we had, and we lost it.\"\n\nAs Wang Linfa, a bat virologist at Duke-Nus Medical School in Singapore, says: \"January 20th is the dividing line, before that the Chinese could have done much better. After that, the rest of the world should be really on high alert and do much better.\"", "Harriet Tubman was a spy and a nurse for the Union during the US Civil War\n\nThe Biden administration has said it will seek to push forward a plan to make anti-slavery activist Harriet Tubman the face of a new $20 bill.\n\nA note featuring Ms Tubman, who was born a slave in about 1822, was originally due to be unveiled in 2020.\n\nThe US Treasury said she would replace former President Andrew Jackson, a slave owner.\n\nBut the effort was delayed under former President Donald Trump, who branded it \"pure political correctness\".\n\nNow President Joe Biden has revived the project, with White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki telling reporters the Treasury was \"exploring ways to speed up\" the process.\n\nThe move would make Ms Tubman the first African American to appear on a US banknote, and the first woman for more than 100 years.\n\n\"It's important that our notes, our money - if people don't know what a note is - reflect the history and diversity of our country, and Harriet Tubman's image gracing the new $20 note would certainly reflect that,\" Ms Psaki said on Monday.\n\nA mock-up of the new $20 note\n\nThe women last depicted on US notes were former First Lady Martha Washington, on the $1 silver certificate from 1891 to 1896, and Native American Pocahontas, in a group image on the $20 bill from 1865 to 1869.\n\nHowever, given the complexities of redesigning and producing US banknotes, the bill is not expected to be released any time soon.\n\nIn 2019, Mr Trump's Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin, said the redesign would be delayed until at least 2026. At the time, he said he was focused on redesigning bills to address counterfeiting issues, not making changes to their imagery.\n\nMr Trump, an admirer of his populist predecessor Andrew Jackson - whose portrait hung in his office - expressed opposition to the redesign.\n\nWhile campaigning in 2016, Mr Trump suggested that Ms Tubman be put on the $2 bill instead.\n\nBorn into slavery in about 1822, Ms Tubman grew up working in the cotton fields in Dorchester County, Maryland. She was the fourth of nine children born to two enslaved parents, Benjamin Ross and Harriet Rit.\n\nAs a teenager, she was hit in the head by an iron weight thrown by an overseer, leaving her severely injured.\n\nShe escaped from a slave plantation in 1849, fleeing north to the neighbouring state of Pennsylvania.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How Harriet Tubman escaped slavery and then helped others to do so.\n\nIn the years that followed, Ms Tubman returned multiple times to Maryland to rescue others, conducting them along the so-called \"underground railroad\", a network of safe houses used to spirit slaves from the south to the free states in the north.\n\nShe is estimated to have made some 13 missions to rescue more than 70 enslaved people, including family and friends, using the network.\n\nLater, she became a spy for the Union Army during the Civil War, a prominent supporter of the women's suffrage movement, and a famous veteran of the struggle for the abolition of slavery.\n\nAfter the war, Ms Tubman toured eastern cities giving speeches in support of women's suffrage, drawing on her experiences in the fight against slavery.\n\nShe died in 1913, aged 91, surrounded by her family.", "Sunderland-based Hays Travel took over Thomas Cook's stores and staff in 2019\n\nTravel firm Hays Travel is to close 89 of its 535 shops following a review into its take over of Thomas Cook.\n\nThe Sunderland-based firm bought the collapsed company in October 2019 and deferred a review into the performance of its shops until 2021.\n\nA Hays Travel spokeswoman said the third national lockdown and travel ban meant \"the company had to act\".\n\nShe said 388 staff affected by the closures would be offered \"alternative work options\" to minimise redundancies.\n\nChief operating officer Jonathon Woodall said the \"first priority\" was to \"look after our customers\" and ensure \"the highest standards of customer service\".\n\nHe added that the firm was \"continuing with our robust two-year business plan and continue to be ready for the bounce back when it comes\".\n\nDame Irene Hays said business had not bounced back as had been hoped\n\nDame Irene Hays, owner and chair of the Sunderland-based firm, said it was \"always our intention to review the performance of our shops at the end of the licence period\".\n\n\"We had hoped the business would bounce back in January and it has not,\" she said.\n\n\"We have done everything we could to safeguard jobs and the business thus far, and we have come up with a range of options for those at risk of redundancy to help as many colleagues as we can.\"\n\nOptions for staff include working from home or filling vacancies in other shops.\n\nThe spokeswoman said the firm employed about 7,700 people, many of whom were \"working from home taking bookings for holidays for 2021 and beyond\".\n\nThe company has yet to confirm which of its locations will be affected.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There has been a recent investigation into mother-and-baby homes in the Republic of Ireland\n\nA report into mother-and-baby homes and Magdalene Laundries in Northern Ireland is expected to be published later.\n\nThe Stormont-commissioned research was carried out by Queen's University and Ulster University.\n\nIt examined whether a public inquiry should be held into the homes.\n\nAmnesty has estimated about 7,500 women and girls gave birth in the institutions operated by both Catholic and Protestant churches and other religious organisations.\n\nSome survivors, both unmarried pregnant mothers who were brought to the facilities and children who were later adopted, have long called for a public inquiry.\n\nThe NI Executive is currently meeting to discuss the report and its recommendations.\n\nFirst Minster Arlene Foster tweeted to say she had spoken to survivors of the homes about the report and the next steps.\n\nShe described it as \"a shameful chapter\", adding: \"Now the silence is broken and their stories have rightfully begun to be told\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Arlene Foster #WeWillMeetAgain This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said earlier that Tuesday's research \"breaks the silence\" around what happened.\n\nShe added that \"what happened was so, so wrong\", and that her thoughts were with the survivors \"who deserve answers to their many questions\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe report was commissioned by the Department of Health in 2018 and assessed the period from 1922 to 1999.\n\nIt was completed in February 2020 but was then sent to those facing criticism to give them an opportunity to reply.\n\nSolicitor Claire McKeegan, representing the group Birth Mothers and their Children for Justice NI, said many women were branded as \"fallen\" after becoming pregnant outside marriage and were forced to carry out unpaid labour.\n\nThis \"abuse\", she said, happened on both sides of the Irish border.\n\n\"The state in Northern Ireland not only permitted what happened, but also policed it,\" she added.\n\nAmnesty said there were more than a dozen mother-and-baby home and Magdalene Laundry-type institutions in NI, with the last one closing its doors as recently as 1990.\n\nPatrick Corrigan, NI programme director of Amnesty International, said the report would \"shed new light on the appalling extent and vast scale of the suffering experienced by generations of women and girls in these institutions\".\n\nThe human rights organisation has written to the first and deputy first ministers urging them to meet survivors of mother-and-baby homes.\n\n\"It's time for ministers to listen to the survivors - both the women and girls forced into the homes and the children born there,\" said Mr Corrigan.\n\nThe publication of the report in Northern Ireland comes after a similar investigation into mother-and-baby homes and laundries in the Republic of Ireland, which prompted an apology from Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Mícheál Martin.\n\nThis report found an \"appalling level of infant mortality\".\n\nAbout 9,000 children died in the 18 institutions which were investigated.\n\nMr Martin said there had been \"profound and generational wrong\", adding it was a \"dark, difficult and shameful chapter\" of Irish history.\n\nFollowing the report's publication, NI's first and deputy first ministers Arlene Foster and Michelle O'Neill met the Irish Children's Minister Roderic O'Gorman.\n\nBoth Mrs Foster and Ms O'Neill said there was a need for the executive and the Irish government to work together in sharing information and to support survivors.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Time out of school has affected some children who have not established their language skills\n\nParents in English-speaking homes whose children go to Welsh-language schools need more support during lockdown, the Welsh language commissioner has said.\n\nSome parents said time away from face-to-face schooling was affecting younger children who have not fully established their language skills.\n\nOne mother said \"not only do you not know how to help them, you don't know what the question is to start with\".\n\nThe Welsh Government said it had given guidance to Welsh-medium schools.\n\nThere are 65,000 children in Welsh-medium or bilingual primary schools across Wales.\n\nCardiff council estimated more than 70% of children in Welsh-medium education in the city did not speak Welsh at home.\n\nWelsh language commissioner Aled Roberts said any parents concerned about remote learning in should let the school and teachers know in the first instance.\n\nHowever, he said it should be ensured there were \"as many resources as possible to support them\" at a national level and these policies should \"recognise the huge investment that these people are making [into] Welsh-medium education\".\n\nAngela Crabtree said her nine-year-old daughter Ffion had to help her younger sisters\n\nAngela Crabtree, from Caerphilly, said her daughters were partly reliant on her eldest child Ffion to translate Welsh schoolwork.\n\nMs Crabtree, who is on furlough, said keeping up Welsh-language skills had been a challenge for her three daughters, Ffion, Natalie and Chloe, who go to Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Caerffili.\n\n\"It's hard if they ask you a question, not only do you not know how to help them, you don't know what the question is to start with,\" she said.\n\nNatalie and Chloe are partly reliant on their older sister Ffion to translate Welsh work during lockdown\n\n\"The school has been really good in sending things back bilingually, but I've still got the challenge of trying to make sure that the girls look at the Welsh first.\n\n\"Off the back of the first lockdown I think what suffered most was their Welsh language, especially the middle child, going from the infants to the juniors - her Welsh comprehension fell behind a bit.\"\n\nLisa Jane Thomas, from Cardiff, said she was concerned her youngest child, who attends a Welsh-medium school, was going to be disadvantaged.\n\n\"These are really critical stages and to have so much timeout, it does worry me that may be putting her back [and] is going to make it more difficult for her longer term,\" she said.\n\nMs Thomas said she felt there \"ought to be more recognition\" and more could be offered to help parents and children.\n\nYsgol Gynradd Gymraeg Caerffili headteacher Lynn Griffiths said parents make a \"conscious decision\" to send children to Welsh-medium schools\n\nHead teacher of Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Caerffili, Lynn Griffiths, said of almost 440 pupils at the school, three families spoke to him about issues with Welsh-language learning.\n\nMr Griffiths said it was \"a rarity\" after one family that chose not to send their child back to the school this year, while the two other \"listened to what support we can provide them to enable them to do the best for their children\".\n\n\"But also let's not forget our parents have made a conscious decision to send their children to a Welsh medium school because they want their children to be fully bilingual and the advantages that will give them,\" he said.\n\nCampaign group Parents for Welsh medium education said it was launching new website end of this month to help parents by collating Welsh language resources in one place, due to the extra pressure of lockdown home-schooling.\n\nElin Maher, who is a part of the group, said: \"Obviously, we do acknowledge that acquiring language is done best in the classroom, with the teacher at the front and to be surrounded by the language - we want to reassure parents that the language will be there.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government, which has a target of one million people speaking Welsh by 2050, said it appreciated the challenges all parents faced with learning at home.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We have provided guidance to schools to help them during the pandemic, which includes dedicated support for Welsh-medium learners whose families don't speak Welsh.\n\n\"This includes advice for parents and carers on how they can support their children to use the Welsh language while at home.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Maaike Neuféglise said she found blood on the floor of her shop alongside upturned stands and damaged equipment\n\nThe Dutch government says it will not lift a curfew, after a third night of violent protests against increased Covid curbs across the Netherlands.\n\nShops in Rotterdam and other cities were looted and Finance Minister Wopke Hoekstra said: \"It's scum doing this\". More than 180 arrests have been made.\n\nThe Dutch chief of police said the riots no longer had \"anything to do with the basic right to demonstrate\".\n\nThe criminal violence had to stop, said Prime Minister Mark Rutte.\n\nShop-owners in Rotterdam, Den Bosch and other cities spent Tuesday morning cleaning up the debris from Monday night's violence.\n\nRotterdam Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb sent a passionate message to \"shameless thieves\" who had caused the damage: \"Does it make you feel good that you've helped ruin your city? To wake up with a bag full of stolen stuff beside you?\"\n\nA night-time curfew from 21:00 (20:00 GMT) to 04:30 was imposed last Saturday to halt the spread of the virus. Anyone caught violating it faces a €95 (£84) fine. Mr Hoekstra said they would not \"capitulate to a few idiots\" and anyone who caused damage should be tracked down and be made to pay for it.\n\nSome of the worst damage was caused in the southern city of Den Bosch\n\nThe Netherlands has had nearly a million confirmed Covid cases since the start of the outbreak, with more than 13,500 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University in the US, which is tracking the pandemic.\n\nRiot police clashed with protesters in Rotterdam and Amsterdam, as well as Amersfoort, Den Bosch, Alphen and Helmond.\n\nSome of the worst disturbances were in the south of Rotterdam where police said 10 officers were hurt. Most of the rioters were youths or young men, and Amsterdam's mayor appealed to parents to keep young people indoors.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dutch police have described it as the worst unrest in four decades\n\nFires were lit on the streets of The Hague, where police on bicycles attempted to move small clusters of men who threw stones and fireworks.\n\nIn Den Bosch in the south, rioters set off fireworks, broke windows, looted a supermarket and overturned cars. A local woman told Dutch radio that masked youths had left a trail of destruction in the city centre. \"I saw windows smashed and fireworks going off. Really crazy, just like a war zone,\" she said.\n\nSeveral cities have vowed to introduce emergency measures in an effort to prevent more disturbances\n\nRoads into Den Bosch were closed to stop people joining the rioters and Mayor Jack Mikkers imposed an emergency order banning gatherings on Tuesday.\n\nThe region's chief prosecutor, Heleen Rutgers, urged parents to ensure teenagers stayed at home. \"Start talking about how to respond to calls on social media to go and turn up somewhere,\" she told public broadcaster NOS.\n\nIn some southern cities, such as Maastricht and Breda, football fans marched through the centres promising to protect them from rioters. Ex-football international Robin van Persie appealed to people in Rotterdam to keep \"our beautiful city\" intact.\n\nThe ignition of discontent has rocked the core of Dutch society.\n\nIn the absence of any legitimate way to socialise, is this simply an outlet for young men to feel part of something, their masks concealing their identities and enabling them to violently channel their frustrations?\n\nThere are more sinister influences at play. Messages on social media, overt and covert, have whipped up anger. Misinformation has even been spread by some politicians.\n\nSome of the worst violence was in Rotterdam\n\nSome feared a curfew would be a tipping point, as Dutch restrictions tighten while some neighbouring countries relax their rules. The vast majority of people in the Netherlands are peacefully observing the curfew.\n\nThe unrest was initially seen as a response to the first \"stay-at-home\" order imposed since Nazi occupation during World War Two. That notion has been dismissed by Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who said the rioters were simply criminals and would be treated as such.\n\nBut there are simmering anxieties in Dutch towns and cities, and with less than two months before a general election, voters are vulnerable and the streets volatile.\n\nThere has been widespread shock at the violence. In Rotterdam, where police used water cannon against the rioters, the mayor signed an emergency decree, giving police broader powers of arrest.\n\nThe prime minister said the police had the government's full support: \"The riots have nothing to do with protesting or fighting for freedom.\"\n\nRotterdam shop-owner Emrah Köker said he had no words for what he had seen. \"How can this happen in the Netherlands?\" he asked Dutch daily newspaper Algemeen Dagblad. The justice minister said he challenged anyone to explain what looting a shop had to do with coronavirus.\n\nIn Den Bosch, Maaike Neuféglise said the damage to her shop was heartbreaking and ran into thousands of euros. \"Everything's ruined. I saw the videos, it was a complete invasion. There must have been 40 people in our store,\" she told broadcaster Omroep Brabant.\n\nThe city's mayor said police had struggled to respond to the violence because they were needed in other nearby towns.", "Claudia Marsh was a volunteer for an eating disorder charity which had helped her in the past\n\nAn \"incredible\" recently-qualified teacher has died with coronavirus on her 25th birthday.\n\nClaudia Marsh's death was described as \"sudden and unexpected\" by a charity which had helped her recover from an eating disorder several years ago.\n\nShe had gone on to volunteer for the organisation and became a \"beacon of hope\" for others.\n\nHer mother Tina Marsh, from Heswall in Wirral, said she was \"very proud\" and \"blown away\" by the many tributes.\n\nWriting on Facebook, Ms Marsh said she was a \"beautiful daughter and incredible sister\" who was selfless in her work for Merseyside-based charities Talking Eating Disorders (TEDS) and The Whitechapel Centre.\n\nShe said: \"She loved giving back to people less fortunate than herself.\"\n\nFamily friend Leigh Best, who founded TEDS, described the death as \"heartbreaking\".\n\nShe added: \"Claudia was very special, kind, caring and a dedicated teacher.\n\n\"She supported countless families across the UK. Claudia made her own little packs to give out to others with eating disorders with positive affirmations.\n\n\"She was full of positivity, kindness and hope, and had a smile that would brighten up the whole room.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Whitechapel Centre, where Claudia also volunteered, said staff were \"devastated\", adding she would leave behind a \"legacy of care, dedication and enthusiasm\".\n\nThe charity said she put all of her time and energy into providing food and clothing to those who needed it during the pandemic.\n\n\"Claudia always put others before herself and her memory will live on through the impact and contribution she made to our organisation,\" the centre said.\n\n\"She was instrumental in bringing together our volunteer community.\"\n\nMs Marsh has set up an online fundraising page for the two charities, which has already garnered more than £10,000.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It wasn't normal when the prime minister stood at the lectern in Downing Street's wood-panelled State Dining Room and announced that four people had died from coronavirus on 9 March last year.\n\nIt wasn't normal, that day, when he announced the obscure-sounding virus was a global pandemic that, in the 21st Century, the UK government would struggle to contain.\n\nIt was unprecedented, in peacetime, when, on 23 March, Boris Johnson instructed the country to stay at home.\n\nIt was shocking when, on 28 March, official figures reported more than 1,000 cases in a single day.\n\nA few weeks later, there were sharp intakes of breath when the UK government's chief scientific adviser told MPs, and all of us, that keeping the numbers of deaths down to around 20,000 would be a \"good outcome\".\n\nIt wasn't normal when the Treasury started paying the wages of millions of people to prevent hardship on a vast scale.\n\nIt wasn't normal when planes stayed on the ground, roads and trains emptied.\n\nIt certainly wasn't normal when classrooms fell largely silent, or when the nooks and crannies of Westminster, usually full of intrigue, emptied.\n\nBut in that new strangeness it became normal, week after week, for millions of us to stand in the street, on balconies or on doorsteps to express thanks to those who care for us.\n\nAnd there is now an emerging routine of the most vulnerable rolling up their sleeves, sometimes in front of the cameras, for vaccines that offer at least part of the route to the future.\n\nYet the daily publication of the numbers of people who have died because of Covid has become an all-too-familiar rhythm.\n\nIn the middle of the afternoon, every day, the latest total emerges. A previously unimaginable communication has become a regular part of the country's conversation.\n\nBut today that number has reached a terrible height. Every one of those 100,000 lives lost leaves its own story, and sorrow, behind.\n\nThis miserable landmark is a moment to remember, maybe, that what has happened in the last year, to our politics, to us all is not normal at all.", "Pictures of the funeral have led to criticism from unionists\n\nPolice have begun an investigation into potential breaches of Covid-19 regulations at the funeral of an IRA man in Londonderry.\n\nEamon McCourt, 62, who reportedly died with Covid-19, was buried on Monday.\n\nUnder current Covid-19 restrictions funerals in Northern Ireland are limited to 25 people.\n\nThe police said a \"significant number of people\" had gathered, in a manner \"likely to be in breach\" of the coronavirus regulations.\n\nPSNI Ch Supt Darrin Jones said anyone found in breach of public health regulations would be reported to the Public Prosecution Service.\n\nHe said police had \"engaged with representatives of the family of the deceased, the local church and local political representatives\", prior to the funeral.\n\n\"As a result, police were given a number of assurances as to the conduct of the funeral, and that people would seek to pay their respects to the deceased from outside their homes rather than gather at the funeral.\"\n\nPictures of the leading republican's funeral show men in white shirts and black ties flanking the cortege and dozens of others behind them.\n\nCh Supt Jones added: \"Regrettably at the funeral on Monday morning, a significant number of people gathered as part of the cortège, in a manner likely to be in breach of the health protection regulations.\"\n\nUnionist politicians had called on the police to act after images circulated online of mourners.\n\nDUP MLA Gary Middleton said those who had abided by Covid-19 restrictions would view the scenes from the funeral \"with dismay\".\n\nHe said it was \"hard to put into words the sheer recklessness of those involved\".\n\n\"Within republicanism it seems that certain individuals are viewed as being more important than public health regulations,\" Mr Middleton said.\n\n\"In those minds the reality of Covid-19 has not been brought home, or at the very least it is viewed as less important than having a public display at a funeral.\n\n\"Such sights are most painful for relatives who have recognised the need for such painful restrictions to be put in place and have abided by them.\"\n\n\"Eamon 'Peggy' McCourt who passed away on Saturday morning was buried from his family home in Creggan, a right accredited to us all.\n\n\"However, it was evident that social-distancing measures and permitted mourner numbers were completely ignored by those in attendance.\n\n\"Again, the majority of people in Northern Ireland who have followed lockdown measures since March 2020 are asking themselves why can republicans do whatever they like?\"\n\nHe called on the police to explain why such \"a large funeral procession was permitted to take place and what actions will follow\".\n\nIn a statement, Sinn Féin said: \"Everyone has a responsibility to follow the public health guidelines.\n\n\"Sinn Féin held its own tribute to his memory online.\"\n\nIn June last year, about 1,800 people attended the funeral of leading IRA member Bobby Storey in west Belfast.\n\nAmong them was Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill, the Sinn Féin vice-president, who later admitted the public health message had been undermined.\n\nIn May, Assistant Chief Constable Alan Todd said there had been social-distancing breaches at funerals in Northern Ireland in both the unionist and nationalist communities.\n\nThis story was amended on 27 January 2021 to remove the phrase 'IRA veteran'. Whilst referring to Mr McCourt's long history in republicanism, we accept the phrase was open to misinterpretation.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe mother of a 15-year-old boy attacked by a group of youths said she heard the gunshots that killed him.\n\nKeon Lincoln was \"set upon\" at about 15:30 GMT on Thursday on Linwood Road in Handsworth, Birmingham, and died later in hospital, police said.\n\nIn an emotional appeal, Sharmaine Lincoln pleaded with the local community to \"help us understand why this has happened\".\n\nFive teenage boys have so far been arrested over his death.\n\nA post-mortem examination revealed Keon was shot and stabbed to death.\n\nKeon Lincoln's mother said not a day would go by when she would not hear her son's \"unbelievable\" laugh\n\nRemembering that afternoon, Ms Lincoln said: \"I heard the gunshots and my first instinct was, 'Where's my son?'\n\n\"A few minutes went by, we heard somebody was in the road and it was my boy.\"\n\nWest Midlands Police arrested three teenagers over the weekend on suspicion of Keon's murder - a 14-year-old boy from Birmingham and two others, aged 15 and 16, at an address in Walsall.\n\nThis is in addition to two 14-year-old boys arrested on Friday, one of whom remains in custody and the other released under investigation.\n\n\"The community needs to step up and put themselves in the shoes of the family,\" police say\n\nDet Ch Insp Alastair Orencas, from West Midlands Police, said the attack on Keon was \"the most pointless use of extreme violence I've witnessed in my 24 years in the police force\".\n\n\"The level of violence has not just caused shock to the family, but to hardened police officers,\" he said. \"It was an absolutely pointless attack, one I can't clear my mind of.\"\n\nThe force is appealing for information and Det Ch Insp Orencas said the community response was \"not where it should be\".\n\n\"These are multiple offenders in broad daylight. I simply don't believe there's not information out there that can help me with the inquiry,\" he said.\n\nKeon Lincoln was attacked on Linwood Road, a residential street in the Handsworth area of Birmingham\n\nMs Lincoln remembered her son as a joker, cheeky - a \"loving child with a jolly spirit\" whose \"unbelievable laugh\" would echo daily around her home.\n\n\"It doesn't make sense, the type of person Keon was, it doesn't make sense as to why someone would want to harm him or take his life in such a brutal way,\" she said.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People were vaccinated at Cwmbran Stadium on Tuesday\n\nA pledge that 70% of the over-80s would get the Covid-19 vaccine by last weekend was missed, the Welsh Government has admitted.\n\nWeather has been blamed for the problem with figures showing 96,830, or 52.8%, had their first dose.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said many over-80s felt unsafe attending appointments amid the snow and ice.\n\nThe pledge had been made by Health Minister Vaughan Gething in the Senedd, last week.\n\nBut earlier, Mr Gething said that as well as missed appointments, five mass vaccination centres were affected by the conditions and \"a range of additional GP clinics didn't go ahead\".\n\nLatest data shows almost 97,000 of the most vulnerable have had a dose - but there is a lag and it can take up to five days for doses injected to be included in the figures. At least 289,566 people have had a first dose - 9.2% of the population.\n\nThat compares to 10.6% in England, 8.6% in Northern Ireland and 8% in Scotland.\n\nMr Drakeford told First Minister's Questions earlier: \"We will not reach the 70% for over-80s because of the interruption to the programme of vaccination that happened on Sunday and on Monday morning.\n\nA pledge 70% of over-80s would be inoculated by last weekend was missed\n\n\"I won't have people over-80 feeling pressurised to come out to be vaccinated when they themselves decide that it is not safe for them to do so.\"\n\nHe said all of those people would have been offered a further opportunity to be vaccinated by the end of Wednesday.\n\nHowever, Mr Drakeford said Wales was on track to meet plans to offer everybody in the top four priority groups (those aged 70 or over) a vaccination by mid-February.\n\nAround 23,700 first doses a day would need to be given for the first four priority groups to be have a vaccine offered by 14 February.\n\nOn the latest seven day rolling average, it would take 25 days.\n\nBut Mr Davies said: \"Welsh Conservatives would have been the first to congratulate the Welsh Government and its health minister had the target been reached on Friday, but that target has been missed.\n\n\"It's the same old Labour story of taking credit when things go well but look to blame anyone and everything else when it goes wrong.\"\n\nIn the Senedd, he accused the government of running a \"postcode lottery\" for vaccinations, which Mr Drakeford denied.\n\nThe first minister said figures had gone from 162,000 people being vaccinated last week to 230,000 this Tuesday.\n\nHe said that was \"the fastest rate of increase in any part of the United Kingdom\", and accused Mr Davies of wanting to \"run it down\".\n\n\"He leads a Conservative party in Wales, which has reverted to its 19th Century type - for Wales, see England.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth said he did not think \"blaming snow over the weekend holds water\".\n\n\"Snow did cause problems in certain areas but the problem was that you were still on 24% of over-80s in the middle of last week. There was too high a mountain to climb,\" he added.\n\nBut Mr Gething said the weather was an \"obvious factor\" on both Sunday and Monday.\n\nIn a statement, he said more than 11,000 care home residents - 67% of the priority group - had received their first vaccine dose.\n\nOver 65% of Welsh Ambulance Service staff had also taken up the offer of a vaccine.\n\n\"We have seen a significant escalation in the pace of vaccine deployment here in Wales over the last couple of weeks,\" he told Members of the Senedd (MSs).", "Leaders in the US House of Representatives have officially delivered their article of impeachment against former President Donald Trump to the Senate, the first step in beginning his trial.\n\nRead more: Trump impeachment trial delayed until next month", "Anyone entering Australia has to undergo a mandatory 14-day hotel quarantine\n\nAustralia is unlikely to fully open its borders in 2021 even if most of its population gets vaccinated this year as planned, says a senior health official.\n\nThe comments dampen hopes raised by airlines that travel to and from the country could resume as early as July.\n\nDepartment of Health Secretary Brendan Murphy made the prediction after being asked about the coronavirus' escalation in other nations.\n\nDr Murphy spearheaded Australia's early action to close its borders last March.\n\n\"I think that we'll go most of this year with still substantial border restrictions,\" he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on Monday.\n\n\"Even if we have a lot of the population vaccinated, we don't know whether that will prevent transmission of the virus,\" he said, adding that he believed quarantine requirements for travellers would continue \"for some time\".\n\nCitizens, permanent residents and those with exemptions are allowed to enter Australia if they complete a 14-day hotel quarantine at their own expense.\n\nDr Brendan Murphy (left) was Australia's chief medical officer and now leads the Department of Health\n\nQantas - Australia's national carrier - reopened bookings earlier this month, after saying it expected international travel to \"begin to restart from July 2021.\"\n\nHowever, it added this depended on the Australian government's deciding to reopen borders.\n\nThe country opened a travel bubble with neighbouring New Zealand late last year, but currently it only operates one-way with inbound flights to Australia.\n\nAustralia has also discussed the option of travel bubbles with other low-risk places such as Taiwan, Japan and Singapore.\n\nA passenger from New Zealand arriving at Sydney Airport last October\n\nA vaccination scheme is due to begin in Australia in late February. Local authorities have resisted calls to speed up the process, giving more time for regulatory approvals.\n\nAustralia has so far reported 909 deaths and about 22,000 cases, far fewer than many nations. It reported zero locally transmitted infections on Monday.\n\nExperts have attributed much of Australia's success to its swift border lockdown - which affected travellers from China as early as February - and a hotel quarantine system for people entering the country.\n\nLocal outbreaks have been caused by hotel quarantine breaches, including a second wave in Melbourne. The city's residents endured a stringent four-month lockdown last year to successfully suppress the virus.\n\nOther outbreaks - including one in Sydney which has infected about 200 people - prompted internal border closures between states, and other restrictions around Christmas time.\n\nThe state of Victoria said on Monday it would again allow entry to Sydney residents outside of designated \"hotspots\", following a decline in cases.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Travel abroad UK: How to fly during a global pandemic\n\nWhile the measures have been praised, many have also criticised them for separating families across state borders and damaging businesses.\n\nDr Murphy said overall Australia's virus response had been \"pretty good\" but he believed the nation could have introduced face masks earlier and improved its protections in aged care homes.\n\nIn recent days, Australia has granted entry to about 1,200 tennis players, staff and officials for the Australian Open. The contingent - which has recorded at least nine infections - is under quarantine.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ms Davies-Jones wanted to highlight how \"vitally important\" smear tests are\"\n\nAn MP has described how she had to have most of her cervix removed after putting off a smear test for several months.\n\nPontypridd MP Alex Davies-Jones, 31, said she was invited for her first routine screening in December 2015 and \"like so many others, I put it off\".\n\nFollowing a reminder in April 2016 she went for the cervical screening.\n\nShe wrote in the i newspaper it led to her being diagnosed with CIN3, abnormal cells and had to have surgery.\n\nIf left untreated, CIN3 can have a high chance of becoming cancerous.\n\nMs Davies-Jones wrote in the paper she was left \"without the majority of my cervix\" after the surgery.\n\nShe said she used her article to urge others \"don't delay in booking\" and said she felt compelled to write about her experiences for Cervical Cancer Prevention Week.\n\nA cervical screening checks the health of your cervix.\n\nA small sample of cells is taken from the cervix and checked for certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV) that can cause changes to the cells.\n\nIf present the sample is then checked for any changes in the cells which can be treated before they get a chance to turn into cervical cancer.\n\nThe NHS advises women between the ages of 25 to 49 to have a smear test every three years.\n\nAlex Davies-Jones became the Labour MP for Pontypridd in the 2019 General Election\n\nShe wrote: \"I used all of the usual excuses that you may have heard before.\n\n\"I was simply too busy, I couldn't get an appointment and I had no symptoms or abnormalities that were worrying me.\"\n\nMs Davies-Jones wrote she thought the routine screening would \"just be five minutes of awkward conversation with the nurse at my local GP whilst taking my knickers off\".\n\n\"I didn't ever think that there could be a chance that my cells would be 'abnormal' and that the next few months of my life would leave me terrified and constantly contemplating my own mortality.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chloe Delevingne had a smear test live on the Victoria Derbyshire programme to show what the procedure involved\n\nIf she had put off the screening any longer \"the situation could have been different\", the MP wrote.\n\nShe said she first received a type of laser treatment to \"burn off the abnormal cells from my cervix\" but more treatment was needed after the doctor told her the abnormal cells on her cervix were \"embedded deeper and looked more challenging than expected\".\n\nThen she had to have surgery, a \"cold knife biopsy\".\n\n\"I was without the majority of my cervix, but my life was saved. It was over,\" she wrote.\n\n\"Sadly, for many this isn't the case. For the next few years, I attended screenings every six months to ensure the abnormal cells didn't return.\n\n\"My last screening was in April 2018. Thankfully again all was fine but the anxiety and fear that surrounded me as I awaited those results has stayed with me even now.\"\n\nShe went on to give birth to her son Sullivan in March 2019.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In 2009, Spector was convicted of the 2003 murder of Hollywood actress Lana Clarkson\n\nThe BBC has apologised for the original headline in its reporting of the death of the convicted murderer Phil Spector.\n\nThe former music producer died on Saturday at the age of 81, while serving a prison sentence for the murder of Lana Clarkson in 2003.\n\nThe first version on the breaking news story on the BBC News website carried the headline: \"Talented but flawed producer Phil Spector dies aged 81\".\n\nThe BBC said the headline \"did not meet our editorial standards\".\n\nThe text was quickly changed to: \"Pop producer jailed for murder dies at 81.\"\n\n\"This was changed within minutes and we also deleted a tweet that had gone out automatically with the original headline,\" a statement issued by the BBC read.\n\n\"We apologise for this error.\"\n\n\"Our coverage of the story across BBC News has been clear that Phil Spector was convicted of the murder of Lana Clarkson and had a long history of violence and abuse,\" it continued.\n\nSpector was convicted of murdering Clarkson, an actress, in 2009.\n\nHis death was confirmed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\n\nReacting to the original version of the BBC's story, pop star Lily Allen tweeted: \"Rolling eyes at all the journos deliberately downplaying Phil Spector being a murderer in their headlines, so everyone points this out while linking to their articles resulting in lots of clicks.\"\n\n\"How about 'Murderer, Phil Spector dies aged 81'?\" offered author and historian Hallie Rubenhold.\n\nThe headline was also discussed on TV and radio programmes on Monday, including Loose Women and Radio 4's Woman's Hour, and prompted an article in the Guardian.\n\nThe phrasing of the BBC's article - and others like it - were \"a reflection of how a man's 'genius' is often viewed as more important than a woman's humanity,\" said columnist Arwa Mahdawi.\n\nSpector, who transformed pop with his \"wall of sound\" recordings, worked with The Beatles, The Righteous Brothers and Tina Turner.\n\nBut after the commercial failure of Tina Turner's River Deep, Mountain High, he largely withdrew from public life, and entered a long decline, marked by erratic behaviour, heavy drinking, and a fondness for guns.\n\nHis turbulent marriage to Ronettes singer Veronica Bennett, known as Ronnie Spector, ended in divorce.\n\n\"Unfortunately Phil was not able to live and function outside of the recording studio,\" she wrote after his death was announced. \"Darkness set in, many lives were damaged.\"\n\nSinger Darlene Love, who sang on several songs Spector produced, said he \"changed the sound of rock 'n' roll\" but likened their relationship to \"a bad marriage\".\n\n\"The problem I have with Phil is that he wanted to control Darlene Love's talent,\" she told Variety. \"If he couldn't do that, he was going to do everything in his power to keep my talent from shining.\"\n\nWeeks before Lana Clarkson was shot dead, Spector gave a rare interview to British broadsheet The Telegraph.\n\n\"I would say I'm probably relatively insane, to an extent,\" he told the paper, adding that he had \"devils inside that fight me\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I was spat at working as an ambulance paramedic'\n\nAfter experiencing its most difficult period of the entire Covid-19 pandemic in December, the boss of Welsh Ambulance Service said it was still under \"extreme pressure\".\n\nAt one stage, 400 staff - 12% of all workers - were sick or self-isolating.\n\nJason Killens said this was exacerbated by high call numbers and \"significant delays\" handing patients to hospitals.\n\nOne paramedic described questioning whether he was in the right job after being spat at during the pandemic.\n\nThe chief executive said it meant \"patients with less serious conditions waited much longer than we would like\".\n\nParamedic Stan Baxter was assaulted by someone who spat at him\n\nParamedic Stan Baxter, describing the pressure he and colleagues were under, said at one point an incident caused him to question whether he wanted to continue working.\n\n\"During the peak of the pandemic last year, I was assaulted by a member of the public where I was spat at in the face,\" he said.\n\n\"And that's really the only time that I've stopped and gone: 'Is this for me?'\"\n\nHowever the \"vast majority of the public\" had been \"absolutely fantastic\", he stressed, adding: \"We've had people waving at us, buying us coffee.\"\n\nLuke Robinson and Stan Baxter must wear more protective equipment when they help patients\n\nFor his work partner, Luke Robinson, their job made it clear how coronavirus had made a resurgence across the country.\n\n\"I worked New Year's Eve and I responded to a number of incidents which involved just regular health complaints,\" he said.\n\n\"But next door or in the adjacent building there's people having parties and you can tell that there's large gatherings going on. And it's really frustrating because it really hammers home that some people aren't listening to the rules.\n\n\"And it's not surprising that we're seeing a second wave now.\"\n\nMr Killens said the pressure was now \"palpably less\" compared to last month, but admitted difficult weeks lie ahead.\n\n\"December was probably the most pressurised period during the whole pandemic for a number of reasons,\" he said.\n\n\"Staff that were symptomatic or isolating, that's been at its peak in December.\n\n\"We've seen more work both in the 111 and 999 service, that is patients contacting us with Covid-related symptoms, and of course because of the pressure on the rest of the NHS, we've seen extended handover at some of our emergency departments and what that's meant regrettably is some less serious patients have waited a lot longer in the community than I would have expected.\"\n\nSoldiers have been helping to relieve pressure on ambulance staff\n\nThe ambulance service has been at its highest level of alert - described as \"extreme pressure\" - since early December.\n\nIt was so bad at the beginning of the month, the service had to declare a \"critical incident\", because of severe problems in south east Wales in particular - and one man had to wait 19 hours in an ambulance outside a hospital.\n\nThis strain has been partly blamed for deteriorating ambulance response times, with the situation exacerbated by the fact hospitals are struggling.\n\nAmbulances spent more than 11,661 hours outside emergency departments waiting to transfer patients in December - an equivalent to a total of more than 485 days. The average delay was one hour and eight minutes.\n\nThe Ambulance Service has been hit by high numbers of staff sick or self-isolating\n\n\"We would usually see handover delays through winter - but what's unique this time is the overlay of the pandemic,\" Mr Killens added.\n\n\"There has to be additional distancing, this means less capacity in emergency departments.\n\n\"Testing also needs to be done before patients are admitted - the additional complexities mean the process is slower and there's less space for patients to go into.\"\n\nHe said the impact of implementing Covid precautions is also affecting how quickly crews can respond.\n\n\"As a result of the virus, we're having to clean vehicles and equipment more frequently and thoroughly than before,\" Mr Killens said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Also there are levels for personal protective equipment that staff have to wear to protect themselves and others. Level three - the highest in some cases.\n\n\"And it takes a number of minutes for crews to put that on before staff treat the patients.\"\n\nTo bolster staffing levels and speed up response times, about 80 soldiers are assisting the Welsh Ambulance Service for the second time since the start of the pandemic - along with smaller number of staff from other services like the fire service.\n\n\"They are driving emergency ambulances for us... which means an emergency ambulance clinician can look after the patient,\" Mr Killens added.\n\n\"They'll drive the ambulance from the scene to hospital... it enables us to put more ambulances on the streets to respond to patients more quickly given the levels of absence that we've seen.\"\n\nParamedics now have to carry out a more rigorous and time-consuming cleaning regime\n\nAfter facing relentless pressure for close to a year, Mr Killens is worried about the impact on mental health and well-being of ambulance and control centre staff.\n\nThe service is focused on \"what we can do to keep them fit and well\", he said.\n\nBut he praised staff for \"stepping up to the plate\" - and insists some of the lessons learnt during the last year will benefit the service during the longer term.\n\n\"I've been in the ambulance sector for 25 years and this is like dealing with a very long incident,\" said Mr Killens.\n\n\"So, a major incident an emergency service routinely responds to generally will be over in a couple of hours. But the level of pressure has been sustained now for 12 months.\n\n\"All of our people have stepped up and done what was necessary and got on with providing the best care in really difficult circumstances.... we will come through it and at the end of the pandemic and will be a stronger organisation for it.\"\n\nHe believes the service is now \"on the home straight\" in dealing with the pandemic.\n\n\"We've had two waves of this virus and learnt much along the way, and with a vaccine rollout we have a real opportunity now to see an end to the disruption, the personal impact and the level of death and harm,\" Mr Killens said.\n\n\"By the time we get to the other side of the spring, probably we will be able to return to some kind of normality whatever that will be 18 months into a pandemic.\n\n\"There's a couple of difficult weeks to come, but if we can emerge through February and March, provided we all stick to the rules, because it's easy for the virus to grab hold again if we get complacent .... we'll be in a far better position as we come to the spring.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sheku Bayoh death: Eyewitness says stamping attack on officer 'never happened'\n\nTwo police officers involved in the death of a black man they were restraining may have provided false statements, the BBC can reveal.\n\nThey said Sheku Bayoh carried out a stamping attack on a female PC before he was brought to the ground and restrained by up to six officers.\n\nBut now an eyewitness has spoken publicly for the first time about the 2015 incident.\n\nHe told a Panorama investigation that the stamping attack \"never happened\".\n\nThe Scottish Police Federation said its officers had cooperated truthfully with investigators.\n\nMr Bayoh, a 31-year-old father of two, died in the incident in the Fife town of Kirkcaldy in 2015.\n\nA public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding his death has recently got under way. One of its tasks is to examine whether his race was a factor.\n\nSheku Bayoh was restrained on the ground for five minutes before falling unconscious\n\nOn the night of 2 May 2015, Sheku Bayoh had taken drugs, which friends said dramatically altered his behaviour.\n\nPolice were called early the following morning after he was spotted behaving erratically with a knife in the streets of his home town.\n\nAccording to police statements, by the time the officers arrived at the scene Mr Bayoh no longer had the knife but he failed to obey instructions to get down on the ground.\n\nEach of the officers used force on Mr Bayoh within seconds of encountering him, including CS Spray and batons.\n\nHe then punched PC Nicole Short, who went to the ground.\n\nTwo officers, PCs Craig Walker and Ashley Tomlinson, would later tell investigators that Mr Bayoh then carried out a violent stamping attack on PC Short while she lay on the ground, a claim reported widely in the media.\n\nThe stamping attack was widely reported in the newspapers\n\nPC Walker told investigators: \"I had a clear view of him… he had his arms raised up at right angles to his body and brought his right foot down in a full-force stamp on to her lower back.\"\n\nPC Tomlinson said: \"I thought he had killed her. He stomped on her back again.\"\n\nNow, evidence obtained by Panorama suggests these accounts may be false.\n\nMr Bayoh was restrained on the ground for five minutes before falling unconscious. He was pronounced dead at hospital a short time later.\n\nA post-mortem examination report revealed 23 separate injuries to Mr Bayoh's body, including a broken rib and gashes to his head. The cause of death was recorded as \"sudden death in a man intoxicated [with drugs] whilst under restraint\".\n\nIn 2018, the Crown Office in Scotland decided there would be no prosecutions against any officers involved.\n\nKevin Nelson gave evidence to investigators two days after the incident\n\nKevin Nelson was in a nearby house and saw events unfold over a garden hedge.\n\nHe gave his account to investigators from Pirc (Police Investigations and Review Commissioner), which investigates deaths in custody, two days after the incident.\n\nSpeaking publicly for the first time, Mr Nelson told Panorama he saw Mr Bayoh attempt to walk away from the officers, ignoring their commands, before being sprayed with CS spray. He said Mr Bayoh retaliated and punched PC Short.\n\nAsked if there had been any further contact with PC Short, he said, \"No. He was running off… after the punch, there was no more attack on her at all.\"\n\nMr Nelson said Mr Bayoh ran off from where PC Short went down and was quickly intercepted by the other officers.\n\nAsked about PC Walker's claim that Mr Bayoh had \"his arms raised up… and brought his right foot down in a full force stamp\", Mr Nelson said: \"That never happened. I didn't see him stamping at all or, other than the punch, any raised arms.\n\n\"After the punch, that was it. There was no more attack on her at all. That's not right.\"\n\nThe officers provided their accounts to investigators 32 days after Mr Bayoh's death.\n\nMr Nelson said no-one from Pirc returned to ask about the discrepancy between their account and his.\n\nThe eyewitness said he decided to speak out because it was unfair on Mr Bayoh's family that the officers had \"made the incident worse than it actually was to justify what had happened and… that's not right\".\n\nMr Nelson's account is supported by CCTV footage of the incident, obtained by the BBC.\n\nIt is poor quality but appears to show that once PC Short is knocked down by Mr Bayoh, the action moves away from her, and he is brought down within five seconds.\n\nPC Short did not mention in her statement she had been stamped on. Now retired, she later said she was unsure if she was conscious, and only learned about the alleged stamping attack when her colleagues told her about it afterwards.\n\nIn the CCTV, PC Short appears to get to her feet a few seconds after Mr Bayoh is brought down.\n\nMike Franklin says conflicts of evidence should have been resolved\n\nMike Franklin, former commissioner for the body which investigated police complaints in England and Wales, looked at Panorama's evidence.\n\nHe said: \"I think there's nothing more serious than a police officer who gives false information in an investigation where somebody has died. So without accusing them of lying, I simply say that there's a big conflict.\n\n\"Two officers who were there say that it did happen. The person to whom it happened didn't mention it. And an eyewitness says it didn't happen.\n\n\"I would've been reluctant to sign off the investigation as complete, without resolving those… conflicts of evidence.\"\n\nMr Bayoh's sister, Kadi Johnson, told Panorama the new allegations had made her \"really angry\".\n\nShe said the way her brother was \"painted\" by the accounts given after his death was not who he was.\n\nMr Bayoh's sister, Kadi Johnson, said the new allegations had made her really angry\n\nA spokesman for the Scottish Police Federation, which represents rank and file officers, said serving officers were unable to comment on matters \"to which they may be called upon to give sworn evidence\" but that they had \"co-operated fully and truthfully with the investigations that have taken place\".\n\nIt added it had seen \"compelling material that Mr Bayoh did violently stamp on the back of a policewoman as she lay unconscious\".\n\nThe BBC asked for this material to be produced but was told the inquiry was the \"proper forum\" for such matters.\n\nThe Crown Office, which directed the Pirc Inquiry, told Panorama it had examined \"eye-witness accounts of police and civilian witnesses\" and instructed \"appropriate investigation\".\n\nIt said after careful consideration it was decided there should be no prosecutions but reserved the right to prosecute should evidence become available.\n\nPirc told Panorama its investigation was \"detailed and extensive\" but could not comment further because of the public inquiry.\n\nPolice Scotland Chief Constable Iain Livingstone expressed his condolences to the Bayoh family and said the force would \"participate fully\" in the inquiry.\n\nKevin Clarke died after being restrained in London by up to nine officers\n\nPanorama's \"I Can't Breathe: Black and Dead in Custody\" also investigates the case of Kevin Clarke, 35, who died in 2018 after being restrained in London by up to nine officers.\n\nAn inquest into his death resulted in a damning verdict on the police and ambulance services.\n\nMr Clarke's sister Tellecia told the programme that if the officers \"hadn't used excessive force he would still be here today… treat him like a human being, and not just see him as a big scary black man\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Commander Bas Javid apologised to Mr Clarke's family and accepted the restraint had not been appropriate.", "Lisbet Stone is stranded at Madrid Airport due to having an out-of-date coronavirus test result\n\nPassenger Lisbet Stone says she is stuck in Madrid Airport after airline officials said her coronavirus test result was out of date.\n\nFrom Monday, travellers arriving in the UK, whether by boat, train or plane, have to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nThe test must be taken in the three days before travelling.\n\nFor those with connecting flights, the test must be 72 hours before your final departure point to England.\n\nAnyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500.\n\nMrs Stone originally travelled to Cuba in February 2020 to see family. The British Cuban dual national was unable to fly home to the UK when Cuba closed its borders in March.\n\nThe family say she had several previous flights cancelled before finally being able to leave this weekend. She hasn't been able to see her four children or her husband Trevor in 11 months.\n\nThe government are understood to be speaking to Air Europa to try to get Mrs Stone home. Carriers have been told that they should permit stranded passengers to board and will not be fined for doing so.\n\nWhile Mrs Stone has been caught out by the new restrictions for incoming travellers, the first day of the new regulations appeared to go smoothly.\n\nMrs Stone left Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuba, on Sunday night to fly back to the UK via Madrid.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: How to fly during a global pandemic (this video reflects the rules before the hotel quarantine was introduced in the UK)\n\nShe took a Covid test on Thursday to be guaranteed a result by Saturday. It was negative and Mrs Stone was able to board the plane from Cuba.\n\nHowever, on arrival at Madrid-Barajas Airport, Mrs Stone says she was stopped from boarding the next leg of her journey to London Gatwick by Air Europa staff, because her test had been taken more than 72 hours before the final flight.\n\n\"She's crying her eyes out,\" says Trevor Stone, her husband. \"I feel absolutely helpless. She doesn't have any Euros as she wasn't meant to stay in Spain. The authorities have given her no help whatsoever, we are just trying to understand what to do.\n\n\"She took her test 72 hours before the start of her journey, but had to take a connecting flight onwards. There would be no other way to do it, it is not physically possible.\"\n\nIn the meantime, Mr Stone says he has been home-schooling their four children on his own through the pandemic.\n\nTrevor Stone (left) has been caring for the couple's four children on his own for 11 months since Lisbet Stone was unable to leave Cuba\n\n\"We are just desperate to get her home - I'm so worried about her and after 11 months, she really wants to see her children,\" he added. \"We haven't done anything wrong, I don't know what to do or who to turn to.\"\n\nA Department for Transport spokesman said: \"Passengers travelling to the UK must provide proof of a negative coronavirus test which meets the performance standards set out by the government in the guidance published on gov.uk.\n\n\"The type of test could include a PCR test or antigen test, including a lateral flow test. Anyone who cannot provide the necessary documentation may not be allowed to board their flight.\"\n\nAir Europa and Madrid Airport have been approached by the BBC for comment.", "Medical staff are expected to \"face pressures unlike any other they have faced before\" as NI approaches its toughest week so far in the pandemic.\n\nThe British Medical Association has said while its doctors are \"coping\", many feel they are unable to give care to the \"standard they would want\".\n\nThe peak in intensive care is predicted to happen next weekend.\n\nThe head of the BMA in NI, Dr Tom Black has been critical of the way this wave of the pandemic has been managed.\n\nHe said: \"Staff will do their best in a very difficult situation, where many decisions in this pandemic were made too late.\"\n\nWhile it is expected the number of hospital admissions will peak sometime over the next eight to 10 days, the number requiring intensive care treatment is likely to continue increasing for at least another fortnight.\n\nDr Black said he was concerned for both patients and staff.\n\nHe said: \"It is likely that over the next few weeks doctors will be asked to work in a new location or provide support to areas that are already overstretched.\n\n\"Many have already had planned annual leave cancelled.\"\n\nThere were a further 19 virus-related deaths and 640 more Covid-19 cases reported in Northern Ireland on Monday.\n\nThe latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,625, while 96,001 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic began.\n\nSome 65 patients are in ICU, down two from the last report, and 51 patients are being ventilated.\n\nSince the vaccine rollout began in NI, 146,733 people have been vaccinated, according to the Department of Health.\n\nOf that number, 125,717 were first doses and 21,016 were second jabs.\n\nA total of 31,393 people from the over-80 age group have been vaccinated.\n\nEarlier the BMA told BBC News NI that more than 90,000 doses the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine had arrived in Northern Ireland but the Department of Health has said it is anticipated separate deliveries will arrive by this weekend.\n\nDr Black said many staff members had reported feeling \"exhausted and demoralised\" and he warned that when it came to reviewing how the pandemic was handled \"this phase will stand out as one where we could have planned better\".\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said the next seven days is \"when we will see that real intense pressure coming on our inpatients and intensive care units\".\n\n\"Our worst case scenario has modelling up to 1,200 inpatients - and that's a serious pressure that comes on our system,\" he told Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme.\n\n\"We can go up into nearly 200 ICU capacity but that comes at a stretch, that comes with putting our staff under severe pressure in ICU units.\n\n\"It also comes by having to shift the ICU specialist nurse from a ratio of one-to-one to a ratio of one-to-two or even one-to-three in extreme pressures.\n\n\"That's not something we want to do,\" he added.\n\nThe past week saw hospitals across Northern Ireland coming together in order to cope with the strain.\n\nOn 10 January, the Southern Health Trust was on the cusp of declaring a major incident amid the mounting pressures across the health service.\n\nThat was avoided as many off-duty staff answered a call to come into work and the health trusts pulled together to provide a regional response to the crisis.\n\nPatients were diverted to those hospitals which could take them and where infrastructure could cope with supplying additional oxygen to the very ill.\n\nOver the weekend of 9/10 January the Southern Health Trust - the smallest of the health trusts - was dealing with the highest number of patients who required oxygen.\n\nIn the past week the Northern and Southern Health Trusts have seen the highest number of patients.\n\nThat reflects the high rate of community transmission in some areas those trusts cover.\n\nMeanwhile, no resolution has been reached between Stormont leaders and the Irish Government over the sharing of passenger data.\n\nLast week, First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill criticised Dublin for failing to share information on travellers arriving there during the pandemic.\n\nMichelle O'Neill said it was \"regrettable\" the issue has not been resolved\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said repeated efforts to access data on passenger locator forms filled out by people arriving in the Republic of Ireland had failed.\n\nMrs Foster and Ms O'Neill indicated on Thursday that they planned to raise the matter directly with Taoiseach (Irish prime minsiter) Micheál Martin.\n\nMs O'Neill told the Northern Ireland Assembly on Monday that no resolution has been found yet.\n\nShe told MLAs the issue had been raised \"on every occasion we have had the opportunity\" and that it was \"regrettable\" that the issue had not been resolved.\n\nThe travel issue will be discussed at a meeting on Wednesday involving the first minister, the deputy first minister, Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney and NI Secretary of State Brandon Lewis.\n\n\"I hope that perhaps Wednesday's meeting will allow some opportunity for there to be a way forward,\" the deputy first minister added.\n\nIt was announced on Sunday that all travellers who have returned from Portugal or transited through 16 South American countries in the past 14 days will have to - along with their household - self-isolate for 10 days upon return to Northern Ireland.\n\nThis includes travellers who entered these countries en route to another destination. All travellers returning home from South America are advised to be tested, whether or not they have symptoms.\n\nFrom Thursday, all international travellers will be required to present a negative Covid-19 test result before arriving in Northern Ireland.\n\nThis rule comes into effect in England, Scotland and Wales on Monday.\n\nOn Monday, the Department of Health in the Republic of Ireland reported eight more coronavirus-related deaths.\n\nIt brings its death toll to 2,616.\n\nThe department said 2,121 new cases of the virus had been reported, with a cumulative total of 174,843 infections.\n\nIt said that as of 14:00 local time on Monday, 1,975 Covid-19 patients are in hospital, of which 200 are in ICU (intensive care units).\n\nIrish Chief Medical Officer, Dr Tony Holohan, said: \"This third wave of the pandemic has seen higher level of hospitalisations across all age groups.\n\n\"There are now more sick people in hospital than any time in the course of this pandemic\".", "All travellers arriving in the UK will need to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test\n\nAll UK travel corridors, which allow arrivals from some countries to avoid having to quarantine, have now closed.\n\nTravellers arriving in the UK, whether by boat, train or plane, also have to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nThe test must be taken in the 72 hours before travelling and anyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500.\n\nAll passengers will still be required to quarantine for up to 10 days.\n\nThe isolation period can be cut short with a negative test after five days in England, but it does not apply in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.\n\nThe government has said the travel corridor closure will be in force until at least 15 February.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: How to fly during a global pandemic (this video reflects the rules before the hotel quarantine was introduced in the UK)\n\nUnder the new rules, travellers arriving from the Falklands, St Helena and Ascension Islands are exempt.\n\nThose arriving from some Caribbean islands are exempt until 04:00 GMT on Thursday 21 January.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab told the BBC'S Andrew Marr Show on Sunday that Public Health England would be stepping up checks on travellers who must self-isolate.\n\nHe said enforcement checks at borders would also be \"ramped up\" and added that asking all arrivals to self-isolate in hotels was a \"potential measure\" the government was keeping under review.\n\nPassengers arriving into London's Heathrow airport on Monday said they had been met with \"substantial\" queues at passport control and one couple complained they had \"felt unsafe\" due to what they described as poor social distancing.\n\nPassengers speak to staff at the entrance to the Covid-19 Testing Centre at Heathrow\n\nAndy Hart, from London, who had arrived into the UK from Nairobi, said: \"We felt that even though everyone was masked they were far too close together.\n\n\"It took an hour and 10 minutes. I've been flying 30 times a year for 20 years. I mean, once or twice have I ever seen it [airport queues] like this. How can this happen during Covid times?\"\n\nMeanwhile on Sunday, the government announced that a financial support scheme for airports in England would open this month in response to the new travel curbs.\n\nAviation minister Robert Courts said the aim was to provide grants of up to £8m per applicant by the end of this financial year. The scheme was first announced in November but without a start date.\n\nIndustry groups have warned there was only so long airports could \"run on fumes\", following the announcement of the new quarantine rules.\n\nEasyJet chief executive Johan Lundgren said the closure of the travel corridors will not have a \"significant impact\" on his airline in the short term as flight numbers were already limited due to the pandemic.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the minimum number of days arrivals must wait to take a negative test releasing them from quarantine could be reduced from five days to three days.\n\nKaren Dee, chief executive of trade body the Airport Operators Association, said she supported the decision to close the travel corridors but stressed the need for \"a clear pathway out\".\n\nA ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde also came into force on Friday, having been imposed over concerns about a new variant identified in Brazil.\n\nNew variants causing concern have previously been identified in the UK and South Africa, with many countries imposing restrictions on arrivals from both nations.\n\nScientists fear the variants seen in South Africa and Brazil may interfere with the effectiveness of vaccines and evade parts of the immune system.\n\nThe travel industry has said closing the travel corridors was understandable due to the health emergency, but warned it would deepen the crisis for the sector.\n\nTim Alderslade, chief executive of Airlines UK, said the system had been \"a lifeline for the industry\" last summer but \"things change and there's no doubting this is a serious health emergency\". He said he assumed the government would remove the latest restrictions as soon as it was safe.\n\n\"We've had no revenue now effectively for 12 months, give or take a few months in the summer last year. If we're going to have an aviation sector coming out of this we need to open up in the summer,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe Department for Transport has said it is supporting the travel industry with an extension to the furlough scheme until the end of April, business rates relief and tax deferrals.\n\nWith all parts of the UK under strict virus rules amid high levels of infection, only essential travel is permitted.\n\nOn Sunday, another 671 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test were reported in the UK, and a further 38,598 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from overseas? Do you work in the travel industry? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Phil Spector pictured in court during his murder trial\n\nUS music producer Phil Spector has died at the age of 81, while serving a prison sentence for murder.\n\nSpector, who transformed pop with his \"wall of sound\" recordings, worked with the Beatles, the Righteous Brothers and Ike and Tina Turner.\n\nIn 2009, he was convicted of the 2003 murder of Hollywood actress Lana Clarkson.\n\nHis death was confirmed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\n\n\"California Health Care Facility inmate Phillip Spector was pronounced deceased of natural causes at 6:35 p.m. on Saturday, January 16, 2021, at an outside hospital. His official cause of death will be determined by the medical examiner in the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office,\" it said.\n\nSpector produced 20 top 40 hits between 1961 and 1965. His production methods influenced major artists including the Beach Boys and Bruce Springsteen.\n\nHis life was ultimately blighted by drug and alcohol addiction, and he all but retired from the music scene during the 1980s and 1990s.\n\nIn February 2003, actress Lana Clarkson was found dead at his house in Alhambra, California with a bullet wound to her head. Clarkson, who was known for her work in the sword-and-sorcery genre and starred in films including Barbarian Queen, had met Spector hours earlier at a nightclub.\n\nSpector claimed the shooting happened when Clarkson \"kissed the gun\" - but his trial heard from four women who claimed Spector had threatened them with guns in the past when they had spurned his advances.\n\nFollowing an initial mistrial, Spector was convicted of second degree murder and given a sentence of 19 years to life.\n\nLana Clarkson was an actress and model who starred in the film 1985 Barbarian Queen\n\nHarvey Phillip Spector was born in New York in 1939, to Russian-Jewish parents. His father killed himself when Spector was a boy, and his mother moved her family to Los Angeles.\n\nHe began his career in his teens as a performer, forming a band - the Teddy Bears - with three high school friends. They had a hit single in 1958 with a song that took its title from the wording on his father's gravestone: \"To know him is to love him.\"\n\nThe record went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100, but the group split the following year.\n\nSpector founded his own record label, Philles, in 1961. He produced high-profile 1960s girl groups such as Crystals and the Ronettes, including on 1963 hits Be My Baby and Baby I Love You.\n\nHe also worked on The Righteous Brothers' hits You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' and Unchained Melody.\n\nSpector produced hits for The Ronettes, later marrying their lead singer Ronnie Bennett\n\nHis signature production technique, the \"Wall of Sound,\" involved layering several instruments, including strings, woodwind and brass, to give a lush, orchestral sound.\n\nIn the early 1970s, Spector collaborated with The Beatles on their final album Let It Be, as well as producing John Lennon's solo album Imagine.\n\nAs the decade progressed, the much-feted producer became reclusive and disturbing accounts of his behaviour became widespread. Spector is said to have held a gun to singer Leonard Cohen's head during sessions for his album Death of a Ladies' Man.\n\nRonettes lead singer Veronica \"Ronnie\" Bennett, who became Spector's second wife and divorced him in 1974, wrote in her 1990 autobiography that he subjected her to years of horrific abuse. She said he had threatened to kill her and display her body in a glass-topped coffin he kept in her basement.\n\n\"I can only say that when I left in the early '70s, I knew that if I didn't leave at that time, I was going to die there,\" Ronnie wrote of the time.\n\nWriting on Instagram after her ex-husband's death, Ronnie Spector said he had been \"a brilliant producer but a lousy husband\".\n\n\"When I was working with Phil Spector, watching him create in the recording studio, I knew I was working with the very best,\" she wrote. \"He was in complete control, directing everyone. So much to love about those days.\n\n\"Meeting him and falling in love was like a fairytale,\" she continued. \"The magical music we were able to make together was inspired by our love. I loved him madly, and gave my heart and soul to him.\n\n\"Unfortunately Phil was not able to live and function outside of the recording studio. Darkness set in, many lives were damaged.\"\n\nSinger Darlene Love, who sang on several songs Spector produced, said he \"changed the sound of rock 'n' roll\" but likened their relationship to \"a bad marriage\".\n\n\"The problem I have with Phil is that he wanted to control Darlene Love's talent,\" she told Variety. \"If he couldn't do that, he was going to do everything in his power to keep my talent from shining.\"\n\nWeeks before Lana Clarkson was shot dead, Spector gave a rare interview to British broadsheet The Telegraph.\n\n\"I would say I'm probably relatively insane, to an extent,\" he told the paper, adding that he had \"devils inside that fight me\".\n\nResponding to news of the producer's death, Blondie guitarist Chris Stein tweeted: \"When we went to Phil Spector's house in the 70s he came to the door holding a bottle of diet Manischewitz wine in one hand and a presumably loaded 45 automatic in the other. Long story.", "Now 20, he was jailed for life at Manchester Crown Court after admitting inciting terrorism overseas\n\nThe youngest person convicted of a terrorism offence in the UK - who plotted to murder police in Australia on Anzac Day aged 14 - can be freed from jail, the Parole Board has ruled.\n\nThe 20-year-old, from Blackburn, who can only be identified as RXG, sent encrypted messages inciting an Australian to launch attacks in 2015.\n\nHe was jailed for life that year after admitting inciting terrorism overseas.\n\nBut the Parole Board now says it is \"satisfied\" he is suitable for release.\n\n\"After considering the circumstances of his offending, the progress made while in detention, and the evidence presented at the hearings, the panel was satisfied that RXG was suitable for release,\" the board said in a document detailing the decision.\n\nDuring his trial, the court heard how at the age of 14, the boy adopted an older persona in messages to alleged Australian jihadist Sevdet Besim, 18, instructing him to kill police officers at the remembrance parade.\n\nHe sent thousands of messages suggesting Mr Besim get his \"first taste of beheading\" by attacking \"a proper lonely person\".\n\nAustralian police were alerted to the plot after British officers discovered material on the teenager's phone.\n\nA written summary of the Parole Board decision reveals that two hearings took place to consider the decision - hearings that included evidence from RXG himself.\n\nThe summary records that \"no-one at the hearing considered there to be a need for further time\" in custody and that \"all necessary work had been completed\".\n\nRXG, who became eligible for parole in October, is said to have \"undertaken extensive specialist work in detention to address his offending behaviour, his understanding of Islam and to develop his level of maturity\".\n\nThe Parole Board panel noted that \"considerable progress that had been made\", the summary records.\n\nLicense conditions for the 20-year-old a requirement to live at designated address, wearing an electronic tag, and limits on his contacts, movements and activities.\n\nAnzac Day is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand\n\nA ban on identifying RXG, made when he was sentenced, would normally have expired on his 18th birthday, but a number of media organisations made representations to the High Court, arguing that he should be named.\n\nBut in 2019, the court ruled identifying him was likely to cause him \"serious harm\", and so granted him lifelong anonymity.\n\nThe decision taken by the judge, Dame Victoria Sharp, has only been made in a small number of cases.\n\nIn 2016, two brothers who had tortured other children in South Yorkshire were granted lifelong anonymity.\n\nLifelong anonymity under new identities was also been granted after release to Mary Bell, the Newcastle child killer; Maxine Carr, who obstructed police investigating the 2002 Soham murders by her partner Ian Huntley; and Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, who murdered Liverpool toddler James Bulger.", "Soaring shipping costs are likely to cause a bounce in the cost of trampolines in the UK this summer, according to one games retailer.\n\nJames Owen, owner of Outdoor Toys, says high transport costs and port congestion may mean larger toys such as swings, trampolines and climbing frames will be more expensive.\n\nTrampoline prices could soar by 40-50%, he told BBC 5 Live's Wake Up to Money.\n\n\"The port congestion just keeps snowballing,\" he said.\n\n\"More and more issues keep arising,\" Mr Owen added. \"We can't get space out of China, there's a container shortage.\n\n\"Hauliers are really stretched, rates keep climbing.\"\n\nHis firm makes some products in the UK already and rising shipping costs will mean it will become economical to make more.\n\n\"For the first time ever, the ocean freight outweighs the cost of the item,\" in some cases, he said.\n\nDemand for Chinese goods has soared around the world in recent months, placing a strain on existing shipping capacity.\n\nThe price of shipping a 40-foot container on major world trade routes has almost tripled since a year ago, according to research firm Drewry.\n\nHauliers in the UK are also charging more. It used to cost about £650 to haul a container from the port of Felixstowe to the company's site in mid-Wales, Mr Owen says.\n\nThe cost is now up to £1,800 per container \"if you can get the haulier to take it,\" he says.\n\nWhether people will pay the premium for a new outdoor toy is \"a good question,\" he said.\n\nIt emerged over the weekend that Irish hauliers are bypassing Welsh ports to avoid Brexit bureaucracy.\n\nSo-called \"teething problems\" with new export rules are causing \"enormous strain on staff\", according to one haulage company.\n\nBut others warn of a longer-term shift by truck firms from using Holyhead, Fishguard and Pembroke Dock.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland won by seven wickets; take 1-0 series lead\n\nEngland wrapped up a seven-wicket victory over Sri Lanka in the first Test of a two-match series in Galle.\n\nResuming on 38-3, needing another 36 for victory, Jonny Bairstow and debutant Dan Lawrence carried England to their target inside 35 minutes on the final morning of an enthralling encounter.\n\nBairstow ended unbeaten on 35 and Lawrence 21, although the latter survived an lbw review against Dilruwan Perera and Sri Lanka did not refer another shout that replays suggested would have been overturned.\n\nAfter England slipped to 14-3 during a frantic end to day four, Bairstow and Lawrence's unbroken 62-run stand guided them to an ultimately comfortable win.\n\nThe second Test starts at 04:30 GMT on Friday at the same ground.\n• None 'It wasn't perfect but England's win ticked a lot of boxes'\n• None 'We are on an upward curve' - Root savours fourth straight away win\n\nEngland are now unbeaten in nine Tests under Joe Root's captaincy, they have won four consecutive overseas Tests for the first time since 1957, and boast five successive wins in Sri Lanka.\n\nVictory improved England's chances of reaching the inaugural World Test Championship final at Lord's in June. They remain fourth in the standings, with the two top sides playing in the final.\n\nEngland out of the blocks quickly\n\nRoot's side have been slow starters in series in recent years - they lost the opening Test against Australia, New Zealand and South Africa in 2019, and against West Indies last summer.\n\nHowever, Sunday's top-order wobble aside, they were rarely troubled in the first of six successive Tests on the subcontinent - an achievement made all the more impressive given they had one day of match practice before this game.\n\nRoot scored a magnificent 226 in the first innings, and off-spinner Dom Bess and slow left-armer Jack Leach, who returned match figures of 8-130 and 6-177 respectively, found more rhythm as the game progressed, which bodes well for the sterner four-Test series in India that follows this tour.\n\nLawrence can take considerable credit for his first-innings 73 and the manner in which he helped negate England's second-innings nerves alongside the efficient Bairstow, while wicketkeeper Jos Buttler was tidy behind the stumps throughout on a dry, turning pitch.\n\nSri Lanka, meanwhile, were left wondering what if. Their collapse to 135 all out on the first day was described as \"one of the worse we've ever seen\", and even an extra 50 runs could have changed the course of this game.\n\n'Very impressive' - what they said\n\nEngland captain and player of the match Joe Root: \"To come here with the little preparation we have had and play in the manner we have is very impressive.\n\n\"We worked extremely hard and for the spinners to come out of the game with two five-fors is a great effort. Without the preparation, it is testament to their characters.\n\n\"It is a good start to the tour. We know we have to keep getting better but I am really pleased with the start we have had.\"\n\nEngland bowler Stuart Broad on BBC Test Match Special: \"It looked like we could lose a wicket every ball last night. We were pretty happy when play finished last night.\n\n\"It felt calm here this morning. We had a job to do and felt we had enough in tank to chase 30-odd. To do it without losing a wicket is awesome.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"When I think about the preparation England have had, in Loughborough in a tent, one day in the middle in Sri Lanka and then rain, to put in this kind of performance is a great effort.\n\n\"I can't think Sri Lanka will gift England two poor days in the next Test - that match will be really tough.\n\n\"I am happy England have played in difficult conditions and won the game.\"\n\nSri Lanka captain Dinesh Chandimal: \"We were outplayed in first innings with bat and ball. As a batting unit, especially playing at home, you have to get a big total in the first innings. It cost us the game.\n\n\"Everyone did their bit in the second innings. We played outstanding knocks in the second innings. We have to take the positives out of this.\"\n\nSri Lanka coach Mickey Arthur: \"The first innings was very poor - it was an unacceptable batting performance.\n\n\"Even if we get 220 in the first innings we keep ourselves massively in the game, so that's where it was lost. We did put it right in the second innings. But it was too late.\"\n• None All the goals, highlights and analysis from the weekend's Premier League matches including Manchester United's visit to Anfield: MOTD2 is streaming now on BBC iPlayer", "Staff gathered outside a supermarket to pay their respects to a colleague who died with coronavirus.\n\nJohn Deacy, 81, worked the Christmas Eve shift at the Tesco Extra store in Gabalfa, Cardiff, died just two weeks later.\n\nFriends and colleagues clapped as the funeral procession went by the store.\n\nFormer members of a jazz band, formed by Mr Deacy in the 1970s, marched in front of the hearse.\n\nHis son, Wayne, 56, said: “My dad put everyone above himself. He’d do anything for anyone.\n\n\"He’d help anyone and would never speak badly of people.”\n\nMr Deacy was in the Royal Marines for seven years and was a semi-professional boxer before starting a career at the industrial gas company BOC.\n\nHe went on to work for the supermarket for 16 years.\n\n“We’ve had loads and loads of messages from hundreds of staff who said he will leave a massive gaping hole,\" his son said.", "BT is facing a class action lawsuit over claims it failed to compensate elderly customers who were overcharged for landlines for years.\n\nIn 2017, Ofcom said people who only had a landline telephone were \"getting poor value for money in a market that is not serving them well enough\".\n\nAs a result, BT reduced the price of its landlines by £7 a month.\n\nBut campaigners are unhappy that \"loyal customers\" have still not been compensated for previous overcharging.\n\n\"Ofcom made it very clear that BT had spent years overcharging landline customers, but did not order it to repay the money it made from this,\" said Justin Le Patourel, founder of consumer group Collective Action on Landlines (CALL) and a telecoms consultant who worked for Ofcom for 13 years.\n\n\"We think millions of BT's most loyal landline customers could be entitled to compensation of up to £500 each, and the filing of this claim starts that process.\"\n\nBT said it \"strongly disagrees\" with the claim that it had engaged in anti-competitive behaviour and intends to defend itself \"vigorously\" in court.\n\nA spokesman for BT said: \"We take our responsibilities to older and more vulnerable customers very seriously and will defend ourselves against any claim that suggests otherwise.\n\n\"For many years we've offered discounted landline and broadband packages in what is a competitive market with competing options available, and we take pride in our work with elderly and vulnerable groups, as well as our work on the Customer Fairness agenda.\"\n\nLaw firm Mishcon de Reya has filed a claim with the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) worth £600m. The claim could result in payments of up to £500 each for 2.3 million BT customers, should it be successful.\n\nThe case represents customers who purchased a BT landline contract, but did not also take BT broadband or pay TV packages.\n\nSince 2009, the wholesale costs of providing landlines to consumers have been falling by at least 25%.\n\nBut in October 2017, Ofcom found that all major landline providers in the UK had increased the line rental charges by 28-41%.\n\nOfcom strongly criticised market leader BT for raising prices, saying that customers were being given \"poor value\" for money.\n\nIt added that many of the affected customers had \"been with BT for decades\" and were more likely to be old, on low incomes and vulnerable.\n\nBT announced that it would slash its landline prices by £84 a year.\n\nBT's argument is that Ofcom's final statement did not explicitly accuse it of engaging in anti-competitive behaviour.\n\nBut independent telecoms analyst Ian Grant says that the telecoms giant \"has a history of abusing its position\".\n\n\"Earlier in 2017, Ofcom fined BT £42m because it was late providing high-speed Ethernet lines, and forced BT to make good the losses of firms like Vodafone and TalkTalk,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"Ofcom, which has a statutory duty to stop consumer abuses, could have done the same for these customers. Instead, it allowed BT to get away with a 37% price cut, at a time when the difference between its costs and what it charged customers had risen between 50-74%.\"\n\nMr Grant added: \"It is especially poor that BT was overcharging customers who were mostly over 65, more than three-quarters of whom had never used a different provider, and for whom the telephone was their only communications link.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester United \"missed an opportunity\" to beat Liverpool, said boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer after his side stayed top of the Premier League with a goalless draw against the champions.\n\nIt was a game that failed to justify the pre-match anticipation and Solskjaer will know his side had the better chances to claim a statement victory at Anfield.\n\nLiverpool, without a recognised centre-back and with midfielders Jordan Henderson and Fabinho in defence, dominated possession in the first half but it was United who came closest when Bruno Fernandes' 20-yard free-kick curled inches wide.\n\nFernandes was then thwarted after the break by the outstretched leg of Liverpool keeper Alisson before Thiago Alcantara's long-range effort finally brought the previously unemployed David de Gea into action.\n\nAlisson was Liverpool's hero late on when he blocked Paul Pogba's drive from point-blank range.\n\n\"It was an opportunity missed with the chances we had but then again we were playing a very good side.\" Solskjaer told BBC Sport. \"I'm disappointed but, still, a point is OK if you win the next one.\n\n\"We have improved and progressed. It's not just the result we're disappointed with, it's some of the performance. I know these boys can play better.\"\n\nUnited are now two points ahead of Manchester City, who moved up to second by beating Crystal Palace 4-0, and Leicester City in third. Liverpool, who have scored just one goal in their past four league games, have dropped to fourth, a point behind the Foxes.\n\n\"The performance was good enough to win it but to win a game you have to score goals and we didn't do that, so that's why we had that result,\" said Reds boss Jurgen Klopp.\n\n\"We try not to not score. We obviously have to ignore the fact and hope it will be good again.\"\n• None 'From dejection to frustration in 12 months, Anfield draw underlines Man Utd progress'\n• None Lawro's predictions v You Me At Six drummer Dan Flint\n\nKlopp cut a frustrated figure pretty much from the first whistle, his voice booming around Anfield with a tone of displeasure, showing unhappiness with his own players and officials.\n\nThe German's team, so used to steamrollering all before them in recent times, are going through a very dry spell and barely created an opening worthy of the name here against a resolute Manchester United defence.\n\nToo often, Liverpool's approach play ended with a careless pass or an aimless cross and the longer this game went on the more United looked the most likely winners.\n\nIt was perhaps inevitable Liverpool would be unable to maintain their relentless style, but there will be concerns they have now gone four league games without a win since Crystal Palace were demolished 7-0 at Selhurst Park.\n\nBefore this draw, West Bromwich Albion left Anfield with a point, while Liverpool also had a goalless draw at Newcastle United and lost at Southampton.\n\nSadio Mane and Mohamed Salah are feeding off scraps, while Roberto Firmino's impact was so minimal that he was withdrawn near the end, even with the hosts chasing a goal.\n\nA team as good as Liverpool will not remain off the boil for too long, but there is no doubt they are struggling for form and spark. The fact this is their longest barren sequence in the league since February and March 2005 tells the tale.\n\nManchester United may have a taken a point before this game and there will be justified satisfaction that they subdued Liverpool so completely, created the game's best chances and remain top of the table.\n\nAnd yet there must also be disappointment that they could not cash in completely on an off-colour Liverpool, with reality dawning on them very late that they could take all three points.\n\nFernandes, despite being poor in general, almost unlocked Liverpool twice, while Solskjaer and his backroom team threw their hands up in frustration as other good positions were wasted late on.\n\nIn the final reckoning, however, there will be few complaints at this outcome, which leaves them three points ahead of Liverpool with the visit to Anfield negotiated without mishap.\n\nUnited were well organised and grew into the game after a poor opening half-hour and had real defensive heroes in captain Harry Maguire and left-back Luke Shaw, with the latter particularly outstanding.\n\nIt is a display that will give them increased confidence and belief as they lead the pack - although they might just look back and think a point could so easily have been three.\n\n'It was an opportunity missed' - reaction\n\nManchester United manager Solskjaer said: \"They are a good side and they have some injury problems but we didn't pounce on that.\n\n\"I felt we grew into the game and got stronger and stronger and were closer to winning.\n\n\"We were a bit disappointed in the performance, not just the result. We didn't do well enough to cause them problems in the first half but we defended well and they didn't create too many chances.\"But I think everyone was a bit disappointed with the way we started the game but that is a good feeling to have - that we were disappointed in the performance.\"\n\nLiverpool boss Klopp told BBC Sport: \"The performance was good and the first half was exceptionally good.\n\n\"With all the things that were said before the game - United are flying and we were struggling - and then to play this kind of game, I was happy with that.\n\n\"We tried in the second half again, but you cannot deny United over 90 minutes, not with the counter-attacking threat they have. So they had two really good chances, I have to say, but we had our chances in the second half as well.\n\n\"The way we understood the game, the way we felt the game, the way we read the moments were really good. But it is not exactly how it should be so we have space for improvement, absolutely. We will keep working on that.\"\n• None Liverpool and Manchester United have drawn 0-0 at Anfield in the league three times in the past five seasons, as many times as in the previous 48 top-flight campaigns.\n• None United are unbeaten in their past 16 away matches in the Premier League (W12 D4) - only once have they gone longer without a defeat on the road in the competition (17 games ending in September 1999).\n• None Liverpool are now unbeaten in their past 68 league games at Anfield, earning 178 out of a possible 204 points over this run.\n• None United are the first side to stop Liverpool scoring at Anfield in a Premier League match since Manchester City in October 2018 - this was Liverpool's 43rd home league game since then.\n• None Under Klopp, Liverpool are unbeaten in all seven of their Premier League games at Anfield when facing the side starting the day top of the table (W3 D4).\n• None Marcus Rashford was caught offside five times in this match, the most of any Premier League player this season and the most by a United player since Robin van Persie (six) against Spurs in January 2013.\n\nUnited are at Fulham in the league on Wednesday (20:15 GMT) and Liverpool host Burnley on Thursday (20:00). Next Sunday, Manchester United and Liverpool will meet again - at Old Trafford this time - in the FA Cup fourth round, a match you can watch live on BBC One and the BBC Sport website.\n• None Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Curtis Jones (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Paul Pogba tries a through ball, but Marcus Rashford is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Luke Shaw with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Paul Pogba (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Thiago (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Georginio Wijnaldum. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Missed all the goals, highlights and talking points from Saturday's Premier League action? Match of the Day is streaming now", "Hospitals are preparing for the expected peak of the latest Covid-19 surge this week, the Northern Trust's chief executive has said.\n\nJennifer Welsh said there was \"huge pressure across the (healthcare) system\" with more intensive care admissions expected.\n\nThirty patients were awaiting admission to Antrim Area Hospital on Sunday morning, she said.\n\nThere were 25 more deaths linked to Covid-19 reported in NI on Sunday.\n\nThe total number of deaths recorded by the Department of Health since the start of the pandemic is now 1,606.\n\nIt was also reported that there had been 822 more positive cases, with 67 people in intensive care and 50 people on ventilators.\n\nThere are 840 patients being treated for Covid- 19 across Northern Ireland, according to the latest available figures with hospitals working at 93% capacity.\n\nMeanwhile, Northern Ireland has been continuing its vaccination programme having distributed 140,559 first doses and 20,174 second doses.\n\nThe total number of jabs administered in the UK, including both first and second doses, is 4,307,002 according to government data.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Sunday, there were 13 further deaths related to Covid-19, bringing the total number to 2,608 since the start of the pandemic.\n\nThere was also a further 2,944 positive cases, bringing the total number of cases in the state to 172,726.\n\nThe Republic of Ireland's Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan said the situation in the country's hospitals was \"stark\" and that people of all ages were being admitted and taken into intensive care.\n\nAt the beginning of January, Health Minister Robin Swann said that modelling indicated the \"peak of the third surge\" would hit in the third week of January.\n\nFrontline health staff have spoken to BBC News NI about their \"exhaustion\" and stress, as the pressure on the system continues to increase amid the surging number of cases.\n\nNorthern Ireland is currently in the third week of a six-week lockdown, with ministers scheduled to review measures next week.\n\nHowever, health officials have warned that an extension of the restrictions could be required to reduce pressure on the health service.\n\nNorthern Trust chief executive Jennifer Welsh said hospitals were \"coping but at great cost\"\n\nMs Welsh told BBC NI's Sunday Politics programme that the \"ICU surge is yet to come\" and that the Northern Trust - where two major hospitals, Antrim Area and Causeway, are located - has had to redeploy staff to prepare for the coming days.\n\nShe said both hospitals had been \"under significant pressure and have been for some time\".\n\nShe said 30 patients in Antrim Area's Emergency Department are waiting on a bed after a decision was made to admit them - 24 of those patients have been waiting longer than 12 hours.\n\nMs Welsh added that almost half of all patients in Antrim Area Hospital have tested positive for Covid-19.\n\n\"At the peak of the first wave in Antrim and Causeway the highest number of Covid positive patients was 73.\n\n\"In November, the highest number was 102 and we peaked on Thursday at 202. We have now dropped below that slightly.\"\n\nThe chief executive said the hospitals were \"coping but at great cost\", with many urgent surgeries cancelled.\n\n\"Emergency surgery is being done but we are not being able to do any other in the Antrim Area site.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by bbctheview This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We have been able to deliver some red flag cancer surgery at Causeway but we would like to do more.\"\n\nDespite these emergency measures already in place, the worst of the current surge is only expected to arrive this week.\n\nShe added: \"We are not going to get out of this quickly. It's going to be a challenge for us as a system.\n\n\"It's been building from October.\"\n\n\"We're not yet at the peak of intensive care admissions and we expect that this week.\n\n\"Antrim has doubled its intensive care beds from seven to 14 in anticipation of the coming surge - 11 are already being used.\n\n\"All hospitals have doubled their ICU footprint. There are more than 160 inpatients in Antrim Area Hospital.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BMA Scotland GP chief says doctors \"can't plan\" for vaccines\n\nDoctors leaders say the \"patchy supply\" of vaccine to GP surgeries across Scotland is hampering the speed of delivery to patients.\n\nMinisters have pledged a first dose of the vaccine to 1.4 million of the most vulnerable Scots by mid-February.\n\nBut the British Medical Association in Scotland said inconsistencies in supply made it difficult to plan patient appointments to receive the vaccine.\n\nThey also said some GP surgeries had yet to receive any vaccine at all.\n\nThe Scottish government said it was working with health boards to resolve the issues.\n\nCurrently, about 16,000 vaccinations a day are being carried out in Scotland. However, that is expected to rise significantly as efforts to deliver the vaccine are scaled up.\n\nOn Sunday, 1,341 new cases of Covid-19 were reported - the lowest daily figure since 28 December. However, the numbers being admitted to hospital have continued to rise, reaching 1,918.\n\nNo new deaths were registered.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman has pledged that the workforce and infrastructure will be in place to vaccinate 400,000 people each week by the end of February.\n\nThe government has already announced plans for large vaccination centres in Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh.\n\nIt comes after more than 5,000 front-line health and care staff were vaccinated at the NHS Louisa Jordan in Glasgow on Saturday.\n\nGP practices across Scotland are currently providing vaccination services to those aged over 80.\n\nAbout 16,000 vaccinations are currently being carried out a day in Scotland\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Politics Scotland programme, Dr Andrew Buist, who chairs the British Medical Association's (BMA) GP committee in Scotland, said there was inconsistencies across the GP network.\n\nHe said the vaccine deployment plan was \"ambitious\" and so far \"good progress\" had been made in giving it to priority groups such as care homes residents and front-line health staff.\n\nHowever, he told the programme: \"The current problem lies with the next priority group, which is the 80-plus group, which GPs in Scotland are set to vaccinate because the supply of the vaccine so far has been quite patchy.\n\n\"Some practices have a good supply, some have had none so far.\"\n\nHe said his practice had received 100 doses of the vaccine for 600 patients over the age of 80, who all needed to be vaccinated by 5 February.\n\nHe added: \"I then have to do another 1,200 patients in the 70-plus group and the extremely clinically vulnerable by the middle of February, so we need to do 1,700 vaccines in the next four weeks.\n\n\"Now we can do that. We are used to providing large number of flu vaccinations and it is possible, we have our workforce in place, but we need the vaccine, otherwise we can't do it.\"\n\nWhen asked if his practice was running out of vaccine at the end of each day, Dr Buist said: \"Yes - we can't plan, that's the key thing. We can't send out appointments to patients until we're sure we have the vaccine in our fridge.\n\n\"We were given 100 doses on Monday. We used that all up by Friday. We don't want to send out appointments to patients until we know that we can definitively vaccinate them otherwise patients get very upset.\"\n\nVaccinators have reported being able to extract one additional dose from vaccine vials\n\nDr Buist said vaccinators were regularly managing to extract higher numbers of doses from vaccine vials despite claims that some doses were being wasted.\n\nHe said there was widespread experience of six doses being extracted from Pfizer vaccine vials, which were marketed as having five doses, while 11 doses were regularly being taken from AstraZeneca vials.\n\nBut Dr Buist criticised issues around the red tape some retired health professional had faced when volunteering to become vaccinators.\n\n\"I have reports that arrangement to get doctors and nurses back into the system have been quite bureaucratic and I think it's something we need to look at.\"\n\nThe Scottish government acknowledged that there had been delays in vaccine supplies reaching some GP surgeries.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"GPs have a significant role to play in delivering the vaccine - and we thank them for their hard work and patience as we roll out more vaccines to those in the communities.\n\n\"We know there have been some initial delays in supply reaching some practices and are working with health boards to resolve this. Vaccines are being manufactured as quickly as possible and we will continue to explore all options available to increase supply.\"\n\nThe government said health boards were providing order information for their GP practices to National Procurement who in turn advised the distribution partner.\n\nThe spokeswoman added: \"Once stock is released for ordering, the distribution partner inputs the GP orders on to their ordering system. Once the order has been placed, GP practices will receive an automated email providing an indication of the delivery day.\n\n\"We too want to vaccinate as many people as quickly as possible and are continually working hard to see if distribution can be made faster in any respect.\"", "Chris Cramer, a major figure in BBC News and later CNN International, has died at the age of 73 after a period of ill health. Former BBC director of news Richard Sambrook looks back at his life.\n\nChris Cramer's legacy will be the major change in attitudes and support for journalist safety he championed through the BBC and across the wider industry, as well as many achievements in newsgathering and international news.\n\nHe began his career as a teenager on the Portsmouth Evening News, moving to BBC Radio Solent when it launched in 1970.\n\nAfter a year's secondment in Brunei he found his way to the BBC TV Newsroom in the 1970s and developed his reputation as a highly competitive and effective news editor and field producer.\n\nIn 1980 he and a BBC team were in the Iranian Embassy in London collecting visas when it was seized by gunmen opposed to Ayatollah Khomeini. A standoff and siege followed, with Chris among 26 hostages.\n\nHe managed to feign serious illness and was released by the gunmen allowing him to give vital information to the authorities before the SAS stormed the embassy and rescued the hostages.\n\nAt a time when no-one understood or spoke of PTSD, it had a marked effect on his life.\n\nArmed police on the adjoining balcony to the Iranian Embassy during the siege in 1980\n\nMany journalists and crew subsequently spoke of his care and attention when they had difficult experiences and he went on to drive major changes in understanding and support for journalists' safety.\n\nWith BBC Safety manager Peter Hunter, Chris introduced the first hostile environment training courses, risk assessments and equipment for those covering conflicts.\n\nFormer correspondent Martin Bell recalls: \"From Vietnam to Croatia I had covered 10 wars without protection. Then in June 1992 we were shot up crossing the airport runway in Sarajevo in a soft-skinned vehicle. Within two weeks Chris had procured our first armoured Land Rover, the redoubtable 'Miss Piggy', and the body armour to go with it.\"\n\nHe later introduced the first confidential counselling service for news teams, recognising PTSD, and helped found the International News Safety Institute, which spearheaded safety across the news industry.\n\nDuring the 1980s he was at the forefront of organising and overseeing major news coverage, including Michael Buerk's reporting from the Ethiopian famine, coverage of the IRA Brighton bomb attack on the British government, the Zeebrugge ferry disaster, Kate Adie's reporting from Tiananmen Square, the fall of eastern Europe, the first Gulf War and many more major events.\n\nHis fierce competitiveness delivered a series of major exclusives and awards for BBC News.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jeremy Bowen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn the 1990s he oversaw major investment in BBC Newsgathering and the integration of radio and TV reporting - often against internal resistance. His managerial style could be uncompromising and tough, but he was also bitingly funny, shrewd and his hard exterior hid a warm-hearted and generous core.\n\nHe was crucial to establishing the integrated News division as it exists today.\n\nIn 1996 he left the BBC to move to Atlanta as managing director and executive vice-president of CNN International.\n\nThere he took his passion for news safety and his competitive news edge to develop the network into a greater global force.\n\nAs his former BBC and CNN colleague Tony Maddox has said: \"Among his many accomplishments Chris was a pioneer and innovator in field safety for journalists. He led the development of guidelines and practices now widely adopted across the industry.\"\n\nCramer moved to CNN after his time with the BBC\n\nHe was a larger-than-life figure who generated affection and respect in equal measure, often wielding a rapid and disarming wit.\n\nHe is also remembered for supporting women into senior and executive positions and helping them succeed.\n\nDirector of BBC News Fran Unsworth recalls: \"He was one of journalism's enormous characters and a legend in the television news industry. But the legend and the reported image always belied the man.\n\n\"He was immensely kind, thoughtful and caring underneath that image he sometimes projected.\"\n\nFormer deputy director general Mark Byford said: \"He was probably the greatest newsgathering executive ever in the broadcast news business and his organisational skills, competitiveness, eye for a story and steel were extraordinary.\n\n\"He was also, behind the facade, a gentle giant who cared for his people with amazing passion and love.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by John Simpson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Many editors, correspondents and presenters in BBC News owe their success to his mentorship - myself included.\"\n\nAfter 11 years he left CNN and took up roles first with Reuters TV and then the Wall Street Journal, where his experience and expertise were used to develop their digital video services.\n\nHe leaves his wife, Nina, son Richard and daughter Nicolette and his daughter Hannah by an earlier marriage to Helen, a former BBC producer.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nóra Quoirin's parents: \"The inquest is a battle we must continue in Nóra's name\"\n\nThe mother of a 15-year-old girl found dead in a Malaysian jungle says she believes her daughter's body was placed by somebody in the spot she was found.\n\nNóra Quoirin, from Balham in south London, vanished from her room at the Dusun rainforest resort in August 2019.\n\nHer body was found near the resort nine days after she went missing. A coroner recorded her death was by misadventure.\n\nMeabh Quoirin, who thinks Nora was abducted, said the family would \"never give up their fight for justice\".\n\nNóra was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder that affects brain development, and her parents have always believed that wandering off from the resort - which is about 40 miles from Kuala Lumpur - was not something their daughter would have done.\n\nA post-mortem examination found Nóra had died three days before her body was found, due to gastrointestinal bleeding from hunger and stress endured over a prolonged period.\n\nBut Mrs Quoirin points out that the jungle had been searched on four occasions in the seven days leading up to her death, with police suggesting the teenager been \"alive and moving\" during the first stages of the search.\n\n\"The fact that search teams were there, along with many hundreds of volunteers in that particular area so close to her death, makes us feel that she was placed there at a later point,\" Mrs Quoirin told the BBC.\n\nNóra's parents Maebh and Sebastien Quoirin want there to be a revision of the inquest verdict\n\nThe teenager's mother pointed out that the inquest had not explained how her daughter ended up in the jungle, where her unclothed body was eventually found by a group of volunteers.\n\n\"I suppose the easiest one to dwell on was the fact there was an open window [in the family's chalet],\" said Mrs Quoirin, who is originally from Belfast.\n\n\"Someone opened that window, it wasn't any of us. That is totally unexplained.\"\n\nMalaysian police have always treated Nóra's disappearance as a missing person case. They maintain there was no suggestion of abduction, kidnap or foul play.\n\nDuring the search for her daughter, Mrs Quoirin told emergency services that their work meant \"the world to us\"\n\n\"Nóra always looked to someone else for reassurance on what she should do next so the idea that she would have climbed out a window - even found a window or seen a window in the pitch black - is in our view crazy,\" Mrs Quorin said.\n\n\"If she had somehow mistaken which door was for the bathroom and had gone out the front door for instance... she was barefoot, she would have instantly felt pain and she would have been absolutely petrified.\"\n\nNóra's parents have asked for a revision of the inquest verdict as \"so many questions have been left unanswered\".\n\nNóra was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder which affects brain development\n\n\"I think it will be impossible to ever have all the answers to questions that inevitably we will agonise over for the rest of our lives,\" Mrs Quoirin said.\n\n\"We can do more justice by at least recognising who this child was and that she wouldn't have - couldn't have - done the things that have been ruled through this verdict of misadventure.\n\n\"It's our duty to Nora to stand up for that, to really recognise who she was and stand up in the name of all children with special needs, to recognise who these children are, what they represent in our society.\"", "Within seconds of being dropped, LauncherOne had ignited its engine\n\nSir Richard Branson's rocket company Virgin Orbit has succeeded in putting its first satellites in space.\n\nTen payloads in total were lofted on the same rocket, which was launched from under the wing of one of the entrepreneur's old 747 jumbos.\n\nSir Richard is hoping to tap into what is a growing market for small, lower-cost satellites.\n\nBy using a jet plane as the launch platform, he can theoretically send up spacecraft from anywhere in the world.\n\nIn reality, of course, his Virgin Orbit system has to be licensed in the locality where it is used, which at the moment is solely California. But there are well-advanced plans to bring the 747 and its rockets to Cornwall in south-west England, for example.\n\nSunday's success was a big fillip for Sir Richard's team who had tried and failed to launch a rocket in May last year. That effort was thwarted by a breached propellant line feeding liquid oxygen to the booster's first-stage Newton-3 engine.\n\nNo such problems occurred this time.\n\nThe modified 747, named Cosmic Girl, left its base in California's Mojave desert at 10:50 PST (18:50 UTC) to fly out over the Pacific Ocean.\n\nA little under 60 minutes later, and cruising at 35,000ft (10,500m), the jet banked hard to the right, dropping as it did so the 21m-long rocket that had been clamped to its underside.\n\nWithin seconds this booster, called LauncherOne, had ignited its engine and was climbing to space.\n\nCorrect deployment of the various spacecraft onboard at an altitude of roughly 500km was confirmed a couple of hours later.\n\n\"A new gateway to space has just sprung open,\" said Virgin Orbit CEO Dan Hart. \"That LauncherOne was able to successfully reach orbit today is a testament to this team's talent, precision, drive, and ingenuity.\"\n\nSir Richard has been trying to find the right solution to get into the satellite launch business since 2009. His concrete proposal was first put before the public at the Farnborough International Air Show three years later.\n\nThere is an emerging market for small, lower-cost spacecraft, whose developers are seeking more flexible and affordable ways of getting their assets above the Earth.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVirgin Orbit is one of a number of companies now racing to meet this demand. Other contenders include the Rocket Lab outfit, which sends up its vehicles from a ground launch pad in New Zealand. But there are tens of other small rocket start-ups at various stages of maturation, and some of these plan to operate from the UK as well.\n\n\"Virgin Orbit has achieved something many thought impossible. It was so inspiring to see our specially adapted Virgin Atlantic 747, Cosmic Girl, send the LauncherOne rocket soaring into orbit,\" Sir Richard said.\n\n\"This magnificent flight is the culmination of many years of hard work and will also unleash a whole new generation of innovators on the path to orbit. I can't wait to see the incredible missions Dan and the team will launch to change the world for good.\"\n\nSir Richard presented the LauncherOne concept at Farnborough in 2012\n\nWill Whitehorn is the president of UKSpace, the trade body representing the space industry in Britain. He's also a former president of Virgin Galactic, Sir Richard's other space company which hopes soon to start flying fare-paying passengers above the atmosphere in a rocket plane.\n\nHe said Virgin Orbit's success on Sunday was hugely significant.\n\n\"This is a momentous day for the small satellite world, as we will be able to launch satellites responsively; and for the UK this event promises sovereign launch capability very soon,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"I plan to push hard for a launch from Cornwall to coincide with the G7 meeting this year if at all possible!\"\n\nSunday's payloads were mostly shoebox-sized and developed by universities\n\nThe air-launched system has the flexibility to operate anywhere - in theory", "A doctor has appeared in court charged with the attempted murder of a \"highly-respected\" fellow plastic surgeon who was stabbed in his own home.\n\nGraeme Perks, 65, was stabbed in his abdomen and chest in Halam, Nottinghamshire, on Thursday.\n\nJonathan Peter Brooks, also charged with three counts of attempted arson with intent to endanger life, appeared at Nottingham Magistrates' Court.\n\nMr Perks is currently in a serious but stable condition, police said.\n\nMr Brooks, 56, of Landseer Road, Southwell, has also been charged with possession of a knife in a public place.\n\nHe was remanded in custody to appear at Nottingham Crown Court on 15 February.\n\nPolice said they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the attack.\n\nGraeme Perks has been described as \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\"\n\nThe two men were colleagues at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.\n\nA spokeswoman for the trust said: \"This incident has affected many of our staff who worked closely with, and are friends with Graeme.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with Graeme and his family at this time.\"\n\nMr Perks had served as president of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS), which described him as \"one of the most highly-regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\".\n\nPolice previously said Mr Perks had gone to investigate the sound of breaking glass at about 04:15 GMT on Thursday, after an intruder was believed to have smashed their way into the house.\n\nPolice said Mr Perks was stabbed at his home in Halam, Nottinghamshire, while his family were upstairs\n\nThey said Mr Perks was stabbed and the suspect ran off.\n\nMr Perks worked in London, Sheffield, Newcastle and Melbourne, Australia, but returned to the UK in the mid-1990s and started working in Nottingham.\n\nHe and his wife have raised thousands of pounds for charity by opening their garden to visitors, and were featured on BBC Radio Nottingham after raising more than £34,000.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Keelan Wilson was 15 when he was stabbed more than 40 times\n\nFour men have been found guilty of murdering a boy stabbed more than 40 times in a \"well-planned execution\".\n\nKeelan Wilson, 15, was fatally injured on Langley Road in Merry Hill, Wolverhampton, on 29 May, 2018.\n\nThe four murderers acted \"like a pack of animals\" amid rising gang violence in the city, police said.\n\nKeelan's mother Kelly Ellitts said the convictions meant justice for her son, but added \"nothing would bring Keelan back\".\n\nIt emerged a few days after the murder that when an ambulance was called for the wounded boy, his final words included \"tell my mum I love her\".\n\nThe trial at Wolverhampton Crown Court heard how the night time attack - carried out by Brian Sasa and Nehemie Tampwo, each aged 20, along with Tyrique King and Zenay Pennant-Phillips, both 19 - was \"not in any way spontaneous\".\n\nDet Sgt Nick Barnes from the West Midlands force said Keelan had the \"single worst set of injuries\" he had seen on a victim in more than six years investigating homicide.\n\nThere had been increasing acts of violence between opposing gangs leading up to the murder, including disorder earlier that day, police said.\n\nThat included weapons being brandished in Wolverhampton city centre, and in another incident, Keelan and two others being shot at by a group of youngsters on bikes. No one was hurt.\n\nBut later on, the court heard, the group of four killers ran towards Keelan as he sat in a taxi close to his home, then pulled open the rear door and \"set about him with weapons\", inflicting more than 40 knife wounds.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Keelan Wilson's mother Kelly Ellitts 'hit the floor' when she saw he had been stabbed\n\nMichael Duck QC, prosecuting, said the killing \"was not in any way a spontaneous act of violence\".\n\nHe said: \"This was a well-planned, targeted group attack by a number of youths armed with knives, and that was with the plan to execute another young man.\"\n\nDuring the 13-week trial, jurors heard there was evidence to suggest the victim had \"become embroiled in gang culture\", with his killers believing he had switched factions.\n\nDet Sgt Barnes said it was \"difficult\" to pinpoint a motive \"because Keelan wasn't on the police radar particularly for any such activity\".\n\nKeelan was wounded just metres from his home, receiving 43 stab wounds in total, according to police.\n\nHe had been driving with a friend - with whom he met up after the shooting incident - when their car broke down, which led to a taxi being called.\n\nA spokesperson for the Crown Prosecution Service said while Keelan was attacked on boarding the vehicle, his friend was \"left unscathed\" and fled, making it \"evident\" to authorities that \"Keelan was the only target\".\n\nMs Ellitts said she lived with the shock of her son's death daily.\n\n\"This isn't something that you think of every now and again, this is a daily thing that you have to live with.\n\n\"It's terrible my daughters won't know who he is.\"\n\nOn the day of Keelan's death, CCTV captured a scene from the Wolverhampton city centre disorder that police said was linked to gang activity\n\nSasa, of Long Ley, Heath Town, Wolverhampton; King, of Chelwood Gardens, Wolverhampton; Tampwo of Fern Grove in Bletchley, Milton Keynes; and Pennant-Phillips, whose address cannot be published for legal reasons, had all denied murder.\n\n\"Keelan was a child who had his whole life ahead of him,\" Det Sgt Barnes said.\n\nThe convictions, he added, came after a \"very difficult and long investigation,\" with more than 2,000 lines of inquiry having to be examined.\n\nSome lines of investigation had been met with a \"wall of silence,\" he said.\n\nJudge Michael Chambers said: \"It is an utter tragedy that a 15-year-old child lost his life at the hands of others who are barely older than he.\"\n\nSentencing is set to take place at Wolverhampton Crown Court on 19 March.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n• None 'Tell mum I love her' said stabbed boy\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Monica Calazans, a 54-year-old nurse in São Paulo, was given a Chinese-developed vaccine\n\nA nurse has received Brazil's first Covid-19 vaccine dose after regulators gave emergency approval to two jabs.\n\nRegulator Anvisa gave the green light to vaccines from Oxford-AstraZeneca and China's Sinovac, doses of which will be distributed among all 27 states.\n\nBrazil has the world's second-highest death toll from Covid-19 and cases are rising again across the country.\n\nPresident Jair Bolsonaro has been heavily criticised for his handling of the pandemic.\n\nThe president, who caught Covid-19 last year and recovered, has said he will not take a vaccine.\n\nAuthorities reported 551 new fatalities on Sunday, the first time in six days that it had fallen short of 1,000 although this could reflect a delay in the reporting of numbers over the weekend.\n\nIn all, more than 209,000 Covid-related deaths have been recorded in Brazil, a raw total figure only exceeded by the US.\n\nOver 8.4 million infections have been confirmed since the start of the pandemic - the third-highest tally in the world.\n\nHealth Minister Eduardo Pazuello told reporters that the national vaccination programme in the country of 211 million people would begin in earnest in the coming days. Two Brazilian biomedical centres which have been given approval to produce the jabs will be heavily involved.\n\nAbout six million doses of the Sinovac-developed CoronaVac have already been produced in Brazil, while the government is waiting for shipments of the AstraZeneca vaccine from a laboratory in India.\n\nShortly after Anvisa's board gave emergency approval, Monica Calazans, a 54-year-old nurse in São Paulo, became the first person to be inoculated with CoronaVac.\n\nHer vaccination was organised by the São Paulo state government, which is led by Mr Bolsonaro's main political rival, João Doria.\n\nThis has been a rare piece of good news today for Brazilians who are grappling with a devastating second wave.\n\nFrom where I am, the city of Manaus, the vaccine does not feel real. People here are trying to recover a collapsed health system and doing what they can to keep their sick relatives alive.\n\nThe pandemic has become deeply political in Brazil. President Bolsonaro continues to present himself as a vaccine sceptic and he was notably absent as the vaccines were approved. Instead, Monday's newspapers will no doubt have São Paulo Governor Doria slapped on their front pages.\n\nHe is expected to run in next year's presidential elections and has backed the Sinovac vaccine from the very start. He was once a Bolsonaro ally and is now his nemesis - but there is no doubt who is leading the way in trying to get the population vaccinated.\n\nEarlier this week researchers said the Chinese vaccine had been found to be 50.4% effective in Brazilian clinical trials. This, results showed, was significantly less effective than previous data suggested - barely over the 50% needed for regulatory approval.\n\nCoronaVac is also being used in China, Indonesia and Turkey.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe news comes after revelations that a new coronavirus variant has emerged in Brazil. Several cases were traced back to the Amazonas state, where a state of emergency is in place.\n\nManaus, the state capital, has been hit especially hard, with beds and life-saving oxygen running low. Refrigerated containers have also been brought to hospitals to help store bodies.\n\nNeighbouring Venezuela said it had sent a convoy of trucks with oxygen supplies to help Amazonas.\n\nPresident Bolsonaro has faced mounting criticism for his handling of Brazil's outbreak, and several anti-government protests were held last week.\n\nAn opponent of lockdowns, he has previously blamed state governors and mayors for the Covid crisis, saying the federal government has provided all the resources needed to tackle the virus.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The deer had to be put down by a gamekeeper after the attack\n\nA warning has been issued by royal parks police after a dog carried out a \"relentless\" attack on a deer that had to be put down.\n\nFootage shows the dog savaging the red deer in London's Richmond Park.\n\nCases of pets worrying deer in London's eight royal parks have shot up during lockdown, police say. They are urging owners to keep dogs on leads.\n\nSeparately, on Sunday, a 10-year-old child was injured by a herd of deer being chased by a dog in Bushy Park.\n\nPolice said the incident in the park in Richmond-upon-Thames, which left the child needing hospital treatment, underlined the need for people to keep their dogs on a lead if they are unsure how they will react to deer.\n\nOn Friday, Franck Hiribarne, 44, from Kingston in south-west London, admitted causing or permitting an animal he was in charge of to injure another animal, in relation to the Richmond Park attack.\n\nWimbledon magistrates heard the doe suffered deep wounds, then received a broken leg when it was hit by a car as it tried to flee from the dog. Witnesses described the attack as \"relentless\".\n\nThe deer had to be put down by a gamekeeper after the attack in October.\n\nMr Hiribarne, who reported the matter himself to the Royal Parks Office, said he usually walked his red setter Alfie on a lead until he was well away from any grazing deer, and that the dog had been responding well to \"off-lead\" commands.\n\nThe dog owner, who was fined £600, said in a statement: \"I was genuinely shocked and sorry for what had happened and since then I have refrained completely from letting Alfie off the leash in any park.\n\n\"I have also taken a special dog trainer specialised in gundogs to control more accurately any of his hunting instincts. He has made great progress.\"\n\nFour deer have died from dog attacks in the royal parks since March 2020, while there have been 58 incidents of dogs chasing the herds - a big increase on previous years - according to the manager of Richmond Park.\n\nPart of the increase is thought to be down to new dog owners who are unfamiliar with the best conduct around wildlife.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Alexandru Murgeanu (l) and Jason Mercer were killed in the crash on the M1 in South Yorkshire\n\nA coroner has called for a review of smart motorways after an inquest heard the deaths of two men on a stretch of the M1 could have been avoided.\n\nJason Mercer, 44, and Alexandru Murgeanu, 22, died when Prezemyslaw Szuba crashed his lorry into their vehicles near Sheffield on 7 June 2019.\n\nCoroner David Urpeth said smart motorways without a hard shoulder carry \"an ongoing risk of future deaths\".\n\nHighways England said it was \"addressing many of the points raised\".\n\nMr Urpeth recorded a verdict of unlawful killing at Sheffield Town Hall. He added he would be writing to Highways England and the transport secretary asking for a review.\n\nThe inquest heard the deaths of the two men may have been avoided had there had been a hard shoulder.\n\nOn the stretch of the M1 where the crash took place, the hard shoulder has been replaced by an active lane.\n\nSzuba, 40, from Hull, was jailed last year after admitting causing their deaths by careless driving.\n\nHe was speaking from prison to the inquest.\n\nPrezemyslaw Szuba was jailed over the deaths\n\nAnswering questions over the phone, Szuba told the hearing he accepted he was driving without paying proper attention.\n\n\"I have already accepted that at my trial,\" he said, but added: \"If there had been a hard shoulder on this bit of motorway, the collision would have been avoidable.\n\n\"I would have driven past these two cars as it would be safer and they would have been able to come home safely and I would be able to come back home.\"\n\nSzuba said he had only three to five seconds to react, and asked if he would have avoided the crash had he been paying attention, he said: \"It's difficult to say after everything now.\"\n\nSgt Mark Brady, who oversees major collision investigations for South Yorkshire Police, told the hearing: \"Had there been a hard shoulder, had Jason and Alexandru pulled on to the hard shoulder, my opinion is that Mr Szuba would have driven clean past them.\"\n\nBut he accepted the primary cause of the crash was Szuba's inattention to the road.\n\nThe crash happened after a collision between a Ford Focus driven by Mr Mercer, from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, and a Ford Transit driven by Mr Murgeanu, who was living in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, but was originally from Romania.\n\nWhen Mr Mercer and Mr Murgeanu got out to exchange details they were hit by the lorry, and both died at the scene.\n\nMr Mercer's wife Claire has campaigned against smart motorways since her husband's death, and was at the hearing on Monday.\n\nClaire Mercer has campaigned against the use of smart motorways since her husband's death\n\nIn a statement, Highways England said it was \"determined\" to do everything it could to make roads as safe as possible and was already addressing many of the points raised by the coroner \"as published in the Government's Smart Motorway Evidence Stocktake and Action Plan of March 2020\".\n\n\"We will carefully consider any further comments raised by the coroner once we receive the report,\" it added.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A man has scaled a Hong Kong skyscraper in his wheelchair to raise money for spinal cord patients.\n\nLai Chi-Wai, who became paralysed after a road accident ten years ago, climbed 250 metres (820ft) of the Nina Towers building.\n\nBefore his accident, Lai Chi-Wai was a rock-climbing champion in Asia and eighth best in the world.\n\nHe said that \"knowing there was a possibility...that I could be a climber again, I found some direction in life\".", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nPhil Neville has left his role as manager of England's women and been appointed in charge of David Beckham's Major League Soccer side Inter Miami.\n\nThe 43-year-old was appointed as England boss in January 2018 and his contract was set to end in July.\n\nThe Football Association says it will \"shortly confirm\" an interim head coach until Sarina Wiegman's arrival.\n\nNetherlands manager Wiegman will take on the role after the delayed Tokyo Olympics in August.\n\nFormer Manchester United and Everton defender Neville was the leading contender to manage Great Britain at the Games, but his move to the United States has left the FA needing another option.\n\n\"This is a very young club with a lot of promise and upside, and I am committed to challenging myself, my players and everyone around me to grow and build a competitive soccer culture we can all be proud of,\" Neville said of his American move.\n\nBeckham said of his former Manchester United team-mate: \"I have known Phil since we were both teenagers at the academy.\n\n\"We share a footballing DNA having been trained by some of the best leaders in the game, and it's those values that I have always wanted running through our club.\"\n\nThe MLS side had been managed by former Uruguay striker Diego Alonso before the 45-year-old left by mutual consent earlier this month.\n\nBeckham added: \"Anyone who has played or worked with Phil knows he is a natural leader, and I believe now is the right time for him to join.\"\n\nNeville led the Lionesses to their first SheBelieves Cup title in 2019 and fourth place at the Women's World Cup later the same year, but results since that tournament have been poor.\n\nEngland's struggles under Neville continued at the 2020 SheBelieves Cup, where a late defeat by Spain in the final match was their seventh loss in 11 games.\n\nThe Lionesses have not played since that game last March because of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"It has been an honour to manage England and I have enjoyed three of the best years of my career,\" said Neville, who won 19 of his 35 games in charge.\n\n\"The players who wear the England shirt are some of the most talented and dedicated athletes I have ever had the privilege to work with.\n\n\"They have challenged me and improved me as a coach, and I am very grateful to them for the fantastic memories we have shared.\"\n\nNeville, who had no previous experience in the women's game before taking over, has made a \"significant contribution\" during his three-year spell, said Baroness Campbell, the FA's director of women's football.\n\n\"The commitment, dedication and respect he has shown the position has been clear to see,\" she added.\n\n\"I will personally miss our many conversations about ways we can improve and progress.\"\n\nEngland are ranked sixth in the world, having been third when Neville succeeded Mark Sampson.\n\nNeville's record against the best sides came under particular scrutiny, with England winning one of their nine games against teams ranked in the top five in the world during his reign.\n\nNeville's record against teams ranked in the world's top five\n\n\"After steadying the ship at a challenging period, he helped us to win the SheBelieves Cup for the first time, reach the World Cup semi-finals and qualify for the Olympics,\" added Campbell.\n\n\"Given his status as a former Manchester United and England player, he did much to raise the profile of our team.\n\n\"He has used his platform to champion the women's game, worked tirelessly to support our effort to promote more female coaches and used his expertise to develop many of our younger players.\"\n\nWhat happens next with England?\n\nThe FA is expected to name England's interim head coach in the next few days.\n\nAmong the favourites is former Norway midfielder Hege Riise, one of the greatest players of her generation - a European Championship winner in 1993, a World Cup winner in 1995 and an Olympic gold medallist in 2000.\n\nAfter retiring as a player, Riise moved into club management in Norway and also coached the country's Under-23 side before spending three years as assistant to then-USA head coach Pia Sundhage from 2009.\n\nShe then joined the set-up at Norwegian club LSK Kvinner in 2012 - becoming head coach in 2017 - as they won six successive titles between 2014 and 2019, while also reaching the 2018-19 Champions League quarter-finals.\n\nRiise was one of seven nominees for the Fifa best women's coach award in 2020, won by Wiegman in December.\n\nThe new interim manager has no England fixtures booked in the diary, though there has reportedly been discussions over a mini-tournament during the next international window in February.\n\nEngland will not be taking part in the SheBelieves Cup but could host a tournament which would see three other nations take part in a round-robin event.\n• None All the goals, highlights and analysis from the weekend's Premier League matches, including Manchester United's visit to Liverpool: MOTD2 is streaming now on BBC iPlayer", "Morgan Le-Riche and other students have questioned if they should be paying full tuition fees\n\n\"I am paying £9,000 for a university degree that is causing me nothing but anxiety and stress.\"\n\nFor Morgan Le-Riche, the university experience since the coronavirus pandemic hit has not been worth the fee.\n\nSome students are calling for reduced tuition fees and more support.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it provided the most generous student support package in the UK and has appointed a dedicated minister for mental health.\n\nIn announcing a lockdown earlier this week, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said students in England would not return to the classroom until mid February, with calls for clarity over what will happen in Wales.\n\nMorgan, who is studying criminology and criminal justice at the University of South Wales, said \"something needs to be done to help us students\".\n\nHer Facebook post calling for more help was shared 3,000 times in three days - something that surprised her but also highlighted the depth of feeling.\n\nStudents face an uncertain time with with restrictions currently in place\n\nThe second year student said: \"I don't think the government is understanding students, instead they are only recognising primary and secondary schools - there's no recognition for university students.\"\n\nMorgan was given assignments to complete over Christmas, but said her lecturers had turned off their emails so she could not seek guidance when she was finding work difficult.\n\n\"I feel like the amount of stress I've had has meant I'm not doing a high enough standard of work, that I would normally do, due to the lack of assistance,\" she said.\n\nShe said more time with tutors and spaces for students to come together to discuss mental health would be beneficial.\n\nThe University of South Wales said their course teams are committed to providing \"comprehensive support\" and are \"readily available to offer help and guidance for students\".\n\nStudents in England have been told to work online and remain where they are\n\nA petition calling for the UK government to reduce university student tuition fees from £9,250 to £3,000 has gained more than 400,000 signatures online.\n\nMorgan thinks she has been \"massively let down\" and there needs to be a \"heavy reduction\" on the amount students are paying for their courses.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"We are the only country in the whole of Europe that provides equivalent up front living costs grants and loans for full and part-time undergraduates, and for post-graduates.\n\n\"This already covers campus-based and distance learners and will continue throughout the academic year.\"\n\nDanielle Herbert believes university students need more focus from government\n\nJournalism student Danielle Herbert, who also studies at the University of South Wales, said online learning has helped her mental health because otherwise a lot of her face-to-face interactions would be limited.\n\nDespite \"lecturers trying their best\", students' experiences since March last year have not been \"adequate for a £9,000 fee\".\n\nThe third-year student from Swindon said the prime minister's announcement of an England-wide lockdown was stressful \"because there was no mention of universities\".\n\nShe said: \"I was left very unclear and confused as to where I stood on travelling back to Wales. As someone who suffers from anxiety, I rely on concrete facts and that wasn't provided. We have been ignored by the prime minister.\n\n\"I had just paid my rent for this term - which was £2,300 - and I looked at my mum and dad and said: 'Am I even going to be able to go back to my student flat'?\"\n\nDanielle has called for more help for students in dealing with mental health issues during the pandemic\n\nShe does not believe students have had the same level of support as secondary school pupils, adding: \"We're still expected to produce the same standard of work without protection whilst there's a pandemic going on - it's really unrealistic.\"\n\nDanielle said having a \"no detriment\" policy in place would help to relieve students' stress.\n\n\"I think there's a real issue amongst students and students' mental health and it's only grown because of coronavirus. I think we will see the consequences of that if nothing is done.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"To support mental health services, we have made an additional £9.9m available, as part of efforts to ensure people can access the right support when they need it.\n\n\"In October we announced an additional £10m to support mental health services for higher education students in Wales to increase capacity in students' unions and universities to provide support services.\n\n\"This is in addition to the £27m Higher Education Investment and Recovery Fund announced in the summer.\"\n\nThe University of South Wales said the safety and wellbeing of students is its priority and students have access to a \"wide range of comprehensive support for their health, mental health and wellbeing\".\n\n\"Recognising that a number of staff would be on leave over the Christmas and New Year holidays, the course team let students know they were available for help and support right up until the end of term and students were encouraged to ask for support if they needed it,\" said a spokesperson.\n\n\"We are providing a full and interactive blended learning offer this term, in line with Welsh Government guidance, so that students can receive good experiences and a high-quality education, enabling them to progress and complete their studies on time.\"", "Software giant Github has apologised for firing a Jewish employee who warned co-workers to be careful about Nazis.\n\nThe employee was fired two days after using the word to describe participants in the US Capitol riots.\n\nBut Github now says that decision was a mistake, and its head of HR has resigned over the scandal.\n\nThe company says it has offered the fired employee his job back, and clarified that \"employees are free to express concerns about Nazis\".\n\nMicrosoft-owned Github is one of the most popular software development tools in the world, with more than 50 million users. News of the internal row was first reported by Business Insider.\n\nPeople associated with a range of extreme and far-right groups and supporters of fringe online conspiracy theories stormed Congress.\n\nAs it happened, the Jewish employee posted to an internal Github Slack channel: \"Stay safe homies, Nazis are about.\"\n\nBut the comment sparked criticism from a co-worker about the use of the word \"Nazi\" to describe the rioters, calling it \"untasteful conduct\" for the workplace.\n\nThe Jewish employee, who wished to remain anonymous, told Techcrunch he had been \"genuinely concerned about his co-workers in the area, in addition to his Jewish family members\".\n\nTwo days later, he was fired for his \"patterns of behaviour\".\n\nBut the firing led to an outcry from many more co-workers, with hundreds signing an internal letter calling on Github to explain the decision - and to publicly denounce Nazis.\n\nAmid the outcry, the company opened an investigation with an external investigator.\n\n\"The investigation revealed significant errors of judgment and procedure,\" chief executive Erica Brescia wrote in a blogpost. \"Our head of HR has taken personal accountability and resigned from GitHub.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joe Biden: \"Yesterday, in my view, was one of the darkest days in the history of our nation.\"\n\nShe said the firm had \"reversed the decision to separate with the employee\", and had contacted him - but it is not clear if the employee wishes to return after the treatment he received.\n\nThe company has also issued statements condemning white supremacists, Nazism, anti-Semitism, and those who took part in the Capitol riots.", "A group of London business leaders has written to the government calling for financial support for the struggling rail firm Eurostar.\n\nIn a letter to the Treasury and Department for Transport, they urge \"swift action to safeguard its future\".\n\nBosses of firms such as Fortnum & Mason signed the letter asking for access to government loans and business rates relief \"at the very least\".\n\nThe government says it is \"working closely\" with Eurostar.\n\nThe cross-Channel rail company is threatened by a large drop in passenger numbers due to coronavirus-related travel restrictions.\n\nIt reported in November that passenger numbers had been down 95% since March 2020.\n\nWith two trains an hour normally scheduled in peak hours, it now runs just two services a day from London to Paris and Brussels.\n\nThe letter, coordinated by business campaigning group London First and seen by the BBC, describes the firm as one that has \"fallen through the cracks\". Unlike some airlines, it has not been eligible for government-backed loans.\n\n\"If this viable business is allowed to fall between the cracks of support - neither an airline, nor a domestic railway - our recovery could be damaged,\" it says.\n\nCo-signed by 28 leaders, including the vice-chancellor of Middlesex University, the chief executive of West End property company Shaftesbury, as well as the boss of the ExCeL conference centre, the letter points out that the company currently employs 1,200 people in the UK.\n\nThe firm is 55% owned by French state rail firm SNCF. The UK government sold its stake in the business to private companies for £757m in 2015.\n\nThe letter also credits Eurostar with reducing carbon emissions. Since it launched in 1994, it has transported more than 190 million passengers between Britain and mainland Europe.\n\nA spokesman for Eurostar said: \"Without additional funding from government there is a real risk to the survival of Eurostar, the green gateway to Europe.\n\nHe described the current situation as \"very serious\".\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Transport said: \"We recognise the significant financial challenges facing Eurostar as a result of Covid-19 and the unprecedented circumstances currently faced by the international travel industry.\"\n\nHe added the government had been in contact with Eurostar \"on a regular basis\" since the start of the coronavirus crisis and would continue to work closely with the firm.\n• None How are travel rules being relaxed?", "A small group of armed protesters held a rally in front of the capitol building in Texas\n\nSmall groups of protesters - some of them armed - gathered on Sunday at statehouses in the US, where tensions are high after the deadly riots at the Capitol in Washington.\n\nProtests were held outside capitol buildings in Texas, Oregon, Michigan, Ohio and elsewhere.\n\nBut many other statehouses were quiet, amid a ramping up of security across US legislatures. No clashes were reported.\n\nThe FBI has warned of armed protests ahead of Wednesday's inauguration.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden will take office two weeks after pro-Trump protesters stormed the US Capitol in Washington DC on 6 January, leaving five dead, including a police officer.\n\nMore than 25,000 National Guard troops are being deployed to secure Washington. In a sign of just how worried officials are about potential unrest, Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy told the Associated Press on Sunday that all Guard members were being vetted because of fears of an insider threat.\n\nAlso on Sunday, a county official from New Mexico was arrested in Washington in connection with the riots at the US Capitol on 6 January.\n\nCouy Griffin, the founder of a group called Cowboys for Trump, had vowed to return on inauguration day with firearms to \"embrace my Second Amendment\".\n\nMany cities had prepared for potentially violent protests over the weekend, erecting barriers and deploying thousands of National Guard troops.\n\nPosts on pro-Trump and far-right online networks had called for armed demonstrations on Sunday in particular, but some militias told their followers not to attend, citing heavy security or claiming the planned events were police traps.\n\nSmall crowds of protesters numbering in the dozens gathered in only some cities, leaving the streets surrounding many statehouses largely empty.\n\nMembers of the the Boogaloo Bois were seen outside the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing\n\nThe New York Times reported about 25 members of the Boogaloo Bois movement were among heavily-armed protesters who gathered at the statehouse in Columbus, Ohio. But the men - who are part of a loosely organised extremist group that wants to overthrow the US government - said they were there for a long-planned gun rights rally.\n\nMeanwhile in Michigan, about two dozen people - some carrying rifles - protested outside the statehouse in Lansing, as police watched on.\n\n\"I am not here to be violent and I hope no one shows up to be violent,\" one protester told Reuters news agency.\n\nA similarly small group of about a dozen protesters, a few armed with rifles, stood outside the Texas Capitol in Austin.\n\nOutside Pennsylvania's capitol in Harrisburg, one Trump supporter noted the poor turn-out, telling Reuters: \"There's nothing going on.\"\n\nMore protests are expected on Wednesday, when Mr Biden will officially be sworn into office, replacing Mr Trump as president.\n\nMr Biden will issue executive orders to reverse President Trump's travel bans and re-join the Paris climate accord on his first day in the White House.\n\nThe president-elect is also expected to focus on reuniting families separated at the US-Mexico border, and to issue mandates on Covid-19 and mask-wearing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The US Capitol is on high alert ahead of Biden's inauguration\n\nMuch of Washington DC has been locked down ahead of the inauguration. The National Mall, which is usually thronged with thousands of people for inaugurations, has been shut at the request of the Secret Service.\n\nThe Biden team had already asked Americans to avoid travelling to the nation's capital for the inauguration because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Local officials said people should watch the event remotely.", "China's economy grew at the slowest pace in more than four decades last year, official figures show, but remains on course to be the only major economy to have expanded in 2020.\n\nThe economy grew 2.3% last year, despite Covid-19 shutdowns causing output to slump in early 2020.\n\nStrict virus containment measures and emergency relief for businesses helped the economy recover.\n\nGrowth in the final three months of the year picked up to 6.5%.\n\n\"The GDP data shows the economy has almost normalised. This momentum will continue, although the current Covid-19 outbreak in a couple of provinces in northern China might temporarily cause fluctuation,\" said Yue Su, principal economist for the Economist Intelligence Unit.\n\nChina's mainland share markets as well as Hong Kong's Hang Seng posted modest gains on the latest figures, which exceeded economists' expectations, according to a Reuters poll.\n\nHowever, Covid-19 was still a major drain on growth in 2020, with nationwide shutdowns of factories and manufacturing plants forcing economic growth down to its slowest rate for four decades.\n\nChina's manufacturing sector appears to have recovered, with Monday's data showing a 7.3% increase in industrial output.\n\nExports have also led the way. Data last week showed Chinese exports grew by more than expected in December, as coronavirus disruptions around the world fuelled demand for Chinese goods.\n\nThat is despite a stronger yuan, which makes Chinese exports more expensive for overseas buyers.\n\nChina's economy has seen a strong rebound, while the rest of the world struggles with anaemic demand, millions of job losses, and businesses shutting down.\n\nChina's economic engine roared back to life after a brutal lockdown that saw the Chinese economy contract by a historic 6.8% in the first quarter of 2020.\n\nWe should always be circumspect about Chinese data - with the usual caveat that the trajectory of the data rather than the figures themselves are a useful guide to how China's economy is growing.\n\nWhat these numbers show is that China's strategy of locking down cities hard and quickly has worked.\n\nA combination of government-led investment and global demand for Chinese goods also helped to power a rapid recovery, and boost exports.\n\nStill - this is the lowest rate of annual growth in more than 40 years for the economic giant. Worries over a resurgence of the virus are also clouding China's growth outlook, with consumer demand still weak.\n\nAnd Beijing is trying to navigate a prickly trade relationship with the US, with the incoming administration unlikely to be softer on China than President Donald Trump.\n\nAll of these challenges will no doubt weigh on Chinese growth in 2021 - but they seem to be in a better place than the rest of the world's major economies.\n\nIt was not all good news from the latest figures.\n\nLi Wei, a senior economist at Standard Chartered Bank, said pandemic-related exports and credit-fuelled car and housing sales accounted for much of the growth, while domestic demand lagged behind.\n\n\"Domestic household consumption of food, clothing, furniture and utilities remains below pre-pandemic levels, while the hospitality and transportation sectors continue to face capacity and travel restrictions,\" he told Reuters.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why does China’s economy matter to you?\n\nAlthough retail sales grew by 4.6% in the fourth quarter of 2020, they fell by 3.9% for the year.\n\nMany analysts are tipping growth to accelerate in 2021, but the China Bureau of Statistics has warned of a \"grave and complex environment both at home and abroad\", with the pandemic having a \"huge impact\".\n\nChina still faces many challenges, including continuing trade tensions with the US and how they might play out under the administration of President-elect Joe Biden, who takes office later this week.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lorry drivers have been holding up the traffic in Westminster.\n\nBoris Johnson has pledged £23m to help businesses affected by Brexit delays amid protests by fishing firms.\n\nDemonstrations took place outside government departments in central London by exporters who are warning their livelihoods are under threat.\n\nExports of fresh fish and seafood have been severely disrupted by new border controls since the UK's transition period ended earlier this month.\n\nThe PM said firms would be compensated for delays that were not their fault.\n\nIndustry associations have complained that extra paperwork has made it difficult to deliver fresh produce to mainland Europe before it goes off.\n\nThey have warned that if the situation continues, jobs could soon be at risk.\n\nPressed on what he would do in response, Mr Johnson said the government would step in to support firms which \"through no fault of their own have experienced bureaucratic delays, difficulties getting their goods through, where there is a genuine willing buyer on the other side of the channel\".\n\n\"There's a £23m compensation fund we've set up and we'll make sure they get help,\" he said.\n\nDetails of the scheme are expected later this week.\n\nAfter a day of protests in central London, which saw 20 lorries drive up Whitehall, the Metropolitan Police said 14 people had been reported for Covid-related offences, but no arrests were made.\n\nMark Moore, manager of the Dartmouth Crab Company, said his business and others were protesting to \"raise awareness\" of the impact of new border checks.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5 Live his company had faced delays of up to eight and a half hours when delivering produce into the European Union.\n\nHe added that the situation was \"especially difficult\" for the shellfish sector, where goods were at risk of going off before reaching customers.\n\n\"It's not about the increased documentation per se,\" he said.\n\n\"We have taken that on board, and we ourselves - and I know many others - have had no issues with producing the actual paperwork.\n\n\"It's the volume required and the timeframe in which to produce it, which doesn't lend itself to live shellfish and fish generally.\"\n\nThere are 24 lorries in total, overwhelmingly from seafood exporters in Scotland. Businesses taking part say the Brexit trade deal has left their industry high and dry.\n\nAnd although one haulier from Aberdeenshire I spoke to was keen to stress that their coordinated protest was peaceful, it is clear that they all feel that direct action is now necessary to make the government sit up and take notice.\n\nGood natured though their action was, it did for a time cause serious traffic congestion along Whitehall and Parliament Square.\n\nHowever, low levels of traffic perhaps caused by the Covid lockdown meant the roads around Whitehall didn't grind to a complete halt.\n\nAt stake, they believe, is an industry, but also thousands of livelihoods. Exporters say they are backed by fishermen who are struggling to land their catches.\n\nAnd although the rural Scottish communities which are sustained by fishing might seem like a long way from the streets of SW1, the hauliers certainly made their presence felt this morning.\n\nHaving left the EU's customs union and the single market, UK exports are subject to new customs and veterinary checks which have caused problems at the border.\n\nSome Scottish fishermen have been landing their catch in Denmark to avoid the \"bureaucratic system\" involved in exporting to Europe, according to Scotland's rural economy secretary.\n\nLast week, Boris Johnson told a committee of MPs that fishing firms impacted by disruption would be compensated for \"temporary frustrations\".\n\nBut the BBC was told that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) did not know about the promise of compensation before it was made by Mr Johnson.\n\nSpeaking to reporters, the prime minister said he understood the \"frustrations\" of the fishing industry, noting its plight had been \"exacerbated by the Covid pandemic\".\n\n\"Unfortunately, the demand in restaurants on the continent for UK fish has not been what it was before the pandemic, just because the restaurants have been closed for so long,\" he added.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer accused ministers of trying to \"blame fishing communities\" for problems \"rather than accepting it's their failure to prepare\".\n\n\"The government has known there would be a problem with fishing and particularly the sale of fish into the EU for years,\" he told reporters.\n\nMuch media attention has been focussed on Scotland as this export crisis has unfolded.\n\nBut exactly the same problem is rearing its head in the UK's other great fishing stronghold - at the other end of the UK in Devon and Cornwall.\n\nA virtual Who's Who of South West fishing leaders wrote to the environment secretary back in November warning that the new post-Brexit export requirements would have a \"seriously detrimental effect\" on the industry, claiming this \"could be the final straw for many businesses\".\n\nHere, too, many fish exports have now ground to a halt and others have encountered obstacles and long delays.\n\nAnd exporters have reacted angrily to the government's repeated insistence that the issues they've been experiencing over the last two weeks are just \"teething problems\".", "Although it has been common to hear and see the impact on care homes internationally throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, one country where such insight has been rare is China.\n\nPrivate care homes have been growing in popularity in China in recent years, but there are some stigmas associated with the industry.\n\nIn China, many view nursing homes as going against the cultural concept of “filial piety”. This is the belief that the young should respect for and care for their elders, and so many believe the elderly should live with their children, and not live in care homes.\n\nHowever, as cases of the virus grow in the northeast of the country, the official broadcaster CCTV has offered viewers a rare insight into how China’s elderly in these facilities are being protected.\n\nA journalist today has visited the Shijiazhuang Nursing Home. Shijiazhuang is the Chinese city that has been hardest hit by the virus in recent weeks.\n\nIn a 30-minute livestream in which he is clad in hazmat suit and visor, journalist Gu Junling introduces viewers to how the facilities are kept safe, and shows viewers inside the care home’s stockrooms, packed with ample provisions for its residents.\n\nMany of the residents seem happy to speak to the journalist and talk about how they are healthy, and happy. Masks are mandatory for both residents and staff, even in the areas outside on-site. However, far from being kept under house arrest, residents are shown to have sufficient space to go outside, use computers and games rooms.", "Tributes have been paid to the actor Andy Gray who has died at the age of 61.\n\nThe Perth-born star was a well known face on TV and the stage for more than 40 years.\n\nAmong his best known on-screen roles were \"Chancer\" in the 1980s comedy City Lights and more recently \"Pete Galloway\" in BBC soap River City.\n\nHis River City co-star Gayle Telfer Stevens said Gray was a \"national treasure\".\n\nShe added: \"Not only was he an exceptional actor and entertainer who brought so much joy to so many people, he was an extraordinary man.\n\n\"When you were in his presence you could feel it was of greatness. The most kind, clever, funny beyond measure, beautiful man.\"\n\nAndy Gray, second from the left in the back row, starred as \"Chancer\" in the hit 1980s comedy show \"City Lights\"\n\nAndy Gray performing at the Edinburgh Festival in 2013\n\nSteve Carson, director of BBC Scotland, said: \"We are deeply saddened by the news that one of Scotland's much loved comedy actors and close friend to many at BBC Scotland, Andy Gray has passed away.\n\n\"On screen and in person he could always make you laugh and was one of the kindest people to have around on any production. Our thoughts are with his family at this difficult time.\"\n\nAndy Gray, pictured with Grant Stott, had been one of the stars at Edinburgh's King's Theatre pantomime for years\n\nMartin McCardie, executive producer at BBC Scotland Studios, added: \"When Andy joined River City in 2016 he had an extremely successful stage, TV and film career behind him, but the character of Pete Galloway turned out to be one of the most popular ever to pass through Shieldinch.\n\n\"Andy took ill in 2018 and he had to leave the show and he had a difficult time. His ongoing recovery was borne with humour and gratitude for what he had. He had unfinished business on River City and we were looking forward to welcoming him back to film with us before the end of the current series.\"\n\nAndy Gray was genuinely one of the nicest people in the world of showbusiness.\n\nWhether you were an actor, or a journalist, or just someone who'd seen him in panto, he was always ready to have a chat.\n\nWhen he dropped out of his Fringe show in 2018, after being diagnosed with a rare form of leukaemia, he was inundated with good wishes, but said he wanted privacy to deal with his illness.\n\nHe retreated to his home in Perthshire and took the time to recover.\n\nWhen he returned to the stage of the Kings Theatre in Edinburgh for their 2019 panto, it was an emotional milestone.\n\nWrapped in his Batman dressing gown backstage (he was a huge fan with a shed full of film paraphernalia) he admitted it could be overwhelming. Sometimes the whoops and cheers of the audience at his arrival in the midst of a glitzy song and dance routine would go on for several minutes.\n\nHis co-stars Grant Stott and Allan Stewart watched from the wings and said it had restored the balance of their long established trio. The Kings is one of the only theatres to have a tradition of a pantette - where the cast sit in the auditorium and watch the front of house staff performing the show. Andy wasn't spared the merciless send up, nor would he have wanted to.\n\nDaughter Claire was also in the show - as one of the three bears - and her baby daughter was in Andy's arms for the curtain call. But whether his actual family, or his panto family, or the generations of people who've seen him onstage or screen, it was a moment of hope, as well as joy, that someone who'd brought so much laughter and entertainment to Scotland was back.\n\nThat's why his sudden death at 61 is such a cruel blow.\n\nHe had been campaigning to keep the Kings afloat, and was involved in online performances. He and Allan Stewart had hoped to appear in one of the few surviving pantomimes in Milton Keynes but that too was cancelled.\n\nFriends and colleagues knew he'd been admitted to hospital in the last few days, and feared the worst. Those who simply knew him as someone who made them laugh, on stage or screen, are no less bereft.\n\nTonight the world of Scottish entertainment is in mourning for a gifted comic actor, writer and genuinely nice man.", "Aberystwyth University's vice chancellor told students not to attend lectures unless \"absolutely necessary\"\n\nAberystwyth University has told its students not to return to campus following new advice from the Welsh Government.\n\nA phased return had been planned from 11 January, but this has now been postponed.\n\nVice-chancellor Prof Elizabeth Treasure said students should not attend the university, in Ceredigion, unless \"absolutely necessary.\"\n\nOn Friday the Welsh Government told learners \"study from home if you can\".\n\nMs Treasure said: \"We are reviewing our plans for in-person teaching and will inform you as soon as we can. Whilst we are reviewing those plans, we don't want students travelling to the university unnecessarily.\"\n\nShe said there were certain exceptions, including students without internet access and those for whom laboratory access was essential.\n\nWales' Education Minister, Kirsty Williams, said universities were reviewing their plans based on their individual circumstances.\n\n\"On return, students are also expected to take two asymptomatic tests and comply with rules as they re-join their term time household,\" she said.\n\nDespite the announcement, Bangor University said on Facebook on Friday that it \"falls under the rules of the Welsh Government which allow for a staggered return to blended learning\".\n\nCardiff University said earlier this week that most students would not return to face-to-face teaching until 22 February.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"Our message to students, staff and universities in general is the same as the rest of the population: Stay home, work or study from home if you can.\n\n\"Only attend your place of work or study if you can't work from home.\"\n\nThe new announcement came after calls for clarity were made because of differences with the rules in England.\n\nAt that point, the Welsh Government and Universities Wales said the plans agreed before Christmas would remain in place.\n\nOn Friday, it was announced that schools and colleges would stay closed to most pupils until the February half term unless there is a \"significant\" fall in Covid cases.", "LAS received almost 200,000 calls in December - up 50,000 on November, when London was in the second national lockdown\n\nLast week London exceeded the grim milestone of 10,000 deaths linked to Covid-19. Thousands of people are critically ill in hospital, and as many as 5% of Londoners are thought to have the virus in some parts of the city. As coronavirus continues to circulate silently around the capital, staff at the London Ambulance Service (LAS) are under immense pressure.\n\nThe service is currently taking up to 8,500 calls a day, compared with a pre-Covid figure of 5,000 to 6,000, according to its chief executive Garrett Emmerson.\n\nLizzie Cooke is one of the workers at LAS's south London headquarters who are dealing with strangers at what is a distressing time.\n\nI covered the London Bridge terror attacks and Grenfell but this is a different scale\n\nCalmly, the 30-year-old answers the phone and usually asks first if the patient is breathing.\n\n\"In the first wave we were getting a lot of calls of [people seeking] reassurance,\" Lizzie says. \"But now there are more and more who have symptoms, and family members are really frightened.\"\n\nIt is a fear that Lizzie knows all too well, having been hospitalised with Covid-19 in March. She spent a week receiving treatment for the virus.\n\n\"I was at work taking calls and struggling to concentrate,\" the call-handling supervisor says. \"At times I would just have my head on the desk in between calls.\n\n\"I started to develop chest pains five days later so my parents took me to Royal County Hospital, in Hampshire, and an X-ray showed a lot of fluid in my lungs. It was quite horrible.\n\n\"Luckily, I wasn't on a ventilator but I had the oxygen hood, and the nurses were so rushed off their feet. I didn't have my phone with me or know my parents' numbers off by heart so for that week I was quite alone and isolated.\n\n\"It was just a mixture of the unknown and not knowing when it was going to stop that was so daunting.\"\n\nThe unprecedented volume of calls means waiting times for patients are increasing\n\nLizzie's personal battle with coronavirus has helped her to empathise with people who call up with breathing problems.\n\nIt's something she says she's having to do more and more.\n\n\"Just before Christmas we were getting a lot of respiratory and cardiac arrest calls,\" she says. \"You could just hear colleagues counting to four [for chest compressions] and it was echoing around the room. It has been tough.\n\n\"We are getting calls from family members who are really frightened. I covered the London Bridge terror attacks and Grenfell but this is a different scale.\n\n\"I did get one call for toothache, but that's part of the job.\"\n\nLizzie, who lives in Hampshire, says that because the coverage of coronavirus is everywhere, it is \"difficult to escape\".\n\nWhen she's not at work she binge-watches Line of Duty on Netflix, but she says winding down isn't easy.\n\nLizzie sometimes thinks about the people who aren't following the rules aimed at helping stop the spread of the virus, and those who deny Covid-19 even exists.\n\n\"It's a kick in the teeth,\" she says. \"It is frustrating on the way to work when you see people not wearing masks or even posting stuff on social media not believing the virus is real.\n\n\"I just don't know where the disconnect is coming from; there are many people in hospital, many people dying, and I don't know what more needs to be said to make them realise how dangerous the illness is.\"\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nSitting a few metres away from Lizzie is 24-year-old Louise Essam, who has been in the job for two years.\n\n\"Every call we take at the moment is coronavirus,\" she says. \"My record was 108 calls in a day back in March during the first wave.\n\n\"But easily in the last few weeks I've been taking around 100 a day at times,\" Louise adds.\n\n\"We are just doing the best we can,\" says emergency call co-ordinator Louise Essam\n\n\"Sometimes I'll come in for a shift and can just hear colleagues counting one, two, three, four, for the compressions, and you just know what kind of shift it is going to be.\n\n\"It has been tough and quite frustrating, really. We are trying to help people. We are under so much pressure as there are high waiting times, but we are just doing the best we can.\"\n\nHelp is at hand though from the LAS workers' fellow emergency services personnel.\n\nMet Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick visited Wembley Stadium on Wednesday, where her officers are being trained to drive ambulances\n\nSeventy-five Met Police officers are currently being trained at Wembley Stadium to drive ambulances.\n\nThey will start work as drivers from 20 January, joining the 200 firefighters who are already helping LAS.\n\n\"It came as a huge relief when they announced it,\" says 37-year-old paramedic Ben West.\n\nBen West has been with the London Ambulance Service for 13 years\n\nAs is the case with many frontline workers, Ben says he is concerned about the dangers of exposure to coronavirus.\n\nHe has lost four colleagues to Covid-19, including Ian Reynolds, a paramedic based in Croydon, and Melonie Mitchell, a member of the NHS 111 team. They both died during the first wave in April.\n\n\"I wouldn't be a normal person if I said I wasn't scared,\" he says.\n\n\"I am scared and I do worry but we take every day as it comes, take our precautions and we just see where we go with that.\n\n\"We know the virus is out there in the community and we are not immune.\"", "Audi factories, like others, will make thousands fewer cars at the start of this year\n\nAudi is having to slow production because of a computer-chip shortage it is calling a \"crisis upon a crisis\".\n\nBoss Markus Duesmann said it was now aiming to make 10,000 fewer cars in the first quarter of the year and putting more than 10,000 workers on furlough.\n\nIts parent company, Volkswagen, announced its own go-slow due to a lack of chips last week, alongside rivals such as Honda.\n\nMr Duesmann told the Financial Times carmakers had been caught by surprise.\n\nAfter a poor start to 2020 for new car sales, manufacturers cut their orders from the Chinese factories making computer chips.\n\nBut then, at the end of the year, \"everybody was quite surprised by the strength of the market\", Mr Duesmann said.\n\nHowever, ordering new chips is not simple.\n\nCCS Insight analyst Geoff Blaber said: \"Semiconductors have a broad range of applications but a very limited pool of companies capable of manufacturing the silicon.\n\n\"Demand is high, and supply is tight\" and any sudden needs \"can prove very difficult to accommodate\".\n\n\"Modern cars are becoming computers on wheels, with an abundance of silicon required to control everything from the infotainment system to camera, radar and lidar,\" he said.\n\nThe demand from carmakers \"competes for manufacturing capacity with smartphones, servers and a host of other segments\".\n\nAnd a boom in the market for devices such as PCs and new game consoles was making it doubly difficult to book manufacturing time.\n\nThe shortages have seen Mercedes-maker Daimler, Fiat, Ford, Honda, Nissan, Subaru and Toyota all reportedly suspend production for days or weeks at a time.\n\nAnd German car-parts company Continental described \"largescale supply shortages\", with lead times of six to nine months, adding bottlenecks were expected to continue \"well into 2021, causing major disruptions\".", "Two drivers from Scotland were stopped by police on Anglesey going to see friends.\n\nPeople who drove more than 200 miles to visit friends in Wales and a group having a party in a garden shed have been caught breaking Covid rules.\n\nPolice forces in Wales have broken up parties, football matches and fined people for visiting beauty spots this weekend while Wales is in lockdown.\n\nTwo motorists were reported by North Wales Police in Anglesey after driving from Scotland to visit friends.\n\nWhile in Swansea, eight people were fined after a party was held in a shed.\n\nThe drivers from Scotland were stopped by police at Valley, near Holyhead, and reported for driving without insurance and breaching Covid travel restrictions.\n\nOfficers from North Wales Police on Saturday also stopped a car from Portsmouth as the driver was travelling to \"collect a front bumper\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEven though national parks have shut car parks in a bid to stop people visiting, North Wales Police said it received about 100 calls on Saturday about potential Covid breaches - and officers told people they need to take \"personal responsibility\" and \"stay home\".\n\nSouth Wales Police officers issued fixed penalty notices after finding people from \"all different households\" in a shed - which had been converted into a bar - in the Sketty area of Swansea all \"mixing together\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Mark Drakeford This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA further nine fixed penalty notices were given out in the Townhill area of the city after different households attended a baby reveal party on Sunday.\n\nFive people were warned about breaking laws in Neath Port Talbot after a group travelled to a field to play football, while four people were fined after a house party in Aberavon.\n\nUnder coronavirus rules people are only allowed to leave their homes for \"essential\" reasons, including to shop for food, get medical treatment and to exercise.\n\nWhile exercise is allowed, people are not allowed to drive to a spot for a walk, run or cycle, and the law means exercising with people you do not live with (or who are your bubble if you live alone) is banned.\n\nThose found to be in breach of Covid laws can be fined £60 for the first offence, with the penalties increasing up to £1,920. If prosecuted, however, a court can impose an unlimited fine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid lockdown: 'This is why we say to you do not come out'\n\nUntil recently police had been using an education first approach, but the Welsh Government has repeatedly said it wants to see stricter enforcement of the rules.\n\nIn Powys, road officers from Dyfed-Powys Police stopped cars and turned around people driving to exercise.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Traffic Wales North & Mid #KeepWalesSafe This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn Port Talbot, two people sat on a bench drinking alcohol were fined by South Wales Police for \"leaving home without a reasonable excuse\".\n\nGwent Police officers broke-up a house party in Glyn-Gaer, Caerphilly county, on Friday evening and issued fines.", "A non-binding Labour motion calling for the universal credit top-up to be kept in place beyond 31 March passed by 278 votes to none after a Commons debate.\n\nSix Tory MPs defied party orders to abstain and voted with Labour, adding to the pressure on the PM on the issue.\n\nThe prime minister said the government had provided £280bn worth of support during the pandemic but all measures would be kept under \"constant review\".\n\nThe motion, which will not automatically lead to a change in policy, was put forward by Labour as a way to put additional pressure on the government to continue the increase, worth £1,000 a year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Carl, a roofer, describes going from \"not having enough to barely having enough\" on universal credit.\n\nFormer Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb was among six Conservative MPs to rebel, along with Peter Aldous, Robert Halfon, Jason McCartney, Anne Marie Morris and Matthew Offord.\n\nAhead of the vote, Mr Crabb told the BBC that although there were \"difficult pressures on the chancellor\" extending the increase for 12 months was \"the right thing to do\".\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said there were dozens of Conservative MPs who were \"deeply uneasy\" about ending the £20 weekly increase to universal credit.\n\nShe added that it was also understood the cabinet minister with responsibility for benefits, Therese Coffey, was arguing that the uplift should not be dropped in April.\n\nCharities and anti-poverty campaigners are pleading with the government to keep the support in place, describing it as a lifeline for more than 5.5 million families who receive the standard universal credit allowance.\n\nFood poverty campaigner and chef Jack Monroe told the BBC that the £20 increase \"has been a lifeline\" for millions of people who have needed to top up their income or rely on universal credit payments in order to get by.\n\nSir Keir said the increase was a vital safety net for those who had lost their jobs, seen their working hours slashed or who were not eligible for the government's wage subsidy furlough scheme.\n\n\"If we don't give a helping hand to families through this pandemic, then we are going to slow our economic recovery as we come out it.\n\n\"We urge Boris Johnson to change course and give families certainty today that their incomes will be protected.\"\n\nSix billion pounds of the benefits bill - the difference between poverty or not for 1.2 million families, according to a think tank.\n\nThe £1,040 a year increase to universal credit is a very emotive issue.\n\nThere's even a battle over what to call it.\n\nTo the government, its introduction was a one-off boost to cope with a crisis. For Labour, taking it away is a cut.\n\nMinisters would prefer we looked at the overall level of support they've provided for workers and businesses during the pandemic. The opposition say the £20 a week boost is a powerful symbol of the state's willingness to help.\n\nEven the act of debating it today is disputed. Labour say they've got the right occasionally to set the agenda in Parliament. Boris Johnson said his MPs risk abuse from campaigners and protestors if they engage.\n\nThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation has suggested about 16 million people will be directly affected if the £20 is rolled back.\n\nIt says 500,000 more people will be driven into poverty, including 200,000 children, while a further 500,000 of those already in poverty will find themselves in even worse hardship.\n\nHowever, free market think tank the Institute for Economic Affairs has argued that \"across-the-board benefit increases are a wasteful use of taxpayers' money\" at a time when the government is borrowing \"a hair-raising amount of money\".\n\nUniversal credit is a single payment replacing old benefits such as housing benefit and child tax credits.\n\nYou can claim universal credit if you are on a low income or are out of work.\n\nThe standard allowance varies from around £340 to just under £600 a month, depending on your age or whether you are single.\n\nYou may be eligible to receive more money on top of the standard allowance if, for example, you have children or a health condition.\n\nSpeaking on behalf of the Northern Research Group, Conservative MP John Stevenson said the £1,000 increase had been \"a real life-saver for people throughout this pandemic\".\n\n\"To end it now would be devastating for the 6 million individuals and families who are already struggling to stay afloat,\" he added.\n\nWhile the vote is not binding, and will not lead to a change in policy, it will increase pressure on the government to keep the increase or come up with an alternative.\n\nLabour said the Conservatives' decision to abstain created \"unnecessary uncertainty\" but minister Nadhim Zahawi described the vote as \"a political stunt\".\n\nThe government says it has strengthened the welfare system with an extra £7bn of funding during the pandemic while families struggling with food and household bills can get help through the £170m Winter Grant Scheme.\n\nMinisters also point to extra support for housing costs, through an increase in local housing allowance for those on housing benefits and hardship payments worth £670m next year for those unable to pay their council tax bills.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Staff are in \"the eye of the storm\" amid the coronavirus pandemic, the NHS says\n\nTen hospital trusts across England consistently reported having no spare adult critical care beds in the most recent figures.\n\nIt comes as hospital waiting times, coronavirus admissions and patients requiring intensive care are rising.\n\nEngland's 140 acute trusts had 5,503 adult critical care beds on 10 January, with 4,632 in use.\n\nNHS bosses have warned hospitals could \"hit the limit\" of their capacity this week.\n\n\"I think, this next week, we will be at the limit of what we probably have the physical space and the people to safely do,\" Danny Mortimer, the chief executive of the NHS Confederation, said.\n\n\"And, of course, this is the week when we expect also the highest rate of admissions, the highest demand for the care that we're providing.\"\n\nThe latest figures from NHS England show the number of trusts that were, on average, at full capacity in adult critical care across an entire week rose from four to 10 in the week to 10 January.\n\nThis was the highest number in the last 10 weeks for which data was available.\n\nThe increase comes despite trusts adding an additional 50% \"surge\" capacity across the summer and autumn to cope with winter pressures, according to NHS England.\n\nOverall, 30 acute hospital trusts in England had no spare adult critical care beds on 10 January alone. But daily admissions figures can vary from day-to-day as patients move in and out of intensive care.\n\nSpeaking on the Andrew Marr Show on Sunday, NHS England chief executive Sir Simon Stevens said nine critical care patients had recently been transferred to other parts of the country because of no beds being available in their local area.\n\nSpeaking about all admissions, Sir Simon said hospitals in England had seen an increase of 15,000 inpatients since Christmas Day.\n\n\"That's the equivalent of filling 30 hospitals full of coronavirus patients and staggeringly every 30 seconds across England another patient is being admitted to hospital with coronavirus,\" he added.\n\nHelen Buckingham, from Health think-tank The Nuffield Trust, said the NHS was facing a winter \"like no other\" and, on top of rising coronavirus hospital admissions, critical care beds were also required for non-Covid patients.\n\n\"The NHS has pulled out all the stops to create more beds this year, and hospitals are working together so that patients who need critical care can be moved to other hospitals as necessary - but without more fully trained critical care staff there isn't much further the service can go,\" she said.\n\nThe figures only tell part of the story. The creation of extra beds to cope with rising numbers of Covid patients has come at a price.\n\nCritical care beds have been set up in overspill areas including departments usually reserved for operations. What is more, there is no extra staff to look after these extra patients - so specialist intensive care nurses have been stretched across more patients than normal. Instead of providing one-to-one care for the most sick, some areas are seeing nurses looking after three or four patients.\n\nStaff from other areas have had to be redeployed into critical care departments too.\n\nThat of course comes at a cost to non-Covid services and is part of the reason we have seen planned surgery and even cancer care being cut back on.\n\nA leaked email recently revealed about 200 doctors would be redeployed to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham amid fears its intensive care unit could be \"overwhelmed\".\n\nUniversity Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust said it had \"significantly\" more patients in hospital with Covid-19 than in April last year.\n\nThe trust had 147 critical care beds available across its hospitals as of 10 January, all of which were full as of the latest figures.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nA spokesman said the trust would continue to extend its intensive care teams \"so they are able to treat the rising number of Covid-19 patients and those who require time-critical surgery, including cancer operations\".\n\nAiredale NHS Foundation Trust, despite having nine critical care beds overall, said it did not normally experience full occupancy at this time in the year and the ward had both Covid and non-Covid patients.\n\n\"We are experiencing normal winter pressures across the trust, combined with an increasing number of Covid-19 patients, particularly over the last week,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\n\"Every bed in ICU that is occupied by a Covid-19 patient is one less available for people who need that level of care for other reasons.\"\n\nSir Simon said the current number of patients in critical care was a \"clear indication of the huge pressure on the NHS\", including ambulance and mental health services as well as hospitals.\n\n\"The likelihood is, even with a stabilising of infections in some parts of the country, we're still seeing increases in infections among the over-60s in many parts of the country,\" he added.\n\n\"The forecasts are the pressure on hospitals will only get more intense over the next several weeks.\"\n\nNHS England said critical care services were under \"unprecedented pressure\".\n\nA spokeswoman added that hospitals had \"tried and tested plans in place\" to manage pressure from increased Covid-19 and non-Covid patients, including mutual aid practices where hospitals work together to manage admissions.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Evelyn Jones was one of the care home residents whose family raised concerns\n\nSix care home residents died after suffering dehydration and malnourishment because of alleged neglect, an inquest has been told.\n\nStanley James, 89, June Hamer, 71, Stanley Bradford, 76, Edith Evans, 85, Evelyn Jones, 87, and William Hickman, 71 all died between 2003 and 2005.\n\nThey were residents at Brithdir Nursing Home in New Tredegar, Caerphilly.\n\nThe inquest in Newport follows Operation Jasmine, an £11.6m inquiry into alleged neglect at six homes.\n\nOne of Wales' biggest inquiries, it was launched after the death of an 84-year-old patient at a nursing home in Newbridge, Caerphilly.\n\nOpening the inquest, Assistant Coroner for Gwent Geraint Williams said police started investigating in 2005 following the death of an 84-year-old \"mentally infirm\" woman at another care home in Newbridge.\n\nMr Williams said it led to officers uncovering a \"pattern of concerns linked to other deaths in other care homes\".\n\nJune Hamer went into Brithdir in 2003\n\nIn relation to the Brithdir inquiry, Mr Williams said: \"Operation Jasmine uncovered evidence suggesting poor care of residents, including allegations of poor pressure sore and peg [percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy] feed management, malnourishment, and general neglect of the residents' long-term needs, together with deficient standards of care and nursing practice.\"\n\nThe inquest heard resident Mr James, who had dementia and was not mobile, developed several pressure sores in the 18 months before he died in August 2003.\n\nMr Bradford, who had schizophrenia, was admitted to the Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil on several occasions for complaints of \"dehydration, chest and urine infections\".\n\nBefore he died in August 2005 he was \"observed to be seriously malnourished\", by doctors.\n\nDementia patient Mrs Evans was admitted to the same hospital in September 2005, where nurses found the site around her feeding tube \"infected\", while broken skin was found on her buttocks and she appeared \"unkempt and dirty, and her mouth and lips were dry and her tongue was thick\".\n\nThe trial of the late Dr Prana Das for care home neglect collapsed after he suffered brain damage in an attack\n\nDr Prana Das, who owned and ran the nursing home along with several other facilities in Wales, faced a string of charges relating to failings in care.\n\nHe suffered a brain injury during a burglary at his home in 2012 and was declared medically unfit to stand trial.\n\nDr Das died in January 2020 aged 73, but his widow and co-owner of the home, Dr Nishebita Das, who is said not to have taken part in running it, is expected to give evidence at the inquest.\n\nMr Williams told the hearing that, even before the couple purchased the home in April 2002 under their company Puretruce Health Care Limited, \"serious concerns\" were raised by state agencies regarding the number of residents who had suffered pressure ulcers.\n\n\"Those issues continued, even after Dr Das assumed ownership of the home,\" he said.\n\nMr Williams said the inquest will consider the actions of nurses and carers at the home, \"many of whom came to this country from abroad to work and have since returned there, and are now not available to participate in the inquest\".\n\nThe inquest is set to last until March.\n\nA hearing into the death of a seventh resident, Matthew Higgins, 86, will be held following the conclusion of this inquest.", "A Republican lawmaker who had been in office for less than a week when she invoked German dictator Adolf Hitler in a Washington speech has apologised for saying that she agreed with the mass murderer.\n\nIllinois Congresswoman Mary Miller had said in a speech on Tuesday outside the Capitol, one day before her fellow Trump supporters ransacked the building, that Hitler had been \"right\".\n\nMiller told the crowd: \"You know, if we win a few elections we’re still going to be losing unless we win the hearts of our children.\n\n\"It’s the battle. Hitler was right on one thing - that whoever has the youth has the future.\"\n\nHitler, among his supporters in Germany in 1933 Image caption: Hitler, among his supporters in Germany in 1933\n\nThe comments drew large-scale condemnation, with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum saying in a statement that it \"unequivocally condemns any leader trying to advance a position by claiming Adolf Hitler was ‘right.’\"\n\nUnder Hitler, millions of Jews and other minority groups were murdered across Europe by Germany and its allies during World War Two.\n\nOn Friday, Miller insisted that she is not anti-semitic and accused other of \"trying to intentionally twist my words\".\n\n\"I sincerely apologise for any harm my words caused and regret using a reference to one of the most evil dictators in history to illustrate the dangers that outside influences can have on our youth,\" she said.\n\nCorrection 23rd June 2022: This post originally described Mary Miller as having praised Hitler and has been amended to make clear that she invoked Hitler in her speech.", "Who were the protesters that broke into buildings on Capitol Hill after attending a rally in support of Donald Trump?\n\nSome were carrying symbols and flags strongly associated with particular ideas and factions, but in practice many of the members and their causes overlap.\n\nImages show individuals associated with a range of extreme and far-right groups and supporters of fringe online conspiracy theories, many of whom have long been active online and at pro-Trump rallies.\n\nOne of the most startling images, quickly shared across social media, shows a man dressed with a painted face, fur hat and horns, holding an American flag.\n\nHe's been identified as Jake Angeli, a well-known supporter of the baseless conspiracy theory QAnon. He calls himself the QAnon Shaman.\n\nHis social media presence shows him attending multiple QAnon events and posting YouTube videos about deep state conspiracies.\n\nHe was pictured in November making a speech in Phoenix, Arizona, about unproven claims the election was fraudulent.\n\nHis personal Facebook page is filled with images and memes relating to all sorts of extreme ideas and conspiracy theories.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAnother group spotted at the storming of the Capitol were members of the far-right group Proud Boys.\n\nThe organisation was founded in 2016 and is anti-immigrant and all male. In the first US presidential debate President Trump in response to a question about white supremacists and militias said: \"Proud Boys - stand back and stand by.\"\n\nThe individual on the right is Nick Ochs, who describes himself as a \"Proud Boy Elder\".\n\nOne of their members, Nick Ochs, tweeted a selfie inside the building saying \"Hello from the Capital lol\". He also filmed a live stream inside.\n\nWe haven't identified the individual standing on the left in the above image.\n\nMr Ochs' profile on the messaging app Telegram describes himself as a \"Proud Boy Elder from Hawaii.\"\n\nIndividuals with large followings online were also spotted at the protests.\n\nAmong them was the social media personality Tim Gionet, who goes under the pseudonym \"Baked Alaska\".\n\nTim Gionet, better known as \"Baked Alaska\", livestreamed himself from the Capitol on Wednesday\n\nHis livestream from inside the Capitol posted on a niche streaming service was watched by thousands of people and showed him talking to other protesters.\n\nA Trump supporter, Mr Gionet has made a name for himself as an internet troll.\n\nYouTube banned his channel in October after he posted videos of himself harassing shop workers and refusing to wear a face-mask during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nOther platforms that have previously shut down his accounts include Twitter and PayPal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nA photo that went viral of a man who'd entered the office of senior Democrat politician Nancy Pelosi has been named as Richard Barnett from Arkansas.\n\nRichard Barnett left a message for US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying \"we will not back down\"\n\nOutside Capitol Hill buildings, he told the New York Times that he took an envelope from the speaker's office and says left a note calling her an expletive.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matthew Rosenberg This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nReacting to the New York Times interview, Republican congressman Steve Womack said on Twitter: \"I'm sickened to learn that the below actions were perpetrated by a constituent.\"\n\nLocal media reports say Mr Barnett is involved in a group that supports gun rights, and that he was interviewed at a 'Stop the Steal' rally following the presidential election - a movement that refused to accept Joe Biden's victory and supports the president's unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud.\n\nIn the interview at the rally organised by 'Engaged Patriots' he said: \"If you don't like it, send somebody out to get me 'cause I ain't going down easy.\"\n\nThe group associated with Mr Barnett held a fundraiser in October with proceeds going towards body cameras for the local police department, according to the Westside Eagle Observer local paper.\n\nAs the events were unfolding, many social media users, especially those associated with QAnon and supporters of President Trump, were claiming that agitators from the loose-knit left-wing group antifa were involved.\n\nThe implication was that these activists were disguised as Trump supporters to create disruption.\n\nA number of prominent Republican politicians, such as US Representative Matt Gaetz, claimed it was antifa masquerading as Trump supporters.\n\nOne widely-shared post claimed one protester had a \"communist hammer\" tattoo, as evidence that he wasn't a Trump supporter.\n\nOn closer inspection, the symbol is from the video game series Dishonored.\n\nThere have also been suggestions that Mr Angeli, the man wearing fur and horns, was a Black Lives Matter supporter, with users sharing an image of him at a BLM event in Arizona.\n\nMr Angeli was indeed at that event, but he was there as a counter-protester. In images taken there, he's seen holding a QAnon sign.\n\nAt least one of the rioters was holding a Confederate flag, which represented US states that supported the continuation of slavery during the American civil war. For this reason, it is considered by many to be a symbol of racism and there have been calls to ban it across the US. Others see it as an important part of southern US history.\n\nA protester carries the Confederate flag after breaching US Capitol security\n\nIn July it was announced that the flag could no longer be flown on American military properties because of a new policy to reject \"divisive symbols\".\n\nPresident Trump has defended the use of the Confederate flag in the past, saying: \"I know people that like the Confederate flag and they're not thinking about slavery...I just think it's freedom of speech.\"\n\nThere were also protesters holding aloft flags featuring a coiled rattlesnake on a yellow background, often accompanied by the phrase \"don't tread on me\". This is known as the Gadsden flag, harking back to the American revolution and the war to expel British colonialists.\n\nIt was adopted by libertarians in the 1970s, according to an article in the New Yorker, and more recently became a favourite symbol of conservative Tea Party activists.\n\nThe flag has been adopted by the right over the past couple of decades, says Prof Margaret Weir, a political science expert at Brown University.\n\nIt is also used by anti-government, white supremacist groups who embrace violence, she says.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA nurse felt \"overwhelming fear\" as 13 ambulances queued at her hospital's A&E department - in the Welsh region currently hardest hit by Covid deaths.\n\nTo date Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board, which runs Royal Glamorgan Hospital, has reported 1,091 deaths of patients with coronavirus.\n\nBBC Wales was granted access to A&E at the hospital in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nSenior doctor Amanda Farrow said the whole hospital had faced \"unrelenting\" pressure last Saturday.\n\nSarah Fogarasy was the senior nurse on duty as 13 ambulances queued up outside her A&E department\n\nSenior A&E nurse Sarah Fogarasy, who was on shift as the ambulances arrived, said there was no capacity at the unit - a situation that left her wanting \"to leave\".\n\n\"We had to escalate it to our site manager and deputy head of nursing who were liaising with the executive team on call,\" she said.\n\n\"And then it got to 13 patients outside - I had no capacity in this unit, no resuscitation capacity, no capacity to put a patient on CPAP [continuous positive airway pressure] should they require that and no physical areas to put a patient in.\n\nOn Saturday, 13 ambulances queued outside the hospital's A&E department\n\nShe said she found it hard to keep going.\n\n\"This bit makes me quite emotional… for the first time I was sat trying to coordinate this department and I had that overwhelming fear that I just wanted to leave,\" Ms Fogarasy continued.\n\n\"I was just - 'I'm done. I'm done with this'... and it's scary, it fills you full of fear when you have got 13 ambulances outside, queuing around the carpark. Where do you go from that?\"\n\nShe said it was the team that kept her going: \"I started looking around to all the staff working tirelessly and just trying to remember what we're here for and why I became a nurse.\n\n\"I know it sounds soppy but it's literally the humanitarian effort that has gone into [fighting] this pandemic that has kept people going.\n\n\"It's the sheer determination and guts of the staff working in these times that is so powerful, that keeps the shift going.\"\n\nEmergency Medicine Consultant Amanda Farrow said it was a \"very emotional time for everyone\"\n\nDr Farrow, emergency medicine consultant, said staffing and bed numbers were of particular concern.\n\n\"In the emergency department the challenge we have is with regards to flow, so that is our daily challenge,\" she explained.\n\n\"And we say it's like playing a game of Tetris trying to work out which patient you can put where.\"\n\nStaff reported feeling overwhelmed as they work through the second Covid wave\n\nShe said the second wave of the virus had also seen more staff off sick with Covid and isolating - with some becoming very ill.\n\n\"We've had staff in as patients and one of my colleagues - I saw them when they were critically ill and ended up going to intensive care,\" continued Dr Farrow.\n\n\"So it's very emotional time for everyone as well you know, looking after the sick patients and looking after your colleagues.\n\n\"There's a level of anxiety still around - will you be the next person to get this disease?\"\n\nShe said although fewer people were attending A&E, they were seeing more people arriving by ambulance and presenting with more complex needs.\n\n\"The group of patients we are seeing this time I think is different, we're definitely having more younger people with Covid that are becoming sick, the volume is very high in the community.\n\n\"I think people are afraid of come into the hospital as well, so there are still quite a lot of patients who leave it maybe a bit too late before they're seeking hospital attention.\"\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, Helen Whatmore said she was extremely grateful to staff\n\nHelen Whatmore, 45, from Beddau, has been hospital since early December after developing Covid symptoms.\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, she said she had been unwell in February so assumed she had already caught the virus.\n\n\"I honestly didn't believe it was as bad until I caught [Covid] this time,\" she said.\n\n\"This time it's absolutely knocked the socks off me. It's nearly killed me.\n\n\"A friend of mine passed away as I came into hospital and I came down very rapidly with Covid, kidney problems and pneumonia.\"\n\nShe said she was grateful for the care she had received: \"The nurses are coming in [working] all shifts, they're fighting for your loved ones, from the time they enter right until the time they leave, then they're changing over and doing the same again.\n\n\"People are passing away… how much more have they got to do? We're asking them to protect our children and our families. Why are we not protecting them ourselves? Saving our families and our own children.\"", "The Welsh Government is in discussions about bringing in \"more visible\" coronavirus regulations.\n\nStricter enforcement of coronavirus rules could return to supermarkets in Wales, Mark Drakeford has said.\n\nThe first minister said he had heard concerns from people \"expressing anxiety\" about a lack of \"visible protections\" in supermarkets.\n\nThe Welsh Government is now in talks with stores about social-distancing measures.\n\nMr Drakeford said he wanted to see stores policed as they were during the first lockdown.\n\nAmong the measures previously used was a strict limit of the numbers of people allowed in a store however Mr Drakeford said people were worried the rules \"don't appear to be there this time\".\n\n\"Given the fact the new variant is so much easier to catch... we are looking at supermarkets and other places where people leave their homes, to make sure they are organised in a way that keeps their staff and customers safe,\" he said.\n\nHe said previously sanitising arrangements had been \"very visible\", one-way markings were prominently displayed, regular reminders were announced to customers and staff were also posted at the front entrance of supermarkets\n\n\"That person was carefully controlling the numbers of people going in, to make sure that they were no more than a certain number of people in the store at any one time,\" he said.\n\n\"There was somebody directing people to the checkout, to make sure people weren't queuing next to each other over prolonged periods, and markings on the floor so people kept at a two-metre distance\".\n\nHowever the first minister said some of those measures are no longer as apparent to people.\n\n\"I want to make sure that those visible signs of the protections that are being offered to the public and the shop workers are in place again.\"\n\nFederation of Small Businesses Wales said has called for clarity on what support would be available and the possible new measures required of shops.\n\nPolicy Chair, Ben Francis, said: \"We've already asked to see more information on the technical data that informs the decisions that Welsh Government are making.\n\n\"It seems clear that businesses will require funding support for longer than was originally anticipated if they are to survive this troubling period.\n\n\"Welsh Government should urgently give clarity on what additional funding will be made available to support businesses beyond this next three week period to allow them to plan.\"", "While GCSEs and A-levels are being cancelled, the IGCSE exams will go ahead this summer\n\nThe IGCSE exams, usually only taken in private schools, are still going ahead this summer - even though GCSEs and A-levels have been cancelled.\n\nExam boards that run IGCSEs plan to offer them, while many other exams have been stopped by the pandemic.\n\nIGCSE qualifications, alternative exams to GCSEs, are not usually available in state schools.\n\nPupils in England whose A-levels and GCSEs are cancelled will depend on replacement grades from teachers.\n\nBut Education Secretary Gavin Williamson's scrapping of exams this summer does not apply to students taking IGCSEs.\n\nA Department for Education report in 2019 found 94% of IGCSEs were taken in private schools, accounting for 164,000 exam entries.\n\nThe decision not to cancel them was welcomed by the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC), representing some of the most prestigious independent schools.\n\nThe HMC's general secretary, Simon Hyde, said their schools \"would be the first to cheer if pupils educated by the state had the same opportunity\".\n\n\"The decision to cancel GCSEs was premature. Exams are the fairest way of assessing what learners know and understand and we would like to see as many pupils as possible take a form of exam in the summer,\" said Dr Hyde.\n\nIndependent schools often offer a mix of IGCSEs and GCSEs for different subjects, although IGCSEs do not count towards school league tables.\n\nThe qualifications - International GCSEs - are offered by Cambridge Assessment and Pearson and are taken in other countries as well as the UK. Both boards say they are planning to go ahead with exam papers for UK schools this summer.\n\nIGCSEs were not included in the cancellation of exams announced by England's Department for Education and it will be up to individual schools to decide whether to continue with them.\n\nJulie McCullloch of the ASCL head teachers' union said: \"It creates another inconsistency, but none of this is easy.\"\n\nShe said it created an \"odd situation\" when GCSEs were cancelled but IGCSEs were going ahead, but she recognised that an international qualification could need a common approach across different countries.\n\nWith the latest lockdown and most pupils studying at home, GCSEs and A-levels have been cancelled in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nIn England, the exams watchdog Ofqual will launch a consultation next week on a replacement way of deciding grades - but Ofqual does not regulate IGCSEs and they will not be part of the watchdog's proposals.", "Harley Watson's mother Jo described him as a \"kind, caring, selfless, intelligent and comical young man\"\n\nA man who killed a 12-year-old boy by driving into schoolchildren in a \"deliberate\" hit and run has been detained in a secure hospital.\n\nHarley Watson died after he was hit by a car outside Debden Park High School in Loughton, Essex, on 2 December 2019.\n\nTerence Glover, 52, pleaded guilty to manslaughter by diminished responsibility at an earlier hearing.\n\nHe also admitted 10 counts of attempted murder and has been detained under the Mental Health Act indefinitely.\n\nAt the sentencing hearing at Snaresbrook Crown Court, Harley's mother Jo described her son as a \"kind, caring, selfless, intelligent and comical young man\".\n\nHe was hit by Glover's Ford Ka as he left school with friends and died later in Whipps Cross University Hospital.\n\nTerence Glover has been sentenced indefinitely under the Mental Health Act\n\nChristine Agnew, prosecuting, said eye-witnesses saw Glover's car \"ploughing through and hitting children from behind\".\n\nShe said he \"deliberately mounted the pavement... and drove directly at a group of people, mostly children, intending to kill them\".\n\nGlover, previously of Newmans Lane, Loughton, also pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of 23-year-old Raquel Jimeno and six boys and three girls aged between 12 and 16 who were outside the school.\n\nThe court heard he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and medical experts agreed his \"significant\" mental illness \"provided an explanation for his conduct\".\n\nHe was given a hospital order under the Mental Health Act 1983, meaning if his illness was treated successfully, he would be transferred to prison.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Harley Watson's classmates paid tribute to him in 2019\n\nJudge Andrew Edis said if transferred, Glover must serve a life sentence with a minimum of 15 years.\n\nIn his sentencing statement, Judge Edis noted his history of mental illness and cocaine use, but said Glover's actions were \"appalling\".\n\n\"He caused the death of a much-loved and admired 12-year-old boy who had done no harm to anyone,\" he said.\n\nHe added that Glover's behaviour \"requires punishment as well as treatment\" and there was \"no doubt that this defendant is dangerous\".\n\nHe also ordered that Glover be banned from driving for life and that the car should be destroyed.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "National Express has announced that it is suspending its entire national network of coach services from midnight on Sunday.\n\nThe firm said tighter Covid restrictions and falling passenger numbers had prompted the decision.\n\nIt added that it hoped to restart services in March.\n\nAll customers whose travel has been cancelled will be contacted and offered a free amendment or full refund, the company said.\n\nAll journeys before Monday 11 January will be completed to ensure any passengers making essential journeys are not stranded.\n\nChris Hardy, managing director of National Express UK Coach, said: \"We have been providing an important service for essential travel needs. However, with tighter restrictions and passenger numbers falling, it is no longer appropriate to do this.\n\nHe added that as the vaccination programme was rolled out and government guidance changed, the company would regularly review when services could restart.\n\n\"We plan to be back on the road as soon as the time is right and have put a provisional restart date of Monday 1 March in place,\" he said.\n\nNational Express first suspended coach services during the coronavirus crisis in April, then restarted in July.\n\nServices have been operating at half capacity, with strict cleaning and Covid protocols. As the tier structure came into operation, demand for services reduced.\n\nAs with the previous suspension, employees will be furloughed.\n\nFirms that transport passengers, including coach, rail and aviation businesses, have been under intense pressure during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nAvanti West Coast, the train operating company running services on the West Coast mainline, has confirmed it will cut its timetable from 18 January.\n\nAvanti says the new timetable will 'more closely reflect the current demand for our services whilst still allowing key workers, and those needing to make essential journeys, to travel with confidence'.\n\nDuring the first major lockdown in March, services on key intercity routes were reduced from three an hour to one. This included services from both Manchester and Birmingham to London.\n\nThe Department for Transport has been consulting with all train operators about service reductions during the latest lockdown.\n\nThe exact scale of reduction is still being worked on, but the DfT says service levels may fall to as low as 40% of the normal timetable by some operators.\n\nThe focus is to ensure essential workers can still make essential journeys.\n\n\"Following discussions with the Department for Transport we will be introducing a new timetable on Monday 18 January. This will more closely reflect the current demand for our services whilst still allowing key workers, and those needing to make essential journeys, to travel with confidence.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Ryanair also announced that it would make big cuts to its flight schedule from 21 January, with few, if any flights to or from the UK or Ireland until \"draconian travel restrictions are removed\".\n\nTrain services are expected to be reduced in lockdown, with some in the industry anticipating reductions of between 50% and 60% compared with normal service.\n\nIn the first national lockdown in England, services were reduced to almost half.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police have issued CCTV footage of a man they want to speak to in connection with the incident\n\nA fraudster claiming to work for the NHS injected a 92-year-old woman with a fake Covid-19 vaccine, City of London Police has said.\n\nDetectives are hunting the man who charged the victim in Surbiton, south-west London, £160.\n\nPolice said it was \"crucial\" he was caught as soon as possible as he \"may endanger people's lives\".\n\nDet Insp Kevin Ives described it as a \"disgusting and totally unacceptable assault\".\n\nIt comes after the NHS warned people that no-one should be turning up at doorsteps offering a vaccine for payment, following a spate of fake text messages.\n\nUnder the current coronavirus vaccine rollout plans, people will be invited to receive the vaccine by their GP or healthcare provider.\n\nPolice said the victim allowed the man into her home on the afternoon of 30 December after he said he was from the NHS and there to administer the Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nShe said she was jabbed in the arm with a \"dart-like implement\" before being charged £160, which the man said would be refunded by the NHS.\n\nPolice said it was not known what substance, if any, was administered, but the woman had been checked at her local hospital and showed no ill effects.\n\nDet Insp Ives appealed for information to help identify the suspect.\n\nHe added: \"It is crucial we catch him as soon as possible as not only is he defrauding individuals of money, he may endanger people's lives.\"\n\nThe man made a second visit to the woman's home on 4 January, when he asked for another £100, police said.\n\nThe man was spotted in the Tolworth area of Kingston-upon-Thames on 4 January\n\nOfficers released CCTV footage on Friday of a man dressed in a navy blue tracksuit with white stripes down the side, who they want to speak to in connection with the incident.\n\nHe is described as a white man in his early 30s, who is about 5ft 9ins (1.75m) tall, of medium build, with light brown hair that is combed back. He speaks with a London accent.\n\nA spokesman for the Department of Health said: \"NHS England will never ask for bank details, Pin numbers or passwords, when contacting you about a vaccination.\n\n\"Any communication which claims to be from the NHS but asks for payment, or bank details, is fraudulent and can be ignored. It can be reported to police via Action Fraud.\n\n\"You will never be charged for the vaccine.\"\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said it is \"excellent news\" that a third coronavirus vaccine has been approved for use in the UK.\n\nIt is made by US company Moderna and works in a similar way to the Pfizer one already being offered on the NHS.\n\nThe UK has pre-ordered 17 million doses of the Moderna vaccine - 10 million more than planned - but supplies are not expected to arrive until spring.\n\nIt is the last Covid vaccine with final trial data published.\n\nThere are hundreds still in development, with some expected to report findings in the near future.\n\nAround 1.5 million people in the UK have had at least one dose of a Covid vaccine so far, with either the Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccines already approved by UK regulators.\n\nThat figure includes almost a quarter of those aged over 80 in England - people at highest risk of severe illness or death from the virus.\n\nVaccines are being given to the most vulnerable first, as set out in a list of nine high-priority groups, covering around 30 million people in the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Vaccine Deployment Minister Nadhim Zahawi welcomed the approval of the Moderna jab\n\nThe prime minister has said the aim is to vaccinate 15 million people in the UK by mid-February, including care homes residents and staff, frontline NHS staff, everyone over 70 and those who are clinically extremely vulnerable.\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"This is further great news and another weapon in our arsenal to tame this awful disease.\"\n\nThe UK had originally ordered 7 million doses of the Moderna jab, but has increased this to get even more people immunised as quickly as possible.\n\nIn total, the UK has now ordered 367 million doses of vaccines to protect against Covid-19.\n\nNadhim Zahawi, vaccine deployment minister, said: \"The NHS is pulling out all the stops to vaccinate those most at risk as quickly as possible, with over 1,000 vaccination sites live across the UK by the end of the week to provide easy access to everyone, regardless of where they live.\n\n\"The Moderna vaccine will be a vital boost to these efforts and will help us return to normal faster.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid vaccine safety: How does a vaccine get approved?\n\nThe Moderna vaccine, an RNA vaccine like Pfizer's, injects part of the virus's genetic code in order to provoke an immune response.\n\nIt requires temperatures of around -20C for shipping - similar to a normal freezer.\n\nIn comparison, the Pfizer/BioNTech one requires temperatures closer to -75C, making transport logistics much more difficult.\n\nThe AstraZeneca jab is easier to store and distribute, as it can be kept at normal fridge temperature.\n\nAll of these vaccines require a second booster shot, but a first dose is likely to be given to as many people as possible.\n\nIn trials with more than 30,000, the Moderna vaccine offered nearly 95% protection from severe Covid.\n\nNo vaccine is 100% effective and it takes time for protection to build. For all of the Covid vaccines, we still do not know how long immunity will last.\n\nPeople who have received a coronavirus vaccine should continue to follow social distancing rules to protect themselves and others.\n\nEU and US regulators have already approved the Moderna vaccine.", "The band recently became a trio (left-right): Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Jade Thirlwall and Perrie Edwards\n\nLittle Mix have risen to top the top of UK singles chart after Christmas songs released their grip on the top 40.\n\nSweet Melody has become the band's fifth number one, three months after it was released - and will be their last with Jesy Nelson, who quit last year.\n\nThe 29-year-old said in December that nine years in the girl group had taken \"a toll on her mental health\".\n\nLittle Mix's victory is part of a huge chart upheaval, after 56 Christmas songs dropped out of the top 100.\n\nAmong them was last week's number one, Wham's Last Christmas, which set a new record for the biggest-ever fall from the top. The festive ballad has now left the chart altogether.\n\nThe previous record-holder - Three Lions, by The Lightning Seeds with Frank Skinner and David Baddiel - fell from number one to 96 after England crashed out of the World Cup in 2018.\n\nSweet Melody has risen from number nine to number one this week, giving Little Mix their first chart-topper since Shout Out To My Ex in 2016.\n\nJade Thirlwall told BBC Radio 1 the milestone was particularly important because it was \"the last single we did as a four with Jesy\".\n\n\"And it's even more special that now, going into 2021 as a three, we've got the first number one,\" she added.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Official Charts This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. End of youtube video by Official Charts\n\nAcknowledging a fan campaign to boost the song's chart position, bandmate Perrie Edwards said: \"I just want to squish every single fan who managed to get it to number one.\n\n\"The power they have, I'm sorry. The song's been out for months!\"\n\nWith fans abandoning their festive playlists, the stage was also set for singles that had previously been forced out of the top 40 to stage a dramatic return.\n\nDua Lipa's Levitating jumped 63 places to number five, reclaiming a position it last held on 3 December; and Tate McRae's You Broke Me First rocketed from number 74 to nine. In total, there were 39 new entries or re-entries in the top 75.\n\nIn the album chart, Taylor Swift's Evermore returned to number one, four weeks after its surprise pre-Christmas release, while companion album Folklore climbed to number 12.\n\nMeanwhile, Harry Styles' Fine Line reached a new chart peak at number two following the release of a video for his latest single Treat People With Kindness, which sees him dance with Fleabag's Phoebe Waller-Bridge.\n\nLewis Capaldi's Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent - the UK's biggest-selling album of both 2019 and 2020 - also climbed to number six, notching up its 86th week in the top 10.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Graham Norton has been the BBC's Mr Eurovision since 2009\n\nGraham Norton, who commentates for the UK's BBC Eurovision coverage, has said the song contest will go ahead this year despite the coronavirus pandemic.\n\n\"There's definitely going to be a Eurovision... The competition element is going to happen,\" he said.\n\nContest organisers told the BBC: \"We can confirm the Eurovision Song Contest will definitely take place this year.\"\n\nBut pre-recorded performances may be used if acts cannot travel to Rotterdam or have to isolate when they get there.\n\nLast year's contest was cancelled due to the pandemic. It was replaced in the UK with a programme looking back at the event's history, including a vote to find the greatest Eurovision song of all time.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNorton told US radio station Sirius XM that if some artists are unable to travel to the Netherlands in 2021, \"they can Zoom in a performance\". He added: \"I doubt we'll be in a stadium full of 20,000 people.\"\n\nOrganisers stressed that while \"the general gist of Graham's comments is correct\", pre-recorded performances will be used if an act can't travel, rather than asking them to perform live from their home country.\n\nThe filmed routines will be shown \"if a participant cannot travel to Rotterdam due to the current pandemic, or in the unfortunate instance of an artist having to quarantine on site\", a spokesman said.\n\nBroadcasters will have to follow a \"strict set of guidelines\" to help them record their \"live on tape\" performances \"to keep the competition fair should it not go ahead in the traditional way\", he added.\n\nThe new rules state: \"The recording will take place in real time (as it would be at the contest) without making any edits to the vocals or any part of the performance itself after the recording.\"\n\nThis year's contest will take place on 22 May.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk", "The number of people in Scotland who have died within 28 days of testing positive for the virus now stands at 4,872\n\nScotland's hospitals have more Covid patients than ever before - with the number of deaths also \"distressingly high\", the first minister has said.\n\nThe latest figures showed that the deaths of 93 people who had tested positive for the virus have been recorded in the past 24 hours.\n\nBut the figure includes some people who died over Christmas and New Year.\n\nThere were also 1,530 people in hospital with the virus, higher than the peak of 1,520 last April.\n\nOf these, 102 patients were in intensive care - with Ms Sturgeon saying the statistics showed the \"severity of the pressure\" that hospitals are facing.\n\nThe 93 deaths recorded on Friday is the highest daily figure since the outbreak began - with the previous high being 84 on 15 April.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said the figure will \"undoubtedly include some people who died over the Christmas and New Year period and the delay in registration because of the bank holidays means that their deaths are only being reported today.\"\n\nShe added: \"To be clear, that is not more than 90 people who died yesterday. It will be people who have died over a period of time.\n\n\"That does not change the fact they are all individuals who have died and have died of Covid.\"\n\nA further 2,309 people have tested positive for Covid-19, which was 8.1% of the tests carried out on Thursday and takes the total number of cases in Scotland to 146,024.\n\nThe figures mean that the total number of people in Scotland who have died within 28 days of testing positive for the virus now stands at 4,872.\n\nThe Scottish government has said it is concerned that too many people have not been following the \"stay at home\" rules that are in place across the whole of the mainland and some islands.\n\nIt believes that more people are using the country's road and public transport networks than during the lockdown last spring.\n\nAnd it has warned that tougher restrictions could be needed to increase compliance with the travel restrictions.\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily briefing that the areas being looked at included non-essential click and collect shopping, further restrictions on takeaway food, non-essential construction and whether more people should be working from home.\n\nThe first minister also confirmed that universities and colleges will not resume in-person teaching until at least the end of February.\n\nThis means that students should stay at home rather than travelling back to their campus or accommodation.\n\nThere will be exceptions for cases where remote study is not possible - for example for a student nurse or a doctor on a practical placement.\n\nAnd Ms Sturgeon said any students who have remained on campus will be \"fully supported\" by their institution.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland was placed into level four restrictions from 26 December before additional measures, including closing schools to most pupils until at least the end of the month, was introduced on Tuesday.\n\nScotland's interim chief medical officer, Dr Dave Caesar, insisted on Friday morning that coronavirus case numbers in January \"could have been worse\".\n\nHe said the restrictions that were introduced on Boxing Day had helped to \"blunt the spike\" but warned that the country was \"not out of the woods yet\".\n\nDr Caesar told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"Our case numbers are high, but they're not as high as they could have been if we hadn't taken the measures that we undertook from Boxing Day.\n\n\"Our health system is under serious pressure but is coping.\n\n\"I hate to say it, but it could have been worse by this time in January. We're not out of the woods yet by any stretch of the imagination, but I suppose we're holding our own in very significantly challenging circumstances.\"\n\nNew Covid testing measures for international travellers are to be introduced\n\nNew plans to make international passengers test negative for Covid-19 before travelling to Scotland and England have also been unveiled, with Ms Sturgeon saying she hoped the scheme could start by the end of next week.\n\nIt will mean people arriving by plane, train or boat - including UK nationals - will have to take a test up to 72 hours before leaving the country they are travelling from.\n\nProf Linda Bauld of Edinburgh University said the move was long overdue as the UK had \"really struggled from the beginning\" with limiting the impact of international travel on the pandemic.\n\nBut she said the country should also consider introducing supervised quarantine for people arriving from overseas.", "When Trump supporters stormed the Capitol they took out their cameras to record the chaos inside. The BBC looked through hours of phone footage to paint a picture of what happened.", "Film director Michael Apted, best known for the Up series of TV documentaries following the lives of 14 people every seven years, has died aged 79.\n\nHe also directed Coal Miner's Daughter, Gorillas In The Mist and the 1999 Bond movie The World Is Not Enough.\n\nThe original 7 Up in 1964 set out to document the life prospects of a range of children from all walks of life.\n\nThe show was inspired by the Aristotle quote \"give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man\".\n\nThe first 7 Up show was followed by 14 Up at the start of the next decade, which interviewed the same children as teenagers - and the pattern was set right up until 63 Up in 2019.\n\nThroughout all those intervening years ITV viewers became engrossed with the stories of private school trio Andrew, Charles and John, of Jackie who went through two divorces, of Neil who went from jobless and homeless to Liberal Democrat councillor, and of working class chatterbox Tony, whose life ambition was to become a jockey.\n\nApted's shows - which won three Bafta awards - have often been described as the forerunner of modern-day reality TV series, giving its participants the time to tell their own stories on screen.\n\nBut unlike their modern counterparts, the original Up children tended to fade away from the limelight in the seven years between each chapter.\n\nIn 2008, Apted was made a companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George in the Queen's Birthday Honours for services to the British film and television industries.\n\nThomas Schlamme, president of the Directors Guild of America, said Apted was a \"fearless visionary\" whose legacy would live on.\n\nHe said Apted, who was born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, \"saw the trajectory of things when others didn't and we were all beneficiaries of his wisdom and lifelong dedication\".\n\nITV's managing director Kevin Lygo said the director's six-decade career was \"in itself truly remarkable\".\n\nHe said the Up series \"demonstrated the possibilities of television at its finest in its ambition and its capacity to hold up a mirror to society and engage with and entertain people while enriching our perspective on the human condition\".\n\nApted directed the 19th James Bond film The World Is Not Enough\n\n\"The influence of Michael's contribution to film and programme-making continues to be felt and he will be sadly missed,\" Lygo added.\n\nMichael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, producers of the James Bond film franchise, said Apted \"was a director of enormous talent\" and \"beloved by all those who worked with him\".\n\n\"We loved working with him on The World Is Not Enough and send our love and support to his family, friends and colleagues,\" they said.\n\nA post on the Twitter account of the band Garbage, who performed the theme for The World Is Not Enough, labelled Apted a \"delightful, charming soul\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Garbage This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nComposer David G Arnold, who composed the Bond theme and worked with Apted on three other non-Bond movies, said he felt \"lucky\" to work with him.\n\n\"A more trusting, funny, friendly and, most importantly, kind, person you'd never meet. So pleased to have known him and so sad that he's gone,\" Arnold wrote on Twitter.", "Former Det Insp Tim Ireson led the unit for two years and would have been sacked if he was still serving\n\nThree members of a \"toxic\" police unit have been sacked for gross misconduct after their \"offensive\" conversations were secretly bugged.\n\nThe devices picked up \"homophobic, racist and sexist\" conversations in the offices of Hampshire's Serious and Organised Crime Unit in Basingstoke in 2018, a misconduct panel heard.\n\nA number of force staff referred to it as a \"lads' pad\".\n\nTwo other officers would have been sacked but had already left the force.\n\nThe misconduct hearing was told in the 24 days the office was bugged - following concerns raised by a whistleblower - there was \"enough profanity, casual sexism and racism to last a lifetime\".\n\nDet Sgt Oliver Lage, Det Sgt Gregory Willcox and PC James Oldfield have been dismissed while retired Det Insp Tim Ireson and former PC Craig Bannerman were the two who had previously left the force.\n\nTrainee Det Con Andrew Ferguson, who sent colleagues a fake pornographic image of members of the royal family, has been given a final written warning.\n\nThe six men were based at the Serious and Organised Crime Unit in Basingstoke\n\nImposing the sanctions, panel chairman John Bassett said the conduct had been \"shameful\".\n\nHe said police officers could not \"pick and choose the standards they will abide by\" in order to create more \"cohesive\" teams.\n\nMr Bassett said PC Ferguson was \"essentially a good officer\" who joined the team three months before the recordings, by which time the \"culture was well-established\".\n\nHe said the officer was \"conflicted by what he witnessed\" and \"felt unable to raise the matter with a supervisor\".\n\nChief Constable Olivia Pinkney said the force's internal investigation had revealed a \"catalogue of sexist, racist, homophobic and ableist language and commentary that has rightly shocked us all\".\n\nShe added: \"These officers have failed to deliver on the promise they made to uphold fundamental human rights and accord equal respect to all people.\n\n\"[They] have undermined the trust and confidence of our communities and damaged the reputations of their colleagues.\"\n\nThe six officers have apologised but some told the disciplinary panel swearing was in the \"fabric\" of the police force.\n\nOne also said they felt they were being \"made an example of\" by the force which should have learned from other previous incidents.\n\nIn all, 20 police officers and staff from the unit have faced some sort of disciplinary action.\n\nDuring the misconduct hearing at Hampshire Constabulary's headquarters in Eastleigh, it was heard a \"toxic, abhorrent culture\" developed with officers using offensive terms for women, black people, immigrants, disabled, gay and transgender people and foreign nationals.\n\nJason Beer QC, prosecuting, said the only black member of the team was referred to using racist tropes and references to slavery.\n\nWomen were described using derogatory terms and stared at in the canteen, he added.\n\nThe men admitted some of the charges of breaching standards of professional behaviour against them but claimed it only amounted to misconduct not gross misconduct.\n\nZoe Wakefield, chair of Hampshire Police Federation, said: \"The outdated and offensive views we heard during the hearing have no place in society and they certainly have no place in policing.\n\n\"We should not let the awful language and terminology used by a very small number of police officers tarnish the hard work and dedication of thousands of police officers and staff in Hampshire...\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Marks & Spencer has temporarily stopped selling hundreds of items in its Northern Ireland stores due to Brexit red tape.\n\nThe retailer said it feared its food would be blocked due to new rules governing shipments between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nA growing number of firms have spoken out about paperwork delays at ports.\n\nThe government said traders and hauliers need to take steps to comply with new border rules.\n\nM&S took the decision to temporarily drop hundreds of products, including chocolate fudge pudding and sweet and sour chicken, from its Northern Ireland stores after it saw competitors' lorries barred from travelling between the mainland and Northern Ireland.\n\nAn entire consignment in a lorry can be held up if only one item in the truck doesn't have the correct customs forms filled out.\n\nThe retailer said it aimed to get the products back up for sale soon.\n\nAn M&S spokesperson said: \"We have served customers in Northern Ireland for over 50 years and our priority is to make sure we continue to deliver the same choice and great quality range that our loyal customers have always enjoyed.\n\n\"Stores have been receiving regular deliveries this week, however following the UK's recent departure from the EU, we are transitioning to new processes and we're working closely with our partners and suppliers to ensure customers can continue to enjoy a great range of products.\"\n\nIn addition to problems shipping goods internally in the UK, the new Brexit trade rules are creating problems for exporters and traders transporting goods to and from the EU, say firms.\n\nThe UK sealed a trade deal with the European Union (EU) on 24 December that was billed as preserving its zero-tariff and zero-quota access to the bloc's single market.\n\nBut in addition to red tape causing delays, major retailers that use the UK as a distribution hub for European business could face possible tariffs if they re-export goods to the EU.\n\nOn Friday, M&S chief executive Steve Rowe warned of more red tape and a rise in export costs to some countries.\n\n\"The best example I can give you of that is Percy Pig,\" he said,\n\n\"Percy Pig is actually manufactured in Germany. If it comes to the UK and we then send it to Ireland, in theory it would have some tax on it,\" he added.\n\nM&S said it was \"actively working to mitigate\" the effects of the \"rules of origin\" regulations, under which products are taxed differently depending on which country they come from.\n\nOther firms have also been hit by the confusion caused by new Brexit trading rules.\n\nParcels giant DPD has suspended some services, while seafood exporter John Ross said the chaos was like being \"thrown in the cold Atlantic without a lifejacket\".\n\nShane Brennan, chief executive of the Cold Chain Federation, which represents chilled transport and storage companies, said the emerging problems had come despite the amount of cross-border traffic still being quite low.\n\n\"Trade flows are still only about 50% of what we would expect, but even at those levels we are seeing levels of confusion and delays,\" he told the BBC's Today programme. \"The feeling is we are building to quite a significant potential disruption.\"\n\nA government spokesman acknowledged that there had been \"some issues\", but said ministers had always been clear there would be some disruption at the end of the transition period.\n\nThe Cabinet Office said in a statement that the volume of border crossings had been low so far this year, but that it expected crossings to steadily increase to normal levels.\n\nThis brings the potential for \"significant disruption if traders and hauliers have not taken the necessary steps to comply with the new rules,\" the Cabinet Office said.\n\nOut of about 1,500 lorries per day trying to get from Great Britain to the EU in the new year, 700 have been turned away - mainly due to a lack of a negative Covid test for drivers, it said.\n\n\"We have always been clear there would be changes now that we are out of the customs union and single market, so full compliance with the new rules is vital to avoid disruption,\" said Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove.\n\nHowever, anger is growing among companies whose livelihoods depend on export trade.\n\nIn a letter on Friday to Business Secretary Alok Sharma, Scottish salmon producer John Ross Jr launched a stinging attack on the government's handling of the situation.\n\nThe firm's sales director, Victoria Leigh-Pearson, wrote that the company had in recent months \"had to endure the government issuing a barrage of useless information\" and an \"absence of factually correct information from all government agencies.\" It amounted, she said, to \"gross incompetence\".\n\nJohn Ross exports to 36 countries and has won the Queen's Award twice\n\nPart of the letter to Alok Sharma:\n\nAs I write, perishable goods that were dispatched from our facility five days ago, headed for France following a process that your department advised, have still not crossed the border. This usually takes only 24 hours because they are consolidated with the produce of other companies, which have not been able to follow the correct procedures due to a knowledge gap directly attributable to your department.\n\nEntire trucks are currently being rejected without explanation by the French customs authority. Our hauliers have now pulled their services as such a backlog has been created. Other hauliers are not taking on new customers. Today, we've even had confirmation that the IT systems of the UK and France are incompatible. After four years you only establish this now?\n\nYour so-called 'deal' is worthless if this situation is not fixed immediately, and unless you put in place measures to address the issues that continue to unfold on a daily basis. Moreover, as a seafood exporter, it feels as though our own government has thrown us into the cold Atlantic waters without a lifejacket.\n\nJohn Ross is not the only Scottish seafood exporter suffering. The industry says it has been hit by a \"perfect storm\" of Brexit disruption, which could sink a centuries-old industry.\n\n\"These businesses are not transporting toilet rolls or widgets. They are exporting the highest quality, perishable seafood which has a finite window to get to markets in peak condition,\" said Donna Fordyce, chief executive of Seafood Scotland.\n\n\"If the window closes, these consignments go to landfill.\"\n\nShe said the sector has already been weakened by Covid-19, the closure of the French border before Christmas as well as \"layer upon layer\" of problems associated with Brexit.\n\nThe group fears that without exports, the fishing fleet will have little reason to go out.\n\n\"In a very short time, we could see the destruction of a centuries-old market which contributes significantly to the Scottish economy,\" added Ms Fordyce.\n\nUK government Minister for Scotland David Duguid blamed Scottish leaders for the issues.\n\n\"The Scottish Government has persistently refused to accept the democratic vote to leave the EU, but that does not allow them to abdicate their responsibilities to Scottish businesses,\" he said.\n\n\"Over the past 18 months they have assured the fishing industry that the systems they were putting in place would be adequate. They clearly are not.\"\n\nParcel delivery service DPD UK said it had paused its European Road Service because of the '\"increased burden\" of customs paperwork for packages heading to the EU, including the Republic of Ireland.\n\nDPD said 20% of parcels had \"incorrect or incomplete data attached\", which meant they would have to be returned.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What Brexit means for Britons travelling, shopping, studying or owning properties in the EU.\n\nIn an email to its business customers, the company said that it had been a \"challenging few days\" for its international operation, and that it would \"pause and review\" its service. It plans to restart on 13 January.\n\n\"It has now become evident that we have an increased burden with the new, more complex processes, and additional customs data we require from you for your parcels destined to Europe\" the firm wrote.\n\nThe boss of one of Wales' largest hauliers said logistical problems have emerged at the Irish border too.\n\nAndrew Kinsella, managing director of Gwynedd Shipping, said his company has a backlog of 60 lorries waiting to be shipped to Dublin.\n\nHe said many hauliers are finding that their customers are not able to generate the special declarations that are needed to ultimately enable a lorry to get onto a ferry.\n\n\"Whilst you don't see queues at ports and terminals the reality is that these queues are developing elsewhere in our depot in Holyhead, in our depot in Deeside and in our depot in Newport in South Wales, and lots of hauliers have depots in the proximity of ports,\" he said.\n\n\"There are a lot of issues about demarcation about who is going to arrange the export declaration with the UK revenue authorities, who's going to arrange the import declaration, the hauliers then trying to arrange the import safety and security declaration to create an ENS number which helps you generate a PBN number so there has been a lot of everyone finding their feet\".\n\nCorrection 9th April 2021: An earlier version of this article included a photo showing queues of lorries at Dover Port. This photo was replaced in the hours after publication after it was established that it had been taken months earlier.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Growing numbers of students in England have pledged to withhold rent on university accommodation they cannot use during the Covid lockdown.\n\nOrganisers say this is building up to be a major protest, estimating that about 15,000 students at dozens of universities have signed up so far.\n\nThey want a rebate on rent when many students are being kept off campus at the start of term.\n\nBut universities say they only provide 20% of student accommodation.\n\nUniversities UK says this means \"many decisions on refunds will be made by private landlords and other providers\".\n\nIn November, University of Manchester offered a 30% rent rebate for the first half of the academic year, worth about £1,000 to each student in halls.\n\nThe move followed protests over lack of support during the coronavirus pandemic which saw students tear down temporary fencing in one demonstration.\n\nUniversity of Manchester students have been calling for a rent strike\n\nThe reduction will be applied to direct debit payments this month, with students who have already paid for the whole year getting a refund.\n\nBut organiser of the Rent Strike Now campaign, Ben McGowan, said the new lockdown means students are still paying for halls they are unable to return to which has prompted a wave of student anger.\n\nOn Twitter, campaigners listed more than 40 universities where they said students were pledging to withhold rent.\n\nThe campaign group Rent Strike Now tweeted a list of universities where there are campaigns\n\n\"Most of us are being told not to go back so we're paying for accommodation we can't use and there's been no extra support from universities and government,\" added Saranya Thambiranjah, a first year at Bristol University who also helps run the campaign.\n\n\"Rent striking is a great way to make our voices heard and get universities to listen our concerns.\"\n\nStudents at universities not yet part of this campaign have said they will organise similar challenges on their own campuses, including Coventry and Keele.\n\nRebecca Hyde is having to do her journalism course in her bedroom\n\nAt Nottingham Trent University, student campaigner Rebecca Hyde, who is doing a masters in broadcast journalism, said 244 students had so far pledged to withhold rent on university halls since their campaign was launched a few days ago.\n\nShe believes universities should do more to help students who are having to pay for rooms they are unable to use through no fault of their own.\n\nShe says her course leaders have been brilliant but missing out on using studios and running \"news days\" with her fellow students \"is just so disappointing\".\n\nNottingham Trent University says it understands student concerns over rents and urged the government \"to show leadership to find a solution that is fair to all students\".\n\n\"At NTU, only a minority of our students are in accommodation operated by or on behalf of the university.\n\n\"We do not want a repeat of the situation in the summer term of 2020 where most of our students were reliant on the goodwill of private accommodation providers who did not always do the right thing,\" said the university in a statement.\n\nAt King's College London, campaign secretary \"Juno\" likewise reported hundreds of new pledges to withhold rent in the past few days, saying students felt they had been \"lured\" into their accommodation at the start of the academic year.\n\nA King's spokesperson promised that students would not be charged for accommodation they are unable to use during lockdown.\n\nAbout a quarter of students are in privately-run purpose built accommodation, and one of the biggest of these providers, Unite Students, is also facing demands.\n\nLiverpool John Moores student Suhail Accad, in Unite accommodation, says his rent strike post on Instagram has gained 3,000 followers and has had 8,000 shares in just a few days.\n\n\"It's expensive to stay here,\" says Suhail.\n\nUnite was unable to comment directly on the threat of rent strikes but maintains that it is doing all it can to help keep students and staff safe \"during this challenging period\".\n\nUniversities UK said universities were looking at the issue \"actively\" and considering what support they can offer students.\n\n\"Universities recognise the financial pressures the pandemic has placed on students and are providing increased financial and other support as a result.\n\n\"With government restrictions reducing the numbers of students returning in person to universities, now is the time for the government to seriously consider the financial implications for students and institutions and what support they will provide.\"", "Prof Chris Whitty will front one of the adverts Image caption: Prof Chris Whitty will front one of the adverts\n\nThe government is urging people in England to stay at home and \"act like you've got it\" as part of a new advertising campaign.\n\nThe \"stay at home, save lives\" campaign will run across TV, radio, out-of-home advertising and social media.\n\nThe campaign will include a new advert fronted by England's Chief Medical Officer, Prof Chris Whitty, which will air for the first time on ITV at 19:15 GMT tonight.\n\nThe UK reported a record number of deaths and cases today, as hospitals come under growing pressure, with some in the South East at extreme capacity.\n\nAround one in three people with Covid-19 don’t have any symptoms and can pass it on without realising, the government said, \"which is why it’s essential everyone stays at home and remembers Hands, Face, Space\".\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"Our hospitals are under more pressure than at any other time since the start of the pandemic, and infection rates across the entire country continue to soar at an alarming rate.\n\n“The vaccine has given us renewed hope in our fight against the virus but we must not be complacent.\n\n\"The NHS is under severe strain and we must take action to protect it, both so our doctors and nurses can continue to save lives and so they can vaccinate as many people as possible as quickly as we can.\n\n“I know the last year has taken its toll – but your compliance is now more vital than ever. So once again, I must urge everyone to stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives.”", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One floral tribute had Dame Barbara's photograph in the centre\n\nThe funeral of EastEnders and Carry On actress Dame Barbara Windsor has taken place in London.\n\nRoss Kemp, who played her on-screen son in the soap, was among the 30 mourners and gave a reading, as did actor and friend Christopher Biggins.\n\nDame Barbara died in December at the age of 83, having had dementia.\n\nThere were floral arrangements spelling Babs, The Dame and Saucy, and a mock pub sign showing her as The Queen Peggy in the style of the soap's Queen Vic.\n\nDame Barbara played pub landlady Peggy Mitchell in EastEnders for more than two decades.\n\nA version of the EastEnders Queen Vic pub sign was painted in tribute\n\nScott Mitchell, who was married to Dame Barbara for 20 years, was joined at Golders Green Crematorium by family and friends including comedians Matt Lucas and David Walliams.\n\n\"As Covid has denied so many of Barbara's family, friends and fans a chance to say farewell properly, I wanted to share the order of service to let people be a small part of it,\" Mr Mitchell told the PA news agency.\n\n\"My heart goes out to every family who have experienced the same restrictions at their loved ones' funerals.\"\n\nLeft-right: Christopher Biggins, Ross Kemp and David Walliams were among the mourners\n\nHe added: \"I would again like to thank my family, friends, the media and the public for their incredible support and well wishes since Barbara's passing.\"\n\nDame Barbara's coffin was brought into the crematorium to sound of Frank Sinatra's On The Sunny Side Of The Street, and the service featured a recording of Sparrows Can't Sing from the actress's 1963 film of the same.\n\nIt finished with the famous topless photo of Dame Barbara from the film Carry On Camping, alongside her quote: \"That picture will follow me to the end.\"\n\nLong-time friend Anna Karen, who played Dame Barbara's on-screen sister Aunt Sal in EastEnders, also paid tribute during the service.\n\nThe funeral was also attended by Loose Women's Jane Moore and EastEnders actor Jamie Borthwick. However, the numbers were limited due to coronavirus social distancing.\n\nAlzheimer's Research UK recently said it had seen a spike in donations since Dame Barbara's death, and a JustGiving page set up as a tribute to her and in aid of the charity has raised more than £150,000 (including Gift Aid).\n\nMr Mitchell said that was \"beyond anything we may have dreamed of\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Google's plan to replace web browser cookies with a system that shares less data with advertisers is being investigated in the UK.\n\nThe Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said Google's plan could have a \"significant impact\" on news websites and the digital advertising market.\n\nIt had already raised concerns that publishers' profits could sink if they were unable to run personalised ads.\n\nBut Google said digital advertising practices had to \"evolve\".\n\nCookies are small files a web browser stores on a user's device when they visit a webpage.\n\nThey can be used to remember what items a person has added to their online basket and deliver personalised content.\n\nThey can also be used to track somebody's activity online and deliver targeted advertising.\n\nSome cookies known as cross-site or third-party cookies can let publishers track a person's web activity as they move from one website to another.\n\nBy default, Apple's Safari and Mozilla's Firefox browsers already block cross-site cookies.\n\nBut Google intends to go further by ending support for all cookies except first-party ones - those used by sites to track activity within their own pages.\n\nIt wants to replace them with new tools that give advertisers more limited, anonymised information such as how many users visited a promoted product's page after seeing a relevant ad - but not tie this information to individual users.\n\nAccording to one industry group opposing the move, Google's Chrome browser is installed on more than 70% of computers in the UK.\n\nSo even if other web browsers do not adopt the same approach the move would still be significant.\n\n\"Google's Privacy Sandbox proposals will potentially have a very significant impact on publishers like newspapers, and the digital advertising market. But there are also privacy concerns to consider,\" said Andrea Coscelli, chief executive of the CMA.\n\nA coalition of about a dozen small tech companies and publishers - Marketers for an Open Web (Mow) - claims some of its members' revenues could drop by as much as two-thirds.\n\nMoreover, it suggests the move would put too much power into Google's hands.\n\n\"Google will effectively control how websites can monetise and operate their business,\" it warned last month.\n\n\"This means that any business that buys or sells advertising will be reliant on Google for a part of the process, whether they like it or not.\n\n\"This will reduce the ability of independent players to compete with Google, strengthening its monopoly control of online commerce.\"\n\nThe group has also raised concerns about other related matters, including the tech firm's plan to end support for user-agent strings.\n\nThese are bits of text that browsers send to websites at the start of a user's visit to reveal details about the device and browser being used.\n\nPublishers use this information to optimise the way their sites appear.\n\nBut Google is phasing out support on the grounds that they are also used as an alternative to cookies to track users, and sometimes cause compatibility issues.\n\nThe CMA previously issued a report into the matter in July.\n\nAt that point it acknowledged that while there were benefits to consumers from the kinds of privacy measures Google was proposing, they might be outweighed by other concerns.\n\nIt added that \"many news publishers\" had expressed concern that their news sites would become \"unsustainable\".\n\nUntil recently, the European Commission was responsible for most large and complex competition cases involving the UK.\n\nOn 1 January, the CMA took over these responsibilities on a local level due to Brexit.\n\nLast November, the government announced it would create a new Digital Markets Unit within the CMA.\n\nThe organisation subsequently detailed how it would to govern the behaviour of Google, Facebook and other tech platforms \"that currently dominate\" online markets, and give consumers \"more control over how their data is used\".\n\nThe new unit becomes operational in April, but is dependent on legislation going through Parliament before it gets new powers, and that may not happen until 2022.\n\nSince that would be too late to block Google's Privacy Sandbox plans, the probe is being carried out under the existing regime.\n\nEven so, all those involved will be watching closely for signs of how willing the authority is to confront the US's largest tech companies.", "Edwin Poots said he has asked senior UK government figures to consider unilaterally revoking the NI Protocol\n\nThe Stormont minister whose officials are responsible for the new Irish Sea border has said some food will be unavailable if changes are not made.\n\nDUP Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots has also said jobs could be at risk.\n\nHe said problems at the ports were being caused by new rules applied on imports of food and other products from Britain to Northern Ireland.\n\nEarlier Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said trade from GB to NI \"will get worse before it gets better\".\n\nMr Gove said that \"work is ongoing\" and it is \"all part of the process of leaving the European Union\".\n\nHe added that he had spoken to ministers from all parties in the Northern Ireland Executive.\n\nAfter speaking with hauliers, supermarkets and processors this week, Mr Poots predicted the loss of jobs and rising costs.\n\n\"A wide range of frozen and chilled foods will be unavailable after the temporary exemption period ends,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThat exemption period applies to supermarkets and other food importers and runs out in April.\n\nAfter that they will have to comply with all the paperwork required to ship food in, or find suppliers on the island of Ireland or elsewhere in the EU.\n\nNew rules - called the Northern Ireland Protocol - were introduced because while the UK has left the EU, Northern Ireland has remained in the Single Market for goods and is continuing to apply EU customs rules.\n\nThe arrangement was agreed between the UK and the EU to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland.\n\nMr Poots said he had spoken to senior UK government figures to ask them to consider unilaterally revoking the protocol as it was \"damaging Northern Ireland at the economic and societal level\".\n\nAnd he hit out at members of Sinn Fein, the SDLP, and Alliance Party who he claimed had supported it.\n\nMembers of those parties have countered similar claims from other DUP politicians in recent days.\n\nThey said DUP MPs had voted against alternative arrangements that would have been simpler to manage before the government pushed ahead with the protocol plan.\n\nResponding to Mr Poot's tweet on Friday evening, SDLP leader Colum Eastwood wrote: \"You broke it, you own it.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Colum Eastwood This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson accused Mr Poots of being \"asleep at the wheel\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Martina Anderson MLA This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) has called for the assembly to be recalled to discuss difficulties over trading between Great Britain and Northern Ireland due to Brexit.\n\nUUP MLA Roy Beggs said: \"The impact of the Irish Sea border is causing horrendous difficulties for hauliers and this is being seen in shops and businesses across Northern Ireland.\n\n\"It is damaging the Northern Ireland economy and the situation is escalating.\"\n\nEarlier on Friday, Michael Gove said it had been expected that there would be \"some initial disruption\" to trade between GB and NI, but that the government is \"ironing\" issues out.\n\nHe said discussions with the executive in Northern Ireland were \"in order to make sure that the [Northern Ireland] protocol works\".\n\n\"[To make sure] that businesses in Northern Ireland can continue to have access to the rest of the UK market, and that Northern Ireland businesses can have the goods that they need on the shelves, that they have access to at the moment,\" he said.\n\nNorthern Ireland has remained a part of the EU's single market for goods while the rest of the UK has left.\n\nThis means food products from Great Britain are subject to checks when they enter Northern Ireland.\n\nSimilar processes and checks also apply when moving food products from Great Britain into the Republic of Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, an organisation representing haulage firms has called on the UK and Irish government to relax some of the new Irish Sea trade border rules.\n\nThe Road Haulage Association (RHA) said there is serious disruption to freight movements into the island of Ireland.\n\nThe RHA said relaxing the controls on food products and customs declarations \"would help traders to ship goods that have struggled to move over recent days.\"\n\n\"The problems have led to gaps in supermarket shelves and lorries delayed at ports because of problems with red-tape and the situation is worsening,\" the organisation added.\n\n\"We are facing an inflexible, cumbersome and time consuming process just to move goods.\"\n\nThe UK government said the flow of goods \"between GB and NI has been smooth overall and arrivals of freight have continued to increase substantially over this week\".\n\n\"There are no significant queues at NI ports and supermarkets are reporting healthy supplies into their Northern Ireland stores,\" a spokesperson added.\n\n\"We recognise the need to provide as much support to the haulage sector as possible as industry adapts to new processes. That's why hauliers can benefit from the Trader Support Service, which provides free advice and support to businesses of all sizes moving goods under the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\n\"We have been engaging intensively with the Irish authorities and hauliers on the issues that have been encountered for goods transiting through Dublin port.\"\n\nOn Thursday customs authorities in the Republic of Ireland announced a temporary relaxation of one customs process.\n\nHauliers will be able to use an override code to complete a piece of administration known as ENS.\n\nThe letters ENS refer to an entry summary declaration, an online form which goods carriers are now legally obliged to submit to Irish customs when transporting goods from Great Britain into Ireland.\n\nLorries arriving in Ireland from Great Britain have faced new checks since 1 January\n\nOn Thursday night the Irish Revenue Commissioners said it recognised that \"some businesses are experiencing difficulties on lodging their safety and security ENS declarations\".\n\nIt said that in response it was providing a \"temporary easement\" which would allow an ENS to be produced without all the normally required information.\n\nAn Irish government spokesperson said it is \"absolutely essential that Ireland fulfils its obligations as a member of the EU and that we protect the integrity of the single market and the customs union\".\n\n\"We appreciate that the new requirements and customs formalities present significant challenges and impose additional burdens on businesses.\"\n\nMeanwhile Stena, the ferry company, said it was cancelling a dozen sailings between Wales and Ireland next week due to \"a decline in freight volumes during the first week of Brexit.\"", "Tennant was remembered as \"a beautiful soul\" and \"a sensitive and talented woman\"\n\nBritish model Stella Tennant took her own life after being \"unwell for some time\", her family has confirmed.\n\nIn a statement, her family said it was \"a matter of our deepest sorrow and despair that she felt unable to go on.\"\n\nTennant, who made her name in the early 1990s modelling for designers like Karl Lagerfeld and Versace, died in December five days after her 50th birthday.\n\nHer family said they were \"humbled by the outpouring of messages of sympathy and support\" they have received.\n\nTennant was \"a beautiful soul, adored by a close family and good friends, a sensitive and talented woman whose creativity, intelligence and humour touched so many\", they said.\n\n\"In grieving Stella's loss, her family renews a heartfelt request that respect for their privacy should continue.\"\n\nBorn in London on 1970, Tennant was known for her androgynous sultry looks and aristocratic heritage.\n\nShe shot to fame after being photographed for British Vogue at the age of 22 in 1993, going on to work with such designers as Alexander McQueen and Jean Paul Gaultier.\n\nTennant retired from the catwalk in 1998 but later returned. She also worked on campaigns to promote saving energy and reducing the environmental impact of fast fashion.\n\nShe had four children with French-born photographer David Lasnet. The couple married in the Scottish borders in 1999 and announced their separation last year.\n\nTennant with David Lasnet on their wedding day in 1999\n\nStella McCartney, Victoria Beckham and fellow model Naomi Campbell were among those to pay tribute after her death was announced last month.\n\nCampbell said she had been \"a class act in every way\", while Beckham remembered her as \"an incredible talent\".\n\nIf you have been affected by any of the issues in this article, information and support is available from BBC Action Line.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The storming of the US Capitol building in Washington DC stunned viewers around the world.\n\nBut how did Americans feel seeing the seat of their government being ransacked?\n\nWe asked members of our BBC voter panel for their views.\n\nSimon grew up in Uganda during its civil war and became a US citizen last year. A master's student and stay-at-home father, he warns that, while things may settle down, \"democracy is not guaranteed\".\n\nI'm disgusted but not surprised. I anticipated this would happen and it was a matter of when, not if.\n\nI didn't anticipate that it would happen in the capital. This is the president whose people - since the racial justice movement in the summer - said they were for \"law and order\". So the \"law and order\" people broke into the Capitol and changed the American flag with the Trump flag. History shows that has not happened in over 200 years, so it tells you how dangerous this man is.\n\nIn Uganda, in November, when the opposition was arrested, people took to the streets and got shot. Here, in the summer, the Capitol building was protected and they were breaking up peaceful protests.\n\nIt's clear that [Trump supporters] have been organising, we've seen this was going to happen, yet we subconsciously did not think that white people are a threat. That is the construct of this country and how law enforcement viewed it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nTaylor is a staunch Trump supporter and recently travelled to Washington DC for a post-election pro-Trump rally. A photographer by trade, she was upset by the rioting but believes unsubstantiated claims that left-wing radicals were behind the violence.\n\nIt was just heart-breaking to watch what was going on and the behaviour of protesters is just not like the Trump people I've been around. If it did come from any conservatives, then I condemn it. There's no excuse for violence.\n\nIt doesn't change my support for Trump. The people that love Trump, that's not going to change no matter if he gets a second term or not. It just means we're going to hold out for 2024 and hope either he runs again or his kids do.\n\nOur country is going to go downhill over the next four years if Biden does take office. I'm actually moving today out of the city into the suburbs of a Republican county because I am afraid of how Democratic counties will end up under a Biden presidency.\n\nWe're going to catapult towards socialism and communism. I'm worried for the country's future, but regardless of who takes office, we have a lot of healing to do. I hope we can all find our common humanity and embrace each other when this is all over, which is hopefully soon.\n\nJames is a lifelong Republican who worked on Capitol Hill for the party for nearly two decades, but cast his first ever vote for a Democrat in the 2020 election. He was stunned by 6 January's events and expects it to become a bad footnote in the country's history.\n\nI find it absolutely shocking. I didn't think it would come to this.\n\nI had actually thought about going down to the protests with a sign that said \"Republicans Against Trump\". My brother said, if I had done that, there would have been five deaths, not four, and he may have been right. I'm astounded by the stupidity of these people who show up without masks and who are being filmed. Quite a few of them are going to prison. It's a serious situation when you break past a police barricade and go into a building that's supposed to be secure.\n\nI have a lot of friends who say things couldn't get worse, but I have to remind them, as a student of history, that it has been worse. The Civil War was much worse. There was a lot of violence in the South during the Reconstruction period. This is something the country will get over. I was heartened by President-elect Biden's speech yesterday. Finally we've got someone who's sounding presidential. We haven't had it for the last four years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA'Kayla is a college student who supports the Black Lives Matter movement. She says law enforcement \"coddled\" the rioters at the Capitol and thus made an argument for police reform because they were far more aggressive at protests she attended.\n\nIt's so irritating I can't put into words how frustrating it is. They stormed the Capitol and the police were gentle and lackadaisical with them. I expected the police to use force, but they were so kind and gentle. During the summer, when the Black Lives Matter protests were going on, so many people were injured, locked up and lost their lives.\n\nFrom my own experience, marching peacefully on the front lines in Charleston, we had tear gas thrown at us and had to pour milk in our eyes. It was excruciating. And for what? We're marching for a cause, because we had the murder of somebody by the police. What are they upset about? They're upset because we are living in a democracy and they didn't get their way.\n\nDuring one of the debates, when Trump said \"stand back and stand by\", is this what he was talking about? This is the calm before the storm. I think it's going to get way more ugly, but Kamala [Harris] and Joe [Biden] are a symbol of change and hope.\n\nWhether [Trump supporters] like it or not, America is moving towards a more progressive country and there's going to be a lot of changes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joe Biden: Black Lives Matter protesters would have been treated \"differently\"", "Two more life-saving drugs have been found that can cut deaths by a quarter in patients who are sickest with Covid.\n\nThe anti-inflammatory medications, given via a drip, save an extra life for every 12 treated, say researchers who have carried out a trial in NHS intensive care units.\n\nSupplies are already available across the UK so they can be used immediately to save hundreds of lives, say experts.\n\nThere are over 30,000 Covid patients in UK hospitals - 39% more than in April.\n\nThe UK government is working closely with the manufacturer, to ensure the drugs - tocilizumab and sarilumab - continue to be available to UK patients.\n\nAs well as saving more lives, the treatments speed up patients' recovery and reduce the length of time that critically-ill patients need to spend in intensive care by about a week.\n\nBoth appear to work equally well and add to the benefit already found with a cheap steroid drug called dexamethasone.\n\nAlthough the drugs are not cheap, costing around £500 per patient, on top of the £5 course of dexamethasone, the advantage of using them is clear - and less than the cost per day of an intensive care bed of around £2,000, say experts.\n\nLead researcher Prof Anthony Gordon, from Imperial College London, said: \"For every 12 patients you treat with these drugs you would expect to save a life. It's a big effect.\"\n\nIn the REMAP-CAP trial carried out in six different countries, including the UK, with around 800 intensive care patients:\n\nProf Stephen Powis, NHS national medical director, said: \"The fact there is now another drug that can help to reduce mortality for patients with Covid-19 is hugely welcome news and another positive development in the continued fight against the virus.\"\n\nHealth and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"The UK has proven time and time again it is at the very forefront of identifying and providing the most promising, innovative treatments for its patients.\n\n\"Today's results are yet another landmark development in finding a way out of this pandemic and, when added to the armoury of vaccines and treatments already being rolled out, will play a significant role in defeating this virus.\"\n\nThe drugs dampen down inflammation, which can go into overdrive in Covid patients and cause damage to the lungs and other organs.\n\nDoctors are being advised to give them to any Covid patient who, despite receiving dexamethasone, is deteriorating and needs intensive care.\n\nTocilizumab and sarilumab have already been added to the government's export restriction list, which bans companies from buying medicines meant for UK patients and selling them on for a higher price in another country.\n\nThe research findings have not yet been peer reviewed or published in a medical journal.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A young woman has died after a rare suspected shark attack in New Zealand.\n\nPolice named the victim as 19-year-old Kaelah Marlow, from Hamilton.\n\nMarlow was taken out of the water still alive but died at the scene despite efforts to save her life. Police said it appeared she had been injured by a shark.\n\nThe attack happened at Waihi Beach on North Island not far from the country's biggest city Auckland.\n\n\"Police extend our deepest sympathies to Kaelah's family and loved ones at this very difficult time,\" police said in a statement.\n\n\"We appreciate her death was extremely traumatic for those who were at Waihi Beach yesterday and we are offering victim support services to anyone who requires it,\" the statement said.\n\nShark attacks are unusual in the country and this is thought to be the first fatality since 2013. Local media cited witnesses as saying the woman had been swimming right in front of the lifeguard flags on Thursday.\n\nWhen they heard screams, lifeguards went out by boat immediately and pulled her to shore.\n\nIt is not clear what kind of shark attacked Kaelah Marlow, but an eyewitness reportedly claimed it was a great white, a species which is protected in the waters around New Zealand.\n\n\"Sharks are reasonably common near all northern beaches of New Zealand, most are harmless and even species considered dangerous very rarely interact with swimmers,\" shark researcher Kina Scollay told the BBC.\n\n\"My thoughts and sympathies are with the victim's family and we need to remember that this is a real tragedy to real people. I worry that this gets lost sight of in the media scramble after such events.\"\n\nOne witness quoted by local media said he believed a great white shark attacked the woman\n\nMr Scolley said that while attacks were rare, there were ways to be careful about interactions that could go wrong. Among the risk factors are, for instance, fish feeding events or dead animals in the water.\n\n\"If a large shark approaches or is seen nearby people should stay calm, warn those nearby and calmly exit the water,\" he said.\n\nA seven-day rahui, a traditional Maori prohibition restricting access to an area, has been placed on the beach.\n\nThe last recorded shark attack was in 2018 when a man was injured - but survived - at Baylys Beach. Over the past 170 years, there have only been 13 fatal shark attacks documented in New Zealand, according to the country's department of conservation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The US is reeling after supporters of President Trump stormed the Capitol building in Washington DC on the day Congress was meeting to confirm Joe Biden's election victory.\n\nLawmakers were forced to take shelter, the building was put into lockdown and four people died in the chaos that followed a pro-Trump rally near the White House.\n\nHere's a breakdown of how events unfolded on Wednesday.\n\nJust before midday local time (17:00 GMT) thousands of people gather at the Ellipse, near the White House, to hear the president speak at a \"Save America\" rally.\n\nHe tells them: \"We're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue... and we're going to the Capitol and we're going to try and give… our Republicans, the weak ones... the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.\"\n\nAs the speech ends, crowds start to drift towards the Congress building, about a mile and a half away, where they are met by police barriers.\n\nThe Capitol is home to the two chambers of the US government that make up Congress - the House of Representatives and the Senate.\n\nChanting crowds start to gather on both sides of the building at around 13:10, grappling with police at the metal barricades.\n\nTear gas and pepper spray are used to try to keep the protesters at bay.\n\nPolice officers struggle to maintain control of the situation as protesters advance on the building on multiple fronts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nOn the east side, the crowd force their way through barricades on the Capitol Plaza and move on the main entrance, quickly gaining access to the Great Rotunda.\n\nOnce inside, they head for the House and Senate chambers.\n\nIgor Bobic, a journalist for the Huffington Post, captures a group of men forcing a police officer to retreat up a set of stairs as they continue their advance.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Igor Bobic This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSenators are forced to abandon the process of confirming President-elect Biden's victory and the building goes into lockdown.\n\nThe doors of the House chamber are locked and a makeshift barricade is erected in front of them. Security officials guard the entrance, guns drawn.\n\nWithin an hour, protesters have also broken police lines on the west side of the Capitol, scaling walls to reach the building itself before smashing windows and forcing doors open.\n\nOther videos and images show rioters storming through the building's ornately-decorated corridors and chambers chanting \"USA!\" and \"Stop the steal\".\n\nShortly before 15:00, gunshots are reportedly heard inside the building.\n\nPhotos and video footage later show a female protester being shot as she tries to break through the barricaded doors of the Speakers' Lobby.\n\nDespite efforts by police and others at the scene to save her, she is later reported to have died.\n\nOn the other side of the building, protesters break into the Senate chamber, one taking seat in the Speaker's chair.\n\nAnother protester is photographed nearby sitting in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office, with his foot on the table.\n\nAfter growing condemnation of the riots, President Trump eventually calls for calm, telling the protesters to leave peacefully: \"Go home. We love you, you're very special.\"\n\nBy 17:40, the building is cleared and made secure ahead of the 18:00 curfew ordered by DC Mayor Muriel Bowser.\n\nSeveral thousand National Guard troops, FBI agents and US Secret Service are deployed to help.\n\nMore than six hours after the storming of the building, senators return and resume the day's business of certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election.\n\nAt 03:41 on Thursday, Congress confirms President-elect Joe Biden will succeed President Trump on 20 January.", "Young women clap for heroes outside Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London\n\nA revived initiative to applaud the heroes of the pandemic has returned - but much more quietly than last year.\n\nIt comes after the founder of Clap for Carers distanced herself from its return after facing online abuse.\n\nAnnemarie Plas wanted to bring back the weekly applause under a new name of Clap for Heroes to lift spirits in the new lockdown but it fell a little flat.\n\nSome health workers have said they would rather people stay at home and wear a mask than clap for them.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said he participated at 20:00 GMT on Thursday, but clapping \"isn't enough\".\n\n\"They need to be paid properly and given the respect they deserve,\" he tweeted., of the health workers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The weekly clap returned but Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said clapping alone \"wasn't enough\"\n\nThe idea of clapping and banging pots from doorsteps originally began as a one-off to support NHS staff on 26 March - three days after the UK went into lockdown for the first time.\n\nAfter proving popular it was expanded to cover all key workers and continued every Thursday for 10 weeks last year, with millions of people across the UK taking part.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family and politicians including Prime Minister Boris Johnson also joined in with the show of support.\n\nHowever, the event faced criticism for becoming politicised, with some suggesting the NHS would benefit more from extra funding than applause.\n\nPeople in some streets stood on doorsteps and leaned out windows to clap for the pandemic's heroes, and landmarks in London were illuminated blue for the occasion - but reports suggested the applause was noticeably quieter than last year.\n\nAnnemarie Plas and her family were threatened online for her efforts\n\nOn Wednesday, Ms Plas, a 36-year-old mother-of-one, announced the return of the initiative, saying she hoped to \"lift the spirit of all of us\" including \"all who are pushing through this difficult time\".\n\nBut some NHS workers were less than enthusiastic. Ami Jones, an intensive care consultant from Wales, tweeted: \"No thanks. I'd rather you obey the rules, stay at home, wear masks and wash your hands.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rachel Clarke 💙 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke said: \"Please don't clap us. Just wear a mask, wash your hands and respect lockdown.\"\n\nIn a tweet posted hours before the weekly clap was due to return, Ms Plas, a Dutch national living in south London, said she had been targeted with personal abuse and threats against her and her family by \"a hateful few\" on social media.\n\n\"I have no political agenda, I am not employed by the government, I do not work in PR, I am just an average mum at home trying to cope with the lockdown situation,\" she said, in a statement.\n\nShe said the newly revived clap could and should still happen at 20:00 GMT.\n\n\"It's up to each person to decide how relevant or worthwhile they feel it is to participate,\" she said.\n\nThe fountains in Trafalgar Square were illuminated blue for the initiative on Thursday\n\nSome incorporated pots and pans during their weekly claps in warmer months", "UK house prices rose by 6% last year, according to the Halifax, but the lender is predicting \"downward pressure\" on values in 2021.\n\nThe mortgage lender, part of Lloyds Banking Group, said that prices \"soared\" in the second half of 2020.\n\nPent-up demand, a clamour for more space, and stamp duty holidays led to higher prices.\n\nBut the Halifax said the economic realities of 2021 meant activity would slow as the year progressed.\n\n\"With the pace of the UK's economic recovery expected to be constrained by the renewed national lockdown, and unemployment widely predicted to rise in the coming months, downward pressure on house prices remains likely as we move through 2021,\" said Russell Galley, managing director at the Halifax.\n\nHe said that last year was a market of two halves - starting with slow growth, and stalling when the market was closed during the first national lockdown, but then booming when it reopened.\n\nThis meant that overall, demand and price growth were relatively high.\n\nThe conclusion mirrors the findings of rival lender, the Nationwide, which said that UK house prices climbed 7.5% in 2020, the highest growth rate for six years.\n\nBoth mortgage lenders base their findings on their customer data.\n\nLucy Pendleton, from estate agents James Pendleton, said: \"The simple truth is that extra space has become non-negotiable for legions of homeowners with families, and the usual winter slowdown has met the immovable force that is hundreds of thousands of people all trying to jump to larger properties at the same time.\"\n\nThe Halifax said there were already signs of the market slowing, with prices rising by 0.2% in December compared with the previous month.\n\nThat was the slowest monthly rise of the last six months.\n\nThe lender said the average home was valued at £253,374.\n• None Where can I afford to live?", "The switch has been welcomed by climate campaigners\n\nAlok Sharma is to leave his position as business secretary to focus full-time on his role as president of the UN COP26 climate conference in November.\n\nThe Glasgow event is expected to be the biggest summit the UK has ever hosted.\n\nMr Sharma, who will remain in the cabinet, said he was \"delighted to have been asked by the PM to dedicate all my energies\" to the position.\n\nKwasi Kwarteng replaces him as business secretary while Anne-Marie Trevelyan becomes the new energy minister.\n\nThe government says a successful summit will be critical if the UK wants to meet the objectives set out by the Paris Agreement and reduce global emissions.\n\nThe event had originally been scheduled for November 2020 but was delayed by a year due to Covid-19.\n\nThe BBC's political correspondent Jessica Parker said the decision to move Alok Sharma wasn't a surprise and would be seen as a recognition of the need to free him up to do more of the crucial diplomatic leg-work required.\n\nSome MPs had previously warned that Mr Sharma lacked the \"bandwidth\" to head the conference alongside his cabinet job, especially given the strains on business due to the pandemic.\n\nIn his new role, which is based in the Cabinet Office, Mr Sharma's will remain a member of Boris Johnson's top team but be focused solely on coordinating global action to tackle climate change\n\nBoris Johnson chose Mr Sharma to head the event after ex-minister Claire O'Neill was ousted from the position in the summer of 2019.\n\nShe later condemned what she called broken promises and backsliding on climate commitments.\n\nFormer Conservative PM David Cameron turned down the chance to head the conference and ex-Foreign Secretary Lord Hague was also involved in discussions.\n\nMr Sharma's move will be welcomed by climate campaigners, who worried he was over-stretched running a frantically busy department while also orchestrating the most important climate meeting on Earth.\n\nMany of these summits - known as COPs - yielded little because the leadership was poor.\n\nThe French produced a triumphant agreement in the 2015 Paris COP after mustering the mighty force of French diplomacy.\n\nMr Sharma is reported to accept that he now needs to concentrate full time on the challenge.\n\nHe will need subtle diplomatic skills, a mastery of detail and the stamina of an ox as he attempts to corral world leaders into agreement on curbing emissions faster. He'll also need 100% support from the PM.\n\nThe greatest obstacle to action - Donald Trump - will soon disappear from the scene, and with China making bold promises, the COP has potential.\n\nBut politicians have been so slow to act that some key tipping points in the climate might already have been breached.\n\nReflecting on his new role, Mr Sharma said: \"The biggest challenge of our time is climate change and we need to work together to deliver a cleaner, greener world and build back better for present and future generations.\n\n\"Through the UK's Presidency of COP26 we have a unique opportunity, working with friends and partners around the world, to deliver on this goal.\"\n\nRichard Black, senior associate at the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) said: \"Allowing Alok Sharma to focus full-time on his COP26 role is a sensible decision, not least as it signals the government's commitment to ensuring that the summit is a success.\n\n\"With the election of Joe Biden as the next US President and China's recent carbon neutrality pledge, the diplomatic opportunities have opened up for more ambitious action on climate change. Mr Sharma's job will be to seize them.\"\n\nAnd ex-cabinet minister Amber Rudd, who led the UK delegation at the Paris climate change conference, said the move showed the government \"recognises the importance and opportunity for a global agreement this year\".\n\nResponding to his new appointment, Mr Kwarteng said he was \"thrilled\" and pledged to help businesses through this period of \"extremely challenging circumstances\".\n\nThe Spelthorne MP, who entered Parliament in 2010, has been energy minister since July 2019.\n\nLabour's shadow business secretary Ed Miliband said Mr Kwarteng had \"a massive task\" in providing business with \"a plan to help them through this year, not the inadequate sticking plaster measures we have seen\".\n\nHe welcomed the decision to make Mr Sharma's COP role full time.\n\n\"It's absolutely crucial that the full political, diplomatic and strategic resources of government are now directed to the most ambitious outcome at Glasgow, which is a 1.5 degree deal.\"", "The number of hours ambulances spent waiting to offload patients in parts of England is \"off the scale\", the Royal College of Emergency Medicine says.\n\nData leaked to BBC News shows ambulance waiting times at hospitals in the South East rose by 36% in December compared to the same month in 2019.\n\nPeople are also having to wait longer for ambulances to arrive when called.\n\nAmbulance services say it is taking longer to hand over patients but they are doing all they can to meet demand.\n\nIt comes as the NHS faces unprecedented pressure because of the Covid pandemic.\n\nA paramedic working in London told BBC News he had encountered patients left waiting up to 12 hours for an ambulance in the last week.\n\nOne patient in London with a broken leg had to wait outside at night for six hours before an ambulance arrived to collect him, he said.\n\nOn another occasion, paramedics were called to attend to a young man with Covid-19 whose oxygen levels were \"so low\". He was given oxygen when they arrived - but that was eight hours after the ambulance was called.\n\nIncidents such as these are \"dangerous\" and the service is \"on its knees\", the paramedic added.\n\nThe figures also show that at one point on Monday this week more than 700 patients were left waiting for an ambulance to arrive in London when none was available.\n\nDifferent statistics obtained by BBC News highlight the number of hours spent waiting to offload patients at hospitals half an hour after ambulances arrived at hospitals in the South East.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nSouth East Coast Ambulance service lost 7,803 hours queuing outside hospitals, an increase on 5,732 hours in 2019.\n\nKent saw the greatest rise in this period. One of its hospitals, Medway Maritime Hospital, saw a doubling in ambulance waiting times.\n\nThese figures are \"off the scale\", according to Royal College of Emergency Medicine Vice President Adrian Boyle.\n\n\"It is not because more ambulances are being called, it's because the amount of time they're spending outside a hospital has increased,\" he said.\n\nDr Boyle says ambulances left queuing outside hospitals meant crews were not available to respond to other emergencies.\n\nHe says services are facing a \"crisis\" unlike any other he has seen.\n\n\"People may feel they have a winter crisis every year but this is a different order of magnitude\", he added.\n\n\"This is the worst winter crisis I've been through in my 25 years of practising as a doctor.\"\n\nAmbulance services say they are are doing everything they can to meet the demand.\n\nA London Ambulance Service Trust spokesperson said: \"We are continuing to prioritise the most seriously ill and injured patients, and our team of trained clinicians in our control rooms are working hard to monitor and maintain contact with many other patients as needed while they are waiting for ambulance crews to arrive.\"\n\nA South East Coast Ambulance Service Trust spokesperson said: \"We are doing everything we can to increase the number of staff available to meet this demand, including increasing overtime, to ensure crews are as available as possible to respond to patients in the community.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Marks & Spencer says sales of sleepwear have soared as people spend more time at home because of Covid restrictions.\n\nThe retailer sold 20% more women's pyjamas during the 13 weeks to 26 December, with many of them being bought as Christmas presents.\n\n\"The great British public are back in their pyjamas,\" said chief executive Steve Rowe.\n\nDespite this, clothing sales as a whole fell nearly a quarter, although food sales showed modest growth.\n\nM&S said its trading was \"robust\" over the Christmas period, but UK revenues for the quarter were £2.52bn, 8.2% lower than last year.\n\nM&S blamed \"on-off restrictions and distortions in demand patterns\" due to the coronavirus crisis.\n\nM&S also said that potential post-Brexit tariffs on part of its range exported to the EU, together with \"very complex\" administrative processes, would \"significantly impact\" its businesses in Ireland and the Czech Republic, as well as its franchise business in France.\n\nMr Rowe said the chain's popular Percy Pig sweets, made in Germany, were one product that could face tax rises.\n\nIt said it was \"actively working to mitigate\" those effects.\n\nMr Rowe thanked staff for \"a first-class execution of Christmas for our customers in near impossible conditions\".\n\nThe High Street stalwart said customers had responded to its \"innovative seasonal product\" during the four-week run-up to Christmas.\n\nLike-for-like food sales had risen 2.6% during the period, it said.\n\nHowever, clothing and home sales fell by 24.1%, and UK sales overall were down 7.6% on a like-for-like basis.\n\nTrading was hit particularly badly in November by the national lockdown in England, with clothing and home sales slumping 40.5% in the month and food sales down 4.5%.\n\n\"Near-term trading remains very challenging, but we are continuing to accelerate change under our Never the Same Again programme to ensure the business emerges from the pandemic in very different shape,\" Mr Rowe said.\n\nOn the positive side, M&S said its tie-up with online firm Ocado had produced \"very strong\" results, while customers had responded to its \"innovative seasonal product\" during the four-week run-up to Christmas.\n\nRoss Hindle, retail sector analyst at Third Bridge, said: \"Despite the pressure faced by their clothing division, the M&S food division is expected to deliver solid results, propelled by both stockpiling and its Ocado partnership.\n\nHe pointed to reports that M&S was poised to acquire the Jaeger clothing brand as a possible way forward, saying it \"hints at the potential for a more aggressive shift into the multi-brand space\".\n\n\"M&S have numerous large stores which could be filled with non-M&S merchandise in order to drive their top-line. The risk here is whether such brands might cannibalise M&S branded products,\" he added.\n\nEmily Salter, retail analyst at GlobalData, said M&S was \"paying the cost for its inability to adapt fast enough to changing shopping habits\".\n\n\"M&S's recovery is slow versus other apparel players, as it continues to be hurt by an online platform unable to make up for lost store sales,\" she added.\n\nShe saw little point in a potential purchase of Jaeger, as it would be \"costly to turn around and do little to boost the retailer's fortunes\".\n\nHowever, she said M&S's focus on value in food had \"started to pay off, with decent sales growth, especially considering dampened footfall on High Streets\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"I condemn encouraging people to behave in the disgraceful way they did in the Capitol\"\n\nDonald Trump was \"completely wrong\" to cast doubt on the US election and encourage supporters to storm the Capitol, Boris Johnson has said.\n\nThe UK prime minister said he \"unreservedly condemns\" the US president's actions.\n\nFour people died after a pro-Trump mob stormed the building in a bid to overturn the election result.\n\nMr Trump had urged protesters to march on the Capitol after making false electoral fraud claims.\n\nHe later called on his supporters to \"go home\", while continuing to make false claims - Twitter and Facebook later froze his accounts.\n\nThe president has now said there will be an \"orderly transition\" to President-elect Joe Biden, whose November election victory has now been certified by US lawmakers.\n\nBut he added that he continued to \"totally disagree\" with the outcome of the vote, repeating his unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud.\n\nOn Wednesday night, Mr Johnson condemned the \"disgraceful scenes\" and called for a \"peaceful and orderly transfer of power\".\n\nBut asked by the BBC's political correspondent Alex Forsyth if President Trump was directly responsible, he said: \"All my life America has stood for some very important things. An idea of freedom, an idea of democracy.\n\n\"As you say, in so far as he encouraged people to storm the Capitol, and in so far as the president has consistently cast doubt on the outcome of a free and fair election, I believe that was completely wrong.\n\n\"I believe what President Trump has been saying about that has been completely wrong and I unreservedly condemn encouraging people to behave in the disgraceful way that they did in the Capitol.\"\n\nThe PM, speaking at a Downing Street briefing, then welcomed the confirmation of President-elect Biden, saying \"democracy has prevailed\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHundreds of the president's supporters stormed the Capitol on Wednesday - where lawmakers were meeting to confirm Mr Biden's election victory - and staged an occupation of the building in Washington DC.\n\nBoth chambers of Congress were forced into recess, as protesters clashed with police and tear gas was released.\n\nA woman died after being shot by police, and three others died as a result of \"medical emergencies\", local police said.\n\nUK politicians from different parties have all condemned Mr Trump's actions in encouraging the storming of the Capitol.\n\nEarlier, Home Secretary Priti Patel said the president's comments had \"directly led\" to the events and he \"didn't do anything to de-escalate that\".\n\nShe added: \"He basically has made a number of comments yesterday that helped to fuel that violence and he didn't actually do anything to de-escalate that whatsoever... what we've seen is completely unacceptable.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Priti Patel says Donald Trump was wrong for not condemning the violence\n\nSpeaking on Thursday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Trump should \"take responsibility\" for what happened, calling it the \"culmination of years of the politics of hate and division\".\n\nSir Keir added he welcomed the outgoing president's agreement to an orderly handover, but told reporters \"he should have said it a long time ago.\"\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Mr Trump had been \"inciting insurrection in his own country,\" and called it a \"dark period\" in US history.\n\n\"What we witnessed last night is not that surprising. In some senses, Donald Trump's presidency has been moving towards this moment almost from the moment it started,\" she told ITV's Good Morning Britain.\n\nScotland's Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf said the home secretary should \"give serious consideration\" to denying Mr Trump entry to the UK after he leaves office.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said certification of Mr Biden's victory was \"good to see\" after the \"shocking events\" on Wednesday, adding the UK condemned the violence \"unequivocally\".\n\nFormer Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May, who shared time in office with Mr Trump, said there should be \"no place for the rule of the mob\".\n\nBut senior Welsh Conservative Andrew RT Davies has been criticised after comparing the rioting to politicians who supported a second referendum on Brexit.\n\nMr Davies, a member of the Welsh Parliament, later tweeted that \"violence must never be tolerated\".\n\nHis party colleague, the Conservative MP Simon Hoare, suggested Mr Trump could be sent to the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Simon Hoare MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCommons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has written to express his \"solidarity\" with US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whose empty office was broken into by protesters.\n\n\"Seeing your office trashed in that way and its occupation by one of the rioters was particularly outrageous. I am just so relieved you were not hurt,\" he wrote.\n\nTrump supporters left this note on the desk of Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives.", "The Liberia-flagged oil tanker Nave Andromeda docked at Southampton after the incident\n\nSeven men, including two who had already been charged, will face no action over a suspected hijacking of an oil tanker off the Isle of Wight.\n\nSpecial forces stormed the Nave Andromeda on 25 October after the crew raised concerns about stowaways.\n\nMatthew Okorie, 25, and Sunday Sylvester, 22, had been charged with conduct endangering ships.\n\nBut prosecutors dropped their case after evidence analysis \"cast doubt\" on whether the tanker was put in danger.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said initial reports had indicated there was a \"real and imminent threat\" to the vessel, but added mobile phone footage and witness accounts \"could not show that the ship or crew were threatened\" and there was no evidence the men had any intention to seize control of the vessel.\n\nThe CPS said the new evidence meant the \"legal test\" for the offence was \"no longer met\".\n\n\"Our case was that the actions of the men were responsible for the endangerment of the vessel, but further material was then supplied by a maritime expert which significantly undermined whether there was a threat of danger,\" prosecutors said in a statement.\n\nThe Home Office said it was \"disappointed\" by the CPS's decision and added it was working with prosecutors to \"urgently resolve the issues raised by this case\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"It is frustrating that there will be no prosecution in relation to this very serious incident and the British people will struggle to understand how this can be the case.\"\n\nHampshire Constabulary said the five other men, who were arrested on suspicion of seizing or exercising control of a ship by use of threats or force, also face no police action.\n\nThey will remain detained under immigration regulations.\n\nThe 748ft-long (228m) ship left Lagos in Nigeria on 5 October bound for Southampton.\n\nAs it approached the Isle of Wight 20 days later, an emergency call came from the ship concerned about stowaways on board while the 22 crew members had locked themselves in the ship's citadel - secure area.\n\nThe men had been found on the ship earlier in the voyage and the vessel had made unsuccessful attempts to dock in other ports.\n\nIt was reported the men became hostile as the tanker approached the UK - but the CPS said it was thought this may have occurred while the ship was outside of UK waters.\n\nAt the time the Ministry of Defence called the incident a \"suspected hijacking\" and said Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and Home Secretary Priti Patel authorised a special forces operation in response to a police request following a 10-hour stand-off.\n\nIn a nine-minute operation carried out under the cover of darkness, Special Boat Service commandos boarded the vessel and arrested the seven men, believed to be Nigerian nationals seeking asylum in the UK.\n\nThe Liberian-registered tanker later docked in Southampton.\n\nSpecial forces boarded the Nave Andromeda on the evening of 25 October\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mauritius has been removed from the safe list\n\nTravellers from countries near South Africa are to be banned from entering England to stop the spread of the South African Covid variant.\n\nArrivals from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana, as well as island nations Mauritius and Seychelles, will be affected.\n\nThe rule will take effect on 9 January but there will be an exemption for British and Irish nationals.\n\nThey will need to follow existing quarantine procedures.\n\nA ban by visitors to the UK from South Africa started on 24 December.\n\nThe latest restriction brought in by the Department for Transport also affects travellers arriving from Eswatini, Zambia, Malawi, Lesotho and Mozambique.\n\nIt will apply from 04:00 GMT on Saturday to people who have travelled from or through any of the specified countries in the last 10 days.\n\nIt is understood most flights from the affected countries arrive at airports in England, although it is expected the policy will be formally adopted by the other UK nations.\n\nThe measures will be in place for an initial period of two weeks.\n\nMeanwhile, Botswana, and the islands of Seychelles and Mauritius, are being removed from the UK list of safe travel corridors as there is a high frequency of travel between the islands and South Africa.\n\nThe new variant of coronavirus circulating in South Africa is already being seen in other countries, including the UK.\n\nThe variant, much like the new UK variant first seen in Kent, appears to be more contagious than previous ones.\n\nAnyone arriving into the UK from most destinations must quarantine for 10 days.\n\nBut there are a list of countries exempt from the rules, meaning returning travellers do not need to self-isolate, called the travel corridor list.\n\nUnder the latest announcement, the travel corridor with Israel will also end amid concerns about rising infection levels in that country.\n\nHowever, rules in place across the UK currently ban travel abroad unless for specific reasons.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump calls for an 'orderly transition of power' to the Biden administration on January 20th\n\nA US Capitol police officer has died from injuries sustained in the attack on Congress by a pro-Trump mob as top Democrats have called for the president to be removed for \"inciting\" the riot.\n\nHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi urged Vice-President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th amendment to the Constitution to declare the president unfit for office.\n\nAlternatively, she vowed to initiate the process to impeach the president.\n\nWednesday's violence came hours after Mr Trump encouraged his supporters to fight against the election results as Congress was certifying President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the November vote.\n\nFive people have died in relation to the riot, including Brian Sicknick, an officer at the US Capitol Police (USCP) who was \"injured while physically engaging with protesters\", the police said.\n\nMeanwhile, the top congressional Democrats - Speaker Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer - have urged Vice-President Pence and Mr Trump's cabinet to remove the president for \"his incitement of insurrection\".\n\n\"The President's dangerous and seditious acts necessitate his immediate removal from office,\" they said in a joint statement.\n\nThe duo called for Mr Trump to be ousted using the 25th Amendment, which allows the vice-president to step up if the president is unable to perform his duties owing to a mental or physical illness.\n\nBut it would require Mr Pence and at least eight cabinet members to break with Mr Trump and invoke the amendment, something they have so far seemed unlikely to do. Mr Trump is due to leave office on 20 January, when Mr Biden will be sworn in.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMrs Pelosi indicated that if the vice-president failed to act, she would convene the House to launch their second impeachment proceedings against Mr Trump.\n\nHowever, to succeed in convicting and removing the president, Democrats would need a two-thirds majority in the Senate, and there is no indication they would get those numbers. And it was not clear whether enough time remained to carry out the process.\n\nMrs Pelosi's deputy, Katherine Clark, told CNN the House could move on impeachment next week.\n\nMedia reports, quoting unnamed sources, said Mr Trump had suggested to aides he was considering granting a pardon to himself in the final days of his presidency. The legality of such a move is untested.\n\nIt wasn't until Thursday night, more than 24 hours after the US Capitol had been ransacked by his supporters, that Donald Trump released a recorded statement calling for \"healing and reconciliation\" in a wounded nation.\n\nThat was the very least that could be expected from a US president in a time of crises, and it probably will not be enough to silence calls for his removal, impeachment or resignation. Those demands have been coming from the political left, of course, but also from parts of the right - longtime critics, from former allies and, remarkably, even the conservative editorial page of Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal.\n\nEver since November's election, when Trump chose to attack the results rather than admit defeat, a reckoning was coming. The pressure, like a malfunctioning steam engine, was building toward a catastrophic ending.\n\nOn Thursday night, the president began trying to pick up the pieces.\n\nTeleprompter Trump had spoken. In past crises, unscripted Trump has quickly returned, with words and actions that reveal his earlier comments were insincere.\n\nWith 12 days left in his presidency, the question is whether, or more likely when, that Trump will return - and what happens when he does.\n\nPresident Trump returned to Twitter on Thursday following a 12-hour freeze of his account. His message was the closest he has come to a formal acceptance of his defeat after weeks of falsely insisting he actually won the election in a \"landslide\".\n\n\"Now Congress has certified the results a new administration will be inaugurated on January 20th,\" the Republican said in a video, without mentioning Mr Biden by name.\n\n\"My focus now turns to ensuring a smooth, orderly and seamless transition of power. This moment calls for healing and reconciliation.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Treason, traitors and thugs' - the words lawmakers used to describe Capitol riot\n\nMr Trump said he had \"immediately deployed\" the National Guard to expel the intruders, though some US media reported he had hesitated to send in the troops, leaving his vice-president to give the order.\n\nHe also praised his \"wonderful supporters\" and promised \"our incredible journey is only just beginning\".\n\nLaw enforcement have been heavily criticised after they were overrun by the protesters. Mr Biden said: \"Nobody could tell me that if it was a group of Black Lives Matter protesters yesterday they wouldn't have been treated very differently than the thugs that stormed the Capitol.\"\n\nImages captured inside the Capitol building showed protesters roaming through some of the corridors unimpeded.\n\nThe FBI is seeking to identify those involved in the rampage, and the Washington DC police have released pictures of \"persons of interest\" for their involvement in the riot. The Department of Justice says people could face charges of seditious conspiracy, as well as rioting and insurrection.\n\nWashington police say 68 people have so far been arrested. One of those detained at the Capitol had a \"military-style automatic weapon and 11 Molotov cocktails (petrol bombs)\", according to the federal attorney for Washington DC.\n\nThe official responsible for security in the House of Representatives, the sergeant at arms, has resigned. Mr Schumer has called for his counterpart in the Senate to be sacked. USCP chief Steven Sund is also resigning, effective 16 January, following calls from Mrs Pelosi.\n\nOn Thursday, crews began installing a non-scalable 7ft (2m) fence around the Capitol which will remain in place for at least 30 days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joe Biden: Black Lives Matter protesters would have been treated \"differently\"\n\nAshli Babbitt, a 35-year-old US Air Force veteran from San Diego, California, was named as the woman fatally shot by a police officer who has now been placed on leave. Law enforcement told US media the victim was unarmed.\n\nThree others died after suffering unspecified medical emergencies on Capitol grounds: Benjamin Philips, 50, from Pennsylvania; Kevin Greeson, 55, from Alabama; and Rosanne Boyland, 34, from Georgia. Mr Greeson's family said he died of a heart attack.\n\nPolice said that 14 officers had been injured in the riot.\n\nOn Thursday evening, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos - one of the longest serving members of the president's administration - became the second cabinet member to quit following the Capitol riot.\n\nIn her resignation letter, Ms DeVos accused the president of fomenting Wednesday's disorder. \"There is no mistaking the impact your rhetoric had on the situation, and it is the inflection point for me.\"\n\nEarlier in the day, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao stepped down, saying she had been \"deeply troubled\" by the rampage.\n\nOther aides to quit include special envoy Mick Mulvaney, a senior national security official, and the chief of staff to First Lady Melania Trump. A state department adviser was also sacked after calling Mr Trump \"unfit for office\" in a tweet.", "Fashion student Mhari Thurston-Tyler posted an advert for the \"crop top\" (right) on Depop after she says she found some discarded Chiltern Railways seat covers (like those on the left)\n\nA fashion student has been warned not to sell prohibited items on the clothes app, Depop, after she posted an advert for a top made from a train seat cover.\n\nMhari Thurston-Tyler made the bandeau out of a Chiltern Railways seat cover designed to promote social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe 20-year-old sold the top for £15 but later refunded her customer and took the advert down.\n\nDepop said the item \"clearly violates our terms of service\".\n\nThe app for buying and selling second-hand clothes said the sale of stolen goods was banned - but Ms Thurston-Tyler denied stealing.\n\nShe told BBC News she found two of the blue seat covers \"balled up on the floor\" outside Marylebone station in London in September.\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler, who is a fashion student at Central Saint Martins, re-sewed one of the covers to make it fit her, before deciding to advertise the second cover on Depop.\n\n\"I have no money at the moment so decided to put the second one on Depop to see if anyone would buy it,\" she said, adding that the app had become her main source of income as she has struggled to find other work during the pandemic.\n\n\"I have to resort to little things like this to make ends meet, to pay the bills.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler's advert went viral on social media after being shared by Depop Drama's Instagram and Twitter accounts.\n\nMhari Thurston-Tyler said she has been unable to find a job during the coronavirus pandemic and sells clothes on Depop \"to make ends meet\"\n\nIn the advert, Ms Thurston-Tyler models the seat cover and describes it as a \"social distancing crop\", adding: \"Got a few of these can do different sizes.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler, from Kenilworth in Warwickshire, said a Depop customer paid her £15 and ordered a crop top \"in extra small\".\n\nBut realising she should not be making money out of Chiltern Railways' property, Ms Thurston-Tyler refunded the customer 15 minutes later and took the advert down shortly afterwards.\n\n\"I didn't steal it but I understand it's not right to re-sell it,\" she said.\n\nA Depop spokesperson said Ms Thurston-Tyler would be banned from the platform if she listed any other prohibited goods.\n\n\"We explicitly prohibit the sale of illegal and unlawful content on the app, including any stolen goods,\" they said.\n\n\"This item clearly violates our terms of service, but as it has been removed by the seller and is no longer for sale on the platform, we will not be taking immediate steps to ban this user.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler said she hopes to make her own line of crop tops with the words \"children railways\" on the design, while \"the hype\" of the viral moment continues.\n\nChiltern Railways said it has been using the social distancing \"seat sashes\" since the beginning of the UK's Covid epidemic.\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"Whilst we appreciate this new take on railway memorabilia, these items are there to help customers travel with confidence and we would respectfully ask that they are left in place.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. London mayor Sadiq Khan: \"Unless the virus reduces... we could run out of beds\"\n\nThe spread of Covid in London is \"out of control\" according to Sadiq Khan, who has declared a \"major incident\".\n\nThe coronavirus infection rate in London has exceeded 1,000 per 100,000 people, based on the latest figures from Public Health England.\n\nHowever, the Office for National Statistics recently estimated as many as one in 30 Londoners has coronavirus.\n\nMr Khan told BBC political reporter Karl Mercer that the figure is as high as one in 20 in some parts of London.\n\nMajor incidents have previously been called for the Grenfell Tower fire in June 2017 and the terror attacks at Westminster Bridge and London Bridge.\n\nA major incident is any emergency that requires the implementation of special arrangements by one or all of the emergency services, the NHS or the local authority.\n\nIt means the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response.\n\nCurrently, there are more than 7,000 people in hospital with Covid-19, the mayor said.\n\nThis is a 35% increase compared to last April's peak of the pandemic, he added.\n\nDr Samantha Batt-Rawden, an ICU registrar and President of the Doctors' Association UK, tweeted: \"We tried. We really tried. NHS staff pleaded with people that Christmas is not worth it. Now one in 30 people in London have Covid and ICUs are overwhelmed. My heart is broken.\"\n\nAn analysis of Public Health England figures show in the week to 3 January, the number of cases rose across all of the London's boroughs compared with the previous week, with 17 individually recording more than 1,000 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nTesting increased in parts of the city after a drop over the Christmas period but positivity was high among people taking lab-based tests - suggesting more testing is needed to find undiagnosed cases in the community.\n\nIn the past week, many parts of the capital saw a rise in deaths where a person had tested positive for coronavirus in the previous 28 days - with some areas recording more than double the number of deaths compared with the previous week.\n\nHowever, reporting over the Christmas period may have affected this.\n\nOut of the 18 acute hospital trusts in London providing figures to the government, all of them recorded having more beds being filled by coronavirus patients than in the previous week.\n\nBarts NHS Health, one of London's largest trusts, saw a 30% increase in coronavirus patients between 29 December and 5 January, to 830.\n\nThe London Ambulance Service is now taking up to 8,000 emergency calls a day, the mayor says\n\nThe mayor of London's announcement comes after the counties of Sussex and Surrey declared similar major incidents on Thursday.\n\nHe said the London Ambulance Service was currently taking up to 8,000 emergency calls a day, compared to 5,500 on a typical busy day.\n\nThe London Fire Brigade said more than 100 firefighters had been drafted in to drive ambulances to help cope with the demand.\n\nEvery frontline agency involved in protecting the public has a legal duty to prepare for emergencies by devising and testing major incident plans.\n\nThese public bodies declare a major incident when the situation they're confronting is so big or terrible that it's not only likely to cause serious harm, but it will also compromise their ability to respond effectively.\n\nIn general terms, that means public bodies can legally stop delivering some everyday services, so that their personnel, attention and resources can be diverted to the emergency confronting them.\n\nAt other times, the plans will lead to the military sending soldiers to aid the civilian effort, as we have seen already during the pandemic.\n\nPrevious major incidents include the Grenfell Tower disaster in London, the Salisbury Novichok poisonings and the 2017 terrorism attacks.\n\nLondon's regional director for Public Health England Kevin Fenton said the current wave of coronavirus was \"the biggest threat\" the capital has faced in this pandemic to date.\n\nHe added: \"The emergence of the new variant means we are setting record case rates at almost double the national average, with at least one in 30 people now thought to be carrying the virus.\n\n\"We know this will sadly lead to large numbers of deaths, so strong and immediate action is needed.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nMr Khan is warning that London is \"at crisis point\".\n\n\"If we do not take immediate action now, our NHS could be overwhelmed and more people will die,\" he said.\n\n\"Londoners continue to make huge sacrifices and I am today imploring them to please stay at home unless it is absolutely necessary for you to leave. Stay at home to protect yourself, your family, friends and other Londoners and to protect our NHS.\"\n\nHe said he had written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson asking for more financial support for Londoners who need to self-isolate and are unable to work, and for daily vaccination data.\n\nMr Khan also called for the closure of places of worship and for face masks to be worn routinely outside the home, including in crowded places and supermarket queues, in a bid to curb case numbers.\n\nTwo hospital trusts in London have recorded more than 1,000 coronavirus deaths\n\nThe mayor of London was in a sombre mood when I spoke to him earlier this afternoon. One in 20 Londoners in some areas now has Covid, and there is a real fear that hospitals will simply be overwhelmed in the next two weeks.\n\nDeclaring a major incident is a real indication of the levels of concern felt not just at City Hall but across London's emergency services and the NHS.\n\nMore Londoners are now in hospital with coronavirus than at the peak of the first wave last April - and those numbers are growing by more than 800 every day.\n\nIt's believed the last mayor to declare a London-wide major incident was Boris Johnson in response to the 2011 riots.\n\nThe coming days will be some of the most challenging in the city's recent history.\n\nKatie Sanderson, a junior doctor working in London, said she is worried how long medical staff can cope with the surge of patients.\n\n\"[Staff] are working on wards and spending long amounts of time with patients who need high-intensive oxygen therapy,\" she said.\n\n\"It is technically challenging and the emotional burden is enormous. I see it in a flatness in their demeanour, like we've all got used to doing things which before were totally inconceivable.\"\n\nGeorgia Gould, chair of London Councils, described London's rising coronavirus rate as \"dangerous\".\n\nShe added: \"One in 30 Londoners now has Covid. This is why public services across London are urging all Londoners to please stay at home except for absolutely essential shopping and exercise.\n\n\"This is a dark and difficult time for our city but there is light at end of the tunnel with the vaccine rollout. We are asking Londoners to come together one last time to stop the spread - lives really do depend on it.\"\n\nEarlier this week as the prime minister introduced an England-wide lockdown, the Met Police said officers were going to be \"more inquisitive\" towards Londoners seen outside.\n\nThe Met handed out 1,761 fines for breaches of coronavirus laws between 27 March and 20 December.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist said the major incident was a \"stark reminder\" of the point London is at in the pandemic.\n\nHe said: \"These rule-breakers cannot continue to feign ignorance of the risk that this virus poses or listen to the false information and lies that some promote downplaying the dangers.\n\n\"Every time the virus spreads it increases the risk of someone needlessly losing their life.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'One of the worst shifts of my life - it's overwhelming'\n\nIn response to Mr Khan's announcement the government said the NHS is continuing to \"face a huge challenge\"\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"It is absolutely paramount people in London, and the rest of the country, follow the rules and stay at home to protect the NHS and save lives.\n\n\"We are working closely with NHS England to support hospitals in the capital, including additional bed capacity at the London Nightingale.\n\n\"Financial support is in place for workers who need to self-isolate - including a £500 payment for those on the lowest incomes who have been contacted by NHS Test and Trace.\"\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nHave any of the issues raised in this article had an impact on you? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid lockdown: 'This is why we say to you do not come out'\n\nPeople are being warned about breaking lockdown restrictions after the police got stuck in snow due to rule-breakers.\n\nA car driving on Moel Famau hill, Flintshire, despite roadblocks, skidded off the road on Thursday night, with officers deployed to help the passengers.\n\nHowever, they then became stuck and had to call mountain rescuers.\n\nA yellow warning for snow and ice has been issued by the Met Office for all of Wales, until midnight on Friday.\n\nPolice said: \"This is why we say to you do not come out.\"\n\nOn a video posted on Twitter, an officer for the North Wales Police Rural Crime Team warned people about the consequences of breaking the rules.\n\n\"It is now involving two agencies, two police vehicles, two mountain rescue vehicles and three police officers and the casualty.\"\n\nRob Taylor from North Wales Police Rural Crime Team said the person who was driving the car, which travelled 200m when it lost control was \"very, very lucky to be alive and escape uninjured\".\n\n\"We've been having problems with people lately flouting the law and going where they shouldn't be going,\" he said.\n\n\"People have been going through them for various reasons whether that's a walk or sledge and gathering in large groups. So we have been paying attention.\n\n\"This issue that was highlighted perfectly yesterday where someone's gone there thinking it's okay to flout the law. They get themselves in trouble and cause an emergency response from police and actually put those police officers' lives at risk.\n\n\"Their actions can really affect many people.\"\n\nSnow and ice warnings are in place for all of Wales\n\nThe snow warning for Friday said 5cm of snow could also fall on hills and mountains, with a widespread frost forecast for the morning.\n\nRoad agencies said driving conditions on the A55 in Flintshire were difficult, with snow on Rhuallt Hill.\n\nOne lane on the expressway has been closed eastbound between Pentre Halkyn and Northop following a crash.\n\nRoads have also been closed in Denbighshire following the heavy snow.\n\nThe Met Office warned there was a risk of slips and falls with sleet and snow predicted to fall on to already-frozen ground, creating icy patches.\n\nForecasters said that while snow was likely to fall on hills and mountains, flurries could be seen elsewhere, but this was likely to \"be slight and temporary\".\n\nFurther ice warnings have also been issued until 11:00 GMT on Saturday.\n\nResidents in parts of Wales have been waking to snow, including in Mold, Flintshire\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hyundai has sparked confusion over a possible electric car tie-up with Apple.\n\nThe South Korean car company initially said it was in the \"early stage\" of talks with the iPhone maker about a possible electric car partnership.\n\nBut hours later it backtracked and said it was talking with a number of potential partners without naming Apple.\n\nHyundai's share price rose more than 20% when the tie-up was announced.\n\n\"Apple and Hyundai are in discussions but they are at an early stage and nothing has been decided,\" it said in a statement which was later revised. Hyundai's value shot up $9bn (£6.5bn) after the Apple announcement.\n\nWhile an updated statement said it was talking to a number of companies about a possible electric car tie-up including Apple, a later version omitted the US tech firm.\n\nApple is known for its secretiveness when it comes to new products and partnerships.\n\n\"I'm not surprised to see a big jump in the valuation of Hyundai. The stock market loves car companies who are tech firms as seen with Tesla rise,\" said Sarwant Singh, managing partner at consultants Frost & Sullivan. \"This partnership helps Hyundai be seen as a tech innovator.\"\n\nLast month, news emerged that Apple was moving forward with self-driving car technology with a 2024 launch date.\n\nThe electric vehicle (EV) market is becoming increasingly competitive, with companies such as Tesla grabbing the headlines with its rapidly-increasing valuation. Tesla chief executive Elon Musk is now the richest man in the world, displacing Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.\n\nExperts say an electric vehicle from Apple is still at least five years away.\n\nThey say pandemic-related delays could push the start of production into 2025 or beyond.\n\nHyundai has already been pushing into new technologies such as electric, driverless and flying cars.\n\nLast month, it took a controlling stake in Boston Dynamics in a deal that valued the mobile robot firm at $1.1bn.\n\nThe company is also setting up a $4bn autonomous-driving joint venture with auto parts supplier Aptiv.\n\nBoth partners will invest $2bn, while Ireland-based Aptiv will contribute about 700 engineers and transfer patents and intellectual property to the venture.\n\n\"Apple could certainly jumpstart that project and Hyundai brings the vehicle development and manufacturing expertise,\" said Jeff Schuster at automobile data firm LMC Automotive\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nApple's efforts to produce an electric car, known as Project Titan, have been on and off ever since plans were revealed in 2014.\n\nThere have been rumours over who would assemble an Apple-branded car as it may be difficult for the tech giant to manufacture them on its own.\n\nIts rival Alphabet's Waymo chose a factory in Detroit to mass produce its own self-driving cars.", "Jessica Allen (left) and Eliza Moore are now sticking to walks nearer their homes\n\nA police force that was criticised for its \"intimidating\" approach to two walkers is to review its lockdown fines policy.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore said they were surrounded by police after driving five miles from their home for a walk on Wednesday, and fined £200 each.\n\nDerbyshire Police initially said driving to exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of lockdown.\n\nBut it now says new national guidelines mean it will review its position.\n\nIn a statement, the force said all of its fixed penalties issued during the new national lockdown will be reviewed.\n\nMs Allen, from Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire, said she assumed \"someone had been murdered\" when she arrived at Foremark Reservoir on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nWhen she and her friend were questioned by police, they were also told by officers the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nShe said: \"The next thing, my car is surrounded. I got out of my car thinking 'There's no way they're coming to speak to us'. Straight away they start questioning us.\n\n\"I said we had come in separate cars, even parked two spaces away and even brought our own drinks with us. He said 'You can't do that as it's classed as a picnic'.\"\n\nMs Allen said the experience was \"very intimidating\" and had left her feeling scared of police in general.\n\nForemark Reservoir is five miles away from where Jessica Allen and Eliza Moore live\n\nHer friend, Ms Moore, said she was \"stunned at the time\" so did not challenge police and gave her details so they could send a fixed penalty notice.\n\nAt the time Derbyshire Police said that driving to a location to exercise \"is clearly not in the spirit of the national effort to reduce our travel, reduce the possible spread of the disease and reduce the number of deaths\".\n\nThe force added: \"Where there are cases of blatant breaches of the regulations then fines will be issued by officers.\"\n\nDerbyshire Police has also been giving fixed penalty notices to people who visit Calke Abbey and Elvaston Castle.\n\nFixed penalty notices have been given to people who visit Calke Abbey, a National Trust property\n\nBut in a statement, the force said further guidance issued by the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) had \"clarified the policing response concerning travel and exercise\".\n\nThe guidance said: \"The Covid regulations which officers enforce and which enables them to issue FPNs [fixed penalty notices] for breaches, do not restrict the distance travelled for exercise.\"\n\nThe NPCC added that rather than issue fines for people who travel out of their local area \"but are not breaching regulations, officers will encourage people to follow the guidance\".\n\nThe force has now said it will be \"aligning to adhere to this stance\".\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Kem Mehmet said: \"We are grateful for the guidance from the NPCC.\n\n\"The actions of our officers continues to be to protect the public, the NHS and to help save lives.\"\n\nIt is not the first time the force has been accused of being overzealous in enforcing alleged lockdown breaches.\n\nIn the country's first lockdown in March the use of a drone to film people walking in the Peak District was labelled \"nanny policing\".\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nursery staff are not advised to wear face coverings\n\nChildcare organisations are demanding to see evidence that it is safe for them to remain open while schools and colleges have closed to most pupils.\n\nStaff have close contact with children and babies daily, when they change nappies and receive them by the hand from parents, for example.\n\nMinisters have insisted early years settings are safe as young children have very low rates of the virus.\n\nNurseries argue the evidence cited is based on data about old variant Covid.\n\nEngland's three main nursery organisations, the Early Years Alliance, the National Day Nurseries Association and childminders' group, Pacey, have joined together to mount a #ProtectEarlyYears campaign.\n\nThey want the government to provide clear scientific evidence on the risks to early years staff of staying open, particularly in light of the increased transmissibility of the new variant of Covid-19.\n\nSue Cardy, owner and manager of Ready Teddy Go Pre School, in Shoeburyness, Essex said: \"There isn't anyone who has asked: 'Is it 100% safe for us to remain fully open? No one can see the virus and staff may be asymptomatic, and so we all run an element of risk of catching or spreading it.\"\n\nShe added: \"Staff have families and are not all young... 50% of my staff are over 50 and some have underlying medical conditions.\"\n\nVicky, the manager of a church pre-school in Cheshire West and Chester said she could potentially have 30 children plus 10 staff in a church hall, with no PPE recommended, and limited social distancing.\n\n\"As an early years provider, I am increasingly worried about the safety of both staff and children, yet if we chose to partially close, we could be financially penalised.\"\n\nAnd Georgie Morrell from Brighton and Hove said: \"Since re-opening, I have had four households tell me. they are Covid positive.\n\n\"This is clearly very close to home and yet we have been given no choice or support but to remain open and carry on.\"\n\nNeil Leitch, chief executive of the Early Years Alliance, said: \"It is simply not acceptable that, at the height of a global pandemic, early years providers are being asked to work with no support, no protection and no clear evidence that is safe for them to do so.\n\n\"We know how vital access to early education and care is to many families, but it cannot be right to ask the early years workforce to put themselves at risk. That is why it is vital that the government takes the urgent steps needed to safeguard those working in the sector, particularly mass testing and priority access to vaccinations.\n\nNursery providers are calling for staff to be tested, priority for vaccination and for state funding lost due to lower numbers during the pandemic, to be replaced by government.\n\nPurnima Tanuku, chief Executive of National Day Nurseries Association, said nurseries were determined to support families during the current lockdown.\n\nBut, she added: \"Time and again, whether it's on PPE, cleaning costs, testing or staffing, early years providers have been overlooked by the Department for Education.\n\n\"Now, they are the only part of the education sector fully open to all children and must be given priority.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, vaccines minister Nadim Zahawi said there was very little risk to younger children.\n\n\"The nursery sector has taken tremendous care in making sure the premises are also Covid safe. It is the right thing to do.\"\n\nThe Department for Education is yet to comment on the #ProtectEarlyYears demands.", "The coronavirus vaccine rollout is a national challenge requiring an unprecedented effort - involving the armed forces - Boris Johnson says.\n\nThe PM confirmed almost 1.5 million people in the UK have now received at least one dose of a Covid vaccine.\n\nMore than 1,000 GP-led sites in England will be able to offer a total of \"hundreds of thousands\" of jabs each day by 15 January, he said.\n\nThe Army will use \"battle preparation techniques\" to help achieve that goal.\n\nIt came as a further 1,162 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were reported on Thursday - the second consecutive day of more than 1,000 recorded fatalities - and 52,618 new cases.\n\nAnd as Simon Stevens, head of the NHS in England, warned 10,000 patients with Covid had been admitted to hospital since Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street news conference, Mr Johnson said there would likely be \"lumpiness and bumpiness\" in the rollout of vaccines.\n\nHe said: \"Let's be clear, this is a national challenge on a scale like nothing we've seen before and it will require an unprecedented national effort.\n\n\"Of course, there will be difficulties, appointments will be changed but... the Army is working hand in glove with the NHS and local councils to set up our vaccine network and using battle preparation techniques to help us keep up the pace.\"\n\nAlongside GPs, there will be 223 hospital sites and seven \"giant vaccination centres\" - as well as an initial 200 community pharmacies - offering jabs, Mr Johnson said.\n\nEveryone will have a vaccination centre within 10 miles of their home, he added, with a \"full vaccination deployment plan\" to be published on Monday.\n\nHe also said there would be a national booking system for vaccinations - but did not give any more details.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brigadier Phil Prosser said his task was to ensure everyone in England had equal access to the vaccine\n\nBrigadier Phil Prosser, commander of military support to the vaccine delivery programme, told the news conference his team was \"embedded\" with the NHS.\n\nHe said his \"day job\" is to deliver combat supplies to UK forces in time of war, \"at speed in the most arduous and challenging conditions\".\n\nThe government has set a target to offer vaccination slots to 15 million in the top four priority groups - including all over-80s - by 15 February.\n\nAnd Mr Johnson said that, with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine available, he could pledge one of those groups - care home residents - would all receive their jab by the end of January.\n\nThe widespread rollout of the vaccine has begun in earnest with the first doses delivered during the day to family doctors for distribution.\n\nBut there were concerns from some GPs over supplies, as Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the levels of vaccine supply was the \"rate-limiting\" factor as jabs would be delivered as quickly as stock is available.\n\nIt comes as some hospitals in England are at risk of becoming Covid-only sites, with rising admissions for the virus forcing trusts to cut back on other services.\n\nThe latest NHS statistics also show that there were 30,370 patients with Covid in UK hospitals on Tuesday, a much higher figure than the first peak in the spring of 2020.\n\nHospital leaders have warned medics are becoming increasingly stretched with \"untrained staff\" used to fill gaps.\n\nAt 20:00 GMT, people in some streets stepped out onto doorsteps to clap for the heroes of the pandemic, following a weekly initiative which gained popularity during the UK's first lockdown.\n\nHowever, Thursday's clap for heroes was more muted than those seen last year, perhaps reflecting criticism the initiative had become politicised.\n\nLots of detail has been given about how the NHS - working hand-in-hand with the military - will be able to deliver the vaccines.\n\nThere will be more local vaccination centres, hospital hubs and even mass vaccination at sports stadiums.\n\nThousands of extra vaccinators have already been trained - and thousands more are waiting in the wings.\n\nBut the biggest hurdle the UK faces is vaccine supply.\n\nIf it is not available, it cannot be put in arms no matter how good the vaccination network is.\n\nIn the long-term, supply is not likely to be a problem - but in the coming weeks it could be tight.\n\nThere is enough vaccine in the country to offer all those at highest risk a jab by mid-February.\n\nBut it is not yet all ready for the NHS to use, either because the final safety checks have not been done or the vaccine has not been put into vials.\n\nThe former depends on lab work by the medicines regulator, while the latter is the job of a plant in Wrexham.\n\nEach stage takes some time. The target is achievable, but a lot has to go right.\n\nSir Simon Stevens said there were 50% more coronavirus patients in England's hospitals now compared to the peak last April, affecting every region across the country.\n\nHe said: \"That number is accelerating very, very rapidly... the pressures are real and they are growing.\"\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the Belfast Health Trust has said it has no other option but to cancel all of its urgent cancer surgery amid \"highly significant\" demand for bed space.\n\nThe cancelled operations will affect those patients for whom surgery could impact recovery and even survival, the trust said.\n\nBoris Johnson said all parts of government would be throwing everything at the vaccination effort \"round the clock\"\n\nIn one positive development for hospitals, two more life-saving drugs that can cut deaths by a quarter in patients who are sickest with Covid have been cleared for widespread use, with immediate effect.\n\nThe anti-inflammatory medications, given via a drip, save an extra life for every 12 treated, researchers said, following NHS trials.\n\nElsewhere, the UK has implemented restrictions on travellers to England from countries near South Africa to stop the spread of the South African Covid variant.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Johnson and Sir Simon were asked about persistent social media claims that coronavirus does not exist - and that reports of packed hospital wards of people being treated are just a myth.\n\nSir Simon said that such misinformation was an \"insult\" to hard-working critical care staff.\n\n\"There is nothing more demoralising than having that kind of nonsense spouted when it is most obviously untrue,\" he said.", "Vincent Kane - pictured with his grandson Sonny - is facing uncertainty about his operation\n\nThe son of a man with pancreatic cancer has said the last-minute cancellation of his surgery has been \"devastating\".\n\nJodie Kane said his father Vincent was due to have his operation on Friday.\n\nHowever, that procedure was cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust on Tuesday as the worsening coronavirus crisis increases the pressure on hospitals.\n\nThe trust apologised, saying it had faced an 80% rise in the number of patients with Covid-19 admitted to hospitals since Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Nolan Show, Jodie said that there was now \"no guarantee\" his 68-year-old father would get the treatment.\n\n\"To be told we had the chance of a very successful surgery on offer and then to have it taken away at the last minute is pretty devastating,\" he said.\n\n\"Even the surgeon himself said they would be concerned if it was to go on more than four weeks.\n\n\"There is an uncertainty hanging over us now that we don't know when he'll actually get that surgery or what the impact on his health is going to be.\"\n\nVincent Kane - pictured with his with wife Karen - has been suffering other health issues arising from his cancer\n\nVincent, from Newtownards, County Down, did not receive treatment for some of his other symptoms as it was planned that the surgery would help with those.\n\n\"Because they were hoping to get him straight into surgery he hasn't had the blockage in his gall bladder addressed so he's jaundiced, he's covered in a rash, can't sleep, he's lost a lot of weight,\" Jodie said.\n\n\"Undoubtedly there are people worse off than us out there but it is still a critical illness that he has got and it is one that we don't have an end in sight for, in terms of treatment.\n\n\"There must be a way of helping all those in need, or I suppose if you were being really honest about it those who stand the best chance of surviving - making the decisions for the benefit of them.\n\n\"There's no guarantee that in six weeks' time surgery is going to be an option because who knows what's going to happen with Covid?\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it had to reduce the number of ill patients on wards to protect them from coronavirus\n\nJodie called on those who were breaking Covid-19 regulations to think about the the \"direct and indirect impacts\" of their actions.\n\n\"We've every sympathy for anyone who has a loved one who needs [intensive] care because of Covid but cancer and Covid are both life-and-death situations.\n\n\"We can minimise the risks of one of them as a collective society just by taking the necessary precautions.\n\n\"It could be someone they love or their neighbour or someone in their community that's in the same situation as us in the very near future.\"\n\nFlo McClements, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in December, found out on Tuesday that her surgery - scheduled for Thursday - had been cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Foyle, her son Gregg said the pressure was \"mounting day by day\" on the the 72-year-old from Ballymoney, County Antrim.\n\n\"She had waited all through Christmas for the date and due to the Covid-19 restrictions we as a family had stayed away from her,\" he added.\n\nFlo McClements' family wants to \"give her a hug\" after her operation was cancelled\n\n\"We left her on her own with my dad just to make sure she didn't catch Covid and risk the operation.\n\n\"When you get the date you like to think it's the next step to recovery but unfortunately that didn't happen.\"\n\nGregg said his mother was \"putting on a brave face\" but it was difficult for the family to not be with her in person during what was a difficult time.\n\n\"That's actually the hardest part that we can't go up and have a cup of tea with her or give her a hug to make her feel a bit better even for a few minutes.\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it \"would like to sincerely apologise\" to those affected by the postponement of surgeries.\n\nIt said the decision was taken to reduce the number of ill patients on wards that would be more at risk from the virus than others.\n\n\"This was an incredibly difficult decision to make and we did not take it without considering all the information available to us,\" said the trust.\n\n\"We do not underestimate the anxiety and distress this causes the patients and families affected and we deeply regret this.\n\nIt said it would do \"everything in our power\" to reschedule their operations \"as soon as possible\".", "Gordy Philip took an icy bike ride on the Great Glen Way between Blackfold and Abriachan in the hills above Loch Ness. He said of his image: \"Could be the light at the end of the road on the first day of another lockdown.\"", "New data from EU satellites shows that 2020 is in a statistical dead heat with 2016 as the world's warmest year.\n\nThe Copernicus Climate Change Service says that last year was around 1.25C above the long-term average.\n\nThe scientists say that unprecedented levels of heat in the Arctic and Siberia were key factors in driving up the overall temperature.\n\nThe past 12 months also saw a new record for Europe, around 0.4C warmer than 2019.\n\nLast December, the World Meteorological Organization predicted that 2020 would be one of the three warmest years on record.\n\nThis new, more complete report from Copernicus says that last year is right at the top of the list.\n\nHigh temperatures saw fires rage in spring and summer in many locations inside the Arctic circle\n\nThe Copernicus data comes from a constellation of Sentinel satellites that monitor the Earth from orbit, as well as measurements taken at ground level.\n\nTemperature data from the system shows that 2020 was 1.25C warmer than the average from 1850-1900, a time often described as the \"pre-industrial\" period.\n\nOne key factor driving up the temperatures was the heating experienced in the Arctic and Siberia.\n\nIn some locations there, temperatures for the year as a whole were 6C above the long-term average.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis exceptional warming led to a very active wildfire season. Fires in the Arctic Circle released a record amount of CO2, according to the study, up over a third from 2019.\n\nThe Copernicus service concludes that while 2020 was very marginally cooler than 2016, the two years are statistically on a par as the differences between the figures for the two years are smaller than the typical differences found in other temperature databases for the same period.\n\nMore data on 2020's temperature will be released in the next week or so from other agencies, including Nasa and the UK Met Office.\n\nThe scientists say that the closeness between the years is all the more remarkable considering the impacts of the El Niño/La Niña weather cycle.\n\nPeople saw their homes burnt down in some parts of Siberia\n\nEurope also saw a new record level of warming for the year, 0.4C warmer than 2019. A major heat wave in July and August was an important factor driving up the mercury across the continent.\n\nGlobally, the 10-year period from 2011-2020 is the warmest decade, with the last six years being the six hottest on record.\n\n\"Twenty-twenty stands out for its exceptional warmth in the Arctic and a record number of tropical storms in the North Atlantic,\" said Carlo Buontempo, director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service.\n\n\"It is no surprise that the last decade was the warmest on record, and is yet another reminder of the urgency of ambitious emissions reductions to prevent adverse climate impacts in the future.\"\n\nWhile a strong La Niña may cool temperatures a little in 2021, levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are likely to remain high, contributing to ongoing warming.\n\nNew data from the UK's Met Office suggests that average concentrations of CO2 will reach levels that are 50% higher than they were before the industrial revolution.\n\nResearchers predict that annual average CO2 concentration at the Mauna Loa recording station in Hawaii will be around 2.29 parts per million (ppm) higher in 2021 than in 2020.\n\nDespite the global slowdowns caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the scientists say this rise is being driven by emissions from the use of fossil fuels and from deforestation.\n\nEurope saw a prolonged heat wave in July and August that pushed the year to a new record\n\nWhile weather patterns linked to the La Niña event may boost growth in tropical forests and increase the amount of the gas that's absorbed, it won't be enough to slow the overall rise.\n\nThe Met Office says that CO2 will exceed 417ppm in the atmosphere for several weeks from April to June.\n\nThis is 50% higher than the level of 278ppm that pertained in the late 18th Century as widespread industrial activity was just beginning.\n\n\"The human-caused build-up of CO2 in the atmosphere is accelerating,\" said Prof Richard Betts from the Met Office.\n\n\"It took over 200 years for levels to increase by 25%, but now just over 30 years later we are approaching a 50% increase.\"\n\n\"Reversing this trend and slowing the atmospheric CO2 rise will need global emissions to reduce, and bringing them to a halt will need global emissions to be brought down to net zero. This needs to happen within about the next 30 years if global warming is to be limited to 1.5C.\"", "Lorry drivers crossing the Channel will continue to need a recent negative Covid test result \"until further notice\", the UK government has said.\n\nHauliers have been required to prove they have tested negative since the border with France reopened last month.\n\nThe decision to continue testing comes from the French government, the Department for Transport said.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps urged \"all hauliers to get tested before getting to the border\".\n\nThe decision comes as the introduction of new trading rules between the UK and European Union prompts disruption for some businesses and hauliers.\n\nMr Shapps said the government was \"offering support to businesses to set-up testing facilities at their own premises, assisting the smooth passage of trucks and good across the border, as well as setting up testing at information and advice sites around the country\".\n\nDrivers and crew of heavy goods vehicles (HGVs), drivers of large goods vehicles (LGVs) and van drivers are advised to obtain a negative test before arriving in Kent or at other Channel crossing points.\n\nThere are now 34 testing sites for hauliers situated in key \"stopping spots\" across the UK, with further sites being set up, the DfT said.\n\nTests must be authorised and taken 72 hours before entry into France.\n\nIn addition to a negative Covid test result, some hauliers require a new 24-hour permit to enter Kent since the introduction of the new UK-EU rules.\n\nFrance reported 21,703 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, while the UK reported 52,618.\n\nLast month, the border crisis saw France refuse arrivals from the UK for 48 hours between 20 and 22 December due to a new virus variant initially discovered in Kent.\n\nPassenger ferries and lorry freight bound for France were suspended from Dover, Portsmouth and Newhaven.\n\nAn emergency procedure devised as part of post-Brexit preparations allowed lorries to be \"stacked\" - leaving thousands of foreign drivers stranded throughout southern England.", "A further 1,325 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt means there have been just short of 80,000 deaths by that measure - as another 68,053 new cases were recorded.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) said the number of deaths would \"continue to rise until we stop the spread\".\n\nIt comes as the government launches a new campaign in England urging people to \"act like you've got\" the virus.\n\nThe campaign, including an advert fronted by England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, is intended to remind the public Covid is spreading fast, with large numbers showing no symptoms.\n\nIn the advert, Prof Whitty says: \"Covid-19, especially the new variant, is spreading quickly across the country.\n\n\"This puts many people at risk of serious disease and is placing a lot of pressure on our NHS.\n\n\"Once more, we must all stay home. If it is essential to go out remember, wash your hands, cover your face indoors and keep your distance from others.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"Our hospitals are under more pressure than at any other time since the start of the pandemic, and infection rates across the entire country continue to soar at an alarming rate.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nHospital leaders have warned of stretched staffing with 31,624 coronavirus patients in UK hospitals on Wednesday - 46% above the peak during the first wave last year.\n\nDr Ian Higginson, vice president of Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said the situation in London and south-east England was \"pretty dire\" and would get worse in the rest of the country before long.\n\n\"We're heading for some really dark times, I fear, in this phase of the pandemic,\" he said.\n\nRichard Mitchell, chief executive of Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust, said the increase in patients seen in London was now affecting his area in Nottinghamshire.\n\nHe said: \"Critical care is exceptionally busy and the colleagues who work here are tired, they're fatigued and they're worn out.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a third Covid vaccine received emergency approval for use in the UK with 17 million doses of the jab, made by US firm Moderna, pre-ordered by the UK.\n\nThe vaccine joins the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca jabs in being approved, with close to 1.5 million people now vaccinated in the UK.\n\nDr William Welfare, Covid-19 response director at PHE, said: \"Each life lost to this virus is a tragedy, but sadly we can expect the death toll to continue to rise until we stop the spread.\n\n\"Approximately one in three people who have coronavirus have no symptoms and could be spreading it without realising it.\n\n\"To protect our loved ones it is essential we all stay at home where possible. This will reduce new infections, ease the pressure on the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of Covid in the capital was now \"out of control\", as he declared a \"major incident\".\n\nThis means the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response, and allows special arrangements to be implemented.\n\nThe previous highest daily death toll - 1,224 - was recorded on 21 April 2020 during the UK's first lockdown. Daily deaths were in the single figures as recently as September.\n\nThe UK has recorded the fifth-highest number of deaths behind the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nWe are now seeing the record numbers of cases over the Christmas period translate into record numbers of deaths.\n\nAnd with new infections rising rapidly - more than 1.1 million people in England estimated to be infected with Covid-19 last week - these tragic numbers are set to continue for some time.\n\nAnd that is mainly because of the new variant form of the virus which is thought to be between 30-70% more transmissible.\n\nThe administration of the vaccines to at-risk groups should see a reduction in the numbers dying by the end of the month and the numbers having to go into hospital going down sometime after that.\n\nThat is the other way around from what you normally hear - but that it because a successful vaccine programme will initially remove those most likely to die from the path of the virus.\n\nFitter or younger people - who are less likely to die but could still end up occupying hospital beds - won't be getting their jabs for some time yet.\n\nThe advent of spring's better weather should also help cases to fall, but ministers will have to decide what level of risk - and deaths - society is prepared to tolerate.\n\nFriday saw 619,941 tests conducted in the 24 hours to 09:00 GMT - also a new record.\n\nEngland, much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland continue to be under strict national measures, with stay-at-home orders in place for most people.\n\nThe R number - the rate at which an infected person passes on the virus to someone else - is now estimated to be between 1.0 to 1.4, meaning the epidemic is growing between 0% and 6% per day.\n\nCovid infections rose by almost a third between Boxing Day and 3 January, reaching 70,000 new cases a day according to a major study.\n\nIn a different piece of research, an estimated 1.2 million people in total had Covid over a similar time period, the Office for National Statistics said.\n\nBoris Johnson pledged on Thursday to use England's lockdown to implement an \"unprecedented national effort\" to offer vaccination to those at the highest risk from Covid by 15 February.\n\nHe said the Army would be drafted in to use \"battle preparation techniques\" to achieve the goal, which could see up to 15 million people offered a vaccine by the middle of next month.\n\nIn another development, from next week all travellers to the UK will need to show a recent negative test result before they arrive.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Parents and teachers are \"frustrated\" about plans to keep schools closed until the February half term and concerned about the impact on children.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC Radio Wales phone-in, callers said they felt young people were being \"thrown under the bus\".\n\nOthers said they were fed up with \"bitty information\" from the Welsh Government.\n\nKaarina Rutta from Sully, Vale of Glamorgan, told the programme she was having to work at night when her four children had gone to bed after home schooling.\n\n\"It's a challenge trying to help all four at the same time and also having in the back of your mind I should also be working and doing other things,\" she said.\n\n\"I was quite sure that this was going to happen,\" she added.\n\n\"It didn't come as a surprise I have to say, because the situation is just so bad I think there is no other way out of it at the moment.\n\n\"I just wish we had known earlier on and it would have been easier to plan.\"\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said it was the \"best certainty\" he could offer \"in a world which is highly uncertain\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke of Cambridge asked how staff were coping during the pandemic and thanked them for their sacrifice\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has said he talks to his three children about NHS staff \"every day\" to help them to understand the \"sacrifices\" made during Covid.\n\nPrince William's comments were part of a video call to London hospital staff.\n\n\"Catherine and I and all the children talk about all of you guys every day, so we're making sure the children understand all of the sacrifices that all of you are making,\" he said.\n\nIt comes after the London mayor said the virus was \"out of control\".\n\nSadiq Khan declared a major incident on Friday - meaning the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response - after the number of Covid patients in the capital's hospitals surpassed 7,000.\n\nStaff at Homerton University Hospital in east London told the Duke of Cambridge that queues of people waiting to be vaccinated at the hospital offered hope, but that the way out of the crisis was for the public to \"stay at home\" during lockdown.\n\nIn recent days the hospital has seen its highest number of admissions since the pandemic began.\n\nDuring the UK's first national lockdown, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their three children Prince George (left), Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis joined in with the weekly Clap for Carers event\n\nThe duke, who is joint patron of NHS Charities Together, said: \"A huge thank you for all the hard work, the sleepless nights, the lack of sleep, the anxiety, the exhaustion and everything that you are doing, we are so grateful.\n\n\"Good luck, we are all thinking of you.\"\n\nHis video call, which took place on Thursday, is one of many he and the duchess have made to NHS staff during the pandemic.\n\nPrince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis have also shown their support for the health service by getting involved with the weekly Clap for Carers applause during the UK's first national lockdown.\n\nAnd on Saturday, the Duchess's birthday, Kensington Palace said the family's thoughts \"continue to be with all those working on the front line at this hugely challenging time\".\n\nChief nurse Catherine Pelley told the prince her hospital had used funds from NHS Charities Together to set up various support initiatives such as a \"wobble room\" for colleagues to relax in.\n\n\"For us this week, starting vaccinating has been one of the single most significant impacts on people feeling that there is a future out of this, and the queues out the door here where they have been vaccinating have been really hopeful for people,\" she said.\n\n\"But the support we need is stay at home, help us. Because that will get us all out of this, whatever our role is, and we will get society out of this.\"\n\nAfter speaking to Ms Pelley and her colleagues about how they supported one another, the prince said: \"It's good that you and your team are keeping your spirits high and I always find that having some sort of sense of humour through everything is very important, otherwise we all go mad.\"\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge said he wants his children to appreciate the sacrifices made by NHS staff during the pandemic", "Ms Sturgeon has rejected claims made by former first minister Alex Salmond\n\nAlex Salmond has accused Nicola Sturgeon of misleading parliament, calling evidence she gave to an inquiry into the handling of sexual harassment claims against him \"simply untrue\".\n\nMr Salmond's comments emerged in a written submission to a separate investigation into whether the first minister breached the ministerial code.\n\nThe submission has been shared with the Holyrood committee.\n\nMs Sturgeon says she \"entirely rejects Mr Salmond's claims\".\n\nIn the submission, the former first minister said that Ms Sturgeon had misled parliament and broken the ministerial code with breaches including failing to inform the civil service in good time of her meetings with him.\n\nHe claimed she allowed the Scottish government to contest a civil court case against him despite having had legal advice that it was likely to collapse.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the Holyrood inquiry she had become aware of allegations at a meeting with Mr Salmond at her home.\n\nIt since emerged she met his former chief of staff in the days before, but she said she had forgotten about that meeting.\n\nMr Salmond said that claim was untenable.\n\nHis submission said that she misled parliament, and that amounted to a breach of the code. He also said she breached the code by failing to to inform civil servants of the nature of the meetings that took place between the two of them at her home where the allegations were discussed.\n\nAlex Salmond walked free from court in March having been cleared of charges of sexual assault\n\nMr Salmond's statement read: \"The pre-arranged meeting in the Scottish Parliament of 29 March 2018 was \"forgotten\" about because acknowledging it would have rendered ridiculous the claim made by the first minister in parliament that it had been believed that the meeting on 2 April was on SNP Party business and thus held at her private residence.\"\n\nBoth Mr Salmond and Ms Sturgeon are expected to give evidence to the committee in the coming weeks.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross responded to the claims, saying: \"Nobody ever bought Nicola Sturgeon's tall tales to have suddenly turned forgetful, especially about the devastating moment she found out of sexual harassment allegations against her friend and mentor of 30 years.\n\n\"What has been revealed are allegations of shocking, deliberate and corrupt actions at the heart of government. There is now clear evidence of Nicola Sturgeon abusing her power to deceive the Scottish public.\n\n\"If this proves to be correct, it is a resignation matter. No first minister, at any time, can be allowed to get away with repeatedly and blatantly lying to the Scottish Parliament and breaking the ministerial code.\"\n\nScottish Labour deputy leader Jackie Baillie said Alex Salmond's explosive allegations demanded answers from the first minister to the committee.\n\nShe said: \"The bombshell accusation that Nicola Sturgeon has broken the ministerial code has the potential to end her political career and demands a robust and honest answer from the first minister.\n\n\"This committee demands truthfulness and honesty from every witness it calls - it is vital that the first minister tells the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth when she appears.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon has repeatedly dismissed any notion of a conspiracy against Mr Salmond.\n\nHer spokeswoman said: \"The first minister entirely rejects Mr Salmond's claims about the ministerial code.\n\n\"We should always remember that the roots of this issue lie in complaints made by women about Alex Salmond's behaviour whilst he was first minister, aspects of which he has conceded. It is not surprising therefore that he continues to try to divert focus from that by seeking to malign the reputation of the first minister and by spinning false conspiracy theories.\n\n\"The first minister is concentrating on fighting the pandemic, stands by what she has said, and will address these matters in full when she appears at committee.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Any Questions on Friday evening, SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford MP said he did not believe the accusations about the first minister were correct.\n\nHe said: \"I believe that the first minister has acted in an honourable way, she's someone that I've every faith and trust in.\n\n\"I can tell you that the approval ratings for the first minister, the respect that she has right up and down the country of Scotland is enormous and this is something that will pass, when she appears in front of the committee these matters will be dealt with.\"\n\nAlex Salmond has just turned up the heat on his successor with a submission that presents a direct and serious challenge to the reputation of Nicola Sturgeon - who was once his closest political ally.\n\nWhat he no doubt considers as an attempt to secure justice, some others will see as a case of deflection and revenge.\n\nAllegations of breaking the ministerial code of conduct and misleading parliament are serious and, if upheld, potentially career threatening.\n\nYet even some of Ms Sturgeon's fiercest critics at Holyrood do not expect the inquiries into the Scottish government's mishandling of harassment complaints against Mr Salmond to force her from office.\n\nMr Salmond seems to expect the review of the first minister's actions under the ministerial code of conduct to remain narrow enough that it could not possibly find against her.\n\nThe first minister herself appears confident of persuading all comers, including a cross-party committee of MSPs (before which both she and Mr Salmond are due to appear in the coming weeks) that she has acted properly throughout.", "The star thanked fans for their messages of support\n\nThe Wanted's Tom Parker has told fans he is \"responding well\" to treatment for his brain tumour.\n\nThe singer praised the NHS as he wrote on Instagram: \"Significant reduction: These are the words I received today and I can't stop saying them over and over again.\"\n\nSharing a picture with his wife Kelsey Hardwick and their two children, he added: \"Today is a good day.\"\n\nThe 32-year-old was found to have an inoperable brain tumour last year.\n\nThe diagnosis came after he suffered two seizures last summer. Because of Covid-19 restrictions, his wife was not allowed in the hospital during three days of tests and he received the news alone.\n\nAt the time he vowed to fight the cancer \"all the way\". Two weeks later he became a father for the second time after Hardwick gave birth to a baby boy.\n\nThe singer shared a photo of his young family alongside the latest update on his health\n\nSharing an update on his condition on Thursday, Parker said: \"I had an MRI scan on Tuesday and my results today were a significant reduction to the tumour and I am responding well to treatment.\n\n\"I can't thank our wonderful NHS enough,\" he continued. \"You're all having a tough time out there but we appreciate the work you are all doing on the front line.\"\n\nThe star also thanked his wife, calling her \"my rock\", and thanked fans for their support. \"Your love, light and positivity have inspired me,\" he wrote. \"Every message has not been unnoticed they have given me so much strength.\"\n\nParker achieved fame in the early 2010s as part of The Wanted, reaching number one with the singles All Time Low and Glad You Came.\n\nSince the band went on hiatus in 2014, he has played Danny Zuko in a touring production of Grease and reached the semi-finals of Celebrity Masterchef.\n\nHe married Hardwick, an actress, in 2018. As well as Bodhi, the couple have an 18-month-old daughter.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Covid infections rose by almost a third between 26 December and 3 January, reaching 70,000 new cases a day according to a major study.\n\nIn a different piece of research, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimated 1.2 million people in total had Covid over a similar time period.\n\nDaily infections are understood to have risen to about 150,000 since then.\n\nThat would bring daily coronavirus cases above the first peak.\n\nThe R or reproduction number for the virus is now between 1 and 1.4 for the UK, reflecting the sharp rise in cases in recent weeks.\n\nSeparate ONS data suggests just under half (44%) of British adults formed a Christmas bubble.\n\nThese temporary rules let up to three households mix indoors on 25 December - unless they were living in a Tier 4 area.\n\nThe ONS estimated how much of the population had Covid in the week of 27 December- 2 January:\n\nThe ONS data suggests cases rose by three-quarters between its two most recent study periods: 12-18 December and 27 December - 2 January.\n\nThe ZOE Covid Symptom Study was able to track more recent changes since there was no pause in its research for Christmas.\n\nIt found the epidemic is growing throughout the UK.\n\nResearchers estimate the virus's reproduction or R number is currently 1.2 across the UK.\n\nBoth sources indicate London has the most severe epidemic with the highest number of cases.\n\nConfirmed cases, published on the government's dashboard, are always lower than those in surveys because they mainly reflect the test results of people coming in with symptoms.\n\nBoth the ONS and ZOE also look at asymptomatic cases - people who may not otherwise get tests.\n\nSome asymptomatic testing is now available in the community but it is not being widely taken up.\n\nAbout a fifth of people responding to a separate ONS survey looking at the social impacts of the pandemic, said they had found it difficult to follow the Christmas rules.\n\nAnd half of those gave the fact that they had already made plans as the reason.\n\nRules, which were set to allow everyone in the UK to mix in a five-day window, were changed at the last minute, on 19 December.\n\nIn England, people living in Tiers 1-3 were allowed to form a one-day Christmas bubble with a maximum of two other households.\n\nThose in Tier 4, including about 10 million people in Greater London, were not permitted to mix at all.\n\nMixing was permitted in Scotland and Wales for Christmas Day only.\n\nHow has coronavirus affected you? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nOr use this form to get in touch:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your comment or send it via email to HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any comment you send in.", "A former Labour MP has quit the party before disciplinary proceedings against him concerning sexual harassment could be concluded, Labour has said.\n\nKelvin Hopkins was suspended by the party in 2017 after a Labour activist, Ava Etemadzadeh, accused him of inappropriate physical contact.\n\nMs Etemadzadeh said the ex-MP's exit from the party was \"disappointing\".\n\nThe BBC has attempted to contact Mr Hopkins, 79, for a response, but he has previously denied the accusations.\n\nA Labour spokesperson said it \"takes all complaints of sexual harassment extremely seriously and they are fully investigated in line with our rules and procedures, and any appropriate disciplinary action is taken.\n\n\"We are disappointed that the party's disciplinary processes did not reach a conclusion due to Kelvin Hopkins' decision to resign his membership,\" they added.\n\n\"We are establishing an independent process to investigate complaints, including sexual harassment, to ensure complainants can feel confident that in coming forward they will be heard and get the justice they deserve.\"\n\nMr Hopkins, who first won the seat of Luton North from the Conservatives in 1997, stood down ahead of the 2019 election - a decision, he said, which was to do with his wife's health, not the accusations.\n\nHe had originally been referred to the party's National Constitutional Committee following the allegations in 2017 and had expressed frustration at the length of time the hearing was taking.\n\nResponding to his decision to leave the party, Ms Etemadzadeh tweeted: \"This is very disappointing news. I hope Keir Starmer listens to my concerns and fixes this broken system.\"", "David Bowie left his mark with songs like Space Oddity, Let's Dance and Under Pressure\n\nA series of streamed music events, shows and new releases are marking David Bowie's birthday and the fifth anniversary of his death.\n\nThe musician would have turned 74 on Friday, while Sunday is five years since he died of cancer.\n\nA star-studded tribute concert and his 2015 stage musical Lazarus will both be streamed over the weekend.\n\nTwo previously unreleased Bowie tracks have also been released, while his music has now arrived on TikTok.\n\nThe tribute gig, titled A Bowie Celebration: Just For One Day, will feature Bowie's former bandmates alongside stars including Boy George, Duran Duran, Trent Reznor, Adam Lambert, Gary Barlow and actor Gary Oldman.\n\nStarting at 18:00 PT on Friday (02:00 GMT Saturday), the show will be led by Bowie's longtime pianist Mike Garson and will be available for 24 hours.\n\nDuran Duran released a timely cover of Bowie's track Five Years ahead of the show. \"My life as a teenager was all about David Bowie,\" singer Simon Le Bon said.\n\n\"He is the reason why I started writing songs. Part of me still can't believe in his death five years ago, but maybe that's because there's a part of me where he's still alive and always will be.\"\n\nOn Friday, Bowie's previously unreleased covers of Bob Dylan's Tryin' to Get to Heaven and John Lennon's Mother were also put out into the world.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by David Bowie - Topic This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nBBC Four is hosting a Bowie Night on Friday, while there will be special programmes on BBC Radio 4 and 6 Music. They include Bowie: Dancing Out in Space, which will air simultaneously on the two stations on Sunday.\n\nIn it, producer Tony Visconti describes how Bowie and Lennon first met awkwardly in a New York hotel room ahead of their collaborations on the former's cover of The Beatles' Across the Universe and his own 1975 song Fame.\n\n\"He was terrified of meeting John Lennon,\" says Visconti. \"About one in the morning I knocked on the door and for about the next two hours, John Lennon and David weren't speaking to each other.\n\n\"Instead, David was sitting on the floor with an art pad and a charcoal and he was sketching things and he was completely ignoring Lennon.\n\n\"So, after about two hours of that, he [John] finally said to David, 'Rip that pad in half and give me a few sheets. I want to draw you.' So David said, 'Oh, that's a good idea', and he finally opened up. So John started making caricatures of David, and David started doing the same of John and they kept swapping them and then they started laughing and that broke the ice.\"\n\nMeanwhile, next weekend will see the release of Stardust, a film biopic about Bowie's journey to becoming Ziggy Stardust, starring singer and actor Johnny Flynn.\n\nHowever, Bowie's family have not given it their blessing, meaning the film-makers were not allowed to use any of his music. Instead Flynn, as Bowie, is seen performing songs by Jacques Brel, The Yardbirds and one of Flynn's own compositions.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Heads are calling for limits to the number of pupils in school during lockdown in England, with attendance rates surging to 50% in some places.\n\nThe two head teachers' unions, NAHT and ASCL, say the high numbers attending could hamper the fight against the virus.\n\nThe Department for Education has widened the categories of vulnerable and key worker pupils who can attend.\n\nIt is insisting that schools ensure all children who qualify can attend.\n\nThe widened categories not only include vulnerable pupils and children of workers in critical occupations but also those who cannot access remote learning either because they do not have devices or space to study.\n\nChildren of parents working on the Brexit arrangements are also included.\n\nTeachers have described streets around schools being packed with parents dropping off their children and almost all staff having to come in and work despite the lockdown.\n\nHeads say they fear schools could be overwhelmed by children who do not have access to lap tops to learn remotely.\n\nJessica Jane, a learning assistant at a school in Hampshire, told the BBC: \"I work in a primary school where we are having to bring in every single member of staff as the list of key-workers is vast in our area and over 50% of our children are attending.\n\n\"Our community school is not closed and streets are packed with parents morning and afternoon collecting their children from open schools.\"\n\nShe added: \"My colleagues and I are still being put at risk every single day as are our families.\"\n\nA teacher from the Midlands who did not wish to be named said the number had risen from 10 pupils a day in the first lockdown to about 90 a day this week.\n\n\"We're talking just under to just over a third of the usual amount of pupils for our school here.\n\n\"The vast majority are key worker children, not vulnerable.\n\n\"I also know that other primary schools in our area have similar amounts of children in school - one neighbouring school in particular, which is only slightly larger than us, is estimating/averaging 100 to 160 children in school every day.\"\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, called the lack of limits \"bizarre... in a week when the prime minister has told the nation that it is necessary to move schools to remote education in order to suppress coronavirus transmission\".\n\n\"We are hearing reports that attendance in some primary schools is in excess of 50% because of demand from critical workers and families with children classed as vulnerable under criteria which has been significantly widened,\" he said.\n\n\"We are urgently seeking clarification about the maximum number who should be in school while protecting public health.\n\n\"This seems completely illogical given the fact that the government has taken the drastic action of a full national lockdown precisely in order to limit contacts.\"\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of National Association of Head Teachers, said schools could not \"meet the demand created by government and reduce social mixing in the way the prime minister announced\".\n\n\"The government acknowledges that schools do play a role in the transmission of the virus. Therefore, there comes a point when occupancy levels might be so high that they work against the efforts to bring down infection rates in communities, as is the national aim.\n\n\"This could result in prolonging the amount of time pupils are away from the classroom, which we are all anxious to avoid.\"\n\nA Department for Education spokesman said: \"Schools are open for vulnerable children and the children of critical workers. We expect schools to work with families to ensure all critical worker children are given access to a place if this is required.\n\n\"If critical workers can work from home and look after their children at the same time then they should do so, but otherwise this provision is in place to enable them to provide vital services.\n\n\"The protective measures that schools have been following throughout the autumn term remain in place to help protect staff and students, while the national lockdown helps reduce transmission in the wider community.\"\n\nBut Emma Knights, chief executive of the National Governance Association, reflected head teachers' concerns, saying between 40 and 60% of pupils were attending schools across England.\n\n\"The real problem is we have got two different national narratives going on,\" she said - with the prime minister saying \"stay at home\" but the DfE telling schools to take all eligible children who turn up.\n\nDr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said the government seemed unable to decide whether schools were safe or unsafe.\n\nCommenting on the latest Coronavirus Infection Survey from the Office for National Statistics, Dr Bousted, said: \"Let this data end their confusion. Schools are clearly driving infection amongst children, and then onto the wider community.\n\n\"This peaked on Christmas Day with one in every 27 secondary-age children and one in 40 primary-age children infected.\n\n\"In London this rises to one in 18 secondary pupils and one in 23 primary pupils. These figures are truly shocking and entirely the result of government negligence.\"\n• None How are Covid rules changing across UK schools?", "Marion Ramsey will be remembered by fans for her notable role in the US comedy series Police Academy\n\nMarion Ramsey, best known for her acting in the American film series Police Academy, has died at the age of 73, her agent has announced.\n\nHer management at Roger Paul Inc told the BBC she died at her Los Angeles home on Thursday morning.\n\nThe agency said Ramsey had recently fallen ill, but did not give a cause of death.\n\nRamsey was adored by fans for her portrayal of the squeaky-voiced Officer Laverne Hooks in Police Academy.\n\nShe also had an illustrious career on Broadway, starring in the 1978 production Eubie!, a biographical musical about celebrated jazz pianist Eubie Blake.\n\n\"Her passion for performing and sharing her heart with the world was immense,\" Roger Paul Inc said in a statement.\n\n\"Marion carried with her a kindness and permeating light that instantly filled a room upon her arrival.\n\n\"The dimming of her light is already felt by those who knew her well. We will miss her, and always love her.\"\n\nRamsey featured in six Police Academy films as Officer Laverne Hooks\n\nBorn in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1947, Ramsey started her career in the theatre, appearing in both the original Broadway and subsequent touring productions of Hello, Dolly!.\n\nShe was prolific on Broadway, co-starring in many shows, including Harold Prince's Grind with Ben Vereen, and Eubie! with Gregory and Maurice Hines.\n\nHer agent said Ramsey was \"particularly proud\" about Broadway's Dreamgirls finally becoming a major motion picture in 2006, because she was one of the singers that the original Broadway show's producer, Tom Eyen, based the three main characters on.\n\nRamsey's career in TV and film career took off after she appeared as a guest on the hit sitcom The Jeffersons in 1976.\n\nFollowing that, she was a regular on Cos, Bill Cosby's sketch show.\n\nShe starred in six Police Academy films in total, making her a familiar face to fans of the franchise.\n\nRamsey's agent said she had an immense passion for performing\n\nAmerican actor Michael Winslow wrote in a tweet that he had \"no words to say or explain the pain\" of losing Ramsey.\n\n\"In the 80s the Police Academy films cast a long shadow over the comedy genre - they were everywhere & everyone watched them,\" British producer Jonathan Sothcott wrote. \"#MarionRamsey was hilarious as Hooks - a fine comedic actress.\"\n\nA message on the Twitter account for the movie When I Sing read: \"It is with great sadness that I share our loss of my friend, and one of the shining stars of When I Sing (her final role), the beautiful, kind, hilarious, #MarionRamsey. I will miss you, my silly sister.\"", "Most pupils will be studying from home for the rest of this half term\n\nSchools and colleges in England are to be closed to most pupils until at least half term, Boris Johnson has announced.\n\nThe prime minister said the new lockdown had to be \"tough enough\" to stop the variant virus from spreading - and teaching will go online.\n\nA-Levels and GCSEs will be cancelled, a government source confirmed to BBC News - although vocational exams will go ahead.\n\nThe National Education Union accused the government of causing \"chaos\".\n\nIn a television address, Mr Johnson announced the biggest changes to schools since the early days of the first lockdown in March.\n\n\"Because we now have to do everything we possibly can to stop the spread of the disease, primary schools, secondary schools and colleges across England must move to remote provision from tomorrow,\" said the prime minister.\n\nThis means a return to online learning for pupils of all ages - apart from vulnerable children and the children of key workers who can continue to go into school.\n\nPrimary schools went back today - and will then close again tomorrow\n\n\"We recognise that this will mean it's not possible or fair for all exams to go ahead this summer, as normal,\" said Mr Johnson.\n\nIt is understood that vocational exams will continue, but GCSEs and A-levels will be cancelled - and that the exam watchdog Ofqual will make \"alternative arrangements\" for delivering results.\n\nAn attempt to produce replacement exam grades last summer turned into one of the biggest U-turns of the pandemic.\n\nTeachers' unions accused the government of failing to react more swiftly to \"mounting evidence\" about Covid transmission in schools and to make preparations for remote teaching and alternatives to written exams.\n\nBut Mary Bousted, co-leader of the National Education Union, said Education Secretary Gavin Williamson had \"become an expert in putting his head in the sand\".\n\nGeoff Barton of the ASCL head teachers' union criticised ministers for having issued legal threats to keep schools open at the end of last term - and then \"made a series of chaotic announcements about the start of this term\".\n\nThe new term, which began on Monday for primary pupils, has only lasted a day before it has been suspended.\n\nThe prime minister said he hoped that schools would be \"reopening schools after the February half term\".\n\nThere have been assurances that there will be a more thorough approach to home learning than in the first lockdown last year.\n\nThe Department for Education has provided hundreds of thousands of computer devices - with the aim of supporting those without the equipment needed to work online from home.\n\nThere have also been suggestions Ofsted inspectors will play a more active role in checking on what support schools are providing to pupils in their online learning.\n\nUniversities in England had already planned a staggered return for this term - but there will now be even fewer students on campus this month.\n\nThe latest lockdown guidance says university students who are taking hands-on courses such as medicine or veterinary science should return for face-to-face lessons as planned.\n\nThese students will be expected to take two Covid tests or self-isolate for 10 days when they return.\n\nBut students on all other courses are being told not to come back to university if possible and to start their term online \"until at least mid-February\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olly Stephens was pronounced dead in Bugs Bottom fields in Emmer Green, Reading\n\nA school says its community has been left \"reeling\" after a 13-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Reading.\n\nOliver Stephens, known as Olly, was pronounced dead at Bugs Bottom fields, Emmer Green, on Sunday.\n\nFour boys and a girl, all aged 13 or 14, have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder. They remain in custody.\n\nHighdown School and Sixth Form Centre head teacher Rachel Cave described the boy's death as a \"total tragedy\".\n\nIn a statement, she said: \"This student was part of our community and many students and staff knew him well.\n\n\"Many have been deeply affected by this tragedy.\n\n\"In normal circumstances we would open the school and welcome in students for support before the start of the term.\n\n\"We are currently unable to do this, of course, but are arranging counselling support and will be establishing an electronic book of condolence.\"\n\nFlowers have been left outside Highdown School\n\nMs Cave said the school was \"a supportive and close-knit community\" which would \"work together over the coming days and weeks\".\n\nDet Supt Kevin Brown, of Thames Valley Police, said: \"Our thoughts remain with Olly's family at this incredibly difficult time.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is a tragic and shocking incident which has resulted in the death of a young boy.\"\n\nThe victim's family are being supported by specially trained officers.\n\nThames Valley Police said a \"considerable police presence\" would be in place in the area for several days\n\nOfficers were called just before 16:00 GMT on Sunday following reports of an attack.\n\nOfficers are appealing for anyone who was in the area between 15:00 and 16:30 who might have taken photos or camera footage to contact them if they notice anything suspicious.\n\nDet Supt Brown said he believed there would have been witnesses to the \"dreadful incident\" as the area is popular with dog walkers.\n\nA man said his wife was walking their dog through the park on Sunday afternoon when she saw a boy on the ground with several people around him trying to give him first aid.\n\nAnother dog walker said she saw a group of young people standing in the woods in Bugs Bottom fields at about 15:30 and described it as \"slightly unusual\".\n\nReading East MP Matt Rodda has offered his \"deepest condolences\" to the boy's family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Matt Rodda This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSt Barnabas Church in Emmer Green has invited residents to pray and light a candle in memory of the boy.\n\nFollow BBC South on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to south.newsonline@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We've now vaccinated over 1.3m people across the UK\"\n\nSome 1.3 million people in the UK have now received their first dose of a Covid vaccine, says the government.\n\nIn England, that includes nearly a quarter of the most elderly, vulnerable patients.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said it meant that within a two to three weeks they should have a \"significant degree of immunity\" to the virus.\n\nHe said there would be a ramping up to get more people immunised - up to 2 million a week.\n\nThe ambition is to vaccinate all the over-70s, the most clinically vulnerable and front-line health and care workers by mid-February. That will require around 13 million vaccinations.\n\nHe defended the UK's policy of immunising more people with one dose immediately - rather than holding some stock back to give people a second booster shot - in order to save \"the most lives the fastest\".\n\nUS regulators have questioned the policy, saying it is premature without more trial evidence, but the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency says it is a pragmatic decision to protect more people.\n\nBoth the Pfizer and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses to provide the best possible protection.\n\nInitially, the strategy for the Pfizer vaccine was to offer people the second dose 21 days after their initial jab - full immunity starts seven days after the second dose.\n\nBut when approval was announced for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on 30 December, it was also announced that the policy would now change - the new priority would be to give as many people a first shot of either vaccine, rather than providing the required two doses in as short a time as possible.\n\nEveryone will still receive their second dose, but this will now be within 12 weeks of their first.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty told the Downing Street press conference that extending the gap between the first and second jabs would mean the number of people vaccinated can be doubled over three months.\n\n\"If over that period there is more than 50% protection then you have actually won. More people will have been protected than would have been otherwise.\n\n\"Our quite strong view is that protection is likely to be lot more than 50%.\"\n\nAsked whether the longer gap could lead to an increase risk of the virus mutating into a version that could escape the vaccine, he said it was a worry, but a small one.\n\nChief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said vaccines would probably need to be changed further down the line to continue to be a good match for the virus - but that this was relatively quick to do.\n\nOne of the exciting things about the science of the RNA vaccines is that they are incredibly fast to make in response to new mutations, he said.", "The homes of Frank and Christine Lampard, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and Tamara Ecclestone and her husband were broken into in December 2019\n\nFour people have been cleared of being involved in a plot to raid the luxury homes of celebrities in west London.\n\nItems belonging to Frank Lampard, Tamara Ecclestone and the family of tycoon Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha were among the items taken during three burglaries in December 2019.\n\nProsecutors said Maria Mester, 48, Emil Bogdan Savastru, 30, Sorin Marcovici, 53, and Alexandru Stan, 49, were a \"supporting cast\" for the burglars.\n\nBut a jury found all four not guilty.\n\nIsleworth Crown Court heard the three burglaries had netted \"big money\" for the raiders, with \"fabulous jewellery\" stolen and the majority of it having never been recovered.\n\nJay Rutland, Tamara Ecclestone and their daughter had left for Lapland on the morning of the burglary\n\nJewellery and cash worth £25m was taken from Ms Ecclestone's Kensington home while she was on holiday in Lapland with her husband Jay Rutland and their daughter.\n\nMr Lampard and his TV presenter wife Christine had about £60,000 in watches and jewellery stolen when they were out, while raiders also ransacked the family home of Mr Srivaddhanaprabha, who died in 2018 in a helicopter crash, the jury was told.\n\nThe four defendants were accused of eight charges including conspiracy to burgle.\n\nHowever, each denied their involvement with the plot, saying they had no knowledge that the alleged burglars were criminals.\n\nJurors were shown an image from Maria Mester's Facebook account, in which she was said to be wearing Tamara Ecclestone's necklace\n\nThe court heard escort Ms Mester had flown into the UK from Italy on 7 December.\n\nPolice described her as the plot's \"matriarch\", but the 48-year-old told jurors she was only in London after being paid £5,000 to accompany one of the alleged burglars for the week.\n\nSavastru was arrested at Heathrow Airport on 30 January as he prepared to leave for Japan, wearing Mr Srivaddhanaprabha's Tag watch and carrying a Louis Vuitton bag stolen from Mr Rutland.\n\nHe told the court he thought the items had been left behind by the alleged burglars at the Airbnb property he had helped them rent.\n\nThe four Romanian nationals were cleared of all charges apart from Savastru, who was convicted of one count of attempting to conceal criminal property.\n\nThe 30-year-old will be sentenced at a later date.\n\nA group of alleged burglars, who cannot be named for legal reasons, are accused of carrying out the raids.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon announces stay at home rules in new lockdown\n\nScots are to be ordered to stay at home amid a fresh Covid-19 lockdown which will see schools remain closed to pupils until February.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said new curbs would be introduced at midnight in a bid to contain the new, faster-spreading strain of the virus.\n\nNew laws will require people to stay at home and work from home where possible.\n\nOutdoor gatherings are also to be cut back, with people only allowed to meet one person from one other household.\n\nPlaces of worship are to be closed, group exercise banned, and schools will largely operate via online and remote learning.\n\nThese rules will apply across the Scottish mainland until at least the end of January, and will be kept under review.\n\nIsland areas will remain in level three - but Ms Sturgeon said they would be monitored carefully.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson later announced similar lockdown measures for the whole of England with all schools and colleges closing to most pupils until mid February.\n\nA further 1,905 new cases were reported in Scotland on Monday - with 15% of tests returning a positive result, something Ms Sturgeon said \"illustrates the severity and urgency of the situation\".\n\nThe first minister said she was \"more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year\", with the new coronavirus strain now accounting for half of new cases.\n\nAnd she said a \"steeply rising trend of infections\" was threatening to put \"significant pressure\" on NHS services, saying hospitals could breach capacity within three to four weeks.\n\nThe new rules - which will be put down in law - mean Scots will only be allowed to leave home for essential purposes, such as shopping for food and medicine, exercise and caring responsibilities.\n\nNo limit is to be put on how many times people can go out to exercise, but outdoor meetings are to be limited to a maximum of two people from two households.\n\nEveryone who can work from home will be required to, and people in the \"shielding\" category are advised not to go in to work at all.\n\nThe construction and manufacturing industries will remain open, but Ms Sturgeon said this would be kept under review.\n\nPlaces of worship are to close, the number of people who can attend weddings is to be cut to five, and funeral wakes will no longer be allowed.\n\nSchools are to remain closed to the majority of pupils until February, with Ms Sturgeon saying community transmission of the virus must be brought to a lower level amid concerns that the new variant of the virus spreads more easily among young people.\n\nShe said she knew remote learning presented \"significant challenges\" for parents, teachers and pupils, adding: \"I want to be clear that it remains our priority to get school buildings open again for all pupils are quickly as possible and then keep them open.\"\n\nThe first minister said she was considering whether teachers could be given the Covid-19 vaccine as a priority.\n\nMore than 100,000 people have been given a first dose of the vaccine in Scotland, and the government expects to have access to just over 900,000 doses by the end of January.\n\nHowever Ms Sturgeon said the best way to get schools open again was to drive down transmission of the virus - urging Scots to abide by the rules.\n\nThese are the toughest restrictions Scotland has faced since the lockdown of March 2020.\n\nIt is - once again - becoming compulsory to stay at home except for essential purposes like food shopping, exercise and medical care.\n\nThe extended closure of schools to most pupils is something the Scottish government was particularly keen to avoid.\n\nThese decisions are a measure of how worried ministers are about the rapid spread of the new variant of coronavirus, which is fast becoming the dominant strain.\n\nWith 225 cases per 100,000 people, Scotland is thought to be about four weeks behind London, which already has four times as many cases and NHS services under considerable pressure.\n\nThe Scottish government believes that without further action the NHS here would run out of beds for Covid patients within a month.\n\nThis new alert comes at the start of a new year which also brings new hope for a route out of the pandemic with two vaccines now beginning to offer protection.\n\nAround 100,000 doses have already been administered in Scotland but it is likely to take several months to reach all in the most vulnerable groups.\n\nThe first minister said Scotland was now in \"a race between the vaccine and the virus\".\n\nShe said: \"The Scottish government will do everything we can to speed up distribution of the vaccine. But all of us must do everything we can to slow down the spread of the virus.\n\n\"We can already see - by looking at infection rates in the south of England - some of what could happen here in Scotland. To prevent that, we need to act immediately and firmly.\n\n\"For government, that means introducing tough measures - as we have done today. And for all of us, it means sticking to the rules.\"\n\nScottish Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson raised concerns about online learning, saying it was vital that pupils had \"equal access to high-quality education\".\n\nAnd Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard said teachers and working parents would need support to make the remote learning system work.\n\nMs Sturgeon said her government had \"agonised\" over the decision on schools, and said the \"fundamental priority\" was to re-open them in full as soon as possible.\n\nShe said: \"Just as the last places we ever want to close are schools and nurseries - so it is the case that schools and nurseries will be the first places we want to reopen as we re-emerge from this latest lockdown.\"\n\nThe NHS has coped so far in Scotland - more so than many other parts of the UK.\n\nBut in places like Glasgow and Lanarkshire it has been very, very tight. And here like everywhere else staff are bracing themselves for the post-Christmas effects of rising cases.\n\nThe first minister gave some stark figures on hospital and ICU occupancy - suggesting we are just weeks away from reaching limits.\n\nThere is so little give in the system they will be glad to see everything possible done to prevent stretched services being overwhelmed at a time when we are on our way to getting out the other side.\n\nThere is real anxiety about what the next few weeks might bring.\n• None Covid in Scotland: New lockdown from midnight", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Shaw, from Dundee, was among the first to receive the jab\n\nThe first Scottish recipients of the new Oxford University and AstraZeneca vaccine have received their jabs.\n\nJames Shaw, 82, and his 82-year-old wife Malita were among the first to be vaccinated in Dundee.\n\nThe couple received their first doses at Lochee Health and Community Care Centre.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has said she hoped all over-50s and those with underlying health conditions will have been vaccinated by early May.\n\nJames said: \"My wife and I are delighted to be receiving this vaccination. I have asthma and bronchitis and I have been desperate to have it so I am really pleased to be one of the first to be getting it.\n\n\"I know it takes a little while for the vaccine to work but after today I know that I will feel a bit less worried about going out. I will still be very careful and avoid busy places but knowing I have been vaccinated will really help me.\n\n\"All of my friends have said they are going to have the vaccine when it is their turn and I would encourage everyone who is offered this vaccination to take it.\"\n\nJames Shaw, 82, was one of the first people in Scotland to receive the AstraZeneca/Oxford Covid-19 vaccine, administered by advanced nurse practitioner Justine Williams\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine programme is being rolled out less than a week after it was approved by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). It is the second vaccine approved for use in the UK.\n\nNHS Tayside is rolling out the vaccine through GP practices in the community and will also vaccinate elderly residents and staff in care homes.\n\nIts associate director of public health Dr Daniel Chandleris said: \"The efforts of our vaccination teams have been amazing and it is testament to a real whole team approach that sees the first over-80s in the general population have their jabs today in Tayside.\n\n\"The availability and mobility of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine gives us the opportunity to start to roll out the biggest vaccine programme that the UK has ever seen across our communities.\n\n\"Over-80s are the first priority group and patients will be contacted directly to attend a vaccination session.\"\n\nScottish Secretary Alister Jack added: \"This is another important moment in our fight against the virus - every vaccination takes us a step closer to getting back to our normal lives as soon as possible.\n\n\"As with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, the UK is the first country in the world to approve and roll out the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, with the UK Government ordering and paying for millions of doses for people in all parts of the UK.\"\n\nThe milestone came as First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced a new stricter lockdown.\n\nWith the exception of essential travel, people in mainland Scotland will have to remain at home from midnight.\n\nStatistics released on Monday showed a further 1,905 people had contracted Covid-19.\n\nFigures for hospital admissions and deaths over the holiday weekend will not be published until Tuesday.\n\nMs Sturgeon likened the situation to a race between the vaccine and the virus.\n\nShe said: \"In one lane we have vaccines - our job is to make sure they run as fast as possible.\n\n\"But in the other lane is the virus which - as a result of this new variant - has just learned to run much faster and has most definitely picked up pace in the last couple of weeks.\n\n\"To ensure that the vaccine wins the race, it is essential to speed up vaccination as far as possible. But to give it the time it needs to get ahead, we must also slow the virus down.\"\n\nThe new vaccine will initially be available in the hospitals that have been delivering the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine, and new community settings will be able to deliver the jabs from 11 January.\n\nPeople in Scotland will be contacted by their health board when it is their turn to be vaccinated.\n\nThe Oxford vaccination marks a major turning point in the pandemic and will lead to a massive expansion in the UK's immunisation campaign, with enough to vaccinate 50 million people throughout the UK already on order.\n\nIt is easier to transport and store than the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, which needs cold storage of about -70C.\n\nThe Oxford vaccine is logistically much easier to distribute\n\nThe UK government has said 530,000 doses of the Oxford vaccine will be available to the UK from Monday, with \"millions due by the beginning of February\".\n\nScotland will ultimately get an 8.2% share of these vaccines, based on its population.\n\nChief Medical Officer Dr Gregor Smith has said he expects the NHS in Scotland to receive 440,360 doses of the vaccine during January.\n\nThe first minister said on Monday about 100,000 people in Scotland have already received a first dose of vaccine.\n\nBoth vaccines require two doses to be administered with an interval of between four and 12 weeks.\n\nPreviously the advice was for the vaccines to have a four-week gap between doses.\n\nThe Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) then recommended as many people as possible in the top priority groups should be offered a first dose as the initial priority.", "US intelligence agencies have said they believe Russia was behind the \"serious\" cyber compromise revealed in December.\n\nPresident Trump had previously suggested China might have been behind the hack, although other members of his administration had pointed the finger at Moscow.\n\nIn a joint statement, the intelligence bodies say they currently believe fewer than 10 US government agencies saw their data compromised, although other organisations outside of government were also affected.\n\nThey say work is still going on to understand the scope of the incident, which appears to have been aimed at gathering intelligence and which they say is \"ongoing\" a month after details first emerged.\n\nThe update on the investigation came in a statement from a task force called the Cyber Unified Coordination Group which was set up to deal with the incident. It comprises intelligence and law enforcement agencies including the FBI and NSA.\n\nThe group said it was still working to understand the scope of what had taken place.\n\nEighteen thousand customers who used Orion product from the company Solar Winds were exposed but US intelligence says it believes a much smaller number saw follow-on activity from the hackers in which they stole data. The US Treasury was among those which previously acknowledged being targeted.\n\n\"This is a serious compromise that will require a sustained and dedicated effort to remediate,\" the statement said. Many organisations are having to scour their systems for signs that they may have been compromised.\n\nThe incident sent shockwaves across the US partly because the breach was undiscovered for many months and was potentially far-reaching in terms of who it might have affected. It also suggested a degree of sophistication and stealth which was widely seen as a trademark of hackers from the SVR, Russia's foreign intelligence agency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Experts have been warning for years that it's not a matter of if, but when, hackers will kill somebody\n\nSoon after the incident was revealed, President Trump raised the possibility that China might be responsible, but members of his own administration including the secretary of state and attorney general pointed the finger at Moscow. The latest statement shows the assessment of US intelligence agencies is that Russia was behind it, although it does not go so far as accusing the Russian state itself, saying only that the actor was \"likely Russian in origin\". Moscow has denied playing any part.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden has previously said it was important to take \"meaningful steps\" to hold those responsible to account. It is not yet clear, though, what that might involve. While some US politicians suggested the breach might even be compared to an \"act of war\", most cyber-experts disputed this and the US intelligence community has now played down suggestions that it could have had destructive impact.\n\n\"At this time, we believe this was, and continues to be, an intelligence-gathering effort,\" the latest statement says. This is significant since it suggests no evidence has been found that this was preparatory activity for a more destructive cyber-attack which might switch off systems. This may limit the US response since espionage operations do not breach the cyber norms the US itself promotes (largely because it too carries out such intelligence-gathering operations against other nations).\n\nIn December UK officials say they believed a small number of UK organisations were affected but said they did not believe they were in the public sector.", "Queensland in Australia has seen heavy rainfall as an ex-tropical cyclone crosses the state, bringing warnings of “life-threatening\" flash flooding.\n\nMeteorologists say cyclones are more likely in Australia this year because of La Nina weather conditions.", "Singapore's Covid app is widely used across the country\n\nSingapore has admitted data from its Covid contact tracing programme can also be accessed by police, reversing earlier privacy assurances.\n\nOfficials had previously explicitly ruled out the data would be used for anything other than the virus tracking.\n\nBut parliament was told on Monday it could also be used \"for the purpose of criminal investigation\".\n\nClose to 80% of residents are signed up to the TraceTogether programme, which is used to check in to locations.\n\nThe voluntary take up increased after it was announced it would soon be needed to access anything from the supermarket to your place of work.\n\nThe TraceTogether programme, which uses either a smartphone app or a bluetooth token, also monitors who you have been in contact with.\n\nIf someone tests positive with the virus, the data allows tracers to swiftly contact anyone that might have been infected. This prompted concerns over privacy - fears which have been echoed across the world as other countries rolled out their own tracing apps.\n\nTo encourage people to enrol, Singaporean authorities promised the data would never be used for any other purpose, saying \"the data will never be accessed, unless the user tests positive for Covid-19 and is contacted by the contact tracing team\".\n\nBut Minister of State for Home Affairs Desmond Tan told parliament on Monday that it can in fact also be used \"for the purpose of criminal investigation\", adding that \"otherwise, TraceTogether data is to be used only for contact tracing and for the purpose of fighting the Covid situation\".\n\nHowever, the privacy statement on the TraceTogether site was then updated on the same day to state that \"the Criminal Procedure Code applies to all data under Singapore's jurisdiction\".\n\n\"Also, we want to be transparent with you,\" the statement reads. \"TraceTogether data may be used in circumstances where citizen safety and security is or has been affected.\n\n\"The Singapore Police Force is empowered under the Criminal Procedure Code (CPC) to obtain any data, including TraceTogether data, for criminal investigations.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, the country's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Vivian Balakrishnan, clarified that it was not just TraceTogether data that was used in cases of serious criminal investigations.\n\nHe said under the CPC, \"other forms of sensitive data like phone or banking records\" would also have their privacy regulations overruled in such cases.\n\nMr Balakrishnan added that to his knowledge, police had so far only once accessed contact tracing data, in the case of a murder investigation.\n\nThe minister stressed though that \"once the pandemic is over and there will no longer be a need for contact tracing, we will happily stand down the TraceTogether programme.\"\n\nMonday's announcement though sparked some controversy on social media, with people calling out the government and some users posting that they had now deleted the app.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I'm disappointed, but not at all surprised,\" local journalist and activist Kirsten Han told the BBC. \"This is actually something that I've been flagging as a concern since the earlier days of TraceTogether - and was sometimes told that I was just a paranoid fearmonger undermining efforts to fight Covid-19.\n\n\"It doesn't feel good at all to discover I was right.\"\n\n\"I think why most people are so angry about this is not that they feel like they're constantly being watched,\" one Singaporean, who did not want to be named, told the BBC. \"We already have that through other means like CCTV.\n\n\"It's more that they feel like they've been cheated. The government had assured us many times that TraceTogether would only be used for contact tracing, but now they've suddenly added this new caveat.\"\n\nAnother person told the BBC they wished they could delete the app, but daily life would be impossible without it.\n\n\"So I'm just going to disable my Bluetooth for TraceTogether from now on, unless I have to use it to enter somewhere. If the app is not only going to be used for contact tracing, then it's too much of an invasion of privacy.\"\n\nAustralian privacy watchdog Digital Rights Watch, told the BBC they were \"extremely concerned\" about the news from Singapore.\n\n\"This is the worst case scenario that privacy advocates have warned about since the start of the pandemic,\" Programme Director Lucie Krahulcova told the BBC. \"Such an approach will erode public trust in future health responses and therefore impede their efficacy.\"\n\nLike most countries, Australia has rolled out its own contact tracing app but uptake has been sluggish precisely because of privacy concerns.\n\nSingapore was among the first countries to introduce a contact tracing app nationally in March last year.\n\nThe introduction of the token in June had sparked a rare backlash against the government over concerns the device would be mandatory. An online petition calling for it to be ditched has gathered some 55,000 signatures so far.\n\nSingapore has been been one of the most successful countries in tackling the pandemic. Despite a big outbreak among its foreign workers early on, local infection rates have for months been close to zero.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Singapore rolled out its Covid tracing tokens last June", "Whitty: Priority to vaccinate those who would die from virus\n\nAndy Woodcock from the Independent asks about testing for people arriving into the UK from abroad and why it wasn't done sooner. The prime minister says the government will be bringing in measures to \"ensure that we test people coming into this country and preventing the virus from being readmitted\". Responding to a second question on schools and whether teachers and pupils should be vaccinated, Prof Chris Whitty says there is no evidence of hospitals filling up with children and it appears, that even with the new variant, \"children are relatively much less affected than other groups\". He says from a clinical point of view the real priority is to vaccinate the people that we know \"are by far the most likely to die and by far most likely to end up in hospital\". He adds there will have to be decisions made once the most vulnerable groups are vaccinated but we are not yet at that stage. The chief medical officer adds that neither vaccine currently in use in the UK has been licensed for children yet.", "Dr Radha Modgil from BBC Radio 1’s Life Hacks shares her top five tips on how to stay mentally and emotionally well during the coronavirus lockdown, all beginning with the letter C.\n\nSticking to a routine, making sure we take care of ourselves, and using our creativity in new ways are all ways she suggests we can ease the psychological toll that staying inside is having on all of us.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Enrique Tarrio says his far-right group will turn out in numbers on Wednesday\n\nThe leader of the far-right Proud Boys group has been released after his arrest on suspicion of burning a Black Lives Matter flag last month.\n\nEnrique Tarrio faces destruction of property charges. On Tuesday, a judge ordered him to stay out of Washington.\n\nHe has reportedly admitted torching a banner taken from a black church during a rally in December in the city.\n\nPresident Donald Trump has been urging supporters to gather in the capital this week for another demonstration.\n\nOn Tuesday, a judge released him on his own recognisance pending his trial.\n\nOn Wednesday, members of Congress are due to certify Democratic President-elect Joe Biden's election victory before he takes office on 20 January.\n\nMr Tarrio has said on the social media app Parler that the Proud Boys will \"turn out in record numbers on Jan 6th\", referring to his members as \"the most notorious group of extraordinary gentlemen\".\n\nThe National Guard has been deployed by Washington DC's mayor to assist local authorities. Officials say the troops will not be armed and will be there to assist with crowd management and traffic control.\n\nA spokesman for the Metropolitan Police Department, Dustin Sternbeck, told the Washington Post on Monday that Mr Tarrio had been stopped in a vehicle shortly after it entered the district.\n\nThe 36-year-old was also found during his arrest to be in unlawful possession of two devices that allow guns to hold additional bullets, a source told CBS News.\n\nThe destruction of property charge relates to a protest in Washington DC on 12 December in support of the outgoing Republican president's unsubstantiated claims of systemic election fraud.\n\nThe mostly peaceful demonstration ended in isolated scuffles as confrontations with counter-protesters broke out. Police said more than three dozen people were arrested and four churches were vandalised.\n\nMr Tarrio - who lives in Miami, where he also reportedly runs a grassroots organisation called Latinos for Trump - told the Washington Post at the time that he had burned the Black Lives Matter flag.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Let's make this simple,\" he said. \"I did it.\"\n\nBut he maintained he did not know the Asbury United Methodist Church, where the flag had reportedly flown, was predominantly attended by African American worshippers.\n\nMr Tarrio also said Proud Boy members have had their flags and hats stolen in past demonstrations without anyone being arrested for those alleged incidents.\n\nEarlier on Monday, another black church that was vandalised during December's protest sued Mr Tarrio and the Proud Boys.\n\nCounter-demonstrators were mostly kept at a distance from Trump supporter last month by Washington DC police\n\nThe Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church accused the group of climbing over a fence and tearing down a Black Lives Matter sign.\n\nKristen Clarke, head of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said in a statement: \"Black churches and other religious institutions have a long and ugly history of being targeted by white supremacists in racist and violent attacks meant to intimidate and create fear.\n\n\"Our lawsuit aims to hold those who engage in such action accountable.\"\n\nThe city's police department said last month it had been considering a potential hate crime charge over the incident.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "Kate Thistleton will front new content from Bitesize Daily\n\nBBC TV is to help children keep up with their studies during the latest lockdown by broadcasting lessons on BBC Two and CBBC, as well as online.\n\nSchools have been closed to most children across the UK as part of tougher measures to control Covid-19.\n\nThe BBC will show curriculum-based programmes on TV from Monday.\n\nThey will include three hours of primary school programming every weekday on CBBC, and at least two hours for secondary pupils on BBC Two.\n\nDuring the first lockdown in the spring, lessons were available on iPlayer, red button and online, but not on regular TV channels.\n\nThe move comes amid concerns that low-income families may struggle to afford data packages for their children to take part in online learning.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson praised the BBC's \"fantastic\" plans on Tuesday. BBC Director-General Tim Davie said \"education is absolutely vital\".\n\nHe continued: \"The BBC is here to play its part and I'm delighted that we have been able to bring this to audiences so swiftly.\"\n\nThe primary programmes, which will be broadcast on CBBC from 09:00 every day, will include BBC Live Lessons and BBC Bitesize Daily as well as Our School, Celebrity Supply Teacher, Horrible Histories and Operation Ouch.\n\nBBC Two will cater for secondary students with programming to support the GCSE curriculum, including adaptations of Shakespeare plays alongside science, history and factual titles.\n\nBitesize Daily primary and secondary will also air every day on the red button as well as episodes being available on demand on iPlayer.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said the BBC \"has helped the nation through some of the toughest moments of the last century\".\n\n\"And for the next few weeks it will help our children learn whilst we stay home, protect the NHS and save lives,\" he added. \"This will be a lifeline to parents and I welcome the BBC playing its part.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Sea Shepherd is working to protect the endangered vaquita porpoise\n\nA Mexican fisherman has died after his boat collided with a larger vessel used by US conservationist group Sea Shepherd, reports say.\n\nSea Shepherd said the clash happened after fishing boats attacked one of its vessels in the Gulf of California, where it is working to protect the endangered vaquita porpoise.\n\nIt said its vessel was trying to leave when one of the boats smashed into it.\n\nThe man's family allege that his boat was intentionally rammed.\n\nHealth official Alonso Perez told AFP news agency on Monday that one fisherman died after sustaining serious injuries, while a second remained in a stable condition.\n\nSea Shepherd said its Farley Mowat vessel was removing an illegal net from a protected area on 31 December when a group of people on small fishing boats launched a \"violent attack\", including throwing Molotov cocktails.\n\n\"Following routine anti-piracy procedures, the Farley Mowat undertook defensive manoeuvring to avoid the attacks. As the vessel attempted to leave the scene, one of the [boats] aggressively swerved in front of the Farley Mowat, crashing directly into the hull\" and splitting in two, it said.\n\nThe group said it provided emergency first aid to the two men who had been on board the fishing boat.\n\nConservationists working for Sea Shepherd have been attacked several times while patrolling the vaquita refuge.\n\nThe group works with Mexican authorities to remove illegal gillnets used to catch totoaba fish, which are highly valued in Chinese traditional medicine. The nets are designed to trap the heads of fish but not their bodies, but are blamed for trapping and killing the endangered porpoises as well.", "Businesses in retail, hospitality and leisure will receive new grants to help them keep afloat until spring, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said.\n\nThe grants will be worth up to £9,000 per property, the Treasury says.\n\nMr Sunak told the BBC he was \"committed to protecting jobs and supporting businesses\".\n\nBusiness groups welcomed the new help as a good start but warned the money still wouldn't be enough to save many firms from collapse.\n\nThe help is in addition to business rates relief and the furlough scheme, which has been extended until the end of April.\n\nFirms do not have to pay the grant money back.\n\nMr Sunak said he would consider whether or how to extend support packages in its Budget on 3 March.\n\n\"The Budget early in March is an excellent opportunity to take stock of the range of support we have put in place and set out the next stage of our economic response,\" he said.\n\nThe director general of the CBI business group, Tony Danker, earlier warned leaving additional support until the Budget could be too late for many firms, saying. \"the comprehensive restrictions required a new comprehensive response\".\n\nIt was a fear echoed by other business groups, the BCC and the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).\n\nBCC director general, Adam Marshall, warned many smaller firms would not qualify for help and \"will be left struggling to see how this new top-up grant will help them out of their cashflow problems.\"\n\nHe also called for the support to be extended to firms in other sectors \"who are also feeling the devastating impacts of these restrictions.\"\n\nFSB chair Mike Cherry also said the funds would be a lifeline to many, but \"do not go far enough to match the scale of the crisis that small firms are facing.\"\n\nThe British Beer & Pub Association described the grants as a \"lifeline\", but added that companies on which pubs rely, such as breweries, would also need help.\n\nSeb Heeley, owner of distillery Manchester Gin, says he needs dates to plan around\n\nSeb Heeley, owner of distillery Manchester Gin, told the BBC that fixed dates to aim for are crucial for his business.\n\n\"We need a date to work towards and we don't have that so, again, we're in limbo,\" he said. \"It takes three or four weeks\" to prepare, including retraining staff, he added.\n\nHis business has been closed since October because of restrictions in the Manchester area. It borrowed money under the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS).\n\n\"We start repayment in June and there's good chance we won't be open, so they are going to have to extend that,\" he said.\n\nHe said much of the £9,000 grant will be taken up by the £6,000 a month his business owes in pension contributions and national insurance alone.\n\nMr Sunak said the new support would \"help businesses to get through the months ahead - and crucially it will help sustain jobs, so workers can be ready to return when they are able to reopen\".\n\nBusinesses such as cafes, restaurants, leisure centres and shops that do not sell essentials have been particularly hard hit by coronavirus lockdown measures as people are told to stay at home.\n\nAll non-essential shops, leisure and entertainment venues are now closed, with pubs and restaurants allowed to offer takeaway food and non-alcoholic drinks only.\n\nThe new measures contained no additional support for self-employed people.\n\nMel Stride, chair of parliament's Treasury Committee, which scrutinises the finance department's work, warned the chancellor \"must not forget those who have fallen through the gaps around previous support packages.\"\n\nWhile this is welcome and essential support, it is now clear that the most optimistic timetable for economic lift-off from the pandemic is going to be put back.\n\nThis raises questions about the length of the furlough scheme, and government-guaranteed loans.\n\nBefore this, the best-case scenario was that mass vaccination, enabling a confident reopening of the economy, would allow furloughed workers to go straight back to their jobs in late spring.\n\nThis was never the government's central forecast, but looked possible amid optimism about the vaccine last month.\n\nEven if all vulnerable people can be vaccinated by March, the first three months of the year will see school lockdowns which will harm growth, and therefore a possible double dip recession.\n\nBusiness groups which welcomed this support say they now need a clear long-term plan. They want to know that current levels of support will stay in place until most of the population is vaccinated.\n\nHundreds of thousands of self-employed workers who fell through the gaps of support remain under huge pressure, particularly ahead of the self assessment tax deadline.\n\nA decision on extending the £20 a week increase to universal credit will also be required.\n\nEngland's lockdown rules are due to be reviewed on 15 February while Scotland's will be reviewed at the end of January.\n\nIn the UK, the unemployment rate rose to 4.9% in the three months to October, with the jobless total up to 1.7 million people.\n\nThe Office for Budgetary Responsibility, the government's independent forecaster, predicts the UK economy will have shrunk by 11.3% in 2020 - the biggest decline in 300 years. It expects unemployment to peak at 9.7%.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe PM acted \"decisively\" in announcing a new lockdown in England \"in the face of new information\", Rishi Sunak says.\n\nPeople must now stay at home except for a handful of permitted reasons and schools have closed to most pupils.\n\nThe chancellor said the action was \"regrettable\" but it was \"right we take these measures\", which will be reviewed on 15 February, to suppress the virus.\n\nIt came after UK chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nBoris Johnson said vaccinating the top four priority groups by mid-February could allow restrictions to be eased, with Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove telling Sky News the measures may remain until March.\n\nMeanwhile, the prime minister is due to hold a press conference in Downing Street at 17:00 GMT with chief medical officer for England Prof Chris Whitty and the government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance.\n\nTough new lockdown restrictions forbidding people from leaving home for non-essential reasons have also come into force across the Scottish mainland. Wales has been in a national lockdown since 20 December and Northern Ireland entered a six-week lockdown on 26 December.\n\nThe UK reported a record 58,784 cases on Monday, as well as a further 407 deaths within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nMr Gove told BBC Breakfast: \"The four chief medical officers of the United Kingdom met and discussed the situation yesterday and their recommendation was that the country had to move to level five, the highest level available of alert that meant there was an imminent danger to the NHS of being overwhelmed unless action was taken.\n\n\"And so in the circumstances we felt that the only thing we could do was to close those primary schools that were open.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gove:\" With a heavy heart but with clear evidence we had to act.\"\n\nHe said the action was taken \"with the heaviest of hearts\" and \"we had to act\" following that advice.\n\n\"It is a very, very difficult time for the whole country, that's why it's so important we do everything we can in government to vaccinate people,\" he said.\n\nHe said a million people had been vaccinated so far \"up until the weekend\" and it was hoped that number would reach more than 13 million in February.\n\nWhen asked about the target of two million vaccines a week and concerns over logistics and the safety systems, Mr Gove said the vaccination process was a \"complicated exercise\" but the NHS \"has more than risen to the challenge\".\n\nThe government was \"looking at further options\" to restrict international travel, he said.\n\nMr Gove told Sky News he could not say exactly when the lockdown in England would end, adding: \"I think it is right to say that as we enter March we should be able to lift some of these restrictions but not necessarily all.\"\n\nCabinet Office minister Michael Gove saying the lockdown may have to last to March may not come as much of a surprise to many.\n\nWhile the government has set a target of offering the most at-risk a jab by mid February, it will take several weeks longer for the full effect to be felt given it takes time for an immune response to kick in.\n\nThe bigger question is whether or not the government could have acted earlier.\n\nIt was clear before Christmas the new variant was pushing up infection rates - and that in turn would mean more hospital admissions.\n\nThe delay looks costly. Since Christmas Day, the number of Covid-19 patients in hospital has risen by 50% alone - enough to fill 18 hospitals.\n\nWhile the government did introduce tier four the weekend before Christmas in parts of the south east of England, which banned mixing over the festive period and led to the closure of non-essential shops and gyms, most of the country were allowed to meet up on Christmas Day.\n\nInfections from Christmas Day are now being felt - the numbers have been rising sharply ever since. Some of these are next week's hospital admissions - and is why the chief medical officers warned of the risk of hospitals becoming overwhelmed, which Mr Gove said persuaded them to act on Monday.\n\nIf lockdown had come earlier, it may well have been shorter.\n\nProf Andrew Hayward - a member of the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) - told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the lockdown measures \"will save tens of thousands of lives\".\n\nBut he said \"the virus is different\" and \"it may be that the lockdown measures that we have are not enough\"\n\n\"This lockdown period we need to do more than just stay at home, wait for the vaccine, we need to be actively bearing down on it,\" he said.\n\nAt Scotland's daily briefing, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon called for people to hold on to the fact there was now \"a clear route out of this pandemic\".\n\nShe said there had been urgent discussions between the four home nations about whether border controls should be tightened - and she hoped there would be an announcement soon.\n\nAnnouncing England's lockdown on Monday, Mr Johnson said hospitals were under \"more pressure from Covid than at any time since the start of the pandemic\".\n\nHe ordered people to stay indoors other than for limited exceptions - such as essential medical needs, food shopping, exercise and work that cannot be done at home - and said schools and colleges should move to remote teaching for the majority of students until at least half term.\n\nPeople who are clinically extremely vulnerable will be contacted by letter and should now shield once more, Mr Johnson said.\n\nWhile the rules become law in the early hours of Wednesday, people should follow them now, Mr Johnson added.\n\nMr Johnson said the new variant of coronavirus, which is up to 70% more transmissible, was spreading in a \"frustrating and alarming\" manner and warned that the number of Covid-19 patients in English hospitals is 40% higher than the first peak.\n\nThe House of Commons has been recalled to allow MPs to vote on England's new restrictions on Wednesday.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his MPs would \"support the package of measures\", saying \"we've all got to pull together now to make this work\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? What questions do you have? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Quote Message: The return of lockdown for at least the rest of January is a severe blow for much of the Scottish economy. It could be worse: this is not the peak Christmas season for retail and hospitality, though the season they’ve just had was very hard going for many, and non-existent for others. This is also the quietest part of the tourism year, so January is a relatively good month to lose one’s bookings. For many firms, it is better than last spring, because they have infection controls in place. And there is a less harsh closure scheme, meaning construction sites and others can stay open, subject to tight rules. Many employers have settled into patterns of working from home, so this does not carry the shock of last March. There was little expectation of getting staff back into offices for months yet. But that doesn’t make this time any easier for workers who are also parents. They know, from last year, how tough it is to handle childcare and lessons while schools are shut - and this time, they have to manage without good weather. The other, more negative comparison with last spring is that firms now are, typically, deeper in debt and with less spare cash to pay the bills that don’t stop - rent, and utility bills, for instance. Some delayed payments are getting tougher to keep on hold. Their frustration with the slow movement of government grant schemes is showing. They aren’t disputing the case for further lockdown but they are making their own case for support through it, and for a recovery strategy once restrictions are lifted, including a boost to consumer confidence and spending.\" from Douglas Fraser Scotland business & economy editor\n\nThe return of lockdown for at least the rest of January is a severe blow for much of the Scottish economy. It could be worse: this is not the peak Christmas season for retail and hospitality, though the season they’ve just had was very hard going for many, and non-existent for others. This is also the quietest part of the tourism year, so January is a relatively good month to lose one’s bookings. For many firms, it is better than last spring, because they have infection controls in place. And there is a less harsh closure scheme, meaning construction sites and others can stay open, subject to tight rules. Many employers have settled into patterns of working from home, so this does not carry the shock of last March. There was little expectation of getting staff back into offices for months yet. But that doesn’t make this time any easier for workers who are also parents. They know, from last year, how tough it is to handle childcare and lessons while schools are shut - and this time, they have to manage without good weather. The other, more negative comparison with last spring is that firms now are, typically, deeper in debt and with less spare cash to pay the bills that don’t stop - rent, and utility bills, for instance. Some delayed payments are getting tougher to keep on hold. Their frustration with the slow movement of government grant schemes is showing. They aren’t disputing the case for further lockdown but they are making their own case for support through it, and for a recovery strategy once restrictions are lifted, including a boost to consumer confidence and spending.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nProfessional sport in England can continue behind closed doors, despite a new national lockdown announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nIt means Premier League football and elite leagues in other sports are allowed to carry on.\n\nThe sport and leisure rules in England are similar to those announced in Scotland earlier on Monday.\n\nPeople living in England have been told to stay at home and schools will shut for most pupils from Tuesday.\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nFor those in England, exercising outside is allowed once a day. Venues such as gyms, tennis courts and golf courses will be closed.\n\nOrganised outdoor sport for disabled people is exempt from the new measures.\n\nGames and training in non-elite football - which includes all adult and youth grassroots, except for disabled people - have been suspended.\n\nThe Women's FA Cup is among the non-elite competitions placed on hold. All but one of the second-round matches scheduled to take place on Sunday were postponed because of Covid-19 regulations.\n\nTeams from the Women's Super League and Women's Championship enter the draw from the fourth round onwards.\n\nWhich non-elite football has been suspended? Steps three to six of the National League System (all divisions below the National League North and South) Tiers three to seven of the Women's Football Pyramid (all divisions below the Women's Championship) Women's FA Cup (classified as 'non-elite' up to and including the third round) All indoor and outdoor youth and adult grassroots football, including under-18s (except organised outdoor football for disabled people, which is allowed to continue)\n\nFollowing Monday's announcement by the prime minister, this week's sporting fixtures in England are set to go ahead as planned.\n\nIn football, the Carabao Cup semi-finals are being played on Tuesday and Wednesday, while the FA Cup third round - which has 32 fixtures spanning four days - starts on Friday.\n\nThere are also several Women's Super League, English Football League and National League games set to take place, as well as English Premiership and Premier 15s rugby union matches, plus the Masters snooker event in Milton Keynes.\n\nEarlier on Monday, Rochdale chief executive David Bottomley said he believes it is \"inevitable\" that the EFL will have to temporarily suspend fixtures because of rising coronavirus cases.\n\nSeven of last Saturday's EFL games - and 52 across the season - have been called off as teams are affected by the virus.\n\nFour Premier League matches have also been postponed this season because of coronavirus cases.\n\nWhat does the new lockdown mean for sport in England?\n\nThe UK government published its guidance for England's new national lockdown shortly after the prime minister's televised address at 20:00 GMT.\n\nHere are the points relating to sport and physical activity:\n• None Elite sportspeople (and their coaches if necessary, or parents/guardians if they are under 18) - or those on an official elite sports pathway - to compete and train\n• None Outdoor sports courts, outdoor gyms, golf courses, outdoor swimming pools, archery/driving/shooting ranges and riding arenas must also close\n• None Organised outdoor sport for disabled people is allowed to continue\n\nWhile golfing has been allowed to continue in Scotland under strict rules, courses will be closed in England.\n\nEngland Golf said it was \"extremely disappointed\" with the decision, adding it had made a \"strong case\" to keep the sport open in recent months.\n\nWhere can I exercise and who can I exercise with?\n\nYou can exercise in a public outdoor place:\n• None with the people you live with\n• None with your support bubble ( if you are legally permitted to form one)\n• None or, when on your own, with one person from another household\n• None public gardens (whether or not you pay to enter them)\n\nUK Active, a not-for-profit organisation that promotes health and fitness, says the government must act immediately to \"minimise the damaging impact of lockdown\".\n\n\"We know from the millions of people that depend on gyms, pools, and leisure centres to support their physical and mental health, how essential they are,\" said UK Active chief executive Huw Edwards.\n\n\"We cannot afford to wait until the vaccine rollout is advanced before we act, so the government must explore all options at this time and provide a credible plan for maintaining this support to millions of people who rely on these Covid-secure facilities to stay strong and healthy.\n\n\"Furthermore, the UK governments must protect this sector before it becomes too late.\"", "Internet providers are under pressure to do more to help low-income families afford data packages for their children to take part in remote learning.\n\nIt follows a decision to close UK schools to most pupils to enforce new coronavirus lockdowns.\n\nThe children's commissioner for England told the BBC that \"broadband companies really need to step up\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer added he thought the cost of data was \"a big problem\".\n\n\"We're asking people to endure very tough restrictions. And there has to be the other side of that contract,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"Everybody needs to try and make this work. And that includes the companies that can take away the charging for data. It's a serious situation.\"\n\nWhen questioned about the topic at a Downing Street press conference, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"We are looking at... the potential costs to parents of online teaching, and we're going to do our best to support them in any way that we can and to work with the internet companies.\"\n\nThere is concern that some disadvantaged pupils are currently dependent on pay-as-you-go or monthly mobile phone subscriptions that only include a small data allowance because their families cannot afford or otherwise obtain a separate fixed broadband connection.\n\n\"There are 25 million pay-as-you go customers in the UK, and about seven million of those struggle with the cost of topping up their data,\" commented Chris Thorpe from the Centre For The Acceleration Of Social Technology charity.\n\nMany schools are using video-chat software including Microsoft Teams, Zoom and Google Meet to live-stream classes, assemblies and other activities, which all benefit from a fast, stable connection and can consume a lot of data.\n\nIn addition, other tools including Google Classroom, Tapestry and Class Dojo are used by pupils to submit schoolwork and receive marks and other feedback.\n\nThe situation became more pressing after the prime minister announced last night that England's lockdown would mean schools and colleges would remain closed to most pupils until at least the February half-term.\n\nTech for UK - a coalition of technologists and other concerned business leaders - has suggested one way forward would be for internet providers to \"zero rate\" edtech apps and websites, so that their data use would be deducted from a mobile subscriber's monthly allowance.\n\nHowever, it acknowledges the challenge in doing so is to pick which platforms to support without giving some providers an unfair advantage over others.\n\nThe Department for Education already runs a scheme for disadvantaged children who do not have access to a home broadband connection to temporarily increase their mobile data allowance.\n\nIn some cases, this involves an extra 20 gigabytes a month. In others - such as Three - it provides an \"unlimited\" data upgrade.\n\nSchools, trusts and local authorities need to request the support on a pupil's behalf.\n\nThe networks involved in the initiative include:\n\nIn cases when this is not available, the government offers 4G wireless routers - which use mobile networks to offer a wi-fi connection - as an alternative.\n\nIn addition, Vodafone provided 350,000 \"free data\" Sim cards to thousands of primary and secondary schools and colleges in November.\n\n\"We are actively considering what to do now about this new situation,\" it said.\n\nO2 pledged in October to donate 10,000 devices and 12 months of free data to \"vulnerable individuals\".\n\nAnd Virgin Media noted it had launched a discounted home broadband service for families facing financial difficulties and receiving universal credit.\n\nBT says it has already removed all caps on its home broadband plans to help ensure children can stay connected to their schools.\n\nAnne Longfield, the children's commissioner for England, said she was also concerned about the provision of devices.\n\n\"A lot of children still don't have laptops. They're surviving on broken phones,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nThe Department for Education said it had delivered more than 560,000 devices to schools and councils in England between the start of the pandemic and the end of last year.\n\nIn addition, it aims to have delivered a further 100,000 laptops and tablets to schools by the end of this week to help get closer to its overall target of one million devices.\n\nHowever, teaching groups have raised concerns about the rollout.\n\nSome children are being provided with tablets to keep them connected to their schools\n\n\"We must hear no more of rationing of equipment, as we did late last year,\" Dr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union (NEU) told the BBC.\n\n\"If the stockpiles exist, as the Department for Education claim they do, then they must be distributed urgently. We have heard too many stories of requests from schools not being met, or not being fully met.\"\n\nSteven George of head teachers' union, NAHT added that a website used to order laptops had been inaccessible over the Christmas break, so some members had been unable to make requests.\n\nIn addition, the Association of School and College Leaders suggested the government had \"never really got to grips\" with the issue.\n\n\"It is certainly sending out lots of laptops for disadvantaged children to schools. But there's clearly still a gap, not just in terms of the number of devices that are required but also in terms of whether families have sufficient connectivity,\" said general secretary Geoff Barton.\n\n\"This has happened because it is a crisis situation, and there hasn't been a great deal of time in which to properly assess the level of need that exists, but it does expose the fact that pre-crisis, there hadn't been a properly joined-up national strategy on digital learning.\"\n\nOthers have noted that the device allocation scheme does not extend to printers - which are needed for worksheets and other materials sent by teachers - putting low-income families at a further disadvantage.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eileen Lynch, 94, was the first person in Northern Ireland to receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine this week.\n\nThe aim is to ensure everyone in that age group will be offered the vaccine by the end of January.\n\nThirty GP practices will be administering 50,000 doses of the vaccine, which was approved for use in the UK on 30 December.\n\nIt is the second vaccine to be approved in the battle against coronavirus in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt comes ahead of a UK-wide announcement by the prime minister, set to be made at 20:00 GMT on Monday, in which further restrictions will be announced.\n\nIn a statement, a No 10 spokesman said the new variant of Covid-19 had \"led to rapidly escalating case numbers across the country\" and \"further steps must now be taken to arrest this rise\".\n\nOn Monday, Northern Ireland recorded a further 1,801 Covid-19 cases and 12 more virus-related deaths.\n\nThese latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,366, while 79,873 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic started.\n\nMore than 12,000 cases have been reported in the past seven days, more than double the week before.\n\nThe seven-day rate per 100,000 people is now 660 positive cases, compared to 200 per 100,000 two weeks ago.\n\nMedical experts believe that is down to the two-week easing of restrictions over the Christmas period.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Monday, an additional 6,110 confirmed cases of Covid-19 were announced, with six further deaths linked to the virus.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the second week of a six-week lockdown in which non-essential retail is closed.\n\nThe first doses of the vaccine were given delivered at a GP surgery on the Falls Road in West Belfast on Monday afternoon.\n\nThe first person in Northern Ireland to receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine was 94-year-old Eileen Lynch.\n\nSpeaking after receiving the vaccine, Ms Lynch said she was \"delighted and privileged\" to receive it.\n\n\"I feel like I can really look forward to the year ahead now that I have been vaccinated,\" she said.\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine has already been used to vaccinate care home residents and staff.\n\nBy mid December, 50,000 doses of that vaccine had been made available and by 30 December, Northern Ireland's Department of Health reported that 33,000 people had been vaccinated.\n\nThis included 8,940 care home residents, 10,484 care home staff and 14,259 health and social care staff.\n\nAccording to the latest NI statistics, for the first time the percentage positive cases in the over 80s is down - an indication the vaccination process is working.\n\nThere are approximately 82,000 people over 80 in NI and BBC News NI understands that if deliveries of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine happen as planned, it is thought that all of those over 80, as well as GPs and their staff, could be vaccinated within three weeks.\n\nWhile 50,000 doses have been delivered to Northern Ireland, a further 23,000 vaccines are expected on 19 January while another 68,000 are due on 24 January.\n\nDr Alan Stout, who is a GP in Belfast, told BBC News NI that members are \"very optimistic\" that 11,000 people can be vaccinated this week.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is the second coronavirus vaccine to be approved in the UK\n\nNI's chief medical officer said the Oxford-AstraZeneca rollout would run alongside the ongoing vaccination programme.\n\nDr Michael McBride said: \"First and foremost we must act to protect those most at risk of severe disease and death.\n\n\"The evidence shows that the initial dose of vaccine offers as much as 70% protection against the effects of the virus.\n\n\"Providing that level of protection on a large scale will have the greatest impact on reducing mortality and hospitalisations, protecting the health and social care system.\"\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine has to be kept at an extremely low temperature which complicates handling constraints.\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is considered easier to store and distribute.\n\nIts rollout consists of two full doses of the vaccine, with the second dose to be given four to 12 weeks after the first.\n\nGPs are appealing to the public to remain calm and wait to be called for their vaccine either by telephone or by letter.\n\nDr Stout said as demand grows worldwide for the vaccine, that schedule could easily change.\n\n\"The public have to be patient, we have a system and must be allowed to get on with it - it really is 'don't call us - we will call you'.\"\n\nWhile some vaccinations will take place in surgeries others will happen in a drive-through system.\n\nCovid-19 is deadlier than flu, which means January 2021 is going to be even tougher than usual.\n\nAlso, Covid patients tend to stay much longer in hospital with more severe symptoms requiring additional beds and care.\n\nBut those rising patient numbers aren't matched by an increased workforce.\n\nInstead it is expected that the nurse-patient ratio will increase (even though many aren't trained to work in critical care) as there simply aren't enough nurses available.\n\nSome health unions fear this will only add to Northern Ireland's excess mortality rate, which is greater than that in Great Britain.\n\nOnce again, this highlights Northern Ireland's failing health care system, which was already below par well before the start of the pandemic.\n\nCoronavirus infection figures here are expected to peak between 15 and 21 January. That will be felt not only in hospitals but also in GP practices as they continue to roll out the vaccine.\n\nWhile at this stage the six weeks look bleak it's hoped that the additional Astra-Zeneca vaccine and the low incidence of flu will go a long way in not only saving lives, but also protecting the health service.\n\nDr Stout said much planning had gone into ensuring the programme happened as smoothly as possible.\n\n\"People will literally stay in their cars and be asked to roll up their sleeves - it has to be safe and efficient in order for us to get through it and safely.\"\n\nThe UK has ordered 100 million doses of the new vaccine - enough to vaccinate 50 million people.\n\nMeanwhile, Dr Tom Black, chair of the British Medical Association in Northern Ireland, said it was \"appalling\" that the Pfizer vaccine was not to be administered in two doses within 21 days as instructed by the company and threatened legal action.\n\nDr Black was responding to news that the UK will give both parts of the Oxford and Pfizer vaccines 12 weeks apart.\n\n\"They have left care workers in Northern Ireland with a gap in their expected immunity,\" he told BBC NI's Radio Foyle on Monday.\n\n\"In that period doctors, nurses, porters or health care professionals could infect patients because they will not be protected against the transmission of the infection to patients.\"\n\nThe UK's chief medical officers have defended their Covid vaccination plan.\n\nThey said getting more people vaccinated with the first jab was \"much more preferable\" and that the great majority of the initial protection from clinical disease is after the first dose of vaccine.\n\nDr Black is to meet NI Health Minister Robin Swann later to express health care workers' concern over the change in vaccine policy.", "Food banks have seen increased demand during the pandemic\n\nThe UK \"cannot duck\" tackling inequalities of health, ethnicity, education and jobs post-Covid, a major review has warned.\n\nThe report's chairman, Nobel laureate Sir Angus Deaton, says a lot of work to repair and rebuild the damage will be needed after the pandemic.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) Deaton Review of Inequalities warned the fabric of society was under threat.\n\nThe review says there is a \"once-in-a-generation opportunity to tackle the disadvantages faced by many that this pandemic has so devastatingly exposed\".\n\n\"We now face a set of challenges which we cannot duck.\"\n\nSir Angus said: \"As the vaccines should, at some point this year, take us into a world largely free of the pandemic, it is imperative to think about policies that will be needed to repair the damage and that focus on those who have suffered the most.\n\n\"We need to build a country in which everyone feels that they belong.\"\n\nWhile the pandemic had highlighted the disproportionate impact on ethnic minority groups and deprived communities, it also showed that the UK's best-paid and most highly educated have been \"much better able to ride out the crisis\", the report said.\n\nYoung people have been among the worst hit economically\n\nChildren from poorer households found it harder to do schoolwork during lockdown and have been more likely to miss school since September, it noted.\n\nAnd while the biggest risk factor for coronavirus is age, younger people have been hit harder by the economic consequences of the crisis.\n\nThe cost of the pandemic is \"just colossal\" IFS director Paul Johnson told the BBC's Today programme.\n\n\"We've seen the biggest reduction in national income, essentially in history, over the last year, we've seen the biggest public deficit in history outside of the two world wars, so there's no getting around the fact that the pandemic and the response to it has had a bigger effect on the economy than anything essentially in the whole of history.\"\n\nThe report highlighted the effects of the pandemic on different groups, including on education, which is \"probably more worrying\" than the overall economic effect, Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"The first lockdown lockdown saw a dreadful impact on the education particularly of poorer children... they were getting less in the way of online lessons from their schools.\n\n\"There's a huge private school/state school divide in this, but also a big divide within state schools between those children who had support at home, had the facilities at home - laptops and internet and so on - but who also had the support from school - so there's a big impact on education but also a very unequal one,\" he added.\n\nThe review is calling for extra support for children who have fallen behind and help for school and university leavers to find jobs.\n\nIt says the welfare safety net must be adapted so it supports non-traditional forms of employment, including insecure and self-employed workers, and minority ethnic groups must be given greater economic opportunities.\n\nProgress in reducing poor mental and physical health could be \"one of the clearest indications of success of economic and social policy\", it adds.\n\nMark Franks, director of welfare at the Nuffield Foundation, which funded the review, said: \"Individuals are subject to a wide range of potential vulnerabilities around dimensions including age, ethnicity, place of birth, education, income and the nature of their employment.\n\n\"Where these vulnerabilities intersect, they can amplify and reinforce one another and play a huge role in driving unequal outcomes.\"\n\nHowever, the government said it was already spending vast sums to support people and the economy through the pandemic.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We're doing everything we can to ensure our coronavirus support reaches those who need it the most, which is why we've invested more than £280bn to protect the incomes, livelihoods and health of millions of people across the UK.\"\n\nThis included an additional £9bn for the welfare system and £2bn for the Kickstart Scheme, tripling traineeships, incentives for firms hiring apprentices and doubling the number of work coaches \"so that nobody is left without hope or opportunity\", the spokesman said.", "Economy Minister Diane Dodds has written to Cabinet Office Secretary Michael Gove to call for urgent action to be taken on deliveries to NI.\n\nSince Christmas some orders have been cancelled or delayed and some retailers have suspended deliveries.\n\nThe problem is related to uncertainty about post-Brexit transition rules.\n\nHM Customs announced a grace period on New Year's Eve confirming most parcels from GB-NI will not need customs declarations until at least April.\n\nThe problems have not affected all companies with many continuing to take orders and deliver as normal.\n\nHowever, some companies had already suspended deliveries, including John Lewis.\n\nThe government said the three-month grace period \"recognises the unique circumstances of Northern Ireland, the impacts of any disruption to parcel movements in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and specific challenges for operators moving express consignments\".\n\nA government spokesman said further details will be published in the new year, adding: \"Our priority is to have a pragmatic approach that allows us to comply with the [Northern Ireland] Protocol without causing undue disruption to businesses and citizens.\n\n\"HMRC is engaging with operators to finalise arrangements.\"\n\nSome changes have already come into effect.\n\nA Northern Ireland-based business receiving goods valued at £135 or more through an express carrier or Royal Mail will need to submit a customs declaration.\n\nThey will need to do this within three months of receiving the goods and can use the government's Trader Support Service to do so.\n\nExcise goods, which mostly refers to alcoholic drinks, will also need a declaration when being sent from GB to NI.\n\nThe government has advised retailers of those goods to contact their delivery company.\n\nIt said: \"They will then tell you if they carry the type of goods you want to send and, if they do, they will ask you to provide any additional information that they need so that a declaration can be made.\"", "About 10 UK nationals resident in Spain say they were wrongly turned back when their flight landed in Barcelona.\n\nThey left Heathrow on the Saturday morning British Airways flight, but were refused entry on arrival.\n\nThey were stopped by border police and ultimately flown back to the UK.\n\nSpain has banned all but Spanish nationals and residents flying from the UK to Spain since 22 December in the hope of containing the spread of the new UK strain of Covid-19.\n\nOne passenger on the flight, who did not wish to be named, said that those on board had been told repeatedly that only Spanish nationals or residents would be allowed to enter the country and that their residency certificates, also known as green certificates, were shown to airline staff several times.\n\nHowever, on arrival, British passengers with green residency certificates were prevented from entering Spain.\n\nBA has confirmed that about 10 people were denied entry into Barcelona, as they did not meet the Spanish authorities' required criteria.\n\nOne of those affected, Ruth O'Leary, said: \"I was very confused, obviously. I asked them what other documents I could provide.\n\n\"They seemed to be just flat-out refusing anything I had and just wouldn't let me on the flight. Very upsetting really.\n\n\"Quite an awful feeling not to be able to go back to your own house and to not really be given an explanation why you can't go home.\"\n\nOther British expat passengers have also said that they have been stopped from boarding planes to Spain.\n\nOne passenger on board said that seven British citizens were prevented from boarding a British Airways/Iberia flight from Heathrow to Madrid on Saturday evening, despite having their green residency certificates, as well as negative Covid tests.\n\nThe exact number of flights and passengers affected has not been released by the Foreign Office.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, Iberia said that on 1 January, it received an email from the border police saying that registration as a European citizen was no longer considered to be a valid document to prove legal residency in Spain as a British citizen.\n\nHowever, by 19:30 on 2 January, the airline received a second email, confirming that the document could be used if it had not expired.\n\nA British Airways spokesperson said: \"In these difficult and unprecedented times with dynamic travel restrictions, we are doing everything we can to help and support our customers.\"\n\nThe Spanish Embassy in London tweeted a letter stating it was aware that during the current travel restrictions, there had been some problems for British nationals resident in Spain who had not been allowed to return.\n\nThe embassy clarified that green certificates were valid proof of residency.\n\nThe Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office said: \"We have worked closely with the Spanish government to resolve these issues.\n\n\"The Spanish Embassy in London has re-confirmed today that both the green residence certificate and the new residence TIE card [Photo-ID card] are equally valid in terms of proving residence in Spain, as set out in the [Brexit] Withdrawal Agreement.\"", "South Wales Police piloted the use of facial recognition in Cardiff - it was later ruled unlawful\n\nPolice should be allowed more access to facial recognition technology, a firm developing it for use in the private sector has said.\n\nLast year, appeal court judges ruled a trial project to scan thousands of faces by South Wales Police was unlawful. The force did not appeal.\n\nWelsh company Credas said laws were not keeping up with the latest technology.\n\nThe Home Office said it wants police to use new crime-reducing technology while \"maintaining public trust\".\n\nCredas believes such facial recognition technology could be a vital tool in fighting crime.\n\n\"Ten years ago it would have felt space age, but now it's everywhere - just logging into my phone or laptop, we're all used to it now,\" said chief executive Rhys David.\n\n\"But the legislation will never keep up with the technological advancements.\"\n\nThe firm, based in Penarth in the Vale of Glamorgan, works with firms to prevent crime in commercial settings, helping them confirm a client's identity.\n\nIt can include estate agents, the legal sector, accountancy or gambling operations - any businesses regulated to reduce fraud and money laundering.\n\n\"There's common stories of people buying houses with someone else's identity and manipulating the paperwork so that the funds get transferred into the wrong account and it's too late then - we can't recover that,\" said Mr David.\n\n\"It's a very difficult position to be in, but technologies like ours are closing the gap.\"\n\nApps can compare people's picture to that on their passport\n\nCredas's app uses facial recognition - people take a selfie and the app compares it to a photograph of their passport to verify they are who they claim to be.\n\nClaire Williams works for FBM estate agent in Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, which has been using the software for the past two years.\n\n\"Before we would take people's passports or driver's licence, they would either come into the office and we would photocopy it, or we would even accept a scanned, emailed copy.\n\n\"There would be no way of knowing whether these were legitimate passports and driver's licences.\n\n\"They might have been using fake IDs, trying to launder money through the property industry - putting money into the properties, then reselling them to launder the money.\"\n\nBut scanning faces to confirm details for a mortgage is a very different beast to automated facial recognition, which is what was being trialled by South Wales Police - scanning faces in a crowd, often without people's knowledge.\n\nThat was ruled unlawful after a challenge by civil rights group Liberty and Ed Bridges from Cardiff.\n\n\"Real-time surveillance is considerably more complex than in the commercial space where it's a fairly static, controlled environment. But we should be adopting it and encouraging it to reduce a criminal footprint,\" added Mr David.\n\n\"I find it really sad that the police aren't encouraged to use technology like this to keep our country safe.\n\n\"Let's be honest, the police don't want to sell us trainers. They're not looking to capture our images or biometric footprints to sell us goods. It's to keep us safe, so the police can run very sophisticated facial matching programmes in real time to identify criminals.\"\n\nThe frustration was echoed by the surveillance camera commissioner, Tony Porter, who is the independent regulator appointed to oversee the use of camera systems in England and Wales.\n\nFollowing the appeal court ruling on South Wales Police in August, he said he had been \"fruitlessly and repeatedly\" calling for an updated code the police could follow.\n\nWhile campaigners Liberty felt the court's ruling left little room for the technology to be safely used, Mr Porter disagreed, adding: \"I believe adoption of new and advancing technologies is an important element of keeping citizens safe.\"\n\nHe has issued new guidance on the use of facial recognition in light of the case, but it remains just that - guidance, not law.\n\nIt has left police forces still trying to iron out the problems raised by the Court of Appeal - the potential for gender and ethnic biases and a robust code to cover when, how and where the technology can be used, and in search of whom.\n\nProf Martin Innes, from the Universities' Police Sciences Institute, evaluated the rollout of automatic facial recognition for South Wales Police in 2018, flagging ethical and regulatory challenges facing forces.\n\n\"If you look back at the history of new and innovative technologies in policing this is what always happens. You have to let the law catch up a little bit and find out what matters and where the key points of regulation are,\" he said.\n\nAt present, different standards between the private and public sectors \"could be very, very confusing,\" he added.\n\n\"There is a risk that these technologies get introduced almost by stealth and they start popping up everywhere.\"\n\nPembrokeshire estate agent Claire Williams now uses a facial recognition app to match faces to identity\n\nIn a way, some of that has already happened, from mobile phones that can detect your face to hi-tech doorbells\n\nStopping criminal harm \"seems to be an equally justifiable reason\" to use the technology, argued Prof Innes.\n\n\"But we need to think quite carefully about how far do we want this to go, and where is it appropriate for us to introduce these technologies in our lives.\n\n\"There are issues - but there are potentially opportunities and benefits to be gained if it can be done in the right way, as well.\"\n\nThe Home Office and the police say they will consider any ideas that could improve the way live facial recognition technology is used.\n\n\"We want police to use new technologies, like live facial recognition, in a way that reduces crime while maintaining public trust,\" said a Home Office spokesperson.\n\n\"We are working closely with the police to ensure national College of Policing guidance complies with the Court of Appeal's request to clarify how live facial recognition will be used.\n\n\"The government committed in the Home Office Biometrics Strategy to review the Surveillance Camera Code of Practice and it will be updated in due course.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Virgin Holidays has become the latest travel firm to cancel holidays after new coronavirus lockdown restrictions were imposed.\n\nIt said schedules will be cancelled until mid-February, joining similar moves by Tui, Jet2 and Thomas Cook.\n\nThe companies said customers would be contacted about their future travel options during what Virgin described as \"these extraordinary circumstances\".\n\nThomas Cook said it will call customers to offer refunds or rebooking.\n\nTui said it was \"cancelling all holidays in line with international travel restrictions\". It added that said customers due to depart from England, Scotland and Wales would be contacted to discuss options.\n\nThe company said that customers due to travel from an English airport before mid-February, or from a Scottish or Welsh airport up to 31 January, would not be able to do so.\n\nThose customers will be contacted \"in departure date order to discuss their options\", Tui said, which include rebooking \"with an incentive\", getting a credit note, or a full refund.\n\n\"Customers currently overseas can continue to enjoy their holidays as planned and we will update them directly if there are any changes to their holidays,\" Tui added.\n\nIn a statement, Virgin said: \"In line with the new national lockdown restrictions we have reviewed the upcoming holiday schedule and will be cancelling all holidays up to and including 14 February 2021.\n\n\"To simplify the options and to provide immediate peace of mind for customers whose holidays will no longer be going ahead, we're automatically providing a digital voucher for the value of their trip, redeemable up until 30 September 2021, which they can use to rebook a holiday, departing any time before 31 December 2022.\"\n\nVirgin added that customers \"may also request a refund\".\n\nMeanwhile, Jet2 said it was extending \"the suspension of flights and holidays up to and including 11 February 2021\".\n\nA spokesman said: \"For customers due to travel from 12th February onwards, we will provide another update closer to the time.\"\n\nThomas Cook, which became an online-only travel brand in September after its earlier collapse, said: \"Following the announcement of the latest lockdown, we are calling our customers to offer refunds or move their holidays to a later date.\".\n\nChief executive Alan French said: \"We've seen over the festive period that customers are looking ahead to the summer and beginning to book in earnest for those important summer weeks in the sun.\n\n\"I am sure that after many more weeks spent at home - and with the progress of the vaccine rollout - we will see an even bigger demand for people to escape to the beach this summer.\"\n\nLast month, a number of countries suspended routes to the UK due to the rapid spread of a new variant of coronavirus.\n\nThe blanket travel ban to the EU was then lifted, but with rules varying from country to country. The suspension of flights between the UK and China remains in place.\n\nLast year Tui was investigated by competition authorities after complaints that it had not given prompt refunds.\n\nBritish Airways Holidays, part of Britain's biggest airline, said it would be offering refunds if customers are no longer allowed travel.\n\nThe firm said in a statement: \"We are contacting all affected British Airways Holidays customers following the announcement of new national lockdown restrictions.\n\n\"Customers due to depart by 12 February 2021 will be offered a refund for their holiday. Our teams continue to monitor the situation and update our policy accordingly.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Keir Starmer: \"If we pull together as a nation, we can win\"\n\nSir Keir Starmer has called for a \"round the clock\" vaccination programme to tackle the rise in Covid cases.\n\nAs part of a televised speech, the Labour leader said the government needed to deliver \"millions of doses a week by the end of the month\".\n\nHe said there were \"serious questions for the government to answer\" over the timing of the lockdown in England, but Labour would support the restrictions.\n\nBoris Johnson said daily vaccination figures would be published from Monday.\n\nThe prime minister has also said the four most vulnerable groups of people across the UK should receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nBoth the PM and Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, have announced lockdowns this week.\n\nWales has been in a national lockdown since 20 December and Northern Ireland entered a six-week lockdown on 26 December.\n\nEngland's lockdown will become law from 00:01 GMT Wednesday and MPs will return to the Commons later that day to vote on the measures retrospectively.\n\nThe restrictions come into force as the number of new daily confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK topped 60,000 for the first time since the pandemic started.\n\nOn Tuesday, 60,914 had tested positive in the previous 24 hours and a further 830 people had died within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nIn an address to the nation on BBC One, in response to Boris Johnson's televised address on Monday, Sir Keir said the UK had reached a \"critical moment in our fight against coronavirus\".\n\nThe Labour leader said people were \"angry at the mistakes the government has made\" and ministers needed to answer questions on why they did not act sooner over locking down England.\n\nHe stressed that Labour would continue to hold the government to account, but added: \"Whatever our quarrels with the government and with the prime minister, the country now needs us to come together.\n\n\"At this darkest of moments, we need a new national effort to re-kindle the spirit of last March - to come together and to do everything possible to stay at home [and] to protect the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nSir Keir reiterated that Labour would support the new lockdown when it comes to the retrospective Commons vote on Wednesday and \"join in this national effort\".\n\nBut he called for the government to use the lockdown to establish \"a massive, immediate, and round the clock vaccination programme\" to \"deliver millions of doses a week by the end of the month in every village and town, every high street and every GP surgery\".\n\nThe Labour leader added: \"This is now a race between the virus and the vaccine and if we pull together as a nation, we can win.\n\n\"We need a new contract between the government and the British people: The country stays at home, the government delivers the vaccine.\"\n\nEarlier at a Downing Street press conference, Mr Johnson said more than 1.3 million people across the UK had now been vaccinated with either the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines.\n\nThe figure included 23% of over-80s in England - part of a programme Mr Johnson said aimed to save \"the most lives the fastest\".\n\nThe PM said there will \"still be long weeks ahead\", but that he wanted to give \"maximum possible transparency\" about the vaccination roll-out.\n\nMore details will be announced on Thursday, with daily updates starting on Monday, \"so that you can see day by day and jab by jab how much progress we are making\", he added.\n\nAsked whether the target could be met, Chief Medical Officer for England, Professor Chris Whitty, said the timetable was \"realistic but not easy\".", "Margaret Ferrier admitted travelling back from London to Glasgow after testing positive for coronavirus\n\nScottish MP Margaret Ferrier has been arrested by police after she admitted using public transport while infected with Covid-19.\n\nMs Ferrier apologised for what she called a \"blip\" in September.\n\nShe was suspended from the SNP group at Westminster and leaders, including First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, urged her to quit as an MP over the row.\n\nPolice Scotland said she had been charged in connection with \"alleged culpable and reckless conduct\".\n\nMs Ferrier apologised in September after travelling from London to Glasgow having tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nThe Rutherglen and Hamilton West MP said she had experienced \"mild symptoms\" and taken a test, but had then decided to travel to Westminster because she was \"feeling much better\".\n\nShe then travelled home again on a train after receiving the positive test result, and said she \"deeply regretted\" her actions.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesman said: \"We can confirm that officers today arrested and charged a 60-year-old woman in connection with alleged culpable and reckless conduct.\n\n\"This follows a thorough investigation by Police Scotland into an alleged breach of coronavirus regulations between 26 and 29 September 2020.\n\n\"A report will be sent to the procurator fiscal and we are unable to comment further.\"\n\nMs Ferrier has been contacted for comment.", "Potentially life-saving cancer operations have been put on hold at a major London NHS trust because of the number of beds taken by Covid patients.\n\nKing's College Hospital Trust has cancelled all \"Priority 2\" operations - those doctors judge need to be carried out within 28 days.\n\nCancer Research UK said such cancellations did not appear to be widespread across the country.\n\nAnd surgery has not been stopped on the same scale as during the first wave.\n\nRebecca Thomas, who has had her bowel cancer surgery at King's College Hospital \"cancelled indefinitely\", told the BBC she felt like she had been left \"in limbo\".\n\nUntil she has surgery her tumour cannot be studied to see how aggressive it is, and so she won't know until then how significant this wait will turn out to be.\n\nA spokesperson for the Trust, which mainly serves patients in south London, said: \"Due to the large increase in patients being admitted with Covid-19, including those requiring intensive care, we have taken the difficult decision to postpone all elective procedures, with the exception of cases where a delay would cause immediate harm.\n\n\"A small number of cancer patients due to be operated on this week have had their surgery postponed, with patients being kept under close review by senior doctors.\"\n\nProf Neil Mortensen, President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, said he had heard from members that \"hospitals across London are having to cancel cancer surgeries as a result of the huge number of Covid-19 patients being hospitalised.\"\n\nBut it hasn't yet emerged as an issue affecting hospitals outside London.\n\nWhen Covid-19 hit last March, NHS England developed guidance on prioritising patients who needed operations, with emergency procedures that needed to be carried out within 24 hours coming first.\n\nThese life-saving operations have continued throughout the pandemic and there is no prospect of that stopping.\n\nHowever, patients in the \"priority 2\" category - who should have surgery within 28 days, to save their life or stop their disease progressing \"beyond operability\" - have found their operations being cancelled at King's.\n\nThe 28-day guideline is based on the patient's individual symptoms and the expected growth rate of their particular cancer.\n\n\"Delays further than that could have a negative impact on that person's chance of survival,\" according to Kruti Shrotri at Cancer Research UK.\n\nAnd delays in diagnosis and treatment in general can lead to worsening chances of recovery, she said.\n\nThis will vary dramatically by person and cancer type, but in some cases, a matter of a few weeks can make the difference between a cancer that can be survived or not.\n\nGenevieve Edwards, chief executive at Bowel Cancer UK, said research showed \"even a month's delay to cancer treatment can increase a person's risk of dying by up to 13% - a risk that keeps rising the longer their treatment is delayed\".\n\nWhile this was \"really concerning to hear,\" she said, \"it's not by and large something we've heard is happening widespread across the country\".\n\nThis is an improvement from the first wave of Covid-19 when the NHS had to put a near-blanket ban on non-urgent surgery.\n\nBut for those patients who are affected, this news will be \"incredibly hard,\" and Ms Shrotri stressed that patients with any symptoms that could be cancer should not put off going to see their GP.\n\n\"The NHS is open,\" she said.\n\nSurgery is most at risk because of the shortage of intensive care beds - but other forms of cancer treatment, including radiotherapy, should continue.\n\nNHS Providers, which represents hospital bosses in England, said trusts were doing all they could to \"prioritise on the basis of clinical need\".", "The number of new daily confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK has topped 60,000 for the first time since the pandemic started.\n\nAccording to government figures on Tuesday, the number of people who tested positive was 60,916.\n\nOne in 50 people in private households in England had Covid last week - and one in 30 in London, according to estimates based on the latest data.\n\nA further 830 people have also died within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nIt comes as England and Scotland announced new strict lockdowns, with people told to stay at home.\n\nAt a press conference at Downing Street on Tuesday, Boris Johnson said 1.3 million people had now been vaccinated in the UK - including 23% of over 80s in England, some 650,000 people.\n\nBut he said more than one million people were currently infected - with the number of patients in hospitals 40% higher than in the first peak.\n\nThe government's chief medical adviser Prof Chris Whitty cited the Office for National Statistics' random sampling data for England as showing how widespread the virus is.\n\n\"We're now into a situation where across the country as a whole, roughly one in 50 people have got the virus, higher in some parts of the country, lower in others,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Chris Whitty: \"No evidence\" the new variant is \"more dangerous\"\n\nThe number of new daily cases has consistently been above 50,000 since 29 December.\n\nBack in the first peak of the pandemic in the spring, the number of daily confirmed cases never went above 7,000.\n\nHowever, it is thought the true number of cases then was much higher but not picked up because testing capacity was limited. It was estimated there were about 100,000 new infections a day at the end of March - but there was not the testing to detect it.\n\nHospital admissions of people with Covid-19 in England also reached another record high on Tuesday, NHS England figures show.\n\nAt a hospital in Lincolnshire, a \"critical\" incident has been declared after a sharp rise in patients requiring admission.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How NHS nurses and doctors are struggling to cope with Covid as cases continue to rise in England\n\nAnd potentially life-saving cancer operations have been put on hold at a major London NHS trust because of the number of beds taken by Covid patients.\n\nHowever, Cancer Research UK said such cancellations did not appear to be widespread across the country.\n\nIn a statement after the case numbers were released, Public Health England medical director Yvonne Doyle said the rapid rise in cases was \"highly concerning and will sadly mean yet more pressure on our health services in the depths of winter\".\n\nAfter seven consecutive days of more than 50,000 cases being confirmed, the fact that more than 60,000 have been recorded should not come as a surprise.\n\nIt will take a week, if not more, for the impact of lockdown to be felt.\n\nAnd all the evidence suggests the new variant of coronavirus, which is more transmissible than previous ones, means the impact is likely to be more limited than it was in previous ones.\n\nThe figures are also a warning about what the NHS is facing.\n\nSome of this week's infections are next week's hospital admissions.\n\nAbout three in 10 beds are now occupied by Covid patients. In some hospitals more than six in 10 are.\n\nHospitals are now busy making more spaces on their wards - that means cancelling planned work, including in some places cancer treatment.\n\nBoris Johnson and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon both announced new lockdowns on Monday.\n\nWales has been in a national lockdown since 20 December and Northern Ireland entered a six-week lockdown on 26 December.\n\nRestrictions are also being tightened further in Northern Ireland, and an order for people to stay at home will become legally enforceable from Friday.\n\nIn a televised address to the nation, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer urged the government to use the lockdown to create a \"round the clock\" vaccination programme.\n\nHe also called on people to \"recapture the spirit\" of the beginning of the pandemic.\n\nAt the press conference on Tuesday, Mr Johnson repeated his suggestion that there is a \"prospect\" of the lockdown being eased in mid-February.\n\n\"But you will also appreciate there are a lot of caveats, a lot of ifs built into that, the most important of which is that we all now follow the guidance,\" he said.\n\nEarlier, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove told Sky News he could not say exactly when the lockdown in England would end, but \"as we enter March we should be able to lift some of these restrictions but not necessarily all\".\n\nMr Whitty said the virus \"is not going to go away, just as flu doesn't go away, just as many other viruses don't go away\".\n\n\"We shouldn't kid ourselves that this just disappears with spring,\" he said.\n\nMr Whitty said although hopefully there would be nearly no measures needed from the spring onwards, the government might have to bring in a few restrictions next winter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We've now vaccinated over 1.3m people across the UK\"\n\nOn Monday the UK's chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nAlthough the new variant is now spreading more rapidly than the original version, it is not believed to be more deadly.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given", "Supermarkets' online shopping operations have come under strain with customers rushing to book deliveries as the new coronavirus lockdown began.\n\nWithin a couple of hours of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's speech to the nation on Monday, shoppers reported problems with Sainsbury's and Tesco.\n\nSainsbury's said on Tuesday that earlier it had restricted access to its online services to manage high demand.\n\nThe surge in demand echoes consumers' reaction at the start of the pandemic.\n\nSainsbury's said: \"We temporarily limited access to our groceries online service last night so that we could manage high demand for slots and updates customers were making to existing orders.\n\n\"We're continuing to monitor the situation and are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.\"\n\nA spokeswoman said customers should now be able to use the Sainsbury's app and website \"as usual\".\n\nAfter the first lockdown in March, supermarkets reported panic buying and a rush to book online delivery slots despite grocers insisting there would be no shortages if consumers shopped sensibly.\n\nShoppers used social media to vent their frustration on Monday, with Twitter user Auld Bryan saying: \"Ocado have already introduced their virtual queue process on their app. It's March 2020 all over again.\"\n\nAnother tweet, by Karl Dyson, said of Ocado: \"You'd think ~10 months in to this, they'd have worked on scalable infrastructure for the website?\"\n\nThere were also reports of people having problems with the Tesco app and website, including when trying to check out and complete payment.\n\nHowever, a spokesman for Britain's biggest supermarket said on Monday evening that there had been no reports from Tesco's technical department of any website problems.\n\nThe supermarket had increased the number of slots available for online delivery before the latest lockdown measures.\n\nAn email from Tesco UK boss Jason Tarry already sent to customers said: \"Since March, we have more than doubled home delivery and Click+Collect slots to 1.5 million a week, with over 760,000 vulnerable customers registered with us who are eligible for priority slots.\"\n\nUsers complained that the Sainsbury's app was down following the prime minister's announcement on Monday.\n\nTwitter user Francesca Balgobind wrote: \"What's happening with the Sainsbury's shopping app tonight? Website is down too?\"\n\nAnother social media user, Matt, said some 40 minutes after Mr Johnson had finished speaking: \"Sainsbury's app and website down\".\n\nAsda saw more demand for online shopping after the lockdown announcement, but said it had increased the number of slots available since the first two national lockdowns.\n\nMorrisons also reported a jump in the number of shoppers using its website after the announcement.\n\nHowever, despite the longer waiting queues, the grocer said it continued to have \"good slot availability\" for home deliveries.\n\nThroughout the pandemic, supermarkets have urged people to shop normally.\n\nBefore Christmas, in the run-up to the end of the Brexit transition period, some grocers reported temporary shortages of fresh goods due to congestion at UK shipping ports.", "By 8pm on Monday it felt inevitable.\n\nBut it doesn't mean that a national instruction to close the doors was automatic. Or indeed that new lockdowns in England and Scotland aren't still dramatic and painful.\n\nWith tightening up in Wales and Northern Ireland too, the spread of coronavirus this winter has been faster than governments' attempts to keep up with it - leaving leaders with little choice but to take more of our choices away.\n\nThere is much that's an echo of March. Work, school, life outside the home will be constrained in so many ways, with terrible and expensive side-effects for the economy.\n\nThis time, it's already spluttering - restrictions being turned on and off for months have starved so much trade of vital business.\n\nBut there's a lot that's different too. After so long, the public is less forgiving of the actions taken, and there is frustration particularly over last-minute changes for schools; fatigue too with having to live under such limits.\n\nBy now, Boris Johnson's opponents, inside and outside the Tory party, have plenty of evidence to suggest that he would rather put off difficult decisions.\n\nBut there is another profound change, that the prime minister was unsurprisingly keen to point out on live TV, where the UK, at the moment, has a leading reputation.\n\nVaccines exist, partly due to UK science, and are being injected into willing arms already.\n\nThe scientific triumph still needs to be turned into a logistical victory. But if around 13 million vaccines can be offered over the next six weeks, we may be on the way.\n\nOne member of the cabinet told me: \"We should do absolutely nothing but this, the vaccine - it should be the entire focus of the government; every government shoulder should be put to every government wheel.\"\n\nIt's not just the country's health and economic fortunes riding on hitting that stretching target, but the government's reputation too.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The twins' father says what they have achieved is a 'herculean achievement'\n\nConjoined twins who were expected to die within days when they were born are nearly four years later said to be settling in at their Cardiff school.\n\nMarieme and Ndeye Ndiaye were brought to the UK from Senegal in 2017 by their father Ibrahima for treatment at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital.\n\nThe girls, now four, are learning to stand and their father said their progress was \"a Herculean achievement\".\n\nTheir head teacher said the girls had made friends and were \"laughing a lot\".\n\nThe girls, who have separate hearts and spines but share a liver, bladder and digestive system, have conditions which put them at higher risk of complications from Covid.\n\nHowever, Mr Ndiaye said he had wanted them to start school for their development.\n\n\"When you look in the rear view mirror, it was an unachievable dream,\" he said.\n\n\"From now, everything ahead will be a bonus to me. My heart and soul is shouting out loud, 'Come on! Go on girls! Surprise me more!'.\"\n\nMr Ndiaye brought the girls to the UK through funding from a charitable foundation run by Senegal's first lady Marieme Faye Sall, before he sought asylum.\n\nIn March 2018, the family were moved by the Home Office to Cardiff as asylum seekers can be moved anywhere in the UK and they now have discretionary leave to remain.\n\nIn 2019, Great Ormond Street surgeons considered attempting separation but it was something Mr Ndiaye did not want because of the risks involved.\n\nThe girls have such complex circulatory systems medics now believe they would not survive being separated\n\nSince then, doctors have found the girls' circulatory systems to be more closely linked than previously thought and neither would survive without the other, making separation now impossible.\n\nThe girls' head teacher Helen Borley said they were learning well since starting reception in September and had made new friends.\n\nShe said: \"Children either say, 'I'm Marieme's friend' or 'I'm Ndeye's friend' - they don't say, 'I'm the twins' friend'. Children very much identify as being one person's friend or another - because the girls are very different characters.\n\n\"They are laughing a lot - which is always a good sign, isn't it? Any child that is laughing a lot is a happy child.\"\n\nMarieme receives oxygen from Ndeye's stronger heart and food via their linked stomachs\n\nFor the twins, school needs to fit around hospital visits.\n\nIn October, the girls needed surgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital.\n\nDr Gillian Body, a paediatric consultant at the Children's Hospital for Wales in Cardiff, said the procedure was important, despite the risks.\n\nShe said: \"The girls have complex anatomies and that makes them prone to infections and potentially sepsis.\n\n\"One of the challenges we had was getting antibiotics into them quickly, and this tube or cannula they've had fitted, means we can get them into them more quickly with less distress to the girls.\"\n\nThe girls have been experiencing the feeling of standing, at children's hospice Ty Hafan\n\nShe said Marieme's heart was complex with lots of abnormalities that cause her problems with doing exercise and can lead to breathlessness.\n\nAt children's' hospice Ty Hafan in Sully, Vale of Glamorgan, the girls have been learning what it feels like to stand.\n\nA special frame gives them the experience of being upright, helping build strength in their legs.\n\nPhysiotherapist Sara Wade-West said it had been hard for them.\n\n\"It's a really different sensation when you're used to being sat down, to be upright can be scary,\" she said.\n\n\"To start with, particularly Ndeye wasn't very keen. We try and sneak the therapy in around the play, encouraging them to reach for toys to make them work a bit harder, but if they know it's therapy it's not so fun.\n\n\"Because of their cardiac function we can't push them too much so it's finding that balance - challenging them to get stronger but not exhausting them.\"\n\nThe twins' father Ibrahima Ndiaye said they were his \"warriors\"\n\nWatching his daughters stand is more than just a breakthrough for their father.\n\n\"They are showing that they don't only want to live, but be active and play their part in society,\" he said.\n\n\"All these achievements bring light and hopes for the future. But I know how fragile, complex and unpredictable their lives can be.\"\n\nMr Ndiaye said his hopes were \"parallel to my fears\" as the girls had \"so many times come close to the worst\".\n\n\"But the very least I can do for the girls is figure out my hopes for them,\" he said.\n\n\"The most I can do is to be beside them and live inside that hope and never allow anything to take that hope away.\n\n\"They are my warriors. They have proved they will never surrender without fighting. It is not yet over.\"", "Former Bond actress and Charlie's Angel Tanya Roberts has died in hospital in Los Angeles at the age of 65.\n\nRoberts appeared with Sir Roger Moore in his final Bond film, 1985's A View To A Kill, and had a recurring role in That '70s Show.\n\nShe also starred in the final series of Charlie's Angels on TV in 1980.\n\nHer death was prematurely announced on Monday, only for doctors to say she was still alive. However, her death was then confirmed on Tuesday.\n\nRoberts had collapsed while walking her dogs on 24 December and was admitted to Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre.\n\nHer partner Lance O'Brien mistakenly thought she had died on Sunday after visiting her in hospital. After getting a call from doctors to say she was deteriorating quickly, he went to her bedside, her eyes closed and she \"faded\", TMZ reported.\n\nDevastated, he walked out of the room and then the hospital without speaking to medical staff before informing Roberts' agent that he had \"just said goodbye to Tanya\".\n\nBut while being interviewed for US TV show Inside Edition on Monday, Mr O'Brien got a call from the hospital to say she was alive.\n\nThe moment was captured on film, as he picked up his phone and said: \"Now you're telling me she's alive? Thank the Lord.\" However, she died on Monday night.\n\nShe appeared in A View To A Kill alongside Sir Roger Moore and singer Grace Jones\n\nBorn Victoria Leigh Blum in 1955, Roberts grew up in New York before moving to Hollywood in 1977.\n\nHer big break came when she replaced Shelly Hack in Charlie's Angels, joining Jaclyn Smith and Cheryl Ladd as third 'Angel' Julie.\n\nAfter the show's cancellation, she appeared in such fantasy adventure films as The Beastmaster and Hearts and Armour.\n\nShe also played comic book heroine Sheena in a 1984 film that saw her nominated for a Golden Raspberry award for worst actress.\n\nRoberts received another Razzie nomination for her role as geologist Stacey Sutton in 1985 Bond film A View to a Kill.\n\nRoberts in the title role in Sheena: Queen of the Jungle\n\nShe admitted being \"a little cautious\" about taking the role, but said it would have been \"ridiculous\" to have turned it down.\n\nRoberts' subsequent films included Night Eyes and Inner Sanctum, erotic thrillers that did little to advance her career.\n\nShe went on to play Midge Pinciotti in more than 80 episodes of That '70s Show between 1998 and 2004.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City legend Colin Bell has died, aged 74, after a short illness, the Premier League club have announced.\n\nThe former England midfielder made 501 appearances for City between 1966 and 1979, scoring 153 goals. He won 48 caps for his country.\n\n\"Few players have left such an indelible mark on City,\" said a club statement on Tuesday.\n\nIn 2004, Manchester City fans voted to name one of the stands at Etihad Stadium in Bell's honour.\n\n\"Colin Bell will always be remembered as one of Manchester City's greatest players and the very sad news today of his passing will affect everybody connected to our club,\" said City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak.\n\n\"I am fortunate to be able to speak regularly to his former manager and team-mates, and it's clear to me that Colin was a player held in the highest regard by all those who had the privilege of playing alongside him or seeing him play.\n\n\"The passage of time does little to erase the memories of his genius.\"\n• None 'Bell will always be king of Man City' - tributes paid after death of club great\n\nAfter starting his career at Bury, Bell moved to Manchester City - then in the second tier - midway through the 1965-66 season in a £47,500 deal.\n\nHe helped Joe Mercer's team win promotion that season and was instrumental in the Blues winning the First Division title two years later.\n\nDuring his 13 years as a player at Maine Road, he also won the FA Cup, League Cup and Cup Winners' Cup.\n\nHowever, his career was hampered by a serious knee injury he suffered in a League Cup tie against Manchester United in November 1975, when he was 29.\n\nAfter making a comeback later that season, he was injured again against Arsenal and out for another 18 months.\n\nBell regained fitness and received an emotional ovation on his return at Maine Road on 26 December 1977.\n\nHowever, he did not have the same freedom and mobility as he had done and played only a handful more games.\n\nBell finished his career with a brief spell in the United States playing for San Jose Earthquakes.\n\nIn 2004, he was awarded an MBE for his services to football and remained a regular presence at City games in recent seasons.\n\n'De Bruyne reminds me a lot of Colin' - tributes pour in for the 'King of the Kippax'\n\nFormer City team-mate Mike Summerbee, who was part of their 'Holy Trinity' alongside Bell and Francis Lee in the 1960s and 1970s, described Bell as \"just the greatest footballer\" the club has had.\n\n\"Colin was a lovely, humble man. He was a huge star for Manchester City but you would never have known it,\" said ex-forward Summerbee, 78.\n\n\"He was quiet, unassuming and I always believe he never knew how good he actually was.\n\n\"[Current City midfielder] Kevin de Bruyne reminds me a lot of Colin in the way he plays and the way he is as a person.\"\n\nFormer England forward Lee says he thinks the knee injury curtailed Bell's career \"by a good four or five years\".\n\n\"Colin had tremendous stamina. He was a very good player technically and had the ability to score goals,\" said Lee, 76.\n\n\"He goes into the top five City players of all time - only in the last 10, 15 years has anyone else come along who can take that mantle.\"\n\nSummerbee and Lee were among a number of former and current City players to pay tribute to Bell, along with celebrity fans including former Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher.\n\nBell would \"always have a smile\" and \"meet and greet everyone\" he knew, said former City midfielder Michael Brown.\n\n\"He's done lots of charity work and always tried to help people,\" added Brown, who first met Bell as a youngster having come up through City's academy.\n\n\"It's a huge loss. To have done so much and be so low key was admirable.\"\n\nEx-City defender Micah Richards said Bell was \"one of the nicest men ever\", while their former full-back Pablo Zabaleta added he was \"absolutely devastated\" by the news.\n\nFormer England striker Gary Lineker said Bell was one of his favourite players when he was growing up.\n\n\"Terrific box to box midfielder. A real gem for Manchester City and England,\" added the Match of the Day host.\n\nThe Times' chief football writer Henry Winter said Bell \"oozed class, skill and glamour\" as he was \"flowing across rutted pitches, taking people on, creating and scoring\".", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "YouTube has reinstated TalkRadio's channel on its platform hours after saying it had been \"terminated\" for breaking the tech firm's rules.\n\nIt said the broadcaster had posted material that contradicted expert advice about the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBut it explained its U-turn saying it sometimes made exceptions to guidelines that state repeat offenders face a permanent ban.\n\nTalkRadio said it had yet to be given a full explanation for the affair.\n\nThe decision to ban TalkRadio had appalled digital rights campaigners, with one group - Big Brother Watch - claiming it was evidence that \"big tech censorship is spiralling out of control\".\n\nThe Google-owned service has issued a brief statement explaining its actions.\n\n\"TalkRadio's YouTube channel was briefly suspended, but upon further review, has now been reinstated,\" it said.\n\n\"We quickly remove flagged content that violate our community guidelines, including Covid-19 content that explicitly contradict expert consensus from local health authorities or the World Health Organization. We make exceptions for material posted with an educational, documentary, scientific or artistic purpose, as was deemed in this case.\"\n\nYouTube has not published details of the offending posts.\n\nBut independent fact-checkers have repeatedly challenged some of the claims made by interviewees featured by the London-based radio station.\n\nYouTube operates a \"three strikes\" policy, whereby channels that break its community guidelines three times within a 90-day period can be permanently banned, but other infractions lead to temporary restrictions.\n\nProhibited content includes \"medically unsubstantiated claims\" relating to Covid-19, and videos that contradict expert consensus from local health authorities such as the NHS.\n\n\"YouTube is making decisions about which opinions the public are allowed to hear, even when they are sourced to responsible and regulated new providers,\" TalkRadio said in a statement this evening.\n\n\"This sets a dangerous precedent and is censorship of free speech and legitimate national debate.\"\n\nThe broadcaster tweeted the statement minutes after YouTube's change of heart. It did not appear to be aware that its channel had been reinstated at the time, but has since acknowledged the move.\n\nTalkRadio has about 424,000 listeners, according to the latest figures from market research provider Rajar.\n\nIt uses YouTube as a means to livestream shows from its studios and to provide an archive of past broadcasts.\n\nIts channel on the platform has 242,000 subscribers.\n\nYouTube's action had meant that TalkRadio's website had featured articles featuring broken embedded clips for most of the day, and that users who had shared its clips would have been unable to view them.\n\nThe US firm has previously imposed a permanent ban against conspiracy theorist David Icke, and a one-week video suspension of right-wing outlet One America News Network's ability to publish new clips - in both cases for breaches of its Covid rules.\n\nIt's pretty clear something has gone wrong at YouTube in the last 24 hours.\n\nIt appeared as though TalkRadio had been banned for good on YouTube - or \"terminated\" as the company put it.\n\nYouTube is now saying it was a short suspension, which certainly seems like a backtrack.\n\nEven now, it's not obvious what the offending material was that caused this action. The whole process reinforces the idea that YouTube's moderation policies - where it draws the line between freedom of expression and clamping down on misinformation - can be messy and inconsistent.\n\nAnd when YouTube takes such an action without giving full details, it rains controversy down on its own head.\n\nThis plays to a broader movement by YouTube and other social media companies to take a harder line on disinformation.\n\nJoe Biden is about to become US President - and he wants social media companies to do more to remove fake news.\n\nBut as they are increasingly finding out, refereeing their own platforms can be hugely difficult, and this highlights the need for greater transparency about moderation decisions.", "Last updated on .From the section Celtic\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says Celtic have questions to answer about their trip to Dubai.\n\nMs Sturgeon says possible breaches of social distancing rules while in the Middle East \"should be looked into\".\n\nHowever, Celtic insist the training camp was approved by the Scottish government, while the Scottish FA have no plans to investigate the trip.\n\n\"For me, the question for Celtic is what is the purpose of them being there,\" Ms Sturgeon said.\n\n\"I've seen comments from the club that it's more for R&R than training.\n\n\"I have also seen some photographs - and I don't know the full circumstances - that would raise a question in my mind about whether all the rules elite players have to follow in their bubble around social distancing are being complied with.\"\n\nPictures have emerged of members of the Celtic party in the UAE not wearing face masks and potentially breaching the social distancing rules that those in Scottish football must adhere to.\n\nIt remains unclear if the Scottish FA will investigate that matter.\n\nCeltic travelled to the United Arab Emirates on Saturday just hours after their 1-0 defeat by Rangers.\n\nTravellers returning from the UAE are exempt from self-isolation protocols in Scotland, with elite athletes in Scotland permitted to travel abroad to compete.\n\n\"Elite sport has been in a privileged position and as long as that is the case it's really important they don't abuse it,\" said Ms Sturgeon at her daily coronavirus briefing on Tuesday.\n\n\"I saw their [Celtic's] statement and have not spent a lot of time looking into it, but as I understand it the government gave advice to the Scottish FA about the rules around training camps in November.\n\n\"The world has changed quite a bit since then but it's not our role to sign off what a club does around these training camps.\n\n\"The rules may have to change, but they were that elite sportspeople and teams can go overseas if it is important in the context of training and competitions.\"\n\nMainland Scotland has been in Tier 4 - the highest level of restrictions - since 26 December, and Ms Sturgeon addressed the nation on Monday ordering people to stay at home where possible.\n\nDeputy first minister John Swinney has accused Celtic of not setting \"a particularly great example\".\n\n\"I don't think it's a good idea,\" he told BBC Radio Scotland on Monday.\n\n\"When we are asking members of the public to take on very, very significant restrictions on the way in which they live their lives, I think we have all got to demonstrate leadership on this particular question.\"\n\nWhen approached for comment on Monday, a Celtic spokesman told BBC Scotland: \"The training camp was arranged a number of months ago and approved by all relevant footballing authorities and the Scottish government through the Joint Response Group on 12 November.\n\n\"The team travelled prior to any new lockdown being in place, to a location exempt from travel restrictions. The camp, the same one as we have undertaken for a number of years, has been fully risk assessed.\n\n\"If the club had not received Scottish government approval, then we would not have travelled.\"\n\nIn November, Celtic requested their fixture with Hibernian, originally scheduled for this weekend, be moved to Monday, 11 January to accommodate the trip.\n\nThe SPFL granted the change, despite objections from the Easter Road side.", "Stationery chain Paperchase is on the brink of administration after most of its stores were forced to close over the Christmas period.\n\nThe firm has filed a notice to appoint administrators, a move that will give it breathing space from its creditors while it works out a rescue plan.\n\nThe company has 127 stores and about 1,500 employees.\n\nThe second lockdown in November came at a crucial period for the firm, which makes a high proportion of sales then.\n\nJust under half its sales, 40%, come from trade in November and December.\n\nPaperchase said: \"The cumulative effects of lockdown one, lockdown two - at the start of the Christmas shopping period - and now the current restrictions have put unbearable strain on retail businesses across the country.\"\n\nThe company went through an insolvency process, known as a Company Voluntary Arrangement or CVA, almost two years ago to cut costs.\n\nThe chain now has 10 working days to find a solution.\n\nPaperchase said its strong online trading had not made it \"immune\" from the impact of shop closures across the country.\n\n\"Out of lockdown we've traded well, but as the country faces further restrictions for some months to come, we have to find a sustainable future for Paperchase,\" it added.\n\n\"We are working hard to find that solution and this [notice of administration] is a necessary part of this work. This is not the situation we wanted to be in.\n\nThe chain is the latest of a string of high-profile retailers to hit trouble in the past year.\n\nThe sector was already battling with the shift to online sales, coupled with rising costs, including rents and higher minimum wages.\n\nCoronavirus restrictions which shut non-essential shops piled on the pressure.\n\nOthers that have run into trouble recently include Debenhams, which last month said it would cease trading putting 12,000 jobs at risk. Arcadia Group, which owns Topshop and Dorothy Perkins, has also gone into administration, putting a further 13,000 jobs at risk.\n\nMeanwhile, Edinburgh Woollen Mills' brands Peacocks and Jaeger also fell into administration in November, putting 21,000 jobs at risk.\n\nAnd earlier last year, Oasis and Warehouse fell into administration in mid-April after failing to find buyers, and online fashion group Boohoo said in June it was buying the brands but closing all stores.", "Doctors' leaders have called for urgent improvements in personal protective equipment for health workers.\n\nThe British Medical Association is appealing for a higher grade of face mask to guard against coronavirus infection.\n\nIt says there is 'growing evidence' that the virus is being spread through the air by aerosols.\n\nThese are tiny virus particles that can build up in stuffy rooms and they have been linked to outbreaks of Covid-19.\n\nThis follows an open letter from more than 1,500 health professionals for staff on general wards to be given the type of high-quality masks usually only worn in intensive care units.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) has issued guidance on what PPE staff in different settings require. It was last updated in October 2020.\n\nEarly in the pandemic, it was widely believed that to catch the disease you had to either be close to an infected person and hit by droplets from their coughs or sneezes or touch a surface they had contaminated.\n\nBut research during the course of last year highlighted how it is also possible for the virus to be carried in what are called aerosols, drifting and accumulating in the air.\n\nMost infections are thought to have occurred indoors in badly ventilated rooms, and many studies have shown that the 'airborne route' can be an important factor.\n\nAcross the UK, the guidance for hospital staff is to wear surgical masks in most areas.\n\nMore sophisticated masks - a type known as FFP3 that includes an air filter - are only required in intensive care or when certain procedures are carried out that are known to generate aerosols.\n\nIn their letter, the consultants, doctors and nurses say healthcare workers are three to four times more likely to become infected than the general population.\n\nBut they point out that staff in intensive care units, who have the best level of protection, have about half the risk of catching the virus than colleagues on general wards.\n\nThe letter states: \"It is now essential that healthcare workers have their PPE upgraded to protect against airborne transmission\".\n\nBarry McAree, a consultant surgeon in Northern Ireland, is one of many healthcare workers to be ill with Covid.\n\nHe is self-isolating at home right after his testing positive for the second time.\n\nA signatory to the letter, he says his hospital in Antrim followed the guidance about which type of masks should be worn in which areas, but he became infected nonetheless. It is not clear how and when he caught it.\n\n\"There's so much evidence that we are talking about an airborne infection that it has to be said that it is not appropriate just to wear FFP3 in environments when aerosol generating procedures take place.\"\n\nHe believes that with such high levels of the virus in the community and in hospitals, staff should be wearing the higher-grade masks whenever they're close to patients.\n\nSurgical masks can be bought online for about 10p each, while the FFP3 masks are far more expensive about £5.00.\n\nDr Barry Jones, a retired gastroenterologist and leading expert on aerosols, says that's nothing compared to the cost of a patient with Covid,\n\nHe points to data showing that roughly a fifth of people needing hospital treatment for Covid may have acquired the infection in hospital in the first place.\n\n\"We should do everything we can to reduce that possibility - it's the air we share that's killing us.\"\n\nA few hospitals have decided to break with official guidance.\n\nIt's understood that hospitals in Cambridge, Plymouth and Exeter have decided to equip staff with FFP3 masks if they face patients diagnosed with Covid or suspected of having it.\n\nOne consultant, who did not want to be named, said: \"When you realise patients are more infectious at an earlier stage of disease and are presenting at general wards with poorer ventilation than intensive care units and staff are wearing a poorer quality of PPE, you really want those in a position of leadership to listen and to act.\"\n\nRCN General Secretary Dame Donna Kinnair, said: \"Without delay, they must state whether existing PPE guidance is adequate for the new variant.\n\n\"While more research is carried out, we ask for the precautionary principle to be applied and staff to be given a higher level of PPE if working with suspected or confirmed cases.\"\n\nPublic Health England said this was a matter for NHS England to comment on.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: \"The safety of NHS and social care staff has always been our top priority and we continue to work tirelessly to deliver PPE that protects those on the frontline.\n\n\"UK guidance on the safest levels of PPE is written by experts and agreed by all four chief medical officers. Our guidance is kept under constant review based on the latest evidence and data.\n\n\"Emerging evidence and data, including on variant strains, will be continually monitored and reviewed, and the guidance updated accordingly if needed.\"", "Adamo Canto had worked as a catering assistant at the palace's Royal Mews since 2015\n\nA Buckingham Palace catering assistant who stole medals and photographs from the Queen's residence has been jailed.\n\nAdamo Canto, 37, stole items including signed photos of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and a photo album of US President Donald Trump's UK visit.\n\nPolice said some of the goods, worth between £10,000 and £100,000, had been listed for sale on eBay.\n\nCanto, from Scarborough, North Yorkshire, was jailed for eight months after he admitted stealing the items.\n\nSouthwark Crown Court heard police recovered a \"significant quantity\" of stolen items when they searched his quarters at the palace's Royal Mews, where he had worked as a catering assistant since 2015.\n\nCanto stole an album of photos from US President Donald Trump's visit to the UK\n\nA total of 37 items were offered for sale \"well under\" their true value, with Canto making £7,741.\n\nOne item was a photo album of US President Donald Trump's visit to the UK, worth £1,500.\n\nCanto also took official signed photographs of the Duke of Sussex and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nSome 77 items were taken from the palace shop, while others were stolen from staff lockers, the Queen's Gallery shop and the Duke of York's storeroom.\n\nCanto also admitted stealing a Companion of Bath medal belonging to the Master of the Household, which was sold online for £350, and a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order medal from the locker of former British Army officer Maj Gen Richard Sykes.\n\nCanto pleaded guilty to three counts of theft by an employee at a hearing in November and was jailed on Monday.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Vocational exams, including BTEcs, are to go ahead this month in England - despite calls for them to be cancelled alongside GCSEs and A-levels.\n\n\"Schools and colleges can continue with the vocational and technical exams that are due to take place in January, where they judge it right to do so,\" said a Department for Education spokeswoman.\n\nFurther education college leaders had complained this was unfair to students.\n\nThey said students would face \"stress\" from taking exams in the lockdown.\n\nThe Association of Colleges warned the decision, giving schools and colleges the option on whether to carry on with BTecs, would create more confusion.\n\nChief executive David Hughes said some colleges would cancel exams and others would continue - but without any clarity about what would happen to \"students in colleges which do cancel for safety reasons\".\n\n\"A national decision would have allowed for more fairness,\" said Mr Hughes.\n\nThe announcement from the Department for Education has left it open for schools and colleges to decide whether to go ahead with vocational and technical exams.\n\n\"Schools and colleges have already implemented extensive protective measures to make them as safe as possible,\" said the DFE's spokeswoman.\n\nThe Department for Education said it recognised \"this is a difficult time\" but wanted to allow students who had prepared for exams and assessments to continue, including those who needed to take hands-on practical tests for qualifications for jobs.\n\nA joint statement from the mayors of Manchester and Liverpool said it was wrong to go ahead with these vocational exams when other academic exams had been cancelled.\n\n\"It is unfair to ask these students to go into colleges when everyone else is being told to stay at home.\n\n\"This will cause unnecessary anxiety and concern just when they need to be able to focus,\" said the statement from Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram.\n\nThe mayors highlighted that students taking BTecs were more likely to be from \"working-class backgrounds and ethnic minority communities\" and they should not be treated any less well than those following an \"academic route\" in exams.\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Khairi Saadallah admitted three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder\n\nA man who stabbed three people to death in a Reading park believed he was carrying out \"an act of religious jihad\", a court has heard.\n\nKhairi Saadallah, 26, stabbed to death James Furlong, 36, David Wails, 49, and Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, 39, during the attack in Forbury Gardens in June.\n\nAs part of his sentencing, a hearing will decide if he was motivated by a religious or ideological cause.\n\nThe prosecution claim the stabbing spree was a terror attack.\n\nSaadallah has admitted three counts of murder and attempted murder, but denies he was motivated by an ideology.\n\nProsecutor Alison Morgan QC told the court he \"executed\" his victims and intended to \"kill as many people as he could\" in the name of violent jihad.\n\nShe said: \"In less than a minute, shouting Allahu Akhbar the defendant carried out a lethal attack with a knife, killing all three men before they had a chance to respond and try to defend themselves.\n\n\"Within the same minute, the defendant went on to attack others nearby, stabbing three more people, Stephen Young, Patrick Edwards and Nishit Nisudan, causing them significant injuries.\"\n\nThe court was shown CCTV footage of Saadallah in Morrisons buying the knife he used in the attack\n\nSaadallah was captured on CCTV leaving his flat on the day of the attack\n\nStating the prosecution's case she said the attack was \"carefully planned and executed\" by the defendant with \"determination and precision\".\n\nShe added: \"The defendant believed that in carrying out this attack he was acting in pursuit of his extreme ideology, an ideology he appears to have held for some time.\n\n\"He believed that in killing as many people as possible that day he was performing an act of religious jihad.\"\n\nAfter the attack Sadallah fled but was chased down by police, and later admitted the attacks in his cell, the court heard.\n\nIn interviews with police he \"howled like a dog\" and claimed to have magic powers, which the prosecution said was a \"disingenuous\" attempt to suggest he had a mental disorder.\n\n\"After a careful period of assessment and treatment at Belmarsh prison, it is clear that he does not have a major mental illness\", a report by a psychiatrist read out in court said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A friend of the victims, Michael Main, said: \"They were always happy\"\n\nSaadallah arrived in the UK as an asylum seeker in 2012, having fled the civil war in his home country of Libya in North Africa.\n\nThe court heard the defendant, who had been refused asylum, had been involved with militias as part of the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi.\n\nBetween 2013 and 2020 he was repeatedly arrested and convicted of various offences in the UK.\n\nWhile in HMP Bullingdon, Saadallah was observed to be keen to interact with radical preacher Omar Brooks - associated with banned terror group Al-Muhajiroun - who was also at the jail at the time, the court heard. He was released from the prison in June, days before the attack.\n\nSaadallah had been due to be deported, but was told by the government circumstances in Libya at the time were a \"legal barrier\".\n\nThe court was told he had also searched on the internet \"how to disappear with magic\" and accessed a website with the flag associated with Islamic State.\n\nA probation officer who had contact with Saadallah flagged his concerns about his mental health, but a psychiatrist has since concluded the attack on June 20 was \"unrelated to the effects of either mental disorder or substance misuse\".\n\nSaadallah, of Basingstoke Road in Reading, launched his attack as people enjoyed a summer Saturday evening in Forbury Gardens on 20 June.\n\nEyewitnesses said he walked along a footpath when he suddenly ran towards a group of men sitting on the grass.\n\nHistory teacher Mr Furlong and Mr Ritchie-Bennett, a US citizen, were both stabbed once in the neck, while scientist Mr Wails was stabbed in the back.\n\nAll three were pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nThree others - their friend Stephen Young, as well as Patrick Edwards and Nishit Nisudan, who were sitting in a nearby group - were also injured by Saadallah.\n\nThe sentencing before Mr Justice Sweeney is expected to conclude on January 11.\n\nFloral tributes were left near the entrance to the park where the men were killed\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Zara Holland appeared on the second series of Love Island\n\nLove Island star Zara Holland is to be prosecuted for allegedly breaking Covid rules on holiday in Barbados.\n\nIsland police say the former Miss Great Britain is expected to appear in court on Wednesday, accused of \"breaching quarantine\".\n\nStation Sergeant Michael Blackman told Newsbeat she was \"intercepted\" at the airport and later presented herself at a police station.\n\nIt's not clear whether she will appear in court in person or by video link.\n\nAn apology from the 25-year-old for what she described as \"a massive mix-up and misunderstanding\" was published by the Barbados Today website.\n\nShe told the publication: \"I have been a guest of this lovely island in excess of 20 years and would never do anything to jeopardise an entire nation that I have nothing but love and respect for and which has treated me as a family.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEveryone in England must stay at home except for permitted reasons during a new coronavirus lockdown expected to last until mid-February, the PM says.\n\nAll schools and colleges will close to most pupils and switch to remote learning from Tuesday.\n\nBoris Johnson warned the coming weeks would be the \"hardest yet\" amid surging cases and patient numbers.\n\nHe said those in the top four priority groups would be offered a first vaccine dose by the middle of next month.\n\nAll care home residents and their carers, everyone aged 70 and over, all frontline health and social care workers, and the clinically extremely vulnerable will be offered one dose of a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nSchools in Northern Ireland will have an \"extended period of remote learning\", the Stormont Executive said.\n\nSpeaking from Downing Street, Mr Johnson told the public to follow the new lockdown rules immediately, before they become law in the early hours of Wednesday.\n\nAll the new measures in England will then last until at least the middle of February, he said, as a new more infectious variant of the virus spreads across the UK.\n\nThe PM added that he believed the country was entering \"the last phase of the struggle\".\n\nHospitals were under \"more pressure from Covid than at any time since the start of the pandemic\", he said.\n\nAnd he reiterated the slogan used earlier in the pandemic, urging people to immediately \"stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives\".\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nA further 58,784 cases and an additional 407 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result were reported, though deaths in Scotland were not recorded.\n\nAs of 08:00 GMT, there were 26,626 Covid-19 patients in hospital in England, according to the latest figures.\n\nThis is a week-on-week increase of 30%, and a new record high.\n\nThose who are clinically extremely vulnerable will be contacted by letter and should now shield once more, Mr Johnson said.\n\nSupport and childcare bubbles will continue under the new measures - and people can meet one person from another household for outdoor exercise.\n\nCommunal worship and life events like funerals and weddings can continue, subject to limits on attendance.\n\nWhile Mr Johnson said end-of-year exams would not take place as normal in the summer, he said alternative arrangements would be announced separately.\n\nThe government has published a 22-page document outlining the new rules in detail.\n\nThe House of Commons has been recalled to allow MPs to vote on the new restrictions on Wednesday.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his MPs would \"support the package of measures\", saying \"we've all got to pull together now to make this work\".\n\nOnce again it is the threat to the NHS that has forced the hand of ministers.\n\nIn England there has been a 50% rise in the number of patients in hospital with Covid since Christmas day.\n\nTo put that into context, it equates to 18 hospitals being filled.\n\nCurrently around three out of 10 beds are occupied by patients with the disease.\n\nIn some hospitals it is more than six in 10.\n\nBut what is worrying ministers and NHS leaders is that the number is just going to increase.\n\nIn the spring it took nearly three weeks after lockdown for hospital cases to peak.\n\nThe last six days have seen in excess of 50,000 new infections confirmed each day across the UK - a number of these infections are next week's hospital admissions.\n\nIt is why the UK's chief medical officers were warning there was a \"material risk\" of some hospitals being overwhelmed if something did not change.\n\nMr Johnson spoke after UK chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nLevel five means the NHS may soon be unable to handle a further sustained rise in cases, the medical officers said in a joint statement.\n\nNHS Providers, which represents health service trusts, said hospitals were at a \"critical point\" and that \"immediate and decisive action\" was needed.\n\nAnnouncing tougher measures in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"It is no exaggeration to say that I am more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year.\"\n\nFor pupils who returned for their first day of the new term at primary school on Monday, it's turned out to be an extremely short-lived visit.\n\nBoris Johnson's announcement will see primary, secondary and further education colleges closed for at least the next six weeks, except for vulnerable and key workers' children.\n\nIt's a much bigger shift in policy than had been anticipated, even a few days ago.\n\nEven the return date will depend on the progress in tackling the virus.\n\n\"I hope we can steadily move out of lockdown, reopening schools after the February half term,\" said the prime minister.\n\nKeeping schools open was the government's most definite of red lines, a few weeks ago they were threatening councils that wanted to close them - but it's now been overtaken by the spiking lines on the Covid infection charts.\n\nEven after the chaos of last year's replacement grades, GCSEs and A-levels are being cancelled again - with a replacement system still to be decided. Vocational exams are to continue.\n\nFor parents dreading home schooling, there are plans for it to be better supported this time - with more computer devices available and suggestions that Ofsted inspectors will check what schools are offering.\n\nBut there's no escaping that this will feel like another sudden and chaotic change of direction for schools and parents.\n\nMr Johnson's pledge on vaccinations comes after an 82-year-old retired maintenance manager became the first person in the UK to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 jab\n\nSome 13.9 million people are among the four priority groups who will receive a vaccine dose by about 15 February, vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? What questions do you have? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill met throughout Monday\n\nThere will be an extended period of remote learning for schools in Northern Ireland, the executive has said.\n\nMinisters met on Monday night as other parts of the UK tightened their coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe Stormont executive also plans to give its stay at home guidance legal force, with new restrictions on travel.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said details would be formalised on Tuesday.\n\nThe health and education ministers will bring separate papers on the issues to the executive at the meeting, she added.\n\nNorthern Ireland's Education Minister Peter Weir had previously announced a staggered return to school for pupils during the month of January.\n\nThe first transfer test, used by many grammar schools to select pupils, is due to take place on Saturday but there have been calls from some teaching unions and political parties for the test to be cancelled this year, in light of the uncertainty with the pandemic.\n\nIn England, all schools and colleges will close to most pupils and switch to remote learning until the middle of February, and end-of-year exams will not take place this summer as normal.\n\nRecommendations on exams in Northern Ireland are also expected to be brought forward by the executive on Tuesday.\n\nIt is understood ministers will update the assembly on Wednesday about their decisions.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said the new restrictions were unfortunate, but necessary.\n\nShe said she believed the stay-at-home message will be in place \"for the rest of January, probably into February\".\n\n\"We will of course review it, as we're legally bound to do every couple of weeks.\"\n\nShe added that ministers would \"much prefer\" for face-to-face education to continue, but said they had to \"take into account the very serious situation that we find ourselves in tonight.\"\n\nBoth organisations which organise transfer tests will be making announcements on Tuesday, she said.\n\n\"We'll wait to hear what they have to say. They do of course have to abide by public health advice, but they are private organisations and they will make their own announcements.\"\n\nThe Irish government is considering a proposal to close schools for the rest of January.\n\nOn Monday, the Department of Health reported that a further 1,801 people had tested positive for the virus in the past 24 hours.\n\nThere have also been 12 more Covid-19 related deaths.\n\nThese latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,366, while 79,873 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic started.\n\nMore than 12,000 cases have been reported in the past seven days, more than double the week before.\n\nThe seven-day rate per 100,000 people is now 660 positive cases, compared to 200 per 100,000 two weeks ago.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland on Monday, an additional 6,110 confirmed cases of Covid-19 were announced, with six further deaths linked to the virus.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has already announced a fresh lockdown there from midnight, with schools closed until February.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme, Dr Michael McBride said Scotland's measures were \"prudent and sensible\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine rollout has begun in Northern Ireland.\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the this week, with some of the first doses delivered at a GP surgery on the Falls Road in West Belfast on Monday afternoon.\n\nUp to 11,000 people aged over 80 across Northern Ireland are set to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca\n\nThe SDLP has called for the assembly to be recalled on Tuesday to discuss the rolling out of the vaccine.\n\nIt can be recalled if at least 30 MLAs sign a petition.\n\nOn Monday, Justice Minister Naomi Long welcomed the opening of Northern Ireland's first Nightingale venue, which will be used for courts and tribunals business.\n\nThe facility was approved by a meeting of the executive on 17 December, and will sit in the International Convention Centre in Belfast (ICC).\n\nActivity at the centre will be phased in, in line with Covid-19 regulations.\n\nIn other coronavirus-related developments on Monday:", "The 90,000 sq ft store is a familiar sight for commuters coming out of Oxford Circus Tube station\n\nThe building that houses Topshop's Oxford Street store is up for sale.\n\nThe High Street chain's owner Arcadia went into administration in November, putting 13,000 jobs at risk.\n\nNews of the sale of the three-storey building has prompted an outpouring of emotion on social media, with shoppers recounting how important the flagship store is to them.\n\nThe store, which boasted a DJ booth, nail bar and food stalls, was a retail sensation when it opened in 1994.\n\nHuge crowds gathered at the store for the launch of Kate Moss's Topshop collection in 2014\n\nArcadia - which owns Topshop, Miss Selfridge and Dorothy Perkins - entered administration on 30 November\n\nThe sale of 214 Oxford Street, managed by agents Savills and Eastdil, follows the failure of Sir Philip Green's retail empire to secure funding to pay its debts after sales slumped during the pandemic.\n\nThe Oxford Street building also houses Nike and Vans stores.\n\nArcadia said that although it was in administration, and so all its assets are to be sold, that did not mean the shops in the building would have to close.\n\nPeople have been sharing their feelings about the London landmark, which was often used as a meeting point for friends and was a must-visit for fashion-loving tourists.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nArcadia, which also owns Miss Selfridge, Dorothy Perkins and Burton, had already closed other Topshop stores across the UK, citing the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIts brands were struggling before the pandemic, partly due to competition from online-only fashion retailers such as Asos, Boohoo and Pretty Little Thing.\n\nBeyonce launched her Ivy Park collection at Topshop in 2016\n\nThe flagship store is currently closed, in line with the rules about non-essential retailers\n\nThe Oxford Street store pictured during Pride in 2018", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sturgeon: Vaccination programme needs to win the race\n\nTough new lockdown restrictions forbidding people from leaving home for non-essential reasons have come into force across the Scottish mainland.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the clampdown was necessary to contain the spread of the new strain of Covid-19.\n\nPeople are now required by law to stay in their homes and to work from home.\n\nOutdoor gatherings have been restricted to one-on-one meet-ups, and schools will close to most pupils until February at the earliest.\n\nMs Sturgeon told MSPs on Monday that Scotland faced an \"extremely serious\" situation, with the new, faster-spreading variant of coronavirus \"a massive blow\".\n\nSchools will remain closed to most pupils until at least the beginning of February.\n\nThe first minister has said she cannot guarantee when children will be allowed back in classrooms or when the latest lockdown restrictions will be lifted.\n\nShe also told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme on Tuesday that she hoped 2.7 million people in Scotland would have received one dose of the Covid vaccine by the middle of May.\n\nShe said: \"I can't be definitive right now about when we will lift these restrictions.\n\n\"I have described this as a race - we've got the vaccine in one lane and we are trying to accelerate that.\n\n\"We've got the virus which has learned to run faster in the other lane and we've got to slow it down.\n\n\"Lockdown is about pushing rates of the virus back, and if we manage to do that then hopefully we will be able to start lifting restrictions while the vaccination programme is ongoing.\"\n\nA government document revealed there were now more than 90 patients in intensive care units, with new modelling suggesting that figure could more than double by early February.\n\nThe modelling sets out different scenarios with the most pessimistic predicting hospitals admissions could soar to more than 8,000 with over 700 patients requiring intensive care.\n\nThe document also revealed that Inverclyde - which a few weeks ago had relatively low levels of Covid - now has the highest case rate, almost 550 per 100,000 - while Dumfries and Galloway has seen its rate increase to 475 per 100,000.\n\nDundee City, East Ayrshire, East Renfrewshire, North Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire and the Scottish Borders all now have case rates exceeding 300 per 100,000.\n\nOnly limited data was released by the government in recent days but a full update on deaths, hospital admissions and local infection rates has now been issued.\n\nCases of Covid have risen sharply in recent days\n\nThe new restrictions came into force at midnight and are, in effect, an enhancement to the level four curbs already in place across the mainland and Skye.\n\nThey will run until at least the end of January and could yet be extended both in scope and duration.\n\nScotland's island communities, with the exception of Skye, are to remain in level three for now, although Ms Sturgeon warned this would also remain under review.\n\nNew regulations mean Scots are prohibited from leaving their homes for anything other than \"essential\" purposes - although the law provides a lengthy list of examples of \"reasonable excuses\".\n\nThese include shopping for food or medical supplies, providing or accessing childcare, exercise, and participation in extended households.\n\nAnyone who can do their job from home must do so, and people in the \"shielding\" category have been advised not to go out to work at all.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon announces stay at home rules in new lockdown\n\nNew restrictions have been placed on outdoor gatherings in level four areas, with only two people from separate households now permitted to meet up.\n\nThese restrictions do not include children under the age of 12, who are still allowed to gather to play, but everyone else must abide by them or face a fixed penalty notice.\n\nTravel restrictions remain in place between local authority areas and in and out of Scotland, and people have been urged to stay as close to home as possible when going out for exercise.\n\nSchools will now operate on a remote-learning basis for the majority of pupils when the new term starts on 11 January, with only the children of key workers and vulnerable children to receive face-to-face teaching.\n\nThis is to run until at least 1 February, with a review on 18 January - with Ms Sturgeon saying her \"fundamental priority\" was still to get children back in school full time as quickly as possible.\n\nThe new measures are a bid to control the spread of the new variant of Covid, which is now thought to be responsible for nearly half of all new cases of the virus in Scotland.\n\nOfficials believe Scotland is roughly four weeks behind London - where health services are coming under increasing pressure - and warn that hospitals could hit capacity within the month without major new curbs.\n\nBetween 23 and 30 December, the average number of cases per 100,000 people in Scotland increased by 65%, from 136 to 225.", "\"It could be something as simple as: 'I don't like what you have got on' - that would end in strangulation\"\n\nA fresh move is under way to make non-fatal strangulation a specific criminal offence in England and Wales, after the House of Lords debated the Domestic Abuse Bill.\n\nThe government has said it has no plans to change the law, arguing that non-fatal strangulation is already covered by existing legislation.\n\nHowever, campaigners say abusers who use non-fatal strangulation are telling their victims: \"I am controlling you and I can kill you\" - but too often are charged only with common assault.\n\nThis is what happened in Jenny's case. Her abusive partner used non-fatal strangulation as a means of control throughout the five years they were together.\n\n\"It was like his favourite thing to do,\" says Jenny, who asked the BBC not to use her real name.\n\n\"That sounds really awful and trivial but that is how it becomes as an abuse victim. You learn to accept that is part of your life. It was like something I had to manage.\"\n\n\"We would wake up in the morning and he would be in one of those moods, and I would see it in his eyes and I would think today's the day I'm going to get it.\n\n\"It could be something as simple as: 'I don't like what you have got on' - that would end in strangulation.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Domestic abuse victim - 'He threw me against the wall and strangled me'\n\nEventually one night she did call the police during an attack.\n\n\"He chased me round the house and every time he caught me he would pin me to the floor and strangle me until I had marks.\n\n\"I had burst blood vessels. I was streaming with tears. I just kept thinking: 'This is how I am going to die.'\n\n\"The doors were locked. He'd smashed my phone. I managed to get to the window and shout and one of the neighbours called the police.\"\n\nHowever, she was dismayed by the police response. \"I thought it was quite lax. They didn't take the strangulation as seriously as they should have.\"\n\nHer partner was charged with common assault. He pleaded guilty and was given a three-month sentence, suspended for 18 months.\n\n\"Strangulation needs to be a specific offence. I think the weak police response contributed to keeping me in the relationship,\" she says.\n\nJenny believed her partner would eventually kill her.\n\n\"I just kept looking in the mirror and thinking: you need to leave and you're the only person who can do it.\n\n\"So one day while he was asleep, I picked up whatever I could carry and I ran and got on a train.\"\n\nBaroness Newlove is bringing forward an amendment to the Domestic Abuse Bill in the House of Lords\n\nPoliticians and campaigners tried and failed to have a new offence of non-fatal strangulation introduced in the Domestic Abuse Bill when it was going through the House of Commons.\n\nDuring Tuesday's debate on the bill in the Lords, the Conservative peer and former victims' commissioner, Baroness Newlove, said she intended to table an amendment to the bill when it reached the committee stage.\n\nShe said non-fatal strangulation was currently not being picked up adequately by the police, as it often left no physical marks on the victim.\n\nShe described it as a terrifying crime, with many victims testifying they felt as though their heads were going to explode and they were about to die.\n\nPeers from other parties also spoke in support of a new offence.\n\nNogah Offer, a lawyer with the Centre for Women's Justice, which has been at the forefront of the campaign for a new offence, says: \"We believe this is a real opportunity to make a difference.\"\n\nCommon assault is a summary offence that can be charged by the police.\n\nBut when it involves domestic abuse, it should be referred to the Crown Prosecution Service, its guidance says.\n\nIn a statement, the Ministry of Justice said: \"Non-fatal strangulation is a serious crime which is already covered by existing laws such as common assault and attempted murder.\"\n\nA spokesperson said the government would keep this area of the law under review, but said a specific offence of attempting to choke, strangle or suffocate a person is included in the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 and, according to the 2015 Serious Crime Act, attempted strangulation can fall under the offence of coercive or controlling behaviour.\n\nDr Catherine White: \"Ultimately it can lead to death\"\n\nDr Catherine White, clinical director of St. Mary's Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Manchester, says: \"Strangulation often ends up being treated the same as a slap or a punch.\n\n\"It's a very different crime. Often there is no external injury to the neck, which is why it's a very powerful tool for the perpetrator.\n\n\"It can cause confusion but ultimately it can lead to death.\"\n\nA research project led by Dr White describes non-fatal strangulation as a \"gendered crime, with nearly all the patients female and the alleged perpetrators male\".\n\nAnd figures from the Femicide Census, which looked at the cases of women killed by men in the UK, found that in 2018, 29% died through strangulation.\n\nCampaigners point to New Zealand and some parts of the United States and Australia, where non-fatal strangulation has become a specific offence.\n\nMeanwhile, after help from a women's centre and counselling, Jenny now feels stronger and happier.\n\nDespite the pandemic, she says, having finally escaped her abuser: \"2020 was one of the best years of my life.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Body Coach says he will be running PE lessons online for children\n\nJoe Wicks is restarting his online PE lessons from next week, to help families keep fit during lockdown.\n\nThe personal trainer told the BBC he wanted to \"give children structure\" and help them feel \"more optimistic\".\n\nHe said live sessions would run on his YouTube channel at 09:00 GMT on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.\n\nSchools across the UK are reopening later than normal, amid tighter measures to curb the spread of coronavirus.\n\nConfirming the return of his \"PE with Joe\" sessions in an Instagram post, Wicks, known as the Body Coach, said: \"We all need this for our mental health more than ever and exercising can help.\"\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast he had \"a really emotional moment last night\", after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a new national lockdown for England on Monday evening.\n\n\"I was thinking about all the children in the UK and all around the world that are at home in tiny little flats… and they feel like they miss their friends and they miss school,\" he said.\n\n\"And so PE with Joe three days a week is going to really help them get through those days and give them some structure and hopefully help them feel a little bit happier and a bit more optimistic.\"\n\nWicks first began his free online workouts during the national lockdown in March, with the sessions attracting millions of viewers.", "Boeing's 737 Max plane is safe to return to service in the UK and the European Union, regulators have said.\n\nIt ends a 22-month flight ban for the jet, which followed two crashes which caused 346 deaths.\n\nThe plane had already been cleared to resume flying in North America and Brazil.\n\nBut this week a senior manager at Boeing's 737 plant in Seattle warned that recertification had happened too quickly.\n\nRegulators in the US and Europe insist their reviews have been thorough, and that the 737 Max aircraft is now safe.\n\nThe European Union Aviation Safety Agency (Easa), which regulates aviation in 31 mainly EU countries, said it now had \"every confidence\" in the plane following an independent review.\n\n\"But we will continue to monitor 737 Max operations closely as the aircraft resumes service,\" said executive director Patrick Ky.\n\n\"In parallel, and at our insistence, Boeing has also committed to work to enhance the aircraft still further in the medium term, in order to reach an even higher level of safety.\"\n\nThe UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), which oversees UK aviation now Britain has left the EU, said the work to return the 737 Max to the skies had been \"the most extensive project of this kind\".\n\nIt said it was in close contact with Tui, currently the only UK operator of the aircraft, as it returned the plane to service.\n\n\"As part of this we will have full oversight of the airline's plans including its pilot training programmes and implementation of the required aircraft modifications.\"\n\nThe 737 Max's first accident occurred in October 2018, when a Lion Air jet came down in the sea off Indonesia.\n\nThe second involved an Ethiopian Airlines version that crashed shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa, just four months later.\n\nBoth have been attributed to flawed flight control software, which became active at the wrong time and prompted the aircraft to go into a catastrophic dive.\n\nEasa said it had done a full investigation independent of Boeing or the US Federal Aviation Administration and \"without any economic or political pressure\".\n\nAs a result, it demanded software upgrades, electrical working rework, maintenance checks, operations manual updates and crew training.\n\n\"We asked difficult questions until we got answers and pushed for solutions which satisfied our exacting safety requirements,\" Mr Ky said.\n\nThe CAA said it had based its decision on information from Easa, the US Federal Aviation Agency and Boeing, as well as \"extensive engagement\" with airline operators and pilots.\n\nIt comes days after a report by Ed Pierson, a former Boeing manager, claimed that regulators and investigators had largely ignored factors that may have played a direct role in the accidents.\n\nMr Pierson said that further investigation of electrical issues and production quality problems at the 737 factory in Seattle was badly needed.\n\nOn Wednesday Naoise Connolly Ryan, whose husband Mick died in the Ethiopian Airlines crash, said that the families of victims \"still do not have a full accounting of what happened and why\".\n\n\"Ultimately we are more determined than ever to find out exactly what Boeing knew about this dangerous aircraft, and hold them accountable for the deaths of our loved ones.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Paul Njoroge says his family died because of Boeing's \"negligence\"\n\nBoeing has already agreed to pay $2.5bn (£1.8bn) to settle US criminal charges that it hid information from safety officials about the design of the planes.\n\nThe US Justice Department said the firm chose \"profit over candour\", impeding oversight of the planes.\n\nAbout $500m of that will go to families of the people killed in the tragedies.\n\nHowever, attorneys for the victims of the Ethiopian Airlines crash have said the deal would not end their pending civil lawsuit against Boeing.\n\nOn Wednesday, Boeing posted a record $12bn annual loss after it delayed its all-new 777X jet for the third time, incurring huge charges.\n\nThe coronavirus crisis has caused demand for the industry's largest jetliners to fall, with airline customers shunning deliveries of planes due international travel restrictions.\n\nThe 737 Max has already been cleared to fly in North America and Brazil - now it has the go-ahead from European regulators as well.\n\nIt's a major step for Boeing - although with the current travel restrictions in place, it's likely to be a while before the decision has much practical effect.\n\nBut the controversy won't end there. Relatives of those who died in the Ethiopian Airlines accident have made it clear they haven't heard enough to be sure the aircraft - modified in accordance with regulators' wishes - is truly safe.\n\nAnd this week, a former senior manager at the 737 factory told the BBC why he thought existing planes might still be carrying potentially dangerous manufacturing defects.\n\nThat may explain why Easa has also chosen to publish a report setting out the detailed reasoning behind its decision.\n\nUltimately, the 737 Max may we'll have decades of successful service ahead of it. But for the moment, winning back passenger confidence will be a formidable challenge.", "The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has defended the inclusion of ransomware payments in first-party cyber-insurance policies.\n\nIt said insurance was \"not an alternative\" to doing everything possible to first minimise the risk.\n\nHowever, it added that firms could face financial ruin without the cover.\n\nProf Ciaran Martin, former head of the National Cyber Security Centre, said the UK needed to rethink its policies on ransomware.\n\nRansomware is a form of malware in which infected computers are remotely locked by cyber-criminals, who then demand a ransom, often in the form of Bitcoin, to unlock them and return the data they hold.\n\nThere are many examples of businesses and public bodies which have chosen to pay because they do not have the data backed up, or cannot afford - or do not have time - to rebuild their systems from scratch.\n\nThe Guardian reported that Prof Martin, now at Oxford University's Blavatnik School of Government, said he believed insurers were \"funding organised crime\" by accepting ransomware claims, but he told the BBC the issue of how to tackle ransomware was far broader than just the insurance sector.\n\nWhile official advice is not to pay the demand, it is not illegal to do so in the UK, he said.\n\n\"I have some sympathy with insurers, because as long as it's legal, there are incentives to pay.\"\n\nWhile the ransom demand may be high, the alternative impact can also be devastating.\n\nWhen the global aluminium producer Norsk Hydro was attacked in 2019, it cost the firm around £45m, and its profits in the immediate aftermath plummeted by 82%, reported Reuters.\n\nNorsk Hydro refused to pay the demand, which would arguably have been cheaper - but it did have insurance.\n\nA spokesman for the ABI said insurers do require that \"reasonable precautions\" are taken to prevent cyber-attacks from succeeding in the first place, just as cars and houses require security measures in place to deter thieves.\n\n\"Some might argue that any insurance that covers against a criminal act could lull the policyholder into a false sense of security,\" he said.\n\nProf Martin said he did not think that banning ransomware insurance claims would necessarily solve the problem.\n\n\"But it's worth a serious piece of consultation because if we continue as we are, things will get worse,\" he said.", "Cough, fatigue, sore throat and muscle pain may be more common in people who test positive for the new UK variant of coronavirus, a study by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggests.\n\nThe ONS findings are based on positive tests from a random sample of 6,000 people in England.\n\nLoss of taste and smell may be slightly less likely to affect those with the new form of the virus.\n\nHowever, it is still one of the three main symptoms of the virus.\n\nThe NHS website lists the symptoms as a high temperature, a new continuous cough and a loss or change to sense of smell or taste.\n\nMost people infected with the virus develop at least one of these symptoms.\n\nThe new variant, which was first spotted in Kent in September, spreads more easily than the previous form of the virus and has now spread across the UK, causing a surge in cases which prompted the current lockdown.\n\nThere is some evidence it could be more deadly than other variants, although the data isn't strong enough yet to say for certain.\n\nTwo other variants - one from South Africa and another from Brazil - are also circulating, although at lower levels.\n\nThe ONS analysis looked at the symptoms reported by people up to a week before testing positive for the new variant of coronavirus, compared with those testing positive for the old variant.\n\nThey were tested over two months between mid-November and mid-January.\n\nTest results compatible with the new variant show up as being positive for two genes, rather than three for the other variant.\n\nIn a group of about 3,500 people with the new variant:\n\nIn a group of 2,500 people with the old variant:\n\nThe study found 16% of those with the new variant experienced losing their sense of taste while 15% lost their sense of smell.\n\nThis was slightly lower than reported by people with the old variant (18% for both).\n\nThere was no difference found in levels of headaches, shortness of breath or diarrhoea and vomiting in both groups.\n\nProf Lawrence Young, virologist and professor of molecular oncology at the University of Warwick, said the new variant of the virus had 23 changes compared to the original Wuhan virus.\n\n\"Some of these changes in different parts of the virus could affect the body's immune response and also influence the range of symptoms associated with infection,\" he said.\n\nInfected people appear to produce more virus and this could result in more widespread infection within the body \"perhaps accounting for more coughs, muscle pain and tiredness\", Prof Young added.\n\nThe analysis is part of a long-term study to track coronavirus in the UK population, carried out jointly with Public Health England, the University of Oxford and the University of Manchester.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "UK nationals and residents returning from \"red list\" countries will be made to quarantine in accommodation such as hotels for 10 days, Boris Johnson has said. While exact details of the policy remain unclear, similar schemes are already in place elsewhere, including in Australia and New Zealand. So how does it work?\n\nAfter finally securing her family's place in Australia's quarantine system, Keri McMenamin prepared for the worst - and ordered a vacuum cleaner.\n\nThe 38-year-old was returning to the country with her husband and two children after securing a job offer - leaving the UK in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic last year.\n\n\"It is literally luck of the draw,\" she says of where her family would spend 14 days together once they arrived. \"You didn't know what to expect.\" Having done some research, Keri discovered Facebook groups busy with people relaying their experiences of quarantine.\n\n\"A lot of people were saying, 'Look, just expect the worst and then whatever you get is a bonus.'\"\n\nKeri's children Quinn and Nyala kept busy with board games\n\n\"There were people who had, like, filthy hotel rooms, appalling food, you know, really sort of tiny spaces, no opening windows, no balconies,\" she adds.\n\nThat's when she ordered the vacuum for a friend to deliver when the time came.\n\nIn the end, the family was taken to a hotel in Surfers' Paradise on the Gold Coast and given an interconnecting room. But still, the windows were sealed and their only time outside was 20-minute stints every two to three days.\n\n\"I think what kept us sane was having a routine,\" she adds. \"Joe Wicks in the morning and our yoga in the evening and sort of keeping up your 12,000 steps a day walking around in loops.\" The vacuum came in useful.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere are strict caps on the numbers travelling to countries using hotels to quarantine arrivals.\n\nBetween July and October 2019, 7.5m people arrived into Australia to live, work and visit. But over the same period last year, when enforced quarantine was in place, just 72,111 people arrived, according to government figures.\n\nPeople like Keri who have been through quarantine in Australia told BBC News that airlines will only confirm seats once a spot in a hotel is secured - leading to last-minute scrambles.\n\nOnline forums suggest expats desperate to get home are facing months of delays, cancellations and uncertainty - around 39,000 have said they want to return.\n\nQuarantine hotel stays themselves are costly - with fees paid for by travellers.\n\nThe quality of food provided to those placed into quarantine in Australia has improved since the start of the pandemic\n\nIn New South Wales, it costs the equivalent of around £1,700 per adult and £2,800 for a family of two adults and two children - billed after the quarantine is completed.\n\nArrivals into New Zealand are charged £1,630 for the first adult, with an extra £500 for each additional adult and £250 for each child.\n\nThe costs include the accommodation and a basic food service and even more basic cleaning - perhaps once per week, or not at all, with one change of linen and towels, depending on the facility.\n\nBut it comes on top of airfares, which have increased due to the pandemic. Fees can be waived for those who cannot pay and there are some exemptions.\n\nEach region has its own rules. In Australia, packages can be brought in from outside, and in New Zealand some of those in quarantine are taken to fields to exercise.\n\nMark Dickinson, from Liverpool, has lived in New Zealand with his wife Lisa for four years but returned to the UK to see their newborn granddaughter in December - he spoke to the BBC 10 days into a 14-day isolation near Auckland.\n\n\"We had to have a test on day zero, then day three, then we're having a test tomorrow on day 11,\" Mark says.\n\n\"The area at the front of the hotel is surrounded by a double-guarded fence. It may have cost us £2,000 but if that means New Zealand stays safe, then we're happy doing it.\"\n\nMark and his wife Lisa added photographs of their newborn granddaughter to a display in a small walking area at their hotel\n\nMany of those isolating found life does not stop in quarantine. Australian Brad Thiele started a new job and celebrated his 51st birthday alone in a 300 sq ft room at the Novotel in central Sydney.\n\nAfter being asked by a person wearing a full hazmat suit at Sydney airport whether he had any concerns about being held in a room for 14 days, Brad was taken to the hotel with a blue-light police escort. On arrival, the military were on hand to ensure he checked in.\n\n\"I quite like practising meditation. So I was able to just sort of just sit and be at peace with the fact this was the first two weeks of the rest of my life having lived abroad in Britain for the past 23 years,\" he says.\n\n\"I had some regimen, it was important to get up in the morning, make the bed, shower, iron a shirt and be smart casual for work. Just finding a rhythm and a pattern in the day.\"\n\nHe's yet to decide whether to take the Novotel up on an offer of a 30% discount on a future stay.\n\nOther countries' experience of setting up a hotel quarantine system provides an insight into the sort of challenges politicians and civil servants in the UK may soon be grappling with.\n\nInitially those in quarantine across the world complained about the quality of food being provided.\n\nThen outbreaks at just two hotels in the Australian state of Victoria were traced to 99% of cases in a second wave across Melbourne that led to around 750 deaths.\n\nA public inquiry found a lack of training, cleaning and contact tracing seeded infections into the local community.\n\nAn urgent review of the hotel quarantine system in New Zealand is under way\n\nReports at the time suggested encounters between private security staff and those staying in quarantine caused the virus to spread. The inquiry did not find evidence to back up the claims.\n\nBut former judge Jennifer Coate criticised a lack of \"health focus\" in the quarantine system in Melbourne, saying risks \"were foreseeable and may have actually been foreseen\".\n\nMeanwhile, New Zealand is investigating after a woman who had served 14 days in quarantine and tested negative twice went on to develop symptoms which were confirmed to be the South Africa variant of Covid-19.\n\nThe 56-year-old woman had recently returned from Europe and is said to have visited almost 30 places in New Zealand before her case was detected. Local officials say she is likely to have been infected by a fellow returnee.\n\nBack in Australia, knowing why the quarantine system is in place and the benefits it brings - the country has largely eradicated the virus - helps motivate people to keep to the rules, Keri McMenamin says.\n\nKeri's family have since been able to enjoy a Christmas with minimal restrictions following their stay in hotel quarantine\n\nShe has just spent a public holiday going about the sort of activities many of us in the UK can but dream of - and her children will be in school this week.\n\n\"We went to a local gym and had a group workout with 30 people,\" she says.\n\n\"And then we went to the countryside, and the kids built little boats out of wood and mingled around and there were families picnicking.\n\n\"I almost feel guilty for having gone through this process and now living a normal life,\" she adds. \"I feel like I don't want to talk to my friends in the UK about how easy our life here is and how normal it is.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 100,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, after 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said he took \"full responsibility\" for the government's actions, saying: \"We truly did everything we could.\"\n\n\"I'm deeply sorry for every life lost,\" he said.\n\nA total of 100,162 deaths have been recorded in the UK, the first European nation to pass the landmark.\n\nEarlier, figures from the ONS, which are based on death certificates, showed there had been nearly 104,000 deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nThe government's daily figures rely on positive tests and are slightly lower.\n\nMr Johnson told Tuesday's Downing Street news conference that it was \"hard to compute the sorrow contained in this grim statistic\".\n\nHe gave his \"deepest condolences\" to those who had lost loved ones, including \"fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, and the many grandparents who've been taken\".\n\nThe UK is the fifth country to pass 100,000 deaths, coming after the US, Brazil, India and Mexico.\n\nA surge in cases in recent weeks - driven in part by a new, fast-spreading variant of the virus - has left the UK with one of the highest coronavirus death rates globally.\n\nA further 20,089 coronavirus cases were recorded on Tuesday, continuing a downward trend in the number of UK cases seen in recent days. The number of people in hospital remains high, as do the UK's daily death figures.\n\nMr Johnson said the coronavirus infection rate remained \"pretty forbiddingly high\" despite lockdown restrictions which have been in place in England since 5 January.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons - including for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nMr Johnson said he would set out more detail in \"the next few days and weeks\" about \"when and how we want to get things open again\".\n\nIt's a terrible milestone - and one that represents unimaginable loss.\n\nMost of the deaths have come in two waves - the sharp, sudden surge in the spring followed by a slow and sustained rise throughout autumn and winter.\n\nMistakes have been made - the delay locking down back in March is one that is often cited even by the government's own advisers.\n\nThe UK, like much of Europe, was also woefully underprepared with limited testing and contact tracing systems.\n\nBut the ageing population, high rates of obesity, the fact the UK is a global hub and its inter-connectedness with Europe are also factors that meant we were tragically never going to escape lightly once the virus got a foothold.\n\nSpeaking alongside the prime minister, Prof Chris Whitty, England's chief medical officer, described it as a \"very sad day\".\n\nHe said the number of people dying \"will come down relatively slowly over the next two weeks - and will probably remain flat for a while now\".\n\nProf Whitty added the new coronavirus variant had changed the UK's situation \"very substantially\" with infection rates \"just about holding\" due to lockdown restrictions.\n\nBut he said the number of people testing positive for Covid-19 in the UK \"has been coming down\" and the number of people in hospital with Covid has \"flattened off\" - including in London, the South East and East of England.\n\nHowever, there were \"some areas\" where the hospital figures were \"still not convincingly reducing\", he said.\n\nNHS chief executive Sir Simon Stevens said there had been \"continuing improvements in hospital treatment for severely sick coronavirus patients\".\n\nHe said he expected more treatments within the next six to 18 months, adding: \"We can see a world in which coronavirus may be more treatable, but for now, it's a combination of reducing infections and getting vaccinations done.\"\n\nOne day there will be a public inquiry - maybe several - seeking to understand why so many died.\n\nLast summer, back when the government was subsidising people to eat out at restaurants, Boris Johnson said there would be an independent inquiry into the government's handling of Covid, but gave no details or dates.\n\nHe still hasn't, despite a recent call from bereaved families, trade unions and charities for lessons to be learnt now.\n\nThe gravest public health crisis for a century would have tested any government.\n\nBut as the pandemic has worsened, the criticisms and questions have mounted - about the timing of lockdowns, the rollout of test and trace and the failure to protect care homes last spring.\n\nThere is now pressure on Boris Johnson from some Tory MPs to ease restrictions as soon as the most vulnerable are vaccinated.\n\nBut this evening a sombre prime minister said the government would first do everything it could to minimise further loss of life.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said it was a \"sobering moment in the pandemic\", saying: \"Each death is a person who was someone's family member and friend.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was a \"national tragedy\" to have reached 100,000 deaths.\n\nThe government had been \"behind the curve at every stage\" of the pandemic and had not learnt lessons over the summer, he added.\n\nThe epidemiologist whose modelling in part prompted the UK's first national lockdown said more action in the autumn of last year could have saved lives.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson told BBC Radio 4's PM programme: \"Had we acted both earlier and with greater stringency back in September when we first saw case numbers going up, and had a policy of keeping case numbers at a reasonably low levels, then I think a lot of the deaths we've seen, not all by any means, but a lot of the deaths we've seen in the last four or five months, could have been avoided.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the death toll was \"heartbreaking\" and warned there was a \"tough period ahead\".\n\n\"The vaccine offers the way out, but we cannot let up now,\" he added.\n\nMore than 6.8 million people in the UK have had their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, according to the latest figures.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nIf you would like to send us a tribute to a friend or family member who died after contracting coronavirus, please use the form below.\n\nPlease remember to include a photo of your loved one and their name. Upload your pictures here. Don't forget to include your contact details, so we can get in touch with you.\n\nWe would like to respond to everyone individually and include every tribute in our coverage, but unfortunately that may not be possible. Please be assured your message will be read and treated with the utmost respect.\n\nPlease note the contact details you provide will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your tribute.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has suggested that Boris Johnson should not visit Scotland as it is not an \"essential\" journey.\n\nThe prime minister is widely expected to travel to Scotland on Thursday.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said she was \"not ecstatic\" about the plan, saying leaders should abide by the same rules as they ask of the general public.\n\nAsked about the trip, Scottish Secretary Alister Jack said Mr Johnson would go \"wherever he needs to go in his vital work against this pandemic\".\n\nAnd Downing Street has insisted that it is important for the prime minister to be \"visible and accessible\" during the pandemic.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman did not confirm details of the visit, but said: \"It remains the fact that it is a fundamental role of the PM to be the physical representative of the UK government\".\n\nThe spokesman added: \"It is right that he is visible and accessible to businesses, communities and the public across all parts of the UK, especially during the pandemic.\"\n\nReports have suggested Mr Johnson is due to visit Scotland on Thursday to thank staff involved in the fight against Covid-19, despite the \"stay at home\" lockdown in place across the country.\n\nSpeaking at her daily coronavirus briefing, Ms Sturgeon stressed that she was not saying Mr Johnson was unwelcome in Scotland, but added that she was \"not ecstatic\" about the idea of him travelling up from London.\n\nDowning Street says it is important for the prime minister to be \"visible and accessible\" across the UK during the pandemic\n\nShe said: \"We are living in a global pandemic and every day I stand and look down the camera and say 'don't travel unless it is essential, work from home if you possibly can' - that has to apply to all of us.\n\n\"People like me and Boris Johnson have to be in work for reasons people understand, but we don't have to travel across the UK. We have a duty to lead by example.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said her team had suggested she visit a mass vaccination centre in Aberdeen in the coming weeks, but that she had questioned whether the journey was \"genuinely essential\".\n\nShe said: \"If I'm standing here every day saying to all of you watching, don't leave your house unless it is essential, I have a duty to subject myself to that same discipline and decision making.\n\n\"I would say me travelling from Edinburgh to Aberdeen to visit a vaccine centre is not essential - Boris Johnson travelling from London to wherever in Scotland to do the same is not essential.\n\n\"If we're asking other people to abide by that then I'm sorry, I think it's incumbent on us to do likewise.\"\n\nThere are currently cross-border travel restrictions in place for anything other than essential travel, as well as a stay at home order\n\nThe Scottish secretary was asked about the move at Westminster by SNP MP Neale Hanvey, who described the trip as a \"futile\" attempt to bolster the union following a trend of polls suggesting majority support for independence.\n\nMr Jack replied: \"That's ridiculous - the prime minister is the prime minister of the United Kingdom, and wherever he needs to go in his vital work against this pandemic, he will go.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One protester said: \"This is the only way I can effect change\"\n\nPeople campaigning against the HS2 rail project have dug a tunnel near Euston station, in a bid to prevent their eviction from a protest camp.\n\nIn September, members of HS2 Rebellion set up a Tree Protection Camp in Euston Square Gardens in central London to protest against the £106bn scheme.\n\nThey claim the tunnel is 100ft (30m) long and has taken two months to dig.\n\nActivists say the tunnel - codenamed \"Kelvin\" - is their \"best defence\" against being evicted.\n\nOne protester, identified only as Blue, told the BBC: \"It is all very dangerous and life-threatening but it is all worth it. This is the only way I can effect change, I would sacrifice everything for the climate ecological emergency to not be happening.\"\n\nThe 18-year-old added: \"We want to be as safe as possible. It is not about us martyring ourselves, it is about delaying and stopping HS2.\"\n\nDemonstrators have previously built tree houses and scaled cranes near the HS2 Euston site\n\nA spokeswoman for HS2 said tunnel protests were \"costly to the taxpayer\".\n\nShe added: \"These are a danger to the safety of the protesters, HS2 staff, High Court enforcement officers and the general public, as well as putting unnecessary strain on the emergency services during the pandemic.\n\n\"Safety is our first priority when taking possession of land and removing illegal encampments.\"\n\nBritish Transport Police said it was aware of the tunnel but it was a matter for the Met Police, which said no complaint yet had been made.\n\nHS2 is set to link London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. It is hoped the 20-year project will reduce rail passenger overcrowding and help to rebalance the UK's economy.\n\nThe campaign group alleges HS2 is the \"most expensive, wasteful and destructive project in UK history\" and that it is \"set to destroy or irreparably damage 108 ancient woodlands and 693 wildlife sites\".\n\nHowever, HS2 bosses have said seven million trees will be planted during phase one of the project and that much ancient woodland will \"remain intact\".\n\nSeasoned activist Daniel Cooper - better known as Swampy - has been at Euston supporting the campaigners\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps told MPs in September that the first phase of the high-speed rail link between London and Birmingham would not open until 2028 at the earliest.\n\nThe second phase, to Manchester and Leeds, was due to open in 2032-33 but that has been pushed back to 2035-40.\n\nNetwork Rail, which owns the land, has been approached for a comment about the tunnel.\n\nHS2 protester Dr Larch Maxey said the tunnel was \"warm and quiet\"\n\nTunnelling as a form of environmental protest has a long history in the UK.\n\nIn the 1990s it was one of the ways that pushed environmental concerns into the headlines and changed perceptions.\n\nIn one of the environmental protesters' tunnelling guides, written by \"Disco Dave\", it says:\n\n\"In the world of NVDA (non-violent direct action) there are few defence tactics that can compare with the protest tunnel. Dangerous, laborious and time consuming, tunnelling is the ultimate and desperate tactic of desperate people in desperate times.\"\n\nThe first protest tunnel goes back to the M11 and 1993 but they only really developed during the Newbury Bypass protests in 1996.\n\nProtest tunnels against the A30 in Devon and Manchester Airport's second runway then followed.\n\nNot only did they make household names of environmental campaigners like \"Swampy\" but they arguably changed transport policy - road-building reduced massively.\n\nWe have seen tunnels more recently in 2017 in Coldharbour in Surrey in a protest against fracking so it's not a massive surprise we are seeing tunnels again.\n\nTunnelling in particular as a direct action slows down developers and it is expensive to dig out protesters safely.\n\nDisco Dave wrote: \"That ultimately is the purpose of tunnels and tree houses. To act as a deterrent warning the authorities that should they decide to evict, then it will hurt them where for them it hurts most - in the pocket.\"\n\nWhat will be interesting is if these tunnels have the same impact on HS2 as they did on the road-building programme of the late 1990s.\n\nWill it reframe HS2 so it will be seen in the same way as fracking or road building? Or can the argument still be made that it is a low-carbon form of travel even though it does cause some destruction of habitat?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Baroness Floella Benjamin has spoken of her pride after receiving a first coronavirus vaccine dose.\n\nThe 71-year-old actress said she would wear a badge saying \"I've had the jab\" after being vaccinated.\n\nThe Lib Dem peer, who came to Britain in 1960 and was born in Trinidad, is known for appearing in the children's programme Play School and received a damehood last year.\n\nOver 6.8m people in the UK have now received a first vaccine dose.\n\nAs a member of the House of Lords, Baroness Benjamin has spoken regularly about the disproportionate effect of Covid-19 on black, Asian and minority ethnic communities as well as the knock-on impact of the pandemic.\n\nIn September, she told peers she knew two people who had taken their own lives \"because they could not cope with the uncertainty of the future\".\n\nShe is also a member of the Lords Covid-19 Committee.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Floella Benjamin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe government has set a target for all those in the top four priority groups - around 15 million - to be offered a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nTwo vaccines - developed by Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca - are being used. A third, from Moderna, has been approved.\n\nAll have been shown to be safe and effective in trials with two doses needed to offer the best protection - now timed 12 weeks apart.\n\nIt comes as British Asian celebrities united to dispel myths about the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nComedians Romesh Ranganathan and Meera Syal and cricketer Moeen Ali appear in a video urging people to get a jab.\n\nA study from the Royal Society for Public Health found 57% of black, Asian and minority ethnic people said they would take the vaccine.\n\nThis figure compared with 79% of white people who would do so.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAuthorities who dealt with a benefits claim from a single mother, who took a fatal overdose after her payments were cut, made 28 errors in managing her case, a coroner has found.\n\nPhilippa Day, 27, was found collapsed at her Nottingham home beside a letter rejecting her request for an at-home benefits assessment in August 2019.\n\nShe died after two months in a coma.\n\nNottingham Coroner's Court heard the way her claim was dealt with was the \"predominant factor\" in her overdose.\n\nRecording a narrative conclusion, coroner Gordon Clow said he could not determine whether she intended to die rather than put her life at risk.\n\nMiss Day, who had been diagnosed with unstable personality disorder, had been receiving disabled living allowance (DLA) payments as she had type 1 diabetes.\n\nThose payments stopped in January 2019 after she made an application for a personal independence payment (PIP), reducing her income from £228 a week to £60.\n\nThis, the inquest heard, was because a form she had sent went missing and her payments were not reinstated for months, despite her eligibility.\n\nThis led to her taking out short-term loans and ending up in debt.\n\nThe court heard in June, she called the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to say she was \"starving\" and \"couldn't survive like this for much longer\".\n\nPhilippa Day (left) took a fatal overdose and died in October 2019\n\nShe was then asked to attend a face-to-face assessment despite it being \"distressing\" for her, Mr Clow said.\n\nThe coroner added Miss Day's mental health problems were \"exacerbated\" by the benefits process.\n\nHe accepted it had been \"the last straw\" for Miss Day who was already experiencing a range of stressors.\n\nHe said: \"Were it not for this problem, it is not likely that she would have [overdosed] on the 7th or 8th of August.\"\n\nCall handlers repeatedly failed to flag that the case required \"additional support\" due to her mental health problems, the coroner said.\n\nThe DWP did not tell her community psychiatric nurse that she had not returned the form before refusing her application, which could have resolved the issue.\n\nThe coroner said call handlers received little to no training on personality disorders like Miss Day's - all that was available was a factsheet.\n\nCapita was made aware of the risks to Miss Day's health from a face-to-face interview by her community psychiatric nurse, but did not act on it, he added.\n\nMr Clow said: \"Given the sheer number of problems in the handling of her claim, I am unable to conclude that each of these was attributable to individual human error.\"\n\nHe concluded the failure to administer her benefit claim in a way that avoided exacerbating her mental health problems was the \"predominant factor\" that caused Miss Day to overdose.\n\nMr Clow recommended changes at both the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and Capita, the authorities involved.\n\nIn a prevention of future deaths report, Mr Clow said the DWP should consider timely mental health training for call handlers and address \"poor record keeping\".\n\nThe DWP and Capita were also directed to review the change of assessment process so that it does not \"create unnecessary distress\".\n\nA spokesman for the DWP said: \"This is a deeply tragic case. Our sincere condolences are with Miss Day's family and we will carefully consider the coroner's findings.\"\n\nA Capita spokesman said the company also apologised for the mistakes made.\n\n\"We have strengthened our processes over the last 18 months and are committed to continuously working to deliver a high-quality, empathetic service for every claimant,\" he said.\n\n\"In partnership with the DWP, we will act upon the coroner's findings and make further improvements to our processes.\"\n\nThis conclusion amounts to a near dismantling of the process for applying for the main disability benefit for people with psychiatric problems.\n\nWhile around 40% of claimants for personal independence payments have mental health conditions, the inquest found that call handlers for the DWP didn't receive adequate mental health training.\n\nThe coroner found there was an \"institutional assumption\" in the DWP that problems with a claim were the claimants' fault.\n\nLast year a report from the National Audit Office (NAO) found the department had investigated 69 suicides of benefit claimants since 2014-15.\n\nThere were more cases they could have looked into, said the NAO, but in any case the department couldn't demonstrate any improvements from their investigations had actually been implemented.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jane Fonda has had a glittering acting career spanning six decades\n\nUS actress Jane Fonda is to be honoured with a lifetime achievement award at next month's Golden Globes, which celebrate excellence in film and TV.\n\n\"Her undeniable talent has gained her the highest level of recognition,\" said the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) - the ceremony's organiser.\n\n\"While her professional life has taken many turns, her unwavering commitment to evoking change has remained.\"\n\nFonda, 83, has had a glittering acting career spanning six decades.\n\nThe HFPA said she would be given the Cecil B deMille Award at the annual ceremony in Beverly Hills, California, on 28 February.\n\nThe Oscar-winning actress made her debut in 1960, later becoming one of the brightest Hollywood stars with films like Barbarella, Nine to Five and On Golden Pond.\n\nHer most recent performance was in the Netflix comedy series Grace and Frankie.\n\nFonda is also well known as a political activist, most recently as a campaigner against climate change. In 2016, she spent Thanksgiving among the protesters at Standing Rock, demonstrating against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.\n\nIn the 1960s she vocally opposed the Vietnam War.\n\nThe actress - who has written a book about how people can get involved in such activism - has been arrested several times during protests, and hopes her actions have raised awareness.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Labour is calling for juries to be cut from 12 members to seven, to stem the \"gravest crisis\" in the justice system since World War Two.\n\nShadow justice secretary David Lammy said action was needed to clear the backlog of thousands of cases.\n\nHe argued that smaller juries and the use of more temporary courts would allow socially distanced trials.\n\nThe government has not ruled out such a move but insists measures it is taking to clear the backlog are working.\n\nLast week four criminal justice watchdogs warned that courts in England and Wales were straining under pressure from the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nJury trials ground to a halt at the start of the first lockdown, when people were advised to stay at home except in limited circumstances.\n\nWhen they resumed, there were severe delays and numerous cancellations due to social-distancing requirements.\n\nRecent figures revealed that the number of unheard cases in crown courts had reached a record 54,000.\n\nThe backlog means some from last year may not go before a jury until 2022, and it could be years before the courts get back on track.\n\nLabour wants the temporary return of so-called \"wartime juries\" of seven rather than 12 members to speed up the process.\n\n\"Victims of rape, murder, domestic abuse, robbery and assault are facing delays of up to four years because of the government's failure to act,\" Mr Lammy said.\n\nHe also urged the government to speed up the rollout of temporary \"Nightingale courts\" to hear civil, family and tribunals work, as well as non-custodial crime cases.\n\nTen of these were announced in July 2020 to help deal with the backlog in court proceedings, and 20 are now in operation across England and Wales.\n\nLeading lawyers are sceptical about Labour's proposal to reach back into wartime history.\n\nThe Criminal Bar Association - representing barristers who prosecute and defend trials - says a panel of seven may allow more courtrooms to be used, but it wouldn't solve what it says is chronic underfunding - and potentially undermines one of the most important safeguards in our society.\n\nThe Law Society, for solicitors, wants to see evidence that smaller panels would ease backlogs without risking injustices.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice's internal modelling calculated last year that reduced juries would lead to a 10% increase in cases - but that was before courtrooms received new Covid-proof screens that have allowed more trials to run.\n\nScotland's courts are using cinemas to host juries - and while that is not being actively discussed in England, it's not been ruled out either.\n\nEven if juries were slimmed, courts would still need to tightly control the number of defendants who can use their cells and courtroom docks to meet Public Health England's guidelines.\n\nIn April last year, the head of judiciary in England and Wales, Lord Burnett, backed the idea of reducing the number of jurors if social distancing continued.\n\nIn June, Justice Secretary Robert Buckland told the BBC he was \"very attracted\" by the idea of smaller juries, as had happened in wartime, and judge-only trials in less serious cases.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice says it has now installed plastic screens in more than 450 courtrooms and jury deliberation rooms to reduce Covid risks.\n\nIt says the safety measures are designed for 12-person juries and that the impact of lowering the number of jurors would be negligible.\n\nHowever, a spokesman said nothing was being ruled out and ministers were continuing to consider every option available to ensure courts recover quickly.\n\n\"This approach is already delivering results, with magistrates' backlogs falling significantly and the number of cases being dealt with in the crown courts reaching pre-Covid levels last month,\" he added.\n\nThe spokesman also said: \"We know more must be done and are investing £110m into a range of measures to drive this recovery further, including opening more Nightingale courts.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Karen Hobbs, from Cardiff, had a heart attack and died, weeks after testing positive for Covid\n\nThe family of a 40-year-old mother-of-five who died with coronavirus have urged people to respect lockdown rules.\n\nKaren Hobbs had a heart attack and died, weeks after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nThe former EasyJet cabin crew member developed symptoms a week before Christmas, was not able to get out of bed and started struggling to breathe.\n\nShe was taken to hospital and died on 19 January.\n\nKaren's sister Rachel Hobbs said her normally healthy sister became very ill over Christmas.\n\n\"She just looked dreadful, Christmas Day she was laid up in bed, she couldn't do anything,\" she said.\n\n\"I knew she was really bad but I'd never seen anybody like that before, it was shocking, for someone that healthy to be barely able to walk to a car is quite shocking.\"\n\nOn 2 January, Karen was put into an induced coma.\n\n\"She was really terrified, she said 'I need to come out of this and see my children again'. She never came out of it,\" her sister added.\n\nKaren Hobbs' children are now 14, 11, nine, eight and four.\n\nThe family were told Karen's organs were beginning to fail and she was \"going downhill\" about a week before she died, and they were allowed to visit.\n\n\"She did look a little bit better, she had more colour, she was quite puffy - swelling and a bit of a rash on her. Her lungs were struggling, so we came home a little bit shocked.\n\n\"They started feeding her in a tube and were able to move her, I thought perhaps she's recovering a little bit and then I had the phone call to say that she'd gone.\n\n\"Her body just couldn't take it any more. I don't think it's sunk in. I think the children are still in a bit of shock as well, I thought she would come out of it but she just had it so severe. \"\n\nKaren's children made her a get well soon card while she was in hospital\n\nRachel said her sister, from Cardiff, was healthy with no underlying conditions.\n\n\"She didn't go anywhere - she did online shopping, she was in the house - so we don't even know where it could have come from, she was one of the ones who stayed safest.\n\n\"It's just shocking to think a young mum of five is no longer here. They've lost their mum and they lost their grandfather and nan a couple of years ago so they must feel 'who will be next'?\n\nRachel Hobbs says it still has not sunk in that she has lost her sister\n\nRachel said her sister was a fantastic mother to her five children, aged 14, 11, nine, eight and four.\n\n\"I don't think the youngest understands, I think she thinks mummy's still just in the hospital.\n\n\"She was a very hands-on mum, she spent a lot of time with the children. She'd sit and play with them for hours, sit and colour, she was always there for them.\"\n\nRachel says her youngest niece does not yet understand what has happened to her mother\n\nRachel added that Karen had no patience with people who broke lockdown rules: \"She used to get quite annoyed about people who broke the rules and she wasn't slow on coming forward, she'd say it as well.\n\n\"It just goes to show how bad this virus is. She would say 'make sure you follow the rules because nobody is safe, it is real this virus, stay at home and only go out when you need to'.\"\n\nIn the days since Karen's death a fundraising page has been set up by friends to support her children and their dad, and has raised more than £20,000.\n\nKaren spoke of how frightened she was in her final post on Facebook\n\n\"I'm absolutely amazed at how generous people have been and how kind people have been, the community has come together and I think she'd be proud too that it's raising awareness about the pandemic.\n\n\"That'll help the children going forward now. Out of a bad thing, it's been nice people getting in touch, kind words, messages, little things about what she was like.\"\n\nKaren loved colouring and playing with her children, her sister said", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson joined the production line at the Lighthouse Laboratory in Glasgow for the unpacking of Covid tests\n\nBoris Johnson has insisted that Scotland's independence debate is \"irrelevant\" to most people as he urged the country to unite against Covid.\n\nThe PM was speaking during a trip to Scotland to emphasise the strength of the UK working together during the pandemic.\n\nThe SNP said he was panicking as opinion polls show declining support for the union.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon also questioned if his trip is essential.\n\nThe PM started his day-long visit by going to the Lighthouse Laboratory - which processes Covid tests - at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital campus in Glasgow.\n\nHe later visited troops who are setting up a vaccination centre in the Castlemilk area of the city, and toured the Valneva vaccine factory in Livingston.\n\nThe factory is expected to deliver 60 million doses to the UK by the end of the year if its vaccine is approved.\n\nMr Johnson used the visit to argue that the priority should be \"fighting this pandemic and coming back more strongly together\" rather than arguing about the constitution.\n\nAnd he praised the \"amazing performance\" of Scottish people in the \"national effort\" to fight the pandemic.\n\nThe prime minister said: \"I think endless talk about a referendum without any clear description of what the constitutional situation would be after that referendum is completely irrelevant now to the concerns of most people\".\n\nMr Johnson also criticised the SNP's record in government, and added: \"We don't actually know what the referendum would set out to achieve.\n\n\"We don't know what the point of it would be - what happens to the army, what happens to the Crown, what happens to the pound, what happens to the Foreign Office. Nobody will tell us what it's all meant to be about.\"\n\nHe told reporters that \"the very same people\" who wanted independence \"also said only a few years ago, in 2014, that this was a once-in-a-generation event\".\n\n\"I'm inclined to stick with what they said last time,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nMr Johnson met troops who are setting up a vaccination centre\n\nUnder the current Covid regulations, people are only able to travel between Scotland and England for essential reasons, with similar regulations also in place to stop travel across council boundaries within Scotland.\n\nAsked at her daily coronavirus briefing on Wednesday how she felt about the prime minister's visit while the strict travel restrictions were in place, Ms Sturgeon replied she was \"not ecstatic\" about it.\n\nShe argued that leaders should abide by the same rules they impose on the general public, adding that she had herself rejected a suggested visit to a vaccine centre in Aberdeen for this reason.\n\nDowning Street has insisted it is important for the prime minister to be \"visible and accessible\" across the whole of the UK during the pandemic.\n\nIn response to Ms Sturgeon's criticism, the prime minister's official spokesman said: \"These are Covid-related visits. You've seen the prime minister do a number of them over the past few weeks.\n\n\"It is obviously important that he is continuing to meet and see those who are on the front line in terms of those who are providing tests, in terms of those who are working so hard to deliver the vaccination plan.\"\n\nMr Johnson's visit to Scotland is widely seen as being part of a \"charm offensive\" in response to polls indicating a rise in support for independence.\n\nHowever, polls have also suggested that the independence question is currently a lower priority for many people than other issues such as the pandemic, health and education.\n\nA series of opinion polls have suggested that support for independence is now ahead of support for remaining in the UK\n\nCabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said it was \"only right\" the prime minister visited people on the front line of the vaccine roll-out to make sure it is operating effectively.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast Mr Johnson has visited other crucial locations in the UK's pandemic response, such as the Wrexham plant making the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, adding: \"No one thinks that's illegitimate.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer also said he backed the visit. \"I'm with the prime minister on this one,\" he told LBC Radio.\n\n\"He is the prime minister of the UK. It's important that he travels to see what is going on, on the ground.\"\n\nIt comes as the Scottish government sets out its budget, described as the \"most important in the history of devolution\" in the wake of huge spending increases to support people and businesses during the pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson had a clear purpose on his visit to Scotland - to talk up what he calls the power of cooperation across the UK.\n\nDressed in white lab coat and protective gear, he was happy to tell me how the UK government is supporting the fight against coronavirus in Scotland.\n\nThat includes spending lots of money supporting jobs and businesses, building test centres, and procuring vaccine supplies from companies like the one he was visiting in Livingston.\n\nNo matter what the prime minister does, or that the UK and Scottish governments are following broadly similar Covid strategies - the public in Scotland perceives that Nicola Sturgeon and her team are handling the pandemic response better.\n\nThis visit was controversial because it happened during lockdown but it went ahead because the UK government recognises how much work it has to do to make the case for the union in Scotland, with Scottish elections due in May when the question of indyref2 will be to the fore.\n\nOn Sunday, the SNP revealed an 11-point \"roadmap to a referendum\" on Scottish independence, which sets out how the party intends to take forward its plan for another vote on the issue.\n\nIt says a \"legal referendum\" will be held after the pandemic if there is a pro-independence majority at Holyrood following May's election.\n\nAnd it says it will \"vigorously oppose\" any legal challenge from the UK government.\n\nNicola Sturgeon's SNP has published a \"roadmap\" aimed at holding a legal referendum once the pandemic ends\n\nMr Johnson has repeatedly stated his opposition to a referendum, and has suggested that another one should not be held for 40 years.\n\nOpposition parties in Scotland have also accused Ms Sturgeon and the SNP of putting the push for independence ahead of the Covid pandemic.\n\nBut SNP deputy leader Keith Brown said the prime minister's trip was evidence that he is in a \"panic\" about the prospect of another referendum.", "Jonathan Mok posted a selfie and another photo of his injuries on Facebook\n\nA 16-year-old boy has been sentenced for racially attacking a Singapore student who was told \"we don't want your coronavirus in our country\".\n\nJonathan Mok was beaten up on Oxford Street last February by a group of boys in an \"unprovoked attack\".\n\nThe teenager was convicted of racially aggravated grievous bodily harm following a trial at Highbury Corner Youth Court.\n\nThe chair of the bench gave the boy an 18-month youth rehabilitation order.\n\nHe was also ordered to wear an electronic tag, follow a curfew order between 20:00 and 07:00 for 10 weeks and must pay £600 compensation to Mr Mok.\n\nChair of the bench Mervyn Mandell warned that had he been an adult he \"would have gone to jail for a very long time\".\n\n\"This was an unprovoked attack for no reason other than his [Mr Mok's] appearance,\" he said.\n\nJonathan Mok had been walking home after having dinner in central London\n\nMr Mok, 23, suffered a complicated fracture to his nose and cheekbone which required surgery, screws and stitches.\n\nImages of his swollen eye were shared widely on social media following the attack.\n\nThe court heard previously how the UCL law student turned around after a friend of the attacker made a remark about coronavirus towards him.\n\nWitnesses described a \"commotion on the street\" where Mr Mok and his friend were \"confronted by a group of white males\".\n\nThey heard someone shout \"you are diseased don't come near me\".\n\nMr Mok was then punched in the face. The teenager joined the attack and continued to punch and kick Mr Mok.\n\nProsecutor Simon Maughan said the teenager was \"quick to get involved\" in the group attack.\n\nA victim impact statement read out on behalf of Mr Mok said the crime had \"taken a heavy toll\" on him and his family.\n\nHe added: \"My legal education had to be halted for a month due to surgery and follow up medical appointments.\n\n\"I have anxiety and have problems sleeping. I believe the defendant is a threat to Singaporeans and South East Asians. He has shown no remorse.\"\n\nThe teenager's defence barrister Gerard Pitt said the boy handed himself in following a police CCTV appeal last March.\n\nNo-one else has been charged in connection with the attack.\n\nMr Pitt said: \"He has always maintained he did not say anything about coronavirus and that was vindicated at the trial.\"\n\nThe court heard Mr Mok could not be 100% sure the defendant was the boy who said anything about coronavirus.\n\nThe boy had no previous convictions, but had two youth cautions for common assaults, the court was told.\n\nBefore being sentenced the teenager said: \"When I saw the picture I felt disgusted.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Robin Swann says all health workers are valued and have worked tirelessly during the pandemic\n\nHealth workers in Northern Ireland are to get a \"special recognition\" payment for their work during the pandemic.\n\nIt is intended that all staff will receive a payment of £500, said Health Minister Robin Swann.\n\nHowever, it will be subject to approval from the Department of Finance.\n\nThere had been calls from some political parties and health unions for staff to be recognised for their efforts.\n\nScotland has already announced a similar one-off payment and Mr Swann said it would reflect the \"principle of parity\".\n\n\"There are no words to properly convey what health workers have done for us, we will never be able to repay that debt,\" added the minister.\n\nThe development comes as Northern Ireland's Department of Health has recorded 16 more coronavirus-related deaths, taking its toll so far to 1,779.\n\nA further 527 people have tested positive for the virus in the past 24 hours.\n\nThere are 775 people in Northern Ireland's hospitals who are being treated for the virus - 68 of them are in intensive care and the number of people requiring ventilators has risen to 56.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 54 more Covid-19 related deaths were recorded on Wednesday. It brings the Republic of Ireland's death toll to 3,120.\n\nThe Irish Department of Health also confirmed 1,335 more Covid-19 cases.\n\nSpeaking at the weekly health news conference on Wednesday, Mr Swann said the pandemic had caused \"destruction\" and left \"heartbreak in its wake\".\n\n\"Staying at home is making a difference. The R-number has been moving in the right direction,\" he said.\n\n\"We have to sustain and build on that progress.\"\n\nThe reproductive rate of the virus - known as the R rate, measures the infection rate of Covid-19 and had risen to about 1.8 after Christmas relaxations.\n\nIt has been falling since lockdown restrictions were introduced on 26 December, and Chief Medical Officer Dr Michael McBride said NI's R-number for hospital admissions has now fallen back below one.\n\nBut he warned that the pressure on the system was still significant and would continue for several more weeks.\n\nHe added that there would need to be a \"sustained\" drop in the figures before relaxations of the lockdown could be considered by the executive.\n\nIt has also been confirmed that the number of people in Northern Ireland who have received their first Covid-19 now stands at 168,140.\n\nMore than 50,000 people aged over 80 have been vaccinated.\n\nOn the payment to health workers, Mr Swann said it would \"not be without its challenges\" but that he valued all staff in the health service.\n\n\"For some people, especially some of our lower paid workers, it may in fact have an adverse impact on their social security payments or supports that recipients may be claiming,\" he added.\n\n\"I have written to the ministers of finance and communities asking them to urgently consider the issue and to engage with the tax and benefit authorities in Great Britain to request that these payments are excluded from consideration in this regard.\"\n\nThere will also be a one-off payment of £2,000 for all non-salaried students on clinical placements in the health service.\n\nMr Swann added that he intends to provide a one-off payment for carers as well, describing them as \"among the greatest unsung heroes\" of the pandemic.\n\nBut he said: \"There is still more work to be done in this regard and it will be significantly more complex to administer than the staff payment.\"\n\nKevin McAdam, who is from Unite the union, said the \"recognition payments\" will be allocated with assurances that this will not affect pay negotiations with healthcare workers.\n\nMr McAdam welcomed that health care workers and non-salaried students on placements will be \"receiving something more tangible than applause\".\n\n\"The student payment is a recognition payment, it does not solve the problems around whether student placements should be paid, I think that is an argument for another day.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a senior Department of Finance official has warned there is \"a higher than usual risk\" of some £430m unspent by the NI Executive being returned to the Treasury.\n\nMinisters must submit further funding bids, or risk it being handed back at the end of the financial year.\n\nA department official, Jeff McGuinness, said the Treasury was being pressed to show flexibility in carrying unspent money over but added that it was \"imperative\" Stormont pressed ahead, rather then rely on agreement from Treasury.\n\nHe said the other devolved administrations were also asking the Treasury for similar levels of carry-forward of unspent fiscal allocations.", "More than 127,000 people in the UK who contracted coronavirus have lost their lives - with the pandemic claiming more than 3.4 million deaths worldwide. As the UK marks a year since the first coronavirus lockdown was called, it's a time for reflection.\n\nWe have gathered tributes to more than 770 of those who have died. Below are words of remembrance from friends, family and colleagues.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nThe tributes are displayed at random, which means that you will see different faces each time you visit this page.\n\nIf we have used your tribute to your friend or family member, it will appear in the carousel above, or you can find it by entering their name in the search box below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Enter a name to search the tributes\n\nFor more on NHS and healthcare workers, please see this page dedicated to 100 people who died while helping to look after others.\n\nFor more on how it has affected people's lives, from family tragedy to its impact on everyday life, we have a collection of personal stories about life in lockdown.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The limit on a single payment using contactless card technology could rise to £100 - more than double the current limit.\n\nThe coronavirus pandemic led to larger amounts spent via contactless payments on debit cards, credit cards, and cards connected to smartphones.\n\nIt has been less than a year since the limit was raised from £30 to £45.\n\nThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said it will consult \"shortly\" on a change in the rules.\n\n\"It is important that payments regulation keeps pace with consumer and merchant expectations,\" the regulator said.\n\n\"Recognising changing behaviour in how people pay, as part of a wider consultation, we will shortly be seeking views on amending our rules to allow for a possible increase in the contactless limit to £100.\"\n\nThe FCA can set the boundaries for payments, under its rules, but the card issuers would have the power to set the actual limits.\n\nThe pandemic has changed the way we pay for things\n\nThe use of contactless technology by consumers has risen sharply in recent years, with more services adopting the technology and most shops offering it as an option.\n\nTo protect workers and consumers during the Covid outbreak, an increase to the current limit of £45 was rushed through by the regulator in April last year.\n\nThe latest figures show that the proportion of contactless payments had fallen slightly compared with pre-pandemic levels, because lockdown measures hit the use of pubs, restaurant, and public transport. They accounted for 41% of card transactions.\n\nHowever, there was a 16% increase in the total value of contactless payments in the UK in October, compared with the same month a year earlier, the latest data from UK Finance - which represents banks - shows.\n\nThe amount spent on contactless hit a monthly record in August, boosted by the Eat Out to Help Out scheme and fewer coronavirus-related restrictions. A total of £8.4bn was spent on credit and debit cards using contactless during that month.\n\n\"The industry believes that a more flexible approach could be merited in future, which takes into account consumer demand, fraud prevention, security and convenience,\" said a spokesman for UK Finance.\n\n\"Contactless is one of a range of payment methods and the industry will also continue to work closely with the regulator to ensure that customers can pay in a way that suits them.\"\n\nHowever, there may be less enthusiasm from some shopkeepers concerned about higher-value theft as a result of the proposed changes.\n\nAndrew Cregan, payments policy advisor at the British Retail Consortium, said: \"We have concerns about raising the contactless limit, with losses from incomplete contactless payments at self-checkouts currently costing retailers millions in lost revenue.\n\n\"Card companies should take measures to reduce incomplete payments and we urge customers to make sure their own transactions always go through. However, the overwhelming priority at the moment must be for the government to address the rocketing card fees.\"", "The UK has identified 77 cases of the coronavirus variant first detected in South Africa, the health secretary has said.\n\nCases are linked to travellers arriving in the UK, rather than community transmission, Matt Hancock added.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr cases were under \"very close\" observation and enhanced contact tracing was under way.\n\nMinisters are due to meet on Monday to consider imposing tougher restrictions on people arriving from abroad.\n\nScientists have said there is a chance the South African variant may harm the effectiveness of current vaccines.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Hancock said that \"three quarters of all the 80-year-olds in the country and a similar number of care homes\" have received their first doses of the vaccine.\n\nBoth the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses, and figures so far reflect those given the first dose.\n\nMr Hancock said that it was \"far too early to say\" what proportion of the population needed to be vaccinated before lockdown restrictions could be eased.\n\nAll viruses, including the one that causes Covid-19, mutate, and variants have been first located in the UK, South Africa and Brazil.\n\nThe South Africa variant has been found in at least 20 other countries, including the UK.\n\nMr Hancock said that all the South Africa variant cases in the UK were linked to travel.\n\n\"That's why we have got such stringent border measures in place against movement from South Africa,\" he added.\n\nThe UK closed all travel corridors last week until at least 15 February, with almost all travellers arriving in the country now required to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has not ruled out bringing in tougher measures at UK borders, telling a Downing Street news conference on Friday: \"We don't want to put that (efforts to control Covid) at risk by having a new variant come back in.\"\n\nMinisters are set to discuss whether to tighten border restrictions further, including the possibility of hotel quarantines for travellers.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"We have got to be cautious at the borders.\"\n\nAsked for a date on when lockdown restrictions might end, Mr Hancock said it was \"one of the many things that we don't yet know the answer to\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock on easing restrictions: \"We don't know the answer\"\n\nGovernment data on 14 January showed there were 35 confirmed cases of the South Africa variant identified in the UK, and a further 12 \"probable\" cases.\n\nMr Hancock said nine cases of the Brazil variant had been found in the UK, adding \"we are monitoring each and every one very closely\".\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that Labour had been \"pushing the government to take tougher measures at the border since last spring\".\n\nShe said: \"We would fully expect the government to bring in tougher quarantine measures, we would expect them to roll out a proper testing strategy and we would expect them as well to start checking up on the people who are quarantining.\n\n\"Only three out of every hundred people who are asked to quarantine when they arrive into the UK actually face any checks at all - that's just simply not sufficient.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Johnson said there was \"some evidence\" the UK variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nThe UK government's chief scientific officer, Sir Patrick Vallance, said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nThe PM said on Friday that there was evidence that both the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine and Oxford-AstraZeneca jab were effective against the variant first detected in the UK.\n\nSir Patrick has warned that the variants in South Africa and Brazil might \"have certain features which means they might be less susceptible to vaccines\".\n\nBut he said \"there is no evidence\" that the two variants have transmission advantages over those already in the UK and so having cases here doesn't mean \"they will take off\".\n\nMeanwhile, England's deputy chief medical officer warned that people who have received a Covid-19 vaccine could still pass the virus on to others and should continue following lockdown rules.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam stressed that scientists \"do not yet know the impact of the vaccine on transmission\".\n\nHe said vaccines offer \"hope\" but infection rates must come down quickly.\n\nIt's a key question but the fact is that no one can be sure.\n\nThat's because the trials of the vaccines explored the safety of the drugs and how well they prevent people from becoming ill - with good results for both.\n\nBut they did not investigate whether vaccination also stops infection and therefore whether people who've been immunised can still spread the virus to others.\n\nIf a vaccinated person did become infected, they probably wouldn't realise because they wouldn't have any symptoms. That's why health officials and ministers are so concerned.\n\nIt's possible that the antibodies boosted by the vaccine suppress the effects of the virus but don't eliminate it from the upper airway.\n\nMany scientists are cautiously hopeful that in this scenario, the amount of virus would be reduced but they're waiting for the results of studies under way now.\n\nAnd until there's an answer, it's difficult to calculate how and when it's safe to ease restrictions and allow people to mix again.\n\nA further 610 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Sunday - down from 671 deaths last Sunday - in addition to 30,004 new infections.\n\nThe number of positive cases has fallen for the fourth day in a row and is the lowest figure since before Christmas.\n\nThe death figures tend to be lower on a Sunday and Monday because of weekend lags in reporting of the data.\n\nMeanwhile, more than six million people have had their first dose of a Covid vaccine - with the figure now standing at 6,353,321.\n\nNadhim Zahawi, the minister responsible for the vaccine rollout, said on Twitter that 6,353,321 of the \"most vulnerable and frontline heroes\" had received a first dose of the vaccine, but there was still \"much more to do\".\n\nThere were 4,076 Covid patients in mechanical ventilation beds in UK hospitals as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.", "A banned driver in a stolen car who drove into a police officer on his motorbike has been detained for three years at a young offender's institute.\n\nPC Steve Lovering was deliberately hit by Callum Fellows in Oldbury, West Midlands, after recognising him as a car crime suspect, police said.\n\nFellows, 18, admitted dangerous driving, driving while disqualified and assault at Wolverhampton Crown Court.\n\nFootage from 27 August shows Fellows reversing and knocking Mr Lovering off his bike \"sending him sprawling into the road\" before he sped off on the wrong side of the road and through red traffic lights.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister said he knew pupils and teachers wanted \"nothing more than to get back to the classroom\"\n\nSchools in England will not be able to reopen to all pupils after the February half-term, but could do so from 8 March, the prime minister has said.\n\nBoris Johnson said this was the earliest schools could reopen and \"depends on lots of things going right\".\n\nThe BBC has been told the aim is for all schools and year groups in England to return at the same time.\n\nTheir return would mark the first stage in lifting the lockdown, the PM said.\n\nHe told a Downing Street news conference: \"The date of 8 March is the earliest that we think it is sensible to set for schools to go back and obviously we hope that all schools will go back.\"\n\n\"I'm hopeful, but that's the earliest that we can do it and it depends on lots of things going right, and... it also depends on us all now continuing to work together to drive down the incidence of the disease through the basic methods we've used throughout this pandemic,\" he added.\n\nThere was not enough data yet to decide when to end the lockdown, he said, but intended to set out a plan for how it could be eased - and the criteria involved - in the final week of February\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg described the 8 March date as \"very much a hope and certainly not a guarantee\".\n\nMeanwhile, a further 1,725 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test, according to the latest government figures. The UK's official coronavirus death toll surpassed 100,000 on Tuesday.\n\nMr Johnson told MPs the country remained in a \"perilous situation\" as he said UK nationals and residents arriving from 30 high-risk countries would soon be ordered to quarantine in hotels.\n\nHe revealed a plan for the \"gradual and phased\" lifting of the lockdown in England could come in the week beginning 22 February.\n\nOther restrictions on daily life could be eased after schools reopen, but he explained this would depend on hitting vaccination targets, the capacity of the NHS, and deaths falling.\n\nAn earlier plan for mass testing for pupils and staff remains in place, the BBC has been told.\n\nEngland's schools have been closed to all but vulnerable children and those of key workers since the Christmas break.\n\nIn Scotland, it is hoped schools may begin a phased return in the middle of February.\n\nIn Wales, measures including school and college closures will be reviewed on Friday. In Northern Ireland, a review will take place on Thursday.\n\nThe prime minister said he understood frustration among pupils and teachers \"and for parents and for carers who spent so many months juggling their day jobs, not only with home schooling but meeting the myriad other demands of their children from breakfast until bedtime\".\n\nThe government initially planned to review England's lockdown measures - including school closures - on 15 February, which had raised hopes that pupils could return to classes after half term.\n\nAcknowledging the impact of continued school closures, Mr Johnson pledged to \"work with parents, teachers and schools to develop a long-term plan to make sure that pupils have the chance to make up their learning\" before 2024.\n\nHe said £300m \"of new money to schools\" would fund a catch-up programme over the coming year, with financial incentives for providers to educate pupils who have missed lessons due to the pandemic.\n\nAfter complaints about confusion and drift about when schools in England are going back, Boris Johnson has sought to bring some certainty.\n\nThey won't be going back straight after half term - but the target date will be 8 March.\n\nSources say the aim is for all schools and year groups in England, in primary and secondary, to return back on that date - rather than it being the starting date of a phased or regional return.\n\nAlthough that could be subject to any changes in local Covid-19 levels.\n\nWhen schools do go back it is expected there will be mass testing for pupils and staff, in the scheme initially planned for the start of term.\n\nIt still leaves parents home schooling for another five weeks - and means most of this term will have been without face-to-face lessons.\n\nThis will be a particular worry for pupils heading for whatever replaces GCSEs and A-levels this summer, after almost a full year of stop-start lessons.\n\nHead teachers say the delay is \"no surprise\" - and reopening must be done safely.\n\nAnd Labour says half term should be used to vaccinate teachers to help schools stay open.\n\nBut the prime minister will hope that parents would rather have some clarity about what's happening with schools, even if that means a longer delay.\n\nTeachers' and head teachers' unions said they supported reopening schools but added that it must be safe and not rushed.\n\nMary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said that although the most vulnerable would be protected by March, most parents would not be.\n\n\"It fails completely to recognise the role schools have played in community transmission. The prime minister has already forgotten what he told the nation at the beginning of this lockdown, that schools are a 'vector for transmission',\" she said.\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders' union NAHT, said the government needs to work with head teachers to review safety measures and create a \"workable plan\" for schools to reopen fully.\n\n\"The government will also have to put effort into reassuring families that it is safe to send their children back to school - there is a confidence test the government must pass to make the return a success,\" he said.\n• None How are Covid rules changing across UK schools?", "Times Radio's Tom Newton-Dunn asked about transmission rates in people given the vaccine Image caption: Times Radio's Tom Newton-Dunn asked about transmission rates in people given the vaccine\n\nTom Newton Dunn from Times Radio asks what we know so far about the rate at which people who have had the vaccine can transmit coronavirus.\n\nJonathan Van Tam says there is no clear data on how the vaccine impacts transmission of coronavirus but there are studies working on finding out and we will have that information in time.\n\nHe said the question is less \"will they\" and more \"to what extent\" do they stop transmission.\n\nSir Patrick Vallance says \"you don't have vaccines of this efficacy without there being some effect on transmission\".\n\nHe says it's an important question as \"it will also determine to what extent these vaccines can be used across wider society to reduce transmission overall\".\n\nNewton Dunn asks how the prime minister came to the date of 8 March to reopen schools and whether it would have been \"wiser to wait until you were sure\".\n\nThe prime minister says the date depends on the vaccines working in reducing mortality and serious disease.... and we need to make sure the infection rate is in the right place.\n\n\"We will keep it all under constant review,\" he says.", "Already 100,000 people in the UK have died with Covid, according to the official count. The idea of 100,000 deaths is hard for many of us to comprehend. But each was a human being who lived and loved in their own unique way. This is the story of one of them.\n\nBy 3:01am, alone in a hospital room, Ann Fitzgerald reached for her phone. This would be her last chance to contact her husband of four decades, the man she'd raised two children with, her Tony - to Ann, he was always her Tony.\n\nThe couple had made a pact. So long as Ann was in hospital with Covid, Tony would spend his nights dozing upright in a chair at their bungalow in Pewfall, Merseyside. That way, he would wake up if there was a message alert.\n\nIt wasn't much of a sacrifice, Tony thought, not when the woman he'd loved for 47 years was all by herself and frightened. And besides, each time his phone bleeped Tony would know she was still alive, and silently he'd thank the stars.\n\nAnd so in the early hours of Tuesday 7 April, Ann's last message arrived. She'd summoned the energy to take a farewell selfie as she lay in bed wearing an oxygen mask. \"She must have thought: 'Here's something so you won't forget me,'\" says Tony.\n\nTwo-and-a-half hours later, Ann was dead. She was 65, a mother, a wife, a neighbour, a colleague and a friend, and one of 999 people in the UK who died that day with the novel coronavirus.\n\nSoon after the hospital rang and told Tony of her death, he was at her bedside, dressed from head to toe in PPE. No visitors had been allowed to see her while she was alive, but now she was gone it was apparently fine - for reasons he didn't understand.\n\nTony wept as he apologised to his wife's lifeless body for letting her go like this, with no loved ones by her side. Then he turned and cursed the sterile white hospital ceiling and walls, because they'd been with her at the end and he hadn't.\n\nBack then, few could have imagined the UK's death toll would reach 100,000, or anything close to it.\n\nAt that point, the tally stood at 10,000; three weeks previously the UK government's Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance had said limiting the final figure to twice that sum would be a \"good outcome\".\n\nNow, 10 months on, the total number of people in the UK who have died within 28 days of a coronavirus diagnosis has increased tenfold, while UK excess deaths in 2020 were at their highest level since World War Two. The UK has had one of the highest rates of recorded coronavirus deaths in the world so far.\n\nBy any measure, 100,000 is a devastating amount, roughly equivalent to two Premier League football grounds, or the number of people who attend the Reading festival every year. For many people, the sheer scale of loss conveyed by the figure will be impossible to grasp.\n\n\"Numbers with lots of zeros are very difficult to interpret, and can be made to look large or small,\" says Sir David Spiegelhalter, a statistician at the University of Cambridge.\n\n\"If I say that 100,000 deaths is two months' worth of normal mortality, then it may not look so bad. If I say that it is more than all the [UK] civilian deaths in WW2, or as if everyone in a city the size of Durham got killed, then it sounds worse. It is challenging to adequately convey such a large number of individual tragedies.\"\n\nBut while many may have become numb to the daily death figures, behind every statistic is a real life lost - a real life like Ann's. \"That is why this arbitrary numerical milestone is important,\" says Hetan Shah, chief executive of the British Academy and a former executive director of the Royal Statistical Society. \"It is a chance to reflect again on the terrible toll this pandemic has taken on so many British families.\"\n\nIn a Manchester nightclub one evening in 1973, 18-year-old Tony felt a tap on his arm. It was Ann, a year his senior, whom he knew by sight as a barmaid in one of the city-centre pubs he sometimes drank in. She'd always stood out to him, with her olive skin and striking good looks, but he'd never dared imagine she might be interested in him romantically.\n\n\"I'm here with that fella over there,\" she told him, gesturing towards across the room. \"But I don't like him and I don't know what to do.\"\n\nTony walked over to Ann's date and told him to clear off. Then Tony returned to Ann, and the two of them had a drink together, and then another. Before long they were a couple and Tony decided he was the luckiest man in the world.\n\nSoon he learned all about Ann's background. Her Lithuanian-born Jewish father had died when she was two years old, and with her mother unable to cope she'd been passed between relatives throughout her childhood. By 16 she was living in a bedsit, supporting herself with waitressing and bar work - she'd also been employed at the legendary art-deco Kardoma café on Market Street and at George Best's nightclub, Oscar's.\n\n\"As a consequence of her upbringing she was really, really independent,\" says Tony. \"She was really good at talking to people, and she was sharp - the sharpest, wittiest person I've ever met.\"\n\nThey rented a flat in Fallowfield together and made it their home. After Ann was offered relief work running bars around Manchester, Tony quit his job as a sales rep to join her. Eventually, in 1981, they took on their own pub. It was in what was then a tough part of Salford, but Ann had grown up nearby and knew how to handle the local characters: \"She could have you in stitches, but she could throw you a look, and you knew you had to behave yourself,\" Tony says.\n\nThe couple were offered the chance to take on another pub in Sale Moor. They thought they were going upmarket, but it turned out to be quite the reverse; Tony would joke that he should take away all the tables and chairs and install a boxing ring instead.\n\nBut Ann wasn't intimidated by anyone. According to Tony, when a notorious local villain turned up and demanded a free drink, Ann stood her ground: \"My husband's name is above the front door, and he pays for his drinks, so you're going to pay for yours,\" she told him. Impressed, the villain ended up buying one for Ann instead.\n\nShe and Tony knew it was time to quit when burglars broke in one night while their baby daughter slept in her cot upstairs. Tony went back on the road as a salesman; Ann worked variously as a debt counsellor, an incident manager for the RAC, and a sales trainer at a cotton firm. Their children, Gary, and Rachel, never once heard them argue, Tony says.\n\nFor six years the couple had a stall at Altrincham Market selling women's clothes. \"People would come, not necessarily to buy something - they just wanted to see Ann,\" says Tony. \"And as a consequence, they'd buy something they didn't really want.\" Each time this happened, Ann would give Tony a wink.\n\nBy the start of 2020, Ann and Tony were looking forward to a long retirement together. Both their children had left home, and they'd recently moved to the bungalow. The news broadcasts had begun describing a deadly pandemic that had spread from China. But Ann wasn't leaving the house much while she recovered from an operation to replace both hips.\n\nThen one Thursday in March she went for a haircut; she asked for the colour to be darkened slightly too, and when he first saw her afterwards Tony told her how much he loved it. Ann mentioned that the hairdresser had been coughing.\n\nThree days later, Ann began coughing too, and soon afterwards so did Tony. But with a fever, she felt worse, and within a few more days she was barely able to stand. She asked Tony to call 999.\n\nThe paramedics helped her to the ambulance. It haunts Tony now that he didn't hug or kiss her as they said goodbye. \"Neither of us thought for one moment that it would be the last day I would ever see her alive,\" he says. She told him they'd probably give her antibiotics and he could come and pick her up in a few hours.\n\nBut later that day she phoned him to say the doctors suspected Covid and they would be keeping her in. As in many hospitals during the first wave, no visiting was allowed.\n\nTony could only stay in touch with her by phone. When a doctor told him the next 24 hours were critical, he didn't tell Ann, because he knew how scared she was already by then.\n\nBut he did pass on something else the medic had said - that they were deeply impressed by her upbeat attitude and fighting spirit. Tony told her, too, that he believed she would be home soon: \"I had to say that to keep her fighting, and fight she did for 10 days.\"\n\nThe last time they spoke was Saturday 4 April. Ann told Tony she thought she'd turned a corner; she'd eaten a sandwich and some yoghurt. After that, talking became too difficult for her; she wasn't in intensive care but the mask she wore to help her breathe was getting in the way.\n\nThree days after their last conversation, Tony was sitting in a white hospital room beside Ann's body. He sat with her there for an hour. He didn't just apologise, he also promised he'd make sure she was remembered properly. When it was time to leave, a nurse gave him a booklet about bereavement and a black bag in which to put Ann's belongings. Tony carried them along a hospital corridor, wondering how he would tell Gary and Rachel their mum was dead.\n\nThere are eight photographs of Ann in Tony's living room. In each of them she looks full of joy. \"Every time I look around, there's a picture of Ann somewhere,\" Tony says. \"She's smiling and I'm thinking, 'If only I could turn back the clock.' But I can't, you know, and nor can all those other families and relations, either.\"\n\nNearly 10 months after Ann's death, Tony finds himself resenting the home he's been left alone inside. If they hadn't moved there, he reasons, Ann wouldn't have gone to that hairdresser's that day and caught the virus - she'd still be alive, perhaps.\n\nHe feels robbed of the 20 additional years he hoped they'd spend together, as surely will thousands of other bereaved relatives. While the impact on the very oldest has been widely recognised, those who might have looked forward to a long retirement have been badly hit, too - during the pandemic, around 15% of all UK fatalities with Covid mentioned on the death certificate have been among those aged 65-74.\n\nTony desperately wishes his life would go back to how it was, but knows it won't.\n\nAnn's funeral didn't give him any closure. Tony would rather she had been buried, but the undertaker warned him to hurry - extra restrictions could be introduced any time - so he took the date that was offered by the crematorium.\n\nAs it was, under the rules that were already in force, only 10 mourners were permitted, spaced out around the chapel. No flowers or photographs on display, no hugging.\n\nTony understood why all this was necessary - but it wasn't the celebration of Ann's bright, gregarious, love-filled life that he thought she deserved. He'd have to plan another one when all this was over.\n\nAs the months went on, Tony joined online Covid support groups. It helped talking to others who understood how it felt to have lost someone. There was the family of a 19-year-old boy. A woman who was mourning both her mum and her dad. Another woman whose husband had died in the car as she drove him to hospital.\n\nHe thought of these stories each time he switched on the news and watched the Covid mortality figures climb higher and higher. Behind these cold statistics were human lives. And each was as unique as Ann, with a personality and backstory entirely of their own.\n\nIt would have been Ann and Tony's 41st wedding anniversary on 6 October, the day before the six-month anniversary of her death. The following month, a few days after the UK's Covid death toll reached 50,000, Tony once again felt Ann's absence bitterly on what would have been her 66th birthday.\n\n\"Christmas was a nightmare for me,\" he says. Under the rules for the festive season, Gary and Rachel and their partners were able to be there with him, and cooking lunch kept him busy most of the day. But afterwards, when he was on his own again, the reality hit that another celebration had gone by without Ann beside him, and Tony sat down and sobbed.\n\nFor millions the arrival of the Covid vaccines has brought hope, but it is a cold comfort for those who have lost someone. If every one of the 100,000 were loved by a dozen people, \"that's a million people in Britain who have been bereaved\", says the bioethicist and sociologist Prof Sir Tom Shakespeare. \"We need a national monument, some form of remembering.\"\n\nTony is not one of those who will find it hard to grasp the significance of this bleak milestone.\n\n\"To me it's 100,000 poor souls fighting for breath, and they've not had a hug from anyone in their family,\" he says. \"There's a name - there's a person behind that number. And then they've passed away, and the family goes through the grief that I've been through - the numbness, the shock, the anguish and the pain to come.\"", "Microsoft has reported booming demand for its Xbox gaming consoles as the pandemic continues to lift the fortunes of the American tech giant.\n\nIts Azure cloud computing services also got a boost due to a surge in working and learning from home.\n\nThe gains helped push the firm's overall revenue up 17% to a record $43.1bn (£31.4bn).\n\nBut its growth came as the virus continues to weigh on other industries.\n\nMicrosoft boss Satya Nadella said the firm is benefiting from a long-term shift in behaviour.\n\n\"What we have witnessed over the past year is the dawn of a second wave of digital transformation sweeping every company and every industry,\" he said.\n\nXbox sales jumped 40% in the three months to 31 December while Azure services soared 50%.\n\nThe virus continues to weigh on industries outside of tech\n\nThe pandemic has prompted many firms to switch to remote working, while keeping many entertainment options outside of the home off-limits.\n\nMicrosoft has seized on the changes, focusing energy on updating its remote work software options.\n\nThe firm also released two new Xbox consoles in November, helping to boost the performance of its personal computing unit.\n\nMicrosoft's gaming business topped $5bn in quarterly sales for the first time ever due to gaming subscriptions and sales as well as new consoles.\n\nThe firm said profits in the quarter rose 33% compared with last year to $15.5bn.\n\nIts shares - which climbed roughly 40% last year - were up another 4% in after-hours trade,\n\n\"These were blow out numbers that will be another feather in the cap for the tech sector as the cloud growth party is just getting started,\" said Dan Ives, an analyst at Wedbush Securities.\n\nBut the gains enjoyed by tech firms like Microsoft stand in contrast to the ongoing struggles seen in other industries such as hospitality, retail and travel.\n\nCoffee chain Starbucks on Tuesday said its sales in the last three months of 2020 fell roughly 5% compared to 2019, driven by a drop in business in the US where concerns about Covid-19 have prompted authorities to urge people to stay at home.\n\nIn China, where the virus is under more control, sales rose 5%, the company said.\n\nThe firm said it expected business to return to growth in the next few months, including in the critical US market.\n\nBut profits in the quarter dropped 30% to $622.2m compared with last year, sending the firm's shares lower in after-hours trade.", "Apple sales have hit another record, as families loaded up on the firm's latest phones, laptops and gadgets during the Christmas period.\n\nSales in the last three months of 2020 hit more than $111bn (£81bn) - up 21% from the prior year.\n\nThe gains come as the pandemic pushes more activity online, fuelling demand for new technology.\n\nApple now counts more than 1.65 billion active devices globally, including more than 1 billion iPhones.\n\nApple's gains follow the release of its new iPhone 12 suite of phones, which executives said had convinced a record number of people to switch to the company or upgrade from older models.\n\nThe firm said growth in China - where the pandemic has already loosened its grip on the economy - was particularly strong, helped in part by demand for phones compatible with new 5G networks.\n\nSales in the firm's greater China region, which includes Hong Kong and Taiwan, jumped 57%. In Europe, sales roles 17%, and they rose 11% in the Americas.\n\n\"The products are doing very well all around the world,\" said Luca Maestri, Apple's chief financial officer. \"As we look ahead into the March quarter, we're very optimistic.\"\n\nAnalyst Dan Ives of Wedbush Securities said he thought the firm was just at the beginning of a \"super-cycle\" as Apple devotees finally trade in old phones, coinciding with upgrades to telecommunications networks.\n\n\"With 5G now in the cards and roughly 40% of its 'golden jewel' iPhone installed base not upgrading their phones in the last 3.5 years, [Apple chief Tim] Cook & Co have the stage set for a renaissance of growth,\" he wrote.\n\nBig Tech is having an exceptionally lucrative pandemic.\n\nIt's hard not to be wowed by some of these figures.\n\nThat Apple recorded more than $100bn in sales in just three months is simply astonishing.\n\nFacebook figures are also well up on where they were last year.\n\nAs other companies have struggled to survive, Big Tech has flourished.\n\nThere are other reasons for some of these incredible figures. Certainly it seems iPhone enthusiasts were holding out for the new 5G enabled iPhone12.\n\nBut it's not just Apple and Facebook, all of the massive tech companies are having a bumper year.\n\nCovid-19 means people are spending more time indoors - buying things online, watching things online and chatting online.\n\nPerhaps then it's no surprise that these companies are posting record breaking figures.\n\nBut others point to these figures as yet more evidence that Big Tech has become too big to fail.\n\nThese figures are impressive. But they also attract the attention of politicians who are increasingly asking difficult questions - like are these tech mega companies operating in a market that is fair and with enough competition?\n\nApple said profits in the quarter reached nearly $28.8bn, up 29% compared with the same quarter last year.\n\nThe gains seen by technology firms like Apple contrast with losses hitting many other economic sectors, as the virus restricts activity and keeps shoppers at home.\n\nOther tech firms, such as Microsoft and Facebook, have also enjoyed strong growth.\n\nFacebook on Wednesday said increased online shopping during the pandemic helped lift ad revenue in the quarter by 30%.\n\nThe number of people active on its apps - which also include WhatsApp and Instagram - also rose to 2.6 billion daily, up 15% compared to 2019.\n\nIt said ad spending could slow as the Covid crisis relaxes and shopper appetite returns for services like travel rather than products.\n\nIt also warned that plans by Apple to change how it shares user data could weigh on growth.", "The ink and watercolour maps are believed to have been created the year after the battle\n\nHand-drawn, Elizabethan-era maps depicting the Spanish Armada have been saved for the nation after £600,000 was raised to buy them.\n\nThe 10 maps, believed to have been drawn the year after the famous battle of 1588, were sold to an overseas buyer in July but an export ban was imposed.\n\nThe National Museum of the Royal Navy (NMRN) in Portsmouth raised the money in eight weeks.\n\nIt is now seeking further funds to put the maps on display for the first time.\n\nIt is believed the drawings, completed by an unknown draughtsman, possibly from the Netherlands, were based on a set of engravings from the same year by Elizabethan cartographer Robert Adams.\n\nIn the summer of 1588 the Spanish Armada set sail for England after decades of hostility between Spain's Catholic King Philip II and the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I.\n\nIt is regarded as one of the most significant naval battles in history, when the English fleet of 66 ships defeated the Armada, twice its size, by sailing fire ships into its formation off Calais.\n\nThe English fleet defeated the Spanish Armada in the English Channel in 1588\n\nThe ink and watercolour maps were sold for £600,000, but culture minister Caroline Dinenage imposed an export ban until January and called for a museum or institution to raise funds to purchase them.\n\nNMRN director general Prof Dominic Tweddle said members of the public had \"dug deep in extremely difficult times\".\n\nThe target was reached with the help of £212,800 from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and £200,000 from the Art Fund.\n\nMs Dinenage said: \"The export bar system exists so we can keep nationally important works in the country and I am delighted that, thanks to the tireless work of the National Museum of the Royal Navy, the Armada maps will now go on display to educate and inspire future generations.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Chris Whitty said it was a very sad day, as the UK surpassed 100,000 Covid deaths\n\nThe number of daily coronavirus deaths in the UK is likely to come down \"relatively slowly\", England's chief medical officer has warned.\n\nProf Chris Whitty said the UK was going to see \"a lot more deaths\" over the next few weeks before the effects of the vaccination programme were felt.\n\nCurrent restrictions were \"just about holding\" in lowering infection rates, he told a Downing Street briefing.\n\nIt comes as the UK surpassed 100,000 coronavirus deaths on Tuesday.\n\nA further 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nAnd 20,089 coronavirus cases were reported on Tuesday, continuing a downward trend in the number of UK cases seen in recent days.\n\nProf Whitty told a Downing Street news conference the rolling seven-day average for deaths was 1,242 - \"an incredibly high number\" - and unlikely to come down quickly.\n\n\"I think we have to be realistic that the rate of mortality, the number of people dying a day, will come down relatively slowly over the next two weeks - and will probably be flat for a while now.\"\n\nProf Whitty said the number of people testing positive for coronavirus was \"still at a very high number, but it has been coming down\".\n\nBut he cautioned against relaxing restrictions \"too early\", as Office for National Statistics data showed a \"rather slower\" decrease.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with Covid-19 in the UK had \"flattened off\", he said, but was still an \"incredibly high number\" and \"substantially above the peak in April\".\n\nProf Whitty said the new, more transmissible variant discovered in the south east of England at the end of last year had altered the UK's situation \"very substantially\" and had made it \"much harder\" to bring infection levels down.\n\n\"We were worried two weeks ago that the measures we have at the moment were not enough to hold this new variant,\" he told the news conference.\n\n\"I think what the data I showed you at the beginning of the slide sessions shows is that the rates are just about holding with the new variant, with what everybody's doing.\n\n\"It's going to be much harder because of this new variant and I think we have to be realistic about that.\"\n\nSir Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, said that more than a quarter of a million severely ill coronavirus patients have been looked after in hospital since the pandemic started last year.\n\n\"This is not a year that anybody is going to want to remember nor is it a year that across the health service any of us will ever forget,\" he said.\n\nThe daily Covid figures have seen the number of deaths top 100,000. But they also contain some signs of hope.\n\nJust over 20,000 new infections have been reported - down from 22,000 yesterday.\n\nThis compares to an average of 60,000 at the start of the year.\n\nIt is a sharp fall, although Prof Whitty cautions it may actually be a little slower than that.\n\nNot everyone who is infected comes forward for testing and the government surveillance programme which involves random testing of the population suggests the fall has not been quite so great.\n\nNonetheless, it is clear the infection rate is coming down - and that offers hope.\n\nHospital cases have plateaued and should soon start falling. That will eventually lead to a reduction in the number of deaths.\n\nThen, in February, the vaccination programme should start having an impact, leading, hopefully, to a rapid drop in deaths.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson told the briefing the coronavirus infection rate remained \"pretty forbiddingly high\" to ease lockdown restrictions, which have been in place in England since 5 January.\n\nBut he said \"at a certain stage we will want to be getting things open\".\n\nHe added: \"What I will be doing in the course of the next few days and weeks is setting out in more detail, as soon as we can, when and how we want to get things open again.\"\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons - including for food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, the epidemiologist whose modelling prompted the UK government to impose the first lockdown has told BBC Radio 4's PM he believes more action in autumn last year could have \"drastically reduced\" the number of lives lost in the second wave - some 60,000.\n\nProf Neil Ferguson said: \"They couldn't have been eliminated, but they could have been drastically reduced by earlier action, unfortunately.\n\n\"How much is difficult to judge, the new variant was unpredictable and did change our understanding of how much was needed to control spread, but we did just let the autumn wave get to far, far too high infection levels.\"\n\nReacting to the UK's death toll, Mr Johnson said he took \"full responsibility\" for the government's actions, but added: \"We truly did everything we could.\"", "Parents are struggling with the sense of uncertainty, says psychologist\n\nHome schooling can be tough. It's difficult to concentrate, there's emotional exhaustion, boredom, a lack of motivation and it's really hard not going out to see friends. And that's just the parents.\n\nThis winter lockdown is taking its toll on families, now struggling even more on the black ice of uncertainty as no-one can say when schools in England are going to reopen for most pupils again.\n\n\"There's a sense of fatigue,\" says Jacqueline Smallwood, who is at home with three secondary-school children. She says her own \"concentration levels have fallen dramatically\".\n\n\"It's so repetitive that it just makes you feel tired,\" she says of the latest lockdown and the \"silent struggle\" facing both parents and their children to try to get motivated.\n\nHome school shows no sign of coming to an early end\n\nThere might have been some guilty enjoyment at the start of the year when the school term was initially delayed, not having to get up and out on cold January mornings.\n\nUntil it dawned on them that this was becoming something much longer than a few weeks.\n\nIt's morphed from early January to half term in mid-February and now maybe Easter in early April or even later. And Jacqueline says, as a matter of \"respect\", parents need to know what's happening about schools.\n\nThe confusion over a return date seems to have further frayed the nerves of parents.\n\nThe mother, who lives outside Canterbury in Kent, says she worries about the pressures building up on young people.\n\nFor teenagers like her sons, she says this \"should be a pivotal time in their lives,\" when they're beginning to get some independence and when social lives are hugely important - but instead they're stuck inside with their parents.\n\n\"We can't live like the Waltons forever,\" she says, referencing the US TV series of a folksy family relying on each other.\n\nJacqueline says families are finding this latest lockdown tougher than the spring or summer\n\nThe first lockdown created an unexpected sense of togetherness, an \"enforced bonding\" that she says turned out to be a \"massive positive\".\n\nBut Jacqueline, who works as a writer, sees no such upside to the latest lockdown. There is a collective frustration - and she says it has been made even worse by the confusion about when schools will go back.\n\nThe online home-schooling seems to be working, she says, with teachers trying to boost the enthusiasm levels, but it's no real substitute for being in school. And she wants much more clarity about when they will go back.\n\n\"I've tried not to be political about decisions being made, but you can't help but feel disappointed. They don't seem to understand how real people are living,\" she says.\n\nShe says when politicians say maybe schools will or won't be back by Easter, they don't realise how much that uncertainty affects families trying to plan for what comes next.\n\nEducational psychologist Dan O'Hare says the \"key word is 'uncertainty'\".\n\nLiving on a laptop can take its toll on parents having to work and home school their children\n\nNot knowing what is coming next adds to the pressure, he says, and children out of school are already facing big unknowns such as what's going to happen about exams or when will they see their friends and teachers.\n\n\"It's really stressful for children and their families,\" says Dr O'Hare, who is co-chair of the British Psychological Society's division for educational and child psychology. \"They need a sense of a plan.\"\n\nThis lockdown is also in the depths of winter - and he says employers need to think about making sure staff working from home are able to take a break in daylight hours, so that families can get outside.\n\nIt's no use asking parents to answer work emails all day and expect them to go out when it's dark.\n\nSchools have been providing more online lessons in this lockdown\n\nFor some families it has got very difficult.\n\n\"It's affected her emotionally a lot,\" says Dave in Bolton, who is worrying about his six-year-old daughter, who has been crying because she misses her friends.\n\n\"It's awful, you can't put a positive spin on it. She's at that age where she's enjoying her friends, becoming more socialised,\" he told BBC 5 Live.\n\n\"She's quite a confident little girl and I can't help worry that being stuck at home is going to impact her in the longer term.\"\n\nThe father says many of her classmates are still going into school - and that makes it even harder when she sees her friends on school Zoom calls.\n\nEmployers should make sure that parents' working hours allow them to get out in daylight, says psychologist\n\nJen Locke in Newcastle makes the point that women can often be \"the most adversely affected by the decision to keep schools closed\".\n\nShe says home schooling has \"fallen squarely on my shoulders\", helping her children in the day and then shifting her work with an IT company into the evening, so it's an early start through to a very late finish.\n\n\"It's a huge mental strain… I'm knackered from it all,\" she says, right down to trying to get children to bed who aren't tired because they're not going out.\n\nA lockdown weariness seems to be out there, despite the best efforts of schools.\n\nSimon Armstrong in Bristol, whose son is in secondary school, says: \"Virtual lessons, no matter how well delivered, are a woeful substitute for real lessons.\"\n\n\"I am at the end of my tether,\" he says.\n\nThe Department for Education said: \"We are committed to reopening schools as soon as the public health picture allows, and will inform schools, parents and pupils of plans ahead of February half term.\"\n\nBut Labour has accused the government of causing \"chaos and confusion\" for parents and schools.\n\nThe National Association of Head Teachers said: \"Now is the moment for calm heads to decide on a sustainable return to school, not another chaotic and last-minute set of decisions that could easily result in a yo-yo return to lockdown.\"", "The Army sent a bomb disposal unit to Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine producer Wockhardt's unit\n\nProduction of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine has resumed at a plant after it was suspended when a suspicious package was received.\n\nThe Wockhardt UK plant on Wrexham Industrial Estate was evacuated and the Army sent a bomb disposal unit.\n\nPolice said the package had been made safe and its contents would be \"taken away for analysis\".\n\nWockhardt said staff had been allowed to return and its production schedule had not been affected.\n\nBoth Downing Street and Wales' First Minister Mark Drakeford had been receiving updates on the incident since police were called at about 10:40 GMT.\n\nA police cordon was put in place near the plant and the public were asked to keep away. There are no reports of any injuries.\n\n\"There are no wider concerns for public safety, however, some roads on the industrial estate will remain closed whilst we continue our investigations,\" North Wales Police said in a statement.\n\nPolice have asked the public to keep away from the site in Wrexham\n\nForensic police officers were seen examining items on the road outside the plant, which remained closed after the cordon had been lifted.\n\nWockhardt UK said: \"We can confirm that the investigation on the suspicious package received today has been concluded.\n\n\"Given that staff safety is our main priority, manufacturing was temporarily paused whilst this took place safely.\n\n\"We can now confirm that the package was made safe and staff are now being allowed back into the facility.\n\n\"This temporary suspension of manufacturing has in no way affected our production schedule and we are grateful to the authorities and experts for their swift response and resolution of the incident.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn an earlier statement, the global pharmaceutical and biotechnology company confirmed it had \"partially evacuated\" its site to protect staff.\n\nThe Wrexham plant has the capability to produce about 300 million doses of the vaccine a year.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, John Roberts, who runs CMS Wrexham Ltd, next door to the plant, said he heard a \"big bang\" at about 11:35 GMT - although he could not say where the noise came from.\n\n\"We're next door to Wockhardt. Three of us were talking then we heard a hell of an explosion or a bang,\" he said.\n\n\"I went outside, couldn't see anything. I looked the other side and two blokes were on the roof.\n\n\"The next thing the police had blocked off the road and were looking in the bushes.\"\n\nPolice were at the scene on Wrexham Industrial Estate for most of the day\n\nA police cordon had been put in place near the Wockhardt plant\n\nHis son Mark Roberts said: \"The police just closed the road off and we've heard there's a bomb disposal unit.\n\n\"They've been here about an hour or so - we're on tenterhooks.\n\n\"Boris Johnson toured the factory around December time, so I wonder if that's raised the profile, as it's where they make the Oxford vaccine.\"\n\nThe Wrexham plant has the capability to produce about 300 million doses of the vaccine a year\n\nDave Picken, 53, who lives near Wrexham Industrial Estate, said: \"We've seen lots of police cars and a fire engine.\n\n\"Bomb disposal are here with a robot. We were closer to the factory but police told us to move and cordoned off a bigger area.\n\n\"I did ask an officer how big the bomb is but he said he couldn't say it's a bomb.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson saw the production line for vaccines when he visited the factory\n\nVisiting the plant in November, Prime Minister Boris Johnson it could provide \"salvation for humanity\".\n\nWockhardt UK entered an agreement in August to help prepare the vaccine for distribution.\n\nWhen the company's contract was announced, Ravi Limaye, managing director, said: \"We are immensely proud to have been selected to partner with the UK government on this project.\n\n\"We have a sophisticated sterile manufacturing facility and a highly skilled workforce.\"\n\nOn Thursday, Wrexham council leader Mark Pritchard said teams had worked to ensure the vaccine was not lost in the floods.\n\nThe Welsh Government said there had been \"no adverse effects\" on the coronavirus vaccine roll-out.", "Already 100,000 people in the UK have died with Covid, according to the official count. The idea of 100,000 deaths is hard for many of us to comprehend. But each was a human being who lived and loved in their own unique way. This is the story of one of them.\n\nBy 3:01am, alone in a hospital room, Ann Fitzgerald reached for her phone. This would be her last chance to contact her husband of four decades, the man she'd raised two children with, her Tony - to Ann, he was always her Tony.\n\nThe couple had made a pact. So long as Ann was in hospital with Covid, Tony would spend his nights dozing upright in a chair at their bungalow in Pewfall, Merseyside. That way, he would wake up if there was a message alert.\n\nIt wasn't much of a sacrifice, Tony thought, not when the woman he'd loved for 47 years was all by herself and frightened. And besides, each time his phone bleeped Tony would know she was still alive, and silently he'd thank the stars.\n\nAnd so in the early hours of Tuesday 7 April, Ann's last message arrived. She'd summoned the energy to take a farewell selfie as she lay in bed wearing an oxygen mask. \"She must have thought: 'Here's something so you won't forget me,'\" says Tony.\n\nTwo-and-a-half hours later, Ann was dead. She was 65, a mother, a wife, a neighbour, a colleague and a friend, and one of 999 people in the UK who died that day with the novel coronavirus.\n\nSoon after the hospital rang and told Tony of her death, he was at her bedside, dressed from head to toe in PPE. No visitors had been allowed to see her while she was alive, but now she was gone it was apparently fine - for reasons he didn't understand.\n\nTony wept as he apologised to his wife's lifeless body for letting her go like this, with no loved ones by her side. Then he turned and cursed the sterile white hospital ceiling and walls, because they'd been with her at the end and he hadn't.\n\nBack then, few could have imagined the UK's death toll would reach 100,000, or anything close to it.\n\nAt that point, the tally stood at 10,000; three weeks previously the UK government's Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance had said limiting the final figure to twice that sum would be a \"good outcome\".\n\nNow, 10 months on, the total number of people in the UK who have died within 28 days of a coronavirus diagnosis has increased tenfold, while UK excess deaths in 2020 were at their highest level since World War Two. The UK has had one of the highest rates of recorded coronavirus deaths in the world so far.\n\nBy any measure, 100,000 is a devastating amount, roughly equivalent to two Premier League football grounds, or the number of people who attend the Reading festival every year. For many people, the sheer scale of loss conveyed by the figure will be impossible to grasp.\n\n\"Numbers with lots of zeros are very difficult to interpret, and can be made to look large or small,\" says Sir David Spiegelhalter, a statistician at the University of Cambridge.\n\n\"If I say that 100,000 deaths is two months' worth of normal mortality, then it may not look so bad. If I say that it is more than all the [UK] civilian deaths in WW2, or as if everyone in a city the size of Durham got killed, then it sounds worse. It is challenging to adequately convey such a large number of individual tragedies.\"\n\nBut while many may have become numb to the daily death figures, behind every statistic is a real life lost - a real life like Ann's. \"That is why this arbitrary numerical milestone is important,\" says Hetan Shah, chief executive of the British Academy and a former executive director of the Royal Statistical Society. \"It is a chance to reflect again on the terrible toll this pandemic has taken on so many British families.\"\n\nIn a Manchester nightclub one evening in 1973, 18-year-old Tony felt a tap on his arm. It was Ann, a year his senior, whom he knew by sight as a barmaid in one of the city-centre pubs he sometimes drank in. She'd always stood out to him, with her olive skin and striking good looks, but he'd never dared imagine she might be interested in him romantically.\n\n\"I'm here with that fella over there,\" she told him, gesturing towards across the room. \"But I don't like him and I don't know what to do.\"\n\nTony walked over to Ann's date and told him to clear off. Then Tony returned to Ann, and the two of them had a drink together, and then another. Before long they were a couple and Tony decided he was the luckiest man in the world.\n\nSoon he learned all about Ann's background. Her Lithuanian-born Jewish father had died when she was two years old, and with her mother unable to cope she'd been passed between relatives throughout her childhood. By 16 she was living in a bedsit, supporting herself with waitressing and bar work - she'd also been employed at the legendary art-deco Kardoma café on Market Street and at George Best's nightclub, Oscar's.\n\n\"As a consequence of her upbringing she was really, really independent,\" says Tony. \"She was really good at talking to people, and she was sharp - the sharpest, wittiest person I've ever met.\"\n\nThey rented a flat in Fallowfield together and made it their home. After Ann was offered relief work running bars around Manchester, Tony quit his job as a sales rep to join her. Eventually, in 1981, they took on their own pub. It was in what was then a tough part of Salford, but Ann had grown up nearby and knew how to handle the local characters: \"She could have you in stitches, but she could throw you a look, and you knew you had to behave yourself,\" Tony says.\n\nThe couple were offered the chance to take on another pub in Sale Moor. They thought they were going upmarket, but it turned out to be quite the reverse; Tony would joke that he should take away all the tables and chairs and install a boxing ring instead.\n\nBut Ann wasn't intimidated by anyone. According to Tony, when a notorious local villain turned up and demanded a free drink, Ann stood her ground: \"My husband's name is above the front door, and he pays for his drinks, so you're going to pay for yours,\" she told him. Impressed, the villain ended up buying one for Ann instead.\n\nShe and Tony knew it was time to quit when burglars broke in one night while their baby daughter slept in her cot upstairs. Tony went back on the road as a salesman; Ann worked variously as a debt counsellor, an incident manager for the RAC, and a sales trainer at a cotton firm. Their children, Gary, and Rachel, never once heard them argue, Tony says.\n\nFor six years the couple had a stall at Altrincham Market selling women's clothes. \"People would come, not necessarily to buy something - they just wanted to see Ann,\" says Tony. \"And as a consequence, they'd buy something they didn't really want.\" Each time this happened, Ann would give Tony a wink.\n\nBy the start of 2020, Ann and Tony were looking forward to a long retirement together. Both their children had left home, and they'd recently moved to the bungalow. The news broadcasts had begun describing a deadly pandemic that had spread from China. But Ann wasn't leaving the house much while she recovered from an operation to replace both hips.\n\nThen one Thursday in March she went for a haircut; she asked for the colour to be darkened slightly too, and when he first saw her afterwards Tony told her how much he loved it. Ann mentioned that the hairdresser had been coughing.\n\nThree days later, Ann began coughing too, and soon afterwards so did Tony. But with a fever, she felt worse, and within a few more days she was barely able to stand. She asked Tony to call 999.\n\nThe paramedics helped her to the ambulance. It haunts Tony now that he didn't hug or kiss her as they said goodbye. \"Neither of us thought for one moment that it would be the last day I would ever see her alive,\" he says. She told him they'd probably give her antibiotics and he could come and pick her up in a few hours.\n\nBut later that day she phoned him to say the doctors suspected Covid and they would be keeping her in. As in many hospitals during the first wave, no visiting was allowed.\n\nTony could only stay in touch with her by phone. When a doctor told him the next 24 hours were critical, he didn't tell Ann, because he knew how scared she was already by then.\n\nBut he did pass on something else the medic had said - that they were deeply impressed by her upbeat attitude and fighting spirit. Tony told her, too, that he believed she would be home soon: \"I had to say that to keep her fighting, and fight she did for 10 days.\"\n\nThe last time they spoke was Saturday 4 April. Ann told Tony she thought she'd turned a corner; she'd eaten a sandwich and some yoghurt. After that, talking became too difficult for her; she wasn't in intensive care but the mask she wore to help her breathe was getting in the way.\n\nThree days after their last conversation, Tony was sitting in a white hospital room beside Ann's body. He sat with her there for an hour. He didn't just apologise, he also promised he'd make sure she was remembered properly. When it was time to leave, a nurse gave him a booklet about bereavement and a black bag in which to put Ann's belongings. Tony carried them along a hospital corridor, wondering how he would tell Gary and Rachel their mum was dead.\n\nThere are eight photographs of Ann in Tony's living room. In each of them she looks full of joy. \"Every time I look around, there's a picture of Ann somewhere,\" Tony says. \"She's smiling and I'm thinking, 'If only I could turn back the clock.' But I can't, you know, and nor can all those other families and relations, either.\"\n\nNearly 10 months after Ann's death, Tony finds himself resenting the home he's been left alone inside. If they hadn't moved there, he reasons, Ann wouldn't have gone to that hairdresser's that day and caught the virus - she'd still be alive, perhaps.\n\nHe feels robbed of the 20 additional years he hoped they'd spend together, as surely will thousands of other bereaved relatives. While the impact on the very oldest has been widely recognised, those who might have looked forward to a long retirement have been badly hit, too - during the pandemic, around 15% of all UK fatalities with Covid mentioned on the death certificate have been among those aged 65-74.\n\nTony desperately wishes his life would go back to how it was, but knows it won't.\n\nAnn's funeral didn't give him any closure. Tony would rather she had been buried, but the undertaker warned him to hurry - extra restrictions could be introduced any time - so he took the date that was offered by the crematorium.\n\nAs it was, under the rules that were already in force, only 10 mourners were permitted, spaced out around the chapel. No flowers or photographs on display, no hugging.\n\nTony understood why all this was necessary - but it wasn't the celebration of Ann's bright, gregarious, love-filled life that he thought she deserved. He'd have to plan another one when all this was over.\n\nAs the months went on, Tony joined online Covid support groups. It helped talking to others who understood how it felt to have lost someone. There was the family of a 19-year-old boy. A woman who was mourning both her mum and her dad. Another woman whose husband had died in the car as she drove him to hospital.\n\nHe thought of these stories each time he switched on the news and watched the Covid mortality figures climb higher and higher. Behind these cold statistics were human lives. And each was as unique as Ann, with a personality and backstory entirely of their own.\n\nIt would have been Ann and Tony's 41st wedding anniversary on 6 October, the day before the six-month anniversary of her death. The following month, a few days after the UK's Covid death toll reached 50,000, Tony once again felt Ann's absence bitterly on what would have been her 66th birthday.\n\n\"Christmas was a nightmare for me,\" he says. Under the rules for the festive season, Gary and Rachel and their partners were able to be there with him, and cooking lunch kept him busy most of the day. But afterwards, when he was on his own again, the reality hit that another celebration had gone by without Ann beside him, and Tony sat down and sobbed.\n\nFor millions the arrival of the Covid vaccines has brought hope, but it is a cold comfort for those who have lost someone. If every one of the 100,000 were loved by a dozen people, \"that's a million people in Britain who have been bereaved\", says the bioethicist and sociologist Prof Sir Tom Shakespeare. \"We need a national monument, some form of remembering.\"\n\nTony is not one of those who will find it hard to grasp the significance of this bleak milestone.\n\n\"To me it's 100,000 poor souls fighting for breath, and they've not had a hug from anyone in their family,\" he says. \"There's a name - there's a person behind that number. And then they've passed away, and the family goes through the grief that I've been through - the numbness, the shock, the anguish and the pain to come.\"", "The police officers were on duty when they had their hair cut, the Met says\n\nThirty-one Met Police officers who broke coronavirus rules to get haircuts are facing £200 fines.\n\nTwo officers who hired a barber to give the cuts to staff at Bethnal Green Police Station, on 17 January, are also facing misconduct investigations, the Met said.\n\nUnder current lockdown restrictions in England, barbers and hairdressers are not allowed to work.\n\nDet Ch Supt Marcus Barnett said he was \"deeply disappointed\" in the officers.\n\n\"Although officers donated money to charity as part of the haircut, this does not excuse them from what was a very poor decision,\" he said. \"I expect a lot more of them.\n\n\"Quite rightly, the public expect police to be role models in following the regulations, which are designed to prevent the spread of this deadly virus.\"\n\nThe investigation comes after fines were handed out to nine officers who were caught eating breakfast together in a Greenwich café.\n\nAll those officers were issued with a £200 fixed penalty notice.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Actor Elliot Page and choreographer Emma Portner have decided to divorce after three years of marriage.\n\n\"After much thought and careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to divorce following our separation last summer,\" the Canadian couple said in a statement.\n\n\"We have the utmost respect for each other and remain close friends.\" They provided no further details.\n\nPage, the 33-year-old Oscar-nominated actor, came out as transgender in 2020.\n\nThat decision was widely praised by his many fans and fellow actors.\n\nPage said at the time that he could not \"begin to express how remarkable it feels to finally love who I am enough to pursue my authentic self\".\n\nHe also used the occasion to address discrimination towards trans people.\n\nPage received international acclaim for starring as a pregnant teenager in the 2007 film Juno. Other major films include Inception and the X-Men series, while the actor has more recently starred in Netflix series The Umbrella Academy.\n\nPortner, 26, has said she has always supported Page's decision to come out.", "The famous event has been held at London's Royal Hospital Chelsea since 1913\n\nThe Chelsea Flower Show will take place in September for the first time in its history as a result of the pandemic.\n\nOrganisers had planned to hold a six-day show in May but announced it would be postponed as there was no guarantee what tier London would be in then.\n\nA virtual show will take place in May like in 2020, with the physical event taking place later at London's Royal Hospital Chelsea.\n\nThe Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) said it would be a \"moment in history\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chelsea Flower Show exhibitors had to display their gardens online last year\n\nThe world-famous show has been taking place for 108 years but has never happened in September.\n\nThis year's event will go ahead between 21-26 September, with the virtual event showing online from 18-23 May.\n\nIt is usually filled with spring and summer colours but the RHS said it hoped the delay will allow a celebration of autumn horticulture.\n\nThousands of people normally attend the week-long event\n\nThe society, which runs the event, said it had a responsibility to exhibitors, visitors, volunteers and staff to delay the flower show, as more people would be vaccinated and levels of infection may have reduced substantially.\n\nDirector general Sue Biggs said: \"Whilst we are sad to have had to delay RHS Chelsea and are sorry for the disruption this will cause, we are excited that we are still planning to bring the world's best-loved gardening event to the nation at a time when more people are gardening more than ever.\n\n\"We know that the autumn dates may not be suitable for everyone, but with our fantastic industry partners we will do everything we can to support them and create a show that will be a moment in history,\" she added.\n\nThose who bought tickets for the event when it was due to happen in May will be contacted by the RHS.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nadhim Zahawi: \"We have 367m vaccines from seven different manufacturers that we have contracted with\"\n\nSupplies of vaccines are \"tight\" but the UK believes it will receive enough doses to meet its targets, the vaccine minister has said.\n\nNadhim Zahawi told BBC Breakfast manufacturers were \"confident\" they would deliver for the UK amid warnings of production delays.\n\nIt comes as the EU said it might tighten vaccine export controls.\n\nCountries should avoid \"vaccine nationalism\" and ensure a fair global supply, Mr Zahawi said.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 100,000 people have died with Covid-19 in the UK, after 1,631 deaths within 28 days of a positive test were recorded in the daily figures.\n\nMr Zahawi said the vaccination programme was still on track to deliver a first dose to 15 million of the most vulnerable by mid-February and to offer all adults their first dose by autumn.\n\nHe said the UK had supplies of the Oxford vaccine manufactured domestically by AstraZeneca as well as the Pfizer one, which is made in Belgium.\n\nThe government is also planning to publish figures on the take-up of the vaccine by ethnicity from Thursday, following concerns that some black, Asian and ethnic minority communities were more hesitant to get the jab.\n\n\"I'm confident we will meet our mid-February target and continue beyond that,\" Mr Zahawi told the BBC.\n\n\"Supplies are tight, they continue to be, these are new manufacturing processes,\" he added. \"It's lumpy and bumpy, it gets better and stabilises and improves going forward.\"\n\nBut he declined to say that he had received guarantees about the number of doses the UK would receive from Pfizer or other manufacturers and refused to confirm how many doses had already arrived.\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said AstraZeneca had committed to delivering two million doses a week to the UK, and the government was not expecting any changes to that supply.\n\nDowning Street also rejected German media reports claiming a very low efficacy rate for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine among older people, saying they had been denied by Oxford University, AstraZeneca and the German health ministry.\n\nChief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told the cabinet the trials showed similar immune responses in younger and older adults.\n\nAnd England's chief medical adviser, Prof Chris Whitty, has defended the UK's strategy of extending the time between first and second doses of coronavirus vaccines from three to 12 weeks in order to immunise more people.\n\nHe told the Downing Street coronavirus briefing on Tuesday that the \"great majority\" of protection came from the first dose.\n\nHe also said there was \"no evidence\" that immunity waned between three and 12 weeks after the first dose was administered.\n\nProf Whitty said: \"We thought very carefully about what the balance of this is, but the balance of risk in terms of reducing the number of deaths in the community - and I really want to stress that, that is the aim of this - is to maximise the number of people who get that first dose, where the great majority of protection comes from.\"\n\nThe latest tension over supply of the Covid vaccine is another illustration of just how fragile this issue is.\n\nThere are huge global demands for Covid vaccine, limited raw materials and constraints on manufacturing.\n\nThe UK already has enough vaccine to jab all the highest-risk groups by mid-February, although not all of it has been packaged up or been through the final safety checks.\n\nThis explains why ministers are confident about the immediate target for the over-70s, health and care workers and the extremely clinically vulnerable.\n\nBut what is in doubt is how quickly the UK can vaccinate in the medium term.\n\nWith the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine manufactured in the UK those supply routes are more guaranteed.\n\nBut the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is made in Belgium. The UK, like the rest of Europe, is affected by the problems with manufacturing that are being experienced with that vaccine.\n\nWith Europe experiencing major problems rolling out its vaccination programme - per head of population five times fewer vaccines have been delivered - this is a story that is going to rumble on for months.\n\nThe UK has placed orders for 367 million doses of vaccines from seven manufacturers, Mr Zahawi said. \"As vaccines come along we will get more volume, millions more in the weeks and months to come,\" he added.\n\nThe tension over vaccine supplies increased after UK-based AstraZeneca warned the EU it would have to reduce planned deliveries because of production problems. Pfizer-BioNTech has also said supplies will be temporarily lower as it works to increase capacity at its Belgian factory.\n\nIt has prompted the EU to accuse AstraZeneca of failing to meet its commitments and to warn that it might require all companies producing Covid vaccines to provide \"early notification\" whenever they planned to export supplies out of the EU.\n\n\"The thing to do now is not to go down the dead end of vaccine nationalism. It's to work together to protect our people,\" Mr Zahawi said.\n\n\"No-one is safe until the whole world is safe.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock subsequently said the UK government \"oppose protectionism in all its forms\" and urged all international partners to \"be collaborative\" and \"work closely together\" on vaccine distribution.\n\nHe added that the EU's warning that it could restrict exports of vaccines made in the bloc was \"unfortunate and especially so in the midst of a pandemic\".\n\nMeanwhile, the head of NHS England earlier told MPs coronavirus could become a \"much more treatable disease\" over the next six to 18 months, with the hope of a return to a \"much more normal future\".\n\nSir Simon Stevens told the Health and Social Care Committee: \"The first half of the year, vaccination is going to be crucial.\n\n\"I think a lot of us in the health service are increasingly hopeful that in the second half of the year and beyond we will also see more therapeutics and more treatments for coronavirus.\"\n\nHe also said it \"would be great\" if the Covid vaccine and flu vaccine were combined into a single jab, if not for next winter then future ones.\n\nAnd he said vaccines were being used as fast as they arrived in the NHS, with more than half of those aged 75-79 having now had their first dose.\n\nThe UK aims to offer Covid vaccination to every adult by autumn.\n\nMr Zahawi said confidence in the vaccines was high, with 85% of people saying they would accept the jab.\n\nBut he said those who were hesitant \"skew heavily\" towards black, Asian and minority ethnic communities.\n\nThe government is providing £23m of funding to 60 local councils and voluntary groups to boost vaccine take-up among groups such as older people, disabled people, and people from ethnic minority backgrounds.\n\nIt comes as celebrities such as comedians Romesh Ranganathan and Meera Syal and cricketer Moeen Ali appeared in a video urging people in their communities to get vaccinated.\n\nMr Zahawi told ITV's Good Morning Britain his uncle had died from Covid-19 last week. He had been eligible for vaccination but caught the virus before he could receive it, the minister said.\n\nThis \"grim and horrible\" experience made him determined to ensure that the most vulnerable were protected as quickly as possible, Mr Zahawi said.\n\nSir Simon said there was concern about vaccine hesitancy in some groups, where there were access problems as well as \"systematic attempts to misinform and lie about the vaccine programme targeted particularly at minority populations, and - in some cases - long-standing mistrust of public services\".\n\nHe said disruption to vaccine deliveries from EU export restrictions was not thought to be likely.\n\nIn other developments, the UK has offered to carry out genomic sequencing for other countries around the world to help identify further new variants.\n\nPublic Health England said it would give \"crucial early warning\" of any mutations that might cause the virus to spread faster, make people more ill or possibly reduce the effectiveness of vaccines.", "\"A legacy of poor decisions\" by the UK before and during the pandemic led to one of the worst death rates in the world, scientists have said.\n\nLabour also criticised \"monumental mistakes\" by the prime minister in delaying acting on scientific advice over lockdowns three times.\n\nAfter UK deaths passed 100,000, Boris Johnson said he took \"full responsibility\" for the actions taken.\n\nBut he said it was too soon to learn the lessons from the pandemic response.\n\nProf Linda Bauld, public health expert from the University of Edinburgh, said the UK's current position was \"a legacy of poor decisions that were taken when we eased restrictions\".\n\nShe told the BBC the lack of focus on test and trace and the \"absolute inability to recognise\" the need to address international travel had also led to a more deadly winter surge.\n\nProf Sir Michael Marmot, who carried out a review of inequalities in Covid-19 deaths, said the UK had entered the pandemic \"in a bad state\" with rising health inequality, a slowdown in life expectancy improvements and a lack of investment in the public sector.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth rejected Mr Johnson's claim that he had done \"everything we could\" to minimise the death toll, adding: \"I do not accept that.\"\n\nHe said the prime minister had been given scientific advice to impose lockdowns and \"pushed that back\" - not only in March but again in September and December.\n\nThe government also failed to create a working contact-tracing system, did not introduce effective health controls at the borders and still did not offer \"proper sick pay\", he said.\n\nAt Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said: \"I mourn every death in this pandemic and we share the grief of all those who have been bereaved. I and the government take full responsibility for all the actions we have taken to fight this pandemic.\"\n\nHe said there would be time to reflect on the decisions taken, but he did not think the right time was in the middle of the pandemic when \"37,000 people are struggling with Covid in our hospitals\".\n\nThe government needed to focus on keeping the virus under control and continuing the fastest vaccine roll-out in Europe, he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said his message to grieving families was that he \"deeply, personally\" regretted the loss of life and that the best way to honour the memory of those who had died and honour those who were currently grieving was \"to work together to bring this virus down, to keep it under control in the way that we are\".\n\nAsked about the government's \"legacy of poor decisions\", Mr Johnson said ministers followed scientific advice and did everything they could to minimise suffering. He said there were \"no easy solutions\" but the UK could be proud of its efforts to distribute the vaccine.\n\nAfter leading a minute's silence in the Scottish Parliament, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she was \"truly sorry\" for any mistakes, as Scotland recorded a total of 5,888 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test.\n\nShe said the government did everything it could, but added: \"I don't think any of us, reflecting on numbers like these, can conclude that we have always succeeded.\"\n\nNext month, the prime minister hopes to publish a document giving details of the criteria he will use to start lifting the lockdown, a senior government source told the BBC.\n\nIt will include factors such as the number of hospitalisations and deaths, the progress of the vaccination programme, any changes to the virus and the impact easing restrictions might have on the epidemic - but will be dependent on emerging data about how effectively the vaccine stops the virus spreading.\n\nThe UK is the fifth country to pass 100,000 deaths, coming after the US, Brazil, India and Mexico.\n\nA scientist advising the government has warned the UK could face as many as 50,000 more coronavirus deaths.\n\nProf Calum Semple, a member of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, told the BBC's Newsnight: \"It would really not surprise me if we're looking at another 40-50,000 deaths before this burns out.\n\n\"The deaths on the way up are likely to be mirrored by the number of deaths on the way down in this wave. Each one again is a tragedy and each one represents probably four or five people who survive but are damaged by Covid.\"\n\nHe said the UK had experienced some \"bad luck\" with the emergence of a new, more transmissible variant but had also suffered from \"decades of underinvestment\" in the NHS and \"a public health authority that's been eroded\" .\n\nMeanwhile, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell asked people, regardless of whether they had faith, to reflect on the \"enormity\" of the pandemic and join in a \"prayer for the nation\" at 18:00 GMT every day from 1 February.\n\nThey said the death statistics were were not \"just an abstract figure\", saying: \"Each number is a person: someone we loved and someone who loved us.\"\n\nMuslim leaders backed the call for a daily prayer. Qari Asim, chair of the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board, said Muslims and wider black, Asian and minority ethnic communities had been disproportionately affected by the \"tsunami of pain, grief and devastation\" - with many unable to properly mourn due to Covid restrictions.\n\nOn Tuesday, a further 1,631 coronavirus deaths were recorded, taking the total number of people who had died within 28 days of a positive test to 100,162.\n\nSeparate figures from the Office for National Statistics, which are based on death certificates, show there have been nearly 104,000 deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nA further 20,089 coronavirus cases were recorded on Tuesday, continuing a downward trend in the number of UK cases seen in recent days. The number of people in hospital remains high, as do the UK's daily death figures.\n\nSpeaking alongside the prime minister, England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty said the number of people dying would come down \"relatively slowly\" over the next two weeks - and would probably \"remain flat for a while now\".\n\nElsewhere, bereavement support charities have written to the health secretary calling for more funding in the light of what they call \"the terrible toll of 100,000 deaths\".\n\nThe National Bereavement Alliance, representing a range of charities, said many families had been unable to be with loved ones as they died or to support one another.\n\nThey called for £500m allocated to mental health in England to be used to support the bereaved.\n\nMinister for bereavement Nadine Dorries said the government had given more than £10.2m to charities since March to ensure services were available to those who needed them.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nIf you would like to send us a tribute to a friend or family member who died after contracting coronavirus, please use the form below.\n\nPlease remember to include a photo of your loved one and their name. 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Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your tribute.", "Scientists say sharks and rays are disappearing from the world's oceans at an \"alarming\" rate.\n\nThe number of sharks found in the open oceans has plunged by 71% over half a century, mainly due to over-fishing, according to a new study.\n\nThree-quarters of the species studied are now threated with extinction.\n\nAnd the researchers say immediate action is needed to secure a brighter future for these \"extraordinary, irreplaceable animals\".\n\nThey are calling on governments to implement science-based fishing limits.\n\nStudy researcher, Dr Richard Sherley of the University of Exeter, said the declines appear to be driven very much by fishing pressures.\n\nHe told BBC News: \"That's the driver for the 70% reduction in the last 50 years. For every 10 sharks you had in the open ocean in the 1970s, you would have three today, across these species, on average.\"\n\nSharks and rays are caught for their meat, fins and liver oil. They are also captured for recreational fishing and turn up by accident in the catch of fishing boats that are targeting other stocks.\n\nSharks are long-lived species that tend to produce few young\n\nOf the 31 species studied, 24 are now threatened with extinction, and three shark species (the oceanic whitetip shark, and the scalloped and great hammerhead sharks) have declined so sharply they are now classified as critically endangered - the highest threat category, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).\n\nProf Nicholas Dulvy of Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada, said oceanic sharks and rays are at exceptionally high risk of extinction, much more so than the average bird, mammal or frog, despite ranging far from land.\n\n\"Overfishing of oceanic sharks and rays jeopardises the health of entire ocean ecosystems as well as food security for some of the world's poorest countries,\" he said.\n\nThe researchers compiled global data on sharks and rays found in the open oceans (as opposed to reef sharks or those found close to shore).\n\nOf the 1,200 or so species of sharks and rays in the world, 31 are oceanic, travelling large distances across water.\n\n\"These are some of the big, important, open ocean predators that people will be familiar with,\" said Dr Sherley. \"The kind of sharks that people might describe as awe-inspiring or charismatic.\"\n\nHe said political will is needed to reverse the trends.\n\n\"The science is there, there needs to be the desire to do those stock assessments, to implement the measures that are needed to reduce the take of sharks and that political will has to come from pressure from citizens,\" Dr Sherley explained.\n\nDespite this \"gloomy\" picture, the scientists said a few shark conservation stories give cause for hope.\n\nSonja Fordham, president of Shark Advocates International, a non-profit project of The Ocean Foundation, said a couple of species, including the great white, have started to recover through science-based fishing limits.\n\n\"Relatively simple safeguards can help to save sharks and rays, but time is running out,\" she said.\n\n\"We urgently need conservation action across the globe to prevent myriad negative consequences and secure a brighter future for these extraordinary, irreplaceable animals.\"\n\nPopulations can recover with appropriate conservation\n\nSharks are at the top of the food chain, and crucial to the health of the oceans. Their loss impacts other marine animals as well as human livelihoods.\n\n\"Oceanic sharks and rays are vital to the health of vast marine ecosystems, but because they are hidden beneath the ocean surface, it has been difficult to assess and monitor their status,\" said Nathan Pacoureau of Simon Fraser University.\n\n\"Our study represents the first global synthesis of the state of these essential species at a time when countries should be addressing insufficient progress towards global sustainability goals.\n\n\"While we initially intended it as a useful report card, we now must hope it also serves as an urgent wake-up call.\"\n\nThe research is published in the journal, Nature.", "In March 2020, we were told it would be a ‘’good outcome’’ if coronavirus killed 20,000 people across the UK.\n\nNow the bleakest milestone has been reached: 100,000 deaths.\n\nIn a statement, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said \"behind these heart-breaking figures are friends, families and neighbours. The vaccine offers us the way out, but we cannot let up now and we sadly still face a tough period ahead. The virus is still spreading and we're seeing over 3,500 people per day being admitted into hospital.\"\n\nHealth correspondent Catherine Burns looks at the past year of the UK’s epidemic and hears from families who have lost loved ones.\n\nFilmed and edited by Julius Peacock. Additional filming by Emily Brooks", "Enforcement agents have removed protesters from the makeshift camp near Euston station\n\nBailiffs from HS2 have started to evict activists who dug a tunnel near Euston station in protest against the £106bn rail project.\n\nIt comes after the BBC revealed campaigners spent months digging the tunnel they claim is 100ft (30m) long.\n\nSince August, HS2 Rebellion members have been living in tree houses and tents at a camp nearby.\n\nA HS2 spokeswoman said the protesters were \"trespassing\" on land owned by the company.\n\nThe land being occupied is needed for continued building work around Euston, she added.\n\nEnforcement agents from the National Eviction Team have removed some protesters from the makeshift camp in the park.\n\nPolice have arrested five men and a woman at the site, although one male was later de-arrested.\n\nActivists say the tunnel - codenamed \"Kelvin\" - was dug as their \"best defence\" against being evicted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Protesters have filmed themselves inside the tunnels\n\nProtesters said they were continuing to dig tunnels and have vowed to stay for as long as possible.\n\nAn 18-year-old, who gave his name as Al, said the tunnels can only be accessed through a section of the makeshift camp and were about 15ft (4.5m) deep.\n\n\"I will stay as long as I can,\" he said, but he added the activists \"have not got much food and water\".\n\nHS2 Rebellion told the BBC four people had \"locked themselves\" to fixing points inside the tunnels.\n\nOne activist, Blue Sandford, admitted the stunt was \"dangerous\" but felt it was \"worth it\".\n\nHS2 protester Dr Larch Maxey said the tunnel was \"warm and quiet\"\n\nEnforcement agents dismantle the make shift camp where HS2 Rebellion members have been living\n\nThe 18-year-old, who is currently on school strike for climate, said HS2 \"is a waste of money\".\n\n\"I'm in this tunnel because they [the government] are irresponsibly putting my life at risk from the climate and ecological emergency,\" she said.\n\n\"They are behaving in a way that is so reckless and unsafe that I don't feel they are giving us any option but to protest in this way to help save our own lives and the lives of all the people round the world.\n\n\"I shouldn't have to do this - I should be in school - the trouble is they are stealing that future and I have to stop them.\"\n\nEnforcement officers have used aerial platforms to try and coax protesters down from the trees\n\nA protester was brought down from the trees by officers\n\nMartin Andryjankczyk, who was carried out of the camp by enforcement agents earlier, predicted it would take \"at least a week or two\" to evict all the protesters.\n\nThe 20-year-old was taken to Holloway Police Station when he was led away but said he had been \"de-arrested\" and returned to the park.\n\n\"I have been living here for the last four months. They (the remaining demonstrators) aren't going to give up that easily,\" he said.\n\nOne activist used to a rope to tie himself between trees at the camp\n\nThe Met Police confirmed a number of officers were sent to the eviction site at Euston Square Gardens to assist High Court enforcement officers should there be any breach of the peace and to uphold Covid legislation.\n\nThe force said five people who were arrested at the site remain in custody.\n\nA spokeswoman for HS2 said tunnel protests were \"costly to the taxpayer\".\n\nShe added: \"HS2 has taken legal temporary possession of Euston Square Gardens in order to progress with works necessary for the construction of the new Euston station.\n\n\"These protests are a danger to the safety of the protesters, our staff and the general public, and put unnecessary strain on the emergency services during a pandemic.\"\n\nHS2 is set to link London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. It is hoped the 20-year project will reduce rail passenger overcrowding and help to rebalance the UK's economy.\n\nThe campaign group alleges HS2 is the \"most expensive, wasteful and destructive project in UK history\" and that it is \"set to destroy or irreparably damage 108 ancient woodlands and 693 wildlife sites\".\n\nHowever, HS2 bosses have said seven million trees will be planted during phase one of the project and that much ancient woodland will \"remain intact\".\n\nThere is a ring of security surrounding the square outside Euston Station and a crowd of journalists reporting on today's event.\n\nEvery now and then there is a burst of singing through a loud hailer and motivational speeches echo from the trees.\n\nMost of the protesters we can see are among the branches, some have cut their safety lines, others are swinging in harnesses.\n\nEarlier, enforcement officers were lifted up in a cherry picker into one of the tree camps . They have spoken with the demonstrators and are now fixing ropes to the high level platforms.\n\nWe've been told at least four people are inside the tunnels HS2 Rebellion have dug under the site.\n\nPeople inside the fence have said they predict the eviction to \"take weeks\".\n\nThe atmosphere is calm but the police have begun to push back people watching, reminding them of Covid-19 regulations and asking to see press passes.\n\nA fence is being erected by officers around the site\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Scotland is to initially follow UK travel rules, but could introduce stricter measures next week\n\nScotland could introduce tougher quarantine rules for international travellers than other parts of the UK, the first minister has said.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that UK arrivals from regions with new virus variants will be provided accommodation for 10 days to isolate.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said she was \"concerned the proposal does not go far enough\".\n\nScotland will \"initially emulate\" the UK government measures, she said.\n\nBut further Scottish rules will be set out next week if the four nations do not reach an agreement on a UK-wide approach - which Ms Sturgeon said would be preferable.\n\nThe prime minister has said there are 22 countries with the risk of known new variants, including the South American nations, Portugal and South Africa.\n\nMr Johnson said anyone travelling from these countries who cannot be refused entry to the UK - such as British citizens - will be provided accommodation for 10 days to isolate \"without exception\".\n\nThey will be met at the airport and transferred to specific places, such as hotels.\n\nFurther details of the plan are expected to be outlined by Home Secretary Priti Patel later.\n\nHowever Ms Sturgeon - who was briefed on the UK government proposals in advance - told her daily coronavirus briefing that a \"comprehensive system of supervised quarantine\" was required in the next stage of the pandemic.\n\nAnd she said she was \"seeking urgently\" to persuade the UK government \"to go much further\" while providing additional support to the aviation industry.\n\nThe first minister said: \"Our best route back to greater domestic normality right now, as we continue with the vaccine programme, is firstly to suppress the virus here to as low as level as possible - as we did over the summer - then give ourselves a better chance of controlling it through test and protect, and next by doing much more than we did last year to protect our borders.\"\n\nThe Welsh government has also said the PM's proposals do not go far enough.\n\nWhen questioned by journalists, Ms Sturgeon said she would \"not give arbitrary dates\" on when the travel restrictions might come to an end.\n\nBut she said people \"might not be able to go on holiday overseas\" in order to \"get domestic normality\" back - including the reopening of schools and allowing people more interactions with loved ones.\n\n\"I'm not saying that's easy but maybe that might be a price we all need to be prepared to pay,\" she added.\n\nScottish Conservatives leader Douglas Ross told the BBC that he believed that countries with higher infection rates and strains with quicker transmission should be prioritised.\n\n\"We've got to look at dealing with this in stages,\" he said. \"This doesn't need to be dragged into a Scotland versus England issue or the rest of the UK issue.\n\n\"This is as big an issue within Scotland. We shouldn't be moving around local authority areas so whether it's north or south of the border or within our own communities we've got to reduce travel as much as possible.\"\n\nIt comes as the deaths of a further 92 people who had tested positive for coronavirus were recorded in Scotland - bringing the total to 5,888.\n\nThe total number of deaths across the UK by that measure passed the grim milestone of 100,00 on Tuesday.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she was \"truly sorry\" for any mistakes that had been made in the handling of the pandemic.\n\nShe added: \"She said the death toll should make all political leaders \"think very hard about what more we could have done and what lessons we must continue to learn\".\n\nShe added: \"I know that I, and everyone in my government, have tried every day to do everything we possibly can.\n\n\"But I don't think any of us, reflecting on numbers like these, can conclude that we have always succeeded.\"\n\nA total of 1,330 new cases were recorded in the last 24 hours, representing 6.2% of people tested.\n\nMeanwhile 462,092 people have received the first dose of the vaccine in Scotland - including 56% of the over 80s and 95% of people in care homes.", "The greys were introduced to Britain from North America in the 19th Century\n\nThe UK government has given its support to a project to use oral contraceptives to control grey squirrel populations.\n\nEnvironment minister Lord Goldsmith says the damage they and other invasive species do to the UK's woodlands costs the UK economy £1.8 billion a year.\n\nThe bizarre-sounding plan is to lure grey squirrels into feeding boxes only they can access with little pots containing hazelnut spread.\n\nThese would be spiked with an oral contraceptive.\n\nLord Goldsmith says the damage from squirrels also threatens the effectiveness of government efforts to tackle climate change by planting tens of thousands of acres of new woodlands.\n\nOn Tuesday, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) told BBC News: \"We hope advances in science can safely help our nature to thrive, including through the humane control of invasive species.\"\n\nA partnership of conservation and forestry organisations called the UK Squirrel Accord (UKSA) is behind the proposal.\n\nIt says grey squirrels, which were first introduced from North America in the late 19th century, cause huge damage to woodlands by stripping bark from trees aged between 10-50 years, the younger trees in a forest.\n\nThey particularly target broad-leafed varieties including oak, which are particularly ecologically important because they support so many other species.\n\nIt is estimated the UK is home to some three million of these invasive rodents.\n\nRed squirrels are now confined mainly to Scotland and Ireland\n\nThey have displaced the native red squirrel across most of the UK.\n\nLord Goldsmith says the government supports the plan as well as a longer-term effort to breed infertility into female grey squirrels to reduce their numbers.\n\nInvasive non-native species such as grey squirrels threaten our native biodiversity, he argues.\n\nWhen regulating grey squirrels with oral contraceptive was first proposed in 2017, the government's Animal and Plant Health Agency said it thought it could reduce their numbers by as much as 90%.\n\nThe project also has royal approval.\n\nPrince Charles was instrumental in founding the UK Squirrel Accord with the objective of \"managing the negative impacts of invasive grey squirrels in the UK\".\n\nHe has written of the importance of protecting Britain's remaining red squirrels.\n\n\"These charming and intelligent creatures never fail to delight\", he wrote last week in his capacity as patron of the Red Squirrel Survival Trust, describing red squirrels as the \"symbol and benchmark\" of healthy woods.\n\nJason Gilchrist, an ecologist from Edinburgh Napier University, has written in defence of the grey squirrel but he says he supports the oral contraceptive plan.\n\nHe acknowledges there is a need to manage grey squirrel populations.\n\n\"It is better than the alternative: a shotgun\", he told BBC News.\n\nIt is the same argument the UKSA makes: dosing the animals with contraceptives provides a humane alternative to culling them.\n\nLast week, the Royal Forestry Society, a member of the Squirrel Accord, called for just such a cull.\n\nSimon Lloyd, its chief executive, says efforts to tackle global warming and improve biodiversity will be undermined unless grey squirrel numbers can be reduced.\n\nNew trees will not survive to \"deliver the carbon capture or biodiversity objectives if grey squirrels cannot be controlled\", he told the Daily Telegraph.\n\nThe UKSA has been experimenting with ways to deliver oral contraceptives to squirrels for more than three years now.\n\nLast year, it tested special feeding stations designed so only grey squirrels can gain access in woodland in East Yorkshire.\n\nInstead of contraceptives, the hazelnut paste bait was dosed with a dye that, when ingested, causes squirrel hair to fluoresce under UV light.\n\nThe researchers found that more than 90% of the grey squirrel population being studied visited the traps.\n\nThey concluded that it was possible to deliver repeat doses of a contraceptive to the majority of grey squirrels in a wood.", "Leon Briggs died in hospital after being restrained and detained at Luton police station in November 2013\n\nA man shouted \"help me\" and \"get off me\" as he was restrained face-down by police officers hours before he died, an inquest heard.\n\nLeon Briggs, 39, died in 2013 after being detained under the Mental Health Act at Luton police station.\n\nA jury was told one witness described the father-of-two as \"like a child crying out for a toy\" as he was held down by officers.\n\nAnother said he looked her in the eyes and said \"please help me\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe jury has been shown CCTV of Mr Briggs skipping between shops and across roads, before two Bedfordshire Police officers handcuffed him and placed him in leg restraints on Marsh Road in Luton on 4 November 2013.\n\nMr Briggs was detained in a cell at about 14:25 GMT, but he became unconscious and was pronounced dead in hospital at about 16:15.\n\nThe inquest heard his primary cause of death was \"amphetamine intoxication with prone restraint and prolonged struggling\" with a secondary cause of coronary heart disease.\n\nMr Briggs was described as \"a really good dad\" who loved spending time with his children\n\nThe inquest heard Wendy Hamilton was shopping when she saw one officer restraining Mr Briggs on his lower legs, with another on his shoulders, and a third appeared to be looking through his wallet.\n\nMs Hamilton said she \"thought the amount of pressure being used was not needed\", adding she heard Mr Briggs shout \"get off me\" and \"why are you doing this to me?\".\n\n\"He lifted his head from the pavement, he looked me in the eyes and said 'please help me',\" she said.\n\nShe added when two paramedics arrived \"around 45 minutes\" after she first saw Mr Briggs, she was \"surprised\" they \"did not check Leon at all\".\n\nShe said he was later lifted into a police van \"front first\" and \"face down\", \"like he was a bag of potatoes\" or \"like they were picking up a dog\".\n\n\"They lifted him not in a rough way... but it was not very dignified,\" she said.\n\nFootage showed Mr Briggs walking out of a shop with officers before he was restrained\n\nAnother witness, Raja Khan, said: \"Mr Briggs was crying out... but not in an aggressive manner... in a similar way to a child crying out for a toy.\n\n\"I'm not going to forget what I saw in regard to the restraint... I do not agree with how Mr Briggs was treated... it would have been fair enough if he was being violent but from what I saw, he was not.\"\n\nFormer chairman of the College of Paramedics, Andrew Newton, said paramedics on Marsh Road were likely to have had \"inadequate knowledge\" of dealing with acute behavioural disorder patients like Mr Briggs in 2013, due to a lack of national guidance.\n\nBut Mr Newton added Mr Briggs \"received no meaningful medical care\" because they failed to properly check his vital signs, and this \"fell below the standards of care\".\n\nHe said Mr Briggs should have been taken to hospital in an ambulance.\n\nThe inquest heard part of a statement from Sgt Loren Short, who said he told paramedics Mr Briggs had been detained under the Mental Health Act when they arrived.\n\nPolice Community Support Officer (PCSO) James Collings described Mr Briggs as \"aggressive\" and \"nonsensical\", and \"shouting 'no, no' and snarling\" while in the police van.\n\nPCSO Collings said when he questioned whether Mr Briggs was on drugs, one officer said: \"[He is] mental\", and Mr Briggs replied: \"Don't take the [expletive]\", to which the officer said: \"I'm not taking the [expletive], I just want to get you back and get you some help.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "More than 100,000 people in the UK have died from a virus, that, this time last year, felt like a far-off foreign threat. How did we come to be one of the countries with the worst death tolls?\n\nThere is no quick answer to that question, and there is sure to be a long and detailed public inquiry once the pandemic is over. But there are plenty of clues that, when pieced together, help build a picture of why the UK has reached this devastating number.\n\nSome will point a finger at the government - its decision to lock-down later than much of western Europe, the stuttering start to its test-and-trace network and the lack of protection afforded to care home residents.\n\nOthers will spotlight deeper rooted problems with British society - its poor state of public health, with high levels of obesity, for example.\n\nOthers, still, will note that some of the UK's great strengths - its position as a vibrant hub for international air travel, its ethnically diverse and densely-packed urban populations - exposed its vulnerability to a virus that spreads effortlessly between people.\n\nIn some people's eyes, the UK's island status might have helped it. New Zealand, Australia and Taiwan managed to stop the virus getting a foothold and deaths have been kept to a minimum - Australia has seen fewer deaths throughout the pandemic than the UK is recording every day on average.\n\nAll introduced strict border restrictions immediately and lockdowns to contain the virus before it had spread. The UK did not. It was not until June that quarantine rules were introduced for all arrivals and even then travel corridors were soon set up, relaxing the rules for travellers from certain countries. Only this month were these scrapped.\n\nProf Devi Sridhar, an expert in public health from Edinburgh University, is one of those who has been critical of the approach the UK has taken from the start.\n\nShe says the UK, like much of Europe, was \"complacent\" about the threat of infectious disease - choosing to treat the new coronavirus \"like flu\" and allowing it to spread, while talking about the desire to achieve herd immunity.\n\nThis all changed in late March, when a full lockdown eventually came. But there was a crucial delay of a week which is estimated to have cost more than 20,000 lives, according to government modeller Prof Neil Ferguson, because of how quickly infection rates were doubling at that point.\n\nThis, of course, is said with the benefit of hindsight. Government modellers themselves acknowledge the data was \"really quite poor\" making it difficult to make a decision that would have significant repercussions. It is a point acknowledged by Prof Chris Whitty, the UK's chief medical adviser. Speaking in the summer he said there had been \"very limited information\" in early March.\n\nBy then, the virus was ripping through care homes. Around 30% of deaths in the first wave happened in care homes; 40% if you include care home residents who died in hospital.\n\nThose at the heart of government acknowledge mistakes were made. UK chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said recently: \"The lesson is go earlier than you think you want to, go harder than you think you want to, and go a bit broader than you think you want to in terms of applying the restrictions.\"\n\nBy May, restrictions were beginning to be eased. But was this too soon?\n\nThe government seized on the relative lull to focus on building what the prime minister promised would be a \"world-beating\" test-and-trace system. The idea was that new outbreaks could be nipped in the bud, with comprehensive tracking by a centralised team of tracers.\n\nThe mere fact this had to be done some months after the virus had struck, illustrates another factor behind the high number of deaths - the UK was simply not prepared for a pandemic of this nature in the way some Asian nations had been. Countries such as South Korea and Taiwan had established test-and-trace systems in place that were ready to be activated.\n\nThe UK had a chance to bed in its system in the summer but it was riven with teething problems, with tracers struggling to reach many contacts and the testing capacity slowing down as demand rose.\n\nLow levels of infection over the summer had created a false sense of security.\n\nDesperate to boost the economy, the government launched the Eat Out to Help Out scheme, offering people discounted meals out during August. To what extent it contributed to the rise in the autumn is much argued about but certainly some doctors blame it in part for an increase in patients seen.\n\nThe truth is the virus never went away. Testing in the summer showed even at the lowest levels there were still around 500 cases a day being diagnosed - and random testing in the population subsequently showed the true level may have been twice that.\n\nIn late August around 1,000 people a day were testing positive. By mid-September that had trebled and from there it rose five-fold to 15,000 by mid October. The numbers testing positive have never returned below 10,000 a day on average since.\n\nAnother decision that has been heavily criticised was the refusal of ministers to introduce a short two-week lockdown, or \"circuit breaker\", in September - despite their advisers on Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) recommending such a step. The argument was it would have set the spread of the virus back by at least a month, giving test and trace time to regroup.\n\nWales, however, did introduce its own \"fire-breaker\" - a 17-day lockdown in October. It got infection rates down, but as soon as it was lifted they rebounded. This is, of course, why lockdowns have been criticised.\n\nEdinburgh University infectious diseases expert Prof Mark Woolhouse, one of the modellers who feeds data into Sage, is on the record in the autumn questioning the logic of them for this very reason. It remains up for debate how effective a circuit-breaker would actually have been.\n\nThis after all is the time of year when respiratory illnesses start to increase. Schools had returned as had university students, creating new environments for the novel coronavirus to spread.\n\nWhen a lockdown was eventually introduced in England in November it was to last four weeks, with Sage members lamenting the delay. \"The absence of a decision is a decision in itself,\" says Wellcome Trust director Sir Jeremy Farrar.\n\nBut even before that lockdown was lifted cases had started going up in the south-east of England. Within weeks it became clear what was happening. The virus had mutated and a new faster-spreading variant was on the rise.\n\nBy mid-December the clamour for lockdown was growing again, but the plan for a Christmas relaxation of restrictions had already been announced. In every nation of the UK, ministers waited.\n\nAt the start of 2021, with hospital admissions rising rapidly, the UK's four chief medical officers intervened, issuing a joint statement warning the NHS was at \"material risk\" of being overwhelmed. Within hours the UK was back in lockdown.\n\nWhat has struck some is just how similar the mistakes have been in terms of locking down late.\n\n\"It will take years to unpick why Covid has gone so badly in the UK,\" says University College London infectious diseases expert Dr Neil Stone. \"But the failure to learn from wave one stands out.\"\n\nBut it must also be recognised that there are factors outside the control of the government - certainly in terms of its pandemic response - that have contributed to the high number of deaths.\n\nOne of the reasons the virus was able to take a hold and spread so quickly was because of geography and the fact the UK - and London in particular - is a global hub. Genetic analysis has shown the virus was brought into the UK on at least 1,300 separate occasions, mainly from France, Spain and Italy, by the end of March.\n\nIt was here before we knew it. That's not something Australia or New Zealand had to deal with on such a scale.\n\nDensity of population is also a factor. The UK is among the 10 most densely populated big nations - those with populations of more than 20 million. What is more, our cities are more inter-connected than they are in many places.\n\nIt meant the virus was able to seed everywhere quite quickly. Contrast this with Italy which saw the vast majority of cases in the north of the country in the first wave.\n\nThe ageing population also needs to be taken into account. Once you do this, and adjust for the size of the population - known as age-standardised mortality - deaths have risen, but not by as much as some of the headline figures suggest.\n\nThe health of the nation has also been a factor. The UK has one of the highest rates of obesity in the world. And obesity increases the risk of hospitalisation and death, according to Public Health England. One study found the risk of death was almost double for those who are severely obese.\n\nConditions such as diabetes, kidney disease and respiratory problems also increase the risk - a fifth of Covid deaths have listed diabetes on the death certificate.\n\nAgain the UK has relatively high rates of these illnesses.\n\nBut many have argued that these high levels of ill-health have been compounded by the levels of inequality in the UK.\n\nLevels of ill health and life expectancy have always been worst in the poorest areas, but the pandemic certainly seems to have exacerbated this.\n\nOffice for National Statistics data shows mortality rates have been twice as high in deprived areas as they have been in wealthy areas. The Health Foundation is carrying out its own inquiry into the issue, arguing the Covid death toll needs to be seen through the \"lens\" of inequality to fully understand it.\n\nIt is something that has also been raised by Prof Michael Marmot, one of the country's leading experts on health inequalities. \"The UK's dismal record is telling us something important about our society.\"\n\nIf you, or someone you know, have been affected by bereavement, here is a list of organisations that may be able to help.", "Eva Gicain has been celebrating a belated Christmas with her daughter Elleana and husband Limuel Lina after being discharged from Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge\n\nA nurse who gave birth nearly three months ago while seriously ill with Covid-19 has held her daughter for the first time.\n\nEva Gicain, 30, had the long-awaited reunion with her baby after being discharged from Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge earlier this month.\n\nBaby Elleana had to be delivered about a month early by C-section, but Mrs Gicain has no memory of her birth.\n\n\"When I held Elleana for the first time I didn't want to let go,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid-19: New mum thanks hospitals after recovery\n\nMrs Gicain was taken to her local hospital with a severe case of Covid-19 at the end of October when she was 34 weeks pregnant, and gave birth a week later.\n\nBut the NHS nurse, who was on maternity leave from her job in London, has no recollection of it or the traumatic weeks that followed.\n\nDays later she was transferred 50 miles (80km) away to Royal Papworth Hospital's critical care unit and became one of the youngest patients ever to be put on to its \"artificial lung\" for acute respiratory failure.\n\nThe extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machine acted as Mrs Gicain's lungs so they could recover while she was treated for Covid-19.\n\n\"The first thing I remember is just a few days before Christmas and being told where I was, what I had been through and that Elleana was doing well,\" Mrs Gicain said.\n\nMrs Gicain was given a round of applause by hospital staff after spending the first few weeks of her baby's life in a hospital 50 miles away\n\nHer husband Limuel Lina, 30, who also had Covid-19, was unable to visit her and had to wait three weeks to see Elleana, who was in a special care baby unit.\n\n\"It was so horrible the three of us being in separate places at a time when we should all have been together,\" Mr Lina said.\n\nAlthough the couple knew they were having a girl and had discussed her name, Mr Lina, a healthcare assistant, said he did not know his wife's preferred spelling.\n\n\"[It] meant I couldn't yet get her registered,\" he said.\n\n\"Luckily, I found some personalised pyjamas that Eva had bought as a Christmas present and so I managed to get the spelling from there!\"\n\nThe couple and their daughter celebrated a belated Christmas last week at their home in Basildon, Essex.\n\n\"Life is unpredictable and we are now just looking forward to being a little family and spending time together,\" added Mrs Gicain.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The head of AstraZeneca has defended its rollout of the coronavirus vaccine in the EU, amid tension with member states over delays in supply.\n\nPascal Soriot told Italian newspaper La Repubblica that his team was working \"24/7 to fix the very many issues of production of the vaccine\".\n\nHe said production was \"basically two months behind where we wanted to be\".\n\nHe also said the EU's late decision to sign contracts had given limited time to sort out hiccups with supply.\n\nMr Soriot, chief executive of the UK-Swedish multinational, said a contract with the UK had been signed three months before the one with the EU, giving more time for glitches to be ironed out.\n\nHe told La Repubblica that problems in \"scaling up\" vaccine production were being experienced at two plants, one in the Netherlands and one in Belgium.\n\n\"It's complicated, especially in the early phase where you have to really sort out all sorts of issues,\" he said.\n\n\"We believe we've sorted out those issues, but we are basically two months behind where we wanted to be.\"\n\nHe added: \"We've also had teething issues like this in the UK supply chain. But the UK contract was signed three months before the European vaccine deal. So with the UK we have had an extra three months to fix all the glitches we experienced.\n\nAstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot said a vaccine targeting the South African variant was being worked on\n\n\"Would I like to do better? Of course. But, you know, if we deliver in February what we are planning to deliver, it's not a small volume. We are planning to deliver millions of doses to Europe, it is not small.\"\n\nMr Soriot also said AstraZeneca was working on a vaccine with Oxford University that would target the South African variant of the coronavirus.\n\nScientists have warned there is a chance the South African variant may harm the effectiveness of current vaccines.\n\nThe AstraZeneca vaccine is already being used in the UK but has not yet been approved by the EU, although the European Medicines Agency (EMA) is expected to give it the green light at the end of this month.\n\nThe bloc signed a deal in August for 300 million doses, with an option for 100 million more. The EU had hoped that, as soon as approval was given, delivery would start straight away, with some 80 million doses arriving in the 27 nations by March.\n\nThe EU has ordered 600 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which is already being used on patients around the bloc.\n\nBut Pfizer-BioNTech said last week it was delaying shipments for the next few weeks because of work to increase capacity at its Belgian plant.\n\nIn response to the delays, the EU has said it might restrict exports of vaccines made in the bloc.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sofia Bettiza explains why some countries are far ahead of others in the vaccination race\n\nHealth Commissioner Stella Kyriakides said companies making Covid vaccines in the bloc would have to \"provide early notification whenever they want to export vaccines to third countries\".\n\nShe said the 27-member EU bloc would \"take any action required to protect its citizens\".\n\nEuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, addressing the virtual version of the annual World Economic Forum (WEF), usually held in Davos, said: \"Europe invested billions to help develop the world's first Covid-19 vaccines. And now, the companies must deliver. They must honour their obligations.\"\n\nHave you been affected by vaccine supply issues? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The prime minister has responded to calls that were getting louder for clarity about what might happen next and when.\n\nHe pencilled in a date for the country's diary. But 8 March is the hoped-for beginning of the end of lockdown - far from a guarantee.\n\nPolitical demands for more information from his backbench MPs and the opposition were part of the reason for his announcement. But there was also the relentless march of the clock.\n\nThe government had promised it would give schools in England two weeks' notice of whether they would be able to open after half-term.\n\nWith Boris Johnson not expected in Westminster on Thursday, Wednesday was the last viable moment to keep that vow.\n\nWith cases still so high, and hospitals still so full, in theory the announcement wasn't that much of a surprise.\n\nNorthern Ireland is already in lockdown until 5 March, but will confirm its position on schools on Thursday.\n\nWales and Scotland are reviewing whether to extend closures beyond the middle of February in the next couple of days. Without dramatic falls in case numbers, they seem likely to be in step soon too.\n\nIn practice, though, Mr Johnson's announcement still felt like a big admission: that we're heading for 12 months of limits - starting last March - on our lives in one way or another.\n\nFirms and families around the UK will have had to cope with moving in and out of lockdown for a whole year.\n\nLike Tuesday's terrible 100,000-deaths mark, it's a milestone that at the beginning of all of this simply wouldn't have been imagined.\n\nBut as time as worn on, the pattern has become familiar: push the dates back, confront the worst rather than hope for the best.\n\nThe prime minister altered, maybe, too. You could hear it in his tone when asked what the chances of sticking to his date were. \"That's the earliest,\" he warned, suggesting that a long list of things have to go right.\n\nOne cabinet minister described the government's position: \"The decision making has been more and more cautious as they've been caught out so many times.\"\n\nNo one perhaps would be more delighted than Mr Johnson if the pace of the disease slows dramatically and the promise of the vaccine comes good very soon.\n\nBut at this time, with a buffer of several weeks to keep looking at the information, that's not a commitment that ministers are willing to make.", "Victims lost an average of £45,242 last year after investing with fraudsters imitating genuine investment firms.\n\nMore than £78m was lost in total, according to fraud reporting centre Action Fraud.\n\nReports of clone firm investment scams rose by 29% in April - at the time of the first national lockdown - compared with the previous month.\n\nA UK financial watchdog warned people to be alert, particularly when their finances were stretched.\n\nScammers set up clone firms using the name, address and firm reference number (FRN) of real companies authorised by the regulator - the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).\n\nThey then send out sales materials linking to the websites of legitimate firms, to trick potential investors into thinking they are dealing with the real firm.\n\nThey use their own, similar contact details, so victims still think they are dealing with the genuine firm as they invest money.\n\nLosses can be high as fraudsters tend to encourage large or regular investments before disappearing with the money.\n\nThe ongoing financial impact of Covid-19 may make people more susceptible to clone scams, the FCA said.\n\nMark Steward, executive director of enforcement and market oversight at the FCA, said: \"Fraudsters use literature and websites that mirror those of legitimate firms, as well as encouraging investors to check the firm reference number (FRN) on the FCA Register to sound as convincing as possible.\"\n\nHe said alerts were raised about 1,100 firms, including clones, last year - twice as many as the previous year.\n\nHe said the authorities were taking down clone sites when discovered.\n\n\"When it comes to clones, I cannot emphasise enough how important it is to double check every detail,\" Mr Steward said.\n\nOne victim, called Janet, said: \"After searching the internet for high-return bonds, I received a call the next day about investing in student accommodation.\n\n\"I found legitimate details of the company online - everything seemed genuine, so I invested.\n\n\"A few months later, after a couple more investments, I started to get a bit worried - I still hadn't received confirmation of the latest investment.\n\n\"I tried to call the contacts I had been speaking to, but the numbers were invalid. It was clear I had been scammed.\n\nThe ScamSmart campaign, run by the FCA, has tips to protect yourself from clone investment firms:", "Jagtar Singh Johal, from Dumbarton, is being held under India's anti-terror law\n\nA Scottish man who has been held in an Indian jail without conviction for three years has told the BBC he was tortured to sign a blank confession.\n\nJagtar Singh Johal, from Dumbarton, is being held under India's anti-terror laws, accused of conspiring to murder a number of right-wing Hindu leaders.\n\nCourt documents allege he helped fund the crimes and claim he was a member of a \"terrorist gang\".\n\nMr Johal told the BBC via his lawyer he had been \"falsely implicated\".\n\nIn answers to BBC questions obtained by his lawyer during a virtual prison meeting, the 33-year-old says he was physically tortured into signing a blank confession and forced to record a video which was broadcast on Indian TV.\n\n\"They made me sign blank pieces of paper and asked me to say certain lines in front of a camera under fear of extreme torture,\" he said via his lawyer.\n\nMr Johal's legal team also shared a copy of what they say is a handwritten letter from shortly after his arrest in November 2017 in which he details allegations of how the torture took place.\n\n\"Multiple shocks were administered by placing (the) crocodile clips on my earlobes, nipples and private parts,\" the letter says. \"Multiple shocks were given each day.\n\n\"Two people would stretch my legs, another person would slap and strike me from behind, and the shocks were given by the seated officers.\"\n\n\"At some stages I was left unable to walk and had to be carried out of the interrogation room.\"\n\nThe BBC has been unable to independently verify these allegations of torture.\n\nThe Indian authorities strongly deny them, and have said \"there is no evidence of mistreatment or torture as alleged\".\n\nJagtar got married in India in 2017\n\nMr Johal travelled to India in October 2017 for his wedding.\n\nVideos of the occasion show the new groom jumping enthusiastically to Bhangra music as he celebrated.\n\nIn another he is seen holding his wife's hand, as they perform their first dance in front of friends and family.\n\n\"It was a cheerful day for us, it went exactly as planned,\" recalls his brother Gurpreet Singh Johal.\n\nBut a fortnight later, while on a shopping trip with his new bride in the North Indian state of Punjab, Mr Johal was taken away by police and has been in detention ever since.\n\nHis brother Gurpreet, who lives in Scotland, says Mr Johal was a peaceful activist and is convinced he was arrested because he had written about historical human rights violations against Sikhs in India.\n\n\"I believe my brother is being targeted because he was outspoken,\" Gurpreet says. \"I believe he is innocent and will be proved innocent once the trial starts.\n\n\"Otherwise Indian officials should release him and return him back to his country.\"\n\nJagtar Singh Johal (right) arrives at court in India in November 2017\n\nCharge-sheets from the Indian authorities outline the case against Mr Johal and a group of men whom they believe were involved in a \"series of killings\" of right wing Hindu leaders.\n\nIt is claimed Mr Johal was a member of Khalistan Liberation Front (KLF), described in the documents as an international \"terrorist gang\".\n\nHe is accused of paying £3,000 to the former head of the KLF to help fund the crimes. The documents claim he \"actively participated and had complete knowledge of the conspiracy\".\n\n\"There are very serious charges against him including murder and abetment of terrorism,\" an Indian government official told the BBC.\n\n\"The seriousness of charges against him have been shared with the British authorities,\" they added.\n\nFootage which claims to show Mr Johal in custody was broadcast on Indian TV\n\nMr Johal's lawyer, Jaspal Singh Manjphur, who has represented him since he was first arrested, told the BBC he was concerned by the length of time it was taking for the case to go through the Indian legal system.\n\n\"He has been in custody for over three years,\" Mr Manjphur said. \"Normally, if the prosecution wants, they can complete the case in that much time.\"\n\nMr Manjphur said the authorities had yet to provide any him with any evidence linking his client to the crimes and feared he was being framed, a charge denied by officials.\n\nA few weeks ago, Mr Johal was accused of being involved in another crime. While in prison he has been arrested for helping to plot the murder of a man in October 2020.\n\n\"He is in a high security jail, he is under CCTV surveillance for 24 hours. How can he be in contact with anyone?\", Mr Manjphur said.\n\nMr Johal was last seen in public at court in Delhi earlier this month\n\nMr Johal is being held at Delhi's maximum security Tihar jail.\n\nHe claims he is often forced to stay in solitary confinement and is denied the same facilities as other prisoners, such as hot water.\n\n\"By making me stay in these conditions, they are ensuring that my mental condition remains disturbed,\" he said.\n\n\"It is very tough to live here,\" he said.\n\nThe vast majority of inmates at the prison are, like Mr Johal, held before a conviction in what is known as an \"under-trial\" in India.\n\nAt the end of 2019, 82% of prisoners held in Tihar jail had yet to complete the trial process.\n\nIn India it can take many years before under-trial prisoners ever get to court, especially in terror cases where bail is hard to secure, a concern for Mr Johal's lawyer.\n\n\"He will languish in jail until the trial is completed, in such cases it could take anywhere between five to 10 years,\" Mr Manjphur said.\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has raised the case with his Indian counterpart\n\nThe human rights charity Reprieve has written to the UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, asking that he calls for Mr Johal's immediate release.\n\nReprieve is also worried that some of the charges Mr Johal is awaiting trial for carry the death penalty as the maximum punishment. But experts stress that executions in India are extremely rare.\n\nThe UK's Foreign Commonwealth and Development office told the BBC that Mr Raab did raise the case with his Indian counterpart during his trip to India in December.\n\n\"We have consistently raised concerns about his case with the Government of India, including allegations of torture and mistreatment and his right to a fair trial,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"Our staff continue to support Jagtar Singh Johal following his detention in India, and are in regular contact with his family and prison officials about his health and wellbeing.\"\n\nHundreds of people protested outside the Foreign Office\n\nBut Mr Johal's brother Gurpreet said the family was still waiting for a meeting with the foreign secretary.\n\nHe said: \"We are calling for either Jagtar to be charged and a fair trial to take place or to be returned back to his country so he can spend his life with his wife in the UK.\"\n\nIn August last year Gurpreet Singh Johal was joined by dozens who protested outside Downing Street.\n\nJagtar Singh Johal's case has sparked protests around the world, from Westminster to Washington, Geneva to Toronto.\n\nIn his statement to the BBC, Mr Johal had this message for officials back home: \"I plead to the UK government to support me, I'm a British citizen and the government should understand that.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer calls for teachers and support staff to be vaccinated during the February half term\n\nSir Keir Starmer has called on the government to \"use the window\" of the February half-term to vaccinate all teachers and support staff.\n\nSpeaking at Prime Ministers Questions, the Labour leader said reopening schools must be a national priority.\n\nLabour wants to bring forward the vaccination of key workers alongside others in high risk groups.\n\nBut Boris Johnson said the proposal would \"delay our ability to move forward out of lockdown\".\n\nThe PM said teachers in the top nine priority groups would be vaccinated as a \"matter of priority\", adding: \"I know how deeply frustrating it is, the extra burden that we have placed on families by closing the schools.\"\n\nMr Johnson said he remained confident that the top four priority groups - taking in all over-70s, health and care staff and elderly care home residents - would receive a first jab by mid-February \"if we can get the supply\" of vaccines.\n\nBy the end of April those in the next five priority groups, including all over-50s and younger adults with underlying health conditions, should have been offered a jab, under the government's plans.\n\nLabour wants to see workers in critical professions - such as police officers, firefighters and transport workers, as well as teachers - vaccinated alongside these groups.\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said: \"The NHS rightly deserve congratulations for their impressive and speedy roll out of vaccinations.\n\n\"But now we need to go further and faster.\n\n\"Not only will vaccination acceleration save lives it will help us to carefully and responsibly reopen our economy and crucially ensure children are back in school as transmission reduces.\"\n\nBut asked about the proposal in the Commons, Mr Johnson said it would \"take vaccines away from the more vulnerable groups and... delay our ability to move forward out of lockdown\".\n\nThe government has said it will prioritise the reopening of schools as it begins the process of lifting lockdown restrictions, but in a Commons statement after PMQs, Mr Johnson indicated that schools would remain closed until early March.\n\n\"We hope it will... be safe to begin the reopening of schools from Monday, 8 March, with other economic and social restrictions being removed thereafter as and when the data permits,\" he told MPs.", "The coronavirus pandemic has forced the cancellation of many much-loved events and traditions but the good people of New Orleans were not going to let it ruin their annual Mardi Gras.\n\nWhen the mayor of the Louisiana city announced that the raucous, crowd-filled street carnival parades would not be going ahead, residents decided to turn their houses into floats instead.\n\nThousands have been transformed for the two-week long carnival that runs until Ash Wednesday on 17 February. In the picture below, you can see The Queen's Jubilee House.\n\nA special project was set up encouraging home-owners to hire the many artists who would normally have months of work preparing for the event.\n\nRené Pierre's company usually looks after 75 floats during Mardi Gras and he has managed to get contracts to build 53 house floats.\n\n\"My wife and I were trying to sleep one night, and we kept hearing notifications coming from the website. It was like instant success. It was incredible,\" he told CNN.\n\nThere were a variety of themes such as this reference to the Bernie Sanders meme from last month's presidential inauguration.\n\nAnd this homage to influential women including Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who died last year.\n\nThe idea for the house floats came from a carnival regular, Megan Joy Boudreaux, who had suggested it in a post on Twitter after the mayor's announcement in November.\n\n\"It doesn't matter if your budget is zero and you're recycling cardboard boxes, or whether your budget is tens of thousands of dollars and you've got a mansion on St Charles. We want everyone who wants to do this to participate,\" she told the New York Times.\n\nShe said she had expected a few friends and neighbours to join in, but by the beginning of January more than 9,000 people had signed up - some as far afield as the UK and Australia, the AP reports.\n\nSome homes were decorated in honour of musicians, like this house below that paid tribute to former New Orleans resident and jazz clarinet payer Pete Fountain.\n\nAnd this house which referenced country music star Dolly Parton.\n\nThere were also tributes to musician Dr John.\n\nAnd others evoked Zydeco music pioneers Boozoo Chavis and Clifton Chenier and the 'Cajun Hank Williams', DL Menard.\n\nAn online map of the decorated houses is being made available for people to visit in their own time and, it is hoped, in a socially-distanced way.", "Starmer: Get a grip on getting laptops to children\n\nSir Keir says he is \"no wiser\" over where the PM stands on vaccinating teachers. But he moves on to the supplies of technology for children at home. \"The government has got a duty to make sure every single child can learn at home,\" says the Labour leader. But he says a third of families say they don't have enough laptops or home computers, and over 400,000 children are still not able to get online at home. He asks if the PM understands the anger of families that the government \"still haven't got to grips with this\". Johnson says he \"fully understands the frustration and impatience across the country.\" He says the government has provided 1.3 million laptops to children and a £1bn catch up fund, but he promises more details in his statement this afternoon on \"what more we propose to do on reopening of schools\".", "Claudia Marsh was a volunteer for an eating disorder charity which had helped her in the past\n\nAn \"incredible\" recently-qualified teacher has died with coronavirus on her 25th birthday.\n\nClaudia Marsh's death was described as \"sudden and unexpected\" by a charity which had helped her recover from an eating disorder several years ago.\n\nShe had gone on to volunteer for the organisation and became a \"beacon of hope\" for others.\n\nHer mother Tina Marsh, from Heswall in Wirral, said she was \"very proud\" and \"blown away\" by the many tributes.\n\nWriting on Facebook, Ms Marsh said she was a \"beautiful daughter and incredible sister\" who was selfless in her work for Merseyside-based charities Talking Eating Disorders (TEDS) and The Whitechapel Centre.\n\nShe said: \"She loved giving back to people less fortunate than herself.\"\n\nFamily friend Leigh Best, who founded TEDS, described the death as \"heartbreaking\".\n\nShe added: \"Claudia was very special, kind, caring and a dedicated teacher.\n\n\"She supported countless families across the UK. Claudia made her own little packs to give out to others with eating disorders with positive affirmations.\n\n\"She was full of positivity, kindness and hope, and had a smile that would brighten up the whole room.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Whitechapel Centre, where Claudia also volunteered, said staff were \"devastated\", adding she would leave behind a \"legacy of care, dedication and enthusiasm\".\n\nThe charity said she put all of her time and energy into providing food and clothing to those who needed it during the pandemic.\n\n\"Claudia always put others before herself and her memory will live on through the impact and contribution she made to our organisation,\" the centre said.\n\n\"She was instrumental in bringing together our volunteer community.\"\n\nMs Marsh has set up an online fundraising page for the two charities, which has already garnered more than £10,000.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Facebook is taking steps to rectify the error that saw posts referring to Plymouth Hoe taken down\n\nFacebook has apologised for removing posts that named part of a city it deemed to contain an offensive word.\n\nPlymouth Hoe is a historic part of the Devon city's seafront but the social media platform wrongly identified it as an offensive term.\n\nFacebook users have recently had posts taken down for breaching bullying rules after innocently using the place name.\n\nThe company said it \"will take steps to rectify the error\".\n\nDawn Lapthorn, who created the 'Don't Dump it, Plymouth and Surrounding areas' page said she was surprised to receive notifications from Facebook telling her \"community standards on harassment and bullying\" had been breached.\n\nPlymouth Hoe is famous as the place where Sir Francis Drake finished off a game of bowls before setting off to fight the Spanish Armada in 1588\n\nShe said: \"One woman on the group had been making hats, and she forgot to say where the collection point was so people asked her and she wrote Plymouth Hoe.\n\n\"Suddenly I started getting notifications asking me to remove the comments.\n\n\"And then her daughter contacted me asking why her mum had been banned from commenting on the group.\"\n\nOther people commenting on the group's posts have also received notifications and had posts taken down.\n\nMs Lapthorn said: \"I've heard that some Facebook groups have been closed down because of this, and with the work we do in the community and 26,000 members, I've worked too hard to have that put at risk.\"\n\nA Facebook company spokesperson said: \"These posts were removed in error and we apologise to those who were affected. We're looking into what happened and will take steps to rectify the error.\"\n\nFollow BBC News South West on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to spotlight@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It wasn't normal when the prime minister stood at the lectern in Downing Street's wood-panelled State Dining Room and announced that four people had died from coronavirus on 9 March last year.\n\nIt wasn't normal, that day, when he announced the obscure-sounding virus was a global pandemic that, in the 21st Century, the UK government would struggle to contain.\n\nIt was unprecedented, in peacetime, when, on 23 March, Boris Johnson instructed the country to stay at home.\n\nIt was shocking when, on 28 March, official figures reported more than 1,000 cases in a single day.\n\nA few weeks later, there were sharp intakes of breath when the UK government's chief scientific adviser told MPs, and all of us, that keeping the numbers of deaths down to around 20,000 would be a \"good outcome\".\n\nIt wasn't normal when the Treasury started paying the wages of millions of people to prevent hardship on a vast scale.\n\nIt wasn't normal when planes stayed on the ground, roads and trains emptied.\n\nIt certainly wasn't normal when classrooms fell largely silent, or when the nooks and crannies of Westminster, usually full of intrigue, emptied.\n\nBut in that new strangeness it became normal, week after week, for millions of us to stand in the street, on balconies or on doorsteps to express thanks to those who care for us.\n\nAnd there is now an emerging routine of the most vulnerable rolling up their sleeves, sometimes in front of the cameras, for vaccines that offer at least part of the route to the future.\n\nYet the daily publication of the numbers of people who have died because of Covid has become an all-too-familiar rhythm.\n\nIn the middle of the afternoon, every day, the latest total emerges. A previously unimaginable communication has become a regular part of the country's conversation.\n\nBut today that number has reached a terrible height. Every one of those 100,000 lives lost leaves its own story, and sorrow, behind.\n\nThis miserable landmark is a moment to remember, maybe, that what has happened in the last year, to our politics, to us all is not normal at all.", "The Royal Welsh Show - the biggest agricultural show in Europe - has been cancelled for the second year running because of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThe board met on Wednesday to discuss holding the show as scheduled in July, but after discussions with Welsh Government decided it wouldn't be feasible.\n\nSteve Hughson, chief executive of the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society, said: “We continue to work alongside the Welsh Government and Public Health Wales to create a road map for the safe re-opening of events.\n\n\"Our events are central to the rural economy and way of life and mean so much to members, exhibitors, traders and visitors.\n\n\"We fully understand the responsibility on all of us to ensure we deliver our events as soon as it is safe to do so.\"\n\nMr Hughson said the society had provided free facilities for a Covid testing centre and a mass vaccination centre at its showground in Llanelwedd, Powys.", "Goldman Sachs' chief executive David Solomon will get a $10m (£7.3m) pay cut for the bank's involvement in the 1MDB corruption scandal.\n\n1MDB was an investment fund set up by the Malaysian government that lost billions due to fraudulent activity.\n\nThe global web of fraud and corruption led to a 12-year jail term for Malaysia's ex-prime minister Najib Razak which he is appealing.\n\nGoldman Sachs called its involvement in the scandal an \"institutional failure\".\n\nGoldman Sachs helped raise $6.5bn for 1MDB by selling bonds to investors, the proceeds of which were largely stolen.\n\nProsecutors alleged that senior Goldman executives ignored warning signs of fraud in their dealings with 1MDB and Jho Low, an adviser to the fund. Two Goldman bankers have been criminally charged in the scandal.\n\nMr Solomon's pay would have been $10m higher but for the actions its board of directors took in response to the 1MDB saga, Goldman Sachs said on Tuesday.\n\nWhile disclosing his salary had dropped to $17.5m for 2020, the bank stressed that Mr Solomon was unaware of the corruption.\n\nHe was not \"involved in or aware of the firm's participation in any illicit activity at the time... the board views the 1MDB matter as an institutional failure, inconsistent with the high expectations it has for the firm\".\n\nMr Solomon's package consists of $2m in cash base pay, a $4.65m cash bonus, and $10.85m in stock-based compensation.\n\nIn October, Goldman agreed to pay nearly $3bn to government officials in four countries to end an investigation into work it performed for 1MDB. The bank collected $600m for arranging the bond sales in 2012 and 2013.\n\nIt has spent years being investigated by regulators across the globe including those in the US, UK, Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong.In total, Goldman's dealings with 1MDB cost the bank more than $5bn.\n\nDespite the costs and fines from the fallout from the 1MDB scandal, 2020 was a bumper year for Goldman's businesses with annual revenue of $44.6bn, its highest since 2009.\n\nThe US-based bank got a huge boost from the recovery in global stock markets from the depths of the coronavirus recession.\n\nIn 2018 Malaysian police raided the home of former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak, as part of their investigation in his involvement with 1MDB.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Handbags and money seized in raids on former Malaysian PM's home (video published in 2018)", "Josh Quigley crashed while cycling at 40mph downhill in Dubai\n\nA record-breaking Scottish cyclist is recovering from his second serious crash in little over a year.\n\nJosh Quigley fractured his spine, pelvis, shoulder, collarbone and elbow after falling off his bike at 40mph while training in Dubai on Tuesday.\n\nThe 28-year-old from Livingston is in hospital awaiting surgery.\n\nLast September he broke the North Coast 500 cycling world record just months after suffering life-threatening injuries while riding across the USA.\n\nMr Quigley told BBC Scotland he was in a lot of pain and unable to walk after his latest crash.\n\nHe said: \"I think a gust of wind took my front wheel out.\"\n\n\"Not sure what the recovery process is looking like yet,\" he added on social media.\n\n\"Very grateful to Ben and Tobias who I was riding with for getting me an ambulance and making sure I got to hospital OK.\n\n\"There's a great cycling community here who have been great to me since I've been here and they're all doing a lot to make sure I am looked after and have what I need in here.\n\n\"Huge thanks also to a few people who stopped at the scene and all of the first responders and medical staff who have helped at the hospital so far.\"\n\nMr Quigley shaved six minutes off the existing North Coast 500 world record when he completed the 516-mile Highland route in 31hrs and 17 minutes last September.\n\nThe route is ranked as one of the world's toughest endurance challenges as it has 34,423ft (10,492m) of ascent - more than Mount Everest, which stands at 29,031ft (8,848m).\n\nHis feat came after he was hit by a vehicle in Texas during a round-the-world-trip in December 2019.\n\nHe had life-threatening injuries and operations on a broken heel and ankle as well as a stent fitted in an artery in his neck, which feeds blood to his brain.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The PM has said he hopes a \"gradual and phased\" relaxation of Covid restrictions can begin in early March.\n\nBoris Johnson told MPs he intended to set out a plan for how the lockdown in England could be eased and the criteria involved in the final week of February.\n\nFactors will include death and hospitalisation numbers, progress of vaccinations and changes in the virus.\n\nHe has ruled out schools in England re-opening after the February half term, instead setting an 8 March target.\n\nIn a statement to Parliament, Mr Johnson said the scientific data was not sufficiently clear to make any decisions now but he hoped to publish a detailed roadmap in just under a month's time as the \"picture became clearer\".\n\nHe also announced plans for tighter border restrictions to combat new variants of Covid, confirming all those arriving from high-risk countries will have to quarantine in hotels and other accommodation for 10 days.\n\nThe PM, who is under pressure from Tory MPs to spell out how the current lockdown will end, said relaxing restrictions would depend on emerging data about how effectively the vaccine stops virus transmission.\n\nHe signalled any easing of restrictions would start with schools, setting a potential re-opening date of 8 March - when he said he hoped the 15 million or so people in the top four vulnerable groups earmarked for vaccinations by mid-February will have had their jabs and have full protection.\n\n\"Our aim will be to set out a gradual and phased approach to easing the restrictions in a sustainable way,\" he said, adding that the \"first sign of normality\" should be pupils returning to school.\n\nHe added: \"We hope it will be safe to begin the re-opening of schools from 8 March with other economic and social restrictions being removed thereafter as the data permits.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said reopening schools should be a national priority and urged the government to vaccinate teachers and support staff during the February half term.\n\nLabour is also calling for the government to prioritise key workers in critical professions, seeing them added to the first phase of the vaccination programme, alongside those might likely to become seriously ill.\n\nCases are falling and the vaccination programme is going well. So why is the government waiting?\n\nFirstly, there are doubts about how fast infections are falling.\n\nWhile the daily figures show they have almost halved in just over a fortnight, the government's surveillance programmes which involve random testing suggest the drop may be slower.\n\nIt is unclear why there is this discrepancy, but understanding the true trajectory is crucial to knowing what will happen to pressures on hospitals.\n\nWhat impact the vaccination programme has will also be vital.\n\nEarly results from Israel, which is leading the world on vaccination, suggest cases in older age groups start falling three weeks after significant numbers are vaccinated. But ministers want to see that pattern repeated here.\n\nThey also want to know what effect vaccination has on transmission - it is possible vaccinated people can still transmit the infection even if they are protected from illness.\n\nThis will not be completely clear by March, but scientists should at least have a better idea.\n\nWhen a plan for exiting lockdown is set out, the government wants to be certain it can be kept to. But given the cost of lockdown the pressure to lift restrictions will grow if progress keeps being made.\n\nLast week, chair of the Covid Recovery Group Conservative MP Mark Harper said if the government meets its 15 February vaccination deadline, then ministers should begin easing lockdown by 8 March.\n\nHe welcomed the announcement from the prime minster.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Mark Harper This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUnder the current lockdown, people in England must stay at home and only go out for limited reasons such as food shopping and exercise.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nEngland's lockdown laws are due to end on 31 March. Mr Johnson has previously said this date is to allow for a \"controlled\" easing of restrictions back into local tiers.\n\nUnder the tier system, different rules are applied to different parts of the country, depending on factors such as pressure on the NHS, number of cases and rates at which case numbers fall.\n\nPupils in England are not expected to return to school before the February half term. Mr Johnson has said schools will be reopened \"as soon as we can\" but did not guarantee that would happen before Easter.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said restrictions in Scotland will continue until mid-February at the earliest.\n\nIn Wales, the lockdown will be reviewed at the end of January, but the government has previously said it does not see \"much headroom for change\".\n\nNorthern Ireland's lockdown has been extended until 5 March.", "As a family of chemicals, neonicotinoids cause harm to pollinating insects such as bees\n\nThe Wildlife Trusts is to take legal action against the UK government over its decision to allow a pesticide that is almost entirely banned in the EU.\n\nIn 2018, the EU banned the outdoor use of neonicotinoid pesticides, which harm pollinating insects such as bees.\n\nBut following Brexit, the government approved the emergency use of one neonicotinoid to combat a crop disease.\n\nThe charity has told Environment Secretary George Eustice of their intention to challenge the decision.\n\nIn a letter to Mr Eustice, the Trusts says it will push for a judicial review unless the government can \"prove it has acted lawfully\".\n\nMultiple studies, including large-scale field trials, have found that neonicotinoids harm pollinators and aquatic life. Research has also shown that they can be linked to the wider collapse in biodiversity.\n\nThe government says it allowed the use of the neonicotinoid thiamethoxam because of the \"potential danger\" to the sugar beet crop from beet yellows virus, which is spread by aphids.\n\nThe virus can have a severe impact on sugar beet.\n\nIt stressed that use of the chemical would be strictly limited, and the risk to bees was \"acceptable\" because sugar beet doesn't flower. Alternative chemicals should be used to kill any wild flowering plants in and around the crops, the government said.\n\nNeonicotinoids are the most widely-used class of insecticides in the world and they work by disrupting the insect central nervous system.\n\nTwo years ago, the EU's ban was supported by then-Environment Secretary Michael Gove, who said the weight of evidence was \"greater than previously understood\". Unless the evidence changed, he said, the restrictions would be maintained post-Brexit.\n\nThe government says the change in policy is based on \"new evidence\". But, so far, they haven't made this science public.\n\nHowever, Craig Bennett, chief executive of the Wildlife Trusts, said there was no new evidence to justify the change in policy.\n\nHe said: \"The government refused a request for emergency authorisation in 2018 and we want to know what's changed. Where's the new evidence that it's okay to use this extremely harmful pesticide?\n\n\"Using neonicotinoids not only threatens bees but is also extremely harmful to aquatic wildlife because the majority of the pesticide leaches into soil and then into waterways. Worse still, farmers are being recommended to use weedkiller to kill wildflowers in and around sugar beet crops in a misguided attempt to prevent harm to bees in the surrounding area. This is a double blow for nature.\"\n\nIt was the National Farmers' Union (NFU) and British Sugar that applied for the authorisation. Victoria Prentis, a minister with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) told BBC News that it \"wasn't ideal\". But she was \"convinced it was appropriate\" and that the government was \"committed to reducing pesticide use and integrated pest management\".\n\nSugar beet affected by the yellowing disease spread by aphids\n\nThe pesticide will be authorised for use if there is a large enough outbreak of the disease. And it can only be used for a period of up to 120 days. Around a dozen other EU countries, including France and Germany, have also agreed emergency permits.\n\nMs Prentis said the authorisation was very specific, and \"targeted at a non-flowering crop, which bees are not attracted to\".\n\nHowever research, shows that the highly toxic chemicals can persist in the wider ecosystem for some time, potentially to be absorbed by wildflowers that pollinators then visit.\n\nProf Glen Jeffery, from University College London (UCL), said he felt \"horror\" when he learned of the government's decision.\n\n\"We've slowly moved away from it and yet it's creeping back in,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"It's very prevalent in other parts of the world, but then you find in other parts of the world vast numbers of pollinating insects have just vanished and they've just gone through heavy pesticide use. We reach the ridiculous situation where in parts of California thousands of beehives are trucked from Texas and from Florida into California to pollinate crops.\"\n\nThere has been one full sugar beet harvest since outdoor neonicotinoid use was banned. According to the NFU, the 2019-20 harvest was largely unaffected by beet yellows disease. This year's sugar beet harvest is currently underway, and yields are expected to be down by around 25% compared with the five-year average, with some farmers losing as much as 80% of their crop.\n\nAccording to the NFU, there are 3,000 farmers who grow sugar beet, and the wider industry supports around 9,500 jobs in England, largely in the East.\n\nThe NFU has called the situation \"unprecedented\" and its sugar board chairman Michael Sly said: \"I am relieved that our application for emergency use of a neonicotinoid seed treatment for the 2021 sugar beet crop has been granted.\"\n\nNeurobiologist and environmental pharmacologist Dr Chris Connolly said that, since 2018, when neonicotinoids were banned in the EU, around 400 papers had been published looking into thiamethoxam, and none said they were less harmful.\n\nThe peach potato aphid is responsible for spreading the beet yellows virus\n\nHe said he could be in favour of using it: \"But rarely, and when it's really needed - when it's an emergency. It's not an emergency if you apply for it before an emergency.\n\nHe added: \"Is adding pesticides to pesticides the way to go towards better sustainability?\"\n\nWhen they were introduced in 2005, neonicotinoids were seen as a good alternative to traditional pesticides. They are systemic, which means they are absorbed by the plant, so are applied to seeds as a coating - instead of being sprayed. However, it has become clear they are highly toxic to invertebrates such as insects.\n\nThe government recently committed to spending £3bn of international climate finance to \"supporting nature and biodiversity\".\n\nSeveral hundred thousand people have now signed various online petitions against the move. Earlier this month, more than 30 wildlife and environmental organisations, including Pesticide Action Network and the RSPB, wrote a joint letter to Mr Eustice calling on the government to publish the new evidence that led to the derogation being approved.", "The EHIC card is making way for the GHIC card under a new agreement with the EU\n\nUK residents can apply for a Global Health Insurance Card (GHIC) to access emergency medical care in the EU when their current EHIC card runs out.\n\nUnder a new agreement with the EU, both cards will offer equivalent healthcare protection when people are on holiday, studying or travelling for business.\n\nThis includes emergency treatment as well as treatment needed for a pre-existing condition.\n\nThe new GHIC card is free and can be obtained via the official GHIC website.\n\nCurrent European Health Insurance Cards (EHIC) are valid as long as they are in date, and can continue to be used when travelling to the EU.\n\nYou don't need to apply for a GHIC until your current EHIC expires.\n\nPeople should apply at least two weeks before they plan to travel to ensure their card arrives on time.\n\nHealth Minister Edward Argar said: \"Our deal with the EU ensures the right for our citizens to access necessary healthcare on their holidays and travels to countries in the EU will continue.\n\n\"The GHIC is a key element of the UK's future relationship with the EU and will provide certainty and security for all UK residents.\"\n\nIf a UK resident is travelling without a card, they are still entitled to necessary healthcare, and should contact the NHS Business Services Authority (which covers the whole of the UK), which can arrange for payment should they require treatment when abroad.\n\nEHICs from EU member states will continue to be accepted by the NHS.\n\nIt is advised that anyone travelling overseas, whether to the EU or elsewhere in the world, should take out comprehensive travel insurance.", "Khairi Saadallah admitted three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder\n\nA killer who stabbed three men to death in a Reading park has been handed a whole-life jail term.\n\nKhairi Saadallah murdered James Furlong, 36, David Wails, 49, and 39-year-old Joe Ritchie-Bennett, in June last year in Forbury Gardens.\n\nLondon's Old Bailey previously heard the 26-year-old \"executed\" the men as an \"act of religious jihad\".\n\nPassing sentence Judge Mr Justice Sweeney said it was a \"ruthless and brutal\" terror attack.\n\nSaadallah, who admitted the murders, had also pleaded guilty to the attempted murders of three other men who were also in the park.\n\nThe judge said the victims \"had no chance to react, let alone defend themselves\".\n\n(L-R) David Wails, Joe Ritchie-Bennett and James Furlong were pronounced dead at the scene\n\nHe said he was sure the attack \"involved a substantial degree of premeditation or planning\" and was carried out \"for the purpose of advancing a political, religious, or ideological cause\".\n\nBBC News correspondent Helena Wilkinson, who was in court, said the families of James Furlong and David Wails were present, while Joseph Ritchie-Bennett's loved ones watched via a link from America.\n\nSaadallah showed no emotion as Mr Justice Sweeney went through his sentencing remarks.\n\nOn the afternoon of 20 June, the park was busy due to the first lockdown restrictions being relaxed in England.\n\nAndrew Cafe, who witnessed the stabbings, said he saw Saadallah wielding the \"biggest kitchen knife\" and charging towards him shouting \"Allahu Akbar\".\n\nPharmaceutical manager Mr Ritchie-Bennett and teacher Mr Furlong died from single stab wounds to their necks, while scientist Mr Wails was stabbed once in the back.\n\nDespite treatment from paramedics and doctors, all three friends, who were members of the LGBT community, died at the scene.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Witness Andrew Cafe visited Forbury Gardens for the first time since the attack\n\nThree other people - Nishit Nisudan, Patrick Edwards and Stephen Young - were also injured, before Saadallah threw away the knife and fled the scene, pursued by police.\n\nFollowing his arrest, Saadallah initially said he wanted to plead guilty to the \"jihad that I done\", but the prosecution claimed he later feigned mental illness in police interviews.\n\nAt a previous hearing, the court heard he had developed an emotionally unstable and anti-social personality disorder, with his behaviour worsened by alcohol and cannabis misuse.\n\nBut the judge said it was \"clear that the defendant did not, and does not, have any major mental illness\".\n\nAn examination of Saadallah's phone revealed an interest in extremist material, including images of the flag of Islamic State and Jihadi John, the court previously heard.\n\nWhile at HMP Bullingdon in 2017, he was seen to associate with radical preacher Omar Brookes, who has connections with banned terrorist organisation Al-Muhajiroun.\n\nThe court heard Saadallah, who arrived in Britain from Libya in 2012, had previously been involved with militias who had been part of the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, and was pictured handling weapons, including firearms.\n\nSince seeking asylum in Britain, he had been repeatedly arrested and convicted of various offences, including theft and assault, between 2013 and 2020.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV cameras captured Khairi Saadallah before and after the stabbing\n\nHe briefly came to the attention of MI5 in 2019, but the information provided did not meet the threshold of investigation.\n\nSaadallah had been released from prison on 5 June, days before the attack, the court heard.\n\nOn 17 June, he researched the location for his attack online and carried out reconnaissance in the park.\n\nThe following day his probation officer alerted his mental health team over comments he made about magic.\n\nA day later, Saadallah contacted the crisis team himself, but when they visited he did not answer.\n\nFollowing concerns from his brother, police visited the killer the same day, but he told officers he was \"alright\" while he stood near a knife he bought from a supermarket.\n\nAndrew Wails said losing his brother had been devastating\n\nAfter the sentencing, James Furlong's father, Gary, said: \"The secretary of state needs to tell us why this guy wasn't put into some form of detention centre before they could deport him.\n\n\"He was not safe to be released back on the streets.\"\n\nReferring to the fact that Saadallah had been visited by police the night before the attack, Mr Furlong said: \"Given the volume of crimes he's committed and the information that they had on him, for an assessment to be done the night before to say that he's not a danger to the public - it is beyond me.\"\n\nHe described Mr Furlong, originally from Liverpool, as \"a lovely man, loved by his family, idolised by his mother\".\n\nDavid Wails' brother Andrew said: \"For us as a family it's been devastating to lose our much loved son, brother and uncle.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Bennett family described Mr Ritchie-Bennett as a \"devoted and loving husband\" and \"a man who cared strongly about family\".\n\nThe park had been busy due to the first lockdown restrictions being relaxed in England\n\nDet Ch Supt Kath Barnes, head of Counter Terrorism Policing South East, described Saadallah as \"a committed jihadist\".\n\nShe said: \"He has caused unspeakable hurt and distress to the families of the three men who were brutally murdered as they were relaxing and enjoying socialising with friends on a Saturday evening.\n\n\"I'm sure there will also be lasting effects on those who were injured in the attack, who were fortunate not to have been even more seriously harmed.\"\n\nReading Borough Council leader Jason Brock described the attacks as \"horrific\" and \"senseless\" and said a permanent memorial to the victims was planned.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cardiff\n\nCardiff City defender Sol Bamba is being treated for cancer, the Championship club has announced.\n\nThe 35-year-old Ivory Coast international has been diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma and is undergoing chemotherapy.\n\n\"Sol has begun his battle in typically positive spirits and will continue to be an integral part of the Bluebirds family,\" said the Bluebirds.\n\nBamba joined Cardiff in October 2016 under former manager Neil Warnock.\n\nThe National Health Service Wales describes the illness as \"a type of cancer that develops in the lymphatic system, a network of vessels and glands spread throughout your body.\n\n\"The lymphatic system is part of your immune system\".\n\nThe Bluebirds said Bamba is \"universally admired by team-mates, staff and supporters in the Welsh capital\".\n\nThe club's statement added: \"During treatment Sol will support his team mates at matches and younger players within the Academy, with whom he will continue his coaching development.\n\n\"While we request privacy for him and his family at this time, messages of support to be passed on to Sol may be sent to club@cardiffcityfc.co.uk.\"\n\n\"We are all with you Sol.\"\n\nBamba helped Cardiff win promotion to the Premier League in 2018 and has made more than 100 appearances for the club.\n\nThe former Paris St Germain player has been a hugely popular member of the squad, though this season he has been restricted to five Championship substitute appearances and one League Cup start.\n\nHe is a much travelled player who has had spells at Dunfermline, Hibernian, Leicester City, Trazbonspor and Italian club Palermo as well as Leeds United.\n\nFrance-born Bamba has played 46 times for the Ivory Coast, including World Cup appearances and was part of their African Cup of Nations squad when they were runners-up in 2012.", "A video featuring footage of a County Mayo man being consumed by fits of laughter while trying to record a birthday message for his son, has gone viral.\n\nVincent McDonnell was sending the message to his son David, who was celebrating his 40th birthday in Australia.\n\nHis younger son Paul got the video rolling, but the pair could not contain their laughter as they racked up the attempts.\n\nThe video has been viewed more than 1.5m times on Paul's Twitter account.", "Jessica Allen and Eliza Moore said their cars were surrounded by police when they arrived at the reservoir\n\nTwo women who were fined £200 each when they drove five miles for a walk have had the penalties withdrawn.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore were walking at Foremark Reservoir, Derbyshire, when they were \"surrounded\" by officers.\n\nAt the time Derbyshire Police insisted driving to exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of the most recent lockdown.\n\nBut new national guidance for police has led the force to quash the fines, and apologise to the women.\n\nChief Constable Rachel Swann said the fines \"have been withdrawn and we have notified the women directly, apologising for any concern caused\".\n\nThe two friends travelled the short distance to the reservoir from their homes in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nThey said their cars were \"surrounded\" by police. They were then questioned on why they were there and told the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nIn a statement, the women said: \"This afternoon we both received a phone call from Derbyshire Police.\n\n\"After reviewing our case, our fines have been rescinded and we have received an apology on behalf of the constabulary for the treatment we received.\n\n\"We welcomed this apology and we are pleased to draw a line under this event.\"\n\nAfter the incident gained media attention, the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) \"clarified the policing response concerning travel and exercise\".\n\nThe guidance said: \"The Covid regulations which officers enforce and which enables them to issue FPNs [fixed penalty notices] for breaches, do not restrict the distance travelled for exercise.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid: Fined women 'could have been dealt with differently'\n\nDerbyshire Police said: \"Having received clarification of the guidance issued by the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) on Friday, these FPNs as well as a small number of others issued, were reviewed in line with that latest advice, and so it is right that we have taken this action.\"\n\nThe county's police and crime commissioner Hardyal Dhinsda said: \"While the police are doing their absolute best to protect public safety during what is a critical time of the pandemic, the public should rightly expect a proportionate and balanced approach, taking full consideration of individual circumstances.\n\n\"We recognise that errors will occur in the face of complex guidance and legislation and it is important such situations are resolved quickly and fairly, as has been the case here.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK economy will \"get worse before it gets better\" as the country battles the pandemic, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has warned.\n\nThe chancellor told MPs the new national restrictions were necessary to control the spread of coronavirus.\n\nHowever, he said they would have a further significant economic impact,\n\n\"Even with the significant economic support we've provided, over 800,000 people have lost their job since February,\" he said.\n\n\"Sadly, we have not and will not be able to save every job and every business.\n\n\"But I am confident that our economic plan is supporting the finances of millions of people and businesses.\"\n\nThe chancellor said \"the road ahead will be tough\", but maintained that the government was \"taking the difficult but right long-term decisions for our country\".\n\nHe said that fiscal stimulus provided so far amounted to more than £280bn, while 1.2 million employers had furloughed almost 10 million employees.\n\nAt the same time, three million people had benefited from self-employment grants.\n\nMr Sunak said he would \"bear in mind\" calls to extend business rate relief and provide further support for the hospitality sector at the Budget in March.\n\nShadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds accused Mr Sunak of being \"out of ideas\" and providing \"nothing new\".\n\nShe said: \"The purpose of an update is to provide us with new information, not to repeat what we already know.\"\n\nThe chancellor's words reflect the fact that with a widespread lockdown, the first months of 2021 are likely to see a further contraction in the UK economy and probably an official double-dip recession. This reflects the physical shutdown nationwide of hospitality and retail, as well as the effect in the data of school shutdowns too.\n\nIn addition, consumers and workers are likely to be more cautious as the vaccine starts to be rolled out. So this is a very odd sort of economic tripwire. The challenge in the next weeks and months gets bigger, although not as big as it was last April. But beyond that, there is the hope of something normal.\n\nThe implication for the chancellor as he prepares a vital early March Budget, however, is further delay to the measures, such as tax rises, to deal with historic levels of pandemic government borrowing.", "In his letter to staff, circulated on social media, Chad Wolf said he had hoped to remain as acting secretary to homeland security until the end of the Trump administration.\n\n\"Unfortunately, this action is warranted by the recent events, including the ongoing and meritless court rulings regarding the validity of my authority as acting secretary,\" he said, \"which serve to divert attention and resources away from the important work of the Department in this critical time of a transition of power\".\n\nWolf's resignation comes after he last week called on Trump and all elected officials to \"strongly condemn\" the Capitol riot.\n\nHis exit throws the department into turmoil just as it is gearing up for inauguration of Joe Biden as president on 20 January, which has been designated a national security special event.", "Rules governing the import of personal goods from the UK to the EU changed after Brexit formally came into effect\n\nA Dutch TV network has filmed border officials confiscating ham sandwiches and other foods from drivers arriving in the Netherlands from the UK, under post-Brexit rules.\n\nThe officials were shown explaining import regulations imposed since the UK formalised its separation from the EU.\n\nUnder EU rules, travellers from outside the bloc are banned from bringing in meat and dairy products.\n\nThe rules appeared to bemuse one driver.\n\n\"Since Brexit, you are no longer allowed to bring certain foods to Europe, like meat, fruit, vegetables, fish, that kind of stuff,\" a Dutch border official told the driver in footage broadcast by TV network NPO 1.\n\nIn one scene, a border official asked the driver whether several of his tin-foil wrapped sandwiches had meat in them.\n\nWhen the driver said they did, the border official said: \"Okay, so we take them all.\"\n\nSurprised, the driver then asked the officials if he could keep the bread, to which one replied: \"No, everything will be confiscated - welcome to the Brexit, sir. I'm sorry.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK officially finished its formal separation from the EU on 31 December, 2020.\n\nFrom 23:00 GMT on that date, the UK stopped following EU rules, with new arrangements for travel, trade, immigration and security co-operation coming into force.\n\nA trade deal with the EU was agreed on 24 December, and a week later, UK lawmakers voted in favour of the agreement.\n\nThe UK's departure means big changes for business - with the UK and EU forming two separate markets - the end of free movement, and new regulations, including those governing the import of personal goods.\n\nThe UK government has issued guidance to commercial drivers travelling to the EU, warning them to \"be aware of additional restrictions to personal imports\".\n\n\"You cannot bring POAO (products of an animal origin) such as those containing meat or dairy (e.g. a ham and cheese sandwich) into the EU,\" the guidance says. \"There are exceptions to this rule for certain quantities of powdered infant milk, infant food, special foods, or special processed pet feed.\"\n\nOn its website, the European Commission says the ban is necessary because such goods \"continue to present a real threat to animal health throughout the Union\".\n\n\"It is known, for example, that dangerous pathogens that cause animal diseases such as Foot and Mouth Disease and classical swine fever can reside in meat, milk or their products,\" the Commission says.\n\nSeparately, the Dutch customs agency shared a picture of foodstuffs it had confiscated from motorists in the ferry terminal the Hook of Holland.\n\n\"Since 1 January, you can't just bring more food from the UK,\" the agency said. \"So prepare yourself if you travel to the Netherlands from the UK and spread the word. This is how we prevent food waste and together ensure that the controls are speeded up.\"\n\nThe BBC's economics editor Faisal Islam described the confiscation of ham sandwiches and other foodstuffs at the EU's borders with the UK as \"a standard implication of [the] Brexit deal\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Faisal Islam This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Unison, the UK's biggest trade union, has elected a woman as leader for the first time.\n\nChristina McAnea won 47.7% of the vote and takes over as general secretary from Dave Prentis, who has been in the job since 2001.\n\nThe former assistant general secretary beat fellow officials Paul Holmes, Roger McKenzie and Hugo Pierre in the contest, which began in October.\n\nMs McAnea said: \"I become general secretary at the most challenging time in recent history - both for our country and our public services.\n\n\"Health, care, council, police, energy, school, college and university staff have worked throughout the pandemic, and it's their skill and dedication that will see us out the other side.\n\n\"Their union will continue to speak up for them and do all it can to protect them in the difficult months ahead.\"\n\nUnison is promising action against the government's pay freeze for 1.3 million public sector workers, which it has described as an \"attack\" on members' livelihoods.\n\nMs McAnea said: \"Despite the risks, the immense pressures and their sheer exhaustion, the dedication and commitment of our key workers knows no end. I will not let this government, nor any future one, forget that.\"\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has also demanded a U-turn on public sector pay, as he urges ministers to \"protect family incomes\" from the effects of lockdowns and other restrictions in his first speech of the year.\n\nBut Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said he cannot \"justify a significant, across-the-board\" salary increase while the economy and public finances are suffering in the wake of the pandemic.\n\nMs McAnea, an experienced negotiator and former NHS worker, is expected to be broadly supportive of Sir Keir, as Mr Prentis has been.\n\nThe Labour leader welcomed her victory, saying: \"I know you will be a brilliant representative for Unison members.\n\n\"And it's a significant moment for the union to elect its first woman general secretary. I look forward to working with you.\"\n\nHer election comes at a strained time between Sir Keir and several other unions whose general secretaries have spoken out in support of his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn, who is currently suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party.\n\nMr Holmes came second in the Unison contest, with 33.8%, followed by Mr McKenzie, on 10.8%, and Mr Pierre, on 7.8%.\n\nMs McAnea grew up in Glasgow and worked as a housing officer before becoming a union employee.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK is at the \"worst point\" of the pandemic, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has warned, but said the actions of the public \"could make a difference\".\n\nAt a No 10 briefing, Mr Hancock pleaded with people to follow the government's Covid rules until the vaccine could provide a \"way out\" of the pandemic.\n\nThe government earlier published its plan to immunise tens of millions of people by spring.\n\nSo far 2.3 million people in the UK have had a first Covid vaccine shot.\n\nAnd a total of 2.6 million doses have been given out across the country, with some people having received both doses.\n\nMr Hancock said the new variant of coronavirus was putting the NHS under \"significant pressure\", adding it was \"imperative\" that people limit their social contacts.\n\n\"The NHS, more than ever before, needs everybody to be doing something right now - and that something is to follow the rules,\" he said.\n\n\"I know there has been speculation about more restrictions, and we don't rule out taking further action if it is needed, but it is your actions now that can make a difference.\"\n\nThe health secretary said he could \"rule out\" tightening restrictions by removing support and childcare bubbles, however.\n\nHis comments follow similar warnings from Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty, who said that the next few weeks will be \"the worst\" of the pandemic for the NHS.\n\nAccording to the latest figures, there have been another 529 deaths within 28 days of a positive test in the UK, and another 46,169 cases reported. There are also more than 32,000 people in hospital with coronavirus, data shows.\n\nMatt Hancock has previously said he's learned to rule nothing out when it comes to dealing with the pandemic.\n\nBut today he took the unusual step of doing just that.\n\nSupport bubbles and childcare bubbles, hugely valued by so many, will stay.\n\nSenior Whitehall sources have previously told me bubbles were \"untouchable\" but for a minister to say as much, so explicitly and on the record, means there's now very little wriggle room for the government to change its mind.\n\nMinisters will know that scrapping bubbles, for those that rely on them, could have proved deeply unpopular. But this certainty is a rarity.\n\nWhilst the current emphasis is on compliance, the idea of toughening up controls in other areas is not being ruled out.\n\nThe vaccine delivery plan says it is expected to take until spring to give a first dose to all 32 million people in the UK's priority groups, including everyone over 55 and those who are clinically vulnerable.\n\nUnder the plan, the government has pledged to carry out at least two million vaccinations in England per week by the end of January, which it says will be made possible by rolling out jabs at 206 hospital sites, 50 vaccination centres and around 1,200 local vaccination sites.\n\nIt also reiterates the government's aim of offering vaccinations to around 15 million people in the UK - the over-70s, older care home residents and staff, frontline healthcare workers and the clinically extremely vulnerable - by mid-February.\n\nAccording to Mr Hancock, two fifths of over-80s have now received their first dose, and almost a quarter of care home residents have received theirs.\n\nAlso at the briefing, NHS England's national medical director, Prof Stephen Powis, said the NHS was aiming to vaccinate the rest of the top nine priority groups by April, with a final push to offer all adults over 18 a jab by the autumn.\n\nHe stressed it would take until February before there were \"early signs\" that vaccination was leading to a drop in hospitalisations.\n\nThe country has still not seen the full impact of the Christmas loosening of lockdown restrictions, Prof Powis added, although he noted there are now 13,000 more Covid patients in hospital than there were on Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking in Bristol earlier, Mr Johnson warned the vaccination programme was in a \"race against time\" because of pressure on the NHS.\n\nHe said it was \"a very perilous moment because everyone can sense the vaccine is coming in - my worry is that will breed false complacency\".\n\nThe newly-published vaccination plan also says ministers are aiming to offer jabs at more than 2,700 sites across the UK.\n\nAnd it says that daily vaccination figures for England will be published from now on - showing the total number vaccinated to date, including first and second doses.\n\nEarlier, NHS England's chief executive, Sir Simon Stevens, told MPs that there was a \"strong case\" for asking the the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) to consider prioritising \"teachers and other key workers\" for vaccination after the \"first nine [priority] groups have been vaccinated\".\n\nA quarter of coronavirus admissions to hospital are for people under the age of 55, he added.\n\nIn the first four weeks of the vaccination campaign, the NHS did 1.3 million vaccinations.\n\nNews that in the past week almost the same again has been done shows progress is being made - even though there has been some concern rollout to care home residents has been slower than hoped.\n\nHitting two million doses a week is the next target - and is something the NHS is aiming to get close to this week.\n\nWith more vaccination sites opening by the day, it should be achievable as long as there is good supply.\n\nThere is already enough vaccine in the country to vaccinate all 15 million people in the highest at-risk groups that have been promised an offer of a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nHowever, not all of it has been through the final safety checks or been packaged up ready for distribution.\n\nChallenges remain, but even at this early stage it is clear there is growing optimism that the programme is on track.\n\nAs seven mass vaccination centres opened across England on Monday, NHS England said hundreds more GP-led and hospital services would also open later this week.\n\nBut with all centres, people will need to wait until they receive an invitation.\n\nTwo vaccines - Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca - are currently being administered in the UK.\n\nOn Friday, a third coronavirus vaccine - made by US company Moderna - was approved for use, although supplies are not expected to arrive until spring.\n\nVaccine programmes are also progressing in the UK's devolved nations.\n\nAll over-50s and everyone who is at greater risk from Covid in Wales will be offered a vaccine by spring, under new plans.\n\nAnd Scotland's health secretary has said every aged over 80 or over in the nation will be offered a jab by February, while care workers in Northern Ireland who provide services to ill or elderly patients living at home can now book an appointment to get a Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has questioned why there are \"less restrictions in place\" now than there were last March.\n\nIn his first speech of the year, he said: \"I do think it's time to hear from the scientists [about] what else could be done and that probably should be done in the next few hours\".\n\nMeanwhile, the United Arab Emirates is being removed from the UK list of travel corridors amid a spike in Covid cases.\n\nAnd England's Test and Trace scheme has revised one of its definitions of a \"close contact\" - the people who need to be reached if they have been near to someone who has tested positive for Covid.\n\nThis now refers to anyone who has been within two metres of someone for more than 15 minutes, whether in a single period or cumulatively over the course of one day.\n\nPreviously the definition was just a single period of at least 15 minutes.", "Home Office Minister James Brokenshire, who was diagnosed with lung cancer three years ago, is taking leave to have surgery on a lung tumour.\n\nThe Old Bexley and Sidcup MP resigned as Northern Ireland secretary in 2018 for surgery to remove a lesion on his right lung.\n\nOn Monday he confirmed that \"frustratingly\" there had been a recurrence of a tumour there.\n\nHe said he was in \"good hands\" with the \"fantastic NHS team\" looking after him.\n\n\"[I'm] keeping positive and blessed to have the love of Cathy and the kids to support me through this,\" the 53-year-old wrote on Twitter.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said his thoughts were with Mr Brokenshire and his family.\n\n\"Wishing you all the best for your treatment and looking forward to welcoming you back on the team soon,\" he added.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said she was \"saddened\" by the news, adding: \"All my thoughts and prayers are with James and his family during this time\".\n\n\"All colleagues across government send James our love and best wishes, and we look forward to having him back soon,\" she added.\n\nHealth secretary Matt Hancock was among government colleagues wishing him well, adding he was \"sending my best wishes for a speedy recovery\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer tweeted: \"Wishing you all the best for your treatment, James. Get well soon.\"\n\nMr Brokenshire, who was first elected to Parliament in 2005 as MP for the former constituency of Hornchurch, has also previously served as housing secretary under former PM Theresa May.\n\nHe has called for efforts to \"break some of the stigma around lung cancer\" and raise awareness of the disease.\n• None Brokenshire: There were some pretty dark moments", "Medical director Steve Stanaway says numbers of Covid patients are rising at the hospital\n\nHospital staff in Wrexham are under immense pressure after a \"rapid increase\" in seriously ill coronavirus patients, a medical director has warned.\n\nWrexham now has the highest rate of Covid-19 in Wales, with 851.7 cases per 100,000 of the population.\n\nThis is more than double the Welsh average.\n\nSteve Stanaway, medical director at Wrexham Maelor Hospital, pleaded with people to abide by rules.\n\n\"The worry from a staff's point of view is how much more stretching can we take, how many more staff can we deploy?\" he said.\n\nThe hospital - which is part of Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board - was the latest to suspend routine surgery as it tries to deal with rising numbers of Covid patients.\n\n\"That's created more feelings of stress and anxiety, not least to the people who were hoping to get their surgery this week,\" Mr Stanaway said.\n\nThe health board has postponed the majority of surgeries planned for the next two weeks at Wrexham, although some patients will be offered appointments in Bangor instead.\n\nEmergency surgery, upper gastro-intestinal surgery, endoscopy procedures and caesarean sections will continue at the Wrexham hospital.\n\nProf Arpan Guha, acting executive medical director, said: \"There are many patients expecting to undergo an operation in Wrexham over the coming weeks and we recognise how anxious and worried they will already be about having surgery during the current surge of the pandemic.\n\n\"We are sorry for any further distress or inconvenience this decision may cause and would like to reassure those affected that we are doing all we can to prioritise patients in the most urgent need of care.\"\n\nThe spike in cases in communities in north-east Wales has been blamed on the newer \"faster-spreading\" variant.\n\nWhile case rates in many communities have fallen slightly in recent weeks, in Wrexham numbers are continuing to rise.\n\nThe area now has the highest rate in Wales, followed by Flintshire with 754.6 per 100,000 of the population.\n\nBus services in the area have been affected after 28 drivers of Arriva Buses Wales tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nMeanwhile, Gwynedd, has the lowest case rate in the whole of Wales, with 110.\n\nThe average case rate for Wales stands at 435.9, according to the most recent Public Health Wales figures.\n\nThere have been calls for mass testing - as seen in parts of the south Wales Valleys - in the area as case rates continue to rise, but Wrexham council has said it has no plans to offer this to the wider community.\n\nMr Stanaway said the critical care unit and respiratory unit at the Wrexham hospital was now under huge pressure with the number of new patients needing this level of care \"rapidly increasing\" in recent weeks.\n\n\"The numbers are really quite alarming\", he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast on Monday. \"It's a huge amount of disease burden within a community.\"\n\nMr Stanaway said there were 125 inpatients being treated with Covid on Sunday night, which he estimated was an increase of 117% since Christmas.\n\nHe said 14 of them where in critical care, with some on ventilators, while 16 where being treated in the hospital's high care respiratory unit - a 45% increase in just four days.\n\n\"There are now so many in that unit they've had to expand it to a completely different part of the hospital,\" he said.\n\n\"If you look at the graphs of the cases they are going up exponentially, they are terrifying to look at, and I think people are very aware that this is what is happening out in the community around them,\" he said.\n\nMr Stanaway said staff were working tirelessly and under huge amounts of pressure to keep caring for the sickest patients, but it was unclear how much more demand the hospital could take.\n\n\"Our current predictions for admissions coming through the door in January are currently sitting at about 350, if you compare that to April, the height of the pandemic, we had 286 people,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a lot more, we've already had 112 people in the first nine days of January. And the numbers are going up and up.\"\n\nHe pleaded with people to abide by the rules.\n\n\"This virus is hurting, and has hurt, a lot of people within Wrexham and Flintshire,\" he said.\n\n\"I can't say it strongly enough... we will get through this, but you just have to play by the rules.\"\n\nLatest figures show 149 staff were isolating and, with high nursing vacancy rates, staff were under huge pressure and were working tirelessly.\n\n\"Of all the years I've worked in the NHS... the resilience, dedication and professionalism our staff are showing is absolutely unbelievable,\" he said.\n\n\"But you have to bear in mind that people are tired, people are stressed, and it does put a strain,\" he said.\n\n\"We absolutely want to see you if you are unwell, but if you can wait or seek care somewhere else... please do that to give us that little bit of headspace.\"", "Online supermarket Ocado has become the first big retailer to warn of shortages of some products.\n\nIt told customers in an email that there may be \"an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks\".\n\nStaff sickness and self-isolation means some food producers are cutting the number of product lines they offer.\n\nWhile customers might not get their exact product choice, plenty of food should be available, Ocado said.\n\n\"Staff absences across the supply chain may lead to an increase in product substitutions for a small number of customers as some suppliers consolidate their offering to maintain output,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nThe news comes after a rush of online food orders for supermarkets, as shoppers try to stay at home after the new lockdown started.\n\nWithin a couple of hours of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's speech to the nation on Monday, shoppers reported problems with Sainsbury's and Tesco, while Ocado customers were placed in a virtual queue.\n\nOcado told its customers that from Friday \"changes to the UK supply chain have affected some of our suppliers and may result in an increase of missing items and substitutions over the next few weeks.\"\n\nIt added: \"We apologise for any inconvenience caused and we are working hard to mitigate any impact.\"\n\nFood suppliers are grappling with staffing problems, hospitality clients who have closed their doors and delays at the border with the EU.\n\nWholesalers the BBC spoke to this week said they faced throwing away thousands of pounds worth of food because of cancelled orders following new restrictions.\n\nThe UK meat industry has called for the early vaccination of its workers to keep food supplies running smoothly during the coronavirus crisis.\n\nIt warned earlier this week that absences during the pandemic, coupled with disruption at ports, could hit food supply chains.\n\nAn early vaccination call for supermarket staff was also made by the boss of Sainsbury's on Thursday.\n\nThe government said the food industry remains \"well-prepared\" to make sure people have the food they need.\n\nThe British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) said coronavirus and disruption at ports due to new systems brought in after the Brexit transition period were \"a severe challenge to the industry and to the smooth running of the nation's food supply chain\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health Minister Vaughan Gething aims to offer all adults a jab by the autumn.\n\nAll over-50s and everyone who is at greater risk from Covid will be offered a vaccine by spring, under new Welsh Government plans.\n\nA vaccine strategy unveiled by Health Minister Vaughan Gething aims to offer all adults a jab by the autumn.\n\nIt comes after criticism that the rollout of the vaccine has been slower than in other parts of the UK.\n\nThe latest figures show 86,039 doses had been administered by 22:00 GMT on Sunday.\n\nA total of 327,000 doses - 280,000 of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 47,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab - have now been delivered to the Welsh NHS.\n\nThe figures mean 2.7% of Wales population has so far been vaccinated - compared to just over 4% in Northern Ireland, about 3.5% in England and 3% in Scotland.\n\nAcross the UK nearly 400,000 second doses have been administered, including 374,613 in England, 79 in Wales, 13,949 in Northern Ireland and, as of January 3, 36 in Scotland.\n\nMr Gething admitted the rest of the UK had \"gone slightly faster than we have\", but said the latest vaccinations figures showed a \"significant acceleration\" in the rollout.\n\nThe Welsh Conservatives accused the government of a \"stuttering start\", while Plaid Cymru said the plan was \"late in the day\".\n\nEveryone over 70, all care home residents and staff, and front-line NHS and social care workers will be offered a jab by mid-February, under similar timescales to other UK nations.\n\nThis 82-year-old woman was one of 100 to receive her vaccine at a special clinic in Swansea on Saturday\n\nThe Welsh Government's vaccination plans aim to cover 2.5 million people by September, with vaccines supplied by the UK government.\n\nMr Gething said: \"Delivering this vaccination programme to the people in Wales is a huge task but an enormous amount of work is going on to make it a success.\n\n\"We are making good progress with thousands more people being vaccinated every day.\"\n\nThe plan sets out a series of \"milestones\" for the vaccine rollout in Wales - all depending on the supply of vaccines approved for use.\n\nAt a press conference, Mr Gething said the government aimed to vaccinate:\n\nMr Gething said 700,000 people would be vaccinated by mid-February.\n\nAccording to the plan, the number of GPs' surgeries delivering vaccines will be increased from around 100 to more than 250 by the end of January.\n\nThe number of mass vaccination centres will increase in the next couple of weeks to 35, according to Welsh Government's plan.\n\nOne of those is Margam Orangery, in Neath Port Talbot, where about 500 people will be vaccinated each day.\n\nAt the press conference, Mr Gething defended the UK-wide decision to increase the gap between giving the two doses of the Pfizer vaccine and said it would \"avoid more deaths\".\n\n\"Each of the vaccines provide a high level of protection against harm from coronavirus. That's really good news for all of us,\" he added.\n\nWelsh Conservative health spokesman Andrew RT Davies said the Welsh Government should have a vaccinations minister who \"gets up in the morning thinking about vaccinations and goes to bed thinking about vaccinations\".\n\nHe said such a move would help the government recover from a \"stuttering start\" to the vaccines programme. Mr Davies said the government needed \"focus and direction to drive this forward\".\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price welcomed the strategy but said it was \"late in the day\".\n\nMr Price said many people, including his own parents, wanted clarity: \"My parents, who are in their 80s, have been told their surgery won't have the ability to vaccinate them for another three weeks, yet the GP surgery next door is starting this week.\"\n\nLarger supplies of the Oxford jab will be needed to speed up vaccinations\n\nThe Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is crucial to ensuring everyone aged over 70 can have at least one jab by Valentine's Day.\n\nHealth boards plan to use reserves of the Pfizer vaccine, but they alone will not reach the Welsh Government's first milestone. To speed things up, bigger supplies of the Oxford vaccine are needed.\n\nUnlike the Pfizer vaccine however, the stock is not held by the Welsh Government. Instead, it is delivered directly to the frontline - including GPs and community pharmacies - by Public Health England.\n\nAround 24,000 Oxford doses arrived in Wales last week; 26,000 are due this week; and another 80 to 100,000 are expected to arrive in four batches next week.\n\nIf the mid-February milestone is reached, attention then turns to the over-50s and younger people whose health puts them at greater risk.\n\nThey can expect a dose by the Spring, but discussions are continuing between the four UK nations to nail down a more specific date.\n\nDr Helen Alefounder is a GP in Colwyn Bay, Conwy county and part of a team that administered 400 vaccines at care comes last week after receiving the vaccine herself on Wednesday.\n\n\"Between us and the surgery next door that we're working with we've got just shy of 20,000 patients to vaccinate,\" she told BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"It's an absolutely huge task, it's really scary, but we are really keen and committed to get it done because everybody is sick of lockdown and let's be honest, everybody wants life to return to as normal as possible and the only way we're going to do that is to mass vaccinate people.\"\n\nA mass-vaccination centre has been set up at Margam Orangery near Port Talbot\n\nOther GP surgeries have posted on social media that they have not received as many doses of the vaccine as promised.\n\nVaccination numbers will now be published daily and the number of mass vaccination centres will rise from 22 to 35. The vaccination plan also suggests pharmacies could be used to deploy the vaccine.\n\nDr Gill Richardson, the senior responsible officer for the Covid vaccination programme in Wales, said GPs were \"raring to go\" to get the vaccine distributed.\n\nShe said the model for Wales' vaccination programme was focused around the Oxford-Astrazeneca vaccine, which was approved in late December and \"much larger quantities\" were expected.\n\nShe also said: \"I know it's very difficult if you haven't had a letter and you're feeling anxious but you are going to be approached and when you're approached we'd like it to be as soon as possible and as convenient as possible to you.\"\n\nMichael Sullivan, 93, from Radyr, Cardiff, is one of those who is yet to receive his letter.\n\nHe said: \"I hear of all these other people having their second jabs and nobody's even thought of contacting me to say I'm going to have one in the first place. It's a bit depressing. It makes me think somebody's not doing what they should be doing.\n\n\"It gets stressful more easily, that's another thing one has to bare in mind - it's going to save my life.\"\n\nTwo full doses of the Oxford vaccine gave 62% protection, a half dose followed by a full dose was 90% and overall the trial showed 70% protection.\n\nElen Jones, the Wales director of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, said community pharmacists were \"willing and skilled to help deliver the vaccination programme, as they do with flu every year\".\n\nShe added pharmacists could help deliver the vaccine \"at a more local level\".\n\nWelsh ministers have been under intense pressure since it became clear that Wales was lagging behind every other home nation in the initial weeks of vaccine rollout.\n\nIt's still not clear why that should be the case - the logistical challenges of rollout and the change in advice over the time period between first and second doses apply across the UK, not just to Wales.\n\nThe health minister says that there has already been \"a significant step-up in delivery\".\n\nThe test of that will be whether the system in Wales can meet the delivery goals set out in the vaccination strategy - which (as for the other home nations) also rely on a regular and sufficient supply of vaccine.", "Marks & Spencer has announced that it has bought the Jaeger fashion brand, which fell into administration last November.\n\nM&S is taking on the brand, but not Jaeger's scores of shops and concessions.\n\nIt is now in the process of finalising a deal to buy its products and \"supporting marketing assets\".\n\nM&S announced in May 2020 that it planned to stock other complementary brands to boost sales.\n\nSince then, it has started to sell products online from the Early Learning Centre, as well as from two designers, Nobody's Child and Ghost London.\n\nRichard Price, managing director of M&S Clothing & Home, said: \"We have set out our plans to sell complementary third party brands as part of our Never the Same Again programme to accelerate our transformation and turbocharge online growth.\n\n\"In line with this, we have bought the Jaeger brand and are in the final stages of agreeing the purchase of product and supporting marketing assets from the administrators of Jaeger Retail Limited. We expect to fully complete later this month.\"\n\nIn a call with journalists last week, chief executive Steve Rowe said M&S wanted to partner with other brands, largely for its online business, but stressed: \"We have no intention of turning into a department store.\"\n\nJaeger had 244 staff and some 63 stores and concessions. In addition, 13 stores closed after administrators were appointed, with the loss of more than 120 posts across stores, head office and distribution.\n\nIt is unclear if any jobs will be saved. There has been no update from the administrators, FRP.\n\nJaeger was founded in 1884, the same year as Marks & Spencer, which started out as a stall in an open market in Leeds known as Marks' Penny Bazaar.\n\nLast week, M&S unveiled quarterly figures showing that its clothing division had seen sales fall nearly a quarter, although sales of sales of sleepwear had soared.\n\nThe retailer sold 20% more women's pyjamas during the 13 weeks to 26 December. However, UK revenues for the quarter were £2.52bn, 8.2% lower than last year.\n\nM&S blamed \"on-off restrictions and distortions in demand patterns\" due to the coronavirus crisis.", "Stickers supposed to protect users against mobile-phone radiation have no effect, scientists have found.\n\nEnergydots says they \"counteract the harmful energy emitted by wireless and electronic equipment\" to aid sleep, cure headaches and give a clearer mind.\n\nBut University of Surrey tests for BBC News found no evidence of any effect.\n\nThe Devon-based company told BBC News the stickers were programmed with \"scalar energy\", which the scientists' equipment would be unable to detect.\n\nEnergydots markets a range of stickers, including the SmartDot, the SleepDot and even the PetDot.\n\nBBC News bought five SmartDots - a special offer for £55 - and sent them to the university's 6th Generation Innovation Centre.\n\nResearchers tested 4G mobile phones and wi-fi access points with and without the stickers applied to them.\n\nAnd a spokesman for the lab said: \"We could not find any evidence that these products had any effect on frequency or power when used as instructed.\"\n\nAn Energydots spokeswoman told BBC News: \"We state clearly that our products harmonise the fields.\n\n\"And the way to test this is to assess via biological testing.\"\n\nLast November, the company published a press release saying it was extremely proud to announce a partnership with the NHS that would see \"brand-new patient engagement units\" installed in Torbay and Royal College of London hospitals.\n\nAt the time, an Energydots spokeswoman told BBC News adverts for its products would appear in the two hospitals, though she clarified the London hospital was in fact University College Hospital.\n\nBut a Torbay Hospital spokesman then told BBC News it knew nothing of this partnership.\n\nAnd within hours, the press release had disappeared from the company's website.\n\nEnergydots later said there had been a misunderstanding with the agency that had promised to organise the adverts.\n\nIts stickers are among a wide range of products on Amazon from companies offering electric-and-magnetic-field (EMF) protection.\n\nEnergydots also suggests placing its SmartDot stickers on wi-fi routers\n\nThese include protective clothing, canopies to be placed over beds and even devices that block radiation from wi-fi routers - making them effectively useless.\n\nCampaigners claiming radiation from mobile phones and other devices poses a health risk have stepped up protests as 5G networks are rolled out.\n\nBut most scientists say even the higher part of the electromagnetic spectrum that may be used by 5G should not harm humans.\n\nAnd within those limits, there are no known consequences for health, the World Health Organization says.", "The United Arab Emirates is being removed from the UK list of travel corridors amid a spike in Covid cases.\n\nThat means anyone who arrives from the UAE after 04:00 GMT on Tuesday now needs to self-isolate for 10 days, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said.\n\nUK officials say Covid cases have risen 52% in the UAE in the last seven days and cite \"a significant acceleration in the number of imported cases\".\n\nIt comes after Scotland removed the UAE city Dubai from its safe travel list.\n\nThe Foreign Office has also updated its advice to advise against all but essential travel to the emirates.\n\nThe recent lockdown restrictions imposed across the UK mean leisure travel is currently banned.\n\nBut the UAE has been in particular focus in recent weeks after a number of UK reality TV and social media stars posted photographs of themselves holidaying there before the rules came into place.\n\nAnd a Celtic footballer tested positive for Covid-19 after the club took a trip to Dubai for a winter training camp.\n\nCeltic were allowed to go as a group under exemptions for elite athletes. As a result,15 playing and coaching staff are now required to self-isolate.\n\nDubai was added to Scotland's travel quarantine list from 04:00 GMT on Monday - with the rule also applying retrospectively for passengers who have arrived in Scotland from the city since January 3.\n\nThe Department for Transport said the removal of the whole of the UAE from the travel corridor is being adopted by all four UK nations.\n\nArrivals to the UK from most destinations now have to quarantine for 10 days.\n\nHowever, arrivals from some countries are exempt from the rules. Those countries make up the so-called travel corridor list.\n\nFrom this week, passengers arriving by boat, train or plane, including UK nationals, must also take a Covid test up to 72 hours before leaving the country of departure.\n\nAre you affected by the government decision to remove UAE from the UK travel corridor list? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A hospital's oxygen supply has \"reached a critical situation\" due to rising numbers of Covid-19 infections.\n\nA document shared with the BBC showed Southend Hospital has had to reduce the amount it uses to treat patients.\n\nIt said the target range for oxygen levels that should be in patients' blood had been cut from 92% to a baseline of 88-92%.\n\nHospital managing director, Yvonne Blucher, said it was \"working to manage\" the situation.\n\n\"We are experiencing high demand for oxygen because of rising numbers of inpatients with Covid-19 and we are working to manage this,\" she said.\n\n\"The public can play their part by staying home and, where they cannot, following the 'hands, face, space' advice to cut the spread of the virus.\"\n\nIn the document, from the Mid and South Essex Hospitals Foundation Trust, which has been shared with frontline NHS staff, the oxygen supply was said to have \"reached a critical situation\".\n\nIt said it was \"imperative we use oxygen efficiently and safely\" and states patients who are being fed oxygen and have an oxygen saturation of above 92% \"should have their oxygen weaned within the target range\", which is now 88-92%. This means very gradually reducing the saturation level.\n\nIt added that \"maintaining saturations within this target range is safe and no patient will come to harm as a result\".\n\nGPs in Essex have told the BBC that the threshold for sending a patient to hospital for supplemental oxygen is if their oxygen saturation is at 92%. A level of 96-100% is deemed normal.\n\nChris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers which represents hospital trusts in England, said there was \"huge pressure\" on hospital oxygen stocks because giving patients extra oxygen was a \"key part\" of coronavirus treatment.\n\nHe said there were a number of hospitals where this happened in the first phase of coronavirus and over the past few weeks \"similar things have happened\" elsewhere.\n\nChris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers which represents hospital trusts in England, said there was \"huge pressure on oxygen systems\"\n\n\"This is the kind of problem that chief executives and trust leadership teams are having to solve day in, day out,\" he said.\n\n\"If you [a hospital] push your oxygen to an absolutely critical level, then the thing that you can't do is have the oxygen system break down... so effectively you will have to dial it down, in which case you will probably have to transfer patients to the nearest neighbouring hospital for a short period of time.\n\n\"I cannot tell you how much work has been done over the summer and autumn to ensure that people [hospital trusts] have been prepared for this... they knew they would come under pressure if there were to be further waves, as has now proved to be the case.\"\n\nEssex has one of the highest rates of Covid-19 per 100,000 people in the country, with seven of the 14 council areas in the county in the top 20 most infected areas of England.\n\nThe Mid and South Essex Hospitals Foundation Trust said it was \"imperative we use oxygen efficiently and safely\"\n\nNews of oxygen issues is understandably worrying, but not unexpected. Tanks may be full, but flow is a problem.\n\nMany people who are sick with Covid will need extra oxygen to help them breathe. As Covid admissions increase, it can put huge demand on a hospital's piped oxygen supply system to provide this high flow.\n\nHospital bosses have been planning for such scenarios for months, learning from experiences during the first wave of Covid when some trusts ran into difficulties.\n\nMany wards have made improvements to their pipework in preparation for a very busy winter, but there is still a limit to what hospitals can provide.\n\nWhen stretched to the maximum, other steps are needed, such transferring patients elsewhere or limiting how much oxygen is pumped to each patient.\n\nSouthend Hospital has taken this latter measure.\n\nAlthough not ideal, it is not unsafe. Patients will be closely monitored and the trust hopes the situation will improve if new Covid admissions start to go down as people follow the stay at home lockdown rules.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n• None 'One in 18 have Covid-19' in parts of Essex", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon says exemption from quarantine travel requirements for elite sport are to be reviewed\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has urged football clubs not to \"abuse\" the privileges they are afforded while the rest of Scotland is in lockdown.\n\nPlayers and staff from Celtic FC are having to self-isolate after one tested positive for Covid-19 on return from a mid-season training camp in Dubai.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she had doubts about whether the trip was really necessary.\n\nAnd she said \"everyone, including football, should be erring on the side of caution\" amid a rise in infections.\n\nScottish football below Championship level is to be suspended for three weeks in light of the current lockdown, with Scottish Cup and lower league ties to be rescheduled.\n\nTop flight football in Scotland is continuing while most Scots are subject to a \"stay at home\" order due to the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nCeltic's home fixture against Hibernian went ahead on Monday evening, despite the club having lost 13 players and three staff to Covid-19 issues.\n\nDefender Christopher Jullien tested positive for the virus on return from the club's training camp in Dubai, with others including the club's manager Neil Lennon being forced to isolate as close contacts.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she was \"disappointed and frustrated\" that her daily coronavirus briefing was again being \"dominated by football\".\n\nCeltic trained in Scotland on Saturday after returning from Dubai\n\nShe said she had doubts about whether Celtic's trip \"was really essential\" and whether rules were strictly adhered to, saying it was for the footballing authorities to decide if further action was necessary.\n\nThe first minister issued a warning to clubs that they must stick to the rules set out for them while the rest of the populace is subject to tight restrictions.\n\nShe said: \"Football and elite sport more generally enjoys a number of privileges right now that the rest of us don't have. These privileges include the right to go to overseas training camps and be exempt from quarantine on return.\n\n\"It is really vital, obviously for public health reasons but also I think out of respect for the rest of the population living under really heavy restrictions, that these privileges are not abused.\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross is an assistant referee in the game.\n\nHe said that at a time when people are staying at home football games were something many looked forward to.\n\nMr Ross said: \"We don't want to see the whole of Scottish football affected by the actions of one club.\" He also called for financial support to be made available to clubs in the Scottish lower leagues and Scottish Cup who had had their games suspended for three weeks.\n\nCeltic manager Neil Lennon is among those who are self-isolating\n\nMs Sturgeon said Scotland was currently in \"the most perilous and serious position since the start of the pandemic\", with a record number of people in hospital with Covid-19.\n\nShe said everyone should be doing their utmost not to add to pressure on the health services by following the rules.\n\nShe said: \"This whole episode should underline how serious the situation we are in now is. Everyone including football should be erring on the side of caution.\n\n\"I know fans of other clubs feel very strongly that the whole of football should not pay the price for the actions of any one club, and I agree with that.\n\n\"But of course a situation like this does make it essential for us to review the rules - including those around travel exemptions - and that's what we will be doing. As we do, I do hope that Celtic themselves will reflect seriously on all of this.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon cited photographs which emerged of players socialising in Dubai, but Celtic's assistant manager John Kennedy said these created a \"false picture\" and that there had been \"minor slip-ups\" at worst.\n\nThe club had previously claimed the government had given permission for the trip to go ahead, but Ms Sturgeon said it had only provided guidance to the footballing authorities on the rules.\n\nShe said: \"It's not our role to give approval or not to what a football club is doing.\"\n\nA statement posted on the Celtic website said that \"the reality is that a case could well have occurred had the team remained in Scotland\".\n\nIt added: \"Celtic has done everything it can to ensure we have in place the very best procedures and protocols. From the outset of the pandemic, Celtic has worked closely with the Scottish government and Scottish football and we will continue to do so.\"", "As hospital mortuaries fill up in Surrey, England, some of the dead from the coronavirus pandemic are being brought to an emergency body storage facility.\n\nSurrey currently has one of the highest infection rates in the country, and some are concerned the facility may reach capacity.\n\nBBC home editor Mark Easton paid a visit to the site which has been set up in a Surrey woodland.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Monday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nSeven centres begin operating this morning across England, a key part of efforts to vaccinate 15 million in the top four priority groups by mid-February. To begin with, more than 600,000 aged 80 or over are being sent letters inviting them to book an appointment at one of the hubs - but if the journey is too long, they're being told closer options will be available soon. The centres will be open 12 hours a day and more large-scale sites will follow. The health secretary will give more details later, while the Welsh government will publish its own vaccination plan. In Scotland, more clinics should start to receive the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. Here's how vaccines are approved for use, and some of the challenges a rollout on this scale faces.\n\nScientists have warned stricter measures might be needed to curb infections in England but, right now, the government is focusing on an \"all-out public information\" campaign to improve compliance with the existing rules. Chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty is appearing on TV and radio this morning urging the public to \"stay at home\" given what he called the \"appalling situation\" we are in. He told BBC One's Breakfast that getting case numbers down was \"everybody's problem\", and \"every unnecessary contact\" with someone from another household gave the virus an opportunity to be transmitted. \"We need to really double down\", he added, because \"this is the most dangerous time we've had in terms of numbers into the NHS.\" If you've seen videos online claiming some hospital wards and corridors are empty, BBC Reality Check explains what's really going on.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses says a record quarter of a million firms could close over the coming year. The organisation's chairman, Mike Cherry, said financial support provided to businesses during the pandemic had \"not kept pace with intensifying restrictions\". It also wants more help for many self-employed workers who are currently excluded from aid. There's another call for more government support this morning from Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer. He wants teachers, the armed forces and care workers to be left out of a public sector pay freeze, and is urging ministers not to end the temporary £20-a-week boost to Universal Credit.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses said the government had met the latest national lockdown \"with a whimper\"\n\nThe body representing prison staff says courts should cease hearing trials to help stop the spread of coronavirus in jails. Mark Fairhurst, from the Prison Officers' Union, said there had been a \"massive outbreak\" at Cardiff Prison, and the site was struggling to find space for newly-sentenced arrivals. However, others within the criminal justice sector argue courts must be kept open to prevent the case backlog growing further. The rate of spread in prisons is still well below the wider population, and a prison service spokesman said shielding, mass testing and limited regimes were in place at all facilities.\n\nPrimary and secondary schools are closed to most pupils, and the switch to virtual learning presents challenges for many families. The BBC is trying to help, and from today lessons and programmes will be broadcast on TV, on BBC Two and CBBC. They'll also be available on iPlayer, with additional content online. Find out all you need to know here. If you're looking for some inspiration for PE, Joe Wicks is also back today. For many families, he was one of the fixtures of the first lockdown, and live classes start at 09:00 GMT on his YouTube channel.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Dorset Police said officers dispersed dozens of demonstrators from the town centre as they attempted to march\n\nA video shared online apparently showing a woman being arrested in breach of lockdown for sitting on a bench was \"stage-managed\", police said.\n\nDorset Police believe the video was planned and recorded by anti-lockdown protesters during a demonstration in Bournemouth on Saturday.\n\nThree people were arrested for not giving their details so officers could issue fines for breaking Covid rules.\n\nThe BBC has asked one of the protesters who posted the video to comment.\n\nThe force said two of those held were later de-arrested when they confirmed their details in police custody and a third was released when his details were verified - all three were then issued fixed penalty notices.\n\nOfficers also issued at least seven other fines and 10 dispersal notices.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Mark Callaghan, from Dorset Police, said: \"We believe this video was planned, stage-managed and recorded by members of the protest group who turned up in multiple areas, several of whom refused to engage or provide their details.\n\n\"If people refuse to give their details in such circumstances then it leaves officers with little option, but to arrest until the details are established. Our officers would only arrest as a last resort.\n\n\"It was clear that the group was deliberately organising their activities, walking around in twos and then trying to come together in a 'flash mob'-style approach, as they have done previously. This activity went on for a couple of hours.\"\n\nThe force's chief constable James Vaughan earlier said: \"I condemn the actions of these selfish individuals who knowingly flouted the lockdown restrictions.\"\n\nThe force said there were \"repeated attempts\" to engage with the organisers to stop the planned protest and found a number of the protesters had \"travelled considerably\" from out of the Dorset area.\n\nMr Vaughan added: \"Our county is gripped with infections and yet these irresponsible individuals have ignored what is being asked of them and have left their homes to protest. Shame on them.\"\n\nSam Crowe, director of public health for Dorset, said its hospital services were \"close to being overwhelmed\".\n\nMr Crowe said: \"Infection rates locally have been doubling in less than a week. If this carries on, our hospitals will not be able to cope with caring for those needing life-saving treatment. Stay at home means exactly that.\"\n\nLatest figures show Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole has reached 745.2 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nAlso on Saturday, 16 people were also arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pupils across Scotland have been experiencing problems accessing Microsoft Teams as the majority move to home learning.\n\nA number of schools, pupils and parents have reported the technology running slowly or not at all.\n\nIt is one of the main platforms being used for remote learning with schools shut to most pupils until at least the beginning of February.\n\nMicrosoft Teams tweeted that the issue was being investigated.\n\nA Microsoft spokesperson said: \"Our engineers are working to resolve difficulties accessing Microsoft Teams that some customers are experiencing.\"\n\nWhen pressed on whether demand as a result of home schooling was causing the issue, Microsoft declined to comment.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon highlighted the problem during her daily coronavirus briefing.\n\n\"This is not an issue that is unique to Scotland or indeed unique to schools, but I understand Microsoft is currently working to address it,\" she said.\n\n\"More generally I don't underestimate how difficult this is both for young people learning away from friends… and for parents to juggle home schooling with working.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon was also asked about problems which were being experienced by users of digital learning platform Glow.\n\nShe replied: \"It is not an issue with Glow. It is affecting Glow, but the core issue is not with Glow… the issue is with Microsoft Teams.\"\n\nTwo schools in Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, said the problem was a \"national issue\" although Renfrew High School urged pupils experiencing difficulties not to panic.\n\nClyde Valley High School tweeted: \"Our online learning provision begins today for all of our pupils. Due to the very high demand for Microsoft Teams across Scotland, there may be issues initially getting logged on or accessing some files.\n\n\"This is a national issue on the site and may take a little time to rectify.\"\n\nColtness High School said: \"Unfortunately it appears Microsoft Teams is struggling to cope with the traffic this morning.\n\n\"This is across Scotland and not isolated to Coltness. Pupils and staff are having difficulty loading files. We have reported the issue and hopefully this will be resolved soon.\"\n\nEdinburgh City Council have texted all parents saying: \"There is a city-wide problem with Microsoft Teams this morning. Please be patient as the council is working to resolve it.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by RHS Digital Learning This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by D&G Council This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said: \"Microsoft has confirmed that this issue is affecting users in the UK and elsewhere in northern Europe. Education Scotland is working closely with the company to resolve the issues.\"\n\nAfter one teacher complained to Microsoft Teams on Twitter, a staff member said: \"We're currently investigating an issue where some users in the UK region are unable to access Microsoft Teams. We will provide further information as soon as this is available.\"\n\nAccording to an Ofcom report in December, about 34,000 (1.2%) premises in Scotland were without a decent broadband connection, while superfast broadband coverage had increased to 94% of homes.\n\nIt also said that fixed and mobile networks in Scotland had \"generally coped well\" with increased demands during the pandemic.\n\nIt comes as plans for remote learning during the latest lockdown reveal big disparities between Scotland's 32 councils.\n\nNot all pupils will be offered live lessons - instead the decision on the best approach has been left to individual schools and teachers.\n\nGuidance on remote learning published by the Scottish government on Friday recommended a \"a balance of live learning and independent activity\".\n\nThe Scottish government said it had invested £25m to address digital exclusion in schools with funding allocations for digital devices and connectivity solutions made to all 32 local authorities.\n\nMore than 50,000 devices such as laptops have been distributed to children and young people to help with remote learning and the programme in total is expected to deliver about 70,000 devices for disadvantaged children and young people across Scotland.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Asymptomatic testing for Covid can help \"break the chains of transmission\", Matt Hancock says\n\nRegular rapid testing for people without coronavirus symptoms will be made available across England this week, the government has said.\n\nThe community testing regime - expanded to cover all 317 local authorities - uses rapid lateral flow tests, which can return results in 30 minutes.\n\nLocal councils are being encouraged to prioritise tests for those who cannot work from home during the lockdown.\n\nThe health secretary said asymptomatic testing can help break transmission.\n\nMeanwhile, NHS England has invited tens of thousands of people over 80 to book vaccinations.\n\nA further 563 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test and another 54,940 cases reported, according to government figures on Sunday.\n\nThe total number of deaths in the UK after a positive test passed 80,000 on Saturday.\n\nThe government has launched a campaign telling people to act like they have got the virus in a bid to tackle the rise in infections.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said expanding the Community Testing Programme to more people without symptoms was \"crucial given that around one in three people\" who contract Covid-19 show no symptoms.\n\nIt said regular community testing using the rapid tests had already identified more than 14,800 positive Covid-19 cases.\n\nSo far, 131 local authorities in England have enrolled in the government's community testing programme, with Milton Keynes, Slough, Doncaster and Essex the latest to join.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said targeted asymptomatic testing and subsequent isolation was \"highly effective in breaking chains of transmission\".\n\nBut Angela Raffle, a consultant in public health at the University of Bristol Medical School, said increasing lateral flow testing was \"very worrying\" and warned the benefits of finding symptomless cases \"will be outweighed by the many more infectious cases that are missed by these tests\".\n\nDefending lateral flow tests on the BBC's Andrew Marr programme Mr Hancock said mass asymptomatic testing in Liverpool had seen the case rate drop \"more sharply than it did in other similar areas where only restrictions were brought in\".\n\nNHS Test and Trace will also work closely with other government departments to scale up workforce testing, the Department of Health and Social Care said.\n\nMany are already piloting regular workforce testing, with 15 large employers having taken up this offer already across 64 sites, \"including organisations operating in the food, manufacturing, energy and retail sectors, and within the public sector including job centres, transport networks and the military\".\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said plans were already in place for rapid testing of staff and students in schools and colleges and staff in primary schools.\n\nAsked when schools could reopen by the BBC's Andrew Marr, Mr Hancock said there were four conditions: that there is not a major new variant, the vaccine rollout is proceeding effectively, the number of deaths is falling and there is an easing of pressure on the NHS.\n\nMatthew Fell, of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), which represents 190,000 UK businesses, said: \"This expansion of testing will help more critical workers and those unable to work from home to operate safely, while also catching new cases more swiftly.\"\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said the safety of the workforce had been an \"absolute priority\" and said the expansion of testing means \"we can keep our economy on the move while giving individuals in key sectors complete confidence that their workplace is safe\".\n\nBut Prof Susan Michie, professor of health psychology at University College London, told BBC Breakfast the country would continue a \"yo-yoing of lockdown\" without a \"test, trace and isolate system that actually works\" and warned there needed to be tighter restrictions and tougher messaging than in March to prevent \"tens of thousands of avoidable deaths in the next few weeks\".", "Luke Evans plays police officer Steve Wilkins who reopened and solved the two double murders\n\nHollywood actor Luke Evans says telling the true story of the murder of four people was a \"huge responsibility\".\n\nEvans, who was brought up in Aberbargoed, Caerphilly county, returned to Wales to star in ITV drama The Pembrokeshire Murders.\n\nHe plays Dyfed-Powys Police officer Steve Wilkins who in 2006 reopened two unsolved double murders from the 1980s.\n\n\"I just wanted to tell it right and show justice for the victims, which is the most important part,\" Evans said.\n\n\"This is a very serious, sad story where four people lost their lives and their families have struggled and suffered greatly because of it,\" he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\n\"So you do feel a huge sense of responsibility.\"\n\nThe Pembrokeshire Murders has been adapted from a book about the case written by Mr Wilkins and ITV journalist Jonathan Hill.\n\nIn 1985 brother and sister Richard and Helen Thomas were shot at their remote mansion near Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, before the property was set alight.\n\nThen in 1989, Peter and Gwenda Dixon were shot dead at close range on the Pembrokeshire coastal path near Little Haven.\n\nThe drama also stars Newport actress Alexandria Riley as Det Insp Ella Richards\n\nBut it was only years later that microscopic DNA and fibres linked the murders to John Cooper, who was already in prison for a string of burglaries.\n\nIn 2011 he was jailed for life.\n\nThe Dracula Untold star said he had not been aware of the notorious case: \"I knew almost nothing about these murders, to the point where when I read what was a treatment two or three years ago… I couldn't believe what I was reading.\n\n\"So I did my own research into it and realised that the story was completely true - it hadn't been embellished, none of this was fiction and it sort of blew my mind.\"\n\nHe said being able to speak to Mr Wilkins while filming was invaluable: \"Me and Steve had a dialogue almost every week for a few hours.\n\n\"We had a lot of conversations before we started shooting where I would speak to him and ask him, not just about the case - obviously that that was very important - but about things like how was it standing in front of John Cooper, having to interview John Cooper, having to deal with his family.\n\n\"You see both sides of the effect of these terrible crimes, you see what the aftermath of what it does to people and how they suffer and you meet Cooper's family as well.\n\n\"Steve has his own family and that also is played into the storyline very powerfully.\"\n\nEvans said the only other time he has worked in Wales was when filming Visit Wales commercials: \"Being Welsh and not getting to work in Wales very often - that certainly was an attraction for me,\" he said.\n\n\"I've done them [the commercials] for a few years - one of them was about the coastal walks of Wales and our beautiful coastline... and then right in this beautiful place I was there back there, portraying a character and trying to find the killer of somebody who murdered people on this coastal path.\"\n\nBut he said he enjoyed playing a Welsh character: \"To go right back to my roots with my accent and that was a really, really exciting to do.\n\nThe series, made by World Productions, the makers of Line of Duty and Bodyguard, finished filming just before Wales' first coronavirus lockdown.\n\n\"When we started The Pembrokeshire Murders it was January so we didn't hear anything really, and then just before we finished there was rumblings of this virus,\" he said.\n\n\"We were very lucky in a way, we wrapped basically on the Friday then on the Monday everything closed.\n\n\"So it was a big sigh of relief when we got to the final wrap of that day and it was very special.\"\n\nThe three-part series also stars Keith Allen, Owen Teale, Alexandria Riley, Caroline Berry, Oliver Ryan and David Fynn.\n\nThe Pembrokeshire Murders in on ITV at 21:00 GMT on 11, 12 and 13 January", "Flexing the coronavirus lockdown rules could be fatal, the health secretary has warned as hospital admissions soar.\n\nMatt Hancock did not rule out strengthening current restrictions and told the BBC's Andrew Marr the NHS was under \"very serious pressure\".\n\nIt comes after almost 55,000 new cases of coronavirus were reported in the UK and the number of deaths after a positive test passed 80,000.\n\nScientist Prof Peter Horby warned the UK was in \"the eye of the storm\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the rules were tough but \"may not be tough enough\" and called for the government to hold daily press conferences to avoid \"mixed messages\".\n\nThe UK recorded another 563 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test on Sunday, down from 1,065 deaths on Saturday.\n\nHowever, there tends to be fewer deaths reported on Sundays, due to a reporting lag over the weekend. There were also a further 54,940 daily cases.\n\nMr Hancock told Andrew Marr \"every time you try to flex the rules that could be fatal\" and said staying at home was the \"most important thing we can do collectively as a society\".\n\nThe health secretary said he did not want to speculate on whether the government would further strengthen restrictions, after warnings from scientists on Saturday that they may need to be stricter.\n\n\"People need to not just follow the letter of the rules but follow the spirit as well and play their part,\" he said.\n\nHis comments came after Home Secretary Priti Patel defended police over enforcing lockdown rules following the case of two women who were fined for going for a walk five miles from their homes - a decision which is now under review.\n\nThe government has launched a campaign telling people to act like they have got the virus in a bid to tackle the rise in infections.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty said that if the virus continued on its current trajectory \"many hospitals will be in real difficulties, and very soon\".\n\nIn a statement released on Sunday, he said that unless people started to follow the rules more strictly, emergency patients will have to be turned away from hospitals, causing \"avoidable deaths\".\n\nProf Horby, chairman of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), said there may be \"early signs that something is beginning to bite\" due to the restrictions - but if they did not then stricter measures would be needed.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: \"I really hope people take this very seriously. It was bad in March, it's much worse now.\n\n\"We've seen record numbers across the board, record numbers of cases, record numbers of hospitalisations, record numbers of deaths.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Peter Horby explains why the new Covid-19 variant is up to 70% more transmissible\n\nProf Horby said tougher measures might include those during the March lockdown, such as people only being able to exercise once a day and stricter rules about meeting people.\n\n\"We are in a situation where everything that was risky in the past is now more risky,\" he said.\n\nProf Horby said early signs were encouraging that the vaccines would be effective against the new Covid variants - first identified in the UK and in South Africa - and he did not want people to \"hide under the duvet\".\n\n\"We can see the end game now,\" he said.\n\nHigher cases inevitably mean more hospitalisations and more deaths.\n\nThe most recent figures show that, on average, 894 people per day are now dying within 28 days of a positive Covid test, up from 438 at the start of December.\n\nThe spike in cases since Christmas means that figure is almost certain to get worse before the most recent lockdown measures can start to have any effect.\n\nScientists think the new variant of the disease is more \"transmissible\", possibly because each infected individual produces more of the actual virus - sometimes referred to as the viral load.\n\nVaccination should help to protect the most vulnerable from serious symptoms but we don't yet know if receiving the jab stops an individual contracting the virus and passing it on to others.\n\nScientists say that may mean even tougher restrictions will be needed to bring the R-number below one and start to reduce the overall size of the pandemic.\n\nMass community testing is to be rolled out this week, the government has said, and the health secretary said around two million people had been vaccinated in the UK, with some 200,000 jabs being given in England daily.\n\nMr Hancock said by autumn every adult in the UK would be offered a vaccine.\n\nHe said the government was on course to reach its target of 15 million people vaccinated by mid-February, with the opening of seven mass vaccination centres this week likely to increase the rate of jabs.\n\nMr Hancock told Sky News' Sophy Ridge he hoped coronavirus could be treated like seasonal flu with an annual vaccination programme in the future.\n\nProf Horby said the vaccines may have to be updated \"every few years\" as the virus mutates and said it was unlikely the virus would go away completely.\n\n\"We're going to have to live with it,\" he said. \"But that may change significantly.\n\n\"It may well become more of an endemic virus that's with us all the time and may cause some seasonal pressures and some excess deaths but is not causing the huge disruption that we're seeing now.\"", "Spain is in a race against time to clear roads covered by heavy snow, and get Covid vaccines and food supplies to areas affected by Storm Filomena.\n\nUp to 50cm (20 inches) of snow fell on the capital Madrid, one of the worst hit areas, between Friday and Saturday.\n\nAt least four people died and thousands of travellers were left stranded.\n\nOvernight, temperatures plunged to -8C (18F) in parts of Spain, amid warnings by meteorologists that the snow was turning to perilous ice.\n\nThe unusual cold wave on the Iberian peninsula is expected to last until Thursday.\n\nThe Spanish government said it had taken extra steps - including police-escorted convoys - to ensure its expected shipment of some 300,000 coronavirus vaccines can be distributed as planned to regional health authorities later on Monday.\n\n\"The commitment is to guarantee the supply of health, vaccines and food. Corridors have been opened to deliver the goods,\" Transport Minister Jose Luis Abalos said on Sunday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Madrid has been hit by heavy snowfall after Storm Filomena\n\nSoldiers have been deployed to clear some of the 700 major roads.\n\nSome 3,500 tonnes of salt were later brought on lorries to the capital, Spain's El Mundo website reported on Monday.\n\nThe record-breaking snowfall has triggered some unprecedented scenes here in Madrid. People have skied along the city's main commercial street, Gran Vía, and one man was pictured being pulled through the district of Hortaleza on a sled by five huskies.\n\nBut other responses to the snow have been more controversial due to concerns about Covid-19. Dozens of young people had a snowball fight in Callao square, for example, and many of them were without facemasks.\n\nNearby, in Puerta del Sol, others celebrated the snow by dancing a conga. The daily Marca newspaper branded it \"the conga of shame\".\n\nAlthough the snowfall has now stopped, low temperatures have left snow and ice piled up across the capital and the surrounding region. And with residents advised to avoid using their cars, public transport has seen a surge in demand.\n\nThis has compounded coronavirus concerns as many metro train carriages were packed at rush hour on Monday morning, making social distancing impossible.\n\nMadrid's international airport began gradually resuming operations on Sunday afternoon, having cancelled all flights on Friday.\n\nSome 500 people across the Madrid region were forced to spend the night in temporary shelter, including sports centres, after they were trapped by the whiteout.\n\nAbout 100 shoppers and staff spent two nights at a shopping centre in Majadahonda, a town north of the capital. \"There are people sleeping on the ground on cardboard,\" one restaurant employee told TVE television.\n\nSpain's Meteorological Agency said Saturday's snowfall was the heaviest in Madrid since 1971\n\nBut there were stories of heroism too, including doctors and medical workers who abandoned their cars and walked for hours to get to work. One doctor, Alvaro Sanchez, said on social media he had walked 17km (10 miles) over nearly two hours to get to work, while two nurses, Paco and Monica, said they had walked 22km to their hospital.\n\nThey were praised by Spanish Health Minister Salvador Illa, who tweeted: \"The commitment that the entire group of health workers is showing is an example of solidarity and dedication.\"\n\nSome 4x4 vehicle owners offered to transport medical workers, while other volunteers helped to clear hospital entrance ways.\n\n\"Health staff have been working (hard) for more than a year and this is just a short moment for us, so as citizens, we are trying to help; it is everyone's responsibility,\" said Fernando de la Fuente, 60, who helped clear the entrance to Madrid's Gregorio Maranon Hospital.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpaniards in large parts of the country have been warned to take care in the coming days as temperatures could fall to -12C (10F) in some areas until Thursday.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nCrawley Town delivered one of the FA Cup third round's most emphatic upsets as the League Two underdogs tore apart Marcelo Bielsa's Leeds.\n\nThree second-half goals rewarded a fantastic performance from John Yems' side as they made light of the 62 places between themselves and their Premier League visitors.\n\nNick Tsaroulla, playing only his seventh game in senior football, set the ball rolling, beating three Leeds defenders to fire home a superb solo opener.\n\nUnited keeper Kiko Casilla's error allowed Ashley Nadesan to double the lead before Jordan Tunnicliffe added a third for Crawley, who could have won by more.\n• None Watch all of the goals from the FA Cup third round\n• None Can Mark Wright make it as a pro at Crawley?\n\nBielsa made seven changes to his side but Leeds fielded England midfielder Kalvin Phillips among several regular top-flight starters including Pablo Hernandez, Ezgjan Alioski and club record signing Rodrigo.\n\nHowever, after an even first half, they were completely outplayed in the second period by a Crawley side who have reached the fourth round for only the third time, having spent most of their 125-year existence in non-league football.\n\nCrawley even had the luxury of bringing on reality TV celebrity Mark Wright in stoppage time for the former The Only Way Is Essex star's debut, having signed for the club on non-contract terms in December.\n\nLeeds' loss is the first time in 34 years a top-flight side has lost to a fourth-tier team by three or more goals and only the second ever instance since a fourth division was added to the Football League in 1958.\n\nThey may be the lesser-known of the two Red Devils but Crawley's efforts were no less impressive than Manchester United's 6-2 dissection of Leeds last month.\n\nWhile Bielsa rested first-choice stars such as Patrick Bamford, Luke Ayling, Stuart Dallas and Mateusz Klich, there was still plenty of experience mixed in with the youth in Leeds' line-up.\n\nBut the hosts, sixth in League Two after an eight-game unbeaten run, never gave them the chance to settle and while neither side could break the deadlock before the interval, it was Crawley who went closest as Casilla kept out Tom Nichols' close-range header.\n\nHe was helpless, however, to prevent Tsaroulla - a former Tottenham trainee who spent a year out of the game because of injuries sustained in a car crash - firing Crawley ahead after a twisting run into the area that beguiled the Leeds back-line.\n\nRather than protect their lead, Crawley went for the jugular and Nadesan soon doubled their advantage, although his strike owed much to a bobble that beat Casilla at his near post.\n\nTunnicliffe then fired into the roof of the net after Casilla parried from Nadesan and Crawley could have had a fourth after top scorer Max Watters came off the bench to round the keeper, only to be denied by a covering defender.\n\nThe win marked the first time in four attempts that Crawley have beaten a Premier League side in the FA Cup and so comfortable was the victory that TV personality Wright was given his late cameo.\n\nAnother name added to Leeds' list of cup woes\n\nBielsa was left to mull over back-to-back 3-0 defeats, albeit this one coming in a much different context to Leeds' Premier League loss at Tottenham on 2 January.\n\nThis was the former Argentina manager's first taste of an FA Cup shock, after far more mundane exits against Arsenal and QPR in Bielsa's two previous campaigns since taking the Elland Road reins in 2018.\n\nBut it was not unfamiliar ground for Leeds as Crawley - who have finished in the bottom half of League Two for five successive seasons - emulated non-league pair Histon and Sutton United, as well as lower-league clubs Rochdale and Newport, in upsetting the Whites this century.\n\nThe visitors only forced one real save from Crawley keeper Glenn Morris, who reacted well to push away Ian Poveda's strike from an acute angle in the first half.\n\nLeeds might point to a penalty they perhaps should have had before the interval when Crawley defender Tony Craig got away with pulling back Rodrigo as he attempted to meet Helder Costa's volleyed cross.\n\nBut there was no video assistant referee system at the game, and they offered very little going forward after Rodrigo was substituted at half-time.\n\nIt was a fourth successive third-round exit in a competition they could have looked to with some hope, given their relatively comfortable position in the Premier League.\n\n\"We've got 11 star men\" - what they said\n\nCrawley manager Yems to BBC Sport: \"You have to enjoy these games - you work hard enough for it. It was a really good team performance and it's clear that we've got 11 star men.\n\n\"These players have got a lot to prove to the clubs who have released them and we've showed what we can do against a really good side.\n\n\"Let's see who we get in the next round and enjoy the moment.\"\n\nLeeds midfielder Alioski to BBC Radio 5 Live: \"We are really disappointed and it wasn't the result that we wanted. We took the game really seriously and we wanted to win and go on a run, so it is disappointing.\n\n\"Crawley played the game of their lives, and congratulations. To beat us 3-0 - I still can't believe it.\n\n\"The manager said what he wanted to say. It's important for every player to know what this means. He is sad and the players are sad.\"\n• None Attempt blocked. Sam Greenwood (Leeds United) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Raphinha (Leeds United) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Pablo Hernández.\n• None Jake Hessenthaler (Crawley Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Hélder Costa (Leeds United) header from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Pablo Hernández.\n• None Jamie Shackleton (Leeds United) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Max Watters (Crawley Town) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Tom Nichols. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None All the goals and highlights from a huge Saturday of third-round matches are", "A 78-year-old French woman received the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in France\n\nA global race is on to vaccinate people against Covid-19 - and with infections soaring in Europe many have complained that the roll-out is too slow in the EU.\n\nMember states decide individually who to vaccinate, when and where, but the EU is coordinating strategy and buying vaccines in bulk. On Friday, the EU Commission agreed to buy an extra 300 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine - that would give the EU nearly half of the firm's global output for 2021.\n\nBBC reporters in seven European capitals explain how the vaccinations are going on their patch.\n\nIn an election year, the vaccine has become a political battleground, writes Jenny Hill, in Berlin.\n\nThe fact it was German scientists who developed the first effective Covid vaccine has been the source of great national pride. And, by and large, Germans appear to be reasonably comfortable with the idea of immunisation.\n\nA recent survey found 65% were prepared to have the vaccine. Other research indicates that less than a quarter of those surveyed would not. But politically - and perhaps unsurprisingly, given this is an election year - Germany's vaccination programme has become a battleground.\n\nVaccinations began here just under two weeks ago and prioritise the over 80s and care home workers. By Thursday evening, more than 477,000 first doses had been administered.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered.\n\nBut some of the hundreds of specially prepared vaccination centres are still not in use and even the government has admitted there simply isn't enough to go around. Angela Merkel and her health minister Jens Spahn have been accused of failing to secure enough doses.\n\nMuch of the criticism has come from Mrs Merkel's own coalition partners but some within the scientific community have echoed their concerns - that Germany put European interests above its own by insisting on a joint EU procurement process. The scientists who developed the vaccine have said publicly that the EU originally turned down an offer for a further order.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered and it's thought that by the end of the month a further 2.68 million will have followed.\n\nMr Spahn, whose assured performance through the pandemic led some to wonder whether he might be a potential successor to Mrs Merkel, has blamed the shortage on the inability of the manufacturers of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to meet global demand.\n\nGermany has now ordered an extra 30 million doses and, following the recent European approval of the Moderna vaccine, expects to start rolling that out next week. The government is sticking to its pledge that the vaccination programme will be complete by the end of the summer.\n\nThe Czech prime minister has hit out at apparent delays in distributing the vaccine, writes Rob Cameron, in Prague.\n\nThe Czech vaccination effort began on 27 December, when the prime minister, Andrej Babis, became the first person in the country to receive the jab. Mr Babis, who is 66, had previously questioned whether he would be eligible, as he'd had his spleen removed as a teenager.\n\nBut the country's programme has got off to a sluggish start. Mr Babis - a billionaire businessman who has been dogged by both European and Czech investigations into alleged misuse of EU funds - has lost no time venting his (figurative) spleen at the European Commission over the delay. \"We believed when we contributed €12m to the European fund in November that we'd receive the vaccine,\" he told a newspaper this week.\n\nThe health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups will take months.\n\nThe country has received 30,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine. So far, it has managed to administer it to 19,918 people. The government says it is ready to roll out the jab en masse as soon as supplies arrive from the manufacturers.\n\nIt has also published a strategy, which envisages a three-stage process. The first will see targeted vaccination of high-risk groups. This will gradually give way to mass vaccination in 31 centres, using an online reservation system that will be open to all from 1 February. And the final stage will see the country's GPs deployed, hopefully to administer the Oxford-AstraZeneca and other jabs, which unlike the previous two can be stored and transported at fridge temperature.\n\nHowever, the timing in the original strategy document now appears optimistic. The health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups - all health and social care staff, teachers, everyone over 65, all those with serious health conditions - will take months. GPs may not begin vaccinating young, healthy members of society until late spring, or summer.\n\nA sluggish start is being blamed on bureaucracy and vaccine scepticism, writes Hugh Schofield, in Paris.\n\nFrance's boast of a big, effective state apparatus has been badly exposed by the sluggish start to the Covid vaccination programme. After the first week, when neighbouring Germany had inoculated around 250,000 people, France was on a mere 530. By Friday, the figure had gone up to 45,500 - still so small as to be statistically meaningless.\n\nSo why has it taken so long for France to put the plan into action? It is not as if the authorities did not have time to prepare. And it is certainly not a question of a lack of vaccine. In fact, more than a million Pfizer doses are already in cold storage, waiting to be used.\n\nPolls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab.\n\nThe primary reason for the delay seems to be the cumbersome, over-centralised nature of France's health bureaucracy. A 45-page dossier of instructions issued by the ministry in Paris had to be read and understood by staff at old people's homes.\n\nEach recipient then had to give informed consent in a consultation with a doctor, held no less than five days before injection. The lengthy procedure is in theory to save lives - those of patients who might have an adverse reaction. But as the critics have been arguing, delay in inoculating the population is also costing lives.\n\nAnother problem in France is the high level of scepticism towards vaccination - product of a more general suspicion of government. Polls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab. The effect - critics say - has been to make the government unduly cautious. When urgency was required, the authorities were reluctant to move fast for fear of galvanising the anti-vaxxers.\n\nAfter President Emmanuel Macron communicated his anger at the delays at the weekend, the pace is picking up. The procedure for consent is being simplified. By the end of January, the plan is to have 500-600 vaccination centres open across the country - either in hospitals or other big public buildings.\n\nPolitically a lot is at stake. The government has already come under fire for failings in providing masks and tests. With opposition voices calling the vaccine delay a \"state scandal\", President Macron needs a roll-out that is fast and problem-free.\n\nNational pride accelerated Russia's rollout, but one man is conspicuously absent from the list of people vaccinated, writes Sarah Rainsford, in Moscow.\n\nRussia registered its main Covid vaccine for domestic use way back in August, before mass safety and efficacy trials had even begun. In December, with those trials still underway, it began rolling out Sputnik V to the public ahead of mass vaccination launches everywhere else in Europe. The rush was driven by national pride as well as medical necessity.\n\nSputnik was initially offered to front line health and education workers but early take-up of the two-dose vaccination was slow and the list of those eligible soon expanded.\n\nA poll by the Levada Centre in late December showed only 38% of respondents were willing to get the jab: wary of domestic healthcare and medicines, Russians were sceptical of bold early claims made for the vaccine and nervous about possible adverse reactions. Even so, and despite similar delays scaling-up production as in other countries, Sputnik's backers announced this week that more than a million people had been vaccinated.\n\nRussia began rolling out its Sputnik V vaccine in December\n\nBut one man still conspicuously absent from the list of the vaccinated is Vladimir Putin, despite the Kremlin saying he will - eventually - get the jab. In the meantime, those who meet him in person are obliged to test for Covid first and even quarantine. The president may need to lead by example, though. Mr Putin has said repeatedly that protecting the economy is his priority so he's banking on mass vaccination to avoid a return to national lockdown.\n\nRussia has built giant, temporary hospitals since the start of the pandemic and the health minister said this week that 25% of Covid beds remain free. There's also been a fall in the number of new daily cases reported - around 25,000 for the past 5 days. But that's not down to the vaccine yet. The country is nearing the end of a 10-day New Year holiday period and the number of Covid tests has also dropped.\n\nAs infection rates grow in a country praised by many for its no-lockdown approach, a successful vaccine programme is crucial writes Maddy Savage, in Stockholm.\n\nAlmost two weeks since 91-year-old care home resident Gun-Britt Johnsson became the first Swede to get the initial dose of a Pfizer jab, there is still no official tally of how many others have received the vaccination.\n\nThe Public Health Agency of Sweden says it's in the process of compiling data from the country's 21 regional health authorities tasked with vaccinating the entire adult population - around eight million people - by 26 June. The date isn't arbitrary, it's the biggest public holiday weekend of the year, when Swedes traditionally hold Midsummer celebrations. Karin Tegmark, a senior manager at the agency, says the date remains \"feasible\". But she says it depends on the delivery of vaccines to the country.\n\nAfter months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled.\n\nAlongside 4.5 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, Sweden has ordered 3.6 million jabs from Moderna, the first of which are expected to arrive next week. The country also plans to roll-out the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine as soon as possible after it is approved by the EU - ideally by February.\n\nSwedes initially appeared lukewarm to the idea of taking a speedily-developed coronavirus vaccine, although a poll at the end of December found 71% would take one. A key driver of the initial scepticism is thought to be the failure of a voluntary mass vaccination programme for swine flu in 2009. Hundreds of Swedish children and young adults under 30 developed the sleeping disorder narcolepsy, which was found to be a side effect of the Pandemrix vaccine.\n\nA successful vaccination programme will be crucial, not least because it comes at a time when Swedish authorities are struggling to maintain public confidence. After months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled as Sweden has struggled with the second wave of coronavirus.\n\nMeanwhile, several high profile officials have faced heavy criticism for breaching their own recommendations - including the head of the civil contingencies agency (pictured), who resigned after spending Christmas with his daughter in the Canary Islands.\n\nA new government in Belgium seems unified on the vaccine rollout - for now at least, writes Nick Beake, in Brussels.\n\nIt seemed fitting that the first person in Belgium to receive a Covid jab lives in the place where the world's first approved Covid vaccine is being produced. Jos Hermans, a 96-year-old from the municipality of Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December, in his care home. A further 700 elderly residents were also administered a dose in what was a small, initial trial.\n\nThe mass vaccination programme in Belgium began on 5 January, but has been criticised for starting slowly. Federal Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke had promised in November that the rollout would be \"seamless and fast\", tweeting: \"If that does not work, shoot me.\"\n\nThe first phase looks to vaccinate up to 200,000 nursing home residents by the end of this month, or early February. Healthcare professionals will be next in line and the aim was for the whole population to be inoculated by the end of September.\n\nJos Hermans, a 96-year-old from Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December\n\nYou may think the country would be at an advantage being the epicentre of the Pfizer-BioNTech production. While this clearly helps with distribution, Belgium cannot receive more doses - relative to its population - than other EU countries under strict Commission rules. That didn't stop the minister-president of the Flanders region, who admitted this week that he had contacted Pfizer directly in the hope of procuring more doses, only to be rebuffed.\n\nAfter getting a guarantee from Pfizer over supply of the jab, the federal Belgian authorities have adapted their strategy: they now propose giving as many available doses to as many people as they can - and no longer reserving vials for patients' second dose, given three weeks after the first. In general, the federal government, rather than the European Commission has faced any criticism for a delay and has defended its \"careful\" approach.\n\nAnd there appears to be an interesting regional or cultural discrepancy when it comes to whether people are willing to take the vaccine. Of the Flemish population interviewed in a poll, half have said they wanted the vaccine as soon as possible. Among French speakers - it was 20% fewer, which chimes with the deeper scepticism over the border in France.\n\nIn a country where politics are notoriously complicated and fractious - they've only recently agreed a government, after a 500-day vacuum - the Federal Coalition appears unified on its Covid vaccine strategy. For now, at least.\n\nRegional variances and political rows have marked the beginning of Spain's vaccination programme writes Guy Hedgecoe, in Madrid.\n\nSpain started administering the vaccine on 27 December. So far, 743,925 doses have been distributed to regional administrations, with 277,976 people vaccinated, according to the health ministry. The objective of the coalition government is to immunise 2.3 million people within 12 weeks. Priority is being given to elderly residents of care homes, those who look after them, and healthcare personnel.\n\nEach of the country's 17 regions has a high degree of control over healthcare and should receive the number of doses that corresponds to their populations. However, already there has been substantial geographical disparity.\n\nGovernment data showed, for example, that while the northern region of Asturias had used 55% of the doses it had received by 3 January, the Madrid region had only administered 5% by the same date. Some regions are holding back doses to administer a second follow-up jab to the same person in several weeks' time, and some have been vaccinating on national holidays while others have not.\n\nThe pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of incompetence.\n\nAlthough vaccination is voluntary, the government has said it is making a register of those who do not wish to be inoculated. That initiative has generated controversy, although the government has insisted the register will merely seek to clarify why people refuse the vaccination.\n\nHowever, the pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of Pedro Sánchez of incompetence, lack of transparency and using coronavirus to accumulate power.\n\nThe arrival of a vaccine has not stopped the rancour. Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the conservative Popular Party (PP) president of Galicia, warned the number of doses being distributed to each region was being dictated by \"political affiliations or parliamentary needs\", a claim the central government has rejected.", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"\n\nThe coronavirus spreads when we come into contact with each other so moving classrooms online, telling people to stay at home and closing shops breaks many of those opportunities for human contact.\n\nIf we consider the R number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - it was about 3.0 in the run up to the first lockdown and anything above 1.0 means cases are climbing.\n\nR fell to 0.6 during the first lockdown.\n\nThen every 1,000 infected people passed the virus on to 600 others, who passed it on to 360 others and so on.\n\nBut if the new variant is 50% more transmissible then the R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be about 0.9.\n\nThen 1,000 infected people would pass the virus onto 900 others, then 810 and so on.\n\nAs you can see this leads to far slower decline.\n\nAnd that assumes lockdown can get R down to 0.9 in areas where the new variant has become the most common form of the virus.\n\nIf, as some studies suggest, the variant is about 70% more transmissible then R may stay above 1.0 and cases may not fall at all.\n\n\"We'd at best flatten the curve, keep numbers at a roughly constant level, and that's frankly why there is so much emphasis on getting vaccine into people's arms as quickly as possible,\" said Prof Ferguson.\n\nIt is hard to lock down even harder as there are some parts of society - hospitals, supermarkets - that need to be kept open.\n\nWhat happens to the number of cases over the coming weeks will be closely monitored. If this lockdown is less effective then we will have to live with it for longer.\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs over the Christmas break, which was a bit like a lockdown due to school holidays and other restrictions.\n\n\"We are in a very difficult situation here, but my initial assessment of the last few days is that the rate is slowing which is good news,\" Prof John Edmunds, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"It looks likes those restrictions should be sufficient to stop the increase, whether they will be sufficient to bring cases down sufficiently we are yet to see.\"\n\nEventually the vaccine will give people immunity so we do not need the same controls on our lives.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nPremier League rivals Manchester United and Liverpool will meet at Old Trafford in the fourth round of the FA Cup later this month.\n\nNon-league Chorley will host Premier League Wolverhampton Wanderers after beating a depleted Derby County in the third round.\n\nLeague Two Cheltenham Town are set to welcome Pep Guardiola's Manchester City to Whaddon Road.\n\nThe fourth-round ties will be played the weekend of 23-24 January.\n\nCrawley Town, who celebrated a famous 3-0 win over Leeds United on Sunday, will travel to Championship side Bournemouth in the next round.\n\nJose Mourinho's Tottenham will face Wycombe Wanderers at Adams Park, while Fulham take on Burnley in an all-Premier League tie.\n\nChorley would face 14-time winners Arsenal in the fifth round - if the National League North side overcome Wolves and the Gunners beat Southampton.\n\nDavid Moyes could return to former club Manchester United in the last 16 if West Ham beat League One Doncaster Rovers and United seal victory over Liverpool in the fourth round.\n\nThe fifth-round ties will be played 9-11 February.\n• None Watch all the goals and highlights from the FA Cup third round\n• None Goals, highlights and knockouts. All the action from Sunday's third-round ties are", "Seven new mass vaccination centres have opened up across England to help deliver the Coronavirus vaccine, as the Prime Minister says we are facing a \"perilous moment\" in the fight against the virus.\n\nThe Centre of Life in Newcastle is home to one of them, with others in Bristol, Epsom, London, Manchester, Stevenage and Birmingham.\n\nInitially they will be used to vaccinate the over 80's, alongside NHS staff and health and social care workers. It's part of a drive that the government hopes will see 15 million people vaccinated against the virus by mid-February.", "Caroline Rice couldn't afford the ink to print off her child's maths homework\n\nThere are few benefits from lockdown, but one often touted is that people are managing to save a little money: lower transport costs, fewer shop-bought office lunches, cheaper childcare costs and no foreign holidays.\n\nSingle mum Caroline Rice gives a wry smile when asked if she's managed to squirrel away extra cash over the past few months during pandemic restrictions.\n\n\"My spending is up,\" she says. \"The heating costs are higher because it's very cold. I'm having to shop locally because of lockdown, where the prices are slightly higher. The nearest Asda is 12 miles away.\"\n\nThe small savings on little luxuries that many people are making - fewer coffees or restaurant meals - were never an option for her in the first place.\n\nHer meagre finances meant the registered child minder, who lives in rural County Fermanagh, was already living week-to-week. Now it seems like day-to-day, she says.\n\n\"There's a mental stress, fatigue, in having to check the bank balance every day to see how much I'm down,\" she says. \"My child and I haven't bought any clothes in almost a year.\"\n\nShe's having to home-school her child. Many people wouldn't think twice about printing off their child's maths homework project. Caroline had to write it out by hand because they could not afford the ink.\n\nAnd she is not alone. A new report on the finances of low-income families during the pandemic says they are twice as likely to have increased their spending.\n\nIt says extra costs for food, energy and remote learning equipment have piled financial pressure on the poor.\n\nThe study - Pandemic Pressures - was a collaboration between the Resolution Foundation and the Nuffield Foundation-funded Covid Realities research project at the University of York.\n\nDr Ruth Patrick, a social policy lecturer at the University of York, says talk of saving money during the pandemic is \"worlds away\" from the experiences of many low-income parents and carers.\n\n\"Parents have found their spending increases, as some of the usual strategies they use to get by on a low income - shopping around for the best deal, going to families and friends for a meal when the cupboards are empty - have become suddenly impossible,\" she said.\n\nFor Shirley Widdop, an increase in food costs has been one of the biggest issues. The disabled single parent, who lives in Keighley, now has to shield for health reasons. That means using online deliveries a lot.\n\nShe says: \"There's a minimum basket size [with online orders]. You often have to bulk buy in case there's a problem getting delivery slots.\"\n\nShirley Widdop has not saved on life's little luxuries - because she could not afford them in the first place\n\nWhen not shielding, Shirley would seek out food in her supermarket's reduced-price section. \"There used to be just a couple of people. Now there are crowds,\" she says. \"Not everyone has easy access to the internet. And not everyone has a functioning bus service.\"\n\nThe report notes that the pandemic has been marked by a huge reduction in overall spending, with entertainment and social activities restricted by lockdown.\n\nHigher-income households have been the main beneficiaries of this \"enforced saving\", as they spend 40% more of their income on recreation and leisure activities than the poorest fifth of households.\n\nThe report says that in contrast to this overall picture, the pandemic has in many cases made it more expensive to live on a low income with children.\n\nMore than one in three (36%) low-income households with children have increased their spending during the pandemic so far, compared with about one in six (18%) who have reduced their spending.\n\nAmong high-income households without children, 13% have increased their spending, compared with 40% who have reduced it.\n\nUse of food banks has increased significantly during the pandemic\n\nThe report highlights three main reasons for these extra pressures:\n\nIt should also be noted, the report says, that these extra spending pressures are squeezing living standards that had stagnated even before the pandemic.\n\nTo ease the burden, the report says the government should be seeking to maintain the £20-a-week rise in Universal Credit (UC) into next year. Otherwise, six million households face having their incomes cut by more than £1,000.\n\nMike Brewer, chief economist at the Resolution Foundation, said: \"The pandemic has forced society as a whole to spend less and save more. But these broad spending patterns don't hold true for everyone.\n\n\"The extra cost of feeding, schooling and entertaining children 24/7 means that, for many families, lockdowns have made life more expensive to live on a low income.\"\n\nHowever, a government spokesperson said measures had been put in place to \"ensure that nobody is left behind\", including extra welfare payments, job protection safeguards, the £170m Covid Winter Grant Scheme, and equipment for home-schooling.\n\n\"We are committed to supporting the lowest-paid families through the pandemic and beyond,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nSometimes the overall economic figures can not capture the actual on-the-ground financial reality.\n\nThe pandemic lockdowns have led to a \"K-shaped\" recovery. Across the entire economy, staying at home has meant less capacity to spend on going out and a surge in savings. But the economic picture is both up and down at the same time, depending on which household.\n\nThe average picture is composed of wealthier people saving a huge amount and poorer families more squeezed than ever. This report shows how children staying at home have increased food and energy bills. The cost of buying food has increased with fewer store promotions and a requirement to use more expensive local shops. The furlough scheme has kept people paid, but not necessarily on full pay.\n\nSo the chancellor hopes that the vaccine rollout could unleash pent up demand in the form of huge levels of savings from the already well-off. And yet at the same time, will continue to face pressure over extending support - for example, the £20-a-week increase to universal credit.", "A Sex and the City revival is heading to the small screen, more than 20 years after the hit series made its debut.\n\nThe original HBO show followed the lives of four New York women negotiating work and relationships in the late 90s and early 2000s.\n\nBut only three of the fab four are returning for the new TV series - Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis.\n\nKim Cattrall, who played the popular character Samantha, will not feature.\n\nThe US network did not say why Cattrall wasn't cast in the revival, titled And Just Like That - a nod to one of the show's original catchphrases.\n\nHowever, Cattrall has had a strained relationship with the show in recent years, and in particular with her former co-star Parker.\n\nThe new series will consist of 10 half-hour episodes. Production will begin in late spring.\n\nThe trailer for the HBO Max show gives nothing away; It features numerous shots of New York, but none of the characters is seen on screen.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kristin Davis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I grew up with these characters, and I can't wait to see how their story has evolved in this new chapter, with the honesty, poignancy, humour and the beloved city that has always defined them,\" Sarah Aubrey, head of original content at HBO Max, said in a statement.\n\nThe original Sex and the City series, created by Darren Star, was based on Candace Bushnell's 1997 book of the same name. It premiered on HBO in 1998 and ran for six seasons until 2004.\n\nThe show inspired two films, Sex and the City in 2008 and Sex and the City 2 in 2010. A prequel series titled The Carrie Diaries, starring Anna Sophia Robb, aired on The CW in 2013/14.\n\nStar also created Netflix show Emily in Paris, and many have drawn inevitable comparisons between that show and SATC.\n\nWhen it first burst on to our TV screens, Sex and the City was seen as revolutionary - four women talking openly about their love and sex lives, not to mention the sex scenes themselves.\n\nThe first series of SATC began filming in 1998\n\nCosmopolitans and rabbit vibrators were trending before trending was a thing.\n\nWhile it was praised by many for its liberating female-led content, it also attracted criticism from some quarters who felt Carrie's ongoing pursuit of Mr Big (Christopher Noth) was not exactly an advert for female independence.\n\nIt was also accused of trivialising issues such as sexual harassment and for its lack of diversity, a criticism levelled at many older shows including Friends.\n\nFashion was a hugely influential part of the series - the tutu worn by Sarah Jessica Parker in the opening credits, teamed with a fur coat and heels, was described as \"an ensemble rich in cultural resonance\".\n\nAnd Manolo Blahnik could never have dreamed of attracting so much publicity for his designer footwear.\n\nIt was a ratings smash, with the hotly anticipated finale in 2004 drawing an audience of 10.6 million viewers in the US.\n\nIn the UK, the final episode was watched by 4.1m on Channel 4.\n\nThe series was predictably most popular in the 18-34 age group.\n\nMany SATC fans will be disappointed that larger-than-life favourite Samantha Jones - played by Kim Cattrall - will not be returning for the sequel series.\n\nSamantha was Sex and the City's most outlandish character and arguably, the star of the show.\n\nWhile Miranda was juggling a career and motherhood, Charlotte was focused on marriage and motherhood and Carrie poured her neuroses into her New York Star column, Samantha was the character perhaps harder to relate to but someone we all wanted to be (at least a little).\n\nShe was fiercely independent and while caring for her friends, she always put her own needs before men.\n\nBut news Cattrall won't reprise the role in And Just Like That comes as no surprise after years of feud rumours which were later confirmed by the British-born Canadian actress.\n\nIn 2017, Cattrall told Piers Morgan she had \"never been friends\" with her co-stars.\n\nShe said there was a \"toxic relationship\" and ruled out appearing in a third Sex and the City movie, denying that her decision was down to pay or \"diva\" demands.\n\nCattrall commented that former co-star Parker \"could have been nicer\" about the situation.\n\nA different actress could play Samantha in the future, she suggested.\n\n\"I played it past the finish line and then some and I loved it and another actress should play it,\" she said. \"Maybe they could make it an African-American Samantha Jones or a Hispanic Samantha Jones, or bring in another character.\"\n\nShe later criticised Parker for being \"cruel\" after she sent condolences following the death of Cattrall's brother.\n\nIn an interview with People magazine shortly afterwards, SJP acknowledged Cattrall \"said things that were really hurtful about me\".\n\nParker said: \"So there was no fight; it was completely fabricated, because I actually never responded.\"\n\nOn Monday, Parker replied on Instagram to someone posting that SJP \"didn't tag Samantha Jones\" into her post announcing the new series.\n\n\"I don't dislike her. I've never said that. Never would. Samantha isn't part of this story. But she will always be part of us. No matter where we are or what we do. x.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Flat owners applying to a fund to help pay to remove flammable building cladding will be told not to talk to the press without government approval.\n\nA draft agreement, uncovered by the Sunday Times, says that even where there is \"overwhelming public interest\" in speaking to journalists, the government must be told first.\n\nThe government said the wording was \"standard\".\n\nIt set up a £1.6bn fund last year to repair the most dangerous buildings.\n\nBut it warned that the fund might not cover all the costs of removing the cladding.\n\nThe clause might affect building owners and professional managing agents but also residents who manage their building.\n\nSome types of the covering, often added to newer blocks of flats, have been proven to be a fire hazard.\n\nAfter the 2017 Grenfell fire, the government pledged that safe alternatives to dangerous cladding would be provided on all buildings in England taller than 18m.\n\nIt set up the £1.6bn fund to help foot the costs.\n\nThe agreement, between the building owner or leaseholder and the government, says: \"The Applicant shall not make any communication to the press or any journalist or broadcaster regarding the Project or the Agreement (or the performance of it by any Party) without the prior written approval of Homes England and [the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government ]\" and its press offices.\n\nIt says an exception can be made \"where such disclosure is in the overwhelming public interest (in which case disclosure will not be made without first allowing Homes England and MHCLG to make representations on such proposed disclosure).\"\n\nThe UK Cladding Action Group tweeted that it was \"clearly a matter of public interest\" that these issues were aired in public.\n\n\"No department should be hiding behind non-disclosure agreements to stop scrutiny of their actions,\" the group said.\n\nAnother campaign group, Manchester Cladiators, said the existence of the \"gagging clause\" was \"shocking but not necessarily that surprising\".\n\nSpokesperson Rebecca Fairclough said residents would feel \"intimidated\" by it, adding: \"We ask the government to remove this unfair clause immediately and focus on the priority of solving this institutional failure, which still exists and is only growing over three and a half years after the Grenfell tragedy.\"\n\nThe government insists that the wording in the agreement, under the heading \"Marketing material\", is there to ensure applicants come to the government first.\n\n\"The terms set out are standard in commercial agreements and are not specific to this fund - to suggest otherwise is misleading and inaccurate,\" the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) said in a statement.\n\n\"We want a constructive working relationship with building owners who apply to the fund and applicants are asked to work with the department on public communications relating to the project.\"", "Small business owner Jon Wilding is facing a dilemma: his livelihood is on hold because of Covid restrictions and he has a big tax bill to settle.\n\nIf his company supplying marquees to outdoor events goes bust, the taxman will get paid, but his reputation as a businessman will be ruined forever.\n\n\"If I shut the business down, I then become director of a business that's gone bankrupt, at which stage getting loans in the future becomes nigh-on impossible,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"I feel like I'm one of those people who's been left out. We don't need a lot to keep going,\" said Mr Wilding, of Cannock in the West Midlands.\n\n\"The government say their support system is the best in the world, we've done furlough, this that and whatever, but it's not getting to all the people that need it.\"\n\nApart from the Bounce Back Loan scheme, his two-person business has received no government assistance.\n\nHis colleague was furloughed in March last year, but because Mr Wilding is the director, he is not allowed to furlough himself.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) is particularly concerned about people like Mr Wilding.\n\nIt says directors of small companies, who pay themselves in dividends rather than drawing a salary, are not receiving any help from the government.\n\nThe FSB says somewhere between 700,000 and 1.1 million people fall into this category.\n\nIt has put forward ideas to help some of those firms, which it hopes ministers will adopt.\n\nThe FSB's proposed Directors Income Support Scheme would pay them grants of up to £7,500 to cover three months of lost trading profits. It would be limited to those who earn less than £50,000 a year.\n\n\"Company directors, the newly self-employed, those in supply chains and those without commercial premises are still being left out in the cold,\" said FSB national chairman Mike Cherry.\n\nWithout further government help to cope with the effects of the pandemic, a record 250,000 small businesses could be lost in the next 12 months, the FSB said.\n\n\"The development of business support measures has not kept pace with intensifying restrictions,\" Mr Cherry added.\n\n\"As a result, we risk losing hundreds of thousands of great, ultimately viable small businesses this year, at huge cost to local communities and individual livelihoods.\"\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses said the government had met the latest national lockdown \"with a whimper\"\n\nThe FSB based its prediction on a survey of 1,400 small firms, 5% of which said they expected to close this year.\n\nIf those figures were replicated across the country, some 250,000 of the UK's 5.9 million small firms could disappear, it said.\n\nMr Cherry said the government had met the latest national lockdown \"with a whimper\" and called for help that went beyond the retail, leisure and hospitality businesses.\n\nThe FSB said it had submitted its support scheme proposals to the Treasury and was expecting a decision this month.\n\nThe Treasury said nothing was planned at present, but added: \"Our support schemes are designed to get help to those who need it most whilst protecting the taxpayer from fraud, but of course we keep everything under review and are always open to further ideas.\"", "But it delivered a fascinating look behind the scenes at two cutting-edge ways the firm is creating video content.\n\nThe first involved the use of a giant screen which is matched with movement-sensors on a camera to create a fake backdrop that shifts in turn with the lens.\n\nA similar technique was pioneered by Industrial Light & Magic and used in the Star Wars spin-off series The Mandalorian, but this opens the door to other filmmakers.\n\nThe screens involved use Sony's Crystal LED technology, which the firm first unveiled at CES in 2012, but has been unable to bring low down enough in price to take mainstream.\n\nIn effect, this is its version of micro-LED tech, using millions of tiny light emitting diodes (LEDs) to match the number of pixels. The result is much greater brightness and contrast than a normal LCD or OLED display would be capable of.\n\nThe background footage moves in time with the camera to aid the illusion Image caption: The background footage moves in time with the camera to aid the illusion\n\nUntil now, the firm has marketed the tech at building owners wanting the ultimate video walls. But this has the potential to help film and advert-makers place actors within environments they can see, rather than relying on greenscreen effects.\n\nThe second innovation was the creation of an \"immersive reality\" performance, which uses body sensors to create a highly-detailed animated version of an artist.\n\nIt was demoed by the singer-songwriter Madison Beer.\n\nMotion capture has been used for years to add special effects to characters in movies and to place real-world actors into video games.\n\nBut the aim here is to create a lifelike representation of a performer on stage at a concert.\n\nThe footage shown didn't quite escape the \"uncanny valley\" - there's still some way to go before we can't tell the difference between a real person and even a highly detailed avatar.\n\nBut it's easy to imagine that the tech being more impressive when viewed in virtual reality, where users can move about and choose their view.\n\nThe computer-generated image looks less real the closer you get to the performer Image caption: The computer-generated image looks less real the closer you get to the performer\n\nUntil now, VR apps of concerts have either offered a pick of different static camera locations or involved much lower-resolution characters.\n\nWith Covid meaning it's impossible for artists to tour, this second-best experience could be very timely when it's offered to PlayStation VR headsets and other devices soon.", "Many hospitals are still under intense pressure with the increasing number of Covid patients arriving.\n\nDoctors say they are seeing more younger patients in their thirties and forties compared to the first wave.\n\nThe overall pattern of those at risk of becoming seriously ill or dying has not changed significantly and the older someone is, the greater their risk from Covid-19 - particularly those over the age of 65.\n\nThe BBC's Health Editor Hugh Pym was given access to film at Croydon University Hospital in South London.", "Boris Johnson - pictured here in 2013 - has long been a fan of cycling\n\nBoris Johnson has been criticised for travelling seven miles from Downing Street to go cycling during lockdown.\n\nThe Evening Standard reported the prime minister had been spotted in the Olympic Park in East London on Sunday.\n\nGovernment advice allows people to exercise outside, but says you should not travel outside your local area.\n\nA No 10 spokesman would not confirm if Mr Johnson had been driven to the park or cycled there, but said the PM had complied with Covid-19 guidelines.\n\nLabour's Andy Slaughter said: \"Once again it is do as I say, not as I do, from the prime minister.\"\n\nThe Hammersmith MP added: \"London has some of the highest infection rates in the country. Boris Johnson should be leading by example.\"\n\nIn response to the criticism, a Downing Street source told the BBC: \"The PM has exercised within the Covid rules and any suggestion to the contrary is wrong.\"\n\nA woman told the PA news agency she had seen the prime minister in the park: \"He was leisurely cycling with another guy with a beanie hat and chatting, while around four security guys, possibly more, cycled behind them.\n\n\"Considering the current situation with Covid I was shocked to see him cycling around looking so care-free.\n\n\"Also, considering he's advising everyone to stay at home and not leave their area, shouldn't he stay in Westminster and not travel to other boroughs?\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock was asked at Monday's Downing Street press conference whether travelling seven miles for a cycle ride was within the rules.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"It is OK, if you went for a long walk and ended up seven miles from home, that is OK, but you should stay local.\n\n\"It is OK to go for a long walk or a cycle ride or to exercise, but stay local.\"\n\nThe issue of travelling for exercise was highlighted at the weekend after two women said they were surrounded by police and fine £200 after driving five miles from home to take a walk.\n\nDerbyshire Police have now dropped the fine and apologised to the women, but the incident led to a debate over the guidance.\n\nGovernment advice for England says you can leave your home to exercise, but adds: \"This should be limited to once per day, and you should not travel outside your local area.\"\n\nThe guidance adds: \"Stay local means stay in the village, town, or part of the city where you live.\"\n\nIn Scotland, the advice is more precise, saying exercise can be taken if it \"starts and finishes at the same place, which can be up to five miles from the boundary of your local authority area\".\n\nFormer Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron, who represents a constituency in the Lake District, has written to the PM calling for clearer guidance on exercise similar to that in Scotland.\n\nHe wrote: \"On the one hand, our local police force here in Cumbria are reporting that people... have travelled hundreds of miles to take their exercise in the Lake District.\n\n\"And on the other hand, I have constituents writing to me, worried whether they will be punished for driving five minutes up the road to go for a walk in their local park.\"\n\nMr Farron added: \"We need a solution that clearly deters people from making lengthy trips and potentially spreading the virus, but also that doesn't discourage people from keeping fit and healthy.\"", "Douglas Ross: 'All of Scottish football should not be affected by the actions of one club'\n\nScottish Conservatives leader Douglas Ross tells viewers he thinks politics should be put aside and the UK and Scottish governments should work together to get the vaccinations out as quickly as possible. He is reluctant, as an assistant referee, to comment on the Celtic Dubai situation, but he does say that people have to look at the message it sends out. He points out that for many people at home alone at the moment, football is something they look forward to and \"we don't want to see the whole of Scottish football affected by the actions of one club\". He adds that financial support should be made available to clubs in the Scottish lower leagues & Scottish Cup who have had their games suspended for three weeks.", "Terry Irving, 83, from Dumfries, was given the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on Monday\n\nEveryone aged 80 or over in Scotland will be given the Covid vaccine by February, the health secretary has said.\n\nJeane Freeman also said care home staff and residents, as well as front-line health and social care staff would be vaccinated in the next few weeks.\n\nAs of Sunday, 163,377 Scots had been given a first dose of vaccine.\n\nMs Freeman told BBC Scotland that just under 560,000 people will have been vaccinated by the end of the month.\n\nThe Oxford vaccine will be available at more than 1,100 locations from Monday.\n\nScotland has been given an initial allocation of more than 500,000 doses to use in January.\n\nMs Freeman told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"We intend that by the end of this month, the very beginning of February, we will have vaccinated all residents in care homes and staff, all front-line health and social care workers and all those aged 80 or over.\n\n\"So that's just under 560,000. We've already vaccinated about 70% of people in care homes and about half of the health and social care workforce.\"\n\nShe said the Scottish government was on course to match the UK government's commitment to offer a vaccine jab to everyone in the top four priority groups by the middle of February.\n\nThe health service will be able to vaccinate people as supplies of the jabs arrive, she said, with over-80s being contacted by their GPs.\n\nThe government has now started publishing vaccination figures on a daily basis, with 163,377 Scots having been given a first dose as of Sunday.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the health authorities in Scotland now had enough supplies to give jabs to all over-80s over the coming four weeks.\n\nShe said the aim was to get through the priority list as quickly as possible.\n\nThis had been expected to be complete by mid-May, but Ms Sturgeon said she was \"very, very hopeful we will be able to accelerate that to an earlier point\".\n\nA total of 1,664 people are in hospital being treated for Covid-19, the highest number since the pandemic began - with Ms Sturgeon saying the country was in a \"dangerous situation\".\n\nThe Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine has already been administered in the Tayside, Lothian, Orkney and Highlands health board areas but this week will see it being used at vaccination centres across the whole country.\n\nRecent figures suggest a slight fall in the average positivity rates for Covid in many parts of Scotland, but pressures on the NHS have intensified.\n\nThe number of patients in hospital in with Covid rose to new highs at the weekend, and Sunday saw a sharp increase in the number of patients requiring treatment in intensive care.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney said there were few signs that the threat was \"abating\" and that a tightening of restrictions could not be ruled out.\n\nThe majority of Scotland's schools are closed until at least February with pupils now learning from home as the new term begins this week..\n\nOnly vulnerable pupils and the children of key workers will receive face-to-face teaching.\n\nLocal authorities said schools were better prepared to roll out digital learning than they were during the first lockdown.\n\nBut one parents' group has raised concerns about \"equal and fair access to home learning\".", "The Prince of Wales is urging firms to back a more sustainable future and do more to protect the planet, as he marks 50 years of environmental campaigning.\n\nPrince Charles wants companies to join what he is calling \"Terra Carta\" - or Earth charter.\n\nThe charter is being launched alongside a fund run by the Natural Capital Investment Alliance.\n\nIt aims to mobilise $10 billion towards natural capital by 2022.\n\nTerra Carta will harness the \"irreplaceable power of nature\", the prince said in his virtual address to the One Planet Summit on Monday.\n\nHe hopes the new charter will help \"reunite people and planet\".\n\nHe said: \"I can only encourage, in particular, those in industry and finance to provide practical leadership to this common project, as only they are able to mobilise the innovation, scale and resources that are required to transform our global economy.\"\n\nIn his foreword to Terra Carta, the prince writes: \"If we consider the legacy of our generation, more than 800 years ago, Magna Carta inspired a belief in the fundamental rights and liberties of people.\n\n\"As we strive to imagine the next 800 years of human progress, the fundamental rights and value of nature must represent a step-change in our 'future of industry' and 'future of economy' approach.\"\n\nCharles has previously said that people thought he was \"completely dotty\" when he started talking about environmental issues in the 1970s.", "A number of positive cases have been identified among passengers who had flown into Glasgow from Dubai since the new year\n\nDubai has been added to Scotland's travel quarantine list with anyone coming from the country told to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe rule, which came into effect at 04:00, will also apply retrospectively for passengers who have made the journey since 3 January.\n\nCeltic confirmed one of their players tested positive for the virus less than 48 hours after the squad returned from a training trip to Dubai on Friday.\n\nIt is not known if he was on the trip.\n\nThe Scottish government said clinicians and the local NHS health protection team were in contact with Celtic providing advice. It also confirmed that quarantine rules did not apply to sports people who had attended \"elite training\" abroad.\n\nHowever, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon last week questioned the purpose of Celtic's trip and whether they were following social-distancing rules after seeing photos from their Dubai base.\n\nShe warned that professional sport's privileges could be lost if protocols were not followed by all participants.\n\nThe government said the change was due to a number of positive cases being identified in passengers who had flown into Glasgow from Dubai since the new year.\n\nIt said the \"preventative action\" would help stem the rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nTransport Secretary Michael Matheson said: \"It is evident, both in Scotland and in countries across the world, that the virus continues to pose real risks to health and to life and we need to interrupt the rise in cases.\"\n\nHe added: \"Imposing quarantine requirements on those arriving in the UK is our first defence in managing the risk of imported cases from communities with high risks of transmission. That is why we have made the decision to remove Dubai from the country exemptions list.\n\n\"Whether or not an overseas destination has been designated for quarantine restrictions, our message remains clear that people should not currently be undertaking non-essential foreign travel.\n\n\"People need to stay at home to help suppress the virus, protect our NHS and save lives.\"\n\nJoanne Dooey, president of the Scottish Passenger Agents' Association (SPAA), said: \"Removing Dubai from the safe list is understandable. We believe that there has been a cluster of infections around Scots who travelled to Dubai over the Christmas and New Year period.\n\n\"Whilst we're keen to see a return to increased international travel, protecting the health of the whole country remains our key concern and we are supportive of this move.\"", "Morrisons will bar customers who refuse to wear face coverings from its shops amid rising coronavirus infections.\n\nFrom Monday, shoppers who refuse to wear face masks offered by staff will not be allowed inside, unless they are medically exempt.\n\nSainsbury's also said it would challenge those not wearing a mask or who were shopping in groups.\n\nThe announcements come amid concerns that social distancing measures are not being adhered to in supermarkets.\n\nVaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said the government is \"concerned\" shops are not enforcing rules strictly enough.\n\n\"Ultimately, the most important thing to do now is to make sure that actually enforcement - and of course the compliance with the rules - when people are going into supermarkets are being adhered to,\" Mr Zahawi told Sky News.\n\n\"We need to make sure people actually wear masks and follow the one-way system,\" he said.\n\nMorrisons said it had \"introduced and consistently maintained thorough and robust safety measures in all our stores\" since the start of the pandemic.\n\nBut it said: \"From today we are further strengthening our policy on masks.\"\n\nSecurity guards at the UK's fourth-biggest supermarket chain will be enforcing the new rules.\n\nMorrisons' chief executive, David Potts, said: \"Those who are offered a face covering and decline to wear one won't be allowed to shop at Morrisons unless they are medically exempt.\n\n\"Our store colleagues are working hard to feed you and your family, please be kind.\"\n\nFollowing Morrisons' announcement, Sainsbury's said that it was also putting trained security guards at the front of its stores to challenge shoppers who did not comply.\n\nChief executive Simon Roberts said: \"I've spent a lot of time in our stores reviewing the latest situation over the last few days and on behalf of all my colleagues, I am asking our customers to help us keep everyone safe.\n\n\"The vast majority of customers are shopping safely, but I have also seen some customers trying to shop without a mask and shopping in larger family groups.\n\n\"Please help us to keep all our colleagues and customers safe by always wearing a mask and by shopping alone. Everyone's care and consideration matters now more than ever.\"\n\nEarlier on Monday, Mr Zahawi stopped short of saying that supermarket staff should be responsible for enforcing rules on face masks.\n\nEnforcement of face coverings is the responsibility of the police, not retailers. Wearing face masks in supermarkets and shops is compulsory across the UK.\n\nIn England, the police can issue a £200 fine to someone breaking the face covering rules. In Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, a £60 fine can be imposed. Repeat offenders face bigger fines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to wear your mask. Hint: it's not any of these three options\n\nHowever, retail industry body the British Retail Consortium said that, workers have faced an increase in incidents of violence and abuse when trying to encourage shoppers to put them on.\n\nAndrew Opie, director of food and sustainability at the British Retail Consortium, added: \"Supermarkets continue to follow all safety guidance and customers should be reassured that supermarkets are Covid-secure and safe to visit during lockdown and beyond.\n\n\"Customers should play their part too by following in-store signage and being considerate to staff and fellow shoppers.\"\n\nUnder current lockdown restrictions across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, people must only leave home for essential reasons, such as buying food or medicine.\n\nIn a bid to contain the spread of coronavirus, supermarkets introduced social distancing measures during the UK's first nationwide lockdown last March. They included limits on the numbers of customers in the shops at any one time, protective plastic screens at tills and \"marshals\" to ensure shoppers were maintaining a two-metre distance.\n\nBut amid rising numbers of infections, some have expressed concerns about a \"lack of visible protections\" implemented by supermarkets in recent weeks.\n\nThe First Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford, said on Saturday that he wanted to see stores policed as they were during the first lockdown as people were worried the strict enforcement of rules did not \"appear to be there this time\".\n\n\"Given the fact the new variant is so much easier to catch... we are looking at supermarkets and other places where people leave their homes, to make sure they are organised in a way that keeps their staff and customers safe,\" he said.\n\nSupermarket Waitrose said that it was taking a \"cautious approach\" to the virus, with marshals checking that customers are wearing face coverings on the door, hand sanitiser stations at its entrances and written communications to shoppers reminding them to maintain their distance.\n\nTesco said it was limiting the number of customers in store and was also reminding customers to wear masks.\n\n\"We have clear signage explaining this, and we have packs of face coverings available for purchase near the front of our stores for any customers who have forgotten them.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Asda announced last week that it would extend its marshals' hours to 08:00 to 20:00 and increase how often baskets and trollies are cleaned.\n\nShop workers' union Usdaw has also called for firms to apply more stringent measures again.\n\nThe union's general secretary, Paddy Lillis, said that it had received reports that \"too many customers are not following necessary safety measures like social distancing, wearing a face covering and only shopping for essential items\".\n\n\"It is going to take some time to roll out the vaccine and we cannot afford to be complacent in the meantime, particularly with a new strain sweeping the nation,\" Mr Lillis said.\n\nThe trade union also suggested that \"'one-in one-out\" policies and proper queuing systems should be reintroduced in supermarkets.\n\nIt added that these systems should be managed by trained security staff where necessary.", "The number of patients in intensive care with Covid has risen sharply, amid warnings that tougher lockdown measures may be needed.\n\nLatest Scottish government figures show 1,877 new cases of Covid were reported in the last 24 hours\n\nThe number of people in intensive care has risen from 109 to 123, the highest daily jump since October.\n\nDeputy First Minister John Swinney said a tightening of restrictions could not be ruled out.\n\nA total of 1,598 people are currently in hospital with recently-confirmed Covid, up from Saturday's figure of 1,596 patients which was the highest number since the outbreak began.\n\nThe daily test positivity rate was10%, up from 8.7% on Saturday, when 1,865 positive cases were recorded.\n\nThe deputy first minister said the country was facing \"a very alarming situation\" with the virus.\n\nSpeaking on Politics Scotland, Mr Swinney said coronavirus does not show much sign of \"abating\" and he would not rule out tougher lockdown measures.\n\nHe said: \"We're seeing case numbers which are hovering around 2,000 per day... so we've got an accelerating situation on our hands and we have to constantly review whether more restrictions are required.\"\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs in recent days with average positivity rates falling, a possible indicator that the lockdown is having an impact, but Prof Linda Bauld, of Edinburgh University, urged caution.\n\nShe said: \"The numbers are not reducing at the rate which we want them to, so [it is] still a very fragile situation.\n\n\"The measures we have now I hope are working but it's not clear whether they are tough enough.\n\n\"I think the key change the government could make is in the sectors which are still open, particularly workplaces but also things like takeaways and click and collect.\"\n\nMr Swinney said the Scottish government is \"open to considering further restrictions if they are necessary\"\n\nProfessional sport, along with manufacturing and construction work have been allowed to continue in this lockdown, whereas they were not in the first wave in March.\n\nThe deputy first minister said the meeting of the cabinet which agreed the latest lockdown saw ministers wondering if they had gone far enough to stop the spread.\n\nMr Swinney added: \"I don't think I'm revealing a state secret when I say that the debate within cabinet was not whether we were going too far but whether we were going far enough.\"\n\nA total of three deaths were recorded in the past 24 hours but these figures are lower at weekends because register offices are generally closed.", "Last updated on .From the section Scottish Premiership\n\nCeltic's only regret about their Dubai trip was Chris Jullien contracting Covid-19, said coach Gavin Strachan, after the draw with Hibernian.\n\nThirteen Celtic players missed the game as they self-isolate after being deemed close contacts of Jullien.\n\nThe hosts led through David Turnbull's free-kick, but are now 21 points behind Scottish Premiership leaders Rangers after Kevin Nisbet's late Hibs strike.\n\n\"There's regret that one person has caught the virus,\" said Strachan.\n\n\"But there's not a regret in terms of the permission we got to go and the protocols that we followed, which we have done the whole season.\"\n• None 'Celtic's lack of remorse over Dubai farce is risible'\n• None Trouble in paradise? Timeline of Dubai bid to Covid crisis\n\nStrachan, who managed the team against Hibs as Neil Lennon and assistant John Kennedy are also in enforced quarantine, defended the decision to take Jullien - who is out injured for up to four months - on last week's controversial training trip.\n\n\"It was to maintain his treatment with the backroom staff, he went over there so we can get him back as fast as we can,\" Strachan added.\n\n\"Yeah, I can understand the frustration from everybody, because we end up playing with a weaker team, but that could have happened if we were training at home as well.\"\n\nCeltic, who still have three games in hand, fielded an unfamiliar line-up showing six changes, though one of those was enforced by Nir Bitton's suspension, and teenage American forward Cameron Harper was handed a debut.\n\nHibs' request for Celtic players to be retested pre-match was turned down and Jack Ross gave a first appearance to on-loan Arsenal goalkeeper Matt Macey.\n\nAnd it was the visitors who tried to stamp their authority on the game early on with Nisbet heading over and later testing Conor Hazard with a shot after Joe Newell's strike had been pushed out by the Celtic keeper.\n\nHarper shot instead of passing from a promising position in Celtic's first incisive move and long-range efforts from Ismaila Soro and Diego Laxalt drew fine saves from Macey.\n\nTurnbull's superb chip found Callum McGregor in behind the Hibs defence but he could not make the right connection.\n\nLewis Stevenson made his 500th Hibernian appearance as a half-time replacement for Josh Doig and Harper limped off to be replaced by another Celtic debutant Armstrong Oko-Flex on the hour.\n\nChances were at a premium and Hazard was quick off his line to snuff out a chance for Melker Hallberg and Drey Wright's replacement Christian Doidge could not get a header on Jamie Murphy's teasing corner.\n\nMikey Johnston claimed unsuccessfully for a penalty after going down in the Hibs box following Ryan Porteous' challenge and soon made way for Karamoko Dembele.\n\nHibs also made a change with Stephen McGinn replacing Hallberg and the midfielder fouled Turnbull to give the Celtic midfielder the chance to put Celtic ahead, and he did. It was a fantastic strike by Turnbull and his fifth goal for Celtic.\n\nHibs went back on the attack and won a free-kick of their own after Laxalt's foul on Paul McGinn and the latter's header from Stevie Mallan's delivery was cleared on the line only for Nisbet to fire high into the net for parity. A point took Hibs to within two of Aberdeen in third.\n\nWhat did we learn?\n\nUnsurprisingly, Celtic took a while to settle into the match and lacked a focal point in the absence of Leigh Griffiths and Odsonne Edouard.\n\nFor long spells in the second half, the hosts did not look likely to win but took their chance when it came. Defensively, though, they were caught out badly at a set play.\n\nHibs may rue not throwing more caution to the wind at 0-0 but, after three league defeats, a point in Glasgow is a positive result.\n\nWhat did they say?\n\nCeltic coach Gavin Strachan: \"The players put a lot into the game and we thought we did enough to nick it. The sucker punch at the end was frustrating. We were hoping we would have enough bodies back to see that out.\n\n\"There's a lot of football still to be played and you never know what's going to happen. Obviously it's a frustrating time just now but we need to get the win on Saturday, keep racking up the points and see what happens.\"\n\nHibernian head coach Jack Ross: \"We wanted to come and win the game. I certainly think we merited taking something from it. It's good for us to stop the bleeding. It hopefully just propels our side in the right direction again.\n\n\"Kevin Nisbet's goalscoring return has been excellent. The accuracy of the finish and the trust in his finishing ability with the goal has to be like that otherwise I don't think he scores it.\"\n\nCeltic will still be without their isolating players when they host Livingston on Saturday (15:00 GMT). Hibs are at home to Kilmarnock at the same time.\n• None Attempt blocked. Stephen Mallan (Hibernian) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Kevin Nisbet.\n• None Goal! Celtic 1, Hibernian 1. Kevin Nisbet (Hibernian) left footed shot from the right side of the six yard box to the top right corner following a set piece situation.\n• None Attempt blocked. Paul McGinn (Hibernian) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Stephen Mallan with a cross.\n• None Paul McGinn (Hibernian) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Stephen Mallan (Hibernian) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Paul McGinn with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt blocked. Christian Doidge (Hibernian) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Paul McGinn with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Jamie Murphy (Hibernian) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Paul McGinn.\n• None Goal! Celtic 1, Hibernian 0. David Turnbull (Celtic) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the top left corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Wales' health minister has acknowledged it was \"entirely understandable people are concerned\" about when they will receive their vaccine.\n\nBut Vaughan Gething also stressed that supplies will increase over the coming weeks.\n\n\"I think a number of people are are anxious because this is a worrying time. And it's entirely understandable on a human level why people are concerned\", he said.\n\nMr Gething admitted that other UK nations had made a better start in rolling out the vaccine.\n\nBut he said that he believed Wales had still made a \"good start\" and \"that's evidenced by the figures\".\n\nWhen asked about the concerns made by some GP practices, Mr Gething said he understands why some of them \"will be frustrated\".\n\nHe added: \"But we're delivering the AstraZeneca vaccine in supplies that we have to keep it going.\n\n\"And as I said, the availability of that vaccine is the current rate limiting step and significantly increasing our delivery because we know there are a range of general practices and others who could deliver more if we had more supply.\n\n\"The supply they're being given is supplied for the week - it's not to stretch through for the whole population that they're covering.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Domestic abuse victim - 'He threw me against the wall and strangled me'\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland has said he hopes to make non-fatal strangulation a specific offence after a call by domestic abuse campaigners.\n\nToo many violent offenders' sentences are not tough enough, he said.\n\nAnd he added that strangulation can be a precursor to even more serious crimes against women.\n\nCampaigners argue that perpetrators are often only charged with common assault, which carries a maximum of six months in prison.\n\nBecause non-fatal strangulation may not leave any marks on the victim, prosecutors do not bring more serious charges, they say.\n\nMr Buckland said: \"There are too many violent offenders not getting sentences proportionate to the seriousness of their crimes because in many cases, prosecutors don't have adequate charging options where the victim has been strangled.\n\n\"The vast majority of these crimes are committed against women and they are often a precursor to even more serious violence.\"\n\nThe justice secretary hopes the new offence can be included in the Police and Sentencing Bill, although discussions are at an early stage.\n\nCampaigners had called for a new offence to be part of the Domestic Abuse Bill. The Conservative peer Baroness Newlove was planning to table an amendment to this bill as it goes through the House of Lords. She won cross-party support during a debate in the Lords last week.\n\nBut the Ministry of Justice believes that as non-fatal strangulation can be used in situations other than domestic abuse, the legislation should have a broader context.\n\nJustice Secretary Robert Buckland said strangulation was often a precursor to even more serious attacks on women\n\nWelcoming the move, Nogah Ofer, a lawyer with the Centre for Women's Justice, which has been at the forefront of the campaign for a new offence said: \"It is time that as a society we stopped normalising and ignoring strangulation.\n\n\"We look forward to police, prosecutors and medical professionals working together to address this with the seriousness it deserves, and hope that survivors of domestic abuse will have greater confidence to seek justice.\"\n\nCampaigner Rachel Williams, who suffered strangulation during an abusive relationship, tweeted that it was \"a great victory\". She was shot and severely injured by her violent partner in 2011, who then killed himself.\n\nLast week, the government said that non-fatal strangulation was already covered by existing legislation from common assault to attempted murder.\n\nIt is now looking at how a new offence was introduced in New Zealand. Parts of Australia and the US have also brought in similar measures.\n\nDuring the Lords debate, crossbench peer Lord Anderson of Ipswich, a QC and former Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, warned that \"hurried law can be bad law\".\n\nHe asked whether a more generic offence of aggravated assault or recklessly endangering life might cover these circumstances and questioned how strangulation and suffocation would be defined in the law.", "Lisa Montgomery - the only female inmate on federal death row in the US - has been executed for murder in the state of Indiana. Her lawyers had argued she was a mentally ill victim of abuse who deserved mercy. Her victim's community said otherwise.\n\nThis story was first published on 11 January - before Lisa Montgomery's execution on 13 January.\n\nFor Diane Mattingly, there is one moment from her childhood for which she feels both enormous gratitude and guilt.\n\nShe credits this moment for her \"fairly normal\" life - a house on eight peaceful acres, a loving relationship with her children, nearly two decades at a job working for the state of Kentucky.\n\nAt the same time, she blames it for the fate of her younger half-sister, Lisa Montgomery.\n\nMontgomery was sentenced for the murder of a 23-year-old woman who was eight months pregnant. In December 2004, Montgomery, who was 36 at the time, strangled Bobbie Jo Stinnett before cutting the baby out of her womb and kidnapping it. Stinnett bled to death.\n\nMattingly and Montgomery lived together until Mattingly was eight and her half-sister was four. It was a terrifying household, she says, where physical, psychological and sexual abuse at the hands of Judy Shaughnessy, Montgomery's mother, and her boyfriends was routine.\n\nThe girls' biological father left the home, and after a while, Mattingly was whisked away to foster care. Montgomery was left behind with her mother.\n\nLisa Montgomery and her half-sister Diane Mattingly as children\n\nIt would be 34 years before the half-sisters would see each other again. And that would be from across a courtroom, where lawyers for the US government were trying to persuade a jury to sentence Montgomery to death.\n\n\"One sister got taken out and got put into a loving home and was nurtured and had time to heal,\" says Mattingly. \"The other sister stayed in that situation, and it got worse and worse and worse. And then at the end, she was broken.\"\n\nIn late December, Montgomery's legal team submitted a petition to President Donald Trump that makes the case that after a lifetime of abuse - which they characterise as torture - she is too mentally ill to be executed and deserves mercy.\n\nHowever, in the tiny town of Skidmore, Missouri, where the crime was committed, there is little sympathy for that argument. Many there believe the final moments of Bobbie Jo Stinnett were so horrific, the death sentence is warranted.\n\nLisa Montgomery and Bobbie Jo Stinnett got to know each other online through a shared love of dogs. They had corresponded for weeks on an online forum for rat terrier breeders and enthusiasts called \"Ratter Chatter\". Montgomery told Stinnett that she was also expecting, and the pair shared pregnancy stories.\n\nIn December 2004, Montgomery drove 281.5 km (175 miles) from her home in Kansas to Skidmore, where she had an appointment to look at some puppies owned by Stinnett.\n\nBut it wasn't Montgomery that Stinnett was expecting, it was a woman who went by the name of Darlene Fischer. But Fischer was a name that Montgomery had been using when she separately began messaging Stinnett from a different email address inquiring about buying one of her puppies.\n\nWhen Stinnett answered the door, Montgomery overpowered the pregnant woman, strangled her with a piece of rope, and cut the baby out of her womb.\n\nInvestigators quickly realised that \"Darlene Fischer\" did not exist, and tracked Montgomery down the next day using her emails and computer IP address. They found her cradling a new-born girl she claimed to have given birth to the previous day. Her story quickly fell apart and she confessed to the killing.\n\nSince 2008, Montgomery has been held in a federal prison in Texas for female inmates with special medical and psychological needs, where she has been receiving psychiatric care. Since receiving her execution date, she's been placed on suicide watch in an isolated cell.\n\nMontgomery is scheduled to be put to death by a lethal injection of pentobarbital at Terre Haute prison in Indiana. It is the only federal prison with an active death chamber.\n\nMontgomery's lawyers argue that because of a combination of years of horrific abuse, and a raft of psychological issues, she should never have been given the death penalty. They believe that at the time of the crime, Montgomery was psychotic and out of touch with reality. They have been joined by a chorus of supportive voices from the legal field, including 41 former and current prosecutors, as well as human rights entities like the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.\n\nHowever, calls for Trump to be merciful are hardly unanimous. According to Gallup, while support for the death penalty in the US is at its lowest level in more than 50 years, 55% of Americans still believe it is an appropriate punishment for murder. And nowhere is that support more palpably felt in this case than in Skidmore.\n\n\"Bobbie deserves to be here today. Bobbie's family deserves her,\" says Meagan Morrow, a high school classmate of Stinnett's. \"And Lisa deserves to pay.\"\n\nIf you or someone you know needs support for issues about emotional distress, these organisations may be able to help.\n\nLisa Montgomery's current legal team has conducted some 450 interviews with family members, friends, case workers, doctors and social workers. Stitched together, they form a tapestry of family dysfunction, abuse, neglect, professional negligence, substance abuse and untreated mental illness.\n\n\"The whole story is tragic,\" says Kelley Henry, one of Montgomery's federal defence lawyers. \"But one of the things that the president can do is say - to women who have been trafficked, and who have been sexually abused - 'Your abuse matters'.\"\n\nFor Montgomery, her lawyers argue, it began before she was born. According to an interview with her father, Montgomery's mother Judy Shaughnessy drank heavily throughout her pregnancy, and their daughter was born with foetal alcohol syndrome. Multiple medical experts have given statements agreeing with that diagnosis.\n\nWhen Mattingly and Montgomery were young, Shaughnessy beat them and doled out cruel forms of punishment, like taping Montgomery's mouth shut, or pushing Mattingly out into the snow, naked. After their biological father left the home, Mattingly says they were left alone with Shaughnessy's boyfriends, at least one of whom started raping Mattingly.\n\n\"Judy was manipulative and - I hate to use this word, but - evil. She enjoyed torturing the people around her,\" says Mattingly. \"She got joy out of it.\"\n\nAfter Mattingly was removed from the home by social services, Montgomery fell prey to her mother's new husband, who according to statements from his other children, was a violent alcoholic who began sexually abusing Montgomery when she was a pre-teen. The family moved from place to place dozens of times, but it was in a trailer in Sperry, Oklahoma, where her lawyers say the abuse turned into something more akin to torture.\n\nAccording to interviews with her half-siblings and others who spent time with the family, Montgomery's stepfather built a shed onto the trailer where he, and eventually his friends, raped and beat her. Her mother also began trafficking her, allowing handymen like electricians and plumbers to sexually abuse Montgomery in exchange for work on the house.\n\nAs a teenager, Montgomery confided in a cousin, telling him the men would tie her up, beat her and even urinate on her afterwards.\n\nBut the cousin, a sheriff's deputy, confessed to Montgomery's current legal team that he did nothing. In fact, he drove her back home and dropped her off in the hands of her abusers.\n\nLawyer Kelley Henry says one of the things that disturbs her most is that adults in positions of authority were told about what was going on but did nothing.\n\nWhen Shaughnessy eventually split from her second husband, she and Montgomery testified in divorce proceedings about the sexual assaults. The judge in the case scolded Shaughnessy for not reporting the abuse - but did not report the abuse himself.\n\n\"There were so many opportunities where people could have intervened and prevented this,\" says Henry.\n\nMontgomery's cousin told her legal team that he lived with \"regret for not speaking up about what happened to Lisa\".\n\nWhen she was 18, Montgomery married her stepbrother. The couple had four children in five years, but the relationship was not the escape from violence that Montgomery might have hoped it would be. At one point, one of Montgomery's brothers found a home movie that showed Montgomery's husband raping and beating her.\n\n\"It was violent and like a scene out of a horror movie,\" he said in a statement. \"I felt sick watching the video. I didn't know what to do or how to talk to my sister about it.\"\n\nFriends and family began noticing Montgomery's tendency to slip into \"a world of her own\". Her children were disturbed by it. Henry says this was an early sign of her mental illnesses, which include bipolar disorder, complex post-traumatic stress disorder, dissociative disorder and traumatic brain injury.\n\nMontgomery eventually divorced her first husband and married Kevin Montgomery. Around this time, she repeatedly claimed to be pregnant again, although she had undergone sterilisation after her fourth baby was born.\n\nOne theory her lawyers put forward regarding the chain of events that led to the murder, is that Montgomery feared her ex-husband would expose her lies about being pregnant and use it against her as he sought custody of their children.\n\n\"There was so much pressure on her at that point,\" says Henry. She describes Montgomery's ex-husband as cruel and harassing. \"She was completely detached from reality.\"\n\nHer lawyers say that as she lost touch with reality, she fantasised about being pregnant.\n\nHenry says Montgomery's original legal defence after she was arrested and charged with murder was woefully inadequate, and presented few of the details about her abuse, trauma and mental illness.\n\nHer lawyers at the time also presented an alternative theory of the crime, which was that Montgomery's brother had actually committed the murder, even though he had an alibi. That was ultimately dropped in favour of an insanity defence, but Henry believes the damage to Montgomery's credibility was already done.\n\nAfter five hours of deliberation, the jury found Montgomery guilty. They recommended a sentence of death.\n\nDiane Mattingly has been speaking publicly for the first time in the hope it can make a difference.\n\n\"I would say, 'President Trump, I want you to look at the life that Lisa had led, I want to look at all the people that have failed her, I want you to look at the rape, the torture, the mental abuse, the physical abuse that this woman had endured,'\" she says. \"I'm asking him to have compassion on her as a person that has been failed over and over and over again. And to not fail her.\"\n\nThe tiny farming town of Skidmore sits in the far northwest corner of Missouri. A generation ago, it was the kind of place where you could \"get your hair cut, see a show, buy rabbit feed and eat dinner\" - but those days are long gone. Today there is a single restaurant and few of the streets are paved.\n\nThe population hovers around just 250, and everyone knew Bobbie Jo Stinnett and her family. Friends recall her as a good student with a love of horses and dogs. She liked going down to the Nodaway River to swim, and playing Nintendo games at slumber parties. She was quiet and kind, they say.\n\nAt the time of her murder, she was newly married and pregnant with her first child.\n\nAlthough the alumni have scattered somewhat, in recent years, the Nodaway-Holt R-VII High School graduating class of 2000 - which had only 22 members - has a tradition to mark the anniversary of the death of their classmate Bobbie Jo Stinnett.\n\nThey hold a collection and try to do something nice for Stinnett's mother. \"Last year, we got flowers, and gave her a $100-plus gift card and then paid her water bill,\" says Jena Baumli.\n\nThe murder 16 years ago is never far from the minds of the town's residents.\n\nFor one thing, the wider world won't let them forget. It has been the subject of two books, multiple true crime television shows, documentaries and countless podcast episodes. And though there's been much recent debate over the fairness of Montgomery's sentence in courthouses and in the opinion pages of newspapers like the New York Times, a similar debate does not exist here.\n\n\"I think that in a lot of the opinion pieces that are being posted, in a lot of things that people are sharing, Bobbie Jo and her daughter, and her mother and her husband and other friends and family, are kind of being forgotten,\" says Tiffany Kirkland, another member of the class of 2000.\n\n\"She always wanted to be a mom,\" says Baumli. \"She was really the first one to have a decent marriage, you know, and I guess looking at Bobbie Jo was like, what your dreams were when you were younger.\"\n\nBecause of Stinnett's easy-going reputation, Morrow remembers instantly dismissing the initial reports of her murder.\n\n\"I was like, 'Oh, she was not.' You know, like, that doesn't happen to Bobbie,\" Morrow says.\n\nBut what happened at the modest clapboard house where Stinnett lived with her husband still haunts some of those involved in the investigation.\n\nNodaway County Sheriff Randy Strong says that the scene that he and his four colleagues found that day was so bloody, they are still traumatised by it. It makes him even angrier that it was Stinnett's mother who discovered her that way.\n\n\"The people that are defending [Montgomery], I wish I could take them back in time, and put them in that room,\" he says. \"And then go, 'Look at this body'. And then go, 'Stand there and listen to the 911 call of [Stinnett's mother]. This is the stuff of nightmares.\"\n\nMany of the residents of Skidmore cite the details of the crime, and the amount of planning that went into it, as evidence that Montgomery was a calculating killer.\n\nShe had catfished Stinnett online under a fake name. She had bought supplies, including a home birth kit, and searched online for how to perform a caesarean section. Sheriff Strong insists that the crime was meticulously planned and that the woman he arrested continued to lie until backed into a corner.\n\nDr Katherine Porterfield, a clinical psychologist who evaluated Montgomery and spent about 18 hours with her, says that psychosis does not always look the way people expect it to.\n\n\"Being psychotic, it does not mean you are not intelligent, nor that you cannot act in a planful way,\" she says. \"We've seen crime for years and years in our country in which people enact terrible violence coming out of a psychotic set of beliefs or thought process. Lisa Montgomery is no different. She enacted this in the grip of a very broken mind.\"\n\nThe baby was returned to her father, after being recovered from Montgomery.\n\nBobbie Jo's mother and husband have have not spoken publicly in many years. But Strong says this is the first year he's heard directly from Stinnett's husband. He thanked the sheriff for recovering his daughter and allowing him to be the parent that his wife couldn't be.\n\n\"I cried,\" says Strong. \"The whole community over there's traumatised by this.\"\n\nSchool friend Baumli says she's read the descriptions of Montgomery's abuse, but it mostly just makes her angry. She says it's not as if all the other people of Skidmore lead idyllic lives free from abuse, poverty and other destructive tragedies. She gives herself as an example - when Stinnett was murdered, Baumli was in rehab for a drug addiction. She missed the funeral because of it.\n\n\"Let's say I didn't stay clean very long,\" she says.\n\n\"I'm sick of hearing about Lisa Montgomery and what she went through. And it's never about what my friend went through,\" she adds. \"I get these images in my head of [Bobbie Jo's mother] finding her daughter that way.\"\n\nThree federal inmates - Orlando Hall, Alfred Bourgeois and Brandon Bernard - have been put to death since the 3 November presidential election. Several high-profile figures had appealed for clemency in Brandon's case but Mr Trump did not heed those calls.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden has already pledged to end death penalty proceedings, although he hasn't said when.\n\nUntil July 2020, there had been no federal executions for 17 years. At state level, the number of sentences and executions continues a historic decline. Only 18 death sentences were handed down in 2020 and the number of executions carried out hit a 30-year low. More recently, the states that have been carrying out executions, such as Texas and Tennessee, have halted and delayed executions because of the pandemic.\n\nHowever, the executions ordered by President Trump are continuing. If they all go ahead, the federal government will have executed more people than any administration in nearly 100 years.\n\nProtest against federal executions of death row inmates - outside the US Justice Department, Washington DC, December 2020\n\nTwo other inmates are scheduled to die at Terre Haute prison before Mr Trump's presidency ends. Recently, there has been a virus outbreak on death row at the institution, and previous executions have been linked to outbreaks among the execution team and prison staff.\n\n\"They made this a priority at the risk of the health and lives of corrections officials, of the prisoners on death row, and the communities that all of those Bureau of Prisons officials who flew in from across the country were returning to,\" says Ngozi Ndulue, senior director of research and special projects at the Death Penalty Information Center.\n\n\"This was a very coordinated and determined plan to ensure that as many people could be executed on federal death row as possible before the end of this administration term.\"\n\nMontgomery's lawyers want her sentence commuted to a life sentence, which would allow her to remain under psychiatric care in prison for the rest of her days.\n\nMattingly says looking back to the moment life changed for her as an eight-year-old, she feels guilty that when the social workers came for her, she didn't tell them what was going on in that house.\n\n\"If I had, would they have taken Lisa out of the home also?\" she says. \"There's so many people that failed her throughout her whole life. And I am just asking for somebody - once - not to fail her.\"", "Wales has received 275,000 doses of the two Covid-19 vaccines to deal with the pandemic.\n\nAbout 70,000 people received a first dose after the first month of the vaccine rollout.\n\nThe Welsh Government confirmed it has had more than 250,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 25,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab.\n\nThe health minister promised a \"really significant step-up\" in the roll-out after opponents criticised its speed.\n\nThe Pfizer jabs were first administered in early December at seven sites across Wales as part of the UK-wide immunisation programme.\n\nThis 82-year-old woman was one of 100 to receives her vaccine at a special clinic in Swansea on Saturday\n\nApproximately 1.6% of people were vaccinated up to 3 January - fewer than all other UK nations.\n\nIn England, about 1.9% of the population had received the first dose, while 2.1% of people in both Scotland and Northern Ireland had received their first jab.\n\nThe Welsh Government has dismissed criticism it is lagging behind, with health officials saying the new Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine would help speed up the programme \"considerably\".\n\nTwo full doses of the Oxford vaccine gave 62% protection, a half dose followed by a full dose was 90% and overall the trial showed 70% protection.\n\nThe rollout of the Oxford vaccine started on Monday, with 25,000 doses received this week, according to the Welsh Government.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said on Friday that Wales would receive another 25,000 Oxford doses next week and 80,000 the week after that.\n\nWhen asked how many doses of the Pfizer vaccine Wales had received, he said he could not recall the exact figure but further deliveries had been received \"on the 23rd and the 27th of December\".\n\nPressed on a figure, he said: \"It's the low hundreds of thousands\", adding: \"The Pfizer vaccine has particular challenges in terms of the conditions that it's got to be stored in and in parts of Wales that is a very particular challenge because it is a hard vaccine to transport over long distances to relatively scattered and remote communities.\n\n\"But the fact that we've got it and the fact that we're able to use more of it than we originally anticipated means we'll be able to accelerate the use of it over the next couple of weeks.\"\n\nThese were the latest comparative weekly totals - daily updates are promised from this week onwards in Wales\n\nOn Sunday, the Welsh Government confirmed it had received 25,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in the first week but the quantity would increase, allocated to Wales based on a population share on a weekly basis.\n\n\"We are confident in the assurances we have been given that this will increase over the next few weeks to around 100,000 per week,\" they said.\n\n\"We are delivering all the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine allocated to Wales directly to GPs, other primary care providers and hospitals as soon as it is available.\"\n\nConservative MP for the Vale of Clwyd, Dr James Davies, said: \"We all know that the Pfizer vaccine is difficult to transport and store and needs to be stored at -70 degrees, that's understood.\n\n\"But the issue is that actually, if you look at the rest of the UK, including very rural areas, they've managed to deal with it... and it is difficult to see why they haven't been in a position to be organised earlier and to ramp-up the delivery.\"\n\nRhun ap Iorwerth, Plaid Cymru's health spokesman, called for transparency: \"It is very worrying to find out that we have had in Wales more than 250,000 doses but only a relatively small proportion of that have yet ended up in people's arms, protecting people, because that's what we want to happen.\"\n\nHe has written an open letter to Health Minister Vaughan Gething calling for greater clarity on the vaccine deployment programme, asking for a dashboard of information which would allow the public to track the rollout's progress for themselves, including volume of doses delivered and administered by health board and by the nine priority groups.\n\nDr Olwen Williams, vice-president for Wales at the Royal College of Physicians, also called on health boards and Welsh Government to publish regular data showing which groups of people have been vaccinated, with patient-facing health workers prioritised over other colleagues.\n\n\"I think that would give assurance to people working in the NHS and the population in general, that the programme is progressing as planned,\" she said.\n\nAll data will be published daily from Monday but Mr Gething conceded that Wales, from last week's figures, was \"slightly behind on the population share and I'm not getting away from that.\"\n\nHe said the race was not \"necessarily against other UK nations\" but against the virus.\n\nHe also told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement that, in the next two to three weeks, he expected to see a \"really significant step-up in the delivery of the vaccine\" as more GP practices and community pharmacies help.\n\n\"We're going to get through many more people, giving them significant protection with a first vaccine,\" he said.\n\n\"And that will mean that we're going to be able to prevent most of the avoidable deaths.\"\n\nIt is hoped the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will speed up the process.\n\nBy the end of last week, it was being offered to patients aged over 80 at 73 GP practices.\n\nMore than 100 are expected to be offering the jabs next week, Mr Gething said, \"and then we get into several hundred thereafter and we'll bring community pharmacies on board.\"\n\nThe UK and Scottish governments did not provide the numbers of Pfizer vaccines supplied to England and Scotland. BBC Wales is still waiting for a response from the Northern Irish Executive.\n\nMeanwhile, regular rapid testing for people without coronavirus symptoms will be made available in England.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it would evaluate its mass testing pilots in Merthyr Tydfil and lower Cynon Valley, as well as elsewhere in the UK, to inform its approach to community testing.\n\nA spokesman added: \"We have announced regular asymptomatic testing of health and social care workers, in education and daily contact testing in South Wales Police.\n\n\"A pilot has also started at the Tata Port Talbot site. We are also exploring other opportunities for regular testing to support critical services.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer calls for families to be put \"at the heart of our recovery\" from the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has urged the government to \"protect family incomes\" as it deals with the economic effects of coronavirus.\n\nIn his first speech of the year, he demanded teachers, the armed forces and care workers are left out of the public sector pay freeze.\n\nSir Keir also called for tougher restrictions to be considered for tackling coronavirus.\n\nNo 10 said the government had \"shown it is prepared to act\".\n\nWith coronavirus restrictions and lockdowns shutting thousands of businesses, the economy was 7.9% smaller in October last year than it had been six months earlier.\n\nAnd the government's independent forecaster, the Office for Budgetary Responsibility, predicts that unemployment will rise to 2.6 million by the middle of this year.\n\nIn his speech, Sir Keir attacked the government for \"having been found wanting at every turn\", accusing Boris Johnson of being \"indecisive\" and acting \"too slow\" over further lockdowns and support for business and families.\n\nHe said: \"The British people will forgive many things. They know the pandemic is difficult.\n\n\"But they also know serial incompetence when they see it - and they know when a prime minister simply isn't up to the job.\"\n\nBut the PM's official spokeswoman rejected the criticism, saying: \"This government has shown it is prepared to act. When given evidence in the morning it has taken action that evening.\"\n\nAsked by the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg whether the government should tighten restrictions, such as closing nurseries, Sir Keir said there \"probably is more that we could do [and we] may have to get tougher\".\n\nBut he did not outline what measures he would recommend, instead saying it was \"time to hear from the scientists what else can be done - and that probably should be done in the next few hours\".\n\nThe Labour leader said ministers must \"protect family incomes and support businesses\" from the economic effects of previous restrictions and the current lockdown.\n\nHe added policies must \"make a real difference to millions of people across the country\" and \"put families at the heart of our recovery\".\n\nSir Keir argued the £20-a-week rise given to Universal Credit claimants last April must continue beyond this April's cut-off point.\n\nCouncil tax increases in England of up to 5% this April must not happen, he said, while calling for the ban on evictions and repossessions to be extended.\n\nThe government's pay freeze for at least 1.3 million public sector workers - which does not apply to NHS frontline staff and those earning below £24,000 a year - must not go ahead, said Sir Keir.\n\n\"I know this isn't everything that's needed,\" he added, \"and after so much suffering we can't go back the status quo.\n\n\"We cannot return to an economy where over half our care workers earn less than the living wage, where childcare is among the most expensive in Europe, where our social care system is a national disgrace and where over four million children grow up in poverty.\"\n\nAn opposition leader has no policy leavers to pull. They have to rely on words to persuade the public they are worthy of power.\n\nWith the next general election an eternity away, Sir Keir Starmer knows the question of competence matters far more to voters than ideology right now.\n\nThe Labour leader was unsparing in his criticism of the government's handling of the pandemic - accusing the prime minster of serial incompetence, dithering and delay.\n\nSir Keir said the government could reverse planned changes to council tax and universal credit to ease the financial pressure on families.\n\nBut pressed on how lockdown might be different today if he was in No 10, the Labour leader mirrored the government's messaging.\n\nHe said there was \"probably\" more that could be done around nurseries and estate agent viewings, but Sir Keir's mantra was listen to the scientists.\n\nIt's what ministers say endlessly too.\n\nSir Keir argued that, just as a Labour government \"built the welfare state from the rubble\" of World War Two, a future one can \"secure our economy, protect our NHS and rebuild our country so that Britain is the best country to grow up in and the best country to grow old in\".\n\nBut Conservative Party co-chairman Amanda Milling accused Sir Keir of \"calling for actions the Conservatives are already taking in government\".\n\n\"We have delivered an unprecedented £280bn package of support to protect jobs, livelihoods and public services through this pandemic,\" she added, including the furlough scheme, the temporary increase to Universal Credit and extra funding for councils.\n\n\"The Conservatives will continue to put families and communities at the heart of every decision we take as we deliver on our promises to the British people,\" Ms Milling said.\n\nIn his Spending Review in November, Chancellor Rishi Sunak warned that the \"economic emergency\" caused by the pandemic had only begun.\n\nHe promised to take \"extraordinary measures to protect people's jobs and incomes\".", "Parler has hit back after Amazon pulled support for its so-called \"free speech\" social network.\n\nParler is suing the tech giant, accusing it of breaking anti-trust laws by removing it.\n\nParler had been reliant on the tech giant's Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing service to provide its alternative to Twitter.\n\nThe platform was popular among supporters of Donald Trump, although the president is not a user.\n\nAmazon took the action after finding dozens of posts on the service that it said encouraged violence.\n\nIn response, the platform has asked a federal judge to order Amazon to reinstate it.\n\n\"AWS's decision to effectively terminate Parler's account is apparently motivated by political animus,\" the complaint reads.\n\n\"It is also apparently designed to reduce competition in the microblogging services market to the benefit of Twitter.\"\n\n\"There is no merit to these claims,\" it said.\n\n\"AWS provides technology and services to customers across the political spectrum, and we respect Parler's right to determine for itself what content it will allow. However, it is clear that there is significant content on Parler that encourages and incites violence against others, and that Parler is unable or unwilling to promptly identify and remove this content, which is a violation of our terms of service.\n\n\"We made our concerns known to Parler over a number of weeks and during that time we saw a significant increase in this type of dangerous content, not a decrease, which led to our suspension of their services Sunday evening.\"\n\nExamples Amazon had provided included posts calling for the killing of Democrats, Muslims, Black Lives Matter leaders, and mainstream media journalists.\n\nGoogle and Apple had already removed Parler from their app stores towards the end of last week saying it had failed to comply with their content-moderation requirements.\n\nHowever, it had still been accessible via the web - although visitors had complained of being unable to create new accounts over the weekend, without which it was not possible to view its content.\n\nParler has been online since 2018, and may return if it can find an alternative host.\n\nHowever, chief executive John Matze told Fox News on Sunday that \"every vendor from text message services to email providers to our lawyers all ditched us too\".\n\n\"We're going to try our best to get back online as quickly as possible, but we're having a lot of trouble because every vendor we talk to says they won't work with us because if Apple doesn't approve and Google doesn't approve, they won't,\" he added.\n\nAWS's move is the latest in a series of actions affecting social media following the rioting on Capitol Hill last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Capitol riots: ‘We would have been murdered’\n\nFacebook and Twitter have also banned President Trump's accounts on their platforms, citing concerns that he might incite further violence.\n\nParler's users included the Republican Senator Ted Cruz, who had led an effort in the Senate to delay certifying Joe Biden's electoral college victory.\n\nHe had about five million followers on the platform - more than his tally on Twitter.\n\nParler's app now shows an error message and its website is offline\n\n\"Why should a handful of Silicon Valley billionaires have a monopoly on political speech?\" he tweeted over the weekend.\n\nParler's downfall appears to have benefited Gab - another \"free speech\" social network that is popular with far-right commentators.\n\nIt has claimed to have \"gained more users in the past two days than we did in our first two years of existing\".\n\nParler has long been a home for what you might call untouchables, people who had been excluded from mainstream services for offences such as blatant racism or incitement to violence.\n\nDuring a brief excursion onto the site over the weekend, I observed plenty of examples of such behaviour, with users exhibiting vile anti-Semitism, displaying Nazi symbols such as the swastika and uttering incoherent threats against those they perceive to be enemies of America.\n\nBut as Amazon's deadline approached something like panic took hold, with users desperately urging their followers to join them on other platforms.\n\nMost seemed to accept that Parler was doomed, while vowing to continue their fight elsewhere.\n\n\"Well this is the end,\" wrote one user, who proclaimed his support for the American Nazi Party.", "An ambulance had to be lifted out of the mud\n\nRescuers searching for victims of a landslide in Indonesia were buried by a second mudslide just hours later, officials say.\n\nThe first landslide, in Cihanjuang village, West Java, was triggered by torrential rain.\n\nAnother struck as survivors were still being evacuated. At least 12 people died and dozens more are missing.\n\nLandslides are common in Indonesia during rainy season, and often blamed on deforestation.\n\nThe latest disasters hit the villagers in Sumedang regency, about 150km (95 miles) southeast of the capital Jakarta, three and a half hours apart on Saturday.\n\nThe first happened at 16:00 (09:00 GMT) and the second at 19:30 (12:30 GMT), disaster agency spokesman Raditya Jati said in a statement.\n\n\"The first landslide was triggered by high rainfall and unstable soil conditions. The subsequent landslide occurred while officers were still evacuating victims around the first landslide area,\" he added.\n\nRescuers are believed to be among those killed, he added. A six-year-old boy was also among the dead, according to AFP news agency.\n\nSome 27 people were believed to be missing late on Sunday, local media quoted Deden Ridwansah, the head of the local search and rescue agency as saying. About 46 were known to have survived.\n\nBad weather had forced the search to be suspended, he said, but it was expected to resume on Monday.\n\nIndonesia frequently suffers floods and landslides. Thousands of people had to be evacuated in the capital Jakarta this time last year as the city was inundated.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n• None The fastest-sinking city in the world", "There are concerns about the cost of education for families reliant on mobile connections\n\nCustomers using BT Mobile, EE, and Plusnet Mobile can use BBC Bitesize content from the end of January without eating into their data allowance.\n\nBitesize provides structured lessons in maths and English for all year groups, as well as offering other curriculum material.\n\nContent from other providers is likely to be made free in the coming days.\n\nMore mobile companies are expected to follow suit in making such content free to use.\n\nThe current UK lockdowns mean most children are now learning from home.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson has mandated that schools must provide between three and five hours of online content per day.\n\nThis has led to concerns that children in families without access to broadband could fall behind.\n\nSchools remain open for children classed as vulnerable and those whose parents are key workers.\n\nAll contract and pay-as-you-go customers of BT Mobile, EE and Plusnet Mobile will be eligible and the free package will continue while schools remain closed. No registration is required - the free access will happen automatically.\n\nBT has also asked the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish administrations to each suggest one online resource for schoolchildren in its regions, which it will also zero-rate, as the curriculums differ from English schools.\n\nAccording to UK media watchdog Ofcom, some 880,000 families are reliant solely on mobile connections, and many of those will have data limitations.\n\nBBC director general Tim Davie said: \"With the pandemic forcing schools to close again, we should not allow a lack of digital access to further impact children's education.\n\n\"The BBC will continue to do all we can to ensure every child, whatever their circumstances, can continue to access vital educational materials during this time.\"\n\nThe corporation is also running three hours of curriculum-based TV programmes alongside the BBC Bitesize collection of educational resources. Primary school programming will be on CBBC, with two hours for secondary pupils on BBC Two.\n\nDuring the first lockdown, content was available on iPlayer, Red Button services and online, but not on regular TV channels, although viewers in Scotland did have some programming.\n\nBT said the move was part of its wider Lockdown Learning programme.\n\nBT consumer brands chief executive Marc Allera said: \"We want to ensure that no child is left behind in their education as a result of this pandemic and recognise that we all have a role we can play to help families and carers continue their children's education while schools are closed.\"", "Kay and Kenneth Hayward said they felt the journey was too unsafe\n\nPeople waiting to receive the Covid-19 vaccine say they are confused by NHS letters inviting them to travel to centres miles away from their homes.\n\nThe first 130,000 letters have been sent to people aged 80 or older who live about 30 to 45 minutes' drive away from one of seven new regional centres.\n\nBut patients, many of whom are shielding, questioned why they had to travel so far in a pandemic.\n\nLocal jabs are available to people if they wait, the NHS said.\n\nThe seven centres include Ashton Gate in Bristol, Epsom racecourse in Surrey, London's Nightingale hospital, Newcastle's Centre for Life, the Manchester Tennis and Football Centre, Robertson House in Stevenage and Birmingham's Millennium Point.\n\nPeople will not miss out on their vaccination if they do not use the letters to make an appointment at one of the centres, the NHS said.\n\nTwo Labour MPs tweeted about their concerns about the letters being delayed in getting out to people due to coronavirus affecting Royal Mail staff.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMary McGarry from Leamington Spa in Warwickshire told BBC News that her letter points to an NHS online booking page which suggests she would have to take her husband, who has cancer and a lung disease, 20 miles to Birmingham.\n\n\"We're very reluctant to go into Birmingham city centre,\" she said.\n\n\"If we can't get somebody to take us, we'd have to go on the train but we're shielding because my husband's got poor health.... we want to know why we've got to travel that far?\"\n\nKay Hayward, from Whitwick in Leicestershire, said she went online to book an appointment for her 85-year-old husband Kenneth and was offered five different places including Widnes in Cheshire and Stevenage in Hertfordshire.\n\n\"I thought they must be joking... we talked about it and we thought it was actually safer to stay here and for him not not have it.\n\n130,000 letters have been sent out by NHS England so far\n\n\"But we were worried if we turned this down, we'd be off the list.. the letter doesn't say anything about having the vaccines anywhere else locally.\"\n\nAndrea Eaton, from Coventry, said she was so angry that her 81-year-old mother, who has heart problems and leukaemia, was offered Birmingham for her appointment that she attempted to ring Downing Street on Saturday night to complain.\n\nShe said she reached the press office and said: \"I want you to give Boris a message please that he has lied to the British public.\n\n\"He has told them they never need to go more than 10 miles... they were really rude and just put the phone down on me.\"\n\nAndrea Eaton said she wanted to get a message to Boris Johnson so rang Downing Street on Saturday evening\n\nA spokesperson from Number 10 told BBC News that they did not wish to comment, but wanted to remind the public to use the government website to write to the prime minister or contact their constituency MP.\n\nCouncillor Shaun Davies, the Labour leader at Telford and Wrekin Council in Shropshire, said he had been contacted by dozens of people who have found the letters misleading, thinking this is their only chance to get the vaccine.\n\nHe said he had spoken to Trafford Council and was aware of people in Shropshire being sent to Manchester and residents there being directed to Birmingham to get their jabs.\n\n\"For many people they have been told consistently to wait for the NHS to contact you in order to get a vaccine and that's what they've had for the first time as a piece of communication.\n\n\"This is really, really concerning for people in their 80s or 90s because of the importance of getting the vaccine.\"\n\nThe letters are not \"going to the heart\" of the public health message which is staying home and staying local, he said.\n\nMore than 500,000 letters will be sent out to homes offering people appointments at the centres over the next seven days\n\nDr Sarah Raistrick, from Coventry and Rugby Clinical Commission group (CCG), said people did not have to travel to the centres but admitted the letter did not make that clear.\n\n\"You can wait and be contacted by your local GP service and have it locally if you'd prefer.\n\n\"If you sit tight, you will be contacted and I'm hopeful that if you're 80 or over, by the end of this month you will have had your vaccination whether that is locally or whether you have chosen to travel,\" she said.\n\nWork will be done with the NHS locally and nationally to make that message clearer, she added.\n\nThe seven centres were chosen to give a geographical spread covering as many people as possible and are capable of delivering thousands of jabs per week, NHS England has said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hancock: We are willing to tighten the rules\n\nThe health secretary stresses the importance of the public following the restrictions of the current lockdown. Asked by Emily Morgan of ITV whether it was time to make the rules stricter amid reports of people not sticking to them at the weekend, Matt Hancock says: \"We keep these things under review and we have demonstrated that we're willing to tighten the rules if they need to be tightened. \"But the thing that really matters right here, right now is that everybody follows the rules as they are today. \"And everybody can play their part in doing that.\" He adds he applauds the action supermarket Morrisons has taken in enforcing the wearing of masks by its customers unless they have a medical reason. \"I want to see all parts of society playing their part in this,\" he says.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Whitty: \"We need to really double down – this is everybody’s problem\"\n\nThe UK will go through the \"most dangerous time\" of the pandemic in the weeks before vaccine rollout has an impact, England's chief medical officer has warned.\n\nProf Chris Whitty urged people to minimise all unnecessary contact with others.\n\nThe next few weeks will be \"the worst\" of the pandemic for the NHS, he said.\n\nThousands more people are due to receive a vaccine this week after seven mass centres opened across England.\n\nNHS England said hundreds more GP-led and hospital services would also open later this week.\n\nBut with all centres, people will need to wait until they receive an invitation.\n\nThe government is aiming to offer vaccinations to around 15 million people in the UK - the over-70s, older care home residents and staff, frontline healthcare workers and the clinically extremely vulnerable - by mid-February.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock will set out the government's vaccine delivery plan at a news conference later.\n\nHe said the proposals would be the \"keystone of our exit out of the pandemic\".\n\nOutlining the vaccine rollout in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon confirmed that ministers aim to give all over-80s the first dose of the vaccine over the next four weeks.\n\nThe Welsh Government plans to offer a vaccine to all over-50s and everyone who is at greater risk by spring.\n\nMr Hancock said on Sunday about two million people in the UK had been vaccinated so far.\n\nOver the weekend, the UK passed the milestone of 80,000 deaths with coronavirus since the start of the pandemic.\n\nCurrently, around one in 50 people across the UK is infected and Prof Whitty told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"There's a very high chance that if you meet someone unnecessarily they will have Covid.\"\n\nIn a separate interview with BBC One's Breakfast, he said: \"This is everybody's problem. Any single unnecessary contact you have with someone is a potential link in a chain of transmission that will lead to a vulnerable person.\"\n\nHe said there were over 30,000 people [in English hospitals alone] with Covid-19 - compared to about 18,000 [in England] at the peak last April.\n\nHe added that \"anybody who is not shocked\" by the number of people in hospital \"has not understood this at all\".\n\n\"This is an appalling situation,\" he said.\n\nIn Essex, Southend Hospital has had to reduce the amount of oxygen used to treat patients after supply \"reached a critical situation\", according to a document shared with the BBC.\n\nIn Surrey, a temporary mortuary has been opened as hospital mortuaries have reached capacity.\n\nAlmost 200 bodies are being stored at the emergency site, which is a former military hospital, and other local authorities have told the BBC they expect to open similar facilities soon.\n\nProf Stephen Powis, NHS England national medical director, said \"this is much bigger than the first wave back in April\".\n\n\"I don't think anyone in the NHS has known anything like this, this is a once-in-a-century pandemic,\" he said.\n\nProf Rupert Pearse, an intensive care doctor, told BBC Breakfast that in a \"normal\" winter it would be \"unlikely\" that more than three of four flu patients would need intensive care at any one time, but his unit is now running 130 intensive care beds because of the effects of Covid.\n\n\"To compare this to a normal winter flu epidemic is out of all proportion, it's orders of magnitude larger,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nMinisters held two meetings on Sunday to discuss how to enforce the current lockdown measures more strictly and whether even tighter restrictions may be needed.\n\nBBC political correspondent Iain Watson said no decisions on further restrictions were taken as there was a desire within government to wait until reliable data on existing measures becomes available in 10 days.\n\nHowever, he added there had been a discussion on better enforcement of existing regulations, including at shops and workplaces.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer questioned why there are \"less restrictions in place\" now than there were last March.\n\nIn his first speech of the year, he said \"we need to see the evidence behind nurseries\" remaining open.\n\nAsked whether tighter restrictions were needed, he said: \"I do think it's time to hear from the scientists [about] what else could be done and that probably should be done in the next few hours\".\n\nThere is a lot of debate about whether the lockdown restrictions need to be tightened.\n\nThere are certainly some anomalies. For example, we are told to only leave the home for essential purposes, but coffee shops remain open for takeaways and retail shops for click-and-collect in England and Wales.\n\nHowever, even if those elements are tightened up, there is a limit to what the government can do. It is why, in his round of media interviews on Monday, Prof Whitty repeatedly talked about individual decision-making.\n\nThe mixing of different households continues. Some of it is allowed under the support bubble exemptions, but undoubtedly some of it is taking place outside of this. It is, after all, virtually impossible to police what goes on in people's homes.\n\nIt is why messaging is so important - and so ministers and officials are stressing the pressure the NHS is under. A further tightening of the restrictions could also help make the point.\n\nBut there is also a recognition this is hard. People are fatigued. A further crackdown could also erode goodwill.\n\nThe vaccination programme is described as the biggest in NHS history.\n\nThe seven mass testing sites, which NHS England said were chosen to give a geographical spread, are:\n\nThe new centres will each be capable of delivering thousands of vaccinations each week and will be followed by \"dozens more\" large-scale sites, NHS England said.\n\nThere will be about 1,200 vaccination sites when more GP-led and hospital services open later this week, along with the first pharmacy-led pilot sites, it added.\n\nSome vulnerable people have questioned why they have been asked to travel to centres miles away from their homes during a pandemic, but the NHS has said people would not miss out on their vaccination if they wait for an appointment at a centre closer to home in the coming weeks.\n\nVaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said nobody should be asked to travel more than 10 miles to get a vaccine once more centres open.\n\nAsked on Today why the centres were not open 24 hours a day, he said it was \"more convenient\" for older people to attend during the day.\n\n\"If we need to go to 24-hour work we will absolutely go to 24 hours a day to make sure we vaccinate as quickly as we can,\" he said.\n\nBut he cautioned: \"We are limited by the amount of vaccine that is coming through the system.\"\n\nPharmaceutical firm Boots said its first vaccination site was due to open later this week to offer the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab to the people most vulnerable.\n\nIt said sites in Huddersfield and Gloucester were planned to open in the coming weeks.\n\nTwo vaccines - Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca - are currently being administered in the UK.\n\nOn Friday a third coronavirus vaccine - made by US company Moderna - was approved for use, although supplies are not expected to arrive until spring.\n\nAre you due to have a vaccination today? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "US president-elect Joe Biden has been given his new official presidential Twitter account, but has been forced to start it with zero followers.\n\nThe Biden campaign is unhappy with the move, which marks a change from the previous transition from Barack Obama.\n\nThe new account, @PresElectBiden, will transform into the official @POTUS (President of the United States) one on inauguration day on 20 January.\n\nIn its first six hours online it gained nearly 400,000 followers.\n\nHis team has also registered new accounts - @FLOTUSBiden for the future first lady, Jill Biden, and for the first time, @SecondGentleman, for Ms Harris's husband Doug Emhoff.\n\nDonald Trump inherited the Potus account's 13 million or so followers when it moved to him from Mr Obama - but that will not happen this time.\n\nMr Biden's team was told about the move less than a month ago, and said it meant \"the administration will have to start from zero\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTwitter has not explained why the decision was made, and said it had nothing further to add beyond an official blog post laying out transition plans.\n\nIn that post it said: \"These institutional accounts will not automatically retain the followers from the prior administration,\" without a reason why.\n\nBut it said that people who previously followed the official @POTUS and @VP (Vice-President) accounts, or the personal accounts of Mr Biden and Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris - would receive notifications giving them the option to follow the new official ones.\n\nMr Obama was the first US leader to have an official Twitter account. The @POTUS account was set up during his tenure in 2015.\n\nAt the end of his second term, a transition plan for handing over the official accounts to Mr Trump was drawn up - with @POTUS going to the new administration.\n\nAll of Mr Obama's official tweets were archived for posterity on a separate account, @POTUS44 (where they can still be read today).\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by President Obama This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTwitter said that the official @POTUS account under Mr Trump will be archived in a similar way, under @POTUS45. But Mr Trump rarely used that account, favouring his own Twitter handle.\n\nTwitter notably omitted any mention of the now-suspended @realDonaldTrump account, and declined to answer questions about whether its contents would be archived.\n\nThat is despite a declaration by the White House in 2017 that tweets from that account are considered official statements by the President.\n\nHowever, the US National Archives has already announced - through a tweet - that it will archive all social media content from that account, despite Twitter's lack of a commitment to doing so.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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End of twitter post 4 by US National Archives\n\nIt said that the White House has been using a special archiving tool to capture all content, including deleted tweets, because of the Presidential Records Act.\n\nThat is likely to result in a record system similar to The Obama White House Social Media Archive, built after the last transition.\n\nA key goal of the Obama transition was to preserve social media posts \"on the platforms where they were created\".\n\nBut Twitter has permanently suspended Mr Trump from its platform and it remains unclear if it will ever archive his account for posterity.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. UK weather: Will it snow where you are?\n\nSnow and ice weather warnings are in place for much of England and Scotland after widespread recent snowfall.\n\nThe Met Office has issued yellow weather warnings across England and Scotland for Saturday and warned of possible travel disruption.\n\nParts of England and Scotland could see as much as 5-10cm of snow in higher areas, the weather service said.\n\nIt comes as hundreds of schools remain closed after heavy snow hit the north of England on Thursday.\n\nA snow warning is in place for south-east England, including London, the east of England and the East Midlands. The Met Office said East Anglia and parts of Kent and Sussex are most at risk of snow.\n\nSome 1-3 cm of snow may fall fairly widely over these areas, with 5-10 cm possible in places, mostly over parts of East Anglia and any higher ground.\n\nA snow and ice warning is in place for most of Scotland, north-west and north-east England, Yorkshire and Humber, the East Midlands and parts of the West Midlands.\n\nSnow is likely to fall to low levels over east Scotland and northern England.\n\nThe Met Office said 1-3 cm is possible at low levels in these areas but is more likely at higher elevations, where 5-10 cm of snow is possible above 200m - and even 20cm at the highest places.\n\nFog is also forecast for parts of the Midlands and the North, along with mist around Glasgow which may pose hazards for motorists.\n\nPolice forces in Yorkshire have urged people to stay at home unless their travel is essential\n\nTwo girls took their sledge to a golf course near Penicuik, Midlothian\n\nThe coronavirus vaccine rollout has been affected by the weather.\n\nOver-80s who were due to receive their jab at Newcastle's Centre for Life were told they could re-book rather than risk making a trip in the icy conditions.\n\nNewcastle Hospitals tweeted: \"There's enough vaccine for everyone, so don't worry about making a trip to Newcastle.\"\n\nAnd Leeds University has delayed the opening of its asymptomatic Covid-19 test centre.\n\nHeavy snowfall has already caused travel disruption across sections of northern England and Scotland.\n\nTemperatures were as low as -6C on Friday morning in parts of Yorkshire and Cumbria, with yellow warnings set to last through most of Friday.\n\nThere was a loss of gas supply to approximately 700 homes in the Hebden Bridge area after water got into the local gas network and froze.\n\nThe Met Office has published advice from the Department for Transport advising people to clear snow and ice from footpaths outside their homes, preferably in the morning.\n\n\"You can then cover the path with salt before nightfall to stop it refreezing overnight,\" the advice says.\n\nTemperatures in the Greater London area are expected to drop to 1C on Friday and parts of the South East could fall to -2C.\n\nIt comes after \"hazardous\" conditions on Thursday caused problems for the ambulance service in Yorkshire, which struggled to keep up with the high demand, while Covid vaccinations were also affected.\n\nMark Millins, of Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust, said the bad weather was having a \"severe impact\" on its operations and urged people to \"take extra care\" when out walking or driving.\n\nIn Scotland, heavy snow in some areas resulted in road closures.\n\nThe deepest snow on Thursday was in Bingley, West Yorkshire, and Strathallan in Perth, Scotland, both of which recorded 11cm.", "The Daily Telegraph must publish a correction over a \"significantly misleading\" column written by Toby Young, press regulator Ipso has ruled.\n\nThe July 2020 article claimed the common cold could provide \"natural immunity\" to Covid-19 and London was \"probably approaching herd immunity\".\n\nBut on Thursday Ipso found the paper had \"failed to take care not to publish inaccurate and misleading information\".\n\nIpso said the paper \"did not accept it has breached the [Editors] Code\".\n\nIt said the newspaper said that Young's comments on immunity referred to \"cross-reactive T-cells\" that work to combat the virus.\n\nHowever, the media watchdog sided with the complainant, James Whitehead, in its decision, who said that while these cells \"may lessen the impact of Covid-19\" after infection, they \"would not confer 'natural immunity'\"\n\nThe ruling added Young's statement \"misrepresented the nature of immunity\".\n\nIpso also found Young's suggestion that \"London is probably approaching herd immunity, even though only 17% tested positive [for antibodies] in the most recent seroprevalence survey\" could be misleading.\n\nThere is an antibody response and a cellular response to the coronavirus\n\nThe Telegraph referred to surveys listed in an article on Young's own Lockdown Sceptics website in its defence, but the Ipso committee judged these did not accurately reflect \"how herd immunity is reached and whether it exists in London\".\n\nThe ruling concluded that the paper had breached accuracy standards on a topic of \"public importance\", but deemed a correction an appropriate sanction, given the level of \"significant scientific uncertainty\" at the time of publication.\n\nYoung told the BBC: \"I think Ipso has been put in a difficult position because our scientific understanding of the virus is constantly evolving and there is a great deal about it that scientists still disagree about.\n\n\"While some of the things I wrote in that article would be contested by some scientists, they would be confirmed by others... Have we achieved herd immunity in London? I think that's an open question and the 'case' data is unreliable because of the well-documented shortcomings of the PCR test.\n\n\"I may have been over-emphatic in putting the anti-lockdown case, but it's not as if the advocates of a pro-lockdown position are any less emphatic.\n\n\"Don't forget the WHO initially estimated the global IFR [infection fatality rate] of Covid-19 at 3.4%. The consensus now is that it's less than 1% and almost certainly a lot less. Lots of journalists faithfully reported that alarmist figure. Why hasn't Ipso reprimanded them?\"\n\nLast week Young told BBC Newsnight that some of his claims from an article he wrote in June had been \"wrong\", where he had said a second spike of Covid-19 had \"refused to materialise\" and that one-metre rule is \"unnecessary\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAt the start of the year, Young, an associate editor at The Spectator and general secretary of the Free Speech Union, installed an app that auto-deletes tweets more than a week old.\n\nHe said he did so to protect against \"politically-motivated offence archaeologists\" - a move unrelated to the Ipso ruling.\n\nReacting to criticism of his past comments on coronavirus from Neil O'Brien, Conservative MP for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston, after the deletion, Young then tweeted a defence of his stance against lockdowns.\n\n\"This is an important public debate to have,\" he wrote, \"both because it helps us assess the present government's management of the pandemic and because it will help us prepare better for the next one.\"\n\nThe UK entered a second national lockdown last week in a bid to control spiralling virus infection rates. On Wednesday, the UK saw its biggest daily death figure since the start of the pandemic, with 1,564 deaths.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The TikTok clip was reported to police by Network Rail\n\nA TikTok stunt featuring a car parked on a level crossing has been branded \"staggeringly stupid\".\n\nThe \"reckless\" social media post, recorded on the line at Bromley Cross, Bolton, showed a camera and tripod set up on the railway to record the scene.\n\nAn accompanying caption asked viewers: \"Would you take the risk to get the shot no-one else would?\"\n\nInsp Becky Warren, from British Transport Police, said: \"No picture or video is worth risking your life for.\"\n\nNetwork Rail, which reported the footage after it appeared on the video-sharing app, blasted the \"staggeringly stupid and dangerous\" clip.\n\nIt issued a reminder that trespassing on railway lines is against the law.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ManchesterPiccadilly This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNorth West route director Phil James said using the tracks \"as a backdrop for a photo shoot beggars belief\".\n\n\"Lives could so easily have been lost by this reckless behaviour,\" he said.\n\nInsp Warren added: \"There is simply no excuse for not following safety procedures at level crossings. The behaviour shown by the individuals in this video is incredibly dangerous and reckless.\"\n\nMany instances of trespass involve people using railway lines as backdrops for selfies and even wedding photos.\n\nLast year, Network Rail and British Transport Police launched a You vs. Train campaign to highlight the issue of young people trespassing.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pre-departure Covid-19 testing will now be required for everyone travelling to England from 04:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nThe rules had been due to come into force on Friday, but the government said people needed time \"to prepare\".\n\nThose arriving by plane, train or boat, including UK nationals, will have to take a test up to 72 hours before leaving the country they are in.\n\nAnyone arriving from places not on the UK's travel corridor list must still self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe Scottish government is planning to impose the same rules and has had to defer them coming into effect as a result of changes in England.\n\n\"This meant Scotland was also obliged to delay implementation as we need sight of their final regulations in order to properly draft and approve the relevant Scottish regulations,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nIt is expected the requirement will come into force in Scotland at 04:00 GMT on Monday as well. Wales and Northern Ireland are expected to announce plans for pre-arrival testing in the coming days.\n\nAnnouncing the deferral on Twitter, Transport Secretary Mr Shapps said: \"To give international arrivals time to prepare, passengers will be required to provide proof of a negative Covid-19 test before departure to England from Monday 18 January at 4am.\"\n\nHe also reminded travellers to fill out the Passenger Locator Form - used in track and trace - and added that those without proof of a negative test faced a fine of £500.\n\nProblems with testing availability and capacity mean some countries will initially be exempt.\n\nFor instance, the requirement will not apply to travellers from St Lucia, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda until 04:00 GMT on 21 January.\n\nTravellers from Falkland Islands, Ascension Islands and St Helena are exempted permanently.\n\nHauliers are exempt to allow the free flow of freight, as are air, international rail and maritime crew.\n\nThe government has said all forms of PCR test will be accepted, as will other forms of test with \"97% specificity, 80% sensitivity\".\n\nThe move comes as a further 1,564 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nWednesday's figure brings the total number of deaths by that measure to 84,767.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said there had now been more deaths in the second wave than the first.\n\nMeanwhile on Wednesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was \"concerned\" about a new coronavirus variant that is believed to have emerged in Brazil.\n\nHe acknowledged it was not yet clear how effective existing vaccines would be against the latest new variant.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK was taking steps to make sure it was not brought into the country.\n\nA government Covid committee is meeting on Thursday to discuss the possibility of stopping flights from Brazil.\n\nArrivals from Brazil already have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from Brazil? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Post-primary schools have been given extra time to decide how they will admit pupils in 2021 following the cancellation of transfer tests.\n\nOn Wednesday the AQE said it would not hold any transfer tests in the 2020-21 school year.\n\nThey had originally planned to go ahead with a test in late February after cancelling tests in January.\n\nThe other test provider, PPTC, had also previously announced it would not hold tests this year.\n\nAttention will now focus especially on what criteria grammar schools will use to select pupils.\n\nSome have already published what criteria they would use in the event transfer tests were cancelled but it is not clear if those will now change.\n\nAll post-primaries were to submit their admissions criteria to the Education Authority (EA) by this Friday.\n\nBut following the AQE's move the Department of Education (DE) has written to schools to tell them they do not have to provide criteria to the EA until Friday 22 January.\n\n\"This will allow them to meet the statutory deadline for publication on their website of 2 February 2021,\" the DE letter said.\n\n\"I would also remind you that boards of governors should ensure that any admissions criteria are robust and are able to clearly and objectively rank order applicants.\"\n\nIt is unclear how most grammar schools who have used transfer tests to select pupils in previous years will admit children in 2021.\n\nPatrick Allen, principal of Foyle College in Londonderry, said his school's board of governors was now working to determine this year's admissions criteria.\n\n\"This is and continues to be an exceptional year. It is a very difficult circumstance,\" he said.\n\n\"We are trying to do the best and what is right for as many pupils as possible in looking at various permutations and combinations of criteria\".\n\nEducation Minister Peter Weir said it was \"a very disappointing day\" for many families.\n\n\"The transfer test, while it has never been about being compulsory for either a school or indeed an individual parent, does enable a level of parental choice and that has been dramatically reduced as a result of that,\" he told Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme.\n\n\"But sadly what we have seen is for this year, the pandemic has prevented those transfer tests taking place, and I am very disappointed and entirely understand the disappointment and frustration of many families today.\"\n\nMr Weir said there had been \"a lack of consistency\" from AQE.\n\n\"I don't think the way things have worked out from AQE's point of view, particularly over the last couple of weeks, have been particularly helpful,\" he said.\n\nThe minister also apologised for \"clumsy language\" in a statement he issued on Wednesday night.\n\nWriting on Twitter about the cancellation of the transfer test, Mr Weir said: \"This severely limits parental choice and children's opportunities.\"\n\n\"There was no adverse intention towards non-selective schools,\" he said in relation to his tweet.\n\n\"I think both selective and non-selective schools have got excellent records in Northern Ireland.\"\n\n\"But once the opportunities for entry to any school is reduced then that is a reduction in opportunities for all.\"\n\nUUP MLA Robbie Butler has proposed that pupils' results in tests in primary schools could be given to parents and then used by grammar schools to decide which children get a place.\n\nMr Butler said that he had some favourable responses from some grammars and some primary schools to that proposal.\n\n\"Whilst I don't think my solution is absolutely perfect I do believe it to be absolutely fair and absolutely compassionate,\" he told MLAs on the committee.\n\n\"We have the genesis of a solution for these P7 pupils.\"\n\nBut, speaking on Wednesday, Mr Weir replied that there were issues with that approach.\n\n\"There are very major problems, I'm being honest with you, in terms of the models that have been put forward for academic selection without the test,\" he said.\n\nThe minister said it would be difficult to get comparable information for pupils across all primaries.\n\n\"While it's not entirely ruling out those and there is the option for schools to do it, it does leave them in a very difficult position making comparability between pupils on a fair basis,\" he said", "Police said Graeme Perks had gone to investigate the sound of breaking glass when he was stabbed\n\nPlastic surgeons have expressed shock at the stabbing of \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons\" in their profession.\n\nGraeme Perks, 65, was stabbed in his abdomen and chest during a break-in at his house in Halam, a village near Southwell in Nottinghamshire.\n\nPolice said the attack on Thursday morning had left him \"fighting for his life\" and left his family, who were upstairs at the time, \"extremely upset\".\n\nGraeme Perks has been described as \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\"\n\nMr Perks previously served as president of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS).\n\nCurrent president Ruth Waters said BAPRAS had been contacted by colleagues all around the world as news of the attack spread.\n\n\"All have expressed their shock at what has happened and also their deep concern for his wellbeing and their hope for his speedy recovery,\" she said.\n\n\"It has been my good fortune and honour to know Graeme for many years. I have benefited from his kindness, generosity and extensive knowledge throughout my career in plastic surgery.\"\n\nBAPRAS described him as \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\".\n\nAs well as being a leading plastic surgeon, Mr Perks and his wife have raised thousands of pounds for charity by opening their garden to visitors. They were previously featured on BBC Radio Nottingham after raising more than £34,000.\n\nPolice were still outside the house in Halam more than 24 hours later\n\nPolice said Mr Perks had gone to investigate the sound of breaking glass at about 04:15 GMT, after an intruder is believed to have smashed his way into the house.\n\nThey said Mr Perks was stabbed and the suspect ran off.\n\nMr Perks was taken to the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham for surgery, where he remains in a serious condition.\n\nDet Insp Gayle Hart, who is leading the investigation, said: \"The swift arrest of this suspect we hope will provide some reassurance to local residents.\n\n\"This is a horrific incident which has left a man fighting for his life and his family who were upstairs at the time are extremely shocked and upset by the ordeal.\"\n\nMr Perks has served as president of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS)\n\nMr Perks has previously worked in London, Sheffield, Newcastle and Melbourne, Australia.\n\nHe returned to the UK in the mid-1990s and started working in Nottingham, with a special interest in microsurgical reconstruction after cancer surgery.\n\nHe later became head of the department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Burns Surgery at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.\n\nOutgoing BAPRAS president Mark Henley said: \"Graeme is an amazing colleague who it has been my pleasure and privilege to work with over the last 26 years.\n\n\"His dedication to patients, family and friends is an inspiration to us all and with his wisdom, kindness and humanity he has enabled us to achieve many things that I would never have thought possible. We are all willing him on.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Scottish fishermen have resorted to sailing to Denmark to land their catch as Brexit red tape continues to delay exports, an industry body has said.\n\nThe Scottish Fishermen's Federation, which campaigned to leave the EU, also said the Brexit trade deal was the worst of both worlds for the industry.\n\nMany fishermen \"now fear for their future\", it said.\n\nThe UK government said the deal would \"bring immediate gains to our fishermen and women across the whole UK\".\n\nLate last year, the Scottish Fishermen's Federation (SFF) said it was \"deeply aggrieved\" by the Brexit deal.\n\nFishing firms have also warned of impending bankruptcy as delays continue at ports following the introduction of post-Brexit regulations.\n\nOn Friday, the SFF kept up the pressure on the UK government.\n\nIn a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, it said some fishermen \"are now making a 72-hour round trip to land fish in Denmark, as the only way to guarantee that their catch will make a fair price and actually find its way to market while still fresh enough to meet customer demands\".\n\nQuotas are used by many countries to manage shared fish stocks. They determine how many fish of each species each country's fleets are allowed to catch.\n\nThe SFF said that Brexit quota gains \"can hardly be claimed as a resounding success\" and that the Brexit deal \"actually leaves the Scottish industry in a worse position on more than half of the key stocks\".\n\n\"This industry now finds itself in the worst of both worlds,\" said SFF chief executive Elspeth Macdonald, accusing Prime Minister Boris Johnson of broken promises on quotas.\n\nThe \"desperately poor deal\" reached on quotas, under which the EU \"have full access to our waters\" means that the UK has \"no ability to leverage more fish from the EU\", she said.\n\n\"This, coupled with the chaos experienced since 1 January in getting fish to market, means that many in our industry now fear for their future, rather than look forward to it with optimism and ambition,\" Ms Macdonald added.\n\nThe Scottish National Party said the letter was \"an utterly devastating verdict on Brexit from Scotland's fishing industry\".\n\nAn SNP spokesperson said the Scottish fishing industry was \"right to be angry\" about the Brexit deal, which it said was costing Scotland's fishing communities millions of pounds.\n\nThe spokesman called on the prime minister to deliver \"a multi-billion pound package of Brexit compensation for Scotland\", adding: \"Communities across Scotland will never forgive the Tories for the damage they are doing to our country with their extreme Brexit obsession.\"\n\nA UK government spokesperson said the Prime Minister would respond to the SFF letter in due course.\n\nThe spokesperson said: \"We have now taken back control of our waters and the agreement we have reached with the EU secures a 25% transfer of quota from EU to UK vessels over five years, starting with 15% this year.\"\n\nThe spokesperson said the government was looking at providing additional financial support for the Scottish fishing industry, which it recognised was facing \"some temporary issues\".\n\n\"The Prime Minister has already committed to investing £100m in the UK's fishing industry and provided the Scottish government with nearly £200m to minimise disruption for businesses,\" the spokesperson added.", "A selection of your pictures of Scotland sent in between 8 and 15 January. Send your photos to scotlandpictures@bbc.co.uk. Please ensure you adhere to the BBC's rules regarding photographs that can be found here.\n\nPlease also ensure you follow current coronavirus guidelines and take your pictures safely and responsibly.\n\nConditions of use: If you submit an image, you do so in accordance with the BBC's terms and conditions.\n\nThe hills are alive: This impressive shot of 11-year-old Hamish at sunrise up the Pentland Hills, with the snow starting to be blown off the peak, was captured by dad Andy Dryden.\n\nMinus coo degrees: \"Hardy Highlander at Abriachan\" is how Gordon Bain described his photo.\n\nRed sky thinking: \"I always walk the dog to catch the sunrise and to gather my thoughts before attempting to juggle home schooling of my two primary school kids with working from home and looking after a toddler\", says Mairi Brittan at Cammo Estate, Edinburgh.\n\nRobin red brrr-east: Graham Laird spotted a little feathered friend not looking entirely delighted while taking a breather in the cold in his garden in Wishaw.\n\nUp at the crack of dawn: \"The Beveridge Park pond in Kirkcaldy looking rather icy\", says John Pow.\n\nAn uphill struggle: It's all downhill from here - but in a fun way - for three-year-old Zachary in King's Park, Glasgow.\n\nFire and ice: \"Taken at Dunbar harbour, East Lothian, in the snowfall on the way to work\", says Rowan Davies.\n\nAbbey thoughts: \"Jedburgh Abbey on a crisp January morning\", says Alan Morrison. \"The sun was captured just as it shone through\".\n\nSon rise: Jeanette Taylor says her two boys loved the adventure of getting up early to see the sun come up at Aberdeen beach. \"A chilly visit but oh so worth it\", she says.\n\nLight on her feet: \"As keen figure skaters my daughter Ada (pictured) and I have had an amazing week skating outdoors on our local frozen pond near Glasgow\", says Helen Campbell. \"I was very careful to check it is safe to skate on first; the ice was absolutely solid\".\n\nFlagging up a beautiful sunrise: An Aberdeen morning, from Finlay Gray.\n\nWell-trained eye: \"My husband Kris took this picture of our 12-year-old son Finlay at our local running track in a Falkirk park with the Ochils in the background\", says Emma Horne. \"Finlay can’t play his beloved rugby at the moment due to Covid but is keeping as fit as he can in other ways\".\n\nA strange light in the sky: Joe Gillies captured this Glasgow scene, complete with reflected light shade, on his phone.\n\nSmiles more fun: First sledging experience for the happy pair of 16-month-old Annabel and 21-month-old Hugh in granny's garden, Isle of Skye, courtesy of Hermione Lamond.\n\nThe gloves are off: \"A walk up Culter Fell (near Biggar), in near-Arctic conditions\", says Chris Green.\n\nPark life: Mark McGuire captured Queen's Park in Glasgow looking like a winter wonderland.\n\nSpecial branch: \"I have seen the Kingfisher darting by on the River Carron over the last two years\", says Paul Ross. \"This is the first time I have managed to get a sharpish image\".\n\nTrees frame: Carole Brunton captured this calming, if cold, scene at home in East Neuk, Fife.\n\nCold feet: \"A coot on one of Dundee's frozen Stobsmuir ponds\", from Sandy Forbes.\n\nHaving the foggiest idea: \"An image of atmospheric fog as it envelops Paisley\", says Gary Chittick. \"Hardly a single recognisable part of Glasgow could be seen\".\n\nSniffer dog: \"Ollie, our 12-week-old cockapoo pup, experiences snow for the first time\" says Iain Clow. \"Lockdown garden fun in East Kilbride\".\n\n... and it seems they never learn! \"Zizou enjoying his sunny snowy morning walk at the river Spey in Knockando\", says Colin Coutts.\n\nI love Arran: \"My wife and I stopped at the top of Fairlie Moor Road, looked back, and this is what we saw\", explains Phil Cowling.\n\nOutstanding in its field: \"Look who we spotted on our walk\", says Ruth Moss. \"He was very bold - wish we’d had something to feed him\".\n\nWatercolour art: \"This is a photo of the Ythan in the centre of Ellon\", says Andy Leonard. \"The colour of the sky is reflected in the water - I used a slow shutter speed to emphasise the water movement.\"\n\nHatman and robin: \"After an overnight fall of snow, Frosty and his friendly robin return to a Glasgow garden\", says John McQueeney.\n\nSmall wonder: \"These mini snowmen on the Prince of Wales Bridge in Kelvingrove Park brightened up a dull and foggy day\", says Geoff Der.\n\nOne man and his dog: \"Snowy walk with my husband and rescue dog Nico\", says Laura Johnstone in Airdrie.\n\nSpot the ball: \"Haggs Castle golf course is closed - maybe!\", says Alan Crozier.\n\nSolar energy: Robert Young's sunset shot from Chapelton looking towards Whitelee wind farm features all sorts of power.\n\nTwo for the price of one: \"Duck!\" could have been the cry from this heron in flight over a fellow bird at the River Avon, Hamilton, as seen by Wilma Phillips.\n\nRoom with a view: A nicely-framed sunset from Audrey Philpott of Skene, Aberdeenshire.\n\nBonnie picture: Sharon Donald was walking Bonnie the collie when she took this shot near Spean Bridge.\n\nKeep it in the family: Derek Warrander making sure lockdown learning is music to the ears of Jessica, 11, and three-year-old Matthew in Aberdeenshire, courtesy of Caseydee Warrander.\n\nFeeling on top of the world: The Cobbler sunset, from Tomasz Zajac.\n\nIce to see you: \"A photo of my husband, Stephen, and Sophie, through a sheet of ice which they then had great fun smashing\", says Leigh Titterington in Menstrie, Clackmannanshire.\n\nSpace station: All quiet outside Glasgow Central, courtesy of Eva Brodie.\n\nSnow angel: \"Exploring a winter wonderland with my daughter Cora at Tyrebagger woods just outside Aberdeen\", says Katherine Blum.\n\nTaps aff: \"Hope this brings a smile to your face\", says Stewart Paul in Cruden Bay. It certainly did!\n\nPlease ensure that the photograph you send is your own and if you are submitting photographs of children, we must have written permission from a parent or guardian of every child featured (a grandparent, auntie or friend will not suffice).\n\nIn contributing to BBC News you agree to grant us a royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to publish and otherwise use the material in any way, including in any media worldwide.\n\nHowever, you will still own the copyright to everything you contribute to BBC News.\n\nAt no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe the law.\n\nYou can find more information here.\n\nAll photos are subject to copyright.", "Doctors fear the impact of the lockdown and school closures could worsen child obesity\n\nThe health board with the worst child obesity rates in Wales is setting up a unit to tackle the issue.\n\nData from the Child Measurement Programme showed 30.3% of four and five-year-olds in north Wales measured as overweight or obese.\n\nThe Welsh average is 26.4%, but doctors fear this could worsen in the pandemic.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr University Health Board is recruiting a dietetic lead for a new children's healthy weight management service.\n\nThe service is not being launched directly because of the pandemic, but there are fears lockdowns and school closures could compound the problem.\n\nDr Naomi Simmons, consultant paediatrician at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd in Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire, said: \"I do fear that the pandemic will contribute to an exacerbation of what's already a really, really significant problem.\n\n\"Whilst we're pleased that children are not suffering the acute effects of Covid in the same way as older patients are, on the whole, it's the long-term effects of the country being in this pandemic that we're worried about in terms of the long-term health of these children.\n\n\"It's that lack of routine, it's being out of school, and not being able to access their usual forms of physical activity.\"\n\nDaniel, from Denbighshire - not his real name - is the father of a six-year-old girl who was referred to Dr Simmons's clinic when a GP became concerned about her weight two years ago. She is still under the care of the clinic.\n\nHe said: \"We presumed we were feeding her correctly. She was getting fruit, veg, home-cooked meals. But I think our issue was, we kind of let her have treats, like chocolates and sweets.\n\n\"To be told the news [that she was obese], it was horrible. We were very upset. We were kind of angry about it - we didn't see a problem in her, we didn't believe she was overweight or obese. We were both asking what we had done wrong as parents - we gave her fruit, vegetables, home-cooked meals... we were asking ourselves, 'how have we failed as parents?'\"\n\nWith support from Dr Simmons, his daughter made \"great progress\" and lost weight, he said. Previous signs of health issues such as liver problems had improved. Then the pandemic struck and the country went into its first lockdown, followed by the firebreak, then the current lockdown.\n\nExperts said they feared the impact of children not being able to take part in their usual physical activity\n\nDespite making efforts to keep active and eat healthily, Daniel has seen the gradual effects on his daughter, both physically and mentally.\n\n\"It had a bad effect on her, and not just the weight - mental health-wise it's also affected her. She's six years old and is worried about being around other people in the street,\" he said.\n\n\"In years to come, Covid will be gone, we'll have control of it. But obesity, that's the issue that's going to be prolonged.\n\n\"The long-term mental health impact really scares me - not just for my daughter, but for so many other children.\"\n\nDr Simmons said increasing rates of childhood obesity in recent years meant experts were treating more children with conditions normally associated with adults.\n\n\"Even children as young as primary school age, I'm seeing those children with fatty liver changes for example, as a result of their obesity. We're seeing them with high blood pressure and we're seeing children and young people developing type 2 diabetes and many more with pre-diabetic states because of their obesity.\"\n\nDoctors said they were seeing primary school children with high blood pressure\n\nShe revealed her youngest patient was only a year old and encouraged families to get their children \"used to being fit and healthy and consuming a healthy diet\".\n\n\"It's lack of exercise, it's the sedentary lifestyle that we as a nation are sadly embracing these days,\" she added.\n\nIf children remain overweight and remain obese into adolescence, they have an 80% chance of being obese into adulthood, said Dr Simmons.\n\nShe said she hoped the new service would give \"the very best chance of turning things around\".\n\nSteven Grayston, Betsi Cadwaladr health board's assistant area director of therapy services, said the health board had been working for the past five years to develop its obesity services.\n\n\"This is a specialist weight management service for children who are already obese,\" he said.\n\n\"We want to stop them becoming obese, therefore we want to develop preventative services as well as treatment services.\n\n\"We're very concerned about the impact of Covid and the pandemic on children's activity levels, certainly in terms of team-based sports and access to leisure facilities - particularly things like swimming, which we know children enjoy.\n\n\"We're concerned that children just aren't getting out of the house and doing things, and the impact that'll have and the knock-on effect on obesity levels in the future, as children are just less active and less interested in doing those activities.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"We will shortly be publishing a revised delivery plan for Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales for 2021-22, which will focus on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on children and families.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Gerry and Barbara Jarrett were admitted to hospital with Covid-19 two weeks ago\n\nAn elderly couple with coronavirus have been helped by a hospital to say their last goodbyes to each other after the wife's condition deteriorated.\n\nGerry and Barbara Jarrett, from Bracknell, Berkshire, are in separate wards at Frimley Park Hospital, Surrey.\n\nTheir daughter Chloe, who posted a picture of one reunion on Twitter, said her mother \"looked to be at the end\".\n\nShe said her parents had \"precious\" extra time together thanks to the hospital's \"incredible\" efforts.\n\nMrs Keljarrett said her 79-year-old father and mother, 76, who have been together for 50 years, were admitted to hospital with Covid-19 two weeks ago.\n\nOn Tuesday she posted: \"In the midst of a pandemic peak, staff (namely a consultant, a surgeon and a HCA) at FPH just made sure my dad saw my mum for what is likely the last time.\"\n\nShe said another meeting happened on Wednesday when \"mum looked to be at the end\".\n\nFrimley Park Hospital said the reunions were the sort of \"care that matters the most\"\n\nShe said: \"Dad was wheeled in, crying, touched her hand and her eyes flew open. She was awake and bright and could talk.\n\n\"We got a precious extra hour or two before her breathing got worse again and got to say what we wanted.\n\n\"All thanks to the staff who made these meetings possible. In current times I just find that incredible.\"\n\nMrs Keljarrett, a teacher at The Brakenhale School, said her father was \"showing signs of improvement but has a very long journey to complete\".\n\n\"He has a number of other health issues that will make recovery that bit trickier, but I have to remain positive that he will overcome this horrendous virus,\" she added.\n\nShe said she had met hospital workers who were \"pulling unexpected double shifts\" due to short-staffing.\n\n\"How they are managing such compassion when they are stretched to their emotional and physical limits I do not know,\" she added.\n\nResponding to Mrs Keljarrett's Twitter post, the hospital wrote: \"Our hearts go out to you and your family.\n\n\"We are so glad that our staff managed to make this time just a little bit easier for you all.\n\n\"This truly is some of the care we give that matters the most.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "UK meat exporters have claimed post-Brexit customs systems are \"not fit for purpose\", with goods delayed for hours, sometimes days, at the border.\n\nThe British Meat Processor Association said even experienced exporters were struggling with the system.\n\nIt said meat exports to the EU were 25% of normal levels for this time of year.\n\nOne large French meat importer told the BBC that he and his competitors were starting to look at alternative suppliers in Spain and Ireland.\n\nThe BBC has contacted the government for comment.\n\nNick Allen, chief executive of the British Meat Processor Association, said: \"Fundamentally, this is not a system that was designed for a 24/7, just-in-time supply chain.\n\n\"The export health certification process was designed for moving containers of frozen meat around the world where you have a bit of leeway on time.\n\n\"No matter how much better we get at filling in the forms, it's really not fit for purpose. This is going back to the dark ages in terms of a process really, in this digital age.\"\n\nHe added \"It's going to be a problem for quite a time until we move forward and hopefully get a better digital system in place and can make it work a bit better, but until then, we've got to put up with all this paperwork and lorries arriving in Ireland with box files full of paper.\"\n\nRizvan Khalid, a lamb exporter based in Shropshire, cannot afford to get the paperwork wrong.\n\nHis company, Euro Quality Lambs, exports 70% of its meat to the EU, including France, Germany, Belgium and Portugal. He says what was once a once well-oiled machine now has a spanner in it.\n\n\"What used to take us 15 minutes is now taking us three or four hours on average before we can get the paperwork completed for one particular load,\" he says.\n\n\"It's taking them [on the French side] up to six hours to go through the health certificates, to open up the lorry and check the goods.\n\n\"All of that is adding time and costs. It's now an extra day before our product gets into the markets of Paris.\"\n\nMeanwhile, some buyers in the EU are losing patience and are beginning to consider other options.\n\nFrancis Ochoa's meat company, Fory Viandes, is based in one of the world's biggest fresh produce markets - the Rungis market, south of Paris.\n\n\"The delays and extra costs mean me and my competitors in the market are obliged to start looking for other solutions,\" he says.\n\n\"One of the solutions unfortunately is to try produce from other countries, Spain for instance. Some of our competitors are ordering lambs from Ireland instead of the UK, so the consequences for UK meat and UK lambs could be disastrous.\"\n\nDown at the international freight checkpoint in Ashford, near the entrance to the Eurotunnel, customs consultant Steve Cocks gave a downbeat assessment.\n\n\"The temporary border post lorry park is full, roads are being closed off and lorries are being sent back to the Covid testing site to hold them there,\" he said.\n\n\"Last week wasn't much to write home about as it was very quiet, but volumes are building and it's just going to get worse. Exports are grinding to a halt and that will affect imports, but if you are a haulier. you don't want to get a lorry stuck on this side of the Channel.\"\n\nAfter decades of friction-free trade, there are bound to be teething problems. Indeed, the government predicted that there would be \"significant additional disruption\" as traders, officials and customers became accustomed to new procedures.\n\nHowever, some things cannot \"bed in\" and will become permanent features. HMRC estimates the additional cost to UK business of bog-standard customs declarations alone at £7bn.\n\nWhen buyers and sellers want to trade, they will find a way, but significant additional cost and complexity is here to stay.", "Patients have been arriving in a steady flow at a community pharmacy in Llanbedrog, Gwynedd, the first in Wales to offer coronavirus vaccines by appointment.\n\nRosie Bennett, who lives in the village Pwllheli, said: “I’m 82 and don’t have a car, so it was a huge relief to know that I wouldn’t have to travel a long distance to have the vaccine.\n\n“Here in the village, we know the staff at the chemists. They’ve been doing a great job during the pandemic and it’s reassuring to have the vaccine from someone you know.\n\n“And it’s a huge relief to be vaccinated. The last few months haven’t been easy for any of us and hopefully today is another small step towards a better future.”\n\nSteffan John, pharmacist on duty, gave Rosie the vaccine and said: “as pharmacists, we give out flu vaccines regularly, so we’re used to organising clinics like this.\n\n“We’re really pleased to do our bit for our community.\n\n“We have had extra training for today, and we also have to make sure there are enough appointments on the list.\n\n\"The vaccine comes in vials of ten doses, so it’s important to vaccinate that many people at a time and not to waste any.”", "Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has denied reports that his department is planning to dilute UK workers' rights.\n\nIt comes after the Financial Times said some protections brought in under EU law - such as the 48-hour limit on the working week - could be scrapped.\n\nNew rules on rest breaks and changes to how holiday pay is calculated from overtime could be proposed, it added.\n\nBut Mr Kwarteng insisted he wanted to \"protect and enhance workers' rights going forward, not row back on them\".\n\nIn a social media post, he said that the UK \"has one of the best workers' rights records in the world - going further than the EU in many areas.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kwasi Kwarteng This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLabour said the newspaper report suggested the government was out of step with public feeling on workplace rules.\n\nShadow business secretary Ed Miliband said: \"These proposals are not about cutting red tape for businesses but ripping up vital rights for workers. They should not even be up for discussion.\"\n\nThe FT said the proposals were being drawn up with the approval of Downing Street, but that they hadn't yet been approved by ministers or cabinet.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We have absolutely no intention of lowering the standards of workers' rights.\n\n\"The UK has one of the best workers' rights records in the world, and it is well known that the UK goes further than the EU in many areas.\n\n\"Leaving the EU allows us to continue to be a standard setter and protect and enhance UK workers' rights.\"\n\nWhen the UK left the EU it retained many of its laws, but it is now able to change them.\n\nOne aspect of EU employment regulation is the EU's Working Time Directive.\n\nIt governs the hours employees in the EU can be asked to work. This must not exceed 48 hours on average, including any overtime.\n\nBut employees can choose to opt out of the 48-hour week, if they often work overtime in roles in the emergency services, for example.\n\nIn the 2019 Queen's Speech outlining the government's agenda for the coming parliamentary session, changes in employment law were promised.\n\nA new Employment Bill is expected to be published in 2021. One issue it is thought it will address is over the distribution of tips.\n\nTUC General Secretary Frances O'Grady urged the prime minister to \"make good on his promises to his voters\" on Friday.\n\n\"The best way to do that is to bring forward the long-awaited Employment Bill, to make sure everyone is treated fairly at work,\" she said.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 GMT.\n\nA ban on travellers from South America entering the UK has come into force, amid fears over a potentially more contagious coronavirus variant identified in Brazil. The ban also applies to Portugal and Cape Verde - off West Africa - because of their links to Brazil, along with Panama in southern Central America. British and Irish citizens, and foreign nationals with residence rights, are exempt but must isolate for 10 days on entering the UK. Find out which other countries are subject to a UK travel ban.\n\nThe UK economy shrank by 2.6% in November as lockdown restrictions reduced economic activity, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics. The closure of businesses such as pubs, hairdressers and many shops meant the services sector shrank by 3.4%. The setback came after sixth consecutive months of growth, with the ONS saying UK gross domestic product at the end of November was 8.5% below its pre-pandemic peak.\n\nConcerns over child poverty have been raised throughout the pandemic, with a focus on school food vouchers, holiday meal provision and food parcels. Now campaigning Manchester United footballer Marcus Rashford has been joined by celebrity chefs Jamie Oliver, Tom Kerridge and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, and actress Dame Emma Thompson, in backing charities' calls for a review to \"fix\" the free school meals policy. Downing Street insists \"no child will ever go hungry\" because of the pandemic.\n\nFalse claims are likely to be causing people from ethnic minorities to reject Covid vaccines, warns a doctor leading an NHS campaign. Dr Harpreet Sood says much of the disinformation surrounds the contents of the vaccines. \"We need to be clear and make people realise there is no meat in the vaccine, there is no pork in the vaccine, it has been accepted and endorsed by all the religious leaders and councils and faith communities,\" he says.\n\nA surprise delivery of pizza from sixth-formers who clubbed together left staff at a hospital critical care unit \"lost for words\". Nurse Tina Waltho says the gift came as a welcome boost to deflated staff at the Royal Stoke University Hospital. \"The nurse who had been in charge on the day shift was in tears,\" Mrs Waltho says. \"She had barely eaten all day and was a little emotional.\" While the act drew praise on social media, the identity and school of the pupils remains a mystery.\n\nIf you're wondering how concerned we should be about the new virus variants, our health editor Michelle Roberts examines what we know so far.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prime Minister Boris Johnson: \"We will temporarily close all travel corridors from 0400 on Monday\"\n\nThe UK is to close all travel corridors from Monday morning to \"protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new strains\" of Covid, the PM has said.\n\nAnyone flying into the country from overseas will have to show proof of a negative Covid test before setting off.\n\nIt comes as a ban on travellers from South America and Portugal came into force on Friday over concerns about a new variant identified in Brazil.\n\nBoris Johnson said the new rules would be in place until at least 15 February.\n\nA further 1,280 people with coronavirus have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive test, taking the total to 87,291.\n\nThe latest government figures on Friday also showed another 55,761 new cases had been reported - up from 48,682 the previous day.\n\nMeanwhile, more than two million people around the world have now died with the virus since the pandemic began, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street press conference, the prime minister said it was \"vital\" to take extra measures now \"when day by day we are making such strides in protecting the population\".\n\n\"It's precisely because we have the hope of that vaccine and the risk of new strains coming from overseas that we must take additional steps now to stop those strains from entering the country.\"\n\nAll travel corridors will close from 04:00 GMT on Monday. After that, arrivals to the UK will need to quarantine for up to 10 days, unless they test negative after five days.\n\nMr Johnson, who said the rules would apply across the UK after talks with the devolved administrations, added that the government would be stepping up enforcement at the border and in the country.\n\nTravel corridors were introduced in the summer to allow people travelling from some countries with low numbers of Covid cases to come to the UK without having to quarantine on arrival.\n\nTrade body Airlines UK said it supported the latest restrictions \"on the assumption\" that the government would remove them \"when it is safe to do so\".\n\nChief executive Tim Alderslade said travel corridors were \"a lifeline for the industry\" last summer but \"things change and there's no doubting this is a serious health emergency\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was the \"right step\" but called the timing of the decision \"slow again\", adding that the public would be thinking \"why on earth didn't this happen before\".\n\nThe prime minister warned that the NHS was facing \"extraordinary pressures\", having had the highest number of hospital admissions on a single day of the pandemic earlier this week.\n\nHe said that came on Tuesday when there were 4,134 new admissions, while the UK currently has more than 37,000 Covid patients in hospitals.\n\nMr Johnson said that once the most vulnerable have been vaccinated by mid-February \"we will think about what steps we could take to lift the restrictions\".\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAlso speaking at the No 10 briefing, England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty said the restrictions would need to be lifted gradually by \"testing what works, and then if that works going the next step\".\n\nHe said the peak of people entering hospital would be in the next week to 10 days for most places, but \"we hope\" the peak of infections \"already has happened\" in the south-east, east and London.\n\n\"The peak of deaths I fear is in the future, the peak of hospitalisations in some parts of the country may be around about now and beginning to come off the very, very top,\" he said.\n\nA ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde entering the UK came into force on Friday morning as a result of a new, potentially more infectious variant of coronavirus linked to Brazil.\n\nThe government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told the press briefing that some of the new variants may be able to \"get round\" the Covid vaccines but it was \"really quite easy\" to adjust the vaccines to deal with mutations in the virus.\n\nNew variants causing concern have previously been identified in the UK and South Africa, with many countries imposing restrictions on arrivals from both nations.\n\nPublic Health England said a total of 35 genomically confirmed and 12 genomically probable cases of the Covid-19 variant which originated in South Africa have been identified in the UK as of 14 January.\n\nEarlier, a leading scientist said one of the two variants first detected in Brazil had been found in the UK - but not the variant that was causing concern.\n\n\"I think it is likely that the vaccine we have now is going to protect against the UK variant and is going to provide protection I suspect against the other variants as well,\" said Sir Patrick. \"The question is to what degree.\"\n\nLatest figures show that more than three million people in the UK have now received the first dose of a vaccine - 3,234,946 - an increase of 316,694 from the previous day.\n\nSir Patrick said he expected the vaccines would reduce transmission of the virus but that \"we shouldn't go mad\" as jabs are rolled out because a risk would remain.\n\n\"Just because you've been vaccinated doesn't mean you can't catch this and pass it on, it means you're protected against severe disease,\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, the latest estimate of the UK's R number - which is the number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to on average - is 1.2 to 1.3, compared with 1-1.4 last week.\n\nBut in London, where tight restrictions came in earlier, the R number is lower - between 0.9 and 1.2.\n\nIn Wales, new laws for shoppers and staff are to be introduced after \"significant evidence\" coronavirus is being spread in supermarkets.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from overseas? Share your experiences. Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The guitarist also contributed songwriting and piano to the band's explosive debut album\n\nSylvain Sylvain, guitarist with trailblazing 1970s rock band New York Dolls, has died at the age of 69.\n\nOne of the group's founding members, his visceral riffs bridged the divide between punk and glam, and helped kick-start the punk and new wave movements.\n\n\"As most of you know, Sylvain battled cancer for the past two and 1/2 years,\" his wife, Wanda O'Kelley Mizrahi, wrote in a statement on his Facebook page.\n\n\"Though he fought it valiantly, yesterday he passed away.\"\n\nShe added: \"While we grieve his loss, we know that he is finally at peace and out of pain. Please crank up his music, light a candle, say a prayer and let's send this beautiful doll on his way.\"\n\nSylvain's death leaves only one surviving member of the New York Dolls' original line-up from their 1973 debut album, frontman David Johansen. The singer posted his own tribute on Instagram.\n\n\"My best friend for so many years, I can still remember the first time I saw him bop into the rehearsal space/bicycle shop with his carpetbag and guitar straight from the plane after having been deported from Amsterdam, I instantly loved him,\" he wrote.\n\n\"I'm gonna miss you old pal. I'll keep the home fires burning.\"\n\nThe New York Dolls bridged the gap between glam rock and punk\n\nBorn Sylvain Mizrahi in Cairo, Egypt, on Valentine's Day 1951, the musician lived in France as a child before moving to New York with his family.\n\nAfter playing in several bands as a teenager, he co-founded the New York Dolls in 1971, taking the name from a doll repair shop called the New York Doll Hospital (Sylvain had worked across the street before becoming a musician).\n\nLike the punk movement they helped inspire, the band wanted to shake up the self-indulgent state of 70s rock.\n\n\"The reason why the Dolls got together was because of the boredom with the norm of the day, which was like the stadium-rock era,\" Sylvain told Brooklyn Vegan in 2006. \"The 20-minute drum solos, songs that were a big operetta. They were sort of boring, they'd lost their sex appeal.\"\n\nThe Dolls cut through with urgent, punchy songs about sex, drugs, alienation and dysfunction.\n\nThe band's provocative and vulgar live shows gained them a huge following in New York, but many record labels were reluctant to sign them. That situation not helped by their androgynous look - shocking at the time - with their wardrobe sourced from cheap women's clothing stores on New York's Lower East Side.\n\nLate in 1972, tragedy struck when, during a tour of England, Dolls drummer Billy Murcia died in a drug-related accident. He was replaced by Jerry Nolan, after which the Dolls finally secured a contract with Mercury Records.\n\nTheir debut album, simply called New York Dolls, stalled at number 113 in the US chart but is now regarded as a classic, full of sleazy, raucous anthems like Personality Crisis and Trash.\n\nRolling Stone magazine recently named it one of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, writing: \"Glammed-out punkers the New York Dolls snatched riffs from Chuck Berry and Fats Domino and fattened them with loads of attitude and reverb.\n\n\"It's hard to imagine the Ramones or the Replacements or a thousand other trash-junky bands without them.\"\n\nSylvain worked in fashion before becoming a musician\n\nHowever, the band's lack of commercial success saw them dropped after two albums and, despite hiring Sex Pistols guru Malcolm McLaren as a manager, eventually fell apart.\n\nOutside the Dolls, Sylvain toured and recorded with several bands and led various solo projects as his former band's reputation grew.\n\nArtists from the Sex Pistols to Guns N' Roses cited them as an influence, and Morrissey was famously president of their UK fan club before forming The Smiths. In 2004, the singer reunited his idols for a show at London's Meltdown Festival, adding an unexpected second act to their career.\n\nOver the subsequent decade, Sylvain and Johansen, the only remaining members, released three well-received albums.\n\nIn 2019, Sylvain announced his cancer diagnosis, and a GoFundMe was set up to pay his medical bills, raising $79,500 (£58,000).\n\nThe band are cited as an influence by hundreds of musicians\n\nGuitarist Lenny Kaye, best known for playing with Patti Smith, paid tribute to Sylvain's \"heart, belief, and the way you whacked that E chord\".\n\n\"His onstage joy, his radiant smile as he chopped at his guitar, revealed the sense of wonder he must have felt at the age of 10, emigrating from his native Cairo with his family in 1961, the ship pulling into New York Harbor and seeing the Statue of Liberty for the first time.\n\n\"His role in the band was as lynchpin, keeping the revolving satellites of his bandmates in precision.\n\n\"Though he tried valiantly to keep the band going, in the end the Dolls' moral fable overwhelmed them, not before seeding an influence that would engender many rock generations yet to come.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Travellers from South America are no longer allowed to come into the UK, amid fears over a new coronavirus variant first identified in Brazil.\n\nThe UK's new travel ban - which also applies to Portugal and Cape Verde - came into force at 04:00 GMT on Friday.\n\nLike variants discovered in the UK and South Africa, it is thought the Brazil variant could be more contagious.\n\nVirologist Prof Wendy Barclay said one Brazilian variant had already been detected in the UK.\n\nHowever, she said this was not \"the variant of concern\", which is thought to be more infectious.\n\nProf Barclay, head of G2P-UK National Virology Consortium, which is studying the effects of emerging coronavirus mutations, said: \"There are two different types of Brazilian variants and one of them has been detected and one of them has not.\"\n\nShe added: \"The new Brazilian variant of concern, that was picked up in travellers going to Japan, has not been detected in the UK.\n\n\"Other variants that may have originated from Brazil have been previously found.\"\n\nEarlier, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps had told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the Brazilian variant of concern was not \"as far as we are aware\" already in the UK, adding that he did not believe there had been any flights from Brazil in the last week.\n\nIt comes as a further 1,248 people with coronavirus have died in the UK.\n\nLatest government figures on Thursday also showed another 48,682 new cases had been reported.\n\nMeanwhile, the number of people in the UK to have received the first dose of a vaccine is now approaching three million.\n\nThe UK's new travel ban applies to people who have travelled from, or through, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela in the last 10 days.\n\nIt also applies to Portugal - because of its strong links to Brazil - and the former Portuguese colony of Cape Verde off the coast of west Africa, as well as Panama in central America.\n\nBritish and Irish citizens and foreign nationals with residence rights are still allowed to return - but must isolate for 10 days.\n\nAlso exempt are hauliers who are travelling from Portugal to transport essential goods.\n\nBrazil has seen more than 200,000 deaths and there is concern about the impact the new mutation could have on its health system.\n\nHowever, the UK's travel ban was prompted by fears of how quickly the new variant could spread through the region - since Brazil borders 10 countries.\n\nMr Shapps has said the ban is \"precautionary\", adding he \"can't provide an end date\" to the new rules.\n\n\"We're so close now, we've got three million of these vaccines in people's arms in the UK,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"We want to make sure we don't fall at this last hurdle.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBecause holidays are not currently allowed, Mr Shapps said he did not \"expect a large number of Brits to have jaunted off to South America\", and the government was \"not expecting to see a big repatriation issue as a result\".\n\nOne family, who live in Wolverhampton, told the BBC they feared being stuck out in Brazil.\n\n\"I don't know if the government will organise flights,\" said Jon Dent, 31. He and his wife Carla travelled to the Brazilian city of Goiania in October to introduce their baby daughter to Carla's family.\n\n\"I think it's a long shot,\" he said. \"I hope we can get home and not be stranded out here for months. We've got to be patient but at the same time flexible.\"\n\nJon, pictured here with wife Carla and daughter Luiza, said his initial reaction to the news was worry\n\nMany countries imposed travel restrictions after new variants of Covid-19 were identified in the UK and South Africa.\n\nSeveral Central and South American nations - including Brazil - had already restricted travel from the UK before the latest ban on arrivals.\n\nThere is currently no evidence to suggest that any of the variants cause more serious illness, and scientists are confident that vaccines should work against them.\n\nAccording to Felipe Naveca, deputy director of research at the Brazilian state-run Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, the new variant's origin was \"undoubtedly\" from the Amazon region.\n\nHe told the BBC's South America correspondent Katy Watson the new variant showed some of the same mutations as the UK and South Africa variants - and \"some of these mutations have been linked to increased transmission and that is of concern\".\n\nMr Shapps also announced Qatar and the Caribbean islands of Aruba, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba were being removed from the UK's travel corridor list, meaning arrivals from those places will need to self-isolate for 10 days from 04:00 GMT on Saturday.\n\nMeanwhile, France has cracked down on the type of tests that travellers can take to show they are negative.\n\nFrom Monday, travellers will need to show a negative PCR test. Antigen tests - which are the rapid lateral flow tests - will no longer be accepted.\n\nHowever, Mr Shapps said arrangements allowing hauliers to use rapid lateral flow tests before crossing the border from the UK into France remained in place at the moment.\n\nFrom Monday, everyone travelling to England and Scotland will also have to show proof of a negative test. Wales and Northern Ireland are expected to announce their own plans in the coming days.\n\nHow have you been affected by the travel ban? Email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Northern Ireland's statistics agency has recorded its highest weekly Covid-19 related registered deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nNisra said 145 deaths were registered in the first week of 2021, although administrative delays over Christmas may have affected the number.\n\nThat brings the agency's death toll to 1,976 by 8 January.\n\nThe figures come as the chief medical officers from NI and the Republic issued a joint stay-at-home plea.\n\nDr Michael McBride and Dr Tony Holohan said they were \"gravely concerned\" about the \"unsustainably high level of Covid-19 infection\" across the island of Ireland.\n\nConcern was raised in the Republic of Ireland this week as figures showed it has the world's highest number of confirmed new Covid-19 cases per million people.\n\nOn Friday evening, the Irish Department of Health reported 50 further deaths with Covid-19 and 3,498 new cases of the virus. More than half (54%) of those newly diagnosed are under the age of 45.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the third week of a six-week lockdown, with ministers scheduled to review measures next week.\n\nHowever, health officials have warned that an extension of the restrictions could be required to reduce pressure on the health service.\n\nOf the 2,019 deaths recorded by Nisra by 8 January, 1,247 (62%) occurred in hospital, 622 (31%) in care homes, 12 (0.6%) in hospices and 138 (7%) at residential addresses or other locations.\n\nPeople aged 75 and over account for just over three-quarters of all Covid-19 related registered deaths (77.6%) between 19 March 2020 and 8 January 2021.\n\nJust over a fifth (22.2%) of all Covid-19 related registered deaths have been of people with an address in the Belfast council area.\n\nMeanwhile, the Department of Health reported 26 further Covid-related deaths on Friday.\n\nFive of these deaths did not occur in the past 24 hours.\n\nThe Department of Health bases its figures on a positive test result being recorded, whereas Nisra figures are based on mentions of the virus on death certificates, so people may or may not have been confirmed to have contracted the virus prior to death.\n\nA further 1,052 individuals have tested positive for Covid-19 and 63 patients are being treated in intensive care units, 47 of whom are on ventilators.\n\nThe chief medical officers warned the high infection rate was having a \"significant impact\" on the health of the population and the \"safe functioning\" of the healthcare systems.\n\nThey said the public should avoid all unnecessary journeys, including cross-border travel.\n\nPointing out that many of the patients admitted to hospital in January have been younger than 65, they warned coronavirus could affect anyone, \"regardless of age or underlying condition\".\n\n\"It highlights the need for us all to protect one another by staying at home,\" said the medical officers.\n\nNorthern Ireland's spike in infections has been put down to an easing of restrictions over Christmas.\n\nAsked if he regretted being part of the decision to ease restrictions, Health Minister Robin Swann said the executive had tried to be balanced in its approach.\n\n\"I regret the pressures we see now in our hospitals, but let's remember it's caused by this virus, we have it in our power to bring it back under control and get us back to where we were in the summer,\" he told BBC News NI on Friday.\n\nMr Swann pleaded with people to follow the current restrictions.\n\n\"We're in the middle of a very tough six-week scenario, and how we come out of this will be a more graduated approach to make sure we get the benefits of what we've already done, and also the benefits of the vaccine.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kim Jong-un has been overseeing a huge military showcase broadcast by state media in North Korea\n\nNorth Korea has unveiled a new type of submarine-launched ballistic missile, described by state media as \"the world's most powerful weapon\".\n\nSeveral of the missiles were displayed at a parade overseen by leader Kim Jong-un, reported state media.\n\nThe weapon's actual capabilities remain unclear, as it is not known to have been tested.\n\nThe show of military strength comes days before the inauguration of Joe Biden as US president.\n\nIt also follows a rare political meeting where Mr Kim decried the US as his country's \"biggest enemy\".\n\nImages released by North Korean state media showed at least four large black-and-white missiles being driven past flag-waving crowds.\n\nAnalysts noted it was a previously unseen weapon. \"New year, new Pukguksong,\" tweeted North Korea expert Ankit Panda, using the North Korean name for their submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs).\n\nClad in a leather coat and fur hat, Mr Kim is pictured smiling and waving as he watched the display in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square, which also included infantry troops, artillery and tanks.\n\nThe missile was debuted at a military parade which came at the end of an important and rare political meeting\n\n\"The world's most powerful weapon, submarine-launch ballistic missile, entered the square one after another, powerfully demonstrating the might of the revolutionary armed forces,\" the official Korean Central News Agency said.\n\nThe event on Thursday did not showcase North Korea's largest intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which was unveiled at a much larger military parade in October. That colossal weapon is believed to be able to deliver a nuclear warhead to anywhere in the US, and its size had surprised even seasoned analysts when it was put on show last year.\n\nThe country's latest display of its arsenal comes at the end of a five-yearly congress of the ruling Workers' Party.\n\nIn his address to members last week, Mr Kim had pledged to expand North Korea's nuclear weapons and military potential, outlining a list of desired weapons including long-range ballistic missiles capable of being launched from land or sea and \"super-large warheads\".\n\nHe also said that the US was Pyongyang's \"biggest obstacle for our revolution and our biggest enemy... no matter who is in power, the true nature of its policy against North Korea will never change\".\n\nUnder Mr Kim's leadership North Korea has made rapid progress in its weapons programme, which it says is necessary to defend itself against a possible US invasion.\n\nThe unveiling of the new missiles appears designed to send the incoming Biden administration a message of the North's growing military prowess, say experts.\n\n\"They'd like us to notice that they're getting more proficient with larger solid rocket boosters,\" Mr Panda tweeted, noting what appeared to be new solid-fuel short-range ballistic missiles on display too. These missiles can be launched more quickly than liquid-fuelled varieties.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un: From enemies to frenemies\n\nOver the last four years, Pyongyang has had an erratic relationship with the US under President Donald Trump's administration. Mr Kim and Mr Trump engaged in mutual insults and threats of war before an unprecedented summit in Singapore in 2018 and declarations of love by the outgoing US leader.\n\nDespite the apparent warming of relations, little concrete progress was made on negotiations over North Korea's nuclear programme and a second summit in Hanoi in 2019 broke down after the US refused Pyongyang's demands for sanctions relief.\n\nKim Jong-un has had a busy week. In this rare party congress at the start of a new year he's earned a new title, pledged to build new nuclear weapons and now he's shown the world some new missiles.\n\nThe general secretary, the title posthumously awarded to his father by which he is now known, had been pretty quiet in 2020 and appeared very few times in state media.\n\nBut 2021 is looking rather different. The party congress has offered him a grand daily domestic platform - even if it is not getting the international attention it may have done due to events in the United States and a global pandemic.\n\nThe parading vehicles include a new submarine-launched ballistic missile and new short-range ballistic missiles. This is a show of strength - flexing the military muscle once more to show the people of North Korea that despite the current bleak economic outlook, this impoverished country is capable of designing and building new strategic weapons.\n\nIt also offers a direct challenge to the incoming US administration.\n\nNorth Korea appears willing to continue with its self-imposed isolation and being subject to strict economic sanctions, and the state has vowed to continue to build nuclear weapons in defiance of the international community.\n\nDuring the transfer of power, President Obama told Donald Trump that North Korea should be his top national security concern.\n\nIn the last four years a combination of US and UN sanctions, so-called \"maximum pressure\" policies and three summits between Mr Trump and Mr Kim have done nothing to alleviate those concerns.\n\nKim Jong-un has shown the new US president this week that he faces the daunting prospect of coming up with new solutions for this decades-old problem.", "Craig Ross had been quoted making comments about food bank users on a podcast\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives have dropped a Holyrood candidate over what they called \"unacceptable comments\".\n\nCraig Ross recorded a podcast last year in which he described food bank users as being more at risk of diabetes than starvation.\n\nHe also questioned the influence footballer Marcus Rashford has on UK government welfare policy.\n\nThe Conservatives suspended Mr Ross, then later announced he was \"no longer a candidate or a member of the party\".\n\nThe party had launched an investigation after the comments came to light, saying: \"These unacceptable comments do not reflect the views of the party.\"\n\nJustice Secretary Humza Yousaf had called for Mr Ross to be thrown out the party and dropped as the Conservative candidate in Glasgow Pollok.\n\nThe Holyrood elections are due to be held on 6 May.\n\nMr Ross, a former lecturer at Langside College, runs a podcast in which he delivers reaction to pieces in The Guardian newspaper \"from the centre-right\".\n\nIn one episode recorded in June 2020, Mr Ross talked about the percentage of body fat of \"ordinary people\".\n\nOriginally reported in the Daily Record, his comments were in response to a Channel 4 News piece featuring foodbanks.\n\nHe said: \"We have no real grasp of just how ridiculously overweight the population is.\n\n\"I'm not saying that every single person who claims to be really hungry and is reliant on charity is also very overweight.\n\n\"But what I am saying is if Channel 4 News is having a reasonable go at showing the reality of food bank usage, then we know the people that they filmed are far from starving. If anything their biggest risk is not starvation, it's diabetes.\"\n\nOn Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford, who has called on Boris Johnson to review the UK government's free school meals policy, Mr Ross said: \"Has Marcus Rashford stood for election to anything? Not that I'm aware of.\"", "The government is assessing the impact of a \"technical issue\" that led to 150,000 records being deleted from police databases.\n\nThe error, first reported in the Times, saw data including fingerprint, DNA and arrest histories wiped after being accidentally flagged for deletion.\n\nThe Home Office said the lost entries related to people who were arrested and then released without further action.\n\nBut Labour said it presented \"huge dangers\" for public safety.\n\nThe data was lost from the Police National Computer - a system that stores and shares criminal records information across the UK.\n\nIt is used to help police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nA coding error resulted in records that had been flagged for deletion being lost from the database before checks had been carried out to determine whether they could be lawfully held or not.\n\nThe data loss could hinder future police investigations because the fingerprint or DNA evidence would not be able to be cross-checked against evidence from other crime scenes.\n\nPolicing minister Kit Malthouse said the problem had been identified and the process corrected so \"it cannot happen again\" - with the Home Office, National Police Chiefs' Council and other law enforcement partners working \"at pace\" to recover the data.\n\n\"While the loss relates to individuals who were arrested and then released with no further action, I have asked officials and the police to confirm their initial assessment that there is no threat to public safety,\" he said.\n\nThe Home Office said no records of criminal or dangerous persons had been deleted.\n\nThe records are linked to police investigations that were terminated before charge (No Further Action or NFA cases) or to those where an individual had been acquitted at court.\n\nIt is not yet known how many records of each type were lost and full extent of deletions is still being investigated.\n\nThe loss of the data means that officers on the ground may get an incomplete search result when interrogating the system.\n\nShadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds called on Home Secretary Priti Patel to take responsibility for the error and be clear about the impact it had had.\n\n\"She must urgently make a statement about what has gone wrong, the extent of the issue, and what action is being taken to reassure the public. Answers must be given.\"\n\n\"This is an extraordinarily serious security breach that presents huge dangers for public safety.\"\n\nFormer Cumbria Police chief constable Stuart Hyde told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the \"very large\" loss of arrest records presented a \"risk to public safety\".\n\nHe said: \"In order to understand the scale, if you think that about between 6-700,000 people are arrested every year in the UK, that's a very large proportion of those people.\"\n\nIt comes after around 40,000 alerts relating to European criminals were removed from the same database, the PNC, following Britain's post-Brexit deal with the EU.", "Despite the huge need to free up space in hospitals, some care homes say insurance issues make it impossible for them to accept Covid-19 patients.\n\nIn October, the government launched a scheme for designated care homes to take patients recovering from the virus but insurance is a stumbling block.\n\nSir David Behan, head of the UK's largest care home company, HC-One, says insurance has become a major concern.\n\nThe government says it is working to resolve the issue.\n\n\"We are aware the adult social care insurance market is changing in response to the pandemic, and recognise some care providers may encounter difficulties as their policies come up for renewal,\" said a Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson.\n\nOne Hampshire care home says it will have to stop taking patients within days because its insurance will expire.\n\nWaterside House in Netley, Hampshire usually provides holidays and respite care for people with disabilities.\n\nBut since the autumn it has been taking Covid-positive patients discharged from hospitals on the south coast.\n\nThey are looked after on a separate floor from other residents, and the home has had to meet high infection control standards.\n\nHome manager Sarah Knight said demand for the 31 beds is unparalleled and added: \"I've been in nursing a long, long time, and I have never known anything like this.\n\n\"People end up in an ambulance sat outside hospitals for hours and hours, or they end up on a trolley in A&E in a corridor for hours and hours.\n\n\"By offering the best that we've got here, we can reduce some of that burden.\"\n\nJan Tregelles is chief executive of the charity Revitalise which runs Waterside House\n\nThe government originally hoped there would be 500 designated care homes taking in Covid-positive patients.\n\nBut Waterside House is one of only 129 which have been set up to take those who have not completed 14 days in isolation.\n\nHowever, its public indemnity insurance protection, which it needs in case someone contracts Covid there, runs out at the end of January.\n\nWaterside House is run by the charity Revitalise, whose chief executive, Jan Tregelles, said they have tried everything, but will soon have to start turning away people.\n\n\"It's shocking,\" she says. \"We are truly helpless. We have a fantastic team of nurses and colleagues already.\n\n\"The facilities are here, everything's arranged and we can't step up to support our communities at this time.\"\n\nOne resident, Alan Washbourne, who has been living at Waterside House since he was discharged from hospital during the first wave of the pandemic, said: \"I feel quite safe here.\"\n\nHe is not on the Covid floor of the home, and added: \"If I were to go to somewhere else, which is possible, I might not feel quite so safe.\"\n\nAlan Washbourne has been at Waterside House since April last year\n\nAfter so many deaths last spring, many care homes will not consider taking patients who are Covid-positive, even with extra infection control measures.\n\nMeanwhile, growing numbers of staff are off sick or self-isolating, leaving care homes facing shortages.\n\nAnd many are also finding it difficult to get the public indemnity insurance.\n\nSir David Behan is chairman of HC-One, the UK's largest care home provider\n\nSince November, HC-One, which is the UK's largest care home provider, has had to cover its own Covid risks because it cannot get the insurance.\n\nSir David said it is one of the reasons why they have not taken part in the designated places scheme.\n\n\"You've got solicitors' firms advertising, taking cases up against care companies,\" he says.\n\n\"So, this isn't a theoretical risk that there may be proceedings, it's an actual risk, and therefore we need cover.\n\n\"The NHS wouldn't operate without similar liability cover and that's what we need to see, and I think governments have a role to play working with the insurance industry to work to find a solution.\"\n\nThe Department for Health and Social Care said it was making efforts to determine what actions it could take.\n\n\"Our priority is to ensure everyone receives the right care, in the right place, at the right time,\" said a spokesperson.", "The licence fee is the \"least worst\" way of funding the BBC, its incoming chairman Richard Sharp has said.\n\nBut Mr Sharp told MPs he had an \"open mind\" about how the corporation should be funded in the future, and it \"may be worth reassessing\" the current system.\n\nHe also said he didn't think the BBC's Brexit coverage was biased overall, but \"there were some occasions when the Brexit representation was unbalanced\".\n\nQuestion Time \"seemed to have more Remainers than Brexiteers\", he said.\n\nBBC Three's Normal People was one of the corporation's biggest hits last year\n\nThe £157.50 licence fee is due to stay in place until at least 2027, when the BBC's Royal Charter ends, with a debate about how the broadcaster should be funded after that.\n\nMr Sharp, who spent 23 years working as a banker for Goldman Sachs, told the House of Commons digital, culture, media and sport select committee: \"At 43p a day, the BBC represents terrific value.\"\n\nThe government is currently reviewing whether its cost should continue rising with inflation from 2022, and whether non-payment should remain a criminal offence. Mr Sharp said he was \"not in favour of decriminalisation\".\n\nHe said other possible options for funding the BBC in the future could include a household tax like the one used in Germany, \"which amounts to the same amount of money\".\n\nHe added: \"So when we next get the chance to review the structure of this then it may be worth reassessing.\"\n\nAsked whether he believed the BBC's coverage of Brexit had been unbalanced, he replied: \"No, actually I don't.\n\n\"I believe there were some occasions when the Brexit representation was unbalanced.\n\n\"So if you ask me if I think Question Time seemed to have more Remainers than Brexiteers, the answer is yes, but the breadth of the coverage I thought was incredibly balanced, in a highly toxic environment that was extremely polarised.\"\n\nQuestion Time has said it has robust processes in place to ensure balance on its panels.\n\nMr Sharp said he was \"considered to be a Brexiteer\" and had donated around £400,000 to the Conservative Party over the past 20 years.\n\nHe said the biggest issue now facing the BBC is impartiality, and that \"trust in leadership and trust in processes\" must be rebuilt after high-profile equal pay cases with journalists such as Carrie Gracie and Samira Ahmed.\n\n\"Clearly some of the problems it's had recently are really rather terrible and reflect a culture that needs to be rebuilt, so everybody who cherishes the BBC and works at the BBC feels proud and happy to work there,\" he said. \"Then in my view that would produce a better output inevitably.\"\n\nMr Sharp also told the committee he would give his £160,000 salary as BBC chairman to charity.\n\nWhen asked \"what's in it for you?\" Mr Sharp, whose heritage is Jewish, said: \"We're all a product of our upbringing and I was very fortunate with the parents I have, my great grandparents came to this country escaping tyranny.\n\n\"I think I won the lottery in life to be British and if I can make a contribution, I couldn't be happier to.\n\n\"The BBC is part of the fabric of all our national identities, it offers education and enrichment and is also important for our position in the world... It is a massive privilege to be chair of the BBC.\"\n\nSir David Clementi, the current BBC chairman, steps down in February. The post-holder is officially appointed by the Queen on the recommendation of the government.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "It's likely there are variants all over the world - Vallance\n\nITV's Libby Wiener asks if the move to put restrictions in at the borders is too late. The PM says the government is taking steps to protect against the new variants. \"We have a situation now where we have a very high rate of domestic infection in the UK combined with a vaccination programme,\" he says. \"There will come a point in the next weeks and months where the vaccination programme will take effect... and you will see a decline in the death rate. \"What you can't have is a situation where you have new variants with unknown qualities coming in from abroad and that's why we have set up the system to stop arrivals where new variants are a concern.\" Sir Patrick Vallance says the virus is changing all the time and he suspects there are variants \"all over the world of different types\". \"The countries which have detected them first have got good sequencing,\" he says.", "The UK economy shrank by 2.6% in November as England was placed in lockdown for a second time, official figures show.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics said it meant gross domestic product was 8.5% below its pre-pandemic peak.\n\nNovember's decline came after six consecutive months of growth.\n\nPubs and hairdressers were badly hit as the service sector suffered, the ONS said, but some manufacturing and construction activity improved.\n\nThe hit to the service sector - which accounts for about three-quarters of the UK economy - meant it contracted by 3.4% in November, and is now 9.9% below the level of February 2020.\n\nSome economists said the November figure was better than expected, and it appeared many companies were better prepared for the second lockdown, with some sectors staying open for business and many firms having already put in place plans to expand online operations.\n\n\"Steps taken by businesses earlier in the year to Covid-proof their operations - combined with the time-limited nature of the restrictions, and schools remaining open - meant more companies were able to continue trading safely,\" said Alpesh Paleja, lead economist at the CBI employers' group.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak said the figures showed \"it's clear things will get harder before they get better and today's figures highlight the scale of the challenge we face\".\n\nBut he said the vaccine roll-out and economic support measures meant there were reasons to be hopeful. \"With this support, and the resilience and enterprise of the British people, we will get through this,\" he said.\n\nShadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds said the figures showed the UK has an economic \"mountain to climb\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, she said it would be a \"serious mistake\" if Mr Sunak waited until the Budget in March before providing more support and confidence for business.\n\nONS director for economic statistics Darren Morgan said: \"The economy took a hit from restrictions put in place to contain the pandemic during November, with pubs and hairdressers seeing the biggest impact.\"\n\nHowever, he said many firms adjusted to the new pandemic working conditions, such as by expanding click and collect and other online operations.\n\nHe added: \"Manufacturing and construction generally continued to operate, while schools also stayed open, meaning the impact on the economy was significantly smaller in November than during the first lockdown.\n\n\"Car manufacturing, bolstered by demand from abroad, housebuilding and infrastructure grew and are now all above their pre-pandemic levels.\" Construction activity grew by 1.9% during the month.\n\nGross domestic product (GDP) is the sum (measured in pounds) of the value of goods and services produced in the economy.\n\nBut the measurement most people focus on is the percentage change - the growth of the country's economy over a period of time, typically a quarter (three months) or a year.\n\nIf the GDP measure is up on the previous three months, the economy is growing. That generally means more wealth and more new jobs.\n\nIf it is negative, the economy is shrinking.\n\nDespite the GDP figure being better than some analysts had forecast, there are still concerns that the UK could be heading back into recession.\n\nEconomists have warned the UK could see a double-dip recession if restrictions remain in place in the first three months of 2021.\n\nRory Macqueen, from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, said the November figures confirm a significant slowdown in the last quarter of 2020, \"despite November's lockdown in England clearly having a far smaller effect than the first\".\n\nJames Smith, research director of the Resolution Foundation, said there would be a lot of comment about whether these figures point to the UK heading for only its second-ever double-dip recession on record.\n\nBut, he said, the real \"story of the year will be a vaccine-driven bounce back in economic activity for sectors like hospitality and leisure\".\n\n\"The chancellor must do everything he can to support that recovery once public health restrictions ease,\" he added.\n\nAnalysts at Capital Economics also said there was cause for optimism, saying that the current third lockdown could have less impact than feared.\n\n\"The economy has built up a fair bit of immunity to lockdowns, as November's lockdown was much less painful for the economy than the first lockdown.\n\n\"As a result, the Covid-19 economic hole is smaller than we thought, the economy may get back to its pre-crisis crisis level a bit sooner and it makes us more confident that the Bank of England probably won't resort to negative interest rates.\"\n\nThe fall in the economy in November was still considerable, but the figures show businesses adapting to difficult conditions. The hit was a fraction of what occurred in the first lockdown last April, and was mainly confined to the service sector, with pubs and hairdressing for example in sharp decline.\n\nManufacturing and construction largely remained open, as did previously shut public services such as schools. By November car manufacturing and house building were back above the level of output before the pandemic.\n\nThe trade figures also showed a £7bn increase in EU imports in the three months to November as traders stockpiled car parts, medicines and other goods ahead of the end of the Brexit transition period.\n\nThe renewed regional tiered restrictions in December, and more severe national lockdowns this month, still indicate a possible return to overall recession in this tough winter.\n\nBusiness groups continue to argue that extra support is required to support jobs and cash flow well before the Budget in March. But a more sustained lifting of restrictions as vaccines are rolled out should see growth return after the spring.", "Black people are four more times more likely than white people to be sectioned under the Mental Health Act, according to NHS figures.\n\nWhen Antonio Ferreira was sectioned he says he felt he was discriminated against because of his skin colour.\n\nNow a student at Essex University, he hopes to improve police understanding of mental health problems.\n\nIf you are experiencing emotional stress, help and support is available via BBC Action Line.", "The governor of Amazonas state warned of a \"critical\" moment and has implemented a curfew\n\nHospitals in the Brazilian city of Manaus have reached breaking point while treating Covid-19 patients, amid reports of severe oxygen shortages and desperate staff.\n\nThe city, in Amazonas state, has seen a surge of deaths and infections.\n\nHealth professionals, quoted by local media, warned \"many people\" could die due to lack of supplies and assistance.\n\nBrazil has recorded more than 205,000 virus deaths - the second-highest tally in the world, behind the US.\n\nA new coronavirus variant has recently emerged in Brazil, with several cases in travellers arriving in Japan traced back to the Amazonas region.\n\nAmazonas suffered heavy losses in the first wave of the pandemic but is also being badly hit by a new rise in infections.\n\nRefrigerated containers were brought to hospitals to help store bodies last week, as authorities declared a state of emergency.\n\nJessem Orellana, from the Fiocruz-Amazonia scientific investigation institute, told the AFP news agency that some hospitals in Manaus had \"run out of oxygen\" with some centres becoming \"a type of suffocation chamber\" for patients.\n\nThe researcher told Brazilian media she had received reports from the front-line of \"dramatic\" scenes playing out in some hospitals.\n\nReports in the daily Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper described desperate staff having to try to keep patients alive through manual ventilation.\n\nIn a widely shared video from the region, a female medical worker asks the internet for help: \"We're in an awful state. Oxygen has simply run out across the whole unit today.\"\n\n\"There is no oxygen and lots of people are dying,\" she says in the clip. \"If anyone has any oxygen, please bring it to the clinic. There are so many people dying.\"\n\nThe UK has banned travellers from much of Latin America over a new variant detected in Brazil\n\nAmazonas Governor Wilson Lima said the state was \"in the most critical moment of the pandemic\" and has announced a nightly curfew will begin at 19:00 local time (23:00 GMT) on Friday to try to stem the spread.\n\nMarcellus Campelo, a local health secretary, said the state needed three times the amount of oxygen it can produce locally and appealed for help.\n\nBrazil's vice-president shared images on Twitter of the air force transporting hospital supplies, including oxygen cylinders and stretchers, to the city as reports of the situation spread throughout the country.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHealth officials also say some patients will be airlifted to other states for treatment due to the demand for intensive care units, Reuters reports.\n\nFelipe Naveca, deputy director of research at the state-run Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, told the BBC's South America correspondent Katy Watson that the new variant had evolved separately from those in the UK and South Africa, but that it showed some of the same characteristics: \"Some of these mutations have been linked to increased transmission and that is of concern.\"\n\nMr Naveca said that they did not yet have any data to suggest that existing vaccines would be any less effective against the new variant. \"We have to do a lot more sequencing of samples to answer that question,\" he said.\n\nHowever, on Thursday UK officials announced a ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde due to the new strain.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. At Fullwell Cross Medical Centre, north London, they are now vaccinating almost 1,000 people a week\n\nFake news is likely to be causing some people from the UK's South Asian communities to reject the Covid vaccine, a doctor has warned.\n\nDr Harpreet Sood, who is leading an NHS anti-disinformation drive, said it was \"a big concern\" and officials were working \"to correct so much fake news\".\n\nHe said language and cultural barriers played a part in the false information.\n\nA GP in the West Midlands told the BBC some of her South Asian patients had refused the vaccine when offered it.\n\nDr Sood, from NHS England, said officials were working with South Asian role models, influencers, community leaders and religious leaders to help debunk myths about the vaccine.\n\nMuch of the disinformation surrounds the contents of the vaccine.\n\nHe said: \"We need to be clear and make people realise there is no meat in the vaccine, there is no pork in the vaccine, it has been accepted and endorsed by all the religious leaders and councils and faith communities.\"\n\n\"We're trying to find role models and influencers and also thinking about ordinary citizens who need to be quick with this information so that they can all support one another because ultimately everyone is a role model to everyone\", he added.\n\n\"There's a big piece of work happening where we're translating information, we're making sure the look and feel of it reaches the populations that matter.\"\n\nSome of the disinformation seen by the BBC on social media and on WhatsApp is religiously targeted. Messages falsely claim the vaccines contain animal produce - eating pork goes against the religious beliefs of Muslims, as does eating beef for Hindus.\n\nDr Samara Afzal has been vaccinating people in Dudley, West Midlands. She said: \"We've been calling all patients and booking them in for vaccines but the admin staff say when they call a lot of the South Asian patients they decline and refuse to have the vaccination.\n\n\"Also talking to friends and family have found the same. I've had friends calling me telling me to convince their parents or their grandparents to have the vaccination because other family members have convinced them not to have it\".\n\nWe need to be clear and make people realise there is no meat in the vaccine, there is no pork in the vaccine, it has been accepted and endorsed by all the religious leaders\n\nReena Pujara is a beauty therapist in Hampshire and a practising Hindu. She said she's been bombarded with false information.\n\n\"Some of the videos are quite disturbing especially when you actually see the person reporting is a medic and telling you that the vaccine is going to alter your DNA,\" she said.\n\n\"For a layman it is very confusing. And also when you read that the ingredients in the vaccine derive from a cow - and as Hindus the cow is sacred to us - it is disturbing.\"\n\nAbout 100 mosques have a joined a campaign to counter vaccine disinformation and persuade their communities to take the vaccine. They've said they'll use their Friday sermons to urge people to have the jab.\n\n\"There should be no hesitation in taking [the vaccine] from a moral perspective,\" said Qari Asim, chair of the Mosques and Imams National Advisory Board (MINAB), which has organised the campaign. \"It is our ethical duty to protect ourselves and others from harm.\"\n\nVaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi told the BBC's Asian Network that faith and community leaders had a big role to play in ensuring a high take-up of the vaccine. He said he had met with more than 150 leaders from Sikh, Hindu, Jewish and Muslim communities who were taking the message out \"that it's the right thing to do\".\n\nHe added that the government was taking steps to tackle online disinformation around the vaccine, as well as making sure vaccine guidance was available in many different languages.\n\nA recent poll, commissioned by the Royal Society of Public Health, suggested just over half of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people would be happy to have the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nIt found 57% said they would take the vaccine - compared with 79% of white people.", "Exam results are likely to appear before the end of the summer term\n\nExam results for A-levels and GCSEs in England could be published in early July this year, according to proposals for replacing cancelled exams.\n\nA consultation launched by the exams watchdog and the Department for Education confirmed that grades will be decided by teacher assessment.\n\nBut results this summer are likely to be released much earlier than usual.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said pupils would receive \"a grade that reflects their ability\".\n\nThere are also likely to be written test papers set by exam boards, but marked by teachers, with some later checks if there are concerns about fairness.\n\nFor vocational qualifications, exams which use mostly written papers are also likely to use teachers' grades - but qualifications which need a test of practical, hands-on skills will have separate arrangements.\n\nOfqual and the Department for Education have formally launched a two-week consultation on a system for how results will be decided, after disruption from the pandemic forced the cancellation of exams.\n\nThis is the second year of exam results being disrupted by the pandemic\n\nFor A-levels and GCSEs this could see the scrapping of the traditional results days in August, with a proposal to publish the results in \"early July\", increasing the time for appeals and adding more time before the start of the university term.\n\nLast year the process of replacement results ended with U-turns and confusion, as an algorithm initially used for deciding grades was abandoned and teachers' assessments used instead.\n\nThis time there will be no algorithm, but from the outset the process will rely on the judgement of teachers, who will be asked to use evidence such as coursework, essays, homework and mock exams.\n\nThere are also proposals for test papers, or mini-exams, which would be set by examiners but which would be likely to be marked within schools by teachers.\n\nThese would inform teachers' decisions rather than be a fixed proportion of the final grade - and could be used as evidence for any scrutiny of the reliability of a school's results or if there were appeals over grades.\n\nThere is also a recognition they might have to be taken by some pupils at home.\n\nBut it has still to be decided whether it would be mandatory to take these exams, and whether there would be a single paper per subject or the option to take more.\n\nThe Department for Education has said pupils will not face tests in subject areas they have not covered.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said the proposals seemed \"sensible\".\n\nBut he said the written tests would have to be \"exceptionally well designed\" to make them fair between students \"whose learning has been disrupted by the pandemic to greatly varying extents\".\n\n\"There are still many questions left unanswered,\" said the National Education Union's co-leader Kevin Courtney, about how tests could be flexible enough and how appeals will be decided.\n\nThere will be a process of training teachers in how the grading system will operate and be consistent between different schools.\n\nFor vocational qualifications, the proposals say those closer to written A-level and GCSE exams will be graded in a similar way to the academic exams, using teacher assessment to replace written papers.\n\nThere will be different approaches for qualifications requiring proof of practical skills, but there will be arrangements to make this possible.\n\nSome BTec exams have already gone ahead this month and IGCSE exams are still planned to continue this summer.\n\nA-levels and GCSEs have been cancelled in Wales and Northern Ireland, and in Scotland the Nationals, Highers and Advanced Highers have also been scrapped.\n\nEngland's Education Secretary, Mr Williamson, said: \"Fairness to young people has been and will continue to be fundamental to every decision we take on these issues.\"", "Men who had already had the virus were asked to donate blood plasma for the trial\n\nA potential treatment for Covid using blood plasma does not reduce deaths among hospital patients, trials show.\n\nThe results are a blow to researchers and the NHS, which led the drive to collect plasma donations.\n\nThis arm of the Recovery trial, which is investigating a number of promising Covid treatments, has now been closed.\n\nThe Oxford researchers involved say they are \"incredibly grateful\" for the contribution of patients across the country.\n\nDonations of plasma were temporarily suspended, according to NHS Blood and Transplant.**\n\nThere had been huge international interest in the role of convalescent plasma as a possible treatment for hospital patients with Covid-19.\n\nThe treatment involves blood plasma being taken from people who have recovered from the disease - which contains antibodies to coronavirus - and transfused into seriously ill patients.\n\nIt was hoped the plasma donation would give the recipient's struggling immune system a boost to fight off Covid.\n\nThe NHS had been urging people to donate, particularly men who are thought to have higher levels of antibodies in their blood.\n\nBut early analysis of 1,873 deaths in a study of 10,400 UK patients shows the treatment made \"no significant difference\".\n\nIn the group treated with convalescent plasma, 18% of patients died within 28 days - the same figure for the group given standard treatment.\n\nPatients in the study are still being followed up and the final results will be published shortly.\n\nEarlier this week, a separate study showed no evidence that the same treatment improved outcomes for patients in intensive care.\n\nMartin Landray, chief investigator and professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, said the Recovery trial showed \"the value of large randomised trials to properly assess the role of potential treatments\".\n\nThe trial is still investigating other treatments, including tocilizumab, aspirin and an antibody cocktail.\n\nProf Peter Horby, who also worked on the trial, said the largest ever trial of convalescent plasma \"was only possible thanks to the generous donation of plasma by recovered patients and the willingness of current patients to contribute to advancing medical care\".\n\n\"While the overall result is negative, we need to await the full results before we can understand whether convalescent plasma has any role in particular patient sub-groups,\" he said.\n\n**NHS Blood and Transplant restarted donations of blood plasma on 20 January. They could be used to see whether particular groups of patients, such as those with low antibody levels, could benefit.\n\nInternational trials are also testing if plasma helps people when it's used much earlier in the disease, before people get to hospital.", "One of two coronavirus variants first detected in Brazil has been found in the UK, says a leading scientist advising the government.\n\nBut the version discovered is not the \"variant of concern\", Prof Wendy Barclay clarified.\n\nThe \"variant of concern\" from Brazil, detected in travellers to Japan, is thought to be more infectious.\n\nIt led to travellers from South America and Portugal being banned from entering the UK on Friday.\n\nProf Wendy Barclay, who is heading a newly-launched project to study the effects of emerging coronavirus mutations called the G2P-UK National Virology Consortium, said: \"There are two different types of Brazilian variants and one of them has been detected and one of them has not.\"\n\nProf Barclay, who also sits on Nervtag, a committee which advises government on new and emerging respiratory virus threats, said the variant was \"probably introduced some time ago\" and it \"will be being traced very carefully\".\n\nShe added: \"The new Brazilian variant of concern, that was picked up in travellers going to Japan, has not been detected in the UK.\n\n\"Other variants that may have originated from Brazil have been previously found.\"\n\nThe body which collects and analyses the genomes of virus samples - Covid-19 Genomics UK Consortium (Cog-UK) - said this variant seen in the UK contained one of the mutations found in the Brazilian \"variant of concern\".\n\nThe mutation, also found in the South African variant, has been linked to a reduced antibody response meaning our bodies might be less able to fight it off.\n\nCog-UK said this alone was not enough to qualify it as a \"variant of concern\", thought it acknowledged \"no internationally agreed definition of a variant of concern has yet been agreed\".\n\nIn other variants of concern, the mutation sits alongside a \"constellation\" of others which together amount to a high chance of making the virus more transmissible.\n\nIt comes as a further 1,248 people with coronavirus have died in the UK.\n\nThe latest government figures on Thursday also showed another 48,682 new cases had been reported.\n\nMeanwhile, the latest estimate for the reproduction (R) number in the UK - which represents the average number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to - is between 1.2 and 1.3.\n\nLast week it was estimated at between 1 and 1.4 by the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies.\n\nWhen the figure is above 1, the number of cases increases exponentially.\n\nDespite other variants entering the country since, the Kent variant remains dominant in the UK and is believed to be 30-50% more infectious than the previous form of the virus.\n\nViruses acquire random changes to their genes constantly as they replicate.\n\nMany are neutral or even hurt the virus's ability to spread, but those that give it an advantage will become more common.\n\nMutations are being detected now because enough time has passed for those random changes to take hold.\n\nEven though there is no evidence any of these mutations make the virus more deadly, a virus that infects more people is likely to have a higher death toll.\n\nWhen the virus gets better at sticking onto and breaking into human cells, in theory someone exposed to the same dose is more likely to become ill.\n\nThe use of masks and personal protective equipment, social distancing and hand washing remain the best defences against the virus's spread.\n\nDowning Street said current evidence did not suggest the concerning Brazilian variant affected vaccines or treatment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Shapps described the travel ban, which came into force at 04:00 GMT on Friday, as a \"precautionary\" measure.\n\nIt covers people who have travelled from or through, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela in the last 10 days.\n\nThe ban also applies to Portugal - because of its strong links to Brazil - and the former Portuguese colony of Cape Verde off the coast of west Africa, as well as Panama in central America.\n\nBritish and Irish citizens and foreign nationals with residence rights are still allowed to return - but must isolate for 10 days.\n\nAlso exempt are hauliers who are travelling from Portugal to transport essential goods.\n\nDr Mike Tildesley, an epidemiologist who is part of the government's Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling, said the travel ban should minimise the risk from a \"more transmissible\" variant.\n\n\"We always have this issue with travel bans, of course, that we're always a little bit behind the curve,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"My understanding is that there haven't really been any flights coming from Brazil for about the past week, so hopefully the immediate travel ban should really minimise the risk.\"\n\nDowning Street said it acted \"as quickly as possible\" to impose the travel ban because the concerning Brazilian variant \"could pose a significant risk to the UK\".\n\nHowever, Portugal's government has described the ban as \"absurd\" and illogical\".\n\nThe country's minister of foreign affairs Augusto Santos Silva said he had requested a conversation with his British counterpart after the \"sudden and unexpected\" suspension of flights.\n\nHe added Portugal was already restricting flights from Brazil and there was \"no evidence\" the new variant existed in his country.", "Police investigations have been compromised by an error that led to hundreds of thousands of records being deleted from UK-wide databases, according to a letter seen by the BBC.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council said 213,000 records were deleted - more than the 150,000 first reported.\n\nThis resulted in a couple of \"near misses\" for serious crimes when trying to identify an offender, it said.\n\nThe Home Office has said it is assessing the impact of the mistake.\n\nData including fingerprint, DNA, and arrest histories was wiped from the Police National Computer (PNC) - which stores and shares criminal records information across the UK - after being inadvertently flagged for deletion.\n\nThe PNC is used in police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nThe Home Office said the lost entries related to people who were arrested and then released without further action.\n\nBut the letter from the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) says officers are aware of at least one instance where the DNA profile from a suspect in custody did not generate a match to a crime scene as expected, potentially impeding the investigation.\n\nIt says that some of the records had been marked for indefinite retention following earlier convictions for serious offences.\n\nAnd it reveals that a \"weeding system\", developed and deployed by a Home Office PNC team, started to delete records wrongly last November.\n\nThe process was only brought to a halt at the start of this week.\n\nThe letter was sent on Friday afternoon by Deputy Chief Constable Naveed Malik of the NPCC to chief constables and police and crime commissioners.\n\nThe deletion of the records has been blamed on a coding error.\n\nThis resulted in records that had been flagged for deletion being lost from the database before checks had been carried out to determine whether they could be lawfully held or not.\n\nPolicing minister Kit Malthouse said the problem had been identified and the process corrected so \"it cannot happen again\".\n\nHe said the Home Office, National Police Chiefs' Council and other law enforcement partners were working \"at pace\" to recover the data.\n\nThe Home Office said no records of criminal or dangerous persons had been deleted.\n\nBut Labour shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds called on Home Secretary Priti Patel to take responsibility for the error and be clear about the impact it had had.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, he described the situation as \"extraordinarily serious\", adding: \"Priti Patel will be responsible for criminals walking free. We're not going to be able to link suspects to crime scenes without the DNA and fingerprint evidence.\"\n\nA home office source said the accusation was \"scaremongering and irresponsible\".\n\nFormer Cumbria Police Chief Constable Stuart Hyde told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Friday the \"very large\" loss of arrest records presented a \"risk to public safety\".\n\nThe records are linked to police investigations that were terminated before charge (No Further Action or NFA cases) or to those where an individual had been acquitted at court.\n\nIt is not yet known how many records of each type were lost and full extent of deletions is still being investigated. A minister is expected to update the House of Commons on Monday.\n\nIt comes after about 40,000 alerts relating to European criminals were removed from the PNC following the UK's post-Brexit security deal with the EU.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The pharmacy in Gwynedd is offering the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab\n\nA pharmacy has become the first in Wales to offer Covid jabs, as community vaccine trials begin.\n\nFifty people with appointments are to visit the pharmacy near Pwllheli, Gwynedd, on Friday to receive their first shot of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nThe pilot has begun in pharmacies in Betsi Cadwaladr health board.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said community pharmacists can help with vaccinations \"in more than one way\".\n\nIt follows a letter from Community Pharmacy Wales to Wales' health minister which said there was an \"urgent need\" to use pharmacies in Wales to help roll out coronavirus vaccines.\n\nUK Government figures show 126,375 people in Wales, 4% of the population, have received their first coronavirus jab so far.\n\nThat compares with 4.1% (224,840) in Scotland, 4.9% in England (2,769,164) and 6% (114,567) in Northern Ireland.\n\nHundreds more pharmacies in Wales will offer the jab in the next two weeks.\n\nRosie Bennett, one of the patients to receive a vaccination at Fferyllwyr H L Taylor Pharmacy in Llanbedrog, said getting her vaccine was a \"small step to a better future\".\n\nThe 82-year-old said: \"I don't have a car, so it was a huge relief to know that I wouldn't have to travel a long distance to have the vaccine.\n\n\"Here in the village, we know the staff at the chemists. They've been doing a great job during the pandemic and it's reassuring to have the vaccine from someone you know.\"\n\nSteffan John, the pharmacist who administered the vaccine to Rosie, said the staff are \"really pleased to do their bit for the community\".\n\nPharmacist Llyr Hughes, who runs four pharmacies, including Fferyllwyr H L Taylor Pharmacy, said \"vaccinating at scale\" was the \"only way out of the pandemic\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Wales Breakfast, Mr Hughes said he expected the rollout to happen \"very quickly across all community pharmacies in Wales\".\n\n\"I don't forsee any big problems,\" he said.\n\n\"Community pharmacists have a wealth of experience in delivering flu vaccinations.\n\n\"We will tailor our work model to accommodate for this, as we did for the flu vaccine.\"\n\nMr Hughes said his pharmacy will have vaccinated in the region of more than 100 people by Saturday afternoon.\n\nHe added: \"If we can deliver locally we can provide easier access to older patients.\"\n\nHe explained local patients would be contacted about an appointment for the vaccine at the pharmacy.\n\nMr John said that the vaccine comes in vials of ten doses which means it's \"important to vaccinate that many people at a time and not to waste any\".\n\nLlyr Hughes who runs Fferyllwyr H L Taylor Pharmacy said 50 patients will be vaccinated today\n\nHowever, Mr Drakeford told Friday's Welsh Government press briefing that not all pharmacy premises would be suitable to deliver the Covid vaccines.\n\nHe said some community pharmacists could be asked to administer vaccinations at mass vaccination centres instead, in cases where spaces for vaccinations are small at pharmacies with high volumes of people.\n\nWales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething said the rollout was still in the \"early stages\" of the \"largest vaccination programme Wales has ever seen\".\n\n\"People can be expected to be asked to attend either a mass or community centre, hospital, GP practice, pharmacy or mobile unit,\" he added.\n\nMr Gething said a mix of vaccination sites and centres were chosen so \"everyone across the country has equal access to a vaccination\".\n\nHe added that people will be notified for an appointment, and before that they should not call GPs or health services to request a vaccine and \"add undue pressure\" to their workloads.\n\nPlaid Cymru's health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth said Wales' vaccination programme was \"improving far, far too slowly\".\n\n\"As important as it is that we have one pharmacy doing it, what's happening in all the others?\"\n\nPaul Davies, leader of the Conservatives in the Senedd, said it was clear Wales was \"lagging behind\" the rest of the UK on delivering the vaccinations.\n\n\"It's certainly not happening quickly enough, we need to see the Welsh Government stepping up to the plate,\" he said.\n\nThe Welsh Government has said more pharmacists and other primary care services, such as dentists and opticians - are being invited to help with the rollout, subject to vaccine supply.", "The UK's epidemic is still officially estimated to be growing, according to the latest R number, but data suggests new cases are beginning to fall.\n\nThe R number - which takes into account cases, hospitalisations and deaths - is estimated to be between 1.2 and 1.3, compared with 1 and 1.4 last week.\n\nThis suggests the total number of people with the virus is still rising across the UK.\n\nBut in London, where tight restrictions came in earlier, the R number is lower.\n\nIn the capital, the estimate - based on data up until 11 January - is between 0.9 and 1.2, compared with 1.1 and 1.4 the previous week.\n\nIt comes as a further 1,280 people with coronavirus have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive test, taking the total to 87,291.\n\nThe latest government figures on Friday also showed another 55,761 new cases had been reported.\n\nMeanwhile, more than three million people in the UK have now received the first dose of a vaccine - latest figures show the number at 3,234,946.\n\nAlthough the number of people sick with coronavirus is growing in the UK, data from various sources suggests new infections are declining.\n\nThis provides early signs that lockdown restrictions may be taking effect.\n\nThe government's scientific advisory group Sage, which calculates the R number, said areas that have been under tougher restrictions for a longer period of time - including east of England, London, and the south east - are showing \"a slight decline in the number of people infected\".\n\nHowever, they warned that regions such as north-west and south-west England continue to see infections rise, where the spread of the new UK variant may be playing a role.\n\nThe R number is a way of rating coronavirus or any disease's ability to spread. In theory, it describes the number of people that one infected person will pass the virus onto, on average.\n\nIn reality, though, the government's estimate of R gives a wider view of the epidemic's general trend since it also looks at what is happening in hospitals.\n\nCases, hospitalisations and deaths from Covid-19 have been alarmingly high since the beginning of the year and the latest estimate of the R number indicates that the pandemic is continuing to grow.\n\nBut because of the way the data to estimate R is collected - it reflects the situation a week ago. More up to date indicators suggest that there's a slight decline in infections in the east of England, London, and the South East.\n\nThese areas have had the highest prevalence and therefore the toughest restrictions the longest but infections are continuing to rise in the North West and South West probably because of the spread of the new variant of the virus.\n\nDespite this there's some relief at these figures among the government's scientific advisors. They were not sure whether the current restrictions would be enough to prevent the more contagious variant getting out of control. Now they expect Covid-related deaths to level off in a week or so and then decline as the benefits of the vaccine programme begin to take effect.\n\nCases should also begin to decrease in the coming weeks. But all this depends on people continuing to observe the government's social distancing guidelines - and come into contact with others only if it is essential.\n\nProf Sir David Spiegelhalter, a statistician at the University of Cambridge, said coronavirus deaths were likely to peak in the next week to 10 days.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's The World At One that the lockdown measures were having an impact, with the peak in infections having passed \"a good few days ago\" which would lead to a reduction in the numbers dying from the disease.\n\n\"They are likely to level off in a week - 10 days maybe - at a peak which is probably going to be bigger than the first wave peak of 1,000-a-day, but then should decline due the reductions in cases that we are seeing and, of course, the vaccine programme.\"\n\nData from the ZOE Covid Symptom Study app gives its own estimate of 0.9 for the virus's R or reproduction number. This is based on cases alone, rather than a wider number of data sources included in the official estimate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is the R number and what does it mean?\n\nWhile this leaves out the fact that hospitals are still filling up, looking at cases on their own allows assessment of whether lockdown restrictions are working.\n\nBut the large number of infections recorded at the end of December and the beginning of January means, despite receding cases, hospitalisations and deaths will inevitably continue to rise for some time.\n\nMeanwhile, a ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde entering the UK came into force on Friday as a result of a new, potentially more infectious strain linked to Brazil.\n\nProf Wendy Barclay, a scientist at Imperial College London advising the government, said this \"variant of concern\" had not been detected in the UK but another variant from Brazil was already in circulation.\n\nIt is not clear whether this second strain is more contagious or not.", "Ambulances were lined up outside the Royal London Hospital on Thursday\n\nCovid patients have been transferred to hospitals in Newcastle from over-stretched London intensive care units.\n\nA small number, fewer than five, have been moved hundreds of miles from the south east, the BBC has been told.\n\nHospitals with the largest critical care capacity have been asked to take patients from other areas to ease pressures.\n\nHowever, NHS England has denied that patients have been transferred to Newcastle from London.\n\nThe patient transfers were first reported by The Guardian.\n\nIt is not uncommon for patients to be transferred from one busy hospital to another within the region, but moving the sick from out of their areas is unusual.\n\nThe North of England Critical Care Network, which co-ordinates provision in the North East, north Cumbria and North Yorkshire, confirmed patients had been moved from other parts of England.\n\nIn statement, director Lesley Durham said: \"During this pandemic and at these times of unprecedented pressures, we have ensured equity of patient access to critical care though mutual aid between units in the form of critical care patient transfers.\n\n\"We are also working with our colleagues and networks further afield.\n\n\"Whilst not ideal, it is correct to ensure that every person, regardless of location, has access to a critical care bed if they require one.\"\n\nOne medical expert described transferring people across the country as \"a challenge\"\n\nElsewhere, Northampton General Hospital - which is about 70 miles from London - has been receiving critical care patients from outside its area.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Some patients have been transferred to our critical care unit in recent weeks from other parts of the country, including London.\n\n\"We currently have one 'out-of-area' patient, but they are not from London.\"\n\nNHS England said in a statement: \"The NHS has tried and tested plans in place to manage significant pressure either from high Covid-19 infection rates and non-Covid winter demands and this has always included mutual aid practices whereby hospitals work together to manage admissions.\"\n\nIt added that no patients had been transferred from London to Newcastle, Birmingham, Northampton or Sheffield.\n\nAcross England in the week to 12 January, there were 32,202 patients in hospital with Covid-19, a rise of 5,735 on the previous week.\n\nIn the week up to 10 January there were 330,616 new cases.\n\nHospitals across the North East are already seeing many more patients than the first wave of the pandemic, and the next few weeks are likely to be the toughest yet.\n\nBut right now some - like Newcastle - have room in intensive care and are being asked to take patients from critical care units in the south which have become overwhelmed and run out of room.\n\nNewcastle and Northumbria NHS trusts have already been taking in patients from across their own patch - most notably from Cumbria where there are not nearly enough intensive care beds for the soaring numbers of Covid patients.\n\nBut patient numbers are growing in the North East's hospitals too, and many are already struggling.\n\nThey expect next week will be the worst week they have experienced yet.\n\nTo prepare, elective work is being postponed, wards are being cleared to take in new patients, and intensive care units are being expanded.\n\nConcerns have been raised about seriously-ill patients travelling such long distances.\n\nDr Uwe Franke, intensive care lead at Middlesbrough's James Cook Hospital, said: \"The critical care networks work regionally and nationally and are trying to spread the workload about the country without pushing other units to their limits or out of the durability of their capacity.\n\n\"But there is a difficulty in this; we know that Covid patients are incredibly ill, they are dependent on breathing machines, they are dependent on other machines that need organ support.\n\n\"To transfer these people across the country is quite a challenge.\"\n\nDr Franke added that while hospitals in the North were keen to support colleagues across the country, some - like his own - were already reaching their limit.\n\nHis hospital currently has in excess of 200 Covid patients, with 32 of those in intensive care.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "Dustin Diamond made his name as the studious \"Screech\" in the US sitcom Saved by the Bell\n\nSaved by The Bell actor Dustin Diamond has been diagnosed with cancer, his representative has said.\n\nThe 44-year-old, who played Samuel \"Screech\" Powers in the popular 1990s US school-based sitcom, fell ill last week and was taken to hospital.\n\nHis representative, Roger Paul, said the actor is now waiting for further details.\n\n\"We will know the severity of it when the tests are done,\" Paul said, adding they expect an update next week.\n\nSaved by the Bell ran for four seasons from 1989 to 1993 and followed a group of high school friends and their principal.\n\nDiamond reprised his role in follow-up series Saved by the Bell: The New Class, and Saved by the Bell: The College Years. But he did not appear in the recent revival series.\n\nThe American was also a contestant on Celebrity Big Brother in 2013.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A 24m section of the bridge parapet collapsed one mile from where a fatal crash took place\n\nPart of a rail bridge has collapsed near the site of the fatal Stonehaven train derailment.\n\nA 24m (79ft) section of the side wall has fallen from the bridge, about a mile north of where three people died when a train left the track and crashed last August.\n\nNetwork Rail said it was a \"structural fault\" and not caused by a landslip.\n\nThe line between Aberdeen and Dundee remains closed while structural engineers assess the fault.\n\nThe structure is located three miles north of Carmont signal box. The collapse was discovered just before 10:00 on Friday.\n\nThe rail company said the damage to the parapet was \"extensive\" and that the line was expected to be closed for a \"significant\" period of time while repairs to the bridge take place.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Network Rail Scotland This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Network Rail Twitter account told followers engineers would be working around the clock to complete repairs.\n\nSpecialist staff are also checking similar bridges as a precaution.\n\nThe line between Aberdeen and Dundee had just reopened in November, nearly three months after the Stonehaven derailment.\n\nThe driver, a conductor and a passenger died when the Aberdeen to Glasgow service derailed near Stonehaven on 12 August after heavy rain.\n\nNetwork Rail Scotland carried out \"complex\" repairs at the scene of the derailment\n\nAn interim report said the train hit washed-out rocks and gravel.\n\nA Network Rail spokesman said: \"The line is currently closed while our engineers repair a damaged side wall on a bridge between Carmont and Stonehaven.\n\n\"Specialist structural engineers are currently assessing the fault and putting plans in place for its repair.\n\n\"Our engineers will be working around-the-clock to complete this work as quickly as possible.\"", "Passengers will need to provide a negative Covid-19 test taken within 72 hours before departure\n\nPassengers arriving into NI from outside the UK and Republic of Ireland will soon have to produce a negative Covid-19 test before departure.\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster confirmed the executive had agreed the plan on Thursday.\n\nPeople arriving from countries not on the government's travel corridors list will also still have to self-isolate for 10 days.\n\nThe move has already been agreed in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nPassengers arriving there will be subject to the new rules from Saturday, with the measure taking effect in England and Scotland from Monday.\n\nNegative tests 72 hours prior to arrival are already a requirement in the Republic of Ireland for passengers travelling from Great Britain and South Africa.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's press conference on Thursday, the first minister said Northern Ireland's R-number had also fallen to between 0.7 and 0.9 for new cases of the virus.\n\nThe reproductive rate of the virus - known as the R rate, measures the infection rate of Covid-19 and had risen to about 1.8 due to Christmas relaxations.\n\nDeputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill said the drop showed the \"very real\" effect of lockdown restrictions imposed on 26 December, but she warned there was still \"no room for complacency\".\n\nShe said she still believed there needed to be an \"two-island approach\" to travel restrictions, including discussions with the British and Irish governments as a \"matter of urgency\".\n\nMrs Foster said Stormont ministers had also expressed frustration at the executive meeting over a lack of data-sharing from authorities in the Republic of Ireland, and called for it to be escalated.\n\nPSNI Chief Constable (centre) Simon Byrne attended Stormont's press briefing on Thursday with the first and deputy first ministers\n\nPSNI Chief Constable Simon Byrne said 40 penalty notices a day are being handed out to those who breach the Covid-19 regulations.\n\nHe told the press briefing that if people continued flouting rules, they could expect \"firm and swift enforcement\".\n\n\"We won't turn a blind eye when people break the rules.\"\n\nOn Thursday, 16 more deaths related to Covid-19 were reported by the Department of Health in Northern Ireland, bringing its total to 1,533.\n\nThere have been 973 new cases diagnosed in the past 24 hours, while 58 Covid-19 patients are being treated in ICUs across Northern Ireland, of which 44 are on ventilators.\n\nMrs Foster said she found it \"incredible and frankly unbelievable\" that some people were still holding house parties and gatherings, despite the pandemic rates and the lockdown.\n\nOn Wednesday, health officials warned that levels of the new, more transmissible variant of the virus are rising.\n\nMr Swann said that meant more \"difficult decisions\" on lockdown restrictions could be required.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the third week of a six-week lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19.\n\nThe executive is due to review the current restrictions on 21 January.\n\nThe first and deputy first ministers said they would take evidence from health officials before deciding whether an extension of the lockdown would be required.\n\nMinisters have expressed concerns about keeping non-essential parts of businesses open\n\nMinisters have also expressed concerns about some larger retailers \"gaming\" the regulations and keeping open non-essential parts of their businesses.\n\nA meeting between the first and deputy first ministers and representatives of the retail sector is due to happen on Friday afternoon.\n\nElsewhere, the Chief Medical Officer has confirmed that unpaid carers looking after Clinically Extremely Vulnerable individuals should receive the first dose of their vaccine when phase two of the vaccination programme begins next month.\n\nDr Michael McBride told Stormont's Health Committee they are provided for on a list of prioritisation provided by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, which decides the order of vaccination delivery.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Department of Health This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Department of Health\n\nMr Swann was asked if his department was \"putting all its eggs in the vaccine basket\".\n\nHe said it was \"not the entirety of the answer\", adding: \"It will take time for the benefits of it to bed in.\n\n\"And while it is doing it, we still have to follow those restrictions that are in place.\n\n\"We may actually have to introduce more.\"\n\nOn Thursday afternoon the department tweeted that 121,711 vaccines have been administered in Northern Ireland.\n\nMrs Foster said that by end of this month, it is hoped all care home residents, health staff and those aged over 80 in Northern Ireland will have received their first vaccination.\n\nShe said that would be an \"incredible achievement\" and make Northern Ireland one of the top-performing countries in rolling out its vaccination programme.\n\nMeanwhile, the chairman of the Police Federation for NI (PFNI) has said officers need more powers to enforce Covid-19 regulations.\n\nAt present officers can only issue guidance and advice on the public health regulations.\n\nPFNI chairman Mark Lindsay said that puts officers in a \"difficult position\".\n\nThe federation represents thousands of rank and file PSNI officers.\n\n\"I think we are well past the stage where police officers are the people that should be giving advice around the guidance,\" Mr Lindsay told BBC Radio Foyle.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rescuers pull a woman from the rubble after the 6.2 magnitude earthquake\n\nA powerful earthquake has rocked Indonesia's Sulawesi island, killing at least 42 people, with more feared dead as rescuers search for survivors.\n\nThe 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck on Friday morning, just hours after an earlier, smaller tremor.\n\nHundreds of people were injured and thousands displaced by the quake.\n\nIndonesia has a history of devastating earthquakes and tsunamis, with more than 2,000 killed in a 2018 Sulawesi quake.\n\nEight people died when the five-storey Mitra Manakarra Hospital in Mamuju partially collapsed on Friday, officials said. About 60 people were safely evacuated from the hospital.\n\n\"It happened so quickly, around 10 seconds,\" Syamsu Ridwan, a local police spokesman, told the BBC. He said the power in the hospital cut out during the earthquake.\n\nOfficials fear the death toll will increase as rescue efforts continue. Rescuers were still searching for survivors late on Friday, but they have been hampered by power cuts and poor mobile phone service.\n\nIndonesian President Joko Widodo offered condolences to the victims, urging people to stay calm and for the authorities to step up search efforts.\n\nThe epicentre of Friday's quake was six kilometres (3.73 miles) northeast of Majene city at a depth of 10km.\n\nVideo footage on social media showed collapsed houses and a girl pinned under rubble calling for help.\n\nThe situation was \"pretty bad\", Dr Gayatri Marliyani, of the geology department at Gajah Mada University in Yogyakarta, told the BBC. She said the governor's office was among the collapsed buildings and confirmed that several hospitals and one hotel had also been damaged.\n\nShe also warned that getting response teams to the area could be hampered by the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nTremors were felt at around 01:00 local time on Friday (17:00 Thursday GMT) for about seven seconds.\n\nNo tsunami warning was issued but thousands are reported to have left their homes, fleeing to safety.\n\nAuthorities have warned that strong aftershocks could follow the two main quakes and that they could still trigger a tsunami.\n\nIndonesia is prone to earthquakes because it lies on the so-called Ring of Fire - a line of frequent quakes and volcanic eruptions on the Pacific rim.\n\nIn 2004, a tsunami triggered by an earthquake off the Indonesian island of Sumatra killed 226,000 people across the Indian Ocean, including more than 120,000 in Indonesia.\n\nThe Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 killed 170,000 people on the Indonesian island of Sumatra after a quake of magnitude 9.1.\n\nAre you in the area? If it is safe to do so, share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Police officers who were targeted by a pro-Trump mob have been speaking out about the \"medieval battle\" that unfolded on the steps of the Capitol and inside the halls of American democracy last week.\n\nPolice faced off against rioters equipped with clubs, shields, pitchforks, firearms, and metal poles stripped from seating set up for next week's inauguration.\n\nHere's what we've learned from their interviews with US media.\n\nMichael Fanone, a 40-year-old DC plainclothes narcotics detective who was told to wear his uniform that day, rushed to the West Terrace of the Capitol where he took turns holding back the crowd, and resting to rinse his face of the the chemical irritants that that crowd was spraying on police.\n\n\"We weren't battling 50 or 60 rioters in this tunnel,\" the MPD (Metropolitan Police Department of District of Columbia) veteran told the Washington Post. \"We were battling 15,000 people. It looked like a medieval battle scene.\"\n\nAfter he was grabbed by his helmet and dragged face-first down several steps, he said the crowd started stripping gear from his vest, including spare ammo, his radio and his badge - all while chanting \"USA!\".\n\nMichael Fanone, a DC detective, was dragged into the crowd and beaten\n\n\"We got one! We got one!\" Mr Fanone said he heard people shout, with others chanting: \"Kill him with his own gun!\"\n\nSome members of the crowd protected him after he started yelling that he has children, the father of four told CNN. He sustained only minor injuries but later found out in hospital that he had suffered a mild heart attack during the brawl.\n\nMPD Officer Daniel Hodges, 32, had already been on shift for several hours before the rioting began.\n\n\"We were battling, you know, tooth and nail for our lives,\" he told ABC News.\n\nIn one viral video, Mr Hodges is seen pinned in a glass doorway between officers and the crowd, as rioters strip his gas mask from his face and beat him with his own police-issued baton. One rioter tried to gouge his eyes.\n\n\"That was one of the three times that day where I thought: Well, this might be it,\" said Mr Hodges. \"This might be the end for me.\"\n\nAs he choked on tear gas, he is seen on video gasping for air to call out for help. Enough police were eventually able to push through the melee to extract him.\n\n\"I had conspiracy theorists and everyone you could think of yelling at me, saying, 'Why are you doing this, you're the traitor,'\" Mr Hodges told radio station WAMU.\n\n\"We're not the traitors. We're the ones who saved Congress that day, and we'll do it as many times as necessary.\"\n\nDespite fearing for his life, Mr Hodges says he decided not to use his gun on the crowd.\n\n\"I didn't want to be the guy who starts shooting, because I knew they had guns - we had been seizing guns all day,\" he told the Post.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRobert Glover, the commander on scene for MPD, declared a riot at 13:50 local time, nearly two hours after Trump's speech at the White House where he instructed his followers to go to the Capitol.\n\nHe quickly told officers to retake the inauguration bleachers, to stop the crowd from raining down heavy objects on officers from above.\n\nMr Glover told the Post that some rioters may have been caught up in the moment, but others seemed to be moving in \"military formation\" as if they had prepared for the assault. He said that some appeared to be using hand signals to co-ordinate tactics.\n\nSeveral US military veterans, as well as off-duty police officers from Virginia, Maryland and Texas, have since been suspended or arrested for participating in the riot.\n\nMPD Officer Christina Laury, 32, was among the first city police officers to arrive on the scene. When she got to the Capitol, officers were already being brutally attacked by rioters attempting to storm the building.\n\n\"They had bear mace, which is literally used for bears. I got hit with it plenty of times that day and it just seals your eyes shut. You just would see officers going down trying to douse themselves with water, trying to open their eyes up so they can see again.\"\n\n\"The bravery and the heroism that I saw in these officers - the second they were able to open their eyes, they were back up front and they were just trying to stop these individuals from coming in.\"\n\nOne officer being lauded as a hero has yet to speak about his experience - Officer Eugene Goodman, a member of Congress' 2,100 member Capitol Police force.\n\nMr Goodman, an African American Iraq War veteran, was seen singlehandedly distracting a rampaging mob, giving lawmakers enough time to clear the chamber and get to safety.\n\nOn Thursday, a cross-party group of lawmakers introduced a bill calling for him to receive the Congressional Gold Medal for his effort to defend democracy.\n\nThe Capitol Police have been criticised over their response and preparation.\n\nSeveral top Capitol security officials, including the Capitol Police chief and the sergeants-at-arms for the House and Senate, resigned in the wake of the siege amid claims from lawmakers that they had not done enough to prepare for the mob.\n\nProtesters climbed the bleachers that were erected for Biden's inauguration\n\nOn Friday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced General Russel Honoré would be leading an immediate investigation of the Capitol's security infrastructure.\n\nVideo footage has also emerged showing an officer taking a selfie with a rioter inside the Capitol. Some officers reportedly gave directions to rioters telling them how to get to the offices of Democratic lawmakers.\n\nSeveral Capitol Police officers have been suspended for allegedly violating policies as the agency conducts an internal probe.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA respiratory doctor at Belfast's Mater Hospital has warned that hospital oxygen supplies are under \"extreme pressure\".\n\nDr Nick Magee also said more younger patients were now being treated in hospital than during the first and second waves of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nHe said in the past they did not have to consult other NI hospitals about how much oxygen they had.\n\n\"That was never a thing in previous January flu problems,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"But that is something we are now having to think of,\" he added.\n\nEarlier this week Northern Ireland's Chief Medical Officer Dr Michael McBride said there is enough oxygen to cope with the current demand.\n\nBut according to Dr Magee the current level of oxygen being used in \"bays\" at the Mater means patients cannot charge their mobile phones by their bedside because of the \"fire risk\".\n\n\"It is all well controlled and we are making sure that we can share out that oxygen burden. That is something we are having to think about,\" he said.\n\n\"I can't say specifically about other regional hospitals but I know that they are under extreme pressure and it's just something we have to think of as a region.\n\n\"Can we supply oxygen adequately for the amounts of oxygen we are using in hospitals?\"\n\nThe number of Covid positive hospital in-patients has increased significantly since last week - up from 599 a week ago to 850 on Thursday.\n\nThe number of people in ICU has also risen from 44 to 58 in the past week.\n\nDr Magee said staff were concerned about having to cope with \"large volumes\" of patients requiring respiratory support.\n\nHe said the number of younger patients becoming increasingly sick with the virus was growing.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Mater Hospital moved six patients who had been on wards into ICU and also took patients from the Southern Health Trust.\n\n\"Recently I saw a 29-year-old patient, also three who were in their mid 30s that all required respiratory support on a ward,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"They are frightened they are wearing specialist masks CPAP masks that help them breathe. They are scared.\"\n\nThe relentless pressure of the past 10 months and the prospect of a further surge in admissions over the next fortnight is weighing heavily on the minds of medics.\n\n\"We are really worried about next week,\" said Dr Magee.\n\n\"It's very busy this week, we are coping well but we are particularly concerned about next week.\n\n\"Normally, if we had somebody who needed a lot of respiratory support we would involve a high dependency unit but all the respiratory wards are becoming like high dependency units.\n\n\"Volume of sicker, younger patients is much greater and it's not something that I would [have] ever seen before,\" he added.\n\nThe Southern Health and Social Care Trust said its hospitals had limited infrastructure to manage high numbers of patients requiring oxygen so a regional agreement was in place to share resources across Trusts to support Covid-positive patients.\n\n\"As a result some patients have been diverted to Belfast or SE Trust to help reduce pressure on the Southern Trust hospital system,\" a statement said.\n\n\"Craigavon and Daisy Hill hospitals remain very busy with high numbers of Covid-19 positive patients who are dependent on oxygen therapy.\n\n\"These protocols are in place as part of regional surge planning to ensure that we can safely manage the current high volume of Covid-19 patients needing hospital care.\n\n\"Patients who are currently being treated in Craigavon and Daisy Hill have secure supplies of oxygen.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Derby\n\nChampionship side Derby County have appointed England's record goalscorer Wayne Rooney as their new manager on a two-and-a-half-year contract.\n\nThe 35-year-old, who had been in interim charge since Phillip Cocu was sacked on 14 November, has now also officially retired as a player.\n\nRooney has overseen nine games so far, winning three and drawing four.\n\n\"The opportunity to follow Brian Clough, Jim Smith, Frank Lampard and Phillip Cocu is an honour,\" he said.\n\n\"I knew instinctively Derby County was the place for me.\"\n\nLiam Rosenior takes up the role of assistant manager, with former England boss Steve McClaren continuing as technical director and advisor to the board of directors.\n\nShay Given will become first-team coach and Justin Walker will remain as first-team development coach.\n\nThe Rams are third from bottom in the Championship, level on points with fourth-from-bottom Sheffield Wednesday.\n\nA takeover for the club is expected to go through this week, with a deal between current owner Mel Morris and the Derventio Holdings Group having been agreed in November.\n\nRams chief executive Stephen Pearce said in an interview with BBC Radio Derby on Thursday that there were no problems with the takeover, despite the delays meaning players have not been paid their December wages.\n\n\"Our recent upturn in results under Wayne was married together with some positive performances, notably the 2-0 home win over Swansea City and the 4-0 victory at Birmingham City,\" said Pearce.\n\n\"During that nine-game run we also dramatically improved their defensive record and registered five clean sheets in the process, while in the attacking third we became more effective and ruthless too.\n\n\"Those foundations have provided a platform for the club to build on in the second half of the season.\"\n\nRooney made his professional debut for boyhood club Everton in August 2002 aged just 16 and became the Premier League's youngest scorer with a superb long-range goal against Arsenal before his 17th birthday.\n\nAfter a strong Euro 2004 he moved to Manchester United for £27m, then a world record fee for a teenager.\n\nDuring 13 years with United he won the Premier League five times, the Champions League, the FA Cup and three League Cups.\n\nHis time with England was less successful in terms of team honours, although he did break Sir Bobby Charlton's long-standing record of 49 goals before retiring from international football in August 2017.\n\nHe made a farewell appearance for the Three Lions against the United States in a friendly in November 2018 to finish with 53 goals in 120 appearances.\n\nAfter a second stint at Everton and a spell with American side DC United, Rooney joined Derby in January 2020 as a player-coach on an initial 18-month contract.\n\nHe retires as the second-highest goalscorer in Premier League history, with 208 goals.\n\nWayne Rooney's presence at Derby County was felt on that hot August evening in 2019 when Phillip Cocu won his first match as manager at Huddersfield, a result overshadowed by the announcement of his signing.\n\nRooney's ambition to become a manager was there for all to see when chairman Mel Morris afforded him the opportunity to be a player-coach on arrival in January. He in fact arrived a few months before that but was unable to play, and stayed low key, observing from the sidelines.\n\nA year ago this month he made an instant impact to Derby's fortunes on the field. Players who were underachieving and perhaps found the grind of the Championship a little hard to handle, were taken up a notch by his presence.\n\nSome would say Rooney saved the Rams' season, but this term he struggled on the field and so did Derby.\n\nI am told it was written into his contract that he would have a chance to take control one day and he has already shown in his nine games in interim charge that he can get the squad playing in his image. Gone is the side-to-side, slow build-up possession game, it is a better product to watch.\n\nThe people around him have good pedigree in the game. Shay Given, Liam Rosenior, Justin Walker and Jason Pearcey have experience at all levels - but his relationship with Steve McClaren will be the most important of all.\n\nDerby fans have been calling out for a positive piece of news. Rooney's appointment is the first duck in a row with the takeover expected to be completed any time now and then Championship survival is the hope.\n• None Hear how David Bowie always managed to stay ahead of his time\n• None Joe Wicks and guests are here to bring positivity to your day", "A man accused of allegedly tricking a 92-year-old woman out of £160 for a fake coronavirus vaccination has been charged with fraud and common assault.\n\nDavid Chambers is accused of administering the fake vaccine at her Surbiton home in London last month.\n\nThe 33-year-old, also from Surbiton, is charged with five offences including fraud and going outside in a tier four area without a good reason.\n\nHe denied the charges when he appeared before magistrates on Friday.\n\nMr Chambers was remanded in custody until a hearing on 12 February.\n\nIn the UK, coronavirus vaccines are free of charge and available via the NHS.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Marcus Rashford and a group of celebrity chefs and campaigners have called on Boris Johnson to review the government's free school meals policy.\n\nThe group, including Jamie Oliver, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Tom Kerridge, have written to the PM asking him to \"fix\" the system long-term.\n\nThey called for a strategy to help \"end child food poverty\" before the summer holidays.\n\nNo 10 said \"no child will ever go hungry\" because of the Covid pandemic.\n\nThe call for a wide review comes after another row over free school meals during February half-term.\n\nThe government has said food will be provided to children by councils under the Covid Winter Grant Scheme while schools are closed for the holiday.\n\nCouncils and unions say the government should provide food vouchers instead, with the Local Government Association's Councillor Richard Watts telling BBC Radio 4's PM programme the grant had already been allocated for other support.\n\nBut Transport Secretary Grant Shapps told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We are down to semantics whether it is the school delivering the meal or whether it is the local authority - fortunately there is quite a lot of different support available.\"\n\nAs well as getting the backing of Rashford - who has led campaigns around child poverty over the course of the pandemic - the letter has been signed by chefs Oliver, Kerridge and Fearnley-Whittingstall, along with actor Dame Emma Thompson and over 40 charities and education leaders.\n\nOrganised by the Food Foundation charity, the letter said it was time to \"step back and review the policy in more depth\".\n\nThey called for an \"urgent comprehensive review into free school meal policy across the UK\" to feed into the government's next Spending Review, saying it should look at:\n\nThe signatories praised the Department for Education's \"swift response\" to reports earlier this week of inadequate food parcels sent to families, saying the \"robustness of the message from you and the secretary of state on this issue was very welcome\".\n\nBut, they added that \"following the series of problems which have arisen over school food vouchers, holiday provision and food parcels since the start of the pandemic\", now was the time for a review.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tom Kerridge: There has to be a solution to free school meals\n\nAnna Taylor, executive director of the Food Foundation charity, said the last few months had seen \"crisis after crisis with the provision of free school meals\".\n\n\"The result of that is disadvantaged children have often paid the price,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"Our view is that really unless we do a root and branch review these problems are going to still keep appearing.\"\n\nChef Fearnley-Whittingstall also called for a more consistent, long-term response to the issue of food poverty.\n\n\"We need to get out of this fire-fighting, highly reactive series of actions by the government,\" he told the same programme.\n\nThe signatories want a review to be published and debated in Parliament before the 2021 summer holidays.\n\n\"We are ready and willing to support your government in whatever way we can to make this review a reality and to help develop a set of recommendations that everyone can support,\" the letter said.\n\n\"School food is essential in supporting the health and learning of our most disadvantaged children.\n\n\"Now, at a time when children have missed months of in-school learning and the pandemic has reminded us of the importance of our health, this is a vital next step.\"\n\nAnti-poverty campaigner and food writer Jack Monroe welcomed the letter to the PM, but told the BBC: \"We need to be feeding children right now.\"\n\nShe added: \"While it is great to be looking longer term... having an underpinning strategy that means that children aren't put into poverty in the first place, we need to also immediately be putting resources in to ensure people aren't going hungry, today, tonight, next week and in the February half-term.\n\n\"This isn't a rhetorical thing. It isn't a dinner party discussion. We need to be doing this now.\"\n\nA Downing Street spokesperson said: \"It is great that celebrities and groups across society see the importance of school food. The PM thanks Marcus Rashford for his letter and will reply soon.\n\n\"School food is essential in supporting the health and learning of the most disadvantaged pupils. The prime minister has been clear that no child will ever go hungry as a result of the pandemic\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRichard Leonard has resigned as Scottish Labour leader, saying it is in the best interests of the party for him to stand down.\n\nMr Leonard said he believed speculation about his leadership had become a \"distraction\".\n\nAnd he said he would be stepping down with immediate effect.\n\nHis resignation comes just months ahead of the Scottish Parliament election, which is scheduled to be held in May.\n\nMr Leonard had been leader of the party for three years after succeeding Kezia Dugdale.\n\nThe former union official had faced open calls to quit from some of his own MSPs last year amid concerns that his leadership style could damage the party in the forthcoming Scottish Parliament election.\n\nPolls have suggested that many Scottish Labour supporters struggle to recognise him, and he is closely associated with former UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nScottish Labour had dominated politics in Scotland for decades, but is currently the third largest party at Holyrood behind the SNP and Conservatives.\n\nAnd Mr Leonard's critics had questioned whether he was capable of turning the party's fortunes around.\n\nMr Leonard was seen as a close ally of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn\n\nIn a statement, Mr Leonard said the decision to resign had not been easy - but he felt it was the right one for him and his party.\n\nHe said: \"I have thought long and hard over the Christmas period about what this crisis means, and the approach Scottish Labour takes to help tackle it.\n\n\"I have also considered what the speculation about my leadership does to our ability to get Labour's message across. This has become a distraction.\n\n\"I have come to the conclusion it is in the best interests of the party that I step aside as leader of Scottish Labour with immediate effect.\"\n\nHe also insisted that Scotland now needs a Labour government more than ever, and accused both the Scottish and UK governments of mishandling the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Leonard added: \"While I step down from the leadership today, the work goes on - and I will play my constructive part as an MSP in winning support for Labour's vision of a better future in a democratic economy and a socialist society.\"\n\nHis decision leaves Scottish Labour looking for its fifth leader since the independence referendum in 2014 - with Johann Lamont, Jim Murphy and Kezia Dugdale all having held the job since then.\n\nA Procedures Committee, to oversee the election of Mr Leonard's successor, has been formed and will have its first meeting on Friday.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour's Scottish Executive Committee will also meet in the coming days to agree a timetable for the process.\n\nMSP Jackie Baillie, who was Scottish Labour's deputy leader, has taken charge of the party on an interim basis.\n\nThis sudden resignation four months from the Holyrood elections seems to have taken Scottish Labour by surprise.\n\nMSPs I've spoken to said they did not see it coming.\n\nThere have been times when Richard Leonard has been under severe pressure from some in his party to stand down.\n\nWhen several MSPs publicly called for him to quit because the party had gone backwards at successive elections on his watch, he stood firm.\n\nHis critics seemed to have accepted that he would lead them and a divided party into the Holyrood election.\n\nThat has now changed and interim leader Jackie Baillie has to quickly organise a contest to replace him.\n\nIt's a contest in which Anas Sarwar, if he stands, would be an obvious frontrunner - even although he lost last time to Mr Leonard, who was seen as much closer to the then UK party leader, Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Mr Leonard should be \"very proud\" of his achievements as leader of the party in Scotland.\n\nSir Keir added: \"I would like to thank Richard for his service to our party and his unwavering commitment to the values he believes in.\n\n\"Richard has led Scottish Labour through one of the most challenging and difficult periods in our country's history, including a general election and the pandemic.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Neil Findlay MSP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Leonard had been due to face a confidence vote at the party's ruling Executive Committee last September - but the motion was withdrawn at the last minute.\n\nIt came after four Scottish Labour MSPs called for him to go, warning that the party faced \"catastrophe\" at the ballot box under his leadership.\n\nThey pointed to the party's dismal performance in previous elections under Mr Leonard.\n\nScottish Labour finished fifth in the European election in May 2019, and then lost all but one of its MPs in the general election in December of the same year.\n\nMr Leonard insisted at the time that he intended to lead the party into this year's Holyrood election, and accused his opponents of waging \"internal war\" against him.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who faced Mr Leonard in her weekly question session in the Scottish Parliament, tweeted that she had \"always liked Richard Leonard\" despite their political difference.\n\nShe added: \"He is a decent guy and I wish him well for the future.\"\n\nRuth Davidson, who quit as leader of the Scottish Tories in 2019 before returning to lead the party at Holyrood, said she had always found Mr Leonard to be a \"thoroughly decent man and a committed campaigner.\"\n\nAnas Sarwar, who was defeated by Mr Leonard in the leadership contest in 2017 and is seen as one of the favourites to replace him, said he was sure Mr Leonard would \"continue to fight for a fairer, more just and more equal society today, tomorrow and long into the future.\"\n\nBut Labour MSP Neil Findlay, an outspoken supporter of Mr Leonard, took aim at those who had sought to oust him last year - describing them as \"flinching cowards\" and \"sneering traitors\".", "A rejuvenated Northumberland Line will help connect local communities to Newcastle city centre, say supporters\n\nTwo railway lines, closed to passengers since the 1960s, are to get almost £800m funding from the government.\n\nEast West Rail, which will eventually connect Oxford and Cambridge, will get £760m to open new parts of the line.\n\nThe Northumberland Line, which still carries freight, will get £34m for initial work aimed at reintroducing passenger services.\n\nReopening closed lines like these would help connect \"left-behind\" communities, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said.\n\n\"Restoring railways helps put communities back on the map and this investment forms part of our nationwide effort to build back vital connections and unlock access to jobs, education and housing,\" he said.\n\nThese investments would return these routes \"to their former glory\" and was part of the government's \"levelling up\" agenda, Mr Shapps added.\n\nDiesel engines will initially run on the lines, but Mr Shapps said he hoped more environmentally friendly trains, for example powered by hydrogen or new battery technology, would replace them in the future.\n\nWhen asked by the BBC why the lines wouldn't be electrified, he said these lines might potentially bypass the overhead wire technology altogether.\n\n\"We're building it in such a way that we can use, probably, the very latest technology, potentially, in the future,\" he said.\n\n\"The most important thing is the infrastructure,\" he said. \"It's about building the stations, things you need to do no matter what kind of train you're going to run on there, if it's going to take passengers.\"\n\nBut Labour MP Daniel Zeichner, who represents Cambridge, said: \"Every rail expert will tell you it will cost more later to electrify a line.\"\n\n\"In a time of climate emergency, we really shouldn't be building railway lines for diesel, it's got to be electric.\"\n\nThe line connecting Oxford and Cambridge would serve new housing developments, he said, and rail was \"the right way to get people in and out of a city like Cambridge\".\n\n\"It's very important for the UK economy, but it's got to be done in an environmentally sustainable way,\" he said. \"It seems crazy to be building new railways which aren't electrified in the first place, and I really hope the government will reconsider.\"\n\nThe East West Rail investment will rebuild a train line between Bicester and Bletchley which was closed in 1968.\n\nThe project is being delivered by a publicly-owned body called the East West Company.\n\nThe first phase of East West Rail, which was completed in 2016, connected Oxford and Bicester.\n\nBut at the moment, rail passengers wishing to go from Oxford to Bletchley have to take a detour via Coventry.\n\nThe aim is to get trains running between Oxford and Bletchley by 2025, with new stations at Winslow and Bletchley.\n\nThe Department for Transport said the works will create 1,500 jobs, and have a wider economic benefit for the area.\n\nThe eventual aim of the project, which the government expects to be completed by the end of the decade, is to connect Oxford and Cambridge by rail via Bedford, taking in Milton Keynes and Aylesbury on branches.\n\nThe Northumberland Line was closed to passengers in 1964 as part of a rationalisation of the railway network known as the Beeching cuts.\n\nHenri Murison, director of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, said the Northumberland Line was \"a really critical piece of local infrastructure\" that would help bring people in south east Northumberland and north Tyneside closer to Newcastle city centre, and closer to well-paid jobs.\n\nPassengers would be able to take the train between Ashington and Newcastle\n\n\"Having better connectivity will help attract businesses to that area, and it will help to deliver genuine levelling-up,\" he said.\n\nThe new £34m investment, which aims to reopen the line between Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Ashington, will include funds for preparatory works and land acquisition.\n\nThere are plans for new stations at at Ashington, Bedlington, Blyth, Bebside, Newsham, Seaton Delaval, and Northumberland Park, in North Tyneside, as well as upgrades to the track and changes to level crossings where new bridges or underpasses were needed, the Department for Transport said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Supporters of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny protest against his arrest across Russia\n\nRussian police have detained more than 3,000 people in a crackdown on protests in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, monitors say.\n\nTens of thousands of people defied a heavy police presence to join some of the largest rallies against President Vladimir Putin in years.\n\nIn Moscow, riot police were seen beating and dragging away protesters.\n\nMr Navalny, President Putin's most high-profile critic, called for protests after his arrest last Sunday.\n\nHe was detained after he flew back to Moscow from Berlin, where he had been recovering from a near-fatal nerve agent attack in Russia last August.\n\nOn his return, he was immediately taken into custody and found guilty of violating parole conditions. He says it is a trumped-up case designed to silence him.\n\nOVD Info, an independent NGO that monitors rallies, said about 3,100 people had been detained, more than 1,200 of them in Moscow alone. The Kremlin has not commented.\n\nThe unauthorised demonstrations were held in about 100 cities and towns from Russia's Far East and Siberia to Moscow and St Petersburg. Protesters ranged from teenage students to elderly people who demanded Mr Navalny's release.\n\nAt least 40,000 people joined a rally in central Moscow, Reuters news agency estimated. But Russia's interior ministry put the number of protesters at 4,000.\n\nObservers say the scale of the demonstrations across the country was unprecedented while the protest in the capital was the largest in almost a decade.\n\nRiot police used batons against protesters in Moscow\n\nIn the city's Pushkin square, some protesters chanted \"Freedom to Navalny\" and \"Putin go away!\" One woman told the BBC she had decided to join the demonstration because \"Russia has been turned into a prison camp\".\n\nSergei Radchenko, a 53-year-old protester in Moscow, told Reuters: \"I'm tired of being afraid. I haven't just turned up for myself and Navalny, but for my son because there is no future in this country.\"\n\nLyubov Sobol, a prominent aide of Mr Navalny who had already been fined for urging Russians to join the protests, tweeted a video of police roughly pulling her away from an interview with reporters.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Соболь Любовь This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Navalny's wife, Yulia, was briefly held at the rally. She posted an image on her Instagram account with the caption: \"Apologies for the poor quality. Very bad light in the police van.\"\n\nSome protesters marched on the high-security prison where Mr Navalny is being held, and many were arrested.\n\nMeanwhile, one independent news source, Sota, said at least 3,000 people had joined a demonstration in the city of Vladivostok, but local authorities there put the figure at 500.\n\nAFP footage showed riot police running into a crowd, and beating some of the protesters with batons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police used batons to break up protests in Vladivostok\n\nIn the Siberian city of Yakutsk, attendees at a small protest saw temperatures dip as low as -50C (-58F).\n\nPrior to the rallies, Russian authorities had promised a tough crackdown. Several of Mr Navalny's close aides, including his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh, were arrested earlier in the week.\n\nHis supporters called for more protests next weekend.\n\nThere were reports of disruption to mobile phone and internet coverage on Saturday, though it is not known if this was related to the protests.\n\nThe social media app TikTok had been flooded with videos promoting the demonstrations and sharing viral messages about Mr Navalny.\n\nIn response, Russia's official media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, demanded that TikTok take down any information \"encouraging minors to act illegally\", threatening large fines. The education ministry had told parents not to allow their children to attend any demonstrations.\n\nProtesters ignored extreme cold and threats of arrest in Moscow and other cities and towns\n\nIn a push to gain support ahead of the protests, Mr Navalny's team released a video about a luxury Black Sea resort that they allege belongs to President Putin - an accusation denied by the Kremlin. The video has been watched by more than 65 million people.\n\nThe UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, condemned the \"use of violence against peaceful protesters and journalists\" on Saturday, calling on the authorities to release those detained during peaceful demonstrations.\n\nThe US state department condemned what it called \"harsh tactics\" used against protesters and journalists, saying: \"We call on Russian authorities to release all those detained for exercising their universal rights and for the immediate and unconditional release of Aleksey Navalny\".\n\nThe EU foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said the bloc's foreign ministers would discuss the Russian crackdown on Monday. \"I deplore widespread detentions, disproportionate use of force, cutting down internet and phone connections.\"", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic. We'll have another update for you on Sunday morning.\n\nSenior doctors have asked England's chief medical officer to halve the current 12-week gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-Biontech Covid-19 vaccine. The wait was originally three weeks but was then extended, a decision which Prof Chris Whitty said would double the number of people receiving jabs. But, in a letter seen by the BBC, the British Medical Association said the delay was \"difficult to justify\". It comes after the prime minister revealed the UK variant of Covid-19 may be more deadly.\n\nEfforts to distribute the jab in the European Union have faced another setback after UK drug-maker AstraZeneca warned of supply issues. Vaccinations have already been halted in some parts of Europe due to a cut in deliveries of the Pfizer vaccine. Cases in many European countries are surging. Germany has reached 50,000 Covid deaths and Spain has seen record infections in recent weeks.\n\nElizabeth Kerr and Simon O'Brien were engaged to be married when they were taken to hospital in the same ambulance with Covid-19. As his condition worsened, staff at Milton Keynes University Hospital rallied to arrange a wedding for them - and they were able to marry moments before he was sedated and put on a ventilator. Mrs Kerr said she was told it could be their only chance.\"Those are words I never, ever want to hear again,\" she said.\n\nElizabeth Kerr and Simon O'Brien were married moments before he was put on a mechanical ventilator\n\nOn 23 January last year, the Chinese authorities severed transport links out of Wuhan and confined the city's population to their homes. Wuhan has long since recovered from the world's first outbreak of Covid-19. Its streets are bustling again. A year on, John Sudworth explores how it is now being remembered not as a disaster but as a victory, and with an insistence that the virus came from somewhere - anywhere - else.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Robin Brant visits the Wuhan market where Covid-19 was first traced\n\nMillions of us are less physically active than we were before Covid-19. For those working from home, days on end can be spent hunched over a laptop without ever leaving the house. A survey of people working remotely, by Opinium for the charity Versus Arthritis, found 81% of respondents were experiencing some back, neck or shoulder pain. Here are some tips that could help.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWondering when you might be able to get a vaccine? Health reporter Philippa Roxby takes you through what you need to know.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Questions should be asked if politicians who drank on Welsh Parliament premises during a pub alcohol ban can stand for re-election, an ex-standards official has said.\n\nSenedd Tory leader Paul Davies, Darren Millar and Labour's Alun Davies have apologised - they are not thought to have broken the rules, but the two Tories admitted it would not be seen as in their spirit.\n\nA fourth Senedd Member Nick Ramsay has denied being part of the gathering.", "Amy says her flat isn't worth anything until it is made safe\n\nThe government's fund to pay for the removal of dangerous cladding is woefully inadequate, oversubscribed and taking too long to make buildings safe, campaigners say.\n\nMore than three and a half years since the Grenfell Tower fire which killed 72 people, an estimated 700,000 people are still living in high-rise blocks with flammable cladding.\n\nThe £1.6bn Building Safety Programme was set up in 2019. Concerns have emerged about the contract that the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government requires applicants to the fund, usually managing agents or building owners, to sign.\n\nA clause in the contract, seen by the BBC, indicates applicants will be financially liable for any repair work not covered by the fund.\n\nThe BBC has learnt that some managing agents are refusing to sign the document, further delaying the repair work, and have written to the government asking ministers to clarify the position.\n\nChristian Hansen, a solicitor at Bindmans LLP specialising in housing law and fire safety claims, said the contract showed that \"there's going to be a significant shortfall between the costs of the [repair] works that are required and the funding provided under the scheme\".\n\n\"Someone is going to need to pick up the bill and pay the difference. This contract makes clear it's going to be the leaseholders and for many, this could be tens of thousands of pounds, potentially ruinous costs,\" he warned.\n\nMr Hansen said that leaseholders wanted the focus of government action \"to be on the manufacturers of the defective materials and construction companies who built these buildings\".\n\n\"At the moment, they are the ones profiting from putting people's lives at risk.\"\n\n\"It is absolutely terrifying knowing that you are stuck here,\" says Amy\n\nFirst-time buyer Amy Cottenden, who is 28, bought a one-bed flat in Metis Tower in the centre of Sheffield for £85,000 in 2017.\n\nInspections of the 14-storey building in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy revealed it had the same type of flammable ACM cladding and other safety faults.\n\nWork to remove the cladding started last month, but Ms Cottenden, who is a frontline NHS health worker, is frustrated at what she describes as a lack of progress.\n\n\"The pace of work is extremely slow. So far, they've put scaffolding up and removed three panels. They have told us it's going to take between 12 and 24 months just to take the cladding off,\" she said.\n\n\"It is absolutely terrifying knowing that you are stuck here. With lockdown, they are saying not to go out, but you are in a building where all you want to do is not be in it. You can't leave. You can't sell. My flat isn't worth anything until it is made safe.\"\n\nWhile the government's Building Safety Fund is paying for the Grenfell-style cladding to be removed, the building has other fire safety faults, including missing fire breaks, that aren't covered by the scheme.\n\nIt could cost up to £6m to fix. Flat owners fear they may face huge bills of up to £50,000 each.\n\n\"We can't pay it and we shouldn't have to pay it. It is not our fault. We could all go bankrupt because of this,\" Ms Cottenden said.\n\nA spokesperson for Rendall & Rittner, the company which manages Metis Tower, said government funding to remove ACM cladding had been approved totalling £6.3m.\n\nHowever, an application to the same fund to pay for the removal of other types of unsafe cladding was rejected and the company has appealed against that decision.\n\nThe company added: \"We understand and sympathise with residents and owners about the uncertainty that this situation is causing and will do all we can to assist.\"\n\nWhat started as a cladding scandal has now become a much wider building safety crisis, exposing decades of regulatory failure.\n\nSafety inspections have revealed that many buildings have other serious faults, including missing fire breaks, flammable balconies and defective insulation. None of that is covered by the government's Building Safety Fund.\n\nDr Nigel Glen, the chief executive of ARMA, the trade association for residential leasehold management, said the additional costs that leaseholders were currently facing for non-cladding-related issues remained a huge concern.\n\n\"In the longer term, the draining of reserve funds will also mean that in the years to come, any major works that were being saved up for, such as a new roof or lift repairs, will have to be funded anew by the leaseholders,\" he added.\n\nA spokesperson for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government said that despite the pandemic, significant progress had been made to remove dangerous cladding, but \"building safety remains the responsibility of the building owner and we expect them to ensure any necessary work is carried out safely and effectively\".\n\n\"All applicants to the Building Safety Fund are told the amount of funding they have been awarded before being asked to sign contracts - this is clearly explained in the guidance,\" the spokesperson added.", "Scientists say signs a new coronavirus variant is more deadly than the earlier version should not be a \"game changer\" in the UK's response to the pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson has said there is \"some evidence\" the variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nBut the co-author of the study the PM was referring to said the variant's deadliness remained an \"open question\".\n\nAnother adviser said he was surprised Mr Johnson had shared the findings when the data was \"not particularly strong\".\n\nA third top medic said it was \"too early\" to be \"absolutely clear\".\n\nAt a Downing Street coronavirus news conference on Friday, the prime minister said: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the South East - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\"\n\nSpeaking alongside the PM, the government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, Sir Patrick said if 1,000 men in their 60s were infected with the old variant, roughly 10 of them would be expected to die - but this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nThe announcement followed a briefing by scientists on the government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag) which concluded there was a \"realistic possibility\" that the variant was associated with an increased risk of death.\n\nBut one of the briefing's co-authors, Prof Graham Medley, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The question about whether it is more dangerous in terms of mortality I think is still open.\"\n\n\"In terms of making the situation worse it is not a game changer. It is a very bad thing that is slightly worse,\" added Prof Medley, who is a professor of infectious disease modelling at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.\n\nAnother 1,348 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Saturday, in addition to 33,552 new infections, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nThere is huge uncertainty in the evidence on how lethal the variant is.\n\nThe scientific experts that reviewed the data used a precise phrase saying it was a \"realistic possibility\" the new variant is more deadly.\n\nThat means there's a roughly 50-50 chance it will turn out to be true.\n\nWith time, and sadly more deaths, the picture will become clearer.\n\nWhile people debate the uncertainties though, we already know this variant has the ability to kill more people than the old ones.\n\nA virus that spreads faster (this one is 30-70% faster) will infect more people, more quickly, putting a greater strain on hospitals and leading to a sharper spike in deaths.\n\nIt is why viruses becoming more transmissible can be a bigger problem than ones becoming more deadly.\n\nNervtag's chairman Prof Peter Horby defended the government's \"transparency\" in making the announcement.\n\n\"Scientists are looking at the possibility that there is increased severity... and after a week of looking at the data we came to the conclusion that it was a realistic possibility,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to be transparent about that. If we were not telling people about this we would be accused of covering it up.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance: \"There is evidence that there's an increased risk for those who have the new variant\"\n\nBut Dr Mike Tildesley, a member of Sage subgroup the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M), agreed it was too early to draw \"strong conclusions\" as the suggested increased mortality rates were based on \"a relatively small amount of data\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast he was \"actually quite surprised\" Mr Johnson had made the early findings public rather than monitoring the data \"for a week or two more\".\n\n\"I just worry that where we report things pre-emptively where the data are not really particularly strong,\" Dr Tildesley added.\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle also said it was not \"absolutely clear\" the new variant was more deadly than the original.\n\n\"There is some evidence, but it is very early evidence. It is small numbers of cases and it is far too early to say,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nMeanwhile, senior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe British Medical Association told Prof Chris Whitty an extension to the maximum gap between jab from three weeks to 12 weeks, to get the first dose to more people, was \"difficult to justify\".", "In 2002 Julienne created a motor stunt show that ran for many years at Disney theme parks in Paris and Florida. Image caption: In 2002 Julienne created a motor stunt show that ran for many years at Disney theme parks in Paris and Florida.\n\nRémy Julienne, one of the world's best-known stuntmen, has died in France with coronavirus, aged 90.\n\nOver a 50-year career, Julienne devised the crashes, crunches and collisions witnessed in more than 1,400 films.\n\nHe also starred in many of them, albeit anonymously.\n\nThe legendary cascadeur (stunt performer) appeared as a body double for a host of stars, including Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Charles Bronson and Jean-Paul Belmondo.\n\nIn wig and appropriate clothing, he also took on the form of Sophia Loren, Carole Bouquet and Gina Lollobrigida.\n\nAmong his most famous works are the chase scenes in 1969's The Italian Job, in which a fleet of Mini-Coopers in Turin cross a river, dive into the metro and jump from the roof of the Fiat factory.\n\nHe also worked on six Bond films, notably going behind the wheel of a battered yellow Citroën 2CV in For Your Eyes Only.\n\nA life-long lover of motorbikes and anything driven at speed, Julienne specialised in spectacular destruction. But he was committed to the maximum elimination of risk and calculated his stunts with extreme precision.\n\n\"What is beautiful about the job is that you can never be 100% certain,\" he said. \"If you could, then frankly it wouldn't be interesting.", "Keon Lincoln died after being subjected to \"inconceivable violence\"\n\nA second boy has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a 15-year-old who was attacked by a group of youths.\n\nKeon Lincoln was \"set upon\" at about 15:30 GMT on Thursday on Linwood Road in Handsworth, Birmingham, and died later in hospital, police said.\n\nA 14-year-old boy was arrested at a Birmingham address on Friday and is in custody, said West Midlands Police.\n\nAnother 14-year-old, arrested earlier on Friday, also remains in custody.\n\nDet Ch Insp Alastair Orencas, who is leading a murder inquiry, said Keon died \"in the most violent of circumstances\".\n\nThe latest arrest was \"another step forward and Keon's family have been fully updated with this latest development,\" he said.\n\n\"This is a challenging investigation given the number of offenders we believe were involved, but I have a dedicated team of officers working 24/7 to identify those involved and we are making swift progress.\"\n\nKeon was attacked on Linwood Road, a residential street in the Handsworth area of Birmingham\n\nThe attackers fled the scene in a car which crashed into a house a short distance away. Police have seized the vehicle.\n\nCordons placed at the scene in Linwood Road and Wheeler Street, where the car was abandoned, have now been lifted, said the West Midlands force.\n\nPolice confirmed Keon, who lived locally, was attacked with weapons but did not specify which sort.\n\nDetectives say they are unable to say how he died before a post-mortem examination takes place.\n\nAnyone who could identify the attackers has been urged to contact the force.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police released body-worn camera footage of people streaming from the premises\n\nTwo officers were injured as they broke up an \"incredibly selfish\" party, involving about 200 people, in one of London's most expensive neighbourhoods.\n\nOfficers investigated an address on Beauchamp Place, Kensington, at about 03.30 GMT on 17 January, following reports of a mass gathering.\n\nAttendees became hostile and pushed through to avoid being fined, injuring two officers, police said.\n\nThe owner has previously been issued with a £1,000 fine, police said.\n\nPolice discovered about 200 guests at a party on Beauchamp Place, Kensington\n\nSupt Michael Walsh said: \"Attending or organising such parties during this critical period is an incredibly selfish decision to make.\n\n\"While the majority of breaches have been resolved without incident, it deeply saddens me that some individuals have chosen to assault police who are simply doing their part in the collective battle against this deadly virus.\"\n\nPolice said the event was one of a string of late-night parties uncovered in Kensington over the last month.\n\nOn 20 December, police shut down an illegal gathering at a commercial property on Montpelier Street. The property has since been closed.\n\nAn owner of a venue on Harrow Road is facing a £10,000 fine after police found more than 30 socialising during a raid on 16 January.\n\nOn Thursday, police also broke up a wedding party in north London.\n\nThe Met Police originally claimed about 400 guests were at the gathering, but then on Friday said 150 people were present at the Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The number of coronavirus patients on mechanical ventilation in the UK has passed 4,000 for the first time in the pandemic.\n\nA total of 4,076 Covid patients were in ventilator beds as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.\n\nIt comes as another 1,348 deaths and 33,552 new infections were reported on Saturday.\n\nThe UK's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, told a Downing Street news briefing on Friday: \"The death rate's awful and it's going to stay, I'm afraid, high for a little while before it starts coming down.\"\n\nMeanwhile, new figures show that a record number of seriously-ill Covid patients are being transferred from over-stretched hospitals because of a lack of bed space.\n\nAbout 1 in 10 patients admitted to intensive care are being sent to a different site, according to the body which audits critical care services.\n\nIn a series of reports in the past week, the BBC's Clive Myrie has been to a mortuary and the Royal London Hospital, where 12 out of 15 floors are occupied by Covid patients and staff are struggling to cope.\n\nMartin Freeborn's wife Helen, 64, died with Covid-19 at the hospital shortly before he spoke to the BBC.\n\nMr Freeborn urged people to \"be over-careful\" in taking precautions to stay safe from the virus because \"you don't want this to happen\".\n\n\"Nobody wants to go through this... Don't end up like us, please,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Martin Freeborn's wife, Helen, died from Covid at the Royal London Hospital: 'Don't end up like us, please'\n\nThe number of people in mechanical ventilation beds has climbed every day since 18 December when it was 1,364 and now stands at 4,076.\n\nIt is one of the key figures the government considers when deciding its policy on when to ease coronavirus lockdown restrictions.\n\nWhen the pandemic first struck the UK, the government saw what had happened in hospitals in China and Italy and prioritised the provision of ventilators in British hospitals.\n\nIt set about buying as many ventilators as possible, and encouraged British manufacturers to design the machines to build stocks to cope with the worst-case Covid scenario. In September last year, a report found the NHS now had 30,000 ventilators available - about one for every 2,200 people in the UK.\n\nPeople in hospital are also being treated differently from the early days of the pandemic - which may explain why figures suggest slightly more people go on to recover after being on ventilation than back in March, April and May.\n\nA number of drugs are being tested as possible treatments for people with the disease, the BBC's health and science correspondent James Gallagher has said.\n\nThey include the steroid dexamethasone, which has been shown to reduce the risk of death by a third for ventilated patients and by a fifth for those on oxygen. Encouraging results have also been reported from two anti-inflammatory medications, tocilizumab and sarilumab.\n\nDr Ami Jones, intensive care consultant at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, in Wales, said there had been \"carnage\" for the \"last few weeks\".\n\nSpeaking whilst on shift, she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We're maybe at 150% capacity and I know London are much worse than that.\n\n\"We've a steady stream of fit, young patients requiring critical care and sadly we're losing some of those patients.\n\n\"We lost a patient overnight and I've replaced them with a patient of similar age.\n\n\"It's heartbreaking - and it's been going on for weeks and weeks and we haven't seen any kind of stop yet.\"\n\nDr Jones said the average Covid patient stays in hospital between two to four weeks \"and it really puts them through it\".\n\nShe added: \"You really want people who are going to be able to survive that three or four weeks and actually come out the other end and make a good recovery.\n\n\"We're not stopping people having care but we're giving it to the people we feel have the best chance of getting through what is a horrific situation we're going to put them through.\"\n\nDr Jones said nurses are \"broken\", both physically, from months of long shifts in personal protective equipment (PPE), and emotionally - partly due to the impact of the virus on them, their families and the community.\n\nDr Rupert Pearse, consultant in intensive care medicine at a London hospital, speaking on behalf of the Intensive Care Society, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that a \"huge number\" of patients were still attending hospital.\n\nHe said: \"Whilst we know the infection rate has probably now peaked, and we can be hopeful to soon be sure we've hit a hospital admissions peak, admissions to ICU [the intensive care unit] usually lag 48 hours behind that.\n\n\"So we're still very very worried that we're being pushed right up to the wire in terms of the resources we're able to deliver for patient care.\"\n\nDr Pearse added that there were three or four times more critical care beds in some hospitals than they would usually have.\n\nHe said: \"I can remember a time when it would take years for an intensive care unit to negotiate one extra bed on a complement of 14 or 15 beds.\n\n\"We, within a few weeks, have massively increased the number of beds and finding the staff - most importantly of all - to deliver that has been a huge logistical exercise.\"\n\nReacting to the ventilation figures, Dr Charlotte Hopkins, deputy chief medical officer for Barts Health NHS trust in east London, said on Twitter there had been a \"fast-paced increase\" since 18 December, and that more than a third of the 4,076 ventilated patients were in London.\n\nIt comes as some scientists said that signs a new Covid variant is more deadly than the earlier version should not be a \"game changer\" in the UK's response to the pandemic.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday that there was \"some evidence\" the variant that emerged in the UK may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nBut Prof Graham Medley, the co-author of the study the PM was referring to, said the variant's deadliness remained an \"open\" question.\n\nDr Mike Tildesley, a member of Sage subgroup the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M), said he was \"surprised\" Mr Johnson had shared the findings when the data was \"not particularly strong\".\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle said it was \"too early\" to be \"absolutely clear\".\n\n\"There is some evidence, but it is very early evidence. It is small numbers of cases and it is far too early to say,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nUp to and including 22 January, 5,861,351 people have now had their first Covid jab and 468,617 have had their second dose.\n\nSenior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe British Medical Association told Prof Chris Whitty an extension to the maximum gap between jab from three weeks to 12 weeks, to get the first dose to more people, was \"difficult to justify\".\n\nThe UK's four chief medical officers have previously defended the delay to the second jab in a letter to medical staff, saying: \"unvaccinated people are far more likely to end up severely ill, hospitalised [or] in some cases dying\".", "Even while posted at the US Capitol, many troops have been seen sleeping on the floor\n\nUS President Joe Biden has apologised after some members of the National Guard stationed at the Capitol were pictured sleeping in a car park.\n\nMore than 25,000 troops were deployed to Washington DC for his inauguration after violence earlier this month.\n\nImages spread on Thursday showing them forced to rest in a nearby parking garage after lawmakers returned.\n\nThe conditions sparked anger among politicians, and some state governors recalled troops over the controversy.\n\nMr Biden called the chief of the National Guard Bureau on Friday to apologise and ask what could be done, according to US media reports.\n\nFirst Lady Jill Biden also visited some of the troops to thank them personally, bringing biscuits from the White House as a gift.\n\n\"I just wanted to come today to say thank you to all of you for keeping me and my family safe,\" she said.\n\nThe photographs showing hundreds of troops in a parking garage went viral on Thursday and sparked outrage, including from members of Congress.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMany voiced concerns about the conditions, with guardsmen exposed to car fumes and without proper access to facilities like toilets after having been on alert for days.\n\nImages of the cramped conditions also sparked fears about the spread of coronavirus.\n\nA US official, speaking anonymously to Reuters news agency, said on Friday that between 100 and 200 of those deployed had tested positive for Covid-19. The figure - which would represent a small proportion of the more than 25,000 deployed, has not been publicly confirmed.\n\nChuck Schumer, a Democrat and the new Senate majority leader, said that the move was \"an outrage\" and pledged it \"will never happen again\".\n\nRon DeSantis, Florida's governor, was among those who said he had ordered guards from his state to return home following the controversy.\n\n\"This is a half-cocked mission at this point and the appropriate thing is to bring them home,\" he told Fox News on Friday.\n\nThe Senate Rules Committee is also investigating the issue, Senator Roy Blunt told Politico.\n\nThere are conflicting reports about why the troops were moved from the Capitol.\n\nA National Guard spokesman told US media they were moved on Thursday afternoon at the request of the Capitol Police because of \"increased foot traffic\" as Congress came back into session.\n\nThe acting chief of the Capitol Police, Yogananda Pittman, later said her agency \"did not instruct the National Guard to vacate the Capitol Building facilities\", while two officers contradicted her statement in comments to the Associated Press news agency.\n\nThe decision was reversed later on Thursday, when the troops were allowed to return to the Capitol.\n\nA joint statement from the US National Guard and US Capitol Police on Friday said they had worked together to make sure those in the Capitol Complex had \"appropriate spaces\" to take on-duty breaks.\n\nThey also said off-duty troops were being housed in hotel rooms or other accommodation and thanked members of Congress for their concern.\n\nSome 19,000 guardsmen will return to their home states in the coming days with about 7,000 expected to stay on in Washington, according to the New York Times.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Relatives of older people in Wales called the vaccinations \"poorly organised\"\n\nRural GPs are to run new community vaccination centres after concerns over the speed of the roll-out in Wales.\n\nFrom Saturday, three new vaccination hubs will open to give over-80s and those with mobility issues the jab.\n\nIt comes after some living in rural areas said they had been told to travel miles to get the jab or wait weeks to have their first dose.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said it would help immunise hundreds of over-80s this weekend.\n\nThere has been criticism of the speed of the roll-out in Wales, with some telling the BBC elderly and housebound relatives had been told there would be a wait if they could not get to their GP surgery.\n\nA total of 212,317 people have been given their first dose of vaccine in Wales, up to 21 January - just over 6.7% of the population.\n\nThe Welsh Government hopes to have 70% of over-80s immunised by the end of this weekend.\n\nBy 21 January, 30% of the over-80s and 60% of care home residents had been given the first dose.\n\nOn Saturday, the Welsh Government announced doctors surgeries in rural areas would join forces to help administer the jab to the elderly and vulnerable.\n\nThe first of the new community centres, run by clusters of GP practices, are to open on the Llyn Peninsula, in Buckley in Flintshire, and Bridgend.\n\nThey will be able to administer both the Pfizer-BioNTech and the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccines.\n\nUntil now, the Pfizer vaccine could only be administered at special mass-vaccination centres, due to the low temperatures it needs to be stored at.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it hoped 3,000 people would get the vaccine administered at the centres this weekend.\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething said: \"Vaccination is our top priority so I want to thank all the GP practices right across Wales that are working in unison to set up these new community vaccination centres.\n\n\"This enables GPs to use both of the vaccines available to us and will help more people to be vaccinated somewhere that is much closer to home than the large vaccination centres.\n\n\"Every week, our vaccination programme speeds up as more centres are opened and more vaccines are available for the small army of healthcare professionals administering vaccines.\"\n\nIn north Wales, a group of GPs have formed a group to deliver about 1,000 vaccines to elderly and vulnerable people.\n\nDr Eilir Hughes, a GP at Ty Doctor Surgery, Gwynedd, said rural GPs had faced a \"real challenge\" to get the most vulnerable patients vaccinated as soon as possible.\n\nThe surgery is about 50 miles away from the nearest vaccination centre in north-west Wales.\n\nHe said bringing three GP practices together to vaccinate hundreds of patients in two days was a \"Herculean effort\".", "Helen White's lighting business is struggling to absorb a six-fold increase in freight costs.\n\n\"We were paying £1,600 per container in November, this month we've been quoted over £10,000,\" says Helen White.\n\nThe founder of start-up Houseof.com, which imports lighting from China, says the rise in shipping costs means she's making a loss on what she sells.\n\nShe's one of many UK importers facing soaring freight costs amid a global shipping crisis that may last months.\n\nA shortage of empty shipping containers in Asia and bottlenecks at the UK's deep sea ports are behind the problems.\n\nIt was hoped the backlogs could be cleared during the Chinese New Year holiday in February, but instead a coronavirus outbreak in China is adding to the uncertainty facing firms.\n\nIn the UK the difficulties in international shipping have coincided with problems faced by businesses trading with the EU after Brexit.\n\nOne Manchester-based freight forwarder said the logistics industry is facing the most challenging conditions he's seen in the 17 years he's been in the business.\n\nCraig Poole from Cardinal Maritime said during lockdowns, people have been turning to online shopping, and that's causing a surge in demand for goods from China.\n\nFreight forwarder Craig Poole says the logistics industry is facing hugely challenging conditions\n\nBut some companies can't absorb the skyrocketing freight costs that shipping lines are charging. That could lead to higher prices for consumers or businesses having to close.\n\n\"The really unfortunate thing is, the small businesses who can't afford to pay those rates are going to go under as a result,\" Mr Poole said.\n\nHelen White's lighting range is designed in the UK and manufactured in Guangzhou, China.\n\nShe said the six-fold increase in shipping costs is hard to take, especially when getting hold of a container \"is like gold dust\".\n\n\"It's really hard for a small business to absorb those costs. We'll be making a loss on the goods we're selling.\"\n\nLighting seller houseof.com is struggling to import stock from China\n\nAt the other end of the supply chain, Chinese manufacturers and logistics firms say they are equally frustrated.\n\nJohnny Tseng is the owner and director of Hong Kong-based J&B Clothing Company Ltd., which manufactures garments for some of the UK's most popular fashion sites including Boohoo and Pretty Little Thing.\n\nHe's been supplying clothes to British retailers for more than 40 years, but he says his family-run firm won't be able to absorb inflated shipping rates for much longer.\n\n\"To be honest I don't even know how we can survive if we carry on shipping things at this kind of cost.\"\n\nJohnny Tseng says sky-high shipping rates are putting his business at risk.\n\nHe says he's now being quoted $14,000 to ship a container to the UK, when the usual price is $2,500.\n\nThe shortage of empty containers in China and congestion at UK ports caused some of his stock to miss the busy Christmas trading period. Now some customers are holding orders for their Autumn-Winter collections until next year.\n\n\"It's chaos,\" he said. \"We are making a loss. We take it as a loss leader and keep our fingers crossed it will go back to normal after Chinese New Year, but it is a major issue if it persists this way.\"\n\nUsually during the Chinese New Year holiday, factories in China shut down for two weeks. There were hopes the pause in production would give UK ports a chance to clear the backlog of ships waiting to dock, and encourage shipping lines to move more empty containers back to Asia, which is a less profitable journey.\n\nChinese workers usually travel home for the Chinese New Year holiday.\n\nBut rising numbers of coronavirus cases have prompted the Chinese authorities to stagger factory closing dates so that not all workers are travelling to their home regions at the same time. A worsening outbreak could lead to travel restrictions, in which case some factories may not stop production at all.\n\nCraig Poole says some companies have been caught out by factories closing earlier than planned.\n\n\"A lot of businesses that can't get those goods away are delaying orders until after Chinese New Year, so this situation could continue 'til March,\" he said.\n\nPatrick Lee from the Hong Kong-based Unique Logistics International said it could be even longer than that.\n\n\"Middle of the year at the earliest is what we're hearing from end customers in the UK, and also from some of our people in the industry. Some of the carriers as well,\" he said.\n\nMr Lee has called on the shipping lines to add more ships to help ease the backlog of stock orders building up at warehouses across China.\n\n\"They are increasing sailing but can increase a lot more. There are idle ships out there that they can reactivate without too much difficulty,\" he said.\n\nThe disruption could last for several months, according to logistics specialist Patrick Lee\n\nBut a spokeswoman for the World Shipping Council said carriers are using all available capacity.\n\n\"The demand for transportation service far exceeds supply. As in any free market, this puts upward pressure on rates,\" she said.\n\nShipping lines have been trying to drive down demand from British importers by charging a premium for deliveries to the UK, or bypassing the country's ports altogether.\n\nOne shipping line recently offered freight rates of $12,050 for a 40ft container from China to Southampton, but charged just $8,450 for the same container to travel from China to Rotterdam, Hamburg, or Antwerp.\n\nThe UK's largest container port at Felixstowe has been experiencing long delays since October. Congestion has also been a problem at the Port of Southampton, albeit to a lesser extent.\n\nThe bottlenecks were initially caused by a surge in imports as business activity picked up after the first wave of the pandemic. Huge shipments of PPE and the usual Christmas rush added to container volumes and ports struggled to cope.\n\nThe UK's largest container port at Felixstowe has been experiencing bottlenecks for months\n\n\"Most of the carriers just don't want UK cargo because of the issues when the vessels dock, so mainly they're favouring European ports and we are having to truck containers over,\" said freight forwarder Craig Poole.\n\nHe said that adds a cost of up to £2,000 per container, and takes an extra seven to ten days to reach the delivery point in the UK.\n\nFor business-owners like Helen White, the difficulties affecting the shipping industry can't be solved quickly enough.\n\n\"Lots of little start-ups are really hurting,\" she said. \"It has been paired with logistical nightmares across Europe as well. It just feels like logistics is falling apart at the moment. It's hard to see where the resolution is.\"", "Paul Davies had been preparing to lead his party's Senedd election campaign in the coming months\n\nPaul Davies has been something of an understated figure leading the Welsh Conservative group in Cardiff Bay since he won the race to succeed Andrew RT Davies in September 2018.\n\nThe Senedd member for Preseli Pembrokeshire tried to move the party group in the direction of being more sceptical of devolution.\n\nBut a row over drinking on Senedd premises ended his ambitions to be the first Conservative first minister of Wales.\n\nBorn in 1969, Paul Davies grew up in the village of Pontsian in Ceredigion.\n\nHe attended Llandysul Grammar School and Newcastle Emlyn Comprehensive School before working for a bank for 20 years.\n\nMr Davies entered Cardiff Bay politics in 2007 when he was elected to the then National Assembly for Wales. He was appointed deputy leader of the Welsh Conservative group in 2011 before becoming interim leader and then leader in 2018.\n\nPaul Davies backed Boris Johnson in the UK Conservative leadership campaign in 2019\n\nPresented as a safe pair of hands during his leadership campaign he has, at times, almost appeared to have been overshadowed by his predecessor Andrew RT Davies, who sometimes seems to enjoy media appearances more than his leader.\n\nFaced with the potential rise of the Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party, Paul Davies attempted to steer the Welsh Tories towards a more devo-sceptic, if not anti-devolution, approach.\n\nHe pledged a future Conservative Welsh Government would not \"tread on Westminster's turf\", and \"respect what is not devolved\" by \"unpicking\" the Welsh Government's international relations department.\n\nThere were also promises to halve the current number of Welsh ministers to seven, freeze civil servant recruitment and not increase the budget of the body which runs the Senedd if he became first minister.\n\nWelsh political structures need a \"dose\" of Dominic Cummings, Paul Davies has said\n\nBut the coronavirus pandemic has, arguably, made it even harder for opposition party leaders in the Senedd to cut through to the wider electorate.\n\nThe crisis has given Labour First Minister Mark Drakeford a much bigger profile, on a Wales and UK stage, making it more difficult for other Welsh party leaders to get onto the news agenda.\n\nLast July, there were raised eyebrows when Paul Davies suggested \"a dose of Dom\" was needed in Wales to \"shake up\" its governance.\n\nThe reference to the prime minister's now departed chief advisor and brutal political operator Dominic Cummings was interesting, given the criticism heaped on Mr Cummings a couple of months earlier for driving his family 260 miles from his London home to Durham during lockdown, and a subsequent 25-mile trip to check his eyesight before a return trip.\n\nBacking Remain at the 2016 referendum on EU membership, Paul Davies aimed to steer a steady course during a fractious period for a Conservative Party dealing with the polarising issue of Brexit.\n\nHe has been loyal to the UK party leader of the day, and often stuck to the Westminster line rather than try to carve an independent stance.\n\nDespite this, Mr Davies had wanted the Tory Senedd group leader to be given the title Welsh Conservative leader.\n\nIt is something the party has never formally agreed to do despite a review of its Welsh structures.", "Up to 500 new prison cells are to be built in women's jails, the Ministry of Justice has announced.\n\nThese will be built in existing women's prisons to increase the number of single cells available and improve conditions.\n\nThey will include in-cell showers, and some will enable women to have overnight visits with their children to prepare for life at home after release.\n\nIn future, older cells could also be shut if the prison population reduces.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has also pledged almost £2m in funding to 38 charities so their \"vital work in steering women away from crime can continue\".\n\nThis may include addressing mental health problems and drug use, both of which affect around half of women in prison.\n\nPrisons minister Lucy Frazer said: \"This funding boost will allow frontline services to continue the incredible work they do with some of the most vulnerable women in our society to prevent them being drawn into crime.\"\n\nAnnouncing the funding, the government reiterated its promise to cut the number of women in custody and provide effective support to deal with problems which could lead to crime in the first place or reoffending.\n\nBut it admitted there could be a temporary rise of inmates in the near future as the number of investigations and prosecutions is expected to increase amid the hiring of 20,000 more police officers.\n\nIt added that the number of women in custody has fallen by 10% since 2010 and stressed that government investment in community services should see this trend continue in the long-term.\n\nIf the number of women in prison falls longer term, the MoJ says the new modern facilities will allow the Prison Service to close old accommodation.\n\nCampaigners largely welcomed the announcement, but warned the efforts do not go far enough to tackle longstanding problems.\n\nKate Paradine, chief executive of charity Women in Prison, said: \"This pledge and funding are just the start, and a far cry from what is needed in order to provide stability for women who face the sharp end of our society.\"\n\nShe called on the government in its upcoming Budget to safeguard the future of women's centres, which she described as an \"anchor that stop women being swept up into crime\" but warned were \"facing a funding cliff edge in April\".\n\nEmily Evison, policy officer at the Prison Reform Trust, said the plans would need to be backed up by \"action on the ground to prove effective\", adding: \"Instead of planning for a rise (in women prisoners), the government should redouble its efforts to ensure women are not being sent to prison to serve pointless short sentences.\"\n\nAndrew Neilson, director of campaigns at the Howard League for Penal Reform, said: \"If the goal is to reduce the number of women entering the criminal justice system, then today's announcement shows that ministers are looking at the issue down the wrong end of a telescope\", claiming the funding promised was \"dwarfed\" by the cost of the extra prison places.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teresa Dalling says a river of orange water rushed through the village on Thursday\n\nFlood victims will not be able to return to their homes until their safety can be assured, a council leader has said.\n\nThe Coal Authority has said initial checks suggested water built up in a mine shaft causing a \"blow out\" that flooded properties in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot.\n\nAbout 80 people were evacuated as water rushed through the village on Thursday.\n\nCouncil leader Rob Jones said it was unlikely residents could return Monday.\n\nHe said underground investigations would begin on Saturday and the work could take two to three days.\n\n\"Safety is the paramount concern for us,\" he said.\n\n\"Because we can't guarantee the site safety - that's the reason why people will remain away from their properties until such time as we can give the all clear.\n\n\"We don't know what the water has done underground.\"\n\nThe fire service said on Saturday morning the pumping operation was \"making good progress\".\n\nMr Jones told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast people may be able to return next week but \"did not want to raise hopes\" it will be Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe said the flooding was \"more than likely\" related to old mine workings with six mines known about in area. He said the industry dated back 300 years.\n\nSkewen resident John Thomas returned home from a funeral with wife Lynne on Thursday to find their house had turned into \"a lake\".\n\nHe said: \"The water was around the level of the bottom of the doors so we couldn't go in, so we just had to stand there and watch this orange-coloured water just piling up and up and up.\n\n\"Other people who were evacuated had the chance to move things upstairs, I didn't have a chance to do that because I couldn't get in to it.\"\n\nAt least 80 people had to leave their homes in the village after flooding\n\nLocal MP Stephen Kinnock said affected residents were staying in \"lots of different places\" across the region.\n\nAnd he praised the \"extraordinary\" generosity of the community and the support of the Salvation Army with donations of food, clothing and toiletries.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNatural Resources Wales (NRW) said officers were continuing to look at how to minimise the risk of pollution to nearby rivers, and investigating any impacts on the River Neath.\n\nThe Coal Authority, which manages the effects of past coal mining, is investigating the incident.\n\nChief executive Lisa Pinney said equipment, due on site on Saturday, would be used to drill into mine workings to \"fully investigate what has happened\".\n\n\"The blow out is likely to have been caused by a blockage underground which has caused water to back up and to break out using the easiest path,\" she said.\n\n\"The excessive rainfall of the past few days and the prolonged rainfall this winter, will have put additional pressure on the system.\n\n\"We know that people will want to get back to their homes and we will continue to progress these works as soon as possible, but public safety has to come first.\"\n\nThere are a number of historical mine workings in Skewen dating back beyond 1850.\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Jones said water was still pouring out of the affected site so workers were diverting it, while machines cleared gulleys and drains to give the water the chance to enter drainage systems.\n\nA residents' incident support centre has been set up at Abbey Primary School to offer help and information over the weekend, between 09:00-17:00 GMT.\n\nThe council has asked residents to be \"patient as the investigation continues\" and has set up a helpline. Tel. 01639 686868.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It is not clear if anyone not entitled succeeded in getting a Covid jab\n\nA health board boss has criticised council staff for potentially sharing Covid vaccine invites with colleagues.\n\nThe board meeting in North Wales heard some council staff, not within groups currently being vaccinated, booked appointments by following a link in an email only intended for the recipient.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr health board's chairman Mark Polin said such actions could deprive someone else of a jab.\n\nDenbighshire council said it had warned staff the emails were not to be abused.\n\nIt is not clear if anyone not entitled succeeded in getting a Covid jab, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.\n\nOnly front-line social care and health workers, those over 80 and 70 years old, care home residents and their carers are currently being vaccinated.\n\nIndependent member Jackie Hughes spoke about the matter at Thursday's monthly health board meeting.\n\nAnswering her query, Dr Chris Stockport, the health board's executive director of primary care and community services, said: \"We are very clear with our local authority partners and teams of what frontline means in the same way we are elsewhere.\n\n\"When you arrive [for a vaccine] there's a process of validation.\n\n\"The likelihood is they will experience some difficulties working through the booking system [if they try to get into a higher vaccination cohort].\n\n\"It adds complications for a busy team and I would ask them not to do that when it's a clear effort to circumvent the cohort.\"\n\nAt Thursday's daily press briefing the UK Government Home Secretary Priti Patel said people who jumped the queue for the vaccine were \"morally reprehensible\" as they were putting the lives of vulnerable people at risk.\n\nShe said all the UK Government's measures were under review but \"our focus is getting that vaccine to the most vulnerable to make sure we can protect them and obviously protect others in the community\".\n\nMr Polin added: \"Whilst we understand the concerns people should not be doing what they are doing.\n\n\"The priority groups have been identified with clear medical guidance and sound reasoning behind it.\n\n\"So people jumping the queue are depriving someone else, potentially, of receiving the vaccine at the point at which they should.\"\n\nHe said it was a temporary problem, adding: \"We are changing the booking system, so this opportunity is not going to last much longer.\"\n\nHe said staff were looking out for any inappropriate bookings.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nNon-league Chorley were unable to emulate the heroes from 1986 by causing an FA Cup sensation against Wolves - but the National League North side came away with all the credit from their fourth-round tie at Victory Park.\n\nVitinha's superb 30-yard shot after 12 minutes proved enough to secure an all-Premier League tie against Arsenal or Southampton at Molineux in the fifth round.\n\nBut Nuno Espirito Santo's side were less than impressive against their part-time opponents.\n\nChorley had the first shot of the match through Elliot Newby, and after Vitinha had struck his first Wolves goal with the visitors' only shot on target, it was the hosts who had the best chances.\n\nCrucially, they also pocketed around £120,000 in prize money, plus TV fees, to sustain them through what could be a difficult period after their league was suspended for two weeks amid funding concerns earlier in the day.\n\n\"If you are going to lose, I would prefer to lose to a goal like that than a scruffy goal,\" said Chorley boss Jamie Vermiglio.\n\n\"I am proud of what we have done for our community, my kids at school will remember that their head teacher got this far in the FA Cup. Hopefully it can inspire some of them.\n\n\"We are approaching up to half a million [in earnings from the cup run], we have people who are isolating, and those players have given them a little bit of happiness.\n\n\"If it is 2-0 or 3-0 at half-time the game is done and people are turning their TVs off. That did not happen. I felt we were in the game. Every player was outstanding.\"\n• None How to follow FA Cup fourth round on the BBC\n\nIf this does end up being Chorley's last game of the season, it is one they will remember for some time, not only for the action on the pitch but also for the huge volley of fireworks that went off behind the main stand minutes into the contest.\n\nFor visiting Wolves, it was a step into the unknown. Their starting line-up got changed in the away dressing room, while their substitutes - European Championship winner Rui Patricio and Spain international Adama Traore among them - readied themselves in a sponsors' lounge.\n\nSeemingly those starting the game on the bench got the better deal.\n\nWolves boss Nuno paid Chorley the compliment of picking a strong starting line-up, including £35.6m record signing Fabio Silva and England international Conor Coady.\n\nAnd had this match been played in more imposing surroundings, it could have been mistaken for one of those Premier League games where one side sits back, challenges the opposition to break them down and then hits them on the counter.\n\nWolves' return of 76% possession and one shot on target, set against Chorley's five shots on target, suggests home manager Vermiglio got his tactics spot on.\n\nIndeed, had Andy Halls, a personal trainer by day, not had his goal-bound header tipped over by John Ruddy after an hour, Chorley might have forced a different outcome.\n\n\"The scene was set for us to lose this game,\" said Nuno. \"John Ruddy did his job, everybody knows his quality. He helped us to win the game.\"\n\nIt was nevertheless a typically English FA Cup tie, enlivened by Vermiglio yelling \"nothing wrong with that\" when two Wolves players went down under agricultural challenges, and then laughing in Traore's face amid a brief skirmish.\n\nIt was fantastic knockabout stuff. Sadly, the enduring disappointment was that other than staff, media and stewards, no-one was there in person to witness it.\n• None Wolves have reached the FA Cup fifth round in three of the last five seasons, as many as in the 21 seasons prior to this.\n• None Premier League teams have progressed from 45 of their 47 FA Cup ties against non-league teams (96%), with only Norwich vs Luton in 2013 and Burnley vs Lincoln in 2017 failing to progress.\n• None Separated by 120 years and 362 days, Chorley have lost both of their FA Cup games against top-flight opponents, losing against Notts County in January 1900 and Wolves.\n• None Vitinha became the 32nd different Wolves player to score a goal for Nuno Espirito Santo in all competitions and the 11th different Portuguese player to do so, with what was his third shot in his 12th appearance.\n• None Since the start of 2017-18, Wolves have had 11 different Portuguese scorers - more than twice as many as any other English league team in that time (Nottingham Forest, five).\n\nWolves are next in action against Chelsea in the Premier League at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday, 27 January (18:00 GMT).\n• None Attempt blocked. Rayan Aït-Nouri (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Rúben Neves.\n• None Harry Cardwell (Chorley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Pedro Neto (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Rúben Neves.\n• None Arlen Birch (Chorley) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fábio Silva (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Pedro Neto. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "A restaurant worker in Lisbon, where benefits to those with symptoms, and those without, are generous\n\nThe idea of a flat £500 payment to anyone who tests positive for Covid-19 has been dismissed by the UK government. Health officials had come up with the suggestion in the hope of encouraging people with the illness to self-isolate.\n\nThere are concerns the virus is continuing to spread because some people are ignoring the instruction to stay home when they show symptoms or test positive. Downing Street has said there is already a £500 sum for those on low incomes who could not work from home and had to isolate. But this must be applied for and there have been high rejection rates in England at least, A behaviour expert who advises the government, told the BBC just 18% of people with symptoms were self-isolating for the full 10 days they were meant to.\n\nSo how do other countries handle the question of paying people to stay at home, or just trusting they will do the right thing? Here, BBC correspondents from Prague to New York, offer an insight.\n\nIn Portugal, even those who are just at-risk of contracting Covid - having been in direct contact with a confirmed case - are entitled to 100% of their basic salary, for 14 days, writes Alison Roberts, in Lisbon.\n\nFor those who show symptoms, or have tested positive, the same is available for up to 28 days. And the normal waiting times people are used to when claiming while ill have also been done away with - these Covid payments kick in on day one of isolation.\n\nThose not on permanent work contracts tend to be treated as self-employed and are eligible for benefits based on income declared. But there are a lot of people, including many immigrants, who lack the necessary paperwork, and are therefore not eligible to claim.\n\nNevertheless, it's perhaps not surprising that, because people are able to claim full basic pay, there hasn't been much, if any, debate about people obeying self-isolation. If there are reports of people not seeking tests, or not isolating, it seems to be more out of ignorance, which is certainly rather worrying.\n\nSlovenia has been offering compensation to people forced to self-isolate after exposure to coronavirus since it first introduced emergency measures in March, writes Guy De Launey in Ljubljana.\n\nDepending on the circumstances, this covers anything from 80% to the full amount of usual earnings. The payments may be made directly to people in quarantine, or as compensation to employers. A government official told the BBC that with its socialist past, it was normal for Slovenia to take care of people in quarantine by providing payments - and that without compensation, it would be impossible to deal with coronavirus.\n\nWhen the measures were first introduced, they enjoyed broad public support. But the second wave of the epidemic has seen case numbers skyrocket - Slovenia's per capita death-rate is now the third highest in the world - and public confidence overall has dipped.\n\nBy the end of 2020, market research company Valicon said that only 12% of Slovenians viewed the government's measures as \"appropriate\", adding that people were \"worried and dissatisfied with the social situation\", suggesting compensation is not a panacea.\n\nIn March last year, the US agreed to pay for some workers to stay at home - a big change for a country that had never paid sick leave requirement before, writes Natalie Sherman in New York.\n\nThe measure guaranteed up to 14 days of pay for workers forced to isolate because they had symptoms, had received medical advice to self-quarantine, or were under government lockdown orders. It also said it would guarantee two-thirds of pay for people caring for someone with the virus for up to two weeks. One study suggested it helped prevent hundreds of news cases a day.\n\nBut the assistance - paid by employers which were then reimbursed by the government via tax credits - expired on 31 December. And even before that, analysts estimated that loopholes meant roughly half of the country's workforce, including many grocery workers and medical staff were potentially excluded.\n\nAs part of his $1.9tn stimulus plan, President Joe Biden is pushing to renew the law, and end the exemptions. But the proposal - which his team estimates would expand the benefit to as many as 106 million more Americans - faces stiff resistance from Republicans and key business lobbies.\n\nIn Germany financial support is generous for people ordered to self-isolate by the authorities because of infection risk, writes Damien McGuinness in Berlin.\n\nAs a result there hasn't been a debate in Germany about breaking self-isolation rules because of financial need. Fines can be huge - tens of thousands of euros - and are strictly enforced. Overall there's no great issue with compliance and Germany's financial package has widespread cross-party backing, and is supported by voters.\n\nEmployees who are unable to work at home receive full pay for up to six weeks. This is paid by the employer, who is then reimbursed by the state. After that, workers may be eligible for sick-pay.\n\nFreelancers and self-employed people are generally also entitled to full pay for six weeks. But they would apply directly to their regional government. The exact rules and level of efficiency for payments vary from region to region. For those in the gig economy - Germany has it, though less so than Britain - this should be covered by state aid, based on tax returns.\n\nThe level of state support was agreed by Germany's national parliament in Berlin. But payments are administered and funded by regional governments.\n\nThere's been some discussion here about paying people to stay home if they test positive for Covid, writes Rob Cameron, in Prague.\n\nThe idea is advocated by at least one independent expert group. But it would be expensive, and the Czech state coffers are already stretched from keeping employees on furlough and paying compensation.\n\nInstead, salaried employees who receive a positive diagnosis are left with two choices: work from home - if they're up to it, if their job allows it and if their employer agrees, or go on sick leave for 10 days and receive 60% salary.\n\nFor the self-employed it's worse. Only those who have chosen to pay state sickness insurance will receive anything. Most opt out - the benefits are marginal. So most continue working from home - if their health and profession allows it.\n\nFor many workers, in other words, a positive Covid test can be a real blow to the wallet. It's an open secret that many people - especially freelancers in creative professions - beg friends and colleagues who test positive not to declare them as contacts, to avoid having to go into quarantine. For some the fear of losing work and money outweighs social responsibility.\n\nMoves to compensate people for taking time off work have largely been well received, writes Maddy Savage in Stockholm.\n\nTo encourage people to stay at home from the moment they develop coronavirus symptoms, the government changed the rules to allow Swedish employees and the self-employed to claim sick pay from the first day they are off, rather than the second. Employees receive about 80% of their salary while they isolate (capped at SEK 700 or £61.88 per day), and the self-employed are entitled to payments capped at 804 SEK or £71.05. The government has also introduced an allowance for people isolating because they live with someone who has coronavirus.\n\nWhile Sweden has largely kept primary schools open throughout the pandemic, parents have been able to make use of a pre-existing benefit which allows them to take state-funded time off work if their children are ill (with the virus or any other illness), and an additional benefit has been introduced for parents who are forced to take time off work to look after children affected by school closures as a result of a local outbreak.\n\nBut these measures have also stirred debates about welfare inequality. There are concerns that workers who are paid by the hour or on temporary contracts aren't entitled to the same level of sickness benefits as permanent staff - there are reports that this has encouraged some to keep working despite developing Covid-19 symptoms.", "Researchers have been tracking changes to the \"spike\" of the virus\n\nThe new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version, a study has found.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy of London's Imperial College said the differences between the viruses types was \"quite extreme\".\n\n\"There is a huge difference in how easily the variant virus spreads,\" he told BBC News. \"This is the most serious change in the virus since the epidemic began,\" he added.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nCases of Covid-19 have begun to increase rapidly during the second spike, and the number of cases recorded in a single day reached a new high on Thursday.\n\nEarly results indicated that the virus was spreading more quickly among under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children.\n\nBut the very latest data indicates that it was spreading quickly across all age groups, according to Prof Gandy who was a member of the research team.\n\n\"One possible explanation is that the early data was collected during the time of the November lockdown where schools were open and the activities of the adult population were more restricted. We are seeing now that the new virus has increased infectiousness across all age groups.\"\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said he believed that the new findings indicated that even tougher restrictions would soon be needed.\n\n\"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread, more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person infects. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nThe most chilling finding from this piece of research is that the November lockdown in England, hard though it was for many people, would not have stopped the variant form of the virus spreading. The same severe restrictions that saw cases of the previous version of the virus fall by a third, would see a tripling of the new variant. This is why there has been such a sudden tightening of restrictions across the country.\n\nIt is unclear whether the current restrictions will be enough to control the spread of the virus. Given the fact that it has taken two lockdowns to stop the earlier version of the virus overwhelming the NHS, many scientists fear that further tightening will be necessary.\n\nInfection levels will begin to drop as enough people are vaccinated. But until then it is now more important than ever for people to follow social distancing guidelines, wear masks where required and to regularly wash their hands.\n\nThe new year brings with it hope of a more normal life in the next few months but also a new form of the virus that all of us will have to combat in the coming days and weeks.\n\nProfessor Lawrence Young, of Warwick University, said early indications suggested that vaccines would be effective against the new form of the virus.\n\n\"Variants virus have been around since the beginning of the pandemic and are a product of the natural process by which viruses develop and adapt to their hosts as they replicate.\n\n\"Most of these mutations have no effect on the behaviour of the virus but very occasionally they can improve the ability of the virus to infect and/or become more resistant to the body's immune response.\"\n\nFurther research is needed to understand why the variant is spreading so quickly. But early indications are that vaccines should be effective against it.\n\nThe new virus has been designated \"Variant of Concern 202012/01\" or VOC by Public Health England.\n\nIt was detected in November and thought to have originated in the south-east England in September.\n\nThere is no evidence to suggest that it is more deadly, but it will increase the number of cases which in turn will add further pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe variant can now be found across the UK, except Northern Ireland, but it is heavily concentrated in London, as well as south-east and eastern England.", "The Black Country Living Museum normally gives visitors a taste of ordinary life in the Victorian era\n\nA venue that has doubled as a set for TV series Peaky Blinders is to operate as a Covid-19 vaccination centre.\n\nUsing Black Country Living Museum, a largely open-air site, to deliver jabs is said to be a \"game-changer\" for the local community.\n\nThe Dudley attraction, which is closed to tourists during lockdown, is expected to help administer thousands of injections a week.\n\nPeople are reminded they need an NHS letter of invitation before turning up.\n\nThe formal appointments will initially prioritise doses for people most at risk of complications from the virus.\n\nThe latest figures from NHS England showed 97,310 Covid jabs had been administered in Dudley and the surrounding area by Thursday - the second highest amount in the Midlands.\n\nBut rollout at the museum - which begins on Monday - will see it become Dudley's first vaccination centre.\n\nIt will complement existing GP-led vaccination services which are already up and running locally.\n\nCillian Murphy stars in Peaky Blinders, a Birmingham-set drama filmed in part at the museum\n\nThe museum normally gives visitors a taste of life in the Black Country during bygone days and has been used as a location for Peaky Blinders, the BBC TV series set in nearby Birmingham in the early 20th Century.\n\nSaying the step was a game-changer, Nicholas Barlow, Dudley Council member for health, said: \"Having the Black Country Living Museum on board as a vaccination centre will greatly increase the amount of jabs we can deliver, and the speed at which we can administer them.\n\n\"It will make people safer from this deadly virus more quickly.\"\n\nSally Roberts, Black Country and West Birmingham Clinical Commissioning Group chief nurse, said: \"Our progress [in the area] to date has been incredible and I am delighted that our first vaccination centre, which will be capable of delivering thousands more vaccines each week, is going live.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Appointments were brought forward or rescheduled for safety reasons\n\nFour vaccination centres were shut as snow caused some travel disruption in Wales.\n\nSunday appointments in Bridgend, Rhondda, Abercynon and Merthyr Tydfil were rescheduled for safety reasons, but centres will reopen on Monday, the Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board said.\n\nThe Met Office has extended a yellow weather warning to midnight on Sunday for all of Wales except Anglesey.\n\nA yellow warning for ice runs from midnight until 11:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nPolice have warned of difficult conditions due to snow and ice.\n\nUp to 3cm of snow is forecast to fall in most areas, with 10 to 15cm expected in the Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board urged anyone with queries about Sunday's vaccination appointments to call the number on their appointment letters.\n\nSnow volunteers cleared pathways so a Covid vaccine pilot in Maesteg could keep running\n\n\"We can confirm that no vaccines have been wasted as a consequence of this temporary Sunday closure and we are grateful to all those who were able to turn up at such short notice yesterday as we brought forward a significant number of Sunday appointments during the course of Saturday,\" it said.\n\n\"Additionally, our 4x4 arrangements are enabling us to continue to reach care homes to vaccinate the staff and residents there.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNorth Wales Police tweeted there was \"widespread snow this morning, particularly in some higher areas, making driving conditions difficult\".\n\nAnd Dyfed-Powys Police said some roads were \"impassable\" and advised people to \"stay home\".\n\nIn Bridgend, officers from South Wales Police were pelted with snowballs as they helped an injured sledger on Heol y Nant.\n\nNorth Wales Police warned of difficult conditions due to \"widespread snow\", particularly on high ground.\n\nIt said the A499 near Pwllheli had received heavy snowfall overnight.\n\nWelsh Ambulance Service boss Jason Killens tweeted, thanking the public for helping crews continue to work despite the conditions.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVillages were dusted with snow, such as in Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire\n\nNick Rolfe shared this garden view in Nercwys, near Mold, Flintshire\n\nThe Met Office warned travellers that \"longer journey times by road, bus and train services\" could be expected, although Wales is in a level four lockdown with all but essential travel banned.\n\nIt also said the snow could lead to power cuts and other services, such as mobile phone coverage, may be affected.\n\nThose going out for daily exercise have been warned there could be icy patches on some untreated roads, pavements and cycle paths.\n\nIn Powys, this was the view over Newtown on Sunday\n\nThe hills around Llangollen, Denbighshire, were covered in snow on Saturday\n\nPower cuts and travel delays are possible, the Met Office says\n\nThe drop in temperatures is likely to exacerbate problems after widespread flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nTwo flood warnings issued by Natural Resources Wales remain in place, meaning flooding is expected.\n\nThese cover the River Ritec at Tenby in Pembrokeshire, which could affect the Kiln Park caravan site, and the lower Dee Valley from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows.\n\nPretty as a picture... Suzy shared this garden view in Snowdonia\n\nSun up: Heath in Cardiff awakes to a covering of snow\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Larry King, giant of US broadcasting who achieved worldwide fame for interviewing political leaders and celebrities, has died at the age of 87.\n\nKing conducted an estimated 50,000 interviews in his six-decade career, which included 25 years as host of the popular CNN talk show Larry King Live.\n\nHe died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to Ora Media, a production company he co-founded.\n\nEarlier this month, he was treated in hospital for Covid-19, US media say.\n\nThe talk show host, famous for his braces and rolled-up sleeves, had faced several health problems in recent years, including heart attacks.\n\nKing was married eight times to seven women and had five children. Two of them died last year within weeks of each other - daughter Chaia died from lung cancer and son Andy of a heart attack.\n\nKing carried out interviews with every sitting US president from Gerald Ford to Barack Obama and a number of world leaders. His other high-profile guests included Dr Martin Luther King, the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela and Lady Gaga.\n\n\"For 63 years and across the platforms of radio, television and digital media, Larry's many thousands of interviews, awards, and global acclaim stand as a testament to his unique and lasting talent as a broadcaster,\" Ora Media said in a statement, without giving the cause of death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Larry King: \"I like spontaneity. That's the kind of broadcaster I am\".\n\nBorn Lawrence Harvey Zeiger in Brooklyn, New York, in 1933, King rose to fame in the 1970s with his radio programme The Larry King Show, on the commercial network Mutual Broadcasting System.\n\nIn 1985 he launched Larry King Live on the fledgling CNN, and became one of the network's biggest stars. The programme, broadcast around the world, was a success with audiences, with King answering thousands of phone calls from viewers.\n\nHe earned a number of honours, including two Peabody awards, but was also criticised for his non-confrontational approach and open-ended questions. King boasted of not doing much research for the interviews so, he said, he could learn along with viewers.\n\nBy 2010 his ratings had dropped significantly, with critics saying King's approach felt outdated in an era of more aggressive interviewing styles. King then announced his retirement, saying: \"It's time to hang up my nightly suspenders.\"\n\nIn his final programme on CNN, he told his viewers: \"I don't know what to say, except to you, my audience, thank you. Instead of goodbye, how about so long?\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by CNN Communications This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCNN replaced him with British journalist and broadcaster Piers Morgan, whose programme King criticised for being \"too much about him\".\n\nMorgan, whose programme was cancelled three years later, said on Twitter on Saturday: \"Larry King was a hero of mine until we fell out after I replaced him at CNN & he said my show was 'like watching your mother-in-law go over a cliff in your new Bentley.' (He married 8 times so a mother-in-law expert).\"\n\nIn a statement, CNN president Jeff Zucker said: \"The scrappy young man from Brooklyn had a history-making career spanning radio and television. His curiosity about the world propelled his award-winning career in broadcasting, but it was his generosity of spirit that drew the world to him.\"\n\nMost recently, King hosted another programme, Larry King Now, broadcast on Hulu and RT, Russia's state-controlled international broadcaster.\n\nA Kremlin spokesman was quoted as saying by state RIA Novosti news agency: \"King repeatedly interviewed Putin. The president has always appreciated his great professionalism and unquestioned journalistic authority.\"\n\nOutside broadcasting, King founded the Larry King Cardiac Foundation in 1988, a charity which helps to fund heart treatment for those with limited financial means or no medical insurance.", "Pavithra Wanniarachchi (L) has become the fourth Sri Lankan minister to test positive\n\nSri Lanka's health minister, who endorsed herbal syrup to prevent Covid, has tested positive for the virus.\n\nPavithra Wanniarachchi tested positive on Friday, a media secretary at the Ministry of Health told the BBC.\n\nShe had promoted the syrup, manufactured by a shaman who claimed it worked as a life-long inoculation against the virus.\n\nSri Lanka recorded 56,076 cases and 276 deaths since the pandemic began, with cases surging in recent months.\n\nMs Wanniarachchi is the fourth minister to test positive. A junior minister, who also took the potion, tested positive earlier this week.\n\nThe health minister had publicly consumed and endorsed the syrup as a way of stopping the spread of the virus. The shaman who invented the syrup, which contains honey and nutmeg, said the recipe was given to him in a visionary dream.\n\nDoctors in the country have quashed claims the herbal syrup works, but AFP news agency reports thousands have travelled to a village to obtain it.\n\nMs Wanniarachchi took two Covid-19 tests and both returned positive results, Viraj Abeysinghe, media secretary at the Ministry of Health told the BBC.\n\nThe minister has been asked to self-isolate and all of her immediate contacts have gone into isolation.\n\nNews of Ms Wanniarachchi's positive test came hours after Sri Lanka approved the emergency use of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. The first doses are expected to arrive in the country next week.\n\nSri Lanka isn't the only place where people in positions of power have promoted unproven treatments for Covid.\n\nLast year, Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina was criticised for promoting a herbal concoction that he claimed could prevent the virus. He was pictured distributing the tonic to poor communities in the capital.\n\nSince the pandemic began, a number of world leaders and cabinet members have contracted Covid. French President Emmanuel Macron, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and former President Donald Trump all caught the virus at various points last year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The people who think Coronavirus is caused by 5G", "Skewen in Neath Port Talbot has been badly hit by flooding over the past two days\n\nThere have been \"no adverse effects\" on the coronavirus vaccine roll-out caused by recent flooding, the Welsh Government has said.\n\nHomes were evacuated in Skewen, Neath Port Talbot, on Thursday as heavy rain caused issues across the country.\n\nSwansea Bay health board said none of its mass vaccination centres or GP surgeries had been affected by floods.\n\nIt added anyone struggling to get to a vaccination appointment because of the flooding would be able to rearrange.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr University Health Board also said it was not aware of flooding in north Wales causing any issues for the vaccine roll-out.\n\nWrexham council leader Mark Pritchard said on Thursday that teams worked to ensure the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, made on Wrexham Industrial Estate, was not lost in the floods.\n\nThe latest figures released on Friday showed 212,317 people in Wales had received their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, with a further 415 receiving a second dose.\n\nAs well as properties, vehicles were submerged in water\n\nAbout 80 people in Skewen had to be evacuated from their homes after streets were left under water.\n\nFire crews returned to the scene on Friday to continue to pump floodwater away from houses.\n\nMeanwhile, a family in Rossett, Wrexham county, had to be rescued by helicopter after their home became surrounded by floodwater on Thursday night.\n\nNorth Wales has also been hit by floods\n\nOn Friday, Health Minister Vaughan Gething told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast that efforts to rehouse those affected by the floods were being done in \"as Covid-secure a way as possible\".\n\nDorothy Edwards, Covid-19 vaccination programme director for Swansea Bay health board, said: \"None of our mass vaccination centres have been impacted by flooding and we're not aware of any particular issues in primary care.\n\n\"Of course we will be sympathetic if there are people struggling to get to their appointment and if they are booked in at an mass vaccination centres they need to ring the booking line and the appointment will be rearranged.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"There have been no adverse effects on the vaccine roll-out due to flooding.\"", "Mr Johnson raised the benefits of a UK-US trade deal during his phone call with Mr Biden\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has spoken to Joe Biden for the first time since the new US president was inaugurated.\n\nMr Johnson said on Twitter that he looked forward to \"deepening the longstanding alliance\" between the UK and the US as they drove a \"green and sustainable recovery from Covid-19\".\n\nMr Biden was sworn in as president and Kamala Harris as vice-president in a ceremony in Washington on Wednesday.\n\nThe PM said their inauguration was a \"step forward\" for the US.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said Mr Johnson \"warmly welcomed\" the president's decision to rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change and the World Health Organization - both abandoned by Mr Biden's predecessor, Donald Trump.\n\n\"The prime minister praised President Biden's early action on tackling climate change and commitment to reach net zero by 2050,\" the spokesman said.\n\nThe spokesman added that, in building on the two nations' \"long history of cooperation in security and defence, the leaders \"re-committed to the Nato alliance and our shared values in promoting human rights and protecting democracy\".\n\nThe two leaders also talked about \"the benefits of a potential free trade deal\" between the UK and the US, with Mr Johnson reiterating his intention \"to resolve existing trade issues as soon as possible\".\n\nAfter the inauguration of any American president, a political spectator sport immediately begins: the order in which the new occupant of the White House speaks to other world leaders.\n\nIt is a crude metric of relative importance, but a metric nonetheless.\n\nI understand the call lasted for around 35 minutes and was the first conversation Joe Biden has had with a European leader as president.\n\nThe focus on climate change makes political and diplomatic sense. It's a topic where a Conservative prime minister and Democrat president can agree, and it matters particularly to the UK as the host of the COP26 UN Climate Change Summit in Glasgow in November.\n\nBut when you compare what Downing Street said about the call and what the White House said, one thing leaps out.\n\nNo 10's readout refers to a conversation about a trade deal. President Biden's does not.\n\nIt's widely expected there'll be no such agreement any time soon.\n\nMr Johnson and Mr Biden \"looked forward to to meeting in person as soon as the circumstances allow\" and to working together during the forthcoming G7, G20 and COP26 summits, the spokesman added.\n\nA White House statement said Mr Biden \"conveyed his intention to strengthen the special relationship\" between the US and UK and \"revitalize transatlantic ties\".\n\nCongratulating Mr Biden and Ms Harris - who is the first woman and first black and Asian-American person to serve as vice-president - the PM said earlier that their inauguration was a \"step forward\" for the US, which had \"been through a bumpy period\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"It's a big moment for us - we have things we want to do together.\"\n\nMr Johnson said it was a \"big moment\" for the UK and the US and their \"joint common agenda\".\n\nThe BBC's political editor, Laura Kuenssberg has said the Biden Presidency \"brings some hope to government\" because No 10 believes \"there is a lot of overlap\" between what Mr Biden and Mr Johnson want to do.\n\nThe US president has previously said that he does not want a \"guarded border\" between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland following Brexit, and that any UK-US post-Brexit trade deal had to be \"contingent\" on respect for the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nThe PM and Mr Biden have never met in real life, but the new US president once referred to Mr Johnson as a \"physical and emotional clone\" of Mr Trump.\n\nAfter winning the presidential election, Mr Biden phoned Mr Johnson ahead of other European leaders and expressed his desire to strengthen the historic \"special relationship\" between the two countries.", "Elizabeth Kerr and Simon O'Brien were married moments before he was put on a mechanical ventilator\n\nAn engaged couple taken to hospital in the same ambulance with Covid-19 were able to marry moments before the man was sedated and put on a ventilator.\n\nElizabeth Kerr, 31, and Simon O'Brien, 36, were taken to Milton Keynes University Hospital with breathing difficulties on 9 January.\n\nStaff rallied to arrange a wedding as the groom's condition worsened.\n\nThey held off intubating Mr O'Brien so the ceremony could go ahead. The couple are now recovering in hospital.\n\nMrs Kerr, a nurse, and Mr O'Brien had planned to marry in June.\n\nBoth contracted the disease and were taken to hospital together when their oxygen levels fell dangerously low.\n\nThey were placed on separate wards but when Mrs Kerr told nurse Hannah Cannon about their wedding plans, she asked her if they would like to marry in the hospital.\n\nMrs Kerr said she was told it could be their only chance.\n\n\"Those are words I never, ever want to hear again,\" she said.\n\nA photo on Mrs Kerr's phone shows the wedding took place in the beds of the intensive care unit\n\nHowever, while staff were securing the wedding licence, Mr O'Brien's condition further deteriorated and on 12 January he was placed on the intensive care unit, to be put on a ventilator.\n\nThey waited to intubate him just long enough for the ceremony to go ahead.\n\nMs Cannon said: \"With lots of teamwork... we were able to give them a wedding, not necessarily the wedding that they would have initially intended, but certainly something positive, remarkable and memorable for them to really hold on to.\"\n\nShe filmed the marriage for the couple's families and friends, and catering staff at the hospital provided a cake.\n\nShortly after saying \"I do\", Mr O'Brien was placed on the ventilator.\n\nThe couple have now been reunited on a recovery ward and were able to kiss for the first time since being married.\n\nMrs Kerr said having the wedding meant \"everything\" to them.\n\n\"If we hadn't had each other and we hadn't been given that opportunity to get married, I don't think both of us would be here now,\" she added.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Early evidence suggests the variant of coronavirus that emerged in the UK may be more deadly, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said.\n\nHowever, there remains huge uncertainty around the numbers - and vaccines are still expected to work.\n\nThe data comes from mathematicians comparing death rates in people infected with either the new or the old versions of the virus.\n\nThe new more infectious variant has already spread widely across the UK.\n\nMr Johnson told a Downing Street briefing: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the south east - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\n\n\"It's largely the impact of this new variant that means the NHS is under such intense pressure.\"\n\nPublic Health England, Imperial College London, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Exeter have each been trying to assess how deadly the new variant is.\n\nTheir evidence has been assessed by scientists on the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag).\n\nThe group concluded there was a \"realistic possibility\" that the virus had become more deadly, but this is far from certain.\n\nSir Patrick Vallance, the government's chief scientific adviser, described the data so far as \"not yet strong\".\n\nHe said: \"I want to stress that there's a lot of uncertainty around these numbers and we need more work to get a precise handle on it, but it obviously is a concern that this has an increase in mortality as well as an increase in transmissibility.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance: \"There is evidence that there's an increased risk for those who have the new variant\"\n\nPrevious work suggests the new variant spreads between 30% and 70% faster than others, and there are hints it is about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, with 1,000 60-year-olds infected with the old variant, 10 of them might be expected to die. But this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nThis difference is found when looking at everyone testing positive for Covid, but analysing only hospital data has found no increase in the death rate. Hospital care has improved over the course of the pandemic as doctors get better at treating the disease.\n\nThe new variant was first detected in Kent in September. It is now the most common form of the virus in England and Northern Ireland, and has spread to more than 50 other countries.\n\nThe Pfizer and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine are both expected to work against the variant that emerged in the UK.\n\nHowever, Sir Patrick said there was more concern about two other variants that had emerged in South Africa and Brazil.\n\nHe said: \"They have certain features which means they might be less susceptible to vaccines.\n\n\"They are definitely of more concern than the one in the UK at the moment and we need to keep looking at it and studying this very carefully.\"\n\nThe prime minister said the government was prepared to take further action to protect the country's borders to prevent new variants from entering.\n\n\"I really don't rule it out, we may need to take further measures still,\" he said.\n\nLast week the government extended a travel ban to South America, Portugal and many African countries amid concerns about new variants, while all international travellers must now test negative ahead of departure to the UK and go into quarantine on arrival.", "An exhibition now celebrates Wuhan's success in controlling the outbreak\n\nWuhan has long since recovered from the world's first outbreak of Covid-19. It is now being remembered not as a disaster but as a victory, and with an insistence that the virus came from somewhere - anywhere - but here.\n\nFrom the moment a new, pandemic coronavirus emerged in the same city as a laboratory dedicated to the study of new coronaviruses with pandemic potential, Prof Shi Zhengli has found herself the focus of one of the biggest scientific controversies of our time.\n\nFor much of the past year she has met the suggestion that Sars-Cov-2 might have escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology with angry denial.\n\nNow though, she has offered her own thoughts on how the initial outbreak may have begun in the city.\n\nIn an article in this month's edition of Science Magazine she referred to a number of studies that, she said, suggest the virus existed outside of China before Wuhan's first known case in December 2019.\n\n\"Given the finding of Sars-Cov-2 on the surface of imported food packages, contact with contaminated uncooked food could be an important source of Sars-Cov-2 transmission,\" she wrote.\n\nFrom one of the world's leading experts on coronaviruses, even the discussion of such a possibility seems unusual.\n\nCould a spiralling outbreak of infection that almost destroyed Wuhan's health system, sparked the world's first Covid lockdown and spawned a global catastrophe really have arrived on imported food without any signs of similarly devastating outbreaks elsewhere?\n\n\"The virus came from America,\" this fishmonger told the BBC\n\nBut with the virus vanquished, the idea that it is a foreign import is repeated with almost unanimity across this city of 11 million people.\n\n\"It came here from other countries,\" one woman running a hotpot stall in a busy street tells me. \"China is a victim.\"\n\n\"Where did it come from?\" the next-door fishmonger repeats my question aloud, and then answers: \"It came from America.\"\n\nOn 23 January last year, the Chinese authorities severed transport links out of Wuhan and confined the city's population to their homes.\n\nThe tough lockdown coincided with the annual spring festival celebrations and came too late to prevent the global spread of the disease - five million people had already left the city ahead of the holiday.\n\nDoctors' warnings had gone unheeded and, in an outpouring of anger on the Chinese internet, the authorities stood accused of covering up the initial outbreak in the interests of political stability.\n\nOne year on, there's little sign of that anger in Wuhan today. In fact it's the humdrum normality that is striking - the traffic jams, the bustling markets and busy restaurants.\n\nIts success in eventually bringing the virus under control is now being celebrated in a giant exhibition hall, complete with models of medical workers in hazmat suits, installations of hospital beds and - everywhere you look - giant portraits of President Xi Jinping.\n\nThe accompanying texts mention his \"all-out war\" against the pandemic, his \"resolute decision making\" and how he has been willing to share \"China's solutions\" with the world.\n\nThere can be no doubting the success of China's mass testing programmes, its tracing apps and the widespread mask wearing.\n\nBut its strict enforcement of lockdowns, with little hand-wringing over the impact on individual rights, may be far less easy for democratic countries to emulate.\n\n\"The strategic success achieved in this battle fully manifested the strong leadership of the Communist Party of China and the significant advantages of the socialist system of our country,\" the exhibition proclaims.\n\nDespite China's promise of international co-operation, the world is still no closer to an answer to the biggest question of them all - where did the virus come from?\n\nMany prominent scientists believe that - based on past outbreaks - the most likely source of the coronavirus is a natural one, a \"zoonotic\" leap from bats - known to harbour such viruses - to humans, possibly via an intermediate species.\n\nBut China has produced very little evidence to show the work that's been done in its search for the source, in particular the testing of historic human samples stored by hospitals to determine where and when the virus really started spreading.\n\nThose scientists who argue that the possibility of an accident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology should also be included as part of any investigation are curious about this apparent silence.\n\n\"I find it very unlikely that such investigations would not have already occurred,\" Alina Chan, a molecular biologist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, told me.\n\n\"It's a serious risk to resume life as usual without knowing where a dangerous human pathogen came from.\"\n\nWuhan's exhibition also has a display of hospital beds\n\nInstead of publishing its own evidence though, China appears to be taking an anywhere-but-Wuhan approach, with state media cheerleading the idea that the virus may have arrived in Wuhan on frozen food imports or talking cryptically of \"multiple origins\".\n\nAt a recent daily press briefing, I asked China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Hua Chunying, why such narratives were being promoted in the absence of real scientific evidence.\n\n\"Your question reveals your prejudice against China,\" she replied. \"Reports have emerged from Australia, Italy and many other countries that the coronavirus was found in multiple places in the autumn of 2019.\"\n\n\"Aren't these all facts?\" she asked.\n\nNot according to Alina Chan, who told me that such studies \"lack validation\" and some have been conducted without \"the most basic controls\".\n\n\"They do not present persuasive scientific evidence that the virus was circulating outside of China before the late 2019 outbreak in Wuhan,\" she said.\n\n\"The earliest detected cases and outbreak were in Wuhan. Early cases outside of China were found to have travelled from Wuhan. The most similar viruses have been found inside China.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Robin Brant visits the Wuhan market where Covid-19 was first traced\n\nInterestingly, scientists who have found themselves disagreeing strongly about the likelihood of the lab-leak theory, suddenly find themselves very much aligned on whether the virus came from abroad.\n\n\"I do not find the data linking Sars-Cov-2 to frozen foods to be credible,\" Kristian Andersen, a professor of immunology and microbiology at the Scripps Research Institute in the US, told me.\n\nAs someone who is a firm supporter of China's insistence that the virus could not have escaped from a lab, he gives its latest position much shorter shrift.\n\n\"All the available evidence points to an emergence of the virus somewhere in China in late 2019,\" he said.\n\nChinese virologist Shi Zhengli, seen here inside the laboratory in Wuhan\n\nProf Shi Zhengli recently told the BBC in an exchange of emails that she'd welcome \"any form of visit\" by an inquiry team to the Wuhan Institute of Virology to rule out the possibility of a lab leak.\n\nBut to a follow-up email asking about the alignment of her discussion of possible foreign origins with the Chinese government's own narrative, she sent another reply.\n\n\"Your question is not friendly,\" she wrote.\n\nAfter months of delay and wrangling with China about access, a World Health Organization team has arrived in Wuhan to begin its inquiry into the origins of the virus.\n\nTheir terms of reference hint at the politics behind the scenes, with the document mentioning many of China's talking points, including foreign origins and food-chain transmission.\n\nLast year Wuhan endured one of the strictest lockdowns the world has seen\n\nDr Daniel Lucey, a physician and infectious disease professor at the Georgetown Medical Centre in Washington, suggests the stage is being set for a foregone conclusion.\n\n\"In my view, if you line up side-by-side the WHO's terms of reference with the Shi Zhengli Science article,\" he told me, \"then it is clear that the overarching strategic narrative is that the origin of the virus is outside of China.\"\n\nThe crisis that began in Wuhan is now the world's crisis and, with so many lives and livelihoods lost, answers are desperately needed.\n\nIf the virus came naturally from bats, an understanding of that pathway is important to protect humanity from the risk of repeated \"spillover\" events from the same source.\n\nIf it leaked from a lab, an urgent review of safety protocols is needed - not just in China but globally.\n\nBoards in Wuhan say the virus broke out \"in multiple places around the world\"\n\nScientists are beginning to wonder if those answers will ever be forthcoming.\n\n\"It's undeniable now that politics have gotten in the way of science,\" Alina Chan said.\n\n\"I just hope that the WHO team will relay the details of their experience so that the public can understand what the limitations of their investigation are.\"\n\nIn Wuhan's giant exhibition hall, the city's place in history is again called into question by one of the concluding sign boards which says Covid-19 broke out \"in multiple places around the world\".\n\nFor China, this city's past is now propaganda and the truth, like the virus, is being brought under tight control.", "Guests fled when officers arrived at the Stamford Hill school, where the windows had been covered\n\nPolice broke up a wedding party in north London, where they now say about 150 people had gathered.\n\nOfficers found the windows at the Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School, in Stamford Hill, had been covered when they arrived at 21:15 GMT on Thursday.\n\nGuests fled from the strictly Orthodox Charedi Jewish school when the police arrived. The organisers face a £10,000 fine for breaking lockdown rules.\n\nThe Met originally claimed that about 400 guests were at the gathering.\n\nIn a statement, the school said its hall had been leased out.\n\nA spokesman for the school, whose principal Rabbi Avrahom Pinter died in April after contracting coronavirus, said \"we had no knowledge that the wedding was taking place\".\n\nHe added: \"We are absolutely horrified about last night's event and condemn it in the strongest possible terms.\"\n\nBoris Johnson supports the police for \"taking action against people who flagrantly and selfishly ignore the rules\", according to the prime minister's official spokesman.\n\nThe spokesman said: \"Large gatherings such as that pose a health risk, not just to those who attend but those who they live with or others who they may come into contact with.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nChief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, meanwhile, said the \"overwhelming majority\" of the Jewish community would be appalled at the event.\n\nRabbi Mirvis, who serves as the head of the UK's orthodox Jewish community but is not the leader of the Charedi group, called the wedding party \"a most shameful desecration of all that we hold dear\".\n\nFive guests were issued with £200 fixed penalty notices, according to police, who said their inquiries had established those present at the school had gathered for a wedding.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A video shared with the Jewish Chronicle shows officers in Stamford Hill\n\nVideo shared with the Jewish Chronicle shows officers in Stamford Hill speaking with a man to explain why they are there, although he is not accused of any wrongdoing.\n\nThey are then seen arriving at the Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School.\n\nDet Ch Sup Marcus Barnett of the Met Police said: \"This was a completely unacceptable breach of the law.\n\n\"People across the country are making sacrifices by cancelling or postponing weddings and other celebrations and there is no excuse for this type of behaviour.\n\n\"My officers are working tirelessly with the community and we will not hesitate to take enforcement action if that is required to keep people safe.\"\n\nOn Friday morning, a security guard at the school told the BBC there were more like 100 guests at the party than the much higher number given out by police.\n\nThe Met later said in a statement: \"Although initial calls suggested some 400 people had attended the wedding, it is now believed that approximately 150 people were in attendance.\"\n\nStamford Hill is part of the borough of Hackney, which has a Covid-19 infection rate of 625.43 cases per 100,000 people. The England average rate is 471.31 per 100,000 people.\n\nThe mayor of Hackney, Philip Glanville, said he was \"deeply disappointed\" that the wedding party had taken place, despite \"the number of lives that have already been lost in the Charedi community and across the borough\".\n\nHe added: \"Unfortunately, similar events have taken place even at this venue before and we need to be really clear how unacceptable it is.\n\n\"We will be meeting with the Rabbinate and our community partners over the coming days to see how we can prevent further incidents of this nature.\"\n\nLondon is under an England-wide lockdown, which prevents social mixing between households.\n\nLondoners are asked to only leave home for limited reasons such as shopping, going to work, seeking medical assistance, or avoiding domestic abuse.\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nDo you have any information to share about this incident? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Senior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nProf Chris Whitty said extending the maximum wait from three to 12 weeks was a \"public health decision\" to get the first jab to more people across the UK.\n\nBut the British Medical Association said that was \"difficult to justify\" and should be changed to six weeks.\n\nIt comes as early evidence suggests the UK virus variant may be more deadly.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson told a Downing Street briefing on Friday: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the south east - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\"\n\nPrevious work suggests the new variant spreads between 30% and 70% faster than others, and there are hints it is about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, the government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said if 1,000 men in their 60s were infected with the old variant, roughly 10 of them would be expected to die - but this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nAnother 1,348 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Saturday, in addition to 33,552 new infections, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nThe government's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) says unpublished data suggests the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is still effective with doses 12 weeks apart - but Pfizer has said it has tested its vaccine's efficacy only when the two doses were given up to 21 days apart.\n\nThe World Health Organization has recommended a gap of four weeks between doses - to be extended only in exceptional circumstances to six weeks.\n\nGovernment minister Robert Jenrick said the current strategy ensured \"millions more people can get the first jab\" and the \"high level of protection\" which it offered.\n\nHe said the BMA's concerns would be taken into account but that the government was following the \"very clear advice\" of the medicines regulator and the UK's four chief medical officers who, he said, \"could not have been clearer that this is the right thing to do for this country\".\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Social Care added: \"Our number one priority is to give protection against coronavirus to as many vulnerable people as possible, as quickly as possible.\"\n\nIn the letter to Prof Whitty, seen by the BBC, the British Medical Association (BMA) said it agreed that the vaccine should be rolled out \"as quickly as possible\" - but called for an urgent review and for the gap to be reduced.\n\nThe doctors' union said the UK's strategy \"has become increasingly isolated internationally\" and \"is proving evermore difficult to justify\".\n\n\"The absence of any international support for the UK's approach is a cause of deep concern and risks undermining public and the profession's trust in the vaccination programme,\" the letter said.\n\nDr Chaand Nagpaul, chair of the BMA, said there were \"growing concerns\" that the vaccine could become less effective with doses 12 weeks apart.\n\n\"Obviously the protection will not vanish after six weeks, but what we do not know is what level of protection will be offered [after that point],\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"We should not be extrapolating data when we don't have it.\"\n\nHe said while he understands the rationale behind the decision, \"no other nation has adopted the UK's approach\".\n\n\"We think the flexibility that the WHO offers of extending to 42 days is being stretched far too much to go from six weeks right through to 12 weeks,\" he added.\n\nThere has been understandable enthusiasm over a promising start to the hugely ambitious UK vaccination rollout.\n\nBut there has been some tension over the decision to lengthen the time between doses for the Pfizer vaccine to 12 weeks.\n\nProf Whitty and other health leaders and experts say this will allow many more people to get vaccinated quickly and the first dose gives most of the protection.\n\nBut critics argue this goes against Pfizer's recommendation of a three-week gap and there is no data to back up the long delay.\n\nThe intervention of the BMA is significant as it shows senior doctors now have widespread concerns, including worries about reliability of supplies if people have to wait longer for a second jab.\n\nThis is a private letter to Chris Whitty seen by the BBC and not a grandstanding press release. The BMA wants to have talks with the chief medical adviser about moving to six weeks.\n\nProf Whitty will no doubt restate his case, but it will be interesting to see whether the BMA argument gains traction in the wider medical world.\n\nThe BMA also suggested second doses might not be guaranteed after a 12-week delay \"given the unpredictability of supplies\".\n\nHowever, Public Health England's medical director said people would get their second dose.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that she backed the current strategy, saying it was \"about bearing down on transmission\" to reduce deaths and reduce the chance of more dangerous variants of the virus emerging.\n\n\"The more people that are protected against this virus, the less opportunity it has to get the upper hand,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOther issues highlighted in the letter include:\n\nThe UK's chief medical officers have said the \"great majority\" of initial protection comes from the first jab, while the second dose is likely to help that protection last longer.\n\nIn total, the UK has ordered 100 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine and 40 million of the Pfizer vaccine.\n\nBoth vaccines are expected to work against the variant of Covid-19 that emerged in the UK.\n\nWhat has been your experience of receiving the vaccine? Are you waiting for your second dose? Email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Nurses are calling for all UK staff to be given a higher grade of face mask to protect them against new variants of coronavirus.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing warns that inadequate PPE may be putting the lives of nursing staff at risk.\n\nIt has written to the workplace safety watchdog detailing its concerns, soon after a similar appeal from doctors.\n\nEngland's Department of Health says there is no reason to change current guidance.\n\nIt follows a comprehensive review of all the evidence around the new variants and the impact on PPE.\n\nAt present, most nurses working outside of intensive care wear standard surgical masks.\n\nBut the RCN says they may not protect them against the new variant of the virus, and very small airborne viral particles spread in hospitals.\n\nInstead, it wants all NHS staff to be given the kinds of high-grade face masks used in intensive care units, called FFP2 or FFP3 masks.\n\nThe UK guidance on infection prevention and control has recently been updated, but nurses say it allows individual trusts to decide what PPE to use.\n\nAs a result, some hospitals are offering staff high-grade PPE while many are not - and that is leading to unequal levels of protection depending on where nurses work.\n\nMany nurses wear standard surgical masks outside of intensive care\n\nDame Donna Kinnair, chief executive and general secretary of the RCN, said: \"The government's silence on this issue is creating a postcode lottery for nursing staff.\n\n\"It must stop dragging its feet on this issue. Nursing staff need to have full confidence that they are protected.\"\n\nShe added: \"Staff picking up this virus at work are angered at any suggestion they have stopped following the rules - this is down to the new variant and the dangerous shortage of adequate protection.\"\n\nNHS England data shows a 22% rise in the average number of healthcare staff off sick because of Covid-19 in the first week of January, compared with the last week in December.\n\nA spokesman from the Department of Health and Social Care in England said the safety of NHS and social care staff was \"top priority\" but the current guidance did not need changing.\n\n\"In response to the new Covid-19 variants, the UK Infection Prevention Control Cell conducted a comprehensive review of all available evidence and concluded that current guidance and PPE recommendations remain the right ones.\n\n\"New and emerging evidence is continually scrutinised and evaluated by the government, in conjunction with our world-leading scientists,\" the spokesman said.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing is asking the governments of the UK to:\n\nIt is also calling for the Health and Safety Executive to review the guidance on appropriate use of PPE in all health and care settings.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nCheltenham Town came within nine minutes of one of the biggest shocks in recent FA Cup history before Manchester City staged a dramatic late rally to crush the dreams of the gallant League Two side.\n\nThe Robins, 72 places below City who sit second in the Premier League, threatened huge embarrassment for Pep Guardiola's side after Alfie May put Cheltenham ahead on the hour after a trademark long throw from captain Ben Tozer caused chaos in the area.\n\nCity, who made ten changes to the team that beat Aston Villa in the Premier League on Wednesday, spared their embarrassment when Phil Foden, the game's outstanding player, arrived at the far post to turn in substitute Joao Cancelo's long cross in the 81st minute.\n\nAnd the turnaround was complete three minutes later when a rare moment of slackness in the outstanding Cheltenham defence, with goalkeeper Josh Griffiths superb, switched off and Gabriel Jesus scored from Fernandinho's delivery.\n\nFerran Torres scored Manchester City's third with the last kick of the game to give the scoreline a cruel reflection on Cheltenham's heroic efforts.\n\nIt was so cruel on manager Michael Duff and his players, who now go back the battle for promotion from League Two, while City will be away at Swansea in the fifth round.\n\n\"I'm incredibly proud,\" the Robins boss said of his side's display. \"The players they brought on from the bench and they way they celebrated the goals tells you something. They know they've been in a game. They've done that to better teams than us.\"\n\nThe sight of Manchester City manager Guardiola disputing where Cheltenham could take a throw-in said everything about the way the League Two underdogs gave their mighty opponents a serious fright.\n\nTozer's throw-ins were causing all manner of problems and led to Cheltenham's goal but there was so much more to their performance than that set-piece weapon, a threat any manager in the game would utilise.\n\nCheltenham tried to play football when they got the chance, with goalscorer May, who has done the hard yards in non-league before playing for Doncaster and now Cheltenham, a leading light.\n\nRobins keeper Griffiths, who suffered the ignominy of being beaten from 71 yards by his Newport County opposite number Tom King in midweek, was in defiant form as he saved well from Riyad Mahrez and Torres, showing command throughout. Tozer's headed goalline clearance from Benjamin Mendy in the first half was also symbolic of their 'they shall not pass' approach.\n\nThere may have been no fans inside this compact stadium but there was still a real sense of occasion, the game being halted in the first half because of a firework display nearby.\n\nIn the end this will be a bitter disappointment to Cheltenham but they can be rightly proud and take huge confidence into their League Two promotion battle.\n\nDuff highlighted how financially important the cup run was for his club.\n\n\"It's essential,\" he added. \"Every pound coming in is probably worth a tenner in normal times.\n\n\"These games don't come around very often. It's a shame because [with fans] the place would've been bouncing. Would that have seen us through in the last 10 minutes? I'm not so sure - but the key is to enjoy it.\"\n\nGuardiola made 10 changes to his line-up to give Manchester City's shadow squad a chance to impress.\n\nSome, like the erratic Mendy, did not take that opportunity and it was someone establishing himself in City's side that spared the blushes of this expensively assembled squad.\n\nFoden was magnificent, so light on his feet with glorious ball control, endless creativity and the man pulling the strings for City even when they were struggling to break down resilient Cheltenham.\n\nThe 20-year-old was head and shoulders above his City team-mates. He was the one who was going to pull them out of their grim predicament if anyone was, and so it proved when he popped up with the crucial late equaliser that lifted Guardiola's team and deflated Cheltenham.\n\nFoden had already carved out chances for Mahrez and Gabriel Jesus that were not taken so it was a case of 'do it yourself' when he was the player on target.\n\nThe fact Guardiola was forced to use three subs in Ruben Dias, Ilkay Gundogan and Joao Cancelo once Cheltenham went ahead proved how worried the Premier League giants were.\n\nThis was an unimpressive, scratchy display from City's much-changed team, with Guardiola resting so many of the players who are giving them such an ominous look in the Premier League - luckily they had the brilliance of Foden to pull them out of a deep hole.\n\nGuardiola praised the England attacking midfielder for his impressive performance.\n\n\"Foden is in a great moment and with great confidence,\" he said.\n\n\"He is clinical in front of goal and he had a similar chance to the goal we scored at [Chelsea's] Stamford Bridge - he is playing really well.\"\n\nThe City manager suggested he was confident in the players he put out on the pitch.\n\n\"I didn't have regrets even when we were 1-0 down, we had clear chances from the first minute,\" he added.\n\n\"When they take advantage it gets complicated, but we got it to 1-1 and it was tight. We came here with humility and had the quality to make the difference.\"\n• None Cheltenham have lost all nine of their competitive meetings with Premier League sides, by an aggregate score of 6-23.\n• None City have won 10 consecutive games in all competitions for the first time since a run of 11 from August to October 2017.\n• None May's opener for Cheltenham was the first goal City had conceded in 509 minutes of action in all competitions, since Callum Hudson-Odoi's strike for Chelsea at the start of the month.\n• None Foden is City's top scorer in all competitions this season with nine goals in 25 appearances, one more than he netted in 38 games last season.\n• None Jesus has been involved in 12 goals in 13 FA Cup appearances for City, scoring eight and assisting four.\n• None May has scored four goals in his four FA Cup games for Cheltenham, with each of his eight goals in total in the competition coming in home games.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 3. Ferran Torres (Manchester City) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan.\n• None Attempt missed. Matty Blair (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is too high following a corner.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 2. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Fernandinho with a through ball.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 1. Phil Foden (Manchester City) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by João Cancelo with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. João Cancelo (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez.\n• None Attempt missed. Phil Foden (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by João Cancelo with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Hear from the former US president as he reflects on his time in office\n• None How can you eat well for £1 a portion?", "The 39 people who died in the back of a trailer as it crossed the North Sea between Zeebrugge and the UK\n\nFour men have been jailed for the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese migrants found dead in a lorry trailer in Essex.\n\nThe migrants died \"excruciatingly painful\" deaths, having suffocated in the container en route from Belgium to Purfleet in October 2019, a judge said.\n\nRonan Hughes, 41, and Gheorghe Nica, 43, played \"leading roles\" in the smuggling conspiracy and were jailed for 20 and 27 years respectively.\n\nAt the Old Bailey, two lorry drivers were also jailed for manslaughter.\n\n[Left to right] Eamonn Harrison, Ronan Hughes, Gheorghe Nica and Maurice Robinson were all jailed for manslaughter\n\nEamonn Harrison, 24, who towed the trailer to the Belgian port of Zeebrugge before their journey to the UK, was sentenced to 18 years.\n\nMaurice Robinson, 26, was given 13 years and four months, having collected the trailer and opened it in an industrial estate to find the migrants dead.\n\nThree others members of the people-smuggling gang were also sentenced for conspiracy to facilitate unlawful immigration.\n\nChristopher Kennedy, 24, from County Armagh, was jailed for seven years; Valentin Calota, 38, of Birmingham, for four-and-a-half years; and Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga, 28, of Hobart Road, Tilbury, Essex, was given a three-year sentence.\n\n[Left to right] Valentin Calota, Alexandru-Ovidiu Hanga and Christopher Kennedy were also sentenced on Friday\n\nSentencing, Mr Justice Sweeney said: \"I have no doubt that the conspiracy was a sophisticated, long-running and profitable one to smuggle mainly Vietnamese people across the channel.\"\n\nHe said on the fatal trip the temperature had been rising along with the carbon dioxide levels throughout, hitting 40C (104F) while the container was at sea on 22 October 2019.\n\n\"There were desperate attempts to contact the outside world by phone and to break through the roof of the container,\" the judge said.\n\n\"All were to no avail and, before the ship reached Purfleet, [the victims] all died in what must have been an excruciatingly painful death.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video evidence showed how the trainer containing 39 Vietnamese migrants made its way to the UK\n\nThe victims had used a metal pole to try to punch through the roof but only managed to dent the interior.\n\nThe court heard some of their final desperate phone messages, including one where a man spoke with ragged breaths as he apologised to his family.\n\n\"I can't breathe,\" he said. \"I want to come back to my family. Have a good life.\"\n\nJustice Sweeney added: \"The willingness of the victims to try and enter the country illegally provides no excuse for what happened to them.\"\n\nThe bodies of 39 Vietnamese nationals were discovered in a refrigerated trailer on 23 October 2019\n\nDuring the trial, jurors were given a snapshot of the victims - who included a bricklayer, a university graduate and a nail bar technician - and their dreams of a better life.\n\nMany of their families borrowed heavily to fund their passage, relying on their potential future earnings once they got into the UK.\n\nThe father of Nguyen Huy Tung, one of two 15-year-olds in the container, later learned of his son's death via social media.\n\nHarrison, of Newry, County Down, claimed he did not know there were people in the trailer when he towed it to the Belgian port, and that he watched \"a wee bit of Netflix\" in bed as they were loaded on.\n\nAfter receiving this message from his boss, Robinson got out of his cab, opened the trailer door and discovered the bodies\n\nRobinson, from County Armagh, collected the trailer when it arrived on UK shores just after midnight on 23 October.\n\nHis boss, Hughes, had messaged him: \"Give them air quickly don't let them out.\"\n\nRobinson gave a thumbs-up in reply. When Robinson stopped on a nearby industrial estate, he found that the migrants were all dead.\n\nHis barrister said Robinson, who admitted manslaughter, being part of the trafficking plot and money laundering, was \"horrified by what he saw\".\n\nThe moment lorry driver Maurice Robinson opened the trailer door and discovered the bodies inside was captured on CCTV\n\nThe trial examined three smuggling attempts by the gang - two that were successful on 11 and 18 October, and the final trip on 23 October.\n\nOn all three runs, Nica, of Basildon, Essex, had arranged cars and a van to transport the migrants at the UK end.\n\nWhen Robinson discovered the bodies, there was a series of telephone conversations between him and Nica and Hughes, of Tyholland, County Monaghan, Ireland, before the driver eventually dialled 999.\n\nIn his evidence, Nica said Robinson told him: \"I have a problem here - dead bodies in the trailer.\"\n\nWhile Hughes admitted manslaughter, both Nica and Harrison were convicted by a jury.\n\nMr Justice Sweeney said that in the conspiracy \"two played leading roles, namely - in order of importance - Hughes and Nica\".\n\nHe accepted Hughes was \"not at the very top of the conspiracy\" but said his role was \"pivotal... in that he ran a haulage business and supplied the trailers and drivers used to transport the migrants\".\n\nThe judge said Nica \"recruited and paid the drivers whose job it was to collect the migrants when they reached the drop-off site in this country and to drive them to the safe house(s) where they were to be held until payment\".\n\nHe added at the top of the conspiracy was a Vietnamese man called \"Fong\", who was based in London.\n\nMr Justice Sweeney told the defendants jailed for manslaughter they would serve two-thirds of the term in custody, instead of the usual half.\n\nEarlier this month, Gazmir Nuzi, 43, of Barclay Road, Tottenham, north London, was sentenced, having admitted his limited role in the people-smuggling operation. It was accepted he was not a member of the organised crime group behind the smuggling operation.\n\nDet Ch Insp Daniel Stoten said: \"May this serve as a warning to those who think it's OK to prey on the vulnerabilities of migrants and their families, transporting them in a way worse than we would transport animals.\n\n\"My message to you is that we will find you and we will stop you.\"\n\nHe said the victims died in an \"unimaginable way, because of the utter greed of these criminals\".\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Police warned that unsanctioned protests would be \"immediately suppressed\"\n\nRussian police have detained close aides of the jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny, as a string of nationwide protests gets under way.\n\nPolice have broken up demonstrations in the eastern Khabarovsk region, amid stern warnings for people to stay home.\n\nMr Navalny's supporters flooded social media with calls to rally at protests expected in dozens of cities later.\n\nHe is Russian leader Vladimir Putin's most high-profile critic.\n\nHe was arrested last Sunday after he flew back to Moscow from Berlin, where he had been recovering from a near-fatal nerve agent attack in Russia last August.\n\nOn his return, he was immediately taken into custody and found guilty of violating parole conditions. He says it is a trumped-up case designed to silence him.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alexei Navalny was filmed by the BBC saying goodbye to his wife and then being led away by authorities\n\nMore than 60m people have watched his new video about President Vladimir Putin's alleged luxury Black Sea palace.\n\nThe Kremlin denies the property belongs to the president.\n\nAmong those detained in Moscow on Thursday were his spokeswoman, Kira Yarmysh, and one of his lawyers, Lyubov Sobol. They face fines or short jail terms.\n\nMs Sobol, who has a young child, was later released. But Ms Yarmysh has now been jailed for nine days.\n\nProminent Navalny activists are also being held in the cities of Vladivostok, Novosibirsk and Krasnodar.\n\nUnauthorised rallies are being planned in more than 60 cities across Russia for Saturday. Moscow police say any unauthorised demonstrations and provocations will be \"immediately suppressed\".\n\nA thousand people were reported to have come onto the streets in the Khabarovsk region, with some of them already detained.\n\nMr Navalny's wife Yulia, who travelled back to Russia with him from Germany, said she would demonstrate in Moscow \"for myself, for him, for our children, for the values and the ideals that we share\".\n\nAlexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) has drawn millions of followers on social media, through slickly produced videos alleging large-scale official corruption. He has long denounced Mr Putin's administration as \"feudal\" and full of \"crooks and thieves\".\n\nFor a long time the Russian authorities made out that Alexei Navalny was irrelevant. Just a blogger. With a tiny following. No threat whatsoever.\n\nRecent events suggest the opposite. First Mr Navalny was targeted with a nerve agent, allegedly by a secret group of FSB state security hitmen. Instead of investigating the poisoning, Russia is investigating him: on his return from Germany the Kremlin critic was arrested.\n\nHaving put Mr Navalny behind bars, the authorities are putting pressure on his supporters. The Kremlin's greatest fear is of a Ukraine-style revolution in Russia that would sweep away those in power.\n\nThere's no indication that such a scenario is imminent. But with economic problems growing, the Kremlin will worry that Mr Navalny could act as a lightning rod for protest sentiment. That explains the police crackdown on Navalny allies ahead of Saturday's potential protests.\n\nPlus, this is getting personal. Mr Navalny's video about \"Putin's Palace\" on the Black Sea was designed to cause maximum embarrassment to the Russian president.\n\nIn the \"Putin's palace\" video Mr Navalny alleges that rich businessmen close to Mr Putin paid for a sumptuous 17,691sq m (190,424sq ft) palace for him at Gelendzhik, by the Black Sea.\n\nIt is alleged to have a casino, a theatre and many other comforts, including a vineyard and tea house in the sprawling grounds. The Kremlin dismissed the YouTube video as a \"pseudo-investigation\" aimed at earning money for Mr Navalny.\n\nProsecutors have warned people against protesting in support of Mr Navalny on Saturday. Russia's education ministry has told parents not to allow their children to attend.\n\nSome Russian celebrities in the arts and sports have pledged support for Mr Navalny. They include ice hockey star Artemi Panarin.\n\nFormer world chess champion Garry Kasparov - now a leading anti-Putin activist based in the US - tweeted that pro-Navalny posts were being widely blocked in Russia.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Garry Kasparov This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a phone call to President Putin on Friday, EU Council President Charles Michel voiced \"grave concern\" about the jailing of Mr Navalny.\n\nMr Michel said the EU was \"united in its call on Russia to swiftly release Mr Navalny and proceed with the investigation into the assassination attempt on him, in full transparency and without further delay\".\n\nIn October, the EU imposed sanctions on six top Russian officials and a Russian chemical weapons research centre over the Novichok poisoning of Mr Navalny.\n\nThe Kremlin retaliated with tit-for-tat sanctions, denying any role in the attack and rejecting the expert finding that the Russian nerve agent had been used.\n\nThe Black Sea palace allegedly features a casino, an ice rink and a vineyard\n\nThe social media app TikTok has a flood of videos from Russians promoting the protests planned for Saturday. The messages about Mr Navalny have been going viral for several days.\n\nA well-known Russian TikTok user, Slava Varfolomeyev, told BBC Russian: \"I go on TikTok and find that every third video is about 'Putin's palace', the detention of Navalny and the 23 January rally!\"\n\nHe said that on Thursday \"this swelled to a maximum: practically seven out of every 10 videos were on that topic [Navalny]\". TikTok's popularity is based on short-form videos.\n\nOn Wednesday Russia's official media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, demanded that TikTok take down any information \"encouraging minors to act illegally\", threatening large fines.", "Police said they had been in contact with the family before the funeral took place \"in an attempt to ensure safety\"\n\nA funeral director has been fined £10,000 after police were called to a funeral with close to 150 people in attendance.\n\nHertfordshire Police said the large gathering in Welwyn Garden City on Thursday was reported to them by members of the public.\n\nCoronavirus rules mean a maximum of 30 people can attend a funeral.\n\nA second person was fined, by Bedfordshire Police, for when the gathering was in Arlesey, Bedfordshire.\n\nSupt Nick Caveney, of Hertfordshire Police, said: \"This was a clear and blatant breach of the current restrictions.\"\n\nHe said the fine was given to the funeral director \"for not managing this event correctly and advising their clients of the rules\".\n\n\"We implore all business owners to ensure they are following the restrictions safely and responsibly,\" he said.\n\n\"Flagrant breaches such as this will not be tolerated.\"\n\nThe force said it had worked with other agencies and the family in advance of the funeral \"in an attempt to ensure the safety of those attending and that of the wider public\".\n\nBut when officers attended they found the large number of people at the church, and a 41-year-old man from Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, was handed the £10,000 fine after police served a fixed penalty notice.\n\nSeveral members of the public had contacted the force about the funeral at the Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady, Queen of Apostles on Woodhall Lane.\n\nBedfordshire Police said a man in his 30s was issued with the fine over the gathering.\n\nCh Supt John Murphy from the force said: \"Fines and enforcement are a last resort for us, and we will always engage and work with families in the first instance.\n\n\"But we need to take firm action against those who brazenly decide to go against the guidelines outlined by the government and put a large number of people at risk.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Ministers will discuss at a meeting on Monday whether to tighten restrictions at UK borders - including the possibility of hotel quarantines for travellers, the BBC has been told.\n\nAt a Downing Street news conference on Friday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson did not rule out taking further action.\n\nIt comes amid increased concerns over the spread of new coronavirus variants.\n\nUnder current travel curbs, almost all people arriving in the UK must test negative for Covid to be allowed entry.\n\nThe test must be taken in the 72 hours before travelling and anyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500.\n\nAll passengers are also required to quarantine for up to 10 days, although the isolation period can be cut short with a second negative test after five days in England.\n\nThe only people not subject to the conditions are children under 11, hauliers, air, international rail and maritime crew, and passengers from the Common Travel Area - comprised of the Republic of Ireland, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man\n\nScotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have their own quarantine rules, which differ slightly.\n\nAs of Monday, travel corridors, which exempted passengers arriving from some countries from quarantine, were suspended throughout the UK.\n\nAsked whether the government would bring in further measures at UK borders, Mr Johnson said: \"I really don't rule it out, we may need to take further measures still.\n\n\"We may need to go further to protect our borders.\n\n\"We don't want to put that [efforts to control Covid] at risk by having a new variant come back in.\"\n\nOne more infectious variant , which was first identified in Kent, has already spread widely across the UK.\n\nAnd, at the briefing, the prime minister announced that early evidence suggests this variant may be more deadly.\n\nOther new variants causing concern have been identified in South Africa and Brazil in the weeks since the Kent variant was discovered.\n\nThose discoveries led to direct flights to the UK from all South American countries and several southern African countries being suspended.\n\nScientists fear these variants discovered in other countries may interfere with the effectiveness of vaccines and evade parts of the immune system.\n\nWhile those travelling into the UK are asked to abide by the 10-day isolation and told they can be subject to checks, London mayor Sadiq Khan is among those who have called for the UK to adopt the use of enforced quarantine in hotel rooms.\n\nThe policy is among the measures in Australia that has limited the country to just 28,750 positive cases during the entire pandemic, fewer than the UK currently has every day.\n\nTravellers who choose to go to Australia have to pay for their rooms at one of a number of selected quarantine facilities - and have all their meals delivered to their room throughout a stay of at least 14 days. They get tested twice for Covid during that period and if they test positive their quarantine is extended for a further 14 days.\n\nMeanwhile, passengers arriving into London's Heathrow airport this week have complained of queues at passport control and what they described as poor social distancing, after the latest travel restrictions - requiring travellers to show proof of their negative Covid tests - came into force.\n\nOn Friday, former British ambassador Peter Westmacott posted a picture on Twitter of long queues at the airport.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Peter Westmacott This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA government spokesman said people \"should not be travelling unless absolutely necessary\".\n\nThe statement added: \"You must have proof of a negative test and a completed passenger locator form before arriving.\n\n\"Border Force have been ramping up enforcement and those not complying could be fined £500.\n\n\"It's ultimately up to individual airports to ensure social distancing on site.\"\n\nWith all parts of the UK under strict virus rules amid high levels of infection, only essential foreign travel is permitted in the current advice from the Foreign Office.\n\nA further 40,261 cases, and 1,401 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported on Friday in the UK.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some of the volunteers are working to prepare bodies for burial\n\nA mosque in east London has closed for all communal prayer. Instead it is serving two purposes - providing funerals and feeding the local community. Michael Buchanan finds a team of volunteers there battling to deal with the pandemic.\n\nThe family shuffled quietly past a crate of milk cartons. They came through the small porch, towards the open coffin. Inside was a woman - a loved one - who died of Covid two days ago. The coffin sat feet away from tins and packets to be distributed by the local food bank. The milk was the latest delivery.\n\nIt is impossible to capture the enormous consequences of the pandemic. But last Saturday lunchtime, this tragic image - one of grief and hardship coming together - came close, for me at least.\n\nCovid-19 has made extraordinary demands of so many different people, but what is currently happening at the Masjid Ibrahim and Islamic Centre in east London is truly remarkable. Situated on a busy road, with the noise of ambulance sirens regularly shattering its peaceful interior, the mosque has closed to communal prayer and is open for two other purposes - to provide a funeral service and a food bank to the local community. Both are inundated.\n\n\"We've had so many bodies coming in. It's quite shocking. It's one after another after another. We've never had that situation before,\" says Sofia Bhatti. Alongside her friend, Tabassum Khokhar - known as Tabs - the pair are unheralded heroes. They volunteer to wash the bodies of Covid-positive women prior to burial.\n\nThe practice, called Ghusl, is a sacred Islamic ritual and is usually performed by the deceased's relatives, who cleanse and shroud the body. But Covid restrictions mean families are currently denied that religious honour, so volunteers like Sofia and Tabs are taking on what they consider to be a privileged task.\n\n\"We actually believe that when we are shrouding here, that God is shrouding the soul at the same time,\" says Tabs, standing by a coffin. By day, she works as a teaching support worker in a local school, so the PPE that the mosque provides - bodysuit, footwear, two sets of gloves, masks and visors - is crucial for her. \"I make sure my PPE is secure because it's not just about me, it's about my family. I have an 81-year-old mother.\"\n\nThe women are seeing first hand - and in graphic detail - the pressure the NHS is under. \"Very often we see bodies coming in with a lot of medical equipment still attached to them,\" says Sofia. \"Tubes and pipes and catheters still attached. So it makes our job a little bit harder.\" One of the women they washed during my visit had died in the ambulance, never actually reaching hospital.\n\nVery often we see bodies coming in with a lot of medical equipment still attached to them. Tubes and pipes and catheters\n\nThere are far more bodies than during the first peak and there is a larger age range. One day this week, the mosque was handling seven bodies. A few days earlier they said they'd processed 10 funerals, all arranged for free and paid for by donations. Before the pandemic, they'd handled two to three funerals a week. The two local hospital trusts in east London have each had more than 1,000 Covid deaths since the start of the pandemic. More have died at home.\n\nThe borough of Newham, where the mosque sits, has suffered a disproportionate number of deaths. Home to the Olympic Park, the 2012 London games were meant to regenerate this area. Yet it retains high levels of poverty and overcrowded housing. Add in a diverse population, rich in south Asian culture, and large numbers of people who can't work from home and the virus has sadly ripped through its residents.\n\nIsfand Aslam said he's shocked by what's going on. His father, Mohammad, died on 3 January, a week after falling ill. His positive Covid test result arrived two days after his death. The 85-year-old was a committee member at the Masjid Ibrahim and despite his age had been in good health. \"It took a week between him passing away and getting buried. Initially I was getting a lot of condolences from friends. But by the end of that week I am giving condolences to three friends because their fathers had passed away. It's now got to the stage where everybody we know knows somebody who has passed away.\"\n\nThe sheer number of deaths is impacting the area's main Muslim cemetery. Normally, the Gardens of Peace buries three to four people each day. They're currently carrying out an average of 15 funerals daily. Overall, they are about 50% busier than usual. They can no longer promise burials within 24 hours, as per Muslim custom.\n\nDespite this, there is still a concerning number of people in the local area who either don't think Covid is real or are resistant to taking a vaccine. There was anger among some community leaders before Christmas when it emerged the Bangladeshi High Commission in London held a cultural evening to celebrate its independence. Photos from the event, on 16 December, showed a group - including the High Commissioner herself - standing close together with no masks or social distancing. The High Commission said performers had been Covid tested and it had issued 10 videos in Bangla urging British-Bangladeshis to adhere to UK government guidance.\n\nIt's now got to the stage where everybody we know knows somebody who has passed away\n\nTo counter disinformation among its members, an imam at the Masjid Ibrahim, Mohammad Ammar, filmed a short video of himself being injected with the vaccine and urged his congregation to follow suit. Imam Ammar has actually been furloughed by the mosque as it focusses all its resources on battling the pandemic, including feeding its local community.\n\nThe virus forced the mosque to open a food bank in March. It is still running 10 months on. On Monday night, I watched a steady stream of people gather in the gloom at the rear of the mosque to fill their bags. Most were collecting on behalf of a larger household, and the mosque says they're currently feeding 350 families each week, including students, refugees, people with no access to public funds and those who've lost income.\n\nAmong those collecting food on Monday was Mohammad Rahman. A 42-year-old chef, he lost his job in an Indian restaurant three months ago. The married father of two boys - aged eight and six - told me he was already in rent arrears and struggling to pay his energy bills. \"My son says 'where is the pizza'? But I have no money. He says '[can I have] chicken and chips'? But I have no money. The shops are open, but no money\", he adds, taking his hands from his pockets.\n\nIn normal times, the Masjid Ibrahim would attract about 1,100 worshippers over three floors for Friday prayers, and there has been some pressure on the leadership to reopen for communal worship. But Asim Uddin, chairman of the mosque, says now is not the time. \"Prayers, yes, it's important. But right now what is the need? The need of the community is they want to be fed and they want a place where they can respectfully bury their loved ones. And the demand is overwhelming. Right now, it's better they stay home, and they can pray at home until the situation goes back to normal.\"\n\nMichael Buchanan is the BBC's social affairs correspondent and has been reporting on the impact of the pandemic on communities in the UK. Last year, he visited the town of Pontypool to find out what impact coronavirus restrictions were having in Wales.", "Reports suggest AstraZeneca may have warned of a 60% cut to doses available\n\nA second coronavirus vaccine manufacturer has warned of supply issues to the European Union, compounding frustration in the bloc.\n\nAstraZeneca said a production problem meant the number of initial doses available would be lower than expected.\n\nThe fresh blow comes after some nations' inoculation programmes were slowed due to a cut in deliveries of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nThe EU Health Commissioner expressed \"deep dissatisfaction\" at the news.\n\nOfficials have not confirmed publicly how big the shortfall will be, but an unnamed EU official told Reuters news agency that deliveries would be reduced to 31m - a cut of 60% - in the first quarter of this year.\n\nThe drug firm had been set to deliver about 80 million doses to the 27 nations by March, according to the official who spoke to Reuters.\n\nThe AstraZeneca vaccine, developed with Oxford University, has not yet been approved by the EU's drug regulator but is expected to get the green light at the end of this month, paving the way for jabs to be given.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA spokesman for AstraZeneca said on Friday that \"initial volumes will be lower than originally anticipated\" without giving further details.\n\nHis written statement blamed the discrepancy on \"reduced yields at a manufacturing site within our European supply chain\" and said the firm was continuing to ramp up production volumes.\n\nNews of the delay comes amid criticism and frustration across the region about the speed of vaccination roll-outs.\n\nIsrael, the United Arab Emirates, the UK, and the US are all well ahead of EU nations in terms of doses given per capita so far.\n\nThe European Commission has co-ordinated orders for all member states, with vaccines then distributed based on their population size.\n\nVaccines are increasingly seen by experts as the only way out of the Covid-19 crisis, with many European nations struggling to cope with a deadly surge of the virus over the winter period.\n\nAustrian media have reported that only 600,000 of two million AstraZeneca doses promised by the end of March will arrive in the country on time, with the remaining 1.4m now being delivered in April.\n\nA delay would be \"completely unacceptable\", Austrian Health Minister Rudolf Anschober said on Friday.\n\nAs for Pfizer, the US firm said it had to cut shipments for the next few weeks while it worked to increase capacity at its Belgian processing plant. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome regions, including Germany's most populous state North-Rhine Westphalia and parts of Italy, said earlier this week that they were suspending giving first jabs of the two-dose vaccine because of the shortages.\n\nItaly and Poland have threatened to take legal action in response to the reduction in vaccine supply.\n\nMeanwhile Hungary's government, which has complained over the time it is taking EU regulators to approve the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, has reached a deal with Russia to buy up large quantities of its Sputnik V vaccine, even though it has not received EU approval.\n\nEuropean Council President Charles Michel, who led a call of EU leaders this week, said Thursday that officials were considering all ideas to try and stop future vaccine delays.\n\n\"All possible means will be examined to ensure rapid supply, including early distribution to avoid delays,\" he said.\n\nEuropean Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and Mr Michel both say they are still aiming for the target of 70% of the EU population being vaccinated by summer.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid vaccine safety: How does a vaccine get approved?\n\nThe total number of German Covid deaths climbed above 50,000 on Friday - a day after the country warned that it could close its borders if other EU countries were less strict in controlling the virus. Berlin sounded the alarm amid rising concern about new variants.\n\nEU leaders agreed late on Thursday to keep their internal borders open but warned non-essential travel might need to be restricted to curb the spread of the virus.\n\nMs von der Leyen said Thursday that more testing and \"targeted measures\" were needed throughout the EU in order to keep internal and external borders open.\n\nFor its part, France said it would impose tighter travel restrictions for European arrivals from Sunday, requiring a negative PCR Covid test within three days of travel.\n\nIn the Netherlands, a ban on all flights from the UK, South Africa and South American countries came into effect on Saturday to try and prevent new coronavirus variants gaining a foothold.\n\nLooking forward to the future, officials from EU nations reliant on tourism - including Spain and Greece - have floated the possibility of using vaccination certificates to allow for cross-border travel but there has been scepticism within the bloc.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Infection level \"very, very high\" and \"extremely precarious\" - Prof Whitty\n\nThe UK is at an \"extremely precarious\" point, according to the chief medical adviser, despite signs Covid infections are beginning to fall.\n\nThe virus's reproduction rate is estimated to be at or below one for the first time since early December.\n\nAnything below one means the epidemic is shrinking.\n\nBut cases are falling from a \"very, very high level\", Prof Chris Whitty said - and may still be increasing in some areas.\n\n\"A very small change and it could start taking off again from an extremely high base,\" he warned.\n\nSpeaking at a Number 10 press conference on Friday evening, the UK's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, said the \"awful\" death rate would stay high \"for a little while before it starts coming down\".\n\n\"That was always what was predicted...and I think the information about the new variant doesn't change that\".\n\nEarly evidence suggests the variant of coronavirus that emerged in the UK may be more deadly, although findings are preliminary and there is a high level of uncertainty.\n\nDr Susan Hopkins at Public Health England said there was \"evidence from some but not all data sources which suggests that the variant of concern which was first detected in the UK may lead to a higher risk of death than the non-variant.\n\n\"Evidence on this variant is still emerging and more work is under way to fully understand how it behaves.\"\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said while the UK's R or reproduction number, might be below one - meaning a shrinking epidemic - overall, \"cases remain dangerously high and...it is essential that everyone continues to stay at home, whether they have had the vaccine or not.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures suggested cases were decreasing slightly or levelling off across Britain.\n\nBut infections are falling more slowly than they did during the first lockdown - by somewhere around a quarter every fortnight compared with a halving back in April.\n\nA further 40,261 cases, and 1,401 deaths were recorded on Friday in the UK.\n\nMore than five million people had been given a first dose of the vaccine by 21 January, and about half a million had received their second dose.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has previously said it is \"too early\" to say whether England's Covid restrictions will be able to end in the spring.\n\nWhile cases are falling or stable across the rest of the UK, in Northern Ireland cases have continued to rise and the new, more infectious strain has overtaken the older variant of the virus as of the start of January.\n\nDuring the week ending 16 January, about one in 55 people in England had the virus, the ONS estimated, with one in 35 in London testing positive.\n\nOne in 100 people had the virus in Scotland and one in 70 in Wales.\n\nBut in Northern Ireland infections have shot up from an an estimated one in 200 people testing positive in the week to 2 January, to one in 60 last week.\n\nONS statistician Sarah Crofts said while fewer people were testing positive in England, \"rates remain high and we estimate the level of infection is still over one million people\".\n\nAnd, she pointed out, \"the picture across the UK is mixed\".\n\nA survey by tech company ZOE and King's College London, based on swabs of people with and without symptoms, also suggested the R number could be at 0.8.\n\nAnd it estimated symptomatic cases had fallen by a quarter since last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What is the R number and what does it mean?\n\nMeanwhile, the proportion of people testing positive for the new Covid variant has risen considerably in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, ONS data suggest.\n\nBut the new strain, which remains by far the main source of infections in England, has yet to overtake the old strain in Scotland and Wales.\n\nWithin England, the proportion of infections that appear to be due to the new variant remained stable, but the gap between the regions is narrowing.\n\nIn the figures covering 2 January, 80% of infections looked like the new variant in London compared to 30% in the North East.\n\nTwo weeks later, that gap had narrowed to 70% in London versus 50% in the North East.\n\nIt is not clear what is behind the small fall in London, but it may be down to behaviour change, or other variants like the South Africa strain now in circulation and diluting the numbers.", "Morriston is seeing \"unprecedented\" numbers of people die in intensive care\n\nAn intensive care consultant said as many as five patients are dying with Covid during a single 12-hour shift.\n\nDr John Gorst said the number was \"unprecedented\" at his unit in Swansea's Morriston Hospital that would normally only see one person die.\n\nHe said the second wave of the pandemic was more challenging with patients more severely unwell.\n\nIn Wales, there has been an average of about 34 deaths a day during the pandemic up to 19 January.\n\nNew Year's Day saw the most Covid-related deaths in a single day in Wales - 55 - since the pandemic began.\n\n\"In some 12-hour periods we have lost up to five coronavirus patients,\" said Dr Gorst.\n\n\"Usually we expect to see, on average, one patient a day dying in the intensive care unit. To have five die on one day is unprecedented.\n\n\"That's been a real struggle for their families and for the staff dealing with it.\"\n\nFour additional medical wards have opened to cope with the impact of coronavirus at Morriston, with about 300 patients being treated.\n\nDr John Gorst and senior matron Carol Doggett say Covid patients are sicker and younger in the second wave\n\nDr Gorst said: \"If it wasn't for the treatment given on the wards, intensive care would have been completely overwhelmed.\n\n\"However, when patients have failed on these treatments, sadly the safety net of the intensive care unit [and] getting them on an invasive ventilator, largely doesn't work.\n\n\"Most patients who come to intensive care to go on an intensive ventilator, sadly, will not survive.\n\n\"These patients are mostly of working age. They don't have any significant medical conditions.\"\n\n\"This is alien to us as an intensive care unit. We expect far more patients to survive. Now they are not.\"\n\nMorriston's senior matron Carol Doggett agreed that the \"number of sicker patients has definitely increased\", and she said they were younger than had been experienced in the first wave of the pandemic.\n\n\"That should be a stark warning to anyone not to take chances with this,\" she said.\n\nOn Friday, First Minister Mark Drakeford said there was cause for concern over new variants of Covid-19.\n\n\"We know the new highly contagious strain - sometimes called the Kent variant - is now widespread across Wales,\" he said.\n\nHe also said the government was closely monitoring three new variant variants: one from South Africa and two from Brazil.\n\nSix cases of the South African variant have been identified in Wales.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police tweeted this photo, which appears to show the vehicle severely damaged in the crash\n\nFour ponies have been killed in a collision with a vehicle in the New Forest National Park.\n\nThe animals were hit on Thursday night while licking freshly laid salt on Roger Penny Way, Hampshire Constabulary said.\n\nThree ponies died at the scene while a fourth was found dead later a short distance away.\n\nIn December, three donkeys were killed on the road, which is a black spot for animal accidents.\n\nMark Ferrett, whose daughter owned the ponies, said the deaths were \"unacceptable\"\n\nThe crash happened at about 21:00 GMT on a 40mph (64km/h) section of the road north of Brook.\n\nThe car, a Land Rover Discovery, appears to have been severely damaged in the collision, according to a police tweet, which gave no further details.\n\nMark Ferrett, whose daughter owned the ponies, said the deaths were \"unacceptable\".\n\nHe said: \"I would favour a reduction in the speed [limit]. Please, everyone needs to slow down and stop this carnage.\"\n\nThe New Forest is one of the largest remaining areas of unenclosed land where commoners' cattle, ponies and donkeys roam throughout the open heath.\n\nIn 2019, 58 animals were killed and 32 were injured, according to the New Forest National Park Authority.\n\nThe crash happened on Roger Penny Way, where donkeys, cattle and horses roam freely\n\nAndrew Napthine, a New Forest Agister who helps manage the area's free-roaming animals, attended the scene of the crash, and said the male driver was not injured.\n\nHe said three of the ponies were killed on the road while a fourth fled the scene and died behind a bush.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK has reported another 55,892 daily cases of coronavirus, the highest figure on record.\n\nAnd another 964 people died within 28 days of a positive test, only slightly down on the 981 on Wednesday.\n\nIt comes as Health Secretary Matt Hancock appealed to everyone to \"take personal responsibility this New Year's Eve and stay at home\".\n\nHe said he knew how much had been sacrificed this year but, with the NHS under pressure, \"we cannot let up\".\n\nOn Thursday, just after midnight, 20 million more people in England were placed under the toughest restrictions and told to stay at home.\n\nThe new restrictions mean 44 million people, or 78% of the population of England, are now in tier four, where non-essential shops, gyms, cinemas and hairdressers have to stay shut.\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle said Christmas week had seen a worrying rise in cases - particularly among adults in their 20s and 30s.\n\n\"We have all had to make huge sacrifices this year, but please ensure that you keep your distance from others, wash your hands and wear a mask,\" she said.\n\n\"A night in at new year will mean you are significantly reducing your social contacts and can help stop the spread of the virus.\"\n\nThe 981 deaths recorded on Wednesday was the highest daily figure since April.\n\nMuch of the rise in cases has been blamed on the spread of a new variant, which scientists believe is able to transmit more easily.\n\nIt was initially concentrated in the London, the South East and eastern England, but Mr Hancock has said it is now responsible for the \"majority\" of new cases across the UK.\n\nWith the number of Covid patients in hospitals increasing, some are being moved long distances for intensive care.\n\nDr Michael Marsh, NHS England medical director for the south-west region, said patients had come from Kent to Plymouth and Bristol, where services were \"less stretched\".\n\nThe latest NHS Test and Trace figures show 232,169 people tested positive for Covid in England at least once in the week to 23 December, up 33% on the previous week and the highest weekly rise on record.\n\nCovid case rates are continuing to rise in all regions of England - with London's rate at 735.5 per 100,000 people in the seven days to 27 December, up from 711.9 the previous week, the latest Public Health England report showed.\n\nEastern England saw the second highest rate, 551.3 up from 510.8, followed by south-east England at 450.6, up from 427.4.\n\nMeanwhile, Scotland recorded 2,622 new Covid cases in the past 24 hours - a record high for the third day in a row.\n\nPublic Health Wales reported a further 1,831 cases in Wales, with the highest case rates in Bridgend (825.6 for every 100,000 people) and Merthyr Tydfil (754.2).\n\nAnd Northern Ireland has seen another 1,929 cases in the last 24 hours, as hospitals come close to capacity with latest figures showing only six empty beds.\n\nSome hospital trusts in the south of England have also been reporting that they are under extreme pressure because of increasing numbers of Covid patients.\n\nOn Wednesday, Essex and Buckinghamshire declared major incidents, while an intensive care doctor at London's Whittington Hospital said they were facing a \"tsunami\" of Covid cases.\n\nProf Hugh Montgomery said people who did not follow social distancing rules or wear masks \"have blood on their hands\".\n\nThe NHS said London's Nightingale Hospital had been \"reactivated\" and was ready to admit patients, in anticipation of rising pressures from the spread of the new variant.", "Officers dispersed the party at the Grade II* listed church before midnight\n\nA 500-year-old church was damaged during an illegal New Year's Eve party at the venue.\n\nAll Saints' Church in East Horndon, near Brentwood, was broken into before crowds entered, Essex Police said.\n\nOfficers were threatened and had objects thrown at them as they dispersed hundreds of people and seized equipment, the force said.\n\nTwo men from Harlow, aged 27 and 22, and a 35-year-old from Southwark were arrested.\n\nThey were held on suspicion of public order and drugs offences.\n\nAstrid Gillespie, a volunteer with the Friends of All Saints', said event organisers had smashed a window to put in an extractor fan unit and wired sound equipment into the church's fuse box.\n\nShe said: \"It was a professional set-up, they'd hired portable loos, they had a bar area where you had to exchange tokens... obviously it's a mess.\n\n\"It's such a beautiful church, to find out it's been damaged is devastating.\"\n\nThe conservation group believes it will cost at least £1,000 to repair the Tudor building.\n\nEquipment was seized and fines issued over three illegal parties broken up by officers\n\nPolice later dispersed about 100 people at an illegal party at an abandoned warehouse in Brentwood and made two arrests.\n\nA woman was also fined £10,000 for organising a house party with 100 guests at Bury Road, Sewardstonebury, in Epping Forest.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Andy Prophet said: \"Unfortunately, there were [those] who decided to blatantly flout the coronavirus rules and regulations and, ultimately, they decided that partying was more important than protecting other people.\n\n\"We've seized their equipment, arrested five people, and issued a large number of fines to those who think this behaviour is acceptable.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Father (left) and son have had divergent views on Brexit in the past\n\nThe father of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson says he is applying for French citizenship now that Britain has severed ties with the European Union.\n\nStanley Johnson told France's RTL radio he had always seen himself as French as his mother was born in France.\n\nThe 80-year-old former Conservative Member of the European Parliament voted Remain in the 2016 Brexit referendum.\n\nHis son Boris spearheaded the Leave campaign and later took the UK out of the EU as prime minister.\n\nStanley Johnson explained his reasons for seeking French citizenship in an interview broadcast on Thursday, hours before the UK was due to leave EU trading rules.\n\n\"It's not about becoming French,\" he told RTL. \"It's about reclaiming what I already have.\"\n\nHe pointed out that his mother was born in France to a French mother. \"I will always be European,\" he added.\n\nStanley Johnson won a seat in the European Parliament when direct elections were first held in 1979, and later worked for the European Commission. As a result, Boris spent part of his childhood in Brussels.\n\nBrexit issues have divided the Johnson family. The prime minister's sister, the journalist Rachel Johnson, left the Conservative Party to join the Liberal Democrats ahead of the 2017 election in protest against Brexit.\n\nTheir brother, the Conservative MP Jo Johnson, resigned from the cabinet in 2018 to highlight his support for closer links with the EU.", "Tampon tax activist Laura Coryton says scrapping the tampon tax is an important move ‘ending a symptom of sexism’\n\nThe 5% rate of VAT on sanitary products - referred to as the \"tampon tax\" - will be abolished in the UK from 1 January.\n\nEU law required members to tax tampons and sanitary towels at 5%, treating period products as non-essential.\n\nChancellor Rishi Sunak committed to scrapping the tax in his March Budget.\n\nCampaigners welcomed the end to what they called a \"sexist tax\" with activist Laura Coryton saying it was \"about ending a symptom of sexism\".\n\nThe UK was able to get rid of the tax now because it is no longer subject to European Union rules on sanitary products.\n\nThe EU is itself in the process of abolishing the tampon tax. In 2018 the European Commission published proposals to change the VAT rules, which would give countries the right to stop taxing tampons and other period products, but the move has not yet been agreed by all members. The Republic of Ireland has zero VAT on sanitary products as the rate was in place prior to EU legislation imposing the 5% minimum VAT rate on EU members.\n\nMs Coryton, 27, who began campaigning to end the tampon tax when she was 21, told the BBC the move \"challenged the negative message that this tax sent to society about women\".\n\nThe move follows Scotland becoming the first in the world to make period products free in November.\n\nFelicia Willow, chief executive of women's rights charity the Fawcett Society, agreed, saying: \"It's been a long road to reach this point, but at last the sexist tax that saw sanitary products classed as non-essential, luxury items can be consigned to the history books.\"\n\nThe Treasury has estimated the move will save the average woman nearly £40 over her lifetime, with a cut of 7p on a pack of 20 tampons and 5p on 12 pads.\n\nIt's been a long road to getting the tampon tax abolished in the UK. Campaigning and debates in parliament by then-MP for Dewsbury Ann Taylor led to the Labour government moving sanitary products to a reduced rate of 5% from January 2001- the lowest rate possible under the EU's VAT rules.\n\nAnd following more campaigning in 2014 by Ms Coryton and lobbying in parliament by former Dewsbury MP Paula Sherriff in 2016, the Conservative government announced that all VAT collected on sanitary products would henceforth be given to charities working with vulnerable women and girls.\n\nAt the same time, the government enshrined in legislation that it would abolish the tampon tax.\n\n\"I'm just so happy and relieved and excited at the same time for this tax to finally be axed,\" said Ms Coryton.\n\n\"It will mean a reduction in prices for period products, and that reduction in cost will be important for the increasing number of people who are battling with poverty, especially due to the pandemic.\"\n\nGemma Abbott is a lawyer and campaigner with the Free Periods group, which successfully campaigned for the government to provide free sanitary products to schools and colleges across England in 2019. The scheme launched in January.\n\nGemma Abbott wants clarity from the government on why the free sanitary products for schools scheme is not mandatory\n\n\"I think it's great news and a real testament to the determined campaigning of many people, like Paula Sheriff and Laura Coryton,\" she said.\n\n\"I think we can agree that any tax that characterises period products as non-essential is absurd and it has no place in a society that is seeking genuine gender equality.\"\n\nFree Periods is now campaigning to ensure that schools and colleges know that the free sanitary products scheme exists and that they sign up for them.\n\nMs Abbott said: \"The latest statistics we have are from last term - at that point only 40% of schools had signed up for the scheme.\"\n\nMs Coryton has set up a social enterprise called Sex Ed Matters with her sister Julia, providing talks in schools and toolkits for teachers to help them deliver the mandatory new sex education curriculum for primary and secondary schools issued in early 2020.\n\nThey did an online survey of 150 teachers and students across the UK, and 100% of respondents said that there is still a stigma attached to periods.\n\n\"If there is a stigma attached to periods, then you're unlikely to speak up when you need period products, or to talk about the free sanitary products scheme that exists,\" stressed Ms Coryton.\n\nBut Free Periods' Ms Abbott is also concerned about the charities supporting women and girls, who will no longer benefit from the proceeds of the previous 5% tax on sanitary products.\n\n\"The tampon tax fund has provided much needed support and funding to a chronically underfunded area,\" she said.\n\n\"I'm worried that the removal of the tampon tax will spell the end of the ring-fenced funding for charities to address really vital issues like domestic violence and rape.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Olympics\n\nThe delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will go ahead this summer despite concern over rising coronavirus cases, says Japan's prime minister.\n\nThe Olympics are due to begin on 23 July with the Paralympics following a month later from 24 August.\n\nCases have surged in Japan in recent days with Tokyo reporting over 1,000 daily infections for the first time.\n\nBut prime minister Yoshihide Suga said the \"Games will be held this summer\" and be \"safe and secure\".\n\nJapan is responding to cases of the new variant of coronavirus first found in the UK, with Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike warning the number of infections could \"explode\".\n\nThere were a record 1,337 cases in Tokyo on 31 December with 783 new infections announced on Friday.\n\nJapan has recorded 239,041 coronavirus cases and 3,337 deaths during the pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nCosts for the Games have increased by $2.8bn (£2.1bn) because of measures needed to prevent the spread of coronavirus but organisers have ruled out a delay.\n\nThe Games could be the most expensive summer Olympics in history.\n\nA poll by national broadcaster NHK showed that the majority of the Japanese general public oppose holding the Games in 2021, favouring a further delay or outright cancellation of the event.\n\nSuga said the Games going ahead could serve as a \"symbol of global solidarity\".", "The next few weeks will be \"nail-bitingly difficult\" for the NHS, hospital bosses have warned.\n\nStaff absences and the new Covid variant are creating a \"challenging situation\", Saffron Cordery, of NHS Providers, which represents hospital trusts in England, said.\n\nDoctors are urging the public to \"take it seriously and follow the rules\" to protect the health service.\n\nThe year started with 53,285 more Covid cases and 613 deaths being reported.\n\nThe day's figures do not include data from Northern Ireland or Wales, or the numbers of deaths from Scotland - as these are not being published on certain days during the Christmas and New Year period.\n\nIt comes after the UK reported its highest daily cases on Thursday, with a record 55,892 infections.\n\nOn Friday evening, the government confirmed that all primary schools in London would remain closed for the start of the new term, following a review of Covid transmission rates.\n\nFrom Monday, all schools in the capital will now be required to provide remote learning.\n\nPrimaries in nine London boroughs and the City of London district had been set to reopen - while those in the remaining 23 boroughs would have stayed closed from 4 January.\n\nMeanwhile, new analysis by Imperial College London has confirmed the new variant of coronavirus has a much quicker rate of transmission than the original strain.\n\nAnd an analysis of NHS England data from 23 hospital trusts by the Health Service Journal shows that Covid-19 is putting intense pressure on adult acute care and general beds, as well as those in intensive care.\n\nIt found that more than a third of these beds were occupied by patients with Covid-19 on Tuesday, and in three trusts - North Middlesex in London, and Medway and Dartford and Gravesham in Kent - the figure was more than half.\n\nBased on the recent rise in numbers, the analysis suggests that all acute and general beds might soon be filled with Covid-19 patients.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, Ms Cordery said the surging transmission and death rates were \"incredibly hard to deal with\".\n\n\"When we are seeing major London trusts saying they are under pressure, that's when we know we're in a very challenging space,\" she said.\n\nA leading intensive care doctor has urged people to follow restrictions until the vaccination programme is fully rolled out.\n\nProf Anthony Gordon, of Imperial College, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"There is light at the end of the tunnel so I would urge people to hold on for these few more months while the vaccination programme makes that difference and then we can truly get back to normal.\n\n\"But we can't overrun the health service because this will just lead to thousands more deaths.\"\n\nAdrian Boyle, vice-president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, urged people to follow guidance on hand washing, social distancing and face coverings to stop the \"entirely preventable\" spread of the virus.\n\nDr Boyle said staff are \"tired\" and at risk of \"burnout\", having \"worked really hard over the summer\" and \"put up with a lot of disruption\".\n\n\"This time people are frustrated, this is now an entirely preventable disease, we know what we did in spring made a lot of this go away. There's also now a vaccine,\" he added.\n\nMore than three-quarters of England is currently under the strictest tier four - \"stay at home\" - coronavirus measures, and other parts of the country have joined higher tiers.\n\nMainland Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales are under lockdown.\n\nThere are also concerns the added pressures of rising numbers of Covid patients seen at London hospitals have begun to spread across the country.\n\nSpeaking on Today, Dr Alison Pittard, of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, said it was \"only a matter of time before it starts to spread to other parts of country\", adding that \"we're already starting to see that\".\n\nShe stressed it was \"really important that we try and stop the transmission in the community because that translates into hospital admissions\".\n\nIt comes as almost half the major hospital trusts in England are said to be dealing with more Covid-19 patients than at the peak of the first wave in April.\n\nAnd pressure has been so great on some hospitals in London and south-east England that some patients have been moved out of the area.\n\nLondon's Nightingale emergency hospital is ready to admit patients, the NHS has said, while other sites currently not in use are being readied.\n\nHowever, Mike Adams, director of the Royal College of Nursing, questioned whether there were the staff available to run the hospital.\n\n\"Nursing is already stretched beyond capacity so there is no magic pile of nurses we can call upon,\" he told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.\n\n\"I think the real battle is reducing the spread of the virus and getting the vaccine rolled out.\"\n\nThe new coronavirus variant has driven a big rise in cases, with the worst effects felt so far in London.\n\nResearchers at Imperial College London have confirmed it increases the R number - the number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to - by about 0.4 to 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy, from the statistic section of Imperial College London, told the Today programme this higher rate of infection means that transmission of the disease would have tripled even during England's November lockdown conditions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains how to wear your mask correctly and help stop coronavirus spreading\n\nThe hunt is now on to find new ways to slow the spread of coronavirus, with the rules on mask wearing potentially coming up for review.\n\nBehavioural science group SPI-B (Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours), which reports to the Sage group of government advisers, has said that mandatory face coverings may be necessary in a wider number of settings, such as in workplaces and possibly outdoors.\n\nHowever, Dr Simon Clarke, associate professor of cellular microbiology at the University of Reading, told BBC Radio 4's World at One he was not convinced a move towards making the wearing of face coverings mandatory outdoors would make \"much difference\" to transmission rates.\n\nHe said the \"bigger problem\" was people touching their face covering or wearing it incorrectly, adding ministers should focus on ensuring people knew how to wear them and to change and wash them regularly.\n\nThe rollout of the newly approved Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will begin on Monday, almost a month after the Pfizer-BioNTech jab.\n\nSecond doses of either will now take place within 12 weeks rather than 21 days as had been initially planned with the Pfizer vaccine.", "After years of silence, The KLF have uploaded a selection of their most famous songs to streaming services like Spotify, YouTube and Apple Music.\n\nThe band's music has been officially unavailable since 1992, when they deleted their entire back catalogue.\n\nBut eight songs, including dance anthems like 3AM Eternal and What Time Is Love, are now available on an eight-track compilation, Solid State Logik.\n\nFly posters in London suggested The KLF would release more music this year.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by KLF This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nSolid State Logik collects all of the band's biggest hits - including the Tammy Wynette collaboration Justified & Ancient, and the Gary Glitter-sampling Doctorin' The Tardis.\n\nIt comes 29 years after founders Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond turned their backs on music, with a provocative performance at the 1992 Brit Awards - where they tied for best group with Simply Red.\n\nThe duo made their disdain for the industry clear by performing 3AM Eternal while firing blanks from a machine gun into the stunned audience, before an announcer said: \"The KLF have left the music business.\"\n\nDriving the point home, they later dumped a dead sheep on the steps of an after-show party with a note reading, \"I died for ewe\".\n\nCauty and Drummond later burned £1m of their royalties in bundles of £50 notes, on the remote Scottish island of Jura.\n\nIn recent decades the duo have concentrated on book and art projects, including plans to build a \"people's pyramid\", inspired by the death of Cauty's brother and constructed from bricks, each containing 23 grams of human ashes.\n\nBut fans have clamoured for their music - with bootleg clips of their videos and performances achieving tens of millions of views on YouTube, and several \"sound-alike\" versions of their biggest hits appearing on Spotify.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by KLF This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nWhen other streaming holdouts like AC/DC and Neil Young relented and made their back catalogues available, The KLF still held out. In 2018, Billboard named their absence as one of the eight most significant gaps on streaming services, alongside records by De La Soul and Aaliyah.\n\nThe band announced their surprise resurrection in two posters pasted under a railway bridge in Shoreditch, East London, alongside graffiti referencing The KLF.\n\nThe Instagram account of Cauty's girlfriend showed a figure creating the graffiti creating the graffiti on New Year's Eve.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by sistersofperpetualresistance This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAccording to a statement on the band's YouTube page, Solid State Logik (named after the mixing desk the band used to create their biggest hits) is the first of five planned releases, covering all of the band's releases, under a variety of names.\n\nIt read: \"KLF have appropriated the work done between 1 January 1987 and 31 December 1991 by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, The Timelords [and] The KLF.\n\n\"This appropriation was in order to tell a story in five chapters using the medium of streaming. The name of the story is Samplecity Thru Transcentral.\"\n\nThe text goes on to name several projects that are being prepared for release, some of which have never been heard before, including Kick Out The Jams, the Pure Trance Series, and a second volume of Solid State Logik.\n\n\"If you need to know more about the work done by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, The Timelords or The KLF, you can find truths, rumours and half-truths scattered across the internet,\" the statement continued.\n\n\"From these truths, rumours and half-truths, you can form your own opinions.\n\n\"The actual facts were washed down a storm drain in Brixton some time in the late 20th Century.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The UK celebrated the start of 2021 with a fireworks and light display over London that included tributes to NHS staff and the Black Lives Matter movement.\n\nRevellers were not able to gather to celebrate the London mayor's display in the usual way because of the coronavirus pandemic, with people instead told to stay at home.\n\nThe new year celebrations also featured a message of hope from David Attenborough.\n\nWatch the full display on the BBC iPlayer", "The star started filming his role in secret last year\n\nComedian John Bishop is to join Jodie Whittaker for the 13th series of Doctor Who, the BBC has revealed.\n\nThe 54-year-old, who recently tested positive for coronavirus, said boarding the Tardis was a \"dream come true\".\n\nHe will play a character called Dan, who \"becomes embroiled in the Doctor's adventures\" and faces \"evil alien races beyond his wildest nightmares\".\n\nBishop fills the gap left by Bradley Walsh and Tosin Cole, who bowed out in a special New Year's Day episode.\n\nHe began filming his role last November, but the BBC kept the signing under wraps until the broadcast of Revolution Of The Daleks on Friday night.\n\nBishop, who grew up on a Merseyside council estate, had a brief career as a professional footballer before turning his hand to comedy.\n\nHe has previously acted in the Channel 4 drama Skins and the Ken Loach film Route Irish.\n\nEarlier this week, the comedian revealed that he and his wife had tested positive for Coronavirus over Christmas, saying he had been \"flattened\" by \"the worst illness I have ever had\".\n\nWriting on Instagram, he described his symptoms as including \"incredible headaches, muscle and joint point, no appetite, nausea, dizziness [and] chronic fatigue like I didn't know existed\".\n\nHe updated fans on New Year's Eve, saying he and his wife were \"getting a little stronger\" every day, and promising he would return to work in January.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by johnbish100 This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is not thought his illness will disrupt production on Doctor Who. The show is on a scheduled break for Christmas and not due to resume filming until later this month.\n\nThe 13th series of the rebooted sci-fi stalwart will see Whittaker return as the extra terrestrial Time Lord, alongside Mandip Gill, who returns as Yaz.\n\nIn a statement, Bishop said: \"If I could tell my younger self that one day I would be asked to step on board the Tardis, I would never have believed it.\n\n\"It's an absolute dream come true to be joining Doctor Who and I couldn't wish for better company than Jodie and Mandip.\"\n\nJodie Whittaker became the first female actress to play The Doctor in 2017\n\nProgramme boss Chris Chibnall added: \"It's time for the next chapter of Doctor Who, and it starts with a man called Dan. Oh, we've had to keep this one secret for a long, long time.\n\n\"Our conversations started with John even before the pandemic hit.\n\n\"The character of Dan was built for him, and it's a joy to have him aboard the Tardis.\"\n\nDoctor Who will return to BBC One later this year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson is one of five men who have been rebailed by police\n\nLiverpool Mayor Joe Anderson says he will not fight for re-election in May due to an ongoing bribery and witness intimidation investigation.\n\nMr Anderson, 62, made the announcement after Merseyside Police said he had been rebailed until February following his arrest earlier this month.\n\nHe tweeted he was \"disappointed\" with the police decision as he had \"provided all of the information they asked for\".\n\nHe said it was in the Labour Party's best interests to pick a new candidate.\n\nMr Anderson was arrested on 4 December, along with four other men, on suspicion of conspiracy to commit bribery and witness intimidation.\n\nThe year-long investigation, Operation Aloft, has focused on a number of building and development contracts in Liverpool.\n\nFollowing his arrest, Mr Anderson said he was \"stepping away from decision-making\" and would take unpaid leave while the police investigation continued.\n\nThe Labour Party also suspended Mr Anderson pending its outcome.\n\nMr Anderson said he would \"continue to fight to demonstrate that I am innocent of any wrongdoing [and] also to protect my legacy as mayor of this city of which I am proud\".\n\nHe said the timing of the police investigation meant \"it would be in the best interests of the Labour Party to select a new candidate for the mayoral election\".\n\nMr Anderson also wrote: \"I have dedicated my life to this city with loyalty and passion and I am not prepared to throw that away.\"\n\nRichard Kemp, leader of the Liberal Democrat opposition on Liverpool City Council, called on Mr Anderson to immediately resign from the local authority.\n\nMr Kemp said his Labour opponent was a \"lame duck mayor\" who was \"preventing the city from moving on\".\n\nMr Anderson said he hoped the police investigation would be completed \"long before\" the expiry of his term of office.\n\nHe said it would confirm he had \"done nothing wrong\" and his name and reputation \"will be exonerated\".\n\n\"I have never done anything that would harm this city,\" he said.\n\nEarlier, Merseyside Police said five men had been rebailed until 19 February.\n\nThe Labour Party has been contacted by the BBC for a comment.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFormer Manchester United and Scotland manager Tommy Docherty has died at the age of 92 following a long illness.\n\nAs a player, Glasgow-born Docherty made more than 300 appearances for Preston and won 25 caps for Scotland.\n\nHe went on to manage 12 clubs, leading Chelsea to League Cup success in 1965 and United to a 2-1 win over Liverpool in the 1977 FA Cup final.\n\n\"Tommy passed away peacefully surrounded by his family at home,\" his family said in a statement.\n\n\"He was a much-loved husband, father and papa and will be terribly missed.\n\n\"We ask that our privacy be respected at this time.\"\n• None Docherty - manager of many clubs, quicks and one-liners\n\nDocherty - affectionately known by his nickname 'The Doc' - died at home in the north west of England on 31 December.\n\nAfter spells managing Chelsea, Rotherham, QPR, Aston Villa and Porto, he took over as Scotland boss in September 1971 on a temporary basis before getting the job full-time two months later.\n\nBut he was best known for his five-year spell at Manchester United, who approached him to succeed Frank O'Farrell in December 1972 while Scotland were on course to qualify for the 1974 World Cup finals.\n\nUnited were relegated in 1974 under Docherty but they kept the Scot and returned to the top flight at the first time of asking. Two years later, they won the FA Cup with victory over Bob Paisley's Liverpool, who had won the league and would go on to also win the European Cup that year.\n\nDocherty's time at Old Trafford also saw George Best fail to revive his United career, the retirement of Bobby Charlton, and the departure of Denis Law.\n\nIn 2014, he told the BBC he still regretted his decision to leave the Scotland job for United.\n\n\"I was stupid,\" he said. \"I should have stayed with Scotland. [It was] partly the money, I have to be honest about that.\"\n\nDocherty was sacked shortly after the Wembley triumph for having an affair with Mary Brown, the wife of United physiotherapist Laurie Brown.\n\nThe pair later married and they remained together until his death.\n\nDocherty returned to management with First Division side Derby in September 1977, then rejoined QPR two years later. A turbulent time at Loftus Road saw him sacked in May 1980, reinstated after just nine days, then sacked again the following October.\n\nSpells at Sydney Olympic, Preston, South Melbourne and Wolves followed, with Docherty's final managerial job coming at non-league Altrincham in 1987-88.\n\nPost-retirement, he worked as an after-dinner speaker and media pundit.\n\nDocherty was inducted into the Scottish Football Hall of Fame in November 2013.\n\n\"He was tenacious on the park and a great leader off it,\" Petrie added.\n\n\"Tommy was a regular in the Scotland side in the 1950s that qualified for two World Cups, and his record as Scotland manager was impressive, albeit cut short.\n\n\"Looking at the results and performances he inspired, it is hard not to wonder what might have been had he remained.\n\n\"His charisma and love for the game shone even after he stopped managing and it was entirely fitting Tommy should be inducted into the Scottish Football Hall of Fame for his lifelong service.\"", "Cases have reached record highs in the past week\n\nThe next few weeks could be the most dangerous period for Scotland since March in the fight against Covid, the first minister has warned.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said the new variant of the virus was \"accelerating spread\" across Scotland.\n\n\"If you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others and the NHS at risk,\" she tweeted.\n\nA further 2,539 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed on Friday.\n\nThe number is slightly down on Thursday's figure, but Ms Sturgeon said cases numbers were still \"worryingly high\".\n\nDaily confirmed cases have reached record highs on each of the previous three days, rising to to 2,622 on Thursday.\n\nThe percentage of positive cases also reached 14.4% on Wednesday - the highest it has been since the second wave of the pandemic began in the summer.\n\nMs Sturgeon tweeted: \"Today's case numbers are worryingly high again. The new variant is accelerating spread.\n\n\"PLEASE do not visit other people's homes just now, even today - if you first foot someone today, or hug/kiss/handshake them HNY, you are putting yourself, others & the NHS at risk.\"\n\nShe said the \"vaccine cavalry\" was on the way, offering \"real hope for 2021\", but she added: \"With this new variant, the next few weeks may be the most dangerous we've faced since Mar/April.\n\n\"We must act together to suppress it, to save lives and protect the NHS. Folded hands stick with it.\"\n\nThe number of daily confirmed cases has reached record highs this week\n\nA new study by London's Imperial College has found that the new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nThe Scottish government's most recent estimate of the R number in Scotland has put it between 0.9 and 1.1.\n\nEmma Thomson, a professor of infectious disease at the University of Glasgow, said it was important to get people vaccinated quickly.\n\nThe professor, who has been working on the sequencing of the new Covid mutation, told the BBC that lockdown was not controlling the infection \"on its own\".\n\n\"At least we come in armed into the new year with two vaccines which are highly effective at preventing severe disease. We have that,\" she said.\n\n\"We need to roll it out now to add to the public health measures.\"\n\nParties, traditional \"first-footing\" and social events were banned this Hogmanay, with all of mainland Scotland and Skye being under the highest level of Covid restrictions.\n\nAll official events were cancelled, but police had to disperse a crowds of people who gathered at Edinburgh Castle and Calton Hill to see in the new year.\n\nIt has also emerged that 32 people were charged with reckless conduct after police found them gathered at a rented property in Aberfoyle on 27 December.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said: \"As the first minister has pointed out, the sharp rise in cases is evidence that the new strain seems to be speeding up transmission.\n\n\"This is why we are asking people to please stay at home as much as possible and avoid non-essential interaction with others.\n\n\"There is light at the end of the tunnel, but we ask everyone to be patient as we work our way through the vaccination programme, and continue to follow FACTS to keep us all safe.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester United moved level on points with Premier League leaders Liverpool as a Bruno Fernandes penalty saw off stubborn Aston Villa.\n\nFernandes drilled his 11th league goal this season - and his fifth from the spot - into the bottom corner to punish Douglas Luiz's clip on Paul Pogba and hand United an eighth win in 10 games.\n\nBertrand Traore's calm finish underneath David de Gea had deservedly drawn Villa level, cancelling out Anthony Martial's stooping first-half header for the hosts.\n\nBut Fernandes' penalty extended United's hold over Villa - they have now won 32 and lost just one of the past 44 league meetings between the sides - and leaves Liverpool top only by virtue of goal difference.\n\nThe spot-kick award angered Aston Villa boss Dean Smith who claimed Pogba \"tripped himself\" and that the video assistant referee should have asked on-pitch official Michael Oliver to review his decision.\n\n\"I don't see why Michael couldn't have looked at it. That's what VAR is for isn't it?\" Smith told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I thought it was a penalty at the time, but I looked at it after the game and saw he tripped himself. I don't think it's a penalty.\n\n\"I think there's enough doubt there to send the referee over to the screen.\"\n\nSmith's side were perhaps unfortunate not to have left Old Trafford with at least a point from a thoroughly entertaining game but they also needed several fine saves from Emiliano Martinez to keep them in it.\n\nAfter Fernandes' spot-kick put United back in front, Martinez superbly tipped a stinging 25-yarder from the Portuguese on to the crossbar as well as denying Martial a second.\n\nMartinez's counterpart David de Gea was just as busy, with a late save from Matty Cash's long-range strike preserving the points, not long after Tyrone Mings had headed wide a glorious chance to level.\n\nOle Gunnar Solskjaer's side have displayed their ability to grind out points at Old Trafford in recent weeks, as evidenced in 1-0 home wins over both West Bromwich Albion and Wolves.\n\nBut they have also shown a willingness to go toe-to-toe with teams who are happy to open up the game and, while this was not quite the shootout of the 6-2 win over Leeds, it was just as easy on the eye.\n\nA number of fluid first-half moves produced chances before Martial's opener as the France forward saw a curler tipped over by Martinez, while Fernandes and Wan-Bissaka were narrowly off target with similar efforts.\n\nMartial stole between Mings and Ezri Konsa to nod the Red Devils ahead from Wan-Bissaka's inviting cross for only his second league goal of the season on his return to Solskjaer's starting line-up.\n\nWhile Luiz was unfortunate to be penalised for what might have been an accidental clip on Pogba, there was enough contact for the penalty to be given and Fernandes continued his excellent record from the spot.\n\nUnited were nine points behind Liverpool after a 1-0 defeat by Arsenal at Old Trafford on 1 November but have made up that gap in just two months to set an intriguing title race into motion.\n\nA minute's silence before the game paid tribute to former boss Tommy Docherty, who famously prevented Liverpool claiming the treble by leading United to an FA Cup win over the Reds in 1977.\n\nAnd while talk of foiling a second successive Liverpool title might be premature, moving alongside them at the Premier League's summit will give Solskjaer's side even more confidence as they eye up a trip to Anfield on 17 January.\n\nWhile Villa were ultimately outgunned by their hosts, their brave display was further evidence of the progress Smith's side have made this season.\n\nThey held their own in the first half, causing United a number of problems down the flanks, with playmaker Jack Grealish prompting and probing to show why the hosts have long considered a move for the Villa captain.\n\nBut they were even more impressive in the early stages of the second period, Grealish crossing for an Ollie Watkins header that was saved by De Gea before collecting a quick free-kick and finding Traore to tuck home the equaliser.\n\nLuiz's foul on Pogba came with Villa very much in the ascendancy and while they then had to ride a storm the visitors still came close to pinching a point as Mings beat fellow England centre-half Harry Maguire to a free-kick only to nod wide.\n\nWith Ross Barkley's return from a hamstring injury imminent, this performance should keep Villa optimistic even if defeat halted a five-game unbeaten run and saw them slip a place to sixth, behind Chelsea on goal difference.\n\nAnd while their rotten record at Old Trafford continues - just one win in 34 visits since 1983, which came courtesy of a Gabriel Agbonlahor header in 2009 - they have still only conceded five times in eight away games this campaign.\n\n'We have improved a lot in a year' - what they said\n\nManchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer told BBC Sport: \"You are always delighted with three points. The performance was good and we created chances.\n\n\"It was maybe a little too open and we wasted chances. We tried to play the Hollywood pass instead of securing the first one and using the space that was there.\n\n\"We are happy with what we are doing. We have shown we have improved a lot in a year. We lost to Arsenal away last New Year's Day. We have improved immensely.\"\n\nAston Villa boss Dean Smith told BBC Sport: \"I wasn't happy with the first half. We were miles off the levels where we have been. It felt like a testimonial pace then they deservedly had the lead at half-time. I told the players we needed to be upping our levels.\n\n\"We competed a lot better [in the second half], showed more quality and created chances. I'd take the second-half performance all day long. A dubious penalty has lost us the game.\n\n\"When you look at our performances and results, it shows we are very competitive in this league now, which is what we wanted it to be.\"\n\nUnited's hold over Villa goes on - the stats\n• None Manchester United are unbeaten in their past 16 Premier League matches against Aston Villa (W12 D4).\n• None Aston Villa have lost 13 of their past 15 away Premier League games against Manchester United at Old Trafford (W1 D1).\n• None In Premier League history, the only player to be directly involved in more goals in their first 30 appearances in the competition than Bruno Fernandes (33 - 19 goals, 14 assists) is Andrew Cole (37 - 28 goals, nine assists).\n• None Anthony Martial has now scored on all seven days of the week in the Premier League for Manchester United, becoming the fifth player to do so, after Ryan Giggs, Andrew Cole, David Beckham and Wayne Rooney.\n• None Only Tottenham's Harry Kane (10) has assisted more Premier League goals this season than Jack Grealish (7), while the last Aston Villa player to assist more than seven Premier League goals in a season was Ashley Young in 2010-11 (10).\n• None Since Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's first Premier League match in charge of Manchester United in December 2018, the Red Devils have taken (27) and scored (21) the most Premier League penalties.\n\nManchester United host local rivals Manchester City in the Carabao Cup semi-finals on Wednesday (19:45 GMT) and welcome Watford in the FA Cup on Saturday 9 January (20:00 GMT). Their next Premier League game is away at Burnley on Tuesday 12 January (20:15 GMT).\n\nAston Villa host Liverpool in the FA Cup next Friday (19:45 GMT) before returning to Premier League action at home to Tottenham on Wednesday 13 January (20:15 GMT).\n• None Attempt blocked. Keinan Davis (Aston Villa) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Keinan Davis (Aston Villa) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ollie Watkins with a cross.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Paul Pogba tries a through ball, but Marcus Rashford is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Matthew Cash (Aston Villa) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jack Grealish.\n• None Nemanja Matic (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Luke Shaw (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "London's Nightingale Hospital is ready to admit patients as hospitals in the capital struggle, the NHS has said.\n\nThe Excel Centre site in east London has been \"reactivated\" amid a rise in the number of Covid-19 patients.\n\nOther Nightingale hospital sites across England are also being readied, with the UK recording a record daily rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nAn NHS spokesman said hospitals in London remain under \"significant pressure\".\n\nHe said: \"In anticipation of pressures rising from the spread of the new variant infection, NHS London were asked to ensure the London Nightingale was reactivated and ready to admit patients as needed, and that process is under way.\"\n\nSeveral NHS hospitals in London and the south-east are now reporting they are under extreme pressure as a result of a surge in the number of people falling seriously ill with Covid-19.\n\nAn email to staff at the Royal London Hospital says they are operating in disaster medicine mode - warning they can no longer provide high-standard critical care.\n\nNightingale hospitals in Manchester, Bristol and Harrogate are in use currently for non-Covid patients, the spokesman added.\n\nThe Exeter site received its first Covid patients in November when it began accepting those transferred from the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, which was described as \"very busy\".\n\nHe said: \"Covid inpatient numbers are rising sharply so the remaining Nightingales are being readied to admit patients once again should they be needed, in line with best clinical practice developed over the first and second waves of coronavirus.\"\n\nSenior intensive care doctor Prof Hugh Montgomery warned those who fail to follow the rules on social distancing, hand washing and wearing a face covering \"have blood on their hands\".\n\nNHS England medical director Stephen Powis has described the Nightingale hospitals as \"our insurance policy, there as our last resort\".\n\nLondon's Nightingale hospital was built in nine days, with the help of hundreds of soldiers\n\nHe told a Downing Street press conference on Wednesday: \"We asked all the Nightingale hospitals a few weeks ago to be ready to take patients if that was required.\n\n\"Indeed, some of them are already doing that, in Manchester taking step-down patients, in Exeter managing Covid patients, and in other places managing diagnostics, for instance.\n\n\"Our first steps though, in managing the extra demands on the NHS, are to expand capacity within existing hospitals - that's the best way to use our staff.\"\n\nLondon's Nightingale Hospital was opened on 3 April and placed on standby weeks later after fewer than 20 patients were treated there.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA £2,500 reward has been offered after a nativity scene was petrol-bombed on Christmas Eve.\n\nThe scene in Raglan, Monmouthshire, had been installed in a bus shelter for families to enjoy over Christmas.\n\nThe fire destroyed statues of a shepherd, Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus - with only the three wise men surviving as they stood outside the shelter.\n\nMiguel Santiago, of the Beaufort Hotel which funded the £10,000 scene, said the attack was \"really disappointing\".\n\n\"I was in the hotel when I saw the fire and I went into panic mode,\" he said.\n\n\"It was about 21:45 on Christmas Eve when it all happened and I ended up using nine extinguishers to put it out.\"\n\nThe wooden nativity was funded by the hotel and put together by retired theatre design lecturer Liz Friendship.\n\nMs Friendship said the festive scene had also been targeted by thieves in the past.\n\n\"In 2018 Mary was taken, in 2019 two shepherds were stolen and never came back, and in 2020 it's burnt down.\n\n\"It's now just three kings staring at the bus stop. It's very sad.\"\n\nThe scene was in ruins following the petrol bomb attack\n\nVillagers are now appealing for help to catch the suspects responsible for the Christmas crime.\n\nMr Santiago added: \"It's a shame because so much effort went into putting it together this year.\n\n\"We added three kings which really made it a great sight, we made sure the figures couldn't be taken by fixing them down.\n\n\"It's really disappointing that this has happened but the locals have been great and we will be back next year with a bigger and better nativity.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for Gwent Police said: \"Officers are investigating a report of criminal damage to a nativity scene on the High Street, in Raglan on Christmas Eve.\n\n\"It has been reported that fire damage was caused to the set at approximately 9.45pm on the evening of Thursday 24th December 2020.\n\n\"The scene that belonged to the Beaufort Hotel was totally damaged as a result.\"\n\nAnyone with information should contact police on 101, she said.", "The crowd at Edinburgh Castle dispersed after police arrived\n\nCrowds of several hundred people gathered at Edinburgh Castle to see in the new year despite police and government warnings to stay away.\n\nPeople sang and danced before dispersing when several police vans and cars drove on to the castle esplanade.\n\nMost Scots heeded warnings to hold Hogmanay celebrations at home with household members.\n\nThere were no midnight fireworks at the castle, but a display was held at the Wallace Monument in Stirling.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesperson said: \"We were aware of gatherings at Edinburgh Castle and Calton Hill around midnight on Hogmanay.\n\n\"Officers safely engaged with those in attendance and explained the current government regulations resulting in the groups dispersing without incident.\"\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Thursday that there should be \"no gatherings, no house parties and no first footing\" at Hogmanay.\n\nAll of mainland Scotland and Skye are under level four restrictions, while the other islands are in level three.\n\nDetails have meanwhile emerged of another police enforcement action against a group who gathered at a rented property in Aberfoyle during the festive period.\n\nPolice Scotland confirmed that 32 people were charged with culpable and reckless conduct after officers were called out on 27 December.\n\nAccording to the Scottish Sun, the group had travelled from Glasgow but police were tipped off by locals who spotted vehicles parked outside the property.\n\nPeople in Scotland were urged to stay at home and celebrate the new year with their families\n\nAt Edinburgh Castle, one Hogmanay tradition endured as a lone piper played in the new year at midnight.\n\nWith the capital's traditional new year party cancelled, the organisers of its annual Hogmanay celebration instead released a series of \"drone swarm\" videos titled Fare Well.\n\nThe display featured a swarm of 150 illuminated drones forming symbols and animals in a \"beautiful ode to Scotland\".\n\nEach video was narrated by actor David Tennant and included verses written by Scotland's official poet, makar Jackie Kay.\n\nWhile they appear to be flying above landmarks like Edinburgh Castle, the drones were flown elsewhere before being edited into other footage.\n\nDrones write a message in the sky above the Forth Bridge\n\nThe streets of central Edinburgh were quiet, in contrast to last year's Hogmanay celebrations when about 100,000 visitors attended the street party with live performances from Idlewild and Mark Ronson in Princes Street Gardens.\n\nElsewhere in the UK this year a fireworks and light display, including tributes to NHS staff, was held over the River Thames in London, but people were also told to stay at home rather than go out and celebrate.\n• None UK sees in 2021 with fireworks and light show", "All primary schools in London will remain closed for the start of the new term, the government has confirmed.\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan said the government had \"finally seen sense and U-turned\" on its plan to allow pupils in some areas to return on Monday.\n\nLeaders of nine London local authorities had written to Education Secretary Gavin Williamson urging him to rethink the decision.\n\nMr Williamson said the city-wide closures were \"a last resort\".\n\nThe government said it had decided all primary schools in the capital would be required to provide remote learning after a further review of coronavirus transmission rates.\n\nVulnerable pupils and the children of key workers will continue to attend school, the government said.\n\nEarly years care, alternative provision and special schools will remain open, it added.\n\nSchools in nine London boroughs and the City of London district had been set to reopen - while those in the remaining 23 boroughs would have stayed closed from 4 January.\n\nThe decision was criticised and branded \"illogical\" by councillors and residents in the affected areas, who called for primary schools across the capital to move to online learning until 18 January.\n\nThey pointed out that Covid-19 infection rates were higher in some boroughs told to reopen schools than in others where they were not.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Khan said a city-wide closure was \"the right decision\" and thanked education minister Nick Gibb for \"our constructive conversations over the past two days\".\n\n\"The government's original decision was ridiculous and has been causing immense confusion for parents, teachers and staff across the capital,\" Mr Khan said.\n\n\"It is right that all schools in London are treated the same, and that no primary schools in London will be forced to open on Monday\".\n\nDan Thorpe, leader of Greenwich council, said he was \"absolutely delighted\" to hear Mr Williamson had \"finally climbed down and reversed his decision\".\n\nKingston Council leader Caroline Kerr said she was \"dismayed\" at the government's handling of situation while a council statement added: \"It never made sense that neighbouring boroughs were being instructed to have different arrangements despite having similar rates of infection.\"\n\nIslington council leader Richard Watts said waiting until New Year's day to announce the further closures was \"unacceptable\".\n\nHe said the decision \"should have been made weeks ago, as the public health situation became clear\".\n\nMary Bousted, of the National Education Union, said the government was right to reverse its \"obviously nonsensical position\".\n\n\"What is right for London is right for the rest of the country,\" she said, and she called on ministers to \"do their duty\" by closing all primary and secondary schools nationwide for at least two weeks.\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders' union NAHT, accused the government of damaging public confidence with a \"confusing and last-minute approach\".\n\n\"Just at the moment when we need some decisive leadership, the government is at sixes and sevens,\" he said.\n\nShadow education secretary Kate Green said the move was \"yet another government U-turn creating chaos for parents just two days before the start of term\".\n\n\"Gavin Williamson must still clarify why some schools in tier 4 are closing and what the criteria for reopening will be,\" she said.\n\nGavin Williamson said closing schools across London was a \"last resort\"\n\nIn a statement, Mr Williamson said children's education and wellbeing remained \"a national priority\" and moving the whole of London to remote education \"really is a last resort and a temporary solution\".\n\n\"We will continue keep the list of local authorities under review, and reopen classrooms as soon as we possibly can,\" he said.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the situation in London had continued to worsen in the past week and infections and hospital admissions had risen sharply.\n\n\"While our priority is to keep as many children as possible in school, we have to strike a balance between education and infection rates and pressures on the NHS,\" he said.\n\nThe Department for Education had previously said decisions on school closures and openings were based on new infections, positivity rates, and pressures on the NHS.\n\nA spokeswoman for the department said: \"In response to concerning data about the spread of coronavirus, we have implemented the contingency framework for education in a small number of areas of the country, requiring schools to provide remote learning to all but vulnerable and critical worker children and exam years.\n\n\"Decisions on which areas will be subject to the contingency framework are based on close work with PHE, the NHS, the Joint Biosecurity Centre and across government.\"\n\nAre you a parent or teacher who will be affected by the London primary school closures? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bodycam footage shows the moments before a black man was killed by a police shooting in Minneapolis\n\nMinneapolis police have released bodycam footage of a fatal shooting by officers, the first death at the hands of police in the US city since that of George Floyd, a black man, in May.\n\nThe victim, Dolal Idd, 23, was a suspect in a felony and was stopped by police on Wednesday. He was also black.\n\nInitial witness statements and police say Mr Idd fired first and was shot dead when the officers returned fire.\n\nMinneapolis saw months of unrest after Mr Floyd's death in police custody.\n\nThe protests spread across the US amid allegations of police brutality.\n\nMr Floyd died after a police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.\n\nThe footage from Wednesday's fatal shooting, from the bodycam of one of the officers involved, was released late on Thursday.\n\nIt shows the officers' cars blocking a white vehicle at a petrol station on the city's south side, not far from where Mr Floyd died.\n\nThe police are heard shouting \"Stop your car, hands up, hands up!\" before shots are fired, including by the officers.\n\nA female passenger in the car with Mr Idd was not hurt, police said, nor were the officers.\n\nMinneapolis police chief Medaria Arradondo said a gun was found at the scene.\n\n\"When I viewed the video that everyone else is viewing - and certainly the real-time slow-down version - it appears the individual inside the vehicle fired his weapon at the officers first,\" he said.\n\nPeople including Mr Idd's father Bayle Gelle gathered at the scene the following day, prompting fears of renewed protests.\n\n\"He was just sitting in the car, and bullets were shot at him, and no reason,\" he said, quoted by CBS News.\n\n\"Why are we here?... Because of colour. He is a black man. We want to know why my sweet son gets shot and killed.\"\n\nGeorge Floyd's death led to violent protests in the city, including this police station set on fire in May\n\nCity mayor Jacob Frey said he was committed to getting the facts and pursuing justice.\n\n\"We know a life has been cut short tonight and that trust between communities of colour and law enforcement is fragile,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"Rebuilding that trust will depend on complete transparency.\"\n\nMr Floyd's death in May led to calls for reform or even abolition of the city's police department, but those efforts have stalled.", "Much of England has been placed in a new top tier of restrictions - tier four - as the new variant spreads Image caption: Much of England has been placed in a new top tier of restrictions - tier four - as the new variant spreads\n\nEarlier we reported that a study by Imperial College had concluded the new coronavirus variant is \"hugely\" more transmissible. Now some experts are saying that means even tougher restrictions will soon be needed.\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said: \"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread - more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person passes the virus onto. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nEarly data suggested that the virus was spreading more quickly among the under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children, but the latest results indicate that it is more infectious in all age groups.\n\nProf Axel Gandy, part of the research team, suggested that it may have appeared to spread more easily among school children simply because the early data was collected during the November lockdown, when adults' movements were restricted but schools remained open.", "Researchers have been tracking changes to the \"spike\" of the virus\n\nThe new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version, a study has found.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy of London's Imperial College said the differences between the viruses types was \"quite extreme\".\n\n\"There is a huge difference in how easily the variant virus spreads,\" he told BBC News. \"This is the most serious change in the virus since the epidemic began,\" he added.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nCases of Covid-19 have begun to increase rapidly during the second spike, and the number of cases recorded in a single day reached a new high on Thursday.\n\nEarly results indicated that the virus was spreading more quickly among under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children.\n\nBut the very latest data indicates that it was spreading quickly across all age groups, according to Prof Gandy who was a member of the research team.\n\n\"One possible explanation is that the early data was collected during the time of the November lockdown where schools were open and the activities of the adult population were more restricted. We are seeing now that the new virus has increased infectiousness across all age groups.\"\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said he believed that the new findings indicated that even tougher restrictions would soon be needed.\n\n\"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread, more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person infects. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nThe most chilling finding from this piece of research is that the November lockdown in England, hard though it was for many people, would not have stopped the variant form of the virus spreading. The same severe restrictions that saw cases of the previous version of the virus fall by a third, would see a tripling of the new variant. This is why there has been such a sudden tightening of restrictions across the country.\n\nIt is unclear whether the current restrictions will be enough to control the spread of the virus. Given the fact that it has taken two lockdowns to stop the earlier version of the virus overwhelming the NHS, many scientists fear that further tightening will be necessary.\n\nInfection levels will begin to drop as enough people are vaccinated. But until then it is now more important than ever for people to follow social distancing guidelines, wear masks where required and to regularly wash their hands.\n\nThe new year brings with it hope of a more normal life in the next few months but also a new form of the virus that all of us will have to combat in the coming days and weeks.\n\nProfessor Lawrence Young, of Warwick University, said early indications suggested that vaccines would be effective against the new form of the virus.\n\n\"Variants virus have been around since the beginning of the pandemic and are a product of the natural process by which viruses develop and adapt to their hosts as they replicate.\n\n\"Most of these mutations have no effect on the behaviour of the virus but very occasionally they can improve the ability of the virus to infect and/or become more resistant to the body's immune response.\"\n\nFurther research is needed to understand why the variant is spreading so quickly. But early indications are that vaccines should be effective against it.\n\nThe new virus has been designated \"Variant of Concern 202012/01\" or VOC by Public Health England.\n\nIt was detected in November and thought to have originated in the south-east England in September.\n\nThere is no evidence to suggest that it is more deadly, but it will increase the number of cases which in turn will add further pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe variant can now be found across the UK, except Northern Ireland, but it is heavily concentrated in London, as well as south-east and eastern England.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Parents and teachers have criticised the closure decisions\n\nNine London boroughs have written to the education secretary asking him to reverse plans to reopen primary schools in some areas.\n\nAbout a million primary school pupils will not return to lessons next week in a bid to cut Covid transmission rates.\n\nHowever, schools in 10 London boroughs are due to remain open.\n\nIn the letter, the leaders said they were \"struggling to understand the rationale\" behind the idea as pupils and teachers moved between boroughs.\n\nThe government has said the measure would be reviewed fortnightly.\n\nAll primary schools had been due to fully reopen on 4 January but under government plans those in 23 London boroughs will remain closed.\n\nHowever, schools in the City of London, Camden, Greenwich, Hackney, Haringey, Harrow, Islington, Kingston, Lambeth and Lewisham will open.\n\nThe letter to Gavin Williamson has been signed by leaders of all of those boroughs apart from Kingston. It has also been signed by the City of London's policy chair.\n\nIt calls for primary school pupils across the capital to \"move to online learning until 18 January\", apart from vulnerable children and those of key workers.\n\n\"The omission of 10 boroughs ignores the deep interconnectedness of our city, and the many thousands of teachers and students that study or teach in one borough and live in another,\" the letter states.\n\nThe councils also said they had received legal advice that omitting some councils from the list of areas told to take teaching online \"is unlawful on a number of grounds and can be challenged in court\".\n\nRichard Watts, leader of Islington Council, told the BBC there \"seems to be no reason at all to look at this on a borough by borough basis\".\n\n\"The entirety of the rest of the government's handling of the pandemic has rightly treated London as a single entity and this is the first time anyone... has tried to implement different public health measures in different boroughs,\" he said.\n\nIn a statement Dan Thorpe, leader of the Royal borough of Greenwich, accused the government of providing \"a lack of clarity and answers\", adding that the situation was \"causing uncertainty and concern among our schools, families, carers, and undoubtedly children and young people\".\n\nAlthough Kingston Council did not sign the letter, leader Caroline Kerr said reopening primary schools in the borough \"doesn't make any sense\" and that they were \"urgently seeking clarity on the reasoning for the decision\".\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan has called the plans \"nonsensical\" and has also written to the government calling for a \"delay to all London schools opening until mid-January\".\n\nKevin Courtney, joint leader of the National Education Union, said the education secretary \"must listen to the leaders of the community, he must listen to school staff and he must listen to the general public who are all telling him that it is not safe to reopen schools on Monday\".\n\nThe Department for Education has previously said decisions on school closures and openings were based on new infections, positivity rates, and pressures on the NHS.\n\nA spokeswoman for the department said: \"In response to concerning data about the spread of coronavirus, we have implemented the contingency framework for education in a small number of areas of the country, requiring schools to provide remote learning to all but vulnerable and critical worker children and exam years.\n\n\"Decisions on which areas will be subject to the contingency framework are based on close work with PHE, the NHS, the Joint Biosecurity Centre and across government.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The musician was known for his performances in which he always wore a mask\n\nHip-hop star MF Doom has died at the age of 49, his family confirmed on social media.\n\nThe London-born musician, real name Daniel Dumile, was known for his sharp, intricate rhymes and his signature mask, which he never removed in public.\n\nIn a post on the rapper's Instagram account on Thursday, his wife Jasmine confirmed that he died on 31 October.\n\nA number of artists have paid tribute to MF Doom including Run The Jewels and Tyler, The Creator.\n\nIn a note addressed to the rapper, his wife paid tribute to \"the greatest husband, father, teacher, student, business partner, lover and friend I could ever ask for\".\n\nHis representatives confirmed his death to Rolling Stone magazine. No cause of death was disclosed.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by mfdoom This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMF Doom was born in London but moved to New York as a child.\n\nAs a teenager he performed in hip-hop group KMD. Following the loss of his younger brother and bandmate DJ Subroc, he disappeared from music becoming, in his own words, \"damn near homeless\".\n\nBut in 1997, he remerged at open mic events in Manhattan, wearing tights over his face. He protected his anonymity for the rest of his career, adopting a mask based on the Marvel villain Doctor Doom for all his public appearances.\n\nHis debut as MF Doom, Operation: Doomsday, was released in 1999, and he followed it up with an almost non-stop outpouring of music.\n\nAs well as six solo albums, he produced a wealth of bootlegs, compilations, collaborations, mixtapes and instrumental albums - including the influential, 10-part Special Herbs series.\n\nHe may be best known for 2004's Madvillainy, which was recorded with crate-digging producer Madlib under the moniker Madvillain, and gave the rapper his first entry on the US album chart.\n\nAnother of his high-profile collaborations was Danger Doom alongside DJ Danger Mouse, and he appeared with Damon Albarn's Gorillaz on their UK number one album Demon Days. Other collaborators included Ghostface Killah, Flying Lotus, The Avalanches and Radiohead.\n\nOne of hip-hop's most respected MCs, he made appearances on BBC Radio 4 and Radio 1 in which he discussed his own music and projects with other artists.\n\nMany of them lined up to pay tribute after news of his death broke on New Year's Eve.\n\n\"RIP to another Giant, your favourite MC's MC... MF DOOM,\" wrote A Tribe Called Quest's Q-Tip on Twitter. \"Crushing news.\"\n\n\"He was a writer's writer,\" added El-P of Run The Jewels. \"Grateful I got to know you a little, king. Proud to be your fan. Thank you for keeping it weird and raw always. You inspired us all and always will.\"\n\n\"All u ever needed in hip-hop was this record,\" Flying Lotus tweeted alongside the album cover to Madvillainy. \"My soul is crushed.\"\n\nApple Music presenter Zane Lowe said: \"Rest In Peace to the great MF Doom. A true artist who gifted us with eternal innovation and creativity.\"\n\nWhile the Sleaford Mods said: \"RIP MF DOOM. Sleep well mate.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. London's new year celebrations featured a message of hope from David Attenborough\n\nThe UK has seen off 2020 and celebrated the dawn of 2021 with a fireworks and light display over London that included tributes to NHS staff.\n\nRevellers were not able to ring in the New Year in the usual way because of the coronavirus pandemic, with people instead told to stay at home.\n\nPolice had to break up various parties and events across England overnight.\n\nForces have handed out hundreds of fines, with several issuing the maximum £10,000 to event organisers.\n\nMuch of the UK saw in the new year while under lockdown rules, with about 44 million people in England - or 78% of the population - in tier four, the top level of Covid restrictions.\n\nMainland Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales are also under lockdown.\n\nAlthough people were warned not to attend any parties outside their own homes, there were many around the country who ignored the rules.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said police attended 58 parties and unlicensed music events in breach of tier four rules across London overnight, the vast majority of which ended when police intervened, they added.\n\nFixed penalty fines were given to 217 people while five others could be fined £10,000 for organising large gatherings. The police force said four other people were arrested for breaching Covid regulations by gathering in central London.\n\nElsewhere, other forces also broke up parties and handed out hundreds of fines. They included Greater Manchester Police, which issued 105 fixed penalty notices at house parties and larger gatherings. And Leicestershire Police had to issue six on-the-spot £10,000 fines to party organisers.\n\nIn Essex, hundreds of people were dispersed from an illegal New Year's Eve party at a church, while Lancashire Police broke up a party in Hyndburn, near Blackburn, attended by 80.\n\nMeanwhile, in Scotland, Edinburgh's traditional Hogmanay street party was cancelled, with videos of a drone display released instead.\n\nThe series of videos showed a swarm of 150 lit-up drones over the Scottish Highlands and Edinburgh were released, which organisers said it was the largest drone show ever produced in the UK.\n\nDespite the cancellation of Edinburgh's traditional Hogmanay celebration - which normally attracts 100,000 people on the city's streets - there were some people who ignored the pleas to stay at home.\n\nCrowds of several hundred people gathered at Edinburgh Castle to see in the new year. They sang Auld Lang Syne and danced before eventually dispersing when several police vans and cars pulled on to the castle esplanade.\n\nAn anti-lockdown protest and New Year's Eve celebration was also held in London\n\nPeople cross Hungerford Bridge in London on New Year's Eve\n\nOn New Year's Eve, Health Secretary Matt Hancock called on people to take \"personal responsibility\" and stay at home to avoid spreading Covid-19.\n\nLondon's 10-minute display over the Thames aired on the BBC at midnight, and began with a poem which addressed the pandemic, that said: \"In the year of 2020 a new virus came our way; We knew what must be done and so to help we hid away.\"\n\nLight projections lit up the sky over the O2 Arena, including the NHS logo in a heart accompanied by a child's voice saying: \"Thank you NHS heroes\".\n\nThe show also recognised Captain Sir Tom Moore, who raised £33m for the NHS by walking laps of his garden and the Black Lives Matter movement. One 2020 phenomena - working from home - was represented with a mute logo backed by a voiceover saying \"You're on mute\".\n\nThe display ended with a call from Sir David Attenborough about the need for action on climate change.\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan said the display had reflected the resolve of Londoners to endure\n\n300 drones were used in the display to create images in the sky\n\nIn a speech being broadcast on BBC One between Doctor Who and EastEnders this evening, Sir David will say that this \"could be a year for positive change - for ourselves, for our planet and for the wonderful creatures with which we share it\".\n\nDespite the \"challenging\" times we live in, \"the reactions to these extraordinary times has proved that when we work together there is no limit to what we can accomplish\", he will say, as he looks ahead to the United Nations Climate Change Conference later this year.\n\nThe sounds of a video conference call starting up were played\n\nMuch of London was far quieter than usual\n\nEdinburgh's streets were largely empty, with Police Scotland warning against Hogmanay gatherings\n\nOfficial figures showed 10.75 million viewers watched the 2021 New Year celebrations on BBC One. It's down from the 11.18m who saw in the start of 2020 on the channel.\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan said he was proud of the show, which he said \"paid tribute to our NHS heroes and the way that Londoners continue to stand together\".\n\n\"We showed how our capital and the UK have made huge sacrifices to support one another through these difficult times, and how they will continue to do so as the vaccine is rolled out.\"\n\nUsually, around 100,000 people pack into the streets around Victoria Embankment to watch the New Year's Eve fireworks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn his New Year's message, the Archbishop of Canterbury said he saw \"reasons to be hopeful for the year ahead\" despite the \"tremendous pain and sadness\" brought by 2020.\n\nThe Most Reverend Justin Welby spoke of his experience volunteering as an assistant chaplain at St Thomas' hospital during the pandemic, saying: \"Sometimes the most important thing we do is just sit with people, letting them know they are not alone.\"\n\nIn his message, filmed at the London hospital and broadcast on BBC One on Friday afternoon, he said: \"This crisis has shown us how fragile we are. It has also shown us how to face this fragility.\n\n\"Here at the hospital, hope is there in every hand that's held, and every comforting word that's spoken.\n\n\"Up and down the country, it's there in every phone call. Every food parcel or thoughtful card. Every time we wear our masks.\"\n\nDid you make a special effort to celebrate this New Year? How did you mark it? Share your experiences and pictures of what you got up to by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "For months, the government has been urging businesses to get ready for a new era in trading with the EU. But it was only on Boxing Day that details of all the new rules were actually published.\n\nBusiness groups are relieved that the threat of a no-deal Brexit, which would have meant tariffs (or taxes) on goods crossing the border with the EU, has been removed. But companies that trade with the EU are still facing a lot of new bureaucracy.\n\nAnd the disruption in mid-December, caused by border closures related to the new variant of Covid-19, was a reminder of how dependent the UK economy is on trade across the English Channel.\n\nFrom 1 January 2021, goods entering the EU from Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) face large amounts of new paperwork and checks, including:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHauliers will also need to make sure they have the right transportation paperwork before they drive to the border.\n\nThere is particular focus on the \"short straits\" route between Dover and Calais, and the nearby Channel Tunnel, which taken together handle about four million lorries a year.\n\n\"This is the biggest imposition of red tape that businesses have had to deal with in 50 years,\" says William Bain from the British Retail Consortium.\n\nFull controls on British exports to the EU began on 1 January. The first day of the new regime appears to have gone relatively smoothly.\n\nBut it's feared that later in the year, the new controls could cause disruption, even though new border infrastructure has been built at ports such as Calais, to help process vehicles more efficiently.\n\nThere are some mitigating measures though.\n\nIn response to the Covid crisis, the government is delaying full controls on goods entering Great Britain from the EU for a further six months.\n\nThere will be checks from 1 January on controlled substances such as alcohol and tobacco, and traders deemed to be a risk will also be asked to fill in customs declarations.\n\nBut most checks on goods coming in from the EU will be delayed until 1 July, a deadline that could in theory be extended.\n\n\"I think we will want to monitor it,\" the chief executive of HM Revenue and Customs, Jim Harra, told MPs in November. \"Hopefully we will not still be in a situation where Covid-19 is consuming as much of people's attention.\"\n\nOther measures to tackle potential disruption include diverting trade to other ports around the country and opening lorry parks in Kent, to avoid gridlock on the roads.\n\nSome of these contingencies were put into action early, to deal with the Covid border closures in December.\n\nOperation Brock, for example, involved changing the layout of a section of the M20, using a concrete barrier to allow lorries heading for mainland Europe to queue safely on the motorway.\n\nThousands of lorries were also diverted to temporary parking at a disused airport at Manston.\n\nFrom 1 January drivers of lorries weighing more than 7.5 tonnes will need to acquire a Kent Access Permit before they enter the county. They will have to show that they have all the paperwork they need to ferry goods to Europe.\n\nBut that doesn't deal with the challenge of the thousands of vans that cross the Channel every week.\n\n\"What has been serially misunderstood by various parts of government is the scale of the complexity for people on the ground dealing with the paperwork,\" says Duncan Buchanan, the Policy Director of the Road Haulage Association.\n\nThat could mean that instead of queues on motorways, many traders won't be able to leave their depots.\n\n\"Either they won't be able to get vets to sign off on their meat exports, or they won't be able to get their permit because they don't have the right bits of paper,\" says Shane Brennan, chief executive of the Cold Storage Federation.\n\n\"We might see a quite significant holding off of trading - people just not moving stuff in the first few weeks.\"\n\nEighty-five per cent of the volume of trade between the EU and Great Britain is carried by EU hauliers, who are often paid not by the hour, but by the kilometre. If they think there will be too many delays, many may simply not come.\n\nThe government says the readiness of traders to deal with the new system remains its biggest concern.\n\nLorries parked on the M20 in Kent\n\n\"The sheer scale of the overall operation means there are literally many millions of moving parts,\" permanent secretary of the cabinet office Alex Chisholm told MPs. \"Inevitably there are going to be some difficulties for some individual people as they adjust to the new regime.\"\n\nThe government has also announced a new Border Operations Centre as part of plans \"for the UK to have the world's most effective border by 2025\".\n\nQuestions have been asked about how changes at the border might affect food supply. The short answer is no-one can say for sure, but nearly 30% of all the food consumed in the UK is imported from the EU.\n\nThe good news is that there is a deal, which makes a big difference. But the challenge is particularly acute because the UK grows relatively small amounts of fruit and vegetables in January and February and is most dependent on supplies from southern Europe at this time of year.\n\nSo, if there are delays, they could cause some shortages on the shelves.\n\n\"Some gaps are possible but we're not going to run out of food - that's not going to happen\" says Ian Wright.\n\nWhen it comes to non-perishable items, there had been some stockpiling in preparation for either outcome, but extra supplies won't last forever.\n\n\"The crunch point is probably not going to be in the first few days or weeks of January,\" William Bain argues. \"Towards the end of the month, when new orders start being placed and delivered, we will start to see the processes in Kent and the other ports really tested.\"\n\nAnd it's not only about food.\n\nOther retailers, which are used to moving their stock freely around the EU customs union, have had to create separate supply chains for the UK. That is costing them more money, and their new systems have yet to be tested properly.\n\nIt's not just about trade across the English Channel.\n\nTrade across the Irish Sea between Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland will be subject to the same pressures, while Northern Ireland will be a special case under the terms of the Northern Ireland protocol in the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement.\n\nNorthern Ireland will remain in the EU single market for goods, and unlike the rest of the UK it will continue to enjoy frictionless trade with the EU with no checks of any kind at the land border with the Republic.\n\nBut there is a price to pay for that - new bureaucracy within the UK between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe EU, for example, has strict rules on products of animal origin: meat, milk, fish and eggs.\n\nThese products must enter the single market (and, from 1 January, Northern Ireland) through a border control post where paperwork is checked, and a proportion of goods physically inspected.\n\nThere will be a grace period of three months for supermarkets and their suppliers, but some smaller traders may have to get used to the new rules straight away.\n\nAll shipments from Great Britain to Northern Ireland will also need a safety and security declaration, and a customs declaration from a new IT system which none of the traders have used before.\n\nThe government has set up a Trader Support Service to help.\n\nThe details of the new trading arrangements for Northern Ireland were announced separately in early December, and provided some clarity. They include an agreement which means the vast majority of goods being shipped from GB to NI will not be at risk of having tariffs imposed.\n\nBut there are plenty of unresolved issues.\n\nTraders are seeking answers about how to send parcels from Great Britain to Northern Ireland, and some online retailers have already suspended deliveries.\n\nThe trade from British to Northern Irish ports often involves multiple small shipments on a single lorry - all of which will need the right paperwork.\n\n\"We need clear rules for everyone in the supply chain,\" says Duncan Buchanan, \"and when you scratch the surface it is just not ready.\"\n\nIt is expected that many checks will be carried out on a 'light touch' basis to begin with.\n\nBut anyone trading between Great Britain and Northern Ireland is going to have to get used to a new way of working very quickly.", "Nearly half a century of the UK's membership of the European Union and its predecessor organisations ended in January of course.\n\nWhat has now ended is the UK's economic membership of the bloc. Forty-eight years in the European customs union, basically the Common Market, and 28 years in the single market.\n\nThe Single Market was a creation for which the UK has paternity rights. It was Margaret Thatcher's rallying call for European reform, her calling card to unleash a wave of Japanese investment in post-industrial Britain and shepherded into existence by her appointee as commissioner Arthur Cockfield.\n\nIts creation served the UK's economic interests, as it grew the home domestic market available for British exporters without tariff or non-tariff barriers, eventually to nearly half a billion Europeans. It was not without irony that the tortuous negotiations of the past four years were made tougher by the EU's insistence on defending what it calls the \"internal market\", itself created by the British.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIndeed the institutional underpinning of this huge marketplace became too much for Mrs Thatcher. Famously she became suspicious of Commission President Delors turning up to tell the TUC that through the European Union workers could reassert rights rolled back by the Conservative Government.\n\nAt her 1988 Bruges speech PM Thatcher replied: \"We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them re-imposed at European level, with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels.\"\n\nThe car industry was the prototype for the single market\n\nPerhaps this was the beginning of the path to Brexit, carried along by the push to monetary union and resentment at the overreach of the European Court of Justice and the considerable impact of the \"direct effect\" of community and then union law.\n\nThe car industry was the prototype for the single market. Mrs Thatcher's campaigning for EEC membership was quickly followed by a charm offensive that began as opposition leader to get Japanese investors to build high tech factories to sell cars tariff-free across Europe.\n\nFor the UK it would provide employment, technology, capital and competition for the languishing nationalised UK-owned auto sector.\n\nOngoing membership of the EEC, restrictions on union activity and investment tax breaks were part of the deal communicated in writing to the then chairman of Nissan.\n\nThe Datsun Bluebird was being developed in Sunderland and around the same time the Italians and the French threatened to slap tariffs on what they saw as a Japanese ruse to avoid tariffs and undercut their industry.\n\nThe UK government quickly communicated that it was willing to take this matter to the European Court of Justice. The attempt to kill the Nissan factory at birth was fended off.\n\nFrom this, the UK car industry and other advanced manufacturing prospered from being plugged into rapid continent-wide supply chains, delivering each part just in time and just in sequence.\n\nAll of that was enabled by conformity of regulations, standards, zero tariffs and the eradication of non-tariff barriers, for sale, but also within the manufacturing process.\n\nThe UK became the financial centre for the euro\n\nSimilar stories could be told about the pharmaceutical industry, chemicals, the food industry, aerospace, and financial services.\n\nWithin the EU, the UK even became the financial centre for a new currency, the euro, which it did not participate in.\n\nThe single market itself, with regulations set and enforced in Brussels, became a player on the world stage. And yet there was a balancing act. The UK could influence the direction of one of the biggest tankers in the sea but was restricted in acting more nimbly in new industries. In some sectors, the UK's trade dealings with the US or Asia were more important than with Europe.\n\nAnd so this tension led to breaking point. And for the Conservative Party in particular the single market's institutions it created and championed, became something akin to Frankenstein's monster.\n\nThe EU has agreed an investment deal with China\n\nSome Brexiteers had hoped that the edifice would collapse once the UK left. But it has proven more robust than that. Indeed, Brexit has proven a catalyst of the EU to sign trade and investment deals far more quickly, including even with China.\n\nSo now the UK finds itself outside of the machine it created as its strategic competitor. The trade negotiation wasn't primarily about trade. Great Britain has declared regulatory independence, or to be more specific, has declared as much regulatory independence as is compatible with a zero-tariff trade deal.\n\nThe EU retains levers and switches to turn off some of these tariff advantages should the UK use the deal to turn into an offshore tariff free assembly hub for US and Asian manufacturing to be traded into the single market. Unlike with Nissan four decades ago, the European Court of Justice will no longer be there.\n\nThe global pharmaceutical industry offers an opportunity for the UK\n\nThe PM wants regulatory competition but his own deal contains disincentives, if not actual restrictions, on competing \"unfairly\" or too much.\n\nSo the strategy matters. Britain is free, but to do what exactly? To level up? Well the regions that need levelling up are the ones that are actually most dependent on exports to Europe. Exports to Europe will be spared tariffs, thanks to the deal, but there will be literally millions of non-tariff barriers, that the economists calculate matter more, from health checks, customs formalities, origin paperwork, assessments of standards etc.\n\nEven to qualify for tariff-free treatment means, according to new government guidance on \"rules of origin\", analysis of how complicated is the process of grating cheese, of the shelling of nuts, and formalities on where the eyes of a doll come from. Most apply legally from tonight, having been absent for decades.\n\nThe sweet spot for UK will now be to deploy regulatory freedom in sectors that are truly global, where we are not already overly dependent on EU markets.\n\nCertain sub-sectors within technology, finance and pharmaceuticals, for example. In each of these sectors the UK is likely to have to offer more friendly regulation to the multinational private sector, than the EU.\n\nIt doesn't necessarily mean lower standards: It could be that UK medicines regulators, for example, build on the record of rapid approval for Covid vaccines in other medical areas.\n\nThe deployment of massive scientific networks within the National Health service, used for rapid clinical testing, could become the envy of the world.\n\nBrexit Britain is likely to become a laboratory for the global economy. Car companies will need to be attracted with more permissive rules on data and, say autonomous driving testing. Some tech companies are already porting their UK customers to be served under US data privacy laws rather than more restrictive EU ones.\n\nBut the government will also have to be very active and judicious. We are already \"picking winners\" again, at least in the satellite business. What about electric power, where the EU will fight aggressively, versus hydrogen power?\n\nThere are a number of structural economic problems, from poor training, declining productivity and low investment that were not caused by EU membership which, in terms of non-tariff barriers, are made immediately worse by this type of Brexit, for which the UK has no option but to deal with.\n\nNorthern Ireland is mostly left in the EU single market\n\nThat process of looking outwards may not come quickly. Holyrood and Stormont rejected the Brexit trade deal. The UK has replaced a single market of 500 million Europeans free of non-tariff barriers with a single market smaller than the size of the UK.\n\nThere is a trade border in the Irish Sea. Northern Ireland is mostly left in the EU single market. There are non-tariff barriers between Great Britain and Northern Ireland as a result of this deal.\n\nLastly there are some big unknowns and unknowables.\n\nThe inadvertent diplomatic consequences of changes in trade patterns can be profound. If, for example, the eminent historian RW Johnson is to be believed, the UK's accession to the EEC in the first place created the conditions for the fall of South Africa's apartheid regime which was \"hurt in several ways\".\n\nBritish trade was remodelled away from the Commonwealth to Europe, the EEC offered favourable trade with all of Africa except Pretoria. And then when Portugal followed its ally the UK into the EEC, its African colonies and white rule quickly lost to revolutions by black liberation movements in Angola and Mozambique.\n\n\"Thus the seeds of the 1976 Soweto uprising were sown\" in part by the UK joining the EEC. Which is obviously not to suggest the reverse would be true. It is merely to say that events such as these can have very unpredictable knock on effects.\n\nThe Prime Minister has succeeded in taking the UK out of the Single Market created by his heroes. The UK now stands outside a system that it helped invent. For now its new single market is not the size of the country.\n\nThe test of all of this, is to make the UK's new single market the size of the globe.", "Some lorries have been turned away for not having the correct paperwork\n\nPlans are in place to minimise disruption at Welsh ports - especially Holyhead - as the UK enters a post-Brexit new year.\n\nThe EU Brexit transition period is over, and lorry drivers heading to and from the Republic of Ireland require additional paperwork to travel.\n\nOfficials at Holyhead said some lorries have already been turned away because they had the wrong documentation.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it was doing what it could to \"protect\" the port.\n\nTransport Minister Ken Skates said it was \"imperative\" contingency plans were in place for the island, as it wakes up to the new customs regime.\n\nFerry operators in Wales will now require freight customers to link customs information to their booking as they head for the Irish Republic.\n\nWithout that paperwork, port access will be refused.\n\n\"We've had the first few rejects, which is not unexpected,\" said Stena Line's Head of UK Ports, Ian Davies.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Wales from Holyhead on New Year's Day, he said it showed the new system was working.\n\n\"We've had people that have been passed and allowed to be shipped, and we've had a few failures as well, so it will be a learning curve for these customers.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said a \"worst case scenario\" published by the UK suggested 40% to 70% of heavy goods vehicles arriving at ports after transition ended on New Year's Eve may not have the right documentation to travel.\n\nThe peak period for turning vehicles away is expected to be mid-January.\n\n\"We simply don't know whether things are going to work,\" said Rod McKenzie, who is managing director of policy for the body representing lorry drivers and operators, the Road Haulage Association.\n\n\"There is no question there will be problems, even if all the IT works, things could go wrong, and given traders' unfamiliarity with it there is the potential for a lot of mistakes to be made.\"\n\nA contraflow will allow lorries to be \"stacked\" on parts of the A55 if traffic builds\n\nThe association said it was more worried about \"invisible delays\" in the supply chain, rather than queues at ferry ports.\n\n\"Lorries might not leave their factory gate or depot because the paperwork isn't done,\" he said.\n\n\"It's really, really important that people try to get their paperwork right. The consequences of any mistakes will be a disruption of the supply chain.\"\n\nHe said the sector would know in about a week \"how it's going\".\n\nPembrokeshire council said it had been working to ensure any vehicles turned away from Pembroke Dock and Fishguard were dealt with away from the ports.\n\nIt has arranged overflow locations at Goodwick and Pembroke Dock for its own version of Dover's \"Operation Stack\", where lorries queue along the M20.\n\n\"The importance of Pembrokeshire's ports to the county, Wales and UK as a whole cannot be overestimated,\" said council leader David Simpson.\n\nHolyhead is the UK's second busiest roll-on roll-off ferry port\n\nOn Anglesey, a temporary contraflow is in force on the A55 expressway, eastbound between junctions two and four, allowing any traffic turned away from the port to be redirected back.\n\nIt will be moved to parking locations at Parc Cybi on the outskirts of the town, and if necessary, lorries will be parked on the cordoned-off A55 sections.\n\n\"We will monitor the situation carefully and as soon as it's safe to do so we will remove the temporary contraflow,\" said Mr Skates.\n\n\"While the next few days are expected to be quiet, we know it will become busier as we approach mid-January.\n\n\"Our aim is to do what we can to protect the port, town of Holyhead and wider community from any possible disruption.\"\n\nOn Friday, port authorities on Anglesey said freight traffic has been quiet, as expected over the bank holiday period.\n\nIt follows an steep rise in lorry crossings in the run up to Christmas and the end of the transition period.\n\nFerry operator Stena Line is also responsible for running Holyhead Port.\n\n\"We can't get complacent over the next few days,\" said a Stena spokesman.\n\n\"It's when freight levels come back up that we'll know whether the systems are really working and whether the hauliers are ready. That will be the real test.\"", "More than 35,000 people have received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in Wales\n\nThe Covid vaccine programme is at the \"very beginning\" and vaccination rates are increasing, Wales' Health Minister Vaughan Gething has insisted.\n\nIt follows concerns raised by some politicians over the speed of Welsh vaccine rollout.\n\nInitial figures on how many people have received the first Pfizer-BioNTech jab show Wales is slightly behind those vaccinated elsewhere in the UK.\n\nMr Gething said there were likely to be \"small differences between nations\".\n\n\"Comparisons are naturally being made on the number of vaccinations administered by the four nations of the UK,\" he said in a ministerial statement to Senedd members.\n\n\"Whilst I recognise the data indicates there are other nations ahead of us, the national data presented at this very early stage of the vaccination roll out should be considered provisional and a snapshot of ongoing activity.\"\n\nHe said there would be \"lags\" in data being entered, and local factors affecting vaccinations.\n\n\"For example the vaccination centre in Cardiff and the Vale was unable to operate for two days because of a virus outbreak linked to the site,\" he added.\n\nMore than 35,000 people have now received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in Wales, including healthcare workers who work in Wales but live over the border in England.\n\nAlmost 13,000 of these vaccines were given in the past week.\n\nThe number of vaccinations in Wales up until 27 December account for 1.12% of the Welsh population.\n\nIn England, 1.4% have received a jab, while in Scotland it is 1.7%, and 1.6% in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Welsh Conservative health spokesman Andrew RT Davies flagged his concerns about the vaccine delivery programme on Thursday.\n\n\"Three weeks ago, the first Covid-19 vaccine was given in Wales, and since that time we have sadly seen confusion and hope drop away,\" he said.\n\n\"Many people over 80 in Wales were desperately waiting for their appointment to do their bit and have the vaccine but as we quickly learnt they would have to wait longer,\" he said.\n\nBut the health minister said daily vaccination rates were \"increasing across Wales\".\n\nThe focus is on delivering vaccines effectively and safely, says Vaughan Gething\n\n\"Looking ahead, all health boards are preparing for significant expansion in capacity from the beginning of January,\" added Mr Gething.\n\nHe said the new Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine approved earlier this week would be available from some GPs in Wales from Monday.\n\n\"This is only the very beginning of what will be a programme spanning many months,\" he said.\n\n\"Whilst the urgency and priority required is clear to all, we must also have some patience and allow the NHS to do what it does so well.\n\n\"My focus, and that of the NHS, is on delivering the vaccine programme quickly but also effectively, safely and equitably.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government has also confirmed it will be following the latest advice from medical advisers on introducing a 12-week gap between the two doses of vaccines needed, for both types of approved jabs.\n\nAll four chief medical officers in the UK have supported the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, which said the focus should be on giving at-risk people the first dose of whichever vaccine they receive.\n\n\"It will ensure that more at-risk people are able to get protection from a vaccine in the coming weeks and months, reducing deaths and starting to ease pressure on our NHS,\" said Mr Gething.\n\nVaccinations started earlier in December after regulators approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine\n\nPlaid Cymru has called on the Welsh Government to ask the UK government to publish evidence to justify increasing the period for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nIn a letter to Mr Gething, the party's health spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth said the \"sudden switch\" represented \"a very significant departure\" from previous guidelines.\n\nHe added there were \"very real concerns\" that a longer delay between doses \"could significantly decrease the effectiveness of the vaccine\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I wish I could switch place with my daughter\" - Odd Steinar Sørengen's daughter is missing\n\nA body has been found shortly after rescuers and dog handlers began a risky ground search for 10 people missing in a hillside collapse in Norway.\n\nInitially it was thought too dangerous to send rescuers on to the site, after flowing mud sent homes toppling into a giant chasm in the village of Ask.\n\nHelicopters and drones spent two days searching the scene.\n\nBut on Friday police commander Roy Alkvist said one or two houses appeared safe to enter.\n\nRescuers, who included a Swedish specialist team, began moving into the danger zone on Styrofoam boards. The bright orange boards were laid down on the mud in a domino-effect as rescuers tried to reach one of the wrecked homes, which are 25km (15 miles) north-east of the capital Oslo.\n\nA missing Dalmatian dog was rescued on Thursday and police believe there is still a chance survivors could be found.\n\nHowever, on Friday afternoon an air ambulance helicopter landed near the site and police said a body had been found at 14:30 (13:30 GMT) without giving further details.\n\nRescuers are using orange Styrofoam boards to move around the landslide area\n\nPrime Minister Erna Solberg said her thoughts went out to the victim's family, and to those waiting for news of the other nine people who were missing.\n\nIn Friday's operation the rescuers also prepared a giant army vehicle called a \"paver\", which has a giant steel bridge on which rescuers can move.\n\nHowever, conditions were not yet good enough for the 50-tonne machine to be deployed.\n\nThe plan is to deploy a Norwegian army bridge-laying vehicle as soon as conditions are good enough\n\nFriday's search was a race against time, as the rescuers only had a few hours of daylight in the Norwegian winter. Medics and geologists were reportedly part of the ground rescue team.\n\nThe ground search was called off for the night at 17:30 and police said drones and heat-seeking cameras would continue overnight until rescue crews could return on Saturday morning.\n\nAbout 1,000 people have been evacuated from Gjerdrum municipality, which contains Ask village. Dozens more were moved out of their homes on New Year's Eve.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aerial footage shows the scale of the landslide\n\nAlthough police have not given details of the missing, they are believed to include men, women and children.\n\nAmong them is a woman who was talking to her husband on the phone while walking the dog when the line went dead, according to Bergens Tidende newspaper.\n\nFurther reports say a couple and their small child are also missing, as well as a woman in her 50s and her adult son.\n\nMore than 30 homes have been destroyed, but officials say more could be lost as the edges of the crater left by the landslide are still breaking away.\n\nThe conditions have proved challenging, with temperatures dropping to -1C (30F) and the clay ground proving too unstable for emergency workers to walk on.\n\nThe scale of the landslide is shown by this aerial view of the disaster site\n\nThe landslide began early on Wednesday, with residents calling emergency services and telling them that their houses were moving, police said.\n\n\"There were two massive tremors that lasted for a long while and I assumed it was snow being cleared or something like that,\" Oeystein Gjerdrum, 68, told broadcaster NRK.\n\n\"Then the power suddenly went out, and a neighbour came to the door and said we needed to evacuate, so I woke up my three grandchildren and told them to get dressed quickly.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) told AFP that the landslide was a so-called \"quick clay slide\" measuring about 300m by 700m (985ft by 2,300ft).\n\n\"This is the largest landslide in recent times in Norway, considering the number of houses involved and the number of evacuees,\" Laila Hoivik said.\n\nQuick clay is a kind of clay found in Norway and Sweden that can collapse and behave as a fluid when it comes under stress.\n\nBroadcaster NRK said heavy rainfall may have made the soil unstable, but questions have since emerged over why construction was permitted in the area.\n\nA 2005 geological survey labelled the area as at high risk of landslides, according to a report seen by the broadcaster TV2. Despite this, the homes were built three years later in 2008.", "Ontario Premier Doug Ford has announced the resignation of his finance minister who took a trip to the Caribbean while the province remained under lockdown.\n\nMr Ford on Thursday said Mr Phillips' departure showed his government \"takes seriously our obligation to hold ourselves to a higher standard\".\n\nCanada's most populous province has discouraged all non-essential travel amid record-high new case counts.\n\nMr Phillips, who is a member of the Progressive Conservative Party, had taken a personal trip to St Barts on 13 December and returned on Thursday morning.\n\nAhead of the holiday season, Ontario health officials had urged residents to stay at home when possible amid an ongoing rise in Covid-19 cases.\n\nPeople line up on Christmas Day at a Covid test site in Ontario\n\nMr Phillips told reporters when he arrived at Toronto Pearson Airport he hoped to keep his job, but would respect the premier's decision.\n\n\"Obviously, I made a significant error in judgment, and I will be accountable for that,\" Mr Phillips said. \"I do not make any excuses for the fact that I travelled when we shouldn't have travelled.\"\n\nLater on Thursday, Mr Ford said in a statement he had accepted Mr Phillips' resignation following a conversation with him. Mr Ford has asked Peter Bethlenfalvy, currently president of the treasury board, to step into the finance minister role.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Ford had said he learned of Mr Phillips travel two weeks ago, but said the minister \"never told anyone\" he was going to St Barts, according to CBC.\n\nOntario's New Democratic Party leader Andrea Horwath on Wednesday had pushed for Mr Phillip's firing, saying it was unacceptable for him to \"ignore public health advice\" while the government \"demands sacrifice from everyday Ontarians\".\n\n\"It's not believable that a senior member of cabinet didn't tell the premier's office he was leaving the country for weeks during the height of a global emergency,\" she said in a statement. \"If he didn't, that in itself would be enough reason to demote him.\"", "The UK's chief medical officers have defended the Covid vaccination plan, after criticism from a doctors' union.\n\nThe UK will give both parts of the Oxford and Pfizer vaccines 12 weeks apart, having initially planned to leave 21 days between the Pfizer jabs.\n\nThe British Medical Association said cancelling patients booked in for their second doses was \"grossly unfair\".\n\nBut the chief medical officers said getting more people vaccinated with the first jab \"is much more preferable\".\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was the first jab approved in the UK, and 944,539 people have had their first jab.\n\nThe first person to get the jab on 8 December, Margaret Keenan, has already had her second jab.\n\nPfizer has said it has tested the vaccine's efficacy only when the two vaccines were given up to 21 days apart.\n\nBut the chief medical officers said the \"great majority\" of initial protection came from the first jab.\n\n\"The second vaccine dose is likely to be very important for duration of protection, and at an appropriate dose interval may further increase vaccine efficacy,\" they said.\n\n\"In the short term, the additional increase of vaccine efficacy from the second dose is likely to be modest; the great majority of the initial protection from clinical disease is after the first dose of vaccine.\"\n\nThe decision to delay the second dose has, understandably, caused concern.\n\nThere is some evidence regulators say - at least for the Oxford vaccine - that it will actually boost immunity.\n\nBut for those who are due to get a second dose soon it will undoubtedly be upsetting that they now have to wait.\n\nBut the move is about practicalities. The UK is in the middle of a public health crisis and despite the fact that millions of doses are pre-ordered, there is concern the supply of the vaccine will not be as smooth as everyone would ideally want.\n\nThere is a global demand for these vaccines and there are bound to be times when supply does not meet demand.\n\nSo the logic of the move is that by spreading this thin resource the most widely, it will have the greatest benefit - not only to the vulnerable but to everyone.\n\nLives have been put on hold and livelihoods lost.\n\nThis is the quickest way back to some degree of normality.\n\nEven if it does leave some of the vaccinated susceptible to infection, it should in theory at least protect them from serious illness.\n\nGiven where we are now, the argument is that that is a price worth paying.\n\nAs well as approving the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on Wednesday - the second approved for use in the UK - regulators also said that doctors could wait longer between the two courses.\n\nThis means more people will get the first jab sooner, even if they have to wait longer for their second jab.\n\nExperts advising the government, including the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), said the focus should be on giving at-risk people the first dose of whichever vaccine they receive.\n\nDefending the move, the UK's four chief medical officers - including England's Prof Chris Whitty - said in a statement released on New Year's Eve: \"In terms of protecting priority groups, a model where we can vaccinate twice the number of people in the next two to three months is obviously much more preferable.\"\n\nThey said they recognised that rescheduling second appointments was \"operationally very difficult\" and would \"distress patients who were looking forward to being fully immunised\".\n\nHowever, they said that for every 1,000 patients booked in for a second dose, which will \"gain marginally on protection from severe disease\", that would mean 1,000 more people missing out on \"substantial initial protection\".\n\nThe chief medics said that, while one million people had already been vaccinated, approximately 30 million UK patients and health and social care workers eligible in the first phase \"remain totally unprotected and many are distressed or anxious about the wait for their turn\".\n\nThey added that the JCVI was \"confident\" 12 weeks was a reasonable interval between doses \"to achieve good longer-term protection\".\n\n\"We have to follow public health principles and act at speed if we are to beat this pandemic which is running rampant in our communities, and we believe the public will understand and thank us for this decisive action.\"\n\nEarlier, the BMA's Dr Richard Vautrey said GPs were unhappy they were being asked to cancel appointments that had already been made for second doses.\n\nHe said the BMA would support practices who honour the existing appointments for the follow-up vaccination, calling for the government to do the same.", "The first lorries to transport freight under the new arrangements arrived in Belfast on Friday afternoon\n\nThe first goods have crossed the new trade border between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.\n\nThe 'Irish Sea border' is a consequence of Brexit and means that most commercial goods entering NI from GB require a customs declaration.\n\nAbout a dozen lorries arrived on a ferry from Cairnryan in Scotland to Belfast at 14:00 GMT on Friday.\n\nThey were met by officials, with some vehicles directed to new border control posts.\n\nMany food products from GB now have to enter NI through these border posts where they can be inspected by the Department of Agriculture.\n\nThese products also need health certificates, though some of the new certification processes will be phased in over the next three months.\n\nThe UK government also announced a three-month \"grace period\" for parcels, meaning those sent by online retailers will be exempt from customs declarations until at least April.\n\nIt said the grace period was necessary to avoid disruption to deliveries at a time when many shops are closed due to pandemic restrictions.\n\nMeanwhile the secretary of state for Northern Ireland has continued to insist the new range of checks, controls and paperwork is not actually a sea border.\n\nBrandon Lewis tweeted: \"There is no 'Irish Sea Border'. As we have seen today, the important preparations the government and businesses have taken to prepare for the end of the Transition Period are keeping goods flowing freely around the country, including between GB and NI.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Brandon Lewis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTransport companies are not expecting significant volumes of freight over the next few days.\n\nThere has been significant stockpiling ahead of the changes and it may take one or two weeks before freight volumes are at normal seasonal levels.\n\nSome businesses, particularly haulage companies, are anxious about the new IT systems which are necessary for the border to function.\n\nThey have had less than two weeks to familiarise themselves with the new systems.\n\nPolice officers carried out random vehicle checks near Larne Port on New Year's Eve\n\nSeamus Leheny from Logistics UK said: \"With any reconfiguration of supply chains and new systems there will be teething problems and we expect that.\"\n\nThere will be no new processes or checks for the vast majority of goods leaving NI for GB.\n\nThe new arrangements flow from the Northern Ireland Protocol, a deal reached by the UK and EU in 2019.\n\nIts purpose is to prevent a hard land border in Ireland.\n\nThat is achieved by keeping Northern Ireland in the EU's single market for goods and by having Northern Ireland apply EU customs rules at its ports.\n\nThis will allow goods to flow from NI to the Republic of Ireland and the rest of the EU as they do now, without customs checks or new paperwork.\n\nThe Protocol is opposed by Northern Ireland's unionist parties who fear it will weaken Northern Ireland's position in the UK.\n\nThe arrangement does not change Northern Ireland's constitutional position.\n\nHowever, it does mean a significant new economic barrier within the UK.\n\nUnionist parties fear the sea border will weaken NI's position in the UK\n\nThe UK government has allocated more than £300m for a Trader Support Service to help businesses deal with the new customs arrangements.\n\nThe government is also covering the costs of the new certification requirements for food products.\n\nA Movement Assistance Scheme will pay vets up to £150 to complete the Export Health Certificates which will need to accompany all live animals and products of animal origin entering Northern Ireland from Great Britain.\n\nTrucks pass through a customs post at Dublin Port on Friday morning\n\nThere are also new checks and controls on freight arriving at Dublin Port from GB.\n\nOn Friday morning, the first ferry to arrive in Dublin from Holyhead had about 12 lorries on board.\n\nWhile they all cleared customs checks for the first time without delays, Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney said the change in trading arrangements with the UK would inevitably cause disruption.\n\n\"We have avoided the kind of dramatic disruption of a no trade deal Brexit, but that doesn't mean that things aren't changing very fundamentally, because they are,\" he said.\n\n\"We're now going to see the €80b (£71.2bn) worth of trade across the Irish Sea between Britain and Ireland disrupted by an awful lot more checks and declarations, and bureaucracy and paperwork, and cost and delay.\"\n\nOn Saturday new freight sailings will begin between Rosslare in the Republic of Ireland and Dunkirk in France, allowing cargo to bypass GB and go straight to mainland Europe.\n\nThe six-times weekly service will take 24 hours, which is longer than the \"landbridge\" route via GB.", "A new era has begun for the United Kingdom after it completed its formal separation from the European Union.\n\nThe UK stopped following EU rules at 23:00 GMT, as replacement arrangements for travel, trade, immigration and security co-operation came into force.\n\nBoris Johnson said the UK had \"freedom in our hands\" and the ability to do things \"differently and better\" now the long Brexit process was over.\n\nBut opponents of leaving the EU maintain the country will be worse off.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, whose ambition it is to take an independent Scotland back into the EU, tweeted: \"Scotland will be back soon, Europe. Keep the light on.\"\n\nBBC Europe editor Katya Adler said there was a sense of relief in Brussels that the Brexit process was over, \"but there is regret still at Brexit itself\".\n\nThe first lorries arriving at the borders entered the UK and EU without delay.\n\nOn Friday evening, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps tweeted that border traffic had been \"low due to [the] bank holiday\" but there had been no disruption in Kent as \"hundreds\" of lorries crossed the Channel with a \"small\" number turned back.\n\nSix freight loads travelling from Holyhead in Wales to Ireland had to be turned away due to not having the correct paperwork, the Stena Line ferry and port group said on Friday morning.\n\nBut later on Friday, the group said freight traffic was flowing well through its ports and government customs systems were working well.\n\nIt added that the fall in freight traffic after the Christmas and Brexit stockpiling period meant \"it is too early to draw any conclusions\", but the company remained \"cautiously optimistic that, as freight volumes begin to rise again, we will be able to ensure the continued free movement of goods\".\n\nUK ministers have warned there will be some disruption in the coming days and weeks, as new rules bed in and British firms come to terms with the changes.\n\nBut officials have insisted new border systems are \"ready to go\".\n\nAs the first customs checks were completed after midnight, Eurotunnel spokesman John Keefe said: \"It all went fine, everything's running just as it was before 11pm.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland has different arrangements from other parts of the UK, meaning there will be some customs checks on goods moving between Great Britain and the province.\n\nOn Friday afternoon, the first ferry from Great Britain operating under the terms of Northern Ireland trading protocol docked in Belfast, on schedule at 13:45 GMT.\n\nSeamus Leheny, policy manager at Logistics UK, said six out of the 15 lorries that were on the first ship to arrive into Belfast were brought in for inspection, with one being kept at the port for more than three hours.\n\n\"Inevitably there are going to be teething problems because with such a new, complex system as this there are going to be issues in the first few days,\" he told BBC Radio 4's PM programme.\n\nThe first lorry loads on to the Eurotunnel shuttle after the UK left the single market and customs union\n\nMandy Ridyard, whose aerospace components company makes daily shipments to Northern Ireland, told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme she was \"filling in the same declaration to send goods to the Philippines that I am sending them within the UK\".\n\n\"And obviously that all adds a lot of cost to my business.\"\n\nThe UK officially left the 27-member political and economic bloc on 31 January, three and half years after the UK public voted to leave in the 2016 Brexit referendum.\n\nBut it stuck to the EU's trading rules for 11 months while the two sides negotiated their future economic partnership.\n\nA treaty was finally agreed on Christmas Eve, and became law in the UK on Wednesday.\n\nUnder the new arrangements, UK manufacturers will have tariff-free access to the EU's internal market, meaning there will be no import taxes on goods crossing between Britain and the continent.\n\nBut it does mean more paperwork for businesses and people travelling to EU countries, while there is still uncertainty about what will happen to banking and services.\n\nThe UK and Spain have also reached an agreement meaning the border between Gibraltar and Spain will remain open.\n\nFabian Picardo, Gibraltar's chief minister, said the deal still needed to be formalised, but by abolishing controls between Gibraltar and the EU's passport-free Schengen area, he said it would prevent queues at the border \"which make people's lives a misery and make business difficult\".\n\nIt is a moment that some will regard with huge optimism, others with deep regret.\n\nAnd while this historic move happens at a moment in time, the impact, in some areas, may be less instant or obvious than others - for example, it's expected there'll be relatively little traffic at Dover on the first day of 2021 as new border checks kick in.\n\nNevertheless, significant changes are here - whether on trade, travel, security or immigration - and those changes could well become more apparent in the months ahead.\n\nMr Johnson - who took the UK out of the EU in January six months after becoming prime minister - said it was an \"amazing moment\" for the UK in his New Year message.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWriting in the Daily Telegraph, he added that the combination of the Brexit deal and rollout of the Oxford vaccine means \"we are creating the potential trampoline for the national bounceback\".\n\nLord Frost, the UK's chief negotiator, tweeted that Britain had become a \"fully independent country again\".\n\nAnd the deputy chairman of the pro-Brexit European Research Group of Tory backbench MPs, David Jones, told the BBC: \"We can now say clearly Britain is a sovereign and independent state.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut opponents of Brexit say the country will be worse off than it was while it was a member of the EU.\n\nIreland's Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said it was \"not something to celebrate\" and the UK's relationship with Ireland will be different from now on, but \"we wish them well\".\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron said the UK remained a \"friend and ally\", but he added that the choice to leave the EU was \"the child of European malaise and many lies and false promises\".\n\nIn Brussels, there is a sense of relief the Brexit process is over, but there is regret still at Brexit itself.\n\nBasically, the European Union thinks that Brexit makes it - the EU - and the UK weaker.\n\nBut the EU view is this is less bye-bye Britain and more au revoir, because there are so many loose ends between the two sides.\n\nFor example, there are the ongoing practicalities surrounding Gibraltar, the UK is still waiting to find out what access Brussels is going to give its financial services to the single market, there is cooperation on climate change, and there is a reviewal mechanism written into the treaty for every five years.\n\nFor all of those reasons and more, this is not the end of the EU-UK conversation for the foreseeable future.\n\nThe culmination of the Brexit process means major changes in different areas. These include:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Countries around the world welcomed 2021 with fireworks, but crowds were only allowed at some displays\n\nMillions around the world have been seeing out 2020 and marking the start of 2021, although the coronavirus pandemic has forced many celebrations to take place in muted form behind closed doors.\n\nWith lockdowns or other restrictions in place in many countries, would-be New Year partygoers were told to have a quiet night in.\n\nOthers have attended ceremonies or festivals wearing masks or taking other precautions.\n\nIn Tokyo, below, people visited the Kanda Myojin Shrine to offer prayers. The popular Shinto shrine reduced the number of visitors allowed, as Japan faces another wave of Covid-19 infections.\n\nIn Wuhan, China, crowds gathered in the city with balloons and festive outfits to count down to midnight on New Year's Eve.\n\nFireworks lit up the night sky in Taiwan to mark the beginning of 2021, witnessed by thousands of spectators who gathered in the centre of Taipei.\n\nLike this family in Seoul, South Korea, many globally have marked the celebration in a small way and often at home.\n\nIt was a chilly celebration in Yekaterinburg, Russia, as people gathered at the city hall, waving sparklers in the 1905 Square.\n\nWhile in the United Arab Emirates, one of the largest New Year fireworks displays saw spectacular colours light up the sky over the emirate of Ras al-Khaimah.\n\nPyrotechnics also illuminated the sky around the tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa, as the clock struck midnight in Dubai.\n\nThe New Year's Eve party at Brandenburg Gate in Berlin is usually one of Europe's biggest street parties. But this year revellers were told to stay at home and watch the fireworks and music performances on TV or online instead.\n\nThese worshippers in Abuja, Nigeria, marked the end of 2020 with a gospel service.\n\nMeanwhile, people in the city of Abidjan in the Ivory Coast were able to watch the fireworks display outside with friends and family.\n\nBut in New York City, just a handful of people were allowed into Times Square to watch confetti rain down and the traditional crystal ball drop.\n\nBrazilian authorities closed Copacabana Beach, in Rio de Janeiro, but that did not stop some people enjoying celebrations.\n\nA fireworks and light show was held across various locations in London. A number of drones filled the sky close to the O2 Arena in East London forming messages referencing the pandemic, including the NHS logo.", "The Archers returned to BBC Radio 4 in May with \"a new style\" forced upon the show by the coronavirus lockdown\n\nBBC Radio 4 will mark 70 years of The Archers with a series of features across its output on Friday.\n\nAs well as broadcasting episode number 19,343 of the world's longest-running serial drama, stars from it will appear on the station's other programmes.\n\nThis will include inserts into Woman's Hour, Farming Today, and a quiz.\n\nThe Archers, set in the fictional village of Ambridge, began in 1951 with the original purpose of educating farmers on modern agricultural methods.\n\nThe show's editor, Jeremy Howe, said its achievements over the years, coming up to the modern day, are incomparable.\n\n\"Almost daily and in real time The Archers has tracked life in the village of Ambridge across years and more than 19,000 episodes,\" he said.\n\n\"No work of fiction or drama can truly compare to that. As I look back on this incredible legacy, I am looking forward to the next 70 years of The Archers.\"\n\nBack in May, The Archers returned to BBC Radio 4 on Monday, with a \"new style\" forced upon the show by the coronavirus lockdown.\n\nLarge cast recordings with interaction between multiple characters were scrapped in favour of monologues recorded at the actors' homes.\n\nThe storyline of Friday's anniversary episode remains a secret, but celebratory programming on Radio 4 on the day will also include a special edition of With Great Pleasure at Christmas, where cast members from the series share their favourite prose and poetry.\n\nHowe, meanwhile, will appear alongside actor Timothy Bentinck (David Archer) and agricultural story advisor Sarah Swadling in an Archers-flavoured edition of Farming Today.\n\nWoman's Hour will focus on the female characters and storylines that have shaped the show.\n\nFinally, on the day, listeners will be invited to head over to The Bull pub - not literally of course - for the The Archers Anniversary Quiz, hosted by landlords Jolene (Buffy Davis) and Kenton Archer (Richard Attlee).\n\nOn Saturday 2 January, historian David Kynaston will then delve into the history of the programme further documentary feature entitled A Social History of The Archers.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Spain has reached a deal with the UK to maintain free movement to and from Gibraltar once the UK formally leaves the EU on Friday.\n\nTo avoid a hard border, Gibraltar will join the EU's Schengen zone and follow other EU rules, while remaining a British Overseas Territory.\n\nThe deal was announced by Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha González Laya, just hours before the UK exits the EU.\n\nThe Rock voted Remain in 2016 and about 15,000 Spanish workers go there daily.\n\n\"With this [agreement], the fence is removed, Schengen is applied to Gibraltar... it allows for the lifting of controls between Gibraltar and Spain,\" said Ms González Laya.\n\nThe Gibraltar deal will mean the EU sending Frontex border guards to facilitate free movement to and from Gibraltar. Their role is planned to last four years.\n\nGibraltarians are British citizens. They elect their own representatives to the territory's parliament, while the British monarch appoints a governor.\n\nThe territory - home to a British military garrison and naval base - is self-governing in all areas except defence and foreign policy.\n\nMs González Laya did not say whether Spanish border guards would eventually be posted at Gibraltar's airport and/or seaport which, under the deal, will be de facto part of the EU's external border.\n\nThe Gibraltar deal would also mean the territory complying with EU fair competition rules in areas such as financial policy, the environment and the labour market, Ms González Laya said.\n\nTwenty-two EU states are in the passport-free Schengen zone, as are Norway, Switzerland, Iceland and Liechtenstein, but the UK has never been in it.\n\nOnce Gibraltar joins it, EU citizens arriving from Spain or another Schengen country will avoid passport checks, while arrivals from the UK will have to go through passport control, as is already the case.\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab called Thursday's deal a \"political framework\" to form the basis of a separate treaty with the EU regarding Gibraltar.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why Gibraltar is British - in 60 secs\n\nThe deal does not address the thorny issue of sovereignty. Spain has long disputed British sovereignty over the Rock which was ceded to Britain in 1713 and which is now home to about 34,000 people. The Remain vote there was an overwhelming 96% in the 2016 EU referendum.\n\nThe plan is to have a six-month transition period and then formalise the new arrangements with a treaty.\n\nUnder the current tight Covid rules, there are restrictions on UK citizens arriving via Gibraltar's airport, the UK Foreign Office says.\n\nDominic Raab said \"all sides are committed to mitigating the effects of the end of the [Brexit] Transition Period on Gibraltar, and in particular ensure border fluidity, which is clearly in the best interests of the people living on both sides.\n\n\"We remain steadfast in our support for Gibraltar, and its sovereignty is safeguarded.\"", "Omar Elabdellaoui is receiving treatment in hospital after an accident with a firework\n\nNorway and Galatasaray footballer Omar Elabdellaoui has been injured by a firework during a New Year's Eve celebration.\n\nThe Norwegian vice-captain's club said he was taken to hospital after \"an unfortunate accident at his home\".\n\nHe suffered burns to his face and damage to his eyes, the club said, adding that further tests would assess the extent of his injuries.\n\nThe New Year's Eve incident was one of many involving fireworks in Europe.\n\nIn Elabdellaoui's case, Turkish reports say a firework exploded in the hand of the 29-year-old defender.\n\nTurkish newspaper Hurriyet said the former Manchester City player may have lost vision, without giving further details.\n\nBut in a statement cited by the newspaper, Galatasaray said Elabdellaoui was conscious, in a stable condition and had not undergone surgery.\n\nGalatasaray's manager Fatih Terim and the team captain Arda Turan went to the hospital to visit Elabdellaoui, who joined the club in 2020 from the Greek side Olympiacos FC.\n\nTurkish clubs - including Galatasaray's Turkish Super Lig rivals Fenerbahce, Besiktas and Trabzonspor - took to social media to wish Elabdellaoui a speedy recovery.\n\nTurkish reports say a firework exploded in the hand of 29-year-old Omar Elabdellaoui\n\nElsewhere in Europe, at least four people were killed by fireworks during events to mark the new year.\n\nPolice in Alsace in eastern France said a 25-year-old man died after being hit by a rocket in the village of Boofzheim.\n\nA statement said the device beheaded him and severely injured the face of another young man standing next to him.\n\nA similar incident cost the life of a 28-year-old man in Pulle, a village east of Antwerp in Belgium.\n\nFireworks exploded over Berlin's landmark Brandenburg Gate to usher in the new year\n\nMeanwhile in Italy's north-western province of Asti, a 13-year-old boy died shortly after midnight of injuries to his abdomen caused by a firecracker.\n\nThere were fireworks casualties in Germany as well. In the state of Brandenburg, police said a 24-year-old man died after setting alight \"self-made pyrotechnics\" while a 63-year-old man lost his hand when handling a firecracker.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Countries around the world welcomed 2021 with fireworks, but crowds were only allowed at some displays\n\nInjuries and deaths from fireworks are not unknown over the New Year period. But fewer public fireworks displays than usual were held on New Year's Eve 2020, as coronavirus restrictions placed limits on gatherings worldwide.\n\nSome European countries had moved to limit the use of fireworks ahead of 31 December, with Germany imposing a ban on the sale of pyrotechnics.", "Rachael Powell is \"angry and upset\" about her daughter Emmeline missing out during lockdown Image caption: Rachael Powell is \"angry and upset\" about her daughter Emmeline missing out during lockdown\n\nNew parents missing baby classes and playdates due to lockdown say their children's development has been hit by the impact of coronavirus.\n\nWhen Rachael Powell's one-year-old daughter Emmeline met her grandparents for the first time she \"absolutely screamed the place down\" as she \"didn't know who they were\".\n\n\"I was really looking forward to going to coffee shops, meeting other mums and going to baby classes and then everything stopped,\" says the 39-year-old from Greater Manchester.\n\n\"I felt guilty that she didn't get any of that and have that interaction.\"\n\nEducation consultant and child psychologist Paul Kelly says Covid is having a \"massive impact\" on babies.\n\n\"We are social creatures, social beings - it is pre-programmed in our brains,\" he says. \"When children's brains are stimulated, they grow.\"\n\nDr Kelly says there is also an impact on parents, who are missing out on \"mutual support\".\n\nHe says people should \"grab what they can, when they can\" during these uncertain times and focus on \"how you can enhance [your baby's] development... rather than spending time thinking about how your child might be behind\".", "The number of people being treated in Scotland's hospitals for coronavirus has reached another record daily high.\n\nLatest Scottish government figures show a total of 1,596 people are in hospital with recently confirmed Covid.\n\nThis is up from Friday's figure of 1,530 patients.\n\nThe deaths of a further 93 people who had tested positive for the virus have been recorded in the past 24 hours, the same tally as Friday which was the highest daily figure of the pandemic.\n\nIt is the second day in a row there has been a record figure for Covid hospital patients.\n\nOf the 1,596 people in hospital, a total of 109 are in intensive care, up seven on Friday's figure.\n\nNational clinical director Prof Jason Leitch said Scotland's hospitals were \"very busy and fragile\" but coping so far.\n\nHe said: \"People should not be worried we have reached capacity but the best way of getting those numbers down is to reduce the prevalence of the virus.\"\n\nProf Leitch said the NHS could create more intensive care capacity if needed but \"all of that has a cost in what we won't be able to do\" elsewhere in the health service.\n\nThe NHS Louisa Jordan temporary hospital in Glasgow can be used to care for the sickest of Covid patients if the spike in admissions continues, but officials are trying to avoid this \"if we can manage without it\", Prof Leitch added.\n\nThis is because it is better for patients and staff for Covid patients to be in traditional intensive care units, he explained.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon has described the latest Covid figures as \"a big concern\".\n\nOn Twitter, she said: \"Covid case numbers still a big concern and putting huge pressure on the NHS, as hospital and ICU cases increase.\n\n\"Also, 93 further deaths remind us just how dangerous the virus can be - my thoughts are with all those grieving.\"]\n\nThe Scottish government data shows a further 1,865 new cases of Covid have been reported in the last 24 hours, down from the 2,309 cases reported on Friday.\n\nHowever, the daily test positivity rate is 8.7%, up from 8.1% on the previous day.\n\nThis breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.\n\nYou can receive Breaking News on a smartphone or tablet via the BBC News App. You can also follow @BBCBreaking on Twitter to get the latest alerts.", "North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said US policy towards his country would \"never change\"\n\nNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un has said the US is his country's \"biggest enemy\" and that he does not expect Washington to change its policy toward Pyongyang - whoever is president.\n\nAddressing a rare congress of his ruling Workers' Party, Mr Kim also pledged to expand North Korea's nuclear weapons arsenal and military potential.\n\nHe said that plans for a nuclear submarine were almost complete.\n\nHis comments come as US President-elect Joe Biden prepares to take office.\n\nAnalysts suggest Mr Kim's remarks are an effort to apply pressure on the incoming government, with Mr Biden set to be sworn in on 20 January.\n\nMr Kim enjoyed a warm rapport with outgoing US President Donald Trump, even if little concrete progress was made on negotiations over North Korea's nuclear programme.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn his latest address to the Workers' Party - only the eighth congress in its history - Mr Kim said Pyongyang did not intend to use its nuclear weapons unless \"hostile forces\" were planning to use them against North Korea first.\n\nHe said the US was his country's \"biggest obstacle for our revolution and our biggest enemy... no matter who is in power, the true nature of its policy against North Korea will never change,\" state news agency KCNA reported.\n\nHis speech outlined a list of desired weapons including long-range ballistic missiles capable of being launched from land or sea and \"super-large warheads\".\n\nNorth Korea has managed to significantly advance its arsenal despite being subject to strict economic sanctions.\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Kim admitted that his five-year economic plan for the isolated country failed to meet its targets in \"almost every sector\".\n\nNorth Korea closed its borders last January to prevent Covid from entering the country.\n\nIts authorities say the country has not had a single Covid case since the pandemic began but experts say this is highly unlikely due to North Korea's cross-border trade with China.\n\nTrade with China has plummeted by about 80%. Typhoons and floods have devastated homes and crops in North Korea, which remains under strict international sanctions, including over its nuclear programme.\n\nThe speech is likely to be Mr Kim's way of setting the stage for talks with President-elect Joe Biden who will take office in less than two weeks' time.\n\nThe aim is perhaps to put pressure on Washington to show that Pyongyang has no intention of being cowed by sanctions and will continue to expand its nuclear arsenal.\n\nMr Kim had three summits with Donald Trump - but they failed to reach a deal. However, North Korea is in a difficult and bleak economic position caused by strict sanctions, border blockades to prevent the spread of Covid-19 and devastating floods.\n\nThis message may seem threatening, but some analysts believe that there is still room for diplomacy.", "Jessica Allen (left) and Eliza Moore are now sticking to walks nearer their homes\n\nA police force that was criticised for its \"intimidating\" approach to two walkers is to review its lockdown fines policy.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore said they were surrounded by police after driving five miles from their home for a walk on Wednesday, and fined £200 each.\n\nDerbyshire Police initially said driving to exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of lockdown.\n\nBut it now says new national guidelines mean it will review its position.\n\nIn a statement, the force said all of its fixed penalties issued during the new national lockdown will be reviewed.\n\nMs Allen, from Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire, said she assumed \"someone had been murdered\" when she arrived at Foremark Reservoir on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nWhen she and her friend were questioned by police, they were also told by officers the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nShe said: \"The next thing, my car is surrounded. I got out of my car thinking 'There's no way they're coming to speak to us'. Straight away they start questioning us.\n\n\"I said we had come in separate cars, even parked two spaces away and even brought our own drinks with us. He said 'You can't do that as it's classed as a picnic'.\"\n\nMs Allen said the experience was \"very intimidating\" and had left her feeling scared of police in general.\n\nForemark Reservoir is five miles away from where Jessica Allen and Eliza Moore live\n\nHer friend, Ms Moore, said she was \"stunned at the time\" so did not challenge police and gave her details so they could send a fixed penalty notice.\n\nAt the time Derbyshire Police said that driving to a location to exercise \"is clearly not in the spirit of the national effort to reduce our travel, reduce the possible spread of the disease and reduce the number of deaths\".\n\nThe force added: \"Where there are cases of blatant breaches of the regulations then fines will be issued by officers.\"\n\nDerbyshire Police has also been giving fixed penalty notices to people who visit Calke Abbey and Elvaston Castle.\n\nFixed penalty notices have been given to people who visit Calke Abbey, a National Trust property\n\nBut in a statement, the force said further guidance issued by the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) had \"clarified the policing response concerning travel and exercise\".\n\nThe guidance said: \"The Covid regulations which officers enforce and which enables them to issue FPNs [fixed penalty notices] for breaches, do not restrict the distance travelled for exercise.\"\n\nThe NPCC added that rather than issue fines for people who travel out of their local area \"but are not breaching regulations, officers will encourage people to follow the guidance\".\n\nThe force has now said it will be \"aligning to adhere to this stance\".\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Kem Mehmet said: \"We are grateful for the guidance from the NPCC.\n\n\"The actions of our officers continues to be to protect the public, the NHS and to help save lives.\"\n\nIt is not the first time the force has been accused of being overzealous in enforcing alleged lockdown breaches.\n\nIn the country's first lockdown in March the use of a drone to film people walking in the Peak District was labelled \"nanny policing\".\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Andy Stonely is not eligible for the UK government Covid support scheme\n\nA father who has lived on Universal Credit since the Covid-19 pandemic started has called on the UK government to be \"more flexible\" with its support.\n\nDriving instructor and dad-of-three Andy Stonely is not eligible for the government's Covid support scheme.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses Wales has also asked for changes ahead of the next round of grants.\n\nThe Treasury said its Self-Employment Income Support Scheme was \"one of the most generous in the world\".\n\nThis scheme requires claimants to show accounts for the 2018-19 year as well as 2019-20.\n\nHowever, Mr Stonely from Newport hasn't been self-employed for long enough to qualify - so the 35-year-old has had to rely on financial support from his parents.\n\n\"I count myself somewhat lucky because I have been able to claim for Universal Credit,\" he said.\n\n\"But obviously it's minimal and luckily through the help of parents I've been able to keep afloat.\n\n\"It's been tough. It would have been ideal if the government was just slightly more flexible.\"\n\nMr Stonely, who hasn't been able to work for much of the past year due to lockdown restrictions, said Universal Credit was worth \"less than half\" of his normal earnings.\n\nDriving school firm owner Gareth Denny said almost a quarter of his drivers can't claim Covid help\n\nThe coronavirus crisis forced his wife to give up her job to look after their three children, aged three, six and 17, when Mr Stonely was able to work for a short period at the end of the initial lockdown period.\n\nAsked how much longer his family could sustain itself if the current restrictions continue, Mr Stonely told the BBC's Politics Wales show: \"Not too much longer… we're going to be in a very tough situation.\"\n\nMr Stonely is part of a local driving school franchise managed by Gareth Denny, who said 11 of his 43 instructors were in this position.\n\n\"If you imagine that somebody lives their life to their income and suddenly there's absolutely no income to pay their mortgage and their bills, Universal Credit simply doesn't pay most people's mortgage,\" Mr Denny said.\n\nRecent research commissioned by the Community and Prospect trade unions and the Federation of Small Businesses found 53% of self-employed people across the UK had lost more than 60% of their income since the pandemic began.\n\nIn addition, 64% of people said they were now either \"unsure\" or \"less likely\" to want to be self-employed or freelance in the future.\n\n\"These are normal people who have mortgages, families to support, who've just had to fund a Christmas for the families,\" said Ben Francis of Federation of Small Businesses Wales.\n\n\"All those bills are now mounting up the other side of Christmas, and after having an already extremely difficult 12 months, they've now got to see how they manage through the months ahead.\n\n\"We would ask UK government to be flexible in their approach to verifying the statuses of these newly self-employed businesses.\"\n\nThe Community union warns with small businesses \"struggling to get back on their feet\", more people will leave self-employment.\n\nAll non-essential businesses shut in Wales just before Christmas\n\n\"That will be a disaster for our economy, for local economies, for their livelihoods and their families,\" said Kate Dearden of Community.\n\n\"This section of the UK workforce plays a fundamental role and should be properly supported to continue to do so.\"\n\nThe Treasury has already committed to extending the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme until April 2021, although the eligibility criteria for the next round of grants is yet to be published.\n\nA spokesman said the scheme had \"helped more than 2.7 million people so far, claiming over £13.7bn\".\n\nHe added: \"Funding is designed to target those who need it most and protect the taxpayer against fraud and abuse.\n\n\"Those not eligible may still be able to access our loans schemes, tax deferrals, mortgage holidays and business support grants.\"\n• None What extra help will the self-employed get?", "The US is reeling after supporters of President Trump stormed the Capitol building in Washington DC on the day Congress was meeting to confirm Joe Biden's election victory.\n\nLawmakers were forced to take shelter, the building was put into lockdown and four people died in the chaos that followed a pro-Trump rally near the White House.\n\nHere's a breakdown of how events unfolded on Wednesday.\n\nJust before midday local time (17:00 GMT) thousands of people gather at the Ellipse, near the White House, to hear the president speak at a \"Save America\" rally.\n\nHe tells them: \"We're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue... and we're going to the Capitol and we're going to try and give… our Republicans, the weak ones... the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country.\"\n\nAs the speech ends, crowds start to drift towards the Congress building, about a mile and a half away, where they are met by police barriers.\n\nThe Capitol is home to the two chambers of the US government that make up Congress - the House of Representatives and the Senate.\n\nChanting crowds start to gather on both sides of the building at around 13:10, grappling with police at the metal barricades.\n\nTear gas and pepper spray are used to try to keep the protesters at bay.\n\nPolice officers struggle to maintain control of the situation as protesters advance on the building on multiple fronts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nOn the east side, the crowd force their way through barricades on the Capitol Plaza and move on the main entrance, quickly gaining access to the Great Rotunda.\n\nOnce inside, they head for the House and Senate chambers.\n\nIgor Bobic, a journalist for the Huffington Post, captures a group of men forcing a police officer to retreat up a set of stairs as they continue their advance.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Igor Bobic This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSenators are forced to abandon the process of confirming President-elect Biden's victory and the building goes into lockdown.\n\nThe doors of the House chamber are locked and a makeshift barricade is erected in front of them. Security officials guard the entrance, guns drawn.\n\nWithin an hour, protesters have also broken police lines on the west side of the Capitol, scaling walls to reach the building itself before smashing windows and forcing doors open.\n\nOther videos and images show rioters storming through the building's ornately-decorated corridors and chambers chanting \"USA!\" and \"Stop the steal\".\n\nShortly before 15:00, gunshots are reportedly heard inside the building.\n\nPhotos and video footage later show a female protester being shot as she tries to break through the barricaded doors of the Speakers' Lobby.\n\nDespite efforts by police and others at the scene to save her, she is later reported to have died.\n\nOn the other side of the building, protesters break into the Senate chamber, one taking seat in the Speaker's chair.\n\nAnother protester is photographed nearby sitting in Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office, with his foot on the table.\n\nAfter growing condemnation of the riots, President Trump eventually calls for calm, telling the protesters to leave peacefully: \"Go home. We love you, you're very special.\"\n\nBy 17:40, the building is cleared and made secure ahead of the 18:00 curfew ordered by DC Mayor Muriel Bowser.\n\nSeveral thousand National Guard troops, FBI agents and US Secret Service are deployed to help.\n\nMore than six hours after the storming of the building, senators return and resume the day's business of certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election.\n\nAt 03:41 on Thursday, Congress confirms President-elect Joe Biden will succeed President Trump on 20 January.", "Vincent Kane - pictured with his grandson Sonny - is facing uncertainty about his operation\n\nThe son of a man with pancreatic cancer has said the last-minute cancellation of his surgery has been \"devastating\".\n\nJodie Kane said his father Vincent was due to have his operation on Friday.\n\nHowever, that procedure was cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust on Tuesday as the worsening coronavirus crisis increases the pressure on hospitals.\n\nThe trust apologised, saying it had faced an 80% rise in the number of patients with Covid-19 admitted to hospitals since Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Nolan Show, Jodie said that there was now \"no guarantee\" his 68-year-old father would get the treatment.\n\n\"To be told we had the chance of a very successful surgery on offer and then to have it taken away at the last minute is pretty devastating,\" he said.\n\n\"Even the surgeon himself said they would be concerned if it was to go on more than four weeks.\n\n\"There is an uncertainty hanging over us now that we don't know when he'll actually get that surgery or what the impact on his health is going to be.\"\n\nVincent Kane - pictured with his with wife Karen - has been suffering other health issues arising from his cancer\n\nVincent, from Newtownards, County Down, did not receive treatment for some of his other symptoms as it was planned that the surgery would help with those.\n\n\"Because they were hoping to get him straight into surgery he hasn't had the blockage in his gall bladder addressed so he's jaundiced, he's covered in a rash, can't sleep, he's lost a lot of weight,\" Jodie said.\n\n\"Undoubtedly there are people worse off than us out there but it is still a critical illness that he has got and it is one that we don't have an end in sight for, in terms of treatment.\n\n\"There must be a way of helping all those in need, or I suppose if you were being really honest about it those who stand the best chance of surviving - making the decisions for the benefit of them.\n\n\"There's no guarantee that in six weeks' time surgery is going to be an option because who knows what's going to happen with Covid?\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it had to reduce the number of ill patients on wards to protect them from coronavirus\n\nJodie called on those who were breaking Covid-19 regulations to think about the the \"direct and indirect impacts\" of their actions.\n\n\"We've every sympathy for anyone who has a loved one who needs [intensive] care because of Covid but cancer and Covid are both life-and-death situations.\n\n\"We can minimise the risks of one of them as a collective society just by taking the necessary precautions.\n\n\"It could be someone they love or their neighbour or someone in their community that's in the same situation as us in the very near future.\"\n\nFlo McClements, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in December, found out on Tuesday that her surgery - scheduled for Thursday - had been cancelled by the Belfast Health Trust.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio Foyle, her son Gregg said the pressure was \"mounting day by day\" on the the 72-year-old from Ballymoney, County Antrim.\n\n\"She had waited all through Christmas for the date and due to the Covid-19 restrictions we as a family had stayed away from her,\" he added.\n\nFlo McClements' family wants to \"give her a hug\" after her operation was cancelled\n\n\"We left her on her own with my dad just to make sure she didn't catch Covid and risk the operation.\n\n\"When you get the date you like to think it's the next step to recovery but unfortunately that didn't happen.\"\n\nGregg said his mother was \"putting on a brave face\" but it was difficult for the family to not be with her in person during what was a difficult time.\n\n\"That's actually the hardest part that we can't go up and have a cup of tea with her or give her a hug to make her feel a bit better even for a few minutes.\"\n\nThe Belfast Health Trust said it \"would like to sincerely apologise\" to those affected by the postponement of surgeries.\n\nIt said the decision was taken to reduce the number of ill patients on wards that would be more at risk from the virus than others.\n\n\"This was an incredibly difficult decision to make and we did not take it without considering all the information available to us,\" said the trust.\n\n\"We do not underestimate the anxiety and distress this causes the patients and families affected and we deeply regret this.\n\nIt said it would do \"everything in our power\" to reschedule their operations \"as soon as possible\".", "The company offered to pay surgeries a £5,000 charitable donation \"or to the staff member directly\" in emails\n\nThe Hacking Trust's medical division approached surgeries in Bristol and Worthing offering to pay the money to charity \"or the staff member directly\".\n\nRobyn Clark, from the Institute of General Practice Management, said it was \"just appalling\".\n\nThe company, based in London, has apologised, saying its \"good intentions\" were \"misinterpreted\".\n\nNHS England said people \"will rightly take a dim view of anyone who tries to jump the queue\".\n\n\"The NHS is free at the point of access for everyone who needs it,\" said Mrs Clark.\n\n\"What we felt this company was trying to do was jump the queue.\"\n\nThe Bristol-based manager said she worried it could \"create more health inequality\".\n\nShe said: \"The JCVI [Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation] is trying to prioritise the vaccine based on the vulnerability to Covid.\"\n\nThe e-mail sent to the GP surgery in Worthing said The Hacking Trust was aware that \"many appointments\" for vaccinations are not kept, and that it would be interested in being informed of \"any no-shows\".\n\nA donation of £5,000 would be paid to a staff member or given to charity for each dose it could secure, the e-mail said.\n\nIn a statement, the Battersea-based company said it \"offered charitable donations to staff or surgeries in this difficult time for any vaccines which were unused\".\n\nIt added: \"We had heard that some vaccines were being unused due to missed appointments. We would apologise that our good intentions have been misinterpreted.\"\n\nNHS England said it knew \"these particular emails were received across the country\".\n\nDr Nikki Kanani, GP and NHS medical director for primary care, said hundreds of NHS teams across the country were \"working hard to deliver vaccines quickly to those who would benefit most\".\n\n\"NHS staff will never ask for, or accept, cash for vaccines,\" she said.\n\nThe Department of Health and Social Care said vaccinations were available from the NHS \"for free\" and \"cannot be sold privately in the UK\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA nurse felt \"overwhelming fear\" as 13 ambulances queued at her hospital's A&E department - in the Welsh region currently hardest hit by Covid deaths.\n\nTo date Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board, which runs Royal Glamorgan Hospital, has reported 1,091 deaths of patients with coronavirus.\n\nBBC Wales was granted access to A&E at the hospital in Rhondda Cynon Taf.\n\nSenior doctor Amanda Farrow said the whole hospital had faced \"unrelenting\" pressure last Saturday.\n\nSarah Fogarasy was the senior nurse on duty as 13 ambulances queued up outside her A&E department\n\nSenior A&E nurse Sarah Fogarasy, who was on shift as the ambulances arrived, said there was no capacity at the unit - a situation that left her wanting \"to leave\".\n\n\"We had to escalate it to our site manager and deputy head of nursing who were liaising with the executive team on call,\" she said.\n\n\"And then it got to 13 patients outside - I had no capacity in this unit, no resuscitation capacity, no capacity to put a patient on CPAP [continuous positive airway pressure] should they require that and no physical areas to put a patient in.\n\nOn Saturday, 13 ambulances queued outside the hospital's A&E department\n\nShe said she found it hard to keep going.\n\n\"This bit makes me quite emotional… for the first time I was sat trying to coordinate this department and I had that overwhelming fear that I just wanted to leave,\" Ms Fogarasy continued.\n\n\"I was just - 'I'm done. I'm done with this'... and it's scary, it fills you full of fear when you have got 13 ambulances outside, queuing around the carpark. Where do you go from that?\"\n\nShe said it was the team that kept her going: \"I started looking around to all the staff working tirelessly and just trying to remember what we're here for and why I became a nurse.\n\n\"I know it sounds soppy but it's literally the humanitarian effort that has gone into [fighting] this pandemic that has kept people going.\n\n\"It's the sheer determination and guts of the staff working in these times that is so powerful, that keeps the shift going.\"\n\nEmergency Medicine Consultant Amanda Farrow said it was a \"very emotional time for everyone\"\n\nDr Farrow, emergency medicine consultant, said staffing and bed numbers were of particular concern.\n\n\"In the emergency department the challenge we have is with regards to flow, so that is our daily challenge,\" she explained.\n\n\"And we say it's like playing a game of Tetris trying to work out which patient you can put where.\"\n\nStaff reported feeling overwhelmed as they work through the second Covid wave\n\nShe said the second wave of the virus had also seen more staff off sick with Covid and isolating - with some becoming very ill.\n\n\"We've had staff in as patients and one of my colleagues - I saw them when they were critically ill and ended up going to intensive care,\" continued Dr Farrow.\n\n\"So it's very emotional time for everyone as well you know, looking after the sick patients and looking after your colleagues.\n\n\"There's a level of anxiety still around - will you be the next person to get this disease?\"\n\nShe said although fewer people were attending A&E, they were seeing more people arriving by ambulance and presenting with more complex needs.\n\n\"The group of patients we are seeing this time I think is different, we're definitely having more younger people with Covid that are becoming sick, the volume is very high in the community.\n\n\"I think people are afraid of come into the hospital as well, so there are still quite a lot of patients who leave it maybe a bit too late before they're seeking hospital attention.\"\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, Helen Whatmore said she was extremely grateful to staff\n\nHelen Whatmore, 45, from Beddau, has been hospital since early December after developing Covid symptoms.\n\nSpeaking from her intensive care bed, she said she had been unwell in February so assumed she had already caught the virus.\n\n\"I honestly didn't believe it was as bad until I caught [Covid] this time,\" she said.\n\n\"This time it's absolutely knocked the socks off me. It's nearly killed me.\n\n\"A friend of mine passed away as I came into hospital and I came down very rapidly with Covid, kidney problems and pneumonia.\"\n\nShe said she was grateful for the care she had received: \"The nurses are coming in [working] all shifts, they're fighting for your loved ones, from the time they enter right until the time they leave, then they're changing over and doing the same again.\n\n\"People are passing away… how much more have they got to do? We're asking them to protect our children and our families. Why are we not protecting them ourselves? Saving our families and our own children.\"", "People in England are being told to act like they have got Covid as part of a government advertising campaign aimed at tackling the rise in infections.\n\nBoris Johnson said the public should \"stay at home\" and not get complacent.\n\nOn Friday 1,325 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test were recorded in the UK - the highest daily figure yet - along with 68,053 new cases.\n\nGovernment sources say there is likely to be more focus from police on enforcing rather than explaining rules.\n\n\"With over 1,000 people dying yesterday it's more important than ever everyone sticks to rules,\" a source told the BBC.\n\nAs cases and deaths soar, the government is releasing its advertising campaign, which will be shared across television, radio, newspapers and on social media.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, says in the advert: \"Vaccines give clear hope for the future, but for now we must all stay home, protect the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson says hospitals are \"under more pressure than at any other time since the start of the pandemic\", with infection rates increasing at an \"alarming rate\" across the country and the NHS under \"severe strain\".\n\nIt comes after London's mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of coronavirus was \"out of control\" as he declared a \"major incident\" in the capital on Friday.\n\nSuch an incident is an emergency that requires the implementation of special arrangements by one or all of the emergency services, the NHS or the local authority.\n\nIt means the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response.\n\nWhile the government seeks to reinforce its \"stay at home\" message, some police forces have faced criticism for their approaches to tackling potential breaches of coronavirus restrictions.\n\nDerbyshire Police has said it will review fixed penalties issued during the new national lockdown after two women were ordered to pay £200 each after driving five miles from their home for a walk on Wednesday.\n\nSusan Michie, a professor of health psychology at University College London, said \"more support and enablement\" was needed for people to adhere to the regulations, for example support to help people self-isolate, rather than punishment.\n\nProf Michie, who sits on a subcommittee of the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, also said the current restrictions were \"too lax\".\n\n\"When you look at the data, it shows that almost 90% of people are overwhelmingly adhering to the rules despite the fact that we're also seeing more people out and about,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nHowever, she said in comparison to the first lockdown last spring the restrictions were less strict, with more people allowed to go out to work and children's nurseries open, meaning public transport is busier.\n\nThe number of people travelling by public transport in London has decreased since the latest national lockdown began, with tube journeys now at 18% pre-pandemic demand and bus journeys at 30%, according to figures from Transport for London.\n\nHowever, during the first lockdown passenger numbers fell below 10% at some points.\n\nProf Michie added that the winter season posed extra challenges because the virus survives longer in the cold and people spend more time indoors, where the virus can spread more easily.\n\nCombined with the more transmissible new variant, she said \"we should have a stricter rather than less strict lockdown than we had back in March\".\n\nDr Adam Kucharski, another scientist advising the government and an associate professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said that because the new variant was more transmissible \"each interaction we have has become riskier than it was before\".\n\n\"So even if we went back to that kind of last spring level of reduction in contacts we couldn't be confident that we would see the same effect that we saw last year because of this increased transmission,\" he said.\n\nEngland, much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland continue to be under strict national measures, with stay-at-home orders in place for most people.\n\nThere is considerable concern in government about the continued spread of the virus.\n\nNo 10 believes more needs to be done to emphasise how severe the current situation is - which is why we are getting some very stark warnings from the medical experts.\n\nMinisters continue to praise the public - but there is also more emphasis on people taking the rules seriously, as was the case last spring when the first lockdown was imposed.\n\nThe prime minister warns people against complacency, saying: \"Your compliance is now more vital than ever\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Staff at Portsmouth's Queen Alexandra Hospital are struggling to cope with an increase in the number of Covid-19 patients\n\nLatest figures from Public Health England reveal the coronavirus infection rate in London has exceeded 1,000 per 100,000 people.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics recently estimated as many as one in 30 Londoners has coronavirus.\n\nLondon councils have urged places of worship to close and the bishop of London Sarah Mullally said churches should \"consider the seriousness of the situation\" before holding in person services this weekend.\n\nDr Simon Walsh, an emergency care doctor in London, told BBC Breakfast all London hospitals had \"effectively been working in major incident mode for the last couple of weeks\".\n\n\"Most hospitals have expanded their intensive care capacity to somewhere in the region of three times their normal capacity. Obviously we don't have three times the number of staff so our staff are being spread more thinly,\" he said.\n\nHospitals in other parts of the UK are also under pressure.\n\nIn Wales, senior A&E nurse Sarah Fogarasy said she felt \"overwhelming fear\" as 13 ambulances queued at Royal Glamorgan Hospital last Saturday, with no capacity at the unit.\n\nAnd Dr Justin Varney, director of public health in Birmingham, said he was \"very worried\" about the situation in the city, where hospital bosses have warned they don't have enough intensive care nurses to deal with the growing case load.\n\nHe warned the NHS had still not seen the impact of the rise in cases following the relaxation of restrictions over Christmas \"so it is going to get a lot, lot worse unless we really get this under control\".", "Marks & Spencer has temporarily stopped selling hundreds of items in its Northern Ireland stores due to Brexit red tape.\n\nThe retailer said it feared its food would be blocked due to new rules governing shipments between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nA growing number of firms have spoken out about paperwork delays at ports.\n\nThe government said traders and hauliers need to take steps to comply with new border rules.\n\nM&S took the decision to temporarily drop hundreds of products, including chocolate fudge pudding and sweet and sour chicken, from its Northern Ireland stores after it saw competitors' lorries barred from travelling between the mainland and Northern Ireland.\n\nAn entire consignment in a lorry can be held up if only one item in the truck doesn't have the correct customs forms filled out.\n\nThe retailer said it aimed to get the products back up for sale soon.\n\nAn M&S spokesperson said: \"We have served customers in Northern Ireland for over 50 years and our priority is to make sure we continue to deliver the same choice and great quality range that our loyal customers have always enjoyed.\n\n\"Stores have been receiving regular deliveries this week, however following the UK's recent departure from the EU, we are transitioning to new processes and we're working closely with our partners and suppliers to ensure customers can continue to enjoy a great range of products.\"\n\nIn addition to problems shipping goods internally in the UK, the new Brexit trade rules are creating problems for exporters and traders transporting goods to and from the EU, say firms.\n\nThe UK sealed a trade deal with the European Union (EU) on 24 December that was billed as preserving its zero-tariff and zero-quota access to the bloc's single market.\n\nBut in addition to red tape causing delays, major retailers that use the UK as a distribution hub for European business could face possible tariffs if they re-export goods to the EU.\n\nOn Friday, M&S chief executive Steve Rowe warned of more red tape and a rise in export costs to some countries.\n\n\"The best example I can give you of that is Percy Pig,\" he said,\n\n\"Percy Pig is actually manufactured in Germany. If it comes to the UK and we then send it to Ireland, in theory it would have some tax on it,\" he added.\n\nM&S said it was \"actively working to mitigate\" the effects of the \"rules of origin\" regulations, under which products are taxed differently depending on which country they come from.\n\nOther firms have also been hit by the confusion caused by new Brexit trading rules.\n\nParcels giant DPD has suspended some services, while seafood exporter John Ross said the chaos was like being \"thrown in the cold Atlantic without a lifejacket\".\n\nShane Brennan, chief executive of the Cold Chain Federation, which represents chilled transport and storage companies, said the emerging problems had come despite the amount of cross-border traffic still being quite low.\n\n\"Trade flows are still only about 50% of what we would expect, but even at those levels we are seeing levels of confusion and delays,\" he told the BBC's Today programme. \"The feeling is we are building to quite a significant potential disruption.\"\n\nA government spokesman acknowledged that there had been \"some issues\", but said ministers had always been clear there would be some disruption at the end of the transition period.\n\nThe Cabinet Office said in a statement that the volume of border crossings had been low so far this year, but that it expected crossings to steadily increase to normal levels.\n\nThis brings the potential for \"significant disruption if traders and hauliers have not taken the necessary steps to comply with the new rules,\" the Cabinet Office said.\n\nOut of about 1,500 lorries per day trying to get from Great Britain to the EU in the new year, 700 have been turned away - mainly due to a lack of a negative Covid test for drivers, it said.\n\n\"We have always been clear there would be changes now that we are out of the customs union and single market, so full compliance with the new rules is vital to avoid disruption,\" said Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove.\n\nHowever, anger is growing among companies whose livelihoods depend on export trade.\n\nIn a letter on Friday to Business Secretary Alok Sharma, Scottish salmon producer John Ross Jr launched a stinging attack on the government's handling of the situation.\n\nThe firm's sales director, Victoria Leigh-Pearson, wrote that the company had in recent months \"had to endure the government issuing a barrage of useless information\" and an \"absence of factually correct information from all government agencies.\" It amounted, she said, to \"gross incompetence\".\n\nJohn Ross exports to 36 countries and has won the Queen's Award twice\n\nPart of the letter to Alok Sharma:\n\nAs I write, perishable goods that were dispatched from our facility five days ago, headed for France following a process that your department advised, have still not crossed the border. This usually takes only 24 hours because they are consolidated with the produce of other companies, which have not been able to follow the correct procedures due to a knowledge gap directly attributable to your department.\n\nEntire trucks are currently being rejected without explanation by the French customs authority. Our hauliers have now pulled their services as such a backlog has been created. Other hauliers are not taking on new customers. Today, we've even had confirmation that the IT systems of the UK and France are incompatible. After four years you only establish this now?\n\nYour so-called 'deal' is worthless if this situation is not fixed immediately, and unless you put in place measures to address the issues that continue to unfold on a daily basis. Moreover, as a seafood exporter, it feels as though our own government has thrown us into the cold Atlantic waters without a lifejacket.\n\nJohn Ross is not the only Scottish seafood exporter suffering. The industry says it has been hit by a \"perfect storm\" of Brexit disruption, which could sink a centuries-old industry.\n\n\"These businesses are not transporting toilet rolls or widgets. They are exporting the highest quality, perishable seafood which has a finite window to get to markets in peak condition,\" said Donna Fordyce, chief executive of Seafood Scotland.\n\n\"If the window closes, these consignments go to landfill.\"\n\nShe said the sector has already been weakened by Covid-19, the closure of the French border before Christmas as well as \"layer upon layer\" of problems associated with Brexit.\n\nThe group fears that without exports, the fishing fleet will have little reason to go out.\n\n\"In a very short time, we could see the destruction of a centuries-old market which contributes significantly to the Scottish economy,\" added Ms Fordyce.\n\nUK government Minister for Scotland David Duguid blamed Scottish leaders for the issues.\n\n\"The Scottish Government has persistently refused to accept the democratic vote to leave the EU, but that does not allow them to abdicate their responsibilities to Scottish businesses,\" he said.\n\n\"Over the past 18 months they have assured the fishing industry that the systems they were putting in place would be adequate. They clearly are not.\"\n\nParcel delivery service DPD UK said it had paused its European Road Service because of the '\"increased burden\" of customs paperwork for packages heading to the EU, including the Republic of Ireland.\n\nDPD said 20% of parcels had \"incorrect or incomplete data attached\", which meant they would have to be returned.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What Brexit means for Britons travelling, shopping, studying or owning properties in the EU.\n\nIn an email to its business customers, the company said that it had been a \"challenging few days\" for its international operation, and that it would \"pause and review\" its service. It plans to restart on 13 January.\n\n\"It has now become evident that we have an increased burden with the new, more complex processes, and additional customs data we require from you for your parcels destined to Europe\" the firm wrote.\n\nThe boss of one of Wales' largest hauliers said logistical problems have emerged at the Irish border too.\n\nAndrew Kinsella, managing director of Gwynedd Shipping, said his company has a backlog of 60 lorries waiting to be shipped to Dublin.\n\nHe said many hauliers are finding that their customers are not able to generate the special declarations that are needed to ultimately enable a lorry to get onto a ferry.\n\n\"Whilst you don't see queues at ports and terminals the reality is that these queues are developing elsewhere in our depot in Holyhead, in our depot in Deeside and in our depot in Newport in South Wales, and lots of hauliers have depots in the proximity of ports,\" he said.\n\n\"There are a lot of issues about demarcation about who is going to arrange the export declaration with the UK revenue authorities, who's going to arrange the import declaration, the hauliers then trying to arrange the import safety and security declaration to create an ENS number which helps you generate a PBN number so there has been a lot of everyone finding their feet\".\n\nCorrection 9th April 2021: An earlier version of this article included a photo showing queues of lorries at Dover Port. This photo was replaced in the hours after publication after it was established that it had been taken months earlier.", "The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have received Covid-19 vaccinations, Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nA royal source said the vaccinations were administered on Saturday by a household doctor at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe source added the Queen decided to let it be known she had the vaccination to prevent further speculation.\n\nThe Queen, 94, and Prince Philip, 99, are among around 1.5 million people in the UK to have had at least one dose of a Covid vaccine so far.\n\nPeople aged over 80 in the UK are among the high-priority groups who are being given the vaccine first.\n\nThe couple have been spending the lockdown in England at their Windsor Castle home after deciding to have a quiet Christmas at their Berkshire residence, instead of the traditional royal family gathering at Sandringham.\n\nLast month, the Queen appeared alongside several other senior members of the royal family for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began.\n\nIn 2020 she went seven months - between March and October - without carrying out public engagements outside of a royal residence.\n\nDuring that time, her eldest child, Prince Charles, 72, contracted coronavirus and displayed mild symptoms.\n\nPalace sources also told the BBC that her grandson Prince William tested positive in April - although Kensington Palace refused to comment officially.\n\nThe Queen made a private pilgrimage to the grave of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey in November\n\nThe Queen used her Christmas Day message to reassure anyone struggling without friends and family this year that they \"are not alone\".\n\nShe said the pandemic had \"brought us closer\" despite causing hardship, adding that the Royal Family has been \"inspired\" by people volunteering in their communities.\n\nOn Friday a third coronavirus vaccine - made by US company Moderna - was approved for use in the UK, joining the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines already approved by UK regulators.\n\nIt is not known which vaccine the Queen and Prince Philip have received.\n\nAll the approved vaccines require two doses to provide the best possible protection, with the second dose being given up to 12 weeks after the first.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has said the aim is to vaccinate 15 million people in the UK by mid-February, including care home residents and staff, frontline NHS staff, everyone over 70 and those who have been categorised as clinically extremely vulnerable.", "The Welsh Government is in discussions about bringing in \"more visible\" coronavirus regulations.\n\nStricter enforcement of coronavirus rules could return to supermarkets in Wales, Mark Drakeford has said.\n\nThe first minister said he had heard concerns from people \"expressing anxiety\" about a lack of \"visible protections\" in supermarkets.\n\nThe Welsh Government is now in talks with stores about social-distancing measures.\n\nMr Drakeford said he wanted to see stores policed as they were during the first lockdown.\n\nAmong the measures previously used was a strict limit of the numbers of people allowed in a store however Mr Drakeford said people were worried the rules \"don't appear to be there this time\".\n\n\"Given the fact the new variant is so much easier to catch... we are looking at supermarkets and other places where people leave their homes, to make sure they are organised in a way that keeps their staff and customers safe,\" he said.\n\nHe said previously sanitising arrangements had been \"very visible\", one-way markings were prominently displayed, regular reminders were announced to customers and staff were also posted at the front entrance of supermarkets\n\n\"That person was carefully controlling the numbers of people going in, to make sure that they were no more than a certain number of people in the store at any one time,\" he said.\n\n\"There was somebody directing people to the checkout, to make sure people weren't queuing next to each other over prolonged periods, and markings on the floor so people kept at a two-metre distance\".\n\nHowever the first minister said some of those measures are no longer as apparent to people.\n\n\"I want to make sure that those visible signs of the protections that are being offered to the public and the shop workers are in place again.\"\n\nFederation of Small Businesses Wales said has called for clarity on what support would be available and the possible new measures required of shops.\n\nPolicy Chair, Ben Francis, said: \"We've already asked to see more information on the technical data that informs the decisions that Welsh Government are making.\n\n\"It seems clear that businesses will require funding support for longer than was originally anticipated if they are to survive this troubling period.\n\n\"Welsh Government should urgently give clarity on what additional funding will be made available to support businesses beyond this next three week period to allow them to plan.\"", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "A further 1,325 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt means there have been just short of 80,000 deaths by that measure - as another 68,053 new cases were recorded.\n\nPublic Health England (PHE) said the number of deaths would \"continue to rise until we stop the spread\".\n\nIt comes as the government launches a new campaign in England urging people to \"act like you've got\" the virus.\n\nThe campaign, including an advert fronted by England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, is intended to remind the public Covid is spreading fast, with large numbers showing no symptoms.\n\nIn the advert, Prof Whitty says: \"Covid-19, especially the new variant, is spreading quickly across the country.\n\n\"This puts many people at risk of serious disease and is placing a lot of pressure on our NHS.\n\n\"Once more, we must all stay home. If it is essential to go out remember, wash your hands, cover your face indoors and keep your distance from others.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"Our hospitals are under more pressure than at any other time since the start of the pandemic, and infection rates across the entire country continue to soar at an alarming rate.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nHospital leaders have warned of stretched staffing with 31,624 coronavirus patients in UK hospitals on Wednesday - 46% above the peak during the first wave last year.\n\nDr Ian Higginson, vice president of Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said the situation in London and south-east England was \"pretty dire\" and would get worse in the rest of the country before long.\n\n\"We're heading for some really dark times, I fear, in this phase of the pandemic,\" he said.\n\nRichard Mitchell, chief executive of Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Trust, said the increase in patients seen in London was now affecting his area in Nottinghamshire.\n\nHe said: \"Critical care is exceptionally busy and the colleagues who work here are tired, they're fatigued and they're worn out.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a third Covid vaccine received emergency approval for use in the UK with 17 million doses of the jab, made by US firm Moderna, pre-ordered by the UK.\n\nThe vaccine joins the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca jabs in being approved, with close to 1.5 million people now vaccinated in the UK.\n\nDr William Welfare, Covid-19 response director at PHE, said: \"Each life lost to this virus is a tragedy, but sadly we can expect the death toll to continue to rise until we stop the spread.\n\n\"Approximately one in three people who have coronavirus have no symptoms and could be spreading it without realising it.\n\n\"To protect our loved ones it is essential we all stay at home where possible. This will reduce new infections, ease the pressure on the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of Covid in the capital was now \"out of control\", as he declared a \"major incident\".\n\nThis means the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response, and allows special arrangements to be implemented.\n\nThe previous highest daily death toll - 1,224 - was recorded on 21 April 2020 during the UK's first lockdown. Daily deaths were in the single figures as recently as September.\n\nThe UK has recorded the fifth-highest number of deaths behind the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nWe are now seeing the record numbers of cases over the Christmas period translate into record numbers of deaths.\n\nAnd with new infections rising rapidly - more than 1.1 million people in England estimated to be infected with Covid-19 last week - these tragic numbers are set to continue for some time.\n\nAnd that is mainly because of the new variant form of the virus which is thought to be between 30-70% more transmissible.\n\nThe administration of the vaccines to at-risk groups should see a reduction in the numbers dying by the end of the month and the numbers having to go into hospital going down sometime after that.\n\nThat is the other way around from what you normally hear - but that it because a successful vaccine programme will initially remove those most likely to die from the path of the virus.\n\nFitter or younger people - who are less likely to die but could still end up occupying hospital beds - won't be getting their jabs for some time yet.\n\nThe advent of spring's better weather should also help cases to fall, but ministers will have to decide what level of risk - and deaths - society is prepared to tolerate.\n\nFriday saw 619,941 tests conducted in the 24 hours to 09:00 GMT - also a new record.\n\nEngland, much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland continue to be under strict national measures, with stay-at-home orders in place for most people.\n\nThe R number - the rate at which an infected person passes on the virus to someone else - is now estimated to be between 1.0 to 1.4, meaning the epidemic is growing between 0% and 6% per day.\n\nCovid infections rose by almost a third between Boxing Day and 3 January, reaching 70,000 new cases a day according to a major study.\n\nIn a different piece of research, an estimated 1.2 million people in total had Covid over a similar time period, the Office for National Statistics said.\n\nBoris Johnson pledged on Thursday to use England's lockdown to implement an \"unprecedented national effort\" to offer vaccination to those at the highest risk from Covid by 15 February.\n\nHe said the Army would be drafted in to use \"battle preparation techniques\" to achieve the goal, which could see up to 15 million people offered a vaccine by the middle of next month.\n\nIn another development, from next week all travellers to the UK will need to show a recent negative test result before they arrive.\n\nHave you been affected by the issues raised in this story? You can share your experience by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Bernard Thomas was interviewed by BBC Wales at the time of the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster\n\nA survivor of the Aberfan disaster has died after contracting Covid-19.\n\nAs a nine-year-old Bernard Thomas was rescued from the rubble of Pantglas primary school after one of the biggest tragedies in Welsh history.\n\nA total of 144 people were killed in the disaster on 21 October, 1966, after thousands of tonnes of coal slurry slid from a tip. Of those 116 were primary school pupils.\n\nLater Bernard was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress.\n\nHe told S4C he \"still heard the sounds of children screaming.\"\n\nPaying tribute to Mr Thomas, 63, who died on Wednesday, his brother Andrew told BBC's Newyddion: \"Bernard was a real character and his death has come as a shock to us as a family and the community of Aberfan.\"\n\n\"We can't be sure where he caught Covid, but he had an eye appointment at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital on 21 December.\n\n\"A few days later, he became ill and at Prince Charles Hospital, he tested positive for Covid-19.\"\n\n\"Although he had been receiving oxygen through a mask, we spoke regularly on the phone and he told us he was getting better.\n\n\"But on Wednesday morning he removed his mask to eat his breakfast, and 10 minutes after eating he faded away.\"\n\n\"It's a huge shock but I don't blame anybody.\"\n\nOn the 50th anniversary of the disaster Bernard told the BBC: \"I still wonder what the others would have been doing if it hadn't happened. Who would have got married to who, you know.\"\n\nBernard is survived by his 90-year-old mother Gwen, with whom he shared a home, and brothers Andrew and Robert.", "Three people were found inside the gym in Stean Street in Hackney on Friday\n\nThe owners of a London gym have been fined for breaching Covid-19 rules by remaining open during lockdown.\n\nPolice were called to the fitness centre in Stean Street, Hackney, on Friday to reports of a regulation breach.\n\nThree people were found inside the gym at 09:30 GMT. The owners were given a £1,000 fixed penalty notice.\n\nIt comes as a \"major incident\" was declared as the spread of Covid-19 threatens to \"overwhelm\" its hospitals.\n\nCity Hall said Covid-19 cases in London had exceeded 1,000 per 100,000, while there are 35% more people in hospital with the virus than in the peak of the pandemic in April.\n\nNHS England figures published on Friday showed the number of Covid patients in London hospitals stands at 7,277, up 32% on the previous week.\n\nCh Insp Pete Shaw said: \"Whilst there are certain rules around people being allowed to exercise in public under this lockdown, nowhere in the legislation does it allow people to go to gyms to work out.\n\n\"Those found to be flouting the rules, as with this instance, should expect necessary enforcement action to be taken against them.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jessica Allen (left) and Eliza Moore said their cars were \"surrounded\" by police\n\nTwo women who criticised a police force for its \"intimidating\" approach to lockdown fines have welcomed a review.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore were walking at a reservoir five miles from their home when they were stopped by officers and fined £200 each.\n\nDerbyshire Police insisted driving to exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of lockdown but later said new guidance meant it would look again at the issue.\n\nBoth women said they were pleased the force had decided to think again.\n\nDerbyshire Police and Crime Commissioner Hardyal Dhindsa said an \"urgent review\" was under way about how fines had been issued.\n\nLongstanding guidance from the College of Policing says officers should follow the \"Four Es\" and only give fixed penalty notices as a last resort.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore said their cars were surrounded by police when they arrived\n\nMs Allen said: \"We are happy to hear that Derbyshire Police have been told to not be so heavy handed with fines and return to the Four Es they were originally doing.\n\n\"We are yet to hear anything regarding our fine but if we have managed to save somebody the worry of going for a walk and fearing they would be fined then we have done what we set out to do.\"\n\nMs Allen and Ms Moore drove separately from Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire the five miles to Foremark Reservoir on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nThey said their cars were \"surrounded\" by police, questioned on why they were there and told the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nMs Allen said the experience was \"very intimidating\" and had left her feeling scared of police in general.\n\nInitially Derbyshire Police defended its actions, saying legislation said trips should be \"local\" and driving to a location to exercise \"is clearly not in the spirit of the national effort to reduce our travel, reduce the possible spread of the disease and reduce the number of deaths\".\n\nDerbyshire police also fined visitors to other beauty spots like Calke Abbey\n\nDerbyshire Police has also been giving fixed penalty notices to people who visit beauty spots at Calke Abbey and Elvaston Castle.\n\nBut later, the force said new guidance from the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) had \"clarified the policing response concerning travel and exercise\".\n\nThe guidance said: \"The Covid regulations which officers enforce and which enables them to issue FPNs [fixed penalty notices] for breaches, do not restrict the distance travelled for exercise.\"\n\nMr Dhindsa said: \"It would appear that the force has been a little over-zealous in its interpretation of the guidance.\n\n\"While the police can enforce the regulations, guidance is just that which can make this a very challenging and complex situation to police.\"\n\nThe chief constable of neighbouring Nottinghamshire, Craig Guildford, said: \"We are not out and about telling people they have gone too far from home. We trust the public to take these regulations seriously.\n\n\"Derbyshire to be fair to them have some unique places that people may want to go to from a load of counties.\n\n\"But our approach is around reasonableness. If someone has gone 50 miles, we will take action, if someone has gone a couple of miles we are very sensible.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Harley Watson's mother Jo described him as a \"kind, caring, selfless, intelligent and comical young man\"\n\nA man who killed a 12-year-old boy by driving into schoolchildren in a \"deliberate\" hit and run has been detained in a secure hospital.\n\nHarley Watson died after he was hit by a car outside Debden Park High School in Loughton, Essex, on 2 December 2019.\n\nTerence Glover, 52, pleaded guilty to manslaughter by diminished responsibility at an earlier hearing.\n\nHe also admitted 10 counts of attempted murder and has been detained under the Mental Health Act indefinitely.\n\nAt the sentencing hearing at Snaresbrook Crown Court, Harley's mother Jo described her son as a \"kind, caring, selfless, intelligent and comical young man\".\n\nHe was hit by Glover's Ford Ka as he left school with friends and died later in Whipps Cross University Hospital.\n\nTerence Glover has been sentenced indefinitely under the Mental Health Act\n\nChristine Agnew, prosecuting, said eye-witnesses saw Glover's car \"ploughing through and hitting children from behind\".\n\nShe said he \"deliberately mounted the pavement... and drove directly at a group of people, mostly children, intending to kill them\".\n\nGlover, previously of Newmans Lane, Loughton, also pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of 23-year-old Raquel Jimeno and six boys and three girls aged between 12 and 16 who were outside the school.\n\nThe court heard he suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and medical experts agreed his \"significant\" mental illness \"provided an explanation for his conduct\".\n\nHe was given a hospital order under the Mental Health Act 1983, meaning if his illness was treated successfully, he would be transferred to prison.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Harley Watson's classmates paid tribute to him in 2019\n\nJudge Andrew Edis said if transferred, Glover must serve a life sentence with a minimum of 15 years.\n\nIn his sentencing statement, Judge Edis noted his history of mental illness and cocaine use, but said Glover's actions were \"appalling\".\n\n\"He caused the death of a much-loved and admired 12-year-old boy who had done no harm to anyone,\" he said.\n\nHe added that Glover's behaviour \"requires punishment as well as treatment\" and there was \"no doubt that this defendant is dangerous\".\n\nHe also ordered that Glover be banned from driving for life and that the car should be destroyed.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "9 January A Boeing 737, operated by Sriwijaya Air, crashes into the Java Sea minutes after taking off from Jakarta. All 62 people on board are killed, including seven children and three babies. Officials say a problem with the aircraft's autothrottle had been reported a few days before the crash.\n\n22 May An Airbus A320 carrying 91 passengers and eight members of crew crashes in a residential area of the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, killing more than 90 people. At least two passengers survive the crash.\n\nFlight PK8303 crashed just short of the perimeter at Karachi's Jinnah International Airport\n\n8 January Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 crashes shortly after taking off from the Iranian capital Tehran, killing all 176 passengers and crew members on board. The incident took place amid escalating tensions between the US and Iran, and the Iranian government eventually admitted it had downed the plane \"unintentionally\".\n\n10 March An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max crashes six minutes after take-off from Addis Ababa. All 157 people onboard are killed. The victims come from more than 30 countries.\n\n29 October A Boeing 737 Max, operated by Lion Air, crashes into the Java Sea shortly after taking off from Jakarta, Indonesia. All 189 passengers and crew are killed, and a volunteer diver dies in the subsequent recovery operation. Investigators said the plane - which had had technical problems on previous flights - should have been grounded.\n\n18 May A Boeing 737 passenger plane crashes shortly after take-off from Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, killing 112 people. One passenger survives.\n\n11 April A military plane crashes shortly after take-off near the Algerian capital Algiers, killing all 257 people on board, including 10 crew members. Most of the dead are soldiers and their families.\n\n12 March A plane carrying 71 passengers and crew crashes on landing at Kathmandu airport. More than 50 people are killed when the Bombardier Dash 8 turboprop comes down.\n\n18 February A passenger plane crashes into the Zagros mountains in Iran killing all 66 people on board. The Aseman Airlines ATR turboprop crashes about an hour after taking off in the capital, Tehran, heading for the south-western city of Yasuj.\n\n11 February A Russian passenger plane crashes minutes after leaving Moscow's Domodedovo airport with 71 people on board. The Antonov An-148 belonging to Saratov Airlines was en route to the city of Orsk in the Ural mountains when it crashed near the village of Argunovo, about 80km (50 miles) south-east of Moscow.\n\nThere were no passenger jet crashes in 2017 - the safest year in the history of commercial airlines.\n\n25 December A Russian military Tu-154 jet airliner crashes in the Black Sea, with the loss of all 92 passengers and crew. The plane came down soon after take-off from an airport near the city of Sochi. It was carrying artistes due to give a concert for Russian troops in Syria, along with journalists and military.\n\nBereaved residents of the Black Sea resort of Sochi must now come to terms with the latest air disaster\n\n7 December All 48 people on board a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane were killed when it crashed in the north of the country. The national airline - accused of safety failures in the past - insisted this time that strict checks on Flight PK-661 from Chitral to Islamabad left \"no room for any technical error\".\n\nAll 48 people on board the Pakistan International Airlines plane were killed when it crashed in the north of the country on 7 December\n\n28 November The plane carrying the football team of the Brazilian club Chapecoense runs out of fuel and crashes near Medellin, Colombia, killing 71 people, including most of the players and management. Three players were among the six survivors, while nine did not travel.\n\n19 May French President Francois Hollande confirms that an EgyptAir flight reported missing between Paris and Cairo has crashed, with 66 people on board.\n\n19 March A FlyDubai Boeing 737-800 crashes in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, killing all 62 people on board.\n\n31 October An Airbus A321, operated by Russian airline Kogalymavia, crashes over central Sinai some 22 minutes after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh, killing all 224 people on board. The Islamic State group's local affiliate later says it brought down the plane in response to Russian intervention in Syria.\n\n30 June Indonesian Hercules C-130 military transport plane crashes into a residential area of Medan. The army says all 122 people on board died, along with at least 19 on the ground.\n\n24 March: Germanwings Airbus A320 airliner crashes in the French Alps near Digne, on a flight from Barcelona to Dusseldorf. All 148 people on board were feared dead.\n\n28 December: AirAsia QZ8501 flying from Surabaya in Indonesia to Singapore goes missing over the Java sea. The pilot radioed for permission to divert around bad weather but no mayday alert was issued. There were 162 passengers and crew on board.\n\n24 July: Air Algerie AH5017 disappears over Mali amid poor weather near the border with Burkina Faso. The McDonnell Douglas MD-83 was operated by Spain's Swiftair, and was heading from Ouagadougou to Algiers carrying 116 passengers - 51 of them French. All are thought to have died.\n\n23 July: Forty-eight people die when a Taiwanese ATR-72 plane crashes into stormy seas during a short flight. TransAsia Airways GE222 was carrying 54 passengers and four crew to the island of Penghu. It made an abortive attempt to land before crashing on a second attempt.\n\nMalaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was believed to have been shot down over conflict-hit Ukraine\n\n17 July: Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crashes near Grabove in eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board, 193 of them Dutch. Pro-Russian rebels are widely accused of shooting the plane down using a surface-to-air missile - they deny responsibility.\n\n8 March: The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines MH370 during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing leads to the largest and most expensive search in aviation history. Despite vast effort, notably in the hostile South Indian Ocean, nothing was found until July 2015, when an aircraft wing part washed up on Reunion Island. French officials confirmed the debris was from MH370.\n\n11 February: A military transport plane - a Hercules C-130 - carrying 78 people crashes in a mountainous part of north-eastern Algeria. Reports suggest there is one survivor from among the military personnel, family members and crew.\n\n17 November: Tatarstan Airlines Boeing 737 crashes on landing in Kazan, Russia, killing all 50 people on board.\n\n16 October: Forty-nine people, including foreigners from some 10 countries as well as Laotian nationals, die when a Lao Airlines ATR 72-600 plunges into the Mekong River as it came in to land.\n\n3 June: A Dana Air passenger plane with about 150 people on board crashes in a densely populated area of Nigeria's largest city, Lagos.\n\n20 April: A Bhoja Air Boeing 737 crashes on its approach to the main airport in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, killing all 121 passengers and six crew.\n\n26 July: Some 78 people are killed when a Moroccan military C-130 Hercules crashes into a mountain near Guelmim in Morocco. Officials blamed bad weather.\n\nThe pilot of the IranAir Boeing 727 which crashed near the north-western city of Orumiyeh reported a technical failure before trying to land\n\n8 July: A Hewa Bora Airways plane crash-lands in bad weather in Democratic Republic of Congo, killing 74 of the 118 people on board.\n\n9 January: An IranAir Boeing 727 breaks into pieces near the city of Orumiyeh, killing 77 of the 100 people on board. The pilots had reported a technical failure before trying to land.\n\n5 November: An Aerocaribbean passenger turboprop crashes in mountains in central Cuba, killing all 68 people on board.\n\n28 July: A Pakistani plane on an Airblue domestic flight from Karachi crashes into a hillside while trying to land at Islamabad airport, killing all 152 people on board.\n\n22 May: An Air India Express Boeing 737 overshot a hilltop airport in Mangalore, southern India, and crashed into a valley, bursting into flames and killing 158.\n\n12 May: An Afriqiyah Airways Airbus 330 crashes while trying to land near Tripoli airport in Libya, killing more than 100 people.\n\n10 April: A Tupolev 154 plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski crashes near the Russian airport of Smolensk, killing more than 90 people on board.\n\n25 January: Ethiopian Airlines passenger jet crashes into the sea with 89 people on board shortly after take-off from Beirut.\n\n15 July: A Caspian Airlines Tupolev plane crashes in the north of Iran en route to Armenia. All 168 passengers and crew are reported dead.\n\n30 June: A Yemeni passenger plane, an Airbus 310, crashes in the Indian Ocean near the Comoros archipelago. Only one of the 153 people on board survives.\n\n1 June: An Air France Airbus 330 travelling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris crashes into the Atlantic with 228 people on board. Search teams later recover some 50 bodies in the ocean.\n\nAll 168 passengers and crew were reported dead when a Caspian Airlines Tupolev plane crashed in the north of Iran en route to Armenia\n\n20 May: An Indonesian army C-130 Hercules transport plane crashes into a village on eastern Java, killing at least 97 people.\n\n12 February: A passenger plane crashes into a house in Buffalo, New York, killing all 49 people on board and one person on the ground.\n\n14 September: A Boeing-737 crashes on landing near the central Russian city of Perm, killing all 88 passengers and crew members on board.\n\n20 August: A Spanair plane veers off the runway on take-off at Madrid's Barajas airport, killing 154 people and injuring 18.\n\n30 November: All 56 people on board an Atlasjet flight are killed when it crashes near the town of Keciborlu in the mountainous Isparta province, about 12km (7.5 miles) from Isparta airport.\n\n16 September: At least 87 people are killed after a One-Two-Go plane crashed on landing in bad weather at the Thai resort of Phuket.\n\n17 July: A TAM Airlines jet crashes on landing at Congonhas airport in Sao Paulo, in Brazil's worst-ever air disaster. A total of 199 people are killed - all 186 on board and 13 on the ground.\n\n5 May: A Kenya Airways Boeing 737-800 crashes in swampland in southern Cameroon, killing all 114 on board. The official inquiry is yet to report on the cause of the disaster.\n\n1 January: An Adam Air Boeing 737-400 carrying 102 passengers and crew comes down in mountains on Sulawesi Island on a domestic Indonesian flight. All on board are presumed dead.\n\n29 September: A Boeing 737 carrying 154 passengers and crew crashed into the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, killing all on board, after colliding with a private jet in mid-air.\n\n22 August: A Russian Tupolev-154 passenger plane with 170 people on board crashes north of Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine.\n\n9 July: A Russian S7 Airbus A-310 skids off the runway during landing at Irkutsk airport in Siberia. A total of 124 people on board die, but more than 50 survive the crash.\n\n3 May: An Armavia Airbus A-320 crashes into the Black Sea near Sochi, killing all 113 people on board.\n\n10 December: A Sosoliso Airlines DC-9 crashes in the southern Nigerian city of Port Harcourt, killing 103 people on board.\n\n6 December: A C-130 military transport plane crashes on the outskirts of the Iranian capital Tehran, killing 110 people, including some on the ground.\n\nA mass funeral was held for those who died when a Mandala Airlines plane with 112 passengers and five crew on board crashed after take-off in the Indonesian city of Medan\n\n22 October: A Bellview airlines Boeing 737 carrying 117 people on board crashes soon after take-off from the Nigerian city of Lagos, killing everyone on board.\n\n5 September: A Mandala Airlines plane with 112 passengers and five crew on board crashes after take-off in the Indonesian city of Medan, killing almost all on board and dozens on the ground.\n\n16 August: A Colombian plane operated by West Caribbean Airways crashes in a remote region of Venezuela, killing all 160 people on board. The airliner, heading from Panama to Martinique, was packed with residents of the Caribbean island.\n\n14 August: A Helios Airways flight from Cyprus to Athens with 121 people on board crashes north of the Greek capital Athens, apparently after a drop in cabin pressure.\n\n16 July: An Equatair plane crashes soon after take-off from Equatorial Guinea's island capital, Malabo, west of the mainland, killing all 60 people on board.\n\n3 February: The wreckage of Kam Air Boeing 737 flight is located in high mountains near the Afghan capital Kabul, two days after the plane vanished from radar screens in heavy snowstorms. All 104 people on board are feared dead.\n\n21 November: A passenger plane crashes into a frozen lake near the city of Baotou in the Inner Mongolia region of northern China, killing all 53 on board and two on the ground, officials say.\n\n3 January: An Egyptian charter plane belonging to Flash Airlines crashes into the Red Sea, killing all 141 people on board. Most of the passengers are thought to be French tourists.\n\n25 December: A Boeing 727 crashes soon after take-off from the West African state of Benin, killing at least 135 people en route to Lebanon.\n\n8 July: A Boeing 737 crashes in Sudan shortly after take-off, killing 115 people on board. Only one passenger, a small child survived.\n\nThe Benin air crash happened when a Boeing 727 dropped out of the sky soon after take-off, killing at least 135 people travelling to Lebanon\n\n26 May: A Ukrainian Yak-42 crashes near the Black Sea resort of Trabzon in north-west Turkey, killing all 74 people on board - most of them Spanish peacekeepers returning home from Afghanistan.\n\n8 May: As many as 170 people are reported dead in DR Congo after the rear ramp of an old Soviet plane, an Ilyushin 76 cargo plane, apparently falls off, sucking them out.\n\n6 March: An Algerian Boeing 737 crashes after taking off from the remote Tamanrasset airport, leaving up to 102 people dead.\n\n19 February: An Iranian military transport aircraft carrying 276 people crashes in the south of the country, killing all on board.\n\n8 January: A Turkish Airlines plane with 76 passengers and crew on board crashes while coming in to land at Diyarbakir.\n\n23 December: An Antonov 140 commuter plane carrying aerospace experts crashes in central Iran, killing all 46 people aboard. The delegation had been due to review an Iranian version of the same plane built under licence.\n\n27 July: A fighter jet crashes into a crowd of spectators in the west Ukrainian town of Lviv, killing 77 people, in what is the world's worst air show disaster.\n\n1 July: Seventy-one people, many of them children die when a Russian Tupolev 154 aircraft on a school trip to Spain collides with a Boeing 757 transport plane over southern Germany.\n\n25 May: A Boeing 747 belonging to Taiwan's national carrier - China Airlines - crashes into the sea near the Taiwanese island of Penghu, with 225 passengers and crew on board.\n\n7 May: China Northern Airlines plane carrying 112 people crashes into the sea near Dalian in north-east China.\n\n7 May: On the same day, an EgyptAir Boeing 735 crash lands near Tunis with 55 passengers and up to 10 crew on board. Most people survive.\n\n4 May: A BAC1-11-500 plane operated by EAS Airlines crashes in the Nigerian city of Kano, killing 148 people - half of them on the ground.\n\n15 April: Air China flight 129 crashes on its approach to Pusan, South Korea, with over 160 passengers and crew on board.\n\n12 February: A Tupolev 154 operated by Iran Air crashes in mountains in the west of Iran, killing all 117 on board.\n\n29 January: A Boeing 727 from the Ecuadorean TAME airline crashes in mountains in Colombia, killing 92 people.\n\n12 November: An American Airlines A-300 bound for the Dominican Republic crashes after takeoff in a residential area of the borough of Queens, New York, killing all 260 people on board and at least five people on the ground.\n\n8 October: A Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) airliner collides with a small plane in heavy fog on the runway at Milan's Linate airport, killing 118 people.\n\nThe crashed American Airlines flight of November 2000 left much of the Rockaway neighbourhood of New York enveloped by smoke\n\n4 October: A Russian Sibir Airlines Tupolev 154,en route from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk in Siberia, explodes in mid-air and crashes into the Black Sea, killing 78 passengers and crew.\n\n3 July: A Russian Tupolev 154,en route from Yekaterinburg in the Ural mountains to the Russian port of Vladivostok, crashes near the Siberian city of Irkutsk, killing 133 passengers and 10 crew.\n\n30 October: A Singapore Airlines Boeing 747 bound for Los Angeles crashes after take-off from Taipei airport in Taiwan, killing 78 of the 179 people on board.\n\n23 August: A Gulf Air Airbus crashes into the sea as it comes in to land in Bahrain, killing all 143 people on board.\n\n25 July: Air France Concorde en route for New York crashes into a hotel outside Paris shortly after takeoff, killing 113 people, including four on the ground.\n\nThe Singapore Airlines Boeing 747 heading for Los Angeles crashed soon after take-off from Taipei airport in Taiwan\n\n17 July: Alliance Air Boeing 737-200 crashes into houses attempting to land at Patna, India, killing 51 people on board and four on the ground.\n\n19 April: Air Philippines Boeing 737-200 from Manila to Davao crashes on approach to landing, killing all 131 people on board.\n\n31 January: Alaska Airlines MD-83 from Mexico to San Francisco plunges into ocean off southern California, killing all 88 people on board.\n\n30 January: Kenya Airways A-310 crashes into Atlantic Ocean shortly after takeoff from Abidjan, Ivory Coast, en route for Lagos, Nigeria. All but 10 of the 179 people on board die.\n\n31 October: EgyptAir Boeing 767 crashes into Atlantic Ocean after taking off from John F. Kennedy Airport in New York on flight to Cairo, Egypt, killing all 217 on board.\n\n24 February: China Southwest Airlines plane crashes in a field in China's coastal Zhejiang province after a mid-air explosion. All 61 people on board the Russian-built TU-154 flying from Chongqing to the south-eastern city of Wenzhou are killed.\n\n11 December: Thai Airways International A-310 crashes on a domestic flight during its third attempt to land at Surat Thani, Thailand, killing 101 people.\n\n2 September: Swissair MD-11 from New York to Geneva crashes in the Atlantic Ocean off Canada killing all 229 people on board.\n\n16 February: Airbus A-300 owned by Taiwan's China Airlines crashes near Taipei's Chiang Kai-shek airport while trying to land in fog and rain after a flight from Bali, Indonesia. All 196 on board and seven people on ground are killed.\n\n2 February: Cebu Pacific Air DC-9 crashes into mountain in southern Philippines, killing all 104 people aboard.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section West Ham\n\nFootballers \"can get things wrong\" but must not be \"picked on\" despite several breaches of coronavirus guidelines, says West Ham manager David Moyes.\n\nHammers midfielder Manuel Lanzini was one of numerous Premier League players to attend a party over Christmas.\n\nMore than 60 games in England have been called off because of coronavirus outbreaks at clubs.\n\n\"We have to be careful that everybody isn't picking on football players,\" said Moyes.\n\n\"We will all know people who have broken the rules in their own way.\n\n\"The players have followed the protocols. Every day at the training ground they have to go through rituals just to get into the building. They know what their job is. Like most human beings at times, they can get things wrong.\"\n\nArgentina international Lanzini was reminded of his responsibilities by the club and later apologised for his actions on Twitter.\n\nOn Friday, he announced he would be donating to a local foodbank as he wanted \"something good\" to come of his actions.\n\nMoyes praised Lanzini for his \"really good gesture\" but does not want to see players treated unfairly.\n\n\"If you are going to take tough measures on players, then you might as well take on the government people as well who have broken the rules because it's certainly not just football players who have done it,\" he said.\n\n\"You have got to be careful. A lot of people are throwing stones in glass houses at the moment regarding this. We all know what the protocols are, we all know we have to be ever-vigilant and make sure we're doing the right things.\"\n\nThe Premier League has implemented stronger coronavirus protocols in light of a recent surge in cases, including reminding players and managers to avoid handshakes and high fives.\n\nCompliance officers will also apply more robust policies to reporting breaches of protocols and will be tasked with checking hotel stays, travel plans and behaviour in dressing rooms.\n\nThe number of staff attending training grounds will also be reduced, social distancing will be enforced more strictly and the use of canteens will be further limited.\n\nStricter matchday protocols include avoiding unnecessary contact at all times, and substitutes wearing face masks.\n\nIn a note sent to clubs, the Premier League has warned it may take disciplinary action if they fail to to ensure people who breach the rules are \"appropriately investigated and sanctioned\".", "Kevin Hughes was treated at Wrexham Maelor Hospital before he died with coronavirus\n\nA man has died with Covid-19 less than a month after the funeral of his mother, who also died with the virus.\n\nFlintshire councillor Kevin Hughes, 63, was being treated at Wrexham Maelor Hospital but died on Friday morning, the authority said.\n\nHe had previously spoken of his sadness at missing his mother's funeral last month after he tested positive for coronavirus.\n\nCouncil colleague Chris Dolphin said he was a \"big man with a big heart\".\n\nThe independent councillor, also a former policeman and journalist, sat with the Liberal Democrat group.\n\nHe said missing the funeral of his mother, June Margaret Hughes, was one of the \"darkest days\" of his life.\n\nGroup leader, Mr Dolphin, called him a \"friend, fellow councillor, above all, a good man. Not one to stand on the side-lines - a doer. A man of enthusiasm, who was in life to be really involved.\"\n\nCouncil chief executive, Colin Everett, said: \"Kevin was a wonderful person with a big heart. Kevin was one of the most thoughtful and generous people I have worked with in my long career.\n\n\"I will miss him so much as both a councillor and as a friend.\"\n\nThe politician (left) will be remembered by the council at a meeting on 26 January\n\nAuthority leader, Ian Roberts, called Mr Hughes a \"special person and friend who will be very sadly missed by all\".\n\nHe added: \"His contribution as a councillor has been considerable and he was highly respected by his community, members of the council and officers.\n\n\"He was an active local member and represented his community with integrity and in a positive and engaging way.\"\n\nMr Hughes will be remembered by the council at a meeting on 26 January.\n\nThe authority's chairwoman, Marion Bateman, said: \"Our sincere condolences go to his wife Sally, along with his family and friends, at this very sad time.\"", "Mike Pompeo said the US-Taiwan relationship should not be \"shackled\" (file photo)\n\nThe US is lifting long-standing restrictions on contacts between American and Taiwanese officials, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says.\n\nThe \"self-imposed restrictions\" were introduced decades ago to \"appease\" the mainland Chinese government, which lays claim to the island, the US state department said in a statement.\n\nThese rules are now \"null and void\".\n\nThe move is likely to anger China and increase tensions between Washington and Beijing.\n\nIt comes as the Trump administration enters its final days ahead of the inauguration of Joe Biden as president on 20 January.\n\nThe Biden transition team have said the president-elect is committed to maintaining the long-standing US policy towards Taiwan.\n\nAnalysts say they will be unhappy with such a policy decision being made in the final days of the Trump administration, but that the move could be reversed easily by Mr Pompeo's successor Antony Blinken.\n\nChina regards Taiwan as a breakaway province, but Taiwan's leaders argue that it is a sovereign state.\n\nRelations between the two are frayed and there is a constant threat of a violent flare up that could drag in the US, an ally of Taiwan.\n\nIn a statement on Saturday, Mr Pompeo said the US state department had introduced complicated restrictions limiting the communication between American diplomats and their Taiwanese counterparts.\n\n\"Today I am announcing that I am lifting all of these self-imposed restrictions,\" he said. \"Today's statement recognises that the US-Taiwan relationship need not, and should not, be shackled by self-imposed restrictions of our permanent bureaucracy.\"\n\nHe added that Taiwan was a vibrant democracy and a reliable US partner, and that the restrictions were no longer valid.\n\nFollowing the announcement, Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu thanked Mr Pompeo, saying he was \"grateful\".\n\n\"The closer partnership between Taiwan and the US is firmly based on our shared values, common interests and unshakeable belief in freedom and democracy,\" he wrote in a tweet.\n\nLast August, US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar became the highest-ranking US politician to hold meetings on the island for decades.\n\nIn response, China urged the US to respect what it calls its \"one China\" principle.\n\nThe US also sells arms to Taiwan, though it does not have a formal defence treaty with the country, as it does with Japan, South Korea and the Philippines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChina and Taiwan have had separate governments since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949.\n\nBeijing has long tried to limit Taiwan's international activities and both have vied for influence in the Pacific region.\n\nTensions have increased in recent years and Beijing has not ruled out the use of force to take the island back.\n\nAlthough Taiwan is officially recognised by only a handful of nations, its democratically-elected government has strong commercial and informal links with many countries.", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"\n\nThe coronavirus spreads when we come into contact with each other so moving classrooms online, telling people to stay at home and closing shops breaks many of those opportunities for human contact.\n\nIf we consider the R number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - it was about 3.0 in the run up to the first lockdown and anything above 1.0 means cases are climbing.\n\nR fell to 0.6 during the first lockdown.\n\nThen every 1,000 infected people passed the virus on to 600 others, who passed it on to 360 others and so on.\n\nBut if the new variant is 50% more transmissible then the R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be about 0.9.\n\nThen 1,000 infected people would pass the virus onto 900 others, then 810 and so on.\n\nAs you can see this leads to far slower decline.\n\nAnd that assumes lockdown can get R down to 0.9 in areas where the new variant has become the most common form of the virus.\n\nIf, as some studies suggest, the variant is about 70% more transmissible then R may stay above 1.0 and cases may not fall at all.\n\n\"We'd at best flatten the curve, keep numbers at a roughly constant level, and that's frankly why there is so much emphasis on getting vaccine into people's arms as quickly as possible,\" said Prof Ferguson.\n\nIt is hard to lock down even harder as there are some parts of society - hospitals, supermarkets - that need to be kept open.\n\nWhat happens to the number of cases over the coming weeks will be closely monitored. If this lockdown is less effective then we will have to live with it for longer.\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs over the Christmas break, which was a bit like a lockdown due to school holidays and other restrictions.\n\n\"We are in a very difficult situation here, but my initial assessment of the last few days is that the rate is slowing which is good news,\" Prof John Edmunds, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"It looks likes those restrictions should be sufficient to stop the increase, whether they will be sufficient to bring cases down sufficiently we are yet to see.\"\n\nEventually the vaccine will give people immunity so we do not need the same controls on our lives.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.", "Google has suspended \"free speech\" social network Parler from its Play Store over its failure to remove \"egregious content\".\n\nParler styles itself as \"unbiased\" social media and has proved popular with people banned from Twitter.\n\nBut Google said the app had failed to remove posts inciting violence.\n\nApple has also warned Parler it will remove the app from its App Store if it does not comply with its content-moderation requirements.\n\nOn Parler, the app's chief executive John Matze said: \"We won't cave to politically motivated companies and those authoritarians who hate free speech!\"\n\nLaunched in 2018, Parler has proved particularly popular among supporters of US President Donald Trump and right-wing conservatives. Such groups have frequently accused Twitter and Facebook of unfairly censoring their views.\n\nWhile Mr Trump himself is not a user, the platform already features several high-profile contributors following earlier bursts of growth in 2020.\n\nTexas Senator Ted Cruz boasts 4.9 million followers on the platform, while Fox News host Sean Hannity has about seven million.\n\nIt briefly became the most-downloaded app in the United States after the US election, following a clampdown on the spread of election misinformation by Twitter and Facebook.\n\nHowever, both Apple and Google have said the app fails to comply with content-moderation requirements.\n\nFor months, Parler has been one of the most popular social media platforms for right-wing users.\n\nAs major platforms began taking action against viral conspiracy theories, disinformation and the harassment of election workers and officials in the aftermath of the US presidential vote, the app became more popular with elements of the fringe far-right.\n\nThis turned the network into a right-wing echo chamber, almost entirely populated by users fixated on revealing examples of election fraud and posting messages in support of attempts to overturn the election outcome.\n\nIn the days preceding the Capitol riots, the tone of discussion on the app became significantly more violent, with some users openly discussing ways to stop the certification of Joe Biden's victory by Congress.\n\nUnsubstantiated allegations and defamatory claims against a number of senior US figures such as Chief Justice John Roberts and Vice-President Mike Pence were rife on the app.\n\nGoogle and Apple say they are taking necessary action to ensure violent rhetoric is not promoted on their platforms.\n\nHowever, to those increasingly concerned about freedom of speech and expression on online platforms, it represents another example of draconian action by major tech companies which threatens internet freedom.\n\nThis is a debate which is certain to continue beyond the Trump presidency.\n\nIn a statement, Google confirmed it had suspended Parler from its Play Store, saying: \"Our longstanding policies require that apps displaying user-generated content have moderation policies and enforcement that removes egregious content like posts that incite violence.\n\n\"In light of this ongoing and urgent public safety threat, we are suspending the app's listings from the Play Store until it addresses these issues.\"\n\nApple has warned Parler it will be removed from the App Store on Saturday in a letter published by Buzzfeed News.\n\nIt said it had seen \"accusations that the Parler app was used to plan, coordinate, and facilitate\" the attacks on the US Capitol on 6 January.\n\nMr Matze said Parler had \"no way to organise anything\" and pointed out that Facebook groups and events had been used to organise action.\n\nBut Apple said: \"Our investigation has found that Parler is not effectively moderating and removing content that encourages illegal activity and poses a serious risk to the health and safety of users in direct violation of your own terms of service.\"\n\n\"We won't distribute apps that present dangerous and harmful content.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a related development, Google has kicked Steve Bannon's War Room podcast off YouTube, saying it had repeatedly violated the platform's rules.\n\nThe ex-White House aide's channel had more than 300,000 subscribers.\n\nSteve Bannon served as President Trump's chief strategist for eight months in 2017\n\n\"In accordance with our strikes system, we have terminated Steve Bannon's channel 'War room' and one associated channel for repeatedly violating our Community Guidelines,\" Google said in a statement.\n\n\"Any channel posting new videos with misleading content that alleges widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of the 2020 US Presidential election in violation of our policies will receive a strike, a penalty which temporarily restricts uploading or live-streaming. Channels that receive three strikes in the same 90-day period will be permanently removed from YouTube.\"\n\nThe action was taken shortly after the channel posted an interview with Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, in which he blamed the Democrats for the rioting on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.\n\nOne anti-misinformation group said the action was long overdue after \"months of Steve Bannon calling for revolution and violence\".\n\n\"The truth is YouTube should have taken down Steve Bannon's account a long time ago and they shouldn't rely on the labour of extremism researchers to moderate the content on their platform,\" said Madeline Peltz, Senior Researcher at Media Matters for America.", "A 78-year-old French woman received the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in France\n\nA global race is on to vaccinate people against Covid-19 - and with infections soaring in Europe many have complained that the roll-out is too slow in the EU.\n\nMember states decide individually who to vaccinate, when and where, but the EU is coordinating strategy and buying vaccines in bulk. On Friday, the EU Commission agreed to buy an extra 300 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine - that would give the EU nearly half of the firm's global output for 2021.\n\nBBC reporters in seven European capitals explain how the vaccinations are going on their patch.\n\nIn an election year, the vaccine has become a political battleground, writes Jenny Hill, in Berlin.\n\nThe fact it was German scientists who developed the first effective Covid vaccine has been the source of great national pride. And, by and large, Germans appear to be reasonably comfortable with the idea of immunisation.\n\nA recent survey found 65% were prepared to have the vaccine. Other research indicates that less than a quarter of those surveyed would not. But politically - and perhaps unsurprisingly, given this is an election year - Germany's vaccination programme has become a battleground.\n\nVaccinations began here just under two weeks ago and prioritise the over 80s and care home workers. By Thursday evening, more than 477,000 first doses had been administered.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered.\n\nBut some of the hundreds of specially prepared vaccination centres are still not in use and even the government has admitted there simply isn't enough to go around. Angela Merkel and her health minister Jens Spahn have been accused of failing to secure enough doses.\n\nMuch of the criticism has come from Mrs Merkel's own coalition partners but some within the scientific community have echoed their concerns - that Germany put European interests above its own by insisting on a joint EU procurement process. The scientists who developed the vaccine have said publicly that the EU originally turned down an offer for a further order.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered and it's thought that by the end of the month a further 2.68 million will have followed.\n\nMr Spahn, whose assured performance through the pandemic led some to wonder whether he might be a potential successor to Mrs Merkel, has blamed the shortage on the inability of the manufacturers of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to meet global demand.\n\nGermany has now ordered an extra 30 million doses and, following the recent European approval of the Moderna vaccine, expects to start rolling that out next week. The government is sticking to its pledge that the vaccination programme will be complete by the end of the summer.\n\nThe Czech prime minister has hit out at apparent delays in distributing the vaccine, writes Rob Cameron, in Prague.\n\nThe Czech vaccination effort began on 27 December, when the prime minister, Andrej Babis, became the first person in the country to receive the jab. Mr Babis, who is 66, had previously questioned whether he would be eligible, as he'd had his spleen removed as a teenager.\n\nBut the country's programme has got off to a sluggish start. Mr Babis - a billionaire businessman who has been dogged by both European and Czech investigations into alleged misuse of EU funds - has lost no time venting his (figurative) spleen at the European Commission over the delay. \"We believed when we contributed €12m to the European fund in November that we'd receive the vaccine,\" he told a newspaper this week.\n\nThe health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups will take months.\n\nThe country has received 30,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine. So far, it has managed to administer it to 19,918 people. The government says it is ready to roll out the jab en masse as soon as supplies arrive from the manufacturers.\n\nIt has also published a strategy, which envisages a three-stage process. The first will see targeted vaccination of high-risk groups. This will gradually give way to mass vaccination in 31 centres, using an online reservation system that will be open to all from 1 February. And the final stage will see the country's GPs deployed, hopefully to administer the Oxford-AstraZeneca and other jabs, which unlike the previous two can be stored and transported at fridge temperature.\n\nHowever, the timing in the original strategy document now appears optimistic. The health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups - all health and social care staff, teachers, everyone over 65, all those with serious health conditions - will take months. GPs may not begin vaccinating young, healthy members of society until late spring, or summer.\n\nA sluggish start is being blamed on bureaucracy and vaccine scepticism, writes Hugh Schofield, in Paris.\n\nFrance's boast of a big, effective state apparatus has been badly exposed by the sluggish start to the Covid vaccination programme. After the first week, when neighbouring Germany had inoculated around 250,000 people, France was on a mere 530. By Friday, the figure had gone up to 45,500 - still so small as to be statistically meaningless.\n\nSo why has it taken so long for France to put the plan into action? It is not as if the authorities did not have time to prepare. And it is certainly not a question of a lack of vaccine. In fact, more than a million Pfizer doses are already in cold storage, waiting to be used.\n\nPolls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab.\n\nThe primary reason for the delay seems to be the cumbersome, over-centralised nature of France's health bureaucracy. A 45-page dossier of instructions issued by the ministry in Paris had to be read and understood by staff at old people's homes.\n\nEach recipient then had to give informed consent in a consultation with a doctor, held no less than five days before injection. The lengthy procedure is in theory to save lives - those of patients who might have an adverse reaction. But as the critics have been arguing, delay in inoculating the population is also costing lives.\n\nAnother problem in France is the high level of scepticism towards vaccination - product of a more general suspicion of government. Polls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab. The effect - critics say - has been to make the government unduly cautious. When urgency was required, the authorities were reluctant to move fast for fear of galvanising the anti-vaxxers.\n\nAfter President Emmanuel Macron communicated his anger at the delays at the weekend, the pace is picking up. The procedure for consent is being simplified. By the end of January, the plan is to have 500-600 vaccination centres open across the country - either in hospitals or other big public buildings.\n\nPolitically a lot is at stake. The government has already come under fire for failings in providing masks and tests. With opposition voices calling the vaccine delay a \"state scandal\", President Macron needs a roll-out that is fast and problem-free.\n\nNational pride accelerated Russia's rollout, but one man is conspicuously absent from the list of people vaccinated, writes Sarah Rainsford, in Moscow.\n\nRussia registered its main Covid vaccine for domestic use way back in August, before mass safety and efficacy trials had even begun. In December, with those trials still underway, it began rolling out Sputnik V to the public ahead of mass vaccination launches everywhere else in Europe. The rush was driven by national pride as well as medical necessity.\n\nSputnik was initially offered to front line health and education workers but early take-up of the two-dose vaccination was slow and the list of those eligible soon expanded.\n\nA poll by the Levada Centre in late December showed only 38% of respondents were willing to get the jab: wary of domestic healthcare and medicines, Russians were sceptical of bold early claims made for the vaccine and nervous about possible adverse reactions. Even so, and despite similar delays scaling-up production as in other countries, Sputnik's backers announced this week that more than a million people had been vaccinated.\n\nRussia began rolling out its Sputnik V vaccine in December\n\nBut one man still conspicuously absent from the list of the vaccinated is Vladimir Putin, despite the Kremlin saying he will - eventually - get the jab. In the meantime, those who meet him in person are obliged to test for Covid first and even quarantine. The president may need to lead by example, though. Mr Putin has said repeatedly that protecting the economy is his priority so he's banking on mass vaccination to avoid a return to national lockdown.\n\nRussia has built giant, temporary hospitals since the start of the pandemic and the health minister said this week that 25% of Covid beds remain free. There's also been a fall in the number of new daily cases reported - around 25,000 for the past 5 days. But that's not down to the vaccine yet. The country is nearing the end of a 10-day New Year holiday period and the number of Covid tests has also dropped.\n\nAs infection rates grow in a country praised by many for its no-lockdown approach, a successful vaccine programme is crucial writes Maddy Savage, in Stockholm.\n\nAlmost two weeks since 91-year-old care home resident Gun-Britt Johnsson became the first Swede to get the initial dose of a Pfizer jab, there is still no official tally of how many others have received the vaccination.\n\nThe Public Health Agency of Sweden says it's in the process of compiling data from the country's 21 regional health authorities tasked with vaccinating the entire adult population - around eight million people - by 26 June. The date isn't arbitrary, it's the biggest public holiday weekend of the year, when Swedes traditionally hold Midsummer celebrations. Karin Tegmark, a senior manager at the agency, says the date remains \"feasible\". But she says it depends on the delivery of vaccines to the country.\n\nAfter months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled.\n\nAlongside 4.5 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, Sweden has ordered 3.6 million jabs from Moderna, the first of which are expected to arrive next week. The country also plans to roll-out the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine as soon as possible after it is approved by the EU - ideally by February.\n\nSwedes initially appeared lukewarm to the idea of taking a speedily-developed coronavirus vaccine, although a poll at the end of December found 71% would take one. A key driver of the initial scepticism is thought to be the failure of a voluntary mass vaccination programme for swine flu in 2009. Hundreds of Swedish children and young adults under 30 developed the sleeping disorder narcolepsy, which was found to be a side effect of the Pandemrix vaccine.\n\nA successful vaccination programme will be crucial, not least because it comes at a time when Swedish authorities are struggling to maintain public confidence. After months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled as Sweden has struggled with the second wave of coronavirus.\n\nMeanwhile, several high profile officials have faced heavy criticism for breaching their own recommendations - including the head of the civil contingencies agency (pictured), who resigned after spending Christmas with his daughter in the Canary Islands.\n\nA new government in Belgium seems unified on the vaccine rollout - for now at least, writes Nick Beake, in Brussels.\n\nIt seemed fitting that the first person in Belgium to receive a Covid jab lives in the place where the world's first approved Covid vaccine is being produced. Jos Hermans, a 96-year-old from the municipality of Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December, in his care home. A further 700 elderly residents were also administered a dose in what was a small, initial trial.\n\nThe mass vaccination programme in Belgium began on 5 January, but has been criticised for starting slowly. Federal Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke had promised in November that the rollout would be \"seamless and fast\", tweeting: \"If that does not work, shoot me.\"\n\nThe first phase looks to vaccinate up to 200,000 nursing home residents by the end of this month, or early February. Healthcare professionals will be next in line and the aim was for the whole population to be inoculated by the end of September.\n\nJos Hermans, a 96-year-old from Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December\n\nYou may think the country would be at an advantage being the epicentre of the Pfizer-BioNTech production. While this clearly helps with distribution, Belgium cannot receive more doses - relative to its population - than other EU countries under strict Commission rules. That didn't stop the minister-president of the Flanders region, who admitted this week that he had contacted Pfizer directly in the hope of procuring more doses, only to be rebuffed.\n\nAfter getting a guarantee from Pfizer over supply of the jab, the federal Belgian authorities have adapted their strategy: they now propose giving as many available doses to as many people as they can - and no longer reserving vials for patients' second dose, given three weeks after the first. In general, the federal government, rather than the European Commission has faced any criticism for a delay and has defended its \"careful\" approach.\n\nAnd there appears to be an interesting regional or cultural discrepancy when it comes to whether people are willing to take the vaccine. Of the Flemish population interviewed in a poll, half have said they wanted the vaccine as soon as possible. Among French speakers - it was 20% fewer, which chimes with the deeper scepticism over the border in France.\n\nIn a country where politics are notoriously complicated and fractious - they've only recently agreed a government, after a 500-day vacuum - the Federal Coalition appears unified on its Covid vaccine strategy. For now, at least.\n\nRegional variances and political rows have marked the beginning of Spain's vaccination programme writes Guy Hedgecoe, in Madrid.\n\nSpain started administering the vaccine on 27 December. So far, 743,925 doses have been distributed to regional administrations, with 277,976 people vaccinated, according to the health ministry. The objective of the coalition government is to immunise 2.3 million people within 12 weeks. Priority is being given to elderly residents of care homes, those who look after them, and healthcare personnel.\n\nEach of the country's 17 regions has a high degree of control over healthcare and should receive the number of doses that corresponds to their populations. However, already there has been substantial geographical disparity.\n\nGovernment data showed, for example, that while the northern region of Asturias had used 55% of the doses it had received by 3 January, the Madrid region had only administered 5% by the same date. Some regions are holding back doses to administer a second follow-up jab to the same person in several weeks' time, and some have been vaccinating on national holidays while others have not.\n\nThe pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of incompetence.\n\nAlthough vaccination is voluntary, the government has said it is making a register of those who do not wish to be inoculated. That initiative has generated controversy, although the government has insisted the register will merely seek to clarify why people refuse the vaccination.\n\nHowever, the pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of Pedro Sánchez of incompetence, lack of transparency and using coronavirus to accumulate power.\n\nThe arrival of a vaccine has not stopped the rancour. Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the conservative Popular Party (PP) president of Galicia, warned the number of doses being distributed to each region was being dictated by \"political affiliations or parliamentary needs\", a claim the central government has rejected.", "Dozens of demonstrators were walking and chanting along Clapham High Street as police attempted to keep them contained to the area\n\nSixteen people have been arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nPolice officers clashed with some of the maskless protesters who arrived in Clapham Common, some shouting \"take your freedom back\".\n\nSix police vans were deployed to the scene while officers moved the crowd of about 30 people away from the area.\n\nGathering for the purpose of a protest is not an exemption to the rules, the Met Police said.\n\nOne woman shouted from her car at the protesters \"there's a pandemic going\", while another bystander shouted \"idiots\".\n\nOne anti-lockdown protester, who was detained at Clapham Common park, said \"I stand under common law, not maritime law and this is assault\" as he was put into handcuffs by police officers.\n\nA large police presence remains around Clapham Common station, but almost all protesters had left the area as of 14:00 GMT.\n\nIt comes as a \"major incident\" was declared as the spread of Covid-19 threatens to \"overwhelm\" London hospitals.\n\nCity Hall said Covid-19 cases in the capital had exceeded 1,000 per 100,000, while there were 35% more people in hospital with the virus than in the peak of the pandemic in April.\n\nPolice could be seen questioning several people at the demonstration\n\nPolice battled to disperse the protestors gathering in Clapham Common\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. One floral tribute had Dame Barbara's photograph in the centre\n\nThe funeral of EastEnders and Carry On actress Dame Barbara Windsor has taken place in London.\n\nRoss Kemp, who played her on-screen son in the soap, was among the 30 mourners and gave a reading, as did actor and friend Christopher Biggins.\n\nDame Barbara died in December at the age of 83, having had dementia.\n\nThere were floral arrangements spelling Babs, The Dame and Saucy, and a mock pub sign showing her as The Queen Peggy in the style of the soap's Queen Vic.\n\nDame Barbara played pub landlady Peggy Mitchell in EastEnders for more than two decades.\n\nA version of the EastEnders Queen Vic pub sign was painted in tribute\n\nScott Mitchell, who was married to Dame Barbara for 20 years, was joined at Golders Green Crematorium by family and friends including comedians Matt Lucas and David Walliams.\n\n\"As Covid has denied so many of Barbara's family, friends and fans a chance to say farewell properly, I wanted to share the order of service to let people be a small part of it,\" Mr Mitchell told the PA news agency.\n\n\"My heart goes out to every family who have experienced the same restrictions at their loved ones' funerals.\"\n\nLeft-right: Christopher Biggins, Ross Kemp and David Walliams were among the mourners\n\nHe added: \"I would again like to thank my family, friends, the media and the public for their incredible support and well wishes since Barbara's passing.\"\n\nDame Barbara's coffin was brought into the crematorium to sound of Frank Sinatra's On The Sunny Side Of The Street, and the service featured a recording of Sparrows Can't Sing from the actress's 1963 film of the same.\n\nIt finished with the famous topless photo of Dame Barbara from the film Carry On Camping, alongside her quote: \"That picture will follow me to the end.\"\n\nLong-time friend Anna Karen, who played Dame Barbara's on-screen sister Aunt Sal in EastEnders, also paid tribute during the service.\n\nThe funeral was also attended by Loose Women's Jane Moore and EastEnders actor Jamie Borthwick. However, the numbers were limited due to coronavirus social distancing.\n\nAlzheimer's Research UK recently said it had seen a spike in donations since Dame Barbara's death, and a JustGiving page set up as a tribute to her and in aid of the charity has raised more than £150,000 (including Gift Aid).\n\nMr Mitchell said that was \"beyond anything we may have dreamed of\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Ben Jackson said the closure of the farm's bulk-buyers like hotels and schools has left thousands of eggs unsold\n\nA fall in bulk egg orders due to the lockdown could lead to chickens being culled, a poultry-farmer has warned.\n\nFluffetts Farm near Fordingbridge had been supplying free range eggs to 350 Hampshire schools, but orders stopped when schools suddenly closed.\n\nFarm owner, Ben Jackson said: \"If you can't sell the eggs you can't still keep feeding the chickens and therefore something has to give.\"\n\nHe said he hoped to work out a local delivery system to avoid culling birds.\n\nMr Jackson, who has been selling some of the surplus eggs off on social media, has more than 13,000 chickens laying 12,000 eggs each day.\n\nThe cancellation of his school orders has left him with about 4,000 spare eggs a day. The farm has also been hit by restaurants and pubs closing again.\n\nThe farm has a surplus of about 4,000 eggs each day from its 13,000 chickens\n\nHe said: \"If we can't find a home for the eggs the worst-case scenario is that we may have to look to get rid of some of our chickens, but that's what we're trying to avoid.\n\n\"Other chicken farmers are in the same situation - they are talking about potentially having to cull birds in the next week or so - it's not a decision that anyone wants to make.\n\n\"We just want to get through this dark time - we're just taking it a day at time.\"\n\nChickens at the farm are currently in a bird lockdown.\n\nSince 14 December strict biosecurity regulations have been in place following a number of outbreak of avian influenza throughout England.\n• None 'I'll have to throw away £6,000-worth of milk'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke of Cambridge asked how staff were coping during the pandemic and thanked them for their sacrifice\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge has said he talks to his three children about NHS staff \"every day\" to help them to understand the \"sacrifices\" made during Covid.\n\nPrince William's comments were part of a video call to London hospital staff.\n\n\"Catherine and I and all the children talk about all of you guys every day, so we're making sure the children understand all of the sacrifices that all of you are making,\" he said.\n\nIt comes after the London mayor said the virus was \"out of control\".\n\nSadiq Khan declared a major incident on Friday - meaning the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response - after the number of Covid patients in the capital's hospitals surpassed 7,000.\n\nStaff at Homerton University Hospital in east London told the Duke of Cambridge that queues of people waiting to be vaccinated at the hospital offered hope, but that the way out of the crisis was for the public to \"stay at home\" during lockdown.\n\nIn recent days the hospital has seen its highest number of admissions since the pandemic began.\n\nDuring the UK's first national lockdown, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their three children Prince George (left), Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis joined in with the weekly Clap for Carers event\n\nThe duke, who is joint patron of NHS Charities Together, said: \"A huge thank you for all the hard work, the sleepless nights, the lack of sleep, the anxiety, the exhaustion and everything that you are doing, we are so grateful.\n\n\"Good luck, we are all thinking of you.\"\n\nHis video call, which took place on Thursday, is one of many he and the duchess have made to NHS staff during the pandemic.\n\nPrince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis have also shown their support for the health service by getting involved with the weekly Clap for Carers applause during the UK's first national lockdown.\n\nAnd on Saturday, the Duchess's birthday, Kensington Palace said the family's thoughts \"continue to be with all those working on the front line at this hugely challenging time\".\n\nChief nurse Catherine Pelley told the prince her hospital had used funds from NHS Charities Together to set up various support initiatives such as a \"wobble room\" for colleagues to relax in.\n\n\"For us this week, starting vaccinating has been one of the single most significant impacts on people feeling that there is a future out of this, and the queues out the door here where they have been vaccinating have been really hopeful for people,\" she said.\n\n\"But the support we need is stay at home, help us. Because that will get us all out of this, whatever our role is, and we will get society out of this.\"\n\nAfter speaking to Ms Pelley and her colleagues about how they supported one another, the prince said: \"It's good that you and your team are keeping your spirits high and I always find that having some sort of sense of humour through everything is very important, otherwise we all go mad.\"\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge said he wants his children to appreciate the sacrifices made by NHS staff during the pandemic", "Ms Sturgeon has rejected claims made by former first minister Alex Salmond\n\nAlex Salmond has accused Nicola Sturgeon of misleading parliament, calling evidence she gave to an inquiry into the handling of sexual harassment claims against him \"simply untrue\".\n\nMr Salmond's comments emerged in a written submission to a separate investigation into whether the first minister breached the ministerial code.\n\nThe submission has been shared with the Holyrood committee.\n\nMs Sturgeon says she \"entirely rejects Mr Salmond's claims\".\n\nIn the submission, the former first minister said that Ms Sturgeon had misled parliament and broken the ministerial code with breaches including failing to inform the civil service in good time of her meetings with him.\n\nHe claimed she allowed the Scottish government to contest a civil court case against him despite having had legal advice that it was likely to collapse.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the Holyrood inquiry she had become aware of allegations at a meeting with Mr Salmond at her home.\n\nIt since emerged she met his former chief of staff in the days before, but she said she had forgotten about that meeting.\n\nMr Salmond said that claim was untenable.\n\nHis submission said that she misled parliament, and that amounted to a breach of the code. He also said she breached the code by failing to to inform civil servants of the nature of the meetings that took place between the two of them at her home where the allegations were discussed.\n\nAlex Salmond walked free from court in March having been cleared of charges of sexual assault\n\nMr Salmond's statement read: \"The pre-arranged meeting in the Scottish Parliament of 29 March 2018 was \"forgotten\" about because acknowledging it would have rendered ridiculous the claim made by the first minister in parliament that it had been believed that the meeting on 2 April was on SNP Party business and thus held at her private residence.\"\n\nBoth Mr Salmond and Ms Sturgeon are expected to give evidence to the committee in the coming weeks.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross responded to the claims, saying: \"Nobody ever bought Nicola Sturgeon's tall tales to have suddenly turned forgetful, especially about the devastating moment she found out of sexual harassment allegations against her friend and mentor of 30 years.\n\n\"What has been revealed are allegations of shocking, deliberate and corrupt actions at the heart of government. There is now clear evidence of Nicola Sturgeon abusing her power to deceive the Scottish public.\n\n\"If this proves to be correct, it is a resignation matter. No first minister, at any time, can be allowed to get away with repeatedly and blatantly lying to the Scottish Parliament and breaking the ministerial code.\"\n\nScottish Labour deputy leader Jackie Baillie said Alex Salmond's explosive allegations demanded answers from the first minister to the committee.\n\nShe said: \"The bombshell accusation that Nicola Sturgeon has broken the ministerial code has the potential to end her political career and demands a robust and honest answer from the first minister.\n\n\"This committee demands truthfulness and honesty from every witness it calls - it is vital that the first minister tells the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth when she appears.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon has repeatedly dismissed any notion of a conspiracy against Mr Salmond.\n\nHer spokeswoman said: \"The first minister entirely rejects Mr Salmond's claims about the ministerial code.\n\n\"We should always remember that the roots of this issue lie in complaints made by women about Alex Salmond's behaviour whilst he was first minister, aspects of which he has conceded. It is not surprising therefore that he continues to try to divert focus from that by seeking to malign the reputation of the first minister and by spinning false conspiracy theories.\n\n\"The first minister is concentrating on fighting the pandemic, stands by what she has said, and will address these matters in full when she appears at committee.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 4's Any Questions on Friday evening, SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford MP said he did not believe the accusations about the first minister were correct.\n\nHe said: \"I believe that the first minister has acted in an honourable way, she's someone that I've every faith and trust in.\n\n\"I can tell you that the approval ratings for the first minister, the respect that she has right up and down the country of Scotland is enormous and this is something that will pass, when she appears in front of the committee these matters will be dealt with.\"\n\nAlex Salmond has just turned up the heat on his successor with a submission that presents a direct and serious challenge to the reputation of Nicola Sturgeon - who was once his closest political ally.\n\nWhat he no doubt considers as an attempt to secure justice, some others will see as a case of deflection and revenge.\n\nAllegations of breaking the ministerial code of conduct and misleading parliament are serious and, if upheld, potentially career threatening.\n\nYet even some of Ms Sturgeon's fiercest critics at Holyrood do not expect the inquiries into the Scottish government's mishandling of harassment complaints against Mr Salmond to force her from office.\n\nMr Salmond seems to expect the review of the first minister's actions under the ministerial code of conduct to remain narrow enough that it could not possibly find against her.\n\nThe first minister herself appears confident of persuading all comers, including a cross-party committee of MSPs (before which both she and Mr Salmond are due to appear in the coming weeks) that she has acted properly throughout.", "Fishing \"clears the mind of other worries\" says John Ellis from the Canal and Rivers Trust\n\nAnglers have hailed the mental health benefits of the sport after it was given the all-clear to continue, despite lockdown.\n\nThe government said it would be treated as a form of exercise, but subject to restrictions such as social distancing.\n\nRegulations mean people in England must stay at home except for specific purposes, including exercise, shopping for essentials and childcare.\n\nFigures show thousands more people have taken up fishing during the pandemic.\n\nJohn Ellis, national fisheries and angling manager for the Canal and Rivers Trust, said rod licence sales increased by 17% over the last year, the equivalent of about 100,000 people - some new to the sport and others returning.\n\nHe said, despite the colder weather which usually causes a drop in fishing, there are more people out than in a typical January.\n\n\"It is certainly one of few things people can do legally, can do locally,\" he said.\n\nSpencer Moore said it was easy to maintain social distance while fishing\n\nUnder current restrictions in England, anglers must fish alone, or with members of their household, and must not travel outside their local area.\n\nThe government regulations permit people to meet for exercise, but not \"for recreational or leisure purposes\".\n\nThe Department for Culture Media and Sport told the BBC while angling could continue, overarching government guidance meant people should minimise time spent outside their homes.\n\nMr Ellis said he had received emails from parents pleased their children could go fishing at the weekend, adding that for some people it was linked to their mental wellbeing.\n\n\"When you are focussing on fishing, it is very hard to think about anything else, it clears the mind of other worries, at least temporarily,\" he said.\n\nHeadway said fishing was one of its most popular sporting activities for clients\n\nHeadway Birmingham & Solihull, a charity which helps people living with brain injuries, runs regular fishing sessions, which were very popular with its clients.\n\n\"It encourages them to be more active and get some fresh air out in the countryside,\" she said.\n\n\"It also helps their motivation and mental wellbeing, giving them something to look forward to each week, something to talk about and a chance to form friendships with others who enjoy fishing too.\"\n\nSpencer Moore, a bailiff for Blackfords Progressive Angling Society, based in South Staffordshire, said the sport was perfect for social distancing.\n\n\"There are people furloughed, sitting in their house or working from home, but at least they can fish and can get out and wind down,\" he said.\n\n\"Being a fisherman, you are on your own on your peg. Someone might be on another peg, but they can be 20 to 30ft away, so you are nowhere near anyone else.\"\n\nChris Wood advised people to speak to their local angling club before going fishing for the first time\n\nChris Wood, from Shrewsbury Anglers Club, said the group had seen a definite \"upsurge\" in interest during the pandemic.\n\nBut, he said, it had also seen an increase in illegal fishing by people who were not aware of the proper permits needed.", "Edwin Poots said he has asked senior UK government figures to consider unilaterally revoking the NI Protocol\n\nThe Stormont minister whose officials are responsible for the new Irish Sea border has said some food will be unavailable if changes are not made.\n\nDUP Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots has also said jobs could be at risk.\n\nHe said problems at the ports were being caused by new rules applied on imports of food and other products from Britain to Northern Ireland.\n\nEarlier Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove said trade from GB to NI \"will get worse before it gets better\".\n\nMr Gove said that \"work is ongoing\" and it is \"all part of the process of leaving the European Union\".\n\nHe added that he had spoken to ministers from all parties in the Northern Ireland Executive.\n\nAfter speaking with hauliers, supermarkets and processors this week, Mr Poots predicted the loss of jobs and rising costs.\n\n\"A wide range of frozen and chilled foods will be unavailable after the temporary exemption period ends,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThat exemption period applies to supermarkets and other food importers and runs out in April.\n\nAfter that they will have to comply with all the paperwork required to ship food in, or find suppliers on the island of Ireland or elsewhere in the EU.\n\nNew rules - called the Northern Ireland Protocol - were introduced because while the UK has left the EU, Northern Ireland has remained in the Single Market for goods and is continuing to apply EU customs rules.\n\nThe arrangement was agreed between the UK and the EU to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland.\n\nMr Poots said he had spoken to senior UK government figures to ask them to consider unilaterally revoking the protocol as it was \"damaging Northern Ireland at the economic and societal level\".\n\nAnd he hit out at members of Sinn Fein, the SDLP, and Alliance Party who he claimed had supported it.\n\nMembers of those parties have countered similar claims from other DUP politicians in recent days.\n\nThey said DUP MPs had voted against alternative arrangements that would have been simpler to manage before the government pushed ahead with the protocol plan.\n\nResponding to Mr Poot's tweet on Friday evening, SDLP leader Colum Eastwood wrote: \"You broke it, you own it.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) has called for the assembly to be recalled to discuss difficulties over trading between Great Britain and Northern Ireland due to Brexit.\n\nUUP MLA Roy Beggs said: \"The impact of the Irish Sea border is causing horrendous difficulties for hauliers and this is being seen in shops and businesses across Northern Ireland.\n\n\"It is damaging the Northern Ireland economy and the situation is escalating.\"\n\nEarlier on Friday, Michael Gove said it had been expected that there would be \"some initial disruption\" to trade between GB and NI, but that the government is \"ironing\" issues out.\n\nHe said discussions with the executive in Northern Ireland were \"in order to make sure that the [Northern Ireland] protocol works\".\n\n\"[To make sure] that businesses in Northern Ireland can continue to have access to the rest of the UK market, and that Northern Ireland businesses can have the goods that they need on the shelves, that they have access to at the moment,\" he said.\n\nNorthern Ireland has remained a part of the EU's single market for goods while the rest of the UK has left.\n\nThis means food products from Great Britain are subject to checks when they enter Northern Ireland.\n\nSimilar processes and checks also apply when moving food products from Great Britain into the Republic of Ireland.\n\nMeanwhile, an organisation representing haulage firms has called on the UK and Irish government to relax some of the new Irish Sea trade border rules.\n\nThe Road Haulage Association (RHA) said there is serious disruption to freight movements into the island of Ireland.\n\nThe RHA said relaxing the controls on food products and customs declarations \"would help traders to ship goods that have struggled to move over recent days.\"\n\n\"The problems have led to gaps in supermarket shelves and lorries delayed at ports because of problems with red-tape and the situation is worsening,\" the organisation added.\n\n\"We are facing an inflexible, cumbersome and time consuming process just to move goods.\"\n\nThe UK government said the flow of goods \"between GB and NI has been smooth overall and arrivals of freight have continued to increase substantially over this week\".\n\n\"There are no significant queues at NI ports and supermarkets are reporting healthy supplies into their Northern Ireland stores,\" a spokesperson added.\n\n\"We recognise the need to provide as much support to the haulage sector as possible as industry adapts to new processes. That's why hauliers can benefit from the Trader Support Service, which provides free advice and support to businesses of all sizes moving goods under the Northern Ireland Protocol.\n\n\"We have been engaging intensively with the Irish authorities and hauliers on the issues that have been encountered for goods transiting through Dublin port.\"\n\nOn Thursday customs authorities in the Republic of Ireland announced a temporary relaxation of one customs process.\n\nHauliers will be able to use an override code to complete a piece of administration known as ENS.\n\nThe letters ENS refer to an entry summary declaration, an online form which goods carriers are now legally obliged to submit to Irish customs when transporting goods from Great Britain into Ireland.\n\nLorries arriving in Ireland from Great Britain have faced new checks since 1 January\n\nOn Thursday night the Irish Revenue Commissioners said it recognised that \"some businesses are experiencing difficulties on lodging their safety and security ENS declarations\".\n\nIt said that in response it was providing a \"temporary easement\" which would allow an ENS to be produced without all the normally required information.\n\nAn Irish government spokesperson said it is \"absolutely essential that Ireland fulfils its obligations as a member of the EU and that we protect the integrity of the single market and the customs union\".\n\n\"We appreciate that the new requirements and customs formalities present significant challenges and impose additional burdens on businesses.\"\n\nMeanwhile Stena, the ferry company, said it was cancelling a dozen sailings between Wales and Ireland next week due to \"a decline in freight volumes during the first week of Brexit.\"", "Covid infections rose by almost a third between 26 December and 3 January, reaching 70,000 new cases a day according to a major study.\n\nIn a different piece of research, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimated 1.2 million people in total had Covid over a similar time period.\n\nDaily infections are understood to have risen to about 150,000 since then.\n\nThat would bring daily coronavirus cases above the first peak.\n\nThe R or reproduction number for the virus is now between 1 and 1.4 for the UK, reflecting the sharp rise in cases in recent weeks.\n\nSeparate ONS data suggests just under half (44%) of British adults formed a Christmas bubble.\n\nThese temporary rules let up to three households mix indoors on 25 December - unless they were living in a Tier 4 area.\n\nThe ONS estimated how much of the population had Covid in the week of 27 December- 2 January:\n\nThe ONS data suggests cases rose by three-quarters between its two most recent study periods: 12-18 December and 27 December - 2 January.\n\nThe ZOE Covid Symptom Study was able to track more recent changes since there was no pause in its research for Christmas.\n\nIt found the epidemic is growing throughout the UK.\n\nResearchers estimate the virus's reproduction or R number is currently 1.2 across the UK.\n\nBoth sources indicate London has the most severe epidemic with the highest number of cases.\n\nConfirmed cases, published on the government's dashboard, are always lower than those in surveys because they mainly reflect the test results of people coming in with symptoms.\n\nBoth the ONS and ZOE also look at asymptomatic cases - people who may not otherwise get tests.\n\nSome asymptomatic testing is now available in the community but it is not being widely taken up.\n\nAbout a fifth of people responding to a separate ONS survey looking at the social impacts of the pandemic, said they had found it difficult to follow the Christmas rules.\n\nAnd half of those gave the fact that they had already made plans as the reason.\n\nRules, which were set to allow everyone in the UK to mix in a five-day window, were changed at the last minute, on 19 December.\n\nIn England, people living in Tiers 1-3 were allowed to form a one-day Christmas bubble with a maximum of two other households.\n\nThose in Tier 4, including about 10 million people in Greater London, were not permitted to mix at all.\n\nMixing was permitted in Scotland and Wales for Christmas Day only.\n\nHow has coronavirus affected you? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nOr use this form to get in touch:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your comment or send it via email to HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any comment you send in.", "The president says he hates Big Tech. Yet he has loved using Twitter.\n\nHe's used it as a way, for more than 10 years, to bypass the media and speak directly to voters.\n\nThe 280 characters fits neatly with his style of political engagement - broad brushstrokes rather than details.\n\nAnd Twitter has undoubtedly benefited from President Trump too, the place to go to hear the latest musings from the most powerful person on the planet.\n\nThat decade-long symbiosis has been ended with a shuddering halt.\n\nImmediately after the deadly riots, Twitter locked the President's Twitter feed and asked Mr Trump to delete three tweets for violations around its Civic Integrity policy., which he promptly did.\n\nAfter the suspension he tweeted as a new man, the nonsense claims of mass voter fraud replaced with a more conciliatory tone.\n\nPrivately though Twitter was pondering whether it had gone far enough. Facebook had already acted, banning Donald Trump \"indefinitely\".\n\nAfter more than 48 hours of consideration, Twitter acted. It made unquestionably the most important moderation decision in its history. It banned the president of the United States.\n\nSome have asked why he wasn't kicked off sooner.\n\nMr Trump or one of his associates appears to have deleted some of his most recent tweets\n\nWell, Twitter has very specific rules about world leaders.\n\n\"We recognise that sometimes it may be in the public interest to allow people to view tweets that would otherwise be taken down,\" Twitter's rules say.\n\n\"At present, we limit exceptions to one critical type of public-interest content - tweets from elected and government officials.\"\n\nChief executive Jack Dorsey had felt it was in the public interest to keep the account active, albeit with warning messages.\n\n\"No one is turning a blind eye,\" a senior source told the BBC before the ban.\n\nIn short, Mr Trump had been allowed to remain on Twitter - despite numerous breaches of its rules - because he is the president.\n\nWith less than two weeks to go of Trump's presidency, many social media companies have now decided enough is enough.\n\nCritics say the outgoing president's words on social media, for years, helped to incite Wednesday's storming of Capitol Hill.\n\nAll the big social media companies have made it clear that - as a private citizen - if you continually look to peddle conspiracy theories and promote extremism, you should expect to be kicked out. With just a few days of his presidency left, Mr Trump is already being held to a different standard - his privileges stripped.\n\nWhat's driving this? To be cynical, social media companies are acutely aware that President-elect Joe Biden believes Big Tech hasn't done enough to quell fake news and hate speech on their platforms.\n\nRioters broke into Congress after a speech by Mr Trump on Wednesday\n\nThey are now desperate to show that they can, in fact, police their own platforms without the need for stringent legal reforms.\n\nWhat better way to show you're serious than to act on Mr Trump's misinformation?\n\nWhat will Mr Trump do next? Well he's already said he's looking into the possibility of building his own platform in the future.\n\nBut for now he's consigned to the fringes of the internet. Can Trumpism survive without Big Tech? We're about to find out.\n\nJames Clayton is the BBC's North America technology reporter based in San Francisco. Follow him on Twitter @jamesclayton5.", "Fashion student Mhari Thurston-Tyler posted an advert for the \"crop top\" (right) on Depop after she says she found some discarded Chiltern Railways seat covers (like those on the left)\n\nA fashion student has been warned not to sell prohibited items on the clothes app, Depop, after she posted an advert for a top made from a train seat cover.\n\nMhari Thurston-Tyler made the bandeau out of a Chiltern Railways seat cover designed to promote social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nThe 20-year-old sold the top for £15 but later refunded her customer and took the advert down.\n\nDepop said the item \"clearly violates our terms of service\".\n\nThe app for buying and selling second-hand clothes said the sale of stolen goods was banned - but Ms Thurston-Tyler denied stealing.\n\nShe told BBC News she found two of the blue seat covers \"balled up on the floor\" outside Marylebone station in London in September.\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler, who is a fashion student at Central Saint Martins, re-sewed one of the covers to make it fit her, before deciding to advertise the second cover on Depop.\n\n\"I have no money at the moment so decided to put the second one on Depop to see if anyone would buy it,\" she said, adding that the app had become her main source of income as she has struggled to find other work during the pandemic.\n\n\"I have to resort to little things like this to make ends meet, to pay the bills.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler's advert went viral on social media after being shared by Depop Drama's Instagram and Twitter accounts.\n\nMhari Thurston-Tyler said she has been unable to find a job during the coronavirus pandemic and sells clothes on Depop \"to make ends meet\"\n\nIn the advert, Ms Thurston-Tyler models the seat cover and describes it as a \"social distancing crop\", adding: \"Got a few of these can do different sizes.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler, from Kenilworth in Warwickshire, said a Depop customer paid her £15 and ordered a crop top \"in extra small\".\n\nBut realising she should not be making money out of Chiltern Railways' property, Ms Thurston-Tyler refunded the customer 15 minutes later and took the advert down shortly afterwards.\n\n\"I didn't steal it but I understand it's not right to re-sell it,\" she said.\n\nA Depop spokesperson said Ms Thurston-Tyler would be banned from the platform if she listed any other prohibited goods.\n\n\"We explicitly prohibit the sale of illegal and unlawful content on the app, including any stolen goods,\" they said.\n\n\"This item clearly violates our terms of service, but as it has been removed by the seller and is no longer for sale on the platform, we will not be taking immediate steps to ban this user.\"\n\nMs Thurston-Tyler said she hopes to make her own line of crop tops with the words \"children railways\" on the design, while \"the hype\" of the viral moment continues.\n\nChiltern Railways said it has been using the social distancing \"seat sashes\" since the beginning of the UK's Covid epidemic.\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"Whilst we appreciate this new take on railway memorabilia, these items are there to help customers travel with confidence and we would respectfully ask that they are left in place.\"", "A former Labour MP has quit the party before disciplinary proceedings against him concerning sexual harassment could be concluded, Labour has said.\n\nKelvin Hopkins was suspended by the party in 2017 after a Labour activist, Ava Etemadzadeh, accused him of inappropriate physical contact.\n\nMs Etemadzadeh said the ex-MP's exit from the party was \"disappointing\".\n\nThe BBC has attempted to contact Mr Hopkins, 79, for a response, but he has previously denied the accusations.\n\nA Labour spokesperson said it \"takes all complaints of sexual harassment extremely seriously and they are fully investigated in line with our rules and procedures, and any appropriate disciplinary action is taken.\n\n\"We are disappointed that the party's disciplinary processes did not reach a conclusion due to Kelvin Hopkins' decision to resign his membership,\" they added.\n\n\"We are establishing an independent process to investigate complaints, including sexual harassment, to ensure complainants can feel confident that in coming forward they will be heard and get the justice they deserve.\"\n\nMr Hopkins, who first won the seat of Luton North from the Conservatives in 1997, stood down ahead of the 2019 election - a decision, he said, which was to do with his wife's health, not the accusations.\n\nHe had originally been referred to the party's National Constitutional Committee following the allegations in 2017 and had expressed frustration at the length of time the hearing was taking.\n\nResponding to his decision to leave the party, Ms Etemadzadeh tweeted: \"This is very disappointing news. I hope Keir Starmer listens to my concerns and fixes this broken system.\"", "Film director Michael Apted, best known for the Up series of TV documentaries following the lives of 14 people every seven years, has died aged 79.\n\nHe also directed Coal Miner's Daughter, Gorillas In The Mist and the 1999 Bond movie The World Is Not Enough.\n\nThe original 7 Up in 1964 set out to document the life prospects of a range of children from all walks of life.\n\nThe show was inspired by the Aristotle quote \"give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man\".\n\nThe first 7 Up show was followed by 14 Up at the start of the next decade, which interviewed the same children as teenagers - and the pattern was set right up until 63 Up in 2019.\n\nThroughout all those intervening years ITV viewers became engrossed with the stories of private school trio Andrew, Charles and John, of Jackie who went through two divorces, of Neil who went from jobless and homeless to Liberal Democrat councillor, and of working class chatterbox Tony, whose life ambition was to become a jockey.\n\nApted's shows - which won three Bafta awards - have often been described as the forerunner of modern-day reality TV series, giving its participants the time to tell their own stories on screen.\n\nBut unlike their modern counterparts, the original Up children tended to fade away from the limelight in the seven years between each chapter.\n\nIn 2008, Apted was made a companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George in the Queen's Birthday Honours for services to the British film and television industries.\n\nThomas Schlamme, president of the Directors Guild of America, said Apted was a \"fearless visionary\" whose legacy would live on.\n\nHe said Apted, who was born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, \"saw the trajectory of things when others didn't and we were all beneficiaries of his wisdom and lifelong dedication\".\n\nITV's managing director Kevin Lygo said the director's six-decade career was \"in itself truly remarkable\".\n\nHe said the Up series \"demonstrated the possibilities of television at its finest in its ambition and its capacity to hold up a mirror to society and engage with and entertain people while enriching our perspective on the human condition\".\n\nApted directed the 19th James Bond film The World Is Not Enough\n\n\"The influence of Michael's contribution to film and programme-making continues to be felt and he will be sadly missed,\" Lygo added.\n\nMichael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, producers of the James Bond film franchise, said Apted \"was a director of enormous talent\" and \"beloved by all those who worked with him\".\n\n\"We loved working with him on The World Is Not Enough and send our love and support to his family, friends and colleagues,\" they said.\n\nA post on the Twitter account of the band Garbage, who performed the theme for The World Is Not Enough, labelled Apted a \"delightful, charming soul\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Garbage This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nComposer David G Arnold, who composed the Bond theme and worked with Apted on three other non-Bond movies, said he felt \"lucky\" to work with him.\n\n\"A more trusting, funny, friendly and, most importantly, kind, person you'd never meet. So pleased to have known him and so sad that he's gone,\" Arnold wrote on Twitter.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eva's father, Paul Slapa, says the generosity of strangers has been \"amazing\"\n\nA 10-year-old girl who needed to travel to the United States for treatment on an inoperable brain tumour has died.\n\nFamily of Eva Williams raised £250,000 needed for a new life-extending trial.\n\nBut the schoolgirl, from Marford, Wrexham, was unable to travel due to coronavirus lockdown measures.\n\nAt the start of 2020, she was diagnosed with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) and died on Friday. Her father said in a tribute: \"We love you Eva - more than you'll have ever known.\"\n\nPaul Slapa, said on social media that his daughter was surrounded by all of her family when she died.\n\nHe posted: \"Over the past week, Eva had lost the ability to speak, eat and swallow fluids, and she has suffered more than any child should ever have to suffer.\n\n\"Watching her still fight each day has been heart-breaking.\n\n\"Eva is an inspiration to many, certainly to me, and I cannot begin to imagine how we will go forward from here.\n\n\"How do we wake up each day and go on? How do we face the world without our baby girl with us? Why did this happen to the most caring and loving of little girls?\n\n\"Every single part of us is in pain and I can't see how that can change. We love you Eva - more than you'll have ever known - and we will keep you with us every day for the rest of our lives.\"\n\nAfter Eva was diagnosed with a high-grade DIPG she had been undergoing radiotherapy treatment to shrink the tumour.\n\nHer father and mother Carran Williams started a fundraising campaign to access the trial treatment in the US, and managed to raise the money in the space of three weeks.\n\nThey had been originally due to take part in the trial in New York in April.\n\nBut then Covid-19 measures saw international flight bans and travel restrictions imposed.\n\nHer plight was raised by the Wrexham MP Sarah Atherton during Prime Minister's Questions in July and Boris Johnson said he would look at what help can be offered to get her to the United States.\n\nEva also had radiotherapy as part of her treatment", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Madrid has been hit by heavy snowfall after Storm Filomena\n\nStorm Filomena has blanketed parts of Spain in heavy snow, with half of the country on red alert for more on Saturday.\n\nRoad, rail and air travel has been disrupted and interior minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said the country was facing \"the most intense storm in the last 50 years\".\n\nMadrid, one of the worst affected areas, is set to see up to 20cm (eight inches) of snow in the next 24 hours.\n\nFurther south the storm caused rivers to burst their banks.\n\nFour deaths have been reported so far as a result of Filomena. Officials said two people had been found frozen to death - one in the town of Zarzalejo, north-west of Madrid, and the other in the eastern city of Calatayud. Two people travelling in a car were swept away by floods near the southern city of Malaga.\n\nAs snow fell on Madrid on Friday evening, a number of vehicles became stranded on a motorway near the capital.\n\nThe city's Barajas airport has closed, along with a number of roads, and all trains to and from Madrid have been cancelled.\n\nFirefighters were called in to assist drivers who had become stuck. In some areas the military were called in to help clear roads.\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez urged people to stay at home and to follow the instructions of emergency services. King Felipe and Queen Letizia took to Twitter to urge \"extreme caution against the risks of accumulation of ice and snow\".\n\nThe country's AEMET weather agency said the snowfall was \"exceptional and most likely historic\".\n\nA number of people were seen making the most of the snowy scenery, walking through Madrid's Puerta del Sol square.\n\nLarge parks in Madrid have since been closed as a precaution, AFP news agency reports.\n\nOne man was pictured skiing along the Gran Via, the capital's famous shopping street.\n\nIn Cañada Real, the largest shanty town in western Europe, residents were seen creating a bonfire to keep warm.\n\nThe cold weather is set to continue beyond the weekend with temperatures in Madrid predicted to hit -12C on Thursday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Bez in training for his new exercise classes in a park in Manchester\n\nHappy Mondays star Bez is to launch his own lockdown fitness classes to inspire the nation like Joe Wicks.\n\nThe former maraca-shaking dancer, 56, wants to rival Joe Wicks with his online YouTube classes \"Get Buzzin' With Bez\" to be launched on 17 January.\n\nBez, whose on-stage \"freaky dancing\" made him an icon of the 'Madchester' music scene, has admitted he also wants to budge his own lockdown bulge.\n\nHe won Celebrity Big Brother in 2005 and even made a bid to become an MP.\n\nBez, whose real name is Mark Berry, will be shown being trained in the fitness classes rather than acting as the instructor himself.\n\nHe said: \"I'd like to think I'm somewhere between Joe Wicks and Mr Motivator.\n\n\"I've started this new year seriously unfit, with a fat belly and creaky hips, and I can't stop eating chocolate.\n\n\"Last lockdown I got unfit, fat, lazy and into some seriously bad eating habits.\n\nBez being put through his paces with a personal trainer\n\n\"This year, this lockdown, I need to sort it out sharpish.\"\n\nHe said that people can join him on \"on this mad journey or just sit on the sofa and have a good laugh at me\".\n\nBez said he has \"started this new year seriously unfit, with a fat belly and creaky hips\"\n\nThe former dancer added: \"At the very least, I know I'll be making people smile, at best I'll be helping people get fit and mentally happier alongside me.\"\n\nThe Happy Mondays, along with bands like The Stone Roses and Inspiral Carpets, spearheaded the indie music 'Madchester' scene of the late 80s and early 90s.\n\nBez dancing with his maraca on BBC One's Top of the Pops as the band perform Step On in 1989\n\nBez's bug-eyed dance routines were said to have inspired the group's song Freaky Dancin' and made him one of the best-known members of the group, alongside frontman Shaun Ryder.\n\nTheir hits included Step On, Kinky Afro, Hallelujah and 24 Hour Party People.\n\nHowever, serious drug habits and infighting led to the Salford band's breakup in 1993.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lockdown measures in England need to be stricter to achieve the same impact as the March shutdown, scientists advising the government have said.\n\nProf Robert West said the current rules were \"still allowing a lot of activity which is spreading the virus\".\n\nProf Susan Michie also said the spread of the new more infectious variant meant the restrictions were \"too lax\".\n\nThe government said it had adapted its approach and taken \"swift action\" to try and stop the spread of the virus.\n\nThe warnings come after ministers launched a new campaign urging people to act like they have the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, Buckingham Palace has said the Queen, 94, and the Duke of Edinburgh, 99, received Covid-19 vaccinations on Saturday.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can only go out for essential reasons. Similar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nProf West, a participant in the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviours (SPI-B), which advises the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), said the new variant of Covid is around 50% more infectious compared to the virus that infected people last March.\n\n\"That means that if we were to achieve the same result as we got in March we would have to have a stricter lockdown, and it's not stricter,\" he said\n\nThe professor of health psychology at University College London, also told the BBC more children were going to school, compared to the first lockdown and he said schools were \"a very important seed of community infection\".\n\nMore people are in schools, after the Department for Education has widened the categories of vulnerable and key worker pupils allowed to attend, with attendance rates surging to 50% in some places.\n\nProf Michie, who is also a member of Sage, agreed the current lockdown was \"too lax\".\n\n\"When you look at the data, it shows that almost 90% of people are overwhelmingly adhering to the rules - despite the fact that we're also seeing more people out and about,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nShe said in comparison to the first lockdown last spring more people were allowed to go out to work and children's nurseries were open, making public transport busier.\n\nThe number of people travelling by public transport in London has decreased since the latest national lockdown began, with tube journeys now at 18% of the pre-pandemic demand and bus journeys at 30%, according to figures from Transport for London.\n\nHowever, during the first lockdown passenger numbers fell below 10% at some points.\n\nProf Michie, a professor of health psychology at University College London, added that the winter season posed extra challenges because the virus survives longer in the cold and people spend more time indoors, where the virus can spread more easily.\n\nCombined with the more transmissible new variant, she said \"we should have a stricter rather than less strict lockdown than we had back in March\".\n\nScientists believe the new variant spreads between 50 and 70% faster compared to previous forms of the virus.\n\nDr Adam Kucharski, another scientist advising the government and an associate professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said that because the new variant was more transmissible \"each interaction we have has become riskier than it was before\".\n\nHe said that even if people reduced their contacts to levels seen last spring, it would not have the same effect on virus transmission.\n\nProf Kevin Fenton, London regional director for Public Health England, said there were \"things we could do better\" to reduce the number of infections, including greater compliance with mask wearing and social distancing when shopping and using public transport.\n\nOn Friday 1,325 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test were recorded in the UK - the highest daily figure yet - along with 68,053 new cases.\n\nAs cases and deaths soar, the government has launched an advertising campaign, which will be shared across television, radio, newspapers and on social media, urging people to stay at home and not to get complacent.\n\nGovernment sources say there is also likely to be more focus from police on enforcing rather than explaining rules.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson says hospitals are \"under more pressure than at any other time since the start of the pandemic\", with infection rates increasing at an \"alarming rate\" across the country and the NHS under \"severe strain\".\n\nIt comes after London's mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of coronavirus was \"out of control\" as he declared a \"major incident\" in the capital on Friday.\n\nDr Simon Walsh, an emergency care doctor in London, told BBC Breakfast the \"unprecedented\" numbers of patients requiring intensive care treatment meant staff were spread \"more and more thinly\".\n\nHospitals in other parts of the UK are also under pressure.\n\nDr Justin Varney, director of public health in Birmingham, said he was \"very worried\" about the situation in the city, where hospital bosses have warned they do not have enough intensive care nurses to deal with the growing case load.\n\nHe warned that the NHS had still not seen the impact of the rise in cases following the relaxation of restrictions over Christmas and added: \"It is going to get a lot, lot worse unless we really get this under control\".\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"Our priority from the outset has been to protect the NHS to save lives and we have taken advice from scientific and medical experts throughout. As new evidence has emerged, we have adapted our approach and taken swift action to try and stop the spread of the virus.\"\n\nTell us how you have been affected by coronavirus by emailing: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "More than 80,000 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test since the start of the pandemic, official figures have shown.\n\nA further 1,035 deaths in the UK were reported on Saturday, taking the total by that measure to 80,868.\n\nThe number of daily cases of people who tested positive for coronavirus increased by 59,937.\n\nOnly the US, Brazil, India and Mexico have recorded more Covid deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nIt is the fourth day in a row that the UK has reported more than 1,000 daily deaths.\n\nIt comes as scientists advising the government have warned that lockdown measures in England need to be stricter to achieve the same impact as the March shutdown.\n\nMinisters have launched a new campaign urging people to act like they have the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, Buckingham Palace has said the Queen, 94, and the Duke of Edinburgh, 99, received Covid-19 vaccinations on Saturday.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics recently estimated as many as one in 50 people in England had coronavirus between 27 December and 2 January, while in London it was one in 30.\n\nOn Friday, mayor Sadiq Khan said the spread of Covid in the capital was \"out of control\".\n\nOfficial figures from Public Health England showed London had the highest regional case rate in the UK, exceeding 1,000 per 100,000 people.\n\nUnder the national lockdown, people in England must stay at home and can only go out for essential reasons. Similar measures are in place across most of Scotland, in Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nProf Robert West, a participant in the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviours (SPI-B), which advises the government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), said the current rules were \"still allowing a lot of activity which is spreading the virus\".\n\nHe said the new variant of Covid was around 50% more infectious compared to the virus that infected people last March.\n\n\"That means that if we were to achieve the same result as we got in March we would have to have a stricter lockdown, and it (the current regime) is not stricter,\" he added.\n\nThe professor of health psychology at University College London also told the BBC more children were going to school, compared to during the first lockdown.\n\nHe said schools were \"a very important seed of community infection\".\n\nMore children are at school, after the Department for Education widened the categories of vulnerable and key worker pupils allowed to attend. Attendance rates have risen to 50% in some places.\n\nProf Susan Michie, who is also a member of Sage, said the spread of the new, more infectious variant meant current restrictions were \"too lax\".\n\n\"When you look at the data, it shows that almost 90% of people are overwhelmingly adhering to the rules - despite the fact that we're also seeing more people out and about,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nShe said, in comparison to the first lockdown in spring 2020, more people were allowed to go out to work and children's nurseries were open, making public transport busier.\n\nThe number of people travelling by public transport in London has decreased since the latest national lockdown began, with tube journeys now at 18% of the pre-pandemic demand and bus journeys at 30%, according to figures from Transport for London.\n\nHowever, during the first lockdown passenger numbers fell below 10% at some points.\n\nScientists believe the new variant spreads between 50 and 70% faster compared to previous forms of the virus.\n\nProf Kevin Fenton, London regional director for Public Health England, said there were \"things we could do better\" to reduce the number of infections, including greater compliance with mask wearing and social distancing when shopping and using public transport.\n\nTorsten Bell, chief executive of the Resolution Foundation think tank, told BBC Radio 4's PM programme that the UK's statutory sick pay system was \"not fit for purpose for a pandemic\" and more effective measures to encourage people to isolate were needed.\n\nAs cases and deaths soar, the government has launched an advertising campaign, which will be shared across television, radio, newspapers and on social media, urging people to stay at home and not to get complacent.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Department of Health and Social Care\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"I know the last year has taken its toll - but your compliance is now more vital than ever.\"\n\nGovernment sources say there is also likely to be more focus from police on enforcing rather than explaining rules.\n\nOn Saturday afternoon, 12 people were arrested during an anti-lockdown protest in south London.\n\nIf you would like to send us a tribute to a friend or family member who died after contracting coronavirus, please use the form below.\n\nPlease remember to include a photo of your loved one and their name. Upload your pictures here. Don't forget to include your contact details, so we can get in touch with you.\n\nWe would like to respond to everyone individually and include every tribute in our coverage, but unfortunately that may not be possible. Please be assured your message will be read and treated with the utmost respect.\n\nPlease note the contact details you provide will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your tribute.\n• None Lockdown needs to be stricter, scientists warn", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. London mayor Sadiq Khan: \"Unless the virus reduces... we could run out of beds\"\n\nThe spread of Covid in London is \"out of control\" according to Sadiq Khan, who has declared a \"major incident\".\n\nThe coronavirus infection rate in London has exceeded 1,000 per 100,000 people, based on the latest figures from Public Health England.\n\nHowever, the Office for National Statistics recently estimated as many as one in 30 Londoners has coronavirus.\n\nMr Khan told BBC political reporter Karl Mercer that the figure is as high as one in 20 in some parts of London.\n\nMajor incidents have previously been called for the Grenfell Tower fire in June 2017 and the terror attacks at Westminster Bridge and London Bridge.\n\nA major incident is any emergency that requires the implementation of special arrangements by one or all of the emergency services, the NHS or the local authority.\n\nIt means the emergency services and hospitals cannot guarantee their normal level of response.\n\nCurrently, there are more than 7,000 people in hospital with Covid-19, the mayor said.\n\nThis is a 35% increase compared to last April's peak of the pandemic, he added.\n\nDr Samantha Batt-Rawden, an ICU registrar and President of the Doctors' Association UK, tweeted: \"We tried. We really tried. NHS staff pleaded with people that Christmas is not worth it. Now one in 30 people in London have Covid and ICUs are overwhelmed. My heart is broken.\"\n\nAn analysis of Public Health England figures show in the week to 3 January, the number of cases rose across all of the London's boroughs compared with the previous week, with 17 individually recording more than 1,000 cases per 100,000 people.\n\nTesting increased in parts of the city after a drop over the Christmas period but positivity was high among people taking lab-based tests - suggesting more testing is needed to find undiagnosed cases in the community.\n\nIn the past week, many parts of the capital saw a rise in deaths where a person had tested positive for coronavirus in the previous 28 days - with some areas recording more than double the number of deaths compared with the previous week.\n\nHowever, reporting over the Christmas period may have affected this.\n\nOut of the 18 acute hospital trusts in London providing figures to the government, all of them recorded having more beds being filled by coronavirus patients than in the previous week.\n\nBarts NHS Health, one of London's largest trusts, saw a 30% increase in coronavirus patients between 29 December and 5 January, to 830.\n\nThe London Ambulance Service is now taking up to 8,000 emergency calls a day, the mayor says\n\nThe mayor of London's announcement comes after the counties of Sussex and Surrey declared similar major incidents on Thursday.\n\nHe said the London Ambulance Service was currently taking up to 8,000 emergency calls a day, compared to 5,500 on a typical busy day.\n\nThe London Fire Brigade said more than 100 firefighters had been drafted in to drive ambulances to help cope with the demand.\n\nEvery frontline agency involved in protecting the public has a legal duty to prepare for emergencies by devising and testing major incident plans.\n\nThese public bodies declare a major incident when the situation they're confronting is so big or terrible that it's not only likely to cause serious harm, but it will also compromise their ability to respond effectively.\n\nIn general terms, that means public bodies can legally stop delivering some everyday services, so that their personnel, attention and resources can be diverted to the emergency confronting them.\n\nAt other times, the plans will lead to the military sending soldiers to aid the civilian effort, as we have seen already during the pandemic.\n\nPrevious major incidents include the Grenfell Tower disaster in London, the Salisbury Novichok poisonings and the 2017 terrorism attacks.\n\nLondon's regional director for Public Health England Kevin Fenton said the current wave of coronavirus was \"the biggest threat\" the capital has faced in this pandemic to date.\n\nHe added: \"The emergence of the new variant means we are setting record case rates at almost double the national average, with at least one in 30 people now thought to be carrying the virus.\n\n\"We know this will sadly lead to large numbers of deaths, so strong and immediate action is needed.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nMr Khan is warning that London is \"at crisis point\".\n\n\"If we do not take immediate action now, our NHS could be overwhelmed and more people will die,\" he said.\n\n\"Londoners continue to make huge sacrifices and I am today imploring them to please stay at home unless it is absolutely necessary for you to leave. Stay at home to protect yourself, your family, friends and other Londoners and to protect our NHS.\"\n\nHe said he had written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson asking for more financial support for Londoners who need to self-isolate and are unable to work, and for daily vaccination data.\n\nMr Khan also called for the closure of places of worship and for face masks to be worn routinely outside the home, including in crowded places and supermarket queues, in a bid to curb case numbers.\n\nTwo hospital trusts in London have recorded more than 1,000 coronavirus deaths\n\nThe mayor of London was in a sombre mood when I spoke to him earlier this afternoon. One in 20 Londoners in some areas now has Covid, and there is a real fear that hospitals will simply be overwhelmed in the next two weeks.\n\nDeclaring a major incident is a real indication of the levels of concern felt not just at City Hall but across London's emergency services and the NHS.\n\nMore Londoners are now in hospital with coronavirus than at the peak of the first wave last April - and those numbers are growing by more than 800 every day.\n\nIt's believed the last mayor to declare a London-wide major incident was Boris Johnson in response to the 2011 riots.\n\nThe coming days will be some of the most challenging in the city's recent history.\n\nKatie Sanderson, a junior doctor working in London, said she is worried how long medical staff can cope with the surge of patients.\n\n\"[Staff] are working on wards and spending long amounts of time with patients who need high-intensive oxygen therapy,\" she said.\n\n\"It is technically challenging and the emotional burden is enormous. I see it in a flatness in their demeanour, like we've all got used to doing things which before were totally inconceivable.\"\n\nGeorgia Gould, chair of London Councils, described London's rising coronavirus rate as \"dangerous\".\n\nShe added: \"One in 30 Londoners now has Covid. This is why public services across London are urging all Londoners to please stay at home except for absolutely essential shopping and exercise.\n\n\"This is a dark and difficult time for our city but there is light at end of the tunnel with the vaccine rollout. We are asking Londoners to come together one last time to stop the spread - lives really do depend on it.\"\n\nEarlier this week as the prime minister introduced an England-wide lockdown, the Met Police said officers were going to be \"more inquisitive\" towards Londoners seen outside.\n\nThe Met handed out 1,761 fines for breaches of coronavirus laws between 27 March and 20 December.\n\nDeputy Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist said the major incident was a \"stark reminder\" of the point London is at in the pandemic.\n\nHe said: \"These rule-breakers cannot continue to feign ignorance of the risk that this virus poses or listen to the false information and lies that some promote downplaying the dangers.\n\n\"Every time the virus spreads it increases the risk of someone needlessly losing their life.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'One of the worst shifts of my life - it's overwhelming'\n\nIn response to Mr Khan's announcement the government said the NHS is continuing to \"face a huge challenge\"\n\nA spokeswoman added: \"It is absolutely paramount people in London, and the rest of the country, follow the rules and stay at home to protect the NHS and save lives.\n\n\"We are working closely with NHS England to support hospitals in the capital, including additional bed capacity at the London Nightingale.\n\n\"Financial support is in place for workers who need to self-isolate - including a £500 payment for those on the lowest incomes who have been contacted by NHS Test and Trace.\"\n\nFor more London news follow on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel.\n\nHave any of the issues raised in this article had an impact on you? You can share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This car was one of many turned away by police at Moel Famau on Saturday\n\nPeople are \"blatantly\" ignoring rules on lockdown restrictions despite repeated warnings, police have said.\n\nMore than 100 cars had been turned away from Moel Famau on the Flintshire border by Saturday lunchtime, with some driving past \"road closed\" signs.\n\nIn Snowdonia, Gwynedd, a warden said a group from Leicester would have \"probably ignored our advice\" if police had not arrived and told them to leave.\n\nLevel four restrictions mean travelling for exercise is not allowed in Wales.\n\nKeith Ellis, a warden at Pen y Pass in Snowdonia, said while it had been much quieter this weekend, people were still travelling, despite the restrictions.\n\n\"We've had three from Leicester first thing this morning and if the police hadn't turned up they would have probably ignored our advice and carried on up the mountain,\" he said.\n\n\"What they were wearing was totally inappropriate and they would have probably got into danger.\n\n\"We've had people also from Liverpool and some locals turning up knowing full well what the rules are, but just trying it on.\n\n\"Luckily there are a lot more police officers around and all these people have been spoken to and advised by the police as well.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Welsh Government spokesman said: \"Cases of coronavirus are very high in Wales at the moment and there is a new strain of the virus circulating, which is highly infectious and moving quickly.\n\n\"At alert level four, exercise should always be undertaken from home, unless you have special circumstances which requires some flexibility - such as disability or autism.\n\n\"The more people gather, the greater the risk of spreading or catching the virus.\"", "A further 1,610 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt means the total number of deaths by that measure is now above 90,000.\n\nA total of 4,266,577 people have now received the first dose of a vaccine, according to the latest government figures.\n\nAnother 33,355 positive Covid cases have been recorded - less than half the peak figure of 68,053 on 8 January.\n\nIt is the lowest number of daily cases seen since 27 December - before the start of England's third nationwide lockdown.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said: \"Whilst there are some early signs that show our sacrifices are working, we must continue to strictly abide by the measures in place.\"\n\nShe said reducing contact with others and staying at home will lead to \"a fall in the number of infections over time\".\n\nThe figures come as new estimates from the Office for National Statistics show about one in 10 people across the UK tested positive for Covid-19 antibodies in December - roughly double the October figure.\n\nThe rising number of deaths was to be expected, sadly, after the surge in cases during December.\n\nAnd it is likely that the coming weeks will see figures even higher than this.\n\nToday's numbers are, though, inflated by the fact that delays in registering deaths over the weekend tends to lead to higher figures being reported on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.\n\nOn average, the UK is recording more than 1,100 deaths a day.\n\nTo put that in context, at Christmas it was less than half of that.\n\nBut there are two rays of hope in the daily update.\n\nFirstly, the number of cases is below 40,000 for a third day in a row. Just two weeks ago we saw a few days above 60,000.\n\nThat means in the coming weeks we should start to see fewer people in hospital and eventually fewer deaths.\n\nThe number of vaccinations also continues to rise.\n\nIt seems unlikely the NHS will manage its target of two million doses a week just yet.\n\nBut each increase at least takes us one step closer to getting on top of the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, NHS England said 400 military personnel were now assisting in hospitals in London and the Midlands, as wards face \"unprecedented pressure\".\n\nOn Monday, Prof Stephen Powis, national medical director for NHS England, said it would be \"some time\" before the vaccination programme begins to reduce pressures on hospitals.\n\nAnd in other developments, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said he is self-isolating after being alerted by the UK's NHS Covid-19 app .that he had been in close contact with somebody who tested positive.\n\nHe said self-isolation was \"perhaps the most important part of all the social distancing\" and urged others to do the same if contacted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Martin Freeborn's wife, Helen, died from Covid at the Royal London Hospital: 'Don't end up like us, please'\n\nThe previous highest number of daily deaths was last Wednesday, when 1,564 deaths were recorded.\n\nTuesday's figure brings the total number of deaths recorded during the pandemic in the UK to 91,470.\n\nThese government figures count people who died within 28 days of testing positive, but there are other ways of measuring the total number of deaths.\n\nAnother method is to count all deaths where coronavirus is mentioned on the death certificate. That figure has now officially reached 95,829, although that is only measured up to 8 January.\n\nThe UK has recorded the fifth-highest number of deaths globally, according to Johns Hopkins University - behind the US, Brazil, India and Mexico.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer tweeted: \"British people are paying the price for the government's serial incompetence.\"", "In 2009, Spector was convicted of the 2003 murder of Hollywood actress Lana Clarkson\n\nThe BBC has apologised for the original headline in its reporting of the death of the convicted murderer Phil Spector.\n\nThe former music producer died on Saturday at the age of 81, while serving a prison sentence for the murder of Lana Clarkson in 2003.\n\nThe first version on the breaking news story on the BBC News website carried the headline: \"Talented but flawed producer Phil Spector dies aged 81\".\n\nThe BBC said the headline \"did not meet our editorial standards\".\n\nThe text was quickly changed to: \"Pop producer jailed for murder dies at 81.\"\n\n\"This was changed within minutes and we also deleted a tweet that had gone out automatically with the original headline,\" a statement issued by the BBC read.\n\n\"We apologise for this error.\"\n\n\"Our coverage of the story across BBC News has been clear that Phil Spector was convicted of the murder of Lana Clarkson and had a long history of violence and abuse,\" it continued.\n\nSpector was convicted of murdering Clarkson, an actress, in 2009.\n\nHis death was confirmed by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.\n\nReacting to the original version of the BBC's story, pop star Lily Allen tweeted: \"Rolling eyes at all the journos deliberately downplaying Phil Spector being a murderer in their headlines, so everyone points this out while linking to their articles resulting in lots of clicks.\"\n\n\"How about 'Murderer, Phil Spector dies aged 81'?\" offered author and historian Hallie Rubenhold.\n\nThe headline was also discussed on TV and radio programmes on Monday, including Loose Women and Radio 4's Woman's Hour, and prompted an article in the Guardian.\n\nThe phrasing of the BBC's article - and others like it - were \"a reflection of how a man's 'genius' is often viewed as more important than a woman's humanity,\" said columnist Arwa Mahdawi.\n\nSpector, who transformed pop with his \"wall of sound\" recordings, worked with The Beatles, The Righteous Brothers and Tina Turner.\n\nBut after the commercial failure of Tina Turner's River Deep, Mountain High, he largely withdrew from public life, and entered a long decline, marked by erratic behaviour, heavy drinking, and a fondness for guns.\n\nHis turbulent marriage to Ronettes singer Veronica Bennett, known as Ronnie Spector, ended in divorce.\n\n\"Unfortunately Phil was not able to live and function outside of the recording studio,\" she wrote after his death was announced. \"Darkness set in, many lives were damaged.\"\n\nSinger Darlene Love, who sang on several songs Spector produced, said he \"changed the sound of rock 'n' roll\" but likened their relationship to \"a bad marriage\".\n\n\"The problem I have with Phil is that he wanted to control Darlene Love's talent,\" she told Variety. \"If he couldn't do that, he was going to do everything in his power to keep my talent from shining.\"\n\nWeeks before Lana Clarkson was shot dead, Spector gave a rare interview to British broadsheet The Telegraph.\n\n\"I would say I'm probably relatively insane, to an extent,\" he told the paper, adding that he had \"devils inside that fight me\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "In Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, residents have prepared their homes and businesses ahead of the heavy rain\n\nEmergency services in the north of England are preparing for widespread flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nThe Environment Agency has warned of a \"volatile situation\" as heavy rain combines with melting snow, while police in South Yorkshire and Greater Manchester declared major incidents.\n\nAn amber rain warning is in place for Yorkshire, the North West, East Midlands and the east of England.\n\nA yellow rain warning was issued for the rest of the country.\n\nGreater Manchester Police Assistant Chief Constable Nick Bailey said the force had declared a major incident to ensure it was \"as prepared as possible\".\n\n\"The safety of the public is our number one priority and we're continuing to work alongside partner agencies across the region,\" he said.\n\nA government spokesperson said it had provided additional advice to local agencies to help them manage any evacuations and shelter provision in a Covid-secure way.\n\n\"The government has robust plans in place to support any areas affected by extreme weather this winter,\" they added.\n\nSandbags were laid in at-risk areas, with up to 70mm (2.75in) of rain due.\n\nIn isolated spots, particularly in the northern Peak District and parts of the southern Pennines, 200mm (7.87in) could be possible.\n\nNorthern Rail said buses were being used instead of trains on services between Bolton and Blackburn due to flooding at Darwen.\n\nSome motorists attempted to drive through floodwater on Derby Road in Hathern, Leicestershire\n\nIn the amber warning area, the Met Office said there was a \"danger to life\" due to fast-flowing or deep floodwater, and told some communities they might be \"cut off\" by flooded roads.\n\nIt also predicted delays and cancellations to public transport, with the amber warning in place until 12:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nRos Jones, mayor of Doncaster, said key risk areas had been inspected over the past 36 hours, with the delivery of sandbags continuing on Tuesday.\n\n\"I do not want people to panic, but flooding is possible so please be prepared,\" she said.\n\nResidents of Fishlake, South Yorkshire, which saw severe flooding hit 160 homes and businesses in November 2019, said they felt much better prepared this time round.\n\nFlood warden and parish councillor Peter Trimingham said the arrival of sandbags had been a welcome sight.\n\n\"It gives us confidence,\" he said.\n\nResidents in Fishlake, near Doncaster, say they are better prepared than when flooding hit in 2019\n\nMr Trimingham added: \"We're absolutely hoping it doesn't rise to the same level. But, if it does, we're reasonably comfortable we've still got a chance because the Environment Agency have done tremendous work here along with Doncaster Council.\"\n\nHe said new defences had been built and their team of flood wardens had been expanded to 22 people.\n\nOn Yarlborough Terrace in Bentley, Doncaster, many residents were out of their homes for months after the 2019 floods.\n\nAnna Booth, 37, who was forced to live in a caravan on her drive, said residents were worried about it happening again.\n\n\"Being in the pandemic doesn't help either. Morale's a bit down but I think we'll all pull together again like last time,\" she said.\n\n\"It breaks your heart, it's really sad, but we can't stop the weather.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Environment Agency issued more than 30 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected and immediate action required, covering parts of Yorkshire, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Merseyside, Staffordshire and Northamptonshire as of 03:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nThere are also more than 150 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible, issued across northern England, the Midlands and the east.\n\nRiver levels in the Ouse, which flows through York in North Yorkshire, are high before the arrival of Storm Christoph\n\nCatherine Wright, acting executive director for flood and coastal risk management at the Environment Agency, said: \"That rain is falling on very wet ground and so we are very concerned that it's a very volatile situation and we are expecting significant flooding to occur on the back of that weather.\"\n\nShe said the agency would be working with local authorities to help with evacuation efforts should a severe flood warning be issued, adding: \"If you do need to evacuate then that is allowed within the Covid rules.\"\n\nWork took place on Tuesday morning to increase defences near the River Ouse\n\nDiscussing the different levels of flood warnings, she said: \"If you receive a flood alert, please pack valuables like medicines and insurance documents in a bag ready to go.\n\n\"If you receive a flood warning, please move valuables and precious possessions upstairs and be ready to turn off gas, electricity and water.\n\n\"If you receive a severe flood warning, which means you will be evacuated, please listen out and take heed of the advice from the local emergency services.\"\n\nSandbags have been used to help defend homes in Fishlake, Doncaster, which suffered devastating floods in November 2019\n\nBarry Greenwood, from the Upper Calder Valley Flood Prevention Group in West Yorkshire, has been \"sick\" with worry.\n\n\"I went round after the last [flood], people were there with their heads in their hands, thinking 'what am I going to do now?',\" he said.\n\nFlood sirens were sounded in Walsden on Tuesday evening after a flood warning was issued for the area.\n\nIn a tweet, Calderdale Council asked residents to put their flood plan into action and move valuables to a safe place.\n\n\"River levels across the Upper River Calder have risen and are now approaching levels where we expect properties to flood,\" it warned.\n\nEarlier it had said staff were on standby to respond overnight.\n\nThe amber rain warning is in place until Thursday, with yellow warnings covering most of the UK coming in over the next three days\n\nA yellow rain alert is also in place for Wales, Northern Ireland, central and northern England and southern Scotland on Tuesday.\n\nThis yellow warning extends to the rest of England from Wednesday, with a yellow alert for snow and ice in north east Scotland.\n\nHighways England advised drivers to take extra care on motorways and major A roads, while the RAC breakdown service said motorists should only drive if absolutely necessary.\n\nDrivers faced wet road conditions and reduced visibility on the A1(M) near Boston Spa, West Yorkshire, on Tuesday morning\n\nHebden Bridge's volunteer flood warden Keith Crabtree has been monitoring the river levels of Hebden Beck closely\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sheku Bayoh death: Eyewitness says stamping attack on officer 'never happened'\n\nTwo police officers involved in the death of a black man they were restraining may have provided false statements, the BBC can reveal.\n\nThey said Sheku Bayoh carried out a stamping attack on a female PC before he was brought to the ground and restrained by up to six officers.\n\nBut now an eyewitness has spoken publicly for the first time about the 2015 incident.\n\nHe told a Panorama investigation that the stamping attack \"never happened\".\n\nThe Scottish Police Federation said its officers had cooperated truthfully with investigators.\n\nMr Bayoh, a 31-year-old father of two, died in the incident in the Fife town of Kirkcaldy in 2015.\n\nA public inquiry into the circumstances surrounding his death has recently got under way. One of its tasks is to examine whether his race was a factor.\n\nSheku Bayoh was restrained on the ground for five minutes before falling unconscious\n\nOn the night of 2 May 2015, Sheku Bayoh had taken drugs, which friends said dramatically altered his behaviour.\n\nPolice were called early the following morning after he was spotted behaving erratically with a knife in the streets of his home town.\n\nAccording to police statements, by the time the officers arrived at the scene Mr Bayoh no longer had the knife but he failed to obey instructions to get down on the ground.\n\nEach of the officers used force on Mr Bayoh within seconds of encountering him, including CS Spray and batons.\n\nHe then punched PC Nicole Short, who went to the ground.\n\nTwo officers, PCs Craig Walker and Ashley Tomlinson, would later tell investigators that Mr Bayoh then carried out a violent stamping attack on PC Short while she lay on the ground, a claim reported widely in the media.\n\nThe stamping attack was widely reported in the newspapers\n\nPC Walker told investigators: \"I had a clear view of him… he had his arms raised up at right angles to his body and brought his right foot down in a full-force stamp on to her lower back.\"\n\nPC Tomlinson said: \"I thought he had killed her. He stomped on her back again.\"\n\nNow, evidence obtained by Panorama suggests these accounts may be false.\n\nMr Bayoh was restrained on the ground for five minutes before falling unconscious. He was pronounced dead at hospital a short time later.\n\nA post-mortem examination report revealed 23 separate injuries to Mr Bayoh's body, including a broken rib and gashes to his head. The cause of death was recorded as \"sudden death in a man intoxicated [with drugs] whilst under restraint\".\n\nIn 2018, the Crown Office in Scotland decided there would be no prosecutions against any officers involved.\n\nKevin Nelson gave evidence to investigators two days after the incident\n\nKevin Nelson was in a nearby house and saw events unfold over a garden hedge.\n\nHe gave his account to investigators from Pirc (Police Investigations and Review Commissioner), which investigates deaths in custody, two days after the incident.\n\nSpeaking publicly for the first time, Mr Nelson told Panorama he saw Mr Bayoh attempt to walk away from the officers, ignoring their commands, before being sprayed with CS spray. He said Mr Bayoh retaliated and punched PC Short.\n\nAsked if there had been any further contact with PC Short, he said, \"No. He was running off… after the punch, there was no more attack on her at all.\"\n\nMr Nelson said Mr Bayoh ran off from where PC Short went down and was quickly intercepted by the other officers.\n\nAsked about PC Walker's claim that Mr Bayoh had \"his arms raised up… and brought his right foot down in a full force stamp\", Mr Nelson said: \"That never happened. I didn't see him stamping at all or, other than the punch, any raised arms.\n\n\"After the punch, that was it. There was no more attack on her at all. That's not right.\"\n\nThe officers provided their accounts to investigators 32 days after Mr Bayoh's death.\n\nMr Nelson said no-one from Pirc returned to ask about the discrepancy between their account and his.\n\nThe eyewitness said he decided to speak out because it was unfair on Mr Bayoh's family that the officers had \"made the incident worse than it actually was to justify what had happened and… that's not right\".\n\nMr Nelson's account is supported by CCTV footage of the incident, obtained by the BBC.\n\nIt is poor quality but appears to show that once PC Short is knocked down by Mr Bayoh, the action moves away from her, and he is brought down within five seconds.\n\nPC Short did not mention in her statement she had been stamped on. Now retired, she later said she was unsure if she was conscious, and only learned about the alleged stamping attack when her colleagues told her about it afterwards.\n\nIn the CCTV, PC Short appears to get to her feet a few seconds after Mr Bayoh is brought down.\n\nMike Franklin says conflicts of evidence should have been resolved\n\nMike Franklin, former commissioner for the body which investigated police complaints in England and Wales, looked at Panorama's evidence.\n\nHe said: \"I think there's nothing more serious than a police officer who gives false information in an investigation where somebody has died. So without accusing them of lying, I simply say that there's a big conflict.\n\n\"Two officers who were there say that it did happen. The person to whom it happened didn't mention it. And an eyewitness says it didn't happen.\n\n\"I would've been reluctant to sign off the investigation as complete, without resolving those… conflicts of evidence.\"\n\nMr Bayoh's sister, Kadi Johnson, told Panorama the new allegations had made her \"really angry\".\n\nShe said the way her brother was \"painted\" by the accounts given after his death was not who he was.\n\nMr Bayoh's sister, Kadi Johnson, said the new allegations had made her really angry\n\nA spokesman for the Scottish Police Federation, which represents rank and file officers, said serving officers were unable to comment on matters \"to which they may be called upon to give sworn evidence\" but that they had \"co-operated fully and truthfully with the investigations that have taken place\".\n\nIt added it had seen \"compelling material that Mr Bayoh did violently stamp on the back of a policewoman as she lay unconscious\".\n\nThe BBC asked for this material to be produced but was told the inquiry was the \"proper forum\" for such matters.\n\nThe Crown Office, which directed the Pirc Inquiry, told Panorama it had examined \"eye-witness accounts of police and civilian witnesses\" and instructed \"appropriate investigation\".\n\nIt said after careful consideration it was decided there should be no prosecutions but reserved the right to prosecute should evidence become available.\n\nPirc told Panorama its investigation was \"detailed and extensive\" but could not comment further because of the public inquiry.\n\nPolice Scotland Chief Constable Iain Livingstone expressed his condolences to the Bayoh family and said the force would \"participate fully\" in the inquiry.\n\nKevin Clarke died after being restrained in London by up to nine officers\n\nPanorama's \"I Can't Breathe: Black and Dead in Custody\" also investigates the case of Kevin Clarke, 35, who died in 2018 after being restrained in London by up to nine officers.\n\nAn inquest into his death resulted in a damning verdict on the police and ambulance services.\n\nMr Clarke's sister Tellecia told the programme that if the officers \"hadn't used excessive force he would still be here today… treat him like a human being, and not just see him as a big scary black man\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Commander Bas Javid apologised to Mr Clarke's family and accepted the restraint had not been appropriate.", "Protests against China's alleged abuse of the Muslim Uighur community\n\nThe government has narrowly seen off a rebellion by 33 Tory MPs, who want to outlaw trade deals with countries judged to be committing genocide.\n\nMPs voted by 319 to 308 to remove an amendment to the Trade Bill which would have forced ministers to withdraw from deals with nations the UK High Court ruled guilty of mass killings.\n\nIt comes amid condemnation of China's treatment of the Uighur people.\n\nThe rebels believe they have enough support to secure another vote soon.\n\nAmong those to defy the government were ex-Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith, former cabinet ministers David Davis and Damian Green and Tom Tugendhat, chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee.\n\nThe rebellion is one of the largest on an issue not related to the Covid-19 pandemic during Boris Johnson's time as prime minister.\n\nThe government has a Commons majority of 80 but this was whittled down to just 11 as prominent ex-ministers such as Tobias Ellwood, Caroline Nokes and Nusrat Ghani, as well as a number of MPs first elected last year, sided with the opposition.\n\nMPs have been debating proposals, tabled by cross-bench peer Lord Alton, to give British courts the right to decide if a country is committing genocide, a decision currently left to the jurisdiction of international courts.\n\nThe proposals, also backed by Labour, would mean that ministers would have to revoke post-Brexit trade deals with countries that were ruled to be carrying out systematic mass killings.\n\nThe issue is expected to resurface when the Trade Bill returns to the House of Lords.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, Conservative rebels, led by former leader Iain Duncan Smith, were unable to force a vote on a separate amendment they had proposed.\n\nEvery speaker in today's debate - from the front and back benches - said genocide was abhorrent. The worst of crimes. There was united criticism of China's brutal treatment of the Uighurs too.\n\nBut the question Parliament has been wrestling with is whether the High Court should have the right to decide if a country is committing genocide. And if they did judge a country has been carrying out mass killings, should the High Court be able to compel the government to revoke any trade treaty it has with that country?\n\nMinisters insist it should be the job of elected governments, not judges, to determine trade policy. But opposition parties and a large cohort of Tory backbenchers argue it's essential the High Court can rule on genocide and ensure the UK's new trade-making freedom has an obligation to uphold human rights too.\n\nThis also is an argument about where power lies after Brexit and what role Parliament should have in shaping trade policy after decades in the EU.\n\nBut BBC Newsnight political editor Nick Watt said that by securing large, but not overwhelming, support for Lord Alton's amendment in the Commons, the rebels hope the government will accept Mr Duncan Smith's own amendment - which would give the Commons the right to debate whether trade deals can be halted if genocide is proven.\n\nThe debate came as the US government formally declared that China was committing genocide in its repression of Uighur muslims in Xinjiang.\n\nThe UK government has been critical of China's treatment of the Uighurs and last week announced measures to cut UK business links with forced labour camps in the region.\n\nBut some MPs suspect the government is pulling its punches to avoid antagonising Beijing.\n\nMr Duncan Smith said the debate was \"all about simply shining a light of hope to all those out there who have failed to get their day in court and failed to be treated properly\".\n\n\"If this country doesn't stand up for that then I want to know what would it ever stand up for again?,\" he added.\n\nBut Trade Minister Greg Hands said it was unprecedented and unacceptable to give the courts powers to revoke trade deals agreed by elected governments.\n\nAnd he argued that no one would benefit from the proposal because the UK currently had no free trade deal with China.", "Lisbet Stone is stranded at Madrid Airport due to having an out-of-date coronavirus test result\n\nPassenger Lisbet Stone says she is stuck in Madrid Airport after airline officials said her coronavirus test result was out of date.\n\nFrom Monday, travellers arriving in the UK, whether by boat, train or plane, have to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nThe test must be taken in the three days before travelling.\n\nFor those with connecting flights, the test must be 72 hours before your final departure point to England.\n\nAnyone arriving without one faces a fine of up to £500.\n\nMrs Stone originally travelled to Cuba in February 2020 to see family. The British Cuban dual national was unable to fly home to the UK when Cuba closed its borders in March.\n\nThe family say she had several previous flights cancelled before finally being able to leave this weekend. She hasn't been able to see her four children or her husband Trevor in 11 months.\n\nThe government are understood to be speaking to Air Europa to try to get Mrs Stone home. Carriers have been told that they should permit stranded passengers to board and will not be fined for doing so.\n\nWhile Mrs Stone has been caught out by the new restrictions for incoming travellers, the first day of the new regulations appeared to go smoothly.\n\nMrs Stone left Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuba, on Sunday night to fly back to the UK via Madrid.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Coronavirus: How to fly during a global pandemic (this video reflects the rules before the hotel quarantine was introduced in the UK)\n\nShe took a Covid test on Thursday to be guaranteed a result by Saturday. It was negative and Mrs Stone was able to board the plane from Cuba.\n\nHowever, on arrival at Madrid-Barajas Airport, Mrs Stone says she was stopped from boarding the next leg of her journey to London Gatwick by Air Europa staff, because her test had been taken more than 72 hours before the final flight.\n\n\"She's crying her eyes out,\" says Trevor Stone, her husband. \"I feel absolutely helpless. She doesn't have any Euros as she wasn't meant to stay in Spain. The authorities have given her no help whatsoever, we are just trying to understand what to do.\n\n\"She took her test 72 hours before the start of her journey, but had to take a connecting flight onwards. There would be no other way to do it, it is not physically possible.\"\n\nIn the meantime, Mr Stone says he has been home-schooling their four children on his own through the pandemic.\n\nTrevor Stone (left) has been caring for the couple's four children on his own for 11 months since Lisbet Stone was unable to leave Cuba\n\n\"We are just desperate to get her home - I'm so worried about her and after 11 months, she really wants to see her children,\" he added. \"We haven't done anything wrong, I don't know what to do or who to turn to.\"\n\nA Department for Transport spokesman said: \"Passengers travelling to the UK must provide proof of a negative coronavirus test which meets the performance standards set out by the government in the guidance published on gov.uk.\n\n\"The type of test could include a PCR test or antigen test, including a lateral flow test. Anyone who cannot provide the necessary documentation may not be allowed to board their flight.\"\n\nAir Europa and Madrid Airport have been approached by the BBC for comment.", "US tariffs have hit the Scotch whisky industry hard\n\nThe UK and US have failed to do a much hoped for \"mini-deal\" over trade in the last days of the Trump administration.\n\nThere were hopes the US would lift tariffs on imports of Scotch whisky and cashmere imposed last year as part of the Boeing-Airbus trade dispute.\n\nBut those duties will now stay in place while President-elect Biden awaits confirmation of his trade team.\n\nThe talks were revealed in a BBC interview with US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer in December.\n\nAt the time he said he was hopeful that he and his UK counterpart, International Trade Secretary Liz Truss, could \"get some kind of an agreement out\".\n\nBut the BBC understands that a broad offer from the US was rejected last week by the UK after concerns were expressed by the Business Department about the impact on Airbus' business in the UK.\n\nSince 2019, the EU and US have both imposed tariffs on each others' goods amid a long-running trade dispute between the planemakers Boeing and Airbus.\n\nThe tariffs centre on a long-running dispute between Boeing and Airbus\n\nEarlier last month the UK's Trade Department announced it would unilaterally break from the EU's position of levying tariffs on imports of Boeing aeroplanes, after the end of the Brexit transition period.\n\nIt was, said Ms Truss, an attempt to create goodwill to solve the 16-year old dispute.\n\nBut the UK aerospace industry was furious with what it saw as the government reneging on promises made in early 2020 to support Airbus in the dispute, even after Brexit.\n\nThese concerns were the main block to a deal, but the chaos in Washington DC over the past week also played a part.\n\nThe US was also looking for tariffs on its exports of bourbon to the UK - part of a separate trade dispute over steel - to be settled.\n\nA government source said: \"Ultimately we came close to resolving an intractable 16-year dispute, but didn't quite get there. Any deal must be balanced and work for the whole UK and all of UK industry.\"\n\nThey added: \"No one has fought harder on this than Liz, and she's going to continue pushing it with the Biden administration. She absolutely understands the pain of affected businesses and is determined to get these tariffs lifted and support jobs.\"\n\nThe source said the government had pursued a \"clear de-escalation strategy\" with the Trump administration over the dispute which meant it had avoided being hit with further US tariffs, unlike the EU.\n\nMs Truss still hopes to settle the dispute quickly and has committed to meet Katherine Tai, the new US Trade Representative, in Washington DC as soon as she assumes office, the source added.\n\nKaren Betts, head of the Scotch Whisky Association, said her industry was \"very frustrated\" a deal was not reached.\n\n\"There is deep disappointment across the Scotch whisky industry that distillers are still paying the price for an aerospace dispute that has nothing to do with us.\n\n\"The tariff on single malt Scotch whisky, now in place for 15 months, has caused us to lose over £450m in exports to the US, and our losses continue to mount.\"", "Marion Dawson is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.\n\nA 108-year-old woman has received the Covid vaccination on her birthday.\n\nMarion Dawson, from Houston in Renfrewshire, is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.\n\nShe received her jab at Houston and Killellan Kirk, which is being used by the local GP surgery to deliver vaccinations to the community.\n\nBorn in 1913, Mrs Dawson has lived through two world wars and the Spanish flu pandemic.\n\nDr Diane Fisher, who gave the injection said: \"We are so excited to be starting vaccinations of our over-80s, and that our first patient to be vaccinated is doing so on her birthday.\"\n\nMrs Dawson is the most senior person in NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde to be given the vaccine.\n\nAfter receiving her injection, she said: \"I'm glad it's passed. I never felt a thing.\"\n\nKirk minister, Rev Gary Noonan said: \"Mrs Dawson is a local treasure in Houston, until the lockdown she never missed a week at church.\n\n\"It's fitting she can get her vaccine in the Kirk, a place she loves.\"\n\nDr Mark Storey, partner at Strathgryffe Medical Practice, added: \"It's been a very difficult year in general practice and society as a whole.\n\n\"In our practice we have a family of 10,000 patients, so we are delighted to start vaccinating, especially with Mrs Dawson.\"", "The pace of Europe's Covid-19 vaccination campaign has picked up and in many countries infection rates have been falling.\n\nLockdowns are gradually being eased as the summer tourist season gets under way, and there are plans for an EU-wide digital vaccination certificate to be in place by 1 July.\n\nNationwide curfew ended on 20 June, 10 days earlier than planned. Face masks are no longer required outdoors.\n\nRestaurants, cafes and bars can serve customers indoors, with 50% capacity and up to six people per table.\n\nStanding concerts will resume on 30 June and nightclubs on 9 July (with 75% capacity). People attending will need a health pass which shows either full vaccination, a negative test within the previous 72 hours, or else a previous coronavirus infection.\n\nMedical grade masks are compulsory in shops and on public transport.\n\nFrom 30 June, working from home will no longer be compulsory.\n\nOn 21 June, Italy's curfew was scrapped and the whole country, except for the northwest region of Valle d'Aosta, became \"white zone\" - the country's lowest-risk category.\n\nAmong the measures still in place are social distancing (1m) and the wearing of masks indoors (and in crowded outdoor places), and a ban on house parties and large gathering.\n\nNightclubs and discos are also closed.\n\nAll indoor businesses, with the exception of nightclubs, are open.\n\nThe government introduced a \"corona pass\" in April, the first to do so in Europe.\n\nThis shows - either on a phone or on paper - that you have been vaccinated, previously infected or that you have had a negative test within 72 hours.\n\nPeople need to show it for entry to cinemas, museums, hairdressers or indoor dining.\n\nThe Greek government is welcoming tourists from many countries, if they are fully vaccinated or can provide a negative coronavirus test.\n\nFace coverings must be worn in all public places and there is a curfew from 01:30-05:00, but bars, restaurants, museums and archaeological sites are all open.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Greek island of Milos is aiming to become \"Covid-free\" so it can welcome back tourists\n\nCinemas, theatres, museums and restaurants are open at 50% capacity. From 26 June, this increases to 75%.\n\nNightclubs and discos will also be allowed to reopen, with a limit of 150 people.\n\nFace coverings must be worn in enclosed spaces and 1.5m social distancing observed.\n\nShops, bars, restaurants and museums are open, although face coverings remain compulsory in most public places.\n\nNightclubs can now reopen in parts of Spain with low infection rates.\n\nIn Barcelona, they are restricted to 50% of capacity and can stay open until 03:30 - dancers have to wear masks.\n\nSpain began welcoming vaccinated tourists from 7 June. Most European travellers still have to present a negative Covid test on arrival.\n\nBrussels: Outdoor dining resumed in Belgium on 8 May\n\nShops, cinemas, gyms, cafes and restaurants are open, with restrictions. Households can invite up to four people inside.\n\nFrom 1 July, working from home will no longer be mandatory, if the situation continues to improve.\n\nCultural performances, shows and sports competitions can also go ahead, with limited numbers, and more people will be allowed at weddings and other ceremonies and parties.\n\nPortugal has lifted many of its restrictions but face coverings must still be worn in indoor public spaces and some outdoor settings.\n\nBars and nightclubs remain closed, and it's illegal to drink alcohol outdoors in public places, except for pavement cafés and restaurants.\n\nAlcohol cannot be sold after 21:00 unless it is with a meal.\n\nRestaurants, cafes and cultural venues have to close at 01:00 and have capacity limits.\n\nA weekend travel ban is in force in the Lisbon area, starting at 15:00 on Friday, with residents only allowed to leave for essential journeys.\n\nIn Lisbon and in Albufeira (Algarve), cafes, restaurants and non-essential shops have to close by 15:30 at the weekend and 22:30 on weekdays.\n\nPortugal's summer season looks uncertain, yet its Covid figures have improved\n\nRestaurants, cafes, museums and historic buildings have reopened with capacity limits.\n\nFrom 26 June, a number of restrictions are being lifted.\n\nAlcohol can be sold after 22:00, and nightclubs can open, with an entry pass system.\n\nEvents held in public venues such as cinemas, conference centres and concert halls will be allowed, subject to social distancing.\n\nMasks will no longer be compulsory except on public transport, airports and in secondary schools.\n\nOutdoor services in restaurants and bars returned in June. Theme parks, funfairs, cinemas and theatres, gyms and swimming pools, have reopened as well.\n\nFrom 5 July, restaurants and bars will be able to serve customers indoors. Weddings and other indoor events for up to 50 people will be permitted and the numbers at outdoor organised events will increase.\n\nSince June, pubs have been able to stay open until 22:30 and more people are now allowed at sports events, outdoor concerts, cinemas and markets.\n\nOn 1 July, limits on private gatherings will be raised, and the recommendation to interact with a small circle of people removed.\n\nFurther easing is planned on 15 July and in September.", "'Paul' was accused of committing a domestic burglary in June 2018.\n\nIn early 2019 he was told by police that no further action would be taken against him. However, he was subsequently charged.\n\nLast week - over two years since the alleged offence - he appeared at Inner London Crown Court.\n\nBut his barrister told the court that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) had still not served the sole evidence - DNA - in the case on the defence.\n\nPaul (not his real name) is on bail and had his trial put on provisional \"warned\" list - for December 2021.\n\nIt means there is no guarantee it will take place at that time - just that it might.\n\nThe judge explained apologetically that priority is being given to cases where defendants are being held in custody.\n\nSo, three and a half-years from the date of the alleged offence, there has been no justice for the alleged burglary victim - or the accused.\n\nPaul's was one of a number of cases I saw on a visit to Inner London with the chair of the Criminal Bar Association (CBA) James Mulholland QC. He told me it was typical.\n\n\"This is justice 2020, but it has been like this for the last 10 years, delay after delay, inbuilt into the system. These cases are being pushed back continuously.\n\n\"Lack of investment is at the heart of it and government needs to understand that you don't create a proper justice system without proper investment.\n\n\"What we are seeing here are the fruits of a lack of interest.\"\n\nThat apparent \"lack of interest\" is reflected in the state of some court buildings. Outside Inner London I saw a dead pigeon decaying on netting, vast weeds growing up the side of the building and old pipes leaking water.\n\nMeanwhile, a court official told me that some court centres are now listing trials for 2023.\n\nThe delays are caused by a range of factors.\n\nLawyers point to huge cuts to the police, CPS and other agencies such as probation.\n\nThere are a range of things malfunctioning within the system. They include long initial delays caused by police \"releasing suspects under investigation\" - sometimes for years - before a charging decision is made.\n\nSystemic problems continue with the CPS serving evidence late on the defence, meaning lawyers cannot advise their clients in a timely manner.\n\nAnd perhaps most significantly - the decisions by government to cut thousands of crown court sitting days. That has meant that courts have been mothballed while trials stack up in a growing backlog.\n\nNone of these problems are caused by the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown, but they are of course exacerbated by it. Pre-lockdown the crown court backlog in England and Wales stood at some 37,000.\n\n\"Adam\" - not his real name - was accused of rape in March 2018. He denies the charge. His trial has been put back twice, once because of the pandemic.\n\nHe is now on a \"warned\" list for November, while his chosen career in one of the public services is on hold.\n\n\"I have suffered really bad with my mental health through it,\" he says. \"I've had to up my dosage of anti-depressants. It's affected my potential career.\n\n\"The hard work I have done at university and everything to get me there it's all basically going out of the window now. I haven't got any trust or hope that it will be anywhere near the end of this year.\n\n\"I think it will be more like April next year.\"\n\nThe next case I saw involved two young men charged with possession of drugs with intent to supply. The alleged offence took place in December 2017.\n\nNo one in court could explain the delay.\n\nIt was followed by a case in which the judge needed a pre-sentence report from the probation service in order to sentence the defendant. Despite repeated requests, no one was available.\n\nIn order to achieve a conclusion of the case, the judge had to devise a sentence which did not require a report. It was not ideal, but it showed professionals trying to do their best in the face of a lack of resources.\n\n\"Defendants are suspended from their jobs with trial dates one to two years away. Some are losing university places with dates from the alleged offence to trial of four years.\n\n\"And some who are awaiting trial for 18-24 months on bail, can be on electronic tagged curfew from 7-7 every day, for up to two years.\"\n\nTo help deal with the situation, the government has announced that the period of time an accused person can be held before a trial - known as the Custody Time Limit (CTL) - will be increased from six to eight months.\n\nBut the government admitted - in response to a Freedom of Information request from the group Fair Trials - that it did not know how many people had been held in prison beyond the time limit since lockdown.\n\nLawyers fear some accused will spend more time in custody awaiting trial than the sentence they would eventually receive if they pleaded guilty - and that some might falsely plead guilty simply to bring an end to their case.\n\nLife is bleak for those in custody awaiting trial, says Ms Fenn,\n\n\"There are often no visits from family or in-person visits from lawyers. Defendants can be locked up for 23.5 hours a day, education classes and courses are suspended, jobs within the prison restricted, and there are reports of showers being limited to 1-2 a week.\"\n\nCovid has also removed a \"huge amount of mental health, drug and alcohol agency support\", she says.\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesperson said justice had been kept moving \"despite the unprecedented challenges posed by the pandemic\" and overall, cases are falling.\n\nHowever, they acknowledged that \"more needs to be done\".\n\nThe government has launched an £80 million Criminal Courts Recovery plan which includes:\n\nHowever, only three of the new Nightingale Courts are dealing with crime.\n\nI visited one, Prospero House, a short walk from Inner London. It is a state of the art commercial building with three large courtrooms allowing ample room for social distancing. Every desk has hand sanitiser and protective gloves.\n\nBut Mr Mulholland says: \"We need 60 criminal Nightingale Court buildings. At the moment we have just three.\"\n\nThe CBA says there are around 460 crown courtrooms in England and Wales. Currently around 100 are able to hear trials, though not all are hosting them.\n\nThe government says its plan will bring on stream another 250 of the existing rooms to hear jury trials by the end of October. The CBA believes that simply will not cut into the backlog.\n\nLawyers believe that the Treasury has long seen justice as a poor relation to health and education in terms of public spending.\n\n\"Investing in the criminal justice system is investing in the wealth and prosperity of the country,\" says Mr Mulholland.\n\n\"It is an empty and insulting promise for any minister to declare a war on crime if a government can't fund a system that keeps us safe - and ensures crimes are swiftly investigated and cases come to court on time.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aerial footage shows the 130-car pile-up on the Tohoku Expressway\n\nA huge snowstorm has struck a highway in Japan, causing a 130-vehicle pile-up, killing one person and injuring 10.\n\nThe storm blanketed a stretch of the Tohoku Expressway in Miyagi prefecture at around noon (03:00 GMT) on Tuesday.\n\nSome 200 people have been caught up in the pile-up and rescuers are currently at the scene, officials said.\n\nJapan has been hit by severe snow storms in recent weeks with some parts of the country seeing double the average expected snowfall.\n\nImages from the expressway in the north of the country show the sheer scale of the pile-up.\n\nOne person died and at least 10 were injured after the vehicles collided\n\nAuthorities had already enforced a 50km/h (31mph) speed limit on the road due to visibility.\n\nThere was a maximum wind speed of about 100km/h (62mph) at the time of the incident, local weather officials said.\n\nThose who were involved have been given drinking water and food, and have been provided with blankets to keep warm, NHK News reports (in Japanese).\n\nThose stuck behind the vehicles have been given food, water and blankets\n\nThe snow has affected some of Japan's high-speed railway network, with a number of train services in the Tohoku region cancelled.\n\nAccording to local media, the region is expected to record up to 40cm (15 inches) of snow in the next 24 hours.\n\nThe country has been experiencing a large amount of snowfall this winter.\n\nLast month, heavy snow left more than 1,000 vehicles stranded on the Kanetsu expressway for two days.\n\nThe weather was so bad that an emergency meeting was called and the country's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga called on members of the public to be cautious.", "Pupils are currently learning remotely from home\n\nSchools in England may reopen region by region after half term, the government's deputy chief medical officer Jenny Harries has said.\n\nSpeaking to the Commons education committee, Dr Harries suggested there would be different rates of infection across the country when lockdown ends.\n\nThis would mean a \"differential application\" of restrictive measures would be required, she said.\n\nSchools were closed at the start of January to stem the spread of Covid-19.\n\nAlthough schools remain open to vulnerable children and those of keyworkers, all others are due to learn remotely from home until after the February half term holiday.\n\nBut the Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, has suggested they may not return fully then.\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said the department was continuing to keep plans for the return to school under review and that it would inform schools, parents and pupils of the plans ahead of February half term.\n\nCommittee chairman Robert Halfon said he suspected schools would be closed for quite \"a few weeks yet\", but there has been no formal confirmation of this.\n\nMedical and science advisers were warning the government before Christmas that the NHS would not be able to manage the number of Covid-19 cases if schools remained open.\n\nThe new, more transmissible variant of the virus had been increasing exponentially in London and the south-east before Christmas.\n\nBut in some parts of the north and north-east saw rates of increase were reducing.\n\nDr Harries said: \"It is highly likely that when we come out of this national lockdown we will not have consistent patterns of infection in our communities across the country.\n\n\"And therefore, as we had prior to the national lockdown, it may well be possible that we need to have some differential application.\"\n\nBut Dr Harries said schools would be at the top of the priority to ensure that the balance of education and wellbeing were \"right at the forefront\" of consideration.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Deputy chief medical officer Jenny Harries says schools in England might reopen ''region by region''\n\nGeoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: \"Although the government intends that schools will fully reopen after the February half-term holiday, it is clearly in the balance when this happens and whether there will be any sort of regional approach.\n\n\"We expect that it will depend on coronavirus infection rates and the pressure on the NHS, and that the government will make a call on this issue nearer the time.\n\n\"What is important is that when schools fully reopen, everything possible is done to keep them open and to keep disruption to a minimum.\n\n\"This is why we are calling for education staff to be prioritised for vaccinations as soon as possible, and for schools to be given more support in the use of rapid turnaround mass testing.\"\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said if the government was planning to stagger opening of schools by region, it needed to \"provide clarity sooner rather than later\".\n\n\"This will give vital time to prepare for a smoother reopening of schools and business,\" he said.\n\nOn calls for vaccination of teachers, Dr Harries suggested the safe re-opening of schools did not depend on this.\n\nBut members of the committee suggested education would be less disrupted by teachers needing to go home and isolate when infected.\n\nThe vaccination programme had been worked out in order of vulnerability to the disease, she stressed.\n\nAnd Dr Harries added that although pupils could and did transmit the virus, she did not have evidence of them being \"a significant driver\" of \"large-scale community infections\".", "The publication of a letter from the Duchess of Sussex to her father was a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of her privacy, the High Court has been told.\n\nMeghan is suing the publisher of the Mail on Sunday and Mail Online over articles that reproduced parts of the private handwritten letter.\n\nShe claims her privacy and copyright were breached by the newspaper group.\n\nHer lawyers are asking for summary judgement - a dismissal of Associated Newspapers' defence instead of a trial.\n\nMeghan's lawyers argue Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) has \"no prospect\" of defending the privacy and copyright claims being brought against them.\n\nThey claim the publication of extracts from the private, handwritten letter to Thomas Markle was \"self-evidently... highly intrusive\".\n\nMeghan, 39, sent the letter to her father in August 2018, following her marriage to Prince Harry in May that year, which Mr Markle did not attend. The couple are now living in the US with their son Archie.\n\nThe five articles, published in February 2019, were a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of the duchess's privacy, correspondence and family, the lawyers claim.\n\nMr Markle said in a witness statement provided to the remote hearing, which started on Tuesday, that he wanted the letter published to \"set the record straight\" about his relationship with his daughter - but one of Meghan's lawyers described this claim as \"ridiculous\".\n\nMeghan is seeking damages from the newspaper group for alleged misuse of private information, copyright infringement and breach of the Data Protection Act over the articles.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex now live in the US with their son\n\nHer lawyers told the court the letter was written in sorrow rather than anger and was an attempt to get her father to stop talking to the press.\n\nBut the newspaper group said in its response to the court that Meghan had written the letter \"with a view to it being disclosed publicly at some future point\" in order to \"defend her against charges of being an uncaring or unloving daughter\".\n\nIn written submissions, the newspaper group's barrister Antony White said \"she must, at the very least, have appreciated that her father might choose to disclose it\" and pointed out that the Kensington Palace communications team had been shown the letter before it was sent.\n\n\"No truly private letter from daughter to father would require any input from the Kensington Palace communications team,\" said Mr White.\n\nBut Meghan's lawyers also pointed out the articles themselves had emphasised the private nature of the correspondence - and dismissed any argument that it was in the public interest for the newspaper to reproduce the letter, saying the public interest was at the \"very end of the bottom end of the scale\".\n\nJustin Rushbrooke, representing the duchess, described the handwritten letter as \"a heartfelt plea from an anguished daughter to her father\".\n\nHe said the \"contents and character of the letter were intrinsically private, personal and sensitive in nature\" and that Meghan \"had a reasonable expectation of privacy in respect of the contents of the letter\".\n\nThe effect of publishing the letter was \"self-evidently likely to be devastating for the claimant\", said Mr Rushbrooke.\n\nThe barrister argued that, even if ANL was justified in publishing parts of the letter, \"on any view the defendant published far more by way of extracts from the letter than could have been justified in the public interest\".\n\nMr White said that the newspaper group would argue that Meghan's status as a member of the royal family was relevant to the case.\n\nIn response to that point, Mr Rushbrooke said: \"Yes, she is in some senses a public figure, but that does not reduce her expectation of privacy in relation to information of this kind.\"\n\nIn Thomas Markle's evidence, he said the letter \"signalled the end\" of his relationship with his daughter, and instead of a reconciliation attempt, the letter was a \"criticism\" of him.\n\nHe said that he had to \"defend himself\" against an article in People magazine. It carried an interview with a \"long-time friend\" of his daughter, who suggested Meghan sent the letter to repair her relationship with her father - something he claimed was false.\n\nThe People article, he claimed, made him appear \"dishonest, exploitative, publicity-seeking, uncaring and cold-hearted\".\n\nHe said he had \"never intended to talk publicly about Meg's letter\" until he read the People magazine piece which, he claimed, suggested he was \"to blame for the end of the relationship\".\n\nThe full trial of the duchess's claim had been due to be heard at the High Court this month, but last year the case was adjourned until autumn 2021.\n\nThis interim remote hearing - to consider the request for summary judgement - is due to last two days. Mr Justice Warby, who is hearing the case, is expected to reserve his judgement to a later date.", "Most people who have had Covid-19 are protected from catching it again for at least five months, a study led by Public Health England shows.\n\nPast infection was linked to around a 83% lower risk of getting the virus, compared with those who had never had Covid-19, scientists found.\n\nBut experts warn some people do catch Covid-19 again - and can infect others.\n\nAnd officials stress people should follow the stay-at-home rules - whether or not they have had the virus.\n\nProf Susan Hopkins, who led the study, said the results were encouraging, suggesting immunity lasted longer than some people feared, but protection was by no means absolute.\n\nIt was particularly concerning some of those reinfected had high levels of the virus - even without symptoms - and were at risk of passing it on to others, she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Susan Hopkins from Public Health England said immunity from having Covid-19 is \"not 100% protective\"\n\n\"This means even if you believe you already had the disease and are protected, you can be reassured it is highly unlikely you will develop severe infections but there is still a risk that you could acquire an infection and transmit to others,\" she added.\n\n\"Now more than ever, it is vital we all stay at home to protect our health service and save lives.\"\n\nFrom June to November 2020, almost 21,000 healthcare workers across the UK were regularly tested to see whether they:\n\nOf those who had no antibodies to the virus, suggesting they may have never had it, 318 developed potential new infections within this timeframe.\n\nBut among the 6,614 with antibodies, this figure was just 44 potential new infections.\n\nResearchers received various different pieces of evidence suggesting these people had become re-infected - including new symptoms more than 90 days after their first infection, new positive swab tests and blood tests.\n\nSome tests are still being run and researchers say their results will be updated as they come in.\n\nScientists will continue to monitor the healthcare workers for 12 months to see how long immunity lasts.\n\nThey will also look closely at cases with the new variant - which was not widespread at the time of this first analysis - and observe the immunity of participants who receive the vaccine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Can you become immune to coronavirus?\n\nDr Julian Tang, a virus expert at the University of Leicester, said the results were reassuring for healthcare workers.\n\n\"Having the vaccine after recovering from Covid-19 is not an issue... and will likely boost the natural immunity,\" he added.\n\n\"We also see this with the seasonal flu vaccine.\n\n\"So hopefully the results from this paper will reduce the anxiety of many healthcare-worker colleagues who have concerns about getting Covid-19 twice.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Only 155 out of more than 23,000 university professors in the UK are black, according to official figures.\n\nIt remains below 1%, the same as for the past five years, and is an increase of only 50 posts despite the number of professorships rising by more than 3,000 in that time.\n\nAt this senior academic level, women hold 28% of professorships, up from 23% five years ago.\n\n\"The pace of change is glacial,\" said lecturers' union leader Jo Grady.\n\n\"Universities must do more to ensure a more representative mix of staff at a senior level and stop this terrible waste of talent,\" said Dr Grady, general secretary of the UCU university union.\n\nThe figures on black professors were \"disappointing\" and \"inexplicable\", said Halima Begum, chief executive of the Runnymede Trust race equality think tank, \"given the symbolic importance of education as the foundation of our values.\"\n\n\"Around a quarter of British postgraduates are from ethnic minorities, there is clearly no shortage of qualified black and minority academics seeking elevation to senior teaching and research roles in our universities,\" said Dr Begum.\n\nShe called on vice chancellors to take action over a problem they can \"literally discern with their own eyes every single day they are on campus\".\n\nThe annual figures, published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency, provide a breakdown of the UK's academic workforce - and show while there has been a focus on widening access for students, there are still few black academic staff.\n\nAt the level of professor, the number of black professors rose from 105 to 155 between 2014-15 to 2019-20.\n\nBut new higher education providers included in the figures meant an additional 3,200 staff at professor grade, with the proportion of black professors only increasing marginally from 0.5% to 0.7% over five years.\n\nThis compared to 7% of professors who are Asian and 89% white in the figures for 2019-20.\n\nKehinde Andrews, professor of black studies at Birmingham City University, said that rather than universities being \"progressive dreamlands\", the \"make-up of professors is the perfect reflection of the narrow Eurocentric views still produced by universities\".\n\n\"I have seen very few genuine attempts to address the issues of racism at any level across the sector,\" said Prof Andrews.\n\nAmong all academic staff, 2% are black, 10% are Asian, 75% are white, with the remainder under categories of \"mixed\", \"other or not known\".\n\nThere is still a significant gender gap in professorships, among a group that is also heavily skewed to older age groups, with most in their fifties, sixties and above.\n\nFive years ago, more than 4,500 professors were women, which has risen to 6,300 - from 23% to 28% of these senior posts.\n\nThis is despite women representing 46% of all academic staff.\n\nBaroness Amos, who was the UK's first black female university head, has previously warned of \"deep-seated prejudices and stereotypes which need to be overcome\" in the recruitment of senior staff in higher education.\n\nUniversities UK said \"the evidence is clear that black and minority ethnic staff continue to be under-represented\" at these senior academic levels.\n\n\"More needs to be done to address this inequality which exists within higher education, which mirrors inequalities evident in wider UK society and which will require an unequivocal commitment to change,\" said the universities' organisation.", "Many think the courts system needs to invest more in technology\n\nWhen Louise Westra and her partner decided to adopt a child in November 2018, they were aware of the long process that was ahead of them, but they were not to know that the coronavirus pandemic would hold them back from completing the adoption of their son.\n\nOn 27 March, their petition was due in court. As lockdown had taken effect, telephone conferencing would be used instead of going to court.\n\nHowever, after the phone call, Ms Westra received an email from her solicitor explaining that the papers had not been served to the biological parents of the child. This continued every month after lockdown, as it wasn't possible for the papers to be physically served.\n\n\"It's farcical because one of them is the biological father who lives with the biological mother who has had her petition but the biological father hasn't and they live in the same premises,\" Ms Westra says.\n\nServing papers has to be completed by post via Royal Mail or in some cases lawyers would instruct a process server to physically take the papers and hand them to the person.\n\n\"It sounds very archaic but if [the person] won't take them by hand, the processor can drop the papers near them and tell them what the document contains and that's technically counted as full service,\" says Rebecca Ranson, a solicitor for Maguire Family Law.\n\nUnless a judge approves it, emailing or any other forms of digital communication are not considered valid - even though the majority of people in the UK have access to email and the internet. It is this kind of process, in need of a digital upgrade, that is frustrating for Ms Westra.\n\nMs Westra's case is one of many that have been delayed. The number of outstanding Crown court cases was 43,676 on 26 July, and the entire backlog across magistrates' and Crown courts is more than 560,000. The Commons Justice Committee has announced an inquiry into how these delays could be addressed.\n\nThe reality, however, is that there was already a huge backlog back in December, and Covid-19 has just exacerbated an existing problem. Cases like Ms Westra's have been affected by the pandemic, but many lawyers believe that the legal system could have been better prepared through technology investment over the years.\n\n\"We've got people being held for longer than they otherwise would be, and for every person in custody waiting for trial or waiting on bail for trial, there are witnesses, and complainants and their families awaiting a resolution. Whether it's the lack of technology links in prison, using Skype and improvising or not having enough Nightingale courts - it all boils down to a lack of investment,\" says Joanna Hardy, a London-based barrister.\n\nIn 2016 HM Courts & Tribunals Service began a £1bn court reform programme. This included a video-conferencing tool called the Cloud Video Platform (CVP), which allows for a dedicated private conference area, so criminal lawyers can speak to their clients without visiting prison.\n\nA programme for testing and adopting video technology was planned out until 2022, but in the pandemic, the government had to get CVP up and running in 10 weeks. This has since been extended to civil courts. But this implementation has been challenging, as there are only a restricted number of physical video links allowed.\n\n\"As we weren't ready for this huge technological revolution no-one had manned the tech rooms or built enough rooms on the other end in the prison. We can have as many laptops as we like, as much software as we like but if we can't put a prisoner into a room with a screen, the other end is pointless,\" Ms Hardy says.\n\nAccording to Ms Hardy, the waiting times to get these slots have been \"completely unacceptable\", and it has meant that sometimes hearings had to go ahead without the defendant present.\n\n\"It's like human beings failing where technology could have bridged the gap,\" she says.\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesperson said that it had offered more than 400 CVP meeting rooms since the outbreak of coronavirus, but added that it is taking steps to increase the available capacity of video conferencing at some locations by extending operating hours. The spokesperson said that the MoJ is also undertaking urgent action to increase the physical number of video link outlets at critical sites.\n\nAt the moment, criminal trials are going ahead using social distancing - meaning sometimes a second courtroom is linked by technology, but this is creating further backlogs, as it means one case is occupying the same space as two.\n\nJustice, the all-party law reform and human rights organisation, has trialled a virtual jury trial with a mock case, and suggested it should be considered as a possible option, but this hasn't been taken on by the courts.\n\nThe issue with virtual jury trials is whether or not they could affect the outcome of a trial. Some lawyers feel like juries should see a witness, feel an exhibit and dispense justice to a fellow human being in the confines of a court room.\n\nJodie Hill says it is more difficult to cross-examine people in video hearings\n\n\"You can lose the impact of cross examination. When you're challenging their evidence in person it's easier to get them to trip up if they're not being honest, whereas if they're on video it might be easier for them to cover it up,\" says Jodie Hill, solicitor and managing director of Thrive Law, an employment law specialist.\n\nFor smaller hearings, online alternatives could be here for the long term, as it means lawyers don't have to travel all over the UK unnecessarily. This doesn't mean that every hearing that can be done remotely, should be done remotely.\n\n\"We don't want overkill. We think some cases still need to be in the room, particularly if you're dealing with vulnerable people or sensitive cases. It has to be a balancing act of harnessing the benefits of technology and thinking about the specific case,\" says Ms Hardy.", "The UK is forging its post-Brexit path as a \"confident, independent nation - and an energetic force for good\", according to the government.\n\nIt's free to set trade on its own terms, pursue opportunities and higher living standards. But can it square profit with principle?\n\nIs turning a blind eye to human rights violations worth it to have a trade deal that knocks a couple of quid off the price of an imported shirt?\n\nThat New Year's resolution is already being tested, as China falls increasingly out of favour.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab has referred to conditions, under which over a million Uighur Muslims are being held in camps and forced into work, as \"at the worst... torture and inhumane and degrading treatments\".\n\nHe warned that British companies will face fines, if they can't show that their supply chains are free from forced labour.\n\nIn December, a BBC investigation revealed thousands of Uighurs and other minorities have been compelled to toil in the cotton fields of Xinjiang. The region accounts for a fifth of the world's crop - it's not always easy to tell where your t-shirt hails from.\n\nThe UK and Canada have led the charge here, but one wonders how much further can it go.\n\nMr Raab told the BBC that the UK should not be engaging in free trade negotiations with countries whose record was \"well below the level of genocide\".\n\nThere are several issues with this: first, working out who gets to decree human rights abuses.\n\nAmendments to the Trade Bill currently going through Parliament would oblige the government to assess the human rights records of potential partners.\n\nIn July, Dominic Raab accused China of \"gross and egregious\" human rights abuses against its Uighur population\n\nOne amendment proposes allowing the High Court to declare a genocide in other countries, and forcing the immediate cancellation of trade deals with said nations.\n\nMr Raab, however, says the decision to declare a genocide can't, and shouldn't be, delegated to the courts. Rather, it's for MPs to hold the government to account over trade deals.\n\nBut Labour MPs, who have written to their Conservative counterparts urging them to support the amendments, say they've already been denied powers of scrutiny.\n\nThey highlight trade deals rolled over with Egypt, Cameroon and Turkey, with whom the UK previously enjoyed similar deals the EU had struck.\n\nThese three countries, they argue, have questionable records on human rights.\n\nAnd then there's China. The UK is not planning a deal with Beijing and has indicated it won't do a deal with countries that don't share its democratic values.\n\nBut both nations have their eye on joining the wider Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement.\n\nWith imports and exports worth almost £80bn in 2019, China already scores as one of the UK's largest trading partners, and it's not just about frocks and financial services crossing borders.\n\nSince Xi Jinping and David Cameron famously sipped a pint in a Buckinghamshire pub in 2015, Chinese investment in the UK has exploded, backing everything from football clubs to restaurant chains.\n\nNow China's appeal has soured, but it may not be easy to back away from encouraging investment, or a trade deal which touts lower import prices and greater opportunities for exporters, when the UK economy is already reeling.\n\nThe Wolverhampton Wanderers are owned by Chinese investors Fosun International\n\nTake textiles - a free trade deal would do away with a 12% tariff on clothes hailing from China. Ultimately, trade deals build on an existing - in this case very lucrative - relationship.\n\nCritics argue it's not enough to refrain from boosting ties with nations with chequered records - they should be lessened.\n\nBut it's even harder to snub countries that are already providing jobs for thousands, or items from the frivolous, such as smartphones, to the vital, like billions of PPE items.\n\nSome say the UK has its own issues elsewhere. It resumed the sales of arms to Saudi Arabia last year, after the government said the method for licensing had been reformulated to ensure they wouldn't be used in Yemen. Human rights groups are less sure.\n\nBalancing its quest to be a responsible citizen, together with exploring fresh fortunes, is just one dilemma the UK faces, as it shapes its new identity on the global stage.", "Boris Johnson will be glad Donald Trump has not been re-elected for a second term as US president, ex-Civil Service head Lord Sedwill has suggested.\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, Lord Sedwill said those who believed Boris Johnson would have preferred Mr Trump to win again were \"mistaken.\"\n\nHe said he \"would not have been to the benefit\" of British or European security, trade or environment issues.\n\nDowning Street said Mr Johnson looked forward to working with Joe Biden.\n\nThis month he said Mr Trump was \"completely wrong\" to cast doubt on the US election and encourage supporters to storm the Capitol.\n\nAnd in 2015, when he was Mayor of London, Mr Johnson accused him of \"stupefying ignorance\" over his comments about violence in the city.\n\nBut after Mr Trump's victory in the US election in 2016, then Foreign Secretary Mr Johnson said there was a \"lot to be positive about\", and while running for the Conservative leadership in 2019, he said the President had \"many good qualities\".\n\nMr Trump later praised Mr Johnson, saying: \"they call him Britain Trump\".\n\nMr Johnson congratulated Mr Biden in a phone call after his US election win, saying he looked forward to \"strengthening the partnership\" between the US and UK.\n\nBut BBC political correspondent Chris Mason said Lord Sedwill's remarks would not be unhelpful to Downing Street as any perception in Washington that Mr Johnson was like Mr Trump becomes a liability with the arrival of President Biden.\n\nIn his Daily Mail article, Lord Sedwill, who was the UK's most senior civil servant until he stood down in September, said there was \"relief in Western capitals\" that normal diplomatic relationships will be restored once Mr Biden is inaugurated on Wednesday.\n\nThe former Cabinet Secretary said: \"Those of us who regard ourselves as close American allies have badly missed US leadership over the past four years.\n\n\"Based on my time working for Boris Johnson in Downing Street, I believe those who have said he would have preferred a second Trump term are mistaken. That would not have been to the benefit of British or European security, to transatlantic trade, let alone the environmental agenda to which the prime minister is so committed.\"\n\nLord Sedwill added: \"With Brexit accomplished and the Biden administration ready to re-engage, this is the moment for Global Britain to step up.\"", "Evelyn Jones was one of the care home residents whose family raised concerns\n\nSix care home residents died after suffering dehydration and malnourishment because of alleged neglect, an inquest has been told.\n\nStanley James, 89, June Hamer, 71, Stanley Bradford, 76, Edith Evans, 85, Evelyn Jones, 87, and William Hickman, 71 all died between 2003 and 2005.\n\nThey were residents at Brithdir Nursing Home in New Tredegar, Caerphilly.\n\nThe inquest in Newport follows Operation Jasmine, an £11.6m inquiry into alleged neglect at six homes.\n\nOne of Wales' biggest inquiries, it was launched after the death of an 84-year-old patient at a nursing home in Newbridge, Caerphilly.\n\nOpening the inquest, Assistant Coroner for Gwent Geraint Williams said police started investigating in 2005 following the death of an 84-year-old \"mentally infirm\" woman at another care home in Newbridge.\n\nMr Williams said it led to officers uncovering a \"pattern of concerns linked to other deaths in other care homes\".\n\nJune Hamer went into Brithdir in 2003\n\nIn relation to the Brithdir inquiry, Mr Williams said: \"Operation Jasmine uncovered evidence suggesting poor care of residents, including allegations of poor pressure sore and peg [percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy] feed management, malnourishment, and general neglect of the residents' long-term needs, together with deficient standards of care and nursing practice.\"\n\nThe inquest heard resident Mr James, who had dementia and was not mobile, developed several pressure sores in the 18 months before he died in August 2003.\n\nMr Bradford, who had schizophrenia, was admitted to the Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil on several occasions for complaints of \"dehydration, chest and urine infections\".\n\nBefore he died in August 2005 he was \"observed to be seriously malnourished\", by doctors.\n\nDementia patient Mrs Evans was admitted to the same hospital in September 2005, where nurses found the site around her feeding tube \"infected\", while broken skin was found on her buttocks and she appeared \"unkempt and dirty, and her mouth and lips were dry and her tongue was thick\".\n\nThe trial of the late Dr Prana Das for care home neglect collapsed after he suffered brain damage in an attack\n\nDr Prana Das, who owned and ran the nursing home along with several other facilities in Wales, faced a string of charges relating to failings in care.\n\nHe suffered a brain injury during a burglary at his home in 2012 and was declared medically unfit to stand trial.\n\nDr Das died in January 2020 aged 73, but his widow and co-owner of the home, Dr Nishebita Das, who is said not to have taken part in running it, is expected to give evidence at the inquest.\n\nMr Williams told the hearing that, even before the couple purchased the home in April 2002 under their company Puretruce Health Care Limited, \"serious concerns\" were raised by state agencies regarding the number of residents who had suffered pressure ulcers.\n\n\"Those issues continued, even after Dr Das assumed ownership of the home,\" he said.\n\nMr Williams said the inquest will consider the actions of nurses and carers at the home, \"many of whom came to this country from abroad to work and have since returned there, and are now not available to participate in the inquest\".\n\nThe inquest is set to last until March.\n\nA hearing into the death of a seventh resident, Matthew Higgins, 86, will be held following the conclusion of this inquest.", "Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said he is self-isolating after being alerted by the UK's NHS Covid-19 app.\n\nThe West Suffolk MP said self-isolation was \"perhaps the most important part of all the social distancing\" and urged others to do the same if contacted.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Hancock said he would be working from home until Sunday, adding \"we all have a part to play in getting this virus under control\".\n\nHe contracted coronavirus in March 2020 and suffered \"mild symptoms\".\n\nMr Hancock said he learned from the app he had been \"in close contact with somebody who's tested positive\" and so self-isolating was \"how we break the chains of transmission\".\n\n\"So you must follow these rules like I'm going to,\" he said. \"I've got to work from home for the next six days, and together, by doing this, by following this, and all the other panoply of rules that we've had to put in place, we can get through this and beat this virus.\"\n\nMr Hancock said he was alerted by the app on Monday night, having earlier led a Downing Street press conference alongside NHS England medical director Prof Stephen Powis and Public Health England's Dr Susan Hopkins.\n\nThe NHS app tells a person if they have been in close contact with someone who has later tested positive for coronavirus and tells them to isolate for 10 full days from their last contact.\n\nWhile it is not clear from Mr Hancock's statement if his isolation ends on Sunday or Monday, his period of quarantine suggests he was last in contact with the person who was infected on Wednesday or Thursday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDowning Street confirmed that Mr Hancock would not receive the vaccine early because he is leading the pandemic response.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said: \"The PM and the rest of the cabinet will take the vaccine when it's their turn to do so based on the priority lists that have been published.\n\n\"We don't think it's right that the PM or other members of cabinet take the vaccine in place of somebody who is at higher clinical risk.\"\n\nIn March, the health secretary revealed he had tested positive for Covid-19 shortly after Prime Minister Boris Johnson had confirmed he too had the virus.\n\nWhile the health secretary recovered fairly swiftly, and was able to work from home during his illness, Mr Johnson required hospital treatment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid symptoms: What are they and how long should I self-isolate for?\n\nSelf-isolation, which means staying at home and not leaving, is a legal requirement for anybody who has Covid symptoms, has tested positive for the virus, lives with someone who has symptoms, has arrived from abroad or has been contacted by NHS Test and Trace.\n\nIn December, the self-isolation period required was cut from 14 days to 10 days.\n\nUsing Bluetooth technology the NHS app makes contact between mobile phones when they are near each other, if an owner of a phone later tests positive for the virus and shares that with the app, alerts are sent to anyone who is deemed to have been a close contact.", "More than 127,000 people in the UK who contracted coronavirus have lost their lives - with the pandemic claiming more than 3.4 million deaths worldwide. As the UK marks a year since the first coronavirus lockdown was called, it's a time for reflection.\n\nWe have gathered tributes to more than 770 of those who have died. Below are words of remembrance from friends, family and colleagues.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nThe tributes are displayed at random, which means that you will see different faces each time you visit this page.\n\nIf we have used your tribute to your friend or family member, it will appear in the carousel above, or you can find it by entering their name in the search box below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Enter a name to search the tributes\n\nFor more on NHS and healthcare workers, please see this page dedicated to 100 people who died while helping to look after others.\n\nFor more on how it has affected people's lives, from family tragedy to its impact on everyday life, we have a collection of personal stories about life in lockdown.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Britain's climate change leadership is being undercut by a government decision to allow a new coal mine in Cumbria, MPs have warned.\n\nThe UK is hosting a UN climate summit in November, where it will urge other nations to phase out fossil fuels.\n\nThe MPs say the government's decision to allow a new colliery at home will make it harder to secure a deal.\n\nThe Woodhouse mine was approved by Cumbria County Council because it will create jobs in an area of high unemployment.\n\nThe planning minister Robert Jenrick could have overruled it, but said the issue was best decided at a local level.\n\nThat verdict was derided by environmentalists, who pointed out that climate change from fossil fuel burning is a global problem.\n\nAlok Sharma, who is leading the COP26 climate summit and who co-ordinates UK policies on climate change, was asked by the Commons business select committee whether the mine approval was \"an embarrassment\". He replied: \"I take your point\".\n\nBusiness Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng told the committee there was a \"slight tension\" between approving the mine, near Whitehaven, and broader attempts to clean up the economy.\n\nBut he said ministers decided to allow the pit because it will produce coking coal for steel-making, which otherwise would have to be imported.\n\nHe said: \"There's a slight tension between the decision to open this mine and our avowed intention to take coal off the grid… there was a debate in the government about what we could do about this, but this was a local planning decision.\n\n\"If we don't have sources of coking coal in the UK we would be importing those anyway\".\n\nThis appears to run counter to advice from the Climate Change Committee which has said all coal - including coking coal - should be phased out by 2035. Doubts have been raised about investors in the mine being left with a \"stranded asset\" if the pit is forced to close on climate grounds.\n\nThe mine approval is even more poignant because the UK founded the 'Powering Past Coal Alliance\" - a global club to persuade nations to leave coal in the ground.\n\nA source close to the Alliance secretariat told BBC News that staff were enraged by the decision. They believed the decision had been made to help secure so-called \"Red Wall\" votes in areas which previously voted Labour .\n\nMohamed Adow, from a pressure group, Powershift Africa, told BBC News: \"It is quite bizarre that the UK government, in the year it hosts the biggest global climate talks since the signing of the Paris Agreement, has approved a new coal mine.\"\n\nThe young campaigner Greta Thunberg said the decision showed pledges to achieve net zero emissions targets by 2050 \"basically mean nothing\".\n\nDarren Jones, chair of the business committee, told BBC News it would be hard for the UK to persuade countries like Poland to abandon coal whilst building a mine.\n\nHe argued that the government should have found another way to bring jobs to Cumbria. He said: \"Carbon-intensive industries are looking to the government for leadership on the transition to a green future.\n\n\"Backing coal at home doesn't look in line with the recent Energy White Paper and certainly makes our efforts to secure international agreement on ambitious decarbonisation harder to achieve.\"\n\nThe Environmental Audit Committee Chairman, Philip Dunne, told BBC News: \"If the UK is to achieve its ambition to be an environmental world leader, the government must offer clear guidance on how we can take every industry to net-zero, and offer a pipeline of investable projects.\n\n\"The steel sector needs to develop alternatives to importing coking coal. This could also support the next generation of green jobs - which are urgently needed.\"\n\nThe cross-bench peer Baroness Worthington told BBC News: \"This decision is real laziness of thinking from the government. Just think of signal it sends to all those countries who want to cling on to coal.\n\n\"The government doesn't yet have a cohesive strategy that makes sense. It's crazy. Absolute madness.\"", "Medical staff are expected to \"face pressures unlike any other they have faced before\" as NI approaches its toughest week so far in the pandemic.\n\nThe British Medical Association has said while its doctors are \"coping\", many feel they are unable to give care to the \"standard they would want\".\n\nThe peak in intensive care is predicted to happen next weekend.\n\nThe head of the BMA in NI, Dr Tom Black has been critical of the way this wave of the pandemic has been managed.\n\nHe said: \"Staff will do their best in a very difficult situation, where many decisions in this pandemic were made too late.\"\n\nWhile it is expected the number of hospital admissions will peak sometime over the next eight to 10 days, the number requiring intensive care treatment is likely to continue increasing for at least another fortnight.\n\nDr Black said he was concerned for both patients and staff.\n\nHe said: \"It is likely that over the next few weeks doctors will be asked to work in a new location or provide support to areas that are already overstretched.\n\n\"Many have already had planned annual leave cancelled.\"\n\nThere were a further 19 virus-related deaths and 640 more Covid-19 cases reported in Northern Ireland on Monday.\n\nThe latest figures from the Department of Health bring the total number of deaths to 1,625, while 96,001 people have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic began.\n\nSome 65 patients are in ICU, down two from the last report, and 51 patients are being ventilated.\n\nSince the vaccine rollout began in NI, 146,733 people have been vaccinated, according to the Department of Health.\n\nOf that number, 125,717 were first doses and 21,016 were second jabs.\n\nA total of 31,393 people from the over-80 age group have been vaccinated.\n\nEarlier the BMA told BBC News NI that more than 90,000 doses the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine had arrived in Northern Ireland but the Department of Health has said it is anticipated separate deliveries will arrive by this weekend.\n\nDr Black said many staff members had reported feeling \"exhausted and demoralised\" and he warned that when it came to reviewing how the pandemic was handled \"this phase will stand out as one where we could have planned better\".\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann said the next seven days is \"when we will see that real intense pressure coming on our inpatients and intensive care units\".\n\n\"Our worst case scenario has modelling up to 1,200 inpatients - and that's a serious pressure that comes on our system,\" he told Radio Ulster's Evening Extra programme.\n\n\"We can go up into nearly 200 ICU capacity but that comes at a stretch, that comes with putting our staff under severe pressure in ICU units.\n\n\"It also comes by having to shift the ICU specialist nurse from a ratio of one-to-one to a ratio of one-to-two or even one-to-three in extreme pressures.\n\n\"That's not something we want to do,\" he added.\n\nThe past week saw hospitals across Northern Ireland coming together in order to cope with the strain.\n\nOn 10 January, the Southern Health Trust was on the cusp of declaring a major incident amid the mounting pressures across the health service.\n\nThat was avoided as many off-duty staff answered a call to come into work and the health trusts pulled together to provide a regional response to the crisis.\n\nPatients were diverted to those hospitals which could take them and where infrastructure could cope with supplying additional oxygen to the very ill.\n\nOver the weekend of 9/10 January the Southern Health Trust - the smallest of the health trusts - was dealing with the highest number of patients who required oxygen.\n\nIn the past week the Northern and Southern Health Trusts have seen the highest number of patients.\n\nThat reflects the high rate of community transmission in some areas those trusts cover.\n\nMeanwhile, no resolution has been reached between Stormont leaders and the Irish Government over the sharing of passenger data.\n\nLast week, First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill criticised Dublin for failing to share information on travellers arriving there during the pandemic.\n\nMichelle O'Neill said it was \"regrettable\" the issue has not been resolved\n\nFirst Minister Arlene Foster said repeated efforts to access data on passenger locator forms filled out by people arriving in the Republic of Ireland had failed.\n\nMrs Foster and Ms O'Neill indicated on Thursday that they planned to raise the matter directly with Taoiseach (Irish prime minsiter) Micheál Martin.\n\nMs O'Neill told the Northern Ireland Assembly on Monday that no resolution has been found yet.\n\nShe told MLAs the issue had been raised \"on every occasion we have had the opportunity\" and that it was \"regrettable\" that the issue had not been resolved.\n\nThe travel issue will be discussed at a meeting on Wednesday involving the first minister, the deputy first minister, Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney and NI Secretary of State Brandon Lewis.\n\n\"I hope that perhaps Wednesday's meeting will allow some opportunity for there to be a way forward,\" the deputy first minister added.\n\nIt was announced on Sunday that all travellers who have returned from Portugal or transited through 16 South American countries in the past 14 days will have to - along with their household - self-isolate for 10 days upon return to Northern Ireland.\n\nThis includes travellers who entered these countries en route to another destination. All travellers returning home from South America are advised to be tested, whether or not they have symptoms.\n\nFrom Thursday, all international travellers will be required to present a negative Covid-19 test result before arriving in Northern Ireland.\n\nThis rule comes into effect in England, Scotland and Wales on Monday.\n\nOn Monday, the Department of Health in the Republic of Ireland reported eight more coronavirus-related deaths.\n\nIt brings its death toll to 2,616.\n\nThe department said 2,121 new cases of the virus had been reported, with a cumulative total of 174,843 infections.\n\nIt said that as of 14:00 local time on Monday, 1,975 Covid-19 patients are in hospital, of which 200 are in ICU (intensive care units).\n\nIrish Chief Medical Officer, Dr Tony Holohan, said: \"This third wave of the pandemic has seen higher level of hospitalisations across all age groups.\n\n\"There are now more sick people in hospital than any time in the course of this pandemic\".", "Staff gathered outside a supermarket to pay their respects to a colleague who died with coronavirus.\n\nJohn Deacy, 81, worked the Christmas Eve shift at the Tesco Extra store in Gabalfa, Cardiff, died just two weeks later.\n\nFriends and colleagues clapped as the funeral procession went by the store.\n\nFormer members of a jazz band, formed by Mr Deacy in the 1970s, marched in front of the hearse.\n\nHis son, Wayne, 56, said: “My dad put everyone above himself. He’d do anything for anyone.\n\n\"He’d help anyone and would never speak badly of people.”\n\nMr Deacy was in the Royal Marines for seven years and was a semi-professional boxer before starting a career at the industrial gas company BOC.\n\nHe went on to work for the supermarket for 16 years.\n\n“We’ve had loads and loads of messages from hundreds of staff who said he will leave a massive gaping hole,\" his son said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: Schools to stay closed until mid-February at least\n\nScotland's Covid-19 lockdown has been extended until at least the middle of February, with most school pupils to continue learning from home.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon told MSPs that transmission of the virus appeared to be declining but was still too high to ease restrictions.\n\nBut she hopes schools will be able to at least begin a phased return to the classroom in the middle of next month.\n\nThe level four restrictions have been in place since Boxing Day.\n\nMeanwhile the islands of Barra and Vatersay are being moved into the top level of restrictions due to a \"significant outbreak\" there.\n\nThe current restrictions, which have closed non-essential shops and seen a \"stay at home\" message put down in law, had been due to expire at the end of this month.\n\nBut Scottish government ministers agreed they should be extended after a cabinet meeting on Tuesday morning.\n\nMs Sturgeon told MSPs that lockdown was \"beginning to have an impact\" on the number of new infections, but said Scotland remained in a \"very precarious position\".\n\nShe added: \"We need to be realistic that any improvement we are seeing is down, at this stage, to the fact that we are staying at home and reducing our interactions.\n\n\"Any relaxation of lockdown while case numbers, even though they might be declining, nevertheless remain very high, could quickly send the situation into reverse.\"\n\nThe vast majority of Scottish pupils have been home learning since the Christmas holiday\n\nThe announcement came as 1,165 new cases of Covid-19 were registered in Scotland, representing 11.1% of tests carried out.\n\nA total of 1,989 people are in hospital with the virus while a further 71 deaths of people who recently tested positive have been logged.\n\nMs Sturgeon said there was \"real and severe\" pressure on health services, with around 30% more patients in hospital than at the peak of the first wave in April 2020, and that this was \"almost certain to rise for a further period yet\".\n\nSchool buildings and nurseries have been closed to most pupils since the start of term, with all but the children of some key workers and vulnerable pupils learning from home.\n\nNot only will schools remain closed to most pupils until at least mid-February, they are unlikely to return to normal at that point.\n\nThe first minister has indicated that her aim is to begin a phased return, if coronavirus allows. So what might that mean?\n\nThe groups that will get back into class first are likely to include secondary school exam year pupils, the youngest primary school children and those in P7 getting ready to move to high school.\n\nFor others, online learning is likely to last a bit longer.\n\nBoth the return to school and the continuation of the wider lockdown will be reviewed again in a fortnight on 2 Feb.\n\nBy that week, first doses of vaccine should have been offered to all over 80s in Scotland as well as frontline NHS and social care staff and care home residents.\n\nWith only 15-20% of the over 80s reached so far, opposition parties think the programme is slipping behind schedule, which the first minister denies.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she knew how \"challenging and stressful\" home schooling was for families, but said community transmission was \"too high\" to allow a safe return to classrooms.\n\nShe said: \"If it is at all possible, as I very much hope it will be, to begin even a phased return to in-school learning in mid-February, we will.\n\n\"But I also have to be straight with families and say that it is simply too early to be sure about whether and to what extent this will be possible.\"\n\nStatistics released on Monday showed that Scotland had vaccinated 6% of its adult population so far - the same percentage as Wales, but lower than the 8% that have been vaccinated in England and 8.7% in Northern Ireland.\n\nEngland has also given a second dose of the vaccine to 427,386 people, compared to only 3,698 in Scotland.\n\nMs Sturgeon said approximately 100,000 people were being vaccinated per week in Scotland, and that health teams were \"on track\" to expand this to 400,000 per week by the end of February.\n\nStatistics have suggested the vaccination programme in Scotland is currently lagging behind England\n\nMore than 90% of care home residents have now been given a first dose, along with 70% of care home staff and 70% of all frontline health and care workers.\n\nThe first minister said the focus on care homes - where it is \"time consuming and labour intensive\" to give out jabs - was \"why overall figures are at this stage lower than in England\", where more over-80s have received the vaccine.\n\nShe said the \"pace of progress in the over-80s group is also now picking up\", and that the government remained on track to hit its target of completing everyone on the priority list by early May.\n\nScottish Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson said the Scottish government were \"lagging behind their own targets\" on vaccination, saying the focus on care homes \"doesn't explain how slowly the vaccine is reaching GP surgeries and the public\".\n\nShe read out a series of letters from elderly people who had not been contacted about getting a jab, saying they were \"anxious they don't get left behind\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said she would not apologise for \"prioritising the most vulnerable first\", saying all four UK nations were \"working to the same targets\".\n\nScottish Labour's interim leader Jackie Baillie asked if Ms Sturgeon was confident the government could hit its \"critical\" targets, saying GPs were still complaining about \"patchy\" distribution of vaccines.\n\nThe first minister replied that her government would hit its goals, saying it was \"always the intention\" to increase the pace of vaccination as infrastructure and supplies became available.\n\nThis would see care home residents, healthcare staff and all over-80s get a first dose by the start of February, with over-70s and those deemed \"extremely vulnerable\" by mid-February and all over-65s by the beginning of March.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday evening. We'll have another update for you on Wednesday morning.\n\nScotland's Covid-19 lockdown has been extended until at least the middle of February, with most school pupils to continue learning from home at least until then. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said transmission of the virus appeared to be declining but was still too high to ease restrictions, which have been in place since Boxing Day. It comes as England's deputy chief medical officer said schools may reopen region by region after February half term.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock has said he is self-isolating after being alerted by the UK's NHS Covid-19 app. He urged others to do the same if \"pinged\" by the app and said self-isolation was \"perhaps the most important part of all the social distancing\". Mr Hancock, who is MP for West Suffolk, suffered \"mild symptoms\" when he contracted coronavirus in March 2020.\n\nA group of politicians drank alcohol on Welsh Parliament premises, days after a coronavirus rule banning pubs from serving drinks took effect. BBC Wales has been told Conservative Senedd leader Paul Davies, Darren Millar and Nick Ramsay were drinking together in early December, with Labour Senedd member Alun Davies also involved. Senedd authorities said they are investigating an \"incident\". Elsewhere, an internal investigation has began after railway workers allegedly held a surprise baby shower in a closed Patisserie Valerie bakery at London's Marylebone station during lockdown.\n\nHeadlines about footballers and Covid have been hard to miss lately - with questions about dressing room distancing, off-pitch partying and all those post-goal hugs. But what's football in lockdown actually like for players and their families? BBC Newsbeat has found out by speaking to Wycombe Wanderers footballer Joe Jacobson and his wife Louise.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has confirmed the government is looking at scrapping some EU labour laws now it is no longer bound by the bloc's rules.\n\nBut he promised there would be no dilution of workers' rights.\n\nMeasures under consideration include relaxing the working time directive which enshrines a 48-hour week.\n\nShadow business secretary Ed Miliband warned the government wanted to take a \"wrecking ball\" to hard-won rights.\n\nEarlier this week Mr Kwarteng said he wanted to \"protect and enhance\" labour law after the Financial Times reported that some rules could be weakened.\n\nThe minister later told business leaders the UK had an opportunity to reform regulation derived from EU law, but would not deliberately antagonise the EU - its biggest trading partner - immediately after the Brexit deal.\n\nConfirming the review on Tuesday, Mr Kwarteng told MPs there would be no \"bonfire of rights\".\n\n\"I think the view was that we wanted to look at the whole range of issues relating to our EU membership and examine what we wanted to keep, if you like,\" he said.\n\nBut he said \"the idea that we are trying to whittle down standards, that's not at all plausible or true\".\n\nAppearing before MPs, the business secretary said: \"I'm very struck as I look at EU economies how many EU countries - I think it's about 17 or 18 - have essentially opted out of the working time directive.\n\n\"So even by just following that we are way above the average European standard and I want to maintain that. I think we can be a high-wage, high-employment economy, a very successful economy, and that's what we should be aiming for.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kwasi Kwarteng This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Miliband said that after denying the FT's report, Mr Kwarteng had now \"let the cat out of the bag\" in admitting the government was conducting a review.\n\nHe warned that opting out of the 48-hour week would harm workers in key sectors like the NHS, road haulage and airlines from working excessive hours.\n\n\"A government committed to maintaining existing protections would not be reviewing whether they should be unpicked. This exposes that the government's priorities for Britain are totally wrong.\"\n\nDrew Hendry, the SNP's business spokesman, echoed the criticism, accusing the government of planning an \"assault\" on workers' rights.\n\nMeanwhile the boss of the UK's biggest recruitment firm, Reed, told the BBC's Today programme that there was \"no wish\" among employers to see \"a so-called bonfire of workers' rights.\n\n\"They must be protected because fair treatment is the bedrock of good workplace relations,\" James Reed said.\n\nThe chairman of the firm said the government should instead focus on lower-paid workers and measures that could be taken to improve unemployment, which is set to rise further into mid-2021.\n\n\"I would suggest two things are looked at before any EU rules: The apprenticeship levy, which is clearly failing... and also National Insurance on jobs. It's a tax on jobs - how can that be improved? Especially to help the low-paid back into work.\"\n\nUnder the post-Brexit trade deal with the EU, the UK has agreed to conditions that maintain fair competition, or a level playing field, between the two sides.\n\nHowever, the EU's ambassador to the UK, Joao Vale de Almeida, said Brussels could retaliate if Boris Johnson's government went too far in with deregulation.\n\n\"It will be for us to judge the extent to which it violates this principle of 'level playing field' and if that is the case there are mechanisms in the treaty, in the agreement, that allow us to discuss and eventually to come to an understanding,\" he said on Tuesday.\n\n\"If no understanding there are retaliation measures that can be applied on both sides.\"", "The death happened in the alpine resort of Verbier, in Switzerland\n\nA British man has been killed in an avalanche in the Swiss Alps, police have said.\n\nThe man was among 10 people swept away at the alpine resort of Verbier, to the east of Geneva, on Monday morning.\n\nPolice said the skier, who has not been named, lived in Verbier and died at the scene.\n\nOne person was flown to hospital with serious injuries, while eight others were uninjured, local police said.\n\nA police spokesman said: \"The avalanche occurred outside the piste between the Verbier ski area and 'Les Attelas'.\n\n\"At around 10:20, a skier was driving down a corridor below the 'Attelas' area.\n\n\"A snow drift came loose and carried the skier as well as another person who had been further down at the time.\"\n\nAn investigation has been launched.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was offering support to the British man's family and was in contact with the authorities in Switzerland.\n\nThe death comes after several days of heavy snowfall across Switzerland, which led to the death of another skier who was killed in an avalanche while skiing in Gstaad.\n\nIt takes the total deaths due to avalanches in the country to seven since last weekend.\n\nMore than 200 British skiers left the popular Verbier resort in December after Switzerland imposed a coronavirus quarantine following the discovery of a new variant of the virus.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lorry drivers have been holding up the traffic in Westminster.\n\nBoris Johnson has pledged £23m to help businesses affected by Brexit delays amid protests by fishing firms.\n\nDemonstrations took place outside government departments in central London by exporters who are warning their livelihoods are under threat.\n\nExports of fresh fish and seafood have been severely disrupted by new border controls since the UK's transition period ended earlier this month.\n\nThe PM said firms would be compensated for delays that were not their fault.\n\nIndustry associations have complained that extra paperwork has made it difficult to deliver fresh produce to mainland Europe before it goes off.\n\nThey have warned that if the situation continues, jobs could soon be at risk.\n\nPressed on what he would do in response, Mr Johnson said the government would step in to support firms which \"through no fault of their own have experienced bureaucratic delays, difficulties getting their goods through, where there is a genuine willing buyer on the other side of the channel\".\n\n\"There's a £23m compensation fund we've set up and we'll make sure they get help,\" he said.\n\nDetails of the scheme are expected later this week.\n\nAfter a day of protests in central London, which saw 20 lorries drive up Whitehall, the Metropolitan Police said 14 people had been reported for Covid-related offences, but no arrests were made.\n\nMark Moore, manager of the Dartmouth Crab Company, said his business and others were protesting to \"raise awareness\" of the impact of new border checks.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5 Live his company had faced delays of up to eight and a half hours when delivering produce into the European Union.\n\nHe added that the situation was \"especially difficult\" for the shellfish sector, where goods were at risk of going off before reaching customers.\n\n\"It's not about the increased documentation per se,\" he said.\n\n\"We have taken that on board, and we ourselves - and I know many others - have had no issues with producing the actual paperwork.\n\n\"It's the volume required and the timeframe in which to produce it, which doesn't lend itself to live shellfish and fish generally.\"\n\nThere are 24 lorries in total, overwhelmingly from seafood exporters in Scotland. Businesses taking part say the Brexit trade deal has left their industry high and dry.\n\nAnd although one haulier from Aberdeenshire I spoke to was keen to stress that their coordinated protest was peaceful, it is clear that they all feel that direct action is now necessary to make the government sit up and take notice.\n\nGood natured though their action was, it did for a time cause serious traffic congestion along Whitehall and Parliament Square.\n\nHowever, low levels of traffic perhaps caused by the Covid lockdown meant the roads around Whitehall didn't grind to a complete halt.\n\nAt stake, they believe, is an industry, but also thousands of livelihoods. Exporters say they are backed by fishermen who are struggling to land their catches.\n\nAnd although the rural Scottish communities which are sustained by fishing might seem like a long way from the streets of SW1, the hauliers certainly made their presence felt this morning.\n\nHaving left the EU's customs union and the single market, UK exports are subject to new customs and veterinary checks which have caused problems at the border.\n\nSome Scottish fishermen have been landing their catch in Denmark to avoid the \"bureaucratic system\" involved in exporting to Europe, according to Scotland's rural economy secretary.\n\nLast week, Boris Johnson told a committee of MPs that fishing firms impacted by disruption would be compensated for \"temporary frustrations\".\n\nBut the BBC was told that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) did not know about the promise of compensation before it was made by Mr Johnson.\n\nSpeaking to reporters, the prime minister said he understood the \"frustrations\" of the fishing industry, noting its plight had been \"exacerbated by the Covid pandemic\".\n\n\"Unfortunately, the demand in restaurants on the continent for UK fish has not been what it was before the pandemic, just because the restaurants have been closed for so long,\" he added.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer accused ministers of trying to \"blame fishing communities\" for problems \"rather than accepting it's their failure to prepare\".\n\n\"The government has known there would be a problem with fishing and particularly the sale of fish into the EU for years,\" he told reporters.\n\nMuch media attention has been focussed on Scotland as this export crisis has unfolded.\n\nBut exactly the same problem is rearing its head in the UK's other great fishing stronghold - at the other end of the UK in Devon and Cornwall.\n\nA virtual Who's Who of South West fishing leaders wrote to the environment secretary back in November warning that the new post-Brexit export requirements would have a \"seriously detrimental effect\" on the industry, claiming this \"could be the final straw for many businesses\".\n\nHere, too, many fish exports have now ground to a halt and others have encountered obstacles and long delays.\n\nAnd exporters have reacted angrily to the government's repeated insistence that the issues they've been experiencing over the last two weeks are just \"teething problems\".", "Not all parents have found it easy to home school their children during coronavirus lockdowns\n\nLevels of stress, depression and anxiety among parents and carers have increased with the pressures of the lockdowns, suggests research from the University of Oxford.\n\nMany parents, especially those of secondary-age pupils, say they are worried about their children's futures.\n\nThe government has said it is aware how challenging it is for parents to support children with home learning.\n\nThe research, based on responses from 6,246 parents and carers between mid-March and the end of December 2020, found problems including:\n\nOn an established scale of depression, anxiety and stress, parents' depression scores increased from April through to June from an average of 9.03 to 9.71, says the study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.\n\nWhile these average scores decreased over the summer, when Covid-19 restrictions were eased, to a low of 8.23 in September, they rose again over the course of the autumn term to a high of 10.1 points in December.\n\nParents' stress scores were at their lowest in August and September at 11.4 points, but increased to a high of 13.2 in December, following the pre-Christmas lockdown.\n\nThe researchers said higher levels of stress were detected particularly in low-income families, as well as single-parent households and those with children with special educational needs.\n\nWhile average anxiety scores were relatively stable throughout the whole period - ranging from a 4.71 points in April to 4.24 in July - they hit a high of 5 points in December.\n\nThe study also found just over a third (36%) of parents with young children (10 years or younger) said they were \"substantially worried\" about their children's behaviour, in contrast to just over a quarter (28%) of parents who had older children only (11 years or older).\n\nHowever, nearly half (45%) of those with secondary-age children were worried about their children's education and future, compared to 32% of those with young children.\n\nLeticea, a parent who took part in the study, said: \"I think that UK leaders should have access to this data to see what is going on with the mental health of families and how they are being affected by Covid-19 with increased levels of stress, depression and anxiety - we need something to look forward to.\n\n\"I am also worried that the next three months will show a sharper increase in anxiety and stress where parents are having to do more teaching at home.\n\n\"Children are more worried as their teachers are becoming ill - the 'new variant' sounds more scary, my daughter keeps commenting on an increasing worry of catching Covid-19 which she didn't do so much before.\"\n\nAnother parent, Madiha, said: ''Current times are hard enough as they are.\n\n\"As a working parent, the most important thing for me is to ensure my family's wellbeing, their safety, and their continued development.\n\n\"Prolonged screen time, disruption to daily routine, frequent arguments, lack of exercise, and stress of exams have all been contributing factors to our mental health and wellbeing.\n\nMadiha said she hoped the study would play a part in informing policy and developing interventions to help families.\n\nCathy Creswell, professor of clinical developmental psychology at Oxford University and co-leader of the study, said the findings showed parents were particularly vulnerable to distress during the first lockdown.\n\n\"Our data highlight the particular strains felt by parents during lockdown when many feel that they have been spread too thin by the demands of meeting their children's needs during the pandemic, along with home-schooling and work commitments.\"\n\nSchools were first closed to most pupils in March\n\nJohn Jolly, head of the charity Parentkind, said the research highlighted \"the additional stress and pressure that partial school closures place on parents\".\n\n\"Given the disruption to family life, it is vital that policymakers consult and listen to the concerns of parents on issues that directly impact them and their children's futures.\n\n\"This includes the safety and reopening of schools, the fair allocation of grades in the absence of exams, and remote learning provision.\"\n\nThe Oxford researchers are tracking children's and parents' mental health throughout the current crisis, to help them identify what protects young people from deteriorating mental health and how this may vary according to child and family characteristics.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ms Davies-Jones wanted to highlight how \"vitally important\" smear tests are\"\n\nAn MP has described how she had to have most of her cervix removed after putting off a smear test for several months.\n\nPontypridd MP Alex Davies-Jones, 31, said she was invited for her first routine screening in December 2015 and \"like so many others, I put it off\".\n\nFollowing a reminder in April 2016 she went for the cervical screening.\n\nShe wrote in the i newspaper it led to her being diagnosed with CIN3, abnormal cells and had to have surgery.\n\nIf left untreated, CIN3 can have a high chance of becoming cancerous.\n\nMs Davies-Jones wrote in the paper she was left \"without the majority of my cervix\" after the surgery.\n\nShe said she used her article to urge others \"don't delay in booking\" and said she felt compelled to write about her experiences for Cervical Cancer Prevention Week.\n\nA cervical screening checks the health of your cervix.\n\nA small sample of cells is taken from the cervix and checked for certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV) that can cause changes to the cells.\n\nIf present the sample is then checked for any changes in the cells which can be treated before they get a chance to turn into cervical cancer.\n\nThe NHS advises women between the ages of 25 to 49 to have a smear test every three years.\n\nAlex Davies-Jones became the Labour MP for Pontypridd in the 2019 General Election\n\nShe wrote: \"I used all of the usual excuses that you may have heard before.\n\n\"I was simply too busy, I couldn't get an appointment and I had no symptoms or abnormalities that were worrying me.\"\n\nMs Davies-Jones wrote she thought the routine screening would \"just be five minutes of awkward conversation with the nurse at my local GP whilst taking my knickers off\".\n\n\"I didn't ever think that there could be a chance that my cells would be 'abnormal' and that the next few months of my life would leave me terrified and constantly contemplating my own mortality.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chloe Delevingne had a smear test live on the Victoria Derbyshire programme to show what the procedure involved\n\nIf she had put off the screening any longer \"the situation could have been different\", the MP wrote.\n\nShe said she first received a type of laser treatment to \"burn off the abnormal cells from my cervix\" but more treatment was needed after the doctor told her the abnormal cells on her cervix were \"embedded deeper and looked more challenging than expected\".\n\nThen she had to have surgery, a \"cold knife biopsy\".\n\n\"I was without the majority of my cervix, but my life was saved. It was over,\" she wrote.\n\n\"Sadly, for many this isn't the case. For the next few years, I attended screenings every six months to ensure the abnormal cells didn't return.\n\n\"My last screening was in April 2018. Thankfully again all was fine but the anxiety and fear that surrounded me as I awaited those results has stayed with me even now.\"\n\nShe went on to give birth to her son Sullivan in March 2019.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Expert’s report finds eight-year-old Saffie \"could have been saved\" if treated properly for her injuries\n\nA man has described how he tried to help the youngest victim of the Manchester Arena attack as she lay badly injured after the explosion.\n\nPaul Reid, 46, was the first person to reach eight-year-old Saffie-Rose Roussos after the bomb was detonated.\n\nHe said she asked for her mum and said he tried to keep her awake by talking about the Ariana Grande gig.\n\nIt comes after a new report found Saffie could have survived if she had received better medical help.\n\nTwenty-two people were murdered and hundreds more injured when Salman Abedi detonated a bomb in the arena foyer as fans left the concert on 22 May 2017.\n\nMr Reid, who was selling posters at the concert, told the BBC he ran into the foyer seconds after the bomb went off.\n\n\"There was a big bang and I could see up on to the foyer, and there was smoke and you could hear things pinging off the wall,\" he said.\n\n\"I still had the posters in my hand. It was mad because it was like I wasn't there, like I was watching myself.\n\n\"People were just screaming and running in every direction you could think of.\"\n\nSaffie-Rose Roussos was the youngest victim of the Manchester Arena bombing\n\nMr Reid said he tried to help two other people before he noticed Saffie lying on the floor.\n\n\"She was still conscious. I asked her her name and I thought she said Sophie,\" he said.\n\n\"She just got a little bit upset. She asked me for her mum and I said not to worry, we're going to find her in a minute.\n\n\"And I sat there trying to keep her calm. I had to talk to her about the concert, and did she enjoy it.\n\n\"All the time I was sat there, I just thought hundreds of people are just going to come running in here and help us. And, well, hardly anybody came in.\"\n\nThe public inquiry into the attack, which started in September, began to examine the emergency response to the atrocity on Monday.\n\nMr Reid said he began watching the inquiry but said some details given in the opening days did not marry up with his recollection of what happened, and he switched it off.\n\nHe told the BBC after a while another person came to help, but after cutting away some of Saffie's clothing they left and went to the aid of someone else.\n\n\"I gave her [Saffie] a sip of water, because in all this madness there's somebody handing water out,\" he said.\n\n\"So you can imagine in the foyer now, all this is going on and there's a man walking about with water.\"\n\nPaul Reid said he was still haunted by what happened that night\n\nMr Reid said a police officer suggested moving Saffie out of the foyer, but with no stretchers to lift her they had to use a piece of plastic hoarding.\n\n\"The policeman came and said 'she's got to go, I'll take her in my car',\" he added.\n\n\"There was a plastic sheet under somebody's leg who was injured, I started pulling the sheet from under his leg. We put her on it and I started to carry her out, but the board was slippy.\"\n\nHe said they could not get the makeshift stretcher into the officer's car, so they flagged down an ambulance.\n\nMr Reid said he then returned to the foyer, where he went back to the man who he had taken the hoarding from.\n\n\"He had a gash in his stomach, and a paramedic was sitting there holding something against his stomach,\" he said.\n\n\"I held his hand. He had a Liverpool accent so I talked to him about football to take his mind off things, and my mind off things.\"\n\nMr Reid said he was still haunted by what happened that night.\n\n\"It's like yesterday. I can still smell the smoke in that foyer. Still hear the alarms when I go to sleep, when I close my eyes,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm first aid trained, but the most I'd done is put a plaster on.\n\n\"To step in that foyer, it was carnage. It was a war zone.\"\n\nSaffie's parents have said they would not have expected member of the public to have known how to treat her injuries.\n\nHer father Andrew Roussos told the BBC: \"There was a member of the public with her, I can't expect him to tourniquet her, splint her legs and so on.\n\n\"But the medically trained people that were with her, and were with her throughout and didn't apply basic first aid to give Saffie a chance.\"\n\nThe inquiry has previously heard it is important to acknowledge the enormous pressure which those who responded that night came under.\n\nWhy not follow BBC North West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram? You can also send story ideas to northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "News of the extended lockdown has not been welcomed by business leaders.\n\nLast month, the Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) estimated that each week of lockdown meant non-essential stores missing out on £135m of lost sales.\n\nSince then, garden centres and homeware shops have been compelled to close too, and the government has placed curbs on retailers’ click and collect services.\n\nThe SRC says today's extension is a further blow to non-food stores who have already borne a lot during the pandemic.\n\nIt said Scottish stores were set to miss out on almost £950m of lost revenues during the current lockdown period.\n\nQuote Message: The extended lockdown will serve to make it harder for some retailers to emerge from this crisis. Even when we do eventually emerge from enforced hibernation the stark reality is that shops will be unable to trade at capacity due to physical distancing restrictions and caps on the number of customers in stores. This means that April’s abrupt ‘reverse cliff edge’ - which is set to see a 100% re-instatement of business rates – is simply not sustainable. from David Lonsdale Director of the Scottish Retail Consortium The extended lockdown will serve to make it harder for some retailers to emerge from this crisis. Even when we do eventually emerge from enforced hibernation the stark reality is that shops will be unable to trade at capacity due to physical distancing restrictions and caps on the number of customers in stores. This means that April’s abrupt ‘reverse cliff edge’ - which is set to see a 100% re-instatement of business rates – is simply not sustainable.", "On his final full day in office, outgoing president Donald Trump delivered a farewell speech from the White House.\n\nCurrently locked out of his personal social media accounts, Trump struck a concilatory yet defiant tone in the video released via the government's official social media accounts.\n\n\"We did what we came here to do - and so much more,\" he said. \"I took on the tough battles, the hardest fights, the most difficult choices – because that’s what you elected me to do.\"\n\nHe warned that \"the greatest danger\" now facing the country was \"a loss of confidence in our national greatness\".\n\nThe 45th president ran through actions taken by his administration - from \"stand[ing] up to China like never before\" to \"a series of historic peace deals in the Middle East\".\n\nHe added: \"I am especially proud to be the first president in decades who has started no new wars.\"\n\nReferring to the riot at the US Capitol on 6 January, he said: \"All Americans were horrified by the assault on the Capitol... It can never be tolerated.\"\n\nTrump acknowledged that a new administration would take office, but said: \"I want you to know that the movement we started is only just beginning.\"", "It is not known when the artwork was taken as no one reported it missing\n\nA 500-year-old painting has been discovered in a flat in Italy and returned to a museum - where staff were unaware it had even been stolen.\n\nThe copy of Salvator Mundi, which is believed to have been painted by Leonardo da Vinci, was found in a bedroom cupboard in Naples on Saturday.\n\nThis copy is thought to have been painted by one of da Vinci's students.\n\nThe 36-year-old owner of the flat was arrested on suspicion of receiving stolen goods, police said.\n\n\"The painting was found on Saturday thanks to a brilliant and diligent police operation,\" Naples prosecutor Giovanni Melillo told the AFP news agency.\n\nThe artwork is usually part of the Doma Museum collection at the San Domenico Maggiore church in the city.\n\nBut Mr Melillo said officials were not aware it had been stolen because \"the room where the painting is kept has not been open for three months\" due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nIt is not known when the artwork was taken as no one had reported it missing, but the museum said it was in its possession as recently as last January.\n\nSome experts believe Leonardo's student Giacomo Alibrandi may have painted the artwork\n\nPolice are now investigating the circumstances of the theft, but there was no sign of a break-in at the museum.\n\n\"It is plausible that it was a commissioned theft by an organisation working in the international art trade,\" Mr Melillo said.\n\nIt is not known who painted the artwork, but some experts believe Leonardo's student Giacomo Alibrandi may have done so in the early 1500s.\n\nIt shows Christ with one hand raised, with the other holding a glass sphere.\n\nAnd to add to the mystery - whether or not the original painting is an authentic Leonardo da Vinci is disputed. Leonardo died in 1519 and there are fewer than 20 of his paintings in existence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The original painting was cleaned and restored from the image on the left to the one on the right\n\nThe original Salvator Mundi has had major cosmetic surgery - its walnut panel base has been described as \"worm-tunnelled\" and at some point it seems to have been split in half. Efforts to restore it have also resulted in abrasions.\n\nThis did not detract buyers, however, and the painting became the most expensive ever sold when it was auctioned for a record $450m (£341m) in 2017.\n\nThe unidentified buyer was involved in a bidding contest, via telephone, that lasted nearly 20 minutes.", "A refusal to accept cash is \"creeping into the wider UK economy\", an expert has said, after a survey suggested coronavirus had hastened a shift towards a cashless society.\n\nConsumer group Which? said that 34% of people asked said they had been unable to pay with cash at least once since March when trying to buy something.\n\nGrocery stores, pubs and restaurants were most likely to refuse.\n\nNatalie Ceeney, who wrote a report on the issue, called for ministers to act.\n\n\"The figures show that it's not simply the odd coffee shop going cashless, but this is creeping into the wider economy,\" said Ms Ceeney, who wrote the Access to Cash Review.\n\n\"We can't just blame individual businesses - many are going cashless because they can't easily bank cash takings because their local branch is closed or some distance away. The government needs to urgently legislate to protect the viability of cash - as it promised to do so last year. Time is running out.\"\n\nWhich? said the lack of cash access was a problem for those who relied on notes and coins - such as people with certain health conditions or without computer access.\n\nSome shops are still keen to accept cash\n\nJenny Ross, Which? Money editor, said: \"We have repeatedly warned about the consequences that coronavirus will have on what was an already fragile cash system, but nowhere near enough action has been taken by the government or the regulator to understand the scale of this issue.\"\n\nThe Treasury has proposed giving the City regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority, control of overseeing future access to cash and has thrown its weight behind the idea of cashback in shops, without the requirement to buy anything.\n\nDavid Fagleman, director at financial consultancy Enryo, said: \"Our own research shows that despite a decline in use for day-to-day purchases, nearly three-quarters of people think the move to a cashless society is happening too fast and risks leaving some people, particularly the vulnerable, behind.\"", "Cillian Murphy stars in Peaky Blinders, a drama which follows Tommy Shelby and his family\n\nPeaky Blinders creator Steven Knight has confirmed the hit BBC crime drama will conclude with a film following the show's final TV series.\n\nOn Monday, Knight said the upcoming sixth series would be the last but teased that \"the story will continue in another form\".\n\nHe has now confirmed to Deadline: \"My plan from the beginning was to end Peaky with a movie.\n\n\"This is what is going to happen,\" he added.\n\nHe explained that \"Covid had changed our plans\" but did not elaborate.\n\nHelen McCrory, who plays Polly, is the Shelby family matriarch\n\nThe final BBC TV series has resumed filming after being hit by Covid-related production delays.\n\nOn Monday, Knight described the show as being \"back with a bang\" and warned fans that the mobsters would face \"extreme jeopardy\" in the sixth season.\n\nKnight had previously planned for a seven-season run of the drama, which is set in post-World War One Birmingham.\n\n\"My ambition is to make it a story of a family between two wars,\" he said in 2018 ahead of season five. \"I've wanted to end it with the first air raid siren in Birmingham in 1939. It'll take three more series to reach that point.\"\n\nIt now looks like the film might be replacing his plan for series seven.\n\nKnight, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter, previously revealed he had been \"approached\" to take the Shelby crime family universe to the big-screen.\n\nSam Claflin as Tommy's political rival Oswald Mosley was a central figure in series five\n\nThe sixth series of the show, which follows Tommy Shelby and his family, will see Anthony Byrne return as director and Nick Goding produce.\n\nTommy Bulfin, executive producer for the BBC, said he was \"very excited\" filming had begun and promised a \"truly remarkable... fitting send-off that will delight fans\".\n\nHe added he was \"so grateful to everyone for all their hard work to make it happen\".\n\nThe production team have developed comprehensive safety protocols to ensure that the series will be produced responsibly and in accordance with government guidelines during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nExecutive producer Caryn Mandabach said the \"safety of our cast and crew is always our priority\" and that they had been \"working diligently\" to get safely back into production since filming was halted last March.\n\n\"Thank you to all the Peaky fans who have been so unwaveringly supportive and patient,\" she added.\n\nPeaky Blinders, which stars Cillian Murphy, first aired on BBC Two eight years ago to widespread critical acclaim.\n\nRatings quickly grew from over two million for the first series to over four million by series four and it found further popularity on Netflix.\n\nIt made the transition to BBC One for the fifth series in 2019, achieving audiences of over five million.\n\nThroughout its run, a host of awards have followed, including NTAs, which are voted for by the public, and a Bafta for best drama series in 2018.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Scientists are a step closer to being able to reverse the damage caused by motor neurone disease (MND).\n\nUniversity of Edinburgh experts have found a problem with MND patients' nerve cells which could be repaired by repurposing drugs approved for other diseases.\n\nThe study has been welcomed by charities including the foundation set up by Scots rugby legend Doddie Weir.\n\nMy Name'5 Doddie foundation described it as \"a very exciting breakthrough\".\n\nMore than 1,500 people are diagnosed with the degenerative condition in the UK every year.\n\nThere is no known cure and more than half die within two years of diagnosis.\n\nThe research found that the damage to nerve cells caused by MND could be repaired by improving the energy levels in mitochondria - the power supply to the motor neurons.\n\nThey discovered in human stem cell models of MND, the axon - the long part of the motor neuron cell that connects to the muscle - was shorter than in healthy cells.\n\nAnd the movement of the mitochondria, which travel up and down the axons, was impaired\n\nThe scientists showed that this was caused by a defective energy supply from the mitochondria and that by boosting the mitochondria, the axon reverted back to normal.\n\nDr Arpan Mehta, who led the study at Euan MacDonald Centre for MND research said: \"The importance of the axon in motor nerve cells cannot be overstated.\n\n\"Our data provides hope that by restoring the cell's energy source we can protect the axons and their connection to muscle from degeneration.\n\n\"Work is already under way to identify existing licensed drugs that can boost the mitochondria and repair the motor neurons. This will then pave the way to test them in clinical trials.\"\n\nThe research centre was established by Euan MacDonald, who was 29 years old when he was diagnosed with MND in 2003\n\nCraig Stockton, the chief executive of MND Scotland, said the \"exciting\" results of the research were another piece of the puzzle to finding an effective treatment for the degenerative condition.\n\n\"We look forward to seeing if these positive results can be replicated for patients,\" he said.\n\n\"Once researchers have identified a drug they believe could have the desired effect, this treatment could then be fast-tracked for human trials using the pioneering MND-SMART clinical trial platform - into which MND Scotland has invested £1.5m.\n\n\"Researchers, clinicians, charities and supporters are all working hard to take us closer to finding a cure and by joining together we'll get to that day even sooner.\"\n\nThe researchers used stem cells taken from people with the C9orf72 gene mutation that causes both MND and frontotemporal dementia.\n\nThey used the stem cells to generate motor neuron cells in the lab.\n\nThe study also used human post-mortem spinal cord tissue from people with MND.\n\nAlthough the research focused on the people with the commonest genetic cause of MND, the researchers said they were hopeful the results would also apply to other forms of the disease.\n\nThe results of the study are now being used to look for existing drugs that boost mitochondrial function.\n\nThe study was funded by the Medical Research Council, Motor Neurone Disease Association, Euan MacDonald Centre for MND Research, My Name'5 Doddie Foundation, UK Dementia Research Institute and Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Protests against China's alleged abuse of the Muslim Uighur community\n\nThe government is facing a rebellion over the Trade Bill, and opposition proposals to give British courts the right to decide if a country is committing genocide.\n\nRebel Tory MPs want to allow Parliament to debate ending trade deals with countries responsible for genocide.\n\nThe government says trade policy should not be set by the courts.\n\nBut some MPs think the proposal would be a good way of targeting China and its treatment of the Uighur people.\n\nOn Tuesday, America's top diplomat Mike Pompeo, in his last day in the role, said the US had determined that China's persecution of the Muslim group and other minorities in Xinjiang province represented genocide and crimes against humanity under international law.\n\nThe UK has repeatedly condemned the actions of the Chinese authorities but stopped short of describing them as genocide - saying only international courts should determine this.\n\nAnd ministers also argue that trade deals are matters for governments, not the courts, to decide upon.\n\nThe MPs' amendment to the Trade Bill is a watered-down version of an earlier proposal from the House of Lords, which would force the government to withdraw from any free trade agreement with any country found guilty of genocide by the High Court of England and Wales.\n\nThe new proposal is signed by 10 Conservative MPs, one of whom described their amendment as \"tidier\" than the Lords version and designed to attract more support.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, Sir Edward Leigh asked \"is there any way we can acknowledge that genocide is taking place in a discussion on a trade deal\".\n\nIn response, International Trade minister Greg Hands said ministers were prepared to have further discussions but not within the scope of the current legislation.\n\nHe told MPs the government was \"answerable to Parliament, not the courts\" and the Lords version would have led to an \"unacceptable erosion\" of its authority.\n\nThe UK, he added, had \"no plans\" to negotiate a bilateral trade agreement with China due to concerns about its human rights record, particularly its persecution of the Muslim Uighur community.\n\nNusrat Ghani urged ministers to consider the \"compromise\" proposal, which she said recognised the \"separation of powers\" between the executive, Parliament and the courts.\n\nThe Conservative ex-minister said the UK should \"never let economic concerns trump ethical ones by dealing with genocidal states\".\n\n\"Why would we want to use our newfound freedom to trade with states that commit and profit from genocide? Britain is better than that.\"\n\nSpeaking to Politics Live, former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith said it is currently \"impossible\" for international courts to rule on whether there has been genocide, as other countries can block hearings in the UN.\n\nHe argued it is therefore important to allow British courts to make the judgement.\n\nThe MP insisted he is not \"anti-China\" but said the Chinese government need to be \"reasonable and behave in a way that is acceptable\" if it wanted to be part of global trading organisations.\n\nShadow international trade secretary Emily Thornberry said Labour would be supporting the new amendment arguing that the government \"does not consider human rights abuses enough before signing up to trade deals\".\n\nThis is an interesting story in its own right because of the issues involved but it's also a neat metaphor for Brexit.\n\nThe government has taken back control of trade policy from the EU but is already having to share it with the House of Lords, Tory MPs and potentially with the High Court.\n\nDuring the passage of the Trade Bill, the government also had to beef up the powers of the Trade and Agriculture Commission - an independent body of experts - in response to lobbying from farmers who were worried about the dilution of food standards.\n\nSoon trade disputes with other countries will partly be overseen by the new Trade Remedies Authority, another organisation that reports to ministers but is independent of them.\n\nAnd of course, everything has to be compatible with World Trade Organisation rules, anyway.\n\nThe government has control of trade. It's just not total.", "19 January is a special day for Orthodox Christians across Russia, including President Vladimir Putin. It's a day reserved for commemorating the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan, and it's called Epiphany. Though temperatures are as low as -20 Celsius, some celebrated this by submerging themselves in ice-cold water.", "A team of Nepalese climbers has become the first ever to summit the world’s second highest mountain, K2, in winter.\n\nK2, along the Pakistan-China border, is notoriously challenging - with high winds and sub-zero temperatures.\n\nOne of the leading members of the team is a former Gurkha and British special forces soldier, Nirmal Purja. He spoke to BBC Pakistan correspondent Secunder Kermani.", "Theresa May has accused her successor Boris Johnson of \"abandoning\" the UK's moral leadership on the world stage.\n\nThe ex-prime minister said Mr Johnson's decision to cut the overseas aid budget below 0.7% of national income had reduced the UK's global \"credibility\".\n\nShe wrote in the Daily Mail the UK had to \"live up to its values\" and would be judged by its actions not its rhetoric.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK was \"embarking on a quite phenomenal year\" of global leadership.\n\nQuestioned about Mrs May's comments by the SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford at Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said: \"I think it's very important the prime minister of the UK has the best possible relationship with the president of the United States.\n\n\"That's part of the job description.\"\n\nHe cited the UK's hosting of a global vaccine summit, the upcoming COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, as well as the G7 summit of leading industrial nations, in Cornwall, and his pledge to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 as examples of the UK's global leadership.\n\nMr Blackford called on the PM to reverse \"his cruel policy of cutting international aid for the world's poorest\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The SNP Westminster leader called in the PM to reverse his \"cruel\" international aid policy\n\nLater on Wednesday, Joe Biden will be inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States, succeeding Donald Trump.\n\nIn advance of the event, Mr Johnson said he looked forward to working \"hand-in-hand\" with the new administration and that post-Covid challenges could only be tackled by \"international co-operation\".\n\nBut, in an article in the Daily Mail, Mrs May suggested Mr Johnson had squandered international goodwill by choosing not to meet the longstanding UN target of spending 0.7% of income on international development.\n\nThe government says it cannot meet the figure - enshrined in UK law - this year because of the strain placed on the public finances by the pandemic.\n\nTheresa May has made these criticisms - on overseas aid and the threat by the government to override international law - before.\n\nQuite often she gets a dig in when she stands up in the House of Commons.\n\nBut packaging it all up in this way, on this day, is, in the words of one of her close former advisers, \"quite punchy\".\n\nThe government would rather focus on the relationship it is going to forge with the new US president.\n\nMinisters feel they have quite a lot in common with Joe Biden when it comes to working together on the world stage, fighting climate change and co-operating on global security.\n\nMrs May also criticised Mr Johnson's support for legislation which could have allowed the UK to go back on parts of its Withdrawal Agreement with the EU, had it been passed.\n\nControversial clauses were ultimately removed from the Internal Market Bill in December, after the UK and EU reached an agreement.\n\nBut Mr Johnson's threat to break international law was criticised in Europe and the US - where Mr Biden warned it could imperil peace in Northern Ireland.\n\nMrs May said the UK was \"well placed to play a decisive role in shaping this more co-operative world but to lead we must live up to our values\".\n\n\"Other countries listen to what we say not simply because of who we are, but because of what we do. The world does not owe us a prominent place on its stage,\" she added.\n\n\"Whatever the rhetoric we deploy, it is our actions which count. So, we should do nothing which signals a retreat from our global commitments.\"\n\nMrs May suggested the end of the Trump presidency could be a catalyst for a change in world politics\n\nMrs May, who had a sometimes strained relationship with Mr Trump, said Mr Biden's election presented the UK with a \"golden opportunity\" for Western democracies to reverse the trend towards \"absolutism\" - and a \"few strongmen facing off against each other\" - in global affairs.\n\nThe UK holds the presidency of the G7 this year and hosts the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.\n\nMr Johnson said he looked forward to welcoming Mr Biden to the UK at least twice in 2021.\n\n\"In our fight against Covid and across climate change, defence, security, and in promoting and defending democracy, our goals are the same and our nations will work hand-in-hand to achieve them,\" he added.", "LAS received almost 200,000 calls in December - up 50,000 on November, when London was in the second national lockdown\n\nLast week London exceeded the grim milestone of 10,000 deaths linked to Covid-19. Thousands of people are critically ill in hospital, and as many as 5% of Londoners are thought to have the virus in some parts of the city. As coronavirus continues to circulate silently around the capital, staff at the London Ambulance Service (LAS) are under immense pressure.\n\nThe service is currently taking up to 8,500 calls a day, compared with a pre-Covid figure of 5,000 to 6,000, according to its chief executive Garrett Emmerson.\n\nLizzie Cooke is one of the workers at LAS's south London headquarters who are dealing with strangers at what is a distressing time.\n\nI covered the London Bridge terror attacks and Grenfell but this is a different scale\n\nCalmly, the 30-year-old answers the phone and usually asks first if the patient is breathing.\n\n\"In the first wave we were getting a lot of calls of [people seeking] reassurance,\" Lizzie says. \"But now there are more and more who have symptoms, and family members are really frightened.\"\n\nIt is a fear that Lizzie knows all too well, having been hospitalised with Covid-19 in March. She spent a week receiving treatment for the virus.\n\n\"I was at work taking calls and struggling to concentrate,\" the call-handling supervisor says. \"At times I would just have my head on the desk in between calls.\n\n\"I started to develop chest pains five days later so my parents took me to Royal County Hospital, in Hampshire, and an X-ray showed a lot of fluid in my lungs. It was quite horrible.\n\n\"Luckily, I wasn't on a ventilator but I had the oxygen hood, and the nurses were so rushed off their feet. I didn't have my phone with me or know my parents' numbers off by heart so for that week I was quite alone and isolated.\n\n\"It was just a mixture of the unknown and not knowing when it was going to stop that was so daunting.\"\n\nThe unprecedented volume of calls means waiting times for patients are increasing\n\nLizzie's personal battle with coronavirus has helped her to empathise with people who call up with breathing problems.\n\nIt's something she says she's having to do more and more.\n\n\"Just before Christmas we were getting a lot of respiratory and cardiac arrest calls,\" she says. \"You could just hear colleagues counting to four [for chest compressions] and it was echoing around the room. It has been tough.\n\n\"We are getting calls from family members who are really frightened. I covered the London Bridge terror attacks and Grenfell but this is a different scale.\n\n\"I did get one call for toothache, but that's part of the job.\"\n\nLizzie, who lives in Hampshire, says that because the coverage of coronavirus is everywhere, it is \"difficult to escape\".\n\nWhen she's not at work she binge-watches Line of Duty on Netflix, but she says winding down isn't easy.\n\nLizzie sometimes thinks about the people who aren't following the rules aimed at helping stop the spread of the virus, and those who deny Covid-19 even exists.\n\n\"It's a kick in the teeth,\" she says. \"It is frustrating on the way to work when you see people not wearing masks or even posting stuff on social media not believing the virus is real.\n\n\"I just don't know where the disconnect is coming from; there are many people in hospital, many people dying, and I don't know what more needs to be said to make them realise how dangerous the illness is.\"\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nSitting a few metres away from Lizzie is 24-year-old Louise Essam, who has been in the job for two years.\n\n\"Every call we take at the moment is coronavirus,\" she says. \"My record was 108 calls in a day back in March during the first wave.\n\n\"But easily in the last few weeks I've been taking around 100 a day at times,\" Louise adds.\n\n\"We are just doing the best we can,\" says emergency call co-ordinator Louise Essam\n\n\"Sometimes I'll come in for a shift and can just hear colleagues counting one, two, three, four, for the compressions, and you just know what kind of shift it is going to be.\n\n\"It has been tough and quite frustrating, really. We are trying to help people. We are under so much pressure as there are high waiting times, but we are just doing the best we can.\"\n\nHelp is at hand though from the LAS workers' fellow emergency services personnel.\n\nMet Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick visited Wembley Stadium on Wednesday, where her officers are being trained to drive ambulances\n\nSeventy-five Met Police officers are currently being trained at Wembley Stadium to drive ambulances.\n\nThey will start work as drivers from 20 January, joining the 200 firefighters who are already helping LAS.\n\n\"It came as a huge relief when they announced it,\" says 37-year-old paramedic Ben West.\n\nBen West has been with the London Ambulance Service for 13 years\n\nAs is the case with many frontline workers, Ben says he is concerned about the dangers of exposure to coronavirus.\n\nHe has lost four colleagues to Covid-19, including Ian Reynolds, a paramedic based in Croydon, and Melonie Mitchell, a member of the NHS 111 team. They both died during the first wave in April.\n\n\"I wouldn't be a normal person if I said I wasn't scared,\" he says.\n\n\"I am scared and I do worry but we take every day as it comes, take our precautions and we just see where we go with that.\n\n\"We know the virus is out there in the community and we are not immune.\"", "A non-binding Labour motion calling for the universal credit top-up to be kept in place beyond 31 March passed by 278 votes to none after a Commons debate.\n\nSix Tory MPs defied party orders to abstain and voted with Labour, adding to the pressure on the PM on the issue.\n\nThe prime minister said the government had provided £280bn worth of support during the pandemic but all measures would be kept under \"constant review\".\n\nThe motion, which will not automatically lead to a change in policy, was put forward by Labour as a way to put additional pressure on the government to continue the increase, worth £1,000 a year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Carl, a roofer, describes going from \"not having enough to barely having enough\" on universal credit.\n\nFormer Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb was among six Conservative MPs to rebel, along with Peter Aldous, Robert Halfon, Jason McCartney, Anne Marie Morris and Matthew Offord.\n\nAhead of the vote, Mr Crabb told the BBC that although there were \"difficult pressures on the chancellor\" extending the increase for 12 months was \"the right thing to do\".\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said there were dozens of Conservative MPs who were \"deeply uneasy\" about ending the £20 weekly increase to universal credit.\n\nShe added that it was also understood the cabinet minister with responsibility for benefits, Therese Coffey, was arguing that the uplift should not be dropped in April.\n\nCharities and anti-poverty campaigners are pleading with the government to keep the support in place, describing it as a lifeline for more than 5.5 million families who receive the standard universal credit allowance.\n\nFood poverty campaigner and chef Jack Monroe told the BBC that the £20 increase \"has been a lifeline\" for millions of people who have needed to top up their income or rely on universal credit payments in order to get by.\n\nSir Keir said the increase was a vital safety net for those who had lost their jobs, seen their working hours slashed or who were not eligible for the government's wage subsidy furlough scheme.\n\n\"If we don't give a helping hand to families through this pandemic, then we are going to slow our economic recovery as we come out it.\n\n\"We urge Boris Johnson to change course and give families certainty today that their incomes will be protected.\"\n\nSix billion pounds of the benefits bill - the difference between poverty or not for 1.2 million families, according to a think tank.\n\nThe £1,040 a year increase to universal credit is a very emotive issue.\n\nThere's even a battle over what to call it.\n\nTo the government, its introduction was a one-off boost to cope with a crisis. For Labour, taking it away is a cut.\n\nMinisters would prefer we looked at the overall level of support they've provided for workers and businesses during the pandemic. The opposition say the £20 a week boost is a powerful symbol of the state's willingness to help.\n\nEven the act of debating it today is disputed. Labour say they've got the right occasionally to set the agenda in Parliament. Boris Johnson said his MPs risk abuse from campaigners and protestors if they engage.\n\nThe Joseph Rowntree Foundation has suggested about 16 million people will be directly affected if the £20 is rolled back.\n\nIt says 500,000 more people will be driven into poverty, including 200,000 children, while a further 500,000 of those already in poverty will find themselves in even worse hardship.\n\nHowever, free market think tank the Institute for Economic Affairs has argued that \"across-the-board benefit increases are a wasteful use of taxpayers' money\" at a time when the government is borrowing \"a hair-raising amount of money\".\n\nUniversal credit is a single payment replacing old benefits such as housing benefit and child tax credits.\n\nYou can claim universal credit if you are on a low income or are out of work.\n\nThe standard allowance varies from around £340 to just under £600 a month, depending on your age or whether you are single.\n\nYou may be eligible to receive more money on top of the standard allowance if, for example, you have children or a health condition.\n\nSpeaking on behalf of the Northern Research Group, Conservative MP John Stevenson said the £1,000 increase had been \"a real life-saver for people throughout this pandemic\".\n\n\"To end it now would be devastating for the 6 million individuals and families who are already struggling to stay afloat,\" he added.\n\nWhile the vote is not binding, and will not lead to a change in policy, it will increase pressure on the government to keep the increase or come up with an alternative.\n\nLabour said the Conservatives' decision to abstain created \"unnecessary uncertainty\" but minister Nadhim Zahawi described the vote as \"a political stunt\".\n\nThe government says it has strengthened the welfare system with an extra £7bn of funding during the pandemic while families struggling with food and household bills can get help through the £170m Winter Grant Scheme.\n\nMinisters also point to extra support for housing costs, through an increase in local housing allowance for those on housing benefits and hardship payments worth £670m next year for those unable to pay their council tax bills.", "How has the justice system responded to the pandemic? Stories from inside prisons and courts, where lawyers fear delays are creating miscarriages of justice. Helen Grady reports.\n\nAre court backlogs creating miscarriages of justice? When the UK locked down, so did its court system, adding to a backlog that’s left defendants, witnesses and victims facing long waits for trials. Helen Grady speaks to people inside the justice system to find out how it’s coped with the pandemic - from delays in making courts covid-secure to a lack of PPE and overcrowding in prisons. We hear stories from prisons under lockdown and talk to lawyers who fear delays are leading to abuses of the criminal justice system.\n\nProducer: Rob Cave", "New legislation has been passed to protect Scottish shop workers from abuse from customers.\n\nThe Protection of Workers Bill will make it a new specific offence to assault, abuse or threaten staff.\n\nIncidents involving an age-restricted product, such as alcohol or cigarettes, could be treated more seriously.\n\nThe MSP behind the bill, Labour's Daniel Johnson, said attacks on retail workers had increased during the Covid pandemic.\n\nHe told Holyrood: \"Shop staff have been spat at for asking customers to socially distance, and stock has been smashed in retaliation for item limits being imposed.\n\n\"Violence, threats and abuse should not be just part of anyone's job.\"\n\nMr Johnson said that staff requesting age ID could be a \"trigger factor\" in many incidents of abuse.\n\nThe new legislation will also cover people working in bars, restaurants and hotels, and those delivering items bought online who may have to ask for proof of age.\n\nThe bill was supported by all parties at Holyrood, despite the government initially arguing that its provisions were already covered by existing criminal laws.\n\nThe Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service told MSPs that further legislation was not needed, noting that \"violence, threats and abuse against retail workers, or indeed any other person, are prosecuted every day in the courts in Scotland using offences which are commonly understood\".\n\nPolice Scotland meanwhile said there would be \"no significant change in how we go about our business\" as a result of it.\n\nCommunity safety minister Ash Denham said that while there was a \"wide range of existing criminal laws\" currently in place to protect staff, the new legislation could \"make the general public think more about their behaviour when they interact with retail workers\".\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives also backed the bill, although they argued that the presumption against short sentences in Scotland meant anyone convicted under the new law would ultimately not be jailed.\n\nPaul Gerrard, public affairs director for the Co-Op, told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime that the retailer had seen a 450% rise in violent incidents in the last few years.\n\n\"It is a huge problem,\" he said. \"We've seen an explosion in violence and abuse toward my colleagues.\n\n\"Now across 350 stores in Scotland we have someone attacked every day. And 10 colleagues are threatened or abused every day.\n\n\"Increasingly we have seen knives, syringes and axes all used against shopworkers.\"\n\nMr Gerrard added that previous incidents were centred on shoplifting or age-restricted sales, but staff were now facing more abuse around enforcing Covid shopping rules.\n\nThe new legislation was passed by 118 votes to 0 in the Scottish Parliament.\n\nThe Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (Usdaw) is now urging the UK government to introduce similar legislation to protect retail staff in England - something Labour MP Alex Norris is pursuing at Westminster.\n\nUsdaw general secretary Paddy Lillis said: \"It is a great result for our members in Scotland, who will now have the protection of the law that they deserve.\n\n\"So we are looking for MPs to support key workers across the retail sector and help turn around the UK government's opposition.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nIndia pulled off an astonishing run-chase to inflict Australia's first defeat at the Gabba since 1988, win the fourth Test by three wickets and take one of the all-time great series. Needing 328, a Brisbane record run-chase, the injury-hit tourists got home with three overs to spare. Shubman Gill made 91 and Rishabh Pant was unbeaten on 89. They win the series 2-1, keeping the Border-Gavaskar they won in Australia two years ago. It is perhaps one of the finest Test series wins by any away side, especially given the list of players unavailable to India by the time the final match was played. That included captain and talisman Virat Kohli, who only played in the first Test before departing to be at the birth of his first child, a host of fast bowlers and first-choice spin pair Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja. In addition to the absent players, India somehow recovered from being bowled out for 36 - their lowest total in Test cricket - in losing the series opener by eight wickets. What followed were three Tests of the highest quality and drama, with India producing a stunning comeback to win the second Test by eight wickets, then defiantly batting through the final day to earn a draw in the third. But they saved their best performance for last, a superb contest that ensured the series went down to the final hour of the last day, with the shadows lengthening and a near-empty Gabba filled with the sound of a smattering of raucous India supporters. The tourists were 4-0 overnight and, for them to even get to the point where victory might be possible, Cheteshwar Pujara had to come through a barrage of hostile bowling from the Australia quicks - he was hit 10 times in his 56. He added 114 for the second wicket with the free-scoring Gill, while stand-in captain Ajinkya Rahane, who has presided over India's fightback, signalled their intent with 24 off only 22 balls. Tireless Australia fast bowler Pat Cummins was a threat throughout, removing Pujara, Rahane and Rohit Sharma. Fast bowler Pat Cummins took four wickets for Australia Still, even though India knew a draw would see them retain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, they never lost sight of the chance of victory and promoted wicketkeeper Pant to number five. At the beginning of the final hour, India were 259-4, meaning they needed 69 runs and Australia six wickets from the final 15 overs. Though Cummins had Mayank Agarwal caught at cover for his fourth wicket, Pant attacked in the company of debutant Washington Sundar. Runs came with increasing freedom and, although Sundar was bowled trying to reverse-sweep Nathan Lyon and Shardul Thakur miscued Josh Hazlewood, Pant could not be stopped. The left-hander's drive down the ground off Hazlewood secured a famous win and sparked joyous India celebrations. 'One of the top three series of all time' - reaction India captain Rahane: \"I don't know how to describe this victory. I'm really proud of all the boys. We didn't talk about anything after Adelaide, we just wanted to show good character and express ourselves. It was all about a team effort.\" Australia captain Tim Paine: \"In the key moments we were found wanting and completely outplayed by India, who fully deserved their series win.\" Man of the match Pant: \"This is one of the biggest things in my life. It has been a dream series.\" Player of the series Cummins: \"The whole India side played fantastically and deserved to win. The game was there for to win, but we didn't take the wickets.\" Former Australia fast bowler Stuart Clark on ABC: \"What a victory that is by India. They have been absolutely outstanding. The man of the moment is Rishabh Pant. He played some of the most insane shots you will ever see. Australia bowled their hearts out, but it wasn't enough.\" Former Australia captain Ian Chappell: \"It had everything. It was an absolutely amazing day. This has been one of top three Test series of all time.\"\n• None Can this British team make an impact on the global scene?\n• None The show must go on in lockdown:", "Nicola Sturgeon is to announce later whether Scotland's Covid-19 lockdown is to continue past the end of January.\n\nThe first minister said Tuesday's statement at Holyrood would concern the \"duration\" of restrictions rather than whether any new ones would be imposed.\n\nMinsters will also decide at a cabinet meeting whether schools will be allowed to re-open in full from 1 February.\n\nEducation Secretary John Swinney has suggested it would be a \"tall order\" for pupils to return to classrooms.\n\nMs Sturgeon said on Monday that she did not want to \"raise parents' expectations\", saying transmission of the virus \"is still higher than we would want it to be\".\n\nThe whole Scottish mainland and several islands have been in a strict lockdown since early January, with a \"stay at home\" message in force.\n\nThis was initially due to run until February, but this will be reviewed by ministers on Tuesday morning with a view to having the restrictions last longer.\n\nWhile Ms Sturgeon has warned that the government would consider further measures if necessary, she said \"it is the duration rather than the content of restrictions that we will be looking at\" on Tuesday.\n\nThe outcome of this review will then be announced to MSPs in a statement at Holyrood in the afternoon.\n\nNicola Sturgeon will announce the result of the latest review in a Holyrood statement\n\nThe review will also cover the situation in schools, with the majority learning remotely from home and only some children of key workers and vulnerable pupils being allowed into school buildings.\n\nOn Monday, the first minister said she did not want to \"raise expectations\" about classes returning to normal, but added that she was \"not going to make any assumptions\" ahead of the cabinet meeting.\n\nShe said: \"I am not going to raise parents' expectations, you can see from the numbers we are seeing some positive signs in the numbers that lockdown is starting to stabilise things and tip them into decline, but transmission is still higher than we would want it to be.\n\n\"We want to get schools back as quickly as we possibly can, it is not in the interests of kids to be out of school for any longer than is absolutely necessary, but community transmission has always been a key factor in these decisions.\"\n\nThis echoed comments from Mr Swinney, who had previously said it would be \"a tall order\" for schools to fully re-open with \"the virus still at a very high level in general within society\".\n\nI am expecting continuity rather than change from today's announcement on coronavirus restrictions.\n\nThe continuation of the current lockdown and presumably the extension of remote learning for most school pupils into the February break at least.\n\nBoth decisions are likely to be reviewed again next month. But it's not clear if the first minister will feel able to suggest a target date for restrictions to ease.\n\nCabinet will also be giving special attention to the serious Covid outbreak on Barra and considering if the level three restrictions that apply in the Western Isles remain appropriate.\n\nWhile there are signs the pace at which the current wave of coronavirus is spreading is starting to slow, evidence of much greater suppression will be required before the stay at home lockdown in place across mainland Scotland is lifted.\n\nThe review comes less than a week after restrictions in Scotland were tightened, with some click and collect services ordered to close and outdoor alcohol consumption banned.\n\nThe entire Scottish mainland has been in the top level of restrictions - level four - since Boxing Day, with level three measures in place in Orkney, Shetland, the Western Isles and some islands in Argyll and Bute and the Highlands.\n\nScots are subject to a legal requirement not to leave home for anything other than essential purposes, such as shopping for essentials, exercise and caring responsibilities.\n\nThe number of new cases reported each day on average has begun to fall, but the number of people in hospital with the virus continues to rise and is now \"significantly\" above that seen in the first wave in 2020.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the \"position overall is very precarious, very concerning in terms of the level of transmission\", but said there were \"some early signs to be optimistic that measures are having an effect\".\n\nThe first minister will take questions from opposition leaders following her statement.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives have voiced concerns that Covid-19 vaccines are not being rolled out quickly enough, saying the Scottish government are \"trailing their own targets\".\n\nStatistics released on Monday showed that Scotland has vaccinated 264,991 people so far - 6% of its adult population.\n\nThis is lower than the figure for England, where 8% of the adult population - 3,520,056 people - have been vaccinated, and Northern Ireland, which has the highest vaccination rate in the UK at 8.7%.\n\nWales has a similar figure to Scotland at 6%.\n\nEngland has also given a second dose of the vaccine to 427,386 people, compared to only 3,698 in Scotland.\n\nHowever, Ms Sturgeon has insisted that all parts of the UK are \"working to the same targets\" to vaccinate priority groups, and said her government is \"on track\" to hit them subject to supplies arriving.\n\nThis would see care home residents, healthcare staff and all over-80s get a first dose by the start of February, with over-70s and those deemed \"extremely vulnerable\" by mid-February and all over-65s by the beginning of March.\n\nBy that time the government aims to be vaccinating up to 400,000 people a week on average, with all priority groups getting a first jab by early May and the rest of the adult population in line thereafter.", "About one in 10 people across the UK tested positive for Covid-19 antibodies in December, roughly double the October figure, data has shown.\n\nEstimates from the Office for National Statistics suggest between 8% of people in Northern Ireland and 12% of people in England showed signs of past Covid infection.\n\nIn October, antibody positivity ranged from 2% to 7% around the UK.\n\nAnd 6,586 Covid deaths were registered in the UK in the week to 8 January.\n\nThat brings the total registered so far close to 96,000.\n\nNearly a quarter of deaths were people living in care homes - a disproportionate impact on a group of people which accounts for less than 1% of the population.\n\nBack in July, though, care home residents accounted for 40% of deaths.\n\nThe ONS regularly tests a representative sample of the population, both for current infection and for antibodies indicating a past infection.\n\nPeople taking part in the survey are tested whether or not they have had symptoms.\n\nThis is used to estimate how common both the virus and antibodies are in the population as a whole.\n\nAntibodies are proteins in the blood which fight off specific infections.\n\nThey are developed if somebody catches an infection and their body fights it off, or if they have been vaccinated.\n\nYorkshire and the Humber topped the chart with 17% of people having positive antibodies, followed by London.\n\nProf Lawrence Young, a virologist at Warwick Medical School, said: \"This study shows that infection with the Sars-Cov-2 virus is much more widespread in the UK than previously realised, with around 1 in 10 people estimated to have been infected by December 2020.\n\n\"The implications are that infection rates increased significantly between November and December.\"\n\nBut Scotland had a considerably smaller growth in antibodies than the rest of the UK, rising from 7% to 9% of the population.\n\nThe fact that more people show signs of having at least some protection against Covid-19 is consistent with the dramatic rise in infections during that period.\n\nBut we know that antibodies from natural infection can fade.\n\nIn England, the ONS said, positive antibody tests equated to 5.4 million people aged over 16 having signs of past infection.\n\nThat does not tell you the total number of people infected, however, but acts as a snapshot in time.\n\nIn London, about 16% of people had antibodies in December, up from 11% in October. But at the last peak in May, an estimated 15% of the population had antibodies. This proportion fell, as detectable antibodies recede with time.\n\nExactly what this means for someone's likelihood to become infected again, however, is not fully known.\n\nIt also remains to be seen how long vaccines will protect people for, before they need a booster jab.\n\nBut Public Health England data suggests natural immunity provides at least five months' protection on average, and vaccines often give better protection than natural immunity.\n\nMore than 4 million people in the UK have been given their first dose of the vaccine.\n\nProf Janet Lord, director of the Institute of Inflammation and Ageing at the University of Birmingham, urged caution among those who have already been vaccinated.\n\nAsked whether people who have received the jab can hug their children, she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"I would certainly advise not to do that at the moment because, as you probably know, with the vaccines they take several weeks before they are maximally effective.\n\n\"It's really important that people stay on their guard even if they've had that first vaccination.\"", "Alexandru Murgeanu (l) and Jason Mercer were killed in the crash on the M1 in South Yorkshire\n\nA coroner has called for a review of smart motorways after an inquest heard the deaths of two men on a stretch of the M1 could have been avoided.\n\nJason Mercer, 44, and Alexandru Murgeanu, 22, died when Prezemyslaw Szuba crashed his lorry into their vehicles near Sheffield on 7 June 2019.\n\nCoroner David Urpeth said smart motorways without a hard shoulder carry \"an ongoing risk of future deaths\".\n\nHighways England said it was \"addressing many of the points raised\".\n\nMr Urpeth recorded a verdict of unlawful killing at Sheffield Town Hall. He added he would be writing to Highways England and the transport secretary asking for a review.\n\nThe inquest heard the deaths of the two men may have been avoided had there had been a hard shoulder.\n\nOn the stretch of the M1 where the crash took place, the hard shoulder has been replaced by an active lane.\n\nSzuba, 40, from Hull, was jailed last year after admitting causing their deaths by careless driving.\n\nHe was speaking from prison to the inquest.\n\nPrezemyslaw Szuba was jailed over the deaths\n\nAnswering questions over the phone, Szuba told the hearing he accepted he was driving without paying proper attention.\n\n\"I have already accepted that at my trial,\" he said, but added: \"If there had been a hard shoulder on this bit of motorway, the collision would have been avoidable.\n\n\"I would have driven past these two cars as it would be safer and they would have been able to come home safely and I would be able to come back home.\"\n\nSzuba said he had only three to five seconds to react, and asked if he would have avoided the crash had he been paying attention, he said: \"It's difficult to say after everything now.\"\n\nSgt Mark Brady, who oversees major collision investigations for South Yorkshire Police, told the hearing: \"Had there been a hard shoulder, had Jason and Alexandru pulled on to the hard shoulder, my opinion is that Mr Szuba would have driven clean past them.\"\n\nBut he accepted the primary cause of the crash was Szuba's inattention to the road.\n\nThe crash happened after a collision between a Ford Focus driven by Mr Mercer, from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, and a Ford Transit driven by Mr Murgeanu, who was living in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, but was originally from Romania.\n\nWhen Mr Mercer and Mr Murgeanu got out to exchange details they were hit by the lorry, and both died at the scene.\n\nMr Mercer's wife Claire has campaigned against smart motorways since her husband's death, and was at the hearing on Monday.\n\nClaire Mercer has campaigned against the use of smart motorways since her husband's death\n\nIn a statement, Highways England said it was \"determined\" to do everything it could to make roads as safe as possible and was already addressing many of the points raised by the coroner \"as published in the Government's Smart Motorway Evidence Stocktake and Action Plan of March 2020\".\n\n\"We will carefully consider any further comments raised by the coroner once we receive the report,\" it added.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Today's rising number of UK deaths was to be expected, sadly, after the surge in cases during December.\n\nAnd it is likely that the coming weeks will see figures even higher than this.\n\nToday’s numbers are, though, inflated by the fact that delays registering deaths over the weekend tend to lead to higher figures being reported on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.\n\nOn average, the UK is recording more than 1,100 deaths a day.\n\nTo put that in context, at Christmas it was less than half that.\n\nBut there are two chinks of light in the daily update.\n\nFirstly, the number of cases is below 40,000 - for a third day in a row. At the turn of the year it was touching 60,000 new diagnoses.\n\nThat means, in the coming weeks, we should start to see fewer hospitalisations and, eventually, deaths.\n\nThe number of vaccinations also continues to rise.\n\nIt seems unlikely the NHS will manage its target of two million doses a week just yet.\n\nBut each increase at least takes us one step closer to getting on top of the virus.", "Campaigners are bringing a judicial review for indirect sexual discrimination on Thursday.\n\nThey say the way the self-employed income support scheme or SEISS is calculated- by averaging out profits between 2016 to 19 - is unfair to to around 75,000 women who’ve taken time off in that period for maternity leave. The government insists using a three-year average is the best way of reflecting a self-employed worker’s income.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health workers can book an appointment at seven vaccination centres in operation across NI\n\nDoctors have insisted there is no postcode lottery when it comes to rolling out the coronavirus vaccines.\n\nNorthern Ireland's vaccination plan means all those over 80 should receive their first dose by the end of January.\n\nMore than 154,000 doses of a vaccine have now been administered, health officials said.\n\nDr Frances O'Hagan, deputy chairwoman of NI's GP committee, said practices had their own rollout plans but she expected them to meet official targets.\n\n\"As soon as we get the vaccine, we will get it to you,\" she told BBC News NI. \"But please, please wait until we contact you.\"\n\n\"We tailor our programmes to our individual patients and to our geography and to our surroundings.\n\n\"It's not actually a postcode lottery. It's the best way of doing it because we know what suits our patients.\"\n\nDr O'Hagan said she had not heard reports of some practices holding back vaccines until they received bigger amounts to allow for a larger number of vaccinations to be done.\n\nShe said rolling out the programme was a logistical challenge which fell on top of an already heavy workload but the jab would be given out in a \"safe and timely\" fashion.\n\nSinn Féin MP Órfhlaith Begley said doctors in her West Tyrone constituency were working above and beyond to administer the vaccine to as many people as possible.\n\n\"But unfortunately I am hearing that some GPs cannot access supplies of the vaccine,\" she said.\n\n\"There does appear to be, and it is a consistent message from GPs in my own constituency, a feeling the distribution of the vaccine has been unequal to date.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Health Minister Robin Swann has welcomed a further delivery of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine into Northern Ireland on Tuesday morning.\n\nIn a tweet, Robin Swann said: \"We now have the supply to complete all our over 80s and when that group is finished, there will be enough to start into the over 75 programme.\"\n\nPatricia Donnelly, the head of NI's vaccination programme said there had been 154,436 doses of the vaccine administered here, with 132,857 of those being first doses.\n\nOn Tuesday, she said three quarters of care home residents had already received both doses.\n\n\"With the arrival of additional vaccine today, which have been issued this afternoon and tomorrow to GPs, there will be enough to complete the over 80 population and to commence in the over 70 population,\" she added.\n\nA further 24 virus-related deaths and 713 more Covid-19 cases were reported in Northern Ireland on Tuesday.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths recorded by the Department of Health to 1,649.\n\nThere are currently 842 people in hospital with the virus, 70 people in intensive care units (ICU) and 57 being ventilated.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, a further 93 Covid-19 related deaths were reported on Tuesday, bringing the country's death toll to 2,708.\n\nA further 2,001 positive cases were also recorded in the latest figures from the Republic's Department of Health.\n\nNorthern Ireland's rate of Covid-19 infection is now below one and has been at that level for a couple of weeks, according to the chief medical officer.\n\nHowever, Dr Michael McBride warned the reproduction (R) number for hospital transmission remains above one.\n\nDr McBride said new variants of the virus had made the job of curtailing the spread even more difficult, and warned he did not foresee any relaxation of restrictions any time soon.\n\n\"We need to ensure that we have as many people who remain at risk of severe disease vaccinated and prioritised with the first dose as possible before we consider significant relaxations in the current restrictions,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile concerns have been raised that \"social media myths\" are encouraging some care home staff to reject the Covid vaccine.\n\nPauline Shepherd, from the Independent Health and Care Providers, said young women were especially vulnerable to misinformation about the vaccine and fertility.\n\nLast week, the Department of Health said there had been an uptake level of about 80% among care home staff.\n\n\"We are very keen obviously that everyone takes the vaccine, that is really the only way that we are going to get through this,\" she told BBC Radio Foyle.\n\n\"Obviously there are myths going around on social media about the vaccine and some are opting not to take it.\n\n\"Particularly younger females seem to have the view through social media that it may impact fertility\".\n\nA consultant anaesthetist says there is a \"reluctance\" among members of the black, Asian and minority ethnic communities to take Covid-19 vaccines\n\nThere are currently 139 confirmed Covid-19 outbreaks in NI's 483 care homes.\n\nThe Public Health Agency (PHA) and Department of Health were now exploring how \"to dispel the myths\", Ms Shepherd added.\n\nDr Mukesh Chugh, a consultant anaesthetist at Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry, said there had been a \"reluctance\" among black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people to take Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nDr Chugh says this is because of \"anti-vaccine messages\" posted across various social media platforms and messenger apps \"targeted at certain ethnic and religious groups\".\n\n\"I encourage them not to believe the messages they are getting on WhatsApp - these are not scientific messages,\" he said.\n\nOn Tuesday, Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots said a number of groups of key workers should be given priority access to vaccinations.\n\nPrioritisation was decided by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises UK health departments on immunisation.\n\nEdwin Poots said meat plant workers should be among those given priority vaccine access\n\nAsked if he supported prioritisation for food workers in meat plants, Mr Poots told the assembly he did and had raised it with the executive.\n\n\"It's been identified as an essential service - those people working in them are there in cold, wet conditions where we have had a number of outbreaks,\" he said.\n\n\"We should seek to introduce those people somewhat earlier than is currently the case - I will continue to endeavour to press that case.\"\n\nHe said other groups of workers who should be prioritised included \"teachers and police officers\".", "An Instagram post said the alleged baby shower was a \"lovely surprise\"\n\nA rail company has begun an internal investigation after staff allegedly held a surprise baby shower in a closed Patisserie Valerie bakery at London's Marylebone station during lockdown.\n\nChiltern Railways workers told BBC News up to 20 colleagues, including some who were on shift, attended the gathering.\n\nThey claim some party-goers then had positive Covid tests, forcing most of the team to self-isolate.\n\nChiltern said \"appropriate action\" would be taken after its investigation.\n\nMembers of Chiltern Railways customer services staff based at the station told BBC News that about 30 people had been invited to the baby shower on the afternoon of 23 November - both via WhatsApp before the alleged gathering, and face to face on the day of the event.\n\nA national coronavirus lockdown was in place in England in November, so people were banned from meeting anyone indoors who was not part of their household.\n\nOne worker, David [not his real name], said he declined an invitation to the event but walked past the bakery later in his shift to see about 20 colleagues gathered inside.\n\nHe said he was \"shocked and alarmed\" to see people hugging each other, with most of them not wearing masks.\n\nPhotos of the alleged gathering, seen by the BBC, show a table inside a Patisserie Valerie outlet covered with dozens of cupcakes, mince pies, crisps and sandwiches, bunting saying \"it's a boy!\" and handmade flags reading \"happy baby shower\".\n\nOne photo appears to show a group of eight colleagues posing in front of the table of party food, without socially distancing from one another.\n\nSome images were shared on Instagram on 23 November with the caption: \"What a lovely surprise being thrown a baby shower at work today!\"\n\nA Patisserie Valerie spokesman said the company had not been informed of any such event and that none of its team members had access to the Marylebone station cafe, which has remained closed since March due to Covid restrictions.\n\nHe added it was normal for a member of station staff to have keys to the premises for \"security reasons\".\n\nDavid and another colleague claimed three people who allegedly attended the event tested positive over the following four days.\n\nThe positive tests meant 16 members of staff out of the team of about 26 people had to self-isolate for 14 days, David said.\n\nHe said colleagues who lived with, or cared for, vulnerable people were \"petrified\" to hear there had been a staff outbreak, with some \"scared to go home\" for fear of endangering loved ones.\n\nDavid added that he had been caring for his elderly grandmother so self-isolation was \"a real nightmare\" as he had to arrange alternative care for her.\n\nChiltern Railways confirmed a \"small number\" of workers tested positive for Covid or had to self-isolate in the 14-day period after 23 November, but a spokeswoman said \"none of the staff who were alleged to have attended [the baby shower] tested positive\".\n\nShe said Chiltern Railways was investigating and was \"making every effort\" to maintain a Covid-secure environment for staff and customers.\n\nChiltern Railways staff members congratulated their colleague using information boards at the station\n\nIn an email seen by the BBC, which was sent to Chiltern Railways employees on 24 November, a manager said one team member had tested positive and added: \"It is disappointing that social distancing measures do not appear to have been followed and I will be investigating this further.\"\n\nDavid's colleague Peter (not his real name) said he was one of about 10 team members who had to work while the rest of the team was self-isolating.\n\nPeter said the outbreak left those at work feeling \"stretched\" and \"raised the anxiety levels of everyone\" as they worried they might have caught Covid as a result of having worked alongside the alleged party's attendees.\n\n\"A lot of us don't want to be at work during this time, for obvious reasons. We're doing a job where we do come into contact with a lot of people - it's stressful enough with your own family, who are a bit worried about you going in to work at a train station and asking if you're getting the proper protection,\" Peter said.\n\nHe added he felt \"demoralised\" to hear about the alleged party when he spends his shifts encouraging customers to wear masks and socially distance.\n\nThe Department for Transport said it had been made aware of the incident and had contacted Chiltern Railways for a \"full explanation\".\n\nA spokesman for the Office of Rail and Road - which protects the interests of rail and road users - said it had investigated \"an issue relating to Covid-19 concerns\" and had taken action, jointly with Westminster City Council, to \"ensure Chiltern Railways tightens its risk assessment for workers and to revise working arrangements\".", "When Amelia Strike, 21, was logged out of her Depop social shopping app account in October, nothing seemed out of the ordinary.\n\n\"I thought I had just forgotten my password when I couldn't get back in, but a couple of days passed and I realised something wasn't right,\" says the Birmingham-based law student.\n\nShe then received a message from a stranger on Instagram, alerting her to the fact that her account had been taken over by a scammer advertising Apple AirPod headphones for £50.\n\nShe immediately used her brother's Depop account to comment on the offending post and contact the app. It was removed by the firm in a few hours and her password was reset.\n\nBut when Ms Strike logged back in, she was shocked by what she found.\n\n\"I felt sick - I scrolled and scrolled through hundreds of messages people had sent the scammer,\" she says.\n\nThe fraudster had been instructing shoppers to pay them directly through PayPal's \"Friends and Family\" option, which sidesteps Depop's fees and doesn't offer any protection for buyers.\n\nThe scammer sent messages like this one to other Depop users from Amelia's account\n\nMs Strike counted at least three Depop users who made unauthorised payments of £50 to the scammer.\n\nIn Ms Strike's situation, to get users to trust scam listing, the hacker had also uploaded a photo of her name on a post-it note next to the headphones that were supposedly for sale.\n\nThis is a common tactic used by people selling second-hand items online, to prove that the photos were not stolen from another listing.\n\n\"I just felt so violated,\" she says.\n\nShe is not alone - 14 other users have told BBC News that their Depop accounts have been hacked in recent months. In all cases, the fraudsters demanded to be paid directly, rather than through the app.\n\nBlending the look and social elements of Instagram with the buy-and-sell format of eBay, 90% of Depop's users are aged 26 or under.\n\nEmily Goold, 21, a journalism student in Tewkesbury, was scared when her account was hacked and a fraudster posted a listing for a £350 jacket.\n\nEmily Goold, 21, told the BBC a fraudster hacked her Depop account and advertised a £350 Moncler jacket\n\nDepop took the listing down within 12 hours and reset her password, but Ms Goold says such incidents are becoming commonplace.\n\n\"You always know somebody who's had a Depop horror story. It's such a widespread problem now.\"\n\nScammers have continued to plague many online services through the pandemic.\n\nOne \"have a go\" method called \"credential stuffing\" involves using automated tools to repeatedly log into accounts, entering usernames and password information previously exposed from data breaches of other popular online services.\n\nIf a user doesn't use the same password on multiple services or has changed their passwords after being exposed in a data breach, this won't work.\n\nAccording to Liv Rowley, a threat intelligence analyst at cyber-security firm Blueliv, cyber criminals are now targeting Depop accounts on an \"industrial scale\" using this method, capitalising on the fact that people often use similar passwords.\n\nBlending the look and social elements of Instagram with the buy-and-sell format of eBay, 90% of Depop's users are aged 26 or under\n\nDepop told the BBC that the safety and security of its community is its \"number one priority\", and that the service has never had a data breach or had its infrastructure compromised.\n\nThe firm confirmed that credential stuffing is a big part of the problem.\n\n\"Weak passwords and the use of the same password across multiple accounts is the greatest source of account takeover, which is why we have initiated a campaign in the second half of 2020 to force some users to strengthen their passwords and to remind others of the importance of strong and unique passwords,\" says Depop's chief operating officer Dominic Rose.\n\nDepop has started resetting passwords for some 12 million users that have not changed them in over a year and told the BBC it had sent reminders to a similar number to make sure their log-in details are unique.\n\n\"We will continue to remind our community about the importance of account security and updating their passwords.\"\n\nThe firm, founded in 2011, told the BBC that although the number of its users increased nearly two-fold to 26 million last year, it had seen a 50% decrease in account \"takeovers\" since its campaign began.\n\nBut Blueliv found that login details for several thousand hacked Depop accounts are being advertised for as little as $1.05 (77p) each on the dark web - a part of the internet that is only accessible using specialised tools.\n\nWhile a Vice investigation first highlighted the problem in May, there is now evidence that account logins are being sold across multiple dark web \"marketplaces\".\n\nThe information for sale includes usernames and passwords, with extra charged for details such as follower count, the number of sales completed by a user and their ratings by other shoppers.\n\nOn the dark net marketplace White House Market, \"premium\" Depop accounts are being sold for $5\n\n\"The accounts are being compromised and that definitely is concerning,\" Ms Rowley says. \"While it's not a Depop-specific problem, I think [credential stuffing] is one we're going to see expand in the next five years.\"\n\nOne Depop user told the BBC they would feel \"much more comfortable\" if the app introduced two-factor authentication, where users enter a one-time code sent to them via email or text, for example, after attempting to sign in.\n\nDepop confirmed that it intends to implement multi-factor authentication in 2021.\n\nBut Aman Johal, director at law firm Your Lawyers, which specialises in consumer action claims, says the platform needs to act urgently, \"particularly given its relatively young user base, where the duty of care is greater\".\n\n\"The fact that this has been going on for months...is unacceptable. Given the volume of compromised accounts for sale, the horse has already bolted,\" he added.\n\nFor some users, trust in the company has been dented.\n\n\"I feel like their security measures need to be amped up because it's just not good enough,\" says Ms Strike, who has been a Depop user since 2015.\n\n\"I've used [Depop] for a long time but I'm reluctant to continue because it just doesn't feel safe anymore.\"", "HSBC is to close 82 branches in the UK between April and September this year, claiming customers are turning to digital banking.\n\nThe company will have 511 branches across the country following the closure programme.\n\nManagers said they did not expect to make any redundancies, with staff moved to nearby branches instead.\n\nCoronavirus and changing customer habits have altered the way we bank, but there are concerns over closures.\n\nCampaigners say that local branches provide a lifeline for those who need access to cash and face-to-face services, and allow small businesses to bank without too much disruption to their own trade.\n\nHSBC said all but one of the branches earmarked for closure were within one mile of a Post Office, where these day-to-day transactions could be carried out.\n\nIt said - even stripping out the effects of the pandemic - the number of customers using branches had fallen by a third in the past five years, and 90% of all customer contact was over the phone, internet or smartphone, in addition to contacts on social media.\n\nJackie Uhi, HSBC UK's head of network, said: \"The Covid-19 pandemic has emphasised the need for the changes that we are making.\n\n\"It hasn't pushed us in a different direction but reinforces the things that we were focusing on before and has crystallised our thinking. This is a strategic direction that we need to take to have a branch network fit for the future.\"\n\nThis would include changing some branches to concentrate on cash access, as well as the use of \"pop-up\" branches in some areas by the end of the year. It means some remaining branches will offer fewer services.\n\nThe branches to close are:\n\nMay: Brighton, Ditchling Road; Hull, Merit House; Wednesbury; Sutton Coldfield, Four Oaks; Hull, Holderness Road; Pontyclun, Talbot Green; London, Fleet Street; London, Fenchurch Street; London, Old Broad Street; London, Charing Cross; Sheffield, Darnall; Oxford, Summertown; Leeds, Chapel Allerton; Cardiff, Rumney; Torquay, Strand; Staines", "The Met Office warned heavy rain combined with melting snow on higher ground was likely to cause flooding\n\nAn amber rain warning has been issued for parts of northern and central England as Storm Christoph approaches.\n\nThe Met Office told people in Yorkshire and the Humber, the North West, East Midlands and the east of England to expect heavy rain and potential floods.\n\nYellow warnings have been issued for England, Wales, Northern Ireland and southern Scotland.\n\nUp to 70mm (2.75in) of rain is forecast to fall within 48 hours in the worst-hit areas from Tuesday.\n\nThe Met Office said the downpours, set to last throughout Tuesday and Wednesday, were likely to cause flooding when combined with melting snow on higher ground.\n\nIt said there was a \"danger to life\" due to fast-flowing or deep floodwater, and warned some communities there was a good chance they would be \"cut off\" by flooded roads.\n\nIt also predicted delays and cancellations to public transport, with the amber warning in place until 12:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nCouncils and emergency services have warned people to prepare for potential flooding.\n\nMayor of Doncaster Ros Jones declared a major incident in South Yorkshire ahead of possible flooding.\n\nIn a tweet, she said emergency protocols were instigated on Sunday, with sandbags handed out in flood-risk areas, and told people not to panic but to be prepared.\n\nCalderdale councillor Scott Patient urged residents and businesses to \"take all the steps they can to protect themselves and their property\".\n\nDue to Covid-19 restrictions, Mr Patient said, the authority was preparing \"virtual community support hubs\" to help people if there was flooding.\n\n\"The virtual hubs work similarly to the physical ones, but everything will be done remotely to reduce the need for face-to-face contact and to protect staff, volunteers, those affected by flooding and vulnerable people in our communities,\" he said.\n\nThe Environment Agency has 14 flood warnings - meaning \"immediate action\" is required - in place across England, stretching from the south east to the north east.\n\nThe Met Office amber rain area initially covered parts of the north, but has since been expanded to include some central areas\n\nMet Office forecaster Jon Griffiths said about 40-70mm (1.57-2.75 in) of rain was expected in the north-west over three days, potentially rising to 100-120mm (3.93-4.72 in) in hilly areas.\n\nMr Griffiths said river systems in some areas were already close to capacity.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has condemned the \"disgraceful scenes\" in the US, after supporters of President Donald Trump stormed Congress and clashed with police.\n\nRioters breached the Capitol building where lawmakers met to confirm Joe Biden's presidential election victory.\n\nThe PM said it was \"vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power\".\n\nAnd Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was a \"direct attack on democracy\".\n\n\"The United States stands for democracy around the world and it is now vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power,\" Mr Johnson tweeted.\n\nScottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, meanwhile, called the events \"utterly horrifying\".\n\nFriend of President Trump and leader of Reform UK - formerly the Brexit Party - Nigel Farage tweeted: \"Storming Capitol Hill is wrong. The protesters must leave.\"\n\nThe US Congress has now reconvened after the violence - spurred on by Mr Trump's unproven claims of electoral fraud - to certify Mr Biden's victory in the US election in November\n\nHundreds of the president's supporters stormed the Capitol, and staged an occupation of the building in Washington DC.\n\nBoth chambers of Congress were forced into recess, as protesters clashed with police and tear gas was released.\n\nFour people died on Capitol grounds during the violence, including a woman shot by police and three others, who died as a result of \"medical emergencies\", local police said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police place US Capitol Building on lockdown after Trump supporters breached security lines\n\nUK MPs from across the political spectrum have criticised the events in the US.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said there was \"no justification for these violent attempts to frustrate the lawful and proper transition of power\", while Home Secretary Priti Patel called the scenes \"unacceptable and undemocratic\".\n\nShe added: \"There is no justification for this violence and Donald Trump must condemn it.\"\n\nHer Conservative colleague, and former Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt directly addressed President Trump for telling the crowd to march on Congress, tweeting: \"He shames American democracy tonight and causes its friends anguish - but he is not America.\"\n\nLabour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner said: \"The violence that Donald Trump has unleashed is terrifying, and the Republicans who stood by him have blood on their hands.\"\n\nAnd shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said the events were \"the legacy of a politics of hate that pits people against each other and threatens the foundations of democracy\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile, Work and Pensions Secretary Therese Coffey has defended the prime minister's response to the rioting.\n\nAsked on ITV's Peston programme why Mr Johnson hadn't criticised Mr Trump, she said: \"The prime minister has been clear tonight that we need a peaceful and orderly transition.\"\n\nMs Coffey added that events in the US were a \"reminder that democracy is something precious - and will only continue to thrive as long as we protect institutions that make this country important and not demean each other when the majority of what we want to achieve is similar outcomes\".\n\nDonald Trump and Boris Johnson at a Nato summit in 2019\n\nMeanwhile, the SNP's leader in Westminster, Ian Blackford, said the end of Mr Trump's presidency \"cannot come quick enough\".\n\nHe tweeted: \"What a legacy the events of today are to his time in office. Shameful, shocking, an affront to democracy.\"\n\nLeader of the Liberal Democrats, Ed Davey, called the scenes \"absolutely horrendous\", while his party's foreign affairs spokeswoman, Layla Moran, said: \"The scenes coming out of Washington tonight are an attack on democracy.\"", "An ambulance service has experienced its busiest day of calls on record.\n\nOn Monday, West Midlands Ambulance Service dealt with 5,383 calls in 24 hours. The previous record was 5,001 calls in March 2018.\n\nSeven hundred of those calls came from London as its calls system struggled, according to BBC health correspondent Michele Paduano.\n\nThe ambulance service said Covid-19 and winter weather had resulted in hospitals being \"extremely busy\".\n\nAt the hosptials, the longest a patient waited was five hours and 39 minutes, with two of the longest waits at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and Heartlands Hospital in Birmingham.\n\nA combination of Covid-19 and winter weather has resulted in hospitals being \"extremely busy\"\n\nAt one point on Monday night, 15 ambulances were waiting to hand over patients outside New Cross Hospital in Wolverhampton.\n\nA source told the BBC it was \"a very challenging day\" and in total, handovers had accounted for 759 hours of crews' time, equivalent to taking 63 ambulances off the road.\n\nWhile another said at 06:00 GMT on Tuesday, ambulances were still responding to emergency calls from the night before.\n\nTraditionally, the first Monday after New Year is always busy. GP surgeries have been closed and people wait until after the festivities to get medical treatment.\n\nThis year, the number of calls was exacerbated by the service taking about 700 calls for the London ambulance service after its system struggled.\n\nThere was also the perfect storm of snow and ice coupled with coronavirus - made worse because many of our trusts, particularly University Hospitals Birmingham have been struggling with capacity for many months. Usually hospitals would put patients on corridors, they can't because of Covid risks.\n\nThey also have fewer beds due to wider spacing to prevent infection and fewer staff on duty. Hence patients left for hours on ambulances outside.\n\nWest Midlands Ambulance Service is the best performing in the country, but even with near to 500 ambulances a day on the road, it cannot keep up with demand.\n\nProf David Loughton, the chief executive of the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, warned its capacity would \"soon be compromised\".\n\n\"The numbers are ramping up enormously and I don't think we've seen the full impact of what happened on Christmas Day yet, that will take time to come through,\" Prof Loughton said.\n\nHe added a two-week \"lag\" meant things could get worst before they get better.\n\n\"As I always say today's Covid rate is my order book for intensive care in two weeks' time.\"\n\nA West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesman said: \"A combination of Covid-19 and winter weather has resulted in hospitals being extremely busy which unfortunately resulted in hospital handover delays.\n\n\"We work closely with the hospitals to try and ensure our crews are able to handover patients quickly and safely, but due to the extremely high demand some patients did wait longer to be handed over than we would normally see.\"\n\nIn a statement London Ambulance Service NHS Trust said : \"As is standard practice during periods of high demand and high levels of staff sickness, ambulance services provide support for each other, which includes answering 999 calls.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dickey emerged during a boom for African-American literature in the 1990s\n\nAuthor Eric Jerome Dickey, whose novels of romance, mystery and adventure were best-selling page-turners over more than 20 years, has died aged 59.\n\nThe US writer wrote 30 novels about breathless relationships and thrilling adventures involving young African American characters.\n\nThey included Friends & Lovers, Milk In My Coffee, Cheaters and Finding Gideon.\n\nHe also wrote a series of Marvel comics about a love story between Storm from the X-Men and the Black Panther.\n\n\"His work has become a cultural touchstone over the course of his multi-decade writing career, earning him millions of dedicated readers around the world,\" his publicist Becky Odell told USA Today in a statement.\n\nWriter Roxane Gay was among those paying tribute, describing him as \"a great storyteller\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by roxane gay This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOther authors to add their voices included Luvvie Ajayi, who described him as \"a literary legend\", and ReShonda Tate Billingsley, who said he was \"an amazing author and an even better friend\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Luvvie is the #ProfessionalTroublemaker This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post 2 by Luvvie is the #ProfessionalTroublemaker\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by ReShonda Tate Billingsley This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Wesley This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBorn in Memphis, Tennessee, Dickey started out as a software developer in the aerospace industry. Being laid off from that job gave him a chance to take writing classes and see whether he could make it as an author.\n\nHe emerged during a boom for African-American literature in the 1990s, and his 1996 debut Sister, Sister - about the lives and loves of three siblings - was recently named one of the 50 Most Impactful Black Books of the Last 50 Years by Essence magazine.\n\nHe was particularly praised for his ability to write \"believable\" female characters, and many of his readers were women.\n\nWhen the New York Times profiled him in 2004, it billed him as the \"chick lit king\". Patrik Henry Bass, Essence's books editor, told the paper: \"He is singular in the way he is tapping into the African-American female psyche.\"\n\nAnd Calvin Reid, an editor at trade magazine Publishers Weekly, said: \"He captures black language and black middle-class characters with more depth than you often see in commercial fiction.\"\n\nBy that time, he was selling 500,000 books a year. He was nominated four times for the NAACP Image Award for best work of fiction, winning in 2015 for A Wanted Woman.\n\nBy then, he had branched out into stories of crime, suspense, thrills and spills as well as the steamy and tangled relationships with which he made his name.\n\nHe had four daughters, but said he never based his plots on his own life. \"I avoid my life,\" he once said. \"It bores me. Trust me. A book about me would be a snoozefest.\"\n\nHis final novel, The Son of Mr Suleman, will be published in April.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We've now vaccinated over 1.3m people across the UK\"\n\nSome 1.3 million people in the UK have now received their first dose of a Covid vaccine, says the government.\n\nIn England, that includes nearly a quarter of the most elderly, vulnerable patients.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said it meant that within a two to three weeks they should have a \"significant degree of immunity\" to the virus.\n\nHe said there would be a ramping up to get more people immunised - up to 2 million a week.\n\nThe ambition is to vaccinate all the over-70s, the most clinically vulnerable and front-line health and care workers by mid-February. That will require around 13 million vaccinations.\n\nHe defended the UK's policy of immunising more people with one dose immediately - rather than holding some stock back to give people a second booster shot - in order to save \"the most lives the fastest\".\n\nUS regulators have questioned the policy, saying it is premature without more trial evidence, but the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency says it is a pragmatic decision to protect more people.\n\nBoth the Pfizer and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses to provide the best possible protection.\n\nInitially, the strategy for the Pfizer vaccine was to offer people the second dose 21 days after their initial jab - full immunity starts seven days after the second dose.\n\nBut when approval was announced for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on 30 December, it was also announced that the policy would now change - the new priority would be to give as many people a first shot of either vaccine, rather than providing the required two doses in as short a time as possible.\n\nEveryone will still receive their second dose, but this will now be within 12 weeks of their first.\n\nEngland's chief medical officer Professor Chris Whitty told the Downing Street press conference that extending the gap between the first and second jabs would mean the number of people vaccinated can be doubled over three months.\n\n\"If over that period there is more than 50% protection then you have actually won. More people will have been protected than would have been otherwise.\n\n\"Our quite strong view is that protection is likely to be lot more than 50%.\"\n\nAsked whether the longer gap could lead to an increase risk of the virus mutating into a version that could escape the vaccine, he said it was a worry, but a small one.\n\nChief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said vaccines would probably need to be changed further down the line to continue to be a good match for the virus - but that this was relatively quick to do.\n\nOne of the exciting things about the science of the RNA vaccines is that they are incredibly fast to make in response to new mutations, he said.", "Former Goldman Sachs banker Richard Sharp is set to be named the BBC's next chairman, the corporation's media editor Amol Rajan says.\n\nMr Sharp spent 23 years working for the banking giant and was reportedly Chancellor Rishi Sunak's boss there.\n\nHe has recently been acting as an unpaid economic adviser to Mr Sunak during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHis new role will see him lead negotiations with the government over the future of the licence fee.\n\nThe licence fee is due to stay in place until at least 2027, when the BBC's Royal Charter ends, with a debate about how the broadcaster should be funded after that.\n\nThe government is currently reviewing whether its cost, currently £157.50, should continue rising with inflation from 2022, and whether non-payment should remain a criminal offence.\n\nMr Sharp's career at Goldman Sachs culminated as chairman of its principal investment business in Europe before his departure in 2007. He was then on the Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee for six years until 2019.\n\nAs an advisor to the Treasury about its pandemic response, the 63-year-old reportedly played a key role in the £1.57bn arts rescue package, and the film and television production restart scheme.\n\nMr Sharp is a former donor to the Conservative party.\n\nHe was chairman of the Royal Academy of Arts from 2007 to 2012, and founded the charity London Music Masters.\n\nSir David Clementi, the current BBC chairman, steps down in February. The post-holder is officially appointed by the Queen on the recommendation of the government.\n\nJulian Knight, the chair of the DCMS Committee, said in a statement: \"It is disappointing to see this news about the next BBC chairman has leaked out ahead of a formal announcement from the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. The Committee previously expressed some concerns over the appointments process, calling for it to be fair and transparent.\n\n\"The DCMS Committee looks forward to questioning the preferred candidate for the post in a pre-appointment hearing next week on their views at a critical time for the BBC about its role and the future of public service broadcasting more generally.\"\n\nHis views on the BBC itself are unknown. But like new director general Tim Davie, who he met a few weeks before Christmas, he has a commercial background. Just as the relationship between Lord Hall, Davie's predecessor, and Sir David was strong, so the bond between the new DG and chair will be critical.\n\nWhether Sharp supports the licence fee as the pillar of a future BBC settlement is unclear.\n\nThe last time the BBC's future was negotiated with a sceptical Conservative government, the relationship between the director general and the chancellor - then George Osborne - was critical, as Lord Hall explained to me in his exit interview.\n\nThis time, Davie will go into that negotiation with a very close ally of the current chancellor - though Sharp's first duty is to support Davie, and the BBC, and not his old mentee.", "New car registrations fell to their lowest level in nearly three decades last year, according to preliminary figures from the industry's trade body.\n\nIt was also the biggest one-year fall since World War Two, when factories were being turned over to military production, the Society for Motor Manufacturers and Traders said.\n\nAbout 1.63 million new cars were registered in 2020, compared with 2.3 million in 2019 - a decline of 29%.\n\nIt was the lowest total since 1992.\n\nThe bulk of the lost sales occurred during the first lockdown in the Spring, when showrooms were forced to close, and factories shut down.\n\n\"We lost half a million units from March, April, May - and we never recovered them,\" said the SMMT's chief executive, Mike Hawes.\n\nThe restrictions introduced later in the year were less damaging, largely because dealers were able to sell cars remotely, using 'click and collect' services.\n\nThat remains the case during the new lockdown, announced on Monday.\n\n\"We can still do click and collect, which is important, because that's the very minimum we need,\" said Mr Hawes. \"Not just to keep retail going, but also to keep manufacturing going.\"\n\nOverall, the SMMT said the Covid crisis has cost the car industry some £20bn - and cost the exchequer nearly £2bn in lost VAT.\n\nThere are also serious questions about the extent to which the car market can recover this year. Previous forecasts, which had suggested new registrations could rise to about 2 million in 2021, have been thrown into doubt by the latest restrictions.\n\nBut while the market as a whole has suffered over the past year, sales of electric cars have risen dramatically, increasing their share of the market from 1.5% to 6.5%. Sales of plug-in hybrids also rose sharply.\n\nCar showrooms re-opened from the first lockdown in June\n\n\"If we see this continued level of uptake in electric vehicles, then we anticipate that sales of new EVs and plug-in hybrids will overtake diesel cars in 2021,\" said Ian Plummer, commercial director of motoring website Auto Trader. \"Then, pure EVs will overtake those of their internal combustion engine counterparts in 2026.\"\n\nWith the pandemic continuing to inflict serious damage on the industry, Mr Hawes says the trade deal between the UK and the EU came as a \"massive relief\".\n\nIt confirmed that cars and car parts could continue to move between the two regions, without tariffs - or taxes - being imposed, provided certain conditions are met.\n\nThe SMMT had previously warned that failing to reach a deal could have cost the industry £55bn over five years - and add £2,000 to the cost of each vehicle\n\nBut manufacturers still face potentially significant additional costs due to so-called non-tariff barriers - including border formalities, and the need to obtain extra regulatory approvals for new designs.\n\n\"This is not a free deal\", said Mr Hawes.\n\nAnother consequence of the trade deal is that the UK will need to focus on battery production, if it is to maintain its car industry while phasing out petrol and diesel engines.\n\nThat's because in order to qualify for tariff-free access to the European market, the value of car components made outside the UK and the EU will have to be strictly limited.\n\nSpecific rules relating to batteries effectively mean that from 2027, they themselves will have to be made in the EU or the UK.\n\nThe SMMT believes that, based on current investment plans, UK battery factories will have a capacity of 15 gigawatt-hours (GWh) by 2024.\n\nThat is more than seven times the current level, and would be enough to produce 250,000 electric cars per year.\n\nBut the SMMT insists much more is needed: 60GWh in order to produce 1 million cars per year by 2030, and 120GWh to produce 2mby 2040.\n\nThat, says Mr Hawes, will require \"massive investment\".", "Greggs expects up to a £15m loss for the year, which would be its first annual loss since it listed its shares on the stock exchange in 1984.\n\nThe bakery chain said it does not expect profits to return to pre-Covid levels until 2022 at the earliest.\n\nIt has been battling a sales slump due to the coronavirus pandemic, but sales declines have been lessening.\n\nGreggs made 820 job cuts at the end of last year, after its sales were hit by coronavirus lockdowns and restrictions.\n\nChief executive Roger Whiteside said the impact of the Covid-19 crisis had been \"enormous\" and that a fresh lockdown meant \"significant uncertainties remain in the near term\".\n\nCoronavirus restrictions towards the end of last year led to \"variable trading conditions across the UK\", he said.\n\nSales in the final three months of the year fell by nearly a fifth, but this decline was less than its sales slump in the third quarter.\n\nIn September, Greggs, which is based in Newcastle, said it was in talks with staff to cut hours in an effort to minimise job losses.\n\nBut it still decided to cut 820 jobs because of \"lockdown levels of business\" as High Streets were hit by the crisis.\n\n\"Looking ahead, the significant uncertainty over the duration of social restrictions, along with the impact of higher unemployment levels, makes it difficult to predict performance,\" the firm said.\n\n\"However, we do not expect that profits will return to pre-Covid levels until 2022 at the earliest.\"\n\nGreggs said on Wednesday that total sales for the year were down nearly a third to £811m, but government support had helped to limit pre-tax losses.\n\nIt said it had developed its takeaway business and a delivery tie-up with Just Eat, and had also seen \"strong sales\" through its partnership with retailer Iceland.\n\n\"We have taken action to position Greggs to withstand further short-term shocks and are optimistic about our prospects for growth once social restrictions are lifted,\" Mr Whiteside added.\n\nGreggs wants to open about 100 new stores, on a net basis, over the year ahead.\n\nJulie Palmer, a partner at insolvency consultants Begbies Traynor, said: \"The latest national lockdown will be unwelcome news for Greggs, which has operated shrewdly during the past year in spite of a lack of footfall, with non-essential stores forced to close and millions working from home.\n\n\"The bakery chain has had to adapt its business model and invest digitally to accommodate for the rapid change in shopping habits, offering click-and-collect purchases, as well as a nationwide delivery service through its partnership with Just Eat.\n\n\"This should provide a solid base for the business to expand when government restrictions are eased and the world returns to some normality.\"", "US intelligence agencies have said they believe Russia was behind the \"serious\" cyber compromise revealed in December.\n\nPresident Trump had previously suggested China might have been behind the hack, although other members of his administration had pointed the finger at Moscow.\n\nIn a joint statement, the intelligence bodies say they currently believe fewer than 10 US government agencies saw their data compromised, although other organisations outside of government were also affected.\n\nThey say work is still going on to understand the scope of the incident, which appears to have been aimed at gathering intelligence and which they say is \"ongoing\" a month after details first emerged.\n\nThe update on the investigation came in a statement from a task force called the Cyber Unified Coordination Group which was set up to deal with the incident. It comprises intelligence and law enforcement agencies including the FBI and NSA.\n\nThe group said it was still working to understand the scope of what had taken place.\n\nEighteen thousand customers who used Orion product from the company Solar Winds were exposed but US intelligence says it believes a much smaller number saw follow-on activity from the hackers in which they stole data. The US Treasury was among those which previously acknowledged being targeted.\n\n\"This is a serious compromise that will require a sustained and dedicated effort to remediate,\" the statement said. Many organisations are having to scour their systems for signs that they may have been compromised.\n\nThe incident sent shockwaves across the US partly because the breach was undiscovered for many months and was potentially far-reaching in terms of who it might have affected. It also suggested a degree of sophistication and stealth which was widely seen as a trademark of hackers from the SVR, Russia's foreign intelligence agency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Experts have been warning for years that it's not a matter of if, but when, hackers will kill somebody\n\nSoon after the incident was revealed, President Trump raised the possibility that China might be responsible, but members of his own administration including the secretary of state and attorney general pointed the finger at Moscow. The latest statement shows the assessment of US intelligence agencies is that Russia was behind it, although it does not go so far as accusing the Russian state itself, saying only that the actor was \"likely Russian in origin\". Moscow has denied playing any part.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden has previously said it was important to take \"meaningful steps\" to hold those responsible to account. It is not yet clear, though, what that might involve. While some US politicians suggested the breach might even be compared to an \"act of war\", most cyber-experts disputed this and the US intelligence community has now played down suggestions that it could have had destructive impact.\n\n\"At this time, we believe this was, and continues to be, an intelligence-gathering effort,\" the latest statement says. This is significant since it suggests no evidence has been found that this was preparatory activity for a more destructive cyber-attack which might switch off systems. This may limit the US response since espionage operations do not breach the cyber norms the US itself promotes (largely because it too carries out such intelligence-gathering operations against other nations).\n\nIn December UK officials say they believed a small number of UK organisations were affected but said they did not believe they were in the public sector.", "South Vietnam flags were seen during the unrest Image caption: South Vietnam flags were seen during the unrest\n\nOn Wednesday, as protesters gathered outside before swarming the Capitol building, the yellow flags of the old South Vietnam regime could be seen.\n\nIn fact, the yellow flags of the former South Vietnam are a common sight at pro-Trump rallies across the United States.\n\nVietnamese Americans, especially those of the older generation who fled Vietnam after Saigon fell in 1975, are known for their support for the Republican party and Donald Trump.\n\nA pre-election survey by the group Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote found that Vietnamese Americans are the only major East Asian ethnic community that favoured Trump over Biden . Trump’s anti-China and anti-communist rhetoric resonated greatly with the former refugees who risked their lives to escape communism.\n\nBut the support for President Trump has also become an increasingly divisive issue amongst the Vietnamese American community.\n\nHours after the Capitol riot, there are still calls on pro-Trump internet forums like the \"ABC Trump\" Facebook page for Vietnamese Americans to “take to the streets in support of President Trump” as “the battle continues”.\n\nBut there have also been condemnations.\n\n“This is embarrassing,” one young Vietnamese American wrote on Twitter, adding: “They’ve brought shame to the flag”.", "The US is facing another huge election - one that could define how much new president Joe Biden can get done in his first term.\n\nMore than 100 people are gathered in the grey and damp cold in Stone Mountain.\n\nIt's a miserable start to the New Year but this city near Georgia's capital, Atlanta, feels anything but sleepy or hung over.\n\n\"The energy we get here in Georgia is something I've never seen before,\" says Mr Gardner, who was born and raised in local DeKalb County.\n\n\"We've had other Senate races and I'm just excited.\"\n\nHe is joined by fellow Democratic supporters who are singing and dancing outside a house-turned-campaign centre.\n\nIt's to rally support for the two men who are probably President-elect Joe Biden's most important friends right now: Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock.\n\nThis traditionally Republican state was won by Mr Biden in November's election - but there were no clear winners for the state's two Senate seats. Now there is a run-off between the top candidates in each race.\n\nIf the two Democrats, Mr Ossoff and Rev Warnock, beat incumbent Republicans David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, Mr Biden's party effectively controls the Senate.\n\nShirley Shepphard is handing out stickers, with a smile and confidence.\n\n\"The Democrats can win! Yes we can, yes we can, yes we can!\" she says.\n\nThere's a huge cheer as Mr Ossoff's large blue bus makes its way down the road and pulls up opposite the house.\n\nHe is only 33 years old and, in case his youth wasn't clear enough, he makes a point of jogging on to the small stage.\n\nDuring a polished speech he exclaims: \"The place we demand better is at the ballot box.\"\n\nIf Mr Ossoff wins, he'd be the youngest member of the Senate - a title once held by Joe Biden himself.\n\nNo pressure, but I put to him that the fate of Mr Biden's presidency is in his hands.\n\nIf he loses, is Mr Biden a weakened president before he's even begun?\n\nWithout missing a beat, Mr Ossoff says: \"We will win.\"\n\nFellow Democrat and Senate candidate Mr Warnock could make history alongside him.\n\nHe could become Georgia's first black senator, in a state that has a higher proportion of black people than any other in the US.\n\nRallies have been held for all four candidates, including this one featuring the US vice-president\n\nGeorgia has also found itself becoming the final battleground for an aggrieved President Donald Trump.\n\nThe Republican Senate candidates here - Mr Perdue and Ms Loeffler - are his last foot soldiers.\n\nBoth appeared at his rally the previous night, where he focused on repeating his unsubstantiated claims of election fraud.\n\n\"There's no way we lost Georgia, that was a rigged election,\" were the first words out of his mouth.\n\n\"We run all over the world telling people how to run their elections and we don't even know how to run ours.\"\n\nMr Trump has also gone after Georgia's Republican governor and begged another official here, in an astonishing phone call, to find votes to overturn Mr Biden's victory.\n\nThe president has also called the Georgia Senate races \"invalid and illegal\" without any evidence.\n\nThere are concerns from some Republicans he's putting people off voting on Tuesday.\n\nI asked supporters at Trump's rally why they would take part in an election process if they didn't believe it was fair. Some hesitated and suggested it was their civic duty.\n\nFor those who won't vote, it's an advantage that may work for the Democrats.\n\nWhen I ask two Ossoff and Warnock supporters about the claims of election fraud, both women throw their heads back, burst into a long laugh in perfect unison and shake their heads bemused: \"Yeah, that's a good one.\"\n\nThere's another factor in this runoff - teenagers.\n\nSince the 3 November presidential election, more than 23,000 people will have turned 18 in the state and can now vote in this Senate race.\n\nMany young voters have been holding live-streaming events in counties across Georgia.\n\nValerie Ponomarev just turned 18 and is very excited at getting to vote. She was upset she couldn't cast a ballot in the recent presidential election.\n\n\"I did the math in my head and was short by a month as I was born in December,\" she says.\n\n\"I was mad at my mum that I hadn't been born sooner!\"\n\nShe said at first, she didn't even realise the Senate runoff was so crucial in Georgia.\n\nShe's voting for the Democrats, Ms Ponomarev says, adding that a lot of younger people have shown support for Mr Ossoff.\n\n\"I think the youth finally want representation in government because we're so often underrepresented and now that we have Jon Ossoff who is closer to our age,\" she says.\n\nMichael Guisto found himself in the same situation as Ms Ponomarev - too young to cast a ballot in November - and says missing out on that vote was painful.\n\n\"It feels like a redemption,\" he says of this Senate race.\n\nThe polls are suggesting it's a very tight race. But this state knows that whatever it decides, it will have an impact on the country as a whole.\n\nMr Guisto says even though he missed out on the November election, this vote matters.\n\n\"I get to in some ways influence the country but this time it's a bit closer to home.\"", "The deaths of a further 68 people who tested positive for Covid have been recorded in Scotland in the past 24 hours.\n\nIt comes as official figures show 33,381 people received their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine in the week to 27 December.\n\nThat takes the total number of people to get a vaccine in Scotland since 8 December to 92,188.\n\nPatients in hospital with coronavirus rose from 1,347 on Tuesday to 1,384.\n\nHospital admissions have been rising sharply but are still 136 short of the peak figure of 1,520 recorded on 20 April last year.\n\nThe latest statistics show 2,039 new cases of the virus, which is 10.5% of those recently tested, a slightly lower figure than in recent days.\n\nA total of 95 people are in intensive care - a slight increase but significantly lower than the April peak of 208.\n\nHealth officials have expressed concern about the situation in Inverclyde, Dumfries & Galloway and the Scottish Borders, in particular, which have seen sharp rises in positive tests.\n\nWeekly figures show Inverclyde recorded 538.5 cases per 100,000, Dumfries & Galloway 538.1 and the Scottish Borders 435.5.\n\nThere were a further 603 confirmed coronavirus cases in the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde area in the past 24 hours, with an additional 296 in NHS Lanarkshire, 206 in NHS Grampian and 164 in the NHS Lothian area.\n\nSince the start of the pandemic, there have been 141,066 cases in Scotland, with a total of 4,701 people dying within 28 days of first testing positive.\n\nThe latest vaccine figures were released after doctors in Scotland raised concerns about plans to delay the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine.\n\nAll four UK nations will now leave up to 12 weeks between the first and second doses of the jab rather than giving both within 21 days.\n\nDr Lewis Morrison, head of the BMA in Scotland, said members had concerns about the potential impact of leaving such a big gap between the two doses.\n\nBut the UK's chief medical officers have defended the move, saying the first dose will give people substantial protection against the virus within two to three weeks.", "Doctors are calling for a significant ramping up of the vaccination programme following approval of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nThe first patients are expected to receive the jab - the second approved for use in the UK - on Monday.\n\nBut with just over 500,000 doses available to use next week, experts are worried there may be a bottleneck in the system.\n\nThere are more than 25m people in the nine priority groups identified so far.\n\nThis includes all those over 50 and younger adults with health conditions, as well as frontline health and care staff.\n\nMeanwhile, GPs have questioned the wisdom of cancelling patients already booked in for their second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, the first jab that was approved and has been used since early December.\n\nAs well as approving the Oxford vaccine on Wednesday, regulators also said that doctors could wait longer between the two courses needed, to ensure faster rollout of vaccination.\n\nBut the British Medical Association's Dr Richard Vautrey said GPs were unhappy they were being asked to cancel appointments that had already been made for second doses. The original advice said they should be given three weeks apart.\n\nHe said it was \"grossly unfair\" and would waste staff time.\n\nOne of those who has been affected is Stella Joseph, who is 82 and has a chronic lung condition.\n\n\"The thing I feel most is utterly helpless, that there's nobody to appeal to, that you can't get any assistance with this at all.\n\n\"I think it is so hard that those of us who were in this first wave were obviously people who are at high risk and we're the ones who have been left high and dry.\"\n\nThe move has also prompted some debate about how strong the evidence is for delaying the second dose.\n\nProf Peter Openshaw, of Imperial College London, said there was \"pretty convincing\" data showing it would enhance the effect of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.\n\nBut he said because the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine had not been tested in the same way, there was no comparable evidence.\n\nSo far nearly 950,000 people have received a first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nThe hope was that when the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine was approved, it would lead to a significant increase in the rate of vaccination.\n\nThe jab is easier to store and distribute as it can be kept at normal fridge temperature, unlike the Pfizer-BioNTech one that has to be kept in ultra-cold storage.\n\nThere are thought to be more than five million doses of the Oxford vaccine in the UK, but only just over 500,000 are ready for use.\n\nThat is because vaccines have to be put into vials and batched and certified.\n\nSources at the NHS expressed frustration at the situation. \"The NHS is ready to go, but we can only go as quickly as supply allows,\" one said.\n\nQueen Mary University epidemiologist Deepti Gurdasani said there appeared to be a \"bottleneck\", and the government looked like it was still going to be under its target of two million doses a week.\n\n\"We really need to speed up rollout,\" she said.\n\nThere are currently more than 700 vaccination sites up and running, with several hundred more thought to be ready to go once vaccines are available.\n\nBut the limited supply of the Pfizer vaccine, which has to be shipped in from Belgium, has meant some centres have not been able to vaccinate people every week.\n\nDame Clare Gerada, a former chair of the Royal College of GPs, said: \"We really now need a massive operational system. We need a 24/7 system with GPs, mass vaccination centres and hospitals - this needs to be scaled up.\n\n\"It's got to be football stadia, all these large venues that we've got currently lying dormant.\n\n\"If we can really get a mass operational system up and running, then I can't see why we can't be getting the whole population immunised by the spring.\"\n\nNHS England's medical director for primary care, Dr Nikki Kanani, promised there would be a significant expansion of the vaccination programme in the coming weeks.\n\nShe predicted the majority of care home residents would be protected by the end of January, and frontline staff would start to get a vaccination in large numbers.\n\nShe also praised the progress made so far, thanking the \"tireless efforts of staff\".\n\nEngland Health Secretary Matt Hancock also praised staff, adding the numbers being vaccinated would \"rapidly increase in the months ahead\".", "The 19-year-old victim was attacked on Canonbury Road in Islington shortly before 19:00 GMT on 29 December\n\nA man was left partially blind after he was repeatedly hit in the face during a street robbery in north London.\n\nThe 19-year-old had been walking along Canonbury Road in Islington on 29 December when he was approached by two men, one of whom stole his bag and hit him with a \"baton-style weapon\".\n\nThe Met said he had suffered \"life-changing injuries\" in the \"vicious and unprovoked attack\".\n\nNo arrests have been made and the detectives have appealed for witnesses.\n\nThe attacker has been described by police as black, aged in his late teens with spikey hair and of a skinny build.\n\nDet Con Faisal Issaouni said the 19-year-old victim had been \"left with injuries that will affect him for the rest of his life\".\n\n\"We're reviewing CCTV from the area and have spoken to a number of witnesses as we try to track down the man responsible,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Clap for Carers is to return under a new name of Clap for Heroes, the initiative's founder has said.\n\nThe weekly applause for front-line NHS staff and other key workers ran for 10 weeks during the UK's first coronavirus lockdown last spring.\n\nFounder Annemarie Plas tweeted that it would return at 20:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nMs Plas said she hoped the initiative would \"lift the spirit of all of us\" including \"all who are pushing through this difficult time\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Annemarie This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe idea of clapping and banging pots from doorsteps originally began as a one-off to support NHS staff on 26 March - three days after the UK went into lockdown for the first time.\n\nAfter proving popular it was expanded to cover all key workers and continued every Thursday for 10 weeks, with millions of people across the UK taking part.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family and politicians including Prime Minister Boris Johnson also joined in with the show of support.\n\nHowever, the event later faced criticism for becoming politicised, with some suggesting the NHS would benefit more from extra funding than applause.\n\nLast May, Ms Plas, a Dutch national living in south London, said the weekly applause should end after its 10th week and instead become an annual event.\n\nAt the time, she said the public had \"shown our appreciation\" and it was now up to ministers to \"reward\" key workers.\n\n\"Without getting too political, I share some of the opinions that some people have about it becoming politicised,\" she told the PA news agency ahead of the final clap in May.\n\n\"I think the narrative is starting to change and I don't want the clap to be negative.\"", "YouTuber JoJo Siwa has said she had \"no idea\" that \"gross\" and \"inappropriate\" questions were featured in a board game bearing her image.\n\nIt follows a parental backlash about the Nickelodeon-branded game, marketed to children aged six and over.\n\nThe \"Truth or Dare\" category contained questions like: \"Have you ever gone outside without underwear?\" and \"Have you ever been arrested?\".\n\nParents have expressed disapproval on social media in recent days.\n\nIn response to the online outcry, the 17-year-old internet star said she was \"really upset\" to discover the content of the game, which is called JoJo's Juice.\n\nShe added she was working with Nikelodeon to have removed it from the shops.\n\n\"Over the weekend, it has been brought to my attention by my fans and followers on TikTok that my name and my image have been used to promote this board game that has some really inappropriate content,\" said Siwa, in an Instagram video message.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by itsjojosiwa This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"When companies make these games, they don't run every aspect by me and so I had no idea of the types of questions that were on these playing cards.\"\n\nShe added: \"Now when I first saw this, I was really really really upset at how gross these questions were. And so I brought it to Nickelodeon's attention immediately and since then, they have been working to get this game stopped being made, and also pulled from all shelves wherever it's being sold.\"\n\nShe went on to say that she would have \"never approved or agreed to be associated with this game,\" if she had seen the cards beforehand.\n\nOther questions featured in the board game included: \"Have you ever stolen from a store?\" and \"Have you ever walked in on someone naked?\"\n\nThe US teenager posts videos of her day-to-day life on her YouTube channel, Its JoJo Siwa.\n\nShe is also a singer and dancer, having appeared on the reality TV series Dance Moms, alongside her mother, Jessalynn Siwa.\n\nHer musical offerings so far include the singles Boomerang and Kid in a Candy Store.\n\nLast year, she was included on Time magazine's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Teachers' estimated grades will be used to replace cancelled GCSEs and A-levels in England this summer, says Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.\n\nHe told MPs he would \"trust in teachers rather than algorithms\", a reference to the U-turn over last year's exams.\n\nFor primaries, he confirmed there would be no Year 6 Sats tests this year.\n\nMr Williamson promised parents it would be \"mandatory\" for schools to provide \"high-quality remote education\" of three to five hours per day.\n\nHe said this would be \"enforced\" by Ofsted, with inspections where there were \"serious concerns\" about what was provided for children now studying at home.\n\nLabour's Shadow Education Secretary, Kate Green, accused Mr Williamson of \"chaos and confusion\" - and said he had failed to listen to the \"expertise of professionals on the front line\".\n\nShe said he had given a \"cast-iron commitment\" that exams would go ahead - and Ms Green said: \"At that moment, we should have known they were doomed to be cancelled.\"\n\nMr Williamson, in a statement to the House of Commons, said there would be \"training and support\" for teachers in estimating grades, \"to ensure these are awarded fairly and consistently\".\n\nHe also told MPs there would be no Sats tests for those at the end of primary school.\n\n\"I can absolutely confirm that we won't be proceeding with Sats this year. We do recognise that this will be an additional burden on schools\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said rather than a \"vague statement\" of how A-levels and GCSEs would be graded, ministers should already have a system ready in place - and it was a \"dereliction of duty\" that it was not already prepared.\n\nAnd he warned against repeating the \"shambles\" of last summer's cancelled exams.\n\nThe education secretary confirmed to MPs that GCSEs and A-levels are not going ahead - after this week's decision that it was no longer feasible with so much time lost in the Covid pandemic and the latest lockdown.\n\nThe exams watchdog Ofqual will draw up proposals for an alternative way of deciding results, for qualifications that could be used for jobs, staying on in school or university places.\n\nSimon Lebus, the watchdog's interim head, said evidence for replacement grades could include tests, homework, mock exams and teachers' observations - and would take into account how much of the syllabus had been covered.\n\nA consultation is expected to begin next week, with plans to be decided by the end of February or possibly sooner.\n\nLast year's attempts to find an alternative approach to exam results, which initially used an algorithm, descended into chaos - and eventually switched to using teachers' grades.\n\nAnd without any exam papers or standardised mock exams, the use of teachers' assessments, with some process of moderation between schools, will be used for this summer's candidates.\n\nOn vocational qualifications, Labour's Ms Green said the education secretary was \"failing to show leadership on exams in January\".\n\nVocational exams, such as BTecs, are carrying on, if schools and colleges decide to continue with them - but college leaders had complained that there needed to be a national decision to avoid confusion.\n\nIf students cannot take BTec exams this month as planned, they will still be awarded a grade, if they have \"enough evidence to receive a certificate that they need for progression\", says the awarding body Pearson.\n\nAn Ofqual spokeswoman said they would consider options for replacement exam results, academic and vocational, \"to ensure the fairest possible outcome in the circumstances\".\n\nThe exams watchdog's decisions will face much scrutiny - with the previous head of Ofqual resigning after last summer's U-turns over grades.\n\nMr Williamson's statement in the Commons came as all GCSE, AS and A-level exams in Northern Ireland were cancelled due to the Covid-19 crisis.\n\nEducation Minister Peter Weir announced the decision in the Stormont assembly on Wednesday.\n\nScotland has already cancelled its Nationals, Highers and Advanced Highers.\n\nGCSEs and A-levels in Wales were scrapped in November.", "Dr Dre, seen here in 2018, is one of hip-hop's most successful stars\n\nRapper and producer Dr Dre, one of hip-hop's most successful and influential stars, is being treated in hospital after suffering a brain aneurysm.\n\nThe 55-year-old was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on Monday, TMZ reported.\n\nIn a post on Instagram, he said: \"I'm doing great and getting excellent care from my medical team.\"\n\nHe is \"resting comfortably\" after the aneurysm, his lawyer told Billboard.\n\nIn his post, Dr Dre also wrote: \"I will be out of the hospital and back home soon. Shout out to all the great medical professionals at Cedars. One Love!!\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by drdre This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFriends and fellow stars have sent their well wishes after the reports of his ill health emerged.\n\nIce Cube, his former bandmate in trailblazing 1980s hip-hop group NWA, tweeted: \"Send your love and prayers to the homie Dr. Dre.\"\n\nSnoop Dogg, who was discovered by Dr Dre in the early 1990s, wrote on Instagram: \"GET WELL DR DRE WE NEED U CUZ.\"\n\nMissy Elliott wrote: \"Prayers up for Dr. Dre and his family for healing & Strength over his mind & body.\" And singer Ciara tweeted: \"Praying for you Dr. Dre. Praying for a full recovery.\"\n\nWith NWA and then as a solo artist, leading producer and record label mogul, Dr Dre shaped west coast rap and was instrumental in the careers of other stars like Eminem, 50 Cent and Kendrick Lamar.\n\nAn aneurysm is a bulge in a weakened blood vessel where the blood pressure causes a small area to bulge outwards.\n\nMost brain aneurysms only cause noticeable symptoms if they burst, leading to bleeding on the brain, which can cause a very serious condition and can be fatal.", "(L-R) David Wails, Joe Ritchie-Bennett and James Furlong were pronounced dead at the scene\n\nA man who stabbed three people to death in a Reading park was suffering from psychosis \"right up to the day\" of the killings, a court has heard.\n\nKhairi Saadallah, 26, attacked James Furlong, 36, David Wails, 49, and Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, 39, in the Forbury Gardens in June.\n\nA hearing to decide if he was motivated by a religious or ideological cause has been told he was \"no radical Islamist\".\n\nThe hearing at the Old Bailey is part of his sentencing.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV cameras captured Khairi Saadallah before and after the stabbing\n\nSaadallah, of Basingstoke Road, Reading, has pleaded guilty to three murders and three attempted murders.\n\nAn examination of his mobile phone revealed extremist material, including an image of the Islamic State flag and the 9/11 Twin Towers attack, the court was told.\n\nThe prosecution is seeking a whole-life prison order, meaning he would never be considered for release.\n\nRossano Scamardella QC, defending, said the sentence should be one of life imprisonment with a starting point of 30 years, due to a lack of serious premeditation, the \"fleeting\" strength of his commitment to Islamist jihad, and his mental health issues.\n\nKhairi Saadallah previously admitted three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder\n\nHe said while the attack in Reading was \"terrifying\" and \"senseless\", it did not justify the failed Libyan asylum seeker being jailed for more than 30 years.\n\nHe added that \"as brutal as these killings were\", the suggestion they were \"ruthlessly efficient\" had been \"exaggerated\".\n\nSaadallah took \"certain steps to facilitate the killings\", he said, but \"significant planning or premeditation simply does not exist\".\n\nHe told the hearing Saadallah had \"come to the attention of the authorities on hundreds of occasions\", and had a history of frequent interactions with the police, criminal justice system and mental health services.\n\nHe said Saadallah had developed an emotionally unstable and anti-social personality disorder and \"right up until the day of killing he was plainly suffering from episodes of psychosis\".\n\nMr Scamardella said there is no suggestion this caused his offending but insisted his \"culpability [for the attack] is reduced\".\n\nThe court heard earlier that a psychiatrist has since concluded the attack on June 20 was \"unrelated to the effects of either mental disorder or substance misuse\".\n\nKhairi Saadallah was visited and filmed by police during a welfare check the day before the attack\n\nThe court was shown CCTV footage of Saadallah in Morrisons buying the knife he used in the attack\n\nSaadallah had described himself in interview as \"part Muslim and part Catholic\", said Mr Scamardella, adding: \"No radical Islamist would countenance adoption of another faith, it's inconceivable.\"\n\nHe said portraying Saadallah as a committed jihadist was a \"superficially attractive proposition\" based on \"pieces of evidence that exist that demonstrate or at least might demonstrate a fleeting interest\".\n\nThree others - Stephen Young, Patrick Edwards and Nishit Nisudan - were also injured by Saadallah.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Epsom Racecourse in Surrey will be one of seven mass vaccination hubs announced by the government\n\nSeven new mass Covid vaccination hubs across England have been announced by the government.\n\nCentres in London, Newcastle, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Surrey and Stevenage are due to begin operations next week.\n\nVarious venues will be converted into regional centres in a bid to meet the government's target of vaccinating 14 million people in the UK by February.\n\nIt is expected the hubs will be staffed by NHS staff and volunteers.\n\nThe seven sites announced by Downing Street are:\n\nAshton Gate Stadium, home to Bristol City FC, will be used to help the government meet its vaccination target\n\nSupermarket chain Morrisons has confirmed car parks at its stores in Yeovil, Wakefield and Winsford would be used to drive-through vaccinations from Monday. It has also offered an additional 47 sites to the government.\n\nPremier League club Tottenham Hotspur has also offered the use of its stadium to the NHS as a venue to provide the coronavirus vaccine.\n\nThe sites across England will begin operations next week", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nI'm standing in what should be an operating theatre - but instead it's been converted into an intensive care unit for Covid-19 patients on ventilators.\n\nThis is the first time I have seen it full of patients like this. Normally this theatre would be busy with major cancer surgery, but that's been transferred to another building.\n\nA children's recovery area, still decorated with colourful stickers of cartoons, is once again filled with desperately sick adults. Every day, more wards are being transformed into ICU - ready for the next influx of patients.\n\nWe have been given access to University College Hospital, in central London. This is the same intensive care unit that I first visited in April, during the first peak.\n\nIt is one of the busiest hospitals in the capital and intensive care here is expanding across a hospital that is under pressure like never before, from a relentless rise in Covid admissions.\n\nI am struck by the toll the pandemic is taking on staff. It's immense - both physically and mentally. They are shell-shocked. \"My emotions are all over the place. Scared, sad, petrified, worried,\" one ICU nurse tells me.\n\nI asked one of the consultants who I've met several times in the last year, Dr Jim Down, how long they can keep going like this - and the answer was stark. \"At this rate, about a week. After that we really need to see it slow down or we're going to see the care we can deliver suffering.\"\n\nThey have got three times as many critically ill patients in the hospital as normal. The number of Covid admissions to London hospitals has doubled in just two weeks - they're more stretched now than at the peak last April. Senior staff are worried.\n\nDr Alice Carter compares it to an elastic band that is close to snapping. \"It gets to a point where you stretch so far it never returns back to its baseline. I think that's probably where we are now. It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break, and that's the real fear for us at the moment.\"\n\nDr Alice Carter: 'It's not going to take much more for that elastic band to break'\n\nThat could have very serious consequences, she adds. \"If we get to that point, we can't offer anyone ICU, not just Covid patients, but anyone who has a traffic accident or a heart attack or a stroke - whatever it is, to take them in.\"\n\nFor 38-year-old Rachel Arfin, one of the three pregnant women in intensive care with Covid-19, treatment is more complicated. Her baby is due in five weeks and the staff have to monitor them both.\n\n\"They can't do anything that will harm the baby,\" she says. \"All the time [they are] checking, monitoring the baby.\" She is reassured by the \"beautiful sound\" of her baby's heartbeat.\n\n\"They are looking after two people in one. They're saving lives,\" says Rachel. But her children - she has seven - keep asking when she's coming home.\n\nRachel Arfin's baby is due in five weeks - both are doing well\n\nI've reported from here several times during the pandemic and am always struck by the professionalism and dedication of staff. It's always quiet and calm, but that belies what's actually happening. This is a system under strain like never before.\n\nThe warning signs are clear, the NHS is on the brink. Unless infection rates fall, soon it will have a serious impact. The pressure on staff is unrelenting. I saw two nurses in tears.\n\nCompared to when I visited in April, it's a lot busier. In some ways, it's more structured - they now know what they're dealing with. They've got new treatments, such as the drug dexamethasone, which they didn't have last time. And many of the staff have now had the first dose of the vaccine.\n\nBut other aspects don't get any easier, such as the emotional burden of breaking bad news over a telephone or video call. It is very different to being able to hold someone's hand.\n\nStaff say they don't know which patients to help first\n\nICU staff have incredibly high standards. They're used to doing everything meticulously and perfectly. And they're doing all they can. But sometimes they go home and feel guilty that they can't do more. The impact on nurses - the bedrock of care in intensive care - is visible.\n\nThe highly specialised staff are usually one-to-one with patients. Deputy sister Ashleigh Shillingford is looking after three or four ventilated patients at a time, with one other junior member of staff. It's emotional and often devastating work.\n\n\"We are so stretched we have to prioritise and prioritising care is not the NHS that I grew up in - we shouldn't have to choose which patient gets what care first.\" She says she's never had to make decisions like these before.\n\n\"You just don't know who to help first. The patients are losing their lives at a dramatic speed, we're not just getting old people,\" she says, \"these are young people that we're getting.\"\n\nGerald Williams, 58, is awaiting chemotherapy for lung cancer and had been shielding, but he still caught coronavirus. \"All of a sudden, out of the blue, Covid came knocking on my door and it's frightening - you don't know how you're getting your next breath,\" he says.\n\nGerald Williams had been shielding but he still caught coronavirus\n\nHe wants to get home to his daughters, the youngest of whom is 13. And he's annoyed at those who don't take it seriously. \"People are moaning and groaning. Even in A&E. They need to get a life. Don't be idiots, forget about meeting your mate, stay home. No-one is invulnerable.\"\n\nFor now the Trust is coping better than many others in London and is still taking Covid patients from other hospitals. But the next few weeks could be the biggest challenge the NHS has ever faced - and it will be its doctors and nurses who will bear the brunt for all of us.\n\nAs the BBC's medical editor, Fergus Walsh has been reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic and its immense impact on the UK.", "Kate Thistleton will front new content from Bitesize Daily\n\nBBC TV is to help children keep up with their studies during the latest lockdown by broadcasting lessons on BBC Two and CBBC, as well as online.\n\nSchools have been closed to most children across the UK as part of tougher measures to control Covid-19.\n\nThe BBC will show curriculum-based programmes on TV from Monday.\n\nThey will include three hours of primary school programming every weekday on CBBC, and at least two hours for secondary pupils on BBC Two.\n\nDuring the first lockdown in the spring, lessons were available on iPlayer, red button and online, but not on regular TV channels.\n\nThe move comes amid concerns that low-income families may struggle to afford data packages for their children to take part in online learning.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson praised the BBC's \"fantastic\" plans on Tuesday. BBC Director-General Tim Davie said \"education is absolutely vital\".\n\nHe continued: \"The BBC is here to play its part and I'm delighted that we have been able to bring this to audiences so swiftly.\"\n\nThe primary programmes, which will be broadcast on CBBC from 09:00 every day, will include BBC Live Lessons and BBC Bitesize Daily as well as Our School, Celebrity Supply Teacher, Horrible Histories and Operation Ouch.\n\nBBC Two will cater for secondary students with programming to support the GCSE curriculum, including adaptations of Shakespeare plays alongside science, history and factual titles.\n\nBitesize Daily primary and secondary will also air every day on the red button as well as episodes being available on demand on iPlayer.\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden said the BBC \"has helped the nation through some of the toughest moments of the last century\".\n\n\"And for the next few weeks it will help our children learn whilst we stay home, protect the NHS and save lives,\" he added. \"This will be a lifeline to parents and I welcome the BBC playing its part.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Two US police officers linked to a notorious raid in which young black medic Breonna Taylor was fatally shot have been fired, authorities have said.\n\nDetectives Myles Cosgrove and Joshua Jaynes are the latest officers to be dismissed over the shooting in March last year.\n\nThe incident in Kentucky caused outrage, spurring protests against racism and police brutality.\n\nMs Taylor, 26, died when police raided her home in connection to a drug case.\n\nThe FBI said Mr Cosgrove fired the shot that killed Ms Taylor at her home in Louisville.\n\nLouisville police dismissed Mr Cosgrove for violating procedures for use of force and failing to use a body camera during the search, the Louisville Courier Journal reported on Wednesday.\n\nMr Jaynes, the newspaper said, was fired for violating the police force's policy for truthfulness and search warrant preparation.\n\nDuring the raid, Ms Taylor's boyfriend fired at the officers who he said he believed were attackers breaking into their home.\n\nPolice say they knocked on the door to announce their presence before breaking down the door with a battering ram.\n\nMs Taylor's boyfriend said police did not make their presence known, and he fired out of self-defence. Three officers returned fire with 32 shots, six of which hit Ms Taylor.\n\nMs Taylor's name became a global rallying cry as people demanded a thorough investigation into her death.\n\nBlack Lives Matter activists in the US have demanded that Louisville police take stronger action against the officers in the case and say that police too often escape unpunished after killing members of the public.\n\nBut despite the outcry against Ms Taylor's shooting, no criminal charges were sought relating to her death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Questions still aren't answered\": Breonna Taylor's family are worried about a \"cover-up\"", "Paul Trauberman from Rainbow Smiles said it was hard to give reassurance without knowing the facts about the new variant\n\nNursery staff say they are being \"treated like the bottom of the rung\" after schools in England were told to shut to reduce the virus transmission.\n\nPaul Trauberman, of Rainbow Smiles in Weston-super-Mare, said despite his staff being \"scared\" about the new Covid-19 variant they had come to work.\n\nThe government announced a strict lockdown across the country on Monday.\n\nIt was after the UK moved to Covid-19 threat level five, meaning there is a risk the NHS could be overwhelmed.\n\nMr Trauberman, who took over Rainbow Smiles nursery in 2016, said he felt conflicted.\n\n\"I've come in this morning and I've got staff crying and saying they are scared of this new variant.\"\n\n\"We don't have PPE, we can't social distance, on the other hand we still have a business that is operational and we are not going bankrupt.\"\n\nHe said prolonged closure also carried the risk of going out of business but it was difficult to reassure staff when \"you don't have any of the facts\".\n\n\"One minute it is fine and the schools are going back, and two days later they are sending everyone home.\n\n\"It makes the staff feel insecure and... they just feel like they are being treated like the bottom of the rung.\n\nSchools are expected to remain closed until after the February half-term\n\n\"With this new variant ... they are having to deal with very close contact with children, with a virus around, which they are saying is very, very bad, but with no more information than that.\"\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said: \"Early years settings remain low risk environments for children and staff and there is no evidence that the new variant of coronavirus disproportionately affects young children.\"\n\nIt said keeping nurseries open supported parents and delivered crucial education for children as Bristol mother-of-three Eleni Franklin has found.\n\nShe said she \"really valued\" Acorns Nursery in Henbury Hill, being open as she and her husband are both key workers - so their children, Allegra, five, Aria, two and Rafe nine-months-old, will attend school and nursery throughout the lockdown.\n\n\"I can see that nurseries are different to schools. There has been one case at Aria's nursery during this whole period, whereas in school there has been quite a few,\" she said.\n\nEleni Franklin said she could see why nurseries were being treated differently to schools\n\n\"The nursery have been pretty good and although I understand there is a risk to staff, they have put a lot of measures in place to keep people safe.\"\n\nOne of the biggest challenges for nurseries - with some staff now unable to work because of their own childcare responsibilities - is maintaining child-to-staff ratios.\n\nMr Trauberman said they worked on a basis of one-to-three for babies, one-to-four for under-three's and one-to-eight with under five-year-olds.\n\n\"We are trying to maintain these bubbles, but normally we would move staff around to accommodate highs and lows of staff and children, to balance it out, but we are unable to do that to enable these bubbles,\" he said.\n\nHis nursery is now identifying families that could potentially keep their children at home if they were unable to meet those ratios.\n\nMr Trauberman, who is a member of an online group for nursery owners, said some people were calling for nurseries to shut, but said if that happened they risked \"not having a business to come back to\".\n\n\"Small businesses are the backbone of the country and if a lot of those go under, the financial implications for the whole country are going to be catastrophic.\"\n\nMother-of-two Kara Willetts, from Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, said she felt it was important her daughter Isobel continued going to nursery as she noticed her behaviour had changed when she had to stop going during the first lockdown in March.\n\n\"Isobel is a really sociable, outgoing child and she really suffered with not going in and seeing her friends during the first lockdown. Her mental health suffered and she displayed behaviour I had never seen from her before,\" she said.\n\nKara Willetts said her daughter Isobel's mental health suffered when nurseries closed during the first lockdown\n\nMrs Willetts said she had full confidence in the measures introduced at the nursery three-and-a-half-year-old Isobel attends in Cheltenham.\n\nShe said that with her husband working from home and a seven-month-old son also at home, the option of Isobel going to nursery was \"beneficial to the whole family\".\n\n\"It is quite difficult for my husband to concentrate on work with two kids at home. Transmission rates in young children are very low and if I had any safety concerns I wouldn't send Isobel there,\" she added.\n\nTom Shea, a former advisor to the Early Year's minister, said: \"The biggest issue is that as a society we regard childcare as something like babysitting, rather than the start of the early year's development of learning.\n\n\"Sadly it seems the main reason for keeping us open is for protecting employment rather than protecting children.\"\n\nMr Shea owns Child First Nursery in Worksop and said he thought there was a \"hierarchy\" among key workers in terms of vaccination priorities. He said \"sensibly\" the first priority was NHS staff, followed by social carers for the elderly. He said teachers ranked a \"reasonable\" third, but that Early Years workers did not feature at all.\n\n\"They are expected just to work, and I am not sure if the government thinks that we are invisible,\" he said.\n\nHe called for early vaccination of Early Years workers to allow them to stay open and be protected.\n\n\"The irony now is that we are being told to keep open even though we are private businesses, we are dictated to about the funding we can receive and how we receive it… and if parents are frightened of their children going into the childcare setting then suddenly we don't get paid for that, so you find nurseries half empty being forced to open and it is not economical to do that.\"\n\nA Department for Education spokesperson said: \"We are funding nurseries as usual and all children are able to attend their early years setting in all parts of England.\n\n\"Working parents on coronavirus support schemes will still remain eligible for childcare support even if their income levels fall below the minimum requirement.\"", "An investment firm has bought 50% of the rights to all Neil Young's songs.\n\nHipgnosis Songs Fund spent an estimated $150m (£110m) on 1,180 songs written by the Canadian folk rocker.\n\nThe fund, which lets people invest in hit songs, has previously splashed out about £1bn snapping up rights to songs from the likes of Mark Ronson, Chic, Barry Manilow and Blondie.\n\nFounded by music industry veteran Merck Mercuriadis, Hipgnosis turns music royalties into an income stream.\n\n\"This is a deal that changes Hipgnosis forever,\" said Mr Mercuriadis.\n\n\"I bought my first Neil Young album aged seven. Harvest was my companion and I know every note, every word, every pause and silence intimately.\n\n\"Neil Young, or at least his music, has been my friend and constant ever since.\"\n\nHipgnosis has been listed on the London Stock Exchange since July 2018. When songs owned by the fund get played on the radio or placed in a film or TV show, it makes money.\n\nBefore setting up Hipgnosis, Mr Mercuriadis managed artists such as Beyoncé, Elton John, Iron Maiden and Guns 'N' Roses.\n\nIn his view, songs are \"as investible as gold or oil\".\n\nHe says hit songs are a stable investment because their revenue is unaffected by fluctuations in the economy.\n\nThe sale of song catalogues has become a booming business during the Covid-19 pandemic, with investors seeing music as a relatively stable asset in an otherwise turbulent market.\n\nEarlier this week, Hipgnosis bought 100% of the rights to Lindsey Buckingham's 161 songs for an undisclosed amount.\n\nThe songs include hits that Buckingham wrote or co-wrote for Fleetwood Mac, including Go Your Own Way and The Chain.\n\nThe group's Stevie Nicks sold 80% of her publishing rights last year to Hipgnosis rival Primary Wave for about $80m.\n\nLast month, Universal Music Group announced it had bought 100% of Bob Dylan's 600 songs for between an estimated $200m and $450m (£150m-£340m).\n\nThe singer-songwriter was the latest of a number of artists to join up with the Los Angeles-based Universal, following other big names such as Bruce Springsteen, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar and Post Malone.\n\nNeil Young rose to prominence in the 1960s and 70s and is one of the most influential songwriters of all time.\n\nHe is known not only for his work as a solo artist, but also with the bands Buffalo Springfield, Crazy Horse and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.\n\nYoung has released almost 50 studio albums and more than 20 live albums, of which 18 have been certified gold, seven are platinum and three are multi-platinum.\n\nSeven of his albums were included on Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time chart: Everybody Knows This is Nowhere, After The Gold Rush, Déjà Vu (with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young) Harvest, On The Beach, Tonight's the Night and Rust Never Sleeps.\n\n\"I built Hipgnosis to be a company Neil would want to be a part of,\" said Mr Mercuriadis.\n\n\"We have a common integrity, ethos and passion born out of a belief in music and these important songs.\n\n\"There will never be a 'Burger of Gold', but we will work together to make sure everyone gets to hear them on Neil's terms.\"", "US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order banning transactions with eight Chinese apps.\n\nThe apps include popular payments platform Alipay, as well as QQ Wallet and WeChat Pay.\n\nThe order, which takes effect in 45 days, says that the apps are being banned because they are a threat to US national security.\n\nIt flags the possibility that the apps could be used to track and build dossiers on US federal employees.\n\nTencent QQ, CamScanner, SHAREit, VMate and WPS Office are also included within the order, which only kicks in after Mr Trump has left office.\n\n\"The United States must take aggressive action against those who develop or control Chinese connected software applications to protect our national security,\" the order said.\n\nPresident Trump's order says \"by accessing personal electronic devices such as smartphones, tablets, and computers, Chinese connected software applications can access and capture vast swaths of information from users, including sensitive personally identifiable information and private information.\"\n\nThe Trump administration has ratcheted up pressure on Chinese companies in its final months in office, including those it considers a national security risk.\n\nPresident Trump has signed executive orders against a range of Chinese firms arguing they could share data with the Chinese government.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Panorama: How safe is TikTok for young users?\n\nChinese social media app TikTok and telecoms giant Huawei have been among the casualties of Washington's crackdown.\n\nLast month, the Commerce Department added dozens of Chinese companies, including the country's top chipmaker SMIC and drone manufacturer DJI Technology, to a trade blacklist.\n\nThe administration also restricted a number of Chinese and Russian companies with alleged military ties from buying sensitive US goods and technology.\n\nChina has consistently denied claims that these firms share their data with the Chinese government and has responded by imposing its own export laws restricting the export of military technology.\n\nIn August, the US ordered ByteDance, the owner of social media app TikTok, to either shut down or sell off its US assets.\n\nDespite missing a deadline to complete the sale, the US is yet to shut down the app and negotiations continue over its future.\n\nThe latest ban comes as the White House quietly pushed the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to consider a second U-turn on its decision to delist three Chinese telecoms giants.\n\nLast week the NYSE announced it would delist the China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom in line with another executive order.\n\nOn Monday, however, the NYSE reversed that decision, announcing it had decided not to delist the three companies after further consultation with US regulators.\n\nThe NYSE made the decision based on ambiguity about whether the securities were actually covered by the order.\n\nHowever, the exchange has come under pressure over its decision.\n\nThe US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin called the NYSE President Stacey Cunningham to tell her he disagrees with the decision, according to Reuters.\n\nRepublican Senator and China hardliner Marco Rubio has also spoken out, saying that the NYSE's refusal to delist the companies was an \"outrageous effort\" to undermine the President's executive order.\n\nThe NYSE is owned by Atlanta-based Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), which is run by billionaire Jeffrey Sprecher.\n\nHis wife Kelly Loeffler is one of two Republican senators facing run-off elections on Tuesday in Georgia.", "The new \"highly infectious\" variant of coronavirus is spreading rapidly throughout Wales, the health minister has said.\n\nGiving the first coronavirus briefing of the year, Vaughan Gething said cases of the virus remained very high.\n\nHowever, the case rate across Wales has fallen from a high of 636 per 100,000 people on 17 December to 446 on Monday.\n\nBut cases are rising quickly in north Wales, which Mr Gething believed was due to the new variant.", "This video can not be played\n\nTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Wednesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nThe measures announced on Monday have now become law, but MPs will actually vote retrospectively to approve them later today. They're expected to pass with ease - Labour has pledged its support, but said ministers must deliver a round-the-clock vaccination programme. The regulations allow restrictions to potentially be in place until mid-March. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have all imposed lockdowns too, but will they be enough? An estimated one in 50 people in private households in England had coronavirus last week - one in 30 in London, while the number of daily confirmed cases topped 60,000 for the first time. Our health correspondent has more - as we've come to understand, the R number is everything. This graph shows how the R number could drop this time (in red), compared with how it fell during the first lockdown - the slower decline is down to the new, more transmissible variant.\n\nStudents have been anxiously waiting for news after the cancellation of A-Level and GCSE exams in England - not least because of the chaos that surrounded last year's results. Exams had already been cancelled elsewhere in the UK. Education Secretary Gavin Williamson will reveal more in a statement to MPs later. He'll also give more details of support for pupils following the switch by schools and colleges to remote learning. There are fears a digital divide will mean some children are excluded. We've got some advice for parents on virtual learning, and BBC Bitesize will be broadcasting lessons on BBC Two, CBBC and online from Monday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Parents spoke to the BBC after Monday's announcement about school closures in England\n\nPeople arriving in the UK from abroad could soon be required to prove they've had a negative coronavirus test before setting off. The Department for Transport says it's one of several measures being considered to prevent new cases arriving from abroad. Full details are still to be agreed, but it's thought hauliers coming through ports would be exempt. Currently, arrivals from countries not exempt under the travel corridor programme have to isolate for 10 days. See more on the existing rules. Travel firms have been cancelling trips since the latest lockdowns were imposed.\n\n2020 was a dreadful year for the UK car industry and preliminary figures from the industry's trade body show just how bad it was. New car registrations dropped to levels not seen since 1992, and saw the biggest one-year fall since World War Two when factories were turned over to military production. Showrooms and even factories were forced to close in the spring, and the switch to working from home means fewer of us need a vehicle on a daily basis. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said firms were desperately trying to minimise redundancies.\n\nUnable to leave Taiwan due to the pandemic, Peter Lowe decided to get a boat to pass the time. A leisurely hobby soon turned into a quest to clear the country's waterways, river banks and mangrove forests of plastic. His efforts have inspired local volunteers to join in the clean-up, and even prompted the government to take notice. Peter has some advice for all of us feeling trapped right now: \"Do something positive, do something meaningful, particularly towards saving and protecting the earth.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, when lockdown was imposed last Spring, some of life's most basic household tasks suddenly got a lot harder. What are they like now?\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "A Joint Session of Congress to certify the election of Joe Biden has gone into an unexpected recess, and the Capitol building into lockdown, after Trump supporters breached security lines.\n\nEarlier, President Trump addressed supporters at a rally outside the White House and encouraged them to protest the election result.", "It was initially believed that Covid-19 originated at a market in Wuhan\n\nA World Health Organization (WHO) team due to investigate the origins of Covid-19 in the city of Wuhan has been denied entry to China.\n\nTwo members were already en route, with the WHO saying the problem was a lack of visa clearances.\n\nHowever, China has challenged this, saying details of the visit, including dates, were still being arranged.\n\nThe long-awaited probe was agreed upon by Beijing after many months of negotiations with the WHO.\n\nThe virus was first detected in Wuhan in late 2019, with the initial outbreak linked to a market.\n\nWHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was \"very disappointed\" that China had not yet finalised the permissions for the team's arrivals \"given that two members had already begun their journeys and others were not able to travel at the last minute\".\n\n\"I have been assured that China is speeding up the internal procedure for the earliest possible deployment,\" he told reporters in Geneva on Tuesday, explaining that he had been in contact with senior Chinese officials to stress \"that the mission is a priority for WHO and the international team\".\n\nChinese foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying told the BBC \"there might be some misunderstanding\" and \"there's no need to read too much into it\".\n\n\"Chinese authorities are in close co-operation with WHO but there has been some minor outbreaks in multiple places around the world and many countries and regions are busy in their work preventing the virus and we are also working on this,\" she said.\n\n\"Still we are supporting international co-operation and advancing internal preparations. We are in communication with the WHO and as far as I know with dates and arrangements we are still in discussions.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid-19: How everyday life has changed in Wuhan\n\nThe WHO has been working to send a 10-person team of international experts to China for months with the aim of probing the animal origin of the pandemic and exactly how the virus first crossed over to humans.\n\nLast month it was announced that the investigation would begin in January 2021.\n\nThe two members of the international team that had already departed for China had set off early on Tuesday, said the WHO. According to Reuters news agency, WHO emergencies chief Mike Ryan said one had turned back and one was in a third country.\n\nCovid-19 was first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan in central Hubei province in late 2019.\n\nIt was initially believed the virus originated in a market selling exotic animals for meat. It was suggested that this was where the virus made the leap from animals to humans.\n\nBut the origins of the virus remain deeply contested. Some experts now believe the market may not have been the origin, and that it was instead only amplified there.\n\nSome research has suggested that coronaviruses capable of infecting humans may have been circulating undetected in bats for decades. It is not known, however, what intermediate animal host transmitted the virus between bats and humans.", "US President Donald Trump and others have made new unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud following the rerun of two crucial Senate races in the state of Georgia.\n\nWith the Democrats looking likely to win both seats and with them control of the US Senate, we've debunked some of the theories that have been widely shared on social media.\n\nSince the November election, the president has repeatedly made baseless allegations that Dominion voting machines have been manipulated to engineer electoral fraud.\n\nReferring to the vote in Georgia, Mr Trump said these machines had stopped working in Republican strongholds for \"over an hour\".\n\nThe official in charge of Georgia's voting systems, Gabriel Sterling, said there has been an issue in one county due to \"a programming error on security keys\" but that it was resolved hours before the president made his comments.\n\nMr Sterling tweeted: \"The, votes of everyone will be protected and counted. Sorry you received old intel Mr President.\"\n\nGeorgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger also clarified in a statement that there had been some issues but they did not stop people from voting, Reuters news agency reports.\n\n\"At no point did voting stop as voters continued casting ballots on emergency ballots, in accordance with the procedures set out by Georgia law,\" said Mr Raffensperger.\n\nAn image that has been shared thousands of times on Twitter purported to show a pile of destroyed ballots in Georgia on election day.\n\n\"Our team is in Georgia. They took a little walk. They found shredded ballots in Dell boxes,\" the tweet said.\n\nAlthough the post provided no detail as to where exactly the picture had been taken, we were able to geolocate it to the absentee ballot processing centre at the Georgia World Congress Center in Fulton County, which includes Atlanta.\n\nFulton County elections director Richard Barron told the BBC that the papers in the picture were \"definitely not ballots\", but waste from a letter-opening machine used to cut ballot envelopes.\n\nWe've reported on similar claims about alleged ballot shredding in Georgia before.\n\nIn November, an investigation into the shredding of papers in Cobb County concluded that it was part of a \"routine clean-up operation\" and the documents disposed of were not actual votes \"relevant to the election or the re-tally\".\n\nIn a tweet generating some 300,000 likes and retweets, President Trump claimed there was a \"voter dump\" planned against Republican candidates.\n\nBut there's no evidence of wrongdoing.\n\nIt's not clear exactly what he means by a \"voter dump\", but he may be referring to the fact that large batches of votes are released at once.\n\nThis is standard practice and a valid part of the vote-counting process.\n\nIn Georgia, as in the presidential elections, larger districts, often including cities that may lean Democrat, take longer to report their results.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Trump has falsely claimed on multiple occasions that millions of genuine votes in November's presidential election that were counted after polls closed were \"fake\".\n\nIn Georgia, election official Gabriel Sterling noted after the polls closed that some 171,000 early, in-person ballots from DeKalb County, which is Democrat-leaning, were yet to be counted.\n\nAuthorities knew how many of these \"advanced\" votes were coming.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Gabriel Sterling This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA number of Republican officials and activists, including White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany and the founder of conservative activist group Turning Point USA, claimed workers at the Chatham county count had suddenly stopped counting for the rest of the night and gone home, raising the prospect of foul play.\n\n\"They're doing this again. You can't make this up,\" Charlie Kirk tweeted.\n\nSimilar claims of fraud or suspicious activity were made during the presidential election count in the county, after it took a few days for all the absentee and mail-in ballots to be tabulated.\n\nBut Gabriel Sterling, Georgia's voting systems implementation manager, took to Twitter to say the count \"didn't just stop\".\n\nWorkers had finished counting all the ballots they had except absentee ballots received on election day, Mr Sterling, a Republican, added.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Gabriel Sterling This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe county's board of elections chairman, Tom Mahoney, confirmed later that about 3,000 to 4,000 election day absentee ballots were left to count.", "Protesters in support of US President Donald Trump swarmed the Capitol building, forcing officials to order lawmakers to shelter in place and halting debate in both the House and Senate. Congress was meeting to confirm President-elect Joe Biden's electoral college victory.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Keir Starmer: \"If we pull together as a nation, we can win\"\n\nSir Keir Starmer has called for a \"round the clock\" vaccination programme to tackle the rise in Covid cases.\n\nAs part of a televised speech, the Labour leader said the government needed to deliver \"millions of doses a week by the end of the month\".\n\nHe said there were \"serious questions for the government to answer\" over the timing of the lockdown in England, but Labour would support the restrictions.\n\nBoris Johnson said daily vaccination figures would be published from Monday.\n\nThe prime minister has also said the four most vulnerable groups of people across the UK should receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nBoth the PM and Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, have announced lockdowns this week.\n\nWales has been in a national lockdown since 20 December and Northern Ireland entered a six-week lockdown on 26 December.\n\nEngland's lockdown will become law from 00:01 GMT Wednesday and MPs will return to the Commons later that day to vote on the measures retrospectively.\n\nThe restrictions come into force as the number of new daily confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK topped 60,000 for the first time since the pandemic started.\n\nOn Tuesday, 60,914 had tested positive in the previous 24 hours and a further 830 people had died within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nIn an address to the nation on BBC One, in response to Boris Johnson's televised address on Monday, Sir Keir said the UK had reached a \"critical moment in our fight against coronavirus\".\n\nThe Labour leader said people were \"angry at the mistakes the government has made\" and ministers needed to answer questions on why they did not act sooner over locking down England.\n\nHe stressed that Labour would continue to hold the government to account, but added: \"Whatever our quarrels with the government and with the prime minister, the country now needs us to come together.\n\n\"At this darkest of moments, we need a new national effort to re-kindle the spirit of last March - to come together and to do everything possible to stay at home [and] to protect the NHS and save lives.\"\n\nSir Keir reiterated that Labour would support the new lockdown when it comes to the retrospective Commons vote on Wednesday and \"join in this national effort\".\n\nBut he called for the government to use the lockdown to establish \"a massive, immediate, and round the clock vaccination programme\" to \"deliver millions of doses a week by the end of the month in every village and town, every high street and every GP surgery\".\n\nThe Labour leader added: \"This is now a race between the virus and the vaccine and if we pull together as a nation, we can win.\n\n\"We need a new contract between the government and the British people: The country stays at home, the government delivers the vaccine.\"\n\nEarlier at a Downing Street press conference, Mr Johnson said more than 1.3 million people across the UK had now been vaccinated with either the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines.\n\nThe figure included 23% of over-80s in England - part of a programme Mr Johnson said aimed to save \"the most lives the fastest\".\n\nThe PM said there will \"still be long weeks ahead\", but that he wanted to give \"maximum possible transparency\" about the vaccination roll-out.\n\nMore details will be announced on Thursday, with daily updates starting on Monday, \"so that you can see day by day and jab by jab how much progress we are making\", he added.\n\nAsked whether the target could be met, Chief Medical Officer for England, Professor Chris Whitty, said the timetable was \"realistic but not easy\".", "Fraudsters are sending out bogus text messages about the coronavirus vaccine in an attempt to steal bank details.\n\nThe scam tells recipients they are \"eligible to apply for your vaccine\" with a link to a bogus NHS website, trading standards officers have warned.\n\nThat, in turn, asks for personal information and - crucially - bank details \"for verification\".\n\nThe warning comes the same day as MPs heard that Covid is leading some people into the net of pension fraudsters.\n\nThe fake NHS message is one of a range of scams which have sought to take advantage of the pandemic and the isolation and legitimate worries of potential victims, according to the Chartered Trading Standards Institute.\n\nOthers have included people travelling door-to-door selling counterfeit or useless protection equipment, or fraudsters claiming to be from the official test and trace service and demanding payments.\n\nThe latest scam is preying on those elderly or vulnerable people who are fully expecting to receive legitimate information about their vaccine.\n\nHealth authorities have stressed they would never ask for an individual's banking details.\n\nKatherine Hart, lead office at the CTSI, said: \"I have been tracking and warning the public about Covid-related scams since the beginning of the pandemic, and at every stage of response, unscrupulous individuals have modified their campaigns to defraud the public.\n\n\"The vaccine brings great hope for an end to the pandemic and lockdowns, but some only wish to create even further misery by defrauding others. The NHS will never ask you for banking details, passwords, or PIN numbers and these should serve as instant red flags.\"\n\nShe urged people to report the scams to Action Fraud or Police Scotland.\n\nPensions have been stolen or put into high-risk schemes\n\nThe warning came as MPs on the Work and Pensions Select Committee heard how fraudsters were seizing on victims' financial uncertainty during the pandemic to draw them into pension scams.\n\nRules allowing people to withdraw cash from their pension pot from the age of 55 have led some people to move money into investment schemes which look generous, but are simply vehicles to steal money.\n\n\"Household finances are stretched and so the temptations to use savings or to be tempted by offers of 'free pension reviews', for example, which we've warned about, are very real,\" Mark Steward, from the Financial Conduct Authority told the committee.\n\n\"Of course, a 'free pension review' is hardly free. It is the first step on a process that will lead someone to investing in something that is too good to be true.\"\n\nHe said that fraudsters had used social media advertising to \"industrialise\" this kind of fraud.\n\nWhereas previously, fraudsters had to produce sophisticated glossy brochures and office fronts, they could now operate in anonymity on social media, sending fake information to millions of people.\n\nMillions of pounds have been lost to pension scams in recent years, but it is a crime considered to be widely under-reported by victims and pension companies.\n\nGraeme Biggar, director general of the National Economic Crime Centre, told the committee that fraudsters were continuing to use new avenues to reach potential victims.\n\n\"What we're looking to do next is to move on to fake comparison websites, which is this new gateway into investment frauds, to spot those and take them down at source,\" he said.", "Dr Anil Mehta, a GP at Fullwell Cross Medical Centre in North London, told the BBC that staff were working from 7 in the morning until 10pm at night during the three days of their weekly Covid-19 vaccine rollout, describing the process as a 'full team effort.\n\nDr Mehta was also keen to encourage people who might be nervous about the vaccine to take up the offer, emphasising that the evidence behind the vaccine 'was very strong'.\n\nThis message was echoed by Zahin Ahmed, whose grandfather Shafiquz Zaman has now received both doses of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine at the clinic. Mr Ahmed, who is from the Bangladeshi community, also said it was important that minority communities took up the offer of the vaccine when called upon to do so.", "Albert Roux pictured in the kitchen of Le Gavroche in 1989\n\nChef and restaurateur Albert Roux, who brought great French cooking to the UK with his brother Michel, has died at the age of 85.\n\nThe pair made gastronomic history in 1982 when their London restaurant, Le Gavroche, became the first in Britain to earn three Michelin stars.\n\nAlbert's death comes almost a year after Michel died at the age of 78.\n\nGordon Ramsay, one of many leading chefs who earned their stripes in Le Gavroche's kitchen, led the tributes.\n\n\"So so sad the hear about the passing of this legend, the man who installed Gastronomy in Britain,\" Ramsay wrote on Instagram.\n\nMarco Pierre White, Marcus Wareing, Pierre Koffman and Monica Galetti are among the other chefs who rose through the ranks at Le Gavroche.\n\nIn his tribute, TV chef James Martin described Albert Roux as \"a true titan of the food scene in this country [who] inspired and trained some of the best and biggest names in the business\".\n\nA family statement said: \"The Roux family has announced the sad passing of Albert Roux, OBE, KFO, who had been unwell for a while, at the age 85 on 4th January 2021.\n\n\"Albert is credited, along with his late brother Michel Roux, with starting London's culinary revolution with the opening of Le Gavroche in 1967.\"\n\nHis son Michel Roux Jr, who now runs Le Gavroche and is a former judge on MasterChef: The Professionals, said: \"He was a mentor for so many people in the hospitality industry, and a real inspiration to budding chefs, including me.\"\n\nFood critic Jay Rayner described Albert Roux as \"an extraordinary man who left a massive mark on the food story of his adopted country\".\n\nHe added: \"The roll call of chefs who went through the kitchens of Le Gavroche alone, is a significant slab of a part of modern UK restaurant culture.\"\n\nChef Tom Kitchin wrote that \"one of the true culinary greats has left us\", and baker and food writer Dan Lepard said it was the \"end of an era\".\n\nAlbert and Michel Roux came from a family of butchers in eastern France, and trained to be patissiers before moving to the UK.\n\nAlbert arrived in the mid-1950s, and in 1967 put his £3,000 savings with money borrowed from friends to open the first Gavroche off Sloane Square in Chelsea.\n\nWith uncompromising standards, elaborate presentation and first-rate service, it raised the standards of haute cuisine in a then-limited English restaurant scene.\n\nIt moved to Mayfair in 1981, and soon became the first British-based establishment to carry the maximum three Michelin stars.\n\n\"An Olympic gold medal,\" Albert said at the time. \"I have had no other ambition.\"\n\nThe Roux dynasty (left-right): Alain Roux, Michel Roux Jnr, Michel Roux and Albert Roux in 2009\n\nIts kitchen would also become the training ground for a new, enlightened generation of British chefs.\n\n\"If cooking is an art form, Le Gavroche was the Royal College of Music, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, Rada and the Courtauld and Warburg institutes all rolled up into one, poached, wrapped in a puff pastry shell with foie gras and served with truffle sauce,\" The Guardian wrote in 2010.\n\nThe brothers also launched the Roux Scholarship, an annual chef competition, in 1983, with many scholars having gone on to win Michelin stars themselves.\n\nAlbert and Michel opened a string of other restaurants, fronted a 13-part TV series on BBC Two in 1990, and published a series of best-selling books about French cookery.", "Shows like Tiger King kept people entertained during the first UK lockdown\n\nNetflix is raising the cost of some of its UK subscriptions from next month, its customers have been told.\n\nThe streaming service said the price rises reflected money spent on content.\n\nIts standard monthly package will go up from £8.99 to £9.99 and its premium one will rise from £11.99 to £13.99, but its basic plan remains at £5.99.\n\nHowever, comparison site Uswitch said the timing of the price rises was unfortunate with UK citizens living under new national lockdowns.\n\nThe streaming service's subscriber numbers have jumped during the pandemic, with almost 16 million new customers added worldwide in the first three months of 2020 alone.\n\nIn the UK, during the first national lockdown which started in March 2020, the amount of streaming content watched by consumers rose by a third compared with the previous year.\n\nBut Netflix faces tough competition from rivals, such as Disney+, which has also announced price rises of £2 per month up to £7.99 or £79.90 for a full year.\n\nNetflix said: \"This year we're spending over $1bn [£736m] in the UK on new, locally-made films, series and documentaries, helping to create thousands of jobs and showcasing British storytelling at its best - with everything from The Crown, to Sex Education and Top Boy, plus many, many more.\n\n\"Our price change reflects the significant investments we've made in new TV shows and films, as well as improvements to our product.\"\n\nA standard Netflix subscription gives users HD streaming on two devices at the same time with the ability to download to two phones or tablets. The premium service allows streaming on up to four screens at once, as well as offering 4K streaming and downloading to four phones or tablets.\n\nSubscribers who do not want to pay the extra can cancel their plan at any time without penalty or simply shift to the basic package, which allows users to watch movies and TV shows in standard definition on one device only and download to one mobile or tablet.\n\nNick Baker, streaming and TV expert at Uswitch.com, said: \"Netflix has been a lifeline for many people during lockdown, so this price rise is an unwanted extra expense for households feeling the financial pressure.\n\n\"It's unfortunate timing that this price hike coincides with another national lockdown, when all of us will be streaming more television and films than ever.\"", "The number of new daily confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK has topped 60,000 for the first time since the pandemic started.\n\nAccording to government figures on Tuesday, the number of people who tested positive was 60,916.\n\nOne in 50 people in private households in England had Covid last week - and one in 30 in London, according to estimates based on the latest data.\n\nA further 830 people have also died within 28 days of a positive test.\n\nIt comes as England and Scotland announced new strict lockdowns, with people told to stay at home.\n\nAt a press conference at Downing Street on Tuesday, Boris Johnson said 1.3 million people had now been vaccinated in the UK - including 23% of over 80s in England, some 650,000 people.\n\nBut he said more than one million people were currently infected - with the number of patients in hospitals 40% higher than in the first peak.\n\nThe government's chief medical adviser Prof Chris Whitty cited the Office for National Statistics' random sampling data for England as showing how widespread the virus is.\n\n\"We're now into a situation where across the country as a whole, roughly one in 50 people have got the virus, higher in some parts of the country, lower in others,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Professor Chris Whitty: \"No evidence\" the new variant is \"more dangerous\"\n\nThe number of new daily cases has consistently been above 50,000 since 29 December.\n\nBack in the first peak of the pandemic in the spring, the number of daily confirmed cases never went above 7,000.\n\nHowever, it is thought the true number of cases then was much higher but not picked up because testing capacity was limited. It was estimated there were about 100,000 new infections a day at the end of March - but there was not the testing to detect it.\n\nHospital admissions of people with Covid-19 in England also reached another record high on Tuesday, NHS England figures show.\n\nAt a hospital in Lincolnshire, a \"critical\" incident has been declared after a sharp rise in patients requiring admission.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How NHS nurses and doctors are struggling to cope with Covid as cases continue to rise in England\n\nAnd potentially life-saving cancer operations have been put on hold at a major London NHS trust because of the number of beds taken by Covid patients.\n\nHowever, Cancer Research UK said such cancellations did not appear to be widespread across the country.\n\nIn a statement after the case numbers were released, Public Health England medical director Yvonne Doyle said the rapid rise in cases was \"highly concerning and will sadly mean yet more pressure on our health services in the depths of winter\".\n\nAfter seven consecutive days of more than 50,000 cases being confirmed, the fact that more than 60,000 have been recorded should not come as a surprise.\n\nIt will take a week, if not more, for the impact of lockdown to be felt.\n\nAnd all the evidence suggests the new variant of coronavirus, which is more transmissible than previous ones, means the impact is likely to be more limited than it was in previous ones.\n\nThe figures are also a warning about what the NHS is facing.\n\nSome of this week's infections are next week's hospital admissions.\n\nAbout three in 10 beds are now occupied by Covid patients. In some hospitals more than six in 10 are.\n\nHospitals are now busy making more spaces on their wards - that means cancelling planned work, including in some places cancer treatment.\n\nBoris Johnson and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon both announced new lockdowns on Monday.\n\nWales has been in a national lockdown since 20 December and Northern Ireland entered a six-week lockdown on 26 December.\n\nRestrictions are also being tightened further in Northern Ireland, and an order for people to stay at home will become legally enforceable from Friday.\n\nIn a televised address to the nation, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer urged the government to use the lockdown to create a \"round the clock\" vaccination programme.\n\nHe also called on people to \"recapture the spirit\" of the beginning of the pandemic.\n\nAt the press conference on Tuesday, Mr Johnson repeated his suggestion that there is a \"prospect\" of the lockdown being eased in mid-February.\n\n\"But you will also appreciate there are a lot of caveats, a lot of ifs built into that, the most important of which is that we all now follow the guidance,\" he said.\n\nEarlier, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove told Sky News he could not say exactly when the lockdown in England would end, but \"as we enter March we should be able to lift some of these restrictions but not necessarily all\".\n\nMr Whitty said the virus \"is not going to go away, just as flu doesn't go away, just as many other viruses don't go away\".\n\n\"We shouldn't kid ourselves that this just disappears with spring,\" he said.\n\nMr Whitty said although hopefully there would be nearly no measures needed from the spring onwards, the government might have to bring in a few restrictions next winter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We've now vaccinated over 1.3m people across the UK\"\n\nOn Monday the UK's chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nAlthough the new variant is now spreading more rapidly than the original version, it is not believed to be more deadly.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"", "Supermarkets are seeking to reassure shoppers that there is no need to bulk-buy products as new lockdown restrictions come into force.\n\nAsda asked its customers to \"continue to shop considerately and not buy more than they normally would.\"\n\nThere was a surge in online grocery shopping after new lockdown restrictions were announced on Monday, but demand has since dropped back.\n\nStores said they have good availability and have increased delivery slots.\n\nTesco and Sainsbury's have doubled the number of delivery slots since March.\n\nWhen fresh lockdown restrictions were announced on Monday there was a rush online by supermarket shoppers to book delivery slots.\n\nThat surge has since calmed down, but big supermarkets were keen on Wednesday to reassure customers that there is no need to bulk-buy, as stores would like to avoid a repeat of the panic-buying that was triggered by the first lockdown.\n\nAsda said it \"currently has strong product availability across its stores and depots and its colleagues are working around the clock to keep the shelves stocked.\"\n\nSainsbury's said it had \"good availability and encourage customers to shop as normal. We aren't currently restricting products.\"\n\nTesco has had buying limits on various products since the first lockdown, and most recently limited items including eggs, rice, soap and toilet roll after freight delays in December as ports got snarled up.\n\nTesco said on Wednesday that it had \"good availability in stores and online, with plenty of stock to go round, and we would encourage our customers to shop as normal.\"\n\nDuring the first lockdown supermarkets saw a huge spike in demand for online shopping as people tried to avoid mixing in shops.\n\nThe big chains have all increased their capacity to deliver food.\n\nTesco, the biggest UK supermarket chain, has more than doubled the number of online delivery slots available since the start of the crisis, and now has 1.5 million slots per week.\n\nNot all of these get used across the UK at present, so Tesco has no plans at the moment for further slots.\n\nSainsbury's, the second biggest, has also more than doubled the number of its online delivery slots since March, and can meet more than 800,000 orders per week.\n\nAsda, the third biggest chain, has upped the number of available weekly slots by 90% since March to 850,000, and by the start of April it's planning to offer 900,000 slots per week.\n\nMorrison's, the fourth largest UK supermarket chain, said it had increased its online operation fivefold since March.\n\nAsda said on Wednesday that it was also doubling the size of its partnership with Uber Eats. From February Asda will offer a 30-minute delivery service from 200 stores.\n\nAsda is also stepping-up Covid safety measures, including doubling safety marshal hours, more sanitation stations, increasing cleaning, and \"adding a protective antimicrobial coating to customer 'touch points' in stores such as fridge and freezer handles, checkout areas, plus all trolley and basket handles\".\n\nThe chain also has a virtual queueing app called \"Quidini\" whereby customers can sit in their car to wait for a slot in a store if it is busy.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The twins' father says what they have achieved is a 'herculean achievement'\n\nConjoined twins who were expected to die within days when they were born are nearly four years later said to be settling in at their Cardiff school.\n\nMarieme and Ndeye Ndiaye were brought to the UK from Senegal in 2017 by their father Ibrahima for treatment at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital.\n\nThe girls, now four, are learning to stand and their father said their progress was \"a Herculean achievement\".\n\nTheir head teacher said the girls had made friends and were \"laughing a lot\".\n\nThe girls, who have separate hearts and spines but share a liver, bladder and digestive system, have conditions which put them at higher risk of complications from Covid.\n\nHowever, Mr Ndiaye said he had wanted them to start school for their development.\n\n\"When you look in the rear view mirror, it was an unachievable dream,\" he said.\n\n\"From now, everything ahead will be a bonus to me. My heart and soul is shouting out loud, 'Come on! Go on girls! Surprise me more!'.\"\n\nMr Ndiaye brought the girls to the UK through funding from a charitable foundation run by Senegal's first lady Marieme Faye Sall, before he sought asylum.\n\nIn March 2018, the family were moved by the Home Office to Cardiff as asylum seekers can be moved anywhere in the UK and they now have discretionary leave to remain.\n\nIn 2019, Great Ormond Street surgeons considered attempting separation but it was something Mr Ndiaye did not want because of the risks involved.\n\nThe girls have such complex circulatory systems medics now believe they would not survive being separated\n\nSince then, doctors have found the girls' circulatory systems to be more closely linked than previously thought and neither would survive without the other, making separation now impossible.\n\nThe girls' head teacher Helen Borley said they were learning well since starting reception in September and had made new friends.\n\nShe said: \"Children either say, 'I'm Marieme's friend' or 'I'm Ndeye's friend' - they don't say, 'I'm the twins' friend'. Children very much identify as being one person's friend or another - because the girls are very different characters.\n\n\"They are laughing a lot - which is always a good sign, isn't it? Any child that is laughing a lot is a happy child.\"\n\nMarieme receives oxygen from Ndeye's stronger heart and food via their linked stomachs\n\nFor the twins, school needs to fit around hospital visits.\n\nIn October, the girls needed surgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital.\n\nDr Gillian Body, a paediatric consultant at the Children's Hospital for Wales in Cardiff, said the procedure was important, despite the risks.\n\nShe said: \"The girls have complex anatomies and that makes them prone to infections and potentially sepsis.\n\n\"One of the challenges we had was getting antibiotics into them quickly, and this tube or cannula they've had fitted, means we can get them into them more quickly with less distress to the girls.\"\n\nThe girls have been experiencing the feeling of standing, at children's hospice Ty Hafan\n\nShe said Marieme's heart was complex with lots of abnormalities that cause her problems with doing exercise and can lead to breathlessness.\n\nAt children's' hospice Ty Hafan in Sully, Vale of Glamorgan, the girls have been learning what it feels like to stand.\n\nA special frame gives them the experience of being upright, helping build strength in their legs.\n\nPhysiotherapist Sara Wade-West said it had been hard for them.\n\n\"It's a really different sensation when you're used to being sat down, to be upright can be scary,\" she said.\n\n\"To start with, particularly Ndeye wasn't very keen. We try and sneak the therapy in around the play, encouraging them to reach for toys to make them work a bit harder, but if they know it's therapy it's not so fun.\n\n\"Because of their cardiac function we can't push them too much so it's finding that balance - challenging them to get stronger but not exhausting them.\"\n\nThe twins' father Ibrahima Ndiaye said they were his \"warriors\"\n\nWatching his daughters stand is more than just a breakthrough for their father.\n\n\"They are showing that they don't only want to live, but be active and play their part in society,\" he said.\n\n\"All these achievements bring light and hopes for the future. But I know how fragile, complex and unpredictable their lives can be.\"\n\nMr Ndiaye said his hopes were \"parallel to my fears\" as the girls had \"so many times come close to the worst\".\n\n\"But the very least I can do for the girls is figure out my hopes for them,\" he said.\n\n\"The most I can do is to be beside them and live inside that hope and never allow anything to take that hope away.\n\n\"They are my warriors. They have proved they will never surrender without fighting. It is not yet over.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A BBC team came across roadblocks as they tried to report on research into viruses that bats carry\n\nA Chinese scientist at the centre of unsubstantiated claims that the coronavirus leaked from her laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan has told the BBC she is open to \"any kind of visit\" to rule it out.\n\nThe surprise statement from Prof Shi Zhengli comes as a World Health Organization team prepares to travel to Wuhan next month to begin its investigation into the origins of Covid-19.\n\nThe remote district of Tongguan, in China's south-western province of Yunnan, is hard to reach at the best of times. But when a BBC team tried to visit recently, it was impossible.\n\nPlain-clothes police officers and other officials in unmarked cars followed us for miles along the narrow, bumpy roads, stopping when we did, backtracking with us when we were forced to turn around.\n\nWe found obstacles in our way, including a \"broken-down\" lorry, which locals confirmed had been placed across the road a few minutes before we arrived.\n\nAnd we ran into checkpoints at which unidentified men told us their job was to keep us out.\n\nAt first sight, all of this might seem like a disproportionate effort given our intended destination, a nondescript, abandoned copper mine in which, back in 2012, six workers succumbed to a mystery illness that eventually claimed the lives of three of them.\n\nBut their tragedy, which would otherwise almost certainly have been largely forgotten, has been given new meaning by the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nThose three deaths are now at the centre of a major scientific controversy about the origins of the virus and the question of whether it came from nature, or from a laboratory.\n\nAnd the attempts of Chinese authorities to stop us reaching the site are a sign of how hard they're working to control the narrative.\n\nFor more than a decade, the rolling, jungle-covered hills in Yunnan - and the cave systems within - have been the focus of a giant scientific field study.\n\nChinese virologist Shi Zhengli is seen here inside the laboratory in Wuhan\n\nIt has been led by Prof Shi Zhengli from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).\n\nProf Shi won international acclaim for her discovery that the illness known as Sars, which killed more than 700 people in 2003, was caused by a virus that probably came from a species of bat in a Yunnan cave.\n\nEver since, Prof Shi - often referred to as \"China's Batwoman\" - has been in the vanguard of a project to try to predict and prevent further such outbreaks.\n\nBy trapping bats, taking faecal samples from them, and then carrying those samples back to the lab in Wuhan, 1,600km (1,000 miles) away, the team behind the project has identified hundreds of new bat coronaviruses.\n\nBut the fact that Wuhan is now home to the world's leading coronavirus research facility, as well as the first city to be ravaged by a pandemic outbreak of a deadly new one, has fuelled suspicion that the two things are connected.\n\nI would personally welcome any form of visit, based on an open, transparent, trusting, reliable and reasonable dialogue. But the specific plan is not decided by me.\n\nThe Chinese government, the WIV, and Prof Shi have all angrily dismissed the allegation of a virus leak from the Wuhan lab.\n\nBut with scientists appointed by the World Health Organization (WHO) scheduled to visit Wuhan in January for an inquiry into the origin of the pandemic, Prof Shi - who has given few interviews since the pandemic began - answered a number of BBC questions by email.\n\n\"I have communicated with the WHO experts twice,\" she wrote, when asked if an investigation might help rule out a lab leak and end the speculation. \"I have personally and clearly expressed that I would welcome them to visit the WIV,\" she said.\n\nTo a follow-up question about whether that would include a formal investigation with access to the WIV's experimental data and laboratory records, Prof Shi said: \"I would personally welcome any form of visit based on an open, transparent, trusting, reliable and reasonable dialogue. But the specific plan is not decided by me.\"\n\nThe BBC subsequently received a call from the WIV's press office, saying that Prof Shi was speaking in a personal capacity and her answers had not been approved by the WIV.\n\nThe BBC denied a request to send the press office a copy of this article in advance.\n\nDr Peter Daszak: \"I've yet to see any evidence at all of a lab leak or a lab involvement in this outbreak\"\n\nMany scientists believe that by far the most likely scenario is that Sars-Cov-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, jumped naturally from bats to humans, possibly via an intermediary species. And despite Prof Shi's offer, for now there appears to be little chance of the WHO inquiry looking into the lab-leak theory.\n\nThe terms of reference for the WHO inquiry make no mention of the theory, and some members of the 10-person team have all but ruled it out.\n\nPeter Daszak, a British zoologist, has been chosen as part of the team because of his leading role in a multimillion dollar, international project to sample wild viruses.\n\nIt has involved close collaboration with Prof Shi Zhengli in her mass sampling of bats in China, and Dr Daszak previously called the lab-leak theory a \"conspiracy theory\" and \"pure baloney\".\n\n\"I've yet to see any evidence at all of a lab leak or a lab involvement in this outbreak,\" he said. \"I have seen substantial evidence that these are naturally occurring phenomena driven by human encroachment into wildlife habitat, which is clearly on display across south-east Asia.\"\n\nAsked about seeking access to the Wuhan lab to rule the lab-leak theory out, he said: \"That's not my job to do that.\n\n\"The WHO negotiated the terms of reference, and they say we're going to follow the evidence, and that's what we've got to do,\" he added.\n\nThe Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was linked to early cases of the new coronavirus\n\nOne focus of the inquiry will be a market in Wuhan which was known to be trading in wildlife and was linked to a number of early cases, though the Chinese authorities appear to have already discounted it as a source of the virus.\n\nDr Daszak said the WHO team would \"look at those clusters of cases, look at the contacts, look at where the animals in the market have come from and see where that takes us\".\n\nThe deaths of the three Tongguan workers following exposure to a mineshaft full of bats raised suspicions that they'd succumbed to a bat coronavirus.\n\nIt was exactly the kind of animal-to-human \"spillover\" that was driving the WIV to sample and test bats in Yunnan.\n\nIt is no surprise then that, following those deaths, the WIV scientists began sampling bats in the Tongguan mineshaft in earnest, making multiple visits over the next three years and detecting 293 coronaviruses.\n\nBut apart from one brief paper, very little was published about the viruses they collected on those trips.\n\nIn January this year, Prof Shi Zhengli became one of the first people in the world to sequence Sars-Cov-2, which was already spreading rapidly through the streets and homes of her city.\n\nShe then compared the long string of letters representing the virus's unique genetic code with the extensive library of other viruses collected and stored over the years.\n\nAnd she discovered that her database contained the closest known relative of Sars-Cov-2.\n\nRaTG13 is a virus whose name has been derived from the bat it was extracted from (Rhinolophus affinis, Ra), the place it was found (Tongguan, TG), and the year it was identified, 2013.\n\nSeven years after it was found in that mineshaft, RaTG13 was about to become one of the most hotly contested scientific subjects of our time.\n\nChina imposed tough restrictions on Wuhan to stop the spread of the virus\n\nThere have been many well-documented cases of viruses leaking from labs. The first Sars virus, for example, leaked twice from the National Institute of Virology in Beijing in 2004, long after the outbreak had been brought under control.\n\nThe practice of genetically manipulating viruses is also not new, allowing scientists to make them more infectious or more deadly, so they can assess the threat and, perhaps, develop treatments or vaccines.\n\nAnd from the moment it was isolated and sequenced, scientists have been struck by the remarkable ability of Sars-Cov-2 to infect humans.\n\nThe possibility that it acquired that ability as a result of manipulation in a laboratory was taken seriously enough for an influential group of international scientists to address it head on.\n\nIn what has become the definitive paper ruling out the possibility of a lab leak, RaTG13 has a starring role.\n\nPublished in March in the magazine Nature Medicine, it suggests that if there had been a leak, Prof Shi Zhengli would have found a much closer match in her database than RaTG13.\n\nWhile RaTG13 is the closest known relative - at 96.2% similarity - it is still too distant to have been manipulated and changed into Sars-Cov-2.\n\nSars-Cov-2, the authors concluded, was likely to have gained its unique efficiency through a long, undetected period of circulation in humans or animals of a natural and milder precursor virus that eventually evolved into the potent, deadly form first detected in Wuhan in 2019.\n\nMedics and scientists in Wuhan battled to control the early stages of the pandemic\n\nWhere though, some scientists are beginning to wonder, are those reservoirs of earlier natural infection?\n\nDr Daniel Lucey is a physician and infectious disease professor at the Georgetown Medical Centre in Washington DC and a veteran of many pandemics - Sars in China, Ebola in Africa, Zika in Brazil.\n\nHe is certain that China has already conducted thorough searches for evidence of precursor viruses in stored human samples in hospitals and in animal populations.\n\n\"They have the capability, they have the resources and they have the motivation, so of course they've done the studies in animals and in humans,\" he said.\n\nFinding the origin of an outbreak was vital, he said, not just for wider scientific understanding, but also to stop it emerging again.\n\n\"We should search until we find it. I think it's findable and I think it's quite possible it's already been found,\" he said. \"But then the question arises, why hasn't it been disclosed?\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid-19: How everyday life has changed in Wuhan\n\nDr Lucey still believes that Sars-Cov-2 is most likely to have a natural origin, but he does not want the alternatives to be so readily ruled out.\n\n\"So here we are, 12, 13 months out since the first recognised case of Covid-19 and we haven't found the animal source,\" he said. \"So, to me, it's all the more reason to investigate alternative explanations.\"\n\nMight a Chinese laboratory have had a virus they were working on that was genetically closer to Sars-Cov-2, and would they tell us now if they did? \"Not everything that's done is published,\" Dr Lucey said.\n\nIt's a point I put to Peter Daszak, the member of the WHO origins study team.\n\n\"You know, I've worked with the WIV for a good decade or more,\" he said. \"I know some of the people there pretty well and I have visited the labs frequently, I've met and had dinner with them over 15 years.\n\n\"I'm working in China with eyes wide open, and I'm racking my brain back in time for the slightest hint of something untoward. And I've never seen that.\"\n\nAsked if those friendships and funding relationships with the WIV presented a conflict of interest with his role on the inquiry, he said: \"We file our papers; it's all there for everyone to see.\"\n\nAnd his collaboration with the WIV, he said, \"makes me one of the people on the planet who knows the most about the origins of these bat coronaviruses in China\".\n\nThe conclusion [of the Kunming Hospital University thesis] is neither based on evidence nor logic. But it’s used by conspiracy theorists to doubt me\n\nChina may have provided only limited data about its hunt for the origin of Sars-Cov-2, but it has begun to promote a theory of its own.\n\nBased on a few inconclusive studies conducted by scientists in Europe that suggest Covid-19 may have been circulating earlier than previously thought, state propaganda is full of stories suggesting the virus didn't start in China at all.\n\nIn the absence of proper data, speculation is only likely to grow, much of it focused on RaTG13 and its origins in a Tongguan mineshaft. Old academic papers have been dug up online that appear to differ from the WIV's statements about the sick mine workers - among them a thesis by a student at the Kunming Hospital University.\n\n\"I've just downloaded the Kunming Hospital University student's masters thesis and read it,\" Prof Shi told the BBC.\n\n\"The narrative doesn't make sense,\" she said. \"The conclusion is neither based on evidence nor logic. But it's used by conspiracy theorists to doubt me. If you were me, what you would do?\"\n\nProf Shi has also faced questions about why the WIV's online public database of viruses was suddenly taken offline.\n\nShe told the BBC that the WIV's website and the staff's work emails and personal emails had been attacked, and the database taken offline for security reasons.\n\n\"All our research results are published in English journals in the form of papers,\" she said. \"Virus sequences are saved in the [US-run] GenBank database too. It's completely transparent. We have nothing to hide.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Can you become immune to coronavirus?\n\nThere are important questions to be asked in the Yunnan countryside, not just by scientists, but by journalists too.\n\nAfter a decade of sampling and experimenting on viruses collected from bats, we now know that back in 2013 the closest known ancestor was discovered of a future threat that would claim well over a million lives and devastate the global economy.\n\nYet the WIV, according to the published information, did nothing with it, except sequence it and enter it into a database.\n\nOught that to call into question the very premise on which the expensive, and some would say risky, mass sampling of wild viruses is based?\n\n\"To say that we didn't do enough is absolutely correct,\" Peter Daszak told the BBC. \"To say that we failed is not fair at all. What we should have been doing is 10 times the amount of work on these viruses.\"\n\nBoth Dr Daszak and Prof Shi are adamant that pandemic prevention research is vital, urgent work.\n\n\"Our research is forward-looking, and it's difficult for non-professionals to understand,\" Prof Shi wrote by email. \"In the face of countless micro-organisms that exist in nature, we humans are very small.\"\n\nThe WHO is promising an \"open-minded\" inquiry into the origins of the novel coronavirus, but the Chinese government is not keen on questions, at least not from journalists.\n\nAfter leaving Tongguan, the BBC team tried to drive a few hours north to the cave where Prof Shi carried out her ground-breaking research on Sars almost a decade ago.\n\nStill being followed by several unmarked cars, we hit another roadblock, and were told there was no way through.\n\nA few hours later, we discovered that local traffic had been diverted onto a dirt track that skirted the obstruction, but as we attempted to use the same route, we met yet another \"broken down\" car in our path.\n\nWe were trapped in a field for over an hour, before finally being forced to head for the airport.", "The low temperature was recorded at Loch Glascarnoch\n\nThe UK has had its coldest night of the winter so far after a temperature of -12.3C was recorded in the north west Highlands.\n\nThe temperature was recorded at Loch Glascarnoch, near Garve, south of Ullapool in Wester Ross.\n\nThe record lowest temperature in the UK is -27.2C, which was recorded in Braemar, Aberdeenshire, in 1895 and 1982.\n\nThe same temperature was recorded at Altnaharra in the Highlands in 1995.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe coldest night of the winter so far has come amid days of freezing temperatures in Scotland, and more widely across the UK.\n\nThe Met Office has issued yellow \"be aware warnings\" for snow and ice for Scotland for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.\n\nForecasters said a band of sleet and snow was expected arrive across north west Scotland on Wednesday afternoon and move south east across most parts of Scotland overnight.\n\nThe Met Office said up to 2cm, almost an inch, of snow was likely to settle at low levels \"quite widely\" with up to 6cm (2in) above 200m (656ft) and as much as 10cm (4in) above 300m (984ft).", "Last updated on .From the section Man City\n\nManchester City legend Colin Bell has died, aged 74, after a short illness, the Premier League club have announced.\n\nThe former England midfielder made 501 appearances for City between 1966 and 1979, scoring 153 goals. He won 48 caps for his country.\n\n\"Few players have left such an indelible mark on City,\" said a club statement on Tuesday.\n\nIn 2004, Manchester City fans voted to name one of the stands at Etihad Stadium in Bell's honour.\n\n\"Colin Bell will always be remembered as one of Manchester City's greatest players and the very sad news today of his passing will affect everybody connected to our club,\" said City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak.\n\n\"I am fortunate to be able to speak regularly to his former manager and team-mates, and it's clear to me that Colin was a player held in the highest regard by all those who had the privilege of playing alongside him or seeing him play.\n\n\"The passage of time does little to erase the memories of his genius.\"\n• None 'Bell will always be king of Man City' - tributes paid after death of club great\n\nAfter starting his career at Bury, Bell moved to Manchester City - then in the second tier - midway through the 1965-66 season in a £47,500 deal.\n\nHe helped Joe Mercer's team win promotion that season and was instrumental in the Blues winning the First Division title two years later.\n\nDuring his 13 years as a player at Maine Road, he also won the FA Cup, League Cup and Cup Winners' Cup.\n\nHowever, his career was hampered by a serious knee injury he suffered in a League Cup tie against Manchester United in November 1975, when he was 29.\n\nAfter making a comeback later that season, he was injured again against Arsenal and out for another 18 months.\n\nBell regained fitness and received an emotional ovation on his return at Maine Road on 26 December 1977.\n\nHowever, he did not have the same freedom and mobility as he had done and played only a handful more games.\n\nBell finished his career with a brief spell in the United States playing for San Jose Earthquakes.\n\nIn 2004, he was awarded an MBE for his services to football and remained a regular presence at City games in recent seasons.\n\n'De Bruyne reminds me a lot of Colin' - tributes pour in for the 'King of the Kippax'\n\nFormer City team-mate Mike Summerbee, who was part of their 'Holy Trinity' alongside Bell and Francis Lee in the 1960s and 1970s, described Bell as \"just the greatest footballer\" the club has had.\n\n\"Colin was a lovely, humble man. He was a huge star for Manchester City but you would never have known it,\" said ex-forward Summerbee, 78.\n\n\"He was quiet, unassuming and I always believe he never knew how good he actually was.\n\n\"[Current City midfielder] Kevin de Bruyne reminds me a lot of Colin in the way he plays and the way he is as a person.\"\n\nFormer England forward Lee says he thinks the knee injury curtailed Bell's career \"by a good four or five years\".\n\n\"Colin had tremendous stamina. He was a very good player technically and had the ability to score goals,\" said Lee, 76.\n\n\"He goes into the top five City players of all time - only in the last 10, 15 years has anyone else come along who can take that mantle.\"\n\nSummerbee and Lee were among a number of former and current City players to pay tribute to Bell, along with celebrity fans including former Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher.\n\nBell would \"always have a smile\" and \"meet and greet everyone\" he knew, said former City midfielder Michael Brown.\n\n\"He's done lots of charity work and always tried to help people,\" added Brown, who first met Bell as a youngster having come up through City's academy.\n\n\"It's a huge loss. To have done so much and be so low key was admirable.\"\n\nEx-City defender Micah Richards said Bell was \"one of the nicest men ever\", while their former full-back Pablo Zabaleta added he was \"absolutely devastated\" by the news.\n\nFormer England striker Gary Lineker said Bell was one of his favourite players when he was growing up.\n\n\"Terrific box to box midfielder. A real gem for Manchester City and England,\" added the Match of the Day host.\n\nThe Times' chief football writer Henry Winter said Bell \"oozed class, skill and glamour\" as he was \"flowing across rutted pitches, taking people on, creating and scoring\".", "A polar bear cub playing in a snow drift in the area of the proposed oil lease sales\n\nThe Trump administration is pushing ahead with the first sale of oil leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.\n\nThe giant Alaskan wilderness is home to many important species, including polar bears, caribou and wolves.\n\nNow, after decades of dispute, the rights to drill for oil on about 5% of the refuge will go ahead.\n\nOpponents have criticised the rushed nature of the sale, coming just days before President Trump's term ends.\n\nCovering some 19 million acres (78,000 sq km) the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is often described as America's last great wilderness.\n\nIt is a critically important location for many species, including polar bears.\n\nIn the winter months, pregnant bears build dens in which to give birth.\n\nAs temperatures have risen and sea ice has become thinner, these bears have started building their dens on land.\n\nMany indigenous groups with strong links to the ANWR have opposed oil exploration\n\nThe coastal plain of the ANWR now has the highest concentration of these dens in the state.\n\nThe refuge is also home to Porcupine caribou, one of the largest herds in the world, numbering around 200,000 animals.\n\nIn the spring, the herd moves to the coastal plain region of the ANWR as it is their preferred calving ground.\n\nThe same coastal plain is now the subject of the first ever oil lease sale in the refuge.\n\nThe push for exploration in the park has been a decades long battle between oil companies supported by the state government and environmental and indigenous opponents.\n\nMany of Alaska's political representatives believe that drilling in the refuge could lead to another major oil find, like the one in Prudhoe Bay, just west of the ANWR.\n\nPrudhoe Bay is the largest oil field in North America and supporters believe the ANWR shares the same geology, and potential reserves of crude oil.\n\nOil revenues are critical for Alaska, with every resident getting a cheque for around $1,600 every year from the state's permanent fund.\n\nIn 2017, the Trump administration's tax cutting bill contained a provision to open up the ANWR coastal plain for drilling. It was seen as a way of offsetting the costs of the tax cuts.\n\nThe US Bureau of Land Management is now selling the drilling rights to 22 tracts of land covering about one million acres. These oil and gas leases last for 10 years.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Bernadette Demientieff This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA last-minute attempt to stop the sale in the courts failed but opponents say it will not be the end of their efforts to protect the refuge from drilling.\n\n\"The Trump administration is barrelling forward without doing the careful, legally required analyses of the impacts such activity will have on the environment or the Gwich'in people who have relied on this land for millennia,\" said Kristen Monsell, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, which is headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, who had sought an injunction against the sale.\n\n\"That's why we've taken them to court. We can't let Trump turn this amazing landscape into an oil field.\"\n\nReports indicate that interest in the lease sales has been low.\n\nThinning ice has seen more polar bears make their dens on land\n\nWhile estimates suggest around 11 billion barrels of oil lie under the refuge, it has no roads or other infrastructure, making it a very expensive place to drill for oil.\n\nSeveral large US banks have said they will not fund oil and gas exploration in the area.\n\nThere is also the matter of a change of leadership in the White House. The Biden team have nominated Deb Haaland as Secretary of the Interior. She is on record as being strongly opposed to drilling in the ANWR.\n\nWith climate change set to be a central focus for the Biden administration, it's likely that efforts to extract new fossil fuels in Alaska will be subject to review and delay.\n\nThis could ultimately limit the interest and opportunity for oil exploration in the refuge.\n\nYou might also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Climate change: The woman watching the ice melt from under her feet", "Stephen Stennett had a head on collision with a van on the B9157 near Kirkcaldy in Fife\n\nA driver who caused a crash in Fife that led to his passenger losing her baby has admitted causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nStephen Stennett, 23, had a head-on collision with a van on the B9157 near Kirkcaldy on 3 October 2018.\n\nThe High Court in Glasgow heard he had attempted a \"dangerous\" overtaking manoeuvre.\n\nJudge Lady Stacey deferred sentence until next month for background reports.\n\nPassenger, Shannon Myers, 18, who was 30 weeks pregnant, had to have an emergency caesarean section due to her injuries in the crash.\n\nHowever, her son Luke Myers died 32 minutes later.\n\nProsecutor Murdoch McTaggart said: \"The accused pulled out and drove into the path of an oncoming van.\n\n\"The accused's vehicle ended up in a ditch on the side of the road.\"\n\nMs Myers, who was in the front passenger seat, complained about pain in her abdomen and was taken to hospital.\n\nA scan showed the baby had a heartbeat of 60 beats per minute.\n\nMr McTaggart said this was regarded as low and gave cause for concern, prompting doctors to perform an emergency C-section.\n\nLuke's cause of death was recorded as \"complications of traumatic abruption due to road traffic collision\".\n\nPathologists said the baby had red marks on his face as well as fractures to his collarbone and four ribs.\n\nA 15-year-old girl, who was also a passenger in the car, sustained a fractured spine, collarbone and sternum.\n\nA fourth passenger, a boy also aged 15, suffered a fractured spine and eye bone as well as a minor head injury.\n\nVan driver Ian Baker, his wife Clara and their 10-year-old daughter had minor injuries.\n\nThe baby's mother paid tribute to Luke on Facebook shortly after his death.\n\nShe said: \"I love you so much my handsome little boy.\"\n\nThe judge Lady Stacey said: \"You will understand you pleaded guilty to a serious crime which had tragic results.\n\n\"When a life is lost, the court will almost always impose a period of imprisonment.\"\n\nStennett said: \"I'm sorry\" before being bailed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former Bond actress and Charlie's Angel Tanya Roberts has died in hospital in Los Angeles at the age of 65.\n\nRoberts appeared with Sir Roger Moore in his final Bond film, 1985's A View To A Kill, and had a recurring role in That '70s Show.\n\nShe also starred in the final series of Charlie's Angels on TV in 1980.\n\nHer death was prematurely announced on Monday, only for doctors to say she was still alive. However, her death was then confirmed on Tuesday.\n\nRoberts had collapsed while walking her dogs on 24 December and was admitted to Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre.\n\nHer partner Lance O'Brien mistakenly thought she had died on Sunday after visiting her in hospital. After getting a call from doctors to say she was deteriorating quickly, he went to her bedside, her eyes closed and she \"faded\", TMZ reported.\n\nDevastated, he walked out of the room and then the hospital without speaking to medical staff before informing Roberts' agent that he had \"just said goodbye to Tanya\".\n\nBut while being interviewed for US TV show Inside Edition on Monday, Mr O'Brien got a call from the hospital to say she was alive.\n\nThe moment was captured on film, as he picked up his phone and said: \"Now you're telling me she's alive? Thank the Lord.\" However, she died on Monday night.\n\nShe appeared in A View To A Kill alongside Sir Roger Moore and singer Grace Jones\n\nBorn Victoria Leigh Blum in 1955, Roberts grew up in New York before moving to Hollywood in 1977.\n\nHer big break came when she replaced Shelly Hack in Charlie's Angels, joining Jaclyn Smith and Cheryl Ladd as third 'Angel' Julie.\n\nAfter the show's cancellation, she appeared in such fantasy adventure films as The Beastmaster and Hearts and Armour.\n\nShe also played comic book heroine Sheena in a 1984 film that saw her nominated for a Golden Raspberry award for worst actress.\n\nRoberts received another Razzie nomination for her role as geologist Stacey Sutton in 1985 Bond film A View to a Kill.\n\nRoberts in the title role in Sheena: Queen of the Jungle\n\nShe admitted being \"a little cautious\" about taking the role, but said it would have been \"ridiculous\" to have turned it down.\n\nRoberts' subsequent films included Night Eyes and Inner Sanctum, erotic thrillers that did little to advance her career.\n\nShe went on to play Midge Pinciotti in more than 80 episodes of That '70s Show between 1998 and 2004.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The former president posts that he has been told to report to a grand jury, \"which almost always means an Arrest\".", "Julian Assange will remain in jail as he continues to fight against extradition to the United States.\n\nDistrict Judge Vanessa Baraitser said there were substantial grounds to believe he would abscond.\n\nOn Monday, she ruled the Wikileaks founder cannot be extradited to the US because he might kill himself.\n\nThe US is now appealing that decision - and had opposed releasing the 49-year-old from a maximum security prison before the case is heard.\n\nMr Assange, who was wearing a dark suit and face mask, was not seen to react to the decision at Westminster Magistrates Court.\n\nHe's been held in prison since 2019, after hiding for seven years inside the Ecuadorian Embassy to avoid extradition.\n\nUS prosecutors want to put him on trial for hacking and disclosing classified information - including the identities of informants who were helping intelligence agencies in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere.\n\nIn her ruling, DJ Baraitser said Mr Assange still had the incentive to abscond.\n\n\"He is willing to flout the order of this court,\" she said. \"As a matter of fairness, the US must be allowed to challenge my decision and if Mr Assange absconds during this process they will lose the opportunity to do so.\"\n\nDuring the bail application, Mr Assange's barrister Ed Fitzgerald QC said his client had been offered a London home by a supporter, where he could be with his partner and their two young children - but also compelled to remain under the strictest bail conditions.\n\n\"Your decision [on Monday] changes everything and it certainly changes any motive to abscond,\" said Mr Fitzgerald.\n\n\"On any view... [Mr Assange] would be safer isolating with his family in the community, subject to severe restrictions, than if he were in Belmarsh which has, very recently, had a severe outbreak...(of coronavirus). He wishes to live a sheltered life with his family.\"\n\nBut Clair Dobbin, for the USA, told the court Mr Assange had the \"resources, abilities and the sheer wherewithal\" to secretly arrange a flight to another country.\n\n\"[Mr Assange] regards himself as above the law and no cost is too great, whether that cost be to himself or others,\" said the barrister.\n\nJulian Assange's partner, Stella Moris, was among a large group of his supporters who had gathered at court.\n\n\"This a huge disappointment,\" she said. \"Julian should not be in Belmarsh prison in the first place. I urge the [US] Department of Justice to drop the charges and the President of the United States to pardon Julian.\"\n\nDistrict Judge Baraitser blocked Julian Assange's extradition on Monday, ruling that that while he had a case to answer, he was so mentally unwell that the US authorities could not guarantee he would not kill himself once inside a maximum security prison in the country.\n\nThe USA's appeal against that ruling - which will go to more senior judges later this year - will challenge that finding.", "McDonald's is pausing walk-in takeaway services in the UK as new lockdown restrictions come into force.\n\nDine-in meals and walk-in takeaways will not be available temporarily while it reviews safety procedures, it said.\n\nIts UK boss said it will be testing \"additional measures that may further enhance the safety of our takeaway service.\"\n\nRival food chains Burger King, Subway, KFC and Pret A Manger are still offering takeaways in-store.\n\nMcDonald's UK and Ireland chief executive Paul Pomroy said that safety measures across the firm's 1,300 restaurants will be reviewed by an independent health and safety body.\n\nHe added that customers would be kept updated via the restaurant's app and its website. Drive-through and delivery services across the fast food chain will remain open.\n\nUnder new lockdown restrictions which came into force in England and Scotland this week, hospitality firms are allowed to offer takeaways and deliveries.\n\nBut rules which previously allowed takeaways or click-and-collect services for alcoholic drinks have been scrapped.\n\nWales and Northern Ireland were already in lockdown, which meant that pubs, restaurants and cafes were restricted to takeaway-only too.\n\nAfter the first nationwide lockdown in March, many chains including McDonald's, Burger King and Pret closed their doors to hungry customers.\n\nThey gradually reopened with additional safety measures in place, such as plastic screens in front of the tills, hand sanitiser dispensers and restrictions on the number of customers allowed in at any one point. Some also pared back the number of dishes on offer.\n\nA Burger King spokesperson said that takeaway was still available in some branches and that it would continue to offer click-and-collect and delivery services \"in line with guidance issued\".\n\nSandwich chain Pret A Manger told the BBC that it is keeping some outlets open for both takeaways and delivery, but it would keep the number under review in the coming months.\n\n\"Last year we shifted our business to focus on delivery and expanded our delivery platform partnerships, to make Pret available to a wider customer base\", a spokesperson said.\n\n\"Since then, we have seen a significant increase in the use of delivery.\"\n\nSubway and KFC also confirmed that they remain open for in-store takeaways, deliveries and click-and-collect orders across the UK.\n\nFast food firm Leon, which has 65 outlets, said that 28 of their sites will remain open for takeaways and deliveries.\n\n\"We will continue to keep as many restaurants open as possible, as we did in the previous two lockdowns in line with government guidelines,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nDespite adapting their business models, many casual dining chains have been forced to make job cuts in the last year as lockdown restrictions hit sales. Pret, for example, announced 3,000 job cuts in August, while Greggs made 820 job cuts at the end of 2020.", "There are warnings that replacement grades must avoid the problems that saw protests and U-turns last summer\n\nHead teachers have warned a replacement system for cancelled exams in England must avoid the \"shambles\" of last year's results.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson is to make a statement on \"alternative arrangements\" for GCSE and A-level exams cancelled in the pandemic.\n\nThis could include using teachers' estimated grades.\n\nA replacement system must not \"inflict further disadvantage on students\", says the exams watchdog Ofqual.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said there were \"no easy answers\" in picking an approach - but it had to avoid repeating the \"disaster\" of last summer's cancelled exam season.\n\nHe said there was a \"real need for urgency\" to allow schools time to plan - and that any system for grading had to show \"fairness and consistency\".\n\nWritten papers for GCSEs and A-levels are not going ahead - after this week's decision that it was no longer feasible with so much time lost in the Covid pandemic and the latest lockdown.\n\nMr Williamson will instruct the exams watchdog to come up with proposals for an alternative way of deciding results, which could be used for jobs, staying on in school or university places.\n\nLast year's attempts to find an alternative approach to exam results, which initially used an algorithm, descended into chaos - and eventually switched to using teachers' grades.\n\nAnd without any exam papers or standardised mock exams, the use of teachers' grades, with some process of moderation, is likely to be a key option once again.\n\nVocational exams, such as BTecs, are carrying on, if schools and colleges decide to continue with them.\n\nBut if students cannot take BTec exams this month as planned, they will be able to take them at a later date or otherwise still be awarded a grade, if they have \"enough evidence to receive a certificate that they need for progression\", says the awarding body Pearson.\n\nAn Ofqual spokeswoman said they could consider options for replacement exam results, academic and vocational, \"to ensure the fairest possible outcome in the circumstances\".\n\nAlthough the process is only formally beginning, with a consultation likely on proposals, it is understood that contingency planning had already started to find a back-up if exams were cancelled.\n\nThe exams watchdog's decisions will face much scrutiny - with the previous head of Ofqual resigning after last summer's U-turns over grades.\n\n\"We are discussing alternative arrangements with the Department for Education. We know that many are seeking clarity as soon as possible,\" said Simon Lebus, Ofqual's interim chief regulator.", "Supporters of US President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday\n\nWorld leaders have condemned violent scenes in Washington after supporters of US President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol building on Wednesday.\n\nThe riot forced the suspension of a joint session of Congress to certify Joe Biden's electoral victory.\n\nMany leaders called for peace and an orderly transition of power, describing what happened as \"horrifying\" and an \"attack on democracy\".\n\n\"The United States stands for democracy around the world and it is now vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nOther UK politicians joined him in criticising the violence, with opposition leader Sir Keir Starmer calling it a \"direct attack on democracy\".\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel told the BBC that Mr Trump's comments \"directly led\" to his supporters storming Congress and clashing with police.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel says Donald Trump was wrong for not condemning the violence\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon tweeted that the scenes from the US Capitol were \"utterly horrifying\".\n\nIn Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel said those who stormed the US legislature were \"attackers and rioters\" and that she felt \"angry and also sad\" after seeing pictures from the scene.\n\nShe told a meeting of German conservatives: \"I regret very much that President Trump has still not admitted defeat, but has kept raising doubts about the elections.\"\n\nChina meanwhile attempted to draw comparisons between the rioters who entered Congress to try and subvert the US election result and pro-democracy protesters who stormed Hong Kong's Legislative Council last year.\n\nForeign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying claimed events in Hong Kong were more \"severe\" than those in Washington but \"not one demonstrator died\".\n\nThe comparisons between the two incidents has caused outrage among Hong Kong's pro-democracy activists and their supporters.\n\nRussia blamed the \"archaic\" US electoral system and the politicisation of the media for Wednesday's unrest in Washington.\n\n\"The electoral system in the United States is archaic, it does not meet modern democratic standards, creating opportunities for numerous violations, and the American media have become an instrument of political struggle,\" foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.\n\nElsewhere in Europe, a chorus of leaders condemned the scenes in Washington as an attack on democracy.\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said: \"I have trust in the strength of US democracy. The new presidency of Joe Biden will overcome this tense stage, uniting the American people.\"\n\nIn a video on Twitter, French President Emmanuel Macron said: \"When, in one of the world's oldest democracies, supporters of an outgoing president take up arms to challenge the legitimate results of an election, a universal idea - that of 'one person, one vote' - is undermined.\n\n\"What happened today in Washington DC is not American, definitely. We believe in the strength of our democracies. We believe in the strength of American democracy\" he added.\n\nSwedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven described the incident as \"worrying\" and said it was \"an assault on democracy\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by SwedishPM This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTop EU leaders have also made their views known. European Council President Charles Michel said he trusted the US \"to ensure a peaceful transfer of power\" to Mr Biden, while European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she looked forward to working with the Democrat, who \"won the election\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Charles Michel This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLike many other global figures, the Secretary-General of the Nato military alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, said that the outcome of the election \"must be respected\".\n\nFor his part, UN Secretary-General António Guterres was \"saddened\" by the events at the US Capitol, his spokesman said.\n\nThe events also shocked America's close ally and neighbour to its north. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canadians were \"deeply disturbed and saddened by the attack on democracy\".\n\n\"Violence will never succeed in overruling the will of the people. Democracy in the US must be upheld - and it will be,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. When a mob stormed the US capitol\n\nFrom New Zealand, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, tweeted that \"democracy - the right of people to exercise a vote, have their voice heard and then have that decision upheld peacefully - should never be undone by a mob\".\n\nMeanwhile Prime Minister Scott Morrison of Australia - another close US ally - condemned the \"distressing scenes\" and said he looked forward to a peaceful transfer of power.\n\nIn India, the world's largest democracy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi - who has enjoyed a good relationship with President Trump - said he was \"distressed to see news about rioting and violence\" in Washington.\n\n\"Orderly and peaceful transfer of power must continue,\" he tweeted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTurkey, an ally through Nato, said it invited \"all parties\" to show \"restraint and common sense\".\n\nThe Venezuelan government, which the US does not recognise as legitimate, said \"with this regrettable episode, the United States suffers the same thing that it has generated in other countries with its policies of aggression\".\n\nIn statements on Twitter, Argentina's President Alberto Fernández and Chile's President Sebastián Piñera also condemned the scenes in Washington. Mr Piñera said Chile \"trusts in the solidity of US democracy to guarantee the rule of law\".\n\nIn Japan, one of America's closest allies and partners, Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said the government hoped for a \"peaceful transfer of power\" in the United States.\n\nFrom Fiji, Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama, who led a coup in 2006, also expressed outrage at the events that took place.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Frank Bainimarama This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd in Singapore, Senior Minister Teo Chee Hean said he had watched as the \"shocking\" scenes took place, adding: \"Its a sad day.\"", "YouTube has reinstated TalkRadio's channel on its platform hours after saying it had been \"terminated\" for breaking the tech firm's rules.\n\nIt said the broadcaster had posted material that contradicted expert advice about the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nBut it explained its U-turn saying it sometimes made exceptions to guidelines that state repeat offenders face a permanent ban.\n\nTalkRadio said it had yet to be given a full explanation for the affair.\n\nThe decision to ban TalkRadio had appalled digital rights campaigners, with one group - Big Brother Watch - claiming it was evidence that \"big tech censorship is spiralling out of control\".\n\nThe Google-owned service has issued a brief statement explaining its actions.\n\n\"TalkRadio's YouTube channel was briefly suspended, but upon further review, has now been reinstated,\" it said.\n\n\"We quickly remove flagged content that violate our community guidelines, including Covid-19 content that explicitly contradict expert consensus from local health authorities or the World Health Organization. We make exceptions for material posted with an educational, documentary, scientific or artistic purpose, as was deemed in this case.\"\n\nYouTube has not published details of the offending posts.\n\nBut independent fact-checkers have repeatedly challenged some of the claims made by interviewees featured by the London-based radio station.\n\nYouTube operates a \"three strikes\" policy, whereby channels that break its community guidelines three times within a 90-day period can be permanently banned, but other infractions lead to temporary restrictions.\n\nProhibited content includes \"medically unsubstantiated claims\" relating to Covid-19, and videos that contradict expert consensus from local health authorities such as the NHS.\n\n\"YouTube is making decisions about which opinions the public are allowed to hear, even when they are sourced to responsible and regulated new providers,\" TalkRadio said in a statement this evening.\n\n\"This sets a dangerous precedent and is censorship of free speech and legitimate national debate.\"\n\nThe broadcaster tweeted the statement minutes after YouTube's change of heart. It did not appear to be aware that its channel had been reinstated at the time, but has since acknowledged the move.\n\nTalkRadio has about 424,000 listeners, according to the latest figures from market research provider Rajar.\n\nIt uses YouTube as a means to livestream shows from its studios and to provide an archive of past broadcasts.\n\nIts channel on the platform has 242,000 subscribers.\n\nYouTube's action had meant that TalkRadio's website had featured articles featuring broken embedded clips for most of the day, and that users who had shared its clips would have been unable to view them.\n\nThe US firm has previously imposed a permanent ban against conspiracy theorist David Icke, and a one-week video suspension of right-wing outlet One America News Network's ability to publish new clips - in both cases for breaches of its Covid rules.\n\nIt's pretty clear something has gone wrong at YouTube in the last 24 hours.\n\nIt appeared as though TalkRadio had been banned for good on YouTube - or \"terminated\" as the company put it.\n\nYouTube is now saying it was a short suspension, which certainly seems like a backtrack.\n\nEven now, it's not obvious what the offending material was that caused this action. The whole process reinforces the idea that YouTube's moderation policies - where it draws the line between freedom of expression and clamping down on misinformation - can be messy and inconsistent.\n\nAnd when YouTube takes such an action without giving full details, it rains controversy down on its own head.\n\nThis plays to a broader movement by YouTube and other social media companies to take a harder line on disinformation.\n\nJoe Biden is about to become US President - and he wants social media companies to do more to remove fake news.\n\nBut as they are increasingly finding out, refereeing their own platforms can be hugely difficult, and this highlights the need for greater transparency about moderation decisions.", "Helen Mort was told no action could be taken over the deepfake porn images\n\nA woman who has been the victim of deepfake pornography is calling for a change in the law.\n\nLast year, Helen Mort discovered that non-sexual images of her had been uploaded to a porn website.\n\nUsers of the site were invited to edit the photos, merging Helen's face with explicit and violent sexual images.\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 5 Live's Mobeen Azhar, Helen said she wanted to see the creation and distribution of these images made an offence.\n\n\"This is a crime which in many cases is going on invisibly,\" Helen said. \"Those images of me had been out there for years and I didn't know about them, and I'm still having nightmares about some of them now. It's an incredibly serious form of abuse.\"\n\nDeepfakes are realistic computer-generated images or video, based on a real person.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Actress Bella Thorne opens up about her experience of deepfake abuse\n\nHelen, a poet and writer from Sheffield, was alerted to the deepfake images by an acquaintance.\n\nThe original images were taken from her social media and included holiday pictures and photos from her pregnancy.\n\nShe said although some of the images were clearly manipulated, there were a few more \"chilling\" examples that were a \"lot more plausible'.\n\n\"You go through different phases with things like this,\" she said. \"There was one point where I was just trying to laugh about the almost ridiculous nature of some of it.\n\n\"But obviously, the underlying feeling was shock and actually I initially felt quite ashamed, as if I'd done something wrong. That was quite a difficult thing to overcome. And then for a while I got incredibly anxious about even leaving the house.\"\n\nShe alerted the police to the images but was told that no action could be taken.\n\nDr Aislinn O'Connell, a lecturer in law at Royal Holloway University of London, explained that Helen's case fell outside the current law.\n\n\"In England and Wales, under section 33 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015, it is an offence to non-consensually distribute a private sexual photograph or film with the intent to cause distress to the person depicted,\" she said.\n\n\"But this only applies where the original photo or video was private and sexual.\n\n\"In Helen's situation, where non-sexual photos were merged with sexual photos, this isn't covered by the criminal offence.\n\n\"Furthermore, as the photos were not shared with Helen directly, nor did the intention seem to be to cause distress to Helen, the second element is not fulfilled - even though it did, evidently, cause distress. The other potential criminal offence would be harassment, but given the perpetrator here did not direct it at Helen herself, this didn't apply either.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Deepfake videos: Can you really believe what you see?\n\nThe independent Law Commission is currently reviewing the law as it applies to taking, making and sharing intimate images without consent. The outcome of the consultation is due to be published later this year.\n\nHowever, Dr O'Connell said the process of changing the law would take years which she says is \"too long\".\n\nHelen hopes to use her experience to raise awareness around deepfake pornography and has launched a petition calling for a change in the law.\n\nIt has received more than 3,400 signatures.\n\nShe has also written a poem in response to the images.\n\n\"I'm a writer by trade,\" she said. \"And I thought the only thing that is going to allow me to reclaim any sense of agency here is to say something about it using my art form. That's the only power that I have.\n\n\"The intention of this person, as they said in their post, was to humiliate. They said they wanted to see this person humiliated, and I thought well actually I'm not humiliated, and I'm going to speak out about it because I shouldn't be the one who feels ashamed.\"\n\nThe Home Office said it was taking steps to tackle new and emerging forms of violence against women and girls, including intimate image abuse, \"whether this be cyber flashing, revenge porn or deep fake videos.\"\n\n\"We are currently consulting on the development of our new strategy to tackle violence against women and girls and we encourage people to give their views,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"This new strategy will ensure victims and survivors are supported, and that perpetrators are identified and brought to justice.\"", "Vocational exams, including BTEcs, are to go ahead this month in England - despite calls for them to be cancelled alongside GCSEs and A-levels.\n\n\"Schools and colleges can continue with the vocational and technical exams that are due to take place in January, where they judge it right to do so,\" said a Department for Education spokeswoman.\n\nFurther education college leaders had complained this was unfair to students.\n\nThey said students would face \"stress\" from taking exams in the lockdown.\n\nThe Association of Colleges warned the decision, giving schools and colleges the option on whether to carry on with BTecs, would create more confusion.\n\nChief executive David Hughes said some colleges would cancel exams and others would continue - but without any clarity about what would happen to \"students in colleges which do cancel for safety reasons\".\n\n\"A national decision would have allowed for more fairness,\" said Mr Hughes.\n\nThe announcement from the Department for Education has left it open for schools and colleges to decide whether to go ahead with vocational and technical exams.\n\n\"Schools and colleges have already implemented extensive protective measures to make them as safe as possible,\" said the DFE's spokeswoman.\n\nThe Department for Education said it recognised \"this is a difficult time\" but wanted to allow students who had prepared for exams and assessments to continue, including those who needed to take hands-on practical tests for qualifications for jobs.\n\nA joint statement from the mayors of Manchester and Liverpool said it was wrong to go ahead with these vocational exams when other academic exams had been cancelled.\n\n\"It is unfair to ask these students to go into colleges when everyone else is being told to stay at home.\n\n\"This will cause unnecessary anxiety and concern just when they need to be able to focus,\" said the statement from Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram.\n\nThe mayors highlighted that students taking BTecs were more likely to be from \"working-class backgrounds and ethnic minority communities\" and they should not be treated any less well than those following an \"academic route\" in exams.\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Travellers to the UK from abroad could soon be required to prove they have had a negative coronavirus test.\n\nThe Department for Transport (DfT) said the measure is one of several being considered to \"prevent the spread of Covid-19 across the UK border\".\n\n\"Additional measures, including testing before departure, will help keep the importation of new cases to an absolute minimum,\" the department added.\n\nIt is thought that haulage drivers coming through ports would be exempt.\n\nHowever, the DfT said full details are still to be agreed and will be set out in \"due course\".\n\nAny such measure would be a devolved issue, so the the DfT would need to agree a path forward with Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to make it UK-wide.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"With a new strain of the virus on the loose in South Africa and a more infectious variant already widespread in the UK we need to do more.\"\n\nThe measures were being discussed as Boris Johnson imposed the third national lockdown in England to prevent the NHS being overwhelmed.\n\nThe prime minister has faced some calls to strengthen border protections to prevent the arrival of new cases, particularly of new and concerning strains.\n\nHowever, there was no mention of tougher border controls during his address to the nation on Monday, or press conference on Tuesday.\n\nEarlier on Tuesday, Cabinet Office Secretary Michael Gove said announcements will come in the days ahead on \"how we will make sure that our ports and airports are safe\".\n\n\"It is already the case that there are significant restrictions on people coming into this country and of course we're stressing that nobody should be travelling abroad,\" he told ITV.\n\nCurrently, international arrivals from countries that are not exempt under the travel corridor programme have to isolate for 10 days.\n\nBut under the test and release scheme introduced in December, this can be shortened if they have a private test five days after their departure and it comes back negative.\n\nIt is possible lorry drivers could be exempt, but no final decision has been made\n\nDuring the first lockdown, the government argued against introducing border restrictions while the prevalence was so high in the UK, with experts arguing it would do little to bring down infection rates.\n\nA quarantine period, however, was introduced in June after the first peak, when cases were more under control.\n\nEarlier, Home Secretary Priti Patel was accused of leaving the \"nation's doors unlocked\" to new coronavirus variants coming to Britain from overseas.\n\nLabour shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds wrote to Ms Patel calling for an \"urgent review and improvement plan\" as he raised concerns over checks on the arrival of people who are meant to go into quarantine.\n\nHe wrote: \"It is especially worrying given the concerns regarding mutation of the virus that emerged in South Africa, which the health secretary rightly said is 'incredibly worrying'.\n\n\"However, the lack of a robust quarantine system as a result of shortcomings from the government mean that it is virtually impossible to keep a grip on this spread or other variants that may come from overseas, leaving the UK defenceless, and completely exposed, with the nation's doors unlocked to further Covid mutations.\"\n\nThe Home Office defended its \"stringent measures\", and pointed to its move to stop direct flights from South Africa to the UK amid concerns over a new coronavirus variant in high prevalence there.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEveryone in England must stay at home except for permitted reasons during a new coronavirus lockdown expected to last until mid-February, the PM says.\n\nAll schools and colleges will close to most pupils and switch to remote learning from Tuesday.\n\nBoris Johnson warned the coming weeks would be the \"hardest yet\" amid surging cases and patient numbers.\n\nHe said those in the top four priority groups would be offered a first vaccine dose by the middle of next month.\n\nAll care home residents and their carers, everyone aged 70 and over, all frontline health and social care workers, and the clinically extremely vulnerable will be offered one dose of a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nSchools in Northern Ireland will have an \"extended period of remote learning\", the Stormont Executive said.\n\nSpeaking from Downing Street, Mr Johnson told the public to follow the new lockdown rules immediately, before they become law in the early hours of Wednesday.\n\nAll the new measures in England will then last until at least the middle of February, he said, as a new more infectious variant of the virus spreads across the UK.\n\nThe PM added that he believed the country was entering \"the last phase of the struggle\".\n\nHospitals were under \"more pressure from Covid than at any time since the start of the pandemic\", he said.\n\nAnd he reiterated the slogan used earlier in the pandemic, urging people to immediately \"stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives\".\n\nOn Monday, the UK recorded more than 50,000 new confirmed Covid cases for the seventh day in a row.\n\nA further 58,784 cases and an additional 407 deaths within 28 days of a positive test result were reported, though deaths in Scotland were not recorded.\n\nAs of 08:00 GMT, there were 26,626 Covid-19 patients in hospital in England, according to the latest figures.\n\nThis is a week-on-week increase of 30%, and a new record high.\n\nThose who are clinically extremely vulnerable will be contacted by letter and should now shield once more, Mr Johnson said.\n\nSupport and childcare bubbles will continue under the new measures - and people can meet one person from another household for outdoor exercise.\n\nCommunal worship and life events like funerals and weddings can continue, subject to limits on attendance.\n\nWhile Mr Johnson said end-of-year exams would not take place as normal in the summer, he said alternative arrangements would be announced separately.\n\nThe government has published a 22-page document outlining the new rules in detail.\n\nThe House of Commons has been recalled to allow MPs to vote on the new restrictions on Wednesday.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his MPs would \"support the package of measures\", saying \"we've all got to pull together now to make this work\".\n\nOnce again it is the threat to the NHS that has forced the hand of ministers.\n\nIn England there has been a 50% rise in the number of patients in hospital with Covid since Christmas day.\n\nTo put that into context, it equates to 18 hospitals being filled.\n\nCurrently around three out of 10 beds are occupied by patients with the disease.\n\nIn some hospitals it is more than six in 10.\n\nBut what is worrying ministers and NHS leaders is that the number is just going to increase.\n\nIn the spring it took nearly three weeks after lockdown for hospital cases to peak.\n\nThe last six days have seen in excess of 50,000 new infections confirmed each day across the UK - a number of these infections are next week's hospital admissions.\n\nIt is why the UK's chief medical officers were warning there was a \"material risk\" of some hospitals being overwhelmed if something did not change.\n\nMr Johnson spoke after UK chief medical officers recommended the Covid threat level be increased to five - its highest level.\n\nLevel five means the NHS may soon be unable to handle a further sustained rise in cases, the medical officers said in a joint statement.\n\nNHS Providers, which represents health service trusts, said hospitals were at a \"critical point\" and that \"immediate and decisive action\" was needed.\n\nAnnouncing tougher measures in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: \"It is no exaggeration to say that I am more concerned about the situation we face now than I have been at any time since March last year.\"\n\nFor pupils who returned for their first day of the new term at primary school on Monday, it's turned out to be an extremely short-lived visit.\n\nBoris Johnson's announcement will see primary, secondary and further education colleges closed for at least the next six weeks, except for vulnerable and key workers' children.\n\nIt's a much bigger shift in policy than had been anticipated, even a few days ago.\n\nEven the return date will depend on the progress in tackling the virus.\n\n\"I hope we can steadily move out of lockdown, reopening schools after the February half term,\" said the prime minister.\n\nKeeping schools open was the government's most definite of red lines, a few weeks ago they were threatening councils that wanted to close them - but it's now been overtaken by the spiking lines on the Covid infection charts.\n\nEven after the chaos of last year's replacement grades, GCSEs and A-levels are being cancelled again - with a replacement system still to be decided. Vocational exams are to continue.\n\nFor parents dreading home schooling, there are plans for it to be better supported this time - with more computer devices available and suggestions that Ofsted inspectors will check what schools are offering.\n\nBut there's no escaping that this will feel like another sudden and chaotic change of direction for schools and parents.\n\nMr Johnson's pledge on vaccinations comes after an 82-year-old retired maintenance manager became the first person in the UK to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 jab\n\nSome 13.9 million people are among the four priority groups who will receive a vaccine dose by about 15 February, vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains the order in which the Covid vaccine will be given\n\nHow will you be affected by the latest developments? What questions do you have? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Lockdowns have worked before, but can we expect the new one to do the same?\n\nIt feels like we are back in March or April last year, when the strict controls on all our lives led to a fairly quick decline in levels of coronavirus.\n\nBut one of the crucial differences this time is the new variant, which is thought to spread between 50 and 70% faster than previous forms of the virus.\n\nExperts warn there are now no guarantees that lockdown will be enough to bring the variant under control.\n\n\"It still would not have been easy, but it would have been a much easier situation if it had not been for the new variant,\" Prof Neil Ferguson, from Imperial College London, told Inside Health.\n\n\"That really pushes the bounds of our ability to control the spread of the virus, even with measures that were previously relatively quite effective.\"\n\nThe coronavirus spreads when we come into contact with each other so moving classrooms online, telling people to stay at home and closing shops breaks many of those opportunities for human contact.\n\nIf we consider the R number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - it was about 3.0 in the run up to the first lockdown and anything above 1.0 means cases are climbing.\n\nR fell to 0.6 during the first lockdown.\n\nThen every 1,000 infected people passed the virus on to 600 others, who passed it on to 360 others and so on.\n\nBut if the new variant is 50% more transmissible then the R number, in the same lockdown conditions, would be about 0.9.\n\nThen 1,000 infected people would pass the virus onto 900 others, then 810 and so on.\n\nAs you can see this leads to far slower decline.\n\nAnd that assumes lockdown can get R down to 0.9 in areas where the new variant has become the most common form of the virus.\n\nIf, as some studies suggest, the variant is about 70% more transmissible then R may stay above 1.0 and cases may not fall at all.\n\n\"We'd at best flatten the curve, keep numbers at a roughly constant level, and that's frankly why there is so much emphasis on getting vaccine into people's arms as quickly as possible,\" said Prof Ferguson.\n\nIt is hard to lock down even harder as there are some parts of society - hospitals, supermarkets - that need to be kept open.\n\nWhat happens to the number of cases over the coming weeks will be closely monitored. If this lockdown is less effective then we will have to live with it for longer.\n\nThere have been some encouraging signs over the Christmas break, which was a bit like a lockdown due to school holidays and other restrictions.\n\n\"We are in a very difficult situation here, but my initial assessment of the last few days is that the rate is slowing which is good news,\" Prof John Edmunds, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told the BBC.\n\nHe added: \"It looks likes those restrictions should be sufficient to stop the increase, whether they will be sufficient to bring cases down sufficiently we are yet to see.\"\n\nEventually the vaccine will give people immunity so we do not need the same controls on our lives.\n\nNow more than ever this is a race between the virus and the vaccine.", "I'm standing in what should be an operating theatre - but instead it's been converted into an intensive care unit for Covid-19 patients on ventilators. This is the first time I have seen it full of patients like this.\n\nNormally this theatre would be busy with major cancer surgery, but that's been transferred to another building.\n\nA children's recovery area, still decorated with colourful stickers of cartoons, is once again filled with desperately sick adults. Every day, more wards are being transformed into ICU - ready for the next influx of patients.\n\nWe have been given access to University College Hospital, in central London. This is the same intensive care unit that I visited in April, during the first peak.\n\nIt is one of the busiest hospitals in the capital and intensive care here is expanding across a hospital that is under pressure like never before, from a relentless rise in Covid admissions.\n\nI am struck by the toll the pandemic is taking on staff. It's immense - both physically and mentally. They are shell-shocked. \"My emotions are all over the place. Scared, sad, petrified, worried,\" one ICU nurse tells me.\n\nThey have got three times as many critically ill patients in the hospital as normal. The number of Covid admissions to London hospitals has doubled in just two weeks - they're more stretched now than at the peak last April. Senior staff are worried.", "Bosses of Britain's biggest companies will earn more in the first three days of this week than the average worker's annual wage, research claims.\n\nBy 17:30 GMT on Wednesday, the pay of FTSE 100 chiefs will have overtaken the £31,461 annual median wage for full time workers, the High Pay Centre says.\n\nBosses' pay was flat last year, while average wages generally rose slightly.\n\nThat meant that FTSE chief executives had to work 34 hours to beat median annual pay, not the 33 hours in 2020.\n\nThe High Pay Centre think-tank based its annual calculations on analysis of disclosures in companies' annual reports, combined with government statistics.\n\nHigh Pay Centre director Luke Hildyard said chief executive pay is about 120 times that of the typical UK worker, up significantly from two decades ago.\n\n\"Estimates suggest it was around 50 times at the turn of the millennium or 20 times in the early 1980s,\" he said.\n\n\"Factors such as the increasing role played by the finance industry in the economy, the outsourcing of low-paid work and the decline of trade union membership have widened the gaps between those at the top and everybody else over recent decades.\"\n\nHe said the figures should raise concern about the governance of Britain's biggest companies. \"They should also prompt debate about the effects that high levels of inequality can have on social cohesion, crime, and public health and wellbeing,\" he said.\n\nMedian FTSE 100 chief executive pay was £3.61m in 2019, the last year for which a full set of data is available, the High Pay Centre said.\n\nThe centre said its analysis was based on chief executives' average working day being 12 hours.\n\nHowever, critics said such analysis just fuels the politics of envy without looking at why chief executives matter and the contribution they make.\n\nDaniel Pryor, head of programmes at the Adam Smith Institute, said: \"Good management is more important than ever in a globalised world and small differences in top talent make a big impact on a business' bottom line.\n\n\"That bottom line makes a big difference to workers across the UK, anyone with a private pension, and shareholders.\"\n\nHe pointed out that there is strong, if morbid, evidence about chief executive deaths that shows why the corporate and investment world believe leadership makes a huge difference to the fortunes of their companies.\n\n\"In the past 60 years, unexpected CEO deaths have consistently affected stock price, profitability, investment and sales growth - for better or worse,\" he said, adding: \"Which is why it makes sense for firms to open their wallets to attract the best talent.\"", "Doctors in Scotland have raised concerns about plans to delay the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine.\n\nAll four UK nations will now leave up to 12 weeks between the first and second doses of the jab rather than giving both within 21 days.\n\nDr Lewis Morrison, head of the BMA in Scotland, said members had concerns about the potential impact of leaving such a big gap between the two doses.\n\nBut the UK's chief medical officers have defended the move.\n\nThey said that the first dose of either the Pfizer or the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccines - the only two so far approved for use in the UK - will give people substantial protection against the virus within two to three weeks of being administered.\n\nAnd they said that the second dose was \"likely to be very important for duration of protection, and at an appropriate dose interval may further increase vaccine efficacy\".\n\nThe Joint Committee of Vaccination and Immunisation, which advises UK health departments and recommended the new strategy, said data showed that one dose of the Pfizer vaccine would be \"90% effective\".\n\nBut the World Health Organization (WHO) has said it would not recommend following the UK's decision to delay giving the second Pfizer dose, saying there was no evidence to support the decision.\n\nPfizer has said it has tested the vaccine's efficacy only when the two doses were given up to 21 days apart.\n\nThe Pfizer vaccine was the first to be approved for use in the UK, with more than a million people having already been given the first dose.\n\nThe change to the vaccination strategy has meant health boards have had to change plans and cancel people booked in for their second doses of the Pfizer jabs.\n\nThis includes medics who are among the priority groups for Covid vaccinations.\n\nDr Lewis Morrison, chairman of the British Medical Association's Scottish Council, raised concerns about the logistical impact of changing the vaccination strategy\n\nDr Morrison told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme that some doctors had told him they would have waited for the AstraZeneca jab, which has been proven to work in the longer timetable, if they had known the second Pfizer dose was going to be delayed.\n\nHe said: \"We are concerned because there's clearly disagreement about the effectiveness of the second dose of Pfizer after that period of time.\n\n\"Furthermore I think if you give more people the first dose when you don't know what vaccine supplies are going to be within that 12-week window, that's a worry that has been expressed to me by a lot of doctors.\n\n\"If we give more people the first dose, do we definitely know that the second one is coming?\n\n\"The announcement about this before a four-day NHS holiday weekend left many places with great difficulty in reorganising vaccinations, with a real risk that vaccination numbers might perversely drop because of the organisational issues.\"\n\nOpposition parties want the Scottish government to publish daily figures for how many people have been vaccinated\n\nIt comes as NHS staff were left queueing for hours outside Glasgow Royal Infirmary on Tuesday after an \"scheduling error\" meant vaccination staff did not turn up.\n\nNHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has apologised to those affected and said it was rearranging the appointments.\n\nThe Scottish government has said it aims to have given at least one vaccine dose to everyone over the age of 50 and younger people with underlying health conditions by the start of May.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Tuesday that the timetable could be accelerated if there were sufficient supplies of the jab.\n\nThe Scottish government is being pressured to provide daily figures on the number of people being vaccinated, as the UK government has already pledged to do.\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross said: \"There are now no excuses left for the SNP government to dodge publishing daily vaccination rates alongside the daily infection numbers as soon as possible.\n\n\"The SNP's evasion to try and avoid scrutiny is nothing new but on something so important, the Scottish public must have the same information as will be provided across the UK.\"\n\nHis call was echoed by Scottish Labour health spokeswoman Monica Lennon, who added: \"It is simply unacceptable that scores of NHS staff were left queueing outside in the cold for hours, and well into the evening.\n\n\"It's time for Health Secretary Jeane Freeman to get to grips with the vaccination programme, publish daily figures on the number of vaccinations available and administered, and ensure that our NHS staff do not pay the price of a bungled rollout.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister says schools will be the first places to reopen\n\nThe end of England's lockdown will not happen with a \"big bang\" but will instead be a \"gradual unwrapping\", Boris Johnson has told MPs.\n\nThe prime minister made the comments in the Commons ahead of a retrospective vote later on the lockdown measures.\n\nHe said the legislation runs until 31 March to allow a \"controlled\" easing of restrictions back into local tiers.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the government's decisions \"have led us to the position we're now in\".\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said there were now 30,074 patients with coronavirus in UK hospitals.\n\nAll of the UK is now under strict virus curbs, with Wales, Northern Ireland and most of Scotland also in lockdown.\n\nIt came as the UK reported a further 1,041 people have died with coronavirus, the highest daily death toll since April.\n\nIn a statement to the Commons, Mr Johnson said the new variant had \"led to more cases than we've seen ever before\" and that this had left the government with \"no choice but to return to national lockdown\".\n\nHe said the legislation ran until the end of March \"not because we expect the full national lockdown to continue until then, but to allow a steady, controlled and evidence-led move down through the tiers on a regional basis\".\n\nHe said this would happen \"brick-by-brick... without risking the hard-won gains that protections have given us\".\n\nBut in response to MPs' questions, he said there was a \"cautious presumption\" that restrictions could start being eased from mid-February.\n\n\"And as was the case last spring, our emergence from the lockdown cocoon will be not a big bang but a gradual unwrapping,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We need a plan\", Keir Starmer told MPs while declaring Labour would support new lockdown\n\nUnder the measures, which came into force legally on Wednesday, people in England will only be able to go out for essential reasons, for exercise outdoors only once a day, and outdoor sports venues must close.\n\nPolice have the powers to enforce the new restrictions with a £200 fine for each breach, doubling on every offence up to a maximum of £6,400 - and a £10,000 penalty for mass gatherings.\n\nOfficers in London arrested at least a dozen people in Parliament Square after a protest against the new measures on Wednesday.\n\nThe need to debate and vote on the restrictions means the Commons has been recalled from its Christmas break for the second time - the first being for the post-Brexit trade deal with the EU.\n\nWith Sir Keir saying Labour will support the motion, the measures are expected to pass with ease.\n\nThe restrictions will be kept under \"continuous review\", Mr Johnson added, with a statutory requirement to reconsider them every two weeks.\n\nAddressing the closure of schools, the PM said \"we did everything in our power to keep them open as long as possible\" and that was why schools were the \"very last thing to close\".\n\nThey would be the \"very first thing to reopen\" after lockdown - that could be after the February half term - but \"we must be very cautious\" about the timetable, he said.\n\nMeanwhile, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson told the Commons that GCSEs, A-level and AS-level exams would be cancelled this year in England, replaced by a form of teacher-assessed grades.\n\n\"This year, we're going to put our trust in teachers, rather than algorithms,\" he said, referencing controversy over the way exam grades were awarded to some students last year.\n\nAll national curriculum tests for primary school children, often known as Sats, are now cancelled, Mr Williamson confirmed.\n\nHe said every school will be expected to provide between three and five hours of virtual teaching each day and that 750,000 laptop and tablet devices will have been distributed by the end of next week.\n\nThe prime minister wasted no time in emphasising the \"fundamental difference\" between this and previous lockdowns.\n\nTo keep opposition from his own MPs at bay he needs to demonstrate that the government's aim to vaccinate the most at-risk groups by mid-February is viable.\n\nHe is also under pressure to give a sense of how quickly restrictions might be lifted after that.\n\nThe course of the pandemic has changed swiftly at times, though, and may do so again, so it's unlikely we'll get any firm new timelines from Boris Johnson today.\n\nMost Conservative backbenchers seem resigned to the need for this new national lockdown and agree the prime minister had \"no choice\" but to act.\n\nBut MPs on all sides are impatient to hear how soon things may start returning to something like life as normal at last.\n\nMr Johnson said unlike in March last year, during the first lockdown, vaccines offered \"the means of our escape\".\n\nBut he said there was now a race to vaccinate vulnerable people quickly, with the government setting a target of immunising the four most vulnerable groups - some 13 million people - by mid-February.\n\n\"After the marathon of last year, we are indeed now in a sprint, a race to vaccinate the vulnerable faster than the virus can reach them,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"Every needle in every arm makes a difference.\"\n\nEarlier, Covid vaccine deployment minister Nadhim Zahawi said he was \"confident\" the government would meet its \"ambitious\" target, adding that community pharmacies would be brought in to assist the vaccination programme.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that new daily vaccination figures for the UK - which will be released for the first time on Monday - will show there has been a \"significant increase\" in the number of people who have received the jab.\n\nOn Tuesday, Mr Johnson said 1.3 million people in the UK had been vaccinated so far.\n\nMr Zahawi also said nursery schools presented \"very little risk\", are Covid-safe and he defended the decision to keep them open during England's lockdown.\n\nResponding to the prime minister's statement, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his party will support the new restrictions and urged people to comply with them.\n\n\"The virus is out of control, over a million people in England now have Covid, the number of hospital admissions is rising, tragically so are the numbers of people dying,\" he said.\n\n\"It's only the early days of January and the NHS is under huge strain. In those circumstances, tougher restrictions are necessary.\"\n\nBut he added \"this is not just bad luck, it's not inevitable, it follows a pattern\" of the government being slow to respond.\n\n\"These are the decisions that have led us to the position we're now in - and the vaccine is now the only way out and we must all support the national effort to get it rolled out as quickly as possible.\"\n\nHow have you been affected by Covid? What will lockdown mean for you? Please get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police raided an illegal rave in a railway arch attended by 300 people.\n\nPolice have issued more than £15,000 in fines after 300 people attended an illegal rave in a railway arch.\n\nOfficers raided an unlicensed music event in Nursery Road, Hackney, at 01.30 GMT on Sunday.\n\nMany people fled the scene, while organisers padlocked the doors from the inside to stop officers getting in, police said.\n\nNo arrests were reported, but 78 fines of up to £200 for breaching lockdown restrictions were issued.\n\nA dog unit and helicopter were deployed to the scene, with police saying they made numerous attempts to contact the organisers.\n\nOrganisers padlocked the door from the inside to prevent officers getting in, police said\n\nCh Supt Roy Smith said: \"This was a serious and blatant breach of the public health regulations and the law.\n\n\"Officers were forced, yet again, to put their own health at risk to deal with a large group of incredibly selfish people who were tightly packed together in a confined space - providing an ideal opportunity for this deadly virus to spread.\n\n\"Not just organisers, but all those present at such illegal parties can expect to be issued a fine.\"\n\nOfficers surrounded the property as dozens of guests scaled fences at the rear of the arch to escape\n\nThere is an England-wide lockdown in place which prevents any social mixing between households.\n\nUnder these restrictions people are asked to only leave home for limited reasons such as shopping, going to work, seeking medical assistance or avoiding domestic abuse.\n\nThe Met Police has broken up several large gatherings in London over the last month including a 150-person wedding at a north London school.\n\nTwo officers were injured as police broke up a party involving about 200 people in Kensington on 17 January.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former Brexit Party MEP Robert Rowland was described as a larger than life character\n\nA former Brexit Party MEP has died in a diving accident near his home in the Bahamas.\n\nRobert Rowland, 54, represented the south east of England at the European Parliament from July 2019 until January 2020.\n\nNigel Farage paid tribute to the \"larger than life character\" and \"enthusiastic\" Brexit supporter.\n\nHe announced the death of his former colleague in a statement on Sunday.\n\nThe Royal Bahamas Police Force said it had \"received reports of a drowning incident\" on Saturday and was \"conducting inquires\".\n\nMr Farage said: \"It is with great sadness that I have to announce the death of Robert Rowland, after a diving accident near his home in the Bahamas.\n\n\"Following a successful career in the City, Robert was an enthusiastic Brexit Party MEP and larger than life character.\"\n\nHe said he wished to extend his \"sincerest condolences\" to Mr Rowland's family, including his wife and four children.\n\nFormer Brexit Party MEP David Bull said he was \"beyond devastated,\" adding: \"Robert was a wonderful friend and colleague.\"\n• None Farage's Brexit Party officially changes its name\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon: 'It's right that I am properly scrutinised'\n\nScotland's first minister has insisted she did not mislead parliament about when she learned harassment allegations had been made against her predecessor Alex Salmond.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said \"false conspiracy theories were being spun\" about her involvement by Mr Salmond's supporters.\n\nA Holyrood inquiry into how the government handled the allegations against Mr Salmond is under way.\n\nShe said she expects to give evidence to the inquiry in the coming weeks.\n\nThe BBC's Andrew Marr asked Ms Sturgeon how she responded to Mr Salmond saying that parliament had been repeatedly misled, and that evidence she gave to the inquiry was \"simply\" and \"manifestly untrue\".\n\nMs Sturgeon replied that she would \"refute that vigorously\".\n\nHer interview came after the inquiry announced it would use legal powers to seek documents from the Crown Office.\n\nIn response to Ms Sturgeon's interview, a spokeswoman for Mr Salmond said: \"The evidence, if published, will speak for itself\".\n\nA committee of MSPs is investigating the government's handling of two harassment claims against the former first minister, after he successfully challenged the complaints process in court.\n\nShe said it was right that she was scrutinised and that she had hoped to appear before the committee on Tuesday but that this had been delayed by \"a couple of weeks\".\n\nAsked if Alex Salmond was \"spinning false conspiracy theories\", Nicola Sturgeon said: \"There are false conspiracy theories being spun about this... by Alex Salmond, by people around him - you can draw your own conclusions around that.\"\n\nShe added: \"What I certainly reflect on is that at times I appear to be simultaneously accused of colluding with Mr Salmond to somehow cover up accusations of sexual harassment on the one hand.\n\n\"And then on the other hand, being part of some dastardly conspiracy to bring him down.\n\n\"Neither of those are true.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon added: \"I didn't collude with Alex Salmond and I didn't conspire against him.\"\n\nThe first minister reiterated that Mr Salmond had told her about the allegations during a meeting at her home on 2 April 2018.\n\nHowever, Mr Salmond has insisted that she already knew about the allegations as she had been told about them four days earlier by one of his aides.\n\nNicola Sturgeon has previously acknowledge that she initially \"forgot\" about this meeting.\n\nIn evidence to the Holyrood inquiry which was published in October, she said: \"From what I recall, the discussion [with Mr Salmond's aide] covered the fact that Alex Salmond wanted to see me urgently about a serious matter, and I think it did cover the suggestion that the matter might relate to allegations of a sexual nature.\"\n\nSpeaking to The Andrew Marr Show, she added: \"I, at the time I became aware of all of this, just tried hard not to interfere with what was going on and not to do anything that would see these swept aside rather than properly investigated.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon conceded that the Scottish government had made mistakes in how it handled the allegations.\n\n\"What I will never do is apologise for doing everything I could to make sure that complaints about sexual harassment were investigated, and not simply swept under the carpet because of the seniority and powerful position of the person who was subject to them,\" she added.\n\nLast March, Mr Salmond was cleared of 13 charges of sexual assault at the High Court in Edinburgh.\n\nA spokeswoman for Mr Salmond said: \"The two inquiries under way are into why Nicola Sturgeon's government acted unlawfully.\n\n\"Alex has submitted his evidence as requested and the parliamentary committee is now challenging the Crown Office to produce some of the text messages which they believe are being suppressed.\n\n\"The evidence, if published, will speak for itself\"", "Asos says it is in \"exclusive\" talks to buy Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT brands out of administration.\n\nBut the online retailer said it only wanted the brands, not their shops, suggesting any deal would cost jobs.\n\nThe current owner of the brands, Sir Philip Green's Arcadia Group, fell into administration last November putting 13,000 jobs at risk.\n\nAsos said it was \"a compelling opportunity\" to buy \"strong brands that resonate well with its customer base\".\n\n\"However, at this stage, there can be no certainty of a transaction and Asos will keep shareholders updated as appropriate,\" it added.\n\nLast week, a consortium including fashion chain Next dropped its bid to buy Topshop and Topman because it could not meet the price tag.\n\nOthers interested in some or all of Arcadia - which also owns Dorothy Perkins and Burton - include Mike Ashley's Frasers Group, a consortium including JD Sports, and the online retailer Boohoo.\n\nIn addition, the Issa brothers, who recently bought supermarket chain Asda, and Chinese fast fashion giant Shein are said to have made bids for Topshop.\n\nAsos has seen strong sales in the pandemic and is already one of the biggest wholesalers for Topshop, Topman, Burton and Miss Selfridge.\n\nAdministrators from Deloitte requested that final bids be submitted last Monday, with the auction expected to conclude at the end of January.\n\nSir Philip Green is under pressure to use his own money to plug an estimated £350m hole in Arcadia's pension fund, which has about 10,000 members.\n\nLast year the retail tycoon had an estimated fortune of £930m, according to the Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nArcadia employed about 13,000 people and had 444 shops at the time of its collapse.", "27 of the 29 miners that died in tragedy\n\nThe Pike River mining disaster was a tragedy that shocked the world. Twenty-nine men who were in the New Zealand coal mine died when it collapsed in a series of explosions. The BBC's Phil Mercer covered the accident 10 years ago and has been talking to families of victims still coming to terms with their loss.\n\nThe day after his 17th birthday, Joseph Ray Dunbar began his first shift underground at the Pike River coal mine in New Zealand.\n\nHe was a \"strong-minded boy\" who wanted to carve his own path in life, but on that day in November 2010 he became the youngest victim of a mining disaster that killed 29 men.\n\nTheir bodies have never been recovered, and a decade later the teenager's father Dean is still looking for answers.\n\n\"In a modern society you don't wipe out 29 men and just walk away,\" he told the BBC. \"Joseph's legacy is righting the wrongs of the past whether it be by government agencies, police or politicians.\"\n\nJoseph Dunbar was the youngest among the victims\n\nIn 2012, a Royal Commission found the miners and contractors were exposed to \"unacceptable risk\" and that \"there were numerous warnings of a potential catastrophe at Pike River,\" but there have been no prosecutions.\n\nThe inquiry concluded the men \"died immediately, or shortly afterwards\" from a methane gas blast or the \"toxic atmosphere\". Two workers did manage to escape the blast and survived.\n\nNews of an accident at the mine in the Paparoa Ranges began to emerge in the middle of the afternoon on Friday, 19 November, 2010.\n\nFamily members soon gathered, and in the hours and days that followed, there was hope that the men might still be alive, although the authorities said a rescue mission was too dangerous. A nation prayed for another mining miracle.\n\nOn the right, the tags of the 29 miners who never made it out\n\nA few months earlier, 33 miners in Chile's Atacama Desert had been pulled out alive after being trapped underground for 69 days.\n\n\"That was totally on my mind the whole time,\" explained Anna Osborne, whose husband, Milton, died at Pike River.\n\n\"I saw how successfully those Chilean miners were rescued and I thought if they can all come out alive, it can happen to us. But little did I know that that mine (in Chile) wasn't a gassy one.\"\n\nFor five long days the families waited. As a reporter sent to cover the story at the time, it was excruciating for me to watch their anguish and frustration grow.\n\nThere would be no rescue, and on 24 November another explosion ripped through the mine, and all hope was gone.\n\nFire at the entrance to the mine\n\nMs Osborne told the BBC that she is \"still fighting to get the truth and still wondering why our guys were allowed underground when the mine was so volatile (and) was a ticking time bomb.\"\n\nNot all of the families want the men's remains to be recovered, but she said it would be a great comfort to bring her husband home.\n\n\"He was working in the south (part of the mine), which was flooded. My husband couldn't swim, so he hated the water and I close my eyes every night and visualise him floating in this water that he hated so much and I just thought I can't have him down there. If we can, I would like as many men to be retrieved,\" she added.\n\nI close my eyes every night and visualise him floating in this water\n\nThe Pike River Recovery Agency is a government department that has re-entered the so-called drift, a 2.3km (1.4 miles) tunnel that connects the entrance of the mine to the working areas and coal seams.\n\nIt is looking for clues that might help explain the explosions and to \"help prevent future mining tragedies.\" Re-entering the mine was delayed by safety concerns.\n\nThe end of the drift is blocked by a huge mass of fallen rock. This roof collapse was caused by the ignition of methane, and there are no plans for the agency to move further into the mine where most, if not all, of the bodies remain.\n\nRecovery teams only made it into an initial tunnel but not the mine proper\n\n\"The Agency's mandate from the government did not include recovering beyond the drift access tunnel,\" said a PRRA spokesperson. \"It remains less likely that we will recover human remains.\"\n\n\"That rockfall is impenetrable,\" said Tony Kokshoorn, the former mayor of the local Grey District. \"The 29 miners are in the coal mine proper. At least they are all together and that is their final resting place.\"\n\n\"Many of the families want them to be together in there because it would have been pretty tough on a lot of families if some had come out and the others couldn't come out.\"\n\nThe police inquiry into the disaster is continuing, with a spokesperson saying they \"remain committed to a full and thorough investigation into events\" and will everything they can to \"provide answers\".\n\nThe grief was felt far beyond New Zealand's rugged West Coast by bereaved families in Australia, Scotland and South Africa.\n\nThe mine will almost certainly never reopen, but Bernie Monk, whose 23-year old son Michael died in the disaster, wants one, final push to bring the men out.\n\n\"The times that I went up to the mine portal with anniversaries, I swore and declared and I looked down that tunnel, and I said to them, 'we're coming to get you guys out'. It was an emotional day for me when I first went down into the mine,\" he said.\n\n\"We're are only 50 to 100 metres away from them. I think we've got a right to go and get those men,\" Mr Monk told the BBC.\n\nOut of tragedy comes pain, anger and calls for accountability and change. It is 10 years since Anna Osborne's husband, affectionately known as Milt, never came home, and she continues to agitate for stronger health and safety laws, and for employers to be prosecuted when things go wrong.\n\n\"We have had 700 people lose their lives in workplace accidents since Pike River. That is like a Pike River every five months in New Zealand,\" she said.\n\nBut above all else there is a sadness that may never fade.\n\n\"I love him so much. It still hurts. It is still very, very raw.\"", "National Museum of the Royal New Zealand Navy Philip Gannaway (left) on the SS Demosthenes in 1916, when it was being used as a troop ship\n\nAn appeal has been made to trace the family of a sailor from New Zealand buried more than a century ago on an island off Anglesey.\n\nLt Philip Gannaway had recently married his wife Muriel when he enlisted during World War One.\n\nHe joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, serving on motor launches on the Menai Strait.\n\nBut he died aged 32 during the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918, and is buried on Church Island in the strait.\n\nLocal historian Bridget Geoghegan says she has already had responses following a story about Lt Gannaway on the New Zealand news website Stuff.\n\nHowever, she is still waiting to hear from his direct relatives.\n\n\"I have met family members of some people I have researched, and that is always a delight - a bonus,\" she said.\n\nThe grave notes Lt Gannaway's military service with the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve\n\nLt Gannaway's funeral took place on 9 November 1918 with full naval honours, just two days before the armistice that brought fighting to an end.\n\nNewspaper reports found by Ms Geoghegan said more than 200 men and officers joined the procession, with shipyard work pausing as a mark of respect.\n\n\"I found he had married his sweetheart not long before volunteering and coming over to UK,\" she said.\n\n\"It seemed like a bitter end to a love story.\"\n\nHe is buried at St Tysilio's on Church Island, which is linked to the rest of Anglesey by a short causeway.\n\nThe Australian and New Zealander are both remembered on the war memorial\n\nBut Lt Gannaway is not the only man on the island buried so far from home.\n\nRemembered alongside him on the war memorial is William Connington, a 23-year-old corporal in the Australian Flying Corps who died with flu in Buckinghamshire.\n\n\"Connington had family in the area - his father must have emigrated to Australia,\" Ms Geoghegan said.\n\n\"His aunt and cousin lived in Menai Bridge. I think it likely that he had been up to stay with the family and when he died his aunt brought him back to Menai Bridge from Aylesbury so that he would be buried amongst friends.\"\n\nSt Tysilio's sits on Church Island in the Menai Strait\n\nFor several years Ms Geoghegan has joined others in researching and commemorating the people named on local war memorials and graves.\n\nBefore the latest lockdown restrictions, she created a walk for Church Island with the stories behind the names.\n\n\"I devised a walk round St Tysilio to include the graves of those lost and the family commemorations for their loved-ones buried elsewhere or lost at sea - the pain is almost palpable,\" she said.\n\nThe inscription from Lt Gannaway's parents to their \"beloved son\" reads simply: \"In peace he lived, in peace he died\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Supporters of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny protest against his arrest across Russia\n\nRussian police have detained more than 3,000 people in a crackdown on protests in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, monitors say.\n\nTens of thousands of people defied a heavy police presence to join some of the largest rallies against President Vladimir Putin in years.\n\nIn Moscow, riot police were seen beating and dragging away protesters.\n\nMr Navalny, President Putin's most high-profile critic, called for protests after his arrest last Sunday.\n\nHe was detained after he flew back to Moscow from Berlin, where he had been recovering from a near-fatal nerve agent attack in Russia last August.\n\nOn his return, he was immediately taken into custody and found guilty of violating parole conditions. He says it is a trumped-up case designed to silence him.\n\nOVD Info, an independent NGO that monitors rallies, said about 3,100 people had been detained, more than 1,200 of them in Moscow alone. The Kremlin has not commented.\n\nThe unauthorised demonstrations were held in about 100 cities and towns from Russia's Far East and Siberia to Moscow and St Petersburg. Protesters ranged from teenage students to elderly people who demanded Mr Navalny's release.\n\nAt least 40,000 people joined a rally in central Moscow, Reuters news agency estimated. But Russia's interior ministry put the number of protesters at 4,000.\n\nObservers say the scale of the demonstrations across the country was unprecedented while the protest in the capital was the largest in almost a decade.\n\nRiot police used batons against protesters in Moscow\n\nIn the city's Pushkin square, some protesters chanted \"Freedom to Navalny\" and \"Putin go away!\" One woman told the BBC she had decided to join the demonstration because \"Russia has been turned into a prison camp\".\n\nSergei Radchenko, a 53-year-old protester in Moscow, told Reuters: \"I'm tired of being afraid. I haven't just turned up for myself and Navalny, but for my son because there is no future in this country.\"\n\nLyubov Sobol, a prominent aide of Mr Navalny who had already been fined for urging Russians to join the protests, tweeted a video of police roughly pulling her away from an interview with reporters.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Соболь Любовь This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Navalny's wife, Yulia, was briefly held at the rally. She posted an image on her Instagram account with the caption: \"Apologies for the poor quality. Very bad light in the police van.\"\n\nSome protesters marched on the high-security prison where Mr Navalny is being held, and many were arrested.\n\nMeanwhile, one independent news source, Sota, said at least 3,000 people had joined a demonstration in the city of Vladivostok, but local authorities there put the figure at 500.\n\nAFP footage showed riot police running into a crowd, and beating some of the protesters with batons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police used batons to break up protests in Vladivostok\n\nIn the Siberian city of Yakutsk, attendees at a small protest saw temperatures dip as low as -50C (-58F).\n\nPrior to the rallies, Russian authorities had promised a tough crackdown. Several of Mr Navalny's close aides, including his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh, were arrested earlier in the week.\n\nHis supporters called for more protests next weekend.\n\nThere were reports of disruption to mobile phone and internet coverage on Saturday, though it is not known if this was related to the protests.\n\nThe social media app TikTok had been flooded with videos promoting the demonstrations and sharing viral messages about Mr Navalny.\n\nIn response, Russia's official media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, demanded that TikTok take down any information \"encouraging minors to act illegally\", threatening large fines. The education ministry had told parents not to allow their children to attend any demonstrations.\n\nProtesters ignored extreme cold and threats of arrest in Moscow and other cities and towns\n\nIn a push to gain support ahead of the protests, Mr Navalny's team released a video about a luxury Black Sea resort that they allege belongs to President Putin - an accusation denied by the Kremlin. The video has been watched by more than 65 million people.\n\nThe UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, condemned the \"use of violence against peaceful protesters and journalists\" on Saturday, calling on the authorities to release those detained during peaceful demonstrations.\n\nThe US state department condemned what it called \"harsh tactics\" used against protesters and journalists, saying: \"We call on Russian authorities to release all those detained for exercising their universal rights and for the immediate and unconditional release of Aleksey Navalny\".\n\nThe EU foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said the bloc's foreign ministers would discuss the Russian crackdown on Monday. \"I deplore widespread detentions, disproportionate use of force, cutting down internet and phone connections.\"", "British employers made plans to cut 795,000 jobs last year, a record number, as Covid lockdowns took their toll on the economy.\n\nMore than 10,000 firms planned job cuts, however the pace of planned cuts slowed at the end of the year.\n\nWithout the government's furlough scheme, designed to protect jobs, the numbers might have been higher still.\n\nThe figures were obtained in response to a BBC Freedom of Information request to the Insolvency Service.\n\nEmployers must notify the Insolvency Service when they plan to cut 20 or more jobs, giving an earlier indication of changes in the labour market than waiting for official joblessness statistics.\n\nLarge parts of the British economy were brought to a standstill for weeks on end during 2020 by the measures imposed to contain Covid-19, and many employers were forced to cut staff as a result.\n\nThe number of job cuts proposed through the year was well above the 530,000 seen the last time the UK was in recession, in 2010, and higher than any year in the records which go back to 2006.\n\nHowever, in recent months the pace of layoffs has slowed, even though the new Covid variant has seen surging case numbers and new lockdowns imposed across the UK.\n\nLast month employers notified government of plans to cut 23,100 job cuts, which is the lowest monthly figure for 2020, though still a third higher than December 2019.\n\nThe decision to extend the furlough scheme, where government pays most of a worker's wages if their employer can't, will have enabled more firms to keep their staff, believes Tony Wilson, Director of the Institute for Employment Studies.\n\n\"The question now though is where redundancy figures go next,\" he says.\n\n\"If they start to stabilise around these levels, then [job cuts] would be at least one third higher than what we've seen over most of the last decade, and it's possible that a combination of this lockdown and then furlough unwinding from May could see numbers creeping up.\"\n\nDespite that, Mr Wilson sees the situation as \"pretty positive\".\n\nEmployers planning to cut 20 or more staff have to notify the Insolvency Service of their plans at the start of the process.\n\nThese notifications give an earlier indication of the state of the labour market than data published by the Office for National Statistics, which appear with a time lag of a few months.\n\nInsolvency Service figures showed record levels in redundancies in June and July, which was confirmed when the ONS published its own figures three months later.\n\nThe latest figures, for the period from August to October, saw a new record of 370,000 redundancies across the UK.\n\nAs redundancy processes covering fewer than 20 workers aren't included, the total number of job cuts planned will be higher than the Insolvency Service totals.\n\nBut individual firms often make fewer cuts than the number they first propose to government.\n\nEmployers in Northern Ireland file HR1 forms with the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency and they are not included in these figures.", "Boohoo is set to buy the Debenhams brand and website, the BBC understands.\n\nHowever, the fast fashion retailer will not be taking on any of the company's remaining 118 High Street stores or its workforce.\n\nThe announcement could come as early as Monday morning.\n\nThe 242-year-old chain is already in the process of closing down, after administrators failed to secure a rescue deal for the business, with the likely loss of 12,000 jobs.\n\nA closing down sale at 124 Debenhams stores began in December, as administrators continued to seek offers for all, or parts of the business.\n\nIn the last week or so, the company announced that six shops would not reopen after lockdown, including its flagship department store on London's Oxford Street.\n\nBoohoo has already bought a number of High Street brands out of administration. It snapped up Oasis, Coast and Karen Millen, but not the associated stores.\n\nDebenhams has struggled for years with falling profits and rising debts, as more shopping has moved online. It called in administrators twice in two years, most recently in April.\n\nMike Ashley has bought other struggling businesses including House of Fraser and Evans Cycles\n\nHowever, its position became untenable during the coronavirus pandemic as non-essential retailers were forced to close for prolonged periods.\n\nThe firm had already trimmed its store portfolio and cut about 6,500 jobs since May, as it struggled to stay afloat.\n\nBusinessman Mike Ashley, who founded Sports Direct and also owns House of Fraser, had already made an offer for Debenhams after it was initially put up for sale in April.\n\nHowever the takeover offer, thought to be in the region of £125m, was rejected as being too low, leaving JD Sports as the last remaining bidder.\n\nMr Ashley had previously built up a 29% stake in the chain, but saw his £150m holding wiped out in 2019, when the company fell into administration and then ended up in the hands of its lenders - a consortium led by hedge fund Silverpoint.\n\nIn early December, the Frasers Group confirmed that it was working on a possible last minute rescue of Debenhams.\n\nThe announcement came five days after staff were informed and liquidators moved in to Debenhams' stores to start clearing stock, after a potential rescue deal with JD Sports fell through.\n\nBut Frasers said there was \"no certainty\" it could save the chain.\n\nOne of the biggest issues, it said, was the collapse into administration last week of another High Street giant, Arcadia, which is the biggest concession holder in Debenhams department stores.", "The UK has identified 77 cases of the coronavirus variant first detected in South Africa, the health secretary has said.\n\nCases are linked to travellers arriving in the UK, rather than community transmission, Matt Hancock added.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Marr cases were under \"very close\" observation and enhanced contact tracing was under way.\n\nMinisters are due to meet on Monday to consider imposing tougher restrictions on people arriving from abroad.\n\nScientists have said there is a chance the South African variant may harm the effectiveness of current vaccines.\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Hancock said that \"three quarters of all the 80-year-olds in the country and a similar number of care homes\" have received their first doses of the vaccine.\n\nBoth the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses, and figures so far reflect those given the first dose.\n\nMr Hancock said that it was \"far too early to say\" what proportion of the population needed to be vaccinated before lockdown restrictions could be eased.\n\nAll viruses, including the one that causes Covid-19, mutate, and variants have been first located in the UK, South Africa and Brazil.\n\nThe South Africa variant has been found in at least 20 other countries, including the UK.\n\nMr Hancock said that all the South Africa variant cases in the UK were linked to travel.\n\n\"That's why we have got such stringent border measures in place against movement from South Africa,\" he added.\n\nThe UK closed all travel corridors last week until at least 15 February, with almost all travellers arriving in the country now required to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test to be allowed entry.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has not ruled out bringing in tougher measures at UK borders, telling a Downing Street news conference on Friday: \"We don't want to put that (efforts to control Covid) at risk by having a new variant come back in.\"\n\nMinisters are set to discuss whether to tighten border restrictions further, including the possibility of hotel quarantines for travellers.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"We have got to be cautious at the borders.\"\n\nAsked for a date on when lockdown restrictions might end, Mr Hancock said it was \"one of the many things that we don't yet know the answer to\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matt Hancock on easing restrictions: \"We don't know the answer\"\n\nGovernment data on 14 January showed there were 35 confirmed cases of the South Africa variant identified in the UK, and a further 12 \"probable\" cases.\n\nMr Hancock said nine cases of the Brazil variant had been found in the UK, adding \"we are monitoring each and every one very closely\".\n\nShadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that Labour had been \"pushing the government to take tougher measures at the border since last spring\".\n\nShe said: \"We would fully expect the government to bring in tougher quarantine measures, we would expect them to roll out a proper testing strategy and we would expect them as well to start checking up on the people who are quarantining.\n\n\"Only three out of every hundred people who are asked to quarantine when they arrive into the UK actually face any checks at all - that's just simply not sufficient.\"\n\nOn Friday, Mr Johnson said there was \"some evidence\" the UK variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nThe UK government's chief scientific officer, Sir Patrick Vallance, said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nThe PM said on Friday that there was evidence that both the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine and Oxford-AstraZeneca jab were effective against the variant first detected in the UK.\n\nSir Patrick has warned that the variants in South Africa and Brazil might \"have certain features which means they might be less susceptible to vaccines\".\n\nBut he said \"there is no evidence\" that the two variants have transmission advantages over those already in the UK and so having cases here doesn't mean \"they will take off\".\n\nMeanwhile, England's deputy chief medical officer warned that people who have received a Covid-19 vaccine could still pass the virus on to others and should continue following lockdown rules.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam stressed that scientists \"do not yet know the impact of the vaccine on transmission\".\n\nHe said vaccines offer \"hope\" but infection rates must come down quickly.\n\nIt's a key question but the fact is that no one can be sure.\n\nThat's because the trials of the vaccines explored the safety of the drugs and how well they prevent people from becoming ill - with good results for both.\n\nBut they did not investigate whether vaccination also stops infection and therefore whether people who've been immunised can still spread the virus to others.\n\nIf a vaccinated person did become infected, they probably wouldn't realise because they wouldn't have any symptoms. That's why health officials and ministers are so concerned.\n\nIt's possible that the antibodies boosted by the vaccine suppress the effects of the virus but don't eliminate it from the upper airway.\n\nMany scientists are cautiously hopeful that in this scenario, the amount of virus would be reduced but they're waiting for the results of studies under way now.\n\nAnd until there's an answer, it's difficult to calculate how and when it's safe to ease restrictions and allow people to mix again.\n\nA further 610 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Sunday - down from 671 deaths last Sunday - in addition to 30,004 new infections.\n\nThe number of positive cases has fallen for the fourth day in a row and is the lowest figure since before Christmas.\n\nThe death figures tend to be lower on a Sunday and Monday because of weekend lags in reporting of the data.\n\nMeanwhile, more than six million people have had their first dose of a Covid vaccine - with the figure now standing at 6,353,321.\n\nNadhim Zahawi, the minister responsible for the vaccine rollout, said on Twitter that 6,353,321 of the \"most vulnerable and frontline heroes\" had received a first dose of the vaccine, but there was still \"much more to do\".\n\nThere were 4,076 Covid patients in mechanical ventilation beds in UK hospitals as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.", "Simon Spurrell (C) from the Cheshire Cheese Company says he was advised to set up an EU hub\n\nUK firms that export to the EU say they are being encouraged by the government to set up subsidiaries in the bloc to avoid disruption under new trade rules.\n\nFirms have been hit by extra charges, taxes and paperwork, leading some to stop exporting to the EU altogether.\n\nBut several say they have been told that setting up hubs in Europe would minimise the disruption, even if it means moving investment out of the UK.\n\nThe Department for International Trade said it was \"not government policy\".\n\n\"The Cabinet Office have issued clear guidance, available at www.gov.uk/transition, and we encourage all businesses to follow that guidance.\"\n\nThe Cheshire Cheese Company said it had been advised by an official to set up in the EU after it was forced to stop its exports to the bloc due to trade rules that came in on 1 January.\n\nThe firm, which sold £180,000 of cheese to the EU last year, found that every £25-30 gift box of cheese it sends to consumers on the Continent now needs a veterinary-approved health certificate costing £180.\n\n\"I spoke to someone at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs for advice. They told me setting up a fulfilment centre in the EU where we could pack the boxes was my only solution,\" co-founder Simon Spurrell told the BBC.\n\nThe firm, which had been optimistic about Brexit, is now looking at setting up a hub in France where it would \"test the water\".\n\nBut it has also scrapped plans to build a new £1m warehouse in Macclesfield employing 20-30 people.\n\n\"Instead we might end up employing French workers and paying tax to the EU,\" Mr Spurrell said.\n\n\"I left the EU as a UK citizen but now they are suggesting I rejoin my company to the EU, so what was Brexit for?\"\n\nThe issue, he said, was that the under the post-Brexit trade deal, a vet must approve every consignment of fresh food that his company ships to the EU.\n\nIt is a complex and costly process that has hit exporters of fresh meat and fish as well, and was partly why the government set up a £23m support fund for UK fishing companies.\n\nUK retailers who export to the EU have also complained about being hit with unsustainable costs when customers in the bloc return goods bought online. This is due to new customs clearance charges incurred by shipping firms.\n\nSome retailers have even warned they could burn clothes stuck at borders as it is cheaper than bringing them home.\n\nUlla Vitting Richards, who runs her sustainable fashion brand Vildnis from the UK, told the BBC last week she had stopped exporting to the EU, which was her fastest growing market, because of the new processes.\n\nShe also said that she had been advised - this time by a Department for International Trade (DIT) representative - that setting up a subsidiary distribution hub might help.\n\n\"He told me we'd be best off moving stock to a warehouse in Germany and get them to handle it,\" she said.\n\nAs early as last October, trade consultants Blick Rothenberg warned that thousands of UK businesses might need to set up an EU presence in order to keep exporting to European markets.\n\nHowever, experts say EU firms exporting to the UK - which currently enjoy a grace period over the imposition of some rules - will soon face the same issues.\n\nIndeed, some EU exporters have already stopped deliveries to the UK because of new VAT related charges.\n\nThe DIT said it was not government policy to advise UK firms to set up EU hubs and that it was \"ensuring all officials are properly conveying\" the right information.", "Scientists say signs a new coronavirus variant is more deadly than the earlier version should not be a \"game changer\" in the UK's response to the pandemic.\n\nBoris Johnson has said there is \"some evidence\" the variant may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nBut the co-author of the study the PM was referring to said the variant's deadliness remained an \"open question\".\n\nAnother adviser said he was surprised Mr Johnson had shared the findings when the data was \"not particularly strong\".\n\nA third top medic said it was \"too early\" to be \"absolutely clear\".\n\nAt a Downing Street coronavirus news conference on Friday, the prime minister said: \"In addition to spreading more quickly, it also now appears that there is some evidence that the new variant - the variant that was first identified in London and the South East - may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.\"\n\nSpeaking alongside the PM, the government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said there was \"a lot of uncertainty around these numbers\" but that early evidence suggested the variant could be about 30% more deadly.\n\nFor example, Sir Patrick said if 1,000 men in their 60s were infected with the old variant, roughly 10 of them would be expected to die - but this rises to about 13 with the new variant.\n\nThe announcement followed a briefing by scientists on the government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag) which concluded there was a \"realistic possibility\" that the variant was associated with an increased risk of death.\n\nBut one of the briefing's co-authors, Prof Graham Medley, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The question about whether it is more dangerous in terms of mortality I think is still open.\"\n\n\"In terms of making the situation worse it is not a game changer. It is a very bad thing that is slightly worse,\" added Prof Medley, who is a professor of infectious disease modelling at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.\n\nAnother 1,348 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Saturday, in addition to 33,552 new infections, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nThere is huge uncertainty in the evidence on how lethal the variant is.\n\nThe scientific experts that reviewed the data used a precise phrase saying it was a \"realistic possibility\" the new variant is more deadly.\n\nThat means there's a roughly 50-50 chance it will turn out to be true.\n\nWith time, and sadly more deaths, the picture will become clearer.\n\nWhile people debate the uncertainties though, we already know this variant has the ability to kill more people than the old ones.\n\nA virus that spreads faster (this one is 30-70% faster) will infect more people, more quickly, putting a greater strain on hospitals and leading to a sharper spike in deaths.\n\nIt is why viruses becoming more transmissible can be a bigger problem than ones becoming more deadly.\n\nNervtag's chairman Prof Peter Horby defended the government's \"transparency\" in making the announcement.\n\n\"Scientists are looking at the possibility that there is increased severity... and after a week of looking at the data we came to the conclusion that it was a realistic possibility,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to be transparent about that. If we were not telling people about this we would be accused of covering it up.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Patrick Vallance: \"There is evidence that there's an increased risk for those who have the new variant\"\n\nBut Dr Mike Tildesley, a member of Sage subgroup the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M), agreed it was too early to draw \"strong conclusions\" as the suggested increased mortality rates were based on \"a relatively small amount of data\".\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast he was \"actually quite surprised\" Mr Johnson had made the early findings public rather than monitoring the data \"for a week or two more\".\n\n\"I just worry that where we report things pre-emptively where the data are not really particularly strong,\" Dr Tildesley added.\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle also said it was not \"absolutely clear\" the new variant was more deadly than the original.\n\n\"There is some evidence, but it is very early evidence. It is small numbers of cases and it is far too early to say,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nMeanwhile, senior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe British Medical Association told Prof Chris Whitty an extension to the maximum gap between jab from three weeks to 12 weeks, to get the first dose to more people, was \"difficult to justify\".", "The number of coronavirus patients on mechanical ventilation in the UK has passed 4,000 for the first time in the pandemic.\n\nA total of 4,076 Covid patients were in ventilator beds as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.\n\nIt comes as another 1,348 deaths and 33,552 new infections were reported on Saturday.\n\nThe UK's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, told a Downing Street news briefing on Friday: \"The death rate's awful and it's going to stay, I'm afraid, high for a little while before it starts coming down.\"\n\nMeanwhile, new figures show that a record number of seriously-ill Covid patients are being transferred from over-stretched hospitals because of a lack of bed space.\n\nAbout 1 in 10 patients admitted to intensive care are being sent to a different site, according to the body which audits critical care services.\n\nIn a series of reports in the past week, the BBC's Clive Myrie has been to a mortuary and the Royal London Hospital, where 12 out of 15 floors are occupied by Covid patients and staff are struggling to cope.\n\nMartin Freeborn's wife Helen, 64, died with Covid-19 at the hospital shortly before he spoke to the BBC.\n\nMr Freeborn urged people to \"be over-careful\" in taking precautions to stay safe from the virus because \"you don't want this to happen\".\n\n\"Nobody wants to go through this... Don't end up like us, please,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Martin Freeborn's wife, Helen, died from Covid at the Royal London Hospital: 'Don't end up like us, please'\n\nThe number of people in mechanical ventilation beds has climbed every day since 18 December when it was 1,364 and now stands at 4,076.\n\nIt is one of the key figures the government considers when deciding its policy on when to ease coronavirus lockdown restrictions.\n\nWhen the pandemic first struck the UK, the government saw what had happened in hospitals in China and Italy and prioritised the provision of ventilators in British hospitals.\n\nIt set about buying as many ventilators as possible, and encouraged British manufacturers to design the machines to build stocks to cope with the worst-case Covid scenario. In September last year, a report found the NHS now had 30,000 ventilators available - about one for every 2,200 people in the UK.\n\nPeople in hospital are also being treated differently from the early days of the pandemic - which may explain why figures suggest slightly more people go on to recover after being on ventilation than back in March, April and May.\n\nA number of drugs are being tested as possible treatments for people with the disease, the BBC's health and science correspondent James Gallagher has said.\n\nThey include the steroid dexamethasone, which has been shown to reduce the risk of death by a third for ventilated patients and by a fifth for those on oxygen. Encouraging results have also been reported from two anti-inflammatory medications, tocilizumab and sarilumab.\n\nDr Ami Jones, intensive care consultant at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, in Wales, said there had been \"carnage\" for the \"last few weeks\".\n\nSpeaking whilst on shift, she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We're maybe at 150% capacity and I know London are much worse than that.\n\n\"We've a steady stream of fit, young patients requiring critical care and sadly we're losing some of those patients.\n\n\"We lost a patient overnight and I've replaced them with a patient of similar age.\n\n\"It's heartbreaking - and it's been going on for weeks and weeks and we haven't seen any kind of stop yet.\"\n\nDr Jones said the average Covid patient stays in hospital between two to four weeks \"and it really puts them through it\".\n\nShe added: \"You really want people who are going to be able to survive that three or four weeks and actually come out the other end and make a good recovery.\n\n\"We're not stopping people having care but we're giving it to the people we feel have the best chance of getting through what is a horrific situation we're going to put them through.\"\n\nDr Jones said nurses are \"broken\", both physically, from months of long shifts in personal protective equipment (PPE), and emotionally - partly due to the impact of the virus on them, their families and the community.\n\nDr Rupert Pearse, consultant in intensive care medicine at a London hospital, speaking on behalf of the Intensive Care Society, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that a \"huge number\" of patients were still attending hospital.\n\nHe said: \"Whilst we know the infection rate has probably now peaked, and we can be hopeful to soon be sure we've hit a hospital admissions peak, admissions to ICU [the intensive care unit] usually lag 48 hours behind that.\n\n\"So we're still very very worried that we're being pushed right up to the wire in terms of the resources we're able to deliver for patient care.\"\n\nDr Pearse added that there were three or four times more critical care beds in some hospitals than they would usually have.\n\nHe said: \"I can remember a time when it would take years for an intensive care unit to negotiate one extra bed on a complement of 14 or 15 beds.\n\n\"We, within a few weeks, have massively increased the number of beds and finding the staff - most importantly of all - to deliver that has been a huge logistical exercise.\"\n\nReacting to the ventilation figures, Dr Charlotte Hopkins, deputy chief medical officer for Barts Health NHS trust in east London, said on Twitter there had been a \"fast-paced increase\" since 18 December, and that more than a third of the 4,076 ventilated patients were in London.\n\nIt comes as some scientists said that signs a new Covid variant is more deadly than the earlier version should not be a \"game changer\" in the UK's response to the pandemic.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday that there was \"some evidence\" the variant that emerged in the UK may be associated with \"a higher degree of mortality\".\n\nBut Prof Graham Medley, the co-author of the study the PM was referring to, said the variant's deadliness remained an \"open\" question.\n\nDr Mike Tildesley, a member of Sage subgroup the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M), said he was \"surprised\" Mr Johnson had shared the findings when the data was \"not particularly strong\".\n\nPublic Health England medical director Dr Yvonne Doyle said it was \"too early\" to be \"absolutely clear\".\n\n\"There is some evidence, but it is very early evidence. It is small numbers of cases and it is far too early to say,\" she told the Today programme.\n\nUp to and including 22 January, 5,861,351 people have now had their first Covid jab and 468,617 have had their second dose.\n\nSenior doctors are calling on England's chief medical officer to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nThe British Medical Association told Prof Chris Whitty an extension to the maximum gap between jab from three weeks to 12 weeks, to get the first dose to more people, was \"difficult to justify\".\n\nThe UK's four chief medical officers have previously defended the delay to the second jab in a letter to medical staff, saying: \"unvaccinated people are far more likely to end up severely ill, hospitalised [or] in some cases dying\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video filmed in Tacoma, Washington, shows a police car apparently ploughing through a crowd of people\n\nA police officer is under investigation in the US after his vehicle ploughed into a group of people, running over at least one, in Tacoma, Washington.\n\nNobody was killed in the incident, although one person was rushed to hospital with injuries.\n\nA video shows a large group of people surrounding the police car as it revs its engine in an apparent effort to drive off.\n\nThe group refuses to move, and police say people started hitting the car.\n\nThe police officer then speeds through the group, hitting numerous people. One person is dragged under the car.\n\nTacoma Police Department said multiple vehicles and approximately 100 people were blocking an intersection when officers arrived on the scene. The group was apparently watching street racers doing \"burnouts\".\n\n\"During the operation, a responding Tacoma police vehicle was surrounded by the crowd. People hit the body of the police vehicle and its windows as the officer was stopped in the street,\" police said in a statement.\n\n\"The officer, fearing for his safety, tried to back up, but was unable to do so because of the crowd,\" it said.\n\n\"While trying to extricate himself from an unsafe position, the officer drove forward striking one individual and may have impacted others,\" it said.\n\nThe person who was run over was rushed to hospital. Their condition is as yet unclear.\n\nThe Pierce County Force Investigation Team is investigating the incident, the statement said. The police officer has not been identified.\n\n\"I am concerned that our department is experiencing another use of deadly force incident,\" Interim Police Chief Mike Ake said in the statement.\n\n\"I send my thoughts to anyone who was injured in tonight's event, and am committed to our department's full co-operation in the independent investigation and to assess the actions of the department's response during the incident.\"\n\nThe incident comes at a time of rising anger over the use of excessive force by police in the US.\n\nPeople across the world took to the streets last year to demonstrate their anger at the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis, and to demand an end to police brutality and what they see as systemic racism.", "It is hoped that vaccinating teenagers will allow them to sit exams\n\nIsrael has started vaccinating 16 to 18-year-olds against Covid-19, in an effort to enable them to sit exams.\n\nMore than a quarter of Israel's population of nine million have received at least one dose of the Pfizer vaccine since 19 December, its health ministry says.\n\nIt started with the elderly and others at high risk, but people aged 40 and over can also now get the jab.\n\nIsrael hopes to start reopening its economy in February.\n\nThe inclusion of 16 to 18-year-olds - with parental permission - is meant \"to enable their return (to school) and the orderly holding of exams\", an education ministry spokeswoman said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe matriculation exams that Israeli students sit at the end of high school play an important role in deciding where they will go to university. Their results can also affect their placement in the military, where many young Israelis do compulsory service.\n\nThe education ministry has said it is too early to say whether schools will reopen next month.\n\nIsrael started its rapid vaccination drive - the fastest in the world - on 19 December, reaching 10% of its population by the end of 2020.\n\nIsrael has recorded more than 596,000 cases and 4,392 deaths with Covid-19, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University.\n\nOn Sunday, the government said it would ban passenger flights in and out of the country from Monday night for the rest of January, in an effort to halt the spread of new virus variants.\n\n\"Other than rare exceptions, we are closing the sky hermetically to prevent the entry of the virus variants and also to ensure that we progress quickly with our vaccination campaign,\" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.\n\nForeigners have largely been blocked from entering Israel during the pandemic.", "The Department for Transport said \"smart motorways are as safe as, or safer than, the conventional ones\"\n\nA police and crime commissioner (PCC) has written to the government to say smart motorways are \"inherently unsafe and dangerous and should be abandoned\".\n\nSouth Yorkshire PCC Dr Alan Billings wrote his open letter to Grant Shapps, the Secretary of State for Transport.\n\nHis comments come after a coroner found two men had been unlawfully killed on a \"smart\" section of the M1.\n\nThe Department for Transport said \"smart motorways are as safe as, or safer than, the conventional ones\".\n\nOn 19 January coroner David Urpeth called for a review of the road schemes.\n\nMr Urpeth said smart motorways without a hard shoulder carry \"an ongoing risk of future deaths\".\n\nHe was speaking following the inquests for Jason Mercer, 44, from Rotherham and Alexandru Murgeanu, 22, of Mansfield, who died when a lorry crashed into their vehicles near Sheffield on 7 June 2019.\n\nNow Labour's Dr Billings has told Grant Shapps: \"I believe smart motorways of this kind - where what would be a hard shoulder is a live lane with occasional refuges - are inherently unsafe and dangerous and should be abandoned.\n\n\"The relevant test for us is whether someone who breaks down on this stretch of the motorway, where there is no hard shoulder, would have had a better chance of escaping death or injury had there still been a hard shoulder - and the coroner's verdict makes it clear that the answer to that question is - Yes.\"\n\nAlexandru Murgeanu (l) and Jason Mercer were killed in the crash on the M1 in South Yorkshire\n\nJason Mercer's widow, Claire, had previously told Nicky Campbell on BBC Radio 5Live she considered a government review of the smart motorway system \"was just a paperwork exercise and a PR exercise.\"\n\nTalking to BBC Look North Yorkshire after publishing the letter on Sunday, Dr Billings said: \"The Department for Transport and Highways England have argued all along that these sorts of motorways are actually safe, they even go as far as to say they are safer than ordinary motorways, now I think that whatever formula they are using to come to that conclusion is wrong.\n\n\"The coroner in his verdict has made it pretty clear that these two particular lives in South Yorkshire would not have come to such a sad end if there had been a hard shoulder there, so I think this is new evidence they have to take into account.\"\n\nHe added: \"If they thought this type of motorway was even smarter, or safer, than a conventional motorway, then why not convert the entire system to smart motorways, making it safer? As soon as you say it, I think you realise it's absurd.\n\n\"I think they (smart motorways) were done originally not because it was a safer way of doing a motorway, I think it was done in order to expand the capacity, get the traffic flowing by having an extra lane, but to do it cheaply, and I think we're trading cost - cheapness - for other people's lives.\"\n\nIn response to Dr Billings' open letter, the Department for Transport said: \"The stocktake [of smart motorways] showed that in most ways smart motorways are as safe as, or safer than, the conventional ones.\n\n\"The Transport Secretary has tasked Highways England with delivering an 18-point action plan to ensure they are safer still, and he has called an urgent meeting with the company to discuss their progress.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "As high risk groups continue to be immunised there are growing concerns that people with learning disabilities have been missed out.\n\nDespite a recent Public Health England report warning they are six times more likely to die from coronavirus, as a group, they have not been prioritised for a vaccine.\n\nLegal action is being taken against the Department of Health and Social Care, which says it is working hard to vaccinate all those at risk.", "A Covid outbreak was declared at the DVLA's contact centre in December\n\nStaff are scared to work at the UK vehicle licensing agency's contact centre in Swansea where 500 workers have contracted coronavirus since the pandemic began, a union says.\n\nThe PCS union has urged ministers to intervene and described the numbers as a \"scandal\".\n\nA DVLA spokesperson insisted safety was a priority and it followed guidance to \"help keep our offices Covid secure\".\n\nThe Welsh Government said it had been \"worried about the DVLA for a while\".\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said he has repeatedly raised concerns over case numbers at the offices.\n\nMinister Eluned Morgan said the decision to introduce tougher Covid regulations for workplaces in Wales was made, in part, due to the situation at the DVLA.\n\nIn December, a coronavirus outbreak was declared at the centre at Swansea Vale in Llansamlet after 352 cases of Covid-19 in the space of four months.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe DVLA has about 6,000 staff based in Swansea but said it was currently operating on a \"far reduced capacity\".\n\nA DVLA worker, who did not want to be identified, told BBC Wales News that close contacts of people testing positive are not always sent home to self-isolate, social-distancing is not being followed and homeworking is not always possible because of \"archaic\" systems.\n\n\"There are certain elements within management who are trying to bend the rules and regulations,\" they said.\n\n\"It has been mentioned that you don't need your track and trace [contact tracing app] on. If someone's off with Covid, the people who haven't had their app on haven't been sent home.\n\n\"They'll say 'your app hasn't pinged, you're not going home'.\"\n\nThe worker said it was difficult for staff to adhere to the two-metre distancing rule because of the way the office was laid out and some staff had resigned.\n\n\"The atmosphere sucks, people are scared. I have heard of some people walking out,\" they said.\n\nOne worker said two-metres distancing was not always being observed\n\n\"I think they have been raising concerns. They probably didn't get the answer they wanted. It's not necessarily the manager's fault, the managers are struggling too.\"\n\nPCS General Secretary Mark Serwotka said: \"It is a scandal that DVLA are not doing more to reduce numbers in the workplace when Covid infections are on the rise.\n\n\"Our members are telling us they are scared to enter the workplace for fear of catching Covid 19.\n\n\"Minsters must intervene and ensure DVLA are doing their utmost to enable staff to work from home and temporarily cease non-critical services.\"\n\nEluned Morgan told Radio Cymru the Welsh Government has been keeping an eye on the situation at the Swansea offices.\n\nEluned Morgan said the Welsh Government has been concerned at the situation at the DVLA for \"some time\".\n\nThe wellbeing minister said: \"We've been worried about the DVLA for a while, now. We've been putting pressure on them.\n\n\"It comes up time and again from the people who represent Swansea, and we're worried the pressure on people working there hasn't helped.\n\n\"The situation is one of the reasons why we've introduced new rules, new legislation, to tighten the restrictions on people at work.\"\n\nHealth Minister Vaughan Gething added: \"We're concerned about anecdotal reports we've heard from the trade union side, individuals, that all of the requirements weren't being followed.\"\n\nHe said there would be questions for management to answer if there had been a breach of the rules.\n\nThe DVLA said some staff have been able to work from home \"in line with government advice\", though others were required to be in the office due to their roles\n\n\"In view of the essential nature of the public services we provide, some operational staff are required to be in the office where their role means they cannot work from home,\" said a spokesman.\n\nThe DVLA said it has worked closely with Public Health Wales, Swansea council's environmental health staff and union officials to try to make its buildings Covid safe, including opening an additional site in Swansea.\n\nHowever, there were currently four Covid cases across its estate, with none at its contact centre.\n\n\"Before Christmas, when transmission infection rates were extremely high in the local community where most of our staff live, we saw a rise in staff testing positive for Covid,\" he said.\n\nSwansea MP Carolyn Harris said, during the first lockdown, she was in \"constant contact\" with the DVLA due to concerns raised by workers.\n\n\"Since Christmas, I've not been able to get hold of anyone from the DVLA,\" she told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement.\n\n\"Last night I spent a long time trying to hold of the chief executive.\n\n\"Some of the stuff that I am now reading, and some of the stuff I've had in over the last 24 hours, really worries me.\"\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said its inspector had been tackling \"a series of concerns\" since August and had spoken to the PCS, which it said was \"broadly supportive of DVLA's approach\".\n\nA spokesperson added: \"Most recently HSE joined Swansea Environmental Health Officers and Public Health Wales for some joint visits to premises, in our role to assist public health to assess the potential of work place transmission as part of their wider work to contain outbreaks.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It is not clear if anyone not entitled succeeded in getting a Covid jab\n\nA health board boss has criticised council staff for potentially sharing Covid vaccine invites with colleagues.\n\nThe board meeting in North Wales heard some council staff, not within groups currently being vaccinated, booked appointments by following a link in an email only intended for the recipient.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr health board's chairman Mark Polin said such actions could deprive someone else of a jab.\n\nDenbighshire council said it had warned staff the emails were not to be abused.\n\nIt is not clear if anyone not entitled succeeded in getting a Covid jab, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.\n\nOnly front-line social care and health workers, those over 80 and 70 years old, care home residents and their carers are currently being vaccinated.\n\nIndependent member Jackie Hughes spoke about the matter at Thursday's monthly health board meeting.\n\nAnswering her query, Dr Chris Stockport, the health board's executive director of primary care and community services, said: \"We are very clear with our local authority partners and teams of what frontline means in the same way we are elsewhere.\n\n\"When you arrive [for a vaccine] there's a process of validation.\n\n\"The likelihood is they will experience some difficulties working through the booking system [if they try to get into a higher vaccination cohort].\n\n\"It adds complications for a busy team and I would ask them not to do that when it's a clear effort to circumvent the cohort.\"\n\nAt Thursday's daily press briefing the UK Government Home Secretary Priti Patel said people who jumped the queue for the vaccine were \"morally reprehensible\" as they were putting the lives of vulnerable people at risk.\n\nShe said all the UK Government's measures were under review but \"our focus is getting that vaccine to the most vulnerable to make sure we can protect them and obviously protect others in the community\".\n\nMr Polin added: \"Whilst we understand the concerns people should not be doing what they are doing.\n\n\"The priority groups have been identified with clear medical guidance and sound reasoning behind it.\n\n\"So people jumping the queue are depriving someone else, potentially, of receiving the vaccine at the point at which they should.\"\n\nHe said it was a temporary problem, adding: \"We are changing the booking system, so this opportunity is not going to last much longer.\"\n\nHe said staff were looking out for any inappropriate bookings.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than five million people in the UK have now received the first dose of a coronavirus vaccine - thanks to an army of more than 80,000 volunteers and NHS workers who have been trained to give the jabs.\n\nMany of the vaccine volunteers have had no previous medical training and come from all walks of life. So why did they sign up? And how does it feel to stick a needle into a stranger's arm?\n\nYou could see their relief. A lot of them have been waiting 10 months without leaving the house\n\nCallum Finnegan, 23, has been juggling his 40-hour week as a Tesco delivery driver with giving Covid jabs at Manchester's Etihad tennis centre. A St John Ambulance volunteer, he completed extensive online and face-to-face training, which included practising administering jabs on silicon arms before giving them to patients. He says he'd never given an injection before.\n\nThe biomedical science graduate wanted to get involved in the vaccination effort as soon as the call was put out and says he feels \"grateful and privileged\" to be helping the rollout - an effort he hopes will save as many lives as possible.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC Radio 5 Live This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCallum, who volunteered for four weeks at London's Nightingale hospital at the beginning of the pandemic, says his first shift giving jabs was \"one of the best days\" he's had since Covid hit.\n\n\"They were incredibly emotional,\" he says of the people he has given the jab to. \"You could see their relief. A lot of them have been waiting 10 months without leaving the house, or seeing only one or two people. One of those could have been a Tesco delivery driver - there's a lot of people I deliver to who tell me that I'm the only person they're seeing face-to-face at the minute.\"\n\nIt just makes me feel better about the world, especially when it can get you down. It's nice to do something good for other people\n\nKate Donaghy, who runs an IT team for a travel company, was inspired to train as a vaccinator after seeing the impact of the disease first hand. A St John Ambulance volunteer for four years, Kate, 28, spent time at a London hospital last year helping to care for recovering Covid patients - before volunteering at an A&E department.\n\nAfter seeing just how desperate the situation was, she switched her focus to becoming a vaccinator. \"I just thought how can we stop this happening to people in the first place? If we can vaccinate people, that feels like a better way forward to solve the problem, and a great use of my time.\"\n\nShe says she overcame her initial nerves in giving the jabs thanks to some supportive colleagues and has already signed up for shifts at London's ExCel centre most weekends going forward.\n\nHer elderly patients were \"so happy it was the beginning of the end to their isolation\". \"It just makes me feel better about the world, especially when it can get you down. It's nice to do something good for other people.\"\n\nIt did feel good - it felt good to be fighting back\n\nDr Andy Bates, a 57-year-old dentist from North Yorkshire, recently gave his first vaccinations at Long Lee surgery, in Keighley. He is used to giving injections - albeit in the mouth - but he says helping to protect people against this virus \"did feel good - it felt good to be fighting back\".\n\nDr Bates is working as a paid vaccinator alongside a four-day week at his dental practice. He says both roles have served as a reminder that he could be the first person a patient has seen for months. And he says his day job - particularly calming people who are nervous about lying back in his dentist's chair - has helped him.\n\nHe says he managed to relax a \"very nervous\" lady in her 90s, who hadn't left the house since last March, by talking about their shared love of alpine cycling.\n\nAnd it's not just Dr Bates and his fellow vaccinators that have stepped up. He says after a \"huge dump\" of snow in the area, the community sprang into action to ensure elderly patients could safely come for their jabs - with a local farmer towing the van delivering the vaccines up the hill to the surgery, and volunteers clearing snow and ice from the car park.\n\nI just thought this is enough, this has got to stop. I wanted to help all the other elderly people who are so vulnerable to this virus\n\nWhen theatres closed last year, Amanda Baldwin's career as a full-time chorus member at London's Royal Opera House came to a \"heartbreaking\" standstill.\n\nStuck at home in south-east London with nothing to do, Amanda and her husband Julian Johnson, 55 - a freelance theatre stage manager - decided to volunteer for the NHS through the GoodSam app, which later connected them with the vaccinator training run by St John Ambulance.\n\nAmanda applied shortly after her 84-year-old mother tested positive for the virus - just before she was due to have the vaccine. \"Luckily she came through it, and she wasn't hospitalised. But I just thought this is enough, this has got to stop. I wanted to help all the other elderly people who are so vulnerable to this virus.\"\n\nAmanda recently passed her full SJA training in London and is now waiting for her first shift as a vaccinator. She thinks her performance background will help keep her nerves in check for when she administers her first jabs - joking that she hopes her patients \"don't wriggle about as much\" as her pet cat did when she had to give it injections for its diabetes.\n\nAfter feeling \"like a part of [her] soul was missing\" when theatres closed, she says training as vaccinator has given her a \"purpose\" again. \"I feel like I've now got [another] skill that can really help people.\"", "Researchers have been tracking changes to the \"spike\" of the virus\n\nThe new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version, a study has found.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy of London's Imperial College said the differences between the viruses types was \"quite extreme\".\n\n\"There is a huge difference in how easily the variant virus spreads,\" he told BBC News. \"This is the most serious change in the virus since the epidemic began,\" he added.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nCases of Covid-19 have begun to increase rapidly during the second spike, and the number of cases recorded in a single day reached a new high on Thursday.\n\nEarly results indicated that the virus was spreading more quickly among under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children.\n\nBut the very latest data indicates that it was spreading quickly across all age groups, according to Prof Gandy who was a member of the research team.\n\n\"One possible explanation is that the early data was collected during the time of the November lockdown where schools were open and the activities of the adult population were more restricted. We are seeing now that the new virus has increased infectiousness across all age groups.\"\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said he believed that the new findings indicated that even tougher restrictions would soon be needed.\n\n\"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread, more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person infects. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nThe most chilling finding from this piece of research is that the November lockdown in England, hard though it was for many people, would not have stopped the variant form of the virus spreading. The same severe restrictions that saw cases of the previous version of the virus fall by a third, would see a tripling of the new variant. This is why there has been such a sudden tightening of restrictions across the country.\n\nIt is unclear whether the current restrictions will be enough to control the spread of the virus. Given the fact that it has taken two lockdowns to stop the earlier version of the virus overwhelming the NHS, many scientists fear that further tightening will be necessary.\n\nInfection levels will begin to drop as enough people are vaccinated. But until then it is now more important than ever for people to follow social distancing guidelines, wear masks where required and to regularly wash their hands.\n\nThe new year brings with it hope of a more normal life in the next few months but also a new form of the virus that all of us will have to combat in the coming days and weeks.\n\nProfessor Lawrence Young, of Warwick University, said early indications suggested that vaccines would be effective against the new form of the virus.\n\n\"Variants virus have been around since the beginning of the pandemic and are a product of the natural process by which viruses develop and adapt to their hosts as they replicate.\n\n\"Most of these mutations have no effect on the behaviour of the virus but very occasionally they can improve the ability of the virus to infect and/or become more resistant to the body's immune response.\"\n\nFurther research is needed to understand why the variant is spreading so quickly. But early indications are that vaccines should be effective against it.\n\nThe new virus has been designated \"Variant of Concern 202012/01\" or VOC by Public Health England.\n\nIt was detected in November and thought to have originated in the south-east England in September.\n\nThere is no evidence to suggest that it is more deadly, but it will increase the number of cases which in turn will add further pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe variant can now be found across the UK, except Northern Ireland, but it is heavily concentrated in London, as well as south-east and eastern England.", "Appointments were brought forward or rescheduled for safety reasons\n\nFour vaccination centres were shut as snow caused some travel disruption in Wales.\n\nSunday appointments in Bridgend, Rhondda, Abercynon and Merthyr Tydfil were rescheduled for safety reasons, but centres will reopen on Monday, the Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board said.\n\nThe Met Office has extended a yellow weather warning to midnight on Sunday for all of Wales except Anglesey.\n\nA yellow warning for ice runs from midnight until 11:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nPolice have warned of difficult conditions due to snow and ice.\n\nUp to 3cm of snow is forecast to fall in most areas, with 10 to 15cm expected in the Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg health board urged anyone with queries about Sunday's vaccination appointments to call the number on their appointment letters.\n\nSnow volunteers cleared pathways so a Covid vaccine pilot in Maesteg could keep running\n\n\"We can confirm that no vaccines have been wasted as a consequence of this temporary Sunday closure and we are grateful to all those who were able to turn up at such short notice yesterday as we brought forward a significant number of Sunday appointments during the course of Saturday,\" it said.\n\n\"Additionally, our 4x4 arrangements are enabling us to continue to reach care homes to vaccinate the staff and residents there.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNorth Wales Police tweeted there was \"widespread snow this morning, particularly in some higher areas, making driving conditions difficult\".\n\nAnd Dyfed-Powys Police said some roads were \"impassable\" and advised people to \"stay home\".\n\nIn Bridgend, officers from South Wales Police were pelted with snowballs as they helped an injured sledger on Heol y Nant.\n\nNorth Wales Police warned of difficult conditions due to \"widespread snow\", particularly on high ground.\n\nIt said the A499 near Pwllheli had received heavy snowfall overnight.\n\nWelsh Ambulance Service boss Jason Killens tweeted, thanking the public for helping crews continue to work despite the conditions.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVillages were dusted with snow, such as in Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire\n\nNick Rolfe shared this garden view in Nercwys, near Mold, Flintshire\n\nThe Met Office warned travellers that \"longer journey times by road, bus and train services\" could be expected, although Wales is in a level four lockdown with all but essential travel banned.\n\nIt also said the snow could lead to power cuts and other services, such as mobile phone coverage, may be affected.\n\nThose going out for daily exercise have been warned there could be icy patches on some untreated roads, pavements and cycle paths.\n\nIn Powys, this was the view over Newtown on Sunday\n\nThe hills around Llangollen, Denbighshire, were covered in snow on Saturday\n\nPower cuts and travel delays are possible, the Met Office says\n\nThe drop in temperatures is likely to exacerbate problems after widespread flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nTwo flood warnings issued by Natural Resources Wales remain in place, meaning flooding is expected.\n\nThese cover the River Ritec at Tenby in Pembrokeshire, which could affect the Kiln Park caravan site, and the lower Dee Valley from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows.\n\nPretty as a picture... Suzy shared this garden view in Snowdonia\n\nSun up: Heath in Cardiff awakes to a covering of snow\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "DUP leader Arlene Foster said people in NI need to \"come together to fight against Covid\"\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster has said a potential vote on a united Ireland would be \"absolutely reckless\".\n\nShe was speaking after a poll commissioned by the Sunday Times in NI found 51% of people want a referendum on Irish unity in the next five years.\n\nSpeaking to Sky News, the first minister said \"we all know how divisive a border poll would be\".\n\nSinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill said there was an \"unstoppable conversation under way\" on the issue.\n\nThe deputy first minister called on the Irish government \"to step up preparations\" for a border poll.\n\nProvisions for a possible border poll on Irish reunification are included in the the Good Friday Agreement - the deal which led to peace in Northern Ireland after decades of violence.\n\nIt states that the Northern Ireland Secretary must call a border poll if it at any time it appears \"likely\" to that a majority of people in Northern Ireland would vote for a united Ireland.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMrs Foster said she thought it was \"very disappointing\" that some nationalist parties in the UK were focusing on \"constitutional politics\" during the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\n\"We all know how divisive a border poll would be, and for us in Northern Ireland what we have to do is come together to fight against Covid, and not be distracted by what would be absolutely reckless at this time,\" she said.\n\nShe added if there was a vote on Irish unity, the arguments for the union are \"rational, logical, and they will win through\".\n\nThe polling was carried out by Lucidtalk in Northern Ireland, with similar polling in England, Scotland and Wales to gauge attitudes towards the union.\n\nIt found that in Northern Ireland, 47% still want to remain in the UK, with 42% in favour of a united Ireland and 11% undecided.\n\nHowever for those aged under 45, supporters of Irish reunification outnumber those who want to stay in the UK by 47% to 46%.\n\nRespondents also said they believed there would be a united Ireland within 10 years, by a margin of 48% to 44%.\n\nPolls like this come with the usual health warning - they are a snapshot in a moment in time.\n\nNonetheless there is some interesting reading here - not least the fact that it paints a picture of a disunited kingdom.\n\nWe shouldn't really be surprised about that because we have had very different approaches to the global Covid-19 pandemic with different outcomes.\n\nWe know that Brexit is starting to bite and there is a lot of frustration out there and uncertainty and that, I'm sure, has fed into these figures.\n\nThe big question for NI, unsurprisingly, is around constitutional change.\n\nIt shows that 51% of those polled would want to see a border poll within the next five years, compared to 44% who would not.\n\nHowever, if they flip that question around it's interesting to see that 42% would want to see a united Ireland, but 47% would want to remain, with 11% of don't knows.\n\nSo according to these figures there may be an appetite for a border poll - but if that question was posed the majority are saying they would stay in the UK.\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said the poll placed a \"solemn obligation\" on those seeking a united Ireland \"to engage with every community, sector and generation\".\n\n\"The United Kingdom may be coming to an end but we are all called to build a new future together. That's the work the SDLP is engaged in,\" said the Foyle MP.\n\nThe polling found 47% of people in Northern Ireland wish to remain in the UK, with 42% in favour of a united Ireland, and 11% undecided\n\nUlster Unionist leader Steve Aiken said \"all political energy should be focused on making Northern Ireland a better place to live and work rather than a divisive border poll\".\n\n\"We need to concentrate on the here and now, fostering better relationships and plotting a way through and out of the Covid-19 pandemic,\" he added.\n\n\"As Northern Ireland enters its second century, we should be talking about recovery, renewal and reconciliation.\"\n\nThe polls also found across the UK, respondents believed Scotland would become independent within the next 10 years.\n\nIn Scotland, it found a large poll lead for the Scottish National Party, with them potentially being on course to win 70 of 129 seats in Holyrood.\n\nThe SNP is set to reveal its 'roadmap to a referendum' to its national assembly on Sunday.\n\nIt outlines plans to pursue a vote after the pandemic if there is a pro-independence majority at Holyrood following May's election.\n\nThe research was carried out by Lucidtalk in Northern Ireland, Panelbase in Scotland, and YouGov in England and Wales.\n\nThe polling was carried out between 15 and 22 of January, with 2,392 people polled in Northern Ireland, 1,206 in Scotland, 1,416 in England, and 1,059 in Wales.", "Larry King, giant of US broadcasting who achieved worldwide fame for interviewing political leaders and celebrities, has died at the age of 87.\n\nKing conducted an estimated 50,000 interviews in his six-decade career, which included 25 years as host of the popular CNN talk show Larry King Live.\n\nHe died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to Ora Media, a production company he co-founded.\n\nEarlier this month, he was treated in hospital for Covid-19, US media say.\n\nThe talk show host, famous for his braces and rolled-up sleeves, had faced several health problems in recent years, including heart attacks.\n\nKing was married eight times to seven women and had five children. Two of them died last year within weeks of each other - daughter Chaia died from lung cancer and son Andy of a heart attack.\n\nKing carried out interviews with every sitting US president from Gerald Ford to Barack Obama and a number of world leaders. His other high-profile guests included Dr Martin Luther King, the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela and Lady Gaga.\n\n\"For 63 years and across the platforms of radio, television and digital media, Larry's many thousands of interviews, awards, and global acclaim stand as a testament to his unique and lasting talent as a broadcaster,\" Ora Media said in a statement, without giving the cause of death.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Larry King: \"I like spontaneity. That's the kind of broadcaster I am\".\n\nBorn Lawrence Harvey Zeiger in Brooklyn, New York, in 1933, King rose to fame in the 1970s with his radio programme The Larry King Show, on the commercial network Mutual Broadcasting System.\n\nIn 1985 he launched Larry King Live on the fledgling CNN, and became one of the network's biggest stars. The programme, broadcast around the world, was a success with audiences, with King answering thousands of phone calls from viewers.\n\nHe earned a number of honours, including two Peabody awards, but was also criticised for his non-confrontational approach and open-ended questions. King boasted of not doing much research for the interviews so, he said, he could learn along with viewers.\n\nBy 2010 his ratings had dropped significantly, with critics saying King's approach felt outdated in an era of more aggressive interviewing styles. King then announced his retirement, saying: \"It's time to hang up my nightly suspenders.\"\n\nIn his final programme on CNN, he told his viewers: \"I don't know what to say, except to you, my audience, thank you. Instead of goodbye, how about so long?\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by CNN Communications This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCNN replaced him with British journalist and broadcaster Piers Morgan, whose programme King criticised for being \"too much about him\".\n\nMorgan, whose programme was cancelled three years later, said on Twitter on Saturday: \"Larry King was a hero of mine until we fell out after I replaced him at CNN & he said my show was 'like watching your mother-in-law go over a cliff in your new Bentley.' (He married 8 times so a mother-in-law expert).\"\n\nIn a statement, CNN president Jeff Zucker said: \"The scrappy young man from Brooklyn had a history-making career spanning radio and television. His curiosity about the world propelled his award-winning career in broadcasting, but it was his generosity of spirit that drew the world to him.\"\n\nMost recently, King hosted another programme, Larry King Now, broadcast on Hulu and RT, Russia's state-controlled international broadcaster.\n\nA Kremlin spokesman was quoted as saying by state RIA Novosti news agency: \"King repeatedly interviewed Putin. The president has always appreciated his great professionalism and unquestioned journalistic authority.\"\n\nOutside broadcasting, King founded the Larry King Cardiac Foundation in 1988, a charity which helps to fund heart treatment for those with limited financial means or no medical insurance.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA new world record has been set for the number of satellites sent to space on a single rocket.\n\nThe 143 payloads, of all shapes and sizes, rode to orbit on a SpaceX Falcon rocket that launched out of Florida.\n\nThe number beats the previous record of 104 satellites carried aloft by an Indian vehicle in 2017.\n\nIt's further evidence of the major structural changes taking place in space activity that are allowing many more actors to get involved.\n\nThis shift is the result of a revolution in robust, miniaturised, low-cost components - many taken direct from consumer electronics such as smartphones - that mean pretty much anyone can now build a capable satellite in a very small package.\n\nAnd with SpaceX offering to transport those packages to orbit for just $1m, the commercial opportunities will continue to open up.\n\nGuatemala's Santa María volcano: Planet is imaging the entire Earth daily with its Dove satellites\n\nSpaceX itself had 10 satellites on the Falcon - the latest additions to its Starlink telecommunications mega-constellation, which is going to deliver broadband internet connections around the globe.\n\nSan Francisco's Planet company had the most satellites of all on the flight - 48.\n\nThese were another batch of its SuperDove models that image the Earth's surface daily at a resolution of 3-5m. The new spacecraft take the firm's operational fleet now in orbit to more than 200.\n\n\"Internet of things\": SpaceBees will connect to all manner of objects on the ground\n\nThe SuperDoves are the size of a shoebox. Many of the other payloads on the Falcon rocket were little bigger than a coffee mug, however; and some were smaller even than a paperback book.\n\nSwarm Technologies is rolling out what it calls the SpaceBees. They're just 10cm by 10cm by 2.5cm.\n\nThey'll act as telecommunications nodes to connect devices that are attached to all manner of objects on the ground, from migrating animals to shipping containers.\n\nThe satellites were mounted on a dispenser that ejected them in sequence\n\nSome of the larger items on the Falcon rocket were suitcase-sized. Among these were several radar satellites. Radar has been one of the major beneficiaries of the revolution in componentry.\n\nTraditionally, radar satellites were big, multi-tonne objects that cost hundreds of millions of dollars to fly, which essentially meant only the military or major space agencies could afford to operate them.\n\nBut the adoption of new materials and compact \"off the shelf\" parts have dramatically shrunk the size (to under 100kg) and price (a couple of million dollars) of these spacecraft.\n\niQPS artwork: The radar satellites unfurl large antennas once they are in space\n\nIceye from Finland, Capella from the US, and iQPS of Japan all took the ride to orbit on Sunday. These start-ups are establishing constellations in the sky that will return rapid, repeat imagery of the Earth.\n\nRadar has the advantage over standard optical cameras of being able to pierce cloud, and to sense the Earth's surface whether it is day or night. We're entering an age when any change on the planet, wherever it happens, will be picked up almost immediately.\n\nThe Falcon carried the 143 satellites into a 500km-high path that runs from pole to pole. This is one of the drawbacks of a big rideshare mission: you go where the rocket goes, and for some that might not be ideal.\n\nA number of satellite missions will want an orbit that's higher or lower in the sky, or on a different inclination to the equator.\n\nThis can be achieved by mounting the satellites on \"space tugs\" which, after coming off the top of the rocket, modify the final parameters for their \"passengers\" over the course of several weeks. Sunday's Falcon carried two such tugs.\n\nBut for some missions a bespoke ride is going to be the only satisfactory solution. It's why we're now witnessing a rush to produce small rockets that can run dedicated flights.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne rocket blasts its way to space\n\nThese smaller rockets will not be able to compete on cost with the big vehicles, such as SpaceX's Falcon-9, but they should attract the custom of those with very specific or urgent needs.\n\nDan Hart, the CEO of Virgin Orbit, which has developed a small rocket that can be launched from under the wing of a Boeing 747, says the start-ups are becoming more discerning.\n\n\"These small satellites used to be points of fascination and interest, and it was a case of finding the cheapest way possible to get into space,\" he explained.\n\n\"That's rapidly changing. These are now businesses with critical missions that risk losing revenue if they have to wait on others or go into an unsuitable orbit. And that's why you're going to see people who will pay that little bit more to get to where they want to go when they absolutely need to go there,\" he told BBC News.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Will Marshall: \"Our satellites 'phoned home' and they are healthy\"\n\nWith the roll call of satellites going into orbit now accelerating rapidly, the issue of traffic management is becoming a hot topic.\n\nFull-on collisions are currently rare, but a surprisingly large number (10%) of satellites will even now experience sudden, unexpected momentum changes, most probably the result of being hit by some small fragment from a previous mission.\n\nThe space sector needs to find smarter ways to track objects in orbit and to command timely avoidance manoeuvres, otherwise certain altitudes could ultimately become unusable because of the presence of dangerously dense debris fields.\n\nJonathan McDowell from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is a noted historian of astronautics.\n\nHe commented: \"There are now over 3,000 working satellites in orbit. The number of satellites launched last year at over 1,200 is over twice as many as in any previous year. And the ones launched today - that used to be the number you'd launch in a whole year. So it's getting really crowded up there.\"\n\nWill Marshall, the CEO of Planet, said his company, and indeed all of the companies on Sunday's flight, were accutley aware of the issue.\n\n\"We are seeing crowded areas in certain orbits,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"Most of the crowded piece that is in danger of what they call Kessler Syndrome (runaway collisions) is quite high up. So one of the tricks that all of these satellites that were launched today use is to just stay really low where there's still a lot of atmospheric drag and eventually those satellites just come down.\"", "Pavithra Wanniarachchi (L) has become the fourth Sri Lankan minister to test positive\n\nSri Lanka's health minister, who endorsed herbal syrup to prevent Covid, has tested positive for the virus.\n\nPavithra Wanniarachchi tested positive on Friday, a media secretary at the Ministry of Health told the BBC.\n\nShe had promoted the syrup, manufactured by a shaman who claimed it worked as a life-long inoculation against the virus.\n\nSri Lanka recorded 56,076 cases and 276 deaths since the pandemic began, with cases surging in recent months.\n\nMs Wanniarachchi is the fourth minister to test positive. A junior minister, who also took the potion, tested positive earlier this week.\n\nThe health minister had publicly consumed and endorsed the syrup as a way of stopping the spread of the virus. The shaman who invented the syrup, which contains honey and nutmeg, said the recipe was given to him in a visionary dream.\n\nDoctors in the country have quashed claims the herbal syrup works, but AFP news agency reports thousands have travelled to a village to obtain it.\n\nMs Wanniarachchi took two Covid-19 tests and both returned positive results, Viraj Abeysinghe, media secretary at the Ministry of Health told the BBC.\n\nThe minister has been asked to self-isolate and all of her immediate contacts have gone into isolation.\n\nNews of Ms Wanniarachchi's positive test came hours after Sri Lanka approved the emergency use of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. The first doses are expected to arrive in the country next week.\n\nSri Lanka isn't the only place where people in positions of power have promoted unproven treatments for Covid.\n\nLast year, Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina was criticised for promoting a herbal concoction that he claimed could prevent the virus. He was pictured distributing the tonic to poor communities in the capital.\n\nSince the pandemic began, a number of world leaders and cabinet members have contracted Covid. French President Emmanuel Macron, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and former President Donald Trump all caught the virus at various points last year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The people who think Coronavirus is caused by 5G", "Mr Johnson raised the benefits of a UK-US trade deal during his phone call with Mr Biden\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has spoken to Joe Biden for the first time since the new US president was inaugurated.\n\nMr Johnson said on Twitter that he looked forward to \"deepening the longstanding alliance\" between the UK and the US as they drove a \"green and sustainable recovery from Covid-19\".\n\nMr Biden was sworn in as president and Kamala Harris as vice-president in a ceremony in Washington on Wednesday.\n\nThe PM said their inauguration was a \"step forward\" for the US.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said Mr Johnson \"warmly welcomed\" the president's decision to rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change and the World Health Organization - both abandoned by Mr Biden's predecessor, Donald Trump.\n\n\"The prime minister praised President Biden's early action on tackling climate change and commitment to reach net zero by 2050,\" the spokesman said.\n\nThe spokesman added that, in building on the two nations' \"long history of cooperation in security and defence, the leaders \"re-committed to the Nato alliance and our shared values in promoting human rights and protecting democracy\".\n\nThe two leaders also talked about \"the benefits of a potential free trade deal\" between the UK and the US, with Mr Johnson reiterating his intention \"to resolve existing trade issues as soon as possible\".\n\nAfter the inauguration of any American president, a political spectator sport immediately begins: the order in which the new occupant of the White House speaks to other world leaders.\n\nIt is a crude metric of relative importance, but a metric nonetheless.\n\nI understand the call lasted for around 35 minutes and was the first conversation Joe Biden has had with a European leader as president.\n\nThe focus on climate change makes political and diplomatic sense. It's a topic where a Conservative prime minister and Democrat president can agree, and it matters particularly to the UK as the host of the COP26 UN Climate Change Summit in Glasgow in November.\n\nBut when you compare what Downing Street said about the call and what the White House said, one thing leaps out.\n\nNo 10's readout refers to a conversation about a trade deal. President Biden's does not.\n\nIt's widely expected there'll be no such agreement any time soon.\n\nMr Johnson and Mr Biden \"looked forward to to meeting in person as soon as the circumstances allow\" and to working together during the forthcoming G7, G20 and COP26 summits, the spokesman added.\n\nA White House statement said Mr Biden \"conveyed his intention to strengthen the special relationship\" between the US and UK and \"revitalize transatlantic ties\".\n\nCongratulating Mr Biden and Ms Harris - who is the first woman and first black and Asian-American person to serve as vice-president - the PM said earlier that their inauguration was a \"step forward\" for the US, which had \"been through a bumpy period\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"It's a big moment for us - we have things we want to do together.\"\n\nMr Johnson said it was a \"big moment\" for the UK and the US and their \"joint common agenda\".\n\nThe BBC's political editor, Laura Kuenssberg has said the Biden Presidency \"brings some hope to government\" because No 10 believes \"there is a lot of overlap\" between what Mr Biden and Mr Johnson want to do.\n\nThe US president has previously said that he does not want a \"guarded border\" between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland following Brexit, and that any UK-US post-Brexit trade deal had to be \"contingent\" on respect for the Good Friday Agreement.\n\nThe PM and Mr Biden have never met in real life, but the new US president once referred to Mr Johnson as a \"physical and emotional clone\" of Mr Trump.\n\nAfter winning the presidential election, Mr Biden phoned Mr Johnson ahead of other European leaders and expressed his desire to strengthen the historic \"special relationship\" between the two countries.", "Keon Lincoln died from a gunshot and stab wounds police said\n\nThree more teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of murdering a 15-year-old who was attacked by a group of youths.\n\nKeon Lincoln was \"set upon\" at about 15:30 GMT on Thursday on Linwood Road in Handsworth, Birmingham, and died later in hospital, police said.\n\nA post mortem examination has revealed Keon died from a gunshot and stab wounds.\n\nDetectives have been granted extra time to question a 14-year-old boy arrested on Friday morning.\n\nAnother 14-year-old boy arrested later on Friday has been released under investigation.\n\nA boy, also aged 14, was arrested from his home in Birmingham on Saturday night, the force said.\n\nTwo other boys aged 15 and 16 were arrested from an address in Walsall in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nThe attackers fled the scene in a car which crashed into a house a short distance away\n\nDet Ch Insp Alastair Orencas, who is leading the murder inquiry, described the arrests as \"significant\".\n\n\"We are gathering a substantial amount of evidence which will take time to analyse, but we must be thorough to get justice for Keon's family.\n\n\"They have been fully updated with the latest developments.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Andrew RT Davies has taken over as leader of the Welsh Conservatives for the second time\n\nAndrew RT Davies has been named as the new leader of the Welsh Conservatives in the Senedd for a second time.\n\nMr Davies succeeds Paul Davies who resigned from his post on Saturday after drinking with other politicians in the Senedd, four days into a Wales-wide alcohol ban in licensed premises.\n\nIn a statement, Andrew RT Davies said it was \"a great honour and privilege\".\n\nHe has already announced his shadow cabinet, which includes four women.\n\nThere are no responsibilities for Paul Davies or Darren Millar, who also previously apologised for being part of the group who were drinking at the Senedd.\n\nMr Davies said his party \"will put forward a positive plan to get Wales moving again\" and \"unleash our country's potential\" at the Senedd election, scheduled for May.\n\n\"I'm pleased to have moved quickly this afternoon and announce my Welsh Conservative shadow cabinet which is built on the strong foundations of experience, talent and vision,\" he said.\n\n\"We are in a moment like no other, and the Covid-19 pandemic has sadly only served to shine a spotlight on the challenges in people's everyday lives.\n\n\"We shouldn't doubt our country's potential. Wales is full of ambitious people and communities that crave the opportunity to succeed.\"\n\nThe Conservatives' shadow cabinet reshuffle sees Angela Burns MS replace the new leader as shadow health minister and Mark Isherwood MS replace Darren Millar MS as chief whip.\n\nDavid Melding MS has been appointed shadow minister for mental health, wellbeing, culture and sport.\n\nJanet Finch-Saunders MS remains as shadow minister for environment, energy and rural affairs, and Suzy Davies MS in education, skills and Welsh language.\n\nLaura Anne Jones MS stays as shadow minister for equalities, children and young people, but with extra responsibilities for housing and local government.\n\nRussell George MS remains in the shadow cabinet, responsible for the economy, transport and mid Wales.\n\nIn 2018, Mr Davies, the Member of the Senedd for South Wales Central, quit as leader of the Conservative group after seven years in charge.\n\nHe was given the unanimous backing of fellow Welsh Conservatives in the Senedd.\n\nWelsh secretary Simon Hart, MP for Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire, tweeted his congratulations to \"a formidable campaigner\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAndrew RT Davies faced criticism earlier this month from former Tory politicians and Labour after comparing rioting in the US Congress to people who backed a second referendum on Brexit.\n\nThe deputy leader of the UK Labour Party said it was was a \"disgrace that the Welsh Conservatives\" had appointed \"this Donald Trump tribute act\" as leader.\n\nAngela Rayner MP said: \"Just weeks ago, Labour called on the Conservatives to suspend Andrew RT Davies and remove him as a candidate over his disgraceful and dangerous comments equating peaceful democratic debate in the UK with deadly violence at the US Capitol.\n\n\"The Conservative Party failed to act and he has refused to apologise.\n\n\"It is a disgrace that the Welsh Conservatives have just appointed him leader and their candidate for first minister of Wales.\n\n\"The people of Wales deserve so much better than this Donald Trump tribute act.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price MS said: \"After a car crash the backseat driver returns to put Wales in reverse.\n\n\"Once rejected by his own Senedd team, he will now embark on his pet project of stripping our Senedd of powers and setting Welsh democracy back decades.\"\n\nHis appointment comes just a day after Paul Davies stood down along with Tory MS Darren Millar, who was chief whip, in connection with the same incident.\n\nBoth have apologised for drinking alcohol with their meals on 8 and 9 December but both deny having broken the Covid-19 rules in place at the time.\n\nWelsh Conservatives chairman Glyn Davies said: \"They've both been friends of mine a long time but I could see the way the story was developing and I must say I think it was inevitable in the end.\n\n\"Obviously, I've been pretty disappointed with the position that we find ourselves in but this is politics and it's a challenge.\"\n\nAn investigation by the Senedd's authorities found five people, including four members of the Welsh Parliament, drank alcohol on its premises during the Wales-wide alcohol ban.\n\nA third member of the Senedd, Labour's Alun Davies, apologised earlier in the week and has been suspended by his party.\n\nBBC Wales has asked for clarification as to the identity of the fourth Senedd member investigators have referred to.\n\nPaul Smith, the Tory group chief of staff, was the fifth person involved.\n\nThe Senedd has referred the \"possible breach\" of Covid rules to Cardiff council and its own standards watchdog.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Mixed Martial Arts\n\nDustin Poirier (left) has had nine mixed martial arts fights since November 2016, while Conor McGregor has had just three Former two-weight world champion Conor McGregor was left stunned on his return to the UFC as Dustin Poirier claimed victory in their rematch at UFC 257. McGregor came out of retirement for a third time to face fellow 32-year-old Poirier at Abu Dhabi's Fight Island. And although the Irishman edged the first round, Poirier unleashed a flurry of punches to seal a technical knockout two minutes 32 seconds into round two. \"I'm gutted, it's a tough one to swallow,\" said McGregor. \"I felt stronger than him, but his leg kicks were good. I didn't adjust. My leg was badly compromised, I've never experienced those low calf kicks, and I wasn't as comfortable as I needed to be. \"I have no excuses. It was a phenomenal performance by Dustin. I have to dust it off and come back. I need activity, you don't get away with being inactive in this business.\"\n• None Trilogies, Pacquiao or YouTuber - what next for beaten McGregor?\n• None UFC 257 - All the action as it happened When the pair first met in a featherweight bout in September 2014, McGregor stopped the American inside 106 seconds, setting \"the Notorious\" on course for global stardom. He became the UFC's first simultaneous two-weight champion before facing Floyd Mayweather in one of the richest bouts in boxing history in 2017. Poirier, meanwhile, had to gradually work his way back into title contention and is now the number-two ranked lightweight contender, losing just two of his 13 fights since 2014. McGregor now has a 22-5 mixed martial arts record having lost three of his past six UFC fights McGregor has been relatively inactive though. Since losing to Khabib Nurmagomedov in 2018, he has had just 40 seconds in the octagon - beating Donald 'Cowboy' Cerrone in style last January. But McGregor seemed to start well in front of about 2,000 fans at the new 18,000-capacity Etihad Arena. He survived an early takedown and pinned Poirier against the fence for most of the first round, landing a few shoulder strikes like those that did so much damage against Cerrone. McGregor said before the fight that what motivates him now is building a \"highlights reel like a movie\", and he tagged Poirier with a couple of right-hand shots. But, unlike their first fight, Poirier was unmoved. Poirier admitted McGregor won the mind games before they met in 2014. This time round, instead of swapping verbal barbs before the fight, McGregor pledged to donate $500,000 (£367,000) to Poirier's charity and at the weigh-in Poirier presented McGregor with a bottle of his own brand of Louisiana hot sauce. And it was the American southpaw that brought the heat midway through the second round. Having replied to that early pressure with a series of leg kicks, he pounced to inflict the first TKO/KO defeat of McGregor's MMA career and take his own record to 27-6. \"It was a lot of things, but it wasn't payback. That wasn't the driving force,\" said Poirier. \"The first time I was a deer in the headlights. This time I was just fighting another man who bleeds like me. \"The goal was to be technical, pick my shots and not brawl at all. Then I had him hurt so I went a little crazy.\" What now for Poirier? Poirier's first world title shot - against Nurmagomedov - came 31 fights into his MMA career Since beating McGregor in 2018, lightweight champion Nurmagomedov won unification bouts against Poirier and Justin Gaethje to stay undefeated, announcing his retirement immediately after beating Gaethje in October. Nurmagomedov's title is yet to be vacated and UFC president Dana White said this week that the Russian may consider returning for a rematch with McGregor or Poirier if he \"saw something spectacular\". But speaking after UFC 257, White said: \"He said to me, 'be honest with yourself, I'm so many levels above these guys. I've beaten these guys'. \"I don't know, it doesn't sound very positive, but he won't hold the division up.\" In the co-main event, former Bellator world champion Michael Chandler marked his UFC debut with an impressive first-round knockout of sixth-ranked lightweight Dan Hooker, who Poirier beat last time out. Poirier said: \"It was a great win, but to come in and beat a guy I just beat and get a title shot? I've had more than 20 UFC fights, fighting the toughest of the toughest guys to get my hands on gold [a belt]. \"Let Chandler and Charles Oliveira go at it. That [Chandler] doesn't interest me at this point - or I'll go and sell hot sauce. A rematch with Conor interests me, and I've always wanted to beat Nate Diaz.\" \"Conor McGregor's not an old dog, he's definitely ready to keep going. \"Going around doing other things is not what Conor needs. He's young, fit and still ready to go. He'll 100% be back.\"\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Saturday's fourth-round ties are", "Watch: Vaccine plea to prioritise those with learning disabilities\n\nAs high risk groups continue to be immunised, there are growing concerns that people with learning disabilities have been missed out. \"Just because we've got a learning disability, doesn't mean we should sit in the corner and rot,\" says Amanda. \"We need help now.\" \"There are so many people that are going to die, and it's not fair.\" \"Even before Covid, more than four in 10 people with a learning disability died of a lung condition like pneumonia,\" says Professor Tuffney-Wijne, of Kingston University. \"As a group of people, they really are at risk.\" Legal action is being taken against the Department of Health and Social Care, which says it is working hard to vaccinate all those at risk. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation said it had made \"a clinical decision to prioritise those with profound and severe learning disabilities within our first six categories\".", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nBruno Fernandes' superb 78th-minute free-kick gave Manchester United victory in a thrilling FA Cup tie with old rivals Liverpool at Old Trafford.\n\nLiverpool led a fantastic contest through Mohamed Salah, who then equalised after Mason Greenwood and Marcus Rashford had struck for the hosts either side of the break.\n\nBut in a game which had everything last week's drab stalemate between this pair at Anfield lacked, Fernandes came off the bench to have the final word after Fabinho had fouled Edinson Cavani on the edge of the area.\n• None Don't worry about us, says Reds boss Klopp\n\nFernandes might have been slightly off the pace in recent games but when Ole Gunnar Solskjaer needed his £47m inspiration to come up with another special moment, the Portuguese delivered, bending his shot round the wall and beyond Allison's reach.\n\nThe victory earns United a home meeting with an in-form West Ham side managed by former boss David Moyes in the fifth round.\n\nBut the search for form goes on for Liverpool, whose only win in seven games since that seven-goal hammering of Crystal Palace came against Aston Villa's kids in the last round, and who have a meeting with Jose Mourinho's Tottenham looming on Thursday.\n• None Watch all the goals from the FA Cup fourth round\n\nIt was not quite the ending Solskjaer served up when he won a previous fourth-round meeting between these sides but, as in 1999, they had to come from behind.\n\nAnd while Fernandes applied the devastating finish, that goal should not be allowed to overshadow Rashford's contribution to United's victory.\n\nSo much has been said about the England forward as a social crusader it is sometimes easy to forget he also needs to be judged as a footballer.\n\nAt only 23, he is still a long way off his prime but he is developing into an outstanding forward, with vision to match his speed and finishing ability.\n\nThe pass that created Greenwood's equaliser was superb. Taking possession just inside his own half, Rashford delivered a 60-yard pass with such accuracy all Greenwood needed to do was take one touch to control with his chest before drilling low into the far corner.\n\nRashford's raw pace put Liverpool's defence under constant stress and the delicate touch that took him past Rhys Williams by the touchline in a move that ended with Paul Pogba curling wide was sensational.\n\nAnd then there was his goal, which needed a perfectly-timed run to go beyond the Liverpool defence and reach Greenwood's through ball, and then a cool head to apply the finish.\n\nAt that point, it seemed United had the game under control. It did not quite work out that way and once again, Fernandes, who has won four Premier League player of the month awards out of the seven he has been eligible for since leaving Sporting Lisbon less than 12 months ago, underlined his credentials as English football's most influential player at present.\n\nSalah's effort was the first time Liverpool had been ahead at Old Trafford since January 2017, since when Liverpool have won both the Champions League and Premier League, a clear indication that whatever issues Jurgen Klopp is wrestling with at the moment, they are not insurmountable.\n\nThe finish for the striker's 18th goal of the season did not hint at a lack of confidence as he raced on to Roberto Firmino's precise through ball, having escaped the attentions of Victor Lindelof, and lifted his shot beyond the reach of Dean Henderson.\n\nEvidently, what Klopp needs is to find a solution in defence. Williams was shaky and at fault for Rashford's goal, while Fabinho was exposed by United in this game and Cavani exploited the Brazilian's defensive inexperience to earn the free-kick that won the game.\n\nEven so, after Salah equalised from close range after United had lost possession to James Milner and never recovered their position after working their way up-field from a short goal-kick, the visitors did have chances to win it themselves.\n\nBut Dean Henderson saved from Trent Alexander-Arnold and Salah before Fernandes struck - so Liverpool's wait for a first FA Cup win since 1921 at Old Trafford, and Jurgen Klopp's for a first win at United full stop, goes on.\n\nManchester United are next in action against Sheffield United in the Premier League at Old Trafford on Wednesday, 27 January (20:15GMT). Liverpool play at Tottenham on Thursday, 28 January (20:00GMT).\n• None Manchester United have eliminated Liverpool from the FA Cup proper for the 10th time; in the competition's history, only Liverpool themselves (12 v Everton) have knocked a particular side out more times (including finals).\n• None Liverpool have won just one of their past 15 matches at Old Trafford in all competitions (D4 L10), and are winless in their last eight at the ground (D4 L4).\n• None Manchester United have won each of their past eight home games in the FA Cup; only from 1908 to 1912 have they had a better winning run on home soil in the competition (9 games).\n• None Liverpool are the first reigning Premier League champion to be eliminated from the FA Cup as early as the fourth round since Manchester City in 2014-15.\n• None Liverpool have lost back-to-back games in all competitions for the first time since March 2020.\n• None Roberto Firmino has assisted Mohamed Salah for 18 goals in all competitions for Liverpool, the most any player has set up another for the Reds under Jurgen Klopp. Since they first played together in 2017-18, this is the most one player has assisted another for all Premier League sides in all competitions.\n• None Mason Greenwood scored his first goal for Man Utd in 11 appearances in all competitions, ending his longest run of games without a goal for the club. Aged 19 years and 115 days, he was the youngest Man Utd player to score against Liverpool since Wayne Rooney in January 2005 in the Premier League (19y 83d).\n• None Marcus Rashford has scored more goals at Old Trafford against Liverpool than he has against any other opponent on home soil for Manchester United (4).\n• None Since his Man Utd debut in February 2020, Bruno Fernandes has scored more goals than any other player for Premier League clubs (28).\n• None No player has scored more goals for Premier League clubs in all competitions this season than Salah for Liverpool (19, level with Harry Kane).\n• None Attempt missed. Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) left footed shot from the right side of the box misses to the right following a set piece situation.\n• None Paul Pogba (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Victor Lindelöf (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Edinson Cavani (Manchester United) hits the right post with a header from the centre of the box. Assisted by Bruno Fernandes with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Aaron Wan-Bissaka.\n• None Goal! Manchester United 3, Liverpool 2. Bruno Fernandes (Manchester United) from a free kick with a right footed shot to the bottom right corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None All the goals, highlights and drama from Saturday's fourth-round ties are", "A protester holds a poster that reads \"One for all and all for one\" in support of opposition leader Navalany\n\nTens of thousands of people rallied across Russia on Saturday in some of the largest demonstrations held against President Vladimir Putin in years.\n\nCrowds defied police to show support for opposition leader Alexei Navalny - who was arrested last weekend after returning to the country following a near-fatal nerve agent attack last year.\n\nMonitors say more than 3,000 were arrested for taking part in rallies in dozens of cities across the country.\n\nReuters estimated that some 40,000 gathered in Moscow alone, but authorities played down the figure and said only a tenth of that number showed up.\n\nRiot police were pictured dragging away and beating some protesters. The US and UK have condemned the heavy-handed response and called for the release of peaceful protesters.\n\nJosep Borrell, the EU foreign policy chief, also expressed concern and said foreign ministers would discuss \"next steps\" on Monday.\n\nOVD Info, an independent NGO that monitors rallies, said more than 1,200 had been detained in Moscow alone.\n\nDemonstrations, held from Russia's Far East to St Petersburg, were some of the biggest seen in years.\n\nIn Omsk protesters braced freezing temperatures of almost -30C (-22F) to protest against Mr Navalny's detention.\n\nAnd conditions were even colder, -52C (-62F), at another protest held in Yakutsk in Siberia.\n\nMr Navalny, a lawyer and blogger, has long been a thorn in the side of the Kremlin. He forged reputation as an anti-corruption campaigner and has become the most prominent face of the country's opposition.\n\nHe was arrested immediately on arrival into the country last Sunday after flying home from Germany, where he had been recovering from an attempted assassination attempt which he and investigative journalists have blamed on Russian authorities - a claim officials deny.\n\nPolice said Mr Navalny had violated parole conditions and have kept him in custody pending further hearings.\n\nMuch of the international community have condemned his arrest and called for his immediate release.\n\nMr Navalny called for street protests and his team further galvanised support this week after releasing an investigative documentary about an opulent Black Sea property allegedly owned by President Putin.\n\nThe investigation, now watched more than 70m times, alleges the property cost £1bn ($1.37bn) and was paid for \"with the largest bribe in history\" but the Kremlin denies it belongs to the president.\n\nRussian authorities had warned in advance of Saturday that any unauthorised demonstrations would be \"immediately suppressed\".\n\nSome demonstrators were pictured with injuries, including wounds to the head, following the promised crackdown.", "Vaccination appointments for people aged 70-79 are being delivered from Monday - but plans to use distinctive blue envelopes in some parts of the country have been delayed.\n\nThe aim is to have this group receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nOn Sunday morning, the Scottish government said some letters would be sent out in blue envelopes and given Royal Mail priority.\n\nBut in a statement published later it said the envelopes were not yet ready.\n\nIt added that the change has no impact on the vaccination programme timetable.\n\nVaccinations for over-80s are continuing, with Nicola Sturgeon revealing on Sunday that about 40% of this age group had received a first dose of the vaccine.\n\nAll appointments will initially be sent out in white envelopes which will have a window and a black NHS logo on the right hand side.\n\nThe blue envelopes were due to be sent out in Fife, Forth Valley, Ayrshire and Arran, Lanarkshire, Greater Glasgow and Clyde, and Lothian as part of a new booking system.\n\nUnder the system, patients are scheduled in order of priority and more boards are expected to make use of the technology as the vaccination programme expands.\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said the blue envelopes would be introduced \"as quickly as possible\".\n\nHe added: \"The blue envelopes we hoped to use were not ready in time for the first tranche of vaccine appointment invitations so distinctive NHS branded white envelopes are being used as a temporary measure.\n\n\"The absolute priority remains the roll-out of vaccinations and this temporary change to the envelope colour has absolutely no impact to our timetable.\n\n\"We continue to strongly urge everyone in the 70-79 age group to check all their post in the coming weeks and take up the offer of the vaccine when it is received,\" he added.\n\nAccording to the Scottish government's vaccine deployment plan, the 470,000 people aged in the 70 and 79 age bracket should receive their first dose by mid-February.\n\nSome patients may receive a phone call from their local health board as part of the appointment process.\n\nAnd all patients aged 75 to 79 in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde will be invited via phone.\n\nA Royal Mail spokesman said \"clearly marked envelopes\" would be used to make it easier for the postal service to identify and prioritise this mail during sorting and delivery process.\n\nHe added: \"We are poised to make these letters even more noticeable in the coming weeks as we have agreed.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Scottish government has said it is on track for all those aged 80 and over to have received their first dose of the vaccine by the end of the first week in February.\n\nThis age group are being contacted by telephone or another form of letter.\n\nMinisters have faced criticism over the pace of the vaccine rollout, and accusations that Scotland is \"lagging behind\" England on the vaccine roll-out.\n\nOpposition parties say vaccines are not being supplied to GPs' surgeries fast enough.\n\nAnd they point to the latest official figures which show that 13% of over 80s in Scotland had their first dose by Sunday 17 January, while 56.3% of same age group had been vaccinated in England.\n\nMs Sturgeon told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that, a week on, the figure had reached about 40%.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon says the over 70s are to receive their vaccine date\n\nThe UK government Health Secretary Matt Hancock told Andrew Marr on Sunday that 75% of over-80s and three-quarters of UK care homes had received a first Covid vaccine in England.\n\nAbout 95% of Scottish care home residents have received their first dose, Ms Sturgeon told the Scottish government briefing on Friday.\n\nShe said the over-80s roll-out has been slower because the Scottish government has \"very deliberately\" concentrated on vaccinating care home residents first, which is \"more time consuming and labour intensive\".\n\nThis was designed to target the most vulnerable and was in line with the priority list compiled by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises on vaccine rollout across the UK, she said.\n\nScotland's national clinical director Prof Jason Leitch has defended the plan, which has been challenged by the British Medical Association (BMA) for not getting second doses out quickly enough.\n\nProf Leitch told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"The difficulty with the BMA's position is that we would have to de-prioritise another group, either care home residents or the over-80s, in order to give a second dose to younger people.\n\n\"And that's what the Joint Committee on Vaccination have told us not to do.\n\n\"They have told us in very clear terms - give the first dose to as many vulnerable people as you can and that gives us the best chance of saving the most lives.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Deputy First Minister John Swinney told Politics Scotland that the Scottish government was \"actively exploring\" the possibility of stricter rules around facemasks.\n\nHe said the issue was being \"looked at\" after new rules announced in Germany last week required people to wear medical-grade facemasks on public transport and in shops.\n\nMr Swinney said progress was being made in reducing cases but hospitals were still under \"enormous pressure\" and it would be \"foolish\" to rule out strengthening restrictions further in the future.", "Last updated on .From the section FA Cup\n\nCheltenham Town came within nine minutes of one of the biggest shocks in recent FA Cup history before Manchester City staged a dramatic late rally to crush the dreams of the gallant League Two side.\n\nThe Robins, 72 places below City who sit second in the Premier League, threatened huge embarrassment for Pep Guardiola's side after Alfie May put Cheltenham ahead on the hour after a trademark long throw from captain Ben Tozer caused chaos in the area.\n\nCity, who made ten changes to the team that beat Aston Villa in the Premier League on Wednesday, spared their embarrassment when Phil Foden, the game's outstanding player, arrived at the far post to turn in substitute Joao Cancelo's long cross in the 81st minute.\n\nAnd the turnaround was complete three minutes later when a rare moment of slackness in the outstanding Cheltenham defence, with goalkeeper Josh Griffiths superb, switched off and Gabriel Jesus scored from Fernandinho's delivery.\n\nFerran Torres scored Manchester City's third with the last kick of the game to give the scoreline a cruel reflection on Cheltenham's heroic efforts.\n\nIt was so cruel on manager Michael Duff and his players, who now go back the battle for promotion from League Two, while City will be away at Swansea in the fifth round.\n\n\"I'm incredibly proud,\" the Robins boss said of his side's display. \"The players they brought on from the bench and they way they celebrated the goals tells you something. They know they've been in a game. They've done that to better teams than us.\"\n\nThe sight of Manchester City manager Guardiola disputing where Cheltenham could take a throw-in said everything about the way the League Two underdogs gave their mighty opponents a serious fright.\n\nTozer's throw-ins were causing all manner of problems and led to Cheltenham's goal but there was so much more to their performance than that set-piece weapon, a threat any manager in the game would utilise.\n\nCheltenham tried to play football when they got the chance, with goalscorer May, who has done the hard yards in non-league before playing for Doncaster and now Cheltenham, a leading light.\n\nRobins keeper Griffiths, who suffered the ignominy of being beaten from 71 yards by his Newport County opposite number Tom King in midweek, was in defiant form as he saved well from Riyad Mahrez and Torres, showing command throughout. Tozer's headed goalline clearance from Benjamin Mendy in the first half was also symbolic of their 'they shall not pass' approach.\n\nThere may have been no fans inside this compact stadium but there was still a real sense of occasion, the game being halted in the first half because of a firework display nearby.\n\nIn the end this will be a bitter disappointment to Cheltenham but they can be rightly proud and take huge confidence into their League Two promotion battle.\n\nDuff highlighted how financially important the cup run was for his club.\n\n\"It's essential,\" he added. \"Every pound coming in is probably worth a tenner in normal times.\n\n\"These games don't come around very often. It's a shame because [with fans] the place would've been bouncing. Would that have seen us through in the last 10 minutes? I'm not so sure - but the key is to enjoy it.\"\n\nGuardiola made 10 changes to his line-up to give Manchester City's shadow squad a chance to impress.\n\nSome, like the erratic Mendy, did not take that opportunity and it was someone establishing himself in City's side that spared the blushes of this expensively assembled squad.\n\nFoden was magnificent, so light on his feet with glorious ball control, endless creativity and the man pulling the strings for City even when they were struggling to break down resilient Cheltenham.\n\nThe 20-year-old was head and shoulders above his City team-mates. He was the one who was going to pull them out of their grim predicament if anyone was, and so it proved when he popped up with the crucial late equaliser that lifted Guardiola's team and deflated Cheltenham.\n\nFoden had already carved out chances for Mahrez and Gabriel Jesus that were not taken so it was a case of 'do it yourself' when he was the player on target.\n\nThe fact Guardiola was forced to use three subs in Ruben Dias, Ilkay Gundogan and Joao Cancelo once Cheltenham went ahead proved how worried the Premier League giants were.\n\nThis was an unimpressive, scratchy display from City's much-changed team, with Guardiola resting so many of the players who are giving them such an ominous look in the Premier League - luckily they had the brilliance of Foden to pull them out of a deep hole.\n\nGuardiola praised the England attacking midfielder for his impressive performance.\n\n\"Foden is in a great moment and with great confidence,\" he said.\n\n\"He is clinical in front of goal and he had a similar chance to the goal we scored at [Chelsea's] Stamford Bridge - he is playing really well.\"\n\nThe City manager suggested he was confident in the players he put out on the pitch.\n\n\"I didn't have regrets even when we were 1-0 down, we had clear chances from the first minute,\" he added.\n\n\"When they take advantage it gets complicated, but we got it to 1-1 and it was tight. We came here with humility and had the quality to make the difference.\"\n• None Cheltenham have lost all nine of their competitive meetings with Premier League sides, by an aggregate score of 6-23.\n• None City have won 10 consecutive games in all competitions for the first time since a run of 11 from August to October 2017.\n• None May's opener for Cheltenham was the first goal City had conceded in 509 minutes of action in all competitions, since Callum Hudson-Odoi's strike for Chelsea at the start of the month.\n• None Foden is City's top scorer in all competitions this season with nine goals in 25 appearances, one more than he netted in 38 games last season.\n• None Jesus has been involved in 12 goals in 13 FA Cup appearances for City, scoring eight and assisting four.\n• None May has scored four goals in his four FA Cup games for Cheltenham, with each of his eight goals in total in the competition coming in home games.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 3. Ferran Torres (Manchester City) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan.\n• None Attempt missed. Matty Blair (Cheltenham Town) right footed shot from the right side of the box is too high following a corner.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 2. Gabriel Jesus (Manchester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Fernandinho with a through ball.\n• None Goal! Cheltenham Town 1, Manchester City 1. Phil Foden (Manchester City) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom left corner. Assisted by João Cancelo with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. João Cancelo (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the left. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez.\n• None Attempt missed. Phil Foden (Manchester City) header from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by João Cancelo with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Hear from the former US president as he reflects on his time in office\n• None How can you eat well for £1 a portion?", "Some of the party-goers have travelled from Newcastle and London, police said\n\nA student party that attracted people from up to 200 miles away has been broken up by police.\n\nSome of the guests were found hiding in cupboards when officers raided the gathering in Lower Loveday Street, Birmingham, on Friday night.\n\nOne officer was assaulted as one guest made off but was not hurt, West Midlands Police said.\n\nParty-goers had travelled to the event from places such as Newcastle, Nottingham and London.\n\nThe flats are private accommodation but predominantly used by students from Aston University and University College Birmingham, West Midlands Police said.\n\nInsp Steve Barnes added: \"We understand that young people are frustrated at not being able to enjoy themselves and I do feel their pain, but we have to stick to the rules so that we can get back to some sort of normality sooner rather than later.\n\n\"People are dying and we have to prevent the spread of this virus.\"\n\nOfficers were also called to a party on Soho Road where shop owners had set up a sound system, and a 30th birthday party attended by about 20 people in Kingstanding.\n\nAcross 32 breaches of Covid-19 lockdown rules on Friday night, the force issued 58 fines of £200 and five of £1,000.\n\nThe West Midlands is under an England-wide lockdown with people not allowed to leave home to meet others socially.\n\nOn Thursday, the government said fines of £800 would be introduced in England this week for anyone attending a house party of more than 15 people.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People made the most of the snowy slopes of Gold Hill in Shaftesbury, Dorset\n\nSevere weather warnings are in place across much of the UK after large parts of the country saw heavy snowfall.\n\nThe blanket of snow drew people outside for sledging and winter walks, but motorists have been warned to take extra care on icy roads with sub-zero temperatures forecast overnight.\n\nSeveral coronavirus vaccination and testing centres were closed in England and Wales due to the conditions.\n\nPolice reminded the public to keep to lockdown rules while out in the snow.\n\nOfficers in Wandsworth, south-west London, encouraged people with gardens to play in the snow at home.\n\nAnd police in Rutland, Leicestershire, were among several forces questioning why people were leaving their homes to go sledging.\n\nContinuing coronavirus lockdowns across the four UK nations mean most of the population must stay at home, except for a limited number of reasons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. For cats Bonny and Freddy, the snow is a chance to explore. Credit: Rachel Prew\n\nAs well as four vaccination centres in Wales, six Covid testing centres in the West Midlands had to close due to heavy snow on Sunday.\n\nHighways England warned that the snow had caused collisions on the M3, M27 and M25 in southern England, with the agency urging drivers to only travel if absolutely necessary.\n\nThose using the roads for essential journeys have been urged to allow plenty of extra time for their travel and pedestrians and cyclists are also advised to be cautious.\n\nThe Met Office put a yellow weather warning for snow in place on Sunday, stretching from coast to coast in southern England and ending just south of Manchester.\n\nIt is also in place for western and northern areas of Scotland, most of Northern Ireland and all of Wales apart from Anglesey.\n\nAn amber warning for snow in Nottingham and Stoke meant travel disruption and power cuts were likely on Sunday evening.\n\nYellow weather warnings for ice are in place until 11:00 GMT Monday for all of Wales and Northern Ireland, northern and eastern Scotland and much of southern England and the Midlands.\n\nMany people swapped their usual daily bout of exercise for sledging on Parliament Hill on Hampstead Heath, north London, but police urged people to stay at home\n\nGritters leapt into action near Touchen-end in Berkshire\n\nIn Wales, appointments at the Bridgend, Rhondda, Abercynon and Merthyr Tydfil coronavirus vaccination centres were rescheduled for safety reasons, the Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board said.\n\nUp to 1in (3cm) of snow was forecast to fall in most areas of Wales, with 4-6in (10-15cm) expected in the Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia.\n\nIn the West Midlands, coronavirus testing centres at Castle Vale Stadium, the Arcadian Centre and Maypole Youth Centre were closed, Birmingham City Council said.\n\nFacilities in Moat Street, Coventry and The Place in Oakengates in Shropshire also closed, along with one in Lichfield, Staffordshire, local MP Michael Fabricant said.\n\nAnd in Devon, a gritting lorry overturned on Dartmoor. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMet Office forecaster Simon Partridge said a band of hail, sleet, snow and rain moved in through Wales and south-west England in the early hours before sweeping across the UK and stalling over the Midlands, which saw some of the heaviest snow.\n\nColeshill, near Birmingham, had seen had 3.5in (9cm) by Sunday lunchtime.\n\nThe snow clouds eased away on Sunday evening but overnight temperatures could be as low as -4C to -6C (25F to 21F) for a lot of the south of the UK, the forecaster added.\n\n\"Some localised spots, likely in the Midlands, could see it as low as -10C (14F),\" he said.\n\nSnowmen popped up in the grounds of Guildford Castle, Surrey\n\nAs shown on the M1 in Bedfordshire, the wintry showers have caused hazardous driving conditions\n\nChris Fawkes of BBC Weather said some stretches of the M4 and M5 had been completely covered in snow at some points on Sunday morning.\n\nHe said this was partly because traffic has been low due to lockdown restrictions - and vehicles are needed to help grit mix into snow to make it melt.", "People who have received a Covid-19 vaccine could still pass the virus on to others and should continue following lockdown rules, England's deputy chief medical officer has warned.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Telegraph, Prof Jonathan Van-Tam stressed that scientists \"do not yet know the impact of the vaccine on transmission\".\n\nHe said vaccines offer \"hope\" but infection rates must come down quickly.\n\nMatt Hancock said 75% of over-80s in the UK have now had a first virus jab.\n\nBoth the Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines require two doses, and figures so far reflect those given the first dose.\n\nThe health secretary told the BBC's Andrew Marr that around three quarters of care homes had also been vaccinated.\n\nProf Van-Tam said \"no vaccine has ever been\" 100% effective, so there is no guaranteed protection.\n\nIt is possible to contract the virus in the two- to three-week period after receiving a jab, he said - and it is \"better\" to allow \"at least three weeks\" for an immune response to fully develop in older people.\n\n\"Even after you have had both doses of the vaccine you may still give Covid-19 to someone else and the chains of transmission will then continue,\" Prof Van-Tam said.\n\n\"If you change your behaviour you could still be spreading the virus, keeping the number of cases high and putting others at risk who also need their vaccine but are further down the queue.\"\n\nLast week, the person coordinating Israel's Covid response reportedly suggested a single dose of the Pfizer vaccine might not be as effective as reported.\n\nIsrael has one of the highest vaccination rates in the world against coronavirus, with scientists keenly watching data shared by the country for signs of how effective the vaccine is when given to the whole population.\n\nThe country's health minister Yuli Edelstein told the Andrew Marr Show that some people \"still get sick\" with coronavirus after getting the first dose of the vaccine, but said there were \"some encouraging signs of less severe diseases, less people hospitalised after the first dose\".\n\nSenior doctors have called on health officials in England to cut the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nThe maximum wait was extended from three to 12 weeks in order to get the first jab to more people across the UK.\n\nBut the British Medical Association said the policy was \"difficult to justify\" and the gap should be reduced to six weeks.\n\nIts chair, Dr Chaand Nagpaul, told the BBC there were \"growing concerns\" that the vaccine could become less effective with doses 12 weeks apart.\n\nResponding to the criticism, Prof Van-Tam said: \"What none of these (who ask reasonable questions) will tell me is: who on the at-risk list should suffer slower access to their first dose so that someone else who's already had one dose (and therefore most of the protection) can get a second?\"\n\nA further 32 vaccine sites are set to open across England this week.\n\nMore than 5.8 million people in the UK have received their first dose of a vaccine, according to the government's coronavirus dashboard.\n\nNHS England said new vaccine sites were preparing to open across England from Monday.\n\nThey include Dudley's Black Country Living Museum, which doubled as a set for TV series Peaky Blinders, Plymouth Argyle FC's stadium Home Park and an old Ikea store in Stratford, London.\n\nThe 32 sites will prioritise health and social care staff on Monday, and other priority patients from Tuesday.\n\nThey will bring the number of mass vaccination sites across England to 49 - as well as 70 pharmacies, more than 1,000 GP surgeries and 250 hospitals offering the jab.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Friday that more than a third of over-80s had received their first dose of a vaccine.\n\nMore than half of over-80s in Northern Ireland have had the jab, though Health Minister Robin Swann said \"it will take time\" for the programme to have a \"major effect.\"\n\nIn Wales, four vaccination centres have been shut as officials brace for more snowy weather.\n\nProf Van-Tam stressed that the UK needs to \"bring the number of cases down as soon as we can whilst we vaccinate our most vulnerable\".\n\nAnother 1,348 deaths within 28 days of a positive coronavirus test were reported in the UK on Saturday, in addition to 33,552 new infections.\n\nThere were 4,076 Covid patients were on hospital ventilators in the UK as of Friday, according to government data.\n\nThat is higher than during the first wave, when the peak was 3,301 on 12 April.\n\nHow has coronavirus affected you? What have been your experiences of vaccination, lockdown, work or travel? Email: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Rescuers in China have freed the first of a group of miners who have been trapped 600m underground for two weeks, state media report.\n\nAn explosion closed the entrance tunnel to the Hushan gold mine in Shandong province on 10 January.\n\nTV footage from China has shown the first miner being brought to the surface, as emergency workers applaud.", "Jim Haynes was both an icon and a relic of the Swinging Sixties, an American in Paris who was famous for inviting hundreds of thousands of strangers to dinner at his home. He died this month.\n\nLast February, I took my last trip abroad before lockdown closed in on us. I bought a last-minute ticket and jumped on the Eurostar to Paris, motivated by a sudden urge to have dinner with a friend. Jim Haynes had entered his late 80s and his health was declining, yet I knew he would welcome a visit. Jim always welcomed visitors.\n\nThe essence of that trip now feels like the antithesis of Covid times. I was far from the only guest wandering into the warm glow of his atelier in the 14th arrondissement on a wet winter's night. Inside, people were squeezing, shoulder to shoulder, through the narrow kitchen. Strangers struck up conversations, bunched together in groups, balancing their dinners on paper plates and reaching over each other to press the plastic spout on a communal box of wine.\n\nJim had operated open-house policy at his home every Sunday evening for more than 40 years. Absolutely anyone was welcome to come for an informal dinner, all you had to do was phone or email and he would add your name to the list. No questions asked. Just put a donation in an envelope when you arrive.\n\nThere would be a buzz in the air, as people of various nationalities - locals, immigrants, travellers - milled around the small, open-plan space. A pot of hearty food bubbled on the hob and servings would be dished out on to a trestle table, so you could help yourself and continue to mingle. It was for good reason that Jim was nicknamed the \"godfather of social networking\". He led the way in connecting strangers, long before we outsourced it all to Silicon Valley.\n\nA ballet dancer staying with Jim in the late 1970s suggested cooking for him and friends to repay the hospitality; the dinners became weekly for 40-plus years\n\nI only knew Jim in his later years, but his entire life was extraordinary. Born in Louisiana in 1933, he had lived in Venezuela as a teenager; founded the alternative culture centre Arts Lab in London, where he mixed with David Bowie, John Lennon and Yoko Ono; ran a sexual liberation magazine in Amsterdam, and all before becoming a university lecturer in sexual politics in Paris, his home since 1969.\n\nAnd yet he was often seen as a son of Scotland, following an influential stint there in the late '50s and late '60s, when he established Edinburgh's first paperback bookshop, co-founded the Traverse Theatre and helped kickstart the Fringe festival.\n\nWhen Jim died, at 87, earlier this month, a Herald obituary called him \"the unofficial agent for the beat generation in Scotland\".\n\nWhile a lot of highly regarded people tend to retreat into their own circles after finding success, Jim never stopped reaching out to new people. The first time I heard from him was an email out of the blue in 2008.\n\nI had written a newspaper article from Barcelona - not the one in Spain but the one on the coast of Venezuela - and it had brought back memories for him. His father worked in the oil business and had moved the family there when Jim was in his early teens.\n\nMy article was about meeting people through the Couchsurfing website, where locals opened their homes to strangers for free around the world. This was before AirBnB worked out how to monetise the idea, and the concept of non-commercial cultural exchange was right up Jim's street. \"When you are back in Europe, come to dinner,\" he wrote, promising to tell me about an old travel project of his own that he thought I might like.\n\nIntrigued, I headed to Paris soon after my return. I had imagined some sort of intimate dinner party with cultural elites, but what I found was more like a student house party - albeit with more mature attendees and only moderate alcohol consumption. (Jim was teetotal and proceedings ended strictly by 23:00.)\n\nJim never cooked himself, instead he invited guest cooks\n\nJim instantly greeted me like an old friend and, as we chatted, he reached up on to his living room shelves to offer me a book. People to People read the cover line. It was the project he had wanted to tell me about.\n\nHe explained that, in the late 1980s, he had founded a guidebook series for countries behind the Iron Curtain. Instead of the standard descriptions of sights and hotel listings, the format was like an address book, including the contact details for hundreds of in-country hosts. The idea was that if people could not easily see the Western world themselves, he would bring it to them via travellers. It was \"couchsurfing\", but offline.\n\nThe hand-sized copy he pressed into my palm centred on Poland. I loved it and decided to travel there to see if the participants were still up for receiving random visitors, even though so much had changed.\n\nJim created the People to People guidebooks for multiple Eastern European countries\n\nEach person was filed under the town where they lived, followed by two or three lines, including their address, date of birth, phone number and hobbies. Through a combination of Google and snail-mail, I managed to get hold of several of them. Most had all known Jim either personally or through friends of friends. All had fond memories of the project and all were still willing to act as local guides to show me around.\n\nIn Gdansk, I asked civil servant Krystyna Wróblewska why she had signed up originally. She told me she had been working as a media fixer, helping reporters cover the anti-communist shipyard strikes. \"They [the media] went looking for women with handkerchiefs on their heads and horses with carts, perpetuating the same old picture. I suppose I wanted to meet people to subvert stereotypes and show that not all the pictures you have in your head are real.\"\n\nKrystyna Wroblewska signed up in the late 1980s to show travellers around Gdansk\n\n\"It surprised me how easy it was,\" Jim insisted to me. He produced guides for Romania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, the Baltics and Russia, featuring thousands upon thousands of locals. Some of his contacts came from his personal, multi-volume address books, and he got new sign-ups after placing interviews in local papers and jazz magazines.\n\n\"Some of the older people in Russia were scared about being put on a Western list, because they thought it would be easier to be rounded up and carted away,\" he said. \"But a lot of younger people wanted to be in the book… I was getting sackfuls of mail. I'm sure the local postman wondered what the hell was going on.\"\n\nOver the years, the authorities often wondered what was going on at Jim's place. Not least during the period when he started issuing fake passports. It was back in the 1970s, after he had caught wind of an American traveller, who, 20 years before, had renounced his American citizenship and created his own \"world passport\".\n\nFor Jim, non-national passports seemed to encapsulate his ideals of peace and global freedom. So he turned his home into an \"embassy\" and started producing world passports for anyone who wanted one. The documents were so convincing that some people used them to cross borders.\n\n\"Look, you can't do this any more. You have to stop making passports,\" exasperated French police would say when they came to his door. But Jim continued until he ended up in court. Though he was eventually acquitted of fraud and counterfeiting, he was found guilty of \"confusing the public\".\n\nJim always dismissed the idea that it was a naïve undertaking, but he was trusting to a fault, according to some of his friends, and this led to financial mistakes and legal troubles over the years. He wouldn't deal with problems, waiting until they blew up instead.\n\n\"I often had to stop him signing things. Sometimes he didn't even read them,\" says Jesper, his son, who was born during Jim's marriage to Viveka Reuterskiold in the 1960s.\n\nJesper grew up in Stockholm after they separated, but visited Paris every summer from the age of 10.\n\n\"There were mattresses on every spare bit of floor, people sleeping everywhere,\" he says, as he recalls his earlier visits. \"It was exciting and fun, but sometimes I felt jealous. Lots of people did. People were very possessive of him. People wanted to claim him, but he was unclaimable.\"\n\nJesper credits his father with opening the world to him. He used Jim's contacts books extensively as he travelled and he is currently living with his own family in Bangkok, where he briefly replicated the Sunday dinners. \"Just for six months... It was a lot of work.\"\n\nDuring the 1990s, the crowds started to dwindle at the Paris dinners, as the original hippy crowd aged. But then a new wave of younger visitors started to get in touch. The bloggers had discovered him.\n\n\"The internet both ruined and saved the dinners,\" says Seamas McSwiney, a close friend who helped on Sunday evenings for decades. \"It became less spontaneous as people tried to book six months ahead - which was anathema to how Jim travelled and also annoying as those people were more likely to do a no-show - but at the same time, these online articles re-energised the idea. There was a younger crowd and new momentum.\"\n\nAt the dinners' peak, Jim would welcome up to 120 guests, filling his atelier and spilling out into the cobbled back garden. An estimated 150,000 people have come over the years.\n\n\"The door was always open,\" says Amanda Morrow, an Australian journalist who stayed with Jim for a year-and-a-half. \"It was a revolving door of guests - some who wanted to stay over, and others who just wanted to say hello. Jim never said no to anyone.\"\n\nThe only thing that really got Jim down was people leaving,\" says Jesper. \"He struggled with that. He didn't like being on his own... Though fortunately there was usually a new person to distract him.\"\n\nIn the final years, Jim would sit quietly, as others gravitated into his orbit. On my last visit, he looked frail and pained by his various ailments, but he also had an air of contentment, clearly never tiring of being the conduit for human interactions.\n\n\"I was wondering when you'd come back,\" he said to me, in the rasping American accent he somehow had never lost.\n\nHere was a man who had spent time with Lennon and Bowie, who was once friends with Sonia Orwell and used to walk round Paris with Samuel Beckett. And yet he made everyone feel special. Every connection mattered.\n\n\"It felt like politician's trick, but it was natural,\" says Seamas.\n\nIn very recent times, Covid restrictions reduced the dinners' clockwork schedule, but his friends say he was not depressed by the pandemic. He had figured the get-togethers would resume and, until then, had enjoyed a smaller stream of visiting carers and, whenever possible, friends.\n\nAmid the outpouring of online tributes since his death in his sleep on 6 January, these words from Jesper stand out: \"His goal from early on was to introduce the whole world to each other. He almost succeeded.\"\n\nYou may also be interested in:", "The EHIC card is making way for the GHIC card under a new agreement with the EU\n\nUK residents can apply for a Global Health Insurance Card (GHIC) to access emergency medical care in the EU when their current EHIC card runs out.\n\nUnder a new agreement with the EU, both cards will offer equivalent healthcare protection when people are on holiday, studying or travelling for business.\n\nThis includes emergency treatment as well as treatment needed for a pre-existing condition.\n\nThe new GHIC card is free and can be obtained via the official GHIC website.\n\nCurrent European Health Insurance Cards (EHIC) are valid as long as they are in date, and can continue to be used when travelling to the EU.\n\nYou don't need to apply for a GHIC until your current EHIC expires.\n\nPeople should apply at least two weeks before they plan to travel to ensure their card arrives on time.\n\nHealth Minister Edward Argar said: \"Our deal with the EU ensures the right for our citizens to access necessary healthcare on their holidays and travels to countries in the EU will continue.\n\n\"The GHIC is a key element of the UK's future relationship with the EU and will provide certainty and security for all UK residents.\"\n\nIf a UK resident is travelling without a card, they are still entitled to necessary healthcare, and should contact the NHS Business Services Authority (which covers the whole of the UK), which can arrange for payment should they require treatment when abroad.\n\nEHICs from EU member states will continue to be accepted by the NHS.\n\nIt is advised that anyone travelling overseas, whether to the EU or elsewhere in the world, should take out comprehensive travel insurance.", "A video featuring footage of a County Mayo man being consumed by fits of laughter while trying to record a birthday message for his son, has gone viral.\n\nVincent McDonnell was sending the message to his son David, who was celebrating his 40th birthday in Australia.\n\nHis younger son Paul got the video rolling, but the pair could not contain their laughter as they racked up the attempts.\n\nThe video has been viewed more than 1.5m times on Paul's Twitter account.", "The UK economy will \"get worse before it gets better\" as the country battles the pandemic, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has warned.\n\nThe chancellor told MPs the new national restrictions were necessary to control the spread of coronavirus.\n\nHowever, he said they would have a further significant economic impact,\n\n\"Even with the significant economic support we've provided, over 800,000 people have lost their job since February,\" he said.\n\n\"Sadly, we have not and will not be able to save every job and every business.\n\n\"But I am confident that our economic plan is supporting the finances of millions of people and businesses.\"\n\nThe chancellor said \"the road ahead will be tough\", but maintained that the government was \"taking the difficult but right long-term decisions for our country\".\n\nHe said that fiscal stimulus provided so far amounted to more than £280bn, while 1.2 million employers had furloughed almost 10 million employees.\n\nAt the same time, three million people had benefited from self-employment grants.\n\nMr Sunak said he would \"bear in mind\" calls to extend business rate relief and provide further support for the hospitality sector at the Budget in March.\n\nShadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds accused Mr Sunak of being \"out of ideas\" and providing \"nothing new\".\n\nShe said: \"The purpose of an update is to provide us with new information, not to repeat what we already know.\"\n\nThe chancellor's words reflect the fact that with a widespread lockdown, the first months of 2021 are likely to see a further contraction in the UK economy and probably an official double-dip recession. This reflects the physical shutdown nationwide of hospitality and retail, as well as the effect in the data of school shutdowns too.\n\nIn addition, consumers and workers are likely to be more cautious as the vaccine starts to be rolled out. So this is a very odd sort of economic tripwire. The challenge in the next weeks and months gets bigger, although not as big as it was last April. But beyond that, there is the hope of something normal.\n\nThe implication for the chancellor as he prepares a vital early March Budget, however, is further delay to the measures, such as tax rises, to deal with historic levels of pandemic government borrowing.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK is at the \"worst point\" of the pandemic, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has warned, but said the actions of the public \"could make a difference\".\n\nAt a No 10 briefing, Mr Hancock pleaded with people to follow the government's Covid rules until the vaccine could provide a \"way out\" of the pandemic.\n\nThe government earlier published its plan to immunise tens of millions of people by spring.\n\nSo far 2.3 million people in the UK have had a first Covid vaccine shot.\n\nAnd a total of 2.6 million doses have been given out across the country, with some people having received both doses.\n\nMr Hancock said the new variant of coronavirus was putting the NHS under \"significant pressure\", adding it was \"imperative\" that people limit their social contacts.\n\n\"The NHS, more than ever before, needs everybody to be doing something right now - and that something is to follow the rules,\" he said.\n\n\"I know there has been speculation about more restrictions, and we don't rule out taking further action if it is needed, but it is your actions now that can make a difference.\"\n\nThe health secretary said he could \"rule out\" tightening restrictions by removing support and childcare bubbles, however.\n\nHis comments follow similar warnings from Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty, who said that the next few weeks will be \"the worst\" of the pandemic for the NHS.\n\nAccording to the latest figures, there have been another 529 deaths within 28 days of a positive test in the UK, and another 46,169 cases reported. There are also more than 32,000 people in hospital with coronavirus, data shows.\n\nMatt Hancock has previously said he's learned to rule nothing out when it comes to dealing with the pandemic.\n\nBut today he took the unusual step of doing just that.\n\nSupport bubbles and childcare bubbles, hugely valued by so many, will stay.\n\nSenior Whitehall sources have previously told me bubbles were \"untouchable\" but for a minister to say as much, so explicitly and on the record, means there's now very little wriggle room for the government to change its mind.\n\nMinisters will know that scrapping bubbles, for those that rely on them, could have proved deeply unpopular. But this certainty is a rarity.\n\nWhilst the current emphasis is on compliance, the idea of toughening up controls in other areas is not being ruled out.\n\nThe vaccine delivery plan says it is expected to take until spring to give a first dose to all 32 million people in the UK's priority groups, including everyone over 55 and those who are clinically vulnerable.\n\nUnder the plan, the government has pledged to carry out at least two million vaccinations in England per week by the end of January, which it says will be made possible by rolling out jabs at 206 hospital sites, 50 vaccination centres and around 1,200 local vaccination sites.\n\nIt also reiterates the government's aim of offering vaccinations to around 15 million people in the UK - the over-70s, older care home residents and staff, frontline healthcare workers and the clinically extremely vulnerable - by mid-February.\n\nAccording to Mr Hancock, two fifths of over-80s have now received their first dose, and almost a quarter of care home residents have received theirs.\n\nAlso at the briefing, NHS England's national medical director, Prof Stephen Powis, said the NHS was aiming to vaccinate the rest of the top nine priority groups by April, with a final push to offer all adults over 18 a jab by the autumn.\n\nHe stressed it would take until February before there were \"early signs\" that vaccination was leading to a drop in hospitalisations.\n\nThe country has still not seen the full impact of the Christmas loosening of lockdown restrictions, Prof Powis added, although he noted there are now 13,000 more Covid patients in hospital than there were on Christmas Day.\n\nSpeaking in Bristol earlier, Mr Johnson warned the vaccination programme was in a \"race against time\" because of pressure on the NHS.\n\nHe said it was \"a very perilous moment because everyone can sense the vaccine is coming in - my worry is that will breed false complacency\".\n\nThe newly-published vaccination plan also says ministers are aiming to offer jabs at more than 2,700 sites across the UK.\n\nAnd it says that daily vaccination figures for England will be published from now on - showing the total number vaccinated to date, including first and second doses.\n\nEarlier, NHS England's chief executive, Sir Simon Stevens, told MPs that there was a \"strong case\" for asking the the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) to consider prioritising \"teachers and other key workers\" for vaccination after the \"first nine [priority] groups have been vaccinated\".\n\nA quarter of coronavirus admissions to hospital are for people under the age of 55, he added.\n\nIn the first four weeks of the vaccination campaign, the NHS did 1.3 million vaccinations.\n\nNews that in the past week almost the same again has been done shows progress is being made - even though there has been some concern rollout to care home residents has been slower than hoped.\n\nHitting two million doses a week is the next target - and is something the NHS is aiming to get close to this week.\n\nWith more vaccination sites opening by the day, it should be achievable as long as there is good supply.\n\nThere is already enough vaccine in the country to vaccinate all 15 million people in the highest at-risk groups that have been promised an offer of a vaccine by mid-February.\n\nHowever, not all of it has been through the final safety checks or been packaged up ready for distribution.\n\nChallenges remain, but even at this early stage it is clear there is growing optimism that the programme is on track.\n\nAs seven mass vaccination centres opened across England on Monday, NHS England said hundreds more GP-led and hospital services would also open later this week.\n\nBut with all centres, people will need to wait until they receive an invitation.\n\nTwo vaccines - Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca - are currently being administered in the UK.\n\nOn Friday, a third coronavirus vaccine - made by US company Moderna - was approved for use, although supplies are not expected to arrive until spring.\n\nVaccine programmes are also progressing in the UK's devolved nations.\n\nAll over-50s and everyone who is at greater risk from Covid in Wales will be offered a vaccine by spring, under new plans.\n\nAnd Scotland's health secretary has said every aged over 80 or over in the nation will be offered a jab by February, while care workers in Northern Ireland who provide services to ill or elderly patients living at home can now book an appointment to get a Covid-19 vaccine.\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer has questioned why there are \"less restrictions in place\" now than there were last March.\n\nIn his first speech of the year, he said: \"I do think it's time to hear from the scientists [about] what else could be done and that probably should be done in the next few hours\".\n\nMeanwhile, the United Arab Emirates is being removed from the UK list of travel corridors amid a spike in Covid cases.\n\nAnd England's Test and Trace scheme has revised one of its definitions of a \"close contact\" - the people who need to be reached if they have been near to someone who has tested positive for Covid.\n\nThis now refers to anyone who has been within two metres of someone for more than 15 minutes, whether in a single period or cumulatively over the course of one day.\n\nPreviously the definition was just a single period of at least 15 minutes.", "Rani has co-hosted BBC One's Countryfile since 2015\n\nCountryfile host Anita Rani is to join Emma Barnett as a presenter of BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.\n\nShe will present the Friday and Saturday editions of the long-running programme, beginning on 15 January.\n\nRani, 43, said she had \"long been a fan\" of the programme and that she was \"really looking forward to getting to know the listeners and discussing issues that matter to them the most\".\n\nLong-time hosts Jane Garvey and Dame Jenni Murray left the show last year.\n\nBarnett, 35, who made her name on Radio 5 Live and Newsnight, made her Woman's Hour debut on 4 January. She hosts the show from Monday to Thursday.\n\nWriting on Twitter, Rani said it was \"an honour\" to be joining Radio 4's \"mothership\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by anita rani This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRani joined the BBC's Asian Network in 2005 and is a regular presenter on BBC Radio 2. She is also known for her appearances on The One Show and Watchdog, and for competing on the 2015 series of Strictly Come Dancing.\n\n\"Woman's Hour has always given a voice to people who may not be heard elsewhere and I want to continue that important tradition,\" she said.\n\nRadio 4 controller Mohit Bakaya said he wanted the station to \"better reflect and be relevant to the audience across the UK\". Rani will bring \"a wealth of broadcasting experience\" as well as a \"valuable\" perspective and insight, he added.\n\nComedian Shappi Khorsandi was among those to welcome her new role, saying she would be \"listening even more\".\n\nRani's appointment means the new Woman's Hour presenters are considerably younger than their predecessors. Dame Jenni was 70 when she left on 1 October, while Garvey was 56 when she signed off last month.\n\nEmma Barnett took the reins of Woman's Hour earlier this month\n\nBefore leaving, Garvey expressed a hope that whoever joined Barnett would be closer to her own age.\n\n\"Emma is in her 30s and that's great,\" she told the Daily Telegraph. \"It will give the programme a real energy, which I think is brilliant.\n\n\"So I think the person working alongside her should be somebody nearer my age to make sure we give the audience as broad a range of life experience and interests as possible. I would prefer it if the other presenter were in her 50s.\"\n\nBarnett had an eventful first week on the Radio 4 institution, opening her stint by reading out a message from The Queen.\n\nTwo days later, one of her guests dropped out of a discussion after objecting to remarks the presenter made about her off air.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A twenty-year-old from Cambridgeshire who spent a week in intensive care with Covid-19 says he can't believe so many young people are in denial about the virus.\n\nJay Clack fell ill on December 27th and within five days, 80% of his lungs has stopped functioning.\n\nWhile in intensive care he had a goodbye phone call with his family.\n\nBut now, he's showing signs of recovery and spoke to the BBC's Jon Ironmonger.", "The police are stepping up enforcement because they believe many people breaking the Covid regulations are doing so because they are stubborn, not because they don’t understand what is allowed.\n\nThe public, police, and legal experts do struggle to keep up with the ever-changing rules.\n\nBut the organisers of a party on a boat in Hertfordshire, the passengers on a minibus heading for Wales, and the couple who travelled 120 miles to \"watch seals\" would have struggled to explain to the officers issuing them with fines that they were confused.\n\nThose were clear breaches. More complicated is the fine line between the law - which police officers can enforce - and the government guidance, which they can’t.\n\nNo law says exercise can only be conducted once a day, or for a specific duration. These are pieces of firm guidance, along with the request to \"stay local\", which resulted in criticism of the prime minister after his bike ride in east London.\n\nIt would be difficult to set a distance limit which would work for both people living in rural areas and inner cities. Impossible to prove that a 65-minute run was in breach of the law.\n\nWhich is why the success of the measures will rely on personal responsibility in the end.\n\nAnd why some experts are saying that different messages such as \"act like you’ve got it\" or \"thanks for doing the right thing\" might cut through better than a list of regulations to be obeyed.", "Seven new mass vaccination centres have opened up across England to help deliver the Coronavirus vaccine, as the Prime Minister says we are facing a \"perilous moment\" in the fight against the virus.\n\nThe Centre of Life in Newcastle is home to one of them, with others in Bristol, Epsom, London, Manchester, Stevenage and Birmingham.\n\nInitially they will be used to vaccinate the over 80's, alongside NHS staff and health and social care workers. It's part of a drive that the government hopes will see 15 million people vaccinated against the virus by mid-February.", "But it delivered a fascinating look behind the scenes at two cutting-edge ways the firm is creating video content.\n\nThe first involved the use of a giant screen which is matched with movement-sensors on a camera to create a fake backdrop that shifts in turn with the lens.\n\nA similar technique was pioneered by Industrial Light & Magic and used in the Star Wars spin-off series The Mandalorian, but this opens the door to other filmmakers.\n\nThe screens involved use Sony's Crystal LED technology, which the firm first unveiled at CES in 2012, but has been unable to bring low down enough in price to take mainstream.\n\nIn effect, this is its version of micro-LED tech, using millions of tiny light emitting diodes (LEDs) to match the number of pixels. The result is much greater brightness and contrast than a normal LCD or OLED display would be capable of.\n\nThe background footage moves in time with the camera to aid the illusion Image caption: The background footage moves in time with the camera to aid the illusion\n\nUntil now, the firm has marketed the tech at building owners wanting the ultimate video walls. But this has the potential to help film and advert-makers place actors within environments they can see, rather than relying on greenscreen effects.\n\nThe second innovation was the creation of an \"immersive reality\" performance, which uses body sensors to create a highly-detailed animated version of an artist.\n\nIt was demoed by the singer-songwriter Madison Beer.\n\nMotion capture has been used for years to add special effects to characters in movies and to place real-world actors into video games.\n\nBut the aim here is to create a lifelike representation of a performer on stage at a concert.\n\nThe footage shown didn't quite escape the \"uncanny valley\" - there's still some way to go before we can't tell the difference between a real person and even a highly detailed avatar.\n\nBut it's easy to imagine that the tech being more impressive when viewed in virtual reality, where users can move about and choose their view.\n\nThe computer-generated image looks less real the closer you get to the performer Image caption: The computer-generated image looks less real the closer you get to the performer\n\nUntil now, VR apps of concerts have either offered a pick of different static camera locations or involved much lower-resolution characters.\n\nWith Covid meaning it's impossible for artists to tour, this second-best experience could be very timely when it's offered to PlayStation VR headsets and other devices soon.", "John Lewis is suspending its click and collect services and tightening safety measures after a \"change in tone\" from the government over the virus.\n\nThe department store will also pause in-home services, unless they are \"essential to customers' wellbeing\".\n\nThe retailer said it felt the changes were right with the country at a \"critical point in the pandemic\".\n\nHowever customers will be able to collect John Lewis orders from Waitrose stores.\n\nWaitrose, which belongs to the John Lewis Partnership, is also tightening rules over face coverings, following moves from the other supermarkets to make face masks mandatory for shoppers unless they have a medical exemption.\n\n\"We've listened carefully to the clear change in tone and emphasis of the views and information shared by the UK's governments in recent days,\" said Andrew Murphy, Executive Director, Operations.\n\n\"While we recognise that the detail of formal guidance has not changed, we feel it is right for us - and in the best interests of our Partners and customers - to take proactive steps to further enhance our Covid-security and related operational policies.\"\n\nJohn Lewis said click and collect from its department stores would be switched off for new orders from the end of Tuesday.\n\nExisting orders and bookings for services, such as installing washing machines, will still be carried out, if customers wish to proceed, but there will be no further bookings for non-essential services.\n\nMany other shops from coffee chains to craft suppliers are offering click and collect services. However, with the continued rise in coronavirus cases the government is examining ways to reduce social contact further.\n\nThe book chain Waterstones stopped offering click and collect services from its shops at the start of the current lockdown.\n\nMarks and Spencer said it was continuing to offer customers the opportunity to collect other items at its food halls, which are still open for grocery shopping.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gary Furlong described his son as \"an amazing, kind boy\"\n\nThe father of one of three men murdered in a park terror attack has called on the home secretary to \"tell us why\" the killer was deemed safe to be free.\n\nGary Furlong, whose son James, 36, was killed in Reading's Forbury Gardens attack in June, said it was \"beyond\" him why Khairi Saadallah was considered \"not a danger to the public\".\n\nSaadallah was jailed for the rest of his life over the murders.\n\nThe Home Office has not yet responded to a BBC request for comment.\n\nAt the time of the attack Home Secretary Priti Patel said: \"We must learn the lessons from what has happened... to prevent anything like this from happening again.\"\n\nDuring his trial, London's Old Bailey heard Saadallah \"executed\" James Furlong, David Wails, 49, and Joe Ritchie-Bennett, 39, as an \"act of religious jihad\" on the afternoon of 20 June.\n\nHe was jailed on Monday having previously admitted the three murders and the attempted murders of three other men.\n\nKhairi Saadallah admitted three counts of murder and three of attempted murder\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said a Serious Further Offence (SFO) review had been completed into how Saadallah was managed by the National Probation Service.\n\nThe victims' families would be offered a meeting to discuss the findings of the review, it added.\n\nIt comes after the killer had been subject to licence conditions at the time of the attack.\n\nThe court previously heard on the 18 June, two days before the attack, Saadallah's probation officer had emailed his mental health team as he had been talking about \"magic\".\n\nSaadallah also contacted the mental health crisis team himself, but he did not not open the door when they visited on 19 June.\n\nThe court heard Saadallah, who arrived in Britain from Libya in 2012, had previously been involved with militias who had been part of the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, and was pictured handling weapons, including firearms.\n\nSince seeking asylum in Britain, he had been repeatedly arrested and convicted of various offences, including theft and assault, between 2013 and 2020.\n\nAnalysis of Saadallah's phone revealed an interest in extremist material and the court heard while at HMP Bullingdon in 2017, he was seen to associate with radical preacher Omar Brookes, who has connections with banned terrorist organisation Al-Muhajiroun.\n\nSpeaking after the sentencing, Gary Furlong, from Liverpool, said Ms Patel needed to \"tell us why this guy wasn't put into some form of detention centre before they could deport him\".\n\n\"He was not safe to be released back on the streets,\" he added.\n\nSaadallah, 26, had been told just before his release from prison that the Home Office wanted to deport him, but it was not legally possible due to the situation in Libya.\n\nIn law, what are known as the Hardial Singh principles place certain limits on the government's power to detain people ahead of deportation.\n\nThe Prime Minister's spokesman said the government \"always tries to remove foreign national offenders where possible\".\n\nHe was released from custody on 5 June, and proceeded to research the location for his attack online and carry out reconnaissance in the park.\n\n(L-R) David Wails, Joe Ritchie-Bennett and James Furlong were pronounced dead at the scene\n\nFollowing concerns from his brother, police visited the killer on 19 June, but he told officers he was \"alright\" while he stood near to a knife he bought from a supermarket.\n\nSaadallah's brother, Aiman, said he had asked for police to detain him under the Mental Health Act, and added \"lives would have been saved\" if more had been done.\n\nThames Valley Police has been contacted for comment.\n\nReading Refugee Support Group's (RRSG) also said it had raised concerns about his potential for radicalisation over three years and the possibility of a \"London Bridge\" scenario.\n\nIn a statement, it said Saadallah had a \"known, significant mental health problem\".\n\n\"This in no way excuses what he did. He murdered three innocent people. But there must be accountability on the part of services that should have supported him,\" it said.\n\nBut passing sentence Mr Justice Sweeney said it was \"clear that the defendant did not, and does not, have any major mental illness\".\n\nGary Furlong said: \"Given the volume of crimes he's committed and the information that they had on him, for an assessment to be done the night before to say that he's not a danger to the public - it is beyond me.\n\n\"How was he ever allowed to stay in this country? How was he allowed in, in the first place?\"\n\nHistory teacher James Furlong and pharmaceutical manager Mr Ritchie-Bennett each died from a single stab wound to the neck, while scientist Mr Wails was stabbed once in the back.\n\nDespite treatment from paramedics and doctors, all three friends, who were members of the LGBT community, died at the scene.\n\nGary Furlong described his son as \"an amazing, kind boy\" who was loved by family, friends and students.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Royal Mail has published a list of areas where there have been delivery delays due to its workforce being affected by the Covid pandemic.\n\nThe postal service said some areas will see a reduced service due to workers being off sick or self-isolating.\n\nRoyal Mail listed 28 areas where post might be late, with 27 in England and one in Northern Ireland.\n\nProblems with deliveries over Christmas had prompted shoppers to complain about parcels not arriving on time.\n\nRoyal Mail said: \"Despite our best efforts and significant investment in extra resource, some customers may experience slightly longer delivery timescales than our usual service standards.\n\n\"This is due to the exceptionally high volumes we are seeing, exacerbated by the coronavirus-related measures we have put in place in local mail centres and delivery offices to keep our people and customers safe.\"\n\nMany of the affected areas are in or near London, while others include Chelmsford in Essex, Leeds in West Yorkshire, Margate in Kent, and Widnes in Cheshire.\n\nLabour MP Wes Streeting, whose Ilford constituency is one of the areas affected, tweeted on Sunday that he was concerned about vaccination invitations getting caught up in Royal Mail delays.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Wes Streeting MP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut Covid vaccine deployment minister Nadhim Zahawi replied that the government would work with Royal Mail to ensure that vaccine invitations were prioritised.\n\nCustomers have taken to Twitter to complain about delays to their postal service.\n\n\"Unfortunately I live in one of these areas.,\" wrote Matt S. \"N8 has been receiving an absolutely dreadful service since April 2020 - @RoyalMail what are you going to do to improve the situation?\"\n\nMark Harrison wrote: \"We could manage and expect a bit of disruption - but we've had only 2 deliveries in a month. Nothing for a fortnight. SE11 not even on the list of disrupted areas. Royal Mail need to get a grip.\"\n\nIn a service update on Tuesday, Royal Mail said: \"Due to resourcing issues, deliveries in the following areas are likely to be limited.\"", "Khairi Saadallah admitted three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder\n\nA killer who stabbed three men to death in a Reading park has been handed a whole-life jail term.\n\nKhairi Saadallah murdered James Furlong, 36, David Wails, 49, and 39-year-old Joe Ritchie-Bennett, in June last year in Forbury Gardens.\n\nLondon's Old Bailey previously heard the 26-year-old \"executed\" the men as an \"act of religious jihad\".\n\nPassing sentence Judge Mr Justice Sweeney said it was a \"ruthless and brutal\" terror attack.\n\nSaadallah, who admitted the murders, had also pleaded guilty to the attempted murders of three other men who were also in the park.\n\nThe judge said the victims \"had no chance to react, let alone defend themselves\".\n\n(L-R) David Wails, Joe Ritchie-Bennett and James Furlong were pronounced dead at the scene\n\nHe said he was sure the attack \"involved a substantial degree of premeditation or planning\" and was carried out \"for the purpose of advancing a political, religious, or ideological cause\".\n\nBBC News correspondent Helena Wilkinson, who was in court, said the families of James Furlong and David Wails were present, while Joseph Ritchie-Bennett's loved ones watched via a link from America.\n\nSaadallah showed no emotion as Mr Justice Sweeney went through his sentencing remarks.\n\nOn the afternoon of 20 June, the park was busy due to the first lockdown restrictions being relaxed in England.\n\nAndrew Cafe, who witnessed the stabbings, said he saw Saadallah wielding the \"biggest kitchen knife\" and charging towards him shouting \"Allahu Akbar\".\n\nPharmaceutical manager Mr Ritchie-Bennett and teacher Mr Furlong died from single stab wounds to their necks, while scientist Mr Wails was stabbed once in the back.\n\nDespite treatment from paramedics and doctors, all three friends, who were members of the LGBT community, died at the scene.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Witness Andrew Cafe visited Forbury Gardens for the first time since the attack\n\nThree other people - Nishit Nisudan, Patrick Edwards and Stephen Young - were also injured, before Saadallah threw away the knife and fled the scene, pursued by police.\n\nFollowing his arrest, Saadallah initially said he wanted to plead guilty to the \"jihad that I done\", but the prosecution claimed he later feigned mental illness in police interviews.\n\nAt a previous hearing, the court heard he had developed an emotionally unstable and anti-social personality disorder, with his behaviour worsened by alcohol and cannabis misuse.\n\nBut the judge said it was \"clear that the defendant did not, and does not, have any major mental illness\".\n\nAn examination of Saadallah's phone revealed an interest in extremist material, including images of the flag of Islamic State and Jihadi John, the court previously heard.\n\nWhile at HMP Bullingdon in 2017, he was seen to associate with radical preacher Omar Brookes, who has connections with banned terrorist organisation Al-Muhajiroun.\n\nThe court heard Saadallah, who arrived in Britain from Libya in 2012, had previously been involved with militias who had been part of the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, and was pictured handling weapons, including firearms.\n\nSince seeking asylum in Britain, he had been repeatedly arrested and convicted of various offences, including theft and assault, between 2013 and 2020.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. CCTV cameras captured Khairi Saadallah before and after the stabbing\n\nHe briefly came to the attention of MI5 in 2019, but the information provided did not meet the threshold of investigation.\n\nSaadallah had been released from prison on 5 June, days before the attack, the court heard.\n\nOn 17 June, he researched the location for his attack online and carried out reconnaissance in the park.\n\nThe following day his probation officer alerted his mental health team over comments he made about magic.\n\nA day later, Saadallah contacted the crisis team himself, but when they visited he did not answer.\n\nFollowing concerns from his brother, police visited the killer the same day, but he told officers he was \"alright\" while he stood near a knife he bought from a supermarket.\n\nAndrew Wails said losing his brother had been devastating\n\nAfter the sentencing, James Furlong's father, Gary, said: \"The secretary of state needs to tell us why this guy wasn't put into some form of detention centre before they could deport him.\n\n\"He was not safe to be released back on the streets.\"\n\nReferring to the fact that Saadallah had been visited by police the night before the attack, Mr Furlong said: \"Given the volume of crimes he's committed and the information that they had on him, for an assessment to be done the night before to say that he's not a danger to the public - it is beyond me.\"\n\nHe described Mr Furlong, originally from Liverpool, as \"a lovely man, loved by his family, idolised by his mother\".\n\nDavid Wails' brother Andrew said: \"For us as a family it's been devastating to lose our much loved son, brother and uncle.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Bennett family described Mr Ritchie-Bennett as a \"devoted and loving husband\" and \"a man who cared strongly about family\".\n\nThe park had been busy due to the first lockdown restrictions being relaxed in England\n\nDet Ch Supt Kath Barnes, head of Counter Terrorism Policing South East, described Saadallah as \"a committed jihadist\".\n\nShe said: \"He has caused unspeakable hurt and distress to the families of the three men who were brutally murdered as they were relaxing and enjoying socialising with friends on a Saturday evening.\n\n\"I'm sure there will also be lasting effects on those who were injured in the attack, who were fortunate not to have been even more seriously harmed.\"\n\nReading Borough Council leader Jason Brock described the attacks as \"horrific\" and \"senseless\" and said a permanent memorial to the victims was planned.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Vogue editor Anna Wintour said images of Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris were meant to celebrate her achievements\n\nUS Vogue editor Anna Wintour has defended the magazine following criticism of its front-cover portrait of Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris.\n\nThe image shows Ms Harris wearing an informal outfit including jeans and a pair of Converse trainers.\n\nSocial media users have criticised Vogue for the photo's \"washed out\" lighting and styling, saying it does not reflect Ms Harris's achievements.\n\nBut Ms Wintour said the photos were intended to highlight her success.\n\n\"We want nothing but to celebrate Vice-President-elect Harris's amazing victory and the important moment this is for America's history and particularly women of colour all over the world,\" Ms Wintour said in a statement to the New York Times' Kara Swisher.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Vogue Magazine This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe also defended Vogue's decision to use the picture for the print cover of its February issue, rather than an alternative portrait of her in a more formal suit.\n\nA member of Ms Harris's team told AP news agency that Vogue staff, including Ms Wintour, agreed to feature the blue-suited image on cover. But Ms Wintour denied that any formal agreement had been made.\n\n\"All of us felt very, very strongly that the less formal portrait of the vice-president-elect really reflected the moment that we were living in,\" said Ms Wintour.\n\n\"We felt to reflect this tragic moment in global history, a much less formal picture... really reflected the hallmark of the Biden/Harris campaign and everything they were trying to - and I'm sure they will - achieve,\" the editor - herself an influential supporter of the Democratic Party - added.\n\nSources at Vogue told the New York Times that the second, more formal image may be used as a cover for a separate print edition.\n\nBoth pictures were taken by Tyler Mitchell who, in 2018, became the first black photographer to shoot a Vogue cover.\n\nThe magazine has been criticised in the past over issues relating to race.\n\nSeveral former employees previously shared experiences of alleged racism in the workplace with the New York Times.\n\nEarlier this year, British Vogue editor Edward Enninful spoke out after he was allegedly \"racially profiled\" by a security guard at the magazine's UK offices.\n\nYou might also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. HBO's Insecure is making sure lighting people of colour is not an afterthought", "A deal has been agreed for the sale of the Edinburgh Woollen Mill, Ponden Home and Bonmarché chains, which were on the brink of closure.\n\nThe businesses went into administration last year after a collapse in sales due to the pandemic.\n\nAlmost 2,000 staff will be kept on but as many as 260 stores could close.\n\nThe buyers are a consortium of international investors who will inject fresh funds into the business, led by the existing management team.\n\nEdinburgh Woollen Mill, which sells mid-price knitwear and other clothing to older shoppers, is part of a stable of retail brands owned by billionaire businessman, Philip Day.\n\nIt is understood that Mr Day will effectively lend the group the money to buy the businesses which will be paid back over a number of years.\n\nThe deal also covers two other brands in the group, value retailer Bonmarché, and Ponden Home, an interiors chain based in the south east of England.\n\nThe new owners plan to operate 246 stores across both the Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home brands, retaining 1,453 staff in those stores, the head office and distribution centres in Carlisle.\n\nHowever, 85 Edinburgh Woollen Mill stores and 34 Ponden Home stores have been closed permanently, with the loss of 485 jobs.\n\nWakefield-based Bonmarché will retain 72 of its stores and 531 staff including head office and distribution centre staff.\n\nThe majority of its stores, 148 outlets, remain under review with staff on furlough.\n\nAdministrators representing Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home said the deal represented the best chance to save stores and jobs, given the difficult outlook for UK retail.\n\n\"We regret that not all of Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Ponden Home could be rescued,\" said Tony Wright, partner at FRP. \"This has resulted in a significant number of redundancies at a particularly challenging time of year and period of economic uncertainty.\"\n\nRetail has been particularly hard hit by measures to curb the spread of Covid-19. Even when shops have been open many shoppers stayed away, wary of the health risks.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium said consumers bought 5% less last year than the year before (not including food). Much of that custom switched from the High Street to online, making it harder for chains whose customers usually shop in person. Physical stores saw sales drop by a quarter, the BRC said.\n\nOther major brands including Topshop-owner Arcadia and Debenhams have also gone into administration, costing hundreds of jobs.\n\n\"Lockdowns have proved hugely damaging for mid-range fashion chains like Edinburgh Woollen Mill and Bonmarché whose traditional customer base has not adapted so quickly to online shopping as younger shoppers,\" said Susannah Streeter, analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"The backers of this rescue deal clearly believe there is pent-up demand amongst core customers which will be released once the doors are flung open once more,\" she added.\n\nOn Monday, Marks & Spencer announced it was buying Jaeger, another brand that had belonged to Philip Day's portfolio.\n\nPeacocks, another High Street fashion brand in the EWM group remains in administration.", "As major social media platforms crack down on accounts promoting US election conspiracy theories, many conspiracy and far-right groups in the US are looking for a new home online.\n\nTwitter hasn’t just kicked the president off the platform. It’s also closed down some 70,000 accounts associated with the QAnon conspiracy, while Facebook said it is continuing efforts to shut down “Stop the Steal” groups which allege, with no evidence, that Donald Trump was cheated of the presidency.\n\nOne of the most popular alternatives had been the self-styled “free speech” social media outlet Parler, but then over the weekend that was banned too for posts inciting violence.\n\nThen there’s Gab, a Twitter-like platform popular with right-wing groups, which is awash with extreme content and welcomes QAnon followers with open arms. It claims to have added 600,000 new users since the riots.\n\nIt’s thought Gab’s user base is far smaller than that of the now-closed Parler, which had around 16m users.\n\nOthers seem to be moving to MeWe, which is similar to Facebook.\n\nThere are some parallels with online jihadists, who also found their voices silenced after the rise of Islamic State in the Middle East.\n\nThe Islamic State group and al-Qaeda frequently have to re-establish their online presence after social media companies identify and close their accounts, leading to a nomadic online existence.\n\nThey have already adapted to life outside the big social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook and have exploited less well known platforms and apps to get their messages out.\n• 65 days that led to chaos at the Capitol", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: Lockdown likely to extend to February\n\nScotland's first minister has said the country's current lockdown is \"very unlikely\" to be lifted at the end of the month.\n\nNicola Sturgeon was speaking as she confirmed that more than 5,000 people have now died after testing positive for the virus.\n\nA review of the current restrictions is due to be carried out at the end of January.\n\nMs Sturgeon said it was possible that there would be no easing at that point.\n\nA further 54 deaths have been recorded in the past 24 hours - bringing the total by that measure to 5,023.\n\nBut the most recent figures from the National Records of Scotland - which record all deaths registered in Scotland where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate - put the total at 6,686.\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily briefing that the figures were a reminder of the toll the virus had taken.\n\nAnd she said every death had caused heartbreak to friends, families and loved ones across the country.\n\nThe first minister also said Scotland's NHS would be under far greater pressure if the current restrictions had not been put in place on Boxing Day.\n\nAnd she urged people not to raise their expectations about what will be announced when the lockdown review is completed in a fortnight as wholesale lifting of the restrictions was \"very unlikely\".\n\nShe added: \"There may not even be any lifting of these restrictions as soon as the end of January - we will have to consider all of that carefully and set it out in due course.\"\n\nAll of mainland Scotland and some islands were placed into level four restrictions on 26 December, with schools remaining closed to most pupils until at least the end of the month.\n\nA further 1,875 positive cases of the virus were recorded on Monday, bringing the total since the pandemic began to 153,423.\n\nThe number of people in hospital with the virus stands at 1,717 - an increase of 53 since yesterday and higher than the peak of about 1,500 in the first wave in April.\n\nOf these, 133 patients are intensive care units, with Ms Sturgeon saying that the virus was putting \"very acute pressure\" on hospitals.\n\nThe first minister also said that 175,942 people in Scotland had received their first vaccine dose by Monday.\n\nOpposition parties have claimed that the rollout of the vaccine has been \"sluggish\" in Scotland compared to south of the border - a charge that the government denies.\n\nAnd they have called for greater transparency over how many people are being given the jab every day.\n\nHealth Secretary Jeane Freeman said on Monday that the government was aiming to vaccinate about 560,000 people in Scotland by 31 January.\n\nNon-essential shops have been closed in Scotland since 26 December\n\nThe Scottish government has previously said it is concerned that too many people have not been following the \"stay at home\" rules that are in place across the whole of the mainland and some islands.\n\nMinisters have been discussing the possibility of imposing tougher rules on click and collect shopping and takeaway food, with an announcement expected to be made on Wednesday.\n\nRetail industry representatives have described click and collect services as a \"lifeline\" for struggling businesses amid the forced closure of all non-essential shops.\n\nAnd they said they had not been shown any evidence that click and collect was driving transmission of the virus.\n\nMs Sturgeon told her daily coronavirus briefing that the government may not stop click and collect services altogether.\n\nBut she added: \"If we are saying to people right now that you should not be out of your home for shopping unless it is essential, then do we need to have click and collect for non-essential services instead of having that for delivery?\"\n\nScottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross told BBC Scotland that he did not want to see further restrictions put in place unless there was evidence that they would have the desired effect.\n\nHe also suggested that restricting click and collect would simply result in more people going back into supermarkets to do their shopping.\n\nThe Scottish government is also under pressure to lift the the current ban on public Sunday worship, with a group of 500 church leaders from across the UK - including 200 in Scotland - insisting that there is \"no evidence of any tangible contribution to community transmission through churches in Scotland\".\n\nIn a letter to the first minister, they claim that the ban may be unlawful and accuse the government of failing to understand that \"Christian worship is an essential public service, and especially vital to our nation in a time of crisis\".\n\nA Scottish government spokeswoman said: \"Test and Protect tells us where people were in their 48-hour infectious period.\n\n\"So we know that on one day last week the seven-day number for places of worship was 120, and data from yesterday shows the seven-day number for places of worship is 38, underlining the essential decision to require places of worship to close for public health reasons.\"\n\nMeanwhile, it has been confirmed that everyone arriving in Scotland from overseas will need to show proof of a negative test from Friday.\n\nThe test will need to be \"highly reliable\", the first minister said, and will need to have been from the previous three days - although young children may be exempt from the restriction.\n\nThose travelling from countries not on the quarantine exemption list will still need to self-isolate on arrival.\n\nThe new rules, which will also come into force in England, were first outlined last week.", "Sir David Attenborough has previously spoken of his support for the Covid-19 vaccines\n\nSir David Attenborough has become the latest well-known name to receive the Covid-19 vaccine, his representative has confirmed.\n\nThe news about the 94-year-old natural historian comes a few days after it was revealed the Queen had been vaccinated.\n\nIt's not known which vaccine Sir David has been given or exactly when he had it.\n\nThe Perfect Planet host is one of several stars to receive the first of two doses of the vaccine.\n\nThey include The Great British Bake Off's Prue Leith, actor Sir Ian McKellen, choreographer Lionel Blair, actor Brian Blessed and actress Dame Joan Collins.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere are currently three vaccines approved for administration in the UK - Oxford-AstraZeneca, Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, although supplies of the latter are not expected to arrive until spring.\n\nSir David, who has been isolating at his London home, has previously talked about his support for the work in developing a means of protection from Covid-19.\n\nIn an interview with The Telegraph last month he said he would definitely accept an invitation to be vaccinated when his time came.\n\n\"At 94, I think I'm entitled!\" he told the newspaper.\n\n\"I'm sufficient of a scientist still, I hope, to realise this is the thing to do.\"\n\nHe added that the work that had gone into developing the vaccines showed the positive effects of international cooperation in combating global problems, such as the climate crisis.\n\n\"It (the virus) has drawn attention to the fact we aren't as omnipotent and all-controlling as we think we are,\" he told the paper.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The United Arab Emirates is being removed from the UK list of travel corridors amid a spike in Covid cases.\n\nThat means anyone who arrives from the UAE after 04:00 GMT on Tuesday now needs to self-isolate for 10 days, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said.\n\nUK officials say Covid cases have risen 52% in the UAE in the last seven days and cite \"a significant acceleration in the number of imported cases\".\n\nIt comes after Scotland removed the UAE city Dubai from its safe travel list.\n\nThe Foreign Office has also updated its advice to advise against all but essential travel to the emirates.\n\nThe recent lockdown restrictions imposed across the UK mean leisure travel is currently banned.\n\nBut the UAE has been in particular focus in recent weeks after a number of UK reality TV and social media stars posted photographs of themselves holidaying there before the rules came into place.\n\nAnd a Celtic footballer tested positive for Covid-19 after the club took a trip to Dubai for a winter training camp.\n\nCeltic were allowed to go as a group under exemptions for elite athletes. As a result,15 playing and coaching staff are now required to self-isolate.\n\nDubai was added to Scotland's travel quarantine list from 04:00 GMT on Monday - with the rule also applying retrospectively for passengers who have arrived in Scotland from the city since January 3.\n\nThe Department for Transport said the removal of the whole of the UAE from the travel corridor is being adopted by all four UK nations.\n\nArrivals to the UK from most destinations now have to quarantine for 10 days.\n\nHowever, arrivals from some countries are exempt from the rules. Those countries make up the so-called travel corridor list.\n\nFrom this week, passengers arriving by boat, train or plane, including UK nationals, must also take a Covid test up to 72 hours before leaving the country of departure.\n\nAre you affected by the government decision to remove UAE from the UK travel corridor list? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "A Scottish earl has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a woman at his ancestral home in Angus.\n\nThe Earl of Strathmore, Simon Bowes-Lyon, forced his way into the sleeping woman's room during a weekend event he was hosting at Glamis Castle.\n\nHe repeatedly assaulted the 26-year-old victim and tried to pull off her nightdress during the 20-minute attack.\n\nBowes-Lyon, 34 - who is the Queen's first cousin twice removed - has been placed on the sex offenders register.\n\nHe was granted bail at Dundee Sheriff Court and sentence was deferred.\n\nSheriff Alistair Carmichael also ordered Glamis Castle be assessed for its suitability to house Bowes-Lyon while under a tagging order.\n\nThe court heard the woman fled the castle the morning after the attack on 13 February last year and flew home to report the matter to police.\n\nBoth Police Scotland and the Metropolitan Police were involved in the investigation.\n\nGlamis Castle was the childhood home of the Queen Mother\n\nOutside court, Bowes-Lyon said he was \"greatly ashamed\" of his actions.\n\nHe added: \"Clearly I had drunk to excess on the night of the incident. I should have known better. I recognise, in any event, that alcohol is no excuse for my behaviour.\n\n\"I did not think I was capable of behaving the way I did but have had to face up to it and take responsibility.\n\n\"My apologies go, above all, to the woman concerned, but I would also like to apologise to family, friends and colleagues for the distress I have caused them.\"\n\nGlamis Castle, near Forfar, has been the seat of the Bowes-Lyon family since 1372.\n\nIt was the childhood home of the Queen Mother, and the Queen's sister Princess Margaret was born there.\n\nBowes-Lyon was a great-great nephew of the Queen Mother.", "Some Covid restrictions are being reintroduced in response to the Omicron variant.\n\nCheck what the rules are in your area by entering your postcode or council name below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. What are the rules in your area? Enter a full UK postcode or council name to find out\n\nIf you cannot see the look-up, click here.\n\nThe rules highlighted in the search tool are a selection of the key government restrictions in place in your area.\n\nAlways check your relevant national and local authority website for more information on the situation where you live. Also check local guidance before travelling to others parts of the UK.\n\nAll the guidance in our search look-up comes from national government websites.\n\nFor more information on national measures see:\n\nFind out how the pandemic has affected your area and how it compares with the national average by following this link to an in depth guide to the numbers involved.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid lockdown: Are supermarkets following the rules?\n\nSupermarket workers are facing abuse for challenging shoppers not wearing masks during the pandemic, staff say.\n\nOne Mold supermarket worker said she was challenging people every day and seeing \"loads of people walking around\" the store without masks and in groups.\n\nThe Welsh Government has hinted rules will be tightened amid concerns Covid-19 rules are not being followed.\n\n\"This is not a social event, come in on your own, not as a family of five,\" the supermarket worker said.\n\nSupermarket workers spoke to BBC Radio Wales as Health Minister Vaughan Gething said the \"onus\" was on supermarkets to make sure shoppers abided by the rules.\n\nThere has been an \"escalation of abuse\" towards supermarket staff in the last nine months, and the role of policing such rules must not fall on those on the shop floor, Nick Ireland Divisional Officer of the Union of Shop Distributive and Allied Workers (Usdaw) said.\n\nHe said measures in stores had \"rolled back\", with many no longer enforcing systems, and people walking the wrong way down one-way systems, and \"whole families\" shopping with just one basket.\n\nMeanwhile Bally Auluk, an area organiser in Cardiff and Barry for Usdaw, said abuse towards shopworkers was happening on \"a daily and weekly basis\".\n\nHe said retailers and the Welsh Government should \"start protecting shop workers\" after dealing with members himself who were \"threatened with physical violence and spat on\".\n\n\"Customers now are treating it almost like it was last year, that it's not a problem, that is where the big issues arises,\" he said.\n\nThe Welsh Government is in discussions about bringing in \"more visible\" coronavirus regulations.\n\nMorrisons and Sainsbury's had pledged to challenge shoppers not wearing face coverings in store, unless they have a medical exemption.\n\nTesco, Asda and Waitrose are the latest supermarkets to follow the move and challenge those who flout the rules.\n\nUnder coronavirus rules, people must wear face coverings in order to enter shops across the UK, while supermarkets should have social distancing and strict hygiene measures in place.\n\nThe Welsh Government has been in talks with retailers on how to improve safety and return to the strict observance of social distancing from the first lockdown, although no new guidance has been issued.\n\nFirst Minister Mark Drakeford said he had heard concerns from people \"expressing anxiety\" about a lack of \"visible protections\" in supermarkets, such as limited numbers allowed in store, hand sanitiser and security on doors.\n\nThe Mold supermarket worker said staff had been told not to challenge people not wearing masks, and had seen people being yelled at.\n\nJane, who did not give her last name, told BBC Wales customers were offered a mask on the way in, but many did not want them.\n\n\"You do see a lot of customers walking around without a mask on,\" she said.\n\n\"Of course there are people with hidden disabilities who can't wear a mask but there can't be that many of them.\"\n\nJane said enforcement needed to be greater, but it should not be led by the shopfloor staff.\"We're told not to challenge people as we don't know someone's personal situation and we don't want to face any abuse if they don't want to wear it or don't agree with it,\" she said.\n\n\"At the moment people will ask politely, but I have witnessed quite a few occasions where customers have been verbally abusive to the person greeting them on their way in.\n\n\"There needs to be someone enforcing this, it can't be left to retail staff: whether its a police officer or a security guard.\"\n\nSupermarket aisles carrying non-essential items are closed off again, as they were during the firebreak lockdown\n\nOne security guard at a supermarket in Aberdare said he had had more \"hassle\" working in the past 10 months at the store, than from drinkers while working as a nightclub doorman for more than 20 years.\n\n\"The attitude towards yourself... they don't appreciate that you're standing there for 12 hours a day, they don't understand how hard it is to try and keep people distancing,\" he told Dot Davies on BBC Radio Wales.\n\n\"When they go inside the shop it all goes out the window... we keep the two metres outside, but we've got people coming outside to tell us we should be in there sorting it out.\"\n\nOne supermarket manager said the lengths people were going to in order to shop together were \"ridiculous\", with families coming in with a number of trolleys or baskets in order not to be challenged.\n\n\"We've seen families turning up to go shopping for a basket shop, it's just not on,\" said Mr Ireland, who called on supermarket staff to be prioritised for vaccines.\n\nHe suggested those who do not observe the rules should be banned and fined.\n\nBut one mother said that she had no choice but to shop with her children, and she had been unable to get a click and collect or delivery slot.\n\n\"It's easy to get caught up in the fear of it, but some people are at the shops as they have no choice,\" she said.\n\nOthers have spoken of shop staff themselves not wearing masks.\n\nJames Lowman, chief executive of the Association of Convenience Stores, said it was \"everyone's responsibility\" to abide by the rules, rather than for shop workers to enforce.\n\n\"Doing that [enforcement of rules] in a small store, where you don't have lots of colleagues around, has been a trigger for more abuse and even violence,\" he said.\n\nMr Lowman said making businesses Covid secure was down to the local authority, while individuals' behaviour was a matter for police, but \"in practicality\" it is everyone's responsibility.\n\nBut Mr Gething said the \"onus\" for getting shoppers to follow Covid-19 rules, such as wearing masks, social-distancing and cordoning off non-essential items, was on the supermarket managers.\n\n\"[It needs to be made] clear that you do need to wear a mask unless you can demonstrate that you have a particular exemption,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't think there's any lack of understanding. We've been through this before and I do think a number of supermarkets are going to go and make clear there are a range of items that are off-limits for shoppers coming in.\n\n\"Supermarkets understand what they need to do.\"", "London's Nightingale hospital was built in nine days, with the help of hundreds of soldiers\n\nLondon's Nightingale hospital has been reopened and is admitting patients to help with the coronavirus spread in the capital.\n\nMedical director Dr Vin Diwakar said the facility at London's ExCeL Centre also had a vaccination centre on site.\n\nIt was placed on standby in May after fewer than 20 patients were treated following a grand opening on 3 April.\n\nDr Diwakar said the Nightingale was being used to treat non-coronavirus patients.\n\nIn the Downing Street press conference, he explained it was taking non-Covid patients to help free up beds in London's hospitals.\n\nHe said: \"This means that hospitals have more beds to care for Covid-19 patients and for our very sickest patients. We cannot do this indefinitely.\n\n\"There comes a point where if the infection gets further out of control, more and more patients from London will need to be transferred elsewhere.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nAt the start of November, he said, London had 1,000 Covid-19 patients.\n\nThis increased four-fold to 4,000 on Christmas Day and has doubled to just under 8,000 today, with more than 1,000 of those on critical care, he told the press conference.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BBC News (UK) This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut Dr Diwakar said there was \"hope\", with one hall of the ExCel Centre having opened as London's first mass vaccination centre.\n\n\"I can tell you Covid-19 is a horrible, horrible disease that leaves so many, including young people, breathless and gasping for life,\" he said.\n\nOn Friday, the Mayor of London declared a \"major incident\" as he described the coronavirus spread in the capital as \"out of control\".\n\nMore than 120 firefighters and 75 Met Police officers have been drafted in to help the London Ambulance Service cope with demand.", "The data showed men were more likely to be admitted to intensive care units\n\nAround half of patients admitted to Welsh intensive care units during the second wave of the pandemic have died, a study has found.\n\nThe Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre (ICNARC) found men aged in their 60s were more likely to need intensive care.\n\nIt also found those from Asian backgrounds and deprived areas were disproportionately affected.\n\nBut a leading doctor said, overall, people were more likely to survive now.\n\nIntensive care consultant Matt Morgan said new treatments meant only the sickest patients were reaching intensive care, where outcomes were poorer.\n\nICNARC collected information on 431 Welsh patients who were critically ill with coronavirus from 1 September to 31 December 2020 as part of a UK-wide audit of intensive care patients.\n\nOf the patients who were admitted, 68% were men and 32% women. The average age of a patient was 59.5 years.\n\nIntensive care consultant Matt Morgan said, overall, patients were more likely to survive Covid now\n\nWhile the vast majority of patients were white (91.6%), the number of patients of Asian ethnicity was more than double the proportion of the Asian population, with 6.3% of patients recorded as being Asian, compared to an average of 2.4% in their local population.\n\nThe audit of patients found that, excluding those still being treated at the unit, half had died while half had been discharged.\n\nAlthough the numbers of patients surveyed is relatively low for statistical purposes, Dr Morgan said the survival rate reflected the situation in hospitals.\n\n\"We are putting fewer people, who are in the first stage of their illness, on to life support machines. And that is because we have treatments now that we know can help,\" he said.\n\n\"Overall, you are more likely now to survive Covid than ever before, and that is in every age group - sometimes by as much as 10% more.\n\n\"What we do know is that overall, out of every ten people who come to intensive care with Covid about six of them will survive and will leave the intensive care unit. Which means sadly four of them won't, four of them will die.\n\n\"That's similar overall to the first wave but that data is based on some patients who are still in the intensive care unit. So that may change and it's more likely to get worse rather than better.\"\n\n\"We also know patients who are on life support machines in the intensive care unit will do worse than those who come to the intensive care unit and are not on life support machines.\n\n\"For those people, it's probably five out of 10 people who will survive and five who will sadly die and that may be worse when we have the data on those who are still there.\n\n\"And there's a big effect of age. So for those over the age of 70 it may be as little as four people out of 10 who survive, maybe less. And for those over the age of 80 it may be as low as one or two people out of ten who survive.\n\nThe figures from ICNARC also highlight how people from poorer backgrounds were more likely to need treatment in intensive care.\n\nUsing a deprivation score from 1 to 5, more than half of patients scored 4 or 5, representing the most deprived postcodes in Wales.\n\nDr Morgan said: \"Sadly, disease is an illness of deprivation.\n\n\"And so that's why we feel it, particularly in Wales where the industrial scars of our past are still very much there - and our health is there.\"", "The men were arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance at hospitals in Birmingham and Worcestershire\n\nFour men have been arrested on suspicion of causing a public nuisance at hospitals in the West Midlands.\n\nThe men, aged between 31 and 37, were held in relation to incidents in Birmingham and Worcestershire between 31 December and 9 January.\n\nEarlier this month, police said they were investigating after people posted videos of supposedly empty hospital corridors on social media.\n\nThe videos claiming Covid-19 was a hoax sparked an outcry from medical workers.\n\nWest Mercia Police launched a joint investigation with West Midlands Police, after incidents were reported at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital and the Alexandra in Redditch.\n\nHospitals in Worcester and Kidderminster also featured, before the footage was deleted.\n\nThe West Mercia force confirmed it had arrested two men from Bromsgrove aged 31 and 34 as well as a 37 year-old man from Kidderminster and a fourth man, aged 34, from Droitwich.\n\nThey were also detained relating to incidents in a park in Bromsgrove as well as the town centre.\n\nAll four men have since been bailed with conditions not to enter any hospital in England unless they have a medical reason to do so.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Birmingham has one of the largest intensive care capacities in the whole country\n\nTwo hundred doctors will be redeployed to one of England's largest intensive care units amid fears it could be \"overwhelmed\".\n\nA leaked memo warned hospitals in Birmingham were \"in a position of extremis\" as Covid-19 cases rise.\n\nElective surgeries at the city's main Queen Elizabeth Hospital will stop as staff move to critical care duties.\n\nA spokesperson said the approach ensured \"the greatest good for the greatest numbers of people\".\n\nThe trust's decision to redeploy doctors was revealed in a leaked email to the Health Service Journal, which has been verified by the BBC.\n\nSent by consultant Peter Hewins, it said hospitals in Birmingham risked being \"overwhelmed\" amid a \"period of absolute emergency\".\n\nThe University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) said there were 873 patients with Covid-19 across its sites, with 125 in intensive care.\n\nThis was significantly more than in April 2020, it said, as it announced plans to double its intensive care capacity to more than 250 beds.\n\nTime-critical surgery, including cancer operations, will continue, the trust said, but elective procedures at the Queen Elizabeth will be paused, and reduced elsewhere.\n\nThere will also be a \"further reduction of outpatient activity\", a spokesperson said, adding: \"Every member of staff will be supported by the Trust in delivering the best care wherever they are working.\"\n\nThere are currently 873 Covid-19 patients being treated at the trust\n\nNeighbouring University Coventry and Warwickshire Hospitals Trust confirmed it had started taking Covid patients from Birmingham.\n\nUniversity Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in England.\n\nIt runs several hospitals, including Birmingham Heartlands, the Queen Elizabeth, Solihull Hospital and Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield. It also runs Birmingham Chest Clinic.\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson - pictured here in 2013 - has long been a fan of cycling\n\nBoris Johnson has been criticised for travelling seven miles from Downing Street to go cycling during lockdown.\n\nThe Evening Standard reported the prime minister had been spotted in the Olympic Park in East London on Sunday.\n\nGovernment advice allows people to exercise outside, but says you should not travel outside your local area.\n\nA No 10 spokesman would not confirm if Mr Johnson had been driven to the park or cycled there, but said the PM had complied with Covid-19 guidelines.\n\nLabour's Andy Slaughter said: \"Once again it is do as I say, not as I do, from the prime minister.\"\n\nThe Hammersmith MP added: \"London has some of the highest infection rates in the country. Boris Johnson should be leading by example.\"\n\nIn response to the criticism, a Downing Street source told the BBC: \"The PM has exercised within the Covid rules and any suggestion to the contrary is wrong.\"\n\nA woman told the PA news agency she had seen the prime minister in the park: \"He was leisurely cycling with another guy with a beanie hat and chatting, while around four security guys, possibly more, cycled behind them.\n\n\"Considering the current situation with Covid I was shocked to see him cycling around looking so care-free.\n\n\"Also, considering he's advising everyone to stay at home and not leave their area, shouldn't he stay in Westminster and not travel to other boroughs?\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock was asked at Monday's Downing Street press conference whether travelling seven miles for a cycle ride was within the rules.\n\nMr Hancock said: \"It is OK, if you went for a long walk and ended up seven miles from home, that is OK, but you should stay local.\n\n\"It is OK to go for a long walk or a cycle ride or to exercise, but stay local.\"\n\nThe issue of travelling for exercise was highlighted at the weekend after two women said they were surrounded by police and fine £200 after driving five miles from home to take a walk.\n\nDerbyshire Police have now dropped the fine and apologised to the women, but the incident led to a debate over the guidance.\n\nGovernment advice for England says you can leave your home to exercise, but adds: \"This should be limited to once per day, and you should not travel outside your local area.\"\n\nThe guidance adds: \"Stay local means stay in the village, town, or part of the city where you live.\"\n\nIn Scotland, the advice is more precise, saying exercise can be taken if it \"starts and finishes at the same place, which can be up to five miles from the boundary of your local authority area\".\n\nFormer Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron, who represents a constituency in the Lake District, has written to the PM calling for clearer guidance on exercise similar to that in Scotland.\n\nHe wrote: \"On the one hand, our local police force here in Cumbria are reporting that people... have travelled hundreds of miles to take their exercise in the Lake District.\n\n\"And on the other hand, I have constituents writing to me, worried whether they will be punished for driving five minutes up the road to go for a walk in their local park.\"\n\nMr Farron added: \"We need a solution that clearly deters people from making lengthy trips and potentially spreading the virus, but also that doesn't discourage people from keeping fit and healthy.\"", "Retailers suffered their worst annual sales performance on record in 2020, driven by slump in demand for fashion and homeware products, figures show.\n\nWhile food sales growth rose 5.4% on 2019, non-food fell about 5%, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) said.\n\nIt meant an overall fall of 0.3% in a year dominated by the Covid-19 impact, the worst annual change since the BRC began collating the figures in 1995.\n\nChristmas offered little cheer, with much of the High Street still closed.\n\n\"Physical non-food stores, including all of non-essential retail, saw sales drop by a quarter compared with 2019,\" said Helen Dickinson, BRC chief executive.\n\n\"Christmas offered little respite for these retailers, as many shops were forced to shut during the peak trading period,\" she said.\n\nThe 5.4% rise in food sales was fuelled by shoppers flocking to supermarkets and online grocers to ensure they were stocked up during the pandemic.\n\nIn December, total retail sales increased by 1.8% as shoppers spent more in the run-up to Christmas. Like-for-like sales for the month were up 4.8% as overall shop takings were still affected by restrictions and temporary closures.\n\nOnline non-food sales jumped by 44.8% in December, according to the new figures, as a higher proportion of shopping took place online.\n\nThe BRC's sales monitor is collated with the consultancy KPMG, whose UK head of retail, Paul Martin, said: \"In the most important month for the retail industry, there was some positive growth due to the ongoing shift of expenditure from other categories such as travel and leisure.\n\n\"Once again we saw big swings in the types of products being purchased and the channels used for shopping, with much of the growth taking place online, where nearly half of all non-food purchases were made.\"\n\nBut he warned that the new lockdown would worsen conditions for many non-essential shops and the High Street generally.\n\nLast week, a report from the Centre for Retail Research (CRR) said that 2020 was the worst for High Street job losses in more than 25 years, as the coronavirus accelerated the move towards online shopping.\n\nNearly 180,000 retail jobs were lost last year, up by almost a quarter from 2019, the CRR said.", "The Covid pandemic has caused excess deaths to rise to their highest level in the UK since World War Two.\n\nThere were close to 697,000 deaths in 2020 - nearly 85,000 more than would be expected based on the average in the previous five years.\n\nThis represents an increase of 14% - making it the largest rise in excess deaths for more than 75 years.\n\nWhen the age and size of the population is taken into account, 2020 saw the worst death rates since the 2000s.\n\nThis measure - known as age-standardised mortality - takes into account population growth and age.\n\nThe data is only available until November - so the impact of deaths in December have not yet been taken into account - but it shows the death rate at that stage was at its highest in England since 2008.\n\nThe data on deaths can be confusing.\n\nOn one hand, excess deaths are at their highest since World War Two, while on the other, death rates, once age and size of population are taken into account, are at their worst level for a little over a decade 'only'.\n\nHow should that be interpreted?\n\nExcess deaths are basically a measure of how many more people are dying than would be expected based on the previous few years.\n\nClearly, 2020 saw a huge and unexpected rise in deaths because of the pandemic, just as World War Two led to a sudden jump.\n\nBut in determining how much those jumps affected the chances of dying, a measure known as age-standardised mortality, which takes into account the age and size of the population, is important.\n\nIt shows the pandemic has undone the progress made in the last decade or so. That is significant - especially given this has happened despite lockdowns and social-distancing measures to stop the spread of the virus.\n\nBut it also helps put the death toll over the past 12 months in a wider context.\n\nKing's Fund chief executive Richard Murray said the picture was likely to worsen, given Covid deaths were rising following the surge in infections over recent weeks.\n\n\"The UK has one of the highest rates of excess deaths in the world, with more excess deaths per million people than most other European countries or the US,\" he said.\n\n'It will take a public inquiry to determine exactly what went wrong, but mistakes have been made.\n\n\"In a pandemic, mistakes cost lives. Decisions to enter lockdown have consistently come late, with the government failing to learn from past mistakes or the experiences of other countries.\n\n\"The promised 'protective ring' around social care in the first wave was slow to materialise and often inadequate, a contributing factor to the excess deaths among care home residents last year.\n\n'Like many countries, the UK was poorly prepared for this type of pandemic.\"\n\nMatthew Reed, of the end-of-life care charity Marie Curie said the focus on Covid should not hide the fact there has been a \"silent crisis\" of deaths at home.\n\nHe said people have died prematurely in 2020 from other causes - with a big jump in deaths at home.\n\n\"We are concerned many have not had the care they needed,\" he added.\n• None Lockdown needs to be stricter, scientists warn", "Officer Eugene Goodman is being celebrated for his heroics\n\nCapitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman is being called a hero for a second time after footage shown at the impeachment trial shows him directing Mitt Romney away from an advancing mob.\n\nIn the video, the officer is seen notifying Mr Romney that the rioters were heading in his direction and guiding him away.\n\nThe Utah senator, an unpopular figure among Trump supporters, said he looked forward to thanking the police officer for his actions.\n\nOfficer Goodman was already being praised for his bravery that day, after singlehandedly steering a mob away from the Senate chambers.\n\nVideo footage showed him just steps ahead of rioters as they chase him up a flight of stairs.\n\nMr Goodman is then seen glancing towards the Senate entrance before luring the men in the opposite direction.\n\nFive people, including a police officer, died as a result of the riots.\n\nThe officer was seen confronting a pro-Trump rioter during the attack\n\nMembers of the 2,000-person Capitol police department are tasked with protecting the Capitol building and those inside, it.\n\nA group of senators has introduced a bill to award Officer Goodman with the Congressional Gold Medal.\n\nNews of his additional heroics involving Senator Romney will only amplify calls for him to be recognised.\n\nThe senator said he was unaware of the danger he was in until he saw the footage at the trial on Wednesday.\n\nSenator Mitt Romney said he was looking forward to thanking Officer Goodman\n\nIt formed part of the Democratic prosecution in trying to underline the peril the heart of US government was under as Trump supporters ransacked the Capitol.\n\nSenator Romney said it was \"overwhelmingly distressing and emotional\" to see the violence again, six weeks after the attack.\n\nAnd reflecting on his own narrow escape, he added he was looking forward to thanking Officer Goodman \"when I next see him\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. See how close the mob got to Mike Pence, Mitt Romney and other lawmakers\n\nNew York Law School criminal law professor and 20-year veteran of the New York City Police Department Kirk Burkhalter called Mr Goodman's response to the rioters \"tremendous\".\n\n\"I don't think there was any type of training that would prepare you for that situation,\" Mr Burkhalter told the BBC, speaking days after the attack.\n\nIn the video shot by Huffington Post reporter Igor Bobic, Mr Goodman, who is black, is antagonised by the group of Trump supporters - who are all white men.\n\nThe man at the front of the pack, wearing a QAnon T-shirt, has been identified as Doug Jensen of Iowa. He was later arrested by local police and the FBI for his role in the riots.\n\nFootage shows Mr Jensen leading the mob that chased Mr Goodman up a flight of stairs - just a few feet away from the entrance to the Senate floor. As he is pursued, Mr Goodman shouts \"second floor!\" into his radio, seemingly alerting other officers of the group approaching the chamber.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Igor Bobic This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAfter Mr Goodman glances toward the Senate chamber entrance, he shoves Mr Jensen - a move seemingly designed to draw attention on to himself, luring the mob away from the chambers and those hiding inside.\n\nThe image of Mr Goodman trailed by a mob - some armed with Confederate flags, others with allusions to the Nazi flag - was extremely disturbing, Mr Burkhalter said.\n\n\"Police officer, not a police officer, to see a black man being chased by someone carrying a Confederate flag - there is something wrong with that picture. That should never happen again,\" he said.\n\n\"It just reeks of everything we need to correct.\"\n\nMr Goodman's standoff with the mob came just minutes before authorities were able to seal the chamber, according to reporting from the Washington Post.\n\nHis heroics were noted at the highest level - he was invited to the inauguration as a guest of Vice-President Kamala Harris.", "Naomi Campbell and Kenyan Tourism Minister Najib Balala sealed the deal over the weekend\n\nThe appointment of British supermodel Naomi Campbell as Kenya's tourism ambassador has caused a Twitter storm in the East African nation.\n\nMany queried why it had not been given to a prominent Kenyan like Hollywood actress Lupita Nyong'o.\n\nOthers leapt to her defence, saying the debate already justified her role.\n\nKenya's tourism sector has been badly hit by coronavirus, with visitor numbers down by 72% between January and October last year.\n\n\"The sector hence lost over 110bn Kenyan shillings [$1bn, £738m] of direct international tourists' revenue due to the Covid-19 pandemic,\" Kenya's Tourism Research Institute reported last month.\n\nThe country is famous for its wildlife safaris and beach resorts.\n\nKenyan Tourism Minister Najib Balala said the deal with Ms Campbell was done over the weekend after he met the model, who is currently on holiday in Kenya.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Ministry of Tourism & Wildlife-Kenya\n\nThe 50-year-old style icon and philanthropist has been posting images of her stay on Instagram, where she has 10 million followers.\n\n\"We welcome the exciting news that Naomi Campbell will advocate for tourism and travel internationally for the Magical Kenya brand,\" Mr Balala said, without giving further deals of the contract.\n\nBut the statement, posted on Twitter on Tuesday, prompted instant outrage from some, and the supermodel's name has since been trending in the country.\n\nOne tweeter cited other Kenyan celebrities better suited to the ambassadorial role, including models Ajuma Nasenyana and Debra Sanaipei, as well as Nyong'o.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Syombua A. Kibue 🇰🇪 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOne tweeter said the backlash revealed an unhealthy attitude in Kenya: \"At the end of the day, it's all about who will get the job done. This mentality is what causes nepotism and tribalism in Kenyan institutions, it should be about the most suitable candidate not 'one of our own' thing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Campbell's defenders praised her for visiting Kenya several times and said it was not only the model's social media following that made her the perfect appointment.\n\nHer circle of friends were equally important as she would attract wealthy tourists willing to spend money.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Mlolwa🐬 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe tourism industry usually contributes about 8.8% to Kenya's annual Gross domestic product (GDP), according to Kenya's East African newspaper.\n• None The supermodel and the warlord", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning. We'll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.\n\nPolice patrols were stepped up around the Scotland-England border around Christmas\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to wear your mask. Hint: it's not any of these three options\n\nSo many of us are spending more time staring at a screen right now and an eye health charity is recommending we learn the \"20-20-20\" rule to protect our sight. Fight for Sight advises looking at something 20 feet away for 20 seconds, every 20 minutes you're working at a screen, in order to reduce eye strain. The charity also commissioned a survey of 2,000 people which found more than a third believed their eyesight had worsened in the past year. It says the number of us getting regular eye tests is also down and is urging people not to miss their appointments.\n\nIt sadly comes as no surprise to learn that 2020 was the worst year on record for UK retailers, especially those focused on clothing and homeware. Food bucked the trend, particularly over Christmas, with the highest ever festive spending on groceries. But overall, retail sales declined by 0.3% across the year, and non-food by nearly a quarter, the biggest annual dip since the British Retail Consortium began collating the figures in 1995. The BRC says many retailers are struggling to survive and the government should extend the business rates holiday to save jobs.\n\nA father who'd campaigned for a change in the coronavirus rules to make life easier for non-resident parents to see their children has welcomed a government rethink. Previously, parents could visit children they don't live with during lockdown, but restrictions prevented them from staying overnight in a hotel. Ex-BBC journalist Tom De Castella said the ban \"had a massive bearing on seeing my daughter\", who lives a three-and-a-half hour drive away from his home. Now the rules have been rewritten, he's relieved. \"This is about building a bond with your child, it's crucial to their development,\" he added.\n\nTom De Castella said the rethink was \"great news\" for parents like him\n\nFind more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nPlus, three vaccines are now approved for use in the UK, but there are many differences between them. BBC health correspondent Laura Foster explains.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Lockdown rule-breakers are more likely to be fined as Covid laws will be enforced \"more quickly\", the UK's most senior police officer has said.\n\nLondon's Metropolitan Police commissioner Dame Cressida Dick said her officers have had to break up parties, despite hospitals struggling to cope with rising patient numbers.\n\nA minister confirmed her pledge that fines were \"increasingly likely\".\n\nKit Malthouse said people have a \"duty\" to make this lockdown \"the last one\".\n\n\"We are urging the small minority of people who aren't taking this seriously to do so now, and [are illustrating] to them that if they don't they are much more likely to get fined by the police,\" Mr Malthouse, the policing minister, told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"These current measures should in theory, if we all stick by them, be enough to drive the numbers down so that we can start to move through the gears of tiers from mid-February,\" he added.\n\nAsked if tighter restrictions for England were on the way - something the health secretary has refused to rule out - Mr Malthouse said ministers were \"on tenterhooks\" watching the daily figures for Covid deaths, new cases and hospital admissions, as rules continue to be kept under review.\n\nHe said the government's ramped-up efforts to give vulnerable people the coronavirus vaccine should help the UK to \"get back to some sort of normality later this year\".\n\nThe BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg said there was currently no expectation that Westminster will impose more extensive restrictions.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she discussed possible tighter restrictions with members of her cabinet on Tuesday morning.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel and chair of the National Police Chiefs' Council, Martin Hewitt, will hold a coronavirus press conference at Downing Street later.\n\nThe latest figures on Monday showed a further 529 people had died within 28 days of a positive test in the UK, while another 46,169 cases were reported.\n\nThere are also more than 32,200 people in hospital in the UK with coronavirus, data shows.\n\nDame Cressida told BBC Radio 4's Today programme some 75 police officers are joining 185 firefighters in being trained to drive ambulances in the capital, to help London Ambulance Service as the number of cases of the virus continues to rise.\n\nAnd writing in the Times, she said her officers had found people hosting raves, house parties and basement gambling events, despite clear laws that ban social gatherings.\n\n\"It is preposterous to me that anyone could be unaware of our duty to do all we can to stop the spread of the virus,\" she said, adding that people breaking Covid laws were \"increasingly likely to face fines\".\n\nPolice chiefs in other parts of England have also warned \"patience is running out\" with rule-breakers, with the public increasingly willing to report alleged rule breaches.\n\nSince March, some 32,000 penalties for breaching Covid laws have been issued in England and Wales - with a sharp rise in penalties during England's November lockdown.\n\nAlmost 6,500 penalty tickets were handed out in the weeks up to Christmas as police began moving more quickly from \"engage\", \"explain\" and \"encourage\" to the fourth \"e\" - \"enforcement\".\n\nExpect the rate of fines to continue upwards during January, given the scale of the emergency and the pressure from government on constabularies to enforce the law.\n\nBut there is also a tension here. Police chiefs have told their officers they will often have to use their own judgement because the list of \"reasonable excuses\" in the law for why someone can be outside is not fixed in stone.\n\nThere is a lot of wriggle room in the law to allow daily lives to continue.\n\nWhile ministers, scientists and health experts are all hammering home the message that people should stay at home as much as possible, the law is more liberal - for instance, there is no restriction on exercise in England.\n\nAnd that's why some police officers believe they are stuck between a rock and a hard place as people who don't want to be locked down find more and more creative ways to stretch the rules to breaking point.\n\nFines start at £200 in England and Northern Ireland, and £60 in Wales and Scotland. Large parties can be shut down by the police, with fines of up to £10,000.\n\nDame Cressida told the Today programme the move towards greater enforcement was \"common sense\" rather than a show of \"dictatorial policing\".\n\nShe also said Prime Minister Boris Johnson's cycle in east London at the weekend was \"not against the law\", but added the \"stay local\" guidance on exercise for England could be made more clear.\n\nUnder Scotland's lockdown restrictions, people must start and finish their exercise in the same place - and to do so, they may travel up to five miles from the boundary of their local authority area. People in Wales should start and finish exercising from their home, while those in Northern Ireland are advised not to go more than 10 miles from home when exercising.\n\nAsked if she would like to see similar detail in England's guidance, Dame Cressida said: \"That is certainly something the government could consider.\n\n\"Anything that brings greater clarity, for officers and the public, in general, will be a good thing.\"\n\nDame Cressida also said she was delighted that a proposal to prioritise frontline officers for vaccines was being discussed\n\nPolice chiefs have been under increasing pressure to enforce the lockdown laws - with a number of news reports about breaches of Covid rules in recent days.\n\nIn one case, Derbyshire Police withdrew penalties for two women who had been fined £200 each when they drove five miles for a walk together - following widespread media attention.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel has defended the way police have handled breaches, saying there is a need for \"strong enforcement\".\n\nFour people were arrested in Edinburgh on Monday after anti-lockdown protesters clashed with police\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - which are in charge of making their own coronavirus restrictions.\n\nIn her article, Dame Cressida said she was \"delighted to hear\" that a proposal to prioritise frontline officers to get vaccinated was being \"actively discussed\", as the rate of officers self-isolating has risen.\n\nSo far 2.3 million people in the UK have had a first dose of the coronavirus vaccine, as part of the government's plan to vaccinate tens of millions of people by the spring.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said members of the armed forces were working \"hand in hand with the NHS\" to help with the response to the UK's epidemic.\n\nSome 5,300 members of the armed forces are currently involved in the Covid response including personnel to help with vaccinations and community testing across the UK, he said.", "Rules governing the import of personal goods from the UK to the EU changed after Brexit formally came into effect\n\nA Dutch TV network has filmed border officials confiscating ham sandwiches and other foods from drivers arriving in the Netherlands from the UK, under post-Brexit rules.\n\nThe officials were shown explaining import regulations imposed since the UK formalised its separation from the EU.\n\nUnder EU rules, travellers from outside the bloc are banned from bringing in meat and dairy products.\n\nThe rules appeared to bemuse one driver.\n\n\"Since Brexit, you are no longer allowed to bring certain foods to Europe, like meat, fruit, vegetables, fish, that kind of stuff,\" a Dutch border official told the driver in footage broadcast by TV network NPO 1.\n\nIn one scene, a border official asked the driver whether several of his tin-foil wrapped sandwiches had meat in them.\n\nWhen the driver said they did, the border official said: \"Okay, so we take them all.\"\n\nSurprised, the driver then asked the officials if he could keep the bread, to which one replied: \"No, everything will be confiscated - welcome to the Brexit, sir. I'm sorry.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK officially finished its formal separation from the EU on 31 December, 2020.\n\nFrom 23:00 GMT on that date, the UK stopped following EU rules, with new arrangements for travel, trade, immigration and security co-operation coming into force.\n\nA trade deal with the EU was agreed on 24 December, and a week later, UK lawmakers voted in favour of the agreement.\n\nThe UK's departure means big changes for business - with the UK and EU forming two separate markets - the end of free movement, and new regulations, including those governing the import of personal goods.\n\nThe UK government has issued guidance to commercial drivers travelling to the EU, warning them to \"be aware of additional restrictions to personal imports\".\n\n\"You cannot bring POAO (products of an animal origin) such as those containing meat or dairy (e.g. a ham and cheese sandwich) into the EU,\" the guidance says. \"There are exceptions to this rule for certain quantities of powdered infant milk, infant food, special foods, or special processed pet feed.\"\n\nOn its website, the European Commission says the ban is necessary because such goods \"continue to present a real threat to animal health throughout the Union\".\n\n\"It is known, for example, that dangerous pathogens that cause animal diseases such as Foot and Mouth Disease and classical swine fever can reside in meat, milk or their products,\" the Commission says.\n\nSeparately, the Dutch customs agency shared a picture of foodstuffs it had confiscated from motorists in the ferry terminal the Hook of Holland.\n\n\"Since 1 January, you can't just bring more food from the UK,\" the agency said. \"So prepare yourself if you travel to the Netherlands from the UK and spread the word. This is how we prevent food waste and together ensure that the controls are speeded up.\"\n\nThe BBC's economics editor Faisal Islam described the confiscation of ham sandwiches and other foodstuffs at the EU's borders with the UK as \"a standard implication of [the] Brexit deal\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Faisal Islam This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The NHS Louisa Jordan was built in two weeks in April response to concerns over hospital capacity\n\nA shortage of NHS staff could prevent the opening of the NHS Louisa Jordan to Covid patients if capacity is exceeded elsewhere, a leading doctor has said.\n\nPresident of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh, Prof Mike Griffin, said the increasing numbers off work was a \"major problem\".\n\nThe Scottish government says the NHS is not being \"overwhelmed\" and staffing plans are in place to deal with demand.\n\nThe NHS Louisa Jordan is currently being used for outpatient services.\n\nThe temporary hospital at the SEC in Glasgow was set up in April in response to concerns over hospital capacity.\n\nIt was not used for Covid care during the first surge of the pandemic and has since been made available for outpatient services, such as orthopaedics, plastic surgery and dermatology.\n\nIt is also being used for Covid vaccinations.\n\nProf Mike Griffin told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that the pressure on the NHS workforce was particularly acute in the west of Scotland, where the number of cases was high.\n\n\"Particularly in Glasgow and Lanarkshire, there's been significant increases recently because of the new variant. Without any doubt, that new variant is increasing transmissibility, and therefore increasing infection rates and increasing hospital admissions,\" he said.\n\n\"But it's not just the admissions that's the problem. Our doctors, surgeons, nurses and everyone are really working extremely hard - but there is an increase in absenteeism because of illness and because of self-isolation amongst nursing staff.\"\n\nTwo of Scotland's health boards - NHS Ayrshire and Arran and NHS Lanarkshire - are currently over their capacity for Covid patients.\n\nNHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has reached 85% capacity and NHS Tayside is at 81% capacity, according to the latest Scottish government figures.\n\nThe NHS Louisa Jordan has capacity for 1,000 Covid patients if it is needed, but Prof Griffin said that using it as a Covid facility could be dependent on retired or former staff returning to work for NHS Scotland.\n\n\"Opening the Louisa Jordan as a Covid institution without staff is impossible,\" he said.\n\n\"It is equipped to be able to do it. And if the staffing is there, if we get returners and so on, then perhaps that might happen.\"\n\nThe number of Covid patients in hospital across Scotland is now higher than it was in April, although the numbers in intensive care are lower.\n\nNumbers initially appeared to be declining in November, but never reached low levels and began to climb sharply again at the end of the year.\n\nProf Griffin added that it was likely that better treatments for Covid patients were also reducing mortality and so keeping those patients in hospital for longer.\n\nNHS Scotland has an overall capacity for 13,000 beds, with 2,400 assigned to Covid patients.\n\nThis is down from a capacity of about 3,600 in the autumn because of additional seasonal pressures on the NHS, including weather-related issues and increased staff absence.\n\nScotland's national clinical director, Prof Jason Leitch, accepted that having around 1,500 patients in hospital with Covid had forced the cancellation of procedures such as cataract operations and hip replacements.\n\nBut he said that ability to \"flex\" within the system meant that the NHS remained within capacity.\n\nProf Leitch also pointed to the situation in England where there have been reports of limits being put on the amount of oxygen that patients can receive and some intensive care patients having to be treated in non-ICU beds.\n\nSpeaking at the first minister's coronavirus briefing, he said: \"People shouldn't be scared that the health service is full or overwhelmed - it isn't.\n\n\"It is fragile, and you just have to look a few hundred miles south to see what happens when it is even more fragile.\n\n\"So we need to avoid that as much as we can in Scotland.\"", "The Northern Lights from Munlochy on the Black Isle in the Highlands\n\nDisplays of the Aurora Borealis were visible from north and north east Scotland overnight.\n\nAlso known as the Northern Lights, the aurora appear as shimmering waves of light when atoms in the Earth's high-altitude atmosphere collide with energetic charged particles from the sun.\n\nBBC Weather Watchers photographed the \"lights\" from Shetland, the Highlands and Moray.\n\nBrae, Shetland, was among the vantage points for observing the aurora overnight on Monday into Tuesday\n\nA view of the aurora from Hopeman on the Moray Firth coast\n\nA colourful scene at Nairn on the Highlands' Moray Firth coast\n\nThe aurora from Glenelg in the west Highlands\n\nThis stunning image was captured at Durness by Andy Walker\n\nClear skies over Moray offered opportunities to see the lights, including from Elgin\n\nFreck Fraser's image of the aurora from a snowy Belladrum near Beauly\n\nThe green glow of the aurora from Portmahomack in the Highlands\n\nAnother image of the aurora from Brae in Shetland\n\nBright lights of the aurora from Uig in the Highlands", "Meddyg Care Dementia Home was due to receive vaccinations last week\n\nA care home manager is \"frightened\" for the residents after its delivery of Covid vaccinations failed to arrive.\n\nLorna Jones said Meddyg Care Dementia Home in Criccieth, Gwynedd, was due to have a delivery of the new Oxford-AstraZeneca jab a week ago.\n\nHowever the vaccine has not arrived amid claims other people in the area have already had the jab.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr University Health Board admitted there had been \"logistical problems\" in north west Wales.\n\nThe health board insisted it is \"committed\" to vaccinating those most vulnerable.\n\nOn Monday, it was announced that all over-50s in Wales are to be offered jab by spring, after criticism the rollout of the vaccine in Wales has been slower than in other parts of the UK.\n\nWith family visits suspended, the care home has not recorded a single Covid-19 case and a phone call on New Year's Eve to say it was to receive the vaccine was met with \"glee and happiness\".\n\nUnder the Welsh Government's vaccination rollout plan, care home residents and staff are first in line to get the immunisation - or priority one - ahead of elderly people within communities across Wales.\n\nHowever the vaccine has not arrived while, the home claimed, local GP surgeries have been administering the vaccine to over 80s in the community.\n\nLorna Jones is demanding answers as to why the vaccine has not arrived\n\nMs Jones said: \"I can't understand why Betsi Cadwaladr have veered away from the priority list.\n\n\"It's very clear. If there are vaccines coming into the local community, which there are, why have our residents not been vaccinated?\n\n\"I know some care homes have had it in Caernarfon, so why haven't we. What's the difference?\"\n\nMs Jones said the delay is causing concern among staff, residents and families.\n\n\"I'm frightened for our residents. I'm getting a lot of contact from families and I just can't give them anything,\" she said.\n\nThe home's owner said he had now taken matters into his own hands.\n\nKevin Edwards, managing director of Meddyg Care, said he had spent hours ringing around GP surgeries \"begging\" for spare vaccines.\n\nHe said the residents would now be vaccinated on Tuesday.\n\n\"We're a specialist dementia home, you can't just turn up one day and give the vaccine to the residents, there needs to be an element of preparation,\" he told BBC Radio Wales.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr health board said it was working to ensure those with the highest priority are vaccinated.\n\nTeresa Owen, the health board's executive director of public health, said: \"Last week we vaccinated nearly 10,000 people in north Wales.\n\n\"This week, staff from primary care practices will be going into the local nursing and residential homes to administer the Oxford-Astra Zeneca vaccination to residents.\n\n\"The initial supply of vaccinations to the west of BCUHB has caused some logistical problems with commencing this programme, but vaccines have now been allocated for all the nursing and residential homes in the locality.\"", "Boris Johnson - pictured here in 2013 - is a keen cyclist\n\nDowning Street has defended Boris Johnson for riding his bicycle seven miles from home, saying he complied with Covid rules during his trip.\n\nLabour accused the prime minister of having double standards, after it was reported he had been spotted in the saddle at east London's Olympic Park.\n\nGovernment guidance says daily outdoor exercise is allowed but people should not travel outside their local area.\n\nThe PM's spokesman said any suggestion he had broken the rules was \"wrong\".\n\nBut he did not confirm whether Mr Johnson had been driven to the Olympic Park from Downing Street or cycled there.\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the trip had not been \"against the law - that's for sure\".\n\nPeople should go for exercise \"from your front door and come back to your front door\", she said, adding: \"That's my view of local.\"\n\nThe prime minister's press secretary said the Commissioner's words were \"wise\".\n\n\"The instruction is to stay local and for her a reasonable interpretation was to exercise from their front door but for some people it's more complicated. Everyone needs to exercise their own judgement\", she added.\n\nThe Evening Standard reported that the prime minister had been seen in the Olympic Park, with his security detail, on Sunday.\n\nThere's nothing in English lockdown law that says Boris Johnson shouldn't have pedalled around London's Olympic park on Sunday, seven miles from Downing Street.\n\nBut this comes at a time when the government is desperately pleading with people to take Covid-19 seriously and follow the rules.\n\nIn England that means leaving home only for essential work, shopping and exercise. The guidance also says \"stay local\" without defining how far people can roam.\n\nTravel for exercise is allowed \"a short distance within your area\" to access an open space.\n\nNumber 10 will insist that's precisely what Mr Johnson did.\n\nBut his ride highlights the problem everyone faces trying to interpret rules, and relying on people using common sense.\n\nThe outing certainly doesn't help ministers straining to tell the public - in clear, consistent, easy-to-understand terms - to stay at home.\n\nAndy Slaughter, Labour MP for Hammersmith, west London, criticised the prime minister for having a \"do-as-I-say, not-as-I-do\" attitude.\n\nSpeaking to Today, Policing Minister Kit Malthouse said: \"What we are asking people to do is when they exercise to stay local.\n\n\"Now local is, obviously, open to interpretation, but people broadly know what local means.\n\n\"If you can get there under your own steam and you are not interacting with somebody... then that seems perfectly reasonable to me.\"\n\nThe PM's official spokesman added: \"We have always trusted the public to exercise good judgement. We did throughout the first lockdown and continue to do so.\"\n\nDame Cressida Dick said Boris Johnson had not broken the law\n\nThe issue of travelling for exercise was highlighted at the weekend after police in Derbyshire fined two women £200 after they drove five miles from home to take a walk - a penalty that was later dropped.\n\nGovernment advice for England says people can leave home to exercise, but adds: \"This should be limited to once per day, and you should not travel outside your local area.\"\n\nThe guidance adds: \"Stay local means stay in the village, town, or part of the city where you live.\"\n\nThe government also states: \"The law is what you must do; the guidance might be a mixture of what you must do and what you should do.\"\n\nIn Scotland, the advice is that exercise can be taken if it \"starts and finishes at the same place, which can be up to five miles from the boundary of your local authority area\".\n\nIn Wales, exercise also has to start from and finish at home. There no limits on distance travelled, although the advice is that \"the nearer you stay to your home, the better\".\n\nPeople in Northern Ireland are advised not to go more than 10 miles from home when exercising.", "Fans of the University of Alabama football team gathered in the streets of Tuscaloosa in Alabama, ignoring social distancing.\n\nThey were celebrating the university's third national championship in the past six years.", "More than 12,500 people have died with coronavirus, since the first reported death in Scotland on 13 March 2020.\n\nHere are the stories of some of those who have lost their lives.\n\nIf you would like to pay tribute to a loved one lost to Covid, please use the form below or email newsonline-scotland@bbc.co.uk and ensure you have read our terms and conditions and privacy policy.\n\nJean was born in 1937 Maryhill and spoke often and fondly of her childhood in \"the Butney\". This involved real hardships - including war-time evacuation to Holytown - though Jean's memories were all good and Maryhill became a touchstone when dementia became a factor in recent years.\n\nWorking at Rolls-Royce Hillington, Jean was transferred to its Derby HQ where, as a young woman, she made small component parts for jet engines. Even in her 80s, Jean could still perform all the machinist actions (with sound effects).\n\nShe loved to paint landscapes and had a life-long passion for music, especially jazz (with Frankie and Ella being constants). She was a great singer and dancer, always up for fun and laughs, brightening up any party.\n\nHer family said Jean was a fabulous mum to two daughters, a brilliant friend, and a warm-hearted women with kindness for everyone and anyone. She died on 27 October 2020.\n\nRashelle Baird's family describe her as \"kind, bubbly, and always the life and soul of the party\".\n\nThe 27-year-old mother-of-three from Brechin had put off appointments to get the vaccine because she was busy with her children.\n\nHer family stressed she was not anti-vaccine. \"She wanted to get her vaccine but she put her kids first,\" her father Stephen said.\n\nRashelle, who had asthma, initially thought she had caught a cold from her children, but her symptoms worsened and she was admitted to hospital.\n\nShe died in November 2021 after several days in Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, having been placed in an induced coma in the intensive care unit.\n\nDavid Trower worked as a clerical officer in the A&E department of University Hospital Monklands in Airdrie before retiring in 2016.\n\nBut he was committed to the NHS and even in retirement he chose to continue to work shifts, through NHS Lanarkshire's staff bank, right up until February. He died on 9 March 2021, aged 67.\n\nHis colleagues thought highly of him, saying: \"We have many happy memories of shifts together, laughs, nights out, and listening to all his stories of his many holidays abroad. We will miss him.\"\n\nBernadette White, his sister, said he was a caring, gentle and loving man with a wicked sense of humour.\n\nShe added: \"The last seven years, I would say, is when David started to live his life, doing the things that made him happy without having to worry about anyone else.\"\n\nStephen Stewart met his future wife, Heather, at a youth club when he was just 14. They got engaged on his 17th birthday and he had just turned 20 when they married.\n\nThe couple, who lived in Motherwell, came from \"very different\" backgrounds but they grew up together during their 25-year marriage while raising their only child.\n\nStephen took pride in his work for concrete manufacturer FP McCann, latterly as a lab technician working out what strength the concrete needed to be for certain projects.\n\nOutside work, he loved fishing, computer games, gadgets and during the first lockdown he managed to build a hot tub shelter with the help of a series of YouTube videos.\n\nHe died of Covid pneumonia at University Hospital Wishaw on 19 February 2021, aged 45.\n\nNan Douglas worked her way up from shorthand typist to headteacher during a remarkable career.\n\nShe was already a mother of three when she left her job as a school secretary at West Calder High School to enrol at Moray House in Edinburgh where she qualified as a primary school teacher.\n\nAfter losing her husband John when she was just 43, she found solace in working with disabled children and went on to be appointed head of Pinewood Special School in Blackburn, West Lothian.\n\nFollowing a spell living in Cornwall during her retirement, she returned to Scotland where she hosted a \"living wake\" with 80 friends and family on her 90th birthday.\n\nShe lived independently in Milnathort, Kinross, and was admitted to hospital for a minor issue just before Christmas 2020. But she picked up Covid and never left. She died on 19 February 2021, aged 95.\n\nGraeme McGrath's greatest passions were rowing and the River Clyde.\n\nOn the day of his funeral, fellow rowers held oars in a guard of honour at Glasgow Green in a tribute appreciated by his wife Anne and their three sons.\n\nFor 40 years Graeme volunteered with the Glasgow Humane Society and was often called on to row rescue boats on the Clyde, or to help evacuate families during floods.\n\nAfter undergoing a kidney transplant in his 50s, he was unable to get out on the river as much. He retired from his job as a Thomas Cook travel agent and moved to Prestwick in Ayrshire.\n\nBut he still felt the pull of the Clyde and regularly returned to the city to meet friends and row safety boats at regattas.\n\nHe died with Covid on 15 February 2021 at Crosshouse Hospital in Kilmarnock, aged 66, after being admitted for an infection affecting his heart.\n\nTommy Morrow spent most of his life in the Maryhill area of Glasgow, where he met his partner Jackie and raised their children, Demi and Mark.\n\nHis family described him as a character and not a day went by without them laughing at his jokes.\n\nHe loved camping and fishing in places like Stornoway with his friends but the most important people in his life were his family, including grandchildren, Lacey and Louden.\n\nDuring his career he worked in various well-known hotels and restaurants in Glasgow but he had not worked for some years due to poor health, including COPD.\n\nHe died with Covid on 15 February 2021, aged 53. \"It was so cruel - he was so close to getting the vaccine,\" his family said.\n\nTommy Rooney was a bus driver for 36 years and hugely popular with colleagues at First Bus in Larbert.\n\nOn the day of his funeral they were among dozens of people who lined the streets and applauded as his cortege passed the depot.\n\nFirst Bus operations manager Jason Hackett told the Falkirk Herald that Tommy was the \"heart and soul\" of the Larbert station.\n\nMarried to Margaret, the Bonnybridge man had two daughters and a granddaughter who described him as a \"humble but proud family man who put everyone else's needs before his own\".\n\nAn avid Celtic fan, he spent much of the pandemic driving key workers to their essential duties. He died on 12 February 2021, aged 57.\n\nDavid Gray's first grandchild - a girl called Islay - was born in July 2020. The proud \"papa\" used to say that she was the love of his life and she gave him a reason to wake up in the morning.\n\nTragically, the 62-year-old only got to spend five months with her before falling ill with Covid. He died on 3 February 2021.\n\nDavid lived in Erskine and worked for BAE Systems for 20 years, first as a mechanical fitter then as records manager dealing with secret files for the Ministry of Defence.\n\nHis family describe him as \"music daft\" - he played guitar and he was performing a gig with his band in Glasgow when he met his wife, Joyce, 40 years ago.\n\nThey went on to have two children - Darren and Danielle - as well as his beloved Cocker Spaniels, Buster and Shimmer, who he described as his \"bairns\".\n\nHarry Osborne was a Dunkirk veteran whose life was full of adventures - his daughter said he was still able to recall stories until just a few days before he died.\n\nMr Osborne was deployed to France months after joining the Territorial Army in Glasgow, served with the 77th Highland Field Regiment of the Royal Artillery and later became a surveyor.\n\nFriends recall how upon joining, he promised his mother he would not swear and instead would say \"cricky jings\", which became his nickname in the forces.\n\nHe was also known as a keen golfer with a \"wicked sense of humour\".\n\nMr Osborne died from Covid-19 on 25 January, nine months after celebrating his 100th birthday.\n\nConnie Simpson's grandchildren say she was more like a pal than a granny - she was full of fun and laughter, and was always the first up to dance at a party.\n\nBorn in Kinning Park, Glasgow, she moved to the east end after marrying John who she met at the Barrowlands when they were teenagers.\n\nWhile John was away with the Merchant Navy, she brought up their four children in a house \"surrounded by love\", before taking work as a curtain consultant.\n\nShe was fabulous even in her 80s - she loved getting her hair, eyebrows and manicure done, meeting friends at Mecca Bingo in Parkhead and at a local pensioners' club.\n\nConnie died on 23 January 2021 at Stobhill Hospital in Glasgow, aged 82.\n\nSheila Gartly was as \"bright as a button\" and the \"heart of our family\", her loved ones said.\n\nShe was born and brought up in Deskford, Moray, before marrying and moving to Keith in 1954. Widowed in 1975, she remarried but lost her second husband in 2005.\n\nDuring her working life she had jobs in a florist and in a fish shop - both of which she thoroughly enjoyed.\n\nShe loved to watch the birds in her garden, read her daily newspaper, listen to traditional Scottish music, and the spring and summer when the nights were lighter and flowers bloomed.\n\nIn 2019 she had surgery on a broken leg but she was recovering well. She died with Covid on 19 January 2021, aged 86.\n\nAlex Goldie was an electrical engineer who latterly worked as a lecturer at Stow College in Glasgow before his retirement.\n\nHis family said he was a gregarious man, always interested in other people, who took great delight and pride in the antics and education of his two great-grandsons, Charlie and Joe.\n\nDuring his long life he enjoyed skiing, tennis, pottery, sailing, golf, holidays in Europe, Australia and North America, single malts and red wine.\n\nHe had been well cared for by Randolph Hill nursing home in Dunblane for 19 months after developing dementia. Covid restrictions meant he had not seen his family, other than by Skype, for a year.\n\nHe is thought to have contracted the virus on a trip to A&E after a fall. He died on 14 January, aged 100.\n\nVincent Logan became one of the youngest bishops in the world when he was ordained Bishop of Dunkeld in 1981, aged 39.\n\nHe served the Roman Catholic diocese for almost 32 years before his retirement in 2012.\n\nThe Scottish Catholic Church said he was \"dedicated and energetic\" and had \"an energy and zeal in all he did\".\n\nBorn in Bathgate in 1941, he was ordained a priest in Edinburgh in 1964. He died on 14 January, aged 79, the day after his friend the Archbishop of Glasgow, Philip Tartaglia.\n\n\"Both bishops succumbed to the lethal effects of the coronavirus,\" the current Bishop of Dunkeld, Stephen Robson, added.\n\nThe Archbishop of Glasgow, the Most Reverend Philip Tartaglia, died suddenly at his home in the city on 13 January - the Feast of St Mungo, the Patron Saint of Glasgow.\n\nHe had been self-isolating after testing positive for Covid shortly after Christmas.\n\nBorn in Glasgow in 1951, he was ordained a priest in 1975 and had served as leader of Scotland's largest Catholic community since 2012.\n\nScotland's Catholic bishops described Archbishop Tartaglia as a \"gentle, caring and warm-hearted pastor who combined compassion with a piercing intellect\".\n\nAmong those who paid tribute were First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Glasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken, who described the archbishop as \"a true Glaswegian\".\n\nLiz Shingleston was a well-known figure in the village of Dunragit and her death on 13 January had a big impact on the small community near Stranraer.\n\n\"Her hearse passed the bottom of the village and the amount of people who turned out to pay their respects was overwhelming,\" said her daughter, Lisa.\n\nLiz spent her early childhood in New Luce but moved to the railway station cottage in Dunragit where her father worked as a signalman.\n\nDuring a varied working life, Liz left school to work in the laboratory of the nearby Nestle factory and later replaced her own mother as the local school's dinner lady.\n\nThe 73-year-old was devoted to her grandchildren and great-grandson but she also liked to treat herself to afternoon tea (with Prosecco) at Trump Turnberry.\n\nHugh Polland, who was known as Shug to his friends and family, was born and raised in Glasgow's Easterhouse.\n\nHe was well known in the area where he ran the Casbah Pub for many years during the 1980s and early 90s.\n\nA huge Celtic fan, he loved to play golf and took up photography later in life - becoming \"unofficial photographer\" at many friends' weddings, christening and parties.\n\n\"Everyone wanted him at their party not just to take photos but because of his personality,\" said his son, Tony McAllister. \"Everyone loved him because what you seen is what you got.\"\n\nShug died at Glasgow Royal Infirmary on 5 January, aged 70. His sudden death has left his family heartbroken.\n\nFor more than 75 years George Wight lived on his dairy farm in the village of Drumoak in Aberdeenshire.\n\nBut he had more than one string to his bow - as well as being a dairy farmer, for 25 years he was also the publican of his local, the Irvine Arms.\n\nA loyal Aberdeen FC fan, he was one of the lucky ones - he was in Gothenburg in 1983 to see the his beloved Dons lift the European Cup Winners Cup.\n\nHe was devoted to his family, including wife Claire and their four children, and despite suffering a series of bereavements and health setbacks, he always bounced back.\n\n\"He was an inspiration and a hardy soul who kept going no matter what life threw at him,\" they said. George died at a nursing home on 4 January 2021, aged 85.\n\nHugh Bell loved to dance. As a young man, when he doing his national service with the RAF, he was a regular at the dancing at the YMCA in Paisley.\n\nIt was there he met the love of his life, Margaret. They were married for 63 years and had two children Alan and Stuart. Margaret passed away in 2013.\n\nA keen ballroom dancer, Hugh was often first on the dance floor and in his later years he enjoyed dancing to the entertainment at Southerness caravan park, near Dumfries, where Stuart and his friend had a holiday home.\n\nHe was a bright, bubbly sociable man who spent a career in logistics before working as a lollipop man in his retirement.\n\nHugh died on 31 December at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, aged 92.\n\nDavid Warnock was a keen sportsman who loved squash, tennis, rugby, football, cycling and climbing munros.\n\nIn fact, it was on the tennis courts in Aberdeen that he met his teenage sweetheart, Zena. He was 17 and she was 14 - they were married for 62 years.\n\nAn electrical engineer, he worked for Pye Communications, moving first to Cambridge and then Edinburgh.\n\nHe was a quiet man who never complained about anything and was happiest around his family - including four children, 11 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.\n\nHis second great-grandchild was born shortly after he died in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary on 31 December. He was 85.\n\nHenry Anderson, an SNP councillor on Perth and Kinross Council, died with Covid on 27 December.\n\nHe had represented the Almond and Earn ward since 2012 and colleagues said he would be \"hugely missed\".\n\nAmong those who paid tribute to the 68-year-old was Deputy First Minister John Swinney, who described him as \"a good, decent man and a faithful councillor\".\n\nMurray Lyle, the leader of Perth and Kinross Council, said Mr Anderson was an excellent advocate for his ward and \"passionate about local issues\".\n\n\"I had the pleasure of working with Henry for several years on the Local Review Body and always his enjoyed his company, good humour and sense of fun when we were out visiting planning sites.\"\n\nTeenage sweethearts Bryson Mitchell and his wife Irene were due to celebrate their diamond wedding anniversary in January,\n\nThey met when he was an 18-year-old apprentice electrician and was assigned to a contract with the company where Irene, who was 16, was working.\n\nAfter marrying in 1961, Bryson spent his adult life in Paisley and 35 years working as an aircraft electrician with British Airways.\n\nThe couple had two children and four grandchildren, who described him as a quiet man with a great sense of humour. \"He was kind and generous, very hardworking, and he lived for his family,\" they said.\n\nHe was in hospital being treated for an acute illness when he contracted Covid. He died on Christmas Eve, aged 82.\n\nAs a child, Sandy Adam survived pioneering surgery to remove his voice box - an operation that left him unable to speak normally.\n\nInstead he learned a different way to communicate - oesophageal speech (swallowing air) - by drinking lots of lemonade. He had a life-long hatred of the fizzy drink after that.\n\nAfter training to be a dentist in Dundee, he returned to his hometown of Aberdeen. In addition to surgeries around the city, at one time he worked at Craiginches Prison one afternoon a week.\n\nA father and a grandfather, he loved tinkering with cars, pranking his two children and sitting in the sun with a glass of red wine.\n\nThe 81-year-old, who had dementia, died on 16 December, shortly after testing positive for Covid.\n\nDavid Barr was born and grew up in Paisley and for more than 40 years he worked in the town's Anchor Mill.\n\nAs well as being a keen bowler, a church elder, and an active member of Martyrs Church Men's Club, he had a gift for carpentry.\n\nThe dolls houses and garages that he made for his children and grandchildren were much loved and they are still treasured.\n\nHis favourite place in the world was the East Neuk of Fife, where he spent many happy holidays.\n\nDavid had an underlying respiratory condition and he was admitted to hospital with shortness of breath in December. He died within days of being diagnosed with Covid on 16 December, aged 86.\n\nAna Lisa Sayson was a nurse who moved from the Philippines to work for the NHS in Scotland.\n\nShe was a staff nurse at Stobhill Hospital in Glasgow before she moved to Glasgow Royal Infirmary during the Covid crisis. The mother-of-two died on 15 December after testing positive for the virus.\n\n\"Ana Lisa was a much-loved member of the team and an incredibly compassionate nurse who was devoted to the care of her patients,\" said John Stuart, the chief nurse at Glasgow Royal Infirmary.\n\n\"Ana Lisa came to our country from the Philippines to care for our loved ones and my heart goes out to her family and especially her husband and children.\n\n\"My thoughts, and the thoughts of all of her NHS family here in Glasgow, are with them at this terribly sad time.\"\n\nBilly and May Fannin were married for 62 years after meeting at a ballroom in Glasgow in 1955.\n\nMay was a bookkeeper who gave up her job to look after her grandchildren in the 1980s. \"Her life revolved around her four grandchildren,\" their younger daughter Jennifer told BBC Scotland.\n\nBilly was a joiner by trade but his real passion was singing, performing under the name Scott Allan. And as a member of Equity, he also took on work as an extra on TV programmes like Take the High Road and Taggart.\n\nHe loved being the centre of attention and \"if he was chocolate he would have eaten himself\", Jennifer joked.\n\nWhen the couple from Barrhead caught Covid, their two daughters also fell ill with the virus and had to self-isolate. They were heartbroken they could not be with their 84-year-old mother when she died in hospital on 6 December.\n\nBut they chose not tell their 88-year-old father about her death, as he was also in hospital and had dementia. Jennifer was able to visit him to say goodbye before he slipped away just eight days after the passing of his wife.\n\nShe was president of the city's Bangladesh Association, a civil servant at Glasgow City Council and, according to her family, \"a pillar of the community\".\n\nThey said she was a \"devoted mother, daughter, aunt and friend [but] she would prefer to be remembered as a social activist, volunteer and community advocate\".\n\nBoth Mridula and her husband, Sarwar Hassan, were admitted to hospital with Covid in November. He was discharged but Mridula was moved to Aberdeen for specialist treatment.\n\nHer husband and two sons were able to spend time with her before she died at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary on 12 December, aged 50.\n\nBridget Turner and her husband Alan worked for years in the window blinds industry before setting up their own business, A&B Window Blinds, in 1992.\n\nThey lived next door to the shop in Paisley, where Bridget worked in the office and Alan went out to do the measuring. Their years of hard work paid off and the family business remains successful.\n\nThe mother-of-three \"loved a good gab and a good catch-up with friends\", according to her daughter, Lisa. \"She was amazing, such a good friend to lots of people.\"\n\nWhen the children were young, family holidays were spent at the Isle of Whithorn but later the couple, who moved to Greenock, spent winters in Gran Canaria where they made friends from around the world.\n\nBridget was treated for Covid at Inverclyde Royal Hospital, where she received \"amazing care\". She died, aged 71, on 7 December after saying goodbye to her family.\n\nAndrew Slorance was a civil servant in charge of the Scottish government's planning and response to crisis situations - including the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nHe grew up in Hawick and became a journalist before joining the Scotland Office. He led the new Scottish Parliament's media team when it opened in 1999, then became the official spokesman for First Minister Alex Salmond.\n\nA father-of-five, he was diagnosed with Mantle Cell Lymphoma in 2015. He documented his experience of the rare cancer - including six rounds of chemotherapy - in a blog he called \"The fight of my life\".\n\nHe relapsed in 2019 and a stem cell transplant scheduled for Easter 2020 was delayed by Covid. While shielding at home in Edinburgh, he spent the first part of the pandemic working on the government's response from a spare room.\n\nMr Slorance was finally admitted to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Glasgow for his stem cell transplant in October. He tested positive for Covid shortly after that and died on 5 December, aged 49.\n\nTributes from across the political spectrum, including First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, have been paid to Mr Slorance. His wife, Louise, told BBC Scotland: \"He was a proud family man who was the life and soul of any party, loving and loyal.\"\n\nAllan Harper was a salesman at Topps Tiles for 23 years, mainly in the Hillington branch.\n\nHe met Caroline through a dating website 21 years ago. They were due to celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary in July.\n\nA father-of-one, he lived in Craigton, in the south-west of Glasgow, where he enjoyed computer games and playing pool with work colleagues.\n\nCaroline said they would spend their days off and holidays together with their three cats \"who sometimes got more attention than me\".\n\nHe was a kind man, a \"true gentleman\" and her \"forever love\", she added. He died on 1 December 2020, aged 60.\n\nEileen Terry was born and brought up in Renfrew before marrying Bob and moving to Milngavie in 1968.\n\nHe was a keen golfer and when their sons, Robert and David, reached secondary school she decided the time was right to join him on the golf course.\n\nIt led to a lifetime's love of the sport and she became the ladies captain of Clober Golf Club in 2001 - the club's centenary year.\n\nHer family say she was a kind and generous lady who was well-known in her local community, where she worked as a home help until her retirement.\n\nShe spent her final years in Mavisbank Nursing Home in Bishopbriggs after developing vascular dementia. She died in hospital on 25 November 2020, aged 84.\n\nDavie Burgess was one of 10 siblings born in the Townhead area of Glasgow, but he had a lifelong love of the fresh air and the scenery of the Scottish countryside.\n\nAs a young man, he worked as a fireman on the steam train to Crianlarich - a trip which included a two-hour stopover allowing him to explore the hills.\n\nLater in life he loved driving up to Acharacle to visit his son and his family, where he could go for long walks with his grandchildren and their dog, Mac.\n\nMarried for 60 years to May, the father-of-three worked for the Milk Marketing Board at Hogganfield Loch. He was a hard worker who even after he \"retired\" took on three jobs, including running a caravan park.\n\nHis family described him as a \"gentleman\" and a \"man of pride\". He died on 25 November, aged 86.\n\nRod Moore spent 40 years with the ambulance service, working as a technician, a paramedic, a trainer and then in managerial roles before returning to the front line and the job he loved.\n\nThe football fan from Falkirk was married to Clare for 31 years and they had a son, Craig.\n\n\"He was my best friend, he was always happy, joking around all the time, he was so funny... he made me laugh every day,\" Clare told BBC Scotland.\n\nAnd he was so close to their son \"you wouldn't have got a sheet of paper between them\", she added.\n\nAlthough they were not able to see Rod for four weeks while he was treated in hospital for Covid, they we allowed one final visit to say goodbye before he died on 21 November, aged 63.\n\nTom Kenmure was a manager at the Tesco distribution centre in Livingston, where he had worked for 28 years.\n\nThe 51-year-old was a friendly, sociable man and in normal times he liked nothing better than driving around the country exploring \"any little shop he could find\".\n\nAfter the restrictions came into force, the father-of-two from Carluke did everything he could to keep himself and his family safe from Covid.\n\nBut on the 6 October he felt a tightness in his chest on his way to work and had to get tested. It came back positive the next day.\n\nHe spent two weeks in Wishaw General before being transferred to an ECMO machine at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. He died on 17 November.\n\nAndrew, or \"Andra\", Kettrick was a porter at Stirling Royal Infirmary for 28 years.\n\nHe would take patients out on \"mystery tours\" in a \"big blue hospital ambulance bus\" his son, also Andrew, told BBC Scotland.\n\n\"The old people loved my dad as he would often stop and buy them all fish and chips or ice cream - all this was paid for out of his pocket,\" he said.\n\nMr Kettrick's work was recognised by hospital bosses and they put him forward for a British Empire Medal which he received in 1991.\n\nThe father-of-three, from Cowie, Stirling, died at Caledonia Court care home in Larbert on 17 November. He was 86.\n\nJim - Flocky - Flockhart was the public face of the firefighters' strike in Glasgow in 1973.\n\nA leading figure in the Fire Brigade Union, he regularly appeared on TV and in newspapers during the controversial 10-day strike over pay.\n\nFirefighting was a dangerous - sometimes fatal - job in the \"tinderbox city\" and Jim was hailed a hero by colleagues after the dispute ended with a famous victory for the strikers.\n\nHe retired to Darvel in Ayrshire where he enjoyed a pint in the Black Bull and spent many years driving friends and local elderly men on trips around Scotland and to Ireland.\n\nA father and grandfather, he died with Covid on 13 November with his daughters Yvonne and Julie by his side. He was 77.\n\nTom Maley never wanted for anything, but after enduring months of Covid restrictions this year the 73-year-old retired joiner set his heart on a big Christmas tree.\n\nIt had been a tough year for the normally sociable pensioner who was renowned for his jokes (good and bad) and was devoted to his wife of 53 years, Georgina, and their family.\n\nThey usually decorate a small table-top tree for the festive season, but this year Mr Maley ordered a 5ft showstopper illuminated with multi-coloured stars to fill the window of their Grangemouth home.\n\nThe great-grandfather will never get to see the tree in its full glory. He died at Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert on 12 November, shortly after falling ill with Covid-19.\n\nHis granddaughter Claire Taylor told BBC Scotland, said: \"My gran has made sure that the tree he ordered will go up and it will shine bright for Granda.\"\n\nTracey Donnelly was born and brought up in Edinburgh but she moved to the north-east of England after meeting her husband, George.\n\n\"I loved her the first time I saw her, and I always will,\" he said. \"She was so loving and kind - just an extra-special person in every way.\"\n\nTracey had four children, three step-children and eight grandchildren, and she worked as a support worker for the North East Autism Society.\n\nCare manager Michael Ross, said: \"She loved her family, and she loved the service-users in her care. This tragic news has ripped the heart out of the team and her colleagues are absolutely devastated.\"\n\nShe died at Sunderland General Hospital in mid-November after testing positive for coronavirus. She was 53.\n\nJim Grant was originally from Bo'ness but he spent most of his life in Grangemouth where he brought up two daughters, Margaret and Senga, with his wife Mary.\n\nHe worked as a labourer at BP before taking early retirement when he was 60.\n\nThe 88-year-old great-grandfather spent his last months at the Caledonian Court care home in Larbert before his death on 8 November. He was one of 20 residents who died in the space of a month after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nHis granddaughter, Nicole Ritchie, said he was a gentleman who always had a huge smile on his face, and his death had had a huge impact on the family.\n\nShe told BBC Scotland \"As a family, we would like to thank Caledonian Court from the bottom of our hearts. They looked after my grandad for the last 11 months of his life and they couldn't have done a better job, he was so happy and very well looked after.\"\n\nFor more than 20 years until her retirement in February 2020, Liz Khan was a support worker for adults with learning and physical disabilities.\n\nShe also ran a drama group for them - it was always more than a job to her, her family said.\n\nLiz was also an elder at her local church, St Margaret's Parish Church in the Muirhouse area of Motherwell, North Lanarkshire.\n\n\"She devoted her life to her work, church and family,\" her children Stephen, Sonia and Lorraine told BBC Scotland.\n\nLiz died in hospital with Covid on 26 October 2020, aged 67 - eight months into her retirement.\n\nWhen Marie Ward broke her wrist in 2019, she asked her consultant whether she would be able to play the piano once it had healed.\n\nHe assured her she would, but when she replied \"that's great because I couldn't before\", the previously serious and solemn medic cracked up.\n\nShe was always laughing and joking, according to her granddaughter, Abby McNicol, and she enjoyed nothing more than knitting, shopping and a \"good blether\".\n\nMarried to Robert for 53 years, they started life together in a single-end tenement in Househillwood in Glasgow. Moving to a three-bedroom council house in Johnstone was \"like winning the lottery\".\n\nThe mother-of-three and grandmother-of-11 died on 18 October 2020, aged 83.\n\nFrances Brown spent lockdown shielding in her room in the Glasgow care home where she had lived for almost 10 years.\n\nAfter months of keeping in touch via video calls, the 76-year-old was finally able to meet up with her sister, Anne Turnbull, in August.\n\nMs Turnbull said her sister, who had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and bi-polar disorder, had a special bond with staff at the David Cargill care home.\n\nAnd she praised the home which remained Covid-free until a staff member tested positive on 4 October. Frances contracted the virus and died in hospital on 13 October.\n\nIn a statement, the care home described Frances as \"the most incredible woman, a real character, and an absolute pleasure to know and care for\".\n\nAfter a long battle against illness throughout the year, great grandfather Charlie Armstrong died on 10 October.\n\nThe 82-year-old retired property manager from Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire, had been allowed home after receiving treatment at Glasgow Royal Infirmary for chest problems.\n\nEight days later he was readmitted to the hospital and tested positive for coronavirus. The family say they were told he must have contracted Covid during his earlier stay at the Infirmary.\n\nHis wife, Joyce, who was also treated in hospital for the virus, said: \"He was very generous, very loving and very funny and he hated seeing anybody being put down. He didn't like to see injustice. He would stand up for people.\n\n\"We were together for 40 years and he was a very good father and a very good husband to me.\"\n\nMargaret Kerrigan was a \"force to be reckoned with\", according to her family - a matriarch who commanded respect.\n\nShe was born in Plymouth but her family moved to Glasgow when she was young. Growing up in Govan in the 1950s, she learned to be a \"tough cookie\".\n\nIt meant she must have been perfectly suited to her job as bar manager at Curlers in Byres Road in the 1960s. And it was there she met Joe, a customer at the pub, who she married in 1970.\n\nHe worked as a school janitor during many of their 50 years of marriage, and they had four sons, 12 grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.\n\nClydebank Bowling Club provided Joe with a good social life, while Margaret loved having her family around her and going to the bingo.\n\nJoe had dementia and he died at Hill View care home in Dalmuir on 19 April 2020, aged 78. Margaret fell ill during the second wave and died in hospital on 8 October, aged 73.\n\nFormer ambulance technician George Cairns was a resident at LittleInch Care Home in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire.\n\nHis family said the move from his Renfrew flat to the home in January had reinvigorated him and brought out his mischievous sense of humour.\n\nDuring the lockdown period Mr Cairns, who was bipolar, even joked about topping up his tan in the garden.\n\nThe 71-year-old tested positive for Covid-19 on 8 May despite displaying no symptoms, but his condition deteriorated and he died in the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley nine days later.\n\nHis daughter, Gillian, paid tribute to his caring nature, saying: \"Even if you only met him once he would tell you a story, a terrible joke or offer a supportive ear when you needed it the most.\"\n\nRetired farmer Jock Brown was a keen ice hockey player in his youth, and he represented Scotland for six years in the 1950s.\n\nHe told his family that he was selected for the team because he was the only Scotsman who played as goal tender (goalkeeper) at the time. They insist this is not true.\n\nMarried to Mary for 48 years, they had two children and four grandchildren.\n\nHe farmed near Falkirk - on land next to what is now home to The Kelpies - until his retirement in the 1980s.\n\nMr Brown's family said he was a quiet man with a great sense of humour. He had dementia and he died with Covid-19 at Burnbrae care home in Falkirk on 14 May. He was 89.\n\nIna Beaton was a well-known figure on the Isle of Skye and she lived in her own home in Balmaqueen until two years ago.\n\nShe died on 11 May aged 103, the seventh resident of Home Farm care home in Portree to die after contracting Covid-19.\n\nIna lived through the Great War and the 1919 Spanish Flu outbreak. During World War Two she moved to Glasgow to work as a conductress on the trams and survived the Clydebank blitz.\n\nHer grandson, Ailean Beaton, said his loss was shared across the island, especially the north end \"where she was mum, granny, friend to more than just the Beatons.\n\n\"Her crystal memory and broad experience of life in Skye over several generations meant that she contributed to our shared knowledge of the place we're from, its language and culture,\" he added.\n\nBetty Steele grew up in Paisley but later moved to Corby, Northamptonshire - the town known as \"little Scotland\".\n\nShe had seven children, 11 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren, and she lived for her family, according to her granddaughter, Debbie Smiley.\n\nHer house was always the meeting point, and she was the life and soul of the party.\n\n\"She had such a zest for life, and anything she did it was done with care and love for others,\" Debbie added.\n\nJohn Angus Gordon, 83, spent the last few years of his life at the Home Farm care home in Portree on Skye.\n\nHe had dementia and the sense of touch reassured him - he liked to shake a hand or hold the hand of the person he was talking to.\n\nUnable to visit the home, his family spoke to him for the last time in a video-call a few hours before he died on 5 May.\n\nAs he listened to their voices, he reached out to the hand of the carer sitting with him, dressed in full personal protective equipment.\n\n\"We found it quite poignant that my dad put out his hand to hers and she was wearing these blue protective gloves,\" said his son, John.\n\nPaul McCaffrey was an \"amazing dad\" of two children and two step-children who was always busy, according to his partner Caroline McNultry.\n\n\"He was always helping someone, whether he was in someone's house helping them out or just on-the-go in work all the time,\" she said.\n\nThe healthy 49-year-old from Glasgow fell ill after returning home from work at a care home where he was a highly-regarded maintenance manager.\n\nRather than the traditional coronavirus symptoms, he complained of a headache and aching limbs but he was eventually admitted to hospital in Glasgow where he tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nHe was transferred to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary where he could be hooked up to an ECMO machine, which performs the tasks of the lungs. After three weeks, he died on 4 May.\n\nHGV driver Jim Russell kept his lorries so spotlessly clean he was known as \"Big Gorgeous\" by colleagues who joked that he must have worn his slippers in his cab.\n\nHe was a big character who loved cars, trucks, motorbikes, lorries and going to Truckfest with his fiancée Connie McCready, who he affectionately nicknamed \"Isa\" after the Still Game character.\n\nThis photograph was taken at the last concert the couple attended together on 8 March 2020.\n\nThey met online in 2014 and were due to get married last summer but Mr Russell fell ill with Covid three weeks after the concert. He died on 4 May, aged 51.\n\n\"Everyone is talking about life getting back to normal when coming out of lockdown, however for myself and many many others we are terrified as our lives will never be normal again,\" Connie said.\n\nClive Andrews was born in Trinidad and in 1967 he moved to Edinburgh where he \"immediately felt like he belonged\", according to his daughter, Nadine.\n\nThe father-of-six worked as a senior lecturer in ergonomics at Napier College, but he was also committed to the arts.\n\nDevoted to promoting and supporting artists and musicians, he held committee roles with groups including Theatre Alba and the Scottish Arts Council.\n\nHe helped establish the Edinburgh International Harp Festival and volunteered every year for decades with the Edinburgh International Jazz Festival.\n\nClive was a lover of life (and of salsa dancing), his family said. He died at The Elms Care Home in Edinburgh on 3 May 2020, aged 86.\n\nRobert Black was a paramedic but he was also a talented musician and part of the team behind Argyll FM.\n\nPaying tribute to him on social media, the community radio station said he was \"a genuine good guy... everyone was his pal\".\n\nThe Mull of Kintyre Music Festival described him as \"one of our pals\" and a \"true gent, wonderful musician\".\n\nHe was a well-known and loved character in Campbeltown, according to Kintyre Community Resilience Group.\n\nThe father-of-two died in hospital in Glasgow on 2 May.\n\nKaren Hutton was a \"much-loved\" care home nurse who died with coronavirus days after her granddaughter was born.\n\nThe 58-year-old was a staff nurse in the dementia unit at Lochleven Care Home in Broughty Ferry, Dundee.\n\nHer only daughter, Lauren, gave birth to a girl just two weeks ago, according to care home operators Thistle Healthcare.\n\nCare home manager Andrew Chalmers-Gall said: \"Karen was a tenacious advocate for her residents and she always put their needs first.\"\n\nShe died at home in Carnoustie, Angus, on 28 April after testing positive for Covid-19.\n\nMark McCarron Gillan bought his wife, Jan, flowers every Friday - a small gesture but something that she still misses following his death on 27 April.\n\nThey were married for 23 years, after first meeting as teenagers, and they have three daughters - twins Ebony and Hope, who are 20, and Brenna, 19.\n\nWhen his colleagues at a soap factory in Queenslie, Glasgow, learned of his death, they stopped production for the first time since opening.\n\nThey were among dozens of people - including friends and neighbours - who lined the streets on the day of his funeral to say a final farewell to the 53-year-old.\n\nMark loved golf, football and hill walking but he was also a family man. \"There is a such a void left in each of us and every life that he touched,\" his wife said.\n\nAlastair Sinclair split his younger years between Reay in Caithness and Lanark before being called up for national service.\n\nBut his army career was cut short when he stood on a mine in Korea and lost a foot.\n\nHis son told BBC Scotland that he was persuaded to pursue a career in developing artificial limbs as he was being fitted for his own prosthetic.\n\nIn retirement, the father-of-three moved with his wife from Newtown Mearns in East Renfrewshire to Wishaw in North Lanarkshire.\n\nHe moved into Erskine Park care home in Bishopton shortly before lockdown and died, aged 87, five weeks later on 27 April.\n\nPearl Paterson grew up in Dennistoun in the east end of Glasgow and was just 10 years old when World War II broke out.\n\nShe was a teenager when she joined the Women's Land Army but it wasn't until she was in her 80s that she received official recognition - and a badge - for her efforts from the UK government.\n\nPearl spent much of her working life employed as a domestic assistant in hotels across Scotland, before settling in Largs, Ayrshire, with her daughter, Fiona.\n\nAn animal lover, she had a special Chihuahua called Flash, and she read the People's Friend magazine every week.\n\nOn her 91st birthday in March, her family was able wave to her in the conservatory at her care home in Glasgow. She died with Covid-19 on 26 April.\n\nAnnie Munro's home was always filled with people - her husband, six children and many nieces and nephews who would often come to visit.\n\nHer family used to joke that the house in Eaglesham must have \"rubber walls\" and they often had to share beds and would \"wake up with somebody's feet up their nose\".\n\nShe was a real homemaker who could as easily run up a set of curtains as make a batch of jam from fruit she had grown in her own garden. She never turned anyone away who needed help.\n\nA mild-mannered woman, she never had any need to raise her voice - a look over the top of her spectacles was enough to keep her children under control.\n\nIn later life she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and her daughter, Linda, became her main carer before she moved into a care home. Annie died on 25 April, aged 84.\n\nKnown to all as Gogs, Gordon Reid was a taxi driver from Edinburgh who loved football, played golf, enjoyed a pint and doted on his grandchildren.\n\nHe stopped working as a precaution four days before the lockdown came into force but within a week had fallen ill with Covid-19.\n\nHis wife, Elaine, and daughter Leemo Goudie, were able to spend some time with him in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary before he died on 24 April, aged 68.\n\nLeemo said: \"My dad was a normal guy, no health issues, a non-smoker, fairly fit. It can happen to anyone.\"\n\nAs only a small number of mourners could attend his funeral, people stood and applauded as his hearse passed some of his favourite places in the city.\n\nDavid Allan joined a local running club in Edinburgh in retirement, after spending 36 years as a science technician at the city's Trinity Academy.\n\nThe fit and healthy 64-year-old was training for a half marathon and was planning to take part in some Park Runs in Sydney during a trip to visit his nephew in Australia this year.\n\nWhen the holiday - including a trip to Fiji - was cancelled due to coronavirus restrictions, David was pragmatic and told his wife, Glenda, they could rearrange for a later date.\n\nIt was a shock when he tested positive for Covid-19 after being admitted to hospital with a chest infection. He died on 24 April after more than four weeks in ICU.\n\nGlenda took comfort from the funeral, when neighbours lined the streets, running club friends and former colleagues stood outside the crematorium, and hundreds watched the service online.\n\nAngie Cunningham worked for NHS Borders for more than 30 years before her death.\n\nThe 60-year-old from Tweedbank was a much-respected and valued colleague who provided \"amazing care\" to her patients, the health board said.\n\nAs well as being a much-loved mother, sister, granny and great-granny, she was proud to be a nurse, her family added.\n\nShe died in the intensive care unit at Borders General Hospital from Covid-19 on 22 April, NHS Borders confirmed.\n\nKirsty Jones, a healthcare support worker with NHS Lanarkshire, was a bubbly, larger than life character, according to her colleagues.\n\nShe joined the health board after leaving school at 17 and spent much of her career working with older patients.\n\nBut the 41-year-old recently took up a role on the frontline of the pandemic, working at an assessment centre in Airdrie.\n\nHer husband, Nigel, said she devoted her life to caring for others and was a wonderful wife and mother to their two sons.\n\nAndy McGinley used to say he didn't need to win the lottery - his family meant he was already a millionaire.\n\nHe was brought up by adoptive parents in Glasgow's Maryhill area during World War Two and went on to become a carpenter at John Brown's Shipyard.\n\nAlthough he first met his wife, Margaret, at primary school they lost touch and got together after meeting at the Barrowland Ballroom years later.\n\nThey spent almost all of their 62 years of married life in the same house in Barmulloch, where they had five children. They also had 15 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.\n\nHe loved his garden, bowls, and a sing-song at family gatherings - his party piece was \"I'm glad that I was born in Glasgow\". He died on 29 April 2020, aged 84.\n\nEvelyn Brown dedicated her life to her family and her community. Born and bred in Peterhead, she was married to Charles for 50 years and they had two children.\n\nShe gave up her job as a bank manager to care for her son Craig after he was born with Down's syndrome in the 1970s.\n\nHer daughter Emma, who was born two years later, said her mother was a selfless woman who loved spoiling her grandchildren with \"gifts and love\".\n\nMrs Brown was an adult Guide leader and later a district commissioner, she volunteered with Barnardo's and was an active member of the Church of Scotland.\n\nAfter her death at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary on 19 April, aged 75, her family raised £3,000 in her name for the hospital's staff garden.\n\nWaqar Hussain Choudhry was a popular shopkeeper in the north of Glasgow.\n\nThe 65-year-old ran a convenience store on Skerray Street in Milton where he was affectionately known as Wacca.\n\nFollowing his death on 17 April 2020, well-wishers left flowers outside the shop he ran for almost 40 years.\n\nThey told The Glasgow Times that the father-of-three served generations of school children and put an extra sweet in their bags.\n\nHis son Zeeshan Chaudhry told the BBC: \"My beloved father was the most amazing hardworking human and parent.\"\n\nJane Murphy was known as \"Mama Murphy\" by close friends and colleagues at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.\n\nShe worked at the city hospital for almost 30 years, first as a cleaner before retraining as a clinical support worker.\n\nThe 73-year-old, from Bonnyrigg, was placed on sick leave due to her age when the pandemic broke out.\n\nIt's understood the mother-of-two died on 16 April.\n\nHer friend Gerry Taylor said: \"She wasn't afraid to tell nurses, doctors or consultants if they were not pulling their weight and they loved her for it.\"\n\nMary McCann, 70, was a \"strong, wonderful woman\" who was dedicated to her family, according to her son, David.\n\nShe spent the last three months of her life in an East Kilbride care home, having being diagnosed with cancer last year.\n\nThe grandmother was doing well in the Whitehills home, where she was putting on weight and smiling again, David said.\n\nBut in early April she developed a urinary tract infection. Her condition deteriorated quickly and within days she was struggling to breathe.\n\nShe died in the care home on 16 April with her son, Derek, by her side.\n\nVerity Watson met her husband Adam (Adie) in a bible class and together they raised three sons, Alan, Gordon and Adam.\n\nThey lived in South Africa for a few years but returned to their beloved home of Rutherglen in 1970.\n\nShe worked at the local Coulls Bakers until retiring aged 72 but in her spare time she enjoyed bowls, knitting and - best of all - a cream cake with a cup of tea.\n\nHer family were unable to be with her when she died at Roger Park Care Home on 15 April 2020, after a short stay in hospital.\n\nHer son Adam said he couldn't thank staff enough for their \"invaluable support\", sitting with his mother in her final moments. She was 98.\n\nDavid Whittick joined the Royal Navy as a pilot on his 18th birthday in the midst of World War Two. Aged 19, as part of 835 Naval Air Squadron, he was flying off aircraft carrier HMS Nairana in the Arctic.\n\nAlmost 70 years later he received the Arctic Star for his role in Arctic Convoys - described by Sir Winston Churchill as \"the worst journey in the world\".\n\nHe survived two serious accidents during his long civilian career with Scottish Airways and later British Airways, before dedicating himself to supporting the Riding for the Disabled charity in his retirement.\n\nHis work - including helping to raise funds for a purpose-built facility at Summerston in Glasgow - led to him being appointed an OBE by the Queen for his services to charity.\n\nHe was married to Joyce for more than 60 years and they had four children. His son, Peter, said he lived a full and active life, even enjoying a trip on a seaplane in January this year. He died at Erskine care home in Bishopton on 14 April, aged 95, after falling ill with coronavirus.\n\nHer daughter Linda, a lawyer for the BBC, had hoped she would survive the virus as she was from \"strong stock\".\n\nShe last saw her mother in March when she travelled from London to warn her they may not be able to visit her during the pandemic.\n\nThe pensioner had been \"extremely distressed\" afterwards, Ms Duncan said.\n\nShe was taken to Edinburgh's Western General Hospital on 12 April and died three days later.\n\nDerek Wilkie worked for 27 years as a firefighter before retiring in December 2017.\n\nHe had senior roles in Badenoch and Strathspey, and Shetland before becoming station commander for Inverness and Nairn District.\n\nColleagues said he was a \"diligent and capable firefighter... with a larger than life personality\".\n\nHis wife and two sons - who all work for the NHS - thanked those who cared for Mr Wilkie and urged people to stay at home.\n\nHe died at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness on 12 April.\n\nFormer Merchant Navy engineer Bill Campbell died of suspected Covid-19 at Erskine Park care home in Bishopton.\n\nThe 86-year-old had dementia and carers initially thought he had a chest infection but he developed a cough and a high temperature.\n\nHis condition deteriorated and he died on Easter Sunday, with his daughter, Linda Verlaque - in full protective clothing - by his side.\n\nShe praised the work of carers at the home but she said his death was \"horrific\" as undertakers came to take away his body in full hazmat gear and goggles.\n\n\"Instead of having people surrounding me and giving me a hug to say everything was all right, everyone was just standing there and we were watching my dad being taken away, which was traumatic,\" she said.\n\nProud Welshman Glyn Edwards did not learn to speak English until he was five years old, but in adulthood he made Edinburgh his home.\n\nA contemporary of Neil Kinnock at Cardiff University, he worked as a civil servant in London before marrying and moving to Scotland.\n\nHe was a regular at Robbie's Bar on Leith Walk where he was known as \"McTaffy\" but he could be a solitary character who could easily lose himself in a book or a concert.\n\nClassical music, politics and poetry were his passions - as a teenager he won a major Welsh poetry contest and his daughter, Mhairi Jarvie, treasures a ring-binder full of his poems.\n\nShe affectionately described her father as a cross between Coronation Street's Ken Barlow and Victor Meldrew - \"intelligent, opinionated, political, but grumpy and a tad anti-social\".\n\nMaths teacher Gerry McHugh was a \"true gentleman\", able to inspire every single student who walked through his door.\n\nHis death would have a \"devastating effect\" on the Notre Dame High School community in Greenock, head teacher Katie Couttie said.\n\nUnable to attend his funeral due to the lockdown, past and current pupils found a unique way to pay tribute to the 58-year-old.\n\nThey wore red and posted images on social media in memory of the lifelong Manchester United fan.\n\nEileen McCarron died in Glasgow Royal Infirmary less than 24 hours after falling ill. She had no underlying health concerns.\n\nA mother of three daughters, she spent 18 years working as a nursery teacher at Save the Children's Charles Street playgroup in Glasgow's Germiston.\n\nShe gave up the job to look after her only grandson, Patrick. Her husband of more than 35 years, also Patrick, died suddenly in 1997, aged just 57.\n\nAs well as volunteering at a Barnardo's charity shop, she liked shopping, knitting, going out for coffees and lunches, and holidays with her family.\n\nShe was 79 when she died on 9 April, leaving her family devastated and unable to comfort each other during lockdown. They had still not been able to hold a memorial service nine months later.\n\nHelen McMillan was 10 days short of her 85th birthday when she died at Almond Court care home in Glasgow's Drumchapel on 9 April.\n\nShe spent most of her life in Summerston, where she widely known as \"Auntie Ellen\" - even to those she wasn't related to.\n\n\"Everybody loved my mum,\" her daughter, Jackie Marlow, told BBC Scotland. \"She knew everybody in the community and was the life and soul of the party.\"\n\nHelen worked in McLellan's rubber factory in Maryhill until she was in her 50s.\n\nA grandmother to Hayley and Josh, she developed dementia in later life but she was still \"pretty agile and loving life\", her daughter said.\n\nMary Martin and her husband, Alex, were keen ballroom dancers.\n\nAlthough their roots were firmly in Glasgow, they spent seven years in Dunblane where they were tasked with encouraging people on to the dancefloor at the Dunblane Hydro.\n\nBefore that, Mrs Martin brought up her family in Mount Vernon, later moving to Bearsden. She had three children, six grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and a great-great grandchild.\n\nHer daughter, Sandra O'Neill, told BBC Scotland she was \"just a wonderful person - gentle and kind\".\n\nIn her later years she had vascular dementia and she lived at the Almond Court care home in Drumchapel. She died there on 8 April, aged 88.\n\nVic and Maureen Sharp, who were both 74, had been together since they were teenagers.\n\nUnderlying health conditions meant the couple from Oakley in Fife were both asked to shield themselves during lockdown.\n\nBut their daughter, Yvonne Sharp, believes the letter came too late and they caught the virus during a weekly trip to the supermarket.\n\nMaureen died in hospital on 8 April and then, Yvonne said, her father \"just gave up\". He died the following day.\n\nOnly six members of the family could attend their funeral but a piper led the funeral cortege through Oakley, where locals lined the streets.\n\nWhen Ann Tonner left the Nazareth House orphanage in Glasgow as teenager, she was one of the few women of colour in the city, according to her son, Tony McCaffery.\n\nShe was \"exotic-looking and quite glamourous\" and was soon in demand as a model for local shops and boutiques before working as a celebrated hot-dog girl in an Odeon cinema.\n\nHer first husband tragically died and her second was largely absent, leaving her to bring up six children and - at times - hold down five jobs at once.\n\nShe was a \"remarkable, formidable woman with a strong work ethic\", Mr McCaffery told BBC Scotland, but she was also a \"gentle soul with an incredibly child-like sense of humour\".\n\nA grandmother and great-grandmother, Mrs Tonner died at a nursing home in Glasgow where she was living with Alzheimer's, on 8 April. She was 84.\n\nMary Nixon was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when she was just 18 but she was determined to never let it hold her back.\n\nBorn and raised in Greenock, she was a lone parent to four children who described her as a \"strong, independent woman who lived life to the full\".\n\n\"My mum made being a single parent look easy\", her daughter Alexis said. \"We were very happy kids growing up. Everyone loved her and always said she was a 'wee gem'.\"\n\nWhen she fell seriously ill in 2014, her family was told to prepare for the worst, but their \"invincible\" mum rallied, though she lost her mobility.\n\nShe died with Covid on 7 April 2020, aged 66. After everything she had been through in life, her family said they felt \"robbed... that this awful virus has taken her from us\".\n\nJanice Graham was the first NHS worker to die with coronavirus in Scotland.\n\nThe health care support worker and district nurse died at Inverclyde Royal Hospital on 6 April.\n\nOne colleague said she had a \"bright and engaging personality and razor sharp wit\".\n\nAnother said the 58-year-old was the \"most kind, caring and compassionate HCA I have had the privilege to work with\".\n\nHer son, Craig, told STV News he would miss everything about her.\n\nNewly-wed Andy Wyness developed a high temperature and a cough following a trip to Wales.\n\nWhen his symptoms worsened the 53-year-old drove himself from his Wishaw home to an appointment at an assessment centre.\n\nThat was the last time his wife, Sandra, saw him.\n\nThe grandfather, who was a keen bowler, was taken straight to hospital by ambulance. He died on 6 April.\n\n\"Even walking out the house that night, although I knew he wasn't well, I never imagined he would never walk back in,\" Sandra said.\n\nRita Hawthorn spent the first 35 years of her life in Hamilton, where she was born, grew up and had her own family.\n\nBut when her husband, Robert, lost his job as a miner the couple and their three children re-located from the west of Scotland to the far north in 1973.\n\nWhile Robert took up a new job at the Scottish Instruments Factory in Wick, she worked as a cleaner at a nearby job centre and became secretary of the Highlands and Islands Civil Service Union.\n\nShe was sadly widowed at 51 but she was \"fiercely independent\" and went on to fulfil her dreams of travelling - a trip up the Nile, a safari in South Africa, and solo bus tours to Austria and Paris.\n\nRita, who was a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, fell ill during the first week of lockdown. She died at Caithness General Hospital on 6 April, aged 82.\n\nBill Paul grew up in Giffnock on the south side of Glasgow and did his national service as a radar operator with the RAF in Malta.\n\nIn his youth he was an extremely accomplished tennis player and it was through the sport that he met his first wife, Frances, who died in 1984.\n\nWith his second wife, Liz, he loved to play golf and travel - hobbies that he continued after her death in 2012.\n\nAn extremely active man, he loved to go on cruises with a group of like-minded friends. However his last cruise to the Caribbean was cut short by the pandemic in March.\n\nHe returned home to Arran and fell ill with Covid within a week. He died at Lamlash Hospital on 5 April, aged 81.\n\nMofizul Islam was beginning a new life in Scotland after relocating from Bangladesh when he fell ill with coronavirus.\n\nHis family believe the 49-year-old caught the virus on his daily three-hour journeys between their Edinburgh home and his job at a pizza outlet in Midlothian.\n\nHe died on 5 April and was buried in the Muslim section of a city cemetery but his wife and children were in isolation and unable to attend.\n\nHis death has left the family \"completely helpless\", according to a family friend as they have no documents, no bank account and they are struggling for money.\n\n\"We are very worried about our future because we don't have our father,\" said Mofizul's 19-year-old son, Azahural. \"He was everything for us. And now we are just hopeless.\"\n\nCatherine Sweeney was a \"wonderful mother, sister and beloved aunty\", her family said after her death on 4 April.\n\nBorn and raised in Dumbarton, she worked as a home carer for more than 20 years.\n\nHer family said she would be sorely missed after a \"lifetime of service\" to the community.\n\nAnd they praised the medics at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley who \"heroically\" looked after her in her final days.\n\nJimmy Andrews was 17 years old when began his career in Glasgow Corporation's finance department in 1955.\n\nBy the turn of the century, he had risen to become chief executive of Glasgow City Council and in 2001 he was appointed CBE for services to local government - a \"career highlight\".\n\nHe was born in Kilsyth but spent much of his life living in Strathblane, Stirlingshire, with his wife of 52 years, Mary.\n\nIn retirement, he \"enjoyed life to the full\", spending time with his three children and six grandchildren, and visiting horse racing courses throughout the country.\n\nA gentle, intelligent man with a great sense of humour, he died at Glasgow Royal Infirmary on 3 April 2020, aged 81.\n\nLord Gordon of Strathblane was a former political editor of STV and he founded Radio Clyde.\n\nHe died at Glasgow Royal Infirmary on 31 March after contracting coronavirus, Radio Clyde reported. He was 83.\n\nHis family paid tribute to his \"generosity, his kindness and his enthusiasm for life\".\n\nFormer First Minister Jack McConnell said Lord Gordon had \"an outstanding career in business and public service\".\n\nRyan Storrie was in Scotland to celebrate his 40th birthday with a trip to a Rangers match when he fell ill.\n\nThe father-of-two was from Ardrossan but lived in Dubai.\n\nWhen he developed symptoms, the asthmatic isolated in his hotel room and waited for the virus to run its course.\n\nHis condition deteriorated but he wouldn't let his wife, Hilary, phone 999 as he was convinced he would recover and didn't want to bother the NHS.\n\nShe found him dead in his room on 31 March.\n\nMary and Andy Leaman began self-isolating at the end of March after falling ill with flu-like symptoms.\n\nTheir son, Andy, told the Glasgow Evening Times the couple were married 50 years and doted on their only granddaughter, nine-year-old Anna.\n\nMrs Leaman died at home in Castlemilk on 30 March - four days after the death of Anna's maternal grandfather, Dougie Chambers.\n\nThe schoolgirl lost her third grandparent almost three weeks later when Mr Leaman died in hospital on 19 April.\n\nHer mother, Lynsey Chalmers, told BBC Scotland: \"For a nine-year-old girl whose three grandparents were her world... why does a wee girl need to get punished like that over and over again?\"\n\nRobert Tarbet was \"self-opinionated and witty\", according to his daughter, Paula Karoly, but also \"hardworking, loyal and beautiful\".\n\nHe spent his working life as a plumber with Glasgow City Council before retiring in the early 2000s.\n\nIn his spare time, the sociable man was a mason who was a keen follower of Rangers FC. He loved country and western music and watching musicals in the theatre.\n\nA father and a grandfather-of-three, he was being treated for cancer when he contracted coronavirus.\n\nHe died on 29 March at Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley, aged 76.\n\nSchool janitor Ian Wilson was at home in Coatbridge for two weeks with a high temperature and delirium before being admitted to hospital.\n\nDespite his worsening condition, doctors initially told his wife, Sandra, she would not be able to visit the 72-year-old who had a heart condition and diabetes.\n\nStaff eventually granted access provided she wore protective equipment - a decision which meant she could be at her husband's side when he died on 29 March.\n\nAlthough nurses were unable to comfort her with a hug due to social distancing protocols, Mrs Wilson is grateful they allowed her to be with her partner at the end.\n\n\"I was able to talk to him and just say goodbye. I've got strength from that,\" she said.\n\nDougie Chambers was one of several people who fell ill after the 40th birthday party of his daughter, Wendy, on 7 March.\n\nWithin days, the 66-year-old, who had an underlying health condition, went into hospital and tested positive for Covid-19.\n\nMr Chambers, who was from Castlemilk in Glasgow, died two weeks later, on 26 March.\n\nTwo other members of his extended family - Andy and Mary Leaman - also contracted the virus and later died.\n\nWendy said: \"If we knew then what we know now, we wouldn't have had the party. It wouldn't have happened.\"\n\nDanny Cairns was a healthy 68-year-old before he fell ill with coronavirus, according to his brother, Hugh.\n\nWhen he developed a cough and sore throat at the end of March, he isolated at home in Greenock.\n\nBut within days he was so ill he had to be taken to hospital by ambulance.\n\nIn a video call from his hospital bed, his last words to his brother were: \"I'm on my way out, mate\".\n\nHe died on 26 March, three days after arriving in hospital.\n\nMargaret Innes lived with her daughter, Sally McNaught, in Edinburgh for four years before her death at the very beginning of the pandemic.\n\nShe was housebound and very frail but she loved sitting with their pet cat and dog, doing crosswords and watching quiz shows.\n\nHer favourite soap was Neighbours and she used to say \"I'm off to Australia now\".\n\nMs McNaught said they stopped visitors coming to the house a week before lockdown, they washed their hands, cleaned everything and thought they would be safe.\n\nBut Ms Innes woke up on Mother's Day with severe breathing difficulties. She died on 25 March, three days after going into hospital. She was 93.\n\nHas one of your loved ones died recently after contracting Covid? We would like to pay tribute to some of them on the BBC Scotland website.\n\nIf you would like to see your relative or friend featured, use the form below to send us your details and we could be in touch.\n\nIn some cases your details will be published, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.", "England is currently under a third national lockdown, in an attempt to keep hospitals from being overwhelmed by coronavirus cases.\n\nBut there has been speculation that ministers could be considering tightening restrictions, amid concerns the \"stay-at-home\" message isn't being followed by enough people.\n\nAt Monday evening's Downing Street briefing, Health Secretary Matt Hancock urged people to follow the existing rules but added, \"we won't rule out taking further action if it's needed\". Other ministers have struck a similar tone.\n\nBut what is the case for more changes?\n\nIn March, nurseries closed to all but vulnerable children and those whose parents were key workers.\n\nBut so far this lockdown, early-years provision has remained open in England.\n\nScotland and Northern Ireland have chosen to keep nurseries closed to most children for now.\n\nBut England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, said keeping them open \"would allow people who need to go to work, or need to do particular activities, to do so\".\n\nYounger children carry a lower risk of transmission than adolescents, scientists say.\n\nBut according to Public Health England, 10% of coronavirus outbreaks or clusters in educational settings since September have been in early-years provision.\n\nEngland's three main nursery organisations have called on the government to provide clear scientific evidence on the risks to early-years staff now there is a more transmissible variant of Covid-19.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show he too would like to hear more from scientists about the risks - and nurseries should \"probably\" close.\n\nGoing out to exercise once a day is one of the \"reasonable excuses\" for leaving home during lockdown.\n\nPeople can walk, run, cycle or swim with those they live - or are in a support bubble - with.\n\nIn addition, they can exercise, on their own, with one person, each time, from another household - as long as they stay 2m (6ft) apart.\n\nHowever, Mr Hancock said, \"we've been seeing large groups and that is not acceptable\" and warned that, \"if too many people keep breaking this rule, then we are going to have to look at it\".\n\nThe rules say exercise should be \"local\" - in the village, town, or part of the city where you live - but do not currently specify how far people can travel.\n\nDerbyshire Police recently fined two women £200 each for driving five miles to meet for a walk, saying driving for exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of lockdown. They were told the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed, either, as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nThe penalties have now been withdrawn.\n\nProf Whitty, meanwhile, has urged people to \"double down\", avoid unnecessary contact and stick to the rules.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 5 Live about coffee shops remaining open for takeaways, he advised against meeting up there.\n\n\"Really, please don't,\" he said.\n\nFace coverings must be worn in almost all public indoor settings - including shops - unless people are exempt.\n\nPremises \"should take reasonable steps to promote compliance with the law\", government guidance says.\n\nLast summer, when customer face coverings became law, many supermarkets said they would not make their staff responsible for enforcing the rules.\n\nHowever, Morrisons has now updated its policy to bar shoppers who refuse to cover their faces, unless they are medically exempt. Sainsbury's says security guards at its stores will challenge customers who do not comply.\n\nTesco, Asda and Waitrose have followed suit and say they too will deny entry to shoppers who do not wear face masks unless they have an exemption.\n\nThere have been suggestions face coverings should be required in outdoor public places.\n\nHowever, Sage has previously suggested it would have a \"very low impact\" on community transmission\n\nProf Whitty told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the risk posed by joggers, for example, was \"very low\" - but there \"might be some logic\" to people wearing masks in a busy outdoor queue or crowded around a market stall.\n\nOne change the government has ruled out is to support bubbles - which allow people living alone and single, or new parents to mix with another household of any size, without having to socially distance.\n\nAt the government briefing, Mr Hancock said: \"I can rule out removing the bubbles.\"\n\nThe official guidance says it's best if a support bubble is formed with a household who live locally.\n\nBut there is currently no limit to how far people can travel to visit their bubble, meaning they could go from areas with high infection rates to those with lower ones, potentially spreading the virus.\n\nWhen \"bubbling\" was first suggested, in May, Sage rejected it as too dangerous, because the reproduction (R) number - the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to - was close to one.\n\nCurrently, the R number in England is between 1.1 and 1.4. Sage says stopping all indoor contact between different households could lower this by as much as 0.2.\n\n\"Active contract tracing should be a precondition of introducing bubbling\", Sage added.\n\nUnlike in March, places of worship are allowed to open in England, although they are closed in Scotland.\n\nThey provide spiritual leadership for many and bring communities together - but their \"communal nature\" also makes them \"vulnerable to the spread of coronavirus\", the government guidance for England says.\n\nWhen the latest lockdown was announced, the Archbishop of Canterbury tweeted: \"The government hasn't suspended public worship - but some may feel it better not to attend in person and some parishes are expected to offer online services only for now.\"\n\nSage has previously suggested places of worship pose a high risk to vulnerable groups but closing them would have a low to moderate impact on overall coronavirus transmission.", "Isabella Curry urged others to get the jab and said it was just a little \"prick in the arm\"\n\nA woman has celebrated her 100th birthday by getting a covid vaccination at home.\n\nIsabella Curry, known as Ella, from Cramlington, was among some of the most vulnerable people in Northumberland to receive the vaccine.\n\nMs Curry, who lives alone, urged others not to be afraid to get the jab and said it was just a little \"prick in the arm\" and she now felt safe.\n\nHer birthday was also marked by the arrival of a card from the Queen.\n\nShe said: \"This vaccine means I'll be able to go out, meet my friends soon and feel safe.\"\n\nIsabella Curry's nephew Neil Curry thanked the \"army\" of helpers who cared for his aunt\n\nMs Curry's nephew, Neil Curry from Bristol, said he was delighted she had had the vaccination but sad the whole family could not get together for the milestone birthday.\n\n\"We had a family reunion for Ella's 90th - we all got together in Newcastle. We would have all got together again to mark this occasion, but we couldn't,\" he said.\n\nHe also said he wanted to thank the \"army\" of people who looked after his aunt including Noreen and Jim Hutchinson, who did her shopping and cut her grass.\n\nHe also thanked June and Peter Marshall and all the other people who collected her prescriptions and mobile library books.\n\nKate Fraser, the community nurse who administered the vaccination, said: \"It's been an emotional time being able to give Isabella her vaccination.\"\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.", "People's reaction to a sonic boom heard across the East of England has been caught on camera.\n\nIt happened after a Typhoon aircraft took off from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire to escort a plane to Stansted Airport because it had lost communications at about 13:05 GMT.\n\nPeople in Cambridgeshire, Essex and parts of London posted videos on social media, with one person heard asking if it was thunder.\n\nHeather Eastlake, who was filming herself exercising near Cambridge, described her reaction as being like \"a deer in the highlights\".", "The three main Covid-19 vaccines are from Pfizer-BioNTech, the University of Oxford and Astra-Zeneca and Moderna.\n\nThe Pfizer, Oxford and Moderna vaccines each require two doses and you are not fully vaccinated until you have had both shots.\n\nBut there are many differences between them.\n\nThe BBC's Laura Foster looks at how much immunity they give, how they prevent infection and how they compare.", "Jessica Allen and Eliza Moore said their cars were surrounded by police when they arrived at the reservoir\n\nTwo women who were fined £200 each when they drove five miles for a walk have had the penalties withdrawn.\n\nJessica Allen and Eliza Moore were walking at Foremark Reservoir, Derbyshire, when they were \"surrounded\" by officers.\n\nAt the time Derbyshire Police insisted driving to exercise was \"not in the spirit\" of the most recent lockdown.\n\nBut new national guidance for police has led the force to quash the fines, and apologise to the women.\n\nChief Constable Rachel Swann said the fines \"have been withdrawn and we have notified the women directly, apologising for any concern caused\".\n\nThe two friends travelled the short distance to the reservoir from their homes in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nThey said their cars were \"surrounded\" by police. They were then questioned on why they were there and told the hot drinks they had brought along were not allowed as they were \"classed as a picnic\".\n\nIn a statement, the women said: \"This afternoon we both received a phone call from Derbyshire Police.\n\n\"After reviewing our case, our fines have been rescinded and we have received an apology on behalf of the constabulary for the treatment we received.\n\n\"We welcomed this apology and we are pleased to draw a line under this event.\"\n\nAfter the incident gained media attention, the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) \"clarified the policing response concerning travel and exercise\".\n\nThe guidance said: \"The Covid regulations which officers enforce and which enables them to issue FPNs [fixed penalty notices] for breaches, do not restrict the distance travelled for exercise.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid: Fined women 'could have been dealt with differently'\n\nDerbyshire Police said: \"Having received clarification of the guidance issued by the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) on Friday, these FPNs as well as a small number of others issued, were reviewed in line with that latest advice, and so it is right that we have taken this action.\"\n\nThe county's police and crime commissioner Hardyal Dhinsda said: \"While the police are doing their absolute best to protect public safety during what is a critical time of the pandemic, the public should rightly expect a proportionate and balanced approach, taking full consideration of individual circumstances.\n\n\"We recognise that errors will occur in the face of complex guidance and legislation and it is important such situations are resolved quickly and fairly, as has been the case here.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rhondda Cynon Taf has the highest death rate from coronavirus in Wales - with another 34 hospital deaths in the latest week\n\nThere have now been more than 5,100 deaths in Wales involving Covid-19 since the pandemic began.\n\nThe latest weekly figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show 310 deaths in the week ending 1 January, which is 32 more than the week before.\n\nThis is nearly 42.6% of all deaths.\n\nCwm Taf Morgannwg saw the highest numbers of weekly deaths in Wales, the most since the end of April at the peak of the first wave of the pandemic.\n\nThere were 76 deaths in the area - including 66 in hospitals and six in care homes.\n\nLooking at council areas, Rhondda Cynon Taf had the second highest number of hospital deaths across England and Wales, with 34. The London borough of Newham had 35.\n\nThe ONS again urged caution when interpreting this week's figures, due to the Christmas and new year holidays, which will affect the number of registrations.\n\nThe total number of Covid deaths in Wales, up to and registered by 1 January, was 4,963.\n\nBut when deaths registered over the following few days are included, there was a total of 5,169.\n\nThe Aneurin Bevan health board, with 68 deaths registered involving Covid, also had its highest number in a single week since the end of April.\n\nHywel Dda health board reported 37 deaths - its highest weekly figure since the pandemic began. Of these, 18 were patients in hospital from Carmarthenshire and 10 were hospital patients from Pembrokeshire.\n\nSwansea Bay health board had 61 deaths in this week. The Swansea council area itself had the seventh highest number of hospital deaths across England and Wales.\n\nThere were 36 deaths in Cardiff and Vale, 25 deaths in Betsi Cadwaladr in north Wales - 10 of which were hospital deaths in Wrexham - and seven in Powys.\n\nAll counties recorded at least one death involving Covid-19.\n\nThis map shows three valleys areas in south Wales among the highest for crude mortality rates involving Covid in the pandemic so far\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf, with 685 deaths, has the largest number of Covid-19 deaths in Wales up to the latest week, followed by Cardiff with 578.\n\nWhen looking at crude death rates - based on the number of deaths compared to local populations - Wales has three of the five worst across England and Wales.\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf has 283 deaths per 100,000 in total so far in the pandemic.\n\nMerthyr Tydfil is second with 253.6 and Blaenau Gwent is ranked fourth.\n\nSo-called excess deaths, which compare all registered deaths with previous years, continue to be above the five-year average.\n\nLooking at the number of deaths we would normally expect to see at this point in the year is seen as a useful measure of how the pandemic is progressing.\n\nIn Wales, the number of deaths fell from 825 to 727 in the latest week, but this was still 209 deaths (40.3%) higher than the five-year average for that week. This is the second highest proportion after London.\n\nThe ONS figures report where doctors mention Covid-19 on death certificates, including confirmed and suspected cases.\n\nThey include deaths occurring in all places, not only hospitals and care homes but also people's own homes.\n\nIt has been estimated that Covid is the underlying cause in around 90% of these deaths and not just a contributory factor.", "An eye health charity is recommending people learn the \"20-20-20\" rule to protect their sight, as lockdown has increased people's time using screens.\n\nFight for Sight advises looking at something 20 feet away for 20 seconds, every 20 minutes you look at a screen.\n\nOut of 2,000 people, half used screens more since Covid struck and a third (38%) of those believed their eyesight had worsened, a survey suggested.\n\nOpticians remain open for those who need them, the charity said.\n\nThe representative survey of 2,000 adults suggested one in five were less likely to get an eye test now than before the pandemic, for fear of catching or spreading the virus.\n\nRespondents reported difficulty reading, as well as headaches and migraines and poorer night vision.\n\nThe research charity, which commissioned a survey from polling company YouGov, said it wanted to emphasise the importance of having regular eye tests and to remind people \"the majority of opticians are open for appointments throughout lockdown restrictions\".\n\nFight for Sight chief executive Sherine Krause said: \"More than half of all cases of sight loss are avoidable through early detection and prevention methods. Regular eye tests can often detect symptomless sight-threatening conditions.\"\n\nBut even simple screen breaks can help to prevent eye strain, the charity suggested.\n\nGovernment guidance states that under lockdown people can leave home for medical appointments and to \"avoid injury, illness or risk of harm\".\n\nThe College of Optometrists said its members should continue to provide eye care under lockdown for people who experience any eyesight changes or problems.\n\nOptometrists are the professionals who will carry out your eye test when you visit an optician's practice.\n\nRoutine appointments can also be provided \"if capacity permits, and if it is in the patients' best interests\", the guidance states.\n\nClinical adviser Paramdeep Bilkhu said the college's own research suggested just under a quarter of people noticed their vision deteriorate during the first lockdown.\n\n\"Our research showed us that many people believe that spending more time in front of screens worsened their vision,\" he said.\n\n\"The good news is that this is unlikely to cause any permanent harm to your vision. However, it is very important that if you feel your vision has deteriorated or if you are experiencing any problems with your eyes, such as them becoming red or painful, you contact your local optometrist by telephone or online.\"\n\nUK health and safety legislation states employers must pay for eye tests for their employees if they have to use a screen for work for more than one hour a day.\n\nIn the summer, the UK Ophthalmology Alliance and the Royal College of Ophthalmologists calculated that at least 10,000 people had missed out on essential eye care in Britain.\n\nIn the most extreme cases, the Royal National Institute of Blind People said it feared some people were at risk of losing their sight because of a fear of attending hospital during the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nA Royal College of Ophthalmologists spokesperson said: \"It is important that people who have found significant changes in their vision seek the advice of an optometrist who will examine, and determine if the changes require further investigation by an ophthalmologist - a medically-trained eye doctor.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Home Secretary Priti Patel: \"Our selfless police officers... will enforce the regulations and I will back them to do so\"\n\nPeople have been urged to \"play your part\" and follow Covid rules by Home Secretary Priti Patel, who says she will back police to enforce laws.\n\nAt a No 10 briefing, Ms Patel said a minority were \"putting the health of the nation at risk\" by flouting rules.\n\nPolice are \"moving more quickly to issuing fines\", she added, with nearly 45,000 fixed penalty notices issued across the UK.\n\nAnother 1,243 people have died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid.\n\nAnd there have been a further 45,533 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK.\n\nMeanwhile, another 145,076 people have received a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, and 20,768 a second dose, bringing the totals respectively to 2,431,648 and 412,167.\n\nAt the briefing, Ms Patel said: \"My message today to anyone refusing to do the right thing is simple: if you do not play your part, our selfless police officers - who are out there risking their own lives every day to keep us safe - they will enforce the regulations.\n\n\"And I will back them to do so, to protect our NHS and to save lives.\"\n\nIt comes after the UK's most senior police officer said lockdown rule-breakers were more likely to be fined as Covid laws would be enforced \"more quickly\".\n\nMetropolitan Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick said her officers had been forced to break up parties, despite hospitals in London struggling to cope with rising patient numbers.\n\nChairman of the National Police Chiefs' Council Martin Hewitt, who also spoke at the Downing Street briefing, said people should be asking themselves whether their reason for leaving home was \"truly essential\".\n\nHe stressed that police officers had been \"putting themselves at risk in order to keep people safe\", and said it had been \"disappointing\" to see some of the behaviour by rule-breakers.\n\nHe said examples of recent breaches included:\n\nMr Hewitt said he made \"no apology\" for police issuing fines, and warned people breaking rules - such as by organising parties or not wearing face coverings on public transport - to \"expect\" a fine.\n\nAsked if there needed to be more clarity on the guidance around exercise and staying local, Mr Hewitt said it would be wrong to put a \"particular distance\" on how far people could exercise from their home - as it would be too difficult for police to enforce.\n\nHe said it was right there was an exception to allow people to exercise, but insisted it was the public's responsibility to make sure they were doing so safely.\n\nThere is a big focus on adherence to lockdown rules. But what has almost gone unnoticed is the fact that cases may have actually started falling.\n\nThere has now been two consecutive days where newly diagnosed cases have hovered around the 46,000 mark. Up to the weekend, the average was close to 60,000.\n\nThe drop has largely been driven by falls in new cases in London, the south east and east of England.\n\nIn some regions, cases are still going up. The north west of England is causing particular concern.\n\nIt is too early for the vaccination programme to be having any significant impact, so a combination of the national lockdown on top of the tier four restrictions that were imposed in some areas before Christmas look like they may be beginning to have an impact.\n\nCare must be taken in reading too much into a couple of days' data.\n\nHospital cases are still rising - patients being admitted at the moment are the ones who were infected a week or so ago - but it does at least offer a glimmer of hope.\n\nLater in the news conference, NHS medical director for London Dr Vin Diwakar said the capital's Nightingale hospital has reopened and was admitting patients to help with the coronavirus spread.\n\nHe told reporters it was taking non-Covid patients to help free up beds in London's hospitals.\n\nDr Diwakar warned that if levels of hospitalisation in the capital continued to rise then more patients would need to be transferred out of London, adding that the NHS across the country was under pressure.\n\nIn Birmingham, 200 doctors are being redeployed to one of the country's largest intensive care units as it nears capacity.\n\nThe University Hospitals Birmingham Trust said there were 873 patients with Covid-19 in their hospitals, with 125 in intensive care.\n\nEarlier, crime and policing minister Kit Malthouse said people have a \"duty\" to make this lockdown \"the last one\".\n\n\"We are urging the small minority of people who aren't taking this seriously to do so now, and [we say] to them that, if they don't, they are much more likely to get fined by the police,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nDame Cressida told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the move towards greater enforcement was \"common sense\" rather than a show of \"dictatorial policing\".\n\nFines start at £200 in England and Northern Ireland, and £60 in Wales and Scotland. Large parties can be shut down by the police, with fines of up to £10,000.\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar lockdown measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - all of which are in charge of deciding and enforcing their own coronavirus restrictions.\n• None Could I be fined for exercising?", "New England Patriots's Bill Belichick is considered one of the most successful coaches in NFL history\n\nTop NFL coach Bill Belichick says he will not accept President Donald Trump's offer of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, citing the US Capitol riot.\n\nBelichick, of the New England Patriots, said he was flattered when he was first offered the medal - the top award given to civilians in the US.\n\nBut he said he changed his mind after a mob of Trump supporters stormed Congress last week. Five people died.\n\nThe celebrated coach had previously spoken of his friendship with Mr Trump.\n\n\"Recently, I was offered the opportunity to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which I was flattered by out of respect for what the honour represents and admiration for prior recipients,\" Belichick said in a statement.\n\n\"Subsequently, the tragic events of last week occurred and the decision has been made not to move forward with the award.\"\n\nBelichick, who has won a record six Super Bowl titles, is considered one of the most successful coaches in NFL history.\n\nThe Presidential Medal of Freedom recognises individuals who have made outstanding contributions to \"the security or national interests of America\".\n\nIn 2019 Mr Trump gave the award to golfer Tiger Woods, as well as radio personality Rush Limbaugh and posthumously Elvis Presley.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Super Bowl: How Tom Brady and Bill Belichick built a New England Patriots dynasty\n\nDonald Trump may only have recently made a career of politics, but he's always loved sport.\n\nHe owns 17 golf courses and once bought and ran the New Jersey Generals of the US Football League.\n\nJust last week, he awarded three presidential medals of freedom to professional golfers. This week he was planning to honour the most successful professional football coach in modern times, Bill Belichick of the New England Patriots.\n\nThe president seems to particularly enjoy the company of sport figures and revel in their achievements and prowess.\n\nSo for Belichick, a personal friend of the president's, to decline the award is a stinging rebuke.\n\nThe coach's decision reflects the depth of the political crisis president has created in the past week. It also highlights the troubled relationship Trump has had with the National Football League and its players, who he has disparaged for Black Lives Matter protests during the US national anthem.\n\nBelichick, a sometimes bristling, controversial figure with more than a few detractors, is used to public animosity. A coach can't win without the commitment of his players, however, and Belichick clearly believed his relationship with his team would be jeopardised by associating himself with Trump at this point.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHundreds of people have joined a march organised following claims a man died hours after being released by police in Cardiff.\n\nThe family of Mohamud Mohammed Hassan, 24, claim he was assaulted in custody.\n\nMore than 300 people took part in a march from the city centre to Cardiff Bay police station.\n\nSouth Wales Police said it found no evidence of excessive force. The police watchdog said initial tests showed Mr Hassan was not killed by any injuries.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said toxicology tests were now being carried out and it was awaiting the full post-mortem results.\n\nEarlier, First Minister Mark Drakeford said the reports of Mr Hassan's death were \"deeply concerning\".\n\nMr Hassan was arrested at his Roath home on Friday on suspicion of breach of the peace but released without charge on Saturday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Hassan's aunt Zainab Hassan told BBC Wales she had seen Mr Hassan within an hour of his release.\n\n\"He was released on Saturday morning with lots of wounds on his body and lots of bruises,\" she said.\n\n\"He didn't have these wounds when he was arrested and when he came out of Cardiff Bay police station, he had them.\"\n\nIn a virtual session of the Welsh Parliament on Monday, Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price said: \"Every effort should be made to seek the truth of what happened.\"\n\nHe said he wanted to know why Mr Hassan was arrested and what happened during his arrest.\n\nMr Hassan's aunt Zainab Hassan said she saw him after his release\n\n\"Why did this young man die?,\" he added.\n\nMr Price said any inquiry should not be prejudged, but asked if the first minister would \"help the family find those answers\".\n\nIn response, Mr Drakeford said reports of the story were \"deeply concerning\".\n\n\"Our thoughts must be with the family of a young man who was... a fit and healthy individual,\" the Cardiff West MS said.\n\nMark Drakeford said he was deeply concerned by the reports\n\nMr Drakeford, who said the death must be \"properly investigated\", said the first step in any inquiry would be to allow the IOPC to carry out their work, which he said he expected \"to be done rigorously and with full and visible independence\".\n\nHe added that if there were things the Welsh Government could do \"I will make sure that we attend properly to those\".\n\nProtesters on Tuesday afternoon chanted \"no justice, no peace\" and called for the police force to release CCTV of Mr Hassan's time in custody.\n\nProtesters on Tuesday afternoon marched from the city centre to Cardiff Bay\n\nIn a statement on Monday, South Wales Police said Mr Hassan was arrested at his home in Newport Road on Friday night and taken to Cardiff Bay police station.\n\nHe was released at 08:30 GMT on Saturday and officers returned to the property at about 22:30 following his death.\n\nIt added: \"As part of the South Wales Police investigation CCTV and body-worn video has already been, and will continue to be, examined.\n\n\"This will assist in establishing and understanding the events that took place.\n\n\"Early findings by the force indicate no misconduct issues and no excessive force.\"\n\nProtesters were heard chanting \"no justice, no peace\"\n\nCatrin Evans, the IOPC's director for Wales, said its investigation would focus on Mr Hassan's arrest, the journey in a police van to custody and his time at Cardiff Bay police station, including whether relevant assessments were made before he was released.\n\nShe said they would be \"urgently examining the extensive relevant CCTV footage and body-worn video\" and would be speaking to the officers involved as well as witnesses who saw his arrest on Friday evening and his movements the next day after leaving custody.\n\nShe added: \"I send my condolences to Mr Hassan's family and friends, and to everyone affected by his sad death.\n\n\"We are aware of concerns being expressed and questions being asked about use of force by police officers. We will look carefully at the level of force used during the interaction and I would urge people show patience while our inquiries, which will take some time, are made.\"\n\nMs Evans added: \"An interim report from a post-mortem examination is awaited.\n\n\"Preliminary indications are that there is no physical trauma injury to explain a cause of death, and toxicology tests are required.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A 78-year-old French woman received the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in France\n\nA global race is on to vaccinate people against Covid-19 - and with infections soaring in Europe many have complained that the roll-out is too slow in the EU.\n\nMember states decide individually who to vaccinate, when and where, but the EU is coordinating strategy and buying vaccines in bulk. On Friday, the EU Commission agreed to buy an extra 300 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine - that would give the EU nearly half of the firm's global output for 2021.\n\nBBC reporters in seven European capitals explain how the vaccinations are going on their patch.\n\nIn an election year, the vaccine has become a political battleground, writes Jenny Hill, in Berlin.\n\nThe fact it was German scientists who developed the first effective Covid vaccine has been the source of great national pride. And, by and large, Germans appear to be reasonably comfortable with the idea of immunisation.\n\nA recent survey found 65% were prepared to have the vaccine. Other research indicates that less than a quarter of those surveyed would not. But politically - and perhaps unsurprisingly, given this is an election year - Germany's vaccination programme has become a battleground.\n\nVaccinations began here just under two weeks ago and prioritise the over 80s and care home workers. By Thursday evening, more than 477,000 first doses had been administered.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered.\n\nBut some of the hundreds of specially prepared vaccination centres are still not in use and even the government has admitted there simply isn't enough to go around. Angela Merkel and her health minister Jens Spahn have been accused of failing to secure enough doses.\n\nMuch of the criticism has come from Mrs Merkel's own coalition partners but some within the scientific community have echoed their concerns - that Germany put European interests above its own by insisting on a joint EU procurement process. The scientists who developed the vaccine have said publicly that the EU originally turned down an offer for a further order.\n\nGermany's share of the EU order amounts to 56 million doses. So far, 1.3 million doses have been delivered and it's thought that by the end of the month a further 2.68 million will have followed.\n\nMr Spahn, whose assured performance through the pandemic led some to wonder whether he might be a potential successor to Mrs Merkel, has blamed the shortage on the inability of the manufacturers of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to meet global demand.\n\nGermany has now ordered an extra 30 million doses and, following the recent European approval of the Moderna vaccine, expects to start rolling that out next week. The government is sticking to its pledge that the vaccination programme will be complete by the end of the summer.\n\nThe Czech prime minister has hit out at apparent delays in distributing the vaccine, writes Rob Cameron, in Prague.\n\nThe Czech vaccination effort began on 27 December, when the prime minister, Andrej Babis, became the first person in the country to receive the jab. Mr Babis, who is 66, had previously questioned whether he would be eligible, as he'd had his spleen removed as a teenager.\n\nBut the country's programme has got off to a sluggish start. Mr Babis - a billionaire businessman who has been dogged by both European and Czech investigations into alleged misuse of EU funds - has lost no time venting his (figurative) spleen at the European Commission over the delay. \"We believed when we contributed €12m to the European fund in November that we'd receive the vaccine,\" he told a newspaper this week.\n\nThe health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups will take months.\n\nThe country has received 30,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine. So far, it has managed to administer it to 19,918 people. The government says it is ready to roll out the jab en masse as soon as supplies arrive from the manufacturers.\n\nIt has also published a strategy, which envisages a three-stage process. The first will see targeted vaccination of high-risk groups. This will gradually give way to mass vaccination in 31 centres, using an online reservation system that will be open to all from 1 February. And the final stage will see the country's GPs deployed, hopefully to administer the Oxford-AstraZeneca and other jabs, which unlike the previous two can be stored and transported at fridge temperature.\n\nHowever, the timing in the original strategy document now appears optimistic. The health minister conceded this week that immunising the higher-risk groups - all health and social care staff, teachers, everyone over 65, all those with serious health conditions - will take months. GPs may not begin vaccinating young, healthy members of society until late spring, or summer.\n\nA sluggish start is being blamed on bureaucracy and vaccine scepticism, writes Hugh Schofield, in Paris.\n\nFrance's boast of a big, effective state apparatus has been badly exposed by the sluggish start to the Covid vaccination programme. After the first week, when neighbouring Germany had inoculated around 250,000 people, France was on a mere 530. By Friday, the figure had gone up to 45,500 - still so small as to be statistically meaningless.\n\nSo why has it taken so long for France to put the plan into action? It is not as if the authorities did not have time to prepare. And it is certainly not a question of a lack of vaccine. In fact, more than a million Pfizer doses are already in cold storage, waiting to be used.\n\nPolls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab.\n\nThe primary reason for the delay seems to be the cumbersome, over-centralised nature of France's health bureaucracy. A 45-page dossier of instructions issued by the ministry in Paris had to be read and understood by staff at old people's homes.\n\nEach recipient then had to give informed consent in a consultation with a doctor, held no less than five days before injection. The lengthy procedure is in theory to save lives - those of patients who might have an adverse reaction. But as the critics have been arguing, delay in inoculating the population is also costing lives.\n\nAnother problem in France is the high level of scepticism towards vaccination - product of a more general suspicion of government. Polls suggest as many as 58% of the public do not want to be given the jab. The effect - critics say - has been to make the government unduly cautious. When urgency was required, the authorities were reluctant to move fast for fear of galvanising the anti-vaxxers.\n\nAfter President Emmanuel Macron communicated his anger at the delays at the weekend, the pace is picking up. The procedure for consent is being simplified. By the end of January, the plan is to have 500-600 vaccination centres open across the country - either in hospitals or other big public buildings.\n\nPolitically a lot is at stake. The government has already come under fire for failings in providing masks and tests. With opposition voices calling the vaccine delay a \"state scandal\", President Macron needs a roll-out that is fast and problem-free.\n\nNational pride accelerated Russia's rollout, but one man is conspicuously absent from the list of people vaccinated, writes Sarah Rainsford, in Moscow.\n\nRussia registered its main Covid vaccine for domestic use way back in August, before mass safety and efficacy trials had even begun. In December, with those trials still underway, it began rolling out Sputnik V to the public ahead of mass vaccination launches everywhere else in Europe. The rush was driven by national pride as well as medical necessity.\n\nSputnik was initially offered to front line health and education workers but early take-up of the two-dose vaccination was slow and the list of those eligible soon expanded.\n\nA poll by the Levada Centre in late December showed only 38% of respondents were willing to get the jab: wary of domestic healthcare and medicines, Russians were sceptical of bold early claims made for the vaccine and nervous about possible adverse reactions. Even so, and despite similar delays scaling-up production as in other countries, Sputnik's backers announced this week that more than a million people had been vaccinated.\n\nRussia began rolling out its Sputnik V vaccine in December\n\nBut one man still conspicuously absent from the list of the vaccinated is Vladimir Putin, despite the Kremlin saying he will - eventually - get the jab. In the meantime, those who meet him in person are obliged to test for Covid first and even quarantine. The president may need to lead by example, though. Mr Putin has said repeatedly that protecting the economy is his priority so he's banking on mass vaccination to avoid a return to national lockdown.\n\nRussia has built giant, temporary hospitals since the start of the pandemic and the health minister said this week that 25% of Covid beds remain free. There's also been a fall in the number of new daily cases reported - around 25,000 for the past 5 days. But that's not down to the vaccine yet. The country is nearing the end of a 10-day New Year holiday period and the number of Covid tests has also dropped.\n\nAs infection rates grow in a country praised by many for its no-lockdown approach, a successful vaccine programme is crucial writes Maddy Savage, in Stockholm.\n\nAlmost two weeks since 91-year-old care home resident Gun-Britt Johnsson became the first Swede to get the initial dose of a Pfizer jab, there is still no official tally of how many others have received the vaccination.\n\nThe Public Health Agency of Sweden says it's in the process of compiling data from the country's 21 regional health authorities tasked with vaccinating the entire adult population - around eight million people - by 26 June. The date isn't arbitrary, it's the biggest public holiday weekend of the year, when Swedes traditionally hold Midsummer celebrations. Karin Tegmark, a senior manager at the agency, says the date remains \"feasible\". But she says it depends on the delivery of vaccines to the country.\n\nAfter months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled.\n\nAlongside 4.5 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, Sweden has ordered 3.6 million jabs from Moderna, the first of which are expected to arrive next week. The country also plans to roll-out the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine as soon as possible after it is approved by the EU - ideally by February.\n\nSwedes initially appeared lukewarm to the idea of taking a speedily-developed coronavirus vaccine, although a poll at the end of December found 71% would take one. A key driver of the initial scepticism is thought to be the failure of a voluntary mass vaccination programme for swine flu in 2009. Hundreds of Swedish children and young adults under 30 developed the sleeping disorder narcolepsy, which was found to be a side effect of the Pandemrix vaccine.\n\nA successful vaccination programme will be crucial, not least because it comes at a time when Swedish authorities are struggling to maintain public confidence. After months of high trust levels in the country's no-lockdown approach, support for the health agency has dwindled as Sweden has struggled with the second wave of coronavirus.\n\nMeanwhile, several high profile officials have faced heavy criticism for breaching their own recommendations - including the head of the civil contingencies agency (pictured), who resigned after spending Christmas with his daughter in the Canary Islands.\n\nA new government in Belgium seems unified on the vaccine rollout - for now at least, writes Nick Beake, in Brussels.\n\nIt seemed fitting that the first person in Belgium to receive a Covid jab lives in the place where the world's first approved Covid vaccine is being produced. Jos Hermans, a 96-year-old from the municipality of Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December, in his care home. A further 700 elderly residents were also administered a dose in what was a small, initial trial.\n\nThe mass vaccination programme in Belgium began on 5 January, but has been criticised for starting slowly. Federal Health Minister Frank Vandenbroucke had promised in November that the rollout would be \"seamless and fast\", tweeting: \"If that does not work, shoot me.\"\n\nThe first phase looks to vaccinate up to 200,000 nursing home residents by the end of this month, or early February. Healthcare professionals will be next in line and the aim was for the whole population to be inoculated by the end of September.\n\nJos Hermans, a 96-year-old from Puurs, was given the injection on 28 December\n\nYou may think the country would be at an advantage being the epicentre of the Pfizer-BioNTech production. While this clearly helps with distribution, Belgium cannot receive more doses - relative to its population - than other EU countries under strict Commission rules. That didn't stop the minister-president of the Flanders region, who admitted this week that he had contacted Pfizer directly in the hope of procuring more doses, only to be rebuffed.\n\nAfter getting a guarantee from Pfizer over supply of the jab, the federal Belgian authorities have adapted their strategy: they now propose giving as many available doses to as many people as they can - and no longer reserving vials for patients' second dose, given three weeks after the first. In general, the federal government, rather than the European Commission has faced any criticism for a delay and has defended its \"careful\" approach.\n\nAnd there appears to be an interesting regional or cultural discrepancy when it comes to whether people are willing to take the vaccine. Of the Flemish population interviewed in a poll, half have said they wanted the vaccine as soon as possible. Among French speakers - it was 20% fewer, which chimes with the deeper scepticism over the border in France.\n\nIn a country where politics are notoriously complicated and fractious - they've only recently agreed a government, after a 500-day vacuum - the Federal Coalition appears unified on its Covid vaccine strategy. For now, at least.\n\nRegional variances and political rows have marked the beginning of Spain's vaccination programme writes Guy Hedgecoe, in Madrid.\n\nSpain started administering the vaccine on 27 December. So far, 743,925 doses have been distributed to regional administrations, with 277,976 people vaccinated, according to the health ministry. The objective of the coalition government is to immunise 2.3 million people within 12 weeks. Priority is being given to elderly residents of care homes, those who look after them, and healthcare personnel.\n\nEach of the country's 17 regions has a high degree of control over healthcare and should receive the number of doses that corresponds to their populations. However, already there has been substantial geographical disparity.\n\nGovernment data showed, for example, that while the northern region of Asturias had used 55% of the doses it had received by 3 January, the Madrid region had only administered 5% by the same date. Some regions are holding back doses to administer a second follow-up jab to the same person in several weeks' time, and some have been vaccinating on national holidays while others have not.\n\nThe pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of incompetence.\n\nAlthough vaccination is voluntary, the government has said it is making a register of those who do not wish to be inoculated. That initiative has generated controversy, although the government has insisted the register will merely seek to clarify why people refuse the vaccination.\n\nHowever, the pandemic has been the cause of constant political conflict, with the right-wing opposition accusing the leftist government of Pedro Sánchez of incompetence, lack of transparency and using coronavirus to accumulate power.\n\nThe arrival of a vaccine has not stopped the rancour. Alberto Núñez Feijóo, the conservative Popular Party (PP) president of Galicia, warned the number of doses being distributed to each region was being dictated by \"political affiliations or parliamentary needs\", a claim the central government has rejected.", "The US has placed Cuba back on a list of state sponsors of terrorism, citing the communist country's backing of Venezuela.\n\nPresident Donald Trump's administration made the announcement just days before he leaves the White House.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden, who takes office on 20 January, has previously said he wants to improve US-Cuban relations.\n\nMr Biden has said he is seeking closer ties between the long-term adversaries but Mr Trump's decision is likely to hinder a quick repair of relations.\n\nCuba's place on the list will require a formal review that could take months, analysts say.\n\nThe Caribbean island was removed from the list by President Barack Obama in 2015, but Mr Trump has taken a harder line towards the country.\n\nIn 2016 Barack Obama became the first US president to visit Cuba since 1928\n\nWhen explaining the decision, officials cited Cuba's support of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro who the US refuses to recognise.\n\n\"With this action, we will once again hold Cuba's government accountable and send a clear message: the Castro regime must end its support for international terrorism and subversion of US justice,\" US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement on Monday.\n\nIn response, Cuban Foreign Affairs Minister Bruno Rodriguez tweeted: \"We condemn the cynical and hypocritical qualification of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism, announced by the United States.\"\n\nIn advance of the announcement, House Democrat Gregory Meeks called it \"another stunt by President Trump and Pompeo, trying to tie the hands of the incoming Biden administration on their way out the door.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPresident Obama began to normalise relations with Cuba in 2015. He called the decades-long US efforts to isolate the country \"a failure\".\n\nSince the Cold War era, the US had pursued various policies to undermine Cuba which it saw as a great threat.\n\nCuba now rejoins countries including Iran and North Korea on the list of sponsors of terrorism. The impact on the island country include severe limits on foreign investment.", "Mr Williamson says his department is doing all it can to support remote learning\n\nAn extra 300,000 laptops and tablets have been bought to help disadvantaged children in England learn at home, says Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.\n\nMr Williamson said the devices would be delivered to schools.\n\nHe also pledged to publish a remote education framework to support schools and colleges with delivering lessons during the latest national lockdown.\n\nIt comes as research says children from poorer families are likely to struggle more with remote learning.\n\nThe Department for Education said its data showed that over 700,000 devices had been delivered to schools in England so far during the pandemic - 100,000 of which were delivered last week.\n\nThe department says the additional 300,000 laptops and tablets lifts government investment by another £100m, meaning over £400m will have been invested in supporting disadvantaged children who need help with access to technology during the pandemic.\n\nBut the department has faced mounting criticism over huge percentages of pupils not having access to digital devices, nine months into the pandemic.\n\nMr Williamson said the DfE was \"doing everything in our power to support schools with high-quality remote education\".\n\nHe said: \"These additional devices, on top of the 100,000 delivered last week, add to the significant support we are making available to help schools deliver high-quality online learning, as we know they have been doing.\"\n\nOn top of this, the remote education framework would support schools and colleges with delivering education for pupils who are learning from home, he said.\n\nThe frameworks, which are voluntary and should be adapted for schools' individual circumstances, will \"help them to identify the strengths and areas for improvement in the lessons and teaching they provide remotely\".\n\nBut Geoff Barton, head of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: \"While we welcome the extra laptops and tablets announced, it is pretty poor that nearly a year after this crisis began we are only now inching up to the number of devices that are needed.\n\n\"The reality is that this extra provision is coming when we are already well into the new lockdown and after a heavily disrupted autumn term in which many children had to self-isolate in line with coronavirus protocols,\" he said.\n\n\"The government was slow off the mark to address the digital divide early in the crisis and is now trying to make up for lost time.\"\n\nMr Williamson's laptop announcement comes as research by the University of Sussex found that nearly one in five less advantaged parents said they struggled with home-learning during the first lockdown.\n\nThe research surveyed 3,409 parents in the UK between 5 May until 31 July last year and found families of lower socioeconomic status were more likely to report their home environment made it harder for pupils to complete schoolwork from home.\n\nThe study says secondary school pupils eligible for free school meals (39%) were more likely to report that a lack of technology - such as laptops and computers - made learning from home more difficult, compared to 19% of pupils who are not eligible for free school meals.\n\nThere are concerns poorer children will fall further behind\n\nPrimary school pupils from struggling households were found to be more likely to find home learning learning harder than their more comfortable off peers due to the environment - such as noise levels (59% to 50%), lack of space (45% to 22%), lack of technology (45% to 26%) and lack of internet (35% to 16%).\n\nThe researchers warned that educational inequalities were likely to increase due to further school closures this year.\n\nLead researcher Dr Matthew Easterbrook said: \"These results show that school closures disproportionately disrupt the education of those who are most economically disadvantaged, suggesting that educational inequalities are likely to rise because of the pandemic.\n\n\"The results show that parents of pupils from disadvantaged families - those who are eligible for free school meals, who have lower levels of education, or who are financially struggling - are much more likely to report that learning from home is challenging.\"\n\nReport co-author Lewis Doyle, doctoral researcher at the University of Sussex, added: \"School closures, while clearly necessary during this public health crisis, risk entrenching inequality.\"\n\nOn Tuesday the government also published figures on how many pupils were physically in schools across England before the Christmas holidays.\n\nThe data shows 79% of pupils in state schools were in class on Wednesday16 December - down from 85% on Thursday 10 December.\n\nIn secondary schools, attendance fell from 80% to 72% on 16 December, while pupil attendance in primary schools fell from 89% to 86%, the figures show.\n\nBetween 9% and 11% of pupils - up to 872,000 children - did not attend school for Covid-19 related reasons on 16 December.", "Tesco, Asda and Waitrose have become the latest supermarkets to say they will deny entry to shoppers who do not wear face masks unless they are medically exempt.\n\nIt follows a similar move by Morrisons, while Sainsbury's says it will challenge those who flout the rules.\n\nRetailers have been criticised for not doing enough to stop people breaking Covid rules as infections spread.\n\nBut enforcement of face coverings is officially a police responsibility.\n\nHowever, supermarkets can deny entry to their premises which is private property, and can call the police if someone refuses to follow the rules or becomes abusive.\n\nSenior police figures have reportedly said there is little officers can do to enforce the rules in shops because they are so busy.\n\nBut policing minister Kit Malthouse said that they would offer \"backup if things go seriously wrong\".\n\n\"What we hope is that in the vast majority of cases the enforcement, or the reminders if you like, put in place by the store owners will be enough,\" he told BBC News.\n\nA Tesco spokeswoman said the supermarket chain had decided to strengthen its policies.\n\n\"To protect our customers and colleagues, we won't let anyone into our stores who is not wearing a face covering, unless they are exempt in line with government guidance,\" she said.\n\n\"We are also asking our customers to shop alone, unless they're a carer or with children. To support our colleagues, we will have additional security in stores to help manage this.\"\n\nAn Asda spokesman said if customers had forgotten their face coverings, it would continue to offer them one free of charge.\n\nBut he added: \"Should a customer refuse to wear a covering without a valid medical reason and be in any way challenging to our colleagues about doing so, our security colleagues will refuse their entry.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to wear your mask. Hint: it's not any of these three options\n\nAndrew Murphy, executive director of operations at Waitrose, said: \"We've listened carefully to the clear change in tone and emphasis of the views and information shared by the UK's governments in recent days.\n\n\"By insisting on the wearing of face coverings, over and above the social distancing measures we already have in place, we aim to make our shops even safer for customers.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, Sainsbury's told the BBC it did not have the power to deny entry to shoppers without masks. However, trials showed customers complied more when asked to wear masks by security guards at the door, it said.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, Sainsbury's boss, Simon Roberts, said \"we are not going to ban customers\".\n\nBut he urged shoppers to wear a mask and shop alone.\n\n\"By doing that we will help keep everybody safe,\" he said.\n\nThe Co-op also said it would not ban shoppers without masks from entering, and instead urged customers to take responsibility for wearing a face covering when visiting its stores, as it was mandatory by law.\n\nBoss of Co-op Food Jo Whitfield said: \"We've increased our in-store messaging to remind customers and government guidance does state that the police can take measures if members of the public don't comply with this law.\"\n\nIceland said it would take a similar approach, adding the vast majority of its customers continued to shop in compliance with the law.\n\n\"In view of the rising tide of abuse and violence being directed at our store colleagues, we do not expect them to confront the small minority of customers who aggressively refuse to comply with the law,\" a spokesman added.\n\nIn England, the police can issue a £200 fine to someone breaking the face covering rules. In Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, a £60 fine can be imposed. Repeat offenders face bigger fines.", "Many hospitals are still under intense pressure with the increasing number of Covid patients arriving.\n\nDoctors say they are seeing more younger patients in their thirties and forties compared to the first wave.\n\nThe overall pattern of those at risk of becoming seriously ill or dying has not changed significantly and the older someone is, the greater their risk from Covid-19 - particularly those over the age of 65.\n\nThe BBC's Health Editor Hugh Pym was given access to film at Croydon University Hospital in South London.", "Morrisons will bar customers who refuse to wear face coverings from its shops amid rising coronavirus infections.\n\nFrom Monday, shoppers who refuse to wear face masks offered by staff will not be allowed inside, unless they are medically exempt.\n\nSainsbury's also said it would challenge those not wearing a mask or who were shopping in groups.\n\nThe announcements come amid concerns that social distancing measures are not being adhered to in supermarkets.\n\nVaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi said the government is \"concerned\" shops are not enforcing rules strictly enough.\n\n\"Ultimately, the most important thing to do now is to make sure that actually enforcement - and of course the compliance with the rules - when people are going into supermarkets are being adhered to,\" Mr Zahawi told Sky News.\n\n\"We need to make sure people actually wear masks and follow the one-way system,\" he said.\n\nMorrisons said it had \"introduced and consistently maintained thorough and robust safety measures in all our stores\" since the start of the pandemic.\n\nBut it said: \"From today we are further strengthening our policy on masks.\"\n\nSecurity guards at the UK's fourth-biggest supermarket chain will be enforcing the new rules.\n\nMorrisons' chief executive, David Potts, said: \"Those who are offered a face covering and decline to wear one won't be allowed to shop at Morrisons unless they are medically exempt.\n\n\"Our store colleagues are working hard to feed you and your family, please be kind.\"\n\nFollowing Morrisons' announcement, Sainsbury's said that it was also putting trained security guards at the front of its stores to challenge shoppers who did not comply.\n\nChief executive Simon Roberts said: \"I've spent a lot of time in our stores reviewing the latest situation over the last few days and on behalf of all my colleagues, I am asking our customers to help us keep everyone safe.\n\n\"The vast majority of customers are shopping safely, but I have also seen some customers trying to shop without a mask and shopping in larger family groups.\n\n\"Please help us to keep all our colleagues and customers safe by always wearing a mask and by shopping alone. Everyone's care and consideration matters now more than ever.\"\n\nEarlier on Monday, Mr Zahawi stopped short of saying that supermarket staff should be responsible for enforcing rules on face masks.\n\nEnforcement of face coverings is the responsibility of the police, not retailers. Wearing face masks in supermarkets and shops is compulsory across the UK.\n\nIn England, the police can issue a £200 fine to someone breaking the face covering rules. In Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, a £60 fine can be imposed. Repeat offenders face bigger fines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to wear your mask. Hint: it's not any of these three options\n\nHowever, retail industry body the British Retail Consortium said that, workers have faced an increase in incidents of violence and abuse when trying to encourage shoppers to put them on.\n\nAndrew Opie, director of food and sustainability at the British Retail Consortium, added: \"Supermarkets continue to follow all safety guidance and customers should be reassured that supermarkets are Covid-secure and safe to visit during lockdown and beyond.\n\n\"Customers should play their part too by following in-store signage and being considerate to staff and fellow shoppers.\"\n\nUnder current lockdown restrictions across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, people must only leave home for essential reasons, such as buying food or medicine.\n\nIn a bid to contain the spread of coronavirus, supermarkets introduced social distancing measures during the UK's first nationwide lockdown last March. They included limits on the numbers of customers in the shops at any one time, protective plastic screens at tills and \"marshals\" to ensure shoppers were maintaining a two-metre distance.\n\nBut amid rising numbers of infections, some have expressed concerns about a \"lack of visible protections\" implemented by supermarkets in recent weeks.\n\nThe First Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford, said on Saturday that he wanted to see stores policed as they were during the first lockdown as people were worried the strict enforcement of rules did not \"appear to be there this time\".\n\n\"Given the fact the new variant is so much easier to catch... we are looking at supermarkets and other places where people leave their homes, to make sure they are organised in a way that keeps their staff and customers safe,\" he said.\n\nSupermarket Waitrose said that it was taking a \"cautious approach\" to the virus, with marshals checking that customers are wearing face coverings on the door, hand sanitiser stations at its entrances and written communications to shoppers reminding them to maintain their distance.\n\nTesco said it was limiting the number of customers in store and was also reminding customers to wear masks.\n\n\"We have clear signage explaining this, and we have packs of face coverings available for purchase near the front of our stores for any customers who have forgotten them.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Asda announced last week that it would extend its marshals' hours to 08:00 to 20:00 and increase how often baskets and trollies are cleaned.\n\nShop workers' union Usdaw has also called for firms to apply more stringent measures again.\n\nThe union's general secretary, Paddy Lillis, said that it had received reports that \"too many customers are not following necessary safety measures like social distancing, wearing a face covering and only shopping for essential items\".\n\n\"It is going to take some time to roll out the vaccine and we cannot afford to be complacent in the meantime, particularly with a new strain sweeping the nation,\" Mr Lillis said.\n\nThe trade union also suggested that \"'one-in one-out\" policies and proper queuing systems should be reintroduced in supermarkets.\n\nIt added that these systems should be managed by trained security staff where necessary.", "Parler has hit back after Amazon pulled support for its so-called \"free speech\" social network.\n\nParler is suing the tech giant, accusing it of breaking anti-trust laws by removing it.\n\nParler had been reliant on the tech giant's Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing service to provide its alternative to Twitter.\n\nThe platform was popular among supporters of Donald Trump, although the president is not a user.\n\nAmazon took the action after finding dozens of posts on the service that it said encouraged violence.\n\nIn response, the platform has asked a federal judge to order Amazon to reinstate it.\n\n\"AWS's decision to effectively terminate Parler's account is apparently motivated by political animus,\" the complaint reads.\n\n\"It is also apparently designed to reduce competition in the microblogging services market to the benefit of Twitter.\"\n\n\"There is no merit to these claims,\" it said.\n\n\"AWS provides technology and services to customers across the political spectrum, and we respect Parler's right to determine for itself what content it will allow. However, it is clear that there is significant content on Parler that encourages and incites violence against others, and that Parler is unable or unwilling to promptly identify and remove this content, which is a violation of our terms of service.\n\n\"We made our concerns known to Parler over a number of weeks and during that time we saw a significant increase in this type of dangerous content, not a decrease, which led to our suspension of their services Sunday evening.\"\n\nExamples Amazon had provided included posts calling for the killing of Democrats, Muslims, Black Lives Matter leaders, and mainstream media journalists.\n\nGoogle and Apple had already removed Parler from their app stores towards the end of last week saying it had failed to comply with their content-moderation requirements.\n\nHowever, it had still been accessible via the web - although visitors had complained of being unable to create new accounts over the weekend, without which it was not possible to view its content.\n\nParler has been online since 2018, and may return if it can find an alternative host.\n\nHowever, chief executive John Matze told Fox News on Sunday that \"every vendor from text message services to email providers to our lawyers all ditched us too\".\n\n\"We're going to try our best to get back online as quickly as possible, but we're having a lot of trouble because every vendor we talk to says they won't work with us because if Apple doesn't approve and Google doesn't approve, they won't,\" he added.\n\nAWS's move is the latest in a series of actions affecting social media following the rioting on Capitol Hill last week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Capitol riots: ‘We would have been murdered’\n\nFacebook and Twitter have also banned President Trump's accounts on their platforms, citing concerns that he might incite further violence.\n\nParler's users included the Republican Senator Ted Cruz, who had led an effort in the Senate to delay certifying Joe Biden's electoral college victory.\n\nHe had about five million followers on the platform - more than his tally on Twitter.\n\nParler's app now shows an error message and its website is offline\n\n\"Why should a handful of Silicon Valley billionaires have a monopoly on political speech?\" he tweeted over the weekend.\n\nParler's downfall appears to have benefited Gab - another \"free speech\" social network that is popular with far-right commentators.\n\nIt has claimed to have \"gained more users in the past two days than we did in our first two years of existing\".\n\nParler has long been a home for what you might call untouchables, people who had been excluded from mainstream services for offences such as blatant racism or incitement to violence.\n\nDuring a brief excursion onto the site over the weekend, I observed plenty of examples of such behaviour, with users exhibiting vile anti-Semitism, displaying Nazi symbols such as the swastika and uttering incoherent threats against those they perceive to be enemies of America.\n\nBut as Amazon's deadline approached something like panic took hold, with users desperately urging their followers to join them on other platforms.\n\nMost seemed to accept that Parler was doomed, while vowing to continue their fight elsewhere.\n\n\"Well this is the end,\" wrote one user, who proclaimed his support for the American Nazi Party.", "The disease is still spreading. There are more people in hospital with Covid-19 in the UK than at any other point in the pandemic.\n\nProf Chris Whitty, England's chief medical officer, hit the airwaves on Monday morning to tell us it's \"everyone's problem\".\n\nAnd a possible further increase in the numbers from those get-togethers that did take place over Christmas is yet to filter through.\n\nIt is cheering, and crucial, to see the elderly and vulnerable attending vaccine super-centres in huge numbers for their injections.\n\nBut there is no getting away from it: at this moment, the coronavirus situation seems pretty dire. And there is real concern in government that the public, this time round, is just not paying attention to the rules as closely as they did back in the spring.\n\nWhat is the government's answer? It is not, at least not yet, despite calls from the opposition, another big clampdown.\n\nIt might not feel like it, but it is only seven days since Boris Johnson took what used to be the rare step of making a national address, live on primetime TV, telling us, across the UK, once more to \"stay at home\".\n\nThere is hardly any political appetite to go even further.\n\nAs one senior minister said today: \"We have gone as far as we possibly can in terms of shutting things down\".\n\nThe prime minister was reluctant to go this far, only moving back to a lockdown in England when the evidence put forward by the government's top medics got worse, and worse and worse.\n\nThere are in fact even more limits that ministers, not just in Westminster but in Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast too, could introduce.\n\nSchools could be forcibly closed to all pupils. Nurseries could shut.\n\nGovernment sources say the nurseries policy isn't going to change. Number 10 firmly denies they would ever take such a drastic step on schools which have always been open to key workers' children and it is hard to imagine that ever happening.\n\nIn extremis though there are measures that could be taken - in theory the government does not want to do any of this, but in practice there are other potential steps.\n\nBuilding sites could be made to lock their gates. Factories where machines are still whirring because they are operating under Covid guidelines could be made to pause.\n\nEngland, Scotland and Northern Ireland could follow Wales and ban people from seeing anyone they don't live with even outdoors.\n\nPlaygrounds, launderettes and chiropractors, could, along with many others on the list of premises allowed to stay open, have to shut up shop after all.\n\nBut while ministers have talked about squeezing the advice for takeaways to try to prevent big queues gathering at popular places, encouraged the supermarkets to make sure they are doing as much as they can to be safe, and even discussed the prospect of asking for masks to be worn outdoors, there is no expectation, at least at the start of this week, that a more extensive clampdown is coming from Westminster.\n\nAlthough, it's worth noting that the Scottish cabinet will discuss restrictions again on Tuesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On Monday Matt Hancock ruled out getting rid of support bubbles.\n\nOne reason for the reluctance to go much further is that every step that affects a business affects jobs and livelihoods too.\n\nThe chancellor told MPs on Monday that 800,000 people have lost their jobs since February, admitting the economy will get worse before it gets better.\n\nSo trying to preserve activity that can be done safely matters to the government too.\n\nThere's also a question in government circles about whether cranking up different rules bit by bit is really what would help.\n\nChris Whitty this morning bluntly suggested there was limited value in \"tinkering\" with the rules, and what is required instead is for all of us to realise how grave the situation really is.\n\nInstead of worrying about whether we are allowed to sit on a park bench at all, (and yes, this has been a lively conversation in Westminster today) , perhaps we should be asking ourselves whether we really need to be out at all.\n\nThe NHS has been under huge pressure dealing with a surge in Covid cases this winter.\n\nBut when what happens next will be in large part shaped by our behaviour as individuals, working out the dos and don'ts can get sticky fast.\n\nTwo women who hit the headlines for driving five miles to go for a snowy walk with a takeaway cuppa had their fines withdrawn today, just as the prime minister caused a stir when a newspaper revealed he'd gone seven miles to the other side of London for a cycle in the Olympic Park.\n\nYou might be a reader who feels, 'so what?'. In both cases they were exercising outside, within the law, so who cares?\n\nBut you might feel when the firm instruction is to stay at home, and stay local, that is pushing the rules.\n\nFor now though, with grimmer and grimmer medics' warnings ringing in our ears, and reminders about enforcement from the police coming too, ministers seem resolved to encourage the public to comply rather than crack down further.\n\nBut it is however, only a week since the lockdown the prime minister had so hoped to avoid returned. By now, it's not surprising, Boris Johnson would never quite rule anything out.\n\nP.S. In all the gloom, the cheerier news is that the vaccination programme across the UK is certainly getting going, with 2.3 million people having had their first jab.\n\nThe number of people getting vaccinated has been added to the list of statistics that the government publishes every day. The targets the government has set are tough, but the numbers so far, are growing fast.", "RAF Typhoons, similar to the aircraft pictured, took off from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire and escorted the civilian aircraft to London Stansted Airport\n\nA sonic boom has been heard across the East of England after RAF Typhoon aircraft were launched to intercept a plane that had lost communications.\n\nThe Typhoons took off from RAF Coningsby and \"safely escorted\" the civilian aircraft to Stansted Airport in Essex, an RAF spokesman said.\n\nThe boom, at about 13:05 GMT, was reported by people across social media.\n\n\"The Typhoon aircraft were authorised to transit at supersonic speed for operational reasons,\" the RAF said.\n\nPeople in Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire and parts of London heard the boom.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People's reaction to the sonic boom was caught on camera\n\n\"We have received numerous calls from the public with reports of a sonic boom... between Huntingdon and Cambridge,\" Cambridgeshire police said, in a Facebook post.\n\n\"Nobody has been injured. Some callers reported the incident had shaken properties but no major damage is thought to have occurred.\"\n\nAn image from a police officer's body-worn camera captured the RAF Typhoon aircraft flying over Cambridgeshire\n\nCommunications with the aircraft were re-established after the Typhoons were launched and it was intercepted before being escorted to Stansted.\n\nA spokesman for the airport said the \"private jet\" was believed to have been flying from Germany to Birmingham.\n\nHe confirmed the plane had been brought into land at about 13:40.\n\nWhen an aircraft approaches the speed of sound, the air in front of the nose of the plane builds up a pressure front because it has \"nowhere to escape\", said Dr Jim Wild of Lancaster University.\n\nA sonic boom happens when that air \"escapes\", creating a ripple effect which can be heard on the ground as a loud thunderclap.\n\nThe speed of sound varies. It is about 770mph (1,200km/h) at sea level, but slower at higher altitudes. A plane flying at 30,000ft would reach the speed of sound at about 675mph (1,085km/h), according to NASA's educational website.\n\nIt can be heard over such a large area because it moves with the plane, rather like the wake of a boat spreading out behind the vessel.\n\nRAF jets are only given permission to go supersonic over populated areas in emergencies, usually when they are required to intercept another aircraft.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nLeicester City climbed to second in the Premier League as they won a keenly contested encounter with fellow top-four hopefuls Southampton at King Power Stadium.\n\nJames Maddison fired in from a tight angle after 37 minutes, the Foxes midfielder instructing his team-mates to stand back as he performed a socially distanced celebration, before Harvey Barnes added a second deep into second-half stoppage-time.\n\nVictory takes Leicester within one point of leaders Manchester United, who travel to third-placed Liverpool on Sunday, while Southampton are eighth, three points outside the top four.\n• None How Leicester followed guidance on celebrations - and others didn't\n• None Reaction to Leicester v Southampton, plus the rest of Saturday's Premier League action\n\nThe Saints dominated in the opening stages and created the first opening when Che Adams stretched the home defence on the counter-attack, while Leicester's Barnes' powerful drive forced Alex McCarthy into action with the game's first shot after 19 minutes.\n\nThe visitors, without talisman Danny Ings after the striker tested positive for Covid-19 last week, went close to a response through Ryan Bertrand and Will Smallbone either side of half-time but neither could find a way past Kasper Schmeichel.\n\nIn an entertaining conclusion, Stuart Armstrong rattled the Leicester crossbar with an excellent strike from the edge of the penalty area, while Jan Bednarek produced a superb goalline clearance to deny Barnes and the returning McCarthy saved from Jamie Vardy as both sides pushed for a late goal.\n\nIt took Leicester until the 95th minute to seal the three points, Barnes calmly slotting past McCarthy on the break.\n\nLeicester manager Brendan Rodgers challenged his side to \"disrupt the Premier League hierarchy\" after a 2-1 win over Newcastle in their last league outing maintained their top-four hopes.\n\nVictory in this stern test ensured they continue to do just that.\n\nEnjoying their longest unbeaten run of the season, their streak now at six matches in all competitions since defeat by Everton a month ago, Rodgers' side delivered an assured performance to remain firmly in contention at the top.\n\nDespite their lofty position as the halfway stage approaches, Leicester have struggled at home this campaign - their four defeats at King Power Stadium in 2020-21 is as many as they suffered in the entirety of last season.\n\nThough largely frustrated in the early exchanges as the visitors retained possession, Leicester's superior quality in attack eventually ensured that record was improved with Maddison turning sharply to meet Youri Tielemans' through-ball before drilling home.\n\nThe in-form Barnes once again impressed and eventually got the goal his performance deserved to equal his best season tally of 10 after just 24 games.\n\nUnlike last season's post-Christmas collapse, the Foxes are yet to show signs of falling away. Maddison - involved in six of Leicester's last 12 league goals - and Barnes are easing the pressure on Vardy to deliver every week and there appears the strength in depth to better maintain this challenge.\n\nThe only concern for Rodgers at the end of a pleasing night was the sight of Vardy appearing to limp off as he was replaced by Kelechi Iheanacho in the final minutes.\n\nWhen Southampton claimed victory in the corresponding fixture last January, the 2-1 win marked a remarkable short-term recovery from a club-record defeat by the Foxes less than three months earlier.\n\nOne year on, this match served as another reminder of how quickly the Saints are progressing under Ralph Hasenhuttl.\n\nThey were, however, unable to set a club top-flight record of seven consecutive away games without defeat in the absence of frontman Ings. That was despite their relative freshness, having not played for 12 days after their FA Cup tie against Shrewsbury Town was postponed last weekend because of a Covid-19 outbreak at the League One club.\n\nFollowing their impressive 1-0 victory over Liverpool on 4 January, a triumph which left Hasenhuttl with tears in his eyes, Southampton once again applied themselves with commendable determination but ultimately failed to produce in the final third.\n\nAdams ran out of space at the byeline after breaking clear from the halfway line in the game's first opening, and neither Bertrand nor Smallbone were able to place past Schmeichel as the equaliser their hard work perhaps deserved evaded them.\n\nAt the back, Bednarek produced the heroics to keep his side in the game and full-back Kyle Walker-Peters provided a regular outlet on the right, but Southampton, who named four teenagers on their bench because of an injury crisis, have now scored only once in five league games.\n\nThat is an obvious concern for Hasenhuttl as he looks to ensure his side do not fade after their promising start.\n\n'We took social distancing to the letter' - what the managers said\n\nLeicester boss Brendan Rodgers told BBC Sport: \"It's a very good win against a good team. We were too passive at the start, we took social distancing to the letter and didn't get close to them. After that we had some sustained attacks and ended up getting a brilliant goal.\n\n\"At half-time we had to reiterate the importance of fighting, you have to fight for every result and Southampton keep going. We were outstanding second half and should have scored more goals. We did the dirty work much better and Harvey Barnes showed again that he is a finisher now.\"\n\nOn Maddison's celebration: \"I said to them there is lots of negativity around it but see it as a positive and be creative. Supporters still want to see players celebrate, the happiness, so be creative with it.\"\n\nSouthampton boss Ralph Hasenhuttl said: \"It's never nice to lose a game but we had chances. We hit the bar, we fought with everything we have. We are definitely a team that is never giving up. The quality of the opponent was better than ours today.\n\n\"The first goal, you don't shoot at goal like that every day, it was fantastic from Maddison. We had good chances but we couldn't finish and that was the difference.\n\n\"It doesn't look good at the moment, we have a lot of injuries and not many alternatives. The good news is we have 29 points and they don't take them away from us. We did our best with the options we have. We have nine injured but we are fighting for everything.\"\n• None Leicester earned their first home league victory against Southampton since April 2016, ending a run of four without a win against the Saints at King Power Stadium.\n• None Southampton's first 12 Premier League games in 2020-21 witnessed 41 goals (24 scored) at an average of 3.4 per game. Their past six games have seen just six goals (two scored).\n• None Jamie Vardy had seven shots for Leicester, his highest tally without scoring in a single Premier League match in his career.\n• None Vardy has faced Southampton seven times at home in the Premier League, more than any other side at King Power Stadium without scoring in the competition.\n• None James Maddison scored in consecutive Premier League games for Leicester for the first time since October 2019, matching his goal tally at home from each of the previous two campaigns (three).\n\nBoth sides return to action on Tuesday. Leicester host Chelsea in the Premier League at 20:15 GMT, while Southampton welcome Shrewsbury to St Mary's in their postponed FA Cup third-round tie (20:00).\n• None Goal! Leicester City 2, Southampton 0. Harvey Barnes (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Youri Tielemans following a fast break.\n• None Attempt missed. Stuart Armstrong (Southampton) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right following a corner.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Marc Albrighton tries a through ball, but Ayoze Pérez is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Wilfred Ndidi (Leicester City) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Marc Albrighton.\n• None Attempt saved. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by James Justin.\n• None Attempt missed. Daniel N'Lundulu (Southampton) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Kyle Walker-Peters with a cross.\n• None Offside, Leicester City. Timothy Castagne tries a through ball, but Ayoze Pérez is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ayoze Pérez with a cross.\n• None Marc Albrighton (Leicester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. James Ward-Prowse (Southampton) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Stuart Armstrong. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Hear how David Bowie always managed to stay ahead of his time\n• None Joe Wicks and guests are here to bring positivity to your day", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health workers are the first in line to get Covid jabs\n\nA sanitation worker became the first Indian to receive a Covid vaccine as the country began the world's largest inoculation drive.\n\nPrime Minister Narendra Modi launched the programme, which aims to vaccinate more than 1.3 billion people against Covid.\n\nHe paid tribute to front-line workers who will be the first to receive jabs.\n\nIndia has recorded the second-highest number of Covid-19 infections in the world after the United States.\n\nMillions of doses of two approved vaccines - Covishield and Covaxin - were shipped across the country in the days leading up to the start of the drive.\n\n\"We are launching the world's biggest vaccination drive and it shows the world our capability,\" Mr Modi, said, addressing the country on Saturday morning.\n\nA sanitation worker is the first Indian to receive a Covid vaccine\n\nHe added that India was well prepared to vaccinate its population with the help of an app, which would help the government track the drive and ensure that nobody was left out.\n\nMr Modi spoke at length about doctors, nurses and other front-line workers \"who showed us the light\" in \"dark times\".\n\n\"They stayed away from their families to serve humanity. And hundreds of them never went home. They gave their life to save others. And that is why the first jabs are being given to healthcare workers - this is our way of paying respect to them.\"\n\nDoctors and medical staff at Delhi's Max hospital tell me a lot of hope is being pinned on the vaccination drive. One official described it \"as a new dawn\" and said \"it's the beginning of Covid's end\".\n\nInside the waiting room, there are posters on the wall with information about the documents one needs to bring, how safe the vaccine is, and the precautions that need to be taken even after one's been vaccinated. Among those being vaccinated on Saturday are doctors, nurses and front-office staff from all departments.\n\nThe names have been been chosen alphabetically so those getting jabs are mostly those with names starting with the letter A.\n\n\"The pandemic has played havoc in the country. I hope the vaccine will rid us of the fears and we will be able to breathe easy,\" Dr Anil Dass said after getting the jab.\n\nAshutosh Chaturvedi, a 31-year-old male nurse described as a \"Covid warrior\" by hospital officials, became the first recipient of the vaccine at Max.\n\n\"I'm fine, I feel good,\" he told reporters as he came down the hospital ramp, which has been decorated with blue, green and white balloons.\n\nSince April, he told me, he's worked in the emergency wing of the Covid ward, tending to those afflicted with the coronavirus.\n\n\"I haven't seen my wife and nine-month-old daughter since then. A month later, once I've received the second dose, I'll visit my family,\" he said.\n\nMr Modi also appealed to people to continue adhering to Covid-19 safety protocols like wearing masks and following social distancing. He said the country cannot afford to be complacent as vaccinating the entire population will take time.\n\nHe also urged people not to believe any \"propaganda and rumours about the safety of the vaccines\".\n\n\"I want to tell people that the approval to these vaccines was given only after scientists and experts were satisfied about its safety,\" he said.\n\nAn estimated 10 million health workers will be vaccinated in the first round, followed by policemen, soldiers, municipal and other front-line workers.\n\nHealth workers have been queuing up at vaccination centres for their turn\n\nNext in line will be people aged over 50 and anyone under 50 with serious underlying health conditions. India's electoral rolls, which contain details of some 900 million voters, will be used to identify eligible recipients.\n\nThe government plans to vaccinate 300 million people by early August. This will happen in state-run health care centres, schools, colleges, community halls, municipal offices and wedding halls.\n\nSeveral hospitals across India are giving the first doses of the vaccine.\n\nThe government plans to vaccinate 300 million people by early August\n\nDr Atul Peters was among those who got the jab at Max hospital.\n\n\"It's a very big day. I'm grateful to those who worked hard to make this a reality. I was very very happy when I got a call informing me that my name was on the list.\n\n\"We worked hard during the pandemic to save lives and we are also taking the jab first to dispel fears in people's minds that the vaccine is not safe,\" he told the BBC.\n\nMillions of vaccine doses have been shipped across India\n\nIndia's drug regulator has given the green light to two vaccines - Covishield (the local name for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine developed in the UK) and Covaxin, locally-made by pharma company Bharat Biotech.\n\nBut concerns have been raised over the efficacy of Covaxin because the regulator's emergency approval came before the completion of Phase 3 clinical trials. The regulator and the manufacturer have said the vaccine is safe, and that the efficacy data would be available by February.\n\nBoth vaccines will be given as two injections, 28 days apart, with the second dose being a booster. Immunity would begin to kick in after the first dose but reaches its full effect 14 days after the second dose.\n\nThe status of the vaccines and recipients will be electronically tracked in real time - some 8 million people who will receive the early jabs have been already registered. More than 600,000 people have been trained for the drive.\n\nThe jabs will be voluntary, and recipients will be given a certificate of vaccination after they complete both doses.\n\n\"I expect India's vaccination programme will be run much better than most countries because of the considerable government investment and early preparedness,\" Dr Gagandeep Kang, one of India's best-known vaccine experts, told the BBC.\n\nWith more than 10 million cases, India has recorded the second-highest number of Covid-19 infections in the world, after the US.\n\nThe largest vaccination drive in the country, however, begins at a time when infections have fallen sharply, and much of life has returned to normal. A limited availability of doses in the initial phase, therefore, is not likely to pose a problem.\n\nMost scientists feel India is primed for the challenge as it is a vaccine-making powerhouse and has run, for decades, a well-oiled immunisation programme for tens of millions of new-borns and mothers-to-be.\n\nBut the real challenges will begin when the general population starts receiving the jabs.\n\nIndia will use its formidable election machinery to deliver and track doses to recipients in far corners of the country. It is also likely to use digital platforms and apps to enable people to register for the doses.\n\nHowever, not every Indian owns a smart phone or knows how to operate an app, so it will be interesting to see what the government does to make sure that there are no inadvertent exclusions.\n\nVaccine hesitancy is the other concern.\n\nHealth activists Seema Pal and Rama Negi say they have been busting misinformation about the vaccine\n\nThe recent controversy over the hurried approval of Covaxin, many feel, could undermine confidence. There's a history of hesitancy about receiving the polio vaccine in parts of northern India, triggered by rumours about vaccines being impure and affecting fertility. Similar disinformation is now circulating about Covid vaccines on social networking apps, such as WhatsApp.\n\nThe government will need consistent, clear-eyed communication to bolster vaccine acceptance and community perception of the programme.\n\nVaccines come with side effects for some people. India has a 34-year-old surveillance programme for monitoring such \"adverse events\" following immunisation.\n\nBut researchers have found that benchmarks for reporting side effects still remain weak. A failure to transparently report adverse effects could easily lead to fear-mongering around vaccines.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The number of reported incidents of children dying or being seriously harmed after suspected abuse or neglect rose by a quarter after England's first lockdown last year, figures indicate.\n\nThe Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel received 285 serious incident notifications from April to September.\n\nThis is an increase of 27% from 225 in the same period the previous year.\n\nThe data also includes children who were in care and died, regardless of whether abuse or neglect was suspected.\n\nThe Children's Society described the figures as \"shocking\".\n\nThe serious incident notification system requires councils in England to report all incidents of death or serious harm involving children in their area to the Department for Education, which publishes the data.\n\nThey are also required to inform the education secretary and Ofsted if a looked-after child dies, regardless of whether they suspect abuse or neglect.\n\nChild deaths increased from 89 to 119 and those seriously harmed rose from 132 with 153 compared with the same period in 2019, according to the data.\n\nThe number of serious incidents involving children under one increased by 30% as did the harm suffered by those aged 16 and over.\n\nThe majority (54%) of incidents related to boys, and almost two thirds related to white children.\n\nIn two-thirds of the 285 cases reported, the harm occurred while children were living at home.\n\nThe number of serious incident notifications had fallen in 2019-20 compared with 2018-19 when there were 274 such notifications.\n\nIryna Pona, policy manager at the Children's Society, said the increase in incidents last year happened at a time when Covid-19 was having a \"huge impact on the well-being of children and families and disrupted help available to those who needed it most\".\n\nEngland's first lockdown began at the end of March last year and ended on 4 July.\n\nMs Pona said: \"During the first lockdown many vulnerable children were stuck at home in difficult, sometimes dangerous situations, often isolated from friends and support networks.\n\n\"Sadly, children also continued to be targeted and groomed by people outside their families for sexual and criminal exploitation like county lines drug dealing operations, which can lead to serious violence or death.\n\n\"At the same time, they were often hidden from view of professionals like social workers and teachers who are best placed to spot the signs if they may be in danger.\"\n\nShe added that in the current lockdown it was \"vital\" that social care and schools work together closely to ensure all vulnerable children, including those in care, have regular contact with a trusted professional.\n\nA government spokeswoman said: \"Every single incident of this nature is a tragedy and we are working to understand the impact the pandemic may be having.\n\n\"Throughout the past months, we have prioritised the most vulnerable children and their families and put in place support to protect babies.\n\n\"We've maintained vital frontline services because we know it has been a challenge for many, especially for new parents, and we've invested thousands of pounds in charities working with vulnerable children and their families.\n\n\"Today we have launched a wholescale review of children's social care to reform the system and think afresh about how we support the most vulnerable. This data will provide important information to the care review to help address major challenges.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. UK weather: Will it snow where you are?\n\nSnow and ice weather warnings are in place for much of England and Scotland after widespread recent snowfall.\n\nThe Met Office has issued yellow weather warnings across England and Scotland for Saturday and warned of possible travel disruption.\n\nParts of England and Scotland could see as much as 5-10cm of snow in higher areas, the weather service said.\n\nIt comes as hundreds of schools remain closed after heavy snow hit the north of England on Thursday.\n\nA snow warning is in place for south-east England, including London, the east of England and the East Midlands. The Met Office said East Anglia and parts of Kent and Sussex are most at risk of snow.\n\nSome 1-3 cm of snow may fall fairly widely over these areas, with 5-10 cm possible in places, mostly over parts of East Anglia and any higher ground.\n\nA snow and ice warning is in place for most of Scotland, north-west and north-east England, Yorkshire and Humber, the East Midlands and parts of the West Midlands.\n\nSnow is likely to fall to low levels over east Scotland and northern England.\n\nThe Met Office said 1-3 cm is possible at low levels in these areas but is more likely at higher elevations, where 5-10 cm of snow is possible above 200m - and even 20cm at the highest places.\n\nFog is also forecast for parts of the Midlands and the North, along with mist around Glasgow which may pose hazards for motorists.\n\nPolice forces in Yorkshire have urged people to stay at home unless their travel is essential\n\nTwo girls took their sledge to a golf course near Penicuik, Midlothian\n\nThe coronavirus vaccine rollout has been affected by the weather.\n\nOver-80s who were due to receive their jab at Newcastle's Centre for Life were told they could re-book rather than risk making a trip in the icy conditions.\n\nNewcastle Hospitals tweeted: \"There's enough vaccine for everyone, so don't worry about making a trip to Newcastle.\"\n\nAnd Leeds University has delayed the opening of its asymptomatic Covid-19 test centre.\n\nHeavy snowfall has already caused travel disruption across sections of northern England and Scotland.\n\nTemperatures were as low as -6C on Friday morning in parts of Yorkshire and Cumbria, with yellow warnings set to last through most of Friday.\n\nThere was a loss of gas supply to approximately 700 homes in the Hebden Bridge area after water got into the local gas network and froze.\n\nThe Met Office has published advice from the Department for Transport advising people to clear snow and ice from footpaths outside their homes, preferably in the morning.\n\n\"You can then cover the path with salt before nightfall to stop it refreezing overnight,\" the advice says.\n\nTemperatures in the Greater London area are expected to drop to 1C on Friday and parts of the South East could fall to -2C.\n\nIt comes after \"hazardous\" conditions on Thursday caused problems for the ambulance service in Yorkshire, which struggled to keep up with the high demand, while Covid vaccinations were also affected.\n\nMark Millins, of Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust, said the bad weather was having a \"severe impact\" on its operations and urged people to \"take extra care\" when out walking or driving.\n\nIn Scotland, heavy snow in some areas resulted in road closures.\n\nThe deepest snow on Thursday was in Bingley, West Yorkshire, and Strathallan in Perth, Scotland, both of which recorded 11cm.", "CBBC star Archie Lyndhurst, the son of Only Fools and Horses actor Nicholas Lyndhurst, died in his sleep from a brain haemorrhage, his mother has said.\n\nLucy Lyndhurst said a second post-mortem exam had revealed his death was caused by a condition called Acute Lymphoblastic Lymphoma/Leukaemia.\n\nShe described Archie as \"the most magical human being we have ever met\".\n\nThe 19-year-old's death on 22 September had had a \"catastrophic effect\" on their family, she wrote on Instagram.\n\nArchie with his father Nicholas and mother Lucy Smith in 2017\n\nLucy said she and husband Nicholas were assured by the doctor who explained the post-mortem results to them that there \"wasn't anything anyone could have done as Archie showed no signs of illness\". She said it was \"not leukaemia as we know it\" and that acute in medical terms meant \"rapid\".\n\nThe couple were \"utterly floored\" to think something like this could happen, she wrote, adding: \"It's very rare and around only 800 people a year die from it.\"\n\nShe said that just days earlier he had been celebrating his birthday with \"the love of his life Nethra\".\n\n\"Life is fragile, precious and sometimes incredibly cruel,\" Lucy wrote.\n\nShe also criticised some media outlets for attempting to garner information about how her son had died from the coroner, before they knew the results of the post mortem themselves.\n\n\"To have a coroner call you a few days after your child has died to say the press have been calling for the results of Archie's post mortem, I think stoops to an all time low for us,\" she noted.\n\n\"What gives the press the right to badger a coroner's office solely to find the cause of death before the parents? The complete lack of empathy is astounding. We released no information at the time as we had no idea what he had died from.\"\n\nNicholas appeared alongside his son in an episode of So Awkward in 2019\n\nArchie began his acting career at the Sylvia Young Theatre School at the age of 10 and was best known for playing Ollie Coulton in the CBBC comedy show So Awkward.\n\nHe appeared in the sitcom, which followed the lives of a group of friends in secondary school, from its first series in 2015.\n\nNicholas appeared alongside his son in a 2019 episode of the programme.\n\nArchie's other roles included recurring appearances as a younger incarnation of comedian Jack Whitehall in various TV programmes.\n\nThese included BBC Three sitcom Bad Education, in which he was seen as a younger version of Whitehall's Alfie Wickers character.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Irish hauliers have been bypassing ports in Wales because of Brexit, say industry leaders\n\nIrish hauliers are bypassing Welsh ports to avoid Brexit bureaucracy, industry leaders say.\n\nSo-called \"teething problems\" with new export rules are causing \"enormous strain on staff\", according to one haulage company.\n\nBut others warn of a longer-term shift by truck firms from using Holyhead, Fishguard and Pembroke Dock.\n\nGwynedd Shipping said it was operating at 65% normal volumes and the pressure of extra paperwork was challenging.\n\nAndrew Kinsella, the firm's managing director, said: \"It's an enormous strain on our staff in terms of processing bookings.\n\n\"We process around 400 or 500 bookings a week, the reality is we're operating at 65-70% of previous volumes.\n\n\"Whilst we see recovery in the number of clients and we're starting to get to a better pattern in terms of shipments I still think it's going to take several weeks for things to return to normal. Whether things return to pre-Christmas, pre-Brexit volumes remains to be seen.\"\n\nMr Kinsella thinks there will be long-term consequences for the ports.\n\nStena Line is among firms that have made changes to the routes its uses\n\n\"You can already see the shift in terms of the number of sailings,\" he said.\n\n\"I think you're seeing a shift away from Holyhead particularly in terms of weekend, off-peak traffic. I think longer term, the viability of all of these services will be something those ferry services will continue to scrutinise.\"\n\nThis week Stena Line moved its new ship to the route from Rosslare, in the Republic of Ireland, to Cherbourg, France.\n\nAccording to Irish public broadcaster RTÉ, a new weekend sailing from Dublin to Cherbourg will also begin on 23 January, resulting in a temporary reduction in weekend capacity on the Dublin to Holyhead route.\n\nIt also intends to sail the Belfast-to-Liverpool route.\n\n\"Due to the current Brexit-related shift for direct routes and increasing customer demand, Stena Line has decided to temporarily deploy the Stena Embla on Rosslare-Cherbourg,\" Stena Line said.\n\nAt Rosslare Europort, business is booming, says general manager Glenn Carr.\n\n\"We've seen unprecedented demand in the first two weeks of trading compared to last year,\" Mr Carr said.\n\n\"On our European routes there's a 500% increase in freight volume going through the port compared to last year.\"\n\nHe added that 18 months ago they would have had three sailings a week directly to mainland Europe from Rosslare Europort: \"Today we have 15.\"\n\nMr Carr says his customers want to bypass the UK because of Brexit.\n\n\"I think that's testament to demand, particularly from our exporters and importers, on the island of Ireland and the need to unfortunately bypass the UK because of Brexit to trade directly with the EU,\" he added.\n\nHe believes this change in operations will not be temporary.\n\nHe said decisions by ferry companies and businesses who trade with the EU to re-direct freight, have been made based on market analysis.\n\n\"The business case for the extra services out of Rosslare were not based on the first two weeks of this year,\" Mr Carr said.\n\n\"They were based on analysis of the market and conversations with our exporters and importers who were switching.\n\n\"So there is a genuine switch and we foresee services being maintained out of Rosslare.\"\n\nUK government ministers have played down concerns about the long term viability of Welsh ports.\n\nGiving evidence to the Welsh Affairs Select Committee this week, Wales Office Minister David TC Davies MP, said former haulage industry colleagues referred to the issues as \"teething problems\".\n\nSecretary of State for Wales Simon Hart MP, said: \"There is some evidence that things aren't looking necessarily, permanently bleak.\n\n\"It's one of those areas where we have to keep a very wary eye on it, but I think and hope that it is a temporary dip in the graph.\"\n\nBut transport expert Prof Stuart Cole, of the University of South Wales, thinks Brexit delays will be the incentive Irish companies needed to switch permanently to trading directly with the European mainland.\n\nProf Cole said the EU wanted to reduce congestion and pollution in parts of Europe.\n\nOne solution was to move freight by sea rather than road.\n\nThere have been problems with paperwork for drivers travelling to the European mainland\n\nUntil now there was no reason for Irish hauliers to move from using Welsh ports and Dover, Prof Cole said.\n\n\"The route worked perfectly, there was a predictable journey time and that's important for food and component parts going to factories,\" he said.\n\n\"That kind of change required a significant shift, and that's what's there now.\"\n\nBangor University economics lecturer, Dr Edward Thomas Jones, believes it is too soon to predict longer term changes.\n\n\"Because businesses stockpiled before Christmas in anticipation of Brexit, there is of course less use of the port [at Holyhead] since Brexit,\" he said.\n\n\"On top of that, coronavirus means there are fewer tourists going on holiday to Ireland.\n\n\"We'll have a better idea of the future of the port in six months when these businesses who have stockpiled start buying again.\n\n\"Hopefully, by the second half of the year coronavirus will have been resolved and tourists will once again be able to travel back and forth.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru warned if traffic continued to be diverted away from the UK then Wales would suffer.\n\n\"I urge the UK government to work with the Welsh Government to provide substantial investment into Welsh ports to secure their viability into the future,\" said MP Hywel Williams, Plaid's Cabinet Office spokesman.\n\n\"If the trend of rerouting traffic through direct routes continues, I fear that our local economies both in the north west and south west of Wales will suffer enormously.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The four main engines were fired in unison for the first time, but had to be shut down early\n\nA critical engine test for Nasa's new \"megarocket\" has ended early, but the agency denied it amounted to a failure.\n\nShortly before 22:30 GMT (17:30 EST) on Saturday, the four engines ignited, burning for more than a minute before the event was aborted.\n\nThe core stage of the Space Launch System (SLS) was being evaluated at Stennis Space Center, in Mississippi.\n\nThe engines were supposed to fire for eight minutes to simulate the rocket's climb to orbit.\n\nThe SLS is part of Nasa's Artemis programme, which aims to put Americans back on the lunar surface in the 2020s.\n\nWhen it makes its maiden flight - possibly later this year - the SLS will become the most powerful rocket ever to have flown to space.\n\nTeams at Stennis are still poring over the data to find out what happened. John Honeycutt, SLS program manager at Nasa's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, said there were \"a lot of dynamics going on\" when the engine shut down.\n\nThe engines' power levels were being throttled down and up again; they were also being prepared to pivot - or gimbal. This movement allows the rocket to be steered during flight.\n\nThe RS-25 engines are the same type that powered the space shuttle orbiter\n\n\"We did see a little bit of a flash come from around the interface between the thermal protection blanket on engine four at the time when we had initiated the gimbal,\" Honeycutt told reporters at a post-test briefing at Stennis.\n\nThe as-yet unknown problem triggered what Nasa calls a failure identification (Fid), followed by a major component failure (MCF). As a result of the fault, an onboard computer known as the engine controller sent a message to another computer called the core stage controller, which took a decision to shut down the vehicle.\n\n\"Any parameter that went awry on the engine could have sent that failure ID,\" said John Honeycutt.\n\nIt was the first time all four RS-25 engines had been ignited together, in a test known as a \"hotfire\".\n\nThe core stage of the rocket was anchored to a massive steel structure called the B-2 test stand on the grounds of the Stennis facility.\n\nTo prepare the core stage, engineers filled its tanks with more than 700,000 gallons (2.6 million litres) of super-cold liquid hydrogen and oxygen propellant.\n\nThis was the eighth and final test in the Green Run, a programme of evaluation carried out by engineers from Nasa and Boeing - the rocket's prime contractor.\n\nAlthough the test was intended to run for eight minutes, engineers would have received all the data required to certify the rocket for flight after 250 seconds.\n\nThey wanted to iron out any problems before the core stage is used for the first SLS launch, in which it will send Nasa's next-generation Orion spacecraft on a loop around the Moon.\n\nNasa's outgoing administrator Jim Bridenstine declined to call Saturday's event a failure: \"This is why we test,\" he said, adding: \"Before we put American astronauts on American rockets, that's when we need it to be perfect.\"\n\nOfficials have not yet decided whether to re-run the hotfire, or proceed with shipping the core stage to Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida to prepare it for the rocket's uncrewed maiden flight, a mission called Artemis-1.\n\n\"It depends what the anomaly was and how challenging it's going to be to fix it,\" said Bridenstine.\n\nNasa administrator Jim Bridenstine said perfection wasn't a realistic expectation for the first engine test\n\nAsked whether a launch this year was still feasible, he added: \"I think it's too early to tell. As we figure out what went wrong, we're going to know what the future holds.\"\n\nHowever, if one or more of the engines needs to be replaced, there are spares waiting to be used at Stennis Space Center.\n\nThe Artemis-1 mission will evaluate how both the SLS and Orion capsule perform prior to Nasa staging a repeat of this lunar loop with astronauts in 2023.\n\nThis will be followed by the first landing on the Moon by humans since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.\n\nThe SLS consists of the 65m (212 ft) -long core stage with two smaller solid rocket boosters (SRBs) attached to the sides. Engineers at KSC have begun stacking the individual SRB segments for Artemis-1.\n\n\"This powerful rocket is going to put us in a position to be ready to support the agency and the country in deep space missions to the Moon and beyond,\" John Honeycutt said during a media briefing on Tuesday.\n\nArtwork: The initial version of the SLS - known as Block 1 - during the climb to orbit\n\nOfficials have been planning to ship the core stage to Florida in February.\n\nIts engines are of the same type that powered the spaceplane-like shuttle orbiter - America's crewed space vehicle for 30 years from 1981-2011.\n\nNasa is re-using flown hardware: the RS-25 engines used in this test helped launch 21 shuttle missions. Two were used on the last shuttle flight - STS-135 in 2011.\n\nThe four RS-25s can generate 1.6 million lbs (7 Meganewtons) of thrust - the force that propels a rocket through the air.\n\nWhen the solid rocket boosters are added to the core stage, the combined system will produce 8.8 million pounds (39.1 Meganewtons) of thrust. This will make it 15% more powerful than the giant Saturn V rocket that sent astronauts to the Moon in the 1960s and 70s.\n\nPrior to Saturday's test, John Shannon, vice president and SLS program manager at Boeing praised teams at Stennis for keeping the Green Run on track despite the pandemic and this year's particularly active hurricane season.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHomes have been evacuated as Storm Christoph batters Wales with a three-day rainstorm.\n\nNorth Wales Police were called to help some residents in Ruthin who were being told to leave their homes.\n\nThey tweeted that \"people who do not live locally are driving to the area to 'see the floods'\".\n\nA rain warning issued by the Met Office is in place until midday on Thursday, with an ice warning for parts of north and mid Wales.\n\nSouth Wales fire crews pumped out water from homes in Pontypridd and Porth, in Rhondda, and roads were blocked in Powys and Flintshire.\n\nVehicles were pulled from floods by firefighters in Tenby, Llandovery, Llandeilo and Whitland, Mid and West Wales fire service said.\n\nUp to 20cm (8in) of rain is expected to fall, with the heaviest rain forecast for the north west of Wales.\n\nThere were flood warnings in 58 areas as forecasters warned heavy rain and melting snow could affect roads. There were also 57 flood alerts - meaning flooding is possible.\n\nA yellow warning for ice was issued for the north and parts of mid Wales, starting at 01:00 on Thursday and lasting until 10:00, as rain clears.\n\nA minor landslip was reported on the mountainside above Pentre in Rhondda Cynon Taf. Natural Resources Wales, who have responsibility for the land, said there is no immediate threat after an initial inspection, but the council urged residents to keep away from the area.\n\nThe River Taf at Llanglydwen in Carmarthenshire\n\nFlood warnings are in Carmarthenshire - the River Towy and isolated properties between Llandeilo and Abergwili, the River Gwendraeth Fawr at Pontyates and Ponthenry, the River Hydfron at Llanddowror and the River Taf at Trevaughan in Whitland.\n\nThe other flood warnings cover the River Ely at Peterston-Super-Ely in Vale of Glamorgan, the River Vyrnwy in the Meifod area in Powys, the River Rhyd Hir at Riverside Terrace in Gwynedd, two for the River Wye at Glasbury and Builth Wells, the Lower Dee Valley from Llangollen to Trevalyn Meadows, the River Dyfi at Pont ar Dyfi, the River Usk from Brecon to Glangrwyne, two at the River Severn at Abermule to Fron and Aberbechan and the River Lower Clydach at Clydach Bridge, Swansea.\n\nIn River Aeron at Aberaeron, in Ceredigion, the River Loughor at Ammanford and Llandybie and the River Wye at Builth Wells, Powys, are also covered by the warning.\n\nA person had to be saved from a car stuck in floodwater in Corwen, Denbighshire, North East Wales Search and Rescue tweeted.\n\nRest centres have been opened in St Asaph and Ruthin after some localised flooding following heavy rainfall throughout the day. Denbighshire council invited affected residents to use the facilities at the towns' main leisure centres.\n\nAnd Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said crews were called to help a motorist whose vehicle had become stuck in 3ft of water in Machynlleth.\n\nThe waters lapped the doors of Ruthin's Ocean Pearl restaurant\n\nIn Broughton, Flintshire, Ray and Jacqui Littler said they and their daughter waited all afternoon for help at their flooded bungalow after emergency services told them they were \"flat out\".\n\nThey eventually decided to leave their home on Main Road, which was under 10 inches of water, to stay with friends.\n\nNeighbours blamed a blocked culvert on the fields opposite the road. Police closed the road at about 16:00 GMT and Flintshire council attended, after three houses were affected, with the gardens of two pensioners' bungalows also under water.\n\nOverflowing banks of the River Usk at Brecon\n\nSouth Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it had been called to two incidents overnight with reports of water entering properties in Pontycymmer in Bridgend and Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent.\n\nOn Wednesday morning, it dealt with flooding at properties in Tyfica Road, Pontypridd, and Trebanog Road in Porth, Rhondda, where a crew was helping residents divert and pump out water.\n\nFirefighters also had to rescue 46 sheep from land surrounded by water at Merthyr Road, Llanfoist, Monmouthshire.\n\nCrews from Abergavenny and Ebbw Vale were called to help the stricken animals near the River Usk.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWater in the grounds of Gwydir Castle in Llanrwst\n\nJudy Corbett, owner of 16th Century Gwydir Castle in Llanrwst, Conwy, which flooded last year, told BBC Radio Wales things were \"looking pretty dire here this morning\".\n\nShe said: \"We've been obviously monitoring the levels overnight so we've had another sleepless night worrying about the weather but the levels are rising and the water is very violent this morning and of course, we've got another a whole day ahead of us.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Sabrina Lee This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSeveral roads have been hit by flooding, including the B5106 between Llanrwst and Trefriw\n\nThe Met Office warned spray and flooding could lead to \"difficult driving conditions and some road closures\" and the downpours could cause delays.\n\nTraffic Wales said restrictions were in place on the M48 Severn Bridge where traffic is coming off eastbound at junction two or westbound at junction one before being directed back on to cross the bridge, which remains open.\n\nIn Flintshire, the A548 Coast Road has been closed at Tan Lan and Mostyn, the A5118 at Padeswood, the A541 between Llong to Pontblyddyn, Bagillt High Street and the B5101 between Treuddyn and Llanfynydd.\n\nThe A485 in Garreg is also closed from the Brondaw Arms to Pont Aberglaslyn.\n\nThe Dyfi Bridge near Machynlleth is closed\n\nIn Powys, the A487 over the Dyfi Bridge, near Machynlleth, is closed while the A458 at Llanfair Caereinion is blocked in both directions from Bridge Street to Guilsfield turn-off because of flooding.\n\nThe A483 in Builth Wells at the station is also closed along with the bridge over the River Wye.\n\nCapel Bangor in Ceredigion has temporary traffic lights on the A44 at Lovesgrove Roundabout due to flooding, which is affecting traffic between Aberystwyth and Llangurig.\n\nIn Bridgend, New Inn Road has been closed in both directions at The Dipping Bridge, affecting traffic between Ewenny village and the A48.\n\nSouth Wales Police warned people not to attempt driving through floodwater after the A4118 at Llanddewi on Gower became blocked.\n\nIn Gwynedd, the council tweeted that Ffordd Siliwen, Bangor, had been closed following a landslip.\n\nA section of the A470 Dolgellau Bypass has also been closed along with the A4085 at Garreg.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNational Rail said some lines between North Llanrwst, Conwy, and Blaenau Ffestiniog in Gwynedd were blocked due to heavy rain while services were also disrupted between Shrewsbury and Machynlleth in Powys.\n\nAlterative road transport will run in place of cancelled services, it said.\n\nThe Met Office said 56mm (2.2in) of rain had fallen at Capel Curig in Snowdonia by 18:00 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nA yellow warning for rain is in place for virtually the whole of Wales until Thursday\n\nForecasters also said fast flowing and deep floodwater \"could cause a danger to life\".\n\nThe Met Office warned flooding could lead to some communities being cut off and possible power cuts.\n\nStrong winds will also follow the torrential rain, with forecasters predicting this may cause \"travelling difficulties across areas higher and more exposed routes\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Douglas Jones was fulfilling a lifelong dream when he became a pilot\n\nThe aviation industry has been among those hardest hit by the Covid pandemic.\n\nPilot Douglas Jones was working for Aegean Airlines, flying out of Athens, when it began.\n\nIt cost him his job and also prompted him to return to the small Scottish town where he grew up.\n\nNow he is now turning his hand to a very different line of work producing PPE, in a sector which is enjoying something of a boom.\n\nMr Jones saw much of Europe in his work with Easyjet and Aegean Airlines\n\nThe 27-year-old, who was born in Haywards Heath in Sussex but raised in Moffat in Dumfries and Galloway, was enjoying his dream job at the start of 2020.\n\nHaving gained a commercial pilot's licence, he was based in Berlin with Easyjet before landing a position in Greece.\n\n\"It is definitely what I have always wanted to do,\" he said.\n\n\"With Aegean I have flown a good way across all the major airports of Europe.\"\n\nHowever, life changed \"very quickly\" as coronavirus spread across the continent.\n\n\"I flew to Copenhagen and I flew back from Copenhagen and I was on unpaid leave when I landed back in Athens,\" he explained.\n\nFearing being stranded in Greece, he booked a flight home to Scotland and within a couple of weeks he received confirmation that his job was gone.\n\nMr Jones returned to Moffat amid fears of being stranded in Greece\n\nMr Jones said it took some time for him to fully appreciate that he would not be returning to the skies any time soon.\n\n\"Half of my stuff is still in Greece because we came back to our home countries thinking this will only be three to six months and that will be that,\" he said.\n\n\"We had just no concept of how bad this was ever going to be.\"\n\nIt meant he was back home in a region where he admits there are \"not a huge amount of options career-wise in normal times\".\n\n\"When you have been used to living in Berlin and Athens and you move back to Moffat, living with your dad, it is a bit of slowdown,\" he said.\n\n\"I was just desperate to do something, to have work.\"\n\nAlpha Solway is producing millions of masks for NHS Scotland\n\nIt was a relative of a friend who spotted south of Scotland firm Alpha Solway was hiring new workers to meet demand for personal protective equipment (PPE).\n\nAfter interview, he was offered a job in June which proved to be something of a change of pace from day one.\n\n\"I came in and I sat and cut elastic for visors for most of the day - I think I cut like something like 3km worth of elastic because one of the machines had a fault,\" he said.\n\nSince then he has helped make filter units for masks, developed standard work procedures and become a \"jack of all trades\" for the business.\n\nMr Jones said of his abilities as a pilot were useful at the PPE factory\n\nHe said he had been \"surprised\" by what parts of his old job he could bring to his new post.\n\n\"A lot in commercial aviation is about awareness - situational awareness - and a lot of that can be built into manufacturing as well,\" he said.\n\n\"When you are talking health and safety around large automated machinery you have to be aware of what things are doing and when and who is doing what.\n\n\"As a pilot - as you might like to think - we have quite a logical way of looking at things. The way we are trained to look at problems is very applicable to manufacturing.\"\n\nAn \"incredible\" summer helped ease the transition from Greece to Moffat\n\nSo how has the transition back to rural Scotland gone?\n\n\"We are so lucky that the summer we had here was quite incredible,\" said Mr Jones.\n\n\"To be out in Moffat, even during lockdown, you can access the hills, you don't have to drive outside a five-mile radius.\n\n\"You can just go out and walk and you will never see a soul.\"\n\nSome things, however, take more getting used to, like his more conventional nine to five day.\n\n\"I think that has probably been the biggest shock to my system, getting into that working routine,\" he said.\n\nAlpha Solway is taking in large numbers of new staff to cope with demand\n\nAlpha Solway secured a major contract to supply the NHS in Scotland earlier this year which has helped to keep Mr Jones \"extremely busy\".\n\nHowever, flying gets \"into your blood\" and he hopes to get back into a plane at some time in the future.\n\n\"My goal is when the jobs start to come - which they will - I will return to the sky in some capacity,\" he said.\n\n\"But it will be a double-edged sword in that I have learned a huge amount here and I have met a lot of very good people.\n\n\"I'm working with a really good team of people here - there are good people here doing a good job and I am helping at least with that.\"", "Disabled workers at one of the UK's oldest charitable enterprises, Clarity, have allegedly been denied £200,000 in wages by the new owner.\n\nThe company produces toiletries and beauty products under the Clarity, Beco and Soap Co brands.\n\nActress Joanna Lumley and Sir Iain Duncan Smith MP have spoken out strongly over the claims.\n\nNicholas Marks, who bought the company last year, says all currently employed staff have been paid.\n\nCommunity, the union which represents Clarity's workers, claims that a number of disabled employees at the firm have not been paid wages and furlough payments.\n\nStephen Steppens says he has received no money since September\n\nStephen Steppens, 60, has been blind since birth, and has worked at Clarity since 1985. He is officially on furlough until his redundancy is completed at the end of January.\n\nHe says he has received no money since September and has been relying on his savings to get by.\n\n\"I loved it,\" he says of working there. Losing the job, and the fight over the organisation's future, have taken a toll on his mental health, he says.\n\n\"I want to see justice done, not just for me, but also for my friends who are visiting food banks.\"\n\nA number of employees have brought successful employment tribunal claims for unauthorised deduction of wages against Clarity, including Mr Steppens. Clarity was ordered to pay him £706. A number of other employment tribunal claims are ongoing, according to Community.\n\nJoanna Lumley, who had been a supporter of Clarity, called it \"the best of the best\" and said she was \"shocked\" to learn of the allegations over treatment of workers. \"Justice must be done as soon as possible,\" she told BBC News.\n\nClarity was founded in 1854 by a wealthy blind woman, Elizabeth Gilbert, as the Association for Promoting the General Welfare of the Blind, to provide opportunities for workers whom other employers overlooked because of their disabilities. Before the takeover, three-quarters of its staff were disabled people.\n\nA factory in London run by General Welfare of the Blind, about 1901\n\nIts supporters and patrons in the past have included Winston Churchill, Charles Dickens and Queen Victoria.\n\nClarity went into administration last year, as it was losing money and unable to fund the hole in its pension scheme, according to a spokesman for the administrators, FRP. In January, it was bought by Nicholas Marks.\n\nSir Iain Duncan Smith, whose London constituency is home to Clarity's headquarters, raised the issue in the House of Commons on 12 January.\n\n\"Staff have failed to receive national insurance contributions, with many failing to receive their wages or support while undertaking childcare,\" he told MPs.\n\n\"The total amount that these decent but very vulnerable people have failed to receive is now around £200,000. They cannot claim benefits because they are essentially employed.\"\n\nCommunity estimates that about 60 former employees of Clarity are still awaiting payment of their wages and furlough payments, most of them disabled workers.\n\nA spokesman for Nicholas Marks said that Sir Iain's remarks were \"highly inaccurate\" and the company \"does not recognise\" the £200,000 figure.\n\n\"The grievances echoed by Sir Iain Duncan Smith simply reflect disgruntled ex-employees. All employees currently working have been paid in full up-to-date and the company is dealing with redundancies and gross misconduct of former employees,\" he said.\n\nCommunity says it is not aware of any staff who have been dismissed for gross misconduct.\n\nThe spokesman for Mr Marks said that Mr Marks had \"saved this historic company from permanent failure\".\n\nHowever, other bids for Clarity were made, including one from the well-known social entrepreneur, Cemal Ezel, who runs the Change Please coffee business, which creates opportunities for homeless people.\n\nHe is still interested in buying the brands, he told BBC News.\n\nThough Mr Ezel's final bid was slightly higher, the administrators' report says they chose to sell to Mr Marks because he was in a better position to complete the deal by 31 January.\n\nMr Marks's spokesman said that he had to make \"some sensible commercial decisions to place it on to a proper business footing and regrettably some staff had to be let go\".\n\nOn Wednesday, Clarity's website was still running the Certified Social Enterprise mark, denoting an organisation devoted to \"creating positive social change\".\n\nThe spokesman said Clarity Products was not a social enterprise and was not \"purporting to clients\" that it was, though it retained the \"social enterprise ethos through the continued employment of fully paid disabled staff\".\n\nWrongly using the logo for nearly a year was \"simply an oversight\", and it is being removed. On Thursday morning, the website was unavailable - the company spokesman said he was not aware why.\n\nIn a response to Sir Iain's query, Treasury Minister Jesse Norman wrote that he had \"specifically asked HMRC to note the circumstances you describe, and to consider whether and how there may be a case for early intervention\".\n\nAnother company owned by Mr Marks, a Preston-based caravan maker called Lunar Automotive, was reported to HMRC by the local MP, Sir Mark Hendrick, for allegedly refusing to pay wages and pension contributions for its workers.\n\nThis company was also bought out of an administration run by FRP.\n\nMr Marks's spokesman was not able to comment in detail on the Lunar Automotive case, but said the company had not heard back from HMRC.", "The Daily Telegraph must publish a correction over a \"significantly misleading\" column written by Toby Young, press regulator Ipso has ruled.\n\nThe July 2020 article claimed the common cold could provide \"natural immunity\" to Covid-19 and London was \"probably approaching herd immunity\".\n\nBut on Thursday Ipso found the paper had \"failed to take care not to publish inaccurate and misleading information\".\n\nIpso said the paper \"did not accept it has breached the [Editors] Code\".\n\nIt said the newspaper said that Young's comments on immunity referred to \"cross-reactive T-cells\" that work to combat the virus.\n\nHowever, the media watchdog sided with the complainant, James Whitehead, in its decision, who said that while these cells \"may lessen the impact of Covid-19\" after infection, they \"would not confer 'natural immunity'\"\n\nThe ruling added Young's statement \"misrepresented the nature of immunity\".\n\nIpso also found Young's suggestion that \"London is probably approaching herd immunity, even though only 17% tested positive [for antibodies] in the most recent seroprevalence survey\" could be misleading.\n\nThere is an antibody response and a cellular response to the coronavirus\n\nThe Telegraph referred to surveys listed in an article on Young's own Lockdown Sceptics website in its defence, but the Ipso committee judged these did not accurately reflect \"how herd immunity is reached and whether it exists in London\".\n\nThe ruling concluded that the paper had breached accuracy standards on a topic of \"public importance\", but deemed a correction an appropriate sanction, given the level of \"significant scientific uncertainty\" at the time of publication.\n\nYoung told the BBC: \"I think Ipso has been put in a difficult position because our scientific understanding of the virus is constantly evolving and there is a great deal about it that scientists still disagree about.\n\n\"While some of the things I wrote in that article would be contested by some scientists, they would be confirmed by others... Have we achieved herd immunity in London? I think that's an open question and the 'case' data is unreliable because of the well-documented shortcomings of the PCR test.\n\n\"I may have been over-emphatic in putting the anti-lockdown case, but it's not as if the advocates of a pro-lockdown position are any less emphatic.\n\n\"Don't forget the WHO initially estimated the global IFR [infection fatality rate] of Covid-19 at 3.4%. The consensus now is that it's less than 1% and almost certainly a lot less. Lots of journalists faithfully reported that alarmist figure. Why hasn't Ipso reprimanded them?\"\n\nLast week Young told BBC Newsnight that some of his claims from an article he wrote in June had been \"wrong\", where he had said a second spike of Covid-19 had \"refused to materialise\" and that one-metre rule is \"unnecessary\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAt the start of the year, Young, an associate editor at The Spectator and general secretary of the Free Speech Union, installed an app that auto-deletes tweets more than a week old.\n\nHe said he did so to protect against \"politically-motivated offence archaeologists\" - a move unrelated to the Ipso ruling.\n\nReacting to criticism of his past comments on coronavirus from Neil O'Brien, Conservative MP for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston, after the deletion, Young then tweeted a defence of his stance against lockdowns.\n\n\"This is an important public debate to have,\" he wrote, \"both because it helps us assess the present government's management of the pandemic and because it will help us prepare better for the next one.\"\n\nThe UK entered a second national lockdown last week in a bid to control spiralling virus infection rates. On Wednesday, the UK saw its biggest daily death figure since the start of the pandemic, with 1,564 deaths.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Police said Graeme Perks had gone to investigate the sound of breaking glass when he was stabbed\n\nPlastic surgeons have expressed shock at the stabbing of \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons\" in their profession.\n\nGraeme Perks, 65, was stabbed in his abdomen and chest during a break-in at his house in Halam, a village near Southwell in Nottinghamshire.\n\nPolice said the attack on Thursday morning had left him \"fighting for his life\" and left his family, who were upstairs at the time, \"extremely upset\".\n\nGraeme Perks has been described as \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\"\n\nMr Perks previously served as president of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS).\n\nCurrent president Ruth Waters said BAPRAS had been contacted by colleagues all around the world as news of the attack spread.\n\n\"All have expressed their shock at what has happened and also their deep concern for his wellbeing and their hope for his speedy recovery,\" she said.\n\n\"It has been my good fortune and honour to know Graeme for many years. I have benefited from his kindness, generosity and extensive knowledge throughout my career in plastic surgery.\"\n\nBAPRAS described him as \"one of the most highly regarded and respected surgeons in the profession\".\n\nAs well as being a leading plastic surgeon, Mr Perks and his wife have raised thousands of pounds for charity by opening their garden to visitors. They were previously featured on BBC Radio Nottingham after raising more than £34,000.\n\nPolice were still outside the house in Halam more than 24 hours later\n\nPolice said Mr Perks had gone to investigate the sound of breaking glass at about 04:15 GMT, after an intruder is believed to have smashed his way into the house.\n\nThey said Mr Perks was stabbed and the suspect ran off.\n\nMr Perks was taken to the Queen's Medical Centre in Nottingham for surgery, where he remains in a serious condition.\n\nDet Insp Gayle Hart, who is leading the investigation, said: \"The swift arrest of this suspect we hope will provide some reassurance to local residents.\n\n\"This is a horrific incident which has left a man fighting for his life and his family who were upstairs at the time are extremely shocked and upset by the ordeal.\"\n\nMr Perks has served as president of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS)\n\nMr Perks has previously worked in London, Sheffield, Newcastle and Melbourne, Australia.\n\nHe returned to the UK in the mid-1990s and started working in Nottingham, with a special interest in microsurgical reconstruction after cancer surgery.\n\nHe later became head of the department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Burns Surgery at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.\n\nOutgoing BAPRAS president Mark Henley said: \"Graeme is an amazing colleague who it has been my pleasure and privilege to work with over the last 26 years.\n\n\"His dedication to patients, family and friends is an inspiration to us all and with his wisdom, kindness and humanity he has enabled us to achieve many things that I would never have thought possible. We are all willing him on.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The international community has missed previous deadlines on ensuring access to school\n\nBoris Johnson says it is his \"fervent belief\" that improving girls' education in developing countries is the best way to \"lift communities out of poverty\".\n\nThe prime minister has announced MP Helen Grant as a special envoy for efforts to support girls' education.\n\nIt is expected to be a key theme of the UK's presidency this year of the G7 group of major industrial countries.\n\n\"It can change the fortunes of not just individual women and girls, but communities and nations,\" says the PM.\n\nEven before the pandemic, millions of children in developing countries did not have any access to school - and girls from disadvantaged families are particularly vulnerable to missing out on education. whether through poverty or prejudice.\n\nThe Covid pandemic has created even more barriers to education, with a peak of 1.6 billion children around the world having faced school closures.\n\nBoris Johnson wants girls' education to be a focus of the UK's G7 presidency\n\nMr Johnson, as foreign secretary and prime minister, has previously highlighted girls' education as a key to improving the health, wealth and security of the poorest countries.\n\nHe once described it as the \"Swiss army knife\" of development, as getting girls to stay in education could avoid early marriage, improve their chances of getting a job and provide more income for children to be better fed.\n\nThe prime minister said the international target of ensuring all girls can have 12 years of good quality education would be the \"simplest and most transformative thing we can do\" to tackle poverty and to \"end the scourge of gender-based violence\".\n\n\"The benefits of educating girls are enormous - a child whose mother can read is 50% more likely to live past the age of five and twice as likely to attend school themselves. With just one additional school year, a woman's earnings can increase by up to a fifth,\" said Mr Johnson.\n\nHelen Grant, now the special envoy for girls' education, said: \"High quality female education empowers women, reduces poverty and unleashes economic growth.\n\n\"I will be making it my mission to encourage a more ambitious approach to girls' education from the international community.\"\n\nThere has been a series of pledges from the international community over the past three decades to provide at least a primary school education for all children - all of which have been missed.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said hosting the G7 should be a chance for the UK to act as a \"moral force for good in the world\", but accused the Conservatives of engaging in \"a decade of global retreat\".\n\n\"We need to seize this chance to lead again, just as Blair and Brown did over global poverty and the financial crisis.\"", "Everyone has heard about doctors and nurses catching Covid-19 but some of the worst affected hospital staff have been cleaners and porters. Dr John Wright of Bradford Royal Infirmary tells the story of a cleaner who became ill, and is now stricken with guilt for taking the virus home.\n\nThe first person I see early each morning when I arrive at the hospital is our cleaner, Karen Smith. During 10 months of uncertainty, Karen has been the one constant, apart from a few weeks in spring, when she was ill with Covid-19.\n\nUsually Karen cleans the offices of the hospital's Institute for Health Research, but in the first wave of the pandemic she was called to the Covid wards. It was a frightening time for everyone, but Karen volunteered for an extra shift on Good Friday as there was a staff shortage - and on that day she thinks she was infected.\n\nWe know that working in hospitals increases your risk of infection by a factor of three, but this risk is not evenly spread. Antibody tests carried out in many NHS hospitals over the summer showed it was not the ICU consultants or infectious \"red zone\" clinical staff who had the highest rate of infection, but porters and cleaners working in those areas. Their risk of infection was double that of their clinical colleagues.\n\nThis heightened risk for hospital staff also applies to their household contacts.\n\nAs she cleaned the hospital in April, Karen was scared not for herself, but for her family. She and her husband, Mal, had moved into a caravan in Mal's parents' garden, while his mother was ill with cancer - and they stayed on after she died, to support Mal's 80-year-old father, Malcolm. Mal, a hospital porter, was shielding because he has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and Malcolm senior was clearly vulnerable because of his age.\n\nStopping work, however, was not a luxury Karen could afford. And unlike some hospital staff who were housed in hotels to protect their families, she went back home every night.\n\nShe became ill towards the end of April, followed by Mal at the beginning of May. The weather was hot, she remembers, as they coughed and wheezed in the caravan.\n\n\"It was like being in a tin box,\" she says. \"I got Covid and couldn't get over it properly. And then Mal got it and his was on another level compared to mine - and then his dad got ill, and that was a different ball game altogether.\"\n\nProf John Wright, a doctor and epidemiologist, is head of the Bradford Institute for Health Research, and a veteran of cholera, HIV and Ebola epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa. He is writing this diary for BBC News and recording from the hospital wards for BBC Radio.\n\nThe couple had to go inside the house to cook and to use the bathroom but did their best to keep away from the elderly Malcolm, who would go into a different room whenever they entered.\n\n\"We tried so, so hard not to give it to him - but then he got ill and he just went to his bed. Honestly, he was just like a little child, under the quilt looking all bewildered. He started with the shivers and we rang 111. They said to bring him to Accident and Emergency to get him tested, and we couldn't believe it when it came back positive,\" Karen says.\n\nLater, he was brought into hospital. I have fond memories of meeting Malcolm on the ward after he was admitted, acutely struggling with symptoms of cough and shortness of breath from his Covid infection. He was a kind and gentle man, stoical and patient.\n\nHe was adamant that he had been careful to keep his distance from Karen and Mal in the house, but admitted wandering over to show them articles in the Telegraph and Argus - Bradford's daily newspaper - whenever I was mentioned in it. I felt strangely culpable that I might have been the cause of the transmission.\n\nMalcolm made a good recovery and was eager to be discharged. But Covid is an unpredictable illness, and it can happen that improvements in a patient's condition are followed by a sharp deterioration. And this is what happened with Malcolm soon after he arrived home.\n\n\"He didn't want to go back into hospital - he said to get him some Tunes because they would help him breathe,\" says Karen. \"But nothing could help him, he was so, so ill. We had to say to him, 'No, you've got Covid and you need proper medical care.' He was such a lovely man, bless him.\"\n\nMalcolm was readmitted after two nights at home and died on 28 May.\n\nMalcolm as he turned 80, visiting his brother in Canada\n\nKaren returned to work. But like many people who have had this illness, she has been suffering the after-effects, both physically and mentally. She's now on an inhaler for breathlessness, can barely taste anything seven months later, and is constantly tired. She is also receiving medication for anxiety because of the fear that she will have to return to the Covid wards, where potentially she could get ill again.\n\nAnd in her case there is the added pain of having lost a loved one, mixed with feelings of guilt.\n\n\"When I start to think about him the tears come and sometimes I'll be crying almost all day - cleaning and crying. If I'm having a bad day, I won't be able to talk,\" she says.\n\n\"The guilt is always there, as I'll never know for sure where he picked it up. Mal's dad didn't set foot out of the door, and so in my head I feel such guilt, because we had to go into the house, we didn't have any choice. I go over it all but it's hard to escape from, because I got it, Mal got it and then his Dad got it. Deep down I think that's what's happened, and it will take time to come to terms with.\"\n\nKaren has been referred for counselling, but there is a long waiting list.\n\nBoth Karen and Mal also had to wait for the vaccine, though both had it on Wednesday. This was a huge relief for Karen, as anything that reduces her chance of reinfection also helps her cope with her anxiety. If NHS trusts are serious about following the science then arguably they should be vaccinating cleaners and porters first.\n\nThe fear of transmitting the virus to our loved ones at home is the ghost that haunts all front-line staff. Many went into isolation during the first wave, but this was never a sustainable approach, and with a virus that is so contagious and an environment in which it is so prevalent, transmission to family members is unfortunately common.\n\nKaren and Mal personify this occupational risk, and its potential deadly impact.", "Doctors and nurses need protection from prosecution over Covid-19 treatment decisions made under the pressures of the pandemic, medical bodies have said.\n\nGroups including the British Medical Association have written to ministers saying medical workers fear they could be at risk of unlawful killing charges.\n\nIt comes as the UK's chief medical officers said the NHS could be overwhelmed in weeks.\n\nThe government said staff should not have to fear legal action.\n\nThe letter from the health organisations points out that the prime minister warned in November that the NHS being overwhelmed would be a \"medical and moral disaster\", where \"doctors and nurses could be forced to choose which patients to treat, who would live and who would die\".\n\nIt said: \"With the chief medical officers now determining that there is a material risk of the NHS being overwhelmed within weeks, our members are worried that not only do they face being put in this position but also that they could subsequently be vulnerable to a criminal investigation by the police.\"\n\nCo-ordinated by the Medical Protection Society (MPS), the letter was signed by the British Medical Association, the Doctors' Association UK, the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin and Medical Defence Shield.\n\nIt calls for emergency legislation to protect doctors and nurses from \"inappropriate\" legal action when dealing with circumstances outside their control.\n\nExisting guidance for doctors and nurses on when to administer or withdraw treatment does not give legal protection, the letter says.\n\nIt also says the guidance does not consider the circumstances of the pandemic where demand for healthcare may outstrip supply.\n\n\"The first concern of a doctor is their patients and providing the highest standard of care at all times,\" the medical bodies said.\n\n\"We do not believe it is right that healthcare professionals should suffer from the moral injury and long-term psychological damage that could result from having to make decisions on how limited resources are allocated, while at the same time being left vulnerable to the risk of prosecution for unlawful killing.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What does it mean if the NHS is overwhelmed?\n\nThe medical organisations said no healthcare professional should be \"above the law\" and that the emergency legislation should only apply to decisions made \"in good faith\" and \"in circumstances beyond their control and in compliance with relevant guidance\".\n\nThey said the change in the law should be temporary and should apply retrospectively from the start of the pandemic.\n\nMedical staff in the NHS are protected financially from clinical negligence claims by indemnity schemes where the state pays the costs of claims.\n\nBut if someone dies as a result of a lack of treatment, doctors and nurses fear prosecutors could bring charges such as gross negligence manslaughter, which can carry a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.\n\nEarlier this month, a survey by the MPS of 2,420 of its members found that 61% were concerned about facing an investigation following a decision made in a high-pressure situation.\n\nAbout 36% were concerned about being investigated for a decision to withdraw or withhold life-prolonging treatment due to pressure on resources during the pandemic.\n\nA Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said: \"Dedicated frontline NHS staff should be able to focus on treating patients and saving lives during the pandemic without fear of legal action.\"\n\nNHS staff have been told that existing indemnity arrangements will continue and will cover \"the vast majority of liabilities\", the spokesman said.", "Scottish fishermen have resorted to sailing to Denmark to land their catch as Brexit red tape continues to delay exports, an industry body has said.\n\nThe Scottish Fishermen's Federation, which campaigned to leave the EU, also said the Brexit trade deal was the worst of both worlds for the industry.\n\nMany fishermen \"now fear for their future\", it said.\n\nThe UK government said the deal would \"bring immediate gains to our fishermen and women across the whole UK\".\n\nLate last year, the Scottish Fishermen's Federation (SFF) said it was \"deeply aggrieved\" by the Brexit deal.\n\nFishing firms have also warned of impending bankruptcy as delays continue at ports following the introduction of post-Brexit regulations.\n\nOn Friday, the SFF kept up the pressure on the UK government.\n\nIn a letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, it said some fishermen \"are now making a 72-hour round trip to land fish in Denmark, as the only way to guarantee that their catch will make a fair price and actually find its way to market while still fresh enough to meet customer demands\".\n\nQuotas are used by many countries to manage shared fish stocks. They determine how many fish of each species each country's fleets are allowed to catch.\n\nThe SFF said that Brexit quota gains \"can hardly be claimed as a resounding success\" and that the Brexit deal \"actually leaves the Scottish industry in a worse position on more than half of the key stocks\".\n\n\"This industry now finds itself in the worst of both worlds,\" said SFF chief executive Elspeth Macdonald, accusing Prime Minister Boris Johnson of broken promises on quotas.\n\nThe \"desperately poor deal\" reached on quotas, under which the EU \"have full access to our waters\" means that the UK has \"no ability to leverage more fish from the EU\", she said.\n\n\"This, coupled with the chaos experienced since 1 January in getting fish to market, means that many in our industry now fear for their future, rather than look forward to it with optimism and ambition,\" Ms Macdonald added.\n\nThe Scottish National Party said the letter was \"an utterly devastating verdict on Brexit from Scotland's fishing industry\".\n\nAn SNP spokesperson said the Scottish fishing industry was \"right to be angry\" about the Brexit deal, which it said was costing Scotland's fishing communities millions of pounds.\n\nThe spokesman called on the prime minister to deliver \"a multi-billion pound package of Brexit compensation for Scotland\", adding: \"Communities across Scotland will never forgive the Tories for the damage they are doing to our country with their extreme Brexit obsession.\"\n\nA UK government spokesperson said the Prime Minister would respond to the SFF letter in due course.\n\nThe spokesperson said: \"We have now taken back control of our waters and the agreement we have reached with the EU secures a 25% transfer of quota from EU to UK vessels over five years, starting with 15% this year.\"\n\nThe spokesperson said the government was looking at providing additional financial support for the Scottish fishing industry, which it recognised was facing \"some temporary issues\".\n\n\"The Prime Minister has already committed to investing £100m in the UK's fishing industry and provided the Scottish government with nearly £200m to minimise disruption for businesses,\" the spokesperson added.", "Louis Godwin said receiving the vaccine was \"no trouble at all\" and encouraged others to have it as soon as they could\n\nSalisbury Cathedral has been transformed into a vaccination centre with an RAF veteran being one of the first to receive the Covid-19 jab.\n\nFormer Flight Sergeant Louis Godwin, 95, gave a thumbs-up after being vaccinated in the cathedral, which dates back more than 800 years.\n\n\"I was so pleased to get it, especially in a setting like this,\" he said.\n\nOrganisers were aiming to vaccinate 1,000 people aged over 80 with the Pfizer/BioNTech jab on Saturday.\n\nPeople queuing to receive their vaccines at Salisbury Cathedral on Saturday\n\nMr Godwin, a great-grandfather of 12, joined the RAF aged 18 in 1943 and served as an air gunner during World War Two.\n\n\"I've had many jabs in my time, especially in the RAF. After the war, I was sent to Egypt and I had a couple of jabs which knocked me over for a week,\" he said.\n\n\"This one, the doctor said to me 'well that's done' and I thought he hadn't started. So it's no trouble at all and no pain.\"\n\nA health worker prepares the vaccine to be administered at the cathedral\n\nStella Bennett, 88, said she felt \"safer\" after receiving the jab.\n\n\"It was easy. I live on my own so it has been hard but I've managed. At least I'm at home and not in hospital with it,\" she said.\n\nDerek Burnett was also among those inoculated against the virus on Saturday.\n\n\"I feel unbelievably relieved as lockdown has been a big strain. It takes a big weight off my mind,\" said the 81-year-old.\n\nOrganisers hoped to vaccinate 1,000 people aged over 80 during the day\n\nThe Very Rev Nicholas Papadopulos, Dean of Salisbury described the vaccines as \"a real sign of hope for us at the end of this very, very difficult year\".\n\n\"I doubt that anyone is having a jab in surroundings that are more beautiful than this so I hope it will ease people as they come into the building,\" he said.\n\nThe Very Rev Nicholas Papadopulos, Dean of Salisbury, described hosting the event as \"absolutely wonderful\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Parts of the UK were blanketed in snow on Saturday as forecasters warned of the potential for disruption.\n\nEast Anglia woke up to a thick layer that had settled overnight and there were warnings that rural communities could be \"cut off\", with up to 8cm (3in) of snow forecast.\n\nPeople in eastern England were warned to expect power cuts and travel delays.\n\nHowever, by midday snow had stopped falling across most parts of the UK, replaced by rain and sleet in places.\n\nSome further light snow is still expected in the hills and mountains of Scotland.\n\nParts of Wales and Northern Ireland were mostly cloudy, with some bands of rain in the northern regions.\n\nThe Met Office had predicted between 4-8cm (1.5-3in) of snow could fall in the worst-affected regions, and warned drivers to accelerate their cars \"gently\" and leave a large gap between surrounding vehicles.\n\nBut the worst of the wintry weather has passed and earlier amber and yellow weather warnings have been cancelled.\n\nA man trekking through the snow at a golf course in Gleneagles\n\nGreg Dewhurst, a Met Office forecaster, said earlier that Saturday was expected to be the colder of the two days over the weekend.\n\nHe said: \"Temperatures are unlikely to rise above 10C, with a lot of areas closer to freezing.\"\n\nThere were also 25 flood warnings across England on Saturday\n\nLuke Miall, meteorologist at the Met Office, said earlier patches of snow could reach parts of Greater London.\n\nHe said the snow had the potential to cause some \"fairly significant disruption\".\n\nThere were also 22 flood warnings across England on Saturday, stretching from the South East to the North East, meaning \"immediate action is required\", according to the Environment Agency.\n\nThis is expected to clear up in the evening, going into Sunday, when southern and eastern parts of the UK will see dry, sunny spells.\n\nNorth-western regions are expected to see showers, with a \"spell of more persistent rain\" later on in the day.\n\nThe coronavirus vaccine rollout has been affected by the weather.\n\nOn Friday, over-80s who were due to receive their jab at Newcastle's Centre for Life were told they could rebook rather than risk making a trip in the icy conditions.\n\nAnd Leeds University has delayed the opening of its asymptomatic Covid-19 test centre.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prime Minister Boris Johnson: \"We will temporarily close all travel corridors from 0400 on Monday\"\n\nThe UK is to close all travel corridors from Monday morning to \"protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new strains\" of Covid, the PM has said.\n\nAnyone flying into the country from overseas will have to show proof of a negative Covid test before setting off.\n\nIt comes as a ban on travellers from South America and Portugal came into force on Friday over concerns about a new variant identified in Brazil.\n\nBoris Johnson said the new rules would be in place until at least 15 February.\n\nA further 1,280 people with coronavirus have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive test, taking the total to 87,291.\n\nThe latest government figures on Friday also showed another 55,761 new cases had been reported - up from 48,682 the previous day.\n\nMeanwhile, more than two million people around the world have now died with the virus since the pandemic began, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University.\n\nSpeaking at a Downing Street press conference, the prime minister said it was \"vital\" to take extra measures now \"when day by day we are making such strides in protecting the population\".\n\n\"It's precisely because we have the hope of that vaccine and the risk of new strains coming from overseas that we must take additional steps now to stop those strains from entering the country.\"\n\nAll travel corridors will close from 04:00 GMT on Monday. After that, arrivals to the UK will need to quarantine for up to 10 days, unless they test negative after five days.\n\nMr Johnson, who said the rules would apply across the UK after talks with the devolved administrations, added that the government would be stepping up enforcement at the border and in the country.\n\nTravel corridors were introduced in the summer to allow people travelling from some countries with low numbers of Covid cases to come to the UK without having to quarantine on arrival.\n\nTrade body Airlines UK said it supported the latest restrictions \"on the assumption\" that the government would remove them \"when it is safe to do so\".\n\nChief executive Tim Alderslade said travel corridors were \"a lifeline for the industry\" last summer but \"things change and there's no doubting this is a serious health emergency\".\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was the \"right step\" but called the timing of the decision \"slow again\", adding that the public would be thinking \"why on earth didn't this happen before\".\n\nThe prime minister warned that the NHS was facing \"extraordinary pressures\", having had the highest number of hospital admissions on a single day of the pandemic earlier this week.\n\nHe said that came on Tuesday when there were 4,134 new admissions, while the UK currently has more than 37,000 Covid patients in hospitals.\n\nMr Johnson said that once the most vulnerable have been vaccinated by mid-February \"we will think about what steps we could take to lift the restrictions\".\n\nEngland is currently under a national lockdown, meaning people must stay at home and can go out only for limited reasons such as food shopping, exercise, or work if they cannot do so from home.\n\nSimilar measures are in place across much of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAlso speaking at the No 10 briefing, England's chief medical officer Prof Chris Whitty said the restrictions would need to be lifted gradually by \"testing what works, and then if that works going the next step\".\n\nHe said the peak of people entering hospital would be in the next week to 10 days for most places, but \"we hope\" the peak of infections \"already has happened\" in the south-east, east and London.\n\n\"The peak of deaths I fear is in the future, the peak of hospitalisations in some parts of the country may be around about now and beginning to come off the very, very top,\" he said.\n\nA ban on travellers from South America, Portugal and Cape Verde entering the UK came into force on Friday morning as a result of a new, potentially more infectious variant of coronavirus linked to Brazil.\n\nThe government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance told the press briefing that some of the new variants may be able to \"get round\" the Covid vaccines but it was \"really quite easy\" to adjust the vaccines to deal with mutations in the virus.\n\nNew variants causing concern have previously been identified in the UK and South Africa, with many countries imposing restrictions on arrivals from both nations.\n\nPublic Health England said a total of 35 genomically confirmed and 12 genomically probable cases of the Covid-19 variant which originated in South Africa have been identified in the UK as of 14 January.\n\nEarlier, a leading scientist said one of the two variants first detected in Brazil had been found in the UK - but not the variant that was causing concern.\n\n\"I think it is likely that the vaccine we have now is going to protect against the UK variant and is going to provide protection I suspect against the other variants as well,\" said Sir Patrick. \"The question is to what degree.\"\n\nLatest figures show that more than three million people in the UK have now received the first dose of a vaccine - 3,234,946 - an increase of 316,694 from the previous day.\n\nSir Patrick said he expected the vaccines would reduce transmission of the virus but that \"we shouldn't go mad\" as jabs are rolled out because a risk would remain.\n\n\"Just because you've been vaccinated doesn't mean you can't catch this and pass it on, it means you're protected against severe disease,\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, the latest estimate of the UK's R number - which is the number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to on average - is 1.2 to 1.3, compared with 1-1.4 last week.\n\nBut in London, where tight restrictions came in earlier, the R number is lower - between 0.9 and 1.2.\n\nIn Wales, new laws for shoppers and staff are to be introduced after \"significant evidence\" coronavirus is being spread in supermarkets.\n\nAre you due to travel back to the UK from overseas? Share your experiences. Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "The French government has imposed a nationwide curfew from 6pm - 6am to fight the surge in cases of coronavirus.\n\nWhile some departments were already under these restrictions, the majority of France was under an 8pm - 6am curfew.\n\nFrench Prime Minister Jean Castex said the measures would be in place for at least 15 days.", "Northern Ireland's statistics agency has recorded its highest weekly Covid-19 related registered deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nNisra said 145 deaths were registered in the first week of 2021, although administrative delays over Christmas may have affected the number.\n\nThat brings the agency's death toll to 1,976 by 8 January.\n\nThe figures come as the chief medical officers from NI and the Republic issued a joint stay-at-home plea.\n\nDr Michael McBride and Dr Tony Holohan said they were \"gravely concerned\" about the \"unsustainably high level of Covid-19 infection\" across the island of Ireland.\n\nConcern was raised in the Republic of Ireland this week as figures showed it has the world's highest number of confirmed new Covid-19 cases per million people.\n\nOn Friday evening, the Irish Department of Health reported 50 further deaths with Covid-19 and 3,498 new cases of the virus. More than half (54%) of those newly diagnosed are under the age of 45.\n\nNorthern Ireland is in the third week of a six-week lockdown, with ministers scheduled to review measures next week.\n\nHowever, health officials have warned that an extension of the restrictions could be required to reduce pressure on the health service.\n\nOf the 2,019 deaths recorded by Nisra by 8 January, 1,247 (62%) occurred in hospital, 622 (31%) in care homes, 12 (0.6%) in hospices and 138 (7%) at residential addresses or other locations.\n\nPeople aged 75 and over account for just over three-quarters of all Covid-19 related registered deaths (77.6%) between 19 March 2020 and 8 January 2021.\n\nJust over a fifth (22.2%) of all Covid-19 related registered deaths have been of people with an address in the Belfast council area.\n\nMeanwhile, the Department of Health reported 26 further Covid-related deaths on Friday.\n\nFive of these deaths did not occur in the past 24 hours.\n\nThe Department of Health bases its figures on a positive test result being recorded, whereas Nisra figures are based on mentions of the virus on death certificates, so people may or may not have been confirmed to have contracted the virus prior to death.\n\nA further 1,052 individuals have tested positive for Covid-19 and 63 patients are being treated in intensive care units, 47 of whom are on ventilators.\n\nThe chief medical officers warned the high infection rate was having a \"significant impact\" on the health of the population and the \"safe functioning\" of the healthcare systems.\n\nThey said the public should avoid all unnecessary journeys, including cross-border travel.\n\nPointing out that many of the patients admitted to hospital in January have been younger than 65, they warned coronavirus could affect anyone, \"regardless of age or underlying condition\".\n\n\"It highlights the need for us all to protect one another by staying at home,\" said the medical officers.\n\nNorthern Ireland's spike in infections has been put down to an easing of restrictions over Christmas.\n\nAsked if he regretted being part of the decision to ease restrictions, Health Minister Robin Swann said the executive had tried to be balanced in its approach.\n\n\"I regret the pressures we see now in our hospitals, but let's remember it's caused by this virus, we have it in our power to bring it back under control and get us back to where we were in the summer,\" he told BBC News NI on Friday.\n\nMr Swann pleaded with people to follow the current restrictions.\n\n\"We're in the middle of a very tough six-week scenario, and how we come out of this will be a more graduated approach to make sure we get the benefits of what we've already done, and also the benefits of the vaccine.\"", "Holiday firms say they are expecting more people to take holidays in the UK this year\n\nStaycations are expected to boom in 2021 after lockdown ends, UK holiday firms have said.\n\nBosses at the Caravan and Motorhome Club said the lifting of restrictions would be like \"a cork popping from a bottle\".\n\nDirector general Nick Lomas said although coronavirus had hit the industry hard, they were optimistic about the coming season.\n\nOther firms said they also expected more people to holiday in the UK.\n\nMr Lomas said: \"2020 was a very difficult year for the tourism and hospitality sector.\"\n\nThe West Sussex-based Caravan and Motorhome Club had suffered \"significant financial losses\", he said.\n\nHowever, he added: \"When our campsites were allowed to be open last year we actually saw record levels of bookings, with new memberships up by 14%.\n\n\"Sadly, this surge does not make up for the losses we suffered during nearly six months of lockdown.\"\n\nDuring the first lockdown popular resorts like Skegness were largely deserted\n\nBut, despite the current restrictions, Mr Lomas said he had every reason to believe this year could finish as one of \"the best and busiest yet\", due to the appetite for outdoor UK holidays.\n\n\"In fact, we think that 2021 is going to be like a cork popping from a bottle,\" he said.\n\nOperators say people are keen to experience the \"great outdoors\" once restrictions are lifted\n\nExperience Freedom, which operates glamping holidays in the UK, said bookings for 2021 were already up as people looked to spend more time in the \"great outdoors\".\n\nLincoln-based Anne's Vans said they were expecting a \"bumper year\"\n\nSmaller operators such as Anne's Vans, based in Lincoln, are also expecting to benefit.\n\nOwner Anne Davies said so far they had no bookings, saying \"uncertainty over when lockdown will end\" was putting people off at the moment.\n\nHowever, she said: \"Based on last year's experience we are expecting a bumper year in 2021... once this latest lockdown is over.\"\n\nThe Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority said it was inundated with visitors after restrictions were lifted last year\n\nThe chief executive of the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority, David Butterworth, said visitor numbers after the first lockdown ended were \"unprecedented\".\n\n\"The challenge for 2021 is to capitalise on this trend, and capture the hearts and minds of the people who have experienced the Dales for the first time to make sure they keep coming back,\" he added.", "Boris Johnson has said there is still a very substantial risk of intensive care units in hospitals being overwhelmed by the spread of the coronavirus.\n\nIt comes on a day when the UK has recorded the highest number of deaths in a single day in Europe.\n\nFergal Keane last visited the Imperial Healthcare Trust’s St Mary’s and Charing Cross hospital in London last April.\n\nHe's been back to see how they're coping.", "Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Saturday morning. We'll have another update for you on Sunday.\n\nThe UK will face short-term delays in delivery of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine, as the pharmaceutical company makes modifications to its plant in Belgium. But the government says it still plans on achieving its target of vaccinating all top four priority groups by 15 February. Six EU nations have called the situation \"unacceptable\" and warned it \"decreases the credibility of the vaccination process\". Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia urged the EU to apply pressure on Pfizer-BioNTech. Pfizer says the reduced deliveries are a temporary issue, and the changes being made to its plant will speed up production in the longer term. So will a vaccine give us our old lives back?\n\nNew tighter Covid restrictions have come into force in Scotland with changes for takeaway outlets and click and collect shopping. Among the six new rules announced by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, customers buying takeaway food and coffee are no longer allowed inside premises, and staff must serve from a hatch or doorway. Plus, only retailers selling essential items - clothing, footwear, baby equipment, homeware and books - can now provide click and collect services. Customer collections can only be made outdoors, with staggered pick-up times to avoid queues.\n\nEveryone has heard about doctors and nurses catching Covid-19, but some of the worst affected hospital staff have been cleaners and porters. Dr John Wright of Bradford Royal Infirmary tells the story of a cleaner who became ill while doing her job, and is now stricken with guilt for taking the virus home.\n\nIt is almost a month since Christmas was \"downsized\" across the country. But in most parts of the UK, people did meet in Christmas \"bubbles\" if only for just one day. So what impact did this have? The overall picture shows a sharp increase in cases around this time. However, a closer look at the numbers suggests this trend was already happening and was probably caused by the new, more infectious variant of the virus rather than increased contact between people. Take a closer look at what happened over Christmas.\n\nYou can find more information, advice and guides on our coronavirus page.\n\nAnd if you're wondering whether you can catch the virus outside, our science editor David Shukman considers the risks.\n\nWhat questions do you have about coronavirus?\n\nIn some cases, your question will be published, displaying your name, age and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read our terms & conditions and privacy policy.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Louis Godwin descibed the vaccine as \"no trouble at all\" Image caption: Louis Godwin descibed the vaccine as \"no trouble at all\"\n\nAn RAF veteran has been among hundreds of people over 80 to receive the Covid-19 vaccine at Salisbury Cathedral, in Wiltshire, today.\n\nFormer Flight Sergeant Louis Godwin described receiving the Pfizer/BioNTech jab as \"absolutely marvellous\".\n\nThe landmark cathedral is hosting a vaccination hub for five GP surgeries in the area, with the aim of vaccinating more than 1,000 elderly residents and staff.\n\nMr Godwin recalled having jabs in Egypt after the war \"which knocked me over for a week\".\n\n\"This one, the doctor said to me 'well that's done' - and I thought he hadn't started!\"\n\nThe veteran pilot, who has 12 great-grandchildren, said the pandemic could not be compared to the war.\n\n\"It was entirely different because this has divided people.\n\n\"The vaccine is nothing, you don't feel a thing... so anybody that needs one and can get one, I would say go ahead and do it quickly.\n\n\"It's the only way we're going to beat the virus.\"\n\nPatients queued for a short time around the cloisters on Saturday, before going into the cathedral where they were treated to a programme of music on the famous Father Willis organ.\n\n\"It is a bonus to be in such a iconic, wonderful place,\" said Dr Dan Henderson, co-clinical director for the Sarum South Primary Care Network.\n\n\"It's great to be getting the vaccine out there and getting them in people's arms and knowing that this is hopefully the start of some sort of normality again.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nLahiru Thirimanne's unbeaten 76 frustrated England as Sri Lanka fought back on the third day of the first Test in Galle.\n\nBowled out for 135 in the first innings, Sri Lanka showed great spirit to reach 156-2 - trailing by 130 - after England had posted 421.\n\nJoe Root progressed to a magnificent fourth Test double century before he was last man out for 228 as England lost their last six wickets for 49 runs.\n\nSam Curran and Jack Leach took a wicket apiece in Sri Lanka's second innings, but off-spinner Dom Bess rarely threatened on a pitch that has offered assistance to spin since day one.\n\nKusal Perera contributed 62 to an opening stand of 101 with the patient Thirimanne, who was dropped on 51 by Dom Sibley at gully as he compiled his highest Test score since 2013.\n\nThe left-hander will resume alongside nightwatchman Lasith Embuldeniya at 04:15 GMT on Sunday.\n\nEngland all-rounder Moeen Ali, who tested positive for coronavirus upon arrival in Sri Lanka, spent time at the ground in the afternoon after finishing his quarantine period.\n\nFor the first time in two years, England failed to take a wicket in the first 30 overs - with seamers Curran, Stuart Broad and Mark Wood finding the going tough given the minimal swing or seam movement on offer.\n\nHowever, credit must be paid to the Sri Lanka openers. Thirimanne and Perera were criticised for their first-innings failures, but their century stand was the first time in six Tests that a Sri Lanka opening pair had survived longer than 10 overs.\n\nPerera showed restraint - he scored at a strike-rate of 57, compared to 74 over his Test career - but hit Leach over mid-wicket for six and swept and also drove well before slapping a Curran long hop to wide third man.\n\nThirimanne, who averaged 22 in 70 Test innings before this match, was happy to play second fiddle to Perera, although he did find the leg-side boundary with flicks and sweeps.\n\nHaving taken 5-30 in the first innings, Bess failed to maintain a consistent length and allowed Thirimanne and Perera to play off the back foot too often.\n\nLeft-arm spinner Leach, who bowled more accurately, failed with a review for lbw against Thirimanne on 61 before having Kusal Mendis caught behind off a beautiful delivery that turned and bounced in what proved to be the penultimate over of the day.\n\nResuming on 168, Root reached his fourth Test double century with the minimum of fuss.\n\nHe showed more intent than on day two - when he was happy for debutant Dan Lawrence to take more risks - hitting the third ball of the day to the cover boundary before driving down the ground for six.\n\nIt was almost fitting that Root reached 200 with a sweep for four - it was a productive shot throughout his innings, with 88 runs coming via sweeps and reverse sweeps.\n\nIn his 321-ball innings Root became the eighth Englishman to pass 8,000 Test runs - in 178 innings, two more than Kevin Pietersen, who holds the record.\n\nEngland passed 400 in the first innings for the sixth time in their past 12 Tests, having failed to do so in their previous 23.\n\nBut they lost their last six wickets in 13 overs as they chased quick runs, possibly with an eye on the rain forecast later in the game.\n\nSri Lanka were much more disciplined than on the previous two days, with pace bowler Asitha Fernando impressing, while off-spinner Dilruwan Perera mopped up the tail to finish with 4-109.\n• 372-6: Sam Curran is bowled first ball as Fernando gets one to nip back and crash into off stump.\n• 382-7: Dom Bess disagrees and is well short of his ground, a third wicket to fall in 12 balls.\n• 398-8: Jack Leach is trapped lbw for four by Dilruwan Perera.\n• 406-9: Mark Wood toe-ends a sweep straight up in the air to be caught by Niroshan Dickwella off Dilruwan Perera.\n• 421 all out: Joe Root holes out on the mid-wicket boundary.\n\n'Chasing anything will be tricky' - reaction\n\nEngland captain Joe Root on BBC Test Match Special: \"It feels good to be in the position we are.\n\n\"It would have been nice to get a couple more wickets tonight but that one late on is a real bonus for us.\n\n\"It gives us a great opportunity in morning to apply a lot of pressure and hammer home what is a strong advantage in this game.\"\n\nEngland all-rounder Sam Curran: \"It is a strange looking wicket. It played a bit better than we thought this evening.\n\n\"It didn't offer much for the seamers and there was real slow turn for the spinners. The two openers played really well.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan: \"Sri Lanka came back really well - they have shown fight and discipline.\n\n\"If Sri Lanka bat the whole day tomorrow things will get interesting. Chasing anything on last day becomes tricky.\n\n\"I expect England will take eight wickets tomorrow and win the game.\"\n\nFormer England batter Ebony Rainford-Brent: \"Sri Lanka really have fought back well. It is good to see.\n\n\"If weather plays a factor and there is some resistance from the lower order this could bubble into an exciting finish.\"\n• None Hear how David Bowie always managed to stay ahead of his time\n• None Joe Wicks and guests are here to bring positivity to your day", "The funeral of Gerry and the Pacemakers singer Gerry Marsden has been held at a church near his beloved River Mersey.\n\nMarsden died, aged 78, in hospital on 3 January following a blood infection.\n\nAs the frontman in the band Gerry and the Pacemakers, his hits included Ferry Cross The Mersey and a cover version of You'll Never Walk Alone.\n\nEx-Liverpool boss Sir Kenny Dalglish was among the mourners at the funeral which had to remain small because of Covid restrictions.\n\nSir Kenny managed the club at the time of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, which led to the deaths of 96 fans who were attending an FA Cup game between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.\n\nGerry Marsden sings You'll Never Walk Alone before an Anfield match in 2010\n\nSir Kenny said: \"You'll Never Walk Alone has huge meaning to the lives of Liverpool supporters around the world and is synonymous with the club.\n\n\"He will be sadly missed by those who knew him and the millions he never got to meet.\"\n\nYou'll Never Walk Alone became a football terrace anthem for Marsden's hometown club soon after it topped the charts in 1963.\n\nThe song was played during the funeral by a guitarist while a version of Marsden singing Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying, a song he wrote for his wife Pauline, also featured.\n\nShe said: \"We, his family, are totally devastated and have been so moved and amazed at the extent of the respect, love and affection received from all over the world.\n\n\"When the time is right and we have come out of this terrible pandemic we hope a fitting memorial can be held for him in the city he loved so much.\"\n\nGerry and the Pacemakers was one of the biggest British bands in the 1960s\n\nReferring to the lyrics from Ferry Cross the Mersey, close friend Arthur Johnson said: \"He lived close to the banks of the Mersey for all his life and as the words of his song say: 'This land's the place I love and here I'll stay'.\"\n\nLiverpool City Region mayor Steve Rotheram said: \"I feel privileged he let me into his life, although that makes his passing even more painful.\"\n\nIn 1962, Beatles manager Brian Epstein signed up Gerry and the Pacemakers and, a year later, they became the first band to have their first three songs top the charts - How Do You Do It, I Like It and You'll Never Walk Alone.\n\nA flag on the Royal Iris Mersey ferry flew at half mast after the death of Gerry Marsden\n\nThey were one of the successes of the Merseybeat era, with former Beatles star Sir Paul McCartney saying at the time of Marsden's death that: \"Gerry was a mate from our early days in Liverpool\".\n\n\"He and his group were our biggest rivals on the local scene.\"", "Work to restore hundreds of thousands of fingerprint, DNA and arrest records accidentally wiped from police databases is ongoing, the Home Office has said.\n\nAround 400,000 records were lost, according to The Times, which first reported the story.\n\nThe Home Office did not comment on how many records were likely to be restored, or how long it would take.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said the issue was \"a result of human error\".\n\nData was wiped from the Police National Computer (PNC) - which stores and shares criminal records information across the UK - after being inadvertently flagged for deletion.\n\nThe PNC is used in police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nThe coding that caused the problem was introduced in November 2020, and the deletions started earlier this week.\n\nInitially, it was thought some 150,000 records were lost, but it since has emerged the number could be significantly higher.\n\nCommenting on the error, Ms Patel said: \"Engineers continue to work to restore data lost as a result of human error during a routine housekeeping process earlier this week.\n\n\"I continue to be in regular contact with the team, and working with our policing partners, we will provide an update as soon as we can.\"\n\nEarlier, Labour shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds called on Ms Patel to take responsibility for the error and be clear about the impact it had had.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, he described the situation as \"extraordinarily serious\", adding: \"Priti Patel will be responsible for criminals walking free.\n\n\"We're not going to be able to link suspects to crime scenes without the DNA and fingerprint evidence.\"\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council said the lost data had resulted in a couple of \"near misses\" for serious crimes when trying to identify an offender.\n\nPolicing minister Kit Malthouse insisted the affected records \"apply to cases where individuals were arrested and then released with no further action\".\n\nHe added: \"We are working to recover the affected records as a priority. While we do so, the Police National Computer is functioning and the police are taking steps to mitigate any impact.\"", "Mr Laschet is now in a good position to stand for German chancellor\n\nCentrist Armin Laschet has been elected leader of Germany's Christian Democrats (CDU), the party of Chancellor Angela Merkel.\n\nMr Laschet, premier of North Rhine-Westphalia state, defeated two rivals in the party's virtual conference.\n\nHe is now in a good position in the race to succeed Mrs Merkel when she steps down as German chancellor in September, after 16 years in office.\n\nBut he faces a changed political landscape following the Covid pandemic.\n\nMr Laschet, 59, defeated conservative businessman Friedrich Merz in a run-off vote by 521 votes to 466. A third candidate, Norbert Röttgen, was eliminated in the previous round.\n\nHe replaces as chair of the party Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, who failed to live up to her billing as Mrs Merkel's appointed successor after taking office more than two years ago.\n\nGermany goes to the polls in September, but the CDU leader is not guaranteed to become its candidate for chancellor.\n\nHealth Minister Jens Spahn, who has been elected as one of Mr Laschet's deputies, and Markus Söder, leader of the CDU's Bavarian sister party the CSU, could also step into the ring, though neither has yet said that they want the job.\n\nA final decision will be made in the spring.\n\nMr Laschet is a loyal supporter of Mrs Merkel, and said during the campaign that a change of direction for the party would \"send exactly the wrong signal\".\n\nIn his victory speech, he said: \"I want to do everything so that we can stick together through this year... and then make sure that the next chancellor in the federal elections will be from the [CDU/CSU] union.\"\n\nArmin Laschet is a short, cheerful chap. The popular premier of Germany's most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia, he throws himself with gusto into traditional carnival celebrations.\n\nHe touts himself as a continuity candidate and, for a time at least, was thought to have been Angela Merkel's preferred candidate. He defended her stance during the 2015 refugee crisis and is known for his liberal politics, passion for the EU and ability to connect with immigrant communities.\n\nBut his call for an early relaxation of Covid restrictions last spring surprised many and reportedly infuriated Mrs Merkel. He has since retreated from that position but he's had to work to repair the damage to his political credibility.\n\nThe big question now is whether the CDU will put him up as their chancellor candidate in September's general election.\n\nGerman Health Minister Jens Spahn - who supported Mr Laschet in his leadership bid - is thought to harbour ambitions to the chancellory. And recent opinion polls suggest that Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder would be a popular choice too.", "The US is in a race to vaccinate its population amid a winter surge\n\nA highly contagious coronavirus variant first detected in the UK could become the dominant strain in the US by March, health officials have said.\n\nThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned of \"rapid growth\" of the variant in coming weeks.\n\nIt said such a spike could further threaten health systems already strained by a winter Covid surge.\n\nThe warning came on Friday as President-elect Joe Biden unveiled an ambitious plan to ramp up vaccinations.\n\nTo meet his target of inoculating 100 million Americans within his first 100 days in office, Mr Biden said his administration would take a more active role in accelerating the distribution of vaccines.\n\nHe outlined a plan to set up new mass vaccination centres, hire extra health workers, and ensure the shot is available to everyone, including minority communities that have been hit hardest by the epidemic.\n\nOfficial data shows that, so far, 12.2 million vaccine doses of have been administered in the US - a figure Mr Biden has criticised as insufficient. More than 30 million doses have been distributed to states.\n\nIn a speech on Friday, Mr Biden told Americans that \"we remain in a very dark winter\", admitting that \"things will get worse before they get better\".\n\n\"This is going to be one of the most challenging operational efforts ever undertaken by our country,\" Mr Biden, who takes office on 20 January, said of the vaccination drive.\n\nHis address came a day after he announced a $1.9tn (£1.4tn) stimulus package for the battered US economy that included a further $20bn for the vaccine roll-out. The plan will need to pass Congress.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Biden: \"I promise we will not forget you\"\n\nThe US has recorded the highest number of confirmed coronavirus infections - 23.5 million - of any country in the world. At about 391,000, the country's coronavirus deaths account for a fifth of the global total, which passed the two-million mark on Friday.\n\nThe crisis is particularly acute in the state of California, where deaths have surged by more than 1,000% since November.\n\nIn its report, the CDC said that the UK variant would spread quickly in the coming weeks.\n\nThe latest research by Public Health England (PHE) suggests the variant - now dominant in much of Britain - is between 30% and 50% more transmissible than previous strains. There is currently no evidence to suggest it causes any more serious illness.\n\nExperts have also played down the possibility that the current vaccines will not be as effective against it.\n\nSo far, 76 people from 10 US states have been confirmed to have been infected with the UK variant, known as B.1.1.7.\n\nBut the CDC said: \"The modelled trajectory of this variant in the US exhibits rapid growth in early 2021, becoming the predominant variant in March.\"\n\nTwo other variants - one from South Africa and one from Brazil - are also thought to be more contagious than the original one that started the pandemic. Studies are under way to assess the threat they pose.", "Exam results are likely to appear before the end of the summer term\n\nExam results for A-levels and GCSEs in England could be published in early July this year, according to proposals for replacing cancelled exams.\n\nA consultation launched by the exams watchdog and the Department for Education confirmed that grades will be decided by teacher assessment.\n\nBut results this summer are likely to be released much earlier than usual.\n\nEducation Secretary Gavin Williamson said pupils would receive \"a grade that reflects their ability\".\n\nThere are also likely to be written test papers set by exam boards, but marked by teachers, with some later checks if there are concerns about fairness.\n\nFor vocational qualifications, exams which use mostly written papers are also likely to use teachers' grades - but qualifications which need a test of practical, hands-on skills will have separate arrangements.\n\nOfqual and the Department for Education have formally launched a two-week consultation on a system for how results will be decided, after disruption from the pandemic forced the cancellation of exams.\n\nThis is the second year of exam results being disrupted by the pandemic\n\nFor A-levels and GCSEs this could see the scrapping of the traditional results days in August, with a proposal to publish the results in \"early July\", increasing the time for appeals and adding more time before the start of the university term.\n\nLast year the process of replacement results ended with U-turns and confusion, as an algorithm initially used for deciding grades was abandoned and teachers' assessments used instead.\n\nThis time there will be no algorithm, but from the outset the process will rely on the judgement of teachers, who will be asked to use evidence such as coursework, essays, homework and mock exams.\n\nThere are also proposals for test papers, or mini-exams, which would be set by examiners but which would be likely to be marked within schools by teachers.\n\nThese would inform teachers' decisions rather than be a fixed proportion of the final grade - and could be used as evidence for any scrutiny of the reliability of a school's results or if there were appeals over grades.\n\nThere is also a recognition they might have to be taken by some pupils at home.\n\nBut it has still to be decided whether it would be mandatory to take these exams, and whether there would be a single paper per subject or the option to take more.\n\nThe Department for Education has said pupils will not face tests in subject areas they have not covered.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers' union, said the proposals seemed \"sensible\".\n\nBut he said the written tests would have to be \"exceptionally well designed\" to make them fair between students \"whose learning has been disrupted by the pandemic to greatly varying extents\".\n\n\"There are still many questions left unanswered,\" said the National Education Union's co-leader Kevin Courtney, about how tests could be flexible enough and how appeals will be decided.\n\nThere will be a process of training teachers in how the grading system will operate and be consistent between different schools.\n\nFor vocational qualifications, the proposals say those closer to written A-level and GCSE exams will be graded in a similar way to the academic exams, using teacher assessment to replace written papers.\n\nThere will be different approaches for qualifications requiring proof of practical skills, but there will be arrangements to make this possible.\n\nSome BTec exams have already gone ahead this month and IGCSE exams are still planned to continue this summer.\n\nA-levels and GCSEs have been cancelled in Wales and Northern Ireland, and in Scotland the Nationals, Highers and Advanced Highers have also been scrapped.\n\nEngland's Education Secretary, Mr Williamson, said: \"Fairness to young people has been and will continue to be fundamental to every decision we take on these issues.\"", "Men who had already had the virus were asked to donate blood plasma for the trial\n\nA potential treatment for Covid using blood plasma does not reduce deaths among hospital patients, trials show.\n\nThe results are a blow to researchers and the NHS, which led the drive to collect plasma donations.\n\nThis arm of the Recovery trial, which is investigating a number of promising Covid treatments, has now been closed.\n\nThe Oxford researchers involved say they are \"incredibly grateful\" for the contribution of patients across the country.\n\nDonations of plasma were temporarily suspended, according to NHS Blood and Transplant.**\n\nThere had been huge international interest in the role of convalescent plasma as a possible treatment for hospital patients with Covid-19.\n\nThe treatment involves blood plasma being taken from people who have recovered from the disease - which contains antibodies to coronavirus - and transfused into seriously ill patients.\n\nIt was hoped the plasma donation would give the recipient's struggling immune system a boost to fight off Covid.\n\nThe NHS had been urging people to donate, particularly men who are thought to have higher levels of antibodies in their blood.\n\nBut early analysis of 1,873 deaths in a study of 10,400 UK patients shows the treatment made \"no significant difference\".\n\nIn the group treated with convalescent plasma, 18% of patients died within 28 days - the same figure for the group given standard treatment.\n\nPatients in the study are still being followed up and the final results will be published shortly.\n\nEarlier this week, a separate study showed no evidence that the same treatment improved outcomes for patients in intensive care.\n\nMartin Landray, chief investigator and professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, said the Recovery trial showed \"the value of large randomised trials to properly assess the role of potential treatments\".\n\nThe trial is still investigating other treatments, including tocilizumab, aspirin and an antibody cocktail.\n\nProf Peter Horby, who also worked on the trial, said the largest ever trial of convalescent plasma \"was only possible thanks to the generous donation of plasma by recovered patients and the willingness of current patients to contribute to advancing medical care\".\n\n\"While the overall result is negative, we need to await the full results before we can understand whether convalescent plasma has any role in particular patient sub-groups,\" he said.\n\n**NHS Blood and Transplant restarted donations of blood plasma on 20 January. They could be used to see whether particular groups of patients, such as those with low antibody levels, could benefit.\n\nInternational trials are also testing if plasma helps people when it's used much earlier in the disease, before people get to hospital.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Duke of Cambridge shared his own experiences of seeing \"death and so much bereavement\"\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have been told the pandemic will leave many emergency workers \"broken\".\n\nMany police and NHS workers are too concerned with battling the pandemic to look after their mental health, they were told.\n\nInsp Phil Spencer from Cleveland Police said staff did not engage enough with counselling \"because we don't want to take anybody else's valuable time\".\n\nPrince William said he \"really worries\" about the effect on front-line workers.\n\n\"When you're surrounded by that level of intense trauma and sadness and bereavement, it really does, it stays with you at home, it stays with you for weeks on end,\" he said.\n\nInsp Spencer said emergency workers \"run towards danger, run towards a terrorist attack, we run towards the pandemic\".\n\n\"Perhaps further down the line when all this is gone we're going to have some broken police officers and emergency services staff, because we're too busy focusing on protecting the most vulnerable,\" he said.\n\nThe couple also spoke to counsellors from Hospice UK's Harrogate-based Just B support line for NHS staff, social care workers, carers and emergency services, which their foundation helps financially.\n\nThe prince said he feared \"you're all so busy caring for everyone else that you won't take enough time to care for yourselves\".\n\nHe and Catherine said the stigma surrounding seeking help for mental health issues must end.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n• None The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police investigations have been compromised by an error that led to hundreds of thousands of records being deleted from UK-wide databases, according to a letter seen by the BBC.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council said 213,000 records were deleted - more than the 150,000 first reported.\n\nThis resulted in a couple of \"near misses\" for serious crimes when trying to identify an offender, it said.\n\nThe Home Office has said it is assessing the impact of the mistake.\n\nData including fingerprint, DNA, and arrest histories was wiped from the Police National Computer (PNC) - which stores and shares criminal records information across the UK - after being inadvertently flagged for deletion.\n\nThe PNC is used in police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nThe Home Office said the lost entries related to people who were arrested and then released without further action.\n\nBut the letter from the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) says officers are aware of at least one instance where the DNA profile from a suspect in custody did not generate a match to a crime scene as expected, potentially impeding the investigation.\n\nIt says that some of the records had been marked for indefinite retention following earlier convictions for serious offences.\n\nAnd it reveals that a \"weeding system\", developed and deployed by a Home Office PNC team, started to delete records wrongly last November.\n\nThe process was only brought to a halt at the start of this week.\n\nThe letter was sent on Friday afternoon by Deputy Chief Constable Naveed Malik of the NPCC to chief constables and police and crime commissioners.\n\nThe deletion of the records has been blamed on a coding error.\n\nThis resulted in records that had been flagged for deletion being lost from the database before checks had been carried out to determine whether they could be lawfully held or not.\n\nPolicing minister Kit Malthouse said the problem had been identified and the process corrected so \"it cannot happen again\".\n\nHe said the Home Office, National Police Chiefs' Council and other law enforcement partners were working \"at pace\" to recover the data.\n\nThe Home Office said no records of criminal or dangerous persons had been deleted.\n\nBut Labour shadow home secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds called on Home Secretary Priti Patel to take responsibility for the error and be clear about the impact it had had.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, he described the situation as \"extraordinarily serious\", adding: \"Priti Patel will be responsible for criminals walking free. We're not going to be able to link suspects to crime scenes without the DNA and fingerprint evidence.\"\n\nA home office source said the accusation was \"scaremongering and irresponsible\".\n\nFormer Cumbria Police Chief Constable Stuart Hyde told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Friday the \"very large\" loss of arrest records presented a \"risk to public safety\".\n\nThe records are linked to police investigations that were terminated before charge (No Further Action or NFA cases) or to those where an individual had been acquitted at court.\n\nIt is not yet known how many records of each type were lost and full extent of deletions is still being investigated. A minister is expected to update the House of Commons on Monday.\n\nIt comes after about 40,000 alerts relating to European criminals were removed from the PNC following the UK's post-Brexit security deal with the EU.", "A 24m section of the bridge parapet collapsed one mile from where a fatal crash took place\n\nPart of a rail bridge has collapsed near the site of the fatal Stonehaven train derailment.\n\nA 24m (79ft) section of the side wall has fallen from the bridge, about a mile north of where three people died when a train left the track and crashed last August.\n\nNetwork Rail said it was a \"structural fault\" and not caused by a landslip.\n\nThe line between Aberdeen and Dundee remains closed while structural engineers assess the fault.\n\nThe structure is located three miles north of Carmont signal box. The collapse was discovered just before 10:00 on Friday.\n\nThe rail company said the damage to the parapet was \"extensive\" and that the line was expected to be closed for a \"significant\" period of time while repairs to the bridge take place.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Network Rail Scotland This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Network Rail Twitter account told followers engineers would be working around the clock to complete repairs.\n\nSpecialist staff are also checking similar bridges as a precaution.\n\nThe line between Aberdeen and Dundee had just reopened in November, nearly three months after the Stonehaven derailment.\n\nThe driver, a conductor and a passenger died when the Aberdeen to Glasgow service derailed near Stonehaven on 12 August after heavy rain.\n\nNetwork Rail Scotland carried out \"complex\" repairs at the scene of the derailment\n\nAn interim report said the train hit washed-out rocks and gravel.\n\nA Network Rail spokesman said: \"The line is currently closed while our engineers repair a damaged side wall on a bridge between Carmont and Stonehaven.\n\n\"Specialist structural engineers are currently assessing the fault and putting plans in place for its repair.\n\n\"Our engineers will be working around-the-clock to complete this work as quickly as possible.\"", "Police officers who were targeted by a pro-Trump mob have been speaking out about the \"medieval battle\" that unfolded on the steps of the Capitol and inside the halls of American democracy last week.\n\nPolice faced off against rioters equipped with clubs, shields, pitchforks, firearms, and metal poles stripped from seating set up for next week's inauguration.\n\nHere's what we've learned from their interviews with US media.\n\nMichael Fanone, a 40-year-old DC plainclothes narcotics detective who was told to wear his uniform that day, rushed to the West Terrace of the Capitol where he took turns holding back the crowd, and resting to rinse his face of the the chemical irritants that that crowd was spraying on police.\n\n\"We weren't battling 50 or 60 rioters in this tunnel,\" the MPD (Metropolitan Police Department of District of Columbia) veteran told the Washington Post. \"We were battling 15,000 people. It looked like a medieval battle scene.\"\n\nAfter he was grabbed by his helmet and dragged face-first down several steps, he said the crowd started stripping gear from his vest, including spare ammo, his radio and his badge - all while chanting \"USA!\".\n\nMichael Fanone, a DC detective, was dragged into the crowd and beaten\n\n\"We got one! We got one!\" Mr Fanone said he heard people shout, with others chanting: \"Kill him with his own gun!\"\n\nSome members of the crowd protected him after he started yelling that he has children, the father of four told CNN. He sustained only minor injuries but later found out in hospital that he had suffered a mild heart attack during the brawl.\n\nMPD Officer Daniel Hodges, 32, had already been on shift for several hours before the rioting began.\n\n\"We were battling, you know, tooth and nail for our lives,\" he told ABC News.\n\nIn one viral video, Mr Hodges is seen pinned in a glass doorway between officers and the crowd, as rioters strip his gas mask from his face and beat him with his own police-issued baton. One rioter tried to gouge his eyes.\n\n\"That was one of the three times that day where I thought: Well, this might be it,\" said Mr Hodges. \"This might be the end for me.\"\n\nAs he choked on tear gas, he is seen on video gasping for air to call out for help. Enough police were eventually able to push through the melee to extract him.\n\n\"I had conspiracy theorists and everyone you could think of yelling at me, saying, 'Why are you doing this, you're the traitor,'\" Mr Hodges told radio station WAMU.\n\n\"We're not the traitors. We're the ones who saved Congress that day, and we'll do it as many times as necessary.\"\n\nDespite fearing for his life, Mr Hodges says he decided not to use his gun on the crowd.\n\n\"I didn't want to be the guy who starts shooting, because I knew they had guns - we had been seizing guns all day,\" he told the Post.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRobert Glover, the commander on scene for MPD, declared a riot at 13:50 local time, nearly two hours after Trump's speech at the White House where he instructed his followers to go to the Capitol.\n\nHe quickly told officers to retake the inauguration bleachers, to stop the crowd from raining down heavy objects on officers from above.\n\nMr Glover told the Post that some rioters may have been caught up in the moment, but others seemed to be moving in \"military formation\" as if they had prepared for the assault. He said that some appeared to be using hand signals to co-ordinate tactics.\n\nSeveral US military veterans, as well as off-duty police officers from Virginia, Maryland and Texas, have since been suspended or arrested for participating in the riot.\n\nMPD Officer Christina Laury, 32, was among the first city police officers to arrive on the scene. When she got to the Capitol, officers were already being brutally attacked by rioters attempting to storm the building.\n\n\"They had bear mace, which is literally used for bears. I got hit with it plenty of times that day and it just seals your eyes shut. You just would see officers going down trying to douse themselves with water, trying to open their eyes up so they can see again.\"\n\n\"The bravery and the heroism that I saw in these officers - the second they were able to open their eyes, they were back up front and they were just trying to stop these individuals from coming in.\"\n\nOne officer being lauded as a hero has yet to speak about his experience - Officer Eugene Goodman, a member of Congress' 2,100 member Capitol Police force.\n\nMr Goodman, an African American Iraq War veteran, was seen singlehandedly distracting a rampaging mob, giving lawmakers enough time to clear the chamber and get to safety.\n\nOn Thursday, a cross-party group of lawmakers introduced a bill calling for him to receive the Congressional Gold Medal for his effort to defend democracy.\n\nThe Capitol Police have been criticised over their response and preparation.\n\nSeveral top Capitol security officials, including the Capitol Police chief and the sergeants-at-arms for the House and Senate, resigned in the wake of the siege amid claims from lawmakers that they had not done enough to prepare for the mob.\n\nProtesters climbed the bleachers that were erected for Biden's inauguration\n\nOn Friday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced General Russel Honoré would be leading an immediate investigation of the Capitol's security infrastructure.\n\nVideo footage has also emerged showing an officer taking a selfie with a rioter inside the Capitol. Some officers reportedly gave directions to rioters telling them how to get to the offices of Democratic lawmakers.\n\nSeveral Capitol Police officers have been suspended for allegedly violating policies as the agency conducts an internal probe.", "A man accused of allegedly tricking a 92-year-old woman out of £160 for a fake coronavirus vaccination has been charged with fraud and common assault.\n\nDavid Chambers is accused of administering the fake vaccine at her Surbiton home in London last month.\n\nThe 33-year-old, also from Surbiton, is charged with five offences including fraud and going outside in a tier four area without a good reason.\n\nHe denied the charges when he appeared before magistrates on Friday.\n\nMr Chambers was remanded in custody until a hearing on 12 February.\n\nIn the UK, coronavirus vaccines are free of charge and available via the NHS.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nóra Quoirin went missing from her room on 4 August 2019\n\nAn inquest into the death of a teenager who went missing during a holiday in Malaysia has left several questions unanswered, her family has said.\n\nNóra Quoirin, whose mother is from Belfast, disappeared from her room at the Dusun resort on 4 August 2019.\n\nHer body was found 10 days later about 1.6 miles (2.5km) away.\n\nEarlier this month a coroner ruled that she died as a result of misadventure, but her family said they were \"utterly disappointed\" with the verdict.\n\nIn an interview with Irish broadcaster RTÉ, Nóra's mother Meabh said there is \"compelling evidence\" that her daughter was abducted.\n\nSearch and rescue teams were deployed in an effort to locate Nóra\n\nNóra, who was born to Irish-French parents, lived with her family in London and was understood to be in Malaysia on an Irish passport.\n\nShe was born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder which affects brain development.\n\nSince her disappearance, her parents have believed that she was abducted. They have always maintained that wandering off was not something they could imagine their daughter doing.\n\nMeabh Quoirin told RTÉ: \"One of the most compelling things that we found out was that in a relatively small area, the plantation where Nóra was eventually found, there was vast numbers of specialist personnel deployed to find Nóra.\n\n\"Not only that, on four different occasions, trained personnel went to the plantation area and searched it and, in fact, some officers were even in the precise location Nóra's body was recovered.\n\n\"They had all reported that there were no signs of human life at any point. That for us is compelling evidence to say that she was not there by herself.\"\n\nNóra went missing the day after she and her family arrived in Malaysia in August 2019\n\nMrs Quoirin added that \"there was a lack of evidence around DNA and prints\".\n\nShe said that when the family went to the inquest, \"we had a lot of unanswered questions and while many of those questions cannot be answered, we actually found out a great deal about what went on during those 10 days when Nóra was missing\".\n\nMeabh and Sebastien Quorin, pictured during the search for Nóra\n\n\"In fact we felt it really strengthened our case, our belief, that Nóra was abducted and we found some compelling evidence to support our view on that.\"\n\nMrs Quoirin added that her daughter \"was not physically or mentally capable\" of leaving the chalet via the window.\n\n\"Not only that - we also learned that none of her fingerprints could be found on the window and yet other unidentifiable prints were found on that window.\"", "Smoke rises from Mount Semeru, the highest volcano on the Indonesian island of Java\n\nIndonesia's Mount Semeru has erupted, pouring ash an estimated 5.6km (3.4 miles) into the sky above Java, the country's most densely populated island.\n\nNo evacuation orders have so far been issued, and no casualties reported.\n\nThe National Disaster Mitigation Agency (NDMA) warned villagers living on the mountain's slopes to be alert for ongoing volcanic activity.\n\nFootage showed ash from the 3,676m (12,060ft) volcano looming over homes.\n\n\"The villages of Sumber Mujur and Curah Koboan [in Lumajang municipality] are located in the trajectory of the hot clouds,\" local official Thoriqul Haq said on Saturday.\n\nResidents of the Curah Kobokan river basin have been urged to watch for possible \"cold lava\" mudflow, which can be triggered by intense rainfall combining with volcanic material.\n\nMount Semeru erupted at about 17:24 local time (10:24 GMT), authorities said.\n\nA picture from the Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management shows ash rolling over the landscape\n\nIndonesia sits on the Pacific \"Ring of Fire\" where tectonic plates collide, causing frequent volcanic activity as well as earthquakes.\n\nSemeru - also known as \"The Great Mountain\" - is the highest volcano in Java and one of the most active. It is also one of Indonesia's most popular tourist hiking destinations.\n\nThe volcano previously erupted in December, when about 550 people were evacuated.", "A further 1,295 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test have been reported in the UK, the third-highest daily total since the pandemic began.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths by this measure to 88,590.\n\nThere have also been a further 41,346 lab-confirmed cases, and 4,262 more people have been admitted to hospital.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director for Public Health England, said the \"continuous rise in cases and deaths should be a bitter warning for us all\".\n\n\"We must not forget the basics,\" she added. \"The lives of our friends and family depend on it.\n\n\"Keep your distance from others, wash your hands and wear a mask.\"\n\nThe latest figures come ahead of Monday's change in travel rules for the UK, with all travel corridors closing, meaning arrivals from every country will have to quarantine.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson announced the changes at Downing Street on Friday, saying they would \"protect against the risk of as yet unidentified new strains\" of Covid.\n\nWhile daily figures can fluctuate due to delays in reporting, the seven-day average of Covid deaths in the UK has now risen slightly to 1,103.\n\nFor cases, however, there has been a drop in the seven-day average, with the figure now at 48,565.\n\nThere are currently 37,475 people in hospital with the virus, government figures show, while a further 324,233 people have received their first vaccine dose.\n\nThe government has promised all the over-70s, the extremely clinically vulnerable and front-line health and care workers - about 15 million people - will be offered a jab by mid February.\n\nCurrently, just over 3.5 million doses have been administered.\n\nThe government has also announced £120m in funds for the social care sector to be used by local authorities to increase staffing levels.\n\nStaff absence rates have risen in care homes and among home care staff, due to them testing positive or having to self-isolate.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the money would bolster staffing numbers in a \"controlled and safe way, whilst ensuring people continue to receive the highest quality of care\".\n\nA further £149m funding was announced in December to support rapid testing of care home staff.\n\nSpeaking alongside the PM on Friday, England's chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, said the number of patients being admitted to hospital with coronavirus was set to peak within the next 10 days, while the peak for deaths was also yet to come.\n\nHe added, however, that he hoped the peak in infections had already happened in the South East, East and London, where there was a surge in the new, more transmissible variant.\n\n\"The peak of deaths I fear is in the future, the peak of hospitalisations in some parts of the country may be around about now and beginning to come off the very, very top,\" he said.\n\n\"Because people are sticking so well to the guidelines we do think the peaks are coming over the next week to 10 days for most places in terms of new people into hospital.\"\n\nHowever, chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance stressed it was a \"suppressed peak\" that would \"boil over for sure\" if controls were eased.\n\nHe said: \"This is not the natural peak that's going to come down on its own, it's coming down because of the measures that are in place.\n\n\"Take the lid off now and it's going to boil over for sure and we're going to end up with a big problem.\"\n\nMeanwhile, on Saturday, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer suggested he would back further coronavirus measures, as \"the tougher the restrictions now the quicker we get the virus back under control\".\n\nSir Keir said he was \"still worried\" by the number of infections, despite signs they are falling - and that the \"sense that we are through the worst\" of the third wave was wrong.\n\n\"Nobody likes restrictions but the tougher the restrictions now the quicker we get the virus back under control, the quicker we reduce the number of hospital admissions and the quicker we get that number of deaths, tragically, down,\" he added.", "A further 1,610 people have died in the UK within 28 days of a positive Covid test - the biggest figure reported in a single day since the pandemic began.\n\nIt means the total number of deaths by that measure is now above 90,000.\n\nA total of 4,266,577 people have now received the first dose of a vaccine, according to the latest government figures.\n\nAnother 33,355 positive Covid cases have been recorded - less than half the peak figure of 68,053 on 8 January.\n\nIt is the lowest number of daily cases seen since 27 December - before the start of England's third nationwide lockdown.\n\nDr Yvonne Doyle, medical director at Public Health England, said: \"Whilst there are some early signs that show our sacrifices are working, we must continue to strictly abide by the measures in place.\"\n\nShe said reducing contact with others and staying at home will lead to \"a fall in the number of infections over time\".\n\nThe figures come as new estimates from the Office for National Statistics show about one in 10 people across the UK tested positive for Covid-19 antibodies in December - roughly double the October figure.\n\nThe rising number of deaths was to be expected, sadly, after the surge in cases during December.\n\nAnd it is likely that the coming weeks will see figures even higher than this.\n\nToday's numbers are, though, inflated by the fact that delays in registering deaths over the weekend tends to lead to higher figures being reported on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.\n\nOn average, the UK is recording more than 1,100 deaths a day.\n\nTo put that in context, at Christmas it was less than half of that.\n\nBut there are two rays of hope in the daily update.\n\nFirstly, the number of cases is below 40,000 for a third day in a row. Just two weeks ago we saw a few days above 60,000.\n\nThat means in the coming weeks we should start to see fewer people in hospital and eventually fewer deaths.\n\nThe number of vaccinations also continues to rise.\n\nIt seems unlikely the NHS will manage its target of two million doses a week just yet.\n\nBut each increase at least takes us one step closer to getting on top of the virus.\n\nMeanwhile, NHS England said 400 military personnel were now assisting in hospitals in London and the Midlands, as wards face \"unprecedented pressure\".\n\nOn Monday, Prof Stephen Powis, national medical director for NHS England, said it would be \"some time\" before the vaccination programme begins to reduce pressures on hospitals.\n\nAnd in other developments, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said he is self-isolating after being alerted by the UK's NHS Covid-19 app .that he had been in close contact with somebody who tested positive.\n\nHe said self-isolation was \"perhaps the most important part of all the social distancing\" and urged others to do the same if contacted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Martin Freeborn's wife, Helen, died from Covid at the Royal London Hospital: 'Don't end up like us, please'\n\nThe previous highest number of daily deaths was last Wednesday, when 1,564 deaths were recorded.\n\nTuesday's figure brings the total number of deaths recorded during the pandemic in the UK to 91,470.\n\nThese government figures count people who died within 28 days of testing positive, but there are other ways of measuring the total number of deaths.\n\nAnother method is to count all deaths where coronavirus is mentioned on the death certificate. That figure has now officially reached 95,829, although that is only measured up to 8 January.\n\nThe UK has recorded the fifth-highest number of deaths globally, according to Johns Hopkins University - behind the US, Brazil, India and Mexico.\n\nLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer tweeted: \"British people are paying the price for the government's serial incompetence.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video footage showed the aftermath of the deadly explosion\n\nAt least three people have died following an explosion that caused a building to partially collapse in centre of the Spanish capital, Madrid.\n\nA fourth person was missing and several others were hurt, officials said.\n\nCity officials said the blast, which destroyed four floors of the building, had been caused by a gas leak.\n\nMayor José Luis Martínez Almeida told reporters after the blast that a fire was raging inside the building, which belongs to the Catholic Church.\n\nThe blast happened shortly before 15:00 local time (14:00 GMT) as gas workers were repairing a boiler at the back of the building in the central Puerta de Toledo area of Madrid.\n\nAn 85-year-old woman passer-by and two men were killed while a third man who had been working on the boiler was missing, Spanish media reported. One of the injured was in a serious condition and taken to hospital, according to officials.\n\nSpanish reports said the upper floors affected were being used to house local priests.\n\nRescue workers evacuated more than 50 people from a care home next-door to the building in Caille de Toledo, but a school on the other side was closed at the time of the blast.\n\nFour floors of the building were destroyed in the explosion, which could be heard in many areas of Madrid. Images shared on social media showed billowing smoke and debris strewn along the street.\n\nEmergency services said nine fire crews and 11 ambulances were at the scene and some of those caught up in the blast were treated on the street.\n\nFour floors of the building were destroyed in the explosion\n\nPolice officers cleared the area, closing it to all traffic and pedestrians, and appealed to local residents not to come near.\n\n\"The noise was very loud, very loud, really,\" Lorenzo Fomento, who was working from home at a nearby apartment, told AFP news agency. \"I never heard anything so loud before,\" he added.\n\nThe director of the nursing home, Antonio Berlanga, said all the elderly residents were fine and places were being found for them to spend the night.", "In Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, residents have prepared their homes and businesses ahead of the heavy rain\n\nEmergency services in the north of England are preparing for widespread flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nThe Environment Agency has warned of a \"volatile situation\" as heavy rain combines with melting snow, while police in South Yorkshire and Greater Manchester declared major incidents.\n\nAn amber rain warning is in place for Yorkshire, the North West, East Midlands and the east of England.\n\nA yellow rain warning was issued for the rest of the country.\n\nGreater Manchester Police Assistant Chief Constable Nick Bailey said the force had declared a major incident to ensure it was \"as prepared as possible\".\n\n\"The safety of the public is our number one priority and we're continuing to work alongside partner agencies across the region,\" he said.\n\nA government spokesperson said it had provided additional advice to local agencies to help them manage any evacuations and shelter provision in a Covid-secure way.\n\n\"The government has robust plans in place to support any areas affected by extreme weather this winter,\" they added.\n\nSandbags were laid in at-risk areas, with up to 70mm (2.75in) of rain due.\n\nIn isolated spots, particularly in the northern Peak District and parts of the southern Pennines, 200mm (7.87in) could be possible.\n\nNorthern Rail said buses were being used instead of trains on services between Bolton and Blackburn due to flooding at Darwen.\n\nSome motorists attempted to drive through floodwater on Derby Road in Hathern, Leicestershire\n\nIn the amber warning area, the Met Office said there was a \"danger to life\" due to fast-flowing or deep floodwater, and told some communities they might be \"cut off\" by flooded roads.\n\nIt also predicted delays and cancellations to public transport, with the amber warning in place until 12:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nRos Jones, mayor of Doncaster, said key risk areas had been inspected over the past 36 hours, with the delivery of sandbags continuing on Tuesday.\n\n\"I do not want people to panic, but flooding is possible so please be prepared,\" she said.\n\nResidents of Fishlake, South Yorkshire, which saw severe flooding hit 160 homes and businesses in November 2019, said they felt much better prepared this time round.\n\nFlood warden and parish councillor Peter Trimingham said the arrival of sandbags had been a welcome sight.\n\n\"It gives us confidence,\" he said.\n\nResidents in Fishlake, near Doncaster, say they are better prepared than when flooding hit in 2019\n\nMr Trimingham added: \"We're absolutely hoping it doesn't rise to the same level. But, if it does, we're reasonably comfortable we've still got a chance because the Environment Agency have done tremendous work here along with Doncaster Council.\"\n\nHe said new defences had been built and their team of flood wardens had been expanded to 22 people.\n\nOn Yarlborough Terrace in Bentley, Doncaster, many residents were out of their homes for months after the 2019 floods.\n\nAnna Booth, 37, who was forced to live in a caravan on her drive, said residents were worried about it happening again.\n\n\"Being in the pandemic doesn't help either. Morale's a bit down but I think we'll all pull together again like last time,\" she said.\n\n\"It breaks your heart, it's really sad, but we can't stop the weather.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Environment Agency issued more than 30 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected and immediate action required, covering parts of Yorkshire, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Merseyside, Staffordshire and Northamptonshire as of 03:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nThere are also more than 150 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible, issued across northern England, the Midlands and the east.\n\nRiver levels in the Ouse, which flows through York in North Yorkshire, are high before the arrival of Storm Christoph\n\nCatherine Wright, acting executive director for flood and coastal risk management at the Environment Agency, said: \"That rain is falling on very wet ground and so we are very concerned that it's a very volatile situation and we are expecting significant flooding to occur on the back of that weather.\"\n\nShe said the agency would be working with local authorities to help with evacuation efforts should a severe flood warning be issued, adding: \"If you do need to evacuate then that is allowed within the Covid rules.\"\n\nWork took place on Tuesday morning to increase defences near the River Ouse\n\nDiscussing the different levels of flood warnings, she said: \"If you receive a flood alert, please pack valuables like medicines and insurance documents in a bag ready to go.\n\n\"If you receive a flood warning, please move valuables and precious possessions upstairs and be ready to turn off gas, electricity and water.\n\n\"If you receive a severe flood warning, which means you will be evacuated, please listen out and take heed of the advice from the local emergency services.\"\n\nSandbags have been used to help defend homes in Fishlake, Doncaster, which suffered devastating floods in November 2019\n\nBarry Greenwood, from the Upper Calder Valley Flood Prevention Group in West Yorkshire, has been \"sick\" with worry.\n\n\"I went round after the last [flood], people were there with their heads in their hands, thinking 'what am I going to do now?',\" he said.\n\nFlood sirens were sounded in Walsden on Tuesday evening after a flood warning was issued for the area.\n\nIn a tweet, Calderdale Council asked residents to put their flood plan into action and move valuables to a safe place.\n\n\"River levels across the Upper River Calder have risen and are now approaching levels where we expect properties to flood,\" it warned.\n\nEarlier it had said staff were on standby to respond overnight.\n\nThe amber rain warning is in place until Thursday, with yellow warnings covering most of the UK coming in over the next three days\n\nA yellow rain alert is also in place for Wales, Northern Ireland, central and northern England and southern Scotland on Tuesday.\n\nThis yellow warning extends to the rest of England from Wednesday, with a yellow alert for snow and ice in north east Scotland.\n\nHighways England advised drivers to take extra care on motorways and major A roads, while the RAC breakdown service said motorists should only drive if absolutely necessary.\n\nDrivers faced wet road conditions and reduced visibility on the A1(M) near Boston Spa, West Yorkshire, on Tuesday morning\n\nHebden Bridge's volunteer flood warden Keith Crabtree has been monitoring the river levels of Hebden Beck closely\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Israel is currently in its third lockdown since the pandemic began there last year Image caption: Israel is currently in its third lockdown since the pandemic began there last year\n\nA nationwide lockdown in Israel is to be extended until the end of the month amid a spike in cases - despite an intense vaccination campaign, with more than two of the nine million population already having received their first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.\n\nIt takes time for immunity to build up, so its expected to take several weeks for vaccines to have an impact on cases\n\nThe man coordinating Israel’s pandemic response, Nachman Ash, has warned that a single dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in the country has been “less effective than we thought”.\n\nAccording to Israeli Army Radio, Prof Ash told cabinet members on Tuesday the data on the protective effect of a first dose against the virus was “lower than Pfizer presented”. Pfizer said its vaccine was roughly 52% effective two weeks after the first dose and reaches maximum efficacy of 95% after the second.\n\nIt’s not clear what data he is referring to, but a not-yet published study from Israel’s largest healthcare provider suggested a 33% fall in infections by day 14, at which point, full immunity would not have been reached.\n\nInfections continued to fall in the following days but the numbers were too small to put a percentage on it.\n\nIsrael saw its highest daily case figure on Monday with 10,000 new infections Image caption: Israel saw its highest daily case figure on Monday with 10,000 new infections\n\nThe health ministry said on Tuesday more than 12,400 Israelis had tested positive for Covid-19 ten days after being vaccinated – 69 of these had already received a second dose.\n\nThis was 6.6% of the 189,000 people who took Covid tests after being vaccinated, roughly tallying with the reported efficacy.\n\nHealth experts say they are analysing the new Israeli data closely but warn it may be too early to draw any conclusions on the single dose efficacy of the vaccine based on the initial data gathered in Israel, which began vaccinating its population on 19 December.", "Drug treatment services in England are to receive an extra £80m as part of government's efforts to cut crime.\n\nThis will mean more places for people released from prison and criminals handed community sentences.\n\nIt comes after warnings last year over government cuts to help for addicts.\n\nA further £40m is being earmarked for law enforcement to target drug gangs including so-called county lines operations in which young and vulnerable people act as couriers.\n\nThe investment will also see another £28m put into a three-year pilot project called ADDER - Addiction, Diversion, Disruption, Enforcement and Recovery - which will combine policing with treatment and recovery services.\n\nThe funding will see police target dealers, and local councils and health services help people with addictions, in five areas with high rates of drug use - Blackpool, Hastings, Middlesbrough, Norwich and Swansea Bay.\n\nAnnouncing the £148m package, Home Secretary Priti Patel said: \"The government's work to tackle county lines drugs gangs has already resulted in thousands more people being arrested and hundreds more vulnerable people being safeguarded, but we must do more to tackle the underlying drivers behind serious violence.\"\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock added: \"Addiction and crime are inextricably linked and to truly break the cycle we must make sure people can access the help they need to get their lives back on track for good.\"\n\nMs Patel told BBC Breakfast the government wanted to focus on rehabilitation and treatment for drug addicts as well as law enforcement, saying this was \"something we've not been doing enough of\".\n\n\"We have to do much more to support individuals whose lives have been blighted by years and years of drug abuse,\" she said.\n\nA Home Office-commissioned review into the drugs trade by Prof Dame Carol Black released last February put the total cost to society of illegal drugs at about £20bn a year in England and said treatment services have been curtailed by local government funding cuts.\n\nDame Carol welcomed the funding, saying: \"Drug treatment has a vital role to play in helping people to come off drugs and thereby reduce crime, from minor acquisitive crime right through to homicide.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnson: \"It's a big moment for us - we have things we want to do together.\"\n\nThe inauguration of President Joe Biden is a \"step forward\" for the United States, which has \"been through a bumpy period\", Boris Johnson has said.\n\nCongratulating Mr Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris, the UK PM said it was a \"big moment\" for the UK and the US and their \"joint common agenda\".\n\nMr Johnson said he looked forward to working with the US on tackling climate change and the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMaking his inaugural address, Mr Biden said \"democracy has prevailed\".\n\nHe promised to be a president \"for all Americans\" and said his \"whole soul is in putting America back together again\".\n\nOutgoing President Donald Trump, who has not formally conceded to Mr Biden, did not attend the ceremony.\n\nPresident Biden began work straight away on reversing a number of his predecessor's policies, including rejoining the Paris climate change agreement - gaining the praise of Mr Johnson.\n\nThe PM tweeted it was \"hugely positive news\", adding: \"I look forward to working with our US partners to do all we can to safeguard our planet.\"\n\nEarlier this week the former head of the civil service Lord Sedwill suggested Mr Johnson would be glad Mr Trump had not been re-elected for a second term as US president.\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, Lord Sedwill said those who believed Boris Johnson would have preferred Mr Trump to win again were \"mistaken\".\n\nThe former cabinet secretary - who stepped down in September - said a second term for Mr Trump \"would not have been to the benefit of British or European security, to transatlantic trade, let alone the environmental agenda to which the prime minister is so committed\".\n\nBoris Johnson with Donald Trump at the G7 summit in 2019\n\nMr Johnson's public stance toward the former president has varied over the years.\n\nIn 2015, when he was Mayor of London, Mr Johnson accused Mr Trump of \"stupefying ignorance\" over his comments about violence in the city.\n\nBut as foreign secretary, following Mr Trump's election as president, he said there was a \"lot to be positive about\", and in 2019, praised his \"many good qualities\".\n\nFor his part, Mr Trump has appeared largely supportive of Mr Johnson, backing his flagship Brexit policy and at one point saying of the British PM: \"They call him Britain Trump.\"\n\nAnd echoing his predecessor, in 2019 Mr Biden described the UK prime minister as a \"physical and emotional clone\" of Mr Trump.\n\nAfter winning the presidential election Mr Biden phoned Mr Johnson ahead of other European leaders and expressed his desire to strengthen the historic \"special relationship\" between the two countries.\n\nSpeaking on Wednesday, Mr Johnson said it was the job of all UK prime ministers to have a \"good, close working relationship\" with US presidents but, right now, there were many things the two countries \"wanted to do together\".\n\n\"When you look at the issues which unite me and Joe Biden, the UK and the US right now, there is a fantastic joint common agenda,\" he said. \"For us and America, it is a big moment.\"\n\nHe said he hoped the UK could help the US commit to a target of net zero carbon emissions by 2050 in the run up to the climate change conference COP 26, to be held in Glasgow this year.\n\nUK prime ministers like to consider American presidents as their best diplomatic friend.\n\nThat relationship, particularly when it comes to security and defence, is unusually close.\n\nWhen, as with Donald Trump, that friend has been unpredictable and unconventional, that has made for some very awkward political moments.\n\nSo for the government, this a really important and positive turning of the page.\n\nThe terribly over-used phrase the 'special relationship', which provokes neurotic behaviour on this side of the Atlantic, has meant the most when there has been a genuine personal chemistry between the two leaders - whether Thatcher and Reagan, or Bush and Blair.\n\nThere is nothing automatic about Mr Biden and Mr Johnson developing that kind of political friendship.\n\nBut in the words of one former senior minister, for the UK Biden means \"we will lose exclusivity but gain predictability: easier to work with, less cringeworthy and more dependable, but we may not be the only girlfriend on speed dial\".\n\nSpeaking to the Guardian, shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy described Mr Biden as \"a woke guy\".\n\nAsked if he agreed, Mr Johnson said: \"I can't comment on that. What I know is that he's a firm believer in the transatlantic alliance and that's a great thing.\"\n\nHe added that there was \"nothing wrong with being woke - I put myself in the category of people who believe that it's important to stick up for your history, your traditions and your values, the things you believe in.\"\n\nOpposition leader Sir Keir Starmer also sent his congratulations to the new president and vice-president.\n\n\"The US begins a new chapter in its history, one of hope, decency, compassion and strength,\" the Labour leader said, adding \"together, our two nations can build a better, more optimistic future for our world.\"\n\nAnd First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon tweeted: \"Warm congratulations and best wishes to President Biden and Vice President Harris.\n\n\"Scotland and the USA share long-standing bonds of friendship and co-operation. We look forward to building on these in the years ahead.\"\n\nWriting in the Daily Mail, former UK Prime Minister Theresa May said Mr Biden's election presented the UK with a \"golden opportunity\" for Western democracies to reverse the trend towards \"absolutism\" - and a \"few strongmen facing off against each other\" - in global affairs.\n\nThe Queen sent a private message to Mr Biden before his inauguration, Buckingham Palace has said.", "Marion Dawson is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.\n\nA 108-year-old woman has received the Covid vaccination on her birthday.\n\nMarion Dawson, from Houston in Renfrewshire, is the third oldest person in Scotland to be given the vaccine.\n\nShe received her jab at Houston and Killellan Kirk, which is being used by the local GP surgery to deliver vaccinations to the community.\n\nBorn in 1913, Mrs Dawson has lived through two world wars and the Spanish flu pandemic.\n\nDr Diane Fisher, who gave the injection said: \"We are so excited to be starting vaccinations of our over-80s, and that our first patient to be vaccinated is doing so on her birthday.\"\n\nMrs Dawson is the most senior person in NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde to be given the vaccine.\n\nAfter receiving her injection, she said: \"I'm glad it's passed. I never felt a thing.\"\n\nKirk minister, Rev Gary Noonan said: \"Mrs Dawson is a local treasure in Houston, until the lockdown she never missed a week at church.\n\n\"It's fitting she can get her vaccine in the Kirk, a place she loves.\"\n\nDr Mark Storey, partner at Strathgryffe Medical Practice, added: \"It's been a very difficult year in general practice and society as a whole.\n\n\"In our practice we have a family of 10,000 patients, so we are delighted to start vaccinating, especially with Mrs Dawson.\"", "That's where we'll end our coverage of this week's PMQs.\n\nAs events get underway in Washington DC ahead of the Joe Biden's swearing in as the 46th President of the USA, our colleagues will bring you all the details of the inauguration here.\n\nOur coverage of this week's PMQs was brought to you by Gavin Stamp, Justin Parkinson, and Sinead Wilson. The editor was Johanna Howitt.\n\nThanks for joining us.", "The publication of a letter from the Duchess of Sussex to her father was a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of her privacy, the High Court has been told.\n\nMeghan is suing the publisher of the Mail on Sunday and Mail Online over articles that reproduced parts of the private handwritten letter.\n\nShe claims her privacy and copyright were breached by the newspaper group.\n\nHer lawyers are asking for summary judgement - a dismissal of Associated Newspapers' defence instead of a trial.\n\nMeghan's lawyers argue Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) has \"no prospect\" of defending the privacy and copyright claims being brought against them.\n\nThey claim the publication of extracts from the private, handwritten letter to Thomas Markle was \"self-evidently... highly intrusive\".\n\nMeghan, 39, sent the letter to her father in August 2018, following her marriage to Prince Harry in May that year, which Mr Markle did not attend. The couple are now living in the US with their son Archie.\n\nThe five articles, published in February 2019, were a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of the duchess's privacy, correspondence and family, the lawyers claim.\n\nMr Markle said in a witness statement provided to the remote hearing, which started on Tuesday, that he wanted the letter published to \"set the record straight\" about his relationship with his daughter - but one of Meghan's lawyers described this claim as \"ridiculous\".\n\nMeghan is seeking damages from the newspaper group for alleged misuse of private information, copyright infringement and breach of the Data Protection Act over the articles.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex now live in the US with their son\n\nHer lawyers told the court the letter was written in sorrow rather than anger and was an attempt to get her father to stop talking to the press.\n\nBut the newspaper group said in its response to the court that Meghan had written the letter \"with a view to it being disclosed publicly at some future point\" in order to \"defend her against charges of being an uncaring or unloving daughter\".\n\nIn written submissions, the newspaper group's barrister Antony White said \"she must, at the very least, have appreciated that her father might choose to disclose it\" and pointed out that the Kensington Palace communications team had been shown the letter before it was sent.\n\n\"No truly private letter from daughter to father would require any input from the Kensington Palace communications team,\" said Mr White.\n\nBut Meghan's lawyers also pointed out the articles themselves had emphasised the private nature of the correspondence - and dismissed any argument that it was in the public interest for the newspaper to reproduce the letter, saying the public interest was at the \"very end of the bottom end of the scale\".\n\nJustin Rushbrooke, representing the duchess, described the handwritten letter as \"a heartfelt plea from an anguished daughter to her father\".\n\nHe said the \"contents and character of the letter were intrinsically private, personal and sensitive in nature\" and that Meghan \"had a reasonable expectation of privacy in respect of the contents of the letter\".\n\nThe effect of publishing the letter was \"self-evidently likely to be devastating for the claimant\", said Mr Rushbrooke.\n\nThe barrister argued that, even if ANL was justified in publishing parts of the letter, \"on any view the defendant published far more by way of extracts from the letter than could have been justified in the public interest\".\n\nMr White said that the newspaper group would argue that Meghan's status as a member of the royal family was relevant to the case.\n\nIn response to that point, Mr Rushbrooke said: \"Yes, she is in some senses a public figure, but that does not reduce her expectation of privacy in relation to information of this kind.\"\n\nIn Thomas Markle's evidence, he said the letter \"signalled the end\" of his relationship with his daughter, and instead of a reconciliation attempt, the letter was a \"criticism\" of him.\n\nHe said that he had to \"defend himself\" against an article in People magazine. It carried an interview with a \"long-time friend\" of his daughter, who suggested Meghan sent the letter to repair her relationship with her father - something he claimed was false.\n\nThe People article, he claimed, made him appear \"dishonest, exploitative, publicity-seeking, uncaring and cold-hearted\".\n\nHe said he had \"never intended to talk publicly about Meg's letter\" until he read the People magazine piece which, he claimed, suggested he was \"to blame for the end of the relationship\".\n\nThe full trial of the duchess's claim had been due to be heard at the High Court this month, but last year the case was adjourned until autumn 2021.\n\nThis interim remote hearing - to consider the request for summary judgement - is due to last two days. Mr Justice Warby, who is hearing the case, is expected to reserve his judgement to a later date.", "Low-deposit mortgages have made a return as the market emerges from a Covid-related slowdown.\n\nMortgage products for homeowners with a deposit of 10% of their property's value have risen more than fourfold compared with last summer's low.\n\nThe increase, based on figures from financial information service Moneyfacts, could offer some relief to first-time buyers.\n\nBut the cost of mortgages will remain an issue for many.\n\nIn early September last year, there were only 44 mortgage products available for those able to offer a 10% deposit. At the same time, first-time buyers putting money aside for a deposit were faced with pressures of poor savings rates and rising house prices.\n\nThat choice has now risen to 197 products, according to the Moneyfacts figures, with some big lenders returning in recent weeks.\n\nMortgage products for those able to offer a 15% deposit have also risen sharply, although the choice was already much greater.\n\n\"First-time buyers who may have been concerned that with record low savings rates and increasing house prices, their homeownership dreams may have had to be shelved, may have been pleased to note that we are now seeing some providers return products for those with 10% deposits,\" said Eleanor Williams, from Moneyfacts.\n\nLenders had been grappling with the practical effects that the coronavirus pandemic brought to their business.\n\nWhile some new businesses targeted first-time buyers on social media, many traditional lenders withdrew products from the market.\n\nStaff shortages, and employees working from home, meant they were unable to process applications as fast as they had before the pandemic.\n\nThere were also concerns among lenders that, despite strong activity in the housing market, riskier - and younger - first-time buyers could find it difficult to make mortgage repayments during an economic slowdown caused by the pandemic.\n\nResearch has shown that younger workers are more at risk of redundancy.\n\nAaron Strutt, from mortgage broker Trinity Financial, said lenders were now working more efficiently despite staff still being at home.\n\nHe said that some of the biggest mortgage lenders had returned to the market. Some of the mortgage rates they were offering were not as attractive as they had been, but competition would help push down costs.\n\n\"If you are planning to purchase a property and have a 10% deposit the mortgage rates are not as cheap as they used to be, but they are getting better,\" he said.\n\nMany thousands of existing mortgage-holders who had struggled to make their repayments during the pandemic had taken payment \"holidays\", which are deferrals on payments.\n\nThe latest figures from UK Finance, which represents lenders, show that 130,000 mortgage payment holidays were in place at the end of December 2020, down from a peak of 1.8 million in June last year.", "Mr Trump referred to his \"complete power to pardon\" in a tweet\n\nUS President Donald Trump has insisted he has the \"complete power\" to pardon people, amid reports he is considering presidential pardons for family members, aides and even himself.\n\nThe US authorities are probing possible collusion between the Trump team and Russia. Intelligence agencies think Russia tried to help Mr Trump to power.\n\nRussia denies this, and the president says there was no collusion.\n\nThe Washington Post reported on Thursday that Mr Trump and his team were looking at ways to pardon people close to him.\n\nPresidents can pardon people before guilt is established or even before the person is charged with a crime.\n\nDescribing the reports as disturbing, Senator Mark Warner, a Democrat who sits on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said \"pardoning any individuals who may have been involved would be crossing a fundamental line\".\n\nOn Saturday, Mr Trump tweeted: \"While all agree the U. S. President has the complete power to pardon, why think of that when only crime so far is LEAKS against us. FAKE NEWS.\"\n\nMr Trump also attacked \"illegal leaks\" following reports his attorney general discussed campaign-related matters with a Russian envoy.\n\nThe Washington Post gave an account of meetings Attorney General Jeff Sessions held with the Russian ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak. The newspaper quoted current and former US officials who cited intelligence intercepts of Mr Kislyak's version of the encounter to his superiors.\n\nOne of those quoted said Mr Kislyak spoke to Mr Sessions about key campaign issues, including Mr Trump's positions on policies significant to Russia.\n\nDuring his confirmation hearing earlier this year, Mr Sessions said he had no contact with Russians during the election campaign. When it later emerged he had, he said the campaign was not discussed at the meetings.\n\nAn official confirmed to Reuters the detail of the intercepts, but there has been no independent corroboration.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Commander in tweets: What we can learn from Trump's Twitter\n\nThe officials spoken to by the Post said that Mr Kislyak could have exaggerated the account, and cited a Justice Department spokesperson who repeated that Mr Sessions did not discuss interference in the election.\n\nBut the Post's story was the focus of one of many tweets the US president fired off on Saturday morning.\n\n\"A new INTELLIGENCE LEAK from the Amazon Washington Post, this time against A.G. Jeff Sessions. These illegal leaks, like Comey's, must stop!\" Mr Trump said.\n\nThe Washington Post is owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who has been an occasional sparring partner for Mr Trump. \"Comey\" refers to James Comey, the former FBI boss Mr Trump fired.\n\nEarlier this week, Mr Trump told the New York Times he regretted hiring Mr Sessions because he had stepped away from overseeing an inquiry into alleged Russian meddling in the US election.\n\nMr Sessions recused himself in March amid pressure over his meetings with Mr Kislyak. He says he plans to continue in his role as attorney general.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sessions said he loved the job and the department\n\nSeveral other regular targets for Mr Trump featured in his series of tweets.\n\nHe accused the \"failing\" New York Times of foiling an attempt to assassinate the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.\n\nIt is not clear what Mr Trump was referring to, but on Saturday a US general complained on Fox News that a \"good lead\" on Baghdadi was leaked to a national newspaper in 2015.\n\nA New York Times report at the time revealed that valuable information had been extracted from a raid, but the paper stressed on Saturday that no-one had taken issue with their reporting until now.\n\nAnd Mr Trump again urged Republicans to \"step up to the plate\" and repeal and replace President Obama's healthcare reforms, a key campaign pledge of his that has collapsed in Congress.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDoris Hobday and her twin sister Lilian Cox, known as the Tipton Twins, were admitted to hospital after testing positive earlier this month.\n\nHer family said Mrs Hobday had died on 5 January, adding they were \"totally heartbroken to lose Doris in this way\".\n\nMrs Cox has since been discharged from hospital and is continuing to recover, the family said. The siblings were among the UK's oldest living twins.\n\nDoris Hobday died in hospital on 5 January, her family has announced\n\n\"We are so grateful for all the special memories we have created and got to share with you all,\" the family said in a statement.\n\nThe twins, from Tipton, West Midlands, became popular figures online with their positive outlook on life and sense of humour.\n\nTipton Twins Doris and Lilian both tested positive for Covid-19 earlier this month\n\nThey appeared on BBC Breakfast, ITV's Good Morning Britain and This Morning, charming presenters with jokes about wearing their drawers inside out and their love for actor Jason Statham.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Dan Walker This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Piers Morgan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter���s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLilian and Doris said they did everything together. They lived in the same street after getting married, worked together at an ale-making factory in Birmingham and more recently lived next to one another at sheltered accommodation in Tipton.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC on their 95th birthday, Lilian revealed her sister's secret to a long life was \"no sex and plenty of Guinness\" - her own being simply \"lemonade\".\n\nDoris Hobday's family said she had passed away peacefully and they were grateful for all their memories with her\n\n\"Doris will be laid to rest with her husband who she lost 11 years ago after 65 years of happy marriage,\" her family said.\n\nA crowdfunding page has been set up in Mrs Hobday's memory, with funds raised being donated to The Beacon Centre for the Blind, which supported her late husband Raymond for 20 years.\n\nDoris will be buried next to her husband Ray, who, along with half a Guinness, was \"her favourite thing\"\n\nThe family said Mrs Cox had only been told of her sister's death on Monday, \"once she was strong enough to take the news\".\n\n\"She is now being comforted by family and staying with her daughter Vivien while she fully regains her strength.\"\n\n\"Both were determined to live until 100, they had so much to look forward to,\" their family said. \"It's just so cruel that Covid has stopped Doris like this.\"\n\nFollow BBC West Midlands on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: newsonline.westmidlands@bbc.co.uk\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Bannon was once considered among the most influential men in Mr Trump's administration\n\nPresident Trump's former top advisor, Steve Bannon, has been suspended from Twitter over the \"glorification of violence\" amid the election aftermath.\n\nMr Bannon said a re-elected Mr Trump should fire the top infectious disease expert and the FBI director, and called for violence against them.\n\nIt comes as the tech firms continue a clampdown on misinformation.\n\nFacebook has shut down a large group which alleges fraud, and announced new measures to amplify genuine results.\n\nMr Bannon, once widely thought of as one of the most powerful men in Washington, served as the boss of Mr Trump's 2016 campaign, and as a top presidential advisor for the first several months of his presidency.\n\nOn Thursday, he posted a video podcast to Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, in which he said both Dr Anthony Fauci - the face of the country's fight against coronavirus - and FBI Director Christopher Wray, should be fired after Mr Trump's re-election, but also said they should be subjected to violence.\n\nPresident Trump has expressed frustration with both men, clashing with Dr Fauci over the pandemic, and with Mr Wray over what he sees as a failure to investigate his opponent, Joe Biden.\n\nFacebook and YouTube both removed the video, but Twitter issued an outright suspension of Mr Bannon's \"war room pandemic\" account, for violating its policy on the glorification of violence.\n\nThe account has been permanently suspended, rather than banned for a limited amount of time, Twitter said in a statement.\n\nPresident Trump, meanwhile, had another of his tweets hidden and labelled by Twitter after falsely claiming victory and alleging the existence of \"illegal votes\".\n\nThe President responded by tweeting: \"Twitter is out of control\".\n\nThe Stop the Steal Facebook group had about 350,000 members when the social media giant removed it, something the social network admitted was an \"exceptional\" measure. It did so because it was \"creating real-world events\" and \"we saw worrying calls for violence from some members of the group\", Facebook said.\n\nThe social network is now taking further measures to restrict the flow of \"inaccurate claims\" in order \"to keep this content from reaching more people\".\n\n\"These include demotions for content on Facebook and Instagram that our systems predict may be misinformation, including debunked claims about voting. We are also limiting the distribution of live videos that may relate to the election on Facebook,\" the firm said in a statement.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Facebook Newsroom This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAs President Trump continues to allege, without evidence, that widespread voter fraud took place, Facebook also said it would alter its election banner notifications and spread news of the projected winner, once a majority of independent outlets projected the result.\n\nThe same notice will be put on posts from both candidates.\n\nSeparately, Bloomberg reports that Twitter will remove the \"special treatment\" it affords President Trump as a world leader, in the event of Joe Biden winning the presidency.\n\nTwitter has specific rules for world leaders, which means it will not ordinarily ban them for the same offences for which it would ban ordinary users. Twitter argues that such posts - even when violating its rules - are sufficiently newsworthy to stay up, with a handful of exceptions.\n\nInstead, Twitter can label the post of a world leader, hiding it from view and restricting engagement - but leaving it viewable to anyone who clicks through a warning message about the content.\n\nIt has repeatedly done this to Mr Trump's tweets, leading to high-profile arguments with the president and his supporters.\n\nBut Mr Trump would return to the status of a regular user if he loses the election, Bloomberg reported - meaning that his tweets could be deleted outright or his account suspended, for policy violations.", "Liam Gallagher, Sir Elton John and Nicola Benedetti have put their names to the letter\n\nSome of the UK's biggest music stars have written to the government demanding action to ensure visa-free touring in the European Union.\n\nSir Elton John, Liam Gallagher and Nicola Benedetti are among 110 artists who have signed the open letter.\n\nIt said they had been \"shamefully failed\" by the government over post-Brexit travel rules for UK musicians.\n\nThe government said the signatories should be asking the EU why they \"rejected the sensible UK proposal\".\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden will meet music industry representatives on Wednesday to address their concerns.\n\nEarlier this week, culture minister Caroline Dinenage said the EU's \"very broad\" offer \"would not have been compatible with the government's manifesto commitment to take back control of our borders\".\n\nHowever, she said \"the door is open\" if the EU was willing to consider the UK's proposals to reach an agreement for musicians.\n\nIn the meantime, she confirmed, musicians and artists touring the continent \"will be required to check domestic immigration and visitor rules for each member state in which they intend to tour\".\n\nThat may require them to have multiple visas or work permits, which some industry experts say will be expensive and potentially prohibitive - especially for musicians at the start of their careers.\n\nOther names on the open letter include Ed Sheeran, Sir Simon Rattle, Sting, Radiohead, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Kim Wilde, Roger Daltrey, Glastonbury organisers Michael and Emily Eavis, and Judith Weir, Master of the Queen's Music.\n\nThe letter was organised by the Incorporated Society of Musicians and the Liberal Democrats, and published in The Times.\n\n\"The reality is that British musicians, dancers, actors and their support staff have been shamefully failed by their government,\" it said.\n\n\"The deal done with the EU has a gaping hole where the promised free movement for musicians should be. Everyone on a European music tour will now need costly work permits for many countries they visit and a mountain of paperwork for their equipment.\"\n\nThe extra costs will \"tip many performers over the edge\", it claimed.\n\n\"We call on the government to urgently do what it said it would do and negotiate paperwork-free travel in Europe for British artists and their equipment,\" it added.\n\n\"For the sake of British fans wanting to see European performers in the UK and British venues wishing to host them, the deal should be reciprocal.\"\n\nThe Who frontman Daltrey signed despite telling the BBC Radio 4's Front Row programme in 2018: \"It's nothing that can't be solved. I mean, we used to work in Europe before the EU was even thought about. We had the golden period of the 60s and the 70s.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Who frontman Roger Daltrey gave his take on Brexit in 2018\n\nOn Wednesday, the veteran rocker said the two positions were compatible. \"I have not changed my opinion on the EU,\" he said in a statement to the PA news agency. \"I'm glad to be free of Brussels, not Europe.\n\n\"I would have preferred reform, which was asked for by us before the referendum and was turned down by the then president of the EU. I do think our government should have made the easing of restrictions for musicians and actors a higher priority.\n\n\"Every tour, individual actors and musicians should be treated as any other 'goods' at the point of entry to the EU with one set of paperwork. Switzerland has borders with five EU countries, and trade is electronically frictionless. Why not us?\"\n\nDeborah Annetts, chief executive of the Incorporated Society of Musicians, said: \"World-renowned performers, emerging artists from every genre and the most respected figures from leading organisations within our sector are now sending a clear message.\n\n\"It is essential for the government to negotiate a new reciprocal agreement that allows performers to tour in Europe for up to 90 days, without the need for a work permit.\"\n\nResponding to the letter, a UK government spokesperson said that musicians' concerns were being taken seriously.\n\n\"We absolutely agree that musicians should be able to work across Europe,\" they said in a statement.\n\n\"The UK Government put forward a proposal, based on feedback from the music sector, that would have allowed musicians to tour - but the EU repeatedly rejected this.\n\n\"The EU's offer in the negotiations would not have worked for touring musicians: it did not deal with work permits at all, and would not have allowed support staff to tour with artists. The signatories of this letter should be asking the EU why they rejected the sensible UK proposal.\"\n\nCulture Secretary Oliver Dowden is due to host a roundtable discussion with representatives from the music industry, addressing their concerns, on Wednesday.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Joe Biden has spent 50 years in politics working towards this moment, but he could never have expected such huge challenges would be facing him on his first day at the helm. What are his priorities?\n\nHe'll get started with a 10-day flurry of executive orders.\n\nThese are presidential directives that don't require congressional approval.\n\nTop of the list are rescinding a controversial travel ban, imposed by his predecessor Donald Trump against countries he viewed as a security threat, and rejoining the Paris climate deal.\n\nHere's what else we know about what will demand the new president's immediate attention.\n\nThe coronavirus has killed more than 400,000 people in the US - and the pandemic and its wide-ranging impact will be the new administration's top priority.\n\nMr Biden has called it \"one of the most important battles our administration will face\" and has vowed to implement his Covid strategy straight away.\n\nOne of his first moves will be executive action requiring social distancing and the wearing of masks on federal property nationwide and by federal employees and contractors.\n\nStill, there's no guarantee the state governors who've so far opposed mask mandates will suddenly change their minds - there appears to be no legal authority that grants a president the power to bring in a nationwide mask rule.\n\nMr Biden seems to have conceded that point, and says he'll personally try to persuade governors to come around.\n\nIf they're not receptive, he's vowed to make calls to mayors and municipal officials to recruit them to the cause. There's also no word yet on how a mandate will be enforced.\n\nMr Biden wants to speed up the vaccine rollout with the ultimate goal of vaccinating 100 million people with at least a first dose against Covid in his first 100 days in office.\n\nOne part of the acceleration plan is to release all available vaccine doses instead of holding some in reserve for the necessary second jab.\n\nHe is also expected to take executive action on efforts to develop and deploy rapid testing and to put in place a national supply chain for equipment, medications and personal protective equipment, or PPE.\n\nOn his agenda is a pledge to reverse the decision to have the US leave the World Health Organization (WHO).\n\nMr Trump announced plans over the summer to pull the country out of the WHO, accusing it of mismanaging Covid after the virus emerged in China and saying it failed to make \"greatly needed reforms\".\n\nMr Biden's team has said he has immediate plans to extend a moratorium on evictions and on foreclosures on home mortgages - both of which were paused early in the pandemic - as well as the current pause on federal student loan payments and interest.\n\nMr Biden's transition team said he plans to direct Cabinet agencies this week to \"take immediate action to deliver economic relief to working families\", though they did not offer more detail.\n\n$1.9tn for the US coronavirus economy\n\nLast week, Mr Biden announced a $1.9tn (£1.4tn) stimulus plan for the coronavirus-sapped US economy, saying that \"a crisis of deep human suffering is in plain sight and there's no time to waste\".\n\nIf passed by Congress, it would include direct payments of $1,400 to all Americans. He has also included funding to help schools safely reopen, which he wants to happen in the first 100 days.\n\nIt'll be in addition to a long-awaited $900bn stimulus package Congress passed in December, which Mr Biden had called a \"down payment\" on the larger proposed package.\n\nRepublicans lawmakers are likely to object to parts of the bill, which will add more debt to what the US has already spent dealing with the pandemic - and Mr Biden will need bipartisan support for the plan.\n\nDemocrats currently control both chambers of Congress, but only by narrow margins.\n\nCovid aid isn't the only priority on the incoming president's economic agenda. He has pledged to get rid of Mr Trump's signature tax cuts as soon as he takes office.\n\nMr Trump passed the cuts in 2017, early in his presidency, and the Biden team says they unfairly reward the wealthiest Americans and favour corporations over small businesses.\n\nMr Biden has also said he would swiftly double the taxes that US firms pay on foreign profits - part of his Made in America push - which would come in addition to a rise in corporate taxes.\n\nHis tax policy legislation will need to pass Congress.\n\nAnother move Mr Biden says he will make on his first day in office is to rejoin the Paris climate agreement, a global accord that includes the goal to keep temperatures below 2.0C (3.6F) above pre-industrial times and \"endeavour to limit\" them even more, to 1.5C.\n\nHis predecessor pulled the US out of the 2015 accord - it became official on 4 November - making it the first nation in the world to do so.\n\nThe US will officially be part of the agreement again within 30 days.\n\nMr Biden has also pledged to \"up the ante\" and aim for higher standards on climate mitigation measures, and to convene a climate world summit within the first 100 days in office.\n\nMr Biden has said he wants to work with Congress to enact legislation this year that will allow the US to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.\n\nIn a move that has already sparked alarm with his northern neighbours, Mr Biden is reportedly planning to immediately rescind the cross-border permit for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, a planned project from the oil sands of Canada's Alberta province, through Montana and South Dakota, to rejoin an existing pipeline to Texas.\n\nA further agenda item is a U-turn on much of Mr Trump's legacy of climate and energy deregulation, like the easing of vehicle emissions targets.\n\nMr Biden has said he will negotiate \"rigorous\" new emissions limits on cars and heavy-duty vehicles, to conserve 30% of US lands and waters by 2030, to ban new drilling on public lands, and to close the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling.\n\nThe new administration says it plans also to bring in \"aggressive\" methane pollution limits for oil and gas operations and to ban new oil and gas leasing on public lands and waters.\n\nThe travel ban, signed by Mr Trump just seven days after taking office in January 2017, will be among the first policies to be discarded.\n\nThe ban initially excluded people from seven majority-Muslim countries, but the list was modified following a series of court challenges.\n\nIt now restricts citizens of Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, Venezuela and North Korea.\n\nIn another major immigration pledge, Mr Biden has said he'll swiftly send a bill to Congress laying out a pathway to citizenship for over 11 million undocumented immigrants.\n\n\"And all of those so-called dreamers, those Daca [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals programme] kids, they're going to be immediately certified again to be able to stay in this country and put on a path to citizenship,\" he said in late October.\n\nLate in the election, the campaign announced Mr Biden would create a task force to reunite some 545 migrant children separated from their parents at the US southern border.\n\nIn December, the Biden team conceded it would need more time to roll back one of Mr Trump's policies, the Migrant Protection Protocols that force thousands of asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for US immigration court hearings.\n\nOnce a \"Day One\" pledge, officials now say it could take about six months to address.\n\nMr Biden has vowed to halt construction of a project synonymous with Mr Trump's presidency - the border wall between the US and Mexico. His campaign had called it \"a waste of money\" that \"diverts critical resources away from the real threats\".\n\nThe administration says it will instead divert the federal funds towards efforts like new border screening measures.\n\nUS President Donald Trump tours and signs a section of the US-Mexico border wall\n\nThe national reckoning with race is the fourth crisis - alongside Covid, the economy and climate - Mr Biden says he must tackle quickly.\n\nSome of those policies - like addressing racial disparities in housing and healthcare - overlap with his other plans.\n\nMr Biden will sign an executive order on racial equality and call on all US agencies to create a plan to tackle any unequal barriers to opportunity. It will also rescind Mr Trump's executive order limiting the ability of federal government agencies to implement diversity and inclusion training.\n\nMr Biden has promised to set up a national police oversight body to assist in reforming police departments in his first 100 days in office, though details of that plan are scarce.\n\nHe has said he wants swift passage by Congress of the \"Safe Justice Act\", which includes measures on reforming mandatory minimum sentences and increasing funding for community based policing.\n\nHe has made commitments to the LGBT community as well, like directing resources towards helping prevent violence against transgender people, ending the ban on transgender people serving in the military, and restoring guidance for transgender students in schools.\n\nOne other priority is passing the Equality Act, which would add sexual orientation and gender identity to existing federal civil rights laws, though how fast he can pass that legislation remains unclear.\n\nThe incoming president says he plans to quickly reach out to US allies to smooth ruffled feathers and promise that \"America has your back\", saying the US must \"prove to the world that [it] is prepared to lead again - not just with the example of our power but also with the power of our example\".\n\nHe has said on his first day in the Oval Office he would reach out to Nato allies with the message \"we're back and you can count on us again\".\n\nThough Mr Trump was not the first president to pressure other North Atlantic Treaty Organisation members to spend more on defence, he threatened at times to withdraw from the alliance that Mr Biden has called the \"bulwark of the liberal democratic ideal\".", "More than 127,000 people in the UK who contracted coronavirus have lost their lives - with the pandemic claiming more than 3.4 million deaths worldwide. As the UK marks a year since the first coronavirus lockdown was called, it's a time for reflection.\n\nWe have gathered tributes to more than 770 of those who have died. Below are words of remembrance from friends, family and colleagues.\n\nPlease enable JavaScript or upgrade your browser to see this interactive\n\nThe tributes are displayed at random, which means that you will see different faces each time you visit this page.\n\nIf we have used your tribute to your friend or family member, it will appear in the carousel above, or you can find it by entering their name in the search box below.\n\nA modern browser with JavaScript and a stable internet connection is required to view this interactive. Enter a name to search the tributes\n\nFor more on NHS and healthcare workers, please see this page dedicated to 100 people who died while helping to look after others.\n\nFor more on how it has affected people's lives, from family tragedy to its impact on everyday life, we have a collection of personal stories about life in lockdown.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Many were taken by surprise by the events in Washington, but to those who closely follow conspiracy and extreme right groups online, the warning signs were all there.\n\nAt 02:21 Eastern Standard Time on election night, President Trump walked onto a stage set up in the East Room of the White House and declared victory.\n\n\"We were getting ready to win this election. Frankly, we did win this election.\"\n\nHis speech came an hour after he'd tweeted: \"They are trying to steal the election\".\n\nHe hadn't won. There was no victory to steal. But to many of his most fervent supporters, these facts didn't matter, and still don't.\n\nSixty five days later, a motley coalition of rioters stormed the US Capitol building. They included believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory, members of \"Stop the Steal\" groups, far-right activists, online trolls and others.\n\nOn Friday 8 January - some 48 hours after the Washington riots - Twitter began a purge of some of the most influential pro-Trump accounts that had been pushing conspiracies and urging direct action to overturn the election result.\n\nThen came the big one - Mr Trump himself.\n\nThe president was permanently banned from tweeting to his more than 88 million followers \"due to the risk of further incitement of violence\".\n\nThe violence in Washington shocked the world and seemed to catch the authorities off guard.\n\nBut for anyone who had been carefully watching the unfolding story - online and on the streets of American cities - it came as no surprise.\n\nThe idea of a rigged election was seeded by the president in speeches and on Twitter, months before the vote.\n\nOn election day, the rumors started just as Americans were going to the polls.\n\nA video of a Republican poll watcher being denied entry to a Philadelphia polling station went viral. It was a genuine error, caused by confusion about the rules. The man was later allowed into the station to observe the count.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Will Chamberlain This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Will Chamberlain\n\nBut it became the first of many videos, images, graphics and claims that went viral in the days that followed, giving rise to a hashtag: #StopTheSteal.\n\nThe message behind it was clear - Mr Trump had won a landslide victory, but dark forces in the establishment \"deep state\" had stolen it from him.\n\nIn the early hours of Wednesday 4 November, while votes were still being counted and three days before the US networks called the election for Joe Biden, President Trump claimed victory, alleging \"a fraud on the American public\".\n\nMr Trump did not provide any evidence to back up his claims. Studies carried out for previous US elections have shown that voter fraud is extremely rare.\n\nBy mid-afternoon a Facebook group called \"Stop the Steal\" was created and quickly became one of the fastest-growing in the platform's history. By Thursday morning, it had added more than 300,000 members.\n\nMany of the posts focused on unsubstantiated allegations of mass voter fraud, including manufactured claims that thousands of dead people had voted and that voting machines had somehow been programmed to flip votes from Mr Trump to Mr Biden.\n\nBut some of the posts were more alarming, speaking of the need for a \"civil war\" or \"revolution\".\n\nBy Thursday afternoon, Facebook had taken down Stop the Steal, but not before it had generated nearly half a million comments, shares, likes, and reactions.\n\nDozens of other groups quickly sprang up in its place.\n\nThe idea of a stolen election continued to spread online and take hold. Soon, a dedicated Stop the Steal website was launched in a bid to register \"boots on the ground to protect the integrity of the vote\".\n\nOn Saturday 7 November, major news organisations declared that Joe Biden had won the election. In Democratic strongholds, throngs of people took to the streets to celebrate. But the reaction online from Mr Trump's most ardent supporters was one of anger and defiance.\n\nThey planned a rally in Washington DC for the following Saturday, dubbed the Million MAGA (Make America Great Again) March.\n\nTrump tweeted that he might try to stop by the demonstration and \"say hello\".\n\nPrevious pro-Trump rallies in Washington had failed to attract large crowds. But thousands gathered at Freedom Plaza that sunny morning.\n\nOne extremism researcher called it the \"debut of the pro-Trump insurgency\".\n\nAs Trump's motorcade drove through the city, supporters screaming with delight rushed to catch a glimpse of the president, who beamed at them wearing a red MAGA hat.\n\nWhile mainstream conservative figures were present, the event was dominated by far-right groups.\n\nDozens of members of the far-right, anti-immigrant, all-male group Proud Boys, who have repeatedly been involved in violent street protests and were among those who would later break into the US Capitol, joined the march. Militia groups, far-right media figures and promoters of conspiracy theories were also there.\n\nAs night fell, clashes between Trump supporters and counter-protesters broke out, including a brawl about five blocks from the White House.\n\nThe violence - although largely contained by police on this occasion - was a clear sign of things to come.\n\nBy now, President Trump and his legal team had invested their hopes in dozens of legal cases.\n\nAlthough a number of courts had already dismissed fraud allegations, many in the pro-Trump online world became fascinated with two lawyers with close ties to the president - Sidney Powell and L Lin Wood.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood promised they were preparing cases of voter fraud so comprehensive that when released, they would destroy the case for Mr Biden having won the presidency.\n\nMs Powell, 65, a conservative activist and former federal prosecutor, told Fox News that the effort would \"release the Kraken\" - a reference to a gigantic sea monster from Scandinavian folklore that rises up from the ocean to devour its enemies.\n\nThe \"Kraken\" quickly became an internet meme, representing sprawling, unsubstantiated claims of widespread election fraud.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood became heroes to followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory - who believe President Trump and a secret military intelligence team are battling a deep state made up of Satan-worshipping paedophiles in the Democratic Party, media, business and Hollywood.\n\nThe lawyers became a conduit between the president and his most conspiracy-minded supporters - a number of whom ended up inside the Capitol on 6 January.\n\nMs Powell and Mr Wood were successful in whipping up sound and fury online, but their legal efforts came to nothing.\n\nWhen they released almost 200 pages of documents in late November, it became clear that their lawsuit consisted predominantly of conspiracy theories and debunked allegations that had already been rejected by dozens of courts.\n\nThe filings contained simple legal errors - and basic misspellings and typos.\n\nStill, the meme lived on. The terms \"Kraken\" and \"Release the Kraken\" were used more than a million times on Twitter before the Capitol riot.\n\nDeath threats were made against a Georgia election worker, and Republican officials in the state - including Governor Brian Kemp, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and the official in charge of the state's voting systems, Gabriel Sterling - were branded \"traitors\" online.\n\nMr Sterling issued an emotional and prescient warning to the president in a press conference on 1 December.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"This has to stop... someone's gonna get killed\": Mr Sterling calls on President Trump to condemn the threats\n\n\"Someone's going to get hurt, someone's going to get shot, someone's going to get killed, and it's not right,\" he said.\n\nIn Michigan in early December, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat, had just finished trimming her Christmas tree with her four-year-old son when she heard a commotion outside her Detroit home.\n\nAbout 30 protesters with banners stood outside, shouting \"Stop the steal!\" through megaphones.\n\n\"Benson, you are a villain,\" one person yelled.\n\nOne of the demonstrators live-streamed the protest on Facebook, stating that her group was \"not going away\".\n\nIt was just one of a rash of protests targeting people involved in the vote.\n\nIn Georgia, a constant stream of Trump supporters drove past Mr Raffensperger's home, honking their horns. His wife received threats of sexual violence.\n\nIn Arizona, demonstrators gathered outside of the home of Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, at one point warning: \"We are watching you.\"\n\nOn 11 December, the Supreme Court rejected an attempt by the state of Texas to throw out election results.\n\nAs the president's legal and political windows continued to close, the language in pro-Trump online circles became increasingly violent.\n\nOn 12 December, a second Stop the Steal rally was held in the capital. Once again, thousands attended, and once again prominent far-right activists, QAnon supporters, fringe MAGA groups and militia movements were among the demonstrators.\n\nMichael Flynn, Mr Trump's former national security advisor, likened the protesters to the biblical soldiers and priests breaching the walls of Jericho. This echoed the rally organisers' call for \"Jericho Marches\" to overturn the election result.\n\nNick Fuentes, the leader of Groypers, a far-right movement that targets Republican politicians and figures they deem too moderate, told the crowd: \"We are going to destroy the GOP!\"\n\nThe march once again turned violent.\n\nThen two days later, the Electoral College certified Mr Biden's victory, one of the final steps required for him to take office.\n\nOn online platforms, supporters were becoming resigned to the view that all legal avenues were dead ends, and only direct action could save the Trump presidency.\n\nSince election day, alongside Mr Flynn, Ms Powell and Mr Wood, a new figure had rapidly gained prominence among pro-Trump circles online.\n\nRon Watkins is the son of Jim Watkins, the man behind 8chan and 8kun - message boards filled with extreme language and views, violence and extreme sexual content. They gave rise to the QAnon movement.\n\nIn a series of viral tweets on 17 December, Ron Watkins suggested President Trump should follow the example of Roman leader Julius Caesar, and capitalise on \"fierce loyalty of the military\" in order to \"restore the Republic\".\n\nRon Watkins encouraged his more than 500,000 followers to make #CrossTheRubicon a Twitter trend, referring to the moment when Caesar launched a civil war by crossing the Rubicon river in 49BC. The hashtag was also used by more mainstream figures - including the chairwoman of Arizona Republican Party, Kelli Ward.\n\nIn a separate tweet, Ron Watkins said Mr Trump must invoke the Insurrection Act, which empowers the president to deploy the military and federal forces.\n\nMr Trump met Ms Powell, Mr Flynn and others at a strategy meeting at the White House the following day, 18 December.\n\nDuring the meeting, according to the New York Times, Mr Flynn called on Mr Trump to impose martial law and deploy the military to \"rerun\" the election.\n\nThe meeting further stoked online chatter about \"war\" and \"revolution\" in far-right circles. Many came to see the joint session of Congress on 6 January, normally a formality, as a last roll of the dice.\n\nA wishful story began to take hold among QAnon and some MAGA supporters. They hoped that Vice-President Mike Pence, who was set to preside over the 6 January ceremony, would ignore the electoral college votes.\n\nThe president, they said, would then deploy the military to quell any unrest, order the mass arrest of the \"deep state cabal\" who had rigged the election and send them to Guantanamo Bay military prison.\n\nBack in the land of reality, none of this was remotely feasible. But it launched a movement for \"patriot caravans\" to organise ride shares to help transport thousands from around the country to Washington DC on 6 January.\n\nLong processions of vehicles flying Trump flags and sometimes towing elaborately decorated trailers gathered in car parks in cities including Louisville, Kentucky, Atlanta, Georgia, and Scranton, Pennsylvania.\n\n\"We are on our way,\" one caravaner posted on Twitter with a picture of about two dozen supporters.\n\nAt an Ikea parking lot in North Carolina, another man showed off his truck. \"The flags are a little tattered - we'll call them battle flags now,\" he said.\n\nAs it became clear that Mr Pence and other key Republicans would follow the law and allow Congress to certify Mr Biden's win, the language towards them became vicious.\n\n\"Pence will be in jail awaiting trial for treason,\" Mr Wood tweeted. \"He will face execution by firing squad.\"\n\nOnline discussion reached boiling point. References to firearms, war and violence were rife on self-styled \"free speech\" social platforms such as Gab and Parler, which are popular with Trump supporters, as well as on other sites.\n\nIn Proud Boys groups, where members had once supported police, some turned against authorities, whom they deemed to no longer be on their side.\n\nHundreds of posts on a popular pro-Trump site, TheDonald, openly discussed plans to cross barricades, carry firearms and other weapons to the march in defiance of Washington's strict gun laws. There was open chatter about storming the Capitol and arresting \"treasonous\" members of Congress.\n\nOn Wednesday 6 January, Mr Trump addressed a crowd of thousands at the Ellipse, a park just south of the White House, for more than an hour.\n\nEarly on he encouraged supporters to \"peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard\", but he ended with a warning. \"We fight like hell, and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore.\n\n\"So we're going to, we're going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue… and we're going to the Capitol.\"\n\nTo some observers, the potential for violence that day was clear from the outset.\n\nMichael Chertoff, former secretary of homeland security under President George W Bush, blamed the Capitol Police, who reportedly turned down offers of assistance from the much larger National Guard ahead of time. He characterised it as \"the worst failure of a police force I can think of\".\n\n\"I think it was a very foreseeable potential negative turn of events,\" Mr Chertoff said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"To be blunt, it was obvious. If you read the newspaper and were awake, you understood that you've got a lot of people who have been convinced there was a fraudulent election. Some of them are extremists, and violent. Some of the groups openly said, 'Bring your guns'.\"\n\nStill, many Americans were astonished by Wednesday's scenes, like James Clark, a 68-year-old Republican from Virginia.\n\n\"I find it absolutely shocking. I didn't think it would come to this,\" he told the BBC.\n\nBut the signs were there for weeks. A hodgepodge of extreme and conspiratorial groups were convinced that the election was stolen. Online, they repeatedly talked about arming themselves, and violence.\n\nPerhaps the authorities didn't think their posts were serious, or specific enough to investigate. They now face pointed questions.\n\nFor Joe Biden's inauguration on 20 January, Mr Chertoff is expecting a \"much stronger showing\" by security services than last Wednesday night.\n\nBut that hasn't stopped many on extreme platforms calling for further violence and disruption on the day.\n\nThere are questions, too, for the major social media platforms, which enabled conspiracy theories to reach millions of people.\n\nLate on Friday, Twitter deleted the accounts of Mr Flynn, the former Trump advisor, the \"Kraken\" lawyers Ms Powell and Mr Wood, and Mr Watkins. Then Mr Trump himself.\n\nArrests of those who stormed the Capitol continue. But most of the rioters still live in a parallel online universe - a subterranean world filled with alternative facts.\n\nThey have already come up with fanciful explanations to dismiss Mr Trump's video statement, posted on Twitter the day after the riots, in which he acknowledged for the first time that \"a new administration will be inaugurated on 20 January\".\n\nHe can't possibly be giving up, they contend. Among their new theories - it's not really him in the video but a computer-generated \"deep fake\". Or perhaps the president is being held hostage.\n\nMany still believe Mr Trump will prevail.\n\nThere's no evidence behind any of this, but it does prove one thing.\n\nNo matter what happens to Donald Trump, the rioters who stormed the US Capitol are not backing down anytime soon.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Covid in Scotland: Schools to stay closed until mid-February at least\n\nScotland's Covid-19 lockdown has been extended until at least the middle of February, with most school pupils to continue learning from home.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon told MSPs that transmission of the virus appeared to be declining but was still too high to ease restrictions.\n\nBut she hopes schools will be able to at least begin a phased return to the classroom in the middle of next month.\n\nThe level four restrictions have been in place since Boxing Day.\n\nMeanwhile the islands of Barra and Vatersay are being moved into the top level of restrictions due to a \"significant outbreak\" there.\n\nThe current restrictions, which have closed non-essential shops and seen a \"stay at home\" message put down in law, had been due to expire at the end of this month.\n\nBut Scottish government ministers agreed they should be extended after a cabinet meeting on Tuesday morning.\n\nMs Sturgeon told MSPs that lockdown was \"beginning to have an impact\" on the number of new infections, but said Scotland remained in a \"very precarious position\".\n\nShe added: \"We need to be realistic that any improvement we are seeing is down, at this stage, to the fact that we are staying at home and reducing our interactions.\n\n\"Any relaxation of lockdown while case numbers, even though they might be declining, nevertheless remain very high, could quickly send the situation into reverse.\"\n\nThe vast majority of Scottish pupils have been home learning since the Christmas holiday\n\nThe announcement came as 1,165 new cases of Covid-19 were registered in Scotland, representing 11.1% of tests carried out.\n\nA total of 1,989 people are in hospital with the virus while a further 71 deaths of people who recently tested positive have been logged.\n\nMs Sturgeon said there was \"real and severe\" pressure on health services, with around 30% more patients in hospital than at the peak of the first wave in April 2020, and that this was \"almost certain to rise for a further period yet\".\n\nSchool buildings and nurseries have been closed to most pupils since the start of term, with all but the children of some key workers and vulnerable pupils learning from home.\n\nNot only will schools remain closed to most pupils until at least mid-February, they are unlikely to return to normal at that point.\n\nThe first minister has indicated that her aim is to begin a phased return, if coronavirus allows. So what might that mean?\n\nThe groups that will get back into class first are likely to include secondary school exam year pupils, the youngest primary school children and those in P7 getting ready to move to high school.\n\nFor others, online learning is likely to last a bit longer.\n\nBoth the return to school and the continuation of the wider lockdown will be reviewed again in a fortnight on 2 Feb.\n\nBy that week, first doses of vaccine should have been offered to all over 80s in Scotland as well as frontline NHS and social care staff and care home residents.\n\nWith only 15-20% of the over 80s reached so far, opposition parties think the programme is slipping behind schedule, which the first minister denies.\n\nMs Sturgeon said she knew how \"challenging and stressful\" home schooling was for families, but said community transmission was \"too high\" to allow a safe return to classrooms.\n\nShe said: \"If it is at all possible, as I very much hope it will be, to begin even a phased return to in-school learning in mid-February, we will.\n\n\"But I also have to be straight with families and say that it is simply too early to be sure about whether and to what extent this will be possible.\"\n\nStatistics released on Monday showed that Scotland had vaccinated 6% of its adult population so far - the same percentage as Wales, but lower than the 8% that have been vaccinated in England and 8.7% in Northern Ireland.\n\nEngland has also given a second dose of the vaccine to 427,386 people, compared to only 3,698 in Scotland.\n\nMs Sturgeon said approximately 100,000 people were being vaccinated per week in Scotland, and that health teams were \"on track\" to expand this to 400,000 per week by the end of February.\n\nStatistics have suggested the vaccination programme in Scotland is currently lagging behind England\n\nMore than 90% of care home residents have now been given a first dose, along with 70% of care home staff and 70% of all frontline health and care workers.\n\nThe first minister said the focus on care homes - where it is \"time consuming and labour intensive\" to give out jabs - was \"why overall figures are at this stage lower than in England\", where more over-80s have received the vaccine.\n\nShe said the \"pace of progress in the over-80s group is also now picking up\", and that the government remained on track to hit its target of completing everyone on the priority list by early May.\n\nScottish Conservative group leader Ruth Davidson said the Scottish government were \"lagging behind their own targets\" on vaccination, saying the focus on care homes \"doesn't explain how slowly the vaccine is reaching GP surgeries and the public\".\n\nShe read out a series of letters from elderly people who had not been contacted about getting a jab, saying they were \"anxious they don't get left behind\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said she would not apologise for \"prioritising the most vulnerable first\", saying all four UK nations were \"working to the same targets\".\n\nScottish Labour's interim leader Jackie Baillie asked if Ms Sturgeon was confident the government could hit its \"critical\" targets, saying GPs were still complaining about \"patchy\" distribution of vaccines.\n\nThe first minister replied that her government would hit its goals, saying it was \"always the intention\" to increase the pace of vaccination as infrastructure and supplies became available.\n\nThis would see care home residents, healthcare staff and all over-80s get a first dose by the start of February, with over-70s and those deemed \"extremely vulnerable\" by mid-February and all over-65s by the beginning of March.", "The last vestiges of the Trump presidency will be swept away on Wednesday, as the Bidens move into the White House. Desks will have been cleared out, rooms scrubbed clean and the president's aides will be replaced by a new team of political appointees. It's part of the massive transformation that a new presidency brings to the heart of government.\n\nOne evening last week, Stephen Miller, a policy adviser and central figure in the Trump White House, was lounging in the West Wing.\n\nMiller, who has crafted speeches and policies for the president since his early days in office, is also one of the few members of the president's initial team still with him at the end.\n\nLeaning against a wall and chatting with colleagues about a meeting scheduled for later that day, he seemed in no hurry to leave.\n\nThe West Wing usually hums with activity but it seemed deserted. The phones were quiet. Desks in empty offices were cluttered with papers and unopened letters, as if people had left in a hurry and would not be coming back. Dozens of senior officials and aides quit in the wake of the Capitol riots on 6 January. A handful of loyalists, like Miller, remain.\n\nAs the conversation began to wind down, he broke away from his colleagues. When I asked him where he was headed next, he smiled. \"Back to my office,\" he said and sauntered down the hall.\n\nOn inauguration day, Miller's office will have been cleaned out, swept of signs that he and his colleagues had ever been there, ready for the Biden team to move in.\n\nThe cleaning out of West Wing offices, and the transition between presidents, is part of a tradition that dates back centuries. It's a process that has not always been imbued with warmth.\n\nAnother impeached president, Andrew Johnson, a Democrat, snubbed Republican Ulysses S Grant in 1869 and skipped the inauguration. Grant, who had backed Johnson's removal from office, was hardly surprised.\n\nStaff have started moving paperwork and pictures out of the White House\n\nThis year, however, the transition stands out for its acrimony. The process usually starts straight after the election, but it started weeks late after Trump refused to accept the result. And the president has said he will not attend the inauguration. Most likely, he will instead travel to his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.\n\nStill, the handover is taking place, just as it has in the past. \"The system is holding,\" says Sean Wilentz, a professor of American history at Princeton University. \"It's very rocky, it's very bumpy, but nevertheless the transition is going to occur.\"\n\nEven in the best of times, the logistics of a transition are daunting, involving the transfer of knowledge and employees on a massive scale.\n\nStephen Miller is just one of 4,000 political appointees hired by the Trump administration who will lose their job and be replaced by individuals hired by Mr Biden.\n\nDuring an average transition, between 150,000-300,000 people apply for these jobs, according to the Center for Presidential Transition, a nonpartisan organisation based in Washington. About 1,100 of the positions also require Senate confirmation. Filling all of these positions takes months, even years.\n\nFour years of policy papers, briefing books and artefacts relating to the president's work will be carted off to the National Archives where they will be kept secret for 12 years, unless the president himself decides that portions may be released early.\n\nOn a weekday evening during Trump's last week in office, the door to the office of Kayleigh McEnany, the president's press secretary, was partly open.\n\nMcEnany has been one of the president's most high-profile defenders. Impeccably groomed, she is a precise speaker who maintains her composure amidst chaos.\n\nKayleigh McEnany has packed up her office in the White House\n\nHer office, too, was organised in a meticulous manner, even as she prepared to leave. A mirror stood on her desk, and several fireplace logs were wrapped in clear plastic and packed up.\n\nGenerally, the last few days are \"controlled chaos,\" says Kate Andersen Brower, who has written a book about the White House, The Residence.\n\nFurniture in the White House, such as the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, most of the artwork, china and other objects, belong to the government and will remain on the premises.\n\nBut other items, like photos of the president that hang in the hallway, will be taken down as the White House is transformed for its new occupants.\n\nStaffers are already moving some items out of the building. One White House staffer, a woman in sturdy heels, was lugging several images of First Lady Melania Trump out of the East Wing. The pictures are known as \"jumbos\" because of their extra-large size, she says, and they will be taken to the National Archives.\n\nThe Trumps' personal belongings, such as clothes, jewellery, and other items will be moved to their new residence, most likely at Mar-a-Lago in Florida.\n\nAnd this year, the place will be deep cleaned.\n\nPresident Biden is expected to make decorative changes to the Oval Office\n\nThe president, as well as Mr Miller and dozens of others at the White House, were infected with the coronavirus over the past several months, and the six-floor building, with its 132 rooms, will be thoroughly scrubbed down. Everything from handrails to elevator buttons to restroom fixtures will be wiped and sanitised, according to a spokeswoman for the General Services Administration, the federal agency that oversees the housekeeping effort.\n\nIncoming first families usually do some redecoration. Within days of arriving at the White House, Mr Trump had chosen a portrait of populist president Andrew Jackson for the Oval Office. He also replaced the drapes, couches and a rug in the office with ones that were gold-coloured.\n\nOn inauguration day, Vice-President Pence and his wife will also make way for Kamala Harris, and her husband, Doug Emhoff. They will be settling into their official residence, a 19th Century residence on the Naval Observatory grounds, a couple of miles from the White House.\n\nPolicy adviser Stephen Miller may have lingered in the West Wing, but others were ready to go. At the White House, people were lugging thick manila envelopes, framed photos and bags from a gift shop. \"It's my last day,\" says one man, smiling as he took a photo of his sons on the north lawn. A bulging backpack was slung over his shoulder.\n\nA group of National Security officials posed in front of the West Wing, asking me to take their picture. \"Make sure you get the marine guard,\" says one of the officials, referring to a marine who stands in front of the doorway when the president is in the Oval Office. The officials were in high spirits, joking and vamping for the camera.\n\nThe political appointees at the White House were in a good mood for a reason. For weeks, they had been caught in an in-between world. Their boss was denying the validity of the election, but they knew that their days were numbered. Now they could plan openly for their future, and they seemed almost giddy.\n\nOne political appointee, a man dressed in a dark suit, was already making plans. He ran into a colleague outside the Palm room, a reception area on the ground floor. \"See you on the flip side,\" he said, brightly. He was referring to the time after the inauguration, when they will both be out of their White House jobs. He mused about where they might meet again. \"Hopefully in the Greek isles or somewhere.\"\n\n\"Oh, yes. That is for sure,\" said his colleague, laughing. They smacked a high-five and then parted ways.", "Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has confirmed the government is looking at scrapping some EU labour laws now it is no longer bound by the bloc's rules.\n\nBut he promised there would be no dilution of workers' rights.\n\nMeasures under consideration include relaxing the working time directive which enshrines a 48-hour week.\n\nShadow business secretary Ed Miliband warned the government wanted to take a \"wrecking ball\" to hard-won rights.\n\nEarlier this week Mr Kwarteng said he wanted to \"protect and enhance\" labour law after the Financial Times reported that some rules could be weakened.\n\nThe minister later told business leaders the UK had an opportunity to reform regulation derived from EU law, but would not deliberately antagonise the EU - its biggest trading partner - immediately after the Brexit deal.\n\nConfirming the review on Tuesday, Mr Kwarteng told MPs there would be no \"bonfire of rights\".\n\n\"I think the view was that we wanted to look at the whole range of issues relating to our EU membership and examine what we wanted to keep, if you like,\" he said.\n\nBut he said \"the idea that we are trying to whittle down standards, that's not at all plausible or true\".\n\nAppearing before MPs, the business secretary said: \"I'm very struck as I look at EU economies how many EU countries - I think it's about 17 or 18 - have essentially opted out of the working time directive.\n\n\"So even by just following that we are way above the average European standard and I want to maintain that. I think we can be a high-wage, high-employment economy, a very successful economy, and that's what we should be aiming for.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kwasi Kwarteng This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Miliband said that after denying the FT's report, Mr Kwarteng had now \"let the cat out of the bag\" in admitting the government was conducting a review.\n\nHe warned that opting out of the 48-hour week would harm workers in key sectors like the NHS, road haulage and airlines from working excessive hours.\n\n\"A government committed to maintaining existing protections would not be reviewing whether they should be unpicked. This exposes that the government's priorities for Britain are totally wrong.\"\n\nDrew Hendry, the SNP's business spokesman, echoed the criticism, accusing the government of planning an \"assault\" on workers' rights.\n\nMeanwhile the boss of the UK's biggest recruitment firm, Reed, told the BBC's Today programme that there was \"no wish\" among employers to see \"a so-called bonfire of workers' rights.\n\n\"They must be protected because fair treatment is the bedrock of good workplace relations,\" James Reed said.\n\nThe chairman of the firm said the government should instead focus on lower-paid workers and measures that could be taken to improve unemployment, which is set to rise further into mid-2021.\n\n\"I would suggest two things are looked at before any EU rules: The apprenticeship levy, which is clearly failing... and also National Insurance on jobs. It's a tax on jobs - how can that be improved? Especially to help the low-paid back into work.\"\n\nUnder the post-Brexit trade deal with the EU, the UK has agreed to conditions that maintain fair competition, or a level playing field, between the two sides.\n\nHowever, the EU's ambassador to the UK, Joao Vale de Almeida, said Brussels could retaliate if Boris Johnson's government went too far in with deregulation.\n\n\"It will be for us to judge the extent to which it violates this principle of 'level playing field' and if that is the case there are mechanisms in the treaty, in the agreement, that allow us to discuss and eventually to come to an understanding,\" he said on Tuesday.\n\n\"If no understanding there are retaliation measures that can be applied on both sides.\"", "At 12:01, in the midst of his inaugural address, Joe Biden officially became the 46th president of the United States.\n\nHe was already well into outlining exactly how daunting a task he - and the nation - have ahead in what he called its \"winter of peril\".\n\nAmerica is facing a devastating pandemic which has resulted in massive job losses and business closures, a threatened environment, urgent cries for racial justice and resurgence in \"political extremism, white supremacy and domestic terrorism\".\n\nHis speech was not a laundry list of proposals and solutions. Those were reserved for his first 17 executive actions as president - on immigration, climate change, transgender rights and public health, among others.\n\nThe Biden administration has also frozen all of Trump's last-minute regulations pending further review.\n\nInstead, Biden used his speech to offer hope - and to argue, at times forcefully, that the nation must be united in facing the challenges ahead; that it has to move past its current \"uncivil war\".\n\n\"Without unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury,\" he said. \"No progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos.\"\n\n\"This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge,\" he continued. \"And unity is the path forward\".\n\nAt times, Biden's speech seemed a direct rebuttal to his predecessor's administration, although he did not mention Donald Trump by name.\n\nWhere Trump frequently spoke of American greatness and glorified its founders, Biden noted that the nation's history has been a \"constant struggle\" between its ideals and sometimes harsh realities.\n\nWhere Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway spoke of \"alternative facts\" almost four years ago, Biden said: \"There is truth and there are lies - lies told for power and for profit.\"\n\nBiden wrapped up his inaugural address by warning that America must not \"turn inward\" - both as individuals retreating into \"competing factions\" and as a nation on the world stage.\n\n\"We will repair our alliances and engage with the world once again,\" he said.\n\nRhetorically, Biden turned the page from Trump's days of \"America first\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe first 100 days of any administration are always important to a new president. What are his priorities? What will he try to accomplish when his political capital is at its highest?\n\nJoe Biden and his presidential team have had nearly three months to plan out his first actions upon taking the oath of office, but executive action is the (relatively) easy part.\n\nHis speech reflected the reality that he enters office with his top priorities already determined for him.\n\nHis government will be responsible for distributing the coronavirus vaccine in an efficient and equitable way. After that, he will have to focus on the societal and economic disruptions caused by the pandemic.\n\nThe virus has exacerbated income inequality and pushed many households to the brink of economic ruin. It's devastated the travel and hospitality industries and placed incredible strain on the finances of state and local governments.\n\nHis pledge to seek unity will be tested early, as he pushes a sharply divided Congress to pass another, massive round of pandemic stimulus aid. If he wants to enact it quickly, he will need Republican support in the Senate, and already there are signs that some on the right may be lining up in opposition to more spending.\n\nThen there's Trump's Senate impeachment trial, which will present yet another challenge to national unity. It will keep Trump's name in the news for weeks, as his defenders rally to his side and his detractors call for consequences for his actions.\n\nAfter that, Biden's potential political paths diverge. He has said he wants to improve healthcare in the US, address growing college debt, make new investments in infrastructure and tackle climate change.\n\nHe's pledged to push immigration reform legislation that includes a pathway to citizenship for undocumented migrants - a political lightning rod that helped fuel Trump's first presidential run.\n\nWhat he prioritises, and how successful his first efforts are, could determine the overall success of his administration. To make lasting change - policies that can't be undone by future presidents - he will have to work with Congress.\n\nThe inauguration ceremony is over. But, as Biden noted in his speech, the American people face one of the most challenging times in their nation's history.\n\n\"We will be judged by how we resolve these cascading crises of our era,\" he said.\n\nBiden campaigned against Trump for the opportunity to face those crises. Now he has his chance.", "Anyone going on a Saga holiday or cruise in 2021 must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, the tour operator has said.\n\nSaga, which specialises in holidays for the over-50s, said it wanted to protect customers' health and safety.\n\nThe firm said it would delay restarting its travel packages until May to give customers enough time to get jabs.\n\nPeople over 50 in the UK have been rushing to book holidays as vaccinations boost confidence.\n\n\"The health and safety of our customers has always been our number one priority at Saga, so we have taken the decision to require everyone travelling with us to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19,\" Saga said in a statement.\n\n\"Our customers want the reassurance of the vaccine and to know others travelling with them will be vaccinated too.\"\n\nThe firm's holidays were due to restart in March and its cruises in April after a long hiatus, but they will now both be delayed.\n\nSaga said that meant all trips before May would no longer go ahead as planned, acknowledging it would be \"a huge disappointment\" to customers.\n\n\"We will be contacting all guests affected to discuss their options,\" it said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Singapore's 'cruises to nowhere' set back by Covid scare\n\nThe firm said its vaccination policy added to stronger safety processes already planned for when its holidays resume.\n\nThese include requiring cruise passengers to have a Covid-19 test before their trip, as well as a full medical screening.\n\nCapacity on its ships will also be kept to a maximum of 800 people.\n\nThere were some severe covid outbreaks on cruise ships early on the pandemic, before coronavirus restrictions were imposed.\n\nBritish-registered ship the Diamond Princess, owned by the company Carnival, was quarantined for nearly a month in February in the Port of Yokohama in Japan.\n\nMore than 700 of its 3,711 passengers and crew were infected, and 14 died.\n\nThe UK has embarked on a mass vaccination programme as Covid-19 cases surge.\n\nPeople in England are being vaccinated at a rate of 140 jabs per minute, NHS England boss Sir Simon Stevens said this week.\n\nExperts believe in future that airlines, concert venues and restaurants could routinely ask customers to prove that they have been vaccinated.\n\nAnd last week, London plumbing firm Pimlico Plumbers said that all of its staff would be contractually obliged to get the jab.", "The government does not know how many cases might be affected by hundreds of thousands of police records being accidentally wiped, the PM has said.\n\nBoris Johnson told the House of Commons the police were working \"round the clock\" to rectify the error.\n\nAround 400,000 fingerprint, DNA and arrest records were deleted from the police database.\n\nEarlier, Home Secretary Priti Patel said it was not yet known whether any of the data had been permanently lost.\n\nSpeaking during Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said: \"The Home Office is actively working to assess the damage and... they believe that they will be able to rectify the results of this complex incident and they hope very much that they'll be able to restore the data in question.\"\n\nAsked by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer how many convicted criminals had had their records wrongly deleted, Mr Johnson said: \"We don't know how many cases might be frustrated as a result of what has happened.\"\n\nHe added: \"Of course it is outrageous that any data should have been lost.\"\n\nLast week it was revealed that the information was wiped from the Police National Computer (PNC) - which stores and shares criminal records information across the UK - after being inadvertently flagged for deletion.\n\nThe PNC is used in police investigations and provides real-time checks on people, vehicles and crimes, as well as whether suspects are wanted for any unsolved offences.\n\nAn estimated 213,000 offence records, 175,000 arrest records and 15,000 records on people were potentially incorrectly deleted as a result of a defective code.\n\nMs Patel, who has launched an internal investigation, told ITV's Good Morning Britain that criminals would not get away with serious crimes as a result of the error.\n\n\"It is not about serious criminals getting away with anything. Multiple records are held on the same individuals on the same crimes on other profiling systems as well.\"\n\nShe told the BBC that officials could be instructed to re-submit the entries manually.\n\n\"I'm also clear with Home Office engineers and technicians that if we have to do manual uploads from other systems, that is effectively what we will do and that will potentially take time, but that is another option for us right now.\n\n\"We will absolutely provide updates once we know what has happened in terms of retrieving data. This will take time because it is a coding error.\"\n\nThe Home Office previously said that the faulty script was introduced in November 2020, but it did not run until earlier this month when the error within it immediately became apparent.", "After vowing to uphold and defend the Constitution of United States, Joe Biden has been officially sworn in as the 46th US president.\n\nThe new president's oath of office was administered by Chief Justice John G Roberts.\n\nRead more:Joe Biden becomes the 46th US president", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Hill We Climb: Watch 22-year-old Amanda Gorman's poem reading at Joe Biden's inauguration\n\nAmanda Gorman has become the youngest poet ever to perform at a presidential inauguration, calling for \"unity and togetherness\" in her self-penned poem.\n\nThe 22-year-old delivered her work The Hill We Climb to both the dignitaries present in Washington DC and a watching global audience.\n\n\"When day comes, we ask ourselves where can we find light in this never-ending shade?\" her five-minute poem began.\n\nShe went on to reference the storming of the Capitol earlier this month.\n\n\"We've seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it, would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy,\" she declared.\n\n\"And this effort very nearly succeeded. But while democracy can be periodically delayed, it can never be permanently defeated.\"\n\nThe poet was applauded by Vice President Kamala Harris\n\nIn her poem, Gorman described herself as \"a skinny black girl descended from slaves and raised by a single mother [who] can dream of becoming president, only to find her self reciting for one\".\n\nAmerica's first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate did her job, which was to find the right words at the right time.\n\nIt was a beautifully paced, well-judged poem for a special occasion, but it will live long beyond the time and space of the moment.\n\nAmanda Gorman delivered her piece with grace, the words it contained will resonate with people the world over: today, tomorrow, and far into the future.\n\nThe writer and performer, who became the country's first National Youth Poet Laureate in 2017, followed in the footsteps of such famous names as Robert Frost and Maya Angelou.\n\n\"I really wanted to use my words to be a point of unity and collaboration and togetherness,\" Gorman told the BBC World Service's Newshour programme before the ceremony.\n\n\"I think it's about a new chapter in the United States, about the future, and doing that through the elegance and beauty of words.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUS broadcaster and actress Oprah Winfrey tweeted that she had \"never been prouder to see another young woman rise\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Oprah Winfrey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlso on Twitter, Joanne Liu, the former head of aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières, described the poem as \"the most inspiring 5:43 minutes for the longest time\".\n\nFormer First Lady Michelle Obama praised Gorman's \"strong and poignant words\" adding: \"Keep shining, Amanda!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Michelle Obama This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUS politician and rights activist Stacey Abrams said the poem was \"an inspiration to us all\".\n\nFormer presidential candidate Hillary Clinton tweeted that Gorman had promised to run for president in 2036 and added: \"I for one can't wait.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIllinois poet laureate Angela Jackson said the recitation was \"so rich and just so filled with truth\".\n\n\"I was stunned that she was so young and so wise,\" Jackson told the Chicago Sun-Times.\n\nGorman said she \"screamed and danced her head off\" when she found out she had been chosen to read at President Biden's swearing-in ceremony.\n\nShe said she felt \"excitement, joy, honour and humility\" when she was asked to take part, \"and also at the same time terror\".\n\nAnd she added that she hoped her poem, completed on the day supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol, would \"speak to the moment\" and \"do this time justice\".\n\nGorman, pictured with actor Morgan Freeman in 2018, became LA's youth poet laureate at 16\n\nBorn in Los Angeles in 1998, Gorman had a speech impediment as a child - an affliction she shares with America's new president.\n\n\"It's made me the performer that I am and the storyteller that I strive to be,\" she said in a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times.\n\n\"When you have to teach yourself how to say sounds [and] be highly concerned about pronunciation, it gives you a certain awareness of sonics, of the auditory experience.\"\n\nGorman became LA's youth poet laureate at 16. Three years later, while studying sociology at Harvard, she became National Youth Poet Laureate.\n\nShe published her first book, The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough, in 2015 and will publish a picture book, Change Sings, later this year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kamala Harris was sworn into office by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.\n\nKamala Harris has made history as the first female, first black and first Asian-American US vice-president.\n\nShe was sworn in just before Joe Biden took the oath of office to become the 46th US president.\n\nMs Harris, who is of Indian-Jamaican heritage, initially ran for the Democratic nomination.\n\nBut Mr Biden won the race and chose Ms Harris as his running mate, describing her as \"a fearless fighter for the little guy\".\n\nPrior to taking the oath at the US Capitol, Ms Harris paid tribute to the women who she says came before her.\n\n\"I stand on their shoulders,\" she said in a video.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kamala Harris This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEugene Goodman, the Capitol police officer who was hailed as a hero for steering a pro-Trump mob away from Senate chambers during the 6 January riot, escorted Ms Harris at the inauguration.\n\nMs Harris, 56, was born in Oakland, California, to two immigrant parents: an Indian-born mother and Jamaican-born father.\n\nKamala, left, as child with her mother and younger sister Maya\n\nShe went on to attend Howard University, one of the nation's preeminent historically black colleges and universities. She has described her time there as among the most formative experiences of her life.\n\nMs Harris says she's always been comfortable with her identity and simply describes herself as \"an American\".\n\nAfter four years at Howard, Ms Harris went on to earn her law degree at the University of California, Hastings, and began her career in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office.\n\nShe became the district attorney - the top prosecutor - for San Francisco in 2003, before being elected the first female and the first African American to serve as California's attorney general, the top lawyer and law enforcement official in America's most populous state.\n\nIn her nearly two terms in office as attorney general, Ms Harris gained a reputation as one of the Democratic party's rising stars, using this momentum to propel her to election as California's junior US senator in 2017. She was only the second black woman ever elected to the US senate.\n\nShe launched her candidacy for president to a crowd of more than 20,000 in Oakland at the beginning of 2019.\n\nBut Ms Harris failed to articulate a clear rationale for her campaign, and gave muddled answers to questions in key policy areas like healthcare.\n\nShe was also unable to capitalise on the clear high point of her candidacy: debate performances that showed off her prosecutorial skills, often placing Mr Biden in the line of attack, most notably criticising his praise for the \"civil\" working relationship he had with former senators who favoured racial segregation.\n\nShe dropped out of the presidential race in December 2019.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut Mr Biden chose her as his number two in August, calling her \"one of the country's finest public servants\".\n\nAfter Mr Biden was announced as the next president in November, Ms Harris tweeted a video of her congratulating her running mate.\n\n\"We did it, we did it Joe. You're going to be the next president of the United States!\" she beamed.", "Sophie Davies, from Shropshire, recovering from cervical cancer, says delays to screening could be a matter of life and death\n\nSmear-test delays during lockdown have prompted calls for home-screening kits.\n\nCervical cancer screening has restarted across the UK - but some women say they will not attend their appointments for fear of catching Covid.\n\nJo's Cervical Cancer Trust is urging \"faster action\" on home tests for HPV, which causes 99% of cervical cancers.\n\nAn NHS official said GP practices should continue screening throughout lockdown, and \"anyone invited for a cervical smear test should attend\".\n\nCancer Research UK said it was not yet known how effective and accurate self-sampling could be in cervical screening.\n\nScreenings in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have restarted after being halted during the first lockdown.\n\nIn England, the NHS told GPs and clinics not to halt smear tests - but, as the prime minister heard last week, some patients were experiencing cancellations and long waiting times.\n\nAbout 600,000 tests had failed to go ahead in the UK in April and May, Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust said, in addition to a backlog of 1.5 million appointments missed annually.\n\nIn March, Sophie Davies was told she needed a hysterectomy \"within the month\" but had to wait until December for surgery\n\nA survey by gynaecological cancer charity the Eve Appeal indicates nearly one in three missed smear tests are the result of people being \"put off\" by coronavirus.\n\nAnd a Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust survey during the pandemic suggests the same proportion would prefer to take their own human-papillomavirus (HPV) test rather than go to a GP.\n\nActing chief executive Rebecca Shoosmith said coronavirus had added \"more barriers\" to going for a smear test.\n\n\"Sadly those who found it difficult before are likely to be no closer to getting tested,\" she said.\n\nBoth charities emphasise smear tests are for \"women and anyone with a cervix\" and transgender and non-binary people may have additional barriers to going.\n\nJo's Cervical Cancer Trust said DIY tests could also help people who had been sexually assaulted and those with disabilities or from backgrounds where smear tests were taboo.\n\nSamantha Renke felt anxious about catching coronavirus when she went for her smear test\n\nSamantha Renke had received an abnormal test result and needed to go for a follow-up test during the pandemic.\n\nThe broadcaster and campaigner, who has brittle bones and uses a wheelchair, said a home-testing kit would have made things easier.\n\n\"I am at very high risk of getting seriously ill from Covid-19,\" the 35-year-old, from Lancashire, said.\n\n\"So I was incredibly anxious sitting in the waiting room for my test.\n\n\"Women with a physical disability are so much more likely to find cervical screening difficult, to the point where it can sometimes be impossible just to get through the door.\n\n\"We shouldn't have to fight to get this life-saving test.\n\n\"Self-sampling would be so much easier for people like me.\n\n\"It would allow me to take my health into my own hands.\"\n\nIshita Ranjan said talk of smear tests was taboo in traditional South Asian families\n\nIshita Ranjan finally went for her smear test in August, having put it off for a \"really long time\".\n\n\"In most traditional South Asian families, women's sexual health is not something you talk about openly,\" the 31-year-old, from London, said.\n\n\"Young women are left to figure this stuff out.\n\n\"Until you get married, older female relatives find it problematic to share that kind of information.\"\n\nA fear of catching coronavirus could be also stopping people belonging to ethnic minorities attending appointments.\n\n\"We have seen high Covid infection and death rates and people are genuinely scared,\" Ms Ranjan said.\n\n\"And it's really important that you do still go and do it.\n\n\"I was in and out in five minutes, no sitting around waiting rooms.\"\n\nHelen Austin founded At your Cervix, a support network for people who find smear tests difficult\n\nAfter experiencing sexual violence, it took Helen Austin 10 years to work up the courage to go for her smear test.\n\n\"When my first invite arrived through the post, years ago, my body froze, and I then ripped it up,\" she said.\n\nSelf-sampling would have given her time and privacy, the 35-year-old, from Lincolnshire, said.\n\n\"If my appointment had been during the pandemic and I could not have brought someone I trust with me to help me, I would never have gone,\" she said.\n\n\"Other trauma survivors I speak to find wearing a mask triggering and are putting off attending their test partly for this reason too.\"\n\nSophie Davies, 32, saw in the new year alone in hospital, after having a hysterectomy\n\nAfter developing a rare form of cervical cancer, Sophie Davies had a trachelectomy to remove her cervix, in April 2018, allowing doctors to save her ovaries and two-thirds of her womb.\n\nBut in March 2020, she was told the risk of cancer coming back meant she needed a hysterectomy and the removal of both ovaries.\n\n\"I was advised the operation needed to be done 'the sooner the better' and 'within the month',\" the 32-year-old, from Shropshire, said.\n\nAnd she had an \"agonising\" wait, until 30 December, for her surgery.\n\n\"I'm still awaiting my results, more than three weeks on, and praying I have not been left for the best part of a year with cancer growing inside me,\" Ms Davies said.\n\n\"These months of delay could be the difference in saving fertility or losing fertility.\n\n\"It could be the difference in needing chemotherapy or radiotherapy or not needing it, or could be the difference of life or death.\"\n\nCancer Research UK early diagnosis head Dr Jodie Moffat said research was under way to understand how effective and accurate self-sampling could be in cervical screening.\n\nBut getting more people screened \"is not the only hurdle to overcome\".\n\n\"The NHS is under immense pressure and would need more staff and equipment to ensure patients receive their results and any follow-up treatment as quickly as possible,\" she said.\n\nAn NHS official said: \"The NHS guidance that cervical screening should continue has not changed, which has been communicated to GP practices, which have adjusted the way they work to remain open and safe, while local NHS services across the country have put extra measures in place to protect people from coronavirus and so anyone invited for a cervical smear test should attend.\"", "The government has unveiled details of a £23m fund to support fishing firms as it tries to quell industry anger over Brexit border delays.\n\nThe money will help firms whose exports to the EU have fallen sharply since rules changed on 1 January.\n\nFishing firms say extra paperwork has made it difficult to deliver fresh produce to the EU before it goes off, hammering their businesses.\n\nOne trade group called the fund \"welcome\" but a \"sticking plaster\".\n\nOn Monday, fish exporters held demonstrations outside government departments in central London, warning their livelihoods were under threat.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson admitted many had experienced \"bureaucratic delays [and] difficulties getting their goods through\" to buyers on the other side of the channel.\n\nHaving left the EU's customs union and the single market, UK exports are subject to new customs and veterinary checks which have caused problems at the border.\n\nCovid has worsened the issue, with the industry also facing lower market prices and demand from restaurants due to the pandemic.\n\nThe government said the scheme would be targeted at small and medium-sized fishing businesses who will be able to claim a maximum of £100,000 to cover losses.\n\nChief Secretary to the Treasury Steve Barclay said: \"This further £23m package of support will help our hardworking fishing sector navigate the challenges of the next few months.\n\n\"It is vital that no community nor region within our United Kingdom is left behind as we continue to support British jobs and build back better from the coronavirus pandemic.\"\n\nIn addition to funding, the government will provide further training to help fishing businesses adapt to the new export processes.\n\nSeparately, the prime minister committed to providing a further £100m to help modernise UK fishing fleets and the fish processing industry.\n\nDonna Fordyce, chief executive of Seafood Scotland, said: \"After almost three weeks of voicing their concerns and frustrations, we welcome the fact that the Scottish seafood sector has been heard and action is being taken.\n\n\"This [fund] will offer a ray of light to some small and medium-sized companies that have experienced crippling losses over the past few weeks.\"\n\nHowever, while the money was \"a much-needed sticking plaster\", she said it would not \"completely staunch the wound\".\n\n\"The sector still needs a period of grace during which the [new trade] systems must be overhauled so they are fit for purpose.\"", "Under current rules, cafes and restaurants are only allowed to provide a takeaway service.\n\nNine Met Police officers have been fined for breaching lockdown rules to meet at a cafe while on duty.\n\nPictures emerged online showing the officers, from the South East Basic Command Unit, eating at The Chef House Kitchen Cafe, Greenwich, on 9 January.\n\nAll nine officers have been issued with a £200 fixed penalty notice.\n\nCh Supt Rob Atkin, said: \"It is right that they will pay a financial penalty and that they will be asked to reflect on their choices.\n\n\"Police officers are tasked with enforcing the legislation that has been introduced to stop the spread of the virus and the public rightly expect that they will set an example through their own actions.\n\n\"It is disappointing that on this occasion, these officers have fallen short of that expectation.\"\n\nThe group were spotted by a member of the public in the Greenwich cafe while their patrol vehicles were parked outside.\n\nUnder current rules, cafes and restaurants are only allowed to provide a takeaway service.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nPaul Pogba scored a superb winner as Manchester United reclaimed top spot in the Premier League by coming from behind for a club-record equalling away win at Fulham.\n\nIn what is becoming a familiar pattern for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side outside Manchester this season, they fell behind early in the game, with Ademola Lookman beating the offside trap before firing in an angled drive.\n\nBut for the seventh time away from Old Trafford in 2020-21, United found a winning response - taking their run to 17 games unbeaten away in the Premier League - courtesy of a gift from their opponents and a bit of magic from their French midfielder.\n\nGoalkeeper Alphonse Areola has been a good addition for the Cottagers but in dropping Bruno Fernandes' cross at the feet of Edinson Cavani, he gifted his former Paris St-Germain team-mate the simplest of equalisers.\n\nAnd on the hour mark, Pogba stepped up to decide the contest, firing a superb angled drive across the diving Areola and into the far corner from 20 yards.\n\nThe France international has come in for criticism at times this season but received nothing but praise from his manager after his winner.\n\n\"I am very happy with his performances,\" said Solskjaer.\n\n\"I know what he can do. He does everything. Now he is putting all the elements together in his performances and it is great to see.\n\n\"It was about getting him fit. He is enjoying his football, he is happy and physically in a good shape.\"\n\nThe win takes United to 40 points, two more than both Leicester and Manchester City, who had briefly taken top spot from the Foxes with a 2-0 win over Aston Villa on Wednesday.\n\nSolskjaer, though, was reluctant to get drawn into discussing his side's title credentials with so much of the campaign to go.\n\n\"It is always going to be talked about that when you are halfway through and top of the league, but we are not thinking about this, we just have to go one game at a time,\" he added. \"It is such an unpredictable season.\"\n\nFulham remain in the bottom three, four points behind 17th-placed Burnley.\n• None Man Utd or Man City to end day top? Cassia bassist Lou Cotterill takes on Lawro\n\nSolskjaer felt his side missed a big opportunity to fully assert their title credentials in failing to make the most of their chances in Sunday's 0-0 draw at champions Liverpool.\n\nUnited were clearly in no mood to repeat such a mistake at a wet and windy Craven Cottage on Wednesday against a less daunting and defining opposition, but one that is far more robust now than they were in the season's first month.\n\nThe visitors fell behind, but this is par for the course for this side, who once again did not panic, wrestled control of the game away from their opponents and took the win.\n\nIt is a handy trick for a title-challenging side to have in their locker, although one they would rather not have to repeatedly pull.\n\nIn truth, they should have won more handsomely.\n\nThey had the far greater share of possession and territory and were well ahead of their opponents on shots taken until a frantic finale in which the Cottagers threw in all they had in pursuit of a point.\n\nFred felt he should have had a penalty in the first half courtesy of being caught in the box by a loose challenge from Ruben Loftus-Cheek, but both on-field and VAR officials disagreed.\n\nHarry Maguire twice headed wide from corners, the first from a far less forgivable, unmarked position than the second.\n\nEqually, though, it is a game that could have seen them drop points, especially in light of Fulham's late barrage, which saw David de Gea save superbly with his legs to deny Loftus-Cheek, and the ball pinballing around the United box on more than one occasion.\n\nThe Cottagers demonstrated that they are no pushover, but they are making of habit of being on the rough end of fine margins.\n\nFive straight draws followed by two defeats by a single goal suggests their battle against the drop will go right down to the wire.\n\n\"I'm really pleased but I'm disappointed at the same time, which shows how far we've come,\" said Cottagers boss Scott Parker.\n\n\"I saw a team today that looked threatening and tried their hardest to get back into the game, but we go again. The next challenge is to maintain where we are and don't let defeat sink us.\n\n\"No doubt we can win and operate in this division and we just need to push on and keep improving.\"\n\nUnited lead the way in early concessions\n• None No side has conceded more goals in the opening five minutes of Premier League games this season than Manchester United (4). Manchester United have won seven Premier League games having gone behind this season - only Newcastle in 2001-02 (10) and Man Utd themselves in 2012-13 (9) have done so more in a single campaign.\n• None Manchester United are unbeaten in their last 17 Premier League away games (W13 D4), equalling their longest ever unbeaten run on the road in top-flight history (17 between December 1998 and September 1999).\n• None This was the 41st different game in which Fulham had led in all competitions under Scott Parker, but the first time they had lost such a game (W34 D6).\n• None Edinson Cavani became the first Man Utd player whose first four Premier League goals for the club were all scored away from home.\n• None Since his return to the club in 2016, no Man Utd player has scored more league goals from outside the box than Paul Pogba (6).\n• None Ademola Lookman has been involved in more Premier League goals than any other Fulham player this season (6 - 3 goals, 3 assists).\n• None Bruno Fernandes has gone three Premier League games without a goal or assist for the first time since his Manchester United debut in February 2020.\n\nFulham's next game is in the FA Cup, against Burnley on Sunday (14:30 GMT). Their next league fixture, an away game on Wednesday, 27 January, is a big one. Opponents Brighton are two places and five points above them in the table.\n\nManchester United host Liverpool in the FA Cup on Sunday at 17:00, live on the BBC. They are also in league action the following Wednesday hosting the league's bottom club Sheffield United in a 20:15 kick-off.\n• None Attempt missed. Aleksandar Mitrovic (Fulham) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Kenny Tete with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. Ademola Lookman (Fulham) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Mario Lemina.\n• None Offside, Fulham. Aboubakar Kamara tries a through ball, but Kenny Tete is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Mario Lemina (Fulham) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Aboubakar Kamara.\n• None Attempt blocked. Joe Bryan (Fulham) left footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Fulham) right footed shot from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right following a fast break.\n• None Attempt blocked. Fred (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Harry Maguire with a headed pass. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None You can stream five fourth-round games live on the BBC this weekend, including Liverpool's trip to Manchester United. Find out more here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis is America's day. This is democracy's day. A day of history and hope, of renewal and resolve. Through a crucible for the ages, America has been tested anew and America has risen to the challenge. Today we celebrate the triumph not of a candidate but of a cause, a cause of democracy. The people - the will of the people - has been heard, and the will of the people has been heeded.\n\nWe've learned again that democracy is precious, democracy is fragile and, at this hour my friends, democracy has prevailed. So now on this hallowed ground where just a few days ago violence sought to shake the Capitol's very foundations, we come together as one nation under God - indivisible - to carry out the peaceful transfer of power as we have for more than two centuries.\n\nAs we look ahead in our uniquely American way, restless, bold, optimistic, and set our sights on a nation we know we can be and must be, I thank my predecessors of both parties for their presence here. I thank them from the bottom of my heart. And I know the resilience of our Constitution and the strength, the strength of our nation, as does President Carter, who I spoke with last night who cannot be with us today, but who we salute for his lifetime of service.\n\nI've just taken a sacred oath each of those patriots have taken. The oath first sworn by George Washington. But the American story depends not on any one of us, not on some of us, but on all of us. On we the people who seek a more perfect union. This is a great nation, we are good people. And over the centuries through storm and strife in peace and in war we've come so far. But we still have far to go.\n\nWe'll press forward with speed and urgency for we have much to do in this winter of peril and significant possibility. Much to do, much to heal, much to restore, much to build and much to gain. Few people in our nation's history have been more challenged or found a time more challenging or difficult than the time we're in now. A once in a century virus that silently stalks the country has taken as many lives in one year as in all of World War Two.\n\nMillions of jobs have been lost. Hundreds of thousands of businesses closed. A cry for racial justice, some 400 years in the making, moves us. The dream of justice for all will be deferred no longer. A cry for survival comes from the planet itself, a cry that can't be any more desperate or any more clear now. The rise of political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism, that we must confront and we will defeat.\n\nTo overcome these challenges, to restore the soul and secure the future of America, requires so much more than words. It requires the most elusive of all things in a democracy - unity. Unity. In another January on New Year's Day in 1863 Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. When he put pen to paper the president said, and I quote, 'if my name ever goes down in history, it'll be for this act, and my whole soul is in it'.\n\nMy whole soul is in it today, on this January day. My whole soul is in this. Bringing America together, uniting our people, uniting our nation. And I ask every American to join me in this cause. Uniting to fight the foes we face - anger, resentment and hatred. Extremism, lawlessness, violence, disease, joblessness, and hopelessness.\n\nWith unity we can do great things, important things. We can right wrongs, we can put people to work in good jobs, we can teach our children in safe schools. We can overcome the deadly virus, we can rebuild work, we can rebuild the middle class and make work secure, we can secure racial justice and we can make America once again the leading force for good in the world.\n\nI know speaking of unity can sound to some like a foolish fantasy these days. I know the forces that divide us are deep and they are real. But I also know they are not new. Our history has been a constant struggle between the American ideal, that we are all created equal, and the harsh ugly reality that racism, nativism and fear have torn us apart. The battle is perennial and victory is never secure.\n\nThrough civil war, the Great Depression, World War, 9/11, through struggle, sacrifice, and setback, our better angels have always prevailed. In each of our moments enough of us have come together to carry all of us forward and we can do that now. History, faith and reason show the way. The way of unity.\n\nWe can see each other not as adversaries but as neighbours. We can treat each other with dignity and respect. We can join forces, stop the shouting and lower the temperature. For without unity there is no peace, only bitterness and fury, no progress, only exhausting outrage. No nation, only a state of chaos. This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge. And unity is the path forward. And we must meet this moment as the United States of America.\n\nIf we do that, I guarantee we will not failed. We have never, ever, ever, ever failed in America when we've acted together. And so today at this time in this place, let's start afresh, all of us. Let's begin to listen to one another again, hear one another, see one another. Show respect to one another. Politics doesn't have to be a raging fire destroying everything in its path. Every disagreement doesn't have to be a cause for total war and we must reject the culture in which facts themselves are manipulated and even manufactured.\n\nMy fellow Americans, we have to be different than this. We have to be better than this and I believe America is so much better than this. Just look around. Here we stand in the shadow of the Capitol dome. As mentioned earlier, completed in the shadow of the Civil War. When the union itself was literally hanging in the balance. We endure, we prevail. Here we stand, looking out on the great Mall, where Dr King spoke of his dream.\n\nHere we stand, where 108 years ago at another inaugural, thousands of protesters tried to block brave women marching for the right to vote. And today we mark the swearing in of the first woman elected to national office, Vice President Kamala Harris. Don't tell me things can't change. Here we stand where heroes who gave the last full measure of devotion rest in eternal peace.\n\nAnd here we stand just days after a riotous mob thought they could use violence to silence the will of the people, to stop the work of our democracy, to drive us from this sacred ground. It did not happen, it will never happen, not today, not tomorrow, not ever. Not ever. To all those who supported our campaign, I'm humbled by the faith you placed in us. To all those who did not support us, let me say this. Hear us out as we move forward. Take a measure of me and my heart.\n\nIf you still disagree, so be it. That's democracy. That's America. The right to dissent peacefully. And the guardrail of our democracy is perhaps our nation's greatest strength. If you hear me clearly, disagreement must not lead to disunion. And I pledge this to you. I will be a President for all Americans, all Americans. And I promise you I will fight for those who did not support me as for those who did.\n\nMany centuries ago, St Augustine - the saint of my church - wrote that a people was a multitude defined by the common objects of their love. Defined by the common objects of their love. What are the common objects we as Americans love, that define us as Americans? I think we know. Opportunity, security, liberty, dignity, respect, honour, and yes, the truth.\n\nRecent weeks and months have taught us a painful lesson. There is truth and there are lies. Lies told for power and for profit. And each of us has a duty and a responsibility as citizens as Americans and especially as leaders. Leaders who are pledged to honour our Constitution to protect our nation. To defend the truth and defeat the lies.\n\nLook, I understand that many of my fellow Americans view the future with fear and trepidation. I understand they worry about their jobs. I understand like their dad they lay in bed at night staring at the ceiling thinking: 'Can I keep my healthcare? Can I pay my mortgage?' Thinking about their families, about what comes next. I promise you, I get it. But the answer's not to turn inward. To retreat into competing factions. Distrusting those who don't look like you, or worship the way you do, who don't get their news from the same source as you do.\n\nWe must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue, rural versus urban, conservative versus liberal. We can do this if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts, if we show a little tolerance and humility, and if we're willing to stand in the other person's shoes, as my mom would say. Just for a moment, stand in their shoes.\n\nBecause here's the thing about life. There's no accounting for what fate will deal you. Some days you need a hand. There are other days when we're called to lend a hand. That's how it has to be, that's what we do for one another. And if we are that way our country will be stronger, more prosperous, more ready for the future. And we can still disagree.\n\nMy fellow Americans, in the work ahead of us we're going to need each other. We need all our strength to persevere through this dark winter. We're entering what may be the darkest and deadliest period of the virus. We must set aside politics and finally face this pandemic as one nation, one nation. And I promise this, as the Bible says, 'Weeping may endure for a night, joy cometh in the morning'. We will get through this together. Together.\n\nLook folks, all my colleagues I serve with in the House and the Senate up here, we all understand the world is watching. Watching all of us today. So here's my message to those beyond our borders. America has been tested and we've come out stronger for it. We will repair our alliances, and engage with the world once again. Not to meet yesterday's challenges but today's and tomorrow's challenges. And we'll lead not merely by the example of our power but the power of our example.\n\nFellow Americans, moms, dads, sons, daughters, friends, neighbours and co-workers. We will honour them by becoming the people and the nation we can and should be. So I ask you let's say a silent prayer for those who lost their lives, those left behind and for our country. Amen.\n\nFolks, it's a time of testing. We face an attack on our democracy, and on truth, a raging virus, a stinging inequity, systemic racism, a climate in crisis, America's role in the world. Any one of these would be enough to challenge us in profound ways. But the fact is we face them all at once, presenting this nation with one of the greatest responsibilities we've had. Now we're going to be tested. Are we going to step up?\n\nIt's time for boldness for there is so much to do. And this is certain, I promise you. We will be judged, you and I, by how we resolve these cascading crises of our era. We will rise to the occasion. Will we master this rare and difficult hour? Will we meet our obligations and pass along a new and better world to our children? I believe we must and I'm sure you do as well. I believe we will, and when we do, we'll write the next great chapter in the history of the United States of America. The American story.\n\nA story that might sound like a song that means a lot to me, it's called American Anthem. And there's one verse that stands out at least for me and it goes like this:\n\n'The work and prayers of centuries have brought us to this day, which shall be our legacy, what will our children say?\n\nLet me know in my heart when my days are through, America, America, I gave my best to you.'\n\nLet us add our own work and prayers to the unfolding story of our great nation. If we do this, then when our days are through, our children and our children's children will say of us: 'They gave their best, they did their duty, they healed a broken land.'\n\nMy fellow Americans I close the day where I began, with a sacred oath. Before God and all of you, I give you my word. I will always level with you. I will defend the Constitution, I'll defend our democracy.\n\nI'll defend America and I will give all - all of you - keep everything I do in your service. Thinking not of power but of possibilities. Not of personal interest but of public good.\n\nAnd together we will write an American story of hope, not fear. Of unity not division, of light not darkness. A story of decency and dignity, love and healing, greatness and goodness. May this be the story that guides us. The story that inspires us. And the story that tells ages yet to come that we answered the call of history, we met the moment. Democracy and hope, truth and justice, did not die on our watch but thrive.\n\nThat America secured liberty at home and stood once again as a beacon to the world. That is what we owe our forbearers, one another, and generations to follow.\n\nSo with purpose and resolve, we turn to those tasks of our time. Sustained by faith, driven by conviction and devoted to one another and the country we love with all our hearts. May God bless America and God protect our troops.", "Father Lee Taylor said people have \"really missed communal singing\"\n\nOnline \"Pimm's and Hymns\" singalong sessions at a north Wales church have attracted people from as far away as South Africa, Brazil and Canada.\n\nFather Lee Taylor, from St Collen's Church, Llangollen, set up the Facebook Live shows when his pews fell silent due to Covid restrictions.\n\nThe former bartender said: \"People started to share it and the online audience just exploded.\"\n\nIt adds \"a real light in the darkness\" of lockdown and a \"few drinks\".\n\nThe sessions, which have been running since last March, are a homage to the summer garden party known as 'Pimm's and Hymns' Mr Taylor, 43, hosts each year.\n\n\"I get phone calls, emails and letters from people all over the world, saying, 'You've lifted my spirits', and asking me to pray for their loved ones who are sick with the virus,\" he said.\n\n\"I started the sessions as I was trying to think of ways to bring comfort reassurance and cheer to people at home.\n\n\"While I can't hear people joining in, I feel them there with me in the room.\"\n\nFather Lee Taylor hosted annual 'Pimm's and Hymns' garden parties before Covid restrictions came in last March\n\nBelting out everything from Abide With Me to Pack Up Your Troubles, the vicar, who lives with his partner of 14 years, Fabiano Duarte, is known for pouring a glass of wine or a cocktail before performing for his Facebook congregation.\n\n\"I like to keep a libation on the piano,\" he said.\n\n\"When we started, people tuning in could see a glass of wine one week and a gin and tonic the next, so began to join in and have a drink with me.\n\n\"Soon, this became a discussion in the Facebook comments and people would send in photos of themselves with a tipple, singing along.\n\n\"I've got a bit carried away on the piano after a few drinks and played all the wrong notes a couple of times - which is always quite funny. It's joyful, really.\"\n\nHe said \"losing the churches and restricting the number at funerals\" was painful and people were \"missing communal singing\".\n\n\"[So] I got some elderly people set up on the internet and sent out instructions via email, so they could watch the live stream singalongs,\" he said.\n\n\"People were soon chatting through the comments and it felt like we were all connected.\n\n\"I wanted to raise spirits through music and it's been a real light in the darkness.\"", "Louise worries about her prospects for the next 12 months\n\nFreelance TV and film sound editor Louise Burton is one of those who are unable to benefit from government pandemic support schemes, despite being out of work.\n\nLouise, 28, of St Albans, in Hertfordshire, has not had a single penny of assistance since her last job ended eight months ago.\n\n\"With the last production that I was on, I was hired as a PAYE freelancer, which means that I essentially do exactly the same job as what I do as a freelancer, but I was paying tax at source,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"What often happens with film is that production companies are made for the sole purpose of the film. So they create these companies and everything goes through the company - and then once the film is completed, they then shut the company.\"\n\nThat means Louise fell foul of tax rules relating to self-employed people. And she could not go on furlough, because the company that had employed her no longer existed.\n\n\"I always feel guilty saying that I am one of the people who is suffering, because actually, I still have a roof over my head and I can just about put food on my table, but it's not easy,\" she says, adding that she fears for her prospects in the next 12 months.\n\nAccording to MPs, whole groups of people like Louise are falling through the cracks of Covid-19 support schemes because of out-of-date tax systems.\n\nSome freelancers and self-employed people have been particularly excluded, despite lockdowns and restrictions meaning they cannot work, the Public Accounts Committee said.\n\nOthers, meanwhile, are able to abuse the system, it said.\n\nThe government said its \"top priority\" was helping those who are struggling.\n\nSince March, HM Revenue and Customs has provided more than £80bn in support to companies and individuals through government coronavirus support schemes, the committee said.\n\nThey are also supporting the incomes of many of the self-employed.\n\nBut despite this, a report from the MPs says \"quirks in the tax system\" have meant that groups of workers - including freelancers and self-employed people who recently moved onto company payrolls or work on a series of short-term employment contracts with gaps in between - have been ineligible for furlough payments.\n\n\"As public spending balloons to unprecedented levels in response to the pandemic, out-of-date tax systems are one of the barriers to getting help to a significant number of struggling taxpayers who should be entitled to support,\" said MP Meg Hillier, chair of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC).\n\nBy contrast, she said some large companies that had used government support schemes had continued to pay dividends to shareholders and high salaries to executives.\n\nShe added that HMRC was in many cases failing \"to capture or deal with those wrongly claiming\" support.\n\nThe tax agency should explain to freelancers and other groups why they have been excluded from receiving support and set out steps to fix the problem within six weeks, the MPs said.\n\nThe PAC also said that a lack of certainty about government coronavirus support schemes had made it difficult for businesses to plan effectively.\n\nFor example, HMRC could not provide clarity on whether the Job Retention Bonus scheme had been delayed or scrapped, the committee said.\n\nThe scheme was meant to pay employers an incentive for every worker they brought back from furlough and kept in employment until January.\n\n\"Such lack of clarity may lead to unnecessary hardships for some businesses, who in good faith were relying on the payments from the scheme to meet some of their needs,\" the MPs said.\n\nA government spokesperson said it had done \"all it can to help as many people as possible\".\n\n\"HMRC delivered Covid-19 support schemes at unprecedented speed, protecting the livelihoods of millions of people.\n\n\"We do not underestimate the challenges faced by individuals and businesses during the pandemic, and our top priority is getting financial support to those struggling... while protecting the taxpayer against fraud.\n\n\"Those not eligible for support through these schemes can still benefit from the strengthened welfare safety net, accessing help like universal credit.\"\n• None What extra help will the self-employed get?", "19 January is a special day for Orthodox Christians across Russia, including President Vladimir Putin. It's a day reserved for commemorating the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan, and it's called Epiphany. Though temperatures are as low as -20 Celsius, some celebrated this by submerging themselves in ice-cold water.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dame Louise Casey: \"The country has been torn to shreds by the pandemic\"\n\nThe government has been urged by its former homelessness adviser to extend benefit increases worth £20 a week beyond the end of March.\n\nDame Louise Casey said ending the universal credit top-up, introduced during the Covid pandemic, would be \"too punitive a policy right now\".\n\nShe said people would view the Tories as the \"nasty party\" if they did so.\n\nThe government said it was committed to supporting the lowest-paid families through the pandemic and beyond.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"No decisions have yet been made on a range of Covid support measures that run through until the end of March and April, and it is right to wait until we know more about where we are in the vaccination process before making any decisions.\"\n\nLabour and anti-poverty campaigners are pressing for the increase, worth £1,000 a year, to remain in place beyond its scheduled end date of 31 March.\n\nOn Monday they were joined by six Conservative MPs, who defied party orders to abstain and backed a symbolic motion calling for an extension.\n\nIn an interview with BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg, Dame Louise said the £20-a-week increase had proved a \"lifeline\" to poorer families.\n\n\"The Treasury need to step back and not feel this constant responsibility to close the books all the time, and fight and fight and fight,\" she said.\n\nOn the idea the top-up could end in March, she added: \"It's not the right thing to do.\"\n\nReferencing a phrase coined by Theresa May in 2002 about how the Conservatives were sometimes perceived, she added they would \"go back to being the nasty party\" if they did so.\n\nDame Louise added that the country had been \"torn to shreds\" by the pandemic, with an impact \"far deeper and greater than anything I've ever seen in my lifetime\".\n\n\"I think we will have to have a big plan to deal with the wounds inflicted by this pandemic once everybody's vaccinated,\" she added.\n\n\"And I think the government needs to turn its attention to that now, and not leave it until the summer.\"\n\nDame Louise, who was made a crossbench peer by the prime minister in July, also urged ministers to think about long-term reforms to the welfare system.\n\n\"Everybody is focused on the NHS and vaccinations, that I think everything else we see is incredibly reactive,\" she said.\n\nShe called on the government to take inspiration from the World War Two-era Beveridge report, which laid the foundations for the UK's welfare state, and draw up a long-term strategy for recovery after the pandemic.\n\n\"We're all in this storm, everybody's experienced it, just some people are in decent boats and some people are in rafts that are sinking.\n\n\"And that gives the prime minister the moment to say 'I am going to step into the shoes of a Beveridge moment'.\n\n\"If there's any reason for government to decide to actually rebuild Britain, so the divide between the rich and the poor isn't as big as it is... it's this pandemic\".\n\nUniversal credit can be claimed by both people who are in and out of work\n\nUniversal credit is a working-age benefit claimed by around 6m people, replacing six benefits and merging them into a single payment.\n\nPoverty campaign charity the Joseph Rowntree Foundation says 500,000 more people will be driven into poverty if the temporary £20 top-up is rolled back.\n\nHowever the Institute for Economic Affairs think tank has argued that \"across-the-board benefit increases are a wasteful use of taxpayers' money\".\n\nThe top-up, estimated to cost around £6bn a year, was brought in at the start of the pandemic as a temporary response due to lockdown.\n\nA government spokesperson said that support was being targeted by raising the living wage, spending on the furlough scheme, boosting welfare spending and introducing the £170m Covid Winter Grant Scheme.", "There is a photograph of Kamala Harris, taken in 1986, while she was a student at Howard University.\n\nShe and two other friends, all shoulder pads and plaid, are smiling and laughing, a crowd behind them. It's a picture brimming with energy and hope.\n\nIt's been used a lot in telling the extraordinary story of her rise to become the first black and Asian American woman to be vice-president and the first person who attended one of America's HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) to get to such a position.\n\nBut this is the story of the other women in the photograph, her two best friends - Valarie Pippen and Karen Gibbs - as well as of others who might have been milling about in the background there.\n\nThis was the 1980s, when the children of America's civil rights generation came of age. Being at Howard University, an HBCU at a time when solidarity with the global anti-apartheid movement was reaching fever pitch and at the height of Reaganism, was a formative experience for many of them.\n\nNow they are about to witness one of their own become vice-president. What have their journeys been like and what does this moment feel like?\n\nHistorically Black Colleges, like Howard University, were founded in order to educate African Americans who were otherwise prohibited from attending college, after slavery.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAlthough that has now changed, a core part of the Howard message remains its focus on cultivating black leaders - it is not just about academic achievement, but social activism too.\n\nKamala Harris has made clear the influence Howard University had on her career and life goals. Last week, on the anniversary of her sorority's founding date, she posted on Instagram, paying homage to her Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, and referring to her days at Howard, attending anti-apartheid marches and being part of the debate team: \"Howard taught me that while you will often find that you're the only one in the room who looks like you, or who has had the experiences you've had, you must remember: you are never alone.\"\n\nLike Ms Harris, I also went to Howard University and became a member of that same sorority decades later.\n\nI became intrigued by the stories of the other women and graduates who ventured out into the same world during the same time as Kamala.\n\nIn that photograph, Valarie Pippen is on the right and smiling with confidence at the camera.\n\nHer parents attended historically black colleges after moving north with the great migration, which was the movement over decades of millions of African Americans to the North from the South, where economic uncertainty and segregation prevailed. They settled in the Chicago region and forged successful careers.\n\nShe was led to Howard, specifically, after her older brother attended and brought home a yearbook that intrigued her.\n\nHoward had a festive celebratory atmosphere that the friends made the most of while they were there\n\n\"The culture was festive and lively yet focused on academic and cultural advancement of oppressed people,\" says Ms Pippen. \"We knew that our generation would make a difference with our success.\"\n\nMs Pippen says that at Howard University \"we all had more of a striving to do well, a striving to live with integrity and to make your mark on the world\".\n\nComing from a high-achieving and proud black family with high expectations of their children, she was brought up knowing that her college experience was going to be important.\n\nShe is now a healthcare consultant, and after graduating from Howard she attended medical school at Yale.\n\nShe recalls the commitment to academic excellence, the need to prove your worth out there in the world and how that also translated into many nights studying with her good friend Kamala.\n\n\"There was one year at Howard, we both stayed for summer school. We worked during the day, did night classes and we studied together afterwards. We did that for the whole summer and we had fun.\n\n\"She was born for the job. Her dedication - like mine - was to academics, being an all around good person and to integrity.\"\n\nIn the 1990s, 52% of black pharmacy recipients, 30% of dentistry degree recipients, and 27% of theology degree recipients were all educated at HBCUs.\n\nToday, the two oldest HBCU medical schools - Meharry Medical College and Howard University - are responsible for more than 80% of black doctors and dentists practising in the US.\n\nHBCUs have educated three-quarters of all black people holding a doctorate; three-quarters of all black officers in the armed forces; and four-fifths of all black federal judges, according to the US Department of Education.\n\nThe culture they fostered was hugely important for many ambitious and successful middle- and upper-class class black families going out into a world to become leaders in their field, within one generation of getting the right to vote.\n\nKaren Gibbs, pictured on the left in that photo, remains best friends with the vice-president elect and Valarie Pippen.\n\nShe is now an attorney and speaks of her time at Howard in the same way Kamala Harris has in the past.\n\nThere was \"a lot of black pride and a lot of black love\" in the Howard community, says Ms Gibbs.\n\n\"We had black professors who loved us. That was the beauty of going to Howard. They nurtured us, they groomed us. They were realistic to tell us what we would confront when we left Howard - but they equipped us to realise and achieve our dreams.\"\n\nThat environment was especially important as an escape from the realities of society.\n\n\"I was raised in a rural area in Delaware, and the people there were really racist. I had been called bad names by a lot of people, despite having a black family and smaller community filled with educators and proud of their roots,\" says Ms Gibbs.\n\nThat is one of the reasons that she wanted to attend Howard University, to become a civil rights lawyer. She made the move so that she could be surrounded by \"love\" and \"support\".\n\n\"It was never a matter if I would go to an HBCU,\" it was just a matter of which she would go to.\n\nMs Gibbs and Ms Pippen's experience at Howard University strikes a chord with others who were also there in the 1980s.\n\nThey speak of the open fostering of social awareness and political activism in movements happening off campus.\n\nBeing in the nation's capital, Howard in particular had a front-row seat to some memorable episodes in politics.\n\nThe debate team in 1981 at Howard University. Kamala Harris was one of the few women to join the club.\n\nDexter Cole, a Howard alumnus and now top executive at TV One, told the BBC that \"our parents actively participated in the civil rights movements and were at the forefront, and we came to Howard with a sense of commitment to not only improve the lives of ourselves, but others as well\".\n\nAcross the nation, HBCUs were training a generation who would have a large impact on the world, and the progression of the broader African-American community.\n\n\"We understood that we were agents of change.\"\n\nMr Cole explained that \"social unrest was very prevalent, but as a student body we knew that we had a seat at the table because of those we saw who went before us\".\n\n\"I remember marching on Capitol Hill on the National Mall. There was a group of students going to protest to make Martin Luther King Jr's birthday a national holiday, and now I look there is a memorial just where I marched.\n\n\"We knew what our rights were and we were determined to invoke our right. That's why there were so many of us active in the anti-apartheid movement - we saw it play out in the US,\" says Ms Gibbs.\n\n\"It was a time when a lot of people from the era transcended into important places in different parts of society,\" says Lita Rosario-Richardson.\n\nMs Rosario-Richardson is currently an entertainment lawyer. On campus, she recruited Ms Harris on to the debate team.\n\n\"The election of Kamala Harris has really made crystal clear that Howard prepares you for anything,\" she adds.\n\nAlthough it is no surprise to those who knew Kamala Harris that she is now the vice-president of the United States, it feels like a vindication for their own personal journeys and the philosophy they took forward with them into the wider world.\n\n\"It was instilled that with your education comes a responsibility to improve the world - specifically our own people. And, we see that that has benefited everyone in America.\n\n\"Kamala is a child of desegregation, like myself. Her nomination seemed historically fit, and she's the right person for it,\" Ms Rosario-Richardson adds.\n\nDexter Cole is now a top executive at TV One\n\n\"Alumni like Thurgood Marshall - the first black Supreme Court Justice - who attended Howard laid the framework.\"\n\nEven during their time as students, these alumni felt that they were connected to greatness and expected to make big strides in the world.\n\nIt was not a feeling confined to Kamala Harris. The stories of these women show many have become movers and shakers in their own fields.\n\n\"All this has come full circle,\" says Andrea Holmes, a graduate who is now a marketing executive.\n\n\"The vice-presidency is where she belongs. She is the role model of the world and to all women and little girls.\"\n\nThe original photograph of Kamala, Valarie and Karen was taken in 1986 at Howard University's famous Homecoming.\n\nAt most schools in the US, homecoming is an annual tradition marked by an American football game and partying. At Howard University, homecoming is marked by a football game as well as a week of events where all generations come back to meet and celebrate. Notable graduates as well as celebrities and artists come to perform, join discussions, and be part of the week.\n\nAs a graduate, I know Homecoming remains a highly anticipated annual event, an experience like no other. That picture captures the energy, friendship and ambition of a group of women, at Howard in an electric era, who felt capable of anything.\n\nValarie Pippen remembers the moment: \"The weekend was truly exhilarating, and you can see from the looks and smiles on our faces we were having the time of our lives.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMore than 2,000 homes in parts of Manchester are being evacuated due to flooding caused by Storm Christoph.\n\nThe Environment Agency (EA) has issued two severe flood warnings, which means danger to life, for the Didsbury and Northenden areas.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Nick Bailey of Greater Manchester Police has warned some of those affected would \"be Covid-positive or isolating at home\".\n\nHe said the government was working to ensure it was \"totally prepared\" for floods \"in every part of the UK\".\n\nA major incident was earlier declared for the Greater Manchester area where up to 3,000 properties were feared to be at risk.\n\nMr Johnson urged people not to stay in their homes if they were told to evacuate.\n\n\"If you are told to leave your home then you should do so.\n\n\"People may think this is a minor issue at the moment, still relevantly minor by standards of previous floods, but never underestimate the suffering, the misery, that floods can cause people.\"\n\nUnder government restrictions due to the current national lockdown people are allowed to leave their homes to escape harm.\n\nIn an alert to those affected, ACC Bailey said: \"A basin at Didsbury to take water from the Mersey is full. It will over-top in the next few hours. As a result we will be issuing a flood warning to homes.\n\n\"This will be through texted flood alerts to some people, and police officers, PCSOs, firefighters, and volunteers will be knocking on doors.\"\n\nHe said police will be supported by North West Ambulance, the British Red Cross and St John Ambulance.\n\n\"I think it's important to stress that if you are contacted and advised to evacuate then we would strongly urge you to do so,\" he added.\n\nWater levels in the area were expected to peak at about 23:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nA major incident has also been declared in Derbyshire, where authorities believe a small number of evacuations are \"likely\" on Thursday morning, when the River Derwent is expected to peak.\n\nCounty council leader Barry Lewis said it could rival levels seen in November 2019, depending on the weather overnight.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PM says the government is making sure it is “totally prepared in every part of the UK” for flooding after Storm Christoph.\n\nSpeaking after a Cobra emergency meeting on Wednesday, Mr Johnson said work was under way to ensure transport and energy networks, and local council services, were prepared.\n\nHe added that work was also taking place to ensure the necessary numbers of sandbags were available.\n\n\"We want to make sure that we are totally prepared in every part of the UK for flooding, because it is coming on top of the stress people are already under fighting Covid,\" he said.\n\n\"We looked at particularly Manchester, we've got a situation potentially developing there,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"We are looking at a pattern of rainfall possibly not as bad at the end of this week, maybe worse next week.\"\n\nPeople in Greater Manchester have also been advised not to travel.\n\nStephen Rhodes, from Transport from Greater Manchester, said there was disruption across the network.\n\n\"Let's work together and not put our emergency services and the NHS - who are already working extremely hard due to the Covid-19 pandemic - under any more pressure,\" he said.\n\nIn Merseyside, the M57 has been closed in both directions between junction 6 and 7 due to flooding.\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued more than 100 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected and immediate action required, while there are also more than 200 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible.\n\nRiver levels have risen rapidly in parts of northern England\n\nThe North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands have been preparing for widespread flooding following the Met Office's amber weather warning for heavy rain until midday Thursday.\n\nThe Met Office said some isolated areas could see up to 200mm (7.8in).\n\nSandbags have been distributed as Storm Christoph batters parts of England\n\n\"Once again the government's response to inevitable flood events has been slow and uncoordinated,\" the Barnsley East MP said.\n\n\"We must ensure councils are supported to protect people, businesses, and local communities, and that all of the necessary precautions are also in place to protect those fighting the floods in light of the Covid-19 pandemic.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Gender Identity Service is based at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust\n\nThe NHS's child gender-identity service has been rated \"inadequate\" after inspectors identified \"significant concerns\".\n\nThe Care Quality Commission inspected the Gender Identity Development Service (Gids) at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust in October.\n\nMore than 4,600 young people were on the waiting list and some had waited over two years for a first appointment.\n\nThe trust said it took the CQC report \"very seriously\".\n\nEngland and Wales' only children's gender-identity service was inspected after healthcare professionals and the children's commissioner for England raised concerns around \"clinical practice, safeguarding procedures, and assessments of capacity and consent to treatment\".\n\nThe children's commissioner had been provided evidence of staff concerns by BBC Newsnight.\n\nThe CQC's previous inspection, in 2016, had resulted in an overall \"good\" rating.\n\nBut in the latest inspection at clinics run by the trust in north London and Leeds, Gids was rated:\n\nOverall, the service is now rated as \"inadequate\".\n\nAnd the CQC has begun enforcement action, demanding monthly updates of the numbers on the waiting list and actions to reduce them.\n\nThe inspectors found Gids \"difficult to access\" and raised concerns over managing the risk to those on the waiting list, saying many of those waiting for or receiving a service were \"vulnerable and at risk of self-harm\".\n\n\"The size of the waiting list meant that staff were unable to proactively manage the risks to patients waiting for a first appointment,\" they added.\n\nRecord-keeping at Gids was also criticised, with the CQC noting that \"staff had not consistently recorded the competency, capacity and consent of patients referred for medical treatment before January 2020\".\n\nThis had changed since, but the CQC noted that in an audit of 10 records of young people referred for hormone blockers in March 2020, \"only three contained a completed consent form and checklist for referral\".\n\nA rating of inadequate is the lowest a healthcare provider can receive from the Care Quality Commission. It means that a service is \"performing badly\".\n\nGids had been rated good at its last inspection in 2016, but since then a number of concerns have been raised about the service.\n\nThe number of young people referred to Gids has increased significantly in recent years - leading to some of the delays in care highlighted by the inspection.\n\nBBC Newsnight has explored the standard of healthcare received by young people questioning their gender identity for the last 18 months.\n\nIn that time, NHS England has changed its guidance on the use of puberty blockers to treat gender dysphoria, saying little is known about the long-term side effects, and an independent review of this area of health is under way.\n\nLast June we revealed how some Gids staff had raised serious concerns about safeguarding at the service, the speed of assessments, and whether patients' traumatic backgrounds and other difficulties were always adequately explored.\n\nThe comments were made as part of an official internal review into Gids, which also described how staff felt they had been \"shut down\". We also discovered that some of these concerns dated back to 2005.\n\nFurthermore, it was not possible to clearly understand why clinical decisions had been made.\n\nAfter reviewing 35 care records, the CQC found there was \"no clearly defined assessment process\" and \"many records did not demonstrate good practice\".\n\nThe records also appeared to be \"insufficient\" in considering the needs of young people with autism spectrum disorders.\n\nIn a sample of 22 records, the CQC found more than half mentioned autistic spectrum disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), but \"records did not demonstrate consideration of the relationship between autistic spectrum disorder and gender dysphoria\".\n\nSignificant variation in the clinical approach of different staff members was also noted. Assessments of young people ranged from \"two or three sessions\" in some cases to over 25, or even more than 50.\n\nCQC deputy chief inspector of hospitals Kevin Cleary said his team continued to monitor the trust \"extremely closely\" and inspected the service again because \"we were extremely clear that there were improvements needed in providing person-centred care, capacity and consent, safe care and treatment, and governance\".\n\n\"In addition, vulnerable young people were not having their needs met as they were waiting too long for treatment.\"\n\nThe leadership at the trust knew \"exactly what improvements are needed\", he added.\n\nThe trust said: \"We take the CQC's report very seriously and would like to say sorry to patients for the length of time they are waiting to be seen, which was a critical factor in arriving at this rating.\"\n\nAccepting there was a \"need for improvements in our assessments, systems and processes\", the trust said it agreed with the CQC that the \"growth in referrals has exceeded the capacity of the service\".\n\nIt added improvements were being made, saying: \"We are already finalising plans to bring in senior clinical and operational expertise from outside the service to help us implement the necessary changes and consider how we can improve on current processes and practice - including how we standardise our assessment process.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned there will be \"tough weeks to come\" as the UK reported another all-time high of daily coronavirus deaths.\n\nA further 1,820 people have died within 28 days of a positive Covid test, according to government figures.\n\nIt means the total number of deaths by that measure is now 93,290.\n\nMr Johnson said there was now a \"race against time\" to vaccinate the vulnerable but he hoped there would be a \"real difference\" by spring.\n\nIn an interview with broadcasters, he said the high number of deaths was \"appalling\" and a reflection of the peak infection rates seen a couple of weeks ago.\n\nHe said: \"I must warn people there will be tough weeks to come, but as the vaccine goes in and that programme accelerates, there will be, I think, a real difference by spring.\"\n\nJust under half of the newly reported deaths occurred on Tuesday, while a further quarter took place on Monday or Sunday with the remainder last week or even earlier.\n\nThe previous highest number of daily deaths was the 1,610 reported on Tuesday.\n\nSome 4,609,740 people have now received the first dose of a vaccine - a rise of 343,163 from yesterday.\n\nThere were also a further 38,905 cases, with 3,887 more patients admitted into hospital.\n\nIt is the second consecutive day deaths have hit a new high.\n\nThat, sadly, was to be expected as it is a reflection of the surge in cases seen during December.\n\nIt takes a week or two from the point of infection for someone to become seriously ill - and they can then spend some time in hospital. The high number is also a result of delays reporting deaths - a quarter happened last week or even before.\n\nBut make no mistake the death toll is going up. If you look at the average over the course of a week, the numbers being reported at the moment are twice what they were just two weeks ago.\n\nHowever, we also know they should soon start coming down. Daily infections are falling, with signs lockdown is taking effect. For four days in a row new diagnoses have been below 40,000 - after averaging 60,000 at the start of year.\n\nIt could be another week or so before we start to see the impact of that in the death figures. The hope then would be that within a few weeks we could start seeing a more rapid fall as the impact of the vaccination programme begins to bite.\n\nBut before that happens the daily totals reported could, sadly, go even higher.\n\nNew coronavirus cases are down by 21.5% over the last seven days. But the number of patients being admitted into hospital in the same period has not yet fallen (up by 0.5%).\n\nThe prime minister said it looked as though infection rates across the country overall might now be peaking or flattening, but he cautioned that \"they're not flattening very fast\".\n\nAsked if daily deaths would continue to rise, he said it was \"difficult to predict\".\n\nHe added: \"We must hope that by getting the numbers of daily infections down in the way that perhaps has been happening since the lockdown that will feed through into a reduction in deaths as well.\n\n\"But I must stress that we have tough weeks to come now as we roll out the vaccine.\n\n\"The light will only really begin to dawn as we get those vaccination numbers up.\"\n\nEarlier, the government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, told Sky News: \"This is very, very bad at the moment, with enormous pressure, and in some cases it looks like a war zone in terms of the things that people are having to deal with.\"\n\nHe said there was \"light at the end of the tunnel\" in the form of the vaccination programme.\n\nBut he said vaccines were \"not going to do the heavy lifting for us at the moment, anywhere near it\".\n\nMilitary personnel are going to be deployed to a number of hospitals to help staff cope with high numbers of cases, including in Northern Ireland and Exeter.\n\nAnd this week 10 hospital trusts across England consistently reported having no spare adult critical care beds.\n\nIn other developments, Home Secretary Priti Patel said ministers were working to ensure police and other frontline workers were moved up the priority list for the Covid vaccine.\n\nMr Johnson said the government must rely on advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, but wanted front-line workers to be immunised \"as soon as possible\".\n\nHe also said the vaccination programme remained \"on track\" despite \"constraints on supply\".", "Theresa May has accused her successor Boris Johnson of \"abandoning\" the UK's moral leadership on the world stage.\n\nThe ex-prime minister said Mr Johnson's decision to cut the overseas aid budget below 0.7% of national income had reduced the UK's global \"credibility\".\n\nShe wrote in the Daily Mail the UK had to \"live up to its values\" and would be judged by its actions not its rhetoric.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK was \"embarking on a quite phenomenal year\" of global leadership.\n\nQuestioned about Mrs May's comments by the SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford at Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Johnson said: \"I think it's very important the prime minister of the UK has the best possible relationship with the president of the United States.\n\n\"That's part of the job description.\"\n\nHe cited the UK's hosting of a global vaccine summit, the upcoming COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, as well as the G7 summit of leading industrial nations, in Cornwall, and his pledge to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 as examples of the UK's global leadership.\n\nMr Blackford called on the PM to reverse \"his cruel policy of cutting international aid for the world's poorest\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The SNP Westminster leader called in the PM to reverse his \"cruel\" international aid policy\n\nLater on Wednesday, Joe Biden will be inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States, succeeding Donald Trump.\n\nIn advance of the event, Mr Johnson said he looked forward to working \"hand-in-hand\" with the new administration and that post-Covid challenges could only be tackled by \"international co-operation\".\n\nBut, in an article in the Daily Mail, Mrs May suggested Mr Johnson had squandered international goodwill by choosing not to meet the longstanding UN target of spending 0.7% of income on international development.\n\nThe government says it cannot meet the figure - enshrined in UK law - this year because of the strain placed on the public finances by the pandemic.\n\nTheresa May has made these criticisms - on overseas aid and the threat by the government to override international law - before.\n\nQuite often she gets a dig in when she stands up in the House of Commons.\n\nBut packaging it all up in this way, on this day, is, in the words of one of her close former advisers, \"quite punchy\".\n\nThe government would rather focus on the relationship it is going to forge with the new US president.\n\nMinisters feel they have quite a lot in common with Joe Biden when it comes to working together on the world stage, fighting climate change and co-operating on global security.\n\nMrs May also criticised Mr Johnson's support for legislation which could have allowed the UK to go back on parts of its Withdrawal Agreement with the EU, had it been passed.\n\nControversial clauses were ultimately removed from the Internal Market Bill in December, after the UK and EU reached an agreement.\n\nBut Mr Johnson's threat to break international law was criticised in Europe and the US - where Mr Biden warned it could imperil peace in Northern Ireland.\n\nMrs May said the UK was \"well placed to play a decisive role in shaping this more co-operative world but to lead we must live up to our values\".\n\n\"Other countries listen to what we say not simply because of who we are, but because of what we do. The world does not owe us a prominent place on its stage,\" she added.\n\n\"Whatever the rhetoric we deploy, it is our actions which count. So, we should do nothing which signals a retreat from our global commitments.\"\n\nMrs May suggested the end of the Trump presidency could be a catalyst for a change in world politics\n\nMrs May, who had a sometimes strained relationship with Mr Trump, said Mr Biden's election presented the UK with a \"golden opportunity\" for Western democracies to reverse the trend towards \"absolutism\" - and a \"few strongmen facing off against each other\" - in global affairs.\n\nThe UK holds the presidency of the G7 this year and hosts the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.\n\nMr Johnson said he looked forward to welcoming Mr Biden to the UK at least twice in 2021.\n\n\"In our fight against Covid and across climate change, defence, security, and in promoting and defending democracy, our goals are the same and our nations will work hand-in-hand to achieve them,\" he added.", "(From left to right) Janet Yellen, Lloyd Austin, Deb Haaland\n\nPresident Joe Biden's first cabinet is being described as the most diverse ever. The latest historic first is an openly gay cabinet secretary.\n\nWhen George Washington convened the first cabinet meeting two centuries ago - though he didn't call it by that name - he enshrined the idea of promoting diverse perspectives at the heart of US government. Of course, back in 1791, all the voices in the room were white and male.\n\nYou won't find the cabinet mentioned in the lines of the Constitution, but the first president saw the value of advisers who could guide him on major issues while bringing different viewpoints to the table.\n\nIn 2021, America has seen its first openly gay cabinet secretary in Pete Buttigieg - the latest Biden confirmation - as well as its first female treasury secretary, first black Pentagon chief and more.\n\nMr Biden has been under pressure from all sides to deliver on his promises of a cabinet that truly reflects the country rather than a line-up of familiar political faces.\n\nThe graphic above shows all of Mr Biden's nominees - those with black and white photos are white men, while those with colour photographs are in one or more of these categories: women; people belonging to ethnic minorities; member of the LGBT community.\n\n\"This cabinet will be more representative of the American people than any other cabinet in history,\" Mr Biden told reporters in December.\n\nIf approved by the Senate, it will include Congresswoman Deb Haaland as the first Native American cabinet secretary in US history and Miguel Cardona, who is of Puerto Rican heritage, as his education chief.\n\nMr Biden's first cabinet is even more diverse than that put together by Barack Obama, who came close to truly reflecting the country but fell short with seven women to 16 men, and just one black secretary.\n\nBut not everyone has been pleased with his choices. When Mr Biden chose General Lloyd Austin to lead the Pentagon - the first black man to do so - other activists were upset that the position was yet again denied to a woman. And Mr Biden picked two white men to head the state and agriculture agencies - Anthony Blinken and Tom Vilsack - when progressive groups would rather have seen him nominate black women to the roles.\n\nProgressive liberals have also criticised Mr Biden's selections as too safe, too moderate, too establishment and too old. For many of the supporters who delivered Mr Biden the presidency, he's not there just yet.\n\nSince 1933, only 11 presidents have named women to cabinet-level positions. No cabinets have ever matched the gender or racial balance of the country.\n\nThe cabinet size can vary depending on administration, but they're roughly composed of around 15 executives. In the last 30 years, the trend has been towards greater representation - or at least it was, until the Trump administration.\n\nOn the day of President Bill Clinton's inauguration, the Washington Post wrote that the new Democratic leader had assembled \"the most diverse Cabinet in history: five women, four blacks and two Latinos\".\n\nMr Clinton's small business administrator Aida Alvarez was the first-ever Latina appointed to a cabinet-level position.\n\nPresident George W Bush's first cabinet was lauded by the New York Times as \"a governing team every bit as ethnically and racially diverse as President Clinton's\".\n\nMr Bush chose Colin Powell, the son of Jamaican immigrants, to become the country's first black secretary of state. He also tapped Norman Mineta - a Democrat who became the first Asian American to hold a cabinet-level spot under Mr Clinton - to head his transportation department.\n\nLater on, the Bush administration made history again with the appointment of Condoleezza Rice: the first black woman to serve as secretary of state and then as national security adviser. Mr Bush also placed the first Pacific Islander and Asian American woman, Elaine Chao, in a cabinet role as labour secretary.\n\nPresident Barack Obama's history-making first cabinet was dubbed a \"majority-minority\". Mr Obama's inner circle had seven women, nine minorities and just eight white men.\n\nUnder Mr Obama, Susan Rice became the first black woman to serve as US ambassador to the United Nations, and Eric Holder became the first black US attorney general.\n\nIn a throwback to the Reagan era, President Donald Trump's inner circle was notably white, affluent and male - though he had more women in his White House than previous Republicans.\n\nAnd Mr Trump did appoint women to other roles in the administration. He named the first Indian-American, Nikki Haley, as UN ambassador.\n\nBut why has it taken this long for women and minorities to make it into the room where decisions happen?\n\n\"When we think about how you get to these roles, one way is to come through elected office,\" says Professor Kelly Dittmar of the Rutgers University Center for American Women and Politics.\n\n\"So if you have a dearth of women and women of colour in elective office, and that's where presidents are looking, in part, to identify cabinet officials, then you already start with an uneven pool.\"\n\nWe saw the first woman in US Congress in 1916, she explains, but it took nearly two more decades before President Franklin Roosevelt appointed the first woman to a cabinet role (that was Labor Secretary Frances Perkins).\n\nThe story for black and other ethnic minority Americans has taken even longer. The first black man took a seat in Congress in 1870, but we didn't see a black man in the cabinet until President Lyndon Johnson appointed Robert Weaver in 1966. It took until 1968 for the first black woman to be elected to Congress. The first black woman in the cabinet followed in 1977 (Patricia Roberts Harris, Housing Secretary).\n\nThe US has no formal rules requiring equal representation for these groups in government, either.\n\nCountries with quotas in government or at the political party level have made strides towards equality at leadership levels. For example, Rwanda in 2018 saw 61% women in its lower chamber.\n\nIn three key posts, the Defence, Treasury, and Veteran's Affairs departments, there has never been a woman in the job - until now.\n\nOn 25 January, Janet Yellen was confirmed as Treasury Secretary, breaking that particular glass ceiling.\n\nOld time stereotypes have given way in this sector. Surveys show people nowadays are more likely to rate the genders equal when it comes to handling the economy.\n\nProf Dittmar says there are more persistent stereotypes about men versus women's expertise when it comes to defence and national security matters, and public opinion polls have shown this divide. Women weren't allowed in the military until 1948.\n\n\"Even though we have certainly seen greater diversification, these fields are among the most male dominant, especially at the highest levels,\" says Prof Dittmar. \"There's all sorts of biases going on within those structures to prevent women's advancement, I'm sure. That helps explain why those gaps have been there at least historically.\"\n\nOhio State University political science and gender studies Professor Wendy Smooth says these appointments are a way of signalling broader initiatives and values - inextricably tied to policy, but also indicators of identity.\n\n\"One of the early ways that a presidential administration expresses that willingness to be accountable is through cabinet picks,\" Prof Smooth says.\n\n\"These are the first acts that demonstrate the will of the administration, the spirit of the administration, the values of the administration. It's an identity moment. It's going to be the who we are as the Biden administration and who we are interested in connecting with in the American public.\"\n\nIt may be difficult to directly measure the importance of symbolism, but turning preconceived notions of leadership upside down can have very tangible implications.\n\n\"If you see a woman as secretary of defence for the first time, does that start to disrupt expectations that men are better and more expert in areas of defence? Yes, inevitably it does,\" Prof Dittmar says.\n\nShe says the same is true for Vice-President Kamala Harris and her history-making appointment.\n\n\"I hope that after her tenure as vice-president, the next time we have women running for president that these questions about electability or qualifications or capability will be at least fewer than they were.\"\n\nAnd research from an increasingly diverse Congress has shown that women bring priorities and issues to the table that may otherwise have been ignored. \"And that, ultimately, is better for making policy that better speaks to the experiences of the population that they serve,\" Prof Dittmar explains.\n\n\"Unless you can tell me that living your life as a woman or as a black woman or as a South Asian woman in the United States is the same as living your life as a white man, then I don't at all understand why we wouldn't expect that to make a difference in the lens through which they see policy.\"", "Joy Morgan was a second year midwifery student at the University of Hertfordshire\n\nA student murdered by a fellow church member may have been given drugs without her knowing, an inquest heard.\n\nThe body of Joy Morgan, 20, was found in Hertfordshire woodland in October 2019, two months after Shohfah-El Israel was convicted of her murder.\n\nTraces of MDMA were found in her body and the inquest was told there was no evidence that Ms Morgan would have taken the drug herself voluntarily.\n\nIsrael, of Fordwych Road, north-west London, was jailed for life and ordered to serve a minimum term of 17 years for Ms Morgan's murder in August 2019, despite the fact her body had not been found.\n\nDuring sentencing, Judge Michael Soole said Israel's \"cruel and cowardly\" refusal to reveal her whereabouts caused \"continuing distress and suffering\" to her family.\n\nShohfah-El Israel was convicted by a jury at Reading Crown Court\n\nTwo months later, the remains of Ms Morgan were found in woodland off Chadwell Road, Norton Green, near Stevenage.\n\nPart of the police evidence showed the killer had been in the area of the woods shortly after Ms Morgan's disappearance in December 2018.\n\nShe was reported missing on 7 February 2019 after failing to return to her studies.\n\nBoth Israel and Ms Morgan, who was in her second year at the University of Hertfordshire studying midwifery, were worshippers at the Israel United in Christ Church in Ilford.\n\nAn inquest at Hatfield Coroner's Court heard her body was found badly decomposed, and wrapped in black plastic bin liners and gaffer tape.\n\nThe court heard toxicology tests showed MDMA in her body, and Det Insp Justine Jenkins said there was no evidence to indicate she would have voluntarily or knowingly taken illegal drugs.\n\n\"She was a church-goer, there is nothing to suggest [she took drugs] at all.\n\n\"We did, however, find MDMA in Israel's car, and it is likely that he was responsible for giving her these drugs.\"\n\nJoy Morgan's remains were found in woodland at Norton Green\n\nForensic pathologist Dr Charlotte Randall said there were three possible minor bruises on Ms Morgan's limbs. She added there was no evidence that Ms Morgan had been stabbed or shot, or restrained or suffered injuries consistent with a sexual assault.\n\nShe found evidence of a possible fracture to her hyoid bone, but there was nothing to suggest she had suffered compression of the neck.\n\nDr Randall said there was no evidence the student had suffered a head injury, but said she could have been rendered unconscious by a blow to the head that was \"non-fatal\".\n\nShe could not rule out suffocation as a cause of death, potentially following milder blunt force trauma to the head.\n\nCoroner Geoffrey Sullivan said: \"[The MDMA] is not something that she would have taken and one can't exclude that she was given that, and it in some way rendered her incapable or unconscious.\"\n\nHe said the cause of Ms Morgan's death could not be ascertained.\n\nAfter the inquest, her mother Carol Morgan described her daughter as \"an amazing person\".\n\n\"She's been cremated, I haven't decided where to put her ashes so at the moment she's still at home with me,\" she said.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "In the end, the master provocateur ended up provoking the wrong person in the wrong way at the wrong time.\n\nUntil August 2017, Steve Bannon was arguably the second most powerful man in Washington. The president's one-time chief strategist was the puller of strings, the Trump-whisperer, revelling in his role as an agent of chaos.\n\nAfter the 2016 election, he was among \"the best talent in politics\" - in Trump's words.\n\nThen he became \"Sloppy Steve\", a derogatory nickname used by the US president after Bannon was quoted in a book saying several things that appear to have made his former boss unhappy.\n\nOne example that made headlines was that the president's son, Donald Trump Jr, had committed a \"treasonous\" act in talking to Russians.\n\nBannon's backers cut their ties with him, he left the powerful right-wing media empire Breitbart, and the future of the man behind some of Trump's most headline-grabbing policies was left up in the air.\n\nAnd then in August 2020, more bad news. Bannon was arrested and charged with fraud over an online fundraising scheme to build a wall on the US-Mexico border.\n\nProsecutors said he received more than $1m - and used some of it to pay off personal expenses. He pleaded not guilty.\n\nEven in a White House where political careers have the life expectancy of a house fly, Bannon's sudden rise and fall over four years is remarkable. Here's how it came about.\n\nAs executive chairman of Breitbart - a combative conservative site with an anti-establishment agenda - Bannon was an early cheerleader for Trump and Trumpism.\n\nBut it was not until 15 months into the property tycoon's presidential race that Bannon joined his team.\n\nBy that point he was already, according to a profile on the Bloomberg website, \"the most dangerous political operative in America\", a man with Democrats and establishment Republicans in his crosshairs, and a knack for well-timed confrontation. A disruptive Trump presented Bannon with a golden opportunity.\n\nWithout Seinfeld, there is no Steve Bannon - it will become clear, don't worry\n\nBannon was born into a family of Irish Catholics - all Kennedy Democrats - in Virginia in November 1953.\n\nHe was not political, he said, until an eight-year stint with the Navy starting in 1977, when he became a Reagan Republican in response to President Carter's handling of the Iran conflict.\n\nA master of reinvention, he went on to work as an executive with the Goldman Sachs bank, before helping finance and produce Hollywood films and later emerging as a political Svengali.\n\nHis record in Hollywood can be described as patchy at best (\"The business runs on talent relationships,\" one former colleague told the New Yorker. \"He had this real will-to-power vibe that was so off-putting.\")\n\nBut Bannon did strike gold in one big way - by negotiating a share of the profits in a new television show, Seinfeld, in 1993. The show ran for nine seasons and was widely syndicated - in November 2016, Forbes estimated that Bannon, if he owned only a 1% share in the show's profits, would have earned $32.6m (£24m) by that point.\n\nAfter returning to the US from the Chinese city of Shanghai in 2008 feeling the Bush administration was a \"disaster\", Bannon was struck by what he described to the New Yorker as \"this phenomenon called Sarah Palin\". Bannon warmed to the brand of populism employed by the Alaskan governor picked as John McCain's Republican running mate in the 2008 presidential race.\n\nThat populist wave would come crashing to shore with Trump's participation in the 2016 election, a wave Bannon proudly rode the whole way. In Trump, he recognised a willing outlet for his idea that, according to Wolff, \"the new politics was not the art of compromise, but the art of conflict\".\n\nBannon had long talked up Trump's chances on Breitbart News Network, which he took over in 2012 after the death of its founder, Andrew Breitbart. Bannon considered Trump, according to Wolff's book, \"a big warm-hearted monkey\".\n\nLike many of the businessman's cheerleaders, Bannon was eventually invited into his inner circle, becoming the CEO of the Trump campaign in August 2016.\n\nDishevelled, regularly unshaven, and prone to wearing two shirts at the same time, he was an unlikely candidate to work closely with Trump, who places a high value on appearance. But somehow it worked.\n\nBannon's economic nationalist outlook and his eagerness for a \"deconstruction of the administrative state\" - a tearing apart of the system of taxes and regulations that he believed had hindered the US over years - chimed with Trump's \"Make America Great Again\" plea.\n\nTwo days after his arrival, Bannon replaced Paul Manafort as campaign chairman.\n\nBannon's counterpart in the Democratic camp, Robby Mook, responded furiously: \"Donald Trump has decided to double down on his most small, nasty and divisive instincts by turning his campaign over to someone who is best known for running a so-called news site that peddles divisive, sometimes racist... sometimes anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.\"\n\nThe provocateur in Bannon will almost certainly have enjoyed the reaction to his appointment. Less than three months later, he'd have even more to celebrate.\n\nTrump and Bannon thought as one in the last weeks of the campaign, to the extent that the Republican candidate would often demand: \"Where's my Steve? Where's my Steve?\", according to one former Trump aide.\n\nIn interviews after the event, Bannon said he always believed Trump would win. But not everyone else did, according to Michael Wolff's book. Indeed, in the weeks after the billionaire won, \"he had come to credit Bannon with something like mystical powers\" for having predicted the victory.\n\nWhite House appointments aren't often met with wide protests - but then Steve Bannon's was no ordinary appointment\n\nDays after the election, Trump named his trusted lieutenant as \"chief strategist\" - a newly created role - in his cabinet.\n\nThere were wide protests against the decision, and 169 members of the House - all Democrats - sent a letter to the president-elect asking him to withdraw Bannon's nomination, saying \"bigotry, anti-Semitism, and xenophobia should have no place in our society, and they certainly have no place in the White House\".\n\nBannon's vision was made clear in Trump's bleak inaugural address, which he wrote. Wolff says in his book it was \"a Bannon-driven message to the other side that the country was about to undergo profound change... his take-back-the-country, America-first, carnage-everywhere vision of the country\".\n\nThe \"American carnage\" speech painted a vision of a US with \"mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities, rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation\".\n\nThe full ramifications of Bannon's America First policy were made clear a week later, with Trump signing an executive order dreamt up by his chief strategist that banned people from seven Muslim-majority countries from travelling to the US. It caught many White House staff unaware.\n\nBannon, Wolff writes, was \"satisfied\" at the move and the subsequent outrage. \"He could not have hoped to draw a more vivid line between the two Americas - Trump's and liberals',\" Wolff writes, adding that the timing of its release before a busy weekend was deliberate - so it could cause as much chaos as possible.\n\nOne word that regularly features in interviews with Bannon is \"war\". Trump HQ on election night was \"the war room\", the same name he gave to the Oval Office when Trump took over. When Bannon would go on to leave the White House, he said he was going to \"war\" on Trump's behalf.\n\nFor Bannon, disorder was the new order in the White House. He and Trump were creating conflict and confusion, and that suited Bannon just fine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Steve Bannon's three goals for the Trump presidency\n\nA day after Trump's executive order on immigration was signed, there was another controversial announcement - the US president downgraded military chiefs of staff from his National Security Council and gave a regular seat to Bannon instead.\n\nOnly career diplomats and generals usually join the council, the main group advising the president on national security and foreign affairs. By being invited to be a member, Bannon - in his first government job, aged 63 - was allowed to join high-level discussions about national security.\n\nThe reaction was, predictably, one of shock.\n\nDemocrat former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders called the move \"dangerous and unprecedented\", and Obama's former national security adviser Susan Rice tweeted: \"This is stone-cold crazy. After a week of crazy.\"\n\nThe White House, of course, defended their man as being more than capable enough to be on the council, pointing out his Navy service.\n\nBut in retrospect, this promotion is about as good as it got for Bannon in the White House.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Some of the people who have resigned or been fired under President Trump\n\nIn the end, Bannon lasted a little over two months on the National Security Council, leaving in April.\n\nIt was not a demotion, White House officials said, but the reasons for the change were not clear. Perhaps, just by shaking up the old order, the appointment had done its job.\n\nBut this change in his responsibilities became an indication of what was to come.\n\nAfter a summer of reports that Bannon was less and less visible in a White House suffering infighting and leaks, he left his position last August.\n\nIt was sold as a strategic move - Bannon would head back to Breitbart, where he would fight for Trump's agenda. \"I've got my hands back on my weapons,\" he said. \"It's Bannon the Barbarian.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBreitbart welcomed back what it called its \"populist hero\", with editor-in-chief Alex Marlow saying Bannon had \"his finger on the pulse of the Trump agenda\".\n\nBut his departure from the White House came at the end of a week in which Bannon had come under fire from a number of quarters, and amid reports of tension with key aides including National Security Adviser HR McMaster.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Charlottesville was the culmination of months of protests by white supremacists\n\nClashes had taken place the previous weekend between far-right and counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, after which Trump blamed \"both sides\" for the violence - Bannon had once said his Breitbart site was \"a platform for the alt-right\" who were responsible for the violence.\n\nTwo days before he left his job, an interview with Bannon in the American Prospect, a liberal magazine, reportedly infuriated the president. Bannon was quoted as dismissing the idea of a military solution in North Korea, undercutting Trump.\n\nThen, a day later, a BuzzFeed report that said that Trump was unhappy with the credit his adviser was taking for the election victory.\n\n\"He undermined Trump's ego,\" Joshua Green, the author of a book on Bannon's relationship with Trump, Devil's Bargain, told the BBC.\n\n\"Trump can't abide the thesis of my book and Michael Wolff's book, which is that Bannon is the brains of the operation and Trump is an erratic charlatan. That's what Trump won't abide.\"\n\nBannon backed Roy Moore in the Alabama senate race - it didn't end well for them\n\nNow on the outside looking in, Bannon was more than happy to tell Trump where he thought he was going wrong. He attacked him through Breitbart for reversing course and sending more troops to Afghanistan, and called Trump's firing of FBI director James Comey the biggest mistake in \"modern political history\".\n\nBut Bannon was back in his natural habitat as he gunned for the Republican establishment, putting his weight behind ultra-conservative populist candidate Roy Moore in a senate race in Alabama.\n\nMoore comfortably won the primary against Luther Strange, the incumbent backed by Trump and the Republican machine.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut Moore went on to face allegations of sexual misconduct with teenage girls, which he denied, and in December he lost the race to Doug Jones, who became the first Democrat to win a Senate seat in Alabama in 25 years.\n\nBannon's man, one eventually backed by Trump and the Republican party, had suffered a humiliating loss in what was supposed to be Bannon's first big victory. A win would have given him momentum in his campaign to field populist candidates against Republican senators in the 2018 mid-terms. A loss made that much harder.\n\nBannon - humbled, surprised - credited Democrats for having worked hardest, but the defeat risked grounding his populist movement to a halt.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump harsher on Bannon than he is on his 'worst enemies'\n\nTrump may once have been Bannon's \"big warm-hearted monkey\". But even cuddly monkeys can bite.\n\nAs details of Michael Wolff's book emerged, one key line stood out - Bannon described a meeting Donald Trump Jr held in New York with a Russian lawyer during the 2016 presidential election campaign as \"treasonous\".\n\n\"They're going to crack Don Junior like an egg on national TV,\" he told Wolff.\n\nThe reaction from the White House - reeling from a special-counsel investigation into possible collusion between the Trump team and Russia - was swift. Bannon had \"lost his mind\" after losing his White House position, the president said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSoon after, Rebekah Mercer, a wealthy benefactor of Bannon's, said she had ended her support for his political efforts.\n\nBannon, left with fewer and fewer allies, insisted his comments were not directed at Mr Trump's son but at another former aide, Paul Manafort, who was also present at the meeting in Trump Tower.\n\nBut there was only one way left to go. The goodbye from Breitbart was polite, and Bannon was out.\n\nSomewhere, somehow, Bannon the master string-puller will re-emerge - possibly in a different guise.\n\nCould he and Trump ever reconcile?\n\n\"Trump has fired people before and then let them back in,\" Joshua Green, the author of Devil's Bargain, said.\n\n\"But I've never seen Trump bury somebody as forcefully as he did Bannon, both in his statement and the parade of White House officials who have come out to heap scorn and derision on Bannon.\n\n\"It's awfully hard to imagine how Bannon could recover from that.\"\n\nAn unexpected twist unfolded ahead of the November 2020 election when Bannon and three other people were arrested and charged with fraud over a fundraising campaign to build a wall on the US-Mexico border.\n\nYou'll remember that building this wall was a key pledge of Trump's 2016 campaign, which Bannon played a leading role in.\n\nBannon, Brian Kolfage, Andrew Badolato and Timothy Shea defrauded hundreds of thousands of donors in connection with the \"We Build the Wall\" campaign, which raised $25m (£19m), the Department of Justice (DoJ) said.\n\nBannon received more than $1m, at least some of which he used to cover personal expenses, the DoJ said.\n\nEach of the two charges - conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering - carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.", "New legislation has been passed to protect Scottish shop workers from abuse from customers.\n\nThe Protection of Workers Bill will make it a new specific offence to assault, abuse or threaten staff.\n\nIncidents involving an age-restricted product, such as alcohol or cigarettes, could be treated more seriously.\n\nThe MSP behind the bill, Labour's Daniel Johnson, said attacks on retail workers had increased during the Covid pandemic.\n\nHe told Holyrood: \"Shop staff have been spat at for asking customers to socially distance, and stock has been smashed in retaliation for item limits being imposed.\n\n\"Violence, threats and abuse should not be just part of anyone's job.\"\n\nMr Johnson said that staff requesting age ID could be a \"trigger factor\" in many incidents of abuse.\n\nThe new legislation will also cover people working in bars, restaurants and hotels, and those delivering items bought online who may have to ask for proof of age.\n\nThe bill was supported by all parties at Holyrood, despite the government initially arguing that its provisions were already covered by existing criminal laws.\n\nThe Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service told MSPs that further legislation was not needed, noting that \"violence, threats and abuse against retail workers, or indeed any other person, are prosecuted every day in the courts in Scotland using offences which are commonly understood\".\n\nPolice Scotland meanwhile said there would be \"no significant change in how we go about our business\" as a result of it.\n\nCommunity safety minister Ash Denham said that while there was a \"wide range of existing criminal laws\" currently in place to protect staff, the new legislation could \"make the general public think more about their behaviour when they interact with retail workers\".\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives also backed the bill, although they argued that the presumption against short sentences in Scotland meant anyone convicted under the new law would ultimately not be jailed.\n\nPaul Gerrard, public affairs director for the Co-Op, told BBC Radio Scotland's Drivetime that the retailer had seen a 450% rise in violent incidents in the last few years.\n\n\"It is a huge problem,\" he said. \"We've seen an explosion in violence and abuse toward my colleagues.\n\n\"Now across 350 stores in Scotland we have someone attacked every day. And 10 colleagues are threatened or abused every day.\n\n\"Increasingly we have seen knives, syringes and axes all used against shopworkers.\"\n\nMr Gerrard added that previous incidents were centred on shoplifting or age-restricted sales, but staff were now facing more abuse around enforcing Covid shopping rules.\n\nThe new legislation was passed by 118 votes to 0 in the Scottish Parliament.\n\nThe Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (Usdaw) is now urging the UK government to introduce similar legislation to protect retail staff in England - something Labour MP Alex Norris is pursuing at Westminster.\n\nUsdaw general secretary Paddy Lillis said: \"It is a great result for our members in Scotland, who will now have the protection of the law that they deserve.\n\n\"So we are looking for MPs to support key workers across the retail sector and help turn around the UK government's opposition.\"", "Donald Trump won a surprise victory in 2016 partly because he promised to shake things up. He leaves office with two impeachments and the nation on edge. But his supporters say he kept his promises.", "More than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed\n\nMembers of the military are to be brought in to help medical staff in Northern Ireland in the fight against Covid-19.\n\nHealth Minister Robin Swann has asked the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to help out, primarily at a number of hospitals across NI.\n\nMore than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed.\n\nThose brought in will assist nursing staff and help on the wards in a move designed to ease the pressure on staff.\n\nIn the past, the use of the military in Northern Ireland has provoked controversy.\n\nWhile military help has already been used during the pandemic to transport equipment and patients, this is the first time military staff will be used in hospitals.\n\nIt is thought the first military staff will be made available as early as next week.\n\nMr Swann said it would have been an abdication of responsibility if he did not avail of help from the military.\n\nHe said while coronavirus cases were lower than two weeks ago, the challenge posed remained \"intense\" and intensive care pressures were expected to increase further in the next eight to 10 days.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Brandon Lewis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe confirmed that a request for military assistance for NI's health service had been accepted by the MoD.\n\nThe health minister thanked the MoD for the Military Aid to the Civil Authorities agreement, which is being provided in other UK regions.\n\n\"The armed forces have provided invaluable support in this pandemic, including aeromedical evacuation, real-estate and ongoing logistical planning,\" he said.\n\n\"Our hospitals are under immense pressure and an additional staffing complement will be very welcome on the front line.\n\n\"This is a health decision and I am confident it will be supported on that basis.\"\n\nNI Secretary Brandon Lewis tweeted: \"Battling #COVID19 is a national effort. I'm pleased that 110 medically-trained personnel from our Armed Forces will support health and social care teams across Northern Ireland in their vital work on the frontline against coronavirus.\"\n\nThe move has been welcomed by the Democratic Unionist Party.\n\nWhen it was announced last April that the health minster had made requests for military help, Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill said Mr Swann had taken that decision unilaterally.\n\nHowever, she later said her party would not rule out any measure necessary to save lives.\n\nReacting to the latest request for help, Sinn Féin said its priority throughout the pandemic had been to save lives, keep people safe and protect the health service.\n\n\"The Minister of Health has made a request for staffing support from the British Ministry of Defence,\" the party said.\n\n\"We do not rule out any measures to do so, and any effort to make the threat posed by Covid-19 into a green and orange issue is divisive and a distraction.\"\n\nAs of Wednesday, there were 832 people in hospital in Northern Ireland with coronavirus, of whom 67 were in intensive care, with 57 ventilated.\n\nA further 22 people with coronavirus died, bringing the Department of Health's total to 1,671 while there were 905 new cases.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, 61 new Covid-19-related deaths were recorded on Wednesday, bringing the country's death toll to 2,768.\n\nA further 2,488 new cases of the virus were also confirmed by the Irish Department for Health.\n\nSpeaking at Stormont's press briefing on Wednesday, Mr Swann confirmed the executive would review the current lockdown regulations on Thursday.\n\nNorthern Ireland began a six-week lockdown on 26 December, in a bid to bring the virus under control.\n\nMinisters promised to review the regulations after four weeks.\n\nMr Swann said he would not pre-empt the outcome of Thursday's meeting but confirmed he would bring recommendations from his officials to the meeting.\n\n\"This is not the time to open floodgates or take premature decisions that would lead to another spike in cases,\" he added.\n\n\"We must stay the course.\"\n\nThe minister also provided the latest update on the number of vaccinations - 160,396 doses have now been administered in NI, with 21,690 of those second doses.\n\nHe said he understood the frustration of some people that they were still waiting to hear when their elderly or vulnerable relatives would receive their vaccine, but he urged patience.\n\n\"We cannot go faster than supplies allow,\" he said.", "The National Audit Office has had full access to the BBC's accounts since 2010\n\nThe BBC faces \"significant\" uncertainty over its financial future due to changes in viewing habits, a National Audit Office report has found.\n\n\"While the BBC remains the most used media brand in the UK, its share of younger audiences has been under pressure,\" the spending watchdog said.\n\n\"Falling audience share poses a financial risk as people are less likely to pay the licence fee.\"\n\nThe BBC said it had already set out plans for \"urgent\" reforms.\n\nAccording to the NAO report, the BBC has seen \"a notable drop\" in audience viewing while its income from the licence fee has also declined.\n\nThe BBC \"faces considerable uncertainty\" about its licence fee income and should produce \"a long-term financial plan... as soon as possible\", it states.\n\nSuch a plan, the report recommends, should \"set out the detail for the next stage of its savings, and how it will fund its new strategic priorities\".\n\nIn 2019-20, the BBC generated total income of £4.94bn, of which £3.52bn was public funding from the licence fee. That was £310m less than the corporation received from the licence fee between 2017-18.\n\nThe current cost of an annual television licence is £157.50\n\nThe report also highlighted a 30% decline in BBC TV viewing over the past decade. On average, the amount of time an adult spent watching broadcast BBC television fell from 80 minutes a day in 2010 to 56 minutes in 2019.\n\nAnd the NAO said the BBC's financial health had been \"unexpectedly weakened\" by the impact of the coronavirus response.\n\nLast November, the BBC began negotiations with the government about the future funding it will receive from the licence fee. The fee, which is currently £157.50 annually, is due to stay in place until at least 2027, when the BBC's Royal Charter ends.\n\nIn response, the BBC said it had made \"significant savings and increased efficiencies, while maintaining our spending on content, and continuing to be the UK's most-used media organisation\".\n\nIt added: \"We have set out plans for urgent reforms focused on providing great value for all audiences and we will set out further detail on this in the coming months.\n\n\"The report also stresses the importance of stable funding for the future, which we welcome as we begin negotiations with government over the licence fee.\"\n\nThe National Union of Journalists said the report's findings \"come as no surprise\" and that the BBC needs \"a financially secure long-term deal that will guarantee its future.\"\n\nThe NAO scrutinises the finances of government departments and other public sector bodies. Last week Richard Sharp, the BBC's incoming chairman, said the licence fee was the \"least worst\" way of funding the corporation, but it \"may be worth reassessing\" in future.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "At noon on Wednesday, President Donald Trump's term will end. It's been a whirlwind four years, so what might the legacy be of such a history-making president?\n\nThere's a lot to consider, so we asked the experts to break it down for us.\n\nResponses have been edited for length and clarity.\n\nMatthew Continetti is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, focusing on the development of the Republican Party and the American conservative movement.\n\nDonald Trump will be remembered as the first president to be impeached twice. He fed the myth that the election was stolen, summoned his supporters to Washington to protest the certification of the Electoral College vote, told them that only through strength could they take back their country, and stood by as they stormed the US Capitol and interfered in the operation of constitutional government.\n\nWhen historians write about his presidency, they will do so through the lens of the riot.\n\nThey will focus on Trump's tortured relationship with the alt-right, his atrocious handling of the deadly Charlottesville protest in 2017, the rise in violent right-wing extremism during his tenure in office, and the viral spread of malevolent conspiracy theories that he encouraged.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nIf Donald Trump had followed the example of his predecessors and conceded power graciously and peacefully, he would have been remembered as a disruptive but consequential populist leader.\n\nA president who, before the pandemic, presided over an economic boom, re-oriented America's opinion of China, removed terrorist leaders from the battlefield, revamped the space program, secured an originalist (conservative) majority on the US Supreme Court, and authorised Operation Warp Speed to produce a Covid-19 vaccine in record time.\n\nLaura Belmonte is a history professor and dean of the Virginia Tech College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences. She is a foreign relations specialist and author of books on cultural diplomacy.\n\nHis attempt to surrender global leadership and replace it with a more inward-looking, fortress-like mentality. I don't think it succeeded, but the question is how profound has the damage to America's international reputation been - and that remains to be seen.\n\nThe moment I found jaw-dropping was the press conference he had with Vladimir Putin in 2018 in Helsinki, where he took Putin's side over US intelligence in regard to Russian interference in the election.\n\nI can't think of another episode of a president siding full force with a non-democratic society adversary.\n\nIt's also very emblematic of a larger assault on any number of multilateral institutions and treaties and frameworks that Trump has unleashed, like the withdrawal from the Paris climate accord, the withdrawal of the Iranian nuclear framework.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nTrump's applauding Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, really turning himself inside out to align the US with regimes that are the antithesis of values that the US says it wants to promote. That is something that I think was really quite distinctive.\n\nAnother aspect is extricating the US from any really assertive role in promoting human rights throughout the world, and changing the content of the annual human rights reports from the State Department and not including many topics, like LGBT equality, for instance.\n\nKathryn Brownell is a history professor at Purdue University, focusing on the relationships between media, politics, and popular culture, with an emphasis on the American presidency.\n\nBroadly speaking: Donald Trump, and his enablers in the Republican Party and conservative media, have put American democracy to the test in an unprecedented way. As a historian who studies the intersection of media and the presidency, it is truly striking the ways in which he has convinced millions of people that his fabricated version of events is true.\n\nWhat happened on 6 January at the US Capitol is a culmination of over four years during which President Trump actively advanced misinformation.\n\nJust as Watergate and the impeachment inquiry dominated historical interpretations of Richard Nixon's legacy for decades, I do think that this particular post-election moment will be at the forefront of historical assessments of his presidency.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nKellyanne Conway's first introduction of the notion of \"alternative facts\" just days into the Trump administration when disputing the size of the inaugural crowds between Trump and Barack Obama.\n\nPresidents across the 20th Century have increasingly used sophisticated measures to spin interpretation of policies and events in favourable ways and to control the media narrative of their administrations. But the assertion that the administration had a right to its own alternative facts went far beyond spin, ultimately foreshadowing the ways in which the Trump administration would govern by misinformation.\n\nTrump harnessed the power of social media and blurred the lines between entertainment and politics in ways that allowed him to bypass critics and connect directly to his supporters in an unfiltered way.\n\nFranklin Roosevelt, John F Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan also used new media and a celebrity style to connect directly to the people in this unfiltered way, ultimately transforming expectations and operations of the presidency that paved the path for Trump.\n\nMary Frances Berry is a professor of American history and social thought at the University of Pennsylvania, focusing on legal history and social policy. From 1980 to 2004, she was a member of the US Commission on Civil Rights.\n\nIn what he did with judges, Trump has made a long lasting change over the next 20 years, 30 years in how policies will stand up to legal tests and how they're able to be implemented - no matter what any particular president or administration proposes.\n\nThe courts are controlled by the Republican appointees. Sometimes judges surprise us, but for the most part, the historical evidence is that they pretty much do what their politics and their backgrounds say they will do.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nWhen he supported that package of measures that helped particular people in the black community, like First Step, pardoning people at the same time that he supported an amendment in the appropriations bill that gave a whole bunch of money to historically black colleges and universities for the first time.\n\nHe put all of these things together, as well as having the first stimulus programme making sure that black businessman and entrepreneurs get some of those loans they've had trouble getting before.\n\nThe effect of all of that, which we will see over time, was in the midterms, a lot more young black men voted for Trump than before. And if that's a trend, it may help the Republican party.\n\nTrump also made egregious comments about black people and other people of colour, tried to have protests against police abuse disrupted and in other ways appealed to his white supremacist base.\n\nHis lasting impact on race relations depends on what the Biden administration does on policy, and on healing and how long the pandemic and economic downturn lasts.\n\nMargaret O'Mara is history professor at the University of Washington, focusing on the political, economic, and metropolitan history of the modern US.\n\nContesting a very constitutionally and numerically clear election victory by Joe Biden.\n\nWe've had plenty of really unpleasant transitions. Herbert Hoover was incredibly unpleasant about his loss, but he still rode in that car down Pennsylvania Avenue at inauguration. He didn't talk to Franklin Roosevelt the whole time, but there still was a peaceful transfer of power.\n\nTrump is a manifestation of political forces that have been in motion for a half century or more. A culmination of what was not only going on in the Republican party, but also the Democratic party and more broadly in American politics - a kind of disillusionment with government and institutions and expertise.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nTrump is exceptional in many ways, but one of the things that really makes him stand out is that he is one of the rare presidents who was elected without having held any elected office before.\n\nTrump may go away, but there is this great frustration with the establishment, broadly defined. When you feel powerless, you vote for someone who's promising to do everything differently and Trump indeed did that.\n\nA presidency is also made by the people that the president appoints, and a great deal of experienced Republican hands were not invited to join the administration the first go round.\n\nOver time, his administration has diminished to a band of loyalists who are really not very experienced and are ideologically uninterested in wise governance of the bureaucracy. What has happened within the bowels of the bureaucracy is going to be a slow slog to rebuild.\n\nSaikrishna Prakash is a University of Virginia Law School professor focusing on constitutional law, foreign relations law and presidential powers.\n\nThe last gasps of his administration are the most consequential, as he exerts a control over his most devoted followers and he's talking about running again.\n\nHe forced people to consider what the presidency has become in a way that wasn't true I think either during the Bush or Obama administrations. Issues like the 25th Amendment and impeachment hasn't been thought of since Bill Clinton, really.\n\nIt's possible that people now when they think of the presidency are perhaps going to adopt a different stance going forward, knowing that someone like Trump could come along.\n\nIt's possible that Congress will delegate less to the president and take away some authority.\n\nWhat else stands out to you?\n\nThe president has demonstrated that there's a constituency who's opposed to a lot of these trade deals and that there are people willing to vote for those who will either extricate us from these trade deals or \"make them fairer\".\n\nThe president has also suggested that China has been taking advantage of the United States in ways that are deleterious to our economic and national security - and I think there's a consensus behind this view. No one wants to be accused of being soft on China, whereas no one cares if you're \"soft\" on Canada, right?\n\nI think people are going to fall all over themselves to be tougher or at least say they're tougher on China.\n\nDomestically the president had a populous tone to him. It wasn't ever fully realised in his policies, but we see more Republicans adopting populist ideas.", "Testing of close contacts of identified cases was due to start in secondary schools and colleges in England\n\nThe government has paused plans to roll out rapid daily coronavirus testing of close contacts, in all but a small number of secondary schools and colleges.\n\nTesting close contacts of a positive case as an alternative to isolation showed some benefits in trials.\n\nBut the emergence of a new variant means the risk of missing infections has risen, health officials say.\n\nRegular testing of staff will now increase to twice a week.\n\nMore research is needed on how daily contact testing would work given the new, more transmissible, coronavirus variant, Public Health England and NHS Test and Trace say.\n\nIn the meantime, routine testing to pick up asymptomatic cases in staff and pupils remains a key part of the government's plans.\n\nMass testing in schools, using pregnancy-style lateral flow tests to detect the virus, had been due to start in January.\n\nHowever, under new lockdown restrictions, schools have had to switch to providing online teaching until February - although children of key workers are still allowed to attend - and plans were postponed.\n\nHow testing of pupils will be organised once schools reopen is still not clear.\n\nThe original plan for rapid Covid testing in all secondary schools and colleges included:\n\nThe aim was to keep as many children in schools as possible by avoiding a whole bubble, class or year having to be sent home, and to reduce disruption from staff having to isolate.\n\nBut some scientists have consistently expressed concerns about the accuracy of the rapid tests, which do not need to be sent to a lab for the results.\n\nThey say the high number of false negatives means close contacts may wrongly think they are not infectious and go on to mix with more vulnerable people.\n\nAnd now PHE and NHS Test and Trace say the new variant, which \"increases the risk of transmission everywhere, including in school settings\", has made this a risk no longer worth taking.\n\n\"The balance between the risks (transmission of virus in schools and onward to households and the wider community) and benefits (education in a face-to-face and safe setting) for daily contact testing is unclear,\" their statement adds.\n\nA government spokesman said: \"NHS Test and Trace and Public Health England have reviewed their advice and concluded that, in light of the higher prevalence and rates of transmission of the new variant, further evaluation work is required to make sure it is achieving its aim of breaking chains of transmission and reducing cases of the virus in the community.\n\n\"There is no change to the main rollout of regular testing using rapid lateral flow tests in schools and colleges, which is already proving beneficial in finding teachers and students with coronavirus who do not have symptoms.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'You wouldn’t want to give this to anybody'\n\nI was last here at University Hospital Monklands on 1 May when those dealing with the first wave of an unknown disease were already tired.\n\nAt that time, the deaths of 29,059 people had been registered in the UK within 28 days of a positive test for Covid-19.\n\nI returned 259 days later with the number of deaths at 89,230 to find that the staff are exhausted.\n\n\"We're all physically, mentally and emotionally drained now,\" says Fiona Bauld, an intensive care unit (ICU) staff nurse.\n\nIn the first wave, the Lanarkshire hospital was almost empty except for patients being treated for Covid or other critical and emergency needs.\n\nThis time there are just a handful of spare beds in the entire building. Staff who had helped out with critical care last year are back in their own departments, and the ICU specialists are alone once more.\n\n\"There's not really enough extra nurses to account for the extra patients so the amount of work everyone is doing is much more,\" says intensive care consultant Daniel Silcock.\n\nThe patients are changing too.\n\nIn the first wave, most patients were old and often ill before they contracted the virus, says ICU ward manager Margaret Harkins.\n\n\"This time the patients are a much younger age group and some have no underlying health conditions,\" she adds.\n\n\"We are getting people in in their 20s, 30s and 40s,\" Ms Bauld says. \"Younger people are catching this virus and becoming really critically ill with it.\"\n\nMae Mamaril (right) and her parents Jaramias and Sonia tested positive\n\nMae Mamaril is one of them. She is 26 and has no underlying health conditions.\n\nMae and her parents Jaramias and Sonia, from Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire, tested positive for Covid within days of being vaccinated for their jobs.\n\nAll three ended up in Monklands but Mae was the sickest and the only member of her family admitted to intensive care.\n\nShe had to wear an oxygen mask and lie face down on a bed for three days, a treatment called proning which medics say can improve lung function in many patients.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mae Mamaril, 26, was moved to intensive care at the start of the year\n\n\"I couldn't breathe,\" she says. \"It was really bad because they moved so quickly to give me oxygen and told me to lie on my stomach.\n\n\"All I could think about was wanting to come home, but then at the same time, I knew that if I didn't have enough oxygen, even if I went home, I would never survive.\"\n\nNot only is the hospital busy with younger people in this wave but senior doctors say a third of all patients here now have the virus.\n\nThere is another big difference outside the building.\n\nIn May, when I drove from Glasgow to the hospital in Airdrie the roads were empty, the streets silent.\n\nThat is no longer the case. Heading east to Monklands again, the M8 is the busiest I have seen it since the pandemic began.\n\nDoctors and nurses have noticed the increase in traffic too - and they are worried.\n\n\"Without a lockdown, I think it would just be a disaster,\" Dr Silcock says.\n\n\"We've had twice as many admissions this time as we did in the first wave.\"\n\nDr Sanjiv Chohan, who runs the intensive care department, says he too is worried.\n\nBut what about the many harmful side effects of lockdown - on other medical conditions, especially mental health, as well as the impact on education and the economy?\n\n\"I sympathise completely,\" says Dr Chohan, pointing out that the ICU staff are also affected by these issues.\n\n\"It's a really difficult balancing act. It's choosing the least harmful options,\" he says, adding: \"We have to preserve some ability to have functioning hospitals.\"\n\nAt times, Monklands has not been able to function normally.\n\nSince the autumn, around a third of all intensive care patients here have had to be transferred out of the hospital to other facilities — primarily to Wishaw and Hairmyres but sometimes out of Lanarkshire entirely.\n\nChief nurse Karen Goudie says she is worried about the coming weeks\n\nThe chief nurse at Monklands, Karen Goudie, says that was necessary to reduce pressure and create capacity for incoming patients.\n\nThere has not yet been a point when all Scotland's hospitals have been overwhelmed at the same time.\n\n\"No, not yet but we're worried about the coming weeks,\" says Ms Goudie. \"The projections look - scary, I guess, is the right word to use. \"\n\nStaff here believe a current increase in cases is attributable to families mixing at Christmas and to people not sticking to the current lockdown rules.\n\nStill, they have coped. Patients are now less likely than in the first wave to need the dangerous intervention of a ventilator as knowledge of how to treat the disease develops.\n\nFor many though, a Covid diagnosis can remain frightening and perilous.\n\nJim McShane, 56, works for a gas company in Motherwell. I leave intensive care to meet him on the Covid ward where he is being treated.\n\n\"You just don't know what's ahead,\" he tells me. \"It just destroys you sometimes. Brings you right down.\"\n\n\"I would tell people to stay out the road of one another,\" he says.\n\nAfter I leave, Jim is transferred to intensive care. He is now on a ventilator.\n\nThere may be some signs that Scotland's latest surge in hospital admissions may be easing.", "Gabriel is an ardent 'Latino for Trump' who is active in New York Republican circles. He wishes the Biden/Harris administration well but doesn't believe Democrats really want unity and thinks they'll reverse a lot of good Trump policies.\n\nHow did Joe Biden's inaugural speech on unity sit with you?\n\nI caught bits and pieces of the inauguration, but I did not watch the speech. I'll give it a watch when I'm not as busy. Hopefully, his message is not like what we saw on 6 January, when he tried to lambast people as white supremacists for showing up at the Capitol, because that will just alienate people.\n\nThis country has come a long way in terms of race relations and, if we really want unity, let's regain the sense of what an American is. An American isn't white, black or Jewish; it is a person within the United States that takes part in our republic.\n\nWhat do you think of the executive actions he is taking today?\n\nI knew Biden would come out swinging while he stills holds the majority in the legislative branch. It's certainly a statement in the same vein as President Trump's first few days of office, but I think it's horrible. As someone of Hispanic descent, the idea of potentially granting 11 million immigrants citizenship is a slap in the face to everyone who came through the legal process.\n\nJoining the Paris climate agreement again is widely regarded as a farce, even by some ecologists, because nations that are members in the agreement didn't actually hit their targets. The removal of the Keystone Pipeline is not only going to cost people jobs but it could potentially increase our carbon footprint. When it comes to the WHO, they failed us during the Covid pandemic. It's all just smoke and mirrors to undo what President Trump did and stick it in the face of Republicans.", "The former Western Daily Press journalist lived in the property from 1970 until 1994\n\nAn \"inspiring\" house previously owned by fantasy writer Sir Terry Pratchett has been put on the market.\n\nThe creator of the Discworld series lived in the 18th Century property, called Gaze Cottage, in the village of Rowberrow, Somerset, from 1970 until 1994.\n\nSir Terry died aged 66 in 2015, eight years after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.\n\nHe wrote more than 70 books during his career and completed his final book in 2014.\n\nAt the turn of the century, Sir Terry was Britain's second most-read author, beaten only by JK Rowling.\n\nIn August 2007, it was reported he had suffered a stroke, but the following December he announced that he had been diagnosed with a very rare form of early-onset Alzheimer's disease.\n\nThe fitted kitchen is in the older half of the house\n\nRuth Treasure-Smith, from Robin King Estate Agent, said: \"He wrote most of his most famous novels in that house in the 80s.\n\n\"The house must have been inspiring. The current owner purchased the property from Terry Pratchett and has lived at the house since.\"\n\nShe said he had received letters to the house addressed to the \"Hogfather\", a quirky and satirical character from the Death collection in the Discworld series.\n\nThe sitting room has an inglenook fireplace complete with bread oven\n\nThe house is being sold at a guide price of £800,000\n\nThe first floor houses the master bedroom which overlooks the garden\n\nThe property has four bedrooms\n\nThe cottage sits on a plot comprising almost a third of an acre\n\nFollow BBC West on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to: bristol@bbc.co.uk", "The driver sat on his overturned van until rescuers arrived\n\nA supermarket delivery driver had to be rescued from his overturned van after he careered off the road and ended up in a fast-flowing ford, police said.\n\nFirefighters and police were called to the River Wear, Westgate, in Weardale, after reports that a Morrisons van was stuck at 17:00 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nPolice said the van had \"careered\" off the road and the man sat on top of the vehicle before being rescued.\n\nCounty Durham Fire and Rescue Service said the rescue was \"challenging.\"\n\nWater specialists from the fire service braved the river in a raft attached to a nearby footbridge and gave the man a life jacket.\n\nPolice said the driver was not injured but was taken to hospital as a precaution.\n\nThe fire service tweeted a video of the scene, and said they were \"so proud\" of the water rescue team.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nScott Bisset, who lives nearby, went to see if he could help after he was called by people who heard the driver shouting for help.\n\nMr Bisset, a member of the local mountain rescue team, said he thought the driver may have ended up there after being directed by his sat-nav.\n\nHe said: \"There's not a vehicle in the world that could have got through.\n\n\"The river was in flood - the snow here has melted and there was rain, so there was a lot of water in the river.\n\n\"The van was washed off and turned over on its side, luckily the front was pointing upstream, so it acted like a boat.\n\n\"If the water had been hitting the side of the van or the back, the driver would unfortunately have drowned.\n\n\"When I got there the driver was extremely distressed.\"\n\nThe van has not yet been recovered from the water\n\nHe also said that rescuers had put their lives at risk.\n\n\"I know they practice for this but in those conditions, with that freezing water travelling at great speed, in the dark and the pouring rain, it was very dangerous and they were very brave,\" he said.\n\nThe van has not yet been recovered from the water.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US President Joe Biden has officially announced his bid for re-election, asking Americans to help him \"finish the job\" he started more than two years ago.\n\nMr Biden, 80, faced a turbulent first two years in office marked by the Covid-19 pandemic, economic woes and geopolitical challenges including the US pull-out from Afghanistan and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.\n\nOn the campaign trail, Mr Biden - who served as Vice-President under Barack Obama - is likely to focus on his efforts to prop up the US economy after the pandemic, as well as his successes pushing through legislation focused on infrastructure, climate change and prescription drugs.\n\nBut a key argument for a second term will be what he has described as a turn towards authoritarianism from Donald Trump and his supporters in the \"Make America Great Again\" movement.\n\n\"The question we are facing is whether in the years ahead we have more freedom or less freedom, more rights or fewer,\" he said in a video launching his new campaign. \"I know what I want the answer to be. This is not a time to be complacent. That's why I'm running for re-election.\"\n\nThe President, however, is also likely to face questions about his age and ability to serve, as well as about his handling of inflation, immigration and other issues that worry Americans.\n\nThe upcoming campaign is likely the last in a career in politics that has spanned more than four decades, and may again see him square off against Donald Trump.\n\nSo who is Joe Biden and how did he get to the White House?\n\nMr Biden ran for the Democratic 2008 nomination before dropping out and joining the Obama ticket.\n\nHis eight years in the Obama White House - where he frequently appeared at the president's side - has allowed Mr Biden to lay claim to much of Mr Obama's legacy, including passage of the Affordable Care Act, as well as the stimulus package and reforms enacted in response to the financial crisis.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A look back at Joe Biden's life and political career\n\nAs a long-time Washington insider, Mr Biden had solid foreign affairs credentials, and helped balance Mr Obama's comparative lack of executive experience.\n\nThe so-called \"Middle Class Joe\" was also brought on board to help woo the blue-collar white voters who had proved a difficult group for Mr Obama to win over.\n\nHe made headlines in 2012 by saying he was \"absolutely comfortable\" with same-sex marriage, comments that were seen to undercut the president, who had yet to give full-throated support for the policy. Mr Obama ultimately did so, just days after Mr Biden.\n\nMr Biden's two terms supporting the first black president followed a long political career.\n\nThe six-term senator from Delaware was first elected in 1972. He ran for president in 1988 but withdrew after he admitted to plagiarising a speech by the then leader of the British Labour Party, Neil Kinnock.\n\nHis lengthy tenure in the nation's capital has given critics ample material for attacks.\n\nEarly in his career, he sided with southern segregationists in opposing court-ordered school bussing to racially integrate public schools.\n\nAnd, as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1991, he oversaw Clarence Thomas's Supreme Court confirmation hearings and has been sharply criticised for his handling of Anita Hill's allegations that she was sexually harassed by the nominee.\n\nIn 1974, Biden was the youngest US senator\n\nMr Biden was also a fierce advocate of a 1994 anti-crime bill that many on the left now say encouraged lengthy sentences and mass incarceration.\n\nThe record made Mr Obama's moderate vice-president a sometimes uncomfortable fit for the modern Democratic Party.\n\nMr Biden's life has been dogged by personal tragedy.\n\nIn 1972, shortly after he won his first Senate race, he lost his first wife, Neilia, and baby daughter, Naomi, in a car accident. He famously took the oath of office for his first Senate term from the hospital room of his toddler sons Beau and Hunter, who both survived the accident.\n\nIn 2015, Beau died of brain cancer at the age of 46. The younger Biden was seen as a rising star of US politics and had intended to run for Delaware state governor in 2016.\n\nMr Biden garnered considerable goodwill following Beau's death, which served to highlight one of Mr Biden's central strengths: a reputation as a kind and relatable family man.\n\nThis perceived warmth is not without its pitfalls. After entering the 2020 race, he faced accusations of unwelcome physical contact during interactions with female voters - complete with uncomfortable accompanying footage.\n\nBut the avuncular politician responded by saying he was an empathetic person, though he accepted standards had changed. The episode, however, stoked a perception for some that he was out of touch.\n\nMr Biden's return to the White House came at a difficult time in US politics, with the country still reeling from the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nJust two weeks before his inauguration, the country had also seen supporters of former President Donald Trump storm Congress in a bid to thwart the certification of his election victory after Mr Trump falsely claimed that the election had been rigged.\n\nMr Biden's new campaign is likely to focus heavily on the fight against the ideology on display during the 6 January riot. The video announcing his re-election bid opens with images of a mob of Trump supporters storming the Capitol.\n\n\"Every generation of Americans has faced a moment when they've had to defend democracy,\" he said. \"This is ours. Let's finish the job.\"\n\nAs he campaigns, Mr Biden is likely to point to a number of accomplishments during his tenure, including job creation, efforts to prop up the economy in the wake of the pandemic and the passing of a bipartisan infrastructure law billed as a \"once-in-a-generation\" investment by the White House.\n\nBut he will face tough questions on his handling of immigration and the US-Mexico border, as well as on the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan.\n\nMr Biden has also acknowledged that many Americans have raised \"legitimate\" questions about his age and ability to serve as President.\n\n\"And the only thing I can say is, watch me,\" he said earlier this year.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Health workers can book an appointment at seven vaccination centres in operation across NI\n\nDoctors have insisted there is no postcode lottery when it comes to rolling out the coronavirus vaccines.\n\nNorthern Ireland's vaccination plan means all those over 80 should receive their first dose by the end of January.\n\nMore than 154,000 doses of a vaccine have now been administered, health officials said.\n\nDr Frances O'Hagan, deputy chairwoman of NI's GP committee, said practices had their own rollout plans but she expected them to meet official targets.\n\n\"As soon as we get the vaccine, we will get it to you,\" she told BBC News NI. \"But please, please wait until we contact you.\"\n\n\"We tailor our programmes to our individual patients and to our geography and to our surroundings.\n\n\"It's not actually a postcode lottery. It's the best way of doing it because we know what suits our patients.\"\n\nDr O'Hagan said she had not heard reports of some practices holding back vaccines until they received bigger amounts to allow for a larger number of vaccinations to be done.\n\nShe said rolling out the programme was a logistical challenge which fell on top of an already heavy workload but the jab would be given out in a \"safe and timely\" fashion.\n\nSinn Féin MP Órfhlaith Begley said doctors in her West Tyrone constituency were working above and beyond to administer the vaccine to as many people as possible.\n\n\"But unfortunately I am hearing that some GPs cannot access supplies of the vaccine,\" she said.\n\n\"There does appear to be, and it is a consistent message from GPs in my own constituency, a feeling the distribution of the vaccine has been unequal to date.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Health Minister Robin Swann has welcomed a further delivery of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine into Northern Ireland on Tuesday morning.\n\nIn a tweet, Robin Swann said: \"We now have the supply to complete all our over 80s and when that group is finished, there will be enough to start into the over 75 programme.\"\n\nPatricia Donnelly, the head of NI's vaccination programme said there had been 154,436 doses of the vaccine administered here, with 132,857 of those being first doses.\n\nOn Tuesday, she said three quarters of care home residents had already received both doses.\n\n\"With the arrival of additional vaccine today, which have been issued this afternoon and tomorrow to GPs, there will be enough to complete the over 80 population and to commence in the over 70 population,\" she added.\n\nA further 24 virus-related deaths and 713 more Covid-19 cases were reported in Northern Ireland on Tuesday.\n\nIt brings the total number of deaths recorded by the Department of Health to 1,649.\n\nThere are currently 842 people in hospital with the virus, 70 people in intensive care units (ICU) and 57 being ventilated.\n\nIn the Republic of Ireland, a further 93 Covid-19 related deaths were reported on Tuesday, bringing the country's death toll to 2,708.\n\nA further 2,001 positive cases were also recorded in the latest figures from the Republic's Department of Health.\n\nNorthern Ireland's rate of Covid-19 infection is now below one and has been at that level for a couple of weeks, according to the chief medical officer.\n\nHowever, Dr Michael McBride warned the reproduction (R) number for hospital transmission remains above one.\n\nDr McBride said new variants of the virus had made the job of curtailing the spread even more difficult, and warned he did not foresee any relaxation of restrictions any time soon.\n\n\"We need to ensure that we have as many people who remain at risk of severe disease vaccinated and prioritised with the first dose as possible before we consider significant relaxations in the current restrictions,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile concerns have been raised that \"social media myths\" are encouraging some care home staff to reject the Covid vaccine.\n\nPauline Shepherd, from the Independent Health and Care Providers, said young women were especially vulnerable to misinformation about the vaccine and fertility.\n\nLast week, the Department of Health said there had been an uptake level of about 80% among care home staff.\n\n\"We are very keen obviously that everyone takes the vaccine, that is really the only way that we are going to get through this,\" she told BBC Radio Foyle.\n\n\"Obviously there are myths going around on social media about the vaccine and some are opting not to take it.\n\n\"Particularly younger females seem to have the view through social media that it may impact fertility\".\n\nA consultant anaesthetist says there is a \"reluctance\" among members of the black, Asian and minority ethnic communities to take Covid-19 vaccines\n\nThere are currently 139 confirmed Covid-19 outbreaks in NI's 483 care homes.\n\nThe Public Health Agency (PHA) and Department of Health were now exploring how \"to dispel the myths\", Ms Shepherd added.\n\nDr Mukesh Chugh, a consultant anaesthetist at Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry, said there had been a \"reluctance\" among black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people to take Covid-19 vaccines.\n\nDr Chugh says this is because of \"anti-vaccine messages\" posted across various social media platforms and messenger apps \"targeted at certain ethnic and religious groups\".\n\n\"I encourage them not to believe the messages they are getting on WhatsApp - these are not scientific messages,\" he said.\n\nOn Tuesday, Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots said a number of groups of key workers should be given priority access to vaccinations.\n\nPrioritisation was decided by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), which advises UK health departments on immunisation.\n\nEdwin Poots said meat plant workers should be among those given priority vaccine access\n\nAsked if he supported prioritisation for food workers in meat plants, Mr Poots told the assembly he did and had raised it with the executive.\n\n\"It's been identified as an essential service - those people working in them are there in cold, wet conditions where we have had a number of outbreaks,\" he said.\n\n\"We should seek to introduce those people somewhat earlier than is currently the case - I will continue to endeavour to press that case.\"\n\nHe said other groups of workers who should be prioritised included \"teachers and police officers\".", "Four royal aides say they do not wish to \"take sides\" over a letter from the Duchess of Sussex to her father, the High Court has been told.\n\nIn a letter lawyers for the four said they believed their clients could \"shed some light\" on the letter's drafting but the four were \"strictly neutral\".\n\nMeghan is suing the Mail on Sunday and Mail Online publisher over articles that reproduced parts of the letter.\n\nShe claims her privacy and copyright were breached by the newspaper group.\n\nHer lawyers are asking for summary judgement - a dismissal of Associated Newspapers' (ANL) defence instead of a trial.\n\nThe five articles, published in February 2019, were a \"triple-barrelled invasion\" of the duchess's privacy, correspondence and family, the lawyers claim.\n\nShe is seeking damages from the newspaper group for alleged misuse of private information, copyright infringement and breach of the Data Protection Act over the articles.\n\nANL claims Meghan wrote her letter \"with a view to it being disclosed publicly at some future point\" in order to \"defend her against charges of being an uncaring or unloving daughter\", which she denies.\n\nOn the second day of the hearing on Wednesday, ANL's barrister Antony White QC told the court that a letter from the so-called \"palace four\" showed that \"further oral evidence and documentary evidence is likely to be available at trial which would shed light on certain key factual issues in this case\".\n\nHe said it was \"likely\" there was also further evidence about whether Meghan \"directly or indirectly provided private information\" to the authors of an unauthorised biography of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Finding Freedom.\n\nThe four aides are: Jason Knauf, former communications secretary to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Christian Jones, their former deputy communications secretary, Samantha Cohen, formerly the Sussexes' private secretary, and Sara Latham, their ex-director of communications.\n\n\"None of our clients welcomes his or her potential involvement in this litigation, which has arisen purely as a result of the performance of his or her duties in their respective jobs at the material time,\" their lawyers said in a letter sent on their behalf.\n\n\"Nor does any of our clients wish to take sides in the dispute between your respective clients. Our clients are all strictly neutral.\n\n\"They have no interest in assisting either party to the proceedings. Their only interest is in ensuring a level playing field, insofar as any evidence they may be able to give is concerned.\"\n\nTheir letter said that their lawyers' \"preliminary view is that one or more of our clients would be in a position to shed some light\" on \"the creation of the letter and the electronic draft\".\n\nIt also said they may be able to shed light on \"whether or not the claimant anticipated that the letter might come into in the public domain\" and whether or not the duchess \"directly or indirectly provided private information, generally and in relation to the letter specifically, to the authors of Finding Freedom\".\n\nBut Justin Rushbrooke QC, representing the duchess, said the letter from the four \"contains no information at all that supports the defendant's case on alleged co-authorship (of Meghan's letter), and no indication that evidence will be forthcoming that will support the defendant's case should the matter proceed to trial\".\n\nMeghan, 39, sent a handwritten letter to her father in August 2018, following her marriage to Prince Harry in May that year, which Mr Markle did not attend. The couple are now living in the US with their son Archie.\n\nThe full trial of the duchess's claim had been due to be heard at the High Court this month, but last year the case was adjourned until autumn 2021.\n\nAt the conclusion of the hearing on Wednesday afternoon, Mr Justice Warby reserved his judgement, which he said he would deliver \"as soon as possible\".", "When Joe Biden becomes US president on 20 January plenty of change is expected under his new administration.\n\nFor those who want to put Donald Trump in the rear view mirror, there's a lot to look forward to.\n\nOthers are not sure if he can bring unity to a divided country and enact lasting change.\n\nHere's what members of our BBC voter panel told us.\n\nPeyton Forte is a recent college graduate who now works as a reporter. She was not the big supporter of Biden and Kamala Harris, but says getting rid of Donald Trump is an urgent and necessary first step towards change.\n\nWhat are you hopeful the Biden administration can accomplish?\n\nFor starters, easing the pandemic and ensuring more collaboration between federal and state governments on vaccine distribution. I'm looking forward to his stimulus packages to kickstart the economy and make sure people are actually alive to reap the benefits of it. We can also look forward to a president whose main mode of communication is not Twitter. The biggest thing is undoing the damage of the prior administration, from immigration laws to our relationships with foreign allies.\n\nWhat are your fears for the Biden presidency?\n\nTo be honest, I haven't really gotten to that point because I'm so ready for the Trump administration to be gone. So ask me that question again in a few weeks. I'm really encouraged by Biden's financial and economic cabinet picks because I think he is trying to stunt the racial wealth gap. There will be a time and place to nitpick his choices, but not yet. As somebody who is black, I know he rejected calls to defund the police. The phrase is inflammatory, but that money is redirected into our communities, so I'd like for him to take another look at it and maybe he'll reconsider.\n\nWith so much talk of the need for unity and healing, where does the country go from here?\n\n'Unity and healing' is the new 'thoughts and prayers'. I know it has been kind of a calling card for Biden to contrast himself with Trump, but I'm going to have to see it to believe it. Are you just faking it or are you doing the work to actually unify people? Time will tell if people actually want unity or if some are just mad that their candidate lost.\n\nJim is a property manager and conservative Republican who no longer supports President Trump since his refusal to accept the results of the election. He wants the incoming administration to find common ground rather than be too left wing.\n\nWhat are your hopes for Biden?\n\nI'm hopeful for some stability and less drama. America's standing in the world, particularly in the last couple of weeks, has really diminished and I would hope they would be able to return us to our traditional position in the world. I would like to see the bill he puts forward on Covid relief. If we're going to put money into people's hands, we need to make sure it actually makes a difference. Six hundred dollars is a slap in the face when you look at how we're giving away billions of dollars to other countries.\n\nWhat are your fears about his presidency?\n\nI am worried they're going to overreach and placate the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, and create deeper polarisation. I worry they will try to pack the Supreme Court. I am concerned about immigration policy. I would hope they have the courage to be more moderate in tone, action and policy, at least for the first few years. That way, things can level off and then we can have reasonable debate about issues on a case-by-case basis. One side is really having a hard time accepting the reality of [Trump's] loss; that's too many people to just ignore and it seems like there's a real mood for retaliation.\n\nCompromises will need to happen and both sides on the extreme right and left will not be happy with it. In the immediate moment, we need to have a good tone from the top that is conciliatory and respectful. I'm looking for Biden to reassure Americans their vote was secure and legitimate, restore a sense of public confidence and competence to the US government and spend serious time on rebuilding unity.\n\nLesley is a small business owner and an immigrant from Canada. Joe Biden was not her first choice for president by a long shot, but she now says he is \"the best person\" for this moment in the country's history and she hopes he can follow through.\n\nWhat are your hopes for Biden?\n\nI'm looking forward to real leadership and an administration that actually cares about getting things done. We need to get the virus under control. They have an actual plan; I hate that it's going to cost another $2tn, but it wouldn't have cost that if we had taken the time to do the hard work early. From climate change and fire management to infrastructure and renewable energy, they'll get us back on track. From a civil rights perspective, we have the greatest opportunity. The administration is diverse and he's trying to give everyone a seat at the table.\n\nWhat are your fears about his presidency?\n\nNothing comes to mind. I feel like this administration is going to reset, refocus and prioritise things that should be prioritised. There's so much that needs to be addressed at once, but like the rest of the world, they have to learn to multitask and do their jobs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What do countries around the world want from Joe Biden?\n\nWe need our elected officials, when doing their jobs, to not just represent one segment of the population. They can see what has happened by turning a blind eye and not listening. For the Democrats, they need to find a way to communicate so the concerns they've raised are taken seriously but without turning off the other side. For the Republicans, they need to pay attention not just to the loudest people - just being loud doesn't mean they're right. Moving forward, everybody has to do their part to prioritise what is best for the country. We're never going to get rid of the element that attacked the Capitol, but it's like herd immunity. The only people who were surprised by what happened last week were the ones who were not paying attention.\n\nJazmin is a writer and youth voting rights activist who says the past four years have damaged the psyche of young people. She wants the new administration to rebuild trust and show people like her that government can be a force for good in their lives.\n\nWhat are your hopes for Biden?\n\nI hope that the Biden administration is bold on climate, an equitable Covid economic recovery and racial justice. Personally though, I think we fundamentally need to look at our broken system. Restoring voting rights, stronger ethics and anti-corruption measures, as well as campaign finance reform can restore balance and transparency within our government, so we can trust in our elections and elected officials.\n\nWhat are your fears about his presidency?\n\nI've been thinking a lot about the pace of change. There's so much that needs to be done but we're also looking at departments that have been gutted. The damage of the past three years has been so deep and the rolling back of it will take a lot of time, so we have to practise patience and we have to be realistic.\n\nOur government only works when people decide not to disengage and be cynical, but instead step up and figure out how to get involved. The events of the Capitol work were horrific and traumatising for so many people, but the day before it was a Georgia election with incredibly high youth voter turnout. There is a lot of vitriol and hate, but the majority of folks believe in working to ensure our country is serving the best interests of everyone.\n\nGabriel is a writer and the activism chair for the New York Young Republicans. He wishes the Biden administration good luck, but is concerned it will sow more division in a vulnerable moment for the country.\n\nWhat are your hopes for Biden?\n\nAs an American, I am hopeful that things go well under this administration. I don't wish for Joe Biden to fail because the president is like the pilot of a plane: if he goes down, so do we. I hope he can answer the renewable energy debate, create more nuclear power plants and allow the United States to remain the number one exporter of energy. Hopefully, we'll see some sort of voter ID laws enforced, for greater election integrity. I hope he doesn't fuel more divisions.\n\nWhat are your fears about his presidency?\n\nMy fear is that he will listen to people like AOC [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] and Bernie Sanders, who are trying to push him to accept more far left policies that will do more harm than good to the US in an economic sense. He may continue the harsh lockdowns and ignore censorship of conservatives. Under the Trump administration, we decreased our presence in the Middle East and were stopping the forever wars, so I really hope we don't return there.\n\nAfter what happened at the Capitol, Biden came out and started very well, then devolved into race-baiting rhetoric - that's not something our country needs right now. There are millions of people who feel as though they were cheated and did not get a fair election, and some of them might not even recognise Biden as president, so it's very important that he treads lightly and focuses on unity. Don't lump them together as insurgents or other labels because you're going to further alienate people. Speak to every American and say that it is time to come together.", "As Donald Trump comes towards the end of his presidency, we've put together a selection of striking moments from his four years in office.\n\nCrowds are seen gathered at Mr Trump's inauguration ceremony on 20 January 2017.\n\nJust days later, the new president accused the media of lying about the attendance. He was said to be angry that images appeared to show the crowds were lower than for Barack Obama's first inauguration in 2009.\n\nWhite House Press Secretary Sean Spicer told the media it had been \"the largest audience to ever see an inauguration, period\".\n\nFar-right supporters and white nationalists took part in a torch-lit rally through Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017.\n\nThe following day a woman was killed and 19 were injured when a car ploughed into a crowd of counter-protesters in the city.\n\nIn response, President Trump condemned violence by \"many sides\", prompting a wave of criticism. Some 48 hours later, he denounced far-right extremists calling \"KKK, neo-Nazis and white supremacists repugnant to everything we hold dear\".\n\nJoe Biden has said it was the president's response to the tragedy that prompted his own decision to run against him.\n\nMr Trump's attendance at the G7 summit in Canada in June 2018 did not get off to a good start, when prior to the event, the president announced import tariffs on steel and aluminium from the EU, Mexico and Canada.\n\nOther images from the meeting showed more friendly relations between the leaders - but this photo was considered by many to reflect the underlying tensions of the gathering.\n\nMr Trump left the summit before other leaders and claimed that America was \"like the piggy bank that everybody is robbing\".\n\nFirst Lady Melania Trump is pictured wearing a jacket in June 2018 which reads \"I really don't care, do you?\" on the back, during a trip to a migrant child detention centre.\n\nThere was speculation over what message Mrs Trump intended to send by wearing the jacket on that trip, which came as the president was under fire for his policy of separating children from their parents at the border.\n\nThe First Lady later admitted it had been a message \"for the people and for the left-wing media who are criticising me. I want to show them I don't care. You could criticise whatever you want to say. But it will not stop me to do what I feel is right\".\n\nMr Trump called for compromise in politics during his State of the Union address in February 2019 but Nancy Pelosi was pictured giving what many saw as a sarcastic clap.\n\nHe broke protocol by not waiting for the customary introduction from the House Speaker before beginning his speech.\n\nThe image, termed the \"Pelosi clap\" quickly went viral and appeared to show the political rivalry between the two.\n\nMr Trump walks into the northern side of the military demarcation line that divides North and South Korea in June 2019. In doing so, he became the first US sitting president to cross the line.\n\nHis decision to meet Kim Jong-un without pre-conditions stunned the world.\n\nDespite the apparent warming of relations, little concrete progress was made on negotiations over North Korea's nuclear programme.\n\nKim Kardashian West speaks at a White House event about prison reform in June 2019.\n\nIn 2018, the celebrity activist lobbied the Trump administration on behalf of a grandmother jailed for life. Alice Johnson was later granted clemency in a high-profile decision by Mr Trump.\n\nPresident Trump has already given pardons to 94 people and there is speculation he may pardon 100 others before he leaves office.\n\nMr Trump holds a bible in front of St John's Episcopal Church, just across the road from the White House in June 2020.\n\nPeaceful anti-racism demonstrators had been cleared from nearby Lafayette Square with pepper spray and flash-bang grenades so that the president and his entourage could walk to the church.\n\nHis actions prompted shock and anger from many religious leaders, who accused him of using religion for political purposes.\n\nThe Trump family watch as Donald Trump debates with Joe Biden at their first presidential debate in Cleveland, Ohio, on 29 September 2020.\n\nThey broke debate rules that all spectators wear masks - sparking the same criticism often aimed at their father for taking a cavalier attitude to the virus.\n\nA few days after the debate, the president tested positive himself.\n\nHe spent three nights in a hospital receiving treatment before returning to the White House and declaring he felt \"really good\" and urging others not to be afraid of the virus.\n\nCrowds of Trump supporters climb on the US Capitol in DC earlier this month following a \"Stop the Steal\" rally.\n\nIt followed a 70-minute address by the president in which he exhorted them to march on Congress where politicians were meeting to certify Democrat Joe Biden's win. The mob ransacked the Capitol building and attempted to enter the chambers where lawmakers were hiding.\n\nMr Trump has since been impeached, becoming the first president ever to be impeached twice. But he denies charges that he incited the mob to attack the Capitol.", "A tearful President-elect Joe Biden says goodbye to his home state before departing for Washington on the eve of his inauguration.", "Joe Biden has been sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, at a low key inauguration ceremony outside the US Capitol in Washington DC.\n\nIn his maiden speech as president, Mr Biden said: \"We've learned again that democracy is precious, democracy is fragile, and at this hour, my friends, democracy has prevailed.\"\n\nRead more: Joe Biden replaces Trump as US president", "More than 60 flood warnings remain in place in northern, central and eastern England\n\nResidents have been evacuated, roads closed and rail services were suspended as Storm Christoph batters England.\n\nHouseboat residents were moved from Northwich, Cheshire, for their safety as Prime Minister Boris Johnson plans to hold an emergency meeting later.\n\nNorthern, central and eastern England are braced for flooding which will be discussed at the Cobra meeting.\n\nMore than 60 flood warnings remain in place and three police forces have declared major incidents.\n\nThe North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands have been preparing for widespread flooding following the Met Office's amber weather warning for heavy rain until midday Thursday.\n\nPeople living in houseboats in Cheshire have been moved to hotels for their safety, say police\n\nCheshire Police has declared a major incident - along with forces in Greater Manchester and South Yorkshire - and moved 33 people from Hayhurst Marina for their safety as water levels rise.\n\nIn Greater Manchester up to 3,000 properties could be affected by flooding near the River Mersey where a peak is expected at 23:00 GMT.\n\nDowning Street said Covid-secure evacuation centres would be made available to those forced to leave their homes as a result of flooding.\n\n\"Preparations to create Covid-secure rest centres have been made by relevant agencies as a precautionary measure,\" the Prime Minister's official spokesman said.\n\n\"The important message for the public now is to continue to monitor the information the Environment Agency are providing and sign-up for flood alerts if they haven't already.\"\n\nThe River Eden has flooded Rickerby Park in Carlisle\n\nMore than 120mm (nearly 5in) of rain has already fallen in some parts of England, with 123.4mm at Honister Pass in Cumbria in the 24 hours up to 06:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nNearby Seathwaite saw the second highest total, with 107.2mm (4.2in), and some isolated spots could see up to 200mm (7.8in), the Met Office said.\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued more than 60 flood warnings, meaning flooding is expected and immediate action required, while there are also more than 180 flood alerts, meaning flooding is possible.\n\nA road in Lancashire was shut by police after six vehicles got stuck in surface water\n\nIn North Yorkshire, York is currently predicting the River Ouse could rise above 4m (13.1ft) but that is a level the defences can cope with.\n\nHowever, if people are forced out of their homes due to flooding they can stay with friends or family without the risk of a Covid fine during Storm Christoff, North Yorkshire Police has said.\n\nGreater Manchester Police Assistant Chief Constable Nick Bailey said the force declared it a major incident on Tuesday to ensure it was \"as prepared as possible\".\n\nHe believes up to 3,000 properties in the region could be affected by flooding in Didsbury, Northenden and Sale near the River Mersey.\n\nFlood sirens were sounded in Walsden, Todmorden on Tuesday\n\n\"This is a significant incident in terms of disruption to people and those people have been advised with regard to action to take,\" he said.\n\nThe Prime Minister's spokesman added: \"The Environment Agency is on the ground now working with local partners and stand ready to respond to any flooding.\n\n\"They have already ensured there are 40km (25 miles) of temporary barriers, which they are ready to deliver anywhere in the country and that is alongside high-powered pumps and trained staff who are ready to assist and provide information to local communities.\"\n\nWhen asked if local authorities would be given further financial support to deal with flooding, the Prime Minister's spokesman said: \"We have a number of flood recovery schemes that can be made available to those who are affected by flooding.\"\n\nFlood warden Keith Crabtree from Todmorden, West Yorkshire, said he was hoping improved flood defences had \"done the trick\" after checking river levels in Mytholmroyd.\n\n\"There appears to be plenty of rain about but it does not seem to be having and serious impact on the river levels,\" he said.\n\n\"We will see over the years to come how it performs in reducing the flood risk for the village. Things can change very quickly in the Calder Valley and we are not out of the woods yet.\"\n\nHow have you been affected by the floods? Email your experiences: haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Biden took his oath on a Bible that has been in his family since 1893 and was also used each time he was sworn in as Delaware senator. The book itself is five inches (12.5cm) thick with a Celtic cross on the cover", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe fluttering flight patterns of butterflies have long inspired poets but baffled scientists.\n\nResearchers have struggled to understand how these delicate creatures can fly with their large but inefficient wings.\n\nNow, a new study shows that butterflies evolved an effective way of cupping and clapping their wings to generate thrust.\n\nThe scientists say that this ability helps them avoid dangerous predators.\n\nFlying species have evolved various methods of evading death. Some have developed powerful and efficient wings to speed them to safety.\n\nOthers survive by tasting awful when eaten.\n\nBut what about the slow-moving, meandering butterfly?\n\nThe problem for these creatures is that they have unusually large wings relative to their body size, which are aerodynamically inefficient for flight.\n\nBack in the 1970s, researchers developed a theory that their big wings allowed the butterfly to clap them together on the upstroke to power their take off.\n\nBut no one has shown how this works in natural flying conditions.\n\nNow, Swedish scientists, using a wind tunnel and high-speed cameras, have captured the butterfly's unique flying skill.\n\n\"The wings are behaving in quite an interesting way,\" co-author Dr Per Henningsson, from Lund University, in Sweden, told BBC News.\n\n\"The leading and the trailing edge are meeting before the central part, forming this pocket shape.\n\n\"We think that sort of behaviour is going to improve the clap because it forms an air pocket between the wings which, when the wings collapse, that makes the jet even stronger and more efficient.\"\n\nA butterfly in the wind tunnel for the experiment\n\nAs well as recording slow-motion video of the butterflies in flight, the researchers constructed two simple pairs of mechanical clappers to test their ideas. One was rigid, the other flexible and more akin to the butterfly wings observed in the wind tunnel tests.\n\nThe team found that the flexible wings dramatically increased the force created by the clap.\n\nIt also improved the efficiency by 28%, which the authors describe as a huge amount for a flying animal.\n\nThis leads them to conclude that the large wings and cupped, clapping action were an evolutionary advantage for butterflies when faced with predators.\n\n\"If you are a butterfly that is able to take off quicker than the others, that gives you an obvious advantage,\" said Per Henningsson.\n\n\"It's a strong selective pressure then, because it's a matter of life and death.\"\n\nA silver washed fritillary , one of the creatures used to show the mechanics of butterfly flight\n\n\"I don't really know if they use it in free flight, but I think they typically don't flap their wings together.\n\n\"But in the take-off phase, they definitely do it a lot.\"\n\nThe authors believe that their research might prove useful in other spheres.\n\nSome drone devices and underwater vehicles already use propulsion systems based on wing clapping motion, but with limitations.\n\nThe incorporation of the approach used by butterflies might bring major improvements, the scientists say.\n\n\"We're suggesting that the people that are working on these designs, they should look into this cup-shape behaviour, since there are lots of efficiency and effectiveness to be gained from it,\" said Per Henningsson.\n\n\"It's certainly something that would be worthwhile looking into.\"\n\nThe report has been published in the journal of the Royal Society Interface.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nRelegation-threatened Fulham lost some of the momentum built up by their win at Everton but showed battling qualities to claim a point at Burnley.\n\nOf the three sides currently adrift at the bottom of the Premier League, the Cottagers seem the most capable of clawing their way to safety, as illustrated by their impressive win at Goodison Park on Sunday.\n\nBut they failed to repeat that bright and incisive display at Turf Moor against a typically hard-working and competitive Clarets side, who married their industry with the game's main moments of attacking ingenuity.\n\nIt was the visitors, though, who took the lead, as much through fortune as design, with Ola Aina's chested effort from a corner finding the net despite an attempted clearance from Robbie Brady on the line.\n\nCrucially, the visitors were denied the time to draw confidence from the opener, with Burnley hitting back three minutes later through a well-taken Ashley Barnes finish, following a superb low ball from Jay Rodriguez.\n\nThe same two strikers had both narrowly failed to get a goal-bound touch on a superb low cross from James Tarkowski in the first half, while Rodriguez saw a low drive kicked away by Alphonse Areola shortly after his side had levelled the score.\n\nThe draw represents an opportunity missed for Burnley to put further ground between themselves and the London side, with the gap between the two a sizeable but not yet entirely comfortable eight points.\n\nScott Parker's side remain six points shy of safety, with Newcastle the 17th-placed side most in danger of being reeled in.\n• None Follow live text commentary of Burnley v Fulham in the Premier League\n\nA point gained, or two lost for Fulham?\n\nEarning a result at Burnley against a side built to expose the mental and physical weaknesses in an opponent, especially a newly promoted one, is not an easy task.\n\nIn doing so, Fulham have further demonstrated their growth into a top-flight side, after claiming a number of creditable draws earlier in the campaign and then dispatching an aspiring big-hitter in Everton last weekend.\n\nUnfortunately, the Cottagers' development could have come too late.\n\nOnly wins will really eat into the gap between themselves and safety and they cannot afford to let one slip from their grasp when it is there to be had.\n\nIt is why Parker and his side will be so disappointed at the speed and manner with which they conceded the equaliser at Turf Moor, throwing away the lead and momentum they had seized by allowing Barnes a free run in on goal to finish.\n\nThey had been on the back foot for large periods before that and were indebted to a bit of fortune for their goal, but aesthetics come a distant second to actual points right now.\n\nThe biggest positive for Burnley will be that their advantage over the Cottagers remains the same as it was before kick-off.\n\nWith the likes of Newcastle and Palace in far worse form than they are, and Brighton a point worse off, they will feel relatively calm about their situation.\n\nWhat will worry manager Dyche is further injuries to his already depleted squad, with Johan Berg Gudmundsson having to depart, and his replacement Robbie Brady also needing to be replaced.\n\nThere is no respite for either side, with both facing further important fixtures at the weekend.\n\nBurnley host West Brom, the side a place below Fulham in the table, while Parker's men welcome bottom club Sheffield United to Craven Cottage.\n\n'When we get ahead we need to weather something'\n\nBurnley boss Sean Dyche talking to Sky Sports: \"Another point on the board, we are stripped to the bare bones. A committed performance.\n\n\"The reaction to their goal was excellent and I thought we defended well. It's remarkably unfortunate how many injuries we have had.\"\n\nFulham boss Scott Parker talking to Sky Sports: \"It is a tough place to come, the ball is in play not a lot, it is scrappy. We got our noses in front and disappointed with the goal we have conceded.\n\n\"We take the point though. That is four points so far this week. When we get ahead we need to weather something. There were a couple of mistakes for their goal.\n\n\"I thought we were solid, dealt with the threat of balls coming in but were not able to get our identity on it.\n\n\"We regroup, it has been a busy week. Every game is big for us. Six points. This team has honest belief and confidence.\"\n• None Burnley are unbeaten in their past 31 home meetings with Fulham in all competitions (W25 D6), extending their longest ever unbeaten run against an opponent at Turf Moor in their history. Their last such defeat was back in April 1951 (2-0).\n• None Fulham's 31-game winless streak away from home against Burnley in all competitions is their longest run without a victory on the road against an opponent in their history.\n• None There have been just 24 Premier League goals scored at Turf Moor this season (Burnley scoring 10 and conceding 14) - the joint-lowest total at a top-flight ground in 2020-21 (level with Craven Cottage).\n• None Fulham have gone six consecutive away games without defeat in the Premier League (W1 D5), their joint longest such run in the competition (also in August 2004 under Chris Coleman).\n• None Burnley have conceded the first goal of the game in eight of their 12 Premier League matches at Turf Moor this season, including each of the past five - only Sheffield United (10) have done so more often on home soil in the competition this campaign.\n• None There were just 224 seconds between Ola Aina's opener for Fulham and Ashley Barnes' equaliser for Burnley.\n• None Burnley's Jay Rodriguez has assisted in back-to-back Premier League games for the first time in his career, with this his 196th appearance in the competition.\n• None Burnley's Robbie Brady is the only player to have been substituted on and off in two separate Premier League games this season.\n• None Attempt missed. Ashley Barnes (Burnley) header from very close range misses to the left following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Ademola Lookman (Fulham) right footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses the top right corner. Assisted by Josh Maja.\n• None James Tarkowski (Burnley) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Josh Maja (Fulham) right footed shot from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ruben Loftus-Cheek with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Fulham) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ivan Cavaleiro with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None Lifting the lid on the former president's 'America First' foreign policy\n• None Romesh returns with celebrity guests, a virtual nation and his mum...", "The editor of the British Medical Journal has asked the New York Times to correct an article that says UK guidelines allow two Covid-19 vaccines to be mixed.\n\nThe US publication reported that UK health officials would allow patients to be given a second dose that is a different vaccine to their first.\n\nFiona Godlee pointed out in her letter to the NYT that it was not a recommendation.\n\nShe said the NYT's headline claiming UK guidelines say such substitutions \"may happen\" was \"seriously misleading\".\n\nThe UK has approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab - but both require two doses which are now to be administered 12 weeks apart\n\nMs Godlee said the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) does not make any recommendation to mix and match - in other words, having a shot of one vaccine and then a different one 12 weeks later.\n\nDr Mary Ramsay, Public Health England's head of immunisations, said: \"We do not recommend mixing the Covid-19 vaccines - if your first dose is the Pfizer vaccine you should not be given the AstraZeneca vaccine for your second dose and vice versa.\"\n\nDr Ramsay added that on the \"extremely rare occasions\" where the same vaccine is unavailable or it is unknown which jab the patient received, it is \"better to give a second dose of another vaccine than not at all\".\n\nMs Godlee urged the New York Times to print a \"highly visible correction\" as soon as possible.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Princess Royal Hospital at Haywards Heath was among the hospitals receiving a delivery\n\nMeanwhile, health staff have criticised the paperwork needed to gain NHS approval to give the coronavirus vaccine, with some medics being asked for proof they are trained in areas such as preventing radicalisation.\n\nThe first doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine are due to be given on Monday after the jab was approved for use in the UK last week.\n\nThe Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was the first vaccine approved in the UK, and 944,539 people have had their first jab.", "Police tweeted this photo, which appears to show the vehicle severely damaged in the crash\n\nFour ponies have been killed in a collision with a vehicle in the New Forest National Park.\n\nThe animals were hit on Thursday night while licking freshly laid salt on Roger Penny Way, Hampshire Constabulary said.\n\nThree ponies died at the scene while a fourth was found dead later a short distance away.\n\nIn December, three donkeys were killed on the road, which is a black spot for animal accidents.\n\nMark Ferrett, whose daughter owned the ponies, said the deaths were \"unacceptable\"\n\nThe crash happened at about 21:00 GMT on a 40mph (64km/h) section of the road north of Brook.\n\nThe car, a Land Rover Discovery, appears to have been severely damaged in the collision, according to a police tweet, which gave no further details.\n\nMark Ferrett, whose daughter owned the ponies, said the deaths were \"unacceptable\".\n\nHe said: \"I would favour a reduction in the speed [limit]. Please, everyone needs to slow down and stop this carnage.\"\n\nThe New Forest is one of the largest remaining areas of unenclosed land where commoners' cattle, ponies and donkeys roam throughout the open heath.\n\nIn 2019, 58 animals were killed and 32 were injured, according to the New Forest National Park Authority.\n\nThe crash happened on Roger Penny Way, where donkeys, cattle and horses roam freely\n\nAndrew Napthine, a New Forest Agister who helps manage the area's free-roaming animals, attended the scene of the crash, and said the male driver was not injured.\n\nHe said three of the ponies were killed on the road while a fourth fled the scene and died behind a bush.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Officers dispersed the party at the Grade II* listed church before midnight\n\nA 500-year-old church was damaged during an illegal New Year's Eve party at the venue.\n\nAll Saints' Church in East Horndon, near Brentwood, was broken into before crowds entered, Essex Police said.\n\nOfficers were threatened and had objects thrown at them as they dispersed hundreds of people and seized equipment, the force said.\n\nTwo men from Harlow, aged 27 and 22, and a 35-year-old from Southwark were arrested.\n\nThey were held on suspicion of public order and drugs offences.\n\nAstrid Gillespie, a volunteer with the Friends of All Saints', said event organisers had smashed a window to put in an extractor fan unit and wired sound equipment into the church's fuse box.\n\nShe said: \"It was a professional set-up, they'd hired portable loos, they had a bar area where you had to exchange tokens... obviously it's a mess.\n\n\"It's such a beautiful church, to find out it's been damaged is devastating.\"\n\nThe conservation group believes it will cost at least £1,000 to repair the Tudor building.\n\nEquipment was seized and fines issued over three illegal parties broken up by officers\n\nPolice later dispersed about 100 people at an illegal party at an abandoned warehouse in Brentwood and made two arrests.\n\nA woman was also fined £10,000 for organising a house party with 100 guests at Bury Road, Sewardstonebury, in Epping Forest.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Andy Prophet said: \"Unfortunately, there were [those] who decided to blatantly flout the coronavirus rules and regulations and, ultimately, they decided that partying was more important than protecting other people.\n\n\"We've seized their equipment, arrested five people, and issued a large number of fines to those who think this behaviour is acceptable.\"\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nFormer Tottenham and Southampton boss Mauricio Pochettino has been appointed head coach of Paris St-Germain.\n\nThe Argentine, 48, who succeeded Thomas Tuchel, has signed a deal until 30 June 2022, with the option of an extra year.\n\nPochettino, who played for PSG between 2001 and 2003, has been out of work since being sacked by Spurs in November 2019.\n\nPSG are third in Ligue 1 and will face Barcelona in the last 16 of the Champions League in February and March.\n\nGerman Tuchel was sacked on 29 December after two and a half years in charge.\n• None Pochettino is back - but why has he chosen PSG? Read Guillem Ballague's column\n\nPochettino will take his first training session on Sunday following the French league's winter break.\n\nHe said he was \"happy and honoured\" to take on the role and that the club \"has always held a special place in my heart\".\n\n\"I return to the club today with a lot of ambition and humility, and am eager to work with some of the world's most talented players,\" said Pochettino.\n\n\"This team has fantastic potential and my staff and I will do everything we can to get the best for Paris St-Germain in all competitions. We will also do our utmost to give our team the combative and attacking playing identity that Parisian fans have always loved.\"\n\nPSG chairman and chief executive Nasser Al-Khelaifi said Pochettino's return \"fits perfectly with our ambitions\", adding: \"It will be another exciting chapter for the club and one I am positive the fans will enjoy.\"\n\nPochettino began his managerial career at Espanyol and spent 18 months at Southampton before joining Tottenham in May 2014.\n\nHe guided them to the League Cup final in his first full season, while two third-placed finishes sandwiched a runners-up spot in the Premier League in 2016-17.\n\nA former Argentina defender, Pochettino led Spurs to the Champions League final in 2019, where they lost to Liverpool.\n\nHe was sacked five months later, with the club 14th in the Premier League, and replaced by Jose Mourinho.\n\nTuchel's final game in charge of PSG was a 4-0 win over Strasbourg on 23 December, which moved the reigning champions to within a point of Ligue 1 leaders Lyon and second-placed Lille before a two-week winter break.\n\nPSG have been linked with a January loan move for Tottenham's Dele Alli, who made his Premier League debut under Pochettino.\n\nWe all wanted to see him back and we all thought he was waiting for the Manchester United job. PSG is a massive job. There's a massive expectation there.\n\nWith the squad he can pick from and the players he can attract, it's a match made in heaven.\n\nPochettino has got the best out of Dele Alli in the past and it would probably be a clever move all round to get him out there with with the Euros looming.\n\nYou have to have success [at PSG]. They have moved Thomas Tuchel on because PSG are actually in a title race rather than winning at a canter. It's a great opportunity for Pochettino.\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "Arwel Morris said national park staff and police had been engaging with visitors\n\nBeauty spots have been \"disappointingly busy over the last few days\" despite restrictions meaning all but essential travel should be avoided.\n\nSnowdonia park warden Arwel Morris reiterated the message that people should not be driving to visit places.\n\nOn Saturday, police stopped people from Milton Keynes attempting to walk up Snowdon in breach of Covid rules.\n\nMr Morris blamed a \"perfect storm\" of good weather and people being off work for the number of visitors in the area.\n\n\"We try and enforce the fact that exercise should begin and end at home, meaning people should not try and drive to a location where they plan to exercise,\" he told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.\n\n\"And this has been really difficult over the last few days.\n\n\"We have dealt with people from London, Birmingham… numerous people from north Wales travelling to beauty spots.\"\n\nMr Morris, a warden for Snowdonia National Park, said police had been doing their \"absolute best\" dealing with visitors despite other pressures, as wardens could not enforce breaches in lockdown rules.\n\nA breach of Covid rules can incur a £60 fine, which rises to £120 for a second breach.\n\nOn Saturday, North Wales Police said officers had \"turned away\" people who wanted to walk up Snowdon in breach of stay-at-home rules, including some some from Milton Keynes and London.\n\nOn New Year's Day, the force tweeted to say people had been reported for breaching travel restrictions.\n\nWales has been in a nationwide level four lockdown since 20 December.\n\nWales is in a tier four lockdown\n\nTravelling is only allowed for essential purposes, such as for work and for caring responsibilities. International travel is also not allowed.\n\nPeople are still allowed out of their homes to exercise for unlimited periods each day, but must maintain social distancing and not exercise with anyone outside their household.\n\nMore than three quarters of England is also under the strictest tier four coronavirus measures, putting restrictions on people's daily lives.", "The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has started to arrive in hospitals, with the first doses due to be given on Monday.\n\nThe Princess Royal Hospital at Haywards Heath in West Sussex was one of the hospitals taking a delivery on Saturday.\n\nThe UK has ordered 100 million doses of the new vaccine - enough to vaccinate 50 million people.", "Last updated on .From the section Olympics\n\nThe delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics will go ahead this summer despite concern over rising coronavirus cases, says Japan's prime minister.\n\nThe Olympics are due to begin on 23 July with the Paralympics following a month later from 24 August.\n\nCases have surged in Japan in recent days with Tokyo reporting over 1,000 daily infections for the first time.\n\nBut prime minister Yoshihide Suga said the \"Games will be held this summer\" and be \"safe and secure\".\n\nJapan is responding to cases of the new variant of coronavirus first found in the UK, with Tokyo governor Yuriko Koike warning the number of infections could \"explode\".\n\nThere were a record 1,337 cases in Tokyo on 31 December with 783 new infections announced on Friday.\n\nJapan has recorded 239,041 coronavirus cases and 3,337 deaths during the pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University.\n\nCosts for the Games have increased by $2.8bn (£2.1bn) because of measures needed to prevent the spread of coronavirus but organisers have ruled out a delay.\n\nThe Games could be the most expensive summer Olympics in history.\n\nA poll by national broadcaster NHK showed that the majority of the Japanese general public oppose holding the Games in 2021, favouring a further delay or outright cancellation of the event.\n\nSuga said the Games going ahead could serve as a \"symbol of global solidarity\".", "The next few weeks will be \"nail-bitingly difficult\" for the NHS, hospital bosses have warned.\n\nStaff absences and the new Covid variant are creating a \"challenging situation\", Saffron Cordery, of NHS Providers, which represents hospital trusts in England, said.\n\nDoctors are urging the public to \"take it seriously and follow the rules\" to protect the health service.\n\nThe year started with 53,285 more Covid cases and 613 deaths being reported.\n\nThe day's figures do not include data from Northern Ireland or Wales, or the numbers of deaths from Scotland - as these are not being published on certain days during the Christmas and New Year period.\n\nIt comes after the UK reported its highest daily cases on Thursday, with a record 55,892 infections.\n\nOn Friday evening, the government confirmed that all primary schools in London would remain closed for the start of the new term, following a review of Covid transmission rates.\n\nFrom Monday, all schools in the capital will now be required to provide remote learning.\n\nPrimaries in nine London boroughs and the City of London district had been set to reopen - while those in the remaining 23 boroughs would have stayed closed from 4 January.\n\nMeanwhile, new analysis by Imperial College London has confirmed the new variant of coronavirus has a much quicker rate of transmission than the original strain.\n\nAnd an analysis of NHS England data from 23 hospital trusts by the Health Service Journal shows that Covid-19 is putting intense pressure on adult acute care and general beds, as well as those in intensive care.\n\nIt found that more than a third of these beds were occupied by patients with Covid-19 on Tuesday, and in three trusts - North Middlesex in London, and Medway and Dartford and Gravesham in Kent - the figure was more than half.\n\nBased on the recent rise in numbers, the analysis suggests that all acute and general beds might soon be filled with Covid-19 patients.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Breakfast, Ms Cordery said the surging transmission and death rates were \"incredibly hard to deal with\".\n\n\"When we are seeing major London trusts saying they are under pressure, that's when we know we're in a very challenging space,\" she said.\n\nA leading intensive care doctor has urged people to follow restrictions until the vaccination programme is fully rolled out.\n\nProf Anthony Gordon, of Imperial College, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"There is light at the end of the tunnel so I would urge people to hold on for these few more months while the vaccination programme makes that difference and then we can truly get back to normal.\n\n\"But we can't overrun the health service because this will just lead to thousands more deaths.\"\n\nAdrian Boyle, vice-president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, urged people to follow guidance on hand washing, social distancing and face coverings to stop the \"entirely preventable\" spread of the virus.\n\nDr Boyle said staff are \"tired\" and at risk of \"burnout\", having \"worked really hard over the summer\" and \"put up with a lot of disruption\".\n\n\"This time people are frustrated, this is now an entirely preventable disease, we know what we did in spring made a lot of this go away. There's also now a vaccine,\" he added.\n\nMore than three-quarters of England is currently under the strictest tier four - \"stay at home\" - coronavirus measures, and other parts of the country have joined higher tiers.\n\nMainland Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales are under lockdown.\n\nThere are also concerns the added pressures of rising numbers of Covid patients seen at London hospitals have begun to spread across the country.\n\nSpeaking on Today, Dr Alison Pittard, of the Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine, said it was \"only a matter of time before it starts to spread to other parts of country\", adding that \"we're already starting to see that\".\n\nShe stressed it was \"really important that we try and stop the transmission in the community because that translates into hospital admissions\".\n\nIt comes as almost half the major hospital trusts in England are said to be dealing with more Covid-19 patients than at the peak of the first wave in April.\n\nAnd pressure has been so great on some hospitals in London and south-east England that some patients have been moved out of the area.\n\nLondon's Nightingale emergency hospital is ready to admit patients, the NHS has said, while other sites currently not in use are being readied.\n\nHowever, Mike Adams, director of the Royal College of Nursing, questioned whether there were the staff available to run the hospital.\n\n\"Nursing is already stretched beyond capacity so there is no magic pile of nurses we can call upon,\" he told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.\n\n\"I think the real battle is reducing the spread of the virus and getting the vaccine rolled out.\"\n\nThe new coronavirus variant has driven a big rise in cases, with the worst effects felt so far in London.\n\nResearchers at Imperial College London have confirmed it increases the R number - the number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to - by about 0.4 to 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy, from the statistic section of Imperial College London, told the Today programme this higher rate of infection means that transmission of the disease would have tripled even during England's November lockdown conditions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC's Laura Foster explains how to wear your mask correctly and help stop coronavirus spreading\n\nThe hunt is now on to find new ways to slow the spread of coronavirus, with the rules on mask wearing potentially coming up for review.\n\nBehavioural science group SPI-B (Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours), which reports to the Sage group of government advisers, has said that mandatory face coverings may be necessary in a wider number of settings, such as in workplaces and possibly outdoors.\n\nHowever, Dr Simon Clarke, associate professor of cellular microbiology at the University of Reading, told BBC Radio 4's World at One he was not convinced a move towards making the wearing of face coverings mandatory outdoors would make \"much difference\" to transmission rates.\n\nHe said the \"bigger problem\" was people touching their face covering or wearing it incorrectly, adding ministers should focus on ensuring people knew how to wear them and to change and wash them regularly.\n\nThe rollout of the newly approved Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine will begin on Monday, almost a month after the Pfizer-BioNTech jab.\n\nSecond doses of either will now take place within 12 weeks rather than 21 days as had been initially planned with the Pfizer vaccine.", "The star started filming his role in secret last year\n\nComedian John Bishop is to join Jodie Whittaker for the 13th series of Doctor Who, the BBC has revealed.\n\nThe 54-year-old, who recently tested positive for coronavirus, said boarding the Tardis was a \"dream come true\".\n\nHe will play a character called Dan, who \"becomes embroiled in the Doctor's adventures\" and faces \"evil alien races beyond his wildest nightmares\".\n\nBishop fills the gap left by Bradley Walsh and Tosin Cole, who bowed out in a special New Year's Day episode.\n\nHe began filming his role last November, but the BBC kept the signing under wraps until the broadcast of Revolution Of The Daleks on Friday night.\n\nBishop, who grew up on a Merseyside council estate, had a brief career as a professional footballer before turning his hand to comedy.\n\nHe has previously acted in the Channel 4 drama Skins and the Ken Loach film Route Irish.\n\nEarlier this week, the comedian revealed that he and his wife had tested positive for Coronavirus over Christmas, saying he had been \"flattened\" by \"the worst illness I have ever had\".\n\nWriting on Instagram, he described his symptoms as including \"incredible headaches, muscle and joint point, no appetite, nausea, dizziness [and] chronic fatigue like I didn't know existed\".\n\nHe updated fans on New Year's Eve, saying he and his wife were \"getting a little stronger\" every day, and promising he would return to work in January.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by johnbish100 This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is not thought his illness will disrupt production on Doctor Who. The show is on a scheduled break for Christmas and not due to resume filming until later this month.\n\nThe 13th series of the rebooted sci-fi stalwart will see Whittaker return as the extra terrestrial Time Lord, alongside Mandip Gill, who returns as Yaz.\n\nIn a statement, Bishop said: \"If I could tell my younger self that one day I would be asked to step on board the Tardis, I would never have believed it.\n\n\"It's an absolute dream come true to be joining Doctor Who and I couldn't wish for better company than Jodie and Mandip.\"\n\nJodie Whittaker became the first female actress to play The Doctor in 2017\n\nProgramme boss Chris Chibnall added: \"It's time for the next chapter of Doctor Who, and it starts with a man called Dan. Oh, we've had to keep this one secret for a long, long time.\n\n\"Our conversations started with John even before the pandemic hit.\n\n\"The character of Dan was built for him, and it's a joy to have him aboard the Tardis.\"\n\nDoctor Who will return to BBC One later this year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nArsenal continued their Premier League resurgence with a ruthless victory over strugglers West Brom at The Hawthorns.\n\nDefender Kieran Tierney's excellent solo run and curling finish put the Gunners in front in the first half, before the impressive Bukayo Saka rounded off a stunning passing move to make it 2-0.\n\nAlexandre Lacazette added the third and fourth goals after the break - smashing in a rebound from Emile Smith Rowe's shot before he was set up by Tierney.\n\nIt was Arsenal's third league victory in a row after they had failed to win their previous seven.\n\nWest Brom, playing their fourth match under new manager Sam Allardyce, remain second from bottom and six points from safety.\n• None Confidence? Youth? How have Arsenal turned relegation talk into European hopes?\n\nArsenal boss Mikel Arteta said he wanted his players to \"show confidence\" at The Hawthorns, and they certainly did that in a dominant and eye-catching display.\n\nHector Bellerin forced Sam Johnstone into a save within two minutes after Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang broke down the left, and Saka tormented full-back Dara O'Shea on the opposite wing constantly during the opening half.\n\nIt was Saka's ball that fizzed past the back post, inches away from the toe of Aubameyang, after the 19-year-old had got the better of O'Shea and hit it straight at Johnstone.\n\nWest Brom were being suffocated and Tierney's burst of pace to get around Darnell Furlong, before bending it into the far corner, was the perfect way to open the scoring.\n\nSaka made it 2-0 by rounding off a slick, one-touch passing move that former Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger would have been proud of.\n\nWest Brom could offer no response after the break either and Arsenal were 3-0 up on the hour when Lacazette eventually blasted in the rebound from a catalogue of errors by defender Semi Ajayi.\n\nThat was game over but Lacazette was allowed to add a fourth when he was left unmarked to divert Tierney's cross into the roof of the net four minutes later.\n\nArteta, knowing the job was done, was able to bring off Saka and Emile Smith Rowe following impressive performances from both youngsters, while Arsenal continued to create chances to round off a very enjoyable evening in the snow.\n\nAllardyce's first match in charge of West Brom - a 3-0 drubbing by Aston Villa after captain Jake Livermore had been sent off - was a sign of just how tough this job was going to be.\n\nThen that 1-1 draw with Liverpool at Anfield provided hope. The Baggies were resilient, organised and tireless.\n\nBut heavy back-to-back defeats by Leeds United and now Arsenal at home have brought things back down to earth.\n\nWest Brom were overawed in defence, out-run in midfield and frustrated by a lack of opportunities in attack throughout this confidence-crushing defeat.\n\nTheir rare sniffs at goal came from a Granit Xhaka error in the first half - Matheus Pereira chipping it through to Matt Phillips who struck it straight at Bernd Leno - before Callum Robinson's finish was ruled out for offside in the second half.\n\nSubstitute Rekeem Harper's long-range strike deep in stoppage time was also comfortably turned behind by Leno.\n\nIt was West Brom's third home loss in three under Allardyce and they have conceded 12 goals with no reply in those games.\n\n'Everything looks much better' - what they said\n\nWest Brom manager Sam Allardyce: \"Another game gone by where we learn more about the players we have. We have learnt an awful lot about what we can and cannot do.\n\n\"We need to work out a way of not trying to be as sloppy as we have been at conceding goals. It appears when we try to open up we leave opportunities for the opposition and we cannot cope.\"\n\nArsenal manager Mikel Arteta: \"We had a big week, three games in seven days, and we managed to win them and everything looks much better. It was difficult conditions but the team looked sharp from the start. It's a big win.\n\n\"After the results we had before we had to lift things straight away. Now we have got some discipline back. We look more creative in the final third and we look solid at the back.\"\n\nThe best of the stats\n• None West Brom are the first side to lose consecutive home Premier League games by at least four goals since Wigan in August 2010.\n• None Arsenal have scored in all 25 of their Premier League meetings with West Brom, the best 100% scoring record by one side against an opponent in the competition's history.\n• None There were 20 passes in the build-up to Arsenal's first goal scored by Kieran Tierney - since Mikel Arteta's first game in charge on Boxing Day 2019, the Gunners have scored more goals following a sequence of 20+ passes than any other Premier League side (3).\n• None Tierney became the first Scottish player to score an away Premier League goal for Arsenal and the first to do so in the top flight since Charlie Nicholas against Ipswich Town in March 1986.\n• None Alexandre Lacazette has scored five away Premier League goals in 2020-21, his best such tally in a single season in the competition.\n\nWest Brom travel to Blackpool for an FA Cup third-round tie on Saturday, 9 January (15:00 GMT kick-off), before returning to Premier League action on Saturday, 16 January against Wolves (12:30 GMT).\n\nArsenal host Newcastle in their FA Cup match on the same day (17:30 GMT), before facing Crystal Palace at home in the league on Thursday, 14 January (20:00 GMT).\n• None Offside, West Bromwich Albion. Charlie Austin tries a through ball, but Kyle Bartley is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Rekeem Harper (West Bromwich Albion) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Matheus Pereira.\n• None Attempt saved. Willian (Arsenal) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Dani Ceballos.\n• None Attempt missed. Joseph Willock (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Willian with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Conor Gallagher (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Callum Robinson.\n• None Attempt blocked. Charlie Austin (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Dara O'Shea.\n• None Dani Ceballos (Arsenal) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Kieran Tierney.\n• None Attempt missed. Charlie Austin (West Bromwich Albion) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Matt Phillips. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester United moved level on points with Premier League leaders Liverpool as a Bruno Fernandes penalty saw off stubborn Aston Villa.\n\nFernandes drilled his 11th league goal this season - and his fifth from the spot - into the bottom corner to punish Douglas Luiz's clip on Paul Pogba and hand United an eighth win in 10 games.\n\nBertrand Traore's calm finish underneath David de Gea had deservedly drawn Villa level, cancelling out Anthony Martial's stooping first-half header for the hosts.\n\nBut Fernandes' penalty extended United's hold over Villa - they have now won 32 and lost just one of the past 44 league meetings between the sides - and leaves Liverpool top only by virtue of goal difference.\n\nThe spot-kick award angered Aston Villa boss Dean Smith who claimed Pogba \"tripped himself\" and that the video assistant referee should have asked on-pitch official Michael Oliver to review his decision.\n\n\"I don't see why Michael couldn't have looked at it. That's what VAR is for isn't it?\" Smith told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I thought it was a penalty at the time, but I looked at it after the game and saw he tripped himself. I don't think it's a penalty.\n\n\"I think there's enough doubt there to send the referee over to the screen.\"\n\nSmith's side were perhaps unfortunate not to have left Old Trafford with at least a point from a thoroughly entertaining game but they also needed several fine saves from Emiliano Martinez to keep them in it.\n\nAfter Fernandes' spot-kick put United back in front, Martinez superbly tipped a stinging 25-yarder from the Portuguese on to the crossbar as well as denying Martial a second.\n\nMartinez's counterpart David de Gea was just as busy, with a late save from Matty Cash's long-range strike preserving the points, not long after Tyrone Mings had headed wide a glorious chance to level.\n\nOle Gunnar Solskjaer's side have displayed their ability to grind out points at Old Trafford in recent weeks, as evidenced in 1-0 home wins over both West Bromwich Albion and Wolves.\n\nBut they have also shown a willingness to go toe-to-toe with teams who are happy to open up the game and, while this was not quite the shootout of the 6-2 win over Leeds, it was just as easy on the eye.\n\nA number of fluid first-half moves produced chances before Martial's opener as the France forward saw a curler tipped over by Martinez, while Fernandes and Wan-Bissaka were narrowly off target with similar efforts.\n\nMartial stole between Mings and Ezri Konsa to nod the Red Devils ahead from Wan-Bissaka's inviting cross for only his second league goal of the season on his return to Solskjaer's starting line-up.\n\nWhile Luiz was unfortunate to be penalised for what might have been an accidental clip on Pogba, there was enough contact for the penalty to be given and Fernandes continued his excellent record from the spot.\n\nUnited were nine points behind Liverpool after a 1-0 defeat by Arsenal at Old Trafford on 1 November but have made up that gap in just two months to set an intriguing title race into motion.\n\nA minute's silence before the game paid tribute to former boss Tommy Docherty, who famously prevented Liverpool claiming the treble by leading United to an FA Cup win over the Reds in 1977.\n\nAnd while talk of foiling a second successive Liverpool title might be premature, moving alongside them at the Premier League's summit will give Solskjaer's side even more confidence as they eye up a trip to Anfield on 17 January.\n\nWhile Villa were ultimately outgunned by their hosts, their brave display was further evidence of the progress Smith's side have made this season.\n\nThey held their own in the first half, causing United a number of problems down the flanks, with playmaker Jack Grealish prompting and probing to show why the hosts have long considered a move for the Villa captain.\n\nBut they were even more impressive in the early stages of the second period, Grealish crossing for an Ollie Watkins header that was saved by De Gea before collecting a quick free-kick and finding Traore to tuck home the equaliser.\n\nLuiz's foul on Pogba came with Villa very much in the ascendancy and while they then had to ride a storm the visitors still came close to pinching a point as Mings beat fellow England centre-half Harry Maguire to a free-kick only to nod wide.\n\nWith Ross Barkley's return from a hamstring injury imminent, this performance should keep Villa optimistic even if defeat halted a five-game unbeaten run and saw them slip a place to sixth, behind Chelsea on goal difference.\n\nAnd while their rotten record at Old Trafford continues - just one win in 34 visits since 1983, which came courtesy of a Gabriel Agbonlahor header in 2009 - they have still only conceded five times in eight away games this campaign.\n\n'We have improved a lot in a year' - what they said\n\nManchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer told BBC Sport: \"You are always delighted with three points. The performance was good and we created chances.\n\n\"It was maybe a little too open and we wasted chances. We tried to play the Hollywood pass instead of securing the first one and using the space that was there.\n\n\"We are happy with what we are doing. We have shown we have improved a lot in a year. We lost to Arsenal away last New Year's Day. We have improved immensely.\"\n\nAston Villa boss Dean Smith told BBC Sport: \"I wasn't happy with the first half. We were miles off the levels where we have been. It felt like a testimonial pace then they deservedly had the lead at half-time. I told the players we needed to be upping our levels.\n\n\"We competed a lot better [in the second half], showed more quality and created chances. I'd take the second-half performance all day long. A dubious penalty has lost us the game.\n\n\"When you look at our performances and results, it shows we are very competitive in this league now, which is what we wanted it to be.\"\n\nUnited's hold over Villa goes on - the stats\n• None Manchester United are unbeaten in their past 16 Premier League matches against Aston Villa (W12 D4).\n• None Aston Villa have lost 13 of their past 15 away Premier League games against Manchester United at Old Trafford (W1 D1).\n• None In Premier League history, the only player to be directly involved in more goals in their first 30 appearances in the competition than Bruno Fernandes (33 - 19 goals, 14 assists) is Andrew Cole (37 - 28 goals, nine assists).\n• None Anthony Martial has now scored on all seven days of the week in the Premier League for Manchester United, becoming the fifth player to do so, after Ryan Giggs, Andrew Cole, David Beckham and Wayne Rooney.\n• None Only Tottenham's Harry Kane (10) has assisted more Premier League goals this season than Jack Grealish (7), while the last Aston Villa player to assist more than seven Premier League goals in a season was Ashley Young in 2010-11 (10).\n• None Since Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's first Premier League match in charge of Manchester United in December 2018, the Red Devils have taken (27) and scored (21) the most Premier League penalties.\n\nManchester United host local rivals Manchester City in the Carabao Cup semi-finals on Wednesday (19:45 GMT) and welcome Watford in the FA Cup on Saturday 9 January (20:00 GMT). Their next Premier League game is away at Burnley on Tuesday 12 January (20:15 GMT).\n\nAston Villa host Liverpool in the FA Cup next Friday (19:45 GMT) before returning to Premier League action at home to Tottenham on Wednesday 13 January (20:15 GMT).\n• None Attempt blocked. Keinan Davis (Aston Villa) left footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Keinan Davis (Aston Villa) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Ollie Watkins with a cross.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Paul Pogba tries a through ball, but Marcus Rashford is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Matthew Cash (Aston Villa) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Jack Grealish.\n• None Nemanja Matic (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Luke Shaw (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "London's Nightingale Hospital is ready to admit patients as hospitals in the capital struggle, the NHS has said.\n\nThe Excel Centre site in east London has been \"reactivated\" amid a rise in the number of Covid-19 patients.\n\nOther Nightingale hospital sites across England are also being readied, with the UK recording a record daily rise in coronavirus cases.\n\nAn NHS spokesman said hospitals in London remain under \"significant pressure\".\n\nHe said: \"In anticipation of pressures rising from the spread of the new variant infection, NHS London were asked to ensure the London Nightingale was reactivated and ready to admit patients as needed, and that process is under way.\"\n\nSeveral NHS hospitals in London and the south-east are now reporting they are under extreme pressure as a result of a surge in the number of people falling seriously ill with Covid-19.\n\nAn email to staff at the Royal London Hospital says they are operating in disaster medicine mode - warning they can no longer provide high-standard critical care.\n\nNightingale hospitals in Manchester, Bristol and Harrogate are in use currently for non-Covid patients, the spokesman added.\n\nThe Exeter site received its first Covid patients in November when it began accepting those transferred from the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust, which was described as \"very busy\".\n\nHe said: \"Covid inpatient numbers are rising sharply so the remaining Nightingales are being readied to admit patients once again should they be needed, in line with best clinical practice developed over the first and second waves of coronavirus.\"\n\nSenior intensive care doctor Prof Hugh Montgomery warned those who fail to follow the rules on social distancing, hand washing and wearing a face covering \"have blood on their hands\".\n\nNHS England medical director Stephen Powis has described the Nightingale hospitals as \"our insurance policy, there as our last resort\".\n\nLondon's Nightingale hospital was built in nine days, with the help of hundreds of soldiers\n\nHe told a Downing Street press conference on Wednesday: \"We asked all the Nightingale hospitals a few weeks ago to be ready to take patients if that was required.\n\n\"Indeed, some of them are already doing that, in Manchester taking step-down patients, in Exeter managing Covid patients, and in other places managing diagnostics, for instance.\n\n\"Our first steps though, in managing the extra demands on the NHS, are to expand capacity within existing hospitals - that's the best way to use our staff.\"\n\nLondon's Nightingale Hospital was opened on 3 April and placed on standby weeks later after fewer than 20 patients were treated there.", "Owen Thomas says metal detecting has been his escape from the stresses of the pandemic.\n\nThe writer from Tongwynlais, Cardiff started metal detecting after bumping into his long-time friend Bob Wiseman - an avid detectorist - during lockdown.\n\nAside from his first outing, when he followed his metal toe cap boots thinking he had found treasure, he has discovered artefacts dating back to the 13th Century.\n\nOwen says he has fallen in love with his new-found hobby and it is \"the link with a life that's gone” that appeals to him so much.", "A UK ticket-holder has started the new year by winning the EuroMillions jackpot of nearly £40m.\n\nOne ticket matched all five regular numbers and two lucky stars in the draw on Friday night to win the £39,774,466.40 prize.\n\nCamelot's Andy Carter, senior winners' adviser at the National Lottery, said: \"What an amazing start to 2021 for UK EuroMillions players.\"\n\nA ticket-holder has now come forward to claim their prize.\n\nCamelot, which operates the lottery, said checks were being made on the claim.\n\nMr Carter said: \"It is fantastic news that the jackpot winning lucky ticket-holder has now claimed this enormous prize. We will now focus on supporting the ticket-holder through the process.\"\n\nThe winning numbers were 16, 28, 32, 44 and 48 with the lucky stars 01 and 09.\n\nTen other ticket-holders each won £1m in the UK Millionaire Maker New Year's Day event.\n\nIn 2019, a UK ticket-holder won the full £170m EuroMillions jackpot, making them Britain's richest ever lottery winner.\n\nAnd last year, a £57m EuroMillions prize claim was validated just before the deadline. The ticket had been bought in South Ayrshire.\n\nThe winning ticket holder's newfound cash means they are now wealthier than former One Direction singer Zayn Malik, who is worth £36m, according to the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List.\n\nAnd if they have a bit more money in the bank, they could buy one of the UK's most expensive homes, which went on the market last year.\n\nNobody won the EuroMillons Hotpicks jackpot on Friday, which uses the same numbers as the main draw, but one winner scooped the Thunderball top prize of £500,000.\n\nThe Thunderball numbers were 13, 17, 30, 34, 35 and the Thunderball was 01.", "Lisa Montgomery is scheduled for execution in January 2021\n\nA US appeals court has lifted a stay of execution on the only woman awaiting a federal death penalty.\n\nLisa Montgomery strangled a pregnant woman in Missouri before cutting out and kidnapping the baby in 2004.\n\nIf the execution goes ahead, she will be the first female federal inmate to be put to death in almost 70 years.\n\nMontgomery's execution date was originally set for last month but a stay was put in place after her attorneys contracted Covid-19.\n\nIt was then rescheduled for 12 January by the Justice Department. But Montgomery's lawyers argued that the date could not be set while a stay was in place.\n\nA court sided with her attorneys, stopping an order from the director of the Bureau of Prisons scheduling her death.\n\nBut on Friday, a panel of judges concluded that the director had acted under the law, allowing the execution to take place.\n\nMontgomery's legal team said they will file a petition for the judges to reconsider their ruling.\n\nThe last woman to be executed by the US government was Bonnie Heady, who died in a gas chamber in Missouri in 1953, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.\n\nFederal executions had been on pause for 17 years before President Donald Trump ordered them to resume earlier last year.\n\nIf the remaining executions go ahead, Mr Trump will have overseen the most executions by a US president in more than a century.\n\nMontgomery's execution date is just days before President-elect Joe Biden takes office.\n\nMr Biden, who for decades was a fierce supporter of the death penalty as a Delaware senator, has now said he will seek to end federal executions once he takes office.\n\nIn December 2004, Montgomery drove from Kansas to the home of Bobbie Jo Stinnett, in Missouri, purportedly to purchase a puppy, according to a Department of Justice press release.\n\n\"Once inside the residence, Montgomery attacked and strangled Stinnett - who was eight months pregnant - until the victim lost consciousness,\" it says.\n\nMontgomery cut into Stinnett's body to remove the baby, which she took with her in an attempt to pass it off as her own.\n\nIn 2007, a jury found Montgomery guilty of federal kidnapping resulting in death, and unanimously recommended a death sentence.\n\nBut Montgomery's lawyers say she experienced brain damage from beatings as a child and is mentally unwell, so should not face the death penalty.\n\nUnder the US justice system, crimes can be tried either in federal courts, at a national level, or in state courts, at a regional level.\n\nCertain crimes, such as counterfeiting currency or mail theft, are automatically tried at a federal level, as are cases in which the US is a party or those which involve constitutional violations.\n\nThe death penalty was outlawed at state and federal level by a 1972 Supreme Court decision that cancelled all existing death penalty statutes.\n\nA 1976 Supreme Court decision allowed states to reinstate the death penalty and in 1988 the government passed legislation that made it available again at federal level.\n\nAccording to data collected by the Death Penalty Information Center, 78 people were sentenced to death in federal cases between 1988 and 2018 but only three were executed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What's in store for US President-elect Biden in 2021? Senior North America reporter Anthony Zurcher looks ahead\n\nThe latest in a series of attempts by allies of President Donald Trump to overturn the November US election result has failed.\n\nA Texas judge rejected the case, brought by Republican Louie Gohmert, seeking to stop Vice-President Mike Pence from certifying the final result.\n\nLawyers for Mr Pence had asked for the case to be thrown out on Thursday.\n\nPresident-elect Joe Biden is due to take office on 20 January. Mr Trump is yet to concede.\n\nMr Gohmert, a Republican congressman, told Newsmax TV that he planned to appeal against the verdict.\n\nMr Trump's friends and colleagues in the Republican party have presented dozens of legal challenges to the November outcome which delivered a decisive win to Mr Biden.\n\nHis victory was announced after days of vote-counting that took longer than in recent years because of the huge number of postal ballots cast due to the coronavirus pandemic.\n\nMr Trump has made numerous unsubstantiated claims that Mr Biden's win, which saw the president-elect gain 306 electoral college votes to his rival's 232, was fraudulent.\n\nThe electoral college is a system whereby each US state has an allocated number of points that is granted to the overall winner in each state. The candidate who gains the majority wins the presidency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Explaining the Electoral College and which voters will decide who wins\n\nCongressman Gohmert's case sought to allow Vice-President Mike Pence to reject some electoral college votes when they are ratified by Congress on 6 January.\n\nThe vice-president presides over the vote certification in Congress in a ceremonial role that involves opening and tallying the envelopes containing electoral college votes before announcing the result.\n\nMr Gohmert's case aimed to expand that role to allow Mr Pence to cast judgement on the validity of the votes and potentially replace votes for Mr Biden with ones for Mr Trump.\n\nBut Judge Jeremy Kernodle, who was appointed to the Texas court in 2018 by Mr Trump, rejected the case, saying it was based on speculative events.\n\nOn Thursday a lawyer from the US Justice Department representing Mr Pence urged Mr Gohmert to drop the case, suggesting that it was not the vice-president's office that should be scrutinising the outcome.\n\nAlthough most Republicans in Congress are expected to vote in favour of certifying the results, a small number including Senator Josh Hawley, say they plan to object. But their vote is not expected to change the outcome.\n\nMr Biden is due to be sworn in as president on 20 January at a scaled-back ceremony with just 1,000 tickets available due to Covid-19 precautions.", "All primary schools in London will remain closed for the start of the new term, the government has confirmed.\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan said the government had \"finally seen sense and U-turned\" on its plan to allow pupils in some areas to return on Monday.\n\nLeaders of nine London local authorities had written to Education Secretary Gavin Williamson urging him to rethink the decision.\n\nMr Williamson said the city-wide closures were \"a last resort\".\n\nThe government said it had decided all primary schools in the capital would be required to provide remote learning after a further review of coronavirus transmission rates.\n\nVulnerable pupils and the children of key workers will continue to attend school, the government said.\n\nEarly years care, alternative provision and special schools will remain open, it added.\n\nSchools in nine London boroughs and the City of London district had been set to reopen - while those in the remaining 23 boroughs would have stayed closed from 4 January.\n\nThe decision was criticised and branded \"illogical\" by councillors and residents in the affected areas, who called for primary schools across the capital to move to online learning until 18 January.\n\nThey pointed out that Covid-19 infection rates were higher in some boroughs told to reopen schools than in others where they were not.\n\nIn a tweet, Mr Khan said a city-wide closure was \"the right decision\" and thanked education minister Nick Gibb for \"our constructive conversations over the past two days\".\n\n\"The government's original decision was ridiculous and has been causing immense confusion for parents, teachers and staff across the capital,\" Mr Khan said.\n\n\"It is right that all schools in London are treated the same, and that no primary schools in London will be forced to open on Monday\".\n\nDan Thorpe, leader of Greenwich council, said he was \"absolutely delighted\" to hear Mr Williamson had \"finally climbed down and reversed his decision\".\n\nKingston Council leader Caroline Kerr said she was \"dismayed\" at the government's handling of situation while a council statement added: \"It never made sense that neighbouring boroughs were being instructed to have different arrangements despite having similar rates of infection.\"\n\nIslington council leader Richard Watts said waiting until New Year's day to announce the further closures was \"unacceptable\".\n\nHe said the decision \"should have been made weeks ago, as the public health situation became clear\".\n\nMary Bousted, of the National Education Union, said the government was right to reverse its \"obviously nonsensical position\".\n\n\"What is right for London is right for the rest of the country,\" she said, and she called on ministers to \"do their duty\" by closing all primary and secondary schools nationwide for at least two weeks.\n\nPaul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders' union NAHT, accused the government of damaging public confidence with a \"confusing and last-minute approach\".\n\n\"Just at the moment when we need some decisive leadership, the government is at sixes and sevens,\" he said.\n\nShadow education secretary Kate Green said the move was \"yet another government U-turn creating chaos for parents just two days before the start of term\".\n\n\"Gavin Williamson must still clarify why some schools in tier 4 are closing and what the criteria for reopening will be,\" she said.\n\nGavin Williamson said closing schools across London was a \"last resort\"\n\nIn a statement, Mr Williamson said children's education and wellbeing remained \"a national priority\" and moving the whole of London to remote education \"really is a last resort and a temporary solution\".\n\n\"We will continue keep the list of local authorities under review, and reopen classrooms as soon as we possibly can,\" he said.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said the situation in London had continued to worsen in the past week and infections and hospital admissions had risen sharply.\n\n\"While our priority is to keep as many children as possible in school, we have to strike a balance between education and infection rates and pressures on the NHS,\" he said.\n\nThe Department for Education had previously said decisions on school closures and openings were based on new infections, positivity rates, and pressures on the NHS.\n\nA spokeswoman for the department said: \"In response to concerning data about the spread of coronavirus, we have implemented the contingency framework for education in a small number of areas of the country, requiring schools to provide remote learning to all but vulnerable and critical worker children and exam years.\n\n\"Decisions on which areas will be subject to the contingency framework are based on close work with PHE, the NHS, the Joint Biosecurity Centre and across government.\"\n\nAre you a parent or teacher who will be affected by the London primary school closures? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also get in touch in the following ways:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or comment or you can email us at HaveYourSay@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any submission.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bodycam footage shows the moments before a black man was killed by a police shooting in Minneapolis\n\nMinneapolis police have released bodycam footage of a fatal shooting by officers, the first death at the hands of police in the US city since that of George Floyd, a black man, in May.\n\nThe victim, Dolal Idd, 23, was a suspect in a felony and was stopped by police on Wednesday. He was also black.\n\nInitial witness statements and police say Mr Idd fired first and was shot dead when the officers returned fire.\n\nMinneapolis saw months of unrest after Mr Floyd's death in police custody.\n\nThe protests spread across the US amid allegations of police brutality.\n\nMr Floyd died after a police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.\n\nThe footage from Wednesday's fatal shooting, from the bodycam of one of the officers involved, was released late on Thursday.\n\nIt shows the officers' cars blocking a white vehicle at a petrol station on the city's south side, not far from where Mr Floyd died.\n\nThe police are heard shouting \"Stop your car, hands up, hands up!\" before shots are fired, including by the officers.\n\nA female passenger in the car with Mr Idd was not hurt, police said, nor were the officers.\n\nMinneapolis police chief Medaria Arradondo said a gun was found at the scene.\n\n\"When I viewed the video that everyone else is viewing - and certainly the real-time slow-down version - it appears the individual inside the vehicle fired his weapon at the officers first,\" he said.\n\nPeople including Mr Idd's father Bayle Gelle gathered at the scene the following day, prompting fears of renewed protests.\n\n\"He was just sitting in the car, and bullets were shot at him, and no reason,\" he said, quoted by CBS News.\n\n\"Why are we here?... Because of colour. He is a black man. We want to know why my sweet son gets shot and killed.\"\n\nGeorge Floyd's death led to violent protests in the city, including this police station set on fire in May\n\nCity mayor Jacob Frey said he was committed to getting the facts and pursuing justice.\n\n\"We know a life has been cut short tonight and that trust between communities of colour and law enforcement is fragile,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"Rebuilding that trust will depend on complete transparency.\"\n\nMr Floyd's death in May led to calls for reform or even abolition of the city's police department, but those efforts have stalled.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. More than 2,500 people take part in an illegal rave in northern France, despite the nationwide curfew\n\nAn illegal warehouse rave that began on New Year's Eve in France in defiance of coronavirus precautions has been shut down by police after arrests and clashes.\n\nSome of the 2,500 ravers in Lieuron near Rennes in Brittany had planned to party until Tuesday.\n\nPolice issued fines to revellers found leaving and the organisers were being identified as the party ended.\n\nA number of party-goers were from the UK and Spain, police said.\n\nAttendees clashed with police, setting fire to a car and throwing objects at officers attempting to shut the event down. At least three officers were injured.\n\nPolice broke up the three-day party that defied a nationwide curfew\n\nA driver was apprehended with turntables, speakers and a generator in the boot of the vehicle, according to French TV station BFM TV.\n\nPolice trying to stop the event faced \"fierce hostility from many partygoers\", a statement from local authorities said.\n\nBut at 05:30 local time on Saturday the ravers began to accept the party was over and started to leave the two disused warehouse hangars, the local prefecture said.\n\nSome revellers said they were hoping to stay until Tuesday\n\nInterior Minister Gérald Darmanin said on Twitter that trucks, sound equipment and generators were seized at the scene and an investigation has been opened.\n\nMore than 1,200 fines were issued for non-compliance with the curfew, not wearing a mask and attending an illegal gathering, Mr Darmanin said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Gérald DARMANIN This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn Friday authorities said they had opened a sanitary cordon around the party and anyone leaving the event was urged to self-isolate for seven days.\n\nOne of the party-goers, who gave his name as Jo, told the AFP news agency that \"very few had respected social distancing\" at the event.\n\nA number of people slept in their cars before returning to dance, Le Monde newspaper reports.\n\nOne reveller told Le Monde that the rave was \"very well organised\" with food stalls inside.\n\nAnother, who came with four friends from Finisterre in north-west France, told the newspaper that she had wanted to \"escape\" for a few hours.\n\nOn Friday an interior ministry crisis meeting was held and all vehicle exits from the rave were blocked as police sought to shut down the party.\n\nFrance introduced strict rules ahead of the New Year including a curfew from 20:00 until 06:00.\n\nMore than 100,000 police officers were deployed across the country to break up parties and enforce the curfew.\n\nOfficers were instructed to break up underground parties as soon as they were reported, fine participants and identify the organisers.\n\nFrance has recorded more than 2.6 million coronavirus cases and 64,892 deaths since the pandemic began.\n\nOfficers elsewhere in Europe have also had to break up events in recent days.\n\nPolice dispersed a mass gathering near the Spanish city of Barcelona on Saturday where 300 people had been partying for more than 40 hours.\n\nThree footballers from London-based football team Tottenham Hotspur were photographed at a Christmas party last week in breach of coronavirus regulations.\n\nAnd in Essex, an illegal New Year's Eve party damaged All Saints Church near Brentwood. Church authorities have since received hundreds of pounds to pay for repairs.\n\nOfficers in Spain broke up the rave near Barcelona, which had been going on for more than 40 hours", "Officers dispersed the party at the Grade II* listed church before midnight\n\nThousands of pounds has been raised to pay for repairs to a 500-year-old church that was \"trashed\" during an illegal New Year's Eve party.\n\nHundreds of revellers attended the party at All Saints Church in East Horndon, near Brentwood, after the building was broken into.\n\nThree people were arrested on suspicion of public order and drugs offences.\n\nVolunteer group Friends of All Saints said it was \"completely overwhelmed\" by peoples' \"support and generosity\".\n\nChurch volunteer Astrid Gillespie said the damage was \"devastating\"\n\nThe fundraising page was set up on Friday and aimed to raise £2,000, but in less than 24 hours it had raised more than £8,700.\n\nIt said a \"massive clean-up\" was needed at the \"much-loved\" church after \"hundreds of revellers trashed the place\".\n\nEquipment was seized by police at the illegal party\n\nAstrid Gillespie, a volunteer with the Friends of All Saints, said event organisers had smashed a window to put in an extractor fan unit and wired sound equipment into the church's fuse box.\n\nShe said: \"It was a professional set-up. They had a bar area where you had to exchange tokens.\n\n\"It's such a beautiful church. To find out it's been damaged is devastating.\"\n\nReferring to the money that was raised, she said: \"Faith in humanity restored\".\n\nThe church, which is owned and maintained by the Churches Conservation Trust, has not been used for religious services since 1970, but regularly houses community events.\n\nFind BBC News: East of England on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email eastofenglandnews@bbc.co.uk", "Researchers have been tracking changes to the \"spike\" of the virus\n\nThe new variant of Covid-19 is \"hugely\" more transmissible than the virus's previous version, a study has found.\n\nIt concludes the new variant increases the Reproduction or R number by between 0.4 and 0.7.\n\nThe UK's latest R number has been estimated at between 1.1 and 1.3. It needs to be below 1.0 for the number of cases to start falling.\n\nProf Axel Gandy of London's Imperial College said the differences between the viruses types was \"quite extreme\".\n\n\"There is a huge difference in how easily the variant virus spreads,\" he told BBC News. \"This is the most serious change in the virus since the epidemic began,\" he added.\n\nThe Imperial College study suggests transmission of the new variant tripled during England's November lockdown while the previous version was reduced by a third.\n\nCases of Covid-19 have begun to increase rapidly during the second spike, and the number of cases recorded in a single day reached a new high on Thursday.\n\nEarly results indicated that the virus was spreading more quickly among under-20s, particularly among secondary school age children.\n\nBut the very latest data indicates that it was spreading quickly across all age groups, according to Prof Gandy who was a member of the research team.\n\n\"One possible explanation is that the early data was collected during the time of the November lockdown where schools were open and the activities of the adult population were more restricted. We are seeing now that the new virus has increased infectiousness across all age groups.\"\n\nProf Jim Naismith, of Oxford University, said he believed that the new findings indicated that even tougher restrictions would soon be needed.\n\n\"The data from Imperial represent the best analysis to date and imply that the measures we have employed to date, would - with the new virus - fail to reduce the R number to below 1.\n\n\"In simpler terms, unless we do something different the new virus strain is going to continue to spread, more infections, more hospitalisations and more deaths.\"\n\nThe R number is the average number of people an infected person infects. If it is above 1 the epidemic is growing.\n\nThe most chilling finding from this piece of research is that the November lockdown in England, hard though it was for many people, would not have stopped the variant form of the virus spreading. The same severe restrictions that saw cases of the previous version of the virus fall by a third, would see a tripling of the new variant. This is why there has been such a sudden tightening of restrictions across the country.\n\nIt is unclear whether the current restrictions will be enough to control the spread of the virus. Given the fact that it has taken two lockdowns to stop the earlier version of the virus overwhelming the NHS, many scientists fear that further tightening will be necessary.\n\nInfection levels will begin to drop as enough people are vaccinated. But until then it is now more important than ever for people to follow social distancing guidelines, wear masks where required and to regularly wash their hands.\n\nThe new year brings with it hope of a more normal life in the next few months but also a new form of the virus that all of us will have to combat in the coming days and weeks.\n\nProfessor Lawrence Young, of Warwick University, said early indications suggested that vaccines would be effective against the new form of the virus.\n\n\"Variants virus have been around since the beginning of the pandemic and are a product of the natural process by which viruses develop and adapt to their hosts as they replicate.\n\n\"Most of these mutations have no effect on the behaviour of the virus but very occasionally they can improve the ability of the virus to infect and/or become more resistant to the body's immune response.\"\n\nFurther research is needed to understand why the variant is spreading so quickly. But early indications are that vaccines should be effective against it.\n\nThe new virus has been designated \"Variant of Concern 202012/01\" or VOC by Public Health England.\n\nIt was detected in November and thought to have originated in the south-east England in September.\n\nThere is no evidence to suggest that it is more deadly, but it will increase the number of cases which in turn will add further pressure on the NHS.\n\nThe variant can now be found across the UK, except Northern Ireland, but it is heavily concentrated in London, as well as south-east and eastern England.", "Amanda Quinn, who has early onset dementia, is cared for by her 23-year-old daughter Bethany\n\n\"It feels like you're being punished for something you didn't do.\"\n\nAmanda Quinn describes living through lockdown with early onset dementia as \"scary\" and \"feeling lost\".\n\nTwo years ago, she was diagnosed with the condition aged 49, and said the disease was a \"ticking time bomb\" for her husband and four children.\n\nAlzheimer's Society Cymru support worker Lorraine Davies said lockdown had brought a \"great sense of loss\" to many families.\n\nSince her diagnosis, Amanda says she has lost her sense of what day it is, her concentration, and she struggles with speech occasionally and suffers more with incontinence.\n\nWhen Wales went into a UK national lockdown on 23 March, Amanda said she did not leave her home in Treorchy, Rhondda Cynon Taf, for weeks.\n\nShe said her children have noticed a \"big change\" in her.\n\n\"I used to have a wicked sense of humour - I still have one, but it's not how I used to be,\" she said.\n\nBut for Amanda one of the worst parts of her condition is \"losing so many friends\" whom she said \"would rather cross the road\" than talk to her.\n\n\"They don't know how to interact with me anymore,\" she said.\n\nAmanda says her children have noticed a \"big change\" since she was diagnosed aged 49\n\nHer 23-year-old daughter Bethany Kingsley, who cares for her, said the pandemic has caused caring work to increase ten-fold.\n\n\"I have to keep an eye on mum a lot more now, because she doesn't know what to do with herself.\n\n\"But I have also got to look after my mental health side of it as well. There are days where I'm struggling,\" she said.\n\nNow Amanda does activities at home such as adult colouring books, baking with Bethany, and watches movies.\n\n\"It is like being a child,\" Amanda explained.\n\n\"My daughter says it's like we've switched roles and she has become the adult as she holds my hand when we cross the road.\n\n\"Although I can see a car, it doesn't register to me that it is not safe to walk out, all I can think is that I need to be on the other side of the road.\"\n\nBefore the pandemic, she attended dementia support groups in person, such as Memoria, a theatrical group of people with dementia and carers, whereas now she does this virtually.\n\nBethany says Covid has had a big impact on caring for her mother\n\nLast year, before the pandemic, Bethany put off moving away to study midwifery at university in Bristol.\n\nAlthough she said it was a \"difficult\" decision as she had wanted to do it for years, she said she was glad she was home to care for her mother during the pandemic.\n\nInstead she chose to study for an Open University course in health and social care from home.\n\n\"I thought my mother is the only person I've got at the end of the day and I would rather make sure she is safe and happy, rather than go off and leave her,\" she said.\n\nBut Amanda said she was concerned about how her condition will progress and affect her family more.\n\nThe 51-year-old said it was \"not fair\" that her daughter had to stay home because of her condition.\n\n\"It worries me how it will affect my children. I'm fortunate, I suppose, that I'm not going to know.\n\n\"I say I don't want to go into a care home but that wouldn't be fair on them - they have still got their whole lives to lead\".\n\nAmanda was still in her 40s when she was diagnosed\n\nAlzheimer's Society Cymru support adviser for younger people Lorraine Davies said there was a stigma attached to younger people with the disease and a \"lack of public awareness\".\n\n\"Some have mortgages, some have young families, and often they also care for older adults - so it has a different impact on them, and their social network of people.\n\n\"A lot of people living with dementia don't always feel they will have next year, so 2020 has been a great sense of loss to them because of the lockdown and restrictions,\" she said.\n\nThe charity estimates that there are between 2,000 to 3,000 people with young onset dementia in Wales, according to 2018 figures from the first Welsh Government national dementia action plan.\n\nHowever Lorraine said the figure was likely to be higher as getting a dementia diagnosis can be harder for younger people, and can take more than a year to have it confirmed.\n\n\"It is also more common for younger people to have rarer forms of dementia, so rather than being a typical Alzheimer's disease, associated with memory loss, a patient might have behavioural changes, but you might just think they are upset, stressed, or put it down to mood swings.\n\n\"Some people have been accused of being drunk, because they have slurred speech, but actually that is a symptom.\"\n\nShe said the Alzheimer's Society has organised virtual support groups for people with the condition and their carers during lockdown.\n\n\"Often younger people want to meet people like them, because it helps them not to feel so alone in this. Knowing that brings people comfort.\"\n\nSimon Hatch, the director of Carers Trust Wales, said the pandemic had highlighted the \"crucial role unpaid carers play both in providing exceptional, expert care to family and friends\".\n\nMr Hatch said the trust found that 44% of young adult carers it spoke to felt overwhelmed by the pressures they were facing.\n\nHe said although there was support available to carers they would need \"sustainable\" forms of this in the future.\n\nThere are about 45,000 people with dementia in Wales, according to the Alzheimer's Society.\n\nThe disease is considered \"early onset\" when it affects people under 65, according to Young Dementia UK.\n\nLorraine said the age distinction was made to mark the difference in financial support, as 65 was state pension age at the time.\n\nDementia itself refers to a set of symptoms caused by many diseases of the brain. The most common symptom is memory loss and difficulty concentrating.\n\nOther symptoms can include struggling to remember recent events, changes to behaviour, mood, becoming lost in familiar places or being unable to find the right word in a conversation.\n\nSpecific symptoms will depend on the parts of the brain that are damaged and the disease that is causing the dementia.", "Police made 17 arrests at the demonstration in Hyde Park\n\nPolice have made arrests at an anti-lockdown demonstration in central London.\n\nCrowds of between 200 to 300 people began to gather in Hyde Park, which is in a tier four coronavirus area, at about 13:30 GMT on Saturday, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nSeventeen people were arrested on suspicion of breaching public health regulations.\n\nMost demonstrators had left the park by 16:45, police said.\n\nThe Met tweeted: \"Officers continue to engage with groups of people who have gathered in the Hyde Park area.\n\n\"A number of people have been arrested under health protection regulations and taken into custody.\n\n\"We urge those in the area to leave immediately.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMore than two people are generally not allowed to meet in public under tier four rules.\n\nThe police force added: \"Officers will take enforcement action where we see clear breaches of the tier four rules.\n\n\"It's up to all of us to make the right choices and slow the spread of the virus.\"\n\nA group called The People's Lockdown, Stand For Your Human Rights, had said it was going to hold a event at Hyde Park on Saturday afternoon.\n\nIn an online post, it called on people to \"stand with your loved ones\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I wish I could switch place with my daughter\" - Odd Steinar Sørengen's daughter is missing\n\nA body has been found shortly after rescuers and dog handlers began a risky ground search for 10 people missing in a hillside collapse in Norway.\n\nInitially it was thought too dangerous to send rescuers on to the site, after flowing mud sent homes toppling into a giant chasm in the village of Ask.\n\nHelicopters and drones spent two days searching the scene.\n\nBut on Friday police commander Roy Alkvist said one or two houses appeared safe to enter.\n\nRescuers, who included a Swedish specialist team, began moving into the danger zone on Styrofoam boards. The bright orange boards were laid down on the mud in a domino-effect as rescuers tried to reach one of the wrecked homes, which are 25km (15 miles) north-east of the capital Oslo.\n\nA missing Dalmatian dog was rescued on Thursday and police believe there is still a chance survivors could be found.\n\nHowever, on Friday afternoon an air ambulance helicopter landed near the site and police said a body had been found at 14:30 (13:30 GMT) without giving further details.\n\nRescuers are using orange Styrofoam boards to move around the landslide area\n\nPrime Minister Erna Solberg said her thoughts went out to the victim's family, and to those waiting for news of the other nine people who were missing.\n\nIn Friday's operation the rescuers also prepared a giant army vehicle called a \"paver\", which has a giant steel bridge on which rescuers can move.\n\nHowever, conditions were not yet good enough for the 50-tonne machine to be deployed.\n\nThe plan is to deploy a Norwegian army bridge-laying vehicle as soon as conditions are good enough\n\nFriday's search was a race against time, as the rescuers only had a few hours of daylight in the Norwegian winter. Medics and geologists were reportedly part of the ground rescue team.\n\nThe ground search was called off for the night at 17:30 and police said drones and heat-seeking cameras would continue overnight until rescue crews could return on Saturday morning.\n\nAbout 1,000 people have been evacuated from Gjerdrum municipality, which contains Ask village. Dozens more were moved out of their homes on New Year's Eve.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aerial footage shows the scale of the landslide\n\nAlthough police have not given details of the missing, they are believed to include men, women and children.\n\nAmong them is a woman who was talking to her husband on the phone while walking the dog when the line went dead, according to Bergens Tidende newspaper.\n\nFurther reports say a couple and their small child are also missing, as well as a woman in her 50s and her adult son.\n\nMore than 30 homes have been destroyed, but officials say more could be lost as the edges of the crater left by the landslide are still breaking away.\n\nThe conditions have proved challenging, with temperatures dropping to -1C (30F) and the clay ground proving too unstable for emergency workers to walk on.\n\nThe scale of the landslide is shown by this aerial view of the disaster site\n\nThe landslide began early on Wednesday, with residents calling emergency services and telling them that their houses were moving, police said.\n\n\"There were two massive tremors that lasted for a long while and I assumed it was snow being cleared or something like that,\" Oeystein Gjerdrum, 68, told broadcaster NRK.\n\n\"Then the power suddenly went out, and a neighbour came to the door and said we needed to evacuate, so I woke up my three grandchildren and told them to get dressed quickly.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) told AFP that the landslide was a so-called \"quick clay slide\" measuring about 300m by 700m (985ft by 2,300ft).\n\n\"This is the largest landslide in recent times in Norway, considering the number of houses involved and the number of evacuees,\" Laila Hoivik said.\n\nQuick clay is a kind of clay found in Norway and Sweden that can collapse and behave as a fluid when it comes under stress.\n\nBroadcaster NRK said heavy rainfall may have made the soil unstable, but questions have since emerged over why construction was permitted in the area.\n\nA 2005 geological survey labelled the area as at high risk of landslides, according to a report seen by the broadcaster TV2. Despite this, the homes were built three years later in 2008.", "Hospitals across the UK are being told to prepare to face the same Covid pressures as the NHS in London and south-east England.\n\nSenior doctor Prof Andrew Goddard said the virus's highly infectious new variant was spreading nationwide.\n\nCase numbers were \"mild\" compared with where he expected them to be next week, he said, with doctors \"really worried\".\n\nIt comes as a further 57,725 people have tested positive for Covid - a new daily high.\n\nThis is the fifth day in a row new daily cases have been over 50,000 and brings the total number of cases to 2,599,789.\n\nAnother 445 deaths, of people who had tested positive within the previous 28 days, were reported on Saturday - bringing the total number of deaths to 74,570, according to government figures.\n\nThe UK-wide total for people in hospital with Covid has already passed the spring peak.\n\nHalf of the major hospital trusts in England are said to be dealing with more Covid-19 patients than at the worst point of the first wave in April, with the NHS facing its \"busiest winter ever\".\n\nProf Goddard, of the Royal College of Physicians, told BBC Breakfast: \"There's no doubt that Christmas is going to have a big impact, the new variant is also going to have a big impact, we know that is more infectious, more transmissible, so I think the large numbers that we're seeing in the South East, in London, in south Wales, is now going to be reflected over the next month, two months even, over the rest of the country.\"\n\nHe said: \"It seems very likely that we are going to see more and more cases, wherever people work in the UK, and we need to be prepared for that.\"\n\nPressure has been so great on hospitals in London and south-east England that some patients have been moved out of the area.\n\nLondon's weekly rate of coronavirus cases is 858 per 100,000 people, double the UK figure.\n\nDominic Harrison, director of public health for Blackburn and Darwen, said a decision on a new lockdown had to be decided \"in the next week\" - instead of waiting for the North to get to the same rates as the capital \"and 'call it late' which has been our pattern of response too often\".\n\nThe most recent UK-wide statistics, from 28 December, showed there were 23,823 people in hospital with Covid. That was already significantly higher than the spring peak, which saw 21,683 in hospital on 12 April.\n\nOnly English hospitals have released figures for the final three days of December - and these show that a further 2,302 Covid patients were occupying hospital beds on 31 December.\n\nLondon's Nightingale emergency hospital is ready to admit patients, the NHS has said, while other sites currently not in use are being readied.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\nProf Goddard said it was vital the public did not \"let their guard down\" and continued to follow government guidelines, including wearing a face mask, maintaining social distancing and washing hands.\n\n\"Until the vaccination hits and does its job - that's what our best defence is going to be,\" he said.\n\nDr Ami Jones, an intensive care consultant in Wales, told BBC Breakfast that \"hospitals are absolutely bursting\", adding that a quarter of her staff were currently off sick or self-isolating, making managing patients even more challenging.\n\n\"When we see the daily figures - we know that will sting us in about 10-12 days' time in the hospital,\" she said. \"We are not even at day 10 post-Christmas yet and it's already exceedingly busy.\n\n\"We are going to get to the point where we physically don't have the staff to look after people safely anymore.\"\n\nDr Jones also urged the public to \"please just obey the rules\", adding: \"Stop mixing with other households because it is spreading like wildfire - and we haven't got much more space in the hospitals left.\"\n\nDo you work in a hospital? 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Please include your name, age and location with any submission.", "Last updated on .From the section Tottenham\n\nTottenham manager Jose Mourinho says he is \"disappointed\" after three of his players breached coronavirus rules by attending a party over Christmas.\n\nA picture on social media showed Argentina forward Erik Lamela, Spain defender Sergio Reguilon and Argentina midfielder Giovani lo Celso at a party.\n\n\"We are not happy - it was a negative surprise for us,\" said Mourinho.\n\nIn a statement, Tottenham said they were \"extremely disappointed\" and \"the matter would be dealt with internally\".\n\nWest Ham reminded Argentina forward Manuel Lanzini, who also attended the party, of his responsibilities.\n\nLanzini apologised in a tweet on Saturday, saying he made a \"bad mistake\".\n\n\"I take full responsibility for my actions,\" he said. \"I know people have made difficult sacrifices to stay safe and I should be setting a better example.\"\n\nLamela and Lo Celso were not involved in Saturday's 3-0 Premier League win at home to Leeds, while Reguilon, who joined from Real Madrid in September, was on the bench.\n\n\"I gave an amazing gift to Reguilon - Portuguese piglet,\" Mourinho said. \"Amazing for Portuguese and Spanish. I was told he would spend Christmas on his own. He was not alone as you could see.\n\n\"We, the club, feel disappointed because we gave the players all the education and conditions. We know what we are internally. We don't need to open the door to you and let you know what is going on internally.\n\n\"What are going to be the consequences and how deeply we approach that negative surprise? I feel disappointed.\"\n\nThe Spurs statement added: \"We strongly condemned the image showing some of our players with family and friends together at Christmas, particularly as we know the sacrifices everybody around the country made to stay safe over the festive period.\n\n\"The rules are clear, there are no exceptions, and we regularly remind all our players and staff about the latest protocols and their responsibilities to adhere and set an example.\"\n\nLamela has made two league starts and Lo Celso four this season.\n\nLanzini has featured in nine of West Ham's 17 league games, coming on as a substitute in Friday's 1-0 win at Everton.\n\nA West Ham spokesperson said: \"The club has set the highest possible standards with its protocols and measures relating to Covid-19 so we are disappointed to learn of Manuel Lanzini's actions.\n\n\"The matter has been dealt with internally and Manuel has been strongly reminded of his responsibilities.\"\n\nTottenham's home league game with Fulham, scheduled to take place on 30 December, was called off three hours before kick-off after a number of Fulham players tested positive for coronavirus or showed symptoms.\n\nMeanwhile, Fulham told BBC Sport they are looking into claims Aleksandar Mitrovic broke coronavirus rules by attending a New Year's party with Crystal Palace midfielder Luka Milivojevic.\n\nImages on social media, reported in the Sun , allegedly show the Serbia team-mates celebrating in London with at least seven other adults.\n\nThe mixing of households indoors is banned in London under the UK government's tier four restrictions.\n\n'Mourinho must be so angry'\n\nMourinho has been so critical and vocal of how the Premier League handled their situation [the Fulham postponement], which I totally disagree with him.\n\nYou have to accept we're in strange and difficult times - if it has to be called off at whatever time then it has to be called off.\n\nTo then see some of his players breaking the rules and laws, particularly when millions of people are sacrificing so much not only in this country but around the world, Mourinho must be so angry.\n• None A special and exclusive one-off chat with the music icon\n• None How has their rise come to define our culture?", "Liam Reilly fronted Bagatelle for more than 40 years\n\nIrish Eurovision singer and frontman of the rock band Bagatelle, Liam Reilly, has died aged 65.\n\nA family statement confirmed that Mr Reilly \"passed away suddenly but peacefully at his home\" on 1 January.\n\nMr Reilly fronted Bagatelle for more than 40 years and they had success with songs including Summer in Dublin and Second Violin.\n\nHe also came joint second at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1990 with the song Somewhere in Europe.\n\nThe song finished on 132 points, joint with France's entry sung by Joëlle Ursull, in the contest in Zagreb.\n\nMr Reilly, from Dundalk, County Louth, also composed Ireland's Eurovision entry for the contest in Rome in 1991, when Kim Jackson performed his song Could It Be That I'm In Love, which was placed 10th.\n\n\"We know that his many friends and countless fans around the world will share in our grief as we mourn his loss, but celebrate the extraordinary talent of the man whose songs meant so much to so many.\" the family statement added.\n\nJoe Gallagher, the band's promoter from Strabane, County Tyrone, told BBC Radio Ulster \"the talent that Liam brought to the music industry in Ireland is second to none\".\n\n\"Some of the songs that he has written are up there with some of the better songs written in Ireland,\" he said.\n\n\"He is one of the best singer-songwriters Ireland has ever seen or produced.\"\n\nMr Reilly also wrote songs for others, including The Wolfe Tones. The Irish group paid tribute to him on social media, describing him as \"a master songwriter\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Wolfe Tones 🇮🇪 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by The Wolfe Tones 🇮🇪\n\nStephen Travers, a member of the Miami Showband, said Mr Reilly was a \"national treasure\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bitcoin's value has soared over the past year\n\nBitcoin's value surged above $34,000 (£24,850) for the first time on Sunday as the leading cryptocurrency continued to soar.\n\nIt put the gain this year at almost $5,000, although by 17:00 GMT the price had drifted lower to about $33,000, according to the Coindesk website.\n\nThe rise was put down to interest from big investors seeking quick profits.\n\nIt comes after Bitcoin soared 300% last year, with the price of many other digital currencies also rising sharply.\n\nEthereum, the second biggest cryptocurrency, gained 465% in 2020\n\nSome analysts think Bitcoin's value could rise even further as the US dollar drops further.\n\nWhile the value of the US currency rose in March at the start of the coronavirus pandemic as investors sought safety amid the uncertainty, it has since dropped due to major stimulus from the US Federal Reserve. The currency ended last year with its biggest annual loss since 2017.\n\nBitcoin is traded in much the same way as real currencies like the US dollar and pound sterling.\n\nRecently it has won growing support as a form of payment online, with PayPal among the most recent adopters of digital currencies.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut the cryptocurrency has also proved to be a volatile investment.\n\nThe soaring price has raised concerns that Bitcoin is due for a dramatic correction, as happened three years ago when the value collapsed after a bull run.\n\nDuring the rally in 2017 Bitcoin came close to breaking through the $20,000 level, only to hit extreme lows and fall below $3,300.\n\nIt passed $19,000 in November last year before dropping sharply again.\n\nIn October, Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey cautioned over Bitcoin's use as a payment method.\n\n\"I have to be honest, it is hard to see that Bitcoin has what we tend to call intrinsic value,\" he said. \"It may have extrinsic value in the sense that people want it.\"\n\nMr Bailey added that he was \"very nervous\" about people using Bitcoin for payments pointing out that investors should realise its price is extremely volatile.", "The aftermath of an attack in August in Niger, which has suffered a number claimed by jihadist groups\n\nSuspected Islamist militants have attacked two villages in Niger, with reports of dozens of civilians killed.\n\nAround 49 died and 17 were injured in the village of Tchombangou, while another 30 died in Zaroumdareye - both near Niger's western border with Mali, Reuters reports.\n\nThere have been several recent violent incidents in Africa's Sahel region, carried out by militant groups.\n\nFrance said on Saturday that two of its soldiers were killed in Mali.\n\nHours earlier, a group with links to al-Qaeda said it was behind the killing of three French troops in a separate attack in Mali on Monday.\n\nFrance has been leading a coalition of West African and European allies against Islamist militants in the Sahel.\n\nBut the region continues to be affected by ethnic violence, banditry, and human and drug trafficking.\n\nIn light of Saturday's attacks, Interior Minister Alkache Alhada said soldiers had been sent to the area, according to French outlet RFI. But Mr Alhada did not say how many casualties there had been across the two villages.\n\nA local official, quoted by AFP news agency, said many people were killed, and a local journalist spoke of up to 50 deaths.\n\nNiger's Tillabéri region, where the villages are situated, lies within the so-called tri-border area between Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, which has been plagued by jihadi attacks in recent years.\n\nTravel by motorbike has been banned in the region for a year, as part of efforts to stop incursions by Islamic militants, who often launch attacks from the vehicles.\n\nAreas of Niger are also facing repeated attacks by jihadists from Nigeria, where the government is fighting an insurgency by Boko Haram.\n\nLast month, members of the group killed at least 27 people in Niger's south-eastern Diffa region.\n\nThe latest attacks in Tillabéri come amid national elections in Niger, as President Mahamadou Issoufou steps down after two five-year terms.\n\nElection officials announced 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will have the backing to take the UK out of the EU next month.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "All of the centrist MPs who recently defected from Labour and the Conservatives failed to win seats.", "The public has granted Boris Johnson an immense amount of political power, and he will need to spend it well.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "Boris Johnson says he hopes his party's \"extraordinary\" election victory will bring \"closure\" to years of acrimony.", "Analysis in of the 2019 general election in maps and charts.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "The veteran actor, best known as Sal in Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing, dies after a short illness.", "Scotland's first minister says the SNP election victory strengthens the mandate for another referendum.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "Manchester United seal top spot in their Europa League group with a comfortable win over AZ Alkmaar at Old Trafford.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "The DUP's former leader in Westminster Nigel Dodds laments the loss of his seat to Sinn Féin.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson and the Conservatives' Zac Goldsmith are among those to lose their seats.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "The results demonstrated the SNP's argument that Scotland and the rest of UK are moving in different political directions.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "Seats held by Labour for generations across the Midlands and north of England are won by the Tories.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "She says she is \"proud\" to have been the Liberal Democrats' first female leader, as she steps down.", "Johnson's historic win has redefined the electoral map, but he will be hoping it doesn't break the union, writes Nick Watt.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "The so-called phase one deal will see billions of dollars in tariffs removed or delayed.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "From the Tories winning seats in traditional Labour heartlands to Jo Swinson losing her seat.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "She began the campaign saying she could become the next PM, but has lost her seat to the SNP.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "The FTSE is higher while sterling hits its highest level against the dollar since June last year.", "Newlywed PC Andrew Harper was killed after being dragged along a road by a vehicle in August.", "Voters in Leigh are happy to have a Tory MP and are \"hoping that there's going to be a big change\".", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "Tears as carol singers bring Christmas cheer to the door of the 78-year-old.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "Rohingya refugee Hasina Begun says Myanmar troops set her village alight and opened fire.", "Brian Taylor gives insight into the results of the 2019 general election in Scotland.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "The PM meets the Queen to ask to form a new government, following the Conservatives' election victory.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "Talks in Madrid enter their final day with serious divisions between large emitting countries and small island states", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "With all seats declared, the Tory party have a majority of 80 - the largest since 1987.", "Find the detailed result from your constituency with our postcode search.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "Analysis in of the 2019 general election in maps and charts.", "The shadow chancellor says the exit poll predicting large Conservative gains has come has a shock.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "The Labour candidate appears with her baby daughter at the count in her Walthamstow constituency.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "Sinn Féin unseats the DUP's Nigel Dodds but both main parties suffer a big drop in votes across NI.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "The Tories win their biggest majority since the 1980s, as Jeremy Corbyn says he will not lead Labour into the next election, and Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson loses her seat.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "The last service left Euston on Saturday evening, ending Britain's longest-running rail franchise.", "Anthony Joshua wins his world heavyweight title rematch against Andy Ruiz Jr by unanimous decision in Saudi Arabia.", "Jonty Bravery admits attempted murder after pushing the six-year-old from a 10th floor platform.", "Katherine Jenkins had been in London to perform at a carol concert when she was attacked.", "The scorpion fell out of the woman's trousers on a flight from San Francisco to Atlanta.", "The number of Scots registered to vote in the general election is up by 120,000, new figures show.", "Albanian boys who jumped to safety and lost family members delight in meeting Juventus stars.", "Important clashes with only six days to go - but the TV debate didn't shake up the big picture of this election.", "The award-winning actor, best known for playing Rachel's dad in Friends, had a decorated career.", "Hiker Audrey Schoeman's heart stopped beating for six hours - but doctors saved her life.", "Jo Swinson's party would scrap business rates and provide greater support for entrepreneurs.", "RMT union members are taking 27 days of strike action on South Western Railway.", "Britain's Anthony Joshua regains his heavyweight world titles by beating Andy Ruiz Jr over 12 rounds in Saudi Arabia.", "The Football Association will investigate allegations of racism after Manchester United players said they were targeted at Manchester City.", "A warmer world means oceans are able to hold less dissolved oxygen, which is bad news for many fish.", "Stolen Lottie is a therapy dog and \"best friend\" to 11-year-old Chloe Hopkins.", "Robbie now has 13 solo number one albums to his name - level with the King.", "Party pledges more government funding for amateur football as it eyes a 2030 tournament bid.", "The US president vowed to label Mexican drug gangs as terrorists after US citizens were ambushed.", "Labour say the leaked documents showed the NHS would be at risk under a post-Brexit trade deal with the US.", "The Swedish activist tells reporters that people want to silence her because they fear change.", "The Conservative Party says it is investigating, after claims of anti-Semitism against three candidates.", "The use 21 separate electronic record systems in NHS hospitals across England 'could lead to errors'.", "The gunman was also shot dead in the attack in Pensacola, the second at a US naval site in a week.", "It wants to electrify England's buses by 2030, but the Tories say Labour would \"scrap vital new roads\".", "Compare where the parties stand on key issues - from Brexit and the NHS to education and the environment.", "Action 4 Equality Scotland said the move followed an approach by the Financial Conduct Authority.", "Journeys over the two Severn Crossings have increased since the £5.60 toll was axed a year ago.", "Joseph McCann raped, kidnapped and assaulted victims aged between 11 and 71 over a two-week period.", "Scientists are getting closer to tracing the sources of meteorites that fall to Earth.", "The latest developments on the last weekend of campaigning before voters go to the polls on Thursday.", "The BBC's David Shukman returns to the Sermilik glacier that he last visited in 2004.", "The collapse causes huge tailbacks, with more than 10 miles of traffic on the clockwise carriageway.", "Organisers say 500,000 people have assembled in the city as the UN hosts key climate negotiations.", "A 74-year-old had his share of an inheritance withheld after providing the wrong sort code number.", "Manchester United dent neighbours Manchester City's Premier League title hopes with a superb counter-attacking victory in the Manchester derby.", "They make up 51% of the population but what are the parties offering to women this election?", "Alexandra Hall Hall says she can no longer work for a \"government I do not trust\".", "Former Aston Villa manager Ron Saunders dies at the age of 87, the club announces.", "Labour says the documents show the NHS would be \"for sale\" under a post-Brexit trade deal with the US.", "Friends of the Earth rates the party above the Greens and Lib Dems in its environment policy survey.", "Willis also co-wrote hits for Earth, Wind & Fire and is a Songwriters Hall of Fame member.", "A number of vehicles were involved in the crash on the northbound stretch of the M1 at about 23:15 GMT.", "Ben Stokes returns to full training with England as they prepare for the Boxing Day Test against South Africa, after his father shows signs of improvement in hospital.", "Author Ari Behn and the king's eldest child, Princess Martha Louise, divorced in 2017.", "The Duke of Edinburgh returns to Sandringham for Christmas after four nights in a London hospital.", "Burkina Faso declares two days of national mourning after 35 people, 31 of them women, were killed.", "There is no sign Anthony Knott left the Sussex town he was visiting on a Christmas work night out.", "A relaxed family photograph taken by the Duchess of Cambridge is released for Christmas.", "Donald Trump confessed that he is yet to buy a Christmas present for his wife, Melania.", "A \"serious\" collision shut a stretch of the busy motorway near Wakefield on Christmas Day.", "Past competitors took to the dance floor again in a bid to lift the show's star-shaped trophy.", "A man has been taken to hospital following the collision near Falkirk shortly on Christmas Eve.", "Crowds waited for hours to greet the Royal Family - the first the young royals had attended.", "Her lawyer says TV presenter Christian Jessen tweeted a \"false and highly defamatory allegation\".", "A man believed to be in his 30s was pronounced dead at the scene by emergency services.", "The Archbishop of Canterbury talks about the \"darkness\" that led to last month's attack.", "The Duke of Edinburgh left the King Edward VII's Hospital after four nights of \"observation and treatment\".", "Pots, jugs and jewellery are among the items carefully dug up from burial sites in Warwickshire.", "Andrew Miller was elected in 1992 and served under five Labour leaders before standing down in 2015.", "\"He robbed the bank, came out, threw the money all over the place,\" one witness said.", "The family of Kirsty Maxwell say they will continue to put pressure on the Spanish courts as they celebrate Christmas.", "A British man and his two children were found unresponsive in a pool at a hotel on Spain's Costa del Sol.", "The monarch says \"small steps\" and not giant leaps bring about the most lasting change.", "The jail where the disgraced publicist was held is told to improve its inmate healthcare provision.", "Experts believe the marsupial could have been taken by a wolf named August, known to roam the area.", "Tony Occleshaw, 64, is at home having end-of-life care for bladder cancer.", "In his Christmas Day message, Francis says a more compassionate attitude can help end suffering.", "Police battle activists again as Hong Kong's leader accuses \"reckless rioters\" of ruining Christmas.", "The individual stories and their impact were captured by BBC Scotland for a documentary.", "Evidence suggests fires which prompted a mass evacuation from Valparaíso were started deliberately.", "The monarch refers to the importance of reconciliation and how \"small steps\" can heal divisions.", "Three members of the same family were found in a Costa del Sol swimming pool on Christmas Eve.", "The Canadian pop star announces he is releasing a single in January and will go on tour from May.", "Anastasia Uglow, 17, was found \"unresponsive and unconscious\" in her hotel room, police say.", "The company is recalling half a million washing machines but some MPs are calling on it to do more.", "Critics say there are still national security questions over the sale of Cobham to a US equity firm.", "The 16-year-old was a passenger in one of three cars which collided on the A9 north of Inverness.", "Homes and cars are damaged as more than 90 flood warnings are in place in the run-up to Christmas.", "Evacuating residents and their pets have found safety and support in a store's car park.", "From the 2011 riots to the last general election, we look back at the website's most popular pages.", "Martin Peters gives England a 2-1 lead in the 1966 World Cup final against West Germany at Wembley.", "A 25-year-old man is arrested and released as investigations continue into the crash on Friday.", "The 27-year-old had to be airlifted to hospital after being hit by a car while cycling through Texas.", "The weather phenomenon was filmed near Chertsey in Surrey, where it damaged homes and gardens.", "Police say the injured man was arrested on suspicion of murdering the two women in Crawley Down.", "One man was found dead in Elstree on Friday while another was found in Barnet on Thursday.", "The PFA calls for a government inquiry into racism in football after Chelsea's Premier League win over Tottenham is marred by alleged racist behaviour from the crowd.", "BBC Sport's chief football writer Phil McNulty looks at the life of 1966 World Cup winner Martin Peters, who has died aged 76.", "His daughter, presenter Fern Britton, confirms that the Don't Wait Up star died early on Sunday.", "Harry died after a crash involving a US diplomat's wife and his family met Priti Patel in extradition talks.", "Boeing's Starliner spacecraft returned early after a timing error meant it failed to dock with the ISS.", "Gemma Williams says the \"generosity of the community is completely unbelievable\".", "France's president urges striking transport unions to call a truce \"out of respect for families\".", "Boris Johnson stresses the UK commitment to Nato on a visit to the alliance's mission in Estonia.", "The Queen is in Sandringham for Christmas, while the Duke of Edinburgh remains in a London hospital.", "The 32-year-old was arrested after an incident outside a bar in Glasgow's Sauchiehall Street.", "The BBC's Shaimaa Khalil visits Balmoral where residents have been battling fires.", "The six-year-old found a hand-written message from Chinese prisoners in a box of Christmas cards.", "A National Express coach and car were engulfed in flames after a crash in south-west London.", "From the 2011 riots to the last general election, we look back at the website's most popular pages.", "World Cup winner and West Ham legend Martin Peters has died aged 76, his family have announced.", "A mother and her three sons had to be rescued from their car as nearly 80 flood warnings are issued.", "The 22-year-old escaped injury when his car crashed through the gates of a Cardiff park.", "Familiar old films or a favourite festive song can help those with dementia reconnect with family and friends.", "The state-owned company that procures ferries for Cal-Mac was prepared to stop work at Ferguson yard.", "Chemicals in Sweet Fashion Doll and Girl Beautiful Doll may affect future fertility, experts warn.", "The Paris cathedral will miss its first Christmas Mass in more than 200 years as repairs continue.", "Australia's prime minister apologised after taking a holiday in Hawaii while wildfires raged at home.", "Roberto Firmino scores in extra time as Liverpool claim their first Fifa Club World Cup triumph against Brazilian champions Flamengo in Qatar.", "Dubbed the \"Scar of Bethlehem\", the work shows Jesus's manger by Israel's separation barrier.", "Fallon Sherrock beats the world number 11 Mensur Suljovic to reach the third round of the PDC World Championship.", "Some of the 12 fire crews called in Cornwall had to withdraw over fears the manor might collapse.", "Lawyers for Quadriga users say there are \"questionable circumstances\" behind Gerald Cotten's death.", "This time the opinion polls called it correctly, says BBC political analyst Peter Barnes.", "Patrick Reed's caddie is thrown out of the Presidents Cup in Melbourne after he \"shoved\" a fan who had been directing abuse at his player.", "The veteran actor, best known as Sal in Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing, dies after a short illness.", "Marathon runner Eliud Kipchoge is voted Sports Personality's World Sport Star of the Year.", "Arsenal distance the club from comments made by midfielder Mesut Ozil on social media about the treatment of Uighur Muslims in China.", "Scotland's first minister says the SNP election victory strengthens the mandate for another referendum.", "The star, who played Annie Sugden, was part of the soap from its launch as Emmerdale Farm in 1972.", "One of the women is seriously injured in hospital, police say.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "UN climate change talks in Madrid are struggling to reach agreement on crucial measures.", "Bashir has been sentenced to two years for corruption - but cannot be jailed because of his age.", "Boris Johnson tells Nicola Sturgeon in a phone call that he has \"unwavering commitment\" to the union despite the SNP's election success.", "Boris Johnson was in Sedgefield, Tony Blair's former constituency, after the Tories' biggest election win in more than 30 years.", "Shadow chancellor blames Brexit for the party's defeat, saying Jeremy Corbyn was \"the right leader\".", "Boris Johnson's strong win provides only temporary relief for EU leaders wrestling with Brexit.", "Fire warnings are in place for many areas including Perth, where temperatures are set to remain high.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "Promises have been made and plans put in place that will have an effect on your finances after the election.", "New rail timetables come in on Sunday, with more and speedier services promised on some routes.", "Finnish Finance Minister Katri Kulmuni deletes her poll on repatriating IS-linked women and children.", "Voters in Leigh are happy to have a Tory MP and are \"hoping that there's going to be a big change\".", "The jury found Holly Strawbridge guilty of giving her son prescription drugs that led to his death.", "The results demonstrated the SNP's argument that Scotland and the rest of UK are moving in different political directions.", "Brian Taylor assesses the significance of the Scottish National Party's success in the general election.", "More than three-quarters of consumers who haggled were offered a better deal, according to Which?", "She says she is \"proud\" to have been the Liberal Democrats' first female leader, as she steps down.", "Tens of thousands rally against the right-wing League party of Matteo Salvini, using sardines as their symbol.", "Find the detailed result from your constituency with our postcode search.", "Kelvin, Emma and Karim have done battle on the BBC dancefloor but who won the glitterball trophy?", "From Nigel Dodds in North Belfast to Elisha McCallion in Foyle, the main parties suffered some blows.", "Analysis in of the 2019 general election in maps and charts.", "It is believed the man shot outside a luxury hotel in Buenos Aires was 50-year-old Matthew Gibbard.", "Dennis Skinner, known as the Beast of Bolsover, has lost his seat after 49 years. What went wrong?", "The Labour leader says he will not walk away from the role until a successor is chosen.", "Five-year-old Jacob Scrimshaw was born eight weeks early with most of his left arm missing.", "She began the campaign saying she could become the next PM, but has lost her seat to the SNP.", "An 18-year-old man is being questioned on suspicion of murdering the 15-year-old.", "Fly through 15 hours of election results in 10 simple stops.", "The leaders pledged to work with Northern Ireland parties to restore Good Friday Agreement institutions.", "Why did the Conservatives win a seat they did not target and one they had never won before?", "The FTSE is higher while sterling hits its highest level against the dollar since June last year.", "He is being held on suspicion of murder after staff raised concerns about the 69-year-old woman's death.", "From the Tories winning seats in traditional Labour heartlands to Jo Swinson losing her seat.", "All of the centrist MPs who recently defected from Labour and the Conservatives failed to win seats.", "TV presenter Caroline Flack was charged with assault after an incident at her Islington home.", "Boris Johnson says he hopes his party's \"extraordinary\" election victory will bring \"closure\" to years of acrimony.", "Boris Johnson visits Sedgefield in north-east England, which has returned its first Conservative MP for 84 years, following the party's general election victory.", "The kids laughed a lot, shouted a great deal and talked through the bits they found boring.", "Analysis in of the 2019 general election in maps and charts.", "After a fourth election loss in a row, will a change of leader be enough to turn the party's fortunes around?", "The veteran singer beats Robbie Williams and The Who to the UK number one spot in a close race.", "Newlywed PC Andrew Harper was killed after being dragged along a road by a vehicle in August.", "Boris Johnson's Brexit U-turn on Northern Ireland is being downplayed as the election looms.", "The \"grandmother effect\" was even stronger with grandmothers that had gone through the menopause.", "Locals report the \"worst day yet\" of a haze that has sparked health problems and forced evacuations.", "The fire broke out on Glasgow's Lancefield Quay on the north bank of the Clyde on Monday evening.", "M&C Saatchi shares have collapsed this year from a high of about £4 each to 103 pence.", "The patient said she was \"traumatised\" after feeling a cut in her belly button during surgery.", "The chief executive and executive chairman at the High Street fashion retailer are to step down.", "After the release of another all-male nominee list for Best Director at the Golden Globes, we look at why women are not getting accolades in directing", "With just two days until the general election, Scotland's main party leaders faced questions from a live studio audience.", "Three days before election day, under-30s questioned politicians about Brexit, housing and climate change.", "Customs staff at UK ports could include EU representatives, the BBC has learned.", "Updates as politicians continued to seek voters' support, ahead of Thursday's poll.", "The man opened fire at the hospital in Ostrava before going on the run and shooting himself dead.", "Joe Ousalice was discharged in 1993 when there was a ban on LGBT people in the armed forces.", "The ice sheet's contribution to sea-level rise is now seven times what it was in the 1990s.", "What happens when two people from across the political divide are brought together for dinner?", "Drax, which generates 5% of UK power, says it will capture more carbon than it produces by 2030.", "What happened when young voters challenged politicians representing the main seven parties?", "Carl Roberts visits a Swansea primary school to find out what pupils think about the election.", "Sheets of counterfeit stickers were discovered in a man's car when he was pulled over in Bradford.", "Twitter abuse of election candidates has escalated during the campaign, with Conservatives seeing the biggest rise, research suggests.", "Volunteers have been working since the 1970s to rebuild a railway line between two towns.", "One of New Zealand's most active volcanoes has erupted, claiming the lives of tourists.", "Compare where the parties stand on key issues - from Brexit and the NHS to education and the environment.", "Manish Shah cited Angelina Jolie and Jade Goody to instil fear in his patients about their health.", "The PM initially refused to look at the picture of the boy and took a reporter's phone away.", "Banksy praises Brummies' generosity as he reveals a Christmas-themed work in the city.", "The economy sees the weakest three months for more than a decade as growth flatlines.", "The shadow health secretary says he was \"joshing\" in a secret recording leaked by a Tory friend.", "Fifty years ago, people voted in the UK largely according to class, but different factors are now in play.", "The body issuing refunds to customers of the tour operator has apologised for payment delays.", "Provides an overview of New Zealand, including key dates and facts about this South Pacific state.", "Police in Chicago say the rapper suffered a seizure as they questioned his entourage in an airport.", "The singer, whose hits included The Look and It Must Have Been Love, had had a brain tumour.", "More than half the people on the island were Australian, with others from the US, the UK, and elsewhere.", "The Brexit Party leader says his party can win seats if people vote \"tactically and sensibly\".", "Rob Brydon had no clue there were plans for a Christmas special until the script was written.", "Shante Turay-Thomas died after falling ill at her family home in Wood Green last year.", "Man jumps over barriers to spray two red noses on festive mural in Birmingham.", "House Democrats bring two charges, obstruction of Congress and abuse of power, against the US president.", "Arsenal beat West Ham to end a winless run of nine games and gain their first victory under interim boss Freddie Ljungberg.", "Roads are closed and trains and ferries cancelled as heavy rain and strong winds batter Scotland.", "The PM's bizarre response to questions about hospital photograph was a gift to Labour.", "Mr Justice Edis said he had no doubt McCann was \"a threat to children\" and \"a paedophile\".", "The BBC Question Time debate also saw fiery exchanges on climate change, electoral reform and trust.", "The prime minister questions whether funding the broadcaster out of general taxation \"makes sense\".", "John Allen, who is already serving a life sentence, abused five boys between 1976 and 1992.", "Compare where the parties stand on key issues - from Brexit and the NHS to education and the environment.", "European guidelines on a form of heart disease are under review, following a Newsnight investigation.", "A minute's applause is held at Harley Watson's school, a week after his death.", "Find the detailed result from your constituency with our postcode search.", "Tuition fees in England would also be scrapped as part of a plan to make education \"free for life\".", "The 33-year-old is arrested at a property in Bristol as part of a planned operation, police say.", "First, the tour firm's failure risked a surprise marriage proposal, now Corryn Banham is trying to get her money back.", "Indigenous people come to COP25 to protest plans to expand oil production in the western Amazon.", "Climate change could make the problem worse, multiplying the misery for displaced people.", "Dave Merritt accuses Boris Johnson of using his son Jack's death to \"score points\" in the election.", "Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson tells the BBC the \"bedroom tax\" was a mistake and austerity went too far.", "Jasmine Francis-Smith gave birth after her fertilized egg had been incubated by her wife Donna.", "Key dates in the history of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization", "Nurses are taking the unprecedented action following a four-week ballot of members.", "It is believed to be the final member of a group of three who went missing two weeks ago, police say.", "It comes after a fire which left a secondary school in Peebles severely damaged.", "A bread roll was thrown at The Mash Report star after his Brexit jokes went down badly.", "The family of Usman Khan express condolences to his victims, as a man who fought Khan speaks out.", "The energy giant went to court to stop any repeat of an occupation which targeted North Sea installations.", "Police say the INLA and Óglaigh na hÉireann were behind the killing of Jim Donegan a year ago.", "Election campaign updates - including interviews with Boris Johnson, Jo Swinson and Nicola Sturgeon.", "Firefighters faced \"challenging conditions\" and took just over four hours to tackle the fire.", "The Nordic nation's PM says modern governments need to value green energy and family welfare more.", "Baker, who hosted for nine years, says he is looking forward to \"being able to put my kids to bed\".", "A Welsh Tory election candidate criticises Boris Johnson's language after the London Bridge attack.", "Usman Khan went on counter-terror schemes in prison which have not been evaluated, the BBC finds.", "Launching the UUP manifesto, Steve Aiken says he hopes party MPs will stop the current Brexit deal.", "Tensions with Russia and Turkey give Nato stress as it shapes its new role, Jonathan Marcus writes.", "Larry Page and Sergey Brin are stepping back from the day-to-day running of Google's parent company.", "The Reunion Nugget, a 121g lump of pure gold, was discovered in a Scottish river in May this year.", "The party promises new spending on trains, buses and trams outside London.", "A Christmas ad for the exercise bike firm has been mocked on social media as being \"out of touch\".", "As wicketkeeper for England Geraint Jones won the Ashes but is now facing a very different challenge.", "The move will as much as quadruple the rate it charges some customers.", "Boris Johnson insists the alliance is \"the most successful in history\", despite tensions between members.", "Joseph McCann is accused of 37 offences against 11 women and children aged 11 to 71.", "It is believed the patient contracted the infection while visiting Nigeria, Public Health England said.", "No Time To Die, the 25th film in the series, will be Daniel Craig's final outing as James Bond.", "Harley Watson's family say the 12-year-old was a \"good, kind, helpful and lovely boy\".", "The bank says it makes payments above £30 without a bank card or mobile possible for the first time.", "Baker, who hosted for nine years, says he is looking forward to \"being able to put my kids to bed\".", "Julian Smith is in Belfast where he met the NI Civil Service and unions over ongoing industrial action.", "Les Rutherford escaped the bombing in Dunkirk by paddling out to sea on a shed door.", "The prime minister set out his plan just hours after the US warned France of import tariffs.", "Oliver George flashed the fake weapon after staff refused to serve him another drink.", "The Tesla founder says his tweet about a British cave diver was responding to \"an unprovoked attack\".", "Manchester United move up to sixth in the Premier League as Tottenham suffer their first defeat under Jose Mourinho on his return to Old Trafford.", "Five men are on trial accused of sexually abusing and raping a girl in Telford.", "The body is believed to be Claire Hockridge, according to Northern Territory Police", "Launching his party's manifesto, Colum Eastwood says \"decisions are made by those who show up\".", "Usman Khan, 28, was out on licence from jail when he killed two people and injured three others.", "Lisa Smith from Dundalk is charged with committing a terrorist offence outside of Ireland.", "More than 93,000 suspects of crimes including rape and murder have been freed without restrictions.", "Nicola Sturgeon, Jackson Carlaw, Richard Leonard and Willie Rennie debated on STV ahead of the general election.", "UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said Nato continues to provide \"peace and prosperity for hundreds of millions of people.\"", "Usman Khan, 28, was out on licence from jail when he killed two people and injured three others.", "Emissions of CO2 have risen in 2019, say researchers, as oil and gas use continues to grow.", "Former England captain Bob Willis, who took 325 Test wickets and was a hero of the 1981 Ashes, has died at the age of 70.", "The greetings card chain will be sold back to its existing owners, saving 2,500 jobs.", "M&G blamed \"Brexit-related political uncertainty\" and difficulties in the retail sector for the freeze.", "The three men have however admitted being involved in the assault on the Guardian columnist.", "The TV advert received the third highest number of complaints this year, the regulator says.", "Mr Trump labelled the French president's comments over the defence grouping \"nasty, insulting, and disrespectful\".", "Boris Johnson's blueprint prompts attacks from Labour, the SNP and Lib Dems.", "Farieissia Martin's mental health was not evaluated when she was convicted of murdering her ex.", "David Genney spotted the fungus while on a trail in the Ben Wyvis National Nature Reserve in the Highlands.", "Three members of the same family were found in a Costa del Sol swimming pool on Christmas Eve.", "Willis also co-wrote hits for Earth, Wind & Fire and is a Songwriters Hall of Fame member.", "Irish premier Leo Varadkar says he will not dismiss the idea of building a bridge but insists the UK must pay for it.", "Glencoe Mountain Resort says the base station restaurant was \"almost completely\" destroyed.", "The man, who had been on the run for five years, was detained at a restaurant in The Hague.", "The two male victims were found within five miles of each other on 19 and 20 December.", "Author Ari Behn and the king's eldest child, Princess Martha Louise, divorced in 2017.", "A severe reaction to nuts left a woman in her 20s with brain injuries.", "A relaxed family photograph taken by the Duchess of Cambridge is released for Christmas.", "In an annular eclipse the moon covers the centre of the Sun, giving the appearance of a bright ring.", "A \"serious\" collision shut a stretch of the busy motorway near Wakefield on Christmas Day.", "The boat with 71 migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan sank in Lake Van at night.", "Complaints about racism often become \"one word against another\", a coach says.", "Past competitors took to the dance floor again in a bid to lift the show's star-shaped trophy.", "Crowds waited for hours to greet the Royal Family - the first the young royals had attended.", "A 75-year-old man is being held for questioning following the death in north Wales.", "A man believed to be in his 30s was pronounced dead at the scene by emergency services.", "Thousands are stranded at ports and more than 100 families are without a home this Christmas.", "The Archbishop of Canterbury talks about the \"darkness\" that led to last month's attack.", "Sam Curran stars with the ball as England make a promising start against South Africa in the first Test of the series in Centurion.", "It's the first Christmas tree to be put up in Pripyat since the 1986 nuclear disaster.", "There was a rise in the number of people seeking advice about sexual abuse and mental health after BBC shows.", "The animals were moved from a South Africa park in the hope they would be protected from poachers.", "The show toppled the Queen's Christmas Broadcast and is the most-watched Christmas show in 11 years.", "The family of Kirsty Maxwell say they will continue to put pressure on the Spanish courts as they celebrate Christmas.", "The Home Office has been accused of trying to \"whip up ill feeling towards desperate people\".", "The monarch says \"small steps\" and not giant leaps bring about the most lasting change.", "Neighbours described hearing gunshots on Christmas Eve and a woman screaming \"desperately\" for help.", "Experts believe the marsupial could have been taken by a wolf named August, known to roam the area.", "Gabriel Diya, a pastor in London, and two of his children died in a resort pool on the Costa del Sol.", "In his Christmas Day message, Francis says a more compassionate attitude can help end suffering.", "Retail analysts said Boxing Day footfall had seen the largest decline since 2011.", "The individual stories and their impact were captured by BBC Scotland for a documentary.", "The Chinese man, who murdered a family of four, is the first foreigner to be executed in 10 years.", "The Russian leader's war of words with Poland focuses on events from the distant past.", "Dr Rowan Williams says some people don't believe in the climate crisis as it is hard to face up to.", "Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp says it is \"a crime\" that some Premier League teams have to play two games in three days over the festive period.", "The story of how the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami unfolded, by those who survived.", "The charity says it is aware of Jolyon Maugham's \"distressing\" claim, which was posted on Twitter.", "Evidence suggests fires which prompted a mass evacuation from Valparaíso were started deliberately.", "The monarch refers to the importance of reconciliation and how \"small steps\" can heal divisions.", "Thousands will be offered fitness programmes in the hope of \"priming\" them for their recovery.", "Former prime minister Tony Blair says Labour \"let our country down\" at the general election.", "Super-lightweight champion Josh Taylor says he is \"ashamed\" and will take time off to reflect on his actions.", "Pupils were asked to imagine themselves being a parent of a Manchester Arena bombing victim.", "Nora Quoirin's family say that many serious questions remain about her disappearance.", "The presenter won't host the next series of the ITV2 show after being charged with assault.", "The Ministry of Justice said Ali Zahawy faces disciplinary action over the message filmed in jail.", "The prosecution had argued the 28-year-old was in a \"drugged-up state\" after taking tramadol.", "Fallon Sherrock says female darts players need \"more opportunities\" after becoming the first woman to win a match at the PDC World Championship.", "Jordan Davies, 23, is described by his family as a \"loving son, brother and father\".", "The Hotpoint and Indesit washing machine recall starts in January, but some customers are still waiting for answers.", "Ewan Ireland stabbed Peter Duncan in the heart after they brushed past each other at a shopping centre.", "An ancient ancestor of modern humans survived into relatively recent times in South East Asia.", "The Stepney-born entertainer became a TV regular after enjoying musical success in the early 1960s.", "Scarlett Allen-Horton and Carina Lepore pitched their business ideas in Wednesday's final.", "Influencers including Lauren Goodger are filmed about promoting a drink containing cyanide.", "Stephen Graham, Charlotte Riley and Joe Alwyn discuss the darker, more psychological take on Charles Dickens' classic novel.", "The co-founder of the Bet365 website receives another huge pay award as online gambling booms.", "Former Prime Minister Tony Blair says Jeremy Corbyn's Brexit policy left voters \"without guidance and leadership\".", "Homeowners, including former customers of Northern Rock and Bradford & Bingley, claim they have been overcharged.", "Swearing in of new MPs concludes as ex-PM Tony Blair weighs in on how Labour should react to its election defeat.", "The party's choice to head a probe into Islamophobia and other prejudices does not \"bode well\", Tory peer says.", "Harris James was mistakenly treated for pneumonia when he had a heart condition.", "Scientists say it's 'not a myth' that people on a vegan diet need extra vitamin B12.", "Hundreds of passengers struggled to get home from Victoria and London Bridge stations following a major signal failure.", "An elderly woman suffered serious injuries when she was bitten by Deji Olatunji's German shepherd.", "Lady Hale warns against moving towards a US-style Supreme Court, in her last speech as the UK's top judge.", "Anne and Julia care for husbands who have dementia and face agonising decisions about the future.", "RCN nurses in NI are set to strike for the first time on Wednesday amid complaints about pay.", "PC Amjad Ditta, a serving officer at the time of his alleged offence, has been suspended from duty.", "The party's candidates won \"unwinnable\" seats in the North East - but they have a lot to prove.", "Healthcare workers across Northern Ireland are set to strike on Wednesday.", "Blyth Valley has always been a Labour seat - until Friday morning. What's behind the change?", "Emma Dent Coad says she chose not to reveal her condition to prevent it becoming a campaign issue.", "Nearly half of GPs now work part-time with a drive to increase numbers under threat, regulators warn.", "As charity Médecins Sans Frontières warns of a health emergency in refugee camps, one expectant mother living in Lesbos spoke to BBC of her fears.", "The match between Barcelona and Real Madrid had been postponed in October because of unrest.", "Cutbacks to the justice system mean more rape victims are being let down by the courts, says a report.", "The three Extinction Rebellion activists halted services by gluing themselves to a train in London.", "We did nothing wrong, Donald Trump tells supporters in Michigan after historic vote in House.", "Seven Brexit-focused bills and plans for extra NHS funding are unveiled in the Queen's Speech.", "It may be Wales' smallest school, but it still plans a Christmas show to remember.", "Dancers at Vienna State Opera's academy were encouraged to smoke to stay slim, a report finds.", "John Worboys is given two life sentences for drugging women with intent to sexually assault them.", "British American Tobacco and three other vaping companies have posts promoting e-cigarettes banned.", "Christine Edwards lost \"everything\" when her husband Vaughan was killed in a Christmas party attack.", "Fallon Sherrock is the first woman to win a match at the PDC World Championship after coming back from behind to stun Ted Evetts 3-2 in London.", "Action by UNITE health workers and NIPSA ambulance staff will continue into Thursday morning.", "Ryan's World is ranked number one for the second year in a row.", "The comments from the UK's official climate come ahead of a global climate conference in Glasgow.", "Talks in Brussels end with agreement that 2020 will see far fewer fish landed from the North Sea.", "The shadow foreign secretary tells the BBC she can win the contest \"from the heart of the party\".", "Jeff Noel says it is unfortunate timing, but after problems with some machines, customer safety comes first.", "Ex-Crystal Palace star Neil Shipperley performed a sex act in front of a mother and her daughter.", "Holders Manchester City will face local rivals Manchester United in the EFL Cup semi-finals.", "The shadow foreign secretary told the BBC in September a pro-Remain stance would help its election chances.", "The last service left Euston on Saturday evening, ending Britain's longest-running rail franchise.", "Anthony Joshua wins his world heavyweight title rematch against Andy Ruiz Jr by unanimous decision in Saudi Arabia.", "James Cleverly says an investigation into prejudice in his party will get under way before the end of the year.", "The scorpion fell out of the woman's trousers on a flight from San Francisco to Atlanta.", "The man was on a small vessel which got into difficulty on the Firth of Clyde in stormy weather on Saturday night.", "Boris Johnson has claimed only goods passing through on their way to the Irish Republic would be checked.", "Rosslyn Dillon says Bob Hawke asked her not to report a rape allegation as it would harm his career.", "The winner of the ITV reality show is announced after three weeks in the Australian jungle.", "The rapper best known for viral hit Lucid Dreams reportedly suffered a seizure at a Chicago airport.", "An investigation has been launched into an alleged six-figure fraud at the Scottish Qualifications Authority.", "The prime minister tours Labour seats that voted for Brexit, three days before the election.", "Events in cities including London, Edinburgh and New York aim to raise £38m to help rough sleepers.", "Police have arrested hundreds of people on drug charges, but a charity says the same issues remain.", "The PM says a leaked Treasury document that says there will be customs checks is \"wrong\".", "RMT union members are taking 27 days of strike action on South Western Railway.", "The vicar said he discovered the thieves smashed one of the church's stained glass windows earlier.", "Kamil Biecke has not been seen for a year and police fear he may have been killed.", "The Football Association will investigate allegations of racism after Manchester United players said they were targeted at Manchester City.", "Performance artist David Datuna caused a stir at Art Basel in Miami after he ate the banana used in an art work by Maurizio Cattelan.", "Olga Neuwirth has written a new opera based on Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando.", "Channel 4 debate saw representatives from Labour, the Lib Dems, SNP, Plaid Cymru and the Green Party face-off.", "The singer has been accused of fetishising bisexuality on his new album.", "A warmer world means oceans are able to hold less dissolved oxygen, which is bad news for many fish.", "The general election may be dominating the headlines but it's not troubling the political clubs of Arnold.", "Leaders make fresh appeals to voters, saying the stakes are higher than in any recent election.", "The former Scottish Conservative leader has hinted she may return to politics in the future.", "Labour say the leaked documents showed the NHS would be at risk under a post-Brexit trade deal with the US.", "A man is arrested after United players said they were targeted in their match against Manchester City.", "The Conservative Party says it is investigating, after claims of anti-Semitism against three candidates.", "Compare where the parties stand on key issues - from Brexit and the NHS to education and the environment.", "The Brexit Party will get a new name and \"change politics for good\", its founder and leader says.", "The last Virgin train left Euston on Saturday evening, ending Britain's longest-running rail franchise.", "Gusts stronger than 80mph forecast by Met Éireann and several power outages.", "Former Aston Villa manager Ron Saunders dies at the age of 87, the club announces.", "The teenager and a man are being questioned on suspicion of murdering the 25-year-old woman.", "State media did not give details of the test, which comes amid new tensions with the US.", "The Norwegian-South African duo met up with a rescue team as they were dangerously low on food.", "A 74-year-old had his share of an inheritance withheld after providing the wrong sort code number.", "US puppeteer Caroll Spinney has died after a long career as Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch.", "Labour says the documents show the NHS would be \"for sale\" under a post-Brexit trade deal with the US.", "Terence Glover is accused of killing Harley Watson who died after being struck by a car in Essex.", "Inter Milan striker Romelu Lukaku and Roma defender Chris Smalling condemn the 'Black Friday' headline used by Italian newspaper Corriere dello Sport.", "No Time To Die, the 25th film in the series, will be Daniel Craig's final outing as James Bond.", "Andrew Dymock, who faces 12 terror charges, is accused of quoting Joseph Goebbels to call for \"total war\".", "BBC presenter tells Boris Johnson it is \"not too late\" for the PM to face questions from him.", "Everton dismiss manager Marco Silva after 18 months in charge with the club in the relegation zone.", "The Brexit Party leader claims his party are \"tearing chunks out of the Labour vote\", as three of its MEPs quit.", "Baker, who hosted for nine years, says he is looking forward to \"being able to put my kids to bed\".", "Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson tells the BBC the \"bedroom tax\" was a mistake and austerity went too far.", "The three men have however admitted being involved in the assault on the Guardian columnist.", "Managerless Arsenal's season hits a new low as they are beaten at home by struggling Brighton in interim boss Freddie Ljungberg's first home match in charge.", "The first minister denies opposition claims of a \"crisis\" after Susan Deacon resigns as chairwoman of the SPA.", "The boss of Scottish Power says nationalising the energy industry will delay reaching a zero carbon future.", "British heavyweight Anthony Joshua fields questions about Saudi 'sportswashing' human rights abuse claims with his re-match against Andy Ruiz Jr.", "The oil giant's listing is the biggest to date, surpassing that of China's Alibaba in 2014.", "The neighbourhood watch volunteer was cleared of murdering the black teenager who he shot dead in the US in 2012.", "It comes after a fire which left a secondary school in Peebles severely damaged.", "Vittorio Grigolo admits there was \"a brawl between colleagues\" after a performance on tour in Japan.", "Oliver George flashed the fake weapon after staff refused to serve him another drink.", "Officials say a US sailor opened fire at the historic Pearl Harbor military base in Hawaii.", "M&G blamed \"Brexit-related political uncertainty\" and difficulties in the retail sector for the freeze.", "Boris Johnson's blueprint prompts attacks from Labour, the SNP and Lib Dems.", "Robert Pugh, 75, has also been found not guilty of three charges of historical child abuse.", "Manchester United move up to sixth in the Premier League as Tottenham suffer their first defeat under Jose Mourinho on his return to Old Trafford.", "Seventy former and current officials submit evidence to the Equality and Human Rights Commission.", "Stormzy's Vossi Bop topped the charts in the UK, but Latin Pop ruled around the world.", "Debts including credit card debt and personal loans have risen 11% to £119bn in two years.", "The corporation's boss Tony Hall outlines the plan to place its \"BAME talent\" in top positions.", "Thomas Griffith Jones, 82, whose first language is Welsh, could be cared for 135 miles from home.", "One in three of the first Thomas Cook customers to claim refunds will not be paid within the 60-day target.", "The party says it would set up a new agency to offer support and advice to smaller companies.", "Lucy Edwards is one of 35 new guest presenters on Radio 1 and 1Xtra over the Christmas period.", "Steve Brooks and Matt Jones return back to Britain after a record 27,000-mile flight around the world.", "The move will as much as quadruple the rate it charges some customers.", "Campaigners call for the law surrounding the issue of consent in sexual violence crimes to be toughened up.", "Three bushfires merge into an inferno spanning 300,000 hectares, prompting warnings north of the city.", "The Brexit Party leader says three of his MEPs who quit have strong links to the Conservatives.", "Gareth Delbridge and Michael \"Spike\" Lewis were killed on 3 July after being hit by a train.", "Former England captain Bob Willis, who took 325 Test wickets and was a hero of the 1981 Ashes, has died at the age of 70.", "A study by a Beijing-based body indicates many are worried about their biometric data being hacked.", "Scientists are getting closer to tracing the sources of meteorites that fall to Earth.", "The Chinese company filed the case after it was labelled as a security threat by Washington.", "With a week until polling day, party leaders continued to tour the country in the hope of winning votes.", "The men claim they were wrongly convicted of assaulting a police officer nearly 50 years ago.", "The party promises to recruit nearly 20,000 extra teachers in England over five years if it wins power.", "The documents contained sensitive information on the building's layout, such as entry and exit points.", "A picture-focused round-up of some of the famous names on the 2020 New Year Honours list including.....", "A grey Land Rover hit a group of people in the incident in Bearsden in East Dunbartonshire.", "Russia appeals against the World Anti-Doping Agency's (Wada) decision to ban it from all major sporting events for four years.", "It led to the evacuation of more than 58,000 people and stranded thousands over the holiday period.", "President Putin says the nuclear-capable Avangard missiles put Russia in a class of its own.", "A woman whose husband and two children drowned believes there was \"something wrong with the pool\".", "The pop star's cover of Joni Mitchell's River tops the singles chart, after LadBaby drops 56 places.", "A 75-year-old man is being questioned over the death of a 74-year-old woman on Christmas Day.", "A mission to launch thousands of satellites is about to begin, but scientists say this could affect astronomy.", "Challenger Gideon Saar concedes defeat, pledging to now rally behind Benjamin Netanyahu.", "The man, who had been on the run for five years, was detained at a restaurant in The Hague.", "The Tony Award-winning Broadway composer wrote the music and lyrics for Hello, Dolly!", "Services in and out of Edinburgh will be badly affected as track is upgraded at Haymarket junction.", "Mr Weir, who won the then-record jackpot along with his wife Chris in 2011, dies after a short illness.", "Crews were called to the blaze which broke out at the building in the Trongate area of Glasgow.", "The British film-makers are among many entertainment figures recognised in the New Year Honours.", "Lady Hale says it is 'unreasonable' to expect families in crisis to make their own arrangements without help from the state.", "The PM of Mauritius says he is considering charges against UK officials over Indian Ocean islands.", "Crews are bracing for another dangerous period as calls grow for volunteer firefighters to be paid.", "The 60-year-old victim died minutes after being found injured in a street in Thornton Heath.", "Anthony Knott, 33, was last seen with a group of friends at a pub in Lewes on 20 December.", "How Australian bushfires have affected Blue Mountain businesses in holiday period.", "Swedish national Flamur Beqiri was killed in front of his family in Wandsworth on Christmas Eve.", "A timeline of international air crashes from 1998 to the present.", "A 75-year-old man is being held for questioning following the death in north Wales.", "Wolves fight back from 2-0 down against 10-man Manchester City to clinch a memorable win over the Premier League champions with two late goals.", "Didzis Pirags won £1m on an online scratchcard but decided he needed to finish his shifts.", "The plan could hand fresh cash to Labour's former heartlands, which backed the Tories in election.", "It's the first Christmas tree to be put up in Pripyat since the 1986 nuclear disaster.", "Provides an overview of Kazakhstan, including key dates and facts about this central Asian country.", "Fallon Sherrock's challenge at the PDC World Championship is ended in a third-round defeat by world number 22 Chris Dobey.", "Thousands will be offered fitness programmes in the hope of \"priming\" them for their recovery.", "Ben Stokes, Elton John and Nadiya Hussain are named alongside the Grease star on the New Year list.", "The show toppled the Queen's Christmas Broadcast and is the most-watched Christmas show in 11 years.", "A spokesman says the alarm was broadcast by mistake amid rising tensions on the Korean peninsula.", "Ursula von der Leyen says she is \"very worried\" about the PM's December 2020 deadline.", "Women who play Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse and Donald Duck file complaints with police.", "The Home Office has been accused of trying to \"whip up ill feeling towards desperate people\".", "Neighbours described hearing gunshots on Christmas Eve and a woman screaming \"desperately\" for help.", "England footballer Jill Scott has been made an MBE on the New Year Honours list for her contribution to the sport.", "CBC say edits to Home Alone 2 were not politically motivated, but their decision was criticised.", "Gabriel Diya, a pastor in London, and two of his children died in a resort pool on the Costa del Sol.", "\"You are there for women at their most vulnerable,\" the Duchess of Cambridge says in an open letter to midwives.", "Retail analysts said Boxing Day footfall had seen the largest decline since 2011.", "The competition watchdog is worried the deal could increase the cost of getting food delivered.", "Archaeologists believe the palace was used at the height of the Mayan civilisation, 1,000 years ago.", null, "Melanie Panayiotou was found dead on Christmas Day - precisely three years after her superstar brother.", "The National Trust says it's been a good year for migrant butterflies but not for water voles.", "The charity says it is aware of Jolyon Maugham's \"distressing\" claim, which was posted on Twitter.", "Prosecutors accept Guy Martin may have been deceived and thought his licence was genuine.", "In 2017-18, the average school in London raised £43,000 from donations. In Yorkshire, it was about £13,300.", "The system for resolving world trade disputes grinds to a halt after the US blocks any new WTO judges.", "M&C Saatchi shares have collapsed this year from a high of about £4 each to 103 pence.", "Over to you...", "He gives the leather jacket back to Olivia Newton-John after buying it from her for $243,000.", "Drug dealer Ayoub Majdouline repeatedly stabbed Jaden Moodie in a targeted attack in London.", "Jaden Moodie's mother explains the despair of losing her 14-year-old son in London's drug gang war.", "Investigators say a genocide may have been committed in Myanmar. This is how they came to that conclusion.", "Customs staff at UK ports could include EU representatives, the BBC has learned.", "A number of birds at a chicken farm in Suffolk are found to have the H5 strain of avian flu.", "The ice sheet's contribution to sea-level rise is now seven times what it was in the 1990s.", "Castles and mirrored ceilings attracted clicks among window shoppers on a property website.", "A ricochet bullet from the London Bridge terror attack could have gone straight through a bus.", "Boris Johnson has claimed only goods passing through on their way to the Irish Republic would be checked.", "Sheets of counterfeit stickers were discovered in a man's car when he was pulled over in Bradford.", "The main messages of the leaders are clear - but it is uncertain they can convince the public.", "Ryan Sessegnon marks his first Tottenham start with a goal but cannot prevent Spurs from losing to Bayern Munich in their final Champions League group game.", "Compare where the parties stand on key issues - from Brexit and the NHS to education and the environment.", "Manish Shah cited Angelina Jolie and Jade Goody to instil fear in his patients about their health.", "The raids took place in Luton as part of a human trafficking investigation into modern day slavery.", "BBC Wales' correspondents share their views on the policies that could make a difference.", "The shadow health secretary says he was \"joshing\" in a secret recording leaked by a Tory friend.", "Emissions from the region made a major contribution to global greenhouse gas levels in 2010-2016.", "Tests are being carried out to find out why about 225 starlings died and if they had been poisoned.", "The singer, whose hits included The Look and It Must Have Been Love, had had a brain tumour.", "The Swedish activist tells reporters that people want to silence her because they fear change.", "Consumers should be told it takes four hours to walk off the calories in a pizza, researchers say.", "The 16-year-old Swedish schoolgirl has inspired a global movement to fight climate change.", "Man jumps over barriers to spray two red noses on festive mural in Birmingham.", "Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi is appearing at the UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) to defend her country against accusations of genocide.", "A jet that skidded off the runway at Liverpool Airport was carrying one of the owners of Liverpool FC.", "Nikki Birgit Campbell and her 23-month-old daughter, Rhea, were pulled from their car as it filled with flood water.", "Aung San Suu Kyi will defend her country against genocide accusations in court in The Hague.", "Roads are closed and trains and ferries cancelled as heavy rain and strong winds batter Scotland.", "Brazil, China, India and Saudi Arabia are criticised as anger grows at a UN climate change meeting.", "The singer has amassed a combined run of 12 number one singles and albums between 2010 and 2019.", "The stabbing of a 47-year-old man took the number of killings in the capital to 142 since 1 January.", "Compare where the parties stand on key issues - from Brexit and the NHS to education and the environment.", "The owner of the Supercuts and Regis hairdressing chains has been saved from administration.", "The six-week election campaign has seen politicians working hard to win your votes.", "Find the detailed result from your constituency with our postcode search.", "The gifts were for an event in Bristol at the weekend but it was cancelled due to high winds.", "The Post Office is to pay almost £58m to settle a long-running dispute with sub-postmasters and postmistresses.", "Tributes are paid to the \"larger-than-life\" TV broadcaster, scientist and conservationist.", "The government's Brexit legislation is on hold as the UK prepares for a general election.", "The party leaders are making a last-ditch attempt to win support ahead of Thursday’s general election.", "Genaro García Luna, architect of Mexico's \"war on drugs\", is accused of taking bribes from a cartel.", "Grieving parents say including their children's names \"acknowledges the little life that was\".", "How a photographer captured a traumatic journey through chemotherapy. Then had to do it all again.", "Toni-Ann Singh was given the title on Saturday's event in ExCel London.", "Marathon runner Eliud Kipchoge is voted Sports Personality's World Sport Star of the Year.", "The Scottish first minister tells the BBC that if the union is to continue, \"it can only be by consent\".", "Labour reflects on defeat and a new leader, as the SNP and government clash over a Scottish referendum.", "The pop star will make her Glastonbury debut on the Pyramid Stage this summer, organisers say.", "UN climate change talks in Madrid are struggling to reach agreement on crucial measures.", "Bashir has been sentenced to two years for corruption - but cannot be jailed because of his age.", "Shadow chancellor blames Brexit for the party's defeat, saying Jeremy Corbyn was \"the right leader\".", "China's state broadcaster CCTV has removed Sunday's Arsenal-Manchester City game from its schedule after comments made by Gunners midfielder Mesut Ozil, state media has reported.", "Guymon, Oklahoma, was on its way to becoming a ghost town. Then Mexican immigrants arrived 20 years ago.", "Emmerdale actor Kelvin Fletcher lifted the trophy in one of the most watched programmes of 2019.", "Kevin de Bruyne scores twice and sets up another for Raheem Sterling as Manchester City produce a masterful display to beat Arsenal.", "Karina, a Danish-French actress, was the muse of director Jean-Luc Godard.", "Here are some of the MPs who could exert influence in the newly elected House of Commons.", "The man is critically ill after being shot by police on a street in Hull.", "The Duchess of Cambridge says her son spoke after recognising the face of the TV cook on a book.", "The driver of the truck apologises ahead of the fifth anniversary of the crash which killed six people.", "The victim, in his 40s, was found with fatal injuries at a property in east London.", "England cricketer Ben Stokes is voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2019.", "Riot police fire tear gas and rubber bullets as anti-government protests continue in Lebanon.", "Johnson's historic win has redefined the electoral map, but he will be hoping it doesn't break the union, writes Nick Watt.", "Tens of thousands rally against the right-wing League party of Matteo Salvini, using sardines as their symbol.", "The phenomenon was filmed by firefighters in Wollemi National Park, New South Wales.", "Why mainland China insists there is a sinister hand of foreign meddling in the protests.", "Find the detailed result from your constituency with our postcode search.", "Kelvin, Emma and Karim have done battle on the BBC dancefloor but who won the glitterball trophy?", "It is believed the man shot outside a luxury hotel in Buenos Aires was 50-year-old Matthew Gibbard.", "The Labour leader says he will not walk away from the role until a successor is chosen.", "Five-year-old Jacob Scrimshaw was born eight weeks early with most of his left arm missing.", "An 18-year-old man is being questioned on suspicion of murdering the 15-year-old.", "Samantha Morton says she still does not feel justice has been done despite a major inquiry.", "The leaders pledged to work with Northern Ireland parties to restore Good Friday Agreement institutions.", "An 18-year-old is accused of killing Alex Rodda, 15, whose body was discovered on Friday.", "He is being held on suspicion of murder after staff raised concerns about the 69-year-old woman's death.", "Staff had contacted police with concerns about the 69-year-old woman's death.", "Blyth Valley has always been a Labour seat - until Friday morning. What's behind the change?", "The public has granted Boris Johnson an immense amount of political power, and he will need to spend it well.", "Boris Johnson visits Sedgefield in north-east England, which has returned its first Conservative MP for 84 years, following the party's general election victory.", "Jeremy Corbyn has apologised for the party's election defeat but the shadow chancellor says: \"This is on me\".", "Residents in Bedfordshire have been queuing for bottled water after supplies were cut off on Friday.", "Nine people are arrested on suspicion of murder and abuse of power after last month's deadly tremor.", "After a fourth election loss in a row, will a change of leader be enough to turn the party's fortunes around?", "Landslide debris from the collapsed Anak Krakatau volcano is pictured on the seabed for the first time.", "The government is to examine whether failure to buy an annual TV licence should remain an offence.", "The Spanish reporter told her colleagues live on air that she was \"not coming to work tomorrow\".", "Father-of-three Shazad Saddique, 38, died while his wife was expecting their fourth child.", "Melania Geymonat and Christine Hannigan were subjected to the abuse on a London bus.", "Grenfell Tower blaze survivors dismiss a parade for Dany Cotton as a \"street party\".", "From the 2011 riots to the last general election, we look back at the website's most popular pages.", "Roy Beddows, who lost the gold ring while working aged 17, says he never expected to see it again.", "The 27-year-old had to be airlifted to hospital after being hit by a car while cycling through Texas.", "Mo Fayose says it has taken months to write them all but it's \"all about love\".", "The Prince of Wales met rescue workers and residents in Fishlake who were affected by recent floods.", "The men were arrested as part of a large 2010 operation with help of London's Metropolitan police.", "Zipporah Kuria, whose father died on board a 737 Max, met with the European aviation safety regulator.", "Police say the injured man was arrested on suspicion of murdering the two women in Crawley Down.", "The PFA calls for a government inquiry into racism in football after Chelsea's Premier League win over Tottenham is marred by alleged racist behaviour from the crowd.", "John Halloran and John Stacey served in Cyprus in the 1950s and met again by chance at an event.", "Boeing's Starliner spacecraft returned early after a timing error meant it failed to dock with the ISS.", "The party received £1.4m in the final two days - including £500,000 from mobile phone mogul John Caudwell.", "His daughter, presenter Fern Britton, confirms that the Don't Wait Up star died early on Sunday.", "Harry died after a crash involving a US diplomat's wife and his family met Priti Patel in extradition talks.", "Hundreds of parents allege Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust provided poor maternity care.", "Frontman Fran Healy tells how Travis went from a critical mauling to inspiring a generation of bands.", "The boat was carrying 600 gallons of diesel when a crane collapsed, causing it to sink.", "The firm says it hopes to \"restore confidence\" but still faces questions about its commitment to safety.", "The Love Island host's boyfriend was found \"covered in blood\" after he dialled 999, a court hears.", "The Queen is at Sandringham for Christmas, while the Duke of Edinburgh remains in a London hospital.", "Steven Bouquet is charged relating to attacks on 16 cats, nine of which were killed.", "The commission aims to \"map out a route back to power\" after this month's general election defeat.", "The opening weekend box office for The Rise of Skywalker fell short of previous films in the trilogy.", "British sign language is receiving an astronomical update thanks to a unique collaboration between a space scientist and a group of deaf astronomers.", "Tottenham's investigation into the alleged racist abuse of Chelsea's Antonio Rudiger has so far offered \"inconclusive\" findings.", "Safety regulator allowed the aircraft to continue flying despite its own analysis flagging warnings.", "At least 16 inmates are killed in fighting between gangs, two days after 18 died in another jail.", "A girl found a handwritten message, claiming to be from Chinese prisoners, in a Christmas card.", "The work, which the artist gave away, is now expected to fetch up to £1m at auction.", "More than 60 vehicles were involved in the crash on a foggy and icy stretch of road in Virginia.", "The jihadists are managing to regroup - should the West be worried?", "One of two women who were killed in Crawley Down on Sunday is named as Sandy Seagrave.", "The six-year-old found a hand-written message from Chinese prisoners in a box of Christmas cards.", "A National Express coach and car were engulfed in flames after a crash in south-west London.", "A football match in Tanzania is briefly stopped when a swarm of bees invades the pitch.", "Two fighter jets had to be scrambled to accompany the aircraft back to Stansted in June.", "Sailors and Royal Marines spotted a \"suspicious\" ship during a patrol in the Arabian Sea.", "The 17-year-old girl was found \"unresponsive and unconscious\" in her hotel room, New York police say.", "Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman denies ordering the killing of the Saudi journalist.", "A mother and her three sons had to be rescued from their car as nearly 80 flood warnings are issued.", "Jessica Jing Ren was a \"loving wife, devoted mother and cherished daughter,\" her family say.", "The audio tapes that recorded the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.", "Despite \"improved visual effects\", the film takes just £8.4m in North America and the UK.", "A study of 140,000 men finds being dependent on alcohol increases the risk of being a domestic abuser.", "The discovery was made by scientists at a 4,000-year-old archaeological site in the Hebrides.", "Clinical and human waste has been piled up at the HQ of Healthcare Environmental Services for a year.", "Josh Quigley, from Livingston, survived a 70mph crash in the US while attempting to cycle round the world.", "The government says it will not rule out taking \"further steps\" if football authorities fail to deal with racism.", "The party vows to slash rail fares and make travel free for young people under the age of 16.", "Lewis Hamilton takes dominant victory in season-closing Abu Dhabi Grand Prix as Charles Leclerc set to be investigated by stewards.", "About 8,000 homes in the Falkirk area are without heating after a gas main failure.", "Boris Johnson says they are being supervised 'to make sure there is no threat.'", "Usman Khan, 28, was out on licence from jail when he killed two people and injured three others.", "Royal Air Force Typhoons went supersonic on Sunday morning to investigate an unresponsive aircraft.", "Members of the public pinned down the attacker and took a knife away from him.", "Jack Merritt spoke to the Law in Action podcast about his work helping prison inmates in Suffolk study law.", "Home Secretary Priti Patel clashes with Labour's Yvette Cooper over Usman Khan's prison release.", "The NHS Digital figures show a rise in patients having to wait more than two weeks in October.", "The incident took place in the early hours on the well-known Canal St, police said.", "Footage shows members of the public using a fire extinguisher and a tusk to confront Usman Khan.", "The social media giant says the Tory video infringed the BBC's intellectual property rights.", "Australian Timothy Weeks says he thinks US special forces tried to rescue him six times.", "University of Cambridge graduate Jack Merritt, described by his father as a \"beautiful spirit\", was one of two people killed by Usman Khan.", "Senior figures from seven political parties also exchanged views on the NHS and terror legislation.", "Joe Root and Rory Burns score centuries for England but the second Test in New Zealand remains in the balance.", "Plans aim to improve flood defences and see more woodland planted to combat climate change.", "The BBC says it's in the public interest, but it still wants him to be interviewed by Andrew Neil.", "England are drawn against Croatia and Czech Republic in Group D at Euro 2020, with Wales alongside Italy, Switzerland and Turkey in Group A.", "Witnesses to the London Bridge attack describe a sense of chaos as the incident unfolded.", "The chief executive of Fishmongers Hall describes how his staff fought back during the London Bridge attack.", "Usman Khan, 28, was out on licence from jail when he killed two people and injured three others.", "The Irish citizen who became an Islamic State bride arrived back in Dublin on Sunday morning.", "The families of the two people killed in Friday's attack issue tributes as they are officially named by police.", "Royal Air Force Typhoons go supersonic over south-east England to intercept an unresponsive plane.", "Loved ones remember \"funny, kind\", \"empathetic\" friends and colleagues Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones.", "Boris Johnson pays tribute to the bravery of members of the public and to the emergency services.", "Met police say attacker Usman Khan was complying with 'extensive list' of conditions.", "The party is proposing a \"one-stop shop\" for fares with no booking fees if it wins the election.", "Jo Swinson says Labour's plans to take utilities back into public ownership are \"not the way forward\".", "Watford sack manager Quique Sanchez Flores after the 2-1 loss to Southampton on Saturday.", "The mammal, believed to be a minke whale, was found below Battersea Bridge in London.", "The 23-year-old Cambridge University graduate was fatally stabbed alongside Jack Merritt.", "The Doctor Who star has cancelled shows at the start of a UK tour after being rushed to hospital.", "Andrew Marr asks Boris Johnson about his refusal to commit to an interview with the BBC's Andrew Neil.", "The \"grandmother effect\" was even stronger with grandmothers that had gone through the menopause.", "Maurice Mounsdon was one of the last surviving members of \"The Few\", who fought the Nazis in WW2.", "The 7m tree was removed less than two weeks after being put up outside Broadcasting House.", "Becky's discovery led thousands of other women to find their information had been posted.", "Ex-Paralympian Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson speaks to the BBC about the attitudes and issues she encountered during her pregnancy.", "Channel 4 debate saw representatives from Labour, the Lib Dems, SNP, Plaid Cymru and the Green Party face-off.", "\"Creative genius\" Nell Gifford died from breast cancer on Sunday surrounded by her family.", "Three days before election day, under-30s questioned politicians about Brexit, housing and climate change.", "Rocketman's Taron Egerton and Fleabag's Phoebe Waller-Bridge are among those up for prizes.", "At least 12 fire engines are sent to the fire at Lancefield Quay on the north bank of the River Clyde.", "Russia is handed a four-year ban from all major sporting events - including the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics - by the World Anti-Doping Agency.", "US puppeteer Caroll Spinney has died after a long career as Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch.", "The man was on a small vessel which got into difficulty on the Firth of Clyde in stormy weather on Saturday night.", "Boris Johnson has claimed only goods passing through on their way to the Irish Republic would be checked.", "Rosslyn Dillon says Bob Hawke asked her not to report a rape allegation as it would harm his career.", "The prime minister tours Labour seats that voted for Brexit, three days before the election.", "Chris Hopson says election debate has \"fallen short\" with regard to long-term solutions for the NHS.", "The general election may be dominating the headlines but it's not troubling the political clubs of Arnold.", "One of New Zealand's most active volcanoes has erupted, claiming the lives of tourists.", "Political posturing is harming attempts to address key issues at the UN climate talks, participants say.", "Compare where the parties stand on key issues - from Brexit and the NHS to education and the environment.", "The PM initially refused to look at the picture of the boy and took a reporter's phone away.", "Exhaust emissions from new cars have been increasing for the past three years, research suggests.", "Banksy praises Brummies' generosity as he reveals a Christmas-themed work in the city.", "James Cleverly says an investigation into prejudice in his party will get under way before the end of the year.", "Fifty years ago, people voted in the UK largely according to class, but different factors are now in play.", "Nearly 4,000 bottles of rare whisky owned by a US businessman will go on sale in an online auction next year.", "The rapper best known for viral hit Lucid Dreams reportedly suffered a seizure at a Chicago airport.", "A leaked government document says customs plans for Northern Ireland may not be ready in time.", "Chris Davies is being sued for constructive dismissal by Sarah Lewis, who discovered false invoices.", "Provides an overview of New Zealand, including key dates and facts about this South Pacific state.", "China's Ding Junhui beats Stephen Maguire to win the UK Championship - 10 years after he last lifted the title.", "A man is arrested after United players said they were targeted in their match against Manchester City.", "Shante Turay-Thomas died after falling ill at her family home in Wood Green last year.", "Gusts stronger than 80mph forecast by Met Éireann and several power outages.", "The teenager and a man are being questioned on suspicion of murdering the 25-year-old woman.", "How closely have you been following the comings and goings in the run up to the general election?", "The YouTube star, who landed last year's Christmas number one, is back - sausage rolls and all.", "Electricity supplies are restored after gales cut power and bring down trees across Wales.", "Arsenal beat West Ham to end a winless run of nine games and gain their first victory under interim boss Freddie Ljungberg.", "The winner of the ITV reality show is announced after three weeks in the Australian jungle.", "Mr Justice Edis said he had no doubt McCann was \"a threat to children\" and \"a paedophile\".", "The BBC Question Time debate also saw fiery exchanges on climate change, electoral reform and trust.", "The prime minister questions whether funding the broadcaster out of general taxation \"makes sense\".", "A woman captured the moment the White Island volcano erupted in New Zealand.", "European guidelines on a form of heart disease are under review, following a Newsnight investigation.", "It had previously been mandatory to have one entrance for families and women, and another for men.", "The former Scottish Conservative leader has hinted she may return to politics in the future.", "Which business sectors will be winners and losers when, and if, climate change policies take affect?", "Sumatran tigers are critically endangered - with fewer than 400 believed to be left in the wild.", "First, the tour firm's failure risked a surprise marriage proposal, now Corryn Banham is trying to get her money back.", "The government's Brexit legislation is on hold as the UK prepares for a general election.", "Ms McShane, who worked as a a community midwife in Ballycastle, is described as \"kind and dedicated\".", "Boris Johnson said his programme for government was the \"most radical\" in a generation.", "The singer has been accused of sharing racist jokes on an old Tumblr account.", "The men's young victim was forced to perform sex acts in a churchyard and raped above a shop.", "Will Gompertz reviews the new film adaptation of Cats starring Taylor Swift and Jennifer Hudson.", "Police believe the child illegally entered the UK and had been separated from his parents.", "He said he wanted to break up the \"never-ending\" news coverage of President Trump's impeachment.", "Peter Chilvers' \"landscape of unending misery\" on Magda Lesicka led to a breakdown, a court hears.", "Jodie Kidd discusses how her \"crippling\" anxiety forced her to quit modelling in her teens.", "Maya Forstater lost her job after she questioned government plans to let people declare their own gender.", "The BBC's experts give their analysis of what the government is, and isn't, planning for the next year.", "The match between Barcelona and Real Madrid had been postponed in October because of unrest.", "A law which would deny parole to killers who refuse to disclose the location of bodies is proposed.", "Next year is expected to be another warm year, extending the series of the hottest on record.", "Scientists say it's 'not a myth' that people on a vegan diet need extra vitamin B12.", "The Office for Students also raises concerns about \"conditional unconditional\" offers of places.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "The shadow Treasury minister is the second MP to officially enter the race to replace Jeremy Corbyn.", "The Queen sets out the government's plans in a ceremony rich with tradition.", "Incidents occur with \"depressing frequency\", the first Service Complaints Ombudsman tells the BBC.", "The A5 road upgrade, Casement Park and Ulster University's new campus are among the projects.", "A court in Edinburgh rules Natalie McGarry had suffered a miscarriage of justice.", "Hundreds of passengers struggled to get home from Victoria and London Bridge stations following a major signal failure.", "Anne and Julia care for husbands who have dementia and face agonising decisions about the future.", "Staff left the platforms at Manchester Victoria after the \"threat of serious assault\".", "An ancient ancestor of modern humans survived into relatively recent times in South East Asia.", "The 19-year-old British woman is accused of lying about being raped by Israeli tourists at an Ayia Napa hotel.", "Mia Austin, who had locked-in syndrome, wanted to do a challenge she'd apparently seen on Love Island.", "The rapper said the Christmas version of one of his hits by a Stoke-on-Trent school was \"brilliant\".", "PC Amjad Ditta, a serving officer at the time of his alleged offence, has been suspended from duty.", "Mohammed Shah Subhani is thought to have had thousands of pounds on him when he disappeared.", "Will Gompertz reviews the new film adaptation of Cats starring Taylor Swift and Jennifer Hudson.", "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi confirms Trump is impeached - and warns Democrats not to celebrate.", "The shadow foreign secretary tells the BBC she can win the contest \"from the heart of the party\".", "Scarlett Allen-Horton and Carina Lepore pitched their business ideas in Wednesday's final.", "Influencers including Lauren Goodger are filmed about promoting a drink containing cyanide.", "Ex-Crystal Palace star Neil Shipperley performed a sex act in front of a mother and her daughter.", "Scotland's first minister calls on UK government to negotiate the transfer of power to allow another independence referendum.", "Seven Brexit-focused bills and plans for extra NHS funding are unveiled in the Queen's Speech.", "We did nothing wrong, Donald Trump tells supporters in Michigan after historic vote in House.", "Holders Manchester City will face local rivals Manchester United in the EFL Cup semi-finals.", "A gunman kills one officer and wounds several others in an attack on the FSB security service.", "The Tory and Labour breakaway group failed to win any seats at the general election.", "He is making \"wonderful progress\" although he now \"feels more pain\", his family reveals.", "Terence Glover is accused of killing Harley Watson who died after being struck by a car in Essex.", "The 3.2 magnitude tremor caused houses to shake, says the British Geological Survey.", "The Labour leader says he has \"hard evidence\" disproving claims there will be no border in the Irish Sea.", "The brothers ate quickly without chewing their food properly, an earlier inquest heard.", "A series of failures in the justice system meant rapist Joseph McCann was not recalled to prison.", "The victims' barrister tells the inquiry London Fire Brigade bosses were not fit to run the service.", "Jeremy Corbyn says he has taken a neutral stance because \"the country has to come together\".", "A replacement bus service can take up to two hours to travel the 40-mile journey.", "Llinos Môn Owen says she spiralled into addiction after she started taking cocaine aged 18.", "The gunman was also shot dead in the attack in Pensacola, the second at a US naval site in a week.", "Steve Brooks and Matt Jones return back to Britain after a record 27,000-mile flight around the world.", "Campaigners call for the law surrounding the issue of consent in sexual violence crimes to be toughened up.", "Three bushfires merge into an inferno spanning 300,000 hectares, prompting warnings north of the city.", "Thomas Griffiths stabbed his ex-girlfriend Ellie Gould repeatedly in the neck in a \"frenzied attack\".", "Terence Glover is accused of killing Harley Watson, who died after being struck by a car in Essex.", "After being tipped for success, the singer will get to perform at the 2020 Brit Awards in February.", "Reporter Mark Edwardson witnessed the end of game of the huge manhunt for rapist Joseph McCann.", "They'll be the rapper's first UK festival appearances since he was banned from the country in 2015.", "An environmental charity finds 95% of Christmas jumpers on sale this year are made with plastic.", "Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn are still adored by their supporters but the rest of the public are not so sure.", "Police footage shows Joseph McCann trying to outrun officers after stealing a car belonging to one of his victims.", "Hundreds of people gather to watch as a former power station's cooling towers are brought down.", "Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn square off in a live BBC debate, less than a week out from polling day.", "Compare where the parties stand on key issues - from Brexit and the NHS to education and the environment.", "Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn go head-to-head in a live debate on the BBC.", "Two men are killed overnight, in Knightsbridge and Deptford, after another man died in Hackney.", "Scientists are getting closer to tracing the sources of meteorites that fall to Earth.", "Organisers say 500,000 people have assembled in the city as the UN hosts key climate negotiations.", "It is the first time in over a year North Korea has been openly critical of the US president.", "Dany Cotton says the \"utter devastation\" of the Grenfell Tower fire will never leave her.", "Jonty Bravery admits attempted murder after pushing the six-year-old from a 10th floor platform.", "BBC presenter tells Boris Johnson it is \"not too late\" for the PM to face questions from him.", "Important clashes with only six days to go - but the TV debate didn't shake up the big picture of this election.", "Survivors and bereaved families of the Grenfell Tower fire had called for Dany Cotton to step down.", "Managerless Arsenal's season hits a new low as they are beaten at home by struggling Brighton in interim boss Freddie Ljungberg's first home match in charge.", "The cooling towers finally come down after 50 years, as hundreds of people watch from surrounding hills.", "Sally-Ann Hart defends an article suggesting people with disabilities could be paid less.", "The 24 and 28-year-olds were found at what is believed to be a holiday home in Aberdeenshire.", "Christina Tham won silver in the Southeast Asian Games aged 12 - and has now won gold aged 50.", "Ten people were inured when a carriage fell to the ground at the M&D's theme park in North Lanarkshire.", "Robbie now has 13 solo number one albums to his name - level with the King.", "The Swedish activist tells reporters that people want to silence her because they fear change.", "Sikh couple Sandeep and Reena Mander have won nearly £120,000 in damages from a council.", "It wants to electrify England's buses by 2030, but the Tories say Labour would \"scrap vital new roads\".", "Joseph McCann raped, kidnapped and assaulted victims aged between 11 and 71 over a two-week period.", "The former PM encourages voters to back three independent candidates running against his own party.", "The Brexit Party leader claims his party are \"tearing chunks out of the Labour vote\", as three of its MEPs quit.", "The boss of Scottish Power says nationalising the energy industry will delay reaching a zero carbon future.", "The oil giant's listing is the biggest to date, surpassing that of China's Alibaba in 2014.", "The centuries-old specialist insurance market has faced a raft of complaints about bullying and sexism.", "The party says it would set up a new agency to offer support and advice to smaller companies.", "The figures come as the ride-hailing company is under intense pressure globally over safety issues.", "The collapse causes huge tailbacks, with more than 10 miles of traffic on the clockwise carriageway.", "The Democratic presidential hopeful reacts after being challenged over his son's Ukraine activities.", "The star, who was on her way to a carol concert in Chelsea, had come to the aid of an older woman.", "Alexandra Hall Hall says she can no longer work for a \"government I do not trust\".", "Nearly 12,000 children are placed in care 20 miles or more from friends and family, a report shows.", "The Spanish reporter told her colleagues live on air that she was \"not coming to work tomorrow\".", "Father-of-three Shazad Saddique, 38, died while his wife was expecting their fourth child.", "Teresa Xu challenges a Chinese law forbidding unmarried women to freeze their eggs.", "Melania Geymonat and Christine Hannigan were subjected to the abuse on a London bus.", "Grenfell Tower blaze survivors dismiss a parade for Dany Cotton as a \"street party\".", "Two women were killed outside a Sussex house and a man arrested remains critically ill in hospital.", "Greeting sent to friends and family features photo of seven-month-old crawling towards the camera.", "A Scottish salmon farmer moves to tackle the sale of fake products ahead of a planned US expansion.", "Police said their decision \"follows extensive shoreline and substantial aerial searches\".", "Marley, from Stoke-on-Trent, needed emergency treatment after scoffing toxic Christmas treats.", "The Duke of Edinburgh returns to Sandringham for Christmas after four nights in a London hospital.", "The animal drank from a bottle before running back into an area of unburnt scrub in south Australia.", "There is no sign Anthony Knott left the Sussex town he was visiting on a Christmas work night out.", "The King, his siblings, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.", "If accidentally swallowed, the tiny batteries can burn and choke young children, doctors warn.", "Donald Trump confessed that he is yet to buy a Christmas present for his wife, Melania.", "Ben Stokes did not train with England on Tuesday after his father was admitted to hospital after suffering a serious illness.", "She caught the 10:42 Great Northern service from London King's Cross to King's Lynn.", "Zipporah Kuria, whose father died on board a 737 Max, met with the European aviation safety regulator.", "A man has been taken to hospital following the collision near Falkirk shortly on Christmas Eve.", "The move follows the deaths of US-trained dogs due to negligence - one died of heat stroke.", "A profile of the Duke of Edinburgh, who is standing down from public life from the autumn.", "The party received £1.4m in the final two days - including £500,000 from mobile phone mogul John Caudwell.", "Boris Johnson and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn pay tribute to NHS staff and other public sector workers.", "The firm says it hopes to \"restore confidence\" but still faces questions about its commitment to safety.", "A 35-year-old man is in custody after the discovery of the bodies of two people in north Belfast.", "The Love Island host's boyfriend was found \"covered in blood\" after he dialled 999, a court hears.", "There is hope faster TB tests on cattle can help stop infection spreading - and stop healthy animals being culled.", "Tottenham's investigation into the alleged racist abuse of Chelsea's Antonio Rudiger has so far offered \"inconclusive\" findings.", "Safety regulator allowed the aircraft to continue flying despite its own analysis flagging warnings.", "\"He robbed the bank, came out, threw the money all over the place,\" one witness said.", "Russia's alternative to the global internet would cut its citizens off from some foreign services.", "The Queen is in Sandringham for Christmas, while the Duke of Edinburgh remains in a London hospital.", "Several people were injured in a balloon drop at Westfield Parramatta mall in Sydney.", "The producers cut the scene so the film didn't get a higher age rating, the film regulator says.", "A British man and his two children were found unresponsive in a pool at a hotel on Spain's Costa del Sol.", "The bus carrying 50 people plunges 150m (500ft) into a river in South Sumatra province.", "Elsie, three, has a rare form of epilepsy and has been in hospital since last Christmas Eve.", "Tony Occleshaw, 64, is at home having end-of-life care for bladder cancer.", "Sailors and Royal Marines spotted a \"suspicious\" ship during a patrol in the Arabian Sea.", "The 17-year-old girl was found \"unresponsive and unconscious\" in her hotel room, New York police say.", "The discovery was made by scientists at a 4,000-year-old archaeological site in the Hebrides.", "An anonymous donor helps eight-year-old Anna Drysdale reach her cancer treatment funding target.", "Defence Secretary Ben Wallace pays tribute to the \"selflessness\" of armed forces personnel.", "Bethany Haines hopes to locate the remains of her father, David, who was beheaded by the Islamic State group in Syria.", "Evidence suggests fires which prompted a mass evacuation from Valparaíso were started deliberately.", "A study attempts to assess the devastation caused by the invasive emerald ash borer in US forests.", "The monarch refers to the importance of reconciliation and how \"small steps\" can heal divisions.", "The Canadian pop star announces he is releasing a single in January and will go on tour from May.", "Anastasia Uglow, 17, was found \"unresponsive and unconscious\" in her hotel room, police say.", "The men were arrested as part of a large 2010 operation with help of London's Metropolitan police.", "Josh Quigley, from Livingston, survived a 70mph crash in the US while attempting to cycle round the world.", "How well do you remember the campaign? Try Richard Osman's election quiz and find out", "Huw Edwards announces that the exit poll suggests Boris Johnson is on course for a majority.", "John Crilly, who fought the London Bridge attacker, says he shouted for police to shoot Usman Khan.", "Researchers say the rock star did not introduce the non-native species in Carnaby Street in the 60s.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "Asia stocks rose after the two sides reportedly reached a deal days before new tariffs were due to start.", "A factory in France is trialling a more efficient way of packaging orders, Emma Simpson reports.", "They're among 10 acts tipped for success in the annual BBC list, previously won by Adele and Sigrid.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "Drug dealer Ayoub Majdouline repeatedly stabbed Jaden Moodie in a targeted attack in London.", "Election night could be a long one for financial traders, with sterling the most sensitive market to political events.", "He said the teenage activist - who won Time Person of the Year - had an \"anger management problem\".", "One firm lets employees work from the comfort of their own sofa, even after they've been out drinking.", "The SNP makes big gains across Scotland, including the defeat of Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson.", "A ricochet bullet from the London Bridge terror attack could have gone straight through a bus.", "Denman Glacier reaches down to more than 3,500m below sea level. Only ocean trenches go deeper.", "Non-medicinal CBD is now on sale in High Street shops across the country, including chemists.", "Ben Roberts spends up to £1,600 a month ordering in, more than three times the national average for a year.", "The money had been in police stores waiting for the \"rightful owner\" but they did not come forward.", "Ryan Sessegnon marks his first Tottenham start with a goal but cannot prevent Spurs from losing to Bayern Munich in their final Champions League group game.", "Compare where the parties stand on key issues - from Brexit and the NHS to education and the environment.", "Jailed banker's wife Zamira Hajiyeva says she has been unfairly targeted by the National Crime Agency.", "If the exit poll is correct Boris Johnson will have the backing to take the UK out of the EU next month.", "The BBC's Shaimaa Khalil flies close to White Island, while it continues to spew toxic gas.", "Find out how to stay in touch with live election results on TV, radio, online, and on social media.", "Manchester United seal top spot in their Europa League group with a comfortable win over AZ Alkmaar at Old Trafford.", "See the candidates and latest news in your constituency", "Tests are being carried out to find out why about 225 starlings died and if they had been poisoned.", "Emissions from the region made a major contribution to global greenhouse gas levels in 2010-2016.", "She is one of Scotland's biggest film stars, but Karen Gillan says her young dreams took a few knocks.", "PM Benjamin Netanyahu and his main rival, Benny Gantz, have been unable to form majority coalitions.", "The 16-year-old Swedish schoolgirl has inspired a global movement to fight climate change.", "The picture of a family dressed in finery features in an exhibition charting 150 years of visitors.", "The FTSE is higher while sterling hits its highest level against the dollar since June last year.", "Millions of people are casting their vote in the third general election in less than five years.", "Tears as carol singers bring Christmas cheer to the door of the 78-year-old.", "Premier League interim chief executive Richard Masters has been given the job on a permanent basis.", "Compare where the parties stand on key issues - from Brexit and the NHS to education and the environment.", "The owner of the Supercuts and Regis hairdressing chains has been saved from administration.", "We visit a constitution law class a few miles from where the US president faces an impeachment inquiry.", "Former Beatle Sir Paul says he has no plans to release his demo of traditional carol instrumentals.", "With all seats declared, the Tory party have a majority of 80 - the largest since 1987.", "Find the detailed result from your constituency with our postcode search.", "The BBC is not allowed to report details of campaigning while the polls are open.", "The Post Office is to pay almost £58m to settle a long-running dispute with sub-postmasters and postmistresses.", "Tributes are paid to the \"larger-than-life\" TV broadcaster, scientist and conservationist.", "The Tories win their biggest majority since the 1980s, as Jeremy Corbyn says he will not lead Labour into the next election, and Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson loses her seat.", "Around 200 environmental campaigners are barred from climate talks after Greta Thunberg speaks.", "A lawsuit accuses Apple, Google, Tesla, Microsoft and others of using cobalt mined by child labour.", "A judge's ruling over the IT system comes after the Post Office offered a £58m deal for workers.", "Food systems are behind poor growth and over-eating in many low-income countries, a report says.", "It is the first week of Boris Johnson's new Conservative government following the election.", "The Scottish first minister tells the BBC that if the union is to continue, \"it can only be by consent\".", "The body of former British soldier James Le Mesurier was found near his Istanbul flat in November.", "Commuters criticise rail firms Northern and Transpennine Express over the cancellations and delays.", "The pop star will make her Glastonbury debut on the Pyramid Stage this summer, organisers say.", "The Love Island host has been the subject of a \"witch hunt\", partner Lewis Burton says.", "It is not clear who opened the SS officer's unmarked grave - police say no remains were taken.", "Accusers react to the movie mogul's claims that his female empowerment legacy is being destroyed.", "The Swedish star, 29, has been involved in accusations of racism and anti-Semitism in recent years.", "Emmerdale actor Kelvin Fletcher lifted the trophy in one of the most watched programmes of 2019.", "Former politicians who failed to win the vote share how it feels to lose their seat as an MP.", "A former insider tells Panorama that SPAC Nation, led by Pastor Tobi Adegboyega, \"has to be shut down\".", "Every department from health to housing, transport and education will see funding go up from April.", "The man is critically ill after being shot by police on a street in Hull.", "Here are some of the MPs who could exert influence in the newly elected House of Commons.", "The Duchess of Cambridge says her son spoke after recognising the face of the TV cook on a book.", "Discounting by retailers in the run-up to Christmas is predicted to reach record heights in 2019.", "Brexit officially happened on 31 January but the UK is now in a transition period until the end of 2020.", "The Amazon-owned streaming giant is facing claims it illegally broadcast matches.", "The 1.5m-tall, 14-year-old Tomintoul holds the equivalent of 150 normal-sized bottles of whisky.", "The Northern Ireland secretary met the leaders of the five biggest parties at Stormont on Monday.", "England cricketer Ben Stokes is voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2019.", "Firefighters smashed through a wall to rescue the boy who was trapped between two buildings.", "Amy Dalla Mura called Anna Soubry a \"traitor\" on live television and interrupted interviews.", "A vehicle pulling a trailer full of the Christmas dinner vegetable overturned in Queensferry Road in Rosyth.", "A charity says the deaths are \"not acceptable\" and urges visitors to keep their distance.", "Analysis in of the 2019 general election in maps and charts.", "The city says the buildings, built in 1913, are unsafe - 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"England", null, "Highlands & Islands", "UK", null, "Hampshire & Isle of Wight", "Australia", "Election 2019", null, "Entertainment & Arts", "Science & Environment", null, "Election 2019", "UK", "Bristol", null, "UK", "Business"], "content": ["Boris Johnson has defended the controversial £4bn takeover of UK defence and aerospace company Cobham by a US private equity firm.\n\nThe government approved the sale of Cobham to Advent International on Friday, after the deal was delayed because of national security concerns.\n\nFormer First Sea Lord Admiral Lord West said Cobham holds defence technologies which are \"critically important\".\n\nBut the PM said \"a lot of checks\" had been gone through to satisfy concerns.\n\nSpeaking on a trip to see British troops in Estonia, Mr Johnson said: \"I think it's very important that we should have an open and dynamic market economy.\n\n\"A lot of checks have been gone through to make sure that in that particular case all the security issues that might be raised can be satisfied and the UK will continue to be a very, very creative and dynamic contributor to that section of industry and all others.\"\n\nAdvent International made its initial offer in July and it was approved by shareholders in August.\n\nThe government ordered a review from the competition regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), a week after Admiral Lord West expressed concerns, in an interview with the Daily Mail,\n\nThe CMA's report, published at the end of October, said the MoD had outlined two main areas of security concern over the sale:\n\nIn a statement on Friday, Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom said she was satisfied the risks that had been identified had been mitigated \"to an acceptable level\" - and allowed the deal to go ahead.\n\nBut Admiral Lord West said that while he was \"delighted\" that was the case, \"it does mean that there are national security risks that are being mitigated\".\n\nHe stressed the importance of maintaining defence capabilities in what he called a \"chaotic and rapidly changing world where old alliances are no longer certain\", adding \"no other advanced industrial nation and certainly no permanent member of the UN Security Council is so cavalier about giving up such capabilities\".\n\nSir Ed Davey, acting leader of the Lib Dems, described the move as \"deeply concerning\".\n\nHe added that \"we have yet to see evidence\" that the previous concerns over national security had been mitigated.\n\nThe decision to approve the takeover was described as \"deeply disappointing' by Lady Nadine Cobham - part of the family which set up the UK firm.\n\nShe criticised the timing of the announcement, saying it was \"cynically timed to avoid scrutiny on the weekend before Christmas\", adding: \"In one of its first major economic decisions, the government is not taking back control so much as handing it away.\"\n\nShonnel Malani, partner at Advent, said the firm took the takeover \"seriously\".\n\n\"We are confident the transaction and undertakings being given on national security, jobs and future investment, provide important long-term assurances for both Cobham's employees and customers, particularly in the UK and also globally,\" Mr Malani added.\n\nCobham, which employs 10,000 people, has extensive contracts with the British military and is seen as a world leader in air-to-air refuelling technology.\n\nThe firm, based in Wimborne, Dorset, also makes electronic warfare systems and communications for military vehicles.\n\nIts expertise played a significant role in the Falklands War, allowing the Royal Air Force to attack the remote Port Stanley airfield.\n\nMrs Leadsom said the decision had been \"meticulously thought over\" and that she had taken advice from the defence secretary and the deputy national security adviser.\n\nShe added that sensitive government information would continue to be protected under the new owner and existing contracts would be honoured.\n\nThe company is also obliged to give the government prior notice of any plans to sell the whole, or elements of, Cobham's business.\n\nJust before 10pm on a Friday is an odd time for this kind of thing to be announced.\n\nOne defence analyst remarked that it was as if the government rather wanted no-one to notice what had happened.\n\nThe curious timing may actually draw more attention than if it had been done at a more normal hour - few doubted the government would block the deal, and shareholders in Cobham have already voted overwhelmingly in favour.\n\nIt says something of the sensitive nature of Cobham's business that much of the published version of the competition regulator's report on the takeover was simply blacked out.\n\nIn one unedited passage of the report, the Ministry of Defence said if the deal went ahead there was \"a risk that the institutional framework and safeguards required by the government's security framework may be undermined\".\n\nAviation pioneer Sir Alan Cobham became a household name in the 1930s\n\nCobham plc is a group of defence and technology businesses which started out as a family firm founded by Sir Alan Cobham.\n\nSir Alan became a flying instructor in 1918 after volunteering to join the Royal Air Force during World War One.\n\nHe received a knighthood from King George V in 1926 for his pioneering work in aviation.\n\nSir Alan became a household name after devising Cobham's Flying Circus in the early 1930s. The aeronautical acrobatics show toured England and South Africa.\n\nHe then went on to focus on air-to-air refuelling and formed Flight Refuelling Limited in 1934, which developed into Cobham plc as it is known today.\n\nAside from aviation, Cobham's innovations include lightweight tanks, radar technology for maritime defence and spacecraft technology.", "The crash was at a busy junction on the A9 on the Black Isle\n\nA 16-year-old boy has died after a crash involving three cars in the Highlands.\n\nHe was a passenger in a Vauxhall Corsa caught up in the collision on the Black Isle, close to the A9's junction with the B9161 Munlochy road.\n\nThe driver of the car was taken to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness after the crash, which took place at about 18:55 on Friday.\n\nPolice have appealed for witnesses to make contact with them.\n\nThe occupants of the two other vehicles, a Nissan Juke and a VW Polo, are not believed to have been injured.\n\nSgt Angus Murray of Police Scotland said: \"We are supporting the young man's family at this time and inquiries are ongoing to establish the full circumstances of the crash.\n\n\"I would encourage anyone who may have seen what happened to contact us. I would also ask if there are drivers with dash-cam footage which might help with our investigation to call us.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This tornado was filmed on the M25 near Chertsey in Surrey, where homes and gardens were damaged\n\nA tornado has hit Surrey as more than 90 flood warnings remain in place across southern and eastern England, the Midlands and Yorkshire.\n\nOne Chertsey resident said it blew the roof off her conservatory. Firefighters said homes and cars were also damaged.\n\nMore downpours are expected with 30mm of rain forecast, prompting a severe warning across southern England until noon on Sunday.\n\nSome 91 flood warnings and 237 flood alerts are in place.\n\nMotorists embarking on the Christmas getaway are being advised to check their routes in advance.\n\nThe Met Office confirmed a tornado had struck the Chertsey area.\n\nVerity Boultwood said the tornado blew the roof off her conservatory\n\nCrews were called at about 10:30 GMT \"to a high wind incident affecting a number of houses in the Chertsey area,\" Surrey Fire and Rescue Service said in a statement.\n\nFour fire engines and two aerial ladders were sent and they worked to \"make houses safe from damage to roofs\".\n\nChertsey resident Verity Boultwood said the tornado blew the roof off her conservatory.\n\n\"In the past it has withstood bad weather. Luckily nobody was hurt and my partner has managed to fix it.\n\n\"One of my neighbours has smashed windows. Trampolines have flown across the gardens here.\"\n\nA trampoline was also knocked over\n\nFellow resident Philip Passey said he froze when he saw the tornado, which he thought lasted about 40 seconds.\n\n\"The leaves were going horizontal. I said, 'That looks like a tornado.' There was a huge roar, then nothing.\n\n\"A trampoline lifted up in the air, like it weighed nothing, and was thrown across the garden. My daughter came downstairs and said the shed roof had gone.\n\n\"One shed has disappeared; one blown apart, one has no roof on it. Son said there was a tree across the garden, two cars have been written off.\n\n\"In the farm across the road, we heard a dog broke his leg.\"\n\nThe tornado came after roads were flooded and rail lines blocked on Friday. The M23 was closed between junctions 10 and 11 in both directions in West Sussex, but has now reopened.\n\nMet Office meteorologist Alex Deakin said: \"Because it's been so very wet across the south this extra rain falling on to saturated ground could cause some further problems, so there is a weather warning in force scooting along southern counties during Saturday evening.\"\n\nMr Deakin said the rain was coming from a \"fairly angry weather system\" which would also bring some \"very strong winds\".\n\nThe M23 was closed because of flooding but has now reopened\n\nIan Nunn, from the Environment Agency, said weather in the south of England was expected to get worse overnight.\n\n\"Today we've got a relatively dry period, but we've got more rain coming tonight, possibly up to another 20mm, so although the situation is getting better today, we are going to see it getting worse overnight and into tomorrow morning.\n\n\"After that we've got more rain on Sunday and more rain on Monday as well so it's not going to get any better.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Weather forecast as further downpours are due across Wales and England after days of heavy rain.\n\nBut he added that after Christmas there would be a drier period, \"so hopefully things will calm down then\".\n\nHighways England has urged motorists to adapt their driving for wet weather by slowing down, keeping well back from the vehicle in front and easing off the accelerator if steering becomes unresponsive.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People with severe epilepsy will be able to access a cannabis-based medicine on the NHS from early next year after it was fast-tracked for use.\n\nNHS England said doctors would be able to prescribe Epidyolex from 6 January.\n\nIt will be for children from age two, as well as adults, but some campaigners warn it is \"too little too late\".\n\nClinical trials have shown the oral solution, which contains cannabidiol (CBD), could reduce the number of seizures by up to 40% in some children.\n\nThe medicine will be used to treat two rare, but severe, forms of childhood epilepsy - Lennox Gastaut syndrome and Dravet syndrome - which can cause multiple seizures a day.\n\nEpilepsy Action's chief executive Philip Lee welcomed the announcement, saying it \"brings much-needed hope and could be life-changing for some\".\n\nHowever, he added that Epidyolex was not \"a silver bullet\" and there was more work to be done to \"collect robust high-quality evidence of the effectiveness of other cannabis-based medicines\".\n\nMedical cannabis campaigner Peter Carroll said it was \"too little, too late\" as he urged action towards making medicinal cannabis with CBD and tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) available for families in need.\n\nTHC is the psycho-active component of cannabis.\n\nSpeaking to BBC News, he said: \"What's shown to have a transforming effect for children in desperate need is a CBD medicine with a little bit of THC, but those are unlicensed in the UK at the moment.\"\n\nMr Carroll added: \"The law was changed in November 2018 so that specialist doctors could write a prescription for medical cannabis with the CBD and THC, even though they are unlicensed.\n\n\"Shockingly, to our knowledge, not a single prescription for the medicine with those two parts was issued on the NHS since the law was changed.\"\n\nAn official NHS review earlier this year found that a \"lack of evidence\" was holding back cannabis medicines, which specialist doctors have been allowed to prescribe in the UK since the law change last year.\n\nDecisions on drug availability are devolved around the UK.\n\nIt is estimated there are 3,000 people with Dravet and 5,000 with Lennox Gastaut syndrome in England.\n\nNHS chief executive Simon Stevens said that thousands of people would now have access to the treatment \"which has the potential to make a real difference\".", "The Duke of Edinburgh has spent the night in hospital after being admitted as a \"precautionary measure\".\n\nPrince Philip, 98, travelled from the Queen's Sandringham Estate, in Norfolk, to London's King Edward VII Hospital on Friday morning.\n\nBuckingham Palace said the admission was for \"observation and treatment in relation to a pre-existing condition\".\n\nThe BBC's Simon Jones said the Royal Family will be hoping the duke is able to return to Sandringham for Christmas.\n\nThe palace said the duke went to hospital on the advice of his doctor. But it refused to confirm or deny reports the duke was flown to London by helicopter and then driven by car for the last part of the journey.\n\nThe duke walked into hospital and is expected to remain there for a few days.\n\nAs he was travelling to London, the Queen was on her way to Sandringham for the start of her Christmas break.\n\nShe caught the 10:42 GMT Great Northern service from London's King's Cross and was later pictured stepping off the train at King's Lynn railway station.\n\nMembers of the media have set up camp outside the hospital\n\nWhile Prince Philip remains in hospital, the surrounding streets are full of TV satellite trucks from around the world, waiting to broadcast the latest news on his condition.\n\nBuckingham Palace hasn't released any further statements overnight - though that's to be expected. The Duke is known as a deeply private person who doesn't like a fuss.\n\nThe palace won't want to give a running commentary on any treatment he might be receiving.\n\nFor as long as it's unclear though why he's been admitted to hospital, speculation will continue - and one key question is whether he'll be well enough to join the Queen at Sandringham for Christmas.\n\nAlthough there's concern about the duke's condition, in palace circles there's not a sense of alarm. I think we see that by the fact that the Queen has decided to continue with her Christmas traditions rather than remaining here in London.\n\nLast Christmas, Prince Philip missed the royals' traditional Christmas Day trip to church.\n\nIn February, it was announced he had given up his driving licence. It came after he was involved in a car crash with another vehicle near the Sandringham Estate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Queen will be spending Christmas at her Sandringham Estate\n\nSince retiring from official solo royal duties in 2017, the duke has appeared in public alongside the Queen and other members of the Royal Family at events and church services.\n\nHe was treated for a blocked coronary artery in 2011. The following year, he suffered a bladder infection and was forced to miss the Queen's Diamond Jubilee concert.\n\nHe was also taken to hospital for an abdomen operation in 2013 and, in 2014, underwent surgery on his right hand.\n\nLast year he had a hip replacement at the same central London hospital that he is now attending.\n• None Prince Philip taken to hospital 'as a precaution'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMPs have backed Prime Minister Boris Johnson's plan for the UK to leave the EU on 31 January.\n\nThey voted 358 to 234 - a majority of 124 - in favour of the EU (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill, which now goes on to further scrutiny in Parliament.\n\nThe bill would also ban an extension of the transition period - during which the UK is out of the EU but follows many of its rules - past 2020.\n\nThe PM said the country was now \"one step closer to getting Brexit done\".\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn told his MPs to vote against the bill, saying there was \"a better and fairer way\" to leave the EU - but six of them backed the government.\n\nMr Johnson insists a trade deal with the EU can be in place by the end of the transition period, but critics say this timescale is unrealistic.\n\nThe bill had been expected to pass easily after the Conservatives won an 80-seat majority at last week's general election.\n\nMPs also backed the timetable for further debate on the bill over three days when they return after the Christmas recess - on 7, 8 and 9 January.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive How did your MP vote? Enter a postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nThe government says it will get the bill into law in time for the 31 January Brexit deadline.\n\nThe legislation, which would implement the Brexit agreement the prime minister reached with the EU in October, was introduced in Thursday's Queen's Speech, setting out the government's priorities for the next year.\n\n\"Getting Brexit done\" turned out to be a useful slogan, and no doubt it helped Boris Johnson win the election.\n\nBut almost nothing in politics is truly simple - least of all Brexit.\n\nToday he passed an historic milestone - but the destination is still some way off.\n\nRuling out any extension to the Brexit transition period might mean Britain leaves with no deal - equally some in government believe it's possible we could see a kind of phased trade deal with the EU, thrashed out over the months and maybe years ahead.\n\nThere are changes to the previous bill, which was backed by the Commons in October, but withdrawn by the government after MPs rejected a three-day deadline for getting it through Parliament.\n\nThe bill also loses a previous clause on strengthening workers' rights.\n\nThe government now says it will deal with this issue in a separate piece of legislation, but the TUC has warned that the change will help \"drive down\" working conditions.\n\nBeginning the debate in the Commons, the prime minister said his bill \"learns the emphatic lesson of the last Parliament\" and \"rejects any further delay\".\n\n\"It ensures we depart on 31 January. At that point Brexit will be done. It will be over,\" he told MPs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"We still believe this is a terrible deal\"\n\nLabour leader Mr Corbyn said the government's \"mishandling of Brexit\" had \"paralysed the political system,\" divided communities and was a \"national embarrassment\".\n\nHe said MPs \"have to respect the decision\" of the EU referendum in 2016 \"and move on\".\n\n\"However, that doesn't mean that we as a party should abandon our basic principles,\" he said.\n\n\"Labour will not support this bill, as we remain certain there is a better and fairer way for this country to leave the EU.\"\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader, Ian Blackford, said: \"Scotland still totally and utterly rejects Brexit, yet the prime minister is blindly hurtling towards the cliff edge with these Brexit plans that will leave us poorer, leave us worse off.\"\n\nOn the change in the bill that would legally prohibit the government from extending the transition period beyond 31 December 2020, Mr Blackford said: \"By placing that deadline, that risk of a no-deal Brexit, that we all fear is very much, is on the table again.\"\n\nAnd the Democratic Unionist Party's Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said there was a \"major contradiction\" in the prime minister's deal \"that causes us great concern\".\n\nHe said, while it mentioned \"unfettered access\" for Northern Ireland when it comes to trade in the UK, it also had customs arrangements \"that inhibit our ability to have that unfettered access\".\n\nIn the 2016 referendum, the UK voted by 52% to 48% to leave the EU. But the subsequent difficulties in getting Brexit through Parliament have caused gridlock at Westminster.\n\nAn earlier withdrawal agreement - reached between previous PM Mrs May and the EU - was rejected three times by MPs.", "In London more than 40% of pupils get extra help from private tutors\n\nAn east London secondary school with high levels of deprivation is paying for private tuition to help pupils with their GCSE exams.\n\nUrswick school in Hackney is buying one-to-one lessons with its \"pupil premium\" money, given to schools to support disadvantaged pupils.\n\nAssistant head Naomi Dews said her pupils should not miss out on private tuition available to richer families.\n\n\"Why should they be penalised by where they're born?\" she said.\n\nBut the National Education Union says schools \"should not have to resort to using pupil premium money to provide tuition\".\n\nThe union's co-leader Kevin Courtney says schools should have enough funding for their own staff, without having to use the pupil premium to buy in additional support.\n\nAlthough parents might pay for extra lessons for their children, it is unusual for a school to use its budget this way.\n\nAccording to research from the Sutton Trust education charity, 41% of pupils in London get private tuition.\n\nBut Ms Dews says in her school almost none of her pupils' families can afford a tutor.\n\nHer school has very high levels of deprivation - about three quarters of pupils are eligible for pupil premium payments, compared with a national average of about a quarter.\n\nThe school is using £10,000 of its pupil premium per year to pay for the tuition\n\nMs Dews says the school decided to level the playing field by using £10,000 per year of its pupil premium to pay for tuition for students taking or re-taking GCSE maths.\n\n\"It opens a huge number of doors if you can pass at English and maths,\" she says.\n\nThe maths department picks 35 students who would benefit from an hour per week of individual tuition, delivered in the school day through an online connection to tutors from the MyTutor firm.\n\n\"It's a great help for some students with less confidence and resilience,\" says Ms Dews.\n\n\"It's not a substitute for a teacher, but it has real advantages.\n\n\"It's one to one, they can ask questions they want, they can go back to lessons they didn't understand,\" says Ms Dews.\n\nAccess to private tutors gives wealthier families an advantage, says the Sutton Trust\n\nBut why couldn't the school provide the tuition itself?\n\n\"There isn't a spare teacher who could cover 35 hours per week,\" she says.\n\nIt would mean hiring another teacher, and apart from maths teachers being in short supply, it would be more expensive for the school.\n\nStacey, a pupil who has been using the maths tutors, says she has \"definitely made progress\".\n\n\"You can spend time on things you struggle with,\" she says. \"All young people should have the same opportunity.\"\n\nJalen said it helped to be \"able to work at my own pace\".\n\nSchools across England have received about £2.4bn in pupil premium funding this year, based on factors such as pupils on free school meals or children in local authority care.\n\nThe purpose is to raise the achievement of disadvantaged pupils, but it is up to individual schools to decide how to use their allocation.\n\nResearch from the Sutton Trust and the National Foundation for Educational Research has shown the use of tutors is skewed towards wealthier families and to those living in London.\n\nIt found that 27% of secondary school pupils had private tuition - but this rose to 34% in better-off households and 41% for pupils in London.\n\nThe Sutton Trust has warned this is a hidden form of advantage in exam results.\n\nHead teachers' leader Geoff Barton backed the use of pupil premium for private tuition, saying school leaders should make their own decisions about what made the biggest difference.\n\n\"The evidence shows that one-to-one tuition can be an effective approach to boosting progress,\" said the leader of the Association of School and College Leaders.\n\n\"However it is expensive to provide this additional level of support in schools and buying in a service could be a cost-effective method of supporting students in this way,\" said Mr Barton.\n\nBut the National Education Union said the scheme was a reflection of school funding problems and teacher shortages.\n\n\"The idea of doing this would not even occur to schools if they were able to recruit and retain enough maths teachers,\" said Mr Courtney, the union's joint general secretary.\n\n\"What is needed is for all schools to have the funding and the staff necessary to ensure every child gets the education they deserve,\" he said.", "Martin Peters gives England a 2-1 lead in the 1966 World Cup final against West Germany at Wembley.\n\nAvailable to UK users only", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Crilly describes how the attack unfolded, and what he did next\n\nA reformed ex-prisoner who fought the London Bridge knife attacker with a fire extinguisher has said he was prepared to die to protect others.\n\nJohn Crilly, who was jailed for murder after a burglary went wrong, said he tackled Usman Khan while believing he was wearing a live suicide belt.\n\n\"I was screaming at him to blow it. I was prepared to lose my life.\"\n\nAs he and others fought Khan on the street, he shouted at police to shoot the attacker.\n\nIn his first broadcast interview since the attack, Crilly, 48, told of the moment armed police confronted the knifeman on London Bridge.\n\nHe said: \"It seemed like ages before they shot him. It wasn't all gung-ho and trigger happy, they proper took their time, to the point where I did scream 'shoot him'.\"\n\nKhan, convicted of terrorist offences in 2012, killed two people - Cambridge University graduates Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones - and wounded three others when he launched a knife attack on 29 November at 13:58 GMT during a prisoner rehabilitation conference at Fishmongers' Hall.\n\nJohn Crilly (left) with Jack Merritt, the Cambridge University graduate killed in the London Bridge terror attack\n\nCrilly had been attending the Learning Together conference and remembers hearing a \"very high-pitched girl's scream\" when he knew something was wrong.\n\nHe went downstairs to find Miss Jones, 23, lying wounded, before he saw Khan in the corridor, armed with two knives.\n\nAfter shouting at Khan, asking him what he was doing, Crilly remembers his chilling reply: \"He says something like 'kill everyone' or 'kill you', something about killing people.\"\n\nWhen asked if he thought Khan was targeting specific people, he said: \"It seemed like everyone there was fair game.\n\n\"I just assume now that he just saw it as a big target. A room full of establishment people - judges, probation, police, security.\"\n\nJack Merritt and Saskia Jones were killed during a conference to rehabilitate offenders\n\nStaff and participants of the conference attacked Khan with whatever they could find.\n\nCrilly fought him first with a wooden lectern and then a fire extinguisher, all the while believing he was wearing a live suicide belt.\n\nHe said he acted on \"instinct\" and \"was screaming at [Khan] to blow it [the belt]... calling his bluff.\"\n\nBut he said Khan told him he was \"waiting for the police\" to arrive before detonating the belt, which police later found to be fake.\n\n\"I was prepared to probably lose my life\", he said.\n\nTwo men used a pole and a whale tusk ripped from the venue's wall to fight off Khan and force him out of the building.\n\nCrilly and others used their makeshift weapons to pursue Khan onto the street on London Bridge.\n\nIn video footage, he is seen using the spray from a fire extinguisher to blind Khan, while another man held him back with the whale tusk.\n\nHe said: \"The spray distracted him if you watch the footage. And the guy with the tusk has been able to give him a prod which has unbalanced him.\"\n\nOther bystanders intervened to pin Khan down before police shot him dead at 14:03.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for rights reasons\n\nCrilly was close friends with Mr Merritt, 25, the co-ordinator of the Learning Together programme who he says changed his life.\n\nHe described Mr Merritt as \"easy to talk to\" and who \"made you feel comfortable, even important\".\n\n\"He actually listened and you could tell he was really genuinely interested.\"\n\nThe people that intervened to try and halt Khan's attack have been widely praised as \"amazing heroes\".\n\nAsked if he considers himself a hero, Crilly said: \"No. Jack gave up his life, he would be my hero.\"\n\nJack Merritt was \"easy to talk to... and made you feel comfortable\"\n\nCrilly was given a life sentence for murder and robbery in 2005 after he and his associate David Flynn broke into the home of 71-year-old man in Manchester.\n\nThe pensioner died after being punched in the face by Flynn.\n\nCrilly was convicted under the joint enterprise law - which can apply to all crimes, but has recently been used to convict defendants in gang-related cases even if they did not strike the fatal blow, but could have foreseen that their associates might inflict serious harm or kill.\n\nIt was known as the \"foresight\" test and some believed it set the prosecutorial bar too low, allowing bit-part players or those on the periphery to be convicted of murder and given life sentences.\n\nHowever, in February 2016, the Supreme Court ruled the law had been interpreted wrongly for more than 30 years.\n\nThe foresight test went and a higher test was introduced.\n\nTo be guilty of murder, the prosecution had to prove that the defendant intended to assist or encourage the crime.\n\nHowever, most of those who wanted to appeal against their convictions were out of time, and the Supreme Court said they had to show they would suffer a \"substantial injustice\" if they were not allowed to appeal out of time.\n\nWhen he heard about the overturning of the joint enterprise law in 2016, he believed it would apply to his case.\n\nAfter a successful appeal against his murder conviction, Crilly pleaded guilty to manslaughter, becoming the first person since 2016 to have a joint enterprise murder conviction quashed.\n\nHe was released on licence last year after serving 13 years in prison. No-one else has successfully appealed such a conviction since 2016.\n\nCrilly pleaded guilty to manslaughter after his murder conviction was overturned\n\nSpeaking at the time, the victim's family said the \"incident had a devastating effect on the family who took a number of years to come to terms with their father's death\".\n\nThey said it was \"sickening\" to hear of his early release from prison \"for his part in the murder of our father\".\n\n\"We wish him well but also wish that our father were alive and free to live his life.\"\n\nThe campaign group Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by Association (Jengba), which helped bring about the law change, works with people who have been convicted of murder or manslaughter under joint enterprise.\n\nCo-founder Jan Cunliffe said the group is always mindful of the victims of crime. She claims that although the law change is welcome, the introduction of a \"substantial injustice\" test for retrospective cases has made it harder for people to appeal against their convictions.\n\nShe said although Crilly did commit crimes when he was younger, \"everybody should have the opportunity to turn their life around\".\n\n\"If John hadn't been there and been kept in prison for life, he wouldn't have been there to save lives that day.\"\n\nIn the new year, the group will campaign for the abolition of life sentences for children convicted of murder under the joint enterprise law.", "The government has approved a US private equity firm's takeover of UK defence and aerospace company Cobham.\n\nAdvent International made a £4bn offer to buy Cobham in July, but it was delayed when the government intervened over national security concerns.\n\nThe government announced its approval of the deal late on Friday night - which the firm's founding family said was \"timed to avoid scrutiny\".\n\nPM Boris Johnson said the UK remained a \"dynamic\" part of the defence industry.\n\nCobham, which employs 10,000 people, has extensive contracts with the British military and is seen as a world leader in air-to-air refuelling technology.\n\nThe firm, based in Wimborne, Dorset, also makes electronic warfare systems and communications for military vehicles.\n\nIts expertise played a significant role in the Falklands War, allowing the Royal Air Force to attack the remote Port Stanley airfield.\n\nDefence experts said its role in air-to-air refuelling was essential for modern warfare and could raise national security issues if the company was sold.\n\nShareholders approved Advent's offer in August, but a month later the government intervened in the takeover, citing national security concerns.\n\nIn a statement on Friday, Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom said she was satisfied the risks that had been identified had been mitigated \"to an acceptable level\" - and allowed the deal to go ahead.\n\nMrs Leadsom said the decision had been \"meticulously thought over\" and came after she took advice from the defence secretary and the deputy national security adviser.\n\nThe business secretary added sensitive government information would continued to be protected under the new owner and existing contracts would be honoured.\n\nThe company is also obliged to give the government prior notice of any plans to sell the whole, or elements of, Cobham's business.\n\nLady Nadine Cobham - part of the family which set up the UK firm - called the decision \"deeply disappointing\" and criticised the timing of the decision.\n\nShe said it was \"cynically timed to avoid scrutiny on the weekend before Christmas\", adding: \"In one of its first major economic decisions, the government is not taking back control so much as handing it away.\n\n\"In Cobham we stand to lose yet another great British defence manufacturer to foreign ownership.\"\n\nJust before 10pm on a Friday is an odd time for this kind of thing to be announced.\n\nOne defence analyst remarked that it was as if the government rather wanted no-one to notice what had happened.\n\nThe curious timing may actually draw more attention than if it had been done at a more normal hour - few doubted the government would block the deal, and shareholders in Cobham have already voted overwhelmingly in favour.\n\nIt says something of the sensitive nature of Cobham's business that much of the published version of the competition regulator's report on the takeover was simply blacked out.\n\nIn one unedited passage of the report, the Ministry of Defence said if the deal went ahead there was \"a risk that the institutional framework and safeguards required by the government's security framework may be undermined\".\n\nSir Ed Davey, acting leader of the Liberal Democrats, said the announcement was \"deeply concerning\" and said \"we have yet to see evidence\" that concerns over national security had been mitigated.\n\n\"If Boris Johnson's government are happy to sell off a leading UK defence and aerospace company to Trump's America, how can we expect his government to protect our defence and manufacturing sectors, not to mention every other sector of our economy, as they negotiate trade deals after Brexit?\" he added.\n\nBoris Johnson was asked about the takeover while visiting British troops in Estonia\n\nWhen asked if he was comfortable with the takeover, the prime minister said: \"I think it's very important that we should have an open and dynamic market economy.\"\n\nMr Johnson added: \"A lot of checks have been gone through to make sure that in that particular case, all the security issues that might be raised can be satisfied and the UK will continue to be a very, very creative and dynamic contributor to that section of industry and all others.\"\n\nShonnel Malani, a partner at Advent, said the company took the takeover \"seriously\".\n\n\"We are confident the transaction and undertakings being given on national security, jobs and future investment, provide important long-term assurances for both Cobham's employees and customers, particularly in the UK and also globally,\" Mr Malani added.\n\nAviation pioneer Sir Alan Cobham became a household name in the 1930s\n\nCobham plc is a group of defence and technology businesses which started out as a family firm founded by Sir Alan Cobham.\n\nSir Alan became a flying instructor in 1918 after volunteering to join the Royal Air Force during World War One.\n\nHe received a knighthood from King George V in 1926 for his pioneering work in aviation.\n\nSir Alan became a household name after devising Cobham's Flying Circus in the early 1930s. The aeronautical acrobatics show toured England and South Africa.\n\nHe then went on to focus on air-to-air refuelling and formed Flight Refuelling Limited in 1934, which developed into Cobham plc as it is known today.\n\nAside from aviation, Cobham's innovations include lightweight tanks, radar technology for maritime defence and spacecraft technology.", "Mama Cax was a powerful advocate for women of colour and disabled women in the fashion industry\n\nMama Cax, a groundbreaking model and activist, has died at the age of 30.\n\nThe Haitian-American model, whose full name was Cacsmy Brutus, died on Monday after falling ill on a trip to London, her family wrote in an Instagram post.\n\nCax had lost her leg to lung and bone cancer as a teenager, and was a powerful advocate for women of colour and disabled women in fashion.\n\n\"To say that Cax was a fighter would be an understatement,\" her family's statement said.\n\n\"As a cancer survivor, she had grown accustomed to taking on life's several challenges head on and successfully. It is with that same grit... that she fought her last days on earth.\"\n\nCax first found fame through her blog, in which she wrote frankly and honestly about disability - alongside posts about fashion, travel and general lifestyle.\n\nShe later became known for her distinctive street style, and for decorating her prosthetic leg in bold ways.\n\nMama Cax said earlier this year that she learned to see her prosthetic \"as a piece of art\"\n\nThis, she told Dazed and Confused magazine earlier this year, was her way of learning to \"look at it as a piece of art as opposed to something that I had to be ashamed of\".\n\nOver the last few years, Cax hit several major fashion milestones.\n\nShe modelled for big-name brands including Sephora, Asos and Tommy Hilfiger, and last year she was on the cover of the September issue of Teen Vogue.\n\nThis year, she walked in both New York Fashion Weeks - in February she modelled for Chromat, while in October, she walked for Rihanna's Savage x Fenty label.\n\nPaying tribute on social media, Rihanna posted a photo of Cax walking in her catwalk show and called her a \"powerhouse beauty\" - before adding, \"rest in power sis\".", "Current debt advice systems have suffered with poor morale and staffing problems\n\nPlans for a new debt advice service for Scotland have been unveiled by ministers amid growing concern about problem debts.\n\nMore than 600,000 Scots - 14.2% of the population - are struggling to pay debts and cover their bills, according to the Money Advice Service.\n\nAnd Citizens Advice Scotland says it issued more than 100,000 pieces of advice about the issue last year alone.\n\nPowers to fund the new service were devolved to Holyrood in January.\n\nExperts say more people are falling into debt as the cost of living rises, while incomes remain static.\n\nOf those who have problem debts in Scotland, it is estimated that only about 20% will seek advice from a free debt advice provider.\n\nBut in a new report the Scottish government says it wants to set up a service which is focused on the users.\n\nThe Tackling Problem Debt Advice report claims growing numbers of people seeking advice may have contributed to low staff morale and high turnover at current advice services.\n\nMinisters say they also want to ensure the new service is sustainable in the long-term by providing adequate funding and ensuring the necessary staffing levels.\n\n\"Problem debt can increase stress and strain on families and friendships and it often affects those who are already struggling,\" said Business Minister Jamie Hepburn.\n\n\"Sadly, these issues can become a greater strain at Christmas.\n\n\"Early intervention can help mitigate the damaging effects of problem debt but people often delay getting help, or advice providers struggle to meet demand.\n\n\"This plan sets out our ambition to create a free debt advice system that responds to the needs of those who seek it, offers more joined up services and has adequate funding to survive and provide high quality services.\"\n\nIt is hoped longer-term planning could make services more efficient\n\nTheir plan was drawn up with help from the Tackling Problem Debt Group (TPDG), made up of current advice services and local authorities.\n\nIt sets out nine actions to ensure the debt services work best for Scottish users.\n\nThe government has also pledged to hold roundtable meetings with providers to streamline services, as well as launching a Scotland-only marketing campaign, to raise public awareness of the services on offer.\n\nThe report has been welcomed by Citizens Advice Scotland, which already offers free debt advice in Scotland.\n\nChief executive Derek Mitchell said CAS advisers were seeing evidence of problem debts in communities across the country every day.\n\n\"The Citizens Advice network in Scotland is one of the biggest providers of free debt advice in the country, and last year we issued over 100,000 pieces of advice relating to debt,\" he added.\n\n\"Debt is second only to social security in terms of the top issues our advisers see.\"\n• None Levels of Over-Indebtedness in the UK - Money Advice Service The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Boeing company has cut short the uncrewed demonstration flight of its new astronaut capsule.\n\nThe Starliner launched successfully on its Atlas rocket from Florida, but then suffered technical problems that prevented it from taking the right path to the International Space Station.\n\nIt appears the capsule burnt too much fuel as it fired its thrusters, leaving an insufficient supply to complete its planned mission.\n\nStarliner came back to Earth on Sunday.\n\nIt landed in New Mexico's White Sands testing range, using parachutes and airbags to make a soft touchdown on desert terrain.\n\nIt marked the first US land-landing for this type vehicle. Past crewed capsules have always made splashdowns in the ocean.\n\nBoeing and the US space agency (Nasa) must now review the truncated mission before deciding when to allow crew to fly aboard future Starliners.\n\nWhile this automated demonstration ticked off many of its objectives, such as a safe entry, descent and landing - it failed to achieve other key ones, the most significant being a rendezvous and docking with the space station.\n\nArtwork: The capsule ticked off many of its mission objectives - but failed to get to the ISS\n\nThe Administrator of Nasa, Jim Bridenstine, said in a press conference on Friday that Starliner had experienced a timing \"anomaly\" shortly after launch. This led the capsule to become confused over where it was in its mission sequence. Starliner then expended an excessive amount of propellant trying to maintain very precise pointing, or attitude.\n\nFlight controllers recognised the problem but were unable to intervene quickly enough because the capsule was passing between satellite links.\n\nMr Bridenstine remained upbeat, taking the positives out of the day's events.\n\n\"A lot of things went right,\" he said. \"This is why we test.\"\n\nThe Administrator then suggested that had astronauts been in the capsule, they could have helped re-direct the craft to the space station.\n\nNasa astronaut Mike Fincke, who has already been selected to fly on a future Starliner, agreed with this assessment.\n\n\"Had we been on board, we could have given the flight control team more options on what to do in this situation,\" he said.\n\nNot since 2011, when the shuttles were retired, have Americans launched from their own soil; US astronauts have been hitching rides in Russian Soyuz capsules instead.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The capsule launched on an Atlas rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida\n\nThe Starliner, and another capsule called Dragon from the SpaceX company, have been developed to reinstate the capability.\n\nThe business model will be different from the past, however.\n\nInstead of owning and operating the new capsules, Nasa will simply buy seats in the craft. And Boeing and SpaceX will also be free to sell any spare capacity to others - to other space agencies and commercial concerns.\n\nThe agency \"seeded\" Starliner and Dragon under its Commercial Crew Program (CCP). The companies were given milestone payments to encourage the development of their capsules.\n\nThe vehicles are late, however; they should have been flying in 2017.\n\nMike Fincke and Nicole Mann are looking forward to flying in Starliner\n\nThat they are still at the demonstration stage is due in part to Congress squeezing the amount of money Nasa could spend on the initiative. But also because of technical set-backs, such as the explosive destruction of a Dragon capsule on a test stand.\n\nThe SpaceX craft does look closer to entering service, though, after completing its own uncrewed trial in March. Whether Boeing will now have to repeat its test flight, going all the way to the station, before it can join Dragon on the \"taxi rank\" is uncertain. \"I think it's too early to make that assessment,\" Mr Bridenstein said.\n\nIt's still possible Boeing and Nasa may decide to move directly to crewed flights.\n\nMike Fincke's Nasa astronaut colleague on the upcoming Starliner mission will be Nicole Mann. \"We are looking forward to flying on Starliner. We don't have any safety concerns,\" she commented.", "The weather phenomenon was filmed near Chertsey in Surrey, where it damaged homes and gardens.\n\nOne Chertsey resident said it blew the roof off her conservatory.\n\nIt came as more than 90 flood warnings remained in place across southern and eastern England, the Midlands and Yorkshire.\n\nMore downpours were expected with 30mm of rain forecast, prompting a severe warning across southern England until noon on Sunday.", "Thousands have demonstrated against the controversial reforms, with some brandishing EU flags and copies of Poland's constitution\n\nPoland has approved a controversial law which makes it easier to dismiss judges critical of the governing party's judicial reforms.\n\nThe legislation passed by 233 votes to 205 in the lower house of parliament in Warsaw on Friday.\n\nIt came just hours after the European Commission urged Poland to reconsider the proposed changes.\n\nDemonstrators rallied in their thousands across Poland earlier this month to protest against the law.\n\nOn Wednesday, the country's Supreme Court warned that Poland could be forced to leave the EU over its reforms.\n\nThe law now goes to the Senate after passing on Friday. The upper chamber cannot block the legislation, though it can delay it.\n\nUnder the legislation, championed by the socially conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party government, judges can be punished for engaging in \"political activity\".\n\nAny judge that questions the legitimacy of other judges nominated by the National Council of the Judiciary might be handed a fine, have their salaries cut, or in some cases be dismissed.\n\nThe PiS changed the law in 2018 allowing the lower house of parliament - which it controls - to choose the members of that council.\n\nDemonstrators have called for a judge who was suspended for questioning another judge's independence to be reinstated\n\nPiS alleges that Poland needs the reforms to tackle corruption and make the judicial system more efficient, arguing it is still haunted by the communist era. The party also insists that other EU countries allow politicians to take part in selecting judges.\n\nBut critics fear it has curtailed the independence of the judiciary in Poland. The EU has accused the party of politicising the judiciary since it came to power in 2015.\n\nEarlier on Friday, European Commission Vice-President Vera Jourova wrote to Poland's president, prime minister and parliamentary speakers, calling on them to consult legal experts before proceeding with the law change, and asking them not to break EU legal norms.\n\nAnd a spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said the law \"risks further undermining the already heavily challenged independence of the judiciary in Poland\".\n\nThe governing party fast-tracked the bill in a little over 24 hours during an often stormy parliamentary session.\n\nOpposition MPs cried out \"Shame!\" as Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro called judges a privileged caste who ignored citizens' interests.\n\nThe minister said judges could not have the right to question the status of hundreds of newly appointed judges selected by a council which is now controlled by the governing party.\n\nSome judges have already done so after Poland's Supreme Court ruled the council was no longer an independent body.", "Plans submitted to Harrogate Borough Council would see major changes to the entrance\n\nSecurity improvements are needed at a major communications and intelligence base in North Yorkshire.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence (MoD) has applied for an extensive overhaul of the entrance to RAF Menwith Hill, near Harrogate.\n\nPlanning application documents say it does not meet the security standards required by the US and UK armed forces.\n\nSecurity regulation for US and UK military operations have \"tightened considerably,\" the MoD says.\n\nAn environmental screening statement submitted as part of the planning application to Harrogate Borough Council says: \"Due to the classified nature of the operations at the base, security is a prominent concern.\n\n\"In response to the heightened risk of terrorist activity in the wake of 9/11, security regulations for both UK and US military operations have been tightened considerably.\"\n\nThe overhauled main entrance would include a new visitor centre, registration office and gatehouse, as well as new security barriers, roads and car parks, the Local Democracy Reporting Service says.\n\nThe listening base plays a role in US and UK intelligence gathering\n\nRAF Menwith Hill was established in 1954 to act as a \"communication intercept and intelligence support service\" for both the United Kingdom and the United States, according to the documents submitted to the council.\n\nThe base's operations and location have frequently attracted controversy, with local and national objectors protesting about the nature of work undertaken at the site, as well as the presence of international military personnel.\n\nHarrogate Borough Council approved the erection of three new radar shelters at the site earlier this month.\n\nNo date has been set for it to consider this latest application.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The family of a retired school teacher murdered during a burglary at his house in Crumlin in 2018 have said his killer should spend longer in prison.\n\nMichael Gerard Owens, 35, of Lisburn Road, Glenavy, pleaded guilty to the murder of Robert Flowerday in October and was given a life sentence.\n\nOn Friday at Belfast Crown Court, Owens was jailed for a minimum of 16 years.\n\nSpeaking outside court, Mr Flowerday's brother Alan said: \"Life should mean life.\"\n\nOwens killed Mr Flowerday at his home on Mill Road in Crumlin during a burglary he carried out to help clear a drugs debt.\n\nThe body of 64-year-old Mr Flowerday was found in January 2018.\n\nHis family said they would never be the same again.\n\nSpeaking outside Belfast Crown Court, Alan Flowerday and his sister Pat said: \"No sentence could ever make up for the devastation Owens has done to our family.\"\n\n\"The family have been devastated by Robert's murder and our hearts ripped apart,\" added Alan.\n\n\"Today, after almost two years, we hear the judge committing this brutal murderer to a life imprisonment with a tariff of 16-and-a-half years.\n\n\"This is not justice for taking our brother's life so cruelty. Life should mean life.\n\n\"Robert's house - which was once the happy, warm, welcoming family home - is now a cold, desolate shell that presents constant reminder of the heinous crime, the tragedy, the cruelty and the torture and pain.\"\n\nThe body of Mr Flowerday was found in his home in January 2018.\n\nA hammer, hatchet and poker were used in the murder.\n\nOwens had initially denied the murder, but later pleaded guilty.\n\nMr Flowerday, who lived alone, was still involved in tutoring after he left his job at Antrim Grammar School.\n\nThe alarm was raised on 28 January 2018 after he failed to turn up for a tutoring session, something that was very out of character.\n\nThe parents of his pupil went to Mr Flowerday's home to find an \"unknown male\" inside.\n\nThey knocked the door but no-one answered and the lights were turned out.\n\nPolice then gained access to the property and found his body sitting on an armchair, covered in a duvet and one cushion.\n\nThe court was told Owens had owed money because of his cocaine addiction.\n\nThe judge said his \"attempt to steal money escalated into a violent assault\" and Mr Flowerday had suffered a \"vicious and prolonged attack in his own home\".\n\nA post-mortem examination found Mr Flowerday had 18 lacerations to his scalp, face and neck and 20 bruises on his hands, arms, legs and torso.\n\nHis nose and jaw were also broken.\n\nThe judge said Mr Flowerday had led a \"worthy and blameless\" life.\n\nOwens also admitted one charge of burgling Mr Flowerday's home on an unknown date between 27 January and 30 January 2018.\n\nHe was sentenced Owens to a minimum of 16 years and six months for the murder, and two years for burglary, to be served concurrently.", "Detectives investigating the deaths of two eastern European men five miles apart have said they cannot rule out \"a potential organised criminal element\".\n\nA 35-year-old man was found dead in undergrowth on Hogg Lane, Elstree, at about 15:40 GMT on Friday.\n\nAt 20:30 the previous day, a 30-year-old man was found stabbed in the boot of a car near Scratchwood Park, Barnet.\n\nA 31-year-old man at the scene was arrested on suspicion of murder and is in custody.\n\nDet Ch Insp Simon Stancombe, from the Met Police, said: \"While we retain an open mind as to a motive, we cannot rule out whether there might be a potential organised criminal element.\n\n\"We also believe that the two victims might have been known to each other.\"\n\nThe road was closed to allow police to search the area\n\nPolice were called shortly after 20:10 to reports of a fight in Courtland Avenue, Barnet, but found no victims or suspects.\n\nThe man in the car was found about 15 minutes later and died a short time afterwards.\n\nThe 31-year-old man at the scene was initially taken to hospital with injuries before being arrested.\n\nThe second victim was found in a remote lane about five miles (8 km) from where the first man discovered.\n\nOfficers are working to establish how long the body had been there and whether his death occurred before or after the discovery in Barnet.\n\nInvestigators have asked residents who might have any information or footage to come forward.\n\nDet Ch Insp Stancombe added: \"I am asking those residents who live in the vicinity of the crime scenes in Barnet and Elstree to think very carefully about anything suspicious you may have seen over the last few days, and to make contact with us immediately.\n\n\"It could be that you may have caught something via dashcam footage that could prove massively important. The slightest fragment of information could prove crucial.\"\n• None Two dead and two hurt in stab attacks\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Martin Peters, who has died aged 76, will forever be remembered as the England World Cup winner described as \"10 years ahead of his time\" by his manager Sir Alf Ramsey.\n\nAs immaculate off the pitch as he was on it, Peters was the thinking man's midfielder and a trailblazer for the modern goalscoring midfield players who populate the Premier League today.\n\nHe scored England's second goal in the 4-2 win over West Germany in the World Cup final - but this is just one part of a career that brought club successes in domestic and European football to set aside his day in the glorious sunshine at Wembley on 30 July 1966.\n\nThe pupil from the West Ham academy\n\nPlaistow-born Peters, whose father was a lighterman on the River Thames, was a product of the West Ham United academy, a hothouse of forward thinking led by players such as Malcolm Allison and put into practice by managers Ted Fenton and most notably Ron Greenwood.\n\nTall, lean and elegant, Peters was the perfect pupil for Greenwood's desire to bring intelligence and tactical awareness to the game, developing alongside those other England World Cup heroes captain Bobby Moore and hat-trick hero Sir Geoff Hurst - and Hammers fans still boast about how West Ham won the World Cup.\n\nHe had the natural gifts and awareness that allowed him to act like a sponge for Greenwood's progressive techniques, easily absorbing his manager's instructions and carrying them out with authority.\n\nPeters, like another West Ham legend of later years Sir Trevor Brooking, exerted his influence through speed of thought and natural ability as opposed to physical presence. He became known as 'The Ghost' for his ability to arrive undetected among heavy traffic in the penalty area to score.\n\nHe made his debut on Good Friday 1962 in a 4-1 win against Cardiff City and his first goal came in a 6-1 win at Manchester City the following September.\n\nIt was the start of a career that would bring him 100 goals in 364 games for West Ham as he settled into a pattern of performance and goalscoring that would define his style.\n\nGreenwood's team was regarded as talented but fragile alongside the fierce competition offered by the likes of Manchester United, Everton, Liverpool, Leeds United and the north London giants Arsenal and Tottenham, but they still enjoyed moments of glory.\n\nAmid that success there was disappointment for Peters, who was not included in the West Ham side that won the FA Cup final against Preston North End in 1964, victory being secured by Ronnie Boyce's last-minute winner.\n\nThere was to be consolation, of sorts, for Peters a year later when he was a key component of the team that won the European Cup Winners' Cup against 1860 Munich at Wembley, courtesy of two goals from Alan Sealey.\n\nPeters continued to be one of the most significant members of a West Ham team that was pleasing on the eye, operating with characteristic stealth and intelligence, but short on success - his future glories were to come elsewhere.\n\nIn the modern parlance, Peters was a \"bolter\" in Sir Alf Ramsey's plans for the 1966 World Cup - the player who came up on the rails to make his case for inclusion close to the tournament.\n\nIt proved to be an inspired choice by Ramsey as Peters helped him fulfil his much-derided prophecy that England would indeed lift the Jules Rimet Trophy on home soil.\n\nPeters only made his England debut on 4 May 1966 in a 2-0 win over Yugoslavia at Wembley, scoring the first of his 20 goals for his country on his second appearance against Finland in Helsinki on 26 June.\n\nHe did not actually figure in England's line-up at the start of the 1966 World Cup, missing the opening group game against Uruguay at Wembley. Peters started the second match against Mexico and was then a permanent fixture under Ramsey.\n\nPeters helped Ramsey implement a system known as the \"wingless wonders\" after Liverpool's Ian Callaghan, Southampton's Terry Paine and Manchester United's John Connelly all played in the group phase but were left out of the knockout games as England's system reaped the ultimate reward.\n\nHe once said: \"I wasn't a winger. Alan Ball and I were midfield players that broke wide. We had to get back and defend. We worked hard to defend when we played against a midfield player opposite us and then would break to support attacks.\n\n\"I wasn't quick but I could run and run and run, so I would run into the box, see a space, run into there. If the ball didn't come in you'd get out again, run in and then would come in and bang - goal.\"\n\nIt was Peters' cross from the left flank that enabled Hurst to head home England's winner in the tempestuous quarter-final against Argentina at Wembley, a game remembered for the sending-off and lengthy departure of the visitors' captain Antonio Rattin and Ramsey tearing George Cohen's shirt away from an opponent as they tried to exchange them at the final whistle.\n\nAt the age of 22, Peters was to take his place in England's sporting hall of fame as he scored the sort of goal that became his trademark in the final against West Germany, pouncing in the penalty box to put England 2-1 ahead.\n\nHurst recalled: \"When you look at the film of Martin after his goal in the final you can see him flicking his fingers out. He said the exhilaration was like an electric current running through his hands.\n\n\"He was a fantastic player, a natural footballer who was totally and utterly devoted to the game.\"\n\nIt was the high watermark of his England career and future World Cups would provide bitter disappointment for Peters and Ramsey, the manager whose aloof public profile was at odds with the complete devotion he inspired in his players.\n\nPeters, now at Spurs, was still central to Ramsey's plans when an England team many still argue was better than the 1966 World Cup winners in terms of pure talent, headed to Mexico four years later.\n\nThe great names remained while Nobby Stiles had been replaced in midfield by Spurs captain Alan Mullery, Everton pair Brian Labone and Keith Newton replaced Jack Charlton and Cohen, while Manchester City's Francis Lee came in for Liverpool's Roger Hunt.\n\nAnd when Peters put England 2-0 up in the now infamous quarter-final against West Germany in Leon with one of those familiar far-post arrivals on the end of Newton's right-wing cross, Ramsey looked on course for more success.\n\nInstead, with the outstanding Chelsea goalkeeper Peter Bonetti having a rare off day as a late replacement after Gordon Banks was taken ill and Ramsey's substitution of Bobby Charlton with Colin Bell backfiring, West Germany fought back to win 3-2.\n\nIt was the end of that golden England era.\n\nPeters was Ramsey's captain, with Moore replaced by Norman Hunter, on one of the dark nights of England's football history - 17 October 1973 and the final World Cup qualifier against Poland at Wembley that they needed to win to qualify for the 1974 finals in West Germany.\n\nIt was a night that belonged to Poland goalkeeper Jan Tomaszewski, labelled \"a clown\" by Brian Clough, as he performed heroics and his goal led a charmed life as England could only draw 1-1.\n\nIt was the end of Ramsey, and Peters followed not long after. He won his final cap on 18 May 1974 in the 2-0 defeat by Scotland at Hampden Park, Joe Mercer having taken over as caretaker manager from Ramsey.\n\nPeters may have had an inauspicious end to a magnificent England career but his record of 67 caps, 20 goals and a World Cup win secures his place in history.\n\nPeters cut his ties with West Ham in March 1970, becoming Britain's first £200,000 player when he signed for Spurs, although a portion of the fee was taken up with Jimmy Greaves making the reverse journey to Upton Park.\n\nHe was at his peak at 26, figuring in a side with a more ruthless edge under manager Bill Nicholson and alongside players of the calibre of Pat Jennings, Mike England, Mullery, Martin Chivers, Steve Perryman and Alan Gilzean.\n\nPeters was able to add his elegant flourishes and natural eye for a goal to these talents and he went on to further success at White Hart Lane.\n\nHe scored on his debut in a 2-1 loss against Coventry City and finally won domestic honours when Spurs beat Aston Villa 2-0 in the 1971 League Cup final at Wembley. Peters was captain when Spurs repeated the feat two years later as Norwich City were beaten in the final.\n\nPeters won the Uefa Cup with Spurs in 1972 when Wolverhampton Wanderers were beaten in an all-English final, but tasted defeat in the final two years later when they lost to Feyenoord in a tie that was overshadowed by crowd violence.\n\nHe left Spurs for Norwich City in a £50,000 deal in March 1975, having scored 76 goals in 260 appearances for the club.\n\nEven in his latter years, Peters was still able to show the old mastery and enjoyed an Indian summer at Carrow Road, winning the club's player of the year award in 1976 and 1977. In 2002 he was made an inaugural member of Norwich City's Hall Of Fame.\n\nIn 1978, while still at Norwich, Peters was made an MBE for services to football. He is still regarded as one of the finest players to represent the Canaries, scoring 44 goals in 206 league appearances before joining Sheffield United as player-coach in July 1980.\n\nPeters was Harry Haslam's designated successor as Sheffield United manager but only had a brief and unhappy spell in charge for 16 games between January and May in the 1980-81 season when the Blades were relegated to the old Fourth Division.\n\nIt was his final involvement as a player or manager and he later went on to work in the insurance industry.\n\nPeters made a career total of 880 appearances, scoring 220 goals and was inducted into English football's Hall Of Fame in 2006, confirming his status as one of the towering figures of the post-war football generation.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFlooding is causing travel disruption across the south east of England after heavy rain overnight.\n\nThe M23 was closed between junctions 10 and 11 in both directions in West Sussex, but has now reopened.\n\nOn the railways, Southern, Thameslink and Gatwick Express passengers have been advised not to travel, with disruption on the Brighton mainline.\n\nSoutheastern said there were no trains between Strood and Maidstone West, and between Tunbridge Wells and Hastings.\n\nMotorist Ellis Hart was on his way to a work Christmas meal, but missed it when he got stuck in the M23 backlog for more than two hours.\n\nThe 26-year-old stone restorer said: \"We were all going for a curry in London, paid for by the boss. It was our Christmas bonus.\n\n\"I was looking forward to that, but I've missed it now.\n\n\"I'm just glad I didn't bring my three kids with me. I was going to drop them off with my mum on the way.\"\n\nHighways England said the stream of water on to the M23 had to been stemmed and pumps were on the scene.\n\nSoutheastern posted on its website: \"A tree blocking the railway between Strood and Maidstone West means all lines are blocked. Train services running between these stations will be suspended.\"\n\nDisruption had been expected until the end of the day, but Southeastern later tweeted that the line would remain closed until Sunday due to the damage and repair work required.\n\nServices through Tonbridge have been disrupted due to a failure of the electricity supply.\n\nA subsequent landslip at Robertsbridge meant there were no trains running between Tunbridge Wells and Hastings, with replacement buses serving the route.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Roads and trains in Kent, Surrey and Sussex are closed after heavy rain caused flooding\n\nSoutheastern said it would be introducing a phased reintroduction of trains on the line in both directions from about 17:00 GMT.\n\nIssues with flooding at Frant had been resolved, the rail company said.\n\nAlmost 50mm (2in) of rain fell in some areas in 36 hours, and the Met Office issued severe weather warnings for heavy rain, saying water on roads would cause delays in some areas on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Highways England This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDetails of Southern, Thameslink and Gatwick Express services affected have been posted on Southern's website.\n\nIt said all lines had reopened but services may be cancelled, delayed or revised, with disruption expected until the end of the day.\n\nEarth is still at risk of moving following a landslide in the Guildford area, Great Western Railway says\n\nSouth Western Railway said all lines between Guildford and Godalming were blocked after a landslip, but the lines had later reopened. Lines were also blocked between Epsom and Ewell West.\n\nGatwick Airport is \"running as usual\", but it advised customers to allow extra time for their journeys due to the flooding on the M23 and the disruption to rail services.\n\nA fallen tree and landslip at Halling has closed the Medway Valley line between Strood and Maidstone West\n\nKent Fire and Rescue Service said crews were helping a man who had become stuck after driving through floodwater in Coppins Road, Leigh, near Tonbridge.\n\n\"Firefighters in water-safety suits are working to release the man from his vehicle and people are asked to avoid the area due to the floodwater,\" a spokesman said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Bishop’s Stortford Police 🎄🎅☃️ This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe service warned drivers: \"Floodwater is often deeper than it looks and may be moving quite fast. Your vehicle could be swept away or become stranded.\n\n\"If you see a sign to say that the road is closed due to flooding, remember the sign is there for a reason and find an alternative route.\"\n\nDaniel Grimmett Batt took these photos of flooding in Burgess Hill, West Sussex\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued flood warnings and alerts across England.\n\nYellow weather warnings are in place for large parts of the south of England until midday on Sunday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Will there be more flooding?\n\nA Met Office spokesman warned that more rain was \"coming from the south through the night and tomorrow\".\n\nIn Leatherhead in Surrey horses were left stranded in a flooded field after the River Mole burst its banks.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Adrian Harms This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn Cornwall, the A30 was closed on Thursday due to flooding, with Devon and Cornwall Police declaring a major incident in Hayle.\n\nMet Office meteorologist Mark Wilson said there could be up to 30mm of rain in the south on Saturday, with localised flooding.\n\nThe village of Cardinham in Cornwall saw 52mm of rain over 36 hours, while Bastreet Downs got 53mm.\n\nDevon & Cornwall Police said flooding across the force area had made \"a number of roads impassable\", and Great Western Railway services between Exeter St Davids and Taunton have been disrupted.\n\nNorfolk and Suffolk Police said roads in both counties had been affected by floodwater.\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued about 60 flood warning across England - where flooding is expected - as well as 200 flood alerts, which warn of possible flooding.\n\nAre you in the area? Have you been affected by the floods? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Three years late and £100m over budget. The deal to build two new CalMac ferries for Arran and the Hebrides has run into serious trouble.\n\nBack in 2015, the £97m order was seen as a lifeline for Ferguson shipyard in Port Glasgow - the last commercial yard on the Clyde which had been rescued by industrialist Jim McColl the previous year.\n\nThat contract ended up dragging the yard back into administration. The yard has been nationalised and the final cost of building the ferries will be at least double the original estimate.\n\nSo what's gone wrong? You'll get very different answers to that question, depending on who you're talking to.\n\nFinance Secretary Derek Mackay visited the shipyard after the Scottish government stepped in\n\nMinisters have published email correspondence and a report by marine engineer Tim Hair - the \"turnaround manager\" appointed after they took the shipyard into public ownership.\n\nHe blames an \"immature design\" along with poor project management and cost controls. Here are some of the key points.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon joined Jim McColl and the Ferguson workforce for the slipway launch of Glen Sannox in 2017\n\nA self-made billionaire who transformed the ailing Clyde Blowers into a successful portfolio of engineering investment companies, Jim McColl claimed he was \"begged\" to step in and rescue the Ferguson shipyard when it went bust in 2014.\n\nOne of the most prominent business figures to support Scottish independence ahead of the referendum of that year, he enjoyed a close relationship with the Scottish government, sitting on its council of economic advisers.\n\nBut the ferry problems have strained that relationship, with Mr McColl laying the blame at the door of Caledonian Marine Assets Ltd (CMAL) the Scottish government-owned company that owns the ferries used by CalMac.\n\nCaledonian Marine Assets Ltd is the Scottish government-owned body that owns the ships and other infrastructure used by the state-owned ferry operator CalMac. CMAL - the customer in the ferry deal - emphatically rejects Jim McColl's versions of events.\n• None Call to 'scrap CalMac ferries and start again'", "The PM served turkey and Yorkshire puddings in the base's canteen\n\nBoris Johnson has served Christmas lunch to British troops during a visit to a Nato mission in Estonia.\n\nVisiting the Tapa military base near Tallinn, Mr Johnson wished them a merry Christmas as he dished up the meals.\n\nThe 850 British soldiers based there represent the UK's largest operational deployment in Europe.\n\nThe PM also stressed the UK's commitment to Nato and its defence of Estonia's eastern border with Russia.\n\nThe UK is playing a leading role in the alliance's Baltic mission.\n\nThe troops, from the Queen's Royal Hussars, head the Nato battle group in Estonia, working alongside the country's troops and personnel from France and Denmark.\n\nMr Johnson told them: \"In the course of the next few days, everybody in our country is going to be celebrating Christmas with their families and you're going to be here - a long way away, a pretty cold place.\n\n\"What you're doing is incredibly important because the reason everybody in our country can have Christmas in peace and security is because of what you're doing here.\n\n\"What you're doing is showing that Nato works and that Nato is an alliance to which we in this country are absolutely committed to.\"\n\nMr Johnson asked the troops what it was like being posted at the Estonian base\n\nMr Johnson addressed troops in a vehicle hangar on the base\n\nDowning Street said Mr Johnson also held talks with Estonian Prime Minister Juri Ratas and thanked him for the \"support and hospitality Estonia has shown in hosting British Armed Forces\".\n\nThe No 10 spokeswoman added: \"The leaders discussed the close partnership between the UK and Estonia, in particular our joint security and defence cooperation. The prime minister reaffirmed the UK's unconditional commitment to Estonia's regional security through Nato.\n\n\"The two leaders discussed the need to work together to address shared global challenges and the prime minister invited Prime Minister Ratas to attend the COP26 climate change summit in Glasgow next year.\"\n\nDuring a four-month deployment earlier this year, a squadron of RAF Typhoon jets was scrambled 21 times to intercept 56 Russian aircraft which had strayed over the border into Estonian airspace.\n\nThe UK is one of the few Nato countries that meets the commitment to spend at least 2% of national income on defence.\n\nThe armed forces were given an extra £2.2bn in September's spending review when Chancellor Sajid Javid announced a 2.6% increase in defence funding in 2020-1.\n\nBut a prolonged squeeze on defence spending between 2010 and 2015 has prompted questions about whether the UK is adequately equipped to meet future security threats.\n\nIn February, the Public Accounts Committee, the House of Commons' spending watchdog, reported that the MoD faced a £7bn black hole in its 10-year-plan to equip the armed forces.\n\nIn a BBC interview on Thursday, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said there was a shortfall of funding in the MoD's budget and confirmed he had recently met with Mr Johnson's chief adviser Dominic Cummings about improving the way the department spends its money.", "The last time the Duke of Edinburgh was seen in public was at Lady Gabriella Windsor's wedding in May\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh has been admitted to hospital as a \"precautionary measure\", Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nPrince Philip travelled from the Queen's Sandringham Estate in Norfolk to the King Edward VII Hospital in London on Friday morning.\n\nIn a statement, the palace said it was for observation and treatment in relation to a pre-existing condition on the advice of Prince Philip's doctor.\n\nHe was not taken by ambulance and it was a planned admission.\n\nThe duke, 98, retired from public life in August 2017.\n\nHe spent decades supporting the Queen and attending events for his own charities and organisations.\n\nSince retiring from official solo royal duties, he has appeared in public alongside the Queen and other members of the Royal Family at events and church services.\n\nThe duke has not been seen in public since attending Lady Gabriella Windsor's wedding in May.\n\nPolice officers are stationed outside the hospital in Marylebone where the duke has been admitted\n\nPrince Philip's other public appearance in May was at the Order of Merit lunch, with Sir David Attenborough among the guests\n\nIn the statement, the palace said: \"The Duke of Edinburgh travelled from Norfolk this morning to the King Edward VII Hospital in London for observation and treatment in relation to a pre-existing condition.\n\n\"The admission is a precautionary measure, on the advice of His Royal Highness' doctor.\"\n\nThe duke walked into hospital and is expected to remain there for a few days.\n\nIt comes as the Queen arrived at her Sandringham Estate on Friday for the start of her Christmas break.\n\nShe caught the 10:42 GMT Great Northern service from London's King's Cross and was later pictured stepping off the train at King's Lynn railway station.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Queen will be spending Christmas at her Sandringham Estate\n\nGiven his age, Prince Philip is in pretty good shape. He walked away from a car accident in January - that sent his car spinning - shaken but uninjured, bar a few cuts and bruises.\n\nHe has had a series of health challenges in the past few years.\n\nHowever, the suggestion coming from the palace is that there is no immediate cause for alarm.\n\nThe Queen arrived at Sandringham this morning as planned; the duke went to hospital in a car rather than ambulance.\n\nThe hope and expectation of the Royal Family must be that he will spend Christmas back at home in Sandringham.\n\nLast Christmas, Prince Philip missed the royals' traditional Christmas Day trip to church but was said to be in good health.\n\nIn February, it was announced the duke had given up his driving licence. It came after he was involved in a car crash with another vehicle near the Sandringham Estate.\n\nThe treatment he has received for various health conditions over the years include being treated for a blocked coronary artery in 2011.\n\nThe following year, the prince suffered a bladder infection and was forced to miss the Queen's Diamond Jubilee concert.\n\nHe was also taken to hospital for an abdomen operation in 2013 and, in 2014, underwent surgery on his right hand.\n\nLast year he had a hip replacement at the same central London hospital that he is now attending.", "New Zealand announced it would buy back the weapons as part of a six month amnesty\n\nMore than 56,000 weapons have been handed to authorities in New Zealand during a six-month amnesty, police say.\n\nThe buy-back scheme was launched when authorities banned semi-automatic weapon in response to the killing of 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch.\n\nThe ban was agreed by parliament weeks after the 15 March shootings - the worst in modern times in New Zealand.\n\nAustralian Brenton Tarrant, a self-proclaimed white supremacist, has been charged and faces trial next year.\n\nThe scheme was launched in April.\n\nIn return for handing in the firearms, owners were compensated up to 95% of the original price of the weapons.\n\nThe programme ended on 20 December with police hailing the amnesty as a success.\n\n\"We have taken well over 50,000 of these guns out of our community. That's got to be a good thing,\" said Police Minister Stuart Nash.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHowever the amnesty has faced some criticism from some groups including the Council of Licensed Firearms Owners.\n\nThe group's spokeswoman Nicole McKee told the New Zealand Herald that she believed there were 170,000 prohibited guns in the country.\n\nSpeaking about gun owners, she said: \"Some of them are going to hide their firearms, some of them are protecting history and some of them - a good portion of them - don't know what's going on.\"\n\nIn 2016, New Zealand Police estimated that there were 1.2 million legal firearms owned by civilians - which equates to around one for every four people.\n\nOn 15 March, Brenton Tarrant attacked the Al Noor mosque and Linwood Islamic Centre in Christchurch.\n\nHe is charged with the murder of 51 people, 40 counts of attempted murder and one terrorism charge.\n\nThe gunman was armed with semi-automatic rifles, and is believed to have modified his weapons with high-capacity magazines so they could hold more bullets.\n\nHe pleaded not guilty to all charges and is expected to face trial next year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. New Zealand PM, Jacinda Ardern on semi-automatic weapons: \"These weapons were designed to kill\"", "\"Getting Brexit done\" turned out to be a useful slogan, and no doubt it helped Boris Johnson win the election.\n\nBut almost nothing in politics is truly simple - least of all Brexit.\n\nToday he passed an historic milestone - but the destination is still some way off.\n\nRuling out any extension to the Brexit transition period might mean Britain leaves with no deal - equally some in government believe it's possible we could see a kind of phased trade deal with the EU, thrashed out over the months and maybe years ahead.\n\nAt home, no-one's ever really spoken about Johnsonism.\n\nHe's maybe been too busy facing challenges and dangers day-to-day, hour-to-hour, for a guiding philosophy to take shape, let alone find a name.\n\nBut the PM's goal of ending austerity and reuniting the country, north and south, richer and poorer, behind the Tory flag could fairly be described as a new. highly ambitious, political idea.\n\nEven so, giving a political mission a name - calling it Johnsonism - is a lot easier than pulling it off.", "The race for 2019's Christmas number one has been won by LadBaby, who is top of the UK's festive chart for the second year in a row.\n\nThe YouTube star, whose real name is Mark Hoyle, beat Stormzy and Wham! to claim the title with his sausage roll-themed cover of I Love Rock 'n' Roll.\n\nThe Official Charts Company said it was the year's fastest-selling download.\n\n\"How have we done this again?\" said Hoyle, whose song is raising money for food bank charity The Trussell Trust.\n\n\"Thank you everybody for supporting us once again, and all for an amazing cause.\"\n\nLadBaby is only the third act in chart history to score consecutive Christmas number one singles. The others were The Beatles and the Spice Girls.\n\nHoyle, from Nottingham, found fame making YouTube videos about his journey from \"lad to dad\" after the birth of his two sons with wife Roxanne.\n\nHis single I Love Sausage Rolls racked up 93,000 chart sales this week - 18,000 more than his Christmas number one last year, We Built This City On Sausage Rolls.\n\nMore than 90% of this year's sales (approximately 85,000) came from digital purchases, making it the fastest-selling download since June 2017's Artists For Grenfell charity single.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by LadBaby This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe extent of his achievement shouldn't be underestimated. In an era when the charts chiefly measure consumption via streaming services like Spotify and YouTube, it is incredibly hard to break into the top 40 with a charity record, particularly at Christmas.\n\nMore than a dozen attempts were made to scale the chart this year, raising money for causes including The Children's Society and The British Heart Foundation - but only LadBaby reached the top 40.\n\nA Facebook campaign to propel Jarvis Cocker's Running The World into the countdown, organised by people disappointed with the result of last week's general election, also fell short, with the song landing at number 48.\n\nAs the number one was announced on BBC Radio 1, LadBaby livestreamed his reaction on YouTube.\n\nHoyle was overcome with emotion, burying his head in his hands, while his wife screamed and jumped up and down - both wearing sausage roll-themed jumpsuits they'd had printed for the occasion.\n\nAsked by Radio 1's Scott Mills if they planned to make a third attempt on the charts next year, Hoyle replied: \"Who knows? I don't want it to become a joke. It needs to still be funny and it needs to still be right. I don't want people to start boycotting it next year if we go for it.\"\n\nAt the age of 74, Rod Stewart is the oldest male solo artist to have a number one album in the UK\n\nDespite losing the chart race, Stormzy had a stellar week, placing three tracks from his new album Heavy Is The Head in the top 10.\n\nThey included Own It, which ended the week at number two, followed by Audacity at six and Lessons at nine.\n\nBut the Glastonbury headliner missed out on the top spot in the album chart, where he was pipped to the post by Rod Stewart's You're In My Heart.\n\nThe record, which features new orchestral arrangements of hits like Maggie May and Stay With Me, is the star's 10th number one.\n\nWith Stormzy in second place, while Harry Styles' second album, Fine Line, is a new entry at three.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Racist slurs, rape threats, being chased with a sledgehammer - abuse of political candidates and their teams is on the rise. How do those running to be an MP cope in this toxic environment?\n\n\"I've been told that I'm not English enough, that I should go back to where I came from. I've been told that, because of the way my surname sounds, I'm a nobody.\"\n\nBefore she put her name forward as the Liberal Democrat candidate in Camberwell and Peckham, south London, 33-year-old Julia Ogiehor had a difficult decision to make. Was standing up for what she believed in worth the toll on her mental health?\n\nAnd sure enough, she says, she faced a torrent of abuse, some of it racist. She was told that she didn't deserve to represent the seat, and should go and work in McDonald's.\n\n\"I'm human too, I've got feelings. I don't always have to be the strong black woman,\" she says.\n\n\"I have cried on this campaign. I've had moments when I just couldn't get out of bed. I just didn't want to speak to anybody.\n\n\"I was prepared for the abuse on the right but I was dismayed, disappointed, hurt and then frightened by the abuse from Labour supporters.\"\n\nFor candidates running for election across the UK, the general election wasn't just a succession of 18-hour days, it also meant enduring an unprecedented level of personal attacks.\n\nAccording to a study by the University of Sheffield, the number of abusive tweets sent to candidates - racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-Semitic or in other ways offensive - was up dramatically in 2019.\n\nThe Next Episode podcast followed seven people standing for election, all of whom kept a record of the abuse they received. Download the episode here.\n\nThe researchers registered 158,000 abusive tweets, compared with 31,000 during the election period in 2017. This year 4.5% of replies to the candidates' tweets were abusive, compared to 3.3% at the last election.\n\n\"The abuse has become normalised and it doesn't shock me any more,\" says Andrea Jenkyns, who was re-elected as Conservative MP for Morley and Outwood in West Yorkshire.\n\nShe says she has received rape and death threats since she was first elected in 2015. She came off social media for three months after a man rang her office and threatened to rip her face off.\n\nBut she says the level of abuse in the most recent general election was worse than in 2015 or 2017. This year, she says, every piece of outdoor signage put up by her campaign was defaced. One of her canvassers was even threatened with a sledgehammer.\n\nThe murder of Batley and Spen MP Jo Cox in 2016 has left many candidates feeling understandably fearful. For the first time, police advised candidates not to engage with abuse online or in person, to block abusers online and to report any intimidation. This was for their own safety, they said.\n\nSome candidates have their own rules, too - they might not go out alone, or after dark, and some carry personal alarms.\n\nLabour's Luke Pollard, the first openly gay MP to represent Plymouth, has his office in the centre of his constituency so it can be easily accessible to constituents. Twice during the election campaign it was vandalised with homophobic graffiti.\n\nLuke Pollard painting over graffiti outside his office\n\nPollard says that although he was keen for the building \"not to look like Fort Knox\", he took security advice and had bomb-proof windows installed. The abuse, he says, \"kind of eats away at you\". Like Andrea Jenkyns, he has a \"file of hate\" - a collection of all the abusive correspondence received in case it needs to be taken to the police.\n\nBut he tries not to let the abusers get to him as \"that's what they want.\"\n\nCharlotte Nichols, 28, who was elected for the first time in Warrington North for Labour, was so frightened by some of the messages she was sent that she called the police.\n\n\"I've been called things like 'another southern Labour slag', I've had stuff about how I'm a vile sewer rat, that I'm a traitor,\" she says. \"Probably the most sinister and hurtful one for me personally was someone who sent an anonymous letter to the local Catholic churches to let them know I've had an abortion.\"\n\nNichols, who converted to Judaism in 2014, also faced abuse connected with her religion. \"There's a lot of stuff saying how could I be Jewish if I was campaigning on a Saturday? And how can I be Jewish if I'm a Labour Party candidate, when the party has got issues with anti-Semitism?\" One person accused of her being a \"kapo\" - a term that was used for Jewish people who became concentration camp guards.\n\nSometimes, however, it is the candidates themselves who are accused of contributing to the toxic environment. Nichols was criticised during the campaign when old tweets came to light in which she swore and told one antagonist that she hoped \"you lose your virginity\".\n\nNichols acknowledges that, as someone who now holds public office, \"I will have to react differently.\"\n\nBut she refuses to apologise for tweeting that a group of Italian football fans pictured giving fascist salutes in Glasgow should \"get their heads kicked in\". Her Conservative opponent in Warrington North accused her of inciting violence. She responded: \"I believe fascism should be physically confronted.\"\n\nAfter the 2017 general election, the independent Committee on Standards in Public Life conducted an investigation into abuse of candidates. Its chairman, Lord Jonathan Evans, says that two years later some of its recommendations have yet to be implemented. He's particularly disappointed that the parties have yet to agree to a joint code of conduct.\n\nThe current situation is deterring people from entering politics, he believes.\n\n\"This is really important to the future of our democracy,\" he says. \"Because if people don't feel confident to stand, or if, as we have seen, some people stand down, then that means we are going to have a less representative and less effective democracy.\" MPs have told him that they have changed their votes in parliament as a result of \"intimidation\".\n\nAccording to the Sheffield University researchers, first-time candidates running in areas they aren't likely to win tend to experience more online abuse than others.\n\nNeva Novaky, 32, says she was taken aback by the vitriol she was subjected to in her first parliamentary campaign for the Conservatives in Garston and Halewood, a safe Labour seat in Merseyside.\n\n\"What I was not expecting was the level of animosity and the way that you get a lot of anger and hate directed at you as an individual,\" she says. People swore at her and told her she was a liar. One of her canvassers was threatened with a shovel, another with a hammer, she says.\n\nBut no matter how much abuse they've suffered, candidates still want to go out and campaign.\n\nJulia Ogiehor says the moments when she didn't want to get out of bed or speak to anyone always passed. They \"revived me to then get back out there\", she says. \"I will not stop fighting.\"\n\nThe reporter on the Next Episode podcast was Molly Lynch", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bryonn Bain was giving a workshop at Fishmongers' Hall when the attack began\n\nAn American academic has given a graphic account of the moment the London Bridge stabbing attack began, saying it \"felt like a warzone\".\n\nBryonn Bain told the BBC that victim Jack Merritt had been the first person to confront Usman Khan when he launched his knife assault during a prisoner rehabilitation conference on Friday.\n\n\"I saw people die, I saw things that I will never be able to unsee,\" he said.\n\nVigils have taken place for Mr Merritt, 25, and second victim Saskia Jones, 23.\n\nTwo women and a man were also injured in the attack before Khan was shot dead by armed officers on London Bridge - the two women are still in hospital in a stable condition.\n\nProf Bain said former offenders attending the University of Cambridge-linked conference \"stepped up and intervened\" to tackle Khan, and people at Fishmongers' Hall owed their lives to the actions of those who had previously spent time in jail.\n\nHe said two men from his performance poetry workshop immediately ran towards shouts from elsewhere in Fishmongers' Hall in the City of London as the attack began, and as shouts grew louder he also went to assist.\n\n\"That's when I ran down and saw the scene unfolding there,\" he said. \"I was able to see the attacker.\"\n\nHe added: \"It felt like a warzone... it felt like total chaos.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The chief executive of Fishmongers Hall, Commodore Toby Williamson describes how his staff fought back\n\nProf Bain said course co-ordinator Mr Merritt was \"the first line of defence\".\n\n\"I want to honour him,\" Prof Bain said of Mr Merritt. \"I want to honour his father's wishes which have been explicit to not have his life be used for political purposes to ramp up draconian policies, because that's not what he was about.\"\n\nMr Merritt's father criticised newspaper coverage of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's pledge to review the early release of convicted terrorists.\n\nWriting in the Guardian, David Merritt says his son \"would be seething at his death, and his life, being used to perpetuate an agenda of hate that he gave his everything fighting against\".\n\nThe article calls for a justice system that focuses on rehabilitation, rather than revenge, and criticises indeterminate sentences, saying his son worked for \"a world where we do not lock up and throw away the key\".\n\nJack Merritt was a co-ordinator of the Learning Together programme and Saskia Jones a volunteer\n\nProf Bain added: \"I want to make sure that as much as possible that we uphold the heroes of the day, were formerly incarcerated people, some of the folks who are often easiest to dehumanise.\n\n\"They stepped up and many of the folks in that space would not be here today if it weren't for these guys who did time in prison and literally saved lives.\"\n\nIn other developments on Monday:\n\nVigils for the victims of the attack were also held in Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin University, which Ms Jones had previously attended.\n\nMr Merritt and Ms Jones both studied for masters degrees at the University of Cambridge's institute of criminology and had been taking part in an event for its Learning Together programme - which focuses on education within the criminal justice system - when they were killed.\n\nThe family of Jack Merritt take part in a vigil at the Guildhall in Cambridge\n\nMr Merritt, from Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, was a co-ordinator of the Learning Together programme and Ms Jones, from Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, a volunteer\n\nThe victims' families paid tribute to their loved ones at the weekend.\n\nMs Jones's family said their daughter had a \"great passion\" for supporting victims of criminal justice.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Merritt's family described him as a \"talented boy\" who \"died doing what he loved\".\n\nToby Williamson, chief executive of Fishmongers' Hall, praised the bravery of his staff who intervened to stop the attacker, hailing their actions as \"extraordinary things done by ordinary people\".\n\nMr Williamson told how Polish chef Lukasz suffered five wounds to his left-hand side as he fended off the knifeman with a narwhal tusk during \"about a minute of one-on-one straight combat\" - allowing others time to escape danger.\n\nA group of hall staff, ex-offenders, prison and probation staff are believed to have drawn Khan out on to London Bridge where he was subsequently shot dead by armed police.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said in an update on Monday night that detectives were continuing extensive inquiries but had so far found nothing to suggest other people were involved in the attack.\n\nKhan, who admitted preparing terrorist acts in 2012, was released from prison in December 2018 after serving half of his sentence.\n\nThe BBC understands Khan was formally under investigation by MI5 as he left jail but placed in the second-to-bottom category of investigations as his initial risk to the public was thought to be minimal.\n\nThis was consistent with the grading given to most other people convicted of terrorism offences as they go back into the community under a release licence.\n\nA low level of prioritisation is assigned to offenders such as Khan because their release comes with a strict set of licence conditions.\n\nThese conditions theoretically provide suitable monitoring and oversight, such as alerts if they contact other suspects or travel outside an approved area.\n\nKhan, the BBC has learned, was on the highest-level of such community monitoring. The overall package, in theory, relieves pressure on MI5 so the security service can focus on more immediate threats.\n\nFriday was the first time that Khan, who wore a GPS tag, had been permitted to travel to London since he left prison. The BBC has been told that - earlier in the year - Khan was refused permission to travel to Stoke-on-Trent, which is where he grew up, in order to attend a social event.\n\nThe prime minister said on Sunday that 74 people jailed for terror offences and released early would have their licence conditions reviewed..\n\nPolice said two terror-related arrests following Friday's incident, in Staffordshire and north London, were not directly connected to the London Bridge attack.\n\nIt came after the UK's terrorism threat level was downgraded on 4 November from \"severe\" to \"substantial\", meaning that attacks were thought to be \"likely\" rather than \"highly likely\".", "An armed police officer accidentally shot a driver in the arm while trying to stop his car, a police watchdog report has concluded.\n\nOfficers stopped the Mercedes car in Castle Lane West, Bournemouth, on 7 August 2018.\n\nThe officer put their hand on the driver's door but accidentally fired their Glock pistol when the car pulled away, the report said.\n\nThe two people in the car later had proceedings against them dropped.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) inquiry concluded the officer had not committed a criminal offence or behaved in a manner that would justify disciplinary proceedings.\n\nInvestigators also looked into the planning and safety of the operation by Dorset Police.\n\nThe police watchdog said the stop was carried out in line with national guidelines\n\nThey concluded it was carried out where no members of the public were in the immediate vicinity and the Mercedes had slowed to a crawl close to a roundabout.\n\nCatrin Evans, IOPC regional director, said: \"We are satisfied the shot fired by a Dorset Police officer into the car window was unintentional, and brought about by the Mercedes moving off.\"\n\nThe officer has been advised to complete a refresher armed response training course before returning to full firearms duties.\n\nDorset Police Assistant Chief Constable Julie Fielding said a \"full debrief\" would be held into the events of the night to see if there were any \"learning points\".\n\nThe passenger in the Mercedes was later charged in connection with a stabbing but no evidence was offered on the first day of his trial and a not guilty finding was returned.\n\nThe driver was charged with dangerous driving in relation to the police stop and assisting an offender. His case was discontinued and not guilty verdicts returned.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section West Ham\n\nWorld Cup winner and West Ham legend Martin Peters has died aged 76, his family have announced.\n\nPeters, who joined West Ham aged 15, spent 11 years with the club until he became Britain's first £200,000 player in a move to Tottenham in 1970.\n\nHe scored for England in their 1966 World Cup final win over West Germany.\n\nWest Ham said \"the 1966 World Cup winner passed away peacefully\" on Saturday after \"a long and courageous battle with illness\".\n\n\"He is the fifth member of English football's greatest-ever team now sadly lost - along with Alan Ball, Ray Wilson, Gordon Banks and his fellow West Ham Academy hero and great friend, Bobby Moore,\" the club added.\n\nHis former England team-mate Sir Geoff Hurst said it was a \"very sad day for football and for me personally\".\n\n\"Martin Peters was one of the all-time greats and a close friend and colleague of mine for in excess of 50 years,\" Hurst continued.\n\n\"A fellow World Cup final goalscorer and my West Ham partner for years along with Bobby Moore. RIP old friend.\"\n\nSir Bobby Charlton, who also played alongside Peters in 1966 said: \"We shared one of the greatest days of our lives at Wembley and the fact Martin is one of only two Englishman to have scored in a World Cup final gives him a special place in England's history of the game.\n\n\"He was a fantastic footballer. As a team-mate he was someone I could trust completely to do his job and I am proud to have shared that great day with him.\"\n\nPeters won the European Cup Winners' Cup with West Ham in 1965 as well as the Uefa Cup and two League Cups with Spurs.\n\nAfter five years at Norwich he moved to Sheffield United for a season before retiring in 1981.\n\nPeters, who was awarded an MBE for services to football in 1978, still regularly attended West Ham games as a club ambassador.\n\nPeters was only handed his England debut by manager Alf Ramsey shortly before the 1966 World Cup and he impressed in a 2-0 win over Yugoslavia.\n\nTwo months later his goal looked set to win the final at Wembley, only for West Germany to level with seconds remaining before Hurst sealed a 4-2 win and completed his hat-trick in extra time.\n\nAsked about his goal, Peters once said: \"The emotion was like being struck by lightning, it was unbelievable.\"\n\nRamsey himself said Peters was \"10 years ahead of his time\".\n\nWest Ham said Peters, Hurst and Moore were able to \"ensure immortality for Ramsey's team\".\n\nThe club's joint owners David Sullivan and David Gold, said: \"In many ways, though, Martin's greatest legacy is not the World Cup medal itself, but the example that he provides to every young player who walks through the door of our Academy.\n\n\"The word 'legend' is used all too freely nowadays. But Martin Peters is a true legend. A legend of West Ham United. A legend of world football. And his contribution to our club and our game will never, ever be forgotten.\"\n\nPeters won 67 caps for England and made over 700 appearances for clubs throughout his career.\n\nHis former West Ham team-mate Trevor Brooking told BBC Sport: \"The best description of Martin was that he was very humble. They enjoyed the World Cup but it was probably only when each decade went by and England could never repeat it that the enormity of what they achieved grew.\n\n\"Martin never revelled in it. He was very humble, good company and never went looking for any headlines.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson: Very sad news. No England fan will ever forget the heroics of Martin Peters and his fantastic team-mates. My sympathies go out to all of those who knew and loved him.\n\nFormer England striker Gary Lineker: Sorry to hear that Martin Peters has passed away. One of our World Cup winning heroes. A great player and a true gentleman.\n\nFormer England goalkeeper Peter Shilton: So sad to hear of the passing of Martin Peters, World Cup 1966 winner, such a gentleman and a player ahead of his time according to Sir Alf Ramsey. I played with him at England when my career started and was very fond of him, I will miss him. RIP.\n\nFormer England striker Alan Shearer: He was instrumental in England winning the World Cup in 1966. Football has lost a giant of the game, an absolute legend.\n\nFormer world heavyweight champion Frank Bruno: Really sad news about Martin Peters. He was one of my heroes as a kid watching West Ham. A brilliant footballer and a gentleman. RIP Martin Peters.\n\nNewcastle manager Steve Bruce: He was a complete gentleman. I had the pleasure to play against him when I was young and he was at the end of his career and he gave me a lesson in how to be a footballer. They don't make them like him any more - he was a great, great player.\n\nFormer England striker Stan Collymore: Extremely sad to hear of the passing of West Ham, Spurs and England legend, Martin Peters. An English sporting icon and a lovely man who'll be sadly missed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA US woman will be charged with causing the death of teenage motorcyclist Harry Dunn by dangerous driving.\n\nMr Dunn, 19, died in a road crash in Northamptonshire in August that led to suspect Anne Sacoolas leaving for the US under diplomatic immunity.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said it had started extradition proceedings through the Home Office.\n\nUS officials said it was not \"a helpful development\" and Mrs Sacoolas' lawyer said she would not return to the UK.\n\nLawyer Amy Jefress said: \"Anne will not return voluntarily to the UK to face a potential jail sentence for what was a terrible but unintentional accident.\"\n\nMr Dunn's mother Charlotte Charles said the family was \"relieved\" Mrs Sacoolas had \"finally\" been charged.\n\nOutside the CPS headquarters she said: \"We feel that we have made a huge step in the start of achieving the promise to Harry that we made.\n\n\"We made that promise to him the night we lost him to seek justice thinking it was going to be really easy.\n\n\"We had no idea it was going to be so hard and it would take so long.\"\n\nHarry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nMr Dunn died after his motorbike was in collision with a car owned by Mrs Sacoolas outside RAF Croughton where her husband Jonathan worked as an intelligence officer.\n\nMrs Sacoolas, 42, left the UK and returned to her native US, claiming diplomatic immunity.\n\nA statement from the US State Department said that at the time of the crash Mrs Saccolas had \"status that conferred diplomatic immunities\" and added the foreign secretary \"stated the same in Parliament\".\n\nIt added: \"It is the position of the United States government that a request to extradite an individual under these circumstances would be an egregious abuse.\n\n\"The use of an extradition treaty to attempt to return the spouse of a former diplomat by force would establish an extraordinarily troubling precedent.\n\n\"We do not believe that the UK's charging decision is a helpful development.\"\n\nAnne Sacoolas pictured on her wedding day in 2003\n\nA statement via her lawyer said Mrs Sacoolas had \"co-operated fully with the investigation and accepted responsibility\".\n\nIt added: \"This was an accident, and a criminal prosecution with a potential penalty of 14 years' imprisonment is simply not a proportionate response.\n\n\"We have been in contact with the UK authorities about ways in which Anne could assist with preventing accidents like this from happening in the future, as well as her desire to honour Harry's memory.\n\n\"We will continue that dialogue in an effort to move forward from this terrible tragedy.\"\n\nThis has been a tortuous, raw, unrelenting, four months for Harry Dunn's family.\n\nThey cannot bear to be at the centre of what they regard as an prolonged, unnecessary, international spat between lawyers, diplomats and politicians over what, to them, was a tragic family road accident.\n\nMeeting presidents, foreign secretaries and chief constables has been an alien, disorientating experience for them.\n\nThey sometimes feel that Harry has been forgotten amid all their efforts to keep his case prominent in the minds of those who carry influence.\n\nThey know that the Home Office will now start the extradition process. They realise that although extradition may take some time, their efforts on behalf of their son now have some meaning.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab previously urged Mrs Sacoolas to return to the UK voluntarily\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said a review into the immunity arrangements at Croughton for US personnel and their families had concluded.\n\nIt found that it was an \"anomaly\" that family members had \"greater protection from UK criminal jurisdiction than the officers themselves\".\n\nHe said he welcomed the decision to charge Mrs Sacoolas.\n\nMr Raab added: \"I hope that Anne Sacoolas will now realise the right thing to do is to come back to the UK and cooperate with the criminal justice process.\"\n\nChief Crown Prosecutor Janine Smith said it had authorised Northamptonshire Police to charge Mrs Sacoolas.\n\nShe said the director of public prosecutions had met Mr Dunn's family to explain the decision.\n\nThe extradition request is sent via the British Embassy to the US State Department.\n\nA lawyer will then decide whether it falls under the dual-criminality treaty, where the alleged offence is a crime in both countries and carries a prison sentence of at least a year.\n\nThe maximum sentence for causing death by dangerous driving is 14 years' imprisonment, although this is usually reserved for the most serious cases.\n\nThe US may reject the request for extradition, arguing that Mrs Sacoolas is still entitled to diplomatic immunity.\n\nMr Dunn's parents Tim Dunn and Mrs Charles had previously been critical of the lack of communication from the CPS.\n\nHis father said on Friday he was \"overwhelmed\" by the CPS's decision.\n\nMr Dunn's parents rejected a \"bombshell\" offer from Donald Trump to meet Mrs Sacoolas at the White House in October.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Chief Insp Al Barby said: \"The picture says it all - this couple are very lucky to be alive.\"\n\nTwo people are \"lucky to be alive\" after a tree branch pierced the windscreen of their car in a crash.\n\nPolice involved in a Christmas drink-drive crackdown found the car in a ditch off the A40 near Gloucester.\n\nChief Insp Al Barby, of Gloucestershire Police, said the driver \"tested positive at the roadside\" and officers were waiting for blood test results to see if he would be charged.\n\n\"The picture says it all - this couple are very lucky to be alive,\" he said.\n\n\"It puts everything into context really - why we are running this Christmas drink drive campaign and what the consequences can be.\"\n\nSince the campaign started on 1 December, police said there had been 53 arrests for drink and drug driving offences\n\nSince the campaign started on 1 December, police said there had been 53 arrests for drink and drug driving offences, compared to 40 at the same time last year.\n\nThey said 24 people had been charged and were due to appear in court.\n\nChief Insp Barby said: \"The arrests for this year's campaign are up, but the fact that the proportion of people blowing positive at the roadside has gone down is encouraging.\n\n\"From our perspective the easiest way to avoid problems is to make sure it's none for the road.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The dolls mimic popular brands, but do not carry quality marks and there is poor English on the packaging\n\nToxic chemicals have been found in cheap dolls putting children exposed to them at risk of long-term fertility problems, officials warn.\n\nThe Sweet Fashion Doll and Girl Beautiful Doll - costing between £1 and £3 - have been supplied across the UK.\n\nThe Nottingham wholesaler is being investigated by city officials, who said it could not yet be named or the shops it supplied for Christmas.\n\nThe dolls contain high levels of phthalates, say trading standards.\n\nThe potentially harmful chemicals are used to toughen plastic in the Chinese-made dolls, said the council team.\n\nThe Chartered Trading Standards Institute warned that very young children and babies could chew the toys and \"consume the chemicals\"\n\nJane Bailey, the team's manager, said: \"We understand the financial pressures people are under at the moment, but I'd urge parents to resist the temptation to buy cheap toys like these.\n\n\"They will carry none of the required quality marks and will likely have been subjected to no product testing at all.\"\n\nThe council could not tell the BBC how many had been sold, or where in the UK they were on sale.\n\nAlthough such investigations are led by local authorities, the Chartered Trading Standards Institute, a national body, said there was a rise of \"substandard toys\" being brought to the UK around Christmas and there had been \"several seizures\".\n\nRobert Chantry-Price, a lead officer for product safety, said: \"It is frightening to think that large quantities of phthalates are still being used in children's toys.\n\n\"Phthalates are carcinogenic, mutagenic and can cause reproductive problems but, despite legislation to the contrary, significant amounts of these substances can be found in a wide range of toys and child-care products.\n\n\"If these toys fall into the hands of very young children or babies, it's more likely they will chew on the plastic and consume the chemicals.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Katie Scott, bottom left, celebrates Christmas in 2017 with mum Hazel, brother Ben, and grandparents, Anne and John\n\nChristmas celebrations in the UK often centre on food, drink and family gatherings, but campaigners warn that the party season can place additional strain on those living with eating disorders.\n\n\"It's tricky even years down the line to watch the happiness and festivities at Christmas,\" says Katie Scott, 21, who is in recovery from an eating disorder.\n\n\"I have always loved [the time of year] - I love the food, I love being with my family. But now it's difficult because of the eating disorder.\"\n\nShe adds: \"No matter how hard I try or want it to be carefree or eating-disorder free I know that it can't be - it's bittersweet.\"\n\nHer comments come as new guidance is published to help those living with eating disorders over the festive season.\n\nKatie first became unwell at the age of 14, restricting her food intake and falling into depression. She was initially diagnosed with eating disorder not otherwise specified (EDNOS), and later with anorexia aged 16.\n\nShe describes her first diagnosis as the beginning of a \"long and ongoing struggle\" with eating and her weight, mood and self-harm, straining her relationships with her family and friends.\n\n\"It left me feeling desperate and isolated,\" she says. \"It was a life-threatening situation.\"\n\nKatie, who is in recovery, is now in her third year at university\n\nKatie dropped out of school for periods of time, undergoing inpatient treatment. She was finally discharged from hospital aged 18, joining the year below her at school to finish her education before going to university.\n\n\"I had to rebuild my life from rock bottom,\" she says.\n\nKatie explains that she has found Christmas \"an especially difficult time\" both while unwell and in recovery, often feeling unable to get fully involved with the festivities.\n\n\"The celebrations are obviously very focused around food,\" she says. \"I love food, but I'm scared of it so I have this contradiction - the fear factor.\n\n\"I've found Christmas quite hard to deal with in the past because I wanted to look forward to it, but all of the elements that I love [about it] became stressful and scary.\"\n\nShe adds: \"I think anorexia might be an extreme version of losing the magic of Christmas. It's still a lovely time of year but it's not quite the same.\n\n\"I kid myself each year that it will be but it's never as easy as it was before. It can be disappointing.\"\n\nThe charity Beat estimates 1.25 million people in the UK have an eating disorder, with anorexia known to have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness.\n\nThe NHS and eating disorder charity Beat have published new guidance on how to support people with eating disorders and their families at Christmas.\n\nThe advice aims to help friends and family of those of any age with such an illness navigate the festive period - while continuing to manage a condition.\n\nSome of the suggested techniques, based on experience from clinicians, patients and parents, include:\n\nFor Katie, planning the structure of the day is key, including what she will do if she is feeling stressed - whether that is stepping outside or going for a walk.\n\nShe also advises finding someone to confide in. \"Try and have one person who is at least aware that you might struggle,\" she says.\n\nBeat has also published advice on how to spot the signs of an eating disorder on its website.\n\nKatie says the Christmas period can also be a hard time for her mother, who, she notices, is focused on keeping her safe and feeling OK amid the celebrations.\n\n\"She's had a few very difficult Christmases with me,\" Katie says. \"It's almost worse for mum because she has to deal with me and can't anticipate how I'm going to react.\"\n\nDr Prathiba Chitsabesan, NHS associate clinical director for children and young people's mental health, says supporting families to manage eating disorders at home is \"crucial\".\n\nShe adds that the \"added pressure of New Year's resolutions and the bombardment of weight loss messaging\" so close to Christmas can prove challenging for those living with an eating disorder.\n\n\"Hopefully these tips will really make a difference,\" she says.\n\nCaroline Price, Beat's director of services, has warned that the pressure to eat large amounts at Christmas \"can be triggering\" for people with binge-eating disorder and bulimia, as well as causing anxiety for people with anorexia.\n\nShe says: \"People with eating disorders often try to hide their illness and at Christmas when eating is a social occasion - often with people who they do not see frequently - they may feel ashamed and want to isolate themselves from others.\n\n\"At the same time, Christmas can be a source of distress for families who are caring for someone with an eating disorder.\n\n\"All these pressures can be made more difficult as the normal support networks are often not available at Christmas, as friends may be away, and regular social activities close for the holidays.\"\n\nAnyone worried about their own or someone else's health is urged to contact Beat's helplines, which are open year-round and every day from 16:00 to 20:00 GMT from 24 December to 1 January.\n\nThose in need of support can get in contact via phone, email, anonymous one-to-one webchat or social media messaging.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nRoberto Firmino struck in extra time to hand Liverpool a first Fifa Club World Cup triumph as Jurgen Klopp's side eventually ended the resistance of Brazilian champions Flamengo in Qatar.\n\nFirmino, who scored a dramatic injury-time winner against Monterrey to send Liverpool into the final, produced a composed finish in the 99th minute as the Reds became the second English side to win the tournament, after Manchester United in 2008.\n\nIn a dramatic conclusion to normal time, Liverpool had seen an injury-time penalty decision overturned after Sadio Mane went down under a challenge from Rafinha, with referee Abdulrahman Al Jassim reversing his initial verdict after checking the pitchside monitor following a consultation with the video assistant referee.\n\nBrazil forward Firmino squandered the opportunity to put Liverpool ahead inside the opening minute at Khalifa International Stadium, blazing over the bar before Naby Keita and Trent Alexander-Arnold also spurned early chances as the Premier League leaders made a blistering start.\n\nFirmino agonisingly hit the post and Mohamed Salah shot narrowly wide shortly after half-time, but Flamengo responded well to early pressure in both halves and posed Liverpool problems - striker Gabriel Barbosa's attempted bicycle-kick typifying the Brazilian side's steadily growing confidence.\n\nLiverpool suffered an injury blow as Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain appeared to fall awkwardly on his ankle, and with the prospect of extra time approaching Jordan Henderson's powerful, curled strike from the edge of the box was superbly tipped over by Flamengo goalkeeper Diego Alves.\n\nFirmino's breakthrough in the first half of extra time delivered huge relief for Klopp's side, and while Salah was denied by Alves soon after, the Premier League side were able to see out the second period unharmed.\n\nMexican side Monterrey earlier defeated Saudi Arabia's Al Hilal 4-3 on penalties after a 2-2 draw to claim third place.\n\nManager Klopp said he wanted to change perceptions of the Club World Cup in Europe as his Liverpool side prepared to face a Flamengo squad who had been given \"a clear order to win it and come back home as heroes\".\n\nHaving elected to focus on the Club World Cup, Liverpool fielded their youngest ever side as they exited the Carabao Cup on Tuesday in a 5-0 defeat by Aston Villa. Just 24 hours later, the Reds were busy securing their first appearance in a Club World Cup final since losing to Brazilian side Sao Paulo in 2005, eventually overcoming Monterrey 2-1 courtesy of Firmino's dramatic injury-time winner on Wednesday.\n\nDespite taking his senior players, Klopp was forced to name a makeshift side against Monterrey due to injuries and illness, but he welcomed back defensive rock Virgil van Dijk, along with Alexander-Arnold, Firmino and Mane against Flamengo.\n\nAnd how he needed his strongest side to navigate this difficult contest, in which it increasingly appeared it may not turn out to be Liverpool's day. After failing to capitalise on an excellent start, Liverpool came under pressure as tricky winger Bruno Henrique threatened down the right and Barbosa troubled the defence.\n\nBut Klopp's side dug deep, despite the frustration of Henderson's dismissed penalty appeal and Mane's overturned spot-kick at the death, and earned their reward as Firmino once again had the crucial say.\n\nThat 99th-minute winner vindicated Klopp's decision to pursue a first Club World Cup triumph over progress in the Carabao Cup, while delivering an entertaining final sure to have grabbed attention at home.\n• None This was only the fourth Fifa Club World Cup final to go to extra time, after 2000, 2009 and 2016.\n• None European sides have won 12 of the last 13 Club World Cup tournaments, including the last seven.\n• None This was only the second time an English side has beaten Brazilian opposition in a competitive fixture, after Manchester United's 1-0 win over Palmeiras in the 1999 Inter-Continental Cup final.\n• None Only two of the last 10 Club World Cup finals have seen both teams score, with the winning finalist keeping a clean sheet on eight occasions in the past 10 years.\n• None Flamengo are the fourth Brazilian club to finish as Club World Cup runners-up. No other nation has had more second-place finishes.\n• None Sadio Mane has been directly involved in more goals in all competitions in 2019 than any other Liverpool player, scoring 30 goals and making eight assists. Only Raheem Sterling (44) and Sergio Aguero (39) boast a better record among Premier League players this calendar year.\n\nLiverpool return to Premier League action against second-placed Leicester City on Thursday (20:00 GMT).\n\nLeicester lost 3-1 to reigning champions Manchester City on Saturday, to leave Liverpool 10 points clear with a game in hand on their closest challengers as they chase a first league title in 30 years.\n• None Attempt missed. Lincoln (Flamengo) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Vitinho.\n• None Attempt saved. Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Diego (Flamengo) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Offside, Liverpool. Andrew Robertson tries a through ball, but Sadio Mané is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Gabriel Barbosa (Flamengo) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left.\n• None Attempt blocked. Diego (Flamengo) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Filipe Luís. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe race to design and build a new generation of Royal Navy frigates has been won by engineering firm Babcock.\n\nIt has been named preferred bidder for the £1.25bn contract for five Type 31 warships.\n\nThe deal secures hundreds of jobs at Rosyth in Fife, where the ships will be assembled, with construction work expected to be spread between yards across the UK.\n\nWork is to begin by the end of 2019, with the first ships delivered in 2023.\n\nThe Type 31 is a smaller, cheaper frigate than the Type 26 warships currently being built at the Upper Clyde shipyards.\n\nWith a price ceiling of £250m per ship, the aim is to maintain the size of the Navy's surface fleet and generate export orders.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the modular construction method would support 2,500 jobs throughout the UK.\n\nHe said the UK was \"a great shipbuilding nation\" and that there were \"all sorts of ways\" in which UK naval vessels were helping the modern world.\n\nHe added: \"What it delivers is high quality jobs for young people - really high-skilled jobs for young people in this country - but also massive export opportunities of vessels that not only help to keep the peace but tackle piracy, help dealing with immigration issues across the seas.\"\n\nThe Babcock team's Arrowhead 140 design beat competition from a Cammell Laird/BAE Systems consortium and a bid led by Atlas Elektronik UK.\n\nThe winning consortium also includes Thales and BMT, as well as Ferguson Marine, based in Port Glasgow, and Harland and Wolff in Belfast - both of which are currently in administration.\n\nLast month, Babcock insisted these firms' financial difficulties would not affect its bid because its \"flexible build approach\" could accommodate \"a range of delivery sites\".\n\nScotland's Economy Secretary Derek Mackay said the awarding of the contract was \"testament to the skilled workforce and expertise which we have in Scotland\".\n\nHe added: \"I have spoken with Babcock this morning to assure them they have the full support of the Scottish government.\n\n\"Once the final details of the contract are announced, we look forward to discussions on the role that Ferguson Marine could play alongside other suppliers in Scotland.\"\n\nUnions also welcomed the announcement, with Unite saying it would secure hundreds of jobs at Rosyth \"for well over a decade\". GMB Scotland said it was \"excellent news\", adding that the team that put the bid together \"should be congratulated\".\n\nThree different designs were in the running for the Type 31 contract but they all have something in common - they're cheap.\n\nThe price cap of £250m per ship might sound a lot of money but, to put it in context, the bill for the eight Type 26 frigates currently under construction comes to about £8bn.\n\nThe extremely tight cost constraints on the new ship have led some critics to describe it as \"the Lidl frigate\".\n\nEach bidder has tried to keep the price down by basing its design on successful existing ships rather than starting from scratch.\n\nBabcock's \"Team 31\" design is derived from the Iver Huitfeldt frigates developed for the Danish navy.\n\nPlenty of flexibility has been factored in - equipment can be upgraded or reconfigured for different roles .\n\nThe ship is sometimes referred to as the Type 31e - the \"e\" standing for exportability.\n\nThe hope is that this \"bargain basement ship\" will prove its worth and orders from foreign navies will lead to economies of scale that will drive down costs.\n\nSuch value for money, some argue, might even tempt the Royal Navy to bolster its surface fleet by increasing the order.\n\nThe last big frigate order - for the Type 26 - was announced in the summer of 2014, just months before the Scottish independence referendum, with the work going to the BAE Systems yards in Glasgow.\n\nWhile the government insisted this was a value-for-money decision, many pro-union campaigners argued it demonstrated the benefits of being part of the UK.\n\nThe 2015 Strategic Defence and Security Review scaled back the expected size of the Type 26 fleet from 13 to eight ships - and instead proposed building \"at least five\" new general purpose frigates, at a much lower cost.\n\nWith no guarantee this work would come to Scotland, pro-independence campaigners condemned this as a broken promise.\n\nIn 2017, the government's new National Shipbuilding Strategy, based on Sir John Parker's independent review, sought to encourage competition in naval procurement, with an emphasis on supporting shipyards across the UK.\n\nThe choice of Babcock - with its Rosyth site playing a key role in construction but with work spread across various UK sites - is in line with this strategy.\n\nIt also reduces the government's reliance on BAE Systems, which has long been the dominant force in naval shipbuilding.\n\nThe rival BAE Systems bid would have seen the company providing design expertise but the bulk of construction would have taken place at the Cammell Laird shipyard in Merseyside.\n\nNew Type 31 frigates will be built by Babcock in the Fife yard, as work comes to an end on the aircraft carrier programme\n\nIn shipbuilding, they talk a lot about the need for a drumbeat, describing the rhythm of production of ships, to keep the workforce busy and efficient, like you'll find on a factory production line.\n\nThe industry here has had an irregular drumbeat, partly because of lumpy government orders. And British shipbuilding has not been competitive in export markets.\n\nInstead, the larger yards, such as the two on the upper Clyde, have thrived only in the protected market of building warships for the Royal Navy.\n\nThe Type 31e decision means there should be a steadier drumbeat of work. It's already on the Clyde, with the Type 26 frigate programme running until 2030.\n\nSoon, the Forth should have its own drumbeat at Rosyth.\n\nThat's nearly a decade of work on both sides of Scotland. It's an opportunity to build in more efficiency, helped by an extra £50m Babcock investment in Rosyth facilities.\n\nWhat's much less clear than expected is what this means for Ferguson shipyard in Port Glasgow. It was part of the \"Babcock Team 31\", but at Rosyth, there's no talk of teams or consortiums now.\n\nBabcock is the preferred bidder (that is, the only one now in negotiations with the government). It has the capacity for all the work to be done at Rosyth, or it can choose how and where it sub-contracts.\n\nThat is subject, however, to a lot of political pressure - if not instruction - as to how the contract should be shared around the UK, to fit with the government's shipbuilding strategy.\n\nSo Ferguson has to fight with others for a share of the work, even including Cammell Laird on Merseyside with BAE Systems, which formed the losing bid.\n\nAnother uncertainty that has to be built into this announcement stems from the dismal track record of Ministry of Defence estimates of timing and budget for its procurement. This one looks particularly ambitious in driving costs down.", "The ringleaders of a nationwide drug gang who lived a lavish lifestyle which included gambling in Monte Carlo have been jailed.\n\nLiam Cornett, Michael Rice and Kieran Eves headed up the gang which spread across Hull, south Wales and Cornwall.\n\nGang leader Cornett was jailed for 26 years, while Rice was sentenced to 12 years and eight months and Eves was jailed for 13 years and nine months.\n\nTwenty-five others were also jailed at Liverpool Crown Court.\n\nAn investigation was launched after a grenade exploded at a property on Beresford Road in Dingle, Liverpool, in March 2017.\n\nA search of the house led police to discover 160kg of amphetamines and 11kg of heroin.\n\nThis lead to an investigation led by the North West Regional Organised Crime Unit featuring Merseyside Police, Devon and Cornwall Police, South Wales Police and Humberside Police.\n\nMembers of the group were seen transporting drugs and money in a County Lines operation, trying to take funds out of the country to fund Cornett's lifestyle and buying expensive cars with money.\n\nRice and Eves were stopped by armed police in Liverpool\n\nRice, 26, and Eves, 28, both of no fixed address, were stopped by police in December 2017 in a car on Smithdown Road, with a Glock handgun found in the vehicle.\n\nPolice said Cornett, 29, of Huyton in Merseyside, lived a life of luxury in Spain and gambled in Monte Carlo.\n\nHe was arrested at Manchester Airport in October 2018.\n\nDet Insp Paul McVeigh, from Merseyside Police, said: \"For a time, Cornett enjoyed a lavish lifestyle off the back of the misery of others, living most of the year in Spain, driving expensive cars and wearing expensive watches. But his web of conspiracy and deceit quickly unravelled.\n\n\"While he made some last ditch efforts to pretend he dealt only cannabis and no Class A drugs, in a desperate attempt to reduce his sentence, he failed to pull the wool over the eyes of police or the courts.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for rights reasons\n\nA man has described how he fought off the London Bridge knifeman with a narwhal tusk before pinning him to the ground to help end the attack.\n\nDarryn Frost, 38, was seen in pictures confronting Usman Khan, 28, who was armed with two knives.\n\nThe civil servant has spoken of his \"deep hurt\" at not being able to save Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones who were killed by Khan on 29 November.\n\nKhan, who was wearing a fake suicide vest, was shot dead by police.\n\nMr Frost, who works in communications at the Ministry of Justice, told how he grabbed the narwhal tusk from the wall in Fishmongers' Hall as Khan launched his attack during a prisoner rehabilitation event near London Bridge.\n\nThe South African-born Londoner then chased Khan onto the bridge, where footage captured him and fellow members of the public fending off the attacker.\n\nMr Frost, whose identity was unknown until now, can be seen pinning Khan to the ground before being pulled away by a police officer. The terrorist was shot dead moments later.\n\nKhan was out on licence from prison when he killed Mr Merritt and Ms Jones and injured three others in the stabbing attack.\n\nCivil servant Darryn Frost (left) has described how he helped tackle knifeman Usman Khan on London Bridge (right)\n\nSpeaking to the PA news agency, Mr Frost said he was attending the rehabilitation event with colleagues when he heard a commotion downstairs.\n\nHe said he then grabbed the decorative whale tusk, which had been hanging on a wall: \"A few of us rushed to the scene. I took a narwhal tusk from the wall and used it to defend myself and others from the attacker.\n\n\"Another man was holding the attacker at bay with a wooden chair. I ran down the stairs, stood next to the man with the chair, and the two of us confronted the attacker.\"\n\nMr Frost added: \"He had knives in both hands and, upon seeing me with the narwhal tusk, pointed at his midriff.\n\n\"He turned and spoke to me, then indicated he had an explosive device around his waist. At this point, the man next to me threw his chair at the attacker, who then started running towards him with knives raised above his head.\"\n\nMr Frost handed the tusk to the man next to him before heading back upstairs to find another one.\n\nWhen he returned, he found the first tusk \"shattered across the floor\" and people fleeing the building.\n\nHe said: \"Along with others, I pursued the attacker, tusk in hand, onto the bridge. We called out to warn the public of the danger and, after a struggle, managed to restrain him to the ground.\n\n\"At that point I was trying to isolate the blades by holding his wrists so that he could not hurt anyone or set off the device.\"\n\nIn the footage of the altercation, Mr Frost can be seen grappling with Khan on the ground before being pulled away by an officer - seconds before police shot the attacker.\n\nMr Frost has revealed that he was the previously unknown man who pinned Khan to the ground\n\nCambridge University graduates Ms Jones, 23, and Mr Merritt, 25, were stabbed to death in the attack.\n\nThey were also attending the conference organised by the university's programme called Learning Together.\n\nMr Frost said that after reading about the work of Ms Jones and Mr Merritt he is \"convinced they represent all that is good in the world\" and said he \"will always feel the deep hurt of not being able to save them\".\n\nThree others - a man and two women - were also injured in the attack.\n\nMr Frost, who has lived in the UK for 14 years, revealed how some of those hurt refused treatment until others more seriously wounded were helped. A kindness, he said, that \"filled me with hope on that dark day\".\n\nHe said he has given his account of the \"terrible day\" in an effort to urge people to unite against terrorism and raise money for the victims' families.\n\nFuneral services have taken place this week to remember Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23\n\nHe said he was \"eternally grateful\" to everyone who came to help, and thanked the emergency services.\n\n\"Not only do I want to thank those who confronted the attacker, but also those who put themselves in danger to tend to the injured, relying on us to protect them while they cared for others.\"\n\nAddressing the public, he said he hoped \"the part I played in these terrible events can be used for good\".\n\nAmong those who were first to tackle the knifeman was a porter known only as Lukasz. He was armed with another makeshift weapon - a pole - and was stabbed five times as he confronted Khan alongside Mr Frost.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The chief executive of Fishmongers Hall, Commodore Toby Williamson, describes how his staff fought back\n\nIn a statement released in the week after the attack, the Polish national said he had \"acted instinctively\" and called the attack \"sad and pointless\".\n\nHe joined Mr Frost and others in following Khan out of the building but his injuries forced him to stop at bollards at the end of the bridge.\n\nAnother man, John Crilly, 48, has told how he helped Mr Frost and Lukasz in the tussle.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Crilly describes how the attack unfolded, and what he did next\n\nCrilly, who was jailed for murder after a burglary went wrong, first fought Khan with a wooden lectern and then a fire extinguisher, all the while believing he was wearing a live suicide belt.\n\nIn the video footage, he is seen using the spray from the extinguisher to blind Khan, while Mr Frost held him back with the narwhal tusk.\n\nCrilly said: \"The spray distracted him if you watch the footage. And the guy with the tusk has been able to give him a prod which has unbalanced him.\"\n\nMr Frost said he had left out details of the attack out of respect for the victims, their families and the ongoing investigation and inquests.\n\nHe appealed for privacy to continue his recovery and urged the press to use its \"amazing ability to connect with people\" as a force for good to \"unify this country\".\n\n\"I feel we all have a duty to challenge the spread of fear, hatred or intolerance within our communities,\" he added.", "Hotel manager Wissam Salsaa said the work would \"make people think more\"\n\nA manger scene by British artist Banksy has appeared at a hotel in Bethlehem in the West Bank.\n\nDubbed the \"Scar of Bethlehem\", the work shows Jesus's manger by Israel's separation barrier, which appears to have been pierced by a blast, creating the shape of a star.\n\nOn Instagram, the artist said the work was a \"modified Nativity\".\n\nIsrael says the barrier is needed to prevent terror attacks. Palestinians say it is a device to grab land.\n\nThe International Court of Justice has called it illegal.\n\nBanksy's work is in Bethlehem's Walled Off hotel, which is itself a collaboration between the hotel's owners and the artist.\n\nHotel manager Wissam Salsaa said Banksy had used the Christmas story to show how Palestinians in the West Bank were living.\n\n\"It is a great way to bring up the story of Bethlehem, the Christmas story, in a different way - to make people think more,\" he said.\n\nThe scene shows the words \"love\" and \"peace\" as graffiti on the barrier in English and French. There are also three large wrapped presents in the scene.\n\n\"Banksy is trying to be a voice for those that cannot speak,\" Mr Salsaa added.\n\nAll the rooms in the Walled Off hotel overlook a concrete section of the controversial West Bank barrier.\n\nThe rooms are filled with the anonymous artist's work, much of which is about the conflict.\n\nBanksy has also created a number of works in Bethlehem and on the separation barrier itself.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Walled Off hotel opened in 2017", "Last updated on .From the section Darts\n\nFallon Sherrock beat the world number 11 Mensur Suljovic to reach the third round of the PDC World Championship.\n\nThe 25-year-old, who made history by becoming the first woman to win a match at the event, beat the Austrian 3-1.\n\nSherrock fought back from two legs down to win the first set, before Suljovic reversed the fortunes in the second.\n\nA composed Sherrock took the third set before sealing the win by hitting the bull at Alexandra Palace and will face world number 22 Chris Dobey next.\n\n\"I don't know how I'm going to sleep tonight,\" Sherrock told Sky Sports after her win.\n\n\"I've proved that we [women] can beat anyone - I've just beaten two of the best players in the world\".\n\nSherrock's first-round win against Ted Evetts thrust her into the spotlight and she was roared on by the crowd once again, missing just five doubles on Saturday evening.\n\n\"With everything that has been going on the last couple of days I have just been focusing on my finishing because I know that I can score,\" she added.\n\n\"I'm still waiting for it all to sink in.\"\n\nAnd asked if she can go all the way to take the title, she answered: \"Why not? I have won two games, I am just going to take each game as it comes but there is nothing to say that I can't. I am going to try.\"\n• None Sherrock calls for more opportunities for women in darts\n\nEarlier, two-time World Champion Adrian Lewis came from two sets down to beat Cristo Reyes and reach the third round.\n\nThe Englishman won a tie-break in the deciding set after recovering from a poor start against the Spaniard.\n\nRyan Searle eased to a 3-0 win over Steve West, while Simon Whitlock also saw off Harry Ward in straight sets.\n\nJapan's number one Seigo Asada beat Keegan Brown and Daryl Gurney progressed to the third round by beating Justin Pipe.\n\nIn the final match of the night, Belgium's Dimitir Van den Bergh recorded the highest average of the tournament so far - 103.81 - in a straight sets win over Josh Payne.", "Firefighters were withdrawn from the building in Milltown \"due to risk\" to them\n\nAn 18th Century manor house has been damaged by fire which left crews fearing it might collapse.\n\nThe blaze was spotted in the three-storey building in Milltown, Cornwall, at about 08:50 GMT.\n\nInitially, three fire crews were called but nine more were sent to the scene, near Lostwithiel, at about 11:45.\n\nAfter nearly nine hours it was brought under under control and there were no reports of injuries. It is understood the house was empty at the time.\n\nExperts from the Environment Agency were called in to carry out an environmental risk assessment.\n\nStaff from Western Power Distribution and Cornwall Council emergency management officers were also called to the scene.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Wadebridge Community Fire Station This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe blaze spread from the first floor of the house to a roof space before it was brought under control.\n\nFirefighters in breathing apparatus had gone into the building to try and stop that spread but had to pull back building \"due to risk\" to them, Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service said.\n\nTerry Nottle, of Bodmin Fire Station, said it was a \"significant fire\" and \"we don't get many 12-appliance fires in the county\".\n\nAlthough the fire is under control, crews are due to remain at the scene until Sunday.\n\nAn investigation is to be carried out into the cause.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Virginia Giuffre and Prince Andrew have very different accounts of what happened in March 2001 - so how do they differ?\n\nFive women who accuse Jeffrey Epstein of abusing them say Prince Andrew witnessed how people were given massages at the sex offender's homes.\n\nThe lawyer for the women has told BBC Panorama he plans to serve subpoenas to force the Duke of York to testify as a witness in all five cases.\n\nHe says the prince could have important information about sex trafficking.\n\nThe prince says he did not witness or suspect any suspicious behaviour during visits to Epstein's homes.\n\nEpstein took his own life in a jail cell in August, aged 66, while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.\n\nThe lawyer for victims of the US financier, David Boies, said: \"One of the things that we have tried is to interview Prince Andrew and to try to get what his explanation is. He was a frequent visitor. They ought to submit to an interview. They ought to talk about it.\"\n\nThe subpoenas - court summonses to give testimony - have been prepared for all five cases and would have to be signed off by a judge once the prince was on US soil.\n\nHe would then be able to challenge the subpoena in court if he did not want to give evidence.\n\nAnother lawyer, Spencer Kuvin, who questioned Epstein a decade ago and now represents several of his unnamed alleged victims, made a personal plea for Prince Andrew to give a sworn testimony.\n\n\"Be a man, stand up for what you believe and what you're saying is the truth and come forward,\" said Mr Kuvin on BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nMr Kuvin said he is not planning to serve a subpoena but added: \"If he truly wants to help these victims, then step forward.\"\n\nPanorama also uncovered new information about the infamous photo of Prince Andrew with his arm around 17-year-old Virginia Giuffre - then called Virginia Roberts.\n\nShe said that she, the prince, Epstein and his then girlfriend, the socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, went to Tramp nightclub in London.\n\nMs Giuffre said that in the car on the way back \"Ghislaine tells me that I have to do for Andrew what I do for Jeffrey and that just made me sick\".\n\nWhen they got back to the house, she said she asked Epstein to take a picture of her to show her family. She then carried out the instructions to entertain the prince.\n\n\"Well there was a bath and it started there and then it led into the bedroom and it didn't last very long, the whole entire procedure.\n\n\"It was disgusting. He wasn't mean or anything, but he got up and he said thanks and walked out.\"\n\nPrince Andrew emphatically denies any form of sexual contact or relationship with Virginia Giuffre and says any claim to the contrary is false and without foundation.\n\nHe said he has no recollection of ever meeting her.\n\nOn Tuesday, lawyer Lisa Bloom - who represents five other Epstein accusers - told ITV's This Morning that she has a witness who says she was at Tramp nightclub on the night when the alleged incident happened, and \"saw Prince Andrew with Virginia\".\n\n\"She remembers it vividly because she was told 'this is a member of the Royal Family',\" said Ms Bloom. \"That was a very big thing to her, she was shocked and she saw Virginia there with him and so I'm going to take her to the FBI.\"\n\nVirginia Giuffre describes how she asked Jeffrey Epstein to take this picture of her with Andrew\n\nThe photo of them together was first published in 2011 after the Mail on Sunday tracked down Ms Giuffre and paid her $160,000 for her story.\n\nThis year palace sources started suggesting the photo was a fake - but Prince Andrew stopped just short of that in his interview with BBC Newsnight.\n\nHe said: \"You can't prove whether or not that photograph is faked because it's a photograph of a photograph of a photograph.\"\n\n\"It's very difficult to be able to prove it but I don't remember that photograph being taken. That's me but whether that's my hand… I have simply no recollection of the photograph ever being taken.\"\n\nThe prince also said he thought he had never been upstairs in his friend Ghislaine Maxwell's house, where the photo appears to have been taken.\n\nBut Ms Giuffre told Panorama the photo is genuine and she gave the original to the FBI in 2011.\n\n\"I think the world is getting sick of these ridiculous excuses. It's a real photo,\" she said. \"I've given it to the FBI for their investigation and it's an authentic photo. There's a date on the back of it from when it was printed.\"\n\nShe said the date on the back of the photo is 13 March 2001 - two days after she left London on her trip with Epstein and Ms Maxwell.\n\nPanorama also spoke to the freelance photographer Michael Thomas who first copied the picture in 2011.\n\nHe is convinced the picture is genuine because he found it in the middle of a bundle of photos that Ms Giuffre handed him from her travels with Epstein and Ms Maxwell.\n\nHe said: \"It was nothing sophisticated. These were 5x7 photos that looked like they had come from Boots the chemist. They were typical teenage snaps.\"\n\nThe programme also found evidence that supports Ms Giuffre's claim that she gave the original to the FBI.\n\nA redacted court document shows she gave 20 photos to the FBI in 2011 and they were scanned front and back.\n\nBut there are only 19 photos shown in the public version.\n\nPanorama has been told the Prince Andrew photo was removed from the public document to protect his privacy.\n\nThe news that five women say that Prince Andrew witnessed Epstein and his guests receiving massages and have prepared subpoenas should he travel to the US is bad for the prince on several fronts.\n\nHe says he had at no time seen, witnessed or suspected suspicious behaviour at Epstein residences. This flatly contradicts that.\n\nThe existence of subpoenas - court-backed demands for sworn testimony - makes any visit to the US by the prince vanishingly unlikely. It's pretty extraordinary: the Queen's second son is now effectively unable to travel to the US, unless he fancies being forced to give a deposition.\n\nThe subpoenas can be challenged, but it would be a huge risk getting embroiled in the US legal system.\n\nThis news, and the rest of the programme, with a powerful interview by Virginia Giuffre, puts Prince Andrew, his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, and his denials, back into the spotlight. The controversy refuses to go away; instead, it grows.\n\nAnother Epstein victim, Sarah Ransome told Panorama Ghislaine Maxwell, one of Prince Andrew's oldest friends, worked hand in hand with Epstein.\n\n\"Ghislaine controlled the girls. She was like the Madam,\" she said.\n\n\"She was like the nuts and bolts of the sex trafficking operation and she would always visit Jeffrey on the island to make sure the girls were doing what they were supposed to be doing.\n\n\"She knew what Jeffrey liked. She worked and helped maintain Jeffrey's standard by intimidation, by intimidating the girls, so this was very much a joint effort.\"\n\nMs Maxwell could not be reached for comment but has previously denied any involvement in or knowledge of Epstein's abuse.\n\nAllegations of sex abuse against her were first made public in court documents in 2009, but Prince Andrew has maintained the friendship.\n\nPanorama uncovered an email from 2015 which suggests he even asked for Ms Maxwell's help in dealing with Virginia Giuffre's claims. She was known at the time by her maiden name Virginia Roberts.\n\nIn the email the prince told Ms Maxwell: \"Let me know when we can talk. Got some specific questions to ask you about Virginia Roberts.\"\n\nShe replied: \"Have some info. Call me when you have a moment.\"\n\nPrince Andrew declined to answer Panorama's detailed questions but he said in a statement that he deplores the exploitation of any human being and would not condone, participate in or encourage any such behaviour.\n\n\"The Duke of York unequivocally regrets his ill-judged association with Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein's suicide left many unanswered questions, particularly for his victims. The duke deeply sympathises with those affected who want some form of closure.\n\n\"It is his hope that, in time, they will be able to rebuild their lives. The duke is willing to help any appropriate law enforcement agency with their investigations, if required.\"", "A Kenyan fisherman has been airlifted from an island where he was marooned since Friday because of heavy flooding.\n\nVincent Musila had gone fishing at a river near Thika town in central Kenya when it burst its banks.\n\nCrowds watched helplessly for three days as they waited for emergency services to rescue him.\n\nWhy the floods in East Africa are so bad", "Nurses voted to take the action by an overwhelming majority with the result announced on Thursday.\n\nNurses in Northern Ireland have voted to strike over staffing numbers and pay disputes.\n\nIt is the first time in the Royal College of Nursing's (RCN) 103-year-history such action has been taken in the UK.\n\nIn a ballot which lasted four weeks, nurses were asked if they were willing to take industrial action, including strike action.\n\nRCN NI director Pat Cullen said nurses had \"spoken clearly\".\n\n\"Nurses are no longer willing to see patients being denied the health care services to which they are entitled,\" she said.\n\n\"The 3,000 nursing vacancies that currently exist within Health and Social Care (the public health body in Northern Ireland) are having a detrimental impact upon patient care and adding enormous pressure to the existing nursing workforce.\"\n\nMs Cullen said pay in Northern Ireland had \"fallen significantly\" behind the rest of the UK.\n\nShe said this made it \"difficult to recruit and retain the nurses that we desperately need\".\n\nThe total number of those balloted was around 8,000, with turnout of 43.3%.\n\nThe union now has four weeks to inform employers how they plan to proceed.\n\nAnalysis - Strike will be embarrassing for election candidates:\n\nStrike action is always significant but this one is particularly so as there is no devolved government or health minister in place for the nurses to negotiate with.\n\nUnless a resolution is found, it will play out during an election. It is unprecedented and somewhat incredible.\n\nSo why bother? Sources tell me there is never a good time to strike and things are so bad the RCN could not backpedal.\n\nThe strike will make the doorstep chats for politicians even more awkward and for some parties equally embarrassing.\n\nNorthern Ireland is used to unique predicaments, but potentially this could prove to be the most difficult to negotiate and to settle.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department of Health said it would be holding \"detailed discussions\" with the RCN and other trade unions on Friday.\n\n\"Dialogue remains the only way forward,\" the spokesperson said.\n\n\"With a Northern Ireland public sector pay policy now in place for 2019/2020, we plan to table a formal pay offer as soon as possible.\n\n\"The budgetary pressures across health and social care are clear for all to see.\n\n\"Despite claims to the contrary, there is no separate or untapped source of funding for pay increases.\"\n\n\"It all comes out of the one health budget. Every pound spent on one priority area is a pound not available for another.\"\n\nThere are almost 3,000 unfilled nursing posts across the system in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe department added that it accepted staff felt \"deeply frustrated\".\n\nAccording to the RCN, nurses' pay within the health service continues to fall behind England, Scotland and Wales.\n\nIt argues that the real value of nurses' pay here has fallen by 15% over the past eight years.\n\nDue to nursing shortages however, the cost of securing nursing staff via agencies has increased to over £32m last year.\n\nThere was a campaign of strike action over NHS pay in 2014, but while some nurses from other unions took part, the RCN did not.", "Andreas Dowling admitted 30 counts of communicating false information with intent at a previous hearing\n\nA computer enthusiast who made 107 hoax bomb threats to targets including schools, the Palace of Westminster and the Super Bowl, has been jailed.\n\nAndreas Dowling from Torpoint, Cornwall admitted 30 counts of communicating false information with intent.\n\nHe was sentenced at Exeter Crown Court to four years and five months.\n\nJudge Mrs Justice May said the 24-year-old's actions were \"pernicious and nasty\" and calls targeting Jewish schools were racially motivated.\n\nDowling made threats to about 70 schools in the UK, affecting more than 44,000 pupils, and various locations in the US and Canada.\n\nHe was fascinated by computers from the age of six and studied network and software development at Cornwall College. The court was told he also had a good knowledge of security systems.\n\nHis motivations varied and included racism, punishing the US Government for perceived corruption, and closing schools for pupils in return for payment, the court heard.\n\nHe lived with his mother and used software to disguise his voice.\n\nIn 2015 he made repeated bomb threats to the Super Bowl in Arizona but the event went ahead.\n\nThe following year he targeted the Palace of Westminster - his only non-education target in the UK - saying a bomb was attached to a parked vehicle and there was 30 minutes to evacuate, but it was correctly identified as a hoax.\n\nThe court heard Jewish schools were \"over-represented\" as targets in the UK-based hoaxes and were selected \"based on racial or religious identity of the students\".\n\nThe prosecution said threats to the Jewish schools referred to bombs going off at \"4.20pm\", which was a reference to Adolf Hitler's birthday of April 20.\n\nSentencing, Mrs Justice May said: \"One has only to imagine the extreme anxiety head teachers must have felt receiving news of a bomb threat and how pernicious and cruel it was to make those calls\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An 82-year-old woman killed her best friend in a \"tragic\" parking blunder after a school reunion.\n\nJoyce Nainby was standing by the side of Patricia Tulip's car when her friend mistakenly hit the accelerator instead of the brake.\n\nThe 80-year-old was hit by the open car door and knocked unconscious. She died of a head injury 10 days later.\n\nTulip admitted causing death by careless driving and was ordered to do 100 hours of unpaid work.\n\nNewcastle Crown Court was told the pair had gone to school together about 70 years ago and had been best friends.\n\nThe pair had just returned from a reunion when Tulip parked the car outside Mrs Nainby's home in Gosforth, Newcastle, and had to jump back in when it started to roll backwards.\n\nBut instead of braking, she accidentally pressed the accelerator and hit the grandmother of six.\n\nThe defendant, who wept in court, felt a \"great deal of remorse\" for the accident on 18 September 2018 and had written a letter of condolence to the family, the court heard.\n\nWitnesses said Tulip, of Seghill, Northumberland, was a trusted and competent motorist with many years' experience.\n\nIn addition to the community order, she was banned from driving for three years but the court heard she had voluntarily given up her licence.\n\nJudge Amanda Rippon said the loss had \"completely devastated\" the Nainby family.\n\n\"As a result of a series of careless errors, your car very sadly became the implement responsible for your old and great friend's tragic death,\" she said.\n\n\"There is no sentence that I can give that will bring back Joyce Nainby for her family, or for you.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Comedian Nish Kumar was booed off stage after making Brexit jokes at a charity event on Monday night.\n\nKumar, who hosts the BBC's Mash Report, was performing at the Lord's Taverners annual charity cricket lunch.\n\n\"You are the only audience in my entire 13-year history of performing that have actually thrown something at me,\" Kumar said, after a bread roll hit the stage.\n\nRadio 1 DJ and Taverners' ambassador Greg James said the behaviour of some of the crowd was \"appalling\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Greg James This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nJames added he was \"embarrassed to be there\".\n\nThe event, at London's Grosvenor House, was raising money to give vulnerable children a start in life through sport.\n\nSpeaking to The Guardian on Tuesday, Kumar said: \"I made what I considered to be some extremely mild jokes about Boris Johnson, Jacob Rees Mogg, Theresa May and the Brexit process for not going well.\"\n\nHe said the audience was more \"easily offended\" than he thought they might be.\n\nVideo footage of the event showed Kumar being interrupted by hecklers, one of whom shouted \"don't do politics\".\n\n\"It's an election season and I thought it would be interesting to spark a conversation here,\" explained the comedian, \"but clearly the conversation I've sparked is, 'this guy is a bit of a dickhead.'\n\n\"I did think it would be nice to come here and talk to some people who had a different political outlook to me, and I thought it'd be interesting for me to share my perspective - but clearly that's not been the case.\"\n\nHe added: \"What I don't want to do is to detract from any of the fantastic work done by the charity,\" for which he received a round of applause.\n\nBut as the routine continued, the audience began a \"slow clap\", after which Kumar refused to leave the stage.\n\n\"I'm not going anywhere,\" Kumar said. \"Absolutely not. I'm full Bercow-ing it,\" referring to the former House of Commons speaker John Bercow.\n\n\"I know you want me to do it but I'm not gonna leave. Absolutely not. Absolutely not.\"\n\nKumar was eventually joined by the host of the event, who escorted him off stage.\n\n\"Can I shake your hand, sir?\" he asked. \"Ladies and gentlemen, Nish gave his time to come and support this charity today, and I think the very least we can do is say thank you for doing that.\"\n\nAfterwards, the comic took to Twitter to make light of the crowd's reaction.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Nish Kumar This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe also posted a 1966 clip of Bob Dylan mocking newspaper reports claiming that his latest concert inspired mass walkouts.\n\nReflecting on the incident, he told the Guardian: \"I'm sort of amazed by how fascinated people are by the whole thing. It's not the first time I've been booed off stage … I consider it the life of being a comedian - they have a right to boo me.\"\n\nLord's Taverners said in a statement: \"This event alone raised a staggering £160,000, which will go towards helping to empower disadvantaged and disabled young people to fulfil their potential through sport and build foundations for a positive future.\n\n\"We are not, and never will be, a political organisation and we don't endorse the views of the guest speakers at our events, which are their own.\n\n\"However, nor do we endorse the reaction of a minority of audience members at yesterday's event.\n\n\"Nish Kumar's attendance was arranged in good faith and he gave his time for free to support the charity and our work. He follows a long tradition of comedic special guests at the event.\n\n\"We are extremely proud that in the past year we have raised over £4m, with nearly 12,000 young people having participated in our cricket programmes all over the UK, and just over 31,000 items of sports kit having been recycled across 20 countries. We will continue to focus all our efforts on developing sporting chances for young people in 2020 and in many years to come\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Ms Thunberg has spent more than two weeks crossing the Atlantic in a catamaran\n\nClimate activist Greta Thunberg said that adults should stop making young people \"angry\" over global warming.\n\nMs Thunberg was speaking after her arrival in Lisbon, Portugal, after a two-weeks-plus journey across the Atlantic from her starting point in Virginia, US.\n\n\"People are underestimating the force of angry kids,\" she told reporters.\n\nThe 16-year-old is on her way to the COP25 climate summit in Madrid.\n\nShe is taking a stand on more polluting forms of transport by sailing, rather than flying or travelling in cars.\n\nResponding to a question from a journalist who said some adults viewed her as \"angry\", Ms Thunberg said: \"We are angry, we are frustrated and it's because of good reasons.\n\n\"If they want us to stop being angry, maybe they should stop making us angry.\"\n\nShe had originally planned to travel from the US to a UN climate summit in Chile.\n\nBut the South American nation had to give up the event due to civil unrest.\n\nThe venue changed to Spain, and so Ms Thunberg hitched a ride on a 48ft sailing catamaran called La Vagabonde.\n\nShe travelled with Australian YouTubers Riley Whitlum and Elayna Carausu, as well as Briton Nikki Henderson - who is a professional yachtswoman.\n\nTheir boat uses solar panels and hydro-generators for power. However the emissions impact of the voyage has been called into question by reports that suggested Ms Henderson flew to the US from Britain to undertake the trip.\n\nMeanwhile, in a report released on Tuesday during COP25, the World Health Organization (WHO) called on countries to prioritise funding to deal with the effects of climate change on human health. In coming decades, global warming is expected to cause thousands of additional deaths each year from malnutrition, insect-borne disease and heat stress.\n\nWHO researchers surveyed 101 nations to find out which had already developed health and climate change strategies, and whether these plans had sufficient financial backing.\n\nIt found about half of the surveyed countries had drawn up a national strategy. But of 45 countries subjected to more detailed analysis, less than 40% said their current health budget fully or partially covered the estimated costs of implementing their national plans. Only 9% had allocated enough resources to carry out their strategies in full.", "The family of London Bridge attacker Usman Khan have said they are \"saddened and shocked\" by what happened and \"totally condemn his actions\".\n\nIn a statement, they expressed their condolences to the victims' families\n\nKhan, who was convicted of a terrorism offence in 2012, killed Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, at a prisoner rehabilitation event on Friday.\n\nSeparately, a porter who tried to fight Khan said he was coming to terms with the incident.\n\nLukasz, who works at the Fishmongers' Hall venue where Khan began his attack, said he \"acted instinctively\" by grabbing a pole to try to stop Khan.\n\nUsman Khan's family said in a statement issued through the Metropolitan Police: \"We are saddened and shocked by what Usman has done.\n\n\"We totally condemn his actions and we wish to express our condolences to the families of the victims that have died and wish a speedy recovery to all of the injured.\n\n\"We would like to request privacy for our family at this difficult time.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLukasz, who was among those praised for his bravery during the attack, also issued a statement through Scotland Yard.\n\n\"When the attack happened, I acted instinctively. I am now coming to terms with the whole traumatic incident and would like the space to do this in privacy, with the support of my family,\" he said.\n\nThe statement confirmed Lukasz was stabbed by Khan and taken to hospital but has now returned home.\n\n\"I would like to express my condolences to the families who have lost precious loved ones. I would like to send my best wishes to them and everyone affected by this sad and pointless attack,\" he added.\n\nLukasz said, contrary to some reports, that he had used a pole to tackle Khan while someone else used a narwhal tusk in an attempt to stop the attack.\n\nTwo women were also injured in the attack before Khan was shot dead by armed officers on London Bridge - the women remain in a stable condition in hospital.\n\nUsman Khan had been jailed in 2012\n\nKhan, 28, was arrested in December 2010 and sentenced in 2012 to indeterminate detention for \"public protection\" with a minimum jail term of eight years after pleading guilty to preparing terrorist acts.\n\nHe had been part of an al-Qaeda inspired group that considered attacks in the UK, including at the London Stock Exchange.\n\nBut in 2013 the Court of Appeal quashed the sentence, replacing it with a 16-year-fixed term, and ordered Khan to serve at least half this - eight years - behind bars.\n\nSince his subsequent release in December 2018, Khan had been living in Stafford and was required to wear a GPS police tag.\n\nHe was armed with two knives and was wearing a fake suicide vest during the attack at Fishmongers' Hall on Friday.\n\nHe was tackled by members of the public, including ex-offenders from the conference, before he was shot dead by police.\n\nIt comes as Leanne O'Brien, the girlfriend of Cambridge University student Mr Merritt who was killed, paid tribute to her partner on Facebook writing: \"My love, you are phenomenal and have opened so many doors for those that society turned their backs on.\"\n\nMs O'Brien was seen breaking down in tears as she and Mr Merritt's family gathered at a vigil in Cambridge on Monday to remember the victims.\n\nMr Merritt's father, David, also wrote a piece in the Guardian dedicated to his \"absorbingly intelligent\" and \"fiercely loyal\" son.\n\nAlso killed was Ms Jones, from Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, who was a volunteer on the Learning Together programme, which was holding an anniversary event where the event took place.\n\nShe has been described as a \"lovely, lovely woman\" who was \"fearless\" by her former tutor.\n\nJack Merritt and Saskia Jones were both involved with the Learning Together programme, which was holding an event when the attack took place\n\nFriday's attack sparked a political row over the release of Khan and a debate over the criminal justice system.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson was accused of \"trying to exploit\" the attack \"for political gain\".\n\nHe blamed Khan's release on legislation introduced under \"a leftie government\", and called for longer sentences and an end to automatic release.\n\nMr Johnson denied claims he was politicising the attack, saying he had campaigned against early release for some time, having previously raised the issue during his 2012 campaign to be mayor of London.\n\nHe said he felt \"a huge amount of sympathy\" for the relatives of the victims.", "Speaking in London at the 70th anniversary of Nato, Donald Trump said that the UK's National Health Service, the NHS, is not on the trade talk table.\n\nBut during a news conference with Theresa May in June, he said something very different.", "The warming experienced over the past decade is taking its toll on the natural world\n\nScientists say that average temperatures from 2010-2019 look set to make it the warmest decade on record.\n\nProvisional figures released by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) suggest this year is on course to be the second or third warmest year ever.\n\nIf those numbers hold, 2015-2019 would end up being the warmest five-year period in the record.\n\nThis \"exceptional\" global heat is driven by greenhouse gas emissions, the WMO says.\n\nThe organisation's State of the Global Climate report for 2019 covers the year up to October, when the global mean temperature for the period was 1.1 degrees C above the \"baseline\" level in 1850.\n\nMany parts of the world experienced unusual levels of warmth this year. South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania were warmer than the recent average, while many parts of North America were colder than usual.\n\nThe impacts of climate change play out through extreme and \"abnormal\" weather\n\nTwo major heat waves hit Europe in June and July this year, with a new national record of 46C set in France on 28 June.\n\nNew national records were also set in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and the UK. In Australia, the mean summer temperature was the highest on record by almost a degree.\n\nWildfire activity in South America this year was the highest since 2010.\n\nThe WMO clearly links the record temperatures seen over the past decade to ongoing emissions of greenhouse gases, from human activities such as driving cars, cutting down forests and burning coal for energy.\n\nIn 2018, concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane and nitrous oxide all reached new record highs.\n\nThe WMO says the warming experienced over the past decade is taking its toll on the natural world. The ice is melting at both poles and sea level rise has accelerated since the start of satellite measurements in 1993.\n\nMuch of the heat generated by greenhouse gas emissions is going into the oceans, says the WMO. The waters are more acidic as a result and marine heat waves are becoming more common.\n\nAs well as hurting nature, the increased heat is also affecting humans, with heat waves posing a particular risk to the elderly.\n\nOnce in a century events are becoming more common, says the WMO's secretary-general\n\n\"On a day-to-day basis, the impacts of climate change play out through extreme and 'abnormal' weather. And, once again in 2019, weather and climate-related risks hit hard,\" said the WMO's secretary-general Petteri Taalas.\n\n\"Heat waves and floods which used to be 'once in a century' events are becoming more regular occurrences. Countries ranging from the Bahamas to Japan to Mozambique suffered the effect of devastating tropical cyclones. Wildfires swept through the Arctic and Australia,\" Mr Taalas continued.\n\nSince the 1980s, every successive decade has been warmer than the one that preceded it.\n\nOther scientists reacted to the release of the report with concern.\n\n\"It's shocking how much climate change in 2019 has already led to lives lost, poor health, food insecurity and displaced populations,\" said Dr Joanna House, from the University of Bristol.\n\n\"Even as a climate scientist who knows the evidence and the projections, I find this deeply upsetting. What is more shocking is how long very little has been done about this. We have the information, the solutions, what we need now is urgent action.\"\n\nThe report has been released at global climate talks taking place in Madrid. Negotiators here have started two weeks of talks aimed at improving the world's pledges to cut carbon.\n\nSome of those attending the meeting say the WMO report would help concentrate minds on dealing with the root causes of climate change.\n\n\"Now we know that global temperatures are rising to record levels and without action we can expect more climate suffering. It's vital we phase out fossil fuels as fast as possible,\" said Dr Kat Kramer from Christian Aid.\n\n\"The good news is this is a timely wake-up call at the start of the COP25 climate summit in Madrid. Delegates have no excuse to block progress or drag their feet when the science is showing how urgently action is needed.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ch Supt Tracey Harman: \"We believe that the collision was deliberate, and have launched a murder investigation\".\n\nA 12-year-old boy has died and five others were injured in a \"deliberate\" hit-and-run crash near a school.\n\nThe crash happened near Debden Park High School in Loughton, Essex, at about 15:20 GMT.\n\nTwo 15-year-old boys, a 13-year-old boy, a 16-year-old girl and a 53-year-old woman were also hurt but their injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.\n\nPolice have launched a murder inquiry and want to speak to Terry Glover, 51.\n\nCh Supt Tracey Harman, of Essex Police, said officers were looking to speak to Mr Glover, from Loughton, \"in connection with the investigation\".\n\nMs Harman said officers were investigating whether the crash was linked to \"another incident nearby\" and made a \"direct plea\" to Mr Glover to contact police.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe force has appealed for help locating a silver Ford KA, with registration number LS08 OKW, which was \"likely to have damage to [its] front\" and failed to stop at the scene.\n\nIt is thought all the injured children were also pupils at the school on Willingale Road.\n\nA 15-year-old boy who was hurt told the BBC he believed the driver had deliberately targeted the group.\n\nSpeaking from an east London hospital, he said he was walking on the pavement with a friend when he heard a car revving behind him.\n\nHe described how the Ford KA sped up, mounted the pavement and hit the pair of them, throwing his friend over the bonnet.\n\nThe GCSE student, who is awaiting treatment for injuries to his arm, back, leg and head, said all those hit by the car were walking near to him.\n\nPolice said there was likely to be a \"serious and prolonged investigation\"\n\nDebden Park's head teacher Helen Gascoyne said she was \"devastated\" to confirm the boy who died was a student at the school.\n\nShe said: \"It is with great sadness that we must report that a 12-year-old student from our school has sadly died.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the family and all those affected....The school will be open tomorrow with a number of counsellors on hand to support our community.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp Rob Kirby, of the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate, called the crash \"truly shocking\" and appealed for dash-cam footage.\n\n\"I would like to thank the many members of the public who have called us with information and spoken to our officers, as well as those who provided crucial medical assistance at the scene,\" he added.\n\nPolice have called the crash \"truly shocking\"\n\nInsp Rob Brettell said: \"We are trying to locate and find a silver Ford KA which is likely to have damage to the front of the car.\"\n\nHe urged anyone who has seen the car or knows where it is to contact the force, and said it was likely to be a \"prolonged and serious investigation\".\n\nWillingale Road cannot be accessed from junctions on either side of the school and the area remains cordoned off.\n\nSebastian Fontanelle, who lives near the scene of the crash, said police arrived \"rapidly\" and he saw the air ambulance land at about 16:00.\n\nFather Sam Stuart said St John's Church in Loughton would also be open on Tuesday \"for prayer, lighting candles and if anyone needs to talk\".\n• None Murder probe as boy killed and five hurt in crash\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Iceland and other Nordic nations are widely admired for family-friendly policies\n\nIceland's prime minister has urged governments to adopt green and family-friendly priorities, instead of just focusing on economic growth figures.\n\nKatrin Jakobsdottir has teamed up with Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and New Zealand's PM Jacinda Ardern to promote a \"well-being\" agenda.\n\nMs Jakobsdottir called for \"an alternative future based on well-being and inclusive growth\".\n\nShe said new social indicators were needed besides traditional GDP data.\n\nNobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz is among several economists arguing that gross domestic product - measuring a country's production in goods and services - fails to capture the impact of climate change, inequality, digital services and other phenomena shaping modern societies.\n\nIn a Guardian article last month, Prof Stiglitz said the 2008 global financial crisis \"was the ultimate illustration of the deficiencies in commonly used metrics\".\n\nGDP failed to reveal distortions in the bloated US housing market which triggered the crisis.\n\nMs Jakobsdottir said environmental devastation was a key factor driving Iceland to incorporate new social indicators besides GDP in its budget planning.\n\nShe began a speech at London's Chatham House think-tank by highlighting the disappearance of Iceland's Okjokull glacier. Scientists say the retreat of glaciers is clear evidence of global warming, which is blamed largely on CO2 pollution.\n\nAsked if a \"well-being\" budget was equally appropriate for developed and developing nations, she said: \"It's about how you prioritise in the public budget - you can always have an emphasis on well-being.\"\n\nDeveloping countries \"need to take a leap\" to embrace renewable energy, she said, rather than repeat the developed world's carbon-based industrialisation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGDP's focus on economic performance means it tends to undervalue quality of life and the social damage caused by inequality.\n\nMs Jakobsdottir said an Icelandic poet had joked that \"having sex with your wife doesn't count in GDP, but with a prostitute it does\".\n\nA Left-Green politician, Ms Jakobsdottir formed a coalition government in 2017 with the conservative Independence Party and centre-right Progressive Party.\n\nWhile acknowledging Iceland's progress in family-friendly policies, she said her nation - with a population of just 350,000 - still had big challenges, such as improving public transport and tackling depression.\n\n\"Iceland uses more anti-depressants than neighbouring countries,\" she said. \"We need to strengthen prevention [of depression], through sports and the arts.\"\n\nIn a TED talk in August, Scotland's Nicola Sturgeon made a similar plea for modern economies to put more resources into mental health, childcare and parental leave, and green energy.\n\nMs Jakobsdottir said Iceland's adoption of universal childcare and shared parental leave was the product of grassroots women's activism, regardless of political differences.\n\nShe said the \"well-being\" initiative promoted by herself, Ms Sturgeon and Ms Ardern should not be seen as a gender-based backlash against populism.\n\n\"It's very important to have all genders at the table - it affects the way you think, and then different decisions are made,\" she said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fay Jones said nobody should be \"using this as a political exercise\"\n\nBoris Johnson was \"wrong\" to use the language he did after the London Bridge terror attack, a Welsh Conservative election candidate has said.\n\nTwo people were killed by convicted terrorist Usman Khan on Friday.\n\nThe prime minister blamed Khan's early release from jail on legislation introduced by a \"leftie government\".\n\nWelsh Conservative election candidate Fay Jones said the prime minister should not have used the terrorist incident \"as a political exercise\".\n\nAfter Mr Johnson called for longer sentences and an end to automatic release, David Merritt - whose son Jack was one of the victims - said he would not wish his death \"to be used as the pretext for more draconian sentences\".\n\nSpeaking in the BBC Wales Live election debate in Wrexham on Tuesday, Ms Jones said: \"I don't think the prime minister or anybody should be using this as a political exercise.\"\n\nAsked if Mr Johnson was wrong, she replied: \"Yes, he was.\"\n\nMr Johnson has denied claims he was politicising the attack, saying he had campaigned against early release for some time, having previously raised the issue during his 2012 campaign to be mayor of London.\n\n\"I feel, as everybody does, a huge amount of sympathy for the loss of Jack Merritt's family, and indeed for all the relatives of Jack and Saskia, who perished at London Bridge,\" he said.\n\n\"But be in no doubt, I've campaigned against early release and against short sentences for many years.\"\n\nKhan had served half of his sentence and the prime minister claimed scrapping early release would have stopped him.\n\nMr Johnson blamed Khan's release on legislation introduced under \"a leftie government\", insisting the automatic release scheme was introduced by Labour.\n\nHowever, he has been challenged about what the Conservatives had done to change the law over the past 10 years in government.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says about 74 convicted terrorists have been released early from prison\n\nLabour's David Hanson, a former policing and counter-terrorism minister, said the police had struggled following a reduction in the number of officers and he had concerns about the probation service.\n\n\"We need to have the 40% cut that was taken to the probation service put back in place because that's one of the issues that's led to the high risk on this particular case and others,\" he said.\n\nBrexit Party MEP Nathan Gill said it was \"bonkers\" that convicted terrorists were being released early.\n\n\"If you plot mass murder of people, a terrorist attack, I want to see you go to jail for your whole life,\" he said.\n\n\"I do not understand that when the death penalty was taken away. We were told life would mean life, and now people serve just five or ten years and then they're let out.\"\n\nUsman Khan had been jailed in 2012\n\nPoliticisation of terror attacks like London Bridge was wrong, said Plaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth, \"because it affects every one of us\".\n\n\"These are our communities\", he said, \"intolerance between different groups is something we should all condemn\".\n\nWhen pressed on whether Khan should have been released, Mr ap Iorwerth stressed each case was different.\n\n\"It was clear that Boris did play games on this and he saw an advantage,\" he said.\n\n\"We have people risking their lives and showing their bravery and he's essentially dodging questions and avoiding stepping up to the plate and answering interviews.\"", "Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School said \"accusations of coercion\" against it were \"entirely false\"\n\nTwo Orthodox Jewish secondary schools in London have been accused of pressurising parents into taking their children out of sex education lessons.\n\nThe BBC has seen an email and heard a recording of the state-funded schools explaining how to withdraw pupils from mandatory relationships and sex education classes, which begin in 2020.\n\nOne school referred to a wish to stop the teaching of LGBT issues.\n\nBut it said \"accusations of coercion\" were \"entirely false\".\n\nThe email, sent to the Victoria Derbyshire programme by a mother who wished to remain anonymous, shows her daughters' school - Lubavitch Senior Girls' School in north London - asking parents to \"prevent\" relationships and sex education (RSE) classes.\n\n\"The problem is the government is making the subject mandatory in September 2020. However, parents have the right to opt out,\" it reads.\n\n\"Please exercise your right to prevent it being taught by responding to this email and saying that you do not wish your daughters to receive lessons in RSE.\"\n\nThe woman told the BBC she was \"disgusted\".\n\n\"I thought that my kids' school was pretty open as Orthodox schools go,\" she added.\n\nThe email was sent to parents of children attending Lubavitch Senior Girls' School\n\nParents across England will have the right to withdraw their children from the sex education element of the secondary school lessons, but that decision should not be influenced by pressure from a school.\n\nPupils cannot be withdrawn from relationships lessons.\n\nIn primary schools, only Relationships Education (RE) is to be taught.\n\nThe mother believes the email was \"designed to put a stop to RSE being taught\" as a whole at the school, including the teaching of LGBT issues.\n\n\"The fact that people with different sexualities exist in the world is something that they don't want to expose their children to. I don't think they want to expose them to the concept of sex,\" she said.\n\nLubavitch Senior Girls' School told the BBC that if the parent concerned lodged her complaint according to its complaints policy, then it would be fully investigated. But she said she was too scared to do that.\n\nThe programme also obtained a recording from a different woman, after she was contacted by her child's state-funded school.\n\nIn the phone conversation, the staff member can be heard telling her: \"We need parents to formally say, 'I do not want you to teach my child about single-gender relationships or sex education within the school', unless you do as a parent want that.\"\n\nThe mother - who did not wish to be identified - was asked to write a letter confirming this, which she said she did as she was \"too scared\" not to.\n\n\"Even though I thought it was imperative for my children to be given sex education, I felt I had to write it because I didn't want the school to think I don't agree with them on this.\"\n\nShe said she feared that within the community she'd \"be thought of as not Jewish or completely weird, and I know I'd be alienated or ostracised.\n\n\"The truth is our children need sex education more than any other child in the country because our community is so insular,\" she added.\n\nThe school, Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School, said in a statement: \"The vast majority of our families expect sex education to be given privately, within the family, at home. They do not expect their children to be given sex education in a school classroom.\n\n\"It is therefore very important that we let parents know that their child will be given sex education at school - unless they opt out.\"\n\nIt added it was merely giving parents information on how to withdraw pupils were it their choice, adding: \"Accusations of coercion against our school are entirely false.\"\n\nOne woman, now in her 20s, who attended Yesodey Hatorah, said textbooks had been redacted when she was a pupil, with words \"blacked out\".\n\n\"In science, we didn't learn about evolution, we didn't learn about reproduction, we didn't learn anything regarding sex ed at all.\"\n\nShe was taught about sex only weeks before her wedding at age 19, by a woman sent to give her bridal lessons.\n\nShe eventually fled before the marriage and left the community.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats' Layla Moran said the schools were running \"counter to the spirit of the Equality Act\"\n\nLayla Moran, the Liberal Democrats' education spokesperson, called for the Department for Education to \"have its own investigation into these schools\".\n\n\"They clearly don't want to teach these subjects. That is counter to the guidelines, but it is also counter to the spirit of the Equality Act which is the very same act that protects religious freedoms,\" she added.\n\nMs Moran said that if further investigations did find either state-funded school to be refusing to teach the national curriculum or \"unduly influencing its own parental community\", it would need to be \"seriously looked at\".\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "Emily Broughton says she loves to rent as she can try new looks\n\nEmily Broughton, 24, a lifestyle blogger and entrepreneur, spends £200 a month on clothing on average, but she now spends part of that budget on renting clothes.\n\n\"I love to rent because you can get such amazing high quality items and try new looks,\" she says.\n\nOnce a regular High Street shopper, buying lots of cheap outfits, she now prefers to buy either second-hand designer clothes from vintage stores and charity shops, or to rent fashion from a range of platforms such as By Rotation, Hirestreet and My Wardrobe HQ.\n\n\"A few years ago I'd be going round to my friends' houses and sharing clothes with them from their wardrobes, and rental is opening that up,\" says Ms Broughton, whose blog Saving the Grace focuses on sustainable living.\n\nNot all the outfits are expensive - she says she has rented clothes for as little as £10 for three days and typically rents one item of clothing a month.\n\nShoppers like Ms Broughton, could help drive a shift in how we shop, claims retail veteran Jane Shepherdson.\n\nShe's the new chairman of a high-end fashion rental start-up called My Wardrobe HQ, which is hoping to make renting clothes rather than buying them popular in the UK.\n\nMs Shepherdson, who has spent 35 years in the industry and is credited with building Topshop into a global brand, sees renting designer clothes as an opportunity for people to be able to wear beautiful clothing, shoes and accessories that they wouldn't typically be able to afford.\n\nFor example, she envisages women renting a dress or a fancy pair of Jimmy Choo shoes for £60 to wear to a wedding or fancy function, rather than buying them for several hundred pounds. But she also sees the service as a way for people who have bought expensive garments to earn some money by hiring them out several times in a season.\n\n\"Anything we can do to slow down the mass purchasing of clothes and share each piece a little bit more, the better. It's kind of trying to reward a more conscientious way of purchasing,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"I don't think it's going to solve the fast fashion problem immediately. What I hope is that in the longer term it will start to change people's behaviour slowly.\"\n\nJane Shepherdson is credited with building Topshop into a global brand\n\nIt's a potentially lucrative sector. US rival Rent the Runway, which claims to have pioneered the fashion rental concept in 2009, was recently valued at $1bn (£770m). It has a subscriber base of about 100,000 people who pay a subscription fee of $160 a month for unlimited rentals.\n\nHowever, at £60 per dress, handbag or pair of shoes from My Wardrobe HQ, you'd still need to have a reasonable amount of disposable income in order to be able to afford such a lifestyle. It therefore seems unlikely that renting clothes at this level would appeal to Generation Z and younger millennials who are buying £5 dresses online.\n\nMs Shepherdson acknowledges that it will take a while before the British consumer is ready to spend this much on clothing that they don't get to keep.\n\nThe idea of renting clothing is not new in itself - in the West, men have rented wedding suits for years, while in Southeast Asia many women now rent several wedding gowns for photoshoots and ceremonies.\n\nHowever, it has never really been a particularly popular option for womenswear, as consumers prefer to own garments, whether they be brand new or secondhand.\n\nIs fashion rental only really applicable to people who have a lot of disposable income?\n\nPopular mainstream brands such as American Eagle, Urban Outfitters and Ann Taylor are already offering retail rental services, while in Europe, major fast fashion retailer H&M recently begun a trial of renting out clothes at its flagship store in Stockholm, Sweden.\n\nAccording to retail expert Natalie Berg, the future of retail is for products to become services, because it helps retailers to retain customer loyalty, as well as staying relevant.\n\nShe cites several examples of this, such as Ikea renting out furniture, electronic retailer AO renting out washing machines, and sports brand Adidas asking consumers to bring back old worn-out shoes and then trading up for a newer model.\n\n\"It's about consumers prioritising access over ownership,\" Ms Berg explains.\n\nH&M is also using its clothing rental service to offer a new personal styling service, which serves to tie customers to its brand.\n\nAnd although consumers are becoming more environmentally conscious, Ms Berg doesn't think that fast fashion will ever really go away, because cheap clothes are always in demand.\n\nShe said: \"The reality is that fashion is a remarkably wasteful industry, and I think there's just this growing awareness across demographics that we need to do more as a society to address our culture of waste.\"", "The UK's troubled retail sector has been given a boost by Black Friday promotions, figures indicate.\n\nBarclaycard, which processes nearly £1 of every £3 spent in the UK, says that sales volumes from 25 November to 2 December were up 7.1% compared with 2018, while sales value rose by 16.5%.\n\n\"Consumers have not only been buying more, but also spending more than last year,\" said Barclaycard's Rob Cameron.\n\n\"This will no doubt come as welcome news to the retail sector.\"\n\nIt has been a tough year for the retail industry in the UK, with a net 1,234 stores disappearing from Britain's top 500 High Streets in the first six months, according to accountants PwC.\n\nBlack Friday, which is an American tradition, started in the UK in 2013, but is remembered for fights breaking out as shoppers hunted for bargains in some stores.\n\nMore retailers have taken part in the following years and the sales period has started to stretch out over a long weekend to include Cyber Monday. These days, some retailers offer discounts for a week or more.\n\nShoppers have also increasingly decided to grab discounted deals online rather than visiting shops themselves.\n\nFootfall across UK High Streets, retail parks and shopping centres fell every year from 2015 to 2018 - with 5% fewer people going out to shop last year compared with 2017, according to data provider Springboard.\n\nHowever, this year has bucked the trend with a rise of 3.1% in physical shoppers. The highest rise was seen in shopping centres, which attracted 5.2% more visitors than 12 months ago.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The boss of fashion retailer Missguided discusses the importance of Black Friday.\n\nBarclaycard's Mr Cameron said: \"Shoppers took full advantage of the discounts on offer. On Black Friday itself, sales volumes were 7.2% higher compared to last year.\n\n\"This continued right though to Cyber Monday where we saw sales increase 6.9% compared to 2018 data.\"\n\nDiane Wehrle, insights director at Springboard, commented: \"This positive result may well 'seal the deal' for retailers in terms of their commitment to Black Friday moving forward, as they will have claimed shoppers early on in the Christmas trading period, giving them the opportunity to steal a march on their rivals.\"\n\nThe company added that it expected the busiest trading day before Christmas to occur on Saturday 21 December. It also expects football on the three days after Christmas to be busier than on Boxing Day.\n\nKyle Monk, head of insight and analytics at the British Retail Consortium, said that despite Black Friday being a week closer to Christmas than in 2018, it was still expected to outperform last year.\n\nHe added: \"It remains to be seen how this change in timings will affect sales over the next few weeks, particularly with the added election disruption that consumers will be contending with.\"\n\nHowever, not everybody agrees with the idea of Black Friday.\n\nWorkers at Amazon distribution centres in France and Germany also used Black Friday to stage a walkout in dispute over pay and conditions.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSeventy years of existence is clearly worth celebrating, but Nato is strangely low-key about this week's brief gathering of alliance heads of state and government outside London.\n\nNato spokesmen reject the label of \"summit\", insisting that this is really a lesser affair; that there was a full-scale summit only last year; and that this gathering will not release the traditional lengthy communiqué of conclusions and future plans.\n\nWhy so reticent? This is after all what many Nato advocates call, with some justification, the most successful military alliance in history.\n\nNato was founded in 1949 for the collective defence of its members, linking the security of the United States with its European allies against the Soviet Union. It witnessed the end of communism, defeating the Soviet bloc without firing a shot.\n\nIt went to war for the first time in the Balkans in the 1990s. It then set out on a new path - so-called \"out of area\" operations beyond Nato's frontiers, notably its operations in Afghanistan and the wider war against terror.\n\nNato also set about a programme of expansion, nearly doubling in size. Today it has 29 members and North Macedonia is soon to join its ranks.\n\nUS troops on a Nato exercise in Lithuania in June 2018\n\nNato - which is as much a diplomatic as a military alliance - has played a key role in stabilising the new democracies of Europe, whether it be in the Baltic or the Balkans, giving them a new self-confidence and locking them into a formidable security framework.\n\nBut has this actually produced a stronger Nato?\n\nThe respected British defence analyst Professor Michael Clarke says \"no\".\n\nUS President Harry Truman marks the beginning of Nato in 1949\n\n\"Nato is indeed the greatest alliance the world has ever seen,\" he told me, but \"today with some thirty members, it is less than half as strong as it was when it was half this size.\n\n\"Nato is in trouble\", he argues, \"even though it's still got lots of capabilities\".\n\nNato expansion is seen within the alliance as a good thing. Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg described it to me as a \"historical success\", the alliance helping to spread democracy and the rule of law.\n\nCountries once occupied by the Red Army and incorporated into the Soviet Union, like the three Baltic republics, or former Warsaw Pact allies of Moscow like Poland, are now firmly in Nato's orbit, and Russia's President Vladimir Putin does not like this.\n\nRussia is pushing back in every way it can, bolstering its nuclear arsenal and seeking to renew its influence abroad. Its controversial but successful campaign to prop up the Assad regime in Syria is a case in point.\n\nNato led a peacekeeping mission in Kosovo after bombing Yugoslavia in 1999\n\nIn Europe, Russia is criticised for cyber attacks; information operations to try to influence elections; even political assassination in the wake of a radiological and a chemical weapons attack - the former in London, the second in Salisbury in southern England.\n\nThe latter attack in Salisbury - which Moscow strenuously denies - prompted a mass expulsion of Russian diplomats and intelligence officers from Nato countries.\n\nMany have spoken of a new Cold War. But this one is very different from that of the 1950s and 1960s.\n\nRussia's power and influence is a shadow of that of the former Soviet Union's. This is a kind of shadow conflict waged below the threshold of combat, in what analysts call \"the grey zone\", where it is hard to assign blame for intrusive actions like cyber attacks or hacks against computers.\n\n\"There is a problem of political consensus in the western world and so we make it easy for Mr Putin,\" Mr Clarke says.\n\n\"Russia,\" he argues, \"will be a real nuisance to Nato for the next ten or twenty years.\n\n\"But they should not be a strategically important challenge to us unless we let them.\"\n\nPresident Putin has warned the West not to cross \"red lines\", meaning Russia's national security interests\n\nRussia is simply using the intrinsic weaknesses of the West to further its own goals, he says.\n\n\"If the Western world and if the Western democracies are not sufficiently cohesive to deal with this threat - and at the moment I have to say they're not - then the Russians will actually play a big role in European security for the future.\n\nThey'll dominate the agenda. They'll constrain people's choices. They'll intimidate and they'll use a certain amount of not very subtle blackmail.\"\n\nThis Nato \"summit\" is all about demonstrating solidarity and resolve and also about charting a path for the future. But in the days leading up to the meeting there has been more than a hint of the problems behind Nato's ceremonial façade.\n\nNato has proudly announced new spending projections which show that the defence budgets of its European allies will grow further in the years ahead.\n\nIt has also agreed a new formula to spread the costs of Nato's central budget between its members; a budget that covers its headquarters in Brussels and other commonly funded programmes.\n\nThe US in this case will pay less and Germany, which lags behind in the proportion of its resources that it devotes to defence, will pay more.\n\nIt is all an effort to mollify President Donald Trump and to avoid another embarrassing tirade from him aimed at his Nato partners. The burden-sharing debate has long dogged Nato. Mr Trump did not invent it.\n\nBut he seems to take a peculiarly transactional approach to the alliance, and often does not seem to share a fundamental sense that the survival of a healthy Nato is as much in Washington's interests as it is in those of its European allies.\n\nNonetheless, Nato governments have committed to spending at least 2% of their GDP on defence; and many of them are still far from that benchmark.\n\nDonald Trump: The uncrowned leader of the Western alliance or a divider?\n\nBut this focus on funding obscures other problems. Frustration is growing and this is what prompted the French President Emmanuel Macron recently to describe Nato as strategically \"brain-dead\".\n\nFar from regretting his comments, he amplified them last week, insisting that the alliance needed to stop talking about money all the time and spend more time dealing with its fundamental strategic problems.\n\nOnly days before this week's summit, a row erupted between France and Turkey. It illustrates how events in north-eastern Syria are straining relations within Nato.\n\nPresident Macron has repeatedly criticised both Washington's abrupt withdrawal of support for the Kurds and Turkey's related offensive into Syria - two strategic decisions that were taken without consulting other Nato allies.\n\nMr Macron (R), pictured with Mr Stoltenberg, criticised Nato's failure to respond to Turkey's offensive\n\nTurkey sees France as far too friendly towards the Kurds. It wants Nato as a whole to back its position in Syria.\n\nThis episode underscores another fundamental problem for the alliance: what many see as Turkey's drift away from Nato and the West.\n\nAnkara's purchase of a sophisticated Russian air defence system is an extraordinary step for a Nato ally.\n\nThe problem is that Turkey's size and geographical position make it an important, albeit for many troublesome, partner in Nato, despite some analysts questioning if it really should still be in the alliance at all.\n\nSo, Turkish and US unilateralism; rows over money; a resurgent but ill-defined Russian threat - there's plenty for Nato leaders to talk about when they meet in a luxury resort hotel near Watford, a town best known by many for its nondescript railway junction.\n\nNato too is at a kind of a junction itself. It has many of the problems of success. Many of the decisions it has taken - its expansion to bring in so many new members for example - were driven as much by politics as by strategy.\n\nTurkish and Russian forces are carrying out joint ground patrols in northern Syria\n\nBut the world has changed dramatically since Nato's founding. It is very different again from the world of the 1990s, in which Nato basked in its victory in the Cold War.\n\nPresident Macron's label of \"brain dead\" may be going a bit far. But he has a point.\n\nNato leaders need to get back to strategy, to the big thoughts about where the alliance should be heading.\n\nHow will it contend with the Russian threat? Does it need to rethink its strategy? Should Nato have a common approach to a rising China? What should be Nato's priorities in the 21st-Century world?", "Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have announced they are stepping down from top roles at the online giant's parent company.\n\nThey will leave their respective roles as Alphabet's chief executive officer and president but remain on the board.\n\nGoogle's CEO Sundar Pichai will become Alphabet's CEO too, a statement said.\n\nAlphabet was created in 2015 as part of a corporate restructuring of Google, which Mr Page and Mr Brin famously founded in a California garage in 1998.\n\nThe parent company was intended to make the tech giant's activities \"cleaner and more accountable\" as it expanded from internet search into other areas such as self-driving cars.\n\nThe pair moved from Google to Alphabet when it was formed - saying they were making the jump to focus on starting new initiatives.\n\nBut in a blog post on Tuesday, the co-founders, both aged 46, announced they were stepping back from the day-to-day management of the company.\n\nA joint letter said they would remain \"actively involved as board members, shareholders and co-founders\", but said it was the \"natural time to simplify our management structure\".\n\n\"We've never been ones to hold on to management roles when we think there's a better way to run the company. And Alphabet and Google no longer need two CEOs and a President,\" their letter said.\n\nThey also declared it was time to \"assume the role of proud parents - offering advice and love, but not daily nagging\" and insisted there was \"no better person\" to lead the company into the future than Mr Pichai.\n\nThe 47-year-old was born in India, where he studied engineering. He went on to study in the US at Stanford University and the University of Pennsylvania before joining Google in 2004.\n\nSundar Pichai will now serve as CEO of both companies\n\nIn a statement, he said he was \"excited\" about the transition and paid tribute to Mr Page and Mr Brin.\n\n\"The founders have given all of us an incredible chance to have an impact on the world,\" Mr Pichai said. \"Thanks to them, we have a timeless mission, enduring values, and a culture of collaboration and exploration that makes it exciting to come to work every day.\n\n\"It's a strong foundation on which we will continue to build. Can't wait to see where we go next and look forward to continuing the journey with all of you.\"\n\nThis move represents the most significant shake-up of leadership at Google since its inception - the first time the dynamic duo of Brin and Page, a legendary Silicon Valley partnership, won't hold important management roles in the company they founded.\n\nIn reality, though, that's been the case for some time - the public face of the firm has been Mr Pichai and, to a lesser extent, YouTube chief executive Susan Wojcicki. But Tuesday's announcement makes it absolutely clear - Mr Page and Mr Brin aren't running the company.\n\nYet while the pair are apparently relinquishing management duties, it won't mean giving up ultimate power. Between them, they control 51% of voting rights on Alphabet's board. This won't change. They likened their new role to being \"proud parents\" to the company, looking on with close interest and care.\n\nBut should they feel the need, they can override any decision Mr Pichai makes - with little more than a parental \"because we said so\".\n\nMr Page and Brin are ranked the 10th and 14th richest individuals in the world by Forbes, with each of them estimated to be worth about $50bn (£38bn).\n\nThe American business magazine ranks Alphabet as the 17th largest public company in the world, with an estimated market value of $863bn.", "Lawyers for British diver Vern Unsworth (L) said Mr Musk's tweets were \"vile and false\"\n\nTesla boss Elon Musk is due to take the stand in a Los Angeles court and face the British diving specialist he accused of being a paedophile.\n\nVern Unsworth was among the team credited with co-ordinating the July 2018 rescue of 12 boys trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand.\n\nMr Musk, in a now-deleted tweet, described Mr Unsworth as a “pedo guy”.\n\nThe entrepreneur gave no evidence to support the comment. He is being sued for defamation.\n\nLawyers representing Mr Unsworth have described Mr Musk’s tweets as “vile and false”. The British diver is seeking punitive and compensatory damages.\n\nThe outburst last year appeared to be in response to comments made by Mr Unsworth in an interview on CNN, in which he criticised Mr Musk’s decision to send a purpose-built mini-submarine to the Tham Luang cave in Chiang Rai Province to help with rescue efforts.\n\nMr Unsworth described it as a “PR stunt”, later adding that Mr Musk could \"stick his submarine where it hurts”.\n\nTaking to Twitter, Mr Musk said: \"Sorry pedo guy, you really did ask for it.\"\n\nWhen questioned about the allegation by other Twitter users, Mr Musk replied with “bet ya a signed dollar it's true”. That tweet was also later deleted.\n\nAfter Tesla’s stock price dipped by as much as 4%, Mr Musk sent a tweet expressing an apology.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who is Elon Musk? Meet the meme-loving magnate behind SpaceX and Tesla...published in 2021\n\n“His actions against me do not justify my actions against him,” he wrote, explaining that his comments were \"spoken in anger after Mr Unsworth said several untruths and suggested I engage in a sexual act with the mini-sub, which had been built as an act of kindness and according to specifications from the dive team leader”.\n\nHowever, Mr Musk went on to repeat the claim in an email exchange after being contacted by Buzzfeed reporter Ryan Mac.\n\n“Stop defending child rapists,” Mr Musk wrote to the reporter. He had apparently intended the comments to be off the record but did not agree that with Mr Mac prior to emailing his response.\n\nMr Unsworth is seeking damages for the content of the tweets only, not the email exchange - though Los Angeles District Judge Stephen Wilson said it could be used to illustrate Mr Musk’s state of mind when sending the scrutinised tweets.\n\nMr Musk’s legal team insisted he would not be seeking an out-of-court settlement. Instead, he will argue that “pedo guy” was not an insult suggesting Mr Unsworth was a paedophile.\n\n“Pedo guy was a common insult used in South Africa when I was growing up,” Mr Musk said in a court filing as part of a failed request to have the case thrown out of court. \"It is synonymous with ‘creepy old man’ and is used to insult a person’s appearance and demeanour, not accuse a person of paedophilia.”\n\nDiver Vern Unsworth (R) helped bring top international cave rescuers to the mission, including Rob Harper (C)\n\nMr Unsworth’s legal team referred to the explanation as “offensive to the truth”.\n\nAs well as agreeing to hear the case, Judge Wilson denied the defence’s request to define Mr Unsworth as a “public figure” - meaning lawyers for Mr Unsworth do not have to prove Mr Musk acted with \"actual malice\", lowering the bar necessary to win the case.\n\nJury selection is due to begin on Tuesday at 09:30 local time (17:30 GMT), with the first witnesses - Mr Musk among them - likely to be called later on Tuesday.\n\nDo you have more information about this or any other technology story? You can reach Dave directly and securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370", "The Reunion Nugget is in two parts and weighs a total of 121.3g\n\nA gold hunter claims to have discovered the UK's largest gold nugget in a Scottish river.\n\nThe lump of pure gold, which weighs 121.3g (4.2 oz), was unearthed in a mystery location in May this year.\n\nThe two pieces form a doughnut shape and could be worth £80,000. The previous largest find, in 2016, was the 85.7g (3oz) Douglas Nugget.\n\nHowever, gold panning experts are remaining sceptical until its provenance can be confirmed.\n\nThe treasure was discovered in two pieces but fits together perfectly, earning it the name The Reunion Nugget.\n\nThe gold-panning community is renowned for its secrecy, and the name of the river where it was found has not been revealed. The lucky finder is also remaining anonymous.\n\nThe finder brought the discovery to the attention of author Lee Palmer who was researching his book Gold Occurrences In The UK.\n\nMr Palmer, 50, said: \"This is now the largest nugget in existence in the UK. When you look at it, it's doughnut-shaped.\n\n\"There are no impurities in it, it is just pure gold nugget of about 22 carats. It really is a remarkable find.\"\n\nThe nugget was found using the method of \"sniping\", which sees gold hunters lying face down in a river while wearing a snorkel and dry suit.\n\nThe enthusiast unearthed the larger piece first, which weighs 89.6g (3.1oz), before finding the other half, weighing 31.7g (1,1oz) 10 minutes later.\n\nMr Palmer said: \"The man just threw the bigger piece in his bucket with the rest of his stuff - he knew it was big but didn't realise how big.\n\nThe Reunion Nugget could be the largest unearthed in the UK\n\n\"He found the second nugget 30cm (12in) away and chucked that in his bucket too.\n\n\"It wasn't until a couple of days later that he had a look at them and realised how big they were and that they fitted together.\"\n\nHe added: \"The hole in the middle could have been caused by a strike off a rock or glacier.\n\n\"One mineralogist thought it looked like an entry and exit hole that could've been made with a neolithic antler pick, which were used by farmers in the Iron Age.\"\n\nBoth the finder of the nugget and the owner of the land where it was discovered are keeping their identities secret due to its magnitude.\n\nMr Palmer hopes it will be purchased by either the National Museum Of Scotland or the Natural History Museum, but legally it may have to be handed over to The Crown Estate.\n\nHe believes the fact it is in two pieces should not affect its value.\n\nMr Palmer said: \"From the top you could say it looks like two bits, but when you see it from underneath, it's a perfect fit.\n\n\"It's like an exact jigsaw, there's no disputing it.\n\n\"Even if you took the largest individual piece, it is still the biggest one in the UK.\n\n\"Add together the second piece and the story behind it and you've got something amazing.\"\n\nThe Douglas Nugget holds the current record for the largest gold nugget found in the UK for 500 years.\n\nBoth the Reunion Nugget and the Douglas Nugget were found in Scottish rivers using the process of \"sniping\"\n\nIn a similar story, it was discovered in a Scottish river by a man in his 40s.\n\nHe kept quiet for two years before publicly revealing his incredible find.\n\nGold panning expert Leon Kirk said he was not going to get too excited just yet.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland: \"Unfortunately the world of gold is very divisive. If someone finds a nugget it is not necessarily true.\n\n\"This has come out of the blue and there is no confirmed provenance.\n\n\"I would like to think it is real but it can take many months to establish if it is genuine and at the moment there is no proof.\"", "US President Donald Trump will touch down in the UK on Tuesday for a Nato summit - the second visit he has made to Britain this year. What will the security operation involve and what hardware and staff will the president bring with him?\n\nWhenever the US president arrives in the UK, a multi-million-pound security operation is brought into action.\n\nMr Trump's three-day state visit in June, which involved more than 6,300 officers, cost the Metropolitan Police £3.4m, according to figures released under the Freedom of Information Act. A previous four-day working visit in 2018 cost more than £14.2m.\n\nHere are some of the incredible vehicles and entourage the president could be bringing with him this time around.\n\nThe president is likely to arrive in the UK on his customised, high-spec aircraft Air Force One.\n\nAir Force One isn't actually a specific plane but instead refers to one of two specially adapted Boeing 747-200B series aircraft, which carry the tail codes 28000 and 29000.\n\nWith its advanced avionics and defences, Air Force One is classed as a military aircraft, designed to withstand an air attack.\n\nIt can jam enemy radar and eject flares to throw heat-seeking missiles off course.\n\nIt is also capable of refuelling midair, allowing it to fly for an unlimited time - crucial in an emergency.\n\nAir Force One is also equipped with secure communications equipment, allowing the aircraft to function as a mobile command centre.\n\nThere are 85 onboard telephones, a collection of two-way radios and computer connections.\n\nInside, the president and his travel companions enjoy 4,000 sq ft of floor space on three levels, including an extensive suite for the president, a medical facility with an operating table, a conference and dining room, two food preparation galleys that can feed 100 people at a time, and designated areas for the press, VIPs, security and secretarial staff.\n\nSeveral cargo planes, including C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft, carry the president's fleet of armoured vehicles and helicopters, usually landing in advance of his arrival.\n\nAccording to the Washington Post, the president is always accompanied by a military aide carrying an emergency satchel known as the \"football\", which contains the \"gold codes\" for launching the country's nuclear weapons and options for their use.\n\nThe military aide must be nearby the president at all times, as the commander-in-chief is in possession of personal identification codes required to order a strike.\n\nThey are carried on a plastic card known as the \"biscuit\", which can be read only when its opaque plastic covering is snapped in two and removed.\n\nThe presidential motorcade, which includes two identical limousines and other security and communications vehicles, are transported ahead of the president by United States Air Force transport aircraft.\n\nOn the ground, the president travels in Cadillac One - a bullish, enhanced limousine dubbed the \"Beast\" for obvious reasons.\n\nThe spare, decoy vehicle that accompanies it has the same Washington DC licence plates - 800-002.\n\nPresident Trump's generation of presidential car debuted in 2018 - with the US Secret Service tweeting ahead of the UN General Assembly that it was \"ready to roll\".\n\nBut the service and vehicle's designers at General Motors have remained tight-lipped about the vehicle's special security features.\n\nWeighing in at about nine tonnes (20,000lb) - with an armour-plated body and bulletproof windows (which don't all open) - the car is reported to have tear gas grenade launchers, night vision cameras and a built-in satellite phone.\n\nReinforced tyres surround steel-rimmed wheels, which mean the car can still be driven if the tyres are flat.\n\nThe passenger cabin is said to be sealed, to fend off a chemical attack, while special foam would surround the fuel tank in case of impact.\n\nThe vehicle also has extensive electronic equipment, Reuters reports.\n\nThe car can hold at least seven people and has a wide range of medical supplies on board, including - NBC News suggests - a fridge full of blood matching the president's blood type, in case of emergency.\n\nWhen the president's on the move - you know about it.\n\nOther vehicles in the cavalcade include a parade of police outriders, secret service backup vehicles, counter-assault and hazardous attack teams, an armoured SUV communications vehicle, known as Roadrunner, medics and the press corps.\n\nThe president could also bring a fleet of helicopters with him to the UK.\n\nAmong them Marine One, which, like Air Force One, isn't a specific aircraft but instead refers to any US Marine Corps aircraft carrying the president.\n\nHowever, Marine One usually refers to one of the president's large Sikorsky VH-3D Sea Kings or the newer, smaller VH-60N White Hawks.\n\nThe specially adapted helicopters are known as \"white tops\" because of their livery and are fitted with communications equipment, anti-missile defences and hardened hulls.\n\nIt was Sea King versions that met the president at Stansted Airport and carried him to London, accompanied by tandem rotor chinook aircraft.\n\nAs a security measure, Marine One often flies in a group of identical helicopters acting as decoys.\n\nIt is also usually accompanied by two or three Osprey MV-22 escort aircraft, referred to as \"green tops\".\n\nThese tilt-rotor aircraft carry support staff, special forces and secret service agents, who are tasked with dealing with any mid-flight emergency.\n\nThe Ospreys, capable of vertical landings and high-speed flight, were heard circling around London during President Trump's last visit to the UK in 2018.\n\nStaff are also transported around in CH-46s Sea Knight helicopters.\n\nBritish forces' aircraft are also likely to be part of the security operation during his visit.\n\nSome estimates put the number of people in Mr Trump's entourage for his UK visit in 2018 at 1,000, including more than 150 US secret service agents.\n\nStaff included military communications specialists, White House aides, a doctor, a chef and members of the media.\n\nSome 750 rooms were booked out to accommodate his entourage, according to Matt Chorley, of the Times newspaper.\n\nFor his 2019 state visit, the president was reported to have booked a floor of the Corinthia Hotel in Westminster for his family and entourage.\n\nThis time around Mr Trump will be in London and Hertfordshire between 2 and 4 December for the Nato summit.\n\nHe will also attend a reception at Buckingham Palace on 3 December, which will be hosted by the Queen.\n• None Donald Trump state visit: All you need to know", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nSecond Test, Seddon Park, Hamilton (day five of five):\n\nNew Zealand sealed a 1-0 series win over England as Kane Williamson and Ross Taylor centuries helped secure a draw in the second Test in Hamilton.\n\nCaptain Williamson made an unbeaten 104 and Taylor 105 not out as they guided New Zealand to 241-2 - a lead of 140 - before rain ended play early.\n\nEngland were unable to take a wicket in the 41 overs possible in the day.\n\nThe tourists, who lost the first Test by an innings and 65 runs, have not won in New Zealand since 2008.\n\nAlthough England - under new coach Chris Silverwood - won the Twenty20 series that preceded the Tests, they end the year without a Test series victory for the first time since 1999.\n\nThey travel to South Africa for a four-Test series starting on 26 December.\n\nWilliamson and Taylor had fought their way through a difficult evening session on the fourth day, but the inconsistent bounce that England had found then all but disappeared overnight.\n\nDespite that, Williamson offered two chances - both straightforward - but England were unable to take them.\n\nHe gloved a Ben Stokes short ball down the leg side on 39 but Ollie Pope, keeping for only the sixth time in a first-class match, could not hold on as he dived to his left.\n\nMuch worse was Joe Denly's miss with Williamson on 62. Outfoxed by a Jofra Archer slower ball, Williamson lobbed the tamest of catches to mid-wicket, where Denly let the ball slip out of his fingertips in what was described by BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew as \"possibly the worst drop in Test history\".\n• None 'Your 95-year-old grandma would catch that in the dark'\n\nWilliamson and Taylor grew in confidence against England's short-ball tactics, putting on 213 with a mixture of pulls and gentle dabs to the third man boundary.\n\nThe skipper, who would have been run out for 97 had Sam Curran not missed with a throw from mid-off, reached three figures first by gently flicking Joe Root off his pads for his 21st Test century.\n\nTaylor reached his hundred by hitting Root for successive sixes shortly after becoming the second New Zealander to reach 7,000 Test runs.\n\nRain forced the players off two balls later, and play was abandoned at 03:00 GMT, the scheduled start of the final session.\n\nEngland still with questions to answer\n\nThe two-match series was not part of the Test World Championship and, although England remain third in the International Cricket Council rankings, there is plenty to ponder given that they have won only four of 11 Tests this year.\n\nRoot's 226 at Seddon Park was a welcome return to form, while Rory Burns continued to show the maturity he demonstrated in the summer with his second Test century.\n\nHowever, England's middle order is still far from settled, and their bowling attack once again failed to take 20 wickets in a match, albeit in placid conditions and in a rain-affected match.\n\nChris Woakes, recalled for the second Test, was the standout bowler and fellow all-rounder Sam Curran showed he can use his variations to good effect.\n\nBut Jack Leach was dropped for the final Test after struggling in Mount Maunganui for the consistency that England want from their spinner.\n\nArcher also had a difficult series, finishing with two wickets at an average of 104.50, and there are concerns over Ben Stokes' long-term fitness after he was limited by a knee injury in Hamilton.\n\nEngland began this tour saying they would show more patience with the bat. While they did that to an extent in the second Test, there are still frailties there that may be exploited on the bouncier South African pitches.\n\n'We want to be harder to beat' - what they said\n\nEngland captain Joe Root: \"We are a side that wants to learn quite quickly and wants to become quite resilient in these conditions.\n\n\"We want to become a much harder side to beat, first and foremost, and then go on and win games. Similarly, we want to make really big totals and put sides under pressure.\"\n\nEx-England batsman Mark Ramprakash on BBC Test Match Special: \"Chris Silverwood will reflect on England getting some good, hard cricket under their belt against a good New Zealand side.\n\n\"That will stand them in good stead for the South Africa series.\"\n\nNew Zealand captain Kane Williamson: \"It was a great series for us. It was a great fighting effort over the last couple of weeks. We know how strong the England side is.\n\n\"To lose both tosses but to keep showing that fight was really pleasing to see.\"", "Years have been knocked off official projections of children's life expectancies in the UK, an Office for National Statistics (ONS) report shows.\n\nA baby girl born in 2019 is now expected to celebrate three fewer birthdays on average, than under previous calculations.\n\nOfficial 2014 data thought that girl would make it to 93.6. Now the figure is 90.4.\n\nThe report also slashed the likelihood of children reaching 100.\n\nAlthough life expectancies have been and are still improving, experts say previous estimates were too high.\n\nThe improvement is much smaller than previously thought, as part of a widely acknowledged slowdown in life expectancy since 2011.\n\nIn 2018, life expectancy growth stalled for the first time in more than 30 years.\n\nThis has led statisticians to re-evaluate their assumptions about future improvements in life expectancy, resulting in the figures released today.\n\nThe ONS report calculates the impact of this less-rosy picture on children's prospects of a long life.\n\nSo a boy born in 2019 is now expected to live for 87.8 years.\n\nBut the 2016 data thought he would reach 89.7 and the 2014 data said 91.1.\n\nAnd looking to the future, to children born in 2043, there is a dramatic drop in the chances of reaching 100.\n\nBut the projections two years ago thought:\n\nThe ONS said: \"There has been considerable public debate about the causes of the slowdown in life expectancy improvements.\n\n\"Researchers have suggested a range of possible explanations for the slowdown... several factors are at play, none of which can be singled out as being the most important with any certainty.\"\n\nMany reports, including by Public Health England and the Health Foundation think tank, have attempted to get to the bottom of the issue.\n\nA lack of a recent blockbuster moment in medicine could be an issue.\n\nLife expectancy in the 20th Century improved with the creation of the NHS, falls in smoking, childhood immunisation (the last case of polio in the UK was in 1984) and medical advances particularly for the big killers - heart disease, stroke and cancer.\n\nBut now dementia is listed as the leading cause of death and it is incurable.\n\nPublic Health England says a more elderly population - with dementia and other long-term health problems - may also be more vulnerable to diseases like flu.\n\nBut there are issues affecting life expectancy well before old age. Deaths from drug misuse, with Scotland having the highest drug death rate in the EU, are also quoted.\n\nOne of the most politically charged questions has been around austerity - the programme of government cuts that coincides with the slowdown in life expectancy.\n\nThe evidence either way is hotly contested.\n\nBut Public Health England's report says the poorest people have felt the impact on life expectancy the hardest and that \"could indicate a role for government spending\".\n\nStalling life expectancy in the UK has attracted plenty of attention from academics, but they offer no definitive answers on the causes.\n\nWhen you are talking about shifts in predictions of lifespans, it needs more than a few years of data.\n\nBut there is concern about why it's a different story to that in most other developed economies.\n\nAn analysis by the ONS last year concluded that the slowdown in life expectancy growth in the UK since 2011 was one of the largest of the countries analysed.\n\nThat's led to speculation on UK specific factors.\n\nCuts in government spending in the policy period dubbed by some as \"austerity\" might, according to some commentators, have been a factor.\n\nIt's worth noting, though, that cuts in social care in England were not replicated to the same extent in other parts of the UK.\n\nThe decline in living standards and the reduced ability of some households to pay for heating and food in the decade since the financial crisis in 2008 have also been mentioned.\n\nThe gap between life expectancy in the richest and poorest neighbourhoods in England has increased according to research last year.\n\nThe debate will continue though it may take a while before firm trends and causes can be identified.", "As first-choice wicketkeeper for England, Geraint Jones was a member of the side which won the Ashes in 2005.\n\nSince retiring in Kent, the county he represented for most of his professional career, he's become a teacher.\n\nHe's also taking on a new challenge - by becoming a retained firefighter at his local station in Sandwich, Kent.", "* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment, the older person’s bus pass and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* Rights for workers to be notified of their shifts one month in advance * The right to bereavement leave following a death in the immediate family * Lower cap on pension fund management fees * Tax breaks for companies that offer longer-term secure career contracts to staff\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* End the Work Capability Assessment and replace it with a system using qualified medical practitioners * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * No benefits paid to foreign nationals resident in the UK until they have paid tax for five years * Minimise the use of zero-hour contracts\n\n* £35 a week payment for every child in a low-income family * Tax credit of up to £25 a week for tenants in the private sector who spend more than 30% of their income on rent and utility bills * Powers over social security devolved to Wales * Abolish the \"bedroom tax\" * Universal free childcare for 40 hours a week\n\n* Demand UK government halts the rollout of Universal Credit until \"fundamental flaws\" are addressed * Oppose and increase to the state pension age and campaign against decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s * Press for the statutory living wage to rise to at least the level of the real living wage * Increase shared parental leave from 52 to 64 weeks, with the additional 12 weeks to be the minimum taken by the father * Make the minimum wage for 16 to 24-year-olds the same as for over 25s, and ban unpaid trial shifts\n\n* Stronger regulation of the gig economy, and oppose deregulation of employment rights * Stronger focus on careers advice * Support a fairer UK-wide welfare system and revised package of welfare mitigations for NI * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * Overhaul bereavement benefits\n\n* Personal tax allowance should rise in line with inflation each year * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 by the end of the parliamentary term * End the freeze on benefits by increasing them in line with inflation * Restore free television licences for over-75s but in the longer term abolish the licence fee entirely * Retain the pensions triple lock and retain winter fuel payments\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts * Introduce a real living wage * Establish a new \"welfare mitigation package\" that protects the most vulnerable\n\n* Increase childcare provision from 12.5 hours per week to 20 hours per week, potentially increasing to 30 hours once new budget is agreed * Regulation of zero-hours contracts * Introduce a \"true living wage\" to reflect rising costs of living * Scrap universal credit, the bedroom tax and the two-child limit * End the freeze on benefits\n\n* Extend mitigation measures on key issues such as the bedroom tax, which are due to expire in March * Restore TV licenses for over-75s and retain the triple-lock protection for pensions * Create and implement a new childcare strategy\n\n* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Increase the number of employers paying a living wage in Wales and introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system * New \"collective\" workplace pension schemes and new controls on transferring pensions and a review of state pension inequality for Waspi women\n\n* Introduce a real living wage of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16, giving about 700,000 Scottish workers a pay rise * Scrap universal credit and increase child benefit * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66 and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay\n\n* Reverse cuts to universal credit * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment * Introduce universal access to basic services * Increase provision of free meals for children, with a particular focus on breakfast * Increase access to free sanitary products\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts, close the gender pay gap, and ensure that everyone is paid a \"real living wage\" * Bring in a universal basic income * Remove differential rates of minimum wage for under-25s and introduce a living wage for everyone * Scrap universal credit * Support for the Waspi women (Women Against State Pension Inequality)\n\n* Scrap welfare reforms include PIP, Universal Credit and the bedroom tax * Develop a state-owned National Childcare Agency * Repeal all anti-trade union laws * Ban zero hours contracts and implement a real living wage\n\n* 40% of board members in public companies and public sector boards to be women * Worker representation to be established on the boards of larger companies * Ban “zero-hours” contracts * Increase child benefit", "Ariana Grande and Drake were the most-streamed female and male artists of the decade\n\nSpotify has revealed its biggest songs, albums and artists of the last decade, with Drake emerging as the most-streamed artist of the 2010s.\n\nThe Canadian star has racked up more than 28 billion streams, with his most popular song, One Dance, played 1.7 billion times alone.\n\nIt was dwarfed by Ed Sheeran's Shape Of You, whose 2.4 billion streams, made it the decade's most listened-to track.\n\nReleased in June, the island-flavoured duet has already been played one billion times. Billie Eilish's Bad Guy isn't far behind, on 990 million streams.\n\nEilish's debut album, When We All Fall Asleep Where Do We Go, was also the year's most popular album - the first time a female artist has topped Spotify's end-of-year survey.\n\nIn the UK, however, Eilish played second fiddle to Lewis Capaldi whose debut album, Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent, topped the chart.\n\nHis ubiquitous ballad Someone You Loved was also the year's most-streamed song.\n\nSpotify's data also revealed some quirky facts: Modern Bollywood was the year's fastest-rising genre; the most popular mood-based playlist was \"feel good,\" followed by \"lit\"; and the top podcast genre was comedy.\n\nHere are the music charts in full.\n\nThe end-of-decade charts are presumably skewed towards more recent songs because of the growth in Spotify's user-base. The service had just 7 million users in 2009, but now boasts 248 million monthly active users, of which 113 million are paid subscribers.\n\nLater this week, Spotify will unveil the latest incarnation of its \"Spotify Wrapped\" feature, allowing users to generate a personalised breakdown of the music they listened to in 2019.\n\nOther streaming services, including Apple Music and Amazon Music, are expected to reveal their own data later this month.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Essex Fire Service said the dog was a husky (similar to the type pictured here)\n\nA dog started a house fire when it managed to turn the microwave on, a fire service said.\n\nThe husky-type animal, which was left on its own in the house in Stanford-le-Hope, turned on the appliance, which was on a worktop in the kitchen.\n\nA packet of bread rolls, which had been placed inside, began to burn and caused a small fire, Essex Fire Service said.\n\nThe owner, who was not at home at the time, was alerted to the fire by an app on their mobile phone.\n\nThe fire service said the owner's device allowed them to view live feeds from a camera that was set up in their house on Kingsman Road.\n\nGeoff Wheal, watch manager at Corringham Fire Station, called it a \"very strange incident\" and said firefighters found the kitchen filled with smoke, but they made sure the flames did not spread to the rest of the house.\n\n\"It demonstrates that microwaves shouldn't be used to store food when they aren't in use,\" he said.\n\n\"Always keep your microwave clean and free of clutter or food and any packaging.\n\n\"Animals or children can turn them on more easily than you might think - so please don't run the risk.\"\n\nThe dog was not hurt, the service added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ofcom has decided not to investigate a Conservative Party impartiality complaint about a Channel 4 special.\n\nThe party complained ahead of the Climate Debate on 28 November about C4's intention to \"empty chair\" the Conservatives with an ice sculpture.\n\nIt criticised the channel's refusal to accept Cabinet Minister Michael Gove as the Tory representative if the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, didn't attend.\n\nBut Ofcom concluded the Conservative viewpoint had been given due weight.\n\nThe one-hour programme went on to \"empty chair\" both Mr Johnson and Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage, who was also replaced with an ice sculpture.\n\nMichael Gove appeared on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show last month\n\nIn a statement, the media watchdog said: \"Ofcom's election committee concluded that, across the one-hour debate and a subsequent news programme, Channel 4's use of editorial techniques ensured that the Conservative's viewpoint on climate and environmental issues was adequately reflected and given due weight.\"\n\nThe Conservative complaint had described the use of the ice sculpture to replace Mr Johnson as \"a provocative partisan stunt\".\n\nBut Ofcom said: \"The committee also took into account that the globe ice sculpture was not a representation of the Prime Minister personally, and little editorial focus was given to it, either visually or in references made by the presenter or debate participants.\"\n\nChannel 4 told Ofcom the programme was intended to be a party leaders' debate from the outset.\n\nIt added that the leaders of the Labour Party, the Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru, the SNP and the co-leader of the Green Party, all agreed to participate in the programme on the understanding it was a leaders' debate.\n\nChannel 4 said Mr Gove arrived unannounced at the ITN building ahead of the debate and requested the channel ask the other party leaders in attendance if they would agree to him participating instead of Mr Johnson.\n\nChannel 4 said it did so but they declined.\n\nBroadcasters have editorial freedom in determining the format of any election debate. Depending on the circumstances, they may choose to proceed without having agreed the participation of a particular political party or politician, providing they take steps to ensure the programme complies with Ofcom's due impartiality and election rules.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Essex Police urged the public not to speculate on the circumstances of the crash\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a 12-year-old boy who died in a hit-and-run outside a school.\n\nThe 51-year-old was also detained on suspicion of the attempted murder of four other teenagers and a 23-year-old woman who were hurt in the crash.\n\nIt happened near Debden Park High School in Loughton, Essex, at about 15:20 GMT on Monday.\n\nEssex Police said officers were looking for a silver Ford KA that was \"likely to have damage to [its] front\".\n\nEarlier, the force took the step of naming Terry Glover, 51, as someone they wanted to speak to in connection with the crash.\n\nIt is understood that all the injured children - two 15-year-old boys, a 13-year-old boy, and a girl, 16 - are pupils at the school.\n\nFlowers have been laid outside the school\n\nDebden Park's head teacher Helen Gascoyne, said: \"Our thoughts are with the family and all those affected.\n\n\"The school will be open [on Tuesday] with a number of counsellors on hand to support our community.\"\n\nChristian Cavanagh, executive head teacher, described the boy's death as \"a young life so tragically lost\".\n\nHe said: \"This young man had made his mark on the school and was liked and loved by staff and students.\n\n\"We will consult with the family and our school community to decide how best to commemorate his life.\"\n\nChristian Cavanagh said the dead boy had been \"liked and loved by staff and pupils\"\n\nDonna Mills, the mother of Alfie Barnes who was one of the 15-year-olds struck by the car, said he was \"still in shock\", \"battered and bruised\".\n\n\"He remembers the car coming towards him, he remembers getting hit but it is a bit of a blur. He hit his head and I think he blacked out for a bit,\" she said.\n\n\"It was a bit scary, very scary for him.\n\n\"Alfie rang me and said 'mum I have been hit by a car', so I shot down there as fast as I could, it was horrendous.\n\n\"It was... horrible to see, kids laying on the floor, just terrible.\"\n\nThere is likely to be a \"prolonged investigation\", police said\n\nDet Ch Insp Rob Kirby described the crash as \"truly shocking\" and appealed for dashcam footage.\n\n\"I would like to thank the many members of the public who have called us with information and spoken to our officers, as well as those who provided crucial medical assistance at the scene,\" he said.\n\nWillingale Road, where the crash happened, cannot be accessed from junctions on either side of the school and remains cordoned off.\n\nPupils arriving to school this morning knew today was not going to be an ordinary day.\n\nMany of them may have witnessed some of the events that unfolded on Willingale Road as they left school last night, many more who may not have seen it firsthand will probably have seen reports on social media.\n\nThe school has decided to open in order that pupils can come in, can be with their friends, fellow pupils and teachers and can receive counselling if they want or need it.\n\nA number of students have laid floral tributes, some with cards and messages for the family.\n\nChris Whitbread, leader of Epping Forest District Council, said any parent who had heard about the crash would have been \"devastated and shocked\".\n\nSixth-form student Scarlett Bearman, 17, said exams had been cancelled for the day and counselling was being provided to pupils.\n\nShe said: \"From my point of view the school has handled it extremely well. I expect the mood there to be quite low today.\"\n\nDebden Park High School will open on Tuesday for staff and pupils to support each other\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Harley Watson's family described him as a \"good, kind, helpful and lovely boy\"\n\nThe family of a 12-year-old boy killed in a hit-and-run near his school say they are \"devastated\" by his death.\n\nHarley Watson was struck near Debden Park High School in Loughton, Essex, at about 15:20 GMT on Monday.\n\nA 51-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of his murder, as well as the attempted murder of four teenagers and a 23-year-old woman who were hurt in the crash.\n\nHarley's family described him as a \"good, kind, helpful and lovely boy\".\n\nIn a statement, they said: \"We are so devastated by what has happened.\n\n\"We would like to thank everyone for their kind wishes and concern.\n\n\"However, as a family we would like people to respect our privacy and allow us to grieve in peace.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Loughton school crash survivor 'blacked out' when hit by car\n\nEssex Police said the 51-year-old man was arrested in a pub car park in Fiddlers Hamlet at 23:00 on Monday.\n\nCh Supt Tracey Harman said there \"may be connections\" between the crash near Debden Park High School and an earlier incident of a car mounting a pavement near Roding Valley High School in Loughton, 10 minutes before the fatal collision.\n\nThe force has referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct based on \"previous contact\" it had had with the arrested man.\n\nHarley's death has been described as a \"young life so tragically lost\"\n\nIt is understood all the injured children - two 15-year-old boys, a 13-year-old boy, and a girl, 16 - are pupils at the school.\n\nDebden Park's head teacher Helen Gascoyne, said: \"Our thoughts are with the family and all those affected. The school will be open [on Tuesday] with a number of counsellors on hand to support our community.\"\n\nChristian Cavanagh, executive head teacher, described Harley's death as \"a young life so tragically lost\".\n\nHe said: \"This young man had made his mark on the school and was liked and loved by staff and students. We will consult with the family and our school community to decide how best to commemorate his life.\"\n\nDonna Mills, the mother of Alfie Barnes who was one of the 15-year-olds struck by the car, said he was \"still in shock... battered and bruised\".\n\n\"He remembers the car coming towards him, he remembers getting hit, but it is a bit of a blur. He hit his head and I think he blacked out for a bit,\" she said.\n\n\"Alfie rang me and said 'mum I have been hit by a car', so I shot down there as fast as I could. It was horrendous.\n\n\"It was... horrible to see, kids laying on the floor, just terrible.\"\n\nDebden Park High School opened on Tuesday for staff and pupils to support each other\n\nEssex Police said officers are looking for a silver Ford Ka \"likely to have damage to [its] front\".\n\nEarlier, the force took the step of naming Terry Glover, 51, as someone they wanted to speak to in connection with the crash.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson has confirmed a member of her party's staff has been suspended for \"faking\" an email.\n\nThe email was reportedly sent as part of a legal fight between the Lib Dems and news site Open Democracy.\n\nMs Swinson said the \"unacceptable\" incident had led to \"swift action\".\n\nThe row between the Lib Dems and Open Democracy relates to a story about the party selling personal data - something the party denies.\n\nThe Lib Dems accused the website of not including a response from the party in its story.\n\nThe website insists one of its journalists had contacted the Lib Dems for a response ahead of publication, but the party had not replied.\n\nAccording to Open Democracy's editor, the party then produced a copy of an email, through its lawyers, to back up its claim that it had sent a response.\n\nBut the email was dated 18 hours before Open Democracy had asked for a response, suggesting it was a fake.\n\nMs Swinson did not confirm the identity of the person involved.\n\nBut she said: \"As has been reported, there was an email that was sent which was inaccurate, which was faked.\n\n\"That's not acceptable, there is an investigation, the member of staff has been suspended and I'm not going to comment further on staffing matters.\"\n\nOpen Democracy reported that it had seen evidence held by the UK's privacy watchdog about the alleged sale of data by the party to Britain Stronger in Europe, the official Remain campaign in the EU referendum.\n\nIn a 2018 report, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said it had \"obtained information\" to show that the personal data was sold by the Lib Dems to the Remain campaign for £100,000.\n\nThe ICO said the Lib Dems and the campaign group denied that party members' data had been sold.\n\nBoth insisted that Britain Stronger in Europe had bought information on the official electoral register from the Lib Dems, the ICO said.\n\nA Lib Dem spokesman said: \"The Liberal Democrats refute allegations made in Open Democracy's piece of 13 November.\n\n\"However, we have been made aware that the information Open Democracy subsequently received from the Liberal Democrats was incorrect.\n\n\"We have suspended a member of staff involved and are following due process.\"", "Videos made by disabled users were deliberately prevented from going viral on TikTok by the firm's moderators, the app has acknowledged.\n\nThe social network said the policy was introduced to reduce the amount of cyber-bullying on its platform, but added that it now recognised the approach had been flawed.\n\nThe measure was exposed by the German digital rights news site Netzpolitik.\n\nDisability rights campaigners said the strategy had been \"bizarre\".\n\nA leaked extract from TikTok's rulebook gave examples of what its moderators were instructed to be on the lookout for:\n\nSuch users were \"susceptible to bullying or harassment based on their physical or mental condition\", the guidelines added.\n\nAccording to an unnamed TikTok source quoted by Netzpolitik, the moderators were told to limit viewership of affected users' videos to the country where they were uploaded.\n\nAnd in cases where the creators were judged to be particularly vulnerable, it reported that the moderators were ordered to prevent the clips from appearing in the app's main video feed once they had reached between 6,000 to 10,000 views.\n\nThis video feed is auto-generated and personalised for each member. It accounts for where most people spend their time watching others' content.\n\nNetzpolitik reporter Chris Koever suggested the result was that the Chinese-owned firm had further victimised those affected \"instead of policing the perpetrators\".\n\nA spokesman for TikTok admitted it had made the wrong choice.\n\n\"Early on, in response to an increase in bullying on the app, we implemented a blunt and temporary policy,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"This was never designed to be a long-term solution, and while the intention was good, it became clear that the approach was wrong.\n\n\"We have long since removed the policy in favour of more nuanced anti-bullying policies.\"\n\nTikTok has not confirmed when it abandoned the measure, but Netzpolitik reported that it was still in force in September.\n\n\"It's good that TikTok has ended this bizarre policy,\" Ceri Smith from the disability equality charity Scope said.\n\n\"Social media platforms must do more to tackle cyber-bullying, but hastily hiding away a group of users under the guise of protecting them is not the right approach at all.\"\n\nAnti-bullying charity Ditch the Label added that it hoped valuable lessons had been learned.\n\n\"It is concerning that young people with disabilities have been actively excluded from participating on a platform that prides itself as being fun and inclusive,\" said chief executive Liam Hackett.\n\n\"This approach is discriminatory and further demonises disability, which we already know attracts a huge amount of abuse and intolerance.\"\n\nThis is the latest in a series of controversies to affect the short-form video app in recent weeks.\n\nIn September, the Guardian reported that the app used to restrict or ban political content, including footage of the Tiananmen Square protests, that could be used to criticise the Chinese government.\n\nThe firm's parent company Bytedance subsequently declined to testify to US Congress about its ties to China saying it had not been given enough warning.\n\nThen last Wednesday, TikTok apologised to a US teenager for removing a video in which she had accused China of mistreating its Uighur Muslim population.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Feroza Aziz rejected TikTok's explanations for blocking her from its app\n\nAnd it has since emerged that it is being sued by a US student who alleges that the firm surreptitiously transferred \"vast quantities of private and personally identifiable user data\" from the international version of its app to China. TikTok maintains it only stores US user data in the United States and Singapore.\n\nFor its part, Netzpolitik said it hoped the latest revelations would encourage the app to consult users before imposing potentially discriminatory changes.\n\n\"Basically any time you try to make a policy, ask those who will be affected by it,\" said Ms Koever.\n\n\"That would be a good start.\"", "Les Rutherford escaped Dunkirk by paddling out to sea on a shed door\n\nA veteran who escaped Dunkirk by paddling out to sea on a shed door has died at the age of 101.\n\nLes Rutherford became trapped while fighting a rear-guard action during the evacuation of the port.\n\nHe and a fellow soldier used the door, which had been blown off a shed, to escape out to sea, where they were picked up by a French trawler.\n\nTributes paid to Mr Rutherford described him as \"a wonderful man who will be sorely missed\".\n\nTalking previously about his exploits in Dunkirk, Mr Rutherford said: \"The place was being bombed to bits.\n\n\"There was absolutely no hope, so another chap and I decided to take this big door which had been blown off a shed and we put out to sea.\"\n\nAfter being picked up, he said he was given a glass of rum and returned to England wearing only a blanket and socks.\n\nHe later joined Bomber Command and served as a bomb aimer in the RAF.\n\nHis role was to lie flat in the nose of the aircraft, directing the pilot during a bombing-run as the bombs were released.\n\nLes Rutherford in a Lancaster bomber on his 90th birthday\n\nMr Rutherford, who was based at RAF Skellingthorpe in Lincolnshire, served with Bomber Command\n\nDuring a raid over Germany in December 1943, Mr Rutherford was shot down and captured.\n\nHe was taken to Stalag Luft III shortly before the Great Escape took place in March 1944, although he was not part of it.\n\nWhilst there, he exchanged chocolate for a notebook which he used to record life in the camp.\n\nOne of the images in his notebook depicted the Great Escape\n\nAnother showed the withdrawal of troops from Stalag Luft III in 1945 in response to the Russian advance\n\nAt the end of the war he was repatriated to the UK.\n\nPaying tribute, a spokesperson for the International Bomber Command Centre, said: \"If ever a man served his country to the highest standards it was Les.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. ITV's Philip Schofield asked Jeremy Corbyn several times on This Morning whether he would apologise or not\n\nJeremy Corbyn has apologised again for incidents of anti-Semitism in Labour.\n\nThe party leader said sorry twice in 2018, but was criticised for refusing to do so four times in a recent interview with the BBC's Andrew Neil.\n\nAsked repeatedly on ITV's This Morning by Phillip Schofield to apologise, Mr Corbyn said: \"Obviously I am very sorry for everything that has happened.\"\n\nLabour has been dealing with the row over the extent of anti-Semitism within the party for more than three years.\n\nIt was reignited during the election campaign after the Chief Rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, claimed \"a new poison - sanctioned from the very top - had taken root\" in Labour.\n\nIn response, Mr Corbyn said anti-Jewish racism was \"vile and wrong\" and would not be tolerated in any form under a future Labour government.\n\nHe said internal processes for dealing with anti-Semitism cases were \"constantly under review\" and his door would be open to Rabbi Mirvis and other faith leaders to discuss their concerns if he entered Downing Street.\n\nIn the interview on the mid-morning programme, Schofield said: \"Here is your opportunity now to apologise to the Jewish community for any anti-Semitism by Labour members\".\n\nMr Corbyn began to answer, saying, \"can I make it clear...\", but was interrupted by the presenter who said, \"no, just say sorry\".\n\nThe Labour leader replied: \"Our party and me do not accept anti-Semitism in any form. Obviously I am very sorry for everything that has happened, but I want to make this clear - I am dealing with it, I have dealt with it.\n\n\"Other parties are also affected by anti-Semitism. Candidates have been withdrawn by the Liberal Democrats, the Conservatives, and by us, because of it. We just do not accept it in any form whatsoever.\"", "Police have named the London Bridge attacker as Usman Khan, who was previously part of a group that plotted to bomb the city's stock exchange.\n\nKhan, 28, was out on licence from prison when he killed two people and injured three others in the stabbing attack on Friday, before being shot dead by armed police.\n\nSince being released in December 2018 - his conditions requiring him to wear an electronic tag - Khan had been living in Stafford.\n\nHe also took part in the government's \"Desistance and Disengagement Programme\", the purpose of which is the rehabilitation of those who have been involved in terrorism.\n\nIn 2012, he was sentenced to indeterminate detention for \"public protection\" with a minimum jail term of eight years after pleading guilty to preparing terrorist acts.\n\nThe sentence would have allowed him to be kept in prison beyond the minimum term, should the authorities have deemed it necessary.\n\nIn a reference to Khan and two other defendants, the trial judge said: \"In my judgement, these offenders would remain, even after a lengthy term of imprisonment, of such a significant risk that the public could not be adequately protected by their being managed on licence in the community, subject to conditions, by reference to a preordained release date.\"\n\nHe added that the \"safety of the public in respect of these offenders can only adequately be protected if their release on licence is decided upon, at the earliest, at the conclusion of the minimum term which I fix today.\"\n\nWithin months of his conviction Khan had been upgraded to a \"high risk\" prisoner at HMP Whitemoor.\n\nA government source told BBC Look East that Khan became an increased security risk in 2012 \"after making threats to senior prison staff\".\n\nHe was said by the source to have been a \"model prisoner\" afterwards.\n\nHowever, a prison source told the BBC Khan had \"played everyone\" and was involved in lots of security incidents during his imprisonment.\n\nIn 2013 the Court of Appeal quashed Khan's sentence, replacing it with a 16-year-fixed term of which half was to be served in prison. He was then released automatically at that point.\n\nKhan was moved to another maximum security prison, HMP Woodhill, prior to his release on license in 2018.\n\nBorn and raised in Stoke-on-Trent, Khan was originally jailed along with eight others, who were arrested in 2010.\n\nThe nine, inspired by al-Qaeda, had been under surveillance by MI5.\n\nThe men - who were from Stoke, Cardiff and London - were engaged in several plans, one of which involved a plot to place a pipe bomb in the London Stock Exchange.\n\nThose from Stoke were overheard discussing potential attacks in their city, including leaving explosive devices in pubs and clubs.\n\nKhan described members of the public as \"kuffar\" and \"dogs\".\n\nUsman Khan, circled, with his fellow defendants in a surveillance image released by police in 2012\n\nAt one point Khan was monitored in conversation about \"how to construct a pipe bomb\" from a recipe in an al-Qaeda magazine.\n\nThe men had also been funding a proposed madrassa - a college for Islamic instruction - abroad, which was to be used for firearms training and would have been attended by Khan.\n\nThe court of appeal judgement said: \"The groups were clearly considering a range of possibilities, including fundraising for the establishment of a military-training madrassa in Pakistan - where they would undertake training themselves and recruit others to do likewise - sending letter bombs through the post, attacking public houses used by British racist groups, attacking a high-profile target with an explosive device and a Mumbai-style attack.\"\n\nIt added that they had \"serious long-term plans\" to send Khan and other recruits for \"training and terrorist experience\".\n\n\"Should they return to the UK, they would do so trained and experienced in terrorism,\" the judgement continued.\n\nAnother man from Stoke who was jailed alongside Khan - Mohibur Rahman - was later convicted of another terrorist plot following his release from prison.\n\nKhan had spent years proselytising in Stoke on so-called \"dawah stalls\" linked to the proscribed terrorist organisation al-Muhajiroun, which was once led by the hate preacher Anjem Choudary.\n\nAfter Khan was jailed, the Daily Star quoted Choudary saying that the Stoke plotters \"were students of mine\" and \"I knew them for quite a while\".\n\nIn 2008 Khan's address was one of five properties in Stoke raided by counter-terrorism police. None of those investigated was ultimately charged.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Usman Khan speaking to the BBC in 2008: \"I ain't no terrorist\"\n\nSpeaking at the time, Khan publicly complained about being under suspicion, saying: \"I've been born and bred in England, in Stoke-on-Trent in Cobridge.\"\n\nHe said \"all the community knows me\" and that \"I ain't no terrorist\".\n\nWhile incarcerated, Khan attended some counter terrorism programmes and first came into contact with the educational initiative Learning Together, whose event in London he later so brutally attacked.\n\nAfter leaving prison, Khan appeared as a \"case study\" in a report by the initiative focused on its work at HMP Whitemoor in Cambridgeshire.\n\nIdentified only by his first name, Khan was said - since leaving prison - to have given a speech at a fundraising dinner and been provided with a \"secure\" laptop that complied with his licence conditions.\n\nKhan contributed a poem to a separate brochure in which he also expressed gratitude for the computer, stating: \"I cannot send enough thanks to the entire Learning Together team and all those who continue to support this wonderful community.\"\n\nThe attacker, who was restricted in who he could meet and where he could go, was managed by a panel comprising public bodies - including the police and probation service - under the system of multi-agency public protection arrangements.\n\nThe day of the attack was the first time Khan had been allowed to visit London since he left prison.\n\nThe panel that permitted his attendance - in order to attend the Learning Together event - also decided he could travel there unescorted.\n\nBut when Khan had attended an event elsewhere in the country in May he had been escorted, and - later in the year - Khan was refused permission to travel to Stoke to attend a social event.\n\nHe was formally under investigation by MI5 at the time of the attack, classed as one of its 3,000 subjects of interest. He was not placed in the top tiers of those under scrutiny.", "Mental As Anything were inducted into the Australian recording industry's Hall of Fame in 2009 (L-R: Reg Mombassa, Greedy Smith, Peter O'Doherty and Martin Plaza)\n\nMental As Anything founding member and songwriter Andrew \"Greedy\" Smith has died after suffering a heart attack in his car. He was aged 63.\n\nThe band confirmed Smith's death on its Facebook page \"with an incredibly heavy heart\".\n\n\"Our grief and confusion at this time are little compared to what Andrew's family will be feeling,\" they added.\n\nAccording to Australian media, Smith was moving into a new home with his fiancee Fiona Docker when he fell ill.\n\nAn ambulance attended the scene, but attempts to revive him failed.\n\nThe singer, songwriter and keyboardist was currently on a tour with Mental As Anything, and was the last original member still performing with the band.\n\nAffectionately known as \"The Mentals\", they were one of Australia's most popular bands in the 1980s, scoring hits with songs like Too Many Times, If You Leave Me, Can I Come Too? and The Nips Are Getting Bigger.\n\nThey scored a UK hit in 1987 after their single Live It Up featured in the soundtrack to Crocodile Dundee.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nFormed as a party covers band in 1978, Smith always maintained their success had been a fluke.\n\n\"We didn't have any ambition at all!\" he told NQ Music Press in 2014. \"It was someone else's idea to record us, they started an independent record company and they needed someone to record and they picked us, and it was just luck and everyone liking The Nips Are Getting Bigger that started it all off.\n\n\"So we said, 'this is easy! We weren't even trying!'\"\n\nThe band were inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association Hall of Fame in 2009. Last month, Smith was added to the Australian Songwriters Hall of Fame.\n\nOutside music, the gregarious, articulate frontman was a well-loved TV personality, appearing on Australian shows like Hey Hey It's Saturday and Tonight Live.\n\nHe played his last show with Mental As Anything on Saturday night, and had been scheduled to perform in Melbourne on Thursday.\n\nThe band were a regular fixture on Australian music programme Countdown\n\nOne of the band's founding members, Reg Mombassa, said the group was in shock that their friend had died so suddenly.\n\n\"We are all totally shocked. He seemed like such a healthy, energetic guy,\" he said.\n\n\"He wasn't the kind of guy who partied too hard. He enjoyed a drink when we were younger but he was a very serious performer.\"\n\nSmith is survived by his son Harvey, fiancee Fiona Docker and brother Stuart.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A 12-year-old boy has died and five others were injured in a \"deliberate\" hit-and-run crash near a school.\n\nPolice have launched a murder inquiry and want to speak to Terry Glover, 51.\n\nCh Supt Tracey Harman, of Essex Police said: \"We believe that the collision was deliberate, and have launched a murder investigation\".", "The woman was knocked off her bicycle close to Park Hill Drive\n\nA heavily pregnant woman has been seriously injured in a hit-and-run crash.\n\nThe victim was cycling in Aylestone Road, near Park Hill Drive, Leicester, at about 21:30 GMT on Monday when she was hit by the vehicle.\n\nA 40-year-old man from Leicester, is being held on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving and driving while under the influence of alcohol.\n\nDet Sgt Paul Hawkins said: \"We are continuing to provide support to the woman injured and her family as the investigation continues.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some 3.6 million people are living in the UK who were born in other parts of the EU and very few of them have a vote on 12 December, where the fate of Brexit could be decided.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Newsnight: Kay Richardson was killed by her estranged husband, after he was released under investigation\n\nMore than 93,000 suspected violent criminals and sex offenders have been released without restrictions by police in England and Wales since 2017, figures obtained by BBC Newsnight show.\n\nPeople suspected of offences including rape and murder have been among those \"Released Under Investigation\" (RUI).\n\nRichard Miller of the Law Society said a \"major scandal\" was brewing over the way RUIs are being used.\n\nThe Home Office said the cases must be regularly reviewed and managed.\n\nIn 2017, the rules on pre-charge bail changed, making it more difficult for police to keep suspects on bail beyond 28 days.\n\nThe overuse of RUIs, Mr Miller said, is the unintended consequence of the changes.\n\nUnlike pre-charge bail, RUIs do not impose a limit on suspects' movements, stop them from contacting certain people or require them report to a police station.\n\nEarlier this month the government announced plans to review the 2017 changes.\n\nIn September 2018, Alan Martin, 53, was released under investigation by police in Sunderland, after his estranged wife Kay Richardson had gone to the police accusing him of rape.\n\nNo conditions were imposed and the police gave Martin the keys back to the home he had shared with Ms Richardson.\n\nMartin let himself into the house and waited for Ms Richardson, 49, before attacking her with a hammer and strangling her.\n\n\"They might as well have gone and opened the door for him,\" said Audrey Richardson, Kay's mother.\n\n\"He killed her,\" she said. \"We've got to accept this and the police is not taking a little bit of responsibility... We are haunted by what happened.\"\n\nMr Martin had a history of domestic violence. But Northumbria Police said, because he had not been bailed, officers had no legal right to keep the keys from him. The force were cleared of misconduct by The Independent Office for Police Conduct.\n\nViolence against the person and sexual offences account for almost 100,000 of the cases where an individual was Released Under Investigation since April 2017\n\nNewsnight's data - obtained under the Freedom of Information Act - revealed there were 322,250 RUI cases between April 2017 to October this year. Of these, 93,098 related to violence against a person and sexual offences cases.\n\nThe figures were provided by 20 of the 44 police forces in England and Wales - meaning the total number of RUIs since 2017 is likely to be much higher.\n\nCaroline Goodwin QC, chairwoman of the Criminal Bar Association, said there were people being released without \"any form of judicial control or indeed police bail control\" which \"can be dangerous\" for victims.\n\nNewsnight found 2,772 of the cases involving violent and sexual offences had been classed as RUI for more than 12 months.\n\n\"It's unfair on defendants and complainants if these cases are not resolved quickly,\" said Mr Miller, head of justice at the Law Society.\n\n\"It also means that the quality of the evidence is impacted as the longer a case is left the more memories fade.\"\n\nNewsnight spoke to a man who was released under investigation for more than two years, after he was accused of rape.\n\nHe agreed to speak to the BBC anonymously.\n\n\"Your life is effectively put on hold. You're put into this limbo where everything starts falling apart around you, you've got no control of it whatsoever,\" he said. \"I felt suicidal.\"\n\nHe protested his innocence and was eventually told he would not be charged.\n\n\"I would expect, with the nature of the crime I was accused of, to have been placed under specific instructions,\" he added.\n\n\"But there were no restrictions at all.\"\n\nThe Home Office said the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) released guidance to frontline officers this year stressing the importance of using pre-charge bail where necessary and proportionate, including in high harm cases.\n\nThe NPCC's criminal justice lead, Assistant Commissioner Nick Ephgrave, said since the bail legislation was amended, \"a number of unintended consequences have followed\".\n\n\"To address the emerging issues, we issued operational guidance encouraging timely investigations and the proactive use of pre-charge bail to protect victims and vulnerable people,\" he said.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said: \"We will always give the police and the criminal justice system the full support and powers they need to protect the public from harm.\n\n\"We launched a review of pre-charge bail legislation to prioritise the safety of victims and empower the police investigating all types of offences, whilst continuing to make sure cases are dealt with as swiftly as possible.\"\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two at 22:30 on weekdays. Catch up on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bryonn Bain was giving a workshop at Fishmongers' Hall when the attack began\n\nAn American academic has given a graphic account of the moment the London Bridge stabbing attack began, saying it \"felt like a warzone\".\n\nBryonn Bain told the BBC that victim Jack Merritt had been the first person to confront Usman Khan when he launched his knife assault during a prisoner rehabilitation conference on Friday.\n\n\"I saw people die, I saw things that I will never be able to unsee,\" he said.\n\nVigils have taken place for Mr Merritt, 25, and second victim Saskia Jones, 23.\n\nTwo women and a man were also injured in the attack before Khan was shot dead by armed officers on London Bridge - the two women are still in hospital in a stable condition.\n\nProf Bain said former offenders attending the University of Cambridge-linked conference \"stepped up and intervened\" to tackle Khan, and people at Fishmongers' Hall owed their lives to the actions of those who had previously spent time in jail.\n\nHe said two men from his performance poetry workshop immediately ran towards shouts from elsewhere in Fishmongers' Hall in the City of London as the attack began, and as shouts grew louder he also went to assist.\n\n\"That's when I ran down and saw the scene unfolding there,\" he said. \"I was able to see the attacker.\"\n\nHe added: \"It felt like a warzone... it felt like total chaos.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The chief executive of Fishmongers Hall, Commodore Toby Williamson describes how his staff fought back\n\nProf Bain said course co-ordinator Mr Merritt was \"the first line of defence\".\n\n\"I want to honour him,\" Prof Bain said of Mr Merritt. \"I want to honour his father's wishes which have been explicit to not have his life be used for political purposes to ramp up draconian policies, because that's not what he was about.\"\n\nMr Merritt's father criticised newspaper coverage of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's pledge to review the early release of convicted terrorists.\n\nWriting in the Guardian, David Merritt says his son \"would be seething at his death, and his life, being used to perpetuate an agenda of hate that he gave his everything fighting against\".\n\nThe article calls for a justice system that focuses on rehabilitation, rather than revenge, and criticises indeterminate sentences, saying his son worked for \"a world where we do not lock up and throw away the key\".\n\nJack Merritt was a co-ordinator of the Learning Together programme and Saskia Jones a volunteer\n\nProf Bain added: \"I want to make sure that as much as possible that we uphold the heroes of the day, were formerly incarcerated people, some of the folks who are often easiest to dehumanise.\n\n\"They stepped up and many of the folks in that space would not be here today if it weren't for these guys who did time in prison and literally saved lives.\"\n\nIn other developments on Monday:\n\nVigils for the victims of the attack were also held in Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin University, which Ms Jones had previously attended.\n\nMr Merritt and Ms Jones both studied for masters degrees at the University of Cambridge's institute of criminology and had been taking part in an event for its Learning Together programme - which focuses on education within the criminal justice system - when they were killed.\n\nThe family of Jack Merritt take part in a vigil at the Guildhall in Cambridge\n\nMr Merritt, from Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, was a co-ordinator of the Learning Together programme and Ms Jones, from Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, a volunteer\n\nThe victims' families paid tribute to their loved ones at the weekend.\n\nMs Jones's family said their daughter had a \"great passion\" for supporting victims of criminal justice.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Merritt's family described him as a \"talented boy\" who \"died doing what he loved\".\n\nToby Williamson, chief executive of Fishmongers' Hall, praised the bravery of his staff who intervened to stop the attacker, hailing their actions as \"extraordinary things done by ordinary people\".\n\nMr Williamson told how Polish chef Lukasz suffered five wounds to his left-hand side as he fended off the knifeman with a narwhal tusk during \"about a minute of one-on-one straight combat\" - allowing others time to escape danger.\n\nA group of hall staff, ex-offenders, prison and probation staff are believed to have drawn Khan out on to London Bridge where he was subsequently shot dead by armed police.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said in an update on Monday night that detectives were continuing extensive inquiries but had so far found nothing to suggest other people were involved in the attack.\n\nKhan, who admitted preparing terrorist acts in 2012, was released from prison in December 2018 after serving half of his sentence.\n\nThe BBC understands Khan was formally under investigation by MI5 as he left jail but placed in the second-to-bottom category of investigations as his initial risk to the public was thought to be minimal.\n\nThis was consistent with the grading given to most other people convicted of terrorism offences as they go back into the community under a release licence.\n\nA low level of prioritisation is assigned to offenders such as Khan because their release comes with a strict set of licence conditions.\n\nThese conditions theoretically provide suitable monitoring and oversight, such as alerts if they contact other suspects or travel outside an approved area.\n\nKhan, the BBC has learned, was on the highest-level of such community monitoring. The overall package, in theory, relieves pressure on MI5 so the security service can focus on more immediate threats.\n\nFriday was the first time that Khan, who wore a GPS tag, had been permitted to travel to London since he left prison. The BBC has been told that - earlier in the year - Khan was refused permission to travel to Stoke-on-Trent, which is where he grew up, in order to attend a social event.\n\nThe prime minister said on Sunday that 74 people jailed for terror offences and released early would have their licence conditions reviewed..\n\nPolice said two terror-related arrests following Friday's incident, in Staffordshire and north London, were not directly connected to the London Bridge attack.\n\nIt came after the UK's terrorism threat level was downgraded on 4 November from \"severe\" to \"substantial\", meaning that attacks were thought to be \"likely\" rather than \"highly likely\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe man who carried out the stab attack at London Bridge on Friday, named by police as Usman Khan, had previously been jailed for terrorism offences.\n\nKhan, 28, was wearing a GPS police tag and was out of prison on licence when he launched his attack, in which a man and a woman were killed and three others were injured.\n\nKhan was shot dead by officers after members of the public restrained him.\n\nThe Queen said she was \"saddened\" by the attack.\n\nShe thanked the emergency services \"as well as the brave individuals who put their own lives at risk to selflessly help and protect others\".\n\nKhan was known to the authorities, having been convicted for terrorism offences in 2012. He was released from prison on licence in December 2018, Met Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said.\n\nAs part of his release conditions, Khan was obliged to take part in the government's desistance and disengagement programme - the purpose of which is the rehabilitation of people who have been involved in terrorism.\n\nThe Parole Board said it had no involvement in the 28-year-old's release, saying he \"appears to have been released automatically on licence (as required by law)\".\n\nAfter leaving prison he had moved into a Stafford property on the \"approved premises\" list.\n\nThe attack began at 13:58 GMT on Friday at Fishmongers' Hall, at the north end of London Bridge, at a Cambridge University conference on prisoner rehabilitation.\n\nThe Learning Together scheme, which featured in the BBC's Law in Action programme earlier this year, allows university students and prisoners to study alongside each other.\n\nKhan had been one of dozens of people at the event.\n\nMr Basu said the attack is understood to have started inside the building, before continuing onto London Bridge itself, where Khan was shot by armed officers.\n\nPolice are carrying out a search, believed to be linked to the attack, at flats in Stafford, close to the town centre.\n\nStaffordshire Police's Deputy Ch Con, Nick Baker, said it was \"vitally important everyone remains alert but not alarmed\".\n\nMr Basu added police were not actively seeking anyone else in relation to the attack, although they were making \"fast time enquiries\" to make sure there was no outstanding threat to the public.\n\nForensic officers at the scene on London Bridge\n\nThe Met Police is urging anyone with information - particularly anyone who was at Fishmongers' Hall - to contact them.\n\nThere is a general feeling of shock and disbelief here in Stafford, where a top floor flat is being searched.\n\nBlue screens and forensic tents are outside the front of the semi-detached property within a 50m police cordon.\n\nI've seen evidence bags being taken out of the house and the garden also appears to be part of the search.\n\nThe property is believed to be privately-owned and used, in part, as a halfway house. Local residents have told me it has a high turnover of tenants and Khan had only been living there for about six months.\n\nA man and a woman were killed during the attack. Three others - a man and two women - were also injured and remain in hospital.\n\nNHS chief Simon Stevens said, on Friday, that one person was in a critical but stable condition, another was stable and the third had less serious injuries.\n\nNone of those killed or injured has so far been named and officers were still working to identify those who died, Met Commissioner Cressida Dick said on Friday.\n\nPolice believe the attacker had acted alone, the commissioner added on Saturday.\n\nThe actions of the public have been widely praised, including by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and Ms Dick, who said they had shown \"extreme courage\".\n\nVideos posted on social media appeared to show passers-by holding Khan down, while a man in a suit could be seen running from him, having apparently retrieved a large knife.\n\nOne witness described how a man at the event at Fishmongers' Hall grabbed a narwhal tusk - a long white horn that protrudes from the whale - that was on the wall, and went outside to confront the attacker.\n\nAnother person let off a fire extinguisher in the face of the attacker to try to keep him at bay.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tour guide Stevie Hurst told 5 Live he kicked the suspect in the head\n\nOne of those who rushed to help during the attack was a convicted murderer who was attending the prisoner rehabilitation event on day release, the Times reported.\n\nJames Ford, 42, was jailed for life with a minimum of 15 years in 2004 for the murder of Amanda Champion, a 21-year-old woman with learning difficulties.\n\nMr Basu said Khan was wearing what was believed to be a hoax explosive device.\n\nThe prime minister put election campaigning on hold on Friday to hold a meeting of the government's emergency Cobra committee.\n\nMr Johnson visited the scene at London Bridge on Saturday with Met Commissioner Ms Dick and Home Secretary Priti Patel.\n\nHe praised the \"incredible\" response by members of the emergency services and the \"sheer bravery\" of members of the public who intervened.\n\nMr Johnson said his \"immediate takeaway\" from the attack was to \"toughen up sentences\" for serious and violent offences.\n\n\"When people are sentenced to a certain number of years in prison, they should serve every year of that sentence,\" he added.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson visited the scene on Saturday alongside Met Commissioner Cressida Dick and Home Secretary Priti Patel\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan he was \"in awe of the bravery, the courageousness of ordinary Londoners\" who stopped the attacker.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast there would be an increased presence of armed and unarmed police officers in London over the weekend, adding they were there to \"reassure us - not because there is an additional or heightened threat\".\n\nThe London mayor also told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the UK had to make sure the \"right lessons\" were learned from the attack.\n\n\"You can't disaggregate terrorism and security from cuts made to resources of the police, of probation - the tools that judges have,\" he said.\n\nBut security minister Brandon Lewis told the programme funding for counter-terrorism policing had consistently increased since 2015.\n\n\"We will make sure that the police has got the resource that it needs,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister says the system that allowed the killer out on early release \"does not make sense\"\n\nPolitical parties cancelled some events on Saturday, which had been planned ahead of the general election on 12 December.\n\nFlags on UK government buildings will fly at half-mast on Saturday as a mark of respect to all those affected by the attack.\n\nThe Queen said in a statement: \"Prince Philip and I have been saddened to hear of the terror attacks at London Bridge.\n\n\"We send our thoughts, prayers and deepest sympathies to all those who have lost loved ones and who have been affected by yesterday's terrible violence.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Einar Orn was on his lunch break when suddenly he saw police cars and heard gunshots\n\nLondon Bridge was the scene of another attack, on 3 June 2017, in which eight people were killed and many more injured.\n\nThe Dean of Southwark Cathedral, the Very Revd Andrew Nunn, said Friday's events had brought back memories of the 2017 attack.\n\n\"It's only two-and-a-half years since the June attack and that's not long for healing, and actually it feels as though wounds have been reopened,\" he said.\n\n\"Where people felt they had come to terms with what had happened in their community, now I think they're wondering whether they really had - so a lot of work for us to do,\" he added.\n\nThis latest attack comes after the UK's terrorism threat level was downgraded on 4 November from \"severe\" to \"substantial\", meaning that attacks were thought to be \"likely\" rather than \"highly likely\".\n\nThe terror threat level is reviewed every six months by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre, which makes recommendations independent of government.\n\nSome of the early debate about the London Bridge attack has focused on the sentence imposed on Usman Khan.\n\nThe sentencing judge thought Khan should be freed from prison only when it was safe to do so, as part \"indeterminate penalty\" scheme (IPP).\n\nBut the Court Of Appeal replaced Khan's IPP with an extended sentence, which required his release at the halfway point of his 16-year custodial term.\n\nThe IPP regime was scrapped in 2012 - a decision that was widely supported at the time.\n\nSince Khan's conviction, legislation has been put in place for the Parole Board to determine when offenders on extended sentences should be let out.\n\nThe attack also raises questions about the extent to which people convicted of terrorism offences can be de-radicalised.\n\nKhan was one of 51 inmates with terror links let out of jail in the 12 months to the end of March 2019, so it's inevitable that the role of those monitoring him will now be scrutinised.\n\nDid the authorities pick up any warning signs about Khan? Was he meeting people he shouldn't have done or plotting the attack? If no signs were detected, why not? And if the authorities did spot concerns, what did they do?\n\nFriday's horrific attack was the second fatal stabbing at an offender rehabilitation event this month, after Hakim Sillah died at a knife awareness course in Hillingdon, west London.\n\nThese events will likely fuel concerns about safety at such venues and whether checks need to be strengthened.\n\nDid you witness what happened? Please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "An artists' impression of Sky's Elstree development, which will have 14 sound stages.\n\nMedia giant Sky is to build huge new film studios near the existing Elstree production site outside London, creating 2,000 jobs.\n\nThe 32-acre development will be used by Sky, other Comcast-owned firms including NBC Universal, and be open to third parties.\n\nSky predicted up to £3bn would be invested in new production at the site over the next five years.\n\nThe UK's film and television sector has performed strongly in recent years.\n\nHit shows such as The Crown and Games of Thrones have been filmed using UK facilities as the battle between Netflix, Amazon and other streaming services has intensified.\n\nSky spends £7bn a year on production in Europe, including football rights, and plans to double the amount it spends on making its own content to £1bn per year by 2024.\n\nSky Studios chief executive Gary Davey said it was hard to keep up with the increasing demand for high quality content, given that it typically takes three years to bring a project to the screen.\n\nChernobyl, a Sky HBO joint production, took 10 years to make, Mr Davey said.\n\nMr Davey said recent successes, such as the Sky-HBO joint production, Chernobyl, and HBO smash-hit Game of Thrones, had a high proportion of European actors, and showed US audiences were ready to embrace productions made overseas.\n\nChoosing to build the new studios at Elstree meant there would already be a pool of UK production talent available, he added.\n\nThe UK now boasts a world-leading film industry, supported by wide-ranging tax relief, including for television and animation. According to the British Film Institute (BFI), UK films grossed $9.4bn (£7.2bn) in 2018, a 23% share of the global box office take.\n\nThere is a long history of film making at Elstree. The existing studios, in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, date back to 1925, and were used by George Lucas when he filmed the original Star Wars trilogy.\n\nThe new Sky studies will be located close by on land owned by Legal and General, which will fund the development and lease the studios back to Sky.\n\nThe studios, which will cost hundreds of millions of pounds to build, will have 14 sound stages.\n\nNigel Wilson, chief executive of Legal and General, said the plans were \"another development in the modernisation of British industry\".\n\nOver the last five years Legal and General has made £20bn of investments in similar projects.", "Sixteen men have been sentenced for their roles in a \"terrifying\" street brawl after an England World Cup match.\n\nThe fight broke out in Park Street, Bristol on 24 June last year, after the Three Lions beat Panama.\n\nTables and signs were thrown, with several men injured, including one who suffered a broken leg.\n\nAfter the 16 men were sentenced for affray Avon and Somerset Police said: \"This type of violence has absolutely no place in our society.\"\n\nThirteen of the men were jailed, with three receiving suspended sentences.\n\nThe brawl was witnessed by families with children, with one bystander describing it as a \"vicious attack\".\n\n\"[I] found it distressing to watch that level of violence in real life, watching people get hurt and bleeding in the street,\" they said.\n\n\"What I was seeing really disturbed me. I felt terrified.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOver the past week, the defendants have all been sentenced at Bristol Crown Court.\n\nSupt Rhys Hughes said: \"This incident of violent disorder was quickly brought under control on the arrival of police officers.\n\n\"However, those few minutes were enough to put many of those enjoying a Sunday afternoon in the city in fear of being injured.\n\n\"This type of violence has absolutely no place in our society.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jerk tells the story of Tim (second right), who uses his cerebral palsy to get away with things\n\nThe BBC has promised a more \"authentic and distinctive\" representation of disabled people on screen.\n\nThe corporation has announced a string of new shows and said there will be an \"enhanced portrayal in existing programmes\".\n\nThe Last Leg's Alex Brooker will tackle \"the true nature of his disability for the first time\" in Disability And Me.\n\nMeanwhile, actor and writer Mat Fraser will curate \"challenging\" monologues, all performed by someone with a disability.\n\nComedy Jerk, which follows a man who knows having cerebral palsy means he can get away with almost anything, will return for a new series.\n\nAnnouncing the \"concerted drive to go further on representation\" in 2020, the BBC also said there would include better \"incidental and integrated\" representation in existing shows.\n\nBlind broadcaster and entrepreneur Amar Latif will join the line-up of Pilgrimage, and actress and comedian Liz Carr will delve into her family tree in Who Do You Think You Are? Disabled panellists will also appear on Celebrity Mastermind and Would I Lie To You?\n\nFrank Gardner will front Being Frank, 16 years after he was shot by al-Qaeda gunmen in Saudi Arabia\n\nThe broadcaster has also put forward new measures to give disabled people more opportunities behind the scenes.\n\nA scheme called BBC Elevate is designed to allow production staff to get experience on hit shows like Strictly Come Dancing, The Apprentice and EastEnders.\n\nIt is intended to \"make a tangible difference to the careers of many talented disabled people in TV, who face some particular challenges with progression\", the corporation said.\n\nAlison Kirkham, controller of factual commissioning, said the industry \"hasn't always done enough to offer opportunities for disabled people and so has missed out on their talent\".\n\n\"We want to set the bar forever higher, for the entire industry, both with off-screen talent and on-screen representation,\" she said.\n\nThe BBC has committed to increasing the number of disabled people in its workforce to 12% by 2022. The latest official figure, from March 2018, stood at 10.4%.\n\nThe broadcaster will also introduce a \"BBC Passport\" to ensure staff with disabilities get the right support when they change jobs.\n\nDisability equality charity Scope welcomed the BBC's commitment, which was made on International Day Of People With Disabilities on Tuesday.\n\n\"Disability remains hugely underrepresented on our screens and behind the scenes, particularly as one in five people are disabled,\" Scope's head of communications Warren Kirwan said.\n\n\"When disabled people don't see themselves represented, talent and potential go unrecognised and negative attitudes and stigma goes unchallenged.\"\n\nAwareness of how the media portrays disability has grown in recent years. This ranges from the increasingly vocal outcry over non-disabled actors playing characters with disabilities to the embracing of Paddy Smyth, recent winner of reality show The Circle, who openly addressed his cerebral palsy throughout.\n\nThis means the BBC's commitment is timely, spurred on as it is by last year's damning industry representation findings. It also marks a natural progression at a time when The Travel Show host and ex-Paralympian Ade Adepitan recently visited Africa to front an eponymous prime-time series for BBC Two, alongside his Children in Need presenting duties.\n\nWhile it is one thing to use recognised disabled talent for disability-related stories, the true test will be how deep-rooted and wide-reaching the integration becomes.\n\nHow much narrative control will be afforded to journalists who live the stories we want to tell? How far will disability representation seep into mainstream storylines, and how many disabled staff will become permanent fixtures off screen?\n\nAs a journalist who entered the BBC through its Extend scheme two years ago, I am aware of the efforts being made.\n\nThis latest commitment marks a promising start for broader change, but there's more work to do. And disabled talent needs to be trusted to lead this change across the industry as a whole, not simply be a part of it.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The First Lady Melania Trump revealed \"The Spirit of America\" as this year's theme in a video posted on social media.\n\nThe elaborate decorations were put on display with the help of over 100 volunteers and include displays made from gingerbread.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDonald Trump has insisted the US wants \"nothing to do\" with the NHS in post-Brexit trade talks as he sought to repudiate opposition claims that the health service would be \"up for sale\".\n\nOn a visit to the UK, the US President claimed he had no interest in increased market access to the NHS for US firms even if handed on a \"silver platter\".\n\nBut Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said he still had \"very serious concerns\".\n\nAnd the SNP said MPs should pass a law to exclude the NHS from discussions.\n\nBoris Johnson said the Conservative election manifesto had \"categorically ruled out\" any NHS services, or drug prices, being up for negotiation.\n\nIn June, the US president suggested the health service would form part of negotiations over a possible future trade deal after the UK leaves the EU, saying: \"When you're dealing in trade, everything is on the table.\"\n\nBut speaking on Tuesday morning as he and other world leaders prepared for a summit to mark the 70th anniversary of Nato, he issued a different message.\n\n\"I don't even know where that rumour started,\" he told journalists. \"We have absolutely nothing to do with it. If you handed it [the NHS] to us on a silver platter, we want nothing to do with it.\"\n\nMr Trump's visit comes at hugely sensitive time, with less than 10 days to go before the election - and with the issues of Brexit and the NHS having largely dominated the campaign so far.\n\nThe US President insisted he would be \"staying out\" of the election. While he remained a \"fan of Brexit\" and thought Mr Johnson was \"very capable\", he said he would be prepared to \"work with anybody\" in No 10.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Corbyn: \"Our NHS will not be put up for sale to anybody\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jo Swinson: Trump is \"not someone who shares our values\"\n\nIn October, he suggested Mr Corbyn would be \"bad\" for the UK and declined an offer to meet the Labour leader during his state visit.\n\nMr Corbyn has repeatedly claimed that the NHS would be \"up for sale\" if the Conservatives hold onto power. At a campaign event last week, the Labour leader showed an unredacted report that gave details of meetings between US and UK officials.\n\nThe document shows the US is interested in discussing drug pricing - mainly extending patents that stop cheaper generic medicines being used - and refers to the US policy of making \"total market access\" a starting point in any trade talks.\n\nThe Labour leader welcomed Mr Trump's latest comments but said he was far from reassured by them.\n\n\"I'm pleased that he's said that but, if that's the case why have these talks gone on for two years?\" he told BBC Radio 2's Jeremy Vine show.\n\n\"Why have they been kept secret? I think there is very very legitimate grounds for very very serious concern here.\"\n\nMr Corbyn said if he was introduced to Mr Trump at a reception at Buckingham Palace later, which both are attending, he would impress on him how \"precious\" the NHS was to the British people and make clear a Labour government would discontinue trade talks if it was not excluded.\n\nOn a trip to Salisbury, the prime minister described the opposition's claims as \"pure Loch Ness Monster, Bermuda triangle stuff\".\n\n\"I can categorically rule out any part of the NHS will be on the table in any trade negotiation... including pharmaceuticals.\"\n\nAnd Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab suggested Labour was only raising the issue because it had \"no plan for Brexit and no plan for the economy\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Raab ruled out any privatisation of the NHS \"under the Conservatives' watch or this prime minister's watch\". Trade decisions would be made by the next government \"in the best interest of patients and consumers\", he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nigel Farage says Donald Trump should comment on the NHS\n\nThe Liberal Democrats' foreign affairs spokesman, Chuka Umunna, said Mr Trump's comments should be taken \"with a lorry load of salt\".\n\nHe added: \"Trump has repeatedly made clear in the past that everything including the NHS will be on the table in future negotiations.\"\n\nAnd SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon said its MPs would be pressing for legislation to ringfence the NHS from any involvement in a future deal.\n\n\"I don't want the future of our NHS to be dependent on trusting the word of Boris Johnson or Donald Trump,\" she said at a campaign rally in Perth.\n\n\"Let's have legislation that explicitly and in statute takes any risk of trade negotiations to the NHS away, and make absolutely clear that the NHS not just will not be on the table but could not be on the table in any trade negotiations.\"\n\nNigel Farage called on the US president to challenge the \"complete fib\" that the Tories would \"sell the NHS\" to him in a trade deal.\n\n\"He has been accused by the Labour Party of wanting to buy the National Health Service,\" the Brexit Party leader told BBC Breakfast. \"It isn't true, I know it isn't true, and I think it would be wholly appropriate for him to say that.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nMegan Rapinoe of the United States has won Women's Ballon d'Or for 2019, with England's Lucy Bronze the runner-up.\n\nWinger Rapinoe, 34, co-captained the US to victory at this summer's World Cup, where she was named player of the tournament and finished joint-top scorer with six goals.\n\nBronze, 28, the Uefa Women's Player of the Year, played a key part in England's run to the semi-finals.\n\nRapinoe's compatriot Alex Morgan came third in the Ballon d'Or ranking.\n\nLyon striker Ada Hegerberg, who became the first winner of the women's version of the award last year, finished fourth, while Arsenal and Netherlands forward Vivianne Miedema rounded out the top five.\n\nThe men's award was won by Argentina and Barcelona's Lionel Messi for a record sixth time.\n• None Football Daily podcast: Another Messi milestone and Rodgers to Arsenal?\n\nRapinoe, who was not in attendance at the awards ceremony, said in a recorded message: \"I'm so sad I can't make it tonight. It's absolutely incredible, congrats to the other nominees.\n\n\"I can't believe I'm the one winning in this field, it's been an incredible year. I want to thank my team-mates and the US federation.\"\n\nRapinoe has had a memorable 2019, becoming a global star for her performances during the World Cup but also for her willingness to use the spotlight to speak out on causes such as LGBTQ+ rights and equal pay.\n\nShe also made headlines after saying she would refuse to visit the White House if the US won the World Cup and joined the national team squad in suing their federation over equal pay.\n\nAfter winning the women's award at the Best Fifa Football Awards in September, she was the favourite to become the second ever recipient of the Women's Ballon d'Or.\n\nA runner-up spot for Bronze is an impressive achievement, finishing ahead of star forward Morgan and Women's Champions League record scorer Hegerberg.\n\nRegarded as the best right-back in the world, Bronze will be familiar with finishing second to Rapinoe, having won the Silver Ball for second-best player at the World Cup.\n\nThe months since the World Cup have been tough for Bronze in an England shirt, having been played out of position in an experimental midfield role and being part of a side that has won just two of their last six games.\n\nBut she has experienced an incredible 2019 with club side Lyon, winning the French league and cup double and the Women's Champions League.\n\nBronze's Lionesses team-mate Ellen White was ninth in the Ballon d'Or ranking after finishing as joint top scorer at the World Cup with six goals.\n\nBBC Sport has launched #ChangeTheGame to showcase female athletes in a way they never have been before. Through more live women's sport available to watch across the BBC in 2019, complemented by our journalism, we are aiming to turn up the volume on women's sport and alter perceptions. Find out more here.", "More than 1,400 people have already been screened in Carmarthenshire\n\nChildren are to be tested for tuberculosis (TB) in a mass screening amidst an outbreak of the disease.\n\nMargaret Pegler, 64, from Llwynhendy, Carmarthenshire, died five days after being diagnosed in September.\n\nMore than 1,400 people have so far been tested by Public Health Wales and 29 cases identified.\n\nIt is now widening its programme to test young people and children in the area who may have been exposed to TB, which is communicable but treatable.\n\nParents and carers are being urged to check if their children are eligible.\n\nMore than 200 cases of latent TB infection have so far been identified, including a \"small but significant\" number in children. Screening is set to continue into early 2020.\n\nThose being urged to come forward are:\n\nIn Wales, there are about 100 cases a year of tuberculosis - the lowest rate in the UK, according to Public Health Wales\n\nRos Jervis, Hywel Dda University Health Board's director of public health, said it was the \"next step in an ongoing community screening programme\".\n\nShe added: \"We understand this time of year can be extremely busy but please do not let that put you off making inquiries through the dedicated contact line.\n\n\"Our services are working to ensure the screening and after-care for children is as quick and easy as it can be.\"\n\nPublic Health Wales said TB remains rare in Wales and urged people to contact a helpline if they have concerns - 029 2082 7627, before Friday, 13 December.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Virginia Giuffre says she was brought to London for sex with Prince Andrew in March 2001, when she was 17 years old.\n\nPrince Andrew says of the claim he had sex with her he can \"absolutely and categorically\" say \"it never \"happened\". He says he has no recollection of ever meeting her.\n\nMs Giuffre's first interview for British television has been given to the BBC as part of a special hour-long Panorama.\n\nIt includes an account of how she was trafficked to London by the sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nHer claims have put the sex life, judgement and honesty of a senior member of the Royal Family under intense scrutiny.\n\nBuckingham Palace says the Duke of York \"emphatically denies having any form of sexual contact or relationship with Virginia Giuffre and that any claim to the contrary is false and without foundation.\"", "The government's rules on gender-neutral passports are \"unlawful\" and breach human rights, a court has heard.\n\nJudges at the Court of Appeal are hearing the case of campaigner Christie Elan-Cane, who wants passports to have an \"X\" category for those who do not identify as fully male nor female.\n\nThe campaigner believes the UK's passport process is \"inherently discriminatory\".\n\nLawyers representing the home secretary are contesting the legal challenge.\n\nThe case centres on whether the current policy run by the UK passport office - which is part of the Home Office - is lawful.\n\nCurrently, all UK passport holders have to specify whether they are male or female.\n\nChristie Elan-Cane believes the policy breaches the right to respect for private life, and the right not to be discriminated against on the basis of gender or sex, under the European Convention on Human Rights.\n\nThe campaign for recognition of non-gendered identity in UK law and society started more than 25 years ago.\n\nLast year, a High Court challenge calling for gender-neutral passports was lost but the case has now been taken to the Court of Appeal.\n\nOn Tuesday, Christie Elan-Cane's lawyer, Kate Gallafent, told the three judges: \"There is little which is more fundamental and deeply personal than an individual's gender identity.\"\n\nShe said those affected by the government's current passport rules \"face a choice between the degrading experience of applying for, bearing and using a passport that does not accurately reflect their gender identity, or forgoing the use of a passport at all.\"\n\nPeople who do not consider themselves as exclusively male or female include members of the trans community and intersex people.\n\nThe UN says up to 1.7% of the world's population are born with intersex traits - about the same number of people with red hair.\n\nThe \"X\" stands for unspecified for people who do not identify as male or female.\n\nEarlier this year, Canada introduced gender-neutral passports with an X category.\n\nAustralia, Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany, Malta, New Zealand, Pakistan, India and Nepal already have a third category.\n\nThe International Civil Aviation Organisation - the UN agency in charge of air travel - also recognises the \"X\" option.\n\nSpeaking ahead of Tuesday's legal action, Christie Elan-Cane said: \"Legitimate identity is a fundamental human right but non-gendered people are treated as though we have no rights.\n\n\"It is unacceptable that someone who defines as neither male nor female is forced to declare an inappropriate gender in order to obtain a passport.\"\n\nIt comes as the government prepares to publish its response to a consultation on reforming the Gender Recognition Act 2004, the piece of law that sets out the legal process by which a person can change their gender.\n\nThe government said it had more than 100,000 responses to the consultation, which it called \"exceptionally high\".\n\nIn October, the minister for women and equalities, Liz Truss, said it needed time for consideration and she wanted to study it closely.\n\nDuring last year's High Court proceedings, Christie Elan-Cane's lawyers challenged the lawfulness of the policy administered by Her Majesty's Passport Office.\n\nJames Eadie, acting for the home secretary, said the policy maintains an \"administratively coherent system for the recognition of gender\" and ensures security at national borders.\n\nRuling on the case in June, a judge said that although he was not at that time satisfied the policy was unlawful, part of the reasoning for the decision was that a comprehensive review had not been completed.", "Jack Merritt's family said he was 'looking forward to building a future with his girlfriend, Leanne'\n\nThe girlfriend of London Bridge attack victim Jack Merritt has called him \"phenomenal\" and promised: \"Together, we will make a difference.\"\n\nWriting on Facebook, Leanne O'Brien said he \"opened so many doors for those that society turned their backs on\".\n\nShe also shared an article written by Jack's father urging people to \"extinguish hatred with his kindness\".\n\nMr Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, were killed by Usman Khan at a prisoner rehabilitation event on Friday.\n\nTwo women and a man were also injured in the attack before Khan was shot dead by armed officers on London Bridge.\n\nIn the article published in the Guardian on Tuesday, Jack's father David Merritt paid tribute to his son, who worked for a programme that links university students and prisoners.\n\n\"Jack believed in the inherent goodness of humanity, and felt a deep social responsibility to protect that,\" said Mr Merritt.\n\nHe accused politicians of using his son's death to \"perpetuate an agenda of hate that he gave his everything fighting against\" - and that his son would be \"seething\" at how his death was being used.\n\nThe family of Jack Merritt took part in a vigil at the Guildhall in Cambridge on Monday\n\nOn Monday, Ms O'Brien was seen breaking down in tears as she and Mr Merritt's family gathered at a vigil in Cambridge to pay tribute to him.\n\nWriting online later, Ms O'Brien said: \"My love, you are phenomenal and have opened so many doors for those that society turned their backs on.\"\n\n\"Together, we will make a difference.\"\n\nFriday's attack sparked a political row over the release of Khan - who was a convicted terrorist - and a debate over the criminal justice system.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson was accused of \"trying to exploit\" the attack \"for political gain\".\n\nHe blamed Khan's release on legislation introduced under \"a leftie government\", and called for longer sentences and an end to automatic release.\n\nDavid Merritt previously said he would not wish his son's death to \"to be used as the pretext for more draconian sentences\".\n\nAnd writing in the Guardian, he said: \"If Jack could comment on his death - and the tragic incident on Friday 29 November - he would be livid.\n\n\"We would see him ticking it over in his mind before a word was uttered between us. Jack would understand the political timing with visceral clarity.\"\n\nHe added: \"What Jack would want from this is for all of us to walk through the door he has booted down, in his black Doc Martens.\n\n\"That door opens up a world where we do not lock up and throw away the key. Where we do not give indeterminate sentences, or convict people on joint enterprise.\n\n\"Where we do not slash prison budgets, and where we focus on rehabilitation not revenge.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Listen to Jack Merritt speak on a BBC podcast about his work helping inmates at a prison to study law.\n\nMr Johnson denied claims he was politicising the attack, saying he had campaigned against early release for some time, having previously raised the issue during his 2012 campaign to be mayor of London.\n\n\"I feel, as everybody does, a huge amount of sympathy for the loss of Jack Merritt's family, and indeed for all the relatives of Jack and Saskia, who perished at London Bridge,\" he said.\n\n\"But be in no doubt, I've campaigned against early release and against short sentences for many years.\"", "Jo Swinson has been campaigning at a farm near Chelmsford this afternoon Image caption: Jo Swinson has been campaigning at a farm near Chelmsford this afternoon\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson confirms a member of the party’s staff has been suspended for allegedly “faking” an email.\n\nSpeaking on a visit to an arable farm near Chelmsford, Essex, Ms Swinson says the incident was “completely unacceptable” and an investigation has been launched.\n\nThe Guardian reports an unnamed person was suspended for forging an email to back up a legal threat against the media platform, Open Democracy.\n\nMs Swinson does not confirm the identity of the staff member but says: “There was an email that was sent which was inaccurate, which was faked. That’s not acceptable, there’s an investigation, the member of staff has been suspended and I’m not going to comment further on staffing matters.”\n\nShe says the action was \"unacceptable... and it’s right that we have taken that action\".\n\nThe Lib Dems have been accused of distributing misleading information during this campaign - read our Reality Check piece about some of the accusations.\n\nMs Swinson says: “Obviously we communicate with people across the country through our 'focus' newsletters, through newspapers that we put out, through letters that we send to people, through a wide variety of campaigning methods and that is common not just for Liberal Democrats.\n\n“That is what other parties do as well so I'm not going to apologise for communicating with the electorate\"", "Ellie Goulding has revealed she turned to alcohol after struggling to adjust to life in the spotlight.\n\n\"I had to be a fake person to deal with the surreal situation I was in,\" the pop star said.\n\n\"Usually for me it involved alcohol. I assumed I couldn't be good enough, smart, funny, or crazy enough to be with certain people without it.\"\n\nThe singer made the comments while appearing on Fearne Cotton's Happy Place podcast.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ellie Goulding This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAs well as admitting to drinking alcohol prior to interviews, the 32-year-old also revealed she turned to booze before appearing on Radio 1's Live Lounge - which is usually recorded in the morning.\n\n\"Live Lounges used to be the most nerve-wracking, I even drank before those.\n\n\"I would say, 'Right, I've got to drink this morning because I've got this interview and I don't really know how to answer the questions, because I don't really know who I am any more.'\n\n\"I thought drinking would at least make me a bit more funny, or interesting,\" Ellie Goulding said.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by BBCRadio1VEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nHowever the double BRIT Award winner - who performed at the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's wedding reception in 2011 - says she never had an alcohol problem.\n\n\"I wasn't an alcoholic,\" she said. \"I could go months without a drink, too.\"\n\nEllie Goulding released her chart-topping debut album, Lights, in 2010 which was followed by Halcyon in 2012 and Delirium in 2015.\n\nIn 2016, she announced she would be taking a break from music but not quitting permanently.\n\nThe singer also told Fearne Cotton that she'd had therapy to try and deal with anger issues.\n\nShe revealed her marriage to old Etonian Caspar Jopling in August has helped calm her emotions.\n\n\"When I met Caspar, this anger thing just went away.\n\n\"At first it didn't. I did that thing we all do when we first meet someone you really like and you....don't possibly show any of your bad traits.\n\nIf you've been affected by any of the issues in this article there is help via the BBC Advice pages.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lil Thomas and Amy Winifred Hawkin - are they Wales' oldest sisters?\n\nShe may be turning 100 years old - but Lil Thomas is still the youngster when it comes to her sister.\n\nLil, of Newport, has just become a centenarian, following in the footsteps of her 108-year-old sister, Amy Winifred Hawkin.\n\nWith a combined age of 208, they are thought to be among the oldest living sisters in Wales.\n\nBetween them, they have received six birthday cards from the Queen.\n\nBoth sisters have received one to mark their 100th, while Amy - known as Win - was also sent a card when she turned 105 and has had one every year since.\n\nBorn a year after the end of World War One, Lil was Wales' first female bus conductor in World War Two between her career as an entertainer.\n\nHaving grown up in the Pillgwenlly area of the city, she was a natural performer.\n\n\"I was fortunate to have a pitch perfect voice at the age of two,\" she said.\n\n\"It was like Katherine Jenkins - but just not trained.\"\n\nLil (second from right) during her days as a performer\n\nIt was little surprise that she was soon a regular on the stage of Newport's Empire Theatre, singing, tap dancing and playing the accordion while her older sister was part of a dance troupe and known as \"the highest kicker in Wales\".\n\nWith the outbreak of war in 1939, Lil volunteered to be a bus conductor.\n\n\"Conductresses were needed during the war because of the black out and there were a lot of Irish boys working here who didn't know where they were going,\" said Lil.\n\n\"We had a small lamp on our front which was the only light inside the bus.\n\n\"It was so dark that you had to call out every stop, whether you could see it or not.\n\n\"But we used to have a laugh on the last bus, singing songs with the boys on their way home from the pub.\"\n\nThe couple lived in South Africa for 23 years\n\nAfter the war, Lil married and moved with her husband Donald, a deputy post master, to South Africa.\n\nHowever the couple still loved entertaining and travelled the country performing for charities.\n\n\"We travelled from Durban to Johannesburg playing in church and town halls for the elderly who could barely afford to live,\" she recalled.\n\n\"My husband played the piano and could sit from 7 o'clock and not play the same song twice all night.\"\n\nLil said it was vital to 'keep your sense of humour'\n\nLil continued to sing until she was 93\n\nThe couple returned and a three-month caretaker job in charge of the Bridge Inn in Llangwm, near Usk, Monmouthshire, turned into a 12-year stay.\n\nShe said she was the only publican in the area who would welcome blind people, as others turned them away as they believed visually impaired people would spill their drinks.\n\nIt was only when she was well into her 90s that Lil stopped singing but, now living in a care home in Bettws, she still loves to dance.\n\nLongevity is clearly in the blood with her sister, who goes by her middle name Win, thought to be one of the oldest living Welsh people.\n\nBut what is Lil's best advice, after a century?\n\n\"Never lose your sense of humour because if you can't laugh, especially at yourself, you will never get through it all.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Win will turn 109 in January, when she can expect her sixth letter from the Queen.\n\n\"I got a stack of them there, a boxful!\" she added, saying it was \"great\" the sisters could still celebrate birthdays together.", "Pictures from the Tattoo Malaysia Expo have gone viral online\n\nA Malaysian minister has called a tattoo exhibition \"obscene\" and ordered an investigation after pictures of half-naked men and women went viral.\n\nThe minister for tourism, arts and culture said that while a permit was issued, there was no green light for any form of nudity at the event.\n\nMohammadin Ketapi said the show \"was not Malaysian culture...the majority of Malaysians are Muslim\".\n\nRecently, there has been more debate about Islamic conservatism in Malaysia.\n\nThe Tattoo Malaysia Expo drew participants from some 35 countries and was held over the weekend in the capital, Kuala Lumpur.\n\nThe show has taken place since 2015, but only this year drew criticism from the government, which announced \"firm action\" against the organisers.\n\n\"It is impossible for the ministry to approve of any programme that contains obscenity such as this,\" Mr Ketapi said in a statement.\n\nPictures showed heavily-tattooed participants in semi-nude poses. Malaysian media blurred some of the images.\n\nMr Ketapi said: \"We will wait for the full investigation report and will not hesitate to take legal action if they are found to have been in violation of set conditions.\"\n\nAround 60% of Malaysia's 32 million people are Muslim, and critics say the country has been moving towards more religious conservatism.\n\nA religious court this year sentenced five men to jail, caning and fines for attempting gay sex.\n\nIn 2018, two women were caned for lesbian sex in the conservative state of Terengganu.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Seema Misra is fighting to overturn her conviction.\n\nHundreds of post office workers have won a key victory against the Post Office and the controversial accounting software they were forced to use\n\nIt is the first step towards overturning the convictions of postmasters accused of fraud or theft after using the Horizon IT system.\n\nTheir lawyer said they could \"now walk with their heads held high\" after the ruling which ends years of campaigning.\n\nIt comes after the Post Office had said it would pay £58m to settle claims.\n\nLast week the Post Office had acknowledged problems with the IT system but Monday's judgment has been made as part of a court case launched before that settlement was reached.\n\nIn the case, brought by six lead claimants, the judge looked at allegation that the system contained a large number of software defects, which caused shortfalls with sub-postmasters and postmistresses' accounts.\n\nIn Monday's High Court judgment, Mr Justice Fraser said the Horizon IT system was not \"remotely robust\" and even when improved it had a significant number of bugs.\n\nHe said there was a \"material risk\" that shortfalls in Post Office branch accounts were caused by the system.\n\nThe Post Office workers blame the system for creating big shortfalls in their accounts, discrepancies which led to some being made bankrupt and others prosecuted and sent to prison.\n\nHomes, businesses and reputations have been lost, as well as years spent in prison.\n\n\"These claimants can now walk with their heads held high,\" said James Hartley, partner at Freeths law firm\n\nAmong those involved in the case is Seema Misra, who was pregnant with her second child when she was convicted of theft and sent to jail in 2010.\n\nShe was accused of theft after using the Post Office Horizon IT system, which is provided by Fujitsu.\n\nSeema became a sub-postmistress in West Byfleet in Surrey in June 2005 and was suspended in January 2008 after an audit found a discrepancy of £74,000 in her accounts.\n\nShe had been feeding at least £100 per day from her shop into the Post Office tills, because of discrepancies in balancing the accounts. One day there was a £10,000 hole.\n\nRubbina Shaheen hopes her conviction will be overturned\n\nThis went on for two years, she said, with very little support from the Post Office.\n\n\"If I hadn't had been pregnant, I definitely would have killed myself,\" she said. \"It was the worst thing. It was so shameful.\"\n\nShe is now focused on trying to get her conviction overturned.\n\nAnother worker, Rubbina Shaheen is also among those fighting to clear her name. She ran the Greenfields post office in Shrewsbury and was convicted and jailed in 2010 and while she is not one of the 557 Post Office claimants, but is now hoping her conviction will be overturned.\n\nThe 400-page judgment comes after the Post Office had agreed a payout with 557 claimants after a long-running dispute over the system.\n\nThe Criminal Cases Review Commission, which investigates miscarriages for justice, is looking into more than 30 criminal convictions of former sub-postmasters.\n\nJames Hartley, partner at Freeths law firm which represented the claimants, said: \"This judgment is vindication for the claimant group of postmasters - they have finally been proved to have been right all along when they have said that the Horizon system was a possible cause of shortfalls in their branch accounts.\n\n\"These claimants can now walk with their heads held high after all these years.\n\n\"This judgment, together with the settlement reached last week, are important stepping stones to achieving much-needed closure for these postmasters.\n\n\"They can now start to move on with their lives.\"\n\nMr Justice Fraser said he would refer the case to the Director of Public Prosecutions after evidence given by employees of Fujitsu, which developed and maintained the Horizon system, in previous court cases.\n\nHe said: \"Based on the knowledge that I have gained, I have very grave concerns regarding veracity of evidence given by Fujitsu employees to other courts in previous proceedings about the known existence of bugs, errors and defects in the Horizon system.\"\n\nPost Office Chairman, Tim Parker, said the judgment acknowledged that the current Horizon system was robust and related to previous version of the systems.\n\n\"In reaching last week's settlement with the claimants, we accepted our past shortcomings and I, both personally and on behalf of the Post Office, sincerely apologised to those affected when we got things wrong.\n\nWe have given a commitment to learning lessons from these events, and today's judgment underlines the need to do so.\"\n\n\"Importantly, our new chief executive [Nick Read] has made clear the need to reset our relationship with postmasters and started the process to build a much better relationship with them.\"", "The employment rate in Wales fell slightly between August and October, according to the latest figures.\n\nThey suggest there were 8,000 fewer people in employment in Wales than the previous quarter, and 20,000 fewer compared with the same time last year.\n\nWales has a relatively low level of people employed at 74.3% of 16 to 64-year-olds, compared with the UK.\n\nOnly Northern Ireland, the north-east of England and Yorkshire and Humber have lower levels of employment.\n\nDespite the fall, the rate remains near historically high levels.\n\nHowever, unemployment in Wales fell during the quarter, with the jobless rate going down to 3.6% of people over 16.\n\nThat is below the UK rate of 3.8% and lower than the previous three months.\n\nThere were 4,000 fewer unemployed in Wales compared with May to July.\n\nThe fall in both employment and unemployment is in part explained by an increase in the number of \"economically inactive\" people - working-age adults who are not employed and not available to work because of factors like sickness, early retirement or being a full-time carer or student.\n\nIn Wales, the figures suggest 22.9% of working age adults were economically inactive, up from 22.3% in the previous quarter and 21.1% in the same period last year. This is higher than the UK average, as has historically been the case.\n\nThere were 12,000 more people in Wales counted as economically inactive between August and October, and 34,000 more than 12 months ago.", "Elizabeth Steel covered the dog's face face with a taped-on muzzle so it could not bark\n\nA dog owner who gagged her pet with duct tape to go on holiday for the weekend has been banned from keeping animals for 15 years\n\nElizabeth Steel abandoned the Collie cross without adequate food or water after covering its face with a taped-on muzzle so it could not bark.\n\nNeighbours in Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, alerted police after hearing the animal whimpering.\n\nSheriff Alistair Watson placed her on supervision for 18 months and also imposed an 80-day tagging order.\n\nHe said: \"Ordinary members of the public would be absolutely shocked about what you did here, and when I heard the circumstances I was disgusted.\"\n\nPolice forced entry to Steel's home after the neighbour spotted the dog, called Rio, through a window.\n\nHe was found to be infested with fleas and suffering from sores and a skin condition, the town's sheriff court heard.\n\nSteel admitted causing unnecessary suffering by taping a muzzle to the dog's face, denying it food, water or a means of escape, and failing to provide adequate care and treatment between 18 and 19 July.\n\nBlaire Ford, prosecuting, said an upstairs neighbour could hear whimpering below and knew Steel had left the day before for a weekend away.\n\nMiss Ford added: \"He looked through the kitchen window and observed the dog locked within the kitchen with a muzzle on, which was wrapped with black tape, and noted that there was no food or water.\"\n\nThe man called the Scottish SPCA, which was unable to respond initially, before contacting police the following day. Officers broke in using a battering ram after seeing Rio lying motionless.\n\nMiss Ford said: \"The dog was alive and had begun to move around and police noted there was no food or water in the dog bowls.\n\n\"The dog was wearing a muzzle wrapped in black tape and had a collar on which was too tight.\"\n\nRio was taken to a vet for treatment, found temporary refuge and has since been re-homed.\n\nSheriff Watson told Steel: \"On reading the terms of the report I am persuaded you are a foolish person who has behaved disgracefully towards the animal, but not with a cruel intention.\n\n\"You are clearly not a suitable person to own or have charge of an animal for the long-term.\n\n\"You and animals will not be coming close for the near future.\"\n\nScottish SPCA Ch Supt Mike Flynn said: \"Whilst we always look for a lifetime ban on keeping animals in cases of neglect like this, we are pleased the accused has received a 15-year ban.\n\n\"We hope Steel will seriously consider her ability to care for any other pets in the future.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nora Quoirin's parents speak publicly for the first time since her death\n\nThe parents of a teenager who died on a family holiday in Malaysia believe there was a \"criminal element\" involved in her disappearance and death.\n\nNora Quoirin's body was found beside a stream about 1.6 miles (2.5km) from her accommodation, 10 days after she disappeared in August.\n\nA post-mortem examination revealed the 15-year-old died from internal bleeding probably caused by hunger and stress.\n\nHer parents told RTÉ that they are determined to get the truth.\n\nIn an interview with the Irish broadcaster, Meabh and Sebastian Quoirin said that many serious questions still remain about Nora's disappearance.\n\nNora Quoirin's parents said that they will push for an inquest and to find some answers\n\nMeabh said that it would have been \"impossible physically, mentally to imagine that she [Nora] could have got any distance at all\".\n\n\"She never even walked as far as our neighbours' front door by herself,\" she added.\n\n\"For us something very complex happened. We have insisted from the beginning that we believe there was a criminal element to what happened.\"\n\nSebastien said then when they could not find Nora in the vicinity of the hotel they realised something serious had happened.\n\n\"To think that Nora might get up in the middle of the night, naked, barefoot, get out of the bungalow into the jungle, bearing in mind the terrain is extremely steep and dangerous, in total darkness, makes absolutely no sense,\" he told RTÉ.\n\n\"We think it is absurd to think about this possibility.\"\n\nThe Quorins said they do not believe their daughter would have wandered off alone\n\nHer unclothed body was found after a 10-day search in an area that had previously been searched by rescuers.\n\nShe was described by her family as vulnerable having been born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder which affects brain development.\n\nMalaysian Police said there was no suspicion Nora was the victim of foul play.\n\nThe Quoirins said they are still waiting on the full post mortem results from Malaysia.\n\nAnother post-mortem examination was carried out in London - they are awaiting the results of it as well.\n\nSebastien said they can get \"some degree of closure\" if they can understand what happened.\n\nMeabh Quoirin said Nora is with them every day\n\n\"We are determined to fight for her rights as a human, as a child with special needs,\" said Meabh.\n\n\"We really believe that if they'd listened to what we were trying to explain, in terms of what Nora was capable of and not capable of, then we might have been able to achieve more while we were still in Malaysia.\n\n\"But with all the right support we will push for an inquest and hope that we can still find some answers.\n\n\"I think we will be living with the horror of what happened in Malaysia for the rest of our lives.\n\n\"I think we will seek justice in so far as we can. We have to find peace in our own hearts.\n\n\"We will carry Nora with us forever. She's with us here every day. I talk to her every day. She holds my hand. We hear her, we see her in all that we do at home. We will forever be a family of five.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Caroline Flack is due to appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court on 23 December\n\nLove Island host Caroline Flack has stood down from the show after being charged with assault by beating.\n\n\"I feel the best thing I can do is stand down for series six,\" she said, describing ITV2's Love Island as \"the best show on telly\".\n\nPolice were called to the 40-year-old's home in Islington, London, last week, where she lives with her partner, tennis player Lewis Burton.\n\nShe was bailed and will appear before magistrates on Monday.\n\n\"There have been a significant number of media reports and allegations into my personal life,\" she said in her Instagram story on Tuesday.\n\n\"While matters were not as have been reported, I am committed to working with the authorities and I can't comment further on these matters until the legal process is over.\"\n\nThe star, who was due to present the forthcoming winter edition of the popular ITV2 show - which is expected to start on 12 January - added: \"However, Love Island has been my world for the last five years, it's the best show on telly.\n\n\"In order not to detract attention from the upcoming series I feel the best thing I can do is stand down for series six. I want to wish the incredible team working on the show a fantastic series in Cape Town.\"\n\nFlack began presenting Love Island in summer 2015, having fronted the 12th series of The X Factor alongside Olly Murs, and winning Strictly Come Dancing in 2014.\n\nAn ITV spokesperson said: \"ITV has a long-standing relationship with Caroline and we understand and accept her decision.\n\n\"We will remain in contact with her over the coming months about future series of Love Island.\"\n\nShe won Strictly Come Dancing in 2014\n\nOn Monday, Burton wrote on Instagram that his girlfriend had been subject to a \"witch hunt\" since being charged, describing her as \"the most lovely girl\".\n\n\"I'm tired of the lies and abuse aimed at my girlfriend. This is not a witch hunt, this is someone's life,\" he wrote.\n\nThe TV star mentioned him personally online, writing: \"My boyfriend Lewis... I love you.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Book retailer The Book People has filed for administration with just one week to go before Christmas.\n\nPricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has been appointed as the administrator while the troubled firm looks for a buyer.\n\nFounded in 1988 in Godalming, Surrey, The Book People has faced stiff competition from Amazon and other online retailers over the last decade.\n\nThe business will continue to trade and there are no plans to make any of the 393 employees redundant, PwC said.\n\nAs a result, customers should receive their orders in time for Christmas.\n\nThe majority of the business's employees - 229 - are based in Bangor, Gwynedd.\n\nThe firm sells books, gifts, toys and stationery online and via a catalogue, often at discounted prices. It has an annual turnover of £50m and sells more than 17 million children's books a year, PwC said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How to get kids to read books\n\nThe company, one of the UK's largest independent book retailers, was acquired as part of a rescue deal in 2014 by private equity group Endless.\n\nJames Woolley, partner at Endless, said it had \"worked hard\" to secure the firm's future and was \"disappointed\" not to have succeeded.\n\n\"The well-documented challenges in the retail environment, compounded by the strength of global online booksellers, has severely impacted operating cash flows over recent years,\" he added.\n\nToby Underwood, joint administrator and restructuring partner for PwC, said it was now exploring a sale of the business.\n\n\"I appreciate the obvious concerns that staff in particular will have as we move towards Christmas,\" he said.\n\n\"Whilst the administrators have funding to meet the payroll for December, the longer-term prospects for the business, staff, customers and suppliers will clearly be dependent upon whether a sale can be secured.\"\n\nIt has been a tough year for the retail industry in the UK, with a net 1,234 stores disappearing from Britain's top 500 High Streets in the first six months, according to accountants PwC", "Liam Whoriskey had been initially charged with murder: Mid-trial the charge was amended to manslaughter\n\nA man found guilty of killing of a three-year-old boy in Londonderry is to appeal against his conviction.\n\nKayden McGuinness was found dead in his bed in his family flat at Colmcille Court in the Bogside in Derry in September 2017.\n\nLiam Whoriskey, 25, from Glenabbey Gardens in the city, was convicted of his manslaughter and on Monday was jailed for 15 years.\n\nWhoriskey has instructed his lawyers to lodge appeal papers at the High Court.\n\nKayden was described as a \"happy, smiling and much-loved child\"\n\nWhoriskey, who had denied killing the toddler, is due to serve half of his sentence in prison and the other half on licence.\n\nHe was also found guilty of one charge of child cruelty.\n\nDuring the trial the court was told a post-mortem examination carried out after Kayden's death in September 2017 revealed he had sustained multiple injuries and bruising.\n\nThere were at least 15 non-accidental bruises to his scalp, the examination found.", "A Russian watchdog no longer plans to block Twitch over a dispute concerning pirated Premier League football games, according to the country's state media.\n\nTass reported telecommunications regulator Roskomnadzor had dropped its threat after the Amazon-owned service removed the offending content.\n\nThe proposed ban had been prompted by a complaint from a firm that owns the local online rights to the matches.\n\nA lawyer acting on Rambler's behalf had said on Monday that it was suing the US firm for 180bn roubles (£2.1bn) in damages. But another spokesman for the company subsequently said that sum needed to be \"clarified\".\n\nOn Wednesday, Twitch said that Rambler had withdrawn its claim and was no longer seeking any financial compensation.\n\n\"Twitch will continue to, as has always been the case, effectively and swiftly address any violation of its terms of service with the removal of unlicensed copyrighted content,\" said a spokeswoman for Twitch.\n\n\"We look forward to working together with Rambler to achieve this. We remain focused on delivering quality content to our Russian audience.\"\n\nRussia is the third-largest user of Twitch. The platform's focus is video games but it also offers other live video streams and pre-recorded content.\n\nRambler bought exclusive digital distribution rights for three seasons of the English Premier League from the Russian sports broadcaster Match-TV earlier this year.\n\nAmazon has its own interest in restricting access to the Premier League since it recently bought exclusive rights to a number of matches for its own Prime Video service in the UK.", "Sanna Marin worked as a sales assistant before going to university and entering politics\n\nEstonia's president has apologised after the country's interior minister described Finland's new prime minister as \"a sales girl\".\n\nPresident Kersti Kaljulaid said she was \"embarrassed\" by the comments of Mart Helme, 70, who leads the populist far-right party Ekre.\n\nShe heads a centre-left coalition with four other parties, all female-led, and has been a rising star for some years.\n\nMr Helme made his controversial remarks on his party's radio talk-show.\n\n\"Now we see how one sales girl has become a prime minister and how some other street activists and non-educated people have also joined the cabinet,\" he said.\n\nMs Marin has spoken about growing up in a disadvantaged family. She worked as a sales assistant before going to university and embarking on a political career.\n\nShe was the first person in her family to finish high school and attend university.\n\nResponding on Twitter, Ms Marin said she was \"extremely proud of Finland\".\n\n\"Here a child from a poor family can get educated and achieve many things in their lives. The cashier of the shop can become a prime minister,\" she wrote.\n\nMr Helme said his comments had been misunderstood, but offered an apology to Ms Marin.\n\nHe said he had intended to \"acknowledge that it is possible to work oneself up from a low social level also into top politics\".\n\n\"If someone has misunderstood it... then indeed I want to say that I am offering my apology to the prime minister of Finland,\" he added.\n\nIn a statement, Estonia's President Kaljulaid said she had called her Finnish counterpart, Sauli Niinistö, and asked him to convey her apologies to Ms Marin and her government.\n\n\"I also admitted to him how embarrassed I am for all this,\" she said.\n\nEstonian opposition parties called for Mr Helme to resign, or for Prime Minister Jüri Ratas to sack him.\n\nEstonia is the most northerly of the three Baltic states and has linguistic ties with Finland, which lies just across the Gulf of Finland.\n\nEkre (The Conservative People's Party of Estonia) entered the coalition government in May after taking 17.8% of the vote in a general election. The party promised to protect an \"indigenous Estonia\".\n\nMr Helme has become known for his outspoken statements and controversial behaviour.\n\nWhen he was sworn in, he - along with his son Martin - made the \"OK\" hand sign - a symbol that has become an alleged dog-whistle for white nationalists.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Finland's Sanna Marin described how her new role might impact her life", "Last updated on .From the section League Cup\n\nAston Villa overwhelmed Liverpool's youngest-ever starting line-up to cruise into the semi-finals of the Carabao Cup.\n\nWith the Reds' senior players in action at the Club World Cup in Qatar on Wednesday, under-23s boss Neil Critchley led a side containing five debutants and which had an average age of 19 years, six months and three days.\n\nWhile Villa made 10 changes from their Premier League defeat at Sheffield United, their vastly superior experience ensured they lived up to their favourites tag at Villa Park.\n\nLiverpool began brightly - and indeed enjoyed significant spells of possession throughout the match - but conceded two freak goals in the space of three first-half minutes to allow the hosts to settle.\n\nFirst, Conor Hourihane's free-kick from the right deceived Caoimhin Kelleher, and the Reds keeper then saw an Ahmed Elmohamady cross deflect off Morgan Boyes and loop over him into the left corner.\n\nJonathan Kodjia added Villa's third with a cool finish after Jota's through ball, before the Ivorian swept in Elmohamady's cross from the right.\n\nWesley completed the scoring for the hosts, who reached the semi-finals of the competition for the first time since 2012-13.\n\nFive-times winners Villa head into a two-legged semi-final in January against Leicester City, although manager Dean Smith might view forthcoming league matches against Southampton, Norwich and Watford - the three teams below them in the table - as arguably of greater significance.\n• None 'Try telling those players it was a bad evening' - Critchley defends naming young Liverpool side\n• None Why you should watch Liverpool in the Club World Cup on the BBC\n\nSignificant statistics were plentiful as the teams were confirmed.\n\nAt an average of 19.48 years, it was the youngest line-up in Liverpool's history, eclipsing the 21.81 in an FA Cup tie against Plymouth nearly three years ago.\n\nThe starting side boasted a paltry 16 previous first-team appearances for Liverpool between them while their shirt numbers added up to 737.\n\nNone of the Liverpool players were alive the last time Villa won a trophy, when they beat Leeds to win this competition in 1996.\n\nBy the final whistle, there was a more sobering statistic. This was Liverpool's heaviest League Cup defeat, eclipsing a 4-1 loss to West Ham in 1988 and a 6-3 reverse by Arsenal in 2007.\n\nOf course, given the unique circumstances, the result should almost come with an asterisk. Football statistics do not work like that though, so into the record books the result will go.\n\nWhen Harvey Elliott made his first EFL Cup appearance, he was so young he had to get changed away from his team-mates on child protection grounds as he was still to reach his 16th birthday.\n\nHe is still not old enough to drive and can't turn professional until his 17th birthday in April but Elliott is clearly talented and against Villa underlined why Liverpool were so keen to persuade him to move north from Fulham in the summer.\n\nIt was Elliott's early shot that forced Orjan Nyland into a one-handed save when the game was still goalless and he provided a terrific pass that allowed Isaac Christie-Davies to go close later in the half.\n\nHe played on the right wing but it is his cultured left foot that is his key weapon, making difficult passes look easy and always offering a threat to the opposition - even when they are seasoned professionals - when on the ball.\n\nWatching from Liverpool's team hotel in Doha, Jurgen Klopp is sure to have been impressed, as was Critchley, Elliott's boss in Birmingham.\n\nThis was a fixture Villa knew was a 'no-win' scenario.\n\nAssuming it turned out as it did, it was always going to be dismissed as exactly the result that was expected. If they had lost, though, ridicule would inevitably have followed.\n\nAs it turned out, Smith's side were professional and clinical, ensuring there was no need to call on substitutes Jack Grealish or John McGinn.\n\nIt was a good night for Villa's £11m striker Kodjia too, who has been restricted to 41 minutes of action in the Premier League this season.\n\nWith first-choice forward Wesley struggling for form - the Brazilian's injury-time effort was his first in 10 games going back to 5 October - Kodjia's two-goal contribution was well timed.\n\nThe Ivorian's first goal in particular required a calm finish after he raced clear following a mistake by Boyes.\n\n'I thought we were magnificent' - what they said\n\nLiverpool stand-in manager Neil Critchley talking to Sky Sports: \"I thought we were magnificent. We were fantastic from the start, we had a couple of chances from the first whistle. We were really unfortunate to concede and then find ourselves 2-0 down. It was an incredible night and no-one wanted it to end. The support we had was unbelievable.\n\n\"The conduct of the Villa players was first class. For Dean Smith and John Terry to come in to our dressing room after the game and say the things they said... They said 'keep going, good luck' and wished us the best. A moment I will remember and the players will remember for the rest of their lives.\n\n\"Some of them showed the potential to one day play for us, or in the Premier League. They will know it was just part of their journey. My overwhelming feeling is one of immense pride.\"\n\nAston Villa manager Dean Smith on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"It was probably the weirdest major competition quarter-final I've seen or been involved in. They started brightly, they've got some technically gifted young players. We were clinical, professional and showed a good attitude. It was a bit of a no-win for us apart from getting through to a semi-final.\n\n\"I must credit the players. Before the game I used the word 'attitude' - it had to be right today. Everyone expected us to win, we expected to win, but you've still got to do the job. Even though we were playing a young Liverpool team, we had James Chester who hadn't played for 11 months, it was Jonathan Kodjia and Orjan Nyland's first game of the season too. I thought Jota was a bit of a Rolls Royce for us tonight.\n\n\"Wesley needed that goal. He's got a little bit of unfair stick. He's a young player, he's got great honesty and attitude. It was a good finish. It will do him the world of good.\n\n\"I was brought up coaching U18s and U23s, Liverpool played really well tonight but they'll be disappointed with the result. They've got some starlets that will be performing at Premier League level in the next three or four years.\"\n\nBest of the stats\n• None Aston Villa have reached the semi-finals of the League Cup for the first time since the 2012/13 campaign, while Liverpool have been eliminated at the quarter-final stage of the competition for the first time since 2007/08.\n• None Aston Villa's 5-0 victory was just their second win in their last 21 home matches against Liverpool in all competitions (D5 L14), ending a run of six consecutive defeats against the Reds on home turf.\n• None Liverpool's defeat was their first in 20 games across all competitions (W16 D3), with Aston Villa becoming the first side to beat them since Napoli in the Champions League back in September.\n• None Liverpool suffered their biggest margin of defeat in any competition since September 2017, when they lost 5-0 against Manchester City in the Premier League.\n• None Liverpool conceded four first-half goals for the first time in any competition since May 2015, against Stoke in the Premier League.\n• None The average age of Liverpool's starting side against Aston Villa was 19 years & 182 days, the youngest starting line-up the Reds have ever fielded for a competitive fixture.\n• None Only Burton's Liam Boyce (five) has scored more League Cup goals this season than Aston Villa's Conor Hourihane (four).\n\nLiverpool play Mexican side Monterrey in their Club World Cup semi-final in Qatar on Wednesday. They next play in the Premier League on Boxing Day, when they travel to Leicester (20:00 GMT). Villa host Southampton on 21 December (15:00 GMT).\n• None Goal! Aston Villa 5, Liverpool 0. Wesley (Aston Villa) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Trézéguet with a through ball following a fast break.\n• None Attempt missed. Trézéguet (Aston Villa) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Ahmed El Mohamady with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Leighton Clarkson (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Tony Gallacher (Liverpool) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner. Assisted by Harvey Elliott.\n• None Attempt missed. Leighton Clarkson (Liverpool) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Harvey Elliott.\n• None Substitution, Liverpool. James Norris replaces Ki-Jana Hoever because of an injury.\n• None Offside, Aston Villa. Neil Taylor tries a through ball, but Henri Lansbury is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Henri Lansbury (Aston Villa) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Trézéguet.\n• None Attempt missed. Herbie Kane (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Harvey Elliott.\n• None Attempt saved. Trézéguet (Aston Villa) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Douglas Luiz.\n• None Harvey Elliott (Liverpool) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt saved. Herbie Kane (Liverpool) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Harvey Elliott. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Natalie Elphicke won the Dover & Deal seat for the Conservatives with an increased majority\n\nThe newly elected Dover and Deal MP is seeking talks with the home secretary after 69 migrants in five boats were picked up off the Kent coast.\n\nNatalie Elphicke said she would be telling Home Secretary Priti Patel that the French needed to do more \"to stop illegal departures from their shores\".\n\nThe migrants, including 10 children, have all been given medical checks.\n\nOn 4 December, 79 migrants, including children, were intercepted in five separate incidents.\n\nMrs Elphicke said: \"The French have been given tens of millions of pounds of British hard-earned taxpayer money... I want to know where the money has gone.\n\n\"Because while much has been done, it is clear there is more to do.\n\n\"More to do tackling the people traffickers behind this shocking trade in people.\n\n\"More to do making sure anyone found in the Channel is immediately sent back to France.\n\n\"More to do by the French to stop these illegal departures from French shores.\"\n\nThe migrants will now be interviewed by immigration officials, a Home Office spokesman said.\n\nMore than 1,700 migrants have crossed the Channel in small boats during 2019.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and is now in an 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK effectively remains in the EU's customs union and single market and continues to obey EU rules.\n\nHowever, it is no longer part of the political institutions. So, for example, there are no longer any British MEPs in the European Parliament.\n\nNegotiations on a trade deal with the EU have been proceeding for several months. The UK wants as much access as possible for its goods and services to the EU.\n\nBut the government has made clear that the UK must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBoth sides say there a still significant areas of disagreement - for example, on EU proposals for a so-called \"level playing field\", which would see the UK and EU maintain similar minimum standards on things like workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nThe deadline for the two sides to agree an extension to the transition period has now passed.\n\nIf no trade deal has been agreed and ratified by the end of the year, then the UK faces the prospect of tariffs on exports to the EU.\n\nThe prime minister has argued that as the UK is completely aligned to EU rules, the negotiation should be straightforward. But critics have pointed out that the UK wishes to have the freedom to diverge from EU rules so it can do deals with other countries - and that makes negotiations more difficult.\n\nIt's not just a trade deal that needs to be sorted out. The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement. The UK is set to leave the European Arrest Warrant scheme and will have to agree a replacement. It must also agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.\n\nIt's also important to recognise that major changes will take effect on 1 January 2021 whether or not a trade deal is agreed. Free movement of people will end and businesses trading with the EU will have to follow new rules.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "Boris Johnson held the first cabinet of his new government on Tuesday\n\nSurprised that Boris Johnson's new government is raising eyebrows already? Don't be.\n\nThe new clause in the Brexit bill might rattle business - and the opposition parties - because it is, in theory, making it more likely that we could exit the EU departure lounge without a full trade deal in place.\n\nWhatever metaphor you want to use, be it a trap door or a new cliff edge, there is outrage already in some quarters of Westminster at the move.\n\nBut if you are taken aback, then the last few extraordinary months must have passed you by.\n\nMost straightforwardly, the government, with its new whopping majority, promised in their manifesto that after we leave the EU, the trade talks would be wrapped up in a year and we will have left the transition - the period when we live more or less with the status quo.\n\nThe new clause in the bill would put that vow into law (although as ever, until we have seen the bill in black and white it's worth reserving a bit of judgement).\n\nOn the basis of the manifesto, Boris Johnson's opponents can hardly argue that they weren't warned. But with a majority of 80 at his back, it's not exactly likely that Parliament would have forced him to extend if he didn't want to.\n\nSo this is a political signal, a moment of early chest beating too, designed to disappoint those who might have been hoping No 10 might slide to a softer Brexit over the next few months.\n\nAnd designed to gratify those who are adamant that Brexit must be completely \"done\" as soon as possible.\n\nSecond of all, Boris Johnson seems to have concluded that if the talks are to go anywhere fast, there has to be a convincing clear deadline.\n\nIt was his vow of a Halloween deadline that got him to Downing Street in the first place, and although it was broken in the end, there's little question that his attitude towards extending again and again changed the dynamics of the talks with the EU that got the revised deal done.\n\nPutting the deadline into law may also be designed to focus minds in Brussels. How effective that might be? That's a different question.\n\nBut it's worth noting too that getting a trade deal done is not binary. There are potential \"patches\", as described by Rupert Harrison, George Osborne's former advisor.\n\nHe suggests, for example, that a bare bones deal could be done covering goods, with ongoing talks covering other areas.\n\nIt may not be as simple as an all singing, all dancing deal, or leaving the transition dramatically and suddenly on World Trade Organisation terms.\n\nLastly, if the Brexit Bill is passed with this extension block in it, there is nothing, save a sense of potential embarrassment, to stop No 10 passing another law to undo it if they need to later on.\n\nCynical? Perhaps. But with an 80 seat majority that SW1 is only barely beginning to understand, Downing Street is going to be able to change its mind, miss targets, go back on its word, without there being an immediate cost that puts their position in jeopardy.\n\nThat doesn't mean shifting position would be desirable, or that it would be trouble free. But we are now in a different era.\n\nWhether you are delighted or devastated by the result, the new government is insulated from political shocks in a way that none has been since Tony Blair's last general election in 2005.\n\nDuring the coalition years, David Cameron could rely on a solid majority in Parliament, but only after careful, negotiation with the Lib Dems.\n\nThe Conservatives have the chance here to govern in the way they please.\n\nBoris Johnson now has a majority of 80 in Parliament\n\nIt's a total contrast to the last last three years, when the Tories have lived permanently on the edge of a government meltdown.\n\nRemember too, this government also includes some people who enjoy goading their opponents - just as they did during the Vote Leave campaign, just as they did in the summer and autumn in No 10, just as they did during the election campaign, and just as they may well do in government.\n\nIt will be fascinating to see if, secure in Downing Street, Boris Johnson curbs his and his team's enthusiasm to court controversy.\n\nEven with a hefty majority, there's a limit to the amount of sabre rattling and reform the government machine can handle.\n\nBut at least for now, there's plenty of political capital available to be used to follow the pattern of provoke and repeat (then retreat if necessary) while the opposition can only really look on.\n\nAnd if you're frothing at No 10's plan for the Brexit bill, be warned, as the prime minister told his cabinet this morning, maybe \"you ain't seen nothing yet\".", "Northern Ireland has had no devolved government since January 2017\n\nNow is the moment to restore devolution in Northern Ireland, Julian Smith has said.\n\nThe Northern Ireland secretary was speaking after talks aimed at restoring the assembly began on Monday.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Assembly has been inactive since January 2017, when its two biggest parties, the DUP and Sinn Féin, split in a bitter row.\n\nMr Smith said the biggest issue in the negotiations should be dealing with the current crisis in the health sector.\n\nHe met the leaders of Northern Ireland's five biggest parties.\n\nMeanwhile, the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, Simon Byrne, wrote to the leaders on Monday calling on them to agree on how to deal with the legacy of the Troubles and requesting support to hire more officers.\n\nThe British and Irish governments will work \"night and day\" over the next few weeks to restore devolution, said the Tánaiste (Irish Deputy Prime Minister) Simon Coveney.\n\nThe Irish deputy PM was speaking after a meeting with the NI Secretary Julian Smith at Stormont.\n\nMr Coveney said there would be \"intensive\" discussions between the parties over the course of this week.\n\nHe will hold his own meetings with the five parties on Monday night and Tuesday, ahead of a roundtable scheduled for Wednesday.\n\nHe said the two governments did not \"want to bounce\" the parties into an agreement - but said they had been discussing the same issues for many months now.\n\n\"This is not about trying to force the parties into a space they don't want to move into,\" he added.\n\n\"But we've had a reality check with the nurses' strike, and I think it's a reminder to everyone that now is the time to get this done.\"\n\nRound-table talks are set to happen later in the week which will involve the parties, Mr Smith and Mr Coveney.\n\nSeveral rounds of talks to restore the executive have ended in failure, with the two parties unable to resolve differences over issues such as the Irish language or how to deal with the legacy of the Troubles.\n\nIn the general election last Thursday both the DUP and Sinn Féin saw their share of the vote fall.\n\nMr Smith said the results had given the five parties \"serious issues\" to reflect on - but maintained he is obliged to call a fresh assembly election if a deal is not reached by 13 January.\n\nThe Sinn Féin team speak to the media after fresh talks at Stormont on Monday\n\nSpeaking after meeting Mr Smith, Alliance Party leader Naomi Long said their discussion was \"constructive and positive\" but she added her party would not go back into an assembly that was \"a stop-start mess\".\n\nMrs Long also said there was a draft document regarding a deal but that it is not complete.\n\nShe said discussions between the parties over the next week would seek to build on it.\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said the general election result showed people were \"sick of the Stormont standoff\".\n\nAfter meeting Mr Smith, he said the British and Irish governments should, in the next couple of days, publish a document detailing what has been agreed so far.\n\n\"They should force the parties to say yes or no,\" he added.\n\nUlster Unionist leader Steve Aiken said he did not believe a deal was likely before Christmas.\n\nHe called for reforms to be made, and said the \"core issues which undermined devolution previously\" must be addressed.\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster said she hoped there would be an assembly up and running at the beginning of the year.\n\nShe added that all politicians had to take responsibility for the lack of devolution.\n\nArlene Foster was first minister before the assembly collapsed\n\nSinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald said the Stormont talks process was at a \"crucial and pivotal moment\".\n\nShe said the talks needed to be about resolution and delivery, but that Sinn Féin had also asked for a \"big cash injection\" for public services.\n\nShe did not say how much exactly the party had asked for, or what the government's response was.\n\nShe also said her party would not be drawn into publicly discussing negotiating red lines - but would enter into the talks with goodwill.\n\nOne by one the parties emerged optimistic from talks, claiming a deal is possible.\n\nThe general election results have changed the mood, and Julian Smith maintains if power sharing is not restored by 13 January, a fresh assembly election will be called.\n\nThe DUP and Sinn Féin are unlikely to relish that prospect, and seem to be softening their respective negotiating stances.\n\nAlliance and the SDLP say they do not fear another election while the Ulster Unionists wants direct rule, if a deal isn't reached soon.\n\nThe five parties will hold a roundtable meeting with the British and Irish governments on Wednesday, but so far it seems unlikely that a pre-Christmas compromise is on the cards.\n\nDuring a phone call on Friday evening, Mr Johnson and Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar said they would work closely with the Northern Ireland parties to help bring back devolution.\n\nThe prime minister made clear in the phone call his top priority was the restoration of a functioning executive as soon as possible.", "Firefighters smashed through this wall to rescue the boy\n\nA teenage boy is \"unbelievably lucky\" to be alive after he fell 30ft from a shopping centre roof and got trapped in a cavity between two buildings.\n\nFirefighters smashed through the wall of a shop at the Thames Centre in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, to free the 13-year-old at about 19:30 GMT.\n\nHe had become trapped in the 1.6ft-wide cavity three hours earlier.\n\nThe boy, who sustained a broken ankle, has been taken to Middlesbrough's James Cook University Hospital.\n\nIncident commander Rob Cherrie, of County Durham and Darlington Fire and Rescue, said the boy had been on the phone to his mother at the time of the fall.\n\nHe added: \"We used cutters, grinders and hammers. Essentially you had the cladding then the plasterboard through to the breezeblocks and external bricks.\n\n\"We managed to get some oxygen down to him and reassure him. By the time we got to him he was very cold and very tired.\"\n\nPolice and fire services were called to the scene\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA teenager who stabbed a lawyer to death with a screwdriver as he was walking home from work has been jailed for a minimum of 15 years.\n\nEwan Ireland was 17 when he attacked Peter Duncan, 52, at the entrance to a shopping centre in Newcastle in August.\n\nA court heard the two brushed past each other when the teenager pulled out a screwdriver he had shoplifted and stabbed Mr Duncan in the heart.\n\nIreland admitted murder and was jailed for life with a minimum of 15 years.\n\nThe killer, who was able to be identified after he turned 18 in October, had 17 previous convictions for 31 offences between 2017 and 2019.\n\nAt the time of the murder he was on bail for an offence of affray, was under investigation for a robbery and still subject to a 12-month conditional discharge for a battery offence the previous summer.\n\nIn a victim impact statement read out at Newcastle Crown Court, Mr Duncan's widow Maria said her life \"was ruined by a senseless and unprovoked act\".\n\n\"The person who did this had convictions. Nothing stopped him. He continued and he murdered my husband,\" she said.\n\nPeter Duncan's family described him as a \"devoted father and husband\"\n\nMr Duncan came into contact with Ireland at the entrance to Eldon Square shopping centre when they were walking in opposite directions.\n\nThe court heard the teenager was looking for another youth with whom he had previously argued about cigarettes.\n\nMr Duncan, who was an in-house lawyer for an international maritime firm, raised his arm to let Ireland past, but \"the defendant took exception to that\" and a struggle ensued, prosecutor Kevin Wardlaw said.\n\nAfter pushing him off, Mr Duncan was stabbed once through the heart and collapsed a short distance away near a Greggs outlet.\n\nThe court heard Mr Duncan's 15-year-old son was in the city centre that evening for a cinema trip and saw the cordoned off area without realising his father had been attacked.\n\n\"I am angry he was out free, and cannot understand why he was not locked up,\" he said in a victim impact statement.\n\n\"If he had been we would still have my dad to this day.\"\n\nEwan Ireland had a string of convictions when he murdered Mr Duncan\n\nDuring sentencing, Mr Justice Lavender said it was Mr Duncan's \"bad luck to bump into you that day on his way home from work\".\n\n\"You started a fight, in the course of which you took out a screwdriver and stabbed him through the heart,\" he said.\n\nThe judge said Ireland's offending started at the age of 14, with a string of convictions including theft, battery and making threats with knives.\n\n\"All too often, young men like you, who get into the habit of carrying weapons and using them to threaten others, move on to using those weapons to harm others, as you have done,\" he added.\n\nIreland also admitted stealing screwdrivers and carrying an offensive weapon.\n\nCaroline Goodwin QC, defending, said the teenager \"had spoken of his absolute remorse and devastation at the act he occasioned which was needless and senseless and took away from the family their father\".\n\nThe court heard Mr Duncan had been in the wrong place at the wrong time\n\nDet Ch Insp Jane Fairlamb said Ireland had been a promising young footballer who had been offered a lot of help to change his criminal behaviour.\n\n\"I think one of the most shocking elements of this crime is that it was in such a public place in a major shopping centre in our city and we probably all had that feeling that it could have been any one of us walking home from work,\" she said.\n\n\"With every contact that Ewan Ireland has had with the police and criminal justice system he gets opportunities to change his behaviour - support from different agencies to change that life of crime - he's had those opportunities.\"\n\nShe also said Mr Duncan's family was devastated by the loss and she did not have the words to express how deeply they were grieving.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Pope Francis has faced pressure to address the sexual abuse crisis in the Church\n\nThe Pope has declared that the rule of \"pontifical secrecy\" no longer applies to the sexual abuse of minors, in a bid to improve transparency in such cases.\n\nThe Church previously shrouded sexual abuse cases in secrecy, in what it said was an effort to protect the privacy of victims and reputations of the accused.\n\nBut new papal documents on Tuesday lifted restrictions on those who report abuse or say they have been victims.\n\nChurch leaders called for the rule's abolition at a February Vatican summit.\n\nThey said the lifting of the rule in such cases would improve transparency and the ability of the police and other civil legal authorities to request information from the Church.\n\nInformation in abuse cases should still be treated with \"security, integrity and confidentiality\", the Pope said in his announcement. He instructed Vatican officials to comply with civil laws and assist civil judicial authorities in investigating such cases.\n\nThe Pope also changed the Vatican's definition of child pornography, increasing the age of the subject from 14 or under to 18 or under.\n\nCharles Scicluna, the Archbishop of Malta and the Vatican's most experienced sex abuse investigator, called the move an \"epochal decision that removes obstacles and impediments\", telling Vatican news that \"the question of transparency now is being implemented at the highest level\".\n\nThe Church has been rocked by thousands of reports of sexual abuse by priests and accusations of cover-ups by senior clergy around the world. Pope Francis has faced serious pressure to provide leadership and generate workable solutions to the crisis, which has engulfed the Church in recent years.\n\nPontifical secrecy was designed to protect sensitive information such as communications between the Vatican and papal embassies - in a similar fashion to the secrecy applied to diplomatic cables. But it was also applied over the years to judicial cases, to protect the privacy of victims and the identities of those accused.\n\nCritics said pontifical secrecy had been abused by some Church officials to avoid co-operation with the police in abuse cases.\n\n\"Certain jurisdictions would have easily quoted the pontifical secret ... to say that they could not, and that they were not, authorised to share information with either state authorities or the victims,\" Archbishop Scicluna said. \"Now that impediment, we might call it that way, has been lifted, and the pontifical secret is no more an excuse.\"\n\nUnder the new instruction, the pontifical secret no longer binds those working in offices of the Roman Curia to confidentiality on other offences if committed in conjunction with child abuse or child pornography. Witnesses, alleged victims, and the person who filed the report are also be unbound from obligations of silence.\n\nOn his 83rd birthday, Pope Francis has responded to a longstanding complaint from survivors by announcing that any testimony gathered by the Church in relation to cases of sexual violence, the abuse of minors and child pornography will now be made available to state authorities.\n\nIn the past, the Church has been accused of using secrecy laws as a justification for not reporting cases of abuse. The consequence of breaching the pontifical secret was excommunication from the Church, so there was little incentive to be open to state authorities. That prohibition has now been abolished.\n\nIt is the latest attempt by the Roman Catholic Church to address the scourge of clerical abuse that has manifested itself across continents and in a range of religious institutions.", "UK unemployment fell to its lowest level since January 1975 in the three months to October this year.\n\nThe number of people out of work fell by 13,000 to 1.281 million, Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures show.\n\nThe employment rate rose to an all-time high of 76.2%, with an increase of 24,000 taking the number of people in work up to a total of 32.8 million.\n\nHowever, annual wage growth, excluding bonuses, slowed to 3.5% from 3.6% from July to September.\n\nONS head of labour market David Freeman said: \"While the estimate of the employment rate nudged up in the most recent quarter, the longer-term picture has seen it broadly flat over the last few quarters. However, unemployment among women has reached a new record low.\n\n\"Vacancies have fallen for 10 months in a row and are now below 800,000 for the first time in over two years.\n\n\"Pay is still increasing in real terms, but its growth rate has slowed in the last few months.\"\n\nThere were an estimated 794,000 vacancies in the UK for September to November 2019. That is 20,000 fewer than in the last quarter and 59,000 fewer than a year earlier.\n\nThe estimated employment rate for men was 80.4% and for women was 72%.\n\nThe increase in women's employment in recent years is partly a result of changes to their State Pension age, which has meant fewer retiring between the ages of 60 and 65.\n\nThe slight slowdown in wage growth is partly caused by the fact that in October 2018, some unusually high bonuses were paid to some workers. Bonuses given this October returned to more expected levels.\n\nFor October 2019, average regular pay, before tax and other deductions, was estimated at £509.68 per week.\n\nChancellor Sajid Javid said: \"There's talent up and down this country - three-quarters of employment growth in the last year has been outside London and the South East.\n\n\"I'm looking forward to getting Brexit done and unleashing Britain's potential, levelling up opportunity across the country.\"\n\nTej Parikh, chief economist at the Institute of Directors, said: \"The UK's jobs boom continues to be a big plus point for the economy, but it is slowly losing momentum.\n\n\"Businesses have shown a strong appetite to take on staff in recent years, and climbing employment levels have boosted household incomes, adding buoyancy to the economy. However, firms are now cutting back on new hires as it becomes harder to find the skills they need.\n\n\"Uncertainty and slowing global growth have also made businesses a bit more cautious in their recruitment plans, and vacancies are expected to continue falling into 2020.\"\n\nEmployment is at a record high and unemployment at a record low in October's figures, but the Office for National Statistics says that both are broadly flat.\n\nThese records involve the kind of tiny changes we're used to seeing with new records in the 100-metre sprint.\n\nOctober's estimate is 76.15%: an improvement of 0.02 percentage points.\n\nFor unemployment, the record has gone down from 3.797% in May to 3.757% in October's figures - a change of 0.04 percentage points.\n\nSo the estimates haven't been better in a long time, but the improvements are tiny and certainly smaller than the margin of error in any figures like these.\n\nCoupled with the substantial fall in job vacancies and a hint of slowing wage growth, the emerging picture is less of rampaging record highs and more of decelerating demand for new workers.", "Action across the economy is needed in the next 12 months if Scotland's new target for greenhouse gas emissions is to be met, a report has warned.\n\nThe Committee on Climate Change (CCC) said Scotland's 2045 date for net-zero emissions was a \"step-change in ambition\" for the country.\n\nIt said Scotland now needed to \"walk the talk\" ahead of the COP26 summit.\n\nCCC suggested ending sales of new fossil fuel cars by 2030 and supporting low carbon farming.\n\nThe independent government advisory body said the UK's presidency of next year's UN climate talks in Glasgow - known as COP26 - will rest on \"real action at home\".\n\nThe CCC annual assessment said new policies must now begin to deliver meaningful emissions reductions and be extended to all areas of the economy.\n\nMost of the rapid reductions achieved in recent years have been explained by the ending of coal-fired power stations at Cockenzie and Longannet.\n\nCommittee chairman Lord Deben said: \"Scotland has set an ambitious world-leading net-zero target of 2045. Now Scotland needs to walk the talk.\n\n\"The new legally-binding target for 2030 - a 75% reduction in emissions compared to 1990 - is extremely stretching and demands new policies that begin to work immediately. The spotlight is now on Scotland's plan to deliver meaningful reductions across all sectors of the economy.\"\n\nThe Scottish government has said it will bring forward an updated Climate Change Plan next year.\n\nScotland's reduced emissions can be partly explained by the ending of coal-fired power stations at Longannet and Cockenzie\n\nIn November 2020, Scotland will host the UN climate conference, where world leaders will be asked to make strong commitments to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nThe goal is to limit global warming to between 1.5C and 2C.\n\nThis year's talks in Madrid ended on Sunday, after two extra days, with a compromise deal agreed but with some issues left unresolved.\n\nThose issues - including carbon markets - may have to be revisited when the UK hosts negotiations.\n\nAhead of those talks, the CCC report said the Scottish and UK governments must now demonstrate to the rest of the world a \"clear and credible commitment\" to achieving net-zero by the middle of the century.\n\nIt said much more work still needed to be done by the Scottish government, especially in agriculture where it said plans to replace the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) lag behind both England and Wales.\n\nThe committee called for the new framework of incentives for low carbon farming and said it needed to be completed next year.\n\nOn transport, it urged ministers to consider bringing forward the target for ending the sale of new fossil-fuel cars and vans from 2032 to 2030.\n\nScotland's target is already eight years ahead of the UK's 2040 date.\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said the global climate emergency was at the centre of its programme for government.\n\nHe added: \"We recognise that even more will need to be done for Scotland to reach net-zero emissions by 2045.\n\n\"The committee's advice for the UK government is also clear - they must 'step up and match Scottish policy ambition in areas where key powers are reserved'.\n\n\"Scottish ministers have written to their UK counterparts on several occasions to call for such action.\"\n\nGina Hanrahan, head of policy at WWF Scotland, said 2020 was a \"huge test of Scotland's climate leadership at home and abroad\" and \"rapid, transformational action and funding\" was required to maximise \"influence on the global stage\".\n\n\"Scottish agriculture is already at the frontline of climate change and emissions from the sector remain worryingly high,\" she said.\n\n\"But we can be at the forefront of climate-friendly farming if we transform rural policy and support, while providing new advice and training for farmers and land managers.\"", "Lewis Burton said Caroline Flack is \"loyal and kind\" and \"doesn't deserve any of this\"\n\nThe boyfriend of Caroline Flack says the Love Island host has been subject to a \"witch hunt\" since she was charged with assault at their home last week.\n\nOn Thursday, police were called to the 40-year-old TV presenter's house in Islington, north London, where she lives with tennis player Lewis Burton.\n\nMr Burton described her as \"the most lovely girl\" on Instagram on Monday.\n\n\"I'm tired of the lies and abuse aimed at my girlfriend. This is not a witch hunt this is someone's life,\" he wrote.\n\nCaroline Flack is a TV presenter and also won Strictly Come Dancing in 2014\n\nMs Flack is due to host the winter series of Love Island next month in South Africa, but has found herself in the spotlight for a different reason since being charged with assault by beating.\n\nShe was bailed and will appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court on Monday, 23 December.\n\nMr Burton's message comes after Ms Flack's former fiance Andrew Brady posted screenshots of what appeared to be a heavily-redacted non-disclosure agreement (NDA) on his social media.\n\nBurton wrote: \"I have not signed any NDA. Why would I?\n\n\"Caroline is the most lovely girl. Loyal and kind. She doesn't deserve any of this.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "", "The UK's second biggest housing firm does not have an agreed minimum standard for all the homes it builds, an independent report has found.\n\nA report into Persimmon says that a lack of a group build policy increases the risk of defects in its houses.\n\nPersimmon has been under pressure after a number of buyers complained about the safety of its homes.\n\nThe review found that some houses did not have fire-stopping cavity barriers or they had been wrongly installed.\n\nIt said that the issue of missing or improperly fitted cavity barriers was \"a systemic nationwide problem\", which it said was \"a manifestation of poor culture coupled with the lack of a group build process\".\n\nPersimmon's chairman Roger Devlin commissioned the report in April after complaints emerged about the quality of its new homes.\n\nOne couple, Phil and Nicola Bentley, said that they had discovered 700 defects in the Persimmon home they paid £280,000 for in 2017.\n\nThe independent review into Persimmon, led by barrister Stephanie Barwise QC of Atkin Chambers, said that there were no agreed procedures to supervise or inspect its employees or sub-contractors' work and that staff were only given limited training.\n\nIt recommended that the firm \"should take sufficient time to formulate and embed a 'Persimmon Way' of building\".\n\nIt also said that the company's corporate culture needed to change.\n\nPersimmon's former chief executive Jeff Fairburn was forced out last year amid criticism of a pay deal which awarded him £75m.\n\nMr Devlin said that the \"very thorough and comprehensive review\" \"found that Persimmon had focused on policies around inspections immediately before and after the sale of a home, rather than those governing build quality inspections\".\n\n\"In my view, this is one of its central findings and I am encouraged that the company is already embracing the review's recommendations in this area through significant operational investment and procedural change,\" he said.\n\nMs Barwise said: \"The board of Persimmon deserve significant credit for commissioning this review and publishing its findings.\n\n\"It demonstrates their willingness to confront some difficult truths as they focus the business on rapid change and improvement.\n\nIn February, the company announced that its annual profits had passed £1bn for the first time - up from £966m in 2017.\n\nAt the time, a source close to Housing Minister James Brokenshire said the minister was \"increasingly concerned\" by Persimmon's practices, including its use of leasehold contracts, the quality of its buildings and its leadership.\n\nHe said this meant its inclusion in the Help to Buy scheme was under review.", "Deji Olatunji admitted being in charge of a dog dangerously out of control\n\nA German shepherd belonging to a YouTube star and his mother is set to be destroyed after it seriously injured an elderly woman.\n\nDeji Olatunji, who has nearly 10 million subscribers, tried to restrain the dog after it bit the woman when his mother let it out on 23 July 2018.\n\nA court heard a later assessment found the animal, named Tank, \"didn't come across as a friendly, sociable dog\".\n\nOlatunji was fined and his mother was ordered to pay the victim compensation.\n\nHis mother, Olayinka Olatunji, 53, of Holme, near Peterborough, previously admitted being in charge of a dog dangerously out of control that injured a person.\n\nOlatunji, 23, also of Holme, pleaded guilty to being in charge of a dog dangerously out of control.\n\nThe younger brother of fellow YouTuber KSI, Olatunji posts videos of pranks and gaming and has 2.5 million followers on Instagram.\n\nOlatunji posted a video in which he told his followers that Tank the dog had been seized in September last year\n\nProsecutor Charles Falk told Cambridge Crown Court that Ms Olatunji had \"caused the dog to be let out\" of the house.\n\nThe dog, which was then 13 months old, bit an elderly woman twice, causing what Judge David Farrell QC described as \"very nasty injuries\".\n\nMr Falk told the court after this initial bite, Olatunji came out of the house to try to get Tank under control.\n\nBut it then bit another person, causing no injury, before it was finally restrained, Mr Falk said.\n\nOlayinka Olatunji was given a community order and ordered to do 80 hours of unpaid work\n\nAfter Tank was seized by police it was assessed by Candy D'Sa, who told the court she did not feel able to take the dog off a lead.\n\nShe said while most dogs accept a muzzle, she found Tank \"was very frightened with the attempts to muzzle him\".\n\nAs well as ordering the destruction of the dog, Judge Farrell ordered Ms Olatunji to pay £8,000 of compensation to the victim.\n\nHe also gave her a 12-month community order and 80 hours unpaid work.\n\nOlatunji was fined £2,500, while both were also ordered to pay kennelling costs and given a restraining order from contacting the victims for four years.\n\nThe Olatunjis have 28 days from Friday to appeal against the decision to destroy the dog.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The pup was surrounded by people and had to be abandoned by its mother\n\nBeachgoers have been blamed for the deaths of three seal pups in three days at a colony on a Norfolk beach.\n\nThe Friends of Horsey Seals said one of the animals drowned on Sunday after being chased into the water, while another was abandoned by its mother after being surrounded by people.\n\nA third died after being attacked by a dog two days earlier.\n\nThe charity said deaths due to \"human intervention\" were \"not acceptable\" and urged visitors to keep their distance.\n\nA spokesman said in one case on Sunday \"two young children were allowed by their mother to chase the young unweaned, non-waterproof pup into the water where it drowned\".\n\nAnother seal pup died on the beach at Winterton, Norfolk, after its mother was unable to reach it after it was surrounded by visitors, he said.\n\nProf Ben Garrod, from the University of East Anglia, said: \"The action of visitors to Horsey and Winterton are killing seals. Actually killing them.\n\n\"The vast majority of people are amazing it's just a handful of absolute idiots. It is a criminal offence to cause death to any protected species.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Four of Stormont's main parties have criticised Julian Smith after refusing to meet with them\n\nStormont parties have criticised the secretary of state for not meeting them on Tuesday to discuss the upcoming healthcare strike.\n\nSinn Féin, the SDLP, Alliance and the UUP all hit out at the decision. The NIO said health is a devolved matter.\n\nAbout 9,000 nurses are to strike for 12 hours on Wednesday from 08:00 GMT.\n\nThe five main Stormont party leaders have sent a letter to Julian Smith, which they said \"provides cover\" for him to intervene.\n\nThe Health and Social Care Board (HSCB) said the strikes pose a \"major challenge\".\n\nThe latest information on strike action and how it might affect patients can be found on the Health and Social Care Board website.\n\nRepresentatives from the five parties met with with the head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service, David Sterling, and Department of Health Permanent Secretary Richard Pengelly on Tuesday afternoon in a last-minute effort to avert the strike action.\n\nThe parties had hoped they could then meet with Mr Smith, but the Northern Ireland Office said health remained a devolved matter.\n\nSDLP deputy leader Nichola Mallon said she is \"angry\" Mr Smith did not meet the parties.\n\n\"On the eve of significant strike action in our health service by healthcare workers who have been left with no other choice, it is unacceptable that the secretary of state chose not to engage with parties this evening.\n\n\"What message does that send to healthcare staff?\" she asked.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill said the decision not to meet was \"regrettable\".\n\n\"The pay and staffing issue must not be used as a political football within the talks,\" she said.\n\n\"Party leaders restated there is consensus if the Executive is restored by 13 January that we will adopt a policy to award pay parity.\"\n\nThe letter to Julian Smith, signed by Arlene Foster, Michelle O'Neill, Naomi Long, Colum Eastwood and Steve Aiken, said there was \"collective support for the restoration of pay parity\".\n\n\"In our view this statement, making clear that any health and finance ministers in any future Northern Ireland Executive formed before 13 January 2020 would restore pay parity, provides cover for you as secretary of state to intervene to ensure that pay parity is restored independently of the ongoing talks to restore the Executive,\" the letter said.\n\nSteve Aiken, leader of the UUP, said: \"Here we had today an opportunity for both politicians here and for the secretary of state to do what was right.\"\n\nAlliance leader Naomi Long said: \"It is disappointing that on such an important issue, one that effects people in Northern Ireland directly and could have serious consequences tomorrow, he wasn't willing to actually come into the room and have the conversation with us this evening.\"\n\nNurses and other healthcare workers have been taking industrial action for several weeks amid complaints of poor pay and staffing levels.\n\nParamedics are set to take 24-hour strike action.\n\nA spokesperson for Health and Social Care Board (HSCB) said \"major challenges are expected across all health and social care services in Northern Ireland tomorrow\".\n\nThe HSCB announced that the South Tyrone Hospital Minor Injury Unit (MIU), Mid Ulster MIU, Bangor MIU and Ards MIU will all be closed on Wednesday.\n\nIt also advised that if patients or service users have not been contacted about their Trust then they should attend their appointment/ service as normal.\n\nAll emergency departments remain open, but \"significant pressure\" was expected within the departments.\n\n\"The priority will be on the treating emergency and life threatening conditions first. Patients with less urgent conditions may have to wait for lengthy periods,\" said the spokesperson.\n\nThere are just under 2,800 unfilled nursing posts within the health service in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing (RCN) estimates that a similar level of unfilled posts exists within nursing homes.\n\nThe nursing vacancy rate in NI is within 13%, compared with about 11% in England and about 6% in Scotland.\n\nThis means that for every eight nurses who should be working in Northern Ireland, one is missing.\n\nLast year, the local health service spent £52m on agency nurses to fill these gaps in the workforce.\n\nThat money, the RCN argues, could be better managed to train and pay health service nurses.\n\nThese are exceptional times which require an exceptional intervention.\n\nThe RCN says no time is a good time to strike but years of negotiations between various health ministers failed and years of warnings were ignored.\n\nKevin McAdam from the Unite union said the trade unions were \"working hard\" to ensure there was necessary staff cover.\n\n\"All of the local reps (of the trade unions) have been given authority to ensure that where critical care is required it is delivered,\" he added.\n\nTrade unions have said they are working to ensure there is necessary staff cover\n\nAnne Speed from Unison said joint meetings were taking place with employers on Tuesday and that it had provided an exemption from striking for staff working in \"cancer treatment and children's homes\".\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said it was working with management to ensure there is enough staff cover in \"critical departments\".\n\nThe heads of all of Northern Ireland's health trusts have stated the current crisis in the service has been \"years in the making\".\n\nThe latest information on strike action and how it might affect patients can be found on the Health and Social Care Board website.", "The majority of the victims come from Australia\n\nNew Zealand police have completed the identification of the 18 victims of the White Island volcano, more than a week after it erupted.\n\nThe names and nationalities of 17 people have been released, but one person who died in an Australian hospital was not publicly named.\n\nTwo of those named are still missing - presumed to be dead near the island.\n\nBut poor weather has forced police to postpone the search for them.\n\nThere were 47 people on the island when the eruption took place last Monday.\n\nAbout 20 people still remain in intensive care with severe burns, including 19-year-old Jesse Langford, the only member of his family who is thought to have survived.\n\nThe victims who died as a result of the incident range from 13 - 53 in age and hail mainly from Australia and the US, police said.\n\nThe two people who have been named missing - but are presumed dead - are:\n\nPolice say they are still searching for the remaining two and more search missions could be carried out later on Tuesday, subject to weather.\n\nOne man from White Island, also known by its Maori name Whakaari, told Radio New Zealand that conditions around the island made it hard for searches to be carried out.\n\n\"It's an extremely rough coast line around White Island, lots of rocky outcrops, inaccessible areas,\" Phil van Dusschoten said.\n\nAn investigation into the disaster has been opened, with New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern saying there were still \"questions to be asked and answered\".\n\nMs Ardern, along with her cabinet, led the country in a minute of silence on Monday in respect for the victims.", "Serie A has used images of monkeys in an anti-racism campaign less than three weeks after its clubs pledged to combat Italian football's \"serious problem\".\n\nThe 'No To Racism' posters show three monkeys with painted faces and will be shown at Serie A headquarters in Milan.\n\n\"Once again Italian football leaves the world speechless. It's difficult to see what Serie A was thinking,\" said anti-discriminatory body Fare.\n\nArtist Simone Fugazzotto, defended his creation, saying \"we are all monkeys\".\n\nFugazzotto, who always uses monkeys in his work, added: \"For an artist there is nothing more important than trying to change the perception of things through his own work.\n\n\"I decided to portray monkeys to talk about racism because they are the metaphor for human beings. Last year I was at the stadium to see Inter v Napoli [a match in which Napoli defender Kalidou Koulibaly was racially abused] and I felt humiliated, everyone was shouting 'monkey' at Koulibaly, a player I respect.\n\n\"I've always been painting monkeys for five to six years, so I thought I'd make this work to teach that we're all apes, I made the western monkey with blue and white eyes, the Asian monkey with almond-shaped eyes and the black monkey positioned in the centre, where everything comes from. The monkey becomes the spark to teach everyone that there is no difference, there is no man or monkey, we are all alike. If anything we are all monkeys.\"\n\nHowever, Fare said: \"In a country in which the authorities fail to deal with racism week after week, Serie A have launched a campaign that looks like a sick joke.\n\n\"These creations are an outrage; they will be counter-productive and continue the dehumanisation of people of African heritage.\n\n\"It is time for the progressive clubs in the league to make their voice heard.\"\n\nAnti-discrimination body Kick It Out added: \"Serie A's use of monkeys in their anti-racism campaign is completely inappropriate, undermines any positive intent and will be counter-productive.\n\n\"We hope that the league reviews and replaces their campaign graphics.\"\n\nIn November, Brescia's Mario Balotelli called fans who shouted racist abuse at him \"small-minded\" and \"imbeciles\".\n\nInter Milan's Romelu Lukaku said the abuse he suffered in September, when Cagliari fans made monkey noises after the Belgian scored a penalty against their team, showed the game was \"going backwards\".\n\nThe Sardinian club were later cleared of racist chanting, leading the head of anti-discriminatory body Fare to say that Italian football authorities and their disciplinary systems to combat racism were \"not fit for purpose\".\n\nEarlier this month Italian newspaper Corriere dello Sport was criticised for the headline 'Black Friday' alongside images of Roma defender Chris Smalling and Inter striker Lukaku prior to a match between the sides.\n\n\"Question for the league is how they can't see what a loaded and misguided collaboration this is for an anti-racism initiative,\" he said.\n\n\"If you wondered why a select group of Serie A clubs are taking anti-racism into their own hands, faith in the league is sub-zero.\"\n\nSerie A chief executive Luigi de Siervo said: \"The League's commitment against all forms of prejudice is strong and concrete, we know that racism is an endemic and very complex problem, which we will tackle on three different levels; the cultural one, through works like that of Simone; the sporting one, with a series of initiatives together with clubs and players, and the repressive one, thanks to collaboration with the police.\"", "Simon Hart only became a junior minister under Boris Johnson in July\n\nSimon Hart has been named the new Welsh secretary after Boris Johnson's election victory for the Conservatives.\n\nHe succeeds Alun Cairns, who resigned at the start of the campaign amid a row over what he knew about an aide's role in the collapse of a rape trial.\n\nThe Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire MP was previously a junior minister in the Cabinet Office.\n\nMonmouth MP David TC Davies has been made junior minister in the Wales Office and will be deputy to Mr Hart.\n\nMr Davies, the former chairman of the Welsh Affairs Committee, will also serve as an assistant government whip, No 10 confirmed on Monday evening.\n\nHe is the sixth person to hold the ministerial role in the past two years.\n\nMr Hart said: \"It's great to have this opportunity. I've got my orders and I'm going to try and do it as best I can.\"\n\nBoris Johnson led the Tories to their biggest election win in more than 30 years with a majority of 80, after pledging to \"get Brexit done\" by the end of January.\n\nThe Welsh secretary oversees relations between the Welsh Government and Whitehall departments.\n\nThe appointment was welcomed by Welsh Assembly Conservatives - Senedd party leader Paul Davies gave him his \"huge congratulations\".\n\nSouth Wales Central Assembly Member David Melding said it was an astute appointment \"which promises much for Wales as we begin a new political chapter\".\n\nDavid TC Davies has been made junior minister in the Wales Office\n\nWales' First Minister Mark Drakeford, from Welsh Labour, said he was \"pleased to see a new Secretary of State for Wales appointed so quickly\".\n\n\"I hope to meet soon to discuss Welsh Government priorities and ensure they are heard at the UK Government's cabinet table,\" he added.\n\nMr Hart came to Parliament in 2010 with a background in rural affairs as chief executive of the Countryside Alliance and a former master of the South Pembrokeshire Hunt.\n\nA chartered surveyor by profession, he served on the backbenches until July when Boris Johnson took power and appointed him as a junior minister at the Cabinet Office.\n\nHe backed Remain in the 2016 EU referendum, but later emerged as leader of the Brexit Delivery Group, made up of MPs from both sides of the argument who sought a pragmatic approach to Brexit.\n\nHe has also been prominent in calls for greater protection for candidates and activists, claiming abuse was driving people out of politics.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sian Tarrant will look after North Ronaldsay's historic sheep dyke\n\nA warden has been appointed to look after a historic dyke which keeps a rare breed of seaweed-eating sheep on the beach of an island in Orkney.\n\nSian Tarrant secured the job on North Ronaldsay after a search which prompted interest from around the world.\n\nHer job will be to maintain the 19th Century stone wall.\n\nIt used to be maintained by the community, but that has become more difficult due to recent weather damage and a falling population on the island.\n\nSian, 28, said the job was \"quite daunting\" because so much of the dyke was in an \"unfavourable state\".\n\nBut she said: \"There's such a long history linking the islanders with the dyke. I hope that I can continue the labour of love, and repair it.\"\n\nThe structure, which is 6ft high and 13 miles long, was erected in the 1800s using beach stones.\n\nIt encircles the entire island to keep the sheep on the rocky foreshore.\n\nThe sheep are seen as a vital part of the island's economy due to the popularity of North Ronaldsay mutton and their wool.\n\nNorth Ronaldsay sheep are an ancient breed which eat only seaweed for most of the year.\n\nIt is thought that they may originally have evolved to thrive on the diet due to the difficult winters and isolated location, which could have left them without grass for months on end.\n\nAs a result, they have adapted to absorb more of certain minerals, especially copper, from the seaweed.\n\nThe dyke was built in 1831 to preserve the island's inland pastures for other domestic animals.\n\nThis has prevented the sheep from mixing with other breeds, making them rare. They also feature on the Rare Breeds Survival Trust watchlist due to the low number of breeding females.\n\nThe sheep are only allowed inland during lambing season, which runs from May to August - but even then, some still stick to their seaweed-only diet.\n\nSian, who is originally from East Sussex, studied marine biology at St Andrews University and had been volunteering with the National Trust in North Devon.\n\n\"I wanted to find something outdoors because that's what I love doing, and I saw this come up,\" she told BBC Radio Orkney.\n\nSian said she had fallen in love with island life while working with seals in a number of places in Scotland, including the uninhabited Orkney island of Eynhallow.\n\nShe secured the job with an interview which took place over Skype while she was sitting in a car park in Snowdonia with her phone.\n\n\"It was really surreal. I don't know what the interview panel thought,\" she said.\n\nVolunteers come to work on the dyke during a sheep festival\n\nAlison Duncan from the North Ronaldsay Trust said Sian was \"very well suited to the job\".\n\nShe says the post, funded through the North Isles Landscape Partnership, will make \"a huge difference\" to maintaining the dyke.\n\n\"Pieces of it do come down every year, through weather or sea, and in the past there were many people around to build these places up again,\" she said.\n\n\"But in more recent years we've had bigger breaches of the dyke, and it's more difficult for just the folk on the island to build that up.\"\n\nThe community has tackled that problem by running an annual Sheep Festival, when volunteers come to work on the dyke.\n\nSian will work with the Sheep Festival, and said she also wanted to enlist people outside Orkney through things like volunteering and working holidays.", "Telecoms watchdog Ofcom is proposing a ban on the sale of locked handsets, to make it easier for consumers to switch between mobile phone networks.\n\nIt says BT/EE, Tesco Mobile and Vodafone are among providers that sell mobiles that cannot be used with alternative operators without being \"unlocked\".\n\nThis requires a code provided by the original network.\n\nAnd Ofcom says \"nearly half\" of customers find the process difficult.\n\nSome operators charge for the service. Tesco, for example, charges £10 to unlock a pay-as-you-go handset that is less than a year old.\n\nO2, Sky, Three and Virgin do not restrict customers to locked devices.\n\n\"By freeing mobile users from locked handsets, our plans would save people time, effort and money - and help them unlock a better deal,\" Ofcom consumer group director Lindsey Fussell said.\n\nOfcom is now running a consultation on the proposals.\n\nThree said it welcomed the plan and \"urged\" Ofcom to introduce it as soon as possible.\n\nThe watchdog also wants to make switching broadband provider easier, in line with new EU regulations.\n\nLast week consumer group Which? said customers could save £120 a year by making a change.", "Today has brought back the familiar sight of green benches as MPs return to the Commons for the first time since the election.\n\nThis morning Boris Johnson chaired his first cabinet meeting since the country went to the polls, and this afternoon he addressed the Commons - you can read what he said here. The remainder of the day has been spent swearing in MPs one-by-one, in a lengthy process that will run well into tomorrow.\n• For a full recap of the day, see this post.\n\nAll that, and we're still not even halfway through Parliament's first week back. Here's what's left to come:\n\nWednesday There'll be more swearing in. To recap, MPs are required to take an oath of allegiance to the Crown, or, if they object to this, a solemn affirmation. Two to three days are usually set aside for this. (Those who speak or vote without having done so are deprived of their seat \"as if they were dead\" under the Parliamentary Oaths Act of 1866.)\n\nThursday The state opening of Parliament. The Queen's Speech is the centrepiece of this, when she will read a speech written by ministers setting out the government's programme of legislation for the parliamentary session. A couple of hours after the speech is delivered, MPs will begin debating its contents - a process which usually takes days.\n\nFriday Depending on how rapidly Boris Johnson wants to move, the debate on the Queen's Speech could continue into Friday. The government will introduce the Withdrawal Agreement Bill to Parliament.\n\nMPs in the previous Parliament backed Mr Johnson's bill at its first stage but rejected his plan to fast-track the legislation through Parliament in three days.\n\nAfter the debate on the Queen's Speech is concluded, MPs will vote on whether to approve it. Not since 1924 has a Queen's Speech been defeated.\n\nThanks for joining us, see you again tomorrow.", "The number of Scots seeking work fell by 9,000 to 100,000 between August and October, according to official figures.\n\nThe jobless rate now stands at 3.7%, just below the UK figure of 3.8%.\n\nData from the Office for National Statistics also showed that the number of Scots in employment fell by 21,000, to 2,648,000.\n\nAt the same time, there was a rise of 30,000 in the number of people counted as unavailable for work, including the ill, students and unpaid carers.\n\nMeanwhile, UK-wide wage growth, excluding bonuses, slowed to 3.5% from 3.6% from July to September.\n\nScotland's Business Minister Jamie Hepburn said the Scottish labour market was resilient, despite uncertainty raised by Brexit.\n\nHe said: \"These statistics indicate that Brexit may be negatively impacting employment in Scotland.\n\n\"However, there are signs of resilience in our labour market and positive results for those out of work.\"\n\nScottish Secretary Alister Jack said: \"It is encouraging that Scotland's unemployment figures have fallen slightly, with the overall UK rate now at its lowest since 1974.\n\n\"However, I remain concerned that employment has also fallen in Scotland.\"\n\nThe job numbers vary from one quarter to another, but the broader picture, by historic standards, is that they look strong.\n\nHowever, they fail to tell us anything about the quality of jobs. There is now some help with that, highlighted in the latest commentary from the Fraser of Allander Institute.\n\nIt reports on new \"exploratory\" statistics which seek to measure the \"good jobs\" market. A good job is one where employees work 48 or fewer hours a week, without wishing to do more hours; the employee has either a permanent contract or a non-permanent contract out of choice; and pay is above two-thirds of median earnings.\n\nOne interesting finding, when the analysis is broken down to council areas, is that the more prosperous parts of Scotland are not the ones with the \"good jobs\". Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, South Ayrshire and Stirling have the lowest proportion of quality jobs.\n\nThe highest ranked include South Lanarkshire, Clackmannanshire, West Dunbartonshire and West Lothian. Why? The Strathclyde University economists say they'll get back to us on that.\n\nMy guess: the higher the share of manufacturing, the higher the share of quality employment. Those with insecure jobs seem more likely to be in cleaning and catering on the urban margins.\n\nGood news, meanwhile, for Scottish earnings. Growth is muted, but survey evidence suggests a turnaround for Scottish pay - growing at a faster rate than earnings across the whole UK.\n\nHowever, that is much clearer at the upper end of the earnings range, so it doesn't look so good for reducing income inequality.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Conned by My Church: Young worshippers left in debt\n\nAn evangelical church praised for helping ex-gang members has been accused of financially exploiting young people from its congregation.\n\nOne member of charity SPAC Nation said she was persuaded to commit benefit fraud by a trustee, while another said she had a £5,000 loan taken out in her name without her knowledge.\n\nA former senior insider told the BBC that the church \"has to be shut down\".\n\nThe church's leader, Pastor Tobi Adegboyega, ignored BBC Panorama's request for an interview\n\nKurtis, 23, was one of the church's trusted inner circle until his departure in January this year.\n\nHe appears in a BBC Panorama investigation into SPAC Nation, which is accused of leaving young people with debts of thousands of pounds.\n\n\"Certain leaders shouldn't be around youth, they shouldn't be around anywhere where people are vulnerable,\" he said.\n\nThe church's leader Pastor Tobi Adegboyega \"has to be held accountable\", Kurtis added.\n\nKurtis was one of the church's inner circle until his departure in January\n\nGracy was 21 when she joined SPAC in 2017. She told Panorama she was encouraged to apply for Universal Credit after her Pastor Ebo Dougan - who is also a trustee of the charity - noticed she had stopped giving money to the church.\n\nShe handed over her details to Pastor Dougan and someone filled out an online application form on her behalf. She then attended a meeting at the job centre.\n\nThe BBC has seen messages and documentation that confirm her version of events.\n\nGracy's online application shows that after she left the appointment someone changed her details to show that she had two children. This made her eligible for a £1,200 payment.\n\n\"Even sometimes when we know things are wrong, in that moment I'm just thinking like 'OK, my father figure would not tell me to do something bad',\" she said.\n\nGracy was told to pay £900 of the sum into two accounts. She kept the rest, but was later investigated by the Department for Work and Pensions, who fined her £600 and ordered her to repay the £1,200.\n\n\"I can't afford it obviously,\" she said. \"I feel heartbroken because I thought this was supposed to be a family.\"\n\nGracy said she was encouraged to apply for Universal Credit\n\nLovis was 18 when a loan was taken out in her name and without her knowledge, she said.\n\nShe was diagnosed with kidney cancer in November 2017.\n\nThe illness left her unable to continue working as an assistant sous chef and she began looking for a job with less demanding hours.\n\nShe was invited to an interview at a firm called Zuriel Recruitment. The agency was run by Tobi Adegboyega's second in command Samuel Akokhia, who has a conviction for attempted robbery.\n\nAt the interview Lovis provided Zuriel Recruitment with personal details including a photocopy of her passport, her home address, her mobile number and bank account details.\n\nAt the end of the process, her interviewer - a pastor at SPAC Nation - encouraged her to attend a service that week.\n\n\"It was a bit weird,\" she said. \"But at the end of the day it's church - so I didn't really think much of it.\"\n\nLovis started going to SPAC Nation services and several months later moved into a safe house - known as a \"TRAP house\" - run by Pastor Samuel Akokhia.\n\nIn March Lovis discovered a £5,000 four-year loan had been taken out in her name without her knowledge.\n\nThe money never reached her, instead being transferred to a company called E. R. Management Group. That company is run and owned by Emmanuel Akokhia, Samuel's brother.\n\nBBC Panorama has seen paperwork confirming the money trail. It is not known what happened to the money after it arrived in E. R. Management Group's account.\n\n\"They basically said the loan was for the greater good and they were going to use the money to buy a bigger TRAP house to accommodate more people,\" she said.\n\n\"And I was thinking 'that's all well and good - but why did I not know about it?'\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. SPAC Nation has been praised for helping people to leave gangs\n\nOn Friday the charities regulator revealed it had opened its own investigation into SPAC Nation's safeguarding and finances.\n\nThe Charity Commission also ordered SPAC Nation to \"bank its money\".\n\nThe Metropolitan Police is reviewing allegations of possible fraud and other offences before deciding whether to investigate further.\n\nSPAC Nation denies that the church's lead pastor Tobi Adegboyega is financially exploiting young people.\n\nIt said the church had a \"robust complaints procedure\" and \"a well run disciplinary system\".\n\nSPAC Nation told the BBC that the church \"is not responsible what goes on inside individual leaders' or members' houses\".\n\nTobi Adegboyega ignored BBC Panorama's request for an interview.\n\nWatch the full investigation on Panorama at 19:30 GMT or afterwards on BBC iPlayer.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Campaigners have criticised prosecutors over the failure to charge many rape cases\n\nRape prosecutions are being delayed for years in a justice system close to \"breaking point\", says a report into record-low conviction rates.\n\nA \"damning\" number of cases are lost amid \"under-resourced\" investigations, the prosecution inspectorate said.\n\nThe government said the findings were \"deeply concerning\". Women's groups said the review failed to explain \"woeful\" conviction rates.\n\nBut the report rejected claims that prosecutors only charge \"easy\" cases.\n\nBut Sarah Green, a campaigner from End Violence Against Women Coalition, said the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) was increasingly risk-averse and its handling of cases was causing unnecessary delays.\n\nShe highlighted a recent rape case in Liverpool case where the CPS delayed a prosecution for more than six month while they requested a victim's school records.\n\n\"They asked for those school records in a case where a woman was unconscious when she was raped, when there was a recording of part of the rape by her friends and where there was forensic evidence. And there was indeed a conviction,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nThe presiding judge on the case expressed concern about the amount of time between the attack and charges being laid, the Liverpool Echo reported.\n\nThe report, published by HM Crown Prosecution Inspectorate, found an average of 237 days elapsed between the first report of an offence to police and the police's first submission of the file to the CPS.\n\nIncomplete police files caused further delays and the CPS is currently not meeting its own time targets to make decisions, the Inspectorate said.\n\nFigures published earlier this year showed there were a record 58,657 allegations of rape in the year up to March, but only 1,925 successful prosecutions.\n\nIt is the lowest number in England and Wales since records began in 2008.\n\nBut the report said fewer rape cases are being referred by police to prosecutors - a fall of 23%.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Annie Tisshaw spoke about her experience earlier this year\n\nSeveral women who say they were raped have waived their anonymity to complain about the charging decisions made by crown prosecutors.\n\nAnnie Tisshaw told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme that the police investigation into her case took many months and, after being passed to the CPS, requests for further evidence led to it being dropped altogether.\n\nThe former North West chief prosecutor Nazir Afzal said it seemed as though Ms Tisshaw was the subject of the investigation rather than the alleged perpetrator.\n\n\"Resources are really, really poor. We are at breaking point,\" he added.\n\n\"We're beyond breaking point, actually, I think. We've got to the stage where cases are not being prosecuted with any speed.\"\n\nPolice and prosecutors were criticised over their handling of a case in 2017 when a student was acquitted on 12 counts of rape and sexual assault because text messages which undermined the complainant had not been disclosed.\n\nThe inspectors said cases have become more complex due to the volume of evidence from mobile phones and social media, placing more pressure on an overstretched system.\n\nChief inspector Kevin McGinty said the justice system as a whole is \"under-resourced so that it is close to breaking point\". For police, he said \"it may have gone beyond that\" and \"the number of rape allegations lost in the investigative process is damning\".\n\nTo address claims that the CPS was being too selective about the cases it prosecutes, inspectors examined a sample 250 cases.\n\nIn five of these (2%), the decision was found to be \"wholly unreasonable\". In 2016, the inspectors found that applied to 10% of decisions.\n\nThe inspectors said that this suggested prosecutors were improving the way they apply the test for charging or releasing suspects, rather than selecting \"easy cases\".\n\nA government spokesperson said the findings were \"deeply concerning\" and that \"victims deserve to know they will be supported\".\n\nThe government has promised more police officers, an extra £85m for the Crown Prosecution Service and longer prison sentences for sex offenders.\n\n\"Clearly there is more to do, but this government is committed to restoring confidence in the justice system and providing better support for victims,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) said investigators were \"under huge strain\" and rape is \"one of the most complex crimes\" they deal with.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Sarah Crew, the NPCC lead for adult sexual offences and rape, said police were working with prosecutors to address these issues, while the government's promised 20,000 additional police officers would \"ease the pressure\".\n\nAnd crown chief prosecutor Siobhan Blake, a CPS lead for sexual offences, told the BBC that the report demonstrates there is \"no evidence that prosecutors are risk averse or that we at the CPS are choosing to prosecute easy cases\".\n\nSome women's campaigners disagree. Sarah Green said the report was \"profoundly disappointing\" and failed to uncover the real reasons for the decline in successful prosecutions.\n\nThe report left \"many questions at the police front door\" she said.\n\nIn particular she pointed to the number of cases which the CPS had decided to prosecute, which had declined faster than the number of cases referred by police to prosecutors.", "Sales discounts on clothing and products in the lead up to Christmas could be the biggest in almost ten years, according to one consultancy.\n\nDeloitte, which has monitored the prices of 800,000 products online and in shops since 2011, expects average discounts to hit 50% by Christmas Eve.\n\nIts forecast came as data provider Springboard said shopper numbers were lower than the same time last year.\n\nThe firm said shoppers were waiting for deeper discounts before buying.\n\n\"Consumers clearly took advantage of early discounts to purchase Christmas presents, and are now waiting for discounts to deepen once again in the days immediately before Christmas as retailers do their best to shift unsold stock,\" said Diane Wehrle, insights director at Springboard.\n\nDeloitte said current discounts ranged from 8% to 78% with the biggest discounts on clothing, but said the coming weekend - the last before Christmas - could see \"a tipping point in promotions\".\n\nThe consultancy said the price cuts had been driven by UK shops discounting earlier in the season due to Black Friday - the day after the American holiday of Thanksgiving, when retailers drop their prices for 24 hours. The tradition has increasingly been adopted by UK retailers too.\n\nDeloitte said this had created a long run-up for pre-Christmas discounting, with prices falling steadily in the lead up to Christmas Day.\n\n\"Consumers have come to expect an increasing amount of pre-Christmas discounting. The result is a blending of promotions, one seeping into the next, and a steady price decline rather than a steep Boxing Day drop, reminiscent of Christmases past,\" said Jason Gordon, consumer analytics partner at Deloitte.\n\nPost Christmas, Deloitte is expecting deeper discounts, with average reductions of up to 54% on Boxing Day.\n\nRetail expert Natalie Berg said the current retail environment is worrying: \"This is the most important time of the year for retailers, and this is a sign of distress.\"\n\nShe added that retailers have become worried and started discounting earlier due to consumers buying less, and once a few big brands start discounting, it is difficult for the rest of the High Street not to join in.\n\n\"It's a combination of pent-up demand and the late timing of Black Friday being on 29 November, not 23 November,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"Generally, there's been a lot of political and economic uncertainty this year so consumers have been quite cautious about spending. That pent-up demand has been released at Christmas, when you spend, but consumers have cottoned on to the fact that there will be pre-Christmas discounts now.\"\n\nBut consumers might not even have to wait for the Boxing Day sales. Deloitte predicts that many Boxing Day discounts could go live online on Christmas Day itself, and on Christmas Eve in bricks and mortar shops.\n\n\"The operational challenges that sales present in-store mean some retailers could be offering Boxing Day sale prices on Christmas Eve, for those willing to hit the shops early,\" says Mr Gordon.\n\nWhen's the best time to get a bargain? What's the best bargain you've ever purchased? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "US aviation regulators allowed Boeing's 737 Max aircraft to continue flying despite knowing there was a risk of further crashes.\n\nAnalysis after the first crash last year predicted there could be up to 15 disasters over the lifetime of the aircraft without design changes.\n\nDespite this, the Federal Aviation Administration did not ground the Max until a second crash five months later.\n\nFAA chief Steve Dickson, who started in August, said this was a mistake.\n\nThe FAA risk assessment was revealed during a US congressional hearing on Wednesday. Lawmakers are investigating Boeing following fatal 737 Max crashes in Indonesia in October 2018, and Ethiopia in March. The disasters killed 346 people in total.\n\nAir safety officials investigating the crashes have identified an automated control system in the 737 Max 8, known as MCAS, as a factor in both accidents.\n\nBoeing has said the system, which relied on a single sensor, received erroneous data, which led it to override pilot commands and push the aircraft downwards.\n\nThe FAA's investigation of the October Indonesia crash called for Boeing to redesign its system, warning of a risk of more than a dozen crashes over the 45-year lifetime of the roughly 4,800 737 Max planes in service.\n\nRegulators also issued an alert to airlines, but the agency did not ground the aircraft until after the 10 March Ethiopia crash, several days after action by other countries.\n\n\"Obviously the result was not satisfactory,\" said Mr Dickson. In response to later questions, he admitted the agency had made a mistake at some point in the process.\n\nBoeing is revising the MCAS software, but lawmakers say their investigation has shown that the aircraft manufacturer was aware of flaws in the system.\n\nBoeing staff have also raised concerns that the company was prioritising speed over safety at the factory that produced Max 737s, contributing to the crashes.\n\nEd Pierson, a former senior manager at the factory, told Congress he repeatedly warned Boeing's leadership of the safety risks caused by what he described as a \"factory in chaos\", but it had little effect.\n\nHe also said that, after the crashes, US government regulators have shown little interest in his concerns.\n\n\"I remain gravely concerned that... the flying public will remain at risk unless this unstable production environment is rigorously investigated and closely monitored by regulators on an ongoing basis,\" he said in prepared testimony.\n\nMr Dickson said the FAA is probing production issues. He also said he is considering further actions against Boeing.\n\nIn a statement, Boeing said Mr Pierson's own account showed the company took his concerns seriously.\n\n\"Company executives and senior leaders on the 737 programme were made aware of Mr Pierson's concerns, discussed them in detail, and took appropriate steps to assess them,\" it said.", "Admiral Tony Radakin officially replaced Sir Phillip Jones as head of the Royal Navy in June\n\nIran's threat to British shipping in the Gulf \"hasn't gone away\", the head of the Royal Navy has told the BBC.\n\nIn July, Iran's Revolutionary Guard seized British-flagged tanker the Stena Impero in the Straits of Hormuz.\n\nAdmiral Tony Radakin - giving his first interview since becoming First Sea Lord in June - described it as \"aggressive\" and \"outrageous\".\n\nHe said that the UK wanted to \"de-escalate\" tensions with Iran following the release of the Stena Impero.\n\nBut for now, he added, the navy would maintain a heightened military presence in the Gulf.\n\nAt the time of the seizure, the UK had one frigate - HMS Montrose - stationed in the region. She has since been joined by the destroyer HMS Defender.\n\nOn a visit to the region, Adm Radakin said: \"We have to react to when a nation is as aggressive as Iran was.\n\n\"It was an outrageous act that happened on the high seas and that's why we have responded the way that we have.\"\n\nThe Stena Impero was released two months after it was seized by Iran for allegedly breaking maritime rules\n\nMore controversially, Adm Radakin also made clear that the UK would continue to work with a US-led coalition, known as \"Operation Sentinel\", to provide maritime security in the Gulf, rather than join a rival European operation being set up by France.\n\nWhile he welcomed the French initiative, he said there were \"very simple practical reasons\" for the UK to remain part of the US-led operation, including existing strong military ties.\n\nHe added that the UK had \"been very clear\" it did not support the Trump administration's policy of maximum pressure on Iran.\n\nThe Gulf isn't the only region where the Royal Navy is looking to have a more permanent presence. Adm Radakin said he was also discussing plans to station ships in the Caribbean and in the Asia Pacific region.\n\nHowever, he suggested his greatest challenge was in the North Atlantic, where he said Russian underwater activity was at a 30-year high.\n\nThat could be a potential threat to Britain's nuclear armed submarines - which must operate undetected. He admitted that the job was becoming harder with Russia's own investment in quieter submarines.\n\nAdm Radakin was joined by the Duchess of Cornwall at a ceremony for the HMS Prince of Wales\n\nThe First Sea Lord has set himself the ambitious goal of transforming the Royal Navy to meet new threats, including \"from space and cyber\", which would mean investing in new technologies.\n\nHe said his hope was that the new government would soon conduct a comprehensive defence review to properly assess the threats.\n\n\"That may mean we have to adjust the shape and size of the armed forces to enable that new investment, or it might mean we need to invest more,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why does the Strait of Hormuz matter?", "Rhodri Jones: \"I do think it's important for young people to develop their character\"\n\nThe pressure of trying to become a professional footballer can come at a high price, a former player has said.\n\nRhodri Jones, 38, said injury, leaving home and self-imposed pressure began to take a toll after he signed a youth contract with Manchester United at 14.\n\nThe association which supports players said it has seen a rise in requests for help for mental health support in 2019.\n\n\"Despite the injury I would argue the psychological effect was more serious,\" said Mr Jones, from Cardiff.\n\nHe moved to Manchester as a trainee, leaving his school, friends and family, which he said was a \"hard time\".\n\n\"Who could I tell that I was worried about moving because everyone was saying... 'you're going to play for Manchester United',\" he told Newyddion 9.\n\n\"The pressure came from myself. That voice that says 'don't let anyone down, you have to succeed'.\"\n\nWhen he was 20 and playing for the reserve team, he was called to a meeting with then-manager Sir Alex Ferguson to be told he would be released from his contract.\n\n\"When you hear the words from Sir Alex Ferguson, someone you've admired since you were small, saying 'sorry son, we won't be renewing your contract', the fall is much greater,\" he said.\n\nHe then moved to Rotherham but became increasingly unhappy and was eventually diagnosed with depression.\n\n\"The pitch was like a prison,\" he said.\n\n\"I was on the pitch playing for Rotherham reserves just thinking 'I don't want to be here'. You just start building this prison for yourself.\"\n\nThe Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) said there had been an increase in the number of people requesting mental health support this year.\n\nIn 2016, 160 people received counselling sessions, but between January and September 2019 the number seeking help rose to 544, with more than half being former players, it said.\n\nMr Jones moved to Manchester to pursue a professional career when he was 14\n\nDr Carwyn Jones, professor of sport ethics at Cardiff Metropolitan University, said the industry was \"competitive and no-one wants to show any weakness\".\n\n\"There are a lot of factors that go into the problem and also maybe make it difficult for players to ask for help,\" he said.\n\nBrian Davies, chief executive of Sport Wales, added: \"We want to do more research. If there was an increase in investment I'm sure we would put much more money aside for things like this.\"\n\nDespite not playing football any more, Mr Jones thinks young people who aspire to become professionals should think seriously about the career.\n\n\"I had committed so much of myself to football that when the fall came it was much harder,\" he said.\n\n\"I do think it's important for young people to develop their character.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Artisanal mining is common in DR Congo as people do it as a means to make a living\n\nApple, Google, Tesla and Microsoft are among firms named in a lawsuit seeking damages over deaths and injuries of child miners in the Democratic Republic of Congo.\n\nThe case has been filed by the International Rights Advocates on behalf of 14 Congolese families.\n\nThey accuse the companies of knowing that cobalt used in their products could be linked to child labour.\n\nDR Congo produces 60% of the world's supply of cobalt.\n\nThe mineral is used to produce lithium-ion batteries used to power electric cars, laptops and smartphones.\n\nHowever, the extraction process has been beset with concerns of illegal mining, human rights abuses and corruption.\n\nThe lawsuit filed in the US argues that the tech companies had \"specific knowledge\" that the cobalt sourced for their products could be linked to child labour.\n\nThey say the companies failed to regulate their supply chains and instead profited from exploitation.\n\nDR Congo produces more than 60% of the world's cobalt\n\nOther companies listed in the lawsuit are computer manufacturer Dell and two mining companies, Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt and Glencore, who own the minefields where the Congolese families allege their children worked.\n\nGlencore said in a statement to the UK's Telegraph newspaper that it \"does not purchase, process or trade any artisanally mined ore\" adding that it also \"does not tolerate any form of child, forced, or compulsory labour.\"\n\nThe BBC has sought comment from Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why are people in mineral-rich DR Congo among the world's poorest?\n\nThe court papers, seen by the UK's Guardian newspaper, give several examples of child miners buried alive or suffering from injuries after tunnel collapse.\n\nThe 14 Congolese families want the companies to compensate them for forced labour, emotional distress and negligent supervision.\n\nIn a response to the Telegraph, Microsoft said it was committed to responsible sourcing of minerals and that it investigates any violations by its suppliers and takes action.\n\nA spokesperson for Google told the BBC that the company was \"committed to sourcing all materials ethically and eliminating child mining in global supply chains\".\n\nAn Apple spokesperson said the company was \"deeply committed to the responsible sourcing of materials\" and \"if a refiner is unable or unwilling to meet our standards, they will be removed from our supply chain. We've removed six cobalt refiners in 2019\".\n\nThe BBC has also sought comment from Tesla.\n\nUpdate 18 December: This article has been amended to include the comments from Google and Apple.", "The stickers appeared throughout Perth city centre at the weekend\n\nScotland's deputy first minister has condemned the appearance of stickers bearing the slogan \"It's okay to be white\" in Perth city centre.\n\nThe stickers were posted on lampposts and drainpipes throughout the city at the weekend.\n\nJohn Swinney, who is also MSP for Perthshire North, said the \"atrocious\" stickers had \"no place in Perth or any other part of our country.\"\n\nPolice Scotland said it was \"currently looking into the matter.\"\n\nPosting on Twitter, Mr Swinney said: \"We must stand together to resist this unacceptable material.\"\n\nStickers bearing the same slogan appeared in Dundee in September.\n\nThe message originally appeared as a 2017 poster campaign in the US organised by an internet message board, with the aim of provoking reactions.\n\nIt was later picked up and spread by neo-Nazi groups.\n\nLocal group Perth Against Racism said it has been contacted by local people who said the appearance of the stickers had made them feel unsafe.\n\nOne person told the group: \"I am certainly worried now for my daughters who are not white but are from Perth.\n\n\"It's sickening and disgusting to know that people think like this.\"\n\nA Police Scotland spokeswoman said: \"Although no complaint has been made to police regarding these posters, they have been brought to our attention and officers are currently looking into the matter.\"", "John Worboys was jailed in 2009 for a string of sex attacks on women in his taxi\n\nBlack cab rapist John Worboys has been handed two life sentences with a minimum term of six years for attacking four more women.\n\nThe 62-year-old, who is now known as John Radford, was jailed in 2009 for assaults on 12 women in London.\n\nThe four victims came forward after a public outcry caused by a Parole Board ruling that he was safe to be freed.\n\nSentencing Worboys, Mrs Justice McGowan said she did not know when \"if ever you will cease to be a risk\".\n\nIn 2009, Worboys was locked up indefinitely for the public's protection with a minimum term of eight years after being found guilty of 19 sex offences against 12 women between 2006 and 2008.\n\nIn January 2018, the Parole Board said Worboys would be freed after serving 10 years but victims challenged the decision.\n\nThat decision was later overturned by the High Court, leading to a review of the decision where the Parole Board decided Worboys must remain in jail.\n\nAmong the reasons given for refusing Worboys parole were his \"sense of sexual entitlement\" and a need to control women.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Becki Houlston told the BBC that Worboys drugged her in Bournemouth\n\nProsecutor Duncan Penny QC told the Old Bailey that psychiatrist Philip Joseph found Worboys had been \"fantasising\" about attacking women since 1986.\n\nA probation report in August this year found \"he is potentially just as dangerous now as the point of the first sentence\".\n\nAfter the four women came forward, Worboys, of Enfield, admitted two charges of administering a drug with intent to commit rape or indecent assault.\n\nHe also pleaded guilty to two further charges of administering a substance with intent to commit a sexual offence.\n\nMr Penny said the first victim was targeted in 2000 or early 2001 after a night out at a wine bar in Dover Street in Soho.\n\nThe second victim, a university student living in north London, was picked up after a night out with friends at a club on New Oxford Street in 2003.\n\nWorboys' third victim was picked up after a night out on King's Road in 2007 where he told her he had won £40,000 at a casino and offered her champagne.\n\nWorboys would win victims' trust before pouring them a glass of drug-laced alcohol\n\nThe court heard Worboys told the fourth victim he had won the lottery and offered her and her friend miniature bottles of champagne.\n\nMr Penny said: \"She woke up in bed the following morning. The bedclothes had not moved and her hands were crossed over her chest, which was unusual.\n\n\"She was sufficiently unnerved to check herself. There were no visible signs she had been touched.\"\n\nMr Penny told the court: \"The consistent themes throughout, together with the content of what took place, seems to be the profound effect not knowing what happened has had in each of these women throughout their lives, as a result of having been unfortunate enough to get into the defendant's black cab.\"\n\nIf an offender tells lies, does that increase their risk to the public? That's the key issue at the heart of this case.\n\nJohn Worboys lied to psychologists before his parole hearing in 2017, giving a carefully-crafted account that tallied only with the crimes he'd been convicted of.\n\nHe was assessed as safe to be released from prison. But, when more victims came forward Worboys changed his story.\n\nDespite this Dr Jackie Craissati, an experienced clinical forensic psychologist, told the court she believes Worboys poses a low risk of sexual reoffending.\n\nShe says she doesn't expect offenders to give \"truthful and full\" accounts of their behaviour when assessing how dangerous they are.\n\nThe judge clearly did not agree, and many others may baulk at the idea that someone who can't be trusted to tell the truth about their crimes can nevertheless be trusted in the community.\n\nThe black cab used by Worboys in his attacks\n\nPolice believe Worboys may have carried out more than 100 rapes and sexual assaults on women in London.\n\nBecki Houlston, who has waived her right to anonymity, said Worboys drugged her in Bournemouth.\n\n\"He was pretty pre-meditated from the get-go, and I was a woman on my own,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"He is highly manipulative and relentless. It becomes easier to just accept a drink to shut him up.\"\n\nIn Ms Houlston's case, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said there was not enough evidence to prosecute.\n\nReacting to the sentencing, the CPS's Tina Dempster said: \"John Worboys is a dangerous predator who still poses a clear threat to women.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "James Le Mesurier received an OBE for his work with White Helmet volunteers in Syria\n\nA British ex-soldier who helped found Syria's White Helmets volunteer group died as a result of a fall, Turkish forensic experts have concluded.\n\nJames Le Mesurier was found dead on a street below a window of his flat in Istanbul's Beyoglu area on 11 November\n\nA post-mortem examination found the cause of death was \"general body trauma linked to a fall from height\", state broadcaster TRT said on Monday.\n\nNo DNA belonging to another person was found, it added.\n\nThe private news channel NTV meanwhile said a toxicology report showed Le Mesurier, 48, had taken sleeping pills.\n\nJames Le Mesurier was found dead on a street in Istanbul, outside his home\n\nLast week, the state-run Anadolu news agency said Le Mesurier's Swedish wife, Emma Winberg, had told police that he contemplated suicide in the days before his death and had started taking medication for a \"stress disorder\".\n\nShe said that on the night of his death Le Mesurier had taken a sleeping pill at 02:00, Anadolu cited a police statement as saying.\n\nHe awoke when she went to bed about two-and-a-half hours later and asked her if she wanted a sleeping pill as well, it added.\n\nMs Winberg reportedly said she woke up between 05:30 and 06:00, when the police knocked on the door of their flat. She then saw her husband's body.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. After the bombs go off in Syria, the White Helmets go in\n\nMr Le Mesurier was widely considered a founder of the White Helmets.\n\nThe organisation, which is also known as the Syria Civil Defence, helps rescue civilians caught up in attacks in areas of Syria controlled by the opposition to President Bashar al-Assad.\n\nIn 2016, the White Helmets received the Right Livelihood Award in recognition for \"outstanding bravery, compassion and humanitarian engagement in rescuing civilians\". Later the same year the group was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.\n\nBut the Syrian government and its allies Russia and Iran have accused the White Helmets of aiding terrorist groups - something the organisation has denied.\n\nA week before he died, the Russian foreign ministry accused Le Mesurier of being a former agent of the UK's Secret Intelligence Service, better known as MI6. The UK's ambassador to the UN said the claim was \"categorically untrue\".\n\nLe Mesurier received an OBE from the Queen in 2016 for \"services to the Syria Civil Defence group and the protection of civilians in Syria\".", "The gap between men and women, measured in terms of political influence, economic gain and health and education, has narrowed over the last year, but will take another century to disappear, the World Economic Forum (WEF) said.\n\nIn the WEF's latest report the UK has slipped from 15th to 21st place.\n\nIt said that while more women were entering government in many places, the economic gap has widened.\n\nThe WEF predicted it would take 99.5 years for women to be on an equal footing with men, despite women taking high-profile leadership roles at the European Central Bank and the World Bank, and at the head of several countries including Finland, Germany and New Zealand.\n\nProgress in the political sphere remained slow, the WEF said, with women still holding only 21% of ministerial positions worldwide. But it hoped the \"role model effect\" would encourage faster change.\n\nThe organisation said the economic gender gap had grown compared to last year, partly because women are under-represented in almost all of the fastest-growing job sectors, such as cloud computing and AI. Women are more likely to be displaced by automation, it added.\n\nBritain's new ranking leaves it behind a few developing countries and most rich ones, although it is ahead of the United States.\n\nThe WEF said the fall in 2019 in the UK's position partly reflected a decline in the number of women in ministerial positions.\n\nBut the UK also has a persistent economic gender gap, putting the country at 58th in the rankings, due to big differences between men and women's earned income. In the UK men dominate sectors such as AI, engineering and computing and many more women than men work part-time.\n\nThere are several specific areas where Britain is in joint first place, including literacy, enrolment in tertiary education and the proportion of professional and technical workers who are women, WEF found.\n\nFinland's new government, led by prime minister Sanna Marin (centre), could provide role models\n\nIceland came in top place in the world ranking in 2019 as it did last year. Bottom of the list were Pakistan, Iraq and Yemen.\n\nLast year the WEF's report suggested it would take 108 years to close the inequality gap.\n\nKlaus Schwab, founder of WEF, said the report highlighted the growing urgency for action.\n\n\"At the present rate of change, it will take nearly a century to achieve parity, a timeline we simply cannot accept in today's globalised world, especially among younger generations who hold increasingly progressive views of gender equality,\" he said.", "Cross-border rail service passengers have criticised its operator over not being able to refill reusable cups.\n\nIrish Rail, which jointly operates the Belfast to Dublin Enterprise service with NI's Translink, said the policy was due to concerns over scalding.\n\nA spokesperson for the service said staff and customer health and safety was a \"top priority\".\n\nThe company is trialling its own reusable cup which is compatible with its on-board catering trolley.\n\nA spokeswoman for Irish Rail told BBC News NI it was a \"bespoke cup that is designed to fit under the spout of the trolley and the lids have been tested for safety purposes\".\n\nShe said there were safety concerns with recyclable cups that customers bring onto the train, as they do not correctly fit underneath the nozzle of the hot drinks machine.\n\nThe company said concerns over the speed of the train was also a concern.\n\nThe story, which was first reported by the Irish Times, has seen Irish Rail's social media inundated with queries about the policy.\n\nIt also applies to Irish Rail inter city trains in the Republic of Ireland.\n\nThe company stated it was not banning the use of reusable cups customers brought on board, but would not refill them using its own machines.\n\nResponding, Dublin City Council Green Party councillor Hazel Chu said it was a de-facto ban.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Hazel Chu This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Realistically you're preventing them from using it for the purpose which they brought it on board for which in effect is banning their usage,\" she said.\n\nPreviously, customers said Irish Rail staff had used disposable cups to transfer drinks into a reusable cup.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Isabel This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe company has also faced criticism on social media for not recycling cups which have been designed for recycling.\n\nAfter saying its cups were 100% recyclable, the company was asked whether it was currently recycling the cups, and stated \"we are ready for when recycling becomes available\".\n\nIt clarified the cups are not currently recyclable in Ireland, but it was \"ready for when they are\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Iarnród Éireann This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOne social media user wrote: \"Recyclable material that cannot be recycled in Ireland, you may as well just make it out of plastic, that's how useful that is.\"\n\nIrish Rail confirmed to BBC News NI the cups are currently put into non-recyclable waste.\n\nThe reusable cup being sold on the Enterprise service costs £2.50/€3.00, which covers the cost of the drink purchased, and allows customers to receive a 10% discount for reusing their cup.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Edita Butkeviciute: \"When I woke up the second time I saw the sofa just in front of me - a burgundy, three-seater leather sofa.\"\n\nA woman left seriously injured by a sofa which fell from a building has said she is \"glad to be alive\".\n\nEdita Butkeviciute, 30, has been in hospital with injuries to her spine, legs and lungs since the incident in Aberdeen city centre on 7 December.\n\nShe said she faces three months more in hospital as \"everything is broken inside me\".\n\nTwo men, aged 26 and 31, have been charged after the sofa was allegedly thrown from a building.\n\nMs Butkeviciute, from Lithuania, had stepped outside at the rear of her work to speak to her boyfriend Daniel Ferreira on the phone when the sofa fell.\n\nShe said: \"I remember just waking up, I screamed really loud for help and started feeling cold. I couldn't move.\"\n\nShe said she was probably unconscious for some time.\n\nThe incident happened at the rear of a building\n\n\"When I woke up the second time I saw the sofa just in front of me - a burgundy, three-seater leather sofa,\" she added. \"I didn't know that had come on top of me.\"\n\nMs Butkeviciute said she then heard police and ambulance crews.\n\nHer colleagues put warm covers over her, as she had started getting \"really, really cold\".\n\nShe recalled: \"All the way to hospital I was asking if I was going to be paralysed. I was telling them 'please call my boyfriend'.\n\n\"I remember being in a lot of pain, a lot of x-rays. Everything is broken inside me. I have a lot of broken parts.\"\n\nShe said: \"It's like little simple stuff I cannot do now - I will be in here for three months until I fully recover. Thankfully I am not paralysed.\n\n\"The doctor said 'you are so lucky'. I am very lucky, I will still be able to live my life as normal. I am alive.\"\n\nEdita said she is now looking to the future\n\nAsked about spending Christmas in hospital, she joked: \"I don't really care - my boyfriend said he will come and sing me Jingle Bells.\n\n\"I am very glad I am alive. I am very lucky to be alive.\"\n\nShe has now been moved to Woodend Hospital from Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.\n\nSpeaking about the coming months, she said: \"I know it will be hard but I am staying positive. I am very very positive, stubborn. I will try my best.\n\n\"I know I will be able to walk again.\"\n\nA report on the case has been submitted to the procurator fiscal.", "Last updated on .From the section Darts\n\nFallon Sherrock became the first woman to win a match at the PDC World Championship by coming back from behind to stun Ted Evetts 3-2 in London.\n\nThe 25-year-old from Milton Keynes - only the fifth woman to play in the event - was cheered throughout a superb contest at Alexandra Palace.\n\nSherrock, the BDO Women's World Championship runner-up in 2015, fell 2-1 behind but rallied to make history.\n\n\"I have proved that we can play the men and can beat them,\" she said.\n\nSherrock ended the night in joyful tears after a thrilling victory over 22-year-old world number 77 Evetts, also from England.\n\nShe had secured one of two places for female players in the 96-strong field. The other qualifier - Japan's Mikuru Suzuki - took Englishman James Richardson to a deciding leg before losing 3-2 on Sunday.\n• None I can use crowd to my advantage - Sherrock\n\nCanadian Gayl King - in 2000 - was the first woman to play at the PDC World Championship, with Anastasia Dobromyslova of Russia (2009 and 2019) and England's Lisa Ashton (2019) also featuring prior to this year's event.\n\nAfter her victory, Sherrock was serenaded with the chant \"we love you Sherrock, we do\" by fans and was the top trend on social media. She faces Austrian Mensur Suljovic in the second round.\n\n\"I am speechless,\" she said. \"I don't know what to say. Thank you every one. I feel really happy because I have made something for women's darts.\n\n\"I can't believe it. To do that on the biggest stage, wow. I am so happy that I can continue it rather than go out.\n\n\"This is definitely one of the best moments I've had. I'm just so happy. I've just made history. I can't believe it. I've made a great achievement for women's darts.\"\n\nSherrock, having won a leg with 106 checkout, left herself on 80 for the first set - but did not manage to leave herself a shot at a double with her final dart, allowing Evetts to take a 1-0 lead.\n\nWith the throw, she started the second set with a 13-dart leg, was on a nine-dart finish with six perfect throws but missed the seventh before taking the set with a cool 80 finish.\n\nIn the third set, Sherrock punished Evetts' miss at double eight to break twice, but a missed dart at double eight and three more at double four proved extremely costly, as Evetts took the next two legs to go 2-1 up.\n\nBut she forced a decider and broke Evetts in the final set and held her throw to go 2-0 up, and though Evetts pulled a leg back, Sherrock coolly finished off the contest with double 18.", "Russia's third-largest internet company is suing streaming service Twitch for 180bn roubles (£2.1bn) over pirate broadcasts of English Premier League games.\n\nRambler Group alleges its exclusive broadcasting rights were breached by the service more than 36,000 times between August and November.\n\nIt is seeking to permanently ban the Amazon-owned platform in Russia.\n\nRussia is the third-largest user of Twitch, which has more than 15 million daily active users worldwide.\n\nIts terms and conditions state users cannot share content without permission from the copyright owners, including films, television programmes and sports matches.\n\nThe streaming giant's lawyer, Julianna Tabastaeva, told Russian-language news website Kommersant Twitch \"only provides users with access to the platform and is unable to change the content posted by users, or track possible violations\".\n\nShe added the company took \"all necessary measures to eliminate the violations, despite not receiving any official notification from Rambler\".\n\nThe Moscow City Court will hear the case on 20 December.\n\nIt has ordered a temporary suspension of English Premier League streams on Twitch pending the outcome.\n\n\"Our suit against Twitch is to defend our exclusive rights to broadcast English Premier League matches and we will continue to actively combat pirate broadcasts,\" said Mikhail Gershkovich, head of Rambler Group's sports project, in a statement.\n\nRambler bought exclusive digital distribution rights for the English Premier League in 2019, for three seasons.\n\nIt is holding talks with Twitch in the hope of reaching a settlement agreement.\n\nAmazon holds the exclusive rights to a number of Premier League matches in the UK over the next three years.\n\nThe company bought Twitch for $970m (£585m) in 2014.", "They have made gains in Labour heartlands across northern England and Wales. The SNP have made gains across Scotland.\n\nLabour have had their worst return of seats in any general election since 1935.\n\nBoth Labour and the Liberal Democrats now have more female than male MPs.\n\nThe interactive map below shows all the seats that have changed from one party to another. Select the \"results\" tab to see what has happened in the rest of the UK.\n\nThe Conservatives increased their vote share in many areas that voted Leave in the 2016 EU referendum.\n\nBy contrast they lost votes in strong Remain constituencies such as those in Scotland and London. But Labour lost votes in both strong Remain and strong Leave areas.\n\nStrong Leave and strong Remain constituencies are those where an estimated 60% or more of the electorate voted for that option at the EU referendum.\n\nThese estimates of constituency Brexit votes were modelled by Professor Chris Hanretty, as the 2016 referendum result was only recorded by local authority and not by Westminster constituency.\n\nThe Conservatives were clear winners in constituencies estimated to have voted majority Leave in 2016. They won almost three quarters of all these seats.\n\nBy contrast, there was no clear winner among Remain backing constituencies, with a crowded field of parties all winning substantial numbers of seats.\n\nLabour did best of all those parties but only took 40% of the constituencies that backed Remain.\n\nLabour also straddled the Brexit divide taking a roughly equal number of Leave (106) and Remain (96) seats.\n\nMost other parties had a clearer Brexit divide.\n\nOverall, the Conservatives broke new ground, moving into many traditional Labour heartlands.\n\nIn 2017, Labour held 72 of the 100 constituencies with the most working class households (defined as C2DE using data from the 2011 census).\n\nIn 2019, this figure fell to 53 and the Conservatives increased their share from 13 to 31.\n\nIn every nation and region of Britain, the scale of Labour's losses outweighed any gains made by the Conservatives.\n\nThe Conservatives did lose votes in the south of England and Scotland, but these were balanced by gains in the rest of England and Wales.\n\nThe Lib Dems increased their share of the vote across the UK, but failed to translate these gains into more seats.\n\nIn Scotland, the SNP made 14 gains, and lost just one seat, while the Conservatives lost seven and Labour lost six seats.\n\nIn Wales, the Conservatives gained six seats and Labour lost six, mostly in the north east. Overall, Labour's share of the vote was down to 41% from 49% in 2017.\n\nThe Conservatives polled consistently well across England and most of Wales, reflecting their overall 44% share of the UK vote.\n\nYou can use the interactive map below to show the vote share for other parties as well as the turnout.\n\nLabour's strength was concentrated in London and areas around cities in south Wales, the North East and North West. At 32%, Labour's share of the vote is down around eight points on the 2017 general election.\n\nOverall, they lost 60 seats and gained only one, Putney in London.\n\nA total of 220 female MPs have been elected. This is 12 more than the previous high of 208 in 2017.\n\nFor the first time, both the Liberal Democrats and Labour have more women MPs than men. Of Labour's 202 MPs (excluding Speaker Lindsay Hoyle), 104 are women and of the Liberal Democrats' 11 MPs, seven are women.\n\nTurnout, on what was a cold and damp polling day, was 67.3%. slightly lower than the last election in June 2017.\n• None What is the result in my area?", "AC Milan say they \"strongly disagree\" with and were not consulted about the use of monkeys in artwork for a Serie A anti-racism campaign.\n\nThe 'No To Racism' posters show three monkeys with painted faces.\n\nIt comes less than three weeks after clubs pledged to combat Italian football's \"serious problem\".\n\n\"Art can be powerful, but we strongly disagree with the use of monkeys as images in the fight against racism,\" said an AC Milan statement.\n\nThe club added they were \"surprised by the total lack of consultation\" over the artwork, which will be displayed at Serie A headquarters in Milan.\n\nAS Roma also expressed their \"surprise\", adding: \"We understand the league wants to tackle racism but we don't believe this is the right way to do it.\"\n\nMilan chief executive Ivan Gazidis said the images \"came as a surprise, were insensitive and badly timed\".\n\nThe former Arsenal chief executive told BBC Radio 5 Live's Nihal Arthanayake: \" It is quite obvious that those subtleties would be lost in the communication and it is a very clumsy way of trying to launch what is actually what we hope will prove to be an affective campaign to drive racism out of Italian football.\n\n\"There is a real lack of process around these images. I find it difficult to explain. It does speak to a lack of self awareness and awareness of the sensitivities of the history.\n\n\"The Italian league needs to listen to the victims of this behaviour, needs to listen to experts in this field and needs to understand that these are not answers that can be imposed from some kind of theoretical leadership in the sky that has no experience of them.\n\n\"You have to listen and understand and engage with others that are on the same journey.\"\n\nFormer Premier League defender Sylvain Distin says he does not understand \"how you can fight racism with something that looks like racism\".\n\n\"It just doesn't make any sense to me, to the point that I went and tried to read as many interviews with the artist as I could,\" Distin told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"It's true that he did a lot of portraits and painting and art around monkeys for five or six years and, from what the artist was saying, it was just his way to say that we are all monkeys - but it just doesn't look right.\n\n\"I just really don't get it. Are they trying to make things so big that all the little incidents that happen every weekend in Italy just look normal? I don't understand what they expect, what kind of reaction do you expect with this kind of act? I just don't get it, I don't see the point.\"\n\nAt a news conference on Monday, artist Simone Fugazzotto, who always uses monkeys in his work, said: \"For an artist, there is nothing more important than trying to change the perception of things through his own work.\n\n\"I decided to portray monkeys to talk about racism because they are the metaphor for human beings. Last year, I was at the stadium to see Inter v Napoli [a match in which Napoli defender Kalidou Koulibaly was racially abused] and I felt humiliated. Everyone was shouting 'monkey' at Koulibaly, a player I respect.\n\n\"I've always been painting monkeys for five to six years, so I thought I'd make this work to teach that we're all apes. I made the western monkey with blue and white eyes, the Asian monkey with almond-shaped eyes and the black monkey positioned in the centre, where everything comes from.\n\n\"The monkey becomes the spark to teach everyone that there is no difference, there is no man or monkey, we are all alike. If anything, we are all monkeys.\"\n\nAnti-discriminatory body Fare said it was left \"speechless\" and the campaign looked like a \"sick joke\", while Kick It Out added the use of monkeys was \"completely inappropriate\".\n\nSerie A chief executive Luigi de Siervo said the league's commitment against all forms of prejudice was \"strong and concrete\".\n\nHe added: \"We know that racism is an endemic and very complex problem, which we will tackle on three different levels: the cultural one, through works like that of Simone; the sporting one, with a series of initiatives together with clubs and players; and the repressive one, thanks to collaboration with the police.\"\n\nIn November, Brescia's Mario Balotelli called fans who shouted racist abuse at him \"small-minded\" and \"imbeciles\".\n\nInter Milan's Romelu Lukaku said the abuse he suffered in September, when Cagliari fans made monkey noises after the Belgian scored a penalty against their team, showed the game was \"going backwards\".\n\nThe Sardinian club were later cleared of racist chanting, leading the head of Fare to say that Italian football authorities and their disciplinary systems to combat racism were \"not fit for purpose\".\n\nThis month Italian newspaper Corriere dello Sport was criticised for the headline 'Black Friday' alongside images of Roma defender Chris Smalling and Inter striker Lukaku prior to a match between the sides.", "The Reverend Richard Coles announced the death of his civil partner, David, on Twitter\n\nThe civil partner of the Reverend Richard Coles has died, the broadcaster has announced.\n\nThe Rev David Coles died after a long illness, the former musician said on Twitter.\n\nColes also thanked the \"brilliant teams\" who looked after his partner at Kettering General Hospital.\n\nThe couple, both priests, lived together with their dogs in their vicarage in Northamptonshire, according to his website.\n\nColes, 57, was the keyboard player in the 80s band The Communards and is now vicar of Finedon, Northamptonshire.\n\nHe wrote: \"I'm very sorry to say that @RevDavidColes has died. He had been ill for a while. Thanks to the brilliant teams who looked after him at @KettGeneral.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Richard Coles This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nColes is a co-presenter of Saturday Live on BBC Radio 4, was a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing in 2017 and also regularly appears on shows such as Have I Got News For You and QI.\n\nThe couple met in 2007 after a sermon and Coles has spoken openly about their celibacy.\n\nHe previously told Christian Today. \"Of course it has its challenges and sacrifices ... We live in good standing with the teaching of the Church, but I wouldn't wish that to imply that I saw that as a good and noble thing, because I don't, but it is currently where we are.\"\n\nHis post on Twitter prompted messages of condolence.\n\nDianne Buswell, his former dance partner on Strictly, wrote: \"I am so sorry to hear this. Sending all my love to you rev! My prayers and thoughts are with you.\"\n\nRadio presenter Simon Mayo added: \"What devastating news. So sorry to hear this Richard.\"\n\nAuthor Philip Pullman posted: \"Richard, I'm so sorry to hear that. You have all my sympathy.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Whirlpool have decided to recall machines after identifying a safety issue with some Hotpoint and Indesit machines made since 2014.\n\nBoss Jeff Noel said they understand how important washing machines are to family life, especially at Christmas, and apologise to customers, but say safety comes first.", "Emily Thornberry warned privately in September that Labour's election chances would be hampered by taking a neutral position on Brexit.\n\nSpeaking at the party's conference, for a BBC film being broadcast on Tuesday, she said she was worried about Jeremy Corbyn saying he \"didn't have a view\" on the biggest decision facing the UK.\n\nShe was \"really pushing\" at the time for Labour to openly back Remain.\n\nLabour's defeat has led to a bitter internal row over its Brexit policy.\n\nSome Labour candidates who lost their seats have blamed the party's offer of another referendum for their defeat alongside doubts about Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.\n\nMs Thornberry, the re-elected MP for Islington South who is expected to be a candidate in the contest to succeed Mr Corbyn, revealed on Monday that she had begun legal action against a former colleague who claimed the shadow foreign secretary called some Leave voters \"stupid\".\n\nShe said Caroline Flint's claim she had told an MP from a Leave-voting area \"I am glad my constituents aren't as stupid as yours\" was \"a complete lie\". But Ms Flint, who lost her seat at the election, has stood by her remarks.\n\nLabour went into the election offering another Brexit referendum on a new withdrawal deal it hoped to negotiate if it won power.\n\nAt its conference in Brighton, the leadership saw off an attempt by party members to force it to campaign to remain in the EU.\n\nDuring the campaign, Mr Corbyn went further by saying that he personally would not take sides in any future public vote, arguing this would make it easier for him to implement whatever choice the people made.\n\nWhile Ms Thornberry has never hidden her view that she thinks Brexit is a mistake, an interview she gave to the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg during the conference makes clear the extent of her doubts.\n\nIn the documentary, entitled The Brexit Storm Continues, she warned that a neutral position on Brexit would be politically dangerous.\n\nShe also revealed she had privately urged the leadership to take a much more overt pro-Remain stance.\n\n\"I think Jeremy is trying to find a compromise but if he goes into an election saying 'I don't have a view' on the single biggest decision that we have to make - I think - what worries me is that every single interview he does will all be about Brexit.\"\n\nAsked if Labour could win an election with that position, she said: \"Well, I think it makes it more difficult and that's why I'm really pushing this because I want Jeremy in Number 10.\"\n\nGreater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said the Labour leadership's position on Brexit seemed to thwart the views of the party's traditional supporters.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the Labour Party had always been a coalition between supporters in working-class communities and \"university educated liberal left\" and Labour \"had not been speaking to both sides of that coalition for some time\".\n\nBefore he became mayor, Mr Burnham was the MP for the Labour stronghold Leigh, which elected a Tory MP last week.\n\nIt would \"help\" if the next Labour leader was from the North, Mr Burnham added, and he said he would lend his support to a candidate that supported devolution.\n\nHowever, Labour's Jenny Chapman who lost her Darlington seat in the election said it was \"patronising\" to think that \"presenting someone who speaks with a northern accent means you are going to win support in the North\".\n\n\"I don't think you need a particular accent to have empathy and compassion,\" she said explaining she wants shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer to run in the Labour leadership contest.\n\nMr Corbyn and shadow chancellor John McDonnell have apologised for Labour's \"catastrophic\" performance, which saw them lose 59 seats.\n\nThe Labour leader said he was \"sorry that we came up short\", while Mr McDonnell told the BBC: \"I own this disaster.\"\n\nThe Brexit Storm Continues was broadcast on BBC2 on 17 December at 21:00 and is available on the BBC iPlayer.", "Bishop Stephen Cottrell has published a range of books on evangelism and spirituality\n\nThe new Archbishop of York to be appointed when Dr John Sentamu steps down next year has been named as Stephen Cottrell.\n\nThe current Bishop of Chelmsford will become the 98th Archbishop of York and the Church of England's second most senior clergyman.\n\nBishop Cottrell was ordained priest in 1985 before starting his ministry at Christchurch in Forest Hill, London.\n\nHe will take up his new role when Dr Sentamu retires on 7 June.\n\nDr John Sentamu said he is \"full of joy and expectation\" for the future\n\nAfter beginning his ministry at Christchurch in Forest Hill, south east London, Bishop Cottrell moved to the Dioceses of Chichester and Wakefield.\n\nHe was nominated area Bishop of Reading in 2004, where he served for six years before becoming Bishop of Chelmsford in 2010.\n\nThe married father of three, who has previously called on the CofE to shed its middle class \"Marks and Spencer\" image, said he was \"humbled and excited at the prospect\" of becoming the new Archbishop of York.\n\n\"Archbishop Sentamu and I have worked together in mission on many occasions and I hope to build on the work he has pioneered,\" he said.\n\n\"Working alongside the Archbishop of Canterbury, I hope to help the church be more joyful and more effective in sharing the Gospel and bringing hope and unity to our nation.\"\n\nThe Bishop added he was looking forward to \"being a voice for the North\" and \"helping to address the discrepancies of wealth and opportunity that too often favour the South.\"\n\nHe said that restoring faith in the Church in the wake of historic child abuse allegations would be his \"top priority\" in his new role, adding it is important \"survivors' voices are heard\".\n\nReferring to the new appointment, the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said Bishop Cottrell \"writes beautifully, thinks deeply and communicates superbly\".\n\nDr Sentamu said Bishop Cottrell nomination as his successor had \"gladdened my heart\".\n\nHe added: \"His greatest passion is to share the Gospel with everyone in a friendly and accessible way.\"\n\nDr Sentamu, who was born near Kampala in 1949 as the sixth of 13 children, was the the UK's first black archbishop and will be stepping down three days before his 71st birthday.\n\nHe was enthroned at York Minister in November 2005 in a ceremony that broke with tradition and included drums and dancers.\n• None Evangelist reaching out to the 'unchurched'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "I'm Richard Osman. Welcome to my Election Night Quiz.\n\nThe ballot boxes are closed, the votes are in and the counting has begun.\n\nAfter the back-and-forth of the campaign and the big day itself, we have the excitement of the exit poll and then... usually nothing for a while. So I thought we could pass some time with a little election quiz using some of the games we play on Richard Osman's House of Games.\n\nYou can follow the election results all night across the BBC, with live coverage on television, radio and online.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "Jimi Hendrix was wrongly blamed for the parakeet explosion after releasing two birds in Carnaby Street, London\n\nThe rumour parakeets arrived in the UK when rock star Jimi Hendrix released a pair in London's Carnaby Street in the swinging 60s has finally been scotched.\n\nThey also did not escape across the country during the wrap party for the movie The African Queen, in 1951.\n\nIn fact, reported sightings from the 1860s have been uncovered, Goldsmiths, UCL and Queen Mary universities say.\n\nIntentional releases may have also been encouraged in 1929-1931 and 1952 when fatal \"parrot fever\" hit the headlines.\n\nThe bright green non-native ring-necked parakeets now thrive across the UK.\n\nOriginally from Africa, it has become a successful invasive species in 34 countries on five continents, the study's lead author, the late Steven Le Comber, says.\n\nIn 2016 there were more than 8,500 breeding pairs of parakeets, mostly in south-east England\n\nAs well as the rumour from the Bogart and Hepburn classic, in 1951, another suggests that a flock kept at Syon Park escaped when a plane crashed through the aviary roof, in the 1970s.\n\nHowever, the researchers found their spread across the UK is more mundanely down to repeated intentional releases and not to do with publicity stunts.\n\nNumerous sensational accounts of human deaths due to psittacosis infections from birds were published in 1929.\n\nA Daily Herald report in 1952 warns of infections from parakeets\n\nAnd in 1932, the Middlesex County Times reported parakeets had been spotted in Epping Forest, with the paper blaming the \"parrot disease scare\" of 1931 for the observations in the wild.\n\n\"Scary\" health stories often prompt a strong public reaction, said Sarah Elizabeth Cox, postgraduate history student at Goldsmiths.\n\n\"If you were told you were at risk being near one, it would be much easier to let it out the window than to destroy it,\" she said.\n\nThis latest study used geographic profiling, a statistical technique originally developed in criminology to prioritise large lists of suspects in cases of serial crime, to analyse spatial patterns of parakeet sightings.\n\nWhen applied to biological data, the model can identify the origin sites of diseases or introduction sites of invasive, non-native species.\n\nRumours said after the movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn was shot, parakeets used were released from the UK studios\n\nNone of the \"suspect sites\" connected to origin myths showed up prominently in the geoprofile of more than 5,000 unique records dating from 1968 - 2018.\n\nBy 1961, birds were more popular pets than cats and dogs in the UK, with 11 million birds in captivity, of various species, and it seems obvious there would be an increase in escapes, researchers said.\n\nThe bird is considered non-native as it was introduced by human activity\n• None 'Most northerly' parrots cause flap in park\n• None BBC - Earth - These small birds are common in London but nobody knows why\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "Boris Johnson has delivered his first speech after his Conservative party won a landslide majority in the December 2019 general election, at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in central London.\n\nYou can read the full text of the speech below.\n\nWell my friends, good morning everybody.\n\nMy friends, well we did it. We did it. We pulled it off didn't we - we pulled it off, we broke the deadlock, we ended the gridlock, we smashed the roadblock.\n\nIn this glorious, glorious pre-breakfast moment, before a new dawn rises on a new day and a new government, I want first of all to pay tribute to good colleagues who lost their seats through no fault of their own in the elections just gone by.\n\nAnd I of course want to congratulate absolutely everybody involved in securing the biggest Conservative majority since the 1980s. This was literally, literally, as I look around, literally before many of you were born.\n\nAnd with this mandate and this majority, we will at last be able to do - what? (Audience: \"Get Brexit done\".) You were paying attention.\n\nThis election means that getting Brexit done is now the irrefutable, irresistible, unarguable decision of the British people. With this election I think we've put an end to all those miserable threats of a second referendum.\n\nAnd I say respectfully to our stentorian friend in the blue, 12-star hat - that's it. Time to put a sock in the megaphone, and give everybody some peace.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says he will work \"night and day, flat out\" to prove his backers right\n\nI have a message to all those who voted for us yesterday, especially for those who voted for us Conservatives for the first time.\n\nYou may only have lent us your vote, you may not think of yourself as a natural Tory. As I think I said 11 years ago to the people of London, when I was elected in what was thought of as a Labour city - your hand may have quivered over the ballot paper before you put your cross in the Conservative box, and you may intend to return to Labour next time round.\n\nIf that is the case, I am humbled that you have put your trust in me and you have put your trust in us.\n\nI, and we, will never take your support for granted. I will make it my mission to work night and day, to work flat-out to prove you right in voting for me this time, and to earn your support in the future.\n\nI say to you that in this election your voice has been heard - and about time too.\n\nBecause we politicians have squandered the last three-and-a-half years in squabbles about Brexit, we have even been arguing about arguing, about the tone of our arguments. I will put an end to all that nonsense and we will get Brexit done on time by the 31 January.\n\nNo ifs, no buts, no maybes - leaving the European Union as one United Kingdom, taking back control of our laws, borders, money, our trade, immigration system, delivering on the democratic mandate of the people.\n\nAt the same time, this one nation Conservative government will massively increase our investment in the NHS. The health service that represents the very best of our country with a single beautiful idea, that whoever we are - rich, poor, young, old - the NHS is there for us when we are sick. And everyday that service performs miracles.\n\nThat is why the NHS is this one nation Conservative government's top priority. So we will deliver 50,000 more nurses, and 50 million more GP surgery appointments. And how many new hospitals? (Audience: \"40\".) We will deliver a long-term NHS budget enshrined in law, £650m extra every week.\n\nAnd all the other priorities that you, the people of this country, voted for.\n\nRecord spending on schools. An Australian-style points-based immigration system. More police - how many? (Audience: \"20,000\".)\n\nColossal new investments in infrastructure and science, using our technological advantages to make this country the cleanest, greenest on earth, with the most far-reaching environmental programme.\n\nAnd you the people of this country voted to be carbon-neutral in this election - you voted to be carbon-neutral by 2050. And we'll do it.\n\nYou also voted to be Corbyn-neutral by Christmas by the way, and we'll do that too.\n\nYou voted for all these things, and it is now this government, this people's government, it is now our solemn duty to deliver on each and every one of those commitments.\n\nIt is a great and heavy responsibility, a sacred trust, for me, for every newly-elected Conservative MP, for everyone in this room and everyone in this party.\n\nAnd I repeat that in winning this election we have won the votes and trust of people who have never voted Conservative before, and people who have always voted for other parties.\n\nThose people want change. We cannot, must not - must not - let them down. In delivering change we must change too.\n\nWe must recognise the incredible reality that we now speak as a One Nation Conservative party literally for everyone from Woking to Workington; from Kensington, I'm proud to say, to Clwyd South; from Surrey Heath to Sedgefield; from Wimbledon to Wolverhampton.\n\nAs the nation hands us this historic mandate, we must rise to the challenge and to the level of expectations. Parliament must change so that we in parliament are working for you, the British people.\n\nThat is what we will now do, isn't it? That is what we will now do. Let's get out and get on with it. Let's unite this country. Let's spread opportunity to every corner of the UK with superb education, superb infrastructure, and technology.\n\nLet's get Brexit done. But first, my friends, let's get breakfast done.\n\nThank you all very much for coming. Thank you all very much.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "Asian stock markets rose on Friday as the US and China moved toward striking a trade deal to avert a new round of tariffs.\n\nThe deal could be announced later in the day, after US President Donald Trump reportedly signed off on the terms.\n\nWashington is said to have agreed to remove some tariffs, while Beijing would boost purchases of US farm goods.\n\nHowever, many of the more difficult issues are still to be addressed.\n\nOptimism surrounding a trade deal pushed Asian markets higher, with Japan's Nikkei 225 index rising 2.3% while Hong Kong's Hang Seng put on 2%. The Shanghai Composite added 1.2%.\n\nEarlier, US markets also gained ground with the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq closing at fresh record highs.\n\n\"It's a good starting point,\" Chamber of Commerce head of international affairs Myron Brilliant told broadcaster CNBC after meeting with White House officials.\n\nA deal would deliver a victory to Mr Trump, who is under political pressure, with debate on his impeachment underway in the US Congress.\n\nHe tweeted on Thursday that the US and China were \"very\" close to an agreement.\n\n\"They want it and so do we!\" he wrote.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPrevious truces have collapsed and without a formal announcement or presentation of a written agreement, many remained wary.\n\nThe US reportedly offered to halve tariff rates on about $350bn (£260bn) worth of Chinese goods, some of which had climbed as high as 25%.\n\nHowever, the deal is not expected to address many of the more difficult issues that triggered the fight, like China's subsidies for certain industries.\n\n\"This should NOT be described as a trade agreement,\" Jennifer Hillman, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a former trade official, wrote on Twitter.\n\n\"It is a purchase and sale agreement that does virtually nothing to address substantive concerns of US (+rest of the world) with China's trade practices.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Trump has repeatedly declared progress toward a deal that would end the trade war, which has seen tariffs imposed on more than $450bn worth of US-China trade and weighed on the global economy.\n\nIn October, he announced that the two sides had agreed to terms for a \"Phase One\" deal, but negotiations dragged on.\n\nWithout progress, the US had threatened to impose tariffs on more than $150bn worth of Chinese exports on 15 December.\n\nUnlike earlier rounds of tariffs, this one was slated to fall largely on everyday items, including smartphones, children's books, footwear and clothing, heightening the economic stakes, since the US economy is driven by consumer spending.\n\nOptimism about a trade deal may be running high, but it's worth casting your mind back to why Mr Trump started this trade war with China in the first place.\n\nIt was about levelling the playing field, he declared during his campaign, and to stop Beijing's unfair trade practices.\n\nThe US said China unfairly subsidises its firms, and steals intellectual property from American companies which gives China an unfair advantage.\n\nIt's unclear whether these issues will be in the final text of any agreement. Which means that Mr Trump's trade war has yet to achieve what it set out to.\n\nMeanwhile, economic growth forecasts around the world have been cut, companies have had to shift their supply chains out of China, and businesses have struggled to make hiring and expansion decisions in the face of trade war uncertainty.\n\nWashington's advantage over China has always been the threat of more tariffs. Suspending or rolling them back could be giving away the only leverage Mr Trump has, risking a deal with actual substance in favour of a quick and easy win.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "Wilde said her opinions \"may differ from others involved with the film\"\n\nOlivia Wilde has broken ranks with the makers of her new film, which sparked anger by suggesting the late reporter she plays traded sex for information.\n\nThe ex-House star plays Kathy Scruggs in Richard Jewell, Clint Eastwood's drama about a media frenzy following the 1996 Atlanta Olympic bombing.\n\nThe actress said she did not believe Scruggs \"traded sex for tips\", and did not mean to suggest that was the case.\n\nBut she \"did not have a say in how the film was ultimately crafted\", she said.\n\nAccording to reviews, including in The Hollywood Reporter, the LA Times and the Associated Press, the film strongly implies that Scruggs had sex with an FBI agent played by John Hamm in return for information about a suspect.\n\nScruggs died in 2001 and her old paper, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, has threatened to sue Eastwood and Warner Bros, saying the paper and its staff were \"portrayed in a false and defamatory manner\".\n\nRichard Jewell's attorney holding a copy of the Atlanta Journal at a press conference in 1996\n\nWilde directed this year's acclaimed teen comedy Booksmart as well acting in medical TV drama House and films including Tron: Legacy.\n\nIn a Twitter thread, she said a director could \"control the voice and message of the film\", but for an actor \"it's more complicated\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by olivia wilde This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe said she had understood that the film would show Scruggs and the FBI agent as being in an existing romantic relationship, \"not a transactional exchange of sex for information\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by olivia wilde This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nShe concluded: \"I realise my opinions about Kathy, based on my own independent research, may differ from others involved with the film, but it was important to me to my my [sic] own position clear.\"\n\nScruggs was \"by all accounts, bold, smart, and fearlessly undeterred by the challenge of being a female reporter in the south in the 1990s\", she said.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Warner Bros. Pictures This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe film is named after the security guard who was initially hailed as a hero after spotting the pipe bomb, which killed two people, but was soon identified by journalists including Scruggs as an FBI suspect. That led him to be hounded by the press before the FBI eventually cleared his name after 88 days.\n\nWarner Bros has not responded to Wilde's tweets but has responded to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution letter with a statement insisting the film is based on \"a wide range of highly credible source material\".\n\nThe studio said it was \"unfortunate and the ultimate irony that the Atlanta Journal Constitution, having been a part of the rush to judgment of Richard Jewell, is now trying to malign our filmmakers and cast\".\n\nThe statement concluded: \"The AJC's claims are baseless and we will vigorously defend against them.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The Conservatives have won the general election with a Commons majority of 80, the party's largest since 1987.\n\nThe morning after the vote Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds arrive at 10 Downing Street.\n\nSpeaking after he was re-elected in Uxbridge and South Ruislip, west London, with a slightly increased majority, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said: \"It does look as though this one nation Conservative government has been given a powerful new mandate to get Brexit done.\"\n\nLater Mr Johnson said he would work \"night and day\" to repay the trust of voters after he led the Conservatives to an \"historic\" election victory.\n\nLabour has lost seats across the North, Midlands and Wales in places which backed Brexit in 2016.\n\nHere are pictures from a night of election results.\n\nThe night began with an exit poll that suggested the Conservative party was heading for a large majority, news that was greeted with glee by its supporters.\n\nCounting then got under way across the UK, including in Glasgow.\n\nStudents sprinted with ballot boxes in Sunderland, which has traditionally been the first constituency to declare its result.\n\nResults started to come in, including for Labour's Bridget Phillipson, who held the Houghton and Sunderland South constituency.\n\nLabour's Chi Onwurah gave a speech after holding the Newcastle Upon Tyne Central seat.\n\nPolice took away ballot papers from the Glasgow count at the SEC centre. The move came after allegations of personation - where one person votes by impersonating another - in the area.\n\nCandidate Count Binface waits for the result at Boris Johnson's Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency.\n\nFormer Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith held on to his seat in Chingford and Woodford Green. It was thought his seat was at risk, but he won by just over 1,200 votes.\n\nSharon Hodgson reacted after holding her Labour seat in Washington and Sunderland West.\n\nThe SNP won 48 seats after securing 45% of the vote - 8.1% more than in the last general election in 2017, when it won 35 seats.\n\nJeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party, arrived at the count in his Islington North constituency, which he held with a 26,000 majority.\n\nMr Corbyn gave a speech in which he said the pressure \"on those surrounding politicians is often very, very high indeed and the media intrusion in people's lives is very high indeed\". He thanked his family and close friends, and his wife \"for all she puts up with because of the way the media behaves\".\n\nConservative Theresa Villiers was re-elected as MP for Chipping Barnet.\n\nStella Creasy celebrated being re-elected as MP for Walthamstow, while holding her baby daughter. The Labour candidate held her seat with a majority of 30,862.\n\nJo Swinson, leader of the Liberal Democrats and candidate for Dunbartonshire East, arrived at the counting centre in Bishopbriggs.\n\nMs Swinson lost her Dunbartonshire East seat to the SNP by 149 votes. She said for millions of people around the country the election results would bring \"dread and dismay\".\n\nLabour's John McDonnell retained his seat at Hayes and Harlington.\n\nSNP leader Nicola Sturgeon was the centre of press attention at a counting centre in Glasgow. She said: \"I think the results we are seeing somewhat exceed the expectations I had. Scotland has sent a very clear message, 'We don't want a Boris Johnson government. We don't want to leave the EU'.\"\n\nIn Northern Ireland, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) suffered a bruising night, losing two MPs including its Westminster leader Nigel Dodds who lost his North Belfast seat to Sinn Féin's John Finucane.\n\nConservative Party candidate Dominic Raab shook hands with Official Monster Raving Loony Party candidate Baron Badger during the announcement of voting results. Despite doubts that Mr Raab would keep his seat for Esher and Walton constituency, he was re-elected with 31,132 votes.\n\nMr Johnson held on to his seat with 25,351 votes. Mr Johnson said the Tory majority gave his party \"a powerful new mandate to get Brexit done\", calling the election \"historic\".\n\nThe Green Party's Caroline Lucas held on to her Brighton Pavilion seat. She said her \"pride\" at winning the seat was \"tinged with huge sadness and, frankly, deep anger - sadness that so many people who desperately need a progressive government on their side won't get the social justice they need\".\n\nReeta Chakrabarti co-presented the BBC's Election 2019 results programme. By around 05:00 GMT, the Conservative party had won enough seats for the BBC to declare it had secured an overall majority.\n\nMr Johnson left Conservative Party headquarters with girlfriend Carrie Symonds and their dog on their way to 10 Downing Street.\n\nA few hours later, Mr Johnson arrived at Buckingham Palace to meet the Queen following his decisive election victory.\n\nAfter his visit to the Queen, Mr Johnson returned to Downing Street with a Commons majority the Conservatives haven't seen in over three decades.\n\nInside No 10, Mr Johnson was welcomed back by staff.\n\nSpeaking in Edinburgh after her party gained 13 seats, SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon said the PM had \"no right\" to block another Scottish independence referendum.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said he was \"very sad at the result we have achieved and very sad for those colleagues who have lost their seat at this election\". He added that he would not walk away from his role until the party elected a new leader in the early part of next year.\n\nJo Swinson is standing down as Liberal Democrat leader and, speaking in London, said she was \"proud to be the first woman to lead the Liberal Democrats and I'm even more proud that I will not be the last\".\n\nSpeaking in Downing Street, Mr Johnson said: \"This country deserves a break from wrangling... and a permanent break from talking about Brexit.\" He said he wanted people to go about their Christmas preparations knowing the government was planning to make 2020 a prosperous year.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Conservative win announced in Blyth Valley, breaking Labour's 50-year hold in the former mining constituency\n\nThe Conservatives have taken Blyth Valley which has been Labour since it was created in 1950, in the first shock result of the general election.\n\nIan Levy got 17,440 votes, beating the Labour candidate by more than 700 votes.\n\nThere was also a win for the Tories in Durham North West, where Labour's Laura Pidcock lost to Richard Holden.\n\nLabour has held on to all the other seats in the region, but in almost every case with a reduced majority.\n\nIn Wansbeck, Labour Party chairman Ian Lavery retained the seat but with his majority slashed from 10,435 to 814.\n\n\"This isn't about Jeremy Corbyn - this is about Brexit,\" he said.\n\n\"This is about the re-run of the 2016 referendum. You ignore democracy at your peril.\"\n\nLaura Pidcock was seen as a potential leadership contender and featured heavily in Jeremy Corbyn's Labour campaign\n\nIt is the first time that Blyth Valley, a former mining area which voted Leave in the EU referendum, will have a Conservative MP.\n\nThe constituency's former incumbent, Ronnie Campbell, stood down after more than 30 years.\n\nSpeaking after the result, Mr Levy thanked his team, his wife, the people of Blyth Valley and Boris Johnson.\n\n\"This is a huge responsibility I have taken on,\" he said.\n\n\"I will be going to London on the train on Monday, we're going to get Brexit done and build a strong economy for the UK.\"\n\nIan Levy, a former NHS worker, thanked Boris Johnson after his shock win\n\nPrior to the loss of her Durham North West seat, Laura Pidcock was seen as a potential leadership contender.\n\nIn 2017, her majority was more than 8,000.\n\nIts new MP, Richard Holden said: \"Laura represented a very Corbynite streak of the Labour Party, which had been comprehensively rejected by local people.\n\n\"On the doorstep, more than anything else, what was pushed back on was Jeremy Corbyn's leadership. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNewcastle Central was the first seat in the UK to declare, with Labour's Chi Onwurah holding on to the seat.\n\nLabour also held on to Sunderland Central, Newcastle East, Newcastle North, South Shields, Washington and Sunderland West, Jarrow, Gateshead, and Houghton and Sunderland South.\n\nIn Gateshead, Labour's Ian Mearns, who polled 20,450 votes, down from 27,426 in 2017, said his party had \"got the message wrong\" on Brexit.\n\nHe said Labour had allowed itself to be \"dominated by a London-centric view\".\n\nIn Wansbeck - which was held by Labour chairman Mr Lavery - there was an 11.6% swing from Labour to the Conservatives.\n\nIf you cannot see the graphic click here\n\nBridget Phillipson was returned for Houghton and Sunderland South with a majority down from 12,341 in 2017 to 3,115.\n\n\"The Labour Party was founded to advance the interests of working people and we are failing in that mission if we don't secure the confidence of enough working people in the country to form a government,\" she said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nJulie Elliott, who retained Sunderland Central but with a 2017 majority of 9,997 reduced to 2,964, said Labour had \"let the country down by not being good enough to win against this awful Tory government\".\n\n\"People on the doorstep have repeatedly said to me they cannot vote for this party,\" she said.\n\n\"They will come back to us if we become a radical party for change on the centre-left ground which is where we win elections.\"\n\nLabour also held on to Blaydon, City of Durham, Durham North and Gateshead.\n\nThe North East has seen the equivalent of a political earthquake.\n\nThe region has not seen as many seats change hands in one election in living memory.\n\nMargaret Thatcher never had as many MPs in this region as Boris Johnson will have. Some now represent constituencies we were told would never vote Conservative.\n\nCommunities built on the steel industry, like Consett and Redcar, and former mining areas like Blyth Valley and Bishop Auckland have placed their trust in the Tories.\n\nThe Labour party chairman Ian Lavery, a former miner, survived by the skin of his teeth in Wansbeck. Laura Pidcock, a Corbynite who could have been in the running to be the next Labour leader, saw North West Durham's voters reject her.\n\nSo what happened? \"Get Brexit Done\" certainly resonated. The gains were all in leave-voting seats which seem to have blamed Labour for the parliamentary deadlock.\n\nBut Labour candidates will tell you that Jeremy Corbyn was a bigger issue on the doorstep - not a man many of their voters wanted anywhere near Number 10.\n\nBut there are dangers. Economists suggest it's the North East that will suffer the most economic harm from leaving the European Union. And just talking about the idea of a Northern Powerhouse will no longer be enough.\n\nConstituents of these new Conservative MPs will expect them and their party to deliver Brexit, but also more investment in the North.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "A mother has been found guilty of giving her son prescription drugs that led to his death.\n\nTyler Peck, 15, was found dead at his mother Holly Strawbridge's home the morning after a drugs binge, Plymouth Crown Court heard.\n\nStrawbridge, 34, of Salcombe, Devon, has also been found guilty of supplying Class-A drugs to another child under 16 and two counts of child cruelty.\n\nThe jury reached a unanimous verdict after deliberating for six hours.\n\nTyler died from an overdose of morphine drug Oramorph and Gabapentin.\n\nHe was described in court as a \"bright, thoughtful and caring young man\" by social workers.\n\nTyler Peck was found dead at his mother's house in Salcombe, Devon\n\nThe judge has ordered pre-sentencing reports but said a prison sentence was inevitable.\n\nStrawbridge will be sentenced on 17 January and was granted bail so she could attend her mother's funeral.\n\nA boy who was with Tyler on the evening before he died told police Strawbridge had been putting Oramorph and other drugs into their drinks.\n\nThe court heard Strawbridge was \"drunk off her face\" on the night her son died.\n\nThere were separate claims by another witness that the defendant had been supplying Tyler with drugs for two years.\n\nHer home was known as a place to \"get hammered\", said another witness.\n\nTyler regularly took drugs and his mother encouraged him, even selling him Valium on one occasion, the court was told.\n\nAnother witness said she saw Strawbridge showing Tyler how to snort crushed-up pills.\n\nHe overdosed on Valium in January 2018 and was diagnosed with \"drugs psychosis\". After the overdose, Tyler was admitted to Torbay Hospital.\n\nHe told social workers he was \"scared\" about his future and wanted help, but after he was discharged Strawbridge \"dismissed\" offers of help, social services said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and is now in an 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK effectively remains in the EU's customs union and single market and continues to obey EU rules.\n\nHowever, it is no longer part of the political institutions. So, for example, there are no longer any British MEPs in the European Parliament.\n\nNegotiations on a trade deal with the EU have been proceeding for several months. The UK wants as much access as possible for its goods and services to the EU.\n\nBut the government has made clear that the UK must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBoth sides say there a still significant areas of disagreement - for example, on EU proposals for a so-called \"level playing field\", which would see the UK and EU maintain similar minimum standards on things like workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nThe deadline for the two sides to agree an extension to the transition period has now passed.\n\nIf no trade deal has been agreed and ratified by the end of the year, then the UK faces the prospect of tariffs on exports to the EU.\n\nThe prime minister has argued that as the UK is completely aligned to EU rules, the negotiation should be straightforward. But critics have pointed out that the UK wishes to have the freedom to diverge from EU rules so it can do deals with other countries - and that makes negotiations more difficult.\n\nIt's not just a trade deal that needs to be sorted out. The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement. The UK is set to leave the European Arrest Warrant scheme and will have to agree a replacement. It must also agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.\n\nIt's also important to recognise that major changes will take effect on 1 January 2021 whether or not a trade deal is agreed. Free movement of people will end and businesses trading with the EU will have to follow new rules.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "Election night could be a long one for financial market traders.\n\nThe most sensitive market to political events is almost always the value of the pound. And, given the political stakes could scarcely be higher, it could be very volatile as exit polls and results begin to come in.\n\nMarkets care A LOT about the outcome of the election, but why should we even discuss them - and what do we even mean when we say \"markets\"?\n\nMarkets is shorthand for the collective confidence that investors (individuals, pension funds, hedge funds) have in the financial prospects of a company, a country, a commodity, a currency, etc.\n\nWhen it comes to politics, markets react to the effect they think political events will have on the economic prospects of the UK.\n\nBut markets are not always right.\n\nMarkets - and most economists - think Brexit is overall a bad thing for the UK economy because it makes doing business with our largest and closest trading partner, the EU, more difficult and more expensive. The harder the Brexit, the worse for the economy and the currency.\n\nMarkets also think Labour proposals - to nationalise industries, force big firms to hand over a tenth of the company to workers and government, plus a plan to borrow hundreds of billions of pounds - is bad for business confidence, the economy and the pound.\n\nMarkets do matter because a fall in the pound tends to push up the cost of living, while falls in company share prices affect the value of pensions.\n\nWith these rough principles in mind, let's take a look at the potential market reaction to the most probable outcomes.\n\nA Conservative majority: The pound goes up, but by how much and for how long depends on size of majority.\n\nThis is the outcome the markets are currently predicting. The value of the pound has risen significantly since the summer, rising from $1.19 to over $1.32 as the majority of polls have pointed to a Tory majority and a functioning government. That lead in the polls has also reduced the chance of an outright labour victory, a result markets dislike more than Brexit.\n\nHowever, even if markets get the Tory majority they expect, it doesn't mean that markets will be calm. A great deal depends on the size of that majority.\n\nA very small majority, some argue, would give hard line Brexiters more influence over negotiations with the EU and prevent the PM from extending the transition period, thereby increasing the likelihood of leaving the EU without a deal in December 2020 - an outcome that investors consider bad for the UK economy and consequently the value of the pound.\n\nOthers argue that the Tory party is a lot more stable than it was. Rebel MPs have been crushed and all have signed up to Johnson's deal in blood as the price of standing in the election. Whatever you think, it seems uncontroversial to say that the bigger the majority, the more short-term certainty for the direction of travel.\n\nBased on soundings from foreign exchange traders a solid majority (say 25-plus) see pound rise a bit ($1.33). A big win could see it rise a bit more ($1.35-$1.40) while a slim majority or falling short altogether would potentially see a sharp fall in the pound back towards $1.20-$1.25.\n\nA Labour-led coalition: Short term fall for pound but supported by potential path to reversing Brexit.\n\nThe process of assembling a coalition, choosing a leader, the possibility of a second referendum - with a potentially different result - would create uncertainty in the short term and stall business investment further. The pound would probably fall in value in the short term. However, markets have consistently delivered the message: the closer the UK is to the EU, the better for the economy - and therefore the pound might find some support after an initial dip.\n\nA Labour Party in coalition with other parties would probably have to ditch some of the more radical proposals (mass nationalisations, etc) that the markets don't like. No radical overhaul of capitalism and a potential route to a softer or non-existent Brexit would probably create a bit of a short term shock, but it wouldn't lead to a bloodbath.\n\nHowever, some say the price of the SNP joining a Labour-led coalition would be a promise for a second Scottish referendum. A possible fracture in the UK could add another whole level of uncertainty and political angst, which would offset any hopes for a softer Brexit.\n\nAn outright labour majority: The most radical overhaul of the way business and the economy is run in decades. Pound falls very sharply.\n\nThis would come as a big surprise to markets - and they hate those. It's not just the element of surprise - markets fear Labour's plans to nationalise large swathes of the economy and change the ownership of companies, etc, would spook investors.\n\nTraders expect that would lead to a sharp fall in the pound and the price of shares in the companies they want to nationalise, which would hit savers and workers' pensions.\n\nIn summary, markets know they are not oracles but they don't react well to being wrong and can act with a violent jerk of the knee when that happens. The markets right now are balanced between fears and desires.\n\nA desire for the certainty of a functioning government, while fearing both a hard Brexit on one side and a makeover of capitalism on the other.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "Climate activist Greta Thunberg has changed her Twitter bio to mock US President Donald Trump's outrage at her winning Time Person of the Year 2019.\n\nHe said she had an \"anger management problem\" and should go to \"a good old fashioned movie with a friend\".\n\nShe then adapted her Twitter bio to say she was \"a teenager working on her anger management problem. Currently chilling and watching a good old fashioned movie with a friend\".\n\nThe Swedish 16-year-old was named as Time magazine's Person of the Year on Wednesday after leading a global movement against climate change.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis is not the first time she has changed her Twitter bio to reflect Mr Trump and other leaders' criticism of her.\n\nOn Tuesday Ms Thunberg changed her bio to \"pirralha\" - the Portuguese word for brat - after Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro criticised her highlighting the plight of Brazil's indigenous people.\n\n\"Greta's been saying Indians have died because they were defending the Amazon,\" Mr Bolsonaro told reporters. \"It's amazing how much space the press gives this kind of pirralha.\"\n\nIn October she changed the bio to \"a kind but poorly informed teenager\". This was exactly how Russian President Vladimir Putin had described her at a conference in Moscow.\n\nIn September President Trump posted a video of her speaking emotionally at the UN conference and sarcastically commented: \"She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future.\"\n\nShe changed her bio accordingly: \"A very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "The genome comes from a specimen held in a private collection in Spain\n\nA genetic study of the US's only native parrot appears to confirm its extinction was down to humans alone.\n\nScientists sequenced the genome of a stuffed Carolina parakeet held in a private collection.\n\nThe colourful bird's DNA showed none of the signs of inbreeding characteristic of animals that have been in decline for many years.\n\nInstead, its genetic sequence suggests populations were buoyant until the expansion of European settlers.\n\nThe parrots then disappeared abruptly, with the last captive specimen dying in Cincinnati Zoo on 21 February 1918. The bird was once found from New England in the east to Colorado in the west.\n\nThe bird had green plumage with a yellow head, and measured about 13ins (33cm) long. They lived in old-growth forests along rivers and in swamps.\n\nCarolina parakeets in a plate from John James Audubon's The Birds of America, published in sections between 1827 and 1838\n\n\"Many endangered species have been sequenced and what seems to be a pattern is that when populations are small and declining for a long period of time, this leaves some signals in their genomes that can be recognised,\" co-author Carles Lalueza-Fox, from the University of Barcelona, explained.\n\n\"Even if you have a single specimen, as here, we have a genome from the father and a genome from the mother; two copies of each chromosome. If the population has been small for thousands of years, these two copies will be very similar to each other and over long stretches sometimes they will be identical.\"\n\nWhen a population is large, Dr Lalueza-Fox explained, the two chromosome copies will be more different genetically. Indeed, this is exactly what the team saw in the Carolina parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis).\n\n\"The inference is that this bird was not subjected to a very long demographic decline for thousands of years, it was something very quick,\" the University of Barcelona geneticist explained.\n\nSpanish TV journalist Pere Renom with Carles Lalueza-Fox. The process of extracting and analysing the bird's genome was filmed for a documentary in Spain\n\nDr Lalueza-Fox noted that the extinct bird's closest living relative, the Sun parakeet (Aratinga solstitialis), which is native to South America, has much less genetic variation.\n\nThe precise mechanism of the Carolina parakeet's extinction remains mysterious, however.\n\nDeforestation, along with hunting and trapping, must both have played roles in its demise. Disease and even competition with non-native honeybees may also have been factors.\n\nThe birds congregated in large, noisy flocks and were gregarious in their behaviour. Contemporary observers noted that they would return to the locations of dead or dying birds, which made the wholesale slaughter of flocks even easier for hunters.\n\nThe American naturalist John James Audubon had commented on the birds' declining numbers in 1832. The birds had disappeared from the wild by the early 20th Century.\n\nA Carolina parakeet is shown in an engraving from the late 18th Century\n\nThe researchers also found signs of a genetic adaptation to the bird's toxic diet. The Carolina parakeet had a liking for eating cockleburs, a coarse flowering plant that contains a powerful toxin called carboxyatractyloside.\n\nThe toxin accumulated in the bird's tissues, and there are records of cats that ate Carolina parakeets being found dead.\n\nThe researchers uncovered genetic changes in two proteins known to interact with carboxyatractyloside that could underlie a dietary adaptation to the poison.\n\nThe birds are one target for de-extinction, the scientific discipline which seeks to bring lost species back from the dead.\n\nOne approach might be to take the Sun parakeet, and use genome editing to modify its DNA code to look like its extinct relative. But despite the similarities between the two species, this will be far from straightforward.\n\nHundreds of specimens of the extinct bird remain in museums\n\n\"If we compare both genomes, we can easily see there is a list of several hundred protein coding genes that have changes, that also seem to be functionally important,\" Prof Lalueza-Fox told BBC News.\n\n\"It's an enormous task. But even if we wanted to do that, as far as I know, nobody has been able to clone a bird... nobody knows how to modify something before it becomes an egg.\n\n\"If anything, this genome illustrates the enormous difficulties behind the de-extinction ideas. I am not saying it's impossible, but it is incredibly difficult.\"\n\nThe last captive Carolina parakeet died in the same cage that the last passenger pigeon had died in four years earlier. The decline of both birds parallels the rapid expansion of people across the United States over the 19th Century.\n\nThe genome-sequencing project began when a journalist discovered a specimen was held in a private collection in Espinelves, North-Eastern Spain. The stuffed bird had been acquired by an ancestor of the current owners.\n\nThe study has been published by the journal Current Biology.", "Caroline Flack is due to appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court on 23 December\n\nLove Island host Caroline Flack has been charged with assault by beating following an incident at her north London home.\n\nPolice were called to the 40-year-old's home in Islington, where she lives with her partner, tennis player Lewis Burton, at 05:25 GMT on Thursday.\n\nOfficers attended after reports of a man being assaulted. The man was not seriously injured, police said.\n\nMs Flack will appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court on 23 December.\n\nShe was bailed until that date.\n\nA London Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: \"We were called on 12 December to a residential address in Islington.\n\n\"We treated two people at the scene and took one person to hospital.\"\n\nA spokesman for Caroline Flack said: \"We confirm that police attended Caroline's home following a private domestic incident.\n\n\"She is co-operating with the appropriate people to resolve matters. We will not be making any further comment for legal reasons.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "Iain Watson's view from a wind-chilled knoll in Middlesbrough was not promising\n\nLabour's lost its fourth general election in a row. And it will soon have a new leader. But will this be enough to get it back into government?\n\nI perched on a grassy knoll on the outskirts of Middlesbrough on the eve of poll.\n\nIt was the perfect vantage point for surveying the turnout at one of Jeremy Corbyn's last campaign rallies, in an adjoining open-air car park.\n\nThis was a far cry from the mass rallies I had seen in the 2017 campaign - but, to be fair, it was a week day and it was freezing.\n\nBut it wasn't the enthusiasm of the hardy activists that was in question, but the loyalty of Labour voters who had voted to leave the EU.\n\nI was hearing they were also about to leave behind their traditional party loyalties, despite party chairman Ian Lavery declaring at the rally: \"This election has nothing to do with Brexit.\"\n\nI was told that seats which had been Labour since their creation - such as Blyth Valley - could fall.\n\nLocal and regional activists, however, were hoping the North East of England would be unduly disastrous for the party and that other areas would fare better.\n\nBut I was also being told of problems in the West and East Midlands and, 24 hours later, the dire predictions proved accurate.\n\nIndeed, the final result nationally was worse than insiders feared.\n\nJeremy Corbyn's election result brought back memories of Michael Foot (right) in 1983, rather than Tony Blair (centre) in 1997, 2001 and 2005\n\nWell placed sources thought Labour would suffer a net loss of seats but wouldn't fall below 230. The more pessimistic confided a figure of 220.\n\nIn the end, with 203 seats, it was a worse parliamentary haul than Michael Foot's post-war low in 1983.\n\nThe immediate battle now is over the narrative of why Labour lost.\n\nHe or she who controls the past controls the future.\n\nSo that's why shadow chancellor John McDonnell was quick out of the traps to blame the defeat on Brexit.\n\nNo need to search for wider difficulties, or to change the party's direction.\n\nThe grassroots movement he formed with Jon Lansman - Momentum - declared it would \"keep Labour socialist\".\n\nThe policies were popular; it was just that the wider public hadn't fully appreciated this.\n\nLaura Pidcock lost her seat, to the disappointment of many on Labour's Left\n\nIf this narrative wins, it would help clear the ground for another leader from Mr Corbyn's wing of the party.\n\nSome close to Mr Corbyn hoped that would be shadow minister Laura Pidcock, but the public begged to differ and ejected her from her Durham seat.\n\nSo the current favourite on the Left is shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey. When Mr McDonnell says the next leader should be a woman, he is almost certainly thinking of her.\n\nBut other candidates and therefore other narratives are available.\n\nDefeated parliamentary candidates, such as Phil Wilson in Sedgefield, Tony Blair's old seat, and Ruth Smeeth, in Stoke, have pointed out that Mr Corbyn's leadership came up on the doorstep more than Brexit.\n\nThe party's former general secretary, Lord McNicol, has said the problem isn't so much Corbyn as what he called \"Corbynism\" - the move of the party to the left, with a narrower group of less experienced MPs in frontbench positions, and an offer of change that may have seemed too radical for some former supporters.\n\nIf a wider review of the party is on the agenda - a change of direction, not just a change of leader - this could help hopefuls such as Sir Keir Starmer and Emily Thornberry. Sir Keir was never quite trusted by the leadership but the pro-Remain membership has been impressed with him as shadow Brexit secretary. A quick contest would suit him, but Mr Corbyn seems in no rush to go.\n\nSome MPs are muttering that they may even mount a challenge - which needs a fifth of the parliamentary party - if his \"period of reflection\" begins to stretch in to a lengthy meditation.\n\nJess Phillips is touted by many as a possible replacement for Jeremy Corbyn\n\nAnother potential candidate who would move the party away from the Corbyn era is Jess Phillips. Many of the membership may believe she'd try to move the party to the centre, though in the Blair years she would have been regarded as \"soft left\".\n\nBut her supporters hope, in a contest, she would encourage non-members to sign up as \"registered supporters\" (as happened with Mr Corbyn's unanticipated victory in 2015) and re-shape the party as a more social democratic entity, but led by someone who doesn't look or sound like a conventional politician and who may be a match for that other big personality, Boris Johnson.\n\nBut the election post-mortem won't all be about leadership manoeuvring.\n\nI have had activists and insiders complain about the organisation as much as the politics.\n\nOne source said: \"We need to look at why we were sending hundreds of people to Boris Johnson and IDS's (Iain Duncan Smith's) seats, which we couldn't win, when canvassing sessions elsewhere were being cancelled for a lack of volunteers.\"\n\nWhile Momentum tried to divert resources to certain seats, critics say the party itself lacked coherence\n\nSome unions are irritated that they never got a list of target seats or advice on where best to send their members.\n\nOverall, critics complained of a lack of coherence.\n\nCuddly toys were not in the Labour election manifesto\n\nThen there were the policies.\n\nIndividually, some are, by any measure, popular - just as the current leadership claim.\n\nBut taken together, one now former MP told me: \"It was like the Generation Game conveyor belt. One of the few things we didn't offer voters was a cuddly toy, or if we did, I missed it.\n\n\"But all the other items - broadband, pensions, free buses - came so thick and fast no-one could remember them. Not a single voter mentioned a single retail offer on the doorstep.\"\n\nOne phrase unlikely to be used during the \"period of reflection\" is \"Didn't they do well?\"\n\nSo the big question facing the main, but diminished, party of opposition is this: Does it simply want a new leader, or does it really need a new direction?", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon was in buoyant mood as she arrived at the Glasgow count\n\nThe SNP has made big gains across Scotland, with Nicola Sturgeon saying the country had sent a \"clear message\" on a second independence referendum.\n\nThe party won 48 seats after securing 45% of the vote - 8.1% more than in the last general election in 2017, when it won 35 seats.\n\nThe SNP also defeated Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson in East Dunbartonshire.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the result had exceeded her expectations.\n\nThe Conservatives have won six seats, the Liberal Democrats four and Labour one.\n\nNeale Hanvey's victory in Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath is counted as an SNP gain from Labour because he was on the ballot paper as an SNP candidate.\n\nMr Hanvey had been suspended by the party over allegations he made anti-Semitic posts on social media, and will sit as an independent MP.\n\nThe Conservatives and Prime Minister Boris Johnson have won an overall majority across the UK after taking a string of former Labour strongholds in England and Wales.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said it was a \"very disappointing night for the Labour Party\" and confirmed he would not lead the party into the next election.\n\nThe other main developments from Scotland's election night include:\n\nMs Sturgeon, the Scottish first minister, had already pledged to send a letter to the prime minister before Christmas requesting that Holyrood be given the power to hold indyref2.\n\nSpeaking at the Glasgow count, she said she would not pretend that everyone who voted for her party will necessarily support independence.\n\nBut she said it was a \"clear endorsement Scotland should get to decide our future and not have it decided for us\".\n\nMs Sturgeon added: \"Scotland has sent a very clear message - we don't want a Boris Johnson government, we don't want to leave the EU.\n\n\"The results across the rest of the UK are grim but underlines the importance of Scotland having a choice.\n\n\"Boris Johnson has a mandate to take England out of the EU but he must accept that I have a mandate to give Scotland a choice for an alternative future.\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon says she won't pretend that every single person who voted SNP necessarily supports independence. But she will insist this result is a thumping endorsement of her demand for a second referendum.\n\nShe will make an official request in the next few days to be granted the legal power to hold an independence vote.\n\nAnd we know that Boris Johnson will refuse, sparking a huge debate about whether the Conservatives are ignoring the democratic choice of Scottish voters.\n\nIt's a debate that can only escalate as we leave the EU - and one which may fuel support for independence itself.\n\nScottish Secretary Alister Jack, who held Dumfries and Galloway for the Conservatives, said more people cast votes for unionist parties in Scotland than for the SNP.\n\nAnd he was adamant the prime minister should continue to block Ms Sturgeon's calls for power to hold an independence ballot.\n\nThe Conservative vote had fallen by 3.5% to 25.1% across Scotland, while the Labour vote was down by 8.5% to 18.6%. The Liberal Democrat vote actually increased by 2.8% to 9.5% despite the loss of the party's leader.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon: \"I have a mandate to offer that choice\"\n\nRutherglen and Hamilton West was the first Scottish constituency to declare its result at 01:25, with Margaret Ferrier - who previously held the seat between 2015 and 2017 - polling 23,775 votes, giving her a majority of 5,230 over her Labour rival Ged Killen.\n\nThat early success was quickly followed by the SNP's David Doogan defeating Conservative Kirstene Hair in Angus.\n\nJohn Nicolson won the Ochil and South Perthshire seat after defeating Luke Graham of the Conservatives, while the SNP also won back Midlothian from Labour's Danielle Rowley,\n\nThe SNP's Mhairi Black comfortably held her Paisley and Renfrewshire South seat with a greatly increased majority, while Kenny MacAskill, the former Scottish justice secretary, won the East Lothian seat from Labour.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jo Swinson lost her seat in Dunbartonshire East to the SNP\n\nSNP MEP Alyn Smith won Stirling from Stephen Kerr of the Conservatives, but Scottish Secretary Alister Jack held Dumfries and Galloway for the Tories.\n\nDouglas Ross also held his Moray seat for the Conservatives, while his colleague David Mundell held Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale.\n\nThe SNP's Stephen Gethins lost by 1,316 votes to Wendy Chamberlain of the Liberal Democrats in Fife North East. Mr Gethins had won the seat by just two votes in 2017.\n\nAnd Labour's Ian Murray held on in Edinburgh South, meaning he is the party's only MP in Scotland.\n\nMr Murray, a longstanding critic of Mr Corbyn, warned that his party's ideology must change or else it will \"die\" and said voters he spoke to on the doorsteps during this campaign did not see Mr Corbyn as prime minister and could not see Labour as a credible alternative government.\n\nFor a nationwide breakdown of results, see our results page.\n\nOr you can browse the A-Z list.\n\nThe SNP are once again the undoubted winners of the night, taking a slew of seats from their opponents including a big scalp in the form of Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson.\n\nThe party haven't had it all their own way - running up against Tory resistance in a few seats and losing North East Fife to the Lib Dems - but Nicola Sturgeon's team have piled on thousands of votes in every seat and have already secured a landslide.\n\nLabour, meanwhile, have collapsed across Scotland, with their share of the vote down sharply. They even lost the shadow Scottish secretary, Lesley Laird, to a candidate disowned by the SNP and who will sit as an independent.\n\nThe Conservatives have clinched victory UK-wide, but have lost a clutch of Scottish seats to the SNP - and will be wondering what this means for their campaign to \"stop indyref2\".\n\nThe Lib Dem vote share is up in most places, but any progress will be massively overshadowed by the loss of Ms Swinson. The party's leader has just gone from touting herself as a future prime minister to losing her seat for the second time in four years.", "Boris Johnson's character - and what type of Brexit looms - dominate opinion in European newspapers - and for many the two are intertwined.\n\n\"Finally, there is clarity,\" declares Germany's Die Zeit, under the headline \"Winning power unscrupulously\" and a picture of a triumphant Mr Johnson.\n\n\"The United Kingdom and the EU should be relieved that the turmoil of a minority government and a parliamentary blockade are finally over. The past three years have brought democracy in the UK to the brink of its ability to function - and have strained the EU's patience,\" it says.\n\n\"Economically, leaving the EU for the UK is of course still harmful. But that's not been the point for a long time. Most Britons have long known that they have been lied to.\"\n\nWriting in the Irish Independent, John Downing eyes the implications for Ireland - both north and south. \"Two immediate things will result in Ireland. First is there will be an election in the Republic of Ireland in February or early March… Second is that the Democratic Unionist Party is surplus to requirements. They must join Sinn Féin in getting over themselves to make power-sharing in Belfast work again after three years of shameful idleness.\"\n\nOnce the EU-UK draft divorce deal agreed in October becomes law in London and Brussels, he says, talks will open on a new post-Brexit trade deal.\n\n\"Every time the UK talks about abandoning EU standards, they risk being penalised by quotas and tariffs. That would be really bad news for Ireland which does a cumulative east-west trade worth €1.5bn (£1.25bn; $1.68bn) per week. It's even worse news for Northern Ireland business where seamless north-south trade depends on those EU standards.\"\n\n\"A tough few years beckon. You can forget Boris Johnson's campaign claims that a new EU-UK trade deal can be done by December 2020.\"\n\nIn the Netherlands which, like Ireland, would be at the sharp end of a potential no-deal Brexit, financial daily Het Financieele Dagblad argues Mr Johnson's big victory could be good news.\n\n\"After all, the prime minister will be less dependent on the hard Brexiteers in his party, which could simplify the negotiations about a future trade relationship,\" it says.\n\nAnd this is echoed in Sweden, where tabloid Aftonbladet says: \"Paradoxically, Johnson's vast majority may mean that he does not need to listen as much to those who want a hard Brexit - if it is as many people think, that he wants to see a softer Brexit… In that case, we are back in the carousel of the EU having to give the British more time.\"\n\nBelgium's De Tijd also sees Brexit throwing up huge challenges in the coming year, although it believes the Conservatives' pledge to \"get Brexit done\" landed well with voters \"thoroughly fed up\" with the issue.\n\n\"But even Johnson will not be able to pull a solution out of his top hat,\" it says. \"That is not a problem, of course. Johnson has broken big promises before… Now that Johnson has grabbed his much-desired absolute majority in the House of Commons, new cliff-hangers are expected, and the Brexit soap will continue\".\n\nSpain's papers focus on Boris Johnson's character as a key factor. \"Firm. Strong. Nice. Charismatic. Incompetent. Dishonest. Fake. Unreliable… This is how the British define Boris Johnson,\" El Mundo says.\n\n\"Many see his hostile treatment of parliament during his first two months as a presage of what's coming next. With an absolute majority, it is feared that Boris Johnson could behave like a real despot and promote a definitive \"decollage\" from Europe, pivoting British society towards the American model (after all, he was born in New York).\"\n\nSpain's El Confidencial says Mr Johnson has never been a traditional politician. \"His shabby appearance, transparent language and stormy relationship with the truth define a personal brand that both attracts and frightens. Either thanks to it or in spite of it, he swept the polls.\"\n\nGermany's Süddeutsche Zeitung is optimistic, declaring \"Boris Johnson had an easy time\". Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn \"was the best campaigner for the Conservatives\", it believes.\n\nThe paper urges Mr Johnson, with a powerful mandate, to take a particular path. \"His whopping majority will allow him to negotiate a gentle Brexit that will help Britain's economy and avoid big shocks.\"\n\nBut there's gloom over at Sweden's liberal Dagens Nyheter. \"Openness to the outside world made modern Britain what it is today. Now the fog lowers across the English Channel. The continent is isolated. \"\n\nBBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "The league tables aim to hold primary schools to account\n\nNew primary school league table data for England has been published by the Department for Education.\n\nThe tables are based on how 11-year-olds in each school performed in national curriculum tests - or Sats - taken at the end of primary school.\n\nThey provide a snapshot of how well each school is performing and tracks pupils' progress.\n\nThe aim is to hold schools to account and to give parents a way of comparing schools in their areas.\n\nSorry, your browser does not support this tool. \n\n Please visit the Department for Education. 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Department for Education website\n\nThis year was the fourth time children sat the government's tougher tests, introduced in 2016.\n\nData published by the government in September showed 65% of pupils met the expected standard across all tests: reading, writing and mathematics - up from 64% last year.\n\nThe statistics also show the gap between girls and boys has widened, with girls continuing to outperform boys across all subjects at the expected standard.\n\nIn 2019, 70% of girls reached the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, compared with 60% of boys - a gender gap of 10 percentage points, up from eight in 2018.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe information, which was published by the Department for Education at 09:30 GMT on Friday, takes those results down to the school level.\n\nReaders can check how schools in their area have performed through the BBC News postcode search tool.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "EU leaders hope for more UK clarity on Brexit now after Boris Johnson's triumph\n\n\"Friday the 13th really has lived up to its hype,\" an EU diplomat texted me this morning. The same diplomat who mournfully noted as soon as the first exit polls were published: \"This means bye-bye to our British friends.\"\n\nThere was a heaviness of heart about Europe's leaders as they gathered in Brussels for the second day of an EU summit. They have never hidden their sadness at the UK vote to leave.\n\nBut at the same time there was a distinct sense of European relief. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte noted the election result meant \"on the British side they can speed up the process (of Brexit)\".\n\nThree years of Brexit uncertainty has been corrosive - not just in the UK, but in the EU too. It has overshadowed the workings of the bloc and been costly for European business.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEU leaders' sigh of relief at a comfortable majority for Boris Johnson has nothing to do with their political affiliations and a lot to do with \"getting Brexit done\", as the prime minister has so loved to repeat on a loop.\n\nExcept that - as Brussels is all too aware - Mr Johnson's intention to ratify the Brexit divorce deal in parliament next month, legally ending the UK's EU membership, only means getting Phase One of Brexit done.\n\nPhase Two will see the arduous task of agreeing the future relationship between the two sides. Something Boris Johnson promised voters would be signed, sealed and delivered by this time next year.\n\nEU leaders were expected to call later on Friday for a broad, ambitious, comprehensive trade deal with post-Brexit UK. But I've not met anyone in EU circles who believes that that will be possible by December 2020.\n\nBoris Johnson won the biggest Conservative majority since the days of Margaret Thatcher\n\nThe hope in Europe is that Boris Johnson's strong majority in parliament will allow him room to manoeuvre.\n\nHe will no longer be beholden to any particular faction of his party, including hardline Brexiteers, so fingers are crossed in Brussels that Mr Johnson will use that political freedom to work towards a softer Brexit - a closer relationship with the EU - carefully negotiated over time, rather than in haste over the next few months.\n\nBut the truth is no-one knows if that might be an attractive prospect for the prime minister. \"Which Boris Johnson is Europe going to get?\" asks one prominent headline in Germany's Die Welt newspaper.\n\nWhichever direction the new UK government chooses, EU leaders' main message today will be \"We are ready\".\n\nIf Boris Johnson sticks to his December 2020 timetable, the EU is preparing to offer him a bare-bones Free Trade Agreement (FTA). It says that is the most both sides could aspire to in a matter of a few months.\n\nBut plain sailing this is unlikely to be. Brussels plans to insist that in order to get that \"quick and dirty\" deal, the prime minister would have to sign up to EU conditions: alignment with EU environmental, state aid and tax regulations for example.\n\nOn Friday, European Council President Charles Michel reiterated that these so-called level playing field rules are an absolute priority for the EU.\n\nWould Boris Johnson be willing to countenance that?\n\nIf he did, voters could well ask him about the post-Brexit national sovereignty and taking back of control from the EU that he promised them.\n\nThere would also be the real risk of no deal being agreed at all. Meaning that after December 2020, the EU and UK would be trading under World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, meaning eye-watering tariffs for both sides and no agreement in place on services (which make up 80% of the UK economy), or on security co-operation (which the EU dearly hopes for).\n\nWhen it comes to trade, as was the case during the divorce talks, EU leaders believe they hold most of the cards.\n\nThe UK market is important, of course, but it is less of a priority for Brussels than the sum total of their single market.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEU leaders will not want to break rules in trade negotiations with the UK that could lead to the untangling or devaluing of their single market, or set an unfavourable precedent for them in trade talks with other countries.\n\nThat said, the EU members, and Germany in particular, are anxious that UK-EU relations should not turn sour.\n\nChancellor Angela Merkel is focused on the bigger picture. She too does not want to harm the single market - Germany is a huge beneficiary - but she is also keen not to alienate the UK.\n\nThe EU will be undeniably weaker after it loses one of its biggest and most influential members.\n\nWith an unpredictable Donald Trump in the White House, relations volatile with Russia and a growing EU wariness vis-a-vis an ambitious, autocratic China, Mrs Merkel and other EU leaders hope the UK will remain onside on the world stage, even after Brexit.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "Money may go further for those on Christmas holidays overseas this year\n\nAs the country contemplates the election results, people's thoughts will turn to the potential effect on their finances.\n\nMoney matters are often to the fore at this, expensive, time of year. The December election is likely to mean some changes to the pound in your pocket before the winter is out, with other changes more long-term.\n\nHere are some of the key issues, based on the Conservative Party's manifesto, its plans before the campaign and its promises during it.\n\nThose who are heading abroad for Christmas will see their holiday money go a little further.\n\nThe value of the pound improved against the US dollar and the euro when the Conservative victory became clear, and this will now have fed through to the rates at bureaux de change.\n\nHowever, travelling overseas at this time of year can be very expensive, so this will only bring a little relief.\n\nThe big set-piece financial event of the year had been planned for November, but was postponed as the prime minister pushed for an election.\n\nDuring the campaign, Boris Johnson promised a Budget within 100 days of the polling day if the Conservatives were elected. This is likely to mean a Budget in February or March, setting any changes to taxes, benefits and allowances in time for the start of the new financial year in April.\n\nMr Johnson promised that a tax break for workers, through a change to National Insurance, would be confirmed in that first Budget.\n\nThe current threshold sees workers paying National Insurance contributions once they earn £8,628 a year. The Conservatives said this would rise to £9,500.\n\nEconomists at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) calculated this would be worth about £85 a year for all those with earnings above £9,500 a year.\n\nThis Budget - and any subsequent ones during this five-year Parliament - will see no income tax or VAT rises (nor any National Insurance rises), according to a promise in the Conservative Party's manifesto. However, this was described as \"ill-advised\" by the IFS owing to the potential lack of room for financial manoeuvre it creates.\n\nThe Budget is likely to confirm the biggest increase in the state pension since 2012, with pensioners expected to receive a 3.9% boost.\n\nThe full, new state pension is expected to go up from £168.60 a week to about £175.20 in April. However, most pensioners get the older basic state pension, which is likely to go up from £129.20 to £134.25 per week. They may also get a Pension Credit top-up.\n\nThe rise is the result of the triple-lock system, which means that the state pension rises in line with inflation, earnings or 2.5% - whichever is the highest. The Conservatives have pledged to keep this in place, as it has with the winter fuel payment and free bus passes for older people.\n\nA Pensions Bill is, to use one of Mr Johnson's phrases, oven-ready. It had been prepared before the election was called and includes new protection for those with workplace pensions, and reforms to allow a new type of shared-risk pension scheme to be made available.\n\nThere is also a longer-term promise in the manifesto to look at a pension \"loophole\" that has seen workers, disproportionately women, who earn between £10,000 and £12,500 missing out on pension benefits.\n\nDespite a number of pension changes in the offing, it is hard to see how they will include any compensation for women born in the 1950s who believe they unfairly missed out on the state pension.\n\nThere have been no promises made to the so-called Waspi (Women Against State Pension Inequality), although they will continue to put pressure on the government to address the issue.\n\nThe separate Backto60 group, which campaigns on the same issue, recently lost a high-profile court case.\n\nAt the Conservative Party conference in September, Chancellor Sajid Javid pledged to raise the National Living Wage to £10.50 an hour within the next five years. The current rate for over 25s is £8.21.\n\nThe age at which workers qualify for the National Living Wage - the highest level of minimum wage - is set to drop from 25 to 21 within five years.\n\nCommentators have suggested that there is pent-up demand in the UK housing market - particularly in London. Buyers and sellers have been put off making such a big financial commitment owing to political and economic uncertainty.\n\nNow the first of those is off the table, to a degree, given the size of the Conservative majority, there may be more transactions. More demand could push up prices - which is good for sellers, but bad for first-time buyers.\n\nHowever, one commentator says it may be a short-term phenomenon.\n\n\"We suggest only modest price growth in 2020 on the basis that, despite domestic political uncertainty receding, some economic uncertainty will remain until a trade deal is agreed with the EU,\" says Lucian Cook, director of residential research at Savills.\n\n\"This could mean a bounce in demand in the first part of 2020 proves difficult to sustain through the summer months and into the autumn market.\"\n\nThere is a promise in the manifesto to look carefully at the \"thoughtful\" suggestions in the review into student finance and university and college funding, led by Philip Augar.\n\nIn the short term, this suggests the current freeze of tuition fees in England at their current level of £9,250 will continue.\n\nUniversal Credit has been one of the most controversial benefit reforms of a generation. A Conservative victory means the roll-out across the country will now continue.\n\nUniversal Credit is a benefit for working-age people, replacing six benefits including Income Support and Housing Benefit and merging them into one payment.\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions announced in November that working-age benefits such as Universal Credit and Jobseeker's Allowance would rise by 1.7% from April.\n\nIt ends former chancellor George Osborne's decision to introduce a freeze which, according to the IFS, has cut an average of £560 per year from the income of the country's poorest seven million families since 2016.\n\nThe Conservative manifesto promised free parking at hospitals for people with disabilities, those who attend outpatient departments frequently, parents of sick children staying overnight and staff working night shifts.\n\nIt also promises to pave the way for longer-term mortgages, more similar to a US system, although there will be some regulatory and practical hurdles to clear before that becomes reality. There are questions too over whether there would be demand for such products among people who may wish to move more frequently.\n\nMr Johnson also spoke a during the campaign, and prior to it, of a plan to abolish the 5% VAT rate on sanitary products once the UK has left the EU, which he called the \"tampon tax\".", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nigel Farage: \"I killed the Liberal Democrats and hurt the Labour party\"\n\nThe Brexit Party has \"killed the Liberal Democrats and hurt the Labour Party\", Nigel Farage has claimed.\n\nThe Conservatives won 365 seats in the 2019 general election - up 47 from before the vote.\n\nLabour won 203 seats (down 59), the SNP 48 (up 13) and the Lib Dems 11 (down by one). The Brexit Party did not win any.\n\nBut Mr Farage said the party took thousands of votes from Tory opponents and he was happy with its \"influence\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC after the announcement of the exit poll results, he said the Conservatives would win or come close in dozens of seats where they otherwise would not have done without the Brexit Party's help.\n\nHe added: \"I killed the Liberal Democrats and I hurt the Labour Party.\"\n\nHe said the party had killed off hopes of another referendum.\n\nMeanwhile, Brexit Party chairman Richard Tice failed in his bid to win the constituency of Hartlepool.\n\nMEP Mr Tice received 10,603 votes - around a thousand fewer than the Conservative candidate and nearly 5,000 fewer than Labour's Mike Hill, who won the seat.\n\nIf you cannot see the lookup tool, click here.\n\nThe election delivered a Commons majority of 80 for Prime Minister Boris Johnson.\n\nMr Farage claimed that Tory majority would not exist if his party had not withdrawn from fielding candidates in 317 Conservative-held seats.\n\n\"I can tell you that if we had stood in every seat in the country it would have been a hung Parliament,\" he said. \"That would have been a disaster.\"\n\nHe added: \"I was determined, in this election, we would use our influence to stop a second referendum. That overwhelmingly was behind our decision to stand down in 317 seats.\n\n\"Jo Swinson herself said that effectively poleaxed her campaign. And then taking the fight to Labour was important.\n\nHe added: \"Would I like to have won a few seats? Yes of course.\"\n\nBorn out of frustration with delays to the UK's departure from the EU, the Brexit Party was launched in April 2019, with ex-UKIP leader Mr Farage leading it.\n\nWhen asked if the Brexit Party was now \"finished\", Mr Farage said: \"We've used our influence, that's the important thing. If we get Brexit... we've done a good job.\"\n\nArron Banks, who campaigned to leave the European Union alongside Mr Farage, said the exit poll suggested a \"brilliant victory\" for Boris Johnson, who now had a \"strong majority\" to negotiate a free trade deal with the EU.\n\nHe added that while the Brexit Party was now \"over\", the \"pressure\" applied to the Tories had helped return them to their \"roots\".\n\n\"We set out to make the Conservative Party conservative again - and it's job done,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BedMachine Antarctic: Fly over the new map\n\nThe deepest point on continental Earth has been identified in East Antarctica, under Denman Glacier.\n\nThis ice-filled canyon reaches 3.5km (11,500ft) below sea level. Only in the ocean are the valleys deeper still.\n\nThe discovery is illustrated in a new map of the White Continent that reveals the shape of the bedrock under the ice sheet in unprecedented detail.\n\nIts features will be critical to our understanding of how the polar south might change in the future.\n\nThe new map, called BedMachine Antarctica, shows, for example, previously unrecognised ridges that will impede the retreat of melting glaciers in a warming world; and, alternatively, a number of smooth, sloping terrains that could accelerate withdrawals.\n\n\"This is undoubtedly the most accurate portrait yet of what lies beneath Antarctica's ice sheet,\" said Dr Mathieu Morlighem, who's worked on the project for six years.\n\nDenman's deep trough (dark blue) is 20km wide and 100km long - all filled with ice\n\nThe University of California, Irvine, researcher is presenting his new compilation here at the American Geophysical Union's Fall Meeting. It is also being published simultaneously in the journal Nature Geoscience.\n\nThe map essentially fills all of the gaps in airborne surveys of the continent.\n\nFor decades, radar instruments have crisscrossed Antarctica, sending down microwave pulses to peer through the ice and trace the underlying rock topography. But there are still vast areas for which there is little or no data.\n\nDr Morlighem's solution has been to use some physics - mass conservation - to plug these holes.\n\nFor instance, if it's known how much ice is entering a narrow valley and how fast it's moving - the volume of that ice can be worked out, giving an insight into the depth and roughness of the hidden valley floor.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mathieu Morlighem: \"The shape of the underlying bedrock influences how glaciers flow\"\n\nFor the 20km-wide Denman Glacier, which flows towards the ocean in Queen Mary Land, this approach reveals the ice to be descending to over 3,500m below sea level.\n\n\"The trenches in the oceans are deeper, but this is the deepest canyon on land,\" explained Dr Morlighem.\n\n\"There have been many attempts to sound the bed of Denman, but every time they flew over the canyon - they couldn't see it in the radar data.\n\n\"The trough is so entrenched that you get side-echoes from the walls of the valley and they make it impossible to detect the reflection from the actual bed of the glacier,\" he told BBC News.\n\nFor comparison, the deepest ocean point - in the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific - goes to just shy of 11km below the sea surface. There are land canyons that can be described as having taller sides, such as Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon in China, but their floors are above sea level.\n\nThe lowest exposed land on Earth, at the Dead Sea shore, is a mere 413m (1,355ft) below sea level.\n\nByrd Glacier is a giant ice stream that cuts through the Transantarctic Mountains\n\nMuch of what is in BedMachine Antarctica may not - at first glance - look that different from previous bedmaps. But, on closer inspection, there are some fascinating details that will generate considerable discussion among polar experts.\n\nFor example, along the Transantarctic Mountains there is a series of glaciers that cut through from the continent's eastern plateau and feed into the Ross Sea. The new data shows a high ridge sits under these glaciers that will limit the speed at which they can drain the plateau. This will be important if future warming destabilises the floating shelf of ice that currently sits on top of the Ross Sea. Removal of this platform would ordinarily be expected to speed up the flow of feeding glaciers.\n\n\"If something happened to the Ross Sea Ice Shelf - and right now it's fine, but if something happened - it will most likely not trigger the collapse of East Antarctica through these 'gates'. If East Antarctica is threatened, it's not from the Ross Sea,\" Dr Morlighem said.\n\nAirborne instruments are used to map Antarctica, but there are still huge data gaps\n\nIn contrast to the situation in the Transantarctic Mountains, BedMachine Antarctica finds few impediments to the rapid retreat of Thwaites Glacier. Roughly the size of the UK, this mighty ice stream terminates in the Amundsen Sea in the west of the continent.\n\nIt worries scientists because it sits on a bed that slopes back towards the land - a geometry that tends to assist thinning and withdrawal. And the new map reveals only two ridges, some 30km and 50km upstream of Thwaites' current grounding line, that could act as potential brakes. Go past these and the melting glacier's pull-back could be unstoppable.\n\nBedMachine Antarctica will be fed into climate models that try to project how the continent might evolve as temperatures on Earth rise in the coming centuries.\n\nGetting realistic simulations out of these models depends on having more precise information on the thickness of the ice sheet and the type of terrain over which it must slide.\n\nCo-worker Dr Emma Smith from Germany's Alfred Wegener Institute uses this analogy: \"Imagine if you poured a bunch of treacle on to a flat surface and watched how it flowed outwards. Then pour the same treacle on to a surface with a lot of lumps and bumps, different slopes and ridges - the way the treacle would spread out would be very different. And it's exactly the same with the ice on Antarctica,\" she told BBC News.\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"There is no such thing as Corbynism\"\n\nJeremy Corbyn says he did \"everything he could\" to get Labour into power and will not \"walk away\" until another leader is elected.\n\nThe Labour leader said the election, which saw the Conservatives sweep aside his party in its traditional heartlands, was \"taken over by Brexit\".\n\nMr Corbyn said he was \"obviously very sad\" but also had \"pride\" in the manifesto his party put forward.\n\nSome people within Labour have blamed Mr Corbyn's leadership for the defeat.\n\nFormer Labour MP John Mann said the leader's unpopularity on the doorstep was palpable and Mr Corbyn should have \"gone already\" after presiding over his party's worst election performance since the 1930s.\n\nLord Blunkett, a former Labour cabinet minister, called for the party leadership to apologise for the defeat, adding that they were \"lacking in any contrite belief that they made a mistake\".\n\nAt 33%, Labour's share of the vote was down around eight points on the 2017 general election and is lower than that achieved by Neil Kinnock in 1992.\n\nMr Corbyn said it was up to the National Executive, the ruling body of the party, to decide when he would go, adding it was likely a new leader would be selected in the early part of next year.\n\nHe said he would not step down as leader yet because the \"responsible thing to do is not to walk away from the whole thing\".\n\nAsked whether he was part of the problem, he said: \"I've done everything I could to lead this party… and since I became leader the membership has more than doubled and the party has developed a very serious, radical yes, but serious and fully-costed manifesto\".\n\nKeir Starmer, one of the favourites to be the new leader, says it's \"a big task\" to rebuild Labour\n\nKeir Starmer, one of the favourites to replace Mr Corbyn as leader, said there was \"no hiding\" from the election result which was \"devastating for our party\".\n\nHe said it was the party's duty to \"rebuild\" which was going to be \"a very big task\".\n\nAsked if he wanted to be the next leader, he said: \"I think this is the time for reflecting and understanding the result. I don't underestimate the size of the task ahead.\"\n\nUnite union boss Len McCluskey, an influential Labour ally, said the result was \"deeply, deeply disappointing\" and the party had \"failed\" because it had tried \"to go beyond Brexit\".\n\nIn an article for the Huffington Post, he blamed Labour's poor election performance on Jeremy Corbyn's \"failure to apologise for anti-Semitism\" and an \"incontinent rush of policies which appeared to offer everything to everyone immediately\".\n\nHe did praise Mr Corbyn's \"right and honourable\" decision to adopt a neutral stance in a future Brexit referendum, but said the strategy was \"fatally undermined from the outset by leading members of the shadow cabinet rushing to the TV cameras to pledge that they would support Remain\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour MP Stephen Kinnock, meanwhile, was adamant it was \"not a Tory victory\" but \"a damning indictment of Labour's failure\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC's Question Time, he said the party's loosening ties to its working class heartlands had been \"turbo charged by Brexit\".\n\nShadow cabinet member Barry Gardiner said his party needed to reflect on \"what was wrong in the offer that we put forward to the country and what it was people did not feel confident about in our manifesto\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Any Questions that Labour needed to move fast to regain the trust of the country.\n\nThe Conservatives took Labour strongholds across northern England, the Midlands and Wales in areas which backed Brexit in the 2016 referendum.\n\nSome traditional Labour constituencies, such as Darlington, Sedgefield and Workington, in the north of England, have a Conservative MP for the first time in decades - or in the case of Bishop Auckland and Blyth Valley - for the first time since the seat was created.\n\nMr Corbyn was re-elected with a reduced majority of 26,188 as the MP for Islington North.\n\nThe likely candidates are keeping their powder dry, but skirmishes have begun over the reasons for Labour's lowest tally of seats since the 1930s.\n\nThose close to Jeremy Corbyn blamed Brexit, media hostility… even the weather.\n\nThe party chairman Ian Lavery singled out the party's commitment to a second referendum.\n\nAnd Laura Parker from the left-wing grassroots group, Momentum, insisted Jeremy Corbyn was the victim of unfortunate political timing.\n\nReflecting on his party's defeat, My Corbyn said: \"My whole strategy was to reach out beyond the Brexit divide to try and bring people together because ultimately the country has to come together.\"\n\nThe party promised to renegotiate Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Brexit deal, and put it to a referendum vote alongside the option of remaining in the EU.\n\nAsked what went wrong for the party, he said: \"Those in Leave areas, in some numbers, voted for Brexit or Conservative candidates which meant that we lost a number of seats and we didn't make the gains that I'd hoped we could have done\".\n\nAsked whether \"Corbynism\" is now dead, he said: \"There is no such thing as Corbyninsm… there is socialism.\"\n\nHe added: \"I don't think [socialist ideas] are unelectable.\"\n\nMr Corbyn said his party's policies were individually \"very popular\" and there was no \"huge debate\" about them within the party.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour candidate Gareth Snell calls for Jeremy Corbyn to step down\n\nDame Margaret Hodge, MP for Barking, said under Mr Corbyn's leadership, Labour had become the \"nasty party\", with anti-Semitism allowed to flourish.\n\nSpeaking about his party's handling of the issue, the Labour leader said: \"I inherited a system that didn't work in the Labour party on anti-Semitism, I introduced the rule changes necessary to deal with it and they're in operation.\n\n\"Anti-Semitism is an absolute evil curse within our society and I will always condemn it and also do and always will\".\n\nMeanwhile, the rapper Stormzy, who backed Labour ahead of the election and described Mr Corbyn as \"a man of hope\", has told BBC Radio 1Xtra that the result feels like \"a dark cloud\".", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Election 2019: Corbyn 'will not lead party in future campaign'\n\nJeremy Corbyn has said he will not lead Labour into the next election, following a \"very disappointing night\".\n\nWith one seat left to declare, the party has won 203 seats.\n\nMr Corbyn said he would stay on as leader during a \"process of reflection\", and said Brexit had \"polarised\" politics which had \"overridden normal political debate\".\n\nBut others within Labour, including former MPs who lost their seats, blamed Mr Corbyn's leadership.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said Mr Corbyn was not intending to resign and it could take until April for a leadership contest to take place.\n\nOn the night, the Conservatives won a big majority, sweeping aside Labour strongholds across northern England, the Midlands and Wales in areas which backed Brexit in the 2016 referendum.\n\nSome traditional Labour constituencies, such as Darlington, Sedgefield and Workington, in the north of England, will have a Conservative MP for the first time in decades - or in the case of Bishop Auckland and Blyth Valley - for the first time since the seat was created.\n\nAt 33%, Labour's share of the vote is down around eight points on the 2017 general election and is lower than that achieved by Neil Kinnock in 1992.\n\nSpeaking at his election count in Islington North, where he was re-elected with a reduced majority, Mr Corbyn said Labour had put forward a \"manifesto of hope\" and criticised the \"way the media behaved\" towards his party during the campaign.\n\nBut he added: \"Brexit has so polarised and divided debate in this country, it has overridden so much of a normal political debate.\"\n\n\"I recognise that has contributed to the results that the Labour Party has received this evening all across this country.\"\n\nLabour primarily campaigned on a promise to end austerity by increasing spending on public services.\n\nThe party also promised to renegotiate Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Brexit deal, and then put it to a referendum vote alongside the option of remaining in the EU.\n\nThat strategy was criticised by party chairman Ian Lavery, who said it had led voters in traditional Labour seats to believe it was \"a Remain party\".\n\n\"They believe they should have been listened to - and they think that the Labour party have totally reneged on the result,\" he said.\n\nBut he added the strategy was not \"Jeremy Corbyn's decision\", as it had been approved by delegates at the party's September conference.\n\nFormer Labour MP John Mann said the leader's unpopularity on the doorstep was palpable and Mr Corbyn should have \"gone already\".\n\nOthers have blamed the party's support for another Brexit referendum and the long-running anti-Semitism row.\n\nMargaret Hodge, MP for Barking, said Labour had become the \"nasty party\".\n\nGiven the result, you might assume Jeremy Corbyn would swiftly fall on his sword - but he has instead called for a period of quiet reflection.\n\nParty rules make it difficult to oust him, but already senior figures are asking how long this period will last.\n\nSenior figures at Westminster and in local government feel delaying an inevitable leadership contest will lead to a similar result in May's council elections.\n\nMr Corbyn seems intent on staying in place until someone from his wing of the party is ready to take over - but the defeat of shadow minister Laura Pidcock has eliminated one of the potential left-wing leadership challengers.\n\nThose who would prefer shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer are keen that a new leader is in place soon to challenge Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Brexit policy.\n\nThe battle to establish the reasons for the defeat has already begun.\n\nThe narrative from the leadership that Brexit was to blame will be challenged robustly by those who want the party to change direction.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell, a key ally of Mr Corbyn, said he was \"heartbroken\" at the result and insisted he would not take on the party leadership temporarily.\n\n\"At some stage we'll go into a leadership election,\" he said.\n\n\"Jeremy wants to ensure there is a period of reflection.\"\n\nEarlier, he said he did not think the Labour leader had been \"the big issue\" of the campaign.\n\nBut former Labour justice secretary Lord Falconer called for the party to move quickly to replace Mr Corbyn as leader by March or April.\n\nGareth Snell, who lost his Leave-backing Stoke-on-Trent Central seat, called for both Mr Corbyn and Mr McDonnell to quit.\n\nHe accused senior figures in the shadow cabinet, who are defending Remain-voting seats in London, of \"sacrificing\" candidates in marginal constituencies in the Midlands and the north of England.\n\nElsewhere in the city, Ruth Smeeth, who lost her Stoke-on-Trent North seat to the Conservatives, described the election result as \"devastating\".\n\n\"For me, this is about whether the Labour Party has any right to exist [and] whether we have anything left to say,\" she said.\n\nAnother Labour MP to lose her seat, Caroline Flint in Don Valley, said: \"So many of my voters could not and did not want to support Jeremy Corbyn to be prime minister.\"\n\nShe added: \"There are moderate MPs who have driven us into a dead-end regarding Brexit and they have put the pursuit of Remain at the expense of our working-class heartlands and I feel annoyed, to say the least, about that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour candidate Gareth Snell calls for Jeremy Corbyn to step down\n\nShadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer, speaking after holding his Holborn and St Pancras seat, said: \"As a whole movement, we need to reflect on this result and understand it together, but we also have a duty to rebuild, starting now.\"\n\nYvette Cooper, who unsuccessfully challenged Mr Corbyn for her party's leadership in 2015, said the results showed Labour has \"to change as a party\".\n\nShe said Brexit had played a \"significant part\" in her party's performance, but the election \"was not just about Brexit\".\n\n\"It was about their perceptions of the party, their perceptions of the leadership,\" she added.\n\nSpeaking after an earlier exit poll predicted heavy losses for Labour, former Labour home secretary Alan Johnson told ITV News that Mr Corbyn had been \"incapable of leading\" and \"worse than useless at all the qualities you need to lead a political party.\"\n\nPolling expert Professor Sir John Curtice said: \"It was clear that lots of Remain voters had doubts about Jeremy Corbyn's ability to handle Brexit and indeed, more broadly to handle anything.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Jewish Labour Movement - affiliated to the party for a century and representing about 2,500 members - said Labour's failure \"lies squarely with the party's leadership\".\n\n\"Because of the public's rejection of Corbyn as prime minister, the confused position on Brexit, or its total failure to tackle anti-Jewish racism, the party must truly listen,\" the statement said.\n\nIf you cannot see the graphic above, click here.", "The wife of a jailed banker is fighting to overturn the UK's first Unexplained Wealth Order (UWO).\n\nZamira Hajiyeva, who spent £16m in Harrods, faces losing her £15m Knightsbridge home and a Berkshire golf course to the National Crime Agency.\n\nHer husband is in prison in their native Azerbaijan for stealing millions from a state-owned bank he once headed.\n\nMrs Hajiyeva denies all allegations of wrongdoing and the Court of Appeal was told she has been unfairly targeted.\n\nJames Lewis QC, who is representing Mrs Hajiyeva, said the NCA's entire case was based on unsupported claims that she had benefited from political corruption.\n\n\"UWOs are available against 'politically exposed persons' and their families even in the absence of any reasonable grounds to suspect criminal activity on their part,\" said Mr Lewis in legal submissions.\n\n\"They are therefore the most draconian and intrusive powers available to financial investigators in the UK today - and by some margin.\"\n\nMrs Hajiyeva's husband, Jahangir Hajiyev, was given a 15-year jail sentence for corruption following an unjust trial and was not able to defend the source of the family's wealth in court in London, said Mr Lewis.\n\nHe added a judge's earlier conclusion that Mr Hajiyev was a potentially corrupt foreign official was flawed because he had merely headed a commercial bank with state shareholders, rather than a bank that was carrying out state functions.\n\nThat meant, argued Mr Lewis, Mrs Hajiyeva should no longer have to prove to the NCA where her wealth came from.\n\nDuring proceedings last year, the High Court was told that she spent an average of £4,000 a day in Harrods over 10 years to 2016 - spreading the cost of the jewellery and designer clothes over 54 credit cards, the majority issued by her husband's bank.\n\nIn fresh papers disclosed at the Court of Appeal, the National Crime Agency revealed new details about its concerns over the family's activities in London.\n\nThe documents state that following Mrs Hajiyeva's attempt last year to stop the UWO being imposed, her daughter, Leyla Mahmudova, took 49 items of jewellery worth £400,000 to the Christie's auction house.\n\n\"[Mrs Hajiyeva's] daughter attempted to sell high-value jewellery (some of which had been purchased by Mr Hajiyev), and that ZH is under investigation in Azerbaijan for fraudulently spending significant sums on air tickets, jewellery, tuition fees, beauty products, restaurants and hotels,\" said the NCA.\n\nJonathan Hall QC, for the agency, said its order simply required Mrs Hajiyeva to respond to reasonable suspicions - including why her home was owned by a company based in the British Virgin Islands.\n\nClaims that her husband had made his money selling fridge-freezers were wholly implausible, he added.\n\nA judgement in the case is expected next year.\n\nThe result will indicate whether this tool has a powerful enough legal punch to help seize billions of pounds worth of British property belonging to suspected corrupt foreign officials and their families.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jo Swinson lost her seat in Dunbartonshire East to the SNP\n\nJo Swinson will step down as Liberal Democrat leader after losing her seat to the SNP by 149 votes.\n\nMs Swinson, who started the campaign saying she could become the next prime minister, gained 19,523 votes compared with 19,672 for the SNP's Amy Callaghan in Dunbartonshire East.\n\nSir Ed Davey and Baroness Sal Brinton will be acting co-leaders for the party, now she is no longer an MP.\n\nMs Swinson said the election results would bring \"dismay\" for many.\n\nShe said she was \"proud that Liberal Democrats were the unapologetic voice of Remain\" in the election, adding that she did \"not regret trying everything\" to avoid Brexit.\n\nUnder party rules, the Lib Dem leader must have a seat in the Commons. A leadership contest will be held in the new year.\n\nWith all seats now declared, the party has 11 seats, one fewer than at the 2017 election.\n\nNews of Ms Swinson's defeat was cheered by Nicola Sturgeon, who was caught on camera celebrating the SNP's victory in Dunbartonshire East.\n\nThe SNP leader, who was waiting to speak to Sky News when the election result was read out, could be seen cheering as she found out that Ms Callaghan had won the seat.\n\nMs Sturgeon later offered her commiserations to Ms Swinson on a personal level, but said she was delighted by the SNP's performance.\n\nBaroness Brinton, president of the Liberal Democrats and the new co-leader, said it was a \"disappointing night\" for the party.\n\n\"The voices of nationalism and populism both north and south of the border beat both her [Ms Swinson] in her seat and nationally as well.\"\n\nShe said there were some \"nuggets of gold\" the party could take from the election, such as increasing its share of the vote by 4.2% and getting \"some good new MPs\".\n\n\"All is not lost,\" she added, pledging that the party's MPs would \"continue to fight, if not for our place in Europe, then for the best deal possible\".\n\nEarlier, Baroness Brinton thanked Ms Swinson, who only became Lib Dem leader in July, for what she called her honest and fearless leadership of their party.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats entered this election buoyed by a revival in the polls and the addition to their ranks of numerous MPs who defected from other parties, including Chuka Umunna and Luciana Berger from Labour, and the former Tory minister Sam Gyimah.\n\nAll three, however, were defeated.\n\nEarlier, Sir John Curtice, professor of politics at Strathclyde University, said the polls suggested the party's support declined during the election and indicated that the strongly anti-Brexit party did not make any progress at all among Leave voters.\n\nOn the night, the Conservatives won a big majority and the SNP took 48 of Scotland's 59 seats, as Labour suffered heavy losses.\n\nOne highlight for the Lib Dems was the party's candidate in Richmond Park, Sarah Olney, winning the seat from the Conservatives' Zac Goldsmith.\n\nSpeaking at the Bishopbriggs count outside Glasgow following her defeat, Ms Swinson said the results were \"very significant\" for the future of the country.\n\n\"For millions of people in our country these results will bring dread and dismay and people are looking for hope.\n\n\"I still believe we, as a country, can be warm and generous, inclusive and open and that by working together with our nearest neighbours we can achieve so much more.\n\n\"Liberal Democrats will continue to stand up for these values that guide our Liberal movement - openness, fairness, inclusivity. We will stand up for hope.\"\n\nThe SNP's Ms Callaghan told BBC Scotland she was \"delighted\" to have unseated the Liberal Democrat leader.\n\nThe new MP said: \"It's quite a momentous achievement, both for me personally but also in terms of the people of East Dunbartonshire, completely rejecting the politics of austerity and also giving the people a chance to choose their own future - I think that is incredibly important.\"\n\nMs Swinson became her party's first female leader in a landslide victory over Sir Ed Davey earlier this year, succeeding Sir Vince Cable.\n\nShe had served as a minister in the coalition government and was among the party's MPs who paid the price for the tie-up with David Cameron's Tories in the 2015 election - which saw the Lib Dems reduced to a rump of just eight in the Commons.\n\nMs Swinson fought back when then Prime Minister Theresa May called another election in 2017, and she regained her Scottish seat from the SNP.\n\nShe attracted criticism from some quarters for her policy to revoke Article 50 and cancel Brexit, and for her previous record in the coalition government.\n\nThe Lib Dems backed Boris Johnson's call in October for an early election, arguing it was the best way of stopping Brexit.\n\nMr Johnson focused relentlessly on a single message - \"get Brexit done\" - promising to take the UK out of the EU by 31 January 2020 if he got a majority.\n\nIf you cannot see the lookup tool, click here.", "We have just all lived through some of the most turbulent times in politics any of us can remember.\n\nIf the exit poll is correct, and Boris Johnson has secured a majority, then he will have the backing of MPs on the green benches behind him to take us out of the European Union next month.\n\nA huge junction in our history - a moment that will redraw our place in the world.\n\nBut not just that - if correct, these numbers could mean five more years of a Conservative government - tipping across a decade.\n\nAfter the fourth defeat for Labour in a row - after several years when they have moved further to the left - this is a serious and historic loss.\n\nThe SNP have increased their dominance in Scotland, clearing out Conservatives there in a way that leaves most of the country yellow, rather than blue.\n\nAnd it is a failure for the Lib Dems to break through after a campaign that started with high hopes.\n\nIf these results are correct, this election has been won by a leader, Boris Johnson, who just a year ago was on the backbenches, with many of his own colleagues having written him off.\n\nBut it appears that his bid to hold Leave voters together and split the Remain vote has seen him safely into Downing Street.\n\nBut it is early. This is only the beginning of the night that will decide who has the power to make decisions that affect all of our lives.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "All of the centrist MPs who recently defected from Labour and the Conservatives failed to win seats.", "The same prime minister. But a new map.\n\nA victory bigger than the Tories, haunted by 2017, had dreamt of. As the hours ticked by, red flipped to blue, familiar faces forced out of their seats.\n\nBoris Johnson gambled that he could win an election with support from towns and communities where voting Conservative might almost have seemed a sin.\n\nThe Conservatives' majority will have an almost immediate effect on the country - unless something strange happens we will leave the European Union next month - because behind him on the green benches will be new Tory MPs who will vote through his Brexit bill, his position strong enough to subdue any opposition.\n\nThere may be years of arguments about the nature of the long-term relationship but we will no longer be part of the bloc we've been entwined in for four decades. But Brexit, at least part one - to use his slogan - will be done.\n\nBeyond that, the final tally, the scale of the Tories' majority may shape Mr Johnson's ability to reform.\n\nHe'll face different opponents - that much is clear.\n\nJeremy Corbyn's departure is certain, only the timing to be decided, but Labour's future direction is already the subject of bitter dispute. The loss a mixture - a lack of leadership, and the party's torture over Brexit.\n\nBut accounting for the defeat and making a plan for change is likely to involve months of recrimination.\n\nThe Lib Dems have suffered disappointment too - losing their own leader, along with the DUP's Nigel Dodds being ousted. This election has also seen a massive change in the political cast.\n\nBut there's nothing straightforward about what faces Mr Johnson, even with the kind of majority this country hasn't seen for years.\n\nThere are wide differences between town and city, Scotland and England, the political generations too.\n\nThe public has just granted Mr Johnson an immense amount of political power.\n\nGiven what's ahead it's a currency he will need to spend, and spend well.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We are going to unite and level up\" - Boris Johnson speaks outside Downing Street\n\nBoris Johnson has said he hopes his party's \"extraordinary\" election win will bring \"closure\" to the Brexit debate and \"let the healing begin\".\n\nSpeaking in Downing Street, he said he would seek to repay the trust placed in him by Labour supporters who had voted Conservative for the first time.\n\nHe said he would not ignore those who opposed Brexit as he builds with Europe a partnership \"of sovereign equals\".\n\nThe Tories have won a Commons majority of 80, the party's largest since 1987.\n\nIt means the UK is heading out of the EU at the end of next month, the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg said, with Mr Johnson's \"thumping\" majority allowing him to get the laws required through Parliament \"in a matter of weeks\".\n\nThe Conservatives' victory in the 650th and final contest of the election - the seat of St Ives, in Cornwall - took their total number of MPs up to 365. Labour finished on 203, the SNP 48, Liberal Democrats 11 and the DUP eight.\n\nSinn Fein has seven MPs, Plaid Cymru four and Northern Ireland's SDLP has two. The Green Party and NI's Alliance Party have one each.\n\nThe Brexit Party - which triumphed in the summer's European Parliament elections - failed to win any Westminster seats.\n\nThe Conservatives swept aside Labour in its traditional heartlands in the Midlands and the north of England and picked up seats across Wales, while holding off the Lib Dem challenge in many seats in the south of England.\n\nVoter turnout overall, on a cold and damp polling day, was 67.3%, which is down by 1.5% on the 2017 total.\n\nSpeaking outside No 10, Mr Johnson thanked lifelong Labour supporters who deserted Jeremy Corbyn's party and turned to the Conservatives, saying he would fulfil his pledge to take the UK out of the EU on 31 January.\n\n\"I say thank you for the trust you have placed in us and in me and we will work round the clock to repay your trust and to deliver on your priorities with a Parliament that works for you\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Election 2019: The story of the night as the results came in\n\nMr Johnson, who earlier accepted the Queen's invitation to form a government, also addressed those who did not vote for the Conservatives and still want to remain in the EU.\n\n\"We in this One Nation Conservative government will never ignore your good and positive feelings of warmth and sympathy towards the other nations of Europe,\" he said.\n\nMr Johnson's focus on the one nation pitch suggests he will seek to offer policies to people beyond the Tory heartlands - more public spending, for example, after years of austerity, the BBC's political correspondent Nick Eardley said.\n\nHe added that there is no strict definition of one nation conservatism, \"but broadly, it refers to the idea the Conservative Party should act for everybody in the UK. That means policies that work for people from different economic backgrounds, from different regions and from the different nations of the UK.\"\n\nWhen they return to Westminster next week, MPs are due to begin the process of considering legislation paving the way for the UK to leave on 31 January. Talks about a future trade and security relationship will begin almost immediately.\n\nNevertheless, Mr Johnson said the UK \"deserves a break from wrangling, a break from politics and a permanent break from talking about Brexit\". \"I urge everyone to find closure and to let the healing begin.\"\n\nHe said he would use his new-found parliamentary authority to bring the country together and \"level up\" opportunities, while he said he recognised that the NHS remained the \"overwhelming priority\" of the British people.\n\nThe BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg said the PM's appeal for unity marked a striking change in tone to when he first became prime minister in July.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn says he will not \"walk away\" from his responsibilities\n\nAt 33%, Labour's share of the vote is down around eight points on the 2017 general election and is lower than that achieved by former leader Neil Kinnock in 1992.\n\nMr Corbyn has said he will not fight another election as Labour leader and that he expects to stand down \"early next year\" when a successor has been chosen by the party.\n\nBut he insisted he had done all he could, adding that he had received \"more personal abuse\" from the media during the campaign than any previous prime ministerial candidate.\n\nSenior Labour figures have sought to defend the party's strategy, arguing that many of its policies were popular but that Brexit had crowded out all other issues for many voters.\n\nWes Streeting, the newly elected MP for Ilford North, said the party's \"far left\" manifesto had jarred with the electorate and blaming Brexit was an attempt to \"kneecap\" credible centrist candidates such as Keir Starmer and Emily Thornberry.\n\nMeanwhile, Jo Swinson has quit as Liberal Democrat leader after losing her Dunbartonshire East seat to the SNP by 149 votes.\n\nWhile she admitted her \"unapologetic\" pro-Remain strategy had not worked, she said she did not regret standing up for her \"liberal values\" and urged the party to \"regroup and refresh\" itself in the face of a \"nationalist surge\" in British politics.\n\nAfter the SNP's \"overwhelming\" election victory, which saw the party win 48 of Scotland's 59 seats, Nicola Sturgeon said Mr Johnson had \"no right\" to stand in the way of another Scottish independence referendum.\n\nHowever, the prime minister later spoke to the first minister by phone on Friday evening, with Downing Street saying he had told her he \"remained opposed\" to a second vote.\n\nMr Johnson was also said to have insisted that the result of the 2014 referendum \"should be respected\" after \"reiterating his unwavering commitment\" to the union.\n\nWhat is your question about the election results?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "They have made gains in Labour heartlands across northern England and Wales. The SNP have made gains across Scotland.\n\nLabour have had their worst return of seats in any general election since 1935.\n\nBoth Labour and the Liberal Democrats now have more female than male MPs.\n\nThe interactive map below shows all the seats that have changed from one party to another. Select the \"results\" tab to see what has happened in the rest of the UK.\n\nThe Conservatives increased their vote share in many areas that voted Leave in the 2016 EU referendum.\n\nBy contrast they lost votes in strong Remain constituencies such as those in Scotland and London. But Labour lost votes in both strong Remain and strong Leave areas.\n\nStrong Leave and strong Remain constituencies are those where an estimated 60% or more of the electorate voted for that option at the EU referendum.\n\nThese estimates of constituency Brexit votes were modelled by Professor Chris Hanretty, as the 2016 referendum result was only recorded by local authority and not by Westminster constituency.\n\nThe Conservatives were clear winners in constituencies estimated to have voted majority Leave in 2016. They won almost three quarters of all these seats.\n\nBy contrast, there was no clear winner among Remain backing constituencies, with a crowded field of parties all winning substantial numbers of seats.\n\nLabour did best of all those parties but only took 40% of the constituencies that backed Remain.\n\nLabour also straddled the Brexit divide taking a roughly equal number of Leave (106) and Remain (96) seats.\n\nMost other parties had a clearer Brexit divide.\n\nOverall, the Conservatives broke new ground, moving into many traditional Labour heartlands.\n\nIn 2017, Labour held 72 of the 100 constituencies with the most working class households (defined as C2DE using data from the 2011 census).\n\nIn 2019, this figure fell to 53 and the Conservatives increased their share from 13 to 31.\n\nIn every nation and region of Britain, the scale of Labour's losses outweighed any gains made by the Conservatives.\n\nThe Conservatives did lose votes in the south of England and Scotland, but these were balanced by gains in the rest of England and Wales.\n\nThe Lib Dems increased their share of the vote across the UK, but failed to translate these gains into more seats.\n\nIn Scotland, the SNP made 14 gains, and lost just one seat, while the Conservatives lost seven and Labour lost six seats.\n\nIn Wales, the Conservatives gained six seats and Labour lost six, mostly in the north east. Overall, Labour's share of the vote was down to 41% from 49% in 2017.\n\nThe Conservatives polled consistently well across England and most of Wales, reflecting their overall 44% share of the UK vote.\n\nYou can use the interactive map below to show the vote share for other parties as well as the turnout.\n\nLabour's strength was concentrated in London and areas around cities in south Wales, the North East and North West. At 32%, Labour's share of the vote is down around eight points on the 2017 general election.\n\nOverall, they lost 60 seats and gained only one, Putney in London.\n\nA total of 220 female MPs have been elected. This is 12 more than the previous high of 208 in 2017.\n\nFor the first time, both the Liberal Democrats and Labour have more women MPs than men. Of Labour's 202 MPs (excluding Speaker Lindsay Hoyle), 104 are women and of the Liberal Democrats' 11 MPs, seven are women.\n\nTurnout, on what was a cold and damp polling day, was 67.3%. slightly lower than the last election in June 2017.\n• None What is the result in my area?", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "Aiello, photographed in 2004, also had a singing career\n\nVeteran film actor Danny Aiello, known for his roles in the movies Do The Right Thing and The Godfather Part II, has died aged 86.\n\nHe also played Madonna's father in the 1986 video for Papa Don't Preach.\n\nHis family said with \"profound sorrow\" in a statement that he died after a short illness.\n\nA veteran of stage and film, Aiello was best known for playing the pizza parlour owner Sal in Spike Lee's 1989 Do the Right Thing.\n\nThe role earned him a best supporting actor Oscar nomination. He also played the hesitant fiancé of Cher's character, Loretta, in Moonstruck in 1987.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Cher This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"It is with profound sorrow to report that Danny Aiello, beloved husband, father, grandfather, actor and musician passed away last night after a brief illness,\" the family said, in a statement to the BBC from his literary agent Jennifer De Chiara.\n\n\"The family asks for privacy at this time. Service arrangements will be announced at a later date.\"\n\nFilm maker Kevin Smith paid tribute to Aiello for his role in Do the Right Thing.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by KevinSmith This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn The Godfather Part II, Aiello had a relatively small part as small-time gangster Tony Rosato but he made the role his own by uttering the famous line, \"Michael Corleone says hello!\" during a raid on gang rival Frank Pentangel.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Madonna This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAiello's big acting break came in the early 1970s in the baseball drama Bang the Drum Slowly, starring Robert De Niro.\n\nHis other credits include Fort Apache the Bronx, Once Upon a Time in America, again with Robert de Niro, The Purple Rose of Cairo and Hudson Hawk.\n\nFull Metal Jacket actor Matthew Modine paid tribute to his \"love, wisdom, talents and grace\", while Mia Farrow said he was a \"lovely person\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Matthew Modine This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAiello also had a stage career on Broadway, appearing in shows including Gemini, The Floating Light Bulb, Hurlyburly, and The House of Blue Leaves and Wheelbarrown's Close.\n\nIn July 2011, he appeared Off Broadway in the two-act drama The Shoemaker, written by Susan Charlotte and directed by Antony Marsellis.\n\nAs well as acting, Aiello had a singing career, he released several big-band style albums including Live from Atlantic City in 2008.\n\nIn 1990 he told People magazine: \"You know, I've only been in this business 17 years.\n\n\"For actors, that's no time at all. Everything is happening so damn fast. It's like a beautiful dream that never seems to end.\"\n\nAiello, the fifth of six children, was born on West 68th Street, Manhattan.\n\nAt the age of 16, he lied about his age to enlist in the US Army. After serving for three years, he returned to New York City and did various jobs in order to support himself and later his family.\n\nWith limited education and few skills, Aiello jumped at the chance offered by his wife's uncle to become a baggage clerk for Greyhound.\n\nLater however he worked as a bouncer in a string of tough after-hours clubs in Queens and Manhattan.\n\nTo support his wife and four children, he would take any odd job going.\n\nSo for Aiello, the theatre was pretty much a shot in the dark gamble - one which paid off.\n\nDirectors began to respond to the Aiello's raw intensity and when Robert De Niro turned down the role of Sal in Lee's film, he was recommended to take his place.\n\nThe roles continued to come his way. He had bit parts in feature films and won an Emmy in 1980 for the TV show A Family of Strangers.\n\nLater Woody Allen offered him the role in Purple Rose of Cairo, and then he was asked to be in Madonna's video, followed by stage success as a drug-taking TV actor in Hurlyburly.\n\nAfter Do the Right Thing, Aiello worked in the TV movie The Preppie Murder, then took some time out for his family.\n\nIn the early 1990s, he was still one of the highest-paid character actors in Hollywood, commanding at least $750,000 a film, he told People magazine.\n\nHe went on to do the films Once Around with Holly Hunter and Hudson Hawk with Bruce Willis, and he also made a Broadway appearance with Harvey Keitel in Those the River Keeps.\n\nHe is survived by his wife, Sandy Cohen, and their three children.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNicola Sturgeon says Boris Johnson has \"no right\" to stand in the way of another Scottish independence referendum after an \"overwhelming\" SNP election victory.\n\nScotland's first minister said the result \"renews, reinforces and strengthens\" the mandate for Indyref2.\n\nDuring the campaign, the prime minister said he would reject any request to hold an independence referendum.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said it was \"the right of the people of Scotland\".\n\nIn a speech in Edinburgh on Friday, she told Mr Johnson: \"You, as the leader of a defeated party in Scotland, have no right to stand in the way.\n\n\"The people of Scotland have spoken. It is time now to decide our own future.\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon says she won't pretend that every single person who voted SNP necessarily supports independence. But she will insist this result is a thumping endorsement of her demand for a second referendum.\n\nShe will make an official request in the next few days to be granted the legal power to hold an independence vote.\n\nAnd we know that Boris Johnson will refuse, sparking a huge debate about whether the Conservatives are ignoring the democratic choice of Scottish voters.\n\nIt's a debate that can only escalate as we leave the EU - and one which may fuel support for independence itself.\n\nThe SNP leader said it was time for Mr Johnson \"to start listening\" to voters in Scotland.\n\nShe added: \"I accept, regretfully, that he has a mandate for Brexit in England - but he has no mandate whatsoever to take Scotland out of the EU.\"\n\nThe Scottish government will next week publish a \"detailed, democratic case\" for letting Holyrood decide on whether there should be a second independence referendum, said Ms Sturgeon.\n\nHowever, interim Scottish Conservative leader Jackson Carlaw said: \"We are not going to support a request for a second independence referendum and I don't believe the prime minister will either.\n\n\"We are going to stand by the people who voted for us last night and the two million people who voted no in 2014.\"\n\nThe SNP won 48 seats in Scotland in Thursday's election after securing 45% of the vote - 8.1% more than in the last general election, when the party won 35 seats. One of those MPs, Neale Hanvey, will sit as an independent.\n\nLib Dem leader Jo Swinson will step down after losing her Dunbartonshire East seat to the SNP by 149 votes.\n\nJeremy Corbyn said he would not fight another election as Labour leader after his party suffered a heavy defeat.\n\nAcross the UK, the Conservatives secured their biggest majority since the 1980s in what Mr Johnson described as a \"historic\" election victory.\n\nHowever, the party's vote fell by 3.5% to 25.1% across Scotland. The Labour vote was down by 8.5% to 18.6%, while the Liberal Democrat vote actually increased by 2.8% to 9.5%.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Sturgeon has already said she will ask the UK government to transfer the legal powers to hold a second referendum to the Scottish Parliament through what is known as a Section 30 order - as happened in 2014.\n\nNext Thursday MSPs will vote on the final stage of legislation which sets out a framework for any future referendums to be held in Scotland.\n\nThe pro-UK parties oppose the Referendums Bill but it is set to pass with SNP and Green backing.\n\nFor a nationwide breakdown of results, see our results page.\n\nOr you can browse the A-Z list.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "Last updated on .From the section Europa League\n\nMason Greenwood scored twice as Manchester United got four in 11 minutes to defeat AZ Alkmaar and secure a seeding for the Europa League knockout phase.\n\nAfter a mundane first half, the game burst into life in the 53rd minute when Ashley Young drove home Juan Mata's cross for his first goal since February.\n\nGreenwood stole the headlines though, firing home from the edge of the box before producing a fine left-footed finish to end the scoring frenzy.\n\nIt was the first time the 18-year-old had scored two in a first-team game and took his overall tally for the season to six. He is now United's leading scorer in Europe this season and only Marcus Rashford has scored more in all competitions.\n\nIn between the striker's double, Mata converted a penalty for the Spain midfielder's first goal of the season.\n\nThe victory was United's biggest in Europe since 2016 when they beat another Dutch side, Feyenoord, by the same score and means they will avoid Benfica, Ajax and Inter Milan in Monday's last-32 draw.\n• None 'A killer in the box' - how good can Greenwood be?\n\nThe victory was United's third in a row in all competitions, coming after impressive triumphs against Tottenham and Manchester City.\n\nIt is only the third time United have done that since Ole Gunnar Solskjaer began his spell as United manager with eight successive wins after he replaced Jose Mourinho on 19 December last year.\n\nThe opening period lacked a competitive edge but Solskjaer will be delighted at the way it turned out, particularly as, from the team that started against Manchester City, only Harry Maguire and Martial kept their places.\n\nThis is crucial as, with a Carabao Cup quarter-final against Colchester in which they are overwhelming favourites, Solskjaer's side were starting what could turn out to be 19 games in 77 days, which will end with the second leg of their Europa League last-32 tie.\n\nThe volume of fixtures is one of the reasons why it is still felt United need to make signings when the transfer window opens next month.\n\nWhen they entertain Everton on Sunday, United will reach an astonishing 4,000 consecutive games where a player they have been responsible for developing has been part of their matchday squad.\n\nIt is a staggering statistic, one that dates back to October 1937 and a game against Fulham at Craven Cottage.\n\nTwo of their modern-day products are Tahith Chong and Greenwood, who shared the memorable experience of being introduced as late substitutes in the memorable Champions League victory at Paris St-Germain in March.\n\nGreenwood has bounded along since then. Against Alkmaar he made his seventh start in 18 overall appearances that have now yielded six goals. He is an automatic member of Solskjaer's matchday squad and in October signed a new contract that will keep him at Old Trafford until 2023.\n\nBy contrast, Chong has stalled. A Netherlands Under-21 player, he came on as a substitute here, his sixth appearance of the season - and only his second since 6 October. The midfielder's contract runs out at the end of the season and an extension offer remains unsigned amid rumours of excessive demands that United officials do not feel justify his performances.\n\nAt 20, Chong is nearly two years older than Greenwood and the suspicion is growing that an impactful United career might prove beyond him. He tried hard enough on Thursday but the quality showed by Greenwood was missing.\n\n'Greenwood is different class as a finisher' - what they said\n\n\"I told them to be more us [at half-time], be more Man United. I know it's difficult for players when you change but in the second half we just found a rhythm, made more passes forward, more runs forward, were pressing and got our goals.\"\n\n\"He's different class as a finisher, if there's anything around the box you expect him to get a shot off and on target, he's good at creating space for himself and right foot, left foot it doesn't matter. I'm very pleased with his performance.\n\n\"He's a different type to Wazza [Wayne Rooney] and the good thing about Mason is he is just going to look forward to Sunday. It's natural for him to score goals, it doesn't matter what level it is.\"\n• None Manchester United have won seven of their nine previous home games against Dutch sides in all competitions, keeping clean sheets in the last three.\n• None Juan Mata has been directly involved in three goals (one goal, two assists) in a single European match for the first time since March 2013, scoring once and assisting twice for Chelsea against Steaua Bucharest.\n• None Ashley Young has scored his first European goal for Manchester United since February 2012 when netting against Ajax.\n• None Only Marcus Rashford (13) has scored more goals than Mason Greenwood (six) in all competitions for Manchester United this season.\n• None Greenwood is the youngest player to score a double in major European competition for Manchester United, aged 18 years and 72 days.\n\nManchester United return to action in the Premier League on Sunday (14:00 GMT) when they welcome Everton to Old Trafford.\n• None Offside, AZ. Jordy Clasie tries a through ball, but Ferdy Druijf is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Mason Greenwood (Manchester United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Nemanja Matic.\n• None Attempt blocked. Andreas Pereira (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Juan Mata.\n• None Attempt saved. Andreas Pereira (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Mason Greenwood.\n• None Teun Koopmeiners (AZ) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Ethan Laird (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Calvin Stengs (AZ) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Ferdy Druijf with a headed pass. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "The Democratic Unionist Party's former leader in Westminster Nigel Dodds laments the loss of his North Belfast seat to Sinn Féin, whose representatives do not take their seats in the House of Commons.\n\nThe party has always held a policy of abstentionism when it comes to the House of Commons.\n\nIt believes the interests of the Irish people can only be served by democratic institutions in Ireland, not at Westminster.\n\nIt also opposes taking an oath of allegiance to the Queen, which all MPs are required to do in order to take their seats.\n\nMr Dodds lost to John Finucane, whose majority was 1,943 votes.\n\nIt is the first time a nationalist has ever held the constituency.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) propped up a minority Conservative government after the 2017 general election but has not been rewarded by voters.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "Predictions for major scalps this year ranged from the foreign secretary to the prime minister. But in the event, who are the high profile politicians to lose out in the 2019 general election?\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jo Swinson lost her seat in Dunbartonshire East to the SNP\n\nJo Swinson, who began the campaign saying she was standing to be PM, was emotional as she thanked her family for their support after losing her Dunbartonshire East seat by just 149 votes.\n\nFollowing the defeat by the Scottish National Party's Amy Callaghan, Ms Swinson said: \"Some will be celebrating the wave of nationalism that is sweeping on both sides of the borders.\n\n\"But let me say now, for millions of people in our country these results will bring dread and dismay.\n\n\"I still believe that we as a country can be warm and generous inclusive and open and that by working together with our nearest neighbours we can achieve so much more.\"\n\nThe 39-year-old was first elected as an MP in 2005. She held on to her seat until 2015, when she lost out to the SNP's John Nicolson.\n\nThe seat exchanged hands once again in 2017 when she beat Mr Nicolson. She became leader of the Liberal Democrats in July 2019.\n\nFormer Conservative Dominic Grieve, who fought many battles against Brexit in the House of Commons, was among those to lose his seat.\n\nHe was once the party's attorney general but was kicked out by Boris Johnson earlier this year after he backed a bill to try to stop a no-deal Brexit.\n\nMr Grieve ran as an independent for his seat of Beaconsfield and won the support of more than 16,000 voters.\n\nBut he was beaten by the new Tory candidate Joy Morrissey, who won with 32,477 votes.\n\nIf you cannot see the lookup tool, click here.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party's deputy leader since 2008, Nigel Dodds had been North Belfast MP since 2001, taking the seat from Ulster Unionist Cecil Walker.\n\nBut in the early hours of Friday it was announced Mr Dodds had been defeated by Sinn Fein's John Finucane, who received 23,078 votes to Mr Dodds's 21,135.\n\nMr Finucane said the result showed North Belfast - which had always been a unionist seat - \"rejects Brexit\".\n\nMr Dodds, who studied law at Cambridge University, was key in negotiations between his party and both Mr Johnson's and Theresa May's governments in the run up to agreeing a deal with the EU.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nConservative Zac Goldsmith lost his Richmond Park seat to the Liberal Democrats, in the pro-Remain party's first gain of the night.\n\nMr Goldsmith had expected to to struggle against the Lib Dems' Sarah Olney - who held the seat between a 2016 by-election and the 2017 general election.\n\nAnd those fears were confirmed when it was announced Ms Olney, who beat Mr Goldsmith in 2016, had received 34,559 votes.\n\nMr Goldsmith, a now ex-minister at the Department for Environmental, Food and Rural Affairs, got 26,793 votes.\n\nA former London mayoral candidate, he won the seat in the 2017 election by just 45 votes - a 0.1% majority.\n\nA number of commentators had called 32-year-old Laura Pidcock a future leader of the Labour Party.\n\nBut she lost her seat of Durham North West to the Conservatives.\n\nIn 2017, her majority was more than 8,000. But this time around, the Tory candidate, Richard Holden, won the vote by 1,144.\n\nMs Pidcock, who previously worked for campaign group Show Racism The Red Card, was recently tipped as a successor to deputy Labour leader Tom Watson and is a long-term ally to Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nHer maiden speech criticising Commons traditions and hitting out at inequality was widely shared, while she has also spoken out about the environment - particularly since she became a mother in 2018.\n\nDavid Gauke - justice secretary and work and pensions secretary in Mrs May's government - is another big name to lose his seat overnight.\n\nHe played a major role in both David Cameron and Mrs May's Conservative governments.\n\nLike Mr Grieve, Mr Gauke was kicked out by Mr Johnson for trying to stop a no-deal Brexit in the Commons earlier this year.\n\nHe ran as an independent in his seat of Hertfordshire South West and gained a lot of praise for his amusing Twitter videos throughout the campaign.\n\nHowever, it wasn't enough, and while he secured almost 16,000 votes, his Tory successor, Gagan Mohindra, took more than 30,000.\n\nVeteran Labour MP Dennis Skinner lost the seat of Bolsover to the Conservatives - with a swing of 11.5% away from Labour.\n\nMr Skinner had held the Derbyshire constituency since 1970.\n\nFollowing Ken Clarke's decision to step down as an MP at this election, Mr Skinner was in line to become the Father of the House - but that mantle now falls to Tory MP Peter Bottomley.\n\nFormer Conservative MP Anna Soubry, now leader of the Independent Group for Change, lost her Broxtowe seat in Nottinghamshire. She mustered only 4,668 votes and did not come close to challenging her Conservative successor, Darren Henry.\n\nEx-Labour shadow cabinet minister Chuka Umunna, who was standing for the Lib Dems in the Cities of London and Westminster seat (where Boris Johnson cast his vote) also lost. He had been an MP since 2010.\n\nLuciana Berger took a similar pre-election path to Mr Umunna - quitting Labour, joining the Independent Group for Change, before joining the Lib Dems. However, the Conservative's Mike Freer defeated her in Finchley and Golders Green.\n\nElsewhere, former Labour minister Caroline Flint was defeated by the Conservative's Nick Fletcher in Don Valley, South Yorkshire, a seat Ms Flint held since 1997.\n\nAnd Anne Milton - one of the 11 Tory MPs who had the Tory whip withdrawn by Boris Johnson and never returned - also lost. The defeat came just days after her daughter Nikki Henderson helped environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg sail across the Atlantic for the COP25 summit in Madrid.\n• None Election results 2019: The key points you need", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "Nicola Sturgeon maintained throughout the election campaign that she did not want to see Boris Johnson returned to Downing Street as prime minister.\n\nBut the SNP leader knows that a majority Tory government in Westminster, while Scotland voted very differently, is the result most likely to advance her greatest ambition - independence for Scotland.\n\nThe party which dominates Scotland is now set on a constitutional collision course with the UK government.\n\nThe SNP's strongest argument is that Scotland and the rest of UK are moving in different political directions.\n\nAnd that's been vividly demonstrated as England embraces the Tories whilst they have lost votes and lost seats north of the border.\n\nThe UK will now move on to leaving the EU at the same time as the two parties who campaigned to stop Brexit, the SNP and the Lib Dems, increased their vote share in Scotland.\n\nThe SNP took a gamble by making their demand for a second independence referendum central to their campaign. That's a policy that can enthuse their voters, but runs the risk of galvanizing people who don't want to leave the UK to turn out and vote against the SNP.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives campaigned on a slogan of \"Tell her again, say no to indyref2\".\n\nBut that's not what happened. The Tories lost seven of their 13 Scottish seats and the SNP won 13. They now hold 48 of 59 MPs in Scotland, with one sitting as an independent.\n\nBoris Johnson will refuse to grant the legal power to hold an independence vote\n\nThis result cannot be interpreted as an outright demand for Scottish independence. But the SNP will vigorously argue that it does mean Scotland must be allowed to make a choice about its future - inside or outside the UK.\n\nNicola Sturgeon says she won't pretend that every single person who voted SNP necessarily supports independence. But she will insist this result is a thumping endorsement of her demand for a second referendum.\n\nShe will make an official request in the next few days to be granted the legal power to hold an independence vote.\n\nAnd we know that Boris Johnson will refuse, sparking a huge debate about whether the Conservatives are ignoring the democratic choice of Scottish voters.\n\nIt's a debate that can only escalate as we leave the EU - and one which may fuel support for independence itself.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Conservative win announced in Blyth Valley, breaking Labour's 50-year hold in the former mining constituency\n\nLabour's \"red wall\" across the Midlands and the north of England - the bedrock of the party's support for generations - crumbled as the Conservatives claimed key marginal seats.\n\nLeave-voting former mining towns like Workington, which was seen as representative of the voters parties needed to win over, backed the Tories.\n\nTony Blair's former constituency of Sedgefield went blue, as did West Bromwich East, vacated by former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson.\n\nThe Conservatives carved a path from Greater Manchester to Lincolnshire, the Black Country to Northumberland, as Labour strongholds fell.\n\nSome of these seats have not had a Tory MP in decades, and in the case of Burnley it had been more than a century.\n\nBolsover in Derbyshire, which has been Labour since it was created in 1950 and Dennis Skinner's seat since 1970, confirmed Boris Johnson's Commons majority at just after 05:00 GMT.\n\nCan't see the map? Click here\n\nDennis Skinner was not present at the overnight count in his Derbyshire constituency, having recently undergone hip surgery.\n\nHis absence held a sad irony, given that he has been very much an ever-present in British politics for the best part of five decades.\n\nLike him or loathe him, his memorable public image - the famous finger, the voice raised above the Commons cacophony - struck a chord with many.\n\nRead how the Beast of Bolsover was beaten.\n\nThings began to unravel at about 23:30 with Blyth Valley, a Labour seat since 1950.\n\nAcross the night and into the following morning, the Conservatives seized 54 seats from Labour, and although some of these have been marginal in recent years, many were considered to be safe by the party.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Promises from the new Tory MPs\n\nShadow justice secretary Lord Falconer said Labour had lost \"our most heartland support\" with long-term supporters no longer feeling connected to the party.\n\n\"The big question is what do we do to start having a conversation again, both with the people in the marginals, the floating voters that could be one or the other, but also our heartland,\" he said.\n\n\"If we don't do it quickly, it will be too late to put it together again.\"\n\nPhil Wilson, who stood for Labour in Mr Blair's old constituency of Sedgefield in County Durham, said the Labour leader went down \"like a lead balloon\" with voters on the doorstep.\n\n\"For Labour leadership to blame Brexit for the result is mendacious nonsense. Jeremy Corbyn's leadership was a bigger problem. To say otherwise is delusional,\" he tweeted.\n\nOne of Mr Corbyn's closest allies - the former Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone - said it \"looked like the end\" for the Labour leader, and he would probably \"have to resign\".\n\nBut Labour chairman Ian Lavery, who retained his Wansbeck seat in Northumberland by 814 votes, said the party had suffered a lot of \"hostility\", \"resentment\" and \"nastiness\" because of its position on Brexit.\n\n\"People feel let down, that's the reality of it,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme, citing Labour's support for a second EU referendum having previously said it would accept the result of the first.\n\n\"We lost trust and we cannot as a party continue to promise one thing and do another.\"\n\nCaroline Flint said she was fighting on \"two fronts\"\n\nLosing her Don Valley seat in South Yorkshire, Caroline Flint - never a fan of Mr Corbyn and Leave supporter - blamed Mr Corbyn's leadership and Remain-backing MPs for the party's performance.\n\nThe former Labour minister's former seat has existed since 1918 and had never before had a Conservative MP.\n\nShe claimed she had been \"fighting on\" two fronts; the first being voters not wanting to support Mr Corbyn as Prime Minister and the second of Labour \"being more like a 'stop Brexit' Remain party.\"\n\nLeigh has been a fearsome Labour stronghold for nearly 100 years and even Conservative candidate James Grundy expected to \"lose with dignity\".\n\nNow he's the local MP after securing a 1,965 majority, with a 12% swing to the party.\n\nAs the Conservatives took Stoke-on-Trent Central, defeated Labour candidate Gareth Snell described the loss of seats such as his as \"the start of 20 years of Tory rule\".\n\nEven in the seats that Labour retained, the party's majority and vote share were severely dented.\n\nIn Halton, Cheshire, Derek Twigg won a majority of 18,975, down from 25,405 at the last election, with the Brexit Party winning more than 8% of the vote.\n\nTom Watson stood down as West Bromwich East MP ahead of the election\n\nThe red wall did not crumble on Merseyside or in London, however.\n\nLabour saw Liverpool's first black MP, Kim Johnson, elected in Riverside, while the party also held Wirral West, despite forecasts that it would be a close-run contest.\n\nIn London, Labour secured a victory over the Tories in Putney, the seat vacated by former education secretary Justine Greening, with Fleur Anderson defeating Conservative candidate Will Sweet.\n\nLabour retained 39 other seats in the capital but lost Kensington, which it had won by 20 votes in 2017, back to the Conservatives.\n\nLabour's Chi Onwurah was the first MP to be declared when her Newcastle Central results were revealed at 23:28 on Thursday.\n\nConservative Derek Thomas was the last with his St Ives seat declared at about 14:40 on Friday after bad weather on the Isles of Scilly delayed the collection of ballot boxes.\n\nDo you have a question about the election results? Use the form below to let us know and we could be in touch.\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jo Swinson: \"We have been true to ourselves\"\n\nJo Swinson has said she is \"proud\" to have been the first woman to lead the Liberal Democrats as she prepares to step down as party leader.\n\nMs Swinson, who lost her seat to the SNP's Amy Callaghan, said she was \"devastated\" by the election result.\n\nAddressing supporters in London, she warned of a growing tide of populism and urged her party to \"regroup\". The Lib Dems dropped from 12 to 11 seats.\n\nSir Ed Davey and Baroness Sal Brinton will take over as acting co-leaders.\n\n\"I'm proud to have been the first woman to have led the Liberal Democrats. I'm even more proud that I will not be the last.\n\n\"One of the realities of smashing glass ceilings is that a lot of broken glass comes down on your head\", she added.\n\nShe spoke of the experience of current Lib Dem spokeswomen Layla Moran, Christine Jardine, Wera Hobhouse and Sarah Olney, as well as welcoming the party's newly-elected female MPs.\n\nShe said she was \"proud\" that the Lib Dems advocated remaining in the EU, telling supporters: \"Obviously it hasn't worked. And I, like you, am devastated about that, but I don't regret trying.\"\n\nMs Swinson said the UK was in the \"grip of populism, with nationalism resurgent in all its forms\", but encouraged people to remain hopeful, adding there will be a \"way out of this nationalist surge\".\n\nDuring the last parliament, the Lib Dems welcomed MPs who defected from other parties, including Chuka Umunna and Luciana Berger from Labour, and the former Tory minister Sam Gyimah.\n\nHowever, all three were defeated. Ms Swinson apologised for not being able to get them elected.\n\nShe criticised the leaders of both Labour and the Conservatives, saying voters were forced to choose the \"least worst option\".\n\nMs Swinson said that racism had become mainstream, criticising Labour's stance on anti-Semitism and accusing the Conservatives of \"failing on Islamophobia\".\n\nThe outgoing Lib Dem leader started the campaign saying she could become the next prime minister, but she lost her Dunbartonshire East when Ms Callaghan won 19,672 compared to her 19,523 votes.\n\nThe SNP leader reacting to the news of Ms Swinson's loss\n\nMs Sturgeon has since apologised for cheering while the election result was read out, telling Sky News she \"got overexcited\" at the performance of the SNP.\n\nMs Sturgeon has offered her commiserations to Ms Swinson on a personal level, saying she had a great deal of sympathy for her.\n\nIn her closing remarks, Ms Swinson said: \"Next week is the shortest day. We will see more light in the future. Join us for that journey. Let's explore the way together with hope in our hearts.\"", "Loyalty and a ruthless ability to adapt were the twin weapons that once guaranteed the Tories a place as Britain's natural party of government.\n\nIn recent years, however, rebellion against successive leaders from both sides on the Europe divide has been the party's default position.\n\nInternal squabbling came first, banishing memories of the collective Tory survival instinct that once served the party so well.\n\nThe emphatic nature of Boris Johnson's win in the country means he is the unequivocal victor in the Conservatives' 30-year civil war over Europe.\n\n\"In the end the Leavers will win because they care more,\" one cabinet minister once told me.\n\nThe prime minister achieved those victories and will hope to sustain his new electoral coalition in the country by harnessing the power of those old and formidable Tory weapons - loyalty and a knack for evolving in new times.\n\nLoyalty, for now, is guaranteed after all 635 Conservative candidates signed a pledge to support his Brexit deal. And the prime minister's pitch in Labour's \"Red Wall\" - an end to austerity and support for public services - marked a return to ruthlessly adapting to changed political circumstances.\n\nWhile Boris Johnson has re-enlisted those two old Tory weapons, there is one historic element of the party's mission that has a less certain future: the Union.\n\nThe SNP - led by Nicola Sturgeon - won 48 seats in Scotland\n\nOn two fronts the United Kingdom is possibly entering its most perilous phase in modern times.\n\nThe SNP's landslide in Scotland sets up a constitutional clash between Holyrood and Westminster. Nicola Sturgeon will use the SNP's success to demand a section 30 order from Westminster - the ability to hold a legally binding referendum on independence.\n\nBoris Johnson is highly likely to refuse such a request, on the grounds that the last section 30 order was granted by David Cameron on the understanding by all sides that the first independence referendum would settle the issue.\n\nThe SNP will say circumstances have changed. They will hope that if Westminster is seen to thwart what they claim is the current will of the people, that may increase support for independence.\n\nAcross the water, the prime minister is planning to take the UK out of the EU on the basis of a deal that is rejected by all the main parties in Northern Ireland. The loss of confidence is so great that during the election the DUP leader Arlene Foster said that in future she would have to check whether what Boris Johnson says is \"factually correct\".\n\nThe prime minister insists that under his Brexit deal there will be no checks on good travelling from Great Britain to Northern Ireland. The DUP says that HMRC have told them there will be checks.\n\nIn the last 45 years, there have been two salutary reminders of the perils of introducing substantial governance changes in Northern Ireland without the support of the majority Unionist community.\n\nIn 1974, loyalists brought down the Sunningdale Agreement - an early version of the Good Friday Agreement - in protest at its provisions for power sharing in Northern Ireland and a proposed cross-border body. The loyalists closed the Ballylumford power station, the largest in Northern Ireland, which stands next to the port of Larne where some of the Great Britain - Northern Ireland checks may have to take place.\n\nA decade later Margaret Thatcher failed to consult Unionists when she gave Dublin a formal consultative role in Northern Ireland in the 1985 Anglo Irish Agreement. Unionist protests, under the banner of Ulster Says No, brought parts of Northern Ireland to a standstill.\n\nBut Thursday's fall in the vote share for the two main parties - Sinn Fein and the DUP - may change the dynamics in Northern Ireland. It could strengthen the hand of those pressing for a return of the assembly and the executive.\n\nAnd Boris Johnson's deal gives the Stormont institutions a say in Northern Ireland's future relationship with the EU.\n\nFor so long written off by some in his own party as a lightweight showman, Boris Johnson has secured an historic win that redefines the electoral map in England and Wales. He will be hoping that it does not break the wider UK map.\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two at 22:30 on weekdays. Catch up on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "The proposed tariffs would have hit a wide range of electronics, including all of Apple's major products\n\nThe US and China have announced a preliminary trade agreement.\n\nThe so-called phase one deal will see billions of dollars in tariffs removed or delayed.\n\nUS stocks hit a fresh record on hopes there will be a continued softening of trade tensions between the world's two largest economies.\n\nA fresh wave of US tariffs on Chinese imports was due to take effect on Sunday. However, this has been cancelled for now.\n\n\"We will begin negotiations on the phase two deal immediately, rather than waiting until after the 2020 Election,\" US President Donald Trump said in a tweet. \"This is an amazing deal for all.\"\n\nIf the new, higher tariffs had gone ahead, Chinese-made goods such as smartphones, clothing and toys would have become more expensive for Americans just ahead of Christmas.\n\nUS negotiators are reportedly offering to significantly reduce existing tariffs on about $360bn (£270bn) worth of Chinese imports.\n\nIn return, China has promised to buy large quantities of US soybeans, poultry and other agricultural products.\n\nThe agreement is a deal in principle, which means if China breaks any part of the agreement, the Trump administration has the ability to re-implement tariffs.\n\nThere's some festive cheer for American shoppers and businesses as the Christmas decorations, game consoles and iphones that were due to be hit with a 15% tariff are now off the hook.\n\nThe share of these goods coming from China is around 85%, according to Bloomberg analysis, which would have made it difficult for companies to source them from elsewhere.\n\nAmerica's business lobby group - the influential Business Roundtable has long been lobbying against the tariffs, saying they would be very damaging to the US economy. As the boss of JP Morgan Jamie Dimon put it \"it's what happens to people's psyche and confidence and businesses\".\n\nThe International Monetary Fund estimates that the US-China trade war could shave almost a percentage point off of global growth this year.\n\nBut there has been push back from others, such as Trump's trade advisor Peter Navarro, who feel the US should keep the pressure on what are widely accepted as China's unfair business practices. Replacing 'trade' with 'aid' (subsidies) for the American farmers who have suffered since China put reciprocal taxes on the likes of soybeans.\n\nIt's worth noting that this 'phase one' deal is just the beginning of the end. America imports $550bn dollars worth of products from China - and tariffs will remain on $370bn dollars of that.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "From the Conservative Party winning a big majority by sweeping aside Labour in its traditional heartlands, to Jo Swinson losing her Dunbartonshire East seat by just 149 votes.\n\nHere are the key highlights from the 2019 general election results day.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jo Swinson lost her seat in Dunbartonshire East to the SNP\n\nJo Swinson will step down as Liberal Democrat leader after losing her seat to the SNP by 149 votes.\n\nMs Swinson, who started the campaign saying she could become the next prime minister, gained 19,523 votes compared with 19,672 for the SNP's Amy Callaghan in Dunbartonshire East.\n\nSir Ed Davey and Baroness Sal Brinton will be acting co-leaders for the party, now she is no longer an MP.\n\nMs Swinson said the election results would bring \"dismay\" for many.\n\nShe said she was \"proud that Liberal Democrats were the unapologetic voice of Remain\" in the election, adding that she did \"not regret trying everything\" to avoid Brexit.\n\nUnder party rules, the Lib Dem leader must have a seat in the Commons. A leadership contest will be held in the new year.\n\nWith all seats now declared, the party has 11 seats, one fewer than at the 2017 election.\n\nNews of Ms Swinson's defeat was cheered by Nicola Sturgeon, who was caught on camera celebrating the SNP's victory in Dunbartonshire East.\n\nThe SNP leader, who was waiting to speak to Sky News when the election result was read out, could be seen cheering as she found out that Ms Callaghan had won the seat.\n\nMs Sturgeon later offered her commiserations to Ms Swinson on a personal level, but said she was delighted by the SNP's performance.\n\nBaroness Brinton, president of the Liberal Democrats and the new co-leader, said it was a \"disappointing night\" for the party.\n\n\"The voices of nationalism and populism both north and south of the border beat both her [Ms Swinson] in her seat and nationally as well.\"\n\nShe said there were some \"nuggets of gold\" the party could take from the election, such as increasing its share of the vote by 4.2% and getting \"some good new MPs\".\n\n\"All is not lost,\" she added, pledging that the party's MPs would \"continue to fight, if not for our place in Europe, then for the best deal possible\".\n\nEarlier, Baroness Brinton thanked Ms Swinson, who only became Lib Dem leader in July, for what she called her honest and fearless leadership of their party.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats entered this election buoyed by a revival in the polls and the addition to their ranks of numerous MPs who defected from other parties, including Chuka Umunna and Luciana Berger from Labour, and the former Tory minister Sam Gyimah.\n\nAll three, however, were defeated.\n\nEarlier, Sir John Curtice, professor of politics at Strathclyde University, said the polls suggested the party's support declined during the election and indicated that the strongly anti-Brexit party did not make any progress at all among Leave voters.\n\nOn the night, the Conservatives won a big majority and the SNP took 48 of Scotland's 59 seats, as Labour suffered heavy losses.\n\nOne highlight for the Lib Dems was the party's candidate in Richmond Park, Sarah Olney, winning the seat from the Conservatives' Zac Goldsmith.\n\nSpeaking at the Bishopbriggs count outside Glasgow following her defeat, Ms Swinson said the results were \"very significant\" for the future of the country.\n\n\"For millions of people in our country these results will bring dread and dismay and people are looking for hope.\n\n\"I still believe we, as a country, can be warm and generous, inclusive and open and that by working together with our nearest neighbours we can achieve so much more.\n\n\"Liberal Democrats will continue to stand up for these values that guide our Liberal movement - openness, fairness, inclusivity. We will stand up for hope.\"\n\nThe SNP's Ms Callaghan told BBC Scotland she was \"delighted\" to have unseated the Liberal Democrat leader.\n\nThe new MP said: \"It's quite a momentous achievement, both for me personally but also in terms of the people of East Dunbartonshire, completely rejecting the politics of austerity and also giving the people a chance to choose their own future - I think that is incredibly important.\"\n\nMs Swinson became her party's first female leader in a landslide victory over Sir Ed Davey earlier this year, succeeding Sir Vince Cable.\n\nShe had served as a minister in the coalition government and was among the party's MPs who paid the price for the tie-up with David Cameron's Tories in the 2015 election - which saw the Lib Dems reduced to a rump of just eight in the Commons.\n\nMs Swinson fought back when then Prime Minister Theresa May called another election in 2017, and she regained her Scottish seat from the SNP.\n\nShe attracted criticism from some quarters for her policy to revoke Article 50 and cancel Brexit, and for her previous record in the coalition government.\n\nThe Lib Dems backed Boris Johnson's call in October for an early election, arguing it was the best way of stopping Brexit.\n\nMr Johnson focused relentlessly on a single message - \"get Brexit done\" - promising to take the UK out of the EU by 31 January 2020 if he got a majority.\n\nIf you cannot see the lookup tool, click here.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "The pound and shares have surged after the Conservatives won a clear majority in the UK general election.\n\nSterling rose above $1.35 at one point - its highest level since May last year - on hopes that the big majority would remove uncertainty over Brexit.\n\nThe pound also jumped to a three-and-a-half-year high against the euro.\n\nOn the stock market, the FTSE 100 share index rose 1.1%, while the FTSE 250 - which includes more UK-focused shares - briefly hit record highs.\n\nIt closed 3.4% higher, while at the same time the pound traded at $1.33 and €1.20\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the election result meant that the Conservative government \"has been given a powerful new mandate, to get Brexit done\".\n\nMr Johnson has pledged to take the UK out of the European Union by 31 January.\n\nPolitically sensitive shares saw sharp rises on UK markets. Shares in water companies such as Severn Trent, which faced the possibility of nationalisation under a Labour government, rose 9%, while UK housebuilders also saw big gains, with Barratt up 14% and Persimmon 12% higher.\n\nShares in banks exposed to the UK economy rose sharply. Barclays, RBS and Lloyds were up 6%, 8% and 5% respectively.\n\nNeil Wilson, chief market analyst at Markets.com, said housebuilders had been undervalued and rose \"on hopes that construction will benefit from the Conservative victory\".\n\n\"We should also consider the potential risk that a Labour government could have posed to their profits being removed,\" Mr Wilson said.\n\nWhile many FTSE 100 shares saw big gains, this was offset slightly by the rise in the value of the pound, which affected companies with big international operations. A rise in sterling cuts the value of companies' overseas earnings when they are brought back to the UK and converted back into pounds.\n\nIn contrast, the FTSE 250 index - which generally contains firms with more exposure to the domestic economy - jumped more than 5% at one point, before slipping back slightly.\n\nThe financial bookies had already installed Boris Johnson as the favourite but did not expect him to romp home by such a distance.\n\nThe pound moved sharply higher as soon as the exit poll was published and went on to post one of its biggest one-day gains against the dollar in years as Johnson's thumping victory removed one layer of political uncertainty.\n\nShares in politically-sensitive sectors such as house building and banking rocketed, as did water, rail and energy companies, as the threat of nationalisation under a Corbyn government evaporated.\n\nMarkets have given the prospect of a government with a functioning majority a round of applause but the euphoria may be short-lived.\n\nTraders are already talking about the formidable challenge of completing a trade deal with the EU by this time next year, along with the prospect of a new Scottish independence referendum.\n\nThe election may be settled, but there are big political questions that are not.\n\nGuy Foster, head of research at wealth manager Brewin Dolphin, said that \"the potential for a smooth Brexit removes some of the downside risk for the UK economy\".\n\n\"This should be positive for both business and consumer confidence, at least in the short term, with a gradual acceleration in GDP growth and confidence.\n\n\"However, a lot can change over the coming months as the finer detail of the UK's future trade relationship with the EU is negotiated.\n\n\"This is still, after all, just the beginning of the exit process. Even with the passing of the withdrawal agreement, the UK could still leave the EU without a deal at the end of 2020 if trade negotiations don't proceed successfully.\"\n\nSterling hit a 19-month high of $1.3516 at one point overnight, but then gave up some of its gains.\n\nAndy Scott, associate director at financial risk adviser JCRA, said: \"What will be interesting to see - assuming that Brexit will now follow a set course, at least [until] 31 January - is if economic data is given a significant boost from the perceived certainty, and [whether it] starts to influence sterling again.\n\n\"In recent months, the market has almost completely ignored the slowdown in the economy and the potential for monetary stimulus from the Bank of England, with election and Brexit expectations driving fluctuations in sterling's value.\n\n\"The performance of the economy is likely to be key to whether we see a further recovery in 2020.\"", "PC Andrew Harper was married four weeks before he was killed\n\nA teenager has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter over the death of PC Andrew Harper.\n\nThe 28-year-old officer was killed on the A4 Bath Road in Sulhamstead, Berkshire, as he attended a reported break-in on 15 August.\n\nThe 17-year-old boy, who cannot be named, also denied a charge of conspiracy to steal, via video-link at the Old Bailey.\n\nThe 17-year-old, Henry Long, 18, from Mortimer in Reading, and another 17-year-old boy, are charged with murder, an alternative of manslaughter and conspiracy to steal a quad bike.\n\nThomas King, 21, from Basingstoke, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal\n\nMr Long and the second boy will appear at a further plea hearing on 7 January.\n\nKing, from Basingstoke, was granted bail until his sentencing at the conclusion of the trial of the other defendants, which is scheduled to start on March 9.\n\nPC Harper, from from Wallingford in Oxfordshire, died after being dragged along a road by a vehicle.\n\nA post-mortem examination found the Thames Valley Police officer, who got married four weeks earlier, died of multiple injuries.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "New MP James Grundy admitted he had expected \"to lose with dignity\".\n\nLeigh has been a fearsome Labour stronghold for nearly 100 years and even Conservative candidate James Grundy expected to \"lose with dignity\". Now he's the local MP. Are his constituents as shocked as he is?\n\nIt's been Labour since 1922 and was Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham's constituency for 16 years, the man many preferred ahead of Jeremy Corbyn for the Labour leadership.\n\nNumbering a lowly 132 on the Conservatives' list of targets, Leigh was one of the strongest bricks in the the so-called \"red wall\" of Labour safe seats.\n\nIt's fair to say no-one really predicted Leigh turning blue.\n\nHowever, Mr Grundy became the constituency's new MP after securing a 1,965 majority, with a 12% swing to the party.\n\nThere was little expectation of such a seismic switch, so trying to make sense of why the former mill town has turned Tory has been a puzzle for commentators - and even for Mr Grundy.\n\n\"I came here tonight expecting to lose with dignity, rather than head down to London tomorrow,\" he said. \"I suppose I'm going to have to think on my feet about what I'm going to do.\"\n\nYet, for most of the town's residents, the result was less of a surprise.\n\nDave West supported the Conservatives despite voting to remain in the EU\n\nGreengrocer Dave West voted Conservative, despite voting remain in the referendum and expecting his business costs to rise if Britain leaves the EU.\n\nHowever, he wants to see more local investment and said he felt \"ignored\" by the previous MP, Labour's Jo Platt.\n\n\"I never even saw [her]. People have had enough. I've never seen so many people going in to vote in my life.\n\n\"I don't want to leave the EU because my lorry drivers will be in queues and much of my produce is from Spain and France, but I still voted Conservative because of everything else.\n\n\"My decision was based on local issues.\"\n\nGail Robinson said the town's last MP \"talked a lot of gibberish\"\n\nGail Robinson, who runs a delicatessen stall, was also influenced by local issues and said she was proud to have ticked the Tory box for the first time.\n\nThe 46-year-old said she \"didn't want Labour in anymore\".\n\n\"All the funding just goes to Wigan. The MP talked a lot of gibberish.\n\n\"Andy Burnham did a lot for Leigh and I had more confidence in him, but not since then.\n\n\"I'm really hoping that there's going to be a big change.\n\n\"I think that many people have just got to a point where they want to get things moving.\"\n\nJulie Riding said she thought voters \"trust Boris more with business\"\n\nFifty-five-year-old Julie Riding, who runs a gift card stall in the town's market, was on the fence as she approached the polling station and ended up spoiling her ballot paper.\n\n\"I took an online survey and it did say to vote Labour, but I just couldn't do it,\" she said.\n\n\"Jeremy Corbyn, I just don't like him.\n\n\"I did like Boris before, but now he seems to be a bit of a buffoon.\n\n\"Still, it's a big shock. The people of Leigh have always voted Labour. But they see market stalls and businesses closing down and perhaps they just trust Boris more with business.\"\n\nWilliam and Wendy Seddon have always voted Tory\n\nNot everyone in Leigh has simply changed allegiances from red to blue.\n\nWilliam and Wendy Seddon have lived in Leigh all their lives and have always voted Conservative.\n\nMrs Seddon said the result was \"absolutely fantastic\".\n\n\"We've had to fight hard and wait a long time, but it's just great news,\" she said.\n\n\"We want more money put into the NHS and investment and reinvestment in the town. Everything has always focussed on [neighbouring] Wigan.\"\n\nThe retired childminder said while she understood the NHS and investment in northern towns were key elements of Jeremy Corbyn's campaign, she felt he never explained where he was \"going to get the money from\".\n\nHer husband, a retired HGV driver, said electing Labour \"would've cost us\".\n\n\"All they wanted to do is tax us. We've had to fight to get what we've wanted, but now hopefully things will change.\"\n\nPolice officer Dave Trownson, 42, has supported Labour all his life but turned to the Conservatives out of frustration at the long Brexit impasse.\n\n\"It's a massive Labour area and it always has been, but it didn't feel strange for me to vote Conservative - it just felt like the logical thing to do.\n\n\"People want to get Brexit done and move on, and they were the only people offering that. I feel optimistic. We are Great Britain, we are a strong country and a powerful country.\n\n\"I voted to leave but no-one's wanted to take us out apart from Boris. Corbyn was too on the fence.\"\n\nIf you can't see the graphic click here", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "Terrence has spent Christmas day alone for the last 20 years. He'll now be spending Christmas with a good friend he's met through his work with the charity Age UK.\n\nAfter mentioning he didn't have a Christmas tree of his own during his BBC Breakfast interview, presenter Dan Walker and some people from Oldham College set out to deliver some Christmas cheer to his door by surprising him with a tree.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "Hasina Begun says 10 of her family members were killed when the Myanmar military set fire to their village and open fired on the community.\n\nShe travelled from refugee camps in Bangladesh, where over 700,000 Rohingya are living, to attend a court case in which genocide allegations have been made.\n\nMyanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi has defended her country against the allegations at the UN International Court of Justice (ICJ).\n\nHasina says she hopes that the refugees will get justice.", "Brian Taylor gives his analysis of the 2019 general election in Scotland as the results unfold.\n\nThe Lib Dems say Ed Davey and Baroness Sal Brinton will act as joint leaders of the party, given Jo Swinson's constituency defeat. A leadership contest will take place in the New Year.\n\nAlistair Carmichael (third left) retains his Orkney and Shetland seat\n\nAnd so Alistair Carmichael wins Orkney and Shetland. The Lib Dems end up with net four in Scotland. Gained one, North East Fife. Lost one.\n\nThe snag is the one they lost was held by their federal leader.\n\nTalking mandates. When it comes to governance, these involve victory for a manifesto in an election.\n\nBut, when it comes to issues such as referendums, especially when their possibility is disputed, they are partly about momentum.\n\nIn which regard, the Tories entered this election in Scotland, declaring their aim to stop indyref2.\n\nThey lost seats. The SNP entered this election saying, in part, that they wanted a referendum by the end of 2020. They gained seats. The momentum is with the SNP. Consider it the other way round. What if the SNP had lost seats? Their opponents would have declared the end of indyref2.\n\nIan Blackford, the SNP Commons leader in the last Parliament, retains his seat - and immediately demands indyref2.\n\nHe is not prepared, he says, to see Scotland out of the EU against her will. He states: \"We will have our referendum\". And adds: Scotland will become an independent member of the European Union.\n\nNessie can rest undisturbed without Ruth Davidson skinny dipping in Loch Ness\n\nJamie Stone squeaks home in Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross. Victory for the Lib Dems over an SNP advance. This means the SNP cannot make 50. Nessie can rest undisturbed.\n\nMassive victory for the SNP in Gordon. The seat was previously held by Alex Salmond.\n\nRuth Davidson previously said she would skinny dip in Loch Ness if the SNP won 50 seats\n\nFive Scottish seats to go. The SNP need them all to oblige Ruth Davidson to take to the waters. It's not looking likely, given relative Lib Dem performance.\n\nChristine Jardine holds Edinburgh West for the Lib Dems. Could Jo Swinson be the only Scottish casualty for her party?\n\nThat phrase again. \"Nationalism both sides of the border.\" Used by Christine Jardine. But used repeatedly by other Lib Dem speakers.\n\nJust glancing again at the UK voting share. Tories up a bit. Labour down fairly steeply. But LibDems up four points. The leader who helped deliver that is out of Parliament.\n\nIan Murray says Labour must listen and respond - or die.\n\nIan Murray retains Edinburgh South. He is the only Scottish Labour MP. And a sharp critic of the now departing leader, Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nNicola Sturgeon says the results have exceeded even her expectations. She wants Scotland's future in Scotland's hands.\n\nShe reluctantly accepts that Boris Johnson has a mandate to take England out of the EU - but not Scotland.\n\nShe insists she has a mandate to offer Scotland the choice of independence. She will send a formal demand before Christmas and says the Tories must recognise democracy.\n\nQuite a way to go yet. But still looking likely that the SNP could win more than 50 seats. Stand by for Loch Ness, Ruth.\n\nShe smiles. She congratulates her victorious opponent. But this must be heart-rending for Jo Swinson.\n\nDefeated in her home patch, while battling around Great Britain as a whole. Democracy, however, means little without political change, without political churn. It doesn't make it easy for those affected.\n\nLib Dem leader Jo Swinson lost her East Dunbartonshire seat to the SNP\n\nAnd so Jo Swinson has lost East Dunbartonshire by a tiny margin. She led her party but lost her seat. The SNP have taken the constituency.\n\nWill Boris Johnson heed the Brexiteers in his party?\n\nBoris Johnson, set to be returned as PM, once again declares himself a One Nation Tory.\n\nIntriguing this is the tone his administration will adopt. Yes, it will be \"Get Brexit done\". No doubt he will now pursue a trade deal with vigour.\n\nBut will he heed the Brexiteers in his party who say no extension to transition. Or will he - again - seek an extension, perhaps deploying his majority? And that applies to economic policy too. How to define One Nation?\n\nWendy Chamberlain takes Fife North East for the LibDems. A gain from the SNP. Stephen Gethins can do no more than applaud politely.\n\nThis was Ming Campbell's seat for many years. Before that, Tory. Now back in Lib Dem hands.\n\nPerhaps bearing out the signs across Scotland of a generic rise, albeit slight, in Lib Dem Scottish vote. On to East Dunbartonshire.....\n\nJeremy Corbyn is standing down as Labour leader\n\nCorbyn standing down. He will not lead in the next general election. But he will stay to allow discussion.\n\nTories hold a seat - their first in Scotland. Douglas Ross hangs on in Moray.\n\nAnd he's back. Alyn Smith elected as MP for Stirling. Strictly, he hasn't yet given up as an MEP. But that doesn't now look like a long-term prospect. An excellent victory for the SNP. Setback for the Tories.\n\nNicola Sturgeon arrives at the count in Glasgow with her party having won every seat so far in Scotland. She says it is still her intention to urge for an independence referendum in an approach to the new PM before Christmas.\n\nMhairi Black trenchant as always. Asked whether the SNP simply submit to a Boris Johnson victory, she replies: \"No chance!\"\n\nRichard Leonard says Labour failed to get through the \"din\" of Brexit and other constitutional issues\n\nRichard Leonard says Labour failed to get through the \"din\" of Brexit and other constitutional issues. Which is another way of saying folk were unsure about Labour's position.\n\nThe Scottish Labour leader says he tried to talk about poverty but couldn't be held. I understand his point - but parties cannot choose the agenda, especially when it is completely dominated by Brexit and independence.\n\nThese are not constitutional distractions from the truth. They are fundamental. Labour's stance was uncertain. Mr Leonard says cast iron positions might not have helped.\n\nOwen Thompson back in Midlothian. That pattern again.\n\nAnd so John Nicolson triumphs for the SNP in Ochil. Congrats to him. The irony is that he might have won in his old constituency of East Dunbartonshire. But a very good victory for him tonight.\n\nEast Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow. Another big win for the SNP. Anyone detect a pattern.....? Those LibDem seats still going to be fascinating.\n\nA glance at the Scottish voting share. SNP well up. Tories down. Labour well down. But the LibDems are slightly up. Does that add to caveats over the exit poll, or at least their place in it?\n\nTories had high hopes in Lanark and Hamilton East. Another victory for the SNP, with an increased majority.\n\nDerek Mackay, Scotland's finance secretary, says it is scarcely the SNP's fault that Labour is rubbish. He notes that tonight is an argument for independence. Scotland is not getting the government she voted for.\n\nMore than half the electorate backed Mhairi Black in Paisley\n\nMore than half the electorate backed Mhairi Black in Paisley. And we have the result from West Dunbartonshire. Another good victory for SNP. We are now awaiting East Dunbartonshire. Is Jo Swinson out, defeated by the SNP?\n\nIan Murray, hoping to be returned as Labour MP in Edinburgh South, says the results tonight are \"an absolute disaster\" for Labour. He says reflection is needed. And there is a need for a credible alternative opposition.\n\nWe've had the declaration of Arbroath. And now we have the Kilmarnock edition. The verdict in both cases? SNP victories. They are well on course for an excellent night.\n\nWill Jeremy Corbyn stand down as leader of the Labour Party?\n\nGed Killen, the defeated Labour candidate in Rutherglen, points to two problems for his party. No clarity on Brexit and indyref2. And Jeremy Corbyn. He anticipates that Mr Corbyn will now stand down as leader.\n\nMore about Rutherglen. The SNP vote is not as high as the exit poll suggests. The Labour vote is not as dire. So yet more caveats about that exit poll.\n\nBut still, an excellent result for the SNP. Many congratulations to the returning MP Margaret Ferrier.\n\nThe SNP's Margaret Ferrier has won the Rutherglen and Hamilton West seat\n\nFirst Scottish result. Rutherglen and Hamilton West. SNP have taken it back from Labour, having won it in 2015. That concept of regaining seats could become a pattern. If that exit poll is correct....\n\nIan Davidson, former Labour MP, says there will be a discussion within the Labour Party. But he plays down the need for an immediate change of leadership. Labour, he says, will have a continuing job to do to oppose austerity.\n\nIan Blackford of the SNP recalling that the people of Scotland were told in 2014 that the way to keep Scotland in the EU was to retain the Union. Not, Mr Blackford notes, how things turned out.\n\nDouglas Alexander arguing for a fundamental conversation about the future of Labour, if the exit poll proves to be correct. The first three results in the north east of England are broadly in line, especially that remarkable outcome in Blyth.\n\nBack in the middle ages, I was a lobby correspondent at Westminster for a group of papers including the Newcastle Journal.\n\nFrom that distant perspective, that is a remarkable result in Blyth Valley.\n\nThe Tories have taken a seat which used to be held by ex-miner Ronnie Campbell for Labour. Truly, Brexit is driving outcomes. In England. And perhaps, in a different way, in Scotland.\n\nThe Lib Dems are casting big doubt on the exit poll. They say it does not reflect their experience in key seats. Remember those caveats.\n\nPlan B in action for the SNP. If they have failed to lock Boris Johnson out of Downing Street, they will now argue that Scotland's distinctive standpoint must be respected. Not least with a referendum on independence - that point made by Angus Robertson, former SNP Westminster leader.\n\nDouglas Alexander, former Labour Foreign Secretary, says Corbynism has been tested to destruction. Ambiguity the road to ruin.\n\nThe Exit Poll for Scotland suggests that the Liberal Democrats would lose their Scottish seats - including Jo Swinson's in East Dunbartonshire. Ming Campbell reckons that's wrong.\n\nCaveats, caveats. This exit poll is beyond trend for the opinion polls of the campaign, increasing the Tory lead. It also goes beyond the percentage allocated to the SNP in the few Scottish polls.\n\nAnd there's more. The last couple of exit polls have been pretty accurate. But others have not, including 1992 (I still bear the scars).\n\nAnd more again. Around three quarters of Scottish seats are marginal - some highly marginal, some three-way marginal. Difficult to drill down from one poll to individual seats. Keep watching!!!\n\nIf this poll is correct - IF - then Labour would require a rethink. Is it about Leave voters asserting their view in England, against Labour's relative vacillation? Or is it about the leader? To underline, let's await more figures.\n\nAstonishing exit poll as it affects the UK - and Scotland.\n\nRuth Davidson said in advance she'd skinny dip in Loch Ness if the SNP won 50 seats. Stand by Nessie.\n\nOur exit poll reckons 55 for the SNP - almost back to the apex of 2015.\n\nIf this poll is correct - IF - then stand by for three big elements. Brexit will happen. Labour will rethink. And the SNP will exercise plan B. They will argue that Scotland's voting pattern is again being overturned.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says he will work \"night and day, flat out\" to prove his backers right\n\nBoris Johnson has promised to deliver Brexit and repay the trust of voters after he led the Conservatives to an \"historic\" general election win.\n\nThe PM, who has met the Queen to ask to form a new government, has a majority of 80 in the House of Commons - the party's largest since 1987.\n\nHe said he would work \"flat out\" and lead a \"people's government\".\n\nJeremy Corbyn said he would not fight another election as Labour leader, amid recriminations over the party's defeat.\n\nHe said he was \"very sad\" about the result, adding that he had received \"more personal abuse\" from the media during the campaign than any previous prime ministerial candidate.\n\nLabour was swept aside by the Conservatives in its traditional heartlands in the Midlands and north-eastern England, and lost six seats in Wales.\n\nThe Conservatives' victory in the 650th and final contest of the election - the seat of St Ives, in Cornwall - took their total number of MPs up to 365 MPs. Labour finished on 203, the SNP 48, Liberal Democrats 11 and the DUP eight.\n\nSinn Fein has seven MPs, Plaid Cymru four and the SDLP has two. The Green Party and Alliance Party have one each.\n\nThe Brexit Party - which triumphed in the summer's European Parliament elections - failed to win any Westminster seats.\n\nBoris Johnson went to Buckingham Palace to ask the Queen's permission to form a new government\n\nThe Conservative Party's Commons majority is its largest since Margaret Thatcher won a third term in 1987.\n\nMr Johnson has returned to Downing Street, having visited Buckingham Palace, and is expected to make a statement outside Number 10 this afternoon.\n\nIn his victory speech earlier, he told activists the election result represented a \"new dawn\" for the country. He thanked Labour voters, many of whom, he said, had backed the Conservatives for the first time, vowing to fulfil the \"sacred trust\" placed in him.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Election 2019: The story of the night as the results came in\n\n\"You may intend to return to Labour next time round, and if that is the case, I am humbled that you have put your trust in me, and I will never take your support for granted,\" he said.\n\nMr Johnson said the Conservatives' victory had \"smashed the roadblock\" in Parliament over Brexit and put an end to the \"miserable threats\" of another referendum on Europe.\n\nHe said: \"We will get Brexit done on time by 31 January - no ifs, no buts, not maybe.\"\n\nThe same prime minister. But a new map.\n\nA victory bigger than the Tories, haunted by 2017, had dreamt of. As the hours ticked by, red flipped to blue, familiar faces forced out of their seats.\n\nBoris Johnson gambled that he could win an election with support from towns and communities where voting Conservative might almost have seemed a sin.\n\nThe Conservatives' majority will have an almost immediate effect on the country - unless something strange happens we will leave the European Union next month because behind him on the green benches will be new Tory MPs who will vote through his Brexit bill, his position strong enough to subdue any opposition.\n\nAt 33%, Labour's share of the vote is down around eight points on the 2017 general election and is lower than that achieved by former leader Neil Kinnock in 1992.\n\nSome traditional Labour constituencies, such as Darlington, Sedgefield and Workington, in the north of England, will have a Conservative MP for the first time in decades - or, in the case of Bishop Auckland and Blyth Valley, for the first time since the seat was created.\n\nMr Corbyn said his party had put forward a \"manifesto of hope\" but \"Brexit has so polarised debate it has overridden so much of normal political debate\".\n\nJo Swinson was the highest-profile casualty of the night\n\nSome within Labour have blamed the party's support for another Brexit referendum and the long-running anti-Semitism row for the election result.\n\nShadow Brexit Secretary Sir Keir Starmer, regarded as one of the frontrunners to succeed Mr Corbyn, said the result was \"devastating\" and the process of rebuilding the party was a \"very big task\".\n\nJo Swinson has quit as Liberal Democrat leader after losing her Dunbartonshire East seat to the SNP by 149 votes.\n\nWhile she admitted her \"unapologetic\" pro-Remain strategy had not worked, she said she did not regret standing up for her \"liberal values\" and urged the party to \"regroup and refresh\" itself in the face of a \"nationalist surge\" in British politics.\n\nScottish National Party leader and Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said it had been an \"exceptional\" result for her party.\n\nShe said Scotland had sent a \"very clear message\" that it did not want a Boris Johnson Conservative government and the prime minister did not have a mandate to take Scotland out of the EU.\n\nIt was also a \"strong endorsement\" for Scotland having a choice over its own future in another independence referendum, she added.\n\nUS President Donald Trump congratulated Mr Johnson on a \"great win\" and the EU's top official, Charles Michel said he hoped Parliament would approve the Brexit withdrawal treaty agreed in October as \"soon as possible\".\n\nThe legislation paving the way for Brexit on 31 January is due to come before the new Parliament for the first time next Friday.\n\nThere is expected to be a minor cabinet reshuffle on Monday, to fill vacant positions such as Welsh and culture secretaries.\n\nA more thorough reshaping is likely to be put on hold until February, after the UK has left the EU, with a Budget statement in March.\n\nWhat is your question about the election results?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. 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Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "Delegates at the climate talks in Madrid are concerned that divisions between rich and poor are re-emerging\n\nUN climate talks in Madrid enter their final scheduled day with divisions emerging between major emitting countries and small island states.\n\nNegotiators are attempting to agree a deal in the Spanish capital that would see countries commit to make new climate pledges by the end of 2020.\n\nBut serious disagreements have emerged over how much carbon-cutting the major emitters should undertake.\n\nThe talks have also become bogged down in rows over key technical issues.\n\nNegotiators arrived in Madrid two weeks ago with the words of the UN secretary general ringing in their ears - António Guterres told delegates that \"the point of no return is no longer over the horizon\".\n\nProtests led by young delegates saw up to 200 protestors ejected from the talks\n\nDespite his pleas, the conference has become enmeshed in deep, technical arguments about a number of issues including the role of carbon markets and the financing of loss and damage caused by rising temperatures.\n\nThe key question of raising ambition has also been to the forefront of the discussions.\n\nResponding to the messages from science and from school strikers, the countries running this COP are keen to have a final decision here that would see countries put new, ambitious plans to cut carbon on the table.\n\nAccording to the UN, 84 countries have promised to enhance their national plans by the end of next year. Some 73 have said they will set a long-term target of net zero by the middle of the century.\n\nIn a rare move, negotiators from the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) pointed the finger of blame at countries including Australia, the United States, Canada, Russia, India, China and Brazil.\n\nThey had failed to submit revised plans that would help the world keep the rise in global temperatures under 1.5C this century.\n\nAs well as naming names, AOSIS members were angry at the pressure being put on the island nations to compromise on key questions.\n\n\"We are appalled at the state of negotiations - at this stage we are being cornered, we fear having to concede on too many issues that would undermine the very integrity of the Paris agreement,\" said Carlos Fuller, AOSIS chief negotiator.\n\n\"What's before us is a level of compromise so profound that it underscores a lack of ambition, seriousness about the climate emergency and the urgent need to secure the fate of our islands.\"\n\nReinforcing the sense of division, India, supported by China, Saudi Arabia and Brazil, is taking a hard line on the promises made by richer countries in previous agreements before the Paris pact was signed in 2015.\n\nThey are insisting that the pledges to cut carbon in the years up to 2020 be examined and if the countries haven't met their targets, these should be carried over to the post-2020 era.\n\nSigned in 2015, the Paris climate pact saw every country, India included, sign up to take actions.\n\nThis was a key concession to the richer nations who insisted that the deal would only work if everyone pledged to cut carbon, unlike previous agreements in which only the better off had to limit their CO2.\n\nIndia now wants to see evidence that in the years up to 2020, the developed world has lived up to past promises.\n\n\"The Paris agreement talks about the leadership of the developed countries, it talks about the peaking of greenhouse gases earlier in these countries, so we need to see these things,\" said Ravi Shankar Prasad, India's chief negotiator.\n\n\"You have to honour what you agreed.\"\n\nThe developed world see the Indian stance as a tactic, where they are trying to go back to the way things were before Paris, with the richer countries doing the most of the heavy lifting while China, India and others do less.\n\nSome politicians in attendance at this meeting believe there's too much self interest and not enough countries looking at the bigger picture.\n\nSome visitors have other things to do at the COP\n\n\"Frankly, I'm tired of hearing major emitters excuse inaction in cutting their own emissions on the basis they are 'just a fraction' of the world's total,\" said the prime minister of Fiji, Frank Bainimarama.\n\n\"The truth is, in a family of nearly 200 nations, collective efforts are key. We all must take responsibility for ourselves, and we all must play our part to achieve net zero.\n\n\"As I like to say, we're all in the same canoe. But currently, that canoe is taking on water with nearly 200 holes - and there are too few of us trying to patch them,\" Mr Bainimarama said.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "You’re also going to hear Boris Johnson talking a lot about one nation conservatism in the next few months.\n\nBut what is it?\n\nWell, in some ways that’s down to whoever is defining it. There is no strict definition by which we can judge Boris Johnson over the next few years. It’s an idea which has been around in Tory circles for some time.\n\nBut broadly, it refers to the idea the Conservative Party should act for everybody in the UK.\n\nThat means policies that work for people from different economic backgrounds, from different regions and from the different nations of the UK.\n\nThere was a one nation group in the last parliament – which was in part seen as a counterbalance to the pro-Brexit ERG who had been pulling their weight when Theresa May was PM.\n\nThis is how they defined what they were fighting for:\n\nMr Johnson’s focus on the one nation pitch suggests he will seek to offer policies to people beyond the Tory heartlands – more public spending for example after years of austerity. More focus on infrastructure outside London. A lot more talk about the north of England.\n\nThat has become even more important now that a number of his MPs are from former Labour strongholds – sometimes with very different experiences of the British economy.\n\nIt might not be easy though – especially when it comes to the idea the UK is indeed one nation.\n\nLast night’s result puts Scottish independence firmly back on the agenda – and the electoral maps in England and Scotland look very different indeed.", "Use the search box to find full results and updates from every constituency.\n\nOr you can browse the A-Z list.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "They have made gains in Labour heartlands across northern England and Wales. The SNP have made gains across Scotland.\n\nLabour have had their worst return of seats in any general election since 1935.\n\nBoth Labour and the Liberal Democrats now have more female than male MPs.\n\nThe interactive map below shows all the seats that have changed from one party to another. Select the \"results\" tab to see what has happened in the rest of the UK.\n\nThe Conservatives increased their vote share in many areas that voted Leave in the 2016 EU referendum.\n\nBy contrast they lost votes in strong Remain constituencies such as those in Scotland and London. But Labour lost votes in both strong Remain and strong Leave areas.\n\nStrong Leave and strong Remain constituencies are those where an estimated 60% or more of the electorate voted for that option at the EU referendum.\n\nThese estimates of constituency Brexit votes were modelled by Professor Chris Hanretty, as the 2016 referendum result was only recorded by local authority and not by Westminster constituency.\n\nThe Conservatives were clear winners in constituencies estimated to have voted majority Leave in 2016. They won almost three quarters of all these seats.\n\nBy contrast, there was no clear winner among Remain backing constituencies, with a crowded field of parties all winning substantial numbers of seats.\n\nLabour did best of all those parties but only took 40% of the constituencies that backed Remain.\n\nLabour also straddled the Brexit divide taking a roughly equal number of Leave (106) and Remain (96) seats.\n\nMost other parties had a clearer Brexit divide.\n\nOverall, the Conservatives broke new ground, moving into many traditional Labour heartlands.\n\nIn 2017, Labour held 72 of the 100 constituencies with the most working class households (defined as C2DE using data from the 2011 census).\n\nIn 2019, this figure fell to 53 and the Conservatives increased their share from 13 to 31.\n\nIn every nation and region of Britain, the scale of Labour's losses outweighed any gains made by the Conservatives.\n\nThe Conservatives did lose votes in the south of England and Scotland, but these were balanced by gains in the rest of England and Wales.\n\nThe Lib Dems increased their share of the vote across the UK, but failed to translate these gains into more seats.\n\nIn Scotland, the SNP made 14 gains, and lost just one seat, while the Conservatives lost seven and Labour lost six seats.\n\nIn Wales, the Conservatives gained six seats and Labour lost six, mostly in the north east. Overall, Labour's share of the vote was down to 41% from 49% in 2017.\n\nThe Conservatives polled consistently well across England and most of Wales, reflecting their overall 44% share of the UK vote.\n\nYou can use the interactive map below to show the vote share for other parties as well as the turnout.\n\nLabour's strength was concentrated in London and areas around cities in south Wales, the North East and North West. At 32%, Labour's share of the vote is down around eight points on the 2017 general election.\n\nOverall, they lost 60 seats and gained only one, Putney in London.\n\nA total of 220 female MPs have been elected. This is 12 more than the previous high of 208 in 2017.\n\nFor the first time, both the Liberal Democrats and Labour have more women MPs than men. Of Labour's 202 MPs (excluding Speaker Lindsay Hoyle), 104 are women and of the Liberal Democrats' 11 MPs, seven are women.\n\nTurnout, on what was a cold and damp polling day, was 67.3%. slightly lower than the last election in June 2017.\n• None What is the result in my area?", "Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell says the exit poll predicting large Conservative gains has come has a shock.\n\nHe told the BBC's Andrew Neil that the big issue was Brexit, not Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "Labour's Stella Creasy has been re-elected as the MP for Walthamstow, and appeared at the count with her two-week-old daughter Hettie sleeping in a sling.\n\nMs Creasy is the UK's first MP to have a \"locum MP\" to provide maternity cover.\n\nShe won with 36,784 votes, far ahead of her nearest rival, Conservative Shade Adoh with 5,922.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Finucane pays tribute to his murdered father after his victory in North Belfast\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) suffered a bruising night of general election results, losing two MPs including its Westminster leader.\n\nNigel Dodds lost his North Belfast seat to Sinn Féin's John Finucane while Emma Little-Pengelly was defeated by Claire Hanna of the SDLP in South Belfast.\n\nSDLP party leader Colum Eastwood won Foyle with a thumping majority, while the Alliance Party took North Down.\n\nA total of 803,367 votes were cast in Northern Ireland - a turnout of 62.09%.\n\nThe DUP and Sinn Féin both saw their share of the vote drop significantly compared with the 2017 general election - by 5.4% and 6.7% respectively.\n\nThe cross-community Alliance Party is set to come third in terms of vote share, with about 17%.\n\nNorth Down's new MP Stephen Farry was congratulated by his party leader Naomi Long\n\nIts deputy leader Stephen Farry won North Down, the first result declared in Northern Ireland.\n\nIn Fermanagh and South Tyrone, Michelle Gildernew of Sinn Féin retained her seat after a recount, holding off Tom Elliott of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) by just 57 votes.\n\nThe graph below shows the vote share change in North Belfast. If you can't see it click here.\n\nMr Dodds' defeat in North Belfast, a seat he had held since 2001, was symbolic of a torrid election for the DUP.\n\nThe party's deputy leader - a high-profile supporter of Brexit - will not be returning to Westminster.\n\nThe DUP also had high hopes of winning North Down for the first time but the constituency elected its first ever non-unionist MP with Mr Farry's victory for Alliance.\n\nHe defeated Alex Easton of the DUP by just under 3,000 votes.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nigel Dodds says his defeat leaves North Belfast unrepresented in the Commons\n\nLater, Ms Little-Pengelly's loss to the SDLP in South Belfast capped a disappointing night for the party.\n\nShe had won the seat from the SDLP two years ago by 1,996 votes but Ms Hanna took it off her this time with a big swing and a majority of 15,401.\n\nThe DUP propped up a minority Conservative government after the 2017 general election but has not been rewarded by voters.\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster said Mr Dodds' defeat was down to a \"pan-nationalist front\" after the SDLP opted to stand aside in the constituency.\n\nIt was noticeable that the DUP MPs who retained their seats used their victory speeches to urge the return of power-sharing in Northern Ireland.\n\nAfter the last general election the DUP and Sinn Féin were riding respective waves of success at Westminster and felt no need to go back to Stormont.\n\nTwo and a half years on, with devolution still not back in place, perhaps some voters used their ballot to punish the big two parties this time.\n\nAnother round of talks aimed at kick-starting Stormont is due to begin shortly - the government has insisted a new Northern Ireland Assembly election will be called if that fails.\n\nGiven the latest results the DUP and Sinn Féin might not be keen on facing the wrath of some voters at the ballot box again so soon.\n\nRead more from Jayne: 'Some bruising defeats for DUP and Sinn Féin'\n\nThere was better news for the DUP in East Antrim, East Belfast, East Londonderry, Lagan Valley, South Antrim and Strangford where its candidates were all re-elected.\n\nIn Upper Bann Carla Lockhart won, retaining the seat for the DUP after its previous MP David Simpson stepped down.\n\nIan Paisley won in North Antrim but saw his majority cut from 20,643 to 12,000.\n\nMr Finucane's victory was a high point for the party - he secured a majority of 1,943 votes and it is the first time a nationalist has ever held the constituency - but it was a mixed picture elsewhere.\n\nThe SDLP won Foyle, which it lost to Sinn Féin in 2017, with a huge majority while Sinn Féin's majorities in South Down and West Belfast were cut.\n\nÓrfhlaith Begley and Francie Molloy were re-elected for Sinn Féin in West Tyrone and Mid Ulster respectively and their party colleague Mickey Brady held Newry and Armagh.\n\nClaire Hanna celebrated with her husband Donal Lyons after she took the South Belfast seat\n\nSinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald said she was confident her party would compete to win Foyle in the future.\n\nMr Finucane is Lord Mayor of Belfast and his father Pat was a solicitor who was murdered by loyalist paramilitaries in 1989.\n\nHe said: \"We have taken the opportunity to say North Belfast rejects Brexit, North Belfast is a remain constituency and wants a future as part of the European Union.\"\n\nThe Alliance Party had a strong performance this year in the council elections in Northern Ireland and then at the European Parliamentary elections when it won a seat for the first time.\n\nThe party last won a Westminster seat in 2010 before losing it five years later but it will once again have representation in the House of Commons after Mr Farry's victory.\n\nHe won 18,358 votes to Mr Easton's 15,390 to take the seat formerly held by independent MP Lady Hermon.\n\nNorth Down was represented by Lady Hermon from 2001 until she stepped down this year.\n\nCount staff in Fermanagh and South Tyrone had a long night that included a recount of the votes\n\nIn his victory speech, Mr Farry said \"voters had sent out a clear message that North Down wanted to remain [in the EU]\".\n\nHe said there was no such thing as a good or sensible Brexit and that \"all forms of Brexit are damaging for Britain\".\n\nThe party came second in the DUP safe seat of Lagan Valley.\n\nSorcha Eastwood won 13,087 votes, slashing Sir Jeffrey Donaldson's majority from 19,229 to just over 6,000.\n\nYou can use the feature below to search for your constituency and see results. If you can't see it click here.\n\nThe SDLP went into the night hopeful of taking South Belfast and Foyle but the scale of their victories in those seats was unexpected.\n\nIn Foyle, the seat once held by Nobel Peace Prize winner John Hume, Mr Eastwood won by 17,000 votes.\n\nThe graph below shows the vote share change in Foyle. If you can't see it click here.\n\nSinn Féin won the seat two years ago but the party's vote halved from 18,256 to 9,771 this time.\n\nMr Eastwood said Foyle voters had returned \"someone to go to Westminster to fight your case and to stand up to Boris Johnson\".\n\nIn South Belfast Ms Hanna overturned a DUP majority of 1,996 to win by more than 15,000 votes.\n\nWith one constituency left to declare, the Conservative Party has secured a majority of 78 at Westminster.\n\nAs a result the party will not require the DUP to help it achieve a working majority as it did in 2017.\n\nBut the DUP's Brexit spokesman Sammy Wilson said as Prime Minister Boris Johnson sought a trade deal with the EU there would still be opportunities to influence proceedings.\n\nVotes ahoy - a ballot box from Rathlin Island was taken by boat to Ballycastle harbour\n\nSinn Féin's Alex Maskey said the result would take the \"dead hand\" of the Tory-DUP relationship away from the political process in Northern Ireland.\n\nHe predicted it would make it more likely that the DUP would do a deal with his party to restore devolved government.\n\nThe power-sharing executive at Stormont collapsed in January 2017 after a bitter row between the DUP and Sinn Féin over a flawed green energy scheme.\n\nNew talks aimed at restoring the executive are due to start on Monday.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Election 2019: The story of the night as the results came in\n\nBoris Johnson will return to Downing Street with a big majority after the Conservatives swept aside Labour in its traditional heartlands.\n\nWith just a handful of seats left to declare in the general election, the BBC forecasts a Tory majority of 78.\n\nThe prime minister said it would give him a mandate to \"get Brexit done\" and take the UK out of the EU next month.\n\nJeremy Corbyn said Labour had a \"very disappointing night\" and he would not fight a future election.\n\nThe BBC forecast suggests the Tories will get 364 MPs, Labour 203, the SNP 48, the Lib Dems 12, Plaid Cymru four, the Greens one, and the Brexit Party none.\n\nThat means the Conservatives will have their biggest majority at Westminster since Margaret Thatcher's 1987 election victory.\n\nLabour, which has lost seats across the North, Midlands and Wales in places which backed Brexit in 2016, is facing its worst defeat since 1935.\n\nMr Johnson has addressed cheering party workers at Conservative headquarters, telling them there has been a political earthquake, with the Tories winning a \"stonking\" mandate, from Kensington to Clwyd South.\n\nSpeaking earlier at his count in Uxbridge, west London, where he was elected with a slightly higher majority, Mr Johnson said: \"It does look as though this One Nation Conservative government has been given a powerful new mandate to get Brexit done.\"\n\nHe added: \"Above all I want to thank the people of this country for turning out to vote in a December election that we didn't want to call but which I think has turned out to be a historic election that gives us now, in this new government, the chance to respect the democratic will of the British people to change this country for the better and to unleash the potential of the entire people of this country.\"\n\nMr Johnson became prime minister in July without a general election, after the Conservative Party elected him as leader to replace Theresa May.\n\nSpeaking at his election count in Islington North, where he was re-elected with a reduced majority, Mr Corbyn said Labour had put forward a \"manifesto of hope\" but \"Brexit has so polarised debate it has overridden so much of normal political debate\".\n\nLabour's vote is down around 8% on the 2017 general election, with the Tories up by just over 1% and the smaller parties having a better night.\n\nThe result so far is remarkable for the Conservatives - better than many of them had hoped for.\n\nThey have won a majority which will allow Boris Johnson to make sure Brexit happens next month.\n\nThere were some astonishing results, with a number of historic Labour heartlands falling to the Conservatives.\n\nLabour, by contrast, could hardly be in a worse position.\n\nJeremy Corbyn has made it clear he will go before the next election - but he wants to stay for a period of reflection. Many in his party want him to go immediately.\n\nIn Scotland, the picture is quite different.\n\nThe SNP have come close to sweeping the board - gaining seats from all their rivals.\n\nA Tory majority at Westminster means one constitutional quarrel - Brexit - might be over, but another - on Scottish independence - will be back with a vengeance.\n\nScottish National Party leader and Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said it had been an \"exceptional night\" for her party.\n\nShe said Scotland had sent a \"very clear message\" that it did not want a Boris Johnson Conservative government and the prime minister did not have a mandate to take Scotland out of the EU.\n\nIt was also a \"strong endorsement\" for Scotland having a choice over its own future in an another independence referendum, she added.\n\nLabour looks set for one of its worst election results since World War Two.\n\nSome traditional Labour constituencies, such as Darlington, Sedgefield and Workington, in the north of England, will have a Conservative MP for the first time in decades - or in the case of Bishop Auckland and Blyth Valley - for the first time since the seat was created.\n\nLabour took Putney, in south-west London, from the Tories, in a rare bright spot for Jeremy Corbyn's party.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John McDonnell: \"I think most people thought the polls were narrowing\"\n\nA row has already broken out at the top of the Labour Party, with some candidates blaming Jeremy Corbyn's unpopularity on the doorstep and others blaming the party's policy of holding another Brexit referendum.\n\nLeave-supporting Labour chairman Ian Lavery, who held his seat with a reduced majority, said he was \"desperately disappointed\", adding that voters in Labour's \"heartlands\" were \"aggrieved\" at the party's Brexit stance.\n\nDowning Street said earlier that if Mr Johnson was returned to Downing Street, there would be a minor cabinet reshuffle on Monday.\n\nThe Withdrawal Agreement Bill, paving the way for Brexit on 31 January, would have its second Commons reading on Friday, 20 December.\n\nA major reshuffle would take place in February, after the UK has left the EU, No 10 added, with a Budget statement in March.\n\nThis is the UK's third general election in less than five years - and the first one to take place in December in nearly 100 years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour's Stella Creasy was re-elected - and appeared at the count with her two-week-old daughter in a sling\n\nMr Johnson focused relentlessly on a single message, to \"get Brexit done\", while Labour primarily campaigned on a promise to end austerity by increasing spending on public services and the National Health Service.\n\nNigel Farage said his Brexit Party had taken votes from Labour in Tory target seats, although he himself had spoiled his ballot paper \"as I could not bring myself to vote Conservative\".\n\nWhat questions do you have about the election result?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. 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Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.\n• None When do we find out who has won the election?", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "Britain's longest-running rail franchise came to an end on Saturday after more than 22 years.\n\nVirgin Trains, which began serving the West Coast Main Line in 1997, is being replaced by Avanti West Coast.\n\nAlmost 500 million journeys have been made with Virgin Trains, which is co-owned by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group and Stagecoach.\n\nThe final service pulled out of London Euston at 21:42 GMT, bound for Wolverhampton.\n\nBut the historic day was marred by disruption when Virgin's last-ever London to Manchester service terminated early at Stockport due to a train fault just before midnight.\n\nEarlier, Sir Richard tweeted his thanks to \"all our wonderful people\" and their \"incredible work\".\n\nAvanti West Coast, which will begin running the service on Sunday, told customers that tickets booked with Virgin Trains for upcoming journeys are still valid.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Richard Branson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe end of the franchise comes after Virgin Group and Stagecoach had their bid to continue running trains on the line disqualified by the Department for Transport (DfT) in April because they did not meet pension rules.\n\nThe companies are suing the DfT over its decision.\n\nAt the time, Sir Richard said he was \"devastated\" by the disqualification.\n\nVirgin Trains, which is 49% owned by Stagecoach, introduced a series of innovations on the railways, including automatic delay compensation payments, a system to allow passengers to stream films and TV programmes on demand from their own devices, and the provision of digital tickets available for all fare types.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Virgin Trains This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRail expert Mark Smith, founder of Seat61.com, said the operator had, with the help of major infrastructure improvements, \"transformed\" its network by almost tripling passenger numbers and doubling services on some routes such as London to Glasgow.\n\n\"I think they've done pretty well,\" he said. \"They do have a certain panache and they communicate that to the staff and to the service. Quirky things like the toilets that talk to you, to onboard service with the food and wine. I'm going to be sorry to see them go.\"\n\nThe service has had a variable record - the proportion of Virgin trains which arrived at their final destination within 10 minutes of the timetable ranged from 33% in the final quarter of 2000 to 91% between July-September 2010.\n\nThe latest figure, for July-September 2019, was 78%.\n\nVirgin Trains managing director Phil Whittingham, who will hold the same position with the new operator, said he was \"concentrating on a smooth handover\" to Avanti, adding: \"It's been a wonderful 22 years transforming services on the west coast and we're proud of everything our people have achieved in that time.\"\n\nAvanti West Coast is owned by First Trenitalia, a partnership between Aberdeen-based FirstGroup and Italian firm Trenitalia.\n\nThe operator said it would introduce a range of passenger improvements, including 263 more weekly services by 2022, when 23 new trains will begin service.\n\nThe existing fleet of Pendolino trains will be refurbished - promising 25,000 new seats, more reliable wi-fi and better catering.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Anthony Joshua became a two-time world heavyweight champion with a unanimous points victory over Andy Ruiz Jr in a tense rematch in Saudi Arabia.\n\nSix months on from the night Ruiz stunned boxing, Joshua risked seeing his career left in tatters with a second defeat, but served up 36 minutes of movement and well-timed punching to take the IBF, WBA and WBO titles back to Britain.\n\nAfter cutting his Mexican rival inside the first round he never looked back and picked out smart jabs and right hands throughout before being serenaded with chants of \"AJ, AJ, AJ\" by 14,000 or so fans in the Diriyah Arena.\n\nRuiz never looked close to landing a knockdown and when scores of 118-110 118-110 and 119-109 were read out, Joshua jumped up and down in the ring in celebration, just as the man who had wrecked his US debut did in June.\n\nJoshua gets it right all night\n\nJoshua, 30, now joins a small cluster of men including Muhammad Ali, Lennox Lewis, Evander Holyfield, Mike Tyson and Floyd Patterson to have reclaimed the world heavyweight title.\n\nPatterson fell to the canvas seven times in one round as he lost his belts to Ingemar Johansson in 1959 but regained them in a rematch. The question in Saudi Arabia was whether Joshua could show the same mental fortitude after being knocked down four times by Ruiz in June. His answer was emphatic.\n\nA downpour in a country that barely sees rain stopped moments before Joshua strode to the ring, prompting him to carefully dry his feet on the canvas.\n\nFrom that moment on, his feet moved with grace. Seconds before the off, Ruiz was told \"let's go Andy\" by his corner but he was rarely allowed to get close to his rival and inflict the damage he did in the first fight.\n\nRuiz, the bookmakers' underdog again, was cut above his left eye in the first. He landed two jabs of his own in the second but took a left hook as Joshua moved with the lightness of a man at his lowest weight in five years.\n\nHe was burning energy but was slick and showed variety in working head and body in the third. A crowd unfamiliar with the sweet science at such close quarters offered audible applause and cheers as the smart work landed.\n\nThere was always tension given the speed with which Ruiz's gold gloves can move, and in the eighth he served up a first scare. As the pair tangled, Ruiz made things ugly and winged in a hook. The crowd stamped their feet while Ruiz's fighting compatriot Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez stood and screamed ringside.\n\nThe ninth felt key, Joshua needed to establish distance again. He landed a solid uppercut but saw Ruiz fire back wildly instantly. Again, the incredible durability of the champion and the constant threat he carried was evident.\n\nDeep in the 12th, Ruiz beat his chest as if to dare Joshua close. After a night of lateral movement and poise, it was never going to happen. Joshua glared out at the crowd as the bell sounded. It was a look of a defiance. It was the look of a man who had proved his point.\n• None Listen: Highlights of Joshua & Ruiz's 'Clash on the Dunes'\n\nSome seeing Ruiz's showing here will ask what was wrong with Joshua in their first meeting - the Mexican was never able to rediscover the heights he hit in New York.\n\nHis weight gain of 15lb was the same as James 'Buster' Douglas piled on after stunning Mike Tyson in 1990. Douglas lost easily to Holyfield months later and as the scorecards widened on Saturday and Ruiz ate shots, it looked as if his new status and its attached distractions might have taken a similar toll.\n\nHauling 20st 3lb around a ring is no easy feat. Only Nikolai Valuev - who was 7ft tall - has weighed more and held a world title. And as Saudi royalty watched on at ringside, Ruiz was consistently unpicked and outmanoeuvred.\n\nHe will at least leave with a career-high pay day in excess of £10m. He can live the rest of his life as a former world champion who stunned boxing. But if he shoots for titles again, he will simply need to be better.\n\nJoshua had said defeat would have been \"catastrophic\" for a career that promised so much, delivered plenty and then, from nowhere, was shaken to its core.\n\nSome close to him had expressed how nervous they were all week. The fact his entire team stayed with him in the ring for over 30 minutes after his win pointed to their relief.\n\nHe has promised to fully explain what happened on that June night but it is to his credit that he pushed for a new approach to his training, made adjustments and lived out the lessons he gleaned from his lowest point in the paid ranks.\n\nTo use a boxing term, he 'boxed the ears off' a man who had prompted him to ask so many questions of himself.\n\nThe talk of facing Deontay Wilder or Tyson Fury - temporarily derailed by Ruiz in June - will resume. Another rematch, though neither party is obligated this time, also has legs.\n\nJoshua has earned such options after such a clinical response to adversity.\n\nBoxing history will never forget what Ruiz did to him. Joshua can at least draw some comfort in putting things right.\n\nWhat they said - 'When was the last time we had a role model like this?'\n\nPromoter Eddie Hearn: \"Madison Square Garden was a humiliation, he went down four times - people wrote him off, said he had no heart, he quit. He went back, brushed himself down and went back to work to prove you all wrong. It was an absolute masterclass, a shutout, a way of boxing people didn't believe he could do.\n\n\"He taught himself to box like that - the discipline was incredible. All the things no-one thought he possessed. That's because he's getting better. What heavyweight has a resume like him? Give him respect; he has changed the face of boxing. A great individual with a big heart.\n\n\"I have represented Anthony since he turned pro. He is a very close friend of mine. The strength he has shown is unbelievable. When was the last time we had a role model like this? We should be so proud. An absolute role model for our country.\"\n\nJoshua's trainer Robert McCracken: \"I think he was where I wanted him to be for this fight. He has listened in camp, worked really hard, and I thought he boxed very well against a dangerous fighter.\n\n\"Andy Ruiz is a real danger and he is very quick and heavy-handed. There were a couple times Josh went into mid-range and came unstuck but he settled back down in the corner and got back on it. His weight was great and his jab was tremendous.\"\n\nBBC Radio 5 Live boxing pundit Steve Bunce: \"AJ was absolutely clinical and he never wasted a shot. That was class and he stuck to his plan. Beautiful to watch.\n\n\"He got it right in spectacular fashion. He has been steely and nasty.\"", "Jonty Bravery was 17 years old when he was charged\n\nA teenager said he threw a boy from the 10th floor of the Tate Modern in London because he wanted to be on the TV news.\n\nThe six-year-old boy was visiting London from France with his family when Jonty Bravery, 18, threw him from a viewing platform on 4 August.\n\nThe boy suffered a bleed to the brain in the five-storey fall. His injuries have been described as life-changing.\n\nBravery, from Ealing, admitted attempted murder at the Old Bailey and will be sentenced in February.\n\nAfter his arrest he told police he planned in advance to hurt someone at the South Bank gallery, to highlight his autism treatment on TV.\n\nThe court heard Bravery had approached a member of Tate Modern staff, saying: \"I think I've murdered someone, I've just thrown someone off the balcony.\"\n\nThe boy was taken to hospital after he was found on a fifth floor roof\n\nIn his police interview, Bravery said he had to prove a point \"to every idiot\" who said he had no mental health problems, asking police if it was going to be on the news.\n\n\"I wanted to be on the news, who I am and why I did it, so when it is official no-one can say anything else.\"\n\nThe court heard Bravery, who has autistic spectrum disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder and was likely to have a personality disorder, had been held at Broadmoor Hospital since mid-October.\n\nIn social media posts, now deleted, the defendant's father, Piers Bravery attempted to raise awareness of autism and its treatment.\n\nBravery was 17 when he was charged but could not be named until his 18th birthday in October.\n\nThe child's family said their son continued to require intensive rehabilitation as he had not recovered mobility in his limbs or full brain function.\n\n\"He is constantly awoken by pain and he can't communicate that pain or call out to hospital staff.\n\n\"Life stopped for us four months ago. We don't know when, or even if, we will be able to return to work, or return to our home, which is not adapted for a wheelchair.\n\n\"We are exhausted, we don't know where this all leads, but we go on,\" they added, thanking supporters.\n\nA GoFundMe page raised almost €153,000 (£129,000) for the boy and his family to help with \"medical funds\".\n\nEmma Jones of the Crown Prosecution Service said: \"The boy was singled out by Bravery who threw him from the viewing platform intending to kill him.\n\n\"That he survived the five-storey fall was extraordinary.\"", "Katherine Jenkins had been in London to perform at a carol concert\n\nA 15-year-old girl has been charged after Welsh singer Katherine Jenkins was mugged in London while intervening in a street robbery.\n\nThe 39-year-old opera star was on her way to a rehearsal in Chelsea on Wednesday when she saw an older woman being attacked, her agent said.\n\nThe Neath-born mezzo-soprano was then mugged herself after trying to help.\n\nThe Met said the 15-year-old girl had been charged with robbery and assault on police.\n\nShe is due to appear at Highbury Magistrates' Court on 6 January.\n\nJenkins had been in the capital to sing at the Henry van Straubenzee charity carol concert at St Luke's Church.\n\nHer agent said she still managed to perform that evening as \"she didn't want to let the charity down\".\n\nAnother 15-year-old girl who was arrested at the time was released under investigation.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The woman says she felt a stinging sensation on her leg during the flight\n\nA woman has been stung by a scorpion while travelling on a United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Atlanta.\n\nThe woman says she felt a stinging sensation on her leg during the flight on Thursday morning.\n\nWhen she went to the toilet, the scorpion fell out of her trousers and scuttled away.\n\nThe passenger was treated by paramedics before being taken to hospital, the airline told the BBC. She has not been named and her condition is not known.\n\n\"After learning that one of our customers on flight 1554 from San Francisco to Atlanta was stung during flight, our crew responded immediately and consulted with a MedLink physician on the ground who provided medical guidance,\" the airline said in a statement.\n\n\"The customer was transported to a local hospital,\" it added. \"We have been in contact with our customer to ensure her well-being.\"\n\nA picture of the scorpion in what appears to be a United Airlines-branded box was published by celebrity news website TMZ, which first reported the story.\n\nAlthough rare, it's not the first time a scorpion has been found on a commercial flight.\n\nUnited Airlines said the woman was treated by paramedics before being taken to hospital\n\nEarlier this year, a scorpion was filmed crawling out of the overhead luggage rack on a Lion Air flight in Indonesia.\n\nA similar incident happened in 2017, when a Canadian man said he was stung by a scorpion on a United Airlines flight.\n\nRichard Bell said the scorpion fell on his head from above him while he was eating lunch on a flight from Houston, Texas to Calgary in Canada.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Richard Bell describes the moment a scorpion fell on his head during a United Airlines flight\n\nThe airline offered Mr Bell flying credit as compensation, which he accepted.\n\nLater in 2017, an EasyJet flight from Paris to Glasgow was delayed overnight after a passenger spotted a scorpion on board.", "More than 120,000 extra people in Scotland have registered to vote in the general election, new figures show.\n\nThe final tally for eligible voters was 4,053,140, up 3% from the same time last year, according to the Scottish Assessors Association (SAA).\n\nThe figure is the highest number of people in Scotland registered to vote in a UK parliament election in decades.\n\nOf the people registered to vote on 12 December, 728,148 have opted to do so by post.\n\nElectoral registration officers said they have had an \"extremely busy few weeks\".\n\nPete Wildman, secretary of the SAA, which helps co-ordinate electoral registration services across the country, said: \"We are pleased to see an increase in the number of people registered to vote.\n\n\"All our teams have worked hard to process the increased number of applications ahead of the final update of the register.\"\n\nSAA figures show there were 3,960,093 validated voters on the register by 14 November.\n\nThe final deadline to sign up to vote was 26 November and the latest update of the register shows 4,053,140 people have now signed up to vote.\n\nThis is up from the last official tally of Scottish voters, in December last year, when 3,925,820 people were on the register.\n\nNational Records of Scotland publishes annual counts of voters and its available records go back to 1996.\n\nThe latest count is the highest for a general election since that year, with the previous highest in March 2015 when 4,035,394 were signed up.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two young boys who survived last month’s earthquake in Albania got the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet football stars Cristiano Ronaldo and Gianluigi Buffon.\n\nAlbania Prime Minister Edi Rama brought along the two boys from Thumane, one of the worst-hit areas, to the Italian capital, Rome, to meet their idols.", "For two politicians who pride themselves on telling it straight, Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn were both markedly on their best behaviour tonight.\n\nThey didn't harangue each other, there was no heckling from the audience.\n\nThere was a wide range of subjects certainly, and profound disagreements - naturally.\n\nBut there was no moment that burst into fireworks. No massive gaffe on either side, or political car crash in the most public of forums.\n\nThey both stayed true to the tramlines that were long set out in this election.\n\nFor Boris Johnson, it was again and again making the case that the country can only move on if we leave the EU as soon as humanly possible.\n\nFor Jeremy Corbyn, the task was to pull the debate back as often as possible to the changes that nearly a decade of a squeeze on public spending has made to the fabric of millions of peoples lives.\n\nTo that end, it's likely that tonight they will have confirmed in their respective supporters minds, the reasons why they are the chosen candidate to run the country.\n\nEven though there were no obvious shocks or surprises, tonight may well have mattered for the many voters who would have been watching who are yet to make their decision.\n\nThose floating voters, yet to be convinced, are the ones who will decide the ultimate result.\n\nBut the pattern of this campaign, however, has been long set.\n\nThe Conservatives have been in front, Labour struggling to close the gap.\n\nSo tonight, for Boris Johnson's team, it was another hurdle they have crossed without a huge stumble.\n\nFor Jeremy Corbyn, another missed chance perhaps to make a break that didn't come.\n\nSixty minutes of important clashes with only six days to go didn't shake up the big picture of this election, which was sketched out weeks ago, leaving Labour with less and less time to make a difference.\n\nThat does not mean though for a second the Conservatives leave Maidstone tonight sure of a clean victory.\n\nThe margins are too tight, politics too unpredictable, there is still time to go, and the public too savvy to give their votes without a pause.", "Award-winning American actor Ron Leibman, famed for playing Rachel Green's overbearing dad in the sitcom Friends, has died at the age of 82.\n\nHis agent said the cause was pneumonia.\n\nWhile best known for his role in the US sitcom, Leibman had a decorated career in TV and film spanning six decades.\n\n\"Ron was an incredibly talented actor with a distinguished career in film, TV and theatre. Our thoughts go out to his wife, Jessica (Walter), and his family,\" his agent said in a statement.\n\nBorn in New York in 1937, Leibman won an Emmy award in 1979 for the series Kaz, which he created, and a Tony award for Tony Kushner's play Angels in America.\n\nHe appeared in numerous films including Norma Rae and Slaughterhouse-Five.\n\nBut his role as Dr Leonard Green in Friends is how he will be remembered best.\n\nMany have taken to social media to pay tribute to Leibman.\n\n\"So many of the best memories of my career have Ron Leibman in them. Thank you, Ron. For my being my champion. Rest, my friend,\" said Sally Field, who won an Oscar for Norma Rae.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Audrey Schoeman's heart was \"dead\" for more than six and a half hours\n\nA British woman whose heart stopped beating for six hours has told the BBC she \"feels lucky\" to have a second chance in life.\n\nAudrey Schoeman developed severe hypothermia on 3 November when she was caught in a snowstorm while hiking in the Spanish Pyrenees.\n\nDoctors managed to revive Mrs Schoeman and said her cardiac arrest was the longest ever recorded in Spain.\n\nThe 34-year-old said she hoped to get back to hiking.\n\nMrs Schoeman, who lives in Barcelona, told the Today programme that she does not remember the accident itself and said it has been \"much worse\" for her husband Rohan.\n\nShe said: \"By the time I came round in hospital I knew it was serious as my parents were there but I did not feel like I was at risk of dying, whereas everyone else spent the last few days thinking there was a very good chance I wasn't coming back.\n\n\"The first few days were quite blurry, I was on quite a lot of medication.\"\n\nMrs Schoeman has no memory of the six hours\n\nMrs Schoeman began having trouble speaking and moving during severe weather in the Pyrenees, later falling unconscious.\n\nHer condition worsened while waiting for emergency services and her husband Rohan believed she was dead.\n\nBut the low mountain temperatures which made Mrs Schoeman ill also helped to save her life, her doctor Eduard Argudo said.\n\nHypothermia had protected her body and brain from deteriorating while unconscious, Mr Argudo explained, despite also bringing her to the brink of death.\n\nHe added: \"If she had been in cardiac arrest for this long at a normal body temperature, she would be dead.\"\n\nDoctors who treated Mrs Schoeman at Barcelona's Vall d'Hebron Hospital said she had no vital signs of life.\n\nThey used a specialised machine that removed her blood and infused it with oxygen, before reintroducing it into her body.\n\nOnce her body temperature had reached 30C, the doctors used a defibrillator to jump-start her heart six hours after the emergency services were contacted.\n\nMrs Schoeman was released from hospital 12 days later.\n\nApart from some lingering issues with the mobility and sensitivity of her hands, due to the hypothermia, she has made an almost full recovery.\n\nShe said: \"I had an understanding of what happened but did not know how lucky I was to have survived it.\n\n\"I like the life I had before I had the accident, I am not going to be quitting my job or anything like that.\n\n\"I am looking forward to embracing it because I know I'm lucky to have a second chance again.\n\n\"I hope [to go hiking again]. Maybe not soon, we won't be going in the mountains this winter. I think it will be a long time before my husband goes anywhere near any snow.\"", "Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson wants small business owners to back her party\n\nThe Liberal Democrats plan to scrap business rates to help small firms and will provide greater support for entrepreneurs, if the party wins the general election on Thursday.\n\nNearly a million businesses in the UK have closed in the past three years, analysis from the Lib Dems suggests.\n\nThe party says Brexit uncertainty has added to the high street's demise.\n\nLabour says it will base a network of small business advisers in Post Office branches if it wins the election.\n\nMeanwhile, the Conservatives have said they will reduce business rates for smaller firms and give them a larger discount on National Insurance payments.\n\nLib Dem leader Jo Swinson is due to visit Hertfordshire on Saturday - Small Business Saturday - to discuss her policies with the owners of small businesses in a bid to convince them to back her party, which is in favour of revoking Article 50 and stopping Brexit.\n\nCiting figures from the Office for National Statistics, the Lib Dems said 978,285 businesses closed their doors between 2016 and 2018 - a 28% rise from the 765,000 that shut over the previous three years.\n\nThe Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has previously warned the government of the impact a no-deal Brexit would have on the UK and European Union, saying that leaving with a deal is essential to protect the economy and jobs.\n\nSam Gyimah, Lib Dem shadow secretary for business, energy and industrial strategy, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme on Saturday that it was \"no coincidence\" that in a period of such uncertainty, businesses had to close their doors.\n\nMr Gyimah said: \"We have a situation where the Conservatives and the Labour Party are going to throw the economic cards up in the air and gamble with our future. And all the other things pale in comparison when you look at the issue of Brexit and its consequences.\"\n\nThe Lib Dems plan to boost small businesses by replacing business rates with a new land value tax on landlords, and expand the \"future high streets fund\" to support redevelopment in town centres and high streets.\n\nA new \"start-up allowance\" supporting business owners with their living costs in their first few weeks is also being pledged.\n\nChuka Umunna, Lib Dem spokesman and former Labour MP, warned that \"crashing out\" of the EU would see \"even more damage to businesses up and down the country\".\n\nMr Umunna accused the Conservative government of having \"completely failed\" small businesses, \"saddling them with years of Brexit uncertainty and ignoring urgent calls to reform business rates\".\n\n\"Liberal Democrats are proud to be a party that supports businesses. We will stop Brexit, get back to dealing with the issues that really matter to small businesses, and build a brighter future,\" Mr Umunna added.", "The strike means hundreds of services are being cancelled each day\n\nWeekend travellers on South Western Railway (SWR) have faced disruption due to ongoing strike action compounded by engineering work.\n\nTwenty-seven days of strike action by Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) members began on Monday.\n\nUnion leaders have called for fresh talks with rail bosses in the long-running row over train guards.\n\nThe company has warned passengers travel will be \"especially challenging\" throughout December.\n\nWeekend engineering and maintenance work has also meant a number of line closures, including between Bournemouth and Poole, in the Twickenham area, and between London Waterloo and Kingston.\n\nAll lines in the Leatherhead area are closed all day on Sunday for maintenance work.\n\nThe strike means hundreds of services are being cancelled each day and many commuters have complained about overcrowded trains.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Transport Correspondent Paul Clifton explains the background to the strikes\n\nThe two sides remain deadlocked in the dispute over the role of guards.\n\nOn new trains due to start running next year, SWR wants drivers to operate the doors at every stop to save time.\n\nUnion members want guards to decide when to close the doors.\n\nLetters have been exchanged in recent days, with the union calling for fresh talks at the conciliation service Acas.\n\nThe RMT says the dispute now centres on whether guards should have a few seconds to make sure trains leave platforms safely.\n\nA spokesman said: \"The union will continue to push for a negotiated settlement that protects passenger safety and our members remain rock-solid in the ongoing action.\"\n\nSWR managing director Andy Mellors said in a letter that further talks must be on the proviso that the union has a \"new solution\" to safely delivering over 10 million more peak-time passenger journeys on time each year.\n\nUnion members have staged pickets at stations on the SWR network\n\nSWR released a revised timetable and said it would provide longer trains to increase capacity where possible.\n\nThe operator runs services between London Waterloo and Portsmouth, Southampton, Bournemouth and Weymouth as well as Reading, Exeter and Bristol. It also operates suburban commuter lines in south-west London, Surrey, Berkshire, and north-east Hampshire.\n\nStrike days are as follows:\n\nHas your journey been affected? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Promoter Eddie Hearn on BBC Radio 5 Live: \"It's the individual, anyone around him knows he's the nicest bloke you could meet.\n\n\"Madison Square Garden was a humiliation, he went down four times - people wrote him off, said he had no heart, he quit. He went back, brushed himself down and went back to work to prove you all wrong, it was an absolute masterclass, a shut out, a way of boxing people didn't believe he could do.\n\n\"He taught himself to box like that, the discipline was incredible. All the things no one thought he possessed - that's because he's getting better. What heavyweight has resume like him? Give him respect, he has changed the face of boxing. A great individual with a big heart.\n\n\"They wrote him off. I have represented Anthony since he turned pro. He is a very close friend of mine. The strength he has shown is unbelievable. When was the last time we had a role model like this? We should be so proud. An absolute role model for our country.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nThe Football Association will investigate allegations of racism after Manchester United players said they were targeted at Manchester City.\n\nCity said they were \"aware of a video circulating on social media\" which appears to show a supporter making monkey gestures towards United players.\n\nThey have pledged to issue a lifetime ban to \"anyone found guilty of racist abuse\".\n\nThe FA plans to speak to the clubs, referee Anthony Taylor and the police.\n\nThe incident in question happened when United midfielder Fred went to take a corner in the second half.\n\nThe 26-year-old Brazilian said it was a shame that such incidents still happen in 2019.\n\n\"We are still in a backward society,\" Fred told ESPN Brazil after the 2-1 win for Manchester United.\n\n\"Unfortunately, this is happening in some stadiums. It happened here, it happened in Ukraine with some friends.\n\n\"It's sad, but we have to keep our heads up and forget about that. We can't give them any attention because that's all they want. I spoke to the referee after the match, they will do something about it and that's all.\"\n\nFred also appeared to be hit by an object thrown at Etihad Stadium.\n\nAnti-racism body Kick It Out says it has been \"inundated\" with reports of alleged racist abuse after the incidents were captured by television cameras.\n\n\"We hope swift action is taken to identify the offenders,\" Kick It Out said.\n\nMore than one United player said they had been abused after the game, with the Old Trafford club reporting their comments to referee Anthony Taylor and Manchester City.\n\nCity said they are working with Greater Manchester Police to help them identify any individuals who were involved. Greater Manchester Police said that no arrests had been made but that \"enquiries into the incident are ongoing\".\n\n\"The club operates a zero-tolerance policy regarding discrimination of any kind,\" City added.\n\nThe Professional Footballers' Association welcomed City's prompt response, adding: \"Racist abuse is a criminal offence and must be dealt with accordingly.\"\n\nUnited manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said: \"I've seen it on the video and the fella must be ashamed of himself. It is unacceptable and I hope he won't be watching any football any more.\"\n\nCity manager Pep Guardiola said he does not want to see any more alleged racist abuse \"happen again\".\n\n\"It is a battle to fight every day. Unfortunately, it has happened in many places,\" he said.\n\nUnited forward Marcus Rashford, who was also playing when England's Euro 2020 qualifier in Bulgaria was overshadowed by racism in October, called for more to be done to tackle the problem.\n\n\"The fact it is still happening is not good enough,\" he said.\n\n\"We seem to be speaking about it an awful lot over last six to eight months. Even speaking about it now is not nice.\n\n\"The necessary departments need to do the right things to stop it in the game. It is a big negative in the sport and the country.\"\n\nWith United leading 2-0, a number of objects were thrown by supporters in the home end when Fred went to take a corner in the 67th minute.\n\nThe Brazilian moved away from the corner flag before going back to take the set-piece.\n\nCity midfielder Fernandinho, along with other home players, urged the fans in that corner to calm down.\n\nPlay resumed a few moments later once referee Taylor picked up a number of objects in that area of the pitch.", "Climate change and nutrient pollution are driving the oxygen from our oceans, and threatening many species of fish.\n\nThat's the conclusion of the biggest study of its kind, undertaken by conservation group IUCN.\n\nWhile nutrient run-off has been known for decades, researchers say that climate change is making the lack of oxygen worse.\n\nAround 700 ocean sites are now suffering from low oxygen, compared with 45 in the 1960s.\n\nResearchers say the depletion is threatening species including tuna, marlin and sharks.\n\nThe threat to oceans from nutrient run-off of chemicals such as nitrogen and phosphorus from farms and industry has long been known to impact the levels of oxygen in the sea waters and still remains the primary factor, especially closer to coasts.\n\nHowever, in recent years the threat from climate change has increased.\n\nAs more carbon dioxide is released enhancing the greenhouse effect, much of the heat is absorbed by the oceans. In turn, this warmer water can hold less oxygen. The scientists estimate that between 1960 and 2010, the amount of the gas dissolved in the oceans declined by 2%.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Climate change: How 1.5C could change the world\n\nThat may not seem like much as it is a global average, but in some tropical locations the loss can range up to 40%.\n\nEven small changes can impact marine life in a significant way. So waters with less oxygen favour species such as jellyfish, but not so good for bigger, fast-swimming species like tuna.\n\n\"We have known about de-oxygenation but we haven't known the linkages to climate change and this is really worrying,\" said Minna Epps from IUCN.\n\n\"Not only has the decline of oxygen quadrupled in the past 50 years but even in the best case emissions scenario, oxygen is still going to decline in the oceans.\"\n\nFor species like tuna, marlin and some sharks that are particularly sensitive to lack of oxygen - this is bad news.\n\nBigger fish like these have greater energy needs. According to the authors, these animals are starting to move to the shallow surface layers of the seas where there is more of the gas dissolved. However, this make the species much more vulnerable to over-fishing.\n\nIf countries continue with a business-as-usual approach to emissions, the world's oceans are expected to lose 3-4% of their oxygen by the year 2100.\n\nThis is likely to be worse in the tropical regions of the world. Much of the loss is expected in the top 1,000m of the water column, which is richest in biodiversity.\n\nTuna are suffering from lack of oxygen, says IUCN\n\nLow levels of oxygen are also bad for basic processes like the cycling of elements crucial for life on Earth, including nitrogen and phosphorous.\n\n\"If we run out of oxygen it will mean habitat loss and biodiversity loss and a slippery slope down to slime and more jellyfish,\" said Minna Epps.\n\n\"It will also change the energy and the biochemical cycling in the oceans and we don't know what these biological and chemical shifts in the oceans can actually do.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Durwood Zaelke has arguably saved the world half a degree Celsius of warming\n\nChanging the outcomes for the oceans is down to the world's political leaders which is why the report has been launched here at COP25.\n\n\"Ocean oxygen depletion is menacing marine ecosystems already under stress from ocean warming and acidification,\" said Dan Laffoley, also from IUCN and the report's co-editor.\n\n\"To stop the worrying expansion of oxygen-poor areas, we need to decisively curb greenhouse gas emissions as well as nutrient pollution from agriculture and other sources.\"", "Lottie is a therapy dog for Chloe, who has autism\n\nAn 11-year-old girl with autism has cried herself to sleep every night for a week after the theft of her dog, her family said.\n\nLottie, the three-year-old Dalmatian, was stolen from Chloe Hopkins' home in Peatling Parva on 1 December.\n\nHer mother Gemma said the therapy dog was Chloe's \"best friend\" and helped to keep her calm.\n\nShe said the rare-breed dog could have been targeted by thieves using a drone to plan the burglary.\n\n\"Chloe and Lottie are inseparable. She helps Chloe calm down - she's her best friend,\" Mrs Hopkins said.\n\n\"She helps Chloe get through every day because she's got her best friend to come home to.\"\n\nLottie was taken in the early hours of Sunday morning\n\nLottie was last seen in the early hours of Sunday morning when Mrs Hopkins went downstairs to feed her newborn baby.\n\nBy 07:30 GMT a bolt on an outhouse was broken and Lottie - who needs specialist food for a liver condition - was gone.\n\nChloe told her mum all she wanted for Christmas was to get Lottie back\n\nMrs Hopkins said: \"We've had problems getting her into school - she broke down in tears in the foyer and wanted her dog.\n\n\"She doesn't understand, with her autism; she thinks somebody hates her and that's why someone's taken her dog.\n\n\"I watch my daughter crumple and there's nothing I can do as a parent to stop her being in pain.\"\n\nA few days before the burglary Mrs Hopkins saw a drone flying over her house - she suspects that may be connected to the burglary.\n\n\"I live in a very small village and I knew it wasn't any of my neighbours flying a drone.\n\n\"It was round the side of my house where I've got a gate, which they've actually gone through to get Lottie.\"\n\nThe family has offered a reward for Lottie's safe return.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Robbie Williams has become the joint most successful solo act in UK album chart history after scoring his 13th number one, level with Elvis Presley.\n\nRobbie's The Christmas Present has moved to the top spot after entering at number two behind Coldplay last week.\n\nThe Beatles hold the overall record with 15 UK number one albums.\n\nMeanwhile, Dance Monkey by Australian singer Tones & I equalled the record for the longest-running number one single by a female artist, on 10 weeks.\n\nThat matched the stints at the singles summit achieved by Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You in 1992 and Rihanna's Umbrella in 2007.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Tones And I This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. End of youtube video by Tones And I\n\nLewis Capaldi is at number two, but is the bookmakers' current favourite to top the chart when the Christmas number one is announced in two weeks.\n\nRobbie's rise means only two of his solo albums have failed to reach number one. His 2003 live album from Knebworth and 2009's Reality Killed the Video Star both reached number two.\n\nThe star also sang on four number one albums as part of Take That, meaning he has appeared on 17 chart-topping albums as a solo artist or part of a group.\n\nThat's still some way behind Sir Paul McCartney, who has had a total of 22 number one LPs with The Beatles, Wings and across his solo career.\n\nWhile Robbie's festive collection heads the albums chart, a host of Christmas songs have shot up the singles chart as people start streaming festive classics in their droves. The top Christmas songs in this week's chart are:\n\nEllie Goulding's new cover of Joni Mitchell's wintry classic River has also entered the top 40 at number 14.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The Conservatives are pledging to invest £550m in grassroots football as part of plans to back a UK and Ireland bid to host the 2030 World Cup if they form the next government.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the investment would \"transform lives with a legacy to match the 2012 Olympics\".\n\nIt would boost existing plans for amateur football in England.\n\nBut Labour said the funding would not make up for \"years of brutal cuts\" to sporting facilities.\n\nThe Football Foundation partnership between government, the Football Association (FA) and the Premier League has existed since 2000. It is promising to improve 20,000 grass pitches in England or build new Astroturf versions.\n\nThe new Tory pledge would see the government's current grassroots football funding commitment to the project rise from £180m to £730m over the next 10 years.\n\nSpeaking after a short kickabout with children in Cheadle, he said he wanted to \"bring football home\".\n\nIt is unclear where the additional government cash would come from, but private partners are expected to fund the remainder of the investment, which would now amount to £2bn in total.\n\nThe FA has said that only one-in-three English community pitches are of adequate quality, with one-in-six amateur matches called off due to poor pitch conditions.\n\nThe Conservatives said every funding bid would be assessed against several factors, including whether it provides equal playing opportunities for females.\n\nThe party's manifesto also includes a policy of ensuring all major new sports facilities cater for a range of different activities.\n\nLabour had previously voiced its support for a 2030 World Cup bid.\n\nShadow culture secretary, Tom Watson, said: \"This Tory pledge won't undo the years of damage done to grassroots sports facilities by a decade of austerity.\n\n\"A last-minute election pledge can't make up for years of brutal cuts.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the Lib Dems have announced a policy of re-introducing safe-standing at top-flight football stadia.\n\nThe party says the practice works safely in Europe and will lead to more choice, better atmosphere and cheaper tickets for fans.\n\nStanding in English football's top two tiers is illegal after recommendations made following the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, which led to the deaths of 96 fans.", "Mexico's brutal drug war claims tens of thousands of lives every year\n\nUS President Donald Trump has delayed plans to legally designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorist groups.\n\nMr Trump had vowed to label the gangs as terrorists after the killing last month of nine American citizens from a Mormon community in Mexico.\n\nBut he has put the plans on hold on the request of his Mexican counterpart, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.\n\n\"I celebrate that he has taken our opinion into account,\" the Mexican president said.\n\n\"We thank President Trump for respecting our decisions and for choosing to maintain a policy of good neighbourliness, a policy of cooperation with us,\" he added.\n\nMr Trump's original announcement came after three women and six children of dual US-Mexican nationality were killed in an ambush in a remote area of northern Mexico.\n\nFollowing the attack the victims' community, the LeBarons, petitioned the White House to list the cartels as terror groups, saying: \"They are terrorists and it's time to acknowledge it.\"\n\nThe move would have widened the scope for US legal and financial action against cartels but Mexico saw it as a violation of its sovereignty.\n\nThe US president has now put the plans on hold.\n\n\"All necessary work has been completed to declare Mexican Cartels terrorist organizations,\" Mr Trump wrote on Twitter. \"Statutorily we are ready to do so.\"\n\nBut Mr Trump said his Mexican counterpart is \"a man who I like and respect, and has worked so well with us,\" adding that he was temporarily holding off on the designation and stepping up \"joint efforts to deal decisively with these vicious and ever-growing organizations!\"\n\nHe did not comment on how long the delay would last.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Three ways the US is influencing violence in Mexico\n\nMexico's brutal drug war claims tens of thousands of lives every year, as powerful trafficking groups battle for territory and influence.\n\nIn 2017 more than 30,000 people were killed in the country, with the murder rate having more than tripled since 2006.", "Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said leaked documents reportedly showing the NHS would be at risk after a post-Brexit trade deal with the US are genuine.\n\nMr Corbyn said \"at no stage did the prime minister or anybody deny that those documents were real\".\n\nPM Boris Johnson said an investigation is needed into the source of the documents on UK-US trade negotiations, posted on the Reddit website.\n\nReddit said the unredacted documents were uploaded as \"part of a campaign that has been reported as originating from Russia\".\n\nThe forum website has suspended 61 accounts that showed a \"pattern of coordination\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Greta at UN climate change talks - one year apart\n\nSwedish activist Greta Thunberg says young people are \"bringing change\" to the Madrid climate talks and will not be silenced.\n\nAt a news conference Miss Thunberg said that she hoped the negotiations would yield \"something concrete\"\n\nThe 16-year-old was mobbed by press and spectators when she visited the conference centre earlier on Friday.\n\nShe had to be escorted away for her own safety amid shouts of \"leave her alone\" from concerned observers.\n\nHaving arrived via overnight train from Lisbon to large crowds waiting for her in Madrid, Miss Thunberg was set to join a large demonstration in favour of rapid climate action this evening.\n\nSpeaking before the gathering she said that the voices of the young would not be drowned out.\n\n\"People want everything to continue like now and they are afraid of change,\" she told reporters.\n\n\"And change is what we young people are bringing and that is why they want to silence us and that is just a proof that we are having an impact that our voices are being heard that they try so desperately to silence us.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Greta Thunberg was protected by police as she arrived in Madrid\n\nMiss Thunberg is due to address the climate negotiations that have been going on in Madrid for the past week. She remains hopeful that they will lead to a positive outcome.\n\n\"I sincerely hope that COP25 will lead to something concrete and it will lead to also to an increase in awareness in people in general and that the world leaders and people in power grab the urgency of the climate crisis because right now it doesn't seem like they are,\" she said.\n\n\"We will do everything we can to show that this is something that cannot be ignored, that they cannot just hide away any longer.\"\n\nMiss Thunberg has arrived in Europe after a voyage across the Atlantic by yacht.\n\nThe hope among many here is that the scale of the march and her speech to the COP next week will give a big boost to the talks process that seem badly in need of a lift.\n\nThis COP started with great hope last Monday, with strong words from the UN secretary-general and others, warning that time is running out and that negotiators should be guided by the science.\n\nSince then, the urgency has given way to frustration.\n\nLittle obvious progress is being made on the central question of raising countries' ambitions to cut carbon.\n\nIndeed, UN climate chief Patricia Espinosa said the issue of increased pledges wasn't even on the agenda for the final outcome of this conference.\n\n\"We don't have in the agenda one item that's called 'ambition' and, therefore, it's not like we are expecting to have a specific decision on that.\"\n\nIn the face of several recent scientific reports stating that countries were falling further behind when it came to meeting the Paris agreement targets, this was a little disturbing, to say the least.\n\nAccording to some experts at these talks, extra ambition would be great but equally important would be a firm timetable to deliver their pledges over the next 12 months, ahead of the Glasgow COP this time next year.\n\nRight now, that's not certain.\n\n\"It would be extremely concerning if the countries here in Madrid did not agree that there is a timeline for next year in coming forward with their commitments,\" said David Waskow from the World Resources Institute.\n\n\"That is a key outcome that we have to see here. It is not something that you can keep punting further and further away, this is something that requires immediate action.\"\n\nEven the Pope is concerned.\n\n\"We must seriously ask ourselves if there is the political will to allocate with honesty, responsibility and courage, more human, financial and technological resources to mitigate the negative effects of climate change,\" Pope Francis said in a message to participants here.\n\nMuch of what happens in Madrid could be governed by what happens in Brussels next week where a European Green Deal is set to be outlined by the incoming EU Commission.\n\n\"What the European Union does next week is a critical signal to the rest of the world that will shape the outcome in Madrid,\" said David Waskow. \"What happens in Brussels will resonate in Madrid.\"\n\nProtestors at the COP showed the continuing influence of coal on the climate\n\nAnother ongoing issue that is making people upset here is the question of climate justice.\n\nMuch attention has been focussed on the attempts by poorer countries to finally get some traction around the question of loss and damage, the impacts of climate change from events that just can't be adapted to, such as sea-level rise or storms made more likely by rising temperatures.\n\nThe hope from many is that here in Madrid, the developing nations would be heard and a mechanism with funding would be set up to deal with loss and damage.\n\nAgain, there's been very little progress.\n\nOf course the question of climate justice is not just between countries but often within countries as well.\n\n\"The ones who contributed the most are the ones who feel the impacts the least,\" said Isadora Cardoso from campaign group GenderCC - women for climate justice.\n\n\"Even within developed countries the poorest are the most affected whenever there are climate disasters or impacts, but they are not the ones who consume more and contribute the most to the causes of climate change.\"\n\nThere is still time to ensure a strong outcome in Madrid and the arrival of ministers next week will increase the sense of urgency - but right now there's a big disconnect between the size of the task and the willingness of countries to step forward with the pledges and the money needed to deal with the biggest challenge facing Planet Earth.", "Boris Johnson \"must answer\" for anti-Semitism, Labour says\n\nThree Conservative election candidates are being investigated over allegations of anti-Semitism, the party has confirmed.\n\nSally-Ann Hart, Richard Short and Lee Anderson are facing claims relating to their social media use.\n\nLabour has called for the candidates to be suspended, adding that leader Boris Johnson \"must answer for the anti-Semitism being promoted in his name\".\n\nA Conservative spokeswoman said abuse or discrimination of any kind is wrong.\n\nAmong those who are facing an investigation is Sally-Ann Hart, the Tory candidate in Hastings and Rye, which is ex-Home Secretary Amber Rudd's former seat.\n\nAlso being investigated is Richard Short, who is standing in St Helens South and Whiston, and Lee Anderson, who is running in Ashfield and Eastwood.\n\nA Conservative Party spokeswoman said: \"These matters are being investigated.\"\n\nShe added: \"We are committed to stamping out the scourge of anti-Semitism in our society and supporting our Jewish community.\n\n\"Our complaints process is rightly a confidential one, but there are a wide range of sanctions to challenge and change behaviour, including conditions to undertake training, periods of suspension and expulsion, and these are applied on a case-by-case basis.\"\n\nThe probe comes after leader Mr Johnson previously told reporters that \"if anybody is done for Islamophobia, or any other prejudice or discrimination in the Conservative Party they are out first bounce\".\n\nAndrew Gwynne, Labour's national campaign co-ordinator, said: \"Boris Johnson said members who make racist comments are 'out first bounce'. So why is he refusing to suspend these three candidates, none of whom appear to have apologised?\n\n\"Johnson has never called out and condemned anti-Semitic Soros narratives among his supporters.\n\n\"On the contrary, the Conservatives whipped their MEPs to vote in support of the Hungarian government which peddles the Soros conspiracy and appointed a senior government adviser who promotes this narrative.\"\n\nMr Gwynne added: \"Anti-Semitism is clearly rife in the Conservative Party from top to bottom.\n\n\"Johnson must answer for the anti-Semitism being promoted in his name.\"\n\nJewish multi-billionaire philanthropist George Soros, who has given away £32bn, has been the topic of numerous fake news stories and conspiracy theories, many of which are anti-Semitic.\n\nUnder electoral law, if a candidate is suspended after nominations close, they will still appear on the ballot paper and affiliated to that party.\n\nMr Johnson has previously apologised for the \"hurt and offence\" that has been caused by Islamophobia in the Tory Party.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour has been beset by allegations of anti-Semitism for more than three years, leading to the suspension of a number of high-profile figures such as Ken Livingstone and Chris Williamson, and an unprecedented investigation by the Equality and Human Rights Commission.\n\nMr Corbyn has apologised for incidents of anti-Semitism in Labour on several occasions and said anti-Jewish racism was \"vile and wrong\".", "Hospitals across England are using 21 separate electronic systems to record patient health care - risking patient safety, researchers suggest.\n\nA team at Imperial College say the systems cannot \"talk\" to each other, making cross-referencing difficult and potentially leading to \"errors\".\n\nOf 121 million patient interactions, there were 11 million where information from a previous visit was inaccessible.\n\nThe NHS said it was working to ensure different systems could work together.\n\nThe electronic medical records (EMRs) system was launched in 2002 with the aim of allowing clinicians easy access to all the information on a patient, even if they had previously been treated elsewhere.\n\nBut it has been plagued with delays and operational problems ever since.\n\nThe team from London's Imperial College's Institute of Global Health Innovation (IGHI) looked at data from 152 acute hospital trusts in England, focusing on the use of EMRs on the ward.\n\nAround a quarter were still using paper records.\n\nHalf of trusts using EMRs were using one of three systems: researchers say at least these three should be able to share information.\n\nTen per cent were using multiple systems within the same hospital.\n\nWriting in the journal BMJ Open, the researchers say: \"We have shown that millions of patients transition between different acute NHS hospitals each year.\n\n\"These hospitals use several different health record systems and there is minimal coordination of health record systems between the hospitals that most commonly share the care of patients.\"\n\nDr Leigh Warren, who worked on the research, said: \"Patients expect their health records to be shared seamlessly between hospitals and healthcare settings that they move between.\n\n\"They cannot understand why, in the NHS, this is not the case.\"\n\n\"Yet hospitals and GPs often don't have the right information about the right patient in the right place at the right time.\n\n\"This can lead to errors and accidents that can threaten patients' lives.\"\n\nLord Ara Darzi, lead author and co-director of the IGHI, said: \"It is vital that policy-makers act with urgency to unify fragmented systems and promote better data-sharing in areas where it is needed most - or risk the safety of patients.\"\n\nA spokesperson for NHSX, which looks after digital services in the NHS, said: \"NHSX is setting standards, so hospital and general practioner IT systems talk to each other and quickly share information, like X-ray results, to improve patient care.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The US naval air base in Pensacola, Florida\n\nThe gunman who killed three people at a US naval base in Pensacola, Florida, was a Saudi student, officials say.\n\nHe has been named as Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani - a Saudi military member in training at the site. He was shot dead by officials.\n\nThe local sheriff's office confirmed eight others were injured in the attack including two officers. The shooter used a handgun.\n\nIt is the second shooting to take place at a US military base this week.\n\nA US sailor shot dead two workers at the Pearl Harbor military base in Hawaii on Wednesday.\n\nAuthorities were alerted to the shooting at the base on the waterfront southwest of Pensacola at 06:51 (12:51 GMT).\n\n\"Walking through the crime scene was like being on the set of a movie,\" said Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan.\n\nTwo officers were shot in the limbs but are expected to recover.\n\nAccording to its website the naval airbase, which is still in lockdown, employs more than 16,000 military and 7,400 civilian personnel.\n\n\"There's obviously going to be a lot of questions about this individual being a foreign national, being a part of the Saudi air force and then to be here training on our soil,\" said the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis.\n\n\"Obviously the government of Saudi Arabia needs to make things better for these victims and I think they're going to owe a debt here, given that this was one of their individuals,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Florida governor: 'The Saudi government will owe a debt here'\n\nPresident Donald Trump said that King Salman of Saudi Arabia had called to \"express his sincere condolences and give his sympathies to the families and friends of the warriors who were killed\".\n\nMr Trump said the Saudi King told him that \"this person in no way shape or form represents the feelings of the Saudi people who love the American people\".\n\nTimothy Kinsella, the base commanding officer, said he was \"absolutely in awe of the response\" to the attack.\n\n\"There was some real heroism today,\" he said. \"I'm devastated. We are in shock. This is surreal, but I couldn't be prouder to wear the uniform that I wear because of my brothers and sisters in uniform, civilian or otherwise, that did what they did today to save lives.\"\n\nAn investigation was taking place and names of victims would not be released until next of kin had been notified, the US Navy said in a statement.\n• None Two killed in shooting at Pearl Harbor navy base", "Labour plans to make England's entire bus fleet electric by 2030 with a £4bn investment, if it wins the general election.\n\nThis would reduce bus emissions by more than 70%, cutting air pollution and helping to tackle climate change, the party said.\n\nBut Conservatives claim the plans are part of \"Labour's war on the motorist\".\n\nMore than 3,000 bus routes have been cut or reduced over the past decade, campaigners said in October.\n\nLabour said its plans would boost British manufacturing and help \"revitalise our high streets and rebuild local communities\".\n\nThere are 35,000 buses in England but only 700 are electric, and mostly in London, Labour said.\n\nLabour says the cost of this policy will be under £4bn over a 10-year period and will come from Labour's Green Transformation Fund.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: \"The Westminster bubble doesn't care about buses but cuts to bus routes leave so many people isolated, stuck at home and unable to make vital trips out.\n\n\"Away from London, many people have approached me in this election to talk about their local bus route closing down.\"\n\nAndy McDonald, shadow transport secretary, added: \"The Tories' manifesto didn't pledge a penny to reverse a decade of cuts to local bus services.\"\n\nLabour would give local authorities the power to create council-owned bus companies, replace cuts to bus funding and invest more (at a cost of £1.3bn a year), and provide free bus travel to under-25s in areas that bring bus services under local ownership (at a cost of £1.4bn a year by the end of the parliament), it said.\n\nThe funding will be drawn from Vehicle Excise Duty - formerly known as road tax - with Department for Transport money directed away from road building.\n\nThe pricing is based on the cost of buying new electric buses, and reimbursing bus owners for phasing out fossil fuel vehicles before the normal end of road life.\n\nWhile bus services are devolved, Labour said it would make money available across the UK.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said: \"Labour's war on the motorist continues apace.\n\n\"Labour won't be able to deliver a modern bus network because they would raid the roads budget and scrap vital new roads and upgrades to fund their fantasy giveaways.\"\n\nThe Conservatives have pledged to \"help local authorities to partner with bus companies to create new superbus networks\" and make £50m available \"to develop the first all-electric bus town or city\".\n\nRoad campaigners said in October that bus service funding has been slashed over a decade.\n\nLocal authority funding for bus services fell by more than 40% over that time, while central government funding fell by 19%, the Campaign for Better Transport said in October.\n\nHowever, the Department for Transport said at the time it supported local bus services with a £250m annual grant to keep fares lower.\n\nLiberal Democrat shadow transport secretary Wera Hobhouse said on Friday: \"The steady degradation of bus services by the Conservatives across the UK is a disgrace.\n\n\"The Liberal Democrats would spend £4.8bn on restoring bus routes over the next five years.\n\n\"We would also spend £970m on funding electric buses and coaches, reducing emissions and ensuring our transport system plays its part in tackling the climate emergency.\"", "* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment, the older person’s bus pass and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* Rights for workers to be notified of their shifts one month in advance * The right to bereavement leave following a death in the immediate family * Lower cap on pension fund management fees * Tax breaks for companies that offer longer-term secure career contracts to staff\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* End the Work Capability Assessment and replace it with a system using qualified medical practitioners * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * No benefits paid to foreign nationals resident in the UK until they have paid tax for five years * Minimise the use of zero-hour contracts\n\n* £35 a week payment for every child in a low-income family * Tax credit of up to £25 a week for tenants in the private sector who spend more than 30% of their income on rent and utility bills * Powers over social security devolved to Wales * Abolish the \"bedroom tax\" * Universal free childcare for 40 hours a week\n\n* Demand UK government halts the rollout of Universal Credit until \"fundamental flaws\" are addressed * Oppose and increase to the state pension age and campaign against decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s * Press for the statutory living wage to rise to at least the level of the real living wage * Increase shared parental leave from 52 to 64 weeks, with the additional 12 weeks to be the minimum taken by the father * Make the minimum wage for 16 to 24-year-olds the same as for over 25s, and ban unpaid trial shifts\n\n* Stronger regulation of the gig economy, and oppose deregulation of employment rights * Stronger focus on careers advice * Support a fairer UK-wide welfare system and revised package of welfare mitigations for NI * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * Overhaul bereavement benefits\n\n* Personal tax allowance should rise in line with inflation each year * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 by the end of the parliamentary term * End the freeze on benefits by increasing them in line with inflation * Restore free television licences for over-75s but in the longer term abolish the licence fee entirely * Retain the pensions triple lock and retain winter fuel payments\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts * Introduce a real living wage * Establish a new \"welfare mitigation package\" that protects the most vulnerable\n\n* Increase childcare provision from 12.5 hours per week to 20 hours per week, potentially increasing to 30 hours once new budget is agreed * Regulation of zero-hours contracts * Introduce a \"true living wage\" to reflect rising costs of living * Scrap universal credit, the bedroom tax and the two-child limit * End the freeze on benefits\n\n* Extend mitigation measures on key issues such as the bedroom tax, which are due to expire in March * Restore TV licenses for over-75s and retain the triple-lock protection for pensions * Create and implement a new childcare strategy\n\n* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Increase the number of employers paying a living wage in Wales and introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system * New \"collective\" workplace pension schemes and new controls on transferring pensions and a review of state pension inequality for Waspi women\n\n* Introduce a real living wage of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16, giving about 700,000 Scottish workers a pay rise * Scrap universal credit and increase child benefit * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66 and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay\n\n* Reverse cuts to universal credit * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment * Introduce universal access to basic services * Increase provision of free meals for children, with a particular focus on breakfast * Increase access to free sanitary products\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts, close the gender pay gap, and ensure that everyone is paid a \"real living wage\" * Bring in a universal basic income * Remove differential rates of minimum wage for under-25s and introduce a living wage for everyone * Scrap universal credit * Support for the Waspi women (Women Against State Pension Inequality)\n\n* Scrap welfare reforms include PIP, Universal Credit and the bedroom tax * Develop a state-owned National Childcare Agency * Repeal all anti-trade union laws * Ban zero hours contracts and implement a real living wage\n\n* 40% of board members in public companies and public sector boards to be women * Worker representation to be established on the boards of larger companies * Ban “zero-hours” contracts * Increase child benefit", "Thousands of council workers staged a strike over the dispute\n\nThe company that led the equal pay legal action against Glasgow City Council has suspended all activities.\n\nAction 4 Equality Scotland said the move followed an approach by the Financial Conduct Authority over its failure to comply with new legislation.\n\nDirector Stefan Cross QC insisted it would not affect the ongoing settlement process but could have an impact on future negotiations.\n\nThe FCA would not confirm or deny any investigation.\n\nIn October, a BBC Disclosure documentary raised questions about A4ES and the £500m deal it had done with Glasgow City Council.\n\nClaims management companies in England and Wales have been regulated for several years but this has only been the case in Scotland since April.\n\nStefan Cross was the claims lawyer who acted for the majority of the women\n\nIn a statement, Mr Cross said A4ES was unaware of the change in the law.\n\nIt now intends to make an application to the FCA to become a regulated claims management company, a process that can take several months.\n\nThe lawyer said the FCA approach was the reason the company had shut down the website.\n\nIt has also decided not to take on any new clients and will not to be involved in any further direct negotiations as a representative.\n\nMr Cross said the move would not affect the ongoing settlement process, which will now be handled by a law firm, but could have an impact on the claims of caterers employed by Baxter Storey.\n\nHe added: \"It is very regrettable that this situation has occurred and I'd like to personally apologise to the women involved. However, I can reassure them that we have taken all necessary steps to ensure that their claims can proceed normally.\n\n\"The overriding priority has been to protect the interests of these women, and Addleshaw Goddard have been working with closely with us on these cases for the past six years, so are ideally placed to ensure a smooth continuation of their cases.\"\n\nLast month, BBC Disclosure told how thousands of women who fought Glasgow City Council for equal pay have had money deducted to pay legal fees, despite pledges from their unions.\n\nMembers of Unison, Unite and the GMB were told they would get 100% of the settlement money offered.\n\nBut BBC Disclosure obtained legal documents showing \"all claimants\" have had fees \"deducted\".\n\nWorkers took party in a 48-hour strike over equal pay\n\nEmployment lawyer Carol Fox later said she was \"troubled\" that women who were represented by unions had paid fees.\n\nShe has also called for an inquiry into Glasgow City Council's equal pay settlement.\n\nThe long-running dispute over women being paid less than men in jobs of the same grade was settled in January.\n\nGlasgow City Council agreed to pay out a reported £548m to compensate the women for the money they should have been paid, in many cases going back to 2006 when the new job evaluation scheme was adopted.\n\nThe scheme was supposed to ensure that men and women received equal pay for jobs of the same value.\n\nBut instead, some traditionally female-dominated roles such as catering or home care ended up being paid up to £3 an hour less than male-dominated jobs such as bin lorry workers or gardeners.\n\nThe majority of the 16,000 equal pay claimants were represented by private claims company Action 4 Equality, run by Mr Cross.\n\nAs part of this deal, it was agreed that every claimant would have a percentage of the settlement offered by the council deducted in legal fees. This included those backed by their unions.\n\nAccording to Mr Cross, 6.9% was deducted from all the claimants, with a proportion being paid to his company.\n\nIn his interview with the BBC, Mr Cross acknowledged the percentage deducted equated to \"many millions\" of pounds.\n\nHe said: \"The unions' proposal was that we had to agree parity, to start with. The cost of that is that fees had to be paid somehow. And this is the most fair, most beneficial way for everybody that we did it on that basis.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "At its most expensive, it cost £6.70 to cross the Severn bridges\n\nJourneys on the westbound carriageway on the Prince of Wales Bridge have increased by 16% in the year since the tolls were removed.\n\nAn average of more than 39,000 journeys are being made each day, up from less than 34,000 per day in 2018 when the £5.60 charge was still in place.\n\nHighways England said traffic rose by about 32% on the M48 Bridge, but exact figures were not available.\n\nThe AA said the figures showed the toll removal had \"gone to plan\".\n\nConcerns had been raised about increases of traffic after a UK government study said there could be six million more crossings of the two bridges by 2022, leading to more congestion at the Brynglas tunnels near Newport.\n\nBoth Severn crossings have seen an increase in traffic since the tolls were removed in December 2018\n\nTolls on the M4 Prince of Wales Bridge had been in place since the crossing was officially opened in 1996 and charges were also in place for the first Severn Crossing on the M48.\n\nThe charges rose as high as £6.70 for cars as recently as January 2018, but only applied on the westbound carriages of both bridges and were scrapped on 17 December 2018.\n\nWork to remove the previous toll booths after the charges were scrapped continued into the spring, with temporary 50mph (80km/h) limits in place.\n\nJourneys eastbound on the Prince of Wales Bridge increased by 8.9%, with an average of 40,364 crossings per day in 2019 compared to 37,056 in 2018.\n\nIn the past two years the eastbound carriageway had seen more than a daily average of 3,000 more journeys than the westbound carriageway, where the tolls applied.\n\nBut after the removals of the tolls, the difference has fallen to about 1,000 journeys more eastbound per day since the tolls were removed, with an average of 40,364 trips from Wales to England in 2019.\n\nIt means the bridge has been crossed about 24.2 million times in both directions between between January and October 2019, compared to 21.6 million times over the same 10 month period in 2018.\n\nSimilar statistics were not available on the M48 Severn Crossing due to technical issues with traffic counters in 2018.\n\nBut Highways England said there were typically 25,000 daily crossings on the bridge, compared to about 19,000 in recent years.\n\nQueues at the Second Severn Crossing were a common sight before the removal of the tolls\n\nLuke Bosdet, from the AA, said: \"The whole idea of lifting the tolls was to help stimulate the economy in Wales and there was an expectation that there would be an increase in traffic, so more traffic is a representation of a more vibrant economy that comes from taking away the tolls.\n\n\"The removing of the tolls on the Severn Crossing means it is being allowed to do its job, which is allowing traffic to move from England to Wales in its most efficient way.\n\n\"It's gone to plan. The whole idea of removing the tolls was to help the economy of Wales prosper.\"", "Joseph McCann was found guilty of 37 offences against 11 victims\n\nA man who carried out a string of sex attacks on 11 women and children across England over two weeks has been found guilty of 37 offences.\n\nJoseph McCann's victims were aged between 11 and 71 and included three women who were abducted off the street at knifepoint and repeatedly raped.\n\nThe 34-year-old also tricked his way into a woman's home before tying her up and molesting her son and daughter.\n\nMcCann, of Harrow, was found guilty of offences including rape and kidnap.\n\nThe convicted burglar had been released from prison following a probation error in February before he embarked on a cocaine and vodka-fuelled rampage.\n\nMcCann's \"spree of sex attacks\" started in Watford before moving to London, Greater Manchester and Cheshire over two weeks in April and May.\n\nHundreds of officers from five forces were deployed in the manhunt before he was finally caught while hiding in a tree.\n\nDet Ch Insp Katherine Goodwin, who led the investigation, described him as \"one of the most dangerous sex offenders the country has ever seen\".\n\nJo Farrar, chief executive of HM Prisons and Probation Service, \"apologised unreservedly\" for \"failings\" which led to McCann being released early, adding that \"strong and immediate action\" had been taken against those involved.\n\nIt can now be reported that four men and two women have been arrested on suspicion of assisting McCann while he was on the run from police following the initial attacks in London.\n\nThey have been released under investigation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn 21 April, McCann grabbed a 21-year-old woman at knifepoint as she walked home from a nightclub in Watford.\n\nShe was bundled into a car and taken to a house where she was raped until being released later that morning.\n\nFour days later, a 25-year-old woman was abducted as she walked home in Walthamstow, east London, just after midnight.\n\nShe was driven off in a car then repeatedly raped in a number of locations over 14 hours, including outside a school where McCann told her he \"wanted to make her rape a child\".\n\nLater the same day, and while still holding the woman prisoner, he snatched a 21-year-old woman in Edgware, north London, as she walked along the street with her sister. She suffered a similar fate to the 25-year-old woman.\n\nThe pair finally managed to escape when McCann drove to Watford, where he had booked a hotel room, and one of them hit him over the head with a vodka bottle before they fled to get help.\n\nMcCann was filmed on CCTV at a Watford hotel where he had booked a room for two nights\n\nIn the early hours of 5 May, McCann tricked his way into the home of a woman he had met in a bar in Greater Manchester.\n\nOnce inside, he tied her to a bed and molested her 11-year-old son and 17-year-old daughter, who he told \"you are going to Europe tomorrow, you are mine\".\n\nThe girl, who said she feared becoming a \"sex slave\", managed to escape by jumping naked from a window and alerted police.\n\nAt about 13:30 the same day, he pounced on a 71-year-old woman while she was loading shopping into her car outside a supermarket and abducted and raped her.\n\nThree hours later he also abducted and assaulted a 13-year-old girl in the same car before both managed to get away at Knutsford service station.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt about 18:30 on 5 May, McCann abducted two 14-year-old girls after threatening to \"chop them up with a machete\".\n\nHe was filmed at a garage buying condoms but was spotted by a police patrol who pursued him while the girls were inside the car.\n\nAfter crashing into a Mercedes, he fled on foot, then caught a taxi.\n\nThe car was stopped at a police road block but he fled across a field and was finally caught in the early hours of 6 May.\n\nThe 12 jurors decided the fate of Joseph McCann without ever seeing him in the dock. Only once did he leave his prison cell for the Old Bailey - and that was to answer questions from the judge when the jury wasn't there.\n\nMcCann opted out of court proceedings from the moment he was charged in May, refusing to appear before chief magistrate Emma Arbuthnot.\n\nInstead, in an unprecedented move, she travelled to Belmarsh Prison and convened the hearing there.\n\nBefore and during the trial, hours were wasted waiting for updates about McCann, with barristers and the judge in almost daily discussions about whether he would turn up and why he had not.\n\nLetters were sent to his cell and prison officers were called to give evidence by videolink to confirm he had received them.\n\nAt one stage, McCann requested a four-week adjournment because he hadn't had enough sleep.\n\nEven towards the end, with the prosecution case nearly completed, the jury was kept waiting while McCann weighed up whether he was going to go in the witness box.\n\nThere were concerns about his health - he didn't eat for days and threatened suicide - but the court's main preoccupation was ensuring he had a fair trial and understood the process even though he chose to be absent from it.\n\nHowever, in the face of overwhelming evidence, it's hard to avoid the conclusion that McCann was playing the system because that was the only option left open to him.\n\nScotland Yard believe McCann used contacts across the country to evade justice as he moved across five police force areas.\n\nHowever, it has been revealed police forces involved in the hunt for McCann failed to share information, meaning he was not identified earlier.\n\nOn his arrest, McCann even told officers: \"If you had caught me for the first two, the rest of this wouldn't have happened.\"\n\nHertfordshire Constabulary identified him the day after the first attack in Watford and added his name to the police national computer.\n\nBut the Met did not identify McCann as being involved in the two London attacks until 28 April after a call from a member of the public, despite them liaising with their Hertfordshire counterparts on 25 April.\n\nMcCann was filmed at a McDonalds drive-thru while one of his victims was in the car\n\nMcCann fled on foot after crashing a car into a Mercedes\n\nMcCann, who is facing a life sentence, is due to be sentenced on Monday.\n\nAfter the verdicts were reached, the jury sent a note to the judge saying they wished to acknowledge the bravery of the victims and the hard work of the police forces involved.\n\nThe 34-year-old never appeared in court during the trial but was convicted of:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Artwork: Scientists are trying to work out the likely paths meteorites took as they fell toward Earth\n\nIn January 2018, a falling meteorite created a bright fireball that arced over the outskirts of Detroit, Michigan, followed by loud sonic booms.\n\nThe visitor not only dropped a slew of meteorites over the snow-covered ground, it also provided information about its extra-terrestrial source.\n\nAlthough tens of thousands of meteorites have been recovered by humans, scientists have only been able to trace the orbits of a small number. Most of these have been calculated in the last decade.\n\nScientists can use information about how the meteorite burned through Earth's atmosphere to calculate how the rocky object moved through space before it transformed into a fireball.\n\nResearchers cannot trace the specific path of an object back through time - there are too many variables that could have affected its motion. But they can determine the most likely paths. Studying the likely orbits of similar asteroids can help to reveal their parent body, the larger asteroid they once were part of.\n\nVideo of the fireball over Michigan:\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\n\"This is a great way to do what amounts to a low-cost asteroid sample return mission,\" says Dr Peter Brown, who studies asteroids at Canada's University of Western Ontario. \"In this case, the sample comes to us. We don't have to go to the sample.\"\n\nDr Brown and his colleagues gathered information from fireball surveys as well as videos posted on social media to reconstruct a potential orbit for the Hamburg meteorite, named after the small Detroit suburb it buzzed.\n\nThe team then worked with several of the amateur photographers to calibrate their observations. \"We spent a lot of time scouring YouTube and Twitter,\" he says.\n\nThe researchers found that the Hamburg meteorite was a fairly typical fireball. It likely entered the atmosphere with a mass ranging from 60kg to 220kg and a diameter between 0.3m and 0.5m.\n\nTravelling at about 16 km/s, it produced two major flares at 24.1km and 21.7km above the ground. The total energy produced by the fireball equalled somewhere between two and seven tonnes of TNT.\n\nWhile some researchers took to the ground to hunt for dark meteorites in the Michigan snow, Dr Brown and his colleagues took to the internet to find reports of the fall. Because the region was densely populated, Dr Brown said there were a lot of video recordings that captured the fall.\n\nOut of the wealth of camera phone and security footage, they tracked down almost 30 unique videos that were sharp enough to reveal their location. Of these, only a handful was good enough for the team members to perform detailed calibration.\n\nHow do you calibrate a casual fireball video? First you need to have a positional reference that helps to pinpoint where the video was taken from. Ideally, the same camera would be placed in the exact spot where the meteorite fall was originally viewed - though often a similar camera was used instead.\n\nMeasurements from those videos revealed the angle that the incoming meteorite was travelling on.\n\nThe Chelyabinsk meteor in 2013 was also filmed from multiple locations\n\n\"A lot of the legwork was just talking to people,\" Dr Brown says.\n\nIn addition to the casual imagery, the researchers looked at images from fireball surveys, where the calibration had already been performed.\n\nWhile the official data was easier to work with, Dr Brown says that smart phones and dashboard cameras often tend to have higher resolution, providing better precision data if they can be calibrated. The growing prevalence of these kinds of cameras \"has almost revolutionised this area,\" he says.\n\nWhile humans have collected meteorites for thousands of years, it wasn't until 1959 that the first meteorite orbit was recovered. Cameras operated by the Ondrejov Observatory in the Czech Republic recorded the fall of the Pribram meteorite, allowing the researchers to trace its orbit back to the asteroid belt.\n\nFor the first time, astronomers were confident that meteors came from asteroids. \"That orbit really sort of sealed it,\" Dr Brown says.\n\nFireball networks came online through the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, and by 2000, four meteorite orbits were known. Three of those were H-chondrites, the iron-rich class of meteorites that most commonly falls, and the group that Hamburg belongs to.\n\nSince 2000, those meteorites with orbits that can be calculated have increased. Another 10 were spotted by 2010. The last few years have produced a handful of traceable meteorites annually, Dr Brown says.\n\nH-chondrites, like this example that fell in Kansas in 1929, are the most common type of meteorite falls\n\nToday, there are about 30 meteorites whose orbits have been calculated. While the spread of cameras dedicated to tracking fireballs has played an important role, Dr Brown says that casual recordings have also advanced the field.\n\nThe Hamburg fall \"was very well recorded, and that's what makes it so interesting\", Dr Brown says. After the more powerful 2013 Chelyabinsk fireball, \"there's no other fall that had so many video records\".\n\nBut casual video recordings have their downfall. Because they are so much more difficult to calibrate than official surveys, they take more time. That can move them down the priority list for swamped scientists.\n\nDr Brown knows of researchers working on nearly 10 more meteorite orbits, but he estimates that others exist. \"There are data for probably another 20 that people just haven't tried to do because it's so much work,\" he says. \"It's a difficult process.\"\n\nAlthough H-chondrites make up the bulk of the meteorites that survive the plunge through Earth's atmosphere, their origin remains a mystery. In 1998, astronomers proposed the large main-belt asteroid (6) Hebe as the primary parent body because it resembled H-chondrites.\n\nHebe's orbit sits in a location where Jupiter's gravitational forces can stir up material, allowing it to escape from the asteroid belt. Near-Earth asteroids similar to Hebe have also been spotted, suggesting that something - probably the giant planet Jupiter - slung material from the asteroid belt.\n\nHowever, other main-belt asteroids similar to H-chondrites have been identified in recent years, muddying the picture.\n\nThe asteroid (6) Hebe has been proposed as one source of H-chondrites\n\nOf the 30 or so meteorites with known orbits, nearly half are H-chondrites. So far, however, those objects don't seem to be coming from the outer asteroid belt - the side facing Jupiter - where Hebe orbits. Instead, they appear to start their journey from the middle and inner belt, closer to the Sun. And the new discovery isn't helping.\n\n\"Hamburg, unfortunately, adds more questions about the orbit of H-chondrites than it answers,\" Dr Brown says.\n\nNarrowing things down will take more meteorite samples. Dr Brown estimates that doubling the existing known orbits for H-chondrites will allow researchers to make more solid associations with a parent body.\n\nThat assumes the iron-rich asteroids come from a single source; it's possible they come from two or more locations in the asteroid belt.\n\n\"It's a very complicated story,\" Dr Brown says. \"We need to get more of these if we're going to answer these questions more fully.\"", "Sunday will mark day 33 of the election campaign ahead of polling day on Thursday.\n\nIn the morning, we'll be covering the political programmes.\n\nGuests on the BBC's Andrew Marr show will include SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon, shadow chancellor John McDonnell and Home Office minister Brandon Lewis.\n\nOn Sky's Ridge on Sunday, there will be interviews with Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Labour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth, Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson and Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage.\n\nWe'll also bring you all the news from the campaign trail.", "BBC science editor David Shukman went back to the same spot on the Sermilik glacier, in southern Greenland, that he visited in 2004.\n\nThe glacier has thinned by 100m in 15 years.\n\nResearchers say they're \"astounded\" by the acceleration in melting and fear for the future of cities on coasts around the world.", "The collapse caused congestion between junctions 25 and 29\n\nThe M25 was closed for about 12 hours after a crane collapsed on the motorway.\n\nThe crane toppled at Junction 27 for the M11 in Epping, Essex, at about 16:45 GMT on Friday.\n\nIt caused huge tailbacks in both directions, with more than 10 miles of near-stationary traffic.\n\nThe crane was later removed and the road resurfaced. The clockwise carriageway re-opened at 04:00 GMT, and anti-clockwise at 07:00 GMT.\n\nOne lane remained closed in both directions to repair the central reservation, but there were no delays.\n\nEarlier, Essex Police said no-one has been seriously injured.\n\nThe crane overturned over both sides of the carriageway\n\nEssex Fire and Rescue Service said six engines were sent to the scene, where traffic stretched back to Junction 29 (A127) on the anti-clockwise carriageway.\n\nConcrete had been scattered across the motorway by the crane, making it impossible for cars to pass.\n\nConcrete was scattered across the carriageway by the crane, making it impossible for cars to pass.\n\nWork continued through the night to clear away debris and resurface the road as Highways England warned motorists to avoid the area.\n\nA spokesperson for the organisation said the road was damaged due to a diesel spillage, but specialist contractors had been brought in to get the motorway re-opened.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands of demonstrators are gathering in Madrid as the Spanish city hosts climate negotiations by the UN.\n\nThey are calling for more ambitious climate change policy.\n\nThe rally was joined by speakers including actor Javier Bardem and activist Greta Thunberg. A concert was also held near to Nuevos Ministerios, a government complex in the city centre.\n\nOrganisers say around 500,000 people are taking part in the demonstrations. Officials have not given a figure.\n\nSimultaneous protests are also being held in the Chilean capital of Santiago, which was initially expected to host the UN conference.\n\n\"The change we need is not going to come from people in power,\" Ms Thunberg told the crowds. \"The change is going to come from the people, the masses, demanding change.\"\n\nThe talks - known as the COP25 - were due to be held in Chile but the Chilean government cancelled following weeks of civil unrest.\n\nThey began on Monday with the UN secretary general warning that time to avoid the worst effects of climate change was running out and that negotiators should be guided by the science.\n\nBy the end of the meeting on 13 December, negotiators hope to resolve disagreements over the implementation of the Paris Climate Accords.\n\nBut countries continue to disagree on targets for cutting carbon emissions, and plans to increase these targets have not been included in the agenda for COP25's final agreement.", "Peter Teich and Ms Becko say they felt 'numb' after almost losing £193,000 worth of inheritance\n\nA pensioner has been forced to take legal action after a bank withheld his £193,000 inheritance.\n\nPeter Teich, 74, from Cambridge gave his solicitor the wrong sort code and the money was mistakenly transferred to another Barclays customer's account, who refused to return it.\n\nHe expected to receive the money in April after his father's death.\n\nBut he realised there was an issue when his sister received her inheritance and he did not.\n\nMr Teich says his solicitor immediately contacted Barclays and was told it would take a week for the money to be returned.\n\nIn May, Barclays wrote to Mr Teich saying he had been \"mis-advised\" about the funds being restored - and credited his account with a \"small token gesture\" of £25.\n\n\"I freely acknowledge my mistake in this unhappy saga,\" said Mr Teich.\n\n\"I provided the sort code of the wrong Barclays branch. But my error fades into near insignificance when considered in the context of Barclays' conduct.\"\n\nHe said he had given his correct name, address and Barclays account number in Cambridge to his solicitor, but the last two digits of his sort code were incorrect.\n\nHe decided to seek legal advice and in June, after spending £12,000 in legal and court fees, he managed to obtain the other Barclays customer's name.\n\nBut costs continued to rack up with Mr Teich spending £34,000 for a court injunction to force the other Barclays customer to pay.\n\nIn July the inheritance was finally paid into his account.\n\nHis wife, Veronica Becko, 75, told the Press Association: \"We just felt numb. It didn't seem possible or right that a big bank like Barclays could not sort this out. It was an obvious mistake.\n\nWhen Mr Teich asked the bank to repay the £46,000 he had spent in legal fees, he claims Barclays refused.\n\nMs Becko said it was only after they contacted the Guardian newspaper that the bank agreed to pay the fees and offer a further £750 for their inconvenience.\n\n\"Barclays has done the right thing, finally, although through a rather long-winded way,\" Ms Becko said.\n\n\"We hope our story will help other people who find themselves in a similar situation.\"\n\nIn a statement, Barclays said: \"It is evident that on this occasion we have failed to meet the high standards that Mr Teich can expect to receive from Barclays, and for this we have offered our sincere apologies.\n\n\"After taking a closer look at this situation, we can confirm that Mr Teich can expect the fees he has incurred to be refunded in full with interest, together with a payment for the distress and inconvenience this matter has caused.\"\n\nAt present, anyone wanting to transfer money enters the intended recipient's name, account number and sort code. However, the name is not checked.\n\nUnder plans from the UK's payments operator, from next spring the sender will be alerted if the name does not match the account. The change was originally set to begin in summer 2019, but was delayed.\n• None Name checks to begin on bank payments", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester United dealt a crushing blow to Manchester City's title hopes with a stunning derby win that leaves the defending champions 14 points behind Premier League leaders Liverpool.\n\nMarcus Rashford and Anthony Martial fired United into an early lead and although Nicolas Otamendi's late reply set up a thrilling finale, the visitors held on for arguably the most impressive victory of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's 12-month reign.\n\nBoth United goals came in a breathless opening half-hour at Etihad Stadium, where they repeatedly carved open City's creaking back-line to devastating effect.\n\nRashford opened the scoring from the spot after he was clumsily knocked over by Bernardo Silva, with the penalty awarded by video assistant referee Michael Oliver.\n\nThe in-form England striker, who has now scored 13 goals in his past 14 games for club and country, hit the bar moments later but United did not have to wait long to extend their lead.\n\nUnited's next attack saw Daniel James find Anthony Martial on the right of the area, and he had space to turn and squeeze his shot inside Ederson's near post.\n\nCity had never trailed by two goals so early in a home league game since Pep Guardiola took charge in 2016 and their fans were left in stunned silence as United's supporters celebrated noisily at the other end of the stadium.\n\nWhile the home side finally began to get a grip on the game after that, especially in midfield, the damage was done.\n\nCity had repeated penalty appeals for United handballs turned down by referee Anthony Taylor and VAR before the break, while Gabriel Jesus wastefully headed a Kevin de Bruyne cross wide.\n\nUnited continued to defend deep after the break but City struggled to create meaningful chances and Otamendi's header from a Mahrez corner could not rescue them from their fourth league defeat of the season.\n\nThe game was marred by allegations of racist abuse towards United midfielder Fred in the second half, while there were also reports of objects being thrown at him from the stands.\n• None 'Not realistic' to think of catching Liverpool - Guardiola\n• None Follow all the reaction from the Manchester derby, plus the rest of Saturday's Premier League action\n\nUnited's best results this season have been against the leading clubs, but before this they had all come at Old Trafford. Until now, Norwich were the only side they had beaten on the road.\n\nSolskjaer's side set that record straight in scintillating fashion here, tearing City apart in the early stages when they could conceivably have scored two or three goals more.\n\nEderson was the only reason that did not happen, making superb saves from Daniel James, Jesse Lingard and Rashford with the score at 0-0.\n\nWhen United did take the lead, the way they controlled the game was also impressive - conceding possession and territory to their hosts, but limiting their shooting chances.\n\nIt was an excellent all-round performance and United's players clearly enjoyed it too, celebrating with the away fans at the final whistle.\n\nIt is less than a week since Solskjaer's future as United boss was being seriously questioned but back-to-back wins over Tottenham and now their neighbours have offered an emphatic response to his critics.\n\nWhile City's midweek win over Burnley saw them at their electric best going forward, this was a reminder of the defensive flaws that have cost them so often this season.\n\nWith Rodri and the rest of City's midfield unable to track United's players when they surged forward, their backline was left embarrassingly exposed again and again in the early stages.\n\nAngelino was given a torrid time by James down City's left and both he and Rodri were guilty of standing off Martial when he fired home United's second goal from that side of their area.\n\nTrue, Guardiola was again left frustrated by important VAR decisions going against his team - particularly when Fred blocked Kyle Walker's cross with his hand just before the break - and he had a long discussion with fourth official Mike Dean about it during the interval.\n\nBut his own side's shortcomings were painfully obvious and right now it is hard to make a case for City clinching a third successive title, even if Liverpool's form fell away.\n\n'We will remember this one' - what they said:\n\nManchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer speaking to BBC Match of the Day: \"We will remember this one - we look so dangerous when we get he ball and go forward against arguably the best team in the world.\n\n\"They are an unbelievable team and to get a result and defend like we did and create as many chances... we should have been three or four up but for some good goalkeeping. It's hard to take the ball off them. They can football teams to death but with the pace and threat we have, we look dangerous every time we go forward.\n\n\"It does not matter where you win the ball it's that you are positive when you get it. The team shape was spot on, but individually they had to dig deep against some of the best players in the world. That's part of the game.\"\n\nOn reports of racist abuse: \"I've seen it on the video, it was Jesse and Fred and the chap must be ashamed of himself. It's unacceptable and I hope he will not be watching any football any more.\"\n\nManchester City boss Pep Guardiola speaking to BBC Match of the Day: \"Yes we lost but I congratulate my team: my players were fantastic, we are a fantastic team. They are so fast, so quick and sometimes when you lose the ball it is more difficult. We tried, we got to the last third many, many times and they can run. Maybe a bit more than usual.\"\n\nOn the title race: \"We have to try to continue; there are many things to play for. It's difficult because the opponents are on an incredible run winning 15 games out of 16.\"\n\nOn reports of racism: \"Of course [it's not acceptable]. I think the club are making a statement and I support that.\"\n• None In English top-flight history, no side has ever gone on to win the title after being as many as 14 points behind the top side at the end of a day's games.\n• None Manchester United are unbeaten in their past five Premier League games (W3 D2), winning consecutive league matches for the first time since March.\n• None This is Pep Guardiola's worst points return after the first 16 matches of a top-flight season in his managerial career (32 pts).\n• None Guardiola has lost two home league games in a single season for only the third time in his managerial career (also 2014-15 with Bayern Munich and 2008-09 with Barcelona).\n• None United's Anthony Martial has been directly involved in 10 goals in his past 13 Premier League starts (6 goals, 4 assists).\n• None Marcus Rashford has scored 13 goals in 21 appearances in all competitions this season - equalling his best goalscoring return for United in a single season (13 goals in 47 apps in 2018-19 and 13 goals in 52 apps in 2017-18).\n• None Rashford has been directly involved in 15 goals in his past 14 games in all competitions for Manchester United and England (13 goals, 2 assists).\n• None United have both taken (8) and scored (4) more penalties in the Premier League this season than any other side.\n\nManchester City head for Croatia to play Dinamo Zagreb in their final group fixture in the Champions League on Wednesday (17:55 GMT). They are already through to the last 16 as guaranteed group winners.\n\nUnited switch their attention to Europe in midweek too, hosting Dutch side AZ Alkmaar (20:00) in the Europa League on Thursday. They are also already through to the knockout stage, but need to avoid defeat in order to finish top of Group L.\n\nBoth teams play their next Premier League game on Sunday 15 December. United are at home to Everton (14:00 GMT) while City are away at Arsenal (16:30 GMT).\n• None Attempt blocked. Ilkay Gündogan (Manchester City) left footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is blocked. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne with a cross.\n• None Kyle Walker (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Andreas Pereira (Manchester United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Daniel James.\n• None Attempt saved. Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan.\n• None Goal! Manchester City 1, Manchester United 2. Nicolás Otamendi (Manchester City) header from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Riyad Mahrez with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Jesse Lingard (Manchester United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Andreas Pereira with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "They make up 51% of the population but what are the parties offering to women this election? And why do women get so much abuse and so little representation in politics?", "A UK diplomat in charge of Brexit at the British embassy in the US has quit.\n\nIn her resignation letter, seen by US broadcaster CNN, Alexandra Hall Hall said she could no longer \"peddle half-truths\" on behalf of political leaders she did not \"trust\".\n\nShe said she has become \"dismayed\" by the reluctance of politicians to \"honestly\" address the \"challenges and trade-offs\" involved in leaving the EU.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it would not comment on details of her resignation.\n\nHowever, it did confirm Ms Hall Hall had resigned as UK Brexit Counsellor at the British embassy in Washington - a post which involves explaining the UK Brexit policy to US lawmakers and policymakers.\n\nIn her letter, dated 3 December, she wrote: \"I have been increasingly dismayed by the way in which our political leaders have tried to deliver Brexit, with reluctance to address honestly, even with our own citizens, the challenges and trade-offs which Brexit involves.\"\n\nShe also criticised the use of \"misleading or disingenuous arguments\" and \"some behaviour towards our institutions\" by politicians, adding that \"were it happening in another country, we would almost certainly as diplomats have received instructions to register our concern\".\n\nMs Hall Hall added: \"It makes our job to promote democracy and the rule of law that much harder, if we are not seen to be upholding these core values at home.\"\n\nBBC diplomatic correspondent Paul Adams described her letter as \"stunningly blunt\".\n\nMs Hall Hall, who is a former ambassador to Georgia and has worked in the diplomatic service for 33 years, did not name any specific politicians in the letter, but took aim at the current Conservative government.\n\nShe wrote: \"I am also at a stage in life where I would prefer to do something more rewarding with my time, than peddle half-truths on behalf of a government I do not trust.\"\n\nWhen the BBC put Ms Hall Hall's comments to Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on Friday evening, he said: \"I'm not going to talk about employment issues in the civil service.\"\n\nDiplomats are supposed to be politically neutral and Ms Hall Hall stressed her decision to resign was not tied to her personal views on leaving the EU.\n\n\"I took this position with a sincere commitment, indeed passion, to do my part, to the very best of my abilities, to help achieve a successful outcome on Brexit,\" she wrote, but added her position had become \"unbearable personally and untenable professionally\".\n\nWith a week to go until the UK heads to the polls, Ms Hall Hall insisted she had stood down before the election to avoid her resignation being portrayed as a reaction to its outcome.\n\nCNN reported that she had also filed a formal complaint about being asked to convey overtly partisan language on Brexit.\n\nMs Hall Hall suggested her role as a diplomat had been diverted to convey messages that were \"neither fully honest nor politically impartial.\"\n\nThe UK has been without an ambassador to the US since Sir Kim Darroch resigned in the summer over a row about leaked emails critical of President Trump's administration.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFormer Aston Villa manager Ron Saunders has died at the age of 87, the club have announced.\n\nSaunders guided Villa to the First Division title in 1981, before departing during their European Cup-winning campaign the following season.\n\nHe also won two League Cups during his eight years at Villa Park.\n\n\"Ron Saunders died at 15:00 GMT on Saturday and his family have asked for their privacy to be respected at such a difficult time,\" a club statement said.\n\nVilla players will wear black armbands and hold a period of applause when they host Leicester City in the Premier League on Sunday.\n\nSaunders guided Villa to the top flight in 1974 with promotion in his first season in charge.\n\nHe also achieved the distinction of reaching three successive League Cup finals as manager of three different clubs - Norwich in 1973, Manchester City in 1974 and Villa in 1975.\n\nHe ended his managerial career at West Bromwich Albion, retiring in 1987.\n\nHe remains the only manager to have taken charge of midlands rivals Villa, West Brom and Birmingham City - leading the Blues between 1982 and 1986.\n\nA distinguished playing career as a prolific striker took in spells at Everton, Gillingham, Watford and Charlton, but it was at Portsmouth where he enjoyed sustained success, scoring 162 goals in 261 appearances between 1958 and 1964. He remains the third-highest scorer in the club's history.\n\nFormer Villa striker Stan Collymore was among the first to pay tribute, tweeting: \"Sincerest condolences to Ron's family and friends.\n\n\"The man who made many Villans fall in love with a club and a team that gave us the very best of days.\n\n\"Wembley, Old Trafford, Highbury, which all lead to one special night in Rotterdam. Rest in peace, boss.\"\n\nLeague Managers' Association chairman Howard Wilkinson said: \"I have always held Ron in very high regard and I have the utmost respect for his achievements throughout his career and, in particular, his committed service to the three midlands rivals.\n\n\"His record of reaching the League Cup final three consecutive times with three different clubs is testament to his determination and dedication to his profession.\n\n\"The thoughts of everyone at the LMA are with Ron's family and friends at this sad and difficult time.\"", "Jeremy Corbyn holds up the leaked documents at a press conference on 27 November\n\nBoris Johnson has said an investigation is needed into the source of leaked documents on UK-US trade negotiations posted on Reddit.\n\nLabour says the documents show the NHS would be at risk under a post-Brexit trade deal with the US.\n\nOn Friday, forum website Reddit said unredacted documents were uploaded as \"part of a campaign that has been reported as originating from Russia\".\n\nIt has suspended 61 accounts that showed a \"pattern of coordination\".\n\nThe government said it was looking into the matter with help from the National Cyber Security Centre.\n\nSpeaking on Saturday, Mr Johnson said \"we do need to get to the bottom\" of the leak but said he had seen \"no evidence of any successful interference by Russia in any democratic event in this country\".\n\nThe Culture Secretary Nicky Morgan said this all pointed towards foreign involvement: \"I understand from what was being put on that website, those who seem to know about these things say that it seems to have all the hallmarks of some form of interference.\"\n\nLabour's shadow transport secretary Andy McDonald reiterated his call for Mr Johnson to release an intelligence report into Russian covert actions in the UK, which No 10 has been accused of suppressing until after the election.\n\nIn a post on its site, Reddit did not provide any further details about the evidence behind its conclusions, nor did it identify any specific individuals.\n\nThe BBC has approached the Russian foreign ministry spokesperson but they have yet to comment.\n\nThe contents of the documents have played a significant part in Labour's election message on the NHS, after Mr Corbyn highlighted them at a press conference on 27 November.\n\nThe Labour leader said the papers were evidence that the UK government was in advanced stages of negotiations with the US to open up the NHS to American pharmaceutical companies.\n\nLabour have not said where they obtained their copy of the documents.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA version of the documents, heavily redacted, was also produced by Mr Corbyn at an earlier leader debate on 19 November.\n\nAt the time, Labour said these were the result of a Freedom of Information request by campaign group Global Justice Now.\n\nThe dossier was posted on Reddit more than a month prior to Mr Corbyn's announcement, prompting questions about how they got there - and why few people seemed to notice them before.\n\nA bit like journalists never reveal their sources, Labour are quite happy to focus on what these documents say rather than where they come from.\n\nIf you look at where Reddit's comments leave the discussion, it's both helpful and slightly problematic for Labour.\n\nOn the one hand, people are asking \"where exactly did you get those documents from?\" Remember, they were online in their unredacted form for several weeks before Labour brought them to everyone's attention.\n\nBut at the same time, we're still talking about these documents and what Labour claims that they show - that the NHS is up for sale, in their words. Boris Johnson and the Conservatives flatly deny that.\n\nSo it's a double-edged sword for Labour.\n\nFor the Conservatives, you've got this uneasiness around Russian interference in an election campaign - which isn't good for them because attention will turn to the report by Parliament which the government hasn't released.\n\nAnd that's not very helpful for the Tories either.\n\nSpeaking on Saturday, the Labour leader said the controversy surrounding the source of the documents was \"nonsense\" and accused Mr Johnson of wanting to \"hide the issues and the truth\" over the future of the NHS in trade deals.\n\nMr Johnson said the documents \"didn't prove what Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour party hoped it would prove\" adding \"it was just another distraction from the void at the heart of Labour's policy on Brexit\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says leaked US-UK trade documents are 'just another distraction'\n\nNeither UK nor US governments have disputed the authenticity of the documents.\n\nThe BBC's security correspondent Gordon Correra said crucial questions remained as to how the document circulating online originally appeared.\n\nHe said there would be a significant difference between a state-led operation from Moscow which hacked the material and then leaked it as opposed to someone who is based in Russia simply opportunistically using an already leaked document to cause mischief.\n\n\"That question is one that national security officials will be trying to answer.\"", "Labour has the strongest policies to protect nature and combat climate change, a Friends of the Earth (FoE) survey suggests.\n\nIts election pledges narrowly beat the Green Party and the Liberal Democrats – with the Conservatives far behind.\n\nOne key climate policy area is aviation, and Labour has now announced plans for a levy on people who take frequent flights.\n\nThe FoE league table marks the parties on 45 policy points.\n\nThe environmental campaign group's scores are:\n\nFoE spokesman Dave Timms said: \"Environmental issues have been given greater priority in this election than ever before – and with the world in the midst of an ecological and climate crisis this must be the next government’s top priority.\n\n“Many of the policies that Labour, the Liberal Democrats and Green Party have put forward are commensurate with, or striving to meet, the challenges we face.\n\n“It is disappointing we have not seen the same urgency, ambition or consistency from the Conservative Party.”\n\nThe result will be a shock to the Green Party, whose overriding concern is protecting the planet and who typically top the environment policy charts by a wide margin.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What to look out for on climate change and the environment in this election\n\nThe Greens complained the scoring should only have included commitments made in manifestos.\n\nBut in a bid for the youth vote, Labour has challenged the Greens by devoting the top section of its manifesto to tackling the environment crisis.\n\nOne high-scoring policy in the FoE survey is on aviation. Labour has been under pressure from trades unions to safeguard jobs in the industry.\n\nBut after correspondence with Friends of the Earth, the party strengthened its position by backing a frequent flyer levy on the 15% of people who take 70% of flights.\n\nA letter to the group from four Labour shadow cabinet ministers also promised to review its Aviation National Policy Statement against much tougher carbon targets.\n\nLabour said expansion at Heathrow would be cancelled if it was not consistent with climate targets.\n\nA Labour government would also divert funds from the roads programme for public transport, the party says.\n\nThe Greens did not provide any more clarification or policies to strengthen their manifesto.\n\nMr Timms said: \"Labour’s manifesto contains strong, funded policies on home energy efficiency and renewables. This was boosted by significant additional pledges during the campaign on plans for tree planting, food policy, public transport and cycling.\n\n\"The Lib Dems and Greens both scored well, and had policies roughly commensurate with the scale of the crisis.\"\n\nHe added: “The Conservatives have some good policies - especially on agriculture – but in sector after sector its commitments were invariably weaker than the other parties', entirely absent or just plain bad.”\n\nThe Conservatives are committed to a £28.8bn road-building programme that experts say is not compatible with carbon targets because, even if the cars of the future are electric, gathering the resources to make the cars will still generate emissions.\n\nThe Tories said their climate targets were world-leading but road congestion had to be tackled.", "Allee Willis, a Grammy-winning and Emmy-nominated songwriter who helped compose the theme song for the sitcom Friends, has died aged 72.\n\nI'll Be There for You, the single she co-wrote for the Rembrandts, became one of the most recognised television theme songs of all time.\n\nWillis also co-wrote the Earth, Wind & Fire hits September and Boogie Wonderland and, last year, was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.\n\nThe cause of death was cardiac arrest.\n\nBorn and raised in Detroit, home of the legendary record label Motown, Willis would visit the studios every weekend growing up, she told the New York Times last year. \"You could hear through the walls, which is how I became a songwriter,\" she said.\n\nDespite writing music and lyrics for a catalogue of hits that also include the Pointer Sisters' Neutron Dance and the Pet Shop Boys with Dusty Springfield's What Have I Done to Deserve This?, she never learned how to read or play music.\n\n\"I hear melodies constantly,\" she told the Times. \"I always say: 'If you were to drop dead, I could write to the clunk of the body.'\"\n\nAllee Willis's home in Los Angeles is a temple of kitsch items\n\nShe studied journalism at the University of Wisconsin and then, in 1969, moved to New York, where she landed a copywriting job at Columbia and Epic Records. In 1972, she turned to music and songwriting.\n\nHer hits have sold more than 60 million records around the world, according to her website. She won two Grammy Awards, one for the soundtrack for the film Beverly Hills Cop and another for the musical The Color Purple.\n\nIn 1995, she was nominated for an Emmy for I'll Be There for You, which she had co-written as a short theme for Friends before it was expanded into a full song. But the theme music of Star Trek: Voyager won the Emmy that year.\n\nA kitsch lover whose hairstyle was long on one side and short on the other, Willis lived in a light-pink house in Los Angeles known as Willis Wonderland, a nod to the Earth, Wind & Fire hit.\n\nWillis's house in Los Angeles is known as Willis Wonderland\n\nIn her house, she hosted large parties with A-list celebrities and gathered the objects she collected throughout her career, now catalogued online at the Allee Willis Museum of Kitsch.\n\nAlso in that house, Willis reportedly composed September, which was \"still that song that when people found out I'd written that, they just go 'Oh my God,' and then tell me in some form how happy that song makes them every time they hear it,\" she was quoted by Variety as saying.\n\nWhen September was covered by Taylor Swift last year, Willis said she was \"thrilled\" - before describing the cut \"as lethargic as a drunk turtle dozing under a sunflower after ingesting a bottle of Valium\".\n\nHer partner Prudence Fenton paid tribute on Instagram, saying: \"Rest In Boogie Wonderland.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by prufencef This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The woman was pronounced dead at the scene\n\nA woman has been killed in a crash on the M1 late on Christmas Eve.\n\nA number of vehicles were involved in the crash at about 23:15 GMT on the northbound stretch of the motorway, Bedfordshire Police said.\n\nThe woman was pronounced dead at the scene and the force has appealed for any witnesses to come forward - another person suffered minor injuries.\n\nThe M1 was closed between junctions 11a, north of Luton and Dunstable, and 12 at Flitwick, but has since reopened.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Bedfordshire Police This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere was also an unrelated crash on the southbound carriageway between junctions 10 and nine. It is not yet known if there were any injuries.\n\nThis stretch of the M1, between Luton Airport and Dunstable, was reopened by 09:00.\n\nFirefighters and paramedics attended both crashes along with the two police forces.\n\nThe M1 was closed between junctions 11a and 12 but has since reopened\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Coverage: Live text commentary and The Cricket Social on the BBC Sport website\n\nBen Stokes has returned to full training with England as they prepare for the Boxing Day Test against South Africa at Centurion, after his father showed signs of improvement.\n\nAll-rounder Stokes missed training on Christmas Eve after his father Ged, 64, was taken to hospital in Johannesburg.\n\nHe remains in intensive care, but has responded to treatment and is stable.\n\nHowever, illness continues to affect the England camp, with batsman Ollie Pope the latest to be afflicted.\n\nPope missed practice on Christmas Day along with all-rounder Chris Woakes and spinner Jack Leach, two of the earlier victims of the illness outbreak in the squad.\n\nAlthough none of the trio has been formally ruled out of the first of the four Tests against the Proteas, they are major doubts - with England's team selection severely hampered as a result.\n• None England need intelligence in South Africa but I expect them to win - Agnew\n• None 'The greatest game of cricket ever' - England's World Cup winners recall thrilling final\n\nThe potential loss of Pope is a blow after the Surrey right-hander, who deputised as wicketkeeper during the second Test in New Zealand when Jos Buttler was ruled out with a back injury, scored a century in England's final warm-up game against South Africa A in Benoni.\n\nAssuming Buttler reclaims the gloves, and that vice-captain Stokes is available to play, Pope's absence could mean a recall for Jonny Bairstow as a specialist batsman, or another chance for Zak Crawley who debuted against the Kiwis in Hamilton.\n\nThe tourists must also decide the make-up of their bowling attack - illness doubts notwithstanding - after omitting Leach in Hamilton to field an all-seam attack. Pace duo Jofra Archer and Stuart Broad had also missed some training because of illness, but returned on Christmas Eve.\n\nWith Stokes' father still seriously ill, England will therefore delay naming their team until the morning of the match.\n\nA statement from the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) read: \"The Stokes family wishes to thank everyone for their support and in particular the medical practitioners in South Africa for their care of Ged. The ECB continues to request that the media and public respect Ben and his family's privacy at this time.\"\n\nEngland pace spearhead James Anderson, 37, will hope to be setting a new landmark if selected - as it will be his 150th Test, and his first competitive appearance after limping out of the Ashes with a calf injury after bowling only four overs in the first Test at the start of August,\n\n\"I've been very lucky that I've got the frame that I've got - my body's been very durable throughout my career, my action's very repeatable and it doesn't take a lot out of me,\" he told BBC Sport.\n\n\"It would be a proud moment if I play, I don't think there are any fast bowlers who have played 150 Tests. I've worked hard to get here.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Broad, who has been Anderson's regular new-ball partner for most of his international career, told BBC Radio 5 Live: \"Following his mate Alastair Cook and getting that 150th cap shows dedication.\n\n\"For him to have come back stronger after his calf injury in the summer and missing out on most of the Ashes, is a credit to him and shows the sort of desire you need at the top level.\"\n• None Overton and Bess called up as illness cover\n\nAt the opposite end of the scale in terms of Test experience is South Africa batsman Rassie van der Dussen - at 30, only seven years Anderson's junior, but who will be making his Test debut at Centurion.\n\nCaptain Faf du Plessis confirmed that right-hander Van der Dussen, who has appeared in 18 one-day internationals and nine Twenty20 internationals in the past 14 months, would bat at number five after Temba Bavuma was ruled out with a hip injury.\n\n\"He was a mature cricketer when he started for us in ODIs and is someone who knows his game very well‚\" Du Plessis said.\n\n\"He came into international cricket looking very comfortable and has scored a lot of runs in white-ball cricket.\n\n\"He is calm and composed with the bat. You can just see it sometimes when someone is suited for international cricket and that's been the case with him. I think he will be very much at home.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Du Plessis feels the addition of several Proteas legends to the backroom staff can lift the team after a troubled time on and off the field which has included the suspension of chief executive Thabang Moroe, the departure of long-term sponsors and a run of five successive Test defeats.\n\nFormer skipper Graeme Smith, the acting director of cricket, has brought in former Test wicketkeeper Mark Boucher as head coach and legendary all-rounder Jacques Kallis as batting consultant.\n\n\"It's been a breath of fresh air to have the guys back. There's a real positive feel to what we've been doing and a real energy,\" added Du Plessis.\n\n\"The last six months has felt like there's been a bit more weight on my shoulders. I could see so many things happening off the field that were not the right structures.\n\n\"You kind of sit back and go 'why have these guys not been here for the last few years?'. Look at Australia as an example, you play them and there's Justin Langer, Ricky Ponting, Steve Waugh... it makes you sit back and say 'we want that'.\"", "Ari Behn, the former son-in-law of Norway's king, has died aged 47, his spokesman has said.\n\nBehn, the author of several novels and plays, married Princess Martha Louise in 2002 but the couple divorced two years ago.\n\nHis spokesman told Norway's NTB agency that Behn had taken his own life.\n\nIn a statement, Norway's king and queen said he had been \"an important part of our family for many years and we carry warm and good memories of him with us\".\n\nAt the time of their wedding, Denmark-born Behn was seen as a controversial partner for Princess Martha Louise, the only daughter and eldest child of King Harald and Queen Sonja.\n\nBehn met his future wife through his mother, who was the princess's physiotherapy tutor. He was best known then as the author of a short book, Sad as Hell, but attracted controversy and was filmed partying with prostitutes who were taking drugs in Las Vegas.\n\nThe couple had three daughters - Maud, Leah and Emma - but separated in 2016 before divorcing a year later. At the time, the princess said in a statement: \"We feel guilty because we are no longer able to create the safe harbour that our children deserve.\"\n\nIn December 2017, Behn accused the disgraced Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey of groping him after a Nobel Peace Prize concert. He said the actor had reached under a table and inappropriately touched him. Spacey did not respond to the allegation, one of many made at the same time.\n\n\"We are grateful that we got to know him,\" King Harald and Queen Sonja said of Behn in their statement. \"We grieve that our grandchildren have now lost their beloved father.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Philip was seen leaving the King Edward VII's Hospital in London on Tuesday morning\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh has returned to Sandringham in time for Christmas after four nights in hospital.\n\nPrince Philip, 98, was taken to the King Edward VII's Hospital in London on Friday on the advice of his doctor.\n\nBuckingham Palace said the duke had returned to the Queen's Sandringham Estate in Norfolk on Tuesday and thanked people for \"their good wishes\".\n\nIt comes after the revelation the Queen will use her Christmas Day message to acknowledge 2019 has been \"bumpy\".\n\nThe monarch herself travelled to Sandringham on Friday.\n\nThe palace, meanwhile, said the duke's hospital admission had been a \"precautionary measure\".\n\nPrince Philip retired from public life in August 2017 after decades supporting the Queen and attending events for his own charities and organisations.\n\nHis last public appearance was Lady Gabriella Windsor's wedding in May.\n\nBuckingham Palace said the admission was a \"precautionary measure\" in relation to a \"pre-existing\" condition\n\nThe Prince of Wales said on Monday his father had been \"looked after very well\" by hospital staff.\n\nBut Charles, who was visiting flood-hit communities in South Yorkshire, added: \"When you get to that age things don't work so well.\"\n\nRoyal commentator Caroline Aston told the BBC it was \"entirely in keeping with the man\" for Prince Philip to have seemingly had no visitors during his hospital stay, because he likes to make \"no fuss about anything\".\n\nThe Queen, 93, recorded her annual Christmas Day message before Prince Philip was admitted to hospital.\n\nIn the message, to be broadcast on BBC One at 15:00 GMT on Christmas Day, the monarch will say the path is never \"smooth\" but \"small steps\" can heal divisions.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II recorded her annual Christmas message from Windsor Castle in Berkshire\n\nAfter a year of intense political debate over Brexit, as well as a number of personal events affecting the Royal Family, the Queen will say: \"Small steps taken in faith and in hope can overcome long-held differences and deep-seated divisions to bring harmony and understanding.\"\n\nIn January, the Duke of Edinburgh was involved in a car crash while driving near Sandringham. He escaped uninjured, but two women required hospital treatment.\n\nIn September, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex publicly revealed their struggles under the media spotlight during their tour of southern Africa.\n\nAnd last month, the Duke of York withdrew from public life after a BBC interview about his ties to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself in August.\n\nAs is customary, family photos can be seen positioned near the Queen for her annual speech.\n\nAddressing speculation about the absence of a photo of the Sussexes, the BBC's royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell said it was not in the Queen's nature \"to snub anybody\", adding: \"Certainly not her grandchildren.\"\n\nHe said that the photos on the Queen's desk focus on the line of succession.\n\nThere has also been speculation surrounding which members of the royal family will attend the church service tomorrow morning.\n\nBBC news correspondent Charlotte Gallagher said it was believed Prince Andrew would be at the service, as well as Prince George and Princess Charlotte.\n\nIt has been a year which, at times, may have felt \"quite bumpy\", so the Queen will say in her Christmas broadcast.\n\nIt is a choice of words which will inevitably prompt speculation about what it is that she's referring to.\n\nShe does not offer any clarification herself, though the remark is made in the context of overcoming what she calls \"long-held differences\" and how \"small steps taken in faith and in hope can overcome deep-seated divisions\".\n\nThe obvious interpretation is that this is the Queen's - as ever - coded message to the country to try to move on from the divisions of the Brexit debate, but the reference to a \"bumpy\" year may also be taken to refer to events within her own family after a year which has seen the Duke of Edinburgh's car accident, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex complaining about the difficulties of being in the public eye and the controversies around Prince Andrew.\n\nLast Christmas, Prince Philip missed the royals' traditional Christmas Day trip to church but was said to be in good health.\n\nIn February, it was announced the duke had given up his driving licence. It came after he was involved in a collision with another vehicle near the Sandringham Estate.\n\nThe treatment he has received for various health conditions over the years include being treated for a blocked coronary artery in 2011.\n\nThe following year, the prince suffered a bladder infection and was forced to miss the Queen's Diamond Jubilee concert.\n\nHe was also taken to hospital for an abdomen operation in 2013 and, in 2014, underwent surgery on his right hand.\n\nLast year he had a hip replacement at the same central London hospital that he is now attending.", "Security forces in Burkina Faso have been battling militants for years\n\nSuspected Islamist militants have killed 35 civilians, 31 of them women, in an attack on a military base and a town in Burkina Faso, officials say.\n\nThey say seven soldiers and 80 militants were also killed as the army repelled Tuesday's attack in Arbinda, in northern Soum province.\n\nJihadist groups have stepped up attacks in Burkina Faso and other West African countries, in recent years.\n\nThe violence has continued despite Western efforts to help regional governments combat the insurgents. In November, 13 French troops died in a helicopter collision during an operation in southern Mali, near the border with Burkina Faso.\n\nLast weekend, French President Emmanuel Macron highlighted the fight against militants in the Sahel region during a visit to Niger.\n\n\"The coming weeks are absolutely decisive for our fight against terrorism,\" he said.\n\nTuesday's attack was carried out by dozens of fighters on motorbikes and lasted several hours. No group has so far said it was behind it, but groups allied to al-Qaeda or Islamic State are active in the region.\n\n\"This barbaric attack resulted in the deaths of 35 civilian victims, most of them women,\" President Kaboré said in a statement. He also praised the \"heroic action of our soldiers\" who battled the assailants.\n\nEarlier this month, at least 14 people were killed after gunmen opened fire inside a church in the east of the country.\n\nBurkina Faso, a predominantly Muslim country, was once relatively stable but has descended into serious unrest since 2015. About 700 people have been killed and 560,000 displaced.\n\nThe conflict spread across the border from neighbouring Mali, where Islamist militants took over the north of the country in 2012 before French troops pushed them out.", "Firefighter Anthony Knott was due home in the early hours of 21 December\n\nA firefighter who went missing on a Christmas work night out \"may have come to some harm,\" police have said.\n\nAnthony Knott was last seen at a pub in Lewes, East Sussex, with a group of 12 London firefighters on 20 December.\n\nSussex Police said there were no signs the 33-year-old, who had been due to return home in the early hours of Saturday, had left the town.\n\nHis partner Lucy Otto said: \"I just feel numb... it's very strange. It's the not knowing, it's terrible.\"\n\nExtensive inquiries and searches of CCTV recordings have been carried out to find Mr Knott, from Orpington.\n\nVolunteers have been helping emergency services with the search, which has included scouring the nearby River Ouse.\n\nCh Insp Anita Turner said police were \"grateful\" for the assistance, but, for their own safety, asked that \"the ongoing search is left to the emergency services\".\n\nThe River Ouse is being search by the coastguard\n\nPolice described him as a \"family man\" and Ms Otto told BBC Radio Sussex he had been in a happy mood before he disappeared, adding: \"He loved his job, he loved his family, it was just simply a Christmas night out.\"\n\nMr Knott, who is 5ft 8ins (1.73m) tall, was wearing a black long-sleeve top, dark denim coat, dark denim jeans and black shoes.\n\nThe group were moving between various pubs, but he was last seen at 19:30 GMT in The Lamb in Fisher Street.\n• None Concern for firefighter missing after night out\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Duke of Cambridge is seen kissing his youngest child Prince Louis in a new photograph taken by his wife.\n\nThe black-and-white picture was taken by the Duchess of Cambridge in Norfolk earlier this year and released on Christmas Day.\n\nIt also shows Princess Charlotte and Prince George, who are due to attend the Sandringham Christmas Day church service for the first time later.\n\nThe picture was posted on social media with the message: \"Merry Christmas\".\n\nIn the photo, the duke wears a flat cap as he holds his youngest son, with Princess Charlotte standing beside them.\n\nPrince George sits next to them in a chair as he smiles at the camera.\n\nThe duchess has previously been praised for her photographic portraits of her children and was named as the new patron of the Royal Photographic Society earlier this year.\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge is a keen photographer and is often seen with a camera, such as in Pakistan earlier this year\n\nKensington Palace has often published photos taken by Kate to mark milestones in her children's lives, such as birthdays and first days at nursery.\n\nThe duchess began the tradition in 2015 when she took the first official portraits of Princess Charlotte, rather than hiring a photographer.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family will attend a Christmas Day church service in Sandringham, Norfolk, later.\n\nIt comes after the Duke of Edinburgh returned to the Queen's estate following a four-night stay at a hospital in London.", "Donald Trump has confessed that he is yet to get a Christmas present for his wife, Melania.\n\nDuring a Christmas Eve video conference with American military personnel stationed overseas, the president was asked what gift he had bought for the First Lady.\n\nMr Trump said he was \"still working on\" on a present, but had picked her \"a very beautiful card\".\n\n\"There's a little time left\" to buy a present he added. \"Not too much, but there's a little time left.\"", "The southbound carriageway of the M1 in West Yorkshire has reopened after it was shut following a \"serious incident\" involving \"multiple vehicles\".\n\nIt was the third major crash on the motorway in 24 hours.\n\nWest Yorkshire Police said the latest incident happened on a stretch between junction 40 and junction 39 near Wakefield.\n\nA woman died in a collision 140 miles further south in Bedfordshire late on Christmas Eve.\n\nA diversion route was put place following the latest incident in West Yorkshire and Highways England had issued instructions for drivers planning to travel in the area.\n\nThe agency said the road was \"now fully open again\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Highways England This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Bedfordshire crash happened between Aylesbury and Flitwick on the northbound carriageway at about 11.15pm, and involved a number of vehicles.\n\nAnother person suffered minor injuries, police said. The woman who died has not been named.\n\nA stretch of the motorway was closed from Tuesday night until Wednesday morning after the crash near junction 12.\n\nBedfordshire Police attended the incident along with members of the ambulance service and fire brigade.\n\nPolice are asking witnesses or anyone with information about the crash to call 101 and quote Operation Granborough.\n\nThere was also an accident on the southbound carriageway in Hertfordshire, between Luton Airport and Dunstable.\n\nThe M1 fully reopened in both directions before 9am on Christmas Day.", "Debbie McGee has been crowned the winner of the Strictly Come Dancing Christmas special.\n\nThe widow of magician Paul Daniels and her professional partner Kevin Clifton scored 40 points for a ski-themed quickstep to Jingle Bells.\n\nMcGee, who got to the final of the Strictly Come Dancing in 2017, said she \"wasn't expecting\" to win.\n\n\"It's just amazing but you know, everybody has been fantastic,\" she said.\n\nSpeaking about the show's star-shaped trophy, she said: \"I think it's everybody's, because we all had a great time, everyone did such great dances.\"\n\nStrictly 2018 competitors Joe Sugg and Dianne Buswell on the dance floor\n\nActress Chizzy Akudolu made an appearance with her professional partner Graziano Di Prima\n\nDebbie McGee and Kevin Clifton were told they were \"a class act\"\n\nMcGee was up against fellow former contestants Chizzy Akudolu, Gemma Atkinson, Joe Sugg, Mark Wright and Richard Arnold.\n\nThe festive show on BBC One was hosted by Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman and judged by Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse, Bruno Tonioli and Shirley Ballas.\n\nScoring McGee's performance 10 points, Horwood said it was \"a class act\".\n\nDuring the event in Leeds Castle in Kent, each couple performed their routines in front of a studio audience, who voted for their favourite. Those votes were combined with the judges' scores.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A man has been taken to hospital following the collision near Falkirk\n\nResidents of villages in the Falkirk area were left without power after a car left the road and hit an electricity pole.\n\nThe incident happened shortly after 07:00 on the A905 at Airth.\n\nThe Scottish Ambulance Service said a 29-year-old male casualty was taken to the Forth Valley Royal Hospital. His condition was described as \"stable\".\n\nThe road is closed between Bowtrees and the approach to Airth, with local diversions busier than usual.\n\nIt is understood that the road is likely to remain shut for most of the day.\n\nPolice Scotland said the closure was to enable repairs to be carried out to the pole.\n\n\"Inquiries are continuing in to the cause of the crash,\" added a spokeswoman.\n\nThe road was closed while the emergency services dealt with the incident\n\nThe Scottish Ambulance Service said it had sent an ambulance, its special operations team, and an air ambulance to the scene.\n\n\"We transported one male patient to Forth Valley Royal Hospital by road,\" it said.\n\nLocal councillor Laura Murtagh said it was a \"very sad incident\" and her prayers were with anyone who may have been injured.\n\nShe said the power had been cut to a number of local villages as a result of the crash but most had now been restored.\n\nThe councillor advised HGV drivers \"not to attempt\" the A905 due to other local diversions.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince George and Princess Charlotte met well-wishers at St Mary Magdalene Church for the first time\n\nPrince George and Princess Charlotte mingled with the crowds as they attended the Royal Family's Christmas Day church service for the first time.\n\nPrince Philip, who was released from hospital on Tuesday, did not attend.\n\nA large crowd gathered to greet the Queen and family members as they attended the service at St Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham.\n\nPrince Andrew, who stepped back from royal duties last month, kept a low profile at the event.\n\nPrince Andrew was not seen with the rest of the Royal Family as they left the church\n\nThe 11am service was broadcast live to the hundreds of visitors who had gathered outside the church.\n\nSome had queued from the early hours of the morning in the hope of seeing the Royal Family.\n\nPrincess Charlotte made her debut at the service and met visitors with her mother, the Duchess of Cambridge\n\nThe crowd were eager to meet Princess Charlotte and Prince George\n\nWell-wishers held out flowers and gifts for Princess Charlotte, four, and Prince George, six, who were accompanied by their parents, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nThere had been speculation over whether Prince Andrew would join the rest of his family at Sandringham, after controversy over his links with billionaire sex offender Jeffery Epstein saw him sidelined from royal duties.\n\nWhile most of the family arrived in front of crowds lining the roads, Andrew, accompanied by his brother, arrived earlier at the church and used a different entrance.\n\nHis daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, both attended the main service.\n\nThe Queen was not accompanied by her husband, who was discharged from hospital on Tuesday\n\nPrince Andrew arrived with his brother Charles at an earlier church service\n\nThe BBC's royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell said the prince was a \"significant absentee\" from the main service at 11am.\n\nOur correspondent said: \"If he had attended [the main service] a lot of the coverage would have been around him. He has become... something of an embarrassment currently to the Royal Family.\"\n\nPrincess Charlotte and Prince George attended the Christmas Day service for the first time\n\nThe Queen's attendance at church preceded her Christmas Day message - in which she described 2019 as \"quite bumpy\".\n\nShe said that \"positive things\" could be achieved when differences were set aside and people came together \"in the spirit of friendship and reconciliation\".\n\n\"As we all look forward to the start of a new decade, it's worth remembering that it is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Queen marked the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission and the 75th anniversary of D-Day, while also looking ahead at causes being championed by younger generations.\n\n\"The challenges many people face today may be different to those once faced by my generation, but I have been struck by how new generations have brought a similar sense of purpose to issues such as protecting our environment and our climate,\" the Queen said.\n\nThe Queen's message comes after a year of intense political debate over Brexit, as well as a number of personal events affecting the Royal Family.\n\nAs well as the controversy over Prince Andrew, the year has seen the Duke and Duchess of Sussex take legal action against a newspaper and speak of the pressures of parenthood and royal life.\n\nThere have also been concerns over the health of Prince Philip, who was involved in a car crash at the beginning of the year.\n\nPrince Phillip returned to Sandringham on Christmas Eve after spending four nights in hospital.\n\nHe was taken to King Edward VII's Hospital in London on Friday on the advice of his doctor.\n\nThe 98-year-old retired from public life in August 2017 and his last public appearance was at Lady Gabriella Windsor's wedding in May.\n\nThe Earl of Wessex was accompanied by his daughter, Lady Louise Windsor\n\nThe Earl of Wessex and his daughter Lady Louise Windsor also arrived for the Christmas morning church service.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex did not attend this year's church service as they are in Canada taking a break from royal duties with their son Archie.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Philip was seen leaving the King Edward VII's Hospital in London on Tuesday morning\n\nMeanwhile, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have released a new photograph showing the duke kissing his youngest son, Louis, alongside Prince George and Princess Charlotte.\n\nThe picture was posted by Kensington Palace on Twitter with the message: \"Merry Christmas to all our followers!\"\n\nThe photo was taken by the Duchess of Cambridge in Norfolk earlier this year", "Arlene Foster has led the DUP since 2015\n\nA lawyer for Arlene Foster has threatened legal action against doctor and TV presenter Christian Jessen.\n\nDr Jessen is one of a number of people who have tweeted an unsubstantiated rumour about the DUP leader's private life.\n\nThrough her lawyer, Paul Tweed, Mrs Foster has emphatically rejected the allegation as false.\n\nMr Tweed said, if necessary, legal proceedings would be taken against Dr Jessen.\n\nIn a statement issued to BBC News NI, Mr Tweed said: \"I would confirm, if necessary, legal proceedings will be taken against Dr Christian Jessen, Twitter and any persons who have recklessly retweeted this false and highly defamatory allegation\".\n\nMrs Foster is a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for Fermanagh and South Tyrone and served as first minister of Northern Ireland from 2016 to 2017.\n\nDr Jessen is best known for presenting Channel Four programme Embarrassing Bodies.", "A man has died after being shot on Christmas Eve in south west London, police have said.\n\nOfficers were called to Battersea Church Road at about 21:00 GMT on 24 December to reports of shots being fired, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nA man believed to be in his 30s had suffered gunshot injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene by emergency services.\n\nNo arrests have been made.\n\nAnyone with information is asked to contact police on 101 or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.", "The Archbishop of Canterbury has used his Christmas Day sermon to talk about the \"darkness\" that led to last month's London Bridge terror attack.\n\nJack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, were stabbed to death by Usman Khan, who was later shot dead by police.\n\nDuring the service at Canterbury Cathedral, Justin Welby said the light of Jesus could bring hope.\n\nHe also reflected on a visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is dealing with an Ebola virus outbreak.\n\n\"Darkness is a monster that lies\", he told the congregation. \"Its growling claims seem to call out with a louder volume than the love-filled whispers of light.\n\n\"We see the shadows out of the corner of our eyes. They may be violence as in the Congo or on London Bridge; they may be political; they may be purely personal.\"\n\nHe continued: \"Whether solid or illusion, they are the reality with which we live. By contrast we do not see light, but we do see truth in light.\"\n\nMr Welby described Canterbury as a \"city of peace that celebrates Christmas gloriously\", before comparing it to Beni, which is five times the size of the Kent city.\n\nThe archbishop said: \"It [Beni] has been at the centre of the second worst outbreak of Ebola in history; roughly 3,000 people have died. Its Anglican bishop is alight with Christ, always present, always giving of himself.\"\n\nIt comes after the spiritual leader of the Church of England shared a message of unity on 23 December, as he appealed to anyone who felt \"embarrassed or ashamed\" during the festive period.\n\nIn a series of tweets, he spoke of Jesus' humble beginnings, appearing to direct his message to those living in poverty.\n\nHe said: \"God meets us wherever we are, however messy. If you're embarrassed or ashamed, God is neither.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Archbishop of Canterbury This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Archbishop of Canterbury\n\nMeanwhile, in his homily on Christmas Eve, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, said that after \"so much bitter political discourse and division\" we \"are to look one another in the eye and see there all that is good\".\n\nCardinal Nichols added during Midnight Mass at Westminster Cathedral: \"The source of that good in every person we meet is, of course, the life of God, a divine goodness, which shows itself fully in Christ Jesus.\"\n\nHe encouraged worshippers to find \"the goodness of God in every person\", adding: \"Only then will our society become a place in which no-one is afraid and all sense a welcome. This is the fresh start we need.\"", "The Duke of Edinburgh left the King Edward VII's Hospital after four nights of \"observation and treatment\".\n\nRead more: Philip leaves hospital in time for Christmas", "A Gaulish flagon used to pour wine has been preserved\n\n\"Breathtaking\" Roman and Anglo-Saxon artefacts have been discovered in burial sites near the edge of an airport.\n\nPots, jugs and jewellery were found in Baginton, next to Lunt Roman Fort and Coventry Airport in Warwickshire.\n\nArchaeologists believe two of the graves contained a \"high status\" ranking officer and Roman girl, aged between six and 12.\n\nThe artefacts could go on display at local museums.\n\nThe pieces were found during a dig at a housing development site in summer 2017 but many of the items have only just been officially dated and verified by experts.\n\nSenior archaeologist Nigel Page, from Warwickshire County Council which led the dig, said it was a \"remarkable\" find.\n\n\"It's a significant discovery in the West Midlands,\" he said. \"There was a real buzz of excitement when the site was found. It's breathtaking.\"\n\nA number of pots were found at one burial site\n\nA decorative brooch was found within a Roman cremation burial site of a young girl.\n\nIt was one of four brooches from a small pile of jewellery placed in the grave and covered by a polished mirror.\n\nOther jewellery included a ring, with an image of a cicada - an insect associated with immortality - and a hair pin.\n\nExperts said the items and imagery on some of the jewellery suggested a link to southern Europe.\n\nThis Roman brooch is likely to have belonged to a young girl and put with her for a cremation burial\n\nA dozen Anglo-Saxon graves were excavated, some of which contained goods including a Frankish vessel from the northern France and Belgium area.\n\n\"The presence of the Frankish vessel suggests that, just as during the Roman period, goods and people were moving into and through the area from a wide area, including from Europe,\" Mr Page said.\n\nOne burial contained the centre of a shield, fragments of a knife blade in its leather sheath and a crushed copper alloy hanging bowl.\n\nExperts said the richness of the Anglo-Saxon grave suggested a person of reasonably high status, such as a high ranking officer.\n\n\"The settlement at Baginton continued to flourish after the Romans left in the early 5th Century,\" added Mr Page.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Miller worked for legislative changes including the minimum wage and agency workers' rights\n\nThe former Labour MP for Ellesmere Port and Neston, Andrew Miller, has died.\n\nMr Miller was first elected to the Cheshire seat in 1992 and served under five Labour leaders before standing down at the May 2015 general election.\n\nFamily friend and Labour MP for Knowsley George Howarth said Mr Miller was seriously ill for some time before he died, aged 70.\n\nMr Miller had a passion for science and technology and chaired the Commons select committee over 10 years.\n\nBorn in Middlesex in 1949, Mr Miller was educated in Malta and later earned a Diploma in Industrial Relations from the London School of Economics.\n\nHe was a former official of the technicians' union MSF and won his seat in 1992 from the Conservatives, holding it for 23 years.\n\nWhen he stood down, Mr Miller said he was \"proud\" of being part of legislative changes like the minimum wage and improving the rights of agency workers.\n\nHe also worked with political parties in his former home of Malta in the lead up to the country's accession to the EU and fondly recalled helping get a plaque for Nelson Mandela placed in Westminster Hall.\n\nHe had a keen interest in tennis and lived in Cheshire in a house he bought derelict and rebuilt.\n\nThe University of Chester awarded Mr Miller an honorary DSc in 2014 and he was made an honorary Fellow of Liverpool John Moores University a year later.\n\nMr Miller leaves his wife, Fran, and three children.\n• None Andrew Miller to stand down as MP", "A white-bearded man robbed a bank two days before Christmas then threw the money in the air and enthusiastically wished passers-by a merry Christmas, witnesses have said.\n\nPolice said \"an older white male\" robbed the Academy Bank in Colorado Springs on Monday lunchtime.\n\n\"He robbed the bank, came out, threw the money all over the place,\" witness Dion Pascale told Colorado's 11 News.\n\n\"He started throwing money out of the bag and then said, 'Merry Christmas!'\"\n\nWitnesses said the hirsute suspect then wandered over to a nearby Starbucks coffee shop, sat down in front of it, and waited to be arrested.\n\nIn a particularly festive gesture, the passers-by are reported to have scooped up all the money from the street and taken it back inside the bank.\n\nColorado Springs police named the suspect as David Wayne Oliver, 65. He is not believed to have had any little helpers.", "Kirsty Maxwell was with a group of friends in Benidorm when she died in 2017\n\nThe family of Kirsty Maxwell say they will continue to put pressure on the Spanish courts as they remember her at Christmas.\n\nThe 27-year-old fell to her death from a balcony in Benidorm in 2017 while on a hen party weekend with friends.\n\nHer family say the courts still refuse to carry out \"basic lines of inquiry\".\n\nThey will set a place for her over the festive period \"to honour and remember the loving and caring girl we all miss\".\n\nMrs Maxwell, from Livingston in West Lothian, had only recently married when she travelled to Benidorm for a friend's hen party.\n\nShe fell from the 10th floor balcony of a room where five men were staying at Apartamentos Payma on 29 April 2017. The men were arrested but never charged.\n\nFollowing the hen celebration, Mrs Maxwell returned to her apartment on the ninth floor in the early hours, and was filmed asleep at about 06:50 on the morning she died.\n\nAbout an hour later she fell to her death after inexplicably entering an apartment on the floor above which was occupied by five British men.\n\nAdam and Kirsty Maxwell had only been married for seven months\n\nHer father previously said that in the hours following her death, there was very little information from the authorities about what had happened.\n\nNow the family has issued a statement on social media saying they were \"resolute\" in their pursuit of information.\n\nIt read: \"As each year goes by it does not get any easier, every time our legal team request basic lines of inquiry to be done the court refuses them.\n\n\"In conjunction with our lawyer Lorena Soler Bernabeu we await an appeal to the higher court in Spain regarding the continual refusal to allow progression of evidential opportunities.\n\n\"With the assistance of our crime expert/reviewer David Swindle, his team and our Spanish lawyer Lorena we continue to push for evidential opportunities to be progressed.\"\n\nThe statement also reiterated an appeal for help to anyone with information surrounding Mrs Maxwell's death.\n\nIt added: \"We know there are people who have not come forward or provided information which can assist so we continue to appeal to the many UK visitors to Benidorm and locals to contact us with any information which can assist.\n\n\"Thanks for the continued support we get from family, friends, the public and on social media, it means so much to us as a family to know people care and are trying their best to assist in whatever way they can.\"", "Three members of the same family are reported to have drowned at a holiday resort on the Costa del Sol in Spain.\n\nThey were found unresponsive in a swimming pool on Christmas Eve at Club La Costa World, near Fuengirola, a statement from the owners said.\n\nIt has been reported that a nine-year-old British girl got into difficulties in the water and her brother and father attempted to rescue her.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was assisting a British woman in Spain.\n\nIt is understood the father and daughter were both British while the brother was American.\n\nHotel firm CLC World Resorts said first response teams and emergency services attended and administered first aid.\n\nA local journalist, Fernando Torres, told the BBC it was a shocking scene.\n\n\"The resort workers heard the screaming and they tried to do CPR (resuscitation) as well, but they couldn't help them.\n\n\"Then the emergency doctors came and they tried for 30-35 minutes, but they couldn't revive them.\"\n\nThe sprawling resort near Fuengirola has several pools\n\nCLC World Resorts said it offered its \"heartfelt condolences to the family affected by the loss of three family members on 24th December 2019\".\n\n\"The management are assisting the authorities fully with their investigation into the deaths.\n\n\"We would like to thank our first response team and the emergency services for their quick and appropriate responses, and our staff for the continuing support of the family at this difficult time.\"\n\nA Foreign and Commonwealth Office spokesperson said: \"We are offering assistance to a British woman following an incident in Spain.\"\n\nAre you in the area? Have you been affected by what's happened? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "The Queen, in her annual speech, has said \"small steps\" and not giant leaps bring about the most lasting change.\n\nShe also acknowledged that 2019 had been \"quite bumpy\".\n\nHer message comes after a year of intense political debate over Brexit, as well as a number of personal events affecting the Royal Family.\n\nHer husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, 98, left hospital on Tuesday after four nights for a \"pre-existing condition\".", "Max Clifford was jailed in 2014 for a string of indecent assaults against girls and young women\n\nDisgraced publicist Max Clifford was given wrongly-labelled medication at least twice in prison before he died, a report has found.\n\nClifford, 74, died two years ago while serving an eight-year sentence at Littlehey Prison in Cambridgeshire for historical sex offences.\n\nThe Prisons and Probation Ombudsman said inmates should be monitored more closely to ensure medicine was taken.\n\nThe prison's healthcare provider said it had implemented a plan to improve.\n\nThe report, written in November 2018, was published after an inquest into Clifford's death concluded he had died of natural causes.\n\nOn one occasion Clifford became dizzy after taking a mislabelled tablet four times the intended strength, the report said.\n\nHe told staff he realised their error because of the effects of taking the 8mg tablet of a heart medication that was labelled as 2mg.\n\nMax Clifford died of natural causes, an inquest concluded\n\nAfter Clifford's death, \"a significant quantity\" of prescription medicine was found unused in his cell, said deputy ombudsman Richard Pickering.\n\n\"We are concerned that Mr Clifford was given incorrectly labelled medication on at least two occasions, and that staff did not monitor his medication compliance adequately at other time,\" he wrote.\n\nHe also raised concerns at a delay in transferring Clifford to hospital, because staff called an urgent ambulance instead of the emergency one the GP requested.\n\nThe report recommends that prison pharmacy services be reviewed to avoid medication errors, staff ensure patients take their medication and respond with greater urgency to emergency situations.\n\nClifford died on 10 December 2017 at Hinchingbrooke Hospital, near Huntingdon, where he was taken after collapsing in the shower.\n\nHis inquest heard he could have received better care if his heart condition had been diagnosed sooner.\n\nA post-mortem examination recorded the cause of death as congestive heart failure.\n\nNorthamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, which provides healthcare at HMP Littlehey, said the coroner had accepted its action plan and evidence of implementation.\n\nIt said it would \"continue to share learning and implement our findings to ensure our care is of a high standard\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "No remains of the kangaroo have been found (stock photo)\n\nA wolf has reportedly taken a privately owned kangaroo from a family's garden in Balen, north-east Belgium.\n\nJan Loos, a wolf expert, was called to the property by the owners and said he had found wolf prints at the scene.\n\nMr Loos told AFP the kangaroo is \"probably dead\" having been eaten by the animal. He said a second kangaroo had also been wounded in the attack.\n\nWild wolves used to live in much of continental Europe, but their numbers have been depleted by hunting.\n\nIn recent years, sightings of the animals have been on the increase and in 2018 one was recorded in Belgium for the first time in more than 100 years.\n\nMr Loos, the director of a wolf and wildlife centre called Landschap, said he believed an animal named August could be behind the animal's disappearance.\n\nThe wolf has been spotted slipping across a nearby border into Germany and is known to roam the area, he said.\n\n\"I found wolf prints, so it's quite sure it's a wolf, but we're not 100 per cent sure which wolf,\" he told AFP.\n\nThe expert said local wolves usually ate animals like boars and deer, but the size of a kangaroo would have made it easy to carry off.\n\nNo remains of the kangaroo have been found, Mr Loos added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA bagpiper has surprised a terminally ill man outside his home on Christmas Eve.\n\nTony Occleshaw, who worked for Nottinghamshire Police, is having end-of-life care at home for cancer.\n\nHe wanted to see the Edinburgh Military Tattoo in August but was too ill so his daughter organised for a piper, who plays for the same force to perform.\n\nMr Occleshaw, from Arnold, said he and his wife were \"both in tears\" during the performance.\n\nHe said: \"I absolutely love pipers. I heard something and opened the front door- it was a real surprise.\"\n\nMr Occleshaw said about 30 people came out to watch.\n\n\"It was really wonderful. The best surprise I have ever had.\"\n\nTony Occleshaw has been in a lot of pain over the last few months after developing another tumour\n\nSally Bates said her dad was diagnosed with bladder cancer about a week after her wedding in August 2018, and a couple of months later was told he only had a year to live.\n\nMrs Bates said: \"It was a huge shock to my dad. He had just turned 63 and was looking forward to retiring.\"\n\nHe has since developed another tumour, she said.\n\n\"He was discharged from hospital about one month ago to have end-of-life care at home.\"\n\nMr Occleshaw worked as a station assistant for Nottinghamshire Police for 20 years\n\nMrs Bates put out an appeal on Facebook looking for a bagpiper to play for her dad and a man got in touch saying his 14-year-old son would be happy to do it.\n\n\"It was an absolute miracle,\" she said.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Pope spoke to thousands who had gathered to hear his Christmas message\n\nThe Pope has prayed for a softening of \"stony and self-centred hearts\" to help end injustice in the world, in his Christmas Day message.\n\nFrom the Vatican balcony, Pope Francis spoke of \"walls of indifference\" being put up to people fleeing hardship in the hope of finding a better life.\n\nThe Pope prayed for those hit by conflict, natural disasters and disease, listing several countries.\n\nHe singled out parts of Africa where Christians had been killed.\n\nSpeaking under a clear blue sky to thousands crowded into St Peter's Square, the Pope urged \"comfort to those who are persecuted for their religious faith, especially missionaries and members of the faithful who have been kidnapped, and to the victims of attacks by extremist groups, particularly in Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and Nigeria\".\n\nAn attack on Christmas Eve in Burkina Faso left 35 people dead, most of them women.\n\nHundreds of people have been killed in the country over the past few years, mostly by jihadist groups.\n\nHours earlier, in a rare joint message with two other Western Church leaders, the Pope appealed for peace in South Sudan.\n\nIn their statement, the pontiff, the head of the Anglican Church and the former moderator of the Church of Scotland called for \"a renewed commitment to the path of reconciliation and fraternity\".\n\nSouth Sudan declared independence from Sudan in 2011 but has been crippled by conflict ever since.\n\nIn what was his seventh \"Urbi et Orbi\" (\"To the City and the World\") Christmas Day address, the Pope also highlighted other hotspots of unrest including Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, Venezuela, Ukraine and the Holy Land.\n\nFor change to happen for the better, he said, people had to be more compassionate.\n\n\"May [God] soften our often stony and self-centred hearts, and make them channels of His love. May He bring His smile, through our poor faces, to all the children of the world: to those who are abandoned and those who suffer violence,\" he said.\n• None In pictures: Christmas around the world", "Tear gas was fired in busy shopping and tourist districts\n\nChristmas Day in Hong Kong has seen no let-up in clashes between police and pro-democracy protesters.\n\nThe police used tear gas and pepper spray as demonstrators gathered again in a number of shopping districts.\n\nThe latest protests began on Christmas Eve, with police battling activists who were throwing petrol bombs.\n\nHong Kong leader Carrie Lam said many residents and tourists had seen their Christmas celebrations \"ruined by a group of reckless and selfish rioters\".\n\n\"Such illegal acts have not only dampened the festive mood but also adversely affected local businesses,\" she said in a Facebook post on Wednesday.\n\nThe protests began in June, focusing on a bill that would have allowed the extradition of suspects to mainland China.\n\nThe bill was later withdrawn, but demonstrations have since evolved into a broader movement demanding investigations into police brutality and democratic reform.\n\nThe protests, which had been largely peaceful in recent weeks, have turned more confrontational over the festive season.\n\nOn Wednesday hundreds of activists marched through shopping centres shouting slogans such as \"Liberate Hong Kong! Revolution of our times!\" Police arrested several people after using pepper spray.\n\nThe clashes were on a lesser scale than Tuesday, when activists set up barricades and threw petrol bombs across the city, while police used pepper spray and batons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHong Kong was a British colony until 1997, after which it was returned to China under the \"one country, two systems\" arrangement.\n\nUnder the agreement, Hong Kong is expected to have a high degree of autonomy from mainland China, and residents enjoy more freedoms than those on the mainland.", "To celebrate its 50th anniversary year Scottish Ballet granted five wishes.\n\nPeople from across Scotland were invited to submit their ballet dreams and a celebrity judging panel, which included Dame Darcey Bussell, selected the final five.\n\nThe individual stories and their impact on the wider community were captured by BBC Scotland for a documentary.\n\nLily Douglas took a class with the Scottish Ballet company\n\nIn January, Lily Douglas, who has been living with rare cancer Ewing's Sarcoma, was invited backstage at Glasgow's Theatre Royal.\n\nThe 11-year-old avid dancer, from Perth, thought she was attending a workshop but was told she would actually be watching the company take their morning class, before joining them on stage.\n\nLily has had 14 rounds of chemotherapy and her left shoulder blade removed but it has not stopped her passion for dance.\n\nHer mother Jane said: \"Lily used to come out of chemo and go straight to dancing. We are now two and a half years down the line and her doctor thinks she is amazing. She thinks she is a miracle.\"\n\nThe day the wish was granted was the last time Jemma (centre) made it to the dance studio\n\nThe Academy Street Dance Studio, from Aberdeen, worked with Scottish Ballet to create a special performance in April - but the person who had made the wish was not there.\n\nJemma McRae, who ran the studio, died from breast cancer months earlier.\n\nThe 43-year-old's death came less than a week after Scottish Ballet visited her studio to announce it would be bringing its stars to the dance school as a way of thanking the youngsters for their support throughout her cancer journey.\n\nWhen the wish was granted, Jemma said it was not for her but for the people who came to her dance studio.\n\nShe said: \"My first wish would be for a cure for cancer, but that's not possible right now - so I'm hoping to give back to the students and parents who have supported me.\"\n\nDance school teacher Gillian Stuart said working towards the wish filled some of the emptiness felt by Jemma's death.\n\n\"It gave us something to focus on and kept us really busy,\" she said.\n\nFollowing a day of workshops with Scottish Ballet, 85 dancers from the dance studio performed to an audience of 600 friends and family at Aberdeen's Beach Ballroom.\n\nJemma's mum Marlene said her daughter would have loved it.\n\n\"This was her life. She loved every minute of dancing, every child, and she would have given anything to be here,\" she said.\n\nScottish Ballet and Alzheimer Scotland's Every Voice Choir perform Wish 3\n\nIn June, a choir made up of people with dementia as well as their families and carers had their wish granted when they performed with dancers from Scottish Ballet.\n\nEvery Voice Community Choir, run by Alzheimer's Scotland, created a unique performance at St Augustine's Church in Dumbarton, where they rehearse.\n\nThe BBC documentary shows Catherine and her husband Danny, who was diagnosed with vascular dementia at just 52.\n\nThe couple met as teenagers and have been married for 33 years.\n\nAfter the \"shock\" of Danny's diagnosis they found the choir and Catherine went along to support her husband. She soon found herself joining in.\n\nPrincipal dancer Bethany Kingsley-Garner and soloist Evan Loudon performed while the choir sang\n\n\"The choir has become a big part of our lives,\" Danny says.\n\n\"It really helps you progress through a journey where you don't know where it is going to take you.\"\n\n\"It gives you the confidence to take the next step.\"\n\nCatherine says her husband was worried at first that he might have to do ballet.\n\n\"I didn't think I would suit a tutu,\" he says.\n\nFor the wish, Scottish Ballet soloist Jamiel Laurence choreographed a duet between principal Bethany Kingsley-Garner and soloist Evan Loudon.\n\nThey danced as the 50-strong choir performed their rendition of 'Only You' by British synth-pop band Yazoo.\n\nThe dance company also invited the choir to perform on stage at a performance of The Snow Queen in Edinburgh in December.\n\nIn October, young designer Poppy Camden joined Scottish Ballet on tour to work with the wardrobe department.\n\nPoppy, a recent graduate of the Fashion Design programme at Glasgow School of Art, experienced what goes into creating, fitting and maintaining costumes for the production of The Crucible at Eden Court Theatre in Inverness.\n\nScottish Ballet artistic director Christopher Hampson said the wardrobe team were the \"unsung heroes\" of the company.\n\n\"They don't get to be on stage like the dancers but all of their work is on the stage,\" he said.\n\nPoppy said there was an \"incredible amount of detail\" that goes into the costumes. \"It has been a real eye-opener,\" she said.\n\n\"For anyone who has seen the Scottish Ballet productions, they make it look effortless. But there is a lot of graft going on behind, which is fascinating to see.\"\n\nThe final wish saw musician Colin Bowen, who has lived with Parkinson's disease for almost 20 years, conduct the 70-strong Scottish Ballet Orchestra.\n\nAt the age of 45, Colin was diagnosed with Parkinson's - a neurological condition that affects the central nervous system.\n\n\"Music takes me away to another land,\" he tells the programme.\n\nColin is an accomplished musician, teacher and conductor but his worsening condition means he is no longer able to play to the standard he once did.\n\n\"I have never lost the will to do music and do it well,\" he says.\n\nIt was his wife Anne who put in the wish to put Colin back where she thinks he belongs, conducting a full professional orchestra.\n\n\"He's just so talented and it is such a shame this talent was taken away because of Parkinson's,\" she says.\n\nColin says: \"It is an opportunity for me to give Parkinson's a kick up the backside.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt least 150 houses have been destroyed by fast-moving woodland fires in the Chilean city of Valparaíso.\n\nThe fires, which spread through the Rocuant and San Roque hills, reached two poor residential areas and were still burning on Christmas Day. There have been no reports of any casualties.\n\nInterior Minister Gonzalo Blumel said evidence gathered so far indicated the fires had been started deliberately.\n\nResidents returned to see the charred remains of their homes\n\nPower was cut to about 90,000 customers in the area as a precautionary measure. Two schools were turned into shelters for the affected residents, who were forced to flee in the middle of Christmas Eve celebrations.\n\nMayor Jorge Sharp said a state of emergency had been declared in the city, some 100km (62 miles) from the capital, Santiago.\n\nA video posted on social media showed a car next to where a fire started. Prosecutors were investigating the footage as well as reports from residents that cars were seen in the hills affected moments before the fires began, Emol website reports.\n\nA number of houses were gutted by the fires\n\nAll of Valparaíso's firefighters were deployed\n\nAgriculture Minister Antonio Walker visited the areas and admitted that the firefighters were struggling to contain the fires.\n\nNearly 120 hectares (445 acres) of grassland have already been ravaged.\n\nFirefighting helicopters have also been deployed\n\nResidents have desperately tried to salvage their personal belongings in the festive period\n\nOn Twitter, President Sebastián Piñera said: \"We deeply regret the fire that affects so many families in the hills of Valparaíso and especially on Christmas Eve.\"\n\nValparaíso, in central Chile, is one of country's largest cities and a major port on the Pacific. It is also a popular tourist destination in South America.\n\nIn 2017, the central Chilean town of Santa Olga was destroyed by wildfires.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Queen will use her Christmas Day message to acknowledge that 2019 has been \"quite bumpy\".\n\nShe will say the path is never \"smooth\" but \"small steps\" can heal divisions.\n\nIt comes after a year of intense political debate over Brexit, as well as a number of personal events affecting the Royal Family.\n\nHer husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, 98, has left hospital after four nights of treatment for a \"pre-existing condition\".\n\nBuckingham Palace said the duke had gone to the King Edward VII's hospital on his doctor's advice for \"observation and treatment\".\n\nPrince Charles told reporters on Monday that hospital staff had looked after his father \"very well\".\n\nIn January, the Duke of Edinburgh was involved in a car crash while driving near the Queen's Sandringham Estate in Norfolk. He escaped uninjured, but two women required hospital treatment.\n\nIn September, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex publicly revealed their struggles under the media spotlight during their tour of southern Africa.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex welcomed their first child, Archie, in May\n\nLast month, the Duke of York withdrew from public life after a BBC interview about his ties to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself in August.\n\nThe Queen, 93, recorded her annual message, to be broadcast on BBC One at 15:00 GMT on Christmas Day, before Prince Philip was admitted to hospital.\n\nShe refers to the life of Jesus and the importance of reconciliation, saying \"small steps taken in faith and in hope can overcome long-held differences and deep-seated divisions to bring harmony and understanding\".\n\n\"The path, of course, is not always smooth, and may at times this year have felt quite bumpy, but small steps can make a world of difference.\"\n\nIt has been a year which, at times, may have felt \"quite bumpy\", so the Queen will say in her Christmas broadcast.\n\nIt is a choice of words which will inevitably prompt speculation about what it is that she's referring to.\n\nShe does not offer any clarification herself, though the remark is made in the context of overcoming what she calls \"long-held differences\" and how \"small steps taken in faith and in hope can overcome deep-seated divisions\".\n\nThe obvious interpretation is that this is the Queen's - as ever - coded message to the country to try to move on from the divisions of the Brexit debate, but the reference to a \"bumpy\" year may also be taken to refer to events within her own family after a year which has seen the Duke of Edinburgh's car accident, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex complaining about the difficulties of being in the public eye and the controversies around Prince Andrew.\n\nThe head of state - who is publicly neutral on political matters - will also use her message to highlight the 75th anniversary of the World War Two D-Day landings, and how former \"sworn enemies\" joined together in friendly commemorations to mark the milestone this year.\n\nIn June, the UK hosted an event in Portsmouth commemorating the 75th anniversary of D-Day and attended by world leaders including US President Donald Trump, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron.\n\nWorld leaders gather at an event to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day\n\nThe Queen said: \"By being willing to put past differences behind us and move forward together, we honour the freedom and democracy once won for us at so great a cost.\"\n\nThe broadcast was produced by the BBC and recorded in the green drawing room of Windsor Castle after the general election.\n\nThe Queen wore a royal blue cashmere dress by Angela Kelly, and the sapphire and diamond Prince Albert brooch, a present from Albert to Queen Victoria on the eve of their wedding in 1840.\n\nShe is filmed sitting at a desk featuring photographs of her family, including one of the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall, and a black-and-white image of the Queen's father, King George VI.\n\nThere is also a photograph of of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their children - Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis - perched on and around a motorbike and sidecar - an image used for the couple's Christmas card.\n\nOn Monday, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex revealed their festive greeting via the Queen's Commonwealth Trust Twitter account.\n\nIt features a photograph of Harry and Meghan with their seven-month-old son Archie crawling towards the camera, and a message reading: \"Merry Christmas and a happy new year... from our family to yours\".\n\nThe card was emailed to friends and colleagues on Monday, with hard copies sent to family.\n\nThe couple are currently spending time in Canada while taking a festive break from royal duties with their son, who was born in May.\n\nPrince Andrew has faced criticism over his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein\n\nPrince Andrew's appearance on BBC Newsnight last month was one of the year's biggest news stories involving the monarchy.\n\nIn the interview, Prince Andrew defended his relationship with Epstein, who took his own life in August while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.\n\nThe prince was heavily criticised for showing a lack of empathy towards Epstein's victims and little remorse over his friendship with the disgraced US financier.\n\nHe later issued a statement saying he continued to \"unequivocally regret my ill-judged association with Jeffrey Epstein\" and he deeply sympathised with everyone who was affected.", "The sprawling Club La Costa World resort has several swimming pools\n\nThe drowning of a man and his two children in a resort swimming pool on the Costa del Sol was a \"tragic accident\", the hotel owners have said.\n\nThe three family members were found unresponsive on Christmas Eve at Club La Costa World, near Fuengirola.\n\nReports suggest that a nine-year-old British girl got into difficulties in the water and her father and 16-year-old brother tried to rescue her.\n\nPolice in Spain launched an investigation into the deaths.\n\nIn a statement released on Christmas Day the owners of Club La Costa World said: \"The Guardia Civil have carried out a full investigation which found no concerns relating to the pool in question or procedures in place, which leaves us to believe this was a tragic accident which has left everyone surrounding the incident in shock.\n\n\"Naturally, our primary concern remains the care and support of the remaining family members.\"\n\nLocally-based freelance journalist Gerard Couzens said that the hotel had confirmed it had reopened the pool after it was given permission to do so by police.\n\n\"The message from the hotel is very clear. They were given permission to reopen the pool by the police yesterday,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"That pool where this terrible tragedy occurred on Christmas Eve is open for use again. And the management are saying the police have given the pool a clean bill of health.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office has said it is supporting a British woman in Spain.\n\nThe father and daughter were both British while the brother was American, it is understood.\n\nLocal journalist Fernando Torres told the BBC it was a shocking scene.\n\n\"The resort workers heard the screaming and they tried to do CPR (resuscitation) as well, but they couldn't help them,\" he said.\n\n\"Then the emergency doctors came and they tried for 30-35 minutes, but they couldn't revive them.\"\n\nAre you in the area? Have you been affected by what's happened? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Bieber said he was \"excited\" to perform and tour with his new material\n\nJustin Bieber has given fans an early Christmas present - confirmation he is to make a 2020 comeback.\n\nThe Canadian pop star chose 24 December to announce he will release a new single, called Yummy, on 3 January - the debut track from an upcoming, as yet untitled fifth album.\n\nThe 25-year-old also revealed he is to tour the US and his home nation between May and September.\n\nThe singer announced as well he is to appear in a new documentary TV series.\n\nBieber took an extended break from music in 2017 after cancelling the last 14 dates of his Purpose World Tour.\n\nYet this year saw him appear as a guest vocalist on Ed Sheeran's I Don't Care and a remix of Billie Eilish's Bad Guy.\n\nThis - together with an appearance with Ariana Grande at Coachella in April - led to speculation that he might be about to return with new solo material.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\n\"As humans we are imperfect,\" he can be heard saying in a teaser \"super trailer\" for his New Year plans.\n\n\"My past, my mistakes, all the things that I've been through… I believe that I'm right where I'm supposed to be and God has me right where he wants me.\"\n\nEarlier this year he wrote about his struggles with drug use and depression in an emotional essay, in which he described himself as \"the most hated person in the world\".\n\n\"I feel like this is different from the previous albums just because of where I'm at with my life,\" he goes on in the video. \"I'm excited to perform it and to tour it.\n\n\"We all have different stories, I'm just excited to share mine. It's the music I've loved the most out of anything I've done.\"\n\nThe promo video finds Bieber, wearing his trademark baggy hoodie and woolly hat, sitting outside a petrol station and wandering around a trailer park near Los Angeles as he contemplates his next move.\n\nBieber shot to fame as a teenager after impressing manager Scooter Braun with his cover versions online.\n\nWith his first EP, 2010's My World, he became the first act to have seven tracks from a debut in the US top 100.\n\nThroughout his career the star has amassed more than 50 billion streams and shifted more than 60 million album equivalents worldwide.\n\nHis North American tour begins in Seattle, Washington, on 14 May and concludes in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on 26 September.\n\nHis tour dates make it unlikely - though not impossible - he will perform at the Glastonbury Festival in June.\n\nThis will be Bieber's first album and tour since marrying girlfriend Hailey Baldwin.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The teenager was found \"unresponsive and unconscious\" at the Holiday Inn Express hotel\n\nA 17-year-old girl from Bristol Grammar School who died while on a school trip to New York has been named by police.\n\nAnastasia Uglow, from the Redland area of Bristol, was found \"unresponsive and unconscious\" at the Holiday Inn Express hotel on 19 December.\n\nA New York Police spokeswoman said there were \"no signs of trauma and no criminality was suspected\".\n\n\"The medical examiner [coroner] will determine the cause of death and the investigation is ongoing,\" she said.\n\nHer family has been notified.\n\nStudents from Bristol Grammar School were on a trip to New York and Washington DC\n\nThe sixth form student was taken to Mount Sinai hospital, where she was pronounced dead.\n\nIn a statement, the school's headmaster Jaideep Barot said everyone at the school was devastated and support was being provided for those affected.\n\n\"We have opened a book of condolence and we will consider further remembrance with the family's support in the New Year,\" he added.\n\nThe students had been on a trip to New York and Washington DC.\n\nThe fee-paying school, which was founded in 1532, has more than 1,300 students aged four to 18.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "MPs have called on Whirlpool to offer refunds or \"swift compensation\" as it recalls 519,000 washing machines.\n\nA cross-party group on consumer protection said customers had been \"severely let down\" owing to the delay until machines are fixed or replaced.\n\nThe former head of the Commons Business Committee has also demanded the company give refunds to those who want them.\n\nBut the company said its priority was to ensure potentially dangerous appliances were removed from homes.\n\nAbout 20% of the Hotpoint and Indesit washing machines sold since 2014 are affected by a safety fault. Up to 519,000 washing machines sold in the UK need to be recalled, a process that will start in early January.\n\nSeventy-nine fires are thought to have been caused by an overheating door locking system, a fault which develops over time, according to Whirlpool, which owns the brands.\n\nYvonne Fovargue MP, who chaired the Consumer Protection All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) in the last Parliament and Carolyn Harris MP, who chaired the Electrical Safety APPG in the last Parliament, said that Whirlpool appeared to have learned little from its handling of a safety problem regarding tumble dryers,\n\n\"Whirlpool's advice to affected customers simply not to use the machines until repaired or replaced is wholly inadequate, particularly in the busy holiday period when families are at home,\" said Ms Fovargue.\n\n\"It appears that once again customer trust is being abused and eroded. Whirlpool should swiftly compensate customers who have been severely let down.\"\n\nWhirlpool has set up a model checker online. Owners of Hotpoint and Indesit washing machines bought since October 2014 will need to enter the model and serial number of their appliance - found inside the door or on the back - to see if it is one of those affected.\n\nThere is also a free helpline, open every day, available on 0800 316 1442.\n\nMeanwhile, Rachel Reeves, who chaired the Business Committee in the last Parliament, which investigated the Whirlpool saga, called for those affected by the washing machine recall to be offered a refund, rather than just a repair or replacement.\n\n\"I understand Whirlpool is refusing to offer refunds to consumers hit by this latest safety problem in what seems to be a never-ending saga,\" she said.\n\n\"That refusal will further damage consumer confidence and shows a lack of respect for the people on whom Whirlpool's profits depend.\"\n\nThe company said that a refund would not ensure the fire-prone machines were withdrawn from people's homes, which was its priority. It has put in a range of plans, including hiring engineers and building up call centre staffing.\n\nThe company said it was in contact with various second-hand sales platforms to alert them to recall and ensure the affected products were not sold, as it had for the tumble dryer recall. It said very few of these appliances would still be in stock with regular retailers and should not be sold.", "Boris Johnson has defended the controversial £4bn takeover of UK defence and aerospace company Cobham by a US private equity firm.\n\nThe government approved the sale of Cobham to Advent International on Friday, after the deal was delayed because of national security concerns.\n\nFormer First Sea Lord Admiral Lord West said Cobham holds defence technologies which are \"critically important\".\n\nBut the PM said \"a lot of checks\" had been gone through to satisfy concerns.\n\nSpeaking on a trip to see British troops in Estonia, Mr Johnson said: \"I think it's very important that we should have an open and dynamic market economy.\n\n\"A lot of checks have been gone through to make sure that in that particular case all the security issues that might be raised can be satisfied and the UK will continue to be a very, very creative and dynamic contributor to that section of industry and all others.\"\n\nAdvent International made its initial offer in July and it was approved by shareholders in August.\n\nThe government ordered a review from the competition regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), a week after Admiral Lord West expressed concerns, in an interview with the Daily Mail,\n\nThe CMA's report, published at the end of October, said the MoD had outlined two main areas of security concern over the sale:\n\nIn a statement on Friday, Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom said she was satisfied the risks that had been identified had been mitigated \"to an acceptable level\" - and allowed the deal to go ahead.\n\nBut Admiral Lord West said that while he was \"delighted\" that was the case, \"it does mean that there are national security risks that are being mitigated\".\n\nHe stressed the importance of maintaining defence capabilities in what he called a \"chaotic and rapidly changing world where old alliances are no longer certain\", adding \"no other advanced industrial nation and certainly no permanent member of the UN Security Council is so cavalier about giving up such capabilities\".\n\nSir Ed Davey, acting leader of the Lib Dems, described the move as \"deeply concerning\".\n\nHe added that \"we have yet to see evidence\" that the previous concerns over national security had been mitigated.\n\nThe decision to approve the takeover was described as \"deeply disappointing' by Lady Nadine Cobham - part of the family which set up the UK firm.\n\nShe criticised the timing of the announcement, saying it was \"cynically timed to avoid scrutiny on the weekend before Christmas\", adding: \"In one of its first major economic decisions, the government is not taking back control so much as handing it away.\"\n\nShonnel Malani, partner at Advent, said the firm took the takeover \"seriously\".\n\n\"We are confident the transaction and undertakings being given on national security, jobs and future investment, provide important long-term assurances for both Cobham's employees and customers, particularly in the UK and also globally,\" Mr Malani added.\n\nCobham, which employs 10,000 people, has extensive contracts with the British military and is seen as a world leader in air-to-air refuelling technology.\n\nThe firm, based in Wimborne, Dorset, also makes electronic warfare systems and communications for military vehicles.\n\nIts expertise played a significant role in the Falklands War, allowing the Royal Air Force to attack the remote Port Stanley airfield.\n\nMrs Leadsom said the decision had been \"meticulously thought over\" and that she had taken advice from the defence secretary and the deputy national security adviser.\n\nShe added that sensitive government information would continue to be protected under the new owner and existing contracts would be honoured.\n\nThe company is also obliged to give the government prior notice of any plans to sell the whole, or elements of, Cobham's business.\n\nJust before 10pm on a Friday is an odd time for this kind of thing to be announced.\n\nOne defence analyst remarked that it was as if the government rather wanted no-one to notice what had happened.\n\nThe curious timing may actually draw more attention than if it had been done at a more normal hour - few doubted the government would block the deal, and shareholders in Cobham have already voted overwhelmingly in favour.\n\nIt says something of the sensitive nature of Cobham's business that much of the published version of the competition regulator's report on the takeover was simply blacked out.\n\nIn one unedited passage of the report, the Ministry of Defence said if the deal went ahead there was \"a risk that the institutional framework and safeguards required by the government's security framework may be undermined\".\n\nAviation pioneer Sir Alan Cobham became a household name in the 1930s\n\nCobham plc is a group of defence and technology businesses which started out as a family firm founded by Sir Alan Cobham.\n\nSir Alan became a flying instructor in 1918 after volunteering to join the Royal Air Force during World War One.\n\nHe received a knighthood from King George V in 1926 for his pioneering work in aviation.\n\nSir Alan became a household name after devising Cobham's Flying Circus in the early 1930s. The aeronautical acrobatics show toured England and South Africa.\n\nHe then went on to focus on air-to-air refuelling and formed Flight Refuelling Limited in 1934, which developed into Cobham plc as it is known today.\n\nAside from aviation, Cobham's innovations include lightweight tanks, radar technology for maritime defence and spacecraft technology.", "The crash was at a busy junction on the A9 on the Black Isle\n\nA 16-year-old boy has died after a crash involving three cars in the Highlands.\n\nHe was a passenger in a Vauxhall Corsa caught up in the collision on the Black Isle, close to the A9's junction with the B9161 Munlochy road.\n\nThe driver of the car was taken to Raigmore Hospital in Inverness after the crash, which took place at about 18:55 on Friday.\n\nPolice have appealed for witnesses to make contact with them.\n\nThe occupants of the two other vehicles, a Nissan Juke and a VW Polo, are not believed to have been injured.\n\nSgt Angus Murray of Police Scotland said: \"We are supporting the young man's family at this time and inquiries are ongoing to establish the full circumstances of the crash.\n\n\"I would encourage anyone who may have seen what happened to contact us. I would also ask if there are drivers with dash-cam footage which might help with our investigation to call us.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This tornado was filmed on the M25 near Chertsey in Surrey, where homes and gardens were damaged\n\nA tornado has hit Surrey as more than 90 flood warnings remain in place across southern and eastern England, the Midlands and Yorkshire.\n\nOne Chertsey resident said it blew the roof off her conservatory. Firefighters said homes and cars were also damaged.\n\nMore downpours are expected with 30mm of rain forecast, prompting a severe warning across southern England until noon on Sunday.\n\nSome 91 flood warnings and 237 flood alerts are in place.\n\nMotorists embarking on the Christmas getaway are being advised to check their routes in advance.\n\nThe Met Office confirmed a tornado had struck the Chertsey area.\n\nVerity Boultwood said the tornado blew the roof off her conservatory\n\nCrews were called at about 10:30 GMT \"to a high wind incident affecting a number of houses in the Chertsey area,\" Surrey Fire and Rescue Service said in a statement.\n\nFour fire engines and two aerial ladders were sent and they worked to \"make houses safe from damage to roofs\".\n\nChertsey resident Verity Boultwood said the tornado blew the roof off her conservatory.\n\n\"In the past it has withstood bad weather. Luckily nobody was hurt and my partner has managed to fix it.\n\n\"One of my neighbours has smashed windows. Trampolines have flown across the gardens here.\"\n\nA trampoline was also knocked over\n\nFellow resident Philip Passey said he froze when he saw the tornado, which he thought lasted about 40 seconds.\n\n\"The leaves were going horizontal. I said, 'That looks like a tornado.' There was a huge roar, then nothing.\n\n\"A trampoline lifted up in the air, like it weighed nothing, and was thrown across the garden. My daughter came downstairs and said the shed roof had gone.\n\n\"One shed has disappeared; one blown apart, one has no roof on it. Son said there was a tree across the garden, two cars have been written off.\n\n\"In the farm across the road, we heard a dog broke his leg.\"\n\nThe tornado came after roads were flooded and rail lines blocked on Friday. The M23 was closed between junctions 10 and 11 in both directions in West Sussex, but has now reopened.\n\nMet Office meteorologist Alex Deakin said: \"Because it's been so very wet across the south this extra rain falling on to saturated ground could cause some further problems, so there is a weather warning in force scooting along southern counties during Saturday evening.\"\n\nMr Deakin said the rain was coming from a \"fairly angry weather system\" which would also bring some \"very strong winds\".\n\nThe M23 was closed because of flooding but has now reopened\n\nIan Nunn, from the Environment Agency, said weather in the south of England was expected to get worse overnight.\n\n\"Today we've got a relatively dry period, but we've got more rain coming tonight, possibly up to another 20mm, so although the situation is getting better today, we are going to see it getting worse overnight and into tomorrow morning.\n\n\"After that we've got more rain on Sunday and more rain on Monday as well so it's not going to get any better.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Weather forecast as further downpours are due across Wales and England after days of heavy rain.\n\nBut he added that after Christmas there would be a drier period, \"so hopefully things will calm down then\".\n\nHighways England has urged motorists to adapt their driving for wet weather by slowing down, keeping well back from the vehicle in front and easing off the accelerator if steering becomes unresponsive.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Evacuating residents and their pets have found safety and support in a store's car park which they've made their temporary shelter.\n\nFires have hit many parts of Australia, including the region of New South Wales on the country's eastern coast.", "January 2010. Barack Obama was one year into his US presidency, Instagram hadn't been invented and the word Brexit had never been uttered.\n\nA decade on, we look back at the most read stories on the BBC News website year by year.\n\nMiner Juan Illanes celebrates after coming out of the Phoenix capsule\n\nBeing trapped underground in darkness, with hardly any food or water, is \"the stuff of nightmares\", says BBC Latin America online editor Vanessa Buschschluter, who reported from the San Jose mine in northern Chile after 33 miners became trapped deep underground.\n\nIt was the nightmarish quality of the miners' situation, she says, that moved not only Chileans, but people around the world.\n\nFor 17 days the collapse of a Chilean copper and gold mine was not widely covered outside the country. That was until the miners tied a note to a probe sent deep beneath the ground saying they were alive.\n\nAnd with that, \"people were hooked\", says Ms Buschschluter. Rescuers drilled down as the miners' desperate families watched on, keeping vigil from what became known as Camp Hope.\n\n\"When one of the drills finally reached the miners, the camp's bell rang out and relatives hugged and jumped for joy, some fell on their knees praying,\" Ms Buschschluter adds.\n\nThe 33 miners were brought to the surface one by one in a specially-designed capsule via a tunnel just wider than the men's shoulders. Winching them to safety took 22 hours.\n\nPeople sang the national anthem and waved Chilean flags, as champagne corks popped. It was the stuff of movies - and sure enough their ordeal made it on to the big screen in a Hollywood film starring Antonio Banderas.\n\nA story with a happy ending? Not quite. Many of the miners, who were trapped underground for a record 69 days, struggled to cope with their newfound fame, and some faced health and financial difficulties in the years after.\n\nA 150-year-old furniture store in Croydon is sent up in flames\n\nIt was the worst case of civil unrest in the UK for a generation. The police shooting of 29-year-old Mark Duggan in Tottenham, north London, prompted a protest that turned violent.\n\nOver four hot August nights, looters ran free and armed rioters set fire to two police cars, then a bus, and shops.\n\nThe unrest spread just like the flames - first across London, to Hackney, then Lewisham, Peckham, Woolwich, Ealing and Clapham - before erupting in other major cities including Manchester, Birmingham, Nottingham, Wolverhampton and Liverpool.\n\nThe Met Police officers later said they had been outnumbered and were afraid to take on rioters, some of whom were carrying machetes. Five people died and more than 3,000 were arrested.\n\nIn the year that followed, 1,400 of them were jailed and handed much tougher sentences than magistrates would usually give for such offences.\n\nResearch by sociologist Juta Kawalerowicz found deprivation and tensions between communities and police were main factors behind the riots.\n\nThe issue of police stop and search powers being used to target black people came up in the University of Oxford research. But Ms Kawalerowicz said they were not \"race riots\", and rioters did not come from one ethnic group.\n\nMichelle and Barack Obama hug in one of the most re-tweeted posts in social media history\n\nThe race was expected to be tight. But on election night, America's first black president stormed to another victory, securing a second term.\n\nBarack Obama's re-election was particularly important, says our senior North America reporter Anthony Zurcher, because it proved US voters \"were comfortable enough with a black man as president to want to keep him in the White House\".\n\nMr Obama, a Democrat, had run a largely solid, professional campaign, painting his Republican opponent - Mitt Romney - as an elite, corporate executive who was out of touch with mainstream American voters, says our reporter.\n\nIn his first term, Mr Obama, who took office amid one of the worst recessions in decades, had overhauled the US healthcare system and overcome strong Republican opposition to pass a programme designed to boost the economy.\n\nAnd in his first speech after re-election, Mr Obama told America: \"The best is yet to come.\" He would go on to strike a climate change agreement in Paris, negotiate a deal to curb Iran's nuclear potential and restore diplomatic relations with Cuba.\n\nBut Mr Obama's second term was also punctuated by frustration, notably problems with his healthcare system and his failure to push through gun control legislation.\n\n\"Of course, four years later, Democrat Hillary Clinton was unable to rebuild Obama's winning coalition of young, minority and working class Americans,\" says Mr Zurcher.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The moment of the first explosion\n\nA jubilant scene at the finish line of the 2013 Boston marathon turned into a horrific one when two pressure cooker bombs packed with nails, ball bearings and other shrapnel exploded.\n\nThree spectators - including an eight-year-old boy - were killed, while 260 others suffered injuries, with many losing legs.\n\nThe US has had its share of terror attacks, but this one \"transcended tragedy to become an ongoing national drama\", says Mr Zurcher.\n\nThe search for the perpetrators shut down Boston for days. \"It was a manhunt that played itself out on both traditional news outlets and social media, as Americans across the country watched every twist and turn with fear and fascination - the false alarms, dead-end leads and dramatic confrontations,\" he says.\n\nThree days after the bombing, the FBI released CCTV images of the suspects, brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Then a police officer responding to reports of a disturbance near the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus was found with fatal gunshot wounds.\n\nThe brothers hijacked a car at gunpoint, and were chased by police, throwing explosives at them, before their car crashed.\n\nThe elder brother, Tamerlan, was killed in a gunfight that followed, but Dzhokhar fled on foot. The wounded 19-year-old was found hours later hiding in a boat in a local resident's backyard.\n\nAt a trial, his defence team argued his older brother was the driving force, but prosecutors said Dzhokhar was an equal partner. He was found guilty of 30 charges and sentenced to death.\n\nEarlier this month, lawyers for Dzhokhar - who is currently in a high security prison - appealed against his death sentence, alleging jurors at his trial were biased.\n\nPeaches Geldof had started using heroin again before her death, an inquest heard\n\nPeaches Geldof's death from a heroin overdose at just 25 shocked us all, says BBC senior entertainment reporter Mark Savage.\n\n\"Initial reports from the ambulance service called the tragedy 'unexplained and sudden' - immediately and eerily reminding us of the shocking death of Peaches' mother, Paula Yates,\" he adds. Geldof was just 11 when her mother died from a heroin overdose in 2000, aged 41.\n\nThe model and TV presenter - the second daughter of musician Bob Geldof - was a favourite of paparazzi photographers from a young age, often pictured leaving London parties in the early hours.\n\nBut later in life, she moved to the countryside with her second husband musician Tom Cohen and her two young sons, posting frequently about her family on social media. She told Mother and Baby magazine a month before her death that \"becoming a mother was like becoming me, finally\".\n\nAfter Geldof died, messages of condolence poured into the BBC from readers.. An inquest heard she had been addicted to heroin and had been taking the substitute drug methadone for two-and-a-half years.\n\nHer husband told the inquest Geldof had started using heroin again before her death. Detectives investigated who had given Geldof the heroin, but closed the case a year later with no answers.\n\nGunmen stormed the Bataclan concert hall, firing at the crowds inside\n\nParis correspondent Lucy Williamson still remembers the sound of bullets ricocheting off the old facades of buildings in the city's 11th arrondissement on the night attackers killed 130 people and injured hundreds more.\n\nAlmost simultaneously, gunmen and suicide bombers attacked the Bataclan concert hall, the Stade de France stadium, as well as Parisian restaurants and bars.\n\nIt came in the middle of a string of attacks in France - 10 months after attacks on the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine and nine months before the Nice lorry attack.\n\nThe suspected ringleader of the Paris killings was Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Belgian national who was killed in a police raid in northern Paris five days later.\n\nAfter months on the run, the sole surviving attacker, Salah Abdeslam, was shot and injured in a dramatic arrest in Brussels. He was later sentenced to 20 years in prison.\n\n\"For almost two years, it felt as if France was being bludgeoned again and again,\" says Ms Williamson.\n\nBut she says there was \"something different\" about the Paris attacks that means four years later \"the impact lives on just below the surface\".\n\n\"In the midst of attacks on satirical journalists, police officers, the Jewish community, priests, and symbols of the state, this time the hatred expanded to cover everyone - people at a concert, in restaurants, at a football game,\" she says.\n\n\"The target was simply France's joy in its own way of life.\"\n\nNigel Farage reacts to the 2016 referendum result at a party in central London on 24 June 2016\n\nBBC News' live coverage of the UK's 2016 EU referendum was, and still is, the site's most read page ever - by some distance.\n\nIt was to be the biggest decision \"in our lifetimes\", according to then prime minister, David Cameron, who urged the country to vote to stay in the EU.\n\nThe campaign that followed saw a \"blizzard of claims, some of them of dubious provenance\", says the BBC's Reality Check correspondent Chris Morris.\n\nAcross the side of a Vote Leave bus was the message: \"We send the EU £350m a week, let's fund the NHS instead.\"\n\nMr Cameron and the Remainers were ultimately defeated by 52% to 48% - despite London, Scotland and Northern Ireland backing Remain.\n\nBoris Johnson, the public face of Vote Leave, said voters had \"searched in their hearts\" and the UK now had a \"glorious opportunity\" to pass its own laws, set its own taxes and control its own borders. UKIP leader Nigel Farage hailed it the UK's \"independence day\". A day later, Mr Cameron quit.\n\nOur correspondent says the referendum \"created the current divide in British politics - a divide the latest election hasn't really resolved\".\n\n\"We now know Brexit will happen,\" says Mr Morris. \"But many of the bitter arguments surrounding it aren't going to go away.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Reaction from Bristol: 'You're joking. Why does she need to do it?'\n\n\"Not another one,\" was the cry from Brenda from Bristol, after Theresa May announced her intention to call a snap election. Coming after the EU referendum and the 2015 general election, people were tired of politics.\n\n\"In just three words, Brenda summed up the thoughts of so many millions of voters,\" says BBC presenter Jon Kay, who interviewed her. \"With her lovely Bristolian accent and her old shopping trolley, we knew immediately that we had struck TV gold.\"\n\nMrs May said the election was needed for \"certainty, stability and strong leadership\" after the EU referendum - although, as we now know, she ended up losing her majority and having to rely on the Democratic Unionist Party to prop up her minority government.\n\nThe BBC's live coverage of the results was the most read page of the year.\n\nIn its first months, the government got its legislation through Parliament quite comfortably, but as Mrs May found to her cost, political deadlock was about to set in.\n\nAs for Brenda, Mr Kay still checks in with her from time to time. \"She's doing fine but doesn't want any more fuss. She laughs about how mad the world is,\" he says.\n\nBrenda doesn't own a laptop or a mobile phone. So when Mr Kay told her that her catchphrase had gone viral again after the 2019 election was called, she laughed and replied: \"That doesn't sound very pleasant.\"\n\nFor a brief spell in November 2018, it looked as though the UK was headed for an orderly Brexit. But it didn't last long.\n\nAfter years of negotiations, Theresa May finally struck a deal with EU leaders, setting out the terms on which the UK would leave the EU.\n\nMrs May said her cabinet had backed the deal, calling it \"the best that could have been negotiated\". But she soon faced a revolt.\n\nDominic Raab, then Brexit minister, led a wave of resignations, saying he could not \"in good conscience\" support the deal. In the following months, Mrs May faced votes of no confidence in her leadership, but she clung on.\n\nHowever, after MPs rejected a version of her Brexit agreement for a third time, she stepped down, telling the country she deeply regretted being unable to deliver Brexit.\n\nBoris Johnson outside his polling station with his dog, Dilyn\n\n\"Everything changed\" on the stroke of 22:00 GMT on 12 December, says BBC political correspondent Jonathan Blake.\n\nAs the BBC's Huw Edwards declared the exit poll at the end of a cold and wet December polling day, the Conservatives were about to secure a Commons majority of 80, the party's largest since 1987.\n\n\"A campaign focussed relentlessly on the seemingly simple promise to 'get Brexit done' had won over voters in places long-seen as out of reach for the Conservatives,\" says Mr Blake.\n\nThe Labour Party had its worst election result since 1935, while the SNP made big gains across Scotland. In Northern Ireland, more nationalists than unionists won seats, putting the union further \"under strain\", says Mr Blake.\n\n\"But in Downing Street Mr Johnson's grip on power was stronger, his support-base wider and he now had a freer hand to do, within reason, what he wanted,\" he continued.\n\n\"The election result has set the course firmly for the UK's departure from the European Union, left Labour in ruins and all but silenced the arguments for another referendum.\"\n\nKnife-edge votes and backroom deals between parties have defined the politics of the past decade. But after the Tory's resounding victory, the tone of the next 10 years could be entirely different.", "Martin Peters gives England a 2-1 lead in the 1966 World Cup final against West Germany at Wembley.\n\nAvailable to UK users only", "An 84-year-old woman has died after a crash between two cars on Friday afternoon.\n\nThe collision, involving a grey Peugeot and a red BMW, happened on Rhigos Road, Hirwaun, Rhondda Cynon Taff, on Friday, at about 15:00 GMT.\n\nA 25-year-old man, from Hirwaun, was arrested on suspicion of death by dangerous driving and has been released under police investigation.\n\nThe family of the woman, from Aberdare, is being supported by officers.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Josh Quigley was stranded in the desert after four punctures at night on an earlier part of his journey through the US\n\nA cyclist attempting to ride around the world has been badly injured after being knocked off his bike in the US.\n\nJosh Quigley, 27, from Livingston, had to be airlifted to hospital after being hit by a car whilst cycling through the state of Texas.\n\nHis injuries include a fractured pelvis, ribs and skull, as well as a pierced lung.\n\nThe 27-year-old has said it will be at least two months before he can walk again.\n\nWriting on his Facebook page, he said: \"I don't remember much about it but I've been told by the police that I was struck from behind by a vehicle driving at 70mph.\n\n\"After the vehicle hit me I was launched off the bike and landed 50 feet away.\n\n\"This happened whilst riding at night wearing reflective clothing and with strong rear lights.\"\n\nMr Quigley, who said one of the few things he remembers is being in the helicopter, added that \"for now I'm just happy to be alive\".\n\nKnown as the Tartan Explorer, Mr Quigley has cycled about 14,000 miles on his bike since he left Scotland in April.\n\nHe embarked on the trip to beat depression and alcohol abuse and said in his Facebook post about the crash that he will \"find a way to overcome this and finish what I started\".\n\nThe incident is one of a number of setbacks faced by Mr Quigley since he started his trip including sweat ruining his passport in Australia, which meant he had to fly back to Britain to get a new one before carrying on with his tour.\n\nIn April, just weeks into his world attempt, thieves stole his bike, which he nicknamed Braveheart, from outside a hostel in London.\n\nMr Quigley had been planning to cycle from Los Angeles to New York in the latest leg of his trip but changed course to finish in the warmer climate of Florida because his water bottles kept freezing in the US winter conditions.\n\nJosh Quigley with his bike \"Braveheart\" before it was stolen in London\n• None Round-the-world bike trip to go ahead after U-turn", "The weather phenomenon was filmed near Chertsey in Surrey, where it damaged homes and gardens.\n\nOne Chertsey resident said it blew the roof off her conservatory.\n\nIt came as more than 90 flood warnings remained in place across southern and eastern England, the Midlands and Yorkshire.\n\nMore downpours were expected with 30mm of rain forecast, prompting a severe warning across southern England until noon on Sunday.", "The women were discovered outside the property in Hazel Way, Crawley Down\n\nTwo women have been found dead and a man seriously hurt at a house in West Sussex.\n\nThe women's bodies were discovered outside the property in Hazel Way, Crawley Down, while the man was found inside by police at 10:20 GMT.\n\nPolice said the injured man had been arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nEarlier reports suggested a knife was used in the attack, but Sussex Police have since said \"this is not a knife crime\".\n\nThe force gave no further details about the cause of death. The injured man has been taken to Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton.\n\nA large number of police officers were at the house\n\nDet Ch Insp Alex Geldart said: \"This is a fast-moving investigation which will see significant police resources deployed to the scene for the foreseeable future.\n\n\"We are grateful for the support and patience of the local community while we conduct our inquiries.\n\n\"My thoughts are very much with the friends and family of the two women who have sadly lost their lives.\"\n\nThe detective said it was an isolated attack with no risk to the public and added: \"In response to media speculation I wish to make it absolutely clear that this is not a knife crime.\"\n\nTwo women were found dead outside the property and a man was found inside\n\nA double murder investigation as been launched and a man has been arrested\n\nThree forensic tents were pitched in the street and forensic investigators could be seen combing the area for evidence.\n\nA cordon is in place around the houses close to where the bodies were found.\n\nAnyone with information is asked to report online or call 101, quoting Operation Deanland, or ring Crimestoppers.\n\nForensic investigators could be seen combing the area for evidence\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Detectives investigating the deaths of two eastern European men five miles apart have said they cannot rule out \"a potential organised criminal element\".\n\nA 35-year-old man was found dead in undergrowth on Hogg Lane, Elstree, at about 15:40 GMT on Friday.\n\nAt 20:30 the previous day, a 30-year-old man was found stabbed in the boot of a car near Scratchwood Park, Barnet.\n\nA 31-year-old man at the scene was arrested on suspicion of murder and is in custody.\n\nDet Ch Insp Simon Stancombe, from the Met Police, said: \"While we retain an open mind as to a motive, we cannot rule out whether there might be a potential organised criminal element.\n\n\"We also believe that the two victims might have been known to each other.\"\n\nThe road was closed to allow police to search the area\n\nPolice were called shortly after 20:10 to reports of a fight in Courtland Avenue, Barnet, but found no victims or suspects.\n\nThe man in the car was found about 15 minutes later and died a short time afterwards.\n\nThe 31-year-old man at the scene was initially taken to hospital with injuries before being arrested.\n\nThe second victim was found in a remote lane about five miles (8 km) from where the first man discovered.\n\nOfficers are working to establish how long the body had been there and whether his death occurred before or after the discovery in Barnet.\n\nInvestigators have asked residents who might have any information or footage to come forward.\n\nDet Ch Insp Stancombe added: \"I am asking those residents who live in the vicinity of the crime scenes in Barnet and Elstree to think very carefully about anything suspicious you may have seen over the last few days, and to make contact with us immediately.\n\n\"It could be that you may have caught something via dashcam footage that could prove massively important. The slightest fragment of information could prove crucial.\"\n• None Two dead and two hurt in stab attacks\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nThe Professional Footballers' Association has called for a government inquiry into racism in football after Chelsea's Premier League win at Tottenham was marred by alleged racist behaviour from the crowd.\n\nReferee Anthony Taylor stopped play during the second half after Blues defender Antonio Rudiger complained of hearing monkey noises.\n\nTottenham have vowed to \"take the strongest possible action\" and said they will conduct \"a thorough investigation\".\n\nShortly after the stoppage, an announcement made over the public address system warned that \"racist behaviour is interfering with the game\".\n\nSecond and third addresses followed with the game heading towards its conclusion.\n\nThe PFA said: \"We are disgusted and dismayed that once again, a Premier League fixture has been tainted by abuse from the stands towards players.\n\n\"It has become clear that football players are on the receiving end of the blatant racism that is currently rife in the UK, but they are not alone.\n\n\"The PFA stands beside every player who faces discrimination. We will continue to fight on their behalf to combat this issue for good.\n\n\"Football is part of the fabric of British society - with the huge global audience that English football attracts, we have a responsibility to lead the way with a zero-tolerance policy.\"\n\nThe PFA added that \"all governing bodies\" and \"all football stakeholders\" should work together to \"confront, challenge and eradicate racist abuse in our stadiums and in our country\".\n\nIt said: \"The PFA calls for a government inquiry into racism within football and encourage the establishment of an All-Party Group at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.\"\n\nSpurs confirmed that they will be liaising with Chelsea and their players for their observations.\n\n\"Any form of racism is completely unacceptable and will not be tolerated in our stadium,\" said Spurs in a statement.\n\n\"We take any such allegations extremely seriously and shall take the strongest possible action against any individual found to be behaving in such a way, including stadium bans.\"\n\nThe Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL) and Tottenham have confirmed that the game was stopped over a single incident of alleged racist behaviour.\n\nTottenham forward Son Heung-min had been sent off after a second-half clash involving Rudiger moments earlier.\n\nThe match was also held up when objects were thrown towards Chelsea keeper Kepa Arrizabalaga.\n\n'When will this nonsense stop?'\n\nRudiger has since tweeted: \"It is really sad to see racism again at a football match, but I think it's very important to talk about it in public. If not, it will be forgotten again in a couple of days (as always).\n\n\"I don't want to involve Tottenham as an entire club into this situation as I know that just a couple of idiots were the offenders. I got a lot of supportive messages on social media from Spurs fans as well in the last hours - thank you a lot for this.\n\n\"I really hope that the offenders will be found and punished soon, and in such a modern football ground like the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium with dozens of TV and security cameras, it must be possible to find and subsequently punish them.\n\n\"If not, then there must have been witnesses in the stadium who saw and heard the incident. It's just such a shame that racism still exists in 2019. When will this nonsense stop?\"\n\n'He told me he was listening to monkey noises'\n\nIn his post-match interview, Chelsea captain Cesar Azpilicueta said: \"It is made very clear to us all if we have heard any racist incident to report it.\n\n\"Toni came to me and he told me he was listening in the crowd [to] monkey noises and my job as a captain is to go straight to the referee and to report it.\n\n\"We are very concerned and aware of the problems. All together we need to make it stop. We have to work together towards the eradication of the problem. It's an issue in life and football unfortunately and we have to keep working hard.\"\n\nTottenham manager Jose Mourinho reiterated that view in his post-match interview on Sky Sports.\n\n\"I saw nothing. I saw the referee follow the protocol, he came to [fourth official] Andre Marriner, he came to me and Frank Lampard and told us what was happening,\" he said.\n\n\"The protocol was followed and we are one of the clubs; every club is together on this situation and of course we are disappointed.\"\n\nTottenham defender Toby Alderweireld added: \"It does not belong in football. I hope they find the individuals quickly because it is not good and we are all sick of it.\"\n\nSpeaking at the game, former Newcastle and Tottenham midfielder Jermaine Jenas said: \"With the technology they have in this stadium, I would be shocked if they could not pinpoint the individual.\n\n\"That person will be isolated and dealt with accordingly. There is no place for it but I want more than an announcement.\n\n\"I do not want them back in the stadium ever again - sadly some people are that ignorant.\"\n\nAnti-racism organisation Kick it Out later released a statement on Twitter.\n\nIt read: \"We are aware of the alleged racist incidents at today's game between Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea.\n\n\"We applaud the reaction of referee Anthony Taylor in following step one of the protocol and the ensuing steps taken by Tottenham Hotspur in repeating the stadium announcements.\n\n\"We have offered our support to both of the clubs and also to Chelsea's Antonio Rudiger.\"\n\nThe incident comes a year after racism in football hit the headlines after Manchester City striker Raheem Sterling was subjected to racist abuse at Stamford Bridge in December 2018, which led to a permanent ban for a Chelsea supporter.\n\nSterling was also one of a number of England players who faced monkey chants and Nazi salutes in Euro 2020 qualifiers this year.\n\nA supporter was also arrested and bailed over allegations of racist abuse against Manchester United players during their Premier League match at Manchester City on 7 December.\n\nA video had been circulated on social media of a man appearing to make monkey gestures and sounds towards United players at Etihad Stadium.\n\nSerie A's 'No To Racism' campaign - which arrived off the back of a number of racist incidents in Italy - has been widely condemned after they commissioned posters showing three monkeys with painted faces.", "Martin Peters, who has died aged 76, will forever be remembered as the England World Cup winner described as \"10 years ahead of his time\" by his manager Sir Alf Ramsey.\n\nAs immaculate off the pitch as he was on it, Peters was the thinking man's midfielder and a trailblazer for the modern goalscoring midfield players who populate the Premier League today.\n\nHe scored England's second goal in the 4-2 win over West Germany in the World Cup final - but this is just one part of a career that brought club successes in domestic and European football to set aside his day in the glorious sunshine at Wembley on 30 July 1966.\n\nThe pupil from the West Ham academy\n\nPlaistow-born Peters, whose father was a lighterman on the River Thames, was a product of the West Ham United academy, a hothouse of forward thinking led by players such as Malcolm Allison and put into practice by managers Ted Fenton and most notably Ron Greenwood.\n\nTall, lean and elegant, Peters was the perfect pupil for Greenwood's desire to bring intelligence and tactical awareness to the game, developing alongside those other England World Cup heroes captain Bobby Moore and hat-trick hero Sir Geoff Hurst - and Hammers fans still boast about how West Ham won the World Cup.\n\nHe had the natural gifts and awareness that allowed him to act like a sponge for Greenwood's progressive techniques, easily absorbing his manager's instructions and carrying them out with authority.\n\nPeters, like another West Ham legend of later years Sir Trevor Brooking, exerted his influence through speed of thought and natural ability as opposed to physical presence. He became known as 'The Ghost' for his ability to arrive undetected among heavy traffic in the penalty area to score.\n\nHe made his debut on Good Friday 1962 in a 4-1 win against Cardiff City and his first goal came in a 6-1 win at Manchester City the following September.\n\nIt was the start of a career that would bring him 100 goals in 364 games for West Ham as he settled into a pattern of performance and goalscoring that would define his style.\n\nGreenwood's team was regarded as talented but fragile alongside the fierce competition offered by the likes of Manchester United, Everton, Liverpool, Leeds United and the north London giants Arsenal and Tottenham, but they still enjoyed moments of glory.\n\nAmid that success there was disappointment for Peters, who was not included in the West Ham side that won the FA Cup final against Preston North End in 1964, victory being secured by Ronnie Boyce's last-minute winner.\n\nThere was to be consolation, of sorts, for Peters a year later when he was a key component of the team that won the European Cup Winners' Cup against 1860 Munich at Wembley, courtesy of two goals from Alan Sealey.\n\nPeters continued to be one of the most significant members of a West Ham team that was pleasing on the eye, operating with characteristic stealth and intelligence, but short on success - his future glories were to come elsewhere.\n\nIn the modern parlance, Peters was a \"bolter\" in Sir Alf Ramsey's plans for the 1966 World Cup - the player who came up on the rails to make his case for inclusion close to the tournament.\n\nIt proved to be an inspired choice by Ramsey as Peters helped him fulfil his much-derided prophecy that England would indeed lift the Jules Rimet Trophy on home soil.\n\nPeters only made his England debut on 4 May 1966 in a 2-0 win over Yugoslavia at Wembley, scoring the first of his 20 goals for his country on his second appearance against Finland in Helsinki on 26 June.\n\nHe did not actually figure in England's line-up at the start of the 1966 World Cup, missing the opening group game against Uruguay at Wembley. Peters started the second match against Mexico and was then a permanent fixture under Ramsey.\n\nPeters helped Ramsey implement a system known as the \"wingless wonders\" after Liverpool's Ian Callaghan, Southampton's Terry Paine and Manchester United's John Connelly all played in the group phase but were left out of the knockout games as England's system reaped the ultimate reward.\n\nHe once said: \"I wasn't a winger. Alan Ball and I were midfield players that broke wide. We had to get back and defend. We worked hard to defend when we played against a midfield player opposite us and then would break to support attacks.\n\n\"I wasn't quick but I could run and run and run, so I would run into the box, see a space, run into there. If the ball didn't come in you'd get out again, run in and then would come in and bang - goal.\"\n\nIt was Peters' cross from the left flank that enabled Hurst to head home England's winner in the tempestuous quarter-final against Argentina at Wembley, a game remembered for the sending-off and lengthy departure of the visitors' captain Antonio Rattin and Ramsey tearing George Cohen's shirt away from an opponent as they tried to exchange them at the final whistle.\n\nAt the age of 22, Peters was to take his place in England's sporting hall of fame as he scored the sort of goal that became his trademark in the final against West Germany, pouncing in the penalty box to put England 2-1 ahead.\n\nHurst recalled: \"When you look at the film of Martin after his goal in the final you can see him flicking his fingers out. He said the exhilaration was like an electric current running through his hands.\n\n\"He was a fantastic player, a natural footballer who was totally and utterly devoted to the game.\"\n\nIt was the high watermark of his England career and future World Cups would provide bitter disappointment for Peters and Ramsey, the manager whose aloof public profile was at odds with the complete devotion he inspired in his players.\n\nPeters, now at Spurs, was still central to Ramsey's plans when an England team many still argue was better than the 1966 World Cup winners in terms of pure talent, headed to Mexico four years later.\n\nThe great names remained while Nobby Stiles had been replaced in midfield by Spurs captain Alan Mullery, Everton pair Brian Labone and Keith Newton replaced Jack Charlton and Cohen, while Manchester City's Francis Lee came in for Liverpool's Roger Hunt.\n\nAnd when Peters put England 2-0 up in the now infamous quarter-final against West Germany in Leon with one of those familiar far-post arrivals on the end of Newton's right-wing cross, Ramsey looked on course for more success.\n\nInstead, with the outstanding Chelsea goalkeeper Peter Bonetti having a rare off day as a late replacement after Gordon Banks was taken ill and Ramsey's substitution of Bobby Charlton with Colin Bell backfiring, West Germany fought back to win 3-2.\n\nIt was the end of that golden England era.\n\nPeters was Ramsey's captain, with Moore replaced by Norman Hunter, on one of the dark nights of England's football history - 17 October 1973 and the final World Cup qualifier against Poland at Wembley that they needed to win to qualify for the 1974 finals in West Germany.\n\nIt was a night that belonged to Poland goalkeeper Jan Tomaszewski, labelled \"a clown\" by Brian Clough, as he performed heroics and his goal led a charmed life as England could only draw 1-1.\n\nIt was the end of Ramsey, and Peters followed not long after. He won his final cap on 18 May 1974 in the 2-0 defeat by Scotland at Hampden Park, Joe Mercer having taken over as caretaker manager from Ramsey.\n\nPeters may have had an inauspicious end to a magnificent England career but his record of 67 caps, 20 goals and a World Cup win secures his place in history.\n\nPeters cut his ties with West Ham in March 1970, becoming Britain's first £200,000 player when he signed for Spurs, although a portion of the fee was taken up with Jimmy Greaves making the reverse journey to Upton Park.\n\nHe was at his peak at 26, figuring in a side with a more ruthless edge under manager Bill Nicholson and alongside players of the calibre of Pat Jennings, Mike England, Mullery, Martin Chivers, Steve Perryman and Alan Gilzean.\n\nPeters was able to add his elegant flourishes and natural eye for a goal to these talents and he went on to further success at White Hart Lane.\n\nHe scored on his debut in a 2-1 loss against Coventry City and finally won domestic honours when Spurs beat Aston Villa 2-0 in the 1971 League Cup final at Wembley. Peters was captain when Spurs repeated the feat two years later as Norwich City were beaten in the final.\n\nPeters won the Uefa Cup with Spurs in 1972 when Wolverhampton Wanderers were beaten in an all-English final, but tasted defeat in the final two years later when they lost to Feyenoord in a tie that was overshadowed by crowd violence.\n\nHe left Spurs for Norwich City in a £50,000 deal in March 1975, having scored 76 goals in 260 appearances for the club.\n\nEven in his latter years, Peters was still able to show the old mastery and enjoyed an Indian summer at Carrow Road, winning the club's player of the year award in 1976 and 1977. In 2002 he was made an inaugural member of Norwich City's Hall Of Fame.\n\nIn 1978, while still at Norwich, Peters was made an MBE for services to football. He is still regarded as one of the finest players to represent the Canaries, scoring 44 goals in 206 league appearances before joining Sheffield United as player-coach in July 1980.\n\nPeters was Harry Haslam's designated successor as Sheffield United manager but only had a brief and unhappy spell in charge for 16 games between January and May in the 1980-81 season when the Blades were relegated to the old Fourth Division.\n\nIt was his final involvement as a player or manager and he later went on to work in the insurance industry.\n\nPeters made a career total of 880 appearances, scoring 220 goals and was inducted into English football's Hall Of Fame in 2006, confirming his status as one of the towering figures of the post-war football generation.", "His daughter, TV presenter Fern Britton, announced on Twitter that he had died early on Sunday morning.\n\n\"Great actor, director and charmer,\" she wrote. \"May flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.\"\n\nBritton was best known for starring in BBC sitcom Don't Wait Up alongside Nigel Havers in the 1980s, as well as many British films including The Day of the Jackal.\n\nHe also appeared in Robin's Nest alongside Richard O'Sullivan and Tessa Wyatt, and films Operation Amsterdam as well as Sunday Bloody Sunday.\n\nIn 1975 he won the Broadcasting Press Guild's best actor award for his role in The Nearly Man.\n\nFern Britton's tweet sparked hundreds of tributes and messages of support on social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Fern Britton This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nJasper Britton, Britton's son from his second marriage, also tweeted, saying: \"As he was wont to say, 'that's show business, kid'\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Jasper Britton This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nComedian and actor Sanjeev Bhaskar wrote: \"Profound condolences Fern and gratitude for the joy and entertainment your Dad brought to me and millions of others. Sending love and strength.\"\n\nActor Peter Egan tweeted: \"Very sad to see the passing of the legend Tony Britton. A wonderful actor and light comedian. Condolences to his family. A lovely man too.\"\n\nBorn in Birmingham, Britton served in the Army and worked in an aircraft factory during World War Two.\n\nInterviewed on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs in 1973, Britton said he did not come from a theatrical background \"at all\".\n\n\"I believe one of my many aunts had a good voice but she never used it professionally,\" he said.\n\nBritton added: \"Ever since I was old enough to think, I've always wanted to be an actor. I couldn't tell you why, it was just there.\"\n\nHe joined an amateur dramatics group in Weston-super-Mare before turning professional.\n\nHe went on to appear on stage at the Old Vic and with the Royal Shakespeare Company, as well as the role of Professor Higgins in My Fair Lady for two and a half years as part of a national tour.\n\nTony Britton with his co-star Nigel Havers in sitcom Don't Wait Up in 1984\n\nDon't Wait Up ran from 1983 to 1990\n\nIn 1955, Britton played Romeo on TV, which led him to get a film contract\n\nIn 2013, Britton appeared in a production of Shakespeare's King Lear at the Old Vic in London.\n\nHe had two children with his first wife, Ruth Hawkins - Fern and scriptwriter Cherry Britton.\n\nHe had a son Jasper with his second wife, Danish sculptor Eva Castle Britton (nee Skytte Birkenfeldt).", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nHarry Dunn's father has met the home secretary, as her department considers requesting the extradition of a US woman charged over his death.\n\nThe meeting comes after suspect Anne Sacoolas was charged by the Crown Prosecution Service.\n\nThe family said they were \"incredibly reassured\" to meet Ms Patel, who was accompanied by their local MP Andrea Leadsom.\n\nPriti Patel and Andrea Leadsom met the Dunn family at the home of the family's lawyer in the village of Charlton\n\nThe home secretary said she had met the family to explain the extradition process to them and spoken to Mr Dunn's father, Tim Dunn.\n\nShe said: \"It was a nice opportunity to hear from them, obviously about what they have been experiencing, what they have been going through, and to reassure them at what has been a very difficult and traumatic time for them.\"\n\nFamily spokesman Radd Seiger said they were now \"incredibly reassured this whole saga will be dealt with under the rule of law\".\n\n\"You hear from some of the most senior politicians in this country... they are going to go to bed tonight feeling reassured.\"\n\nHarry's father Tim Dunn thanked the home secretary for the meeting\n\nMr Dunn said it had been a \"positive meeting\" and a \"great way to end the year\", but Christmas would be difficult without his son.\n\nHe said: \"He loved Christmas... people have one Christmas jumper, Harry would have four... every day he would be wearing one.\"\n\nFriends of Harry Dunn put up a Christmas tree and decorations around his banner outside RAF Croughton on Sunday\n\nMr Dunn's mother, Charlotte Charles, did not attend the meeting.\n\nMr Dunn, 19, died in August after his motorbike was in collision with a car driven by Mrs Sacoolas outside RAF Croughton, Northamptonshire, where her husband worked as an intelligence officer.\n\nMrs Sacoolas left for the US under diplomatic immunity, but on Friday was charged with causing death by dangerous driving, following a campaign by Mr Dunn's family.\n\nThe home secretary hugged Mr Dunn during the meeting\n\nMrs Leadsom said there was a \"clear process\" of extradition.\n\nShe added: \"There's a clear extradition treaty and it is absolutely vital that we get justice for Harry.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Dunn's mother had said the family was \"relieved\" the 42-year-old suspect had finally been charged.\n\nBut US officials said it was not \"a helpful development\" and Mrs Sacoolas' lawyer said she would not return to the UK \"to face a potential jail sentence for what was a terrible but unintentional accident\".\n\nAfter it confirmed Mrs Sacoolas had been charged, the CPS said extradition proceedings had started, noting that the \"Home Office is responsible for considering our request and deciding whether to formally issue this through US diplomatic channels\".\n\n\"Our specialist extradition team will be working closely with the UK Central Authority at the Home Office to do this,\" it added.\n\nThe extradition request is sent via the British Embassy to the US State Department.\n\nA lawyer will then decide whether it falls under the dual-criminality treaty, where the alleged offence is a crime in both countries and carries a prison sentence of at least a year.\n\nThe maximum sentence for causing death by dangerous driving is 14 years' imprisonment, although this is usually reserved for the most serious cases.\n\nThe US may reject the request for extradition, arguing that Mrs Sacoolas is still entitled to diplomatic immunity.\n\nA statement from Amy Jeffress, Mrs Sacoolas's lawyer, said she had \"co-operated fully with the investigation and accepted responsibility\".\n\nIt added: \"This was an accident, and a criminal prosecution with a potential penalty of 14 years' imprisonment is simply not a proportionate response.\n\n\"We have been in contact with the UK authorities about ways in which Anne could assist with preventing accidents like this from happening in the future, as well as her desire to honour Harry's memory.\n\n\"We will continue that dialogue in an effort to move forward from this terrible tragedy.\"\n\nAnne Sacoolas pictured on her wedding day in 2003\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boeing's Starliner spacecraft has returned early after a timing error meant it failed to dock with the International Space Station.", "Gemma Williams was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer in January\n\nA woman whose application for a cancer drug was turned down three times said she was \"overwhelmed\" after raising £52,000 to pay for it.\n\nGemma Williams, of Cwmbran, Torfaen, was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer in January.\n\nAfter going through treatment, the 35-year-old was told by doctors a drug called Kadcyla gave her the best chance of stopping the cancer's return.\n\nBut her application to have the drug was rejected three times by the NHS.\n\nShe has now raised the cash to have private treatment at the end of what she called a \"rollercoaster year\".\n\nMrs Williams started chemotherapy in January and found the side effects hard to deal with - including losing her waist-length hair.\n\n\"Within two weeks I started to get what they call 'the dreaded shed' and my husband had to shave my head.\n\n\"I thought that was going to be my breakdown point but believe it or not, I didn't actually shed a tear.\n\n\"I just got on with it and looked in the mirror and thought 'hmm, I didn't realise how small my head was'.\n\n\"The chemo was brutal - sickness, aching and my skin blistered and peeled off in places which was really really painful.\"\n\nAfter a mastectomy and radiotherapy, she was told she was cancer free, but doctors said because of her age, the best way to stop a relapse was to take Kadcyla.\n\nThe drug is available to NHS patients in Wales with secondary cancer.\n\nSome trials in the US have shown the drug appears to stop the disease from returning for some patients and Mrs Williams' doctors applied to Aneurin Bevan health board's Individual Patient Funding Request (IPFR) panel on this basis.\n\nThe application was rejected and two further appeals were also dismissed.\n\nThe health board said the IPFR panel \"considers each request on its merits, using the clinical evidence available at that time and the criteria set out within the All Wales Policy.\"\n\nMrs Williams and her friends and family, who have become known as Gem's Pink Army, set about the \"daunting\" task of trying to raise the £45,000 she needed for 12 cycles of Kadcyla.\n\nThey started on fundraising on 23 October and reached their goal within five weeks.\n\n\"We said that ideally, we'd like to get to £12,000 by Christmas. So that would be enough to have three cycles and then we would look at what we needed to do after Christmas,\" said Mrs Williams.\n\n\"We didn't think that we'd hit £20,000 in a week, so it's quite overwhelming. The generosity of the community is completely unbelievable.\"\n\nDonations have ranged from coins thrown into collection buckets to an anonymous donation of £2,500, which all meant Mrs Williams could have her first round of Kadcyla in mid-November.\n\nThe fundraising page has exceeded the original target and now stands at about £52,000.\n\nGemma Williams had her first round of Kadcyla in mid-November\n\nMrs Williams is planning to help the breast cancer unit at Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr in Ystrad Mynach, as well as a local charity helping families in need over Christmas and Torfaen's Women's Refuge.\n\n\"I've been lucky enough for people to give to me so now I think it's time to give back.\"\n\nThe health board said it was unable to comment on individual cases, but added: \"We do appreciate that patients are disappointed when they are not granted access to drugs not routinely available despite their clinician having made an application and our best wishes go to Gemma and her family.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rail operator SNCF has warned that services will be severely disrupted over the holidays\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron has appealed to transport unions to suspend strikes that threaten travel chaos over the Christmas holidays.\n\nOn a trip to Ivory Coast, Mr Macron suggested the strikers should \"observe a truce out of respect for families and family life\".\n\nTwo weeks of strikes over planned pension reforms have caused widespread disruption across France.\n\nTrain operator SNCF said services would be \"severely disrupted\" over Christmas.\n\nHalf the usual number of high-speed TGV trains operated on Saturday, the company said, and half the metro lines in Paris were closed.\n\nMany French citizens heading off to spend the holidays with family and friends have found themselves stranded because of cancelled trains and gridlocked roads. Hundreds of flights have also been cancelled.\n\nPresident Macron (l) has been on an official visit to Ivory Coast\n\nSpeaking in Abdijan alongside Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara, Mr Macron said strikers should embrace a \"spirit of responsibility\".\n\n\"Strike action is justifiable and protected by the constitution, but I believe there are moments in the life of a nation when it is also good to call a truce to respect families and the lives of families,\" he said.\n\nPresident Macron wants to replace France's 42 separate pension regimes with a universal points-based pension system.\n\nRoads around Paris have been jammed as people try to get away for the holidays\n\nBut workers say the reforms would see them retiring later or facing reduced payouts.\n\nMr Macron's system would reward employees for each day worked, awarding points that would later be transferred into future pension benefits.\n\nThe official retirement age has been raised in the past decade from 60 to 62, but remains one of the lowest among wealthy nations. In the UK, for example, the retirement age for state pensions is 66 and is due to rise to at least 67.\n\nThe French reforms would remove the most advantageous pensions for a number of jobs, and unions fear the new system will mean some workers having to work longer for a lower pension.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The PM served turkey and Yorkshire puddings in the base's canteen\n\nBoris Johnson has served Christmas lunch to British troops during a visit to a Nato mission in Estonia.\n\nVisiting the Tapa military base near Tallinn, Mr Johnson wished them a merry Christmas as he dished up the meals.\n\nThe 850 British soldiers based there represent the UK's largest operational deployment in Europe.\n\nThe PM also stressed the UK's commitment to Nato and its defence of Estonia's eastern border with Russia.\n\nThe UK is playing a leading role in the alliance's Baltic mission.\n\nThe troops, from the Queen's Royal Hussars, head the Nato battle group in Estonia, working alongside the country's troops and personnel from France and Denmark.\n\nMr Johnson told them: \"In the course of the next few days, everybody in our country is going to be celebrating Christmas with their families and you're going to be here - a long way away, a pretty cold place.\n\n\"What you're doing is incredibly important because the reason everybody in our country can have Christmas in peace and security is because of what you're doing here.\n\n\"What you're doing is showing that Nato works and that Nato is an alliance to which we in this country are absolutely committed to.\"\n\nMr Johnson asked the troops what it was like being posted at the Estonian base\n\nMr Johnson addressed troops in a vehicle hangar on the base\n\nDowning Street said Mr Johnson also held talks with Estonian Prime Minister Juri Ratas and thanked him for the \"support and hospitality Estonia has shown in hosting British Armed Forces\".\n\nThe No 10 spokeswoman added: \"The leaders discussed the close partnership between the UK and Estonia, in particular our joint security and defence cooperation. The prime minister reaffirmed the UK's unconditional commitment to Estonia's regional security through Nato.\n\n\"The two leaders discussed the need to work together to address shared global challenges and the prime minister invited Prime Minister Ratas to attend the COP26 climate change summit in Glasgow next year.\"\n\nDuring a four-month deployment earlier this year, a squadron of RAF Typhoon jets was scrambled 21 times to intercept 56 Russian aircraft which had strayed over the border into Estonian airspace.\n\nThe UK is one of the few Nato countries that meets the commitment to spend at least 2% of national income on defence.\n\nThe armed forces were given an extra £2.2bn in September's spending review when Chancellor Sajid Javid announced a 2.6% increase in defence funding in 2020-1.\n\nBut a prolonged squeeze on defence spending between 2010 and 2015 has prompted questions about whether the UK is adequately equipped to meet future security threats.\n\nIn February, the Public Accounts Committee, the House of Commons' spending watchdog, reported that the MoD faced a £7bn black hole in its 10-year-plan to equip the armed forces.\n\nIn a BBC interview on Thursday, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said there was a shortfall of funding in the MoD's budget and confirmed he had recently met with Mr Johnson's chief adviser Dominic Cummings about improving the way the department spends its money.", "The Queen was accompanied by the Countess of Wessex\n\nThe Queen has attended a carol service in Sandringham after the Duke of Edinburgh spent a second night in hospital in London.\n\nPrince Philip, 98, travelled from the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk to London's King Edward VII Hospital on Friday as a \"precautionary measure\".\n\nBuckingham Palace said the admission was for \"observation and treatment in relation to a pre-existing condition\".\n\nThe Queen was at St Mary Magdalene with Prince Edward and his family.\n\nShe is expected to attend the same church on Christmas Day.\n\nThe monarch was pictured stepping out of a car before walking into church ahead of her grandchildren, Lady Louise Windsor and Viscount Severn.\n\nViscount Severn watches as the Queen, his grandmother, steps out of the car at St Mary Magdalene\n\nThe palace said the duke went to hospital on the advice of his doctor.\n\nBut it refused to confirm or deny reports the duke was flown to London by helicopter and then driven by car for the last part of the journey.\n\nThe duke, who retired from official solo royal duties in 2017, walked into hospital and is expected to remain there for a few days.\n\nPrince Edward was pictured after the service with his son\n\nPolice have been stationed outside King Edward VII hospital during Prince Philip's stay", "The incident took place outside the bar on Saturday evening\n\nA man has been arrested in connection with a firearms incident in Glasgow.\n\nThe 32-year-old is alleged to have been in possession of a gun outside Nico's Cafe Bar in the city's Sauchiehall Street.\n\nThe incident happened about 18:35 on Saturday.\n\nPolice Scotland said the weapon has since been recovered.\n\nMany premises in the area have security cameras", "The BBC's Sydney correspondent Shaimaa Khalil visits Balmoral where residents have been battling fires.\n\nSince September, Australia's bushfire emergency has killed at least nine people, destroyed more than 700 homes and scorched millions of hectares.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Florence Widdicombe was writing the cards last Sunday when she discovered the message\n\nTesco has suspended production of charity Christmas cards at a factory in China after a six-year-old girl found a message from workers inside one.\n\nThe note, found by Florence Widdicombe, was allegedly written by prisoners in Shanghai claiming they were \"forced to work against our will\".\n\n\"Please help us and notify human rights organisation,\" the message said.\n\nTesco said it was \"shocked\" by the report, adding: \"We would never allow prison labour in our supply chain.\"\n\nThe supermarket said it would de-list the supplier of the cards, Zhejiang Yunguang Printing, if it was found to have used prison labour.\n\nFlorence was writing cards to her school friends when she found that one of them - featuring a kitten with a Santa hat - had already been written in.\n\nThe pack of cards cost £1.50 from Tesco\n\nIn block capitals, it said: \"We are foreign prisoners in Shanghai Qingpu prison China. Forced to work against our will. Please help us and notify human rights organisation.\"\n\nIt asked whoever found the message to contact Peter Humphrey, a British journalist who was himself imprisoned there four years ago.\n\nFlorence, from Tooting in south London, told BBC News she was writing \"my sixth or eighth card\" when she saw \"somebody had already written in it\".\n\n\"It made me feel shocked,\" she said, adding that when it was explained to her what the message meant she felt \"sad\".\n\nHer father, Ben Widdicombe, said he first felt \"incredulity\" at discovering the message, adding he first thought it was \"some sort of prank\".\n\n\"But on reflection we realised it was potentially quite a serious thing,\" he said. \"I felt very shocked but also felt a responsibility to pass it on to Peter Humphrey as the author asked me to do.\"\n\nHe said: \"It hits home. There are injustices in the world and there are people in difficult situations and we know about that and we read about that each and every day.\n\n\"There is something about that message hitting home at Christmas... that really does make it very poignant and very powerful.\"\n\nFlorence Widdicombe, aged six, says finding the message made her feel shocked\n\nHe added: \"It could have ended up anywhere. And indeed we have many cards as all families do that are left over and we put them in a drawer and forget about them. There is an incredible element of chance in all of this that the card was written, it got to us and we opened it on the day we did.\"\n\nA Tesco spokeswoman said: \"We were shocked by these allegations and immediately halted production at the factory where these cards are produced and launched an investigation.\"\n\nThe supermarket said it has a \"comprehensive auditing system\" to ensure suppliers are not exploiting forced labour.\n\nThe factory in question was checked only last month and no evidence of it breaking the ban on prison labour was found, it said.\n\nSales of charity Christmas cards at the company's supermarkets raise £300,000 a year for the British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK and Diabetes UK.\n\nThe retailer has not received any other complaints from customers about messages inside Christmas cards.\n\nThe message in the card urged the recipient to contact Peter Humphrey, who was formerly imprisoned at Qingpu on what he described as \"bogus charges that were never heard in court\".\n\nAfter the Widdicombe family sent him a message via Linkedin, Mr Humphrey said he then contacted ex-prisoners who confirmed inmates had been forced to work.\n\nHe then wrote the story for the Sunday Times.\n\nMr Humphrey told the BBC: \"I spent two years in captivity in Shanghai between 2013 and 2015 and my final nine months of captivity was in this very prison in this very cell block where this message has come from.\n\n\"So this was written by some of my cellmates from that period who are still there serving sentences.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Peter Humphrey: \"I think I know who it was but I will never disclose the name\"\n\n\"I'm pretty sure this was written as a collective message. Obviously one single hand produced this capital letters' handwriting and I think I know who it was, but I will never disclose that name.\"\n\nHe said the cell block of foreign prisoners has about 250 people in it, who are living a \"very bleak daily life\" with 12 prisoners per cell.\n\n\"They sleep in very rusty iron bunkbeds with a mattress which is no more than about 1cm thick underneath,\" he said.\n\n\"In the winter it's extremely cold, there's no heating in the building and in the summer it's extremely hot because there is no air conditioning.\n\n\"They get up around 5:30-6:00am every day they have to go to bed again at about 9.30.\"\n\nHe said when he was in there, manufacturing labour work was voluntary - to earn money to buy soap or toothpaste - but that work has now become compulsory.\n\n\"Everyone I know in there at the time was in there for very questionable reasons,\" he said. \"I met so many people who I considered to be the victims of wrongful imprisonment or at least reckless sentencing for minor offences.\"\n\nMr Humphrey said he believes those who wrote the note \"knew very well what risks they were taking and they were prepared to take this risk\".\n\n\"They know very well that if they're caught, they will be punished. They could be punished for example by losing some merit points or having some kind of deprivation of some of their food allowance.\n\n\"They could be punished by sending them to solitary confinement for a month or something like that where conditions are fairly harsh.\"\n\nMr Humphrey also said that censorship in the prison had increased, cutting off his usual methods of contacting prisoners he had met before his release in 2015.\n\n\"They resorted to the Qingpu equivalent of a message in a bottle, scribbled on a Tesco Christmas card,\" he said.\n\nIt is not the first time that prisoners in China have reportedly smuggled out messages in products they have been forced to make for Western markets.\n\nIn 2012, Julie Keith from Portland, Oregon, discovered an account of torture and persecution by a prisoner who said he was forced to manufacture the Halloween decorations she had purchased.\n\nAnd in 2014, Karen Wisinska from Co Fermanagh in Northern Ireland, found a note on a pair of Primark trousers reading: \"Our job inside the prison is to produce fashion clothes for export. We work 15 hours per day and the food we eat wouldn't even be given to dogs or pigs.\"\n\nUnder the UN's guidance for human rights and prisons, prisoners \"should not be subordinated merely to making a profit either for the prison authorities or for a private contractor\".\n\nThe standard minimum rules for the treatment of prisoners state: \"Prison labour must not be of an afflictive nature.\"", "Both vehicles were destroyed by fire after a collision in Battersea\n\nA woman has died in a crash between a National Express coach and a car, in which both vehicles caught fire.\n\nThe coach, travelling from Gatwick to London Victoria, was in collision with a car on Queenstown Road, Battersea, south-west London, at 04:30 GMT.\n\nA 26-year-old woman, who was a passenger in the car, died at the scene. The car driver and a bus passenger were taken to hospital.\n\nAll other passengers boarded a replacement coach, National Express said.\n\nFootage of the scene shows a blaze erupt between the two vehicles\n\nFootage circulating on social media of the scene shows both vehicles on fire on Queenstown Road close to Chelsea Bridge.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade said the grey Volkswagen Polo Zipcar and the coach were destroyed by fire.\n\nA National Express spokeswoman said: \"One of our vehicles on the A3 service from Gatwick to London Victoria was involved in an incident with a car on Queenstown Road in the early hours this morning.\n\n\"Emergency services attended the scene and we will continue to provide every assistance with the ongoing investigation.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the family and friends of the occupant of the car, who sadly passed away.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Battersea This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nQueenstown Road is currently closed in both directions between Queens Circus and Chelsea Bridge due to the collision.\n\nInquiries into the circumstances continue, the Met said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "January 2010. Barack Obama was one year into his US presidency, Instagram hadn't been invented and the word Brexit had never been uttered.\n\nA decade on, we look back at the most read stories on the BBC News website year by year.\n\nMiner Juan Illanes celebrates after coming out of the Phoenix capsule\n\nBeing trapped underground in darkness, with hardly any food or water, is \"the stuff of nightmares\", says BBC Latin America online editor Vanessa Buschschluter, who reported from the San Jose mine in northern Chile after 33 miners became trapped deep underground.\n\nIt was the nightmarish quality of the miners' situation, she says, that moved not only Chileans, but people around the world.\n\nFor 17 days the collapse of a Chilean copper and gold mine was not widely covered outside the country. That was until the miners tied a note to a probe sent deep beneath the ground saying they were alive.\n\nAnd with that, \"people were hooked\", says Ms Buschschluter. Rescuers drilled down as the miners' desperate families watched on, keeping vigil from what became known as Camp Hope.\n\n\"When one of the drills finally reached the miners, the camp's bell rang out and relatives hugged and jumped for joy, some fell on their knees praying,\" Ms Buschschluter adds.\n\nThe 33 miners were brought to the surface one by one in a specially-designed capsule via a tunnel just wider than the men's shoulders. Winching them to safety took 22 hours.\n\nPeople sang the national anthem and waved Chilean flags, as champagne corks popped. It was the stuff of movies - and sure enough their ordeal made it on to the big screen in a Hollywood film starring Antonio Banderas.\n\nA story with a happy ending? Not quite. Many of the miners, who were trapped underground for a record 69 days, struggled to cope with their newfound fame, and some faced health and financial difficulties in the years after.\n\nA 150-year-old furniture store in Croydon is sent up in flames\n\nIt was the worst case of civil unrest in the UK for a generation. The police shooting of 29-year-old Mark Duggan in Tottenham, north London, prompted a protest that turned violent.\n\nOver four hot August nights, looters ran free and armed rioters set fire to two police cars, then a bus, and shops.\n\nThe unrest spread just like the flames - first across London, to Hackney, then Lewisham, Peckham, Woolwich, Ealing and Clapham - before erupting in other major cities including Manchester, Birmingham, Nottingham, Wolverhampton and Liverpool.\n\nThe Met Police officers later said they had been outnumbered and were afraid to take on rioters, some of whom were carrying machetes. Five people died and more than 3,000 were arrested.\n\nIn the year that followed, 1,400 of them were jailed and handed much tougher sentences than magistrates would usually give for such offences.\n\nResearch by sociologist Juta Kawalerowicz found deprivation and tensions between communities and police were main factors behind the riots.\n\nThe issue of police stop and search powers being used to target black people came up in the University of Oxford research. But Ms Kawalerowicz said they were not \"race riots\", and rioters did not come from one ethnic group.\n\nMichelle and Barack Obama hug in one of the most re-tweeted posts in social media history\n\nThe race was expected to be tight. But on election night, America's first black president stormed to another victory, securing a second term.\n\nBarack Obama's re-election was particularly important, says our senior North America reporter Anthony Zurcher, because it proved US voters \"were comfortable enough with a black man as president to want to keep him in the White House\".\n\nMr Obama, a Democrat, had run a largely solid, professional campaign, painting his Republican opponent - Mitt Romney - as an elite, corporate executive who was out of touch with mainstream American voters, says our reporter.\n\nIn his first term, Mr Obama, who took office amid one of the worst recessions in decades, had overhauled the US healthcare system and overcome strong Republican opposition to pass a programme designed to boost the economy.\n\nAnd in his first speech after re-election, Mr Obama told America: \"The best is yet to come.\" He would go on to strike a climate change agreement in Paris, negotiate a deal to curb Iran's nuclear potential and restore diplomatic relations with Cuba.\n\nBut Mr Obama's second term was also punctuated by frustration, notably problems with his healthcare system and his failure to push through gun control legislation.\n\n\"Of course, four years later, Democrat Hillary Clinton was unable to rebuild Obama's winning coalition of young, minority and working class Americans,\" says Mr Zurcher.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The moment of the first explosion\n\nA jubilant scene at the finish line of the 2013 Boston marathon turned into a horrific one when two pressure cooker bombs packed with nails, ball bearings and other shrapnel exploded.\n\nThree spectators - including an eight-year-old boy - were killed, while 260 others suffered injuries, with many losing legs.\n\nThe US has had its share of terror attacks, but this one \"transcended tragedy to become an ongoing national drama\", says Mr Zurcher.\n\nThe search for the perpetrators shut down Boston for days. \"It was a manhunt that played itself out on both traditional news outlets and social media, as Americans across the country watched every twist and turn with fear and fascination - the false alarms, dead-end leads and dramatic confrontations,\" he says.\n\nThree days after the bombing, the FBI released CCTV images of the suspects, brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Then a police officer responding to reports of a disturbance near the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus was found with fatal gunshot wounds.\n\nThe brothers hijacked a car at gunpoint, and were chased by police, throwing explosives at them, before their car crashed.\n\nThe elder brother, Tamerlan, was killed in a gunfight that followed, but Dzhokhar fled on foot. The wounded 19-year-old was found hours later hiding in a boat in a local resident's backyard.\n\nAt a trial, his defence team argued his older brother was the driving force, but prosecutors said Dzhokhar was an equal partner. He was found guilty of 30 charges and sentenced to death.\n\nEarlier this month, lawyers for Dzhokhar - who is currently in a high security prison - appealed against his death sentence, alleging jurors at his trial were biased.\n\nPeaches Geldof had started using heroin again before her death, an inquest heard\n\nPeaches Geldof's death from a heroin overdose at just 25 shocked us all, says BBC senior entertainment reporter Mark Savage.\n\n\"Initial reports from the ambulance service called the tragedy 'unexplained and sudden' - immediately and eerily reminding us of the shocking death of Peaches' mother, Paula Yates,\" he adds. Geldof was just 11 when her mother died from a heroin overdose in 2000, aged 41.\n\nThe model and TV presenter - the second daughter of musician Bob Geldof - was a favourite of paparazzi photographers from a young age, often pictured leaving London parties in the early hours.\n\nBut later in life, she moved to the countryside with her second husband musician Tom Cohen and her two young sons, posting frequently about her family on social media. She told Mother and Baby magazine a month before her death that \"becoming a mother was like becoming me, finally\".\n\nAfter Geldof died, messages of condolence poured into the BBC from readers.. An inquest heard she had been addicted to heroin and had been taking the substitute drug methadone for two-and-a-half years.\n\nHer husband told the inquest Geldof had started using heroin again before her death. Detectives investigated who had given Geldof the heroin, but closed the case a year later with no answers.\n\nGunmen stormed the Bataclan concert hall, firing at the crowds inside\n\nParis correspondent Lucy Williamson still remembers the sound of bullets ricocheting off the old facades of buildings in the city's 11th arrondissement on the night attackers killed 130 people and injured hundreds more.\n\nAlmost simultaneously, gunmen and suicide bombers attacked the Bataclan concert hall, the Stade de France stadium, as well as Parisian restaurants and bars.\n\nIt came in the middle of a string of attacks in France - 10 months after attacks on the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine and nine months before the Nice lorry attack.\n\nThe suspected ringleader of the Paris killings was Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Belgian national who was killed in a police raid in northern Paris five days later.\n\nAfter months on the run, the sole surviving attacker, Salah Abdeslam, was shot and injured in a dramatic arrest in Brussels. He was later sentenced to 20 years in prison.\n\n\"For almost two years, it felt as if France was being bludgeoned again and again,\" says Ms Williamson.\n\nBut she says there was \"something different\" about the Paris attacks that means four years later \"the impact lives on just below the surface\".\n\n\"In the midst of attacks on satirical journalists, police officers, the Jewish community, priests, and symbols of the state, this time the hatred expanded to cover everyone - people at a concert, in restaurants, at a football game,\" she says.\n\n\"The target was simply France's joy in its own way of life.\"\n\nNigel Farage reacts to the 2016 referendum result at a party in central London on 24 June 2016\n\nBBC News' live coverage of the UK's 2016 EU referendum was, and still is, the site's most read page ever - by some distance.\n\nIt was to be the biggest decision \"in our lifetimes\", according to then prime minister, David Cameron, who urged the country to vote to stay in the EU.\n\nThe campaign that followed saw a \"blizzard of claims, some of them of dubious provenance\", says the BBC's Reality Check correspondent Chris Morris.\n\nAcross the side of a Vote Leave bus was the message: \"We send the EU £350m a week, let's fund the NHS instead.\"\n\nMr Cameron and the Remainers were ultimately defeated by 52% to 48% - despite London, Scotland and Northern Ireland backing Remain.\n\nBoris Johnson, the public face of Vote Leave, said voters had \"searched in their hearts\" and the UK now had a \"glorious opportunity\" to pass its own laws, set its own taxes and control its own borders. UKIP leader Nigel Farage hailed it the UK's \"independence day\". A day later, Mr Cameron quit.\n\nOur correspondent says the referendum \"created the current divide in British politics - a divide the latest election hasn't really resolved\".\n\n\"We now know Brexit will happen,\" says Mr Morris. \"But many of the bitter arguments surrounding it aren't going to go away.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Reaction from Bristol: 'You're joking. Why does she need to do it?'\n\n\"Not another one,\" was the cry from Brenda from Bristol, after Theresa May announced her intention to call a snap election. Coming after the EU referendum and the 2015 general election, people were tired of politics.\n\n\"In just three words, Brenda summed up the thoughts of so many millions of voters,\" says BBC presenter Jon Kay, who interviewed her. \"With her lovely Bristolian accent and her old shopping trolley, we knew immediately that we had struck TV gold.\"\n\nMrs May said the election was needed for \"certainty, stability and strong leadership\" after the EU referendum - although, as we now know, she ended up losing her majority and having to rely on the Democratic Unionist Party to prop up her minority government.\n\nThe BBC's live coverage of the results was the most read page of the year.\n\nIn its first months, the government got its legislation through Parliament quite comfortably, but as Mrs May found to her cost, political deadlock was about to set in.\n\nAs for Brenda, Mr Kay still checks in with her from time to time. \"She's doing fine but doesn't want any more fuss. She laughs about how mad the world is,\" he says.\n\nBrenda doesn't own a laptop or a mobile phone. So when Mr Kay told her that her catchphrase had gone viral again after the 2019 election was called, she laughed and replied: \"That doesn't sound very pleasant.\"\n\nFor a brief spell in November 2018, it looked as though the UK was headed for an orderly Brexit. But it didn't last long.\n\nAfter years of negotiations, Theresa May finally struck a deal with EU leaders, setting out the terms on which the UK would leave the EU.\n\nMrs May said her cabinet had backed the deal, calling it \"the best that could have been negotiated\". But she soon faced a revolt.\n\nDominic Raab, then Brexit minister, led a wave of resignations, saying he could not \"in good conscience\" support the deal. In the following months, Mrs May faced votes of no confidence in her leadership, but she clung on.\n\nHowever, after MPs rejected a version of her Brexit agreement for a third time, she stepped down, telling the country she deeply regretted being unable to deliver Brexit.\n\nBoris Johnson outside his polling station with his dog, Dilyn\n\n\"Everything changed\" on the stroke of 22:00 GMT on 12 December, says BBC political correspondent Jonathan Blake.\n\nAs the BBC's Huw Edwards declared the exit poll at the end of a cold and wet December polling day, the Conservatives were about to secure a Commons majority of 80, the party's largest since 1987.\n\n\"A campaign focussed relentlessly on the seemingly simple promise to 'get Brexit done' had won over voters in places long-seen as out of reach for the Conservatives,\" says Mr Blake.\n\nThe Labour Party had its worst election result since 1935, while the SNP made big gains across Scotland. In Northern Ireland, more nationalists than unionists won seats, putting the union further \"under strain\", says Mr Blake.\n\n\"But in Downing Street Mr Johnson's grip on power was stronger, his support-base wider and he now had a freer hand to do, within reason, what he wanted,\" he continued.\n\n\"The election result has set the course firmly for the UK's departure from the European Union, left Labour in ruins and all but silenced the arguments for another referendum.\"\n\nKnife-edge votes and backroom deals between parties have defined the politics of the past decade. But after the Tory's resounding victory, the tone of the next 10 years could be entirely different.", "Last updated on .From the section West Ham\n\nWorld Cup winner and West Ham legend Martin Peters has died aged 76, his family have announced.\n\nPeters, who joined West Ham aged 15, spent 11 years with the club until he became Britain's first £200,000 player in a move to Tottenham in 1970.\n\nHe scored for England in their 1966 World Cup final win over West Germany.\n\nWest Ham said \"the 1966 World Cup winner passed away peacefully\" on Saturday after \"a long and courageous battle with illness\".\n\n\"He is the fifth member of English football's greatest-ever team now sadly lost - along with Alan Ball, Ray Wilson, Gordon Banks and his fellow West Ham Academy hero and great friend, Bobby Moore,\" the club added.\n\nHis former England team-mate Sir Geoff Hurst said it was a \"very sad day for football and for me personally\".\n\n\"Martin Peters was one of the all-time greats and a close friend and colleague of mine for in excess of 50 years,\" Hurst continued.\n\n\"A fellow World Cup final goalscorer and my West Ham partner for years along with Bobby Moore. RIP old friend.\"\n\nSir Bobby Charlton, who also played alongside Peters in 1966 said: \"We shared one of the greatest days of our lives at Wembley and the fact Martin is one of only two Englishman to have scored in a World Cup final gives him a special place in England's history of the game.\n\n\"He was a fantastic footballer. As a team-mate he was someone I could trust completely to do his job and I am proud to have shared that great day with him.\"\n\nPeters won the European Cup Winners' Cup with West Ham in 1965 as well as the Uefa Cup and two League Cups with Spurs.\n\nAfter five years at Norwich he moved to Sheffield United for a season before retiring in 1981.\n\nPeters, who was awarded an MBE for services to football in 1978, still regularly attended West Ham games as a club ambassador.\n\nPeters was only handed his England debut by manager Alf Ramsey shortly before the 1966 World Cup and he impressed in a 2-0 win over Yugoslavia.\n\nTwo months later his goal looked set to win the final at Wembley, only for West Germany to level with seconds remaining before Hurst sealed a 4-2 win and completed his hat-trick in extra time.\n\nAsked about his goal, Peters once said: \"The emotion was like being struck by lightning, it was unbelievable.\"\n\nRamsey himself said Peters was \"10 years ahead of his time\".\n\nWest Ham said Peters, Hurst and Moore were able to \"ensure immortality for Ramsey's team\".\n\nThe club's joint owners David Sullivan and David Gold, said: \"In many ways, though, Martin's greatest legacy is not the World Cup medal itself, but the example that he provides to every young player who walks through the door of our Academy.\n\n\"The word 'legend' is used all too freely nowadays. But Martin Peters is a true legend. A legend of West Ham United. A legend of world football. And his contribution to our club and our game will never, ever be forgotten.\"\n\nPeters won 67 caps for England and made over 700 appearances for clubs throughout his career.\n\nHis former West Ham team-mate Trevor Brooking told BBC Sport: \"The best description of Martin was that he was very humble. They enjoyed the World Cup but it was probably only when each decade went by and England could never repeat it that the enormity of what they achieved grew.\n\n\"Martin never revelled in it. He was very humble, good company and never went looking for any headlines.\"\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson: Very sad news. No England fan will ever forget the heroics of Martin Peters and his fantastic team-mates. My sympathies go out to all of those who knew and loved him.\n\nFormer England striker Gary Lineker: Sorry to hear that Martin Peters has passed away. One of our World Cup winning heroes. A great player and a true gentleman.\n\nFormer England goalkeeper Peter Shilton: So sad to hear of the passing of Martin Peters, World Cup 1966 winner, such a gentleman and a player ahead of his time according to Sir Alf Ramsey. I played with him at England when my career started and was very fond of him, I will miss him. RIP.\n\nFormer England striker Alan Shearer: He was instrumental in England winning the World Cup in 1966. Football has lost a giant of the game, an absolute legend.\n\nFormer world heavyweight champion Frank Bruno: Really sad news about Martin Peters. He was one of my heroes as a kid watching West Ham. A brilliant footballer and a gentleman. RIP Martin Peters.\n\nNewcastle manager Steve Bruce: He was a complete gentleman. I had the pleasure to play against him when I was young and he was at the end of his career and he gave me a lesson in how to be a footballer. They don't make them like him any more - he was a great, great player.\n\nFormer England striker Stan Collymore: Extremely sad to hear of the passing of West Ham, Spurs and England legend, Martin Peters. An English sporting icon and a lovely man who'll be sadly missed.", "Dozens of homes have been flooded and villages left under water after parts of England were again deluged by rain.\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued 79 flood warnings for the South, Midlands, East and Yorkshire, meaning immediate action is needed.\n\nA mother and her three sons had to be saved after their car got stuck in flood water in Buckinghamshire.\n\nAnd rivers including the Medway in Kent, Cuckmere in East Sussex and Loddon in Berkshire burst their banks.\n\nThe mother and her family were rescued in Edgcott, near Aylesbury, on Saturday night.\n\nMeanwhile, homes and gardens were damaged when a tornado hit Surrey, earlier on Saturday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This tornado was filmed on the M25 near Chertsey in Surrey, where homes and gardens were damaged\n\nTravellers embarking on the Christmas getaway have been advised to check their routes in advance and drivers have been warned not to move or ignore \"road closed\" signs.\n\nThe Medway has flooded towns and villages including Maidstone, Yalding and Teston. Alfriston, in East Sussex, has been flooded.\n\nHomes in Yalding have been flooded\n\nCars in the village were swept away and the Environment Agency warns there is more rain forecast for Tuesday.\n\nPolice in Bedfordshire said they had received calls from people out walking who had become stuck in rural areas because of the flooding.\n\nThey urged people to be aware of weather conditions in secluded locations, with Bedford Borough Council saying several bridges had been closed in its district because they are \"no longer safe to use\".\n\nSupermarket workers at Sainsbury's in Tonbridge continued to push trolleys despite rising levels of rain water.\n\nA Sainsbury's worker continued to push trolleys despite the rising water levels\n\nResidents of Little Venice Caravan Park in Yalding, Kent, had to be rescued by motorboat.\n\nOn Friday night, one officer had to strip down to his boxer shorts to check on a car stuck in Kingsey.\n\nThe tornado struck a number of houses in the Chertsey area on Saturday, according to firefighters.\n\nResident Verity Boultwood said it blew the roof off her conservatory.\n\nPhilip Passey said he \"froze\" when he saw the tornado, which he thought lasted about 40 seconds.\n\n\"A trampoline lifted up in the air, like it weighed nothing, and was thrown across the garden,\" he said.\n\n\"My daughter came downstairs and said the shed roof had gone.\"\n\nThe tornado struck after roads were flooded and rail lines blocked on Friday.\n\nThe M23 was closed between junctions 10 and 11 in both directions in West Sussex, but was later reopened.\n\nYoung people had to be ferried across a car park at Leicester Outdoor Pursuits Centre, next to the River Soar\n\nA tractor was used to carry guests to and from the Hilton Doubletree hotel at Sindlesham near Reading, where the car park has been inundated by overflow from the River Loddon.\n\nA hotel car park at Sindlesham near Reading was inundated when the River Loddon burst its banks\n\nHighways England has urged motorists to adapt their driving for wet weather by slowing down, keeping well back from the vehicle in front and easing off the accelerator if steering becomes unresponsive.\n\nHave you been affected by flooding? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The silver Vauxhall Corsa crashed into gates at the park on Sunday morning\n\nA 22-year-old driver is \"lucky to be alive\" after his car crashed though the entrance gates of a Victorian park.\n\nSouth Wales Police said he escaped injury in the crash at Roath Park, Cardiff, at about 07:30 GMT on Sunday.\n\nHe was initially arrested on suspicion of drink-driving, but later released without charge after giving a negative second reading.\n\nFire crews were called to the scene to make the car safe after it was left lying on its side outside the park.\n\nPolice said the silver Vauxhall Corsa left the road and collided with the gates, causing significant damage.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA police cordon was erected at the scene before the vehicle was removed\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Old films like It's A Wonderful Life can stimulate memories and feelings\n\nTV repeats and familiar festive songs can help people with dementia by stimulating memories and keeping the brain active.\n\nChristmas can be an unsettling time for those with dementia.\n\nBut experts say singing along to songs like White Christmas can stimulate \"emotional memories\".\n\nAnd while people with dementia might not remember the exact details of It's A Wonderful Life, they may recall how they felt at the end of the film.\n\nNHS England's national clinical director for dementia, Prof Alistair Burns, says Christmas can sometimes be strange or confusing for those living with dementia.\n\nLots of social engagements and a steady stream of house guests coming through the door have the potential to be unsettling.\n\nThe familiarity of Christmas specials on TV can be reassuring\n\nBut he says watching familiar films or singing along to favourite songs can help make the festive season easier to navigate.\n\n\"People with dementia might find it hard to follow convoluted conversations amid the chaos and noise of Christmas and can end up feeling excluded.\n\n\"Gathering the family round to watch a much-loved classic film, thumb through an old photo album, play a family game or even sing along to a favourite carol can bring people together and help everybody feel part of the fun.\"\n\nExperts say it is the emotional details of a favourite film or song that remain lodged in our minds.\n\nRekindling them improves a feeling of connectedness with other people which is important for both people with dementia and their friends and families.\n\nNHS England has this advice on how to make Christmas easier to cope with for someone with dementia.\n\nProf Burns is also urging people to look out for signs of dementia among older family members and friends over Christmas.\n\nThese might include emotional changes and forgetfulness which can sometimes be the first indication that someone has dementia.\n\nThe Good Life: An old favourite\n\nKathryn Smith, chief operating officer at the Alzheimer's Society, says Christmas can pose difficulties for the 850,000 people living with dementia in the UK, but there are strategies that can help.\n\n\"Whether it's an old song they used to enjoy or a classic Christmas film, reminiscing can be beneficial to someone with dementia - it can help to maintain their self-esteem, confidence and sense of self, as well as improve social interactions with others.\n\n\"However, every person with dementia is different, so it's important to listen and accommodate your loved one's unique needs and wishes.\"", "The Glen Sannox remains unfinished at the Port Glasgow yard\n\nThe state-owned company that procures ferries for Cal-Mac decided last May to torpedo the contract to build the first of two ships at Ferguson shipyard.\n\nCaledonian Maritime Assets Limited (CMAL) told economy minister Paul Wheelhouse that he should prepare for an announcement in late June of the contract for the first ship, the Glen Sannox, being cancelled.\n\nCMAL chief executive Kevin Hobbs wrote that the board's decision could be expected to lead swiftly to the second ship being cancelled.\n\nAn exchange of letters and emails, released by the Scottish government this week, points to a ministerial veto being applied.\n\nNeither boat was cancelled, but three months after the exchange in May, the shipyard was put into administration in August. It has since been nationalised.\n\nDerek Mackay, the finance secretary, announced last Wednesday that the cost of completion takes the total cost to well over double the £97m in the fixed price contract signed in 2015.\n\nWhen Ferguson Shipbuilders went bust in the summer of 2014 it seemed the last shipyard on the lower Clyde was heading for oblivion, more than a century after it was founded by the four Ferguson brothers.\n\nBut within weeks, in a deal brokered by the Scottish government, a white knight stepped forward in the shape of Jim McColl.\n\nA self-made billionaire, he was one of the most prominent business figures to support Scottish independence ahead of the referendum in September that year.\n\nRead more on the attempt to save Ferguson.\n\nThe ships were due to be in service in 2018, but they are now running at least three years late.\n\nOn Friday, BBC Scotland reported that Jim McColl, former chairman of the shipyard, believes it would cost less to scrap the part-built ships and start again.\n\nThe cancellation in summer, decided by the board of CMAL on 21 May, would have secured £12m for each ship in bond pay-outs - a form of guarantee that had to be lodged by Ferguson Marine Engineering Ltd (FMEL) when it took on the work in 2015.\n\nBut by last May, the Scottish government had sunk £45m in loans into FMEL, without explaining the loans to its own procurement agency.\n\nIt told MSPs the loans were to help modernise the yard, yet it has since been learned that drawdown of the money was linked to progress on the ferry contract.\n\nJim McColl is said to have been frustrated that ministers would not intervene directly\n\nAn email in May from Mr Hobbs made his frustration clear that the Scottish government was not engaging with its own agency \"for reasons of confidentiality\".\n\n\"This is causing concern because our plans and Scottish government involvement are inextricably linked. Unless we work closely together, we cannot develop our plans any further!\" Mr Hobbs wrote to a civil servant on 31 May.\n\nHe said the crisis was compounded by CMAL having \"no visibility\" on the £45m loan.\n\nAt the time, Jim McColl, chairman of FMEL, was also venting his frustration that ministers were not willing to engage with the deep division between the shipyard management and the procurement firm.\n\nThe Scottish government told him that they could not intervene because of CMAL's autonomy.\n\nMr McCall claims that Derek Mackay told him, in private, that the CMAL board threatened to resign if there were ministerial interference.\n\nMeanwhile, the Scottish government ignored the advice of its own independent adviser, Luke van Beek, to seek mediation.\n\nThe Scottish government has issued a statement, saying: \"The management of the fixed price design and build contract was for FMEL and CMAL. However Scottish Ministers and officials held meetings with both parties on this issue over an extended period of time.\n\n\"The Scottish government explored every avenue within its power to help the two parties resolve this issue.\"\n\nIn a separate statement issued in response to Mr McColl's call for the ships to be scrapped and the project re-started, the Scottish government spokesman said:\n\n\"Our commitment is to complete the vessels, protect the workforce and secure a future for the yard. Scrapping the vessels and starting again would not meet those objectives.\n\n\"It is also likely that the timescales involved in retendering and subsequent design and construction of vessels from scratch would add considerable delays for the delivery of these much needed vessels.\"\n\nThe question of why the contract was allowed to drift to the point where it faced cancellation will be examined in a Holyrood inquiry next year.\n\nThe rural economy and connectivity committee announced on Friday it will look into the implications for replacement of other ferries in the ageing Cal-Mac fleet.", "The dolls mimic popular brands, but do not carry quality marks and there is poor English on the packaging\n\nToxic chemicals have been found in cheap dolls putting children exposed to them at risk of long-term fertility problems, officials warn.\n\nThe Sweet Fashion Doll and Girl Beautiful Doll - costing between £1 and £3 - have been supplied across the UK.\n\nThe Nottingham wholesaler is being investigated by city officials, who said it could not yet be named or the shops it supplied for Christmas.\n\nThe dolls contain high levels of phthalates, say trading standards.\n\nThe potentially harmful chemicals are used to toughen plastic in the Chinese-made dolls, said the council team.\n\nThe Chartered Trading Standards Institute warned that very young children and babies could chew the toys and \"consume the chemicals\"\n\nJane Bailey, the team's manager, said: \"We understand the financial pressures people are under at the moment, but I'd urge parents to resist the temptation to buy cheap toys like these.\n\n\"They will carry none of the required quality marks and will likely have been subjected to no product testing at all.\"\n\nThe council could not tell the BBC how many had been sold, or where in the UK they were on sale.\n\nAlthough such investigations are led by local authorities, the Chartered Trading Standards Institute, a national body, said there was a rise of \"substandard toys\" being brought to the UK around Christmas and there had been \"several seizures\".\n\nRobert Chantry-Price, a lead officer for product safety, said: \"It is frightening to think that large quantities of phthalates are still being used in children's toys.\n\n\"Phthalates are carcinogenic, mutagenic and can cause reproductive problems but, despite legislation to the contrary, significant amounts of these substances can be found in a wide range of toys and child-care products.\n\n\"If these toys fall into the hands of very young children or babies, it's more likely they will chew on the plastic and consume the chemicals.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris will not hold a Christmas Mass for the first time in more than 200 years, as repair work continues following April's fire.\n\nMidnight Mass will still be celebrated on Christmas Eve, officials said, but it will take place at the nearby church of Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois.\n\nThe 850-year-old Gothic cathedral, a Unesco World Heritage site, lost its spire and roof during the blaze.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron has set a five-year goal for its reconstruction.\n\nIn October, the French culture ministry said nearly €1bn (£850m; $1.1bn) had been raised or pledged for the work.\n\nThe iconic building has celebrated Christmas Mass through two centuries of often turbulent history, only closing during the French revolution when anti-Catholic forces turned it briefly into \"a temple of reason\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCathedral rector Patrick Chauvet told the Associated Press that this year's service at Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois would include a wooden liturgical platform that has been made to resemble the one at the cathedral.\n\n\"We have the opportunity to celebrate the Mass outside the walls, so to speak... but with some indicators that Notre-Dame is connected to us,\" he said.\n\nThe cathedral had been undergoing restoration work when the devastating blaze broke out earlier this year.\n\nThe cause of the fire remains unknown, but investigators are probing the possibility of negligence.\n\nA \"badly stubbed out cigarette\" or electrical fault are among the possible causes being considered.\n\nNo evidence has been found to suggest any criminal origin to the fire, officials have said.", "Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has apologised for taking a trip to Hawaii whilst wildfires raged in his home country.\n\nThe prime minister cut his trip short as criticism increased and announced that he was sorry in a press conference in Sydney.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nRoberto Firmino struck in extra time to hand Liverpool a first Fifa Club World Cup triumph as Jurgen Klopp's side eventually ended the resistance of Brazilian champions Flamengo in Qatar.\n\nFirmino, who scored a dramatic injury-time winner against Monterrey to send Liverpool into the final, produced a composed finish in the 99th minute as the Reds became the second English side to win the tournament, after Manchester United in 2008.\n\nIn a dramatic conclusion to normal time, Liverpool had seen an injury-time penalty decision overturned after Sadio Mane went down under a challenge from Rafinha, with referee Abdulrahman Al Jassim reversing his initial verdict after checking the pitchside monitor following a consultation with the video assistant referee.\n\nBrazil forward Firmino squandered the opportunity to put Liverpool ahead inside the opening minute at Khalifa International Stadium, blazing over the bar before Naby Keita and Trent Alexander-Arnold also spurned early chances as the Premier League leaders made a blistering start.\n\nFirmino agonisingly hit the post and Mohamed Salah shot narrowly wide shortly after half-time, but Flamengo responded well to early pressure in both halves and posed Liverpool problems - striker Gabriel Barbosa's attempted bicycle-kick typifying the Brazilian side's steadily growing confidence.\n\nLiverpool suffered an injury blow as Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain appeared to fall awkwardly on his ankle, and with the prospect of extra time approaching Jordan Henderson's powerful, curled strike from the edge of the box was superbly tipped over by Flamengo goalkeeper Diego Alves.\n\nFirmino's breakthrough in the first half of extra time delivered huge relief for Klopp's side, and while Salah was denied by Alves soon after, the Premier League side were able to see out the second period unharmed.\n\nMexican side Monterrey earlier defeated Saudi Arabia's Al Hilal 4-3 on penalties after a 2-2 draw to claim third place.\n\nManager Klopp said he wanted to change perceptions of the Club World Cup in Europe as his Liverpool side prepared to face a Flamengo squad who had been given \"a clear order to win it and come back home as heroes\".\n\nHaving elected to focus on the Club World Cup, Liverpool fielded their youngest ever side as they exited the Carabao Cup on Tuesday in a 5-0 defeat by Aston Villa. Just 24 hours later, the Reds were busy securing their first appearance in a Club World Cup final since losing to Brazilian side Sao Paulo in 2005, eventually overcoming Monterrey 2-1 courtesy of Firmino's dramatic injury-time winner on Wednesday.\n\nDespite taking his senior players, Klopp was forced to name a makeshift side against Monterrey due to injuries and illness, but he welcomed back defensive rock Virgil van Dijk, along with Alexander-Arnold, Firmino and Mane against Flamengo.\n\nAnd how he needed his strongest side to navigate this difficult contest, in which it increasingly appeared it may not turn out to be Liverpool's day. After failing to capitalise on an excellent start, Liverpool came under pressure as tricky winger Bruno Henrique threatened down the right and Barbosa troubled the defence.\n\nBut Klopp's side dug deep, despite the frustration of Henderson's dismissed penalty appeal and Mane's overturned spot-kick at the death, and earned their reward as Firmino once again had the crucial say.\n\nThat 99th-minute winner vindicated Klopp's decision to pursue a first Club World Cup triumph over progress in the Carabao Cup, while delivering an entertaining final sure to have grabbed attention at home.\n• None This was only the fourth Fifa Club World Cup final to go to extra time, after 2000, 2009 and 2016.\n• None European sides have won 12 of the last 13 Club World Cup tournaments, including the last seven.\n• None This was only the second time an English side has beaten Brazilian opposition in a competitive fixture, after Manchester United's 1-0 win over Palmeiras in the 1999 Inter-Continental Cup final.\n• None Only two of the last 10 Club World Cup finals have seen both teams score, with the winning finalist keeping a clean sheet on eight occasions in the past 10 years.\n• None Flamengo are the fourth Brazilian club to finish as Club World Cup runners-up. No other nation has had more second-place finishes.\n• None Sadio Mane has been directly involved in more goals in all competitions in 2019 than any other Liverpool player, scoring 30 goals and making eight assists. Only Raheem Sterling (44) and Sergio Aguero (39) boast a better record among Premier League players this calendar year.\n\nLiverpool return to Premier League action against second-placed Leicester City on Thursday (20:00 GMT).\n\nLeicester lost 3-1 to reigning champions Manchester City on Saturday, to leave Liverpool 10 points clear with a game in hand on their closest challengers as they chase a first league title in 30 years.\n• None Attempt missed. Lincoln (Flamengo) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high. Assisted by Vitinho.\n• None Attempt saved. Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner.\n• None Diego (Flamengo) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Offside, Liverpool. Andrew Robertson tries a through ball, but Sadio Mané is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Gabriel Barbosa (Flamengo) left footed shot from the left side of the box is close, but misses to the left.\n• None Attempt blocked. Diego (Flamengo) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Filipe Luís. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Hotel manager Wissam Salsaa said the work would \"make people think more\"\n\nA manger scene by British artist Banksy has appeared at a hotel in Bethlehem in the West Bank.\n\nDubbed the \"Scar of Bethlehem\", the work shows Jesus's manger by Israel's separation barrier, which appears to have been pierced by a blast, creating the shape of a star.\n\nOn Instagram, the artist said the work was a \"modified Nativity\".\n\nIsrael says the barrier is needed to prevent terror attacks. Palestinians say it is a device to grab land.\n\nThe International Court of Justice has called it illegal.\n\nBanksy's work is in Bethlehem's Walled Off hotel, which is itself a collaboration between the hotel's owners and the artist.\n\nHotel manager Wissam Salsaa said Banksy had used the Christmas story to show how Palestinians in the West Bank were living.\n\n\"It is a great way to bring up the story of Bethlehem, the Christmas story, in a different way - to make people think more,\" he said.\n\nThe scene shows the words \"love\" and \"peace\" as graffiti on the barrier in English and French. There are also three large wrapped presents in the scene.\n\n\"Banksy is trying to be a voice for those that cannot speak,\" Mr Salsaa added.\n\nAll the rooms in the Walled Off hotel overlook a concrete section of the controversial West Bank barrier.\n\nThe rooms are filled with the anonymous artist's work, much of which is about the conflict.\n\nBanksy has also created a number of works in Bethlehem and on the separation barrier itself.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Walled Off hotel opened in 2017", "Last updated on .From the section Darts\n\nFallon Sherrock beat the world number 11 Mensur Suljovic to reach the third round of the PDC World Championship.\n\nThe 25-year-old, who made history by becoming the first woman to win a match at the event, beat the Austrian 3-1.\n\nSherrock fought back from two legs down to win the first set, before Suljovic reversed the fortunes in the second.\n\nA composed Sherrock took the third set before sealing the win by hitting the bull at Alexandra Palace and will face world number 22 Chris Dobey next.\n\n\"I don't know how I'm going to sleep tonight,\" Sherrock told Sky Sports after her win.\n\n\"I've proved that we [women] can beat anyone - I've just beaten two of the best players in the world\".\n\nSherrock's first-round win against Ted Evetts thrust her into the spotlight and she was roared on by the crowd once again, missing just five doubles on Saturday evening.\n\n\"With everything that has been going on the last couple of days I have just been focusing on my finishing because I know that I can score,\" she added.\n\n\"I'm still waiting for it all to sink in.\"\n\nAnd asked if she can go all the way to take the title, she answered: \"Why not? I have won two games, I am just going to take each game as it comes but there is nothing to say that I can't. I am going to try.\"\n• None Sherrock calls for more opportunities for women in darts\n\nEarlier, two-time World Champion Adrian Lewis came from two sets down to beat Cristo Reyes and reach the third round.\n\nThe Englishman won a tie-break in the deciding set after recovering from a poor start against the Spaniard.\n\nRyan Searle eased to a 3-0 win over Steve West, while Simon Whitlock also saw off Harry Ward in straight sets.\n\nJapan's number one Seigo Asada beat Keegan Brown and Daryl Gurney progressed to the third round by beating Justin Pipe.\n\nIn the final match of the night, Belgium's Dimitir Van den Bergh recorded the highest average of the tournament so far - 103.81 - in a straight sets win over Josh Payne.", "Firefighters were withdrawn from the building in Milltown \"due to risk\" to them\n\nAn 18th Century manor house has been damaged by fire which left crews fearing it might collapse.\n\nThe blaze was spotted in the three-storey building in Milltown, Cornwall, at about 08:50 GMT.\n\nInitially, three fire crews were called but nine more were sent to the scene, near Lostwithiel, at about 11:45.\n\nAfter nearly nine hours it was brought under under control and there were no reports of injuries. It is understood the house was empty at the time.\n\nExperts from the Environment Agency were called in to carry out an environmental risk assessment.\n\nStaff from Western Power Distribution and Cornwall Council emergency management officers were also called to the scene.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Wadebridge Community Fire Station This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe blaze spread from the first floor of the house to a roof space before it was brought under control.\n\nFirefighters in breathing apparatus had gone into the building to try and stop that spread but had to pull back building \"due to risk\" to them, Cornwall Fire and Rescue Service said.\n\nTerry Nottle, of Bodmin Fire Station, said it was a \"significant fire\" and \"we don't get many 12-appliance fires in the county\".\n\nAlthough the fire is under control, crews are due to remain at the scene until Sunday.\n\nAn investigation is to be carried out into the cause.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Gerald Cotten was the only person who had passwords to QuadrigaCX digital wallets\n\nLawyers representing users of bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX are asking Canadian authorities to exhume the body of its founder.\n\nThey say they want an exhumation given \"questionable circumstances\" surrounding his death.\n\nGerald Cotten died suddenly last year in India from complications related to Crohn's disease.\n\nFollowing his death, the exchange was unable to locate or secure significant cryptocurrency reserves.\n\nWhen he died, the 30-year-old founder was the only person who had passwords to digital wallets containing C$180 million ($137m; £105m) in cryptocurrencies.\n\nHis untimely death forced the closure of QuadrigaCX, which had some 115,000 users at the time.\n\nOnline rumours have circulated since, speculating that Cotten faked his own death and sought to abscond with the funds, though no evidence of such a scheme has been revealed in the year since he died.\n\nOn Friday, the legal team representing users of the platform in the bankruptcy proceedings sent a letter to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police seeking an exhumation and post-mortem autopsy be performed on Cotten's body \"to confirm both its identity and the cause of death\".\n\nThey say information revealed during the proceedings \"further highlight the need for certainty around the question of whether Mr Cotten is in fact deceased\".\n\nEarlier this year, a report by auditor Ernst & Young found significant problems in how the exchange was managed, including finding that Cotten created certain accounts on the Quadriga platform under aliases that may have been used to trade on the exchange.\n\nIt was also found that substantial funds were transferred to Cotten personally and to other related parties.\n\nThe auditor managed to retrieve approximately C$33m in missing funds.\n\nIt confirmed in August it was aware of \"at least four independent active law enforcement or regulatory reviews in progress\" related to the platform's demise, which includes the US Federal Bureau of Investigation.\n\nIn a statement sent through her lawyer on Friday, Cotten's widow said she \"is heartbroken to learn of this request\".\n\nJennifer Robertson said her late husband's death \"should not be in doubt\", adding it is unclear how its confirmation \"would assist the asset recovery process further\".", "After several elections where the polls as a whole were not a good guide to the result, this time they got it right.\n\nThe final figures in the BBC poll tracker were very close to the actual result, as the table below shows,\n\nThat's a very good performance - just a small underestimate of the Conservative share and a slight overestimate for the Brexit Party, with the other parties on the nose.\n\nMany of the polling companies had individual polls that were close to the result. But first prize should probably go jointly to Opinium and Ipsos Mori, whose final published polls were almost exactly correct.\n\nThere was some evidence of the polls narrowing in the final couple of weeks but the polling companies that showed that most were the least successful at estimating the final result.\n\nFurthermore, the polls were also consistently right to point to Conservative strength with Leave-supporting voters.\n\nThe biggest swings came in areas that had voted strongly for Brexit in the 2016 referendum - constituencies like Bassetlaw, Dudley North, Redcar and Great Grimsby. In areas that voted strongly for Remain, the Conservative vote share fell.\n\nWhat proved much harder was using polls to forecast how many seats each party would win. That is always difficult because of the unpredictable nature of the first-past-the-post electoral system.\n\nIn 2017, YouGov's seat projection, using a technique called MRP (multi-level regression and post-stratification), was very successful. But this time around, its final seat analysis wasn't so close. Even where the share of the vote is known, it's not always possible to estimate accurately what the House of Commons will look like.\n\nThat's where the exit poll came into its own - getting very close to an accurate prediction of the size of the Conservative majority.", "Last updated on .From the section Golf\n\nPatrick Reed's caddie has been thrown out of the Presidents Cup in Melbourne by the PGA Tour after he \"shoved\" a fan who verbally abused his player.\n\nThe altercation came on Saturday after American Reed suffered his third defeat against the International team.\n\nReed has been heckled all week after he was penalised for improving the lie of his ball at the Hero World Challenge.\n\nThe PGA Tour said: \"Following an incident, Kessler Karain will not return to caddie for Sunday's singles.\"\n\nKarain, who is Reed's brother-in-law, had earlier said via a statement: \"I don't think there's one caddie I know who would blame me.\n\n\"I got off the cart and shoved him, said a couple things, probably a few expletives. Security came and I got back on the cart and left.\n\n\"Unless his bones breaks like Mr Glass, the most harm done was a little spilled beer, which I'm happy to reimburse him for.\"\n\nThe statement also said: \"As a caddie, one of your jobs is to protect your player.\n\n\"We have been known for having fun with some good banter, but after hearing several fans in Australia for three days some had taken it too far. I'd had enough. And this gentleman was one of them.\"\n\nReed, the 2018 Masters champion, said: \"I respect the Tour's decision. We are all focused on winning the Presidents Cup.\"\n\nThe incident stems from a controversial moment at last week's PGA Tour event in the Bahamas when Reed moved sand in a bunker with his practice swing - an offence which carries a two-stroke penalty.\n\nThe American's infringement was only relayed to him at the end of his round.\n\n\"Every time I get in the bunker I'm scared to even get my club close to it [sand],\" he said at the time.\n\n\"After seeing the video, I accept that. It wasn't because of any intent, I thought I was far enough away.\"\n\nHe has since been criticised by members of Ernie Els' International team including Australian Cameron Smith, who said he \"doesn't have any sympathy for anyone that cheats\".\n\nReed has denied he was cheating and on Friday made light of the incident by pretending to shovel sand after holing a putt and gesturing at the gallery.\n\nHe and playing partner Webb Simpson were beaten 5&3 by Hideki Matsuyama and CT Pan as Tiger Woods' US team lost Saturday's morning session 2½-1½.\n\nBut the US rallied in the afternoon foursomes to win 3-1 as the International team held a slender 10-8 lead going into Sunday's singles.\n\n\"We chipped away at it,\" US captain Woods told Sky Sports, \"We knocked their lead down but there are 12 matches to go. We're trusting each other and we love it.\n\n\"I expect my guys to fight, get some red out there, get some early momentum.\"\n\nThe US need 7½ points to win an eighth successive title, while the International team need 5½ points to record just a second victory in the 13th staging of the Ryder Cup-style event.\n\nIt is difficult to remember a player who has generated more hostility than Patrick Reed.\n\nHis unrepentant stance following the rules controversy in the Bahamas aggravated the situation. Miming a shovel action in response to crowd taunts dug up more trouble and now his caddie has been thrown out of the Presidents Cup.\n\nReed has lost all his matches this week compounding a loss of credibility and integrity.\n\nHe is now regarded as golf's most divisive figure. He will struggle for future wildcard picks for his country. Captain America is suffering a huge fall from grace.", "Aiello, photographed in 2004, also had a singing career\n\nVeteran film actor Danny Aiello, known for his roles in the movies Do The Right Thing and The Godfather Part II, has died aged 86.\n\nHe also played Madonna's father in the 1986 video for Papa Don't Preach.\n\nHis family said with \"profound sorrow\" in a statement that he died after a short illness.\n\nA veteran of stage and film, Aiello was best known for playing the pizza parlour owner Sal in Spike Lee's 1989 Do the Right Thing.\n\nThe role earned him a best supporting actor Oscar nomination. He also played the hesitant fiancé of Cher's character, Loretta, in Moonstruck in 1987.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Cher This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"It is with profound sorrow to report that Danny Aiello, beloved husband, father, grandfather, actor and musician passed away last night after a brief illness,\" the family said, in a statement to the BBC from his literary agent Jennifer De Chiara.\n\n\"The family asks for privacy at this time. Service arrangements will be announced at a later date.\"\n\nFilm maker Kevin Smith paid tribute to Aiello for his role in Do the Right Thing.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by KevinSmith This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn The Godfather Part II, Aiello had a relatively small part as small-time gangster Tony Rosato but he made the role his own by uttering the famous line, \"Michael Corleone says hello!\" during a raid on gang rival Frank Pentangel.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Madonna This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAiello also had a stage career on Broadway, appearing in shows including Gemini, The Floating Light Bulb, Hurlyburly, and The House of Blue Leaves and Wheelbarrown's Close.\n\nIn July 2011, he appeared Off Broadway in the two-act drama The Shoemaker, written by Susan Charlotte and directed by Antony Marsellis.\n\nAs well as acting, Aiello had a singing career, he released several big-band style albums including Live from Atlantic City in 2008.\n\nIn 1990 he told People magazine: \"You know, I've only been in this business 17 years.\n\n\"For actors, that's no time at all. Everything is happening so damn fast. It's like a beautiful dream that never seems to end.\"\n\nAiello, the fifth of six children, was born on West 68th Street, Manhattan.\n\nAt the age of 16, he lied about his age to enlist in the US Army. After serving for three years, he returned to New York City and did various jobs in order to support himself and later his family.\n\nWith limited education and few skills, Aiello jumped at the chance offered by his wife's uncle to become a baggage clerk for Greyhound.\n\nLater however he worked as a bouncer in a string of tough after-hours clubs in Queens and Manhattan.\n\nTo support his wife and four children, he would take any odd job going.\n\nSo for Aiello, the theatre was pretty much a shot in the dark gamble - one which paid off.\n\nDirectors began to respond to the Aiello's raw intensity and when Robert De Niro turned down the role of Sal in Lee's film, he was recommended to take his place.\n\nThe roles continued to come his way. He had bit parts in feature films and won an Emmy in 1980 for the TV show A Family of Strangers.\n\nLater Woody Allen offered him the role in Purple Rose of Cairo, and then he was asked to be in Madonna's video, followed by stage success as a drug-taking TV actor in Hurlyburly.\n\nAfter Do the Right Thing, Aiello worked in the TV movie The Preppie Murder, then took some time out for his family.\n\nIn the early 1990s, he was still one of the highest-paid character actors in Hollywood, commanding at least $750,000 a film, he told People magazine.\n\nHe went on to do the films Once Around with Holly Hunter and Hudson Hawk with Bruce Willis, and he also made a Broadway appearance with Harvey Keitel in Those the River Keeps.\n\nHe is survived by his wife, Sandy Cohen, and their three children.\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Sports Personality\n\nMarathon runner Eliud Kipchoge has been voted BBC Sports Personality's World Sport Star of the Year.\n\nKipchoge became the first person to run a marathon in under two hours in October.\n\nThe Kenyan, 35, completed 26.2 miles (42.2km) in one hour 59 minutes 40 seconds in the Ineos 1:59 Challenge in Vienna, Austria.\n\nSix months before his feat, Kipchoge won the London Marathon for a fourth time.\n\nKipchoge, who won Olympic gold at Rio 2016, broke his own London Marathon record - set in 2016 - by 28 seconds.\n\nTopping an online public vote, the legendary marathon runner beat off competition from American gymnast Simone Biles, South Africa's Rugby World Cup-winning captain Siya Kolisi, Australian cricketer Steve Smith, American golfer Tiger Woods and USA footballer Megan Rapinoe, who co-led her team to World Cup victory again this summer.\n\nLast year's winner was Italian golfer Francesco Molinari, who won the 2018 Open Championship and all five of his Ryder Cup matches at the event in Paris.\n• None How to cast your Sports Personality vote online", "Last updated on .From the section Arsenal\n\nArsenal have distanced the club from midfielder Mesut Ozil's comments on the treatment of Uighur Muslims in China.\n\nRights groups say about a million people - mostly from the Muslim Uighur community - are thought to have been detained without trial in high-security prison camps.\n\nChina says they are being educated in \"vocational training centres\" to combat violent religious extremism.\n\n\"Arsenal is always apolitical as an organisation,\" the London club said.\n\n\"Following social media messages from Mesut Ozil on Friday, Arsenal Football Club must make it clear that these are Mesut's personal views.\"\n\nThe Gunners' statement was published on Chinese social media site Weibo.\n\nIn his post Ozil, who is a Muslim, called Uighurs \"warriors who resist persecution\" and criticised both China and the silence of Muslims in response.\n\nChina has consistently denied mistreating Uighur Muslims in the country.\n\nArsenal's statement received thousands of comments, many were critical or suggested it was not good enough. One commenter wrote \"that's it?\", while another responded with a picture of an Ozil shirt they had cut up.\n\nSome users also wrote posts with the hashtags \"#Protesting against Ozil\" and \"#Ozil made inappropriate comments about China\".\n\nIn October, the US National Basketball Association suffered financial losses after an online comment from a team executive prompted a crisis in its relations with China.\n\nHouston Rockets' manager Daryl Morey had tweeted support for pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNicola Sturgeon says Boris Johnson has \"no right\" to stand in the way of another Scottish independence referendum after an \"overwhelming\" SNP election victory.\n\nScotland's first minister said the result \"renews, reinforces and strengthens\" the mandate for Indyref2.\n\nDuring the campaign, the prime minister said he would reject any request to hold an independence referendum.\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon said it was \"the right of the people of Scotland\".\n\nIn a speech in Edinburgh on Friday, she told Mr Johnson: \"You, as the leader of a defeated party in Scotland, have no right to stand in the way.\n\n\"The people of Scotland have spoken. It is time now to decide our own future.\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon says she won't pretend that every single person who voted SNP necessarily supports independence. But she will insist this result is a thumping endorsement of her demand for a second referendum.\n\nShe will make an official request in the next few days to be granted the legal power to hold an independence vote.\n\nAnd we know that Boris Johnson will refuse, sparking a huge debate about whether the Conservatives are ignoring the democratic choice of Scottish voters.\n\nIt's a debate that can only escalate as we leave the EU - and one which may fuel support for independence itself.\n\nThe SNP leader said it was time for Mr Johnson \"to start listening\" to voters in Scotland.\n\nShe added: \"I accept, regretfully, that he has a mandate for Brexit in England - but he has no mandate whatsoever to take Scotland out of the EU.\"\n\nThe Scottish government will next week publish a \"detailed, democratic case\" for letting Holyrood decide on whether there should be a second independence referendum, said Ms Sturgeon.\n\nHowever, interim Scottish Conservative leader Jackson Carlaw said: \"We are not going to support a request for a second independence referendum and I don't believe the prime minister will either.\n\n\"We are going to stand by the people who voted for us last night and the two million people who voted no in 2014.\"\n\nThe SNP won 48 seats in Scotland in Thursday's election after securing 45% of the vote - 8.1% more than in the last general election, when the party won 35 seats. One of those MPs, Neale Hanvey, will sit as an independent.\n\nLib Dem leader Jo Swinson will step down after losing her Dunbartonshire East seat to the SNP by 149 votes.\n\nJeremy Corbyn said he would not fight another election as Labour leader after his party suffered a heavy defeat.\n\nAcross the UK, the Conservatives secured their biggest majority since the 1980s in what Mr Johnson described as a \"historic\" election victory.\n\nHowever, the party's vote fell by 3.5% to 25.1% across Scotland. The Labour vote was down by 8.5% to 18.6%, while the Liberal Democrat vote actually increased by 2.8% to 9.5%.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Sturgeon has already said she will ask the UK government to transfer the legal powers to hold a second referendum to the Scottish Parliament through what is known as a Section 30 order - as happened in 2014.\n\nNext Thursday MSPs will vote on the final stage of legislation which sets out a framework for any future referendums to be held in Scotland.\n\nThe pro-UK parties oppose the Referendums Bill but it is set to pass with SNP and Green backing.\n\nFor a nationwide breakdown of results, see our results page.\n\nOr you can browse the A-Z list.", "Sheila Mercier was part of the first ever episode of Emmerdale Farm\n\nThe Hull-born star played Annie Sugden in the soap from its first episode in 1972 until 1994 and continued to make guest appearances up until 2009.\n\nThe British Soap Awards remembered Mercier - who was the sister of actor Brian Rix - as the \"very definition of a matriarch\".\n\nClaire King, who plays Kim Tate in Emmerdale, has described Mercier as the soap's \"beating heart\".\n\nA spokeswoman for ITV confirmed Mercier's death in a statement on Friday night.\n\nShe said: \"It's always sad to hear of the death of an actor who played a significant part in Emmerdale's success.\n\n\"Even more so when that actor was in the very first episode and around whose family the show was built.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Claire King This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCharnock, who plays Marlon Dingle, said: \"The great Sheila Mercier has left us. What an iconic character Annie Sugden was.\n\n\"Used to watch it with my grandparents as a boy, so to meet her in later years was a thrill.\"", "The women were injured on Atherton Road, Wigan\n\nTwo women have been stabbed in Wigan, Greater Manchester Police said.\n\nEmergency services were called to the scene at Atherton Road, Hindley at about 10:35 GMT.\n\nThe women, believed to be in their 20s, were taken to hospital where one is being treated for serious injuries. The other woman was discharged after receiving minor injuries.\n\nA police spokesman said officers were not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "Talks in Madrid have gone into extra time as delegates try to agree on measures\n\nThe Chilean official leading UN climate talks in Madrid has called on delegates to show flexibility, as they struggle to reach agreement on crucial measures needed to tackle climate change.\n\nThe negotiations, which were scheduled to end on Friday, continued throughout Saturday and into Sunday morning.\n\nCarolina Schmidt said a deal was almost there but the outcome needed to be ambitious.\n\nThe goal is a commitment to new carbon emissions cuts by the end of 2020.\n\nThe European Union and small island states vulnerable to climate change are pushing for stronger commitments to cut those emissions. Some of the biggest polluters, including the United States, Brazil and India, say they see no need to change their current plans.\n\nMs Schmidt, Chile's environment minister who is the conference's president, said early on Sunday: \"I request all the flexibility, all your strength to find this agreement to have an ambitious result.\"\n\nShe added: \"It's hard, it's difficult but it's worth it. I specially need you. But people in our countries need us.\"\n\nOn Saturday, a new draft text from the meeting was released, designed to chart a way forward for the parties to the Paris agreement, which came into being in 2015.\n\nThe pact's intention is to keep the global average temperature rise to well below 2C. This was regarded at the time as the threshold for dangerous global warming, though scientists subsequently shifted the definition of the \"safe\" limit to a rise of 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.\n\nThe situation was unprecedented since talks began in 1991, said Alden Meyer from the Union of Concerned Scientists.\n\nHe commented: \"The latest version of the Paris Agreement decision text put forward by the Chilean presidency is totally unacceptable. It has no call for countries to enhance the ambition of their emissions reduction commitments.\n\n\"If world leaders fail to increase ambition in the lead up to next year's climate summit in Glasgow, they will make the task of meeting the Paris agreement's 'well below 2C' temperature limitation goal - much less the 1.5 degrees Celsius goal - almost impossible.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHis view was echoed by David Waskow, international climate director for the World Resources Institute (WRI). \"If this text is accepted, the low ambition coalition will have won the day,\" he said.\n\nThe conference in the Spanish capital has become enmeshed in deep, technical arguments about a number of issues including the role of carbon markets and the financing of loss and damage caused by rising temperatures.\n\nResponding to the messages from science and from climate strikers, the countries running this 26th conference of the parties (COP) meeting are keen to have a final decision here that would see countries put new, ambitious plans to cut carbon on the table.\n\nAccording to the UN, 84 countries have promised to enhance their national plans by the end of next year. Some 73 have said they will set a long-term target of net zero by the middle of the century.\n\nBut earlier in the meeting, negotiators from the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) pointed the finger of blame at countries including Australia, the United States, Canada, Russia, India, China and Brazil.\n\nProtests led by young delegates have seen up to 200 protestors ejected from the talks\n\nThey had failed to submit revised plans that would help the world keep the rise in global temperatures under 1.5C this century.\n\nAt a \"stock-taking\" session on Saturday morning, Tina Stege, a negotiator with the Marshall Islands delegation, said: \"I need to go home and look my kids in the eye and tell them we came out with an outcome that will ensure their future.\"\n\nShe added: \"The text must address the need for new and more ambitious NDCs and long-term goals. We can't leave with anything else.\"\n\nReinforcing the sense of division, India, supported by China, Saudi Arabia and Brazil, has been taking a hard line on promises made by richer countries in previous agreements before the Paris pact was signed in 2015.\n\nThe deal saw every country, India included, sign up to take actions.\n\nThis was a key concession to the richer nations who insisted that the deal would only work if everyone pledged to cut carbon, unlike previous agreements in which only the better off had to limit their CO2.\n\nSome visitors have other things to do at the COP\n\nBut India now wants to see evidence that in the years up to 2020, the developed world has lived up to past promises.\n\nFor many delegates, the deadlock is intensely frustrating in light of the urgent need to tackle emissions.\n\n\"I've been attending these climate negotiations since they first started in 1991. But never have I seen the almost total disconnect we've seen here at COP25 in Madrid between what the science requires and the people of the world demand, and what the climate negotiations are delivering in terms of meaningful action,\" said Alden Meyer.\n\n\"The planet is on fire and our window of escape is getting harder and harder to reach the longer we wait to act. Ministers here in Madrid must strengthen the final decision text, to respond to the mounting impacts of climate change that are devastating both communities and ecosystems all over the world.\"\n\nJake Schmidt, from the US-based Natural Resources Defense Council, said: \"In Madrid, the key polluting countries responsible for 80% of the world's climate-wrecking emissions stood mute, while smaller countries announced they'll work to drive down harmful emissions in the coming year.\n\n\"The mute majority must step up, and ramp up, their commitments to tackle the growing climate crisis well ahead of the COP26 gathering.\"\n\nAlso on Saturday, activists staged a protest outside the summit venue to express their frustration at what they see as the failure of world leaders in taking meaningful action on climate change.", "Omar al-Bashir sat in a cage as he was sentenced for corruption\n\nSudan's ex-president Omar al-Bashir has been sentenced to two years in a social reform facility for corruption.\n\nThe judge told the court that, under Sudanese law, people over the age of 70 cannot serve jail terms. Bashir is 75.\n\nBashir also faces charges related to the 1989 coup that brought him to power, genocide, and the killing of protesters before his ousting in April.\n\nDuring the sentencing, his supporters started chanting that the trial was \"political\" and were ordered to leave.\n\nThey continued their protest outside the court, chanting: \"There is no god but God.\"\n\nAfterwards one of the ousted leader's lawyers, Ahmed Ibrahim, said they would appeal against the verdict.\n\nMohamed al-Hassan, another lawyer for Bashir, previously said that the defence did not consider the trial a legal one but a \"political\" one.\n\nIt is unclear whether Bashir will be tried over widespread human rights abuses during his time in power, including allegations of war crimes in Darfur.\n\nSupporters of Bashir chanted in protest outside the courtroom\n\nThe corruption case was linked to a $25 million (£19 million) cash payment he received from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.\n\nBashir claimed the payments were made as part of Sudan's strategic relationship with Saudi Arabia, and were \"not used for private interests but as donations\".\n\nNone of the active cases against Bashir in Sudan is linked to the charges he faces at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, over the conflict in Darfur that broke out in 2003.\n\nThe UN says that around 300,000 people were killed and 2.5 million were displaced in the war.\n\nAfter Bashir was ousted in April, ICC prosecutors in The Hague requested that he stand trial over the Darfur killings.\n\nThe Sudanese army generals who seized power immediately after his fall initially refused to comply, but Sudan's umbrella protest movement - which now has significant representation in the country's sovereign council - recently said it would not object to his extradition.\n\nProsecutors in Sudan have also charged him with the killing of protesters during the demonstrations that led to him being ousted.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We are going to unite and level up\" - Boris Johnson speaks outside Downing Street\n\nBoris Johnson has told Nicola Sturgeon that he remains opposed to a second independence referendum, despite the SNP's general election success.\n\nThe PM spoke to the first minister by phone on Friday evening, with Downing Street saying he had \"reiterated his unwavering commitment\" to the union.\n\nMr Johnson insisted the result of the 2014 referendum \"should be respected\".\n\nHowever, Ms Sturgeon made clear it was not \"credible\" to deny Scotland the right to choose its future.\n\nShe indicated during the phone call that she would be publishing a paper next week putting the case for a second independence referendum.\n\nThe two leaders have agreed to have a more detailed discussion in the near future over issues raised by an election result which saw the Conservatives take power at Westminster with an 80 seat majority and the SNP winning 48 of Scotland's 59 constituencies.\n\nThe nationalists won a landslide north of the border taking 13 more seats than in the last election in 2017 and seeing its share of the vote increase by 8.1 percentage points, to 45%.\n\nIn contrast, the Scottish Conservatives lost seven of their 13 seats in Scotland, despite Mr Johnson winning a majority of 80 across the UK as a whole - the largest majority for the Tories since 1987.\n\nIt means the UK is heading out of the EU at the end of next month, the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg said, with Mr Johnson's \"thumping\" majority allowing him to get the laws required through Parliament \"in a matter of weeks\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman confirmed that the prime minister and first minister had spoken about both Brexit and a second independence referendum in their telephone conversation.\n\nThe spokesman added: \"On Brexit, the prime minister said that he is now in a position to get this done in a way that allows the whole of the UK to move forward together, providing certainty for Scottish businesses and improving the lives of people right across Scotland.\n\n\"The prime minister made clear how he remained opposed to a second independence referendum, standing with the majority of people in Scotland who do not want to return to division and uncertainty.\n\n\"He added how the result of the 2014 referendum was decisive and should be respected.\"\n\nMeanwhile Work and Pensions Secretary Thérèse Coffey ruled out any poll on Scottish independence for the full term of the Conservative government during an appearance on BBC Radio 4's Any Questions. - even if the SNP win a majority in the 2021 Holyrood election.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Several hundred protesters took part in an anti-UK government rally in Glasgow on Friday\n\nThe conversation came after Mr Johnson spoke outside Number 10 of his hope that his party's \"extraordinary\" election win would bring \"closure\" to the Brexit debate and \"let the healing begin\".\n\nAnd he insisted he was a One Nation Conservative, which he defined as \"the idea that the Conservative Party should act for everybody in the UK. That means policies that work for people from different economic backgrounds, from different regions and from the different nations of the UK.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for the first minister said it was a \"constructive\" phone call, \"in which the [first minister] indicated she would be publishing a paper next week and the two leaders agreed to have a more detailed discussion in the near future over the issues raised by the election result\".\n\nShe added that Ms Sturgeon had \"made clear that it was not credible for the [prime minister] to deny Scotland the right to choose its future\".\n\nSpeaking in Edinburgh earlier on Friday, Ms Sturgeon said that the SNP's \"overwhelming\" election victory in Scotland \"renews, reinforces and strengthens\" the mandate to hold another referendum.\n\nShe told Mr Johnson: \"You, as the leader of a defeated party in Scotland, have no right to stand in the way. The people of Scotland have spoken. It is time now to decide our own future.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon said the Scottish government would be publishing a \"detailed, democratic case\" for letting Holyrood decide on whether there should be a second independence referendum.\n\nShe is expected to ask the UK government to transfer the legal powers to hold a referendum to the Scottish Parliament through what is known as a \"Section 30 order\" - as happened in 2014.\n\nBut she has repeatedly ruled out holding a referendum unless its legality was \"beyond doubt\".\n\nFor a nationwide breakdown of results, see our results page.\n\nOr you can browse the A-Z list.", "Former Welsh secretary Lord Hain says Labour must not resort to \"wishy-washy centrism\" after its disastrous general election showing.\n\nHe says Labour must offer \"a clear alternative to the Tory project\" which would be \"disastrous for Wales\".\n\nThe party lost six seats in Wales, leaving it with 22 of Wales' 40 MPs.\n\nLord Hain, a cabinet minister under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, says the \"intolerance\" to voters \"not necessarily of your tribe\" under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership must end.\n\nHe adds: \"The Corbyn project has some very searching self-examination [to do] that has to be done honestly.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John McDonnell says it's time for him to step aside as shadow chancellor\n\nLabour faces a \"long haul\" as it attempts to gain power following its fourth election defeat in a row, shadow chancellor John McDonnell has warned.\n\nHe rejected claims that leader Jeremy Corbyn had been responsible for the result, instead blaming \"the overwhelming issue\" of Brexit.\n\nBut some current and ex-MPs have said Mr Corbyn's unpopularity contributed to Labour losing dozens of seats.\n\nBoris Johnson's Conservatives won on Thursday with a Commons majority of 80.\n\nThe outcome, far more positive for the Tories than most opinion polls had predicted, has prompted much soul-searching within Labour, which last won a general election under Tony Blair in 2005.\n\nMr Corbyn has announced he will stand down in the near future and Mr McDonnell, one of his closest allies, said he had been \"the right leader\" for the party.\n\nBut Labour MP Phil Wilson, who lost the seat of Sedgefield which he had held for 12 years, said: \"So many people said to me on the doorstep, Phil, if you had a different leader, I'd vote for you, there wouldn't be a problem\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Phil Wilson had been the MP for Sedgefield since 2007\n\nAsked whether Mr Corbyn lost him his seat, Mr Wilson replied: \"Yes.\"\n\nFor many of his constituents, he said: \"The one thing that was holding them back from voting Labour was the current leadership of the Labour Party.\"\n\nHe added: \"For every one person who raised Brexit with me on the doorstep, there would be five people who raised Jeremy Corbyn.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Labour's Helen Goodman, who lost her Bishop Auckland seat to the Conservatives on Thursday, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that \"the biggest factor was obviously the unpopularity of Jeremy Corbyn as the leader\".\n\nAnd Dame Margaret Hodge, Labour MP for Barking, east London, said she felt \"anger because this is an election we should have won\".\n\nShe added that, under Mr Corbyn's leadership - during which Labour has faced criticism for its handling of anti-Semitism allegations among its membership - voters had come to see it \"as a nasty party\".\n\nWes Streeting, Labour MP for Ilford North, said the party's \"far-left\" manifesto had alienated much of the electorate.\n\nHowever, Labour's ex-Welsh secretary, Lord Hain, insisted the party must not embrace \"wishy-washy centrism\" in the wake of its defeat.\n\nLord Hain, a cabinet minister under both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, said the \"Corbyn project\" had some \"very searching self-examination\" to do, but it was important to offer \"a clear alternative to the Tory project\".\n\nMr McDonnell disagreed with personal criticism of his leader, saying: \"The overwhelming issue was Brexit and the Labour Party was caught on the horns of a dilemma.\n\n\"We had a party which was largely supportive of Remain, but many of us represented Leave constituencies.\"\n\nIn the election, Labour's number of Commons seats fell to 203, its lowest since 1935.\n\nMr Corbyn, leader since 2015, ran for prime minister on a promise to hold a second referendum on Brexit, saying that during any campaign he would remain neutral - in contrast to Mr Johnson's promise to take the UK out of the EU by 31 January.\n\nMr McDonnell said: \"If we went one way, to Leave, we would have alienated a lot of our Remain support. If we went for Remain, we'd alienate a lot of our Leave support.\n\n\"We tried to bring the country together. It failed. We have to accept that, take it on the chin. We have to own that and then move on.\"\n\nMr McDonnell, MP for Hayes and Harlington in west London, said Labour now needed to have \"a constructive debate\" about its future, discussing \"what went right and what went wrong\" during the election campaign.\n\nHe argued that Mr Corbyn, who has received criticism from some Labour figures for not standing down immediately, was right to stay on \"for a couple of months\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"There is no such thing as Corbynism\"\n\nIt was necessary because of the \"expertise\" required to deal with issues such as Brexit and the forthcoming Budget, he said.\n\nDiscussing Mr Johnson's government, Mr McDonnell said: \"My fear is that we're in for a long haul now, possibly five years.\n\n\"The two issues that we face are still there - huge, grotesque levels of inequality and, the issue that never really emerged in the campaign, which was climate change, this existential threat that must be our priority.\n\n\"Brexit, well, we'll see what the government brings back in terms of its negotiations. The people have decided we need to implement that, but we've got to get the best deal to protect jobs and the economy.\"\n\nHe added: \"My fear is five years of a fossil fuel-backed government under Boris Johnson means we'll miss this five-years opportunity of saving our planet.\"\n\nAt the 2017 general election, Mr Corbyn's first as Labour leader, the party won 40% of votes and gained 30 MPs, denying Theresa May's Conservatives a majority.\n\nBut on Thursday it received 32% of the vote and lost 59 seats, including several of its traditional strongholds in the north of England.\n\nMr Corbyn said that, during the election campaign, he had done \"everything I could\" and that he had \"pride\" in the party's manifesto.\n\nThe Labour leader's sons, Tommy, Seb and Benjamin, tweeted a tribute to their father, calling him an \"honest, humble and good-natured\" figure in the \"poisonous world\" of politics.", "EU leaders hope for more UK clarity on Brexit now after Boris Johnson's triumph\n\n\"Friday the 13th really has lived up to its hype,\" an EU diplomat texted me this morning. The same diplomat who mournfully noted as soon as the first exit polls were published: \"This means bye-bye to our British friends.\"\n\nThere was a heaviness of heart about Europe's leaders as they gathered in Brussels for the second day of an EU summit. They have never hidden their sadness at the UK vote to leave.\n\nBut at the same time there was a distinct sense of European relief. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte noted the election result meant \"on the British side they can speed up the process (of Brexit)\".\n\nThree years of Brexit uncertainty has been corrosive - not just in the UK, but in the EU too. It has overshadowed the workings of the bloc and been costly for European business.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEU leaders' sigh of relief at a comfortable majority for Boris Johnson has nothing to do with their political affiliations and a lot to do with \"getting Brexit done\", as the prime minister has so loved to repeat on a loop.\n\nExcept that - as Brussels is all too aware - Mr Johnson's intention to ratify the Brexit divorce deal in parliament next month, legally ending the UK's EU membership, only means getting Phase One of Brexit done.\n\nPhase Two will see the arduous task of agreeing the future relationship between the two sides. Something Boris Johnson promised voters would be signed, sealed and delivered by this time next year.\n\nEU leaders were expected to call later on Friday for a broad, ambitious, comprehensive trade deal with post-Brexit UK. But I've not met anyone in EU circles who believes that that will be possible by December 2020.\n\nBoris Johnson won the biggest Conservative majority since the days of Margaret Thatcher\n\nThe hope in Europe is that Boris Johnson's strong majority in parliament will allow him room to manoeuvre.\n\nHe will no longer be beholden to any particular faction of his party, including hardline Brexiteers, so fingers are crossed in Brussels that Mr Johnson will use that political freedom to work towards a softer Brexit - a closer relationship with the EU - carefully negotiated over time, rather than in haste over the next few months.\n\nBut the truth is no-one knows if that might be an attractive prospect for the prime minister. \"Which Boris Johnson is Europe going to get?\" asks one prominent headline in Germany's Die Welt newspaper.\n\nWhichever direction the new UK government chooses, EU leaders' main message today will be \"We are ready\".\n\nIf Boris Johnson sticks to his December 2020 timetable, the EU is preparing to offer him a bare-bones Free Trade Agreement (FTA). It says that is the most both sides could aspire to in a matter of a few months.\n\nBut plain sailing this is unlikely to be. Brussels plans to insist that in order to get that \"quick and dirty\" deal, the prime minister would have to sign up to EU conditions: alignment with EU environmental, state aid and tax regulations for example.\n\nOn Friday, European Council President Charles Michel reiterated that these so-called level playing field rules are an absolute priority for the EU.\n\nWould Boris Johnson be willing to countenance that?\n\nIf he did, voters could well ask him about the post-Brexit national sovereignty and taking back of control from the EU that he promised them.\n\nThere would also be the real risk of no deal being agreed at all. Meaning that after December 2020, the EU and UK would be trading under World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, meaning eye-watering tariffs for both sides and no agreement in place on services (which make up 80% of the UK economy), or on security co-operation (which the EU dearly hopes for).\n\nWhen it comes to trade, as was the case during the divorce talks, EU leaders believe they hold most of the cards.\n\nThe UK market is important, of course, but it is less of a priority for Brussels than the sum total of their single market.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEU leaders will not want to break rules in trade negotiations with the UK that could lead to the untangling or devaluing of their single market, or set an unfavourable precedent for them in trade talks with other countries.\n\nThat said, the EU members, and Germany in particular, are anxious that UK-EU relations should not turn sour.\n\nChancellor Angela Merkel is focused on the bigger picture. She too does not want to harm the single market - Germany is a huge beneficiary - but she is also keen not to alienate the UK.\n\nThe EU will be undeniably weaker after it loses one of its biggest and most influential members.\n\nWith an unpredictable Donald Trump in the White House, relations volatile with Russia and a growing EU wariness vis-a-vis an ambitious, autocratic China, Mrs Merkel and other EU leaders hope the UK will remain onside on the world stage, even after Brexit.", "A bushfire outside the Perth Stadium as a heatwave hits Western Australia\n\nAustralia could experience its hottest day on record next week as a severe heatwave in the country's west is set to make its way east, forecasters say.\n\nTemperatures are likely to exceed 40C in many areas from Wednesday, the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) says.\n\nThe current record of 50.7C was set on 2 January 1960 in the outback town of Oodnadatta in South Australia.\n\nFire weather warnings have been issued for parts of Western Australia and Queensland.\n\nIn Perth, in Western Australia, temperatures are forecast to remain high on the weekend, reaching 40C on Saturday and 41C on Sunday.\n\nNext week, the extreme heat is likely to continue in parts of Western Australia and also affect much of South Australia, where Adelaide should see highs of 40C on Tuesday and Wednesday, 41C on Thursday and 42C on Friday.\n\nIn Melbourne, in Victoria state, the temperature is forecast to hit 41C on Friday. The heatwave is also expected to affect areas of New South Wales and southern parts of the Northern Territory.\n\n\"We're expecting some incredibly warm conditions as we head into next week, potentially record-breaking for a number of areas across southern Australia over the next seven days or so,\" BOM meteorologist Diana Eadie was quoted by ABC as saying.\n\n\"It is not out of the realms of possibility that we could break our highest ever recorded temperature.\"\n\nThe country, she added, could also see its highest average temperature record - when all of the maximum temperatures recorded on any given day are combined - broken next week. That record is 40.3C from 7 January 2013.\n\nMeanwhile, the BOM says a fire weather warning has been issued for:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why Australia bushfires are now 'hotter and more intense'", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "Money may go further for those on Christmas holidays overseas this year\n\nAs the country contemplates the election results, people's thoughts will turn to the potential effect on their finances.\n\nMoney matters are often to the fore at this, expensive, time of year. The December election is likely to mean some changes to the pound in your pocket before the winter is out, with other changes more long-term.\n\nHere are some of the key issues, based on the Conservative Party's manifesto, its plans before the campaign and its promises during it.\n\nThose who are heading abroad for Christmas will see their holiday money go a little further.\n\nThe value of the pound improved against the US dollar and the euro when the Conservative victory became clear, and this will now have fed through to the rates at bureaux de change.\n\nHowever, travelling overseas at this time of year can be very expensive, so this will only bring a little relief.\n\nThe big set-piece financial event of the year had been planned for November, but was postponed as the prime minister pushed for an election.\n\nDuring the campaign, Boris Johnson promised a Budget within 100 days of the polling day if the Conservatives were elected. This is likely to mean a Budget in February or March, setting any changes to taxes, benefits and allowances in time for the start of the new financial year in April.\n\nMr Johnson promised that a tax break for workers, through a change to National Insurance, would be confirmed in that first Budget.\n\nThe current threshold sees workers paying National Insurance contributions once they earn £8,628 a year. The Conservatives said this would rise to £9,500.\n\nEconomists at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) calculated this would be worth about £85 a year for all those with earnings above £9,500 a year.\n\nThis Budget - and any subsequent ones during this five-year Parliament - will see no income tax or VAT rises (nor any National Insurance rises), according to a promise in the Conservative Party's manifesto. However, this was described as \"ill-advised\" by the IFS owing to the potential lack of room for financial manoeuvre it creates.\n\nThe Budget is likely to confirm the biggest increase in the state pension since 2012, with pensioners expected to receive a 3.9% boost.\n\nThe full, new state pension is expected to go up from £168.60 a week to about £175.20 in April. However, most pensioners get the older basic state pension, which is likely to go up from £129.20 to £134.25 per week. They may also get a Pension Credit top-up.\n\nThe rise is the result of the triple-lock system, which means that the state pension rises in line with inflation, earnings or 2.5% - whichever is the highest. The Conservatives have pledged to keep this in place, as it has with the winter fuel payment and free bus passes for older people.\n\nA Pensions Bill is, to use one of Mr Johnson's phrases, oven-ready. It had been prepared before the election was called and includes new protection for those with workplace pensions, and reforms to allow a new type of shared-risk pension scheme to be made available.\n\nThere is also a longer-term promise in the manifesto to look at a pension \"loophole\" that has seen workers, disproportionately women, who earn between £10,000 and £12,500 missing out on pension benefits.\n\nDespite a number of pension changes in the offing, it is hard to see how they will include any compensation for women born in the 1950s who believe they unfairly missed out on the state pension.\n\nThere have been no promises made to the so-called Waspi (Women Against State Pension Inequality), although they will continue to put pressure on the government to address the issue.\n\nThe separate Backto60 group, which campaigns on the same issue, recently lost a high-profile court case.\n\nAt the Conservative Party conference in September, Chancellor Sajid Javid pledged to raise the National Living Wage to £10.50 an hour within the next five years. The current rate for over 25s is £8.21.\n\nThe age at which workers qualify for the National Living Wage - the highest level of minimum wage - is set to drop from 25 to 21 within five years.\n\nCommentators have suggested that there is pent-up demand in the UK housing market - particularly in London. Buyers and sellers have been put off making such a big financial commitment owing to political and economic uncertainty.\n\nNow the first of those is off the table, to a degree, given the size of the Conservative majority, there may be more transactions. More demand could push up prices - which is good for sellers, but bad for first-time buyers.\n\nHowever, one commentator says it may be a short-term phenomenon.\n\n\"We suggest only modest price growth in 2020 on the basis that, despite domestic political uncertainty receding, some economic uncertainty will remain until a trade deal is agreed with the EU,\" says Lucian Cook, director of residential research at Savills.\n\n\"This could mean a bounce in demand in the first part of 2020 proves difficult to sustain through the summer months and into the autumn market.\"\n\nThere is a promise in the manifesto to look carefully at the \"thoughtful\" suggestions in the review into student finance and university and college funding, led by Philip Augar.\n\nIn the short term, this suggests the current freeze of tuition fees in England at their current level of £9,250 will continue.\n\nUniversal Credit has been one of the most controversial benefit reforms of a generation. A Conservative victory means the roll-out across the country will now continue.\n\nUniversal Credit is a benefit for working-age people, replacing six benefits including Income Support and Housing Benefit and merging them into one payment.\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions announced in November that working-age benefits such as Universal Credit and Jobseeker's Allowance would rise by 1.7% from April.\n\nIt ends former chancellor George Osborne's decision to introduce a freeze which, according to the IFS, has cut an average of £560 per year from the income of the country's poorest seven million families since 2016.\n\nThe Conservative manifesto promised free parking at hospitals for people with disabilities, those who attend outpatient departments frequently, parents of sick children staying overnight and staff working night shifts.\n\nIt also promises to pave the way for longer-term mortgages, more similar to a US system, although there will be some regulatory and practical hurdles to clear before that becomes reality. There are questions too over whether there would be demand for such products among people who may wish to move more frequently.\n\nMr Johnson also spoke a during the campaign, and prior to it, of a plan to abolish the 5% VAT rate on sanitary products once the UK has left the EU, which he called the \"tampon tax\".", "Rail passengers are being urged to check their train times before they travel from Sunday as a new winter timetable comes into effect.\n\nThe plan is that journey times will be cut, services increased and new routes added across the country, after infrastructure and carriage investment.\n\nTrain timetables are changed twice a year, in May and December.\n\nWhen train timetables were changed in May last year, chaos ensued, with massive delays and overcrowding.\n\nIndustry body the Rail Delivery Group (RDG) said the new timetable change would mean 1,000 extra weekly services, on top of 4,000 introduced over the past two years.\n\nThe launch of the May 2018 timetables saw services crippled in parts of the North and the South East, with blame attributed to Network Rail, train operators and the government.\n\nAnthony Smith, chief executive of the passenger watchdog Transport Focus, said: \"This time around, passengers need the rail industry to deliver a smooth set of timetable improvements - so they can reliably use both new and existing services.\n\n\"Many passengers should have a greater choice of services with more seats as result of these changes. However, there will also be some who lose out, with fewer or slower services.\"\n\nGuy Dangerfield, Transport Focus head of strategy, said: \"There are lots of timetable improvements which should bring great benefits to passengers in terms of capacity and journey time improvements.\n\n\"Clearly, when you change anything, there's a degree of risk, but there isn't the sort of late chopping and changing of the plans which led to the problems in May 2018.\"\n\nThe RDG sought to reassure passengers over the upcoming timetable, stating that the industry had put \"years of work into drafting, consulting and planning for these changes\".\n\nRobert Nisbet, the organisation's director of nations and regions, urged passengers to check their journey details in advance, as many train times are changing.\n\nHe said: \"Train operators and Network Rail will be working together to run a reliable service and respond quickly to any teething problems as people get used to the change.\"\n\nSunday will see the biggest timetable change on the Great Western Railway network since the 1970s, taking advantage of Network Rail's electrification of the line between London and Bristol, and the operator's new intercity express trains.\n\nNon-stop trains between London Paddington and Bristol Parkway will have journey times as short as one hour and eight minutes, shaving 12 minutes off the existing quickest services.\n\nFastest journey times between the capital and Bristol Temple Meads - near the centre of the city - will be cut by 17 minutes to one hour and 19 minutes.\n\nThe frequency of trains on this route will be increased from two an hour to three during the morning and evening peaks.\n\nThere will be major improvements on the ScotRail network, with additional services in north-east Scotland and extra seats between Edinburgh and Glasgow.\n\nA new station, Robroyston, will open in north-east Glasgow on the line between Queen Street and Cumbernauld.\n\nOther operators introducing new services are Greater Anglia, London North Eastern Railway, Northern, TfL Rail, Thameslink, Transpennine Express (TPE), Transport for Wales, West Midlands Railway and London Northwestern Railway.\n\nThe Maesteg and Conwy Valley lines in Wales will see Sunday services for the first time.\n\nTPE admitted last week that the frequency of its new direct Liverpool-Edinburgh trains will initially be lower than the planned hourly service.\n\nThe firm blamed a maintenance backlog and infrastructure problems for delaying crew training, as well as the late delivery of new trains.", "A Finnish minister has apologised for an Instagram post which asked readers whether children should be repatriated with their mothers from a Syrian camp housing Islamic State-linked people.\n\nNewly appointed Finance Minister Katri Kulmuni tweeted \"I apologise for the poll\". And she has now deleted it.\n\nThe poll, which asked people to vote either \"children only\" or \"children and mothers\", drew much criticism.\n\nAbout 10 women and 30 children at the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp are Finnish.\n\nSeveral Western governments have already repatriated some children from al-Hol and other camps in northern Syria holding foreigners linked to IS. Generally they are the families of IS jihadists killed, wounded or missing in the civil war.\n\nBut politicians are struggling over the issue: most recognise that young children are victims of war, but there are fears that many mothers are indoctrinated with violent jihadist ideology.\n\nThe nationalist Finns Party - in opposition, but the second-biggest party in parliament - opposes such repatriations.\n\nDisplaced families linked to IS live in squalid conditions at al-Hol camp\n\nMs Kulmuni, 32, said: \"I wanted to discuss this complex and difficult issue on social media. It failed and I apologise for it.\"\n\nShe heads the Centre Party in a new coalition government led by women, which took office this week.\n\nThe Instagram post was tweeted by Helsinki-based Egan Richardson on Thursday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Egan Richardson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFinland's Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto has said children cannot be repatriated without their mothers because the Syrian Kurdish forces running the camps oppose separating them.\n\nFinland's interior ministry says 20 people who went to the conflict zones in Iraq and Syria from Finland have returned.\n\n\"It is estimated that ten Finnish adults and about 30 children are currently living in the al-Hol camp,\" a ministry statement said.\n\nThe Finnish government says it is trying to supply food and medicines to the Finnish citizens there, but is not actively helping any of them to return.\n\nThe new government - a five-party, centre-left coalition - is led by the world's youngest prime minister: Sanna Marin, 34. MPs will question the government on the al-Hol issue on Tuesday.\n\n\"Seriously, #Finland?\" he tweeted. \"This is awful, if true. A state should respect the rights of its citizens in all cases... What's next, public hangings based on the volume of stadium cheers?\"", "New MP James Grundy admitted he had expected \"to lose with dignity\".\n\nLeigh has been a fearsome Labour stronghold for nearly 100 years and even Conservative candidate James Grundy expected to \"lose with dignity\". Now he's the local MP. Are his constituents as shocked as he is?\n\nIt's been Labour since 1922 and was Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham's constituency for 16 years, the man many preferred ahead of Jeremy Corbyn for the Labour leadership.\n\nNumbering a lowly 132 on the Conservatives' list of targets, Leigh was one of the strongest bricks in the the so-called \"red wall\" of Labour safe seats.\n\nIt's fair to say no-one really predicted Leigh turning blue.\n\nHowever, Mr Grundy became the constituency's new MP after securing a 1,965 majority, with a 12% swing to the party.\n\nThere was little expectation of such a seismic switch, so trying to make sense of why the former mill town has turned Tory has been a puzzle for commentators - and even for Mr Grundy.\n\n\"I came here tonight expecting to lose with dignity, rather than head down to London tomorrow,\" he said. \"I suppose I'm going to have to think on my feet about what I'm going to do.\"\n\nYet, for most of the town's residents, the result was less of a surprise.\n\nDave West supported the Conservatives despite voting to remain in the EU\n\nGreengrocer Dave West voted Conservative, despite voting remain in the referendum and expecting his business costs to rise if Britain leaves the EU.\n\nHowever, he wants to see more local investment and said he felt \"ignored\" by the previous MP, Labour's Jo Platt.\n\n\"I never even saw [her]. People have had enough. I've never seen so many people going in to vote in my life.\n\n\"I don't want to leave the EU because my lorry drivers will be in queues and much of my produce is from Spain and France, but I still voted Conservative because of everything else.\n\n\"My decision was based on local issues.\"\n\nGail Robinson said the town's last MP \"talked a lot of gibberish\"\n\nGail Robinson, who runs a delicatessen stall, was also influenced by local issues and said she was proud to have ticked the Tory box for the first time.\n\nThe 46-year-old said she \"didn't want Labour in anymore\".\n\n\"All the funding just goes to Wigan. The MP talked a lot of gibberish.\n\n\"Andy Burnham did a lot for Leigh and I had more confidence in him, but not since then.\n\n\"I'm really hoping that there's going to be a big change.\n\n\"I think that many people have just got to a point where they want to get things moving.\"\n\nJulie Riding said she thought voters \"trust Boris more with business\"\n\nFifty-five-year-old Julie Riding, who runs a gift card stall in the town's market, was on the fence as she approached the polling station and ended up spoiling her ballot paper.\n\n\"I took an online survey and it did say to vote Labour, but I just couldn't do it,\" she said.\n\n\"Jeremy Corbyn, I just don't like him.\n\n\"I did like Boris before, but now he seems to be a bit of a buffoon.\n\n\"Still, it's a big shock. The people of Leigh have always voted Labour. But they see market stalls and businesses closing down and perhaps they just trust Boris more with business.\"\n\nWilliam and Wendy Seddon have always voted Tory\n\nNot everyone in Leigh has simply changed allegiances from red to blue.\n\nWilliam and Wendy Seddon have lived in Leigh all their lives and have always voted Conservative.\n\nMrs Seddon said the result was \"absolutely fantastic\".\n\n\"We've had to fight hard and wait a long time, but it's just great news,\" she said.\n\n\"We want more money put into the NHS and investment and reinvestment in the town. Everything has always focussed on [neighbouring] Wigan.\"\n\nThe retired childminder said while she understood the NHS and investment in northern towns were key elements of Jeremy Corbyn's campaign, she felt he never explained where he was \"going to get the money from\".\n\nHer husband, a retired HGV driver, said electing Labour \"would've cost us\".\n\n\"All they wanted to do is tax us. We've had to fight to get what we've wanted, but now hopefully things will change.\"\n\nPolice officer Dave Trownson, 42, has supported Labour all his life but turned to the Conservatives out of frustration at the long Brexit impasse.\n\n\"It's a massive Labour area and it always has been, but it didn't feel strange for me to vote Conservative - it just felt like the logical thing to do.\n\n\"People want to get Brexit done and move on, and they were the only people offering that. I feel optimistic. We are Great Britain, we are a strong country and a powerful country.\n\n\"I voted to leave but no-one's wanted to take us out apart from Boris. Corbyn was too on the fence.\"\n\nIf you can't see the graphic click here", "A mother has been found guilty of giving her son prescription drugs that led to his death.\n\nTyler Peck, 15, was found dead at his mother Holly Strawbridge's home the morning after a drugs binge, Plymouth Crown Court heard.\n\nStrawbridge, 34, of Salcombe, Devon, has also been found guilty of supplying Class-A drugs to another child under 16 and two counts of child cruelty.\n\nThe jury reached a unanimous verdict after deliberating for six hours.\n\nTyler died from an overdose of morphine drug Oramorph and Gabapentin.\n\nHe was described in court as a \"bright, thoughtful and caring young man\" by social workers.\n\nTyler Peck was found dead at his mother's house in Salcombe, Devon\n\nThe judge has ordered pre-sentencing reports but said a prison sentence was inevitable.\n\nStrawbridge will be sentenced on 17 January and was granted bail so she could attend her mother's funeral.\n\nA boy who was with Tyler on the evening before he died told police Strawbridge had been putting Oramorph and other drugs into their drinks.\n\nThe court heard Strawbridge was \"drunk off her face\" on the night her son died.\n\nThere were separate claims by another witness that the defendant had been supplying Tyler with drugs for two years.\n\nHer home was known as a place to \"get hammered\", said another witness.\n\nTyler regularly took drugs and his mother encouraged him, even selling him Valium on one occasion, the court was told.\n\nAnother witness said she saw Strawbridge showing Tyler how to snort crushed-up pills.\n\nHe overdosed on Valium in January 2018 and was diagnosed with \"drugs psychosis\". After the overdose, Tyler was admitted to Torbay Hospital.\n\nHe told social workers he was \"scared\" about his future and wanted help, but after he was discharged Strawbridge \"dismissed\" offers of help, social services said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nicola Sturgeon maintained throughout the election campaign that she did not want to see Boris Johnson returned to Downing Street as prime minister.\n\nBut the SNP leader knows that a majority Tory government in Westminster, while Scotland voted very differently, is the result most likely to advance her greatest ambition - independence for Scotland.\n\nThe party which dominates Scotland is now set on a constitutional collision course with the UK government.\n\nThe SNP's strongest argument is that Scotland and the rest of UK are moving in different political directions.\n\nAnd that's been vividly demonstrated as England embraces the Tories whilst they have lost votes and lost seats north of the border.\n\nThe UK will now move on to leaving the EU at the same time as the two parties who campaigned to stop Brexit, the SNP and the Lib Dems, increased their vote share in Scotland.\n\nThe SNP took a gamble by making their demand for a second independence referendum central to their campaign. That's a policy that can enthuse their voters, but runs the risk of galvanizing people who don't want to leave the UK to turn out and vote against the SNP.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives campaigned on a slogan of \"Tell her again, say no to indyref2\".\n\nBut that's not what happened. The Tories lost seven of their 13 Scottish seats and the SNP won 13. They now hold 48 of 59 MPs in Scotland, with one sitting as an independent.\n\nBoris Johnson will refuse to grant the legal power to hold an independence vote\n\nThis result cannot be interpreted as an outright demand for Scottish independence. But the SNP will vigorously argue that it does mean Scotland must be allowed to make a choice about its future - inside or outside the UK.\n\nNicola Sturgeon says she won't pretend that every single person who voted SNP necessarily supports independence. But she will insist this result is a thumping endorsement of her demand for a second referendum.\n\nShe will make an official request in the next few days to be granted the legal power to hold an independence vote.\n\nAnd we know that Boris Johnson will refuse, sparking a huge debate about whether the Conservatives are ignoring the democratic choice of Scottish voters.\n\nIt's a debate that can only escalate as we leave the EU - and one which may fuel support for independence itself.", "Labour's Donald Dewar was the inaugural Scottish first minister\n\nThe issue of mandates has a venerable pedigree in Scottish politics. Venerable, but not always clear and sharp.\n\nDuring a previous period of Scottish Labour frustration, the late Donald Dewar briefly flirted with the suggestion that the Tories had no mandate to govern Scotland, given their relative lack of MPs north of the border.\n\nIt swiftly occurred to the astute Mr Dewar that this was not an argument which sat at all easily with a Unionist perspective. It was duly dumped in favour of another more straightforward push for devolved self-government.\n\nAt the core of the Dewar dilemma there was a philosophical and psephological problem.\n\nBy challenging the Tory mandate, he was positing an argument based upon the presumption that Scottish voting held unique and unchallenged sway.\n\nNicola Sturgeon prespares to address the media after the SNP's impressive general election performance\n\nA supporter of the Union will always argue - must always argue - that the Scottish perspective sits within and alongside the concerns of that wider UK electorate.\n\nThat fundamental argument is now back. In truth, it never went away. Nicola Sturgeon says she has a mandate to hold a further referendum on Scottish independence.\n\nShe says that mandate arises from a Holyrood vote, following her party's return to devolved power on a manifesto in a Scottish election which reserved the right to revisit the independence plebiscite if Scotland were to be taken out of the EU against the will of her people.\n\nOvernight, she enhanced that argument somewhat. She said she now had to accept, with regret, that Boris Johnson had a mandate to take England out of the EU.\n\nThat mandate, she insisted, did not extend to Scotland. Indeed, by contrast, her party's stunning victory north of the border argued the exact contrary.\n\nNow, from her perspective, this is all entirely understandable. She posits a Scottish voting bloc. She takes her instructions - strictly, her mandate - solely from that Scottish bloc.\n\nJackson Carlaw said he would support a no-deal Brexit\n\nThis is, of course, fundamental for the leader of her party. The clue lies in the name.\n\nBut, as Ms Sturgeon knows very well, no Unionist can accept such a mandate, at least not without qualifying it in the context of that Union.\n\nSo Tories - and others who support the Union - will say that Scotland voted, in 2014, to remain within the United Kingdom - and that the UK as a whole has just elected a Conservative government, with an instruction, a mandate, to get the UK out of the EU. Entire, as a whole.\n\nAgain, as Ms Sturgeon well understands, this fundamental division cannot be elided. It cannot be wished away.\n\nAnd it now exists formally again. The returned prime minister has yet to say much, if anything, about Scotland, while basking in his UK victory.\n\nBut Jackson Carlaw, the interim Scots Tory leader, has said plenty. He insists that the Tories have been instructed to stand firm in defence of said Union. And they will do so, rejecting Ms Sturgeon's pressure for indyref2.\n\nMs Sturgeon will continue to insist upon her mandate, challenging her rivals to stand down, to give way. The Tories will continue to insist upon their UK mandate.\n\nThat way lies political stasis, at least in the short term. Ms Sturgeon wants a legally sanctioned referendum, not an unofficial ballot.\n\nGiven that, it is difficult to see what precise actions lie available to her. I think a law suit is improbable. The law is clear. The power to call a constitutional referendum rests with Westminster in the Scotland Act.\n\nSo perhaps, instead of mandate, we should consider momentum. Political muscle.\n\nMs Sturgeon's clout has palpably strengthened. She won more seats, more votes. She has evident momentum.\n\nConsider the alternative. Had she lost votes and seats, the air would have been rich with supporters of the Union claiming that the case for indyref2 had gone backwards.\n\nIt has plainly gone forwards. If the Tories continue to resist, as they say they will, then this will, at the very minimum, be a core question at the next Holyrood elections in 2021.\n\nWhich is scarcely good news for other parties in Scotland as it will tend to polarise Scottish opinion still more sharply between the SNP and the Tories.\n\nRichard Leonard and Jeremy Corbyn during Labour's Scottish conference in March\n\nLabour, for example, has suffered a catastrophic result in Scotland, partly through a failure of leadership, but partly through vacillation on the two big issues of Brexit and independence.\n\nAs Kezia Dugdale said on the excellent BBC Scotland election results show (whaddya mean, you weren't watching?), if you stand in the middle of the road, you tend to get knocked down.\n\nThere will now be a period of soul-searching within Labour. The self-styled People's Party failed to persuade anything like enough people to support it.\n\nBy soul-searching, I mean an almighty rammy. But a rammy with nuance. Mr Corbyn is going, perhaps with a gentle push to ensure he moves over sooner.\n\nBut what of Richard Leonard? He has his critics - who say the party organisation in Scotland was lamentable, the seat targeting implausible and the message incoherent.\n\nBut, for now, those critics seem disinclined to move for Mr Leonard's replacement. The thought seems to be that they want the Left to \"own\" defeat, just as the Left were keen to trumpet the failure of other, earlier leaders.\n\nThen there will be an endeavour at reform, including clarifying the party's stance on constitutional issues.\n\nSome, like Lesley Laird on that same excellent programme, will lament that. They say these constitutional issues are a distraction.\n\nAs I noted on the same… (OK, enough plugs), that sounded to me exactly like the Tories. Devolution never mentioned on the doorsteps No appetite. They kept that refrain going up to the moment when they lost every Scottish Westminster seat in 1997.\n\nAnd the Liberal Democrats. A sigh of relief at holding on to three seats. A whoop of delight at taking North East Fife. And a yell of despair at Jo Swinson's defeat.\n\nBut they are still there. Still in play. In a game, which just changed the rules again.", "Haggling could save households £120 a year on broadband, but 45% of customers have not asked their current provider for a better deal, according to Which?\n\nThe consumer group found that 78% of people who negotiated were offered an incentive, discount or a better deal.\n\nMore than 5,000 customers were asked by Which? whether they had haggled for a new deal or switched in the past year, and if so, how much they had saved.\n\nA total of 52% found haggling easy and 27% said it was difficult.\n\nWhile 45% of those asked said they had never contacted their current provider to ask for a better deal, 38% had never switched provider and 24% had not switched for more than three years.\n\nOf the customers who said they have not recently negotiated with their provider, 51% said they were paying the same as when they first signed up.\n\nTwo-fifths who had not attempted to haggle with their provider said it was because they were happy with the current price they were paying.\n\nWhile 71% of those who switched provider said the process was easy, 27% experienced time without an internet connection during the move.\n\nNatalie Hitchins, Which? head of home products and services, said: \"Many of us obediently pay our bills throughout the year without ever giving it a second thought, but just one phone call or online chat could save you £120 this Christmas.\n\n\"There are bigger savings to be had for those willing to switch to a new provider, but even if you are happy where you are, don't be afraid to ask for a discount - it could make all the difference.\"\n\nFor most customers, switching is straightforward, Which? said, as most customers need only contact the provider they are moving to.\n\nThis provider-led switching is in place for all the providers using the Openreach network, including BT, EE, Plusnet, Sky, TalkTalk, Vodafone and Zen Internet.\n\nCustomers switching to or from a separate network need to go through the cease and re-provide process, which involves asking the previous provider to switch the old connection off and the customer having to co-ordinate the move to the new provider themselves.\n\nRegulator Ofcom is due to consult on changes to the switching process next year, which could make the process easier.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jo Swinson: \"We have been true to ourselves\"\n\nJo Swinson has said she is \"proud\" to have been the first woman to lead the Liberal Democrats as she prepares to step down as party leader.\n\nMs Swinson, who lost her seat to the SNP's Amy Callaghan, said she was \"devastated\" by the election result.\n\nAddressing supporters in London, she warned of a growing tide of populism and urged her party to \"regroup\". The Lib Dems dropped from 12 to 11 seats.\n\nSir Ed Davey and Baroness Sal Brinton will take over as acting co-leaders.\n\n\"I'm proud to have been the first woman to have led the Liberal Democrats. I'm even more proud that I will not be the last.\n\n\"One of the realities of smashing glass ceilings is that a lot of broken glass comes down on your head\", she added.\n\nShe spoke of the experience of current Lib Dem spokeswomen Layla Moran, Christine Jardine, Wera Hobhouse and Sarah Olney, as well as welcoming the party's newly-elected female MPs.\n\nShe said she was \"proud\" that the Lib Dems advocated remaining in the EU, telling supporters: \"Obviously it hasn't worked. And I, like you, am devastated about that, but I don't regret trying.\"\n\nMs Swinson said the UK was in the \"grip of populism, with nationalism resurgent in all its forms\", but encouraged people to remain hopeful, adding there will be a \"way out of this nationalist surge\".\n\nDuring the last parliament, the Lib Dems welcomed MPs who defected from other parties, including Chuka Umunna and Luciana Berger from Labour, and the former Tory minister Sam Gyimah.\n\nHowever, all three were defeated. Ms Swinson apologised for not being able to get them elected.\n\nShe criticised the leaders of both Labour and the Conservatives, saying voters were forced to choose the \"least worst option\".\n\nMs Swinson said that racism had become mainstream, criticising Labour's stance on anti-Semitism and accusing the Conservatives of \"failing on Islamophobia\".\n\nThe outgoing Lib Dem leader started the campaign saying she could become the next prime minister, but she lost her Dunbartonshire East when Ms Callaghan won 19,672 compared to her 19,523 votes.\n\nThe SNP leader reacting to the news of Ms Swinson's loss\n\nMs Sturgeon has since apologised for cheering while the election result was read out, telling Sky News she \"got overexcited\" at the performance of the SNP.\n\nMs Sturgeon has offered her commiserations to Ms Swinson on a personal level, saying she had a great deal of sympathy for her.\n\nIn her closing remarks, Ms Swinson said: \"Next week is the shortest day. We will see more light in the future. Join us for that journey. Let's explore the way together with hope in our hearts.\"", "This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’.", "Use the search box to find full results and updates from every constituency.\n\nOr you can browse the A-Z list.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the Strictly Come Dancing 2019 winner be announced\n\nFormer Emmerdale actor Kelvin Fletcher, who was only drafted into Strictly Come Dancing as a last-minute replacement, has been voted this year's winner.\n\nKelvin and professional partner Oti Mabuse lifted this year's glitterball trophy on BBC One on Saturday.\n\nThey triumphed over Karim Zeroual and Amy Dowden; and Emma Barton and Anton Du Beke, after topping a public vote.\n\nKelvin said: \"I am absolutely speechless. I did not expect that, it's just been such a privilege to be here.\"\n\nThe couples performed three dances in Saturday's final - a judges' pick dance, their own favourite routine from the series and a new showdance.\n\nAlthough Kelvin and Oti came second on the judges' scoring, only the public vote counted in the final.\n\nThe final saw all the contestants of the series reunite for one last dance\n\nSome fans complained they were unable to vote online, with many saying they were being told they had reached their \"maximum number of votes allowed\" despite not having yet cast a vote.\n\nThe BBC reminded people having difficulties that they could vote by phone.\n\nKelvin was only called up after Made In Chelsea star Jamie Laing injured his foot while recording the launch show - and the fellow TV star tweeted his congratulations:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jamie Laing This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nKelvin, who broke down in tears after his victory, said: \"I think this show represents everything that is amazing with this country. I think the people personify what is great and it's just been an absolute privilege.\"\n\nIn a post on Twitter, he said he was \"humbled, elated, honoured\", adding: \"Team #Floti did it!\"\n\nKelvin and Oti began their routines with a sensual rumba to Ain't No Sunshine by Bill Withers for which they scored 39 points, followed by a perfect-score showdance to Shout by The Isley Brothers.\n\nJudge Bruno Tonioli said their showdance was \"almost like watching 13 weeks of all the best of Strictly Come Dancing condensed into one dance\" and Oti's sister and fellow judge Motsi Mabuse, who joined the panel this year, said: \"I have no words...\"\n\n'You just put the show in showdance,' said presenter Tess Daly\n\nFor their final dance, they revisited their samba to La Vida Es Un Carnaval by Celia Cruz, which they performed in week one.\n\nJudge Shirley Ballas said to Kelvin: \"Which part of that body doesn't move? Fantastic, congratulations, I have no words, you've left me speechless.\" He scored 39 for the second time of the night.\n\nThe Strictly win will give a huge boost to Kelvin, three years after he left his role as Andy Sugden in the long-running ITV soap, which he had played for two decades.\n\nIt is also the first time Oti has lifted the trophy. Speaking through tears, she said: \"I've been on this show for five years and I have never ever met any celeb who gives his heart, his soul...\n\n\"If something is not working we stay in training and rehearse, not because he wanted to win but because he genuinely, genuinely loves dancing, and for me that is the best gift and the best ending to my year, so thank you.\"\n\nCBBC presenter Karim and his partner Amy performed the quickstep to Mr Pinstripe Suit - and were the only pair to get a perfect score for their first dance.\n\nTheir showdance to A Million Dreams from The Greatest Showman landed them 39 points and they scored a second perfect 40 for their jive to You Can't Stop The Beat from Hairspray.\n\nEmma and Anton opened with the Charleston to Thoroughly Modern Millie, which they first performed on musicals' week.\n\nTonioli told Emma, who is best-known for playing Honey Mitchell in BBC show EastEnders, that she was his \"favourite flapper ever\".\n\nBut the pair missed out on a perfect score by one point after judge Craig Revel Horwood pulled them up on a \"sync issue\".\n\nTheir showdance to Let Yourself Go by Irving Berlin won them 38 points and their final dance - the Viennese waltz to the musical song Send In The Clowns - netted them 39.\n\nAfter their final performance, Emma praised her dance partner, saying: \"Anton, the king of ballroom, thank you for allowing me to be your Queen for the last three months.\"\n\nTV critic Emma Bullimore said lots of fans thought \"this was Anton's moment\" to lift the glitterball \"but it wasn't to be\".\n\nCommenting on newspaper reports that he might quit the show, she said: \"He's going to have to call it at some point - there's no getting round it, he is much older than the other dancers. But I wouldn't be surprised if he carries on for a bit.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This election has set the bar for unpredictable results, even by recent standards in Northern Ireland.\n\nIn 2017, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Sinn Féin ended up with all but one of the 18 Westminster seats allocated to Northern Ireland.\n\nThis time they have both suffered some bruising defeats.\n\nOut of all the Northern Ireland parties the DUP had the most to lose.\n\nAfter the last general election, it found itself to be a kingmaker, securing 10 seats and holding the balance of power in a hung Parliament.\n\nBut as the exit poll declared Boris Johnson was on course for a big majority, some DUP faces already looked downbeat.\n\nWhat followed was to be a bruising night for the unionist party, dropping from three seats in Belfast to just one.\n\nIt had already been facing a tough fight to retain its South Belfast seat but the effect of losing Nigel Dodds, the party's deputy leader, in North Belfast, is much more significant.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Pan-nationalist front has come to fruition again'\n\nHe had held the seat since 2001 and was regarded as the DUP's most experienced and savvy operator in the House of Commons.\n\nIt had been expected to be a close fight but in the end Mr Dodds lost by 1,943 votes to John Finucane of Sinn Féin.\n\nIt is worth remembering the nationalist parties had agreed a pro-Remain electoral pact in North Belfast - the SDLP for the first time agreed not to stand a candidate.\n\nIt appears to have benefited both parties with the decision in return paying off for the SDLP in South Belfast, where Sinn Féin agreed not to stand in order to maximise the pro-Remain vote to unseat Emma Little-Pengelly of the DUP.\n\nThat pact did not apply in Foyle, however, where SDLP leader Colum Eastwood unseated Sinn Féin's Elisha McCallion and she saw a huge decrease in her vote - that will be a bitter pill to swallow.\n\nElisha McCallion congratulated Colum Eastwood, who took her seat in Foyle\n\nMr Eastwood had argued that in order to effect change MPs need to take their seats - an argument against abstentionism that voters in Foyle clearly backed.\n\nGiven the SDLP lost all three of its Westminster seats in 2017, winning back South Belfast and Foyle - both with massive majorities - makes them the comeback kids of this election.\n\nIt was the only party not to stand aside in any constituency as part of an electoral pact, a decision it argues has paid off with its vote up across the board.\n\nThere were shockwaves when it first emerged in North Down that the Alliance Party's Stephen Farry was on course to take the seat vacated by independent unionist Lady Hermon.\n\nStephen Farry beat the DUP's Alex Easton to take the seat in North Down\n\nMany commentators had predicted the DUP's Alex Easton, who came a close second in 2017, would secure it.\n\nFew bet that the Alliance surge witnessed in the council and European elections - which use a different voting system than first-past-the-post - would translate to a seat for the party on the green benches.\n\nNot only did he win the seat but the party's deputy leader took an even bigger vote than Lady Hermon did two years ago.\n\nThe Ulster Unionist leader Steve Aiken, having only taken over a month ago, is already in a tough spot and faces some difficult choices going forward.\n\nHe ended up in third in the race for East Antrim, miles behind the DUP and the Alliance Party.\n\nHe may also come to regret standing aside for the DUP in North Belfast - when he had originally intended to run candidates in all 18 constituencies but bowed to pressure from within unionism and faced threats from loyalist paramilitaries.\n\nSome voters may have used their ballot to punish Northern Ireland's big two parties\n\nFor the first time, unionism no longer has a majority at Westminster or Stormont - a statistic many would have believed unthinkable just a few years ago.\n\nAnd what about the national picture - what does that mean for Northern Ireland?\n\nIt looks like Boris Johnson will be able to press ahead with his Brexit deal through Parliament in spite of opposition from the DUP - the party's influence is gone and its concerns about the withdrawal agreement will probably fall on deaf ears.\n\nIt was noticeable that the DUP MPs who did retain their seats used their victory speeches to urge the return of power-sharing in Northern Ireland.\n\nAfter the last general election the DUP and Sinn Féin were riding respective waves of success at Westminster and felt no need to go back to Stormont.\n\nTwo and a half years on, with devolution still not back in place, perhaps some voters used their ballot to punish the big two parties this time.\n\nAnother round of talks is due to begin on 16 December aimed at kick-starting Stormont.\n\nIf it fails the government has insisted a new Northern Ireland Assembly election will be called.\n\nGiven the latest results the DUP and Sinn Féin might not be keen on facing the wrath of some voters at the ballot box again so soon.\n\nAnd anyway, indications during the campaign pointed to the two parties already moving towards some kind of compromise.\n\nThe question now is what exactly that compromise will entail and just how soon they will reach it.", "They have made gains in Labour heartlands across northern England and Wales. The SNP have made gains across Scotland.\n\nLabour have had their worst return of seats in any general election since 1935.\n\nBoth Labour and the Liberal Democrats now have more female than male MPs.\n\nThe interactive map below shows all the seats that have changed from one party to another. Select the \"results\" tab to see what has happened in the rest of the UK.\n\nThe Conservatives increased their vote share in many areas that voted Leave in the 2016 EU referendum.\n\nBy contrast they lost votes in strong Remain constituencies such as those in Scotland and London. But Labour lost votes in both strong Remain and strong Leave areas.\n\nStrong Leave and strong Remain constituencies are those where an estimated 60% or more of the electorate voted for that option at the EU referendum.\n\nThese estimates of constituency Brexit votes were modelled by Professor Chris Hanretty, as the 2016 referendum result was only recorded by local authority and not by Westminster constituency.\n\nThe Conservatives were clear winners in constituencies estimated to have voted majority Leave in 2016. They won almost three quarters of all these seats.\n\nBy contrast, there was no clear winner among Remain backing constituencies, with a crowded field of parties all winning substantial numbers of seats.\n\nLabour did best of all those parties but only took 40% of the constituencies that backed Remain.\n\nLabour also straddled the Brexit divide taking a roughly equal number of Leave (106) and Remain (96) seats.\n\nMost other parties had a clearer Brexit divide.\n\nOverall, the Conservatives broke new ground, moving into many traditional Labour heartlands.\n\nIn 2017, Labour held 72 of the 100 constituencies with the most working class households (defined as C2DE using data from the 2011 census).\n\nIn 2019, this figure fell to 53 and the Conservatives increased their share from 13 to 31.\n\nIn every nation and region of Britain, the scale of Labour's losses outweighed any gains made by the Conservatives.\n\nThe Conservatives did lose votes in the south of England and Scotland, but these were balanced by gains in the rest of England and Wales.\n\nThe Lib Dems increased their share of the vote across the UK, but failed to translate these gains into more seats.\n\nIn Scotland, the SNP made 14 gains, and lost just one seat, while the Conservatives lost seven and Labour lost six seats.\n\nIn Wales, the Conservatives gained six seats and Labour lost six, mostly in the north east. Overall, Labour's share of the vote was down to 41% from 49% in 2017.\n\nThe Conservatives polled consistently well across England and most of Wales, reflecting their overall 44% share of the UK vote.\n\nYou can use the interactive map below to show the vote share for other parties as well as the turnout.\n\nLabour's strength was concentrated in London and areas around cities in south Wales, the North East and North West. At 32%, Labour's share of the vote is down around eight points on the 2017 general election.\n\nOverall, they lost 60 seats and gained only one, Putney in London.\n\nA total of 220 female MPs have been elected. This is 12 more than the previous high of 208 in 2017.\n\nFor the first time, both the Liberal Democrats and Labour have more women MPs than men. Of Labour's 202 MPs (excluding Speaker Lindsay Hoyle), 104 are women and of the Liberal Democrats' 11 MPs, seven are women.\n\nTurnout, on what was a cold and damp polling day, was 67.3%. slightly lower than the last election in June 2017.\n• None What is the result in my area?", "The suspected robbery happened outside this hotel in the exclusive Puerto Madero area\n\nA British man has been killed and his stepson wounded after being shot during a suspected robbery outside a five-star hotel in Buenos Aires, officials say.\n\nThe victims are believed to be Matthew Gibbard, 50, a businessman from Northamptonshire, and Stefan Zone, 28.\n\nThey were taken to hospital after the attack in the Puerto Madero area of the Argentine capital.\n\nFour people have been arrested after police investigating the crime carried out 18 raids, local officials said.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was supporting the family of two British men after an incident in Buenos Aires.\n\nSecurity camera footage shows the two men getting out of a white van outside the Faena Art Hotel in Puerto Madero, an exclusive waterfront district popular with tourists.\n\nAt about 11:00 local time (14:00 GMT) on Saturday, they were approached by at least two men on a motorbike, apparently accompanied by another vehicle.\n\nThe images show the two British nationals resisting the attempt to steal their baggage, and a fight goes on for some 40 seconds. The suspects left the scene and police are still searching for them.\n\nPolice are trying to establish whether the men were victims of a random attack or followed by the robbers from the airport, Clarín newspaper reports (in Spanish). According to the newspaper, the 50-year-old's mother and wife as well as the 28-year-old's wife and his brother were with them.\n\nA Foreign Office spokeswoman said: \"We are supporting the family of two British men following an incident in Buenos Aires, and are in contact with the local authorities there.\"\n\nThe hotel is located in an exclusive neighbourhood of Buenos Aires\n\nArgentina's newly elected president, Alberto Fernandez, who lives near the hotel in Puerto Madero, has responded to the robbery.\n\n\"We must be tough,\" he said. \"We can't put up with this. We need to find the people responsible for this and make them pay with the full force of the law.\"\n\n\"It was an atrocious incident, like many that happen in Argentina, because criminality hasn't gone down, despite what the official figures say.\n\n\"I urge everyone to stand up to it and be uncompromising when facing crime.\"\n\nAttacks by robbers on motorbikes, known as motochorros, are not uncommon in Buenos Aires. The city is generally safe, but other foreigners have been targeted in the past.\n\nTravel expert Simon Calder told the BBC that crime in parts of Latin America is \"opportunist\".\n\n\"This is an awful tragedy,\" he said. \"I'm afraid crime, particularly aimed at well-to-do tourists, is all too common, not just in Buenos Aires but in the big South American cities.\n\n\"Argentina is a superb a destination, very safe, and a welcoming country.\n\n\"Unfortunately, like elsewhere in Latin America, there are criminals who will use violence if they need too.\n\n\"My advice is to run away if you can or hand over what they want.\"\n\nMore than 111,000 British nationals visited Argentina in 2018, according to the Foreign Office, which said most visits are \"trouble-free\".\n\nTourists are warned to be alert to street crime, including armed robberies, and advised to hand over cash and valuables without resistance.", "Dennis Skinner was known as the Beast of Bolsover\n\nVeteran Labour politician Dennis Skinner, 87, has lost the seat he had held since 1970 after being defeated by Conservative Mark Fletcher. Why did 2019 prove to be an election too far for the so-called Beast of Bolsover?\n\nDennis Skinner was not present at the overnight count in his Derbyshire constituency, having recently undergone hip surgery.\n\nHis absence held a sad irony, given that he has been very much an ever-present in British politics for the best part of five decades.\n\nLike him or loathe him, his memorable public image - the famous finger, the voice raised above the Commons cacophony - struck a chord with many.\n\nDennis Skinner famously used his fearsome forefinger to hammer home his points\n\nHe supported the miners through the strike and beyond, fought for their pensions rights and was suspended from the House of Commons numerous times for what was deemed \"unparliamentary language\".\n\nHis humorous heckles at the State Opening of Parliament became one of the endearing features of Commons life, where he became well-known for expressing his republican beliefs by heckling during the Queen's Speech ceremony.\n\nHis quips included \"Tell her to pay her tax\" in 1992 and \"Have you got Helen Mirren on standby?\" following the release of the film The Queen.\n\nFor decades Dennis Skinner (l), seen marching on Parliament with miners' president Arthur Scargill, represented Bolsover, a former industrial area\n\nWithin his Bolsover constituency Mr Skinner was, for many years, seen as part of the landscape.\n\nThe area includes many former pit communities which have struggled since the closure of the mines, with many blaming the situation on former Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.\n\nFor decades voters trusted Mr Skinner - himself a miner's son who worked down a pit - with representing their views.\n\nMother-of-six Mandy McKenna said it \"hurt\" to vote Conservative but she had \"no faith\" in Labour's leadership\n\nLifelong Bolsover resident and mother-of-six Mandy McKenna, 36, said people stopped trusting in Labour.\n\n\"Voting for Labour felt like a wasted vote,\" she said. \"I voted for the Conservatives. It hurt - I didn't want to - but I felt I should vote for someone.\"\n\nShe said she felt \"surprised\" Mr Skinner lost his seat but added: \"No-one round here has any faith in Jeremy Corbyn.\"\n\n\"It's the things he's done in the past, like the IRA stuff,\" she said. \"If Labour got a new leader, people would be a lot happier.\n\n\"I think people voted more tactically than from actually wanting to vote for the Conservatives. My family have voted Labour all my life.\"\n\nMalcolm Tomlinson says he could not vote for Jeremy Corbyn\n\nFormer miner Malcolm Tomlinson, 75, who took part in two strikes, said he voted Conservative and was happy with the result.\n\n\"I've voted Labour all my life but I just didn't like Corbyn or his cronies. It's nothing to do with Brexit, although we did vote leave. If Labour had a decent leader I wouldn't have changed.\n\n\"Bolsover hasn't had much money spent on it. I never see Dennis Skinner around.\"\n\nHe described the Labour party as \"crippled\" by the result.\n\n\"All that red gone - all those die-hard Labour voters changed sides. It's sad.\"\n\nNicky Cann, 29, who works in a pub said he also felt a sense of sadness.\n\n\"I'm gutted,\" he said. \"Not about Labour losing but about Dennis Skinner. He was a good MP.\n\n\"I knew the Conservatives would win but didn't think it'd be here.\"\n\nRosalie Welton, (right) pictured with her friend Wendy O'Brien, said she \"felt like a traitor\" for not supporting Labour\n\nRosalie Welton, 75, a retired hospital worker, said she voted for the independent candidate.\n\n\"Corbyn has smashed Labour,\" she said. \"I've voted for them for 50 years but they're nothing like what I used to vote for now.\n\n\"I felt like a traitor, I really did. But I was not going to vote for him - he wanted another referendum when we've already had one.\"\n\nKaren Hepworth, 62, who runs a crafts stall in Bolsover, would not say how she had voted but blamed Jeremy Corbyn for the result.\n\n\"Everyone says the same thing: they don't like him and they're fed up with Brexit.\n\n\"We have absolutely nothing - it's disgraceful.\n\n\"If we lived down south, we'd not have this problem but they don't spend money here.\"\n\nKaren Hepworth says the area has been neglected\n\nThe perception that the constituency had been neglected - particularly in the town of Shirebrook, the home of Mike Ashley's Sports Direct headquarters - rang true with many voters.\n\nTroy Kissane, a plumber from Shirebrook, would not reveal how he voted but said Mr Skinner had, \"had his time\".\n\n\"He's way too old,\" he said. \"This area has been solid Labour for years and years but that's all changed round since the Brexit vote.\n\n\"Shirebrook has had a huge amount of immigration to deal with and it's had a massive effect on things like doctors' surgeries.\n\nBut at the miners' welfare charity in Shirebrook, the post-election mood was one of disbelief and deflation.\n\nFormer miner Alan Gascoyne, now the charity secretary, said: \"We're all in here slitting our wrists.\n\n\"Most of us would rather chop our hands off than put a cross in a box for a Tory. We never thought we would see this day.\"\n\nAlan Gascoyne says he has had a \"few arguments\" with former miners who have voted Conservative in this election\n\nAnd yet, Mr Gascoyne admits he does know some former miners who have voted Conservative.\n\n\"I've had a few arguments with people,\" he said. \"Basically, there are two things that keep getting mentioned. The Labour party is seen as having stalled Brexit. When Theresa May got that deal, we should have supported it and got out.\n\n\"I suspect that, even though Dennis Skinner voted for Brexit, he has been tarred with that brush.\n\n\"And the other thing is Jeremy Corbyn. People don't like him. It feels as if the Labour leadership are London-based and have forgotten about these solid Labour areas. And people think, 'Well, we'll show them'.\"\n\nCertainly, Mr Skinner's Conservative successor Mark Fletcher, who took 47% of the vote, as the chart above shows, is conscious that he has big boots to fill.\n\nIn an emotional tribute to the veteran, Mr Fletcher said: \"Dennis Skinner has served this seat with tremendous distinction. He has been a wonderful constituency MP and he has inspired millions of people.\n\n\"I'm very sad he can't be here, because I haven't found a street that I've walked up and down in this constituency where Dennis hasn't helped somebody.\n\n\"Dennis, if you're watching, I want you to know the love and affection of the people of Bolsover is very much still with you.\"\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n• None General election 2019: What questions do you have?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"There is no such thing as Corbynism\"\n\nJeremy Corbyn says he did \"everything he could\" to get Labour into power and will not \"walk away\" until another leader is elected.\n\nThe Labour leader said the election, which saw the Conservatives sweep aside his party in its traditional heartlands, was \"taken over by Brexit\".\n\nMr Corbyn said he was \"obviously very sad\" but also had \"pride\" in the manifesto his party put forward.\n\nSome people within Labour have blamed Mr Corbyn's leadership for the defeat.\n\nFormer Labour MP John Mann said the leader's unpopularity on the doorstep was palpable and Mr Corbyn should have \"gone already\" after presiding over his party's worst election performance since the 1930s.\n\nLord Blunkett, a former Labour cabinet minister, called for the party leadership to apologise for the defeat, adding that they were \"lacking in any contrite belief that they made a mistake\".\n\nAt 33%, Labour's share of the vote was down around eight points on the 2017 general election and is lower than that achieved by Neil Kinnock in 1992.\n\nMr Corbyn said it was up to the National Executive, the ruling body of the party, to decide when he would go, adding it was likely a new leader would be selected in the early part of next year.\n\nHe said he would not step down as leader yet because the \"responsible thing to do is not to walk away from the whole thing\".\n\nAsked whether he was part of the problem, he said: \"I've done everything I could to lead this party… and since I became leader the membership has more than doubled and the party has developed a very serious, radical yes, but serious and fully-costed manifesto\".\n\nKeir Starmer, one of the favourites to be the new leader, says it's \"a big task\" to rebuild Labour\n\nKeir Starmer, one of the favourites to replace Mr Corbyn as leader, said there was \"no hiding\" from the election result which was \"devastating for our party\".\n\nHe said it was the party's duty to \"rebuild\" which was going to be \"a very big task\".\n\nAsked if he wanted to be the next leader, he said: \"I think this is the time for reflecting and understanding the result. I don't underestimate the size of the task ahead.\"\n\nUnite union boss Len McCluskey, an influential Labour ally, said the result was \"deeply, deeply disappointing\" and the party had \"failed\" because it had tried \"to go beyond Brexit\".\n\nIn an article for the Huffington Post, he blamed Labour's poor election performance on Jeremy Corbyn's \"failure to apologise for anti-Semitism\" and an \"incontinent rush of policies which appeared to offer everything to everyone immediately\".\n\nHe did praise Mr Corbyn's \"right and honourable\" decision to adopt a neutral stance in a future Brexit referendum, but said the strategy was \"fatally undermined from the outset by leading members of the shadow cabinet rushing to the TV cameras to pledge that they would support Remain\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour MP Stephen Kinnock, meanwhile, was adamant it was \"not a Tory victory\" but \"a damning indictment of Labour's failure\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC's Question Time, he said the party's loosening ties to its working class heartlands had been \"turbo charged by Brexit\".\n\nShadow cabinet member Barry Gardiner said his party needed to reflect on \"what was wrong in the offer that we put forward to the country and what it was people did not feel confident about in our manifesto\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Any Questions that Labour needed to move fast to regain the trust of the country.\n\nThe Conservatives took Labour strongholds across northern England, the Midlands and Wales in areas which backed Brexit in the 2016 referendum.\n\nSome traditional Labour constituencies, such as Darlington, Sedgefield and Workington, in the north of England, have a Conservative MP for the first time in decades - or in the case of Bishop Auckland and Blyth Valley - for the first time since the seat was created.\n\nMr Corbyn was re-elected with a reduced majority of 26,188 as the MP for Islington North.\n\nThe likely candidates are keeping their powder dry, but skirmishes have begun over the reasons for Labour's lowest tally of seats since the 1930s.\n\nThose close to Jeremy Corbyn blamed Brexit, media hostility… even the weather.\n\nThe party chairman Ian Lavery singled out the party's commitment to a second referendum.\n\nAnd Laura Parker from the left-wing grassroots group, Momentum, insisted Jeremy Corbyn was the victim of unfortunate political timing.\n\nReflecting on his party's defeat, My Corbyn said: \"My whole strategy was to reach out beyond the Brexit divide to try and bring people together because ultimately the country has to come together.\"\n\nThe party promised to renegotiate Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Brexit deal, and put it to a referendum vote alongside the option of remaining in the EU.\n\nAsked what went wrong for the party, he said: \"Those in Leave areas, in some numbers, voted for Brexit or Conservative candidates which meant that we lost a number of seats and we didn't make the gains that I'd hoped we could have done\".\n\nAsked whether \"Corbynism\" is now dead, he said: \"There is no such thing as Corbyninsm… there is socialism.\"\n\nHe added: \"I don't think [socialist ideas] are unelectable.\"\n\nMr Corbyn said his party's policies were individually \"very popular\" and there was no \"huge debate\" about them within the party.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour candidate Gareth Snell calls for Jeremy Corbyn to step down\n\nDame Margaret Hodge, MP for Barking, said under Mr Corbyn's leadership, Labour had become the \"nasty party\", with anti-Semitism allowed to flourish.\n\nSpeaking about his party's handling of the issue, the Labour leader said: \"I inherited a system that didn't work in the Labour party on anti-Semitism, I introduced the rule changes necessary to deal with it and they're in operation.\n\n\"Anti-Semitism is an absolute evil curse within our society and I will always condemn it and also do and always will\".\n\nMeanwhile, the rapper Stormzy, who backed Labour ahead of the election and described Mr Corbyn as \"a man of hope\", has told BBC Radio 1Xtra that the result feels like \"a dark cloud\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The hug that means Jacob's new arm is a success\n\nWhen Jacob was born eight weeks early most of his left arm was missing.\n\nHis parents Gemma Turner and Chris Scrimshaw, from Calderdale in West Yorkshire, crowdfunded to get a £16,000 functioning limb made for him.\n\nThe NHS and most companies take the view that a functioning prosthetic is not an option when the limb ends above the elbow.\n\nThat is where Ben Ryan, from Menai Bridge on Anglesey, came in, designing an arm for Jacob, who is now five.\n\nJacob and his brother hugged after his new arm was fitted\n\nMr Ryan developed a hydraulic design after his son Sol had an emergency amputation when he was 10 days old.\n\nIt led him to quit his job as a psychology lecturer and set up his own company, named Ambionics, two and a half years ago.\n\nHis firm merged with Polish prosthetic maker Glaze this year.\n\nOne of their first clients was Jacob.\n\nJacob with his mother Gemma at the fitting\n\nMr Ryan has been working with a prosthetics expert and Jacob's family to perfect a hydraulic arm for him.\n\nThe family wanted an elbow that could be set in different positions, a gripping mechanism and a modular hand that can be swapped out for other tools.\n\nHe explained that the prosthetics are not 3D printed in the normal way, as they are forged together in a bath of nylon powder using lasers.\n\nJacob is now able to grip things with his functioning prosthetic\n\nMr Ryan said the elbow can be set using a sliding lock, and the hand closes when Jacob squeezes a water filled rubber chamber that is mounted to the upper arm.\n\nHe designed a mechanism to make it work while the arm was cast by his colleagues in Poland.\n\nPerhaps, more importantly - for Jacob anyway - it is large, green and superhero themed.\n\n\"It was what Jacob wanted, including have a larger hand, so the theme is perfect,\" said Mr Ryan.\n\nOn Thursday he delivered the arm to Jacob at a meeting in Ringwood, Hampshire, and said the fitting was a \"success\" and that Jacob \"exceeded everybody's expectations\".\n\n\"He can give his brother a hug and hold his hand,\" he said.\n\nJacob was born eight weeks early with most of his left arm missing\n\nSpeaking after the final fitting, Gemma, a police officer, said watching her son wear the arm was \"lovely\", adding that he \"really likes it, he's got it on right now\".\n\nShe explained that Jacob did not want a non-functioning prosthetic and said: \"He's not bothered about looking like everybody else.\"\n\nThe addition has also helped with balancing his posture, she added.\n\nWhile raising funds to get Jacob a functioning prosthetic, one anonymous donor gave them £5,000 - saying she was terminally ill and unable to complete her bucket list.\n\nGemma said asking for money was \"kind of a bit strange for us but you've got to do what you've got to do\".\n\n\"The family have had so much bad luck getting help for Jacob,\" said Mr Ryan.\n\n\"Nobody has been able to deliver something that could work for him.\n\n\"It's always been the same status-quo - that it won't work when the prosthetic is for the upper arm.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jo Swinson lost her seat in Dunbartonshire East to the SNP\n\nJo Swinson will step down as Liberal Democrat leader after losing her seat to the SNP by 149 votes.\n\nMs Swinson, who started the campaign saying she could become the next prime minister, gained 19,523 votes compared with 19,672 for the SNP's Amy Callaghan in Dunbartonshire East.\n\nSir Ed Davey and Baroness Sal Brinton will be acting co-leaders for the party, now she is no longer an MP.\n\nMs Swinson said the election results would bring \"dismay\" for many.\n\nShe said she was \"proud that Liberal Democrats were the unapologetic voice of Remain\" in the election, adding that she did \"not regret trying everything\" to avoid Brexit.\n\nUnder party rules, the Lib Dem leader must have a seat in the Commons. A leadership contest will be held in the new year.\n\nWith all seats now declared, the party has 11 seats, one fewer than at the 2017 election.\n\nNews of Ms Swinson's defeat was cheered by Nicola Sturgeon, who was caught on camera celebrating the SNP's victory in Dunbartonshire East.\n\nThe SNP leader, who was waiting to speak to Sky News when the election result was read out, could be seen cheering as she found out that Ms Callaghan had won the seat.\n\nMs Sturgeon later offered her commiserations to Ms Swinson on a personal level, but said she was delighted by the SNP's performance.\n\nBaroness Brinton, president of the Liberal Democrats and the new co-leader, said it was a \"disappointing night\" for the party.\n\n\"The voices of nationalism and populism both north and south of the border beat both her [Ms Swinson] in her seat and nationally as well.\"\n\nShe said there were some \"nuggets of gold\" the party could take from the election, such as increasing its share of the vote by 4.2% and getting \"some good new MPs\".\n\n\"All is not lost,\" she added, pledging that the party's MPs would \"continue to fight, if not for our place in Europe, then for the best deal possible\".\n\nEarlier, Baroness Brinton thanked Ms Swinson, who only became Lib Dem leader in July, for what she called her honest and fearless leadership of their party.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats entered this election buoyed by a revival in the polls and the addition to their ranks of numerous MPs who defected from other parties, including Chuka Umunna and Luciana Berger from Labour, and the former Tory minister Sam Gyimah.\n\nAll three, however, were defeated.\n\nEarlier, Sir John Curtice, professor of politics at Strathclyde University, said the polls suggested the party's support declined during the election and indicated that the strongly anti-Brexit party did not make any progress at all among Leave voters.\n\nOn the night, the Conservatives won a big majority and the SNP took 48 of Scotland's 59 seats, as Labour suffered heavy losses.\n\nOne highlight for the Lib Dems was the party's candidate in Richmond Park, Sarah Olney, winning the seat from the Conservatives' Zac Goldsmith.\n\nSpeaking at the Bishopbriggs count outside Glasgow following her defeat, Ms Swinson said the results were \"very significant\" for the future of the country.\n\n\"For millions of people in our country these results will bring dread and dismay and people are looking for hope.\n\n\"I still believe we, as a country, can be warm and generous, inclusive and open and that by working together with our nearest neighbours we can achieve so much more.\n\n\"Liberal Democrats will continue to stand up for these values that guide our Liberal movement - openness, fairness, inclusivity. We will stand up for hope.\"\n\nThe SNP's Ms Callaghan told BBC Scotland she was \"delighted\" to have unseated the Liberal Democrat leader.\n\nThe new MP said: \"It's quite a momentous achievement, both for me personally but also in terms of the people of East Dunbartonshire, completely rejecting the politics of austerity and also giving the people a chance to choose their own future - I think that is incredibly important.\"\n\nMs Swinson became her party's first female leader in a landslide victory over Sir Ed Davey earlier this year, succeeding Sir Vince Cable.\n\nShe had served as a minister in the coalition government and was among the party's MPs who paid the price for the tie-up with David Cameron's Tories in the 2015 election - which saw the Lib Dems reduced to a rump of just eight in the Commons.\n\nMs Swinson fought back when then Prime Minister Theresa May called another election in 2017, and she regained her Scottish seat from the SNP.\n\nShe attracted criticism from some quarters for her policy to revoke Article 50 and cancel Brexit, and for her previous record in the coalition government.\n\nThe Lib Dems backed Boris Johnson's call in October for an early election, arguing it was the best way of stopping Brexit.\n\nMr Johnson focused relentlessly on a single message - \"get Brexit done\" - promising to take the UK out of the EU by 31 January 2020 if he got a majority.\n\nIf you cannot see the lookup tool, click here.", "Alex Rodda \"loved life and made friends wherever he went\", his family said paying tribute\n\nA 15-year-old boy found dead in a village was a \"caring and trusting young boy\", his family has said.\n\nThe body of Alex Rodda was discovered in Ashley Mill Lane in Ashley, Cheshire, at about 08:00 GMT on Friday.\n\nHis family has paid tribute to the Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School pupil as police investigate the circumstances surrounding his death.\n\nAn 18-year-old man from Knutsford has been arrested on suspicion of murder and remains in custody for questioning.\n\nIn a statement Alex's family said: \"Alex was a very loving, caring, kind, loyal and, most of all, trusting young boy.\n\n\"He loved life and made friends wherever he went. He will be sorely missed.\"\n\nThe body of Alex Rodda was found in Ashley Mill Lane in Cheshire\n\nHead teacher Denis Oliver said Alex, who was in Year 11 and from the Knutsford area, would be \"sorely missed by everyone who knew him\".\n\n\"Our deepest sympathies, thoughts and prayers are with Alex's family and friends at this very sad time.\n\n\"The safety and wellbeing of our students is our priority. School will be open as normal on Monday and staff will be on hand to support students in any way affected by this tragic loss,\" he said in a statement posted to the school's website.\n\nDet Ch Insp Simon Blackwell said: \"We are in the very early stages of our investigation into Alex's death, which we are treating as a murder.\n\n\"I would like to reassure the community that this is believed to be an isolated incident and we are doing everything we can to establish exactly what has taken place.\"\n\nHe appealed for anyone with information to contact police.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "(1/10) The Conservatives won 365 seats, giving Boris Johnson a majority of 80. Their 44% share of the vote was the highest since Margaret Thatcher came to power in 1979. So how did this happen?\n\n(2/10) Right at the beginning of the night it was clear something unusual had happened. The third seat to declare, Blyth Valley, had been Labour for nearly 70 years and was predicted to stay that way. Labour lost here by 712 votes.\n\n(3/10) This story was repeated again and again, as Labour's \"Red Wall\" in the North crumbled. Labour's vote share reduced by 13% in the North East and 10% in Yorkshire & Humber. Many of these seats voted strongly to leave the EU.\n\n(4/10) Many northern Conservative wins were due more to a reduced Labour vote than a large boost for the Tories. However, in Wakefield, which had been Labour since 1932, the Tories won a majority of over 3,000.\n\n(5/10) By around 02:00 GMT the Conservatives started to win seats in Wales, taking six from Labour in total. Plaid Cymru held on to their four seats, but a Remain pact with the Greens and Liberal Democrats failed to create a breakthrough.\n\n(6/10) The Liberal Democrats had hoped to win back seats in the South West that they lost to the Tories in 2015. Despite increasing their share of the vote by 3%, the Lib Dems failed to win any new seats here.\n\n(7/10) Jo Swinson, the Liberal Democrat leader, narrowly lost her seat of East Dunbartonshire in Scotland to the Scottish National Party, who had a good night.\n\n(8/10) The SNP won 14 seats overall, from the Liberal Democrats, Tories and Labour. They now have 48 seats, up 13 from 2017 and only slightly down from their 2015 landslide.\n\n(9/10) In Northern Ireland the DUP, who had backed the Conservatives since 2017, lost two of their seats, including their Westminster leader Nigel Dodds. The SDLP picked up two and the Alliance Party won one.\n\n(10/10) Across the UK Labour suffered 60 losses. Their only gain was Putney in London, but Kensington, which they'd won in 2017, went back to the Conservatives. Despite breaking even in London, a largely Remain voting area, Labour's vote share still declined by 6%.\n\nTo read more about the election go to BBC News", "Both leaders agreed there was a \"significant opportunity\" to restore the Good Friday Agreement institutions\n\nThe UK and Irish governments have pledged to restore Stormont following the general election result.\n\nIt comes ahead of fresh talks on 16 December to try to revive power sharing in Northern Ireland.\n\nStormont has been inactive since January 2017, when the DUP and Sinn Féin split in a bitter row.\n\nOn Saturday, Sinn Féin's Conor Murphy said it would be \"possible\" to get an agreement. The DUP's Paul Givan said his party \"don't have any red lines\".\n\nTaoiseach (Irish prime minister) Leo Varadkar congratulated Prime Minister Boris Johnson on his victory during a phone call on Friday evening.\n\nThey agreed the election had created a \"significant opportunity\" to restore the Good Friday Agreement institutions.\n\nThe legal date for an assembly election to be called if no power-sharing government is formed at Stormont is 13 January.\n\nSpeaking on Saturday, Mr Varadkar said his focus was on getting an executive in place by that date.\n\nHe also told RTÉ's Marian Finuance show that now is not the time for a border poll on Irish unity.\n\nNI has been without a devolved government since January 2017, when the DUP and Sinn Féin split in a bitter row\n\nHe said such a poll would \"probably be defeated, it would probably be very divisive\", given the fact that there is not a nationalist majority in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"What I think all sides should now do, all communities in Northern Ireland, the two governments, is to recommit to the Good Friday Agreement.\n\n\"The philosophy that lies behind the Good Friday Agreement - the two communities working together, power sharing in Northern Ireland, closer co-operation north/south, and all done in the context of British/Irish relations that John Hume vision, if you like, of 20 years ago - is actually as strong and a relevant now as it was then even if there have been changes in demographics and politics.\"\n\nConor Murphy ( left) and Paul Givan have been speaking about next week's Stormont talks\n\nSinn Féin MLA Conor Murphy told the same programme: \"I think it will be possible to get an agreement.\"\n\n\"Now that the DUP are out of the arrangement with the Tory government, which in our view was the central blockage to an agreement, I sincerely hope the British government can step up to the plate.\"\n\nDUP MLA Paul Givan said his party \"don't have any red lines\" going back into the negotiations.\n\n\"We will have our senior team there on Monday we will be entering into the talks in a spirit in which we want to reach a resolution to outstanding issues,\" he told BBC Radio Ulster's Saturday with Dearbhail programme.\n\nDuring a phone call on Friday evening, Mr Johnson and Mr Varadkar said they would work closely with the Northern Ireland parties to help bring back devolution.\n\nThey also agreed on the importance of a close relationship between the UK and Ireland.\n\nMr Johnson updated the taoiseach on the timings for the reintroduction of the Withdrawal Agreement Bill next week and its passage through Parliament to ensure the UK leaves the EU on 31 January.\n\nThe prime minister made clear in the phone call, his top priority is the restoration of a functioning executive as soon as possible.\n\nBoris Johnson said NI Secretary Julian Smith will dedicate himself to the talks process\n\nHe said Northern Ireland Secretary Julian Smith will dedicate himself to the talks process.\n\nMr Smith has previously said the consequences are \"profound\" if the assembly was not restored soon.", "Now and then: Richard Holden succeeds where Conservatives before him, including Theresa May, failed\n\nAmong the Conservative Party's haul of astonishing election scalps was Durham North West - a seat the party was not targeting and one it once discounted as impossible to win. What happened?\n\nThere are safe seats where favoured candidates can be assured of an easy victory.\n\nAnd then there are places where rookies have to do their best, hoping to prove their worth for a better seat next time. For the Conservatives, Durham North West was always the latter.\n\nLabour since 1950, it was where Theresa May was sent to cut her parliamentary teeth. As expected, she lost to Labour incumbent Hilary Armstrong by a margin of nearly 14,000 votes.\n\nRichard Holden's victory on Thursday was less dramatic. He beat Labour's Laura Pidcock - once tipped as potential party leader or, at least, successor as deputy - by a more modest 1,144.\n\nThe table below shows the full result.\n\nIf you can't see the graphic click here.\n\nJeremy Corbyn did, thinks Anne-Marie Kennedy, back home visiting her mother in Lanchester.\n\n\"[He] now needs to go,\" she says. \"He needs to get someone in the Labour Party that can run the party properly.\"\n\nHer mother, Pauline Harrison, is equally unimpressed with the Labour leader, who she believes does not want to unify people or get Brexit done.\n\n\"The result is brilliant,\" she says.\n\nBut, if Boris Johnson might find these comments reassuring, Mrs Kennedy has a message for him too.\n\n\"I think, Boris, you need to be true to your word for the people,\" she says.\n\nFormer Durham North West MP Laura Pidcock was seen as a potential leadership contender\n\nMatthew Young, from Consett which saw its steelworks close a year into Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government, says Brexit was \"the crux\" of the election.\n\n\"There's a man in power now who has promised to do that and I hope he does it,\" he says.\n\nBut Baroness Hilary Armstrong, who held Durham North West from 1987 until she stood down at the 2010 election, does not believe this was the deciding factor.\n\nShe thinks voters were more concerned about Labour's \"competence\".\n\n\"They quite liked some of the promises but they never believed we could deliver them,\" she says.\n\n\"Ordinary working people feel let down. They just feel that the Labour Party has lost touch with them - and I agree with them.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Graham Robinson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Han This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEven the constituency's first Conservative MP, Richard Holden, sees his win in terms of a Labour loss.\n\n\"This wasn't a result which was really even about me,\" he says.\n\n\"This was, particularly from a lot of Labour voters spoken to on the doorstep, a real rejection of the way Jeremy Corbyn has been leading the Labour Party.\"\n\nIn an ironic echo from Labour's 1997 election campaign, Brenda Spelman from Medomsley thinks things \"can only get better\"\n\nAmong the voters who are shocked at the result, there are plenty looking forward to an emboldened Boris Johnson government.\n\nBrenda Spelman, from Medomsley, is \"delighted\" with the Conservative win.\n\n\"Onwards and upwards,\" she says. \"It can only get better. I think under Labour it would have got worse.\"\n\nUntil Thursday night North West Durham was the sort of \"no-hoper\" seat that young ambitious Conservatives looking to cut their political teeth were pointed towards.\n\nA constituency made up of former mining and steel towns such as Consett, it was working class through and through.\n\nAt the height of Labour's success in 1997, the local MP Hilary Armstrong took nearly 69% of the vote - more than double all the other parties added together.\n\nOne Conservative keen to make her mark at the start of her career was Theresa May, a councillor in London when she travelled north to be selected as Conservative candidate at the 1992 general election.\n\nShe came second, with the future Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron trailing in third. For Mrs May it was a step up the political ladder and by 1997 she'd been rewarded with the far more winnable constituency of Maidenhead.\n\nBut things have moved on - and the Conservative Party has proved it's capable of winning even in the former Labour heartlands of the North East.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The pound and shares have surged after the Conservatives won a clear majority in the UK general election.\n\nSterling rose above $1.35 at one point - its highest level since May last year - on hopes that the big majority would remove uncertainty over Brexit.\n\nThe pound also jumped to a three-and-a-half-year high against the euro.\n\nOn the stock market, the FTSE 100 share index rose 1.1%, while the FTSE 250 - which includes more UK-focused shares - briefly hit record highs.\n\nIt closed 3.4% higher, while at the same time the pound traded at $1.33 and €1.20\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the election result meant that the Conservative government \"has been given a powerful new mandate, to get Brexit done\".\n\nMr Johnson has pledged to take the UK out of the European Union by 31 January.\n\nPolitically sensitive shares saw sharp rises on UK markets. Shares in water companies such as Severn Trent, which faced the possibility of nationalisation under a Labour government, rose 9%, while UK housebuilders also saw big gains, with Barratt up 14% and Persimmon 12% higher.\n\nShares in banks exposed to the UK economy rose sharply. Barclays, RBS and Lloyds were up 6%, 8% and 5% respectively.\n\nNeil Wilson, chief market analyst at Markets.com, said housebuilders had been undervalued and rose \"on hopes that construction will benefit from the Conservative victory\".\n\n\"We should also consider the potential risk that a Labour government could have posed to their profits being removed,\" Mr Wilson said.\n\nWhile many FTSE 100 shares saw big gains, this was offset slightly by the rise in the value of the pound, which affected companies with big international operations. A rise in sterling cuts the value of companies' overseas earnings when they are brought back to the UK and converted back into pounds.\n\nIn contrast, the FTSE 250 index - which generally contains firms with more exposure to the domestic economy - jumped more than 5% at one point, before slipping back slightly.\n\nThe financial bookies had already installed Boris Johnson as the favourite but did not expect him to romp home by such a distance.\n\nThe pound moved sharply higher as soon as the exit poll was published and went on to post one of its biggest one-day gains against the dollar in years as Johnson's thumping victory removed one layer of political uncertainty.\n\nShares in politically-sensitive sectors such as house building and banking rocketed, as did water, rail and energy companies, as the threat of nationalisation under a Corbyn government evaporated.\n\nMarkets have given the prospect of a government with a functioning majority a round of applause but the euphoria may be short-lived.\n\nTraders are already talking about the formidable challenge of completing a trade deal with the EU by this time next year, along with the prospect of a new Scottish independence referendum.\n\nThe election may be settled, but there are big political questions that are not.\n\nGuy Foster, head of research at wealth manager Brewin Dolphin, said that \"the potential for a smooth Brexit removes some of the downside risk for the UK economy\".\n\n\"This should be positive for both business and consumer confidence, at least in the short term, with a gradual acceleration in GDP growth and confidence.\n\n\"However, a lot can change over the coming months as the finer detail of the UK's future trade relationship with the EU is negotiated.\n\n\"This is still, after all, just the beginning of the exit process. Even with the passing of the withdrawal agreement, the UK could still leave the EU without a deal at the end of 2020 if trade negotiations don't proceed successfully.\"\n\nSterling hit a 19-month high of $1.3516 at one point overnight, but then gave up some of its gains.\n\nAndy Scott, associate director at financial risk adviser JCRA, said: \"What will be interesting to see - assuming that Brexit will now follow a set course, at least [until] 31 January - is if economic data is given a significant boost from the perceived certainty, and [whether it] starts to influence sterling again.\n\n\"In recent months, the market has almost completely ignored the slowdown in the economy and the potential for monetary stimulus from the Bank of England, with election and Brexit expectations driving fluctuations in sterling's value.\n\n\"The performance of the economy is likely to be key to whether we see a further recovery in 2020.\"", "Staff at Royal Albert Edward Infirmary contacted police with concerns about a 69-year-old woman's death\n\nA 75-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after his partner who was a patient in a hospital was found dead.\n\nThe 69-year-old woman was being treated at Royal Albert Edward Infirmary in Wigan, Greater Manchester, when she died at about 21:30 GMT on Friday.\n\nStaff from hospital contacted police with concerns about her death.\n\nThe woman's partner, from Ormskirk, Lancashire, remains in custody.\n\nA post-mortem examination is due to be carried out and her next of kin has been contacted.\n\nA police spokesman said: \"Late on Friday, staff from Wigan Royal Albert Edward Infirmary contacted police with concerns in respect of one of their patients who had passed away.\n\n\"Given the circumstances presented to us, we have arrested the woman's partner, who is a 75-year-old man, on suspicion of murder.\n\n\"We are keeping an open mind as to what has happened and expect to know more later.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "From the Conservative Party winning a big majority by sweeping aside Labour in its traditional heartlands, to Jo Swinson losing her Dunbartonshire East seat by just 149 votes.\n\nHere are the key highlights from the 2019 general election results day.", "All of the centrist MPs who recently defected from Labour and the Conservatives failed to win seats.", "Caroline Flack is due to appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court on 23 December\n\nLove Island host Caroline Flack has been charged with assault by beating following an incident at her north London home.\n\nPolice were called to the 40-year-old's home in Islington, where she lives with her partner, tennis player Lewis Burton, at 05:25 GMT on Thursday.\n\nOfficers attended after reports of a man being assaulted. The man was not seriously injured, police said.\n\nMs Flack will appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court on 23 December.\n\nShe was bailed until that date.\n\nA London Ambulance Service spokeswoman said: \"We were called on 12 December to a residential address in Islington.\n\n\"We treated two people at the scene and took one person to hospital.\"\n\nA spokesman for Caroline Flack said: \"We confirm that police attended Caroline's home following a private domestic incident.\n\n\"She is co-operating with the appropriate people to resolve matters. We will not be making any further comment for legal reasons.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We are going to unite and level up\" - Boris Johnson speaks outside Downing Street\n\nBoris Johnson has said he hopes his party's \"extraordinary\" election win will bring \"closure\" to the Brexit debate and \"let the healing begin\".\n\nSpeaking in Downing Street, he said he would seek to repay the trust placed in him by Labour supporters who had voted Conservative for the first time.\n\nHe said he would not ignore those who opposed Brexit as he builds with Europe a partnership \"of sovereign equals\".\n\nThe Tories have won a Commons majority of 80, the party's largest since 1987.\n\nIt means the UK is heading out of the EU at the end of next month, the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg said, with Mr Johnson's \"thumping\" majority allowing him to get the laws required through Parliament \"in a matter of weeks\".\n\nThe Conservatives' victory in the 650th and final contest of the election - the seat of St Ives, in Cornwall - took their total number of MPs up to 365. Labour finished on 203, the SNP 48, Liberal Democrats 11 and the DUP eight.\n\nSinn Fein has seven MPs, Plaid Cymru four and Northern Ireland's SDLP has two. The Green Party and NI's Alliance Party have one each.\n\nThe Brexit Party - which triumphed in the summer's European Parliament elections - failed to win any Westminster seats.\n\nThe Conservatives swept aside Labour in its traditional heartlands in the Midlands and the north of England and picked up seats across Wales, while holding off the Lib Dem challenge in many seats in the south of England.\n\nVoter turnout overall, on a cold and damp polling day, was 67.3%, which is down by 1.5% on the 2017 total.\n\nSpeaking outside No 10, Mr Johnson thanked lifelong Labour supporters who deserted Jeremy Corbyn's party and turned to the Conservatives, saying he would fulfil his pledge to take the UK out of the EU on 31 January.\n\n\"I say thank you for the trust you have placed in us and in me and we will work round the clock to repay your trust and to deliver on your priorities with a Parliament that works for you\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Election 2019: The story of the night as the results came in\n\nMr Johnson, who earlier accepted the Queen's invitation to form a government, also addressed those who did not vote for the Conservatives and still want to remain in the EU.\n\n\"We in this One Nation Conservative government will never ignore your good and positive feelings of warmth and sympathy towards the other nations of Europe,\" he said.\n\nMr Johnson's focus on the one nation pitch suggests he will seek to offer policies to people beyond the Tory heartlands - more public spending, for example, after years of austerity, the BBC's political correspondent Nick Eardley said.\n\nHe added that there is no strict definition of one nation conservatism, \"but broadly, it refers to the idea the Conservative Party should act for everybody in the UK. That means policies that work for people from different economic backgrounds, from different regions and from the different nations of the UK.\"\n\nWhen they return to Westminster next week, MPs are due to begin the process of considering legislation paving the way for the UK to leave on 31 January. Talks about a future trade and security relationship will begin almost immediately.\n\nNevertheless, Mr Johnson said the UK \"deserves a break from wrangling, a break from politics and a permanent break from talking about Brexit\". \"I urge everyone to find closure and to let the healing begin.\"\n\nHe said he would use his new-found parliamentary authority to bring the country together and \"level up\" opportunities, while he said he recognised that the NHS remained the \"overwhelming priority\" of the British people.\n\nThe BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg said the PM's appeal for unity marked a striking change in tone to when he first became prime minister in July.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn says he will not \"walk away\" from his responsibilities\n\nAt 33%, Labour's share of the vote is down around eight points on the 2017 general election and is lower than that achieved by former leader Neil Kinnock in 1992.\n\nMr Corbyn has said he will not fight another election as Labour leader and that he expects to stand down \"early next year\" when a successor has been chosen by the party.\n\nBut he insisted he had done all he could, adding that he had received \"more personal abuse\" from the media during the campaign than any previous prime ministerial candidate.\n\nSenior Labour figures have sought to defend the party's strategy, arguing that many of its policies were popular but that Brexit had crowded out all other issues for many voters.\n\nWes Streeting, the newly elected MP for Ilford North, said the party's \"far left\" manifesto had jarred with the electorate and blaming Brexit was an attempt to \"kneecap\" credible centrist candidates such as Keir Starmer and Emily Thornberry.\n\nMeanwhile, Jo Swinson has quit as Liberal Democrat leader after losing her Dunbartonshire East seat to the SNP by 149 votes.\n\nWhile she admitted her \"unapologetic\" pro-Remain strategy had not worked, she said she did not regret standing up for her \"liberal values\" and urged the party to \"regroup and refresh\" itself in the face of a \"nationalist surge\" in British politics.\n\nAfter the SNP's \"overwhelming\" election victory, which saw the party win 48 of Scotland's 59 seats, Nicola Sturgeon said Mr Johnson had \"no right\" to stand in the way of another Scottish independence referendum.\n\nHowever, the prime minister later spoke to the first minister by phone on Friday evening, with Downing Street saying he had told her he \"remained opposed\" to a second vote.\n\nMr Johnson was also said to have insisted that the result of the 2014 referendum \"should be respected\" after \"reiterating his unwavering commitment\" to the union.\n\nWhat is your question about the election results?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We are not the masters, we are the servants now\"\n\nBoris Johnson has thanked voters in the north of England for \"breaking the voting habits of generations\" to back the Conservatives.\n\nSpeaking in Tony Blair's old seat of Sedgefield, the PM said he knew \"how difficult\" that decision can be.\n\nMr Johnson won a Commons majority of 80, his party's biggest election win for 30 years, by sweeping aside Labour in its traditional heartlands.\n\nIn contrast, Labour suffered its worst election result since the 1930s.\n\nActivists chanted \"Boris\" as Mr Johnson arrived in the County Durham constituency, which returned a Conservative MP on Thursday for the first time in 84 years.\n\nThe prime minister said he wanted to thank voters in the \"incredible\" constituencies in north-east England for placing their trust in the Conservatives.\n\nThey had \"changed the political landscape\" and \"changed the Conservative Party for the better\", he said.\n\n\"Everything that we do, everything that I do as your prime minister, will be devoted to repaying that trust,\" Mr Johnson added.\n\n\"We are the servants now and our job is to serve the people of this country and deliver on our priorities. And our priorities and their priorities are the same.\"\n\nLeader Jeremy Corbyn said he had done \"everything I could\" to get Labour into power but expected to stand down \"early next year\", after a successor has been chosen by the party.\n\nHe said the general election had been \"taken over by Brexit\", the issue on which Mr Johnson campaigned most vociferously - but other figures in the party have disagreed over the reason.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell promised to \"learn lessons and we'll listen to people\" during the debate over the future of the party and its next leader.\n\n\"My fear is that we're in for the long haul now, possibly five years,\" he added.\n\nLabour's Helen Goodman, who lost the seat of Bishop Auckland to the Conservatives, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that \"the biggest factor\" in Labour's defeat \"was obviously the unpopularity of Jeremy Corbyn as the leader\".\n\nHowever, the Labour MP for York Central, Rachel Maskell, said: \"We've all got to take responsibility... I don't think apportioning blame to a complex situation in a simplistic way is really the way to approach this.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"There is no such thing as Corbynism\"\n\nMr Johnson is expected to announce a minor government re-shuffle as early as Monday.\n\nAsked whether his promise to be a one nation government meant bringing back Tory politicians like Penny Mordaunt and Jeremy Hunt - who left cabinet in July after Mr Johnson took over - the PM said he was \"not going to speculate about personalities\".\n\nMPs will then return to Westminster on Tuesday and begin the process of swearing in, before the Queen formally opens Parliament on Thursday with \"reduced ceremonial elements\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Phil Wilson had been the MP for Sedgefield since 2007\n\nThe prime minister has also vowed to reintroduce his Withdrawal Agreement Bill to Parliament before Christmas, which could happen by the end of next week.\n\nIt would see MPs begin the process of considering legislation that would pave the way for the UK to leave the EU on 31 January. Talks about a future trade and security relationship will begin almost immediately.\n\nFormer Conservative Deputy Prime Minister Lord Heseltine, who opposes Brexit and backed the Liberal Democrats in the election, told Today: \"We've lost. Brexit is going to happen and we have to live with it.\"\n\nAsked whether he would support any future campaign to rejoin the EU, he said it would be \"20 years or something before the issue is once again raised\".\n\nProtests took place at Westminster on Friday following Mr Johnson's election victory.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cheryl Tompsett: \"I've never been on a protest before\"\n\nDemonstrators in Westminster carried signs that read \"Defy Tory Rule\" and \"No to Boris Johnson\".\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said two people had been arrested in relation to the protests - one person on suspicion of assaulting a police officer and another for suspected affray.\n\nFollowing the Conservatives' election win, Mr Johnson spoke to SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon on Friday evening and reiterated his opposition to a second independence referendum in Scotland.\n\nThe conversation came after the first minister said the PM had \"no right\" to stand in the way of a second vote following her party's \"overwhelming\" election performance. The SNP won 48 of Scotland's 59 seats.\n\nSpeaking on Radio 4's Any Questions on Friday, cabinet minister Thérèse Coffey insisted there would be no referendum on Scottish independence during the Conservatives' five-year term.\n\nAfter speaking to Ms Sturgeon, the PM also took phone calls from German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar to discuss the next steps on Brexit.\n\nThe Conservatives won a total of 365 seats in the election, while Labour finished on 203, the SNP on 48, Liberal Democrats on 11 and the DUP on eight.\n\nSinn Fein has seven MPs, Plaid Cymru four and Northern Ireland's SDLP two. The Green Party and NI's Alliance Party have one each.\n\nThe Brexit Party - which triumphed in the summer's European Parliament elections - failed to win any Westminster seats.\n\nThe Conservatives swept aside Labour in its traditional heartlands in the Midlands and the north of England and picked up seats across Wales, while holding off the Lib Dem challenge in many seats in the south of England.\n\nVoter turnout overall, on a cold and damp polling day, was 67.3%, which is down by 1.5% on the 2017 total.\n\nMeanwhile, the Liberal Democrats are looking for a new leader after Jo Swinson lost her Dunbartonshire East seat to the SNP by 149 votes.\n\nWhile she admitted her \"unapologetic\" pro-Remain strategy had not worked, she said she did not regret standing up for her \"liberal values\" and urged the party to \"regroup and refresh\" itself in the face of a \"nationalist surge\" in British politics.\n\nSir Ed Davey and Baroness Sal Brinton will be acting co-leaders for the party now that Ms Swinson is no longer an MP.", "There is nothin' like a dame. Nothing in the world. There's nothing you can name that is anything like a dame.\n\nTake, for example, the one I saw on Thursday. She had massive cherries on her chest, walked like an injured prop forward and made a string of lewd jokes in front of hundreds of little children.\n\nYou'd have thought their parents would be furious, but far from it. They spluttered into plastic cups of prosecco while encouraging their kids to yell at the old lady, who responded by cackling in a deep baritone voice and changing her outfit.\n\nAt one point she asked them what she should do with a naughty young man. \"Kill him,\" chorused the kids. \"Kill him?\" she said, a little taken aback. \"You can't kill him, this is a pantomime.\" And then, as an aside: \"Welcome to Bromley.\"\n\n'Tis the season to be jolly.\n\nAnd by golly they were jolly at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley, where Christopher Biggins was hamming it up as Widow Twankey in Aladdin, like Harry Kane in the opposition's penalty area.\n\nChristopher Biggins, 70, got lots of laughs from the audience as the twinkly and lively Widow Twankey\n\nMusical cues were mistimed and pyrotechnic effects misfired, but nobody in the audience cared a jot: in fact, the more mistakes, the merrier - they added a touch of jeopardy to a plot everybody knew better than the seven times table.\n\nMr Biggins ruled the roost, entering from stage left and right as stately as a galleon, armed with a knowing smile and glinting eye.\n\nThis is his 35th appearance as the dame in a panto career that goes back to 1974, when he was a sprightly 26-year-old actor making his way with TV roles in Upstairs Downstairs and in Porridge, alongside Ronnie Barker.\n\nChristopher Biggins, David Jason and Ronnie Barker in the hit sitcom Porridge in 1977\n\nNot much has changed in the world of panto over the years.\n\nThe genre can be traced back to ancient Roman theatre - but not necessarily with the lame jokes, dreary songs, and double-entendres that are the staple of today's slapstick shows.\n\nThat's not a criticism; it's the point.\n\nThe challenge for panto performers is to take those modest ingredients and bring them to life for an audience which has paid good money for a good laugh.\n\nIt ain't easy, although Biggins and his merry band make it appear so as they go through the standard participatory routines, such as getting the audience to chant a phrase on cue, which in this instance was:\n\nI mean, what are prawn balls? Did I miss that party?\n\nAnd why is Widow Twankey reading out the names of the show's sponsors, giving birthday shout-outs, and then randomly firing sweets into the audience - as if they needed any more sugar. Hasn't she got a business to run?\n\nShe does. But then, so does the theatre.\n\nA fun-filled panto is a seriously important event for regional theatres across the country. It is often the show that keeps them going through the rest of the year, balancing books that would otherwise tilt dramatically into the red.\n\nThe show might appear flippant compared with a Shakespearian tragedy at the National Theatre, but it requires equal skill and talent to pull it off.\n\nOne famous dame does not a successful panto make. She needs back-up.\n\nRikki Jay gives us a warm, energetic Wishee, getting the audience going when it is starting to flag - even though some of his material has long passed its sell-by date (a joke about an apple and an orange needs cutting).\n\nAnd Max Fulham brings a first-class ventriloquism act to his role as Washee.\n\nRikki Jay, who as Wishee, was a natural at engaging both children and grown-ups\n\nMax Fulham, as Washee, showed his superb ventriloquy skills with Gordon the monkey\n\nRyan O'Gorman is a suitably malevolent Abanazar, the pantomime villain, and Yazdan Qafouri does well with a title role that doesn't offer many chances to shine beyond rubbing his rusty lamp.\n\nThe best way to judge such a show is by the reaction of the audience, many of whom will never have been to the theatre before (the majority sounded as if they'd collectively inhaled the contents of Mr Biggins' helium balloons).\n\nOn that basis, Aladdin is a critical hit.\n\nThe kids laughed a lot, shouted a great deal, and talked through the bits they found boring, which tended to be the musical numbers (not helped by a sound mix that drowned out the singers).\n\nNow, how am I going to get my hands on Christopher Biggins' prawn balls…?\n• None How do you explain panto?", "They have made gains in Labour heartlands across northern England and Wales. The SNP have made gains across Scotland.\n\nLabour have had their worst return of seats in any general election since 1935.\n\nBoth Labour and the Liberal Democrats now have more female than male MPs.\n\nThe interactive map below shows all the seats that have changed from one party to another. Select the \"results\" tab to see what has happened in the rest of the UK.\n\nThe Conservatives increased their vote share in many areas that voted Leave in the 2016 EU referendum.\n\nBy contrast they lost votes in strong Remain constituencies such as those in Scotland and London. But Labour lost votes in both strong Remain and strong Leave areas.\n\nStrong Leave and strong Remain constituencies are those where an estimated 60% or more of the electorate voted for that option at the EU referendum.\n\nThese estimates of constituency Brexit votes were modelled by Professor Chris Hanretty, as the 2016 referendum result was only recorded by local authority and not by Westminster constituency.\n\nThe Conservatives were clear winners in constituencies estimated to have voted majority Leave in 2016. They won almost three quarters of all these seats.\n\nBy contrast, there was no clear winner among Remain backing constituencies, with a crowded field of parties all winning substantial numbers of seats.\n\nLabour did best of all those parties but only took 40% of the constituencies that backed Remain.\n\nLabour also straddled the Brexit divide taking a roughly equal number of Leave (106) and Remain (96) seats.\n\nMost other parties had a clearer Brexit divide.\n\nOverall, the Conservatives broke new ground, moving into many traditional Labour heartlands.\n\nIn 2017, Labour held 72 of the 100 constituencies with the most working class households (defined as C2DE using data from the 2011 census).\n\nIn 2019, this figure fell to 53 and the Conservatives increased their share from 13 to 31.\n\nIn every nation and region of Britain, the scale of Labour's losses outweighed any gains made by the Conservatives.\n\nThe Conservatives did lose votes in the south of England and Scotland, but these were balanced by gains in the rest of England and Wales.\n\nThe Lib Dems increased their share of the vote across the UK, but failed to translate these gains into more seats.\n\nIn Scotland, the SNP made 14 gains, and lost just one seat, while the Conservatives lost seven and Labour lost six seats.\n\nIn Wales, the Conservatives gained six seats and Labour lost six, mostly in the north east. Overall, Labour's share of the vote was down to 41% from 49% in 2017.\n\nThe Conservatives polled consistently well across England and most of Wales, reflecting their overall 44% share of the UK vote.\n\nYou can use the interactive map below to show the vote share for other parties as well as the turnout.\n\nLabour's strength was concentrated in London and areas around cities in south Wales, the North East and North West. At 32%, Labour's share of the vote is down around eight points on the 2017 general election.\n\nOverall, they lost 60 seats and gained only one, Putney in London.\n\nA total of 220 female MPs have been elected. This is 12 more than the previous high of 208 in 2017.\n\nFor the first time, both the Liberal Democrats and Labour have more women MPs than men. Of Labour's 202 MPs (excluding Speaker Lindsay Hoyle), 104 are women and of the Liberal Democrats' 11 MPs, seven are women.\n\nTurnout, on what was a cold and damp polling day, was 67.3%. slightly lower than the last election in June 2017.\n• None What is the result in my area?", "Iain Watson's view from a wind-chilled knoll in Middlesbrough was not promising\n\nLabour's lost its fourth general election in a row. And it will soon have a new leader. But will this be enough to get it back into government?\n\nI perched on a grassy knoll on the outskirts of Middlesbrough on the eve of poll.\n\nIt was the perfect vantage point for surveying the turnout at one of Jeremy Corbyn's last campaign rallies, in an adjoining open-air car park.\n\nThis was a far cry from the mass rallies I had seen in the 2017 campaign - but, to be fair, it was a week day and it was freezing.\n\nBut it wasn't the enthusiasm of the hardy activists that was in question, but the loyalty of Labour voters who had voted to leave the EU.\n\nI was hearing they were also about to leave behind their traditional party loyalties, despite party chairman Ian Lavery declaring at the rally: \"This election has nothing to do with Brexit.\"\n\nI was told that seats which had been Labour since their creation - such as Blyth Valley - could fall.\n\nLocal and regional activists, however, were hoping the North East of England would be unduly disastrous for the party and that other areas would fare better.\n\nBut I was also being told of problems in the West and East Midlands and, 24 hours later, the dire predictions proved accurate.\n\nIndeed, the final result nationally was worse than insiders feared.\n\nJeremy Corbyn's election result brought back memories of Michael Foot (right) in 1983, rather than Tony Blair (centre) in 1997, 2001 and 2005\n\nWell placed sources thought Labour would suffer a net loss of seats but wouldn't fall below 230. The more pessimistic confided a figure of 220.\n\nIn the end, with 203 seats, it was a worse parliamentary haul than Michael Foot's post-war low in 1983.\n\nThe immediate battle now is over the narrative of why Labour lost.\n\nHe or she who controls the past controls the future.\n\nSo that's why shadow chancellor John McDonnell was quick out of the traps to blame the defeat on Brexit.\n\nNo need to search for wider difficulties, or to change the party's direction.\n\nThe grassroots movement he formed with Jon Lansman - Momentum - declared it would \"keep Labour socialist\".\n\nThe policies were popular; it was just that the wider public hadn't fully appreciated this.\n\nLaura Pidcock lost her seat, to the disappointment of many on Labour's Left\n\nIf this narrative wins, it would help clear the ground for another leader from Mr Corbyn's wing of the party.\n\nSome close to Mr Corbyn hoped that would be shadow minister Laura Pidcock, but the public begged to differ and ejected her from her Durham seat.\n\nSo the current favourite on the Left is shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey. When Mr McDonnell says the next leader should be a woman, he is almost certainly thinking of her.\n\nBut other candidates and therefore other narratives are available.\n\nDefeated parliamentary candidates, such as Phil Wilson in Sedgefield, Tony Blair's old seat, and Ruth Smeeth, in Stoke, have pointed out that Mr Corbyn's leadership came up on the doorstep more than Brexit.\n\nThe party's former general secretary, Lord McNicol, has said the problem isn't so much Corbyn as what he called \"Corbynism\" - the move of the party to the left, with a narrower group of less experienced MPs in frontbench positions, and an offer of change that may have seemed too radical for some former supporters.\n\nIf a wider review of the party is on the agenda - a change of direction, not just a change of leader - this could help hopefuls such as Sir Keir Starmer and Emily Thornberry. Sir Keir was never quite trusted by the leadership but the pro-Remain membership has been impressed with him as shadow Brexit secretary. A quick contest would suit him, but Mr Corbyn seems in no rush to go.\n\nSome MPs are muttering that they may even mount a challenge - which needs a fifth of the parliamentary party - if his \"period of reflection\" begins to stretch in to a lengthy meditation.\n\nJess Phillips is touted by many as a possible replacement for Jeremy Corbyn\n\nAnother potential candidate who would move the party away from the Corbyn era is Jess Phillips. Many of the membership may believe she'd try to move the party to the centre, though in the Blair years she would have been regarded as \"soft left\".\n\nBut her supporters hope, in a contest, she would encourage non-members to sign up as \"registered supporters\" (as happened with Mr Corbyn's unanticipated victory in 2015) and re-shape the party as a more social democratic entity, but led by someone who doesn't look or sound like a conventional politician and who may be a match for that other big personality, Boris Johnson.\n\nBut the election post-mortem won't all be about leadership manoeuvring.\n\nI have had activists and insiders complain about the organisation as much as the politics.\n\nOne source said: \"We need to look at why we were sending hundreds of people to Boris Johnson and IDS's (Iain Duncan Smith's) seats, which we couldn't win, when canvassing sessions elsewhere were being cancelled for a lack of volunteers.\"\n\nWhile Momentum tried to divert resources to certain seats, critics say the party itself lacked coherence\n\nSome unions are irritated that they never got a list of target seats or advice on where best to send their members.\n\nOverall, critics complained of a lack of coherence.\n\nCuddly toys were not in the Labour election manifesto\n\nThen there were the policies.\n\nIndividually, some are, by any measure, popular - just as the current leadership claim.\n\nBut taken together, one now former MP told me: \"It was like the Generation Game conveyor belt. One of the few things we didn't offer voters was a cuddly toy, or if we did, I missed it.\n\n\"But all the other items - broadband, pensions, free buses - came so thick and fast no-one could remember them. Not a single voter mentioned a single retail offer on the doorstep.\"\n\nOne phrase unlikely to be used during the \"period of reflection\" is \"Didn't they do well?\"\n\nSo the big question facing the main, but diminished, party of opposition is this: Does it simply want a new leader, or does it really need a new direction?", "Sir Rod Stewart has become the oldest male solo artist to have a number one album in the UK.\n\nThe British singer's 10th chart topper You're In My Heart was released on 22 November.\n\nBut it rose to the top spot this week in a close race - with a difference of just 750 in sales between Sir Rod, Robbie Williams and The Who.\n\nSir Rod, who is 74 years and 11 months old, has taken the accolade from American singer Paul Simon.\n\nHe beat Simon by three months, the Official Charts Company said.\n\nBut Sir Rod has a way to go to beat the oldest female to top the album charts. Dame Vera Lynn scored a number one in 2014 when she was 97 with the collection Vera Lynn: National Treasure.\n\nSir Rod said: \"A new government and a new number one for Sir Rod. Thank you once again to my legions of fans who I will never take for granted.\n\n\"Bless you all and a Merry Christmas. Well done Robbie, well done Boris, no hard feelings Pete Townshend!\"\n\nSir Rod's latest release is an orchestral album which features new versions of some of his classic tracks, including Sailing and I Don't Want to Talk About It.\n\nProduced with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the re-imagining of his greatest hits knocked Williams's The Christmas Present out of the top spot to number two.\n\nThe Who's Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend were in line to top the charts at the halfway point this week, but their new album Who ended up at number three.\n\nAt number four was Michael Ball and Alfie Boe's album Back Together, with Lewis Capaldi's Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent at number five.\n\nMeanwhile, Australian singer-songwriter Tones and I secured another record as Dance Monkey topped the singles chart for an 11th consecutive week, making it the longest-running number one single by a female artist in the UK.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "PC Andrew Harper was married four weeks before he was killed\n\nA teenager has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter over the death of PC Andrew Harper.\n\nThe 28-year-old officer was killed on the A4 Bath Road in Sulhamstead, Berkshire, as he attended a reported break-in on 15 August.\n\nThe 17-year-old boy, who cannot be named, also denied a charge of conspiracy to steal, via video-link at the Old Bailey.\n\nThe 17-year-old, Henry Long, 18, from Mortimer in Reading, and another 17-year-old boy, are charged with murder, an alternative of manslaughter and conspiracy to steal a quad bike.\n\nThomas King, 21, from Basingstoke, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to steal\n\nMr Long and the second boy will appear at a further plea hearing on 7 January.\n\nKing, from Basingstoke, was granted bail until his sentencing at the conclusion of the trial of the other defendants, which is scheduled to start on March 9.\n\nPC Harper, from from Wallingford in Oxfordshire, died after being dragged along a road by a vehicle.\n\nA post-mortem examination found the Thames Valley Police officer, who got married four weeks earlier, died of multiple injuries.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "EU leaders and Boris Johnson agreed on a revised UK Brexit deal in October\n\nOver and over again in this election campaign you hear supporters of Boris Johnson confidently asserting that \"he did it with the Brexit deal: he got the EU to renegotiate when most people said it'd be impossible.\n\n\"So who cares about those who now openly doubt his ability to get a trade deal done with the EU by December next year? The doubters were wrong before. They'll be proved wrong again.\"\n\nExcept, it seems to be overlooked that Prime Minister Johnson did not charm or bully or manipulate the EU into reopening the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement and changing the infamous backstop for the Irish border.\n\nIt was only by breaking a deep red line of his, very late on in the negotiations, that EU leaders wholeheartedly agreed to a \"new\" Brexit deal (that in reality was almost identical to the one negotiated by Theresa May).\n\nIf you remember, Mr Johnson had pledged never to allow a post-Brexit division between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.\n\nBut in the end that is exactly what he did.\n\nWhile on paper and in legal terms Mr Johnson has ensured that Northern Ireland would leave the EU's customs union and single market along with Great Britain, practically speaking Northern Ireland would continue adhering to the EU's customs code and being part of the EU's single market for goods.\n\nBoris Johnson's divorce deal introduces a customs barrier down the Irish Sea. A barrier between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK. Something Mr Johnson had said he would never countenance.\n\nEU leaders negotiated with Boris Johnson in the hope that he would better be able to sell a deal back home in the UK than his predecessor, Mrs May. But they only signed on the dotted line of the backstop's replacement because they were confident that it protected their single market on the island of Ireland after Brexit.\n\nThe border at Newry: A majority in Northern Ireland voted to remain in the EU\n\nFor the prime minister, \"getting it done\" seemed of greater importance when it came to the Brexit deal than keeping his word about the union and avoiding a line down the Irish Sea. So how might it be when it comes to trade negotiations?\n\nWould Boris Johnson give up post-Brexit \"sovereignty\" and \"control\" to get a quick deal done with the EU by next Christmas?\n\nBecause if you earwig on EU internal conversations these days, you'll hear that the only way he has a real chance of getting a bare-bones free trade agreement (FTA) with Brussels done and dusted by next Christmas is if he crosses his own red lines again and gives in to EU concerns. This time over so-called level playing field provisions (such as adhering to EU environmental, labour and state aid rules after Brexit) and allowing EU countries fishing rights in UK waters.\n\nIf Mr Johnson signs up to ongoing alignment with EU rules, then where's the national sovereignty he promised voters?\n\nBut if he doesn't, then trade negotiations with Brussels are likely to drag on a lot, lot longer. And could delay closing trade deals with other countries. Japan, Canada, Australia and others are unlikely to want to sign off on a new trade deal with a post-Brexit UK until they know what kind of relationship it will have with the EU.\n\nSomething else to bear in mind: if Boris Johnson did maintain close ties with the EU, then Brexit-associated divisions between Northern Ireland and Great Britain would diminish; Brussels would have less need for checks, controls and paperwork to closely monitor what is coming in or going out of its single market/customs territory via the island of Ireland.\n\nIt all comes down to not being able to have your cake and eat it.\n\nThose trade-offs - which so many politicians seem very reluctant to come clean about this election season.", "The impact on survival rates was even greater if the grandmothers were post-menopause\n\nGrandmother killer whales boost the survival rates of their grandchildren, a new study has said.\n\nThe survival rates were even higher if the grandmother had already gone through the menopause.\n\nThe findings shed valuable light on the mystery of the menopause, or why females of some species live long after they lose the ability to reproduce.\n\nOnly five known animals experience it: killer whales, short-finned pilot whales, belugas, narwhals and humans.\n\nWith humans, there is some evidence that human grandmothers aid in the survival of their children and grandchildren, a hypothesis called the \"grandmother effect\".\n\nThese findings suggest the same effect occurs in orcas.\n\n\"If a grandmother dies, in the years following her death, her grand-offspring are much more likely to die,\" said lead author Dan Franks from the University of York.\n\nHe said the effect was even greater when a post-reproductive grandmother died.\n\n\"It can explain the benefits of females living a long time after reproduction,\" he said. \"From an evolutionary standpoint, they can still pass on their genes and genetic legacy by helping their grand-offspring.\"\n\nIn other words, by not continuing to reproduce, the grandmother whales might actually be doing more to ensure their genes get passed on than if they were reproducing.\n\nGrandmother killer whales usually lead the group when foraging for food\n\nThe researchers analysed 36 years of photographic census data on two populations of killer whales off the North Pacific coast of Canada and the United States. Each population was made up of multiple pods with various family groups.\n\nThe study was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.\n\nWhen explaining why grandmothers might have such an impact on calf survival rates, Mr Franks said past research has shown the important leadership role that grandmother killer whales play.\n\nThey tend to be at the front of the group when searching for food, relying on their vast ecological knowledge. He said by being unable to reproduce, \"they may be in a better position to lead the group\".\n\nHe noted the impact of grandmothers on their grand-offspring was especially strong in times of need, such as a shortage of salmon.\n\nOlder female orcas have even been observed directly feeding fish to their children and grandchildren.\n\nResearchers will use drone footage to further understand whale interactions and behaviour\n\nThe researchers also suspect grandmothers are filling a role that's familiar to humans - babysitting.\n\n\"When a mother dives to catch fish, the grandmother can stay with grand-offspring,\" Mr Franks said.\n\nHe said moving forward researchers will capture drone footage to observe orca behaviour and better understand interactions between different family members.\n\nAnother reason the menopause might make grandmothers more helpful to their family's survival is decreasing competition.\n\nIf grandmothers and their daughters were having children at the same time, those children would be competing for resources, including their grandmother's attention.\n\nMr Franks said this could explain why the grandmothers don't continue to reproduce throughout their lives and also help look after their grand-offspring.", "Many people are wearing face masks on the streets\n\nA shroud of smoke from Australia's bushfires has caused chaos in Sydney, bringing dangerous air quality, setting off smoke alarms and ruining visibility in its typically sparkling harbour.\n\nThe haze on Tuesday was described by many people as the thickest to blanket the city amid this year's fire crisis.\n\nIt caused the cancellation of ferry and boat rides, while smoke permeating buildings forced evacuations citywide.\n\nLocals described the situation as \"apocalyptic\" and \"insane\".\n\nSydney has been covered by thick smoke from bushfires outside of the city\n\nThe Sydney Harbour Bridge is almost entirely obscured by the smoke\n\nThe smoke from inland fires has reached all the way to the coast and Bondi Beach\n\nOnline, Sydney residents reported breathing problems and said they were \"choking\" on the smoke.\n\nThe city has endured air quality surpassing \"hazardous\" levels for weeks, as about 100 blazes continue to rage throughout New South Wales (NSW).\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe closest fires are about an hour's drive away from Greater Sydney, which has a population of five million people.\n\nTuesday was \"the worst smoke day yet\", according to locals on social media. In previous days, ash has fallen from the sky.\n\nOn Friday, Sydney's Balmoral Beach was covered in ash from a bushfire 100km away\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Imogen Brennan shared videos online of the beach covered in ash\n\nAt its peak, air pollution in the city centre was 11 times worse than \"hazardous\" levels. It was even worse in suburbs and towns closer to the fires.\n\nSeveral office buildings - including the headquarters of the NSW Rural Fire Service - were briefly evacuated after the smoke triggered indoor alarms.\n\nHealth officials advised people to stay indoors, while many who ventured outside donned face masks.\n\nHospital admissions have risen by at least 25% in the past weeks due to an influx of people with respiratory and breathing problems, officials said.\n\nThe smoke worsened throughout Tuesday as fires intensified\n\nNot everyone has listened to warnings to avoid exercise outdoors\n\nTrips on the city's harbour ferries were suspended due to the poor visibility\n\nDaycare centres and schools were also keeping children inside during lunch and recess.\n\nLast week, authorities said the stretch of air pollution was \"the longest and most widespread\" for the state on record.\n\n\"[We have] recorded some of the highest air pollution ever seen,\" the New South Wales government said.\n\nA man takes a picture of the city's disappearing skyline as he crosses the Sydney Harbour Bridge\n\nSix people have died and more than 700 homes have been destroyed in bushfires that have ravaged Australia since September. More than two million hectares of land has been scorched in NSW alone, officials have said.\n\nPublic anger towards Australia's conservative government - and its efforts to address climate change -has grown as drought, water and bushfire emergencies have persisted.\n\nPrime Minister Scott Morrison addressed media in Sydney on Tuesday but did not comment directly on the smoke's impact.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. More than 60 firefighters were involved in tackling the blaze\n\nAbout 200 people had to leave their homes after a fire ripped through a block of flats in Glasgow.\n\nThe fire broke out at the building on Lancefield Quay, on the north bank of the Clyde, at about 18:40 on Monday.\n\nSixty firefighters and 15 appliances tackled the \"well-developed\" blaze in the second floor of the three-storey building. No-one was hurt.\n\nOne senior firefighter said they did a \"remarkable job in very challenging circumstances\", due to wind and rain.\n\nRoddie Keith, area commander for Glasgow, said it was a \"very significant and complex incident\".\n\n\"The fire was extinguished earlier this morning so we've scaled the incident down but we will have resources on site for quite some time to make sure there are no deeper-seated pockets of fire that could flare up at a later stage,\" he said.\n\nThe extent of the damage could be seen on Tuesday morning\n\nSome residents could be allowed to return to their homes at some point on Tuesday - at least to collect their belongings, he added.\n\nBut he was unable to give a timescale on when people would be able to return to flats directly affected by the blaze.\n\nThe property was an award-winning 1980s conversion of a quayside transit store, originally built in 1947, into 92 flats and maisonettes.\n\nOne resident told the BBC she was sure the building would have to be demolished.\n\nSheena Anderson, who has lived in the block for 17 years, said her home had been destroyed.\n\n\"It will be demolished,\" she said. \"They've got all the water that's coming down from the house above me.\n\n\"If a wee trickle comes, it pours down the walls, so my house will be demolished. Nothing surer. I can't believe it.\n\n\"I've got what I'm standing up in.\n\n\"OK, it could be worse, but that's a terrible fire. What caused it, they don't know.\"\n\nThe apartments face out onto the River Clyde\n\nThe Lancefield Quay flats opened in 1989 as part of an urban renewal plan by house builders Wimpey.\n\nThe homes were created from what had been a Glasgow City Council-owned warehouse between the Kingston Bridge and the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre.\n\nThe architectural design was described at the time as a \"triumph of ingenuity\" with each apartment's porthole-shaped windows looking out over the River Clyde.\n\nThe Broomielaw side of the building has also since been redeveloped into luxury flats, offices, shops and restaurants.\n\nAbdullah Alharbi, who has lived in the neighbouring flat with his family for two years, said: \"I'm feeling terrible.\n\n\"All my documents and papers, everything is at my flat and I'm scared about it.\"\n\nBBC reporter Graham Fraser said: \"There were lots of flames earlier. Now I can see a hole, about 15m long in the roof of the building with smoke pouring out still.\"\n\nFirefighers were dampening down on Tuesday morning\n\nThere were 60 firefighters on the scene at the height of the blaze\n\nGlasgow City Council said Lancefield Quay, the main road that runs alongside the Clyde in Glasgow, was closed between Elliot Street and Hydepark Street.\n\nIt added that Lancefield Quay was also closed eastbound at the junction with Finnieston Street. Anderston Quay is closed westbound at the junction with North Street.\n\nResidents of the building were sent to a local hotel, where support finding alternative accommodation was offered.", "Maurice Saatchi has quit the advertising agency he co-founded in 1995 along with three other directors in the wake of an accounting scandal.\n\nM&C Saatchi shares have collapsed this year from a high of about £4 each to 103 pence after profit warnings.\n\nThe company also revealed a £11.6m hole in its earnings last week.\n\nLord Saatchi founded the firm with his brother Charles after being forced out of Saatchi & Saatchi after a shareholder revolt.\n\nAs well as Lord Saatchi, Lord Dobbs, Sir Michael Peat and Lorna Tilbian all quit the board of the firm.\n\nLord Dobbs, a Conservative politician, is best known for creating the House of Cards novels, which were turned into TV series in the UK and the US.\n\nSir Michael is a former accountant and courtier, and Ms Tilbian is a media analyst and stock broking executive.\n\nM&C Saatchi is famous for the controversial New Labour, New Danger campaign for the Conservatives in 1997. Labour won with a majority of 179.\n\nMuch more successful was the brothers' 1979 Conservative campaign, Labour Isn't Working.\n\nJeremy Sinclair, the company's chairman, said: \"We have accepted the decision of these directors to resign. We are determined to restore the operational performance and profitability of the business.\"\n\nLast week the company warned 2019 profit would be \"significantly below the levels expected\".\n\nIn September it revealed a slide in sales and profit for the first half of the year. Profit fell 67% to £2.5m.", "The patient said she has nightmares three days a week after feeling pain during her operation\n\nA hospital has admitted liability after a patient was not properly anaesthetised during her operation.\n\nThe patient wanted to remain anonymous but said she had \"recurring nightmares\" after feeling her skin being cut during the surgery at Yeovil Hospital in 2018.\n\nHer solicitor said the surgeon had expressed surprise the woman had been given a spinal anaesthetic rather than general for the gynaecological surgery.\n\nThe hospital trust said: \"We are sorry if this patient suffered any distress.\"\n\nThe trust has accepted liability but a settlement has yet to be reached.\n\nThe hospital trust said it carries out more than 15,000 operations in a \"typical year\"\n\nYeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust said: \"It appears that a breakdown of communication led to the use of a different anaesthetic to that normally required for such an operation.\n\n\"However, this case is yet to be resolved with the claimant and we will therefore not discuss this further.\"\n\nThe woman underwent gynaecological surgery under spinal anaesthesia at Yeovil Hospital in July 2018 but \"suffered awareness of painful surgical stimuli\" during the procedure.\n\nShe said when the surgeon \"made a cut in my belly button which I immediately felt\", she had \"screamed out but no-one took any notice because I had an oxygen mask on\".\n\n\"I have been suffering with nightmares which are horrendous,\" the woman said. \"I have a re-occurring image of lying on the operating table, screaming with lots of people around me watching and no-one helps me.\n\n\"I estimate that I wake up around to three times per week sweating and very fearful.\"\n\nSolicitor Elise Burvill said the hospital had admitted liability but there was \"no settlement yet\"\n\nHer solicitor Elise Burvill, from Irwin Mitchell, said: \"My client was wheeled into the operating theatre under a spinal anaesthetic only.\n\n\"The surgeon expressed surprise that she was awake for that type of procedure - it was not something he'd seen before. This obviously added to her fear and anxiety, which was exacerbated when she started to feel pain during the procedure.\n\n\"It's admitted that they could and should have put her under a general anaesthetic at that point to avoid any further pain and trauma.\"\n• None What happens when anaesthesia fails - BBC Future\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ted Baker boss Lindsay Page, who was only appointed in April, has resigned in the latest blow for the troubled fashion retailer.\n\nThe brand's chairman David Bernstein has also quit, and it has issued another profit warning.\n\nTed Baker shares fell by as much as 36% on the news before paring some losses.\n\nThe firm, which is struggling with falling sales, said the past year had been the \"most challenging in our history\".\n\nIt has also been dealing with the fallout of a misconduct scandal involving previous boss Ray Kelvin. Mr Kelvin denies the allegations which centre on claims of \"forced hugging\".\n\nIssuing its profit warning, Ted Baker said it had seen worse-than-expected trading in November, including on Black Friday.\n\nAs such, it said its full-year profit - previously forecast by analysts at £28.4m - was now likely to be just £5m to £10m, depending on how well it trades over Christmas.\n\nThe firm said it had hired consultants Alix Partners to carry out an urgent review of the group's business. It also announced it had suspended its shareholder dividend payout.\n\nSophie Lund-Yates, an equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said price discounting across the retail sector was hurting Ted Baker.\n\n\"It has left profits unravelling, and the higher price tags on Ted's clothes means it's more vulnerable to price-slashing than some rivals.\"\n\nShe also warned that weak consumer spending in its key UK and Europe markets showed no signs of strengthening. \"Ted isn't down and out at this point, but further blows can't be discounted,\" she said.\n\nShares in Ted Baker have fallen by more than 75% since January, in a year which has seen it give four profit warnings.\n\nLast week its bosses also revealed that the group's inventory had been overstated by between £20m and £25m, sparking another tumble in the share price.\n\nChief financial officer Rachel Osborne will become acting chief executive with immediate effect, with Mr Page helping with the transition.\n\nNon-executive director Sharon Baylay will take on the role of acting chair following the departure of Mr Bernstein.", "The Golden Globes has released its list of nominees for best director, and it's been criticised for featuring no women, again.\n\nSince 2000, the awards show has nominated more than 100 men for the category, and only four women.\n\nThese figures aren't rare, with the Oscars nominating only three women for best director in the past 20 years, compared with 87 men.\n\nThis isn't the first time the Golden Globes have faced backlash over their nominations list.\n\nLast year, when presenting the award, Natalie Portman made a point to say \"here are the all-male nominees\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ´ This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAfter increased pressure on the industry over female representation last year, you could be forgiven for thinking the organisation might have made steps to change the landscape this year.\n\nInstead, the hopefuls for best director are Quentin Tarantino, Bong Joon Ho, Sam Mendes, Todd Phillips and Martin Scorsese.\n\nRebecca Goldman, from the Time's Up Foundation, said: \"The omission of women isn't just a Golden Globes problem - it is an industry-wide crisis and it's unacceptable.\n\n\"Time's Up will continue to fight until talented female directors get the opportunities and recognition they deserve.\"\n\nActress Charlize Theron says the lack of female nominees in the best director category is \"really, really ridiculous\".\n\nShe told the LA Times: \"No woman wants to get nominated because it's the right thing to do.\n\n\"It's not cool... we've got to keep making noise until we're heard and these stories get recognised.\"\n\nThe last female director to be nominated for a Golden Globe was Ava Duvernay for her film Selma in 2015\n\nThe lack of women directing films can't be ignored, with women making up just 8% of directors working on the top 250 US domestic grossing films in 2018.\n\nIt's thought, by some, that women are put off pursuing a career in directing because they don't see their role models getting accolades they feel they deserve.\n\n\"[Directing] has not been a role where women have seen many other women role models,\" the Chair of Time's Up UK, Heather Rabbatts told the BBC in 2018.\n\n\"The more that we see women directors coming through, the greater encouragement that will give to other women to believe that they too can do these roles.\"\n\nSome expected Greta Gerwig to be nominated for directing Little Women.\n\nSaoirse Ronan, who played Jo March in the film, nodded to Greta's lack of acknowledgement when thanking the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.\n\nShe said: \"My performance in this film belongs to Greta as much as it does myself and I share this recognition completely with her.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "The debate came to a close with each leader getting 30 seconds to make a final statement.\n\nRennie: The majority want to stay in the UK and the EU\n\nLeonard: Only Labour can keep Boris Johnson out of office\n\nCarlaw: Do you want Corbyn in No 10 with Nicola Sturgeon pulling the strings?\n\nThat brings to an end our coverage of the Scotland Leaders Debate.", "It's that time of night when we can share a few of tomorrow's front pages with you. One story in particular is dominating the newspapers...\n\nThe Metro calls the situation a \"war of words\" which led to a backlash for Boris Johnson Image caption: The Metro calls the situation a \"war of words\" which led to a backlash for Boris Johnson\n\nThe Guardian claims Mr Johnson’s team tried to turn the story on to Labour by wrongly briefing that a Tory aide was punched outside the hospital by a left-wing activist Image caption: The Guardian claims Mr Johnson’s team tried to turn the story on to Labour by wrongly briefing that a Tory aide was punched outside the hospital by a left-wing activist\n\nThe Financial Times describes the situation as the \"first significant stumble\" the PM has made - and it's come in the \"final straight\" of campaigning Image caption: The Financial Times describes the situation as the \"first significant stumble\" the PM has made - and it's come in the \"final straight\" of campaigning\n\nThe Telegraph looks instead at a memo which says the chances of Labour forming a coalition government have been seriously underestimated Image caption: The Telegraph looks instead at a memo which says the chances of Labour forming a coalition government have been seriously underestimated", "The shipping industry is drawing up plans for EU border checks in Britain for trade bound for Northern Ireland.\n\nThe BBC has learned that freight could be diverted through ports with space for inspections such as Liverpool and Stranraer, despite the government denying checks will be necessary.\n\nCustoms staff at the relevant ports could include EU representatives, under the details of the new withdrawal deal.\n\nThe government said it has secured a \"great new deal.\"\n\nThere is also a proposal for smaller \"pop up labs\" at ports - mobile testing labs for health checks on food exports.\n\nThere has been at least one meeting this month between officials and shippers to discuss suitable ports.\n\nOne key issue is the diversion of freight to ports with enough capacity to process the freight traffic and carry out the necessary checks required by the Brexit deal.\n\nThe Port of Liverpool has an existing Border Inspection Point for exports outside of the EU. Stranraer could be used to process checks for ships using the nearby Cairnryan port, which has limited space.\n\nIndustry figures spoke to the BBC after leaks from within Whitehall clearly listed \"facilities for high levels of checks and controls\" as one of \"a number of challenges\" with delivering the PM's Brexit deal by December 2020.\n\nDespite claims by Boris Johnson that there will not be any checks on trade from Great Britain to Northern Ireland, the industry is planning for them on the basis of the detail of the deal secured with the EU in October.\n\nOne senior industry figure said that there was an \"implicit understanding\" that such checks for food products would be in Great Britain, partly because of sensitivities about new infrastructure representing a form of trade barrier within the UK.\n\nThe BBC also understands that EU officials suggested that the checks should be in Great Britain, to avoid having to send back foodstuffs not compliant with EU single market rules.\n\nThe precise nature of the border checks depends on how aligned the UK remains with the EU, the decisions of the Joint Committee of the EU and the UK to be set up after Brexit, and whether UK authorities are willing to accept security and revenue risks in order to keep trade flowing. Technology could also help alleviate some of the checks.\n\nOn Sunday the prime minister said there was \"no question\" NI/GB checks\n\nPaperwork and some checks will be required for agrifood imports into Northern Ireland from Great Britain, on the regulatory compliance of goods with the single market, and for trade tariffs for goods deemed to be at risk of being taken to the Republic of Ireland.\n\nGoods remaining in Northern Ireland should have their tariffs repaid by the UK government, but a system for this is yet to be implemented.\n\nThe prime minister has also argued that only goods destined for the EU would face checks, but the industry says even verifying that would mean checking some intra-UK trade.\n\nBoth the leaked memo from DExEU - the Department for Exiting the European Union - and a similar Treasury note last week confirm scepticism that the necessary changes to infrastructure are possible within the PM's self-imposed deadline of December 2020.\n\nThe leaked DExEU memo suggests that work would have to start before negotiations on a future deal finish.\n\n\"The Prime Minister has been clear that the great new deal he has struck will not introduce new checks between Northern Ireland and Great Britain,\" the Conservative Party said in an email.\n\n\"We have struck a great new deal which will take the whole UK - including Northern Ireland - out of the EU and the EU's Customs Union. As we leave we will strengthen our union and ensure all parts of our country benefit from the opportunities that Brexit offers.\"", "The first question in the Northern Ireland leaders' debate is: Do you believe Brexit makes a united Ireland more likely?\n\nSocial Democratic and Labour Party leader Colum Eastwood is first to answer.\n\n\"We have to deal with the crisis that we're in, which is Brexit,\" he says, adding: \"It's already shaken our peace process.\"\n\nMr Eastwood says he's backing another referendum and wants to be part of a \"pro-Remain coalition\".\n\nDUP chief whip Sir Jeffrey Donaldson says he does not believe there's an \"existential threat\" to NI's position within the UK.\n\n\"We can't go on with this situation where we ignore what people say,\" he says. \"The poll was held, the people voted.\"\n\nHe said the DUP has been \"absolutely crucial\" when it comes to Brexit, adding that it blocked the Brexit deal.\n\nUlster Unionist Party leader Steve Aiken clashes with Sir Jeffrey over the DUP's stance on the Brexit deal.\n\nMr Aiken says that on the 2 October, DUP leader Arlene Foster said the deal was sensible. \"You agreed on the 2 October to put a border down the Irish Sea.\"\n\nSinn Fein vice-president Michelle O'Neill says: \"There's nothing good to come from Brexit.\"\n\nReferring to the original question about a united Ireland, she says Brexit \"certainly makes people focus their minds about where people think their interests are best served\".\n\nThe leader of Alliance, Naomi Long, says Brexit has \"certainly made Northern Ireland less stable\".\n\nShe says it has brought arguments around borders back to the fore.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA gunman has killed six people in a hospital waiting room in the Czech city of Ostrava before shooting himself in the head, police say.\n\nArmed police found the suspect dead from a self-inflicted gunshot in a vehicle three hours later.\n\nThe gunman was believed to be a patient at the hospital, one unconfirmed report said. His motive remains unclear.\n\nOfficers said they were called to the hospital in the north-eastern city at 07:19 (06:19 GMT).\n\nThe shooting took place in a matter of moments at Ostrava university hospital's trauma clinic. Hospital director Jiri Havrlant told Czech TV the gunman opened fire without warning, hitting nine patients.\n\nFour men and two women were killed and three other people were wounded, two seriously. All of the victims were patients at the hospital.\n\nThe hospital was initially locked down.\n\nA doctor inside the hospital told the Aktualne website that staff had been locked in a hallway waiting for the emergency to end.\n\nPatients and staff were eventually evacuated from the hospital by the emergency services\n\nOne eyewitness, Iwona Marusikova, told Reuters news agency that it was difficult to talk about what had happened. \"I work in the blood unit here. It was horrible, I am still in shock, it is a sad event... it is awful.\"\n\nPolice earlier asked for help in their search for the gunman, but warned people not to approach him, adding that the site in the Moravian-Silesian region had been \"secured\".\n\nThe suspect had used a handgun and had driven off in a silver Renault Laguna car, according to police. They said they had established the 42-year-old man's name, had photographs of him and had obtained his vehicle licence plate number.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rob Cameron This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPolice said that once they had obtained pictures of the suspect from security cameras they launched two helicopters to search for him. When one of the helicopters was flying over the car some 5km (3 miles) north of the hospital, the man shot himself in the head and later died of his injuries.\n\nThe gun used in the attack was described as a 9mm Czech-made handgun, which the suspect did not have a licence for.\n\nThe man described by police as the gunman was shown wearing a red jacket\n\nPolice initially posted an image of a man they said they needed to trace and said later he was the man behind the shooting, but they later removed the picture from their social media feed after he was found.\n\nPatrols were stepped up at what police described as soft targets, such as schools, shopping centres and other hospitals.\n\nColleagues of the suspected gunman told Czech media that he had recently gone on sick leave, declaring he was seriously ill. He was said to be a construction engineer who had been treated at the hospital's haemato-oncology department.\n\nPrime Minister Andrej Babis confirmed that six people had been killed and that the shootings occurred at close range. He said the suspect had visited his mother at her home following the attack to inform her of what he had done.\n\nMr Babis then cancelled a foreign trip to travel to Ostrava, reports said.\n\nThe hospital in Ostrava is about 300km (190 miles) east of Prague\n\nThe governor of the Moravian-Silesian Region, Ivo Vondrak, said the shooting was \"a great tragedy\".\n\nPolice said that officers responding to reports of a shooting had arrived at the scene within five minutes. Ostrava is about 300km (190 miles) east of Prague.\n\nPolice later offered their condolences to the families and staff affected by Tuesday's shooting and thanked the public for their assistance throughout the day.\n\nAfter announcing that the area was safe and that roads had been reopened, members of the public visited the hospital to lay flowers and light candles.\n\nPeople later paid their respects for the victims by laying flowers and lighting candles\n\nGun attacks in the Czech Republic are rare, although gun ownership is relatively high for Europe because of the popularity of hunting.\n\nIn 2015, a man opened fire in a restaurant in the eastern town of Uhersky Brod, killing eight people before turning the gun on himself.\n\nLast week, the Czech government lost a legal challenge to an EU law restricting private use of semi-automatic rifles. It was introduced by the European Union in 2017 after a spate of militant Islamist attacks in 2015.\n\nThe government in Prague said the law would do nothing to increase security.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joe Ousalice told the BBC in May he was left isolated by his sacking from the Navy\n\nA Falklands veteran forced out of the Royal Navy over his sexuality will have a military honour returned.\n\nJoe Ousalice, 68, served as a radio operator for 18 years but was discharged in 1993 because of a ban on LGBT people in the armed forces.\n\nHe said the Ministry of Defence (MoD)'s decision to reverse the removal of a good conduct honour, was a \"step forward\".\n\nIt is understood a scheme will be set up to return medals to other veterans.\n\nThe MoD admitted its policy had been \"wrong, discriminatory and unjust\".\n\nMr Ousalice, who lives in Southampton, was awarded a Long Service and Good Conduct Medal and three Good Conduct badges.\n\nHe served on board MV Myrmidon, part of the task force dispatched to liberate the Falkland Islands after the Argentinean invasion in 1982.\n\nHis career also included six tours of duty in Northern Ireland and he was seconded to a Nato task force.\n\nBut the medal was stripped from him when he was discharged because his bisexuality was believed to be \"prejudicial to good order and naval discipline\".\n\nMr Ousalice, who was living in Torpoint, Cornwall, when he was discharged, said he was left unemployed and penniless and had to scavenge for potatoes at a local farm to feed himself.\n\nSpeaking to Victoria Derbyshire, he described his treatment by his superiors while in the armed forces as \"abysmal\".\n\n\"Every couple of years they would drag me in and make some story up in an attempt to get shot of me - they knew I was bisexual,\" he said.\n\n\"On one occasion they said I had been seen taking drugs in Portsmouth. I've never taken drugs but it shows you the level they'd get up to\".\n\nHe said he still wanted an apology from \"someone in authority\" and for his medal to be returned to him by a rear-admiral - the same rank as originally awarded him the medal.\n\nMr Ousalice (highlighted) has not sought compensation and says he just wants his medals back\n\nMr Ousalice will be presented with his Long Service and Good Conduct medal at a ceremony at a later date.\n\nHe has been represented by human rights group Liberty, which had threatened court action if Mr Ousalice was refused the return of the medals.\n\nEmma Norton, its head of legal casework and Mr Ousalice's lawyer, said the MoD policy has had a \"devastating impact on a lot of lives\".\n\n\"I think its relevant that January is the 20th anniversary of the lifting of the ban on LGBT people serving in the armed forces,\" she said.\n\n\"I speculate [there is] something unattractive about the MoD celebrating that while at the same time vigorously defending a perfecting reasonably claim brought by someone like Joe.\"\n\nThe MoD said Mr Ousalice was \"treated in a way that would not be acceptable today and for that we apologise\".\n\n\"We accept our policy in respect of serving homosexuals in the military was wrong, discriminatory and unjust to the individuals involved,\" it added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ice loss from 1992 to 2018 has occurred mostly around the coast (Imbie/ESA/Planetary Visions)\n\nGreenland is losing ice seven times faster than it was in the 1990s.\n\nThe assessment comes from an international team of polar scientists who've reviewed all the satellite observations over a 26-year period.\n\nThey say Greenland's contribution to sea-level rise is currently tracking what had been regarded as a pessimistic projection of the future.\n\nIt means an additional 7cm of ocean rise could now be expected by the end of the century from Greenland alone.\n\nThis threatens to put many millions more people in low-lying coastal regions at risk of flooding.\n\nIt's estimated roughly a billion live today less than 10m above current high-tide lines, including 250 million below 1m.\n\n\"Storms, if they happen against a baseline of higher seas - they will break flood defences,\" said Prof Andy Shepherd, of Leeds University.\n\n\"The simple formula is that around the planet, six million people are brought into a flooding situation for every centimetre of sea-level rise. So, when you hear about a centimetre rise, it does have impacts,\" he told BBC News.\n\nThe British scientist is the co-lead investigator for Imbie - the Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-comparison Exercise.\n\nIt's a consortium of 89 polar experts drawn from 50 international organisations.\n\nThe group has reanalysed the data from 11 satellite missions flown from 1992 to 2018. These spacecraft have taken repeat measurements of the ice sheet's changing thickness, flow and gravity. The Imbie team has combined their observations with the latest weather and climate models.\n\nWhat emerges is the most comprehensive picture yet of how Greenland is reacting to the Arctic's rapid warming. This is a part of the globe that has seen a 0.75C temperature rise in just the past decade.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Andy Shepherd: \"Greenland and Antarctica are losing ice faster than we expected\"\n\nThe Imbie assessment shows the island to have lost 3.8 trillion tonnes of ice to the ocean since the start of the study period. This mass is the equivalent of 10.6mm of sea-level rise. What is more, the team finds an acceleration in the data.\n\nWhereas in the early 90s, the rate of loss was equivalent to about 1mm per decade, it is now running at roughly 7mm per decade.\n\nImbie team-member Dr Ruth Mottram is affiliated to the Danish Meteorological Institute.\n\nShe said: \"Greenland is losing ice in two main ways - one is by surface melting and that water runs off into the ocean; and the other is by the calving of icebergs and then melting where the ice is in contact with the ocean. The long-term contribution from these two processes is roughly half and half.\"\n\nIn an average year now, Greenland sheds about 250 billion tonnes of ice. This year, however, has been exceptional for its warmth. In the coastal town of Ilulissat, not far from where the mighty Jakobshavn Glacier enters the ocean, temperatures reached into the high 20s Celsius. And even in the ice sheet interior, at its highest point, temperatures got to about zero.\n\n\"The ice loss this year was more like 370 billion tonnes,\" said Dr Mottram.\n\nBack in 2013, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - the authoritative body that reconciles all climate science - gave a mid-range projection for global sea level rise of about 60cm by 2100. A mixture of ice melt and expansion of warming water.\n\nBut when Imbie published its companion review of Antarctica in 2018, it found the White Continent's contribution by 2100 was likely being underestimated by 10cm. Now, for Greenland, Imbie is saying the shortfall is 7cm. The IPCC will have to incorporate these updates when it releases its next major assessment report (AR6) of Earth's climate in a couple of years' time.\n\nProf René Forsberg, from the Technical University of Denmark, said the Imbie exercise underlined the importance of flying satellites, especially those that can observe the top of Greenland, higher than 83 degrees North. Only two of the present fleet can, and one of those spacecraft is operating beyond its design life.\n\n\"Most of the changes we've seen in Greenland have been in the west, south and east; and now it has slowly moved up to the north. So, yes, the next satellite in the European Union's Copernicus programme needs to go to higher latitudes, and this is being discussed by the EU and the European Space Agency,\" Prof Forsberg told BBC News.\n\nThe new satellite system - for the moment known as Cristal, but to be called a Sentinel if it flies - would be a radar altimeter to measure the changing shape of Greenland.\n\nImbie's Greenland analysis is published in the journal Nature. Its release has been timed to coincide with the annual COP climate convention taking place this year in Madrid, and with the American Geophysical Union meeting here in San Francisco, where leading Earth scientists have gathered.\n\nThe Arctic has warmed 0.75C in the past decade, relative to 1951–1980\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "What happens when two people from across the political divide are brought together for dinner?\n\nTo find out, the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme has organised a series of 'election blind dates' for the general election campaign.\n\nOwen Jones is a Guardian columnist and vocal supporter of the Labour Party.\n\nNimco Ali is an anti-FGM campaigner. She says she is undecided on how she will vote in this election, but doesn't want a Corbyn majority and is campaigning for some Conservative candidates.\n\nWatch more of the election blind dates series here, here and here.", "Drax, which generates 5% of the UK's power, has said it plans to capture more carbon than it produces by 2030.\n\nThe firm's power plant in North Yorkshire is already largely powered by renewable fuel such as wood pellets.\n\nBut now it hopes to scale up a system that will allow it to capture millions of tons of carbon emissions from the plant.\n\nHowever, the scheme will require its government subsidies - currently due to expire in 2027 - to be extended.\n\nDrax, which is the UK's largest power station, used to run exclusively on coal, but it has converted four of its six units to burn wood as the country seeks to end its dependence on finite fossil fuels.\n\nThe firm said it plans to cut emissions in two ways. First, the sustainably farmed trees that provide its wood pellets absorb carbon emissions as they grow.\n\nThe second takes place at the power plant site as carbon-capture technology traps the emissions created by burning the wood.\n\nAt present, a pilot project at the site captures a tonne of carbon each day.\n\nBut Drax said it hopes to install the system at two of its units by the end of the next decade, removing eight million tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year.\n\nIt also plans to close the two remaining coal-generating units at its North Yorkshire plant by 2025, although the company did not say how that would affect power output.\n\nBiomass power generation has proved controversial with some environmental campaigners.\n\nA Chatham House report from 2017 suggests burning wood is not carbon-neutral, as young trees planted as replacements absorb and store less carbon than the ones that have been burned. Others say it can lead to deforestation.\n\nBut Drax defends the sustainability record of its biomass supply chain.\n\nHowever, the firm has yet to secure the subsidies it needs to help grow its carbon capture project to a scale that could make a difference to the UK's climate ambitions.\n\nThe firm currently receives around £2m a day from the state to support its green transition, but this support will run out in less than 10 years.\n\nProf Nilay Shah, head of the chemical engineering department at Imperial College London, told the BBC the country would need to produce up to 150 million tonnes of \"negative emissions\" to meet its net zero target.\n\nDrax boss Will Gardiner said: \"The UK Government is working on a policy and investment framework to encourage negative emissions technologies, which will enable the UK to be home to the world's first carbon negative company.\n\n\"This is not just critical to beating the climate crisis, but also to enabling a just transition, protecting jobs and creating new opportunities for clean growth - delivering for the economy as well as for the environment.\"", "Politicians from seven political parties faced questions from young people on housing, climate change, Scottish independence and of course Brexit from an audience of young people in a Question Time election special.\n\nWatch the full programme on iPlayer, listen back on BBC Sounds or and read more here.", "They cannot vote yet, but that does not mean schoolchildren are not following the election campaign.\n\nBBC Wales' Carl Roberts visited Blaenymaes Primary School in Swansea to answer questions from the pupils.\n\nYoungsters wanted to know about Brexit, why we have elections, and why we need a prime minister.", "Police searched the man's vehicle and found multiple sheets of fake coffee stickers\n\nA motorist stopped by police was found with hundreds of fake McDonald's coffee stickers in his car.\n\nThe driver in Bradford was found with multiple sheets of stickers, similar to ones McDonald's customers are given when they buy hot drinks.\n\nPolice said he was trying to defraud the loyalty scheme, in which six stickers can be exchanged for a free coffee.\n\nMcDonald's said anyone with counterfeit stickers would be refused a free drink.\n\nThe man was stopped on Westgate Hill Street on Sunday by the Steerside Enforcement Team, which deals with anti-social and criminal use of the roads in Bradford.\n\nWest Yorkshire Police confirmed the driver was given a \"community resolution\" for fraud in relation to the stickers and also arrested on suspicion of drug-driving.\n\nHe will be summonsed to court for the drug-driving offence.\n\nWriting on Twitter, the enforcement team said: \"It may seem inconsequential, but it is illegal to cheat a company like this.\n\n\"Just pay for your coffee!\"\n\nWest Yorkshire Police shared a picture of the fake stickers on Twitter\n\nMcDonald's customers get a sticker with a coffee bean on it every time they purchase a coffee.\n\nSix stickers can be exchanged for a free coffee.\n\nA spokesman for McDonald's said: \"Anyone attempting to use what our restaurant teams believe to be counterfeit stickers will be declined their free coffee.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The abuse of candidates on Twitter has escalated during the election campaign, research suggests, with Conservatives seeing the biggest rise.\n\nAbuse spiked after TV debates, a study by the University of Sheffield found - with abuse of Tories rising and Labour and Lib Dem levels remaining stable.\n\nLabour's Jeremy Corbyn received most, followed by Tory leader Boris Johnson.\n\nOthers have reported being threatened with sledgehammers and targeted by abusive graffiti and vandalism.\n\nConservative candidate Andrea Jenkyns told the BBC some of the abuse she received had been \"sexually violent\", while the SNP's Lisa Cameron said social media trolls had threatened to behead her.\n\nResearchers looked at the abusive replies candidates received on Twitter during the first four weeks of the general election campaign.\n\nThey cross-referenced a database of slurs and offensive words with the contents of responses to tweets sent by candidates standing on 12 December.\n\nWhile the Labour and Conservative leaders received the most abuse, the study found that Health Secretary Matt Hancock, cabinet minister Michael Gove and Labour candidate David Lammy received the next highest levels.\n\nConservative Jacob Rees-Mogg, Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson, and Labour's Diane Abbott also received substantial levels of abuse.\n\nOf the top 20 recipients of abuse between 3 November and 4 December, the study found that 11 were Conservative, seven were Labour and two were Lib Dem.\n\nAnd while candidates of all parties received abusive tweet replies, Conservative candidates saw a rising level of abuse towards them as the campaign got under way - something that was not echoed in responses to either Labour or Lib Dem candidates, researchers said.\n\nProfessor Kalina Bontcheva, who leads the research team behind the study, said the overall rise in abuse suggested \"extreme voter polarisation\", with people using a variety of insults to attack the political orientation or opinion of candidates.\n\n\"This is combined with an even more disturbing rise in vitriolic personal abuse and threats - often targeting the candidates due to their race, gender, country of birth, or religion,\" she said.\n\nMichael Gove saw a spike in abuse levelled at him around the time of Channel 4's election debate on climate change, the study found.\n\nHe had offered to take the place of Mr Johnson in the debate, but the broadcaster refused, saying the invitation was for leaders only. Instead, the programme \"empty chaired\" Mr Johnson.\n\nMore generally, Brexit, immigration and policing all drew fire on Twitter for the Conservatives, while Labour was attacked for tweets on immigration, Brexit, democracy and business and enterprise, according to the study.\n\nThe Lib Dems drew disproportionate amounts of abuse for posts on Brexit, democracy, community and society, it said.\n\nCandidates Andrea Jenkyns, Sarah Wollaston and Luke Pollard have all been victims of abuse\n\nAndrea Jenkyns, Conservative candidate for Morley and Outwood, has noticed the type and level of online abuse directed at her get worse. She said abuse had been directed at her from people with fake profiles.\n\nOne of her campaign team was recently chased down the street by a man with a sledgehammer. \"It can be pretty horrific, some of it, actually,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"I'm a blunt northern lass who believes in fighting, but I think the sad thing is my threshold - my tolerance levels - has widened. I probably accept a lot more now than, ordinarily, I would have done.\"\n\nThe SNP's Lisa Cameron added: \"I've already had people online, particularly over the Halloween period, calling me a witch and a monster and, you know, making fun and mocking me, mocking my parents, mocking me in general.\"\n\n\"Then I received death threats online from individuals saying they were coming to behead me, sending pictures of beheaded corpses,\" she added.\n\nFor Sarah Wollaston, Liberal Democrat candidate for Totnes, abuse can feel relentless, with \"torrents\" of it often being whipped up online.\n\n\"It's a great shame. It's become normalised. For me I just don't notice it. I set my filters higher. Unpleasant messages I mute them. A lot of people I want to interact with but if you do, you are just feeding it.\"\n\nShe added: \"It is coming at you in every form - online, in the mail, even things like dirty underwear being delivered to my office - unpleasant stuff that my team then have to deal with.\"\n\nThe word \"pedo\" was sprayed across the front of a Labour candidate's office in Plymouth\n\nLuke Pollard, Labour candidate for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport, has also received abuse on social media and has had his constituency office daubed with homophobic graffiti.\n\nAlthough there was no place for such abuse, he said, he called on politicians on all sides to take responsibility for the tone of the current debate.\n\n\"In the heated, divisive, contested atmosphere of a general election, you know people respond to the hate they see and the division they see from politicians - and that contributes to this very toxic atmosphere,\" he said.\n\nPolice told the BBC they had received almost 200 reports relating to election candidate security between 15 November and 4 December. However, about half of the reports did not constitute a crime.\n\nMartin Hewitt, chairman of the National Police Chiefs' Council, advised election candidates and their volunteers to familiarise themselves with police safety guidance and to contact police with any concerns.\n\n\"Police will investigate all reports of abuse and will seek to prosecute those who act outside the law,\" he added.\n\nIt comes as separate research revealed the extent of misleading advertising on social media by political parties and campaign groups at this election.\n\nNon-profit organisation First Draft looked at every paid-for Facebook ad from the three main UK-wide parties run over the first four days of December.\n\nFor the Conservatives, the group said 88% (5,952) of the party's most widely promoted ads either featured claims that had been flagged by independent fact-checking organisations, including BBC Reality Check, as not correct or not entirely correct.\n\nFor the Lib Dems, it said hundreds of potentially misleading ads had featured identical unlabelled graphs, with no indication of the source data, to claim it was the only party that could beat either Labour, the Conservatives, or the SNP \"in seats like yours\"\n\nFor Labour, it said it could not find any misleading claims in ads run over the period. However, it noted that the party's supporters were more likely to share unpaid-for electioneering posts than those of its rivals.", "Work on constructing the line was completed on Tuesday\n\nA 45-year project to build a railway line between two Denbighshire towns has been completed.\n\nTen miles (16km) of the Llangollen steam railway line has been rebuilt between Llangollen and Corwen, with a platform created at the end.\n\nEarlier this year, the final £10,000 was raised to fill a gap in the embankment between the new Corwen station and the rest of the line.\n\nWork on the line was formally finished on Tuesday.\n\n\"It's a big occasion not just for the volunteers who have done the work but also for the people in Corwen who have supported this project,\" said George Jones from the Corwen Railway Project.\n\nDespite the full length not yet being open, people can still take trips, such as on the Santa Special\n\nThe track is due to open next year after testing and tweaking is carried out and then steam trains will be able to travel down its full length.\n\nWork on completing the platform at Corwen will also take place in the meantime ahead of its opening.\n\nWork has been going on for a number of years to get the project completed\n\nVolunteer project manager, Richard Dixon-Gough said: \"This represents a magnificent effort and is truly a very notable step forward in completing the extension of the railway into the centre of Corwen.\n\n\"With the connection of the track, within the station confines, to the existing railhead, it completes the original aim of returning the railway link between Llangollen and Corwen.\"\n\nLlangollen Railway president, Bill Shakespeare, 92, added: \"Little did I think, when the first track was laid at Llangollen back in 1975, it would take so long to reach a new build station at Corwen.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An island volcano erupted while tourists were visiting on Monday in New Zealand's Bay of Plenty.\n\nBy Tuesday, six people were confirmed dead. Eight others were feared to have died and about 30 have serious burns.\n\nTourist Michael Schade tweeted pictures of the eruption (seen above and below), saying: \"My god, White Island volcano in New Zealand erupted today for first time since 2001.\n\n\"My family and I had gotten off it 20 minutes before, were waiting at our boat about to leave when we saw it.\"\n\nTour guides could be seen evacuating people minutes after the eruption.\n\nA photo taken by the Auckland Rescue Helicopter Trust, below, shows the volcano from the air.\n\nA video released by New Zealand's Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences (GNS), screenshot seen below, shows the volcano spewing steam and ash.\n\nA combination photo from GNS, below, shows the volcano shortly before and after the eruption.\n\nCoastguard rescue boats are seen, below, next to a marina near Whakatane, about 40km (25 miles) south of White Island.\n\nRescue workers treated survivors in Whakatane, on the North Island's mainland.\n\nOn Tuesday, steam continued to rise from the White Island volcano.\n\nNew Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern (below, centre) gave a press conference with Police Supt Bruce Bird (left) and Whakatane mayor Judy Turner.\n\nMs Ardern said she shared the \"unfathomable grief\" of those who had lost family and friends.\n\nThe prime minister also met first responders at the Whakatane fire station.\n\nA flag in Whakatane could be seen flying at half mast.\n\nIn Sydney, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison addressed media with Foreign Minister Marise Payne. Twenty-four of the people affected were from Australia.\n\nPeople leave tributes at the port of Tauranga, next to the cruise ship which had carried passengers to White Island when it erupted.\n\nWhite Island, also called Whakaari, is the country's most active volcano, seen below in 1999.\n\nTourist Ron Neil visited the island in January 2017 and took the photos below.\n\n\"We were obliged to wear helmets and gas masks as a condition of climbing the volcano,\" Mr Neil said.\n\n\"We were only allowed on the island because the risk of eruption that day was measured as 1, on a scale of 1-5.\n\n\"Still the sulphur fumes were choking.\"\n\nMr Neil is seen above, wearing a gas mask.", "* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment, the older person’s bus pass and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* Rights for workers to be notified of their shifts one month in advance * The right to bereavement leave following a death in the immediate family * Lower cap on pension fund management fees * Tax breaks for companies that offer longer-term secure career contracts to staff\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* End the Work Capability Assessment and replace it with a system using qualified medical practitioners * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * No benefits paid to foreign nationals resident in the UK until they have paid tax for five years * Minimise the use of zero-hour contracts\n\n* £35 a week payment for every child in a low-income family * Tax credit of up to £25 a week for tenants in the private sector who spend more than 30% of their income on rent and utility bills * Powers over social security devolved to Wales * Abolish the \"bedroom tax\" * Universal free childcare for 40 hours a week\n\n* Demand UK government halts the rollout of Universal Credit until \"fundamental flaws\" are addressed * Oppose and increase to the state pension age and campaign against decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s * Press for the statutory living wage to rise to at least the level of the real living wage * Increase shared parental leave from 52 to 64 weeks, with the additional 12 weeks to be the minimum taken by the father * Make the minimum wage for 16 to 24-year-olds the same as for over 25s, and ban unpaid trial shifts\n\n* Stronger regulation of the gig economy, and oppose deregulation of employment rights * Stronger focus on careers advice * Support a fairer UK-wide welfare system and revised package of welfare mitigations for NI * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * Overhaul bereavement benefits\n\n* Personal tax allowance should rise in line with inflation each year * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 by the end of the parliamentary term * End the freeze on benefits by increasing them in line with inflation * Restore free television licences for over-75s but in the longer term abolish the licence fee entirely * Retain the pensions triple lock and retain winter fuel payments\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts * Introduce a real living wage * Establish a new \"welfare mitigation package\" that protects the most vulnerable\n\n* Increase childcare provision from 12.5 hours per week to 20 hours per week, potentially increasing to 30 hours once new budget is agreed * Regulation of zero-hours contracts * Introduce a \"true living wage\" to reflect rising costs of living * Scrap universal credit, the bedroom tax and the two-child limit * End the freeze on benefits\n\n* Extend mitigation measures on key issues such as the bedroom tax, which are due to expire in March * Restore TV licenses for over-75s and retain the triple-lock protection for pensions * Create and implement a new childcare strategy\n\n* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Increase the number of employers paying a living wage in Wales and introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system * New \"collective\" workplace pension schemes and new controls on transferring pensions and a review of state pension inequality for Waspi women\n\n* Introduce a real living wage of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16, giving about 700,000 Scottish workers a pay rise * Scrap universal credit and increase child benefit * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66 and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay\n\n* Reverse cuts to universal credit * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment * Introduce universal access to basic services * Increase provision of free meals for children, with a particular focus on breakfast * Increase access to free sanitary products\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts, close the gender pay gap, and ensure that everyone is paid a \"real living wage\" * Bring in a universal basic income * Remove differential rates of minimum wage for under-25s and introduce a living wage for everyone * Scrap universal credit * Support for the Waspi women (Women Against State Pension Inequality)\n\n* Scrap welfare reforms include PIP, Universal Credit and the bedroom tax * Develop a state-owned National Childcare Agency * Repeal all anti-trade union laws * Ban zero hours contracts and implement a real living wage\n\n* 40% of board members in public companies and public sector boards to be women * Worker representation to be established on the boards of larger companies * Ban “zero-hours” contracts * Increase child benefit", "A GP who cited Angelina Jolie and Jade Goody to instil fear in his patients about their health has been found guilty of sexually assaulting 23 women.\n\nManish Shah preyed on cancer concerns to carry out invasive intimate examinations for his own sexual gratification, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nHe convinced his victims to have unnecessary checks between May 2009 and June 2013.\n\nHe was convicted of 25 counts of sexual assault and assault by penetration.\n\nJurors acquitted 50-year-old Shah, of Romford, of five other charges.\n\nThey were told afterwards he had already been found guilty of similar allegations relating to 17 other women, bringing the total number of victims to 23.\n\nHe will be sentenced for all the offences on 7 February. The BBC's health editor Hugh Pym said it was one of the biggest cases of its kind involving one doctor.\n\nThe trial heard Shah mentioned a news story to one patient about Hollywood star Jolie having a preventative mastectomy, before asking if she would like him to examine her breasts.\n\nIn another instance involving a different complainant, he mentioned TV personality Goody - who died of cervical cancer - and advised an examination was in her best interests, it was claimed.\n\nProsecutor Kate Bex QC told the trial: \"He took advantage of his position to persuade women to have invasive vaginal examinations, breast examinations and rectal examinations when there was absolutely no medical need for them to be conducted.\"\n\nOne of Shah's patients told the BBC how she became one of the GP's victims.\n\n\"He would say you need to have these sexual health tests, to make sure you're safe - you never know if somebody goes with somebody else even though you might have a safe partner,\" she said.\n\n\"He was just encouraging the tests along when I didn't think anything of it, I thought if a doctor suggests it you pretty much go along with it.\n\n\"He just duped so many people. He used our weaknesses and fears and took complete advantage. But not one time did I actually think he was doing anything untoward.\"\n\nThe NHS in London said it \"extended sympathies\" to the victims and added: \"As soon as the allegations came to light, swift action was taken and we have supported the police throughout their investigation.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jack waited for four hours in a room without a bed, despite being admitted under blue light to Leeds General Infirmary\n\nBoris Johnson has been criticised after initially refusing to look at a picture of a sick four-year-old boy who had to sleep on the floor of a Leeds hospital.\n\nThe picture in the Daily Mirror of Jack, who had suspected pneumonia, spurred complaints about NHS cuts.\n\nAn ITV reporter tried to show Mr Johnson the picture on his phone, but he refused to look, before taking the device and putting it in his pocket.\n\nHe later looked and returned the phone.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn tweeted: \"He just doesn't care\", while Independent Group for Change leader Anna Soubry called his actions \"appalling\".\n\nMr Johnson was asked by other reporters why he had not looked at the photo, but he did not answer the question directly, instead repeating Conservative pledges for the NHS and promising to rebuild \"the whole of Leeds General Infirmary from top to bottom\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock later visited the hospital to speak to management about the case.\n\nHe said he was \"horrified\" by the incident involving Jack, adding: \"It's not good enough and I have apologised.\"\n\nBut Mr Hancock would not comment on the PM's reaction, saying: \"What people care about is what are we doing to improve care at Leeds General and across the NHS.\"\n\nAs he left, the health secretary was met by a group of protesters shouting at him.\n\nThe boy's mother has said she does not want her son's treatment being used as a \"political football\".\n\nIn a formal complaint to press regulator IPSO, she said she had initially given permission to two newspapers to use her son Jack's image but - after the story was widely reported across other news outlets - she now wanted to prevent any further publication of the picture or his details.\n\nIn her letter, she said the actions of the media were \"causing significant distress\" to Jack and his family.\n\nJack was taken into Leeds General Infirmary last week after being ill for six days, his mother told the Mirror.\n\nHis mother said he had been seen as soon as he arrived and given a bed and oxygen, but a few hours later the bed had to be given to another patient and Jack was left without one for more than four hours.\n\nHis mother said she then made a makeshift bed for her son with coats and took the picture.\n\nShe told the newspaper the doctors and nurses were \"lovely people\", but she was \"angry at the lack of funding and the lack of beds\", accusing the government of \"failing our children\".\n\nBoris Johnson was on the campaign trail when he was shown the picture of Jack\n\nDr Yvette Oade, chief medical officer at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, said: \"Our hospitals are extremely busy at the moment and we are very sorry that Jack's family had a long wait in our emergency department.\n\n\"We are extremely sorry that there were only chairs available in the treatment room, and no bed. This falls below our usual high standards, and for this we would like to sincerely apologise to Jack and his family.\"\n\nITV reporter Joe Pike tweeted about his interview with Mr Johnson, which took place in Grimsby on the campaign trail.\n\nHe asked the PM to look at the photo of Jack on his phone several times.\n\nMr Johnson said he had not seen the picture yet but refused to look at it while Mr Pike questioned him.\n\nEventually, he took Mr Pike's phone and put it in his pocket, saying: \"If you don't mind, I'll give you an interview now.\"\n\nMr Pike said: \"You refuse to look at the photo. You've taken my phone and put it in your pocket, prime minister.\n\n\"His mother says the NHS is in crisis. What's your response to that?\"\n\nMr Johnson then removed the phone from his pocket and looked at the screen.\n\n\"It's a terrible, terrible photo, and I apologise, obviously, to the family, and all those who have terrible experiences in the NHS,\" he said.\n\n\"But what we are doing is supporting the NHS, and on the whole I think patients in the NHS have a much, much better experience than this poor kid has had.\n\n\"That's why we're making huge investments into the NHS, and we can only do it if we get Parliament going, if we unblock the current deadlock, and we move forward.\"\n\nThe PM then apologised to Mr Pike for taking his phone and returned it.\n\nShadow health secretary Jon Ashworth called refusing to look at the picture \"a new low\" for the PM, adding: \"It's clear he could not care less.\n\n\"Don't give this disgrace of a man five more years of driving our NHS into the ground. Sick toddlers like Jack deserve so much better.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson also said Mr Johnson would not look at the photo because \"he simply does not care\".\n\nShe tweeted: \"He doesn't care about Jack. He doesn't care about anyone other than himself.\"\n\nAnd the SNP's Westminster leader, Ian Blackford, called Mr Johnson \"a man with no empathy and no moral compass\".\n\nHe tweeted: \"The picture of the young boy in Leeds is horrific. His unwillingness to even show remorse proves just how unfit he is to serve as prime minister.\"", "The Banksy artwork shows Ryan on a bench being \"pulled\" by two reindeer\n\nElusive artist Banksy has created new artwork in Birmingham, a festive-themed piece highlighting homelessness.\n\nThe artwork features in a film on Instagram that shows a man named Ryan on a bench being \"pulled\" by two reindeer painted on a brick wall in the city's Jewellery Quarter.\n\nIt has been viewed over 1m times since it was posted earlier.\n\nHours later though, the work was defaced by a vandal who sprayed red noses on the reindeer.\n\nBarriers had been installed, but the person managed to jump them, BBC Midlands Today reporter Ben Sidwell tweeted.\n\nA vandal sprayed the artwork with red noses on Monday evening\n\nUnveiling the work, Banksy praised the generosity of people who gave Ryan food and drink while they filmed.\n\nThe post said: \"God bless Birmingham. In the 20 minutes we filmed Ryan on this bench passers-by gave him a hot drink, two chocolate bars and a lighter - without him ever asking for anything.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by banksy This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPete Smith's jewellery studio and workshop Vault 88 is located on Vyse Street, opposite the artwork.\n\nHe saw it when he arrived for work on Friday and said it had been attracting a lot of attention since the Instagram post.\n\n\"The world and his mother is outside,\" he said.\n\n\"There's been people taking pictures of themselves on the bench. It's brilliant. It's very, very clever.\"\n\nVisitors have been recreating the artwork at the scene\n\nHe added the artist's praise was \"good for Brummies\", and showed \"they care\".\n\nLuke Crane from the Jewellery Quarter Business Improvement District said it was now a priority to protect the artwork.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'God bless Birmingham', says Banksy as artwork appears in city\n\n\"We are very keen to make sure it is a part of our community and not something that is taken away,\" he said.\n\n\"I think it comes at a great time of year - we obviously didn't know it was coming, but what a great time.\n\n\"And it's obviously about giving at a time of need for the homelessness that we have in these areas, and it's something that we've been working in partnership with the council and other organisations to try and tackle, so it's great to see it in our area.\"", "The economy suffered its worst three months for more than a decade after official figures revealed output failed to grow once again in October.\n\nOffice for National Statistics (ONS) data showed the economy flatlined month-on-month in October, after two months of declines.\n\nIt was the weakest three months since early 2009.\n\nThe figures come ahead of Thursday's general election, with the main parties all promising to boost growth.\n\nAlthough the service sector expanded 0.2% in the August-to-October period, that was offset by a 0.7% contraction in manufacturing and 0.3% fall in construction. The ONS said there had been \"a notable drop in housebuilding and infrastructure in October\".\n\nJohn Hawksworth, chief economist at consultancy PwC, blamed Brexit-related uncertainty for the economy's \"loss of momentum\".\n\nHe said: \"Growth seems likely to remain subdued through the rest of 2019, but we would hope for a gradual revival in activity over the course of 2020 if current political and economic uncertainties ease. Our main scenario is for 1% GDP growth in 2020 assuming an orderly Brexit.\"\n\nProfessor Costas Milas, of the University of Liverpool's management school, described the figures as \"quite poor\".\n\n\"The main point is that our economy continues to disappoint badly, which will probably bring a Bank of England interest rate cut much closer especially if Thursday's election turns out very inconclusive,\" he said.\n\nJack Leslie, economic analyst at the Resolution Foundation, said that the UK's domestic challenges come against a weak global economic outlook for next year.\n\n\"While the main parties have avoided any discussion of this challenging economic environment during the election campaign, navigating it will be a central task for the next government nonetheless,\" he said.\n\nHowever, the pound shrugged off the figures, continuing to rise on Tuesday after gains on Monday. In early London trading, sterling was up 0.2% at $1.3157, and against the euro rose 0.1% to 84.18p\n\n\"Sterling price action is all about the upcoming parliamentary election and real economic data should continue to play second fiddle,\" ING analysts said in a note sent to clients.\n\nSeparately, the ONS released trade data which showed Britain's goods trade deficit widened by more than expected to nearly £14.5bn in October from £11.5bn in September.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jonathan Ashworth: \"Of course it makes me look like a right plonker\"\n\nLabour's Jonathan Ashworth has apologised to his party after criticising Jeremy Corbyn in a secret recording by his Tory activist friend.\n\nIn a recording leaked to Tory-supporting website Guido Fawkes, Mr Ashworth is heard saying he did not believe Labour would win the election.\n\nMr Ashworth has insisted he was \"joshing around\" in the conversation.\n\nMr Corbyn said it was \"not the sort of thing I would do\", but claimed the story was \"irrelevant\".\n\nThe Labour leader added that Mr Ashworth had said it \"was all about reverse psychology banter - as in football\".\n\nHe suggested that shadow health secretary has an \"odd sense of humour\" but added that he \"makes jokes the whole time\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"I'm cool with Jon, we get along great\"\n\nHe also accused the Guido Fawkes website of \"just trying to deflect away from the Tories' mess of the National Health Service\" and insisted that the shadow health secretary had his \"full support\".\n\nThe conversation appears to have been recorded over a week ago and Mr Ashworth said: \"The reason this has come out today is because the Tories know the crisis in the NHS is ruining their campaign and we've got babies - babies - on the front page of the Daily Mirror unable to get a bed.\"\n\nMr Ashworth named the friend he was speaking to as former local Conservative Association chairman, Greig Baker, and he did not deny that he made the remarks.\n\nMeanwhile, in an interview with BBC Breakfast, Mr Corbyn dismissed claims that he was a \"problem on the doorstep\" for Labour activists, saying it was \"not a presidential election\".\n\nIn the recording, Mr Ashworth appears to refer to an unsuccessful plot to oust Mr Corbyn, instigated by some of his MPs in the aftermath of the EU referendum.\n\n\"People like me were internally saying 'this isn't the right moment' but I got kind of ignored,\" Mr Ashworth is recorded as saying.\n\nOn Labour's election chances, Mr Ashworth is heard saying: \"I've been going round these national places, it's dire for Labour… it's dire.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. LISTEN: An excerpt from the secret recording of Jonathan Ashworth\n\n\"I'm helping colleagues, banging on about the NHS for them but it's awful for them, and it's the combination of Corbyn and Brexit… outside of the city seats…it's abysmal out there…they can't stand Corbyn and they think Labour's blocked Brexit.\"\n\nOn the recording, Mr Ashworth is asked: If Mr Corbyn \"got in would he be as bad as I suspect?\"\n\n\"I don't know, on the security stuff, I worked in No 10, I think the machine will pretty quickly move to safeguard security, I mean the civil service machine. But it's not going to happen. I cannot see it happening.\"\n\nA Twitter account appearing to belong to Mr Baker later defended leaking the recording.\n\nHe tweeted: \"If someone tells you about a threat to national security - that they say could only be avoided by asking civil servants to act unconstitutionally - there's a duty to tell people about it.\"\n\nSpeaking to the Victoria Derbyshire programme, Mr Ashworth said: \"Of course it makes me look like a right plonker, but it's not what I mean when I'm winding up a friend, trying to sort of, pull his leg a bit.\"\n\nHe said he was \"having a bit of banter\" with his friend \"because he was saying 'oh, the Tories are going to lose' and I was, like saying, 'no you're going to be fine', joshing as old friends do.\n\n\"And he's only gone and leaked it to a website - selectively leaked it - and I thought he was a friend, Greig Baker, but obviously he's not.\"\n\nWhen asked if he believed, as the recording suggested, that Mr Corbyn was a threat to the UK's national security, Mr Ashworth replied: \"Of course I don't.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Politics Live, he said: \"I look like an idiot as a result of doing it... I apologise to Labour Party members.\"\n\nConservative Party leader Boris Johnson said Mr Ashworth was \"saying what hundreds of Labour candidates and millions of voters are thinking\", adding that Mr Corbyn was \"unfit to be PM because he is blocking Brexit\".\n\nMr Ashworth's remarks were \"an honest and truly devastating assessment\" of Mr Corbyn's leadership \"by one of his most trusted election lieutenants\", Conservative Party chairman James Cleverly said.\n\nIt's striking that in the dying embers of this campaign - which has been so carefully scripted and choreographed by the parties - suddenly events have burst into it and changed the dynamic.\n\nYesterday it was that photo of four-year-old Jack lying on a hospital floor. Today it's that recording of Jonathan Ashworth - by someone who was meant to be his friend.\n\nThey clearly knew his views of Jeremy Corbyn and basically it amounts to what looks like a sting - because the individual he was talking to is a Conservative activist.\n\nNevertheless, the remarks are out there and they are damning.\n\nHere you have the man who is meant to be fronting Labour's attack on the NHS basically saying they haven't a hope of winning, that voters believe they blocked Brexit and they don't like Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nAnd, perhaps most damning of all, seeming to suggest that Mr Corbyn is a risk to national security.\n\nSo this is absolutely going to dominate the headlines today.\n\nEarlier, in an interview with BBC Breakfast, Mr Corbyn was challenged on his leadership credentials amid reports that some candidates are finding voters do not want to support him personally.\n\n\"It's not a presidential election,\" he said.\n\n\"It is a Parliamentary election in which we elect members of Parliament. I'm the leader of the Labour Party and I'm very proud to have that position.\"\n\nWhen asked about some candidates not including his name in their leaflets, he said he was \"proud\" of his party's manifesto and \"my job is to deliver it\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Corbyn denies his personal ratings are 'hindering' his party\n\nOn the case of a sick four-year-old boy who was photographed on the floor of Leeds General Infirmary, Mr Corbyn said it was an example of what was happening in the NHS.\n\n\"It is obviously awful for that little boy and the family, the way they were treated,\" he said.\n\n\"But it does say something about our NHS when this happened, and then all research shows there's a very large number of hospitals where patients are at risk because of staff shortages, because of a lack of equipment, because of poor maintenance of hospital buildings.\"\n\nHe insisted his spending plans \"are completely credible\" and will \"give sufficient resources to the NHS\".\n\nIn the interview, Mr Corbyn was also challenged on his party's Brexit policy and his own position.\n\nLabour wants to negotiate a new deal with the EU and then put it to the public as a \"credible Leave option\" alongside the option of Remain in another referendum - which the Labour leader would remain neutral in.\n\n\"I will be the honest broker,\" Mr Corbyn said.\n\nThe Conservatives argue that Labour would bring further \"dither and delay\" to Brexit.", "Fifty years ago, the way people voted in the UK was largely determined by social class, but different influences are at play in the 21st Century.\n\nBack in the 1960s, political scientist Peter Pulzer famously stated that \"class is the basis of British party politics; all else is embellishment and detail\". People in middle-class jobs were more likely to vote Conservative, and the working class were more inclined to vote Labour. Any other differences were relatively unimportant.\n\nThe picture is now very different. The kind of job that someone does is expected to make very little difference to how they will vote at this election. On the other hand, whether they are young or old may matter a great deal.\n\nPolling companies divide voters into ABC1s (those employed in middle-class \"white collar\" jobs) and C2DEs (those in a working-class \"blue collar\" occupation). These two groups differ little in how they propose to vote at this election.\n\nAt 42%, support for the Conservatives is the same in both, while at 33%, support for Labour - a party originally founded to advance the interests of the working class - is only five points higher among the working class than the middle class.\n\n(The polls are GB-wide. Because of this, they cannot tell you anything meaningful about the demographic variation on the votes for SNP and Plaid Cymru).\n\nThis trend has been in evidence for some time. At each of the last three elections, the Conservatives have advanced more strongly than Labour among working-class voters. In the last election, the difference between the two groups had become quite small. This election looks set to repeat that pattern.\n\nConversely, the Liberal Democrats used to pride themselves on attracting support from both sides of the class divide. That claim is now more difficult to sustain. At 19%, the party's support among middle-class voters is markedly higher than among working-class supporters (10%).\n\nAlso striking, however, is the strength of support for the Lib Dems among graduates. On average, support is some 14 points higher among those with a degree than among those without. This reflects the fact that nearly all Lib Dem supporters voted Remain in the EU referendum, and that, in turn, university graduates are especially likely to back staying in the EU.\n\nSupport for the Conservatives is higher among those without a degree than among graduates - as might be expected, given that most of the party's support comes from those who voted Leave. This, in turn, helps explain why the party is no longer more popular among middle-class voters than those in working-class occupations.\n\nHowever, if voting no longer differs much between working-class and middle-class voters, it does differ between other groups.\n\nAt present the Conservatives are 15 points ahead of Labour among men, but by 11 points among women. According to Ipsos Mori, such a pattern - with Labour performing a little more strongly among women than men - has been in evidence since the 2005 election.\n\nA much bigger difference is to be observed between those from different ethnic backgrounds.\n\nIn contrast to the position in the polls in general, Labour are well ahead among those from a black, Asian or other minority ethnic (BAME) background. According to ICM, 56% of BAME voters intend to vote for Labour, while only 23% are likely to support the Conservatives. BMG puts the figures at 40% and 27% respectively.\n\nThe most striking difference of all is between younger and older voters.\n\nAbout three-fifths of those aged 65 or older are currently proposing to vote Conservative, compared with less than a quarter of those aged under 35. Conversely, nearly half of those aged less than 35 are backing Labour - but only 17% of those aged 65 or over.\n\nThere has always been a tendency for the Conservatives to be favoured in greater numbers by older rather than younger voters, with the opposite being true for Labour. Nevertheless, the gap widened noticeably in the 2015 election and even more so in 2017. It looks as though the generational gap could be just as big this time.\n\nYounger and older voters also disagree about Brexit. Younger voters are more likely to have voted Remain and older ones for Leave. This helps explain why younger voters are less willing to vote Conservative.\n\nHowever, the generational gap was widening before the EU referendum was held, so it must be about more than Brexit.\n\nSome other generational differences in the UK may be playing a role, such as attitudes towards immigration, ease of getting on the housing ladder, and the cost of university tuition.\n\nEither way, it is clear that age, not social class, is the division that nowadays lies at the heart of British party politics and will play a significant role on 12 December.\n\nThis analysis piece was commissioned by the BBC from an expert working for an outside organisation.\n\nThis piece uses Opinium polling on the leaders of the parties competing in the general election across the UK. Comparable results for parties with candidates in individual nations, including the SNP, are not available.", "The body repaying money owed to Thomas Cook customers after the tour firm collapsed has apologised to thousands of customers facing refund delays.\n\nPaul Smith, director at the Civil Aviation Authority, said \"we are very sorry\" and promised the CAA is \"working tirelessly\" to process payments.\n\nDespite £160m having already been refunded, he told the BBC well over 50,000 customers were still owed money.\n\nIncomplete claim forms and attempted fraud were adding to delays, he said.\n\nThomas Cook collapsed on 23 September, after failing to obtain rescue funds from its banks. Some 150,000 travellers had to be repatriated back to the UK during a two-week operation run by the CAA.\n\nA refund process was opened on 7 October for customers covered by Atol-protected insurance.\n\nAlthough the CAA said it expected to pay the tens of thousands of people who registered on the first day within 60 days, only about two-thirds were refunded by the weekend deadline.\n\nMr Smith, the CAA's consumers and markets director, said: \"This is the biggest refund operation in UK travel. We have paid out already about £160m, and expect over the next couple of days to get that up above £180m.\n\n\"We have had to put some extra checks in because we were concerned about fraud. And we had some challenges with the data we received from the company. We are sorry for those people we have not yet been able to pay.\"\n\nSome claimants had provided incomplete forms, and he urged them to update the details as soon as possible. \"We really want to make these payments as quickly as we can because it is money people are entitled to,\" he said.\n\nSome 300,000 Thomas Cook claims have been received so far, 215,000 of which have been confirmed as valid. However, this figure includes about 90,000 direct debit customers in October whose money was automatically returned.", "New Zealand is a wealthy Pacific nation dominated by two cultural groups - New Zealanders of European descent, and the Maori, who are descendants of Polynesian settlers.\n\nIt is made up of two main islands and numerous smaller ones. Around three-quarters of the population lives on the North Island, which is also home to the capital, Wellington.\n\nAgriculture is the economic mainstay, but manufacturing and tourism are important. Visitors are drawn to the glacier-carved mountains, lakes, beaches and thermal springs. Because of the islands' geographical isolation, much of the flora and fauna is unique to the country.\n\nNew Zealand plays an active role in Pacific affairs, and has special constitutional ties with the Pacific territories of Niue, the Cook Islands and Tokelau.\n\nChris Hipkins became prime minister in January 2023 following the unexpected resignation of his Labour Party predecessor Jacinda Ardern, who had won second term in October 2020 - Ardern had said she no longer had \"enough in the tank\" to lead the country.\n\nJacinda Arden had won praise at home and abroad for her handling of two major crises - the 2019 Christchurch mosque shooting, and the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nMr Hipkins now faces the uphill task of retaining power in the upcoming general elections in October. Opinion polls have suggested that his party is trailing its conservative opposition, the National Party, in popularity.\n\nThe country was among the first to close borders, this won plaudits for keeping New Zealand virus-free early in the pandemic, but frustration set in later when people tired of the zero-tolerance strategy, which saw nationwide lockdowns over a single infection.\n\nBroadcasters enjoy one of the world's most liberal media arenas.\n\nThe broadcasting sector was deregulated in 1988, when the government allowed competition to the state-owned Television New Zealand (TVNZ). Privately-owned TV3 is TVNZ's main competitor.\n\nSatellite platform SKY TV is the leading pay TV provider. Freeview carries free-to-air digital terrestrial and satellite TV.\n\nThe New Zealand Herald newspaper has the biggest circulation.\n\nSome key dates in New Zealand's history:\n\nc.1200-1300AD - Ancestors of the Maori arrive by canoe from other parts of Polynesia. Their name for the country is Aotearoa (land of the long white cloud).\n\n1642 - Dutch explorer Abel Tasman sights the south island and charts some of the country's west coast. It subsequently appears on Dutch maps as Nieuw Zeeland, named after the Dutch province of Zeeland.\n\n1769 - British captain James Cook explores coastline, also in 1773 and 1777.\n\n1840 - Treaty of Waitangi between British and several Maori tribes pledges protection of Maori land and establishes British law in New Zealand.\n\n1845-72 - The New Zealand Wars, also referred to as the Land Wars. Maori put up resistance to British colonial rule.\n\n1893 - New Zealand becomes world's first country to give women the vote.\n\n1907 - New Zealand becomes dominion within British Empire.\n\n1914-18 - New Zealand commits thousands of troops to the British war effort during World War One. They suffer heavy casualties in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey in 1915.\n\n1939-45 - Troops from New Zealand see action in Europe, North Africa and the Pacific during World War Two.\n\n1951 - Anzus Pacific security treaty signed between New Zealand, Australia and USA.\n\n1985 - New Zealand refuses to allow US nuclear-powered or nuclear-armed ships to enter its ports. French secret service agents blow up Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbour. One person killed.\n\n2011 - Scores of people are killed in a major earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand's second-largest city, on South Island.\n\n2017 - A New Zealand-US firm, Rocket Lab, launches its first rocket into space, ushering New Zealand into the select group of countries which have carried out a space launch.\n\n2019 - Fifty people are killed when a far-right gunman attacks worshippers in two mosques in Christchurch. Government tightens gun laws.\n\n2020 - Jacinda Ardern wins landslide victory for Labour in parliamentary elections, in part over her handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nNew Zealand's parliament building, The Beehive, was officially opened in 1981", "Stars including Drake, Chance The Rapper and Ellie Goulding have paid tribute to the star\n\nPolice say they found guns and drugs on the private jet that carried rapper Juice Wrld to Chicago before he died on Sunday morning.\n\nLaw enforcement officials were waiting for the plane when it landed, having received information that banned substances might be onboard.\n\nIt was during a subsequent search of the aircraft that the rapper had a seizure that led to his death.\n\nAn autopsy on the 21-year-old has proved inconclusive.\n\nThe Cook County Medical Examiner's Office said on Monday that additional studies were needed before they could determine the cause of death.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Will Lee\n\nPolice in Chicago said they did not suspect foul play; but gave some additional details that shed light on the sudden death of one of hip-hop's brightest rising stars.\n\nTheir search uncovered 41 \"vacuum-sealed\" bags of marijuana, six bottles of prescription codeine cough syrup, two 9 mm pistols, a .40-caliber pistol, a high-capacity ammunition magazine and metal-piercing bullets, authorities told the US media, including the Chicago Tribune and the New York Times.\n\nTwo men identified by police as Juice Wrld's security guards have been charged with illegally possessing guns and ammunition.\n\nAnthony Guglielmi, a Chicago police spokesman, said the star \"began convulsing (and) going into a seizure\" as authorities were searching two carts of luggage at about 2am on Sunday morning.\n\nFederal agents quickly administered Narcan, a drug used to revive people thought to be overdosing on opioids, and the Chicago Fire Department was on the scene in under seven minutes, Guglielmi said.\n\nHiggins woke up but was incoherent and, after being taken to hospital, was pronounced dead just after 3am.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe Chicago-born star had emerged from the Soundcloud rap scene, and was known for his sweet-voiced, melodic brand of hip-hop, with songs often freestyled in just a few takes.\n\nHe scored a major hit in the UK last year with Lucid Dreams, a hazy lament for an ex-lover that sampled Sting's Shape Of My Heart; and had also worked with the likes of Ellie Goulding, BTS, Lil Yachty and Halsey.\n\nTributes from the music world flooded in after news of his death broke on Sunday.\n\nDrake wrote on his Instagram: \"I would like to see all the younger talent live longer and I hate waking up hearing another story filled with blessings was cut short.\"\n\n\"This is ridiculous,\" wrote Chance the Rapper. \"Millions of people, not just in Chicago but around the world are hurting because of this and don't know what to make of it. I'm sorry. Love you and God bless your soul.\"\n\nTravis Scott, with whom Juice Wrld collaborated on Scott's album Astroworld, shared a photo of them together in the studio with Future and wrote: \"You will live on forever.\"\n\n\"Rest in paradise man,\" Billie Eilish said on Instagram Stories; while Snoop Dogg commented: \"Rest ya soul, little homie.\"\n\nEllie Goulding also shared her condolences, calling the rapper a \"sweet soul\" and sharing a picture of the two together; while BTS shared a tweet that read: \"Rest in peace Juice WRLD #RIPJUICEWRLD.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by champagnepapi This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFans have subsequently pointed out that Higgins \"predicted\" his death in a song called Legends.\n\n\"What's the 27 Club?/ We ain't making it past 21,\" he rapped. \"They tell me I'm-a be a legend/ I don't want that title now/ 'Cause all the legends seem to die out\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Roxette singer Marie Fredriksson has died aged 61, her manager has confirmed.\n\nThe Swedish star achieved global success in the 1990s with hits like Joyride, The Look and It Must Have Been Love, from the film Pretty Woman.\n\nA statement said the singer had died on Monday, 9 December \"following a 17-year long battle with cancer\".\n\n\"You were the most wonderful friend for over 40 years,\" her bandmate Per Gessle said. \"Things will never be the same.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Roxette This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nFredriksson was first diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2002, after collapsing in her kitchen following a workout.\n\nThe tumour cost her the vision in her right eye - but after three years of treatment, she returned to public life and toured successfully again with Roxette from 2008 to 2016.\n\nHowever, the cancer eventually returned: Fredriksson's family said she had died following a recurrence of \"her previous illness\" earlier this week.\n\n\"Thank you, Marie, thanks for everything,\" said Gessle in a heartfelt statement.\n\n\"You were an outstanding musician, a master of the voice, an amazing performer. Thanks for painting my black and white songs in the most beautiful colours. You were the most wonderful friend for over 40 years.\n\n\"I'm proud, honoured and happy to have been able to share so much of your time, talent, warmth, generosity and sense of humour. All my love goes out to you and your family.\"\n\n\"Her amazing voice - both strong and sensitive - and her magical live performances will be remembered by all of us who were lucky enough to witness them. But we also remember a wonderful person with a huge appetite for life, and woman with a very big heart who cared for everybody she met.\"\n\nHailing from Halmstad, Sweden, Roxette first met in the late 1970s, when Fredriksson was a member of the pop outfit Strul & Ma Mas Barn and Gessle was playing with Gyllene Tider, one of Sweden's biggest groups.\n\nThey teamed up in 1986, becoming huge stars in their homeland with the single Neverending Love, followed by a hit album, Pearls of Passion.\n\nDespite their popularity in Scandinavia, Capitol Records declined to release their records in the US.\n\nIt wasn't until an American student studying in Sweden brought a copy of their second album home to Minneapolis, and persuaded a local radio DJ to play The Look, that they achieved international fame.\n\nThat song became the first of four US number ones for the band, while its parent album, Look Sharp!, went platinum.\n\nThey achieved their biggest success when their 1987 Christmas single, It Must Have Been Love, was re-written for inclusion on the Pretty Woman soundtrack in 1990. It topped the charts in more than 10 countries, and gave the band their biggest UK hit, reaching number three.\n\nRoxette continued to tour and release albums throughout the 1990s - eventually selling more than 80m records worldwide.\n\nKnown for breezy pop hits like Dressed For Success and power ballads such as Listen To Your Heart, they cheekily summarised their songwriting philosophy in the title to their 1995 greatest hits album, Don't Bore Us, Get To The Chorus.\n\nAfter a brief hiatus, during which Gessle reunited with Gyllene Tider, the duo scored further hit albums with 1999's Have a Nice Day, and 2001's Room Service.\n\nThe singer retired from touring in 2015\n\nFredriksson's devastating cancer diagnosis came the following year. She spent three years receiving treatment, and later wrote about the \"fear\" she'd experienced in a solo record, called The Change.\n\n\"Suddenly the change was here,\" she sang, \"Cold as ice and full of fear / There was nothing I could do / I saw slow motion pictures / Of me and you.\"\n\nIn 2005, Fredriksson told Sweden's Aftonbladet newspaper her treatment had been successful, saying: \"It's been three really hard years [but] I'm healthy.\"\n\nThe singer took up painting during her treatment, but surprised Roxette fans by making a return to the stage with Gessle in Amsterdam in 2008.\n\nThe band later mounted a comeback tour that sold out venues across Europe, and released several new albums but, by 2016, Fredriksson's health was failing and doctors advised her to stop touring.\n\nIn her autobiography, the singer wrote about the impact cancer had on her life.\n\n\"At last, it feels like I have reconciled myself to having a radiation injury to live with. That this is how it turned out,\" she said in The Love Of Life.\n\n\"I have lost many years through the disease. And it is also a sadness to age. But every day I think I'm grateful to be sitting here. And that I can still sing.\"\n\nIn her final single, 2018's Sing Me A Song, the star appeared to address her mortality, singing: \"The love I had and gave / Makes it hard to say goodbye\" over an elegant, mournful jazz backing.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by Marie Fredriksson - Topic This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nFredriksson is survived by her husband Mikael Bolyos and their two children.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The New Zealand Red Cross's Family Links website has a list of 100 people who were registered as missing following the White Island eruption. Thirty-one have since confirmed themselves as safe. However, we know that only 47 people were on the island at the time, so many of them have not been caught up in the disaster.\n\nThe Red Cross stresses that the list is user-generated and not official. It encourages family members to update details when they get relevant information.\n\nMatthew Evans, 38, who is originally from Carmarthen in Wales, is one of the Britons listed as missing.\n\nHowever, his brother Ian told the Press Association that he had been found safe and well.\n\n\"He was travelling with his new wife, he was trekking at the time and we were concerned because we hadn't heard from him for 24 hours,\" he said.\n\n\"But they are safe. They were in the North Island, away from the Bay of Plenty.\n\n\"They said they had no idea what had gone on.\"", "Nigel Farage has urged traditional Labour supporters in Leave-voting seats to vote \"tactically and sensibly\" to ensure Brexit Party MPs are elected.\n\nHe said his party needed a \"bridgehead\" in the next Parliament to ensure Boris Johnson did not \"sell out\" the 17.4 million people who backed Brexit.\n\nMr Farage said his party could get \"over the line\" in a handful of seats.\n\nAnd he warned of \"years of indigestion\" unless there were major changes to the PM's \"oven-ready\" Brexit deal.\n\nAt his final press conference of the campaign, Mr Farage defended his party's election strategy, which has seen it focus on Labour-held seats such as Grimsby, Hartlepool and Barnsley which voted to leave the EU in 2016.\n\nHe has come under fire from within his own party for not doing more to help the Conservatives win a Commons majority, an outcome which Mr Johnson has said will enable the UK to leave the EU on 31 January.\n\nFour Brexit Party MEPs were suspended last week for urging Mr Farage, who has campaigned for the UK to leave the EU for decades, to scale back the party's efforts to help the Conservatives.\n\nA number of Brexit Party candidates in target Tory seats have said they have stopped campaigning in the final 48 hours before Thursday's election and urged people to vote for their opponents.\n\nMr Farage suggested his candidate in Lincoln, Reece Wilkes, may have been effectively coerced into backing the Conservatives, saying he could \"only imagine the pressure that individuals would have come under\".\n\nHe dismissed suggestions that the party was at risk of splitting the Leave vote, saying it was \"tearing chunks\" out of the Labour vote in seats like Grimsby, leaving the Conservatives in a strong position to win.\n\n\"Far from splitting the vote, in some parts of the country we are actually making Boris Johnson's life rather easier,\" he said.\n\nMr Farage said it was important his party was represented in the next Parliament to deliver a \"proper\" Brexit and keep Mr Johnson to his pledge to negotiate a Canada-style free trade deal with the EU, allowing the UK to fully diverge from EU rules and standards.\n\nThe PM has insisted he can negotiate an agreement by the end of 2020 before the transition period agreed with the EU ends, citing the existing close economic alignment between the UK and the bloc.\n\nBut Mr Farage said the EU would have the \"upper hand\" in the \"agonising\" negotiations that lay ahead and there was a risk of the UK getting trapped in an arrangement where it had to follow EU rules and standards without any say in setting them.\n\nUnless there were significant changes to the UK's blueprint for future relations, he said Mr Johnson's deal - which the PM has said is \"oven-ready\" and could be swiftly passed by Parliament - would give the country \"indigestion for years and years to come\".\n\n\"We can avoid that by establishing a bridgehead of Brexit Party MPs,\" he said. \"It does not matter if there aren't too many of them.\"\n\nHe added: \"As much as I want Brexit, I don't want to see Brexit sold out. I am convinced that without the Brexit Party's voice we will not get the Brexit that 17.4 million people voted for.\n\n\"I am also convinced that in some of our strongest seats we are going to get some over the line.\n\n\"My appeal is to Leave voters in those constituencies which have been Labour for ever and will be Labour when you wake up on Friday morning unless you use your vote tactically and sensibly... don't waste your vote\".", "Rob Brydon says he had no clue there were plans for a Gavin and Stacey Christmas special until after the script was written.\n\nThe actor, who plays Uncle Bryn in the series, only found out earlier this year ahead of filming in the summer.\n\nThe sitcom about a couple who fell in love during a whirlwind romance, will be on TV on Christmas Day, after a nine-year break from screens.\n\nIt will focus on festivities at Uncle Bryn's house in Barry.\n\nThe show stars Essex boy Gavin, played by Mathew Horne and Barry girl Stacey, played by Joanna Page, who married after that short romance.\n\nTheir best friends Smithy and Nessa, played by the show's writers James Corden and Ruth Jones, also struck up an unlikely relationship.\n\n\"I think it was February, I had a text from James saying can we have a chat,\" said Brydon. \"I spoke to him and I was totally shocked. I had not an inkling.\n\nMathew Horne and Joanna Page filmed scenes during the summer as Gavin and Stacey\n\n\"I had been asked at every public event is there going to be more? Is there going to be more?\n\n\"I said I don't think so, especially given their lives, Ruth with Stella and James in America - so I was flabbergasted.\"\n\nCorden and Jones got together last year to write the special episode, but the plot is being kept under wraps.\n\nSpeaking to Behnaz Akhgar, sitting in for Eleri Sion on BBC Radio Wales, Jones said: \"We had always thought about doing more but we really never had the time to get together to sit down, plan it and actually write it.\n\nRuth Jones returns as Nessa for the Christmas special\n\n\"There are so many actors involved and it just happened to fall into place.\n\n\"Last year, we managed to find a weekend where we could get together, work out if there was a story for an episode and then I went back out to the States in February, and we spent a week writing the episode.\n\n\"We didn't tell anybody other than our partners because we knew that if we said anything to anybody it could end in disappointment, because we didn't know if we had an episode or not.\"", "Shante Turay-Thomas fell ill at her family home in Wood Green last year\n\nA call handler with the NHS non-emergency 111 service has admitted he made mistakes when dealing with a student who was suffering a fatal suspected allergic reaction.\n\nShante Turay-Thomas, 18, died after falling unwell at her family home in Wood Green, north London, last year.\n\nAdemola Dada told an inquest he should have asked \"more questions\" about her condition while speaking to her mother.\n\nBut he added he had just been \"wanting to get that ambulance out\".\n\nMs Turay-Thomas died in hospital hours after she fell ill on 14 September last year.\n\nThe inquest at St Pancras Coroner's Court has previously heard how her mother told Mr Dada that her daughter had a rash and tingling at the back of her throat, and explained that she might have eaten nuts.\n\nAsked by coroner Mary Hassell if he should have considered whether the Ms Turay-Thomas could have been having an allergic reaction, the call handler replied there were \"a number of things I didn't do correctly\".\n\nChanges he would have made included speaking with the 18-year-old to gauge how significant her breathing issues were and speaking to a clinician sooner, the inquest heard.\n\nHowever, Mr Dada added that the call happened during a \"busy\" period and had previously been told to keep details about patients \"short and sweet\" by clinicians.\n\nThe call handler also said he should have checked the caller's address was correct.\n\nThe inquest previously heard one ambulance was initially dispatched to the victim's grandmother's house six miles (9.7 km) away, despite Ms Turay giving her Wood Green address several times.\n\nThe inquest is due to last until at least Thursday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A new artwork by Banksy, which highlights homelessness, has been defaced in Birmingham.\n\nThe street artwork featured in a film on Instagram shows a man named Ryan on a bench being \"pulled\" by two reindeer painted on a brick wall in the city's Jewellery Quarter.\n\nNow it's been covered with a protective plastic sheet after the work was defaced by a vandal who sprayed red noses on the reindeer.", "Ever since Nancy Pelosi announced last week that she was instructing the Judiciary Committee to draft articles of impeachment against Donald Trump, speculation swirled as to what exactly they would look like. Would they be broad, sweeping in a hodgepodge of alleged presidential misdeeds that include evidence gathered over the course of Mr Trump’s three-year presidency? Or would they go narrow, and focus primarily on this latest Ukraine controversy.\n\nNow we have our answer. Narrow it is.\n\nDemocrats probably decided to, as the saying goes, \"keep it simple, stupid\". They have what they hope will be an easy-to-understand case of presidential abuse of power, by using the vast tools of foreign policy at his disposal for personal political gain. As a backstop to these charges, they are accusing the president of attempting to obstruct Congress’s investigation by denying relevant documents and witness testimony.\n\nAt stake, they will argue, is the security of the 2020 presidential election and the protection of congressional authority as a co-equal branch of government.\n\nThe main script from here appears clear – a quick vote in the Judiciary Committee, followed by one on the floor of the House of Representatives; presidential impeachment and a Senate trial.\n\nIn the meantime, much to the consternation of some liberals, congressional Democrats will move to hand the president a policy victory – by approving his renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement.\n\nAnd during all of this, a fever of allegations and accusations – of intelligence agency misconduct in its investigation of 2016 Trump-Russia ties, presidential Twitter barbs at his own FBI director, criminal investigations of the president’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and much more – continue to swirl and threaten to erupt and disrupt the process in one way or another.\n\nWhile the main script may be clear, beneath the surface unpredictability is the only predictable result.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nArsenal came from behind to end their nine-match winless streak as Freddie Ljungberg enjoyed his first victory as interim manager at the expense of his former club West Ham.\n\nEighteen-year-old Gabriel Martinelli marked his full Premier League debut by side-footing an equaliser which cancelled out Angelo Ogbonna's deflected first-half opener at London Stadium.\n\nWithin nine minutes, Nicolas Pepe had curled a magnificent second into the top corner and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang fired in a third.\n\nThe salvo turned the game on its head and piled the pressure on West Ham boss Manuel Pellegrini, whose side have taken four points from their past nine league games and conceded three times in three successive home games.\n\nThe Hammers remain a point above the relegation zone in 16th and face a trip to third-bottom Southampton on Saturday. Arsenal move up two places to ninth.\n• None Pellegrini 'not worried' about relegation after loss to Arsenal\n• None West Ham v Arsenal as it happened, reaction and analysis\n• None Football Daily: Ljungberg's Arsenal pull three points out of the bag\n\nArsenal's victory was all the more remarkable because until Martinelli added to the seven goals he has scored in cup competitions this season, the visitors had been utterly woeful.\n\nClub officials had spoken before kick-off about the improved atmosphere triggered by Ljungberg's appointment as Unai Emery's replacement but it appeared this game would end in frustration, just as the previous two had done under the Swede.\n\nThe visitors were bereft of confidence and mild boos from the travelling support accompanied the end of a first half in which their side failed to have a shot on target and went behind when Ogbonna's header bounced in off Ainsley Maitland-Niles.\n\nTrue, they did not have much luck. Hector Bellerin was injured in the warm-up and when Kieran Tierney was helped off in obvious pain with a shoulder injury sustained in a seemingly innocuous tangle with Michail Antonio, Ljungberg had lost both his first-choice full-backs in the space of half an hour.\n\nNevertheless, it was pitiful stuff and when Aubameyang surged down the right wing and sent over a cross that flew over everyone and straight out for a throw-in on the other side of the pitch, it was symptomatic of a club apparently heading nowhere fast.\n\nIt was 1977 when Arsenal last went 10 matches without a win. With an away Europa League game against Standard Liege followed by a home encounter with Manchester City to come, at the interval it was not beyond the realms of possibility that the 12-game barren sequence from 1974 was going to be threatened.\n\nWith Alexandre Lacazette and David Luiz on the bench, it was two of Arsenal's most inexperienced players who sparked the change in fortune.\n\nLjungberg had obviously seen enough of Martinelli in two substitute appearances to trust the Brazilian with his first league start. The reward was a nerveless finish when his side needed it most. Sead Kolasinac provided the cross but there was still a lot to do for the Brazilian, who steered a first-time effort into the corner.\n\nEmery paid a club record £72m for Pepe in August. With one league goal all season, the Frenchman has not really lived up to his billing but his goal here, a curling shot into the right-hand corner of David Martin's net, was perfect in its execution.\n\nAubameyang made certain of a win few would have anticipated 10 minutes earlier when his clinical finish took his tally for the season to 13. It disguised the fact he had been a virtual spectator for the first hour.\n\nAt the final whistle, Ljungberg ran to applaud the visiting fans, knowing he had given his own chances of replacing Emery a significant boost.\n\nWhat now for the unhappy Hammers?\n\nWhen they beat Chelsea 1-0 nine days ago to end their own winless sequence, it appeared West Ham were on an upward curve.\n\nThe combination of boos and thousands of empty seats that accompanied the final whistle on Monday underlined the truth of the matter.\n\nWest Ham are perilously close to dropping into the relegation zone, something the club cannot countenance after moving to the 60,000-capacity London Stadium.\n\nEven if Pellegrini survives this defeat, if West Ham lose again at Southampton on Saturday the calls for his dismissal will become piercingly loud.\n\nThis was the third home game running in which they had conceded three goals.\n\nThe Hammers were not particularly convincing when they were in front. Once they lost the advantage, the lack of confidence so clear in Arsenal's play transferred to theirs.\n\nRecord signing Sebastien Haller was left on the bench and even when he was introduced 20 minutes from time, he made no noticeable impact.\n\n'Like a Duracell battery' - what they said\n\nArsenal interim boss Freddie Ljungberg told BBC Sport: \"The players have belief and tried to move the ball with more tempo. West Ham got tired.\n\n\"The players ran their socks off and fought. I believe in them. When I could see them put their shift in, I could see the quality. I thought 'it is here for the taking'.\n\n\"Martinelli did amazingly. He is like a Duracell battery, he keeps going. Laca [Alexandre Lacazette] is a tremendous player but I had to make a tough decision.\"\n\nWest Ham manager Manuel Pellegrini told BBC Sport: \"For 60 minutes there was just one team on the pitch. But football can be like this.\n\n\"We made mistakes in moments of defending. The problem was a lack of patience and quality to decide the game with a second goal and we made important mistakes in defence.\n\n\"The pressure for me is exactly the same if we win or lose. When you don't have results things are more difficult. If I had not seen the team play the way they did in the first 65 minutes, I might have doubts [about his ability to turn things around].\n\n\"After Southampton at the weekend we have a break. We must try to recover as quickly as we can and we must try to win those three points.\"\n\nRare Arsenal recovery away from home - the stats\n• None West Ham have lost three in a row at home in the Premier League for the first time since August 2015.\n• None Arsenal came from a half-time losing position to win a Premier League away game for the first time since October 2011 (5-3 v Chelsea).\n• None Gabriel Martinelli is Arsenal's fourth-youngest scorer in the Premier League (18 years 174 days), after Cesc Fabregas, Serge Gnabry and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.\n• None Arsenal's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has been involved in 12 goals in his past 11 Premier League London derbies (nine goals, three assists).\n• None Since his Premier League debut in February 2018, Aubameyang has scored 43 goals in the competition, a joint-high along with Jamie Vardy.\n\nArsenal conclude their Europa League group phase campaign at Standard Liege on Thursday (17:55 GMT), still needing a draw to be sure of qualification before entertaining Manchester City at Emirates Stadium in the Premier League on Sunday (16:30). West Ham visit Southampton on Saturday (17:30).\n• None Attempt blocked. Gabriel Martinelli (Arsenal) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is blocked. Assisted by Mesut Özil.\n• None Ainsley Maitland-Niles (Arsenal) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Offside, West Ham United. Pablo Fornals tries a through ball, but Sébastien Haller is caught offside.\n• None Substitution, Arsenal. Matteo Guendouzi replaces Granit Xhaka because of an injury.\n• None Attempt saved. Nathan Holland (West Ham United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ryan Fredericks.\n• None Attempt blocked. Lucas Torreira (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Gabriel Martinelli. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "An HGV crashed onto a police car on the A1 near Haddington\n\nHeavy rain and strong winds have been battering Scotland, causing disruption on the roads, railways and ferries.\n\nMet Office weather warnings for wind and rain are in place across much of Scotland and the north of England.\n\nTwo sections of the A1 in East Lothian were closed after lorries were blown over, while ferries have been cancelled in other parts of the country.\n\nKylerhea, a village on Skye, has been cut off by a mud slide which has left debris across the road.\n\nTrain services across the Central Belt and Highlands have been disrupted by rail line and platform closures.\n\nTourist attractions in Edinburgh, including the castle and Christmas market, have been closed due to the severe weather.\n\nThe road and train line were closed at Saltcoats because of waves crashing over the sea wall.\n\nThe disruption to rail services affected many routes across the country.\n\nPlatform one at Haymarket has been closed while possible damage was investigated, and flooding at Blairhill has caused delays and cancellations on many services.\n\nOn the roads, police advised drivers to avoid the A1 in East Lothian\n\nTwo HGVs were blown over, with one landing on a police car, at about 10:30 between the Abbots View roundabout, Haddington and the Thistly Cross Roundabout, Dunbar.\n\nPolice Scotland said that section of the road would be closed until at least 22:00 because it was not safe to recover the vehicles until winds subsided.\n\nTwo HGVs toppled on the A1 between Innerwick and Skateraw in East Lothian\n\nEarlier, two other HGV toppled over on the A1 between Skateraw and Innerwick at about 07:45.\n\nPolice are at the scene and both north and southbound carriageways have been blocked.\n\nA Scottish Fire and Rescue Service spokesman said three appliances and a heavy rescue unit attended the incident but all drivers managed to get out of their vehicles.\n\nDiversions are in place via the A68 and A697 through the Scottish Borders.\n\nThe road was also closed to HGVs between the services at the Old Craighall A720 junction and Cockburnspath, with diversions in place taking drivers between Edinburgh City Bypass to Berwick Castle.\n\nOrganisers of Edinburgh's Christmas market said all rides, Santa's grotto and the market would not operate until Wednesday.\n\nEdinburgh Castle was among the attractions closed due to severe weather\n\nStrong winds blew in the window of the Vodaphone shop on Princes Street in Edinburgh\n\nOne of the Queen's trees in Holyrood Park in Edinburgh landed on flats and cars in Queen's Park Avenue\n\nEdinburgh Castle and Edinburgh Zoo were closed because of high winds.\n\nOne of the Queen's trees on the edge of Holyrood Park fell in the wind and landed on flats and cars in Queen's Park Avenue.\n\nAberdeen's Christmas village stayed open, although organisers said the Blizzard ride on Upperkirkgate was closed for the day.\n\nKylerhea, a village on Skye, has been cut off by a mud slide. Council staff are working to clear debris from more than 100m (328ft) of road.\n\nThe \"bottom\" road on neighbouring island Raasay was also blocked after a 30m (98ft) section of parapet wall collapsed.\n\nIn Fife, a double decker bus was pictured hanging off a grass verge between Kingseat and Cowdenbeath. Local residents said the vehicle had been blown off the road.\n\nA bus came off the road near Cowdenbeath\n\nDrivers were affected by delays following crashes elsewhere, including one on the M80 near Haggs outside, Falkirk, and another on the M80 near Robroyston, Glasgow.\n\nIn Dumfries, Whitesands has been closed from its junction with Buccleuch Street, Nith Place and Dockhead.\n\nEarlier, police warned drivers to remove their vehicles from Whitesands, Greensands and Dock Park car parks because of flooding from the River Nith. They have now told people to avoid the area.\n\nThe Met Office confirmed the storm would not be named because conditions did not have enough certainty or strength to warrant it.\n\nA yellow warning for ice has been issued by the Met Office affecting the north of Scotland between 22:00 on Tuesday and 10:00 on Wednesday.\n\nAre you in the affected areas? Have your travel plans been affected? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTalking to voters around the country two big issues have had the elusive \"cut through\" in this campaign - the Tories promise to take us out of the EU at the end of next month and Labour's attack on their handling of the NHS.\n\nOf course, other subjects have been part of the conversation but those are the issues that have come up most often during the last few weeks when we've been travelling around the country.\n\nAnd in every election in recent history, the Labour Party has tried to sow doubts in voters' minds about whether or not the Tories can be trusted with the health service at all.\n\nThat's why Boris Johnson's terrible day on the campaign trail today matters.\n\nSadly, it's all too common for newspapers to feature terrible stories of patients' bad experiences in the health service.\n\nWhat was unusual today is how Boris Johnson was asked by an ITV Calendar reporter, Joe Pike, about the photograph of four-year-old Jack, who had been pictured on the front page of the Mirror, and refused at first really to engage with it all, then took the journalist's phone and put it in his pocket.\n\nI have seen some pretty weird things in nearly 20 years covering politics, but I have never seen anything quite like that.\n\nIt wasn't just a bizarre way of reacting to legitimate questions but the real risk for Mr Johnson is it gave the impression that he didn't want to, and maybe couldn't, understand or empathise with the predicament of the family concerned.\n\nWhen we asked him about the same subject a few hours later he didn't really want to engage then, resorting back to the party's political script on their spending promises on the health service, with echoes of Theresa May in her 2017 campaign, a million miles away from the punter-friendly campaigner his allies always claim Mr Johnson can be on a good day.\n\nThis certainly was not one of them.\n\nAnd not surprisingly at all, the other parties, particularly Labour who has been struggling to close the gap, have piled in, and piled on the political pressure.\n\nIn response, the Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, was sent to the hospital in Leeds to meet the family, find out what had happened and try to smooth things over.\n\nBut he faced trouble too, as a small but very noisy group of protesters shouted at him and his team as they left the building.\n\nThe story, and the prime minister's weird and wooden response to it, provided the perfect chance for Labour to punch at one of the Conservatives' vulnerabilities, just when they were trying to make a big play for voters who have traditionally stuck with the Labour Party for generations.\n\nAnd today's events are a blast at any complacency that might have been building in Tory HQ, a reminder even at this late stage, this election isn't over.", "Joseph McCann was found guilty of 37 offences against 11 victims\n\nA serial rapist who carried out a string of sex attacks on 11 women and children across England has been given 33 life sentences.\n\nJoseph McCann's victims were aged between 11 and 71 and included three women who were abducted off the street at knifepoint and repeatedly raped.\n\nHe was found guilty of 37 offences at the Old Bailey on Friday.\n\nMr Justice Edis said McCann, who must serve a minimum of 30 years, was \"a threat to children\" and \"a paedophile\".\n\nThe judge described him as a \"classic psychopath\" and called for an \"independent and systematic\" investigation into why \"the system failed to protect\" McCann's victims.\n\nThe convicted burglar had been released from prison following a probation error in February before he embarked on a cocaine and vodka-fuelled rampage.\n\nThe 34-year-old's \"spree of sex attacks\" started in Watford in April before he moved to London, Greater Manchester and Cheshire over a two-week period.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSentencing McCann at the Old Bailey, Mr Justice Edis described him as \"a coward, a violent bully and a paedophile\".\n\nHe said his victims would probably \"never properly recover\", adding: \"This was a campaign of rape, violence and abduction of a kind which I have never seen or heard of before.\"\n\nIn a victim impact statement, a 25-year-old woman who was subjected to a 14-hour ordeal spoke about how she deeply traumatised she is.\n\nShe said she was paying for her own therapy because there was an eight-month to one-year wait for NHS treatment and criticised the \"under-resourcing\" of services for survivors.\n\nThe attacks began on 21 April, when McCann grabbed a 21-year-old woman at knifepoint as she walked home from a nightclub in Watford and took her to a house where he raped her.\n\nFour days later, the 25-year-old woman was abducted as she walked home in Walthamstow, east London, just after midnight. She was repeatedly raped in a number of locations over many hours.\n\nLater the same day, he snatched a 21-year-old woman in Edgware, north London, as she walked along the street with her sister.\n\nThe pair finally managed to escape when McCann drove to Watford, where he had booked a hotel room, and one of them hit him over the head with a vodka bottle before they fled to get help.\n\nMcCann was filmed on CCTV at a Watford hotel where he had booked a room for two nights\n\nIn the early hours of 5 May, McCann tricked his way into the home of a woman he had met in a bar in Greater Manchester.\n\nOnce inside, he tied her to a bed and molested her 11-year-old son and 17-year-old daughter, telling them: \"You are going to Europe tomorrow - you are mine.\"\n\nThe girl, who said she feared becoming a sex slave, managed to escape by jumping naked from a window, and she alerted police.\n\nMcCann then abducted and raped a 71-year-old woman and sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl he had taken from the street.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn 5 May, McCann abducted two 14-year-old girls after threatening to \"chop them up with a machete\".\n\nAfter crashing his car when a patrol vehicle gave chase, a police helicopter finally located him up a tree. He was coaxed down and arrested early on 6 May.\n\nThree days after delivering their guilty verdicts, the 12 jurors returned to the Old Bailey for sentencing.\n\nThey didn't have to be in court but they clearly wanted to see the conclusion of a most traumatic case.\n\nTwo of McCann's victims, a teenage girl and her mother, were also present, having travelled to London from the north-west of England.\n\nThe teenager, who in May had jumped naked from a first-floor window to bring her ordeal to an end and save her mother and younger brother, was praised by the judge for her courage, as he added some personal observations after the formal sentencing process had ended.\n\nMr Justice Edis said he'd read statements from all the victims about the impact of McCann's campaign of sexual violence and wished them all well.\n\n\"I hope that things turn out for them as well as we all hope they will, rather than as we fear they might,\" the judge said, surely echoing the thoughts and feelings of everyone at today's hearing.\n\nMcCann was filmed at a McDonald's while one of his victims was in the car\n\nThe court heard that McCann had 10 meetings with probation officers following his release in February, and his last meeting with an officer in Watford took place three days before the sex attacks began.\n\nMcCann was served with a warning letter because he had failed to inform authorities of a new relationship, in breach of his licence conditions.\n\nThe officer wrote that McCann was \"not happy\" about this and thought he was being treated unfairly, the court heard.\n\nRegarding his two-week engagement, McCann explained that \"if you get with someone in the travelling community then you marry them\".\n\nThe officer revealed that when the woman's parents found out about the licence condition, they broke off the relationship because they thought he was a sex offender.\n\nMcCann, who had addresses in Aylesbury and Harrow, refused to attend his Old Bailey trial and hid under a prison blanket rather than give evidence.\n\nHe also failed to attend his sentencing, citing a \"bad back\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSenior politicians faced questions on housing, climate change and trust from an audience of young people in a Question Time election special.\n\nThe election debate also saw exchanges over Brexit and the possibility of another referendum.\n\nLabour's Angela Rayner clashed with Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage over what she said was a racist referendum poster, in one of the fieriest clashes.\n\nThe UK goes to the polls in a general election on Thursday.\n\nSitting on the panel were:\n\nThis special edition of Question Time certainly didn't lack passion or drama. At times it was lively and bad tempered, with the politicians talking over one another as they tried to win over younger voters.\n\nWe heard the now familiar arguments about Brexit which have been at the heart of this election campaign, but the politicians were also challenged over other issues such as changing the voting system which haven't made the headlines.\n\nThis wasn't a debate that saw seven party leaders go head-to-head, although four did take part, and as such was unlikely to deliver a knockout blow or even produce a clear winner.\n\nAnd it probably won't have converted anyone who was already determined to vote for a particular party.\n\nThe young voters in the audience will deliver their verdict, along with the rest of the country on Thursday.\n\nBut the gap between the current generation of political leaders and the under 30s was most vividly illustrated by the question about home ownership and underlined the challenge facing whoever is in power on Friday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. General election 2019: Politicians on when they bought their first house\n\nOn the subject of housing, the panel were asked what age they were when they bought their own home.\n\nMr Farage was the youngest, buying a property at 22, and Mr Price was the oldest at 30.\n\nMr Farage linked housing problems to population growth which prompted Mr Yousaf to accuse the Brexit Party leader of blaming \"everything on immigrants\".\n\nHe argued that \"One of the best things that we [the Scottish government] did was abolish the right to buy when it came to council houses.\"\n\nMr Jenrick said it was his \"personal mission to help more young people on to the housing ladder\" adding that his party would \"offer discounts and help with deposits\".\n\nWhile Ms Rayner said she would \"make no apologies\" for Labour wanting to build 100,000 council homes or introduce rent controls.\n\nAudience member Aiden Booth asked the panel how governments could say they are serious about climate change without dealing with one of the biggest contributors, meat consumption.\n\nMr Jenrick said the Conservatives would not \"ban people from eating meat\", but would instead encourage people to live environmentally by investing in public transport and energy efficient measure.\n\nBut Ms Swinson attacked the government's record saying it had abolished the climate change department and blocked subsidies for wind farms.\n\nShe said tackling climate change \"cannot wait\" drawing attention to the case of Ella Kissi-Debrah who died aged nine in 2013 after having seizures for three years.\n\nMr Bartley said: \"We can solve the climate emergency and reverse austerity if we're willing to make the right choices.\"\n\nHe added: \"If the climate were a bank, we would have bailed it out by now.\"\n\nOn Brexit, Ms Rayner said in another referendum she would vote to leave the EU if \"we get a deal that protects jobs and the economy\". Labour has said that, if elected, it would renegotiate a new Brexit deal which would then be put back to the country in a referendum along with an option to remain in the EU.\n\nMr Price, whose party wants another referendum, argued that \"the people are entitled to change their mind\". He said \"the opinion polls show a shift\" in opinion but added that \"only the people can end the impasse\".\n\nAsked if he took responsibility for the instability in politics in the years since the referendum, Mr Jenrick said he wished \"we had managed to get Brexit done a long time ago\", claiming that Parliament had blocked the process.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Yousaf said Scotland was the only nation \"to get shafted\" in the wake of Brexit. He argued that England and Wales voted to Leave, while Northern Ireland who voted to Remain would get a \"differentiated deal\".\n\nMr Farage accused the other five parties of having \"broken their promise\" to respect the result of the referendum.\n\nThe debate became particularly heated over a poster on immigration Mr Farage unveiled during the 2016 Brexit referendum.\n\nMs Rayner told the Brexit Party leader to \"stop peddling hate in our country\". Mr Farage hit back accusing the Labour politician of \"bile and prejudice\".\n\nThe panellists were also asked about how they would improve trust in politics.\n\nMr Price said he would introduce a bill to \"make lying by politicians a criminal offence\" while Mr Farage promised to tackle postal vote fraud and abolish the House of Lords.\n\n\"I won't lie and I'll call out the people who do,\" replied Ms Rayner.\n\nMr Jenrick vowed to \"deliver the outcome of the referendum\" while Ms Swinson said she would \"stick to my principles\" on Brexit \"whether it is popular or not\".\n\nMr Yousaf said his party would \"fulfil the promise of the manifesto we stood on\".\n\nAnd Mr Bartley proposed lifting \"the ceiling on the fines\" that can be implemented by the Electoral Commission.\n\nYoung people make up a big share of non-voters in the UK - the British Election Study estimates that between 40-50% of those aged 18 to their mid-20s voted in 2015 and 2017 compared with about 80% of voters aged in their 70s.\n\nPolling expert Sir John Curtice says age is \"the division that nowadays lies at the heart of British party politics and will play a significant role on 12 December\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister is asked whether he would scrap the TV licence fee\n\nBoris Johnson has said the possible abolition of the BBC licence fee needs \"looking at\".\n\nSpeaking at a rally in Sunderland, the prime minister questioned how much longer funding a broadcaster out of \"a general tax\" could be \"justified\".\n\nMinisters have agreed the licence fee will stay in place until at least 2027, when the BBC's Royal Charter ends.\n\nThe fee for a colour TV licence is currently £154.50 a year. It will rise in line with inflation until 2022.\n\nLicence fee income was worth £3.6bn to the BBC in 2018-9, accounting for approximately 75% of the broadcaster's revenues and funding TV, radio and online content. Last year, 25.8 million households had TV licences.\n\nThe government and the BBC are currently involved in a dispute over the funding of free TV licences for the over-75s.\n\nMr Johnson was asked by a member of the public whether he would consider axing all TV licences.\n\nThe prime minister said that, while he would not make up policy with three days to go before the election, it was an issue that was worth \"looking at\" in the future.\n\n\"You have to ask yourself whether that approach to funding a media company still makes sense in the long term given the way that other organisations manage to fund themselves,\" he said.\n\n\"The system of funding out of what is a general tax bears reflection. How long can you justify a system whereby everybody who has a TV has to pay to fund a particular set of TV and radio channels.\"\n\nVarious alternatives to the licence fee have been floated over the years, including subscription services or a compulsory broadcasting levy.\n\nIt is customary for election campaigns to strain relations between the BBC and whoever happens to be in government.\n\nBut the advent of social media - where criticism of the BBC frequently goes viral - and the rise of streaming giants which operate a different model, has increased pressure on the BBC recently.\n\nSo too has the prime minister's refusal to be interviewed by Andrew Neil for the BBC. Last week, Mr Neil, who interviewed all the other party leaders, issued a challenge to Mr Johnson, and showed an empty chair.\n\nThat clip has been viewed several million times on social media. No 10 didn't appreciate that much, and doubled down on its position.\n\nLured by the internet, many younger viewers now spend much more time on Netflix or YouTube than watching BBC services. That does pose a significant, perhaps existential, challenge to the BBC in the long term.\n\nThe BBC has always argued, however, that the licence fee is vital to its public service model and that if it moved to a subscription model it would necessarily be driven only by those who could afford a subscription, and not the whole country.\n\nSooner or later, a decision needs to be made about how best the BBC can compete, and satisfy the British public, in today's global media. It's probably best that discussion takes place when there isn't an election on.\n\nAt the time of the last Charter Renewal in 2016, the government said the licence fee was likely to become \"less sustainable in the long run\".\n\nWhile ministers said there were no plans to replace it with a subscription model, they said the BBC should be given an opportunity to explore whether to make any of its content available on a subscription-only basis.\n\nIn its manifesto, Labour says it will ensure a \"healthy future\" for all public service broadcasters, while the Liberal Democrats are promising to \"protect the independence of the BBC and set up a BBC Licence Fee Commission\".\n\nThe Brexit Party is pledging to \"phase out\" the licence fee.", "John Allen is already serving a life sentence for abusing children\n\nA former care home owner, already serving a life sentence for child sex abuse, has been found guilty of more historical offences against boys.\n\nJohn Allen, who ran several Bryn Alyn community children's homes in Wrexham, was convicted of eight charges relating to five boys between 1976 and 1992.\n\nThe 78-year-old was jailed for at least 11 years in 2014 for 33 sex offences.\n\nMold Crown Court was told he would be sentenced for his latest convictions on 8 January.\n\nAllen, described as a \"predatory paedophile\", had denied 16 charges of indecent assault, two of illegal sex acts and two of trying to carry out other illegal sex acts.\n\nHe was found guilty of seven counts of indecent assault and one of a serious sexual offence by the jury against children as young as 13 in his care.\n\nJurors heard an interview with a complainant, now in his 50s, who said he was dragged to Allen's office after a fight and pinned to the floor.\n\nThe next thing he remembered was his clothes being ripped off and Allen sexually assaulted him.\n\nAllen set up the Bryn Alyn community of children's homes back in 1968 and at its height there were 11 properties housing more than a 150 young people, not just from north Wales but from around the UK.\n\nMany found themselves subjected to repeated abuse at the hands of Allen between 1976 and 1992.\n\nAll but one of the victims in this case came forward after Allen was convicted in 2014 of 33 historical sexual abuse offences against other children who had been in his care.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment, the older person’s bus pass and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* Rights for workers to be notified of their shifts one month in advance * The right to bereavement leave following a death in the immediate family * Lower cap on pension fund management fees * Tax breaks for companies that offer longer-term secure career contracts to staff\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* End the Work Capability Assessment and replace it with a system using qualified medical practitioners * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * No benefits paid to foreign nationals resident in the UK until they have paid tax for five years * Minimise the use of zero-hour contracts\n\n* £35 a week payment for every child in a low-income family * Tax credit of up to £25 a week for tenants in the private sector who spend more than 30% of their income on rent and utility bills * Powers over social security devolved to Wales * Abolish the \"bedroom tax\" * Universal free childcare for 40 hours a week\n\n* Demand UK government halts the rollout of Universal Credit until \"fundamental flaws\" are addressed * Oppose and increase to the state pension age and campaign against decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s * Press for the statutory living wage to rise to at least the level of the real living wage * Increase shared parental leave from 52 to 64 weeks, with the additional 12 weeks to be the minimum taken by the father * Make the minimum wage for 16 to 24-year-olds the same as for over 25s, and ban unpaid trial shifts\n\n* Stronger regulation of the gig economy, and oppose deregulation of employment rights * Stronger focus on careers advice * Support a fairer UK-wide welfare system and revised package of welfare mitigations for NI * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * Overhaul bereavement benefits\n\n* Personal tax allowance should rise in line with inflation each year * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 by the end of the parliamentary term * End the freeze on benefits by increasing them in line with inflation * Restore free television licences for over-75s but in the longer term abolish the licence fee entirely * Retain the pensions triple lock and retain winter fuel payments\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts * Introduce a real living wage * Establish a new \"welfare mitigation package\" that protects the most vulnerable\n\n* Increase childcare provision from 12.5 hours per week to 20 hours per week, potentially increasing to 30 hours once new budget is agreed * Regulation of zero-hours contracts * Introduce a \"true living wage\" to reflect rising costs of living * Scrap universal credit, the bedroom tax and the two-child limit * End the freeze on benefits\n\n* Extend mitigation measures on key issues such as the bedroom tax, which are due to expire in March * Restore TV licenses for over-75s and retain the triple-lock protection for pensions * Create and implement a new childcare strategy\n\n* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Increase the number of employers paying a living wage in Wales and introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system * New \"collective\" workplace pension schemes and new controls on transferring pensions and a review of state pension inequality for Waspi women\n\n* Introduce a real living wage of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16, giving about 700,000 Scottish workers a pay rise * Scrap universal credit and increase child benefit * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66 and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay\n\n* Reverse cuts to universal credit * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment * Introduce universal access to basic services * Increase provision of free meals for children, with a particular focus on breakfast * Increase access to free sanitary products\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts, close the gender pay gap, and ensure that everyone is paid a \"real living wage\" * Bring in a universal basic income * Remove differential rates of minimum wage for under-25s and introduce a living wage for everyone * Scrap universal credit * Support for the Waspi women (Women Against State Pension Inequality)\n\n* Scrap welfare reforms include PIP, Universal Credit and the bedroom tax * Develop a state-owned National Childcare Agency * Repeal all anti-trade union laws * Ban zero hours contracts and implement a real living wage\n\n* 40% of board members in public companies and public sector boards to be women * Worker representation to be established on the boards of larger companies * Ban “zero-hours” contracts * Increase child benefit", "European clinical guidelines on how to treat a major form of heart disease are under review following a BBC Newsnight investigation.\n\nEurope's professional body for heart surgeons has withdrawn support for the guidelines, saying it was \"a matter of serious concern\" that some patients may have had the wrong advice.\n\nGuidelines recommended both stents and heart surgery for low-risk patients.\n\nBut trial data leaked to Newsnight raises doubts about this conclusion.\n\nThousands of people in the UK and hundreds of thousands worldwide will be treated for left main coronary artery disease each year. This is a narrowing of one of the main arteries in the heart.\n\nThe guidelines on how to treat it were largely based on a three-year trial to compare whether heart surgery or stents - a tiny tube inserted into a blocked blood vessel to keep it open - was more effective.\n\nThe trial called Excel started in 2010 and was sponsored by big US stent maker, Abbott.\n\nIt was led by eminent US doctor Gregg Stone and aimed to recruit 2,000 patients. Half were given stents and the other half open heart surgery.\n\nSuccess of the treatments was measured by adding together the number of patients that had heart attacks, strokes, or had died.\n\nThe research team used an unusual definition of a heart attack, but had said that they would also publish data for the more common \"Universal\" definition of a heart attack alongside it. There is debate around which is a better measure and the investigators stand by their choice.\n\nIn 2016, the results of the trial for patients three years after their treatments were published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine. The article concluded stents and heart surgery were equally effective for people with left main coronary artery disease.\n\nBut researchers had failed to publish data for the common, \"Universal\" definition of a heart attack.\n\nNewsnight has seen that unpublished data and it shows that under the universal definition, patients in the trial that had received stents had 80% more heart attacks than those who had open heart surgery.\n\nThe lead researchers on the trial have told Newsnight that this is \"fake information\". But Newsnight has spoken to experts who say they believe the data is credible.\n\nStents are a less invasive option for patients too ill to have surgery\n\nProf Rod Stables, clinical lead for research at the British Heart Foundation, said this information should have been published and knowing it would have made a \"substantial contribution to our ability to appreciate the nuances of the results\".\n\nShortly after Excel was published, the professional bodies for heart surgeons and cardiologists got together to write a new set of guidelines.\n\nBut they had not seen the unpublished Universal definition data.\n\nCurrently, European guidelines recommend either a stent or open heart surgery for people who have less severe forms of this disease.\n\nThe European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery (EACTS), which helped draw up the guidelines, told Newsnight if the information on the trial is proven to be correct, \"the recommendation is unsafe\".\n\n\"It is a matter of serious concern to us that some results in the Excel trial appear to have been concealed and that some patients may therefore have received the wrong clinical advice,\" Prof Domenico Pagano, EACTS secretary general, said.\n\nNewsnight has also learned that as the guidelines were being drawn up, the trial's Data Safety Monitoring Board - an independent body that looks after the interests of patients - was raising concerns.\n\nNewsnight has seen emails where they raised concerns about the higher mortality rate amongst those patients who were receiving stents.\n\nThe board thought this information should be made public, as they were aware new guidelines were being drawn up that would recommend stents or surgery.\n\nHowever, the main investigators chose not to do so at the time. They point out that the board allowed the trial to continue unchanged.\n\nProf Nick Freemantle worked on the guidelines. He told Newsnight he would \"never\" have agreed the treatments were interchangeable if he had seen the leaked data.\n\nHe said that the result of making the \"wrong recommendation\" is that \"patients who have received stents [for left main coronary artery disease] will have died who otherwise would have lived for longer, survived for longer, if they'd had open heart surgery\".\n\nThe European Society of Cardiology, the other professional body involved in writing the guidelines, rejected the claim that the guidelines may have caused harm to patients. They stand by the guidelines, which they say were based on more than the Excel trial.\n\nThis year the trial published a further set of its results, showing what had happened to the patients five years after their treatment.\n\nThis found for every 100 who died after having open heart surgery, 135 people with stents died. Overall, 10% of people who had surgery died in the trial compared with 13% who had stents.\n\nProf David Taggart, a surgeon at Oxford University, resigned from the trial. He says he \"had no choice\" as he believed the academic paper describing the five-year results did not give enough prominence to the mortality data in the trial.\n\nThe NEJM had recommended that the researchers should give it greater prominence too.\n\nProf Taggart said he believed the paper's final paragraph, which concluded that there was \"no significant difference\" between stents and open heart surgery was \"dangerous for patients\".\n\nWhen challenged by Newsnight, the trial's principal investigator, Dr Gregg Stone, said he believed that it had been given sufficient prominence and had been considered to meet NEJM's standards.\n\nSponsors of trials like this are also responsible for making sure all results are published.\n\nWhen Newsnight contacted Abbott, the sponsors of the trial, they directed the BBC towards the trial's main researchers.\n\nThe EACTS has now urged their members to \"disregard the guidelines relating to left main disease for the time being\".\n\n\"We recommend that patients seek the advice of the multidisciplinary heart team at their hospital before deciding which treatment option is most appropriate for them,\" said Prof Domenico Pagano.\n\nIn the course of the investigation, Newsnight found a larger debate within the medical community about the way that conflicts of interest are handled.\n\nThere is one school of thought that says they raise questions and need to be carefully managed because of potential bias - conscious or unconscious.\n\nOthers say that interactions between research and business are vital and there is a real public good to be gained by them.\n\nIn the Excel trial, the four main investigators all declared conflicts of interest.\n\nLead investigator Prof Gregg Stone declared he had received personal fees or held equity in 20 private medical companies, several of which made tools that helped with putting in stents.\n\nHe's also the course director for TCT, an annual medical conference where the results were presented.\n\nTCT makes money from exhibitors including some of the biggest stent makers - Abbott, who sponsored the trial, Boston Scientific and Medtronic.\n\nProf Pieter Kappetein, who worked on the trial and on the body that worked on the guidelines, declared that he had left the guidelines body to go and work for Medtronic, a medical device manufacturer that makes stents.\n\nNewsnight found that he'd become chief medical officer of Medtronic Structural Heart.\n\nBy Newsnight's count, around half of the investigators on the trial had declared personal fees from companies that made stents, and around a third of those on the taskforce writing the guidelines.\n\nThese relationships are all within the rules.\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two at 22:30 on weekdays. Catch up on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.", "Classmates of a boy killed by a car outside his school have held a minute's applause in his memory.\n\nHarley Watson, 12, was among a group of pupils hit outside Debden Park High School in Loughton, Essex, on 2 December.\n\nThe school said clapping in tribute felt more \"appropriate\" than a silence as he was a \"keen football fan\".\n\nA message on its Facebook page said: \"We have been inundated with messages of support from schools all over the country.\"\n\nAn inquest into Harley's death which opened earlier confirmed he died of a severe head injury.\n\nTerence Glover, 51, of Loughton, has been charged with Harley's murder and 10 counts of attempted murder. He will next appear in court in January.", "Use the search box to find full results and updates from every constituency.\n\nOr you can browse the A-Z list.", "The Green Party's deputy leader Amelia Womack said the policy made economic as well as educational sense\n\nThe Green Party has said it will write off £34bn worth of student debt as part of a plan to make education in England \"free for life for everyone\".\n\nIt has outlined plans to cancel the outstanding loans of all those who attended universities in England since tuition fees rose to £9,000 in 2012.\n\nIts deputy leader Amelia Womack said education was a \"public good\" and the pledge came with \"no strings attached\".\n\nThe move will add an estimated £40bn to the UK's national debt by 2050.\n\nThe Greens are also pledging to scrap tuition fees, first introduced by a Labour government in the 1990s, for all future students in England and to restore annual maintenance grants, at an annual cost of £7.8bn.\n\nLabour is also promising to scrap tuition fees and restore maintenance grants while the Brexit Party has said it will end \"punitive\" interest rates on student loans.\n\nNeither the Conservatives nor the Liberal Democrats are proposing major changes although the Lib Dems have called for maintenance grants to be reinstated for poorer students and promised a future review of the model of student finance.\n\nThe Greens said their party is the only one standing in England committed to writing off outstanding student debt as a matter of \"justice\".\n\n\"Education is a public good and we're proud to invest in the next generation,\" Ms Womack told supporters at a rally in central London.\n\n\"We say education should be free for life for everyone, but that is not enough. That doesn't deliver justice for those paying off loans for decades to come so the Greens would go even further.\n\n\"If you went to university under the coalition's eye-watering amounts of £9,000 fees, the Greens will wipe that debt, no strings attached.\"\n\nIn 2011, Parliament backed the Tory-Lib Dem coalition government's plan to allow universities to treble the maximum fee charged to £9,000. Since then the maximum fee charged by most universities has risen to £9,250.\n\nA review commissioned by ex-PM Theresa May earlier this year recommended it being lowered to £7,500.\n\nAt the moment, students do not incur any upfront costs but have to start repaying their loans once their income is above a certain level, depending on when they graduated. They also have to pay interest on their loans of as much as 6%.\n\nMs Womack said the write-off made economic sense as the government would be cancelling billions of pounds of student debt anyway given that thousands of students would not repay the full amount owed by the 30-year cut-off point.\n\nCiting a 2017 report by the Institute of Fiscal Studies, the Greens said if a future government started writing off outstanding student debt from the start of next year it would have \"almost no effect\" on government debt in the short term.\n\nThe party calculates the move would push up the UK's debt by about £40bn by 2050, factoring in reduced future repayments from graduates but also the loans that the government would have written off anyway.\n\nThe IFS has said cancelling debt and scrapping tuition fees would benefit the highest earning graduates the most, with those earning below the repayment threshold - £26,575 for post-2012 students - gaining very little.\n\nScottish students currently get free university tuition in Scotland but those from England, Wales and Northern Ireland have to pay to study there - a policy which the SNP is committed to maintain.\n\nPlaid Cymru has vowed to scrap tuition fees at Welsh universities for subjects of vital importance to the Welsh economy.", "The arrest was made on Monday evening in Clifton\n\nA man has been arrested in Bristol on suspicion of Islamist-related terrorism offences, police have said.\n\nThe 33-year-old was detained at 23:00 GMT on Monday as part of a planned operation at a flat in Tyndale Court, Imperial Road, in Clifton.\n\nThe suspect is being held in custody while searches are carried out at the address.\n\nPolice said there was no risk to the public and the arrest was not linked to the London Bridge terror attack.\n\nInquiries were made by detectives from Counter Terrorism Policing South East (CTPSE), working alongside Counter Terrorism Policing South West, prior to that attack on 29 November, officers confirmed.\n\nThe suspect is being held on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism under section 41b of the Terrorism Act (2000).\n\nHead of CTPSE Det Ch Supt Kath Barnes said: \"At around 23:00, counter-terrorism detectives arrested a man on suspicion of terrorism offences and are currently carrying out searches at a residential property in Bristol.\n\n\"This was part of a pre-planned operation.\"\n\nSupt Andy Bennett, of Avon and Somerset Police, said there would be an \"increased policing presence\" in the area.\n\nThe building where the raid took place is owned by property company, People for Places.\n\nA spokeswoman for the firm said it was \"supporting\" the police investigation.\n\n\"Our customers' safety and well-being are paramount and any customers who were directly affected by this incident are safe and being looked after,\" she added.\n\n\"As this matter is being managed by the police service we are not able to provide further details about the incident.\"\n\nPolice are carrying out searches at a flat in Imperial Road, Clifton\n\nOfficers were seen searching one of the properties\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It could have been a double blow for Corryn Banham and boyfriend Jordon Parkinson. He planned a surprise proposal to Corryn, 24, during a holiday to Crete, but this had to be abandoned after Thomas Cook collapsed in September.\n\nLuckily Corryn's mum and dad, who were in on the plan, stepped in to pay for a holiday to Majorca and Jordon, 27, was able to pop the question. \"It could have ruined everything,\" said Corryn, a sales assistant who lives in Strood, Kent.\n\nNow they want to repay the hundreds of pounds back to Corryn's parents, but face more months of delay until the refund is processed. \"We couldn't afford another holiday, but my parents said we could pay them back when our refund arrives,\" she said.\n\nLike thousands of other disappointed Thomas Cook customers, she registered for a refund on 7 October, the first day the process opened. Travel regulator the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) - which has vowed to refund all Atol-protected payments - had told those customers to expect their money within 60 days.\n\nBut last week the CAA warned thousands of customers that payment would be delayed while further details are collected - and Corryn and Jordon are among them.\n\nShe said: \"I was contacted on the 59th day after submitting my claim, advising that because our package flights were with EasyJet, I have to declare either: 1) I have no plans to fly on my future flights (even though our holiday was 2 October), or 2) I did not fly on my past flight.\n\n\"They've sent us two identical forms. I emailed the claims company asking for the correct form and they've got back to say it takes 60 working days for a response to an email.\n\n\"So by the time I get a response, fill the correct form out, and send it back. We're looking at nine months total time for my refund to be correctly processed.\n\n\"This is disgusting. I am stressed, having panic attacks, and now my parents have been left short before Christmas when we should have received our refund.\"\n\nOn Monday, the CAA said about 40,000 customers owed money had been paid within the 60-day period, but that some 27,000 faced delay.\n\nLast week CAA boss Richard Moriarty thanked consumers for their patience, saying the regulator was working through \"the UK travel industry's largest ever refunds programme\".\n\nHe added that the refunds operation had been challenging due to the potential for fraudulent claims.\n\n\"I appreciate that this is a concerning time for Thomas Cook customers who are waiting for their refunds, particularly at this time of the year,\" Mr Moriarty said.\n\nWhile the CAA said it had paid all first-day claims not requiring extra verification, some told the BBC they had still not received their money on Monday.\n\nBilly Latham said: \"I contacted the CAA on Saturday and was told my money was paid on Friday and if it did not hit my bank account on Monday to call back.\n\n\"Well Monday is here and no payments whatsoever, no one at the CAA is picking up the phones and even putting an answer message on stating they are too busy to speak with me due to high call volumes.\n\n\"The only question on my lips and the thousands of others with valid claims is 'when will we get our money back?'\"\n\nSome 300,000 Thomas Cook claims have been received so far, 215,000 of which have been confirmed as valid. However, this figure includes about 90,000 direct debit customers in October whose money was automatically returned.\n\nThe CAA says about 40,000 of the cancelled holidays eligible for a refund have still not been claimed for. Customers have until September next year to submit the online form.\n\nThomas Cook collapsed on 23 September, after failing to obtain rescue funds from its banks. Some 150,000 travellers had to be repatriated back to the UK during a two-week operation run by the CAA.", "Indigenous leaders at the COP asking for a moratorium on oil extraction in the Amazon\n\nA report presented at COP25 says that plans are in place for a huge expansion of oil drilling in the upper Amazon.\n\nThe analysis says that Ecuador and Peru are set to sanction oil extraction across an area of forest the size of Italy.\n\nIndigenous leaders from both countries have travelled to Madrid to urge a moratorium on using the oil.\n\nThey say using the five billion barrels under the forest would harm the region and the world.\n\nThe area in question is known as the sacred headwaters of the upper Amazon and spans some 30 million hectares (74 million acres) in Ecuador and Peru.\n\nOil extraction in the Amazon has been linked with serious environmental problems\n\nThe region is home to around 500,000 indigenous peoples from 20 nationalities, and is a hotspot of biodiversity.\n\nBut a report prepared by campaign group, Amazon Watch, says that Ecuador and Peru are actively planning to expand extraction and auction new oil blocks across the area.\n\nRight now this is a pristine area, with few roads. The indigenous people have title to these lands and in the area several tribes are living in voluntary isolation. Campaigners fear that if the oil blocks are sold it will see new roads built, which will lead to illegal logging, deforestation and poor outcomes for the residents of the region.\n\nEcuador is due to leave the OPEC oil consortium in 2020, allowing it to boost its oil production. The country is also under pressure from China to supply oil because of financial debts.\n\n\"There's about $14bn that Ecuador owes China right now and that's a big part of the drive to expand production and look for new oil,\" said Kevin Koenig, from Amazon Watch who authored the report.\n\n\"In addition there are about $6bn in hidden debt in these oil for loan deals between PetroChina and Petroecuador which Ecuador is paying in barrels of oil.\"\n\nIt's estimated that around five billion barrels of oils are to be found in the upper Amazon region, which would equate to two billion metric tonnes of CO2.\n\nRight now, around 50% of the current production from the western Amazon goes to California,\n\nThe report has been presented at the COP to highlight the hypocrisy of countries including China, says Kevin Koenig.\n\nIndigenous protestors in Ecuador have fought against oil development for a long time\n\n\"All those countries are here making declarations about cutting emissions, Ecuador and Peru are making declarations about protecting the Amazon but what we are seeing is a whole different plan to expand extraction, there's a gap between what countries are committing too and what they are actually planning to do in terms of fossil fuel expansion.\"\n\nIndigenous leaders here are pressing for a moratorium on drilling - they say the oil should stay in the ground.\n\n\"We have been protecting our forests. We have kept many oil companies away,\" said Sandra Tukup, an indigenous leader from Ecuador.\n\n\"We are asking for a model of development aligned with climate science that respects our rights and allows our forests to continue to flourish.\"\n\nOthers stress the importance of the Amazon region for the whole world. They believe it could help push global temperatures past 1.5C, a level beyond which scientists believe there could be dire consequences for the Earth.\n\n\"The world needs to understand that the Amazon goes beyond Brazil, and that us, the indigenous from Peru and Ecuador, can work hand in hand with governments and philanthropists in the creation of a new economic model for the Amazon Forest,\" said Lizardo Cauper, from Peru.\n\nReflecting the scale of violence that many indigenous people from the Amazon region live under, a delegation of more than 20 Brazilian leaders held a protest at the COP against the murder of two people on Saturday.", "Temporary camps have been hit by extreme weather in recent years\n\nRefugees and people displaced within countries because of conflict are increasingly vulnerable to the effects of extreme weather, experts say.\n\nHumanitarian agencies told the BBC this posed significant challenges for their operations in different parts of the world.\n\nTemporary camps for the displaced in Africa and Asia have been affected.\n\nExtreme weather has even caused secondary displacements for populations that have already had to move.\n\nScientists say that extreme weather events will be the new normal if warming continues at its present rate.\n\nBut experts said climate change could not be linked directly to those weather-related disasters.\n\nHowever, they argue, many of them concur with scientific predictions that the intensity and frequency of extreme weather will grow in a warming world.\n\n\"This has become our major challenge,\" Shabia Mantoo, a spokesperson with the UNHCR (United Nations refugee agency), told the BBC.\n\n\"An increasing number of camps for refugees and internally displaced people are being hit by extreme weather events and managing them in such conditions is proving to be increasingly difficult.\"\n\nIn most cases, flooding has been the major challenge.\n\nWhen tropical cyclone Idai hit South East Africa, killing more than 1,000 people in March this year, a refugee camp in Zimbabwe was affected too, according to UNHCR officials.\n\nThey said many were injured in the Tongogara refugee camp that hosts some 13,000 refugees in Chipinge district.\n\n\"Around 2,000 refugee houses, mainly built using mud bricks, were completely or partially damaged,\" the UNHCR said at the time.\n\n\"Over 600 latrines have collapsed, and borehole water is feared to be contaminated due to flood waters. There is a real danger of an outbreak of waterborne diseases.\"\n\nThe UN refugee agency said it faced a similar situation in South Sudan, last October when a refugee camp in Maban county, with 15,000 displaced people from the country's neighbour Sudan, was hit by unprecedented flooding.\n\nThe area is prone to inundation during that time of the year because of seasonal rains. But that was not the only factor in that case.\n\n\"Flooding rivers in South Sudan come from the highlands in neighbouring Ethiopia, where rainfall is becoming more intense and irregular, and is also carving its way through neighbourhoods in broad, swift rivers,\" UNHCR spokesperson Andrej Mahecic said.\n\nIn Nigeria, temporary camps in Maiduguri sheltering people who fled Boko Haram insurgents from north-eastern parts of the country were also hit by floods following heavy rain in August this year, according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDCM).\n\nThe insurgency has displaced nearly 2.4 million people in the Lake Chad Basin, according to the UN figures.\n\n\"And many of this displaced population are being hit by one extreme weather event after another,\" said Mamadou Sow, head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in southern Africa.\n\n\"We call it double vulnerability and this is increasingly happening in our region.\"\n\nIn Asia, there is another example involving the Cox's Bazar camp in Bangladesh, where Rohingya refugees are sheltered.\n\nDuring last year's monsoon, the camps there were not only flooded but some were also hit by landslides.\n\nOfficials with the International Migration Organisation (IOM) say the concentration of people in the camp, the way the land is used there and slope instability already made the site vulnerable.\n\n\"On top of that, the rains were so heavy they caused both floods and landslides,\" said Lorenzo Guadango of the IOM.\n\nClimate scientists say monsoon rains in South Asia are becoming increasingly erratic.\n\nIn the Middle East, two heavy storms within a week that brought in rains, winds and snow hit informal settlements of Syrian refugees in Arsal, Lebanon, in January this year.\n\n\"Some people had their tents torn or broken. Other people had their tents flooded. Some people left... and moved to their relatives' tents. There is no doubt that the situation was very difficult,'' Hiba Fares, a UNHCR official on the ground explained.\n\nIt is not only refugees and displaced people already sheltered in camps who have been affected.\n\nPeople in transit from one location to another are also hit by extreme weather\n\nHumanitarian agencies cite the example of cyclone Kenneth that hit the northern part of Mozambique last April.\n\nOfficials with the ICRC said people who had fled the violence in Cabo Delgado province in the northern part of the country in 2017 were hit by the cyclone.\n\n\"Some of the people were on the move while others were temporarily settled in villages and they were hit by the cyclone,\" said Mr. Sow of the ICRC.\n\n\"Today there are 60,000 such displaced people who fled the violence in the northern part of the country and they all fear that they might be hit by extreme weather events.\"\n\nA study by the UNHCR has also found that people already displaced for reasons other than natural disasters - including refugees, stateless people, and the internally displaced - often reside in climate change \"hotspots\" and may be exposed to secondary displacement.\n\nOf the 28 million new internally displaced people across the world last year, 17.2 million had to move because of disasters. Some 90% of these was weather-related.\n\nThe UN puts the total figure of people forcibly displaced worldwide at more than 70 million.\n\nThe world body does not yet recognise people displaced by natural- and weather-related disasters as refugees.\n\nIn some temporary camps, displaced people have been found to be unwilling to return even after the end of conflict and violence because their original homes are now affected by extreme weather.\n\n\"In the refugee camp of Sudan's Darfur, for instance, when the displaced people found that the region they came from is no more liveable because of acute drought conditions, they have refused to return,\" said Rofaida Elzubair with Practical Action, an international nongovernment organisation that has been helping communities in Sudan adapt to climate change.\n\n\"They don't want to go back even after the conflict has ended and as a result the UN has had to delay the closing down of the camp.\"", "The father of one of the victims of the London Bridge attack has accused Boris Johnson of using his son's death \"to score points\" in the general election.\n\nAfter the attack on 29 November, the prime minister blamed Usman Khan's early release from prison on legislation introduced under the Labour government.\n\nThe father of Cambridge graduate Jack Merritt, who was stabbed to death in the attack, told Sky News that \"instead of seeing a tragedy, Boris Johnson saw an opportunity\".\n\nMr Johnson has previously denied claims he was politicising the attack, saying he had campaigned against early release \"for many years\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jo Swinson on austerity vote: “I am sorry - it was not the right policy and we should have stopped it.”\n\nJo Swinson has apologised for voting to cut benefits while serving in government with the Conservatives.\n\nThe Liberal Democrat leader told the BBC's Andrew Neil her party had been wrong to back the so-called bedroom tax in the coalition government and \"we should have stopped it\".\n\nAlthough some cuts were needed when her party came into office in 2010, she suggested austerity had gone too far.\n\nHer party was committed to spend more on welfare and childcare, she added.\n\nDuring the 30-minute interview, Ms Swinson said she was determined to stop Brexit by whatever means possible, including working with other parties in the event of another hung Parliament to try and get another referendum.\n\nBut she conceded the Lib Dems were unlikely to form the next government and be in a position to fulfil their campaign pledge to revoke Article 50 - the legal process for leaving the EU - without a further public vote.\n\nShe said she disagreed with her predecessor Sir Vince Cable that the pledge had become an \"unhelpful distraction\" for the party, which has found itself being squeezed in the opinion polls during the campaign.\n\nHaving only been elected leader in July, she insisted she was \"absolutely here to stay\" whatever the outcome on 12 December.\n\nMs Swinson was repeatedly challenged on her party's record in government between 2010 and 2015 and her personal backing for cuts to benefits and Sure Start children's centres.\n\nShe acknowledged she had voted nine times for the bedroom tax, the controversial policy which saw working-age families in council or housing association homes docked housing benefit if they were deemed to have more bedrooms than they needed.\n\nMs Swinson, who served as a junior business minister in the Lib Dem/Conservative coalition between 2012 and 2015, was asked whether she would like to apologise to 240,000 of the poorest in society who suffered financially as a result and, in some cases, were forced into hardship.\n\n\"Yes, I am sorry I did that,\" she replied. \"It was not the right policy and we should have stopped it...I have previously said - and I am happy to say again - [it] was wrong. I am sorry about that and it is one of the things we did get wrong.\"\n\nAsked about other welfare changes she backed at the time but is now committed to reversing, such as a cap on the overall amount of benefits a single household could receive, she said she had voted for them \"as someone with collective responsibility in government\".\n\nShe said her party had \"won many battles\" with the Conservatives, such as in securing more money for children from disadvantaged backgrounds and taking many of the lowest paid out of income tax.\n\nBut she said she accepted the public services had borne too much of the brunt of the government's drive to slash the deficit in the public finances.\n\nThe coalition government made a priority out of rebalancing the public finances\n\n\"I am not going to say in a financial crisis that it was going to be possible with the deficit at the level it was in 2010 not to make any cuts at all,\" she said.\n\n\"Some cuts were necessary but the shape of those cuts, the balance between cuts and tax rises I don't think was the right balance.\"\n\nLabour have long argued that austerity was a political choice and not a financial necessity. Ms Swinson said cuts were unavoidable and the level of retrenchment under the coalition mirrored the plans set out by Labour in its 2010 manifesto,\n\nBut pressed by Neil on whether austerity was a \"necessary evil or terrible mistake\", she replied: \"Clearly too much was cut, clearly not enough was raised from taxation.\n\n\"And certainly the investment should have kicked in earlier in terms of more borrowing for capital investment.\"\n\nBut she said these decisions were \"almost a decade ago\" and her party was now committed to scrapping the bedroom tax and addressing in-work poverty by reversing cuts to work allowances for families on Universal Credit and helping families with two earners.\n\nShe said the £14bn the party was planning to spend on expanding free childcare - by funding 35 hours a week of provision for all children aged two to four - \"more than replaces the money that was cut\" during the coalition years.\n\n\"We have a plan for the future which identifies what our priorities are...and we are being upfront about where the money will come from.\"\n\nIn a special series of election interviews, Neil has already questioned Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and the SNP's Nicola Sturgeon, His interview with Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage will be broadcast on Thursday.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has yet to agree a date to taking part, which has prompted a political row and accusations from Labour that he is \"running scared\".\n\nThe SNP launched an attack on Ms Swinson's record as part of the coalition government, following the interview.\n\nThe party's Pete Wishart said: \"Despite Jo Swinson's best attempts to dodge her shameful record when in government with the Tories, the reality is communities across Scotland will not forgive or forget the Lib Dems for their active part in inflicting austerity on the most vulnerable people in society.\"", "Otis with parents Donna (left) and Jasmine Francis-Smith (right)\n\nA couple have given birth to a son from an embryo that was in both their wombs, in what is claimed to be a world first.\n\nJasmine Francis-Smith gave birth to Otis two months ago after the embryo was implanted that had first been incubated by her wife Donna.\n\nThe \"shared motherhood\" procedure at London Women's Clinic used technology from a Swiss fertility company.\n\nJasmine said: \"It has emotionally brought us closer together. We are a true family.\"\n\nThe procedure works by placing the eggs of the biological mother inside a miniature capsule which is inserted into her womb, where they are incubated.\n\nAfter that, the eggs are taken out of the biological mother's womb and placed in the womb of the birth mother.\n\nThe process, called In Vivo Natural fertilization, was pioneered by Swiss firm Anecova.\n\nOtis was born after a \"world first\" procedure in London\n\nJasmine, 28, from Northamptonshire, said: \"The whole process was an amazing experience and we got everything we wanted from it.\"\n\nShe explained the procedure made her and her wife Donna, 30, from Nottinghamshire, \"feel equal in the whole process\".\n\nJasmine, who lives with Donna in Colchester, Essex, said \"there is nothing we would change\" about the pregnancy and the birth of Otis.\n\nDr Kamal Ahuja, managing and scientific director of London Women's Clinic, said this was \"the first birth in the world with shared motherhood\" using the technology.", "Nato leaders are gathering in Wales for a summit expected to focus on Russian aggression in eastern Ukraine and continuing violence across the Middle East.\n\nBBC News outlines key points in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's 65-year history - in 80 seconds.", "Nurses voted to take the action by an overwhelming majority with the result announced on Thursday.\n\nNurses in Northern Ireland have voted to strike over staffing numbers and pay disputes.\n\nIt is the first time in the Royal College of Nursing's (RCN) 103-year-history such action has been taken in the UK.\n\nIn a ballot which lasted four weeks, nurses were asked if they were willing to take industrial action, including strike action.\n\nRCN NI director Pat Cullen said nurses had \"spoken clearly\".\n\n\"Nurses are no longer willing to see patients being denied the health care services to which they are entitled,\" she said.\n\n\"The 3,000 nursing vacancies that currently exist within Health and Social Care (the public health body in Northern Ireland) are having a detrimental impact upon patient care and adding enormous pressure to the existing nursing workforce.\"\n\nMs Cullen said pay in Northern Ireland had \"fallen significantly\" behind the rest of the UK.\n\nShe said this made it \"difficult to recruit and retain the nurses that we desperately need\".\n\nThe total number of those balloted was around 8,000, with turnout of 43.3%.\n\nThe union now has four weeks to inform employers how they plan to proceed.\n\nAnalysis - Strike will be embarrassing for election candidates:\n\nStrike action is always significant but this one is particularly so as there is no devolved government or health minister in place for the nurses to negotiate with.\n\nUnless a resolution is found, it will play out during an election. It is unprecedented and somewhat incredible.\n\nSo why bother? Sources tell me there is never a good time to strike and things are so bad the RCN could not backpedal.\n\nThe strike will make the doorstep chats for politicians even more awkward and for some parties equally embarrassing.\n\nNorthern Ireland is used to unique predicaments, but potentially this could prove to be the most difficult to negotiate and to settle.\n\nA spokesperson for the Department of Health said it would be holding \"detailed discussions\" with the RCN and other trade unions on Friday.\n\n\"Dialogue remains the only way forward,\" the spokesperson said.\n\n\"With a Northern Ireland public sector pay policy now in place for 2019/2020, we plan to table a formal pay offer as soon as possible.\n\n\"The budgetary pressures across health and social care are clear for all to see.\n\n\"Despite claims to the contrary, there is no separate or untapped source of funding for pay increases.\"\n\n\"It all comes out of the one health budget. Every pound spent on one priority area is a pound not available for another.\"\n\nThere are almost 3,000 unfilled nursing posts across the system in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe department added that it accepted staff felt \"deeply frustrated\".\n\nAccording to the RCN, nurses' pay within the health service continues to fall behind England, Scotland and Wales.\n\nIt argues that the real value of nurses' pay here has fallen by 15% over the past eight years.\n\nDue to nursing shortages however, the cost of securing nursing staff via agencies has increased to over £32m last year.\n\nThere was a campaign of strike action over NHS pay in 2014, but while some nurses from other unions took part, the RCN did not.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"We just ventured forth to try and find some shelter and some water\", Tamra McBeath-Riley told reporters\n\nAustralian police searching for the final member of a group who became stranded in the outback more than two weeks ago have found a body.\n\nThe body has not been identified but it is believed to be Claire Hockridge, Northern Territory Police said.\n\nMs Hockridge, 46, had been travelling with two others when their car got stuck in a riverbed on 19 November.\n\nHer partner Tamra McBeath-Riley, 52, and friend Phu Tran, 40, were found alive earlier this week.\n\nThe group - all Australians - and Ms McBeath-Riley's dog, Raya, had been travelling from Alice Springs to go on a hike when they became bogged in the Hugh River.\n\nThey had stayed by the car for around three days in an unsuccessful attempt to free it, before splitting up to find help.\n\nThey had used up all their supplies of water, as well as some vodka drinks, biscuits and beef noodles they had in the car.\n\nMr Tran and Ms Hockridge planned to head towards a highway, while Ms McBeath-Riley stayed in the area, thinking her dog would not survive a long walk.\n\nPolice despatched helicopters to search for the trio. They spotted Ms McBeath-Riley and Raya on Sunday, about 1.5km (0.9 miles) away from the car.\n\nMr Tran was found on Tuesday by a farmer who was performing checks on his vast property, about 12km from the vehicle.\n\nSupt Pauline Vicary, from NT Police, said the pair had managed to find groundwater to drink, describing their survival as a \"miracle\".\n\nMr Tran told police he had separated from Ms Hockridge two days earlier after they reached a fence on the property. He chose to follow the fence line, after which he encountered the farmer.\n\nHis account had narrowed the search for Ms Hockridge, police said, and they later found footprints believed to be hers.\n\nOn Tuesday, police said they feared Ms Hockridge had \"limited to no water supplies\".\n\nFood and water sources are scant in Australia's remote desert outback, and temperatures regularly exceed 40C (104F) during the day.\n• None Stay put or find a fence? How to survive the outback", "A boy has been charged following the fire at the school\n\nA boy has been arrested and charged following a fire which badly damaged a secondary school in the Borders.\n\nPolice Scotland has also confirmed that a second boy had been arrested and released \"pending further inquiries\".\n\nIt follows a major fire at Peebles High School on Thursday which caused widespread damage to the site.\n\nA short statement from police said a boy had been charged in connection with wilful fireraising and a report would be sent to the children's reporter.\n\nCh Insp Stuart Reid, area commander for the Scottish Borders, said: \"We would like to thank the public for their patience while the investigation into the fire continues as we work alongside our colleagues at the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service.\n\n\"We continue to liaise with the Scottish Borders Council in connection with the safety and security of the buildings, and the impact on the local community.\n\n\"We'd remind the public that, as the person charged is below the age of 18, he cannot be named or identified for legal reasons as per the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995.\"\n\nDeputy first minister John Swinney was taken on a tour of the site on Wednesday\n\nThe high school with a roll of about 1,300 has been shut until at least the new year and pupils have been using online learning tools at home this week.\n\nArrangements have been made for senior students (S4-S6) to return to the classroom - in Galashiels - from Monday.\n\nYounger pupils will be taught at other sites in Peebles.\n\nDeputy first minister John Swinney was taken on a tour of the site on Wednesday and paid tribute to the efforts of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service who had worked \"astonishingly hard\" to salvage as much of the school as possible.\n\n\"I've also been discussing with the council what are the next steps forward because quite clearly there is going to have to be significant redevelopment of the Peebles High School site,\" he said.\n\nHe said there was a \"significant operation\" in the short term to provide education which was set to start on Monday.\n\n\"There will have to be a medium term approach taken which is about ensuring that there is a restoration of education provision on this site if at all possible,\" he said.\n\n\"Then obviously there has to be a longer-term solution and the government will engage with SBC in every aspect of that recovery.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Comedian Nish Kumar was booed off stage after making Brexit jokes at a charity event on Monday night.\n\nKumar, who hosts the BBC's Mash Report, was performing at the Lord's Taverners annual charity cricket lunch.\n\n\"You are the only audience in my entire 13-year history of performing that have actually thrown something at me,\" Kumar said, after a bread roll hit the stage.\n\nRadio 1 DJ and Taverners' ambassador Greg James said the behaviour of some of the crowd was \"appalling\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Greg James This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nJames added he was \"embarrassed to be there\".\n\nThe event, at London's Grosvenor House, was raising money to give vulnerable children a start in life through sport.\n\nSpeaking to The Guardian on Tuesday, Kumar said: \"I made what I considered to be some extremely mild jokes about Boris Johnson, Jacob Rees Mogg, Theresa May and the Brexit process for not going well.\"\n\nHe said the audience was more \"easily offended\" than he thought they might be.\n\nVideo footage of the event showed Kumar being interrupted by hecklers, one of whom shouted \"don't do politics\".\n\n\"It's an election season and I thought it would be interesting to spark a conversation here,\" explained the comedian, \"but clearly the conversation I've sparked is, 'this guy is a bit of a dickhead.'\n\n\"I did think it would be nice to come here and talk to some people who had a different political outlook to me, and I thought it'd be interesting for me to share my perspective - but clearly that's not been the case.\"\n\nHe added: \"What I don't want to do is to detract from any of the fantastic work done by the charity,\" for which he received a round of applause.\n\nBut as the routine continued, the audience began a \"slow clap\", after which Kumar refused to leave the stage.\n\n\"I'm not going anywhere,\" Kumar said. \"Absolutely not. I'm full Bercow-ing it,\" referring to the former House of Commons speaker John Bercow.\n\n\"I know you want me to do it but I'm not gonna leave. Absolutely not. Absolutely not.\"\n\nKumar was eventually joined by the host of the event, who escorted him off stage.\n\n\"Can I shake your hand, sir?\" he asked. \"Ladies and gentlemen, Nish gave his time to come and support this charity today, and I think the very least we can do is say thank you for doing that.\"\n\nAfterwards, the comic took to Twitter to make light of the crowd's reaction.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Nish Kumar This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe also posted a 1966 clip of Bob Dylan mocking newspaper reports claiming that his latest concert inspired mass walkouts.\n\nReflecting on the incident, he told the Guardian: \"I'm sort of amazed by how fascinated people are by the whole thing. It's not the first time I've been booed off stage … I consider it the life of being a comedian - they have a right to boo me.\"\n\nLord's Taverners said in a statement: \"This event alone raised a staggering £160,000, which will go towards helping to empower disadvantaged and disabled young people to fulfil their potential through sport and build foundations for a positive future.\n\n\"We are not, and never will be, a political organisation and we don't endorse the views of the guest speakers at our events, which are their own.\n\n\"However, nor do we endorse the reaction of a minority of audience members at yesterday's event.\n\n\"Nish Kumar's attendance was arranged in good faith and he gave his time for free to support the charity and our work. He follows a long tradition of comedic special guests at the event.\n\n\"We are extremely proud that in the past year we have raised over £4m, with nearly 12,000 young people having participated in our cricket programmes all over the UK, and just over 31,000 items of sports kit having been recycled across 20 countries. We will continue to focus all our efforts on developing sporting chances for young people in 2020 and in many years to come\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The family of London Bridge attacker Usman Khan have said they are \"saddened and shocked\" by what happened and \"totally condemn his actions\".\n\nIn a statement, they expressed their condolences to the victims' families\n\nKhan, who was convicted of a terrorism offence in 2012, killed Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, at a prisoner rehabilitation event on Friday.\n\nSeparately, a porter who tried to fight Khan said he was coming to terms with the incident.\n\nLukasz, who works at the Fishmongers' Hall venue where Khan began his attack, said he \"acted instinctively\" by grabbing a pole to try to stop Khan.\n\nUsman Khan's family said in a statement issued through the Metropolitan Police: \"We are saddened and shocked by what Usman has done.\n\n\"We totally condemn his actions and we wish to express our condolences to the families of the victims that have died and wish a speedy recovery to all of the injured.\n\n\"We would like to request privacy for our family at this difficult time.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLukasz, who was among those praised for his bravery during the attack, also issued a statement through Scotland Yard.\n\n\"When the attack happened, I acted instinctively. I am now coming to terms with the whole traumatic incident and would like the space to do this in privacy, with the support of my family,\" he said.\n\nThe statement confirmed Lukasz was stabbed by Khan and taken to hospital but has now returned home.\n\n\"I would like to express my condolences to the families who have lost precious loved ones. I would like to send my best wishes to them and everyone affected by this sad and pointless attack,\" he added.\n\nLukasz said, contrary to some reports, that he had used a pole to tackle Khan while someone else used a narwhal tusk in an attempt to stop the attack.\n\nTwo women were also injured in the attack before Khan was shot dead by armed officers on London Bridge - the women remain in a stable condition in hospital.\n\nUsman Khan had been jailed in 2012\n\nKhan, 28, was arrested in December 2010 and sentenced in 2012 to indeterminate detention for \"public protection\" with a minimum jail term of eight years after pleading guilty to preparing terrorist acts.\n\nHe had been part of an al-Qaeda inspired group that considered attacks in the UK, including at the London Stock Exchange.\n\nBut in 2013 the Court of Appeal quashed the sentence, replacing it with a 16-year-fixed term, and ordered Khan to serve at least half this - eight years - behind bars.\n\nSince his subsequent release in December 2018, Khan had been living in Stafford and was required to wear a GPS police tag.\n\nHe was armed with two knives and was wearing a fake suicide vest during the attack at Fishmongers' Hall on Friday.\n\nHe was tackled by members of the public, including ex-offenders from the conference, before he was shot dead by police.\n\nIt comes as Leanne O'Brien, the girlfriend of Cambridge University student Mr Merritt who was killed, paid tribute to her partner on Facebook writing: \"My love, you are phenomenal and have opened so many doors for those that society turned their backs on.\"\n\nMs O'Brien was seen breaking down in tears as she and Mr Merritt's family gathered at a vigil in Cambridge on Monday to remember the victims.\n\nMr Merritt's father, David, also wrote a piece in the Guardian dedicated to his \"absorbingly intelligent\" and \"fiercely loyal\" son.\n\nAlso killed was Ms Jones, from Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, who was a volunteer on the Learning Together programme, which was holding an anniversary event where the event took place.\n\nShe has been described as a \"lovely, lovely woman\" who was \"fearless\" by her former tutor.\n\nJack Merritt and Saskia Jones were both involved with the Learning Together programme, which was holding an event when the attack took place\n\nFriday's attack sparked a political row over the release of Khan and a debate over the criminal justice system.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson was accused of \"trying to exploit\" the attack \"for political gain\".\n\nHe blamed Khan's release on legislation introduced under \"a leftie government\", and called for longer sentences and an end to automatic release.\n\nMr Johnson denied claims he was politicising the attack, saying he had campaigned against early release for some time, having previously raised the issue during his 2012 campaign to be mayor of London.\n\nHe said he felt \"a huge amount of sympathy\" for the relatives of the victims.", "Energy giant Shell has won a court order preventing Greenpeace activists from boarding unmanned oil and gas installations in the North Sea\n\nThe company's lawyers sought an interim interdict to stop any repeat of an occupation which targeted platforms in the Brent field in October.\n\nShell welcomed Lady Carmichael's ruling that the activists had no right to enter the installations.\n\nGreenpeace described the Court of Session ruling as a \"setback\".\n\nIn October, climate activists staged a protest against the method of decommissioning platforms in the Brent field, which is about 116 miles (186km) north east of Shetland.\n\nActivists spent a night on the Brent Alpha platform and on the concrete legs of the former Bravo platform.\n\nGreenpeace said it was opposed to \"thousands of tonnes of hazardous oily sludge\" being left inside the concrete legs which remain after the rest of the structure has been removed.\n\nShell has defended the process and said there was a \"tightly-controlled regulatory process\" for decommissioning.\n\nGreenpeace are protesting against decommissioning methods which leave oil inside concrete legs of platforms\n\nThe company said it sought the court order to prevent protesters breaching the statutory 500m safety zones around platforms and \"putting themselves and Shell staff at risk\".\n\nThe judge concluded that since they were private property, Shell had a legal right to stop the activists from accessing the installations.\n\nShe also ruled that given the physical state of the installations, protesters could injure themselves.\n\nLady Carmichael said these health and safety considerations gave the company the right to stop Greenpeace from boarding the facilities.\n\nThe ruling means that Greenpeace can no longer go within a 500m (1,640ft) safety zone around platforms in the Brent field.\n\nGreenpeace protesters climbed on to the Brent Alpha in October\n\nShell said: \"We wholeheartedly support the right to protest peacefully and safely.\n\n\"We are pleased this decision recognises that the existing legal safety zone should be respected by campaigners.\"\n\nGreenpeace said it was waiting for a written ruling, which it would \"thoroughly analyse\" before deciding whether it would appeal against the judgement.\n\nIt added: \"This is a setback. Greenpeace has almost 50 years of experience with safe and peaceful protest.\n\n\"We strongly believe in the right to protest and will keep defending it. Shell can try to shut us up, but we will only get louder.\"\n\nVarious attempts were made to block a rig's path in June\n\nThe occupation in October came several months after a 12-day Greenpeace protest in the North Sea which led to numerous arrests.\n\nIn June, campaigners boarded the Transocean rig in the Cromarty Firth, which was bound for the Vorlich oil field east of Aberdeen.\n\nGreenpeace said the aim was to thwart BP's plans to drill new oil wells.\n\nThe protest delayed its departure from the Cromarty Firth for five days. The Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise then shadowed the rig into the North Sea, and the group said the rig was forced to turn back towards land.\n\nA swimmer with a banner also entered the water as part of attempts to block the rig's path.\n\nBP said the \"irresponsible actions\" had put people and property at risk and \"diverted valuable time and resources away from public services\".", "Jim Donegan was shot on Glen Road in west Belfast as he waited to collect his son from school\n\nPolice now believe that two republican paramilitary groups were involved in the murder of a man outside a west Belfast school a year ago.\n\nJim Donegan, 43, was shot dead as he waited to pick up his 13-year-old son outside St Mary's Grammar School on the Glen Road on 4 December 2018.\n\nPolice have previously attributed the murder to the INLA.\n\nThey now believe another republican group, Óglaigh na hÉireann (ONH), was also involved in the shooting.\n\nOne gunman carried out the killing which police said was witnessed by hundreds of children and their parents.\n\nDet Ch Insp Peter Montgomery said the investigation into the \"callous execution\" continues to progress.\n\nHe said the gunman is believed to have emerged from Clonelly Avenue onto Glen Road at about 15:10 GMT.\n\nPolice have said Mr Donegan had a number of enemies\n\n\"He then walked past numerous children at around 15:15, calmly activated the pedestrian crossing, crossed the road and walked up to Jim's car, firing his weapon eight times before fleeing the scene.\n\n\"He was wearing a high-vis, hip length, yellow jacket with security on the back, dark bottoms with a grey coloured hat or hood and carrying a dark bag over his shoulder which I believe contained the gun.\n\n\"I want to hear from you if you were in the area at the time. Did you see the gunman? Did he go into a house afterwards or get into a waiting car? Perhaps you have heard anyone talking about the killing?\n\n\"I also believe the same man tried to murder Jim five days earlier in circumstances that would appear to be the carbon copy of the actual murder.\"\n\nPolice previously released an image of what the suspected gunman may look like\n\nPolice have made 13 arrests, carried out 12 searches and viewed 342 hours of CCTV as part of their investigation, but no-one has been charged with Mr Donegan's murder.\n\nThey previously said that Mr Donegan had a number of enemies.\n\nDet Ch Insp Peter Montgomery appealed for the public's help to take the \"ruthless\" gunman off the streets.\n\n\"He may be late 30s to early 40s, approximately 5ft 8ins and may walk with a limp or may have an existing medical condition that impacts on his walking style,\" he said.\n\nHe urged anyone with information about the day of the murder, or the attempt that was abandoned the previous week, to contact police on 101.", "Labour's shadow equalities spokeswoman Naz Shah has criticised Jeremy Corbyn’s refusal to apologise for anti-Semitism in the party in last week’s Andrew Neil interview.\n\nMr Corbyn has since made an apology, in an interview with ITV's This Morning.\n\nBut Naz Shah suggested he had not handled the issue well.\n\nSpeaking at an election hustings for the Jewish community in North London, she said Mr Corbyn had apologised in the past and this week, but added: “I would have done things differently.\"\n\nMs Shah was suspended by the Labour Party three years ago for an anti-Semitic Facebook post published before she entered politics.\n\nBut she has since earned plaudits for making an effort to learn about anti-Semitism and build bridges with the Jewish community.\n\nShe said she wanted more people in the Labour Party to go on the \"same journey\" as her, admitting that she had known nothing about anti-Semitism.\n\nShe defended Mr Corbyn’s leadership, saying: “I have never sold something I wouldn’t buy. I definitely believe on a personal level that Jeremy does care because I have had conversations with him.”\n\nBut she added: “Whether he does it the right way and whether he is getting it right is a different question.\n\n“And that is a conversation I want to continue with the leadership.”\n\nFormer Labour MP Chuka Umunna, who is now a Liberal Democrat candidate, reacted angrily to her comments.\n\nHe said: “I am so angry and so disappointed that good people in the Labour Party defend the indefensible.\n\n\"I am fed up with it. He (Mr Corbyn) is guilty of racism. He is guilty of it.”", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The fire is said to have started in a \"bin room\" next to the Travelodge\n\nMore than 100 firefighters have been tackling a major blaze at a hotel in west London which has forced dozens of guests and staff to be evacuated.\n\nCrews from several fire stations were called to the Travelodge on the High Street, Brentford, at 02:52 GMT.\n\nThe fire started in the \"bin room\" on the ground floor of a neighbouring building and spread to the five-floor hotel.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade (LFB) said there were no reported injuries.\n\nThe fire was brought under control shortly before 07:00 and the cause of the fire is now being investigated by the fire brigade and the Met Police.\n\nStation commander Nathan Hobson said: \"Firefighters carried out a systematic search of the hotel and around 160 guests and staff evacuated the building.\"\n\nHe added that a \"rest centre\" had been set up by the local authority and the conditions had been \"challenging\".\n\nMore than 100 firefighters took just over four hours to tackle the blaze\n\nCrews from Chiswick, Heston, Acton, Richmond, Ealing, Hammersmith, Southall were called to deal with the fire\n\n\"Fire crews will be damping down pockets of fire and carrying out salvage work throughout the morning,\" he said.\n\nOne guest, who is from Barnsley and only gave his name as Nigel, said he initially thought the alarm was \"a hoax\".\n\n\"We woke up and the fire alarm was going off, we thought it was a prank and maybe a few lads having a bit too much ale - but obviously it wasn't,\" he said.\n\n\"We come down the stairs and come outside and that's where we saw all the bin storage in a blaze.\n\n\"Everyone was out really quick and everyone was fine, but we are all a bit tired and cold.\"\n\nAnother guest, Reg Williams, described the aftermath of the evacuation.\n\nHe said \"some people panicked\" and \"there was a few small children\".\n\nHe said one firefighter came round taking names and room numbers, \"just to make sure everyone was out\".\n\nBrentford High Street was closed by police while firefighters tackled the blaze\n\nThe blaze is out now, although the fire brigade is still hosing down the building.\n\nThe hotel is just off Brentford High Street in the middle of a residential area, and consequently many people have been evacuated from their homes.\n\nFire alarms in neighbouring buildings were going off because the smoke was filling the air.\n\nMany guests emerged from the hotel with only the clothes they had grabbed.\n\nNearly 20 emergency calls were made to 999 operators\n\nBuses were brought in to relocate guests to another Travelodge Hotel in Hounslow, but Mr Williams said there was not enough room for everyone. He said he had been told he would not be allowed back into the hotel until after midday.\n\nIn a statement, Travelodge said its guests were \"being looked after\".\n\nA spokesperson added: \"Our team are now making arrangements for their future accommodation and support.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tom Symonds This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Iceland and other Nordic nations are widely admired for family-friendly policies\n\nIceland's prime minister has urged governments to adopt green and family-friendly priorities, instead of just focusing on economic growth figures.\n\nKatrin Jakobsdottir has teamed up with Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and New Zealand's PM Jacinda Ardern to promote a \"well-being\" agenda.\n\nMs Jakobsdottir called for \"an alternative future based on well-being and inclusive growth\".\n\nShe said new social indicators were needed besides traditional GDP data.\n\nNobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz is among several economists arguing that gross domestic product - measuring a country's production in goods and services - fails to capture the impact of climate change, inequality, digital services and other phenomena shaping modern societies.\n\nIn a Guardian article last month, Prof Stiglitz said the 2008 global financial crisis \"was the ultimate illustration of the deficiencies in commonly used metrics\".\n\nGDP failed to reveal distortions in the bloated US housing market which triggered the crisis.\n\nMs Jakobsdottir said environmental devastation was a key factor driving Iceland to incorporate new social indicators besides GDP in its budget planning.\n\nShe began a speech at London's Chatham House think-tank by highlighting the disappearance of Iceland's Okjokull glacier. Scientists say the retreat of glaciers is clear evidence of global warming, which is blamed largely on CO2 pollution.\n\nAsked if a \"well-being\" budget was equally appropriate for developed and developing nations, she said: \"It's about how you prioritise in the public budget - you can always have an emphasis on well-being.\"\n\nDeveloping countries \"need to take a leap\" to embrace renewable energy, she said, rather than repeat the developed world's carbon-based industrialisation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGDP's focus on economic performance means it tends to undervalue quality of life and the social damage caused by inequality.\n\nMs Jakobsdottir said an Icelandic poet had joked that \"having sex with your wife doesn't count in GDP, but with a prostitute it does\".\n\nA Left-Green politician, Ms Jakobsdottir formed a coalition government in 2017 with the conservative Independence Party and centre-right Progressive Party.\n\nWhile acknowledging Iceland's progress in family-friendly policies, she said her nation - with a population of just 350,000 - still had big challenges, such as improving public transport and tackling depression.\n\n\"Iceland uses more anti-depressants than neighbouring countries,\" she said. \"We need to strengthen prevention [of depression], through sports and the arts.\"\n\nIn a TED talk in August, Scotland's Nicola Sturgeon made a similar plea for modern economies to put more resources into mental health, childcare and parental leave, and green energy.\n\nMs Jakobsdottir said Iceland's adoption of universal childcare and shared parental leave was the product of grassroots women's activism, regardless of political differences.\n\nShe said the \"well-being\" initiative promoted by herself, Ms Sturgeon and Ms Ardern should not be seen as a gender-based backlash against populism.\n\n\"It's very important to have all genders at the table - it affects the way you think, and then different decisions are made,\" she said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMatt Baker has announced that he is leaving The One Show after nine years.\n\nBaker, 41, who will step down in spring, shared the news on Wednesday's episode of the BBC One show.\n\nIn a statement, he said the programme had been \"brilliant\" at showcasing the \"eclectic mix of Britain\".\n\nHe said he was excited about new opportunities - \"but most of all I'm looking forward to having dinner with my family and being able to put my kids to bed\".\n\nBaker, who has presented The One Show alongside Alex Jones, will continue to present the BBC's Countryfile and sports coverage.\n\nHe said: \"I've loved that The One Show has been such a big part of my life for the last nine years.\n\n\"It's been brilliant to showcase the eclectic mix of Britain, meet incredible people along the way and witness so many lives changed with the annual Rickshaw Challenge for Children In Need.\n\n\"I'd like to thank all those I've worked with over the years and especially you, the viewer, for showing me so much support during my time on the green sofa.\"\n\nThe former Blue Peter presenter joined The One Show on a permanent basis in February 2011, months after coming second in 2010's Strictly Come Dancing series. He replaced comedian Jason Manford.\n\nCharlotte Moore, director of BBC Content, said Baker's \"warmth and wit have helped to create many magical moments on the sofa\".\n\n\"He has a great connection with BBC One viewers and will continue to play an important role on the channel on Sunday nights in Countryfile and with BBC Sport on our gymnastics coverage,\" she added.\n• None Matt Baker to host The One Show", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fay Jones said nobody should be \"using this as a political exercise\"\n\nBoris Johnson was \"wrong\" to use the language he did after the London Bridge terror attack, a Welsh Conservative election candidate has said.\n\nTwo people were killed by convicted terrorist Usman Khan on Friday.\n\nThe prime minister blamed Khan's early release from jail on legislation introduced by a \"leftie government\".\n\nWelsh Conservative election candidate Fay Jones said the prime minister should not have used the terrorist incident \"as a political exercise\".\n\nAfter Mr Johnson called for longer sentences and an end to automatic release, David Merritt - whose son Jack was one of the victims - said he would not wish his death \"to be used as the pretext for more draconian sentences\".\n\nSpeaking in the BBC Wales Live election debate in Wrexham on Tuesday, Ms Jones said: \"I don't think the prime minister or anybody should be using this as a political exercise.\"\n\nAsked if Mr Johnson was wrong, she replied: \"Yes, he was.\"\n\nMr Johnson has denied claims he was politicising the attack, saying he had campaigned against early release for some time, having previously raised the issue during his 2012 campaign to be mayor of London.\n\n\"I feel, as everybody does, a huge amount of sympathy for the loss of Jack Merritt's family, and indeed for all the relatives of Jack and Saskia, who perished at London Bridge,\" he said.\n\n\"But be in no doubt, I've campaigned against early release and against short sentences for many years.\"\n\nKhan had served half of his sentence and the prime minister claimed scrapping early release would have stopped him.\n\nMr Johnson blamed Khan's release on legislation introduced under \"a leftie government\", insisting the automatic release scheme was introduced by Labour.\n\nHowever, he has been challenged about what the Conservatives had done to change the law over the past 10 years in government.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says about 74 convicted terrorists have been released early from prison\n\nLabour's David Hanson, a former policing and counter-terrorism minister, said the police had struggled following a reduction in the number of officers and he had concerns about the probation service.\n\n\"We need to have the 40% cut that was taken to the probation service put back in place because that's one of the issues that's led to the high risk on this particular case and others,\" he said.\n\nBrexit Party MEP Nathan Gill said it was \"bonkers\" that convicted terrorists were being released early.\n\n\"If you plot mass murder of people, a terrorist attack, I want to see you go to jail for your whole life,\" he said.\n\n\"I do not understand that when the death penalty was taken away. We were told life would mean life, and now people serve just five or ten years and then they're let out.\"\n\nUsman Khan had been jailed in 2012\n\nPoliticisation of terror attacks like London Bridge was wrong, said Plaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth, \"because it affects every one of us\".\n\n\"These are our communities\", he said, \"intolerance between different groups is something we should all condemn\".\n\nWhen pressed on whether Khan should have been released, Mr ap Iorwerth stressed each case was different.\n\n\"It was clear that Boris did play games on this and he saw an advantage,\" he said.\n\n\"We have people risking their lives and showing their bravery and he's essentially dodging questions and avoiding stepping up to the plate and answering interviews.\"", "London Bridge attacker Usman Khan attended two counter-terrorism programmes that had not been fully tested to see if they were effective, BBC News has discovered.\n\nKhan, who was convicted of a terrorism offence in 2012, killed Jack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, on Friday.\n\nHe had completed two rehabilitation schemes during the eight years he spent in prison and following his release.\n\nThe government says such programmes are kept \"under constant review\".\n\nThree others were injured after Khan launched the attack at a prisoner rehabilitation event inside Fishmongers' Hall near London Bridge.\n\nInquests into the deaths of Mr Merritt and Ms Jones were opened and adjourned at the Old Bailey on Wednesday.\n\nThe court heard that both of them died after being stabbed in the chest. The date for the full inquests is still to be decided.\n\nCity of London senior coroner Alison Hewitt also opened and adjourned the inquest into Khan, who died from multiple gunshot wounds after being shot by police.\n\nThe inquest heard that Khan had been at the venue to participate in group workshops.\n\nDuring his time in prison, Khan completed a course for people convicted of extremism offences and after his release went on a scheme to address the root causes of terrorism.\n\nThe first course Khan went on, the Healthy Identity Intervention Programme, was piloted from 2010 and is now the main rehabilitation scheme for prisoners convicted of offences linked to extremism.\n\nUsman Khan had been jailed in 2012\n\nLast year, the Ministry of Justice published the findings of research into the pilot project which found it was \"viewed positively\" by a sample of those who attended and ran the course.\n\nHowever, the department has not completed any work to test whether the scheme prevents reoffending or successfully tackles extremist behaviour.\n\nThere has also been no evaluation of the impact of the Desistance and Disengagement Programme, which Khan took part in after his release last year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGovernment officials pointed out that the schemes have not been operating for long enough for the results to be assessed, but a spokesperson said all offender behaviour programmes were kept under constant review.\n\nThe spokesperson said: \"All our offender behaviour programmes are monitored, evaluated and kept under constant review to ensure that they are effective in reducing reoffending and protecting the public.\"\n\nThe Home Office \"fact-sheet\" on the Desistence and Disengagement programme contains eight pieces of \"key information\".\n\nBut it omits the really key bit - that the programme has never been evaluated. In other words, we do not know if it works.\n\nThe same is true of the Healthy Identity Interventions course. Although the Ministry of Justice conducted a \"process evaluation\", to check the pilot version was being run properly, we will not know for another two years if it is achieving results.\n\nSo, these schemes, like many other offender behaviour projects, are, in essence, experimental.\n\nSome say the only way of knowing if they are any good is to try them out. Others argue the risks of doing that are too high, pointing to the once-flagship Sex Offender Treatment Programme, which was used for 25 years until research showed that it increased the likelihood of reoffending.\n\nRehabilitating convicted terrorists is as complex and challenging as it gets - but a little more openness and honesty is required about the methods that are being used.\n\nA man who recently went through the same Desistence and Disengagement programme as Khan says the London Bridge attacker \"shouldn't have been let out of prison\".\n\nThe man - who asked to remain anonymous - was acquitted of terror charges but was required to wear an electronic tag.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Legal correspondent Clive Coleman looks at why Usman Khan was freed from prison\n\nSpeaking to Sima Kotecha on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said: \"I had a mentor who came to see me at least twice a week.\n\n\"As time went on the authorities saw a change within myself.\"\n\nAsked why such mentoring worked for him but not for Khan, the man said: \"I wanted to make a change.\n\n\"Other people may think that [terror] is the only route because they've been radicalised and that's all they know.\"\n\nHe added that \"anybody can manipulate\" when asked whether people could convince their mentors that they have moved away from extremism.\n\nHe said: \"I don't know his character, but anybody can manipulate.\"\n\nKhan, 28, was arrested in December 2010 and sentenced in 2012 to indeterminate detention for public protection with a minimum jail term of eight years, having pleaded guilty to preparing terrorist acts.\n\nHe had been part of an al-Qaeda inspired group that considered attacks in the UK, including at the London Stock Exchange.\n\nIn 2013 the Court of Appeal quashed the sentence, replacing it with a 16-year fixed term, and ordered Khan to serve at least half this - eight years - behind bars.\n\nSince his release from prison in December 2018, Khan had been living in Stafford and was required to wear a GPS tag.\n\nKhan was armed with two knives and was wearing a fake suicide vest during the attack at Fishmongers' Hall in the City of London on Friday.\n\nHe was tackled by members of the public, including ex-offenders from the conference, before he was shot dead by police.\n\nAmong those praised for their bravery during the attack was a porter - known as Lukasz - who tried to fight Khan at Fishmongers' Hall.\n\nHe issued a statement through Scotland Yard on Tuesday, saying that contrary to some reports, he had used a pole to tackle Khan while someone else used a narwhal tusk.\n\n\"The man attacked me, after which he left the building,\" he said. \"A number of us followed him out but I stopped at the bollards of the bridge. I had been stabbed and was later taken to hospital to be treated.\"\n\nHe said he was \"thankful\" that he had now returned home.\n\n\"When the attack happened, I acted instinctively,\" he said. \"I am now coming to terms with the whole traumatic incident and would like the space to do this in privacy, with the support of my family.\"\n\nHe wanted to express his condolences to the families who had \"lost precious loved ones\", he added, as well as sending his best wishes to \"everyone affected by this sad and pointless attack\".\n\nTwo women were also injured in the attack. They remain in a stable condition in hospital.", "UUP leader Steve Aiken (bottom centre) was speaking at the party's election manifesto launch\n\nThe Ulster Unionist Party wants a hung parliament so its MPs can \"exert their influence\" and stop Boris Johnson's Brexit deal, its leader has said.\n\nSteve Aiken was speaking as he launched the UUP's general election manifesto.\n\nHe said the party wants \"to see Parliament come back in such a way that neither (Conservatives or Labour) has an opportunity to form a government\".\n\nHe added this would make any UUP MPs \"very influential\" in ensuring Mr Johnson's deal is taken off the table.\n\nThe UUP backed Remain in the 2016 EU referendum but, after the result, said the decision to leave should \"be respected\" and that Northern Ireland should exit the EU on the same basis as the rest of the UK.\n\nHowever, the party has rejected the Brexit deal negotiated by Mr Johnson and claimed it creates \"a border down the Irish Sea\", meaning Northern Ireland would become \"a place apart\".\n\nLaunching the manifesto, Mr Aiken described the decision to leave the EU as \"the biggest political earthquake\" the UK has experienced since World War Two.\n\nHe added that, faced with Mr Johnson's deal, the party would prefer to remain in the EU than leave under his agreement.\n\nReferring to the deal, Mr Aiken said: \"Northern Ireland will be torn away from its most important economic market - Great Britain.\"\n\nThe new UUP leader also said \"no unionist could support Boris Johnson going forward\" and criticised Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn, describing him as \"unfit to be prime minister\".\n\nThe party is standing in 16 seats across Northern Ireland, but is not running candidates in West Belfast or North Belfast.\n\nIn the latter, the UUP stepped aside to support Nigel Dodds from the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).\n\nThe decision to step down came after a U-turn by the party leadership - originally Mr Aiken said the UUP would stand, leading to threats being issued against party staff.\n\nThe DUP has stepped aside in Fermanagh and South Tyrone to support UUP candidate Tom Elliott.\n\nMr Elliott, a former party leader, lost his seat in the 2017 general election along with the party's other MP Danny Kinahan.\n\nThe manifesto, entitled \"Northern Ireland Needs Change - Let's Change Together\", was launched at a Belfast hotel in front of journalists, candidates and party members.\n\nThis is Steve Aiken's first election as leader after he took over the party reigns in October following the resignation of Robin Swann.\n\nWhat are your questions about the general election? You can let us know by completing the form below.\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSeventy years of existence is clearly worth celebrating, but Nato is strangely low-key about this week's brief gathering of alliance heads of state and government outside London.\n\nNato spokesmen reject the label of \"summit\", insisting that this is really a lesser affair; that there was a full-scale summit only last year; and that this gathering will not release the traditional lengthy communiqué of conclusions and future plans.\n\nWhy so reticent? This is after all what many Nato advocates call, with some justification, the most successful military alliance in history.\n\nNato was founded in 1949 for the collective defence of its members, linking the security of the United States with its European allies against the Soviet Union. It witnessed the end of communism, defeating the Soviet bloc without firing a shot.\n\nIt went to war for the first time in the Balkans in the 1990s. It then set out on a new path - so-called \"out of area\" operations beyond Nato's frontiers, notably its operations in Afghanistan and the wider war against terror.\n\nNato also set about a programme of expansion, nearly doubling in size. Today it has 29 members and North Macedonia is soon to join its ranks.\n\nUS troops on a Nato exercise in Lithuania in June 2018\n\nNato - which is as much a diplomatic as a military alliance - has played a key role in stabilising the new democracies of Europe, whether it be in the Baltic or the Balkans, giving them a new self-confidence and locking them into a formidable security framework.\n\nBut has this actually produced a stronger Nato?\n\nThe respected British defence analyst Professor Michael Clarke says \"no\".\n\nUS President Harry Truman marks the beginning of Nato in 1949\n\n\"Nato is indeed the greatest alliance the world has ever seen,\" he told me, but \"today with some thirty members, it is less than half as strong as it was when it was half this size.\n\n\"Nato is in trouble\", he argues, \"even though it's still got lots of capabilities\".\n\nNato expansion is seen within the alliance as a good thing. Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg described it to me as a \"historical success\", the alliance helping to spread democracy and the rule of law.\n\nCountries once occupied by the Red Army and incorporated into the Soviet Union, like the three Baltic republics, or former Warsaw Pact allies of Moscow like Poland, are now firmly in Nato's orbit, and Russia's President Vladimir Putin does not like this.\n\nRussia is pushing back in every way it can, bolstering its nuclear arsenal and seeking to renew its influence abroad. Its controversial but successful campaign to prop up the Assad regime in Syria is a case in point.\n\nNato led a peacekeeping mission in Kosovo after bombing Yugoslavia in 1999\n\nIn Europe, Russia is criticised for cyber attacks; information operations to try to influence elections; even political assassination in the wake of a radiological and a chemical weapons attack - the former in London, the second in Salisbury in southern England.\n\nThe latter attack in Salisbury - which Moscow strenuously denies - prompted a mass expulsion of Russian diplomats and intelligence officers from Nato countries.\n\nMany have spoken of a new Cold War. But this one is very different from that of the 1950s and 1960s.\n\nRussia's power and influence is a shadow of that of the former Soviet Union's. This is a kind of shadow conflict waged below the threshold of combat, in what analysts call \"the grey zone\", where it is hard to assign blame for intrusive actions like cyber attacks or hacks against computers.\n\n\"There is a problem of political consensus in the western world and so we make it easy for Mr Putin,\" Mr Clarke says.\n\n\"Russia,\" he argues, \"will be a real nuisance to Nato for the next ten or twenty years.\n\n\"But they should not be a strategically important challenge to us unless we let them.\"\n\nPresident Putin has warned the West not to cross \"red lines\", meaning Russia's national security interests\n\nRussia is simply using the intrinsic weaknesses of the West to further its own goals, he says.\n\n\"If the Western world and if the Western democracies are not sufficiently cohesive to deal with this threat - and at the moment I have to say they're not - then the Russians will actually play a big role in European security for the future.\n\nThey'll dominate the agenda. They'll constrain people's choices. They'll intimidate and they'll use a certain amount of not very subtle blackmail.\"\n\nThis Nato \"summit\" is all about demonstrating solidarity and resolve and also about charting a path for the future. But in the days leading up to the meeting there has been more than a hint of the problems behind Nato's ceremonial façade.\n\nNato has proudly announced new spending projections which show that the defence budgets of its European allies will grow further in the years ahead.\n\nIt has also agreed a new formula to spread the costs of Nato's central budget between its members; a budget that covers its headquarters in Brussels and other commonly funded programmes.\n\nThe US in this case will pay less and Germany, which lags behind in the proportion of its resources that it devotes to defence, will pay more.\n\nIt is all an effort to mollify President Donald Trump and to avoid another embarrassing tirade from him aimed at his Nato partners. The burden-sharing debate has long dogged Nato. Mr Trump did not invent it.\n\nBut he seems to take a peculiarly transactional approach to the alliance, and often does not seem to share a fundamental sense that the survival of a healthy Nato is as much in Washington's interests as it is in those of its European allies.\n\nNonetheless, Nato governments have committed to spending at least 2% of their GDP on defence; and many of them are still far from that benchmark.\n\nDonald Trump: The uncrowned leader of the Western alliance or a divider?\n\nBut this focus on funding obscures other problems. Frustration is growing and this is what prompted the French President Emmanuel Macron recently to describe Nato as strategically \"brain-dead\".\n\nFar from regretting his comments, he amplified them last week, insisting that the alliance needed to stop talking about money all the time and spend more time dealing with its fundamental strategic problems.\n\nOnly days before this week's summit, a row erupted between France and Turkey. It illustrates how events in north-eastern Syria are straining relations within Nato.\n\nPresident Macron has repeatedly criticised both Washington's abrupt withdrawal of support for the Kurds and Turkey's related offensive into Syria - two strategic decisions that were taken without consulting other Nato allies.\n\nMr Macron (R), pictured with Mr Stoltenberg, criticised Nato's failure to respond to Turkey's offensive\n\nTurkey sees France as far too friendly towards the Kurds. It wants Nato as a whole to back its position in Syria.\n\nThis episode underscores another fundamental problem for the alliance: what many see as Turkey's drift away from Nato and the West.\n\nAnkara's purchase of a sophisticated Russian air defence system is an extraordinary step for a Nato ally.\n\nThe problem is that Turkey's size and geographical position make it an important, albeit for many troublesome, partner in Nato, despite some analysts questioning if it really should still be in the alliance at all.\n\nSo, Turkish and US unilateralism; rows over money; a resurgent but ill-defined Russian threat - there's plenty for Nato leaders to talk about when they meet in a luxury resort hotel near Watford, a town best known by many for its nondescript railway junction.\n\nNato too is at a kind of a junction itself. It has many of the problems of success. Many of the decisions it has taken - its expansion to bring in so many new members for example - were driven as much by politics as by strategy.\n\nTurkish and Russian forces are carrying out joint ground patrols in northern Syria\n\nBut the world has changed dramatically since Nato's founding. It is very different again from the world of the 1990s, in which Nato basked in its victory in the Cold War.\n\nPresident Macron's label of \"brain dead\" may be going a bit far. But he has a point.\n\nNato leaders need to get back to strategy, to the big thoughts about where the alliance should be heading.\n\nHow will it contend with the Russian threat? Does it need to rethink its strategy? Should Nato have a common approach to a rising China? What should be Nato's priorities in the 21st-Century world?", "Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have announced they are stepping down from top roles at the online giant's parent company.\n\nThey will leave their respective roles as Alphabet's chief executive officer and president but remain on the board.\n\nGoogle's CEO Sundar Pichai will become Alphabet's CEO too, a statement said.\n\nAlphabet was created in 2015 as part of a corporate restructuring of Google, which Mr Page and Mr Brin famously founded in a California garage in 1998.\n\nThe parent company was intended to make the tech giant's activities \"cleaner and more accountable\" as it expanded from internet search into other areas such as self-driving cars.\n\nThe pair moved from Google to Alphabet when it was formed - saying they were making the jump to focus on starting new initiatives.\n\nBut in a blog post on Tuesday, the co-founders, both aged 46, announced they were stepping back from the day-to-day management of the company.\n\nA joint letter said they would remain \"actively involved as board members, shareholders and co-founders\", but said it was the \"natural time to simplify our management structure\".\n\n\"We've never been ones to hold on to management roles when we think there's a better way to run the company. And Alphabet and Google no longer need two CEOs and a President,\" their letter said.\n\nThey also declared it was time to \"assume the role of proud parents - offering advice and love, but not daily nagging\" and insisted there was \"no better person\" to lead the company into the future than Mr Pichai.\n\nThe 47-year-old was born in India, where he studied engineering. He went on to study in the US at Stanford University and the University of Pennsylvania before joining Google in 2004.\n\nSundar Pichai will now serve as CEO of both companies\n\nIn a statement, he said he was \"excited\" about the transition and paid tribute to Mr Page and Mr Brin.\n\n\"The founders have given all of us an incredible chance to have an impact on the world,\" Mr Pichai said. \"Thanks to them, we have a timeless mission, enduring values, and a culture of collaboration and exploration that makes it exciting to come to work every day.\n\n\"It's a strong foundation on which we will continue to build. Can't wait to see where we go next and look forward to continuing the journey with all of you.\"\n\nThis move represents the most significant shake-up of leadership at Google since its inception - the first time the dynamic duo of Brin and Page, a legendary Silicon Valley partnership, won't hold important management roles in the company they founded.\n\nIn reality, though, that's been the case for some time - the public face of the firm has been Mr Pichai and, to a lesser extent, YouTube chief executive Susan Wojcicki. But Tuesday's announcement makes it absolutely clear - Mr Page and Mr Brin aren't running the company.\n\nYet while the pair are apparently relinquishing management duties, it won't mean giving up ultimate power. Between them, they control 51% of voting rights on Alphabet's board. This won't change. They likened their new role to being \"proud parents\" to the company, looking on with close interest and care.\n\nBut should they feel the need, they can override any decision Mr Pichai makes - with little more than a parental \"because we said so\".\n\nMr Page and Brin are ranked the 10th and 14th richest individuals in the world by Forbes, with each of them estimated to be worth about $50bn (£38bn).\n\nThe American business magazine ranks Alphabet as the 17th largest public company in the world, with an estimated market value of $863bn.", "The Reunion Nugget is in two parts and weighs a total of 121.3g\n\nA gold hunter claims to have discovered the UK's largest gold nugget in a Scottish river.\n\nThe lump of pure gold, which weighs 121.3g (4.2 oz), was unearthed in a mystery location in May this year.\n\nThe two pieces form a doughnut shape and could be worth £80,000. The previous largest find, in 2016, was the 85.7g (3oz) Douglas Nugget.\n\nHowever, gold panning experts are remaining sceptical until its provenance can be confirmed.\n\nThe treasure was discovered in two pieces but fits together perfectly, earning it the name The Reunion Nugget.\n\nThe gold-panning community is renowned for its secrecy, and the name of the river where it was found has not been revealed. The lucky finder is also remaining anonymous.\n\nThe finder brought the discovery to the attention of author Lee Palmer who was researching his book Gold Occurrences In The UK.\n\nMr Palmer, 50, said: \"This is now the largest nugget in existence in the UK. When you look at it, it's doughnut-shaped.\n\n\"There are no impurities in it, it is just pure gold nugget of about 22 carats. It really is a remarkable find.\"\n\nThe nugget was found using the method of \"sniping\", which sees gold hunters lying face down in a river while wearing a snorkel and dry suit.\n\nThe enthusiast unearthed the larger piece first, which weighs 89.6g (3.1oz), before finding the other half, weighing 31.7g (1,1oz) 10 minutes later.\n\nMr Palmer said: \"The man just threw the bigger piece in his bucket with the rest of his stuff - he knew it was big but didn't realise how big.\n\nThe Reunion Nugget could be the largest unearthed in the UK\n\n\"He found the second nugget 30cm (12in) away and chucked that in his bucket too.\n\n\"It wasn't until a couple of days later that he had a look at them and realised how big they were and that they fitted together.\"\n\nHe added: \"The hole in the middle could have been caused by a strike off a rock or glacier.\n\n\"One mineralogist thought it looked like an entry and exit hole that could've been made with a neolithic antler pick, which were used by farmers in the Iron Age.\"\n\nBoth the finder of the nugget and the owner of the land where it was discovered are keeping their identities secret due to its magnitude.\n\nMr Palmer hopes it will be purchased by either the National Museum Of Scotland or the Natural History Museum, but legally it may have to be handed over to The Crown Estate.\n\nHe believes the fact it is in two pieces should not affect its value.\n\nMr Palmer said: \"From the top you could say it looks like two bits, but when you see it from underneath, it's a perfect fit.\n\n\"It's like an exact jigsaw, there's no disputing it.\n\n\"Even if you took the largest individual piece, it is still the biggest one in the UK.\n\n\"Add together the second piece and the story behind it and you've got something amazing.\"\n\nThe Douglas Nugget holds the current record for the largest gold nugget found in the UK for 500 years.\n\nBoth the Reunion Nugget and the Douglas Nugget were found in Scottish rivers using the process of \"sniping\"\n\nIn a similar story, it was discovered in a Scottish river by a man in his 40s.\n\nHe kept quiet for two years before publicly revealing his incredible find.\n\nGold panning expert Leon Kirk said he was not going to get too excited just yet.\n\nHe told BBC Scotland: \"Unfortunately the world of gold is very divisive. If someone finds a nugget it is not necessarily true.\n\n\"This has come out of the blue and there is no confirmed provenance.\n\n\"I would like to think it is real but it can take many months to establish if it is genuine and at the moment there is no proof.\"", "The Metrolink tram system in Greater Manchester is one scheme that could benefit\n\nThe Conservatives have promised £4.2bn of new spending on local train, bus and tram services if they win the 12 December general election.\n\nThe party said the cash, which would become available from 2022, would help fund transport projects outside London.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said it would transform services \"in towns and cities across the country\".\n\nBut Labour called it \"pathetic\" and the Liberal Democrats said the Tories \"simply don't get public transport\".\n\nThere has been much criticism of transport services outside London and particularly in the north, where fares are often higher and investment lower than in the capital.\n\nThere would be more money for local rail projects\n\nTreasury figures published on Wednesday suggest transport spending in London is almost two-and-a-half times more per person than across the north of England.\n\nBut Mr Shapps said the Conservatives' Local Public Transport Fund would \"kick start the transformation of services so they match those in London\".\n\nThis would ensure \"more frequent and better services, more electrification, modern buses and trains and contactless smart ticketing\".\n\nThe investment, which would be funded through the party's decision not to cut corporation tax, would go to eight mayoral or combined authority areas in England.\n\nThey include the North East, Tees Valley, West Yorkshire, Sheffield City Region, Greater Manchester, Liverpool City Region, West Midlands and West of England.\n\nThe West Midlands Metro tram could also benefit\n\nLocal authorities would have to bid for the cash. They would also be given more control over things like setting fares, station upgrades and service patterns.\n\nBut they would also be expected to put money towards the schemes themselves. Examples of the sorts of projects that might get money include:\n\nThe Conservatives also promised a \"national bus strategy\" and a long-term funding settlement for buses in the 2020 Spending Review.\n\nThey said the new fund would not cover pan-regional transport projects such as Northern Powerhouse Rail, which will be paid for from different budgets.\n\nThere are a couple of important caveats to this announcement. The first is that the funding will become available from 2022.\n\nSo although it would amount to a £4.2bn fund over five years, just £1.68bn of it would be made available for English city regions by the end of the next parliament.\n\nThe second is that £840m a year, shared among several city regions, won't go a very long way on transport infrastructure. However, the Conservatives are clear that the fund wouldn't cover all of the projects on their wish list.\n\nAnd they expect local authorities to generate extra capital through initiatives such as commercial developments in or around train stations.\n\nWhat's clear is that all of the parties want to be seen as champions of transport infrastructure outside of London.\n\nShadow transport secretary Andy McDonald said: \"This announcement is a pathetic attempt to cover up the government's disastrous and incompetent failure to invest in public transport.\n\n\"Tory cuts have caused public transport fares to rise at twice the rate of wages and thousands of bus routes to be cut, worsening congestion on our roads as a result.\n\n\"It's time for real change. Labour will invest in transport across the country delivering the major and local infrastructure projects every region of our country deserves.\"\n\nLabour's plans for local transport include slashing rail fares by a third across the country and making train travel free for under-16s.\n\nThe party also promises to reinstate 3,000 bus routes that have been cut and says it would deliver rail electrification and expansion across the country, including in Wales.\n\nLabour has promised to cut rail fares by a third\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have promised to invest more in buses, trams and railways, while encouraging walking and cycling to protect the environment.\n\nThey would also freeze peak-time and season ticket fares for five years.\n\nLiberal Democrat shadow transport secretary Wera Hobhouse said: \"The Conservatives have overseen a decline of more than 200 million bus journeys since 2015 and failed to invest in our railways across the UK, all while Johnson dreams up vanity projects like his island airport, a dud garden bridge and London buses that simply don't work.\n\n\"The Tories simply don't get the need for excellent public transport which gives people a real alternative to individual car use.\n\n\"At the same time, Boris Johnson's reckless Brexit plans would be disastrous for the economy, meaning less money to fund vital transport and infrastructure projects.\"", "A Christmas advert from exercise bike company Peloton has been widely mocked on social media as being \"sexist\", \"out of touch\", and even \"dystopian\".\n\nThe ad, which has been viewed more than a million times on YouTube, sees a woman receive an exercise bike for Christmas from her husband.\n\nShe then records her workouts over the following year in a vlog and presents it to him as a way of saying thank you.\n\n\"A year ago, I didn't realise how much this would change me,\" she says.\n\nThe criticism knocked the company's shares, which closed more than 9% lower on Tuesday.\n\nPeloton sells fitness equipment - with bikes priced at more than $2,000 - fitted with touchscreens. Users then purchase a subscription to access classes streamed live and on-demand.\n\nThe New York-based company released the ad in November, but criticism on social media has increased markedly in recent days.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Peloton This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nSome people complained it is sexist for a man to give his wife an exercise bike for Christmas, as it suggested he wanted her to lose weight.\n\nOthers noted that - despite claims the bike has \"changed\" her - the already slim actress who plays the main character looks exactly the same.\n\nSome also said the ad had a dystopian vibe and compared it to a horror film.\n\nComedy writer Jess Dweck wrote on Twitter: \"The only way to enjoy that Peloton ad is to think of it as the first minute of an episode of Black Mirror.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jess Dweck This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA Twitter account devoted to Limericks wrote: \"The Pelaton [sic] wife/Has a beautiful life/And a general aura of fear.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Limericking This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPeloton said the advertisement was meant to celebrate a \"fitness and wellness journey\".\n\n\"While we're disappointed in how some have misinterpreted this commercial, we are encouraged by - and grateful for - the outpouring of support we've received from those who understand what we were trying to communicate,\" it said in a statement.\n\nIt is not the first time Peloton's appeals to buyers have been spoofed.\n\nClueHeywood, a Twitter personality in Arizona, criticised the company earlier this year by suggesting the way it staged its adverts was absurd.\n\n\"Love putting my Peloton bike in the most striking area of my ultra-modern $3 million house,\" he wrote.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Clue Heywood This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe offered his take on the most recent commercial as well, describing it as an account of a \"116 lb woman's YEARLONG fitness journey to becoming a 112 lb woman\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Clue Heywood This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "As first-choice wicketkeeper for England, Geraint Jones was a member of the side which won the Ashes in 2005.\n\nSince retiring in Kent, the county he represented for most of his professional career, he's become a teacher.\n\nHe's also taking on a new challenge - by becoming a retained firefighter at his local station in Sandwich, Kent.", "The bank said it would cut fees on unarranged overdrafts\n\nHSBC is to bring in a single overdraft rate of 39.9% for UK customers from March 2020, as much as quadrupling the rate it charges some customers.\n\nHowever, the bank is removing a £5 daily fee for going into an unarranged overdraft and introducing an interest-free £25 buffer on some accounts.\n\nIt follows a similar move from Nationwide Building Society in July.\n\nThe new annual rate comes in response to tough new rules from regulators designed to protect consumers.\n\nBut one analyst warned that steep overdraft rates could now become the \"new normal\".\n\nHSBC UK currently charges rates of 9.9% to 19.9% on arranged overdrafts, but the higher rate will be applied across its whole range of accounts except for its student bank account.\n\nThe £25 buffer will apply to Bank Accounts and Advance Bank Accounts, providing leeway for those going slightly overdrawn.\n\nHSBC said that as a result of this and the removal of the £5 daily fee for unarranged overdrafts, seven in 10 who use an overdraft would be better off or the same as a result of the changes.\n\nBut that suggests around a third could end up worse off. The bank has eight to nine million current account holders in the UK.\n\nMadhu Kejriwal, HSBC UK's head of lending and payments, said: \"By simplifying our overdraft charging structure we are making them easier to understand, more transparent and giving customers tools to help them make better financial decisions.\"\n\nNationwide has also raised its overdraft rates\n\nThe move comes in response to Financial Conduct Authority's plans to shake up the \"dysfunctional\" overdraft market - including stopping banks and building societies from charging higher prices for unarranged overdrafts than for arranged overdrafts.\n\nThe new rules, which come into force next April, will require providers to charge a simple annual interest rate on all overdrafts and get rid of fixed fees.\n\nBut there have been concerns that banks will hike authorised overdraft charges to claw back some revenue lost from unauthorised overdraft fees.\n\nIn July, Nationwide also unveiled a new single rate of 39.9% across its adult current account range. Its changes came into force in November.\n\nHelen Saxon, banking editor at MoneySavingExpert.com, said: \"With both of the first banks to announce changes moving overdraft interest rates to around 40%, we have to wonder if this is the new normal.\"\n\nThe FCA has acknowledged banks may look to increase their arranged overdraft prices as a result of the new rules.\n\nBut it argues the net effect will still be better for consumers - and increased competition between providers as a result of the changes will constrain any price increases.\n\nRachel Springall, a finance expert at Moneyfacts.co.uk, said: \"It's disappointing to see such a hike in overdraft charges but there may be more brands coming out in the coming weeks to announce changes too.\n\n\"This shake-up is designed to make things fairer and more transparent to consumers.\n\n\"Borrowers would be wise to scrutinise any changes to their current account and look to switch elsewhere if they find that the account has lost its shine.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBoris Johnson has hailed Nato as \"the most successful alliance in history\" after talks with leaders near London.\n\nThe PM insisted there was \"very great solidarity\" within the alliance, amid tensions on its 70th anniversary.\n\nHe also praised the role of the United States, adding the country had been a \"pillar of stability\" on security issues.\n\nJeremy Corbyn said he wanted to ensure Nato focused on reducing \"tensions around the world\".\n\nLeaders of the 29-member military alliance have been discussing shared security issues at a special meeting to mark 70 years since its formation.\n\nIn a statement issued after talks at a luxury resort near Watford, leaders acknowledged the \"challenges\" posed by China and Russia, and pledged to take \"stronger action\" against terrorism.\n\nOn Tuesday, Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said countries in the alliance had added $130bn (£100bn) to defence budgets since 2016, and that this number would increase to $400bn by 2024.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has frequently criticised how much other allies spend on defence.\n\nSpeaking to reporters at a press conference afterwards, Mr Johnson said member countries were making \"real progress\" towards meeting a target to spend 2% or more of their economic output on defence.\n\nAsked whether President Trump was good for the UK, the prime minister said the US had always \"should shoulder to shoulder\" with the country.\n\nHe added that the country's response after the Salisbury poisonings last year had been a \"fantastic testament to the transatlantic alliance\".\n\nPressed directly to comment on Mr Trump as a leader, Mr Johnson said the administration he leads \"could not have been more supportive\".\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said his party was committed to remaining part of the Nato alliance, adding it was \"important to be part of\".\n\n\"I think we'll have to contribute to world peace through Nato and any other alliance, principally through the United Nations,\" he added.\n\nAlthough Labour's manifesto pledges to maintain the UK's commitment to Nato, Mr Johnson accused Labour of wanting to \"destroy\" it.\n\nMr Corbyn has previously attacked the organisation \"as a danger to peace\", but on Wednesday said: \"We have decided we'll remain in Nato as a party, and that's it.\"\n\nHe added that he thought Nato was going in the \"wrong\" direction back in 2011, but the alliance has since \"changed its focus\".\n\nOn Tuesday evening, leaders attended receptions at Downing Street and at Buckingham Palace.\n\nThe prime minister held talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to discuss Syria, Libya and counter-terrorism at No 10.\n\nHe had faced questions over whether he was avoiding a one-to-one meeting with Mr Trump, over concerns it could blow his election campaign off course, but Downing Street said the two men had a low-key, off camera meeting.\n\nOn Wednesday, Mr Johnson said he had not talked about the NHS during the meeting, but did talk about \"all manner of areas of cooperation, from Nato to Syria to trade\".\n\nLabour has claimed throughout the election campaign that the future of the health service could be threatened by a post-Brexit trade deal with the US.\n\nLater in the evening, Mr Johnson was filmed chatting with a group of leaders during a reception at Buckingham Palace - they appeared to be discussing the US president.\n\nMr Johnson said it was \"complete nonsense\" to suggest he did not take Donald Trump seriously after the video emerged.\n\nPresident Trump has cancelled a planned press conference, telling reporters: \"We'll go directly back. I think we've done plenty of news conferences.\"\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn - who said he intended to ask the US president for \"reassurances\" that the NHS would be \"off the table\" in post-Brexit trade talks - was also at the reception, but says he did not have an opportunity to speak to him.\n\nSpeaking at a press conference earlier in the day, Mr Trump had said he wanted \"absolutely nothing to do with\" the NHS, adding he would not touch it even if it was handed to his administration \"on a silver platter\".\n\nAsked whether he could work with Mr Corbyn as prime minister, he said he could \"work with anybody\", although earlier he said he thought Mr Johnson would do a \"good job\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Reporters ask the US president his thoughts on the upcoming UK general election", "Joseph McCann's barrister told the Old Bailey he has \"declined to come\" to court\n\nA man on trial accused of a string of sex offences has declined to come to court and chosen not to give evidence.\n\nJoseph McCann, 34, is accused of 37 offences, including rape, kidnap and false imprisonment, against 11 women and children over the course of two weeks in April and May.\n\nMr McCann was expected to show up at the Old Bailey on Monday, having opted not to attend before.\n\nBut on Wednesday defence barrister Jo Sidhu QC said he \"declined to come\".\n\nMr Justice Edis said: \"His absence from the trial is not evidence in the case. You must not infer from his absence that he is guilty of these offences.\n\n\"His decision not to give evidence is a separate matter and I will come to that later.\"\n\nJurors were also told they must consider the case \"in an objective, calm way\".\n\nThe judge said: \"I gave you a warning that you would have an emotional reaction in this case and there is no doubt that warning turned out to be right in respect of some of what you listened to in the case.\n\n\"It was also intended to remind you and to direct you that an emotional reaction to material is unlikely to be a helpful guide to your decision-making when you come to decide the case.\"\n\nMr McCann, of Harrow, west London, denies the charges against him.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The patient is receiving care at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London\n\nA patient has been diagnosed with the rare viral infection monkeypox in the south west of England.\n\nIt is believed the patient contracted the infection while visiting Nigeria, Public Health England (PHE) said.\n\nAccording to the World Health Organisation, the condition is similar to human smallpox and although it is much milder, it can be fatal.\n\nThe patient has been transferred to a specialist infectious disease centre at Guy's and St Thomas' in London.\n\nPHE and NHS officials said they had been implementing \"rapid infection control procedures\" and contacting passengers who travelled in close proximity to the patient on the same flight to the UK.\n\n\"We are following up with those who have had close contact with the patient to offer advice and to monitor them as necessary,\" said Dr Meera Chand, consultant microbiologist at PHE.\n\nPHE says the infection is usually a self-limiting illness and most people recover within a few weeks, however severe illness can occur in some individuals.\n\nThe infection does not spread easily between people and the risk to the general public in England is very low.\n\nThis is not the first time the virus has been detected in the UK. The first reported cases in the UK were in September 2018.\n\nThe first patient to be diagnosed with monkeypox in the UK had been staying at a naval base in Cornwall.\n\nPHE said the south west region referred to Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Bristol, Dorset, Somerset, Devon and Cornwall.", "No Time To Die marks Daniel Craig's swansong as James Bond\n\nAnd we thought Christmas only came once a year.\n\nThe first full-length trailer for No Time To Die has been released, giving fans a flavour of what to expect from Daniel Craig's final outing as James Bond.\n\nThe promo, which launched on Wednesday and can be seen below, shows Rami Malek in character as the latest villain for the first time, as well as a new female agent with a licence to kill.\n\nNo Time To Die is set to be released in April, but there have been one or two obstacles along the way - from Daniel Craig's ankle injury to the decision to change director.\n\nDanny Boyle was originally supposed to be at the helm for Bond 25, but he exited the project last August due to \"creative differences\".\n\nUS director Cary Joji Fukunaga stepped in, and there was a race against the clock to keep the film on schedule for its April 2020 release date.\n\n\"It has been an incredible honour, but it's also just been really hard,\" Fukunaga tells BBC News. \"This was a very ambitious script for the time we had.\n\nCary Joji Fukunaga stepped in to direct Daniel Craig's final outing as James Bond\n\n\"I got the role in the middle of doing press for Maniac [the Netflix series he directed], so I was doing interviews like this while trying to process the enormous excitement but also responsibility of taking on this project.\n\n\"And I was very aware that with Daniel's departure, I had to get a script going and production going in a very short space of time. The lack of time was a sort of impetus for the pressure. It was like a very hot flame under our ass!\"\n\nThe project had the added complication of having to go back to the drawing board after Boyle's exit.\n\n\"I love Danny's films, but on this one we basically had to start from scratch,\" Fukunaga explains. \"It was the desire of the producers that we sort of start anew and figure out a new storyline for this one.\"\n\nThe writing process involved bringing Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge on board to help polish the script.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by James Bond 007 This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nFukunaga refers to a new plot, but No Time To Die also appears to continue the overarching storyline which has run through the last four films.\n\nSpectre's ending seemed to tie that narrative up, which left many wondering whether the 25th Bond film would start afresh. But the inclusion of Waltz's Blofeld in the trailer puts paid to that idea and suggests it's a continuation - something Fukunaga appears to confirm.\n\nLashana Lynch plays a new MI6 agent with a licence to kill\n\n\"I like to think of this as picking up from all the stories, from Casino [Royale] all the way through,\" he says. \"And those who are fans will appreciate the layers that exist there, but I also think for new audiences, people who have never seen any of the films before, younger audiences, it's strong enough that they can get involved.\"\n\nAs well as Maniac, Fukunaga has previously directed films including Beasts of No Nation and a 2011 adaptation of Jane Eyre starring Mia Wasikowska.\n\nPerhaps the most interesting part of the trailer is Lashana Lynch's appearance as a new member of MI6.\n\nHaving a female double-O marks a slight change in direction in the franchise. No Time To Die is the first Bond film since #MeToo, but would the film series have evolved in this direction anyway?\n\n\"Yes, I think so,\" Fukunaga says. \"Bond started evolving probably 25 years ago, when Judi Dench's M called out Pierce Brosnan's Bond for being a misogynistic dinosaur and a relic of the Cold War.\"\n\n\"I think Lashana's role is not about being female, she's just a younger generation,\" Fukunaga says. \"There's the whole thing going around the internet right now about 'OK Boomer', and I just think of how younger generations challenge what the previous generations legacy means.\n\nFans have speculated about whether Rami Malek's villain is Dr No\n\n\"And I think for Lashana, she has a lot to prove, she's capable, she's physical, she's intelligent. And the world has changed, and she feels she's inheriting a world that agents like Bond had operated in. And it's like, they want to make their mark. That's how I think of it. Less so than just because she's female, we're in a world where that's not even the considerations. It's more, 'is she capable of being a double-O?'\"\n\nOne person who became (temporarily) incapable of being a double-O was Daniel Craig, who injured his ankle while shooting the film. But, Fukunaga says, that wasn't as disruptive to the schedule as you might imagine.\n\n\"If you think about a film this ambitious, this long, with this many stunts, the fact that we had one sprained ankle and a concussion over that period of time was a pretty high achievement,\" he says.\n\n\"[Craig's ankle injury] delayed us a little bit, but he didn't miss a day of being on set after that. He was on set working out and doing PT [physical therapy] the entire time. We had to do a little juggling on schedule and scenes, but that was pretty much it.\"\n\nNo Time To Die isn't actually finished yet. Filming wrapped last month but the movie is now in post-production, which means Fukunaga \"still hasn't had time to really process\" the whole experience. \"I think I'll probably have to sit down next summer and figure out what just happened,\" he says.\n\nAsk the directors of Cats or Sonic The Hedgehog whether launching a trailer is a positive experience and you might find them cowering in the corner of a room from the trauma.\n\nBut Fukunaga is less anxious about the social media reaction to the Bond trailer. \"We don't have any computer graphics animals in our trailer,\" he laughs, \"so we're less worried about that.\"", "Harley Watson's family described him as a \"good, kind, helpful and lovely boy\"\n\nThe family of a 12-year-old boy killed in a hit-and-run near his school say they are \"devastated\" by his death.\n\nHarley Watson was struck near Debden Park High School in Loughton, Essex, at about 15:20 GMT on Monday.\n\nA 51-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of his murder, as well as the attempted murder of four teenagers and a 23-year-old woman who were hurt in the crash.\n\nHarley's family described him as a \"good, kind, helpful and lovely boy\".\n\nIn a statement, they said: \"We are so devastated by what has happened.\n\n\"We would like to thank everyone for their kind wishes and concern.\n\n\"However, as a family we would like people to respect our privacy and allow us to grieve in peace.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Loughton school crash survivor 'blacked out' when hit by car\n\nEssex Police said the 51-year-old man was arrested in a pub car park in Fiddlers Hamlet at 23:00 on Monday.\n\nCh Supt Tracey Harman said there \"may be connections\" between the crash near Debden Park High School and an earlier incident of a car mounting a pavement near Roding Valley High School in Loughton, 10 minutes before the fatal collision.\n\nThe force has referred itself to the Independent Office for Police Conduct based on \"previous contact\" it had had with the arrested man.\n\nHarley's death has been described as a \"young life so tragically lost\"\n\nIt is understood all the injured children - two 15-year-old boys, a 13-year-old boy, and a girl, 16 - are pupils at the school.\n\nDebden Park's head teacher Helen Gascoyne, said: \"Our thoughts are with the family and all those affected. The school will be open [on Tuesday] with a number of counsellors on hand to support our community.\"\n\nChristian Cavanagh, executive head teacher, described Harley's death as \"a young life so tragically lost\".\n\nHe said: \"This young man had made his mark on the school and was liked and loved by staff and students. We will consult with the family and our school community to decide how best to commemorate his life.\"\n\nDonna Mills, the mother of Alfie Barnes who was one of the 15-year-olds struck by the car, said he was \"still in shock... battered and bruised\".\n\n\"He remembers the car coming towards him, he remembers getting hit, but it is a bit of a blur. He hit his head and I think he blacked out for a bit,\" she said.\n\n\"Alfie rang me and said 'mum I have been hit by a car', so I shot down there as fast as I could. It was horrendous.\n\n\"It was... horrible to see, kids laying on the floor, just terrible.\"\n\nDebden Park High School opened on Tuesday for staff and pupils to support each other\n\nEssex Police said officers are looking for a silver Ford Ka \"likely to have damage to [its] front\".\n\nEarlier, the force took the step of naming Terry Glover, 51, as someone they wanted to speak to in connection with the crash.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Each fob is similar in size to a standard keyring and features a small fingerprint reader\n\nA bank is testing new technology that allows customers to make contactless payments for transactions up to £100 without a bank card or mobile phone.\n\nRoyal Bank of Scotland has developed biometric payment fobs that use fingerprints to verify transactions.\n\nRBS, which has previously trialled biometric cards, said the fobs would allow payments above £30 without a card or mobile for the first time.\n\nRBS will test the technology with 250 customers over the next three months.\n\nEach fob is similar in size to a standard keyring and features a small fingerprint reader.\n\nRBS said customers would be able to use them at existing contactless and chip-and-pin terminals.\n\nWhen a fob is presented, a light indicates the fingerprint has been matched successfully.\n\nRBS has already piloted a biometric bank card that verifies a purchase using a customer's fingerprint\n\nIn April, RBS piloted a biometric bank card that allowed customers to verify a purchase using their fingerprint.\n\nThose taking part in the trial did not need to use a pin code to verify transactions of more than £30.\n\nRBS said the card was designed to increase security and make payments at tills easier.\n\nThe bank described the trial as \"successful\" but has not said when that technology will be introduced.\n\nDavid Crawford, head of Royal Bank Effortless Payments, said: \"After the successful pilot of our biometric debit card we are looking at how we can further develop the technology and push the boundaries to integrate it into our customers everyday lives.\"\n\nRBS is working with Visa and German-owned Giesecke and Devrient Mobile Security to develop the technology for UK customers.", "Matt Baker has announced he is leaving The One Show after nine years.\n\nBaker, 41, who will step down in spring, fought back tears as he made the announcement on Wednesday's episode of the BBC One show.\n\nHe added that he was looking forward to being able to put his kids to bed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe crisis in Northern Ireland's health service is \"unacceptable\", NI Secretary Julian Smith has said, as industrial action by healthcare workers continues.\n\nMr Smith was speaking during a visit to Belfast where he met members of the NI Civil Service and trade unions.\n\nHe said he was \"extremely sorry\" that the strike was affecting patients, families and workers.\n\nHealth workers are protesting at pay and staffing levels which they claim are \"unsafe\".\n\nThe union, Unison, that represents more than 6,500 registered nurses and 3,500 health care assistants, has called for \"compromise and money on the table\".\n\nNorthern Ireland has been without a devolved government since January 2017 when the power-sharing parties - the DUP and Sinn Féin - split after a bitter row.\n\nMr Smith said he would have more conversations both with the NI Civil Service and the unions over the coming days.\n\n\"This area of health is a devolved matter so the decisions have to be taken by the NI Civil Service, they are working in difficult circumstances because Stormont's not running.\n\n\"But I am working with them to see if we can find a way through.\"\n\nHe added that the situation was \"unacceptable\" and that he would \"do whatever I can within the powers I have to help the NI Civil Service move this forward\".\n\nHowever, when asked about the possibility of extra money for the civil service to deal with the ongoing healthcare issues, Mr Smith maintained that the negotiations on health service issues would be led by the civil service.\n\nHis comments come as industrial action continues to affect the health service.\n\nAt the Ulster Hospital, routine afternoon outpatient appointments, with the exception of maternity and children's, have been cancelled.\n\nPatients in the South Eastern Trust area who have not received a letter of cancellation should attend as normal for their appointments.\n\nIn the Western Trust area, strike action by support services staff is expected to affect hospitals, day centres and residential homes.\n\nFull details and advice on current health care services can be found on the Health and Social Care Board website.\n\nDr Michael McBride, Northern Ireland's chief medical officer, has warned that there is a \"real risk\" of unintended consequences if industrial action continues.\n\nDr Michael McBride stressed that he respected the workers' right to take action\n\nSpeaking on BBC NI's Nolan Show, Dr McBride said the situation was \"very concerning\" given the fragile nature of Northern Ireland's health system.\n\nHe said that the scale and scope of industrial action at a time of significant pressure on the service meant that \"the risk of unintended consequences is real\".\n\nHe said he feared what these consequences might be, but stressed he also respected workers' rights.\n\n\"Front-line health and social care staff have genuine grievances and I absolutely accept the rights of those individuals to take industrial action,\" he said.\n\n\"Who wouldn't want hard working staff, totally dedicated and committed staff who are the backbone of our health service to get a fair day's pay, to have pay which is comparable to other parts of the United Kingdom?\"\n\nDr McBride repeated his appeal to all in the dispute to pause, take a step back and work to unlock the impasse.\n\nAmong those taking industrial action in Derry is Stephen Ward, a porter at Altnagelvin Hospital.\n\nHe said staff were \"at breaking point\".\n\nMr Ward said staff were not being rewarded for the work they carried out\n\n\"We are running around 24/7 after cardiac arrests and people with serious haemorrhages.\n\n\"There's so much to the role that keeps the place functioning and we are not getting rewarded for it,\" he said.\n\n\"We are basically on minimum wage and you can't live the best quality of life that you should.\n\n\"We are at breaking point and I think we should go into direct rule as soon as possible. It's emotional because we are always thinking about the patients.\"\n\nSpeaking on BBC NI's Good Morning Ulster, Anne Speed of Unison welcomed the decision by the health trusts' chief executives to speak out in a joint statement.\n\n\"I was glad to hear that they didn't blame workers,\" she said.\n\n\"They have pointed in the direction of those who have access to money and those who can influence those who have access to money. That direction needs to be continued and the chief executives need to continue calling for that.\"\n\nMs Speed said that, so far, those who can offer compromise do not have access to money.\n\nAnne Speed, Unison, called for compromise and 'money on the table'\n\nShe said the basis on which the Department of Health had looked for a resolution of the dispute was insufficient at this stage.\n\nMs Speed said Unison was not walking away from its responsibilities and was working to manage risk.\n\nShe said the planned complete withdrawal of labour by nurses on 18 December would be \"very serious\".\n\n\"When nurses remove themselves from routine nursing care it will be a very big wake-up call for everybody with anything to do with the health service, especially those in the leadership,\" she said.\n\nOn Tuesday, nurses from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) took action short of strike by refusing to do any work not directly related to patient care.\n\nMembers of the RCN took industrial action on Tuesday\n\nThe UK government said that as health is a devolved matter, only a restored Stormont executive could take decisions on the health service.\n\nIn a statement, the Northern Ireland Office said that while Julian Smith had further discussions with the NI Civil Service on Tuesday, he \"has no powers to direct them or take decisions on health matters\".\n\nTwo more days of industrial action, short of strike action, are to be held on 10 and 11 December.\n\nMembers of the RCN and trade unions Unite, Unison and NIPSA have voted to strike on 18 December.", "Les Rutherford escaped Dunkirk by paddling out to sea on a shed door\n\nA veteran who escaped Dunkirk by paddling out to sea on a shed door has died at the age of 101.\n\nLes Rutherford became trapped while fighting a rear-guard action during the evacuation of the port.\n\nHe and a fellow soldier used the door, which had been blown off a shed, to escape out to sea, where they were picked up by a French trawler.\n\nTributes paid to Mr Rutherford described him as \"a wonderful man who will be sorely missed\".\n\nTalking previously about his exploits in Dunkirk, Mr Rutherford said: \"The place was being bombed to bits.\n\n\"There was absolutely no hope, so another chap and I decided to take this big door which had been blown off a shed and we put out to sea.\"\n\nAfter being picked up, he said he was given a glass of rum and returned to England wearing only a blanket and socks.\n\nHe later joined Bomber Command and served as a bomb aimer in the RAF.\n\nHis role was to lie flat in the nose of the aircraft, directing the pilot during a bombing-run as the bombs were released.\n\nLes Rutherford in a Lancaster bomber on his 90th birthday\n\nMr Rutherford, who was based at RAF Skellingthorpe in Lincolnshire, served with Bomber Command\n\nDuring a raid over Germany in December 1943, Mr Rutherford was shot down and captured.\n\nHe was taken to Stalag Luft III shortly before the Great Escape took place in March 1944, although he was not part of it.\n\nWhilst there, he exchanged chocolate for a notebook which he used to record life in the camp.\n\nOne of the images in his notebook depicted the Great Escape\n\nAnother showed the withdrawal of troops from Stalag Luft III in 1945 in response to the Russian advance\n\nAt the end of the war he was repatriated to the UK.\n\nPaying tribute, a spokesperson for the International Bomber Command Centre, said: \"If ever a man served his country to the highest standards it was Les.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said he would press ahead with a digital sales tax even after the US threatened to punish France for a similar move.\n\nIn a proposal first outlined last year, large online companies face a tax of 2% of UK sales from April 2020.\n\nDonald Trump has threatened to impose taxes on French goods in retaliation for a digital services tax that would affect Google, Amazon and Facebook.\n\nAhead of Wednesday's Nato meeting in Watford, the US President said: \"We've taxed wine and we have other taxes scheduled.\n\n\"We'd rather not do that, but that's the way it would work. So it's either going to work out, or we'll work out some mutually beneficial tax.\"\n\nThe US said it would apply tariffs of up to 100% on $2.4bn (£1.8bn) of cheese, Champagne, handbags and other French products.\n\nThe US has made clear that other countries pursuing a digital sales tax could face similar action.\n\nMultinational companies including Google and Facebook have been criticised for paying very little tax in some countries despite booking large revenues due to the way profits can be reported in lower tax jurisdictions.\n\nA multilateral solution is being sought but some countries, including the UK, are introducing interim taxes.\n\n\"On the digital services tax, I do think we need to look at the operation of the big digital companies and the huge revenues they have in this country and the amount of tax that they pay,\" Mr Johnson said late on Tuesday.\n\n\"We need to sort that out. They need to make a fairer contribution.\"\n\nThe UK's tax was first suggested by Philip Hammond, the former chancellor and could initially raise almost £500m a year.\n\nThe pledge to implement the tax is contained in the Conservative manifesto.\n\nThe Labour Party has also promised a tax on \"multinationals\". In the party's press release about the plans last month, \"Amazon, Facebook and Google\" were mentioned specifically.\n\nFrance is imposing a 3% tax on any digital company with revenue of more than €750m ($850m; £670m), of which at least €25m is generated in France.\n\nThe tax will be back-dated to early 2019, and is expected to raise about €400m this year.", "Oliver George's sentencing hearing was delayed so he could go on a pre-booked holiday to Barbados, the court heard\n\nA man who admitted drunkenly threatening bar staff with a £5.50 toy gun - then had his sentencing delayed so he could go to the Caribbean - has been given a community order.\n\nOliver George, 26, flashed the handle of a fake pistol in the Sandbanks Yacht Club in Poole when he became \"annoyed\" at being told he was too drunk.\n\nHe admitted possessing an imitation firearm in a public place in September.\n\nBut sentencing was delayed so he could go on a pre-booked holiday to Barbados.\n\nPoole magistrates sentenced him earlier to 200 hours of unpaid work.\n\nGeorge, of Panorama Road in Sandbanks, was a regular customer and had been drinking at the club during the afternoon of 10 September, the court heart.\n\nProsecutor David Finney described how George lifted up his cardigan and flashed the handle of the fake gun that was tucked into the waistband of his shorts.\n\nIn a statement, a member of staff said he was \"really scared\" at what he had seen.\n\n\"I felt threatened seeing it - I didn't know what he would do,\" he said.\n\nGeorge lives on the Sandbanks peninsula in Poole\n\nGeorge left the club and was arrested at his nearby family home a short time later, the magistrates were told.\n\nTerry Scanlan, mitigating, said: \"Mr George was in possession of a clearly harmless toy gun which he had bought for £5.50 from Amazon for his nephews.\"\n\nHe told the court George admitted he lifted his cardigan up so staff were aware of it and that it was a \"really silly thing to do\" but did not have a \"sinister\" intent.\n\nGeorge had \"significant mental health issues\" and was an alcoholic, the court heard.\n\nPassing sentence, magistrate David Senior told George: \"They believed it was a real weapon and you put people in fear.\"\n\nIn addition to his 18-month community order, he was also ordered to pay compensation of £200 each to two members of staff.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Elon Musk speaks to reporters after appearing in court\n\nTesla founder Elon Musk has appeared in court in Los Angeles to answer a lawsuit brought by a British cave diver he called \"pedo guy\" on Twitter.\n\nVernon Unsworth, who helped rescue 12 boys trapped in a Thai cave last year, is suing for defamation.\n\nMr Musk, the first to testify at the court, said Mr Unsworth had insulted him, so he had insulted him back.\n\nThe 48-year-old said the \"pedo guy\" tweet had not been meant to be taken literally.\n\nMr Unsworth's legal team have described Mr Musk's now-deleted tweet as \"vile and false\" and are seeking unspecified punitive damages.\n\nThe Tesla and SpaceX billionaire posted the message after Mr Unsworth publicly rejected his proposal to use a mini-submarine to rescue the boys, members of a football team who became trapped deep inside a cave in northern Thailand in June 2018 in a case that captured the world's attention.\n\nBut in an interview on CNN after the successful rescue, Mr Unsworth called the idea a \"PR stunt\" and suggested the American \"stick his submarine where it hurts\". Two days later, Mr Musk wrote a series of tweets including one describing Mr Unsworth as a \"pedo guy\".\n\nIn his court testimony, Mr Musk - who has 29.8 million Twitter followers - said Mr Unsworth's comments were \"wrong and insulting, and so I insulted him back\", adding: \"It was an unprovoked attack on what was a good-natured attempt to help the kids.\"\n\nHe said he had thought Mr Unsworth \"was just some random creepy guy\" and \"unrelated to the rescue\", and that he had not expected the tweet to be taken literally. \"I assume he didn't mean to sodomise me with a submarine... Just as I didn't literally mean he was a paedophile.\"\n\nThe Tesla boss apologised to the cave diver in court, looking directly at him and saying: \"I apologised in a tweet and again in the deposition, and I'll say it again: I apologise to Mr Unsworth.\" Mr Unsworth did not testify on Tuesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who is Elon Musk? Meet the meme-loving magnate behind SpaceX and Tesla...published in 2021\n\nMr Musk's lawyer, Alex Spiro, said in his opening statements that the term \"pedo guy\" was a common insult in South Africa, where the billionaire grew up, meaning \"creepy old man\", and described the messages as \"joking, taunting tweets in a fight between men\".\n\nBut Lin Wood, a lawyer for Mr Unsworth, tried to show that Mr Musk had meant what he said by citing a separate tweet in which Mr Musk, after being questioned about the allegation by other users, said, \"Bet ya a signed dollar it's true.\" That tweet was also later deleted.\n\nThen, in an email exchange with a Buzzfeed reporter who had contacted him for comments on a threat of a legal case by Mr Unsworth, Mr Musk said, \"Stop defending child rapists.\"\n\nIn the packed courtroom, Mr Musk also acknowledged paying $52,000 (£40,000) to a man who had posed as a private detective to dig up information on Mr Unsworth after it became clear he would be sued. The investigator turned out to be a conman, Mr Musk said.\n\nVernon Unsworth arrives at the hearing in Los Angeles\n\nMr Musk's comments on Twitter have been controversial on other occasions and in April he reached a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over his tweets, which also puts a restriction on his use of the platform.\n\nThe judge has denied the defence's request to define Mr Unsworth as a \"public figure\" - meaning lawyers for Mr Unsworth do not have to prove Mr Musk acted with \"actual malice\", lowering the bar necessary to win the case.", "Marcus Rashford scored twice as Manchester United condemned former manager Jose Mourinho to defeat on his return to Old Trafford and ended Tottenham's three-match winning streak under the Portuguese.\n\nRashford beat Tottenham keeper Paulo Gazzaniga at his near post after six minutes after the ball had broken to the England forward off Davinson Sanchez.\n\nThen, after a long wait for a VAR check, Rashford kept his nerve to convert a penalty four minutes after the break, once it had been ruled the striker had been fouled by Moussa Sissoko.\n\nDele Alli had equalised with a brilliant goal at the end of the first half but United were good value for their victory after creating a number of excellent chances they failed to take.\n\nRashford was unable to become the first United player to score a league hat-trick since Robin van Persie's memorable effort against Aston Villa in 2013 but he now has 12 goals in 13 games for club and country, and his nine Premier League goals leave him one short of his season best.\n\nAs expected, Mourinho was well received by the United fans, who never fell out with their former manager and have no particular axe to grind with him.\n\nThat respect will never match the affection Old Trafford has for Solskjaer though.\n\nAnd the Norwegian used memories from his playing days to get the crowd up for the game by emerging last from the tunnel, triggering a song in his honour and the start of what proved to be a lively atmosphere.\n\nEvidence of change at United came with a team that contained only five players Mourinho picked for the corresponding fixture last season.\n\nThat August night ended in a 3-0 defeat for United and an angry Mourinho demand for the media to show him some \"respect\" for his three Premier League titles.\n\nThe first of those triumphs is over 15 years ago now. Mourinho's task is to show his best days are not behind him.\n\nHe didn't make a particularly brilliant job of that in his last weeks in Manchester and, as happened so often then, tonight he spent long periods in his technical area with his hands in his pockets watching his team get outplayed.\n\nHis substitutes failed to inspire and with eight goals conceded in four games, Mourinho evidently has some work to do defensively.\n\nAt the end, he moved to shake Solskjaer's hand before striding purposefully away to try and lift his players.\n\nFor months, there had been a debate about what had happened to Dele Alli.\n\nOnce one of the golden boys of the English game, he had been reduced in influence and effectiveness and lost his place in Gareth Southgate's national squad.\n\nWho knew the answer was replacing the manager he loved?\n\nOne of the first things Mourinho did after replacing Mauricio Pochettino was to ask Alli whether it was him or his brother who had been playing for Tottenham in recent times.\n\nThis is definitely him.\n\nHis third goal in three Premier League games - he only scored three in his last 17 under Pochettino - was extraordinary.\n\nFred thought he had the situation under control as the ball looped up on the edge of the six-yard box.\n\nBut Alli leaned into the Brazilian, then rolled round him after a beautiful piece of control before turning a shot past De Gea into the far corner.\n\nIt was as breathtaking as the Cristiano Ronaldo-esque 35-yard shot Rashford rattled the bar with - and Mourinho loved it.\n\nIn his pre-match press conference, Solskjaer had dismissed as \"lies\" suggestions he had told his players he would be sacked if United lost against Tottenham, and again at Manchester City on Saturday.\n\nThe word remains from United that the Norwegian is under no immediate danger of losing his job amid an acceptance from those in senior positions that there will be bumps in the road this season.\n\nThis was the type of performance that gives credence to Solskjaer's belief genuine progress is being made.\n\nYet one look at the respective substitutes' bench shows United are crying out for reinforcements when the transfer window opens next month.\n\nWhereas Mourinho had six experienced full internationals to turn to as he tried to change the game in Tottenham's favour, Solskjaer had two and neither Luke Shaw nor Juan Mata have won a cap for quite some time.\n\nAt the end, Solskjaer milked the rapturous reception he was given.\n\nIf Sheffield United and Arsenal fail to win on Thursday, United will stay sixth. In order to stay there, Solskjaer will need more than the crowd behind him.\n\n'Rashford's best performance' - what they said\n\nManchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer speaking to BBC Sport: \"You are always happy when you win. The boys are learning and improving all the time but tonight we were fantastic for long, long spells.\n\n\"The three points are massive for us. We've had too many draws this season and given too many points away from winning positions. It's a great lesson the last two games [Sheffield United and Aston Villa] and we came back in a great manner.\n\n\"We've started the rebuilding. We've made decisions that we had to and we're looking to build this club to be better again and I can't think short term when I'm trying to do that. When we turn the corner and win three or four games on the run, they will get that Man Utd feeling again.\"\n\nOn Marcus Rashford: \"It's the best game he's had under me. He was mature and strong against good Premier League players. His penalty was calm and composed, and his [first] goal, we know he's got those strikes in him, and he had three or four chances.\n\n\"It's like he was back on the playground or in the back garden. We want them to have fun, there's nothing dangerous out there - just 75,00 people wanting to see the best [of them].\"\n\nTottenham head coach Jose Mourinho, also to BBC Sport: \"We started the second half with a goal that it is impossible to concede.\n\n\"We were not alert, sleeping at the throw-in and we let [Marcus] Rashford attack. Once he is inside the box it's more difficult to defend and he was clever and waited for the touch. In the first half they started more aggressive and more intense and deserved to be in front, maybe even 2-0, then we took control of the game.\n\n\"The goal at the start of the second half gave United the chance to play the way they did.\"\n\nOn Dele Alli: \"Dele is fine, he gave a good performance and tried everything, even in the second half when it's more difficult and they are more compact.\"\n\nOn Marcus Rashford: \"When he plays from the left he is really dangerous and I knew that and gave the players the best information about it. His first goal is a typical Rashford goal coming on the inside. Our boys knew that clearly.\"\n• None Manchester United are unbeaten in their last nine home matches in all competitions (W5 D4) since losing 2-1 to Crystal Palace in August.\n• None Tottenham Hotspur have lost more Premier League matches against Manchester United than against any other team (35 defeats).\n• None Former Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has won none of his last five away Premier League matches against the Red Devils (D3 L2), failing to beat four different managers in that time (Ferguson, Moyes, van Gaal and Solskjaer).\n• None Marcus Rashford has been directly involved in 11 goals in his last 10 appearances in all competitions for Manchester United (9 goals, 2 assists).\n• None Dele Alli has scored in three consecutive appearances for Tottenham Hotspur in all competitions for the first time since March 2017 (a run of four).\n• None Manchester United have lost none of their last 138 home Premier League matches when scoring first (W125 D13).\n• None Tottenham have conceded twice in all of their four matches under Mourinho in all competitions - they only had a run of conceding 2+ goals in four consecutive matches once under Mauricio Pochettino, doing so in February and March 2015.\n\nManchester United are next in action against Manchester City at Etihad Stadium on Saturday, 7 December (17:30 GMT). Tottenham are at home to Burnley on the same day (15:00).\n• None Attempt saved. Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Toby Alderweireld with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Luke Shaw with a through ball.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Fred tries a through ball, but Luke Shaw is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Tanguy Ndombele (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Dele Alli.\n• None Attempt saved. Serge Aurier (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Christian Eriksen.\n• None Aaron Wan-Bissaka (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "A woman who was allegedly sold for sex as a girl and abused has told a court no action was taken by teachers when rumours of it circulated at her school.\n\nGiving evidence behind a curtain, she said they did not ask \"if things were all right\" when they heard rumours.\n\nThe woman told Birmingham Crown Court she was traded to men in Telford for sex in the early 2000s.\n\n\"I would get called names,\" she said, after rumours spread at school that she was having sex with men.\n\nSome of the assaults were carried out in Wellington, Telford, the prosecution claims\n\nThe trial previously heard how she had \"lost count\" of how many men she was forced to have sex with after being groomed when she was 12 and then sold for sex.\n\nProsecutors said she was repeatedly raped on a dirty mattress above a takeaway and forced to perform sex acts in a churchyard.\n\nAt school, \"there used to be like actions, with their hand, hand by their mouth\" suggesting sex acts she said, which \"just made me keep it to myself even more\".\n\n\"Teachers heard people saying these things and not one teacher pulled me to the side and asked me if things were all right.\"\n\nShe said she came forward after recognising images of two alleged attackers, including Mr Ali Sultan, in reports about the Telford sex ring during Operation Chalice.\n\nThe jury heard that Mr Ali Sultan has previous convictions for similar offences against young girls, and the girl claimed he threatened her into keeping quiet.\n\n\"He knows what he did,\" she said, when challenged by his defence, \"and I know\".\n\nMr Sultan, 33, formerly from Telford, faces four charges of indecent assault and one of rape. The jury was told he already had convictions for \"similar offences against young girls\".\n\nMr Hussain, 38, of Acacia Drive, Leegomery, is accused of forcing the victim to perform oral sex on two occasions.\n\nMr Younas, 35, of Regent Street, Wellington, is accused of the same offence, said to have taken place in the same churchyard.\n\nMr Akhtar, 35, of Victoria Avenue, Wellington is accused of raping the girl in a lane, alongside Mr Sultan and Mr Hussain, and is also said to have urinated on her in an act of humiliation.\n\nMr Rizwan, 37, of Mafeking Road, Telford, faces two charges of indecent assault.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Australian police searching for the final member of a group who became stranded in the outback more than two weeks ago have found a body.\n\nThe body has not been identified but it is believed to be Claire Hockridge.\n\nMs Hockridge, 46, had been travelling with two others when their car got stuck in a riverbed on 19 November.\n\nHer partner Tamra McBeath-Riley, 52, and friend Phu Tran, 40, were found alive earlier this week.", "Colum Eastwood said this election \"is about Sinn Féin's empty seats and the DUP's empty promises\"\n\nThe SDLP leader has made a strong attack on MPs who refuse to take their seats saying \"decisions are made by those who show up\".\n\nLaunching his party's manifesto, Colum Eastwood said the general election would be \"potentially decisive\" on Brexit.\n\nMr Eastwood is trying to win back Foyle from Sinn Féin, which won the seat for the first time in 2017 by 169 votes.\n\nWithout mentioning Sinn Féin by name, he said: \"History doesn't judge those who don't turn up at defining moments - it casts a far harsher verdict.\n\n\"It simply doesn't mention them because they make no difference.\n\n\"You only make a difference by being there. Decisions are made by those who show up.\"\n\nThe SDLP manifesto was launched at a hotel in Londonderry on Wednesday\n\nMr Eastwood added: \"In the next two months, Westminster will decide if we are forced out of the European Union.\n\n\"In the next two months it will decide and direct our future like never before.\n\n\"Quite literally there has been no time like the present - and it has never been more important to be present.\"\n\nHe also paid tribute to the outgoing Independent Unionist Sylvia Hermon saying \"she was our Remain voice and she will be badly missed\".\n\nIn its manifesto, the SDLP pledges to:\n\nIn his speech, Mr Eastwood warned that if devolution is not restored, \"the current semi-skimmed direct rule could be very quickly replaced by the full fat Boris Johnson version\".\n\nHe added: \"This election is about Sinn Féin's empty seats and the DUP's empty promises.\n\n\"But it also has to be about an empty building at Stormont.\"\n\nWhat are your questions about the general election? 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Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.", "Police have named the London Bridge attacker as Usman Khan, who was previously part of a group that plotted to bomb the city's stock exchange.\n\nKhan, 28, was out on licence from prison when he killed two people and injured three others in the stabbing attack on Friday, before being shot dead by armed police.\n\nSince being released in December 2018 - his conditions requiring him to wear an electronic tag - Khan had been living in Stafford.\n\nHe also took part in the government's \"Desistance and Disengagement Programme\", the purpose of which is the rehabilitation of those who have been involved in terrorism.\n\nIn 2012, he was sentenced to indeterminate detention for \"public protection\" with a minimum jail term of eight years after pleading guilty to preparing terrorist acts.\n\nThe sentence would have allowed him to be kept in prison beyond the minimum term, should the authorities have deemed it necessary.\n\nIn a reference to Khan and two other defendants, the trial judge said: \"In my judgement, these offenders would remain, even after a lengthy term of imprisonment, of such a significant risk that the public could not be adequately protected by their being managed on licence in the community, subject to conditions, by reference to a preordained release date.\"\n\nHe added that the \"safety of the public in respect of these offenders can only adequately be protected if their release on licence is decided upon, at the earliest, at the conclusion of the minimum term which I fix today.\"\n\nWithin months of his conviction Khan had been upgraded to a \"high risk\" prisoner at HMP Whitemoor.\n\nA government source told BBC Look East that Khan became an increased security risk in 2012 \"after making threats to senior prison staff\".\n\nHe was said by the source to have been a \"model prisoner\" afterwards.\n\nHowever, a prison source told the BBC Khan had \"played everyone\" and was involved in lots of security incidents during his imprisonment.\n\nIn 2013 the Court of Appeal quashed Khan's sentence, replacing it with a 16-year-fixed term of which half was to be served in prison. He was then released automatically at that point.\n\nKhan was moved to another maximum security prison, HMP Woodhill, prior to his release on license in 2018.\n\nBorn and raised in Stoke-on-Trent, Khan was originally jailed along with eight others, who were arrested in 2010.\n\nThe nine, inspired by al-Qaeda, had been under surveillance by MI5.\n\nThe men - who were from Stoke, Cardiff and London - were engaged in several plans, one of which involved a plot to place a pipe bomb in the London Stock Exchange.\n\nThose from Stoke were overheard discussing potential attacks in their city, including leaving explosive devices in pubs and clubs.\n\nKhan described members of the public as \"kuffar\" and \"dogs\".\n\nUsman Khan, circled, with his fellow defendants in a surveillance image released by police in 2012\n\nAt one point Khan was monitored in conversation about \"how to construct a pipe bomb\" from a recipe in an al-Qaeda magazine.\n\nThe men had also been funding a proposed madrassa - a college for Islamic instruction - abroad, which was to be used for firearms training and would have been attended by Khan.\n\nThe court of appeal judgement said: \"The groups were clearly considering a range of possibilities, including fundraising for the establishment of a military-training madrassa in Pakistan - where they would undertake training themselves and recruit others to do likewise - sending letter bombs through the post, attacking public houses used by British racist groups, attacking a high-profile target with an explosive device and a Mumbai-style attack.\"\n\nIt added that they had \"serious long-term plans\" to send Khan and other recruits for \"training and terrorist experience\".\n\n\"Should they return to the UK, they would do so trained and experienced in terrorism,\" the judgement continued.\n\nAnother man from Stoke who was jailed alongside Khan - Mohibur Rahman - was later convicted of another terrorist plot following his release from prison.\n\nKhan had spent years proselytising in Stoke on so-called \"dawah stalls\" linked to the proscribed terrorist organisation al-Muhajiroun, which was once led by the hate preacher Anjem Choudary.\n\nAfter Khan was jailed, the Daily Star quoted Choudary saying that the Stoke plotters \"were students of mine\" and \"I knew them for quite a while\".\n\nIn 2008 Khan's address was one of five properties in Stoke raided by counter-terrorism police. None of those investigated was ultimately charged.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Usman Khan speaking to the BBC in 2008: \"I ain't no terrorist\"\n\nSpeaking at the time, Khan publicly complained about being under suspicion, saying: \"I've been born and bred in England, in Stoke-on-Trent in Cobridge.\"\n\nHe said \"all the community knows me\" and that \"I ain't no terrorist\".\n\nWhile incarcerated, Khan attended some counter terrorism programmes and first came into contact with the educational initiative Learning Together, whose event in London he later so brutally attacked.\n\nAfter leaving prison, Khan appeared as a \"case study\" in a report by the initiative focused on its work at HMP Whitemoor in Cambridgeshire.\n\nIdentified only by his first name, Khan was said - since leaving prison - to have given a speech at a fundraising dinner and been provided with a \"secure\" laptop that complied with his licence conditions.\n\nKhan contributed a poem to a separate brochure in which he also expressed gratitude for the computer, stating: \"I cannot send enough thanks to the entire Learning Together team and all those who continue to support this wonderful community.\"\n\nThe attacker, who was restricted in who he could meet and where he could go, was managed by a panel comprising public bodies - including the police and probation service - under the system of multi-agency public protection arrangements.\n\nThe day of the attack was the first time Khan had been allowed to visit London since he left prison.\n\nThe panel that permitted his attendance - in order to attend the Learning Together event - also decided he could travel there unescorted.\n\nBut when Khan had attended an event elsewhere in the country in May he had been escorted, and - later in the year - Khan was refused permission to travel to Stoke to attend a social event.\n\nHe was formally under investigation by MI5 at the time of the attack, classed as one of its 3,000 subjects of interest. He was not placed in the top tiers of those under scrutiny.", "A former member of the Irish Defence Forces has been remanded into custody charged with a terrorist offence linked to the Islamic State group.\n\nLisa Smith, 38, from Dundalk, County Louth, appeared in court in Dublin on Wednesday.\n\nShe is charged with committing an offence outside the Irish state between October 2015 and 1 December 2019.\n\nMs Smith is further charged with being a member of the group known as Islamic State.\n\nA detective sergeant told the hearing at Dublin District Court that Ms Smith was arrested at 10:30 local time at Kevin Street Garda Station in the city.\n\nHe said she made no reply when she was charged.\n\nMs Smith applied for bail, but this was refused.\n\nShe was remanded to the Dóchas Centre women's prison at Mountjoy in Dublin.\n\nAccording to Irish public broadcaster, RTÉ, her solicitor asked that she be separated from the general prison population.\n\nThe judge replied that he would send a request to the prison governor that she be segregated for her own security.\n\nShe is due to appear again at Dublin District Court on 11 December.\n\nShe was deported from Turkey on Sunday, along with her two-year-old daughter who was born in Syria.\n\nShe was taken into custody by gardaí (Irish police) when she arrived back in Ireland.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Newsnight: Kay Richardson was killed by her estranged husband, after he was released under investigation\n\nMore than 93,000 suspected violent criminals and sex offenders have been released without restrictions by police in England and Wales since 2017, figures obtained by BBC Newsnight show.\n\nPeople suspected of offences including rape and murder have been among those \"Released Under Investigation\" (RUI).\n\nRichard Miller of the Law Society said a \"major scandal\" was brewing over the way RUIs are being used.\n\nThe Home Office said the cases must be regularly reviewed and managed.\n\nIn 2017, the rules on pre-charge bail changed, making it more difficult for police to keep suspects on bail beyond 28 days.\n\nThe overuse of RUIs, Mr Miller said, is the unintended consequence of the changes.\n\nUnlike pre-charge bail, RUIs do not impose a limit on suspects' movements, stop them from contacting certain people or require them report to a police station.\n\nEarlier this month the government announced plans to review the 2017 changes.\n\nIn September 2018, Alan Martin, 53, was released under investigation by police in Sunderland, after his estranged wife Kay Richardson had gone to the police accusing him of rape.\n\nNo conditions were imposed and the police gave Martin the keys back to the home he had shared with Ms Richardson.\n\nMartin let himself into the house and waited for Ms Richardson, 49, before attacking her with a hammer and strangling her.\n\n\"They might as well have gone and opened the door for him,\" said Audrey Richardson, Kay's mother.\n\n\"He killed her,\" she said. \"We've got to accept this and the police is not taking a little bit of responsibility... We are haunted by what happened.\"\n\nMr Martin had a history of domestic violence. But Northumbria Police said, because he had not been bailed, officers had no legal right to keep the keys from him. The force were cleared of misconduct by The Independent Office for Police Conduct.\n\nViolence against the person and sexual offences account for almost 100,000 of the cases where an individual was Released Under Investigation since April 2017\n\nNewsnight's data - obtained under the Freedom of Information Act - revealed there were 322,250 RUI cases between April 2017 to October this year. Of these, 93,098 related to violence against a person and sexual offences cases.\n\nThe figures were provided by 20 of the 44 police forces in England and Wales - meaning the total number of RUIs since 2017 is likely to be much higher.\n\nCaroline Goodwin QC, chairwoman of the Criminal Bar Association, said there were people being released without \"any form of judicial control or indeed police bail control\" which \"can be dangerous\" for victims.\n\nNewsnight found 2,772 of the cases involving violent and sexual offences had been classed as RUI for more than 12 months.\n\n\"It's unfair on defendants and complainants if these cases are not resolved quickly,\" said Mr Miller, head of justice at the Law Society.\n\n\"It also means that the quality of the evidence is impacted as the longer a case is left the more memories fade.\"\n\nNewsnight spoke to a man who was released under investigation for more than two years, after he was accused of rape.\n\nHe agreed to speak to the BBC anonymously.\n\n\"Your life is effectively put on hold. You're put into this limbo where everything starts falling apart around you, you've got no control of it whatsoever,\" he said. \"I felt suicidal.\"\n\nHe protested his innocence and was eventually told he would not be charged.\n\n\"I would expect, with the nature of the crime I was accused of, to have been placed under specific instructions,\" he added.\n\n\"But there were no restrictions at all.\"\n\nThe Home Office said the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) released guidance to frontline officers this year stressing the importance of using pre-charge bail where necessary and proportionate, including in high harm cases.\n\nThe NPCC's criminal justice lead, Assistant Commissioner Nick Ephgrave, said since the bail legislation was amended, \"a number of unintended consequences have followed\".\n\n\"To address the emerging issues, we issued operational guidance encouraging timely investigations and the proactive use of pre-charge bail to protect victims and vulnerable people,\" he said.\n\nHome Secretary Priti Patel said: \"We will always give the police and the criminal justice system the full support and powers they need to protect the public from harm.\n\n\"We launched a review of pre-charge bail legislation to prioritise the safety of victims and empower the police investigating all types of offences, whilst continuing to make sure cases are dealt with as swiftly as possible.\"\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two at 22:30 on weekdays. Catch up on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.", "The four major Scottish party leaders have clashed in a debate ahead of next week's 12 December general election.\n\nSNP leader Nicola Sturgeon, the Scottish Conservatives' interim leader Jackson Carlaw, Willie Rennie of the Scottish Lib Dems and Scottish Labour's Richard Leonard all took part.\n\nThe politicians were challenged on their records and views on indyref2.\n\nThe first TV debate of the election in Scotland was broadcast by STV, hosted by political editor Colin Mackay.\n\nMs Sturgeon said Scotland's future was \"on the line at this election\", adding: \"We want Scotland to be an independent, internationalist country and we are determined that the people of Scotland will have the right to make that choice.\"\n\nThe SNP leader was adamant that Boris Johnson was \"utterly unfit\" to be prime minister and \"must be stopped\".\n\nShe added that a Conservative government would have \"damaging consequences\" for Scotland and that her party could deny the Tories \"the majority they crave\" at Westminster.\n\nMeanwhile, Jackson Carlaw said Ms Sturgeon did not \"respect the result\" of referendums. He warned that if the Tories are not the largest party in the Commons after 12 December, Mr Corbyn could \"sell out Scotland and cave in to Nicola Sturgeon's demand\" for a second vote on independence in 2020.\n\nHe said \"the union is on the ballot paper\", and claimed she and Jeremy Corbyn could \"take over our country next week\".\n\n\"Next Friday, do you want Jeremy Corbyn in Number 10 with Nicola Sturgeon pulling the strings?\", he asked.\n\nThe Lib Dem's Willie Rennie said he wanted to stop Brexit and indyref2, and called for \"an end to the constitutional division we have endured for almost a decade\".\n\nHe said the climate emergency, mental health, childcare and growing the economy should be the next UK government's focus.\n\nMr Rennie urged voters: \"If you want to stop Brexit, stop independence, so that we can build a brighter future then vote Liberal Democrat.\"\n\nAnd Richard Leonard said that Scottish independence would be \"economically devastating\". He said it \"would lead to a hard border\" between Scotland and the rest of the UK, as well as \"turbo-charged austerity\".\n\nHowever, he said there should not be an \"indefinite lock\" on another independence poll, saying that a majority for the SNP at the Holyrood elections in \"2021, 2026 or 2031\" would give them a mandate for a Section 30 order.\n\nThe Scottish Labour leader also said that it was a \"straight choice\" for voters - either a Conservative or Labour government at Westminster. He said: \"Labour can get to work next week to build an economy that works not just for the few at the top, but which works for the many.\"\n\nThe TV debate gave the party leaders the chance to question their rivals on their records.\n\nNicola Sturgeon was taken to task by Willie Rennie on the standard of education in Scotland's schools, after an international report said performance in reading improved but declined in maths and science.\n\nBut she rebuffed criticism and said the attainment gap was closing. The first minister said the experts who carried out the research suggested that reading performance had increased \"substantially\" - while she claimed they had described maths and science performance as \"stable\".\n\nAnd Jackson Carlaw was challenged over the Tory government's implementation of universal credit, which replaced a number of previous benefits. Richard Leonard said \"tens of thousands of families across Scotland have been pushed into poverty\" by the benefit.\n\nMr Carlaw said he conceded there had been flaws and problems with its implementation. But he said it was \"designed to get people into work... and we now have a record number of people working\".\n\nWillie Rennie was challenged over the Lib Dems' record while they were in coalition with the Tories between 2010 and 2015. Nicola Sturgeon called them the \"co-architects of austerity\".\n\nBut Mr Rennie said the Lib Dems had been \"determined\" to \"get the finances back in order\". He added that his party stabilised the UK's finances and stopped £12bn of welfare cuts.\n\nRichard Leonard was challenged over his position on Trident by Nicola Sturgeon. While he supports nuclear disarmament (as does Nicola Sturgeon and the UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn), it is Labour policy to support the renewal of the UK's nuclear deterrent, which is stationed at Faslane naval base on the Clyde.\n\nMr Leonard said there was an \"international atmosphere of rearmament\" which made it \"even more important\" to see a new \"international imitative around peace and disarmament\".\n\nOn Tuesday 10 December - just two days before the general election - the same Scottish party leaders will debate again. They will face questions from a live studio audience, presented by the BBC's Scotland editor Sarah Smith.", "Speaking upon his arrival to the leaders' meeting, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Nato continued to provide \"peace and prosperity for hundreds of millions of people\" because of \"a very simple concept of safety in numbers.\"\n\n\"At the heart of it is a pledge that we will come to one another's defence - all for one and one for all.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe man who carried out the stab attack at London Bridge on Friday, named by police as Usman Khan, had previously been jailed for terrorism offences.\n\nKhan, 28, was wearing a GPS police tag and was out of prison on licence when he launched his attack, in which a man and a woman were killed and three others were injured.\n\nKhan was shot dead by officers after members of the public restrained him.\n\nThe Queen said she was \"saddened\" by the attack.\n\nShe thanked the emergency services \"as well as the brave individuals who put their own lives at risk to selflessly help and protect others\".\n\nKhan was known to the authorities, having been convicted for terrorism offences in 2012. He was released from prison on licence in December 2018, Met Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said.\n\nAs part of his release conditions, Khan was obliged to take part in the government's desistance and disengagement programme - the purpose of which is the rehabilitation of people who have been involved in terrorism.\n\nThe Parole Board said it had no involvement in the 28-year-old's release, saying he \"appears to have been released automatically on licence (as required by law)\".\n\nAfter leaving prison he had moved into a Stafford property on the \"approved premises\" list.\n\nThe attack began at 13:58 GMT on Friday at Fishmongers' Hall, at the north end of London Bridge, at a Cambridge University conference on prisoner rehabilitation.\n\nThe Learning Together scheme, which featured in the BBC's Law in Action programme earlier this year, allows university students and prisoners to study alongside each other.\n\nKhan had been one of dozens of people at the event.\n\nMr Basu said the attack is understood to have started inside the building, before continuing onto London Bridge itself, where Khan was shot by armed officers.\n\nPolice are carrying out a search, believed to be linked to the attack, at flats in Stafford, close to the town centre.\n\nStaffordshire Police's Deputy Ch Con, Nick Baker, said it was \"vitally important everyone remains alert but not alarmed\".\n\nMr Basu added police were not actively seeking anyone else in relation to the attack, although they were making \"fast time enquiries\" to make sure there was no outstanding threat to the public.\n\nForensic officers at the scene on London Bridge\n\nThe Met Police is urging anyone with information - particularly anyone who was at Fishmongers' Hall - to contact them.\n\nThere is a general feeling of shock and disbelief here in Stafford, where a top floor flat is being searched.\n\nBlue screens and forensic tents are outside the front of the semi-detached property within a 50m police cordon.\n\nI've seen evidence bags being taken out of the house and the garden also appears to be part of the search.\n\nThe property is believed to be privately-owned and used, in part, as a halfway house. Local residents have told me it has a high turnover of tenants and Khan had only been living there for about six months.\n\nA man and a woman were killed during the attack. Three others - a man and two women - were also injured and remain in hospital.\n\nNHS chief Simon Stevens said, on Friday, that one person was in a critical but stable condition, another was stable and the third had less serious injuries.\n\nNone of those killed or injured has so far been named and officers were still working to identify those who died, Met Commissioner Cressida Dick said on Friday.\n\nPolice believe the attacker had acted alone, the commissioner added on Saturday.\n\nThe actions of the public have been widely praised, including by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and Ms Dick, who said they had shown \"extreme courage\".\n\nVideos posted on social media appeared to show passers-by holding Khan down, while a man in a suit could be seen running from him, having apparently retrieved a large knife.\n\nOne witness described how a man at the event at Fishmongers' Hall grabbed a narwhal tusk - a long white horn that protrudes from the whale - that was on the wall, and went outside to confront the attacker.\n\nAnother person let off a fire extinguisher in the face of the attacker to try to keep him at bay.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tour guide Stevie Hurst told 5 Live he kicked the suspect in the head\n\nOne of those who rushed to help during the attack was a convicted murderer who was attending the prisoner rehabilitation event on day release, the Times reported.\n\nJames Ford, 42, was jailed for life with a minimum of 15 years in 2004 for the murder of Amanda Champion, a 21-year-old woman with learning difficulties.\n\nMr Basu said Khan was wearing what was believed to be a hoax explosive device.\n\nThe prime minister put election campaigning on hold on Friday to hold a meeting of the government's emergency Cobra committee.\n\nMr Johnson visited the scene at London Bridge on Saturday with Met Commissioner Ms Dick and Home Secretary Priti Patel.\n\nHe praised the \"incredible\" response by members of the emergency services and the \"sheer bravery\" of members of the public who intervened.\n\nMr Johnson said his \"immediate takeaway\" from the attack was to \"toughen up sentences\" for serious and violent offences.\n\n\"When people are sentenced to a certain number of years in prison, they should serve every year of that sentence,\" he added.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson visited the scene on Saturday alongside Met Commissioner Cressida Dick and Home Secretary Priti Patel\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan he was \"in awe of the bravery, the courageousness of ordinary Londoners\" who stopped the attacker.\n\nHe told BBC Breakfast there would be an increased presence of armed and unarmed police officers in London over the weekend, adding they were there to \"reassure us - not because there is an additional or heightened threat\".\n\nThe London mayor also told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the UK had to make sure the \"right lessons\" were learned from the attack.\n\n\"You can't disaggregate terrorism and security from cuts made to resources of the police, of probation - the tools that judges have,\" he said.\n\nBut security minister Brandon Lewis told the programme funding for counter-terrorism policing had consistently increased since 2015.\n\n\"We will make sure that the police has got the resource that it needs,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister says the system that allowed the killer out on early release \"does not make sense\"\n\nPolitical parties cancelled some events on Saturday, which had been planned ahead of the general election on 12 December.\n\nFlags on UK government buildings will fly at half-mast on Saturday as a mark of respect to all those affected by the attack.\n\nThe Queen said in a statement: \"Prince Philip and I have been saddened to hear of the terror attacks at London Bridge.\n\n\"We send our thoughts, prayers and deepest sympathies to all those who have lost loved ones and who have been affected by yesterday's terrible violence.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Einar Orn was on his lunch break when suddenly he saw police cars and heard gunshots\n\nLondon Bridge was the scene of another attack, on 3 June 2017, in which eight people were killed and many more injured.\n\nThe Dean of Southwark Cathedral, the Very Revd Andrew Nunn, said Friday's events had brought back memories of the 2017 attack.\n\n\"It's only two-and-a-half years since the June attack and that's not long for healing, and actually it feels as though wounds have been reopened,\" he said.\n\n\"Where people felt they had come to terms with what had happened in their community, now I think they're wondering whether they really had - so a lot of work for us to do,\" he added.\n\nThis latest attack comes after the UK's terrorism threat level was downgraded on 4 November from \"severe\" to \"substantial\", meaning that attacks were thought to be \"likely\" rather than \"highly likely\".\n\nThe terror threat level is reviewed every six months by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre, which makes recommendations independent of government.\n\nSome of the early debate about the London Bridge attack has focused on the sentence imposed on Usman Khan.\n\nThe sentencing judge thought Khan should be freed from prison only when it was safe to do so, as part \"indeterminate penalty\" scheme (IPP).\n\nBut the Court Of Appeal replaced Khan's IPP with an extended sentence, which required his release at the halfway point of his 16-year custodial term.\n\nThe IPP regime was scrapped in 2012 - a decision that was widely supported at the time.\n\nSince Khan's conviction, legislation has been put in place for the Parole Board to determine when offenders on extended sentences should be let out.\n\nThe attack also raises questions about the extent to which people convicted of terrorism offences can be de-radicalised.\n\nKhan was one of 51 inmates with terror links let out of jail in the 12 months to the end of March 2019, so it's inevitable that the role of those monitoring him will now be scrutinised.\n\nDid the authorities pick up any warning signs about Khan? Was he meeting people he shouldn't have done or plotting the attack? If no signs were detected, why not? And if the authorities did spot concerns, what did they do?\n\nFriday's horrific attack was the second fatal stabbing at an offender rehabilitation event this month, after Hakim Sillah died at a knife awareness course in Hillingdon, west London.\n\nThese events will likely fuel concerns about safety at such venues and whether checks need to be strengthened.\n\nDid you witness what happened? Please share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Researchers say that carbon dioxide emissions this year have risen slightly, despite a drop in the use of coal.\n\nThe Global Carbon Project's annual analysis of emission trends suggests that CO2 will go up by 0.6% in 2019.\n\nThe rise is due to continuing strong growth in the utilisation of oil and gas.\n\nSince the Paris agreement was set out in 2015, CO2 emissions have risen by 4%.\n\nLast year saw a strong rise in emissions of almost 3%, with strong demand for coal in China being the main factor. There was also a surge in demand for oil, driven by a booming global market for cars, particularly SUVs.\n\nThis year's modest rise, if indeed it is a rise, as the margin of error is large, reflects some significant changes in the demand for fossil fuels.\n\nWhile global emissions from coal use fell by less than 1%, this masks some huge drops in countries like the US and across the European Union.\n\n\"Through most of 2019 it was looking as if coal use would grow globally, but weaker than expected economic performance in China and India, and a record hydropower year in India - caused by a strong monsoon - quickly changed the prospects for growth in coal use,\" said Robbie Andrew, a senior researcher at the Cicero Centre for International Climate Research, part of the Global Carbon Project.\n\n\"Coal use in both the US and the EU28 has dropped substantially, possibly by as much as 10% in both regions in 2019 alone, helping push down global coal consumption,\" Mr Andrew said.\n\nThe drop in coal as a source of energy was offset by the continued rise of oil and gas.\n\nThe data comes as the COP25 climate summit continues in Madrid amid a growing sense of crisis.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. COP25: What you need to know about the climate conference\n\nGas use rose by a robust 2.6%, and while renewable sources like wind and solar have also grown substantially, according to the authors the greener fuels have merely slowed the rise in the growth of fossil fuel emissions.\n\n\"Compared to coal, natural gas is a cleaner fossil fuel, but unabated natural gas use merely cooks the planet more slowly than coal,\" said Dr Glen Peters, also from Cicero.\n\nAccording to the Global Carbon Project researchers, the continuing use of fossil fuel-based technology is threatening the targets that countries have set for themselves in the Paris climate agreement.\n\n\"This is still not good news this year, as the emissions are still going up, the emissions are going more slowly, so we are making progress but the actions need to be higher in terms of implementing renewable energy and removing those tech that produce CO2,\" said Prof Corinne Le Quéré from the University of East Anglia (UEA), another author of the research.\n\nCoal use has dropped substantially in both the US and EU28\n\nThere are some interesting developments on a country level in the emissions data.\n\nUS emissions have declined by around 1% per year every year since 2005. That trend continued in 2019.\n\nEven with President Trump's favourable policies towards fossil fuels, cheap gas, wind and solar are replacing coal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The man who took wind power to another level\n\nChina's emissions are expected to rise up by 2.6% but would have been higher if it wasn't for slower economic growth and a weaker demand for electricity.\n\nSimilarly in India, slower economic growth has seen a much smaller rise in emissions expected to be 1.8% compared to the normal recent rate of 5.1%.\n\nThe figures show just how far back the world is in terms of meeting the goals of cutting carbon quickly to avoid dangerous temperature rises.\n\n\"There are lots of countries now that are ramping up their policies on climate change but still not big enough,\" said Prof Le Quéré.\n\n\"There's not enough countries making commitments. The big emitters are still awaited at the table - so 2020 will be a really big year for countries on climate change.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nFormer England captain Bob Willis has died at the age of 70.\n\nThe fast bowler took 325 wickets in 90 Tests from 1971 to 1984, claiming a career-best 8-43 to help England to a famous win over Australia at Headingley in the 1981 Ashes.\n\nHe captained England in 18 Tests and 29 one-day internationals before his retirement from all forms of cricket in 1984.\n\nIn a statement, Willis' family said he had died \"after a long illness\".\n\n\"We are heartbroken to lose our beloved Bob, who was an incredible husband, father, brother and grandfather,\" the statement continued.\n\n\"He made a huge impact on everybody he knew and we will miss him terribly.\"\n\nWillis subsequently worked as a summariser on BBC TV before joining Sky Sports as a commentator in 1991.\n\nHe continued to work for Sky and was part of their coverage of this summer's Ashes series.\n\nThe England and Wales Cricket Board said it was \"deeply saddened to say farewell\" to a \"legend of English cricket\".\n\n\"We are forever thankful for everything he has done for the game,\" it added. \"Cricket has lost a dear friend.\"\n• None Hugely admired around the world and a huge Bob Dylan fan - tributes to Willis\n\nWillis represented Surrey for the first two years of his professional career before spending 12 years at Warwickshire, finishing with 899 wickets from 308 first-class matches at an average of 24.99.\n\nIn a statement on Twitter , Surrey said the club was \"devastated\" by the news of Willis' passing.\n\nThe Sunderland-born bowler made his international debut aged 21 in the 1971 Ashes after being called up to replace the injured Alan Ward and played the final four Tests of the seven-match series as England won 2-0.\n\nDespite needing surgery on both knees in 1975, he became one of the finest fast bowlers of his generation, playing another nine years and claiming his 325 wickets at an impressive average of 25.20.\n\nAt the time of Willis' retirement, only Australia fast bowler Dennis Lillee had taken more Test wickets.\n\nThe pinnacle of Willis' international career was arguably the stunning 18-run victory against Australia in the third Test of the 1981 Ashes at Headingley.\n\nEngland, trailing 1-0 in the series, were forced to follow on and needed Botham's spectacular 149 not out to force Australia to bat again, setting them 129 to win.\n\nWith his Test career on the line, Willis produced a devastating spell, taking a Test-best 8-43 as Australia were dismissed for 111 - the hosts at one point being 500-1 outsiders to win.\n\nEngland went on to win the series 3-1 and Willis finished with 29 wickets at 22.96 in six matches.\n\nWillis, who was named in England's all-time Test XI in 2018, was appointed captain for the 1982 India tour of England after Keith Fletcher was sacked.\n\nHe oversaw a weakened team during his tenure, after the likes of Graham Gooch, Geoffrey Boycott and Derek Underwood were banned from international cricket for three years from 1982 for taking part in a rebel tour to South Africa.\n\nHe finished with a record of seven wins, five defeats and six draws from his 18 Tests in charge before he was sacked and replaced with David Gower prior to what proved to be Willis' final Test series against West Indies in 1984.\n\nIn 29 ODIs under Willis, England won 16 and lost 13.\n\nWillis made his ODI debut in 1973 and played in the 1979 World Cup but sustained a recurrence of his knee injury in the semi-final win over New Zealand and missed the final, which West Indies won by 92 runs.\n\nHe captained England at the 1983 World Cup where his side were beaten by eventual winners India in the semi-finals.\n\nWillis played his final ODI in 1984, finishing with a record of 80 wickets from 64 matches at an average of 24.60.\n\nWillis moved into commentary soon after his playing career ended and worked alongside former team-mates Botham and Gower.\n\nAfter moving away from live commentary and summariser duties in 2006, Willis continued to work as a pundit on Sky Sports programmes such as The Debate and The Verdict.\n\nHe was frequently firm in his criticism of current players, which was seen by some as being unfair.\n\nYet Willis also played up to his persona and had a humorous side, telling current captain Joe Root he would \"have you back in the dock\" with bared teeth after the England batsman's impersonation of Willis during the 2015 Ashes.", "Greetings card retailer Clintons has struck a deal that will stop it going bust this Christmas, administrators KPMG have said.\n\nThe chain will be salvaged through a complex transaction that allows it to be sold back to its existing owners.\n\nIt means Clinton's 334 stores can keep trading for now, saving 2,500 jobs.\n\nBoss Eddie Shepherd said he was pleased to have secured the firm's future ahead of the \"crucial\" Christmas trading period.\n\n\"Like so many of our fellow High Street retailers, we have worked tirelessly to contend with the maelstrom of issues impacting the sector, from business rates pressures, to fragile consumer confidence and the lack of clarity around the taxation of online retail businesses,\" he said.\n\n\"We are confident that this deal will kickstart a new chapter for our business.\"\n\nClintons had initially tried to find a new buyer for its ailing business, but it is thought no acceptable offers were received.\n\nIt then explored a company voluntary arrangement (CVA) - a strategy that would have allowed it to shut under-performing stores and cut rents on others.\n\nBut it was unable to get the support it needed from landlords.\n\nInstead the company has effectively bought itself out of administration.\n\nIn what is known as a pre-pack process, the firm has removed its debt and secured breathing room to start negotiations with landlords afresh. However, there is no guarantee this will secure its long term future.\n\nJulie Palmer, a partner at Begbies Traynor, said Clintons had failed to adapt to changing consumer tastes, both online and on the High Street.\n\n\"It's a tough ask for Clintons but if it is to survive and thrive it will need to modernise and revitalise its brand. Otherwise this pre-pack could just be a stay of execution for a retailer that has been a mainstay of the High Street for years.\"\n\nClintons, previously known as Clinton Cards, was formed in 1968, and has been owned by the US-based Weiss family since 2012.\n\nIt is the second time in seven years that the card retailer has been saved from administration.\n\nA string of retail chains in the UK have closed over the last few years amid a squeeze on consumer spending.\n\nNews of Clintons' restructuring comes a month after baby goods retailer Mothercare announced its UK operation was going into administration, putting 2,500 jobs at risk.\n\nOthers to have gone under include electronics retailer Maplin and discount chain Poundworld, while Homebase, Debenhams and Carpetright have all been forced to restructure.", "Investors in one of the UK's biggest commercial property funds - worth £2.5bn - have been temporarily prevented from taking out their money.\n\nInvestment firm M&G said withdrawals from its property portfolio fund had been suspended after investors consistently withdrew their savings.\n\nThe firm blamed \"Brexit-related political uncertainty\" and difficulties in the retail sector for the situation.\n\nThe fund has shrunk by £1.1bn so far this year.\n\n\"Given these circumstances, we have now reached a point where M&G believes it will best protect the interests of the funds' customers by applying a temporary suspension in dealing,\" M&G said in a statement.\n\nIt has waived 30% of its annual charge to investors, as they were unable to access their money, although some have called for action from the regulator on such charges.\n\nThe M&G Property Portfolio has invested in 91 UK commercial properties across shopping centres, other retail, industrial and office sectors on behalf of UK investors.\n\nThe same fund was suspended in July 2016 for four months following the UK's EU referendum when money flooded out of such funds.\n\nInvestors range from armchair, retail investors to institutional investors, dealing with millions of pounds.\n\nM&G has been unable to sell properties fast enough, particularly given its concentration on the retail sector, to meet the demands of investors who wanted to cash out.\n\nThe decision to suspend the fund, and its feeder fund, was taken by its official monitor - its authorised corporate director - and the City watchdog has been informed.\n\n\"The FCA is working closely with the firms involved to ensure that timely actions are undertaken in the best interests of all the fund's investors,\" a spokesman for the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said.\n\nM&G said the suspension would be monitored daily, formally reviewed every 28 days, and would only continue \"as long as it is in the best interests of our customers\".\n\nThis will allow assets to be sold over time, rather than as a fire sale, in order to meet investors' withdrawal demands. The firm has written to investors to explain the current situation.\n\nInvestors in general have been shaken in recent months by the demise of previously lauded fund manager Neil Woodford.\n\nWoodford Investment Management is shutting after Mr Woodford was sacked from its flagship fund in October.\n\nThe case raised questions regarding the oversight of funds which invest in assets that take a long time to sell, but from which investors can withdraw their money from at any time.\n\nThe M&G case will make the case stronger for regulators to take a tougher stance on these types of investments.\n\nThe suspension of a UK commercial property fund has been anticipated for some time.\n\nThe City watchdog, the Financial Conduct Authority, has been on high alert, subjecting a number of funds to enhanced monitoring.\n\nOne of the main issues affecting M&G has been the state of retail. The High Street has been having a torrid time.\n\nAs more and more stores have closed, that has put pressure on property funds. Returns from these have been less than great recently and so many investors have been pulling out their cash.\n\nM&G admits it has been struggling to sell buildings with sufficient speed to be able to match the demand from investors wanting their cash back. Hence this suspension.\n\nSome analysts warn several other property funds could follow suit.\n\nWhen the M&G property portfolio last took this action, others did too. That was just after the EU referendum in 2016.\n\nAs the UK approaches yet another Brexit deadline, it could become even more difficult for funds to sell commercial property at a value they think is fair.\n\nInvestors have been pulling their money out of other large so-called open-ended property funds, and the FCA has recently introduced daily monitoring of property funds.\n\nYet financial planners have mixed views on whether the M&G suspension could be matched by other funds in the sector.\n\n\"Property is a long-term investment and we urge investors not to panic,\" said Patrick Connolly of financial advisers Chase de Vere.\n\n\"While the M&G fund is suspended, most other providers have far greater liquidity, and less exposure to retail properties, and so are better placed to meet redemptions, as long as there isn't a mad rush to the exit door.\n\n\"Property still remains an asset class which can play an important role in investment portfolios and, when we have some real clarity on Brexit, the prospects for this asset class will hopefully improve.\"\n\nHowever, Ryan Hughes, from AJ Bell, said investors would review their interest in other funds which could lead to \"a rush for the exits\".\n\n\"We could see a wave of suspensions now - several that offer daily redemptions are at risk,\" he said.\n\nA spokesman for Aviva, one of the other fund managers that suspended a fund in 2016, said it had \"pro-actively built cash levels in the Aviva Investors Property Fund\". These were now at around 30% after it made several sales over the summer.\n\n\"We are in a period of heightened market uncertainty and believe this is an appropriate level given market conditions. Robust liquidity management remains a key priority for the fund managers,\" he said.", "Owen Jones was leaving a pub in north London when a group of men assaulted him\n\nThree men have admitted being involved in an attack on Guardian columnist Owen Jones but denied it was motivated by homophobia.\n\nThe journalist was celebrating his birthday at the Lexington pub in Islington, north London, when he was targeted on 17 August.\n\nJames Healy, 40, Charlie Ambrose, 30, and Liam Tracey, 34, admitted a charge of affray at Snaresbrook Crown Court.\n\nHe will now face a trial of issue in front of a judge to decide whether the attack was motivated by Mr Jones's sexuality.\n\nMr Jones, who is gay and campaigns for LGBT rights, suffered cuts and swelling to his back, head and bruises all down his body in the assault.\n\nOwen Jones had been drinking in the Lexington pub on the Pentonville Road in Islington, north London, when he was targeted\n\nAt a previous hearing, Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court heard Mr Jones was \"karate-kicked\" in the back.\n\nProsecutor Philip McGhee said if the attack was found to be motivated by homophobia \"it would have a material impact\" on sentence.\n\nThe trial of issue against Healy will take place at the same court in January and Mr Jones will be required to give evidence.\n\nAll three men are due to be sentenced on 11 February and were warned they could face prison. Judge Paul Southern granted the defendants conditional bail until then.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An advert featuring a woman diving into a Deliveroo delivery bag to retrieve multiple food orders has been banned.\n\nThe Advertising Standards Authority said it might mislead viewers to think they \"could order food from different restaurants to be delivered together\".\n\nThe ASA received 300 complaints, the third highest of the year so far. Deliveroo said the advert was about emphasising \"choice\".\n\nIt is the second time this year that the ASA has banned a Deliveroo advert.\n\nIn September, the ASA banned a Deliveroo TV advert for wrongly implying that the firm's delivery \"was unrestricted throughout the UK\".\n\nThe latest ban involves an advert showing a woman taking a delivery from a Deliveroo driver at her front door and then distributing meals from various restaurants around the house from a single bag. At the end, she dives head first into the bag to retrieve the remaining items.\n\nDuring the distribution of the meals the woman calls out restaurant names and type of food: KFC, Wagamama, Pizza Express, Burger King, and others.\n\nBut complainants said the advert did not specify that each restaurant would need a separate order and incur a delivery fee, with each meal then delivered separately.\n\nAlthough the ASA noted that there was on-screen text to clarify the nature of Deliveroo's service, the regulator concluded: \"The overall impression [was] that customers could order food from different restaurants to be delivered together.\n\n\"Because that was not the case, and because the ad did not state that a delivery charge would be applied to each order from a different restaurant, we concluded it was likely to mislead.\"\n\nDeliveroo said the advert clearly stated on screen that \"separate orders must be made for each restaurant\" and had offered to make this clearer.\n\nA Deliveroo spokeswoman said: \"This advert underlined the huge choice of great restaurants available on Deliveroo. This is growing each day. For the record, you can't actually dive into your Deliveroo bag, however hungry you are.\"\n\nOnly two other adverts have received more complaints to the ASA this year, one for the comparison website GoCompare and another for a fireworks display.\n\nThe GoCompare advert, featuring a male opera singer involved in a car accident, received 336 complaints, mostly arguing it trivialised crashes and was distressing. The ASA said it did not break its rules.\n\nAn advert for Cheltenham Fireworks involving a poster with a picture of a dog wearing ear defenders received 317 complaints, with most saying that it made light of the animal distress caused by fireworks. The advertiser withdrew the poster, and the ASA took no further action.", "US president Donald Trump has lambasted comments calling Nato \"brain dead\" by French president Emmanuel Macron as \"nasty, insulting, and disrespectful\".\n\nThe US president also said that some European countries hadn't been paying a fair share into the defence grouping and alluded to domestic struggles facing the French leader.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM: 'I absolutely promise' UK out of EU by January\n\nBoris Johnson has promised to pass his Brexit deal and bring a Budget within 100 days if he is elected PM.\n\nThe Tory leader said it would include his pledge to raise the National Insurance threshold to £9,500, along with cash for schools and the NHS.\n\nHe has pledged a \"new government with a new approach\" - with a focus on better infrastructure, education and technology.\n\nBut Labour said Tories only offered \"more of the same failure\".\n\nThe Lib Dems called the Conservative plans \"pure fantasy\", while the SNP warned there were seven days left to \"lock\" Mr Johnson out of Downing Street.\n\nVoters will go to the polls on 12 December for the third election in just over four years.\n\nMr Johnson said he would set out his wider legislative agenda in a Queen's Speech pencilled in for 19 December if he gets back into No 10.\n\nHe promised this would build on the programme that was approved by Parliament as recently as October, but which was then effectively mothballed after MPs voted to back an early election.\n\nAnd he has committed to bringing his EU withdrawal agreement back for initial approval by MPs before Christmas.\n\n\"All we need is a working majority to deliver it. Every single one of our candidates has signed up to this deal,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nHe said the possibility that a Conservative government could fail to reach a post-Brexit trade deal with the EU by the end of 2020 \"simply will not happen\".\n\nThis 11-month deadline covers the transition period that would follow if the UK left the EU in January, which critics say does not leave enough time to negotiate such a deal and could mean the UK ends up without one.\n\nThey include former Tory Justice Secretary - and now independent candidate - David Gauke, who said leaving without a deal would be \"disastrous for the prosperity of our country… [making] whole sectors unviable\".\n\nBut Mr Johnson said the UK was in a \"zero-tariff, zero-quota position\" already, which would make the talks easier.\n\nHe added: \"Look at what we achieved in three months with the deal I did\".\n\nIn an interview with ITV's This Morning, he said a trade deal with the EU was a \"very exciting prospect\", could be agreed \"by the end of next year\".\n\nMr Johnson's plan for the first 100 days gives a timetable to a number of his existing pledges from the campaign trail, including:\n\nThe Conservatives have also said they would introduce a number of pieces of legislation in the 100-day timeframe to take the first steps on other promises including:\n\nMr Johnson vowed that, in government, the Tories would prioritise their plan to raise the National Insurance threshold, as it would deliver a tax cut for \"those who need the most help with the cost of living\".\n\nBut Labour, which is making an announcement of its own on schools funding on Thursday, said the Conservatives' record in office over the past nine-and-a-half years was one of total failure.\n\n\"In those days we've seen child poverty soar, rising homelessness, rising food bank use, and violent crime is up too while the NHS has more people waiting for operations, and record staff vacancies,\" said shadow communities secretary Andrew Gwynne.\n\n\"As the Conservatives approach 3,500 days of failure, it's clear that more of the same failed austerity, privatisation and tax giveaways for the few is not the answer.\"\n\nAnd as she prepared to embark on a week-long election bus tour, SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon said her party was the only one in Scotland capable of thwarting Mr Johnson's \"extreme Brexit\".\n\n\"If Boris Johnson wins a majority in seven days' time, Scotland will be dragged out of Europe within just eight weeks,\" she said.\n\n\"We have seven days to escape Brexit, lock Boris Johnson out of office and put Scotland's future in Scotland's hands.\"", "Farieissia Martin was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder when she stabbed her ex-partner, campaigners say\n\nA woman who murdered an abusive ex-partner has \"hope\" after winning the first stage of a bid to overturn her conviction, her mother has said.\n\nFarieissia Martin, 26, stabbed Kyle Farrell, 21, during a row at her home in Liverpool in November 2014.\n\nThe Court of Appeal heard she suffered repeated physical and emotional abuse, which was never evaluated during the original trial, Lyly Maughan said.\n\nShe said her daughter never intended to hurt Mr Farrell \"in that way\".\n\nMartin was jailed for at least 13 years at Liverpool Crown Court in June 2015.\n\n\"I was devastated when it came back as murder,\" Ms Maughan said. \"The barristers had prepared us it would be manslaughter. I was in shock, it was unreal.\"\n\nThe Court of Appeal has given her the go-ahead to challenge the murder conviction.\n\nThe court heard Martin was the repeated victim of domestic abuse during the five-year relationship with Mr Farrell, including physical violence, insults, and isolation from family and friends.\n\nMs Maughan told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme during the relationship Martin had gone from being \"bubbly and bright and shining\" to \"dull and miserable\".\n\nShe added her daughter had tried to hide her bruises, but that she had seen her face \"black and blue\".\n\nThe mother of two would say the injuries had been sustained from an oven door that jammed, or make similar excuses, Ms Maughan explained.\n\n\"It was like he had some power over her.\n\n\"She'd come to my house and be adamant she was staying with me no matter what. Then the phone would ring and ring and she'd end up going home, in a panic.\"\n\nAfter Martin was convicted in 2015, police said the couple were in a sometimes \"volatile relationship and... there had been verbal and physical abuse from both sides in the past.\"\n\nClare Wade QC, for Martin, told the Court of Appeal a forensic psychiatrist and a clinical psychologist have both concluded she was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic amnesia at the time of the killing, and her ability to exercise self control would have been \"substantially impaired\".\n\nLyly Maughan told the BBC her daughter's murder conviction was a miscarriage of justice\n\nMs Maughan said on the day of the stabbing, which took place at Martin's home in Charlecote Street, Dingle, \"she was defending herself\".\n\nShe told the BBC the murder conviction was a miscarriage of justice because Martin \"didn't intend to hurt [Mr Farrell] in that way\".\n\nMartin's spirits \"are lifted now, she feels more positive\" - but that she knows \"we've still got work to do\", Ms Maughan said.\n\nThe bid for appeal follows the successful challenge brought by Sally Challen over her conviction for the murder of her husband Richard.\n\nMs Challen's conviction was quashed by the Court of Appeal in a landmark decision in February, after her lawyers argued she had been the victim of her husband's coercive and controlling behaviour throughout their marriage.\n\nSally and Richard Challen had two sons and had been married for 31 years\n\nMs Challen's lawyer, Harriet Wistrich, is also representing Martin - and said there were similarities between the two cases.\n\n\"Both their relationships were characterised by coercively controlling behaviour,\" she said. \"Violence, name calling, attempt to isolate her from her family and friends.\n\n\"A lot of that didn't come out at [Martin's original] trial... the legal team didn't explore the psychiatric evidence at all.\"\n\n\"Her reaction would have been hyper-vigilant, she may have lost control as the consequence of the operation of that mental state,\" Ms Wistrich explained.\n\nLady Justice Simler, sitting at the Court of Appeal, said it was \"arguable\" evidence about the mental disorders Martin had at the time of the killing would have affected the jury's verdict.\n\nMs Wistrich said if Martin's legal team were able to persuade a court that the conviction was unsafe, they would either look to substitute the murder conviction for manslaughter, or return for a retrial.\n\n\"She might then be free to come out for her children.\"\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "The Club-wielding Crust Lichen was discovered on the verge of a gravel forest road\n\nA lichen has been found growing in Britain for the first time after being discovered by a mountain biker.\n\nDavid Genney spotted it while on a trail in the Ben Wyvis National Nature Reserve in the Scottish highlands.\n\nMr Genny is a respected expert at Scottish Natural Heritage on the fungal growths.\n\nAnd he knew related specimens were among those conservationists at Kew Royal Botanic Gardens in London had highlighted as rare or under-recorded.\n\nThe Club-wielding Crust Lichen, also known as Multiclavula corynoides, was discovered on the verge of a gravel forest road.\n\nIt occurs across Scandinavia, in Iceland and in northern North America, but this is the first record of the species in Britain.\n\nMr Genney said: \"I was out with a couple of friends enjoying a day's mountain biking around Ben Wyvis.\n\n\"While I'm usually focused on the trail ahead and wide mountain views I also keep half an eye out for interesting plants and fungi, especially on the long, slow uphill sections.\n\n\"I suppose I was secretly hoping for an excuse for a rest so was delighted when I spotted something a little different out of the corner of my eye.\"\n\nHe said said he recognised it as the Kew Lost and Found Fungi project has been encouraging citizen scientists to look out for rare or under-recorded species.\n\nMr Genny added: \"They had highlighted a related lichen as one of their target species so things like this were on my radar.\n\n\"It's always exciting to find something you've never seen but for it to be a species that has never been seen in Britain before made my day.\n\n\"The discovery fills a gap in our knowledge of the global distribution of this little fungus.\"", "The sprawling Club La Costa World resort has several swimming pools\n\nThe drowning of a man and his two children in a resort swimming pool on the Costa del Sol was a \"tragic accident\", the hotel owners have said.\n\nThe three family members were found unresponsive on Christmas Eve at Club La Costa World, near Fuengirola.\n\nReports suggest that a nine-year-old British girl got into difficulties in the water and her father and 16-year-old brother tried to rescue her.\n\nPolice in Spain launched an investigation into the deaths.\n\nIn a statement released on Christmas Day the owners of Club La Costa World said: \"The Guardia Civil have carried out a full investigation which found no concerns relating to the pool in question or procedures in place, which leaves us to believe this was a tragic accident which has left everyone surrounding the incident in shock.\n\n\"Naturally, our primary concern remains the care and support of the remaining family members.\"\n\nLocally-based freelance journalist Gerard Couzens said that the hotel had confirmed it had reopened the pool after it was given permission to do so by police.\n\n\"The message from the hotel is very clear. They were given permission to reopen the pool by the police yesterday,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\n\"That pool where this terrible tragedy occurred on Christmas Eve is open for use again. And the management are saying the police have given the pool a clean bill of health.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office has said it is supporting a British woman in Spain.\n\nThe father and daughter were both British while the brother was American, it is understood.\n\nLocal journalist Fernando Torres told the BBC it was a shocking scene.\n\n\"The resort workers heard the screaming and they tried to do CPR (resuscitation) as well, but they couldn't help them,\" he said.\n\n\"Then the emergency doctors came and they tried for 30-35 minutes, but they couldn't revive them.\"\n\nAre you in the area? Have you been affected by what's happened? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Allee Willis, a Grammy-winning and Emmy-nominated songwriter who helped compose the theme song for the sitcom Friends, has died aged 72.\n\nI'll Be There for You, the single she co-wrote for the Rembrandts, became one of the most recognised television theme songs of all time.\n\nWillis also co-wrote the Earth, Wind & Fire hits September and Boogie Wonderland and, last year, was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.\n\nThe cause of death was cardiac arrest.\n\nBorn and raised in Detroit, home of the legendary record label Motown, Willis would visit the studios every weekend growing up, she told the New York Times last year. \"You could hear through the walls, which is how I became a songwriter,\" she said.\n\nDespite writing music and lyrics for a catalogue of hits that also include the Pointer Sisters' Neutron Dance and the Pet Shop Boys with Dusty Springfield's What Have I Done to Deserve This?, she never learned how to read or play music.\n\n\"I hear melodies constantly,\" she told the Times. \"I always say: 'If you were to drop dead, I could write to the clunk of the body.'\"\n\nAllee Willis's home in Los Angeles is a temple of kitsch items\n\nShe studied journalism at the University of Wisconsin and then, in 1969, moved to New York, where she landed a copywriting job at Columbia and Epic Records. In 1972, she turned to music and songwriting.\n\nHer hits have sold more than 60 million records around the world, according to her website. She won two Grammy Awards, one for the soundtrack for the film Beverly Hills Cop and another for the musical The Color Purple.\n\nIn 1995, she was nominated for an Emmy for I'll Be There for You, which she had co-written as a short theme for Friends before it was expanded into a full song. But the theme music of Star Trek: Voyager won the Emmy that year.\n\nA kitsch lover whose hairstyle was long on one side and short on the other, Willis lived in a light-pink house in Los Angeles known as Willis Wonderland, a nod to the Earth, Wind & Fire hit.\n\nWillis's house in Los Angeles is known as Willis Wonderland\n\nIn her house, she hosted large parties with A-list celebrities and gathered the objects she collected throughout her career, now catalogued online at the Allee Willis Museum of Kitsch.\n\nAlso in that house, Willis reportedly composed September, which was \"still that song that when people found out I'd written that, they just go 'Oh my God,' and then tell me in some form how happy that song makes them every time they hear it,\" she was quoted by Variety as saying.\n\nWhen September was covered by Taylor Swift last year, Willis said she was \"thrilled\" - before describing the cut \"as lethargic as a drunk turtle dozing under a sunflower after ingesting a bottle of Valium\".\n\nHer partner Prudence Fenton paid tribute on Instagram, saying: \"Rest In Boogie Wonderland.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ireland's premier Leo Varadkar has said he will not dismiss the idea of building a bridge between Northern Ireland and Scotland, but insisted the UK must pay for it.\n\nUK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the Democratic Unionist Party have spoken in favour of the idea.\n\nLast week Mr Johnson described it as a \"very interesting idea\" and added: \"Watch this space.\"\n\nMr Varadkar revealed he told the UK premier it was \"worth examining\".\n\nBut the Taoiseach said he had also told Mr Johnson he would expect the UK to pay for it.\n\nMr Varadkar added: \"At which point he suggested, 'no, no, the EU is going to pay for it'.\n\n\"So that's definitely not going to happen, because neither Northern Ireland or Scotland are going to be in the EU. But it was kind of half serious, half joking in a way.\n\n\"But all messing aside, I do think at the very least a high-level engineering assessment should be done as to whether it is a viable proposal.\"\n\nLeo Varadkar said he has told Boris Johnson the bridge is an idea worth examining\n\nTwo possible routes for a bridge have been floated in the past - from Portpatrick to Larne, or from near Campbeltown to the Antrim coast.\n\nArchitect Prof Alan Dunlop previously said the \"Celtic bridge\" would cost about £15bn, a fraction of the estimate of £120bn for an English Channel bridge.\n\nOther parties have been less enthusiastic about the idea, with Ulster Unionist Party leader Steve Aiken saying investment in Northern Ireland's existing infrastructure was a greater priority.\n\nMr Varadkar said: \"I know people dismiss these things out of hand, but they used to dismiss the Channel Tunnel as well - the idea of building a tunnel between France and Britain - and I know what I see when I see a bridge tunnel between Denmark and Sweden, when you fly over New Orleans and you see 110 miles of bridge, it's extraordinary.\n\n\"I think we need to at least check out if this is viable in engineering terms and how much money it would cost to do.\"\n\nHowever, Mr Varadkar also said his focus was on improving existing infrastructure, such as a high-speed rail link connecting Dublin, Belfast and Cork.", "The interior of the base station restaurant was extensively damaged\n\nThe Glencoe Mountain ski resort remains closed after a Christmas Day fire \"almost completely destroyed\" its base station restaurant.\n\nThe resort said all lessons and accommodation bookings for Boxing Day were cancelled as the lodges were without power.\n\nSeveral fire crews tackled the blaze which broke out at about 02:00 but the wooden building was devastated.\n\nThe resort said it hoped to reopen for snowboarding and skiing on Friday.\n\nManaging director Andy Meldrum said the fire burned for several hours before the alarm was raised because it was the only day of the year the resort is closed.\n\nHe said: \"That was a good thing because it meant nobody could get injured but it was a bad thing because the alarm wasn't heard for four hours\n\n\"The fire burned away for four hours and then another hour before the fire brigade came.\"\n\nFirefighters took water from a nearby burn to help douse the flames\n\nCCTV images recorded inside building showed smoke building up in the counter area before fire took hold and engulfed the building.\n\nMr Meldrum said the resort had received many messages of support and offers of help, but it was now waiting for decisions from insurers before making plans to repair the damage.\n\nIn the meantime, he said he hoped the centre would be open for business again on Friday.\n\n\"We'll keep skiing. We always keep going here. We plan to re-open tomorrow,\" he said.\n\n\"The chairlifts are unaffected, the cafe on the hill is unaffected, we've got a second ski hire building that's unaffected and ski school will still be able to operate.\n\n\"We plan to keep going - we'll find a patch around the cafe, whether it's bringing in a temporary cabin, we'll find a way to make it work.\"\n\nThe building that housed the cafe is considered a \"write off\" according to the centre's managing director\n\nLocated at the base of the chairlift the cafe offers impressive views of Buachaille Etive Mor through its panoramic windows.\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said it sent eight appliances to the isolated resort on Rannoch Moor, close to the A82 at Ballachulish.\n\nFirefighters used water from a nearby burn to douse the flames and had to remove gas cylinders from the rear of the premises.\n\nThe cause of the fire has yet to be determined.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A fugitive has been arrested during a Christmas Day meal in the Netherlands after five years on the run.\n\nDaniel Burdett, 28, from Liverpool, sat down to dinner at a restaurant in The Hague when Dutch police arrested him, the National Crime Agency said.\n\nHe is facing 10 charges of conspiracy to import firearms and conspiracy to supply class A and B drugs.\n\nMr Burdett will appear before Dutch magistrates and is set to be extradited to the UK.\n\nThe arrest was part of an investigation into a group thought to be using truck drivers to smuggle firearms and ammunition from the Netherlands to the UK, an NCA spokeswoman said.\n\nMark Spoors, NCA branch commander, said: \"The arrest of one of our long-standing fugitives is a fantastic result.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The two victims were found on 19 and 20 December\n\nA second man has been charged in connection with the fatal stabbing of two men within hours of each other.\n\nThe first victim was found in the boot of a car near Scratchwood Park, Barnet, on 19 December, while a second man was discovered by officers in Hogg Lane, Elstree on 20 December.\n\nOn Christmas Day, Besnik Berisha, 42, of Martock Gardens, Friern Barnet, was charged with two counts of murder.\n\nKaziku Tuwisana, 31, of no fixed address, faces the same charges.\n\nMr Berisha is due before Willesden Magistrates' Court on Thursday.\n\nThe Met Police has asked drivers who \"may have caught something that could prove massively important\" on dash-cam footage to contact them.\n\nThe victims were found within five miles of each other\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ari Behn, the former son-in-law of Norway's king, has died aged 47, his spokesman has said.\n\nBehn, the author of several novels and plays, married Princess Martha Louise in 2002 but the couple divorced two years ago.\n\nHis spokesman told Norway's NTB agency that Behn had taken his own life.\n\nIn a statement, Norway's king and queen said he had been \"an important part of our family for many years and we carry warm and good memories of him with us\".\n\nAt the time of their wedding, Denmark-born Behn was seen as a controversial partner for Princess Martha Louise, the only daughter and eldest child of King Harald and Queen Sonja.\n\nBehn met his future wife through his mother, who was the princess's physiotherapy tutor. He was best known then as the author of a short book, Sad as Hell, but attracted controversy and was filmed partying with prostitutes who were taking drugs in Las Vegas.\n\nThe couple had three daughters - Maud, Leah and Emma - but separated in 2016 before divorcing a year later. At the time, the princess said in a statement: \"We feel guilty because we are no longer able to create the safe harbour that our children deserve.\"\n\nIn December 2017, Behn accused the disgraced Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey of groping him after a Nobel Peace Prize concert. He said the actor had reached under a table and inappropriately touched him. Spacey did not respond to the allegation, one of many made at the same time.\n\n\"We are grateful that we got to know him,\" King Harald and Queen Sonja said of Behn in their statement. \"We grieve that our grandchildren have now lost their beloved father.\"", "A trust set up in Amy's name will fight for greater awareness of the dangers of nut allergies\n\nThe relatives of a young woman left brain-damaged after an allergic reaction to nuts are warning families of the hidden dangers over Christmas.\n\nAmy May Shead, 32, suffered anaphylactic shock from a single bite of a chicken meal on a trip with friends to Hungary in 2014.\n\nThis is her first Christmas at home in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, in five years.\n\nHer aunt, Julie Martin, said Amy's condition has left her loved ones with \"an overwhelming sense of loss\".\n\nThe former ITV producer was left partially paralysed, and unable to see or speak properly after she suffered a severe reaction during the meal at a restaurant in Budapest.\n\nShe spent five years in hospital and has been receiving 24-hour care in a specially-adapted annex of her parents' home since March.\n\nAmy May Shead is spending her first Christmas at home after five years in care\n\nMrs Martin, who runs the Amy May Trust with her son Tom, said it has been \"a challenge to adjust to a completely different way of life.\"\n\n\"Those who are living with an allergy are never complacent,\" she said.\n\n\"But at busy times of the year such as Christmas, when staff in restaurants and bars are extra stretched - and the risk is perhaps greater of messages being relayed to kitchens becoming confused or missed - Amy's story is a graphic reminder of the effect that an anaphylactic reaction can have.\"\n\nThe trust has been meeting officials from Airlines UK and the Department for Transport to push for better in-flight policies for those who travel with severe nut allergies.\n\nA petition calling for a ban on nuts and nut products on airlines has raised more than 350,000 signatures since it was established in August 2017.\n\nAmy May, with her parents Roger and Sue, returned home to Westcliff-on-Sea in March\n\nCatching up with \"loyal friends\" is a highlight, her family said\n\nMiss Shead spent a year at both St Thomas' Hospital and the Putney Neurological Unit and lived at the Marillac Care centre in Brentwood for three years.\n\nThe Amy May Trust raises money for the intensive physiotherapy and speech and language therapy she receives four times a week.\n\nThe cost runs into several thousands a month, Mrs Martin said.\n\nShe said the family was looking forward to celebrating Amy's first Christmas at home after five years of specialist care.\n\n\"It's lovely to be able to say hello in the morning and goodnight at bedtime,\" Mrs Martin said.\n\n\"The transition home has made us realise just how tragically and terribly injured our beloved girl is.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Duke of Cambridge is seen kissing his youngest child Prince Louis in a new photograph taken by his wife.\n\nThe black-and-white picture was taken by the Duchess of Cambridge in Norfolk earlier this year and released on Christmas Day.\n\nIt also shows Princess Charlotte and Prince George, who are due to attend the Sandringham Christmas Day church service for the first time later.\n\nThe picture was posted on social media with the message: \"Merry Christmas\".\n\nIn the photo, the duke wears a flat cap as he holds his youngest son, with Princess Charlotte standing beside them.\n\nPrince George sits next to them in a chair as he smiles at the camera.\n\nThe duchess has previously been praised for her photographic portraits of her children and was named as the new patron of the Royal Photographic Society earlier this year.\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge is a keen photographer and is often seen with a camera, such as in Pakistan earlier this year\n\nKensington Palace has often published photos taken by Kate to mark milestones in her children's lives, such as birthdays and first days at nursery.\n\nThe duchess began the tradition in 2015 when she took the first official portraits of Princess Charlotte, rather than hiring a photographer.\n\nMembers of the Royal Family will attend a Christmas Day church service in Sandringham, Norfolk, later.\n\nIt comes after the Duke of Edinburgh returned to the Queen's estate following a four-night stay at a hospital in London.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The 'ring of fire' eclipse witnessed across Asia\n\nPeople across Asia are witnessing an annular solar eclipse, which is also known as a \"ring of fire\".\n\nCrowds have gathered to watch the natural phenomenon in a number of countries, including Sri Lanka, Indonesia, India and Saudi Arabia.\n\nIn an annular eclipse, the moon covers the centre of the Sun, giving the appearance of a bright ring.\n\nThere are usually two solar eclipses on Earth every year, and they occur only when the Earth is completely or partially in the Moon's shadow.\n\nThe solar eclipse as seen earlier from central Myanmar\n\nChildren use special glasses to watch the eclipse in Wan Twin, Myanmar\n\nThe previous solar eclipse was on 2 July and was visible almost exclusively over South America. The next total solar eclipse will be on 14 December 2020, and will be visible across parts of southern Chile and Argentina, as well as south-west Africa and Antarctica.", "The southbound carriageway of the M1 in West Yorkshire has reopened after it was shut following a \"serious incident\" involving \"multiple vehicles\".\n\nIt was the third major crash on the motorway in 24 hours.\n\nWest Yorkshire Police said the latest incident happened on a stretch between junction 40 and junction 39 near Wakefield.\n\nA woman died in a collision 140 miles further south in Bedfordshire late on Christmas Eve.\n\nA diversion route was put place following the latest incident in West Yorkshire and Highways England had issued instructions for drivers planning to travel in the area.\n\nThe agency said the road was \"now fully open again\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Highways England This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Bedfordshire crash happened between Aylesbury and Flitwick on the northbound carriageway at about 11.15pm, and involved a number of vehicles.\n\nAnother person suffered minor injuries, police said. The woman who died has not been named.\n\nA stretch of the motorway was closed from Tuesday night until Wednesday morning after the crash near junction 12.\n\nBedfordshire Police attended the incident along with members of the ambulance service and fire brigade.\n\nPolice are asking witnesses or anyone with information about the crash to call 101 and quote Operation Granborough.\n\nThere was also an accident on the southbound carriageway in Hertfordshire, between Luton Airport and Dunstable.\n\nThe M1 fully reopened in both directions before 9am on Christmas Day.", "It was not clear why the migrants were on the boat in the lake\n\nA boat carrying migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan has sunk in Lake Van in eastern Turkey, with at least seven people dead, officials say.\n\nThe lake is near the border with Iran, from where migrants often cross into Turkey on their journey towards Europe.\n\nSixty-four people were rescued and taken to nearby hospitals and shelters.\n\nThe incident happened at around 03:00 local time (00:00 GMT). It was not clear why they were on the boat in the lake which is completely within Turkey.\n\nThe boat sank after capsizing as it approached Adilcevaz district in Bitlis, on the northern shores of the lake, the governor's office said.\n\nFive people were found dead at the scene and two died at hospital.\n\nTurkey has been a key transit point for migrants trying to reach Europe, many of them fleeing violence and persecution in their home countries. Many rely on people's smugglers and face dangerous land and sea routes which often result in deaths.\n\nTurkey's security forces have held some 441,532 undocumented migrants on its territory this year, according to state-run Anadolu news agency.\n\nIn 2016, Turkey reached a financial deal with the European Union to stem the flow of migrants and refugees to Europe. Last month, German media cited a confidential EU report as saying the number of crossings from Turkey rose sharply this year, with most people coming from Afghanistan.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aladdin and Bushra from Syria experienced first-hand how the migrants are treated in Turkey\n\nThis month President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Turkey could not handle a \"new refugee wave\" from Syria amid increased bombardment of the rebel-held Idlib province, saying a new influx would be \"felt by all European countries\".\n\nTurkey already hosts some 3.7 million Syrian refugees, the largest refugee population in the world.", "The number of matches in England and Wales where a hate crime was reported increased by 47% last season\n\nThe way racism is reported in grassroots football is \"broken\" and needs an overhaul, a coach has said.\n\nComplaints of racism too often become \"one word against another\", according to award-winning coach Delwyn Derrick.\n\nA multi-ethnic side from Cardiff said they regularly experienced abuse from spectators and found it \"disheartening\" when complaints were dismissed.\n\nWelsh football's governing body said it aims to create an \"inclusive, welcoming and safe environment\" for all players.\n\nIn the 2018-19 season, the number of matches in England and Wales where a hate crime was reported increased by 47%, from 131 matches to 193, according to Home Office figures.\n\nThe Football Association of Wales (FAW) said \"racism is a societal issue, rather than a football issue\".\n\nDelwyn Derrick (right) was awarded the BBC Cymru Wales Sports Personality Unsung Hero 2019 by Mickey Thomas\n\nMr Derrick won the 2019 BBC Cymru Wales Sports Personality Unsung Hero award for his work managing Wrexham-based Bellevue FC.\n\n\"The reporting system is broken,\" he said\n\n\"The system is: You send in a complaint by email, once that's received by the regional football association or the FAW, they investigate by asking for the observations of the other club.\n\n\"Immediately that becomes one word against another - it becomes an argument.\"\n\nThe FAW deals with complaints in the top four tiers of Welsh football, while incidents in the lower tiers are investigated by regional football associations.\n\nOf the six charges alleging racism brought by the FAW since September 2015, only one was found proven by the FAW disciplinary panel.\n\nThere is a \"lack of confidence\" in the way regional associations deal with complaints, according to Jason Webber from Show Racism the Red Card.\n\nRaphael Kingsley (left) and Rizwan Ahmed say they have lost all confidence in the system\n\nAFC Butetown, from one of the most multicultural areas of Cardiff, play in the South Wales Alliance League.\n\nPlayers Raphael Kingsley and Rizwan Ahmed said the team has lost all confidence in the associations' ability to stamp out racism.\n\nWhile playing a team in the south Wales valleys this season, they say their striker was called the n-word by a spectator.\n\nIt was reported but \"nothing was done about it\", Mr Ahmed said.\n\nHe added: \"It is frustrating. You go down the right routes, the right protocols they tell you to go down - you do the right things and nothing gets done.\"\n\nHermon Yohanes says he was racially abused during the \"worst game of his life\"\n\nHermon Yohanes, of Cardiff-based STM Sport, said he was racially abused during the first half of a game against Wrexham's Cefn Albion FC in March.\n\n\"They were talking about my family, using the n-word and dog. It was the worst game of my life,\" the Eritrean-born 23-year-old said.\n\nMr Yohanes, who moved to Wales in 2011, said he told the referee about the abuse at half time and complained to police and the FAW after the game.\n\nIn July the charge was found not proven, leaving Mr Yohanes \"gutted and disappointed\".\n\nThe alleged racist abuse happened during a game between STM Sport and Cefn Albion at Latham Park, Newtown, in March\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said it investigated but found insufficient evidence \"to prove the identity of the offender\".\n\nThe FAW said it \"thoroughly investigated\" the allegation but it was found not proven due to a lack of evidence.\n\nA spokesman said STM Sport were \"encouraged\" to give evidence, but \"this was rejected by the individuals\".\n\nAt the time, Cefn Albion said it was \"delighted and relieved to have been vindicated on these serious allegations\".\n\nSean Wharton - a former professional footballer from Cwmbran who played for teams including Cardiff City and Sunderland - said he was regularly the victim of racism during his playing career.\n\nSean Wharton educates young people about racism for the Show Racism the Red Card charity\n\nNow an anti-racism educator for Show Racism the Red Card, Mr Wharton said racism could have a \"massive effect\".\n\n\"There is research which shows that racism has a negative impact on players' mental health in terms of confidence, in terms of belonging, in terms of self-belonging,\" he said.\n\n\"You can't underestimate the impact that racism has on individuals within football and society. It makes you question who you are and your self-worth and self-belief.\"\n\nFAW accounts show a turnover of almost £13m last year. Its only spending on fighting racism was a £19,000 grant to Show Racism the Red Card.\n\nThe FAW said it worked with other anti-discrimination charities and campaigns, including Stonewall, We Wear the Same Shirt and UEFA Respect/Equal Game.\n\nTo be \"anti-racist\" rather than \"non-racist\", Mr Wharton said football chiefs need to believe victims who are \"fed up of nothing happening\" when they report racism.\n\nSocietal hate crime recorded by police in Wales rose by 14% last year, according to Home Office figures.\n\nMr Derrick agreed with the FAW that problems with racism in football were a reflection of society, but called for independent adjudicators at games.\n\nThe FAW said the referee is the independent adjudicator at every game and encouraged all victims of racism to report it.", "Debbie McGee has been crowned the winner of the Strictly Come Dancing Christmas special.\n\nThe widow of magician Paul Daniels and her professional partner Kevin Clifton scored 40 points for a ski-themed quickstep to Jingle Bells.\n\nMcGee, who got to the final of the Strictly Come Dancing in 2017, said she \"wasn't expecting\" to win.\n\n\"It's just amazing but you know, everybody has been fantastic,\" she said.\n\nSpeaking about the show's star-shaped trophy, she said: \"I think it's everybody's, because we all had a great time, everyone did such great dances.\"\n\nStrictly 2018 competitors Joe Sugg and Dianne Buswell on the dance floor\n\nActress Chizzy Akudolu made an appearance with her professional partner Graziano Di Prima\n\nDebbie McGee and Kevin Clifton were told they were \"a class act\"\n\nMcGee was up against fellow former contestants Chizzy Akudolu, Gemma Atkinson, Joe Sugg, Mark Wright and Richard Arnold.\n\nThe festive show on BBC One was hosted by Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman and judged by Craig Revel Horwood, Motsi Mabuse, Bruno Tonioli and Shirley Ballas.\n\nScoring McGee's performance 10 points, Horwood said it was \"a class act\".\n\nDuring the event in Leeds Castle in Kent, each couple performed their routines in front of a studio audience, who voted for their favourite. Those votes were combined with the judges' scores.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince George and Princess Charlotte met well-wishers at St Mary Magdalene Church for the first time\n\nPrince George and Princess Charlotte mingled with the crowds as they attended the Royal Family's Christmas Day church service for the first time.\n\nPrince Philip, who was released from hospital on Tuesday, did not attend.\n\nA large crowd gathered to greet the Queen and family members as they attended the service at St Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham.\n\nPrince Andrew, who stepped back from royal duties last month, kept a low profile at the event.\n\nPrince Andrew was not seen with the rest of the Royal Family as they left the church\n\nThe 11am service was broadcast live to the hundreds of visitors who had gathered outside the church.\n\nSome had queued from the early hours of the morning in the hope of seeing the Royal Family.\n\nPrincess Charlotte made her debut at the service and met visitors with her mother, the Duchess of Cambridge\n\nThe crowd were eager to meet Princess Charlotte and Prince George\n\nWell-wishers held out flowers and gifts for Princess Charlotte, four, and Prince George, six, who were accompanied by their parents, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nThere had been speculation over whether Prince Andrew would join the rest of his family at Sandringham, after controversy over his links with billionaire sex offender Jeffery Epstein saw him sidelined from royal duties.\n\nWhile most of the family arrived in front of crowds lining the roads, Andrew, accompanied by his brother, arrived earlier at the church and used a different entrance.\n\nHis daughters, Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, both attended the main service.\n\nThe Queen was not accompanied by her husband, who was discharged from hospital on Tuesday\n\nPrince Andrew arrived with his brother Charles at an earlier church service\n\nThe BBC's royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell said the prince was a \"significant absentee\" from the main service at 11am.\n\nOur correspondent said: \"If he had attended [the main service] a lot of the coverage would have been around him. He has become... something of an embarrassment currently to the Royal Family.\"\n\nPrincess Charlotte and Prince George attended the Christmas Day service for the first time\n\nThe Queen's attendance at church preceded her Christmas Day message - in which she described 2019 as \"quite bumpy\".\n\nShe said that \"positive things\" could be achieved when differences were set aside and people came together \"in the spirit of friendship and reconciliation\".\n\n\"As we all look forward to the start of a new decade, it's worth remembering that it is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Queen marked the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission and the 75th anniversary of D-Day, while also looking ahead at causes being championed by younger generations.\n\n\"The challenges many people face today may be different to those once faced by my generation, but I have been struck by how new generations have brought a similar sense of purpose to issues such as protecting our environment and our climate,\" the Queen said.\n\nThe Queen's message comes after a year of intense political debate over Brexit, as well as a number of personal events affecting the Royal Family.\n\nAs well as the controversy over Prince Andrew, the year has seen the Duke and Duchess of Sussex take legal action against a newspaper and speak of the pressures of parenthood and royal life.\n\nThere have also been concerns over the health of Prince Philip, who was involved in a car crash at the beginning of the year.\n\nPrince Phillip returned to Sandringham on Christmas Eve after spending four nights in hospital.\n\nHe was taken to King Edward VII's Hospital in London on Friday on the advice of his doctor.\n\nThe 98-year-old retired from public life in August 2017 and his last public appearance was at Lady Gabriella Windsor's wedding in May.\n\nThe Earl of Wessex was accompanied by his daughter, Lady Louise Windsor\n\nThe Earl of Wessex and his daughter Lady Louise Windsor also arrived for the Christmas morning church service.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex did not attend this year's church service as they are in Canada taking a break from royal duties with their son Archie.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Philip was seen leaving the King Edward VII's Hospital in London on Tuesday morning\n\nMeanwhile, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have released a new photograph showing the duke kissing his youngest son, Louis, alongside Prince George and Princess Charlotte.\n\nThe picture was posted by Kensington Palace on Twitter with the message: \"Merry Christmas to all our followers!\"\n\nThe photo was taken by the Duchess of Cambridge in Norfolk earlier this year", "A major incident room has been set up at Caernarfon police station\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 74-year-old woman died at a house in Gwynedd on Christmas Day.\n\nEmergency services were called to Francis Avenue, Fairbourne, just after 20:00 GMT following reports she had suffered serious injuries.\n\nDespite attempts by relatives, police and paramedics to save her, she was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nNorth Wales Police said a 75-year-old man had been arrested and was being held for questioning.\n\nDet Ch Insp Brian Kearney said: \"This is a truly tragic and very rare type of occurrence in north west Wales and I wish to reassure the public that we are not looking for anyone else in connection with this incident.\"\n\nHe added that a major incident room had been set up at Caernarfon police station and that the coroner had been informed.\n\nFamily liaison officers are supporting relatives of the victim.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A man has died after being shot on Christmas Eve in south west London, police have said.\n\nOfficers were called to Battersea Church Road at about 21:00 GMT on 24 December to reports of shots being fired, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nA man believed to be in his 30s had suffered gunshot injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene by emergency services.\n\nNo arrests have been made.\n\nAnyone with information is asked to contact police on 101 or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.", "Typhoon Phanfone, also known as Ursula, has battered the central Philippines.\n\nThousands of people have been left stranded, as ferries and flights were cancelled. Thousands more spent the night in temporary shelters.\n\nMore than 100 families' homes have been destroyed by the storm.", "The Archbishop of Canterbury has used his Christmas Day sermon to talk about the \"darkness\" that led to last month's London Bridge terror attack.\n\nJack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, were stabbed to death by Usman Khan, who was later shot dead by police.\n\nDuring the service at Canterbury Cathedral, Justin Welby said the light of Jesus could bring hope.\n\nHe also reflected on a visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is dealing with an Ebola virus outbreak.\n\n\"Darkness is a monster that lies\", he told the congregation. \"Its growling claims seem to call out with a louder volume than the love-filled whispers of light.\n\n\"We see the shadows out of the corner of our eyes. They may be violence as in the Congo or on London Bridge; they may be political; they may be purely personal.\"\n\nHe continued: \"Whether solid or illusion, they are the reality with which we live. By contrast we do not see light, but we do see truth in light.\"\n\nMr Welby described Canterbury as a \"city of peace that celebrates Christmas gloriously\", before comparing it to Beni, which is five times the size of the Kent city.\n\nThe archbishop said: \"It [Beni] has been at the centre of the second worst outbreak of Ebola in history; roughly 3,000 people have died. Its Anglican bishop is alight with Christ, always present, always giving of himself.\"\n\nIt comes after the spiritual leader of the Church of England shared a message of unity on 23 December, as he appealed to anyone who felt \"embarrassed or ashamed\" during the festive period.\n\nIn a series of tweets, he spoke of Jesus' humble beginnings, appearing to direct his message to those living in poverty.\n\nHe said: \"God meets us wherever we are, however messy. If you're embarrassed or ashamed, God is neither.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Archbishop of Canterbury This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Archbishop of Canterbury\n\nMeanwhile, in his homily on Christmas Eve, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, said that after \"so much bitter political discourse and division\" we \"are to look one another in the eye and see there all that is good\".\n\nCardinal Nichols added during Midnight Mass at Westminster Cathedral: \"The source of that good in every person we meet is, of course, the life of God, a divine goodness, which shows itself fully in Christ Jesus.\"\n\nHe encouraged worshippers to find \"the goodness of God in every person\", adding: \"Only then will our society become a place in which no-one is afraid and all sense a welcome. This is the fresh start we need.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nFirst Test, Supersport Park, Centurion (day one of five):\n\nSam Curran starred with the ball as England made a promising start against South Africa on the opening day of the first Test in Centurion.\n\nAll-rounder Curran impressed with 4-57 as South Africa, asked to bat first, reached 277-9 at the close.\n\nThe hosts slipped to 111-5 after some indifferent batting but mounted a recovery through an entertaining 95 from Quinton de Kock.\n\nDe Kock and debutant Dwaine Pretorius' 87-run stand frustrated England before Curran and Stuart Broad (3-52) struck in the evening session.\n\nWhile England were not at their best with the ball, they took advantage of some poor shots from the South Africa top order.\n\nEngland all-rounder Ben Stokes had two lengthy spells off the field because of dehydration and did not bowl in the day.\n\nJonny Bairstow, not initially a part of the squad for the four-Test series, was recalled in place of Ollie Pope, who is one of three players struggling with illness in South Africa.\n• None England need to show intelligence in South Africa - Agnew\n\nCurran has struggled outside of England - he averages 41.75 overseas compared to 29.00 at home - but he was the pick of England's bowlers with his late movement.\n\nHe pushed the ball across the South Africa batsmen, taking advantage of their defensive frailties, and beat the edge more often than any other bowler.\n\nEach time he was introduced into the attack he took a wicket, the highlight being an off-stump delivery that drew a defensive push from De Kock on 95 and sent an edge through to wicketkeeper Jos Buttler.\n\nBowling first was a bold call from England captain Joe Root. James Anderson is playing his first Test in four months, both Jofra Archer and Stuart Broad were ill in the build-up to the Test and Stokes has struggled to bowl with a long-standing knee problem.\n\nArcher bowled with pace at times but was inconsistent, while Anderson was rusty after a lengthy spell out with a calf injury and Broad ended the day looking heavy-legged after bowling accurately in sapping temperatures.\n\nWith no frontline spinner - Jack Leach was unavailable for selection due to illness - both Root and Joe Denly bowled a few overs, but England will hope their strike bowlers have enough energy to finish the innings quickly on Friday.\n\nSouth Africa captain Faf du Plessis said he would have batted had the toss gone his way but the hosts made an inauspicious start.\n\nOpener Dean Elgar fell to the first ball of the day, nicking a leg-side delivery from Anderson, playing in his 150th Test, to Buttler, before Aiden Markram flicked Curran to short mid-wicket.\n\nDespite England's bowlers not being at their best, Du Plessis and Rassie van der Dussen were caught behind playing away from their body before De Kock and debutant Pretorius mounted a partnership.\n\nDe Kock, known as an aggressive batsmen, took 12 runs off an over from Curran, but his big hitting almost cost him when he tried to hit Root down the ground and only just avoided being caught at mid-on.\n\nHis half-century came from just 45 balls with nine fours - his hard hands allowing him to hit the pace bowlers over the top of the slips - while he was strong square of the wicket.\n\nHe was well supported by all-rounder Pretorius, who counter-attacked more successfully against Root with a flat six, but Curran found the edge of Pretorius' bat to end the sixth-wicket stand.\n\nAlthough there was some awkward bounce, this is a good batting pitch - and South Africa may be left to rue their mixed start with the bat.\n\n'There will be some creaking limbs' - what they said\n\nBBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew: \"It will be interesting to see how England come back tomorrow - there will be some creaking limbs.\n\n\"It has been a really fascinating day's cricket. It is perhaps a bit too early too tell if this is a good score.\"\n\nEngland seamer Sam Curran on Sky Sports: \"De Kock plays his natural game. We let him get off the hook a little bit. Fair play to him - and he got a good score.\n\n\"It's a pretty good wicket and fast-scoring outfield. Hopefully our batters can bat big and put overs in their legs. There is going to be cracks. Hopefully we can bat big first innings and put them under pressure.\"\n\nEngland and Middlesex bowler Steven Finn on The Cricket Social: \"Tomorrow will give us an indication of where we are up to and what exactly is happening.\n\n\"The wickets in the last session have pegged South Africa back and brought it to a more even game.\"\n\nEx-England batsman Michael Carberry on The Cricket Social: \"It's great to see Anderson back. His first spell was a bit rusty, and when he has got the ball in the right area he has looked threatening. It has been a decent comeback.\"", "Former residents returned to the abandoned city to decorate the tree\n\nA Christmas tree has been put up for the first time since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in the central square of the nearby \"ghost town\" of Pripyat, Ukraine's ZIK TV channel reports.\n\nOnce home to more than 47,000 residents, Pripyat - about 3km (1.9 miles) from the former nuclear plant - remains deserted because of radiation pollution.\n\nFormer residents came to the abandoned city to decorate the tree with family photos as part of a campaign organised by the Association of Chernobyl Tour Operators.\n\nSome of them told Suspilne.Media that they had also brought clock decorations as a \"symbol of the flow of time and the fact that over time the town does not die but gets revived\".\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nKateryna Aslamova from the Chernobyl Tour company said it was the first time some former residents had returned to Pripyat since their evacuation after the world's worst nuclear accident.\n\nClock decorations were hung up to symbolise the passing of time\n\n\"The town must live, and for this to happen it must be saved,\" she said.\n\nHer company would like to see Pripyat and parts of the exclusion zone around the plant become a Unesco World Heritage site.\n\n\"Life is returning to Pripyat,\" said Yaroslav Yemelyanenko, founder of the Chernobyl Hub.\n\n\"It is unusual, irregular and touristic. Every day, the once deserted town is filled with tourists from all over the world. They come to learn our history, which changed the course of events in the whole world.\"\n\nUse #NewsfromElsewhere to stay up-to-date with our reports via Twitter.", "More than a million people have contacted the BBC's information and support service this year - double the number in 2018.\n\nBBC Action Line offers information for viewers and listeners affected by issues addressed in programmes, such as mental health and domestic abuse.\n\nThere was a steep rise in requests about sexual abuse, with more than 185,000 people contacting the service.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 83,000 sought advice about mental health concerns.\n\nDocumentaries about anxiety and depression fronted by celebrities such as the Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain prompted people to contact the service, the BBC's press office said.\n\nAlison Kirkham, the controller of Factual Commissioning at the BBC said the corporation had \"a long commitment to tackling mental health issues in our programmes\".\n\n\"The volume of calls and visits to the BBC Action Line - as well as the increase in contacts received by mental health charities - shows the impact of these films and highlights just how important it is to raise awareness and bring the conversation out into the open,\" she said.\n\nAround 8,000 people visited the Action Line support service online or via a call after watching a programme about how cyber bullying affected the singer Jesy Nelson, from the group Little Mix.\n\nIssues such as addiction, bullying and eating disorders also saw a rise in contacts.\n\nThe BBC Action Line for emotional distress also saw a huge spike in visits, with 148,185 total visits and calls.\n\nKeith Jones, the BBC's head of editorial & complaints, said: \"These programmes and figures show what important public services our Action Lines are.\n\n\"They're a partnership with the many organisations which exist to support those with issues highlighted in our coverage.\n\n\"We're so grateful to them for their involvement and that we can offer viewers and listeners support about these important, often distressing subjects.\"", "British troops have helped to move a group of critically endangered black rhinos from South Africa to Malawi to protect them against poaching.\n\nSoldiers from the 2nd Battalion Royal Gurkha Rifles moved 17 of the animals, which are hunted for their horns, in the hope they can be better protected.\n\nThey were transported by air and road from KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa to Liwonde National Park in Malawi.\n\nThe troops then spent three months training rangers to keep them safe.\n\nMajor Jez England, the officer commanding the British Army counter-poaching team in Liwonde, said the operation had been \"hugely successful\".\n\n\"Not only do we share skills with the rangers, improving their efficiency and ability to patrol larger areas, but it also provides a unique opportunity for our soldiers to train in a challenging environment\", he said.\n\nThere are thought to be 5,500 black rhinos left in the wild\n\nThe UK government says it has committed more than £36m to tackle the illegal wildlife trade between 2014 and 2021.\n\nPart of this is to help support trans-boundary work to allow animals to move more safely between areas and across national borders.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Corden speaks to the BBC's Colin Paterson about being back in Barry Island and why he decided it was time for a reunion\n\nThe much-anticipated return of Gavin and Stacey achieved the best Christmas Day TV ratings for more than a decade, early \"overnight\" figures show.\n\nThe Christmas special was watched by a \"well lush\" average of 11.6 million viewers on BBC One.\n\nWhen it went on air at 20:30 GMT, half (49.2%) of all TV viewers tuned in.\n\nThe episode, written by and starring James Corden and Ruth Jones, revisited Gavin, Stacey, Smithy and Nessa nearly 10 years after they left our screens.\n\nGavin and Stacey pulled in 11.6m viewers on Christmas Day\n\nThe next most-watched programme was the Queen's Christmas Broadcast, which was screened on BBC One, ITV and Sky and seen by 7.85 million people.\n\nIn recent years, The Queen's annual broadcast has become the most-watched TV show, based on the overnight figures which do not include viewers who watch Christmas specials on catch-up services during the rest of the festive period.\n\nThe cast was reunited after nearly ten years off our screens\n\nStrictly Come Dancing, EastEnders and Michael McIntyre's Big Show - all on BBC One - rounded out this year's top five shows.\n\nCharlotte Moore, Director of BBC content, said: \"We delivered something for everyone with the seven most-popular programmes that cap off an incredible year for BBC One celebrating British talent and creativity.\"\n\nFor the last few years the headlines out of the Christmas Day viewing figures have been pretty consistent - the Queen's annual address to the nation the most watched show as Christmas Day viewing declines year-on-year.\n\nGavin and Stacey have reversed that trend to such an extent that the cast's reactions have probably been a lot more vociferous than Nessa's \"tidy\" or even Stacey's \"well lush\"!\n\nThey and the BBC will be thrilled. It's proof that while terrestrial Christmas audiences have been decreasing, they're still there in huge numbers for the right kind of show.\n\nSo much of what's been offered on recent Christmas Days has been festive editions of programmes that are already regular fixtures in the schedule.\n\nGavin and Stacey's Christmas Special felt like real event, must-see TV; the first new episode of the award-winning, much-loved comedy for nine years.\n\nAnd once catch-up viewing has been taken into account, it stands a good chance of, at almost the last gasp, overtaking the Line of Duty finale as the most watched programme of 2019.\n\nThe high viewing figures mean that there'll be a lot of expectation from audiences for more Gavin and Stacey, and (without giving away any spoilers) the door has been left enticingly open for that.\n\nAnd if the BBC can persuade co-writers James Corden and Ruth Jones, there's little doubt that BBC One would love more Gavin and Stacey, too.\n\nGavin and Stacey, written by Corden, who plays Smithy, and Jones, who has reprised the iconic role of Nessa, first aired in 2007.\n\nCorden revealed on Wednesday that he and Jones watched the special together, telling fans the show has been \"a labour of love from start to finish\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe initial series saw the budding romance between Essex man Gavin Shipman, played by Mathew Horne, and Welsh woman Stacey West, portrayed by Joanna Page, flourish.\n\nThere were two subsequent series and a 2008 Christmas special.\n\nIt had been a decade since audiences left Gavin, Stacey, Smithy and Nessa sitting on the seafront on Barry Island, but the Christmas special proved these four - and their famous expressions - are still a big hit.\n\nThe special also saw Alison Steadman and Larry Lamb return as Pam and Mick Shipman, as well as Melanie Walters as Gwen and Robert Wilfort as Jason.\n\nMany fans expressed their eagerness to see another series following last night's special.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nJones told BBC Newsbeat that \"there isn't any plan, at the moment\" for another Gavin and Stacey series, but did not rule it out in the future.\n\nIn the Christmas special, viewers only had to wait a few minutes to hear Nessa ask her infamous question \"What's occurring?\".\n\nAnd of course, it wouldn't be a Gavin and Stacey special without a reference to that infamous fishing trip.\n\nThe cast filmed in Barry, Wales, during July's heatwave\n\nThe success of Gavin and Stacey made Corden and Jones household names - even though they were not the Gavin and Stacey named in the title.\n\nSince the original series Corden's career has skyrocketed in the US, with his hugely successful gig as host of The Late, Late Show.\n\nJones told the BBC that trying to find the time to film was challenging, with Corden recording episodes of his US show back-to back to give him to time to work with Jones on the British project together in LA earlier this year.\n\nYou can watch the full show on BBC iPlayer and take a look behind the scenes at how the special was filmed.", "Kirsty Maxwell was with a group of friends in Benidorm when she died in 2017\n\nThe family of Kirsty Maxwell say they will continue to put pressure on the Spanish courts as they remember her at Christmas.\n\nThe 27-year-old fell to her death from a balcony in Benidorm in 2017 while on a hen party weekend with friends.\n\nHer family say the courts still refuse to carry out \"basic lines of inquiry\".\n\nThey will set a place for her over the festive period \"to honour and remember the loving and caring girl we all miss\".\n\nMrs Maxwell, from Livingston in West Lothian, had only recently married when she travelled to Benidorm for a friend's hen party.\n\nShe fell from the 10th floor balcony of a room where five men were staying at Apartamentos Payma on 29 April 2017. The men were arrested but never charged.\n\nFollowing the hen celebration, Mrs Maxwell returned to her apartment on the ninth floor in the early hours, and was filmed asleep at about 06:50 on the morning she died.\n\nAbout an hour later she fell to her death after inexplicably entering an apartment on the floor above which was occupied by five British men.\n\nAdam and Kirsty Maxwell had only been married for seven months\n\nHer father previously said that in the hours following her death, there was very little information from the authorities about what had happened.\n\nNow the family has issued a statement on social media saying they were \"resolute\" in their pursuit of information.\n\nIt read: \"As each year goes by it does not get any easier, every time our legal team request basic lines of inquiry to be done the court refuses them.\n\n\"In conjunction with our lawyer Lorena Soler Bernabeu we await an appeal to the higher court in Spain regarding the continual refusal to allow progression of evidential opportunities.\n\n\"With the assistance of our crime expert/reviewer David Swindle, his team and our Spanish lawyer Lorena we continue to push for evidential opportunities to be progressed.\"\n\nThe statement also reiterated an appeal for help to anyone with information surrounding Mrs Maxwell's death.\n\nIt added: \"We know there are people who have not come forward or provided information which can assist so we continue to appeal to the many UK visitors to Benidorm and locals to contact us with any information which can assist.\n\n\"Thanks for the continued support we get from family, friends, the public and on social media, it means so much to us as a family to know people care and are trying their best to assist in whatever way they can.\"", "Fourteen migrants were rescued by French authorities and taken to Boulogne-sur-Mer\n\nMore than 60 migrants have been picked up while attempting to cross the Channel in small boats.\n\nForty-nine people in four boats were met by Border Force and brought to England, while a further two boats were dealt with by French authorities.\n\nThe Home Office said it would try to return anyone who arrived in the UK illegally back to mainland Europe.\n\nCharity workers said the government's \"tough talk\" was \"extremely irresponsible\".\n\nA search-and-rescue operation was launched in the early hours, with a coastguard helicopter, aeroplane and two Border Force vessels taking part.\n\nAn RNLI lifeboat was launched from Dover shortly before midnight on Christmas Day.\n\nFrench authorities rescued 14 migrants, some of whom were said to be suffering from hypothermia, after a dinghy got into trouble off the coast of Boulogne-sur-Mer.\n\nThey were met by border police and medics on their return to the French port.\n\nSince January, more than 120 people who arrived in small boats have been sent back to European countries, the Home Office said.\n\nIn the same period, more than 1,800 people have crossed the Channel in such vessels.\n\nThe Home Office said: \"Illegal migration is a criminal activity. Those who seek to come to the UK illegally and the ruthless criminals who facilitate journeys are all breaking the law and endangering lives.\n\n\"When people arrive on our shores unlawfully, we will work to return them to mainland Europe.\"\n\nIt said patrols of French beaches had doubled, with \"drones, specialist vehicles and detection equipment\" deployed.\n\nKent Refugee Action Network's Bridget Chapman, who works directly with asylum seekers arriving by boat, said the Home Office's response was \"disgraceful\".\n\nShe said the government's \"very tough talk\" did not \"take account of international law,\" citing the UN's 1951 Refugee Convention, which states that \"refugees should not be penalised for their illegal entry\".\n\nShe added: \"There is no such thing as an illegal asylum seeker.\"\n\nMs Chapman said it was an \"extremely irresponsible statement,\" which \"appears to be politically motivated and designed to whip up ill feeling towards desperate people\".\n\n\"I would remind the Home Office that Jesus was a refugee,\" she added. \"Would they have turned him away?\"\n\nA coastguard helicopter was sent to the scene\n\nClare Moseley, founder of Care4Calais, which often encounters migrants before they attempt the crossing, said it was \"disappointing to see the Home Office criminalising refugees in this way\".\n\nShe added: \"Nearly all the people we work with in France have genuine asylum claims.\n\n\"The issue is that there is no safe and legal way for them to get [to England] and have their claims heard.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Queen, in her annual speech, has said \"small steps\" and not giant leaps bring about the most lasting change.\n\nShe also acknowledged that 2019 had been \"quite bumpy\".\n\nHer message comes after a year of intense political debate over Brexit, as well as a number of personal events affecting the Royal Family.\n\nHer husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, 98, left hospital on Tuesday after four nights for a \"pre-existing condition\".", "A man shot dead on Christmas Eve was attacked in front of his family after a night out, police said.\n\nFlamur Beqiri, a Swedish national, was killed in Battersea Church Road in south-west London at about 21:00 GMT.\n\nNeighbours described hearing multiple gunshots followed by a woman screaming \"desperately\" for help.\n\nA spokesperson for the Met Police said the killing which \"saw a man losing his life in such a horrific way\" had left his family \"devastated\".\n\nThe 36-year-old, who had a wife and young child, was pronounced dead at the scene by the emergency services.\n\nAccording to reports, Mr Beqiri is the brother of former Real Housewives Of Cheshire star Misse Beqiri.\n\nNeighbour Vittoria Amati, 60, said she heard between \"eight to 10\" gunshots fired.\n\n\"I then heard the screams of the wife. I came out and realised it was one of my neighbours.\n\n\"He was lying in front of his doorway in a pool of blood. He was still alive. We were really hoping he would make it.\n\n\"You have no idea how desperate she [his wife] sounded.\"\n\nMr Beqiri was shot \"just yards from home\" in Battersea\n\nA young woman, who identified herself as a nurse, tried to help Mr Beqiri by applying pressure to his wounds, Mrs Amati added.\n\nDet Ch Insp Jamie Stevenson said: \"Our investigation is in the very early stages and we are still working to establish what the motive could be that has led to a man losing his life in such a horrific way, on Christmas Eve, in front of his family.\n\n\"They have been devastated by this horrible event and are being supported by specialist officers.\n\n\"We know that the victim was returning home with his wife and young child following an evening out, when he was shot just yards from his home.\"\n\nPolice remained at the scene in Battersea Church Road on Boxing Day\n\nThe officer added the assailant fled on foot in the direction of Battersea Bridge Road.\n\nSupt Richard Smith said: \"There is no suggestion that there is any ongoing risk to members of the local community in Battersea.\"\n\nThe death is the 135th homicide in London in 2019, the highest number in a calendar year since 2008.\n• None London killings: All the victims of 2018\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "No remains of the kangaroo have been found (stock photo)\n\nA wolf has reportedly taken a privately owned kangaroo from a family's garden in Balen, north-east Belgium.\n\nJan Loos, a wolf expert, was called to the property by the owners and said he had found wolf prints at the scene.\n\nMr Loos told AFP the kangaroo is \"probably dead\" having been eaten by the animal. He said a second kangaroo had also been wounded in the attack.\n\nWild wolves used to live in much of continental Europe, but their numbers have been depleted by hunting.\n\nIn recent years, sightings of the animals have been on the increase and in 2018 one was recorded in Belgium for the first time in more than 100 years.\n\nMr Loos, the director of a wolf and wildlife centre called Landschap, said he believed an animal named August could be behind the animal's disappearance.\n\nThe wolf has been spotted slipping across a nearby border into Germany and is known to roam the area, he said.\n\n\"I found wolf prints, so it's quite sure it's a wolf, but we're not 100 per cent sure which wolf,\" he told AFP.\n\nThe expert said local wolves usually ate animals like boars and deer, but the size of a kangaroo would have made it easy to carry off.\n\nNo remains of the kangaroo have been found, Mr Loos added.", "Gabriel Diya and his daughter Comfort died at a resort on the Costa del Sol\n\nTributes have been paid to a British man and his two children who drowned in a resort swimming pool on the Costa del Sol on Christmas Eve.\n\nGabriel Diya, 52, his daughter Comfort Diya, nine, and his son Praise-Emmanuel Diya, 16, died in the pool at Club La Costa World, near Fuengirola.\n\nPolice say they are checking claims the young girl got into difficulties and the other two died trying to save her.\n\nThe church where Mr Diya was a pastor said its prayers were with the family.\n\nThe Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) said in a post on Facebook: \"With heavy hearts, we extend our condolences to the family, parish, friends and associates of Area Pastor Gabriel Diya who sadly passed away, along with two of his children... in a tragic incident while on a family holiday in Spain.\n\n\"At this very difficult time, our prayers are for Pastor Gabriel Diya's family, the parishes that were under his supervision, friends, associates, members of RCCG and the general public,\" the post added.\n\nThe church said Mr Diya was also the parish pastor at Open Heavens, a Christian religious group with origins in Nigeria, based in Charlton, south-east London, and he was survived by his wife, assistant pastor Olubunmi Diya, and another daughter.\n\nA neighbour of the family told the PA news agency she was \"really devastated\" to learn of the deaths, describing the Diyas as \"very religious, very friendly, very humble\".\n\nComfort was described by the head teacher of her primary school as \"the most wonderfully kind, thoughtful, caring pupil\" who was a \"role model\" for her peers.\n\nJo Marchant said: \"Everyone at Windrush Charlton was devastated to hear about the tragic deaths of Comfort Diya, her father and brother on Christmas Eve.\"\n\nMs Marchant said Comfort would be \"greatly missed by the whole school community\" and that support would be made available to pupils and parents.\n\nSpeaking outside her home in Charlton, Lara Akins, 59, added: \"I still can't comprehend it, it's still shocking.\n\n\"They are so nice, that is why everybody is shocked... we are very friendly with each other.\"\n\nThe hotel owners described the incident as a \"tragic accident\".\n\nPolice said divers retrieved Comfort's swimming hat from the pool pump but investigators had found nothing wrong with the pool, which has since reopened.\n\nBecause the pool is a very small one, lifeguards were \"not necessary\" so there were none present, a spokesman for the Spanish Civil Guard told the BBC.\n\nThe UK Foreign Office said it was supporting a British woman in Spain, thought to be the children's mother.\n\nMr Diya and his daughter were both British passport holders while his son had an American passport.\n\nIn a statement released on Thursday, the owners of Club La Costa World said the resort \"continues to co-operate fully with the authorities investigating this appalling tragedy\".\n\n\"Naturally, we will continue to offer every assistance and comply fully and transparently with any requests made by them.\n\n\"At the same time, we are doing everything possible to provide care and support to bereaved family members and to all our other guests,\" the statement added.\n\nThe sprawling Club La Costa World resort has several swimming pools\n\nLocally-based freelance journalist Gerard Couzens said that the hotel had confirmed it had reopened the pool after it was given permission to do so by police.\n\n\"That pool where this terrible tragedy occurred on Christmas Eve is open for use again. And the management are saying the police have given the pool a clean bill of health,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nLocal journalist Fernando Torres told the BBC it was a shocking scene.\n\n\"The resort workers heard the screaming and they tried to do CPR [resuscitation] as well, but they couldn't help them,\" he said.\n\n\"Then the emergency doctors came and they tried for 30-35 minutes, but they couldn't revive them.\"\n\nAre you in the area? Have you been affected by what's happened? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Pope spoke to thousands who had gathered to hear his Christmas message\n\nThe Pope has prayed for a softening of \"stony and self-centred hearts\" to help end injustice in the world, in his Christmas Day message.\n\nFrom the Vatican balcony, Pope Francis spoke of \"walls of indifference\" being put up to people fleeing hardship in the hope of finding a better life.\n\nThe Pope prayed for those hit by conflict, natural disasters and disease, listing several countries.\n\nHe singled out parts of Africa where Christians had been killed.\n\nSpeaking under a clear blue sky to thousands crowded into St Peter's Square, the Pope urged \"comfort to those who are persecuted for their religious faith, especially missionaries and members of the faithful who have been kidnapped, and to the victims of attacks by extremist groups, particularly in Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and Nigeria\".\n\nAn attack on Christmas Eve in Burkina Faso left 35 people dead, most of them women.\n\nHundreds of people have been killed in the country over the past few years, mostly by jihadist groups.\n\nHours earlier, in a rare joint message with two other Western Church leaders, the Pope appealed for peace in South Sudan.\n\nIn their statement, the pontiff, the head of the Anglican Church and the former moderator of the Church of Scotland called for \"a renewed commitment to the path of reconciliation and fraternity\".\n\nSouth Sudan declared independence from Sudan in 2011 but has been crippled by conflict ever since.\n\nIn what was his seventh \"Urbi et Orbi\" (\"To the City and the World\") Christmas Day address, the Pope also highlighted other hotspots of unrest including Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, Venezuela, Ukraine and the Holy Land.\n\nFor change to happen for the better, he said, people had to be more compassionate.\n\n\"May [God] soften our often stony and self-centred hearts, and make them channels of His love. May He bring His smile, through our poor faces, to all the children of the world: to those who are abandoned and those who suffer violence,\" he said.\n• None In pictures: Christmas around the world", "Black Friday discounts and bad weather have been blamed for a decline in Boxing Day shoppers, with retail analysts reporting a fall in the number of people heading for the sales.\n\nSpringboard, which analyses customer activity in stores, said footfall had seen the largest decline since 2011, dropping by 8.6%.\n\nIt said Boxing Day was becoming less important as a trading day.\n\nBut there were still queues for some shops from as early as 04:30 GMT.\n\nHowever, the retail data analyst, which examines information from UK High Street and shopping centre cameras, said more people were waiting until later in the day to head to the shops in search of a bargain.\n\nDiane Wehrle, insights director at Springboard, said: \"It is clear that consumers visited high streets more in the early evening than during the day.\"\n\nBy lunchtime on Boxing Day, footfall was 10.6% lower than last year, its biggest annual decline since 2010, when Springboard first published its data.\n\nCommenting on the disappointing morning for retailers, Ms Wehrle said many consumers were still celebrating Christmas with their family on Boxing Day, while the rainy weather, online shopping and increased Black Friday spending were also possible factors for the drop in footfall.\n\n\"Boxing Day is indisputably a less important trading day than it once was,\" Ms Wehrle said.\n\nCustomers queue outside Selfridges in London ahead of the Boxing Day sale.\n\nSome bargain-hunters did brave the rain, with some shoppers on London's Oxford Street waiting for stores to open at 9am.\n\nOthers queued outside Selfridges in Greater Manchester's Trafford Centre at 4.30am.\n\nAs the doors to Next opened in Liverpool at 06:00 GMT, more than 150 people were waiting outside the store.\n\nA total of £3.7 billion was expected to be spent in the Boxing Day sales, according to Barclaycard, with four in 10 UK adults predicted to spend an average of £186 each.\n\nBut environmental concerns were also expected to drive down buying, with shoppers also predicted to spend £200 million less in post-Christmas sales this year compared to last year.\n\nOpinium Research surveyed 2,002 UK adults online for Barclaycard between 29 November and 3 December.", "To celebrate its 50th anniversary year Scottish Ballet granted five wishes.\n\nPeople from across Scotland were invited to submit their ballet dreams and a celebrity judging panel, which included Dame Darcey Bussell, selected the final five.\n\nThe individual stories and their impact on the wider community were captured by BBC Scotland for a documentary.\n\nLily Douglas took a class with the Scottish Ballet company\n\nIn January, Lily Douglas, who has been living with rare cancer Ewing's Sarcoma, was invited backstage at Glasgow's Theatre Royal.\n\nThe 11-year-old avid dancer, from Perth, thought she was attending a workshop but was told she would actually be watching the company take their morning class, before joining them on stage.\n\nLily has had 14 rounds of chemotherapy and her left shoulder blade removed but it has not stopped her passion for dance.\n\nHer mother Jane said: \"Lily used to come out of chemo and go straight to dancing. We are now two and a half years down the line and her doctor thinks she is amazing. She thinks she is a miracle.\"\n\nThe day the wish was granted was the last time Jemma (centre) made it to the dance studio\n\nThe Academy Street Dance Studio, from Aberdeen, worked with Scottish Ballet to create a special performance in April - but the person who had made the wish was not there.\n\nJemma McRae, who ran the studio, died from breast cancer months earlier.\n\nThe 43-year-old's death came less than a week after Scottish Ballet visited her studio to announce it would be bringing its stars to the dance school as a way of thanking the youngsters for their support throughout her cancer journey.\n\nWhen the wish was granted, Jemma said it was not for her but for the people who came to her dance studio.\n\nShe said: \"My first wish would be for a cure for cancer, but that's not possible right now - so I'm hoping to give back to the students and parents who have supported me.\"\n\nDance school teacher Gillian Stuart said working towards the wish filled some of the emptiness felt by Jemma's death.\n\n\"It gave us something to focus on and kept us really busy,\" she said.\n\nFollowing a day of workshops with Scottish Ballet, 85 dancers from the dance studio performed to an audience of 600 friends and family at Aberdeen's Beach Ballroom.\n\nJemma's mum Marlene said her daughter would have loved it.\n\n\"This was her life. She loved every minute of dancing, every child, and she would have given anything to be here,\" she said.\n\nScottish Ballet and Alzheimer Scotland's Every Voice Choir perform Wish 3\n\nIn June, a choir made up of people with dementia as well as their families and carers had their wish granted when they performed with dancers from Scottish Ballet.\n\nEvery Voice Community Choir, run by Alzheimer's Scotland, created a unique performance at St Augustine's Church in Dumbarton, where they rehearse.\n\nThe BBC documentary shows Catherine and her husband Danny, who was diagnosed with vascular dementia at just 52.\n\nThe couple met as teenagers and have been married for 33 years.\n\nAfter the \"shock\" of Danny's diagnosis they found the choir and Catherine went along to support her husband. She soon found herself joining in.\n\nPrincipal dancer Bethany Kingsley-Garner and soloist Evan Loudon performed while the choir sang\n\n\"The choir has become a big part of our lives,\" Danny says.\n\n\"It really helps you progress through a journey where you don't know where it is going to take you.\"\n\n\"It gives you the confidence to take the next step.\"\n\nCatherine says her husband was worried at first that he might have to do ballet.\n\n\"I didn't think I would suit a tutu,\" he says.\n\nFor the wish, Scottish Ballet soloist Jamiel Laurence choreographed a duet between principal Bethany Kingsley-Garner and soloist Evan Loudon.\n\nThey danced as the 50-strong choir performed their rendition of 'Only You' by British synth-pop band Yazoo.\n\nThe dance company also invited the choir to perform on stage at a performance of The Snow Queen in Edinburgh in December.\n\nIn October, young designer Poppy Camden joined Scottish Ballet on tour to work with the wardrobe department.\n\nPoppy, a recent graduate of the Fashion Design programme at Glasgow School of Art, experienced what goes into creating, fitting and maintaining costumes for the production of The Crucible at Eden Court Theatre in Inverness.\n\nScottish Ballet artistic director Christopher Hampson said the wardrobe team were the \"unsung heroes\" of the company.\n\n\"They don't get to be on stage like the dancers but all of their work is on the stage,\" he said.\n\nPoppy said there was an \"incredible amount of detail\" that goes into the costumes. \"It has been a real eye-opener,\" she said.\n\n\"For anyone who has seen the Scottish Ballet productions, they make it look effortless. But there is a lot of graft going on behind, which is fascinating to see.\"\n\nThe final wish saw musician Colin Bowen, who has lived with Parkinson's disease for almost 20 years, conduct the 70-strong Scottish Ballet Orchestra.\n\nAt the age of 45, Colin was diagnosed with Parkinson's - a neurological condition that affects the central nervous system.\n\n\"Music takes me away to another land,\" he tells the programme.\n\nColin is an accomplished musician, teacher and conductor but his worsening condition means he is no longer able to play to the standard he once did.\n\n\"I have never lost the will to do music and do it well,\" he says.\n\nIt was his wife Anne who put in the wish to put Colin back where she thinks he belongs, conducting a full professional orchestra.\n\n\"He's just so talented and it is such a shame this talent was taken away because of Parkinson's,\" she says.\n\nColin says: \"It is an opportunity for me to give Parkinson's a kick up the backside.\"", "Justice Minister Masako Mori: \"It is an extremely cruel and brutal case\"\n\nJapan has hanged a Chinese man for the high-profile and brutal murder of a family of four, the first execution of a foreigner in 10 years.\n\nThe man, Wei Wei, carried out the murders in 2003 with two accomplices.\n\nThey fled to China, where one was executed in 2005 and the other sentenced to life in jail.\n\nJapan has more than 100 prisoners on death row. Fifteen were executed last year, including 13 members of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult.\n\nJapan only started to disclose the names of executed inmates in 2007. Between then and the latest execution only one foreigner had been named - a Chinese man hanged in 2009.\n\nJustice Minister Masako Mori said she had signed off on the execution of Wei Wei \"after careful consideration\".\n\n\"It is an extremely cruel and brutal case in which the happily living family members, including an eight-year-old and 11-year-old, were all murdered because of truly selfish reasons,\" she said.\n\nIn Japan, death row inmates are not told of their impending execution until the day it is carried out.\n\nWei Wei, a former language student aged 40, had admitted carrying out the murders but denied playing the leading role.\n\nHe and his accomplices had tried to rob the home of businessman Shinjiro Matsumoto in the city of Fukuoka.\n\nMr Matsumoto was strangled, his two children strangled or smothered and his wife drowned in the bath.\n\nTheir bodies were weighed down and dumped in Hakata Bay, the Asahi Shimbun reported.\n\nThe Chinese man hanged in 2009 had killed three Chinese people he lived with in Tokyo.\n\nThe increase in executions in 2018 was the consequence of a Sarin nerve agent attack on the Tokyo underground system in 1995 by Aum Shinrikyo, an obscure religious group that believed the end of the world was coming.\n\nThirteen people died and at least 5,800 were injured in the attack.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The Russian leader has ramped up pressure on Poland in recent comments\n\nAs top Russian officials were summing up the results of 2019, one subject stood out in President Vladimir Putin's pronouncements: Poland and its role in World War Two.\n\nOver the past seven days, he mentioned it no fewer than five times at key meetings - some of which had little to do with history or even foreign policy.\n\nIn an unusual outburst at a Defence Ministry board on 24 December, he described the Polish ambassador to Nazi Germany as \"scum and an anti-Semite pig\".\n\nTwo hours later, he brought the subject up again at a meeting with parliamentary leaders. State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin thanked Putin and demanded an apology from Poland.\n\nThe following day, President Putin held his traditional end-of-year meeting with Russia's key businesspeople. According to the Russian edition of Forbes magazine, there, too, he \"surprised everyone with how deeply he was immersed in historical materials relating to the start of World War II and Poland's positions\".\n\nHe is also planning to pen an article about the subject. But why the sudden interest?\n\nThe meeting with business leaders was held in a grand setting in the Kremlin\n\nVladimir Putin's criticism of Poland follows a European Parliament resolution which blames both the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany for the outbreak of World War Two.\n\nFor the Russian president, equating the two \"is the height of cynicism\", and once again he resorted to a practice which his critics disparagingly call \"whataboutism\" - where he tried to turn the tables by levelling the charge at someone else, namely Poland.\n\nThe Soviet Union has frequently been accused of carving Poland up together with Nazi Germany as a result of its pact of non-aggression with Hitler (known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact).\n\nIn September 1939, the Polish Republic was invaded first by Hitler and two weeks later by Stalin, with Germany and the Soviet Union annexing the whole of the country between them.\n\nBut why is Putin angered by accusations against a country - the Soviet Union - that does not exist any more?\n\nThe German-Soviet Pact was signed in 1939\n\nThe USSR's victory in World War Two is one of the most venerated pillars of state ideology, and more than 70 years on it is still celebrated with much fanfare and bombast every year. It is also a key way for President Putin to legitimise himself and his expansionist foreign policy as a successor to the Soviet empire. So the Kremlin sees any criticism of what is known in Russia as the Great Victory as an attack on itself.\n\nNone of which is, of course, reason enough for Poland to accept the accusations, which it has described as \"false narratives\".\n\nThey are a highly sensitive subject in Poland, which outlawed suggestions of complicity in Nazi war crimes in 2018. Following an outcry, the law was softened to make them a civil, not a criminal offence.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What do Russians think of Stalin?", "Rowan Williams said some people have 'sinister' reasons for denying climate change\n\nThe environmental crisis is the \"largest challenge ever\" to the human race, the former Archbishop of Canterbury has said.\n\nInterviewed by artist Grayson Perry for BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Rowan Williams said climate change is \"everybody's problem\".\n\nDr Williams said some people do not believe in the crisis because it is \"just too uncomfortable to face\".\n\nBut he warned that for others there is a more \"sinister\" reason for denial.\n\nPerry, who was the day's guest editor on the Today programme, asked Dr Williams what the driving force was behind people disbelieving climate change.\n\nDr Williams, who held the senior Church of England post between 2002 and 2012, said some people were reluctant to acknowledge the climate crisis because it would require them to change their behaviour.\n\n\"For others I think there's a rather a more sinister feeling that this must be some kind of conspiracy,\" Dr Williams said, citing those who might think climate change has been \"invented by communists, illuminati or some mysterious group\".\n\nDr Williams added: \"So that's something I worry about a bit more, the idea that there are people who genuinely believe climate change is a huge confidence trick.\"\n\nPerry, a Turner Award prize winning artist, said he wanted to speak to Dr Williams as he was an \"expert on the nature of belief\", which is not \"necessarily about facts\".\n\nGrayson Perry is the first of this year's four guest editors on Today over Christmas week\n\nDiscussing this month's general election, Dr Williams said there were \"myths\" on both sides of the political spectrum.\n\n\"Broadly on the Conservative side, there's an assumption still that most of our ills are caused by something coming in from outside,\" Dr Williams said, adding it was a \"compelling\" and \"comforting\" myth.\n\nWhereas a \"left wing myth\" would be the idea that it is possible to \"legislate justice into being\" and make tragedy and misunderstanding impossible, Dr Williams said.\n\nDr Williams spoke to Perry as part of the latter's guest editorship of the Today programme, the reins of which are handed to high-profile public figures during the week between Christmas Day and New Year.\n\nThis year's line-up includes environmental activist Greta Thunberg, Supreme Court President, Baroness Hale, spoken word artist George the Poet and journalist Charles Moore.", "Last updated on .From the section Liverpool\n\nLiverpool boss Jurgen Klopp says it is \"a crime\" that some Premier League teams have to play two games in three days over the festive period.\n\nThe Reds travel to Leicester on Thursday, before hosting Wolves on Sunday but most other sides only have one day off between games.\n\nAfter winning the Club World Cup in Qatar and defeat in the Carabao Cup, Liverpool will have played nine games in a packed December.\n\n\"It's absolutely not OK,\" Klopp said.\n\n\"And we still have it. None of the managers have a problem with matches on Boxing Day, but playing the 26th and 28th is a crime.\n\n\"We can say whatever we want and no-one is really interested but every year it is the same for the coaches involved in it.\"\n• None Download and listen to the latest Football Daily podcast\n\nThe Club World Cup was the second trophy Liverpool - who are 10 points clear at the top of the Premier League with a game in hand - have won this season, after they beat Chelsea on penalties to win the Uefa Super Cup in August.\n\nThe semi-final and final in Qatar clashed with Liverpool's Carabao Cup quarter-final defeat at Aston Villa, meaning they had to send separate teams to compete in the competitions.\n\nKlopp's side, who are chasing a first league title in 30 years, will have two days of rest between festive Premier League fixtures, but 14 sides will only get one day off between matches.\n\n\"There is no reason to give teams less than 48 hours to play another Premier League game,\" Klopp added.\n\n\"Sports science doesn't give you something to deal with it. The body needs a specific amount of time to go again. It's easy. That's science. But you ignore that completely.\"\n\nRoy Hodgson's Crystal Palace play West Ham at home on Thursday (15:00 GMT) and just 48 hours later face Southampton away on Saturday (15:00).\n\n\"I enjoy the training, the matches themselves somewhat less so as I think it's harsh to play at the level we play at with just a day's rest,\" said Hodgson.\n\n\"It's too much to ask. I don't enjoy that part, it's a very dangerous period - there can be injuries, there can be fatigue. Suddenly you find yourself looking up the table rather than down.\"", "Survivors walk through the debris on Phuket's Patong beach the day after the tsunami\n\nShortly before 08:00 on 26 December 2004, a magnitude-9.1 earthquake struck under the sea in northern Indonesia.\n\nIn the hours that followed, a massive tsunami fanned out across the Indian Ocean, killing close to 230,000 people, most in Indonesia.\n\nAhead of the 15th anniversary of the tragedy, BBC Thai's Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai visited southern Thailand, which was devastated by the tsunami.\n\nThis is the story of some of those who survived and what they did to help afterwards. You may find some of the details distressing.\n\nThat morning on Patong beach was very quiet. I was stationed close to Patong Hospital on a rescue truck. Then I got hungry, so I drove toward the beach in order to find something to eat.\n\nIt was the day after the hospital staff party - it was my day off and I had a long lie-in. At 08:00, I heard my wooden bedroom windows were shaking. I told my wife that it must be from the car outside. Then I rolled back to sleep.\n\nSamran Chanyang - master of ceremonies and mortician at Yan Yao temple\n\nI led the prayer ceremony on the morning of 26 December 2004, which was a Buddhist holy day. I said the prayer into the microphone, so everyone could hear it. All of a sudden, we lost the power and we felt the earthquake. I continued without the speaker afterwards.\n\nI sat there to enjoy my breakfast with the beach view. As I sat there, I felt the earthquake at around 08:00. No one panicked or worried. I continued to sit there waiting to get an emergency call.\n\nWe were on our way back from a month-long marine research trip in the Indian Ocean. We made a stop at Koh Racha Yai island in Phuket for a diving lesson for our interns. The sea was quite calm, the sky was so clear and blue. I told my team: 'What a perfect day to be in the sea.'\n\nPrimpraow Jitpentom - nurse on a diving trip near the Mahidol ship\n\nI took my friends from Bangkok out for a diving trip on that Sunday morning. I did this many times but my husband had never seen the underwater world. I told him it was really worth it.\n\nAfter breakfast, we all went to the end of the boat on the deck to watch the intern diving with instructors. All of a sudden, I felt the ship lift and swing to the left and to the right. We had no idea what happened, but my instinct told me to start the ship and head out to the middle of the sea.\n\nOur speedboat was getting closer to the shore. All of a sudden, the diving instructor told the boat driver to stop since he noticed something was wrong. He pointed to the sea and told me there was no water at the beach. He told me: 'This can't be good.'\n\nEmergency worker Wittaya Tantawanich: \"I closed my eyes, prayed, and prepared to die\"\n\nAt 10:00, I started to hear local food sellers, they were pointing to the beach. They all said 'Let's go catch fish.' The water had gone down very far, to the middle of the sea, and there were many fish lying around all over the place. I chuckled at what I saw but it wasn't long before I realised something was wrong. As the water came back, one food seller ran back and told everyone in that area to run away from the beachfront as far as possible.\n\nAs I looked toward the shore of the island, I saw one big wave hit the beach and sweep umbrellas and chairs down into the sea.\n\nIt didn't look like the killer wave you see in the movies. What I saw at first was just a flash flood that brought a massive amount of water. As the flood got closer, it started to pick up speed. Finally it hit street level and the water continued to rise. I hopped back in my truck and drove up the hill. At that moment, everything was crazy. So many people were running away from the water.\n\nSomchai and Primpraow Jitpentom, who treated the injured while on holiday\n\nSomchai Jitpentom - doctor on diving holiday with his wife\n\nI contacted my friend who was in the navy and he told me it was a tsunami. He told us to find a big ship and get up there. I saw the Mahidol ship was on its way out from the bay, so we stopped them and asked for help.\n\nThen the water went down, so far out, before the second wave hit the beach again. This time it dragged bungalows and restaurants down to the sea with it.\n\nAs we got on the ship, I saw houses and restaurants on Koh Racha Yai pulled down into the sea. That's when I realised something serious had happened. So we all agreed that we should go help other people on the nearby island since we had two doctors and two nurses on board.\n\nI held my sons tight in my arms and told them 'Mummy and Daddy love you very much. If anything happens, just stay afloat in this life vest. Don't try to swim, someone will come to find you and help you.'\n\nI heard on my walkie-talkie that the second wave had hit. It didn't take long before the whole city was in mayhem. I went back down after the second wave retreated. At that point, I still had no idea what had happened. All I knew was I had to help people.\n\nSamran Chanyang was called to duty while knowing his son was missing\n\nSamran Chanyang - master of ceremonies and mortician at Yan Yao temple\n\nThe ceremony ended just like any other day. Then I went back home, right behind the temple.\n\nSuddenly I heard a lot of cars go by on the main street. All of them were speeding through and honking and they passed by the area. Then villagers here started talking about how villages along the beach here were all gone because of the wave.\n\nWhen I woke up again around 10:00, I took my family out for breakfast before I received a phone call from the hospital calling me in for an emergency. We had a plan to handle a disaster of a massive scale. But we didn't have a plan for something this big.\n\nI got a request to go to a supermarket on the beach road where many people were trapped inside. When I arrived, I saw staff floating face down in the water that flooded the basement of the building. Some of them were still alive but many of them were dead.\n\nI turned on the TV and saw what happened in my area. I didn't know about the tsunami until then. I was shocked and worried since my son had gone to work in Khao Lak [on the mainland coast north of Phuket]. He was a painter and it was meant to be the last working day for him before a long break. I contacted him, but I was unable to reach him.\n\nWe decided to head toward Phi Phi island as it wasn't too far and they had been badly hit. When we arrived, it wasn't something I expected. All I saw were dead bodies floating in the water.\n\nAs we tried to help more people in the supermarket, I heard from outside that another wave was coming. I was looking for the nearest way out but I knew I wouldn't be able to make it. So I closed my eyes, prayed, and prepared to die. Luckily, it came up to street level and stopped.\n\nDr Weerawit Sarideepan: \"There were thousands of dead bodies waiting to be identified\"\n\nHundreds of people were sent in. Most of them had broken bones or cuts on their bodies. Then dead bodies started to come in.\n\nMy son's three friends told me he was missing. I was about to go out looking for him but then the hospital contacted me. They said they needed a place to put dead bodies from the wave so I had to be on standby at the temple waiting for the hospital to deliver the bodies. By 19:00, hundreds of dead bodies start to arrive. We had no place for them so they were wrapped in plastic and white sheets before laying on the ground all over the temple.\n\nThe hospital director asked me to go to help implant microchips into the dead bodies as requested by the forensic police. When I first arrived, the local police took me to Wat Yan Yao, where there were thousands of dead bodies waiting to be identified. As I stepped into the temple, I could smell dead bodies the way I never had before in my life. I noticed the temple ground covered in blood and lymph.\n\nWe decided to help only the injured survivors and we finally rescued at least 414 tourists and locals, and transferred them to a more equipped hospital on Phuket. We were happy to help many people that day.\n\nThe following day, more bodies start to come in. The military started to bring in containers to keep the bodies in. By the middle of the second day, I saw a mountain of dead bodies piling up and it was very sad to see.\n\nI went out with my other sons and friends to look for my eldest son. It took me half a day to find him. He was trapped and died inside the building where he was.\n\nI'd been a rescue worker all my life but I'd never experienced anything that huge before.\n\nIt was a wave like no other.\n• None Indian Ocean tsunami: Then and now", "Jolyon Maugham is director of the Good Law Project\n\nThe RSPCA is investigating after a prominent lawyer said he killed a fox with a baseball bat.\n\nJolyon Maugham posted on Twitter on Thursday morning: \"Already this morning I have killed a fox with a baseball bat. How's your Boxing Day going?\"\n\nThe animal welfare charity tweeted that the claim was \"distressing\".\n\nMr Maugham, who has brought a number of legal challenges related to Brexit, later apologised if anyone was \"upset\" by his tweet.\n\nHe said the fox had got caught in protective netting around his chickens at his central London home and he \"wasn't sure what else to do\".\n\n\"My chickens were very distressed by the fox, both before and after I'd despatched it - and I wanted it out of the way quickly,\" he said in another tweet.\n\nGiving further details, Mr Maugham said he had been wearing his wife's \"too small green kimono\" and nursing a hangover at the time.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jo Maugham QC This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Maugham said he had spoken to the RSPCA and given them his contact details.\n\nThe RSPCA said in a tweet on Wednesday night: \"We're aware of a situation regarding a fox, and would like to reassure people that we're investigating.\n\n\"Due to a very high volume of tweets, unfortunately we can't respond to every single one, and are unable to provide further comment right now. Thank you for your understanding.\"\n\nGovernment guidelines state you can use cage traps and snares to catch foxes and you must \"humanely kill any fox you catch while it's in the trap or snare\".\n\nMr Maugham is director of the Good Law Project and has been involved in several high-profile legal challenges, including against Boris Johnson's decision to suspend Parliament for five weeks.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt least 150 houses have been destroyed by fast-moving woodland fires in the Chilean city of Valparaíso.\n\nThe fires, which spread through the Rocuant and San Roque hills, reached two poor residential areas and were still burning on Christmas Day. There have been no reports of any casualties.\n\nInterior Minister Gonzalo Blumel said evidence gathered so far indicated the fires had been started deliberately.\n\nResidents returned to see the charred remains of their homes\n\nPower was cut to about 90,000 customers in the area as a precautionary measure. Two schools were turned into shelters for the affected residents, who were forced to flee in the middle of Christmas Eve celebrations.\n\nMayor Jorge Sharp said a state of emergency had been declared in the city, some 100km (62 miles) from the capital, Santiago.\n\nA video posted on social media showed a car next to where a fire started. Prosecutors were investigating the footage as well as reports from residents that cars were seen in the hills affected moments before the fires began, Emol website reports.\n\nA number of houses were gutted by the fires\n\nAll of Valparaíso's firefighters were deployed\n\nAgriculture Minister Antonio Walker visited the areas and admitted that the firefighters were struggling to contain the fires.\n\nNearly 120 hectares (445 acres) of grassland have already been ravaged.\n\nFirefighting helicopters have also been deployed\n\nResidents have desperately tried to salvage their personal belongings in the festive period\n\nOn Twitter, President Sebastián Piñera said: \"We deeply regret the fire that affects so many families in the hills of Valparaíso and especially on Christmas Eve.\"\n\nValparaíso, in central Chile, is one of country's largest cities and a major port on the Pacific. It is also a popular tourist destination in South America.\n\nIn 2017, the central Chilean town of Santa Olga was destroyed by wildfires.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Queen will use her Christmas Day message to acknowledge that 2019 has been \"quite bumpy\".\n\nShe will say the path is never \"smooth\" but \"small steps\" can heal divisions.\n\nIt comes after a year of intense political debate over Brexit, as well as a number of personal events affecting the Royal Family.\n\nHer husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, 98, has left hospital after four nights of treatment for a \"pre-existing condition\".\n\nBuckingham Palace said the duke had gone to the King Edward VII's hospital on his doctor's advice for \"observation and treatment\".\n\nPrince Charles told reporters on Monday that hospital staff had looked after his father \"very well\".\n\nIn January, the Duke of Edinburgh was involved in a car crash while driving near the Queen's Sandringham Estate in Norfolk. He escaped uninjured, but two women required hospital treatment.\n\nIn September, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex publicly revealed their struggles under the media spotlight during their tour of southern Africa.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex welcomed their first child, Archie, in May\n\nLast month, the Duke of York withdrew from public life after a BBC interview about his ties to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself in August.\n\nThe Queen, 93, recorded her annual message, to be broadcast on BBC One at 15:00 GMT on Christmas Day, before Prince Philip was admitted to hospital.\n\nShe refers to the life of Jesus and the importance of reconciliation, saying \"small steps taken in faith and in hope can overcome long-held differences and deep-seated divisions to bring harmony and understanding\".\n\n\"The path, of course, is not always smooth, and may at times this year have felt quite bumpy, but small steps can make a world of difference.\"\n\nIt has been a year which, at times, may have felt \"quite bumpy\", so the Queen will say in her Christmas broadcast.\n\nIt is a choice of words which will inevitably prompt speculation about what it is that she's referring to.\n\nShe does not offer any clarification herself, though the remark is made in the context of overcoming what she calls \"long-held differences\" and how \"small steps taken in faith and in hope can overcome deep-seated divisions\".\n\nThe obvious interpretation is that this is the Queen's - as ever - coded message to the country to try to move on from the divisions of the Brexit debate, but the reference to a \"bumpy\" year may also be taken to refer to events within her own family after a year which has seen the Duke of Edinburgh's car accident, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex complaining about the difficulties of being in the public eye and the controversies around Prince Andrew.\n\nThe head of state - who is publicly neutral on political matters - will also use her message to highlight the 75th anniversary of the World War Two D-Day landings, and how former \"sworn enemies\" joined together in friendly commemorations to mark the milestone this year.\n\nIn June, the UK hosted an event in Portsmouth commemorating the 75th anniversary of D-Day and attended by world leaders including US President Donald Trump, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron.\n\nWorld leaders gather at an event to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day\n\nThe Queen said: \"By being willing to put past differences behind us and move forward together, we honour the freedom and democracy once won for us at so great a cost.\"\n\nThe broadcast was produced by the BBC and recorded in the green drawing room of Windsor Castle after the general election.\n\nThe Queen wore a royal blue cashmere dress by Angela Kelly, and the sapphire and diamond Prince Albert brooch, a present from Albert to Queen Victoria on the eve of their wedding in 1840.\n\nShe is filmed sitting at a desk featuring photographs of her family, including one of the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall, and a black-and-white image of the Queen's father, King George VI.\n\nThere is also a photograph of of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their children - Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis - perched on and around a motorbike and sidecar - an image used for the couple's Christmas card.\n\nOn Monday, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex revealed their festive greeting via the Queen's Commonwealth Trust Twitter account.\n\nIt features a photograph of Harry and Meghan with their seven-month-old son Archie crawling towards the camera, and a message reading: \"Merry Christmas and a happy new year... from our family to yours\".\n\nThe card was emailed to friends and colleagues on Monday, with hard copies sent to family.\n\nThe couple are currently spending time in Canada while taking a festive break from royal duties with their son, who was born in May.\n\nPrince Andrew has faced criticism over his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein\n\nPrince Andrew's appearance on BBC Newsnight last month was one of the year's biggest news stories involving the monarchy.\n\nIn the interview, Prince Andrew defended his relationship with Epstein, who took his own life in August while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.\n\nThe prince was heavily criticised for showing a lack of empathy towards Epstein's victims and little remorse over his friendship with the disgraced US financier.\n\nHe later issued a statement saying he continued to \"unequivocally regret my ill-judged association with Jeffrey Epstein\" and he deeply sympathised with everyone who was affected.", "Newly-diagnosed cancer patients are to be offered NHS gym sessions before they start chemotherapy, in the hope of boosting the speed of their recovery.\n\nThousands will be invited to sign up for a \"prehab\" fitness programme within 48 hours of being diagnosed.\n\nThe aim is to make patients \"match fit\" ahead of chemotherapy or major surgery.\n\nExperts hope a regime of three fitness sessions a week will reduce the time patients spend in hospital by \"priming\" them for their recovery.\n\nA mix of high intensity cardio workouts and strength-based training, plus nutritional advice and mental health support, will be made available.\n\nAlthough patients would be referred for \"prehab\" within 48 hours of their diagnosis, the start date for the fitness plan may vary on a case by case basis following consultation with a doctor.\n\nMore than 500 patients are already taking part in the exercise programme in Greater Manchester, while another 2,000 are expected to participate over the next two years.\n\nSimilar services are being run in London, Leicester and Yorkshire.\n\nNHS chief executive Simon Stevens said cancer treatments can take a \"toll\" on the body, despite working \"better than ever\".\n\n\"There's increasing evidence that it's really worth trying to get match fit ahead of chemo or major surgery,\" he added.\n\n\"In effect you are 'priming' your own recovery before your treatment even begins.\"\n\nPatient David Fowles entered the \"prehab\" programme earlier this year ahead of his 10.5-hour surgery.\n\nMr Fowles said: \"I was told I'd be in hospital for two, three or four weeks. Well, I was out within nine days. I couldn't believe it. All this is down to the fitness regime - it's been marvellous.\n\n\"If someone had told me in February... that I would be going to the gym, I'd have laughed at them,\" the 68-year-old retiree added.\n\nThe BBC spoke to patients at Wrexham Maelor Hospital last month who had taken part in \"prehab\" trial sessions.\n\nOne patient, 77-year-old Allen Prescott, had surgery following a bowel cancer diagnosis. His wife credits the scheme with his recovery.\n\nJune Davis, an adviser at Macmillan Cancer Support, said: \"While it might seem extraordinary that newly-diagnosed patients are being referred to exercise classes and personal trainers, we know that prehabilitation can support people during this difficult time to prepare both physically and mentally for treatment, reclaim a sense of control and improve their health in the long-term.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour \"pursued a path of almost comic indecision\" over Brexit during the election and \"alienated both sides of the debate\", Tony Blair has said.\n\nIn a speech in London, the ex-PM said he believed the party could have kept much of the vote in traditional Labour areas under a different leadership.\n\nThe situation was \"made impossible by failure to take a clear position and to stick to it\", Mr Blair said.\n\n\"The result has brought shame on us. We let our country down,\" he added.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC's Newsnight, Mr Blair said \"the Labour Party, by its self-indulgence - and that's what it was in the end - was the effective handmaiden of Brexit.\n\n\"It's not our fault, because the fault is with those who advocated it - but our combination of misguided ideology and utter incompetence allowed it to happen.\"\n\nJeremy Corbyn told MPs on Tuesday that he \"took responsibility\" for Labour's worst electoral performance, in terms of seats won, since 1935.\n\nAnd some of his supporters within the party, including shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon, have called Mr Blair's comments an \"oversimplification\" and said Mr Corbyn should not be blamed for the loss.\n\nLabour's leader in Wales, and First Minister, Mark Drakeford, said there was \"nothing wrong\" with the party's \"basic message\" and it just had to be \"retuned\" in five years' time.\n\nMr Corbyn has said he will stand down as Labour leader \"early next year\".\n\nBut he was criticised to his face by some Labour colleagues, with former MP Mary Creagh saying the lack of a personal apology showed he was a \"man without honour and without shame\".\n\nMeanwhile, Emily Thornberry has become the first MP to officially put herself forward to replace Mr Corbyn as Labour leader.\n\nIn an article for the Guardian, she said she has already \"pummelled\" Boris Johnson across the despatch box and said she would be able to exploit the prime minister's failings.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mary Creagh on Jeremy Corbyn: \"He should be apologising\"\n\nIn his speech, ex-Labour leader Mr Blair - a longstanding critic of the party's move to the left under Mr Corbyn - said: \"I believe with different leadership we would have kept much of our vote in traditional Labour areas.\n\n\"Instead, we pursued a path of almost comic indecision - alienated both sides of the debate.\"\n\nAnd he said the party should never have fallen into the \"Elephant trap\" of agreeing to a \"Brexit election\" without a clear position on Brexit and with a leader who had a \"net approval rating of minus 40%\".\n\nMr Blair knows his intervention will probably be dismissed by many in the Labour Party, and he will be reviled by Corbynites.\n\nBut what, I think, he is trying to do is open a genuine debate, in the aftermath of Labour's worst defeat since 1935.\n\nHis analysis is the scale of the defeat now threatens the very future and survival of the Labour Party - that under Mr Corbyn it has travelled so far from electability that if it carries on on that trajectory it will never be returned to government and it will be replaced by another force, another party.\n\nSo his analysis is a pretty stark one: Either the party claws back from the Corbyn agenda - or it's over.\n\nLabour fought the 2017 general election on a platform of leaving the EU.\n\nBut it switched to backing another referendum, under pressure from its members and senior figures in the shadow cabinet.\n\nDuring this year's election campaign, Mr Corbyn said he wanted renegotiate a Brexit deal with the EU and then put it to a public vote, with the option of remaining in the EU.\n\nBut he said he would not take sides during the referendum campaign, and would act instead as an \"honest broker\" who could unite the Leave and Remain factions.\n\nMr Blair said \"it would have been better\" if Mr Corbyn had just said he was pro-Brexit, in line with his longstanding Euroscepticism.\n\n\"When things are really tough in politics, you might as well do what you believe in, because at least you'll be more convincing defending it,\" he said.\n\nMr Blair insisted his criticism of Mr Corbyn as leader was not an attack on him \"as a person\".\n\nBut he added: \"People saw him as fundamentally opposing what Britain and Western countries stand for.\"\n\nMr Corbyn personified \"a brand of quasi-revolutionary socialism - mixing far-left economic policy with deep hostility to Western foreign policy\" - and that this combination \"never has and never will\" appeal to traditional Labour voters, he argued.\n\nAnd the far-left \"protest movement\" which was born out of Mr Corbyn's leadership was supported by \"cult trimmings\" and was \"utterly incapable\" of being voted in as a \"credible government\".\n\nTurning to allegations of anti-Semitism in Labour, Mr Blair said: \"The failure to deal with it is a matter of disgust that left some of us who voted Labour feeling for the first time in our lives conflicted about doing it.\"\n\nHe also hit back at Mr Corbyn's claim that Labour's policies were popular, arguing that individual policies, such as renationalising the railways, may have been popular but taken together, the party's manifesto was a \"100-page wish list\".\n\n\"Any fool can promise everything for free - but the people weren't fooled,\" he added.\n\nMr Blair, won three general elections in a row between 1997 and 2005, said Labour's challenge was to become a \"modern progressive coalition\" with the ability to win and hold power or admit it had \"exhausted its original mission\".\n\nHe did not support the idea that the next Labour leader had to be a woman or come from outside London, as some in the party have suggested.\n\n\"What (the public) want is someone who is going to govern the country with a creditable programme,\" he told the audience.\n\nAmong the Labour seats in the North of England to fall to the Conservatives was Mr Blair's former constituency Sedgefield, which he represented for 24 years, and which has not had a Tory MP since the 1930s.\n\nBut Shadow Justice Secretary Mr Burgon insisted Labour's election defeat should not be blamed on Mr Corbyn.\n\nHe told BBC Politics Live: \"I think it's a mistake to put everything down to a single leader or personality.\"\n\nHe blamed the \"the right-wing press\" for trying to \"toxify\" Mr Corbyn and said that the \"mistake\" Labour made \"was underestimating how much people wanted to get Brexit done\".\n\nMr Burgon said Mr Blair's analysis was an \"oversimplification\", saying: \"Does he really think that Emily Thornberry and Keir Starmer are 'hard left'?\"\n\nSam Tarry, Labour's new MP for Ilford South, said: \"It's very easy for Blair to come out with these simplistic sort of problems.\n\n\"It's under his regime that we really began to break down the trust in the electorate.\"\n\nMeanwhile, shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer has told the BBC he is \"seriously considering\" standing to be the next Labour leader.\n\nHe said the party had a \"mountain to climb\" following their election defeat.\n\nReflecting on Labour's election defeat, Sir Keir - who like Mr Blair backed another EU referendum - told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the party had failed to \"knock back\" the Conservatives' \"get Brexit done\" slogan.\n\nFormer Work and Pensions secretary Yvette Cooper said she would \"decide over Christmas\" on whether she would stand, saying the party needed to tackle anti-Semitism, restore \"kindness to our politics\" and be more \"inclusive\".\n\nLabour ended up with 59 fewer MPs than two years ago. Its share of the vote, at 32.2%, was higher than in either its 2010 or 2015 defeats, it was a long way from the 41.9% it secured under Mr Corbyn in 2017.\n\nOther candidates believed to be considering running to be Labour leader include:", "Josh Taylor become the unified IBF and WBA super-lightweight champion in October\n\nWorld boxing champion Josh Taylor has been fined £350 after admitting racially abusing a doorman when he was thrown out of an Edinburgh nightclub.\n\nThe 28-year-old made racist comments to an Asian bouncer at Shanghai club at about 03:00 on Sunday.\n\nThe super-lightweight champion pleaded guilty to charges of behaving in a threatening and abusive manner.\n\nHe later apologised and said he would take time off to \"reflect on my actions and ensure it never happens again\".\n\nTaylor, nicknamed the Tartan Tornado, currently holds the WBA and IBF world boxing titles after beating Regis Prograis on points in October.\n\nBefore becoming a professional boxer, he won gold at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.\n\nEdinburgh Sheriff Court was told that Taylor had been at the nightclub with a group of friends when he was asked to leave the premises following \"a disturbance\".\n\nPolice were called by club staff and Taylor, from Prestonpans, East Lothian, was arrested and charged.\n\nProsecutor Alistair Millar said: \"Security staff said the accused was clearly intoxicated and was also asked to leave the premises.\"\n\nSolicitor Cameron Tait, defending, said his client was a first offender who had \"achieved exceptional heights\" in his boxing career.\n\nHe said Taylor had been catching up with friends that evening when one of them was asked to leave the club due to being drunk.\n\nMr Tait said: \"Mr Taylor said he would look after his friend and he was told he must leave as well.\n\n\"He remonstrated with the door staff and advises me they were rude and aggressive. He felt a sense of frustration.\"\n\nAfter the hearing, Taylor said he was \"ashamed\" by the incident.\n\nOn Twitter, he wrote: \"I can only apologise, not only to those whom I offended, but to my family and friends for the upset I've caused.\n\n\"There's no excuse for the comments and the disturbance. I'm going to take some time off over Christmas to reflect on my actions and ensure it never happens again.\"\n\nTaylor had also been charged with possessing cocaine at an Edinburgh police station, but his not guilty plea was accepted by the Crown.\n\nHe added: \"I'm regularly tested by all the relevant authorities - and could be at any time regardless of when I'm fighting. I would never risk my career and reputation with drugs.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Caroline Davis was injured and her friend was killed in the Manchester Arena attack\n\nA school set a homework assignment about the Manchester Arena bombing where pupils were asked whether \"all terrorists should be forgiven\".\n\nBridlington School asked children to imagine themselves being a parent of a victim of the May 2017 blast.\n\nA woman who was injured in the bombing said it was \"disgusting that they feel the need to use Manchester\".\n\nThe head teacher of the East Yorkshire secondary school has apologised \"for any upset\".\n\nKate Parker Randall said the work was part of a lesson \"which was considering the consequences of crime and the aims of different punishments\".\n\n\"It followed a discussion in class about a newspaper report that the mother of one of the victims of the Manchester Arena attack had forgiven the bomber for killing her son,\" she wrote in an online apology.\n\nBridlington School's head teacher has apologised \"for any upset\" caused by the homework\n\nCaroline Davis, from Otley in West Yorkshire, suffered a shoulder injury and her friend was killed as they waited in the foyer to pick up their children after the Ariana Grande concert.\n\nShe described the question as \"disgusting\" and said she had written to the school to complain.\n\n\"It's still so raw for us all that were there and went through what we did, and I can't believe that they would use that,\" she said.\n\nThe question was also criticised by local Conservative MP Sir Greg Knight who described it as \"totally unsuitable and in rather bad taste\".\n\nThe school's head Ms Parker Randall issued an online apology after the homework attracted criticism on social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Parker Randall said \"in hindsight we would have posed the homework question in a different way\".\n\n\"The homework was intended to allow students to formulate their own views about whether hate and forgiveness are the best response to even such terrible crimes,\" she added.\n\nTwenty-two people were killed and hundreds were injured in the attack after Salman Abedi detonated a home-made device on 22 May 2017.\n\nIn November, Greater Manchester Police was accused of jeopardising the start of the public inquiry into the bombing.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nora Quoirin's parents speak publicly for the first time since her death\n\nThe parents of a teenager who died on a family holiday in Malaysia believe there was a \"criminal element\" involved in her disappearance and death.\n\nNora Quoirin's body was found beside a stream about 1.6 miles (2.5km) from her accommodation, 10 days after she disappeared in August.\n\nA post-mortem examination revealed the 15-year-old died from internal bleeding probably caused by hunger and stress.\n\nHer parents told RTÉ that they are determined to get the truth.\n\nIn an interview with the Irish broadcaster, Meabh and Sebastian Quoirin said that many serious questions still remain about Nora's disappearance.\n\nNora Quoirin's parents said that they will push for an inquest and to find some answers\n\nMeabh said that it would have been \"impossible physically, mentally to imagine that she [Nora] could have got any distance at all\".\n\n\"She never even walked as far as our neighbours' front door by herself,\" she added.\n\n\"For us something very complex happened. We have insisted from the beginning that we believe there was a criminal element to what happened.\"\n\nSebastien said then when they could not find Nora in the vicinity of the hotel they realised something serious had happened.\n\n\"To think that Nora might get up in the middle of the night, naked, barefoot, get out of the bungalow into the jungle, bearing in mind the terrain is extremely steep and dangerous, in total darkness, makes absolutely no sense,\" he told RTÉ.\n\n\"We think it is absurd to think about this possibility.\"\n\nThe Quorins said they do not believe their daughter would have wandered off alone\n\nHer unclothed body was found after a 10-day search in an area that had previously been searched by rescuers.\n\nShe was described by her family as vulnerable having been born with holoprosencephaly, a disorder which affects brain development.\n\nMalaysian Police said there was no suspicion Nora was the victim of foul play.\n\nThe Quoirins said they are still waiting on the full post mortem results from Malaysia.\n\nAnother post-mortem examination was carried out in London - they are awaiting the results of it as well.\n\nSebastien said they can get \"some degree of closure\" if they can understand what happened.\n\nMeabh Quoirin said Nora is with them every day\n\n\"We are determined to fight for her rights as a human, as a child with special needs,\" said Meabh.\n\n\"We really believe that if they'd listened to what we were trying to explain, in terms of what Nora was capable of and not capable of, then we might have been able to achieve more while we were still in Malaysia.\n\n\"But with all the right support we will push for an inquest and hope that we can still find some answers.\n\n\"I think we will be living with the horror of what happened in Malaysia for the rest of our lives.\n\n\"I think we will seek justice in so far as we can. We have to find peace in our own hearts.\n\n\"We will carry Nora with us forever. She's with us here every day. I talk to her every day. She holds my hand. We hear her, we see her in all that we do at home. We will forever be a family of five.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Caroline Flack is due to appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court on 23 December\n\nLove Island host Caroline Flack has stood down from the show after being charged with assault by beating.\n\n\"I feel the best thing I can do is stand down for series six,\" she said, describing ITV2's Love Island as \"the best show on telly\".\n\nPolice were called to the 40-year-old's home in Islington, London, last week, where she lives with her partner, tennis player Lewis Burton.\n\nShe was bailed and will appear before magistrates on Monday.\n\n\"There have been a significant number of media reports and allegations into my personal life,\" she said in her Instagram story on Tuesday.\n\n\"While matters were not as have been reported, I am committed to working with the authorities and I can't comment further on these matters until the legal process is over.\"\n\nThe star, who was due to present the forthcoming winter edition of the popular ITV2 show - which is expected to start on 12 January - added: \"However, Love Island has been my world for the last five years, it's the best show on telly.\n\n\"In order not to detract attention from the upcoming series I feel the best thing I can do is stand down for series six. I want to wish the incredible team working on the show a fantastic series in Cape Town.\"\n\nFlack began presenting Love Island in summer 2015, having fronted the 12th series of The X Factor alongside Olly Murs, and winning Strictly Come Dancing in 2014.\n\nAn ITV spokesperson said: \"ITV has a long-standing relationship with Caroline and we understand and accept her decision.\n\n\"We will remain in contact with her over the coming months about future series of Love Island.\"\n\nShe won Strictly Come Dancing in 2014\n\nOn Monday, Burton wrote on Instagram that his girlfriend had been subject to a \"witch hunt\" since being charged, describing her as \"the most lovely girl\".\n\n\"I'm tired of the lies and abuse aimed at my girlfriend. This is not a witch hunt, this is someone's life,\" he wrote.\n\nThe TV star mentioned him personally online, writing: \"My boyfriend Lewis... I love you.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Ali Zahawy was jailed for life after being convicted of murdering Andre Aderemi\n\nA convicted murderer will be \"disciplined\" after posting a Snapchat video of himself in prison appearing to \"mock\" the family of the person he stabbed to death.\n\nAli Zahawy, 22, was found guilty of murdering Andre Aderemi in Croydon, south London, in August 2016.\n\nA video sent to Mr Aderemi's mother and seen by the BBC showed Zahawy in his cell saying he was \"still banged up\".\n\nThe Prison Service said Zahawy would face longer in prison.\n\nMr Aderemi, 19, was chased around the Monks Hill estate by four men and stabbed 26 times in broad daylight.\n\nZahawy - along with Rodney Mukasa - was found guilty in May 2017 of Mr Aderemi's murder following a trial at the Old Bailey.\n\nBoth were given life sentences by Judge Zoe Smith and ordered to serve a minimum of 22 years in prison.\n\nMr Aderemi's mum, Yemi Hughes, was sent the Snapchat video, which the Ministry of Justice confirmed was recorded inside one of its prisons.\n\nIn the video Zahawy swears and says he is still locked up, then adds \"but still it could be worse - I could be dead\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Yemi Hughes asked 2019 election candidates about how to tackle knife crime in Croydon\n\nReacting to the video Ms Hughes - who taught Zahawy at school in Croydon - told BBC London she had a mixture of emotions.\n\nShe said: \"At first I was really angry by the content of it. It was like he was mocking my son.\n\n\"Then I got really emotional - why should I see your face and not my son? Then I felt annoyed.\n\n\"I am not for locking them up and throwing away the key, but there needs to be some sort of rehabilitation and some sort of sanction.\"\n\nAndre Aderemi was 19 years old when he was stabbed to death in Croydon\n\nMs Hughes also called on \"better protection for victims' families\".\n\nShe added: \"The fact they can video themselves in their cells, what they are up to and how they feel - we should not have to see that.\"\n\nA BBC investigation in 2018 found that UK prisons were \"awash\" with at least 15,000 smuggled phones and SIM cards.\n\nThe Prison Service apologised to Ms Hughes for the \"distress the video has caused\".\n\nA spokesman added: \"We are undertaking cell searches and disciplinary action against Zahawy.\n\n\"We are spending an extra £100m on prison security, and anyone found with a mobile phone in prison faces longer behind bars.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Cerys Price, 28, said she could not account for high levels of tramadol in her blood after the fatal car crash\n\nA nurse who crashed her car after taking prescription painkillers has been found guilty of death by dangerous driving.\n\nRobert Dean, 65, died after Cerys Price, 28, crashed into his car in July 2016 on the A467 near Newport.\n\nPrice, from Brynmawr, was also found guilty of causing serious injury by dangerous driving to the passenger in her car, ex-boyfriend Jack Tinklin.\n\nShe will be sentenced at Cardiff Crown Court on 6 February.\n\nRobert Dean died in the crash near Newport\n\nProsecutor Timothy Evans had told the court Price had consumed an amount of tramadol \"significantly higher than any therapeutic range\" and was in a \"drugged-up state\" and \"no way fit to drive a car\".\n\nPrice had said she could not account for high levels of the drug in her blood after the fatal crash.\n\nThe court had heard the medication had not been prescribed but had been purchased by Price while in Mexico.\n\nSpeaking outside court, Helen Howell, Mr Dean's daughter, said they had lost him to an \"act of recklessness\".\n\n\"The way in which a loving husband, father and grandfather was taken from us was so unfair, and the impact on our family has been devastating,\" she said.\n\n\"The hurt will never go away, and again we eat our Christmas lunch with an empty chair at the table.\n\n\"Justice has been a long time coming, and we finally feel now that we can attempt to draw a line under it without being constantly reminded of how he died.\"\n\nHelen Howell (left) and Katherine Harris said their father had been driving to a family celebration\n\nHer sister Katherine Harris added: \"The catastrophic effects of opioid abuse, tramadol in this case, was the reason our dad innocently died that day.\n\n\"He was on his way to a family gathering, to celebrate my daughter - his granddaughter's - birthday.\n\n\"We all have a responsibility as drivers to ensure the safety of others by adhering to the proper standards expected of us, and Cerys Price fell woefully short.\"\n\nSgt Bob Witherall of Gwent Police said it had been a long and complex investigation, adding: \"We hope this has served as a warning of the tragic consequences of misusing non-prescribed medication and then driving.\"\n\nKelly Huggins, of the Crown Prosecution Service, said: \"Being a qualified nurse, Cerys Price should have known the dangers of driving after taking these tablets, but she drove nevertheless.\n\n\"Her actions resulted in tragic consequences for an innocent motorist, her passenger and herself.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with Mr Dean's family and friends at this difficult time.\"", "Fallon Sherrock says female darts players need \"more opportunities\" after becoming the first woman to win a match at the PDC World Championship.\n\nThe 25-year-old booked her place in the second round with a 3-2 victory over Ted Evetts on Tuesday.\n\nSherrock was one of only two women to qualify for the 96-player event.\n\n\"I'm so proud to help put women's darts on the map,\" she told BBC Breakfast. \"The women's game has come on leaps and bounds and it was time we beat a man.\"\n\nHer historic victory came two years after she was subjected to online abuse about her physical appearance during the 2017 BDO World Championships, when she had a reaction to treatment she was receiving for a kidney problem, and Sherrock says those comments \"inspired me to get better and prove everyone wrong\".\n\n\"I cannot repeat those comments but they were harsh, basically calling me a 'big-faced person',\" she told the Victoria Derbyshire show.\n\n\"There are more women that can play to my level, if not better - we just need more opportunities. There are only two women that can qualify but maybe raising it to four would help.\"\n\nThe 25-year-old from Milton Keynes - only the fifth woman to play in the event - was cheered on by a partisan crowd as she came from behind to make history at Alexandra Palace.\n\nSherrock thanked the crowd for their \"amazing\" support, saying it helped \"me relax and boosted my confidence\".\n\n\"It is all just sinking in a little bit now,\" she said. \"Realisation is hitting me but I'm still speechless and over the moon.\"\n\nSherrock comes from a family of darts players - her father and her twin sister Felicia still play the game - and first picked up a dart at 17.\n\n\"I love the darts,\" she added. \"The sport has come on - we do not just play in pubs any more and there are massive international competitions.\"\n\nSherrock became ill after the birth of her son Rory in 2014 and has suffered from kidney problems since, with the treatment she was receiving in 2017 causing her face to swell and totally altering her appearance.\n\nWhy is her victory so significant?\n\nSherrock is only the fifth woman to play at the PDC World Championship.\n\nCanadian Gayl King was the first in 2000, followed by Anastasia Dobromyslova of Russia in 2009.\n\nLast year's championship was the first at which two women were guaranteed entry and Dobromyslova was joined by England's Lisa Ashton, both women losing in the first round.\n\nFemale players can reach the main draw as winners of the UK and Rest of the World qualifying events for women.\n\nJapan's Mikuru Suzuki, winner of the Rest of the World qualifier, took Englishman James Richardson to a deciding leg before losing 3-2 on Sunday, and Sherrock says Suzuki's defeat \"made her determined\".\n\n\"She came so close,\" Sherrock, who won the UK qualifying event, told BBC Radio 5 Live. \"I was screaming at the TV, egging her on, and I was gutted she didn't get over the line.\"\n\nSherrock says she has often faced sexist abuse online but her victory over Evetts has \"just proved them wrong\".\n\n\"In the sport itself it's fine, but online I have had constant sexist comments saying women are not as good as men,\" she added.\n\n\"I do not see myself at a physical disadvantage, we just do not get the opportunity to play against these men which is why you do not see it more often.\n\n\"I practise about three to four hours a day and I will play one night a week, or at the weekend in a competition.\n\n\"As long as you put the effort in with your practice, the muscles in your arm stay relaxed and mental preparation is all it takes.\"\n\nIs enough being done to promote the women's game?\n\nThe 25-year-old says promotion and more air time for the women's game will help bridge the gap and encourage more women to take up darts.\n\n\"We do play against the men but it's not televised,\" she said. \"If there was more on TV, it would be so much better.\n\n\"I hope [the victory over Evetts] inspires a lot of girls to take the sport up. It's competitive and fun and I would recommend anyone to try it.\"\n\nSherrock will face 47-year-old Austrian Mensur Suljovic in the second round, a tie she has been targeting since the \"draw came out\", but she does not want her tournament to end there.\n\n\"Mensur is one of the best in the world so I'm very excited to play him,\" she said.\n\n\"When the draw came out I was so determined to win my first round because I really wanted to play him.\n\n\"If I can just keep up with the [male players] and hit the doubles, who is to say I cannot win the championship?\"", "Jordan Davies was a father of two young children and was a keen footballer\n\nFamily of a man who was fatally stabbed in a town centre said he was \"a loving son, brother and father\".\n\nJordan Davies died on Holton Road in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, after being assaulted at about 16:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nHis family said the father of two young children would be \"greatly missed by everyone who knew and loved him.\"\n\nA 24-year-old man who was charged with murder appeared at Cardiff Magistrates' Court on Wednesday and was remanded in custody.\n\nHe later appeared at Cardiff Crown Court.\n\nDet Ch Insp Mark O'Shea from South Wales Police said: \"I would like to again express our thanks to those who tried to help in an extremely distressing situation.\"\n\nPolice were called to Holton Road, Barry on Monday afternoon\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Alex Acteson has phoned Whirlpool 40 times on behalf of her mother, Chris, who had a stroke two years ago\n\nAlex Acteson gave up on Whirlpool's website once it buckled under the weight of consumers frantically trying to find out if their washing machine needed to be recalled.\n\nInstead, on behalf of her elderly mother Chris who has a potentially fire-prone washing machine, Ms Acteson rang Whirlpool's helpline.\n\nForty phone calls later, Ms Acteson is still waiting to get through to Whirlpool. \"I'm worried,\" she said.\n\nWhirlpool - which owns the Hotpoint and Indesit brands - announced on Tuesday it had been forced to recall about 500,000 washing machines built between 2014 and 2018 after discovering some were a fire risk.\n\nCustomers were unable to check the safety of their machines online because of technical difficulties. The special recall website crashed immediately and only began working again on Wednesday afternoon.\n\nAt the same time, customers have been struggling to get through to the company's helpline.\n\nWhirlpool apologised for the problems and its vice president of communications and public affairs, Jeff Noel, said on Wednesday that the recall was \"now up and running\".\n\nBut Ms Acteson, from Chichester in West Sussex, has been calling the phone line for hours and said she has been \"hung up on\", \"put on hold for 25 minutes\", told the phone line doesn't exist or advised to call back via a recorded message.\n\n\"They have a duty of care to look after their customers so if they are going to have a recall, at least have the systems in place to be able to have the recall,\" she said.\n\nThe company apologised to customers about the fault on its model checker website\n\nWhirlpool announced on Wednesday that the recall of Hotpoint and Indesit washing machines will start on 9 January\n\nOwners of the affected machines who register on a dedicated website will be asked from that date whether they want a repair or a replacement.\n\nHowever, that is a long wait for someone like Ms Acteson's mother Chris, who is in her seventies and had a stroke two years ago.\n\n\"She doesn't need to be worried about this over Christmas,\" she said. \"And due to the fact that she has had a stroke, things like this do worry her more than probably your average person.\n\n\"It is just not acceptable by Whirlpool.\"\n\nHalf a million appliances need to be fixed or replaced as the door locking system can overheat.\n\nWhirlpool said it had recorded 79 incidents in which washing machines had caught fire because of the electronic door.\n\nWhirlpool's Mr Noel said: \"It has been an unfortunate situation. It is not the way that any of us would want to start a recall, especially something so important during the holidays.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeff Noel said recall website was now \"up and running\"\n\n\"But it is such that we have done everything we can to resolve it. We've done everything we can to improve and I'm proud to say that these folks that have worked so hard, that we are up and running.\"\n\nWhirlpool was already reeling after problems with fire-prone dryers.\n\nIt was heavily criticised for its initial response when more than five million tumble dryers, sold over 11 years, were found to be a fire danger. It only launched a full recall for that issue after four years, following an intervention by the regulator.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA teenager who stabbed a lawyer to death with a screwdriver as he was walking home from work has been jailed for a minimum of 15 years.\n\nEwan Ireland was 17 when he attacked Peter Duncan, 52, at the entrance to a shopping centre in Newcastle in August.\n\nA court heard the two brushed past each other when the teenager pulled out a screwdriver he had shoplifted and stabbed Mr Duncan in the heart.\n\nIreland admitted murder and was jailed for life with a minimum of 15 years.\n\nThe killer, who was able to be identified after he turned 18 in October, had 17 previous convictions for 31 offences between 2017 and 2019.\n\nAt the time of the murder he was on bail for an offence of affray, was under investigation for a robbery and still subject to a 12-month conditional discharge for a battery offence the previous summer.\n\nIn a victim impact statement read out at Newcastle Crown Court, Mr Duncan's widow Maria said her life \"was ruined by a senseless and unprovoked act\".\n\n\"The person who did this had convictions. Nothing stopped him. He continued and he murdered my husband,\" she said.\n\nPeter Duncan's family described him as a \"devoted father and husband\"\n\nMr Duncan came into contact with Ireland at the entrance to Eldon Square shopping centre when they were walking in opposite directions.\n\nThe court heard the teenager was looking for another youth with whom he had previously argued about cigarettes.\n\nMr Duncan, who was an in-house lawyer for an international maritime firm, raised his arm to let Ireland past, but \"the defendant took exception to that\" and a struggle ensued, prosecutor Kevin Wardlaw said.\n\nAfter pushing him off, Mr Duncan was stabbed once through the heart and collapsed a short distance away near a Greggs outlet.\n\nThe court heard Mr Duncan's 15-year-old son was in the city centre that evening for a cinema trip and saw the cordoned off area without realising his father had been attacked.\n\n\"I am angry he was out free, and cannot understand why he was not locked up,\" he said in a victim impact statement.\n\n\"If he had been we would still have my dad to this day.\"\n\nEwan Ireland had a string of convictions when he murdered Mr Duncan\n\nDuring sentencing, Mr Justice Lavender said it was Mr Duncan's \"bad luck to bump into you that day on his way home from work\".\n\n\"You started a fight, in the course of which you took out a screwdriver and stabbed him through the heart,\" he said.\n\nThe judge said Ireland's offending started at the age of 14, with a string of convictions including theft, battery and making threats with knives.\n\n\"All too often, young men like you, who get into the habit of carrying weapons and using them to threaten others, move on to using those weapons to harm others, as you have done,\" he added.\n\nIreland also admitted stealing screwdrivers and carrying an offensive weapon.\n\nCaroline Goodwin QC, defending, said the teenager \"had spoken of his absolute remorse and devastation at the act he occasioned which was needless and senseless and took away from the family their father\".\n\nThe court heard Mr Duncan had been in the wrong place at the wrong time\n\nDet Ch Insp Jane Fairlamb said Ireland had been a promising young footballer who had been offered a lot of help to change his criminal behaviour.\n\n\"I think one of the most shocking elements of this crime is that it was in such a public place in a major shopping centre in our city and we probably all had that feeling that it could have been any one of us walking home from work,\" she said.\n\n\"With every contact that Ewan Ireland has had with the police and criminal justice system he gets opportunities to change his behaviour - support from different agencies to change that life of crime - he's had those opportunities.\"\n\nShe also said Mr Duncan's family was devastated by the loss and she did not have the words to express how deeply they were grieving.\n\nFollow BBC North East & Cumbria on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Send your story ideas to northeastandcumbria@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A reconstruction of Homo erectus - the first known human to walk fully upright\n\nAn ancient relative of modern humans survived into comparatively recent times in South East Asia, a new study has revealed.\n\nHomo erectus evolved around two million years ago, and was the first known human species to walk fully upright.\n\nNew dating evidence shows that it survived until just over 100,000 years ago on the Indonesian island of Java - long after it had vanished elsewhere.\n\nThis means it was still around when our own species was walking the Earth.\n\nDetails of the result are described in the journal Nature.\n\nIn the 1930s, 12 Homo erectus skull caps and two lower leg bones were found in a bone bed 20m above the Solo River at Ngandong in central Java.\n\nIn subsequent decades, researchers have attempted to date the fossils. But this proved difficult because the surrounding geology is complex and details of the original excavations became confused.\n\nProf Russell Ciochon with replicas of the Homo erectus skull caps found at Ngandong\n\nIn the 1990s, one team came up with unexpectedly young ages of between 53,000 and 27,000 years ago. This raised the distinct possibility that modern humans overlapped with Homo erectus on the Indonesian island.\n\nNow, researchers led by Prof Russell Ciochon of the University of Iowa in Iowa City opened up new excavations on the terraces beside the Solo River, reanalysing the site and its surroundings.\n\nThey have provided what they describe as a definitive age for the bone bed of between 117,000 and 108,000 years old. This represents the most recent known record of Homo erectus anywhere in the world.\n\n\"I don't know what you could date at the site to give you more precise dates than what we've been able to produce,\" Prof Ciochon told BBC News.\n\nProf Chris Stringer, research leader on human evolution at London's Natural History Museum, who was not involved with the work, commented: \"This is a very comprehensive study of the depositional context of the famous Ngandong Homo erectus partial skulls and shin bones, and the authors build a strong case that these individuals died and were washed into the deposits of the Solo River about 112,000 years ago.\n\n\"This age is very young for such primitive-looking Homo erectus fossils, and establishes that the species persisted on Java for well over one million years.\"\n\nResearchers think the collection of remains represent a mass death event, possibly the result of a lahar upriver. A lahar - which comes from a Javanese word - is the slurry that can flow down the slope of a volcano when heavy rainfall occurs during or after a volcanic eruption. These violent events will sweep away anything in their path.\n\nPreviously, team-member Frank Huffman, from the University of Texas at Austin, had tracked down the descendants of the Dutch researchers who excavated the Homo erectus remains back in the 1930s.\n\nThe excavation sites lie along the Solo river in central Java\n\nThe relatives were able to provide him with photographs of the original dig, maps and notebooks. Huffman was able to resolve much of the uncertainty that had hampered previous attempts to understand the site.\n\n\"He was able to tell us exactly where to dig,\" Prof Ciochon said of the University of Texas researcher.\n\nCiochon and his colleagues excavated part of an untouched reserve area left alone by the Dutch team in the 1930s. Informed by records of the original excavations, the team was able to identify the gravelly deposit - or bone bed - from which the Homo erectus fossils had come, and date it.\n\nOn other islands in South-East Asia, Homo erectus appears to have evolved into smaller forms, such as Homo floresiensis - the \"Hobbit\" - on Flores, and Homo luzonensis in the Philippines. This probably occurred because there were limited food resources on these islands. But on Java, there appears to have been enough food for erectus to maintain its original body size.\n\nThe specimens at Ngandong appear to be between 5ft and 6ft in height - comparable to examples from Africa and elsewhere in Eurasia.\n\nThe findings further underline the shift in thinking this field of study has undergone over the decades. We used to think of human evolution as a progression, with a straight line leading from apes to us. This is embodied in the so-called March of Progress illustration where a stooping chimp-like creature gradually morphs into Homo sapiens, apparently the apex of evolution.\n\nThese days, we know things were far messier. The latest study highlights a mind-boggling truth: that many of the species we thought of as transitional stages in this onward march overlapped with each other, in some cases for hundreds of thousands of years.\n\nBut why did Homo erectus survive so late on Java? In Africa, the species was probably gone by 500,000 years ago; in China it vanished some 400,000 years ago. Russell Ciochon thinks that it was probably outcompeted by other human species elsewhere, but Java's location allowed it to thrive in isolation.\n\nHowever, the results show the fossils came from a period when environmental conditions on Java were changing. What were once open woodlands were transforming into rainforest. Prof Ciochon thinks this could mark the exact point of extinction of Homo erectus on the island.\n\nNo Homo erectus are found after this time, he explained, and there's a gap with no human activity at all until Homo sapiens turns up on Java around 39,000 years ago. Prof Ciochon believes H. erectus was too dependent on the open savannah and too inflexible to adapt to life in a rainforest.\n\n\"Homo sapiens is the only hominin species that lives in a tropical forest,\" he explained. \"I think it's mainly because of the cultural attributes of Homo sapiens - the ability to make all these specialised tools.\"\n\n\"Once this rainforest flora and fauna spread across Java, that's the end of erectus.\"\n\n\"The authors claim that this is therefore the last known occurrence of the species, and that this indicates there was no overlap of the species with Homo sapiens in Java, as H. sapiens arrived much later,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm not convinced about that as other supposedly late Homo erectus material from Javanese sites like Ngawi and Sambungmacan remain to be properly dated, and they may be younger still. Alternatively, they may correlate with the ages of the Ngandong fossils, but that should be the next stage of investigation.\"", "Lynch as he appeared in 2015 BBC show VE Day: Remembering Victory\n\nTributes have been paid to Kenny Lynch, the British singer and entertainer, who has died at the age of 81.\n\nMatch of the Day presenter Gary Lineker remembered him as \"a delightful, funny, talented man\", while Boy George said he had been a \"huge part of my 70s life\".\n\nLynch had two Top 10 hits in the 1960s, toured with the Beatles, wrote songs for the Small Faces and appeared on Celebrity Squares and other TV shows.\n\nAccording to his family, Lynch died in the early hours of Wednesday morning.\n\nHis songs Up on the Roof and You Can Never Stop Me Loving You reached number 10 in 1962 and 1963 respectively.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBorn in east London in 1938, Lynch was one of the few black British pop singers to find fame in the early 1960s.\n\nLynch was the first artist to cover a Beatles song when he released a version of Lennon and McCartney composition Misery in 1963.\n\nA decade later, he was one of the celebrities to appear with Paul and Linda McCartney on the sleeve of the Wings album Band on the Run.\n\nLynch performed alongside the Beatles on their first British tour\n\nLynch, whose film work included appearances in The Plank and Carry On Loving, was awarded an OBE in 1970 for services to entertainment.\n\nBroadcaster Danny Baker described him on Twitter as \"one of the key witnesses to the 20th [Century] UK music [and] entertainment scene\".\n\n\"Everything is funny to me, everything's musical to me, everything is readable to me,\" said Lynch, who had previously been diagnosed with prostate cancer.\n\n\"That's how I go through life and how I shall go for the next few weeks I've got left,\" he said in a recent interview for the 1000 Londoners project.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Carina Lepore said hearing the words 'You're hired' was \"an incredible feeling\"\n\nLord Sugar has hired his new Apprentice - and will be going into business with Carina Lepore after picking the artisan bakery owner as this year's winner.\n\nCarina, 30, from south London, beat 32-year-old recruitment consultant Scarlett Allen-Horton in the final of the BBC One contest on Wednesday.\n\nCarina will now use Lord Sugar's £250,000 investment to attempt to build an empire of high street bakeries.\n\n\"It's been an amazing, amazing achievement for myself,\" she said.\n\nCarina currently runs the Dough Artisan Bakehouse in Herne Hill - with her father as head baker - and has said she wants a branch on \"every high street across the UK\".\n\nCarina impressed Lord Sugar by being on the winning team in nine out of the 10 tasks during the series, including winning all three episodes in which she was project manager.\n\n\"First of all, I think the amount of tasks she won and the manner in which she won really showed that she knows what she's doing as far as business is concerned,\" the business mogul said afterwards.\n\nLord Sugar took into account the high demand for cafés and food outlets, whereas he had invested in two recruitment firms in the past.\n\nWhile weighing up his decision, he told the finalists: \"When you look at the high street these days, that's all it's packed with - food.\n\n\"Scarlett - two past winners are recruitment companies, and do I want to throw more eggs into that basket?\"\n\nIn Wednesday's final, Carina and Scarlett were asked to create digital screen and TV adverts for their proposed businesses, and present them to Lord Sugar and 250 experts at London's City Hall.\n\nAfter being hired, Carina told the Press Association news agency: \"It's like this euphoric relief. I was so overwhelmed and so happy. It's a feeling that I haven't really felt.\n\n\"Me and Scarlett said it the whole way through - we have got massive respect for each other. She is a great businesswoman and she was tough competition for me. I knew that.\n\n\"To get told 'You're hired' by Lord Sugar, it was an incredible feeling.\"\n\nThe 15th series of the BBC One programme was popular with viewers but also made headlines away from the screen.\n\nIn October the BBC told candidate Lottie Lion that comments she made to a fellow candidate on a WhatsApp group were \"unacceptable\".\n\nIt followed reports that she said \"shut up Gandhi\" to Lubna Farhan.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "When scrolling through Instagram, you've probably seen celebrities advertising loads of products like make-up and weight loss drinks.\n\nBut do the influencers try the product and check the ingredients they're promoting to their followers?\n\nNot always, according to a BBC investigation.\n\nThree big name Instagram influencers - Lauren Goodger, Mike Hassini and Zara Holland - have been caught auditioning to promote a poisonous cyanide drink.\n\nThe reality TV stars were secretly filmed being asked to promote a fake diet drink in the BBC Three series Blindboy Undestroys the World, despite it not being ready for production.\n\nThe made-up drink - called Cyanora - included the ingredient hydrogen cyanide, which is a chemical that can kill you.\n\nThe toxic substance was used during the second world war by Nazi Germany in gas chambers.\n\nMike Hassini appeared on The Only Way Is Essex\n\nLauren, Mike and Zara - who collectively have more than 1.3m Instagram followers - were informed the product wasn't being launched for a few months.\n\nThey were told they would not be able to drink it until it was.\n\nZara's agent did point out she couldn't do that without trying it first.\n\nWe see them film video clips promoting the drink, mentioning the ingredient \"hydrogen cyanide\".\n\nThe undercover filming was part of an investigation by the show into whether celebrities actually use the products they're paid to promote on social media.\n\nAccording to the advertising watchdog, the brand and the celebrity promoting a product are \"responsible for the claims that are made in the advert\".\n\nBut the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) told Radio 1 Newsbeat: \"The issue of whether a celebrity who is promoting a product has actually tried/used it themselves is not something we've had cause to investigate.\"\n\nLove Island star Zara Holland said she would never \"deliberately mislead\" her followers.\n\nIn response to the investigation, she said: \"My agent did state that I would not promote a product without trying it first, and we needed to be provided with more details.\n\n\"I would never deliberately mislead my followers or promote a product that was dangerous.\"\n\nLauren Goodger's former agent replied: \"Our client would not endorse the promotion of products that contained harmful or suspect ingredients, or without knowing the contents.\n\n\"Our client was told the product was in production.\"\n\nThe ex-TOWIE star is also seen talking about a product she promoted called Skinny Coffee - which she previously said helped her lose two stone.\n\nDuring filming, she says: \"I've not tried skinny coffee.\"\n\nThe ASA has previously ruled that Lauren Goodger was involved in making misleading claims for other weight loss products.\n\nA statement by Lauren - posted on her talent agency's Instagram story - says she agreed to promote the drink without trying it \"in the heat of the moment\".\n\nIt read: \"This script was given to me at that precise moment. No deals were signed and it was an audition. They asked me would I promote the drink without using it.\n\n\"In the heat of the moment I said yes and also said I hadn't tried Skinny Coffee in the hope of getting the job.\n\n\"Of course I would never promote anything that contains poison and proper checks would have been made before any promotion.\"\n\nIt's not the first time Lauren's been in trouble about a product she's promoted\n\nShe also denied saying she'd lost two stone through the coffee.\n\nLauren's fellow Towie star Mike Hassini has not yet responded to the BBC's request for comment.\n\nIn a statement to Radio 1 Newsbeat, the ASA said: \"Our primary concern is whether the claims a celebrity (or anyone else) makes about a product in an ad, which can include social media posts, are not misleading and are socially responsible.\n\n\"When considering claims around weight loss products, our investigations tend to focus on whether the advertiser is making any unauthorised health claims or promoting unsafe dietary practices.\n\n\"If a celebrity claimed that using a dietary product had helped them lose weight when, in fact, they had never used the product that could potentially be a problem under our rules. Though we'd have to carefully assess the context in which the claims appeared.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Actor Joe Alwyn says his biggest competition this Christmas is... Kermit The Frog.\n\nBoth play Bob Cratchit in versions of A Christmas Carol.\n\nJoe's in the latest BBC adaptation from the makers of Peaky Blinders. Kermit, of course, is in the 1992 Muppets classic.\n\n\"I've never actually seen A Muppet Christmas Carol,\" says Joe, despite it being on all Christmas, every Christmas.\n\nSafe to say, the 2019 version is as far from Kermit, Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear as you can get - a far darker take on the classic Charles Dickens novel.\n\nCharlotte Riley says her favourite Christmas movie is Dudley Moore's Santa Claus and her favourite festive song is Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree\n\nThe plot is the same - The mean-spirited Ebenezer Scrooge (played by Guy Pearce) gets a visit from the ghost of Jacob Marley.\n\nThree other ghosts then show him his past, his present and his deathly future.\n\n\"There is a psychological thriller element to it,\" says Charlotte Riley, who plays the Ghost of Christmas Present.\n\n\"You understand a lot more about Scrooge and why he is the way that he is.\n\n\"I think it humanises him and it makes the story of redemption even more satisfying.\"\n\nJoe Alwyn's favourite Christmas movie is Home Alone, with Silent Night as his favourite Christmas song\n\nShe thinks executive producer Steven Knight has \"read between the lines\" of Dickens to put this new twist on the plot.\n\nKnight is the brains behind Taboo and Peaky Blinders, and this version shares the aesthetic of both those shows.\n\n\"It's not the glossy, sanitised, cheery Dickensian world that we might know previously,\" says Joe Alwyn.\n\n\"It looks at Scrooge's pain and that goes into some uncomfortable themes and areas that haven't been explored before.\n\n\"It's totally in the vein of Peaky Blinders.\"\n\nStephen Graham's Christmas classic is It's A Wonderful Life, while he argues Imagine by John Lennon is his favourite Christmas song\n\nOther cast members include Jason Flemyng as the Ghost of Christmas Future, Vinette Robinson as Mary Cratchit and Andy Serkis as the Ghost of Christmas Past.\n\nPlaying the role of Jacob Marley - Scrooge's old business partner - is Stephen Graham, who says Knight has put an \"earthy, working class spin\" on the festive tale.\n\n\"What this version has done is make a good representation of what's happening in society now in certain respects.\n\n\"It bangs a mirror up and says, 'Be careful'. Look at how you treat people and your fellow man.\n\n\"You don't want to go to your grave with all those horrible resentments.\"\n\nA Christmas Carol marks the end of arguably the most high-profile year of Stephen Graham's career so far, with major roles in Line Of Duty, The Virtues and Martin Scorsese's The Irishman.\n\n\"It's been alright hasn't it?\" he smiles.\n\n\"I still pinch myself sometimes as I'm still that little kid that just wanted to be an actor when he grew up.\"\n\nHe admits that more people now recognise him, which he puts down to Line Of Duty in which he played series five's protagonist, John Corbett.\n\n\"I never realised how massive that show is. And the momentum of that seemed to carry on to The Virtues.\"\n\nA Christmas Carol begins on BBC One on Sunday 22 December at 21:00.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Bet365 boss Denise Coates has received a £323m payday, confirming her position as the UK's best paid executive.\n\nThe co-founder of the online gambling firm was paid a £277m salary plus dividends as the popularity of online gambling continues to grow.\n\nThe firm's accounts show that in the year to end-March her salary rose from £220m on the previous period.\n\nBut the rise comes as the industry faced mounting criticism, including over children gambling.\n\nThe privately held company is owned jointly by Ms Coates and members of her direct family, including her brother John, who is joint chief executive, and her father Peter, the firm's chairman.\n\nMs Coates earned a first-class degree in econometrics - the application of statistical methods to economic data - from Sheffield University before joining the High Street betting firm, run by her father.\n\nShe identified the potential of online gambling in 2000 and invested in the domain name Bet365.com so that she could drive the family business in that direction.\n\nBet365 made a profit before tax of £791m in the year, compared with £661m the year before.\n\nThe firm paid dividends of £92.5m, half of which are thought to have gone to Ms Coates, as the owner of about half of Bet365's shares.\n\nThe group of firms owns Stoke City Football Club, which made a loss of £8.7m in the year.\n\nThe High Pay Centre, a think tank which monitors income, said the timing of the release of the Bet365 results looked \"cynical\", given it was just after a general election.\n\nHigh Pay Centre executive director Luke Hildyard said: \"This looks like cynical timing, sneaked out straight after a general election campaign where excess wealth, taxes on the rich and the vast gap between those at the top and everybody else have been key issues.\"\n\nHe added: \"Business success should be incentivised and rewarded, but a payment a fraction of this size would still afford a lifestyle beyond the wildest dreams of most people.\"\n\nMr Hildyard said there was \"clearly scope\" for those accumulating such sums to pay their workers more or contribute more in taxes.\n\nIn October, Cardiff University research suggested that two-fifths of 11 to 16-year-olds had gambled in the past year.\n\nThe study said this was \"particularly concerning, given that across the UK, most forms of commercial gambling are only legal for those aged 18 and over\".\n\nFruit machines were the most popular form of gambling, followed by playing cards for money with friends and scratchcards.\n\nDr Graham Moore of the Centre for the Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions for Public Health Improvement said at the time: \"The evidence shows that people who gamble earlier in life are more likely to become problem gamblers in adulthood.\"\n\nHowever, a Gambling Commission study in October suggested that 11% of children had gambled within a week of the survey being conducted.\n\nBut in addition, the regulator warned in July of research that indicated links between \"problem gambling and suicidal thoughts or attempts\".\n\nBet365 says it has \"an unwavering commitment to deliver industry-leading approaches to player protection\", including monitoring customer gambling, and says it will \"terminate the [customer] relationship if it feels the risk of harm is too high\".", "Former Prime Minister Tony Blair warns about \"irreparable damage\" to the Labour Party if it \"whitewashes\" its historic election defeat.\n\nMr Blair says the party's \"almost comic indecision\" on Brexit left voters \"without guidance and leadership\".", "Neville Herron estimates he has paid an extra £32,000\n\nMortgage borrowers \"unfairly trapped\" on high interest rates when their lenders were nationalised are launching legal action against the companies they say are responsible.\n\nSome 150,000 homeowners are said to have been overcharged for years, unable to switch to a cheaper deal after their mortgages were transferred.\n\nOne man who says he paid an extra £32,000 said it was a \"disgrace\".\n\nThe Treasury said it was working to \"remove barriers\" to cheaper deals.\n\nThe group legal action, brought by the UK Mortgage Prisoner Action Group, is now looking to claim repayment of the extra interest.\n\nMany of those affected - usually having taken out mortgages in the late 2000s with Northern Rock or Bradford & Bingley - have been paying more than 5% interest on their mortgages for the past 12 years.\n\nIn some cases, this amounts to more than double the cost of the best rates available on the market.\n\nNorthern Rock was nationalised during the financial crisis\n\nNeville Herron took out a Northern Rock loan in 2003 to pay for his bungalow in Lancashire.\n\nAfter the bank was taken into public ownership following the financial crash, his mortgage was transferred to Northern Rock Asset Management (NRAM), owned by UK Asset Resolution.\n\nBut when his existing mortgage deal came to an end, he was not offered a new fixed-rate mortgage - and so had to pay standard variable interest rates.\n\nHe told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme the extra cost amounted to \"well over\" £32,000.\n\n\"It's placed a great strain on our marriage,\" he said. \"We didn't have a holiday for five or six years.\"\n\nMr Herron said the mortgage repayments for the home had put strain on his marriage\n\nBut because it looked like his loan was in negative equity, he failed the regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority's, strict affordability criteria - and was unable to do so.\n\n\"We were on something like six or 7% interest, which was a lot more than other people were on,\" he said.\n\n\"I was having to do two jobs, getting home late at night, working really hard.\"\n\nMr Herron's mortgage was later sold by NRAM to Whistletree, owned by TSB Bank, which did offer him a new deal - but Mr Herron said it had saved him only £40 a month.\n\nTSB said it was \"fully committed\" to supporting Whistletree customers. A spokesman said: \"Since purchasing the portfolio from UKAR, we have developed the capability for customers to switch to a new product and we are constantly looking for other ways to improve this service.\"\n\nThe action group legal action is being taken against numerous companies.\n\nDamon Parker, from law firm Harcus Parker, which is bringing the legal action on behalf of the UK Mortgage Prisoner Action Group, told the Victoria Derbyshire programme mortgage companies had a \"duty\" to offer customers a \"fair rate\".\n\n\"And we say that our clients have been unfairly treated because they're paying too much... at a time when every other mortgage customer is paying unprecedented low rates.\"\n\n\"It's not fair to charge people just because they're collateral damage caught up in a nationalisation.\n\n\"Some people have got into terrible financial situations. Some people have been repossessed.\"\n\nIn March, the Financial Conduct Authority proposed loosening its affordability checks for those affected, saying it would \"make it easier for customers to get a more affordable mortgage\".\n\nBut banks and building societies would still need to agree to take on these customers.\n\nThe Treasury said in a statement it had \"worked with the Financial Conduct Authority to introduce new rules that remove barriers preventing some customers from accessing cheaper deals and continue to work on this matter\".\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "One of the more obvious campaign metaphors saw the PM drive through a wall to denote breaking Parliament's deadlock over Brexit Image caption: One of the more obvious campaign metaphors saw the PM drive through a wall to denote breaking Parliament's deadlock over Brexit\n\nBoris Johnson has written the diary for the Christmas edition of the Spectator - the magazine he used to edit.\n\nYou can read the whole thing on the Spectator's website , but here's a particularly interesting section, where the PM references some of the stranger moments of his general election campaign...\n\n\"Perhaps I should mention especially the media team, who had to explain such mysteries as why I chose to shut myself in a giant fridge and what exactly I was thinking when I confiscated a TV reporter’s mobile live on air.\"\n\nHere are the moments the PM is referring to, in case you need reminding:\n\nMr Johnson also extends his thanks to \"the ‘ops’ team\" who \"basically manage your life\".\n\n\"They tell you when to get up, what to wear, where to stand, and they organise brilliantly vivid metaphors for the political points you are trying to make.\n\n\"In the space of 24 hours they had me driving a JCB through a Styrofoam wall to symbolise breaking the parliamentary deadlock; delivering milk on the doorstep, to denote delivery of our domestic agenda; baking an oven-ready pie to show that we have a ready-made withdrawal agreement with the EU; and working in a wonderful Welsh wrapping-paper factory - to show that we could get it ‘wrapped up’ by Christmas (more or less).\n\n\"Some said these metaphors were clunking, but in a general election campaign, clunking is what you need.\"\n\nOne of the PM's final stops on the election campaign trail involved delivering milk \"to denote delivery of our domestic agenda\" Image caption: One of the PM's final stops on the election campaign trail involved delivering milk \"to denote delivery of our domestic agenda\"", "Baroness Warsi has criticised her party's inquiry into Islamophobia and other forms of prejudice, arguing it does not address past problems.\n\nThe former Conservative chairwoman said it needed to cover previous cases rather than just complaint handling.\n\nAnd she said the party's choice of a psychiatry professor, who she claimed did not believe in institutional racism, to head it did not \"bode well\".\n\nProf Swaran Singh was announced as the chairman of the inquiry on Tuesday.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Politics Live, Tory MP Suella Braverman defended the inquiry as a \"welcome step\".\n\n\"What I think this does show is the robust and swift action that Boris Johnson is taking on this issue,\" she said.\n\nBut speaking earlier to Radio 4's Today programme, Baroness Warsi said in order to be \"credible\" the inquiry needed to cover \"everything that has happened over last four years\".\n\n\"Unfortunately the remit of the inquiry does not cover that,\" she said.\n\n\"All it does is to see how we can improve our process.\n\n\"There is no look at what has actually gone on, no look at the extent of the cases, no detail of how bad the problem has been and how badly it has been dealt with.\"\n\nShe also criticised the appointment of Prof Singh - the former commissioner of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, the watchdog currently investigating anti-Semitism allegations within Labour.\n\n\"The Runnymede Trust [a race equality think tank] encapsulated it when they said he is somebody who believes racism is a contested term and that institutional racism simply doesn't exist.\n\n\"That gives an indication of where the inquiry will end up,\" she said.\n\nThe Muslim Council of Britain said the appointment of Professor Singh was \"at risk of being seen in the same light as the Conservative Party's customary approach to Islamophobia, that of denial, dismissal and deceit\".\n\nIt also criticised the scope of the inquiry saying: \"We were promised an independent inquiry into Islamophobia specifically - now we have a review that aims to broaden the scope to examine discrimination more generally.\n\n\"A laudable aim if it were not for the fact that the Conservative Party is afflicted with a particular type of bigotry which it refuses to countenance.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson apologises for \"the hurt and offence that has been caused\"\n\nThe Conservatives said Prof Singh would look at how it could improve its procedures and ensure \"any instances are isolated and that there are robust processes in place to stamp them out\".\n\nConservative Party chairman James Cleverly said his party was committed to stamping out \"unacceptable abuse\".\n\n\"The Conservative Party has always worked to act swiftly when allegations have been put to us and there are a wide range of sanctions to challenge and change behaviour,\" he said.\n\n\"The Conservative Party will never stand by when it comes to prejudice and discrimination of any kind and it is right to hold an independent review, so we can stamp out unacceptable abuse that is not fit for public life.\"\n\nDuring the general election campaign Conservative leader Boris Johnson apologised for \"all the hurt and offence\" that has been caused by Islamophobia in his party.\n\nThe prime minister has previously been criticised for saying Muslim women wearing burkas \"look like letter boxes\".", "A hospital has been told to pay compensation to the family of a baby who died because of \"serious failings\".\n\nSix-month-old Harris James was mistakenly treated for pneumonia when he had a heart condition, and multiple opportunities to save him were missed.\n\nThe ombudsman's report ruled there were serious failings at the James Paget University Hospital in Norfolk, which said it had apologised to the family.\n\nThe trust has been ordered to pay the baby's mother £15,000.\n\nThe report from the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) found mistakes were made in Harris's care and the trust mishandled his mother Mary Gunns' complaint, while also failing to properly investigate the death.\n\nHarris was admitted to the Gorleston hospital on 2 November 2015, after being referred by his GP.\n\nHe had experienced weight loss following gastroenteritis but, after some tests at the hospital, was given an appointment with a dietician four weeks later.\n\nHowever, on 12 November he was taken by ambulance to the trust's A&E department after he vomited and became \"floppy\".\n\nA chest X-ray showed his right lung had changed and part of his left lung had filled with fluid.\n\nStaff suspected he had sepsis and possibly aspiration pneumonia - a type of pneumonia caused by breathing something in, such as vomit, rather than by bacterial infection.\n\nHarris James was \"affectionate and sweet\" according to his family\n\nHarris, from Lowestoft in Suffolk, was transferred to a paediatric ward but his condition got worse.\n\nAn electrocardiogram (ECG) showed several heart abnormalities but Harris was still not referred to a specialist and did not see a consultant until the next day.\n\nSoon after that, he suffered a cardiac arrest and died.\n\nThe ombudsman's report concluded the trust had failed to act on the results of the ECG and X-ray, failed to consider Harris's history and symptoms, failed to ask for input from specialist staff and failed to escalate his care when his condition was getting worse.\n\nThe report said had Harris received the appropriate treatment it was \"more likely than not that his death would have been avoided\".\n\nHarris's parents, Mary and Ryan, said: \"Our son was an affectionate and sweet little boy whose sudden death devastated our family.\n\n\"We won't ever be able to forgive James Paget Hospital for its failings, nor will we forget the additional pain caused by its mishandling of our complaint.\"\n\nAnna Hills, chief executive at James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said the trust had apologised to his family for its failings, how it communicated with them and for how it handled their complaint.\n\nThe trust's latest Care Quality Commission inspection report, published on Tuesday, saw it rated \"good\" although the safety of services was rated as \"requires improvement\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Experts are warning that people eating a vegan diet need to make sure they get enough B12 - because the risk of deficiency is \"not a myth\".\n\nThey were speaking ahead of 'Veganuary', when increasing numbers turn to a vegan diet each January.\n\nThe diet is generally high in fibre and low in cholesterol, but some nutrients are harder to get enough of - including B12.\n\nThe Vegan Society said it was available in supplements or fortified foods.\n\nAdults need around 1.5 micrograms of B12 a day.\n\nIt is found in meat, fish, eggs and dairy products, but not in fruits, vegetables or grains - so those eating a vegan diet are advised to eat fortified foods, like cereals, or take supplements.\n\nB12 deficiency, which can lead to nerve damage, tends to take three or four years to cause symptoms - usually first appearing as pins and needles in the hands or feet.\n\nTim Key, professor of epidemiology and deputy director of the Cancer Epidemiology unit at Oxford University, said: \"You're not going to get B12 deficiency in Veganuary.\"\n\nBut Prof Key, a vegan for many years who takes B12 supplements himself, added: \"If people become vegan because of that, and don't ever bother to read up about what you need to eat as a vegan, I would be worried they won't know about B12.\"\n\nSuggestions online or on social media that vegans do not need extra B12 are not based on evidence, scientists say.\n\nTom Sanders, emeritus professor of nutrition and dietetics at King's College London, said: \"Of all the micronutrients, B12 is the one we're most concerned about. I'm concerned many people think B12 deficiency is a myth.\"\n\nHe highlighted the case of a breastfeeding mother who had B12 deficiency, and whose child developed neuropathy, leading to long-term damage.\n\n\"It's something that can be easily avoided, and what concerns me is that many new people becoming vegan are unaware of the need to combine sources of plant proteins. And they're not aware of the need to ensure they have adequate levels of B12.\"\n\nThere is limited data on the health effects of a vegan diet - with one UK and one US study covering around 10,000 people.\n\nSo far, the evidence suggests people who are vegan are less likely to be overweight, and at less risk of type 2 diabetes and heart disease.\n\nBut they appear to have a higher risk of bone fracture, and a recent study suggested an increased risk of haemorrhagic stroke.\n\nHeather Russell, dietitian at the Vegan Society, said: \"Whether you're vegan or not, nutritional planning is essential for everyone.\n\n\"Going vegan is an opportunity to learn more about nutrition, including how to balance food groups, and the roles of fortified foods and supplementation.\n\n\"For example, vegans obtain vitamin B12 from fortified foods or supplementation, and guidance is available on on the Vegan Society's website.\"", "London Victoria was left \"at a standstill\" because of a \"major signal failure\" during rush-hour.\n\nPart of the station, the country's second busiest, was closed due to overcrowding fears. Services faced delays and cancellations until the end of Wednesday.\n\nSouthern Rail, which operates many of the services, advised passengers not to travel from Victoria.\n\nAbout 75 million passengers passed through the station last year.\n\nImages posted on social media showed hundreds of passengers held on the station concourse, unable to catch Southern, Southeastern and Gatwick Express trains.\n\nThameslink services out of London Bridge were also affected by the problems.\n\nTrains were running in the area at 20:00 GMT on Wednesday, but disruption lasted until the end of service.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Network Rail Kent and Sussex This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Network Rail Kent and Sussex\n\nPeter Kyle, the Labour MP for Hove and Portslade, was caught up in the disruption. He described the central London hub as being \"at a standstill\".\n\nMr Kyle, said the disruption means he may miss Christmas dinner with his staff.\n\nA signal failure near East Croydon has been blamed for the travel chaos\n\nHe tweeted: \"I'm sorry to every passenger, I know there's a lot more that needs sorting on this service, I'm fighting for that. You have been let down badly this evening.\"\n\n\"The woman next to me is in floods of tears as she's missing her flight from Gatwick.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Rob Broomby This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRob Broomby, a TV producer, stuck at Victoria said it was the \"worst transport chaos\" he had seen.\n\nHe added: \"There was a lot of good humour in the bar as people settled in for a long wait, but when the platform indicators began flashing on and off it felt more like a Christmas tree with dodgy wiring.\"\n\nNetwork Rail apologised and warned that disruption could continue into Thursday morning's rush-hour.\n\nIt said: \"Some trains will be finishing the day in the 'wrong' place, so we do expect there to be some disruption tomorrow morning as operators move their stock and crew around.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the signal failure at Victoria station? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Deji Olatunji admitted being in charge of a dog dangerously out of control\n\nA German shepherd belonging to a YouTube star and his mother is set to be destroyed after it seriously injured an elderly woman.\n\nDeji Olatunji, who has nearly 10 million subscribers, tried to restrain the dog after it bit the woman when his mother let it out on 23 July 2018.\n\nA court heard a later assessment found the animal, named Tank, \"didn't come across as a friendly, sociable dog\".\n\nOlatunji was fined and his mother was ordered to pay the victim compensation.\n\nHis mother, Olayinka Olatunji, 53, of Holme, near Peterborough, previously admitted being in charge of a dog dangerously out of control that injured a person.\n\nOlatunji, 23, also of Holme, pleaded guilty to being in charge of a dog dangerously out of control.\n\nThe younger brother of fellow YouTuber KSI, Olatunji posts videos of pranks and gaming and has 2.5 million followers on Instagram.\n\nOlatunji posted a video in which he told his followers that Tank the dog had been seized in September last year\n\nProsecutor Charles Falk told Cambridge Crown Court that Ms Olatunji had \"caused the dog to be let out\" of the house.\n\nThe dog, which was then 13 months old, bit an elderly woman twice, causing what Judge David Farrell QC described as \"very nasty injuries\".\n\nMr Falk told the court after this initial bite, Olatunji came out of the house to try to get Tank under control.\n\nBut it then bit another person, causing no injury, before it was finally restrained, Mr Falk said.\n\nOlayinka Olatunji was given a community order and ordered to do 80 hours of unpaid work\n\nAfter Tank was seized by police it was assessed by Candy D'Sa, who told the court she did not feel able to take the dog off a lead.\n\nShe said while most dogs accept a muzzle, she found Tank \"was very frightened with the attempts to muzzle him\".\n\nAs well as ordering the destruction of the dog, Judge Farrell ordered Ms Olatunji to pay £8,000 of compensation to the victim.\n\nHe also gave her a 12-month community order and 80 hours unpaid work.\n\nOlatunji was fined £2,500, while both were also ordered to pay kennelling costs and given a restraining order from contacting the victims for four years.\n\nThe Olatunjis have 28 days from Friday to appeal against the decision to destroy the dog.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lady Hale will be replaced by Lord Reed (left) as Supreme Court president next month\n\nOutgoing Supreme Court President Lady Hale has warned against politicians choosing the UK's top judges in a speech marking her retirement.\n\nShe advised against adopting a US-style approach \"whether in powers or in process of appointment\".\n\nThe Conservatives have pledged to review the \"relationship between the government, Parliament and the courts\".\n\nLady Hale recently announced the court's ruling on the prorogation of Parliament wearing a big spider brooch.\n\nShe will officially retire from her post when she turns 75 next month - the mandatory retirement age for judges appointed before 1995.\n\nIt comes as Downing Street said the government's Brexit bill will enable more British judges to depart from previous rulings of the EU's top court.\n\nIn her final speech in the role, Lady Hale said: \"We (Supreme Court justices) do not know one another's political opinions - although occasionally we may have a good guess - and long may that remain so.\n\n\"Judges have not been appointed for party political reasons in this country since at least the Second World War.\n\n\"We do not want to turn into the Supreme Court of the United States - whether in powers or in process of appointment.\"\n\nUK Supreme Court judges are appointed on legal experts' advice, whereas in the US the President can nominate them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lady Hale reads the Supreme Court ruling on the suspension of Parliament\n\nIn September, the Supreme Court ruled that Boris Johnson's decision to suspend Parliament for five weeks was unlawful.\n\nLady Hale delivered that ruling, saying the unanimous decision of the 11 justices meant Parliament had effectively not been prorogued, triggering the resumption of Parliamentary business the following day.\n\nIn response, attorney-general Geoffrey Cox QC told MPs in the Commons there could come a time for \"parliamentary scrutiny\" of senior judicial appointments.\n\nHowever, just days later he said that US-style hearings \"would be a regrettable step for us in our constitutional arrangements.\"\n\nDuring the election, however, the Conservative Party pledged to review the UK's unwritten constitution.\n\nIn its manifesto, it said: \"After Brexit we also need to look at the broader aspects of our constitution: the relationship between the government, Parliament and the courts; the functioning of the royal prerogative; the role of the House of Lords; and access to justice for ordinary people.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lady Hale: \"Not everyone thinks I'm such a good thing\"\n\nLady Hale - who was born Brenda Hale, and is widely known as Judge Brenda - became the Supreme Court's first female president when she was appointed in 2017.\n\nSigning off, she joked that you had to feel sorry for the male institutions which had had to adjust.\n\n\"If Judge Brenda has inspired a younger generation to believe in the ideals of justice, fairness and equality, and to think that they might put them into practice, Judge Brenda will retire content\", she said.\n\nLord Reed will replace her in January.\n\nAlso speaking at the ceremony, he praised her for her handling of the prorogation hearing, calling it \"her greatest achievement\", with a ruling which would be \"of lasting importance\".\n\nAnd he suggested that the spider brooch she wore when delivering the verdict had become \"a symbol of swashbuckling womanhood\".\n\nShe is \"an inspiration to women, and especially to women lawyers\", he said, adding that he would miss \"an inspiring pioneer, a distinguished scholar and judge, and a valued friend.\"", "The head of the Alzheimer’s Society says that the UK is facing a humanitarian crisis, because the care system is failing those with dementia and their families.\n\nThe number of us who will provide care at home for a loved one with dementia is set to rise by almost one million by 2035.\n\nHere are the stories of Anne and Julia – who both care full time for their husbands.\n\nAnne’s husband John has been assessed as having no mental capacity and goes to a day centre two days a week.\n\nJulia spent months fighting for social services and occupational therapy help for her husband Bob.\n\nHe is currently being assessed in a home, after he went missing and was found during an extensive police search.", "Four of Stormont's main parties have criticised Julian Smith after refusing to meet with them\n\nStormont parties have criticised the secretary of state for not meeting them on Tuesday to discuss the upcoming healthcare strike.\n\nSinn Féin, the SDLP, Alliance and the UUP all hit out at the decision. The NIO said health is a devolved matter.\n\nAbout 9,000 nurses are to strike for 12 hours on Wednesday from 08:00 GMT.\n\nThe five main Stormont party leaders have sent a letter to Julian Smith, which they said \"provides cover\" for him to intervene.\n\nThe Health and Social Care Board (HSCB) said the strikes pose a \"major challenge\".\n\nThe latest information on strike action and how it might affect patients can be found on the Health and Social Care Board website.\n\nRepresentatives from the five parties met with with the head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service, David Sterling, and Department of Health Permanent Secretary Richard Pengelly on Tuesday afternoon in a last-minute effort to avert the strike action.\n\nThe parties had hoped they could then meet with Mr Smith, but the Northern Ireland Office said health remained a devolved matter.\n\nSDLP deputy leader Nichola Mallon said she is \"angry\" Mr Smith did not meet the parties.\n\n\"On the eve of significant strike action in our health service by healthcare workers who have been left with no other choice, it is unacceptable that the secretary of state chose not to engage with parties this evening.\n\n\"What message does that send to healthcare staff?\" she asked.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill said the decision not to meet was \"regrettable\".\n\n\"The pay and staffing issue must not be used as a political football within the talks,\" she said.\n\n\"Party leaders restated there is consensus if the Executive is restored by 13 January that we will adopt a policy to award pay parity.\"\n\nThe letter to Julian Smith, signed by Arlene Foster, Michelle O'Neill, Naomi Long, Colum Eastwood and Steve Aiken, said there was \"collective support for the restoration of pay parity\".\n\n\"In our view this statement, making clear that any health and finance ministers in any future Northern Ireland Executive formed before 13 January 2020 would restore pay parity, provides cover for you as secretary of state to intervene to ensure that pay parity is restored independently of the ongoing talks to restore the Executive,\" the letter said.\n\nSteve Aiken, leader of the UUP, said: \"Here we had today an opportunity for both politicians here and for the secretary of state to do what was right.\"\n\nAlliance leader Naomi Long said: \"It is disappointing that on such an important issue, one that effects people in Northern Ireland directly and could have serious consequences tomorrow, he wasn't willing to actually come into the room and have the conversation with us this evening.\"\n\nNurses and other healthcare workers have been taking industrial action for several weeks amid complaints of poor pay and staffing levels.\n\nParamedics are set to take 24-hour strike action.\n\nA spokesperson for Health and Social Care Board (HSCB) said \"major challenges are expected across all health and social care services in Northern Ireland tomorrow\".\n\nThe HSCB announced that the South Tyrone Hospital Minor Injury Unit (MIU), Mid Ulster MIU, Bangor MIU and Ards MIU will all be closed on Wednesday.\n\nIt also advised that if patients or service users have not been contacted about their Trust then they should attend their appointment/ service as normal.\n\nAll emergency departments remain open, but \"significant pressure\" was expected within the departments.\n\n\"The priority will be on the treating emergency and life threatening conditions first. Patients with less urgent conditions may have to wait for lengthy periods,\" said the spokesperson.\n\nThere are just under 2,800 unfilled nursing posts within the health service in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing (RCN) estimates that a similar level of unfilled posts exists within nursing homes.\n\nThe nursing vacancy rate in NI is within 13%, compared with about 11% in England and about 6% in Scotland.\n\nThis means that for every eight nurses who should be working in Northern Ireland, one is missing.\n\nLast year, the local health service spent £52m on agency nurses to fill these gaps in the workforce.\n\nThat money, the RCN argues, could be better managed to train and pay health service nurses.\n\nThese are exceptional times which require an exceptional intervention.\n\nThe RCN says no time is a good time to strike but years of negotiations between various health ministers failed and years of warnings were ignored.\n\nKevin McAdam from the Unite union said the trade unions were \"working hard\" to ensure there was necessary staff cover.\n\n\"All of the local reps (of the trade unions) have been given authority to ensure that where critical care is required it is delivered,\" he added.\n\nTrade unions have said they are working to ensure there is necessary staff cover\n\nAnne Speed from Unison said joint meetings were taking place with employers on Tuesday and that it had provided an exemption from striking for staff working in \"cancer treatment and children's homes\".\n\nThe Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said it was working with management to ensure there is enough staff cover in \"critical departments\".\n\nThe heads of all of Northern Ireland's health trusts have stated the current crisis in the service has been \"years in the making\".\n\nThe latest information on strike action and how it might affect patients can be found on the Health and Social Care Board website.", "Police officer Amjad Ditta is among 16 men charged with sex offences against children\n\nSixteen men including a police officer have been charged with historical sex offences against children aged between 13 and 16.\n\nWest Yorkshire PC Amjad Ditta, also known as Amjad Hussain, 35, has been charged with sexual touching.\n\nHe and 15 other men are charged with offences against three girls in the Halifax area, dating from 2006 to 2009.\n\nThe allegations include several counts of rape, sexual assault, supplying drugs and trafficking.\n\nMr Ditta, who was attached to West Yorkshire Police's Protective Services Operations, was a serving officer at the time of the offence he has been accused of.\n\nHe has been suspended from duty, the force said.\n\nThe 16 men, all from Halifax, will appear at Bradford Magistrates' Court on 6 January 2020.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson visited the North East the day after his election victory\n\nIt is a phrase that has been repeated many times to me during two decades of reporting politics in the North East - the Tories can't win here.\n\nBrexit Party leader Nigel Farage said it again when he came to County Durham on the eve of the 2019 campaign.\n\nThe Conservatives took seven Labour seats, and had it not been for the Brexit Party complicating the picture, they might have taken more.\n\nThere are now 10 Tory MPs in the region - the most since 1935. This was the North's version of what happened in the south of England during Labour's 1997 win.\n\nCandidates who had never expected to triumph have suddenly found themselves with a new career.\n\nTake Jacob Young, the 26-year-old who turned Labour's supposedly safe Redcar seat blue.\n\nHe has handed in his notice in at the Teesside chemical plant where he works, but will still be working a Christmas Day shift he had been rostered to do.\n\nAnd these 2019 generation Tories do feel different. Many are rooted in their communities, with northern heritage and a local outlook. Yes, there's a lawyer, but also an NHS worker.\n\nThat sense people were voting for candidates who cared about where they lived certainly helped win the apparently unwinnable.\n\nThen there was the context of this election. Tory and Labour candidates told me the prime minister's \"get Brexit done\" mantra was parroted back to them by voter after voter.\n\nThose who wanted out of the European Union were always unlikely to back Labour, but they were also joined by those weary of the debate.\n\nThen there was the Labour leader. Their candidates said if they managed to get past the hostility on Brexit, they hit a brick wall when it came to Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn did not go down well on the doorstep\n\nMany of the new Conservative converts came from working class areas. Places loyal to Labour, but even more committed to their country.\n\nThe North East has always been a rich source for army recruitment. There are many families with military connections. For them, Mr Corbyn was just not patriotic enough to lead.\n\nThe charge that he sided too often with the nation's enemies - fair or not - hit home.\n\nAnd appeals to memories of Thatcherism fell flat. Folk memory of the 1980s struggles have faded, and now Tory MPs represent ex-steel towns like Consett and former mining communities like Blyth.\n\nBut was there genuine enthusiasm for Boris Johnson? I am not sure. We never really got to test out the thesis as the PM's three carefully-controlled campaign appearances kept him away from too many members of the public.\n\nSo there is a sense, as the prime minister has acknowledged, that some previously-Labour voters have been prepared to lend him their votes to deliver Brexit and keep Mr Corbyn away from power.\n\nBut perhaps some seeds of victory were sown a little earlier too.\n\nAlthough the June 2017 general election was a huge disappointment for the region's Tories, the previous month's local elections were a triumph.\n\nTheir candidate, Ben Houchen, pulled off the biggest shock becoming the first Tees Valley Mayor - an election Labour expected to win.\n\nHe has proved adept at getting into the local media, but he has also honoured campaign pledges his rivals said were unachievable.\n\nAnd some of those pledges do not feel very traditionally Tory.\n\nMr Houchen bought the local airport to try and arrest its apparent terminal decline under a private sector owner. There are early signs of revival under public ownership.\n\nHe has called for intervention to save the area's steel industry, and demanded contracts for local trains to go to County Durham-based Hitachi.\n\nThese are not the actions of a Conservative prepared to entirely trust the market. But it also means he has looked and sounded like a champion for the area.\n\nIn the same election, the Conservatives defeated Labour to take control of Northumberland Council.\n\nTheir regime may have made fewer headlines than Mayor Houchen, but so far it has exuded an air of quiet competence.\n\nBoth regimes may well have helped detoxify the Conservative brand in the North East. Maybe it's no coincidence then that Blyth Valley in Northumberland, and constituencies in and close to Tees Valley, were prepared to vote Conservative.\n\nIn contrast, many of the Labour councils have had to oversee nine years of cuts in their communities. But instead of pinning the blame on government-imposed austerity, some voters seem to have started asking whether they are getting a good deal out of generations of loyalty to Labour.\n\nSo in this year's local elections, Labour lost control of councils like Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland, and Darlington.\n\nNow the Conservatives may be sensing an opportunity to colonise Labour's heartland. Last week's results have left even more seats teetering on the brink. Small majorities the Conservatives could conquer in 2024.\n\nAnd empires do end. You only have to look over the border into Scotland to see how lost ground for Labour can become a wipe out.\n\nThe prime minister then is already talking about big investment in the north - the warm words of the Northern Powerhouse turned into action.\n\nBut promises must be delivered to make borrowed votes permanent, and any infrastructure investment takes time.\n\nAnd then there is getting Brexit done.\n\nEvery economic study suggests the North East and its export-led economy has the most at stake. The likes of Nissan cannot wait years for trade deals, and they cannot afford delays of a few minutes for parts to clear ports.\n\nA Brexit that costs jobs, and reduces the ability to invest in the North East's public services, could see Labour bounce back.\n\nThe Conservative roots remain shallow in the North East. The PM and his new band of MPs will need to dig in hard and make rhetoric real to make them permanent.", "The heads of all of Northern Ireland's health trusts have stated the current crisis in the service has been \"years in the making\".\n\nIt comes ahead of the first ever strike by nurses in Northern Ireland on Wednesday.\n\nA joint statement has been issued by the heads of the five regional healthcare trusts, as well as the head of the ambulance service.\n\nThe head of the Health and Social Care Board is also a signatory.\n\nIndustrial action is being taken by health workers in Northern Ireland in a dispute over pay and working conditions.\n\nThe latest information on exemptions to strike action can be found on the Health and Social Care Board website.\n\n\"Funding has been increasingly stretched year on year, while demand for care has risen and will continue to do so,\" the statement from the health trusts reads.\n\n\"Political and budgetary uncertainties have exacerbated the situation.\"\n\nHealth bosses acknowledge in the letter that workers taking the action \"are not doing so lightly\".\n\nIt adds the situation with industrial action is made more challenging by a \"significant rise in emergency department attendances and hospital admissions\".\n\nIn what is set to be a challenging day for Northern Ireland's healthcare services, on Wednesday paramedics, nurses, and other healthcare workers will take strike action.\n\nNurses are set to strike for 12 hours on Wednesday, following on from previous industrial action which has stopped short of a strike.\n\nParamedics are also set to take 24-hour strike action.\n\nThe last number of weeks has seen industrial action taken by other healthcare workers in Northern Ireland.", "Once, you would have got long odds on the first Conservative election win coming from Blyth Valley in Northumberland.\n\nAs a former mining community, it hardly seemed natural Tory territory. But mental health care assistant Ian Levy overcame a Labour majority of almost 8,000 to secure it.\n\nIn his victory speech, he pledged to bring investment and change to the community as soon as he arrived in Westminster.\n\nSo what do Mr Levy and Prime Minister Boris Johnson need to deliver to ensure that promise to the people of Blyth Valley means something?\n\nUnemployment in Blyth Valley is above the national average. That is typical of many communities in the North East that are still wrestling with the impact of industrial decline.\n\nIt's a community proud of its mining heritage, but the days when coal was king are slipping into memory. The town council says that in 1961 Blyth was one of the busiest ports in England, shipping more than six million tonnes of coal. But \"the late 1960s had seen a rapid decline in the traditionally male-dominated heavy industries\".\n• None £520.40average weekly wage, compared to £587 for whole of the UK\n• None 1 in 5work in manufacturing, compared to fewer than 1 in 10 in GB\n\nInstead its seafront now faces a cluster of offshore wind turbines, and it has ambitions to service a new generation of turbines in the North Sea. Its port also remains an important employer, and manufacturing a significant part of the economy.\n\nAnd some new industries are moving in. Sir Paul McCartney's former wife Heather Mills is planning to build a vegan food factory there.\n\nBut like many communities of its size, Blyth has a struggling town centre – though it is in the running for money from the government's Future High Street Fund.\n\nPerhaps the new MP and Mr Johnson will need to deliver more jobs - and better paid ones - to ensure local people have money to spend there. At the moment many of the constituents commute into Tyneside for work and leisure.\n\nEconomic studies suggest the exporting North East economy has most to lose from leaving the European Union in terms of lower economic growth.\n\nThe constituency did vote for Brexit though, with more than 6 in 10 backing leaving the EU in the 2016 referendum.\n\nHow the Blyth Valley vote divided up\n\nBlyth lost its railway station in 1964 in the Beeching cuts. Trains still pass through the town, but they are only carrying freight at the moment.\n\nVoters, then, might have been attracted by the Conservative election pledge to look at reversing some of those 1960s cuts.\n\nThe Tories have promised a £500m Beeching reversal fund, and have mentioned the return of passenger services to Blyth as one of the projects which could win support from that fund.\n\nBut the estimated cost of £99m to return services to the Ashington, Blyth and Tyne line has yet to be committed.\n\nThat leaves many locals relying on buses, so they will also want to see the prime minister deliver on promised investment into the network.\n\nThe local health trust that covers the constituency outperforms much of England, though in the most recent figures it still missed A&E and cancer targets.\n\nIt performed well though when it came to meeting mental health targets.\n\nThe Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as \"outstanding\" by the Care Quality Commission.\n\nAnd this is one community where Boris Johnson might not have to deliver a new hospital.\n\nA new purpose-built emergency care hospital opened in Cramlington in the constituency in 2015. It was the first of its kind, and has been seen as a model of how hospitals should operate.\n\nAlthough the constituency as a whole is about average for life expectancy, it has an above average number of over-65s - an ageing population that will want to see the government come up with a solution to social care funding.\n\nThe North East of England has some of the best performing primary schools, but some of the worst performing secondary schools.\n\nBut actually Blyth Valley has a better educational record than much of the region. Although achievement was slightly below average at primary level, secondary standards are above average.\n\nIt is one of the few parts of the country where at least some students are in a three-tier schooling system, with First, Middle and High Schools.\n\nYou can bet the schools though will want to see more funding delivered by the prime minister and their new MP.\n\nThe local further education college will also hope Mr Johnson makes good on promises to put money into a sector which suffered a funding squeeze under David Cameron and Theresa May.\n\nNorthumbria Police has suffered some of the worst funding cuts - in fact its chief constable described them as the worst in the country in 2018.\n\nThe force has lost more than 1,000 officers since 2010 and had to dip into its financial reserves to avoid deeper cuts. Part of the problem was a narrow base for council tax - meaning cuts from central government were not replaced by local funds.\n\nMr Johnson has already committed to increasing the number of police. The Home Office expect 185 extra officers to be recruited in the Northumbria force area by 2021, but that does not replace all those that have been lost.\n\nThe prime minister and new MP will be under pressure to show they will go further in a community which is in the top 10% of the country when it comes to crime.\n\nImmigration into the area is negligible. Figures aren't available purely for Blyth Valley, but from mid 2016-2017, it is estimated that the short-term international migration flow to the entire Northumberland region was made up of just 47 people.\n\nGiven the county's population is over 300,000, this is not a community struggling to cope with the weight of inward migration.\n\nBlyth Valley is also an overwhelmingly white constituency.\n• None 60.5%voted for Brexit, compared with the UK average of 51.9%\n• None 97.7% were born in the UK compared to 87.3% average (2011 census)\n• None 42%are aged 50+, compared with 37% of the UK population\n• None 5% of live birthsin 2018 were to non-UK mothers. England's average is 29.1%\n\nThat does not mean voters are not concerned about immigration into the UK more widely.\n\nBut in a region with skill shortages, some employers will be keen to retain access to workers from overseas – and the PM will have to balance those two competing demands.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ex-Labour MP Emma Dent Coad: Why I kept my cancer quiet\n\nA former Labour MP who lost her seat at last week's general election has revealed she was diagnosed with breast cancer just a month before polling day.\n\nEmma Dent Coad told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire she chose not to disclose the diagnosis as she did not want it to become an issue in the campaign.\n\nMs Dent Coad lost Kensington to the Conservatives by 150 votes.\n\nShe said she has undergone surgery and described her treatment at Charing Cross Hospital as \"amazing\".\n\nThe 65-year-old was diagnosed on 14 November following routine screening and underwent a procedure to remove the cancer just three days before the election on 12 December.\n\nShe told Victoria Derbyshire: \"I was very lucky, it was picked up very early after a screening. It was pre-lump stage. I always knew it was a possibility.\n\n\"I have four sisters, two of them have been through it and survived. I was hoping I had got away with it.\n\n\"I'm OK, actually, because I'm going through the process and I feel quite positive about it. But it was a horrible shock at a really terrible time.\"\n\nShe added that doctors at Charing Cross were \"amazing\" and she is being supported by family but the timing meant juggling her work in the campaign.\n\n\"It was really hard especially because of the campaign having to deal with that at the same time,\" she said.\n\nMs Dent Coad said she chose not to reveal the diagnosis partly because she was focused on dealing with the news herself and \"partly because I did not want it to be a factor at all either positively or negative in my campaign\".\n\nHow the Kensington vote broke down:\n\nShe added that her experience of social media had been \"brutal and nasty\" and her campaign began in an unpleasant way after accusations were made that, as a local councillor, she had a role in discussing the flammable cladding used on Grenfell Tower.\n\nMs Dent Coad confirmed that she is pursuing legal redress over the comments, which were made by her Liberal Democrat opponent, the former Conservative minister Sam Gyimah.\n\nShe has stated that when she was on the board of the organisation which managed Grenfell, the principle of refurbishing the tower was discussed, but she had left by the time there were any detailed discussions about cladding.\n\n\"I witnessed the [Grenfell Tower] fire and saw people I know die and I was accused of complicity which was untrue,\" she said. \"On so many levels it was a really nasty campaign from day one.\"\n\nIt is an offence to make a false statement about a candidate in a general election campaign but the Lib Dems said in a statement that the party was not currently aware of any police investigation - or the basis for one - regarding Mr Gyimah's campaign.\n\nAsked whether the diagnosis might have made a difference to the result, she said: \"I don't think so. I don't think it would have made a difference. We were facing a barrage of lies and nastiness throughout the campaign which was a disgrace.\"", "Part-time working for GPs is becoming commonplace, regulators say, raising concerns about the government's drive to recruit extra doctors.\n\nSome 45% of GPs are working less than full-time, with a third cutting their hours in the past year, a General Medical Council survey indicated.\n\nThe poll also suggested more intended to follow suit amid rising workloads.\n\nThe regulator said it was essential to retain more full-time GPs if numbers were going to rise.\n\nDr Lucinda McWhor is one of many doctors who is part-time.\n\nShe works three days, but still clocks up 35 to 40 hours a week - the equivalent of a full-time role.\n\n\"All GPs I know work around two to four hours a day unpaid.\n\n\"This is why they are part-time, they are doing full-time hours but getting paid part-time rates.\n\n\"Because we are a predominantly female workforce this has been allowed to happen.\n\n\"Women have often worked part time in general practice and we tend to be ready to do more without the pay.\n\n\"At this current level of workload it is simply not safe to have GPs working five days per week.\n\n\"The days are non-stop and we need constant mental alertness.\"\n\nThe findings - part of an annual report into the entire medical workforce - come after the government promised to recruit extra GPs, as part of their election campaign.\n\nIt has set a target to recruit 6,000 extra by 2025 in England.\n\nBut GMC chief executive Charlie Massey said while more GPs were coming through training, it was not enough to keep up with demand.\n\n\"The clinical work of GPs is changing,\" he said.\n\n\"They're seeing more patients, many with complex needs and some who have high expectations of what primary care can do for them.\n\n\"To break this cycle of workforce shortages we need a clear plan, in all four countries of the UK, for a sustainable increase in the number of GPs.\"\n\nIn 2015, the government in England set a target of increasing the number of full-time equivalents by 5,000 by 2020.\n\nBut latest figures show the numbers have hardly changed.\n\nThe survey, of nearly 3,900 doctors - more than 1,000 of whom were GPs - suggests GPs are the most likely to work part-time as well as the most likely to report dissatisfaction with their working lives.\n\nRising workloads and patient expectations were cited as key reasons, with one in 10 having to take time off work because of stress.\n\nNine in 10 also reported working extra hours beyond what they were contracted to work.\n\nProf Martin Marshall of the Royal College of GPs said the profession should not be criticised for this.\n\n\"Working 'full-time' in general practice is simply not doable for many,\" he said.\n\nBut even when doctors reduced their hours, they may still be contributing to patient care in others through education, research or leadership roles.\n\nThe government in England has promised to further increase the number of GPs being trained, do more to improve retention and recruit from abroad.", "The medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières has warned of an unfolding health emergency as refugee camps on the Aegean islands see a spike in new arrivals from war-torn countries.\n\nIt comes as ministers from around the world are meeting for the first ever Global Refugee Forum in Geneva, Switzerland.\n\nOn the Greek Island of Lesbos, almost 18,000 people are crammed into a camp that was originally built for around 2,000 people.\n\nPregnant women, new mothers and their babies are some of the most vulnerable people in the camp.\n\nOne woman Zainab, who’s eight months pregnant, spoke to our global health correspondent, Tulip Mazumdar.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why there were protests outside the match in Barcelona\n\nProtesters clashed with police outside a Barcelona and Real Madrid football match at the Nou Camp in Spain.\n\nThousands of fans inside Barcelona's stadium held banners urging the Spanish government to \"sit and talk\" with those demanding Catalan independence.\n\nThe match had been postponed in October over protests against the jailing of nine Catalan separatist leaders.\n\nMany Barcelona fans and other protesters want a legal independence referendum for the region.\n\nBefore the game a secretive Catalan protest group, Democratic Tsunami, said on Twitter it would distribute 100,000 banners to fans. It also told them to bring inflatable balls and to write on them a \"message for the world\".\n\nIt later posted footage of fans inside the stadium holding up the banners and chanting \"freedom\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tsunami Democràtic This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe group is classed by Spanish officials as a criminal organisation. In October it organised mass protests at Barcelona's airport in October and blocked a major motorway.\n\nMeanwhile, thousands of protesters gathered outside the stadium, chanting \"Independence\" and \"Free political prisoners\". They made makeshift barricades that were later cleared by police.\n\nAt least 12 people were reportedly injured in the clashes.\n\nThe match, known as \"El Clásico\", was been due to be played two months ago but was postponed due to unrest after Spain's Supreme Court in October sentenced nine Catalan separatist leaders to up to 13 years in prison.\n\nThe game ended in a 0-0 draw, leaving Barcelona top of the league ahead of Real Madrid on goal difference.", "Campaigners have criticised prosecutors over the failure to charge many rape cases\n\nRape prosecutions are being delayed for years in a justice system close to \"breaking point\", says a report into record-low conviction rates.\n\nA \"damning\" number of cases are lost amid \"under-resourced\" investigations, the prosecution inspectorate said.\n\nThe government said the findings were \"deeply concerning\". Women's groups said the review failed to explain \"woeful\" conviction rates.\n\nBut the report rejected claims that prosecutors only charge \"easy\" cases.\n\nBut Sarah Green, a campaigner from End Violence Against Women Coalition, said the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) was increasingly risk-averse and its handling of cases was causing unnecessary delays.\n\nShe highlighted a recent rape case in Liverpool case where the CPS delayed a prosecution for more than six month while they requested a victim's school records.\n\n\"They asked for those school records in a case where a woman was unconscious when she was raped, when there was a recording of part of the rape by her friends and where there was forensic evidence. And there was indeed a conviction,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nThe presiding judge on the case expressed concern about the amount of time between the attack and charges being laid, the Liverpool Echo reported.\n\nThe report, published by HM Crown Prosecution Inspectorate, found an average of 237 days elapsed between the first report of an offence to police and the police's first submission of the file to the CPS.\n\nIncomplete police files caused further delays and the CPS is currently not meeting its own time targets to make decisions, the Inspectorate said.\n\nFigures published earlier this year showed there were a record 58,657 allegations of rape in the year up to March, but only 1,925 successful prosecutions.\n\nIt is the lowest number in England and Wales since records began in 2008.\n\nBut the report said fewer rape cases are being referred by police to prosecutors - a fall of 23%.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Annie Tisshaw spoke about her experience earlier this year\n\nSeveral women who say they were raped have waived their anonymity to complain about the charging decisions made by crown prosecutors.\n\nAnnie Tisshaw told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme that the police investigation into her case took many months and, after being passed to the CPS, requests for further evidence led to it being dropped altogether.\n\nThe former North West chief prosecutor Nazir Afzal said it seemed as though Ms Tisshaw was the subject of the investigation rather than the alleged perpetrator.\n\n\"Resources are really, really poor. We are at breaking point,\" he added.\n\n\"We're beyond breaking point, actually, I think. We've got to the stage where cases are not being prosecuted with any speed.\"\n\nPolice and prosecutors were criticised over their handling of a case in 2017 when a student was acquitted on 12 counts of rape and sexual assault because text messages which undermined the complainant had not been disclosed.\n\nThe inspectors said cases have become more complex due to the volume of evidence from mobile phones and social media, placing more pressure on an overstretched system.\n\nChief inspector Kevin McGinty said the justice system as a whole is \"under-resourced so that it is close to breaking point\". For police, he said \"it may have gone beyond that\" and \"the number of rape allegations lost in the investigative process is damning\".\n\nTo address claims that the CPS was being too selective about the cases it prosecutes, inspectors examined a sample 250 cases.\n\nIn five of these (2%), the decision was found to be \"wholly unreasonable\". In 2016, the inspectors found that applied to 10% of decisions.\n\nThe inspectors said that this suggested prosecutors were improving the way they apply the test for charging or releasing suspects, rather than selecting \"easy cases\".\n\nA government spokesperson said the findings were \"deeply concerning\" and that \"victims deserve to know they will be supported\".\n\nThe government has promised more police officers, an extra £85m for the Crown Prosecution Service and longer prison sentences for sex offenders.\n\n\"Clearly there is more to do, but this government is committed to restoring confidence in the justice system and providing better support for victims,\" the spokesperson added.\n\nThe National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) said investigators were \"under huge strain\" and rape is \"one of the most complex crimes\" they deal with.\n\nDeputy Chief Constable Sarah Crew, the NPCC lead for adult sexual offences and rape, said police were working with prosecutors to address these issues, while the government's promised 20,000 additional police officers would \"ease the pressure\".\n\nAnd crown chief prosecutor Siobhan Blake, a CPS lead for sexual offences, told the BBC that the report demonstrates there is \"no evidence that prosecutors are risk averse or that we at the CPS are choosing to prosecute easy cases\".\n\nSome women's campaigners disagree. Sarah Green said the report was \"profoundly disappointing\" and failed to uncover the real reasons for the decline in successful prosecutions.\n\nThe report left \"many questions at the police front door\" she said.\n\nIn particular she pointed to the number of cases which the CPS had decided to prosecute, which had declined faster than the number of cases referred by police to prosecutors.", "Mark Ovland (front), Luke Watson (top left) and Cathy Eastburn (top right) were found guilty\n\nThree Extinction Rebellion activists who glued themselves to a train have been found guilty of obstructing the railway.\n\nCathy Eastburn, Mark Ovland and Luke Watson were charged after a protest halted Docklands Light Railway services at Canary Wharf station on 17 April.\n\nA jury at Inner London Crown Court unanimously found the trio guilty.\n\nJudge Silas Reid said most defendants do not come to court \"for such noble purposes\".\n\nWatson, 30, Eastburn, 52, and Ovland, 36, all denied obstructing an engine or carriage using the railway and will be sentenced on Thursday.\n\nJurors convicted the defendants after an hour of deliberations, but the foreman added it was \"with regret\".\n\nExtinction Rebellion, an activist group whose protesters are urging government action on climate change, said the trial was the first to be dealt with by a crown court as opposed to a magistrates' court.\n\nThe trio were arrested during two weeks of demonstrations organised by the group, which brought parts of London to a standstill.\n\nExtinction Rebellion said it had warned the relevant authorities of their actions beforehand\n\nWatson, of Manuden in Essex; Eastburn, of St Gerards Close in Lambeth, south London; and Ovland, of Keinton Mandeville in Somerton, Somerset, have been released on unconditional bail.\n\nIn her closing speech to the court, Eastburn, who spent a week in prison on remand, compared the action to raising the alarm when your house is on fire.\n\nWatson told the court the group warned the relevant authorities of their actions beforehand and had chosen a station that was above ground to avoid unnecessary distress.\n\nJudge Reid indicated that a conditional discharge was possible, telling the jury: \"I don't see at the moment that there's any possibility of any of these defendants going back to prison.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Trump is the third president in US history to be impeached by Congress.\n\nIn a vote that went along party lines, the House voted in favour of two articles of impeachment: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.\n\nAbuse of power was passed with 230 in favour, 197 against.\n\nAround a quarter of an hour later, obstruction of Congress was approved - 229 in favour, 198 against.\n\nBefore casting her vote, top Democrat Nancy Pelosi called this a \"solemn\" moment and called for lawmakers to vote according to their conscience.\n\nBut as applause broke out, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned Democrats not be celebratory.\n\nThe votes came after nearly 12 hours of rancorous debate and weeks of deliberation in committees.\n\nTrump delayed his rally in Michigan by nearly an hour, and appears to have timed his appearance to coincide with the historic vote.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Queen's Speech: Brexit, the NHS and what happened next\n\nBoris Johnson has claimed his programme for government is the \"most radical Queen's Speech in a generation\".\n\nThe prime minister said planned new laws to toughen up criminal justice and increase NHS spending would deliver on the \"people's priorities\".\n\nBut his main priority is the UK's exit from the EU on 31 January.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said many of the PM's promises mimicked the \"language of Labour policy but without the substance\".\n\n\"They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, even when it's a very pale imitation, but I fear those swayed by the prime minister's promises will be sorely disappointed,\" added the Labour leader.\n\nAnd SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford accused the PM of \"denying [Scotland] the right to choose our own future\" referring to the SNP's desire for another referendum on Scottish independence.\n\n\"Why did democracy stop in the prime minister's world with the independence referendum in 2014?\" he asked.\n\nBut Boris Johnson said he felt a \"colossal sense of obligation\" to the voters.\n\nHe told MPs that \"a new golden age for this United Kingdom is now within reach\" adding that the government would \"work flat out to deliver it\".\n\nAddressing Parliament for the second time in less than three months, the Queen said the priority for her government was to deliver Brexit on 31 January, but ministers also had an \"ambitious programme of domestic reform that delivers on the people's priorities\".\n\nOf the more than 30 bills announced in the Queen's Speech, seven were on Brexit.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt comes as the government says it will close its Department for Exiting the European Union on 31 January.\n\nThe seven bills announced that were devoted to Brexit cover legislation on trade, agriculture, fisheries, immigration, financial services and private international law.\n\nThe first to be put to Parliament will be the Withdrawal Agreement Bill - the legislation that enables the UK to leave the EU - on Friday before the Christmas recess.\n\nBoris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn walked to the House of Lords together in silence\n\nFollowing last week's general election, the prime minister has a Commons majority of 80 - the largest enjoyed by a Conservative leader since Margaret Thatcher in 1987.\n\nThe prime minister's increased parliamentary authority and command of his party means it is likely to pass without major changes in the New Year in time to meet the 31 January deadline.\n\nIn another move welcomed by Tory MPs, the bill will also enable more British judges to depart from previous rulings of the EU's top court.\n\nOn the NHS, the government says it will enshrine in law a commitment on the health service's funding, with an extra £33.9bn per year provided by 2023/24.\n\nThe PM's commitment on the NHS amounts to a 3.4% year-on-year increase in expenditure, a significant increase on what the NHS received during the five year Tory-Lib Dem coalition government as well as under his predecessors David Cameron and Theresa May.\n\nBut it is significantly lower than the 6% average annual increases seen under Labour leaders Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. And when adjusted for inflation, and factoring in the increased cost of equipment, medicines and staff pay, it could actually be worth £20.5bn by 2023-4.\n\nLabour's health spokesman Jonathan Ashworth said: \"If the Conservatives' plans to put funding increases into law is to be anything other than an empty gimmick, we would urge them to pledge the extra £6bn a year which experts say is needed to start to make up the cuts they've imposed for a decade.\"\n\nThere was also a commitment announced for ministers to seek cross-party consensus for long-term reform of the social care system and the government will continue work to reform the Mental Health Act.\n\nThis government wants to try to give the appearance that they are completely new, completely different, even though the Conservatives have been in power for nearly a full decade.\n\nThat is quite a political stunt to try to pull off.\n\nBut it's clear also that Boris Johnson came to the Commons today to present a vision that he hopes can straddle left and right, or what has traditionally been seen as Labour's place in politics and the Conservatives' place in politics.\n\nThat is what the results of the general election gave him as an opportunity.\n\nAnd the challenge for Boris Johnson is not just to hold onto that for five years, but show to people who voted Tory for the first time that the party was worth the risk - that their vote was the right decision.\n\nThe test will be enormous - whether or not all that rhetoric actually matches up to the reality of the actions and decisions that this government will make.\n\nMr Johnson has had a reputation for years of being hungry with ambition to get to this place.\n\nWe're going to find out in the next months and years whether he's hungry to take the decisions that actually will cement his place in history.\n\nPlans for longer sentences for violent criminals, were also unveiled, as well as the establishment of a Royal Commission to improve the \"efficiency and effectiveness\" of the criminal justice process and there are bills that will ensure the most serious violent offenders serve longer prison terms.\n\nAnd those charged with knife possession will face \"swift justice\".\n\nOther announcements in the Queen's Speech included:\n\nThursday's State Opening of Parliament was the 66th time the Queen has opened Parliament - and has come only weeks after the last one on 14 October.\n\nThere was less pageantry than usual, as was the case the last time a snap election was held in 2017.\n\nThe Queen travelled by car from Buckingham Palace to Parliament, rather than by horse-drawn carriage, and she did not wear ceremonial dress.\n\nGentlemen at Arms prepare for the Queen's arrival in Parliament\n• None Why do prisoners serve only half their sentence?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt is among the highlights of the school year, but how do you perform a Christmas panto with only seven pupils?\n\nThat is exactly the challenge staff face at Wales' smallest school.\n\nYsgol Abersoch in Gwynedd has seven full-time and nursery children, aged three to eight, available to choose from for the performance of Cardiau Nadolig (Christmas Cards in English).\n\nHead teacher Linda Jones said: \"It's one heck of a challenge, but the children are so excited.\"\n\nPeople living in the seaside village of Abersoch, with a population of about 800, are used to doing things on a small scale.\n\nHowever, for the village's schoolchildren, that means a lot more work when it comes to putting on a modern nativity.\n\nScott, eight, is one of only two boys in the school but has a starring role as the postman\n\nThe school has seven full-time pupils and two nursery children, though two children are not taking part in the Christmas show on religious grounds.\n\nIt leaves the Welsh-language school's only full-time member of staff, Mrs Jones, with a juggling act to get a show on the stage.\n\nShe said: \"After 30 years of teaching I've got a collection of Christmas pantos, but most of them are for a lot more children than seven.\n\n\"It's a lot of hard work because they all have to play a couple of roles. So we've had to do a shortened version, with not so many costume changes.\n\n\"We've also got the children to sing a lot of songs so they don't have so many different roles to learn. But they've still got 13 to sing, so they've got a lot to learn.\n\n\"But they have done so well that people are amazed there are only seven of them, they sound so good.\"\n\nHead teacher Linda Jones is desperate this will not be the school's last Christmas show\n\nCardiau Nadolig - which will be performed on Wednesday - is a tale of a postman delivering cards with the message of remembering the reason behind Christmas.\n\nThe lead role is played by the eldest pupil, eight-year-old Scott, who is one of only two boys in the school. The youngest is three-year-old Melissa.\n\nThere has been a village school in Abersoch since 1924.\n\nHowever, behind the scenes, there is a genuine fear this could be the school's last Christmas show.\n\nGwynedd Council is considering closing the school, given it is well under its capacity of 34.\n\nThe council's cabinet member for education, Cemlyn Rees Williams, said the authority had \"a duty\" to consider the situation, with projections predicting the low numbers are unlikely to rise over the coming years.\n\nThere has been a village school in Abersoch since 1924\n\nHowever, Mrs Jones - herself a former pupil - said the school plays a vital role in the rural community.\n\n\"It's not just a school, it's right at the heart of the community.\n\n\"For those of us staff and parents who are ex-pupils, it's very emotional.\n\n\"Fingers crossed this is not the last Christmas show. If it is, we'll make sure we go out with a bang.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Vienna State Opera says it has already cut the number of performances for dancers, after their training burden was criticised\n\nChildren at Vienna State Opera's high-profile ballet academy were encouraged to smoke to control their weight, an investigation has found.\n\nA special commission is investigating claims that the academy endangered pupils' wellbeing.\n\nIt claimed that the young dancers had been exposed to harsh routines of training, practising and performing.\n\nCommission head Susanne Reindl-Krauskopf said students were addressed by their first names and clothes sizes.\n\n\"It is clear that children and adolescents are not sufficiently protected from discrimination, neglect and negative medical effects,\" the commission's report stated.\n\nIt also said the training burden was poorly controlled and \"endangering their wellbeing\".\n\nIn response, Vienna State Opera said it had already cut the number of students' performances and would study the report before giving a full response.\n\nThe academy, created in 1771, is one of Europe's most prestigious ballet schools. Many of its alumni dance for companies such as London's Royal ballet and New York's American Ballet Theatre.\n\nThe scandal hit the headlines in April when Austrian newspaper Falter published an investigation which alleged that some young dancers were physically hit and scratched, and others mocked for their physiques.\n\nAustria's culture minister Alexander Schallenberg has called for urgent action to resolve the issues.", "John Worboys was jailed in 2009 for a string of sex attacks on women in his taxi\n\nBlack cab rapist John Worboys has been handed two life sentences with a minimum term of six years for attacking four more women.\n\nThe 62-year-old, who is now known as John Radford, was jailed in 2009 for assaults on 12 women in London.\n\nThe four victims came forward after a public outcry caused by a Parole Board ruling that he was safe to be freed.\n\nSentencing Worboys, Mrs Justice McGowan said she did not know when \"if ever you will cease to be a risk\".\n\nIn 2009, Worboys was locked up indefinitely for the public's protection with a minimum term of eight years after being found guilty of 19 sex offences against 12 women between 2006 and 2008.\n\nIn January 2018, the Parole Board said Worboys would be freed after serving 10 years but victims challenged the decision.\n\nThat decision was later overturned by the High Court, leading to a review of the decision where the Parole Board decided Worboys must remain in jail.\n\nAmong the reasons given for refusing Worboys parole were his \"sense of sexual entitlement\" and a need to control women.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Becki Houlston told the BBC that Worboys drugged her in Bournemouth\n\nProsecutor Duncan Penny QC told the Old Bailey that psychiatrist Philip Joseph found Worboys had been \"fantasising\" about attacking women since 1986.\n\nA probation report in August this year found \"he is potentially just as dangerous now as the point of the first sentence\".\n\nAfter the four women came forward, Worboys, of Enfield, admitted two charges of administering a drug with intent to commit rape or indecent assault.\n\nHe also pleaded guilty to two further charges of administering a substance with intent to commit a sexual offence.\n\nMr Penny said the first victim was targeted in 2000 or early 2001 after a night out at a wine bar in Dover Street in Soho.\n\nThe second victim, a university student living in north London, was picked up after a night out with friends at a club on New Oxford Street in 2003.\n\nWorboys' third victim was picked up after a night out on King's Road in 2007 where he told her he had won £40,000 at a casino and offered her champagne.\n\nWorboys would win victims' trust before pouring them a glass of drug-laced alcohol\n\nThe court heard Worboys told the fourth victim he had won the lottery and offered her and her friend miniature bottles of champagne.\n\nMr Penny said: \"She woke up in bed the following morning. The bedclothes had not moved and her hands were crossed over her chest, which was unusual.\n\n\"She was sufficiently unnerved to check herself. There were no visible signs she had been touched.\"\n\nMr Penny told the court: \"The consistent themes throughout, together with the content of what took place, seems to be the profound effect not knowing what happened has had in each of these women throughout their lives, as a result of having been unfortunate enough to get into the defendant's black cab.\"\n\nIf an offender tells lies, does that increase their risk to the public? That's the key issue at the heart of this case.\n\nJohn Worboys lied to psychologists before his parole hearing in 2017, giving a carefully-crafted account that tallied only with the crimes he'd been convicted of.\n\nHe was assessed as safe to be released from prison. But, when more victims came forward Worboys changed his story.\n\nDespite this Dr Jackie Craissati, an experienced clinical forensic psychologist, told the court she believes Worboys poses a low risk of sexual reoffending.\n\nShe says she doesn't expect offenders to give \"truthful and full\" accounts of their behaviour when assessing how dangerous they are.\n\nThe judge clearly did not agree, and many others may baulk at the idea that someone who can't be trusted to tell the truth about their crimes can nevertheless be trusted in the community.\n\nThe black cab used by Worboys in his attacks\n\nPolice believe Worboys may have carried out more than 100 rapes and sexual assaults on women in London.\n\nBecki Houlston, who has waived her right to anonymity, said Worboys drugged her in Bournemouth.\n\n\"He was pretty pre-meditated from the get-go, and I was a woman on my own,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"He is highly manipulative and relentless. It becomes easier to just accept a drink to shut him up.\"\n\nIn Ms Houlston's case, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said there was not enough evidence to prosecute.\n\nReacting to the sentencing, the CPS's Tina Dempster said: \"John Worboys is a dangerous predator who still poses a clear threat to women.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "One of the posts featured singer Lily Allen\n\nFour vaping companies, including British American Tobacco (BAT), have had Instagram posts promoting e-cigarettes banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).\n\nThe posts showed models and celebrities such as Lily Allen holding electronic cigarettes.\n\nThe advertising of these products is banned on social media.\n\nOne of the groups that had complained said the ruling was \"a huge step forward\".\n\n\"While the ASA ruling is great news, urgent policy change is needed from Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to prevent BAT and other tobacco companies from using social media to advertise their harmful products to young people around the world,\" the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids said in a statement.\n\nThe company behind this post - Global Vaping Group - said it could not verify the model's age\n\nThe four vaping companies under scrutiny were:\n\nThe complaint was backed by UK anti-smoking groups Action on Smoking and Health (Ash) and Stopping Tobacco Organisations and Products (Stop).\n\nThe companies were accused of promoting nicotine-containing e-cigarettes and featuring models who appeared to be under 25, which is banned under the advertising code.\n\nIn its response, British American Tobacco said its online communications \"aimed to impart factual information regarding products but stopped short of direct or indirect promotion\".\n\nThe Vype Instagram account in question did not allow under-18s and clearly stated its Vype e-cigarettes contained nicotine, it said.\n\nAnd it \"used these platforms to interact with users when they ask questions or request information and to communicate factual information about Vype that adults vapers and smokers\" wanted.\n\nThe company behind this post - Ama Vape - said it had removed it following the complaint\n\nBut Ash chief executive Deborah Arnott said: \"The law has always been clear that any advertising of e-cigarettes online is not permitted.\n\n\"BAT's defence that all they were doing was providing 'information' on social media not promoting their products has been blown out of the water.\n\n\"The ASA ruling leaves no doubt that BAT's social media tactics for Vype were both irresponsible and unlawful and must never be repeated.\"\n\nThe ASA ruled the posts must not appear again in their current form.\n\nIt told all four companies posts promoting nicotine-containing e-cigarettes \"should not be made from Instagram in future\" unless steps were taken to make sure they could not be viewed by under-18s and the people featured must be 25 or older.\n\nGlobal Vaping Group accepted its post had been \"beyond purely being factual\" and admitted it was unable to verify the age of a woman shown vaping.\n\nAttitude Vapes did not respond to the ASA's inquiries and was told it must do so \"in future\".\n\nAma Vape said it had removed its post and reviewed its other social-media content.\n\nA spokesman for Instagram said the platform was also updating its rules to state that it will no longer allowing paid promotions of vapes or tobacco products on the app.\n\n\"Earlier this year we updated our policy to restrict organic content that depicts the sale or purchase of tobacco products to over 18s,\" parent company Facebook added in a statement.\n\n\"We are currently updating our branded content policies to no longer allow paid promotions of these products too.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Vaughan Edwards died following the attack on a Christmas night out\n\n\"We had everything set in place to live a wonderful life together, but it was all taken away in an instant.\"\n\nIt is two years since Christine Edwards' husband Vaughan was attacked on a night out to celebrate Christmas.\n\nHe sustained traumatic head injuries and died in January 2018 after the assault in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire.\n\nMrs Edwards has backed Dyfed-Powys Police's \"Just Walk Away\" campaign, aimed at cutting alcohol-related violence over the festive period.\n\n\"Christmas will never be the same - nothing ever will,\" said Mrs Edwards, of Llannon.\n\n\"What I've had to go through, with grieving, the court case and taking on the business, has been too much to deal with.\"\n\nShe was with her husband for the family business Christmas party celebrations in their home town when he was assaulted as he headed home from a bar.\n\n\"It was horrendous,\" she said.\n\n\"He went down and he wasn't getting up. I told my daughter Emma 'he's gone' - I just knew it.\"\n\nThere is a \"dark cloud\" over the family at Christmas, says Christine Edwards and her daughter Emma\n\nHe was rushed to the major trauma unit at Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales and put on a life-support machine, but died on 17 January.\n\nIn June 2018, 37-year-old David Wayne Jenkins was jailed for five years and three months for manslaughter.\n\n\"Every Christmas there will be a dark cloud over us. My children have lost a father, our grandson - who Vaughan absolutely doted on - has been affected, and I've been left alone at the age of 57.\n\n\"It's not right and life shouldn't have been this way.\"\n\nVaughan Edwards was killed while on a night out over Christmas\n\nEvery year since 2015, Dyfed-Powys Police said it had recorded an average of 87 serious alcohol-related assaults over the three-week period into the new year.\n\nThroughout December it hits about 120 attacks, where alcohol is an aggravating factor.\n\n\"It's undeniable that the number of violent incidents has a huge impact on police resources,\" said temporary Det Ch Insp Phil Rowe.\n\n\"But more importantly, each of these assaults affects people's lives.\"\n\nVaughan Edwards died in hospital after being on a life support machine\n\nHe said people needed to think before they act on a night out.\n\n\"Could you live with going to prison, spending Christmas in custody and the emotional weight of knowing your actions seriously injured or even killed someone?\" he said.\n\n\"If you get into a confrontational situation on a night out, please be the bigger person and just walk away.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Darts\n\nFallon Sherrock became the first woman to win a match at the PDC World Championship by coming back from behind to stun Ted Evetts 3-2 in London.\n\nThe 25-year-old from Milton Keynes - only the fifth woman to play in the event - was cheered throughout a superb contest at Alexandra Palace.\n\nSherrock, the BDO Women's World Championship runner-up in 2015, fell 2-1 behind but rallied to make history.\n\n\"I have proved that we can play the men and can beat them,\" she said.\n\nSherrock ended the night in joyful tears after a thrilling victory over 22-year-old world number 77 Evetts, also from England.\n\nShe had secured one of two places for female players in the 96-strong field. The other qualifier - Japan's Mikuru Suzuki - took Englishman James Richardson to a deciding leg before losing 3-2 on Sunday.\n• None I can use crowd to my advantage - Sherrock\n\nCanadian Gayl King - in 2000 - was the first woman to play at the PDC World Championship, with Anastasia Dobromyslova of Russia (2009 and 2019) and England's Lisa Ashton (2019) also featuring prior to this year's event.\n\nAfter her victory, Sherrock was serenaded with the chant \"we love you Sherrock, we do\" by fans and was the top trend on social media. She faces Austrian Mensur Suljovic in the second round.\n\n\"I am speechless,\" she said. \"I don't know what to say. Thank you every one. I feel really happy because I have made something for women's darts.\n\n\"I can't believe it. To do that on the biggest stage, wow. I am so happy that I can continue it rather than go out.\n\n\"This is definitely one of the best moments I've had. I'm just so happy. I've just made history. I can't believe it. I've made a great achievement for women's darts.\"\n\nSherrock, having won a leg with 106 checkout, left herself on 80 for the first set - but did not manage to leave herself a shot at a double with her final dart, allowing Evetts to take a 1-0 lead.\n\nWith the throw, she started the second set with a 13-dart leg, was on a nine-dart finish with six perfect throws but missed the seventh before taking the set with a cool 80 finish.\n\nIn the third set, Sherrock punished Evetts' miss at double eight to break twice, but a missed dart at double eight and three more at double four proved extremely costly, as Evetts took the next two legs to go 2-1 up.\n\nBut she forced a decider and broke Evetts in the final set and held her throw to go 2-0 up, and though Evetts pulled a leg back, Sherrock coolly finished off the contest with double 18.", "Nurses are on picket lines across Northern Ireland\n\nStrike action by 15,000 nurses in Northern Ireland over pay and staffing has ended.\n\nIn total, more than 20,000 people who work in the health service in Northern Ireland were involved in Wednesday's action.\n\nNine thousand Royal College of Nursing nurses ended their 12-hour strike at 20:00 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nNurses in the Unison union remained on strike until midnight, along with the majority of NIPSA members.\n\nMembers of the Unite union are on strike until 06:00 on Thursday, while NIPSA ambulance workers are due to end their action at 07:00 GMT.\n\nThe Health and Social Care Board said 4,749 hospital appointments were cancelled on Wednesday.\n\nPaul Cummings, deputy chief executive of the Health and Social Care Board, said two-hourly calls were being made to each of the health trusts to assess the situation.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio Ulster's Evening Extra, he said so far there had been \"no reported issues of patient safety\".\n\n\"Every aspect of health and social care has been affected,\" he said.\n\n\"Pressure is continuing to grow on our emergency departments, but so far our preparations [for the strike] have paid dividends.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'This is unprecedented for us'\n\nSpeaking at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast, RCN member Nuala Murray told BBC News NI: \"This was incredibly difficult. I've been nursing for 37 years.\n\n\"This is so unprecedented for us to have to strike but nurses are so fed up, they've just had enough.\n\n\"Their patients aren't safe and they need to do something.\"\n\nMany appointments and treatments have been cancelled because of the strike, and a number of minor injury units are closed.\n\nThe Health and Social Care Board said all emergency departments would remain open as normal, but would be under significant pressure.\n\nSean Smyth, whose daughter died in June, joined the picket line at Belfast City Hospital.\n\n\"I'm here to show solidarity with the fantastic health workers we have,\" he said.\n\n\"The care and support Eimear got was equally matched by the support they showed me and my family and we'll never be able to thank them.\n\nSean Smyth said he was frustrated at the state of the health service in Northern Ireland\n\n\"Eimear was first treated in England. We have first hand experience of the nursing staff in St James's in Leeds.\n\n\"The nurses nurse in England. Here in Belfast we have seen the nurses nurse, clean, cook, do every task there is possible. And the work they do is unbelievable.\n\n\"I've witnessed what their colleagues get in England. The pay get and the conditions they work in, the staffing levels compared to ours. It is chalk and cheese, we are the poor country cousin to England, Scotland and Wales.\n\n\"Where Eimear died, it was something from the 1980s - a horrible grey room. It's a horrible environment, the facilities are poor.\n\n\"Our hospitals need major investment, our staff need major support from our politicians.\"\n\nMairead Meenan, a staff nurse at Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry, said the \"fair pay\" issue had brought her to the picket line.\n\n\"Everybody wants equal pay and equal rights,\" she said, adding that nurses in Northern Ireland felt \"undervalued\" compared to their counterparts doing the same jobs in Great Britain.\n\nShe called on politicians to \"start talking\" and sort the dispute out.\n\n\"You get paid loads and loads of money and you would not last 10 minutes in our job,\" said Ms Meenan.\n\nOne woman, whose appointment at Altnagelvin went ahead as scheduled on Wednesday morning, came out to support nurses and health workers on the picket line.\n\nShe has had two operations at the hospital since May.\n\n\"I was extremely well looked after and am very appreciative of all the care I've had,\" she told BBC News NI.\n\n\"I'm also totally disgusted with Stormont and its lack of getting on with sorting out Northern Ireland.\n\n\"This wouldn't have happened if they [politicians] had thought about it properly and fought for our good health service.\"\n\nOn so many measures, Northern Ireland lags behind the other UK nations when it comes to NHS performance.\n\nNot only does it has the highest vacancy rates, it also has the worst record in terms of meeting waiting time targets for cancer, A&E and routine operations.\n\nThe best indication of this is the figures for the proportion of patients seen in four hours in A&E.\n\nEngland has just seen its performance sink to a record low of just over 81%. In Northern Ireland it is currently below 66%.\n\nWhy? The suspension of a devolved government has certainly not helped - delaying everything from new policy to pay rises.\n\nBut modernisation of health care in Northern Ireland was already behind schedule before that happened.\n\nServices are spread too thinly across too many sites, so there is a lot of catching up to do - and the more it is delayed the longer it will take.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHealth workers say they want to be paid the same as their counterparts in England, Scotland and Wales.\n\nPay parity between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK ended in 2014 when the Democratic Unionist Party's (DUP) Jim Wells was health minister.\n\nHe imposed a \"degree of restraint\" on pay for health care workers, due to financial challenges in the department.\n\nSpeaking earlier this month, Mr Wells said the decision had been \"very difficult because the choice was very stark\", explaining that another increase in pay at the time could have led to redundancies or services being closed.\n\nThe issue has not been looked at again because Northern Ireland has not had a devolved government since 2017.\n\nDowning Street said the strike highlighted the importance of Northern Ireland's political parties working together to restore devolved government.\n\nThe \"quickest and best\" way to resolve the dispute was to get the Stormont executive up and running again, said the Prime Minister's spokesman.\n\nHe added that the Northern Ireland Department of Health had been working closely with trust chief executives, unions and staff to make sure that services were delivered safely during the strike.\n\nThese are unprecedented times. For the first time in UK history close to 20,000 health and social care works are on picket lines, including about 15,500 nurses.\n\nWith more than 300,000 people in Northern Ireland waiting for an appointment, today's strike is going to push all services over the limit.\n\nAs healthcare workers protest and wave flags calling for pay parity and safer staffing levels, what they are also shouting about is a desire to get devolved government back up and running.\n\nWhile there is a skeleton staff today, and while many appointments have been cancelled, a shortage of staff has been an issue for many years.\n\nParamedics join the picket line outside the Royal Hospital in Belfast\n\nThe RCN argues the real value of nurses' pay here has fallen by 15% over the past eight years.\n\nThere are just under 2,800 unfilled nursing posts within the health service in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe RCN estimates that a similar level of unfilled posts exists within nursing homes.\n\nThe nursing vacancy rate in Northern Ireland is 13%, compared with about 11% in England and 6% in Scotland.\n\nThis means that for every eight nurses who should be working in Northern Ireland, one is missing.\n\nIf you are reading this page on the BBC News app, you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question on this topic.\n\nA spokesperson for Health and Social Care Board said major challenges were expected across all health and social care services on Wednesday.\n\nIt also advised that if patients or service users have not been contacted, they should attend their appointment/service as normal.\n\n\"The priority will be on the treating emergency and life threatening conditions first,\" said the spokesperson.\n\n\"Patients with less urgent conditions may have to wait for lengthy periods.\"\n\nThe heads of all of Northern Ireland's health trusts have stated the current crisis in the service has been \"years in the making\".\n\nAre you a patient who will be affected by the strike? Are you a nurse on strike? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "An eight-year-old boy who reviews toys has been named as the highest earning YouTuber, for the second year in a row.\n\nRyan, of Ryan's World, earned $26m (£20m) in 2019, up from $22m in 2018, according to an annual top-10 ranking by Forbes, based on estimated earnings between June 2018 and June 2019.\n\nYouTube accounts Dude Perfect and Nastya came in second and third, with $20m and $18m respectively.\n\nAnd between them, the 10 highest paid YouTubers of 2019 earned $162m.\n\nDude Perfect features five friends in their 30s playing with toys such as Nerf guns and attempting various trick shots.\n\nThe Nastya channel features Anastasia Radzinskaya, who was born in southern Russia with cerebral palsy.\n\nAnd Jeffree Star's account has dozens of videos of him giving makeup tutorials.\n\nRyan - who lives with his mother, father and twin sisters in Texas - usually releases a new video for his 22.9 million subscribers each day.\n\nThey frequently receive millions of hits - and a couple have more than a billion.\n\nLast November, he told NBC people liked his videos because he was \"entertaining and funny\".\n\nRyan's most popular video, which has 1.9 billion views, is a five minute 56 second clip of him running around on an inflatable in his garden, retrieving plastic eggs with toys inside.\n\nThe youngster, whose estimated earnings doubled from 2017 to 2018, has rebranded his account from Ryan ToysReview to Ryan's World since last year's ranking.\n\nBut Ryan is something of an outlier, according to Chris Stokel-Walker, an internet culture writer and author of the book YouTubers.\n\n\"The vast majority of people who start a YouTube channel, or engage in any career as an influencer, won't make it,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"96.5% of YouTubers don't make enough from advertising revenue alone to break the US poverty line - and with the number of creators on the platform constantly increasing, the competition is only getting tougher.\"\n\nYouTube videos with children in them receive three times more views on average than other types of videos from high-subscriber channels, according a study from US think tank the Pew Research Centre.\n• None $162mis the total sum made by the highest paid creators in 2019.\n• None on 2018's figure, when the combined amount was$180m.\n\nMinecraft and Fortnite player Dan TDM (Daniel Middleton) is the only Briton to make the list. He dropped from fourth to ninth as his earnings fell $6.5m year-on-year.\n\nPewDiePie jumped from ninth to seventh despite facing criticism for anti-Semitic and racist videos.\n\nBut Logan Paul, who showed the body of an apparent suicide victim last January, dropped off this year's list, as did his brother Jake, who came second in 2018.", "Boris Johnson has been urged to get the UK back on track with tackling the emissions heating the planet.\n\nThe Committee on Climate Change, the UK's official climate watchdog, says the government needs to be meeting its own targets to have credibility with other nations.\n\nBut it warns that UK efforts to address the climate crisis have so far fallen short.\n\nThe comments come ahead of a vital global climate conference next November hosted by the prime minister in Glasgow.\n\nA letter from the climate committee's chairman, Conservative peer Lord Deben, says urgent action is needed in five areas:\n\nAn ambitious, well-funded strategy for entirely removing fossil fuels from the UK's building stock - that will mean much better insulation and switching gas boilers for cleaner alternatives.\n\nAn early consultation on phasing out petrol and diesel cars by 2030 - the current date is 2040.\n\nDelivering on the Conservatives' manifesto commitment for 40GW of offshore wind by 2030 - that will mean huge expansion of wind farms offshore.\n\nWorking out how to fund emissions reductions from industry and how to pay for an infrastructure for hydrogen heating and equipment to capture emissions from heavy polluters.\n\nIntroducing a world-leading package through the Agriculture and Environment Bill to cut emissions from farming and pay for the 30,000 hectares (75,000 acres) of annual tree planting promised in the manifesto.\n\nPhasing out petrol and diesel cars is high on the agenda for the committee\n\nThe Climate Change Committee says that most of all, the prime minister should make it clear that he is putting the government's target for net zero emissions by 2050 at the heart of the UK's economic strategy.\n\nAnd urgent action is also needed on adapting to climate change in the UK itself.\n\nLord Deben said: \"We are worryingly unprepared for the changes ahead. Many departmental plans do not even include a basic assessment of climate risk.\"\n\nHe claimed the government could increase flood defence spending by £4bn and stop people paving over open ground in cities.\n\nMinisters should find ways to stop people over-heating in homes, workplaces and public buildings, and they should also protect the natural environment by increasing tree planting and restoring peatland.\n\nBoris Johnson has previously said he wants the UK to be a world leader in climate change.\n\nMostly when he speaks on the subject he promotes the notion that technology can solve climate problems.\n\nEnvironmentalists celebrate the role of technology too - but warn that lifestyle changes will still be needed.\n\nIn a previous paper, the Climate Change Committee assumed that some people would have to cut down on meat as a contribution to meeting emissions.\n\nTransport academics have also said that Conservative plans for road building - and possibly airport expansion - would both increase emissions.", "The number of cod which can be legally caught by the UK's fishermen will be halved next year.\n\nIt was agreed in the early hours of Wednesday at Brussels talks on fishing quotas for 2020.\n\nPrior to those discussions, representatives of Scottish trawlermen agreed to a 50% reduction in the cod catch in an effort to preserve stocks.\n\nThe UK government said that in order to protect the future of the industry it had to fish sustainably.\n\nScottish Fishermen's Federation (SFF) chief executive Elspeth Macdonald said: \"The reduction in the total allowable catch for North Sea cod will have a serious economic impact on the Scottish white fish sector next year, and will present major practical difficulties for the fleet.\n\n\"We welcome the commitment to review and update the stock assessment model for North Sea cod, reflecting the changing distribution of cod in the North Sea, most likely as a result of climate change.\"\n\nRegulation of the fishing industry will be controlled by the UK after Brexit\n\nFisheries Secretary Fergus Ewing, who was at the talks in Brussels, added: \"With Brexit about to happen it has been clear the EU is already prioritising other members over the state about to walk away.\n\n\"That is perhaps unsurprising, but coupled with the challenging scientific advice, it has made this a difficult two days.\"\n\nBritain is preparing to leave the Common Fisheries Policy regime as a result of Brexit.\n\nMike Park of the Scottish White Fish Producers' Association (SWFPA) said the next year would be \"extremely challenging\".\n\nSpeaking on the BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme, he said: \"It's a stock that's quite prolific in the northern North Sea.\n\n\"There's been significant changes over the whole of the North Sea but essentially next year that will cause the fleet problems which is now our focus to try and resolve that.\n\n\"In the next year, as the UK prepares to leave the Common Fisheries Policy, it is vital that the right scientific work is done to improve our understanding of the current status of the stock to enable better decisions to be taken on fishing opportunities for 2021.\"\n\nSpeaking after the talks concluded, UK fisheries minister George Eustice said: \"This year there has been some very challenging science for cod stocks in many parts of the North East Atlantic and we have responded to conserve stocks.\n\n\"I know that some of the quota reductions will be very difficult for some sectors of the industry and there has been considerable debate this year about the importance of bycatch allowances to support the delivery of the discard ban.\n\n\"However, we also know that to protect the profitability of fisheries in the future, we must fish sustainably today.\"\n\nThe talks have resulted in small increases in the allowable catches for North Sea ling and skate, as well as the relaxation of some proposed control and management measures\n\nLast year, the UK government set out its plans for the future of fishing after Brexit.\n\nIt said devolved nations would have a say in setting annual quotas for third countries, but the environment secretary's decision was final.\n\nIt intends to move to a system of quota management which it believes will guarantee a fairer share of the fish in UK waters for UK registered boats.\n\nThe rules of the EU's Common Fisheries Policy will continue to apply until December 2020.\n\nMr Eustice claimed some of the challenges faced by the UK fishing industry had resulted from EU rules.\n\nHe said: \"Some of the problems have been exacerbated by the fact that the EU's outdated method for sharing quota between member states means that the UK gets a very small share of the cod in our own waters.\"\n\nMarine sustainability group Open Seas said in a statement: \"Devastatingly this decision commits to yet more overfishing in the coming year. Quota for North Sea cod has been set roughly 30% above scientific advice.\"\n\nOpen Seas said the agreements represented \"bad decisions for the health of our sea, bad debts that will be owed by future generations, and fail legal pledges to end overfishing\".\n\nWhat difference will this make to prices on the street?\n\nCod is a traditional fish and chips favourite in England, with battered haddock more popular in Scotland\n\nIndustry sources say it is actually very hard - almost impossible in fact - to tell what impact the quotas will have on prices on the street.\n\nWith takeaway fish and chips for example, cod is more popular in England - whereas haddock is the staple of the fish supper in Scotland.\n\nWith the haddock quota up, in theory it could mean that with more haddock then prices would be a bit lower, and with less cod prices could be a slightly higher.\n\nHowever a lot of the cod that hits fish and chip shops in England comes from frozen at sea suppliers from Norway.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Corbyn 'badly let down' by advisers, says Thornberry\n\nShadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry has become the first MP to officially enter the race to replace Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg, she said she thinks she can win the contest because she comes \"from the heart of the party\".\n\nShe also accused Jeremy Corbyn's advisers of \"badly letting him down\".\n\nSir Keir Starmer, Yvette Cooper, Lisa Nandy have said they are also considering standing to be leader.\n\nMeanwhile Tony Blair has accused Labour of \"letting the country down\" and attacked the Labour leadership for going into the election with a \"strategy for defeat\".\n\nMr Corbyn has said he will stand down as leader \"early next year\" and the race to replace him could start on 7 January.\n\nIn an interview with BBC's political editor, Ms Thornberry said she had warned Mr Corbyn it would be \"catastrophic\" for Labour to go into \"an election about Brexit when we weren't sufficiently clear on what our position was\".\n\n\"Because we had a single issue election on an issue on which we weren't clear, we were in grave danger,\" she said.\n\nShe said, as leader, Mr Corbyn had brought Labour \"back to who we really are\" and offered a \"clarity of vision that was incredibly appealing, but that then that got lost\".\n\n\"I think that Jeremy has been really badly let down by people who advised him badly and picked up their own agenda,\" she said.\n\nSeeking to underline her own leadership credentials, she said she was \"tested\" at taking on Boris Johnson because she had shadowed him for Labour when he was foreign secretary, and knows how to \"get under\" his skin.\n\nMaking reference to a description of ex-PM David Cameron by Mr Johnson, she said she was a \"girly swot\" who was able to \"look at the details\".\n\nIn a Guardian article announcing her candidacy, she said she had \"pummelled\" Mr Johnson every week in Parliament when she was his opposite number.\n\nMs Thornberry has been the MP for Islington South and Finsbury since 2005.\n\nWe're off - Emily Thornberry is the first to formally say she's definitely going to stand to replace Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader.\n\nThere's been an awful lot of huffing and puffing without people putting their heads above the parapet, and I think she's decided she might as well get on with it.\n\nShe's the shadow foreign secretary and was was highly critical of Mr Corbyn for his neutral stance over the UK's membership of the EU.\n\nThe fact that the party membership is still overwhelmingly Remain will help her cause, as will the fact that she was seen to have done pretty well when she stood in for Jeremy Corbyn at Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nShe's been loyal to Mr Corbyn but, at the same time, she doesn't identify closely with Mr Corbyn's team.\n\nI suspect her difficulty, maybe, is that she will be fishing in similar waters to a number of other female MPs who may enter the leadership race such as Jess Phillips, Lisa Nandy and Yvette Cooper.\n\nThey've got to get 22 Labour MPs to back them if they want to get on the ballot paper - so that is the first hurdle they've got to get over.\n\nShadow justice secretary Richard Burgon, a close ally of Mr Corbyn, said he welcomed the fact Ms Thornberry had entered the race, although he said he would prefer shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey to become leader.\n\nHe told BBC 2's Politics Live it was important that someone \"from the left of the Labour party\", who had backed Mr Corbyn's original leadership bid, should be among the list of leadership contenders.\n\nHe said that Ms Long-Bailey - who has not formally declared her candidacy - understood why the party lost support in seats that had supported Brexit, and knew how to help areas that have lost industrial jobs.\n\n\"But I think it's welcome that the members are going to have a real choice,\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, Sir Keir Starmer has told the BBC he is \"seriously considering\" putting himself forward for the Labour leadership.\n\nThe shadow Brexit secretary said Labour has \"a mountain to climb\" following its general election defeat.\n\nAnother potential contender Yvette Cooper, who lost to Mr Corbyn in the 2015 Labour leadership contest, said she would \"decide over Christmas\" about whether to stand.\n\nShe told Radio 4's Today programme that Labour had \"a long road to travel,\" adding that the party needed to tackle anti-Semitism, restore \"kindness to our politics\" and be more \"inclusive\".\n\nReflecting on Labour's defeat, Sir Keir - who was calling for another EU referendum - said the party had failed to \"knock back\" the Conservatives' \"get Brexit done\" slogan.\n\nHe also attacked the Labour's manifesto arguing it \"had too much in it\" adding \"we couldn't see the wood for the trees\".\n\nLooking to the party's future, he said: \"What Corbyn bought to the Labour party was a change of emphasis - radicalism that really matters - we need to build on that, not oversteer and go back to a bygone age.\"\n\nAsked whether he considered himself to be a Corbynite, Sir Keir said: \"I don't need someone else's name tattooed on my head to make decisions.\"\n\nLabour's defeats in the North of England constituencies has led some to say the next leader should not come from London.\n\nHowever Sir Keir said the Labour leader needed to \"be able to talk to everyone\" in the UK.\n\nThe former director of public prosecutions also insisted that \"my background isn't what people think it is\", adding that he had \"never been in any other workplace than a factory\" before he went to university.\n\nOther candidates believed to be considering running to be leader include:", "Whirlpool have decided to recall machines after identifying a safety issue with some Hotpoint and Indesit machines made since 2014.\n\nBoss Jeff Noel said they understand how important washing machines are to family life, especially at Christmas, and apologise to customers, but say safety comes first.", "Neil Shipperley's lawyer said that \"everything came to a crescendo on the day in question\"\n\nA former Premier League striker who masturbated in front of a mother and her 16-year-old daughter has been given a 12-month community order.\n\nEx-Crystal Palace star Neil Shipperley, 45, exposed his genitals from inside his van, in Hillingdon, west London, on 17 September.\n\nThe mother said she was \"disgusted\" by the sight.\n\nShipperley must complete 20-days of rehabilitation as part of the order given at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court.\n\nProsecutor Shaan Sethi told the court Shipperley had driven his van up to the victims, winding down his window and stopping the vehicle.\n\nMr Sethi said the pair had turned to thank Shipperley for letting them cross the road but \"they then noticed he was holding his penis in his hand and staring directly at them\".\n\nThey walked away from the vehicle, but Shipperley, from West Drayton, west London, followed in his van.\n\nShipperley (right) was a professional footballer for 15 years\n\nIn a victim impact statement, the mother said: \"Some people may see flashers as pests or a nuisance to society. My view of Neil Shipperley is as a predator. His aim was to intimidate us, to violate us, to shock us and to scare us.\"\n\nShipperley, who admitted intentionally exposing his genitals intending that someone would be caused alarm or distress, had \"expressed anguish, embarrassment, shame, but above all remorse,\" the court heard.\n\nHe is said to have sought counselling for personal issues, including the death of his father, gambling problems and debts.\n\nMitigating for Shipperley, Sarah O'Kane said: \"Everything came to a crescendo on the day in question. This was, he thinks on reflection, a cry for help.\"\n\nShipperley, who played for among others Nottingham Forest, Wimbledon, Chelsea and Southampton during his 15-year career, must also complete 120 hours' unpaid work and pay a £90 victim surcharge, £85 in costs and £200 in compensation.\n\nHe is subject to a five-year sexual offences notification requirement order and must report to Hayes police station within three days.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section League Cup\n\nHolders Manchester City will face local rivals Manchester United in the Carabao Cup semi-finals.\n\nLeicester City will take on Aston Villa in the other last-four clash, with the ties to be played over two legs in the weeks commencing 6 and 27 January.\n\nManchester United and Leicester will be at home in their first legs.\n\nPep Guardiola's Manchester City have won the tournament in each of the last two seasons and four times in the last six years.\n\nManchester City beat League One Oxford United 3-1 on Wednesday, while Manchester United overcame League Two Colchester United 3-0 at Old Trafford.\n\nLeicester City, who won the competition in 1999-2000, beat Everton 4-2 on penalties after a 2-2 draw at Goodison Park.\n\nAston Villa, who reached the semi-finals for the first time since 2012-13, beat a youthful Liverpool 5-0 on Tuesday.\n\nManchester City were beaten 2-1 by Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's Manchester United in the Premier League on 7 December.\n\nThe two sides last met in the competition at the fourth round stage in 2016 with United winning 1-0.\n\nThey last met at this stage in 2010 with United winning 4-3 on aggregate.", "Emily Thornberry warned privately in September that Labour's election chances would be hampered by taking a neutral position on Brexit.\n\nSpeaking at the party's conference, for a BBC film being broadcast on Tuesday, she said she was worried about Jeremy Corbyn saying he \"didn't have a view\" on the biggest decision facing the UK.\n\nShe was \"really pushing\" at the time for Labour to openly back Remain.\n\nLabour's defeat has led to a bitter internal row over its Brexit policy.\n\nSome Labour candidates who lost their seats have blamed the party's offer of another referendum for their defeat alongside doubts about Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.\n\nMs Thornberry, the re-elected MP for Islington South who is expected to be a candidate in the contest to succeed Mr Corbyn, revealed on Monday that she had begun legal action against a former colleague who claimed the shadow foreign secretary called some Leave voters \"stupid\".\n\nShe said Caroline Flint's claim she had told an MP from a Leave-voting area \"I am glad my constituents aren't as stupid as yours\" was \"a complete lie\". But Ms Flint, who lost her seat at the election, has stood by her remarks.\n\nLabour went into the election offering another Brexit referendum on a new withdrawal deal it hoped to negotiate if it won power.\n\nAt its conference in Brighton, the leadership saw off an attempt by party members to force it to campaign to remain in the EU.\n\nDuring the campaign, Mr Corbyn went further by saying that he personally would not take sides in any future public vote, arguing this would make it easier for him to implement whatever choice the people made.\n\nWhile Ms Thornberry has never hidden her view that she thinks Brexit is a mistake, an interview she gave to the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg during the conference makes clear the extent of her doubts.\n\nIn the documentary, entitled The Brexit Storm Continues, she warned that a neutral position on Brexit would be politically dangerous.\n\nShe also revealed she had privately urged the leadership to take a much more overt pro-Remain stance.\n\n\"I think Jeremy is trying to find a compromise but if he goes into an election saying 'I don't have a view' on the single biggest decision that we have to make - I think - what worries me is that every single interview he does will all be about Brexit.\"\n\nAsked if Labour could win an election with that position, she said: \"Well, I think it makes it more difficult and that's why I'm really pushing this because I want Jeremy in Number 10.\"\n\nGreater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said the Labour leadership's position on Brexit seemed to thwart the views of the party's traditional supporters.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the Labour Party had always been a coalition between supporters in working-class communities and \"university educated liberal left\" and Labour \"had not been speaking to both sides of that coalition for some time\".\n\nBefore he became mayor, Mr Burnham was the MP for the Labour stronghold Leigh, which elected a Tory MP last week.\n\nIt would \"help\" if the next Labour leader was from the North, Mr Burnham added, and he said he would lend his support to a candidate that supported devolution.\n\nHowever, Labour's Jenny Chapman who lost her Darlington seat in the election said it was \"patronising\" to think that \"presenting someone who speaks with a northern accent means you are going to win support in the North\".\n\n\"I don't think you need a particular accent to have empathy and compassion,\" she said explaining she wants shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer to run in the Labour leadership contest.\n\nMr Corbyn and shadow chancellor John McDonnell have apologised for Labour's \"catastrophic\" performance, which saw them lose 59 seats.\n\nThe Labour leader said he was \"sorry that we came up short\", while Mr McDonnell told the BBC: \"I own this disaster.\"\n\nThe Brexit Storm Continues was broadcast on BBC2 on 17 December at 21:00 and is available on the BBC iPlayer.", "Britain's longest-running rail franchise came to an end on Saturday after more than 22 years.\n\nVirgin Trains, which began serving the West Coast Main Line in 1997, is being replaced by Avanti West Coast.\n\nAlmost 500 million journeys have been made with Virgin Trains, which is co-owned by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group and Stagecoach.\n\nThe final service pulled out of London Euston at 21:42 GMT, bound for Wolverhampton.\n\nBut the historic day was marred by disruption when Virgin's last-ever London to Manchester service terminated early at Stockport due to a train fault just before midnight.\n\nEarlier, Sir Richard tweeted his thanks to \"all our wonderful people\" and their \"incredible work\".\n\nAvanti West Coast, which will begin running the service on Sunday, told customers that tickets booked with Virgin Trains for upcoming journeys are still valid.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Richard Branson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe end of the franchise comes after Virgin Group and Stagecoach had their bid to continue running trains on the line disqualified by the Department for Transport (DfT) in April because they did not meet pension rules.\n\nThe companies are suing the DfT over its decision.\n\nAt the time, Sir Richard said he was \"devastated\" by the disqualification.\n\nVirgin Trains, which is 49% owned by Stagecoach, introduced a series of innovations on the railways, including automatic delay compensation payments, a system to allow passengers to stream films and TV programmes on demand from their own devices, and the provision of digital tickets available for all fare types.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Virgin Trains This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRail expert Mark Smith, founder of Seat61.com, said the operator had, with the help of major infrastructure improvements, \"transformed\" its network by almost tripling passenger numbers and doubling services on some routes such as London to Glasgow.\n\n\"I think they've done pretty well,\" he said. \"They do have a certain panache and they communicate that to the staff and to the service. Quirky things like the toilets that talk to you, to onboard service with the food and wine. I'm going to be sorry to see them go.\"\n\nThe service has had a variable record - the proportion of Virgin trains which arrived at their final destination within 10 minutes of the timetable ranged from 33% in the final quarter of 2000 to 91% between July-September 2010.\n\nThe latest figure, for July-September 2019, was 78%.\n\nVirgin Trains managing director Phil Whittingham, who will hold the same position with the new operator, said he was \"concentrating on a smooth handover\" to Avanti, adding: \"It's been a wonderful 22 years transforming services on the west coast and we're proud of everything our people have achieved in that time.\"\n\nAvanti West Coast is owned by First Trenitalia, a partnership between Aberdeen-based FirstGroup and Italian firm Trenitalia.\n\nThe operator said it would introduce a range of passenger improvements, including 263 more weekly services by 2022, when 23 new trains will begin service.\n\nThe existing fleet of Pendolino trains will be refurbished - promising 25,000 new seats, more reliable wi-fi and better catering.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Anthony Joshua became a two-time world heavyweight champion with a unanimous points victory over Andy Ruiz Jr in a tense rematch in Saudi Arabia.\n\nSix months on from the night Ruiz stunned boxing, Joshua risked seeing his career left in tatters with a second defeat, but served up 36 minutes of movement and well-timed punching to take the IBF, WBA and WBO titles back to Britain.\n\nAfter cutting his Mexican rival inside the first round he never looked back and picked out smart jabs and right hands throughout before being serenaded with chants of \"AJ, AJ, AJ\" by 14,000 or so fans in the Diriyah Arena.\n\nRuiz never looked close to landing a knockdown and when scores of 118-110 118-110 and 119-109 were read out, Joshua jumped up and down in the ring in celebration, just as the man who had wrecked his US debut did in June.\n\nJoshua gets it right all night\n\nJoshua, 30, now joins a small cluster of men including Muhammad Ali, Lennox Lewis, Evander Holyfield, Mike Tyson and Floyd Patterson to have reclaimed the world heavyweight title.\n\nPatterson fell to the canvas seven times in one round as he lost his belts to Ingemar Johansson in 1959 but regained them in a rematch. The question in Saudi Arabia was whether Joshua could show the same mental fortitude after being knocked down four times by Ruiz in June. His answer was emphatic.\n\nA downpour in a country that barely sees rain stopped moments before Joshua strode to the ring, prompting him to carefully dry his feet on the canvas.\n\nFrom that moment on, his feet moved with grace. Seconds before the off, Ruiz was told \"let's go Andy\" by his corner but he was rarely allowed to get close to his rival and inflict the damage he did in the first fight.\n\nRuiz, the bookmakers' underdog again, was cut above his left eye in the first. He landed two jabs of his own in the second but took a left hook as Joshua moved with the lightness of a man at his lowest weight in five years.\n\nHe was burning energy but was slick and showed variety in working head and body in the third. A crowd unfamiliar with the sweet science at such close quarters offered audible applause and cheers as the smart work landed.\n\nThere was always tension given the speed with which Ruiz's gold gloves can move, and in the eighth he served up a first scare. As the pair tangled, Ruiz made things ugly and winged in a hook. The crowd stamped their feet while Ruiz's fighting compatriot Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez stood and screamed ringside.\n\nThe ninth felt key, Joshua needed to establish distance again. He landed a solid uppercut but saw Ruiz fire back wildly instantly. Again, the incredible durability of the champion and the constant threat he carried was evident.\n\nDeep in the 12th, Ruiz beat his chest as if to dare Joshua close. After a night of lateral movement and poise, it was never going to happen. Joshua glared out at the crowd as the bell sounded. It was a look of a defiance. It was the look of a man who had proved his point.\n• None Listen: Highlights of Joshua & Ruiz's 'Clash on the Dunes'\n\nSome seeing Ruiz's showing here will ask what was wrong with Joshua in their first meeting - the Mexican was never able to rediscover the heights he hit in New York.\n\nHis weight gain of 15lb was the same as James 'Buster' Douglas piled on after stunning Mike Tyson in 1990. Douglas lost easily to Holyfield months later and as the scorecards widened on Saturday and Ruiz ate shots, it looked as if his new status and its attached distractions might have taken a similar toll.\n\nHauling 20st 3lb around a ring is no easy feat. Only Nikolai Valuev - who was 7ft tall - has weighed more and held a world title. And as Saudi royalty watched on at ringside, Ruiz was consistently unpicked and outmanoeuvred.\n\nHe will at least leave with a career-high pay day in excess of £10m. He can live the rest of his life as a former world champion who stunned boxing. But if he shoots for titles again, he will simply need to be better.\n\nJoshua had said defeat would have been \"catastrophic\" for a career that promised so much, delivered plenty and then, from nowhere, was shaken to its core.\n\nSome close to him had expressed how nervous they were all week. The fact his entire team stayed with him in the ring for over 30 minutes after his win pointed to their relief.\n\nHe has promised to fully explain what happened on that June night but it is to his credit that he pushed for a new approach to his training, made adjustments and lived out the lessons he gleaned from his lowest point in the paid ranks.\n\nTo use a boxing term, he 'boxed the ears off' a man who had prompted him to ask so many questions of himself.\n\nThe talk of facing Deontay Wilder or Tyson Fury - temporarily derailed by Ruiz in June - will resume. Another rematch, though neither party is obligated this time, also has legs.\n\nJoshua has earned such options after such a clinical response to adversity.\n\nBoxing history will never forget what Ruiz did to him. Joshua can at least draw some comfort in putting things right.\n\nWhat they said - 'When was the last time we had a role model like this?'\n\nPromoter Eddie Hearn: \"Madison Square Garden was a humiliation, he went down four times - people wrote him off, said he had no heart, he quit. He went back, brushed himself down and went back to work to prove you all wrong. It was an absolute masterclass, a shutout, a way of boxing people didn't believe he could do.\n\n\"He taught himself to box like that - the discipline was incredible. All the things no-one thought he possessed. That's because he's getting better. What heavyweight has a resume like him? Give him respect; he has changed the face of boxing. A great individual with a big heart.\n\n\"I have represented Anthony since he turned pro. He is a very close friend of mine. The strength he has shown is unbelievable. When was the last time we had a role model like this? We should be so proud. An absolute role model for our country.\"\n\nJoshua's trainer Robert McCracken: \"I think he was where I wanted him to be for this fight. He has listened in camp, worked really hard, and I thought he boxed very well against a dangerous fighter.\n\n\"Andy Ruiz is a real danger and he is very quick and heavy-handed. There were a couple times Josh went into mid-range and came unstuck but he settled back down in the corner and got back on it. His weight was great and his jab was tremendous.\"\n\nBBC Radio 5 Live boxing pundit Steve Bunce: \"AJ was absolutely clinical and he never wasted a shot. That was class and he stuck to his plan. Beautiful to watch.\n\n\"He got it right in spectacular fashion. He has been steely and nasty.\"", "Conservative chairman James Cleverly has apologised for cases of Islamophobia in his party.\n\nMr Cleverly said he was \"sorry\" when Tory members and candidates \"do or say things that are wrong\".\n\nBut he added that he was \"confident\" there was now \"a robust mechanism\" in place to deal with the issue.\n\nThe Muslim Council of Britain has accused the Tory party of having a \"blind spot for this type of racism\" and of not doing enough to tackle it.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 5 Live's Pienaar's Politics, Mr Cleverly said an investigation into prejudice in his party will get under way before the end of the year.\n\nHe said: \"We said it will be initiated this calendar year.\n\n\"We have been doing, in parallel to the general election campaign, preparatory work ahead of that and we'll be making a more formal announcement as soon as the election is done.\n\n\"It will specifically look into Islamophobia in my party. It will, by definition, also have to look at other stuff as well, because you can't always unpick this.\n\n\"But we are and absolutely have always been clear on this. We recognise that in mass membership organisations that there will always be people that say and do things which are completely inappropriate.\"\n\nTory leader Boris Johnson has also come in for criticism for a newspaper column last year in which he said Muslim women wearing burkas \"look like letter boxes\".\n\nTory election candidate Parvez Akhtar said the effect of the column has been \"to reinforce the widely held view that the Conservative Party has a blind spot when it comes to Muslims\".\n\nMr Cleverly told John Pienaar the prime minister had already apologised for his comments.\n\nPushed again after being informed that Mr Johnson only apologised for any offence caused by the comments, not the comments themselves, he added: \"If you read the piece, the points that he was making in that piece was that unlike other European countries who have put a blanket ban on the wearing of the burka or hijab, the UK does not do that.\n\n\"The point he was making was that actually in a healthy liberal democracy like we have here in the UK, just because someone has, you know, a personal discomfort with that does not mean that it should be banned.\n\n\"That is a defence of our liberal democracy.\"\n\nEarlier in the election campaign, Mr Johnson himself apologised for the \"hurt and offence\" caused by Islamophobia within the Conservative Party ranks.\n\nMr Cleverly claimed there was a \"massive gulf\" between the scale of Labour's problems with anti-Semitism and the issue of Islamophobia in the Conservative Party.\n\nAsked if he would apologise for cases of Islamophobia in his party, Mr Cleverly said: \"Well, of course, I'm sorry. And I'm sorry when, you know, people do or say things that are wrong.\n\n\"I am confident that my party has a robust mechanism for dealing with it.\n\n\"We investigate this. It's done independently. We have independent people looking at this and they come to adjudications and where people have had to be either sanctioned or expelled from the party. That has happened.\"\n\nThe Conservative Party suspended a number of members last month after the Guardian supplied it with a dossier produced by an anonymous Twitter user containing examples of allegedly Islamophobic social media posts.\n\nA number of members were also suspended in September, after the BBC highlighted 20 cases to the party of members posting or endorsing Islamophobic material online.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives suspended a Glasgow election candidate, Flora Scarabello, after she was accused of using \"anti-Muslim language\".\n\nAnd the party's candidate in Aberdeen North, Ryan Houghton, was suspended over alleged anti-Semitic, Islamophobic and homophobic comments he made seven years ago.\n\nMr Houghton has apologised for any hurt caused but insisted the comments were taken out of context.", "The woman says she felt a stinging sensation on her leg during the flight\n\nA woman has been stung by a scorpion while travelling on a United Airlines flight from San Francisco to Atlanta.\n\nThe woman says she felt a stinging sensation on her leg during the flight on Thursday morning.\n\nWhen she went to the toilet, the scorpion fell out of her trousers and scuttled away.\n\nThe passenger was treated by paramedics before being taken to hospital, the airline told the BBC. She has not been named and her condition is not known.\n\n\"After learning that one of our customers on flight 1554 from San Francisco to Atlanta was stung during flight, our crew responded immediately and consulted with a MedLink physician on the ground who provided medical guidance,\" the airline said in a statement.\n\n\"The customer was transported to a local hospital,\" it added. \"We have been in contact with our customer to ensure her well-being.\"\n\nA picture of the scorpion in what appears to be a United Airlines-branded box was published by celebrity news website TMZ, which first reported the story.\n\nAlthough rare, it's not the first time a scorpion has been found on a commercial flight.\n\nUnited Airlines said the woman was treated by paramedics before being taken to hospital\n\nEarlier this year, a scorpion was filmed crawling out of the overhead luggage rack on a Lion Air flight in Indonesia.\n\nA similar incident happened in 2017, when a Canadian man said he was stung by a scorpion on a United Airlines flight.\n\nRichard Bell said the scorpion fell on his head from above him while he was eating lunch on a flight from Houston, Texas to Calgary in Canada.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Richard Bell describes the moment a scorpion fell on his head during a United Airlines flight\n\nThe airline offered Mr Bell flying credit as compensation, which he accepted.\n\nLater in 2017, an EasyJet flight from Paris to Glasgow was delayed overnight after a passenger spotted a scorpion on board.", "HM Coastguard and police are involved in the search off Gourock\n\nRescuers have halted their search for a man missing in the Firth of Clyde on the west coast of Scotland.\n\nTwo men were recovered from a vessel near Cardwell Bay, Gourock, on Saturday night.\n\nBut one man, who was in a separate boat, has not been found during the search which has involved an RNLI lifeboat and coastguard helicopter.\n\nThe Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) said it had \"terminated\" the operation pending further information.\n\nThe alarm was raised at about 23:35 on Saturday when Greenock Coastguard were called to two small drifting vessels.\n\nTwo men aged 33 and 36 were helped from one of the boats by Helensburgh RNLI lifeboat.\n\nThey were passed into the care of the Scottish Ambulance Service and the lifeboat returned to search for the third man on the second boat.\n\nA coastguard search and rescue helicopter, Police Scotland, Ministry of Defence police and coastguard teams from Kilgreggan and Greenock also joined the search.\n\nA RNLI spokesman said weather conditions at the time were poor with heavy rain, force five to seven winds and poor visibility.\n\nThe search was stood down at 04:00 due to darkness and weather conditions, according to Greenock Coastguard.\n\nIt resumed on Sunday though stormy weather conditions meant the helicopter could not take part.\n\nAn MCA spokeswoman said they had carried out an extensive search of both shorelines in the area up towards the Erskine Bridge.\n\nHowever, the missing man had not been found.\n\n\"The decision has been taken to terminate the search, pending any further information,\" she added. \"Our thoughts are with the family at this time.\"", "The claim: Boris Johnson said goods entering Northern Ireland from Great Britain would only be checked if they are expected to be moved onwards into the Republic of Ireland. He told Sky News \"the only checks that there would be, would be if something was coming from GB via Northern Ireland and was going on to the Republic, then there might be checks at the border into Northern Ireland\".\n\nReality Check verdict: Some goods entering Northern Ireland from Great Britain will have to be checked even if they are staying in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Brexit Withdrawal Agreement signed in October means that Northern Ireland will remain part of a \"single regulatory zone\" with the Republic of Ireland, a zone that will apply EU rules.\n\nA Treasury document leaked a few days ago suggested this would mean new checks on goods being traded between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nFor example, the EU has particularly strict rules on importing \"products of animal origin\" - that is to say meat, fish and dairy products.\n\nThose products must enter the EU through a border inspection post where all shipments are subject to document checks and a high proportion are physically checked.\n\nProducts of animal origin from Great Britain entering Northern Ireland would be subject to these checks whether they are destined to remain there or be moved to the Republic of Ireland.\n\nThe island of Ireland is already a single regulatory zone for animal health.\n\nThis means that all livestock entering Northern Ireland from GB is currently checked at the point of entry.\n\nA few countries, such as New Zealand, have a deal with the EU where only 1% of consignments of meat and dairy product are checked.\n\nIt is possible that the UK could negotiate a similar deal but it would not be able to get rid of checks entirely unless the whole of the UK was going to stay in the single market.\n\nThe current political declaration, which sets out the broad shape of the future EU-UK relationship, suggests that is unlikely .", "Rosslyn (far left) pictured with Bob Hawke and his wife Hazel in 1987\n\nThe daughter of former Australian PM Bob Hawke has alleged she was raped in the 1980s but he asked her to stay silent to avoid harming his career.\n\nRosslyn Dillon's allegations are made in court documents seen by Australian site the New Daily.\n\nShe says she was raped by Bill Landeryou, an MP in Hawke's Labor Party. Both men are now dead.\n\nMs Dillon, 59, is currently pursuing an A$4m (£2m; $2.7m) claim on her father's estate.\n\nIn an affidavit, Ms Dillon alleges she was raped by Landeryou while working for his office. At the time Hawke was attempting to become Labor leader.\n\nAccording to the papers, Ms Dillon says she was sexually assaulted three times, in 1983.\n\nAfter the third time she told her father she had been raped and wanted to go to the police, but he responded by saying: \"You can't. I can't have any controversies right now. I am sorry but I am challenging for the leadership of the Labor Party,\" the documents show.\n\nMs Dillon's sister, Sue Pieters-Hawke, told The New Daily the family was aware of the allegation.\n\n\"She did tell people at the time. I believe there was a supportive response but it didn't involve using the legal system,\" she told the site. Other family members have not commented to Australian media.\n\nA former union official, Landeryou served as an MP from 1976-1992. He and Hawke are said to have been on good terms throughout Hawke's premiership.\n\nHawke was the dominant figure in 1980s Australian politics, winning four general elections.\n\nHe introduced sweeping economic and social change to his country, while cultivating a public persona of a down-to-earth, beer swigging rogue.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Former EastEnders star Jacqueline Jossa has won I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! after spending three weeks in the Australian jungle.\n\nThe actress was named queen of the jungle, following in the footsteps of previous winners like Harry Redknapp, Stacey Solomon and Kerry Katona.\n\nCo-presenters Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly revealed the winner at the end of the final of the ITV reality show.\n\nActor Andy Whyment was the runner-up, with radio DJ Roman Kemp in third.\n\nJossa played Lauren Branning in BBC soap EastEnders between 2010 and 2018.\n\nAfter she was named queen of the jungle, she said: \"I have no words.\"\n\nThis year's series - the 19th - was the first not to have live insects eaten as part of the show's \"bushtucker trials\".\n\nCoronation Street actor Andy Whyment took part in a \"bushtucker bonanza\" before he came second\n\nAny insects consumed on the show were already dead - though live creepy-crawlies were still dumped on its celebrity contestants.\n\nBut the show was not without controversy, with former sports stars James Haskell and Ian Wright being accused of bullying their fellow campmates.\n\nViewers also contacted media watchdog Ofcom to complain that some of the show's challenges were too hard and thus unfair.\n\nThere was contention before the series even aired, with former Commons Speaker John Bercow demanding a newspaper apologise for claiming he had asked for £1m to appear.\n\nDJ Tony Blackburn was the first celebrity to be crowned King of the Jungle when the show first aired in 2002.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Juice Wrld, real name Jarad Anthony Higgins, was considered to be a rising star of rap music\n\nJuice Wrld, a US rapper who shot to fame on music streaming platforms, has died at the age of 21.\n\nCelebrity news website TMZ said he died after suffering a seizure at Chicago's Midway airport on Sunday morning.\n\nThe Cook County Medical Examiner's Office said the cause was unknown.\n\nJuice Wrld, real name Jarad Anthony Higgins, was best-known for his viral 2018 hit Lucid Dreams. Mental health, mortality and drug use were common themes in his music.\n\nHis record label, Interscope Geffen A&M Records, said Juice Wrld was an \"exceptional human being\" who \"made a profound impact on the world in such a short period of time\".\n\nChicago police told the BBC a 21-year-old man suffered a medical emergency at around 02:00 local time (08:00 GMT) and was taken to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.\n\nPolice spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told the Chicago Sun Times there were \"no signs of foul play\" and it was unclear whether drugs played a role in his death.\n\nBorn in Chicago, Illinois, in 1998, Juice Wrld was raised by his single mother, described as a religious and conservative woman who forbade him from listening to hip hop.\n\nHe started rapping in high school, using online music streaming platform SoundCloud to upload and promote his music.\n\nJuice Wrld went on to release his debut full-length EP, 999, on the platform in 2017, garnering him attention from fellow Chicago-based artists such as G Herbo and Lil Bibby.\n\nJuice Wrld shot to fame in 2018, when hit single Lucid Dreams reached number two in the charts\n\nThe rapper rose to fame in 2018, when hit singles All Girls Are the Same and Lucid Dreams, which peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, drew the attention of music fans and record labels.\n\nMore plaudits followed the release of his first studio album, Goodbye & Good Riddance, in 2018, cementing him as one of the rising stars of US rap.\n\nIn early 2018, he was signed by Interscope Records, landing a record deal reported to be worth more than $3m (£2.2m). He topped the Billboard chart this year with his second album Death Race for Love.\n\nIn one of his songs, Juice Wrld rapped about the short lives of artists, saying \"all the legends seem to die out\".\n\nThe song, titled Legends, was dedicated to two late rappers, 20-year-old XXXTentacion and 21-year-old Lil Peep, who died in 2018 and 2017, respectively.\n\nIn the song Juice Wrld rapped: \"What's the 27 Club? We ain't making it past 21. I been going through paranoia.\"\n\nJuice Wrld had celebrated his 21st birthday last week. In a tweet, he said it was \"one of his best\" birthdays yet.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grime artist Ransom FA spoke to the BBC about the challenges of breaking into the music industry\n\nHis music has been described as emo rap, a genre that draws influences from hip hop and alternative rock.\n\nIn a four-star review of his second album, music publication NME said the rapper \"makes songs that stick, his vocal dissonance capturing what it feels like to be young and in pain, and feeling a sense of indifference towards authority figures\".\n\nIn a 2018 interview with the New York Times, Juice Wrld opened up about his use of cannabis and Xanax, an anti-anxiety medication.\n\n\"I smoke weed, and every now and then I slip up and do something that's poor judgment,\" he told the paper.\n\nIn other interviews, he has been candid about his use of lean, a liquid concoction containing prescription-strength cough syrup and soft drinks. In another of his songs, titled Empty, he references lean, saying it solves problems.\n\nIn a statement, Juice Wrld's record label said he was \"a gentle soul whose creativity knew no bounds\", adding: \"To lose someone so kind and so close to our hearts is devastating.\"\n\nIn a tweet, British singer-songwriter Ellie Goulding, who collaborated with Juice Wrld on her 2019 single Hate Me, described the rapper as \"such a sweet soul\" who had \"so much further to go\".\n\nChicago-based artist Chance the Rapper paid a heartfelt tribute on Instagram, writing: \"Millions of people, not just in Chicago but around the world are hurting because of this and don't know what to make of it.\"\n\n\"Wow, I cannot believe this. Rip my brother juice world,\" tweeted fellow rapper Lil Yachty.\n\nUS rapper Lil Nas X, also writing on Twitter, said it is \"so sad how often this is happening lately to young talented rising artists\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A police investigation has been launched into an alleged internal financial fraud at the Scottish Qualifications Authority.\n\nThe probe relates to the quango's Glasgow office and the allegation is understood to involve a six-figure sum of money.\n\nThe SQA said a \"suspected case of financial irregularity\" had been referred to the police.\n\nPolice Scotland was first made aware of the fraud claims in June last year.\n\nThe SQA's latest accounts refer to an \"instance of suspected financial irregularity\" and the 2017-18 report also highlights two cases of suspected financial irregularity which were under investigation internally.\n\nA Police Scotland spokeswoman said the force had \"received reports of possible fraudulent activities linked to a business in Glasgow\".\n\nShe added: \"The circumstances are currently being investigated and no further comment will be made until this is complete.\"\n\nA spokesman for the SQA said: \"A suspected case of financial irregularity has been referred to Police Scotland for investigation.\n\n\"It would be inappropriate for us to comment further.\"\n\nMeanwhile, in a separate development, the authority has been forced to disclose details about the travel expenses of senior executives after the Sunday Mail raised the matter with the Scottish Information Commissioner.\n\nThe SQA had argued publishing such details would put the security of its travelling staff at risk but the commissioner ruled publication was in the public interest.\n\nThe paper's investigation highlighted a number of trips, including one for three executives to Saudi Arabia in 2015 which cost £17,000.\n\nIt reportedly involved business class flights and a stay at \"one of the most luxurious hotels in the world\".", "Boris Johnson has toured Brexit-voting Labour-held seats in north-east England, with three days to go before polling day.\n\nIn a speech in Sunderland - 61% of which voted to Leave - the PM told voters: \"The Labour Party has let you down.\"\n\nHe attacked Parliament, saying it had \"delayed\" and \"denied\" Brexit.\n\nMr Johnson will also travel to south-west England, where he will warn against voting for the pro-EU Lib Dems.\n\nAt the event in Sunderland, Mr Johnson took questions from the public and the press.\n\nMr Johnson spoke of his \"oven-ready\" Brexit deal with the EU, saying the alternative to voting for the Conservatives was \"yet more delay\" and \"division and deadlock\".\n\nHe criticised Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, arguing he did not have a credible Brexit plan, adding that every Conservative election candidate had pledged to support his own withdrawal deal with the EU.\n\nMr Johnson also challenged Labour shadow chancellor John McDonnell's plans, which he said \"will put up taxes\" and be a \"recipe for disaster\".\n\nMeanwhile, Mr McDonnell promised to deliver a budget to \"end austerity\" within its first 100 days if the party wins Thursday's election.\n\nIn a speech in London setting out his priorities, he also pledged to get \"money moving out of Whitehall and the City\".\n\nThe Conservative Party says the prime minister is intending to \"visit every region in England and Wales\" in the final three days of the election campaign, with a message that a vote for his party is a vote to \"get Brexit done and unleash Britain's potential\".\n\nMr Johnson started the day at a fish market in Grimsby, one of a number of longstanding Labour areas that voted heavily to leave the EU in the 2016 referendum that both the Conservatives and the Brexit Party are targeting.\n\nOn his visit to Sunderland, Mr Johnson said it had been 1,264 days since the city voted to leave the EU. \"People voted to get out of the European Union - our democratic duty to do so.\n\n\"Our economy is suffering right now because of the uncertainty\" created by the Brexit delay, he said.\n\nMr Johnson has repeatedly warned that the only alternative to a Conservative majority is a hung Parliament, with Mr Corbyn and SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon forming a coalition and resulting in further referendums on Brexit and Scottish independence.\n\nMs Sturgeon has said she is confident an agreement on a second independence vote could be done if Labour needed SNP support to form a government if there is a hung parliament.\n\nBut Mr Corbyn has ruled out supporting a Scottish independence referendum until after the next Holyrood election in 2021.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats are, meanwhile, pledging to table legislation to stop Brexit immediately after the election by introducing two draft bills they say would pave the way for another EU referendum.\n\nThe first would enable the Electoral Commission to start the necessary consultation around a referendum question and lead campaign designation - and the second would provide a referendum on the government's Brexit deal versus remaining in the EU.\n\nLib Dem leader Jo Swinson told Radio 4's Today programme the \"most likely way\" to stop Brexit was through another vote as the possibility of her party winning power on its own and revoking Article 50 looked increasingly remote.\n\nBetween now and the election on 12 December, we want to help you understand the issues behind the headlines.\n\nKeep up to date with the big questions in our newsletter, Outside The Box.\n\nSign up to our Outside The Box here (UK users only).", "Thousands of people have camped out overnight as part of a global effort to raise cash to tackle homelessness.\n\nCelebrities were among the hundreds taking part in the World's Big Sleep Out in London, Edinburgh and Cardiff.\n\nOrganisers were expecting more than 50,000 to take part globally, with other events in cities including New York, Brisbane and Dublin.\n\nThe initiative hopes to raise around £38m ($50m) for homelessness charities.\n\nIn London's Trafalgar Square, those camping out faced temperatures of about 10C and heavy rain - conditions which supporters said rough sleepers face every day.\n\nDame Louise Casey, a former head of the government rough sleepers' unit and trustee of the Big Sleep Out, told the BBC she hoped the event would be \"symbolic\".\n\nLondon's Big Sleep Out was hit by heavy rain on Sunday morning\n\nThe Edinburgh Sleep Out took place in Princes Street Gardens\n\n\"It seems absolutely bloody crackers right now - the rain is so heavy - but we're doing it because basically the world has a homelessness problem, it has a displaced people problem, it has refugees,\" Dame Louise said.\n\n\"All of these people are here tonight walking in the shoes of people who are homeless, or people who are refugees, we're just experiencing something for one minute, we're experiencing something that people have to experience all year round.\n\n\"It is a privilege to be here this evening - wet and cold as it is.\"\n\nHelen Mirren read a bedtime story to the participants in Trafalgar Square\n\nThe actress Dame Helen Mirren read bedtime stories to those camping in the square while the band Travis played a set.\n\nAmong those sleeping out in the capital were the ITV News presenter Julie Etchingham, who hosted the first head-to-head TV debate of the general election.\n\nFilm star Will Smith speaks at the Big Sleep Out event in New York\n\nMeanwhile in Edinburgh, veteran actor Brian Cox spoke to crowds in West Princes Street Gardens and in New York, film star Will Smith delivered a speech.\n\nIn Cardiff, hundreds slept rough in the city's castle with Gavin and Stacey star Ruth Jones joining those taking part.\n\nThe World's Big Sleep Out campaign was created by Josh Littlejohn, the co-founder of the Scottish charity and sandwich shop Social Bite.\n\nThe charity has hosted visits from a number of celebrities, including George Clooney and Leonardo DiCaprio.\n\nMr Littlejohn said he wants \"to send a message to the world's political leaders to enact compassionate policy and find solutions for homelessness locally and the global refugee crisis that affects us all\".\n\nThe Office for National Statistics has said estimates for the number of people rough sleeping suggest numbers are increasing in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, but estimates based on homelessness applications suggest numbers are decreasing in Scotland.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Large numbers of arrests are \"making no difference\" to dealing with drug problems, a charity has said.\n\nSouth Wales Police has arrested 178 people in eight months as part of an operation to crack down on drug dealing in Cardiff and the surrounding area.\n\nDet Ch Insp Tom Moore said the city was becoming a \"more hostile\" place for drug dealers to operate.\n\nMartin Blakebrough, of the Kaleidoscope Project, said more support for addicts would provide a better solution.\n\nIn September, a charity worker said Wales was \"drowning\" in drugs gangs, with more than 100 operating across the country.\n\nSouth Wales Police launched Operation Crater in April and has seized more than £175,000 worth of drugs and £100,000 in cash from various raids, while more than 30 people arrested in the operation have been convicted of drug-related crimes.\n\nMore than £175,000-worth of drugs has been seized in eight months by South Wales Police\n\nDCI Moore said the operation had been \"really successful\" and made a \"real difference\".\n\n\"What we're seeing is the prevalence and the ease you can obtain drugs on the streets has reduced,\" he said.\n\n\"Every major city in the UK has got problems with drugs and violent crime, which are linked. What we have done is to make it a more hostile city for those that want to sell drugs.\n\n\"County lines and drug lines are an issue that's faced by an awful lot of cities across the UK. We have identified what the issues are and put resources into it, which is tough everywhere at the moment.\"\n\nCash and items were seized from a raid in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan\n\nBut Mr Blakebrough, chief executive of drugs charity the Kaleidoscope Project, said arresting such a large number of people was not helping the problem.\n\n\"We're not seeing any reduction in the number of people coming into our services or people selling drugs on the street,\" he said.\n\n\"It's an outdated way of doing things. It doesn't keep the community safer. The consequences of getting tough on drugs is that they [drug dealers] get tough on each other.\n\n\"It's supply and demand. If there's a demand there'll always be people who take risks to supply. It just means that more the difficult it is, the more extremes people will go to.\"\n\nMr Blakebrough said arrests would not solve the problem and resources needed to be pushed into prevention measures and treatment for addicts.\n\n\"What we have to do is make sure there's support for people in the first place as to reduce demand.\n\n\"There are people who want to get help who can't get help. How many of these people are trying to get into treatment services?\n\n\"There aren't enough treatment services to treat them. It doesn't solve the problem.\n\n\"Where they're brilliant, the police, is actually helping people not getting into crime and assisting them into treatment and that's where the resources need to go. But you can't arrest your way out of drug issues.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson has insisted there will not be any checks for goods travelling from Northern Ireland to Great Britain under his Brexit deal.\n\nHe told Sky News that a leaked Treasury analysis document was \"wrong\" to suggest this would be the case.\n\nHis Brexit deal means there will be goods checks from GB to NI, but there has been confusion on whether there will be checks in the other direction.\n\nLabour said the PM's claims about his deal with the EU were \"fraudulent\".\n\nAnd DUP leader Arlene Foster said she still had concerns over the withdrawal agreement Mr Johnson reached with other European leaders in October.\n\nThe comments come as the main political party leaders continue to push their pledges ahead of Thursday's general election.\n\nUnder the PM's agreement, Northern Ireland would continue to follow many EU rules on food and manufactured goods, while the rest of the UK would not.\n\nNorthern Ireland would also continue to follow EU customs rules but would remain part of the UK's customs territory.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brandon Lewis: 'We are not going to have a border down the Irish sea'\n\nA government risk assessment published in October said it would lead to new administration and checks on goods from west to east.\n\nBut Mr Johnson has insisted Northern Irish businesses will not be hit with additional paperwork or fees, telling a BBC phone-in during the election campaign: \"We will make sure that businesses face no extra costs and no checks for stuff being exported from NI to GB.\"\n\nHe has said the only checks would be on British exports to the Republic of Ireland going via Northern Ireland.\n\nBut the BBC's Northern Ireland business and economics editor John Campbell said these comments \"do not accurately reflect what is in the deal\" and, because of EU law, products would have to be checked even if they were not going on to the Republic of Ireland.\n\nBoris Johnson is right to say that under his Brexit deal goods travelling east - from Northern Ireland into Great Britain - would be treated differently from goods travelling west - from Great Britain into Northern Ireland.\n\nBut he's wrong to say there will no checks in either direction.\n\nThat assertion runs counter to what is written in his own withdrawal agreement.\n\nBusinesses sending goods from Northern Ireland into Great Britain will have to fill out export declaration forms - only a small piece of online bureaucracy, but still different from goods travelling elsewhere within the UK.\n\nFrom Great Britain to Northern Ireland, though, tariffs will have to be paid on goods if their final destination is - or could be - the Republic of Ireland, inside the EU.\n\nThis will necessitate some form of checks. It's also important to remember that checks aren't just about customs.\n\nUnder the prime minister's deal, Northern Ireland will continue to follow many of the rules of the EU single market for goods. And that means EU law requires checks on, for example, all food and animal products - at their point of entry.\n\nThe more the UK diverges from EU rules, as Mr Johnson says he wants to be able to do, the more checks there will be.\n\nThe internal Treasury document leaked on Friday laid all this out in more detail. The prime minister says it is all nonsense, but his own deal says something rather different.\n\nWhen asked on Sky News's Sophy Ridge on Sunday whether there would be checks, in light of the leaked Treasury document, Mr Johnson replied: \"No, absolutely not.\n\n\"The deal we've done with the EU is a brilliant deal and it allows us to do all the things that Brexit was about, so it's about taking back control of our borders, money, laws.\n\n\"But unlike the previous arrangements, it allows the whole of the UK to come out of the EU, including Northern Ireland, and the only checks that there would be would be if something was coming from GB via Northern Ireland and was going on to the Republic, then there might be checks at the border into Northern Ireland.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAsked if the government's document was therefore wrong and if his Brexit secretary - who in October said goods going from Northern Ireland to Great Britain would be subject to exit declarations - was also wrong, Mr Johnson replied: \"Yes.\n\n\"Because there's no question of there being checks on goods going from NI to GB or GB to NI, because they are part of - if you look at what the deal is, we're part of the same customs territory and it's very clear that there should be unfettered access between Northern Ireland and the rest of GB.\n\n\"The only reason - this is another of these things that has been produced by the Labour Party as a kind of distraction.\"\n\nGiving evidence to the House of Lords Exiting the EU committee in October, Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay initially said he did not believe exit forms would be necessary for trade between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.\n\nBut he later conceded: \"The exit summary declarations will be required in terms of NI to GB.\"\n\nWhen security minister Brandon Lewis was challenged on the subject of post-Brexit goods checks on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, he said: \"We have some checks now, with customs and live animals, things like that.\n\n\"It's right that we continue that. But we've been very clear - there will be no border down the Irish Sea.\n\n\"The UK as a whole will leave the European Union together and, of course, Northern Ireland itself will have that self-determination around things as we go forward.\"\n\nDUP leader Ms Foster told BBC 5 live's Pienaar's Politics her party had a \"large concern\" about how it would be determined which goods travelling through Northern Ireland had the Irish Republic as the final destination.\n\n\"By definition you would need checks to see that that happens,\" she said. \"There have been differing views even within the Conservative Party as to what it meant.\"\n\nMs Foster said there had to be \"clarity in relation to that for those of us living in Northern Ireland, because, of course, Great Britain is our largest market by far, and we need to be able to, from an economic point of view, know what it's going to mean for us in the future\".\n\nAt a press conference in London on Friday, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the 15-page Treasury document - entitled Northern Ireland Protocol: Unfettered Access to the UK Internal Market - disproved Mr Johnson's claims there would be no checks, and showed his claims about his own deal were \"fraudulent\".\n\nHe said it was \"hard evidence\" NI would be \"symbolically separated\" from the rest of the UK after Brexit.\n\n\"What we have here is a confidential report by Johnson's own government, marked 'official', 'sensitive', that exposes the falsehoods that Boris Johnson has been putting forward,\" he said.\n\n\"This is cold, hard evidence that categorically shows the impact a damaging Brexit deal would have on large parts of our country, 15 pages that paint a damning picture of Johnson's deal on the issue of Northern Ireland in particular.\"", "The strike means hundreds of services are being cancelled each day\n\nWeekend travellers on South Western Railway (SWR) have faced disruption due to ongoing strike action compounded by engineering work.\n\nTwenty-seven days of strike action by Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) members began on Monday.\n\nUnion leaders have called for fresh talks with rail bosses in the long-running row over train guards.\n\nThe company has warned passengers travel will be \"especially challenging\" throughout December.\n\nWeekend engineering and maintenance work has also meant a number of line closures, including between Bournemouth and Poole, in the Twickenham area, and between London Waterloo and Kingston.\n\nAll lines in the Leatherhead area are closed all day on Sunday for maintenance work.\n\nThe strike means hundreds of services are being cancelled each day and many commuters have complained about overcrowded trains.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Transport Correspondent Paul Clifton explains the background to the strikes\n\nThe two sides remain deadlocked in the dispute over the role of guards.\n\nOn new trains due to start running next year, SWR wants drivers to operate the doors at every stop to save time.\n\nUnion members want guards to decide when to close the doors.\n\nLetters have been exchanged in recent days, with the union calling for fresh talks at the conciliation service Acas.\n\nThe RMT says the dispute now centres on whether guards should have a few seconds to make sure trains leave platforms safely.\n\nA spokesman said: \"The union will continue to push for a negotiated settlement that protects passenger safety and our members remain rock-solid in the ongoing action.\"\n\nSWR managing director Andy Mellors said in a letter that further talks must be on the proviso that the union has a \"new solution\" to safely delivering over 10 million more peak-time passenger journeys on time each year.\n\nUnion members have staged pickets at stations on the SWR network\n\nSWR released a revised timetable and said it would provide longer trains to increase capacity where possible.\n\nThe operator runs services between London Waterloo and Portsmouth, Southampton, Bournemouth and Weymouth as well as Reading, Exeter and Bristol. It also operates suburban commuter lines in south-west London, Surrey, Berkshire, and north-east Hampshire.\n\nStrike days are as follows:\n\nHas your journey been affected? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A stained glass window was smashed when the 900-year-old church was broken into\n\nThieves who targeted a church caused between £5,000 and £10,000 of damage, before making off with a charity pot containing less than £200.\n\nThe Rev Nathan Ward said when he arrived at St Margaret's Church, in Rainham, Kent, he found the 900-year-old building had been ransacked. A stained glass window was also smashed.\n\nPolice said they were called to the church at 07:40 GMT.\n\nBut Mr Ward said the break-in \"would not dampen spirits\" ahead of Christmas.\n\nThe damage caused to the building is put at thousands of pounds\n\nHe added: \"This is a season where we especially think of those whose lives have taken a wrong turn and would welcome an opportunity to meet with those involved so we can help and support them.\n\nThe thieves forced doors and cupboards open, ransacked the church office, and stole the CCTV camera.\n\nMuch of Sunday, he said, would be spent clearing up and increasing security, before services resumed in the evening.\n\nMr Ward said the break-in was \"particularly sad\", given how old the stained glass windows were, and that the small amount of money kept in the church was meant for charity.\n\nA second church in Rainham - St Thomas of Canterbury in London Road - was also broken into. Police were called to that church at 09:15.\n\nKent Police confirmed inquiries into both break-ins were ongoing, and appealed for anybody with information to come forward.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Kamil Biecke, a former professional goalkeeper, was last seen in the early hours of 8 December in Luton\n\nPolice searching for an ex-professional goalkeeper who went missing a year ago have appealed to people who knew him from casinos or betting shops for help.\n\nKamil Biecke, 35, played for Polish side Baltyk Gdynia until 2013 before moving to the UK in 2016.\n\nHe was last seen on Maple Road in Luton in the early hours of 8 December 2018.\n\n\"We know Kamil was a gambler and had some debts, so it is this line of inquiry we are keen to pursue,\" said Det Insp Emma Pitts.\n\n\"Our previous appeals to the public have led us to some information - but nothing which has helped us locate him.\"\n\nShe appealed for help from people who recognised Mr Biecke from Luton-based gambling outlets.\n\nMr Biecke's former club, in Gdynia on the Baltic coast north of Gdansk, is currently in the fourth tier of the Polish football league pyramid.\n\nBedfordshire Police previously said it was concerned his gambling associations may have led to him being killed and they believed he had been involved in \"drug-related activity\".\n\nMr Biecke's estranged wife, who lives in Poland, reported him missing on 14 December 2018 as she was concerned she was unable to contact him.\n\nOfficers \"upgraded\" their investigation to a murder inquiry in June after \"extensive searches failed to find him alive\".\n\nKamil Biecke played for the Polish football team Baltyk Gdynia until 2013\n\nDet Insp Pitts is appealing for information from anyone who may recognise Mr Biecke from Luton-based casinos and betting shops, or who may know of any of his associations.\n\n\"Though a lot of time has passed, we have not given up hope of locating Kamil, for the sake of his family and friends who love and miss him,\" she said.\n\nThe force said Mr Biecke lived in Luton but has links to Cambridgeshire, Milton Keynes and Scotland.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nThe Football Association will investigate allegations of racism after Manchester United players said they were targeted at Manchester City.\n\nCity said they were \"aware of a video circulating on social media\" which appears to show a supporter making monkey gestures towards United players.\n\nThey have pledged to issue a lifetime ban to \"anyone found guilty of racist abuse\".\n\nThe FA plans to speak to the clubs, referee Anthony Taylor and the police.\n\nThe incident in question happened when United midfielder Fred went to take a corner in the second half.\n\nThe 26-year-old Brazilian said it was a shame that such incidents still happen in 2019.\n\n\"We are still in a backward society,\" Fred told ESPN Brazil after the 2-1 win for Manchester United.\n\n\"Unfortunately, this is happening in some stadiums. It happened here, it happened in Ukraine with some friends.\n\n\"It's sad, but we have to keep our heads up and forget about that. We can't give them any attention because that's all they want. I spoke to the referee after the match, they will do something about it and that's all.\"\n\nFred also appeared to be hit by an object thrown at Etihad Stadium.\n\nAnti-racism body Kick It Out says it has been \"inundated\" with reports of alleged racist abuse after the incidents were captured by television cameras.\n\n\"We hope swift action is taken to identify the offenders,\" Kick It Out said.\n\nMore than one United player said they had been abused after the game, with the Old Trafford club reporting their comments to referee Anthony Taylor and Manchester City.\n\nCity said they are working with Greater Manchester Police to help them identify any individuals who were involved. Greater Manchester Police said that no arrests had been made but that \"enquiries into the incident are ongoing\".\n\n\"The club operates a zero-tolerance policy regarding discrimination of any kind,\" City added.\n\nThe Professional Footballers' Association welcomed City's prompt response, adding: \"Racist abuse is a criminal offence and must be dealt with accordingly.\"\n\nUnited manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said: \"I've seen it on the video and the fella must be ashamed of himself. It is unacceptable and I hope he won't be watching any football any more.\"\n\nCity manager Pep Guardiola said he does not want to see any more alleged racist abuse \"happen again\".\n\n\"It is a battle to fight every day. Unfortunately, it has happened in many places,\" he said.\n\nUnited forward Marcus Rashford, who was also playing when England's Euro 2020 qualifier in Bulgaria was overshadowed by racism in October, called for more to be done to tackle the problem.\n\n\"The fact it is still happening is not good enough,\" he said.\n\n\"We seem to be speaking about it an awful lot over last six to eight months. Even speaking about it now is not nice.\n\n\"The necessary departments need to do the right things to stop it in the game. It is a big negative in the sport and the country.\"\n\nWith United leading 2-0, a number of objects were thrown by supporters in the home end when Fred went to take a corner in the 67th minute.\n\nThe Brazilian moved away from the corner flag before going back to take the set-piece.\n\nCity midfielder Fernandinho, along with other home players, urged the fans in that corner to calm down.\n\nPlay resumed a few moments later once referee Taylor picked up a number of objects in that area of the pitch.", "Georgian-born American artist David Datuna has eaten a banana used in an art work by Maurizio Cattelan, which had sold for $120,000 (£91,000).\n\nThe artwork, titled Comedian, was on display at Art Basel in Miami, one of the world's most high-profile art fairs.\n\nThe banana was swiftly replaced and no further action will be taken against Datuna - who said eating the banana was his \"art performance\".", "Kate Lindsey will play the title role of Orlando\n\nFor the first time in its 150-year history, the Vienna State Opera is staging an opera by a woman.\n\nAustrian composer Olga Neuwirth has written a new opera based on Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel Orlando which deals with themes of gender fluidity and duality.\n\nThe title role is played by the singer Kate Lindsey.\n\nOrlando lives for centuries, beginning as a man in Elizabethan England and then changing into a woman.\n\nThe story by Virginia Woolf has been updated for the 21st Century\n\nOlga Neuwirth says androgyny and the rejection of gender stereotypes have inspired her ever since she first read Woolf's novel as a teenager.\n\n\"Not only is it a journey through centuries, but it is a journey of constant questioning of imposed norms by society, and society is made by man,\" she told the BBC.\n\nOrlando, for all of us, should be a symbol of freedom, humanity and freedom of opinion, but in a very playful and ironic way - which I like so much\n\n\"Each human being is allowed to choose what they feel is inside them,\" she said. \"There is no binary role model anymore.\"\n\nConductor Matthias Pintscher says the 'in-betweenness\" of the story of Orlando is reflected in the music.\n\n\"She is mixing it all up,\" he said. \"We have a traditional orchestra in the pit. On top of that we have three keyboards, a jazz band and a lot of pre-recorded samples that interestingly, beautifully blend into the texture of the live instruments.\"\n\nOlga Neuwirth says \"it feels a little bit strange\" to be the first female composer to have a work staged at the Vienna State Opera.\n\nThe opera house cancelled her previous attempt to put on an piece with a libretto by the Nobel Prize winning author Elfriede Jelinek.\n\nThe opera has special significance for Justin Vivian Bond, who plays Orlando's child\n\n\"One hundred and fifty years is a long time. But I've always said it's never too late. So it's good that they finally have thought about it. And at least if you're the first, there has to be a second and a third and so on. So it's always good to have a starting point.\"\n\nThe costumes are by another woman, designer Rei Kawakubo, of Commes des Garçons.\n\nThe story has been brought up into the 21st Century.\n\nFor transgender and trans-genre artist Justin Vivian Bond, who plays the role of Orlando's child, this opera has a personal significance.\n\n\"Conceptually, I am the legacy of what the novel Orlando began to express about gender and transgression and about the difference between what it's actually like to be a man or a woman, if indeed there is that much of a difference,\" said Bond.\n\n\"And since I'm a non-binary person who's trans-feminine, I guess you could say I am happily stepping into a moment and I'm the sort of representation of where we've come.\"\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lucia Lucas tells the BBC what it's like to be a transgender opera singer but still have to play male roles\n• None First transgender opera singer on London stage. Video, 00:01:50First transgender opera singer on London stage", "Everyone's had a quick break while the adverts have been on, but now we're back with host Cathy Newman who is asking the audience what they want to hear.\n\nThe next question is on the subject of crime. Should convicted terrorists serve the whole of their sentence without the chance of early release?\n\nPlaid Cymru's Adam Price answers first, saying \"public protection needs to be at the heart of the policy\".\n\nBut he adds that, in the most recent case at London Bridge, the lessons will only be known once there has been an investigation into what happened.\n\n\"So I think it's important not to rush to judgement in terms of that specific case.\"\n\nLabour's Angela Rayner says \"the most important thing is that the public are kept safe\".\n\nShe says prisons are \"overstuffed\" and \"lots of people re-offend on petty crime doing time for that\".\n\nShe gets a brief clap after saying that if convicted terrorists need to spend 10 or 20 years in prison \"they should do that\" - but adds that rehabilitation must be part of the justice system.\n\nMs Rayner says that when people are allowed out, then \"they have to be watched and monitored\".\n\nLib Dem leader Jo Swinson says there must be a proper assessment \"before anyone is released\".\n\n\"One of those grieving parents, David Merritt, he has called on politicians not to politicise his son's death,\" says Ms Swinson.\n\nMs Rayner interjects: \"That's why I didn't mention that.\"\n\nMs Swinson says she is angry at Boris Johnson for ignoring Mr Merritt's request.", "Liam Payne has been accused of reinforcing stereotypes about bisexuality on his new album.\n\nLP1 came out on Friday and the song Both Ways immediately came in for criticism online.\n\n\"My girl, she like it both ways,\" he sings, going on to depict group sex. \"She like the way it all taste / Couple more, we'll call it foreplay / No, no, I don't discriminate.\"\n\nMeg Murphy from campaign group Bi-Pride UK says the lyrics play into harmful ideas about bisexual people.\n\n\"As a woman who exists on dating apps you get pretty tired very quickly of people asking things about threesomes, and his lyrics very much reinforce those stereotypes,\" she says.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by 𝐚𝐥𝐲 𝐈𝐒 𝐒𝐄𝐄𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐇+𝐋 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeg says that bisexual women are only seen as valid \"when they're performing for the male gaze or when men can join in with threesomes\".\n\n\"The song shames bi women for being sexual while simultaneously condoning such sexual expression when it's carried out to the straight male gaze,\" the 24-year-old says.\n\nResearch has previously suggested that compared with heterosexual or lesbian women, bisexual women are more likely to have suffered sexual violence.\n\nAnd the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) says lesbian and bisexual women are \"especially at risk\" of being victims of sexual violence.\n\nMeg believes that adds a level of danger to Liam Payne's lyrics.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"If people who are young and impressionable and still questioning their identity hear lyrics like that, they then think they have to perform in that way - and if they don't, that poses a risk to their lives.\"\n\nShe adds: \"It's not the place of straight men to talk about bi issues unless they have lived experiences or they are an active ally and as far as I am aware Liam Payne has not been an ally of the LGBT community.\"\n\nEarlier this year Radio 1 Newsbeat spoke to Sali, a bisexual woman who says she was raped by a straight couple due to her sexuality.\n\n\"Bisexuality is seen by a lot of people as just a type of porn with two women and one man and that definitely influenced what happened to me,\" she said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Liam This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSali didn't report what happened to the police because she didn't think she'd be successful in court.\n\n\"Although I fully support people who do go to the police about sexual violence... bi women are seen as greedy, slutty, 'asking for it'.\n\n\"So if I'd even had got as far as it having made it to court - which wouldn't happen anyway because it would've been dropped long before that - there's no way I'd win.\"\n\nLast year, Rita Ora apologised after a number of LGBT musicians accused her of exploiting bisexuality.\n\nRita Ora said she'd \"never intentionally\" cause harm to LGBT people.\n\nNewsbeat has contacted Liam Payne's team for a comment about the reaction to Both Ways, but is yet to hear back.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Climate change and nutrient pollution are driving the oxygen from our oceans, and threatening many species of fish.\n\nThat's the conclusion of the biggest study of its kind, undertaken by conservation group IUCN.\n\nWhile nutrient run-off has been known for decades, researchers say that climate change is making the lack of oxygen worse.\n\nAround 700 ocean sites are now suffering from low oxygen, compared with 45 in the 1960s.\n\nResearchers say the depletion is threatening species including tuna, marlin and sharks.\n\nThe threat to oceans from nutrient run-off of chemicals such as nitrogen and phosphorus from farms and industry has long been known to impact the levels of oxygen in the sea waters and still remains the primary factor, especially closer to coasts.\n\nHowever, in recent years the threat from climate change has increased.\n\nAs more carbon dioxide is released enhancing the greenhouse effect, much of the heat is absorbed by the oceans. In turn, this warmer water can hold less oxygen. The scientists estimate that between 1960 and 2010, the amount of the gas dissolved in the oceans declined by 2%.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Climate change: How 1.5C could change the world\n\nThat may not seem like much as it is a global average, but in some tropical locations the loss can range up to 40%.\n\nEven small changes can impact marine life in a significant way. So waters with less oxygen favour species such as jellyfish, but not so good for bigger, fast-swimming species like tuna.\n\n\"We have known about de-oxygenation but we haven't known the linkages to climate change and this is really worrying,\" said Minna Epps from IUCN.\n\n\"Not only has the decline of oxygen quadrupled in the past 50 years but even in the best case emissions scenario, oxygen is still going to decline in the oceans.\"\n\nFor species like tuna, marlin and some sharks that are particularly sensitive to lack of oxygen - this is bad news.\n\nBigger fish like these have greater energy needs. According to the authors, these animals are starting to move to the shallow surface layers of the seas where there is more of the gas dissolved. However, this make the species much more vulnerable to over-fishing.\n\nIf countries continue with a business-as-usual approach to emissions, the world's oceans are expected to lose 3-4% of their oxygen by the year 2100.\n\nThis is likely to be worse in the tropical regions of the world. Much of the loss is expected in the top 1,000m of the water column, which is richest in biodiversity.\n\nTuna are suffering from lack of oxygen, says IUCN\n\nLow levels of oxygen are also bad for basic processes like the cycling of elements crucial for life on Earth, including nitrogen and phosphorous.\n\n\"If we run out of oxygen it will mean habitat loss and biodiversity loss and a slippery slope down to slime and more jellyfish,\" said Minna Epps.\n\n\"It will also change the energy and the biochemical cycling in the oceans and we don't know what these biological and chemical shifts in the oceans can actually do.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Durwood Zaelke has arguably saved the world half a degree Celsius of warming\n\nChanging the outcomes for the oceans is down to the world's political leaders which is why the report has been launched here at COP25.\n\n\"Ocean oxygen depletion is menacing marine ecosystems already under stress from ocean warming and acidification,\" said Dan Laffoley, also from IUCN and the report's co-editor.\n\n\"To stop the worrying expansion of oxygen-poor areas, we need to decisively curb greenhouse gas emissions as well as nutrient pollution from agriculture and other sources.\"", "On a street in the Nottinghamshire town of Arnold, there is a Liberal club, a Labour club and a Conservative club, all within a five-minute walk of one another. But how much do the people who patronise these establishments actually care about politics?\n\nThere's an intense silence among the members of Arnold's Balfour Conservative Club as the president calls out numbers. That's because Wednesday night is bingo night - and bingo night is taken seriously. Certainly more seriously than politics.\n\nIn the lull between the rounds, 82-year-old Shirley Wilmot, who has always voted Labour, says she's never really thought about the club's Conservative connections.\n\n\"I'm a member of the Liberal club and the Labour club as well,\" she says. \"But this is my favourite because it's so friendly.\n\n\"I go to the Liberal on a Saturday because they have two artists on, here on the Wednesday for the bingo and the Labour club on Sunday for the dinner. They're not political places.\"\n\nThe Labour club is seen by its regulars as a handy place to go for a cheap pint served by friendly staff\n\nJust down the road at the Arnold Labour Club, president John Wood, 60, would agree with that sentiment.\n\nHe says its link to the party ended about 10 years ago and that the association had become \"damaging\". He is even looking to change the club's name.\n\nOf the nine people asked at the Labour club, not one could say they would definitely vote for the Labour Party, and a few know they certainly will not.\n\nAmong them is Ann Rogers, 50, a member of a motorbike group which meets there weekly.\n\n\"I come for the friendly people and the amazing bar staff,\" she says. \"I've been here for four years and never heard anyone talk about politics. It's just a name over the door. It doesn't matter if you support Labour or Conservative, you're welcome here.\n\n\"I used to be an avid Labour supporter and always voted for them. I voted for them last election. But not this time. It's hard for me but I feel they've let us down, and I don't like Jeremy Corbyn.\"\n\nMr Wood says the club and local party used to support one another financially and political meetings were once held here. But he understands they went their separate ways well before he took over two years ago.\n\nHe says some of his regulars refuse to become full club members because of the name and he has even been denied loans from banks and grants for renovation work because of the perceived political ties.\n\n\"I couldn't be tied to any party,\" Mr Wood says. \"The only one I've ever supported is UKIP. But I don't get involved and we never talk politics.\"\n\nInstead, they host events ranging from coffee mornings for the elderly and a Parkinson's support group, to weddings and weekly discos.\n\nInside are four rooms, each with its own bar. One room is dominated by a snooker table, and another has a skittles alley where members sometimes play against members of the Conservative club and the Liberal club - although the rivalry isn't fuelled by differing political allegiances.\n\nAlex Hunt says he has no idea who he will vote for on 12 December\n\nOne of the team members is 27-year-old handyman Alex Hunt. Snooker cue in hand, he says: \"I love the company, all my friends are here, it's lively and you can drink.\n\n\"I used to be a member of the Liberal and Conservative club but they don't have the same atmosphere.\"\n\n\"I've not got a clue who I'm voting for this election,\" he says. \"I don't know anything about politics. It just doesn't matter to me.\"\n\nThe club's bar manager, Paula Martin, says she gets a call about twice a month from people asking to speak to the local Labour candidate. A man came in a couple of weeks ago asking why there were no pictures at the club of the candidate, she says.\n\n\"I told him it's just not like that any more.\"\n\nAt both the Labour and Conservative clubs, located either side of an Asda supermarket, members pay £10 to join in their first year and £5 every year after\n\nIn the Conservative club, there's also an absence of political chat and certainly no division along party lines.\n\nIndeed, a number of the Labour club's members and some of its bar staff are here to play \"sticky 13s\", a form of card bingo popular in Nottingham pubs.\n\nUnlike its Labour counterpart, the Balfour Conservative Club is still affiliated to the political party and pays an annual subscription to the Association of Conservative Clubs. Its rules state that every member should also be a member or supporter of the Conservative Party, but the secretary admits this is not something that is enforced these days.\n\nThe same rulebook's stated aim is to \"promote the principles of Conservatism and the implementation of the Conservative Party's policies\", although this does not seem to go much further than hosting a few party meetings and a Christmas meal.\n\nThe blue interior and a portrait of the early 20th Century prime minister Arthur Balfour suggest a Tory heritage - but one club member sitting below a picture of the Queen admits he now supports the Brexit Party.\n\nClub president Rob Whalley, 66, says the strength of its association with the Conservatives has weakened in the five decades he has been coming here.\n\nClub president Rob Whalley in front of a portrait of Arthur Balfour\n\nAs he prepares to set up the bingo, he says: \"I don't talk politics at the club. The days when you were a member of just one of the political clubs are done. If we said you had to be a Conservative Party member to join, we'd have no-one in.\"\n\nFor the members, the subsidised pints, the friendly atmosphere, the snooker and pool tables seem to be the main draw.\n\nThat's certainly the case for Labour supporter Andy Gallagher, who has come here for a game. \"This is the most convenient pool table - I don't care what the place is called,\" he says. \"I know I'm not the only Labour voter but we never discuss politics.\n\n\"If Boris Johnson walked in here I wouldn't talk to him but I'd not tell him to get out either.\"\n\nTony Barnsley: \"I do have a political opinion - I don't think politics works\"\n\nBack at the Labour club, 37-year-old industrial truck driver Tony Barnsley says he's been a member for the past four years, because the staff \"treat him well\" and \"pull a great pint of Stella\".\n\nBut he has only voted once in his life, almost 20 years ago. \"If anyone tries to talk politics they walk out because no-one is bothered; they won't even listen to it,\" he says.\n\n\"If Jeremy Corbyn walked in here I'd say 'get me a drink'.\"", "The main political party leaders are continuing to push their election pledges to voters, as the campaign enters its final few days.\n\nConservative leader Boris Johnson says in an open letter that Thursday's poll is \"historic\" and a choice to \"move forwards\" after Brexit.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said it was a \"chance to vote for hope\" and he had \"the most ambitious plan to transform our country in decades\".\n\nThe UK goes to the polls on Thursday.\n\nAhead of this, the candidates are travelling around the country in a bid to spread their election messages.\n\nAmong the manifesto pledges being highlighted by the main UK parties on Sunday are:\n\nMeanwhile, SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon is warning that \"the very future of Scotland\" is at stake in the election.\n\nShe is appealing to voters to back her party \"to escape Brexit, protect the NHS, and to put Scotland's future in Scotland's hands\".\n\nAnd Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson told Sky News her party was looking to make \"real progress\" by increasing its number of MPs on Thursday.\n\nShe added: \"We will be absolutely working to stop Brexit, doing so in a co-operative way with others who share our values and share that goal.\"\n\nIn his letter to voters published in the Mail on Sunday, Mr Johnson says the election will be one that \"shapes future decades\", urging voters to create a \"working Conservative majority government that will get Brexit done, end the uncertainty and allow Britain to move on\".\n\nThe Conservatives have released some details about how their points-based immigration system would work.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Express, Home Secretary Priti Patel, said it would start in January 2021 and aimed to \"attract the best talent that our country and economy needs, while reducing overall numbers\".\n\nThere would be fast-track entry to the UK for entrepreneurs and some people working for the NHS, and sector-specific schemes for low or unskilled workers to meet labour market shortages.\n\nThe prime minister and members of the cabinet visited the Conservative Party's headquarters\n\nSpeaking to Sky News, Mr Johnson declined to say if he would resign if he failed to win a majority in the House of Commons.\n\nHe said: \"What I'm going to do is concentrate on the five days before us, because that is what I think the people of this country would expect.\"\n\nIn the same interview, the prime minister insisted there would not be any checks for goods travelling from Northern Ireland to Great Britain under his Brexit deal.\n\nA leaked Treasury analysis document was \"wrong\" to suggest this would be the case, he said.\n\nAnd in a short speech at the Conservative Party's headquarters, Mr Johnson warned his supporters that the \"horses can still change places\" in the final week of the campaign, saying: \"This is a close-fought election.\"\n\nJeremy Corbyn spoke at a rally at Bangor University in north Wales\n\nMeanwhile, Labour is restating its plan to help alleviate pressure in social care through the introduction of free personal care for older people.\n\nThe party says its new funding will help working-age adults and pensioners with care costs, which will also be capped under the proposals.\n\nAccording to the King's Fund, providing free personal care would require an additional £6bn on top of planned spending by 2020-21, taking the social care budget to roughly £26bn.\n\nLabour is also talking about its own research on the issue, which it says shows 9,290 people have approached their local authority since April 2017 for help with care costs after draining their savings.\n\nAt a rally at Bangor University in north Wales, Mr Corbyn attacked \"cruel\" Universal Credit - which his party has said it would scrap.\n\nHe also repeated his pledge to compensate so-called Waspi women, who lost out on years of state pension payments when the retirement age was raised under the coalition government.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell BBC One's Andrew Marr Show that Labour would \"transform our economy\" if it won a parliamentary majority at the election.\n\nHe added: \"I want to make sure our economy works for everybody... It means transforming capitalism into a new form.\"\n\nMr Johnson says he wants to focus on people's priorities, including urgent investment in the NHS and action on the cost of living.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the last stretch on the campaign trail, Mr Corbyn said Mr Johnson \"cannot be trusted to deliver Brexit, or anything else\".\n\nHe said Labour would \"rescue\" the NHS and \"get Brexit sorted\".\n\nJo Swinson has been campaigning in Sheffield\n\nElsewhere, the Lib Dems said their plans would \"address the historic investment disparities between our nations and regions\".\n\nIts plans would boost railway electrification, increase the availability of charging points for electric vehicles and improve broadband access, the party added.\n\nLiberal Democrat deputy leader Ed Davey said: \"Neither Labour or the Tories can square their spending promises today with the cost of Brexit. They are writing promises on cheques that will bounce.\n\n\"Every vote for the Liberal Democrats is a vote to stop Brexit so we can invest billions across the UK, helping to tackle ingrained inequality.\"\n\nOn the campaign trail in Sheffield, Liberal Democrat leader Ms Swinson also encouraged her supporters to make a final push for votes, telling them: \"When you wake up and deliver those 'good mornings' when there's frost on the ground, I want you to know that everything that you do will make that difference.\"", "Former Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson has hinted she may return to politics when the Tories are in opposition at Westminster, even suggesting she could lead the party.\n\nShe said: \"I've probably got more experience than anyone in the party on how to lead from opposition.\"\n\nMs Davidson stood down as leader in August, citing Brexit and changing priorities after the birth of her son.\n\nShe does not plan to stand for re-election in the 2021 Holyrood election.\n\nIn an interview for The Sunday Telegraph's Stella Magazine, she hinted she could make a bid to lead the UK party - perhaps re-entering politics when the Conservatives are in opposition at Westminster.\n\nShe said: \"It may well be that my time in politics doesn't come again until we're in opposition.\n\n\"I've probably got more experience than anyone in the party on how to lead from opposition.\"\n\nMs Davidson continued: \"If someone tapped on my door and asked me to help, I'd be there in a heartbeat.\n\n\"But at the moment, I've got four or five years when my son isn't at school and that is not a time that I'm contemplating moving 450 miles away for the majority of the week. It's just some things are more important than politics.\"\n\nMs Davidson tweeted a picture of herself with Finn and her partner Jen Wilson\n\nMs Davidson stood down as Scottish Conservative leader in August. She said her personal priorities had changed after she and her partner, Jen Wilson, had a son, Finn, last October.\n\nOver the eight years she led her party, she was widely credited with turning around the fortunes of the Tories in Scotland\n\nShe has previously ruled out wanting to be prime minister because she valued her \"mental health too much\".\n\nIn the wide-ranging interview for Stella, she also spoke about coming out her family as gay and about the abuse she receives as a politician.\n\nShe said: \"I've never really spoken about it because the relationship I have with my family [now] is not the same as the [one] I had with them at the time I came out.\n\n\"It's to protect them. I put myself in this position. I'm not naive. But there are people in my life who didn't choose that.\"\n\n\"I was in my mid-20s [when I came out] - quite late. I didn't know for ages, which is surprising, looking back,\" she added.\n\n\"I came out to one member of my very close family, it didn't go well, so I didn't come out to the rest for two years.\"\n\nMs Davidson said she had to learn to be \"a bit of a street fighter\" in Scottish politics, saying she could get up to 1,000 abusive tweets a day.\n\nShe said: \"It wears you down. I've had a lot of 'string her up by a lamppost' type stuff; 'unionists, turncoats, traitors'... And I had an incident where someone got my phone number and made threats.\n\n\"It turned out not to be that sinister, but I didn't know that when I was being told they wanted to burn all gays.\"\n\nEarlier this year, Ms Davidson was at the centre of controversy after she accepted a \"contentious\" job with a lobbying firm.\n\nSome opposition politicians said it was a conflict of interest and in October she said she would not take the job.\n\nWhat are your questions about the general election? You can let us know by completing the form below.\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question.\n• None Ruth Davidson on motherhood, coming out and quitting politics The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said leaked documents reportedly showing the NHS would be at risk after a post-Brexit trade deal with the US are genuine.\n\nMr Corbyn said \"at no stage did the prime minister or anybody deny that those documents were real\".\n\nPM Boris Johnson said an investigation is needed into the source of the documents on UK-US trade negotiations, posted on the Reddit website.\n\nReddit said the unredacted documents were uploaded as \"part of a campaign that has been reported as originating from Russia\".\n\nThe forum website has suspended 61 accounts that showed a \"pattern of coordination\".", "United midfielder Fred said he was hit by an object during Saturday's derby\n\nA man has been arrested after objects and racist abuse appeared to be targeted at Manchester United players during Saturday's derby.\n\nPolice said they received a report of a fan making alleged racist gestures in the game against Manchester City.\n\nCity said they were working with police \"regarding an instance of objects being thrown on to the field of play\".\n\nA 41-year-old man has been held on suspicion of a racially aggravated public order and remains in custody.\n\nOn Saturday, a man was filmed apparently making monkey gestures and sounds towards Manchester United players during the derby at City's Etihad Stadium.\n\nIt happened as United midfielder Fred went to take a corner in the second half and appeared to be hit by an object hurled from the crowd.\n\nAfter the match, the 26-year-old Brazilian said: \"On the field, I didn't see anything. I saw it only in the locker room afterwards. The guys showed me. [A man] even threw a lighter and it hit me.\"\n\nUnited boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said: \"Fred and Jesse [Lingard] were in the corner, taking a corner, and I've seen the video, heard from the boys.\"\n\nHe said the apparent behaviour of the supporter caught on camera was \"unacceptable\".\n\nIn a statement, Manchester City said they were working with police to identify offenders, adding: \"The club are also working with GMP regarding an instance of objects being thrown on to the field of play.\n\n\"The club operates a zero-tolerance policy regarding discrimination of any kind, and anyone found guilty of racial abuse will be banned from the club for life.\"\n\nFred later joined United players as they celebrated their 2-1 victory at City's Etihad Stadium\n\nAfter social media speculation that the person allegedly making the monkey gestures worked for the infrastructure firm Kier Group, the company tweeted an employee had been suspended \"pending an investigation\".\n\nThe company added: \"We're aware of a video circulating on social media. We take allegations and instances of racism very seriously and are currently investigating potential links between the individual involved and Kier.\n\nThe FA said it would investigate the incident, while the Premier League said it \"will not tolerate discrimination in any form\".\n\n\"If people are found to have racially abused Premier League players they deserve to be punished and we will support any action taken by the authorities and the clubs,\" a Premier League spokesperson said.\n\nThe incident comes a year after racism in football hit the headlines after City striker Raheem Sterling was subjected to racist abuse at Stamford Bridge, which led to a permanent ban for a Chelsea supporter.\n\nSterling was also one of a number of England players who faced monkey chants and Nazi salutes in Euro 2020 qualifiers this year.\n\nRacism hit the headlines again when Raheem Sterling and other black players faced abuse in the past year\n\nFred said the alleged incidents on Saturday showed \"we are still in a backward society\".\n\nUnited won the match 2-1 after goals from Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson \"must answer\" for anti-Semitism, Labour says\n\nThree Conservative election candidates are being investigated over allegations of anti-Semitism, the party has confirmed.\n\nSally-Ann Hart, Richard Short and Lee Anderson are facing claims relating to their social media use.\n\nLabour has called for the candidates to be suspended, adding that leader Boris Johnson \"must answer for the anti-Semitism being promoted in his name\".\n\nA Conservative spokeswoman said abuse or discrimination of any kind is wrong.\n\nAmong those who are facing an investigation is Sally-Ann Hart, the Tory candidate in Hastings and Rye, which is ex-Home Secretary Amber Rudd's former seat.\n\nAlso being investigated is Richard Short, who is standing in St Helens South and Whiston, and Lee Anderson, who is running in Ashfield and Eastwood.\n\nA Conservative Party spokeswoman said: \"These matters are being investigated.\"\n\nShe added: \"We are committed to stamping out the scourge of anti-Semitism in our society and supporting our Jewish community.\n\n\"Our complaints process is rightly a confidential one, but there are a wide range of sanctions to challenge and change behaviour, including conditions to undertake training, periods of suspension and expulsion, and these are applied on a case-by-case basis.\"\n\nThe probe comes after leader Mr Johnson previously told reporters that \"if anybody is done for Islamophobia, or any other prejudice or discrimination in the Conservative Party they are out first bounce\".\n\nAndrew Gwynne, Labour's national campaign co-ordinator, said: \"Boris Johnson said members who make racist comments are 'out first bounce'. So why is he refusing to suspend these three candidates, none of whom appear to have apologised?\n\n\"Johnson has never called out and condemned anti-Semitic Soros narratives among his supporters.\n\n\"On the contrary, the Conservatives whipped their MEPs to vote in support of the Hungarian government which peddles the Soros conspiracy and appointed a senior government adviser who promotes this narrative.\"\n\nMr Gwynne added: \"Anti-Semitism is clearly rife in the Conservative Party from top to bottom.\n\n\"Johnson must answer for the anti-Semitism being promoted in his name.\"\n\nJewish multi-billionaire philanthropist George Soros, who has given away £32bn, has been the topic of numerous fake news stories and conspiracy theories, many of which are anti-Semitic.\n\nUnder electoral law, if a candidate is suspended after nominations close, they will still appear on the ballot paper and affiliated to that party.\n\nMr Johnson has previously apologised for the \"hurt and offence\" that has been caused by Islamophobia in the Tory Party.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour has been beset by allegations of anti-Semitism for more than three years, leading to the suspension of a number of high-profile figures such as Ken Livingstone and Chris Williamson, and an unprecedented investigation by the Equality and Human Rights Commission.\n\nMr Corbyn has apologised for incidents of anti-Semitism in Labour on several occasions and said anti-Jewish racism was \"vile and wrong\".", "* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment, the older person’s bus pass and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* Rights for workers to be notified of their shifts one month in advance * The right to bereavement leave following a death in the immediate family * Lower cap on pension fund management fees * Tax breaks for companies that offer longer-term secure career contracts to staff\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* End the Work Capability Assessment and replace it with a system using qualified medical practitioners * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * No benefits paid to foreign nationals resident in the UK until they have paid tax for five years * Minimise the use of zero-hour contracts\n\n* £35 a week payment for every child in a low-income family * Tax credit of up to £25 a week for tenants in the private sector who spend more than 30% of their income on rent and utility bills * Powers over social security devolved to Wales * Abolish the \"bedroom tax\" * Universal free childcare for 40 hours a week\n\n* Demand UK government halts the rollout of Universal Credit until \"fundamental flaws\" are addressed * Oppose and increase to the state pension age and campaign against decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s * Press for the statutory living wage to rise to at least the level of the real living wage * Increase shared parental leave from 52 to 64 weeks, with the additional 12 weeks to be the minimum taken by the father * Make the minimum wage for 16 to 24-year-olds the same as for over 25s, and ban unpaid trial shifts\n\n* Stronger regulation of the gig economy, and oppose deregulation of employment rights * Stronger focus on careers advice * Support a fairer UK-wide welfare system and revised package of welfare mitigations for NI * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * Overhaul bereavement benefits\n\n* Personal tax allowance should rise in line with inflation each year * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 by the end of the parliamentary term * End the freeze on benefits by increasing them in line with inflation * Restore free television licences for over-75s but in the longer term abolish the licence fee entirely * Retain the pensions triple lock and retain winter fuel payments\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts * Introduce a real living wage * Establish a new \"welfare mitigation package\" that protects the most vulnerable\n\n* Increase childcare provision from 12.5 hours per week to 20 hours per week, potentially increasing to 30 hours once new budget is agreed * Regulation of zero-hours contracts * Introduce a \"true living wage\" to reflect rising costs of living * Scrap universal credit, the bedroom tax and the two-child limit * End the freeze on benefits\n\n* Extend mitigation measures on key issues such as the bedroom tax, which are due to expire in March * Restore TV licenses for over-75s and retain the triple-lock protection for pensions * Create and implement a new childcare strategy\n\n* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Increase the number of employers paying a living wage in Wales and introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system * New \"collective\" workplace pension schemes and new controls on transferring pensions and a review of state pension inequality for Waspi women\n\n* Introduce a real living wage of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16, giving about 700,000 Scottish workers a pay rise * Scrap universal credit and increase child benefit * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66 and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay\n\n* Reverse cuts to universal credit * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment * Introduce universal access to basic services * Increase provision of free meals for children, with a particular focus on breakfast * Increase access to free sanitary products\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts, close the gender pay gap, and ensure that everyone is paid a \"real living wage\" * Bring in a universal basic income * Remove differential rates of minimum wage for under-25s and introduce a living wage for everyone * Scrap universal credit * Support for the Waspi women (Women Against State Pension Inequality)\n\n* Scrap welfare reforms include PIP, Universal Credit and the bedroom tax * Develop a state-owned National Childcare Agency * Repeal all anti-trade union laws * Ban zero hours contracts and implement a real living wage\n\n* 40% of board members in public companies and public sector boards to be women * Worker representation to be established on the boards of larger companies * Ban “zero-hours” contracts * Increase child benefit", "The Brexit Party will change its name to the Reform Party after the UK leaves the European Union, leader Nigel Farage has said.\n\nIt will campaign for changes to the voting system and the abolition of the House of Lords, he told Sky News.\n\nMr Farage, who has already registered the new party name, said it would \"change politics for good\".\n\nThe announcement comes after a week in which the Brexit Party lost four Members of the European Parliament.\n\nOne of the MEPs, Annunziata Rees-Mogg, warned that \"the Brexit Party are permitting votes to go away from the Conservatives, providing us with a Remain coalition that will do anything not to honour the Brexit referendum\".\n\nAnd Conservative chair James Cleverly has previously said the party could \"frustrate\" Brexit.\n\nThe Brexit Party was set up to campaign for a no-deal Brexit ahead of the 2019 European elections, in which it won 29 seats - more than any other UK party.\n\nAt the start of the general election campaign, Brexit Party candidates were set to stand in nearly 600 seats.\n\nHowever, after coming under pressure not to split the Leave vote, it later pulled back from the 317 seats won by the Tories in 2017.\n\nMr Farage - who had previously been very critical of Boris Johnson's Brexit deal - said he had made the decision after what he said was a \"shift\" in the prime minister's position.\n\nThursday saw the three Brexit Party MEPs quit the party and urge voters to support the Conservatives.\n\nAnother MEP, John Longworth, lost the party whip on Wednesday for criticising the party's election strategy.\n\nMs Rees-Mogg, said the Brexit Party was \"now the very party risking Brexit\".\n\nBut Mr Farage said of his former MEPs: \"They've changed their principles. I haven't changed mine.\"", "Avanti West Coast has taken over from Virgin Trains as the operator running the West Coast Main Line.\n\nThe new operator's parent company is a partnership between Aberdeen-based firm FirstGroup and Italy's Trenitalia.\n\nAvanti's first train left Euston for Manchester on Sunday at 08:10 GMT and arrived three minutes late, according to the National Rail app.\n\nIt replaces Virgin Trains, which was Britain's longest-running rail franchise after 22 years of service.\n\nThe end of the Virgin Trains franchise comes after Virgin Group and Stagecoach had their bid to continue running trains on the line disqualified by the Department for Transport (DfT) in April because they did not meet pension rules.\n\nThe companies are suing the DfT over its decision.\n\nAt the time, Sir Richard Branson said he was \"devastated\" by the disqualification.\n\nCustomers who had train tickets booked with Virgin Trains for upcoming journeys will be able to use them on Avanti West Coast, the operator said.\n\nThe new operator said it would introduce a range of passenger improvements, including 263 more weekly services by 2022, when 23 new trains will begin service.\n\nThe existing fleet of Pendolino trains will be refurbished - promising 25,000 new seats, more reliable wi-fi and better catering.", "Storm Atiyah has already had an impact in County Kildare, with felled trees disrupting traffic in Newbridge\n\nStorm Atiyah has made landfall, with winds hitting speeds of up to 80mph (130km/h).\n\nEarlier on Sunday a \"status red\" wind warning was issued by Met Éireann for County Kerry.\n\nExtreme caution is advised, especially in coastal areas and on high ground.\n\nESB Networks has said its crews have dealt with several thousand power outages across the Republic of Ireland. Irish broadcaster RTÉ reports that the south-west area is the worst affected.\n\nThe \"status red\" warning for Kerry was in place from 16:00 to 19:00 local time on Sunday. It is now under a \"status orange\" wind warning.\n\nKerry County Council has reported a number of incidents following the \"status red\" wind warning.\n\nIt said a tree fell on a car near Mountcoal Cross on the N69.\n\nMet Éireann said there was a possibility of coastal flooding due to a combination of high seas and a storm surge.\n\nThe UK is not expected to be as badly hit by the storm\n\nA number of flights from Cork Airport were cancelled while there was also disruption at Shannon Airport.\n\nTrains in Cork and Kerry were forced to travel at reduced speeds, resulting in delays.\n\nStorm Atiyah was tracking between Iceland and Ireland on Sunday.\n\nAlthough the UK is not expected to be as badly hit by the storm, the Met Office has issued a yellow wind warning for Wales, with gales of up to 70mph set to hit coastal areas.\n\nThe warning is in force until 19:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOrange wind warnings have also been issued for Donegal, Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Sligo, Clare, Cork and Limerick, which came into effect from 13:00.\n\nThe warnings will remain in place until 06:00 on Monday, with a yellow wind warning in place for the rest of the Republic of Ireland until 13:00 on Monday.\n\nKerry County Council advised people to stay indoors during the status red warning.\n\nAn emergency helpline has been set up by the council to report fallen trees, flooding or debris on roads. Anyone wishing to use it should call 066 718 3588.\n\nA status red marine warning has also been put in place, with winds reaching gale force eight to storm force 10 in all Irish coastal waters.\n\nThe Republic of Ireland's National Parks and Wildlife Service said Killarney National Park and Gardens and Muckross Park and Gardens are closed.\n\nSeven other parks in the west of the country are also closed while the weather warnings remain in place.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC News NI's Barra Best explains how weather warnings are set, and why they may differ.\n\nThe UK Met Office works in partnership with both Met Éireann and KNMI (The Dutch national weather forecasting service) to name storms.\n\nThe criteria used for naming storms are based on both the impact the weather may have, and the likelihood of those impacts occurring.\n\nA storm will be named when it has the potential to cause an amber or red warning.\n\nWhen the criteria for naming a storm are met, any of the three partners - the Met Office, Met Éireann or KNMI - can do so.\n\nThat does mean that sometimes, like today, Met Éireann have named Storm Atiyah and issued a Red Warning in County Kerry.\n\nNo warnings have been issued for Northern Ireland by the Met Office, however gusts close to 60mph (100km/h) can be expected in western areas on Sunday evening.\n\nThis is the first named storm of the season, last year there were eight storms - the last was Storm Hannah in April.\n\nMet Éireann issue weather warnings based on a criteria, for example, if winds are set to reach a certain speed, whereas the Met Office issues warning based on the impact the weather is expected to have.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nFormer Aston Villa manager Ron Saunders has died at the age of 87, the club have announced.\n\nSaunders guided Villa to the First Division title in 1981, before departing during their European Cup-winning campaign the following season.\n\nHe also won two League Cups during his eight years at Villa Park.\n\n\"Ron Saunders died at 15:00 GMT on Saturday and his family have asked for their privacy to be respected at such a difficult time,\" a club statement said.\n\nVilla players will wear black armbands and hold a period of applause when they host Leicester City in the Premier League on Sunday.\n\nSaunders guided Villa to the top flight in 1974 with promotion in his first season in charge.\n\nHe also achieved the distinction of reaching three successive League Cup finals as manager of three different clubs - Norwich in 1973, Manchester City in 1974 and Villa in 1975.\n\nHe ended his managerial career at West Bromwich Albion, retiring in 1987.\n\nHe remains the only manager to have taken charge of midlands rivals Villa, West Brom and Birmingham City - leading the Blues between 1982 and 1986.\n\nA distinguished playing career as a prolific striker took in spells at Everton, Gillingham, Watford and Charlton, but it was at Portsmouth where he enjoyed sustained success, scoring 162 goals in 261 appearances between 1958 and 1964. He remains the third-highest scorer in the club's history.\n\nFormer Villa striker Stan Collymore was among the first to pay tribute, tweeting: \"Sincerest condolences to Ron's family and friends.\n\n\"The man who made many Villans fall in love with a club and a team that gave us the very best of days.\n\n\"Wembley, Old Trafford, Highbury, which all lead to one special night in Rotterdam. Rest in peace, boss.\"\n\nLeague Managers' Association chairman Howard Wilkinson said: \"I have always held Ron in very high regard and I have the utmost respect for his achievements throughout his career and, in particular, his committed service to the three midlands rivals.\n\n\"His record of reaching the League Cup final three consecutive times with three different clubs is testament to his determination and dedication to his profession.\n\n\"The thoughts of everyone at the LMA are with Ron's family and friends at this sad and difficult time.\"", "The woman died at the scene in Wellingborough Road, Rushden\n\nA 13-year-old boy and a 27-year-old man have been arrested on suspicion of murdering a woman who was stabbed in the street.\n\nThe 25-year-old was attacked at 20:30 GMT on Saturday in Wellingborough Road, Rushden, Northamptonshire.\n\nParamedics were called but she died at the scene, near St George's Way.\n\nPolice said the arrested man has serious injuries, and another 27-year-old man was being questioned on suspicion of his attempted murder.\n\nDet Insp Pete Long, said: \"This was an extremely tragic incident in which a young woman has lost her life and I want to reassure people that we are doing all we can to bring those responsible to justice.\n\n\"A large team of detectives have been working on this case around the clock and a number of lines of inquiry are being pursued as part of this fast-paced investigation.\n\n\"This incident has really shocked the Rushden community, many of whom were on the scene last night, and I would ask anyone who was there and saw what happened to please come forward with your information.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un (centre) has so far been tight-lipped about the latest test\n\nNorth Korea says it has carried out a \"very important test\" at a satellite-launching site.\n\nThe KCNA state news agency said the results would be used to upgrade the country's strategic status. It provided no further details.\n\nAnalysts believe it could be a ground-based test of an engine to power a satellite launcher or an intercontinental ballistic missile.\n\nIt comes after Pyongyang appeared to shut the door on further US talks.\n\n\"We do not need to have lengthy talks with the US now, and denuclearisation is already gone out of the negotiating table,\" the North Korean envoy to the UN, Kim Song, said in a statement on Saturday.\n\nNorth Korea had set an end-of-year deadline for the US to come up with a new denuclearisation deal that would involve significant sanctions relief and said it would otherwise adopt a \"new path\".\n\nOn Saturday, US President Donald Trump said he still hoped to reach an agreement.\n\nMr Trump made pursuing diplomacy with North Korea a centre-piece of his foreign policy agenda in 2018 but has failed to extract significant concessions on denuclearisation despite holding two summits with leader Kim Jong-un and even setting foot in North Korea.\n\nThe latest test took place at the Sohae satellite launch site, which the US once said Mr Kim had promised to close.\n\n\"The results of the recent important test will have an important effect on changing the strategic position of the DPRK [North Korea] once again in the near future,\" KCNA reported.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The war that never officially ended\n\nDespite facing a host of UN and other sanctions over its nuclear and missile programmes, North Korea earlier this year re-started testing of short-range ballistic missiles.\n\nAnd earlier this week it renewed verbal attacks on Mr Trump for the first time in over a year after he said the US reserved the right to use military force against the country.\n\nAnalysts believe that North Korea could launch a satellite if it does not obtain concessions from the US. This would allow it to test and show off its rocket capabilities in a less provocative way than launching a long-range ballistic missile.", "Mike Horn poses in front of the Lance icebreaker boat\n\nTwo explorers who trekked hundreds of miles at the North Pole and were running out of food have reached safety after an epic journey across the ice.\n\nSouth African Mike Horn and Norwegian Boerge Ousland covered about 1,800km (1,120 miles) on treacherous drifting ice in the past couple of months.\n\nBecause of delays, they had been expected to run out of food by Friday.\n\nHowever, they managed to meet up with two Norwegians sent to rescue them despite a local storm.\n\nThe latest Instagram update on Sunday showed a picture of the four men on their way to the Norwegian polar research ship, the Lance, which was due to pick them up.\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAn earlier entry described how the two pairs had got closer and closer to each other until they spotted each other's headlamps in the distance and began shouting \"cries of joy\".\n\nThe men are now recuperating on the Lance, which will make its way out of the ice to the Pangaea, another ship which will collect them to bring them back to Svalbard, a Norwegian Arctic archipelago.\n\nThe Norwegian pair - Bengt Rotmo and Aleksander Gamme - set off on Tuesday, carrying food for the Horn-Ousland team.\n\nExpedition organiser Lars Ebbesen, who was maintaining contact with both teams via satellite phone, told the BBC on Friday that the Horn-Ousland team did not want to be rescued by helicopter, but that they agreed to meet up with the Norwegian pair.\n\nAt that point, the wind was building up and they had little food. If they had got trapped, they would not have had enough food to last.\n\nThe pair faced many obstacles during their journey, including frostbite and extreme fatigue\n\nThe pair set off on 23 September and should have completed their trek in mid-November. They spent weeks alone on the ice in the dark - in the Arctic winter, there is no daylight.\n\nThe pair faced many obstacles, including fluctuating temperatures on the ice - from -40C to +2C (35F), a sign of climate change, according to Horn.\n\nSometimes at night, when they were camping, the drifting ice moved them backwards, adding to the distance they had to cover. Thinner polar ice than normal also added to the risks and slowed them down.\n\nAt one point, Horn fell into the icy water resulting in frostbite to his hands and nose. The pair had lost a lot of weight, and were feeling weak and tired by the end of the journey, he said.\n\nA key aim of the expedition was to collect data on the Arctic ice melt, which scientists attribute to global warming.\n\nThe journey began on the Alaskan side of the North Pole and was due to end in Svalbard.\n\nThe explorers crossed the polar ice sheet in darkness and bitter cold\n\nMike Horn, 53, became famous after completing a solo journey around the equator without motorised transport in 1999-2000.\n\nIn 2004, he completed a two-year solo circumnavigation of the Arctic Circle, and in 2006, along with Borge Ousland, became the first man to travel without dog or motorised transport to the North Pole during winter, in permanent darkness, according to his website.", "Peter Teich and Ms Becko say they felt 'numb' after almost losing £193,000 worth of inheritance\n\nA pensioner has been forced to take legal action after a bank withheld his £193,000 inheritance.\n\nPeter Teich, 74, from Cambridge gave his solicitor the wrong sort code and the money was mistakenly transferred to another Barclays customer's account, who refused to return it.\n\nHe expected to receive the money in April after his father's death.\n\nBut he realised there was an issue when his sister received her inheritance and he did not.\n\nMr Teich says his solicitor immediately contacted Barclays and was told it would take a week for the money to be returned.\n\nIn May, Barclays wrote to Mr Teich saying he had been \"mis-advised\" about the funds being restored - and credited his account with a \"small token gesture\" of £25.\n\n\"I freely acknowledge my mistake in this unhappy saga,\" said Mr Teich.\n\n\"I provided the sort code of the wrong Barclays branch. But my error fades into near insignificance when considered in the context of Barclays' conduct.\"\n\nHe said he had given his correct name, address and Barclays account number in Cambridge to his solicitor, but the last two digits of his sort code were incorrect.\n\nHe decided to seek legal advice and in June, after spending £12,000 in legal and court fees, he managed to obtain the other Barclays customer's name.\n\nBut costs continued to rack up with Mr Teich spending £34,000 for a court injunction to force the other Barclays customer to pay.\n\nIn July the inheritance was finally paid into his account.\n\nHis wife, Veronica Becko, 75, told the Press Association: \"We just felt numb. It didn't seem possible or right that a big bank like Barclays could not sort this out. It was an obvious mistake.\n\nWhen Mr Teich asked the bank to repay the £46,000 he had spent in legal fees, he claims Barclays refused.\n\nMs Becko said it was only after they contacted the Guardian newspaper that the bank agreed to pay the fees and offer a further £750 for their inconvenience.\n\n\"Barclays has done the right thing, finally, although through a rather long-winded way,\" Ms Becko said.\n\n\"We hope our story will help other people who find themselves in a similar situation.\"\n\nIn a statement, Barclays said: \"It is evident that on this occasion we have failed to meet the high standards that Mr Teich can expect to receive from Barclays, and for this we have offered our sincere apologies.\n\n\"After taking a closer look at this situation, we can confirm that Mr Teich can expect the fees he has incurred to be refunded in full with interest, together with a payment for the distress and inconvenience this matter has caused.\"\n\nAt present, anyone wanting to transfer money enters the intended recipient's name, account number and sort code. However, the name is not checked.\n\nUnder plans from the UK's payments operator, from next spring the sender will be alerted if the name does not match the account. The change was originally set to begin in summer 2019, but was delayed.\n• None Name checks to begin on bank payments", "US puppeteer Caroll Spinney, famous for playing Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on children's TV show Sesame Street, has died at the age of 85.\n\nHe passed away at his home in Connecticut after living with dystonia for some time, a Sesame Workshop statement said.\n\nHe had retired last year at the age of 84.\n\nSpinney had portrayed the characters - including providing their voices - since the show's start in 1969.\n\n\"Caroll was an artistic genius whose kind and loving view of the world helped shape and define Sesame Street from its earliest days in 1969 through five decades, and his legacy here at Sesame Workshop and in the cultural firmament will be unending,\" the statement said.\n\nHe had previously spoken of the show's importance to his life.\n\n\"Before I came to Sesame Street, I didn't feel like what I was doing was important,\" he said. \"Big Bird helped me find my purpose.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSpinney developed a love for puppetry at the age of five after watching a performance of Three Little Kittens.\n\nHe explored puppeteering throughout his childhood and teenage years and used his performances to raise money for college tuition.\n\nAfter serving in the US Air Force, Spinney performed as a professional puppeteer in Las Vegas and Boston in the 1950s and 1960s, eventually meeting Muppets creator Jim Henson, who also starred in Sesame Street.\n\nSpinney later joined the cast for the show's inaugural series in 1969.\n\nSpinney's work on the children's programme has earned him two Grammy honours and six Emmy awards, plus a Lifetime Achievement Emmy award which he received in 2006.\n\nThe puppeteer also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1994 and the Library of Congress' Living Legends award in 2000.\n\nHis life and career have been documented in the widely acclaimed 2014 film, I Am Big Bird.\n\nAnd perhaps one of his greatest achievements was meeting his wife of 40 years, Debra, on the Sesame Street set in 1973.\n\n\"His genius and his talent made Big Bird the most beloved yellow feathered friend across the globe,\" said Joan Ganz Cooney, co-founder of the Sesame Workshop.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Jeremy Corbyn holds up the leaked documents at a press conference on 27 November\n\nBoris Johnson has said an investigation is needed into the source of leaked documents on UK-US trade negotiations posted on Reddit.\n\nLabour says the documents show the NHS would be at risk under a post-Brexit trade deal with the US.\n\nOn Friday, forum website Reddit said unredacted documents were uploaded as \"part of a campaign that has been reported as originating from Russia\".\n\nIt has suspended 61 accounts that showed a \"pattern of coordination\".\n\nThe government said it was looking into the matter with help from the National Cyber Security Centre.\n\nSpeaking on Saturday, Mr Johnson said \"we do need to get to the bottom\" of the leak but said he had seen \"no evidence of any successful interference by Russia in any democratic event in this country\".\n\nThe Culture Secretary Nicky Morgan said this all pointed towards foreign involvement: \"I understand from what was being put on that website, those who seem to know about these things say that it seems to have all the hallmarks of some form of interference.\"\n\nLabour's shadow transport secretary Andy McDonald reiterated his call for Mr Johnson to release an intelligence report into Russian covert actions in the UK, which No 10 has been accused of suppressing until after the election.\n\nIn a post on its site, Reddit did not provide any further details about the evidence behind its conclusions, nor did it identify any specific individuals.\n\nThe BBC has approached the Russian foreign ministry spokesperson but they have yet to comment.\n\nThe contents of the documents have played a significant part in Labour's election message on the NHS, after Mr Corbyn highlighted them at a press conference on 27 November.\n\nThe Labour leader said the papers were evidence that the UK government was in advanced stages of negotiations with the US to open up the NHS to American pharmaceutical companies.\n\nLabour have not said where they obtained their copy of the documents.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA version of the documents, heavily redacted, was also produced by Mr Corbyn at an earlier leader debate on 19 November.\n\nAt the time, Labour said these were the result of a Freedom of Information request by campaign group Global Justice Now.\n\nThe dossier was posted on Reddit more than a month prior to Mr Corbyn's announcement, prompting questions about how they got there - and why few people seemed to notice them before.\n\nA bit like journalists never reveal their sources, Labour are quite happy to focus on what these documents say rather than where they come from.\n\nIf you look at where Reddit's comments leave the discussion, it's both helpful and slightly problematic for Labour.\n\nOn the one hand, people are asking \"where exactly did you get those documents from?\" Remember, they were online in their unredacted form for several weeks before Labour brought them to everyone's attention.\n\nBut at the same time, we're still talking about these documents and what Labour claims that they show - that the NHS is up for sale, in their words. Boris Johnson and the Conservatives flatly deny that.\n\nSo it's a double-edged sword for Labour.\n\nFor the Conservatives, you've got this uneasiness around Russian interference in an election campaign - which isn't good for them because attention will turn to the report by Parliament which the government hasn't released.\n\nAnd that's not very helpful for the Tories either.\n\nSpeaking on Saturday, the Labour leader said the controversy surrounding the source of the documents was \"nonsense\" and accused Mr Johnson of wanting to \"hide the issues and the truth\" over the future of the NHS in trade deals.\n\nMr Johnson said the documents \"didn't prove what Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour party hoped it would prove\" adding \"it was just another distraction from the void at the heart of Labour's policy on Brexit\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson says leaked US-UK trade documents are 'just another distraction'\n\nNeither UK nor US governments have disputed the authenticity of the documents.\n\nThe BBC's security correspondent Gordon Correra said crucial questions remained as to how the document circulating online originally appeared.\n\nHe said there would be a significant difference between a state-led operation from Moscow which hacked the material and then leaked it as opposed to someone who is based in Russia simply opportunistically using an already leaked document to cause mischief.\n\n\"That question is one that national security officials will be trying to answer.\"", "Harley Watson's family described him as a \"good, kind, helpful and lovely boy\"\n\nA man has been accused of murdering a 12-year-old boy who was killed in a hit-and-run crash outside a school.\n\nHarley Watson died after being struck by a car near Debden Park High School in Loughton, Essex, on Monday.\n\nTerence Glover, 51, of Newmans Lane in Loughton, has been charged with murder, 10 counts of attempted murder and dangerous driving.\n\nHe is due to appear before magistrates in Chelmsford on Friday.\n\nThe 10 charges of attempted murder relate to a 23-year-old woman, six boys and three girls who were also injured in the collision, said Essex Police.\n\nDebden Park High School opened the day after Harley's death for staff and pupils to support each other\n\nHarley's family described him as a \"good, kind, helpful and lovely boy\", adding: \"We are so devastated by what has happened.\"\n\nIn a statement earlier this week, they said: \"We are so devastated by what has happened.\n\n\"We would like to thank everyone for their kind wishes and concern.\n\n\"However, as a family we would like people to respect our privacy and allow us to grieve in peace.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp Rob Kirby thanked the local community for their help since Monday's \"tragic event\", and urged anyone with information to come forward.\n\nChristian Cavanagh, executive head teacher, described Harley's death as \"a young life so tragically lost\".\n\nHe said: \"This young man had made his mark on the school and was liked and loved by staff and students.\n\n\"We will consult with the family and our school community to decide how best to commemorate his life.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nInter Milan striker Romelu Lukaku says the 'Black Friday' headline used by Italian newspaper Corriere dello Sport is \"one of the dumbest\" he has seen, while Roma's Chris Smalling condemned it as \"wrong and insensitive\".\n\nThe headline accompanied pictures of Lukaku and Smalling prior to Friday's match between their two sides.\n\n\"You guys keep fuelling the negativity and the racism issue,\" Lukaku said.\n\nSmalling urged the newspaper's editors to \"understand the power they possess\".\n\nRoma, along with Inter's rivals AC Milan, announced later on Thursday they will not work with Corriere dello Sport until January.\n\nA joint statement released at the same time by Roma and AC Milan said: \"We have decided to ban Corriere dello Sport from our training facilities for the rest of the year and our players will not carry out any media activities with the newspaper during this period.\n\n\"Both clubs are aware the actual newspaper article associated with the 'Black Friday' headline did portray an anti-racist message and for this reason we have only banned Corriere dello Sport until January.\n\nSmalling is on loan from Manchester United, whose Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said the club had been in touch with the England defender.\n\nAt a news conference on Friday, Solskjaer said: \"When you see that paper, you say: 'Wow. Really? Is that possible?' It's the worst front page I've ever seen. It has to be.\n\n\"Of course we have been in touch with Chris, just so he knows that we'll back him and we support him, and with Romelu as well.\"\n\nCorriere dello Sport defended the \"innocent\" headline in a comment piece on its website.\n\n\"It was only a way to celebrate diversity,\" the newspaper said.\n\nEarlier on Thursday, Roma's chief operating officer Francesco Calvo said he did not think the headline was a \"clear case\" of racism, but called on people in positions of authority - including clubs, players and media - to be more careful with the language they choose.\n\n\"This isn't like the racism we've experienced many others in Italy in the recent period, this is superficial and unfortunate of people not understanding of how messages can be mixed up in words and perceived in a bad way,\" Calvo told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"All of us who work in football have a bigger responsibility, which is giving the right message to people, being a role model and trying to educate people.\n\n\"This is what everyone should do, including this newspaper. We should be very careful with the words we use.\n\n\"This only allows people to talk about racism in Italy instead of giving a message against racism because people will only read the headline and not the article.\"\n\nAll 20 Serie A clubs made a united pledge last week to combat Italian football's \"serious problem\" with racism because there is no more \"time to waste\".", "No Time To Die marks Daniel Craig's swansong as James Bond\n\nAnd we thought Christmas only came once a year.\n\nThe first full-length trailer for No Time To Die has been released, giving fans a flavour of what to expect from Daniel Craig's final outing as James Bond.\n\nThe promo, which launched on Wednesday and can be seen below, shows Rami Malek in character as the latest villain for the first time, as well as a new female agent with a licence to kill.\n\nNo Time To Die is set to be released in April, but there have been one or two obstacles along the way - from Daniel Craig's ankle injury to the decision to change director.\n\nDanny Boyle was originally supposed to be at the helm for Bond 25, but he exited the project last August due to \"creative differences\".\n\nUS director Cary Joji Fukunaga stepped in, and there was a race against the clock to keep the film on schedule for its April 2020 release date.\n\n\"It has been an incredible honour, but it's also just been really hard,\" Fukunaga tells BBC News. \"This was a very ambitious script for the time we had.\n\nCary Joji Fukunaga stepped in to direct Daniel Craig's final outing as James Bond\n\n\"I got the role in the middle of doing press for Maniac [the Netflix series he directed], so I was doing interviews like this while trying to process the enormous excitement but also responsibility of taking on this project.\n\n\"And I was very aware that with Daniel's departure, I had to get a script going and production going in a very short space of time. The lack of time was a sort of impetus for the pressure. It was like a very hot flame under our ass!\"\n\nThe project had the added complication of having to go back to the drawing board after Boyle's exit.\n\n\"I love Danny's films, but on this one we basically had to start from scratch,\" Fukunaga explains. \"It was the desire of the producers that we sort of start anew and figure out a new storyline for this one.\"\n\nThe writing process involved bringing Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge on board to help polish the script.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by James Bond 007 This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nFukunaga refers to a new plot, but No Time To Die also appears to continue the overarching storyline which has run through the last four films.\n\nSpectre's ending seemed to tie that narrative up, which left many wondering whether the 25th Bond film would start afresh. But the inclusion of Waltz's Blofeld in the trailer puts paid to that idea and suggests it's a continuation - something Fukunaga appears to confirm.\n\nLashana Lynch plays a new MI6 agent with a licence to kill\n\n\"I like to think of this as picking up from all the stories, from Casino [Royale] all the way through,\" he says. \"And those who are fans will appreciate the layers that exist there, but I also think for new audiences, people who have never seen any of the films before, younger audiences, it's strong enough that they can get involved.\"\n\nAs well as Maniac, Fukunaga has previously directed films including Beasts of No Nation and a 2011 adaptation of Jane Eyre starring Mia Wasikowska.\n\nPerhaps the most interesting part of the trailer is Lashana Lynch's appearance as a new member of MI6.\n\nHaving a female double-O marks a slight change in direction in the franchise. No Time To Die is the first Bond film since #MeToo, but would the film series have evolved in this direction anyway?\n\n\"Yes, I think so,\" Fukunaga says. \"Bond started evolving probably 25 years ago, when Judi Dench's M called out Pierce Brosnan's Bond for being a misogynistic dinosaur and a relic of the Cold War.\"\n\n\"I think Lashana's role is not about being female, she's just a younger generation,\" Fukunaga says. \"There's the whole thing going around the internet right now about 'OK Boomer', and I just think of how younger generations challenge what the previous generations legacy means.\n\nFans have speculated about whether Rami Malek's villain is Dr No\n\n\"And I think for Lashana, she has a lot to prove, she's capable, she's physical, she's intelligent. And the world has changed, and she feels she's inheriting a world that agents like Bond had operated in. And it's like, they want to make their mark. That's how I think of it. Less so than just because she's female, we're in a world where that's not even the considerations. It's more, 'is she capable of being a double-O?'\"\n\nOne person who became (temporarily) incapable of being a double-O was Daniel Craig, who injured his ankle while shooting the film. But, Fukunaga says, that wasn't as disruptive to the schedule as you might imagine.\n\n\"If you think about a film this ambitious, this long, with this many stunts, the fact that we had one sprained ankle and a concussion over that period of time was a pretty high achievement,\" he says.\n\n\"[Craig's ankle injury] delayed us a little bit, but he didn't miss a day of being on set after that. He was on set working out and doing PT [physical therapy] the entire time. We had to do a little juggling on schedule and scenes, but that was pretty much it.\"\n\nNo Time To Die isn't actually finished yet. Filming wrapped last month but the movie is now in post-production, which means Fukunaga \"still hasn't had time to really process\" the whole experience. \"I think I'll probably have to sit down next summer and figure out what just happened,\" he says.\n\nAsk the directors of Cats or Sonic The Hedgehog whether launching a trailer is a positive experience and you might find them cowering in the corner of a room from the trauma.\n\nBut Fukunaga is less anxious about the social media reaction to the Bond trailer. \"We don't have any computer graphics animals in our trailer,\" he laughs, \"so we're less worried about that.\"", "An alleged neo-Nazi, who is accused of quoting Joseph Goebbels to call for \"total war\", has appeared in court charged with 12 terror offences.\n\nAndrew Dymock, 22, of Weymouth Street, Bath, was arrested on Wednesday morning by counter-terrorism officers.\n\nThe charges relate to alleged online activity by British neo-Nazi groups.\n\nMr Dymock - a student at the time of the alleged offences - indicated not guilty pleas to all counts at Westminster Magistrates' Court.\n\nProsecutors say the defendant, who appeared in the dock wearing a Hawaiian shirt over a rainbow t-shirt, was a member of the extremist groups System Resistance Network and Sonnenkrieg Division.\n\nThe chief magistrate, Emma Arbuthnot, granted him conditional bail ahead of a hearing at the Old Bailey on 20 December.\n\nIt is alleged that he used the System Resistance Network (SRN) website - which later became a site for the Sonnenkrieg Division - to upload articles that directly encouraged terrorist violence, with one post said to call for the extermination of Jewish people.\n\nHe is also accused of using the SRN Twitter account to quote Goebbels, Adolf Hitler's propaganda chief, and ask that readers \"join your local Nazis\".\n\nAnother post allegedly stated: \"Death to the System. Hail the new order!\"\n\nThe terrorist funding charges relate to Mr Dymock allegedly seeking - and receiving - money via the SRN website.\n\nHe is further accused of possessing a poster that called for people to \"rape the cops\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What Andrew Neil wants to ask Boris Johnson\n\nThe BBC's Andrew Neil has issued a challenge to Boris Johnson to take part in a sit-down interview with him before next week's general election.\n\nMr Johnson is the only leader of a main party not to have faced a half-hour, prime-time BBC One grilling by Mr Neil.\n\nThe Conservative leader has denied claims he is avoiding scrutiny.\n\nBut Mr Neil addressed the PM directly at the end of his fourth leader interview at this election, with Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage.\n\n\"It is not too late. We have an interview prepared. Oven-ready, as Mr Johnson likes to say,\" he said, in a monologue.\n\n\"The theme running through our questions is trust - and why at so many times in his career, in politics and journalism, critics and sometimes even those close to him have deemed him to be untrustworthy.\n\n\"It is, of course, relevant to what he is promising us all now.\"\n\nMr Johnson has also declined an invitation to be grilled by ITV's Julie Etchingham, as part of her series of leader interviews.\n\nMr Neil said that no broadcaster \"can compel a politician to be interviewed\".\n\nBut he added: \"Leaders' interviews have been a key part of the BBC's prime-time election coverage for decades.\n\n\"We do them, on your behalf, to scrutinise and hold to account those who would govern us. That is democracy.\n\n\"We have always proceeded in good faith that the leaders would participate. And in every election they have. All of them. Until this one.\"\n\nMr Neil then listed the questions he wanted the prime minister to answer.\n\nThese include whether he can be trusted to deliver on his promises for the NHS - and keeping the health service \"off the table\" in any post-Brexit trade talks with the US.\n\nMr Neil said he would also ask the PM about his claim that he has always been an opponent of austerity, another \"question of trust\".\n\nHe ended the monologue by saying: \"The prime minister of our nation will, at times, have to stand up to President Trump, President Putin, President Xi of China.\n\n\"So it was surely not expecting too much that he spend half an hour standing up to me.\"\n\nAndrew Neil grilled Jeremy Corbyn about anti-Semitism and other issues\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn, the SNP's Nicola Sturgeon, Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson and Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage have all faced a grilling by Mr Neil.\n\nIn his interview with Mr Neil, the Labour leader repeatedly declined to apologise to the Jewish community for anti-Semitism in his party, something he has now done in an interview with ITV's This Morning.\n\nJo Swinson apologised for supporting welfare cuts when she was part of the Lib Dem/Conservative coalition in her Neil interview.\n\nNicola Sturgeon was pressed about Scottish independence and the EU, and her party's record on the NHS in Scotland, while Nigel Farage was forced to defend his decision not to contest Tory seats.\n\nMr Johnson was quizzed by the BBC's Andrew Marr on Sunday, on why he had not yet agreed to be interviewed by Andrew Neil.\n\nHe denied avoiding prime-time scrutiny, saying he had done TV debates, interviews and a \"two-hour phone-in\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Why are you avoiding being interviewed by Andrew Neil?'\n\nSeparately, on Thursday evening, The Labour Party complained about BBC bias, in a letter to Director General Tony Hall.\n\nLabour's co-campaign coordinator Andrew Gwynne highlighted Mr Johnson's failure to be interviewed by Andrew Neil.\n\nIn his letter, Mr Gwynne claimed the Conservatives were being allowed to \"play\" the corporation, making the BBC effectively \"complicit in giving the Conservative Party an unfair electoral advantage\".\n\nHe said Labour had agreed Mr Corbyn's interview with Mr Neil based on the \"clear understanding\" that Mr Johnson had agreed the same terms.\n\n\"Instead, the BBC allowed the Conservative leader to pick and choose a platform through which he believed he could present himself more favourably and without the same degree of accountability.\"\n\nThe BBC is expected to respond in writing to the Labour complaint.\n\nBut a spokesperson said in a statement: \"The BBC will continue to make its own independent editorial decisions, and is committed to reporting the election campaign fairly, impartially and without fear or favour.\"\n\nIn another development, the prime minister's team have confirmed that Mr Johnson will not find time for an interview with ITV before the general election.\n\nHe is the only leader of a major party to turn down the request from the channel's Tonight programme.\n\nA spokesman for ITV said the programme had bid for Mr Johnson when the general election was called.\n\n\"They have contacted his press team on repeated occasions with times and dates offered to film an interview,\" the spokesman said.\n\n\"Boris Johnson's team have today confirmed he will not be taking part.\n\n\"The programme will instead feature a profile of the prime minister using fresh interviews with other contributors and archive footage.\"\n\nITV Tonight presenter Julie Etchingham has recorded an interview with Jeremy Corbyn, which was broadcast on Thursday evening.\n\nLabour Party chairman Ian Lavery said: \"Boris Johnson thinks he's born to rule and doesn't have to face scrutiny.\n\n\"He's running scared because every time he is confronted with the impact of nine years of austerity, the cost of living crisis and his plans to sell out our NHS, the more he is exposed.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat Leader Jo Swinson said: \"Boris Johnson must stop ducking scrutiny. His cowardly behaviour shows why he simply isn't fit to be prime minister.\"\n\nShe said it was \"bad enough\" that her party had been \"excluded\" from the BBC's head-to-head debate between Mr Johnson and Mr Corbyn, and \"even worse that right now Boris Johnson won't be held properly to account for his lies and extreme Brexit plans\".\n\nMr Johnson will face Mr Corbyn in a prime ministerial debate at 2030 GMT, on BBC One, on Friday.", "Last updated on .From the section Everton\n\nEverton have sacked manager Marco Silva after 18 months, with the club in the Premier League relegation zone after their Merseyside derby humiliation.\n\nWednesday's 5-2 defeat by Liverpool at Anfield was their ninth of the season and leaves them 18th in the Premier League after three successive losses.\n\nSilva, who took charge in May 2018, won 24 and lost 24 of his 60 games.\n\nShanghai SIPG boss Vitor Pereira is a contender to succeed Silva, while David Moyes' return can not be ruled out.\n\nFormer striker Duncan Ferguson has been put in temporary charge and will manage the side against Chelsea on Saturday.\n\nThe club said they aim to appoint a new manager \"as swiftly as possible\".\n\nEverton are now searching for their fourth permanent boss since Roberto Martinez was sacked in May 2016.\n\nFormer Everton manager Moyes has been considered as a potential interim successor, but the suggestion has sparked a largely negative reaction from supporters and it remains to be seen whether majority shareholder Farhad Moshiri and his boardroom colleagues ignore that and invite the 56-year-old Scot to return.\n\nMoyes spent 11 years as Everton manager, and his return has been seen by fans as a retrograde step given his lack of success since leaving for Manchester United in 2013.\n\nHe was sacked at United and Real Socieded and was in charge of Sunderland when they were relegated from the Premier League before having a short spell at West Ham.\n\nIt has been suggested that if Moyes does return he could bring another Everton old boy, Tim Cahill, back as his assistant.\n\nPortuguese Pereira, 51, won two league titles with Porto, the league and cup double with Olympiakos and the Chinese Super League with Shanghai.\n\nPortuguese Silva, 42, is the fifth managerial dismissal in the Premier League this season, after the departures of Javi Gracia - who had replaced Silva at Vicarage Road - and Quique Sanchez Flores from Watford, as well as Tottenham's Mauricio Pochettino and Arsenal's Unai Emery.\n\nFormer Hull City boss Silva succeeded Sam Allardyce at Goodison Park. He was brought in with the hope hewould get Everton to play more attractive football and was backed with almost £90m of signings in the summer of 2018.\n\nEverton finished eighth in Silva's first campaign but, after spending more than £100m on players in the summer, they have won just four league games this season.\n\nThe Toffees face a tricky run of league fixtures over the next month when they play Chelsea, Manchester United, Arsenal and Manchester City, and also Leicester in the Carabao Cup quarter-finals.\n\nAfter Martinez was dismissed in 2016, Ronald Koeman led Everton into the Europa League in his first season in charge, but was sacked when the club fell into the relegation zone following a poor start to his second campaign.\n\nDavid Unsworth then lost five of eight games as interim boss, while Allardyce made way following an eighth-place finish after fans frequently expressed their displeasure at the lack of attacking flair under the former England coach.\n\nRecent record of Everton managers in the Premier League\n\nSilva has now had three jobs in English football that have all ultimately ended in failure and been characterised by promising starts followed by steep declines.\n\nIn his four months in charge of Hull, his side accumulated 17 points from his first 11 games - but only four from the next seven as they were relegated from the Premier League.\n\nTwo days after leaving the Tigers, Silva joined Watford in May 2017 and took the team into the top four during his first few months in charge.\n\nHis side took 21 points from 13 games but the Hornets only won once in his next 11 matches, before Silva was sacked in January 2018.\n\nSome of this was attributed by the Vicarage Road hierarchy to Everton's approach for Silva the previous November - before hiring Allardyce.\n\nWatford fiercely resisted the Toffees' unwanted advances and complained to the Premier League with a demand for compensation.\n\nHe was eventually appointed Everton boss in May 2018 and won 22 points from his first 13 league games in charge, but has only taken 42 points from the following 38 matches.\n\nBefore his time in England, Silva guided Estoril into the Portuguese top flight and they qualified for the Europa League the following season.\n\nIn one season at Sporting Lisbon he won the Portuguese Cup, and in his year at Olympiakos, who he also managed in the Champions League, he took them to the Greek league title.\n\nEverton fans will ask why the club can't go for Mauricio Pochettino, but the honest answer is he just wouldn't be interested.\n\nI know Eddie Howe is of interest to the Everton board but getting him mid-season might be difficult.\n\nI don't know how David Moyes going back would work, because he was in control of everything when he was there last time.\n\nThat wouldn't be the case now with director of football Marcel Brands.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nigel Farage says portraying his party as harbouring candidates with extreme views is \"completely wrong\".\n\nNigel Farage has defended his \"difficult\" decision not to contest Tory-held seats, insisting he was putting \"country before party\".\n\nThe Brexit Party leader told the BBC's Andrew Neil that his party had stopped the \"Lib Dem surge\" and were \"tearing chunks out of the Labour vote\".\n\nHe said his party was the challenger in Labour-Leave areas in next week's poll.\n\nIt comes as three Brexit Party MEPs quit to support the Tories, saying the party will split the pro-Brexit vote.\n\nAnnunziata Rees-Mogg, Lance Forman and Lucy Harris resigned the whip on Thursday, with Ms Rees-Mogg - Tory minister Jacob Rees-Mogg's sister - saying it was \"tragic\" that the Brexit Party \"are now the very party risking Brexit\".\n\nMr Farage announced in November that his party would not contest the 317 Westminster seats the Conservatives won in 2017, in order to help Leave-supporting candidates win.\n\nSome have been critical of this decision, including MEP John Longworth, who lost the Brexit Party whip in the European Parliament on Wednesday for not support his leader's strategy. He is now backing the Conservatives.\n\nAndy Wigmore, from the Leave.EU group Mr Farage fronted at the 2016 referendum, said the former Brexit Party MEPs had made the \"right decision at the right time\" to back the Conservatives.\n\n\"It's time for Nigel to join them,\" he added in a tweet.\n\nDuring the 30-minute interview with Andrew Neil, Mr Farage was asked about his election strategy, Islamophobic remarks made by two of his candidates and whether the NHS should be \"on the table\" in any post-Brexit trade talks with the US.\n\nThe Brexit Party leader denied being marginalised at the general election.\n\nMr Farage said: \"I don't think if you came with me and visited some of the Labour heartlands in the north you would think that and I also think that what we've done is have a very dramatic effect on this election.\n\n\"I think, number one, the decision, difficult decision, I took in 317 seats to stand down.\n\n\"What that's done is that's poleaxed the Liberal Democrats. They were going to win in south London down through Surrey, right out to the west of England they were going to win a lot of seats if we'd stood. And I knew that wasn't the right thing to do.\"\n\nThe four former Brexit Party MEPs are urging voters to support the Conservative Party\n\nMr Farage claimed the Brexit Party had prevented a \"surge\" from the pro-EU Lib Dems and had, therefore, blocked a second EU referendum.\n\n\"What we are actually doing now is tearing chunks out of the Labour vote,\" he said.\n\nHe blamed his failure to form a so-called \"Leave alliance\" between his party and the Conservative Party for the election on the Tories.\n\n\"The Conservative Party didn't want to do it,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nigel Farage says three of the MEPs who have left his Brexit Party have links to the Conservative government\n\nOn his call for political reform, including scrapping the House of Lords and changing the voting system, he said: \"At this stage we don't look like fundamentally reforming British politics, but do I think there is an appetite for it? Absolutely.\"\n\nMr Farage said he believed Boris Johnson would win the election and that was his preference in a choice with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nBut he said he was undecided who to vote for in the Conservative-held constituency where he lives.\n\nAndrew Neil also challenged Mr Farage on Islamophobic comments made by two of his candidates in in Edinburgh South West and Birmingham Ladywood.\n\n\"Any attempt that gets made to try and paint the Brexit Party into being a right-wing political party that would harbour anybody with extreme views is completely and utterly wrong,\" he said.\n\n\"We are, in terms of the mix of our candidates, if I look at what we put forward for the European elections, we had more diversity of background, of class, of race, than any other party.\"\n\nOn Brexit, Mr Farage said he wanted to see \"some amendments\" to Mr Johnson's Brexit deal, saying: \"If we don't we are not going to get a clean break from the EU.\"\n\nAnd on whether he thinks NHS drug prices would be \"on the table\" in post-Brexit trade deal talks with the US, Mr Farage said the suggestion was \"ludicrous because no British government will sign up to more expensive drugs\".\n\nHe said he believed that \"wealthier people should be encouraged to take out private insurance to lift the burden off a system that is struggling to cope\".\n\n\"When it comes to opening up the NHS for privatisation, do you want the truth? It's already happened.\"\n\nIn a special series of election interviews, Andrew Neil has already questioned Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, the SNP's Nicola Sturgeon and Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has yet to agree a date to taking part, which has prompted a political row and accusations from Labour that he is \"running scared\".\n• None What are the Brexit Party's 12 key policies?", "Matt Baker has announced he is leaving The One Show after nine years.\n\nBaker, 41, who will step down in spring, fought back tears as he made the announcement on Wednesday's episode of the BBC One show.\n\nHe added that he was looking forward to being able to put his kids to bed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jo Swinson on austerity vote: “I am sorry - it was not the right policy and we should have stopped it.”\n\nJo Swinson has apologised for voting to cut benefits while serving in government with the Conservatives.\n\nThe Liberal Democrat leader told the BBC's Andrew Neil her party had been wrong to back the so-called bedroom tax in the coalition government and \"we should have stopped it\".\n\nAlthough some cuts were needed when her party came into office in 2010, she suggested austerity had gone too far.\n\nHer party was committed to spend more on welfare and childcare, she added.\n\nDuring the 30-minute interview, Ms Swinson said she was determined to stop Brexit by whatever means possible, including working with other parties in the event of another hung Parliament to try and get another referendum.\n\nBut she conceded the Lib Dems were unlikely to form the next government and be in a position to fulfil their campaign pledge to revoke Article 50 - the legal process for leaving the EU - without a further public vote.\n\nShe said she disagreed with her predecessor Sir Vince Cable that the pledge had become an \"unhelpful distraction\" for the party, which has found itself being squeezed in the opinion polls during the campaign.\n\nHaving only been elected leader in July, she insisted she was \"absolutely here to stay\" whatever the outcome on 12 December.\n\nMs Swinson was repeatedly challenged on her party's record in government between 2010 and 2015 and her personal backing for cuts to benefits and Sure Start children's centres.\n\nShe acknowledged she had voted nine times for the bedroom tax, the controversial policy which saw working-age families in council or housing association homes docked housing benefit if they were deemed to have more bedrooms than they needed.\n\nMs Swinson, who served as a junior business minister in the Lib Dem/Conservative coalition between 2012 and 2015, was asked whether she would like to apologise to 240,000 of the poorest in society who suffered financially as a result and, in some cases, were forced into hardship.\n\n\"Yes, I am sorry I did that,\" she replied. \"It was not the right policy and we should have stopped it...I have previously said - and I am happy to say again - [it] was wrong. I am sorry about that and it is one of the things we did get wrong.\"\n\nAsked about other welfare changes she backed at the time but is now committed to reversing, such as a cap on the overall amount of benefits a single household could receive, she said she had voted for them \"as someone with collective responsibility in government\".\n\nShe said her party had \"won many battles\" with the Conservatives, such as in securing more money for children from disadvantaged backgrounds and taking many of the lowest paid out of income tax.\n\nBut she said she accepted the public services had borne too much of the brunt of the government's drive to slash the deficit in the public finances.\n\nThe coalition government made a priority out of rebalancing the public finances\n\n\"I am not going to say in a financial crisis that it was going to be possible with the deficit at the level it was in 2010 not to make any cuts at all,\" she said.\n\n\"Some cuts were necessary but the shape of those cuts, the balance between cuts and tax rises I don't think was the right balance.\"\n\nLabour have long argued that austerity was a political choice and not a financial necessity. Ms Swinson said cuts were unavoidable and the level of retrenchment under the coalition mirrored the plans set out by Labour in its 2010 manifesto,\n\nBut pressed by Neil on whether austerity was a \"necessary evil or terrible mistake\", she replied: \"Clearly too much was cut, clearly not enough was raised from taxation.\n\n\"And certainly the investment should have kicked in earlier in terms of more borrowing for capital investment.\"\n\nBut she said these decisions were \"almost a decade ago\" and her party was now committed to scrapping the bedroom tax and addressing in-work poverty by reversing cuts to work allowances for families on Universal Credit and helping families with two earners.\n\nShe said the £14bn the party was planning to spend on expanding free childcare - by funding 35 hours a week of provision for all children aged two to four - \"more than replaces the money that was cut\" during the coalition years.\n\n\"We have a plan for the future which identifies what our priorities are...and we are being upfront about where the money will come from.\"\n\nIn a special series of election interviews, Neil has already questioned Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and the SNP's Nicola Sturgeon, His interview with Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage will be broadcast on Thursday.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has yet to agree a date to taking part, which has prompted a political row and accusations from Labour that he is \"running scared\".\n\nThe SNP launched an attack on Ms Swinson's record as part of the coalition government, following the interview.\n\nThe party's Pete Wishart said: \"Despite Jo Swinson's best attempts to dodge her shameful record when in government with the Tories, the reality is communities across Scotland will not forgive or forget the Lib Dems for their active part in inflicting austerity on the most vulnerable people in society.\"", "Owen Jones was leaving a pub in north London when a group of men assaulted him\n\nThree men have admitted being involved in an attack on Guardian columnist Owen Jones but denied it was motivated by homophobia.\n\nThe journalist was celebrating his birthday at the Lexington pub in Islington, north London, when he was targeted on 17 August.\n\nJames Healy, 40, Charlie Ambrose, 30, and Liam Tracey, 34, admitted a charge of affray at Snaresbrook Crown Court.\n\nHe will now face a trial of issue in front of a judge to decide whether the attack was motivated by Mr Jones's sexuality.\n\nMr Jones, who is gay and campaigns for LGBT rights, suffered cuts and swelling to his back, head and bruises all down his body in the assault.\n\nOwen Jones had been drinking in the Lexington pub on the Pentonville Road in Islington, north London, when he was targeted\n\nAt a previous hearing, Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court heard Mr Jones was \"karate-kicked\" in the back.\n\nProsecutor Philip McGhee said if the attack was found to be motivated by homophobia \"it would have a material impact\" on sentence.\n\nThe trial of issue against Healy will take place at the same court in January and Mr Jones will be required to give evidence.\n\nAll three men are due to be sentenced on 11 February and were warned they could face prison. Judge Paul Southern granted the defendants conditional bail until then.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManagerless Arsenal's season plummeted to a new low as they were beaten by Brighton in interim manager Freddie Ljungberg's first home match in charge.\n\nAlexandre Lacazette marked his 100th Gunners appearance by heading his side level after Adam Webster had given the visitors a first-half lead.\n\nWith the score 1-1, there was frustration for Ljungberg and Arsenal when David Luiz thought he had made it 2-1 with a volley but it was correctly ruled out following a VAR check for offside.\n\nNeal Maupay headed Brighton's winner from Aaron Mooy's cross to leave Arsenal on their worst winless run since 1977 - and 10 points off a Champions League spot.\n• None Ljungberg should not get manager's job - Sutton\n• None 'I've had to leave all my WhatsApp groups' - how fans reacted to Gunners' loss\n\nWhere do Arsenal go from here?\n\nArsenal, who are 10th in the table, have now failed to win any of their last nine games in all competitions and fans who stayed for the final whistle booed their team off the pitch after a tepid performance.\n\nTwelve years after his last appearance for Arsenal as a player, Ljungberg was given a chance to show fans inside a far-from-full Emirates he is capable of managing the club where he won two Premier League titles and three FA Cups.\n\nIt started well, with the Swede given a decent reception by the crowd, before rapidly going downhill as Brighton, who had lost their previous four away games, took control.\n\nLjungberg dropped Shkodran Mustafi from his 18 after last Sunday's 2-2 draw with struggling Norwich, yet Arsenal were still a shambles at the back.\n\nMaupay had already forced Bernd Leno into a one-handed save when Webster struck from a corner after lashing home following Dan Burn's downward header.\n\nArsenal improved with the introduction of club record signing Nicolas Pepe after half-time and France forward Lacazette lifted the mood by climbing above the Brighton defence to head his side level after Mesut Ozil's first Premier League assist since February.\n\nYet the Gunners were short on confidence and ideas - while Mat Ryan produced a superb save at the end to frustrate the home side further.\n\nThe Brighton keeper flung himself across his line to keep out substitute Gabriel Martinelli as Arsenal, who have home games against Manchester City, Chelsea and Manchester United on the horizon, failed to win for the 11th time in 15 top-flight attempts.\n\nThe home side's night was summed up towards the end of the first half when Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang had a go at team-mate Joe Willock after a home move had broken down.\n\nBrighton boss Graham Potter was making his first return to Arsenal since his Ostersunds team beat the Gunners in the Europa League in February 2018.\n\nAsked before the game whether he would be a Premier League manager if Ostersunds had not had a good run in Europe, Potter said: \"Probably not. We all get to a certain point by doing something and everyone's path is different. Ostersunds was mine.\"\n\nThe Seagulls had given leaders Liverpool a late score on Saturday and, on a night to remember, they carried on from where they left off at Anfield to climb three places up the table to 13th - one point behind Arsenal.\n\nBrighton's first Premier League win since 2 November was built on guts and determination.\n\nWhile Maupay, who now has five goals this season, and 19-year-old Aaron Connolly tormented lacklustre Arsenal, Webster and Dunk were solid at the back for the visitors.\n\nIn addition, Potter's arrival at Brighton has seen them become a menace at set-pieces.\n\nSeven of Brighton's last 10 league goals have been scored via set-piece situations.\n\n'This is not Arsenal' - what they said\n\nArsenal interim boss Freddie Ljungberg: \"We didn't show up in the first half, didn't work hard and want to play.\n\n\"Second half we had a word and were better but we are suspect on the counter and we have no confidence. I need to work on that and get confidence back into the boys.\n\n\"At half-time we said 'This is not Arsenal, we have to give it a crack.'\n\n\"We're in a difficult situation, we've lost a lot of games and the confidence has gone down.\"\n\nBrighton boss Graham Potter: \"It's a nice moment for us. It gives us a little bit of belief. It was a good game for us, not perfect but we showed real courage and belief.\n\n\"Credit to our players, they did what I think an away team has to do in terms of frustrating but it still takes courage from the players and that's what I'm pleased with.\n\n\"We dug in, I'm very pleased.\"\n• None Arsenal have faced 52 shots on target in Premier League home games this season - in the entire Invincibles season in 2003-04, they allowed just 48 opposition shots on target at home.\n• None Including caretakers, only one of Arsenal's last five managers has won their first home game in charge - Pat Rice against Sheffield Wednesday in September 1996.\n• None Brighton have beaten 'big six' opposition away from home in the Premier League for the very first time at the 17th attempt; they had lost 15 of the previous 16 such games.\n• None Arsenal's Alexandre Lacazette has scored 25 of his 32 Premier League goals at the Emirates Stadium.\n• None Brighton ended a six-match winless run away from home in the Premier League this season.\n\nArsenal do not play again until Monday when they visit West Ham (20:00 GMT) in a London derby while Brighton are in action on Sunday when they host in-form Wolves (16:30 GMT).\n• None Attempt missed. Leandro Trossard (Brighton and Hove Albion) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.\n• None Offside, Arsenal. Kieran Tierney tries a through ball, but Mesut Özil is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Nicolas Pépé (Arsenal) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Gabriel Martinelli (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Kieran Tierney with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Nicolas Pépé (Arsenal) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Granit Xhaka.\n• None Goal! Arsenal 1, Brighton and Hove Albion 2. Neal Maupay (Brighton and Hove Albion) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Aaron Mooy with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "That's all from Holyrood Live on Thursday 5 December 2019.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon rejected suggestions there is a police crisis after Susan Deacon, the head of the Scottish Police Authority, quit citing \"fundamentally flawed\" governance.\n\nHer departure prompted Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie to claim at first minister's questions that the police were \"in crisis once again\".\n\nMs Sturgeon did not agree saying: \"No. I have to say to Willie Rennie the police is not in crisis and I think it does a disservice to the police officers around the country working so hard to keep us safe to say so.\"\n\nScottish Conservative justice spokesman Liam Kerr called on the first minister and the justice secretary to have an \"immediate review to learn what has gone wrong with the SNP's centralisation project\".\n\nMs Sturgeon said her government had invested in and supported 1,000 extra police officers for Scotland while numbers elsewhere in the UK were \"slashed\".\n\nScottish Labour leader Richard Leonard called on the first minister to apologise over her government's public services \"failure\", but Ms Sturgeon highlights crime was at one of its lowest levels for decades.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Private investment is bringing down the cost of renewable energy'\n\nNationalising UK energy companies will delay the UK's move towards a zero carbon future, according to the chief executive of Scottish Power, Keith Anderson.\n\nHe said that investment by the private sector had seen the cost of renewable energy plummet over the last decade and that debates about nationalisation would only serve as a distraction from averting a climate emergency.\n\n\"We need to focus on hitting zero carbon by 2050. Anything else is a distraction.\n\n\"Having big arguments about who owns what is the worst thing we could do right now. It would slow everything down when what we need to do is speed up.\"\n\nA Labour spokesman said Mr Anderson's comments were \"hardly surprising\" as they represented \"vested interests\".\n\n\"Labour has set out our plans to dramatically expand the rollout of renewable generation - so that we can hit net zero by the 2030s - not 2050,\" he said.\n\n\"While generous public subsidies have led to some private sector investment in renewable generation, private ownership of the UK's grid has been a disaster, with shareholder dividends prioritised over investment.\"\n\nMr Anderson told the BBC: \"We estimate we need to install 4,000 electric car charging points a day between now and 31 December 2050, and if we delay that for a year arguing about ownership that is 1.5 million charging points that won't get installed in time.\"\n\nLabour says it would increase charging points at a faster rate than the private sector has managed. But Mr Anderson said that competition and innovation had revolutionised his company and the industry.\n\n\"If you look back 20 years we were predominantly a coal burning generator. Now, we have shut down all our coal mines, got rid of gas and we are now a 100% renewable energy company. That's what we want us and other companies to deliver.\"\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell has described Labour's plans as radical\n\nLabour plans to nationalise the big six energy providers and divide their assets, workforce and customers into 14 state-owned regional agencies.\n\nIt's not just energy. A Labour government would also take water, the Royal Mail and BT's broadband business into public ownership.\n\nSo how much would this cost?\n\nThat's a tricky question to answer. Labour say parliament would decide how much to pay the current owners - which of course includes many worker's pension funds - but the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies estimates it would add at least £200bn to government debt.\n\nHowever, the government would collect the associated revenue - apart from broadband which it eventually wants to give away for free.\n\nArguments about who is better at delivering key public services and utilities are not new.\n\nBut the Labour Party manifesto proposes one of the most radical overhauls of how companies are owned and run in decades.\n\nThe private sector will tell you that the prospect of nationalisation is deterring private investment at a crucial time - while Labour would say only the state has the power to borrow and invest at the scale and pace that's needed.\n\nIn Scotland, as in most of Europe, the water industry is already nationalised and the SNP wants to extend public ownership of rail, buses and ferries.\n\nProf Andrew Cumbers of Glasgow University says that many breakthroughs in innovation and technology - particularly in renewable energy - have been achieved thanks to state subsidies.\n\n\"It sounds radical but it's only what happens in many other countries. The government can borrow much more cheaply than companies. If you leave it all to the private sector, research and development inevitably gets cut to divert profits into shareholder dividends.\"\n\nSmaller companies - such as Bulb, Ovo and Octopus in energy, and Virgin Media and Talk Talk in broadband - would not face nationalisation. That would leave them competing with the state.\n\nTough if you are giving services like broadband away for free or others at less than market prices.\n\nEven Labour describe their own policies as radical. On that at least business would agree.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nCoverage: Live BBC Radio 5 Live commentary with live text commentary on the BBC Sport website and app 'One Night: Joshua vs Ruiz' - watch documentary which relives one of boxing's greatest upsets on iPlayer\n\nAnthony Joshua says he would \"definitely be bothered\" if his world title fight with Andy Ruiz Jr was being used to 'sportswash' human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia.\n\nThe Briton bids to reclaim three of the heavyweight world titles from Ruiz on Saturday and has faced criticism for the fight being staged in Diriyah.\n\nCampaigners have urged him to \"speak out\" about issues in the country.\n\n\"In the future maybe I can bear a different kind of flag,\" Joshua said.\n\n\"But at the minute it's a world championship flag. I just want to do a job.\"\n• None What Andy Ruiz Jr did next\n\nJoshua's promoter Eddie Hearn has openly stated that a huge financial commitment by Saudi's General Sports Authority (GSA) left little option but to stage the bout in the kingdom.\n\nJoshua, who holds ambassador posts with several high-profile brands and who works closely with a number of charities, told BBC sports editor Dan Roan that fighting in Saudi did not \"necessarily\" detract from his image as a role model.\n\nAsked how he would feel if the event was part of a move to 'sportswash' over wrongdoing, he said: \"If that was the case I would definitely have to say I would be bothered - but my only focus is the boxing.\n\n\"I feel like taking boxing globally is what a world champion should be doing. You fight around the world.\"\n\nJoshua was also asked if his status as a role model may be undermined by fighting in the country.\n\n\"Not necessarily,\" he said. \"I just came here for the boxing opportunity. I look around and everyone seems pretty happy and chilled. I've not seen anyone in a negative light out here, everyone seems to be having a good time.\n\n\"As an individual I try to bring positivity and light everywhere I go. I'm just seeing it from my eyes alone but for sure the country in itself is trying to do a good job politically.\n\n\"For the sporting side of things, I just feel I've got a fight to focus on.\"\n\n'No-one can tell a fighter where they can and can't go'\n\nThe move to stage high-level sport in Saudi Arabia forms part of a wider strategy - known as Vision 2030 - that seeks to improve how the country is viewed and progressively move it away from its oil-dependent economy.\n\nFormula E, golf's European Tour and World Wrestling Entertainment have moved to hold events in the country, while a number of pop stars have staged concerts.\n\nCampaigners say sport is being used as a soft power by the Saudi government to hide long-standing issues including women's rights abuses, the treatment of the LGBT community and the restriction of free speech.\n\nPromoter Hearn insists Saudi involvement is \"here to stay in boxing\" but he has repeatedly referenced the fact other sporting institutions have worked in the country, while well-known brands found on UK high streets are also open to business in the capital city Riyadh.\n\nAsked by BBC Sport whether money was influential in Joshua's decision, Hearn replied: \"Of course.\n\n\"There are so many hypocrites. You're here covering the event, why? Because you want as many eyeballs on the BBC website or news piece as possible.\n\n\"No individual, journalist or media outlet can possibly tell a fighter where they can or can't go to earn money in a sport like this.\n\n\"We can't be seen to be endorsing anything other than our job to provide life-changing opportunities for our clients who take part in one of the most barbaric and dangerous sport that exists.\n\n\"If we don't get on board then someone else will anyway.\"\n\nJoshua has freely fielded questions on the politics around what is a critical fight in his career following his shock loss to Ruiz in New York in June.\n\nHe explains his first professional loss has left \"scar tissue\" but says it taught him to \"never lose grip of your goals\".\n\nAsked whether victory at Diriyah Arena on Saturday would therefore top his list of achievements he replied: \"Yes, this would be number one. There are now doubters.\n\n\"I feel like I belong here so it's not like it's something I am chasing. It's just a quest for greatness in myself.\n\n\"How much do I want it? A whole heap. But not to prove anything to anyone, just to prove it to myself. When I win, I am not going to be too surprised as I believe this is my destiny and I belong in this position.\"\n\nJoshua and Ruiz will walk to the ring at around 20:30 GMT for a controversial and highly anticipated rematch that will be broadcast on BBC Radio 5 Live.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Saudi Aramco traces its history back to the 1930s\n\nState-owned oil giant Saudi Aramco has raised a record $25.6bn (£19.4bn) in its initial public offering in Riyadh.\n\nThe share sale was the biggest to date, surpassing that of China's Alibaba which raised $25bn in 2014 in New York.\n\nAramco relied on domestic and regional investors to sell a 1.5% stake after lukewarm interest from abroad.\n\nThe IPO will value it at $1.7tn when trading begins - short of its $2tn target, but making it the most valuable listed company in the world.\n\nThe share sale is at the heart of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's plans to modernise the Saudi economy and wean it off its dependence on oil.\n\nThe country urgently needs tens of billions of dollars to fund megaprojects and develop new industries.\n\nAramco has found the journey to its public offering testing.\n\nIt initially sought to raise $100bn on two exchanges - with a first listing on the kingdom's Tadawul bourse, and then another on an overseas exchange such as the London Stock Exchange.\n\nBut it scaled back its plans after foreign investors raised concerns about climate change, political risk and a lack of corporate transparency.\n\nInternational institutions also baulked at the firm's $1.7tn valuation, prompting Aramco to pull marketing roadshows in New York and London.\n\nInstead, it focused its marketing efforts on Saudi investors and wealthy Gulf Arab allies. Saudi banks also offered citizens cheap credit to bid for the shares following a nationwide advertising campaign.\n\nShares were priced at 32 Saudi riyals ($8.53) on Thursday and were heavily oversubscribed, according to reports.\n\nBut it remains to be seen whether the share price rises or falls when trading begins, most likely later this month.\n\nThe IPO's pricing came as Saudi Arabia met with Russia and other members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) in Vienna to discuss oil production.\n\nThe allies - who together pump 40% of the world's oil - agreed to deepen output cuts as part of ongoing efforts to prop up global prices.\n\nOil prices collapsed in mid 2014 and have yet to fully recover, leaving oil-dependent economies under pressure.\n\nThe market is struggling with slower global growth and a flood of new production from countries such as the US.\n\nThree years after it was first announced Saudi Arabia is finally taking the world's most profitable company public. The market valuation is less than the $2tn target that Crown Prince Bin-Salman - had initially hoped to achieve.\n\nThe company has committed to a large annual dividend until 2024 to ensure investors don't sell shares in the near future leading to a drop in market valuation.\n\nBut analysts believe the biggest challenge for the company will be if it decides to list on an international stock exchange in the future to expand its investor pool. The core business of Saudi Aramco - oil - is considered by many experts its biggest risk.\n\nDemand for crude has been falling, which could make it difficult for the company to grow in the long term. The climate crisis and geopolitical risks are also key factors that could deter potential investors.", "George Zimmerman, who shot dead unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012, is suing his family, their attorney, the US state and others for around $100m (£77m).\n\nThe neighbourhood watch volunteer was cleared of the 17-year-old's murder in one of Florida's most-high profile criminal cases.\n\nUS law allowed him to say he shot Trayvon in self-defence, but the teenager's family and friends always insisted it was murder.\n\nThe lawsuit claims the Martin family and lawyers used a fake witness against George Zimmerman.\n\n\"The prosecution's key witness in his 2013 murder trial... was an imposter\" who \"provided false statements to incriminate Zimmerman based on coaching from others\", his lawyer Larry Klayman said in a statement.\n\nThe lawsuit accuses Trayvon's parents and the family's lawyer Benjamin Crump of forcing Brittany Diamond Eugene, 16, who was reportedly the teen's girlfriend, to make a recorded statement that implicated George Zimmerman as the person who started the row with Trayvon.\n\nBrittany was on the phone with the 17-year-old moments before it happened, the suit said.\n\nIt also alleges that Brittany's half-sister, Rachel Jeantel, pretended to be Brittany when she was interviewed by prosecutors and provided false statements to incriminate George Zimmerman based on coaching from others in court during his trial.\n\nBenjamin Crump said in a statement, on behalf of himself and the Martin family, that he has confidence that the \"unfounded and reckless\" lawsuit will be revealed as \"another failed attempt to defend the indefensible and a shameless attempt to profit off the lives and grief of others.\"\n\nTrayvon's uncle, Ronald Fulton, 56, claimed the lawsuit was no more than a publicity stunt to promote a forthcoming documentary titled the \"Trayvon Hoax\" that claims Rachel Jeantel was an impostor.\n\nWhile serving as a neighbourhood watch volunteer in a gated community in Sanford, Florida in February that year, George Zimmerman spotted Trayvon Martin.\n\nHe was wearing a hoodie and had been to the shop to buy some Skittles and a soft drink.\n\nBelieving the teenager was up to no good, after a spate of robberies in the area, he tackled him.\n\nNobody witnessed what happened between them but a neighbour's call to the emergency services picked up cries for help and the fatal gunshot.\n\nGeorge Zimmerman's lawyer always said he was viciously assaulted by Trayvon Martin.\n\nGun laws in the US allow those who own firearms to shoot somebody if they feel they're in danger of being killed or seriously injured.\n\nBecause of this, Florida police didn't arrest George Zimmerman for six weeks after the shooting, provoking mass rallies in Florida and throughout the US.\n\nGeorge Zimmerman has always claimed he acted in self-defence.\n\nThe killing was instrumental in sparking the Black Lives Matter social movement.\n\nIt began after an activist in California named Alicia Garza wrote a post on Facebook. \"Black people. I love you. I love us,\" she wrote. \"Our lives matter.\"\n\nShe was angry that George Zimmerman had been cleared of the murder of Trayvon Martin.\n\nShe and two others started using the phrase \"Black Lives Matter\" as a hashtag online.\n\nBenjamin Crump, the Martin family lawyer, said at the time: \"Trayvon Martin will forever remain in the annals of history... as a symbol for the fight for equal justice for all.\"\n\nThe gun George Zimmerman used to killed Trayvon Martin\n\nIn May 2016, George Zimmerman sold the gun that killed Trayvon Martin for $250,000 (£172,000) by auction.\n\nCritics said he was seeking to profit from the killing.\n\nGun rights advocates said he was exercising his legal rights under US law.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "A boy has been charged following the fire at the school\n\nA boy has been arrested and charged following a fire which badly damaged a secondary school in the Borders.\n\nPolice Scotland has also confirmed that a second boy had been arrested and released \"pending further inquiries\".\n\nIt follows a major fire at Peebles High School on Thursday which caused widespread damage to the site.\n\nA short statement from police said a boy had been charged in connection with wilful fireraising and a report would be sent to the children's reporter.\n\nCh Insp Stuart Reid, area commander for the Scottish Borders, said: \"We would like to thank the public for their patience while the investigation into the fire continues as we work alongside our colleagues at the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service.\n\n\"We continue to liaise with the Scottish Borders Council in connection with the safety and security of the buildings, and the impact on the local community.\n\n\"We'd remind the public that, as the person charged is below the age of 18, he cannot be named or identified for legal reasons as per the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995.\"\n\nDeputy first minister John Swinney was taken on a tour of the site on Wednesday\n\nThe high school with a roll of about 1,300 has been shut until at least the new year and pupils have been using online learning tools at home this week.\n\nArrangements have been made for senior students (S4-S6) to return to the classroom - in Galashiels - from Monday.\n\nYounger pupils will be taught at other sites in Peebles.\n\nDeputy first minister John Swinney was taken on a tour of the site on Wednesday and paid tribute to the efforts of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service who had worked \"astonishingly hard\" to salvage as much of the school as possible.\n\n\"I've also been discussing with the council what are the next steps forward because quite clearly there is going to have to be significant redevelopment of the Peebles High School site,\" he said.\n\nHe said there was a \"significant operation\" in the short term to provide education which was set to start on Monday.\n\n\"There will have to be a medium term approach taken which is about ensuring that there is a restoration of education provision on this site if at all possible,\" he said.\n\n\"Then obviously there has to be a longer-term solution and the government will engage with SBC in every aspect of that recovery.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Grigolo admitted his personality could be \"very exuberant at times\"\n\nThe Royal Opera House and New York's Metropolitan Opera have dropped tenor Vittorio Grigolo over \"inappropriate and aggressive behaviour\" on tour.\n\nThe London venue said the behaviour occurred \"at a curtain call and afterwards\" in Tokyo in September.\n\nGrigolo posted an apology, saying \"the situation deteriorated unexpectedly due to a brawl between colleagues\".\n\nHe will no longer star in the ROH's Lucia Di Lammermoor next summer or appear in the Met's current season.\n\nThe ROH had suspended him following the incident, which happened after a performance of Faust in Japan.\n\nThe company said: \"Following an independent investigation into an incident involving Vittorio Grigolo in Tokyo in September, the ROH has concluded that his inappropriate and aggressive behaviour at a curtain call and afterwards fell below the standards we expect of our staff and performers.\n\n\"We have therefore concluded that he will not return to perform in Lucia Di Lammermoor at the Royal Opera House in 2020. We will announce new casting for this role in due course.\"\n\nThe Italian tenor has been one of the stars of opera over the past decade, and was described by The New York Times in February as \"perhaps the most dependably exciting singer in opera\".\n\nHe appeared alongside Sir Bryn Terfel in Tosca at the ROH earlier this year and has appeared at the London venue in La Traviata, Rigoletto and La Boheme.\n\nOn Instagram, Grigolo said he was sorry \"that this episode clouded the effort, passion and love of art that every single one of my colleagues in this production\".\n\nHe continued: \"Even though it was never my attention to offend anyone, the situation deteriorated unexpectedly due to a brawl between colleagues.\n\n\"I'm truly saddened that my behaviour towards everyone in the cast, people whom I have always respected and continue to respect from the bottom of my heart, was perceived to be below Royal Opera House standards.\"\n\nHe admitted his personality could be \"very exuberant at times\", promising that \"what happened will not happen again in the future\".\n\nThe episode \"allowed me to learn a precious life lesson\", he added.\n\nA statement from the Met said: \"Following the Royal Opera House investigation into misconduct concerning Vittorio Grigolo and his subsequent suspension from performances there this season, the Metropolitan Opera confirms that he will not be singing at the Met this season.\"\n\nHe had been scheduled to sing Alfredo in Verdi's La Traviata there this winter, according to The New York Times.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Oliver George's sentencing hearing was delayed so he could go on a pre-booked holiday to Barbados, the court heard\n\nA man who admitted drunkenly threatening bar staff with a £5.50 toy gun - then had his sentencing delayed so he could go to the Caribbean - has been given a community order.\n\nOliver George, 26, flashed the handle of a fake pistol in the Sandbanks Yacht Club in Poole when he became \"annoyed\" at being told he was too drunk.\n\nHe admitted possessing an imitation firearm in a public place in September.\n\nBut sentencing was delayed so he could go on a pre-booked holiday to Barbados.\n\nPoole magistrates sentenced him earlier to 200 hours of unpaid work.\n\nGeorge, of Panorama Road in Sandbanks, was a regular customer and had been drinking at the club during the afternoon of 10 September, the court heart.\n\nProsecutor David Finney described how George lifted up his cardigan and flashed the handle of the fake gun that was tucked into the waistband of his shorts.\n\nIn a statement, a member of staff said he was \"really scared\" at what he had seen.\n\n\"I felt threatened seeing it - I didn't know what he would do,\" he said.\n\nGeorge lives on the Sandbanks peninsula in Poole\n\nGeorge left the club and was arrested at his nearby family home a short time later, the magistrates were told.\n\nTerry Scanlan, mitigating, said: \"Mr George was in possession of a clearly harmless toy gun which he had bought for £5.50 from Amazon for his nephews.\"\n\nHe told the court George admitted he lifted his cardigan up so staff were aware of it and that it was a \"really silly thing to do\" but did not have a \"sinister\" intent.\n\nGeorge had \"significant mental health issues\" and was an alcoholic, the court heard.\n\nPassing sentence, magistrate David Senior told George: \"They believed it was a real weapon and you put people in fear.\"\n\nIn addition to his 18-month community order, he was also ordered to pay compensation of £200 each to two members of staff.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A US sailor shot dead two workers before taking his own life at the Pearl Harbor military base near Honolulu in Hawaii on Wednesday.\n\nOfficials say the gunman also injured a third worker before he killed himself.\n\nThe incident prompted a lockdown at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, which is on the Hawaiian island of Oahu.\n\nThe shooting was reported at about 14:30 (00:30 GMT) local time. The identities of those involved in the shooting have not yet been confirmed.\n\nAll three victims were civilian defence department employees and the survivor is in a stable condition, officials said.\n\nRear Admiral Robb Chadwick, speaking at a press conference, said it was unclear if the victims were targeted or shot at random.\n\nHe said the gunman has tentatively been identified as an active duty serviceman assigned to the USS Columbia.\n\nThe submarine is currently undergoing maintenance at the base, US media reports.\n\n\"Obviously our thoughts are with the families of the victims and everyone involved,\" Rear Adm Chadwick added.\n\nRear Admiral Robert Chadwick said the gunman died from \"an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound\"\n\nThe shooting prompted a lockdown at the military base, which is home to US navy and air force personnel.\n\nBoth base security and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service are investigating the shooting, a spokesman said.\n\nHawaii's governor, David Ige, responded to the shooting in a tweet and confirmed the White House had offered federal assistance.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Governor David Ige This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSenator Mazie Hirono also paid tribute to the first responders at the scene.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Senator Mazie Hirono This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe shooting comes just three days before the 78th anniversary of a Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor naval station, which left more than 2,300 Americans dead.\n\nThe surprise attack, on 7 December 1941, prompted the US to declare war on Japan and enter World War Two.", "Investors in one of the UK's biggest commercial property funds - worth £2.5bn - have been temporarily prevented from taking out their money.\n\nInvestment firm M&G said withdrawals from its property portfolio fund had been suspended after investors consistently withdrew their savings.\n\nThe firm blamed \"Brexit-related political uncertainty\" and difficulties in the retail sector for the situation.\n\nThe fund has shrunk by £1.1bn so far this year.\n\n\"Given these circumstances, we have now reached a point where M&G believes it will best protect the interests of the funds' customers by applying a temporary suspension in dealing,\" M&G said in a statement.\n\nIt has waived 30% of its annual charge to investors, as they were unable to access their money, although some have called for action from the regulator on such charges.\n\nThe M&G Property Portfolio has invested in 91 UK commercial properties across shopping centres, other retail, industrial and office sectors on behalf of UK investors.\n\nThe same fund was suspended in July 2016 for four months following the UK's EU referendum when money flooded out of such funds.\n\nInvestors range from armchair, retail investors to institutional investors, dealing with millions of pounds.\n\nM&G has been unable to sell properties fast enough, particularly given its concentration on the retail sector, to meet the demands of investors who wanted to cash out.\n\nThe decision to suspend the fund, and its feeder fund, was taken by its official monitor - its authorised corporate director - and the City watchdog has been informed.\n\n\"The FCA is working closely with the firms involved to ensure that timely actions are undertaken in the best interests of all the fund's investors,\" a spokesman for the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said.\n\nM&G said the suspension would be monitored daily, formally reviewed every 28 days, and would only continue \"as long as it is in the best interests of our customers\".\n\nThis will allow assets to be sold over time, rather than as a fire sale, in order to meet investors' withdrawal demands. The firm has written to investors to explain the current situation.\n\nInvestors in general have been shaken in recent months by the demise of previously lauded fund manager Neil Woodford.\n\nWoodford Investment Management is shutting after Mr Woodford was sacked from its flagship fund in October.\n\nThe case raised questions regarding the oversight of funds which invest in assets that take a long time to sell, but from which investors can withdraw their money from at any time.\n\nThe M&G case will make the case stronger for regulators to take a tougher stance on these types of investments.\n\nThe suspension of a UK commercial property fund has been anticipated for some time.\n\nThe City watchdog, the Financial Conduct Authority, has been on high alert, subjecting a number of funds to enhanced monitoring.\n\nOne of the main issues affecting M&G has been the state of retail. The High Street has been having a torrid time.\n\nAs more and more stores have closed, that has put pressure on property funds. Returns from these have been less than great recently and so many investors have been pulling out their cash.\n\nM&G admits it has been struggling to sell buildings with sufficient speed to be able to match the demand from investors wanting their cash back. Hence this suspension.\n\nSome analysts warn several other property funds could follow suit.\n\nWhen the M&G property portfolio last took this action, others did too. That was just after the EU referendum in 2016.\n\nAs the UK approaches yet another Brexit deadline, it could become even more difficult for funds to sell commercial property at a value they think is fair.\n\nInvestors have been pulling their money out of other large so-called open-ended property funds, and the FCA has recently introduced daily monitoring of property funds.\n\nYet financial planners have mixed views on whether the M&G suspension could be matched by other funds in the sector.\n\n\"Property is a long-term investment and we urge investors not to panic,\" said Patrick Connolly of financial advisers Chase de Vere.\n\n\"While the M&G fund is suspended, most other providers have far greater liquidity, and less exposure to retail properties, and so are better placed to meet redemptions, as long as there isn't a mad rush to the exit door.\n\n\"Property still remains an asset class which can play an important role in investment portfolios and, when we have some real clarity on Brexit, the prospects for this asset class will hopefully improve.\"\n\nHowever, Ryan Hughes, from AJ Bell, said investors would review their interest in other funds which could lead to \"a rush for the exits\".\n\n\"We could see a wave of suspensions now - several that offer daily redemptions are at risk,\" he said.\n\nA spokesman for Aviva, one of the other fund managers that suspended a fund in 2016, said it had \"pro-actively built cash levels in the Aviva Investors Property Fund\". These were now at around 30% after it made several sales over the summer.\n\n\"We are in a period of heightened market uncertainty and believe this is an appropriate level given market conditions. Robust liquidity management remains a key priority for the fund managers,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. PM: 'I absolutely promise' UK out of EU by January\n\nBoris Johnson has promised to pass his Brexit deal and bring a Budget within 100 days if he is elected PM.\n\nThe Tory leader said it would include his pledge to raise the National Insurance threshold to £9,500, along with cash for schools and the NHS.\n\nHe has pledged a \"new government with a new approach\" - with a focus on better infrastructure, education and technology.\n\nBut Labour said Tories only offered \"more of the same failure\".\n\nThe Lib Dems called the Conservative plans \"pure fantasy\", while the SNP warned there were seven days left to \"lock\" Mr Johnson out of Downing Street.\n\nVoters will go to the polls on 12 December for the third election in just over four years.\n\nMr Johnson said he would set out his wider legislative agenda in a Queen's Speech pencilled in for 19 December if he gets back into No 10.\n\nHe promised this would build on the programme that was approved by Parliament as recently as October, but which was then effectively mothballed after MPs voted to back an early election.\n\nAnd he has committed to bringing his EU withdrawal agreement back for initial approval by MPs before Christmas.\n\n\"All we need is a working majority to deliver it. Every single one of our candidates has signed up to this deal,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\nHe said the possibility that a Conservative government could fail to reach a post-Brexit trade deal with the EU by the end of 2020 \"simply will not happen\".\n\nThis 11-month deadline covers the transition period that would follow if the UK left the EU in January, which critics say does not leave enough time to negotiate such a deal and could mean the UK ends up without one.\n\nThey include former Tory Justice Secretary - and now independent candidate - David Gauke, who said leaving without a deal would be \"disastrous for the prosperity of our country… [making] whole sectors unviable\".\n\nBut Mr Johnson said the UK was in a \"zero-tariff, zero-quota position\" already, which would make the talks easier.\n\nHe added: \"Look at what we achieved in three months with the deal I did\".\n\nIn an interview with ITV's This Morning, he said a trade deal with the EU was a \"very exciting prospect\", could be agreed \"by the end of next year\".\n\nMr Johnson's plan for the first 100 days gives a timetable to a number of his existing pledges from the campaign trail, including:\n\nThe Conservatives have also said they would introduce a number of pieces of legislation in the 100-day timeframe to take the first steps on other promises including:\n\nMr Johnson vowed that, in government, the Tories would prioritise their plan to raise the National Insurance threshold, as it would deliver a tax cut for \"those who need the most help with the cost of living\".\n\nBut Labour, which is making an announcement of its own on schools funding on Thursday, said the Conservatives' record in office over the past nine-and-a-half years was one of total failure.\n\n\"In those days we've seen child poverty soar, rising homelessness, rising food bank use, and violent crime is up too while the NHS has more people waiting for operations, and record staff vacancies,\" said shadow communities secretary Andrew Gwynne.\n\n\"As the Conservatives approach 3,500 days of failure, it's clear that more of the same failed austerity, privatisation and tax giveaways for the few is not the answer.\"\n\nAnd as she prepared to embark on a week-long election bus tour, SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon said her party was the only one in Scotland capable of thwarting Mr Johnson's \"extreme Brexit\".\n\n\"If Boris Johnson wins a majority in seven days' time, Scotland will be dragged out of Europe within just eight weeks,\" she said.\n\n\"We have seven days to escape Brexit, lock Boris Johnson out of office and put Scotland's future in Scotland's hands.\"", "A former climbing instructor has been found guilty of indecently assaulting three boys.\n\nRobert Pugh, 75, of Cardiff, assaulted the boys at Storey Arms outdoor activity centre in the Brecon Beacons during the 1980s and 1990s.\n\nAt Cardiff Crown Court the jury were previously directed to find Pugh not guilty of three charges of historical child abuse due to a lack of evidence.\n\nPugh was remanded in custody and will be sentenced in January.\n\nThe 75-year-old was emotionless as guilty verdicts were read out on the 10 charges.\n\nPugh had faced trial for the third time over the indecent assault allegations.\n\nStorey Arms outdoor activity centre is in the Brecon Beacons National Park\n\nThe first trial in 2018 was halted for legal reasons, and following that trial a second victim came forward.\n\nA jury failed to reach a verdict in a second trial in August 2019 and after that, a third victim was identified.\n\nAll three victims said they were under the age of 16 when Pugh started abusing them at the outdoor pursuits centre.\n\nThe court heard the boys seen as Pugh's favourites were offered additional courses, received gifts and were taken to a pub.\n\nThey were given the opportunity to sleep in single rooms rather than dormitories.\n\nThe prosecution said that beneath Pugh's respectable exterior \"there was something that drove him to touch these boys\".\n\nThe jury was told one of the boys was \"petrified\" when asked to share a tent with Pugh on a camping trip.\n\nAnother told the court that it was easier to let it happen than to try and fight Pugh off.\n\nAfter the verdict, one of Pugh's victims thanked South Wales Police and the Crown Prosecution Service.\n\n\"My friends and family have also been a huge support, considering they have also suffered a lot throughout this process,\" he wrote.\n\n\"Ultimately this trial was about victims. Having suffered some very dark times during this process, I'm getting myself better, and can look forward to moving on with my life.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Marcus Rashford scored twice as Manchester United condemned former manager Jose Mourinho to defeat on his return to Old Trafford and ended Tottenham's three-match winning streak under the Portuguese.\n\nRashford beat Tottenham keeper Paulo Gazzaniga at his near post after six minutes after the ball had broken to the England forward off Davinson Sanchez.\n\nThen, after a long wait for a VAR check, Rashford kept his nerve to convert a penalty four minutes after the break, once it had been ruled the striker had been fouled by Moussa Sissoko.\n\nDele Alli had equalised with a brilliant goal at the end of the first half but United were good value for their victory after creating a number of excellent chances they failed to take.\n\nRashford was unable to become the first United player to score a league hat-trick since Robin van Persie's memorable effort against Aston Villa in 2013 but he now has 12 goals in 13 games for club and country, and his nine Premier League goals leave him one short of his season best.\n\nAs expected, Mourinho was well received by the United fans, who never fell out with their former manager and have no particular axe to grind with him.\n\nThat respect will never match the affection Old Trafford has for Solskjaer though.\n\nAnd the Norwegian used memories from his playing days to get the crowd up for the game by emerging last from the tunnel, triggering a song in his honour and the start of what proved to be a lively atmosphere.\n\nEvidence of change at United came with a team that contained only five players Mourinho picked for the corresponding fixture last season.\n\nThat August night ended in a 3-0 defeat for United and an angry Mourinho demand for the media to show him some \"respect\" for his three Premier League titles.\n\nThe first of those triumphs is over 15 years ago now. Mourinho's task is to show his best days are not behind him.\n\nHe didn't make a particularly brilliant job of that in his last weeks in Manchester and, as happened so often then, tonight he spent long periods in his technical area with his hands in his pockets watching his team get outplayed.\n\nHis substitutes failed to inspire and with eight goals conceded in four games, Mourinho evidently has some work to do defensively.\n\nAt the end, he moved to shake Solskjaer's hand before striding purposefully away to try and lift his players.\n\nFor months, there had been a debate about what had happened to Dele Alli.\n\nOnce one of the golden boys of the English game, he had been reduced in influence and effectiveness and lost his place in Gareth Southgate's national squad.\n\nWho knew the answer was replacing the manager he loved?\n\nOne of the first things Mourinho did after replacing Mauricio Pochettino was to ask Alli whether it was him or his brother who had been playing for Tottenham in recent times.\n\nThis is definitely him.\n\nHis third goal in three Premier League games - he only scored three in his last 17 under Pochettino - was extraordinary.\n\nFred thought he had the situation under control as the ball looped up on the edge of the six-yard box.\n\nBut Alli leaned into the Brazilian, then rolled round him after a beautiful piece of control before turning a shot past De Gea into the far corner.\n\nIt was as breathtaking as the Cristiano Ronaldo-esque 35-yard shot Rashford rattled the bar with - and Mourinho loved it.\n\nIn his pre-match press conference, Solskjaer had dismissed as \"lies\" suggestions he had told his players he would be sacked if United lost against Tottenham, and again at Manchester City on Saturday.\n\nThe word remains from United that the Norwegian is under no immediate danger of losing his job amid an acceptance from those in senior positions that there will be bumps in the road this season.\n\nThis was the type of performance that gives credence to Solskjaer's belief genuine progress is being made.\n\nYet one look at the respective substitutes' bench shows United are crying out for reinforcements when the transfer window opens next month.\n\nWhereas Mourinho had six experienced full internationals to turn to as he tried to change the game in Tottenham's favour, Solskjaer had two and neither Luke Shaw nor Juan Mata have won a cap for quite some time.\n\nAt the end, Solskjaer milked the rapturous reception he was given.\n\nIf Sheffield United and Arsenal fail to win on Thursday, United will stay sixth. In order to stay there, Solskjaer will need more than the crowd behind him.\n\n'Rashford's best performance' - what they said\n\nManchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer speaking to BBC Sport: \"You are always happy when you win. The boys are learning and improving all the time but tonight we were fantastic for long, long spells.\n\n\"The three points are massive for us. We've had too many draws this season and given too many points away from winning positions. It's a great lesson the last two games [Sheffield United and Aston Villa] and we came back in a great manner.\n\n\"We've started the rebuilding. We've made decisions that we had to and we're looking to build this club to be better again and I can't think short term when I'm trying to do that. When we turn the corner and win three or four games on the run, they will get that Man Utd feeling again.\"\n\nOn Marcus Rashford: \"It's the best game he's had under me. He was mature and strong against good Premier League players. His penalty was calm and composed, and his [first] goal, we know he's got those strikes in him, and he had three or four chances.\n\n\"It's like he was back on the playground or in the back garden. We want them to have fun, there's nothing dangerous out there - just 75,00 people wanting to see the best [of them].\"\n\nTottenham head coach Jose Mourinho, also to BBC Sport: \"We started the second half with a goal that it is impossible to concede.\n\n\"We were not alert, sleeping at the throw-in and we let [Marcus] Rashford attack. Once he is inside the box it's more difficult to defend and he was clever and waited for the touch. In the first half they started more aggressive and more intense and deserved to be in front, maybe even 2-0, then we took control of the game.\n\n\"The goal at the start of the second half gave United the chance to play the way they did.\"\n\nOn Dele Alli: \"Dele is fine, he gave a good performance and tried everything, even in the second half when it's more difficult and they are more compact.\"\n\nOn Marcus Rashford: \"When he plays from the left he is really dangerous and I knew that and gave the players the best information about it. His first goal is a typical Rashford goal coming on the inside. Our boys knew that clearly.\"\n• None Manchester United are unbeaten in their last nine home matches in all competitions (W5 D4) since losing 2-1 to Crystal Palace in August.\n• None Tottenham Hotspur have lost more Premier League matches against Manchester United than against any other team (35 defeats).\n• None Former Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has won none of his last five away Premier League matches against the Red Devils (D3 L2), failing to beat four different managers in that time (Ferguson, Moyes, van Gaal and Solskjaer).\n• None Marcus Rashford has been directly involved in 11 goals in his last 10 appearances in all competitions for Manchester United (9 goals, 2 assists).\n• None Dele Alli has scored in three consecutive appearances for Tottenham Hotspur in all competitions for the first time since March 2017 (a run of four).\n• None Manchester United have lost none of their last 138 home Premier League matches when scoring first (W125 D13).\n• None Tottenham have conceded twice in all of their four matches under Mourinho in all competitions - they only had a run of conceding 2+ goals in four consecutive matches once under Mauricio Pochettino, doing so in February and March 2015.\n\nManchester United are next in action against Manchester City at Etihad Stadium on Saturday, 7 December (17:30 GMT). Tottenham are at home to Burnley on the same day (15:00).\n• None Attempt saved. Dele Alli (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Toby Alderweireld with a cross.\n• None Attempt blocked. Marcus Rashford (Manchester United) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Luke Shaw with a through ball.\n• None Offside, Manchester United. Fred tries a through ball, but Luke Shaw is caught offside.\n• None Attempt saved. Tanguy Ndombele (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Dele Alli.\n• None Attempt saved. Serge Aurier (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Christian Eriksen.\n• None Aaron Wan-Bissaka (Manchester United) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Seventy serving and ex-Labour officials have given sworn statements to an official investigation into the party's handling of anti-Semitism allegations.\n\nThe statements form part of a submission - seen by the BBC - from the Jewish Labour Movement to the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC).\n\nJeremy Corbyn said processes in the party to deal with allegations had \"improved a great deal\".\n\nThe Labour leader also said he \"completely rejected\" allegations he had made the party \"a welcoming refuge for anti-Semites\".\n\nBut Sam Matthews - a whistleblower who used to work in the governance and legal unit of the party - told a press conference: \"No amount of tinkering is going to fix this process. It is [an issue] of culture that can only be challenged by a leadership [which is] willing to be uncompromising.\"\n\nThe Jewish Labour Movement is asking the EHRC to urge Labour to acknowledge it has become \"institutionally anti-Semitic\" and needs to change.\n\nThe organisation - affiliated to the party for a century and representing about 2,500 members - asked the EHRC to look in to Labour's handling of anti-Semitism allegations.\n\nIts submission argues that anti-Semitic conduct has become \"pervasive\" in recent years.\n\nMr Matthews said he had first understood something was \"seriously wrong\" during Mr Corbyn's re-election as leader in 2016.\n\n\"For the first time I noticed that people who hold deeply anti-Semitic views were feeling that the Labour Party was their home and that it was their right to be a part of this movement that reflected the values and views they held,\" he added.\n\nHe said anti-Semitism, holocaust denial, and bullying those who fought against them were now \"commonplace\" in Labour.\n\nBut Mr Corbyn said the total number of incidents when compared to the size of the membership was \"very, very low indeed\", adding: \"But one case of antis-Semitism is one too many.\"\n\nThe submission also suggests there are no reliable figures for how many cases of anti-Semitism still have to be dealt with by the party's complaints team, despite the Labour leadership arguing processes have been speeded-up.\n\nThe Jewish Labour Movement is claiming that 136 complaints were outstanding in October, while around 100 allegations were not logged in the system at all.\n\nIts national secretary, Peter Mason, said there had been an \"abject failure, if not deliberate attempt, to not deal with the situation\".\n\nThe EHRC declined to comment, saying its investigation was \"live and ongoing\".\n\nLabour says the Jewish Labour Movement's figures are inaccurate but has not provided any official statistics on the issue since July.\n\nMr Corbyn said there were \"obviously some [cases] in chain\", which he insisted the party would deal with \"as quickly as possible, and as expeditiously and fairly as possible\".\n\nAnd he said updated statistics were released every six months - with the next set due for publication in January - adding: \"We are the only party who has a process and is open about it.\"\n\nThe Jewish Labour Movement's submission includes a signed affidavit from a former Labour official who alleges they were asked to transfer details of complaints being investigated at Labour's headquarters to Mr Corbyn's office.\n\nBut the Labour leader said: \"I do not interfere with cases and... it is an independent process.\"\n\nMr Corbyn added: \"I deeply regret that there is any anti-Semitism within our society and obviously I regret the way in which some people have been hurt by it.\n\n\"I do not want that to be the case. That's why I sped up the processes and gave more resources to ensure the cases were investigated in a timely manner.\"\n\nA Labour spokesman added that under the party's new procedures there would be more rapid expulsions - and Labour was co-operating with the EHRC.", "Daddy Yankee, Stormzy and Billie Eilish racked up millions of views for their music videos in 2019\n\nStormzy's infectious single Vossi Bop was the most-watched music video of 2019 in the UK, YouTube has revealed.\n\nBased around a viral dance craze, the video sees the star rapping on Westminster Bridge and features a cameo from Idris Elba.\n\nSam Smith and Normani's Dancing With A Stranger was the second-biggest video. Billie Eilish's Bad Guy came third.\n\nOutside the UK, Latin music dominated, accounting for all of YouTube's top five music videos.\n\nTop of the list is Daddy Yankee's Con Calma - which interpolates Snow's 1990s rap classic Informer; while electro-flamenco singer Rosalía takes second place with the earworm groove of Con Altura.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Daddy Yankee This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nIt's the third year in a row that a Latin song has topped YouTube's global chart. In 2018, the honour went to Nio García's Te Boté; while in 2017, it was Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee's Despacito (which is the most-viewed video in the site's history, with 6.5bn views).\n\nThe figures reflect Latin America's increasing importance to the music industry: It's the world's fastest-growing music market - revenues increased by 16.8% last year, with Brazil the largest contributor.\n\n\"Without any doubt, there was always huge music consumption in Brazil - it's a country that truly has music at its heart - but, due to copyright infringement, this was never recognised,\" said Afo Verde, chairman of Sony Music Latin Iberia, earlier this year.\n\n\"When consumption began to take the form of streaming, the results were impressive.\"\n\n\"I think it has been a sleeping giant for years and years, and the reality is that it's a country with more than 200 million people. And it's a country that loves music,\" added Jesus López, chairman of Universal Music Latin America.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by RosaliaVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nHowever, the spectre of piracy still looms over the market. It's notable that Latin artists thrive on YouTube, an advertising-supported platform, but have a lesser impact on services like Spotify and Apple, which generate larger revenues through monthly subscriptions.\n\nThere have also been accusations that record labels in South America are \"buying\" views on YouTube to boost their artists' profiles.\n\nBoth Spotify and Apple Music released their own most-streamed charts this week, and artists like Daddy Yankee were conspicuously absent; with Western stars like Camila Cabello, Lil Nas X and Post Malone populating the countdown.\n\nYou can compare the various charts below:\n\nApple also released data about the year's most searched-for songs on the music discovery app Shazam - with Lewis Capaldi's Someone You Loved coming out on top.\n\nMeanwhile, Joel Corry's sad-banger Sorry broke the record for the most Shazams in a single day. A total of 41,000 people looked the song up after it featured in an episode of ITV 2's Love Island on 24 July.\n\n\"My phone went into meltdown when it happened,\" the producer said at the time. \"It's got everyone talking, and helped launch the single up the Official Charts. I'm just buzzing everyone is loving Sorry!\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 3 by Joel Corry This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Debts excluding mortgages are on the rise in the UK, according to the Office for National Statistics.\n\nDebts including credit card debt and personal loans rose 11% to £119bn in the two years to March 2018, according to the ONS study, which is published every two years.\n\nMuch of the increase is a result of higher student loan and hire purchase debt.\n\n\"The figures are skewed slightly by the £32bn of student debts - which the vast majority of graduates will never pay back in full,\" said Sarah Coles, personal finance analyst at stockbroker Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"However, even excluding that we're carrying £87bn in loans, credit cards, hire purchase agreements, overdrafts and arrears.\"\n\nMedian financial debt - taking the middle household as the norm, rather than dividing total debt by the number of households - grew 12% to £4,500. This figure excludes households with no debt and suggests these debts are not evenly spread.\n\nThe poorest 10% of households have debts three times bigger than the value of assets they own, while the top 10% have total wealth - property, pensions and other assets- worth 35 times larger than their debt.\n\n\"Not all these debts are the same: there's a world of difference between taking an affordable, low-cost loan for vital home improvements, and living on your overdraft month after month, because it's proving so difficult to make your salary stretch to the end of the month,\" said Ms Coles.\n\n\"But if you're one of the 44% of people who see their borrowing as a burden, it's worth taking steps to deal with your debts.\"\n\nBudgeting can tighten up finances, but there are many free advisers who can help find the best way forward.", "June Sarpong was appointed the BBC's first director of creative diversity\n\nThe BBC has announced its plan to promote black and ethnic minority colleagues as \"senior leaders\".\n\nCorporation boss Tony Hall outlined the new strategy around \"our BAME [Black, Asian and minority ethnic] talent\" in an email to staff on Thursday.\n\nThe note was titled \"Going further in building a creative, inclusive BBC\".\n\n\"We can't be the creative, inclusive organisation we want to be if we're not representative of the whole of the UK,\" wrote Lord Hall.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"We're making some good progress, but we want to do more, particularly in relation to senior leaders.\"\n\nHe added: \"So we've decided to take immediate action to promote a generation of talented leaders who'll bring the diversity of thinking we need.\"\n\nEarlier this week the broadcaster promised a more \"authentic and distinctive\" representation of disabled people on screen.\n\nIn October TV presenter and campaigner June Sarpong was appointed the BBC's first director of creative diversity, and last summer the broadcaster committed to having at least two BAME members on every senior leadership group by the end of 2020.\n\n\"But we also want to nurture and develop new leaders to extend the range of our thinking - as part of a culture that's open to new people,\" Lord Hall went on, \"new ideas, and different ways of doing things.\n\n\"In other words, a culture that enables diversity of thought.\"\n\nHe explained the BBC will \"appoint two advisers to every one of our key leadership groups\" from talent within the organisation, with roles lasting for 12 months alongside people's existing jobs.\n\nAs well as announcing they will be putting on a \"festival of creative diversity\" in June, headed up by Sarpong.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Thomas Griffith Jones' family are facing a 270-mile round trip to visit him\n\nThe family of an 82-year-old Welsh-speaker with dementia said they were \"shocked\" to find out he could be moved to England for care.\n\nThomas Griffith Jones, of Gwalchmai, is currently being cared for at Ysbyty Cefni, Llangefni, close to his home.\n\nDespite understanding \"only a bit of English\" he is to be moved 135 miles (217km) from Anglesey to Stafford.\n\nBetsi Cadwaladr health board said such a move was a \"last resort\" when no suitable care was available locally.\n\nThe health board said Mr Jones required specialist support for his complex needs.\n\nHowever, his granddaughter Louise Renshaw has called for a different solution.\n\n\"We were shocked and couldn't believe they were going to move him to England, away from the family,\" she said.\n\n\"We were worried about the impact as we are so close as a family and the impact it would have on his dementia.\"\n\nLouise Renshaw is worried about the impact on her grandfather's dementia\n\nMr Jones's family fear the move will be \"very confusing and quite scary\" for him and would mean relatives would not be able to see him as often.\n\n\"They are not listening to my grandfather's best interests. He mostly speaks in Welsh now, he only understands a bit of English,\" Mrs Renshaw said.\n\nOlder People's Commissioner for Wales, Heléna Herklots, said it was crucial not to overlook the \"significant impact\" moving someone from away from their community could have on their quality of life and wellbeing.\n\n\"For Welsh speakers, particularly those living with dementia, who may only be able to communicate in Welsh, being relocated away from a Welsh-speaking area can also create communication difficulties and create distress,\" she said.\n\nA spokesman for Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board said patients who have been assessed at its units are either discharged back home with a suitable care package or transferred to an appropriately staffed and skilled nursing home.\n\n\"It is sometimes necessary to commission external providers to meet the complex needs of people who have a diagnosis of dementia and require very specialist support,\" he said.\n\nBut a \"very small number\" of patients will be placed in specialist care outside north Wales each year because their needs cannot be safely met closer to home.\n\n\"We recognise how unsettling this can be for patients, particularly those who speak Welsh as a first language,\" he said.\n\n\"These decisions are only ever taken as a last resort, once all alternative arrangements have been exhausted.\"\n\nHe said a specialist team would monitor the situation and \"as soon as it is clinically appropriate to do so, these patients are repatriated to care homes closer to their home\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Customers of defunct tour operator Thomas Cook have reacted angrily after learning they will face delays in getting refunds for Atol-protected package holidays.\n\nThe Civil Aviation Authority originally said all valid claims made on the first day of its refund programme would be paid within 60 days, or by this Friday.\n\nBut now it says only two-thirds will be paid on time.\n\nIt said it had asked the remaining claimants for more information.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by stacey ♡ This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCustomers have reacted angrily on Twitter, with some arguing they should have been made aware from the start that the process could take longer than 60 days.\n\nOthers say they have struggled to reach the CAA by phone to get information.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCAA boss Richard Moriarty acknowledged many would be worried about not getting their money back before Christmas.\n\n\"We thank consumers for their ongoing patience as we continue to do all that we can to work through the UK travel industry's largest ever refunds programme,\" he said.\n\n\"I appreciate that this is a concerning time for Thomas Cook customers who are waiting for their refunds, particularly at this time of the year.\"\n\nWhen Thomas Cook ceased trading on 23 September, anyone who had paid for a future Thomas Cook package holiday protected under the CAA's Atol scheme was entitled to a full refund.\n\nFrom 7 October an online refund application system opened, and customers were told the Civil Aviation Authority aimed to pay out within 60 days.\n\nThe CAA said it had received 67,000 claims on the first day, and two thirds would be paid by this weekend, bringing the total amount of compensation paid to date to £160m.\n\nThe Thomas Cook collapse triggered the biggest ever peacetime repatriation\n\nSue Moore applied for a refund for her Thomas Cook holiday on the day the CAA launched its online form.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"We submitted our claim online and gave the information that they asked for, which was only the information on our Atol form. They did not ask for full booking information or evidence of payment.\n\n\"We have waited nearly 60 days only to be told that this additional information was now required, and that we would have to wait a further 60 days before we would receive our refund.\n\n\"We are very disappointed and feel that the agency working for the CAA should have thought through what information would be required in the first instance before people submitted their claims. I wonder if this was a deliberate delaying tactic to delay the payment of refunds?\"\n\nBut it said the refunds operation had been challenging due to the potential for fraudulent claims, and some 85,000 claims it had received so far were invalid or duplicates.\n\nIt said it had \"paused\" the 60-day claims period for certain customers, and urged anyone who had been asked for further information to respond at \"the earliest opportunity\".\n\nThe regulator stressed that all valid Atol-protected payments would be refunded, without giving a specific timeframe. But some who spoke to the BBC said they had been told they would have to wait a further 60 days.\n\nThomas Cook collapsed in September after last-minute negotiations aimed at saving the 178-year-old holiday firm failed.\n\nIt triggered the biggest ever peacetime repatriation, aimed at bringing more than 150,000 British holidaymakers home. It also put 22,000 jobs at risk worldwide, although some of those roles have been saved.\n\nThe refunds process has been rocky, with the CAA's online form crashing due to high demand on the day it launched.\n\nThe website was also targeted by scammers, while many customers have said the long wait for refunds has stopped them rebooking holidays.\n\nThe CAA said it had received 260,000 valid claims to date. But around 40,000 of the cancelled holidays eligible for a refund have still not been claimed for.\n\nCustomers have until September next year to submit the online form.\n\nOne of the reassuring things about booking a holiday with a tour operator is that the trip is Atol protected - you know you'll get your money back if anything goes wrong with the company.\n\nSo the 300,000 customers who had booked package deals with Thomas Cook were at least comforted that they'd get their money back. However, the process has not been an easy one.\n\nIt's been a difficult job to weed out any hoaxes, and verify passengers across different Thomas Cook booking systems. But the CAA set themselves a tight deadline, to make sure people weren't out of pocket for long.\n\nBut now it's more disappointment for 22,000 of those early bird customers who applied immediately for a refund and still haven't received a penny back. For many it'll mean things are extra-tight this Christmas, or a longer wait before they can afford to book a new holiday.\n\nThose customers are being advised to provide any extra information asked for, and be patient.", "Labour is promising to base a network of small business advisers in Post Office branches if it wins next Thursday's general election.\n\nThe party says the advisers would form part of a wider agency to help firms access advice and bid for government contracts.\n\nThe party says it would also help small firms by replacing business rates with a tax based on land value.\n\nBut the Conservatives said Labour would bring higher taxes and uncertainty.\n\nThe Tories have pledged to reduce business rates for smaller firms, and give them a bigger discount on National Insurance payments.\n\nLabour's shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey said smaller companies are \"being stretched to breaking point by global corporations which evade their taxes and fail to pay their suppliers on time\".\n\n\"Labour wants business support and finance to be available for entrepreneurs from the moment the seed of an idea is planted,\" she said. \"Labour's Business Development Agency will create thriving businesses within our communities, bringing life back to local economies.\"\n\nThe party also plans to set up a website offering support to smaller firms, and free full-fibre broadband for every business and home by 2030.\n\nIt also says it will establish a £250bn national investment bank providing loans for businesses.\n\nIn addition, it says it would requiring government contractors to pay their suppliers on time or else face a ban from bidding for public cash.\n\nBut the Liberal Democrats said Jeremy Corbyn's pledge to renegotiate the PM's Brexit deal and put it to a referendum undermined Labour's plans to support business.\n\nLabour has pledged to offer voters a choice between its deal or remaining in the EU - it has not said which option it would back and Mr Corbyn has said he would stay \"neutral\" during the campaign.\n\nLib Dem business spokesman Sam Gyimah said smaller firms have \"made it abundantly clear that any form of Brexit - be it red or blue - will harm their ability to hire staff, make it more difficult to export to our closest partners and ratchet up the cost of doing business\".\n\n\"It is only the Liberal Democrats who will stop Brexit and bring forward a bold vision to support small businesses in the UK,\" he added.\n\nHis party also wants to replace business rates with a levy on commercial properties based on land values, and create a new \"start-up allowance\" to help those setting up businesses with their living costs.\n\nParties are competing to offer more help to high streets ahead of the general election\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses said it welcomed Labour's plan for an agency to support small firms, as well as the party's commitment to clamp down on suppliers that make late payments.\n\nHowever its chairman Mike Cherry said the party needed to provide \"urgent clarity\" on its tax changes to dividend payouts.\n\n\"The party promised that no business owner making less than £80,000 would be targeted if it wins power,\" he said\n\n\"But, as things stand, it's hard to see how that will be the case.\"\n\nThe Conservatives also criticised Labour plans to raise the corporation tax rate paid by smaller companies from the current 19% to 21% by 2023/24.\n\nThe party also said Labour plans to introduce a 32-hour working week within ten years would \"hit businesses hard\".\n\nInternational Trade Secretary Liz Truss said: \"Despite what they claim, Labour are not on the side of small businesses\".\n\nShe added that smaller companies \"don't need a new quango, they need certainty\".\n\n\"All Corbyn's Labour will bring is higher taxes and uncertainty with no plan for Brexit\".\n\nThe Liberal Democrats' business spokesman Sam Gyimah said: \"Labour under Jeremy Corbyn has dropped any pretence of being friendly to industry, returning to plans from the 1970s to take over company shares and nationalise swathes of the economy.\"\n\nHe also accused both Labour and the Conservatives of being united by Brexit, \"the most anti-business policy of all\".", "Lucy and her dog Olga in the Radio 1 studio\n\nWhen Lucy Edwards found out she had been chosen to be a presenter on Radio 1, she spent the day \"jumping up and down like a bunny rabbit\".\n\n\"But then I was like, 'Right, let's do this',\" she says.\n\nShe will be taking over the late morning slot on 28 and 29 December and says she wants to create a show that feels \"like family\".\n\n\"We've got my lovely guide dog Olga at my feet. We've got cute cuddly vibes. We've got some amazing tunes to be played.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Lucy Edwards👩🏻‍🦯 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLucy came through Radio 1 and 1Xtra's search for new presenters - which will see 35 guests taking over the airwaves for five days over Christmas.\n\nAmong them are students, podcasters, a tattooist and a shop manager.\n\nLucy - who has a YouTube channel and is a freelance reporter and presenter - will have the honour of playing Radio 1's greatest hits during her slots.\n\nAnd there's one artist she's told her producers to get on the playlist.\n\n\"We need to have Katy Perry. Because I just think she's a babe, really.\"\n\nLucy - who's had to keep the job secret for a couple of weeks - says she feels \"a sense of responsibility\" as the first blind presenter on Radio 1.\n\n\"I'm so excited to be representing the blind crew, the disabled community,\" she says.\n\n\"I personally think it's really important to stand up and be out there as a blind person saying, 'Hey, I am really really proud of my disability'.\n\n\"I'm proud to be who I am. I'm a small, blind, ginger woman from Birmingham.\"\n\nLucy has a condition called Incontinentia Pigmenti which affected her eyesight at a young age.\n\nShe lost sight in her right eye at the age of 11, and in her left eye at 17.\n\nLucy will get to present Radio 1's greatest hits\n\nLucy has been presenting for a few years.\n\nAs well as her YouTube channel, she's worked on the BBC's Ouch podcast about living with disabilities and Radio 4's programme In Touch - which is about blind and partially-sighted people.\n\nSo what advice does she have for others who want to become presenters?\n\n\"Always take every opportunity. You don't want to miss anything that comes to you in life,\" she says.\n\n\"I never want to say no to things - building your portfolio is really important.\n\n\"Get your microphone out where you are. Maybe even make your own podcast, your own YouTube channel.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Two British pilots have touched down on home soil, after flying around the world in a restored Spitfire, with the paintwork stripped to a shining aluminium finish.\n\nSteve Brooks, 58, from Burford, Oxfordshire, and Matt Jones, 45, from Exeter, took four months to circumnavigate the globe in the first trip of its kind in a Spitfire.\n\nThey stopped off in 100 locations, across 30 countries.\n\nThe project, called Silver Spitfire - The Longest Flight, started and finished at Goodwood Aerodrome, the base of Boultbee Flight Academy, the first-ever school for Spitfire pilots, in West Sussex.", "The bank said it would cut fees on unarranged overdrafts\n\nHSBC is to bring in a single overdraft rate of 39.9% for UK customers from March 2020, as much as quadrupling the rate it charges some customers.\n\nHowever, the bank is removing a £5 daily fee for going into an unarranged overdraft and introducing an interest-free £25 buffer on some accounts.\n\nIt follows a similar move from Nationwide Building Society in July.\n\nThe new annual rate comes in response to tough new rules from regulators designed to protect consumers.\n\nBut one analyst warned that steep overdraft rates could now become the \"new normal\".\n\nHSBC UK currently charges rates of 9.9% to 19.9% on arranged overdrafts, but the higher rate will be applied across its whole range of accounts except for its student bank account.\n\nThe £25 buffer will apply to Bank Accounts and Advance Bank Accounts, providing leeway for those going slightly overdrawn.\n\nHSBC said that as a result of this and the removal of the £5 daily fee for unarranged overdrafts, seven in 10 who use an overdraft would be better off or the same as a result of the changes.\n\nBut that suggests around a third could end up worse off. The bank has eight to nine million current account holders in the UK.\n\nMadhu Kejriwal, HSBC UK's head of lending and payments, said: \"By simplifying our overdraft charging structure we are making them easier to understand, more transparent and giving customers tools to help them make better financial decisions.\"\n\nNationwide has also raised its overdraft rates\n\nThe move comes in response to Financial Conduct Authority's plans to shake up the \"dysfunctional\" overdraft market - including stopping banks and building societies from charging higher prices for unarranged overdrafts than for arranged overdrafts.\n\nThe new rules, which come into force next April, will require providers to charge a simple annual interest rate on all overdrafts and get rid of fixed fees.\n\nBut there have been concerns that banks will hike authorised overdraft charges to claw back some revenue lost from unauthorised overdraft fees.\n\nIn July, Nationwide also unveiled a new single rate of 39.9% across its adult current account range. Its changes came into force in November.\n\nHelen Saxon, banking editor at MoneySavingExpert.com, said: \"With both of the first banks to announce changes moving overdraft interest rates to around 40%, we have to wonder if this is the new normal.\"\n\nThe FCA has acknowledged banks may look to increase their arranged overdraft prices as a result of the new rules.\n\nBut it argues the net effect will still be better for consumers - and increased competition between providers as a result of the changes will constrain any price increases.\n\nRachel Springall, a finance expert at Moneyfacts.co.uk, said: \"It's disappointing to see such a hike in overdraft charges but there may be more brands coming out in the coming weeks to announce changes too.\n\n\"This shake-up is designed to make things fairer and more transparent to consumers.\n\n\"Borrowers would be wise to scrutinise any changes to their current account and look to switch elsewhere if they find that the account has lost its shine.\"", "Fiona Mackenzie set up the campaign group We Can't Consent To This\n\nWomen in Scotland are frequently \"appalled\" at the violence they experience during sex with men they are on a date with, activists say.\n\nCampaign group We Can't Consent To This said it knew of victims - many aged in their 40s or 50s - who had been strangled, slapped and spat on.\n\nThe group said brutality that features in pornography was often to blame.\n\nThey are calling for the law surrounding the issue of consent in sexual violence crimes to be toughened.\n\nIt follows a number of recent murder trials in which a \"rough sex\" defence has been used by the accused.\n\nThis argument is sometimes used in court when a man has been accused of killing or attacking a woman while having consensual sex.\n\nAn accused's legal team may bring up the victim's sexual preferences or argue she \"asked\" for the act of violence that led to her death or injury.\n\nIn the recent case of Grace Millane, a 21-year-old British backpacker who was murdered while on a date in New Zealand, the defence unsuccessfully argued she died after being consensually choked during sex.\n\nUniversity of Lincoln graduate Grace Millane was on a round-the-world trip at the time of her death\n\nWhile her killer was convicted of murder, campaigners say they have now seen a surge in this sort of defence being used during trials in the UK - often resulting in a lesser conviction such as manslaughter.\n\nWe Can't Consent To This is pushing for clarification that individuals cannot consent to violent acts during consensual sex in Scots law.\n\nFounder Fiona Mackenzie said women often do not see this sort of violence as assault, rather as something they've \"put themselves into\".\n\n\"There's one thing that's extremely concerning which is the widespread normalisation of violence against women in sex,\" she said.\n\n\"We hear from women who have been choked, punched, slapped and spat on. I think that's really concerning and I think that's meaning that these defences are much more likely to work.\"\n\nLast week, the BBC published research that suggests that more than a third of women, aged between 18 and 39, had experienced unwanted slapping, choking, gagging or spitting during consensual sex.\n\nHowever, Ms Mackenzie said that since launching her campaign, a large proportion of the women she has heard from are aged in their 40s and 50s while some have even been in their 60s.\n\nShe said: \"We hear particularly from women who return to dating after maybe a long relationship who are appalled by the level of violence they are being subjected to.\n\n\"I don't think it is just the younger age groups.\"\n\nMs Mackenzie opened up about her own experience of violence during sex after being choked by a partner.\n\nShe continued: \"I'd like to say it was a long time ago but I think even at the time I blamed myself, I thought it was something that I was responsible for.\n\n\"Many of these women live with quite extreme trauma, they can't wear clothing that's close to their neck or jewellery.\n\n\"Many of them say they just don't date men anymore because it's too scary and they've been assaulted too many times. Being subjected to that kind of assault is absolutely terrifying.\"\n\nIn 2009, the law in Scotland changed to clamp down on the possession of violent pornography.\n\nThe law was clarified to ban \"realistic depictions\" of rape attacks as well as life-threatening and violent sexual acts, bestiality and necrophilia.\n\nA 2016 study indicated a majority of children are exposed to online pornography by their early teens, which researchers called \"worrying\".\n\nMs Mackenzie said that while the effort to clamp down on violent pornography in Scotland was important, it is \"almost never enforced.\"\n\nShe continued: \"If you go onto any of the main porn sites you see again and again, women being strangled to unconsciousness.\n\n\"I would hope that porn companies would take action to crack down on that - I don't think they have any incentive to at the moment.\n\n\"We hear that pornography is normalising the choking of women in sex - we hear from men who use pornography that that's where it's coming from.\"\n\nAt present the campaign has no concrete changes to present to Holyrood but has urged the Scottish Law Commission to clarify that a person cannot consent to violence leading to injury.\n\nMs Mackenzie, whose campaign has backing from charities such as Zero Tolerance, said that societal changes were crucial.\n\nShe has called for more public bodies to collect data on the issue as well as better sex education in schools and a review of how police handle complaints from potential victims.\n\nPrior to the suspension of the Westminster parliament, changes to the Domestic Abuse Bill were proposed in England and Wales to reinforce the fact that consent can be no defence for death. There have been calls for the bill to be reintroduced after the general election.\n\nThe Scottish government said it was aware of cases in Scotland where the accused has argued the victim consented to the acts resulting in their death, but these resulted in conviction for murder or culpable homicide.\n\nIt said it had strengthened the criminal law on sexual offences, that the law was being kept under review and it will carefully consider any proposals to reform it.", "Officials have issued fresh warnings for blazes around Sydney\n\nAbout 100 bushfires are raging in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW), with the most severe forming into a \"mega blaze\" north of Sydney.\n\nMore than 2,000 firefighters are battling bushfires, which escalated in intensity late on Thursday.\n\nFootage of one blaze on the southern fringe of the city showed firefighters fleeing as flames surged forward.\n\nAustralia's largest city has been blanketed by thick smoke all week, causing a rise in medical problems.\n\nSince October, bushfires have killed six people and destroyed more than 700 homes across Australia.\n\nThe severity of the blazes so early in the fire season has caused alarm, and prompted calls for greater action to tackle climate change.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Firefighters flee intense flames in Sydney, in a video shared by them to show the dangers of bushfires\n\nMore than 1.6 million hectares of land in NSW have been burnt already. Fires have also raged across Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania.\n\nFires spanned the entire NSW coastline on Friday, with some sparking emergency warnings amid hot and windy conditions.\n\nAuthorities confirmed three fires had merged into a \"mega blaze\" north of Sydney on Friday, covering more than 300,000 hectares. That blaze is about the size of greater Sydney, officials said.\n\n\"We have also seen the fires coming in very close proximity to major population centres,\" said NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by NSW RFS This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMany fires have raged for weeks, feeding off tinder-dry conditions from a severe drought which has affected much of the nation.\n\n\"We are in for another tough day,\" said NSW Rural Fire Service assistant commissioner Rob Rogers, adding that several properties had been destroyed in the past 24 hours.\n\nFire crews from the US and Canada arrived in NSW this week to help tackle the blazes.\n\nIn Queensland, authorities said at least two homes had been destroyed in the past day.\n\nSydney's air quality deteriorated beyond \"hazardous\" levels this week as smoke from the fires again blanketed the city. The front page of the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper on Friday read: \"Sydney chokes as state burns\".\n\nThe smoke haze over the city on Thursday\n\nHospital admissions have risen 25% in the past week said officials, with people reporting asthma and breathing problems. About five million people live in greater Sydney.\n\nPeople have been warned to stay indoors, but the smoke in some areas has also seeped into buildings.\n\nEarly on Friday, the NSW capital ranked number 19 on the Air Visual global rankings of cities with the worst air pollution - putting it ahead of Shanghai and Mumbai.\n\nThe smoke has also affected towns closer to the fires for weeks. The state government said on Thursday that the air pollution event was \"the longest and most widespread in our records\".\n\nBushfires are common in Australia, but this year's fire season is more intense and has begun earlier than usual - something meteorologists say is exacerbated by climate change.\n\nAustralia's Bureau of Meteorology says that climate change has led to an increase in extreme heat events and raised the severity of other natural disasters, such as drought.\n\nLast week, the bureau noted that NSW had endured its driest spring season on record. It also warned that Australia's coming summer was predicted to bring similar conditions to last year's - the nation's hottest summer on record.\n\nOfficial figures have shown 2018 and 2017 were Australia's third and fourth-hottest years on record respectively.\n\nAs the fires rage on, the Australian government has been criticised over its efforts to address climate change. Prime Minister Scott Morrison has dismissed accusations linking the crisis to his government's policies.\n\nHundreds of bushfire survivors and farmers converged on the nation's capital, Canberra, this week in protest. One woman displayed the charred remains of her home outside Parliament - on which she had written: \"Morrison, your climate crisis destroyed my home.\"\n\nMelinda Plesman called for the government to take action on climate change\n\nLast week the UN reiterated that Australia is among seven G20 nations needing to do more to meet their climate promises. The list also includes Brazil, Canada, Japan, the Republic of Korea, South Africa and the US.\n\nThe UN has previously noted that Australia is falling short of its Paris agreement commitments to cut CO2 emissions.\n\nAustralia has pledged to a 26-28% cut on its 2005 levels by 2030. The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has said that global emissions of CO2 need to decline by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030 to keep temperature rise under 1.5C.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nigel Farage says three of the MEPs who have left his Brexit Party have links to the Conservative government\n\nBrexit Party leader Nigel Farage has hit out at three MEPs who quit the party and are now urging voters to back the Conservatives in the election.\n\nHe told the BBC that Annunziata Rees-Mogg, Lance Forman and Lucy Harris had strong personal links to the Tories.\n\nBut the MEPs say the Brexit Party's participation in the election will split the Leave vote.\n\nA fourth MEP, John Longworth, lost the whip on Wednesday for criticising the party's election strategy.\n\nThe Brexit Party, which is not contesting seats won by the Conservatives in the 2017 general election, has maintained it is taking votes away from Labour in Leave-supporting areas where it is standing.\n\nAnd it says it is saving the Tories from losses to the pro-EU Liberal Democrats in the south of England.\n\nThe four former Brexit Party MEPs are asking voters to back Boris Johnson's Conservatives in order to \"deliver\" Brexit, by giving him enough MPs to get his deal with the EU through Parliament.\n\nAsked about the resignations of Ms Rees-Mogg, Ms Harris and Mr Forman from his party, Mr Farage told the BBC's Andrew Neil: \"One of them [Ms Rees-Mogg] is the sister of a cabinet minister. Another one has a boyfriend working for that cabinet minister and another one is a personal friend of Boris Johnson's.\"\n\nWhen challenged on whether he was smearing the MEPs, Mr Farage said he was presenting the facts.\n\n\"They joined the Brexit Party. They joined the coalition that I put together. They clearly were disaffected with Mrs [Theresa] May as leader,\" he said. \"We are not the Conservative Party.\"\n\nMr Farage added: \"I tell you something - Boris Johnson's deal unamended is unacceptable. I certainly stand by that.\"\n\nThe MEPs have also called for Mr Farage to stand down his candidates in the 12 December election.\n\nMs Rees-Mogg, a former Tory parliamentary candidate and sister of Commons Leader Jacob Rees-Mogg, said it was \"tragic\" that the Brexit Party \"are now the very party risking Brexit\".\n\n\"It is clear to me that the Brexit Party is splitting the vote of Leavers in marginal and not-so-marginal constituencies,\" Ms Rees-Mogg said.\n\n\"The Brexit Party are permitting votes to go away from the Conservatives, providing us with a Remain coalition that will do anything not to honour the Brexit referendum.\"\n\nThe four former Brexit Party MEPs are urging voters to support the Conservative Party\n\nMs Rees-Mogg said it had \"not been an easy decision for any of us\" to quit the Brexit Party, but \"we all feel it's one we had no choice but to make\".\n\nShe said that Mr Johnson's Brexit deal was \"the only Leave option we have\", with the others being \"more damaging delays, a second Remain-Remain referendum or straight revoke\".\n\nShe also rejected the suggestion that her brother had influenced her decision as \"disturbingly old-fashioned\", saying: \"We have completely independent views from each other and I am only concerned about Brexit.\"\n\nThe four MEPs have said they will continue with their roles in the European Parliament, with Miss Harris saying they would stay as MEPs in order to vote for the prime minister's withdrawal agreement.\n\nThe Brexit Party, formed earlier this year, won 29 seats in July's European Parliament elections.\n\nIn November Mr Farage announced it would not contest the 317 Westminster seats the Conservatives won in 2017, in order to help Leave-supporting candidates win.\n\nMr Longworth has been critical of this decision, arguing that the party should be targeting between 20 and 30 seats.\n\nEarlier, Mr Farage said he was \"disappointed that four of our MEPs don't seem to understand that we both saved the Conservative Party from large-scale losses to the Liberal Democrats in the south and south-west of England\".\n\nHe added that the Brexit Party was \"hammering the Labour Leave vote in its traditional heartlands, making it much easier for the Conservatives to win many of those seats\".\n\nHowever, Mr Farage said he would continue to target Labour-held Leave areas, despite these being a key part of the Conservatives' plan to win a majority and pass a Brexit deal.\n\nLiberal Democrat deputy leader Ed Davey said there had been a Brexit Party \"takeover of the Tory party\", adding that \"Boris Johnson is only attracting the support of Farage and his stooges\".\n\nWhile Mr Johnson is campaigning to leave the EU under the terms of his deal, the Brexit Party is calling for what it calls a \"clean-break Brexit\". This would mean leaving the EU without a formal deal and trading under World Trade Organisation terms.\n\nLabour wants to renegotiate Mr Johnson's Brexit deal and put it to another public vote. Leader Jeremy Corbyn says he would remain neutral during that referendum.", "Gareth Delbridge (L) and Michael Lewis (R) were hit by a train in July\n\nThere were no formally appointed lookouts at the site where two rail workers were hit and killed by a train, a report has said.\n\nGareth Delbridge, 64, and Michael \"Spike\" Lewis, 58, were hit by a Swansea to Paddington train on 3 July.\n\nAn interim report from the Rail Accidents Investigation Branch (RAIB) said a third worker came \"very close\" to being hit in Margam, Port Talbot.\n\nThe three were part of a group of six carrying out maintenance work.\n\nThe train driver made an \"emergency application of the train's brakes\" about nine seconds before the accident, the report said.\n\nIt was travelling at about 50mph (80km/h) when it hit the track workers.\n\nPlanning paperwork indicated work was due to start at 12:30 to coincide with the planned blockage of the a line, but workers began at about 08:50.\n\nWitness evidence suggested there was a widespread belief at the local maintenance depot there was \"no need to wait\" for the planned line closure, the RAIB found.\n\nThere was a \"general lack of understanding\" as to how the planning paperwork should be interpreted, investigators added.\n\nThe men were hit and killed by the 09:29 service from Swansea to London Paddington\n\n\"The RAIB's preliminary conclusion is that the accident occurred because the three track workers were working on a line that was open to traffic, without the presence of formally appointed lookouts to warn them of approaching trains,\" the report said.\n\nThe report said the plan for repairs provided \"no clarity on the safe system of work\".\n\nAt the time of the accident, the six workers at had split into two groups - none of them were aware a train was approaching \"until it was too late to move to a position of safety\".\n\nInvestigators said the victims were \"almost certainly\" wearing ear defenders because a noisy power tool was being used to carry out repairs and a \"vital safety barrier\" was missing in the absence of a lookout.\n\nThe RAIB said its investigation was continuing, but the factors outlined \"created conditions that made an accident much more likely\".\n\nFurther aspects of the accident will be investigated including group behaviour, the planning and paperwork, safety auditing and the selection and training of track workers.\n\nSpeaking after their deaths, families of the men said Mr Delbridge, from Kenfig Hill, was the \"most loving husband, father, brother and granddad\" while Mr Lewis, from North Cornelly, was \"loved by everyone\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nFormer England captain Bob Willis has died at the age of 70.\n\nThe fast bowler took 325 wickets in 90 Tests from 1971 to 1984, claiming a career-best 8-43 to help England to a famous win over Australia at Headingley in the 1981 Ashes.\n\nHe captained England in 18 Tests and 29 one-day internationals before his retirement from all forms of cricket in 1984.\n\nIn a statement, Willis' family said he had died \"after a long illness\".\n\n\"We are heartbroken to lose our beloved Bob, who was an incredible husband, father, brother and grandfather,\" the statement continued.\n\n\"He made a huge impact on everybody he knew and we will miss him terribly.\"\n\nWillis subsequently worked as a summariser on BBC TV before joining Sky Sports as a commentator in 1991.\n\nHe continued to work for Sky and was part of their coverage of this summer's Ashes series.\n\nThe England and Wales Cricket Board said it was \"deeply saddened to say farewell\" to a \"legend of English cricket\".\n\n\"We are forever thankful for everything he has done for the game,\" it added. \"Cricket has lost a dear friend.\"\n• None Hugely admired around the world and a huge Bob Dylan fan - tributes to Willis\n\nWillis represented Surrey for the first two years of his professional career before spending 12 years at Warwickshire, finishing with 899 wickets from 308 first-class matches at an average of 24.99.\n\nIn a statement on Twitter , Surrey said the club was \"devastated\" by the news of Willis' passing.\n\nThe Sunderland-born bowler made his international debut aged 21 in the 1971 Ashes after being called up to replace the injured Alan Ward and played the final four Tests of the seven-match series as England won 2-0.\n\nDespite needing surgery on both knees in 1975, he became one of the finest fast bowlers of his generation, playing another nine years and claiming his 325 wickets at an impressive average of 25.20.\n\nAt the time of Willis' retirement, only Australia fast bowler Dennis Lillee had taken more Test wickets.\n\nThe pinnacle of Willis' international career was arguably the stunning 18-run victory against Australia in the third Test of the 1981 Ashes at Headingley.\n\nEngland, trailing 1-0 in the series, were forced to follow on and needed Botham's spectacular 149 not out to force Australia to bat again, setting them 129 to win.\n\nWith his Test career on the line, Willis produced a devastating spell, taking a Test-best 8-43 as Australia were dismissed for 111 - the hosts at one point being 500-1 outsiders to win.\n\nEngland went on to win the series 3-1 and Willis finished with 29 wickets at 22.96 in six matches.\n\nWillis, who was named in England's all-time Test XI in 2018, was appointed captain for the 1982 India tour of England after Keith Fletcher was sacked.\n\nHe oversaw a weakened team during his tenure, after the likes of Graham Gooch, Geoffrey Boycott and Derek Underwood were banned from international cricket for three years from 1982 for taking part in a rebel tour to South Africa.\n\nHe finished with a record of seven wins, five defeats and six draws from his 18 Tests in charge before he was sacked and replaced with David Gower prior to what proved to be Willis' final Test series against West Indies in 1984.\n\nIn 29 ODIs under Willis, England won 16 and lost 13.\n\nWillis made his ODI debut in 1973 and played in the 1979 World Cup but sustained a recurrence of his knee injury in the semi-final win over New Zealand and missed the final, which West Indies won by 92 runs.\n\nHe captained England at the 1983 World Cup where his side were beaten by eventual winners India in the semi-finals.\n\nWillis played his final ODI in 1984, finishing with a record of 80 wickets from 64 matches at an average of 24.60.\n\nWillis moved into commentary soon after his playing career ended and worked alongside former team-mates Botham and Gower.\n\nAfter moving away from live commentary and summariser duties in 2006, Willis continued to work as a pundit on Sky Sports programmes such as The Debate and The Verdict.\n\nHe was frequently firm in his criticism of current players, which was seen by some as being unfair.\n\nYet Willis also played up to his persona and had a humorous side, telling current captain Joe Root he would \"have you back in the dock\" with bared teeth after the England batsman's impersonation of Willis during the 2015 Ashes.", "Some buses in Shanghai have had facial recognition systems fitted to them\n\nA survey by a Beijing research institute indicates growing pushback against facial recognition in China.\n\nSome 74% of respondents said they wanted the option to be able to use traditional ID methods over the tech to verify their identity.\n\nWorries about the biometric data being hacked or otherwise leaked was the main concern cited by the 6,152 respondents.\n\nFacial recognitions systems are being rolled out in stations, schools, and shopping centres across the country.\n\nThe survey, first reported in the West by The Financial Times, was released on Thursday by the Nandu Personal Information Protection Research Centre.\n\nIt has been described as being one of the first major studies of its kind into public opinion on the subject in mainland China.\n\nSome 80% of respondents said they were concerned that facial recognition system operators had lax security measures.\n\nSeparate research suggests that they have good reason to be concerned.\n\nChina was ranked the worst of 50 surveyed countries in a study looking at how extensively and invasively biometric ID and surveillance systems are being deployed. The work was carried out by the cybersecurity firm Comparitech.\n\nIt said China had no \"specific law to protect citizens' biometrics\" and highlighted a \"lack of safeguards for employees in the workplace\".\n\nSome cities are deploying facial recognition systems at road crossings to identify and deter jaywalkers\n\nNandu's survey was carried out via the internet between October and November.\n\nIn its sample, 57% of respondents voiced concern about their movements being tracked.\n\nIn addition, 84% of people said they wanted to be able to review the data that facial recognition systems had collected on them and to be able to request that it should be deleted.\n\nThe majority said they wanted an option to be able to use ID cards, driving licenses and/or passports as an alternative. But the survey also suggested that between 60 to 70% of Chinese residents believed facial recognition made public places safer.\n\nChina has more facial recognition cameras than any other country and they are often hard to avoid.\n\nEarlier this week, local reports said that Zhengzhou, the capital of the northeastern Henan province, had become the first Chinese city to roll the tech out across all its subway train stations.\n\nCommuters can use the technology to automatically authorise payments instead of scanning a QR code on their phones. For now, it is a voluntary option, said the China Daily.\n\nEarlier this month, university professor Guo Bing announced he was suing Hangzhou Safari Park for enforcing facial recognition.\n\nProf Guo, a season ticket holder at the park, had used his fingerprint to enter for years, but was no longer able to do so.\n\nThe case was covered in the government-owned media, indicating that the Chinese Communist Party is willing for the private use of the technology to be discussed and debated by the public.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: BBC's John Sudworth put a Chinese facial recognition system to the test in December 2007\n\nBut the state continues to make some uses of the tech mandatory.\n\nAt the start of the month, a new regulation came into force that requires mobile phone subscribers to have their faces scanned when they sign a new contract with a provider.\n\nThe authorities say the move is designed to prevent the resale of Sim cards to help combat fraud.\n\nBut country-watchers have suggested it may also be used to help the police and other officials keep track of the population.", "Artwork: Scientists are trying to work out the likely paths meteorites took as they fell toward Earth\n\nIn January 2018, a falling meteorite created a bright fireball that arced over the outskirts of Detroit, Michigan, followed by loud sonic booms.\n\nThe visitor not only dropped a slew of meteorites over the snow-covered ground, it also provided information about its extra-terrestrial source.\n\nAlthough tens of thousands of meteorites have been recovered by humans, scientists have only been able to trace the orbits of a small number. Most of these have been calculated in the last decade.\n\nScientists can use information about how the meteorite burned through Earth's atmosphere to calculate how the rocky object moved through space before it transformed into a fireball.\n\nResearchers cannot trace the specific path of an object back through time - there are too many variables that could have affected its motion. But they can determine the most likely paths. Studying the likely orbits of similar asteroids can help to reveal their parent body, the larger asteroid they once were part of.\n\nVideo of the fireball over Michigan:\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\n\"This is a great way to do what amounts to a low-cost asteroid sample return mission,\" says Dr Peter Brown, who studies asteroids at Canada's University of Western Ontario. \"In this case, the sample comes to us. We don't have to go to the sample.\"\n\nDr Brown and his colleagues gathered information from fireball surveys as well as videos posted on social media to reconstruct a potential orbit for the Hamburg meteorite, named after the small Detroit suburb it buzzed.\n\nThe team then worked with several of the amateur photographers to calibrate their observations. \"We spent a lot of time scouring YouTube and Twitter,\" he says.\n\nThe researchers found that the Hamburg meteorite was a fairly typical fireball. It likely entered the atmosphere with a mass ranging from 60kg to 220kg and a diameter between 0.3m and 0.5m.\n\nTravelling at about 16 km/s, it produced two major flares at 24.1km and 21.7km above the ground. The total energy produced by the fireball equalled somewhere between two and seven tonnes of TNT.\n\nWhile some researchers took to the ground to hunt for dark meteorites in the Michigan snow, Dr Brown and his colleagues took to the internet to find reports of the fall. Because the region was densely populated, Dr Brown said there were a lot of video recordings that captured the fall.\n\nOut of the wealth of camera phone and security footage, they tracked down almost 30 unique videos that were sharp enough to reveal their location. Of these, only a handful was good enough for the team members to perform detailed calibration.\n\nHow do you calibrate a casual fireball video? First you need to have a positional reference that helps to pinpoint where the video was taken from. Ideally, the same camera would be placed in the exact spot where the meteorite fall was originally viewed - though often a similar camera was used instead.\n\nMeasurements from those videos revealed the angle that the incoming meteorite was travelling on.\n\nThe Chelyabinsk meteor in 2013 was also filmed from multiple locations\n\n\"A lot of the legwork was just talking to people,\" Dr Brown says.\n\nIn addition to the casual imagery, the researchers looked at images from fireball surveys, where the calibration had already been performed.\n\nWhile the official data was easier to work with, Dr Brown says that smart phones and dashboard cameras often tend to have higher resolution, providing better precision data if they can be calibrated. The growing prevalence of these kinds of cameras \"has almost revolutionised this area,\" he says.\n\nWhile humans have collected meteorites for thousands of years, it wasn't until 1959 that the first meteorite orbit was recovered. Cameras operated by the Ondrejov Observatory in the Czech Republic recorded the fall of the Pribram meteorite, allowing the researchers to trace its orbit back to the asteroid belt.\n\nFor the first time, astronomers were confident that meteors came from asteroids. \"That orbit really sort of sealed it,\" Dr Brown says.\n\nFireball networks came online through the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, and by 2000, four meteorite orbits were known. Three of those were H-chondrites, the iron-rich class of meteorites that most commonly falls, and the group that Hamburg belongs to.\n\nSince 2000, those meteorites with orbits that can be calculated have increased. Another 10 were spotted by 2010. The last few years have produced a handful of traceable meteorites annually, Dr Brown says.\n\nH-chondrites, like this example that fell in Kansas in 1929, are the most common type of meteorite falls\n\nToday, there are about 30 meteorites whose orbits have been calculated. While the spread of cameras dedicated to tracking fireballs has played an important role, Dr Brown says that casual recordings have also advanced the field.\n\nThe Hamburg fall \"was very well recorded, and that's what makes it so interesting\", Dr Brown says. After the more powerful 2013 Chelyabinsk fireball, \"there's no other fall that had so many video records\".\n\nBut casual video recordings have their downfall. Because they are so much more difficult to calibrate than official surveys, they take more time. That can move them down the priority list for swamped scientists.\n\nDr Brown knows of researchers working on nearly 10 more meteorite orbits, but he estimates that others exist. \"There are data for probably another 20 that people just haven't tried to do because it's so much work,\" he says. \"It's a difficult process.\"\n\nAlthough H-chondrites make up the bulk of the meteorites that survive the plunge through Earth's atmosphere, their origin remains a mystery. In 1998, astronomers proposed the large main-belt asteroid (6) Hebe as the primary parent body because it resembled H-chondrites.\n\nHebe's orbit sits in a location where Jupiter's gravitational forces can stir up material, allowing it to escape from the asteroid belt. Near-Earth asteroids similar to Hebe have also been spotted, suggesting that something - probably the giant planet Jupiter - slung material from the asteroid belt.\n\nHowever, other main-belt asteroids similar to H-chondrites have been identified in recent years, muddying the picture.\n\nThe asteroid (6) Hebe has been proposed as one source of H-chondrites\n\nOf the 30 or so meteorites with known orbits, nearly half are H-chondrites. So far, however, those objects don't seem to be coming from the outer asteroid belt - the side facing Jupiter - where Hebe orbits. Instead, they appear to start their journey from the middle and inner belt, closer to the Sun. And the new discovery isn't helping.\n\n\"Hamburg, unfortunately, adds more questions about the orbit of H-chondrites than it answers,\" Dr Brown says.\n\nNarrowing things down will take more meteorite samples. Dr Brown estimates that doubling the existing known orbits for H-chondrites will allow researchers to make more solid associations with a parent body.\n\nThat assumes the iron-rich asteroids come from a single source; it's possible they come from two or more locations in the asteroid belt.\n\n\"It's a very complicated story,\" Dr Brown says. \"We need to get more of these if we're going to answer these questions more fully.\"", "Chinese telecoms giant Huawei has launched a legal challenge to a decision by US regulators to classify it as a national security threat.\n\nIt comes after the US Federal Communications Commission put curbs on rural mobile providers using a $8.5bn (£6.5bn) government fund to buy Huawei equipment.\n\nThe firm said evidence that it was a threat to security \"does not exist\".\n\nThe move is the latest in a series of challenges between Huawei and the US.\n\nThe company has asked the US Court of Appeal to overturn the decision.\n\nSpeaking at a news conference at Huawei's headquarters in Shenzhen, the company's chief legal officer, Song Liuping, said: \"The US government has never presented real evidence to show that Huawei is a national security threat. That's because this evidence does not exist.\"\n\nThis is the second legal challenge this year by the company as it fights back against the Trump administration's policies.\n\nHuawei launched similar legal action in May, challenging a decision to ban US government agencies from buying its equipment.\n\nThe company has been drawn into the disputes against the backdrop of the bitter trade war between the world's two biggest economies.\n\nIt has a leading role in manufacturing and selling key technology for next generation 5G telecoms infrastructure.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Will superfast 5G mobile be worth the money?\n\nMeanwhile, Washington has been pressuring other nations to not allow Huawei to build their critical 5G telecoms infrastructure.\n\nAt the Nato summit in the UK on Wednesday, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the decision on whether to allow Huawei a role in building Britain's 5G networks would be based on ensuring continued co-operation with the US over intelligence sharing.\n\n\"On Huawei and 5G, I don't want this country to be unnecessarily hostile to investment from overseas,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"On the other hand, we cannot prejudice our vital national security. Nor can we prejudice our ability to co-operate with other vital... security partners - and that will be the key criteria that informs our decision about Huawei.\"", "When you register to vote, your name and address are placed on the electoral roll - a public document that is available to all. For some, that can lead to a potentially dangerous dilemma.\n\n\"If I were being really cynical about it, one could argue that it's almost sexual discrimination by the back door,\" says a women we'll call Kate, as we talk about her struggle to access the vote after escaping an abusive relationship, with the two small boys.\n\nKate was always politically engaged. She had been registered to vote by post at her previous address - but it was too dangerous for her to return there to pick up her ballot paper and she couldn't make her new address public for fear her abusive partner could catch up with her.\n\nBut she still wanted to vote. So she began researching her options. Initially, she found nothing online to help her. Eventually, her mother suggested asking her local council.\n\n\"The first person she spoke to said she had no idea what my mother was talking about but when pressed did find a senior officer,\" Kate says.\n\n\"This officer knew that Icould register anonymously and checked my current address and advised there was a special form that would be posted to me.\"\n\nIt was the first time Kate had heard of the system. It seems many others don't know it exists.", "Winston Trew said his life fell apart after he served eight months in prison\n\nThree men who were jailed nearly 50 years ago on the evidence of a corrupt police officer have had their convictions quashed.\n\nWinston Trew, Sterling Christie, George Griffiths and another man were accused of stealing handbags in 1972.\n\nThe group known as the Oval Four spent eight months in prison for assaulting a police officer and attempted theft.\n\nThe Court of Appeal overturned the convictions due to the unreliability of a detective's evidence.\n\nAfter the hearing, Mr Trew urged anyone wrongfully convicted by evidence given by Det Sgt Derek Ridgewell to bring forward a challenge.\n\n\"If you are innocent, don't give up,\" he said.\n\nJudges described the cases as \"a very unhappy story\" and all three men thanked those who helped overturn their convictions.\n\nThe men, who belonged to a political organisation representing black people in London, were aged between 19 and 23 at the time.\n\nUniversity lecturer, Winston Trew, thanked those who helped overturn his conviction\n\nMr Trew, Mr Christie, now both 69, and Mr Griffiths, 67, were arrested with another man, Constantine \"Omar\" Boucher, at Oval tube station by officers who accused them of mugging women.\n\nA plain clothes police operation was set up on the Northern Line led by Ridgewell, who was later jailed for seven years for conspiracy to steal.\n\nJudge Lord Burnett said there was \"an accumulating body of evidence that points to the fundamental unreliability of evidence given by DS Ridgewell... and others of this specialist group\".\n\nMr Griffiths' solicitor Jenny Wiltshire welcomed the decision, but said it was \"deeply concerning that it has taken so long to happen\".\n\n\"Both the British Transport Police and the Home Office were warned about this police officer's corrupt methods in 1973.\n\n\"They did nothing except move him to a different unit, where he continued to offend so that by 1980 he was serving a seven-year prison sentence for theft,\" she added.\n\nRidgewell was moved to a department investigating mailbag theft, where he joined up with two criminals splitting the profits of stolen mailbags.\n\nIn 1982 he died of a heart attack in prison aged 37.\n\nMr Boucher's conviction was not quashed as the criminal cases review team had been been unable to find him.\n\nThe Oval Four were originally jailed for two years but that was reduced on appeal\n\nThe Lord Chief Justice Lord Burnett who was sitting with Mrs Justice McGowan and Sir Roderick Evans said it was: \"Clear that these convictions are unsafe.\n\n\"We would wish only to note our regret that it has taken so long for this injustice to be remedied,\" he added.\n\nLast January, the 1976 convictions of another man, Stephen Simmons was quashed after Ridgewell was found to have been involved in his case.\n\n\"It is a travesty that these men have waited 47 years for exoneration for crimes that they did not commit. Justice has now finally been done,\" said Mr Christie's lawyer Steven Bird.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour is promising to cap class sizes at 30 pupils across all schools in England if it wins next Thursday's general election.\n\nThe pledge is an extension of the party's commitment in its manifesto to limit classes to this size at all primary schools.\n\nThe party said it would fulfil the pledge by recruiting nearly 20,000 extra teachers over five years.\n\nThe Conservatives said English schools were rising up international rankings.\n\nThe party has pledged an extra £7.1bn by 2022-23 for schools in England.\n\nLabour's pledge to recruit nearly 20,000 teachers is similar to a promise made two weeks ago by the Liberal Democrats.\n\nLib Dem education spokeswoman Layla Moran accused the party of trying to \"copy\" them, but added that Labour had \"no hope of meeting this target\".\n\nShe said Labour would not be able to \"square these promises\" with leaving the EU if voters back the party's Brexit deal in its planned referendum, due to \"thousands of EU teachers coming to work in schools each year\".\n\nLabour said the recruitment would be funded from an extra £25bn in schools spending over the next three years. The party has also committed to ensuring all teachers have formal teaching qualifications within five years.\n\nShadow education secretary Angela Rayner told BBC Breakfast a Labour government could not make changes \"overnight\", but they would \"reversing the trend\" of increasing class sizes and lack of spending under the Conservatives.\n\n\"The investment would go in immediately, so the money that schools have had cut they would instantly see,\" she said.\n\n\"On 13 December, I can't bring in 20,000 teachers, of course not. But what I can do through our National Education Service [is] bring in the training and skills.\n\n\"So, things will move. Will it happen immediately over night? Of course not. But immediately from day one of me being education secretary we will put it in place.\"\n\nThere is a teacher shortage in England, with the latest official statistics showing a 15% shortfall in numbers beginning training for secondary schools.\n\nBut Labour's promise to recruit more may not be easy to deliver.\n\nIn subjects such as physics, fewer than half the required graduates have begun to train.\n\nSchools hire teachers, not the government, and it is harder to attract and keep teachers to work in poorer areas.\n\nThe party also says it would cap all class sizes at 30. At the moment, just over 12% of secondary pupils are taught in classes with between 31-35 pupils.\n\nIn 2009, when Labour was last in government, it was just over 10%.\n\nWhile slightly smaller class sizes could appeal to parents, the international evidence suggests it may make less of a difference to results than the quality of teaching.\n\nLabour is also promising to train up 24,958 unqualified teachers. Official statistics suggest 98.7% of the teachers in England have at least a degree-level qualification, so who is the party talking about?\n\nSome are trainees working towards becoming a qualified teacher. Some are teachers who qualified overseas. Others are described as instructors who bring a special skill from their previous working life.\n\nSome are working in smaller units with excluded children or in schools for children with special needs.\n\nBut there have always been some teachers in these categories in England's schools.\n\nThe National Association of Head Teachers said 47,000 secondary teachers and 8,000 primary teachers would be needed by 2024 to keep pace with an expected increase in pupil numbers.\n\nIts general secretary Paul Whiteman said: \"We need significantly more recruits than Labour are suggesting just to meet rising demand, never mind reduce current class sizes.\"\n\n\"The new recruits we need will not magically appear, and nor will they stay if we don't also address the stress and unnecessary workload that is widespread in the system.\"\n\nPushed on whether Labour's pledges were enough, Ms Rayner said the party was being \"realistic\".\n\n\"We are promising a huge amount more than what the other parties are,\" she told Breakfast.\n\n\"Over the last seven years, the government has missed their recruitment and retention target. Under Labour, you would get 20,000 new teachers and 25,000 unqualified teachers getting qualified.\"\n\nSchools minister Nick Gibb said that in government Labour would \"would wreck the economy, leaving no money for public services\".\n\nHe added that figures this week from the OECD's international school rankings showed English schools had risen up the league tables.\n\nMr Gibb added that schools in Wales, where schools are run by the Labour-led devolved government, were the lowest performing within the UK.\n\n\"Conservative education reforms are improving standards in our schools, meaning children can get a better start in life,\" he added.\n\nLabour is also announcing new plans to tackle homelessness, including £100m a year for emergency winter shelters, £600m to build new hostels, and £200m to refurbish existing ones.\n\nShadow housing secretary John Healey told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that people living on the streets was not \"inevitable\", but a \"direct result of decisions the government has taken in the past 10 years\".\n\n\"Some of these things aren't political,\" he said. \"It shames us all that we have people dying on our streets because they are homeless and shames Conservative ministers most of all.\n\n\"The tragedy is we know what needs to be done as we have done it before... It is a new moral mission for Britain.\"\n\nA Conservative party spokesman said: \"There is record investment going in to tackling homelessness - £1.2bn until April 2020 with a further £422m for 2020-21.\"\n\nThe Conservatives, like Labour, have pledged to end rough sleeping within five years if elected to government.", "Floor plans of MI6's central London headquarters were lost by building contractors during a refurbishment.\n\nThe documents, most of which were recovered inside the building, held sensitive information on the layout, including entry and exit points.\n\nBalfour Beatty, the company working on the refurbishment at the headquarters in Vauxhall, is reportedly no longer working on the project.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it did not comment on intelligence matters.\n\nThe documents, which went missing a few weeks ago, were produced and owned by Balfour Beatty and designed to be used for the refurbishment.\n\nThe contractor kept the plans on the site at Vauxhall Cross in a secure location.\n\nBBC security correspondent Gordon Corera said the missing plans were not classified or intelligence documents, but the pages did hold sensitive details.\n\nMost, but not all, of the documents were recovered inside the building after it was noticed they were missing, he said.\n\nBalfour Beatty said it could not comment because of sensitivities.\n\nThe incident, first reported by the Sun newspaper, is reportedly a result of carelessness, rather than any hostile activity.\n\nBalfour Beatty mainly carries out work in the UK, US and Hong Kong and has 26,000 employees worldwide, according to the company's website.\n\nThe BBC reported earlier this month that Balfour Beatty's order book for 2019 was expected to be more than £14bn - \"significantly higher\" than 2018's £12.6bn book.", "More than 1,000 people have been recognised in the New Year Honours list.\n\nThe majority of recipients are people who have undertaken outstanding work in their communities. But here are some of the better-known names.\n\nHonour: Damehood for services to charity, cancer research and entertainment\n\nQuote: \"I am extremely excited, honoured and grateful beyond words to be included with such an esteemed group of women who have received this distinguished award before me.\n\n\"As a girl born in Cambridge, I am very proud of my British ancestry and so appreciative to be recognised in this way by the United Kingdom.\"\n\nHonour: MBE for services to broadcasting and the culinary arts\n\nOccupation: England cricketer, World Cup and BBC Sports Personality of the Year winner\n\nHonour: Companion of Honour for services to music and charity\n\nHonour: MBE for services to broadcasting and the culinary arts\n\nQuote: \"When I was first told about it, I immediately thought about my dear late mum - which really choked me up, because I know how proud she would have been.\n\n\"Her boy's proud too - it's a great honour for me and for everyone who has helped me on my way.\"\n\nQuote: \"There's been tough times - I remember going away on an England camp when I was 14, and I never got selected then for four years.\n\n\"It was really difficult because a couple of my teammates were being picked.\n\n\"Standing here now, I think I've got 146 caps for England, so I'm glad I made that decision not to quit.\"\n\nHonour: MBE for services to sports broadcasting and promoting women in sport\n\nQuote: \"I am buzzing with excitement like a little girl. I just feel so happy and thrilled, and honoured and privileged to be able to accept this honour.\n\n\"For the last 40 years, I believed that you have to give back and you have to try and think about other people as much as you can because when I came to Britain, aged 10, I had a pretty tough time, people told me to go back, they didn't want me here.\n\n\"And I realised that I was worthy because my parents kept telling me that.\"\n\nHonour: Knighthood for services to art and film\n\nOccupation: Theatre and film director - Olivier and Bafta award winner, Academy Award for American Beauty\n\nQuote: \"I'm amazed, delighted and extremely proud. I have stood on the shoulders of so many collaborators and colleagues over the last 30 years - actors, writers, designers, producers, technicians - to whom I owe a huge debt of gratitude. I would not be receiving this honour without them.\"\n\nHonour: OBE for services to taekwondo and sport\n\nNeed a reminder of what the acronyms mean? Read our guide to the honours", "The crash happened in Manse Road in Bearsden\n\nA 60-year-old woman is in a critical condition with a serious head injury after a car hit a group of people in Bearsden in East Dunbartonshire.\n\nSix other pedestrians were taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital after the crash on Manse Road at about 16:55 on Thursday.\n\nPolice Scotland appealed for witnesses. An eyewitness described the aftermath of the crash as \"total carnage\".\n\nTwo women, aged 21 and 65, and a 15-year-old boy are in a serious but stable condition, while another two women, aged 45 and 52, and a 50-year-old man suffered minor injuries.\n\nThe 64-year-old female driver was taken to Glasgow Royal Infirmary as a precaution.\n\nA nearby resident told the BBC she saw the injured pedestrians when she ran out of her house after the crash.\n\n\"A parked car took the brunt of the impact after the first seven casualties and probably saved more pedestrians being hurt,\" she said.\n\n\"It was pushed back down the road. It was devastating. Total carnage.\"\n\nInsp William Graham from Police Scotland said: \"We're keen to establish the full circumstances and are looking for people to contact us who have any relevant information about this incident.\n\n\"We're appealing for anyone who might have witnessed this incident or saw the grey Land Rover just before the incident happened to contact us.\"\n\nThe road reopened at about 22:00.", "Last updated on .From the section Olympics\n\nRussia has appealed against the World Anti-Doping Agency's (Wada) decision to ban it from all major sporting events for four years.\n\nThe ban means Russia's flag and anthem will not be allowed at events such as the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics and football's 2022 World Cup in Qatar.\n\nThe Russian Anti-Doping Agency (Rusada) has sent a letter to Wada stating that it \"disputes the ban in its entirety\".\n\nThe case will now be heard by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.\n\nIn a letter dated 27 December and addressed to Wada's director general Olivier Niggli, Rusada general director Yury Ganus wrote: \"Rusada herewith disputes the notice in its entirety, including Wada's assertion of non-compliance, the (alleged) facts on which such assertion is based, as well as the sanctions and reinstatement conditions set out in the notice, all of which are unfounded.\"\n\nWada's executive committee made the unanimous decision to impose the ban on Russia in a meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 9 December.\n\nIt came after Rusada was declared non-compliant for manipulating laboratory data handed over to investigators in January 2019.\n\nIt had to hand over data to Wada as a condition of its controversial reinstatement in 2018 after a three-year suspension for its vast state-sponsored doping scandal.\n• None Can Russia still play at the 2022 World Cup and Euro 2020?\n• None Promoters 'confident' race will go ahead despite sporting ban\n\nWada president Sir Craig Reedie said the decision showed its \"determination to act resolutely in the face of the Russian doping crisis\".\n\nHowever, vice-president Linda Helleland says the ban was \"not enough\", and it has also been criticised by other nations' doping bodies.\n\nRussian athletes who can prove they are untainted by the doping scandal will be able to compete under a neutral flag.\n\nA total of 168 Russian athletes competed under a neutral flag at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.\n\nRussia has been banned from competing as a nation in athletics since 2015.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Residents start to clean up after deadly storm hits central Philippines\n\nThe number of people killed by a typhoon that battered the Philippines over the Christmas period has risen to 28, say officials.\n\nTyphoon Phanfone, which made landfall on Tuesday, caused severe floods and destroyed homes in several provinces.\n\nAccording to the National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council, 12 people remain missing.\n\nThe typhoon led to the evacuation of more than 58,000 people and stranded thousands over the holiday period.\n\nOfficials said some of the dead were hit by trees, while others were electrocuted or drowned.\n\n\"The likelihood is present that the casualty count will still increase. We're hoping against it,\" disaster agency spokesman Mark Timbal told news agency AFP.\n\nRescue workers are now carrying out operations\n\nPhanfone struck close to regions hit by Typhoon Haiyan in 2013, which killed more than 6,000 people and considered one of the Philippines' deadliest storms.\n\nTyphoon Phanfone, known locally as Typhoon Ursula, made its way through many islands of central Philippines on 25 December.\n\nIt reached winds of 200kmph (125 miles per hour), leaving thousands stranded as they tried to make their way home for Christmas.\n\nWestern parts of Visayas, the central of the three main island groups that make up the Philippines, were among the worst affected. In lloilo province, at least 13 people died.\n\nAccording to news site Rappler, six people from the same family were killed while visiting the town of Batad for a family funeral.\n\nThe province of Iloilo was among the worst hit\n\nThe popular tourist island of Boracay was also damaged by the typhoon, with homes destroyed and mobile phone and internet access cut off.\n\n\"Communication lines are down. Electricity is still down,\" Jonathan Pablito, a police chief in Alkan province, an island neighbouring Boracay, told agency AFP on Thursday.\n\nTacloban, a low-lying that was destroyed by Typhoon Haiyan, was also among those affected. However, the city escaped the worst of the damage this time round.\n\nThe typhoon is said to have eased in strength on Thursday and has headed towards the South China Sea.", "A still from the defence ministry video shows an Avangard warhead (computer simulation)\n\nRussia's first regiment of Avangard hypersonic missiles has been put into service, the defence ministry says.\n\nThe location was not given, although officials had earlier indicated they would be deployed in the Urals.\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin has said the nuclear-capable missiles can travel more than 20 times the speed of sound and put Russia ahead of other nations.\n\nThey have a \"glide system\" that affords great manoeuvrability and could make them impossible to defend against.\n\nDefence Minister Sergei Shoigu confirmed the \"Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle entered service at 10:00 Moscow time on 27 December\", calling it a \"landmark event\".\n\nMr Putin said on Tuesday the Avangard system could penetrate current and future missile defence systems, adding: \"Not a single country possesses hypersonic weapons, let alone continental-range hypersonic weapons.\"\n\nThe West and other nations were \"playing catch-up with us\", he said.\n\nMr Putin unveiled the Avangard and other weapons systems in his annual state-of-the-nation address in March 2018, likening it to a \"meteorite\" and a \"fireball\".\n\nIn December 2018, the weapon hit a practice target 6,000km (3,700 miles) away in a test launch at Dombarovskiy missile base in the southern Ural Mountains.\n\n\"The Avangard is invulnerable to intercept by any existing and prospective missile defence means of the potential adversary,\" Mr Putin said after the test.\n\nPutin watches on as the Russian military tests the Avangard missile system in December 2018\n\nMounted on top of an intercontinental ballistic missile, the Avangard can carry a nuclear weapon of up to two megatons. Russia's defence ministry has released video of the Avangard system, but weapons experts have expressed scepticism about its effectiveness.\n\nIn a statement, the Pentagon said it would \"not characterise the Russian claims\" about the Avangard's capabilities. The US has its own hypersonic missile programme, as does China, which in 2014 said it had conducted a test flight of such as weapon.\n\nOn 26 November Russia allowed US experts to inspect the Avangard under the rules of the 2010 New START treaty, an agreement that seeks to reduce the number of strategic nuclear missile launchers.\n\nThe New START accord, which expires in February 2021, is the last major nuclear arms control treaty between Russia and the US.\n\nIn August this year, the US withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), which was signed by US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987.\n\nUS President Donald Trump said he wanted a new nuclear pact to be signed by both Russia and China.\n\nIt is hard to determine if Russia's new Avangard hypersonic missile system really has entered service, as Moscow claims, or if this is just an advanced phase of field testing.\n\nBut President Putin's eagerness to claim bragging rights is to some extent justified. Russia looks to be ahead in the hypersonic stakes. China is also developing such systems; while the US appears to be somewhat behind.\n\nHypersonic missiles, as their name implies, fly very fast, at above Mach 5 - ie at least five times the speed of sound.\n\nThey can be cruise-type missiles, powered throughout their flight. Or, they can be carried aloft on board a ballistic missile from which the hypersonic \"glide vehicle\" separates and then flies to its target.\n\nSuch \"boost-glide\" systems, as they are known (Avangard appears to be one of these), are launched like a traditional ballistic missile, but instead of following an arc high above the atmosphere, the re-entry vehicle is put on a trajectory that allows it to enter Earth's atmosphere quite quickly, before gliding, un-powered, for hundreds or thousands of kilometres.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Russia released footage of two hypersonic systems in July 2018 - but was also concerned about a suspected leak of secrets\n\nIt is not so much the speed of the hypersonic weapon alone that counts. It is its extraordinary manoeuvrability as it glides towards its target.\n\nIndeed the glide vehicle's trajectory, \"surfing along the edge of the atmosphere\" as one expert put it to me recently, presents any defensive system with additional problems.\n\nThus, if Russia's claims are true, it has developed a long-range intercontinental missile system that may well be impossible to defend against.\n\nThe announcement that Avangard is operational heralds a new and dangerous era in the nuclear arms race.\n\nIt confirms once again President Putin's focus on bolstering and modernising Russia's nuclear arsenal. It's indicative of the return of great power competition.\n\nSome analysts might well see Russia's development programme as a long-term strategy to cope with Washington's abiding interest in anti-missile defences. The US argument that these are purely designed to counter missiles from \"rogue-states\" like Iran or North Korea has carried little weight in Moscow.\n\nThis all comes at a time when the whole network of arms control agreements inherited from the Cold War is collapsing.\n\nOne crucial treaty - the New START agreement - is due to expire in February 2021. Russia seems willing to extend the agreement but the Trump administration has so far appeared sceptical.\n\nWith a whole new generation of nuclear weapons at the threshold of entering service, many believe not just that existing agreements should be bolstered, but that new treaties are needed to manage what could turn into a new nuclear arms race.", "Gabriel Diya and his daughter Comfort died at a resort on the Costa del Sol\n\nA woman whose husband and two children drowned in a resort swimming pool on the Costa del Sol on Christmas Eve has insisted all three knew how to swim.\n\nSpanish police concluded Gabriel Diya, 52, his daughter Comfort Diya, nine, and his son Praise-Emmanuel Diya, 16, died after getting out of their depth.\n\nBut Olubunmi Diya has denied that - and said \"something was wrong with the pool\" at the resort in Fuengirola.\n\nHotel operator Club La Costa World said the pool was \"working normally\".\n\nA statement from the Spanish police said initial evidence found the incident was a \"tragic accident\" caused by the victim's \"lack of expertise\" in swimming.\n\nAn autopsy of the bodies found they died by drowning.\n\nEarlier, Spanish media reported another of Mrs Diya's daughters had told police that the three could not swim.\n\nBut, in a statement released to the media, Mrs Diya said \"We never informed the police or anyone that the family members could not swim.\"\n\nShe added: \"I believe something was wrong with the pool that must have made swimming difficult for them at that point in time.\n\n\"My husband went in via the steps trying to help the two struggling [children] while I ran to the nearby apartments shouting for help to assist my husband.\n\n\"By the time assistance came, the three of them were under the water.\"\n\nIn response to Mrs Diya's statement, Club La Costa World resort said her claims were \"directly at odds with the findings of the police report\" and \"their exhaustive investigations have confirmed the pool was working normally and there was no malfunction of any kind\".\n\nThe resort said the pool remained closed \"out of respect to the victims of this tragedy\".\n\n\"Our sympathies remain with the family at what we understand must be a stressful and desperately upsetting time for them,\" a statement added.\n\nA police spokesman said divers retrieved Comfort's swimming hat from the pool pump but investigators had found nothing wrong with the pool.\n\nThey also confirmed there were no lifeguards on duty because it was so small it was \"not necessary\".\n\nThe sprawling Club La Costa World resort has several swimming pools\n\nPaying tribute to her husband and children, Mrs Diya said she was \"utterly heartbroken\".\n\nShe added: \"We are deeply shocked, saddened and struggling to come to terms with their passing.\n\n\"They all brought a joy and love to the world and to everyone that crossed their path.\n\n\"We love them all dearly, will always remember them in our hearts and miss them greatly.\"\n\nMr Diya was a pastor at the Redeemed Christian Church of God in south-east London.\n\nHis fellow pastor Agu Irukwu described him as a \"humble, friendly and a committed pastor and Christian leader\".\n\nLemmy Gbenga Ayodele, from the same church, said that it was \"difficult to comprehend\" the death of his \"very good friend\" and two children.\n\nHe added: \"When you said 'bye and seeing you later' a few days ago I didn't know you meant eternity.\"", "Ellie Goulding started the decade by winning the BBC's Sound of 2010 competition\n\nPop star Ellie Goulding has scored the final number one of the decade, with her version of Joni Mitchell's River.\n\nHer track dethrones LadBaby's I Love Sausage Rolls, which plummets to number 57 after just one week on the chart.\n\nRiver is Goulding's third number one, following 2013's Burn and 2015's Love Me Like You Do.\n\nShe managed the achievement despite the song being an Amazon exclusive, meaning it was unavailable on Spotify, Apple Music and other streaming services.\n\nHowever, fans could stream the song on YouTube, where it was accompanied by a video highlighting the problem of plastic pollution.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by EllieGouldingVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nThe clip, directed by David Soutar, sees Goulding and her friends gathering litter and discarded plastic on the beaches of Dungeness, and using it to make a zero-waste Christmas tree.\n\nShooting the video was \"a timely reminder that every single piece of plastic ever made is still on this planet,\" the star said in a statement.\n\n\"It's a material that will last for hundreds of years so we need to have a plan. We wanted to show something different and to incorporate a different type of Christmas message while creating something reusable and beautiful.\"\n\nThe track scored 78,000 chart sales. The rest of the singles chart was dominated by Christmas songs, with 29 festive hits appearing in the Top 40.\n\nMariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You led the chasing pack at number two, with Wham's Last Christmas at three. Both songs were streamed more than 1.5m times on Spotify on Christmas Day alone.\n\nFurthermore, the latter track, featuring the vocals of the late George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley, failed to reach even number two despite having set a new UK chart record for the most number of streams in one week - overtaking Ariana Grande's 7 Rings - with a massive 17.1 million plays.\n\nIn the album chart, Rod Stewart's You're In My Heart held on to the top spot for a third week.\n\nThe record, which features new orchestral arrangements of hits like Maggie May and Stay With Me, is the star's 10th number one.\n\nMichael Buble's Christmas album was at number two - its highest chart placing since it was first released in 2011 - followed by Lewis Capaldi's platinum-selling Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent at three.\n\nAnd Lana Del Rey's fifth album, Norman Rockwell, rebounded 45 places to number 32, after topping numerous \"best of 2019\" lists in the run-up to Christmas.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A major incident room has been set up at Caernarfon police station\n\nDetectives have been granted an extra 36 hours to question a man held on suspicion of murdering a woman on Christmas Day.\n\nEmergency services attended Francis Avenue, Fairbourne, Gwynedd, following reports a 74-year-old woman had suffered serious injuries.\n\nDespite attempts by relatives, police and paramedics to save her, she was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nPolice were called to Francis Avenue on Christmas Day\n\nDet Ch Insp Brian Kearney, of North Wales Police, described the woman's death as \"truly tragic\" and added it was a \"very rare type of occurrence in north west Wales\".\n\nA major incident room has been set up 50 miles away at Caernarfon police station.\n\nPolice family liaison officers are supporting the dead woman's family, the force added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Astronomers are concerned that the bright satellites could hinder their research\n\nAstronomers are warning that their view of the Universe could be under threat.\n\nFrom next week, a campaign to launch thousands of new satellites will begin in earnest, offering high-speed internet access from space.\n\nBut the first fleets of these spacecraft, which have already been sent into orbit by US company SpaceX, are affecting images of the night sky.\n\nThey are appearing as bright white streaks, so dazzling that they are competing with the stars.\n\nScientists are worried that future \"mega-constellations\" of satellites could obscure images from optical telescopes and interfere with radio astronomy observations.\n\nDr Dave Clements, an astrophysicist from Imperial College London, told BBC News: \"The night sky is a commons - and what we have here is a tragedy of the commons.\"\n\nThe companies involved said they were working with astronomers to minimise the impact of the satellites.\n\nWhy are so many satellites being launched?\n\nIt's all about high-speed internet access.\n\nInstead of being constrained by wires and cables, satellites can beam internet access down to the ground from space.\n\nAnd if you have lots of them in orbit, it means even the most remote regions can get connectivity.\n\nOneWeb's satellite constellation will sit 1,200km above the Earth\n\nTo give you an idea of the numbers, there are currently just 2,200 active satellites flying around the Earth.\n\nBut as of next week, the Starlink constellation - a project by US company SpaceX - will start sending batches of 60 satellites into orbit every few weeks. This will mean about 1,500 satellites have been launched by the end of next year, and by the mid-2020s there could be a fleet of 12,000.\n\nUK company OneWeb are aiming for about 650 satellites - but this could rise to 2,000 if there is enough customer demand.\n\nWhile Amazon have a constellation of 3,200 spacecraft planned.\n\nIn May and November, Starlink sent 120 satellites into orbits below 500km.\n\nBut stargazers were concerned when the spacecraft appeared as bright white flashes on their images.\n\nDhara Patel, an astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich said: \"These satellites are about the size of a table, but they're very reflective, and their panels reflect lots of the Sun's light, which means that we can see them in images that we take with telescopes.\n\n\"These satellites are also big radiowave users… and that means they can interfere with the signals that astronomers using. So it also affects radio astronomy as well.\"\n\nShe warns that problem will grow as the numbers of satellites in orbit increase.\n\nWhat could this mean for research?\n\nDr Clements believes the satellites could have a real impact on observations.\n\n\"They present a foreground between what we're observing from the Earth and the rest of the Universe. So they get in the way of everything.\n\n\"And you'll miss whatever is behind them, whether that's a nearby potentially hazardous asteroid or the most distant Quasar in the Universe.\"\n\nHe said it would be particularly troublesome for telescopes taking large surveys of the sky, such as the future Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) in Chile.\n\nHe explained: \"What we want to do with LSST and other telescopes is to make a real-time motion picture of how the sky is changing...\n\n\"Now we have these satellites that interrupt observations, and it's like someone's walking around firing a flashbulb every now and again.\"\n\nBut Prof Martin Barstow, an astrophysicist from the University of Leicester said some of the problems could be fixed.\n\n\"The numbers of satellites do sound frightening, but actually space is big - so when you superimpose them all on the sky, the density of these things is not going to be very large,\" he said.\n\n\"And because the satellites have known positions, you can mitigate. A satellite is going to be a dot in an image and it might appear as a transient burst of light - but you will know about it and can remove it from the image.\n\n\"It will cost effort and work for observatories to deal with it, but it can be done.\"\n\nFor radioastronomy, however, the constellations could pose more of an issue - especially for relatively new telescopes, such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA).\n\nThe radio signals the satellites use will be different from the ones astronomers are looking for, but they could still interfere, said Prof Barstow.\n\nWhat do the companies involved say?\n\nSpaceX want to see if they can make their satellites less bright\n\nSpaceX told the BBC that they were actively working with international astronomers to minimise the impact of the Starlink satellites.\n\nFor their next launch, they are trialling a special coating that is designed to make the spacecraft less bright to see if this will help.\n\nOneWeb said they wanted to be a \"thought leader in responsible space\" and were putting their satellites into an orbit of 1,200km so they would not interfere with astronomical observations.\n\nRuth Pritchard-Kelly, vice president of OneWeb, said: \"We chose an orbit as part of our dedication to responsible use of outer space… And we've also talked to the astronomy community before we launched to make sure that that our satellites won't be too reflective, and that there won't be radio interference with their radio astronomy.\"\n\nShe added that it shouldn't be a case of having to choose between connectivity and astronomy.\n\n\"There is no question that the entire world is entitled to be connected to the internet…. So it's going to happen. And probably three or four of these systems are going to happen,\" she said.\n\n\"And the question will be working with the other stakeholders to make sure that we're not interfering with them, whether they are existing satellite technologies, or the mobile phone on the ground, or the astronomy community.\n\n\"We know we're going to work it out with everybody.\"\n\nStargazers will be watching the skies to see if a compromise can be found.", "Mr Netanyahu faced a challenge from Gideon Saar (right), one of his former ministers\n\nIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed a \"huge win\" in a vote that challenged his leadership of the Likud party.\n\nMr Netanyahu secured 72.5% as opposed to his rival Gideon Saar, who polled 27.5%.\n\nMr Saar admitted defeat, saying he would now back Mr Netanyahu in a general election due in March.\n\nThe internal party vote was seen as a test of Mr Netanyahu's hold on power at a time of mounting difficulties.\n\nMr Netanyahu, 70, faces trial on bribery and corruption charges, as well as a third national election within a year.\n\nPrevious elections held in April and September saw Likud deadlocked with the centrist Blue and White party - with neither able to form a government.\n\n\"Huge victory!\" Mr Netanyahu tweeted. \"Thank you Likud members for the vote of confidence, support and love. God willing and with your help, I will lead the Likud to a great victory in the upcoming elections and will continue to lead the state of Israel to unprecedented achievements.\"\n\n\"I am content with my decision to have stood,\" he tweeted. \"Those who are unwilling to take a risk for what they believe in will never succeed.\n\n\"My colleagues and I will stand behind [Netanyahu] in campaigning for the Likud's success in the general elections,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Saar, a well-known figure in the party, had warned that Likud would not win the forthcoming elections under Mr Netanyahu.\n\nBenjamin Netanyahu had been expected to win comfortably but campaigned tirelessly because he wanted the result to show his grip on the party remained strong, the BBC's Barbara Plett Usher in Jerusalem says.\n\nMr Netanyahu, who is the country's longest serving leader, is facing mounting difficulties after being indicted in three corruption cases last month.\n\nHe denies wrongdoing and claims the charges are a politically motivated \"witch-hunt\" against him.", "A fugitive has been arrested during a Christmas Day meal in the Netherlands after five years on the run.\n\nDaniel Burdett, 28, from Liverpool, sat down to dinner at a restaurant in The Hague when Dutch police arrested him, the National Crime Agency said.\n\nHe is facing 10 charges of conspiracy to import firearms and conspiracy to supply class A and B drugs.\n\nMr Burdett will appear before Dutch magistrates and is set to be extradited to the UK.\n\nThe arrest was part of an investigation into a group thought to be using truck drivers to smuggle firearms and ammunition from the Netherlands to the UK, an NCA spokeswoman said.\n\nMark Spoors, NCA branch commander, said: \"The arrest of one of our long-standing fugitives is a fantastic result.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Composer Jerry Herman, who created the music and lyrics to classic Broadway shows like Hello, Dolly! and La Cage aux Folles, has died aged 88.\n\nThe star, who was diagnosed with HIV in the 1980s, died in Miami on Thursday of pulmonary complications, his god-daughter told the Associated Press.\n\nHerman won two Tony Awards and two Grammys, and was known for his melodic, sentimental and upbeat style.\n\nOne of his best-known songs was I Am What I Am, which became an LGBT anthem.\n\nChoreographer Sir Matthew Bourne led tributes to the musician, describing him as \"one of the all-time greats.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe New Yorker was seen as the successor to Irving Berlin, and he acknowledged that seeing the Russian-American composer's Annie Get Your Gun had set him on the path to Broadway.\n\n\"I walked out of that theatre singing all those wonderful Berlin songs and, from that moment on, that's all I wanted to do with my life,\" he told NPR in 1994.\n\nIn 1964 Hello, Dolly! - the story of a matchmaker trying to find a partner for an unmarried rich man - became his first major success.\n\nStarring Carol Channing, it ran for a record-breaking 2,844 performances on Broadway, and went on to win 10 Tony awards, including best composer and lyricist for Herman, who also won a Grammy for the title song.\n\nTwo years later came Mame, the tale of an eccentric bohemian whose lavish lifestyle is interrupted by the arrival of her nephew. Critics said the show, which starred Angela Lansbury and Bea Arthur, was too similar to Herman's previous hit - but it ran for four years.\n\nBoth musicals became well-known movies, with Barbra Streisand starring in the 1969 adaptation of Hello, Dolly! directed by Gene Kelly.\n\nThe 1970s were less successful for Herman and the musical Mack and Mabel closed quickly - although its songs, including I Won't Send Roses, later became standards.\n\nIn 1983, he premiered La Cage aux Folles, a musical version of a French comedy about a gay couple. It became his third hit and Gloria Gaynor's cover of its big number, I Am What I Am, became an 80s disco classic.\n\nIt took the Tony award for best musical and was to be Herman's last big smash, as he devoted more time to his off-stage career of developing property.\n\nHowever, he was to fall under the spotlight one final time, when one of Hello, Dolly's songs, entitled It Only Takes a Moment, was used prominently in the 2008 Pixar movie Wall-E, after the director stumbled upon it by chance.\n\nHerman had been living with his partner, real estate broker Terry Marler, at the time of his death.\n\nSuch is the enduring appeal of his tunes that Hello, Dolly! is set for a West End revival next year, with Imelda Staunton in the lead role.\n\nLast month, Strictly Come Dancing judge Craig Revel Horwood delivered his own interpretation of the show, performing in drag to a medley of Herman's songs during musicals week.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of youtube video by BBC Strictly Come Dancing\n\nAnd in 1982, British ice skaters Torvill and Dean famously used the overture from his musical Mack And Mabel to soundtrack their gold medal-winning routine at the World Championships in Copenhagen.\n\nAfter the BBC was flooded with calls from people asking where they could buy the music, the original cast album was re-released and reached the top 40 - eight years after its Broadway premiere.\n\nWhen Herman heard the news, he was perplexed that the British public had suddenly fallen in love with a show that closed after 66 performances and never transferred to the West End.\n\n\"I said, 'That's got to be a mistake, because show albums in these days don't get into charts,'\" he told the Telegraph, confessing that the notorious flop had actually been his favourite piece of work.\n\n\"My musicals are my children [so] I should never say I prefer this to that,\" he explained, but \"I just have never tired of Mack and Mabel.\n\n\"I guess you kind of love the one that didn't make it.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Rail passengers are being warned to expect disruption as major engineering work takes place in Edinburgh.\n\nNetwork Rail is renewing four sets of points and replacing 250m of track at Haymarket East junction, to the west of the station.\n\nMany services will be affected as the junction is one Scotland's busiest, used by up to 30 trains an hour.\n\nNo trains will be able to pass through Haymarket and replacement buses will operate into Waverley from the west.\n\nNormal services are due to resume on all routes from 10:00 on Sunday.\n\nThe upgrade is aimed at improving the reliability of the track but requires several days of work.\n\nIt has been scheduled for the holiday period to minimise disruption, as there were no ScotRail services into Edinburgh on Christmas Day or Boxing Day.\n\nScotRail is urging customers to consider making alternative arrangements as the work continues into Friday and Saturday.\n\nMany services will terminate before reaching Edinburgh, with only limited replacement transport available. Details of affected services are available at the ScotRail website.\n\nNetwork Rail said engineers would be working round the clock on track renewal\n\nLiam Sumpter, Network Rail Scotland route director, said: \"Haymarket East junction is a key part of Scotland's Railway and is used by hundreds of trains a day travelling to destinations across Scotland and England.\n\n\"We understand the inconvenience this work will cause to some passengers, but renewing such a complex piece of our railway cannot be accomplished without a short-term closure of the line.\n\n\"Our engineers have carefully planned this project to be completed as quickly as possible and we are working hard alongside our train operators to keep passengers informed of the changes to services during this important investment in the railway.\"\n\nNick King, spokesman for Network Rail, told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland radio programme: \"So far work is progressing very well so we are expecting the job to be completed as planned as engineers are working around the clock.\"\n\nEfforts to improve the line in Glasgow took place on Christmas Day and Boxing Day with engineers renewing 300m of track at Shields Road.\n\nIn Lanarkshire a signalling upgrade was taking place, with control of the West Coast mainline signals transferred from Motherwell to the new £200m West of Scotland Signalling Centre in Glasgow.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Colin Weir won a then record jackpot with his wife Chris in 2011\n\nColin Weir, who won one of Europe's biggest lottery jackpots, has died after a short illness aged 71.\n\nMr Weir and wife Chris, from Largs in North Ayrshire, claimed the £161m Euromillions prize in 2011.\n\nEarlier this year the pair confirmed that they were to divorce after 38 years of marriage.\n\nMr Weir recently completed his takeover of Scottish Championship football club Partick Thistle and had announced plans to gift ownership of the club to fans.\n\nA minute's applause was held at Saturday's Partick Thistle game to commemorate Mr Weir's death.\n\nPlayers also paid tribute by wearing black armbands during the fixture against Greenock Morton.\n\nIn 2013 the couple set up The Weir Charitable Trust and made a donation to a community football club in Largs.\n\nThey also invested in Partick Thistle Football Club which led to the youth set-up being rebranded the Thistle Weir Youth Academy and a section of their Firhill Stadium being named the Colin Weir Stand.\n\nIn November this year Mr Weir secured a majority shareholding at the club and promised to give the 55% shareholding directly to a fans group by March 2020.\n\nThe club tweeted: \"It is with deep sadness that we confirm that lifelong Jags fan Colin Weir passed away earlier today.\n\n\"On behalf of everyone at Partick Thistle, our love, thoughts and prayers are with the family and close friends of Colin at this most difficult time.\"\n\nIt later added: \"To commemorate the sad passing of lifelong Jags fan, Colin Weir, there will be a minute's applause held ahead of kick-off at this afternoon's Ladbrokes Championship game against Greenock Morton.\n\n\"Thistle players will also be wearing black armbands during this afternoon's fixture.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for Mr Weir's lawyers asked for \"privacy for his family and friends at this distressing time\".\n\nThey said in a statement: \"It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Colin Weir early today after a short illness.\n\n\"No further comment will be made other than to offer sincere thanks to the staff of University Hospital Ayr for their care and compassion.\"\n\nThe couple defended making a donation of £1m to the independence campaign ahead of the 2014 referendum, and continued donating to the SNP afterwards.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she was \"incredibly sad\" to hear of the death.\n\n\"Colin's determination and generosity in the cause of Scottish independence cannot be overstated and was hugely appreciated,\" she said.\n\n\"The SNP and the independence movement has lost a true friend today and we will miss him dearly.\"\n\nRecalling the night of their win back in 2011, the couple said they stayed awake all night after discovering their good fortune at about midnight as they checked their tickets on the BBC's Red Button text service.\n\nAt the time it was one of Europe's biggest ever lottery wins after a series of rollovers boosted the jackpot.\n\nMr Weir, who previously worked as a television cameraman, is survived by his two adult children.", "A man died after the fire in the second floor flat in Parnie Street\n\nA man has died after a fire at a flat in the Trongate area of Glasgow.\n\nScottish Fire and Rescue crews were called to the blaze on the second floor of flats in Parnie Street at about 01:35.\n\nPolice Scotland said a man was removed from one of the flats and treated by ambulance staff at the scene. However he was pronounced dead.\n\nAn investigation to establish the cause of the fire is under way. Other residents were evacuated.\n\nResidents were evacuated from the block\n\nRoddie Keith from Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said: \"Firefighters located and removed one man from inside the property, who was treated at the scene by our crews and ambulance staff, however sadly he was pronounced dead.\n\n\"A joint fire investigation alongside our Police Scotland colleagues is now under way.\"\n\nFire crews also tackled a separate blaze on the 22nd floor of a high rise in Kirkton Avenue in Knightswood on Friday morning.\n\nFour appliances and an aerial unit were sent to Dunvegan Court at 04:56. Three people were treated - two in hospital.\n\nFire appliances at Dunvegan Court in Knightswood where a fire broke out on the 22nd floor\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mendes (left) and McQueen became CBEs in 2000 and 2011 respectively\n\nOscar-winning British film-makers Sam Mendes and Steve McQueen have both been knighted in the New Year Honours.\n\nMendes, who won the Academy Award for best director for American Beauty, has been recognised for services to drama.\n\nThe director of two Bond films said he was \"amazed, delighted and extremely proud\" to receive the honour.\n\nMcQueen - recognised for services to art and film - is the first black film-maker to win the best picture Oscar, for 2013's 12 Years a Slave.\n\nBefore moving into movies, both men enjoyed successful careers in other aspects of the arts.\n\nMendes, 54, built his early reputation on the stage, as artistic director of London's Donmar Warehouse and for his productions of such musicals as Oliver! and Cabaret.\n\n\"I have stood on the shoulders of so many collaborators and colleagues over the last 30 years - actors, writers, designers, producers, technicians - to whom I owe a huge debt of gratitude,\" he said.\n\n\"I would not be receiving this honour without them.\"\n\nMcQueen won the Turner Prize in 1999 for his film and video works - fending off competition from the likes of Tracey Emin.\n\nThe 50-year-old is currently working on a TV series set within London's West Indian community.\n\nSam Mendes with his best director Oscar trophy\n\nReading-born Mendes began his career in the theatre, directing productions for the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Donmar Warehouse.\n\nHe won a Laurence Olivier award in 1995 for directing The Glass Menagerie, and another the following year for his revival of the musical Company.\n\nAmerican Beauty, his first film, saw him win best director honours at the 2000 Golden Globes and the Oscars that followed.\n\nHis other films included Jarhead, Road to Perdition and 2008's Revolutionary Road, which starred his then-wife Kate Winslet,\n\nHis other film credits include 2012's Skyfall and 2015's Spectre, the two recent instalments in the James Bond series.\n\nHis upcoming war epic, 1917, tells of two young British soldiers racing against time to avert an assault on their comrades.\n\nIn 2000 Mendes was made a CBE for services to drama.\n\nMcQueen with the Oscar he received for producing 12 Years a Slave\n\nMcQueen's early work includes Deadpan, a black-and-white 1997 short in which he recreated a stunt from Buster Keaton's silent film Steamboat Bill, Jr.\n\nHe subsequently went to Basra as an official war artist and produced Queen and Country, a 2007 work that marked the deaths of British soldiers in Iraq by presenting their portraits as a sheet of stamps.\n\nHunger, McQueen's first feature film, told the story of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands.\n\nHe went on to work again with its star Michael Fassbender on 2011's Shame and 12 Years a Slave, an intense and graphic adaptation of an 1850s slave memoir.\n\nHis most recent feature, 2018's Widows, relocated Lynda La Plante's 1980s TV series about female criminals to contemporary Chicago.\n\nLast month McQueen's exhibition of photographs of more than 75,000 Year 3 London school children was unveiled at Tate Britain.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. More than 75,000 children from London schools were photographed\n\nThe project, inspired by McQueen looking at his own 1977 class photo, was intended to serve as a visual snapshot of people in his home city.\n\nMcQueen received a CBE in 2011 for services to the visual arts.\n\nJoining McQueen and Mendes as a newly-named knight of the realm is the playwright and screenwriter Christopher Hampton.\n\nThe 73-year-old is best known for his 1985 play Les Liaisons Dangereuses, which he helped adapt into the Oscar-winning 1988 film Dangerous Liaisons.\n\nBritish classical music presenter Humphrey Burton also becomes a knight for his services to classical music, the arts and media.\n\nDamehoods are given to Baroness Floella Benjamin, novelist Rose Tremain and Grease star Olivia Newton-John.\n\nSir Elton John, meanwhile, is made a Companion of Honour for services to music and charity.\n\nThe pop veteran joins fellow musician Sir Paul McCartney in the elite order, which has a maximum 65 members at any one time.\n\nPeaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, EastEnders actor Rudolph Walker and Butterflies actress Wendy Craig all become CBEs.\n\nSo does trailblazing DJ Annie Nightingale, the first female presenter on BBC Radio 1.\n\nAinsley Harriott and Nadiya Hussain are now MBEs\n\nQueen drummer Roger Taylor and Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol - whose track Chasing Cars was recently named the most listened-to song of the 21st Century on UK radio - now have OBE after their names. The Northern Irish singer-songwriter, who has campaigned to raise awareness of dementia lost his father Jack to the condition over Christmas.\n\nWine expert Oz Clarke, playwright James Graham, food writer Nigel Slater, cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and broadcaster June Sarpong - the BBC's new director of creative diversity - are all OBEs now too.\n\nChef Ainsley Harriott, Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain and children's TV favourite Derek Griffiths become MBEs, as do British-Trinidadian pop singer Billy Ocean and Mike Pender of Merseybeat band The Searchers.\n\nSo do fashionista Gok Wan, BBC Sport's Gabby Logan and Hamilton star Giles Terera, who recently made headlines after accusing a London blues bar of racial profiling - claims the bar denied.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The retiring president of the Supreme Court says legal aid cuts in England and Wales have caused \"serious difficulty\" to the justice system.\n\nBaroness Hale, who was guest editing BBC Radio 4's Today, said it was a particular problem in family courts.\n\nIn 2013, legal aid was removed from many civil law cases to achieve a saving of £350 million a year.\n\nThe government said it was piloting early legal advice in some welfare cases, plus extra financial support.\n\nBaroness Hale of Richmond, who retires next month, is the first female president of the Supreme Court, which is the final court of appeal in the UK.\n\nShe said: \"I don't think that anybody who has anything to do with the justice system of England and Wales could fail to be concerned about the problems which the reduction in resources in several directions has caused for the system as a whole.\"\n\nThe outgoing president said the problem was particularly evident in family courts.\n\nLady Hale said: \"It's unreasonable to expect a husband and wife or mother and father who are in crisis in their personal relationship to make their own arrangements without help.\"\n\nShe said in such family dispute cases \"there may be an imbalance in resources because of the lack of access\".\n\nMost people require legal help at the beginning of cases, she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"There was a gasp in the courtroom\" - retiring Supreme Court President Lady Hale\n\nAdditional resources would allow many disputes to be resolved at an early stage, without the need to go to court or stretch their finances, she added.\n\n\"It is that lack of initial advice and help which is a serious difficulty.\"\n\nA Ministry of Justice spokesperson said: \"We are improving early legal support to reduce the number of people going to court unnecessarily and prevent undue stress and costs.\n\n\"We are piloting early legal advice in certain welfare cases, have committed £5 million for a Legal Support Innovation Fund to identify and resolve legal problems, and will soon launch an awareness campaign to improve understanding of entitlements.\n\n\"This is on top of £1.7 billion we spent on legal aid last year and ongoing work to improve the Exceptional Case Funding scheme and legal aid means testing.\"\n\nThe BBC found last year that about a million fewer claims for legal aid are being processed each year, with \"deserts\" of provision across England and Wales.\n\nLady Hale turns 75 years old next month, which is the mandatory retirement age for judges appointed before 1995.\n\nShe made headlines in September when she delivered the Supreme Court's ruling that Prime Minister Boris Johnson's decision to suspend Parliament was unlawful.\n\nLegal aid is the money provided by the government to cover legal costs for those who cannot afford them.\n\nCuts to legal aid came into effect on 1 April, 2013 as part of the government's plan to save £350 million a year.\n\nThe changes meant that some types of cases, such as divorce, welfare benefits, child contact, housing law and employment were no longer eligible for public funds.\n\nSuch cuts have proved controversial, with the Criminal Bar Association, which represents criminal lawyers in England and Wales, advising its members last year to strike.\n\nAngela Rafferty QC, chair of the CBA, said that underfunding meant the poor and vulnerable were \"being denied access to justice\".", "One of the Chagos Islands, Diego Garcia, as seen from space\n\nThe UK has been accused of committing \"crimes against humanity\" for refusing to allow people to return to their former homes on the Chagos Islands, despite a ruling earlier this year by the United Nation's highest court.\n\nDescribing Britain's behaviour as stubborn and shameful, the prime minister of Mauritius, Pravind Jugnauth, told the BBC that he was exploring the possibility of bringing charges of crimes against humanity against individual British officials at the International Criminal Court (ICC).\n\n\"It is a violation of the basic principle of human rights. I fail to understand why Britain, this government, is being so stubborn,\" said Mr Jugnauth.\n\nElderly Chagossians, living in Mauritius, have echoed that criticism and accused Britain of deliberately dragging its heels on the issue in the hope that the community will simply die out.\n\nEarlier this year, Mauritius won a major victory against Britain when the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague ruled - in an advisory opinion - that the Chagos Islands should be handed over to Mauritius in order to complete its \"decolonisation.\"\n\nThe United Nations General Assembly then voted to give Britain a six-month deadline to begin that process. Britain has steadfastly refused to comply.\n\nIt is half a century since Britain took control of the Chagos Islands from its then colony, Mauritius, and evicted the entire population of more than 1,000 people in order to make way for an American military base - part of a secret deal negotiated behind Mauritius's back as it was seeking to secure independence from the UK.\n\n\"Britain has been professing, for years, respect for the rule of law, respect for international law… but it is a pity the UK does not act fairly and reasonably and in accordance with international law on the issue of the Chagos archipelago,\" said Mr Jugnauth.\n\nPhilippe Sands, a lawyer representing the Mauritian government, said: \"Britain is on the edge of finding itself as a pariah state.\n\n\"We now have a situation where Chagossians - a deported population, want to go back and have a right to go back. And the UK is preventing them from going back.\n\n\"Question - is that a crime against humanity? My response is that, arguably, it is.\"\n\nBritain continues to insist that the ICJ ruling is wrong. But it has apologised for its past treatment of the Chagossians and promised to hand the islands over to Mauritius when they are no longer needed for security purposes.\n\nIn a statement, Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) told the BBC: \"The defence facilities on the British Indian Ocean Territory help protect people in Britain and around the world from terrorist threats and piracy.\n\n\"We stand by our commitment to cede sovereignty of the territory to Mauritius when it's no longer required for defence purposes.\"\n\nThe FCO said Britain had pledged more than £40m to improve the livelihoods of Chagossians living in Mauritius, the Seychelles and the UK.\n\nThe UK has also begun to take small groups of Chagossians back to the archipelago for brief \"heritage\" visits.\n\nBut in Mauritius, those tours have been condemned as a crude attempt to \"divide and rule\" the Chagos community.\n\n\"I boycott those trips. The British are trying to buy our silence. That's why we say our dignity is not for sale,\" said Olivier Bancoult, who heads the Chagos Refugees Group.\n\nThe inscription on the gravestone of a Chagossian in Port Louis reads: \"Diego my land. I would have loved to have finished my life there.\"\n\nIn a graveyard in the Mauritian capital, Port Louis, the graves of several Chagossians are marked with headstones mourning their failure to return to the islands.\n\n\"I fear my wish will not come true before I die - to see my motherland again,\" reads the script beside the grave of Mr Bancoult's mother, Marie Rita Elysee Bancoult.\n\n\"Every day, one by one, we're dying. I believe the British are waiting for us to die so there will be no one to claim the islands,\" said Liseby Elyse, 66, who was 20 when she left the archipelago.\n\n\"We're like birds flying over the ocean, and we have nowhere to land. We must keep flying until we die,\" said 81-year-old Samynaden Rosemond.", "A heatwave forecast to sweep across Australia in coming days could escalate conditions for the nation's bushfires, authorities fear.\n\nTemperatures are set to hit over 40C (104F) from Friday in several bushfire-affected states including New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria.\n\nThere are more than 100 fires burning, with the largest to the west of Sydney.\n\nFirefighters took advantage of cooler temperatures over Christmas to try and and contain fire fronts.\n\n\"[It] is all about shoring up protection before we see the conditions deteriorate again,\" said New South Wales Rural Fire Service Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons on Friday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by NSW RFS This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe surge of heat is due to return just a week after Australia recorded its two hottest days on record, consecutively. On 19 December, the national average maximum hit an all-time high of 41.9C (107.4F).\n\nFire officials said they were bracing for similar dryness, low humidity and volatile winds. Last week, dozens of homes were lost in rural towns south-west of Sydney from a flare-up in the blazes.\n\n\"We're not expecting the catastrophic conditions like we've seen in the last few weeks... but it's certainly going to be another tough period,\" said Mr Fitzsimmons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Shaimaa Khalil visited the village of Balmoral which was razed by the fires\n\nHolidaymakers have been warned to check the status of major highways before setting out, after some roads were cut off last week due to bushfires.\n\nMassive blazes to the south-west of Sydney could also pose a threat to the city's drinking water supplies, reported the Sydney Morning Herald.\n\nAustralia has been ravaged by bushfires which have killed nine people and razed hundreds of homes since September.\n\nAs the fires rage on, Australia's government has been criticised for its response to the crisis and its reluctance to acknowledge the impact of climate change.\n\nProtesters in New South Wales called for greater action on climate change\n\nPublic debate in the past week has centred on compensation for volunteer firefighters, who make up almost 90% of the responders battling the blazes in New South Wales. Last week, two volunteer firefighters died while en route to a blaze near Sydney.\n\nPrime Minister Scott Morrison has consistently rebuffed suggestions of payments to volunteers. Instead, on Tuesday, he announced an extended paid leave entitlement for public servants who went to fight the fires.\n\nHowever government minister Darren Chester broke ranks on Thursday, suggesting payments or a tax was necessary in the long term.\n\n\"Once you move to campaign fires - fires that go weeks and months - we have volunteers taking a long time away from work,\" he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.\n\n\"How much pressure can we keep putting on them?\"", "The victim died outside a property in Woodcroft Road, Thornton Heath\n\nA second man has been arrested over the killing of a 60-year-old man who was stabbed in a street in south London.\n\nThe victim was found injured in Woodcroft Road, Thornton Heath, Croydon, at 21:30 GMT on Monday and died minutes later.\n\nA 41-year-old was arrested on Boxing Day on suspicion of murder.\n\nA 50-year-old man who was arrested at the scene on Monday remains in a stable condition in hospital after he became unwell, police said.\n\nDetectives have asked for anyone with information to come forward.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A CCTV image shows Anthony Knott in Market Street walking back towards the pub\n\nAn image of the last known sighting of missing firefighter Anthony Knott has been released by police.\n\nThe 33-year-old was last seen at a pub in Lewes, East Sussex, during a work night out on Friday 20 December.\n\nHe had been with a group of friends at The Lamb pub in Fisher Street, but for unknown reasons he left the premises alone at about 19:16 GMT.\n\nThe image shows him walking up Market Street - towards the pub - at 19:41, 20 minutes after his phone was turned off.\n\nSpecialist teams have carried out extensive searches of the area surrounding the pub and the open-air Pells Pool area, which has been severely affected by flood water over the past few days.\n\nCh Insp Sarah Godley said: \"We have reviewed CCTV footage from a number of premises such as homes and businesses, and we are continuing to retrieve and review further footage as we attempt to find out what happened to Anthony.\n\n\"Our searches have included local officers, drones and the dog unit, and we have also been assisted by London Fire Brigade, East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service, the National Police Air Service helicopter, Sussex Search and Rescue and the Coastguard agency in our quest to locate Anthony.\"\n\nThe firefighter was due home in the early hours of 21 December\n\nShe said: \"The area we have searched includes Pells Pool and Pellbrook Cut, as well as bins, street furniture, alleyways and dark areas.\n\n\"In addition to the local area, we have also extended our search of the River Ouse north towards Hamsey.\"\n\nCh Insp Godley added that a further search of the Pells Pool area and the river would be carried out over the weekend as the natural water level falls.\n\n\"We will continue to search for Anthony until we get the answers his family are so desperately seeking. Seven days on, our priority remains to find him,\" she said.\n\nPolice have said they are \"growing increasingly concerned\" for Mr Knott's welfare.\n\nThere have been no signs that the 33-year-old, who had been due to return home to Orpington in the early hours of Saturday, had left the town.\n\nMr Knott, who is 5ft 8ins (1.73m) tall, was wearing a black long-sleeved top, dark denim coat, dark jeans and black shoes.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Bushfires, which continue to rage in Australia, are having a negative impact on the country's tourism industry, business owners have reported.\n\nIn areas such as the Blue Mountains, people in the area say thick smoke is putting off visitors.\n\nAuthorities fear a heatwave forecast in the coming days could escalate the dangerous conditions.", "A man who was shot dead on Christmas Eve in front of his family may have had criminal links in Sweden, police have said.\n\nFlamur Beqiri, a Swedish national, was killed in Battersea Church Road in Wandsworth, south-west London, at about 21:00 GMT.\n\nThe Met Police said it thought the 36-year-old was the victim of a targeted attack.\n\nNo arrests have been made, the force added.\n\nAccording to reports, Mr Beqiri is the brother of former Real Housewives Of Cheshire star Misse Beqiri.\n\nNeighbours described hearing multiple gunshots and a woman screaming for help.\n\n\"Flamur's family, his wife and very young child, bore witness to this horrific attack and are coming to terms with having their world turned upside down,\" Det Insp Jamie Stevenson, of the Homicide and Major Crime Command, said.\n\nMr Beqiri was shot \"just yards from home\"\n\nHe added Mr Beqiri was of Albanian heritage and had been living in London for four or five years.\n\n\"Work is ongoing to determine what the possible motive could be, and while we retain an open mind, we are considering that this is a targeted attack,\" he continued.\n\n\"We believe Flamur may possibly have been involved in some criminality in Sweden, and are in liaison with our Swedish counterparts to try to understand what, if any, incidents there may have been that might have led to someone seeking retribution against Flamur in the UK.\"\n\nHe said he would not comment further, adding the investigation was \"in the very early days\".\n\nPolice remained at the scene in Battersea Church Road on Boxing Day\n\nThe lone assailant is believed to have fled on foot in the direction of Battersea Bridge Road.\n\nPolice are appealing for any witnesses or anyone with information to come forward.\n\nThere have been more than 145 homicides in London in 2019, the highest number in a calendar year since 2008.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "9 January A Boeing 737, operated by Sriwijaya Air, crashes into the Java Sea minutes after taking off from Jakarta. All 62 people on board are killed, including seven children and three babies. Officials say a problem with the aircraft's autothrottle had been reported a few days before the crash.\n\n22 May An Airbus A320 carrying 91 passengers and eight members of crew crashes in a residential area of the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, killing more than 90 people. At least two passengers survive the crash.\n\nFlight PK8303 crashed just short of the perimeter at Karachi's Jinnah International Airport\n\n8 January Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 crashes shortly after taking off from the Iranian capital Tehran, killing all 176 passengers and crew members on board. The incident took place amid escalating tensions between the US and Iran, and the Iranian government eventually admitted it had downed the plane \"unintentionally\".\n\n10 March An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max crashes six minutes after take-off from Addis Ababa. All 157 people onboard are killed. The victims come from more than 30 countries.\n\n29 October A Boeing 737 Max, operated by Lion Air, crashes into the Java Sea shortly after taking off from Jakarta, Indonesia. All 189 passengers and crew are killed, and a volunteer diver dies in the subsequent recovery operation. Investigators said the plane - which had had technical problems on previous flights - should have been grounded.\n\n18 May A Boeing 737 passenger plane crashes shortly after take-off from Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, killing 112 people. One passenger survives.\n\n11 April A military plane crashes shortly after take-off near the Algerian capital Algiers, killing all 257 people on board, including 10 crew members. Most of the dead are soldiers and their families.\n\n12 March A plane carrying 71 passengers and crew crashes on landing at Kathmandu airport. More than 50 people are killed when the Bombardier Dash 8 turboprop comes down.\n\n18 February A passenger plane crashes into the Zagros mountains in Iran killing all 66 people on board. The Aseman Airlines ATR turboprop crashes about an hour after taking off in the capital, Tehran, heading for the south-western city of Yasuj.\n\n11 February A Russian passenger plane crashes minutes after leaving Moscow's Domodedovo airport with 71 people on board. The Antonov An-148 belonging to Saratov Airlines was en route to the city of Orsk in the Ural mountains when it crashed near the village of Argunovo, about 80km (50 miles) south-east of Moscow.\n\nThere were no passenger jet crashes in 2017 - the safest year in the history of commercial airlines.\n\n25 December A Russian military Tu-154 jet airliner crashes in the Black Sea, with the loss of all 92 passengers and crew. The plane came down soon after take-off from an airport near the city of Sochi. It was carrying artistes due to give a concert for Russian troops in Syria, along with journalists and military.\n\nBereaved residents of the Black Sea resort of Sochi must now come to terms with the latest air disaster\n\n7 December All 48 people on board a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane were killed when it crashed in the north of the country. The national airline - accused of safety failures in the past - insisted this time that strict checks on Flight PK-661 from Chitral to Islamabad left \"no room for any technical error\".\n\nAll 48 people on board the Pakistan International Airlines plane were killed when it crashed in the north of the country on 7 December\n\n28 November The plane carrying the football team of the Brazilian club Chapecoense runs out of fuel and crashes near Medellin, Colombia, killing 71 people, including most of the players and management. Three players were among the six survivors, while nine did not travel.\n\n19 May French President Francois Hollande confirms that an EgyptAir flight reported missing between Paris and Cairo has crashed, with 66 people on board.\n\n19 March A FlyDubai Boeing 737-800 crashes in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, killing all 62 people on board.\n\n31 October An Airbus A321, operated by Russian airline Kogalymavia, crashes over central Sinai some 22 minutes after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh, killing all 224 people on board. The Islamic State group's local affiliate later says it brought down the plane in response to Russian intervention in Syria.\n\n30 June Indonesian Hercules C-130 military transport plane crashes into a residential area of Medan. The army says all 122 people on board died, along with at least 19 on the ground.\n\n24 March: Germanwings Airbus A320 airliner crashes in the French Alps near Digne, on a flight from Barcelona to Dusseldorf. All 148 people on board were feared dead.\n\n28 December: AirAsia QZ8501 flying from Surabaya in Indonesia to Singapore goes missing over the Java sea. The pilot radioed for permission to divert around bad weather but no mayday alert was issued. There were 162 passengers and crew on board.\n\n24 July: Air Algerie AH5017 disappears over Mali amid poor weather near the border with Burkina Faso. The McDonnell Douglas MD-83 was operated by Spain's Swiftair, and was heading from Ouagadougou to Algiers carrying 116 passengers - 51 of them French. All are thought to have died.\n\n23 July: Forty-eight people die when a Taiwanese ATR-72 plane crashes into stormy seas during a short flight. TransAsia Airways GE222 was carrying 54 passengers and four crew to the island of Penghu. It made an abortive attempt to land before crashing on a second attempt.\n\nMalaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was believed to have been shot down over conflict-hit Ukraine\n\n17 July: Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crashes near Grabove in eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board, 193 of them Dutch. Pro-Russian rebels are widely accused of shooting the plane down using a surface-to-air missile - they deny responsibility.\n\n8 March: The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines MH370 during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing leads to the largest and most expensive search in aviation history. Despite vast effort, notably in the hostile South Indian Ocean, nothing was found until July 2015, when an aircraft wing part washed up on Reunion Island. French officials confirmed the debris was from MH370.\n\n11 February: A military transport plane - a Hercules C-130 - carrying 78 people crashes in a mountainous part of north-eastern Algeria. Reports suggest there is one survivor from among the military personnel, family members and crew.\n\n17 November: Tatarstan Airlines Boeing 737 crashes on landing in Kazan, Russia, killing all 50 people on board.\n\n16 October: Forty-nine people, including foreigners from some 10 countries as well as Laotian nationals, die when a Lao Airlines ATR 72-600 plunges into the Mekong River as it came in to land.\n\n3 June: A Dana Air passenger plane with about 150 people on board crashes in a densely populated area of Nigeria's largest city, Lagos.\n\n20 April: A Bhoja Air Boeing 737 crashes on its approach to the main airport in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, killing all 121 passengers and six crew.\n\n26 July: Some 78 people are killed when a Moroccan military C-130 Hercules crashes into a mountain near Guelmim in Morocco. Officials blamed bad weather.\n\nThe pilot of the IranAir Boeing 727 which crashed near the north-western city of Orumiyeh reported a technical failure before trying to land\n\n8 July: A Hewa Bora Airways plane crash-lands in bad weather in Democratic Republic of Congo, killing 74 of the 118 people on board.\n\n9 January: An IranAir Boeing 727 breaks into pieces near the city of Orumiyeh, killing 77 of the 100 people on board. The pilots had reported a technical failure before trying to land.\n\n5 November: An Aerocaribbean passenger turboprop crashes in mountains in central Cuba, killing all 68 people on board.\n\n28 July: A Pakistani plane on an Airblue domestic flight from Karachi crashes into a hillside while trying to land at Islamabad airport, killing all 152 people on board.\n\n22 May: An Air India Express Boeing 737 overshot a hilltop airport in Mangalore, southern India, and crashed into a valley, bursting into flames and killing 158.\n\n12 May: An Afriqiyah Airways Airbus 330 crashes while trying to land near Tripoli airport in Libya, killing more than 100 people.\n\n10 April: A Tupolev 154 plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski crashes near the Russian airport of Smolensk, killing more than 90 people on board.\n\n25 January: Ethiopian Airlines passenger jet crashes into the sea with 89 people on board shortly after take-off from Beirut.\n\n15 July: A Caspian Airlines Tupolev plane crashes in the north of Iran en route to Armenia. All 168 passengers and crew are reported dead.\n\n30 June: A Yemeni passenger plane, an Airbus 310, crashes in the Indian Ocean near the Comoros archipelago. Only one of the 153 people on board survives.\n\n1 June: An Air France Airbus 330 travelling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris crashes into the Atlantic with 228 people on board. Search teams later recover some 50 bodies in the ocean.\n\nAll 168 passengers and crew were reported dead when a Caspian Airlines Tupolev plane crashed in the north of Iran en route to Armenia\n\n20 May: An Indonesian army C-130 Hercules transport plane crashes into a village on eastern Java, killing at least 97 people.\n\n12 February: A passenger plane crashes into a house in Buffalo, New York, killing all 49 people on board and one person on the ground.\n\n14 September: A Boeing-737 crashes on landing near the central Russian city of Perm, killing all 88 passengers and crew members on board.\n\n20 August: A Spanair plane veers off the runway on take-off at Madrid's Barajas airport, killing 154 people and injuring 18.\n\n30 November: All 56 people on board an Atlasjet flight are killed when it crashes near the town of Keciborlu in the mountainous Isparta province, about 12km (7.5 miles) from Isparta airport.\n\n16 September: At least 87 people are killed after a One-Two-Go plane crashed on landing in bad weather at the Thai resort of Phuket.\n\n17 July: A TAM Airlines jet crashes on landing at Congonhas airport in Sao Paulo, in Brazil's worst-ever air disaster. A total of 199 people are killed - all 186 on board and 13 on the ground.\n\n5 May: A Kenya Airways Boeing 737-800 crashes in swampland in southern Cameroon, killing all 114 on board. The official inquiry is yet to report on the cause of the disaster.\n\n1 January: An Adam Air Boeing 737-400 carrying 102 passengers and crew comes down in mountains on Sulawesi Island on a domestic Indonesian flight. All on board are presumed dead.\n\n29 September: A Boeing 737 carrying 154 passengers and crew crashed into the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, killing all on board, after colliding with a private jet in mid-air.\n\n22 August: A Russian Tupolev-154 passenger plane with 170 people on board crashes north of Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine.\n\n9 July: A Russian S7 Airbus A-310 skids off the runway during landing at Irkutsk airport in Siberia. A total of 124 people on board die, but more than 50 survive the crash.\n\n3 May: An Armavia Airbus A-320 crashes into the Black Sea near Sochi, killing all 113 people on board.\n\n10 December: A Sosoliso Airlines DC-9 crashes in the southern Nigerian city of Port Harcourt, killing 103 people on board.\n\n6 December: A C-130 military transport plane crashes on the outskirts of the Iranian capital Tehran, killing 110 people, including some on the ground.\n\nA mass funeral was held for those who died when a Mandala Airlines plane with 112 passengers and five crew on board crashed after take-off in the Indonesian city of Medan\n\n22 October: A Bellview airlines Boeing 737 carrying 117 people on board crashes soon after take-off from the Nigerian city of Lagos, killing everyone on board.\n\n5 September: A Mandala Airlines plane with 112 passengers and five crew on board crashes after take-off in the Indonesian city of Medan, killing almost all on board and dozens on the ground.\n\n16 August: A Colombian plane operated by West Caribbean Airways crashes in a remote region of Venezuela, killing all 160 people on board. The airliner, heading from Panama to Martinique, was packed with residents of the Caribbean island.\n\n14 August: A Helios Airways flight from Cyprus to Athens with 121 people on board crashes north of the Greek capital Athens, apparently after a drop in cabin pressure.\n\n16 July: An Equatair plane crashes soon after take-off from Equatorial Guinea's island capital, Malabo, west of the mainland, killing all 60 people on board.\n\n3 February: The wreckage of Kam Air Boeing 737 flight is located in high mountains near the Afghan capital Kabul, two days after the plane vanished from radar screens in heavy snowstorms. All 104 people on board are feared dead.\n\n21 November: A passenger plane crashes into a frozen lake near the city of Baotou in the Inner Mongolia region of northern China, killing all 53 on board and two on the ground, officials say.\n\n3 January: An Egyptian charter plane belonging to Flash Airlines crashes into the Red Sea, killing all 141 people on board. Most of the passengers are thought to be French tourists.\n\n25 December: A Boeing 727 crashes soon after take-off from the West African state of Benin, killing at least 135 people en route to Lebanon.\n\n8 July: A Boeing 737 crashes in Sudan shortly after take-off, killing 115 people on board. Only one passenger, a small child survived.\n\nThe Benin air crash happened when a Boeing 727 dropped out of the sky soon after take-off, killing at least 135 people travelling to Lebanon\n\n26 May: A Ukrainian Yak-42 crashes near the Black Sea resort of Trabzon in north-west Turkey, killing all 74 people on board - most of them Spanish peacekeepers returning home from Afghanistan.\n\n8 May: As many as 170 people are reported dead in DR Congo after the rear ramp of an old Soviet plane, an Ilyushin 76 cargo plane, apparently falls off, sucking them out.\n\n6 March: An Algerian Boeing 737 crashes after taking off from the remote Tamanrasset airport, leaving up to 102 people dead.\n\n19 February: An Iranian military transport aircraft carrying 276 people crashes in the south of the country, killing all on board.\n\n8 January: A Turkish Airlines plane with 76 passengers and crew on board crashes while coming in to land at Diyarbakir.\n\n23 December: An Antonov 140 commuter plane carrying aerospace experts crashes in central Iran, killing all 46 people aboard. The delegation had been due to review an Iranian version of the same plane built under licence.\n\n27 July: A fighter jet crashes into a crowd of spectators in the west Ukrainian town of Lviv, killing 77 people, in what is the world's worst air show disaster.\n\n1 July: Seventy-one people, many of them children die when a Russian Tupolev 154 aircraft on a school trip to Spain collides with a Boeing 757 transport plane over southern Germany.\n\n25 May: A Boeing 747 belonging to Taiwan's national carrier - China Airlines - crashes into the sea near the Taiwanese island of Penghu, with 225 passengers and crew on board.\n\n7 May: China Northern Airlines plane carrying 112 people crashes into the sea near Dalian in north-east China.\n\n7 May: On the same day, an EgyptAir Boeing 735 crash lands near Tunis with 55 passengers and up to 10 crew on board. Most people survive.\n\n4 May: A BAC1-11-500 plane operated by EAS Airlines crashes in the Nigerian city of Kano, killing 148 people - half of them on the ground.\n\n15 April: Air China flight 129 crashes on its approach to Pusan, South Korea, with over 160 passengers and crew on board.\n\n12 February: A Tupolev 154 operated by Iran Air crashes in mountains in the west of Iran, killing all 117 on board.\n\n29 January: A Boeing 727 from the Ecuadorean TAME airline crashes in mountains in Colombia, killing 92 people.\n\n12 November: An American Airlines A-300 bound for the Dominican Republic crashes after takeoff in a residential area of the borough of Queens, New York, killing all 260 people on board and at least five people on the ground.\n\n8 October: A Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) airliner collides with a small plane in heavy fog on the runway at Milan's Linate airport, killing 118 people.\n\nThe crashed American Airlines flight of November 2000 left much of the Rockaway neighbourhood of New York enveloped by smoke\n\n4 October: A Russian Sibir Airlines Tupolev 154,en route from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk in Siberia, explodes in mid-air and crashes into the Black Sea, killing 78 passengers and crew.\n\n3 July: A Russian Tupolev 154,en route from Yekaterinburg in the Ural mountains to the Russian port of Vladivostok, crashes near the Siberian city of Irkutsk, killing 133 passengers and 10 crew.\n\n30 October: A Singapore Airlines Boeing 747 bound for Los Angeles crashes after take-off from Taipei airport in Taiwan, killing 78 of the 179 people on board.\n\n23 August: A Gulf Air Airbus crashes into the sea as it comes in to land in Bahrain, killing all 143 people on board.\n\n25 July: Air France Concorde en route for New York crashes into a hotel outside Paris shortly after takeoff, killing 113 people, including four on the ground.\n\nThe Singapore Airlines Boeing 747 heading for Los Angeles crashed soon after take-off from Taipei airport in Taiwan\n\n17 July: Alliance Air Boeing 737-200 crashes into houses attempting to land at Patna, India, killing 51 people on board and four on the ground.\n\n19 April: Air Philippines Boeing 737-200 from Manila to Davao crashes on approach to landing, killing all 131 people on board.\n\n31 January: Alaska Airlines MD-83 from Mexico to San Francisco plunges into ocean off southern California, killing all 88 people on board.\n\n30 January: Kenya Airways A-310 crashes into Atlantic Ocean shortly after takeoff from Abidjan, Ivory Coast, en route for Lagos, Nigeria. All but 10 of the 179 people on board die.\n\n31 October: EgyptAir Boeing 767 crashes into Atlantic Ocean after taking off from John F. Kennedy Airport in New York on flight to Cairo, Egypt, killing all 217 on board.\n\n24 February: China Southwest Airlines plane crashes in a field in China's coastal Zhejiang province after a mid-air explosion. All 61 people on board the Russian-built TU-154 flying from Chongqing to the south-eastern city of Wenzhou are killed.\n\n11 December: Thai Airways International A-310 crashes on a domestic flight during its third attempt to land at Surat Thani, Thailand, killing 101 people.\n\n2 September: Swissair MD-11 from New York to Geneva crashes in the Atlantic Ocean off Canada killing all 229 people on board.\n\n16 February: Airbus A-300 owned by Taiwan's China Airlines crashes near Taipei's Chiang Kai-shek airport while trying to land in fog and rain after a flight from Bali, Indonesia. All 196 on board and seven people on ground are killed.\n\n2 February: Cebu Pacific Air DC-9 crashes into mountain in southern Philippines, killing all 104 people aboard.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A major incident room has been set up at Caernarfon police station\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a 74-year-old woman died at a house in Gwynedd on Christmas Day.\n\nEmergency services were called to Francis Avenue, Fairbourne, just after 20:00 GMT following reports she had suffered serious injuries.\n\nDespite attempts by relatives, police and paramedics to save her, she was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nNorth Wales Police said a 75-year-old man had been arrested and was being held for questioning.\n\nDet Ch Insp Brian Kearney said: \"This is a truly tragic and very rare type of occurrence in north west Wales and I wish to reassure the public that we are not looking for anyone else in connection with this incident.\"\n\nHe added that a major incident room had been set up at Caernarfon police station and that the coroner had been informed.\n\nFamily liaison officers are supporting relatives of the victim.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nWolves fought back from two goals down to beat 10-man Manchester City in a memorable and controversial Premier League encounter at Molineux.\n\nCity looked as though they would make light of the 12th-minute red card shown to goalkeeper Ederson for a foul on Diogo Jota when Raheem Sterling scored twice.\n\nThe first came after two dramatic interventions by the video assistant referee, one to award City a penalty, then to rule a retake, both of which Rui Patricio saved before Sterling tapped the rebound from the second kick into an empty net.\n\nBut Wolves, roared on by a passionate crowd, levelled through Adama Traore and Raul Jimenez before Matt Doherty won it with a shot from the edge of the area in the final minute.\n\nThe result leaves City in third place, 14 points behind Premier League leaders Liverpool, who have a game in hand.\n\nThere were jubilant scenes among the home fans at the final whistle - but the match was overshadowed by an incident which saw objects thrown from the stands as City celebrated their opener.\n\nIt seems certain that will lead to further action, as a public announcement needed to be made warning supporters that charges would be brought against anyone caught on CCTV committing an offence.\n• None Title race is over, says Guardiola\n\nWhen Sterling scored the opener, Manchester City manager Guardiola did not look entirely satisfied that the winger had taken both spot-kicks.\n\nThere was no complaint about the England international's second goal of the night, though, as he raced on to Kevin de Bruyne's superb through ball and chipped brilliantly past an advancing Rui Patricio.\n\nIt was the first time Sterling had scored two in a league game since the opening day of the season - and City seemed certain to become only the sixth team in Premier League history to win after having a man sent off in the opening 12 minutes.\n\nInstead, it provided the backdrop to a Wolves comeback that will live long in the memory.\n\nGuardiola had brought on Eric Garcia and changed to a three-man defence at the break. It was supposed to repel the twin threat posed by Jimenez's power and Traore's pace. But that defence was breached five minutes after Sterling's second when Traore drove a shot into the bottom corner from the edge of the area.\n\nIt was the Spaniard's third goal of the season against City - only Eden Hazard and Jamie Vardy had previously scored that many against a Guardiola team in a Premier League season.\n\nMore was to come. A dreadful loss of possession inside his own area by Benjamin Mendy allowed Traore to cross low for Jimenez, who converted from close range.\n\nRoared on by a partisan crowd and with tensions on the touchline heightening, Wolves won it - with Doherty providing the climax by drilling home from the edge of the area. He raced away to be greeted by ecstatic team-mates as Nuno Espirito Santo and his coaching staff leapt for joy on the touchline.\n\nBoth sides must play again within 48 hours of the final whistle at Molineux - a result of the congested festive fixture programme that has brought complaints from both Nuno and Guardiola.\n\nAn early night for Ederson and Aguero\n\nIn his pre-match media conference, Guardiola said replacing Sergio Aguero would be one of his hardest tasks as manager.\n\nThe City boss was referring to the possibility of the striker's exit at the end of his contract in 2021. Little did he know then that he would be replacing Aguero against Wolves after just 12 minutes.\n\nJust back from a thigh injury, the Argentine was only playing at Molineux because Gabriel Jesus had been ruled out through illness.\n\nBut when Ederson raced out of his penalty area and clumsily brought Jota down, Aguero was the man substituted to allow second-choice keeper Claudio Bravo to come on.\n\nAguero looked less than impressed, although he got himself off the pitch far quicker than Ederson.\n\nThe Brazilian keeper pleaded his case to referee Martin Atkinson, waited for VAR confirmation that the decision was correct, and then hung around some more before eventually heading down the tunnel.\n\nVAR in the middle of more drama\n\nIf the VAR intervention for Ederson's dismissal was fairly straightforward, what happened around City's opening goal lit the fuse for furious reactions on the pitch and disgraceful scenes off it that led to the public address announcement warning supporters about their behaviour.\n\nThe trigger was a tackle on City winger Riyad Mahrez by Wolves defender Leander Dendoncker, which Atkinson ignored as he awarded a goal-kick. VAR had other ideas and decided contact between the pair merited a City penalty.\n\nSterling took it, Rui Patricio saved to his right and the ball was cleared behind for a corner.\n\nBut VAR wasn't done. Replays showed Wolves skipper Conor Coady had encroached into the penalty area before making the clearance, so a retake was awarded.\n\nOn the touchline, Guardiola appeared to be screaming for someone else to take it. The message did not get through. Again Sterling went to Patricio's right. Again the Wolves keeper saved. But this time the rebound rolled straight back to the City man, who tapped home.\n\nIn front of the home dug-out, Wolves assistant boss Rui Silva was furious, ripping off his gloves in a rage before shouting at fourth official Andre Marriner.\n\nThe City players celebrated in front of the Jack Hayward Stand. As they did so, missiles were thrown at them, one of which was handed to Atkinson, who in turn, brought it to the touchline for Marriner to pass to Wolves security staff.\n\nIt was after that the public announcement came, although this just fuelled anti-VAR sentiment among the Wolves fans, who made their feelings clear by chanting \"it's not football any more\".\n\nWhy Wolves can never be written off - the key stats\n• None Wolves have won more points from losing positions than any other side in the Premier League this season (14).\n• None Manchester City had just 37.8% possession versus Wolves - the lowest figure recorded by a side managed by Pep Guardiola in top-flight history.\n• None City lost a Premier League game having led by two or more goals for the first time since April 2018, when they were beaten 3-2 at home by Manchester United. Only Tottenham (eight) and West Ham (six) have lost more games in Premier League history having led by two or more goals than Manchester City (five), with two of those defeats coming under Pep Guardiola.\n• None Wolves have completed their first league double over Manchester City for the first time since 1999-2000 in the second tier, and for the first time in the top-flight since 1960-61.\n• None Adama Traore is only the third player to score three goals in a single Premier League season against Guardiola's Manchester City, following Eden Hazard and Jamie Vardy (both in 2016-17).\n• None Of all the players with more than one top-flight goal to their name, Traore is the only man ever to have scored more than half of his Premier League goals against the reigning champions. Three of his five top-flight strikes have come against the champions, a ratio of 60%.\n• None Manchester City's Raheem Sterling has scored more goals in all competitions this season than any other Premier League player (20).\n• None Wolves' Raul Jimenez has been directly involved in 26 goals in all competitions this season (17 goals, nine assists) - more than any other Premier League player.\n• None Ederson became just the second Manchester City goalkeeper to be sent off in the Premier League, after Andy Dibble against QPR in October 1994.\n• None No player has provided more assists in Europe's big five leagues this season than Manchester City's Kevin de Bruyne (11).\n\nBoth sides have less than 48 hours to prepare for their next Premier League fixture in the busy Christmas period.\n\nWolves go to Premier League leaders Liverpool on Sunday (16:30 GMT), with Manchester City hosting Sheffield United on the same day (18:00 GMT).\n• None Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) hits the bar with a right footed shot from outside the box from a direct free kick.\n• None Attempt blocked. Bernardo Silva (Manchester City) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Kyle Walker with a cross.\n• None Goal! Wolverhampton Wanderers 3, Manchester City 2. Matt Doherty (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Raúl Jiménez.\n• None Attempt blocked. Rúben Neves (Wolverhampton Wanderers) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by João Moutinho.\n• None Goal! Wolverhampton Wanderers 2, Manchester City 2. Raúl Jiménez (Wolverhampton Wanderers) left footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Adama Traoré. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Didzis Pirags has bought a house but wants the National Lottery win to \"soak in\" before making further purchases\n\nA pub chef who worked on Christmas Day despite winning £1m on a scratchcard four days earlier has said he felt he needed to finish his shifts.\n\nLatvian national Didzis Pirags, 36, won the cash while playing online during his lunch break at the Phantom Winger pub in Broughton, Preston, on Saturday.\n\nHe had been working 60 hours a week at the pub but said he now wanted to spend more time with his son.\n\nHe said the win was \"the best dream come true ever at Christmas time\".\n\nThe 36-year-old was in his flat at the pub when he won the money online\n\nMr Pirags, who moved to the UK nine years ago, said he had been spending his lunch break with his son, who lives with him in a flat above the pub, when he started playing an online National Lottery game.\n\n\"The first thing I scratched off said £1m - the nanny was there and I said 'could you look at it please, I can't believe it, is that £1m?',\" he said.\n\n\"I literally ran downstairs and said to my boss 'look, look it's £1m, isn't it?'\n\n\"She said 'yeah, it is £1m' and I rang the number and they confirmed it.\"\n\nHe said he had decided to work over Christmas, despite the win, adding: \"I still need to finish my shifts.\"\n\nHe has since bought a four-bedroom house with his winnings and treated his son to some headphones as an extra Christmas present, but said he wanted to let the win \"soak in\" before spending more.\n\n\"All I want is to be able to provide the best possible life for my son and this win will enable me to do exactly this,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Treasury is reportedly planning to rewrite rules governing public spending in a move that may benefit areas in the Midlands and North of England.\n\nThe changes, reported by the Times, would make it easier for cash to be allocated to projects outside of London and the South East.\n\nIt could help boost investment in infrastructure, business development projects and schemes like free ports.\n\nThe Treasury has not denied the reports.\n\nCurrent rules require government to allocate cash to projects that promise the biggest economic benefits.\n\nThose projects tend to have most impact in areas with more people and businesses.\n\nBut under the new plans, reported on Friday, investment decisions would be made with a focus on reducing inequality between northern and southern England, rather than promoting overall economic growth across the country.\n\nIt will affect decisions made about projects ranging from rail improvements to investment in scientific research.\n\nAfter Boris Johnson's electoral wins in northern England, the pressure is on to deliver on promises to spend more money improving road and rail links, and increase productivity beyond the South East.\n\nSources at the Treasury suggest there will some big changes at the next budget this spring.\n\nAt the moment, projects are given the go-ahead based on how much money they would add per person, which favours heavily populated areas, and tends to attract more funding to London.\n\nNew rules would allow money to be spent on different criteria - improving wellbeing and productivity imbalances across the country. That includes transport schemes and scientific research and development.\n\n\"A big project in the North will often be stimulating growth, which wouldn't otherwise happen,\" said Henri Murison from the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, which speaks for business and civic leaders across northern England.\n\nBut, in the South, that investment will help a regional economy that is already expected to grow significantly, he told the BBC.\n\n\"If the UK is going to succeed post-Brexit, we need to get comparable levels of growth in the North and in the Midlands,\" he said.\n\nBut Tom Forth from the Open Data Institute Leeds said the rules on value for money were not to blame for regional spending disparities.\n\n\"For as long as we have records, far more UK government money has been invested in public transport in south-east England than in the cities of north England and the Midlands,\" he said.\n\n\"There is no evidence that this was because investing in London offered better value for money.\n\n\"The rules say the Treasury should invest with preference to schemes with higher value for money.\n\n\"But there is no evidence that it has done that.\"\n\nA Treasury spokesperson said: \"We work across government to ensure investment is focused on where it is needed across the UK and delivers value for money for the taxpayer.\"\n\nAfter his election victory, Boris Johnson thanked voters in northern England for \"breaking the voting habits of generations\" and placing their trust in the Conservatives.\n\n\"Everything that we do, everything that I do as your prime minister, will be devoted to repaying that trust,\" Mr Johnson said.\n• None PM thanks northern voters for 'trust' in Tories", "Former residents returned to the abandoned city to decorate the tree\n\nA Christmas tree has been put up for the first time since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in the central square of the nearby \"ghost town\" of Pripyat, Ukraine's ZIK TV channel reports.\n\nOnce home to more than 47,000 residents, Pripyat - about 3km (1.9 miles) from the former nuclear plant - remains deserted because of radiation pollution.\n\nFormer residents came to the abandoned city to decorate the tree with family photos as part of a campaign organised by the Association of Chernobyl Tour Operators.\n\nSome of them told Suspilne.Media that they had also brought clock decorations as a \"symbol of the flow of time and the fact that over time the town does not die but gets revived\".\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nKateryna Aslamova from the Chernobyl Tour company said it was the first time some former residents had returned to Pripyat since their evacuation after the world's worst nuclear accident.\n\nClock decorations were hung up to symbolise the passing of time\n\n\"The town must live, and for this to happen it must be saved,\" she said.\n\nHer company would like to see Pripyat and parts of the exclusion zone around the plant become a Unesco World Heritage site.\n\n\"Life is returning to Pripyat,\" said Yaroslav Yemelyanenko, founder of the Chernobyl Hub.\n\n\"It is unusual, irregular and touristic. Every day, the once deserted town is filled with tourists from all over the world. They come to learn our history, which changed the course of events in the whole world.\"\n\nUse #NewsfromElsewhere to stay up-to-date with our reports via Twitter.", "A huge country the size of Western Europe, Kazakhstan has vast mineral resources and enormous economic potential.\n\nThe varied landscape stretches from the mountainous, heavily populated regions of the east to the sparsely populated, energy-rich lowlands in the west, and from the industrialised north, with its Siberian climate and terrain, through the arid, empty steppes of the centre, to the fertile south.\n\nEthnically the former Soviet republic is as diverse, with a large Russian minority in the north and smaller minorities in the south and east. Suppressed under Soviet rule, the main religion, Islam, is undergoing a revival.\n\nSince independence following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, major investment in the oil sector has brought rapid economic growth, and eased some of the stark disparities in wealth of the 1990s.\n\nMr Tokayev has been a senior official since independence\n\nA long-standing colleague of independent Kazakhstan's founder, Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev took over as president when his mentor suddenly stepped down in March 2019.\n\nMr Tokayev was chairman of the Senate at the time, having served earlier as prime minister and foreign minister.\n\nHe said he would continue the policies of his predecessor and rely on his opinion in key policy matters, going on to win a snap presidential election in June 2019 to consolidate his position.\n\nHowever, President Tokayev then used a wave of public protest in January 2022 to oust Mr Nazarbayev and his supporters from their remaining positions of power.\n\nThe media market is dominated by state-owned and pro-government outlets.\n\nTV is the most popular medium. The government operates national networks.\n\nThe authorities regularly block websites and access to social media and messaging apps has been cut several times.\n\nOil money is driving the development of Astana, which became Kazakhstan's new capital in 1997\n\n1st-8th Centuries - Turkic-speaking and Mongol tribes invade and settle in what is now Kazakhstan and Central Asia.\n\n1219-24 - Mongol tribes led by Genghis Khan invade Kazakhstan and Central Asia. Later they become assimilated by Turkic tribes that make up the majority in their empire.\n\nLate 15th Century - With the formation of the Kazakh khanate, the Kazakhs emerge as a distinct ethnic group.\n\nEarly 17th Century - Kazakhs split into three tribal unions, the Elder, Middle and Lesser Zhuzes, or Hordes, which were led by Khans.\n\n1731-42 - The Khans of the three Zhuzes formally join Russia in pursuit of protection from invasions from the east by the Mongols.\n\n1822-68 - Despite many uprisings, Tsarist Russia retains control over the Kazakh tribes, deposing the Khans.\n\n1868-1916 - Thousands of Russian and Ukrainian peasants are brought in to settle Kazakh lands; first industrial enterprises set up.\n\n1916 - A major anti-Russian rebellion is repressed, with about 150,000 people killed and more than 300,000 fleeing abroad.\n\n1917 - Civil war breaks out following the Bolshevik revolution in Russia.\n\n1920 - Kazakhstan becomes an autonomous republic of the USSR. Until 1925 it is called the Kyrgyz Autonomous Province to distinguish its people from the Cossacks.\n\nLate 1920s-1930s - Intensive industrialisation and forced collectivisation under Soviet rule leads to the death of more than one million people from starvation.\n\n1940s - Hundreds of thousands of Koreans, Crimean Tatars, Germans and others forcibly moved to Kazakhstan.\n\n1949 - The USSR's first nuclear test explosion is carried out at the Semipalatinsk nuclear test ground in eastern Kazakhstan.\n\n1954-62 - About two million people, mainly Russians, move to Kazakhstan during Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's campaign to develop virgin lands.\n\n1961 - Yuri Gagarin becomes the first person in space and the first to orbit the earth when Vostok 1 launches from the Baikonur space launch site in central Kazakhstan.\n\n1986 - About 3,000 people take part in protests in Almaty after Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev appoints Gennadiy Kolbin, an ethnic Russian, as head of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan, replacing Dinmukhamed Kunayev, an ethnic Kazakh.\n\n1989 - Nursultan Nazarbayev, an ethnic Kazakh, becomes head of the Kazakhstan's communist party.\n\n1991 - Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Kazakhstan declares itself an independent state. Nursultan Nazarbayev wins uncontested presidential elections.\n\n1997 - The Kazakh capital is moved from Almaty in the south to Akmola (formerly Tselinograd) in the north, a year later this is renamed Astana.\n\n2001 - First major pipeline for transporting oil from Caspian to world markets opens, running from huge Tengiz oil field in western Kazakhstan to Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk.\n\nKazakhstan joins China, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in launching the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO).\n\n2010 - A customs union between Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan comes into force after Belarus ratifies a key customs code.\n\n2014 Russia, Kazahkstan and Belarus sign an agreement creating the Eurasian Economic Union, which aims to create a shared market and integrate economic policy across the three former Soviet countries.\n\n2019 - President Nazarbayev steps down from the presidency, but retains a powerful role as chairman of the National Security Council.\n\nA Soyuz spacecraft blasts off from Baikonur in 2022. The cosmodrome in Kazakhstan has been at the centre of Soviet space missions since the 1950s\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Darts\n\nFallon Sherrock's challenge at the PDC World Championship was ended in a third-round defeat by world number 22 Chris Dobey.\n\nSherrock, who had made history by becoming the first woman to win a match at the tournament, was beaten 4-2.\n\nThe 25-year-old led 1-0 and 2-1, only for Dobey to recover and win.\n\n\"I've enjoyed myself so much,\" said Sherrock. \"Unfortunately, it wasn't my result but I can't take it away from him - he played so well.\"\n\nSherrock had the crowd behind her at Alexandra Palace and, even though she was being outscored, her clinical finishing helped her into the lead.\n\nShe hit a 180 in the first leg and took it against the darts and, after Dobey missed a 40 checkout, Sherrock finished with a 77 - hitting double top - to take the first set.\n\nDobey levelled at 1-1 but, in the first leg of the third set, missed three darts at double eight and Sherrock punished him with a 142 checkout.\n\nShe went on to take a 2-1 lead before Dobey started to find his range on the doubles and he reeled off three sets in a row.\n\nSherrock, from Milton Keynes, is the fifth woman to play at the tournament but became the first to win a match when she beat Ted Evetts in the first round.\n\nShe then knocked out world number 11 Mensur Suljovic in the next round.\n\n\"I didn't think this was ever possible,\" she said. \"Thank you to everyone. This is amazing. Hopefully I can experience it again.\n\n\"Hopefully I'll be back here next year. I've got the ladies' BDO World Championships next week so let's see where I go from there.\"\n\nPioneering tennis player Billie Jean King was among those to tweet their support after the match, saying Sherrock had \"inspired millions\" and \"her talent & grace under pressure will take her far\".\n\nCanadian Gayl King was the first woman to play at the PDC World Championship in 2000, with Anastasia Dobromyslova of Russia (2009 and 2019) and England's Lisa Ashton (2019) also featuring prior to the latest event.\n\nDobey will play Glen Durrant, who beat Daryl Gurney 4-2, in the last 16.\n\n\"I knew what I had to do from the start,\" said Dobey. \"This girl can play and I needed to be at my best.\n\n\"[She was] absolutely astonishing today and she fully deserves all this support.\"\n\nSimon Whitlock is also through to the fourth round after a 4-1 victory over Mervyn King. Whitlock will play Gerwyn Price, who beat John Henderson 4-0.\n\nIn two fourth round matches, defending champion Michael van Gerwen thrashed Stephen Bunting 4-0, while two-time world champion Gary Anderson was knocked out following a 4-2 defeat by Nathan Aspinall.", "Newly-diagnosed cancer patients are to be offered NHS gym sessions before they start chemotherapy, in the hope of boosting the speed of their recovery.\n\nThousands will be invited to sign up for a \"prehab\" fitness programme within 48 hours of being diagnosed.\n\nThe aim is to make patients \"match fit\" ahead of chemotherapy or major surgery.\n\nExperts hope a regime of three fitness sessions a week will reduce the time patients spend in hospital by \"priming\" them for their recovery.\n\nA mix of high intensity cardio workouts and strength-based training, plus nutritional advice and mental health support, will be made available.\n\nAlthough patients would be referred for \"prehab\" within 48 hours of their diagnosis, the start date for the fitness plan may vary on a case by case basis following consultation with a doctor.\n\nMore than 500 patients are already taking part in the exercise programme in Greater Manchester, while another 2,000 are expected to participate over the next two years.\n\nSimilar services are being run in London, Leicester and Yorkshire.\n\nNHS chief executive Simon Stevens said cancer treatments can take a \"toll\" on the body, despite working \"better than ever\".\n\n\"There's increasing evidence that it's really worth trying to get match fit ahead of chemo or major surgery,\" he added.\n\n\"In effect you are 'priming' your own recovery before your treatment even begins.\"\n\nPatient David Fowles entered the \"prehab\" programme earlier this year ahead of his 10.5-hour surgery.\n\nMr Fowles said: \"I was told I'd be in hospital for two, three or four weeks. Well, I was out within nine days. I couldn't believe it. All this is down to the fitness regime - it's been marvellous.\n\n\"If someone had told me in February... that I would be going to the gym, I'd have laughed at them,\" the 68-year-old retiree added.\n\nThe BBC spoke to patients at Wrexham Maelor Hospital last month who had taken part in \"prehab\" trial sessions.\n\nOne patient, 77-year-old Allen Prescott, had surgery following a bowel cancer diagnosis. His wife credits the scheme with his recovery.\n\nJune Davis, an adviser at Macmillan Cancer Support, said: \"While it might seem extraordinary that newly-diagnosed patients are being referred to exercise classes and personal trainers, we know that prehabilitation can support people during this difficult time to prepare both physically and mentally for treatment, reclaim a sense of control and improve their health in the long-term.", "Singer Olivia Newton-John has been made a dame in a New Year Honours list that recognises four members of England's Cricket World Cup winning squad.\n\nAll-rounder Ben Stokes, man of the match in the victory against New Zealand at Lord's in July, becomes an OBE, while team captain Eoin Morgan receives the higher CBE award.\n\nWicketkeeper Jos Buttler and batsman and England Test captain Joe Root become MBEs, and coach Trevor Bayliss an OBE.\n\nSir Elton John is also on the list.\n\nThe singing superstar, who was knighted in 1998, said he was \"humbled and honoured\" to join the elite companions of honour, an order restricted to a maximum 65 members, for services to music and charity.\n\nAnd Queen drummer Roger Taylor is made an OBE in the year his band's biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody, set cinema box office records.\n\nRoger Taylor of Queen becomes an OBE\n\nThree television cookery stars appear - Nigel Slater becomes an OBE, and Nadiya Hussain and Ainsley Harriott MBEs.\n\nAnother familiar face on TV, Gabby Logan, becomes an MBE for services to sports broadcasting and promoting women's sport.\n\nFemale sporting success is also celebrated with an OBE for world taekwondo champion Jade Jones, and MBEs for netballers Serena Guthrie and Joanne Harten, and footballers Jill Scott of England and Loren Dykes of Wales.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jill Scott: \"It feels surreal to see my name, Jill Scott MBE\".\n\nIn politics there are knighthoods for former Conservative Party leader Iain Duncan Smith and fellow Tory MP Robert Neil. Diana Johnson, Labour MP for Hull North, becomes a dame for charitable and political service.\n\nNewton-John's damehood is for services to music, cancer research and charity. The Cambridge-born star, who moved to Australia as a child, achieved global fame in the 1978 film Grease. After being diagnosed with breast cancer, she became a campaigner and in 2012 set up a cancer centre near Melbourne.\n\n\"I am extremely excited, honoured and grateful beyond words to be included with such an esteemed group of women who have received this distinguished award before me,\" she said.\n\nIain Duncan Smith is knighted and Diana Johnson becomes a dame\n\nThe other damehoods include author Rose Tremain; former Director of Public Prosecutions Alison Saunders; social justice campaigner Julia Unwin; FA director of Women's football Susan Campbell, and Floella Benjamin, the TV presenter turned Lib Dem peer, who is recognised for services to charity.\n\nEoin Morgan said: \"Winning the World Cup has been a dream come true and the honours and awards that have come since that day at Lord's really mean a lot to everyone connected with the team.\"\n\nThe knighthoods include veteran cricketer Clive Lloyd; Oscar-winning film directors Sam Mendes and Steve McQueen; classical music presenter Humphrey Burton, and playwright Christopher Hampton.\n• None 72%Given for work in the community\n\nFormer Thames Valley Police chief constable Francis Habgood is knighted and Rachel Lloyd, who heads a New York-based organisation supporting victims of sexual exploitation, becomes a dame.\n\nOverall, 1,097 people are on the list issued by the Cabinet Office, with 51% being women. The Foreign Office has announced 100 honours, and separate lists cover gallantry awards for police, ambulance and fire staff and military personnel.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. New Year Honours 2020: MBE for woman engineer from Rugby\n\nThe youngest person on the list is Ibrahim Yousaf, 13, who receives a British Empire Medal (BEM) for charity fundraising in Greater Manchester.\n\nOther sporting honours include OBEs for horse racing trainers Nicky Henderson and Paul Nicholls, and MBEs for ex-Northern Ireland footballer Aaron Hughes, and Rose Reilly, who played for Scotland and Italy in the 1970s.\n\nParalympic champion runner Michael McKillop, from Co Antrim, who won gold in Beijing, London and Rio is made an MBE.\n\nMBEs also go to golfer Catriona Matthew, captain of Europe's Solheim Cup winning squad; former squash world number one Laura Massaro; ex-England cricketer Alan Knott; and British Gymnastics chief executive Jane Allen, and Olympic heptathlete Kelly Sotherton.\n\nCatriona Matthew - pictured with the Solheim Cup - has been made an OBE\n\nFrom business, there is a damehood for Sharon White, chief executive of telecoms watchdog Ofcom. She is to become the first female chair of the John Lewis store group. Donna Langley, who chairs Hollywood film studio Universal, is also made a dame.\n\nAndrew Wylie, co-founder of software company Sage, is knighted for services to business and charity, and former Royal Bank of Scotland chief Ross McEwan becomes a CBE.\n\nThere are OBEs for fashion designer David Nieper, and Thomas and Ruth Chapman, who founded clothes retailer Matches. Television presenter Gok Wan is appointed an MBE for services to fashion and social awareness.\n\nGraphic designer Peter Saville, who began his career 40 years ago with the cover of the Joy Division album Unknown Pleasures, becomes a CBE.\n\nArchitect Sadie Morgan, part of the team behind the Stirling Prize winning Hastings Pier, becomes an OBE.\n\nSnow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody is to be made an OBE for services to music and charity in Northern Ireland. His song Chasing Cars was named the most-played song of the 21st Century on UK radio.\n\nNadiya Hussain, who becomes an MBE, made a cake for the queen's 90th birthday in 2016\n\nOther CBEs include actress Wendy Craig; Steven Knight, who created TV hit Peaky Blinders, and BBC Radio 1's longest serving DJ Annie Nightingale.\n\nSinger Billy Ocean, and Mike Pender of 1960s band The Searchers become MBEs.\n\nEastEnders star Rudolph Walker becomes a CBE, in recognition of his foundation helping disadvantaged children become actors. Ex-Coronation Street actor Derek Griffiths is made an MBE for services to drama and diversity.\n\nCellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason is among the youngest recipients of an honour\n\nCellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, 20, who played at the Duke of Sussex's wedding in 2018 becomes an MBE.\n\nThe MBEs for Scotland-based film-maker Gordon Buchanan, who shot Planet Earth II, and naturalist and television presenter Steve Backshall recognise their conservation efforts. Elsewhere, Prof Duncan Wingham, from University College London, is knighted for services to climate science, and Oxford University's Prof Sarah Whatmore, becomes a dame for her environmental policy work.\n\nWine writer and broadcaster Oz Clarke is made an OBE.\n\nTV presenter June Sarpong, who this year was appointed director of creative diversity at the BBC, becomes an OBE for services to broadcasting, and BBC senior news controller Sarah Ward-Lilley an MBE for services to journalism.\n\nMore than 20 teachers are on the list. Caroline Allen, ex-head of the Orchard Hill College and Academy Trust schools for students with special needs in the South East, becomes a dame. Kalwant Bhopal, professor of education and social justice at the University of Birmingham becomes an MBE for services to race equality in education.\n\nTwelve nurses and five midwives are on the list including Nicolette Peel, from Derbyshire, who has been made an MBE for supporting pregnant women affected by cancer.\n\nProf Lesley Regan, president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and author of a number of books on pregnancy, is made a dame for services to women's healthcare. University of Sussex Prof Alan Lehmann, becomes a CBE after his research into rare genetic conditions, and NHS England head Simon Stevens is knighted.\n\nSome 72% of recipients are being recognised for work in their community.\n\nHarry Paticas, the creator of a memorial to the 173 civilians who died at Bethnal Green Tube station in World War Two, becomes an MBE.\n\nHarry Billinge has been raising money for a memorial to his fallen D-Day comrades\n\nAnd six-months after attending the D-Day landing 75th anniversary commemorations in Normandy, veteran Harry Billinge, from Cornwall, is made an MBE for services to charity after raising more than £10,000 towards a national memorial for his fallen comrades.\n\nWilf Oldham, 99, from Greater Manchester, a veteran of the Battle of Arnhem, has been made an MBE for services to commemorations and UK-Dutch relations and is the oldest person on the list.\n\nHolocaust survivors John Hajdu and Mindu Hornick become MBEs - among 31 people on the list for Holocaust education work.\n\nDet Sgt Ashley Jones of Avon and Somerset Police, who came up with the concept of \"chat benches\" where people can have conversations to combat loneliness, becomes an MBE.\n\nAn MBE goes to Mete Coban, co-founder of the My Life My Say charity, for promoting youth engagement in democracy.\n\nThe same honour goes to a woman behind a nude calendar that raised £6m for charity and inspired a feature film and host of imitations. Angela Knowles, 74, from Linton North Yorkshire and 10 Women's Institute friends first posed for the calendar in 1999.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James Corden speaks to the BBC's Colin Paterson about being back in Barry Island and why he decided it was time for a reunion\n\nThe much-anticipated return of Gavin and Stacey achieved the best Christmas Day TV ratings for more than a decade, early \"overnight\" figures show.\n\nThe Christmas special was watched by a \"well lush\" average of 11.6 million viewers on BBC One.\n\nWhen it went on air at 20:30 GMT, half (49.2%) of all TV viewers tuned in.\n\nThe episode, written by and starring James Corden and Ruth Jones, revisited Gavin, Stacey, Smithy and Nessa nearly 10 years after they left our screens.\n\nGavin and Stacey pulled in 11.6m viewers on Christmas Day\n\nThe next most-watched programme was the Queen's Christmas Broadcast, which was screened on BBC One, ITV and Sky and seen by 7.85 million people.\n\nIn recent years, The Queen's annual broadcast has become the most-watched TV show, based on the overnight figures which do not include viewers who watch Christmas specials on catch-up services during the rest of the festive period.\n\nThe cast was reunited after nearly ten years off our screens\n\nStrictly Come Dancing, EastEnders and Michael McIntyre's Big Show - all on BBC One - rounded out this year's top five shows.\n\nCharlotte Moore, Director of BBC content, said: \"We delivered something for everyone with the seven most-popular programmes that cap off an incredible year for BBC One celebrating British talent and creativity.\"\n\nFor the last few years the headlines out of the Christmas Day viewing figures have been pretty consistent - the Queen's annual address to the nation the most watched show as Christmas Day viewing declines year-on-year.\n\nGavin and Stacey have reversed that trend to such an extent that the cast's reactions have probably been a lot more vociferous than Nessa's \"tidy\" or even Stacey's \"well lush\"!\n\nThey and the BBC will be thrilled. It's proof that while terrestrial Christmas audiences have been decreasing, they're still there in huge numbers for the right kind of show.\n\nSo much of what's been offered on recent Christmas Days has been festive editions of programmes that are already regular fixtures in the schedule.\n\nGavin and Stacey's Christmas Special felt like real event, must-see TV; the first new episode of the award-winning, much-loved comedy for nine years.\n\nAnd once catch-up viewing has been taken into account, it stands a good chance of, at almost the last gasp, overtaking the Line of Duty finale as the most watched programme of 2019.\n\nThe high viewing figures mean that there'll be a lot of expectation from audiences for more Gavin and Stacey, and (without giving away any spoilers) the door has been left enticingly open for that.\n\nAnd if the BBC can persuade co-writers James Corden and Ruth Jones, there's little doubt that BBC One would love more Gavin and Stacey, too.\n\nGavin and Stacey, written by Corden, who plays Smithy, and Jones, who has reprised the iconic role of Nessa, first aired in 2007.\n\nCorden revealed on Wednesday that he and Jones watched the special together, telling fans the show has been \"a labour of love from start to finish\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe initial series saw the budding romance between Essex man Gavin Shipman, played by Mathew Horne, and Welsh woman Stacey West, portrayed by Joanna Page, flourish.\n\nThere were two subsequent series and a 2008 Christmas special.\n\nIt had been a decade since audiences left Gavin, Stacey, Smithy and Nessa sitting on the seafront on Barry Island, but the Christmas special proved these four - and their famous expressions - are still a big hit.\n\nThe special also saw Alison Steadman and Larry Lamb return as Pam and Mick Shipman, as well as Melanie Walters as Gwen and Robert Wilfort as Jason.\n\nMany fans expressed their eagerness to see another series following last night's special.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nJones told BBC Newsbeat that \"there isn't any plan, at the moment\" for another Gavin and Stacey series, but did not rule it out in the future.\n\nIn the Christmas special, viewers only had to wait a few minutes to hear Nessa ask her infamous question \"What's occurring?\".\n\nAnd of course, it wouldn't be a Gavin and Stacey special without a reference to that infamous fishing trip.\n\nThe cast filmed in Barry, Wales, during July's heatwave\n\nThe success of Gavin and Stacey made Corden and Jones household names - even though they were not the Gavin and Stacey named in the title.\n\nSince the original series Corden's career has skyrocketed in the US, with his hugely successful gig as host of The Late, Late Show.\n\nJones told the BBC that trying to find the time to film was challenging, with Corden recording episodes of his US show back-to back to give him to time to work with Jones on the British project together in LA earlier this year.\n\nYou can watch the full show on BBC iPlayer and take a look behind the scenes at how the special was filmed.", "Camp Casey is home to thousands of US troops\n\nTroops at a US military base in South Korea heard an emergency siren instead of a bugle tune on Thursday, sparking fears of a North Korean attack.\n\nA military spokesman blamed \"human error\" at Camp Casey, the closest US base to the border with the North.\n\nNorth Korea had warned it could send a \"Christmas gift\" to the US to force concessions over stalled nuclear talks.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has refused to lift sanctions over the country's nuclear programme.\n\nSeparately, early on Friday Japan's public broadcaster NHK mistakenly reported that North Korea had fired a missile that landed in the sea off the Japanese coast.\n\nNHK showed the newsflash on its website just after midnight local time but corrected the error 20 minutes later and apologised, saying the newsflash had been for \"training purposes\".\n\nThe wrongly broadcast siren reportedly \"riled up\" troops at the base and some were seen running in full uniform, according to an online post cited by the Washington Post newspaper.\n\nA video purporting to have been filmed at the time was uploaded on to a Twitter account popular with US soldiers.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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Moments\n\nSpokesman Lt Col Martyn Crighton said he could not verify whether the video was of Thursday's incident.\n\nTaps, a bugle call played at the end of the day on US bases, should have been played over the announcement system instead, he said.\n\nSoldiers were quickly notified of the mistake, Lt Col Crighton said.\n\nThe strategically important base is near the South Korean town of Dongducheon about 60km (40 miles) north of the South Korean capital Seoul. It covers more than 10 sq km and is home to several thousand US troops.\n\nEarlier in December, North Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Ri Thae Song hinted that Pyongyang could resume long-range missile tests if Washington refused to change its negotiating position.\n\nIt was \"entirely up to the US what Christmas gift it will select\", he said at the time.\n\nThe US special envoy for North Korea Stephen Biegun has dismissed Pyongyang's deadline but said Washington was ready to resume talks at any time.\n\nNorth Korea has also carried out tests at a satellite launch site to boost its nuclear deterrent, according to state media reports.\n\nLast month, Japan condemned Pyongyang for \"repeated launches of ballistic missiles\" after two projectiles were fired.\n\nThe North however said it was testing a \"super-large multiple-rocket launcher\", and threatened that Japan \"may see what a real ballistic missile is in the not distant future\".\n\nUS President Donald Trump has said he still hopes to reach an agreement with North Korea.\n\nThe president made pursuing diplomacy with North Korea a centre-piece of his foreign policy agenda in 2018 but has failed to extract significant concessions on denuclearisation despite holding two summits with leader Kim Jong-un and even briefly setting foot in North Korea.", "The deadline for negotiating the UK's future relationship with the EU may need to be extended, the European Commission president has said.\n\nBoris Johnson has said the post-Brexit transition period will not be extended beyond 31 December 2020.\n\nBut Ursula von der Leyen told French newspaper Les Echos both sides needed to think seriously about whether this was enough time to reach an agreement.\n\nShe said she was \"very worried\" about how little time was available.\n\n\"It would be reasonable to evaluate the situation mid-year and then, if necessary, agree on extending the transition period,\" she told the paper.\n\nLast week MPs backed Mr Johnson's plan for the UK to leave the EU on 31 January, which included a new clause prohibiting the government from extending the transition period beyond the end of 2020.\n\nDuring this 11-month period, the UK will cease to be an EU member but its trading relationship will remain the same and it will continue to follow the EU's rules, such as accepting rulings from the European Court of Justice. It will also continue to contribute to the EU's budget.\n\nThe UK will use the time to negotiate a free trade deal as well as other aspects of its future relationship with the EU, including law enforcement, security and access to fishing waters.\n\nEarlier this month, Ms von der Leyen said the timeframe was \"extremely short\" to discuss not only trade, but also other issues.\n\nIf negotiators fail to agree a trade deal by the deadline and no extension is agreed, this would leave the UK trading on World Trade Organization (WTO) terms with the EU, with the likelihood of tariffs on imports and exports.\n\nIf other aspects of the future relationship are not ready, they too would have to proceed on no-deal terms.\n\nMs von der Leyen, a former German defence minister and long-time close ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel, replaced Jean-Claude Juncker as European Commission president earlier this month.\n\nThe Commission drafts EU laws, enforces EU rules and has the power to impose fines on member states if necessary.\n\nMeanwhile, the Times reports that the European Commission will warn Britain that access from the City of London to European markets would be jeopardised unless Britain aligns closely with European regulations.\n\nAccording to the paper, EU chiefs will threaten to block access unless both sides agree on two key issues - equivalence in financial services, meaning the UK's rules on financial regulation are deemed in effect as good as those of the EU, and adequacy, which means Britain's level of data protection is comparable to that of EU law.\n\nFailure to be granted \"data adequacy\" could inhibit vital EU data being shared with Britain for trade, security and medicine.\n\nThe Financial Times quotes a senior European official as saying the UK is at \"the end of the queue\" for a deal to allow data to continue to flow freely with the EU after Brexit.\n\nWojciech Wiewiorowski, the EU's new data protection supervisor, told the paper that assessing the UK's data adequacy would be a lengthy process which may fall down the list of priorities in negotiations.", "Tourists often pose for pictures with Mickey and Minnie Mouse, pictured here, at Walt Disney World theme parks\n\nWalt Disney World employees who work as Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse and Donald Duck have filed police complaints accusing tourists of inappropriately touching them.\n\nThree female cast members complained to police about incidents at theme parks near Orlando, Florida, this month.\n\nThe woman wearing the Mickey Mouse costume said she was injured by a grandmother who patted her on the head.\n\nThe women who play Minnie Mouse and Donald Duck allege they were groped.\n\nOrange County Sheriff's Office, which investigated all three incidents, said the women wearing the Minnie Mouse and Donald Duck suits decided not to press charges.\n\nPolice told the woman who plays Mickey Mouse the incident was a civil, not a criminal matter.\n\nThe incidents come after a 51-year-old man was arrested in November after an employee portraying a Disney Princess told investigators he groped her breast while having a photo taken.\n\n\"Everyone should feel safe at work, and we encourage cast members to come forward in any uncomfortable situation,\" a Disney spokesperson told the BBC.\n\nThe Magic Kingdom was the first theme park to open at the Walt Disney World resort in Florida\n\n\"We provide multiple resources to protect our cast members' well-being, including on-site law enforcement officers who respond, and are available to them, if needed.\"\n\nThe three most recent incidents, first reported by Orlando Sentinel, happened over two days on 3 and 4 December.\n\nThe first incident took place on 3 December, when police were called to a restaurant at the Animal Kingdom theme park.\n\nA woman in her 60s asked if she could kiss Donald Duck at a meet-and-greet, the police report said.\n\nDonald Duck consented to the kiss, but then the woman \"proceeded to touch her all over her chest\" without permission to do so.\n\nWhen the employee attempted to move away, the woman grabbed hold of her, placed her hands inside the costume and \"frantically touched her chest over her bra\".\n\nThe crew member did not press charges, telling police the woman \"appeared to be possibly suffering from dementia\".\n\nThe employee who plays Donald Duck alleges she was groped at the Animal Kingdom theme park\n\nOn 4 December the employee who portrays Mickey Mouse was approached by a family-of-three - a grandmother, her adult daughter, and her grandson - at the Magic Kingdom theme park.\n\nThe grandmother patted Mickey Mouse on the head five times in an attempt to \"show her grandson that Mickey wouldn't hurt him\", the police report said.\n\nThe woman playing Mickey House told investigators this caused her to suffer neck strain, for which she sought treatment at hospital.\n\nThe employee, who did not believe the grandmother intended to hurt her, reported the incident, but was told it was civil, not criminal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Employment lawyer Ruby Dinsmore explains how companies are increasingly concerned about litigation risks at work in the #MeToo era\n\nA second incident on the same day, also at the Magic Kingdom, involved the employee who plays Minnie Mouse.\n\nThe employee told police a male guest groped her three times on the chest after posing for photos alongside his wife in a meet-and-greet area.\n\nThe man, a 61-year-old from Minnesota, was identified from pictures taken at the theme park on the day of the incident.\n\nPolice said the employee did not press charges against the man, a Disney Vacation Club member.\n\nDisney, however, took action to ban the man, who had another \"inappropriate interaction with another cast member\" on 5 December.", "Fourteen migrants were rescued by French authorities and taken to Boulogne-sur-Mer\n\nMore than 60 migrants have been picked up while attempting to cross the Channel in small boats.\n\nForty-nine people in four boats were met by Border Force and brought to England, while a further two boats were dealt with by French authorities.\n\nThe Home Office said it would try to return anyone who arrived in the UK illegally back to mainland Europe.\n\nCharity workers said the government's \"tough talk\" was \"extremely irresponsible\".\n\nA search-and-rescue operation was launched in the early hours, with a coastguard helicopter, aeroplane and two Border Force vessels taking part.\n\nAn RNLI lifeboat was launched from Dover shortly before midnight on Christmas Day.\n\nFrench authorities rescued 14 migrants, some of whom were said to be suffering from hypothermia, after a dinghy got into trouble off the coast of Boulogne-sur-Mer.\n\nThey were met by border police and medics on their return to the French port.\n\nSince January, more than 120 people who arrived in small boats have been sent back to European countries, the Home Office said.\n\nIn the same period, more than 1,800 people have crossed the Channel in such vessels.\n\nThe Home Office said: \"Illegal migration is a criminal activity. Those who seek to come to the UK illegally and the ruthless criminals who facilitate journeys are all breaking the law and endangering lives.\n\n\"When people arrive on our shores unlawfully, we will work to return them to mainland Europe.\"\n\nIt said patrols of French beaches had doubled, with \"drones, specialist vehicles and detection equipment\" deployed.\n\nKent Refugee Action Network's Bridget Chapman, who works directly with asylum seekers arriving by boat, said the Home Office's response was \"disgraceful\".\n\nShe said the government's \"very tough talk\" did not \"take account of international law,\" citing the UN's 1951 Refugee Convention, which states that \"refugees should not be penalised for their illegal entry\".\n\nShe added: \"There is no such thing as an illegal asylum seeker.\"\n\nMs Chapman said it was an \"extremely irresponsible statement,\" which \"appears to be politically motivated and designed to whip up ill feeling towards desperate people\".\n\n\"I would remind the Home Office that Jesus was a refugee,\" she added. \"Would they have turned him away?\"\n\nA coastguard helicopter was sent to the scene\n\nClare Moseley, founder of Care4Calais, which often encounters migrants before they attempt the crossing, said it was \"disappointing to see the Home Office criminalising refugees in this way\".\n\nShe added: \"Nearly all the people we work with in France have genuine asylum claims.\n\n\"The issue is that there is no safe and legal way for them to get [to England] and have their claims heard.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A man shot dead on Christmas Eve was attacked in front of his family after a night out, police said.\n\nFlamur Beqiri, a Swedish national, was killed in Battersea Church Road in south-west London at about 21:00 GMT.\n\nNeighbours described hearing multiple gunshots followed by a woman screaming \"desperately\" for help.\n\nA spokesperson for the Met Police said the killing which \"saw a man losing his life in such a horrific way\" had left his family \"devastated\".\n\nThe 36-year-old, who had a wife and young child, was pronounced dead at the scene by the emergency services.\n\nAccording to reports, Mr Beqiri is the brother of former Real Housewives Of Cheshire star Misse Beqiri.\n\nNeighbour Vittoria Amati, 60, said she heard between \"eight to 10\" gunshots fired.\n\n\"I then heard the screams of the wife. I came out and realised it was one of my neighbours.\n\n\"He was lying in front of his doorway in a pool of blood. He was still alive. We were really hoping he would make it.\n\n\"You have no idea how desperate she [his wife] sounded.\"\n\nMr Beqiri was shot \"just yards from home\" in Battersea\n\nA young woman, who identified herself as a nurse, tried to help Mr Beqiri by applying pressure to his wounds, Mrs Amati added.\n\nDet Ch Insp Jamie Stevenson said: \"Our investigation is in the very early stages and we are still working to establish what the motive could be that has led to a man losing his life in such a horrific way, on Christmas Eve, in front of his family.\n\n\"They have been devastated by this horrible event and are being supported by specialist officers.\n\n\"We know that the victim was returning home with his wife and young child following an evening out, when he was shot just yards from his home.\"\n\nPolice remained at the scene in Battersea Church Road on Boxing Day\n\nThe officer added the assailant fled on foot in the direction of Battersea Bridge Road.\n\nSupt Richard Smith said: \"There is no suggestion that there is any ongoing risk to members of the local community in Battersea.\"\n\nThe death is the 135th homicide in London in 2019, the highest number in a calendar year since 2008.\n• None London killings: All the victims of 2018\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "England footballer Jill Scott has been made an MBE on the New Year Honours list for her contribution to the sport.", "Donald Trump makes a brief appearance in the film, in which Macaulay Culkin (centre) starred\n\nCanada's national broadcaster CBC has defended deleting a scene featuring Donald Trump from the film Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.\n\nCBC spokesman Chuck Thompson said eight minutes of the 120-minute film had been trimmed to make way for adverts.\n\nHe said the edits were made in 2014, before Mr Trump was elected, and were not politically motivated.\n\nThe edited film was shown by CBC earlier this month, prompting criticism from Mr Trump's supporters.\n\nHis son Donald Trump Jr tweeted a link to a story on Thursday that called the edit 'pathetic'.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald Trump Jr. This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPresident Trump reacted late on Thursday, tweeting that \"the movie will never be the same! (just kidding)\".\n\nIn a reference to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and well-documented disagreements between the two leaders on major policy issues, Mr Trump also quipped: \"I guess Justin T doesn't much like my making him pay up on Nato or trade!\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President Trump is on his best behaviour, but is everyone else?\n\nOn Christmas Eve, Mr Trump described Home Alone 2, which was released in 1992, as \"a big Christmas hit\" during a video conference call to US troops overseas, according to Deadline website.\n\n\"Well I'm in Home Alone 2,\" Mr Trump said. \"A lot of people mention it every year, especially around Christmas. They say - especially young kids- they say, 'I just saw you on the movie.' They don't see me on television as they do in the movie.\n\n\"But it's been a good movie and I was a little younger, to put it mildly. And it was an honour to do it.\"\n\nMr Trump has made a number of cameo appearances in films, including Zoolander and Ghosts Can't Do It.\n\nIn Home Alone 2's uncut version, he is briefly seen in a scene at New York's Plaza Hotel, when Macaulay Culkin's character Kevin asks him for directions. Mr Trump was the hotel's owner at the time.", "Gabriel Diya and his daughter Comfort died at a resort on the Costa del Sol\n\nTributes have been paid to a British man and his two children who drowned in a resort swimming pool on the Costa del Sol on Christmas Eve.\n\nGabriel Diya, 52, his daughter Comfort Diya, nine, and his son Praise-Emmanuel Diya, 16, died in the pool at Club La Costa World, near Fuengirola.\n\nPolice say they are checking claims the young girl got into difficulties and the other two died trying to save her.\n\nThe church where Mr Diya was a pastor said its prayers were with the family.\n\nThe Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) said in a post on Facebook: \"With heavy hearts, we extend our condolences to the family, parish, friends and associates of Area Pastor Gabriel Diya who sadly passed away, along with two of his children... in a tragic incident while on a family holiday in Spain.\n\n\"At this very difficult time, our prayers are for Pastor Gabriel Diya's family, the parishes that were under his supervision, friends, associates, members of RCCG and the general public,\" the post added.\n\nThe church said Mr Diya was also the parish pastor at Open Heavens, a Christian religious group with origins in Nigeria, based in Charlton, south-east London, and he was survived by his wife, assistant pastor Olubunmi Diya, and another daughter.\n\nA neighbour of the family told the PA news agency she was \"really devastated\" to learn of the deaths, describing the Diyas as \"very religious, very friendly, very humble\".\n\nComfort was described by the head teacher of her primary school as \"the most wonderfully kind, thoughtful, caring pupil\" who was a \"role model\" for her peers.\n\nJo Marchant said: \"Everyone at Windrush Charlton was devastated to hear about the tragic deaths of Comfort Diya, her father and brother on Christmas Eve.\"\n\nMs Marchant said Comfort would be \"greatly missed by the whole school community\" and that support would be made available to pupils and parents.\n\nSpeaking outside her home in Charlton, Lara Akins, 59, added: \"I still can't comprehend it, it's still shocking.\n\n\"They are so nice, that is why everybody is shocked... we are very friendly with each other.\"\n\nThe hotel owners described the incident as a \"tragic accident\".\n\nPolice said divers retrieved Comfort's swimming hat from the pool pump but investigators had found nothing wrong with the pool, which has since reopened.\n\nBecause the pool is a very small one, lifeguards were \"not necessary\" so there were none present, a spokesman for the Spanish Civil Guard told the BBC.\n\nThe UK Foreign Office said it was supporting a British woman in Spain, thought to be the children's mother.\n\nMr Diya and his daughter were both British passport holders while his son had an American passport.\n\nIn a statement released on Thursday, the owners of Club La Costa World said the resort \"continues to co-operate fully with the authorities investigating this appalling tragedy\".\n\n\"Naturally, we will continue to offer every assistance and comply fully and transparently with any requests made by them.\n\n\"At the same time, we are doing everything possible to provide care and support to bereaved family members and to all our other guests,\" the statement added.\n\nThe sprawling Club La Costa World resort has several swimming pools\n\nLocally-based freelance journalist Gerard Couzens said that the hotel had confirmed it had reopened the pool after it was given permission to do so by police.\n\n\"That pool where this terrible tragedy occurred on Christmas Eve is open for use again. And the management are saying the police have given the pool a clean bill of health,\" he told BBC Breakfast.\n\nLocal journalist Fernando Torres told the BBC it was a shocking scene.\n\n\"The resort workers heard the screaming and they tried to do CPR [resuscitation] as well, but they couldn't help them,\" he said.\n\n\"Then the emergency doctors came and they tried for 30-35 minutes, but they couldn't revive them.\"\n\nAre you in the area? Have you been affected by what's happened? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "The Duchess of Cambridge visited a maternity ward in London last month\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge has commended the UK's midwives for their \"amazing work bringing new life into our world\" in an open letter to those in the profession.\n\nIn the letter, Catherine says: \"You are there for women at their most vulnerable; you witness strength, pain and unimaginable joy on a daily basis.\"\n\nIt comes after the duchess spent two days shadowing healthcare workers at a maternity unit in London in November.\n\nShe also praised the staff's kindness.\n\nIn the letter, the duchess told midwives: \"Your work often goes on behind the scenes, and away from the spotlight.\n\n\"Recently however, I was privileged enough to witness a small section of it first hand, spending several days at Kingston Hospital's maternity unit.\n\n\"Although this was not my first encounter with the care and kindness provided by midwives across the country, it gave me a broader insight into the true impact you have on everybody you help.\"\n\nThe letter was published ahead of the World Health Organization's international Year of the Nurse and Midwife in 2020, which will celebrate the work of nurses and midwives and highlight \"the challenging conditions they often face\".\n\nKensington Palace also released four pictures of her time on the maternity unit.\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge took part in home visits during her time on the unit\n\nShe told the midwives: \"The help and reassurance you provide for parents-to-be and parents of newborns is just as crucial.\n\n\"It goes a long way in building parents' confidence from the start, with lifelong impact on the future happiness of their children.\n\nCatherine has advocated the improvement of early years support for children and their parents, believing it can help mitigate \"many of society's greatest social and health challenges\".\n\nThe duchess has three children under the age of seven - six-year-old Prince George, four-year-old Princess Charlotte, and 20-month-old Prince Louis.\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge gave birth to her third child, Prince Louis, in April 2018\n\nAs part of her work at her and her husband's charity, the Royal Foundation, the duchess brought together a group of academics, practitioners and charities last year to look at how to provide children with the best start in life.\n\nThe foundation's website says the steering group plans to produce \"significant new body of work\".\n\nCatherine's letter, to be posted on the Royal College of Midwives' website, goes on to say: \"The founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale - whose 200th anniversary we celebrate next year - once said, 'I attribute my success to this: I never have or took an excuse' and it is that mantra that I have seen time and time again in all of my encounters with you.\n\n\"You don't ask for praise or for recognition but instead unwaveringly continue your amazing work bringing new life into our world.\n\n\"You continue to demonstrate that despite your technical mastery and the advancement of modern medicine, it is the human to human relationships and simple acts of kindness that sometimes mean the most.\"\n\nProfessor Jacqueline Dunkley-Bent, England's chief midwifery officer, who helped deliver Catherine's children, said: \"Around 650,000 babies were born this year with our fantastic NHS midwives on hand to provide care to women and their families.\n\n\"It is a huge honour for the duchess to recognise the importance of our profession and, as we look ahead to 2020, her support will no doubt be a massive boost for all those working in maternity services as we celebrate the year of the nurse and the midwife.\"", "Black Friday discounts and bad weather have been blamed for a decline in Boxing Day shoppers, with retail analysts reporting a fall in the number of people heading for the sales.\n\nSpringboard, which analyses customer activity in stores, said footfall had seen the largest decline since 2011, dropping by 8.6%.\n\nIt said Boxing Day was becoming less important as a trading day.\n\nBut there were still queues for some shops from as early as 04:30 GMT.\n\nHowever, the retail data analyst, which examines information from UK High Street and shopping centre cameras, said more people were waiting until later in the day to head to the shops in search of a bargain.\n\nDiane Wehrle, insights director at Springboard, said: \"It is clear that consumers visited high streets more in the early evening than during the day.\"\n\nBy lunchtime on Boxing Day, footfall was 10.6% lower than last year, its biggest annual decline since 2010, when Springboard first published its data.\n\nCommenting on the disappointing morning for retailers, Ms Wehrle said many consumers were still celebrating Christmas with their family on Boxing Day, while the rainy weather, online shopping and increased Black Friday spending were also possible factors for the drop in footfall.\n\n\"Boxing Day is indisputably a less important trading day than it once was,\" Ms Wehrle said.\n\nCustomers queue outside Selfridges in London ahead of the Boxing Day sale.\n\nSome bargain-hunters did brave the rain, with some shoppers on London's Oxford Street waiting for stores to open at 9am.\n\nOthers queued outside Selfridges in Greater Manchester's Trafford Centre at 4.30am.\n\nAs the doors to Next opened in Liverpool at 06:00 GMT, more than 150 people were waiting outside the store.\n\nA total of £3.7 billion was expected to be spent in the Boxing Day sales, according to Barclaycard, with four in 10 UK adults predicted to spend an average of £186 each.\n\nBut environmental concerns were also expected to drive down buying, with shoppers also predicted to spend £200 million less in post-Christmas sales this year compared to last year.\n\nOpinium Research surveyed 2,002 UK adults online for Barclaycard between 29 November and 3 December.", "The UK's competition watchdog is investigating Amazon's bid to buy a stake in food delivery firm Deliveroo.\n\nEarlier this month, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) gave the two firms a week to address worries that the deal could affect competition.\n\nBut, on Friday, the regulator said Amazon had failed to deal with \"initial concerns that their investment in Deliveroo could be bad for customers, restaurants and grocers\".\n\nThe review could last up to six months.\n\nThe CMA has been looking at the £440m deal since it was announced in May.\n\nHowever, the regulator said Amazon and Deliveroo had failed to offer any undertakings to address its concerns by a December 18 deadline.\n\nThe in-depth investigation threatens to jeopardise Amazon's attempt to break into the UK food delivery space.\n\nThe CMA is worried that Amazon's plans to invest in Deliveroo could stop it from launching a rival company, which would increase competition and potentially lower prices for consumers.\n\nAnnouncing that it was considering a thorough probe into the deal, the CMA's executive director, Andrea Gomes da Silva, said: \"Millions of people in the UK use online food platforms for takeaways, and more than ever are making use of similar services for the same-day delivery of groceries.\n\n\"There are relatively few players in these markets, so we're concerned that Amazon having this kind of influence over Deliveroo could dampen the emerging competition between the two businesses.\"\n\nShe said that if the deal were to go ahead in its current form then there was a \"real risk\" that customers, restaurants and grocers would face higher prices and lower quality services.\n\nIn a statement, Amazon said the deal would lead to more innovation and allow Deliveroo to remain competitive.\n\nMeanwhile, Deliveroo said: \"We are confident that we will persuade the CMA of the facts that this minority investment will add to competition, helping restaurants to grow their businesses, creating more work for riders, and increasing choice for customers.\"\n\nIt is not the first time Amazon has tried to enter the food delivery market in the UK.\n\nThe online retailer briefly ran its own delivery venture, Amazon Restaurants UK, which it started in 2016 but closed just two years later.\n\nIt was previously reported to have made approaches to buy Deliveroo outright. Uber also reportedly had talks with Deliveroo regarding an interest in buying it.", "There are fears the site is too exposed to sun and wind\n\nArchaeologists in Mexico have uncovered the ruins of a large palace they believe dates back to the height of the Mayan civilisation, 1,000 years ago.\n\nRemains of a building six metres (20ft) high, 55m long and 15m wide were found at a dig on the site of the ancient city of Kulubá in Yucatán state.\n\nIt is thought the structure was used over two periods of Mayan history as far back as AD 600.\n\nThe Mayan civilisation flourished before Spain conquered the region.\n\nThe palace was possibly in use during two periods of Mayan history\n\nIn their time, the Mayans ruled large stretches of territory in what is now southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and Honduras.\n\nThe palace was possibly in use during two periods of Mayan history, the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) said: the Late Classic (600-900 AD) and the Terminal Classic (850-1050 AD).\n\nAs well as the former palace, archaeologists are exploring four structures in Kulubá's central square: an altar, remnants of two residential buildings and a round structure thought to be an oven.\n\n\"This work is the beginning, we've barely began uncovering one of the most voluminous structures on the site,\" archaeologist Alfredo Barrera was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency.\n\nBecause of concerns about damage from wind and sun to the exposed site, near the popular Caribbean resort of Cancún, conservationists are considering reforesting parts of Kulubá.\n\nYou may also be interested in:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "You would think that after the operation had been blown, with so many arrested and imprisoned, that the tunnellers would give up. They didn’t. They knew the Stasi had no details about their original tunnel and so they decided to try again.\n\nThis time, they would keep the details tighter and the group of diggers smaller. It was now September 1962, and the original tunnel had dried out enough to allow work to re-start. But before long, it sprang another leak.\n\nThis time, they were too far into the East for the West German water authorities to fix it. The diggers would either have to abandon the tunnel or break through into a random basement.\n\nUsing their maps, the tunnellers worked out they were now under Schönholzer Strasse, a street in the East that was so close to the wall it was patrolled by border guards.\n\nTunnelling up there would be a huge risk - it would be noisy, and what's more, any escapees would have to walk past the border guards to enter the cellar.\n\nIt was hard to imagine how it could work, but these diggers had proved they were brave and they were determined to give it another go.\n\nTunnel 29, after the leak had dried out. Tunnel 29, after the leak had dried out.\n\nThe date was set for 14 September. Some students volunteered to go into the East and tell the escapees the new plan. But like last time, they would need a messenger to cross the border on the escape day itself and give signals, so that the East Berliners would know when to go to the tunnel.\n\nUnsurprisingly, after what happened to Wolfdieter, no-one was keen to step forward. But then one of the tunnellers, Mimmo, had an idea - what about his 21-year-old girlfriend, Ellen Schau? Like Wolfdieter, she had a West German passport so she could go in and out of the East, and as a woman, perhaps she would arouse less suspicion? Ellen agreed to do it.\n\nThe escapees had been told to go to three different pubs and wait. Once the tunnellers had broken through into the cellar, Ellen was to go to each of these pubs and give a secret signal.\n\nEllen was filmed as she boarded a train into the East. Wearing a dress, headscarf and sunglasses, she looks like a 60s movie star. You see her check her watch. It’s midday. She turns towards the station and runs up the stairs.\n\nA road block at the border to East-Berlin A road block at the border to East-Berlin\n\nMeanwhile, Joachim and Hasso began hacking into the cellar of an apartment on Schönholzer Strasse. Joachim eventually climbed up into the cellar and unlocked the door to the apartment lobby using a set of skeleton keys.\n\nHe needed the number of the apartment they'd dug into. First, he went into the hall. No number there. And he realised the only way to find out was to go outside into the street - the street that was patrolled by border guards.\n\nHe opened the front door to the building and saw a group of guards sitting in a hut. They were distracted, so he slipped out into the street. “There was a big number seven just above the door,” he says.\n\nThey used their trusty WW2 telephone to get a message to the rest of the team, who were in a West Berlin flat overlooking the wall. A white sheet was draped from the window - Ellen’s signal that the escape was on. From the East, Ellen saw the sheet and went to the first pub to start giving the signals.\n\n“It was really loud,” Ellen remembers. “And when I walked in, the men all turned round and looked at me. The signal was for me to buy a box of matches. So I walked up to the bar, and that’s when I noticed these people staring at me.”\n\nIt was a family, sitting at a table. The mother was wearing a dress and high heels, holding her toddler on her lap. Ellen ordered the matches and left. In the next pub she ordered some water - that was the next signal.\n\nWhen she arrived at the final pub, things didn't go quite to plan. The signal there was for her to order a coffee, but the waiter said they had run out. “It was a terrible moment,” she says. “How could I give the signal if the pub didn’t have any coffee?”\n\nInstead, she started complaining loudly about the coffee, and ordered a cognac. She drank it, turned around, saw two families waiting and hoped they understood the signal. She left the pub. Her job was done.\n\nAs she made her way back to West Berlin, small groups of people started walking towards Shonholzer Strasse. They were doing their best not to stand out, just a few at a time.\n\nJoachim and Hasso were waiting in the cellar, guns in their hands. Just after 18:00, they heard footsteps. “We stood there, hardly breathing, gripping our guns tightly,” says Joachim.\n\nThe door opened. The mother from the first pub, Eveline Schmidt, stood there, with her husband and two-year-old daughter. They were helped down into the tunnel. “It was dark,” says Eveline. “There was just one lamp by the entrance. One of the tunnellers took my baby and then I started crawling.”\n\nEveline Rudolph with her daughter Annett, whose shoes Joachim finds in the tunnel Eveline Rudolph with her daughter Annett, whose shoes Joachim finds in the tunnel\n\nAt the other end, in the West, the two-man NBC film crew were standing at the top of the tunnel shaft. In the footage of this moment, for a long time nothing happens, and then suddenly a white handbag appears. Then there’s a hand, and then, finally, Eveline.\n\nShe’s covered in mud, her tights are torn and her feet are bare. She’s lost her shoes somewhere in the tunnel. It’s taken her 12 minutes to crawl through it. She looks up towards the camera, blinking into the light. And then she starts climbing the ladder up into the cellar. Just as she reaches the top, she collapses.\n\nOne of the NBC cameramen catches her and helps her to a bench. She sits there, shaking, and then one of the tunnellers brings her baby to her. She bundles her into her arms, nuzzling the nape of her neck.\n\nOver the next hour, more people came. There was Hasso’s sister, Anita, and others - eight-year-olds, 18-year-olds, 80-year-olds. By 23:00, almost everyone on their list had made it through.\n\nThe tunnel was filling with water, but one digger was still waiting. His name was Claus, and he was hoping his wife, Inge, might come.\n\nInge had been sent to a communist prison camp after she was caught trying to escape with him. She’d been pregnant at the time and he hadn’t seen her since.\n\nIn the NBC footage, the camera is focused on the tunnel. Suddenly, a woman emerges. Claus pulls her towards him, but she carries on going - she doesn’t recognise her husband in the dark. He looks up after her, then hears another noise coming from the tunnel.\n\nIt’s a baby, dressed in white, carried by one of the tunnellers. He’s tiny - only five months old. Claus bends down and gently takes the child, delivering it from the tunnel. It’s a boy, his son, born in a communist prison.\n\nBack at the other end, in the East, Joachim was still in the cellar. Twenty-nine people have made it through. With the water up to his knees, he knew it was time to go. “So many things went through my head,” he says.\n\n“All the things we’d gone through digging it. The leaks, the electric shocks, all the mud, so much mud, the blisters on our hands. Seeing all those refugees come through, I felt the most incredible happiness.”\n\nWolfdieter and Renate on their wedding day in 1966 Wolfdieter and Renate on their wedding day in 1966\n\nA few months later, NBC broadcast the film, despite an attempt by President Kennedy’s White House to block it, fearing a diplomatic incident with the Soviet Union.\n\nIt was described as without parallel in the history of television. The tunnellers heard that President Kennedy himself watched it and that he had been moved to tears.", "George Michael's sister, Melanie Panayiotou, has died aged 59, exactly three years after her brother.\n\nThe family confirmed in a statement that Melanie \"passed away suddenly\" over Christmas.\n\nHer brother, pop icon George Michael, died on Christmas Day 2016 at his home in Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.\n\nAndrew Ridgeley, George's former Wham! bandmate, described Melanie's death as \"utterly tragic\" and said his thoughts were with her family.\n\nMelanie and George - whose mother Lesley died in 1997 - are survived by their father Kyriacos, known as Jack, and their oldest sister Yioda.\n\nIn a statement, released through lawyer John Reid, Melanie's family said: \"We would simply ask that the family's privacy be respected at this very sad time.\n\n\"There will be no further comment.\"\n\nGeorge Michael had hits with Wham! and as a solo artist\n\nThe Metropolitan Police also confirmed the death in a statement, which read: \"Police were called by London Ambulance Service at approximately 1935hrs on Wednesday, 25 December to reports of the sudden death of a woman, aged in her 50s.\n\n\"The death is not being treated as suspicious by police.\"\n\nHer age was initially reported as 55, but the family's lawyer confirmed she was 59 at the time of her death.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Andrew Ridgeley This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn last month's edition of The Big Issue, Melanie spoke about her hopes for the recently-released romantic comedy Last Christmas, which was inspired by George's music.\n\n\"My family and I hope you all enjoy the film, and Yog's [George's] music old and new, woven beautifully into this fun, easy tale of love and self-love,\" she said.\n\n\"As many of you know, Yog adored Christmas and he loved the idea of this film. I am sure he will be enjoying seeing Emilia [Clark]'s amazing light bulb smile, something they share, across the celestial miles!\"\n\nIn 1985, Melanie gave an interview to No.1 Magazine, in which she described what her brother was like growing up.\n\n\"I don't think you could say that he was your regular sort of boy,\" she said.\n\n\"I mean, from what I remember, he was never interested in the kind of things the rest of the fellas were, like football and cars and things like that. He wasn't an introvert and I wouldn't say he was shy like some people have made out. He definitely knew what he wanted to do at an early age!\"\n\nMelanie added that she and her brother were very similar. \"We can be quite honest with each other and we share the same sense of humour,\" she said, revealing that fans would pester her for locks of George's hair.\n\nBut \"it goes in the bin like everyone else's,\" she noted.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Warm and wet weather in 2019 saw the biggest influx of painted lady butterflies in a decade in the UK\n\nIt's been a good year for migrant butterflies, moths and dragonflies in the UK, according to a review of 2019 by the National Trust.\n\nThe charity says warm and wet weather saw the biggest influx of painted lady butterflies in a decade.\n\nBut the impacts of drought and wildfires in some parts mean it's not been a good year for natterjack toads and water voles.\n\nThe fires saw the habitats of mountain hares impacted as well.\n\nThe changeable nature of the weather in 2019 meant there were mixed outcomes for species around the country. The warm spells in the earlier part of the year saw lots of moths, butterflies and dragonflies from Europe arrive en masse.\n\nChief among them was the painted lady butterfly. This orange and black spotted species is commonly seen in the UK but the last mass arrival was in 2008. Some 420,000 of the creatures were recorded in this year's big butterfly count. This butterfly has quite the range, capable of travelling 7,500 miles from tropical Africa to the Arctic Circle.\n\nAnother exotic visitor was the long tailed blue butterfly with 50 seen across the south coast of England. It was the third time in six years that the numbers of this delicate creature appeared to be increasing but successive generations haven't yet made it through a British winter.\n\nThere were also large numbers of migrant dragonflies, while a rare moth, the Clifden nonpareil was recorded in Devon. It became extinct in the UK in the 1960s but has been trying to re-establish itself over the past few years.\n\n\"Sightings of migrant insects and birds are becoming more common. This is a result of our changing climate,\" said Ben McCarthy, head of nature conservation and restoration ecology at the National Trust.\n\n\"Although this can seem exciting, the obvious flipside is how these changes will start to affect some of our native species already under pressure from intensive land use, habitat fragmentation and climate change.\"\n\nGrey seals around the UK appeared to be doing well despite the 50% mortality rate of seal pups at National Trust locations.\n\nSeal pups have a high mortality rate but overall numbers are up\n\nBut some native UK species were under pressure due to the impact of drought and wildfire.\n\nFires on Marsden Moor at Easter destroyed around 700 hectares of habitats, including those of mountain hares, curlews and twites.\n\nIt was also a bad year for natterjack toads, who rely on pools of water in their dune habitats to survive. Many of these dried out in May and June resulting in spawn and tadpoles being lost.\n\nRangers also recorded the earliest and latest spawning dates of the last decade, perhaps indicating that natterjacks are trying to adapt to a changing climate.\n\nWater voles in the Yorkshire Dales also suffered due to the heavy and unexpected rainfall in June, July and September. Sudden flood events swept away many of their offspring who were too young to be able to swim.\n\nThere were many other species suffering or benefitting from the changeable conditions throughout the year.\n\n2019 was a boom year for grass growth, which sounds like a good thing. But it could have negative impacts because more grasses can outcompete native wildflowers, which is bad news for pollinators.\n\nManaging the environment with a variable weather picture is a challenge - and could see species become extinct.\n\n\"This brings home the importance of doing all we can to ensure that we protect our remaining habitats and ensure they are in good condition to support our threatened species,\" said Mr McCarthy.\n\n\"By improving the condition of our remaining habitats and increasing patch size it is easier for species to move across landscapes in response to our changing environments. It also means that when they arrive in their new location there is habitat to support them.\n\n\"If our wildlife doesn't have anywhere to move to as temperatures rise and the weather changes, over the coming years we will inevitably see more and more species at risk of becoming extinct.\"", "Jolyon Maugham is director of the Good Law Project\n\nThe RSPCA is investigating after a prominent lawyer said he killed a fox with a baseball bat.\n\nJolyon Maugham posted on Twitter on Thursday morning: \"Already this morning I have killed a fox with a baseball bat. How's your Boxing Day going?\"\n\nThe animal welfare charity tweeted that the claim was \"distressing\".\n\nMr Maugham, who has brought a number of legal challenges related to Brexit, later apologised if anyone was \"upset\" by his tweet.\n\nHe said the fox had got caught in protective netting around his chickens at his central London home and he \"wasn't sure what else to do\".\n\n\"My chickens were very distressed by the fox, both before and after I'd despatched it - and I wanted it out of the way quickly,\" he said in another tweet.\n\nGiving further details, Mr Maugham said he had been wearing his wife's \"too small green kimono\" and nursing a hangover at the time.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jo Maugham QC This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Maugham said he had spoken to the RSPCA and given them his contact details.\n\nThe RSPCA said in a tweet on Wednesday night: \"We're aware of a situation regarding a fox, and would like to reassure people that we're investigating.\n\n\"Due to a very high volume of tweets, unfortunately we can't respond to every single one, and are unable to provide further comment right now. Thank you for your understanding.\"\n\nGovernment guidelines state you can use cage traps and snares to catch foxes and you must \"humanely kill any fox you catch while it's in the trap or snare\".\n\nMr Maugham is director of the Good Law Project and has been involved in several high-profile legal challenges, including against Boris Johnson's decision to suspend Parliament for five weeks.", "Guy Martin combines his TV career with working as a lorry mechanic\n\nCharges against motorcycle racer and TV celebrity Guy Martin have been dropped.\n\nMr Martin, 38, from Lincolnshire, had been accused of possessing a fake Irish licence and using it to alter his UK licence to enable him to drive HGVs.\n\nPsychiatrists had concluded Mr Martin does not always apply common sense and may have been taken in, Lincoln Crown Court heard.\n\nThe former Isle of Man TT rider who has autism had been due to stand trial on 6 January.\n\nThe case was brought because an Irish driving licence was submitted on Mr Martin's behalf to add the HGV entitlement to his UK licence, however it was a fake.\n\nMr Martin, of Barnetby, had denied possession of a driving licence with intent to deceive and making a false statement by claiming he had an Irish licence.\n\nJudge Simon Hirst said: \"The prosecution accept that it is conceivable that Mr Martin did think this was a genuine licence.\"\n\nMr Martin, who combines his television work with working as a lorry mechanic, had always said that he believed he passed a test while working in Northern Ireland and received a licence he believed was genuine.\n\nThe prosecution told Tuesday's hearing psychiatrists had concluded he did not always apply common sense and has a tendency to take what people say at face value.\n\nProsecutor Michael Cranmer-Brown said his autism also made him \"vulnerable enough for others to see him as an easy target\".\n\nHe said they accepted Mr Martin \"may well have been taken in by somebody\".\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Some schools say they need donations for \"necessities\", such as books\n\nPupils in some of the poorest regions of England are losing out because parents cannot afford to fill a funding shortfall with donations, BBC News has found.\n\nIn 2017-18, the average school in London raised £43,000 from donations. In Yorkshire, it was just £13,300.\n\nThe Fair Education Alliance said this gap \"exacerbates unfairness between rich and poor\".\n\nThe main political parties have all pledged to improve school funding.\n\nMoney is often brought in through fundraising events, such as this mud run\n\nThe BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme's analysis of Department for Education data shows the average school in England generated £59 per pupil from donations in 2017-18 - 1.07% of its overall budget.\n\nThe money is often raised through events, such as fun runs and school fairs.\n\nBut there is a clear divide across the UK.\n\nWhile schools in London, the east of England (£24,585 per year) and the North West (£20,844) are the most likely to profit; those in Yorkshire (£13,288), the North East (£13,394) and East Midlands (£17,044) struggle.\n\nOne school in Sunderland gained just £679 from donations, the equivalent of 43p per pupil, in 2017-18.\n\nAt Westmoor Primary School - just outside Newcastle - fewer than 6% of pupils are eligible for free school meals.\n\nThere, a recent muddy fun run raised £4,500 for pupils. While such events last year brought in £16,000 - or £45 per child.\n\nThe money, head teacher Sharon Trundley says, will go towards \"necessities\", such as books.\n\nThe school also has a set of iPads, \"which we wouldn't have been able to buy outright [otherwise]\", she adds.\n\nIts donations are below the national average but above par for the North East.\n\nIn the north east, school donations are below the national average\n\nSome schools, like Hawthorn Primary, fare much worse.\n\nBased in Newcastle's city centre, nearly 50% of its pupils have free school meals.\n\nLast year its donations brought in just £1,200 - less than £5.50 per pupil.\n\nHead teacher Jane Dube says it is struggling with failing equipment such as outdated laptops.\n\n\"The parents we work with, the little they do have they need for their families and their homes,\" she said.\n\n\"They are incredibly generous with the school but we can't always expect that to happen.\"\n\nIt has just formed a parent teacher association to try to look for ways to bring in funding.\n\nSam Butters, head of the Fair Education Alliance - a coalition of 150 organisations aimed at tackling perceived inequalities in the school system - said: \"The fact that parents in wealthier areas can afford to fill some of this funding gap exacerbates unfairness between rich and poor.\n\n\"We know that schools in all areas are cash-strapped as funding has decreased in real terms during the period of austerity, so it is not surprising that they are making efforts to seek funds from alternative sources.\n\n\"Teachers and school leaders are increasingly reporting a lack of funding for necessities - including, for example, teaching assistants to support in classrooms.\n\n\"If insufficient school funding requires donations from parents to meet shortfalls, schools in deprived areas are going to lose out.\"\n\nAnalysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) in June found since 2009, spending had fallen by 8% per pupil once rising costs such as pay and pension contributions were taken into account.\n\nOne head teacher in in south London told BBC News in March she had had to scrub the toilets, clean the school and work in the canteen because of funding shortages.\n\nAll five main parties in England have made pledges on education. Here are some of their key policies:\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "Director General of the World Trade Organisation Roberto Azevedo says it will take \"a few months\" to fix its main body for settling trade disputes.\n\nIt has ground to a halt because the US has blocked the appointment of new judges.\n\nA minimum of three are needed and today there is just one in place.\n\nThe Appellate Body has the final say on disputes that cover billions of dollars of international trade and its decisions are supposed to be binding.\n\nHowever, now that it has ceased to function and can't take on new cases Mr Azevedo conceded that \"significant changes in the dispute settlement mechanism\" will be needed and that \"intensive consultations\" will start immediately.\n\nThese are likely to include \"looking at issues like how fast can the disputes settlement work\", he said in a BBC interview\n\nThe WTO's Appellate Body's been called \"probably the busiest international dispute settlement system in the world\"\n\nThose changes are being demanded by President Trump's administration in Washington. Their argument is that the WTO has treated the United States unfairly. Some of their criticisms are shared by other countries but others are not. Despite this Mr Azevedo says that Donald Trump's tenure as US president is not a barrier to reaching a solution.\n\n\"It's whether we can find fixes that everybody can live with\".\n\nHe adds that, \"these are extremely complex conversations and negotiations and very political in nature, so we have to understand this is not something that is going to be solved overnight, just like that\".\n\nMr Trump's role is disputed by Professor James Bacchus, a former chairman, or chief judge, of the WTO Appellate Body as well as a former US trade negotiator. He told the BBC there is \"little chance of resolving this while Donald Trump is still president in a way that will continue to preserve the independence and impartiality of the Appellate Body and the rest of the WTO dispute settlement system\".\n\nHe says that whilst the US has won the vast majority of cases it has bought at the WTO it has repeatedly violated the trade remedies imposed on it by the organisation.\n\nPresident Trump has denied that he would pull the US out of the WTO\n\nProfessor Bacchus says that many of the US claims against the WTO are \"trumped up\".\n\nThe US, however, thinks that the WTO dispute system interprets the WTO rules in a way that creates new obligations for WTO members, according to US ambassador to the WTO, Dennis Shea.\n\nOne area that particularly grates in Washington is dumping, when a foreign supplier sells goods abroad more cheaply than at home. The US and others have used a disputed method for assessing whether goods have been dumped and how much the the price is below what it should be.\n\nIt's not explicitly prohibited by the WTO rules, but the Appellate Body took the view that it was in effect against their spirit.\n\nProfessor Bacchus says that immobilizing the WTO Appellate Body is an attempt by the US to replace the rule of law in trade \"with the rule of power\".\n\nInstead of turning to the WTO President Trump has repeatedly used tariffs to address his trade concerns, seeing them as a way to gain leverage over his adversaries. This has meant tit for tat tariffs against China in what is becoming a protracted trade war. They have also been used in disputes with countries including Brazil, Argentina, Turkey and the European Union.\n\nWith the WTO paralysed, these other countries may now be tempted to lend their support to the EU plans for a new an alternative interim system for settling international trade disputes. China, the world's second biggest economy, is also now reported to be looking to support the move.\n\nIn a statement the EU trade commissioner Phil Hogan said the WTO's problems are a \"regrettable and very serious blow to the international rules-based trade system\". And despite believing that a \"comprehensive package of reform\" is needed for the WTO he thinks it remains indispensable for ensuring open and fair trade.\n\nThe WTO's Director General isn't concerned that any interim arrangement for settling disputes, however widely supported, will replaced his organization just 24 years after it was founded.\n\nMr Azevedo says \"I think what we need to do is not lose focus on finding the permanent solution while at the same time we're working on some temporary fixes\".", "Maurice Saatchi has quit the advertising agency he co-founded in 1995 along with three other directors in the wake of an accounting scandal.\n\nM&C Saatchi shares have collapsed this year from a high of about £4 each to 103 pence after profit warnings.\n\nThe company also revealed a £11.6m hole in its earnings last week.\n\nLord Saatchi founded the firm with his brother Charles after being forced out of Saatchi & Saatchi after a shareholder revolt.\n\nAs well as Lord Saatchi, Lord Dobbs, Sir Michael Peat and Lorna Tilbian all quit the board of the firm.\n\nLord Dobbs, a Conservative politician, is best known for creating the House of Cards novels, which were turned into TV series in the UK and the US.\n\nSir Michael is a former accountant and courtier, and Ms Tilbian is a media analyst and stock broking executive.\n\nM&C Saatchi is famous for the controversial New Labour, New Danger campaign for the Conservatives in 1997. Labour won with a majority of 179.\n\nMuch more successful was the brothers' 1979 Conservative campaign, Labour Isn't Working.\n\nJeremy Sinclair, the company's chairman, said: \"We have accepted the decision of these directors to resign. We are determined to restore the operational performance and profitability of the business.\"\n\nLast week the company warned 2019 profit would be \"significantly below the levels expected\".\n\nIn September it revealed a slide in sales and profit for the first half of the year. Profit fell 67% to £2.5m.", "So that’s it... campaigning is over! We hear what the party leaders got up to on the final day, Jeremy Vine quizzes Adam on the Labour and Conservative manifestos and we bring you an Ele-Xmas carol.", "Olivia Newton-John next to her jacket before the auction\n\nThe leather jacket Olivia Newton-John wore in Grease has been given back to the actor by the man who bought it from her at auction for $243,200 (£185,000).\n\nThe Australian sold the black jacket and other possessions in November, with part of the proceeds going to her cancer research centre.\n\nBut the anonymous buyer has now handed it back to a \"grateful\" Newton-John.\n\nHe said: \"It should not sit in a billionaire's closet for country-club bragging rights.\"\n\nThe buyer was seen with his face blurred out in a video as he surprised the actor with the jacket.\n\nHe said: \"The odds of beating a recurring cancer using the newest emerging therapies is a thousandfold greater than someone appearing out of the blue, buying your most famous and cherished icon, and returning it to you.\"\n\nA tearful Newton-John, 71, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992, hugged him and said: \"That is the most incredibly generous thing to do for me. I'm so grateful and I'm just blown away.\"\n\nShe wore the jacket in the final scene of the 1978 film, when she and John Travolta perform You're the One That I Want and We Go Together.\n\nIt was among the star lots in last month's auction, which raised a total of $2.4m (£1.8m).\n\nNewton-John has recently been having treatment for stage-four breast cancer. She set up the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness & Research Centre near Melbourne in 2012.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Olivia Newton-John: \"I'm not going to be a victim\"", "Jaden Moodie was the youngest murder victim in London this year\n\nA man has been found guilty of murdering a 14-year-old boy in a \"violent and frenzied\" knife attack.\n\nJaden Moodie was knocked off a moped and repeatedly stabbed by Ayoub Majdouline in Bickley Road, Leyton, in January.\n\nJurors heard the defendant's DNA was found on a knife and yellow washing-up gloves, which had been thrown into a drain.\n\nMajdouline, from Wembley, north London, is due to be sentenced on 18 December.\n\nA jury of eight men and four women at the Old Bailey also found the 19-year-old guilty of having an offensive weapon.\n\nJaden was the youngest murder victim in London this year.\n\nMajdouline was one of five men linked to the stabbing who drove around east London in a stolen Mercedes looking for members of a rival gang to attack on the night of 8 January, the court heard.\n\nAyoub Majdouline was found guilty of Jaden's murder by majority of 11 to one\n\nThe group, linked to drug gang the Mali Boys, had covered their faces and two of them, including Majdouline, wore yellow rubber gloves to avoid being identified, the jury was told.\n\nOnce they spotted Jaden, the Mercedes rammed into the teenager and knocked him off the moped before some of the gang members got out of the car and stabbed him while he lay on the ground.\n\nJaden, who was dealing drugs for rival gang the Beaumont Crew, suffered nine stab wounds and bled to death in the road as the attackers ran back to the car and sped off, the court heard.\n\nCCTV of the moment Jaden was knocked off a moped and stabbed to death was shown to jurors\n\nProsecutor Oliver Glasgow QC said: \"Fourteen seconds was all it took - Jaden did not stand a chance.\"\n\nHe told jurors the \"cowardly\" attack was part of a \"shocking wave of gang crime\" across London that attracted ever younger people.\n\nJurors heard the day before the murder, Majdouline was caught on CCTV at a Travelodge hotel in Walthamstow with the same distinctive Nike Air Max trainers he had been wearing during the knife attack on Jaden.\n\nBurnt clothes, including the trainers, were later found in a churchyard not far from the murder scene.\n\nMajdouline admitted dealing drugs for the Mali Boys but denied being present during the fatal attack.\n\nMajdouline captured on CCTV with a purple JD Sports bag found amongst the burnt piles of clothing\n\nAfter a troubled up-bringing, the defendant turned to county lines dealing \"to survive\", the court was told.\n\nHe had been caught with drugs and carrying knives, but despite serving time behind bars, went straight back to dealing.\n\nThe jury heard he was identified by the National Crime Agency in 2018 as a victim of \"modern slavery\", amid concerns of exploitation by older youths.\n\nJaden had also been in trouble with police since he was 13.\n\nHe was handed a youth conditional caution in March last year after police seized an air-powered pistol, Rambo knife and cannabis during an altercation in Nottingham.\n\nAccording to agreed facts read to the court, his mother moved her family to east London due to \"ongoing issues\" with youths.\n\nJaden's attackers burnt the clothes they wore during the stabbing in a churchyard not far from the murder scene\n\nJaden's family said \"yes\" and appeared emotional in court as Majdouline was convicted.\n\nFollowing the verdict, Det Ch Insp Dave Hillier, of the Met Police, described it as a \"cold-blooded\" murder.\n\nHe said Majdouline and the other attackers went out with \"the clear intention of causing, at the very least, serious harm to someone as they prowled the streets of Leyton looking for their target\".\n\nJaden's attackers \"tried to destroy any evidence, but they failed, and officers were soon able to link Majdouline to Jaden's murder\", he said.\n\nHe added: \"However, our work is not over yet. We know that there were five people in that black Mercedes and we will continue to work until all those responsible for Jaden's murder are brought to justice.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jaden Moodie moved from Nottingham to London with his mum for a \"new start\"\n\nThe mother of a 14-year-old boy hunted down and knifed to death in gang violence said she will never forget the image of her youngest child lying face down in a pool of his blood.\n\nJaden Moodie was dealing drugs on 8 January in Leyton, north-east London, when he was mowed down by a car. As he lay in the road, he was repeatedly stabbed by a rival gang.\n\nOne of his attackers - 19-year-old Ayoub Majdouline was found guilty of his murder on Wednesday. Jaden's mother explains how her son became embroiled in a drug turf war.\n\nThe 14-year-old was stabbed to death in Bickley Road, Leyton\n\nJada Bailey was cooking at home in Walthamstow when she got a knock on the door on the evening of 8 January.\n\n\"It was Jaden's friends. They told me that he was not responding. I didn't know what they were talking about at first,\" she said.\n\nJaden had been riding down Bickley Road on a moped at about 18:30 when a Mercedes ploughed into him head on, launching him over the car's bonnet.\n\nHe was then set upon and stabbed to death within seconds.\n\n\"I ran [there] with my two daughters,\" Jada said. \"Everything was taped off and there were lots of police and paramedics. I will never forget being pulled to one side and being told Jaden was no longer with us.\n\n\"At that moment I was just in disbelief - in a state of shock. I asked immediately to see him - and when I saw him, he was laid out in the crucifixion pose.\n\n\"That image has not left me.\"\n\nCCTV of the moment Jaden was knocked off a moped and stabbed to death was shown to jurors\n\nJada said her son was caring and loving - but the trial into his murder revealed he had become increasingly troubled as he entered his teenage years.\n\nIn March 2018 - by the time he was 13 - he was handed a youth conditional caution after police seized an air-powered pistol, a Rambo-style knife and cannabis during an altercation in Nottingham.\n\nFour months later, Jada called police to say she had been threatened on her doorstep by a 16-year-old boy who told her Jaden owed him money - and if he did not pay, she and her son would be stabbed.\n\nTen months after that she complained to social services that she had handed £300 to stop the boys from threatening her. She also said she had found a large knife in her home - a clear sign, she thought, that her son was being groomed into a life of crime.\n\nJaden pictured wearing his school uniform on his first day at the Redhill Academy in Nottingham\n\nFearing for her family's life, Jada decided to move 140 miles from the market town of Arnold in Nottinghamshire to Waltham Forest in east London.\n\nBut his mother said that despite being close to male role models like his uncles, the teenager was soon excluded from his new school in Chingford and lured back into criminality.\n\nLast year, he admitted appearing in a Snapchat video with an imitation firearm and was found with crack-cocaine at an address in Bournemouth.\n\nOn the afternoon before being stabbed, Jaden had called a friend to tell him \"I'm in beef again\".\n\nIt was only after his death that his mother learned of his involvement with one of the biggest and most organised gangs in Waltham Forest - the \"Beaumont Crew\".\n\nHe had been dealing cannabis for the gang when he was set upon by his rivals, the \"Mali Boys\".\n\nAyoub Majdouline and four other boys were part of the Mali Boys gang and on 8 January were cruising the streets around Bickley Road in a stolen Mercedes.\n\nThey had covered their hands and faces, armed themselves with knives and were looking for trouble.\n\nJaden was in the area at the same time, having visited a youth bus run by Christian charity, Worth Unlimited. He then set off down Bickley Road on a moped.\n\nIt was here where Majdouline and his accomplices spotted the teenager and drove the Mercedes right at him.\n\nMajdouline, wearing yellow washing up gloves, got out of the car with three other boys and repeatedly stabbed the 14-year-old in the back while he lay on the ground.\n\nHe suffered nine stab wounds in the 14-second attack and bled to death in the road.\n\nBlood-stained rubber gloves worn by Majdouline were found near the crime scene\n\nForensic practitioner Ian Hounsell, who was nearby, told jurors he could hear the teenager \"grunting\" and that he noticed several slit marks at the back of his jacket.\n\nHe administered CPR, but the 14-year-old was pronounced dead just after 19:00 GMT.\n\n\"The way in which he died was barbaric,\" Jada said. \"How could they [his attackers] do that - to a child?\"\n\nDuring the trial, prosecutor Oliver Glasgow QC said these young men had \"no qualms about carrying and using deadly weapons to kill, no qualms about attacking their victim on a public street, and no qualms about playing out their petty rivalries using the blade of a knife.\"\n\nJurors heard social services were worried Majdouline was being groomed by sophisticated adult dealers and he was identified by the National Crime Agency in 2018 as a victim of \"modern slavery\", amid concerns of exploitation.\n\nGiving evidence, the defendant told the court how he sold drugs \"for and with\" the Mali Boys, including county lines deals in Basingstoke, Ipswich and Andover.\n\nHe had been caught with drugs and carrying knives, but despite serving time went back to dealing.\n\n\"I was not getting really any money from social services - £50 a week. Everyone in Leyton that I knew was selling drugs to make money so I just thought... to survive.\n\n\"I was selling drugs for this older guy. He didn't want me to get robbed or lose his drugs so he gave me a knife for my own safety.\"\n\nMajdouline said he carried a knife for his own safety\n\nThe relative naivety of Jaden's attackers was highlighted in the way they tried to get rid of the evidence in the moments after the murder.\n\nThe obviously damaged Mercedes, which had Jaden's blood on the bonnet, was abandoned in a cul-de-sac five minutes away from Bickley Road.\n\nBlood-stained yellow rubber gloves worn by Majdouline and the knife used in the attack, both covered in the defendant's DNA, were put down a drain near the abandoned car.\n\nMajdouline was seen on CCTV buying cigarettes at Bercey Food and Wine shop 10 minutes after Jaden was murdered, while the T-shirt, jeans and Nike Air Max trainers he wore during the attack were found in a burnt pile opposite the shop, in the grounds of St Mary's Church on Church Road.\n\nMajdouline's burnt clothing was found in the grounds of St Mary's Church in Leyton\n\nThe evidence was enough to convince a jury of eight men and four women that Majdouline was guilty of Jaden's murder.\n\nTwo other males arrested for their involvement in the attack remain under investigation.\n\nThe Met said it was committed to bringing all five people in the Mercedes to justice.\n\n\"No child is safe while Jaden's [uncaught attackers] are on the streets of London,\" said Jada. \"Since 8 January, more people have died and something has to change.\n\n\"My son will not be dying in vain because I will save more children like that around here - the ones who have been excluded from school particularly.\"\n\nJaden's mother has set up a foundation for vulnerable children following the death of her son\n\nResearch by City Hall showed more than 4,000 people in London were recruited by gangs to supply drugs through networks across the UK in the last year.\n\nAlmost half of these were aged between 15 and 19, while 29% were aged from 20 to 25.\n\nJaden, who lied about his age to other gang members, was believed to be the youngest member of the Beaumont Crew. He was also the youngest murder victim in London since 14-year-old Corey Junior Davis was shot in 2017.\n\nJada has set up the Jaden Moodie Movement - a foundation to provide safe spaces for vulnerable children and young adults.\n\n\"We loved our son and he did have structure. But certain individuals and structures failed him,\" she said. \"Now we want to help these kids get off the streets and show them that there is a better future to be had away from drugs and knives.\n\n\"If there are people on our streets capable of killing a 14-year-old child, then no one is safe. No more children need to die.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "About 725,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar over the past 12 months, many for Bangladesh\n\nIndiscriminate killing; villages burned to the ground; children assaulted; women gang-raped - these are the findings of United Nations investigators who allege that \"the gravest crimes under international law\" were committed in Myanmar last August.\n\nSuch was their severity, the report said, the army must be investigated for genocide against the Rohingya Muslims in the western Rakhine state.\n\nThe investigators' conclusions came despite them not being granted access to Myanmar by the government there, which has since rejected the report.\n\nThis is how the investigators came to their conclusions.\n\nOn 24 March 2017, the UN Human Rights Council agreed to form an independent fact-finding mission on Myanmar to look into \"alleged recent human rights violations by military and security forces\".\n\nFive months after the mission was formed, Myanmar's army launched a major assault on Rakhine state, following deadly attacks by Rohingya militants on police posts.\n\nThe military's campaign became the main focus of the investigation, which also looked into rights abuses in Kachin and Shan states.\n\nThe mission wrote to Myanmar's government three times asking for access to the country. It received no response.\n\n\"The first rule was 'do no harm',\" says Christopher Sidoti, one of the three people who headed the investigation.\n\n\"Those people we spoke to had been heavily traumatised, and if our staff considered that an interview would be re-traumatising, it wouldn't have been conducted.\n\n\"No evidence is so important that it warrants re-traumatising someone who has gone through all these experiences.\"\n\nAt least 725,000 people have fled Rakhine state over the past 12 months, many to neighbouring Bangladesh. As a result, despite not getting access to Myanmar, investigators were able to gather a vast amount of testimony from people who had experienced violence at first-hand before fleeing.\n\nMany made the treacherous journey from Rakhine to Bangladesh by sea\n\nThey spoke to 875 people in Bangladesh, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and the UK, and made a decision early on that the most valuable testimony would come from people who had not shared their stories before.\n\n\"We didn't want to interview people who had been interviewed by other organisations,\" Mr Sidoti, an Australian human rights law expert, says. \"We didn't want a situation where people's evidence could have been tainted.\n\n\"We tried to get people from a wide variety of areas and when we became more and more focused later on, we would deliberately, through a community network, seek out others from that area to get a better picture of what went on.\"\n\n\"We would never use just one account as proof,\" Mr Sidoti says. \"We always sought corroboration from primary and secondary sources.\"\n\nThose sources included videos, photographs, documents and satellite images, which showed the destruction of Rohingya villages over several months in 2017.\n\nIn one case, investigators had received several reports from refugees in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, that a village had been destroyed in particular circumstances at a particular time.\n\nInvestigators were then able to source satellite images that corroborated what witnesses had said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rohingya girls in danger: The stories of three young women\n\nGetting hold of photographic evidence from the ground proved to be more of a challenge.\n\n\"When people were leaving Rakhine state, they were being stopped, searched and deprived of their money, gold and mobile phones,\" Mr Sidoti says. \"It seemed pretty clear this was an attempt to get video or photographic evidence they had recorded.\n\n\"There wasn't much left but we made use of it.\"\n\nThe report names six senior military figures it believes should go on trial, including Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing and his deputy.\n\nHow were investigators able to point the finger directly at these men?\n\nThe case here is not based on a paper trail, or a recording, but instead on research.\n\nInvestigators relied heavily on others' detailed understanding of how Myanmar's government works. Among them was a military adviser who had co-operated with war crimes tribunals in the past.\n\n\"We have been able to access extraordinary international advice on various aspects of Myanmar's military,\" Mr Sidoti says. \"The conclusion we have come up with is that the army is so tightly controlled that nothing happens involving the army in Myanmar without the commander-in-chief and his deputies knowing.\"\n\nWhile the people believed to have given the orders have been named, work is ongoing to identify the members of the military who may have committed atrocities.\n\n\"We do have a list of alleged perpetrators on the ground and they will remain confidential for now,\" Mr Sidoti says. \"Their names have come up frequently enough for them to be put on lists to face more investigation.\"\n\nIdentifying what appears to be genocide and proving that what happened fits the legal definition of genocide are two different things.\n\n\"Evidence of crimes against humanity was very quickly obtained and was quite overwhelming,\" Mr Sidoti says. \"Genocide is a much more legally complex issue.\"\n\nChristopher Sidoti: \"None of us thought the evidence for genocide would be as strong as it was\"\n\nAs the report states, genocide is when \"a person commits a prohibited act with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group\".\n\nThe key word is \"intent\". Investigators believe the evidence of that intent by the Myanmar army is clear.\n\nThey cite statements by commanders and suspected perpetrators, and the degree of planning required to carry out such an operation. But still, identifying a genocide from a legal perspective took a significant amount of legal work.\n\n\"We arrived at a position we had not expected to be in when we were beginning,\" Mr Sidoti says. \"None of the three of us thought the evidence for genocide would be as strong as it was. That came as a surprise.\"\n\nThe report says that the six military officials should face trial. It also condemns Myanmar's de facto leader, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, for failing to intervene to stop attacks, and the UN's outgoing rights chief this week said she should have resigned as a result.\n\nThe report also makes a series of recommendations, including the referral of the investigation to the International Criminal Court or to a new tribunal, and the imposition of an arms embargo.\n\nHowever, China has so far resisted strong action against its neighbour and ally Myanmar on the UN Security Council, where it holds a veto.\n\nMr Sidoti acknowledges that officials in Myanmar are unlikely to investigate the allegations themselves. Last year, an internal investigation by the army exonerated itself of blame in the Rohingya crisis, and Myanmar's Permanent Representative to the UN last week told BBC Burmese the report was full of \"one-sided accusations against us\".\n\n\"We have made recommendations and it is up to others to act on them,\" Mr Sidoti says. \"I have a high expectation that the Security Council will act on its responsibilities. But I'm not naive.\"", "The shipping industry is drawing up plans for EU border checks in Britain for trade bound for Northern Ireland.\n\nThe BBC has learned that freight could be diverted through ports with space for inspections such as Liverpool and Stranraer, despite the government denying checks will be necessary.\n\nCustoms staff at the relevant ports could include EU representatives, under the details of the new withdrawal deal.\n\nThe government said it has secured a \"great new deal.\"\n\nThere is also a proposal for smaller \"pop up labs\" at ports - mobile testing labs for health checks on food exports.\n\nThere has been at least one meeting this month between officials and shippers to discuss suitable ports.\n\nOne key issue is the diversion of freight to ports with enough capacity to process the freight traffic and carry out the necessary checks required by the Brexit deal.\n\nThe Port of Liverpool has an existing Border Inspection Point for exports outside of the EU. Stranraer could be used to process checks for ships using the nearby Cairnryan port, which has limited space.\n\nIndustry figures spoke to the BBC after leaks from within Whitehall clearly listed \"facilities for high levels of checks and controls\" as one of \"a number of challenges\" with delivering the PM's Brexit deal by December 2020.\n\nDespite claims by Boris Johnson that there will not be any checks on trade from Great Britain to Northern Ireland, the industry is planning for them on the basis of the detail of the deal secured with the EU in October.\n\nOne senior industry figure said that there was an \"implicit understanding\" that such checks for food products would be in Great Britain, partly because of sensitivities about new infrastructure representing a form of trade barrier within the UK.\n\nThe BBC also understands that EU officials suggested that the checks should be in Great Britain, to avoid having to send back foodstuffs not compliant with EU single market rules.\n\nThe precise nature of the border checks depends on how aligned the UK remains with the EU, the decisions of the Joint Committee of the EU and the UK to be set up after Brexit, and whether UK authorities are willing to accept security and revenue risks in order to keep trade flowing. Technology could also help alleviate some of the checks.\n\nOn Sunday the prime minister said there was \"no question\" NI/GB checks\n\nPaperwork and some checks will be required for agrifood imports into Northern Ireland from Great Britain, on the regulatory compliance of goods with the single market, and for trade tariffs for goods deemed to be at risk of being taken to the Republic of Ireland.\n\nGoods remaining in Northern Ireland should have their tariffs repaid by the UK government, but a system for this is yet to be implemented.\n\nThe prime minister has also argued that only goods destined for the EU would face checks, but the industry says even verifying that would mean checking some intra-UK trade.\n\nBoth the leaked memo from DExEU - the Department for Exiting the European Union - and a similar Treasury note last week confirm scepticism that the necessary changes to infrastructure are possible within the PM's self-imposed deadline of December 2020.\n\nThe leaked DExEU memo suggests that work would have to start before negotiations on a future deal finish.\n\n\"The Prime Minister has been clear that the great new deal he has struck will not introduce new checks between Northern Ireland and Great Britain,\" the Conservative Party said in an email.\n\n\"We have struck a great new deal which will take the whole UK - including Northern Ireland - out of the EU and the EU's Customs Union. As we leave we will strengthen our union and ensure all parts of our country benefit from the opportunities that Brexit offers.\"", "Some of the chickens were found to have a strain of avian flu\n\nAll 27,000 chickens at a farm in Suffolk will be slaughtered after cases of bird flu were confirmed.\n\nA number of the birds were found to have the H5 strain of avian flu, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said.\n\nIt set up a 1km (0.6 mile) exclusion zone around the farm, near Eye, to limit risk of the disease spreading.\n\nDr Gavin Dabrera, from Public Health England, said the risk to public health was very low.\n\nThe Food Standards Agency said there was no food safety risk as long as poultry products, including eggs, are thoroughly cooked.\n\nThe strain at the commercial farm at Athelington has been identified as \"low pathogenic avian flu\" (LPAI).\n\nDr Dabrera, a public health consultant at Public Health England, said: \"Avian flu (often called bird flu) is primarily a disease of birds and the risk to the general public's health is very low.\n\n\"As a precaution, we are offering public health advice and anti-virals to those who had contact with the affected birds, as is standard practice.\"\n\nA detailed investigation is under way to determine the most likely source of the outbreak.\n\nThe outbreak was discovered at a farm in Athelington, near Eye in Suffolk\n\nThe British Poultry Council said there was no link to the Christmas turkey market, which was \"unaffected\" by the case.\n\nSuffolk poultry farmer Alaistaire Brice, who farms near to the exclusion zone, said the outbreak was a concern for bird farmers but not the wider public.\n\nHe said: \"It is a difficult one to take, especially at this time of year. We know it is always in the background but last year was quite an easy year for us with regards to the risks of managing birds.\"\n\nChief veterinary officer Christine Middlemiss said: \"Bird keepers should remain alert for any signs of disease, report suspected disease immediately and ensure they are maintaining good bio-security on their premises.\n\n\"We are urgently looking for any evidence of disease spread associated with this strain to control and eliminate it.\"\n\nNational Farmers Union chief poultry adviser Gary Ford said: \"This confirmation of avian influenza is devastating news for the farm affected. However, Defra's prompt action has helped limit the risk of the disease spreading, and provided that it's contained to one site will have very little impact on the wider poultry industry.\n\n\"It is imperative that all poultry keepers, including small backyard flocks, remain vigilant at this time and report any sign of disease immediately, as well as maintaining good biosecurity measures.\"\n\nIn 2017, some 23,000 chickens were destroyed at Bridge Farm in Redgrave on the Suffolk/Norfolk border after the H5N8 avian influenza virus was found, and in June the same strain was identified in about 35 chickens and geese at a farm near Diss in Norfolk.\n\nHighly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) is the more serious type of the disease which can prove fatal to birds.\n\nLPAI is usually less serious but can cause mild breathing problems in poultry, Defra said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ice loss from 1992 to 2018 has occurred mostly around the coast (Imbie/ESA/Planetary Visions)\n\nGreenland is losing ice seven times faster than it was in the 1990s.\n\nThe assessment comes from an international team of polar scientists who've reviewed all the satellite observations over a 26-year period.\n\nThey say Greenland's contribution to sea-level rise is currently tracking what had been regarded as a pessimistic projection of the future.\n\nIt means an additional 7cm of ocean rise could now be expected by the end of the century from Greenland alone.\n\nThis threatens to put many millions more people in low-lying coastal regions at risk of flooding.\n\nIt's estimated roughly a billion live today less than 10m above current high-tide lines, including 250 million below 1m.\n\n\"Storms, if they happen against a baseline of higher seas - they will break flood defences,\" said Prof Andy Shepherd, of Leeds University.\n\n\"The simple formula is that around the planet, six million people are brought into a flooding situation for every centimetre of sea-level rise. So, when you hear about a centimetre rise, it does have impacts,\" he told BBC News.\n\nThe British scientist is the co-lead investigator for Imbie - the Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-comparison Exercise.\n\nIt's a consortium of 89 polar experts drawn from 50 international organisations.\n\nThe group has reanalysed the data from 11 satellite missions flown from 1992 to 2018. These spacecraft have taken repeat measurements of the ice sheet's changing thickness, flow and gravity. The Imbie team has combined their observations with the latest weather and climate models.\n\nWhat emerges is the most comprehensive picture yet of how Greenland is reacting to the Arctic's rapid warming. This is a part of the globe that has seen a 0.75C temperature rise in just the past decade.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Andy Shepherd: \"Greenland and Antarctica are losing ice faster than we expected\"\n\nThe Imbie assessment shows the island to have lost 3.8 trillion tonnes of ice to the ocean since the start of the study period. This mass is the equivalent of 10.6mm of sea-level rise. What is more, the team finds an acceleration in the data.\n\nWhereas in the early 90s, the rate of loss was equivalent to about 1mm per decade, it is now running at roughly 7mm per decade.\n\nImbie team-member Dr Ruth Mottram is affiliated to the Danish Meteorological Institute.\n\nShe said: \"Greenland is losing ice in two main ways - one is by surface melting and that water runs off into the ocean; and the other is by the calving of icebergs and then melting where the ice is in contact with the ocean. The long-term contribution from these two processes is roughly half and half.\"\n\nIn an average year now, Greenland sheds about 250 billion tonnes of ice. This year, however, has been exceptional for its warmth. In the coastal town of Ilulissat, not far from where the mighty Jakobshavn Glacier enters the ocean, temperatures reached into the high 20s Celsius. And even in the ice sheet interior, at its highest point, temperatures got to about zero.\n\n\"The ice loss this year was more like 370 billion tonnes,\" said Dr Mottram.\n\nBack in 2013, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - the authoritative body that reconciles all climate science - gave a mid-range projection for global sea level rise of about 60cm by 2100. A mixture of ice melt and expansion of warming water.\n\nBut when Imbie published its companion review of Antarctica in 2018, it found the White Continent's contribution by 2100 was likely being underestimated by 10cm. Now, for Greenland, Imbie is saying the shortfall is 7cm. The IPCC will have to incorporate these updates when it releases its next major assessment report (AR6) of Earth's climate in a couple of years' time.\n\nProf René Forsberg, from the Technical University of Denmark, said the Imbie exercise underlined the importance of flying satellites, especially those that can observe the top of Greenland, higher than 83 degrees North. Only two of the present fleet can, and one of those spacecraft is operating beyond its design life.\n\n\"Most of the changes we've seen in Greenland have been in the west, south and east; and now it has slowly moved up to the north. So, yes, the next satellite in the European Union's Copernicus programme needs to go to higher latitudes, and this is being discussed by the EU and the European Space Agency,\" Prof Forsberg told BBC News.\n\nThe new satellite system - for the moment known as Cristal, but to be called a Sentinel if it flies - would be a radar altimeter to measure the changing shape of Greenland.\n\nImbie's Greenland analysis is published in the journal Nature. Its release has been timed to coincide with the annual COP climate convention taking place this year in Madrid, and with the American Geophysical Union meeting here in San Francisco, where leading Earth scientists have gathered.\n\nThe Arctic has warmed 0.75C in the past decade, relative to 1951–1980\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "The 16-bedroom Glenborrodale Castle is on the list of five\n\nMore than a quarter of those clicking on property websites have no intention to buy. No wonder they end up looking at the most striking homes available.\n\nA castle, a multi-million pound penthouse, and an audacious mirrored bedroom ceiling are among the most-viewed, according to Rightmove.\n\nThe properties include a boathouse, private cinemas, and a replica Angel of the North - in Essex.\n\nIn contrast, the UK housing market has been relatively undramatic this year.\n\nRelatively few homes have been put up for sale owing to political uncertainty and worries about the economy.\n\nOne bedroom feature - part of another property in the most-viewed - is clearly a talking point\n\nIt might not be to everyone's taste but the master bedroom in one mansion in Chigwell, Essex, features a huge mirror above the bed. It also has a replica, but smaller, Angel of the North sculpture outside.\n\n\"Suffice to say the properties with the biggest personalities or quirkiest features are usually the most popular,\" said Miles Shipside, of Rightmove.\n\nA survey of 6,000 people by rival property portal, Zoopla, earlier this year suggested that 27% of people had no intention to buy or sell. Fewer were actively looking for a specific property to buy than those browsing in general with an ambition to move or buy a first home.\n\nIt also suggested that 31% of those asked knew the exact house or street they wanted to live in next. This increases to 48% in London.\n\nSo, many of them may end up viewing and sharing top-end listings. They often feature cinema rooms, swimming pools, and those with a rich history.\n\nThe asking prices of Zoopla's five most-viewed properties are no less than £3.5m each.\n\nA pool features in this mansion in Cheshire among the top five\n\nThis Manchester penthouse on the 45th level is the only apartment on the list\n\nSeeing such homes on the site may be a source of frustration for regular sellers, trying to gain the attention of buyers - particularly during the winter.\n\nYet, there are ways in which they can make their home more attractive, according to property buyer Good Move.\n\nIts tips for viewings include fixing the nagging DIY jobs, taking it easy on strong-smelling scents, ensuring it is warm, doing what you can to keep rooms well-lit, keeping the garden tidy, and putting pets out of the way during potential buyers' visits.\n\n\"Winter can be a really difficult time to make a sale, with the gloomy weather, people's reluctance to move house during the colder, shorter days, and even buyers and estate agents taking time off for Christmas,\" said Ross Counsel, director at Good Move.\n\nWhere can you afford to live? Try our housing calculator to see where you could rent or buy This interactive content requires an internet connection and a modern browser. Do you want to buy or rent? Use the buttons to increase or decrease the number of bedrooms: minimum one, maximum four. Alternatively, enter a number into the text input How much is your deposit? Enter your deposit below or adjust the deposit amount using the slider Return to 'How much is your deposit?' This calculator assumes you need a deposit of at least 5% of the value of the property to get a mortgage. The average deposit for UK first-time buyers is . How much can you pay monthly? Enter your monthly payment below or adjust the payment amount using the slider Return to 'How much can you pay monthly?' Your monthly payments are what you can afford to pay each month. Think about your monthly income and take off bills, council tax and living expenses. The average rent figure is for England and Wales. Amount of the that has housing you can Explore the map in detail below Search the UK for more details about a local area What does affordable mean? You have a big enough deposit and your monthly payments are high enough. The prices are based on the local market. If there are 100 properties of the right size in an area and they are placed in price order with the cheapest first, the “low-end” of the market will be the 25th property, \"mid-priced\" is the 50th and \"high-end” will be the 75th.", "This previously unpublished picture shows London Bridge soon after the attacker was shot - with the bus on the right that was hit\n\nA ricochet from a police bullet could have passed through the entire top deck of a bus during the London Bridge terror attack, pictures reveal.\n\nThe police have suggested a ricochet could have hit the bus, stopped near to where attacker Usman Khan was shot.\n\nA picture given to BBC News by an eye witness on the bus behind shows a round hole and a shattered back window.\n\nBut a closer examination of other photos from the bridge reveals a hole in the front window of the bus as well.\n\nThe front window of the bus also appears to have been hit - with a forensic examination taking place\n\nThe eye witness, who does not want to be named, believes the bus he was on was also clipped.\n\nHe was at the front of the upper deck when he saw, heard and felt the impact of the back window of the bus in front shattering, and immediately dived to the floor.\n\n\"We are talking about a split-second of noise,\" he said.\n\nThe picture given to BBC News by a passenger on the bus directly behind shows a round hole and a shattered back window\n\n\"In no more than a half-a-second I was on the floor.\"\n\nIt suggests there was more of a fortunate near miss than had previously been recognised - and might explain how the ricocheting bullet had reached the back window.\n\nArmed officers shot Khan after he had been tackled by members of the public using improvised weapons including fire extinguishers and a narwhal tusk.\n\nKhan had been chased from nearby Fishmongers' Hall, after a knife attack in which he had killed Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones, who had been working at a prison rehabilitation event at the hall.\n\nThe damage to the bus seems to have happened after the initial shots that had stopped Khan, raising questions about further shots that might have been fired.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct, which is investigating, said that establishing the cause of damage to the bus was \"a line of enquiry for us\".\n\nDr Rachel Bolton-King, associate professor of forensic science at Staffordshire University says the specifics of what happened will have to be established by the formal investigation.\n\nBut she says it might be possible for a ricocheted bullet to \"pass through one window, through the length of the bus and out the window at the opposite end of the bus\".\n\n\"Ricochet bullets are often unstable once they have hit their first target surface,\" she said.\n\nA close-up shows the hole in the front window of the bus, along with the reflections of nearby buildings\n\nThey could continue \"nose on\" in the normal direction of flight but could also be deflected sideways or into other angles.\n\nAnd investigators would be able to find the direction of travel by examining the front and back surfaces of the window.\n\nPhilip Boyce, of forensic services company Forensic Equity, said the bullet could have entered through the front window and glanced off the ceiling of the bus before going out through the back.\n\nRicochets could carry for hundreds of yards, depending on the surfaces they hit but well within the distance between the bus and the site of Khan's shooting, he said.\n\nAnd their path could be altered by what they hit or passed through, such as laminated or toughened glass.\n\nTransport for London confirmed that a bus was damaged during the incident - with the Metropolitan police suggesting that it could have been a ricochet from a police bullet.", "The claim: Boris Johnson said goods entering Northern Ireland from Great Britain would only be checked if they are expected to be moved onwards into the Republic of Ireland. He told Sky News \"the only checks that there would be, would be if something was coming from GB via Northern Ireland and was going on to the Republic, then there might be checks at the border into Northern Ireland\".\n\nReality Check verdict: Some goods entering Northern Ireland from Great Britain will have to be checked even if they are staying in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Brexit Withdrawal Agreement signed in October means that Northern Ireland will remain part of a \"single regulatory zone\" with the Republic of Ireland, a zone that will apply EU rules.\n\nA Treasury document leaked a few days ago suggested this would mean new checks on goods being traded between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nFor example, the EU has particularly strict rules on importing \"products of animal origin\" - that is to say meat, fish and dairy products.\n\nThose products must enter the EU through a border inspection post where all shipments are subject to document checks and a high proportion are physically checked.\n\nProducts of animal origin from Great Britain entering Northern Ireland would be subject to these checks whether they are destined to remain there or be moved to the Republic of Ireland.\n\nThe island of Ireland is already a single regulatory zone for animal health.\n\nThis means that all livestock entering Northern Ireland from GB is currently checked at the point of entry.\n\nA few countries, such as New Zealand, have a deal with the EU where only 1% of consignments of meat and dairy product are checked.\n\nIt is possible that the UK could negotiate a similar deal but it would not be able to get rid of checks entirely unless the whole of the UK was going to stay in the single market.\n\nThe current political declaration, which sets out the broad shape of the future EU-UK relationship, suggests that is unlikely .", "Police searched the man's vehicle and found multiple sheets of fake coffee stickers\n\nA motorist stopped by police was found with hundreds of fake McDonald's coffee stickers in his car.\n\nThe driver in Bradford was found with multiple sheets of stickers, similar to ones McDonald's customers are given when they buy hot drinks.\n\nPolice said he was trying to defraud the loyalty scheme, in which six stickers can be exchanged for a free coffee.\n\nMcDonald's said anyone with counterfeit stickers would be refused a free drink.\n\nThe man was stopped on Westgate Hill Street on Sunday by the Steerside Enforcement Team, which deals with anti-social and criminal use of the roads in Bradford.\n\nWest Yorkshire Police confirmed the driver was given a \"community resolution\" for fraud in relation to the stickers and also arrested on suspicion of drug-driving.\n\nHe will be summonsed to court for the drug-driving offence.\n\nWriting on Twitter, the enforcement team said: \"It may seem inconsequential, but it is illegal to cheat a company like this.\n\n\"Just pay for your coffee!\"\n\nWest Yorkshire Police shared a picture of the fake stickers on Twitter\n\nMcDonald's customers get a sticker with a coffee bean on it every time they purchase a coffee.\n\nSix stickers can be exchanged for a free coffee.\n\nA spokesman for McDonald's said: \"Anyone attempting to use what our restaurant teams believe to be counterfeit stickers will be declined their free coffee.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "On almost any measure, we face a huge set of decisions.\n\nShould we leave the EU next month, or vote on it again?\n\nDo we set on a path that would lead steadily to another decision on the make up of the UK?\n\nDo we choose a much bigger state, or a revised version of the status quo with a slight easing up on the public spending squeeze that came after crash?\n\nThose are fundamental questions about our place in the world, the very nature of the relationship between government and its people.\n\nAnd voters are all too aware of the scale of the choice before them.\n\nBut there is exhaustion and frustration with the political class, and the two main leaders that are asking them to choose.\n\nBoth of the men who want to take office can reach parts of their parties other can't in the same way. But they are both famously flawed too.\n\nFor Boris Johnson, he has long enthused a certain strand of Tory voter, and is one of the few politicians, like it or not, who is impossible to ignore.\n\nFor him, this election is the ultimate make or break political moment, not just in terms of the last few months, but in terms of recent political history.\n\nOne of his old friends says: \"Boris Johnson has been the most famous politician in the country for more than a decade.\n\n\"His entire adult life has been defined by others as all about getting to No 10. He did make it - and not at a time or in circumstances he ever imagined or wished.\n\n\"Lose and he will be pilloried. He will never be able to prove the critics wrong or be the leader he desperately wants to be.\"\n\nOn the other side, this is a massive moment and a huge chance, not just for Jeremy Corbyn himself, but for his ardent backers.\n\nFor those on the left of the Labour Party who fought off critics from the moment he was chosen by members, after years when his grouping had been in the wilderness, the stakes are enormous too.\n\nFor Labour supporters who are not in that group, however, or for Conservatives who are not ardent Brexiteers, this whole campaign has been a strange and discombobulating experience, almost as if they can't feel the ground beneath their feet.\n\nBoris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn are competing for the keys to No 10\n\nThe main messages of the leaders are clear. But beyond two separate ardent cores, they can struggle to convince even everyone on their own side.\n\nThe wider public's mantra is not \"get Brexit done\" or \"it's time for real change\", but perhaps instead \"we're not convinced by any of you\".\n\nBut this election has not been an exercise in enthusiasm - there is a sense that the politicians available may not be the ones to answer convincingly the questions they have set.", "Last updated on .From the section Champions League\n\nRyan Sessegnon marked his first Tottenham start with a goal but could not prevent Spurs from losing 3-1 to Bayern Munich in their final Champions League group game.\n\nBoth sides had already qualified for the last 16, with Bayern progressing as Group B winners and Tottenham going through as runners-up, and consequently they made numerous changes for Wednesday's encounter at the Allianz Arena.\n\nBayern beat Spurs 7-2 in their first meeting in this season's competition at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and took an early lead through Kingsley Coman.\n\nSpurs hit back soon after when Sessegnon showed great composure to bring a pass under control inside the area and rifle a powerful finish beyond Manuel Neuer.\n\nThomas Muller, on as a first-half substitute after Coman picked up an injury, then struck just before the break when he tapped in after Alphonso Davies had hit the post.\n\nPhilippe Coutinho went close to scoring a spectacular third for the hosts but his fierce drive from distance bounced off the underside of the crossbar before being cleared.\n\nThe former Liverpool forward got on the scoresheet in the second half when he curled into the bottom corner from the edge of the area.\n\nSpurs will face one of Barcelona, Juventus, Paris St-Germain, Valencia or RB Leipzig in the last 16, with the draw on Monday.\n\nAfter the game, Bayern said France forward Coman would be out for \"some time\" with a capsule tear in the left knee\".\n• None What have we learned in Champions League?\n• None Which teams are into Champions League last 16?\n\nWith qualification to the last 16 and positions in the group already sorted before this game, Spurs boss Jose Mourinho understandably opted to give his fringe and young squad players a chance to shine.\n\nAfter a testing start to his Spurs career, Sessegnon grasped his opportunity with both hands. The 19-year-old signed from Fulham on deadline day but a hamstring injury he picked up in the summer while with England Under-21s had limited him to just three first-team appearances from the bench.\n\nHe took just 20 minutes to make an impression in Munich, thundering an unstoppable strike past Neuer after first taking a touch to control Giovani lo Celso's deflected pass.\n\nAt 19 years and 207 days, Sessegnon became Spurs' youngest Champions League scorer and went on to put on an assured performance.\n\nHe was the standout player for an otherwise flat Spurs who struggled to compete against a Bayern team that barely got out of third gear.\n• None Bayern Munich became just the second club to win all six of their group games in a single Champions League campaign (in the competition's current format, since 2003-04) after Real Madrid, who have done so twice (in 2011-12 and 2014-15).\n• None By collecting maximum points (18) and a goal difference of +19 Bayern became the best group winner in the history of the competition.\n• None Spurs manager Jose Mourinho has lost each of his three away games at Bayern Munich, with all three coming in the Champions League in charge of different teams (3-2 with Chelsea, 2-1 with Real Madrid and 3-1 with Spurs).\n• None Bayern Munich have gone unbeaten at home in the Champions League group stage for the sixth consecutive campaign, winning 17 of their 18 games at the Allianz Arena since the 2014-15 season (D1).\n• None Spurs have conceded at least two goals in five of their six games under Jose Mourinho in all competitions (11 in total), including in all three of their away games.\n• None Bayern Munich's Thomas Muller scored his 28th Champions League goal at the Allianz Arena - only four players have ever scored more at a single venue in the competition (Lionel Messi at the Nou Camp and Cristiano Ronaldo, Raul and Karim Benzema at the Bernabeu).\n• None Ryan Sessegnon is the third-youngest player to score a Champions League goal under Jose Mourinho, after Carlos Alberto (19y 167d) and Mario Balotelli (18y 84d).\n\n'I learned important information' - what they said\n\nTottenham boss Jose Mourinho said: \"It would be unfair to speak about conclusions. No conclusions, just information and that is very important for me.\n\n\"Some of the players played their first minutes with me. Some of the players like Foyth was the first time he played.\n\n\"It was important to collect some information, information you normally collect in the season or in pre-season. I just arrived and I need information.\n\n\"I am happy with the decisions I made, I hope our supporters understand what I did. Internally we made this decision and we think it was the best decision for the team.\"\n\nTottenham return to Premier League action this weekend when they travel to Wolves on Sunday (14:00 GMT). Meanwhile, the draw for the last 16 of the Champions League is on Monday (11:00 GMT).\n• None Attempt saved. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ryan Sessegnon with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Christian Eriksen with a through ball.\n• None Attempt saved. Philippe Coutinho (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Thiago.\n• None Attempt blocked. Serge Gnabry (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Thomas Müller.\n• None Attempt saved. Joshua Kimmich (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment, the older person’s bus pass and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* Rights for workers to be notified of their shifts one month in advance * The right to bereavement leave following a death in the immediate family * Lower cap on pension fund management fees * Tax breaks for companies that offer longer-term secure career contracts to staff\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* End the Work Capability Assessment and replace it with a system using qualified medical practitioners * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * No benefits paid to foreign nationals resident in the UK until they have paid tax for five years * Minimise the use of zero-hour contracts\n\n* £35 a week payment for every child in a low-income family * Tax credit of up to £25 a week for tenants in the private sector who spend more than 30% of their income on rent and utility bills * Powers over social security devolved to Wales * Abolish the \"bedroom tax\" * Universal free childcare for 40 hours a week\n\n* Demand UK government halts the rollout of Universal Credit until \"fundamental flaws\" are addressed * Oppose and increase to the state pension age and campaign against decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s * Press for the statutory living wage to rise to at least the level of the real living wage * Increase shared parental leave from 52 to 64 weeks, with the additional 12 weeks to be the minimum taken by the father * Make the minimum wage for 16 to 24-year-olds the same as for over 25s, and ban unpaid trial shifts\n\n* Stronger regulation of the gig economy, and oppose deregulation of employment rights * Stronger focus on careers advice * Support a fairer UK-wide welfare system and revised package of welfare mitigations for NI * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * Overhaul bereavement benefits\n\n* Personal tax allowance should rise in line with inflation each year * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 by the end of the parliamentary term * End the freeze on benefits by increasing them in line with inflation * Restore free television licences for over-75s but in the longer term abolish the licence fee entirely * Retain the pensions triple lock and retain winter fuel payments\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts * Introduce a real living wage * Establish a new \"welfare mitigation package\" that protects the most vulnerable\n\n* Increase childcare provision from 12.5 hours per week to 20 hours per week, potentially increasing to 30 hours once new budget is agreed * Regulation of zero-hours contracts * Introduce a \"true living wage\" to reflect rising costs of living * Scrap universal credit, the bedroom tax and the two-child limit * End the freeze on benefits\n\n* Extend mitigation measures on key issues such as the bedroom tax, which are due to expire in March * Restore TV licenses for over-75s and retain the triple-lock protection for pensions * Create and implement a new childcare strategy\n\n* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Increase the number of employers paying a living wage in Wales and introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system * New \"collective\" workplace pension schemes and new controls on transferring pensions and a review of state pension inequality for Waspi women\n\n* Introduce a real living wage of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16, giving about 700,000 Scottish workers a pay rise * Scrap universal credit and increase child benefit * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66 and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay\n\n* Reverse cuts to universal credit * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment * Introduce universal access to basic services * Increase provision of free meals for children, with a particular focus on breakfast * Increase access to free sanitary products\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts, close the gender pay gap, and ensure that everyone is paid a \"real living wage\" * Bring in a universal basic income * Remove differential rates of minimum wage for under-25s and introduce a living wage for everyone * Scrap universal credit * Support for the Waspi women (Women Against State Pension Inequality)\n\n* Scrap welfare reforms include PIP, Universal Credit and the bedroom tax * Develop a state-owned National Childcare Agency * Repeal all anti-trade union laws * Ban zero hours contracts and implement a real living wage\n\n* 40% of board members in public companies and public sector boards to be women * Worker representation to be established on the boards of larger companies * Ban “zero-hours” contracts * Increase child benefit", "A GP who cited Angelina Jolie and Jade Goody to instil fear in his patients about their health has been found guilty of sexually assaulting 23 women.\n\nManish Shah preyed on cancer concerns to carry out invasive intimate examinations for his own sexual gratification, the Old Bailey heard.\n\nHe convinced his victims to have unnecessary checks between May 2009 and June 2013.\n\nHe was convicted of 25 counts of sexual assault and assault by penetration.\n\nJurors acquitted 50-year-old Shah, of Romford, of five other charges.\n\nThey were told afterwards he had already been found guilty of similar allegations relating to 17 other women, bringing the total number of victims to 23.\n\nHe will be sentenced for all the offences on 7 February. The BBC's health editor Hugh Pym said it was one of the biggest cases of its kind involving one doctor.\n\nThe trial heard Shah mentioned a news story to one patient about Hollywood star Jolie having a preventative mastectomy, before asking if she would like him to examine her breasts.\n\nIn another instance involving a different complainant, he mentioned TV personality Goody - who died of cervical cancer - and advised an examination was in her best interests, it was claimed.\n\nProsecutor Kate Bex QC told the trial: \"He took advantage of his position to persuade women to have invasive vaginal examinations, breast examinations and rectal examinations when there was absolutely no medical need for them to be conducted.\"\n\nOne of Shah's patients told the BBC how she became one of the GP's victims.\n\n\"He would say you need to have these sexual health tests, to make sure you're safe - you never know if somebody goes with somebody else even though you might have a safe partner,\" she said.\n\n\"He was just encouraging the tests along when I didn't think anything of it, I thought if a doctor suggests it you pretty much go along with it.\n\n\"He just duped so many people. He used our weaknesses and fears and took complete advantage. But not one time did I actually think he was doing anything untoward.\"\n\nThe NHS in London said it \"extended sympathies\" to the victims and added: \"As soon as the allegations came to light, swift action was taken and we have supported the police throughout their investigation.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police said they had seen a recent \"dramatic rise\" in the off-street sex trade in the area\n\nNine people have been arrested and 11 women rescued during raids at suspected brothels.\n\nPolice raided 15 places on Tuesday night where they found Romanian and Hungarian women, in their 20s, believed to be victims of sexual exploitation.\n\nThe searches, in Luton, were part of an investigation into human trafficking, exploitation and modern day slavery.\n\nThe five men and four women are suspected of managing and controlling brothels, among other charges.\n\nThey include six Romanians, one Hungarian and one Briton and are in custody at Luton police station.\n\nFive men and four women were arrested in the raids\n\nThe raids were part of Operation Thame and the latest intelligence-led operation involved 150 police officers and specialist staff.\n\nOfficers seized substantial amounts of cash and at one property three officers were attacked with pepper spray.\n\nThe rescued women spoke little or no English and were taken to a place of safety.\n\nInsp Jim Goldsmith said some women are offered contracts to come to the UK to work in a proper job but \"unfortunately that's not the case\" and the raids were the \"tip of the iceberg\".\n\n\"We've seen quite a dramatic rise over the last eight to nine months in the off-street sex trade in Luton which has seen numerous brothels open and as such, has prompted the action we've taken.\n\n\"We try to keep these woman as safe as we can and that was the purpose of [these raids] to take the women out of that environment, give them the opportunity to exit that life and get them back to their families.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The clock is ticking towards decision time - Wednesday is the last full day of campaigning before voters go to the polls in the general election.\n\nBut what remain the key battlegrounds in December 2019 - especially for those still undecided?\n\nBBC Wales' correspondents take one last look at some of the policies that could make all the difference come Thursday.\n\nAll parties would increase police officer numbers - putting them back to roughly where we were in 2010 - give or take.\n\nLots of talk too of investing in youth services, from the Tories, Labour, Lib Dems and Plaid, to prevent them being drawn into a life of crime.\n\nWhile the Conservatives focus on tougher sentencing policies, particularly for the more serious crimes, Labour, Lib Dems and Plaid look at the other end of the scale and want to reduce the numbers going to prison for less serious offences, by doing away with short sentences.\n\nConservatives would ramp up stop and search, Labour and Lib Dems would curb it.\n\nA fair bit of consensus here - Labour and Plaid talk of harm reduction rather than criminalising drug use, likewise the Lib Dems wouldn't jail those caught with drugs for personal use.\n\nThe Conservatives aren't that specific here, but say they'd reduce drug deaths and break the links between addiction and crime.\n\nA necessary part of the belt-tightening caused by the financial crash or proof the poorest have borne the burden of ideologically-motivated austerity?\n\nThe UK government spends £10bn a year on benefits in Wales, about half of which goes towards the state pension.\n\nConservative-led governments have tried to simultaneously cut the bill and modernise a fiendishly complex system.\n\nUniversal Credit was their answer. It replaces six benefits with a single monthly payment. If the Tories win, it will roll on.\n\nBut their manifesto implicitly acknowledges criticism of the policy, promising to \"do more to make sure that UC works for the most vulnerable\".\n\nIt also promises to reduce reassessments for disabled people and end a freeze on benefits - both of which have been attacked from the left for being cruel.\n\nLabour says the problems are so bad that tweaking things isn't enough.\n\nUniversal Credit would be scrapped by Labour, but their manifesto isn't entirely clear on what will replace it or what would happen to the more than 130,000 people in Wales already receiving it.\n\nIt's possible Labour would eventually introduce a similar system - albeit a more generous and, Labour would say, more compassionate one.\n\nPlaid Cymru's answer is to devolve a whole set of benefits.\n\nThey accuse the Tories of dragging more people into poverty and Labour's Welsh Government of failing to protect the vulnerable.\n\nBut as a recent inquiry by assembly members pointed out, devolving powers doesn't necessarily mean people will be better off.\n\nIn their coalition with the Tories, the Liberal Democrats helped launch the era of austerity, but they blame the Conservatives for the design of Universal Credit.\n\nThere's very little mention of Universal Credit in their manifesto, beyond promises to reform the way it works.\n\nThe Brexit Party, meanwhile, says Universal Credit should be reviewed - an offer pitched at Labour's Leave-voting heartlands.\n\nCountless opinion polls show health and the NHS to be towards the top of the list people's priorities in any election so even though health is devolved - meaning the Welsh Government is in charge of it here - and nobody standing in this election will end up in charge of the Welsh NHS - it is inescapable as an issue.\n\nWhoever forms the next UK government will have to decide on how much money to give the NHS in England.\n\nThe more money Westminster allocates to the NHS, and other public services such as schools and councils, in England - the more money will come to the Welsh Government's coffers.\n\nAnalysis by BBC Wales suggests there's a substantial difference in the degree Wales would benefit as a result of the UK manifesto commitments of the main parties.\n\nBut ultimately it'll be up to the Welsh Government how exactly to spend the extra cash.\n\nThe NHS has also featured prominently in the campaign as politicians want to try to convince people it would be safer in their hands.\n\nThey want voters to trust them and distrust their opponents.\n\nThat's why pictures of children lying on hospital floors or debates about any impact of future trade deals on NHS resonate.\n\nBut the truth is the NHS is under a huge amount of pressure in all four nations of the UK and performance on targets to varying degrees have deteriorated in each over the course of the past 10 years or so.\n\nThough education is devolved, in many ways this UK election will have a significant impact on universities in Wales.\n\nBrexit is the big issue for higher education, and especially what replaces European funding and schemes such as Erasmus+.\n\nDecisions on tuition fees and student finance are taken by the Welsh Government but in this area any dramatic reforms in England are likely to prompt changes in Wales too.\n\nIf tuition fees are scrapped, as some parties are promising, it would have a direct impact on thousands of Welsh students who study in English universities.\n\nAnd practically and politically it would be difficult for Welsh institutions to keep charging £9,000 if higher education cost less or was even free over the border.\n\nBrexit is the main issue facing business in Wales.\n\n61% of Welsh exports go to the European Union, with 14% being sold to the USA and almost 17% to the rest of the world.\n\nThe major parties are offering clearly different approaches to Brexit.\n\nThere's the current deal, a renegotiation, another referendum, leaving without a deal or revoking Article 50 and not leaving the EU at all.\n\nOrganising how we leave the EU is only one part of the Brexit process.\n\nThe future trading relationship, which still has to be negotiated, is crucial for Welsh business.\n\nIt's not just about tariffs, there are other barriers to trade such as regulations - which companies will want to be kept to a minimum in order to keep sales and movement of goods flowing as smoothly as possible.\n\nBrexit supporters campaigned on the opportunities for trading with the rest of the world after leaving the EU.\n\nBut there have been concerns over what a US trade deal may mean, including for food standards and NHS drug prices.\n\nWhat's agreed in one trade deal will likely have an impact on what can be agreed in others.\n\nThe parties are also offering different approaches to immigration if freedom of movement from the EU comes to an end.\n\nCompanies have been concerned that any changes shouldn't hamper the flexibility they want to allow people to come to Wales to tackle skill shortages.\n\nIncreased public spending has been a theme that's run through the parties' promises.\n\nWhere they differ is on the levels of spending and on what - capital spending on infrastructure - or day-to-day spending on services.\n\nThey also would adopt varying levels of borrowing.\n\nWhat the parties are not doing is arguing that austerity should continue.\n\nInvesting in green industries is proposed by parties as a way of reducing our carbon use, combating climate change and trying to kick-start sluggish economic growth at the same time.\n\nWhat they mean in detail ranges from insulating homes, encouraging electric vehicles, innovative ways of using technology to reduce carbon use and planting millions of trees.\n\nYou can find every candidate for every seat being contested in the general election here:\n\nThe new fee will come into effect on 1 April\n\nFunding for the arts and culture are devolved issues, but responsibility for broadcasting is retained by Westminster.\n\nThere is a consensus among the party manifestos that free TV licences should continue to be provided for the over-75s, reversing a decision announced by the BBC in June 2019.\n\nThe Brexit Party takes this further, stating it would phase out the licence fee altogether. Some of the most notable interventions in media policy have come on the campaign trail, rather than in party manifestos.\n\nBoris Johnson questioned how much longer the TV licence fee could be \"justified\", while Conservative sources briefed some journalists that \"if we are re-elected, we will have to review Channel 4's Public Service Broadcasting obligations\".\n\nWhat happens with Brexit will impact the Welsh environment in all sorts of ways.\n\nBut let's focus on one of the key issues - funding for farmers, who manage more than 80% of our landscape.\n\nEU subsidies make up a large part of their incomes at the moment.\n\nThere have already been a series of Welsh Government consultations on proposed new payment schemes.\n\nBut the big unknown is how much money will be handed over from Westminster to Wales to make them work if we leave.\n\nDuring the election campaign the Conservatives have pledged to guarantee funding at the same level as now until 2024, Labour and the Brexit Party say they'll also maintain subsidies and grants for farmers.\n\nThe Lib Dems and Green Party want to cancel Brexit, but say they favour reducing payments to larger farms to give more money for supporting the environment.\n\nPlaid Cymru also want to stay in the EU, but say direct subsidy payments must be maintained if we leave.\n\nThe parties are talking much more about green issues in general at this election.\n\nPerhaps the area that will have the biggest impact on Wales is how quickly they want to end the UK's contribution to global warming by reaching effectively a 100% cut in greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nWant to know more about all the UK parties' policies for Election 2019? We've pulled together this guide:\n\nIf you cannot see this interactive click or tap here.\n\nThis guide is a concise version of the main pledges from each party's manifesto.\n\nThe issue areas in the guide are based on those highlighted in Ipsos Mori's Issues Index, which measures the issues the public believe to be the most important facing the country.\n\nMore information on how the issues and parties were selected is in our methodology.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jonathan Ashworth: \"Of course it makes me look like a right plonker\"\n\nLabour's Jonathan Ashworth has apologised to his party after criticising Jeremy Corbyn in a secret recording by his Tory activist friend.\n\nIn a recording leaked to Tory-supporting website Guido Fawkes, Mr Ashworth is heard saying he did not believe Labour would win the election.\n\nMr Ashworth has insisted he was \"joshing around\" in the conversation.\n\nMr Corbyn said it was \"not the sort of thing I would do\", but claimed the story was \"irrelevant\".\n\nThe Labour leader added that Mr Ashworth had said it \"was all about reverse psychology banter - as in football\".\n\nHe suggested that shadow health secretary has an \"odd sense of humour\" but added that he \"makes jokes the whole time\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"I'm cool with Jon, we get along great\"\n\nHe also accused the Guido Fawkes website of \"just trying to deflect away from the Tories' mess of the National Health Service\" and insisted that the shadow health secretary had his \"full support\".\n\nThe conversation appears to have been recorded over a week ago and Mr Ashworth said: \"The reason this has come out today is because the Tories know the crisis in the NHS is ruining their campaign and we've got babies - babies - on the front page of the Daily Mirror unable to get a bed.\"\n\nMr Ashworth named the friend he was speaking to as former local Conservative Association chairman, Greig Baker, and he did not deny that he made the remarks.\n\nMeanwhile, in an interview with BBC Breakfast, Mr Corbyn dismissed claims that he was a \"problem on the doorstep\" for Labour activists, saying it was \"not a presidential election\".\n\nIn the recording, Mr Ashworth appears to refer to an unsuccessful plot to oust Mr Corbyn, instigated by some of his MPs in the aftermath of the EU referendum.\n\n\"People like me were internally saying 'this isn't the right moment' but I got kind of ignored,\" Mr Ashworth is recorded as saying.\n\nOn Labour's election chances, Mr Ashworth is heard saying: \"I've been going round these national places, it's dire for Labour… it's dire.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. LISTEN: An excerpt from the secret recording of Jonathan Ashworth\n\n\"I'm helping colleagues, banging on about the NHS for them but it's awful for them, and it's the combination of Corbyn and Brexit… outside of the city seats…it's abysmal out there…they can't stand Corbyn and they think Labour's blocked Brexit.\"\n\nOn the recording, Mr Ashworth is asked: If Mr Corbyn \"got in would he be as bad as I suspect?\"\n\n\"I don't know, on the security stuff, I worked in No 10, I think the machine will pretty quickly move to safeguard security, I mean the civil service machine. But it's not going to happen. I cannot see it happening.\"\n\nA Twitter account appearing to belong to Mr Baker later defended leaking the recording.\n\nHe tweeted: \"If someone tells you about a threat to national security - that they say could only be avoided by asking civil servants to act unconstitutionally - there's a duty to tell people about it.\"\n\nSpeaking to the Victoria Derbyshire programme, Mr Ashworth said: \"Of course it makes me look like a right plonker, but it's not what I mean when I'm winding up a friend, trying to sort of, pull his leg a bit.\"\n\nHe said he was \"having a bit of banter\" with his friend \"because he was saying 'oh, the Tories are going to lose' and I was, like saying, 'no you're going to be fine', joshing as old friends do.\n\n\"And he's only gone and leaked it to a website - selectively leaked it - and I thought he was a friend, Greig Baker, but obviously he's not.\"\n\nWhen asked if he believed, as the recording suggested, that Mr Corbyn was a threat to the UK's national security, Mr Ashworth replied: \"Of course I don't.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Politics Live, he said: \"I look like an idiot as a result of doing it... I apologise to Labour Party members.\"\n\nConservative Party leader Boris Johnson said Mr Ashworth was \"saying what hundreds of Labour candidates and millions of voters are thinking\", adding that Mr Corbyn was \"unfit to be PM because he is blocking Brexit\".\n\nMr Ashworth's remarks were \"an honest and truly devastating assessment\" of Mr Corbyn's leadership \"by one of his most trusted election lieutenants\", Conservative Party chairman James Cleverly said.\n\nIt's striking that in the dying embers of this campaign - which has been so carefully scripted and choreographed by the parties - suddenly events have burst into it and changed the dynamic.\n\nYesterday it was that photo of four-year-old Jack lying on a hospital floor. Today it's that recording of Jonathan Ashworth - by someone who was meant to be his friend.\n\nThey clearly knew his views of Jeremy Corbyn and basically it amounts to what looks like a sting - because the individual he was talking to is a Conservative activist.\n\nNevertheless, the remarks are out there and they are damning.\n\nHere you have the man who is meant to be fronting Labour's attack on the NHS basically saying they haven't a hope of winning, that voters believe they blocked Brexit and they don't like Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nAnd, perhaps most damning of all, seeming to suggest that Mr Corbyn is a risk to national security.\n\nSo this is absolutely going to dominate the headlines today.\n\nEarlier, in an interview with BBC Breakfast, Mr Corbyn was challenged on his leadership credentials amid reports that some candidates are finding voters do not want to support him personally.\n\n\"It's not a presidential election,\" he said.\n\n\"It is a Parliamentary election in which we elect members of Parliament. I'm the leader of the Labour Party and I'm very proud to have that position.\"\n\nWhen asked about some candidates not including his name in their leaflets, he said he was \"proud\" of his party's manifesto and \"my job is to deliver it\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Corbyn denies his personal ratings are 'hindering' his party\n\nOn the case of a sick four-year-old boy who was photographed on the floor of Leeds General Infirmary, Mr Corbyn said it was an example of what was happening in the NHS.\n\n\"It is obviously awful for that little boy and the family, the way they were treated,\" he said.\n\n\"But it does say something about our NHS when this happened, and then all research shows there's a very large number of hospitals where patients are at risk because of staff shortages, because of a lack of equipment, because of poor maintenance of hospital buildings.\"\n\nHe insisted his spending plans \"are completely credible\" and will \"give sufficient resources to the NHS\".\n\nIn the interview, Mr Corbyn was also challenged on his party's Brexit policy and his own position.\n\nLabour wants to negotiate a new deal with the EU and then put it to the public as a \"credible Leave option\" alongside the option of Remain in another referendum - which the Labour leader would remain neutral in.\n\n\"I will be the honest broker,\" Mr Corbyn said.\n\nThe Conservatives argue that Labour would bring further \"dither and delay\" to Brexit.", "The Sudd: Microbes in saturated soils will produce methane\n\nScientists think they can now explain at least part of the recent growth in methane (CH4) levels in the atmosphere.\n\nResearchers, led from Edinburgh University, UK, say their studies point to a big jump in emissions coming from just the wetlands of South Sudan.\n\nSatellite data indicates the region received a large surge of water from East African lakes, including Victoria.\n\nThis would have boosted CH4 from the wetlands, accounting for a significant part of the rise in global methane.\n\nPerhaps even up to a third of the growth seen in the period 2010-2016, when considered with East Africa as a whole.\n\n\"There's not much ground-monitoring in this region that can prove or disprove our results, but the data we have fits together beautifully,\" said Prof Paul Palmer.\n\n\"We have independent lines of evidence to show the Sudd wetlands expanded in size, and you can even see it in aerial imagery - they became greener,\" he told BBC News.\n\nMethane is a potent greenhouse gas, and - just like carbon dioxide - is increasing its concentration in the atmosphere.\n\nIt's not been a steady rise, however. Indeed, during the early 2000s, the amount of the gas even stabilised for a while. But then the concentration jumped in about 2007, with a further uptick recorded in 2014.\n\nCH4 (methane) is now climbing rapidly and today stands at just over 1,860 parts per billion by volume.\n\nThere's currently a debate about the likely sources, with emissions from human activities such as agriculture and fossil-fuel use undoubtedly in the mix. But there is a large natural component as well, and a lot of current research is centred on contributions from the tropics.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Lunt: \"There is still huge uncertainty about methane sources\"\n\nThe Edinburgh group has been using the Japanese GOSAT spacecraft to try to observe the greenhouse-gas behaviour over peatlands and wetlands in Africa, and found significant rises in methane emissions above South Sudan centred on the years 2011-2014.\n\nBelieving the region called the Sudd could be the culprit (soil microbes in wetlands are known to produce a lot of methane), the team started looking through other satellite data-sets to make the link.\n\nLand surface temperature observations supported the idea that soils in the region had become wetter; gravity measurements across East Africa also detected an increase in the weight of water held in the ground; and satellite altimeters had tracked changes in the height of lakes and rivers to the south.\n\n\"The levels of the East African lakes, which feed down the Nile to the Sudd, increased considerably over the period we were studying. It coincided with the increase in methane that we saw, and would imply that we were getting this increased flow down the river into the wetlands,\" explained Dr Mark Lunt.\n\nMuch of the extra water likely resulted as a consequence of dam releases upstream.\n\nTropomi detects a methane hotspot right over the Sudd (green square)\n\nThe Edinburgh group published its findings on Wednesday in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, and, as an update to the story, Dr Lunt is presenting new data here at the American Geophysical Union meeting.\n\nHe's been looking at methane observations made by the EU's Sentinel-5P satellite. Its Tropomi instrument sees CH4 at a finer resolution than GOSAT, and it's clear from the European mapper that methane emissions are still elevated over South Sudan.\n\nThe level of activity is nothing like the same as in the early 2010s, but the Sudd wetlands remain an important source.\n\n\"It's a huge area so it's not surprising that it's pumping out a lot of methane. To give context - the Sudd is 40,000 sq km: two times the size of Wales. And being that big we expect to see the emissions from space,\" Dr Lunt told BBC News.\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It's as if they just dropped down dead from the sky\"\n\nHundreds of birds found dead on a north Wales road are to be tested to discover how they died.\n\nAbout 225 starlings were discovered with blood on their bodies in a lane on Anglesey, North Wales Police said.\n\nDafydd Edwards, whose partner found the birds, said it was as if \"they had dropped down dead from the sky\".\n\nThe Animal and Plant Health Agency has collected them for testing and will examine whether they could have been poisoned.\n\nNorth Wales Police said it was investigating the \"very strange\" discovery and has appealed for information.\n\n\"We don't know how it has happened,\" said PC Dewi Evans.\n\nMr Edwards, 41, said his partner Hannah Stevens first saw the birds alive as she went to an appointment on Tuesday afternoon.\n\n\"She said she saw hundreds of them flying over and thought it looked amazing but on her way back around an hour later they were all dead in the road.\n\nThe birds have been collected for testing\n\nMs Stevens reported seeing the birds eating something in the road.\n\n\"I counted 150 last night but I gave up as there's just hundreds of them littered everywhere.\n\n\"It's as if they just dropped down dead from the sky.\"\n\nA spokesman for the RSPB said: \"This is obviously very concerning for us and we will await the test results.\n\n\"It would be inappropriate for us to speculate as to how they have died.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Roxette singer Marie Fredriksson has died aged 61, her manager has confirmed.\n\nThe Swedish star achieved global success in the 1990s with hits like Joyride, The Look and It Must Have Been Love, from the film Pretty Woman.\n\nA statement said the singer had died on Monday, 9 December \"following a 17-year long battle with cancer\".\n\n\"You were the most wonderful friend for over 40 years,\" her bandmate Per Gessle said. \"Things will never be the same.\"\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Roxette This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nFredriksson was first diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2002, after collapsing in her kitchen following a workout.\n\nThe tumour cost her the vision in her right eye - but after three years of treatment, she returned to public life and toured successfully again with Roxette from 2008 to 2016.\n\nHowever, the cancer eventually returned: Fredriksson's family said she had died following a recurrence of \"her previous illness\" earlier this week.\n\n\"Thank you, Marie, thanks for everything,\" said Gessle in a heartfelt statement.\n\n\"You were an outstanding musician, a master of the voice, an amazing performer. Thanks for painting my black and white songs in the most beautiful colours. You were the most wonderful friend for over 40 years.\n\n\"I'm proud, honoured and happy to have been able to share so much of your time, talent, warmth, generosity and sense of humour. All my love goes out to you and your family.\"\n\n\"Her amazing voice - both strong and sensitive - and her magical live performances will be remembered by all of us who were lucky enough to witness them. But we also remember a wonderful person with a huge appetite for life, and woman with a very big heart who cared for everybody she met.\"\n\nHailing from Halmstad, Sweden, Roxette first met in the late 1970s, when Fredriksson was a member of the pop outfit Strul & Ma Mas Barn and Gessle was playing with Gyllene Tider, one of Sweden's biggest groups.\n\nThey teamed up in 1986, becoming huge stars in their homeland with the single Neverending Love, followed by a hit album, Pearls of Passion.\n\nDespite their popularity in Scandinavia, Capitol Records declined to release their records in the US.\n\nIt wasn't until an American student studying in Sweden brought a copy of their second album home to Minneapolis, and persuaded a local radio DJ to play The Look, that they achieved international fame.\n\nThat song became the first of four US number ones for the band, while its parent album, Look Sharp!, went platinum.\n\nThey achieved their biggest success when their 1987 Christmas single, It Must Have Been Love, was re-written for inclusion on the Pretty Woman soundtrack in 1990. It topped the charts in more than 10 countries, and gave the band their biggest UK hit, reaching number three.\n\nRoxette continued to tour and release albums throughout the 1990s - eventually selling more than 80m records worldwide.\n\nKnown for breezy pop hits like Dressed For Success and power ballads such as Listen To Your Heart, they cheekily summarised their songwriting philosophy in the title to their 1995 greatest hits album, Don't Bore Us, Get To The Chorus.\n\nAfter a brief hiatus, during which Gessle reunited with Gyllene Tider, the duo scored further hit albums with 1999's Have a Nice Day, and 2001's Room Service.\n\nThe singer retired from touring in 2015\n\nFredriksson's devastating cancer diagnosis came the following year. She spent three years receiving treatment, and later wrote about the \"fear\" she'd experienced in a solo record, called The Change.\n\n\"Suddenly the change was here,\" she sang, \"Cold as ice and full of fear / There was nothing I could do / I saw slow motion pictures / Of me and you.\"\n\nIn 2005, Fredriksson told Sweden's Aftonbladet newspaper her treatment had been successful, saying: \"It's been three really hard years [but] I'm healthy.\"\n\nThe singer took up painting during her treatment, but surprised Roxette fans by making a return to the stage with Gessle in Amsterdam in 2008.\n\nThe band later mounted a comeback tour that sold out venues across Europe, and released several new albums but, by 2016, Fredriksson's health was failing and doctors advised her to stop touring.\n\nIn her autobiography, the singer wrote about the impact cancer had on her life.\n\n\"At last, it feels like I have reconciled myself to having a radiation injury to live with. That this is how it turned out,\" she said in The Love Of Life.\n\n\"I have lost many years through the disease. And it is also a sadness to age. But every day I think I'm grateful to be sitting here. And that I can still sing.\"\n\nIn her final single, 2018's Sing Me A Song, the star appeared to address her mortality, singing: \"The love I had and gave / Makes it hard to say goodbye\" over an elegant, mournful jazz backing.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by Marie Fredriksson - Topic This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nFredriksson is survived by her husband Mikael Bolyos and their two children.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Greta at UN climate change talks - one year apart\n\nSwedish activist Greta Thunberg says young people are \"bringing change\" to the Madrid climate talks and will not be silenced.\n\nAt a news conference Miss Thunberg said that she hoped the negotiations would yield \"something concrete\"\n\nThe 16-year-old was mobbed by press and spectators when she visited the conference centre earlier on Friday.\n\nShe had to be escorted away for her own safety amid shouts of \"leave her alone\" from concerned observers.\n\nHaving arrived via overnight train from Lisbon to large crowds waiting for her in Madrid, Miss Thunberg was set to join a large demonstration in favour of rapid climate action this evening.\n\nSpeaking before the gathering she said that the voices of the young would not be drowned out.\n\n\"People want everything to continue like now and they are afraid of change,\" she told reporters.\n\n\"And change is what we young people are bringing and that is why they want to silence us and that is just a proof that we are having an impact that our voices are being heard that they try so desperately to silence us.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Greta Thunberg was protected by police as she arrived in Madrid\n\nMiss Thunberg is due to address the climate negotiations that have been going on in Madrid for the past week. She remains hopeful that they will lead to a positive outcome.\n\n\"I sincerely hope that COP25 will lead to something concrete and it will lead to also to an increase in awareness in people in general and that the world leaders and people in power grab the urgency of the climate crisis because right now it doesn't seem like they are,\" she said.\n\n\"We will do everything we can to show that this is something that cannot be ignored, that they cannot just hide away any longer.\"\n\nMiss Thunberg has arrived in Europe after a voyage across the Atlantic by yacht.\n\nThe hope among many here is that the scale of the march and her speech to the COP next week will give a big boost to the talks process that seem badly in need of a lift.\n\nThis COP started with great hope last Monday, with strong words from the UN secretary-general and others, warning that time is running out and that negotiators should be guided by the science.\n\nSince then, the urgency has given way to frustration.\n\nLittle obvious progress is being made on the central question of raising countries' ambitions to cut carbon.\n\nIndeed, UN climate chief Patricia Espinosa said the issue of increased pledges wasn't even on the agenda for the final outcome of this conference.\n\n\"We don't have in the agenda one item that's called 'ambition' and, therefore, it's not like we are expecting to have a specific decision on that.\"\n\nIn the face of several recent scientific reports stating that countries were falling further behind when it came to meeting the Paris agreement targets, this was a little disturbing, to say the least.\n\nAccording to some experts at these talks, extra ambition would be great but equally important would be a firm timetable to deliver their pledges over the next 12 months, ahead of the Glasgow COP this time next year.\n\nRight now, that's not certain.\n\n\"It would be extremely concerning if the countries here in Madrid did not agree that there is a timeline for next year in coming forward with their commitments,\" said David Waskow from the World Resources Institute.\n\n\"That is a key outcome that we have to see here. It is not something that you can keep punting further and further away, this is something that requires immediate action.\"\n\nEven the Pope is concerned.\n\n\"We must seriously ask ourselves if there is the political will to allocate with honesty, responsibility and courage, more human, financial and technological resources to mitigate the negative effects of climate change,\" Pope Francis said in a message to participants here.\n\nMuch of what happens in Madrid could be governed by what happens in Brussels next week where a European Green Deal is set to be outlined by the incoming EU Commission.\n\n\"What the European Union does next week is a critical signal to the rest of the world that will shape the outcome in Madrid,\" said David Waskow. \"What happens in Brussels will resonate in Madrid.\"\n\nProtestors at the COP showed the continuing influence of coal on the climate\n\nAnother ongoing issue that is making people upset here is the question of climate justice.\n\nMuch attention has been focussed on the attempts by poorer countries to finally get some traction around the question of loss and damage, the impacts of climate change from events that just can't be adapted to, such as sea-level rise or storms made more likely by rising temperatures.\n\nThe hope from many is that here in Madrid, the developing nations would be heard and a mechanism with funding would be set up to deal with loss and damage.\n\nAgain, there's been very little progress.\n\nOf course the question of climate justice is not just between countries but often within countries as well.\n\n\"The ones who contributed the most are the ones who feel the impacts the least,\" said Isadora Cardoso from campaign group GenderCC - women for climate justice.\n\n\"Even within developed countries the poorest are the most affected whenever there are climate disasters or impacts, but they are not the ones who consume more and contribute the most to the causes of climate change.\"\n\nThere is still time to ensure a strong outcome in Madrid and the arrival of ministers next week will increase the sense of urgency - but right now there's a big disconnect between the size of the task and the willingness of countries to step forward with the pledges and the money needed to deal with the biggest challenge facing Planet Earth.", "Food packs should display how much exercise a person would need to take to burn off the calories contained in the product, UK researchers say.\n\nAppreciating it would take four hours to walk off the calories in a pizza or 22 minutes to run off a chocolate bar creates an awareness of the energy cost of food, they say.\n\nThe labels would help people indulge less, exploratory studies suggest.\n\nThe aim is to encourage healthier eating habits to fight obesity.\n\nAccording to the researchers from Loughborough University, who looked at 14 studies, this type of labelling could cut about 200 calories from a person's daily average intake.\n\nThis may not sound like much but, they say in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, it would have an impact on obesity levels across the country.\n\nMore than two-thirds of adults in the UK are overweight or obese.\n\nLead researcher Prof Amanda Daley said: \"We are interested in different ways of getting the public to make good decisions about what they eat and also trying to get the public more physically active.\"\n\nAnd labelling food with \"exercise calories\" made it easier for people to understand what they were eating and nudge them into making better choices.\n\nProf Daley said many people would be shocked to realise how much physical exercise would be required to burn off calories from certain snacks and treats.\n\n\"We know that the public routinely underestimate the number of calories that are in foods,\" she said.\n\n\"So if you buy a chocolate muffin and it contains 500 calories, for example, then that's about 50 minutes of running.\n\n\"This definitely isn't about dieting.\n\n\"It's about educating the public that when you consume foods, there is an energy cost, so that they can think, 'Do I really want to spend two hours burning off that chocolate cake? Is the chocolate cake really worth it?'\"\n\nThe Royal Society for Public Health would like to see the labelling introduced as soon as possible and says it is a move many consumers would also welcome.\n\nIt says: \"This type of labelling really does put an individual's calorie consumption in the context of energy expenditure and knowing how out of kilter we can be partly explains the record levels of obesity we face.\n\n\"Small changes can make a big overall difference to calorie consumption, and ultimately weight gain.\"\n\nProf Daley hopes a large food chain or company will be willing to try the new labels on their products so the system can be given a \"real life\" trial.\n\nBut concerns have been raised about labelling food in this way.\n\nTom Quinn, from the eating disorder charity Beat, said: \"Although we recognise the importance of reducing obesity, labelling food in this way risks being incredibly triggering for those suffering from or vulnerable to eating disorders.\n\n\"We know that many people with eating disorders struggle with excessive exercising, so being told exactly how much exercise it would take to burn off particular foods risks exacerbating their symptoms.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Greta Thunberg criticised CEOs and politicians for their lack of action\n\nGreta Thunberg, the Swedish schoolgirl who inspired a global movement to fight climate change, has been named Time magazine's Person of the Year for 2019.\n\nThe 16-year-old is the youngest person to be chosen by the magazine in a tradition that started in 1927.\n\nSpeaking at a UN climate change summit in Madrid before the announcement, she urged world leaders to stop using \"creative PR\" to avoid real action.\n\nThe next decade would define the planet's future, she said.\n\nLast year, the teenager started an environmental strike by missing lessons most Fridays to protest outside the Swedish parliament building. It sparked a worldwide movement that became popular with the hashtag #FridaysForFuture.\n\nSince then, she has become a strong voice for action on climate change, inspiring millions of students to join protests around the world. Earlier this year, she was nominated as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize.\n\nAt the UN Climate Conference in New York in September, she blasted politicians for relying on young people for answers to climate change. In a now-famous speech, she said: \"You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. We'll be watching you.\"\n\nReacting to the nomination on Twitter, the activist said: \"Wow, this is unbelievable! I share this great honour with everyone in the #FridaysForFuture movement and climate activists everywhere.\"\n\nTime magazine's cover for its Person of the Year edition\n\nThe teenager's message, however, has not been well received by everyone, most notably prominent conservative voices. Before her appearance in Madrid, Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro called her a \"brat\" after she expressed concern about the killing of indigenous Brazilians in the Amazon.\n\n\"Greta said that the Indians died because they were defending the Amazon,\" Mr Bolsonaro told reporters. \"It's impressive that the press is giving space to a brat like that,\" he said, using the Portuguese word for brat, \"pirralha\".\n\nThe activist responded by briefly changing her Twitter bio to \"Pirralha\".\n\nShe has previously been at odds with US President Donald Trump, who has questioned climate science and rolled back many US climate laws, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, who once called her a \"kind but poorly informed teenager\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Greta at UN climate change talks - one year apart\n\nAnnouncing Time's decision on NBC, editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal said: \"She became the biggest voice on the biggest issue facing the planet this year, coming from essentially nowhere to lead a worldwide movement.\"\n\nThe magazine's tradition, which started as Man of the Year, recognises the person who \"for better or for worse... has done the most to influence the events of the year\". Last year, it named murdered and imprisoned journalists, calling them \"The Guardians\".\n\nAt the COP25 Climate Conference in Madrid, Greta Thunberg accused world powers of making constant attempts \"to negotiate loopholes and to avoid raising their ambition\".\n\n\"The real danger is when politicians and CEOs are making it look like real action is happening when, in fact, almost nothing is being done apart from clever accounting and creative PR,\" she said, drawing applause.\n\n\"In just three weeks we'll enter a new decade, a decade that will define our future,\" she added. \"Right now, we're desperate for any sign of hope.\"\n\nThis was meant to be a big moment in the talks, the elixir of the \"Greta effect\" bringing new energy to a flagging process. The teenager is almost certainly the most famous person here, attracting far more attention than other celebrities like Al Gore, and the UN badly needs a boost.\n\nHer talk came over as measured, grounded in the latest research, and avoided the flash of hurt and anger she displayed in New York in September. Looking around the hall, it was striking how many of the national delegations had not turned up for this morning session at the conference.\n\nA snub by the big fossil fuel economies? Or maybe they were too busy in the negotiations themselves?\n\nIn any event, the passion among the millions of young people who have taken to the streets to demand action on climate change feels very remote from the diplomatic struggles in these halls.\n\nMeanwhile in Brussels, the European Commission - the EU executive - announced ambitious environmental proposals to cut the bloc's dependency on fossil fuels, hoping to make Europe carbon neutral by 2050.\n\nCommission President Ursula von der Leyen, who took office on 1 December, called the European Green Deal Europe's \"man on the Moon moment\". It includes proposals that affect everything from transport and buildings to food production, and air and water pollution.\n\nThe package will be debated by EU leaders at a summit on Thursday and includes:\n\nReacting to the proposals, Jagoda Munic, director of environmental group Friends of the Earth Europe, said they were \"too small, too few and too far off\", adding: \"We're on a runaway train to ecological and climate collapse and the EU Commission is gently switching gears instead of slamming on the brakes.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why does this cattle farmer moves his cows every day?", "A new artwork by Banksy, which highlights homelessness, has been defaced in Birmingham.\n\nThe street artwork featured in a film on Instagram shows a man named Ryan on a bench being \"pulled\" by two reindeer painted on a brick wall in the city's Jewellery Quarter.\n\nNow it's been covered with a protective plastic sheet after the work was defaced by a vandal who sprayed red noses on the reindeer.", "Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi is appearing at the UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) to defend her country against accusations of genocide.\n\nShe called on the court not to aggravate the army's ongoing conflict with rebels in Rakhine province.", "Flights were cancelled after a private plane came off the runway at Liverpool John Lennon Airport.\n\nFour people were on board but no-one was hurt when the plane landed at about 06:00 GMT.\n\nA source at Liverpool FC confirmed the private jet had flown from the United States and was carrying one of the club's owners, Mike Gordon.\n\nThe airport tweeted at 23:20 to say that \"normal operations have now resumed\".\n\nMore than 9,000 passengers had flights cancelled, delayed or transferred to Manchester Airport and many booked into hotels for the night.\n\nMike Gordon (right) pictured with Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp in June 2019\n\nMr Gordon, who is the president of Fenway Sports Group, was on a flight from Bedford, Massachusetts, to Liverpool to attend a regular meeting at the club.\n\n\"He was not injured but would like to pass on his appreciation to the staff at Liverpool John Lennon Airport and the emergency services for their amazing work,\" the source said.\n\nThe airport - which has apologised to passengers - issued several updates, saying work to deal with the problems was continuing, before later confirming that normal operations had resumed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Liverpool Airport This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA specialist removal team and firefighters had been struggling all day to remove the plane's wheels, which became embedded in mud 59m (194ft) to the side of the runway.\n\nThey had been trying to dig out a track with the aim of dragging the plane out on to the runway.\n\nOnce the jet was removed, a runway inspection had to be carried out before the airport could reopen.\n\nLiverpool Airport has apologised to passengers for the inconvenience caused\n\nLiverpool Airport operations director Paul Staples earlier said the jet was too close to the landing strip to use the runway.\n\n\"We can't compromise safety,\" Mr Staples said, adding runways must have 75m of clear space.\n\nA spokeswoman for VistaJet added: \"We are fully co-operating with the airport and relevant authorities.\"\n\nPassengers due to fly from the airport to Malaga and Faro were transported to Manchester Airport\n\nPassengers due to fly were advised to contact their airlines for further information.\n\nEric Henderson, from Preston, was due to travel to Amsterdam for work.\n\n\"Our flight was due to leave at 07:30. We noticed at ten to that the flight had been moved to 11:40,\" he said.\n\n\"There was no explanation until we looked out of the large windows on the concourse and saw all the blue flashing lights.\"\n\nThe private plane came off the runway shortly after landing at about 06:00\n\nSteven and Kerry Grounds, from Warrington, were due to fly to Amsterdam to celebrate Kerry's 40th birthday.\n\n\"I don't think we will be going anywhere, so we're going back home,\" she said.\n\nThree crew members and one passenger were on board the plane when it came off the runway after landing.\n\nLiverpool Airport earlier tweeted to say the work was expected to take some time\n\nFlights arriving from Salzburg, where Liverpool FC played on Tuesday night, the Isle of Man and Dublin were diverted to Manchester, while planes from Belfast and Amsterdam were cancelled.\n\nLiverpool FC flew back to the UK shortly after the match finished, the club has confirmed.\n\nEasyJet earlier confirmed that six flights had been cancelled and four flights had been re-routed to Manchester.\n\n\"Customers on cancelled flights have been given the option of transferring their flight free of charge or receiving a refund,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nMike Gordon was uninjured when his plane overshot the runway\n\nMike Gordon is the president of Fenway Sports Group, the owners of Liverpool FC.\n\nHe is a director of the club and is one of three board members who own more than a 10% share, alongside principal owner John Henry and chairman Tom Werner.\n\nHe is also a director of the Boston Red Sox baseball club.\n\nMr Gordon lives in Massachusetts with his wife and four children.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ms Campbell and her daughter, Rhea, were rescued from their flooded car on Tuesday\n\nA mother has praised two men who \"risked their lives\" to save her and her 23-month-old baby from their car as it filled with flood water.\n\nNikki Birgit Campbell, 36, and her daughter, Rhea, were trapped on the A762 near Glenlee in Dumfries and Galloway on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nShe said they were pulled to safety by two local men.\n\n\"If it wasn't for them then I don't know what would have happened to us,\" she said.\n\nA 73-year-old man was also rescued from a separate car in the incident at Waterside as the region was hit by heavy rain and winds.\n\nMs Campbell has posted an emotional video on Facebook thanking those who came to help her and Rhea, who has cerebral palsy.\n\nThey were almost home after an appointment at an epilepsy clinic at the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow, where Rhea had been surprised by a visit from Father Christmas.\n\nRhea was visited by Father Christmas at hospital in Glasgow before getting caught up in the flood\n\nShe said: \"We drove a road that I have driven so many times, that was flooded. And it had never been a problem.\n\n\"Before I knew it my car was filled with water.\n\n\"I was just trying to keep Rhea safe.\"\n\nShe described the men who rescued them as \"heroes\". When they pulled her from the car, the water was chest height.\n\n\"I feel like such a bad mum for putting my baby in that danger. She was so scared.\n\n\"Thank you to everyone who has shown concern and offered to help because we appreciate it so much.\"\n\nNikki Birgit Campbell and Rhea were taken to Dumfries and Galloway Hospital\n\nMs Campbell told BBC Scotland that the car had been written off, and she lost Rhea's wheelchair and iPad in the flood.\n\n\"I'm still very, very scared and upset over what happened,\" she added.\n\nThe rescuers - including two police officers - were also praised by Police Scotland's Chief Insp Bryan Lee, who said their actions were \"nothing short of heroic\".\n\nOne of the members of the public who helped Ms Campbell was a retired police officer.\n\nTwo other passers-by, believed to be staff from the nearby hydro power plant, helped the 73-year-old safely from his car.\n\nCh Insp Lee said: \"I cannot praise the two officers and the members of the public involved in these rescues enough.\n\n\"Their actions, which were nothing short of heroic, saved the lives of three people. Without their bravery this incident could have had a very different outcome.\"\n\nHe said he has personally thanked the officers but he also wanted to publicly thank the men who stopped to help.\n\n\"Thankfully incidents like this are rare, however, it is extremely encouraging to know that members of our community came together, and were prepared to put themselves at risk to save those in need,\" he added.\n\nTwo fire appliances and two water rescue units were sent to the scene by the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service.\n\nOnce rescued, Ms Campbell and her daughter, were treated by Scottish Ambulance Service staff and taken to Dumfries and Galloway Hospital.\n\nPolice said they were discharged after being treated for minor injuries.", "Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi will defend her country against genocide accusations at an international court hearing in The Hague.\n\nThe Nobel Peace Prize laureate has heard allegations Myanmar committed atrocities against Muslim Rohingya.\n\nPeople at a rally in Yangon have been defending the leader. But Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh hope they will soon get justice for the murders they say Aung San Suu Kyi was aware of.", "An HGV crashed onto a police car on the A1 near Haddington\n\nHeavy rain and strong winds have been battering Scotland, causing disruption on the roads, railways and ferries.\n\nMet Office weather warnings for wind and rain are in place across much of Scotland and the north of England.\n\nTwo sections of the A1 in East Lothian were closed after lorries were blown over, while ferries have been cancelled in other parts of the country.\n\nKylerhea, a village on Skye, has been cut off by a mud slide which has left debris across the road.\n\nTrain services across the Central Belt and Highlands have been disrupted by rail line and platform closures.\n\nTourist attractions in Edinburgh, including the castle and Christmas market, have been closed due to the severe weather.\n\nThe road and train line were closed at Saltcoats because of waves crashing over the sea wall.\n\nThe disruption to rail services affected many routes across the country.\n\nPlatform one at Haymarket has been closed while possible damage was investigated, and flooding at Blairhill has caused delays and cancellations on many services.\n\nOn the roads, police advised drivers to avoid the A1 in East Lothian\n\nTwo HGVs were blown over, with one landing on a police car, at about 10:30 between the Abbots View roundabout, Haddington and the Thistly Cross Roundabout, Dunbar.\n\nPolice Scotland said that section of the road would be closed until at least 22:00 because it was not safe to recover the vehicles until winds subsided.\n\nTwo HGVs toppled on the A1 between Innerwick and Skateraw in East Lothian\n\nEarlier, two other HGV toppled over on the A1 between Skateraw and Innerwick at about 07:45.\n\nPolice are at the scene and both north and southbound carriageways have been blocked.\n\nA Scottish Fire and Rescue Service spokesman said three appliances and a heavy rescue unit attended the incident but all drivers managed to get out of their vehicles.\n\nDiversions are in place via the A68 and A697 through the Scottish Borders.\n\nThe road was also closed to HGVs between the services at the Old Craighall A720 junction and Cockburnspath, with diversions in place taking drivers between Edinburgh City Bypass to Berwick Castle.\n\nOrganisers of Edinburgh's Christmas market said all rides, Santa's grotto and the market would not operate until Wednesday.\n\nEdinburgh Castle was among the attractions closed due to severe weather\n\nStrong winds blew in the window of the Vodaphone shop on Princes Street in Edinburgh\n\nOne of the Queen's trees in Holyrood Park in Edinburgh landed on flats and cars in Queen's Park Avenue\n\nEdinburgh Castle and Edinburgh Zoo were closed because of high winds.\n\nOne of the Queen's trees on the edge of Holyrood Park fell in the wind and landed on flats and cars in Queen's Park Avenue.\n\nAberdeen's Christmas village stayed open, although organisers said the Blizzard ride on Upperkirkgate was closed for the day.\n\nKylerhea, a village on Skye, has been cut off by a mud slide. Council staff are working to clear debris from more than 100m (328ft) of road.\n\nThe \"bottom\" road on neighbouring island Raasay was also blocked after a 30m (98ft) section of parapet wall collapsed.\n\nIn Fife, a double decker bus was pictured hanging off a grass verge between Kingseat and Cowdenbeath. Local residents said the vehicle had been blown off the road.\n\nA bus came off the road near Cowdenbeath\n\nDrivers were affected by delays following crashes elsewhere, including one on the M80 near Haggs outside, Falkirk, and another on the M80 near Robroyston, Glasgow.\n\nIn Dumfries, Whitesands has been closed from its junction with Buccleuch Street, Nith Place and Dockhead.\n\nEarlier, police warned drivers to remove their vehicles from Whitesands, Greensands and Dock Park car parks because of flooding from the River Nith. They have now told people to avoid the area.\n\nThe Met Office confirmed the storm would not be named because conditions did not have enough certainty or strength to warrant it.\n\nA yellow warning for ice has been issued by the Met Office affecting the north of Scotland between 22:00 on Tuesday and 10:00 on Wednesday.\n\nAre you in the affected areas? Have your travel plans been affected? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Climate protesters on the streets of Madrid during COP25\n\nDelegates from developing countries have reacted angrily to what they see as attempts to block progress at the COP25 meeting in Madrid.\n\nOne negotiator told the BBC that the talks had failed to find agreement on a range of issues because of the blocking actions of some large emitters.\n\nCarlos Fuller from Belize said that Brazil, Saudi Arabia, India and China were \"part of the problem\".\n\nOther observers said there was a serious risk of failure at the talks.\n\nMinisters from all over the world have arrived in Madrid for the high-end negotiations that will determine the final outcome of this conference.\n\nDespite a huge climate demonstration on the streets of the Spanish capital last Friday, hopes of an ambitious declaration at COP25 have smacked straight into the realities of politics and entrenched positions.\n\nThe central aim of the meeting is to \"raise ambition\" and set out a plan by which countries will put new climate pledges on the table before the end of next year.\n\nBut already there are signs that some major emitters are trying to limit the scale of what can be achieved in Madrid.\n\n\"There's an effort right now to block the words 'climate urgency' in text from Brazil and Saudi Arabia, saying we haven't used these words before in the UN, so we can't use them now,\" said Jennifer Morgan, executive director of Greenpeace International.\n\n\"This gap between what's happening on the outside and what's happening in the science, and this 'UN speak' that won't react and drive something is very frustrating.\"\n\nNegotiators have told the BBC that the obstinacy of some countries was limiting agreement on non-contentious questions.\n\n\"I am very disturbed and angry,\" said Carlos Fuller, the chief negotiator for the small island developing states group of countries.\n\nCarbon market negotiators have been accused of trampling on human rights in pursuit of profit\n\n\"At 2.30 this morning we couldn't agree to continue working on a transparency framework, that tells the world what each country is doing, we couldn't agree to keep working on it. That is ridiculous\"\n\nOne issue that has caused a good deal of anger are the attempts by Brazil, China, India and Saudi Arabia to have the actions that were due to be completed before 2020 by richer nations, re-examined as part of the overall deal here in Madrid.\n\nCarlos Fuller says that this sort of backward focus by these major emitting countries doesn't help anyone to make progress.\n\n\"They are part of the problem, they are looking too much backward to say that the developed countries have not done what they should have done and hence we are not going to do the same thing,\"\n\n\"I disagree with that totally. We are all on this one planet together. We need to recognise the mistakes of the past and not replicate them.\"\n\nMr Fuller said this \"game of chicken\" approach to the negotiations was a threat to the overall success of the talks.\n\nThe mood among many campaigners is low as there seems to be little hope of progress on the two major outstanding issues that need to resolved here. These are the question of carbon markets and the issue of loss and damage.\n\nOne of the key questions on carbon markets is the question of carrying over old credits. Some believe that if efforts by Brazil and others to carry forward billions of credits created under older, discredited schemes are successful, they could \"bankrupt\" the entire Paris pact.\n\nThere were some positive signs in the conference with US presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg telling the meeting that his first action if he gets elected would be to re-join the Paris agreement.\n\nWhile there are still several days to go, there is hope that the presence of political figures such as Mr Bloomberg and new announcements by the European Union and others will help foster an ambitious agreement.\n\nBut there is also deep concern that this might not happen.\n\n\"I hope that they support a coalition of countries that beat back the darker forces here in Madrid that want to hold the world back,\" said Jennifer Morgan from Greenpeace.\n\n\"If not, it will be a moral failure,\" she said.", "Ed Sheeran's Shape Of You was the UK's biggest single of the 2010s\n\nEd Sheeran has been named the UK's artist of the decade by the Official Charts Company.\n\nSheeran achieved the milestone after a combined run of 12 number one singles and albums between 2010 and 2019 - more than any other artist.\n\nHe's also had the most weeks (79) at number one in both the album and singles charts in this period.\n\nShape Of You was the biggest hit of the 2010s, spending 14 weeks at number one and selling more than 4.5m copies.\n\nSheeran thanked his followers for his success.\n\n\"Thank you to everyone who's supported me over the past 10 years, especially my amazing fans. Here's to the next 10!\"\n\nShape Of You is one of three Sheeran singles in the top five end-of-the-decade list. Thinking Out Loud is at number three while Perfect is at number five.\n\nOverall, Sheeran has spent 38 weeks at number one in the singles chart and sold 53.8m tracks. His songs have also been streamed 4.6 billion times in the UK alone.\n\nIn the albums chart, X is at number three followed by Divide at number four.\n\nMartin Talbot, chief executive of the Official Charts Company, said Sheeran had \"truly dominated\" the decade.\n\n\"At the start of the decade, he was a little known, albeit highly-rated, young 18-year-old lad from Suffolk - but his catalogue of achievements since then are genuinely remarkable. Today, he is firmly established among the highest level of global music superstars,\" Talbot added.\n\nThe star's latest accolade comes a week after Spotify named him the UK's most-streamed artist of the 2010s. Globally, only Drake achieved more plays.\n\nAdele has the top two albums of the decade\n\nThe remainder of the top 10 biggest singles is dominated by male artists. They include Mark Ronson ft Bruno Mars at number two for Uptown Funk and Justin Bieber at number nine for Sorry.\n\nFemale singers only appear as featured artists - with Kyla cited for her collaboration with Drake on the track One Dance, and Jess Glynne for singing Clean Bandit's Rather Be.\n\nIn the album charts, however, it's Adele who comes out top, holding both the first and second positions with 21 and 25 respectively.\n\nHer second album 21, released in 2011, has sold 5.17 million copies. It debuted at number one and spent 23 weeks at the top of the albums chart.\n\nHer follow up 25 spent 13 weeks at the top and became the UK's fastest-selling album to date, selling 800,307 copies in its first chart week in November 2015. And Adele's debut album 19 from 2008 is the UK's 13th biggest record of the 2010s.\n\nThe only other woman in the top 10 albums is Emeli Sande who comes in at eight for Our Version Of Events.\n\nWith the chart company's data spanning an entire decade of sales, older releases tend to dominate the countdown.\n\nThe most recent album in the top 100 is the soundtrack to The Greatest Showman, which was released in December 2017.\n\nSheeran received a plaque in recognition of his chart domination\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The number of homicides has hit the highest number since 2008 when there was 154\n\nThe number of killings in London has topped last year's total and is the highest annual number for more than a decade, police figures show.\n\nThe fatal stabbing of 47-year-old James O'Keefe in Hornsey on Monday took the capital's 2019's homicide rate to 142.\n\nThe figure, which includes murders and manslaughters, is the highest number since 2008, a year when the Met investigated 154 deaths.\n\nThe force said a total of 133 homicides were recorded in 2018.\n\nThis year's figure includes 137 homicide investigations by the Met, two by British Transport Police and the two fatal stabbings at London Bridge last month, investigated by City of London Police.\n\nMore than half of 2019's victims were stabbed to death and 23 were teenagers - the highest number of such victims for more than a decade - figures collated by the BBC shows.\n\n\"Each one of these cases is a tragedy, not just for the victims, their families and friends, but also for our wider communities who are left reeling by these acts of senseless violence,\" a police spokesman said.\n\n\"Tackling violence is the number one priority for the Metropolitan Police Service. One homicide, one stabbing, one violent incident, is simply one too many.\"\n\nJaden Moodie, 14, was the youngest person to be killed in the capital, in 2019\n\nJaden Moodie, 14, was the youngest person to be killed in the capital, in 2019.\n\nAyoub Majdouline, 19 and from Wembley, was found guilty of his murder on Wednesday.\n\nJodie was stabbed in the back in an unprovoked attack as she sat in a park in East London on 1 March\n\nJodie Chesney, who was stabbed to death in east London, was another teenager to die this year.\n\nThe 17-year-old was knifed in the back as she sat with friends in Harold Hill, on 1 March.\n\nSvenson Ong-a-Kwie, 19, and Arron Isaacs, 17, of Barking, were both convicted last month of her murder, following an eight-week trial at the Old Bailey.\n\nThese are undoubtedly worrying figures for Londoners - and for the Met.\n\nIn spite of a huge amount of effort and resource, which has contributed to a decline in stabbings and gun crime over the past 12 months, overall violence, including cases of murder and manslaughter, is still on the rise.\n\nHowever, the number of killings is not at levels seen in the 1990s and early 2000s when there were usually upwards of 160 such deaths each year.\n\nAnd, compared with other cities, London remains relatively safe.\n\nFor example, in New York, which has a slightly lower population than London's nine million, there has been more than double the number of murders - 298 by the beginning of December.\n\nOver recent years, the homicide rate (killings as a proportion of the population) has been higher in other large cities in Europe, such as Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris, even though numerically there has been more in London.\n\nThe figures provide some perspective, but of course, they are of no comfort to the loved ones of those who have died in the capital this year.\n\nLib Peck, Director of the Violence Reduction Unit at City Hall, says the number of those aged in their 20s, who are injured by knives, is beginning to drop.\n\n\"We are really determined to route out the causes this terrible phenomenon and the importance is that we are really investing in preventative measures.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment, the older person’s bus pass and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* Rights for workers to be notified of their shifts one month in advance * The right to bereavement leave following a death in the immediate family * Lower cap on pension fund management fees * Tax breaks for companies that offer longer-term secure career contracts to staff\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* End the Work Capability Assessment and replace it with a system using qualified medical practitioners * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * No benefits paid to foreign nationals resident in the UK until they have paid tax for five years * Minimise the use of zero-hour contracts\n\n* £35 a week payment for every child in a low-income family * Tax credit of up to £25 a week for tenants in the private sector who spend more than 30% of their income on rent and utility bills * Powers over social security devolved to Wales * Abolish the \"bedroom tax\" * Universal free childcare for 40 hours a week\n\n* Demand UK government halts the rollout of Universal Credit until \"fundamental flaws\" are addressed * Oppose and increase to the state pension age and campaign against decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s * Press for the statutory living wage to rise to at least the level of the real living wage * Increase shared parental leave from 52 to 64 weeks, with the additional 12 weeks to be the minimum taken by the father * Make the minimum wage for 16 to 24-year-olds the same as for over 25s, and ban unpaid trial shifts\n\n* Stronger regulation of the gig economy, and oppose deregulation of employment rights * Stronger focus on careers advice * Support a fairer UK-wide welfare system and revised package of welfare mitigations for NI * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * Overhaul bereavement benefits\n\n* Personal tax allowance should rise in line with inflation each year * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 by the end of the parliamentary term * End the freeze on benefits by increasing them in line with inflation * Restore free television licences for over-75s but in the longer term abolish the licence fee entirely * Retain the pensions triple lock and retain winter fuel payments\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts * Introduce a real living wage * Establish a new \"welfare mitigation package\" that protects the most vulnerable\n\n* Increase childcare provision from 12.5 hours per week to 20 hours per week, potentially increasing to 30 hours once new budget is agreed * Regulation of zero-hours contracts * Introduce a \"true living wage\" to reflect rising costs of living * Scrap universal credit, the bedroom tax and the two-child limit * End the freeze on benefits\n\n* Extend mitigation measures on key issues such as the bedroom tax, which are due to expire in March * Restore TV licenses for over-75s and retain the triple-lock protection for pensions * Create and implement a new childcare strategy\n\n* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Increase the number of employers paying a living wage in Wales and introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system * New \"collective\" workplace pension schemes and new controls on transferring pensions and a review of state pension inequality for Waspi women\n\n* Introduce a real living wage of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16, giving about 700,000 Scottish workers a pay rise * Scrap universal credit and increase child benefit * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66 and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay\n\n* Reverse cuts to universal credit * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment * Introduce universal access to basic services * Increase provision of free meals for children, with a particular focus on breakfast * Increase access to free sanitary products\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts, close the gender pay gap, and ensure that everyone is paid a \"real living wage\" * Bring in a universal basic income * Remove differential rates of minimum wage for under-25s and introduce a living wage for everyone * Scrap universal credit * Support for the Waspi women (Women Against State Pension Inequality)\n\n* Scrap welfare reforms include PIP, Universal Credit and the bedroom tax * Develop a state-owned National Childcare Agency * Repeal all anti-trade union laws * Ban zero hours contracts and implement a real living wage\n\n* 40% of board members in public companies and public sector boards to be women * Worker representation to be established on the boards of larger companies * Ban “zero-hours” contracts * Increase child benefit", "The owner of the Supercuts and Regis hairdressing chains, Regis UK, has been bought out of administration, saving 1,000 jobs.\n\nEntrepreneur Lee Bushell has agreed to buy 140 outlets trading under the two brands across the UK.\n\nBut, as first reported by Sky News, the deal will also involve the closure of about 60 sites risking 200 jobs.\n\nRegis fell into administration in October blaming a \"perfect storm\" of pressures.\n\nIt has been struggling with a fall in customer numbers in shopping centres where many of its salons are located. It also said higher wage costs had worsened its \"cash flow issues\".\n\nLast year, it negotiated a cut in the rent it paid through a legal process known as a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA), but landlords challenged the proposals in court.\n\nRegis UK was sold by its US parent company to the private equity firm Regent in 2017. But it has faced a challenging retail environment since then, as people rein in their spending.\n\nLast week, card chain Clintons struck a deal to stop it going bust before Christmas, while baby goods retailer Mothercare announced its UK operation was going into administration last month.\n\nA string of other firms has gone under including electronics retailer Maplin and discount chain Poundworld, while Homebase, Debenhams and Carpetright have all been forced to restructure.\n\nCommenting on the Regis deal, Matt Cowlishaw, of administrators Deloitte, said: \"We are pleased to have concluded the sale and for being able to preserve a significant number of jobs at two well-known brands.\"", "Party leaders and politicians are drawing their election campaigns to a close before polling day on Thursday.\n\nHere are a few of some of the most striking campaign images from around the UK.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn visited Wales shortly after he was called \"a Marmite figure\" by Welsh Labour leader Mark Drakeford. Mr Corbyn's response? \"A lot of people like Marmite, it's good for them.\"\n\nPhillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby joined Boris Johnson for a selfie following his interview on ITV's This Morning.\n\nJo Swinson looked less than impressed with this puppet of Boris Johnson during a rally in Edinburgh.\n\nSNP leader Nicola Sturgeon took questions from a journalist dressed as an elf during a visit to Crieff in Perth and Kinross.\n\nBritish boxer Dereck Chisora posed with Brexit party leader Nigel Farage. Jo Swinson and Boris Johnson also donned boxing gloves during the campaign.\n\nBoris Johnson opted for goalie gloves during a warm up before a football match in Cheadle Hulme, Greater Manchester.\n\nJeremy Corbyn took part in an arts and crafts session at Sandylands Community Primary School in Morecambe.\n\nScottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Ronnie (right) and party general election campaign chairman Alex Cole-Hamilton bounced down a street in Edinburgh in the first week of campaigning.\n\nNicola Sturgeon did her best Wild Rose impression as she picked up a guitar while campaigning in Kemnay, Aberdeenshire.\n\nNigel Farage was pictured looking out from a window on a crabbing boat in Grimsby.\n\nJo Swinson spoke to Extinction Rebellion protesters dressed as bees after they glued themselves to the party's battle bus during a visit to Knights Youth Centre in London.\n\nIt was on this farm shop's balcony in Topsham, Devon, that Conservative leader Boris Johnson was asked several times whether he would take part in a BBC interview with presenter Andrew Neil.\n\nJeremy Corbyn visited a canal boat cafe serving bacon butties - a sandwich his predecessor Ed Miliband was famously pictured eating in 2014.\n\nNicola Sturgeon was not shy when it came to joining in at playtime during a number of visits to nurseries around Scotland during the campaign.\n\nThe main parties focused on the key messages in the final days of campaigning as their tours around the country intensified.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson hit the courts at Shinfield Tennis Club in Reading.\n\nJeremy Corbyn campaigned next to a statue of Robin Hood in Nottingham.", "Use the search box to find full results and updates from every constituency.\n\nOr you can browse the A-Z list.", "Gifts from the community Santa's grotto included children's books, modelling clay and card games\n\nMore than 600 Christmas presents for children have been stolen from a community Santa's grotto.\n\nThe gifts were being kept in buildings at the bowling green in Eastville Park, Bristol, after Father Christmas was unable to deliver them on Sunday.\n\nHigh winds cancelled the event so the wrapped presents were being stored while organisers worked out what to do.\n\nVolunteers called police and said the theft overnight on Monday and Tuesday had \"knocked them for six\".\n\nFriends of Eastville Park had planned a wildlife winter wonderland themed Santa's grotto along with entertainment and crafts for its first Christmas event for children.\n\nVolunteer Chrissy Quinnell, said: \"It's really hard to conceive that somebody would take children's presents.\"\n\n\"Hundreds of people were involved in the preparations but we had to cancel the event because of really high winds,\" said Ms Quinnell. \"So the fact the event didn't take place was a bit of a low point for us and then to find this as well.\n\n\"We're all pretty flat at the moment.\"\n\nThis Facebook post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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Facebook content may contain adverts.\n\nAlong with wrapped gifts - including children's books, modelling clay and card games - thieves also \"helped themselves to everything of value\" including bottles of mulled wine and catering equipment.\n\nVolunteers said it would take them a while to \"bounce back\".\n\nPosting on the group's Facebook page, Andrew Gee said the loss of over 600 children's presents was \"particularly upsetting\".\n\n\"We are currently looking at CCTV footage from the car park area in the hope that something might come up,\" he said.\n\nPolice are appealing for anyone who knows where the presents are following the burglary between 16:00 GMT Monday and 10:00 GMT Tuesday to get in touch.\n\nA police spokesman said: \"We'd appeal for anyone who saw or heard any suspicious activity around the building to contact us.\"", "Jo Hamilton is celebrating \"one of the best days I've ever had\".\n\nHer life was turned inside out after the sub-postmistress was accused by the Post Office of taking £36,000 from the village shop she ran in Hampshire.\n\nBut now the Post Office is to pay almost £58m to settle a long-running dispute with sub-postmasters and postmistresses.\n\n\"You dream about victory, but now it's actually here,\" said Mr Hamilton.\n\nThe settlement brings an end to a mammoth series of court cases over the Horizon IT system used to manage local post office finances since 1999.\n\nA group of postmasters said faults in Horizon led to them wrongly being accused of fraud. And on Wednesday the Post Office accepted it had \"got things wrong in our dealings with a number of postmasters\" in the past.\n\nMrs Hamilton's fight echoes that of other postmasters seeking justice. She said issues in the Horizon system led to big discrepancies in her accounts, which she reported to her Post Office area manager.\n\nBut that manager could find nothing wrong with the system, and she was put in a situation where \"you had to prove your innocence\".\n\nAfter a distressing two-year process, she eventually pleaded guilty to false accounting at Winchester Crown Court in order to escape a more serious charge of theft.\n\nShe soon gave up her shop and found it difficult to get a new job due to her criminal record. She made ends meet by doing cleaning jobs for people in her village who didn't believe she was guilty.\n\n\"I couldn't get car insurance,\" she said, and had to go to a specialist provider with higher premiums. \"I couldn't be left alone with my grand-daughter in her classroom.\"\n\nHer fight for justice is not completely over, as her conviction is still going through the review process.\n\nBut Mrs Hamilton feels vindicated. \"I just feel like I'm in a daze,\" she said.\n\nSub-postmasters run Post Office franchises across the UK, which typically provide some but not all of the services of a main post office.\n\nThe group of 550 claimants joined a civil action to win compensation last year, but their complaint goes back much further.\n\nThey alleged that the Horizon IT system - which was installed between 1999 and 2000 - contained a large number of defects.\n\nSome said their lives had been ruined when they were pursued for funds which managers claimed were missing. Some even went to jail after being convicted of fraud.\n\nThe claimants were half way through a series of four trials when the Post Office sought mediation. It could take several weeks for individual compensation payments to be worked out.\n\nThe Post Office apologised to the claimants, saying it was grateful to them \"for holding us to account in circumstances where, in the past, we have fallen short.\"\n\nMr Read said: \"I am very pleased we have been able to find a resolution to this longstanding dispute.\n\n\"Our business needs to take on board some important lessons about the way we work with postmasters, and I am determined that it will do so. We are committed to a reset in our relationship with postmasters, placing them alongside our customers at the centre of our business.\"\n\nAlan Bates, former sub-postmaster of the Craig-y-Don branch in Llandudno, and one of the lead claimants, said: \"[We] would like to thank Nick Read, the new chief executive of Post Office, for his leadership, engagement and determination in helping to reach a settlement of this long-running dispute.\n\n\"It would seem that from the positive discussions [we have had] there is a genuine desire to move on from these legacy issues and learn lessons from the past.\"\n\nThe Horizon system, which is provided by Fujitsu, is still being used in all 11,500 Post Office branches in the UK.\n\nThis is a major climb down by the Post Office which has made multiple appeals to try to see off the court case.\n\nBut legal costs were stretching into the tens of millions, so the price of losing at the end of this mammoth legal process could have been a great deal higher.\n\nIt's not clear yet how much individual postmasters and mistresses will receive.\n\nLawyers' fees have to be taken off, along with a charge from the litigation backer, Therium.\n\nBut just looking at the £58m suggests payouts could be in the tens of thousands and even higher for the worst affected.\n• None 'I did not steal £16,000 from Post Office'", "Botanist and broadcaster David Bellamy has died aged 86, the Conservation Foundation he formed has said.\n\nLondon-born Bellamy, who became a household name as a TV personality, scientist and conservationist, died on Wednesday, according to the foundation.\n\nHis colleague, David Shreeve, described him as a \"larger-than-life character\" who \"inspired a whole generation\".\n\nIn later life Bellamy, who lived in County Durham, attracted criticism for dismissing global warming.\n\nIn 2004 he described it as \"poppycock\" - a stance which he later said cost him his TV career.\n\nBellamy worked in a sweet factory and as a plumber before embarking on his broadcasting career.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Bellamy on the interview that started his career\n\nHis scientific career began when he got a job in the biology department of a technical college in Surrey, he told BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs programme in 1978.\n\nIt was there that he met his future wife, Rosemary.\n\nBut it was on a trip to Scotland where he discovered his love for plants, he told the programme.\n\n\"I got really turned on by plants and I found out that if somebody told me what a plant was, I just couldn't forget it,\" he said.\n\nDavid Bellamy takes a walk with his granddaughter Tilly, then aged four, around the Scottish Seabird Centre after unveiling a new remote wildlife camera in North Berwick in 2007\n\nThe broadcaster stood, unsuccessfully, against the then prime minister John Major for the eurosceptic Referendum Party during the 1997 general election\n\nHe gained public recognition for his work as an environmental consultant over the Torrey Canyon oil spill, when a tanker was shipwrecked off the coast of Cornwall in 1967.\n\nHe went on to present programmes such as Don't Ask Me, Bellamy On Botany, Bellamy's Britain, Bellamy's Europe and Bellamy's Backyard Safari.\n\nAnd in 1979 he won Bafta's Richard Dimbleby Award, for best presenter of factual programmes.\n\nHis distinctive voice also inspired comedian Sir Lenny Henry's catchphrase \"grapple me grapenuts\".\n\nBBC arts correspondent David Sillito described Bellamy as \"the enthusiastic face of botany on television\" for more than 30 years.\n\nIn 2003, Bellamy told BBC News that he was sceptical about mankind being responsible for rising temperatures and suggested that they might be part of the Earth's natural cycles.\n\nHe said: \"We have got to get this thing argued out in public properly and not just take one opinion.\"\n\nTen years later, he told the Independent newspaper: \"It (global warming) is not happening at all, but if you get the idea that people's children will die because of CO2 they fall for it.\"\n\nWell-known figures have paid tribute to Bellamy, including fellow naturalist and broadcaster Bill Oddie who described him as a \"first-class naturalist, with boundless skills to convey his enthusiasm\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by Bill Oddie Official\n\nGood Morning Britain presenter Piers Morgan said Bellamy was a \"brilliant naturalist, broadcaster and character\", in a tribute posted on Twitter.\n\nComedy writer and broadcaster Danny Baker described him as a \"truly brilliant and canny broadcaster\".\n\nThe Walking Dead actor David Morrissey tweeted that Bellamy \"cared about nature and our environment deeply.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by David Morrissey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd former England footballer Stan Collymore called him a \"childhood icon\", adding that he \"learnt about botany and shrubs and trees as a kid because of this man's love and infectious enthusiasm.\"", "The government's Brexit legislation is on hold as the UK gears up for the general election on 12 December.\n\nBut where do the parties stand on Brexit?\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson wants the UK to leave the European Union (EU) with the revised deal he agreed.\n\nHe says that with a majority Conservative government, he would start the process to \"get Brexit done\" on day one of the new Parliament.\n\nHe previously said the UK would leave on 31 October \"do or die\".\n\nHowever, Mr Johnson was forced to write a Brexit extension letter to the EU, after MPs failed to approve his revised deal.\n\nMr Johnson secured changes to the deal previously negotiated by Theresa May. It includes scrapping the controversial Irish backstop and replacing it with a new customs arrangement.\n\nBoris Johnson's revised Brexit deal has not yet been approved by the UK Parliament\n\nBrexit left the Conservative Party heavily divided, with 21 MPs expelled for failing to follow the government's line. Ten were later welcomed back.\n\nIf it wins the election, Labour wants to renegotiate Mr Johnson's Brexit deal and put it to another public vote. It says it will achieve this within six months.\n\nLabour says its referendum would be a choice between a \"sensible\" Leave option versus Remain.\n\nUnder its Leave option, Labour says it will negotiate for the UK to remain in an EU customs union, and retain a \"close\" single market relationship.\n\nThis would allow the UK to continue trading with the EU without checks, but it would prevent it from striking its own trade deals with other countries.\n\nIf a referendum was held, Mr Corbyn has said he would remain neutral if he was prime minister \"so I can credibly carry out the results\".\n\nJust like the Conservatives, Labour has had to deal with internal divisions over its Brexit policy. More than 25 Labour MPs wrote to Mr Corbyn in June, saying another public vote would be \"toxic to our bedrock Labour voters\".\n\nWhile Labour's election strategy early on was to emphasise that the vote was about more than Brexit, it is changing its focus.\n\nThe message now is that Labour's leadership is not opposing Brexit by opposing Mr Johnson's deal - it wants to find what it believes is a better one.\n\nThe SNP is pro-Remain and wants the UK to stay a member of the EU.\n\nIt has been campaigning for another referendum on Brexit. Alternatively, it wants Article 50 revoked if it is the only alternative to a no-deal Brexit.\n\nScotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, said the possibility of a no-deal Brexit is \"catastrophic\"\n\nThe SNP's ultimate objective is for an independent Scotland that is a full member of the EU.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have pledged to cancel Brexit if they win power at the general election.\n\nThe policy was endorsed in September by party members at the Lib Dem party conference.\n\nIf the Lib Dems do not win a majority, they would support another referendum.\n\nLeader Jo Swinson says that stopping Brexit would free up £50bn, over five years, to spend on public services.\n\nShe says that so-called \"Remain bonus\" would pay for 20,000 new teachers, extra money for schools and to help support low-paid workers.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) had an agreement with the Conservatives whereby it lent it support in the Commons during the last Parliament.\n\nHowever, while the DUP wants the UK to leave the EU, it opposes elements of Mr Johnson's Brexit deal which relate to Northern Ireland,.\n\nThe DUP is unhappy with the revised Brexit deal\n\nAt its manifesto launch, the party said it will seek further changes to the deal if he is still prime minister after the election.\n\nThe deal includes special arrangements for Northern Ireland. One gives the Northern Ireland Assembly a majority vote on how customs arrangements would work after Brexit.\n\nThe DUP wants such a vote to be taken on a cross-community basis, rather than a straight majority.\n\nThis party is made up of MPs who left the Conservatives and Labour, in part because of their positions on Brexit.\n\nIt backs another referendum, or \"People's Vote\", and wants the UK to remain in the EU.\n\nThe party backs remaining in the EU, despite Wales voting Leave in the referendum. It wants a further referendum and to Remain.\n\nIn a bid to get as many pro-Remain MPs as possible into Parliament, Plaid Cymru, the Liberal Democrats and Greens have agreed an electoral pact in 11 of the 40 seats in Wales.\n\nThe party's one MP, Caroline Lucas, has been a vocal campaigner for another referendum, and believes the UK should stay in the EU.\n\nThe Brexit Party wants the UK to leave the EU without a deal, in what it calls a \"clean-break Brexit\".\n\nIt says that is the way to \"start changing Britain for good from day one\" and that the transition period after leaving would not be extended.\n\nIt also says Mr Johnson's revised Brexit plan is a bad deal.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nBrexit - British exit - refers to the UK leaving the EU. A public vote was held in June 2016, to decide whether the UK should leave or remain.\n• None What are the PM's remaining election options?", "The Conservatives have told the Andrew Neil Show they do not want to put anyone up for interview the night before the election.\n\nSo instead, Neil is interviewing former deputy prime minister Lord Michael Heseltine - who has made his Remain beliefs very clear during the campaign.\n\nAsked if Boris Johnson is fit to be prime minister, he says he has \"avoided discussion about personality issues\" in the run-up to the election as \"great issues become slanging matches\".\n\nBut Lord Heseltine says the \"overarching\" issue of the campaign has been Brexit.\n\nHe says there needs to be a coalition \"for one reason only\" and that is to get another referendum on Brexit \"now that the issues are clearer than they were three years ago\".\n\nHowever, he doesn't want Jeremy Corbyn to lead it.\n\nLord Heseltine says Labour is \"itching to get rid\" of Mr Corbyn, and there were many moderates who could take his place.\n\n\"We are facing a period of prolonged uncertainty,\" he adds. \"There is no way of getting Brexit done in a matter of weeks or months.\n\n\"The alternative is we have a no overall control Parliament, out of which comes a short-term coalition for the one purpose of another referendum.\n\n\"There would be delay, yes, but much shorter delay than the anxiety and uncertainty of going through with Brexit.\"", "Genaro García Luna was considered an architect of Mexico's \"war on drugs\"\n\nA former Mexican security minister has been arrested in the US, charged with taking bribes from a drugs cartel.\n\nGenaro García Luna is accused of allowing the Sinaloa cartel of \"El Chapo\" Guzman to operate in Mexico in exchange for millions of dollars.\n\nProsecutors say Mr García Luna gave the cartel safe passage for drug shipments and access to sensitive information.\n\nThey say that on two occasions cartel members delivered up to $5m (£3.7m) in two briefcases to him in person.\n\nHe has previously denied any wrongdoing.\n\nMr García Luna, 52, served as public security chief in the administration of President Felipe Calderon between 2006 and 2012.\n\nHis arrest in Texas is a major development in Mexican politics, the BBC's Mexico correspondent Will Grant reports.\n\nMr García Luna was not just an important figure in Mr Calderon's administration - he was Mexico's secretary of public security, the face of the country's federal police force, our correspondent adds.\n\nMr Calderon, with US backing, deployed troops against the cartels for the first time. Tens of thousands died in Mexico in drug-related violence during his \"war on drugs\".\n\nMr García Luna was taken into custody in Dallas, Texas, on Monday, prosecutors in New York said.\n\nCourt documents unsealed on Tuesday in Brooklyn showed he had been charged with cocaine trafficking conspiracy and making false statements.\n\n\"García Luna stands accused of taking millions of dollars in bribes from 'El Chapo' Guzman's Sinaloa cartel while he controlled Mexico's Federal Police Force and was responsible for ensuring public safety in Mexico,\" said US Attorney Richard Donoghue, announcing the arrest.\n\nHe was also accused of lying about his criminal past when he applied for US naturalisation in 2018.\n\nGuzmán was jailed for life in July following a three-month trial in the US.\n\nDuring that trial, ex-cartel member Jesus \"Rey\" Zambada alleged that he had personally delivered two suitcases containing millions of dollars in bribes to Mr García Luna at a restaurant.\n\nMr García Luna denied those allegations at the time, calling them \"lies, defamation and perjury\".\n\nUS prosecutors allege that the former minister used his position to protect the Sinaloa cartel's trafficking operations from 2001 to 2012, enabling it to operate \"with impunity\" in Mexico.\n\nIf found guilty, he faces between 10 years to life in prison.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mexico's drug war: Has it turned the tide?", "Laura Jones says including her stillborn son's name brings comfort to her other children\n\nA mother who lost her baby has backed a charity's plea to friends of grieving parents not to forget their children in Christmas cards.\n\nLaura Jones, 36, from Llanelli, gave birth to her \"treasured\" stillborn son Hudson in November at 19 weeks.\n\nSeeing his name in cards helped her other children and \"acknowledges the little life that was\", she said.\n\nEssex charity Aching Arms said the gesture could be \"heartwarming\" at a difficult time of year.\n\nThe organisation, based in Brentwood, sends thousands of teddy bears to grieving families across the UK, both as comforters and to signpost help.\n\n\"Not many of my family and friends mention James at Christmas,\" said founder Leanne Turner, who lost her son at 23 weeks in 2009.\n\n\"Including their names is an acknowledgement that these babies aren't a secret that shouldn't be spoken about.\"\n\nAching Arms founder Leanne Turner says acknowledgement is key to helping parents grieve\n\nSome parents said they preferred a symbol or an extra kiss as a reminder of their baby, instead of their name.\n\nMs Turner said while many families loved to hear their babies mentioned, the charity realised some parents would want their loss to remain very private.\n\n\"We each have to find our own way to cope, and that is exactly as it should be,\" she said.\n\nJade Merifield says she always signs her son's name on cards and gifts\n\nJade Merifield, 28, of Hillingdon, west London, was heading to hospital to be induced in September 2018 when complications cut off oxygen to her baby.\n\nHer son Arlo was stillborn 15 hours later.\n\n\"Personally I feel that Arlo was alive for nine months, so he should be included as he would be if he was here,\" she said.\n\n\"I get quite insulted when he isn't.\"\n\nKirsty Schwegmann says seeing her stillborn daughter's name on a card would fill her with joy\n\nIn January, Kirsty Schwegmann, who was 22 weeks pregnant with her fourth child, went for a routine scan.\n\nInstead, the 42-year-old from Farnborough in Hampshire found out her daughter Naya had died.\n\n\"She will always be in our Christmas cards and everything we do,\" said Mrs Schwegmann, now a volunteer for Aching Arms.\n\n\"It's helped my children. They find it really comforting knowing she's part of everything.\"\n\nKirsty Schwegmann said receiving a card with her daughter's name on it made her \"happy\"\n\nShe said seeing a card with her daughter's name on it could change her day.\n\n\"People think that when you mention their name you're going to get upset but it's the opposite.\n\nA stocking for Naya will be alongside those for her three other children\n\nMiss Jones, who is preparing for her first Christmas since losing her sixth child, said she would be donating to charity instead of sending cards.\n\n\"It's still raw. I don't ever want to stop talking about him,\" she said.\n\n\"Even though he never got to grow up, he existed. He's as much a part of my family as my other children.\"\n\nLaura Jones shortly after giving birth to her stillborn son Hudson\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "When Carly Clarke was diagnosed with cancer in 2012, she set out to photograph how she changed during what could have been the last days of her life. Seven years on, by cruel coincidence, she is at her brother's side, photographing him going through the same ordeal.\n\n\"I have my own hair on my hands, on my clothes and down in the bath below me. As I wash, then brush, more continues to fall out.\n\n\"In the mirror I can see my appearance change, strand-by-strand.\"\n\nCarly Clarke is reliving her experience as a cancer patient, showing me one of the many self-portraits she took during six painful months of treatment.\n\nEventually, she would ask her dad to shave the last hairs from her head. She was just 26.\n\n\"I used to have a lot of hair. Now I look like a cancer patient,\" she notes.\n\nSix months before these photographs were taken, Carly had been living out a dream in Canada - shooting a final-year university photography project in Vancouver's poverty-stricken downtown eastside.\n\nShe had been sick for months, with a violent cough, appetite loss and pain in her chest and back. Doctors had diagnosed her with illnesses ranging from pneumonia to asthma and warned her she could suffer a collapsed lung on the flight. But she had ignored them.\n\n\"I wasn't going to let this illness - whatever it was - get in the way of living my life,\" she says.\n\n\"In Vancouver, I could empathise with those with illnesses and addiction. My concern for my own life made me compassionate during the shoot.\"\n\nMany of those she spoke to on the near-freezing streets had become hooked after taking strong opiates in hospital, as they were treated for serious conditions, such as cancer.\n\nThree months later, Carly would need morphine herself to alleviate the pain in her chest and back, so she could sleep.\n\nPersuaded by Canadian doctors to go home for specialist attention, she was finally diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma - a rare and quite aggressive form of cancer - in March 2012. A tumour the size of a grapefruit had already grown in her right lung and chest wall.\n\n\"I burst into tears at Guy's Hospital in London,\" she says. \"I didn't know if I would survive the chemotherapy treatment, being diagnosed at such a late stage. I was terrified.\"\n\nIt was hard for her family to take.\n\n\"My parents felt like their stomachs fell out. There hadn't been a lot of cancer in the family,\" she says.\n\n\"My boyfriend was also devastated and he flew out from California to England to be with me.\"\n\nBack at home in Eastbourne, Carly scrawled hospital appointments and medication timetables on to a calendar that not long before had been packed with coursework deadlines and photoshoots.\n\n\"My life slowed down to concentrating on getting through each moment, drug to drug, endless examinations, giant needles, biopsies drilling deep into bone, tubes down my throat, and hoping for some day, the pain to end,\" she says.\n\nPain from her chest was now radiating down her arm, fluid on her lungs made breathing difficult, and she could not shake an \"awful, non-stop cough\".\n\n\"A plastic line through my arm fed sickening but healing medicine into my heart, trying to kill the cancer but taking my strength with it,\" she says.\n\n\"My skeleton became more visible by the day, a reminder of each precious pound lost. Out of nowhere my life was on the line.\"\n\nHer view of the world - and herself - was changing. So she decided to photograph it.\n\n\"I thought that having a creative outlet would allow me to step out of some of that reality for a moment or two and think about my current trauma from another perspective,\" Carly says.\n\nReality Trauma was to be a series of self-portraits documenting her changing appearance, her life in and out of hospital, and her resilience.\n\nDuring day visits, or short stays, the hospital gave her the freedom to use a tripod and cable release as often as she could. Doctors and nurses sometimes pushed the shutter for her.\n\n\"I thought about how others might view these images further down the line and whether or not I would even be around to tell my story,\" she says.\n\nCarly wanted her work to inspire others to \"have the courage to stare cancer in the face\" and not let it take over their identity entirely.\n\nImage-by-image, Carly noticed her skin was becoming paler and tighter around her bones, giving her an \"unfamiliar, almost alien\" appearance.\n\nShe lost around 12kg (26lb) in the space of two months and needed regular blood transfusions to make up for circulatory problems that were starving her body of oxygen and turning her blue.\n\n\"People were afraid to look at me. Especially, I think, parents with children also going through cancer - because they saw me and probably feared the worst for their own,\" she says.\n\n\"Seeing myself that way made me feel uneasy and frightened.\"\n\nSoon afterwards, she found herself attending hospital so frequently she was admitted full-time.\n\nAt her lowest, constantly nauseous or asleep, she would reject all food from the hospital trolley. She was unable to study and, some days, too tired to photograph herself or phone her boyfriend.\n\nBy now she was also coughing so hard she would bring up blood. And sometimes she would wake after a night of cold sweats, itching and drenched as if she had showered in her hospital bed.\n\nBut then one day, after about three months of chemotherapy, the coughing stopped. Her other symptoms also began to ease.\n\nThe treatment was working, she thought. Biopsies confirmed it: the cancer was losing.\n\nHer perception of life changed again.\n\n\"Helplessness turned into hopefulness - and then euphoria. When you come so close to death, suddenly you want to live your life to the fullest.\"\n\nThe hospital ward went from being a place of pain to home. Staff became friends, and some patients even closer.\n\nNow Carly would venture outside her room. The fish tank in the communal area of the ward attracted patients of all ages.\n\nAn elderly couple, being treated for different types of terminal leukaemia, would often undergo chemotherapy on the same day as Carly. One day, the husband said his wife had been told she would not make it to Christmas.\n\n\"I remember hugging her and wishing her well - that couple would never leave my mind.\"\n\nAs Carly began to feel better, she also started to connect more with the world outside.\n\nHer boyfriend and friends would take her for lunch, sometimes driving to Beachy Head - where white cliffs meet the sea - and Carly would talk about the future while watching boats move slowly across the horizon.\n\nFrom course mates and tutors, she began to realise that her photographs were affecting other people.\n\nNot only were they capturing the physical and emotional effects of cancer treatment but demonstrating that it didn't always have to be scary - it could be positive, Carly says.\n\n\"Looking back at the images I had taken, it made me feel stronger because in those photos I was faced with an end-of-life situation but a part of me still believed I could get through it.\"\n\nCarly began showing her work to other cancer patients and took portraits of some of them in the ward. It became a way of starting a conversation or putting a smile on their faces.\n\nCarly's photographs captured the mood of those who had undergone successful treatment\n\n\"If it's true that a simple smile, small gesture of help or kind word can change how a person feels and brighten their day, and have a positive effect on every cell in one's body, then a positive photographic story can help change someone's life,\" says Carly.\n\n\"It can be the defining factor in someone's mental strength and affect their willpower enough to keep them going through the suffering in hope that it will soon end and that, in my opinion, is what helps to keep you alive against all odds.\"\n\nAs Carly's treatment came to an end, in September 2012, she could look back through each phase of her journey, in 15 rolls of film and 150 photographs, and say she survived cancer.\n\nHer image titled Last Day of Chemotherapy was shortlisted in the Portrait of Britain Awards 2018\n\nIt was a moment for celebration, but returning to the family home - to \"piece her life back together\" - was not easy. When she took back her boxes of unused medicine, she felt sad she was no longer in hospital.\n\n\"The hospital staff and some of the patients felt like family to me because we had built a very close relationship over many months.\"\n\nA few months later, Carly flew to California and stayed with her boyfriend for most of the following year.\n\nShe returned home several times, and visited the hospital ward for the first of her twice-yearly check-ups. Every time she went back, she looked around for old faces: nurses who had treated her, patients she had shared moments with.\n\nOn one occasion, a few years after finishing treatment, she arrived early for a consultation and sat alongside a woman in the waiting area.\n\n\"We casually glanced at each other and suddenly tears came to my eyes.\"\n\nIt was the woman whose husband had told Carly she would not live to see Christmas back in 2012.\n\n\"I couldn't believe it was her,\" Carly recalls. \"Moments like this are beautiful.\"\n\nCarly quickly rediscovered her hunger to document the lives of people around the world. In 2014, she spent four months in India.\n\nHer work on that trip would garner honourable mentions in the International Photo Awards in 2018. That same year her \"Last Day of Chemotherapy\" photograph from Reality Trauma was shortlisted in the Portrait of Britain Awards.\n\nShe got work assisting photographer Michael Wharley, producing promotional images for Summerland, a forthcoming film starring Gemma Arterton.\n\nAs her inbox filled with awards invitations and her calendar with shoot schedules, she began drawing up a project concept with her local hospice, St Wilfred's, to take portraits of cancer patients in their last stages of life.\n\nShe wanted to document how terminal illnesses affect people's psychological state, and the ways patients spend their remaining moments, trying new hobbies or saying last goodbyes.\n\nBut that plan was halted abruptly in September last year by a phone call from her older brother, Lee.\n\nHe told her their younger brother, Joe, had been diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma - the very same cancer Carly had beaten six years earlier.\n\n\"We both shed tears on the phone,\" says Carly.\n\nJoe was just 16 and starting college. His cancer was less advanced than Carly's had been but - just like his sister - he had also been ill for months before being diagnosed.\n\nDoctors had initially put his severe itching down to \"dry skin\", or imagination.\n\n\"He wasn't prepared for his diagnosis. None us of were,\" says Carly.\n\nThe NHS says Hodgkin lymphoma is an uncommon cancer that develops in a network of vessels and glands called the lymphatic system. It can quickly spread throughout the body but is also one of the most easily treated types of cancer.\n\nJoe tried to live as normally as he could, spending time with his girlfriend, learning to drive and making career plans.\n\nBut as he spent more and more time travelling to hospital and back, his grades took a hit and he began to lose touch with some of his friends.\n\nWanting to spend more time with him, earlier this year Carly asked if she could photograph his cancer journey. He agreed.\n\nSixteen years older than Joe, Carly had left home when he was still young. But, as his only sister, she had always felt a responsibility towards him, teaching him how to draw and paint when he was a toddler.\n\nLater, when Carly moved to London for university, they saw each other only occasionally. With each visit, she noticed him stand a little taller, his voice slightly deepen.\n\nBut now she stood behind the camera in his hospital ward, she captured a rapid change with every photograph.\n\nThe hair he'd dyed blonde and then coloured flamboyantly, knowing it would fall out, came out in chunks until he shaved it off, as Carly had done, to stop it getting all over his clothes and bedroom floor.\n\nHe began covering his head in the photos, and talked about wearing a wig.\n\nThe steroids he took in preparation for the next stage of chemotherapy aged him, and had another dramatic effect.\n\n\"Joe put on weight to the point where he was unrecognisable. The pictures also showed his stretch marks from the severe weight gain,\" Carly says.\n\nMore and more, Joe reached out to Carly for support and advice. As a young boy he'd seen her go through cancer; he knew what the illness had done to his sister, but he also saw her defeat it.\n\n\"Even when he had doubts and misgivings, the fact that I recovered meant I could provide him with the hope and positivity to continue his treatment,\" she says.\n\nBecause Joe's cancer was less advanced, she thought his treatment would be quicker and her photographic series shorter. The collection would represent the journey of a young man overcoming cancer.\n\nBut Joe's first round of chemotherapy was unsuccessful.\n\n\"The news shook everybody up a lot. Our relationship changed, it became a little more unstable,\" Carly says.\n\nHaving suffered a relapse, Joe would have to endure four more months of chemotherapy and autologous stem cell transplants. His hair, which had begun to grow back, fell out again.\n\nJoe said he no longer wanted to be photographed - a decision Carly says she understood and respected - but with time came greater determination and fresh positivity. A month or so later, he changed his mind again.\n\n\"The image I liked most was him turning away in a contemplative manner. There, he knew what was to come, and his eyes glared into the distance,\" Carly says.\n\n\"It showed how he had changed and how he had adapted to this role of being a young cancer patient.\"\n\nAgainst his consultant's advice Joe stopped stem-cell treatment. He feared the side-effects - the breathing trouble, skin problems, jaundice and diarrhoea that can occur if donor cells attack the host - would blight his life.\n\nAnd shortly after taking that decision, in May, his scans came back clear. It meant that he was put into remission and able to join his family on holiday in Menorca, and then at Lee's wedding.\n\nHe will have regular appointments over the next few months to monitor his condition, but he has lost the weight he gained and his hair is finally growing back again.\n\nCarly says her images offer stark evidence of how reality changed for the family during a time in which both her and Joe's \"body, mind and soul were tested to the ultimate ends\".\n\n\"These photographs I have captured, of both Joe and I, evoke some painful memories for me; however, they also remind me of the huge capacity of the human body to endure through such hellish times.\n\n\"This collection of images may give only a glimpse into those times but my hope is that an audience can see not just the horrifying aspects, but also the promise that being a survivor of cancer gives and the tremendous hope for others facing a similar condition.\"", "It's the first time in history that black women hold the titles for Miss USA, Miss Teen USA, Miss America, Miss Universe and Miss World.\n\nThe 23-year-old student was born in St Thomas, Jamaica, and plans to study medicine and become a doctor.\n\nShe tweeted on Saturday: \"Please know that you are worthy and capable of achieving your dreams... you have a PURPOSE.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Toni-Ann Singh This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nToni-Ann impressed judges at the event in ExCel London after singing Whitney Houston's I Have Nothing, and answering a variety of questions.\n\nShe said: \"This feels like a dream, I'm so grateful.\"\n\n\"Whatever it is you see in me, thank you. I'm ready to get to work.\"\n\nShe beat 111 other contestants representing different countries, to be the fourth Jamaican winner of the title since the competition began.\n\nWhen asked by judge Piers Morgan if she would consider a singing career, she said: \"If the door is open I'll walk through it.\"\n\nToni-Ann was crowned by the Previous Miss World, Vanessa Ponce de Leon\n\nThe runners up included Ophély Mézino from France and Suman Rao from India.\n\nOne moment that caught people's attention online was Miss Nigeria's reaction to Toni-Ann's win.\n\nNyekachi Douglas, who placed fifth, jumped and screamed with Joy when the winner was announced.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Ricardo A. This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Last updated on .From the section Sports Personality\n\nMarathon runner Eliud Kipchoge has been voted BBC Sports Personality's World Sport Star of the Year.\n\nKipchoge became the first person to run a marathon in under two hours in October.\n\nThe Kenyan, 35, completed 26.2 miles (42.2km) in one hour 59 minutes 40 seconds in the Ineos 1:59 Challenge in Vienna, Austria.\n\nSix months before his feat, Kipchoge won the London Marathon for a fourth time.\n\nKipchoge, who won Olympic gold at Rio 2016, broke his own London Marathon record - set in 2016 - by 28 seconds.\n\nTopping an online public vote, the legendary marathon runner beat off competition from American gymnast Simone Biles, South Africa's Rugby World Cup-winning captain Siya Kolisi, Australian cricketer Steve Smith, American golfer Tiger Woods and USA footballer Megan Rapinoe, who co-led her team to World Cup victory again this summer.\n\nLast year's winner was Italian golfer Francesco Molinari, who won the 2018 Open Championship and all five of his Ryder Cup matches at the event in Paris.\n• None How to cast your Sports Personality vote online", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon told the BBC's Andrew Mar Show that Scotland 'cannot be imprisoned' in UK\n\nScotland \"cannot be imprisoned in the union against its will\" by the UK government, Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nThe Scottish first minister says the SNP's success in the general election gives her a mandate to hold a new referendum on independence.\n\nHowever, UK ministers are opposed to such a move with Michael Gove saying the vote in 2014 should be \"respected\".\n\nMs Sturgeon told the BBC that if the UK was to continue as a union, \"it can only be by consent\".\n\nShe told The Andrew Marr Show that the UK government would be \"completely wrong\" to think saying no to a referendum would be the end of the matter, adding: \"It's a fundamental point of democracy - you can't hold Scotland in the union against its will.\"\n\nHowever Mr Gove told the Sophy Ridge programme on Sky that \"we were told in 2014 that that would be a choice for a generation - we are not going to have an independence referendum in Scotland\".\n\nThe SNP won a landslide of Scottish seats in the snap general election, making gains from the Conservatives and Labour and unseating Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson.\n\nHowever UK-wide the Conservatives won a comfortable majority, returning Boris Johnson to Downing Street and setting up a constitutional stand-off over Scotland's future.\n\nThe Scottish government wants a referendum deal with UK ministers similar to that which underpinned the 2014 vote, to ensure that the outcome is legal and legitimate - but are facing opposition from the UK government.\n\nMs Sturgeon said it was \"fundamentally not democratic\" for Mr Johnson to rule out a referendum when his party had been \"defeated comprehensively\" in Scotland - losing seven of its 13 seats while standing on a platform of opposition to independence.\n\nMs Sturgeon was speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show\n\nThe SNP leader said: \"I said this to him on Friday night on the telephone - if he thinks saying no is the end of the matter then he's going to find himself completely and utterly wrong.\n\n\"It's a fundamental point of democracy - you can't hold Scotland in the union against its will. You can't lock us in a cupboard and turn the key and hope everything goes away.\n\n\"If the UK is to continue it can only be by consent. If Boris Johnson is confident in the case for the union he should be confident enough to make that case and allow people to decide.\n\n\"Scotland cannot be imprisoned within the United Kingdom against its will. These are just basic statements of democracy.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon added: \"The risk for the Conservatives here is the more they try to block the will of the Scottish people, the more utter contempt they show for Scottish democracy, the more they will increase support for Scottish independence - which in a sense is them doing my job for me.\n\n\"The momentum and the mandate is on the side of those of us who think Scotland should be independent, but also on the side of those who want Scotland to be able to chose its own future.\"\n\nMr Johnson returned to Downing Street on Friday after the Conservatives won a big majority in the election\n\nMr Johnson spoke to Ms Sturgeon on the phone after being returned to government, and told her that he \"remains opposed\" to a second independence vote.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said the prime minster was \"standing with the majority of people in Scotland who do not want to return to division and uncertainty\".\n\nThis was echoed on Sunday morning by Mr Gove, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, who said the result of the previous referendum in 2014 should hold for \"a generation\".\n\nHe said: \"In this general election we have just seen what happens when politicians try to overturn a referendum result, and in the same way we should respect the referendum result in 2014 in Scotland.\n\n\"Scotland is stronger in the United Kingdom. You can be proudly Scottish and proudly British together.\n\n\"The best of this country are British institutions like the NHS and the BBC, and therefore we should be proud of what we have achieved together and confident that the UK is a strong partnership that works in the interests of all.\"\n\nMeanwhile some senior figures in the Scottish Labour party are backing Nicola Sturgeon's calls for Holyrood to decide the timing of another independence vote.\n\nThe party's health spokeswoman Monica Lennon said she insists she would still oppose separation from the UK but accepts the SNP now have a mandate for a referendum in 2020.\n\nHer views were supported by former Labour MP Ged Killen, who lost his seat on Thursday.\n\n\"I campaigned on a promise to vote against indyref2, but I lost,\" he wrote on Twitter. \"The SNP made massive gains on a promise to hold another referendum and, as democrats, we must accept it even if we don't like it.\"\n\nAnother former MP Paul Sweeney said it was important for Labour to \"reflect\" on the constitutional position.\n\nHe told the BBC's Sunday Politics Scotland programme: \"A more federal relationship is something that urgently needs to happen, and I think we need to be galvanised to present an argument that that needs to happen.\"", "Wera Hobhouse was reelected in Bath, which she has represented since 2017 Image caption: Wera Hobhouse was reelected in Bath, which she has represented since 2017\n\nBath's Lib Dem MP Wera Hobhouse has questioned whether the British people are ready to have a first-generation immigrant lead a major political party.\n\nSpeaking on BBC One's Sunday Politics West this morning, she said she was regularly referred to as \"German-born\" Wera Hobhouse, implying that she could not represent the British people.\n\nEven so, she has refused to rule herself out of the contest to succeed Jo Swinson as her party's leader, saying it was a \"discussion\" she is ready to have.\n\nWera Hobhouse was born in Hanover, Germany, and moved to the UK in 1990.\n\nShe said: \"I'm a first generation immigrant and we have just voted for a party that has stoked up anti-immigrant feeling.\n\n\"I need to have that discussion of whether being a first-generation immigrant is standing in the way of the Liberal Democrats fighting prejudice and anti-foreigner sentiment.\n\n\"Or is it the first thing that will always colour what is going to be said by the Liberal Democrats? That is, 'She is not British, she is German-born.'\n\n\"The right-wing press always talks about me as 'German-born Wera Hobhouse.' It's a big issue. I've had it in the Daily Mail and over the years. The underlying thing is that she doesn't speak for the British people.\"", "There was a Blank Space on this year's Glastonbury's line-up… and that's where Taylor Swift has written her name.\n\nShe will make her Glastonbury debut in June - the festival's 50th anniversary - headlining the Pyramid Stage.\n\nSwift announced on Twitter that she was \"ecstatic\", while holding up a photo of the festival's in-house newspaper with the headline: \"Sunday Night Taylor Made For Glastonbury.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Taylor Swift This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSwift, who performed on this weekend's Strictly Come Dancing final, joins previously-announced Saturday night headliner Paul McCartney; and Motown star Diana Ross, who will play the Sunday afternoon \"legends slot\".\n\nShe is the first female artist to top the bill since Adele in 2016.\n\nGlastonbury founder Michael Eavis said he was excited to welcome the singer to Worthy Farm next year.\n\n\"She's one of the biggest stars in the world and her songs are absolutely amazing,\" he said. \"We're so delighted.\"\n\nTaylor Swift will join Paul McCartney and Diana Ross in headlining Glastonbury festival on its 50th anniversary\n\nFriday's headliner is still to be revealed but festival organiser Emily Eavis recently said it would be a male artist, playing the festival \"for their first time\".\n\nMany Glastonbury-watchers expect the slot to be taken by US rapper Kendrick Lamar.\n\nThe festival sold out in just 34 minutes when tickets went on sale in October. A resale for unwanted and unpaid tickets will take place on April 16, 2020 for coach tickets and April 19 for general tickets.\n\nSwift topped the charts everywhere from the UK to China with her seventh album, Lover, earlier this year. It has since become the only album of 2019 to sell more than one million \"pure\" copies - ie CD, vinyl and downloads, not including streams - in the US.\n\nThe star, who celebrated her 30th birthday on Friday with a Christmas-themed party, recently announced a new approach to touring for 2020.\n\nAfter 2018's ambitious, 53-date Reputation stadium tour, which played to 2.8m fans and took $345.7m (£259.3m) at the box office, she's taking her show to festivals around the world, in an effort to meet new and unfamiliar audiences.\n\n\"The Lover album is open fields, sunsets, and summer,\" she wrote on social media. \"I want to perform it in a way that feels authentic. I want to go to some places I haven't been and play festivals.\"\n\nThe star will play one further date in the UK next summer: At London's BST festival in Hyde Park.\n\nHowever, general admission tickets for the show sold out within hours of going on sale earlier this month.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Talks in Madrid have gone into extra time as delegates try to agree on measures\n\nThe Chilean official leading UN climate talks in Madrid has called on delegates to show flexibility, as they struggle to reach agreement on crucial measures needed to tackle climate change.\n\nThe negotiations, which were scheduled to end on Friday, continued throughout Saturday and into Sunday morning.\n\nCarolina Schmidt said a deal was almost there but the outcome needed to be ambitious.\n\nThe goal is a commitment to new carbon emissions cuts by the end of 2020.\n\nThe European Union and small island states vulnerable to climate change are pushing for stronger commitments to cut those emissions. Some of the biggest polluters, including the United States, Brazil and India, say they see no need to change their current plans.\n\nMs Schmidt, Chile's environment minister who is the conference's president, said early on Sunday: \"I request all the flexibility, all your strength to find this agreement to have an ambitious result.\"\n\nShe added: \"It's hard, it's difficult but it's worth it. I specially need you. But people in our countries need us.\"\n\nOn Saturday, a new draft text from the meeting was released, designed to chart a way forward for the parties to the Paris agreement, which came into being in 2015.\n\nThe pact's intention is to keep the global average temperature rise to well below 2C. This was regarded at the time as the threshold for dangerous global warming, though scientists subsequently shifted the definition of the \"safe\" limit to a rise of 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.\n\nThe situation was unprecedented since talks began in 1991, said Alden Meyer from the Union of Concerned Scientists.\n\nHe commented: \"The latest version of the Paris Agreement decision text put forward by the Chilean presidency is totally unacceptable. It has no call for countries to enhance the ambition of their emissions reduction commitments.\n\n\"If world leaders fail to increase ambition in the lead up to next year's climate summit in Glasgow, they will make the task of meeting the Paris agreement's 'well below 2C' temperature limitation goal - much less the 1.5 degrees Celsius goal - almost impossible.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Glen Peters This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHis view was echoed by David Waskow, international climate director for the World Resources Institute (WRI). \"If this text is accepted, the low ambition coalition will have won the day,\" he said.\n\nThe conference in the Spanish capital has become enmeshed in deep, technical arguments about a number of issues including the role of carbon markets and the financing of loss and damage caused by rising temperatures.\n\nResponding to the messages from science and from climate strikers, the countries running this 26th conference of the parties (COP) meeting are keen to have a final decision here that would see countries put new, ambitious plans to cut carbon on the table.\n\nAccording to the UN, 84 countries have promised to enhance their national plans by the end of next year. Some 73 have said they will set a long-term target of net zero by the middle of the century.\n\nBut earlier in the meeting, negotiators from the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) pointed the finger of blame at countries including Australia, the United States, Canada, Russia, India, China and Brazil.\n\nProtests led by young delegates have seen up to 200 protestors ejected from the talks\n\nThey had failed to submit revised plans that would help the world keep the rise in global temperatures under 1.5C this century.\n\nAt a \"stock-taking\" session on Saturday morning, Tina Stege, a negotiator with the Marshall Islands delegation, said: \"I need to go home and look my kids in the eye and tell them we came out with an outcome that will ensure their future.\"\n\nShe added: \"The text must address the need for new and more ambitious NDCs and long-term goals. We can't leave with anything else.\"\n\nReinforcing the sense of division, India, supported by China, Saudi Arabia and Brazil, has been taking a hard line on promises made by richer countries in previous agreements before the Paris pact was signed in 2015.\n\nThe deal saw every country, India included, sign up to take actions.\n\nThis was a key concession to the richer nations who insisted that the deal would only work if everyone pledged to cut carbon, unlike previous agreements in which only the better off had to limit their CO2.\n\nSome visitors have other things to do at the COP\n\nBut India now wants to see evidence that in the years up to 2020, the developed world has lived up to past promises.\n\nFor many delegates, the deadlock is intensely frustrating in light of the urgent need to tackle emissions.\n\n\"I've been attending these climate negotiations since they first started in 1991. But never have I seen the almost total disconnect we've seen here at COP25 in Madrid between what the science requires and the people of the world demand, and what the climate negotiations are delivering in terms of meaningful action,\" said Alden Meyer.\n\n\"The planet is on fire and our window of escape is getting harder and harder to reach the longer we wait to act. Ministers here in Madrid must strengthen the final decision text, to respond to the mounting impacts of climate change that are devastating both communities and ecosystems all over the world.\"\n\nJake Schmidt, from the US-based Natural Resources Defense Council, said: \"In Madrid, the key polluting countries responsible for 80% of the world's climate-wrecking emissions stood mute, while smaller countries announced they'll work to drive down harmful emissions in the coming year.\n\n\"The mute majority must step up, and ramp up, their commitments to tackle the growing climate crisis well ahead of the COP26 gathering.\"\n\nAlso on Saturday, activists staged a protest outside the summit venue to express their frustration at what they see as the failure of world leaders in taking meaningful action on climate change.", "Omar al-Bashir sat in a cage as he was sentenced for corruption\n\nSudan's ex-president Omar al-Bashir has been sentenced to two years in a social reform facility for corruption.\n\nThe judge told the court that, under Sudanese law, people over the age of 70 cannot serve jail terms. Bashir is 75.\n\nBashir also faces charges related to the 1989 coup that brought him to power, genocide, and the killing of protesters before his ousting in April.\n\nDuring the sentencing, his supporters started chanting that the trial was \"political\" and were ordered to leave.\n\nThey continued their protest outside the court, chanting: \"There is no god but God.\"\n\nAfterwards one of the ousted leader's lawyers, Ahmed Ibrahim, said they would appeal against the verdict.\n\nMohamed al-Hassan, another lawyer for Bashir, previously said that the defence did not consider the trial a legal one but a \"political\" one.\n\nIt is unclear whether Bashir will be tried over widespread human rights abuses during his time in power, including allegations of war crimes in Darfur.\n\nSupporters of Bashir chanted in protest outside the courtroom\n\nThe corruption case was linked to a $25 million (£19 million) cash payment he received from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.\n\nBashir claimed the payments were made as part of Sudan's strategic relationship with Saudi Arabia, and were \"not used for private interests but as donations\".\n\nNone of the active cases against Bashir in Sudan is linked to the charges he faces at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, over the conflict in Darfur that broke out in 2003.\n\nThe UN says that around 300,000 people were killed and 2.5 million were displaced in the war.\n\nAfter Bashir was ousted in April, ICC prosecutors in The Hague requested that he stand trial over the Darfur killings.\n\nThe Sudanese army generals who seized power immediately after his fall initially refused to comply, but Sudan's umbrella protest movement - which now has significant representation in the country's sovereign council - recently said it would not object to his extradition.\n\nProsecutors in Sudan have also charged him with the killing of protesters during the demonstrations that led to him being ousted.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John McDonnell says it's time for him to step aside as shadow chancellor\n\nLabour faces a \"long haul\" as it attempts to gain power following its fourth election defeat in a row, shadow chancellor John McDonnell has warned.\n\nHe rejected claims that leader Jeremy Corbyn had been responsible for the result, instead blaming \"the overwhelming issue\" of Brexit.\n\nBut some current and ex-MPs have said Mr Corbyn's unpopularity contributed to Labour losing dozens of seats.\n\nBoris Johnson's Conservatives won on Thursday with a Commons majority of 80.\n\nThe outcome, far more positive for the Tories than most opinion polls had predicted, has prompted much soul-searching within Labour, which last won a general election under Tony Blair in 2005.\n\nMr Corbyn has announced he will stand down in the near future and Mr McDonnell, one of his closest allies, said he had been \"the right leader\" for the party.\n\nBut Labour MP Phil Wilson, who lost the seat of Sedgefield which he had held for 12 years, said: \"So many people said to me on the doorstep, Phil, if you had a different leader, I'd vote for you, there wouldn't be a problem\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Phil Wilson had been the MP for Sedgefield since 2007\n\nAsked whether Mr Corbyn lost him his seat, Mr Wilson replied: \"Yes.\"\n\nFor many of his constituents, he said: \"The one thing that was holding them back from voting Labour was the current leadership of the Labour Party.\"\n\nHe added: \"For every one person who raised Brexit with me on the doorstep, there would be five people who raised Jeremy Corbyn.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Labour's Helen Goodman, who lost her Bishop Auckland seat to the Conservatives on Thursday, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that \"the biggest factor was obviously the unpopularity of Jeremy Corbyn as the leader\".\n\nAnd Dame Margaret Hodge, Labour MP for Barking, east London, said she felt \"anger because this is an election we should have won\".\n\nShe added that, under Mr Corbyn's leadership - during which Labour has faced criticism for its handling of anti-Semitism allegations among its membership - voters had come to see it \"as a nasty party\".\n\nWes Streeting, Labour MP for Ilford North, said the party's \"far-left\" manifesto had alienated much of the electorate.\n\nHowever, Labour's ex-Welsh secretary, Lord Hain, insisted the party must not embrace \"wishy-washy centrism\" in the wake of its defeat.\n\nLord Hain, a cabinet minister under both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, said the \"Corbyn project\" had some \"very searching self-examination\" to do, but it was important to offer \"a clear alternative to the Tory project\".\n\nMr McDonnell disagreed with personal criticism of his leader, saying: \"The overwhelming issue was Brexit and the Labour Party was caught on the horns of a dilemma.\n\n\"We had a party which was largely supportive of Remain, but many of us represented Leave constituencies.\"\n\nIn the election, Labour's number of Commons seats fell to 203, its lowest since 1935.\n\nMr Corbyn, leader since 2015, ran for prime minister on a promise to hold a second referendum on Brexit, saying that during any campaign he would remain neutral - in contrast to Mr Johnson's promise to take the UK out of the EU by 31 January.\n\nMr McDonnell said: \"If we went one way, to Leave, we would have alienated a lot of our Remain support. If we went for Remain, we'd alienate a lot of our Leave support.\n\n\"We tried to bring the country together. It failed. We have to accept that, take it on the chin. We have to own that and then move on.\"\n\nMr McDonnell, MP for Hayes and Harlington in west London, said Labour now needed to have \"a constructive debate\" about its future, discussing \"what went right and what went wrong\" during the election campaign.\n\nHe argued that Mr Corbyn, who has received criticism from some Labour figures for not standing down immediately, was right to stay on \"for a couple of months\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"There is no such thing as Corbynism\"\n\nIt was necessary because of the \"expertise\" required to deal with issues such as Brexit and the forthcoming Budget, he said.\n\nDiscussing Mr Johnson's government, Mr McDonnell said: \"My fear is that we're in for a long haul now, possibly five years.\n\n\"The two issues that we face are still there - huge, grotesque levels of inequality and, the issue that never really emerged in the campaign, which was climate change, this existential threat that must be our priority.\n\n\"Brexit, well, we'll see what the government brings back in terms of its negotiations. The people have decided we need to implement that, but we've got to get the best deal to protect jobs and the economy.\"\n\nHe added: \"My fear is five years of a fossil fuel-backed government under Boris Johnson means we'll miss this five-years opportunity of saving our planet.\"\n\nAt the 2017 general election, Mr Corbyn's first as Labour leader, the party won 40% of votes and gained 30 MPs, denying Theresa May's Conservatives a majority.\n\nBut on Thursday it received 32% of the vote and lost 59 seats, including several of its traditional strongholds in the north of England.\n\nMr Corbyn said that, during the election campaign, he had done \"everything I could\" and that he had \"pride\" in the party's manifesto.\n\nThe Labour leader's sons, Tommy, Seb and Benjamin, tweeted a tribute to their father, calling him an \"honest, humble and good-natured\" figure in the \"poisonous world\" of politics.", "Last updated on .From the section Arsenal\n\nChina's state broadcaster CCTV has removed Sunday's Arsenal-Manchester City game from its schedule after comments made by Gunners midfielder Mesut Ozil, state media has reported.\n\nOzil posted on social media about the treatment of Uighur Muslims in China.\n\nArsenal distanced the club from the German's views, saying it was \"always apolitical as an organisation\".\n\nThe Global Times described Ozil's comments as \"false\" and claimed he had \"disappointed\" football authorities.\n\nIn addition, the Chinese Football Association said Ozil's comments were \"unacceptable\" and had \"hurt the feelings\" of Chinese fans.\n\nCCTV will now show Sunday's game between Tottenham and Wolves, instead of a live broadcast of Arsenal's home match with the reigning Premier League champions.\n\nIn his social media post Ozil, who is a Muslim, called Uighurs \"warriors who resist persecution\" and criticised both China and the silence of Muslims in response.\n\nChina has consistently denied mistreating Uighur Muslims in the country.\n\nRights groups say about a million people - mostly from the Muslim Uighur community - are thought to have been detained without trial in high-security prison camps.\n\nChina says they are being educated in \"vocational training centres\" to combat violent religious extremism.\n\nIn October, the US National Basketball Association suffered financial losses after an online comment from a team executive prompted a crisis in its relations with China.\n\nHouston Rockets' manager Daryl Morey had tweeted support for pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong.\n\nA few weeks ago I asked someone who is an expert on China-UK relations if the Premier League could face an 'NBA moment' if or when a player criticised China in public.\n\nEnglish football's top flight is such a global phenomenon, so diverse in its range of players, so vast in its audience spread.\n\nThe answer to my question was clearly yes.\n\nThe NBA's crisis in China showed how serious and how immediate the impact on commercial interests could be.\n\nSo important is football to the UK and its soft power that very senior British diplomats have pondered the impact on UK China relations of something like this.\n\nThe reaction to Ozil's comments appears more muted compared to Daryl Morey's Hong Kong support.\n\nChina's state machinery went after the NBA, not just the man and club. On this occasion it's targeting Ozil and to a limited extent Arsenal.\n\nAny lasting damage here is likely to be sustained by him personally. Although there will also be some praise and support. You just won't hear about that in China's state-run media.", "Guymon in Oklahoma was on its way to becoming a ghost town.\n\nSince then, they've been responsible for an economic boom.\n\nThis video is part of ¿Hablas español?, a recent BBC road trip around the US to show the power of the Spanish language and Latinos in the age of Trump. You can see what they discovered in Spanish at BBCMundo.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the moment the Strictly Come Dancing 2019 winner was announced\n\nThe final of this year's Strictly Come Dancing, which saw former Emmerdale actor Kelvin Fletcher lift the glitterball trophy, was watched by an average of 11.3 million people.\n\nKelvin and partner Oti Mabuse topped a public vote to win the BBC One show.\n\nOvernight ratings show the Saturday night programme had a peak audience of 12.5 million viewers, and was the most-watched show across all channels.\n\nKelvin only joined the programme after another contestant suffered an injury.\n\nDrafted in as a last-minute replacement, he replaced Made In Chelsea star Jamie Laing who injured his foot while recording the launch show.\n\nAfter scooping the prize, Kelvin said: \"I am absolutely speechless. I did not expect that, it's just been such a privilege to be here.\"\n\nBreaking down in tears, he said: \"I think this show represents everything that is amazing with this country. I think the people personify what is great and it's just been an absolute privilege.\"\n\nKelvin left his role as Andy Sugden in the long-running ITV soap, which he had played for two decades, three years ago.\n\nSaturday night's show saw him triumph over Karim Zeroual, the CBBC presenter, and his dance partner Amy Dowden; and EastEnders actress Emma Barton, who was paired with Anton Du Beke.\n\nThe couples all performed three dances - a judges' pick dance, their own favourite routine from the series and a new showdance.\n\nAlthough Kelvin and Mabuse came second on the judges' scoring, only the public vote counted in the final.\n\nThe couple began their routines with a sensual rumba to Ain't No Sunshine by Bill Withers for which they scored 39 points, followed by a perfect-score showdance to Shout by The Isley Brothers.\n\nJudge Bruno Tonioli said their showdance was \"almost like watching 13 weeks of all the best of Strictly Come Dancing condensed into one dance\".\n\nMabuse's sister and fellow judge Motsi Mabuse, who joined the panel this year, said: \"I have no words...\"\n\n'You just put the show in showdance,' said presenter Tess Daly\n\nFor their final dance, they revisited their samba to La Vida Es Un Carnaval by Celia Cruz, which they performed in week one.\n\nJudge Shirley Ballas said to Kelvin: \"Which part of that body doesn't move? Fantastic, congratulations, I have no words, you've left me speechless.\" He scored 39 for the second time of the night.\n\nIt is also the first time Mabuse has lifted the trophy.\n\nSpeaking through tears, she said: \"I've been on this show for five years and I have never ever met any celeb who gives his heart, his soul...\n\n\"If something is not working we stay in training and rehearse, not because he wanted to win but because he genuinely, genuinely loves dancing, and for me that is the best gift and the best ending to my year, so thank you.\"\n\nSaturday's viewing figures made Strictly one of the most watched TV programmes of the year. But they were a slight fall on last year's Strictly final, which attracted an average audience of 11.7 million and a peak of 12.7 million when Stacey Dooley and Kevin Clifton won.\n\nCBBC presenter Karim and his partner Amy performed the quickstep to Mr Pinstripe Suit and topped the judges' leaderboard\n\nEmma and Anton opened with the Charleston to Thoroughly Modern Millie - Tonioli told Emma that she was his \"favourite flapper ever\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester City pushed Arsenal deeper into crisis as they won with embarrassing ease at Emirates Stadium.\n\nKevin de Bruyne produced a first-half masterclass as Pep Guardiola's side cruised into a three-goal lead by the interval with two superb strikes, either side of a perfect pass that laid on City's second for Raheem Sterling's simple finish.\n\nIt was a harrowing experience for Arsenal caretaker manager Freddie Ljungberg, who was a powerless low-key presence, his minimal impact since succeeding the sacked Unai Emery reflected in a record of one win from his five matches in interim charge.\n\nArsenal's lack of inspiration in an Emirates Stadium devoid of life and atmosphere will surely only increase the urgent need to appoint a full-time manager - although at this stage it is still unclear which direction the Gunners hierarchy intends to go.\n\nCity, meanwhile, remain 14 points behind leaders Liverpool after this win, which was a classic reminder of the quality the reigning Premier League champions possess.\n\nThis was as grim as it gets for Arsenal and Ljungberg, a caretaker manager who has not been able to coax an ounce extra out of the squad he inherited after Emery was shown the door.\n\nFirst things first - this is not all the Swede's fault, as this was a rot that set in long before Emery's dismissal, although Ljungberg had a close-up view as a member of his backroom staff.\n\nWhat has been disturbing, however, is Ljungberg's lack of impact on Arsenal, exemplified by the manner in which they were treated almost with contempt by Manchester City.\n\nThis result leaves the Gunners stuck between the top four and the relegation zone, seven points away from both, and the thousands of empty seats and a game concluded in resigned silence from the home support spoke volumes.\n\nArsenal had no spark, no creation and no fight - City actually went easy on them in the second half.\n\nAnd while relegation talk is a stretch, that spark is something they must find soon, whether it is under Ljungberg or a new full-time manager.\n\nManchester City's quest to claim a third successive Premier League title is surely beyond them as they languish so far behind Liverpool - but this team is still a superb sight in full cry.\n\nAnd at the hub of it all was the brilliant Belgian De Bruyne, who ripped through Arsenal at will in that first half, scoring twice and making another.\n\nDe Bruyne's first goal was a masterpiece of technique, a flashing side-footed finish into the top corner, while his third was precisely placed into the bottom corner.\n\nHe created Sterling's goal with a left-flank run that left the England attacker with the simplest of finishes, and would have scored a supreme hat-trick had Arsenal keeper Bernd Leno not shown great athleticism to fingertip his rising shot onto the woodwork.\n\nThis was a very easy day at the office for City as they overran timid opponents. The title may be gone, but they still have the class and firepower to beat any team when they get it right.\n\nCity's hold over Arsenal rolls on - the stats\n• None Arsenal have lost their last five Premier League meetings with Manchester City - their longest losing streak against a top-flight opponent since losing five times to Manchester United between September 1983 and August 1985.\n• None This was the sixth time Manchester City have beaten Arsenal in the Premier League under Pep Guardiola (P7 W6 D1 L0), as many wins as City managed against them in the competition before Guardiola's arrival (P38 W6 D9 L23).\n• None Arsenal have gone six games without a win at Emirates Stadium across all competitions (D3 L3); their longest run without a home win since between December 1994 and February 1995 under George Graham at Highbury (eight games).\n• None Manchester City have scored 25 away Premier League goals this season; the joint most by a team in their first nine away games of a single campaign, matching City's 25 goals in 2011-12).\n• None Arsenal conceded three first-half goals in a home Premier League game for only the second time, with the other also coming against City in March 2018.\n• None Arsenal managed only one shot on target - their joint fewest in a Premier League game at Emirates Stadium (also one v Everton in 2010, Chelsea in 2015 and 2016).\n• None Manchester City's Kevin de Bruyne has been directly involved in 19 Premier League goals in 2019 (seven goals, 12 assists); the most of any midfielder in this period.\n• None City's Raheem Sterling netted his seventh away league goal this season; already his joint-highest return away from home in a single campaign (also seven in 2017-18).\n• None De Bruyne's opening goal (one minute 29 seconds) was the second quickest that Arsenal have conceded at Emirates Stadium in the Premier League, after David Healy for Fulham in August 2007 (51 seconds).\n\n'We were better in loss to United' - manager reaction\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola: \"We made an incredible result but the way we played against Manchester United [a 2-1 defeat last weekend] was better in many, many things.\n\n\"I know we are judged on the result but I have a duty to judge the performance, not just the result.\"\n\nArsenal interim manager Freddie Ljungberg: \"We tried to keep the ball and be the Arsenal we want to be.\n\n\"The problem was the transitions, they scored on the counter. De Bruyne is a fantastic player but when they start like that it's very difficult to get going again and I felt we got low and they got confident.\n\n\"I said to the players at half-time it was about pride, you need to show some heart out there and show that you're proud.\"\n\nThe Gunners face Everton at Goodison Park on Saturday, 21 December (12:30 GMT). Before that, City play Oxford United on Wednesday, 18 December (19:45) in the quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup, but return to league action when they host second-placed Leicester City on Saturday (17:30).\n• None Nicolas Pépé (Arsenal) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Kevin De Bruyne.\n• None Attempt saved. Riyad Mahrez (Manchester City) right footed shot from a difficult angle on the right is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Raheem Sterling. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Anna Karina, an icon of French New Wave cinema, has died at the age of 79.\n\nThe Danish-French actress died in a hospital in Paris after living with cancer, her agent told AFP news agency.\n\nFrench culture minister Franck Riester tweeted in tribute: \"Today, French cinema has been orphaned. It has lost one of its legends.\"\n\nKarina rose to prominence as the muse of her director ex-husband Jean-Luc Godard in the 1960s.\n\nShe got her big break as a teenager, soon after moving to Paris from her native Denmark, when she was spotted by Godard.\n\nHe wanted to cast her in his first and most famous film Breathless, Karina recalled years later, but she turned him down because the role required nudity.\n\nAnna Karina and Jean-Luc Godard got married in March 1961\n\nAfter a few months he offered her another role, cementing their fruitful working relationship and her place in cinematic history.\n\nIn 1961, she and Godard got married - and just months later, Karina won best actress at the Berlin Film Festival for Godard's A Woman is a Woman.\n\nAlthough they divorced just four years later, their relationship became almost as iconic as the films they made together.\n\nKarina on the set of Godard's film Pierrot le Fou in July 1965\n\n\"It was really a great love story, but very tiring in a way for a young girl because he would go away a lot,\" Karina told Vogue in 2016.\n\n\"He would say he was going to buy some cigarettes and he would come back three weeks later.\"\n\nAfter their divorce, she continued to have a long and prosperous career, working with filmmakers Jacques Rivette, Luchino Visconti and Tony Richardson.\n\nIn the early 1970s she worked behind the camera too, directing Vivre Ensemble, a film about a turbulent romance between a history teacher and a free-spirited young woman that ends in domestic violence and drug abuse.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In 2015, Raymond Cauchetier discussed his work photographing the glamour of French New Wave", "Parliament tends to be dominated by its grandest figures, the party leaders, and their cabinet or shadow cabinet teams.\n\nBut others can cut a dash in the Commons by weight of expertise, through passion for an issue, by sheer street-smarts, or simply by being in the right place at the right time.\n\nSo here are a few MPs who - while not aspiring to the top table - could exert serious leverage in the newly elected House of Commons.\n\nAfter a strong performance in the race to succeed John Bercow as Speaker - and in a House of Commons with many more Conservatives - she must surely be the front runner to become Chairman of Ways and Means, the senior deputy speaker.\n\nShe would then have the key responsibilities of chairing budget debates and selecting amendments for consideration by committees of the whole house - a key task when the government begins to push through its Withdrawal Agreement Bill.\n\nHe pulled off a considerable coup in 2017, when, as a junior backbencher, he wrested the chairmanship of the Foreign Affairs Committee from ex-minister Crispin Blunt.\n\nAn ex-army officer - he served in Iraq and Afghanistan - Tugendhat writes notes to himself on an office whiteboard in Arabic to preserve privacy. He's a reasonable bet for a ministerial job, perhaps in the Foreign Office.\n\nHawkish on Russia - he said the Salisbury poisoning was \"if not an act of war… certainly a warlike act by the Russian Federation\" - expect him to be an influential voice on foreign policy if he remains on the backbenches.\n\nChairwoman of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee - where she performed impressively - she is being tipped as the person around whom the remains of the Blairite-Brownite group of Labour MPs might coalesce.\n\nThat may not translate into an attempt on the leadership, but she may now become an important factional leader.\n\nFew MPs come into Parliament with a clearly defined policy mission, but the ex-army officer who won Plymouth Moor View against the expectations of his own party, announced himself with a blistering maiden speech on the need for better care for military veterans.\n\nHe was an early backer of Boris Johnson's leadership campaign and was frequently seen shepherding the would-be leader around Westminster. His support was rewarded with the job he always wanted - defence minister responsible for veterans. Mercer will expect the political support and funding to reform the system.\n\nBriefly Leader of the House in the dog days of Theresa May's premiership, the former Treasury minister found himself surplus to requirements when Boris Johnson took over. But with gazelle-like agility, he leapt into the vacancy created when Nicky Morgan left as chairwoman of the Treasury Committee.\n\nHe didn't have much time to make an impact in this key committee corridor job before the election was called, but if he is re-elected as Parliament's scrutiniser-in-chief of economic policy (and others may cast covetous eyes on the post) he will get to pronounce on levels of spending and public debt at a ticklish moment for the UK economy.\n\nDouble-hatted as Metro Mayor of South Yorkshire and MP for Barnsley Central. In a Parliament where one of the big themes looks certain to be devolution - and demands for greater powers for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - the mayor of a fair chunk of left-behind territory could find himself \"speaking for England\".\n\nOnce talked up as a possible Labour leadership contender, he defied pressure to give up his Commons seat and maintains a perch in Westminster. He is a Parachute Regiment veteran with service in Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan.\n\nSeen as a bit of a star of the 2017 intake, Afolami is on the Commons end of the Constitution Reform Group, a cross-party pressure group which wants to rebalance a constitution destabilised by an uneven devolution settlement.\n\nThis is the group behind the Act of Union Bill, a private member's bill proposed by the former clerk of the Commons, Lord Lisvane. It may all sound high-powered and rather nerdy, but the tug of war between the nations and regions of the UK is set to be a big theme of the new Parliament, and Afolami looks set to be a player.\n\nSmart, personable, and articulate in two languages he seized and held a seat which has see-sawed between Plaid and the Lib Dems since the 1990s. In his maiden speech, he complained of the steady, silent haemorrhage of young people leaving their communities to seek opportunities elsewhere. A future leader?\n\nNewly elected, he is nonetheless an experienced figure, having served in the European Parliament since 2004. He looks ready-made to become the SNP's new Brexit spokesman in Westminster.\n\nThe Lib Dems' Wendy Chamberlain has taken the North East Fife seat from the SNP's Stephen Gethins\n\nShe contested the most marginal seat in the country (the SNP won with a majority of just two votes in 2017) in North East Fife.\n\nAn ex-police officer who is already attracting rave reviews. Part of an infusion of new blood into a rather bruised and diminished Lib Dem parliamentary contingent.\n\nThose leaving Parliament include Dr Sarah Wollaston, a GP who was originally elected as a Conservative in 2010 but ended up in the Lib Dems, by way of the short-lived Independent Group of MPs. Labour's Frank Field, a maverick Labour MP, almost permanently at odds with his constituency party, and the SNP's Stephen Gethins, who might have been a candidate to lead their Westminster group had he enjoyed a more comfortable majority, also both lost their seats.\n\nLabour's Mary Creagh led a series of high-profile inquiries into the environmental issues around the fashion industry and toxic chemicals in everyday life. And Dennis Skinner - the Labour stalwart would have been the father of the House, the longest serving MP, had he survived the election - also departs. He was first elected in 1970, and fell just short of half a century in the Commons.", "The man was shot by armed officers on Hessle Road\n\nA man is in a critical condition after being shot in the street by police.\n\nOfficers were called to reports of a man \"believed to be in possession of a firearm\" in Hessle Road in Hull in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nThe man was shot by officers and taken from the scene for treatment at an unnamed hospital.\n\nHumberside Police Assistant Chief Constable Paul Anderson said he did not believe the incident had any connections to terrorism.\n\nThe force said no-one else was injured and a cordon remained in place.\n\nA 100-metre section of Hessle Road - one of the busiest routes in Hull - was cordoned off, with a large number of police vehicles and officers in the area.\n\nForensics officers are examining a grey BMW four wheel drive vehicle that remains parked inside the cordon.\n\nForensic officers are working at the scene of the shooting\n\nDep Ch Con Chris Rowley said: \"In incidents like this our officers have to make very difficult decisions in very difficult circumstances.\n\n\"I would like to reassure the local community that incidents like this are very rare.\n\n\"We do have officers in the area and if anyone in the area is concerned I would encourage them to speak to one of those officers.\"\n\nHe said the man who had been shot was in a \"critical but stable \" condition in hospital.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the family of the man and also with those officers who were involved in the incident,\" he added.\n\nIn a statement the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said: \"We were notified by Humberside Police about a police shooting in Hull in the early hours of this morning.\n\n\"We understand a man was shot by police and is in hospital being treated for serious injuries.\n\n\"We have attended the scene at Hessle Road and the police post-incident procedure.\n\n\"We are carrying out an assessment to determine whether the IOPC needs to be involved in any investigation.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC royal correspondent Daniela Relph gives us a sneak peak of A Berry Royal Christmas\n\nOne of Prince Louis' earliest words was \"Mary\" after he recognised TV chef Mary Berry on a cookbook, the Duchess of Cambridge has said.\n\nCatherine told the story to the former Bake Off presenter in a BBC Christmas special, which airs on Monday evening.\n\nShe said 19-month-old Prince Louis, was \"fascinated by faces\" and would say \"that's Mary Berry\" when he saw her on cookbooks in the family's kitchen.\n\n\"One of Louis' first words was Mary, because right at his height are all my cooking books in the kitchen bookshelf,\" Catherine tells the cook on A Berry Royal Christmas.\n\n\"And children are really fascinated by faces, and your faces are all over your cooking books and he would say 'That's Mary Berry'... so he would definitely recognise you if he saw you today.\"\n\nPrince Louis is the couple's third child\n\nThe Duchess was speaking to Mary Berry during a Christmas TV special\n\nThe duchess also shared snippets of family life, including how the family uses Berry's recipes when making pizza, which the children \"loved\".\n\nAsked by Berry if she cooked with the children, she replied: \"Yes, I really enjoy it. Again, for them to be creative, for them to try and be as independent as possible with it.\"\n\nPrince William was also interviewed by Berry on the programme and spoke about how his relationship with his mother, the late Princess Diana, had influenced his style of parenting.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess made Christmas meringue roulades with Nadiya Hussain and Mary Berry\n\nMary Berry described the royal couple's charity work as \"remarkable\"\n\nSpeaking at homelessness charity The Passage, in London, Prince William said the centre was one of the first places to which he made an official visit and it had had a \"profound impact\" on him.\n\n\"My mother knew what she was doing with it,\" he said.\n\n\"She realised that it was very important when you grow up - especially in the life that we grew up - that you realise that life happens beyond palace walls, and that you see real people struggling with real issues.\"\n\nHe added that his mother \"liked to challenge the social norms about charities and about disadvantages and vulnerable people\".\n\nAsked whether he speaks to his children about such issues, he told how Prince George, six, and Charlotte, four, would quiz him about the world on the way to school in south-west London.\n\nHe said: \"Absolutely, and on the school run - I know it sounds a little bit contrite - but on the school run already, bear in mind six and four (George and Charlotte's age), whenever we see someone who is sleeping rough on the street I talk about it and I point it out and I explain.\"\n\nDuring the programme, Berry helps the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge prepare food for a royal event held to thank all those working and volunteering over the festive period.\n\nIn one scene, Kate serves non-alcoholic cocktails to people at a dry bar in Liverpool which has been set up by the charity Action on Addiction.\n\n\"It reminded me of my university days when I did a bit of waitressing,\" she said.\n\nAsked by Berry whether she was any good, the duchess replied: \"No - I was terrible.\"\n\nThe duke and duchess took part in a Bake Off competition during the programme\n\nThe programme, which culminates in a Christmas party hosted by the royal couple, also features some of Berry's favourite Christmas recipes.\n\nThere is also a special guest appearance from Nadiya Hussain, who won Bake Off in 2015 when Berry was a judge on the show, which is now broadcast on Channel 4.\n\nBerry described the charity work carried out by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge as \"remarkable\".\n\n\"They don't just arrive and shake a few hands make a few smiles and a speech, they want to get involved, and they want to see what they can do,\" she said.\n\n\"And it isn't just one visit, they come back again and ask for the results and they remember who they spoke to last time. I think that's remarkable.\"\n\nA Berry Royal Christmas airs on Monday 16 December at 20:30 GMT on BBC One", "Harry Clarke was unconscious at the wheel when the bin lorry went out of control, killing six people\n\nThe driver of a bin lorry which crashed and killed six people in Glasgow five years ago says he is sorry for the part he played.\n\nDescribing it as \"an accident\", Harry Clarke told the Mail on Sunday not a day went by when he did not think about it.\n\nFifteen people were also injured when the bin truck mounted the kerb at George Square just before Christmas.\n\nThe 62-year-old blacked out while behind the wheel on 22 December 2014.\n\nThe official inquiry into the tragedy blamed him for not revealing his medical history, including an episode where he was believed to faint while working in a previous job as a bus driver.\n\nHowever, prosecutors previously ruled Mr Clarke would not face criminal charges due to insufficient evidence. They said because he had been unconscious at the wheel of the bin lorry, he did not have the required \"criminal intention\".\n\nMr Clarke told the newspaper: \"I am devastated at what happened. There's all these poor people that are not here and those who were injured.\n\nThe lorry mounted the kerb before coming to a stop at the Millennium Hotel\n\n\"It has been made out that I don't care about what happened. There's not a day goes by I don't think about it.\n\n\"I'm sorry for the part I played in 2014. It was an accident. If I thought for a minute it was all my fault I'd jump off a bridge.\"\n\nErin McQuade, 18, and her grandparents Jack Sweeney, 68, and Lorraine Sweeney, 69, from Dumbarton; Stephenie Tait, 29, and Jacqueline Morton, 51, both from Glasgow; and Gillian Ewing, 52, from Edinburgh, died in the crash when the Glasgow City Council truck veered out of control.\n\nIt had travelled along the pavement in Queen Street before crashing into the side of the Millennium Hotel in George Square.\n\n(Clockwise from top left) Jack Sweeney, Lorraine Sweeney, Erin McQuade, Jacqueline Morton, Stephenie Tait and Gillian Ewing were killed in the bin lorry crash\n\nThe inquiry heard evidence over five weeks at Glasgow Sheriff Court in July and August 2015.\n\nEvidence was heard that it took just 19 seconds for the tragedy to unfold.\n\nDuring the course of the incident, numerous members of the public saw Mr Clarke unconscious, slumped forward in the driver's seat.\n\nThe inquiry also heard he had a history of health issues dating back to the 1970s - including a previous blackout in 2010 when at the wheel of a stationary bus - but had not disclosed his medical background to his employers or the DVLA.", "A man has been arrested following a fatal stabbing in east London.\n\nThe victim, a man in his 40s, was found with life-threatening stab wounds by London Ambulance Service at a property in Marlborough Road, Dagenham, at 22:10 GMT on Saturday, and pronounced dead half an hour later.\n\nA woman in her 50s was also found injured at the property and taken to hospital, the Met Police said.\n\nA 59-year-old man was arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder.\n\nPolice believe the victim and suspect were known to each other.\n\nThe female victim does not have life-threatening injuries, a spokesman added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "England cricketer Ben Stokes has been voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2019.\n\nThe all-rounder was man of the match as England won the World Cup for the first time with a dramatic super over victory against New Zealand at Lord's.\n\nStokes, 28, also hit an unbeaten 135 in the one-wicket third Ashes Test triumph against Australia at Headingley.\n\nIn a public vote, Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton finished second while sprinter Dina Asher-Smith was third.\n\nManchester City and England footballer Raheem Sterling, world heptathlon champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Welsh rugby union legend Alun Wyn Jones were also shortlisted for the main award.\n\nDurham's Stokes was presented with his award by the Princess Royal and former Manchester United and Scotland footballer Denis Law.\n\nHe becomes the first cricketer since Andrew Flintoff in 2005 to win the prize.\n\nNew Zealand-born Stokes is missing the first warm-up match of England's Test tour of South Africa, which starts on Tuesday, in order to attend the show in Aberdeen.\n\n\"First of all, I think congratulations to all the nominees. What you've managed to achieve as individuals and do for your sport is simply sensational, so well done to you too.\n\n\"There's so many people you feel you have to thank when you're up here. It's an individual award, but I play a team sport and one of the great things about that is you get to share special moments with those team-mates, coaches and without that effort you put in, I wouldn't be up here receiving this award so thank you so much.\n\n\"Two years ago was a tough time for me in my life and I've had so many people help me through that. My fantastic manager and friend Neil Fairbrother, you're more than an agent, you're an incredible man. I don't know how you've put up with Andrew Flintoff and me, you and [Fairbrother's wife] Audrey, you're incredible people.\n\n\"My parents, they live on the other side of the world, they don't get to share moments like this, the World Cup and be there with me, but the time you dedicated to me growing up, the selflessness to get me to training camps and around the country, this is for you. I love you so much, thank you.\n\n\"To my amazing wife, Clare. Family to me is more important than what I do for a living. It puts perspective on everything, after the good and bad days they are there for me no matter what. My two kids too, they are awesome I love you so much.\n\n\"Back to Clare, you're a rock. You always have been. You always will be. I wish you could come here and share it with me, you deserve it just as much. I love you so much and I'm so proud to call you my wife.\n\n\"I'm guessing I should leave it there.\"\n• None '2019 will be very hard to top and wipes away anything that happened the year before'\n• None Stokes can inspire the next generation - Agnew\n\nThe very best in British and world sport celebrated a magnificent year at a sold-out P&J Live Arena in Aberdeen.\n\nScottish singer Lewis Capaldi and Aberdeenshire-raised Emeli Sande wowed the crowds with emotional performances while there were special moments to treasure as other awards were handed out.", "The protests in the centre of Beirut entered the night\n\nClashes between riot police and anti-government protesters in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, have left dozens of people wounded, witnesses say.\n\nThe violence began as demonstrators, who had been attacked during a sit-in by masked counter-protesters, tried to move into a square near parliament.\n\nPolice fired tear gas and rubber bullets, while protesters threw stones. At least 20 officers were also wounded.\n\nProtests over economic mismanagement by the ruling elite began in October.\n\nSaturday's events are some of the worst violence since the largely peaceful protests started. They triggered the resignation of the Prime Minister, Saad al-Hariri, but talks to form a new government are deadlocked.\n\n\"It was a very peaceful protest. Everyone was singing chants that we're one people, that we're all peaceful and then some of the young guys pushed one of the fences that separated us,\" Mona Fawaz, who was at the protest, told the BBC.\n\n\"We saw an enormous amount of police come out and really disperse us, push us and then they started [firing] tear gas on us. There was really no reason for all this demonstration of force.\"\n\nAt least 54 people were wounded, the Lebanese Civil Defense said\n\nRiot police and security forces had been deployed in large numbers in Beirut, chasing demonstrators, beating and detaining some of them, Reuters news agency reports.\n\nSome protesters tried to push through steel barriers blocking the way to the parliament and government buildings. Clashes continued late into Saturday night.\n\nThe Lebanese Civil Defence said it had treated 54 people for injuries, taking more than half to hospital. It was not clear whether they were all civilians.\n\nThe protests have been the largest seen in Lebanon in more than a decade. They have cut across sectarian lines - a rare phenomenon since the devastating 1975-1990 civil war ended - and involved people from all sectors of society.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Jeremy Bowen asks why people have been taking to the streets in Lebanon, Iran and Iraq\n\nDemonstrators are angry at their leaders' failure to deal with a stagnant economy, rising prices, high unemployment, dire public services and corruption.\n\nTheir demands include an end to government corruption and the overhaul of the political system and the formation of an independent, non-sectarian cabinet.\n\nTalks between President Michel Aoun and parliamentary blocs to name a new prime minister were expected to be held on Monday.", "Loyalty and a ruthless ability to adapt were the twin weapons that once guaranteed the Tories a place as Britain's natural party of government.\n\nIn recent years, however, rebellion against successive leaders from both sides on the Europe divide has been the party's default position.\n\nInternal squabbling came first, banishing memories of the collective Tory survival instinct that once served the party so well.\n\nThe emphatic nature of Boris Johnson's win in the country means he is the unequivocal victor in the Conservatives' 30-year civil war over Europe.\n\n\"In the end the Leavers will win because they care more,\" one cabinet minister once told me.\n\nThe prime minister achieved those victories and will hope to sustain his new electoral coalition in the country by harnessing the power of those old and formidable Tory weapons - loyalty and a knack for evolving in new times.\n\nLoyalty, for now, is guaranteed after all 635 Conservative candidates signed a pledge to support his Brexit deal. And the prime minister's pitch in Labour's \"Red Wall\" - an end to austerity and support for public services - marked a return to ruthlessly adapting to changed political circumstances.\n\nWhile Boris Johnson has re-enlisted those two old Tory weapons, there is one historic element of the party's mission that has a less certain future: the Union.\n\nThe SNP - led by Nicola Sturgeon - won 48 seats in Scotland\n\nOn two fronts the United Kingdom is possibly entering its most perilous phase in modern times.\n\nThe SNP's landslide in Scotland sets up a constitutional clash between Holyrood and Westminster. Nicola Sturgeon will use the SNP's success to demand a section 30 order from Westminster - the ability to hold a legally binding referendum on independence.\n\nBoris Johnson is highly likely to refuse such a request, on the grounds that the last section 30 order was granted by David Cameron on the understanding by all sides that the first independence referendum would settle the issue.\n\nThe SNP will say circumstances have changed. They will hope that if Westminster is seen to thwart what they claim is the current will of the people, that may increase support for independence.\n\nAcross the water, the prime minister is planning to take the UK out of the EU on the basis of a deal that is rejected by all the main parties in Northern Ireland. The loss of confidence is so great that during the election the DUP leader Arlene Foster said that in future she would have to check whether what Boris Johnson says is \"factually correct\".\n\nThe prime minister insists that under his Brexit deal there will be no checks on good travelling from Great Britain to Northern Ireland. The DUP says that HMRC have told them there will be checks.\n\nIn the last 45 years, there have been two salutary reminders of the perils of introducing substantial governance changes in Northern Ireland without the support of the majority Unionist community.\n\nIn 1974, loyalists brought down the Sunningdale Agreement - an early version of the Good Friday Agreement - in protest at its provisions for power sharing in Northern Ireland and a proposed cross-border body. The loyalists closed the Ballylumford power station, the largest in Northern Ireland, which stands next to the port of Larne where some of the Great Britain - Northern Ireland checks may have to take place.\n\nA decade later Margaret Thatcher failed to consult Unionists when she gave Dublin a formal consultative role in Northern Ireland in the 1985 Anglo Irish Agreement. Unionist protests, under the banner of Ulster Says No, brought parts of Northern Ireland to a standstill.\n\nBut Thursday's fall in the vote share for the two main parties - Sinn Fein and the DUP - may change the dynamics in Northern Ireland. It could strengthen the hand of those pressing for a return of the assembly and the executive.\n\nAnd Boris Johnson's deal gives the Stormont institutions a say in Northern Ireland's future relationship with the EU.\n\nFor so long written off by some in his own party as a lightweight showman, Boris Johnson has secured an historic win that redefines the electoral map in England and Wales. He will be hoping that it does not break the wider UK map.\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two at 22:30 on weekdays. Catch up on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.", "This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’.", "The moment a bushfire spread across a tree canopy – in a phenomenon known as \"crowning\" – has been filmed by Australian firefighters.\n\nRead more: Australia could see hottest day on record", "A few months ago a Chinese official asked me if I thought foreign powers were fomenting Hong Kong's social unrest.\n\n\"To get so many people to come to the streets,\" he mused, \"must take organisation, a big sum of money and political resources.\"\n\nSince then, the protests sparked at the beginning of Hong Kong's hot summer have raged on through autumn and into winter.\n\nThe massive marches have continued, interspersed with increasingly violent pitched battles between smaller groups of more militant protesters and the police.\n\nThe toll is measured in a stark ledger of police figures that, even a short while ago, would have seemed impossible for one of the world's leading financial capitals and a bastion of social stability.\n\nAs the sense of political crisis has deepened and divisions have hardened, China has continued to see the sinister hand of foreign meddling behind every twist and turn.\n\nHe told the assembled senior officials to be on their guard for \"black swans\" - the unpredictable, unseen events that can plunge a system into crisis. But he also warned them about what he called \"grey rhinoceroses\" - the known risks that are ignored until it's too late.\n\nXi Jinping toasts 70 years of Communist Party rule, while protests rage in Hong Kong\n\nWhile state media reports show the discussions ranging over issues from housing bubbles to food safety, there's no mention at all of Hong Kong.\n\nAnd yet the seeds were already being sown for what has become the biggest challenge to Communist Party rule in a generation.\n\nA few weeks after the meeting, the Hong Kong government, with the strong backing of Beijing, introduced a bill that would allow the extradition of suspects to mainland China.\n\nOpposition to the bill was immediate, deep-seated and widespread, driven by the fear that it would allow China's legal system to reach deep inside Hong Kong.\n\nDespite assurances that \"political crimes\" would not be covered, many saw it as a fundamental breach of the \"one country, two systems\" principle under which the territory is supposed to be governed.\n\nIt wasn't just human rights groups and legal experts expressing alarm, but the business community, multinational corporations and foreign governments too, worried that overseas nationals might also find themselves targeted by such a law.\n\nAnd so, the first claims of \"foreign meddling\" began to be heard.\n\nProtests have ranged from peaceful family events to large-scale, armed street violence\n\nOn 9 June, a massive and overwhelmingly peaceful rally against the bill was held, with organisers putting the attendance at more than a million.\n\nThe accusations made in person by officials, like the one mentioned earlier, were echoes of a narrative being taken up in earnest by China's Communist Party-controlled media.\n\nThe morning after the march, an English language editorial in the China Daily raised the spectre of \"interference\".\n\n\"Unfortunately, some Hong Kong residents have been hoodwinked by the opposition camp and their foreign allies into supporting the anti-extradition campaign,\" it said.\n\nFrom the protesters' point of view, the dismissal of their grievances as externally driven explains, to a large extent, what happened next.\n\nThe city's political elite, backed by Beijing and insulated from ordinary Hong Kongers by a political system rigged in its favour, demonstrated a spectacular failure to accurately read the public mood.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThree days after the march, with Hong Kong's leader, Chief Executive Carrie Lam, insisting she would not back down, thousands of people surrounded the Legislative Council building where the bill was being debated.\n\nIt was on the same spot just outside the chamber, less than five years earlier, that a phalanx of trucks with mechanical grabbers had begun scooping up rows of abandoned tents.\n\nTo the sound of the snapping of poles and the crunching of bamboo barricades - the detritus of weeks of protest and occupation - 2014's pro-democracy demonstrations finally ran out of steam.\n\nNow the proposed law, one that may once have been seen as relatively inconsequential, was about to reignite the movement.\n\nThe protesters threw bricks and bottles, the police fired tear gas and by the evening of 12 June, Hong Kong had witnessed one of its worst outbreaks of violence in decades.\n\nMore than 6,000 people have been arrested through the months of increasingly violent unrest\n\nNo-one could be in any doubt that the Umbrella Movement, with its demands for wider democratic reform, was back with a vengeance.\n\nThe few concessions - first the suspension and finally the withdrawal of the bill - came too late to stop the cycle of escalating violence from both the protesters and the police.\n\nBeijing is right to point out that there are plenty of Hong Kongers who deplore the mask-clad militants building barricades, vandalising public property and setting fires.\n\nSome of them are ardent supporters of Chinese rule, others are simply being pragmatic, believing that violence will only provoke the central government into intervening more strongly in Hong Kong's affairs.\n\nFirst-time voters and candidates ousted seasoned veterans in some constituencies\n\nBut the authorities were stunned last month by a test of the true strength of those viewpoints, when - on a record turnout in local elections - the pro-democracy camp swept the board.\n\nThe poll gave its candidates almost 60% of the total share of the votes.\n\nAt first there was an astonished silence from mainland China, which had genuinely thought the pro-Beijing side would win.\n\nThe initial news reports mentioned only the conclusion of the voting, not the results, but then came a familiar refrain.\n\n\"The politicians behind them who are anti-China and want to mess up Hong Kong reaped substantial political benefits,\" it said.\n\nAs proof of interference, China cites cases of foreign politicians voicing support for democracy or raising concerns about its erosion under Chinese rule.\n\nIt has also blamed Washington for passing a law mandating an annual assessment of Hong Kong's political freedoms as a pre-condition for continuing the territory's special trading status.\n\nHong Kong's protesters have adopted the word \"Chinazi\" to display their views towards Beijing\n\nXinhua has denounced it as \"a malicious political manipulation that seriously interferes with Hong Kong affairs\".\n\nBut no evidence has been produced of any outside forces co-ordinating or directing the protests on the ground.\n\nIn reality, the young, radical protesters, with the ubiquitous use of the portmanteau \"Chinazi\" in their street graffiti, appear as much motivated by statements from Beijing as they are from Washington.\n\nThe very institutions - independent courts and a free press - that are supposed to be protected by the \"one country, two systems\" formula, are derided by the ruling Communist Party as dangerous, foreign constructs.\n\nWhere once Hong Kongers might have hoped that China's economic rise would bring political freedoms to the mainland and a closer alignment with their values, many now fear the opposite.\n\nMass detention camps in Xinjiang, a wider crackdown on civil society, and the abduction of Hong Kong citizens for perceived political crimes have all underlined the concern that their city is now ruled by political masters inherently hostile to the very things that make it special.\n\nAnd any appeal to universal values as underwriting Hong Kong's side of the \"two systems\", is anathema to Beijing, one that it rejects by conflating it with outside foreign meddling.\n\nDespite earlier fears, the central government seems unlikely to send in the army - a move certain to provoke even more of an international outcry.\n\nMainland Chinese soldiers deployed in Hong Kong have remained in their barracks throughout the protests\n\nBut nor can it offer a political solution.\n\nGiving the pro-democracy movement any more of what the Communist Party strains every fibre of its organisational structure to deny to the mass of Chinese people is impossible.\n\nIts values are stability and control, not freedom and democracy, and it struggles to understand how anyone would choose the latter over the former.\n\nSo Beijing finds itself bound by a sense of historical destiny to a territory with which it is - in large part - in deep ideological opposition.\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is a tension that has not gone unnoticed elsewhere in the region, in particular, in Taiwan, the self-governing island that China considers a breakaway province.\n\nHong Kong's experience of one country, two systems, the Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen has suggested, has shown that authoritarianism and democracy cannot coexist.\n\nReferring to the prospect of a similar formula being foisted on Taiwan she tweeted, in Chinese characters, the phrase bu ke neng - \"Not a chance\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The history behind Hong Kong's identity crisis and protests - first broadcast November 2019", "Use the search box to find full results and updates from every constituency.\n\nOr you can browse the A-Z list.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the Strictly Come Dancing 2019 winner be announced\n\nFormer Emmerdale actor Kelvin Fletcher, who was only drafted into Strictly Come Dancing as a last-minute replacement, has been voted this year's winner.\n\nKelvin and professional partner Oti Mabuse lifted this year's glitterball trophy on BBC One on Saturday.\n\nThey triumphed over Karim Zeroual and Amy Dowden; and Emma Barton and Anton Du Beke, after topping a public vote.\n\nKelvin said: \"I am absolutely speechless. I did not expect that, it's just been such a privilege to be here.\"\n\nThe couples performed three dances in Saturday's final - a judges' pick dance, their own favourite routine from the series and a new showdance.\n\nAlthough Kelvin and Oti came second on the judges' scoring, only the public vote counted in the final.\n\nThe final saw all the contestants of the series reunite for one last dance\n\nSome fans complained they were unable to vote online, with many saying they were being told they had reached their \"maximum number of votes allowed\" despite not having yet cast a vote.\n\nThe BBC reminded people having difficulties that they could vote by phone.\n\nKelvin was only called up after Made In Chelsea star Jamie Laing injured his foot while recording the launch show - and the fellow TV star tweeted his congratulations:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jamie Laing This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nKelvin, who broke down in tears after his victory, said: \"I think this show represents everything that is amazing with this country. I think the people personify what is great and it's just been an absolute privilege.\"\n\nIn a post on Twitter, he said he was \"humbled, elated, honoured\", adding: \"Team #Floti did it!\"\n\nKelvin and Oti began their routines with a sensual rumba to Ain't No Sunshine by Bill Withers for which they scored 39 points, followed by a perfect-score showdance to Shout by The Isley Brothers.\n\nJudge Bruno Tonioli said their showdance was \"almost like watching 13 weeks of all the best of Strictly Come Dancing condensed into one dance\" and Oti's sister and fellow judge Motsi Mabuse, who joined the panel this year, said: \"I have no words...\"\n\n'You just put the show in showdance,' said presenter Tess Daly\n\nFor their final dance, they revisited their samba to La Vida Es Un Carnaval by Celia Cruz, which they performed in week one.\n\nJudge Shirley Ballas said to Kelvin: \"Which part of that body doesn't move? Fantastic, congratulations, I have no words, you've left me speechless.\" He scored 39 for the second time of the night.\n\nThe Strictly win will give a huge boost to Kelvin, three years after he left his role as Andy Sugden in the long-running ITV soap, which he had played for two decades.\n\nIt is also the first time Oti has lifted the trophy. Speaking through tears, she said: \"I've been on this show for five years and I have never ever met any celeb who gives his heart, his soul...\n\n\"If something is not working we stay in training and rehearse, not because he wanted to win but because he genuinely, genuinely loves dancing, and for me that is the best gift and the best ending to my year, so thank you.\"\n\nCBBC presenter Karim and his partner Amy performed the quickstep to Mr Pinstripe Suit - and were the only pair to get a perfect score for their first dance.\n\nTheir showdance to A Million Dreams from The Greatest Showman landed them 39 points and they scored a second perfect 40 for their jive to You Can't Stop The Beat from Hairspray.\n\nEmma and Anton opened with the Charleston to Thoroughly Modern Millie, which they first performed on musicals' week.\n\nTonioli told Emma, who is best-known for playing Honey Mitchell in BBC show EastEnders, that she was his \"favourite flapper ever\".\n\nBut the pair missed out on a perfect score by one point after judge Craig Revel Horwood pulled them up on a \"sync issue\".\n\nTheir showdance to Let Yourself Go by Irving Berlin won them 38 points and their final dance - the Viennese waltz to the musical song Send In The Clowns - netted them 39.\n\nAfter their final performance, Emma praised her dance partner, saying: \"Anton, the king of ballroom, thank you for allowing me to be your Queen for the last three months.\"\n\nTV critic Emma Bullimore said lots of fans thought \"this was Anton's moment\" to lift the glitterball \"but it wasn't to be\".\n\nCommenting on newspaper reports that he might quit the show, she said: \"He's going to have to call it at some point - there's no getting round it, he is much older than the other dancers. But I wouldn't be surprised if he carries on for a bit.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The suspected robbery happened outside this hotel in the exclusive Puerto Madero area\n\nA British man has been killed and his stepson wounded after being shot during a suspected robbery outside a five-star hotel in Buenos Aires, officials say.\n\nThe victims are believed to be Matthew Gibbard, 50, a businessman from Northamptonshire, and Stefan Zone, 28.\n\nThey were taken to hospital after the attack in the Puerto Madero area of the Argentine capital.\n\nFour people have been arrested after police investigating the crime carried out 18 raids, local officials said.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was supporting the family of two British men after an incident in Buenos Aires.\n\nSecurity camera footage shows the two men getting out of a white van outside the Faena Art Hotel in Puerto Madero, an exclusive waterfront district popular with tourists.\n\nAt about 11:00 local time (14:00 GMT) on Saturday, they were approached by at least two men on a motorbike, apparently accompanied by another vehicle.\n\nThe images show the two British nationals resisting the attempt to steal their baggage, and a fight goes on for some 40 seconds. The suspects left the scene and police are still searching for them.\n\nPolice are trying to establish whether the men were victims of a random attack or followed by the robbers from the airport, Clarín newspaper reports (in Spanish). According to the newspaper, the 50-year-old's mother and wife as well as the 28-year-old's wife and his brother were with them.\n\nA Foreign Office spokeswoman said: \"We are supporting the family of two British men following an incident in Buenos Aires, and are in contact with the local authorities there.\"\n\nThe hotel is located in an exclusive neighbourhood of Buenos Aires\n\nArgentina's newly elected president, Alberto Fernandez, who lives near the hotel in Puerto Madero, has responded to the robbery.\n\n\"We must be tough,\" he said. \"We can't put up with this. We need to find the people responsible for this and make them pay with the full force of the law.\"\n\n\"It was an atrocious incident, like many that happen in Argentina, because criminality hasn't gone down, despite what the official figures say.\n\n\"I urge everyone to stand up to it and be uncompromising when facing crime.\"\n\nAttacks by robbers on motorbikes, known as motochorros, are not uncommon in Buenos Aires. The city is generally safe, but other foreigners have been targeted in the past.\n\nTravel expert Simon Calder told the BBC that crime in parts of Latin America is \"opportunist\".\n\n\"This is an awful tragedy,\" he said. \"I'm afraid crime, particularly aimed at well-to-do tourists, is all too common, not just in Buenos Aires but in the big South American cities.\n\n\"Argentina is a superb a destination, very safe, and a welcoming country.\n\n\"Unfortunately, like elsewhere in Latin America, there are criminals who will use violence if they need too.\n\n\"My advice is to run away if you can or hand over what they want.\"\n\nMore than 111,000 British nationals visited Argentina in 2018, according to the Foreign Office, which said most visits are \"trouble-free\".\n\nTourists are warned to be alert to street crime, including armed robberies, and advised to hand over cash and valuables without resistance.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"There is no such thing as Corbynism\"\n\nJeremy Corbyn says he did \"everything he could\" to get Labour into power and will not \"walk away\" until another leader is elected.\n\nThe Labour leader said the election, which saw the Conservatives sweep aside his party in its traditional heartlands, was \"taken over by Brexit\".\n\nMr Corbyn said he was \"obviously very sad\" but also had \"pride\" in the manifesto his party put forward.\n\nSome people within Labour have blamed Mr Corbyn's leadership for the defeat.\n\nFormer Labour MP John Mann said the leader's unpopularity on the doorstep was palpable and Mr Corbyn should have \"gone already\" after presiding over his party's worst election performance since the 1930s.\n\nLord Blunkett, a former Labour cabinet minister, called for the party leadership to apologise for the defeat, adding that they were \"lacking in any contrite belief that they made a mistake\".\n\nAt 33%, Labour's share of the vote was down around eight points on the 2017 general election and is lower than that achieved by Neil Kinnock in 1992.\n\nMr Corbyn said it was up to the National Executive, the ruling body of the party, to decide when he would go, adding it was likely a new leader would be selected in the early part of next year.\n\nHe said he would not step down as leader yet because the \"responsible thing to do is not to walk away from the whole thing\".\n\nAsked whether he was part of the problem, he said: \"I've done everything I could to lead this party… and since I became leader the membership has more than doubled and the party has developed a very serious, radical yes, but serious and fully-costed manifesto\".\n\nKeir Starmer, one of the favourites to be the new leader, says it's \"a big task\" to rebuild Labour\n\nKeir Starmer, one of the favourites to replace Mr Corbyn as leader, said there was \"no hiding\" from the election result which was \"devastating for our party\".\n\nHe said it was the party's duty to \"rebuild\" which was going to be \"a very big task\".\n\nAsked if he wanted to be the next leader, he said: \"I think this is the time for reflecting and understanding the result. I don't underestimate the size of the task ahead.\"\n\nUnite union boss Len McCluskey, an influential Labour ally, said the result was \"deeply, deeply disappointing\" and the party had \"failed\" because it had tried \"to go beyond Brexit\".\n\nIn an article for the Huffington Post, he blamed Labour's poor election performance on Jeremy Corbyn's \"failure to apologise for anti-Semitism\" and an \"incontinent rush of policies which appeared to offer everything to everyone immediately\".\n\nHe did praise Mr Corbyn's \"right and honourable\" decision to adopt a neutral stance in a future Brexit referendum, but said the strategy was \"fatally undermined from the outset by leading members of the shadow cabinet rushing to the TV cameras to pledge that they would support Remain\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour MP Stephen Kinnock, meanwhile, was adamant it was \"not a Tory victory\" but \"a damning indictment of Labour's failure\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC's Question Time, he said the party's loosening ties to its working class heartlands had been \"turbo charged by Brexit\".\n\nShadow cabinet member Barry Gardiner said his party needed to reflect on \"what was wrong in the offer that we put forward to the country and what it was people did not feel confident about in our manifesto\".\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Any Questions that Labour needed to move fast to regain the trust of the country.\n\nThe Conservatives took Labour strongholds across northern England, the Midlands and Wales in areas which backed Brexit in the 2016 referendum.\n\nSome traditional Labour constituencies, such as Darlington, Sedgefield and Workington, in the north of England, have a Conservative MP for the first time in decades - or in the case of Bishop Auckland and Blyth Valley - for the first time since the seat was created.\n\nMr Corbyn was re-elected with a reduced majority of 26,188 as the MP for Islington North.\n\nThe likely candidates are keeping their powder dry, but skirmishes have begun over the reasons for Labour's lowest tally of seats since the 1930s.\n\nThose close to Jeremy Corbyn blamed Brexit, media hostility… even the weather.\n\nThe party chairman Ian Lavery singled out the party's commitment to a second referendum.\n\nAnd Laura Parker from the left-wing grassroots group, Momentum, insisted Jeremy Corbyn was the victim of unfortunate political timing.\n\nReflecting on his party's defeat, My Corbyn said: \"My whole strategy was to reach out beyond the Brexit divide to try and bring people together because ultimately the country has to come together.\"\n\nThe party promised to renegotiate Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Brexit deal, and put it to a referendum vote alongside the option of remaining in the EU.\n\nAsked what went wrong for the party, he said: \"Those in Leave areas, in some numbers, voted for Brexit or Conservative candidates which meant that we lost a number of seats and we didn't make the gains that I'd hoped we could have done\".\n\nAsked whether \"Corbynism\" is now dead, he said: \"There is no such thing as Corbyninsm… there is socialism.\"\n\nHe added: \"I don't think [socialist ideas] are unelectable.\"\n\nMr Corbyn said his party's policies were individually \"very popular\" and there was no \"huge debate\" about them within the party.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour candidate Gareth Snell calls for Jeremy Corbyn to step down\n\nDame Margaret Hodge, MP for Barking, said under Mr Corbyn's leadership, Labour had become the \"nasty party\", with anti-Semitism allowed to flourish.\n\nSpeaking about his party's handling of the issue, the Labour leader said: \"I inherited a system that didn't work in the Labour party on anti-Semitism, I introduced the rule changes necessary to deal with it and they're in operation.\n\n\"Anti-Semitism is an absolute evil curse within our society and I will always condemn it and also do and always will\".\n\nMeanwhile, the rapper Stormzy, who backed Labour ahead of the election and described Mr Corbyn as \"a man of hope\", has told BBC Radio 1Xtra that the result feels like \"a dark cloud\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The hug that means Jacob's new arm is a success\n\nWhen Jacob was born eight weeks early most of his left arm was missing.\n\nHis parents Gemma Turner and Chris Scrimshaw, from Calderdale in West Yorkshire, crowdfunded to get a £16,000 functioning limb made for him.\n\nThe NHS and most companies take the view that a functioning prosthetic is not an option when the limb ends above the elbow.\n\nThat is where Ben Ryan, from Menai Bridge on Anglesey, came in, designing an arm for Jacob, who is now five.\n\nJacob and his brother hugged after his new arm was fitted\n\nMr Ryan developed a hydraulic design after his son Sol had an emergency amputation when he was 10 days old.\n\nIt led him to quit his job as a psychology lecturer and set up his own company, named Ambionics, two and a half years ago.\n\nHis firm merged with Polish prosthetic maker Glaze this year.\n\nOne of their first clients was Jacob.\n\nJacob with his mother Gemma at the fitting\n\nMr Ryan has been working with a prosthetics expert and Jacob's family to perfect a hydraulic arm for him.\n\nThe family wanted an elbow that could be set in different positions, a gripping mechanism and a modular hand that can be swapped out for other tools.\n\nHe explained that the prosthetics are not 3D printed in the normal way, as they are forged together in a bath of nylon powder using lasers.\n\nJacob is now able to grip things with his functioning prosthetic\n\nMr Ryan said the elbow can be set using a sliding lock, and the hand closes when Jacob squeezes a water filled rubber chamber that is mounted to the upper arm.\n\nHe designed a mechanism to make it work while the arm was cast by his colleagues in Poland.\n\nPerhaps, more importantly - for Jacob anyway - it is large, green and superhero themed.\n\n\"It was what Jacob wanted, including have a larger hand, so the theme is perfect,\" said Mr Ryan.\n\nOn Thursday he delivered the arm to Jacob at a meeting in Ringwood, Hampshire, and said the fitting was a \"success\" and that Jacob \"exceeded everybody's expectations\".\n\n\"He can give his brother a hug and hold his hand,\" he said.\n\nJacob was born eight weeks early with most of his left arm missing\n\nSpeaking after the final fitting, Gemma, a police officer, said watching her son wear the arm was \"lovely\", adding that he \"really likes it, he's got it on right now\".\n\nShe explained that Jacob did not want a non-functioning prosthetic and said: \"He's not bothered about looking like everybody else.\"\n\nThe addition has also helped with balancing his posture, she added.\n\nWhile raising funds to get Jacob a functioning prosthetic, one anonymous donor gave them £5,000 - saying she was terminally ill and unable to complete her bucket list.\n\nGemma said asking for money was \"kind of a bit strange for us but you've got to do what you've got to do\".\n\n\"The family have had so much bad luck getting help for Jacob,\" said Mr Ryan.\n\n\"Nobody has been able to deliver something that could work for him.\n\n\"It's always been the same status-quo - that it won't work when the prosthetic is for the upper arm.\"", "Alex Rodda \"loved life and made friends wherever he went\", his family said paying tribute\n\nA 15-year-old boy found dead in a village was a \"caring and trusting young boy\", his family has said.\n\nThe body of Alex Rodda was discovered in Ashley Mill Lane in Ashley, Cheshire, at about 08:00 GMT on Friday.\n\nHis family has paid tribute to the Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School pupil as police investigate the circumstances surrounding his death.\n\nAn 18-year-old man from Knutsford has been arrested on suspicion of murder and remains in custody for questioning.\n\nIn a statement Alex's family said: \"Alex was a very loving, caring, kind, loyal and, most of all, trusting young boy.\n\n\"He loved life and made friends wherever he went. He will be sorely missed.\"\n\nThe body of Alex Rodda was found in Ashley Mill Lane in Cheshire\n\nHead teacher Denis Oliver said Alex, who was in Year 11 and from the Knutsford area, would be \"sorely missed by everyone who knew him\".\n\n\"Our deepest sympathies, thoughts and prayers are with Alex's family and friends at this very sad time.\n\n\"The safety and wellbeing of our students is our priority. School will be open as normal on Monday and staff will be on hand to support students in any way affected by this tragic loss,\" he said in a statement posted to the school's website.\n\nDet Ch Insp Simon Blackwell said: \"We are in the very early stages of our investigation into Alex's death, which we are treating as a murder.\n\n\"I would like to reassure the community that this is believed to be an isolated incident and we are doing everything we can to establish exactly what has taken place.\"\n\nHe appealed for anyone with information to contact police.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Actress Samantha Morton says the care system is \"still not fit for purpose\" despite a major inquiry into historical abuse at homes in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire.\n\nThe 42-year-old has said she was the victim of abuse while growing up in care during the 1980s.\n\nMorton said despite apologies from several public bodies, she did not feel justice had been done.\n\nThe city and county council have both apologised and produced action plans.\n\nIn July, the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) found hundreds of children were abused by predatory foster carers and residential home staff in the city and county over the past five decades.\n\nThe actress, who has starred in a number of films and TV shows such as The Walking Dead and Minority Report, previously spoke out about the abuse she was subjected to.\n\nShe said the abuse she and her friends suffered was \"equivalent to hell\".\n\n\"I've lost friends - friends have died through drug overdoses, suicide, mental health issues,\" she said.\n\n\"The system still isn't fit for purpose. If we continue to privatise children's homes or any aspect of care of other people and we monetise it, it becomes a very dangerous game.\"\n\nSamantha Morton said she was abused in care homes in Nottingham during the 1980s\n\nMorton's acting career began in the early 1990s with appearances in Soldier Soldier, Peak Practice and Cracker.\n\nHer adult roles have included playing Myra Hindley in Longford, Ian Curtis's widow in biopic Contol and the wife of serial killer John Christie in Rillington Place.\n\nShe is currently starring as the villainous Alpha in US zombie series The Walking Dead.\n\nThis week she was given an honorary degree by the University of Nottingham - where her mother and grandmother worked as dinner ladies.\n\nThe actress, born in the city, told the BBC: \"If they were alive today they'd just be over the moon I'm here actually getting a degree, someone from my background actually achieving that is extraordinary.\"\n\nThe actress received an honorary degree from the university where her mother and grandmother worked as dinner ladies\n\nNottinghamshire County Council said it had made a \"full and frank submission\" to IICSA and accepted the findings.\n\nNottingham City Council said that although Ms Morton had been in the care of the county council, it had also taken \"a number of actions to ensure survivors of non-recent abuse received the right support\".\n\nMeanwhile, Nottinghamshire Police said it had learned \"many lessons over the years and during the course of the inquiry\", improving how it responded to reports of abuse and supported those affected.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Both leaders agreed there was a \"significant opportunity\" to restore the Good Friday Agreement institutions\n\nThe UK and Irish governments have pledged to restore Stormont following the general election result.\n\nIt comes ahead of fresh talks on 16 December to try to revive power sharing in Northern Ireland.\n\nStormont has been inactive since January 2017, when the DUP and Sinn Féin split in a bitter row.\n\nOn Saturday, Sinn Féin's Conor Murphy said it would be \"possible\" to get an agreement. The DUP's Paul Givan said his party \"don't have any red lines\".\n\nTaoiseach (Irish prime minister) Leo Varadkar congratulated Prime Minister Boris Johnson on his victory during a phone call on Friday evening.\n\nThey agreed the election had created a \"significant opportunity\" to restore the Good Friday Agreement institutions.\n\nThe legal date for an assembly election to be called if no power-sharing government is formed at Stormont is 13 January.\n\nSpeaking on Saturday, Mr Varadkar said his focus was on getting an executive in place by that date.\n\nHe also told RTÉ's Marian Finuance show that now is not the time for a border poll on Irish unity.\n\nNI has been without a devolved government since January 2017, when the DUP and Sinn Féin split in a bitter row\n\nHe said such a poll would \"probably be defeated, it would probably be very divisive\", given the fact that there is not a nationalist majority in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"What I think all sides should now do, all communities in Northern Ireland, the two governments, is to recommit to the Good Friday Agreement.\n\n\"The philosophy that lies behind the Good Friday Agreement - the two communities working together, power sharing in Northern Ireland, closer co-operation north/south, and all done in the context of British/Irish relations that John Hume vision, if you like, of 20 years ago - is actually as strong and a relevant now as it was then even if there have been changes in demographics and politics.\"\n\nConor Murphy ( left) and Paul Givan have been speaking about next week's Stormont talks\n\nSinn Féin MLA Conor Murphy told the same programme: \"I think it will be possible to get an agreement.\"\n\n\"Now that the DUP are out of the arrangement with the Tory government, which in our view was the central blockage to an agreement, I sincerely hope the British government can step up to the plate.\"\n\nDUP MLA Paul Givan said his party \"don't have any red lines\" going back into the negotiations.\n\n\"We will have our senior team there on Monday we will be entering into the talks in a spirit in which we want to reach a resolution to outstanding issues,\" he told BBC Radio Ulster's Saturday with Dearbhail programme.\n\nDuring a phone call on Friday evening, Mr Johnson and Mr Varadkar said they would work closely with the Northern Ireland parties to help bring back devolution.\n\nThey also agreed on the importance of a close relationship between the UK and Ireland.\n\nMr Johnson updated the taoiseach on the timings for the reintroduction of the Withdrawal Agreement Bill next week and its passage through Parliament to ensure the UK leaves the EU on 31 January.\n\nThe prime minister made clear in the phone call, his top priority is the restoration of a functioning executive as soon as possible.\n\nBoris Johnson said NI Secretary Julian Smith will dedicate himself to the talks process\n\nHe said Northern Ireland Secretary Julian Smith will dedicate himself to the talks process.\n\nMr Smith has previously said the consequences are \"profound\" if the assembly was not restored soon.", "Alex Rodda \"loved life and made friends wherever he went\", his family said\n\nA man has been charged with murdering a 15-year-old boy found dead in a village.\n\nAlex Rodda was found in Ashley Mill Lane in Ashley, Cheshire, at about 08:00 GMT on Friday.\n\nMatthew Mason, 18, of Ollerton, near Knutsford, will appear at Crewe Magistrates' Court on Monday, charged with murder and possession of a bladed article in a public place.\n\nAlex's family described him as a \"caring and trusting young boy\".\n\nMr Mason was arrested in Forton, near Newport, Shropshire, about four hours after the body was found, Cheshire Police said.\n\nAlex's family, from the Knutsford area, have been informed and are being supported by specialist officers, the force added.\n\n\"Alex was a very loving, caring, kind, loyal and, most of all, trusting young boy,\" a family statement on Saturday said.\n\n\"He loved life and made friends wherever he went. He will be sorely missed.\"\n\nAlex Rodda was found dead in Ashley Mill Lane in Cheshire\n\nHolmes Chapel Comprehensive School head teacher Denis Oliver said Alex, who was in Year 11, would be \"sorely missed by everyone who knew him\".\n\n\"Our deepest sympathies, thoughts and prayers are with Alex's family and friends at this very sad time.\n\nHe said the school would be open as normal on Monday and staff would be on hand to support students.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Staff at Royal Albert Edward Infirmary contacted police with concerns about a 69-year-old woman's death\n\nA 75-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after his partner who was a patient in a hospital was found dead.\n\nThe 69-year-old woman was being treated at Royal Albert Edward Infirmary in Wigan, Greater Manchester, when she died at about 21:30 GMT on Friday.\n\nStaff from hospital contacted police with concerns about her death.\n\nThe woman's partner, from Ormskirk, Lancashire, remains in custody.\n\nA post-mortem examination is due to be carried out and her next of kin has been contacted.\n\nA police spokesman said: \"Late on Friday, staff from Wigan Royal Albert Edward Infirmary contacted police with concerns in respect of one of their patients who had passed away.\n\n\"Given the circumstances presented to us, we have arrested the woman's partner, who is a 75-year-old man, on suspicion of murder.\n\n\"We are keeping an open mind as to what has happened and expect to know more later.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Staff at Royal Albert Edward Infirmary contacted police with concerns about a 69-year-old woman's death\n\nA 75-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murdering his partner who was a patient in a hospital has been released, police have said.\n\nThe 69-year-old woman was being treated at Royal Albert Edward Infirmary in Wigan, Greater Manchester, when she died at about 21:30 GMT on Friday.\n\nStaff from the hospital had contacted police with concerns about her death.\n\nLancashire Police said a post-mortem examination had found the woman died of natural causes.\n\nThe woman's partner, from Ormskirk, Lancashire, had subsequently been released from custody, the force said.\n\nThe full circumstances were still being investigated and a file would be passed to the coroner, it added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Once, you would have got long odds on the first Conservative election win coming from Blyth Valley in Northumberland.\n\nAs a former mining community, it hardly seemed natural Tory territory. But mental health care assistant Ian Levy overcame a Labour majority of almost 8,000 to secure it.\n\nIn his victory speech, he pledged to bring investment and change to the community as soon as he arrived in Westminster.\n\nSo what do Mr Levy and Prime Minister Boris Johnson need to deliver to ensure that promise to the people of Blyth Valley means something?\n\nUnemployment in Blyth Valley is above the national average. That is typical of many communities in the North East that are still wrestling with the impact of industrial decline.\n\nIt's a community proud of its mining heritage, but the days when coal was king are slipping into memory. The town council says that in 1961 Blyth was one of the busiest ports in England, shipping more than six million tonnes of coal. But \"the late 1960s had seen a rapid decline in the traditionally male-dominated heavy industries\".\n• None £520.40average weekly wage, compared to £587 for whole of the UK\n• None 1 in 5work in manufacturing, compared to fewer than 1 in 10 in GB\n\nInstead its seafront now faces a cluster of offshore wind turbines, and it has ambitions to service a new generation of turbines in the North Sea. Its port also remains an important employer, and manufacturing a significant part of the economy.\n\nAnd some new industries are moving in. Sir Paul McCartney's former wife Heather Mills is planning to build a vegan food factory there.\n\nBut like many communities of its size, Blyth has a struggling town centre – though it is in the running for money from the government's Future High Street Fund.\n\nPerhaps the new MP and Mr Johnson will need to deliver more jobs - and better paid ones - to ensure local people have money to spend there. At the moment many of the constituents commute into Tyneside for work and leisure.\n\nEconomic studies suggest the exporting North East economy has most to lose from leaving the European Union in terms of lower economic growth.\n\nThe constituency did vote for Brexit though, with more than 6 in 10 backing leaving the EU in the 2016 referendum.\n\nHow the Blyth Valley vote divided up\n\nBlyth lost its railway station in 1964 in the Beeching cuts. Trains still pass through the town, but they are only carrying freight at the moment.\n\nVoters, then, might have been attracted by the Conservative election pledge to look at reversing some of those 1960s cuts.\n\nThe Tories have promised a £500m Beeching reversal fund, and have mentioned the return of passenger services to Blyth as one of the projects which could win support from that fund.\n\nBut the estimated cost of £99m to return services to the Ashington, Blyth and Tyne line has yet to be committed.\n\nThat leaves many locals relying on buses, so they will also want to see the prime minister deliver on promised investment into the network.\n\nThe local health trust that covers the constituency outperforms much of England, though in the most recent figures it still missed A&E and cancer targets.\n\nIt performed well though when it came to meeting mental health targets.\n\nThe Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as \"outstanding\" by the Care Quality Commission.\n\nAnd this is one community where Boris Johnson might not have to deliver a new hospital.\n\nA new purpose-built emergency care hospital opened in Cramlington in the constituency in 2015. It was the first of its kind, and has been seen as a model of how hospitals should operate.\n\nAlthough the constituency as a whole is about average for life expectancy, it has an above average number of over-65s - an ageing population that will want to see the government come up with a solution to social care funding.\n\nThe North East of England has some of the best performing primary schools, but some of the worst performing secondary schools.\n\nBut actually Blyth Valley has a better educational record than much of the region. Although achievement was slightly below average at primary level, secondary standards are above average.\n\nIt is one of the few parts of the country where at least some students are in a three-tier schooling system, with First, Middle and High Schools.\n\nYou can bet the schools though will want to see more funding delivered by the prime minister and their new MP.\n\nThe local further education college will also hope Mr Johnson makes good on promises to put money into a sector which suffered a funding squeeze under David Cameron and Theresa May.\n\nNorthumbria Police has suffered some of the worst funding cuts - in fact its chief constable described them as the worst in the country in 2018.\n\nThe force has lost more than 1,000 officers since 2010 and had to dip into its financial reserves to avoid deeper cuts. Part of the problem was a narrow base for council tax - meaning cuts from central government were not replaced by local funds.\n\nMr Johnson has already committed to increasing the number of police. The Home Office expect 185 extra officers to be recruited in the Northumbria force area by 2021, but that does not replace all those that have been lost.\n\nThe prime minister and new MP will be under pressure to show they will go further in a community which is in the top 10% of the country when it comes to crime.\n\nImmigration into the area is negligible. Figures aren't available purely for Blyth Valley, but from mid 2016-2017, it is estimated that the short-term international migration flow to the entire Northumberland region was made up of just 47 people.\n\nGiven the county's population is over 300,000, this is not a community struggling to cope with the weight of inward migration.\n\nBlyth Valley is also an overwhelmingly white constituency.\n• None 60.5%voted for Brexit, compared with the UK average of 51.9%\n• None 97.7% were born in the UK compared to 87.3% average (2011 census)\n• None 42%are aged 50+, compared with 37% of the UK population\n• None 5% of live birthsin 2018 were to non-UK mothers. England's average is 29.1%\n\nThat does not mean voters are not concerned about immigration into the UK more widely.\n\nBut in a region with skill shortages, some employers will be keen to retain access to workers from overseas – and the PM will have to balance those two competing demands.", "The same prime minister. But a new map.\n\nA victory bigger than the Tories, haunted by 2017, had dreamt of. As the hours ticked by, red flipped to blue, familiar faces forced out of their seats.\n\nBoris Johnson gambled that he could win an election with support from towns and communities where voting Conservative might almost have seemed a sin.\n\nThe Conservatives' majority will have an almost immediate effect on the country - unless something strange happens we will leave the European Union next month - because behind him on the green benches will be new Tory MPs who will vote through his Brexit bill, his position strong enough to subdue any opposition.\n\nThere may be years of arguments about the nature of the long-term relationship but we will no longer be part of the bloc we've been entwined in for four decades. But Brexit, at least part one - to use his slogan - will be done.\n\nBeyond that, the final tally, the scale of the Tories' majority may shape Mr Johnson's ability to reform.\n\nHe'll face different opponents - that much is clear.\n\nJeremy Corbyn's departure is certain, only the timing to be decided, but Labour's future direction is already the subject of bitter dispute. The loss a mixture - a lack of leadership, and the party's torture over Brexit.\n\nBut accounting for the defeat and making a plan for change is likely to involve months of recrimination.\n\nThe Lib Dems have suffered disappointment too - losing their own leader, along with the DUP's Nigel Dodds being ousted. This election has also seen a massive change in the political cast.\n\nBut there's nothing straightforward about what faces Mr Johnson, even with the kind of majority this country hasn't seen for years.\n\nThere are wide differences between town and city, Scotland and England, the political generations too.\n\nThe public has just granted Mr Johnson an immense amount of political power.\n\nGiven what's ahead it's a currency he will need to spend, and spend well.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"We are not the masters, we are the servants now\"\n\nBoris Johnson has thanked voters in the north of England for \"breaking the voting habits of generations\" to back the Conservatives.\n\nSpeaking in Tony Blair's old seat of Sedgefield, the PM said he knew \"how difficult\" that decision can be.\n\nMr Johnson won a Commons majority of 80, his party's biggest election win for 30 years, by sweeping aside Labour in its traditional heartlands.\n\nIn contrast, Labour suffered its worst election result since the 1930s.\n\nActivists chanted \"Boris\" as Mr Johnson arrived in the County Durham constituency, which returned a Conservative MP on Thursday for the first time in 84 years.\n\nThe prime minister said he wanted to thank voters in the \"incredible\" constituencies in north-east England for placing their trust in the Conservatives.\n\nThey had \"changed the political landscape\" and \"changed the Conservative Party for the better\", he said.\n\n\"Everything that we do, everything that I do as your prime minister, will be devoted to repaying that trust,\" Mr Johnson added.\n\n\"We are the servants now and our job is to serve the people of this country and deliver on our priorities. And our priorities and their priorities are the same.\"\n\nLeader Jeremy Corbyn said he had done \"everything I could\" to get Labour into power but expected to stand down \"early next year\", after a successor has been chosen by the party.\n\nHe said the general election had been \"taken over by Brexit\", the issue on which Mr Johnson campaigned most vociferously - but other figures in the party have disagreed over the reason.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell promised to \"learn lessons and we'll listen to people\" during the debate over the future of the party and its next leader.\n\n\"My fear is that we're in for the long haul now, possibly five years,\" he added.\n\nLabour's Helen Goodman, who lost the seat of Bishop Auckland to the Conservatives, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that \"the biggest factor\" in Labour's defeat \"was obviously the unpopularity of Jeremy Corbyn as the leader\".\n\nHowever, the Labour MP for York Central, Rachel Maskell, said: \"We've all got to take responsibility... I don't think apportioning blame to a complex situation in a simplistic way is really the way to approach this.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"There is no such thing as Corbynism\"\n\nMr Johnson is expected to announce a minor government re-shuffle as early as Monday.\n\nAsked whether his promise to be a one nation government meant bringing back Tory politicians like Penny Mordaunt and Jeremy Hunt - who left cabinet in July after Mr Johnson took over - the PM said he was \"not going to speculate about personalities\".\n\nMPs will then return to Westminster on Tuesday and begin the process of swearing in, before the Queen formally opens Parliament on Thursday with \"reduced ceremonial elements\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Phil Wilson had been the MP for Sedgefield since 2007\n\nThe prime minister has also vowed to reintroduce his Withdrawal Agreement Bill to Parliament before Christmas, which could happen by the end of next week.\n\nIt would see MPs begin the process of considering legislation that would pave the way for the UK to leave the EU on 31 January. Talks about a future trade and security relationship will begin almost immediately.\n\nFormer Conservative Deputy Prime Minister Lord Heseltine, who opposes Brexit and backed the Liberal Democrats in the election, told Today: \"We've lost. Brexit is going to happen and we have to live with it.\"\n\nAsked whether he would support any future campaign to rejoin the EU, he said it would be \"20 years or something before the issue is once again raised\".\n\nProtests took place at Westminster on Friday following Mr Johnson's election victory.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cheryl Tompsett: \"I've never been on a protest before\"\n\nDemonstrators in Westminster carried signs that read \"Defy Tory Rule\" and \"No to Boris Johnson\".\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said two people had been arrested in relation to the protests - one person on suspicion of assaulting a police officer and another for suspected affray.\n\nFollowing the Conservatives' election win, Mr Johnson spoke to SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon on Friday evening and reiterated his opposition to a second independence referendum in Scotland.\n\nThe conversation came after the first minister said the PM had \"no right\" to stand in the way of a second vote following her party's \"overwhelming\" election performance. The SNP won 48 of Scotland's 59 seats.\n\nSpeaking on Radio 4's Any Questions on Friday, cabinet minister Thérèse Coffey insisted there would be no referendum on Scottish independence during the Conservatives' five-year term.\n\nAfter speaking to Ms Sturgeon, the PM also took phone calls from German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar to discuss the next steps on Brexit.\n\nThe Conservatives won a total of 365 seats in the election, while Labour finished on 203, the SNP on 48, Liberal Democrats on 11 and the DUP on eight.\n\nSinn Fein has seven MPs, Plaid Cymru four and Northern Ireland's SDLP two. The Green Party and NI's Alliance Party have one each.\n\nThe Brexit Party - which triumphed in the summer's European Parliament elections - failed to win any Westminster seats.\n\nThe Conservatives swept aside Labour in its traditional heartlands in the Midlands and the north of England and picked up seats across Wales, while holding off the Lib Dem challenge in many seats in the south of England.\n\nVoter turnout overall, on a cold and damp polling day, was 67.3%, which is down by 1.5% on the 2017 total.\n\nMeanwhile, the Liberal Democrats are looking for a new leader after Jo Swinson lost her Dunbartonshire East seat to the SNP by 149 votes.\n\nWhile she admitted her \"unapologetic\" pro-Remain strategy had not worked, she said she did not regret standing up for her \"liberal values\" and urged the party to \"regroup and refresh\" itself in the face of a \"nationalist surge\" in British politics.\n\nSir Ed Davey and Baroness Sal Brinton will be acting co-leaders for the party now that Ms Swinson is no longer an MP.", "Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has said he takes responsibility for Labour's \"catastrophic\" election defeat.\n\nParty leader Jeremy Corbyn has now also apologised for the result in two newspapers articles.\n\nInterviewed on Saturday, Mr McDonnell was challenged over whether he really did, in his own words, \"own this disaster\" by the BBC's Andrew Marr.", "Residents had to queue up to 45 minutes for bottled water being handed out at a local supermarket\n\nResidents have been queuing for bottled water after thousands of homes were left without supplies on Friday evening due to a faulty valve.\n\nAt its peak about 12,000 properties in Leighton Buzzard, Toddington, Hockliffe and surrounding areas were affected.\n\nUp to 2,000 homes in Bedfordshire are still without water and residents have been queuing for up to 45 minutes at a nearby supermarket for bottles.\n\nAnglian Water handed out the bottles and was working to restore supplies.\n\nLocal resident Maria Power said: \"The situation is disgraceful it should have been resolved by now.\"\n\n\"I'm angry at the water company that they are going to leave people without water for nearly 48 hours,\" she told the PA news agency.\n\nThe valve was fixed on Saturday evening but properties in Leighton Linslade are still without water because of air in the system, Anglian Water said.\n\nThe firm apologised and warned that water was unlikely to return to the areas until Monday afternoon.\n\nOne resident said shops in the area had run out of bottled water.\n\nAnglian Water said 12,000 properties in Bedfordshire were without water at one point\n\nAnglian Water said customers who were in its \"priority list\", such as elderly people or families with young children, had been delivered bottled water.\n\nIt said engineers were installing an overland pipe to bypass the airlocked water main.\n\nRegan Harris, from the company, said: \"Most of our customers will be coming back to water soon.\n\n\"There is an area on the northern part of Leighton Buzzard where people may be without water for a little while longer due to an air pocket.\"\n\nConservative MP for Leighton Buzzard Andrew Selous said queues have \"dropped down and everyone got their allocation\".\n\nMr Selous tweeted that \"many customers supportive given what a complex issue Anglian Water dealing with.\"\n\nA map shows areas where water supply has been affected\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Several buildings collapsed in the coastal city of Durres\n\nNine people have been arrested in Albania on suspicion of murder and abuse of power over the collapse of buildings in last month's earthquake.\n\nTwo of those arrested on murder charges owned hotels that collapsed in the city of Durres, one of the areas worst hit.\n\nBoth hotels had been built illegally and one of them had also been irregularly legalised, police said. Illegal construction has been rife in Albania since the fall of communism in 1990.\n\nThe tremor, the strongest to hit the country in decades, struck in the early hours of the morning on 26 November as most people were asleep. More than 14,000 people were left homeless.\n\nIn total, prosecutors issued 17 arrest warrants for builders, engineers and officials suspected of breaching safety standards. Eight of the suspects are still being sought and police said some had fled the country after the earthquake.\n\nThe earthquake was the strongest to hit Albania in decades\n\nMore than 14,000 buildings were damaged and engineers were still determining which ones are structurally safe, AP news agency reports.\n\nAfter the fall of communism in the early 1990s, many residents moved to cities, where construction was made with little government supervision. Many of the buildings have been legalised since then.\n\nThe quake struck 34km (21 miles) north-west of the Albanian capital, Tirana. Most of the deaths occurred in Durres and Thumane, close to the epicentre.\n\nThe Balkans is in an area prone to seismic activity, lying close to a fault line between the Eurasian and African tectonic plates. Albania sits on a smaller, Adriatic tectonic plate.\n\nMeanwhile, the European Commission - the EU executive - said member states had agreed to hold a donors' conference in Tirana in January.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Iain Watson's view from a wind-chilled knoll in Middlesbrough was not promising\n\nLabour's lost its fourth general election in a row. And it will soon have a new leader. But will this be enough to get it back into government?\n\nI perched on a grassy knoll on the outskirts of Middlesbrough on the eve of poll.\n\nIt was the perfect vantage point for surveying the turnout at one of Jeremy Corbyn's last campaign rallies, in an adjoining open-air car park.\n\nThis was a far cry from the mass rallies I had seen in the 2017 campaign - but, to be fair, it was a week day and it was freezing.\n\nBut it wasn't the enthusiasm of the hardy activists that was in question, but the loyalty of Labour voters who had voted to leave the EU.\n\nI was hearing they were also about to leave behind their traditional party loyalties, despite party chairman Ian Lavery declaring at the rally: \"This election has nothing to do with Brexit.\"\n\nI was told that seats which had been Labour since their creation - such as Blyth Valley - could fall.\n\nLocal and regional activists, however, were hoping the North East of England would be unduly disastrous for the party and that other areas would fare better.\n\nBut I was also being told of problems in the West and East Midlands and, 24 hours later, the dire predictions proved accurate.\n\nIndeed, the final result nationally was worse than insiders feared.\n\nJeremy Corbyn's election result brought back memories of Michael Foot (right) in 1983, rather than Tony Blair (centre) in 1997, 2001 and 2005\n\nWell placed sources thought Labour would suffer a net loss of seats but wouldn't fall below 230. The more pessimistic confided a figure of 220.\n\nIn the end, with 203 seats, it was a worse parliamentary haul than Michael Foot's post-war low in 1983.\n\nThe immediate battle now is over the narrative of why Labour lost.\n\nHe or she who controls the past controls the future.\n\nSo that's why shadow chancellor John McDonnell was quick out of the traps to blame the defeat on Brexit.\n\nNo need to search for wider difficulties, or to change the party's direction.\n\nThe grassroots movement he formed with Jon Lansman - Momentum - declared it would \"keep Labour socialist\".\n\nThe policies were popular; it was just that the wider public hadn't fully appreciated this.\n\nLaura Pidcock lost her seat, to the disappointment of many on Labour's Left\n\nIf this narrative wins, it would help clear the ground for another leader from Mr Corbyn's wing of the party.\n\nSome close to Mr Corbyn hoped that would be shadow minister Laura Pidcock, but the public begged to differ and ejected her from her Durham seat.\n\nSo the current favourite on the Left is shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey. When Mr McDonnell says the next leader should be a woman, he is almost certainly thinking of her.\n\nBut other candidates and therefore other narratives are available.\n\nDefeated parliamentary candidates, such as Phil Wilson in Sedgefield, Tony Blair's old seat, and Ruth Smeeth, in Stoke, have pointed out that Mr Corbyn's leadership came up on the doorstep more than Brexit.\n\nThe party's former general secretary, Lord McNicol, has said the problem isn't so much Corbyn as what he called \"Corbynism\" - the move of the party to the left, with a narrower group of less experienced MPs in frontbench positions, and an offer of change that may have seemed too radical for some former supporters.\n\nIf a wider review of the party is on the agenda - a change of direction, not just a change of leader - this could help hopefuls such as Sir Keir Starmer and Emily Thornberry. Sir Keir was never quite trusted by the leadership but the pro-Remain membership has been impressed with him as shadow Brexit secretary. A quick contest would suit him, but Mr Corbyn seems in no rush to go.\n\nSome MPs are muttering that they may even mount a challenge - which needs a fifth of the parliamentary party - if his \"period of reflection\" begins to stretch in to a lengthy meditation.\n\nJess Phillips is touted by many as a possible replacement for Jeremy Corbyn\n\nAnother potential candidate who would move the party away from the Corbyn era is Jess Phillips. Many of the membership may believe she'd try to move the party to the centre, though in the Blair years she would have been regarded as \"soft left\".\n\nBut her supporters hope, in a contest, she would encourage non-members to sign up as \"registered supporters\" (as happened with Mr Corbyn's unanticipated victory in 2015) and re-shape the party as a more social democratic entity, but led by someone who doesn't look or sound like a conventional politician and who may be a match for that other big personality, Boris Johnson.\n\nBut the election post-mortem won't all be about leadership manoeuvring.\n\nI have had activists and insiders complain about the organisation as much as the politics.\n\nOne source said: \"We need to look at why we were sending hundreds of people to Boris Johnson and IDS's (Iain Duncan Smith's) seats, which we couldn't win, when canvassing sessions elsewhere were being cancelled for a lack of volunteers.\"\n\nWhile Momentum tried to divert resources to certain seats, critics say the party itself lacked coherence\n\nSome unions are irritated that they never got a list of target seats or advice on where best to send their members.\n\nOverall, critics complained of a lack of coherence.\n\nCuddly toys were not in the Labour election manifesto\n\nThen there were the policies.\n\nIndividually, some are, by any measure, popular - just as the current leadership claim.\n\nBut taken together, one now former MP told me: \"It was like the Generation Game conveyor belt. One of the few things we didn't offer voters was a cuddly toy, or if we did, I missed it.\n\n\"But all the other items - broadband, pensions, free buses - came so thick and fast no-one could remember them. Not a single voter mentioned a single retail offer on the doorstep.\"\n\nOne phrase unlikely to be used during the \"period of reflection\" is \"Didn't they do well?\"\n\nSo the big question facing the main, but diminished, party of opposition is this: Does it simply want a new leader, or does it really need a new direction?", "There are about 40 volcanoes worldwide thought capable of doing what Anak Krakatau (centre island) did\n\nShattered remnants from the volcano that generated a devastating tsunami in Indonesia a year ago have been pictured on the seafloor for the first time.\n\nScientists used sonar equipment to image the giant chunks of rock that slid into the ocean when one side of Anak Krakatau collapsed.\n\nSome of these blocks are 70-90m high.\n\nTheir plunge into the water produced tall waves that tore across the shorelines of Java and Sumatra on 22 December 2018.\n\nOver 400 people around the Sunda Strait died in the nighttime disaster, and thousands more were injured and/or displaced.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dave Tappin recalls the event and describes the blocks of rock on the seabed\n\nResearchers have been trying to reconstruct what happened ever since. But all their studies to date have been based on what can be seen above the water.\n\nProf Dave Tappin and colleagues realised they had to investigate the island volcano's missing mass - now under the ocean's surface - or they would never truly get a full description of Anak Krakatau's failure.\n\nA multibeam echosounder was brought in to map the seabed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Updated: This simulation shows how the volcano's flank slipped into the water\n\n\"Early models of the collapse were based on satellite imagery that only looked at the subaerial parts of the volcano,\" the British Geological Survey scientist told BBC News.\n\n\"Our bathymetry is imaging at 200m water depths and we are seeing triangular-shaped blocks, which are basically coherent and they formed, before the collapse, the southwestern flank of Anak Krakatau.\"\n\nThe debris field runs out to 2,000m from the volcano. A seismic survey also conducted by the team shows how this material is layered on top of older deposits.\n\nCrucially, the underwater imaging has allowed Prof Tappin's team to revise its estimate for the volume of rock involved in the flank failure. And it's smaller than previously thought.\n\nCalculations based on above-water measurements of what was left of the once 335m-high volcano had suggested a figure of 0.27 cubic km.\n\nThe new assessment now points to 0.19 cubic km sliding into the ocean, almost 200 million cubic metres.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Stephan Grilli: New simulations reproduce the damage observed on nearby islands\n\nThis smaller volume might have presented something of a problem for tsunami modellers.\n\nTheir original simulations of how the waves generated in the collapse moved across the Sunda Strait had already proved a good match for what had been observed at tide gauges and from what was known of the extent of damage along nearby coasts.\n\nNow, the models are having to be re-run but with a smaller input.\n\nThe simulations still work, however - and with good reason. Prof Tappin's team has also discovered that the failure plane on the volcano - the angle of slope along which the rock mass slid - was shallower than earlier assumptions.\n\nWhereas it was once thought the failure plane cut down steeply into the basin created when the old volcano on the site blew its top in 1883, it's now obvious the collapse slope entered the water much nearer the surface.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This simulation, based on the new data, shows how the tsunami moved outwards\n\n\"We've already redone the near-field modelling with a finer resolution based on the new bathymetry and the results are about the same, despite having a smaller volume of rock,\" explained tsunami expert Prof Stephan Grilli from the University of Rhode Island.\n\n\"The shallower slide occurs almost like a ski jump, maintaining the collapse material closer to the surface and making it more tsunamigenic than a steeper failure, which would have brought the sediment down deeper, much quicker.\"\n\nProfs Tappin and Grilli were speaking here in San Francisco at the American Geophysical Union's annual Fall Meeting. This is the first chance they've had to present their findings to the wider scientific community.\n\nAlso speaking was Prof Hermann Fritz from the Georgia Institute of Technology.\n\nHe reviewed the damage on nearby shores, describing from on-the-ground studies how high the tsunami waves must have been and how far inland they reached.\n\nOn the islands in the immediate vicinity of Anak Krakatau, trees up to 80m above the normal sea surface were torn from their roots.\n\nUjung Kulon National Park is due southwest of Anak Krakatau, some 50km away\n\nMuch of the wave energy took a path away from the volcano in the same direction of the collapse - to the southwest. This resulted in 10m-high waves laying waste to a corner of Ujung Kulon National Park on Panaitan Island - a distance of 50km from Anak Krakatau.\n\n\"Local residents were very fortunate that the collapse was in the southwest direction, in the direction where few people were living - towards the national park,\" said Prof Fritz.\n\n\"Had the collapse direction been different, the outcome could have been very different as well in terms of tsunami heights on populated areas.\"\n\nLessons learned from Anak Krakatau are being used to assess the hazards at other volcanoes. There are about 40 other locations around the world where flank collapse into surrounding water is considered a danger.\n\nThe map shows the area covered by the bathymetric survey, to the southwest and northeast of Anak Krakatau\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "The government is to consider whether failure to pay the TV licence fee should cease to be a criminal offence, a Treasury minister has said.\n\nRishi Sunak confirmed Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered a review of the sanction for non-payment of the £154.50 charge, which funds the BBC.\n\nProsecution for non-payment of the fee can currently end in a court appearance and potential fine of up to £1,000.\n\nBut the BBC warned decriminalisation could cost it £200m a year.\n\nThe Sunday Telegraph reported the consultation had been ordered by the PM after the Conservatives won a majority of 80 at last week's election.\n\nAsked whether non-payment of the fee should be decriminalised, Mr Sunak told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: \"That is something the prime minister has said we will look at, and has instructed people to look at that\".\n\n\"I think it's fair to say people find the criminalisation of non-payment of the licence fee to be something that has provoked questions in the past,\" he said.\n\nMr Sunak did not elaborate on an alternative method that could be used to enforce payment of the TV licence.\n\nHowever a previous government review in 2015 looked into whether a fine for non-payment could be issued under civil law instead, similar to the fees for breaking parking, bus lane and congestion charge rules.\n\nThe review also examined whether unpaid TV licence fees should be considered a civil debt in the same way as unpaid utility bills or council tax.\n\nHowever, it recommended against changing the criminal sanctions regime, saying decriminalisation could bring with it an increased risk of evasion.\n\nIt added that penalties brought under civil law could still be enforced using the criminal law as a last resort.\n\nIncome from the licence fee was worth £3.6bn to the BBC in the last financial year, accounting for approximately 75% of the broadcaster's revenues.\n\nDuring the election campaign, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he thought replacing the licence fee entirely needs \"looking at\".\n\n\"You have to ask yourself whether that approach to funding a media company still makes sense in the long term given the way that other organisations manage to fund themselves,\" he said.\n\n\"The system of funding out of what is a general tax bears reflection\".\n\nMr Sunak said he would not \"speculate\" on the long-term future of the licence fee itself, adding that it had been \"secured\" through to 2027, when the current Royal Charter governing the corporation ends.\n\nBut he added: \"How people consume media is changing, and it is of course right we continue to look at those things over time.\"\n\nA BBC spokesman said the previous government review recommended the existing criminal sanctions regime should be maintained.\n\n\"The government has already commissioned a QC to take an in-depth look at this matter and he found that 'the current system of criminal deterrence and prosecution should be maintained' and that it is fair and value for money to licence fee payers,\" the spokesman said.\n\n\"The review also found that non-payment cases accounted for 'a minute fraction' - only 0.3% - of court time.\"", "The winning number for Spain's annual Christmas lottery was 26590\n\nA Spanish TV reporter who told her colleagues live on air that she was \"not coming to work tomorrow\" while clutching a winning lottery ticket had only won a fraction of the total prize.\n\nNatalia Escudero, who works for public broadcaster RTVE, started screaming on camera - before later learning she had won just €5,000 ($5,550; £4,285).\n\nThe Christmas lottery's top prize is €4m, but can be shared among winners.\n\nMs Escudero later apologised over the way she reacted during the broadcast.\n\nShe said she regretted behaving in such an \"emotional\" manner and wanted to explain her actions to viewers who \"felt cheated\".\n\nMs Escudero's response came after she was accused of a lack of professionalism over the footage, which was widely shared on social media.\n\nIt showed her jumping for joy while champagne was sprayed into the air as it was announced that the winning number for the top prize in the Christmas lottery known as El Gordo (The Fat One) was 26590.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nResponding to criticism on Twitter, Ms Escudero said she had recently had a \"difficult\" few months \"for personal reasons\", but that - in her 25 years working as a professional journalist - she continued to have a \"clear conscience\" and was proud of her \"rigorous and proven work\".\n\n\"It is sad that Natalia Escudero is today [known as] the manipulative and lying journalist from RTVE,\" she tweeted.\n\nShe apologised for any confusion caused, but said she was being honest about taking time off because \"I am going on holiday\".", "PC Shazad Saddique's family said he \"had a real passion for the outdoors and helping others\".\n\nA policeman drowned after being sucked into a whirlpool during an adventure holiday in Scotland, an inquest heard.\n\nPC Shazad Saddique, 38, died while swimming near the Fairy Pools waterfall on the Isle of Skye on 19 July.\n\nTourists including a French policeman pulled the father-of-three, of Oldham, Greater Manchester clear but they could not revive him.\n\nThe Greater Manchester Police (GMP) officer's wife was expecting their fourth child at the time.\n\nRochdale Coroner's Court heard PC Saddique, who was a student officer based in Ashton-under-Lyne, was involved in outreach work with local youths to get them into the countryside.\n\nHe had arranged the Scottish trip for 30 people including his brother and 13-year-old son.\n\nThe court heard that he jumped into the water at Fairy Pools - a natural waterfall phenomenon in the Cuillin Mountain Range in Glen Brittle - with goggles, wetsuit and swimming shoes.\n\nHe had been swimming for about an hour when tragedy struck.\n\nPC Shazad Saddique was also a keen runner who ran marathons around the world and hiked\n\nFamily friend Temour Ahmed said: \"I heard people shouting and went to the pool I could see Shazad was unresponsive in the water.\n\n\"I tried to get into the water but there was a very strong undercurrent which was pulling my trousers down so I got out.\"\n\nHe added: \"It was looking like a whirlpool effect.\n\n''Eventually we were able to get to Shazad from the water but sadly his lips where blue and he was totally unresponsive.\"\n\nPC Saddique, who joined GMP in 2018, was praised by the coroner for being a \"role model\"\n\nRecording a conclusion of death by drowning Coroner Joanne Kearsley recorded a conclusion of death by drowning and said it was a \"very, very sad case\".\n\nShe added: ''More likely than not he became caught up in a strong current which created a vortex effect.\"\n\nThe coroner also praised PC Saddique for touching \"the lives of many\".\n\nHis family said he was \"the most selfless person you could ever hope to meet\".\n\nTheir statement added: \"He was the best dad, and his wife and kids were his absolute world.''\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Melania Geymonat (right) and Christine Hannigan both needed hospital treatment\n\nA teenager who abused a same-sex couple on a London bus is to attend diversity lessons as part of his punishment.\n\nThe 15-year-old had pleaded guilty to abusing Melania Geymonat and Christine Hannigan.\n\nThey were injured with pelted coins and had a handbag stolen while on a Camden night bus on 30 May.\n\nThe youth was given an eight-month youth referral order, extended from six due to the homophobic nature of the attack.\n\nHe and two other youths, aged 16 and 17, had surrounded the women and asked them questions such as: \"How do you have sex?\", Highbury Corner Youth Court was told.\n\nThey each admitted using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour to cause harassment, alarm or distress against the two women.\n\nThe court heard the 15-year-old had handed the eldest teenager coins which he then pelted at the couple, prompting a scuffle between Ms Hannigan and one of the teenagers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I was and still am angry at bus attack'\n\nHe had also made \"degrading gestures\" towards the pair, including references to the sex act of scissoring.\n\nA second charge of handling stolen goods, related to Ms Geymonat's bank card, was included in his sentence.\n\nHe was also sentenced to do 20 hours of community reparation.\n\nDistrict Judge Nicholas Rimmer said: \"You need the close supervision of the youth offending service to think carefully about your behaviour.\n\n\"This will include diversity sessions which will make you think about hate crime, the protected characteristics and minority groups.\"\n\nThe 17-year-old boy was previously given a four-month youth rehabilitation order while the 16-year-old was given an eight-month youth referral order.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dany Cotton stepped down in the wake of criticism in the Grenfell inquiry\n\nLondon Fire Brigade's commissioner who was forced to retire early following the Grenfell Tower blaze inquiry has had tributes paid on her last day.\n\nThousands of firefighters formed a \"guard of honour\" for Dany Cotton, the first female LFB commissioner.\n\nMs Cotton was due to retire in April 2020 after 32 years of service.\n\nIn response to the parade, which came after she revealed on 6 December she would step down, the Grenfell Action Group dismissed it as \"a street party\".\n\nBut as Ms Cotton joined the parade she was hugged by supporters and met with bagpipes and applause.\n\nThousands of firefighters, and a dog, lined the streets to pay tribute to Dany Cotton on Monday\n\nTaking to an impromptu stage on top of a 1937 Leyland Metz fire engine, she said: \"Things have been a bit difficult recently, but the messages of support I've received, the emails, the messages on social media, have just made everything okay.\n\n\"It makes me feel proud, the fire service looks after each other.\"\n\nShe said she thought all the work over three decades were her legacy, \"but especially recently [on] mental health awareness.\"\n\n\"I'm very very sad to be leaving but I think the legacy of all these people here shows that I must have done something alright,\" she added.\n\nFirefighters held up a sign saying 'We Are Dany'\n\nBut Joe Delaney, from Grenfell Action Group, said: \"Given the findings of the recent inspection, LFB would be better off if efforts were directed at providing its personnel with the training they have been denied and its funding were directed at providing them with the equipment they desperately require.\"\n\nMs Cotton will officially step down on New Year's Eve and will be replaced by Andy Roe, who has served with the LFB since 2002.", "January 2010. Barack Obama was one year into his US presidency, Instagram hadn't been invented and the word Brexit had never been uttered.\n\nA decade on, we look back at the most read stories on the BBC News website year by year.\n\nMiner Juan Illanes celebrates after coming out of the Phoenix capsule\n\nBeing trapped underground in darkness, with hardly any food or water, is \"the stuff of nightmares\", says BBC Latin America online editor Vanessa Buschschluter, who reported from the San Jose mine in northern Chile after 33 miners became trapped deep underground.\n\nIt was the nightmarish quality of the miners' situation, she says, that moved not only Chileans, but people around the world.\n\nFor 17 days the collapse of a Chilean copper and gold mine was not widely covered outside the country. That was until the miners tied a note to a probe sent deep beneath the ground saying they were alive.\n\nAnd with that, \"people were hooked\", says Ms Buschschluter. Rescuers drilled down as the miners' desperate families watched on, keeping vigil from what became known as Camp Hope.\n\n\"When one of the drills finally reached the miners, the camp's bell rang out and relatives hugged and jumped for joy, some fell on their knees praying,\" Ms Buschschluter adds.\n\nThe 33 miners were brought to the surface one by one in a specially-designed capsule via a tunnel just wider than the men's shoulders. Winching them to safety took 22 hours.\n\nPeople sang the national anthem and waved Chilean flags, as champagne corks popped. It was the stuff of movies - and sure enough their ordeal made it on to the big screen in a Hollywood film starring Antonio Banderas.\n\nA story with a happy ending? Not quite. Many of the miners, who were trapped underground for a record 69 days, struggled to cope with their newfound fame, and some faced health and financial difficulties in the years after.\n\nA 150-year-old furniture store in Croydon is sent up in flames\n\nIt was the worst case of civil unrest in the UK for a generation. The police shooting of 29-year-old Mark Duggan in Tottenham, north London, prompted a protest that turned violent.\n\nOver four hot August nights, looters ran free and armed rioters set fire to two police cars, then a bus, and shops.\n\nThe unrest spread just like the flames - first across London, to Hackney, then Lewisham, Peckham, Woolwich, Ealing and Clapham - before erupting in other major cities including Manchester, Birmingham, Nottingham, Wolverhampton and Liverpool.\n\nThe Met Police officers later said they had been outnumbered and were afraid to take on rioters, some of whom were carrying machetes. Five people died and more than 3,000 were arrested.\n\nIn the year that followed, 1,400 of them were jailed and handed much tougher sentences than magistrates would usually give for such offences.\n\nResearch by sociologist Juta Kawalerowicz found deprivation and tensions between communities and police were main factors behind the riots.\n\nThe issue of police stop and search powers being used to target black people came up in the University of Oxford research. But Ms Kawalerowicz said they were not \"race riots\", and rioters did not come from one ethnic group.\n\nMichelle and Barack Obama hug in one of the most re-tweeted posts in social media history\n\nThe race was expected to be tight. But on election night, America's first black president stormed to another victory, securing a second term.\n\nBarack Obama's re-election was particularly important, says our senior North America reporter Anthony Zurcher, because it proved US voters \"were comfortable enough with a black man as president to want to keep him in the White House\".\n\nMr Obama, a Democrat, had run a largely solid, professional campaign, painting his Republican opponent - Mitt Romney - as an elite, corporate executive who was out of touch with mainstream American voters, says our reporter.\n\nIn his first term, Mr Obama, who took office amid one of the worst recessions in decades, had overhauled the US healthcare system and overcome strong Republican opposition to pass a programme designed to boost the economy.\n\nAnd in his first speech after re-election, Mr Obama told America: \"The best is yet to come.\" He would go on to strike a climate change agreement in Paris, negotiate a deal to curb Iran's nuclear potential and restore diplomatic relations with Cuba.\n\nBut Mr Obama's second term was also punctuated by frustration, notably problems with his healthcare system and his failure to push through gun control legislation.\n\n\"Of course, four years later, Democrat Hillary Clinton was unable to rebuild Obama's winning coalition of young, minority and working class Americans,\" says Mr Zurcher.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The moment of the first explosion\n\nA jubilant scene at the finish line of the 2013 Boston marathon turned into a horrific one when two pressure cooker bombs packed with nails, ball bearings and other shrapnel exploded.\n\nThree spectators - including an eight-year-old boy - were killed, while 260 others suffered injuries, with many losing legs.\n\nThe US has had its share of terror attacks, but this one \"transcended tragedy to become an ongoing national drama\", says Mr Zurcher.\n\nThe search for the perpetrators shut down Boston for days. \"It was a manhunt that played itself out on both traditional news outlets and social media, as Americans across the country watched every twist and turn with fear and fascination - the false alarms, dead-end leads and dramatic confrontations,\" he says.\n\nThree days after the bombing, the FBI released CCTV images of the suspects, brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Then a police officer responding to reports of a disturbance near the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus was found with fatal gunshot wounds.\n\nThe brothers hijacked a car at gunpoint, and were chased by police, throwing explosives at them, before their car crashed.\n\nThe elder brother, Tamerlan, was killed in a gunfight that followed, but Dzhokhar fled on foot. The wounded 19-year-old was found hours later hiding in a boat in a local resident's backyard.\n\nAt a trial, his defence team argued his older brother was the driving force, but prosecutors said Dzhokhar was an equal partner. He was found guilty of 30 charges and sentenced to death.\n\nEarlier this month, lawyers for Dzhokhar - who is currently in a high security prison - appealed against his death sentence, alleging jurors at his trial were biased.\n\nPeaches Geldof had started using heroin again before her death, an inquest heard\n\nPeaches Geldof's death from a heroin overdose at just 25 shocked us all, says BBC senior entertainment reporter Mark Savage.\n\n\"Initial reports from the ambulance service called the tragedy 'unexplained and sudden' - immediately and eerily reminding us of the shocking death of Peaches' mother, Paula Yates,\" he adds. Geldof was just 11 when her mother died from a heroin overdose in 2000, aged 41.\n\nThe model and TV presenter - the second daughter of musician Bob Geldof - was a favourite of paparazzi photographers from a young age, often pictured leaving London parties in the early hours.\n\nBut later in life, she moved to the countryside with her second husband musician Tom Cohen and her two young sons, posting frequently about her family on social media. She told Mother and Baby magazine a month before her death that \"becoming a mother was like becoming me, finally\".\n\nAfter Geldof died, messages of condolence poured into the BBC from readers.. An inquest heard she had been addicted to heroin and had been taking the substitute drug methadone for two-and-a-half years.\n\nHer husband told the inquest Geldof had started using heroin again before her death. Detectives investigated who had given Geldof the heroin, but closed the case a year later with no answers.\n\nGunmen stormed the Bataclan concert hall, firing at the crowds inside\n\nParis correspondent Lucy Williamson still remembers the sound of bullets ricocheting off the old facades of buildings in the city's 11th arrondissement on the night attackers killed 130 people and injured hundreds more.\n\nAlmost simultaneously, gunmen and suicide bombers attacked the Bataclan concert hall, the Stade de France stadium, as well as Parisian restaurants and bars.\n\nIt came in the middle of a string of attacks in France - 10 months after attacks on the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine and nine months before the Nice lorry attack.\n\nThe suspected ringleader of the Paris killings was Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Belgian national who was killed in a police raid in northern Paris five days later.\n\nAfter months on the run, the sole surviving attacker, Salah Abdeslam, was shot and injured in a dramatic arrest in Brussels. He was later sentenced to 20 years in prison.\n\n\"For almost two years, it felt as if France was being bludgeoned again and again,\" says Ms Williamson.\n\nBut she says there was \"something different\" about the Paris attacks that means four years later \"the impact lives on just below the surface\".\n\n\"In the midst of attacks on satirical journalists, police officers, the Jewish community, priests, and symbols of the state, this time the hatred expanded to cover everyone - people at a concert, in restaurants, at a football game,\" she says.\n\n\"The target was simply France's joy in its own way of life.\"\n\nNigel Farage reacts to the 2016 referendum result at a party in central London on 24 June 2016\n\nBBC News' live coverage of the UK's 2016 EU referendum was, and still is, the site's most read page ever - by some distance.\n\nIt was to be the biggest decision \"in our lifetimes\", according to then prime minister, David Cameron, who urged the country to vote to stay in the EU.\n\nThe campaign that followed saw a \"blizzard of claims, some of them of dubious provenance\", says the BBC's Reality Check correspondent Chris Morris.\n\nAcross the side of a Vote Leave bus was the message: \"We send the EU £350m a week, let's fund the NHS instead.\"\n\nMr Cameron and the Remainers were ultimately defeated by 52% to 48% - despite London, Scotland and Northern Ireland backing Remain.\n\nBoris Johnson, the public face of Vote Leave, said voters had \"searched in their hearts\" and the UK now had a \"glorious opportunity\" to pass its own laws, set its own taxes and control its own borders. UKIP leader Nigel Farage hailed it the UK's \"independence day\". A day later, Mr Cameron quit.\n\nOur correspondent says the referendum \"created the current divide in British politics - a divide the latest election hasn't really resolved\".\n\n\"We now know Brexit will happen,\" says Mr Morris. \"But many of the bitter arguments surrounding it aren't going to go away.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Reaction from Bristol: 'You're joking. Why does she need to do it?'\n\n\"Not another one,\" was the cry from Brenda from Bristol, after Theresa May announced her intention to call a snap election. Coming after the EU referendum and the 2015 general election, people were tired of politics.\n\n\"In just three words, Brenda summed up the thoughts of so many millions of voters,\" says BBC presenter Jon Kay, who interviewed her. \"With her lovely Bristolian accent and her old shopping trolley, we knew immediately that we had struck TV gold.\"\n\nMrs May said the election was needed for \"certainty, stability and strong leadership\" after the EU referendum - although, as we now know, she ended up losing her majority and having to rely on the Democratic Unionist Party to prop up her minority government.\n\nThe BBC's live coverage of the results was the most read page of the year.\n\nIn its first months, the government got its legislation through Parliament quite comfortably, but as Mrs May found to her cost, political deadlock was about to set in.\n\nAs for Brenda, Mr Kay still checks in with her from time to time. \"She's doing fine but doesn't want any more fuss. She laughs about how mad the world is,\" he says.\n\nBrenda doesn't own a laptop or a mobile phone. So when Mr Kay told her that her catchphrase had gone viral again after the 2019 election was called, she laughed and replied: \"That doesn't sound very pleasant.\"\n\nFor a brief spell in November 2018, it looked as though the UK was headed for an orderly Brexit. But it didn't last long.\n\nAfter years of negotiations, Theresa May finally struck a deal with EU leaders, setting out the terms on which the UK would leave the EU.\n\nMrs May said her cabinet had backed the deal, calling it \"the best that could have been negotiated\". But she soon faced a revolt.\n\nDominic Raab, then Brexit minister, led a wave of resignations, saying he could not \"in good conscience\" support the deal. In the following months, Mrs May faced votes of no confidence in her leadership, but she clung on.\n\nHowever, after MPs rejected a version of her Brexit agreement for a third time, she stepped down, telling the country she deeply regretted being unable to deliver Brexit.\n\nBoris Johnson outside his polling station with his dog, Dilyn\n\n\"Everything changed\" on the stroke of 22:00 GMT on 12 December, says BBC political correspondent Jonathan Blake.\n\nAs the BBC's Huw Edwards declared the exit poll at the end of a cold and wet December polling day, the Conservatives were about to secure a Commons majority of 80, the party's largest since 1987.\n\n\"A campaign focussed relentlessly on the seemingly simple promise to 'get Brexit done' had won over voters in places long-seen as out of reach for the Conservatives,\" says Mr Blake.\n\nThe Labour Party had its worst election result since 1935, while the SNP made big gains across Scotland. In Northern Ireland, more nationalists than unionists won seats, putting the union further \"under strain\", says Mr Blake.\n\n\"But in Downing Street Mr Johnson's grip on power was stronger, his support-base wider and he now had a freer hand to do, within reason, what he wanted,\" he continued.\n\n\"The election result has set the course firmly for the UK's departure from the European Union, left Labour in ruins and all but silenced the arguments for another referendum.\"\n\nKnife-edge votes and backroom deals between parties have defined the politics of the past decade. But after the Tory's resounding victory, the tone of the next 10 years could be entirely different.", "Roy Beddows said he had never expected to see the ring again, which was engraved with his initials\n\nA man who lost a gold ring while working in a field in the 1950s has been reunited with it 61 years on.\n\nRoy Beddows lost the nine-carat gold ring - engraved with his initials - while working on a farm in West Felton, Oswestry, Shropshire, when he was 17.\n\nIt was found by metal detectorist Robin Kynaston, who traced Mr Beddows after the landowner realised it may belong to an ex-employee of her late father.\n\nMr Kynaston said it was \"amazing\" to return the ring to its rightful owner.\n\nThe ring was lost in a field near Oswestry 61 years ago\n\nHe has now struck up a friendship with Mr Beddows, 79, and the pair realised they knew people in common.\n\n\"I make a point of always returning everything I find to the landowner or at least offering it to them, good or scrap,\" said Mr Kynaston, who took up metal detecting three years ago.\n\n\"But this was the first gold I'd ever found. It was a little bit of a difficult thing to pass it back, but I did pass it back and look what's come out of it - something amazing.\"\n\nRobin Kynaston took up metal detecting three years ago\n\nMr Kynaston said after he contacted the farm, the landowner posted the signet ring through his letterbox.\n\nIt was accompanied with a note saying she had \"wracked her brains\" about who the initials RAB referred to and believed the ring could belong to Roy Beddows.\n\nThe detectorist then contacted local Facebook groups and realised people knew Mr Beddows and he still lived locally.\n\n\"Everybody knows everybody here - they are either friends or related. It's a little bit like Emmerdale,\" he said.\n\nMr Beddows, who had originally bought the ring for himself, said: \"I can remember losing it, but I would never ever expect to see it again - no way would I.\"", "Josh Quigley was stranded in the desert after four punctures at night on an earlier part of his journey through the US\n\nA cyclist attempting to ride around the world has been badly injured after being knocked off his bike in the US.\n\nJosh Quigley, 27, from Livingston, had to be airlifted to hospital after being hit by a car whilst cycling through the state of Texas.\n\nHis injuries include a fractured pelvis, ribs and skull, as well as a pierced lung.\n\nThe 27-year-old has said it will be at least two months before he can walk again.\n\nWriting on his Facebook page, he said: \"I don't remember much about it but I've been told by the police that I was struck from behind by a vehicle driving at 70mph.\n\n\"After the vehicle hit me I was launched off the bike and landed 50 feet away.\n\n\"This happened whilst riding at night wearing reflective clothing and with strong rear lights.\"\n\nMr Quigley, who said one of the few things he remembers is being in the helicopter, added that \"for now I'm just happy to be alive\".\n\nKnown as the Tartan Explorer, Mr Quigley has cycled about 14,000 miles on his bike since he left Scotland in April.\n\nHe embarked on the trip to beat depression and alcohol abuse and said in his Facebook post about the crash that he will \"find a way to overcome this and finish what I started\".\n\nThe incident is one of a number of setbacks faced by Mr Quigley since he started his trip including sweat ruining his passport in Australia, which meant he had to fly back to Britain to get a new one before carrying on with his tour.\n\nIn April, just weeks into his world attempt, thieves stole his bike, which he nicknamed Braveheart, from outside a hostel in London.\n\nMr Quigley had been planning to cycle from Los Angeles to New York in the latest leg of his trip but changed course to finish in the warmer climate of Florida because his water bottles kept freezing in the US winter conditions.\n\nJosh Quigley with his bike \"Braveheart\" before it was stolen in London\n• None Round-the-world bike trip to go ahead after U-turn", "Mo Fayose is on a mission to stop people feeling lonely at Christmas\n\nA woman has written and hand-delivered 1,900 Christmas cards to strangers in an effort to combat loneliness.\n\nMo Fayose, from Nottingham, spent months staying up late into the night writing the cards and then trekking the streets to deliver them.\n\nThe 45-year-old said she wanted to reach out to the vulnerable.\n\nEvery card was delivered with chocolates and an invitation to dinner on Christmas Day, hosted by a team of volunteers.\n\nEach handwritten card included chocolate and an invitation to a Christmas dinner hosted by volunteers\n\n\"There's an atmosphere about Christmas that makes it very, very depressing for many, many people - being given something, being remembered, makes a lot of difference,\" she said.\n\nShe said she was \"gutted\" when she ran out of cards last week.\n\n\"I had reached number 35 on a street... but it had another 30 houses. Maybe there's someone in need?\n\n\"Next year I'm going to make even more and start again, where I finished.\"\n\nMiss Fayose encouraged other people to do the same\n\nShe bought the cards in bulk after Christmas last year to keep down costs but said she lost count of how much she spent, with the total somewhere \"in the hundreds\".\n\n\"Someone came out and said thank you, and I could see on their face it meant something to them,\" she said.\n\n\"It's all about love. If you can give that back, that little gesture means everything.\"\n\nThe mum-of-two, who runs the Community Cares Club, came up with the idea while working as a mental health nurse when a woman told her how isolated she had become.\n\n\"She said, 'can you imagine, no-one even sends me Christmas cards'. That hit something inside me, it hurt me.\"\n\nAs well as hosting an annual Christmas dinner, this year Mo and her team will be delivering meals to people who cannot leave their house\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.", "Prince Charles met rescue workers on the outskirts of the South Yorkshire village of Fishlake\n\nPrince Charles has been visiting South Yorkshire to meet people affected by last month's floods.\n\nHe met firefighters, police officers and soldiers at the village of Fishlake, near Doncaster, and toured the worst-affected areas.\n\nHundreds of home were evacuated and businesses were affected when a month's worth of rain fell in 24 hours, causing the River Don to burst its banks.\n\nThe prince has made a donation to the flood relief fund, Clarence House said.\n\nCharles shared a joke with some of the residents of Fishlake during his walkabout\n\nAsked by a reporter about his father the Duke of Edinburgh as he walked into the village, Charles said: \"He's being looked after very well in hospital.\n\n\"At the moment that's all we know.\"\n\nThe prince spent two hours in the village chatting to many of the locals lining the streets and looking inside some of the badly damaged homes.\n\nMany of the villagers gathered outside the Old Butchers cafe, which owners Louise and Claire Holling turned into a relief centre during worst of the flooding.\n\nThe prince spent two hours touring the village of Fishlake\n\nThe royal visitor praised the pair when they turned up later at the village hall, serving refreshments for locals and dignitaries who had gathered to meet him.\n\nAs he left, Charles told the crowds: \"I hope you've been in and tried those cakes. They're amazing those two, aren't they?\"\n\nCharles also had a beer at the Hare and Hounds pub, which was at the centre of the flood relief effort in the village.\n\nThe prince visited the Hare and Hounds pub which acted as a relief hub during the flooding\n\nAngie and Scott Godfrey, who run the pub, made sure stranded residents were fed by sending round hot meals on boats.\n\nMr Godfrey said to Charles outside the pub: \"We were just going to get you a pint when you got here. You might have needed one by this time.\"\n\nThe prince replied \"I do\" and went inside for a quick sip of a half of bitter before moving on to St Cuthbert's Church, which also acted as a relief hub.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's David Shukman views the scale of the flooding in the Doncaster area from a helicopter\n\nMany villagers whose properties are still uninhabitable will spend Christmas away from their homes.\n\nOthers will mark the holiday in mobile homes, static caravans and campervans provided by insurance companies.\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The BBC's Panorama investigated London's child begging, connected to the police probe, in 2011\n\nA Romanian court has upheld the acquittals of 25 men accused of running a major child-trafficking operation.\n\nThe men were arrested in 2010 as part of a large joint operation with British police - where children were rescued in London raids.\n\nThe men were accused of running a scheme where children were sent across the continent to beg and steal.\n\nHuman rights groups have criticised Monday's ruling, which puts an end to the almost-decade long legal saga.\n\nThe men were previously acquitted by a lower court in February and the appeal court, based in Targu Mures, said prosecutors had failed to present evidence.\n\nThey were originally arrested in 2010, along with another man who has since died, in raids with the help of UK police.\n\nThey had faced charges for trafficking and criminal exploitation of more than 160 unnamed children, being members of an organised criminal network and money laundering.\n\nThe case centred around the village of Tandarei in south-eastern Romania. The victims and suspects were members of the Romanian Roma community.\n\nBernie Gravett, who led the British investigation, told the BBC that he had personally seen \"truckloads\" of evidence being sent to Romanian officials in 2010.\n\n\"I know the evidence is there, I've seen it with my own eyes...\" he said.\n\n\"We convicted 120 people in the UK of child trafficking, child neglect, child exploitation, money laundering, benefit fraud and a range of other crimes. Yet Romania have not convicted a single individual.\"\n\nAccording to Europol, their Joint Investigation Team worked with London's Metropolitan police as well as the Romanian National Police force from 2008.\n\nThe 2010 operation involved 300 Romanian and British police officers and about 30 raids, AFP reports.\n\nAfter one raid in Ilford, east London, 28 children aged between three and 17 years old were placed in protective custody.\n\nPolice at the time said proceeds from the criminal enterprise were being sent back to fund luxury lifestyles in Tandarei.\n\nSilvia Tabusca, coordinator of the Human Security Programme at the European Centre for Legal Education and Research, was quoted as saying the case represented a \"huge failure\" of the Romanian justice system.\n\n\"We are talking on the one hand about an extremely vulnerable group of people that need to be protected, a very large group of Roma children. On the other hand, this is cross-border organised crime that puts in jeopardy the entire security of Europe,\" she said.\n\nThe initial acquittal, issued nine years after the men's initial arrest, caused a number of NGOs to ask international bodies to \"remind Romania of its responsibilities\" regarding trafficking.", "Zipporah Kuria met with the European Aviation Safety Agency about the Boeing 737 Max\n\nBoeing is not a trustworthy company anymore, according to Zipporah Kuria, whose father was killed when a 737 Max plane crashed earlier this year.\n\nMs Kuria, who met with Europe's aviation watchdog on Wednesday, said: \"I wouldn't even use the word trust anywhere near Boeing.\"\n\nBoeing is fighting for its reputation while the 737 Max remains grounded.\n\nA company spokesman said: \"The safety of passengers and crews flying on our aircraft is our absolute priority.\"\n\nHe said: \"We are truly sorry and we continue to offer our deepest sympathies to the families and friends who lost loved ones in the accidents of Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302.\n\n\"We know we have a deep responsibility to everyone who flies on our airplanes to ensure that the 737 Max is one of the safest aircraft ever to fly.\"\n\nMs Kuria met with European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) along with other family members who lost loved ones, to gain reassurances that the Boeing 737 Max will not return to the skies until rigorous tests are carried out.\n\nThe British woman's father, Joseph Waithaka, died with 156 others on board an Ethiopian Airlines flight in March.\n\nIt was the second crash involving a Boeing 737 Max following the Lion Air disaster in Indonesia which killed all 189 people onboard.\n\n\"They are not trustworthy anymore - if they had been in the past,\" Ms Kuria said.\n\nShe said the EASA's executive director Patrick Ky had reassured her that \"he would not be caving\" to either the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the US regulator, or Boeing in terms of reclassifying whether the 737 Max is safe for European air travel.\n\nBoeing will temporarily stop making the 737 Max in January\n\nBoeing is hoping that the FAA will allow the Max back into the air in the early part of next year but the FAA's close relationship with Boeing has been under intense scrutiny.\n\nIt recently emerged that the FAA allowed the 737 Max to keep flying after the first disaster in October last year despite knowing there was a risk of further crashes.\n\nMs Kuria said: \"I think the more discovery is done, the more reason we are finding not to trust [Boeing] when it comes to the 737 Max.\n\n\"There are so many things that were hidden that shouldn't have been, so many things that were bypassed that shouldn't have been and I think every time we sit down and have a hearing or hear from an aviation authority on documents of discovery we just find out how preventable the death of our loved ones was.\"\n\nMr Ky said that the European regulator will \"take their time to recertify\" the plane.\n\nMs Kuria also said her safety concerns not only relate to the plane's automated flight control system which malfunctioned before both crashes but other critical safety systems on board the 737 Max.\n\nDuring the meeting, EASA said \"they would reassess all the critical safety systems that are on the 737 Max\", according to Ms Kuria.", "The women were discovered outside the property in Hazel Way, Crawley Down\n\nTwo women have been found dead and a man seriously hurt at a house in West Sussex.\n\nThe women's bodies were discovered outside the property in Hazel Way, Crawley Down, while the man was found inside by police at 10:20 GMT.\n\nPolice said the injured man had been arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nEarlier reports suggested a knife was used in the attack, but Sussex Police have since said \"this is not a knife crime\".\n\nThe force gave no further details about the cause of death. The injured man has been taken to Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton.\n\nA large number of police officers were at the house\n\nDet Ch Insp Alex Geldart said: \"This is a fast-moving investigation which will see significant police resources deployed to the scene for the foreseeable future.\n\n\"We are grateful for the support and patience of the local community while we conduct our inquiries.\n\n\"My thoughts are very much with the friends and family of the two women who have sadly lost their lives.\"\n\nThe detective said it was an isolated attack with no risk to the public and added: \"In response to media speculation I wish to make it absolutely clear that this is not a knife crime.\"\n\nTwo women were found dead outside the property and a man was found inside\n\nA double murder investigation as been launched and a man has been arrested\n\nThree forensic tents were pitched in the street and forensic investigators could be seen combing the area for evidence.\n\nA cordon is in place around the houses close to where the bodies were found.\n\nAnyone with information is asked to report online or call 101, quoting Operation Deanland, or ring Crimestoppers.\n\nForensic investigators could be seen combing the area for evidence\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nThe Professional Footballers' Association has called for a government inquiry into racism in football after Chelsea's Premier League win at Tottenham was marred by alleged racist behaviour from the crowd.\n\nReferee Anthony Taylor stopped play during the second half after Blues defender Antonio Rudiger complained of hearing monkey noises.\n\nTottenham have vowed to \"take the strongest possible action\" and said they will conduct \"a thorough investigation\".\n\nShortly after the stoppage, an announcement made over the public address system warned that \"racist behaviour is interfering with the game\".\n\nSecond and third addresses followed with the game heading towards its conclusion.\n\nThe PFA said: \"We are disgusted and dismayed that once again, a Premier League fixture has been tainted by abuse from the stands towards players.\n\n\"It has become clear that football players are on the receiving end of the blatant racism that is currently rife in the UK, but they are not alone.\n\n\"The PFA stands beside every player who faces discrimination. We will continue to fight on their behalf to combat this issue for good.\n\n\"Football is part of the fabric of British society - with the huge global audience that English football attracts, we have a responsibility to lead the way with a zero-tolerance policy.\"\n\nThe PFA added that \"all governing bodies\" and \"all football stakeholders\" should work together to \"confront, challenge and eradicate racist abuse in our stadiums and in our country\".\n\nIt said: \"The PFA calls for a government inquiry into racism within football and encourage the establishment of an All-Party Group at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.\"\n\nSpurs confirmed that they will be liaising with Chelsea and their players for their observations.\n\n\"Any form of racism is completely unacceptable and will not be tolerated in our stadium,\" said Spurs in a statement.\n\n\"We take any such allegations extremely seriously and shall take the strongest possible action against any individual found to be behaving in such a way, including stadium bans.\"\n\nThe Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL) and Tottenham have confirmed that the game was stopped over a single incident of alleged racist behaviour.\n\nTottenham forward Son Heung-min had been sent off after a second-half clash involving Rudiger moments earlier.\n\nThe match was also held up when objects were thrown towards Chelsea keeper Kepa Arrizabalaga.\n\n'When will this nonsense stop?'\n\nRudiger has since tweeted: \"It is really sad to see racism again at a football match, but I think it's very important to talk about it in public. If not, it will be forgotten again in a couple of days (as always).\n\n\"I don't want to involve Tottenham as an entire club into this situation as I know that just a couple of idiots were the offenders. I got a lot of supportive messages on social media from Spurs fans as well in the last hours - thank you a lot for this.\n\n\"I really hope that the offenders will be found and punished soon, and in such a modern football ground like the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium with dozens of TV and security cameras, it must be possible to find and subsequently punish them.\n\n\"If not, then there must have been witnesses in the stadium who saw and heard the incident. It's just such a shame that racism still exists in 2019. When will this nonsense stop?\"\n\n'He told me he was listening to monkey noises'\n\nIn his post-match interview, Chelsea captain Cesar Azpilicueta said: \"It is made very clear to us all if we have heard any racist incident to report it.\n\n\"Toni came to me and he told me he was listening in the crowd [to] monkey noises and my job as a captain is to go straight to the referee and to report it.\n\n\"We are very concerned and aware of the problems. All together we need to make it stop. We have to work together towards the eradication of the problem. It's an issue in life and football unfortunately and we have to keep working hard.\"\n\nTottenham manager Jose Mourinho reiterated that view in his post-match interview on Sky Sports.\n\n\"I saw nothing. I saw the referee follow the protocol, he came to [fourth official] Andre Marriner, he came to me and Frank Lampard and told us what was happening,\" he said.\n\n\"The protocol was followed and we are one of the clubs; every club is together on this situation and of course we are disappointed.\"\n\nTottenham defender Toby Alderweireld added: \"It does not belong in football. I hope they find the individuals quickly because it is not good and we are all sick of it.\"\n\nSpeaking at the game, former Newcastle and Tottenham midfielder Jermaine Jenas said: \"With the technology they have in this stadium, I would be shocked if they could not pinpoint the individual.\n\n\"That person will be isolated and dealt with accordingly. There is no place for it but I want more than an announcement.\n\n\"I do not want them back in the stadium ever again - sadly some people are that ignorant.\"\n\nAnti-racism organisation Kick it Out later released a statement on Twitter.\n\nIt read: \"We are aware of the alleged racist incidents at today's game between Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea.\n\n\"We applaud the reaction of referee Anthony Taylor in following step one of the protocol and the ensuing steps taken by Tottenham Hotspur in repeating the stadium announcements.\n\n\"We have offered our support to both of the clubs and also to Chelsea's Antonio Rudiger.\"\n\nThe incident comes a year after racism in football hit the headlines after Manchester City striker Raheem Sterling was subjected to racist abuse at Stamford Bridge in December 2018, which led to a permanent ban for a Chelsea supporter.\n\nSterling was also one of a number of England players who faced monkey chants and Nazi salutes in Euro 2020 qualifiers this year.\n\nA supporter was also arrested and bailed over allegations of racist abuse against Manchester United players during their Premier League match at Manchester City on 7 December.\n\nA video had been circulated on social media of a man appearing to make monkey gestures and sounds towards United players at Etihad Stadium.\n\nSerie A's 'No To Racism' campaign - which arrived off the back of a number of racist incidents in Italy - has been widely condemned after they commissioned posters showing three monkeys with painted faces.", "John Halloran (left) and John Stacey (right) served together in Cyprus in the 1950s\n\nTwo army veterans who served together in Cyprus were reunited for the first time in 60 years after a chance encounter at a Christmas party.\n\nJohn Stacey, 83, and John Halloran, 81, both from Cardiff, lost touch in 1959 after being demobbed from the army.\n\nThe meeting happened as Mr Halloran walked past an event for veterans with dementia at the Royal British Legion club in Whitchurch, Cardiff.\n\nMr Stacey's wife said the reunion was like an \"early Christmas present\".\n\nRoger Lees (left) set up the encounter after speaking to Mr Halloran outside the event\n\nThe men served as infantry in the Welch Regiment during a conflict between Greek-Cypriot guerrillas and the British Army between 1955 and 1959.\n\nMr Halloran was passing the event on 9 December and asked Roger Lees, who helps to support Mr Stacey, who was standing outside, what was happening inside.\n\nMr Lees said: \"I said to Halloran, 'Do you know John Stacey?', and he said they were best mates out in Cyprus. I told him he was inside if he wanted to meet him.\n\n\"The bit that gets me going is Stacey's emotion when he saw his mate. Halloran tapped him on the shoulder, he turned around and he said, 'blimey O'Riley'.\n\n\"They sat down holding hands. It was like they didn't want to be parted.\n\n\"They started hugging and that was the most beautiful thing I'd seen.\"\n\nJohn Halloran (left) returned to Cardiff after fighting in Cyprus to work as a steelworker\n\nMr Halloran, who worked as a steelworker, said: \"We were in the same company, and John was a character around the camp. He was always laughing and joking, playing jokes on people including me.\n\n\"I got emotional when I saw him. He's a character and he hasn't changed.\"\n\nMr Stacey's wife, Judy, 76, said: \"I was surprised he remembered John. I thought it was wonderful.\n\n\"It was like an early Christmas present. It was lovely.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boeing's Starliner spacecraft has returned early after a timing error meant it failed to dock with the International Space Station.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Caudwell: \"Nearly every wealthy person I know, including me, is thinking of leaving the UK if Labour get in\"\n\nThe Conservative Party received £1.4m in donations in the final two days of the general election campaign, according to the Electoral Commission.\n\nThe SNP got £14,929 and the Brexit Party £50,000, according to the register of donations above £7,500.\n\nThe biggest donor was Phones4U founder John Caudwell, who gave the Conservatives £500,000.\n\nLabour, the Lib Dems and other parties did not get any donations above £7,500 in the final two days.\n\nBillionaire businessman and philanthropist Mr Caudwell told the Daily Telegraph he decided to make the donation on the Monday before the general election over fears that Labour would get in.\n\nHe said he had never donated to a political campaign before, apart from to Tory MP Sir Bill Cash's campaign for Brexit.\n\nIn total, across the six pre-poll donations reports, political parties in the UK reported receiving a combined total of £30,721,998 in donations, the Electoral Commission said.\n\nJust £231,333 was donated to parties in the final two days of the 2017 general election campaign, with most going to the Conservatives.\n\nThe second biggest donor in the final two days of the 2019 campaign was Sir Ehud Sheleg, the Conservative Party's co-treasurer, who gave the party £375,000.\n\nSir Ehud, an Israeli-born entrepreneur who owns an art gallery in Mayfair, has donated more than £3.4m to the party in recent years.\n\nHedge funds and property companies also splashed out big money on Boris Johnson's campaign for Number 10, the Electoral Commission figures reveal.\n\nThe SNP received a £14,929 donation from one individual, Moira Louise Stratton, in the final two days.\n\nFormer Tory Donor Christopher Harborne made two gifts of £25,000 to the Brexit Party in the final two days, having already handed the party more than £3m since the summer.\n\nMr Harborne is the boss of private plane dealers Sherriff Global Group and the owner of AML Global, which sells jet fuel.\n\nThe latest figures put the Conservatives on nearly £20m in registered large donations, compared with £5.4m raised by Labour, although this does not include small donations from party members and supporters.\n\nThe biggest non-individual donor across the entire reporting period was the union Unite, which has given £3.2m to the Labour Party.", "His daughter, TV presenter Fern Britton, announced on Twitter that he had died early on Sunday morning.\n\n\"Great actor, director and charmer,\" she wrote. \"May flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.\"\n\nBritton was best known for starring in BBC sitcom Don't Wait Up alongside Nigel Havers in the 1980s, as well as many British films including The Day of the Jackal.\n\nHe also appeared in Robin's Nest alongside Richard O'Sullivan and Tessa Wyatt, and films Operation Amsterdam as well as Sunday Bloody Sunday.\n\nIn 1975 he won the Broadcasting Press Guild's best actor award for his role in The Nearly Man.\n\nFern Britton's tweet sparked hundreds of tributes and messages of support on social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Fern Britton This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nJasper Britton, Britton's son from his second marriage, also tweeted, saying: \"As he was wont to say, 'that's show business, kid'\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Jasper Britton This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nComedian and actor Sanjeev Bhaskar wrote: \"Profound condolences Fern and gratitude for the joy and entertainment your Dad brought to me and millions of others. Sending love and strength.\"\n\nActor Peter Egan tweeted: \"Very sad to see the passing of the legend Tony Britton. A wonderful actor and light comedian. Condolences to his family. A lovely man too.\"\n\nBorn in Birmingham, Britton served in the Army and worked in an aircraft factory during World War Two.\n\nInterviewed on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs in 1973, Britton said he did not come from a theatrical background \"at all\".\n\n\"I believe one of my many aunts had a good voice but she never used it professionally,\" he said.\n\nBritton added: \"Ever since I was old enough to think, I've always wanted to be an actor. I couldn't tell you why, it was just there.\"\n\nHe joined an amateur dramatics group in Weston-super-Mare before turning professional.\n\nHe went on to appear on stage at the Old Vic and with the Royal Shakespeare Company, as well as the role of Professor Higgins in My Fair Lady for two and a half years as part of a national tour.\n\nTony Britton with his co-star Nigel Havers in sitcom Don't Wait Up in 1984\n\nDon't Wait Up ran from 1983 to 1990\n\nIn 1955, Britton played Romeo on TV, which led him to get a film contract\n\nIn 2013, Britton appeared in a production of Shakespeare's King Lear at the Old Vic in London.\n\nHe had two children with his first wife, Ruth Hawkins - Fern and scriptwriter Cherry Britton.\n\nHe had a son Jasper with his second wife, Danish sculptor Eva Castle Britton (nee Skytte Birkenfeldt).", "Harry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nHarry Dunn's father has met the home secretary, as her department considers requesting the extradition of a US woman charged over his death.\n\nThe meeting comes after suspect Anne Sacoolas was charged by the Crown Prosecution Service.\n\nThe family said they were \"incredibly reassured\" to meet Ms Patel, who was accompanied by their local MP Andrea Leadsom.\n\nPriti Patel and Andrea Leadsom met the Dunn family at the home of the family's lawyer in the village of Charlton\n\nThe home secretary said she had met the family to explain the extradition process to them and spoken to Mr Dunn's father, Tim Dunn.\n\nShe said: \"It was a nice opportunity to hear from them, obviously about what they have been experiencing, what they have been going through, and to reassure them at what has been a very difficult and traumatic time for them.\"\n\nFamily spokesman Radd Seiger said they were now \"incredibly reassured this whole saga will be dealt with under the rule of law\".\n\n\"You hear from some of the most senior politicians in this country... they are going to go to bed tonight feeling reassured.\"\n\nHarry's father Tim Dunn thanked the home secretary for the meeting\n\nMr Dunn said it had been a \"positive meeting\" and a \"great way to end the year\", but Christmas would be difficult without his son.\n\nHe said: \"He loved Christmas... people have one Christmas jumper, Harry would have four... every day he would be wearing one.\"\n\nFriends of Harry Dunn put up a Christmas tree and decorations around his banner outside RAF Croughton on Sunday\n\nMr Dunn's mother, Charlotte Charles, did not attend the meeting.\n\nMr Dunn, 19, died in August after his motorbike was in collision with a car driven by Mrs Sacoolas outside RAF Croughton, Northamptonshire, where her husband worked as an intelligence officer.\n\nMrs Sacoolas left for the US under diplomatic immunity, but on Friday was charged with causing death by dangerous driving, following a campaign by Mr Dunn's family.\n\nThe home secretary hugged Mr Dunn during the meeting\n\nMrs Leadsom said there was a \"clear process\" of extradition.\n\nShe added: \"There's a clear extradition treaty and it is absolutely vital that we get justice for Harry.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Dunn's mother had said the family was \"relieved\" the 42-year-old suspect had finally been charged.\n\nBut US officials said it was not \"a helpful development\" and Mrs Sacoolas' lawyer said she would not return to the UK \"to face a potential jail sentence for what was a terrible but unintentional accident\".\n\nAfter it confirmed Mrs Sacoolas had been charged, the CPS said extradition proceedings had started, noting that the \"Home Office is responsible for considering our request and deciding whether to formally issue this through US diplomatic channels\".\n\n\"Our specialist extradition team will be working closely with the UK Central Authority at the Home Office to do this,\" it added.\n\nThe extradition request is sent via the British Embassy to the US State Department.\n\nA lawyer will then decide whether it falls under the dual-criminality treaty, where the alleged offence is a crime in both countries and carries a prison sentence of at least a year.\n\nThe maximum sentence for causing death by dangerous driving is 14 years' imprisonment, although this is usually reserved for the most serious cases.\n\nThe US may reject the request for extradition, arguing that Mrs Sacoolas is still entitled to diplomatic immunity.\n\nA statement from Amy Jeffress, Mrs Sacoolas's lawyer, said she had \"co-operated fully with the investigation and accepted responsibility\".\n\nIt added: \"This was an accident, and a criminal prosecution with a potential penalty of 14 years' imprisonment is simply not a proportionate response.\n\n\"We have been in contact with the UK authorities about ways in which Anne could assist with preventing accidents like this from happening in the future, as well as her desire to honour Harry's memory.\n\n\"We will continue that dialogue in an effort to move forward from this terrible tragedy.\"\n\nAnne Sacoolas pictured on her wedding day in 2003\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An NHS trust at the centre of England's largest inquiry into baby deaths was paid almost £1m for providing good maternity care, the BBC has learned.\n\nUnder the Maternity Incentive Scheme run by NHS Resolution, which aims to improve maternity care, trusts must certify they meet 10 safety standards.\n\nThe Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust did so and received £953,391.\n\nBut weeks after the payment was made, inspectors rated the trust's maternity care as inadequate.\n\nNHS Resolution said it was \"unable to comment on specific trust cases\".\n\nThe trust said evidence of its progress against the maternity safety actions had been shared with committees before being submitted to its board.\n\nThe care of mothers and babies at the Shrewsbury and Telford Trust (SaTH) has been under the spotlight since April 2017 when the BBC revealed a number of preventable deaths at the trust.\n\nHundreds of families have alleged the trust provided them with poor maternity care.\n\nAn interim report into what has become the largest inquiry into maternity care in the history of the NHS, leaked last month, found a toxic culture had contributed to the avoidable deaths of babies and mothers as well as dozens of instances of significant harm.\n\nRhiannon Davies campaigned for an independent inquiry after her baby died in 2009\n\nRhiannon Davies, whose family was among the first to push for the independent inquiry after the death of her baby daughter Kate in 2009, said the trust should \"pay the money back\".\n\n\"They self-certified that they met the 10 standards, the board signed it off and they received no scrutiny, it is more lies,\" she said.\n\n\"It is another perfect, pure example of SaTh creating their own narrative.\n\n\"I want to know what they spent the money on.\"\n\nShrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust was placed in special measures\n\nIn summer 2018, NHS Resolution, the legal arm of NHS trusts in England, launched a scheme aimed at improving maternity care and reducing the cost of errors.\n\nTrusts were required to assess whether they had met 10 separate maternity safety actions, including reducing errors, workforce development and acting on the concerns of patients.\n\nTo qualify for an incentive payment, the board of a trust had to certify that they met all the standards. NHS Resolution did not ensure each trust had met its requirements.\n\nOf the 132 trusts that participated in the scheme, 75 certified that they had scored 10 out of 10 and became eligible to receive a full refund of their own contribution as well as a portion of the money paid by those trusts that had not scored a perfect 10.\n\nThe money was paid to the Shrewsbury and Telford trust last September, while inspectors from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) were assessing the trust.\n\nThe CQC report, published in November, rated the trust, including its maternity services, as inadequate.\n\nInspectors were forced to take enforcement action to ensure care was immediately improved.\n\nWhile the trust received almost £1m for providing good maternity care, it has emerged it has paid out almost £50m for maternity errors since 2006.\n\nA Freedom of Information request to NHS Resolution showed 82 claims for damages against the trust had been successful since 2006/7, costing the NHS £47,568,755.\n\nThe largest single category was cerebral palsy. Nine babies were left with the condition as a result of medical errors, forcing the trust to pay out more than £25m.\n\nIn a statement, the trust said: \"Evidence of the trust's progress against the 10 safety actions was shared with committees including the Women and Children's Care Group Board and the Quality and Safety Assurance Committee, before being submitted to the trust board.\n\n\"The content of the report was also shared with the trust's commissioners.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Man Who was a massive hit for Travis\n\nWhen Travis released their second album 20 years ago it was \"slaughtered\" by the critics but it went on to be a massive success which influenced a generation of pop stars.\n\nKeane, The Killers and Amy Macdonald are among the artists who cite The Man Who as a major influence on their musical style and career.\n\nColdplay's lead singer Chris Martin is on the record as saying Travis were \"the band that invented my band and lots of others\".\n\nIn BBC Radio Scotland documentary The Man Who at 20, Travis' frontman Fran Healy says Coldplay \"bodysnatched\" their sound because it was the most popular music around in 1999 when they were recording their debut album.\n\nHealy says Coldplay remain at the top of the music business two decades later because they have since reinvented themselves by adopting the sounds of other big names, such as U2 and Arcade Fire.\n\nHe says his own band, on the other hand, reached the top of the music business, had a look around - then came back down.\n\nThe Glasgow band have released six studio albums since The Man Who but have never reached the heights of that record, which featured songs such as Writing to Reach You, Driftwood and Turn.\n\nDespite its eventual huge success, Travis' second album was not an immediate hit.\n\nIt was not as upbeat as their first and was originally dismissed as \"dour, sad, depressing, low key and really quiet\", says Healy.\n\nHe said it was not what the music press were expecting and they hammered it.\n\nThe Man Who landed at number five when it was released in May 1999, but before they played Glastonbury at the end of June it had been falling down the charts.\n\nFran Healy of Travis performs on stage at Glastonbury in June 1999\n\nJo Whiley, who presented the TV coverage of the festival, told the documentary about the pivotal moment when Travis played their song Why Does It Always Rain On Me? and \"the heavens opened\".\n\n\"It is like a magic song with special superpowers that made the heavens open and rain,\" she says.\n\nThe performance caught the public's attention and the album climbed to number one, where it would spend nine weeks.\n\nWithin a year Travis had won the best band and best album awards at The Brits.\n\nTwelve months after they made it rain, they returned to Glastonbury as headliners.\n\nFran Healy and Travis recently performed the album at Glasgow's SEC Hydro arena\n\nWhy Does It Always Rain On Me? was written in Eilat in Israel, Healy tells the documentary. The chorus refers to the fact it was raining in such a sunny country, while the verse captures the more metaphorical rain of his feelings about their first album not doing well.\n\nA lot of the songs on The Man Who were written for their first album, Good Feelings, but Healy says they could not record them properly because they were \"not that kind of band\". The songs needed to \"ripen\".\n\nTravis's members describe their breakthrough album as the sound of \"being dumped\".\n\nTom Chaplin, from Keane, another band who came on to the scene as Travis were riding high, says he remembers falling head over heels in love with The Man Who.\n\n\"I thought the songwriting was really beautiful,\" he says. \"They became a massive inspiration for us setting out on the start of our dream.\"\n\nScottish pop star Amy Macdonald taught herself to play Travis song Turn on the guitar when she was about 12.\n\n\"Nothing had as much of a profound impact on me as that album did at that time of my life,\" she says.\n\nWhen the album came out in May 1999, the band could not get arrested, says Healy.\n\nWithin a year the music business wanted every band to sound like them.\n\nOne of them was Coldplay.\n\nColdplay have stayed at the top of the music business for 20 years\n\nHealy says: \"One of the things I noticed was Coldplay and the chiming guitar. I thought: 'Oh my god, they totally took Andy's sound'.\"\n\nThe Travis singer says the difference between the two bands was that Chris Martin of Coldplay wanted them to be the biggest band in the world.\n\n\"I think Travis wanted to be the best band in the world,\" says Healy.\n\n\"REM are the best band in the world. Part of their journey involved going up to the top of Mount Everest and going 'that's a nice view, the air is a bit thin, can't breathe - let's go back down'.\n\n\"There is no-one up there and it is quite barren and lonely. But Chris is still up there. He's up there playing tennis with Bono.\"\n\nHe says Martin has taken popular movements in music throughout his career so he can remain at the peak.\n\n\"But you have got to ask yourself, why would anyone want to remain at the top of Mount Everest where there is no-one to talk to?\n\n\"You can't really write from the heart up there. You need to be on the ground.\n\n\"When people have compared us to Coldplay I have always thought that is quite funny because I could not think of two more different approaches to art.\"", "Ecuador was fighting to contain the environmental impact of a fuel spill in the Galapagos Islands after a flatboat carrying 600 gallons of diesel fuel sank.\n\nThe Orca barge tipped over after a crane collapsed while it was loading a container onto it.\n\nEcuador's Integrated Security Service added, \"the barge crew jumped into the sea to safeguard their lives\".\n\nThe Unesco World Heritage Site is home to one of the most fragile ecosystems on the planet and the Galapagos National Park said military personnel and environmentalists were \"putting up containment barriers and absorbent cloths to reduce the environmental risk\".", "Boeing has fired its chief executive, Dennis Muilenburg, in a bid to restore confidence in the firm after two deadly crashes involving its 737 Max plane.\n\nMore than 340 people died in the disasters, prompting accusations that Boeing put profit before safety.\n\nFamilies of the victims welcomed Mr Muilenberg's resignation as overdue.\n\nBut they said Boeing's decision to replace him with a long-time board member raised questions about its commitment to change.\n\nBoeing named David Calhoun, who has served on the firm's board since 2009 and is its current chairman, as chief executive and president.\n\n\"While the resignation of Mr Muilenburg is a step in the right direction, it is clear that the Boeing Company needs a revamp of its corporate governance,\" said Paul Njoroge, who lost his wife, three children and mother-in-law when Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed in March.\n\nMr Calhoun \"is not the right person for the job\", he added.\n\nZipporah Kuria, whose father was also killed on the Ethiopian Airlines flight, said Mr Muilenburg should have been replaced \"a long time ago\" but responsibility for the crashes is shared.\n\n\"I feel as though a lot more people should have resigned including the person who's becoming CEO,\" she told the BBC.\n\nBoeing has been under intense scrutiny since two 737 Max planes crashed within five months of each other, first in Indonesia and then in Ethiopia.\n\nThe 737 Max fleet has been grounded worldwide since March.\n\nWhile the company had been hoping to have the best-selling jet back in the air by the end of this year, US regulators have made it clear that it would not be certified to return to the skies that quickly.\n\nLast week, Boeing said it would halt production of the aircraft.\n\nThen on Friday, the company's reputation took another hit when its Starliner spacecraft suffered technical problems that prevented it from taking the right path to the International Space Station.\n\nBoeing's board said it had \"decided that a change in leadership was necessary to restore confidence in the company moving forward as it works to repair relationships with regulators, customers, and all other stakeholders\".\n\nMr Calhoun, a private equity executive, will take over from 13 January.\n\nLawrence Kellner, a board member since 2011, is to become non-executive chairman immediately.\n\n\"Under the company's new leadership, Boeing will operate with a renewed commitment to full transparency, including effective and proactive communication with the FAA [Federal Aviation Administration], other global regulators and its customers,\" it said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Senator says he \"would walk before I got on a 737 Max\"\n\nDespite the ouster, some of the firm's harshest critics in Washington said they still had questions about the firm's commitment to change.\n\nSenator Richard Bumenthal said: \"The company needs new leadership across the board who will take safety seriously.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Richard Blumenthal This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMichael Stumo, who lost his daughter Samya Rose on the Ethiopian Airlines flight and has organised victims' families against Boeing, called the resignation a \"good first step toward restoring Boeing to a company that focuses on safety and innovation\".\n\n\"The next step is for several board members who are underperforming or unqualified to resign,\" he said.\n\nAir safety officials investigating the tragedies have identified an automated control system in the plane, known as MCAS, as a factor in both crashes.\n\nBoeing has said the MCAS software system, which relied on a single sensor, received erroneous data, which led it to override pilot commands and push the aircraft downwards.\n\nIt has said it is fixing the software and has overhauled its review procedures.\n\nBut US lawmakers, who are investigating the company, have said the firm was aware that the software system could be unreliable. They have accused the company of trying to hide the risks and rush the plane back into service.\n\nDennis Muilenburg had faced calls or his resignation\n\nCongressman Peter DeFazio, who leads a committee investigating Boeing, had called for Mr Muilenburg's resignation in an interview with the New York Times, published over the weekend.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, he said the shake-up was \"long overdue\".\n\nMr Muilenburg first joined Boeing in 1985. He led the company's defence, space and security division prior to his appointment as chief executive in 2015.\n\nHe was stripped of his role as chairman of Boeing's board of directors in October and later agreed to give up his bonus. However, Boeing, including Mr Calhoun, had continued to express confidence in him.\n\nDennis Muilenburg's departure was inevitable, although the timing was unexpected.\n\nSince the two accidents, he has faced intense criticism over the corporate culture that existed at Boeing on his watch, and over the company's relationship with regulators.\n\nQuestions have been asked about how a seemingly flawed aircraft was allowed into service in the first place, and why it was allowed to continue flying after the first accident. There have been claims - emphatically denied by the company - that it prioritised profits and speed of production over safety.\n\nHis response to the crisis has also come under fire. Although he insisted that Boeing \"owned\" its failures, he also repeatedly said that the crashes were the result of a chain of events. This was seen by some as an attempt to divert blame away from the aerospace giant.\n\nThe final humiliation came last week, when Boeing announced it would have to suspend production of the 737 Max, because regulators had yet to clear the aircraft as safe to fly again. For months, Mr Muilenburg had insisted the plane would be back in the air by the end of the year.\n\nHe had lost credibility, and the board decided he had to go.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police asked photographers to \"move back\" as they helped Ms Flack to a waiting car\n\nFormer Love Island presenter Caroline Flack has pleaded not guilty to assaulting her boyfriend with a lamp.\n\nPolice found her partner Lewis Burton covered in blood after being called to reports of a man being assaulted at the 40-year-old's home in north London on 12 December, a court heard.\n\nHowever, Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court was told tennis player Mr Burton did not support the prosecution.\n\nMs Flack will stand trial at the same court on 4 March.\n\nThe court heard the alleged attack occurred after Ms Flack found texts on her boyfriend's phone while he was asleep, leading her to believe he was cheating.\n\n\"He said he had been asleep and was hit over the head by Caroline with a lamp, causing a visible cut to his head,\" prosecutor Katie Weiss said.\n\n\"She had also smashed a glass and she had sustained an injury.\"\n\nThe court heard how Mr Burton made a call to 999 in which he was \"almost begging the operator to send help\".\n\nWhen a police officer arrived at the Islington flat, both Ms Flack and Mr Burton were covered in blood and the officer \"likened the scene to a horror movie\", Ms Weiss said.\n\nMs Weiss told the court Ms Flack was disruptive while in police custody, saying she flipped over a table and had to be \"restrained on the ground\".\n\nHer solicitor Paul Morris told the court Mr Burton had \"never supported\" the prosecution's case, adding: \"He is not the victim, as he would say, he was a witness.\"\n\nHowever, Ms Weiss replied: \"Mr Burton is a victim, he received significant injury to his head.\"\n\nMs Flack put her head in her hands as the judge refused an application to remove bail conditions preventing her from contacting Mr Burton\n\nMs Flack was released on bail on the condition she does not contact Mr Burton directly or indirectly or attends his address.\n\nMr Morris had made an application to have these bail conditions lifted, arguing that they \"remain a couple\" and wanted to spend Christmas together.\n\nCaroline Flack struggled to get through a scrum of photographers as she walked into the court building. Once in, she burst into tears.\n\nIn the courtroom itself she was accompanied by a security officer who walked her to the dock.\n\nShe passed her boyfriend, the man she's accused of assaulting, who was sitting in the packed public gallery.\n\nThey're still a couple, the court heard, and he insists he isn't a victim.\n\nWhen asked how she would plead she quietly said \"not guilty\".\n\nAs the case was laid out against her there were moments when she cried.\n\nTowards the end, when she was told her bail conditions would remain and that she couldn't contact her boyfriend, she burst into tears again and turned to look at him.\n\nHe was looking down with his head in his hands.\n\nMs Flack began presenting Love Island in summer 2015, having fronted the 12th series of The X Factor alongside Olly Murs, and winning Strictly Come Dancing in 2014.\n\nShe stood down from the show after she was charged last week, saying it was the \"best thing I can do\".\n\nMs Flack was due to present the forthcoming winter edition of the popular ITV2 show - which is expected to start on 12 January\n\nIrish TV presenter Laura Whitmore will take over hosting duties on Love Island and its companion show Aftersun when filming starts in South Africa in January.\n\nMs Flack's trial is expected to last one-and-a-half days.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Duke of Edinburgh has spent a fourth day in hospital in London being treated for a \"pre-existing condition\".\n\nThe Queen is at the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, where she attended a carol service without 98-year-old Prince Philip on Sunday.\n\nHe remains at the King Edward VII's Hospital in central London, having travelled there on Friday as a \"precautionary measure\".\n\nThe Prince of Wales said his father was \"being looked after very well\".\n\nSpeaking on a visit to Fishlake, South Yorkshire, Prince Charles added: \"At the moment that's all we know.\"\n\nBuckingham Palace said the admission was for \"observation and treatment\".\n\nThe duke went to hospital on the advice of his doctor, it said in a statement.\n\nIt refused to confirm or deny reports the duke was flown to London by helicopter and then driven by car for the last part of the journey.\n\nThe duke, who retired from official solo royal duties in 2017, walked into hospital and was expected to remain there for a few days.\n\nThe Queen did not change her schedule and left Buckingham Palace for Norfolk by train, to begin her traditional festive break at Sandringham, where the duke has spent much of his time since stepping back from public duties.\n\nThe Queen was accompanied to church by the Countess of Wessex\n\nShe is expected to return to St Mary Magdalene Church on Christmas Day, having attended on Sunday with Prince Edward and his family.\n\nThe monarch was pictured stepping out of a car before walking into church ahead of her grandchildren, Lady Louise Windsor and Viscount Severn.", "Samson nearly died after being stabbed in the stomach in November 2018\n\nA man has been charged after a number of fatal attacks on cats in the Brighton area.\n\nSteven Bouquet, 52, is facing 16 charges of criminal damage, relating to attacks on 16 cats, nine of which were killed and seven were seriously hurt.\n\nThe alleged incidents took place between October 2018 and June 2019.\n\nMr Bouquet, from the London Road area of Brighton, is also charged with possession of a knife blade or sharp pointed article in a public place.\n\nHe is due to appear at Brighton Magistrates' Court on 23 January.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ex-Labour leader Ed Miliband will sit on a panel of party figures to review its general election failure.\n\nLabour Together, which describes itself as a network of activists from all traditions, is setting up a commission to \"map out a route back to power\".\n\nIt says the panel will view attempts to pin the blame on a single cause, such as Brexit or Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, as simplistic and wrong.\n\nMembers, focus groups in heartlands, and defeated candidates will get a say.\n\nLabour lost its fourth general election in a row on Thursday, 12 December, recording its worst performance, in terms of seats, since 1935, as a string of constituencies in its traditional Northern strongholds fell to the Conservatives.\n\nA row has broken out between the different wings of the party about what caused the defeat, as contenders to replace leader Jeremy Corbyn jockey for position.\n\nLabour Together was launched after the 2015 general election by a group of Labour MPs, including Lisa Nandy, one of those tipped to be lining up a leadership bid.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John McDonnell: \"This is on me. I own this disaster\"\n\nIt says it wants to involve all wings of the party, from left-wing campaign group Momentum to the centrist pressure group Progress, in its post-mortem.\n\nThe group aims to publish its report by the end of February, before the new Labour leader is chosen.\n\nThe review will be spearheaded by Lucy Powell, who ran Ed Miliband's 2015 election campaign.\n\nSpeaking to Radio 4's Today programme, she said there was \"a real appetite\" for Labour members of all traditions to come together and analyse what has changed.\n\n\"I think retreating into a factional-based analysis would be the worst thing we could do at this juncture,\" she said.\n\nMs Powell added: \"The Labour coalition has fundamentally changed over the last 20 years.\n\n\"Unless we properly reflect on that, then whoever is leader next won't be able to deal with it.\"\n\nOther confirmed commissioners include Birmingham Ladywood MP Shabana Mahmood, Jo Platt, who lost her seat in the former stronghold of Leigh, Greater Manchester, Sienna Rodgers, editor of the news website LabourList, and James Meadway, former economic adviser to shadow chancellor John McDonnell.\n\nThe panel is also expected to recruit a trade union representative and a local organiser.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Rodgers said the review would pore over the results in \"an even-handed way, which doesn't start with blaming one faction, or individual\".\n\nSome MPs who lost their seat blame Mr Corbyn's unpopularity with voters.\n\nMr Corbyn says Labour \"won the argument\" but blamed the media and the fact that the campaign was dominated by Brexit, rather than Labour's plans to boost public spending.\n\nBut internal opponents of Mr Corbyn say the party must ditch his left-wing policy agenda to stand any chance of regaining power.\n\nLabour last won a general election in 2005 under the leadership of former Prime Minister Tony Blair.\n\nMr Blair said last week that the \"takeover of the Labour Party by the far left\" had \"turned it into a glorified protest movement, with cult trimmings, utterly incapable of being a credible government\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Stars past and present came out to celebrate the final film in the Skywalker saga\n\nThe latest Star Wars blockbuster raked in $374m (£288m) in global ticket sales in its opening weekend, falling short of prior films in the trilogy.\n\nThe Rise of Skywalker's US sales were down nearly 30% on the first movie in the saga, The Force Awakens.\n\nStill, the latest instalment ranked as one of the best December openings in North America.\n\nIt is expected to end a strong year for distributor Disney, with a string of hits grossing more than $1bn.\n\nStarring Daisy Ridley and John Boyega, the film is the final chapter in the Skywalker saga begun by George Lucas in 1977. It is set one year after its predecessor.\n\nThe movie, directed by JJ Abrams, has drawn mixed reviews from critics with some describing the plot as unimaginative.\n\nIn North America, the world's largest film market, The Rise of Skywalker pulled in about $176m.\n\nJeff Bock, senior box office analyst at Exhibitor Relations Co, told Reuters the opening weekend takings marked a \"great number for December\".\n\nBut he added the US sales showed a 20% decline from the previous instalment.\n\n\"That's a cause for concern no matter how big your franchise is.\"\n\nReleased in 2015, The Force Awakens took about $517m in its opening weekend. The Last Jedi, released two years later, scored $450m in its global debut.\n\nDespite the softer debut, many fans showed their enthusiasm for the Star Wars franchise.\n\nDressed as their favourite characters, some attended cinemas for marathon screenings of the eight films leading up to The Rise of Skywalker.\n\nStar Wars characters posed at a Hollywood premiere of The Rise of Skywalker\n\nThe Hollywood blockbuster looks set to end a solid year for Disney.\n\nThe entertainment giant has enjoyed huge box office success with films including Frozen 2, Lion King and Aladdin.\n\nEarlier this year, Avengers: Endgame smashed box office records and within five days it had become the fastest film to break the $1bn sales barrier worldwide.", "British sign language is receiving an astronomical update thanks to a unique collaboration between a space scientist and a group of deaf astronomers.\n\nThe University of Leeds based astrophysicist found that there were no signs for terms describing the latest discoveries in the world of astronomy. So she has decided to help create them.", "Last updated on .From the section Tottenham\n\nTottenham say their initial findings following the alleged racist abuse of Antonio Rudiger are \"inconclusive\" - but a Chelsea fan has been arrested for allegedly abusing Son Heung-min.\n\nPlay was stopped during Chelsea's win at Spurs on Sunday after Chelsea's Rudiger said he heard monkey noises.\n\nSpurs said they are \"exhaustively investigating\" the incident.\n\nMeanwhile, police arrested a Chelsea fan for a racially aggravated public order offence against Spurs' Son.\n\nA total of six arrests were made as part of the Metropolitan Police operation at the fixture but none were linked to the incident involving Rudiger.\n\n\"We have engaged lip readers to study the footage and contacted Chelsea for further information from their players,\" Spurs said in a statement. \"The police will be reviewing our evidence alongside us.\"\n\nThe club added: \"Please be assured we shall be exhaustively investigating this matter.\"\n• None Players should be empowered to walk off - Neville\n\nSpurs said they are able to \"track every fan\" using cameras at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and that any supporter found to be guilty of racism will \"receive a lifetime ban\".\n\n\"This club has a proud track record of anti-racism work across all our communities and we are determined to ensure that we conduct a thorough investigation,\" the club added.\n\n\"At this time however we should point out that our findings are inconclusive and would ask that comment is reserved until the facts are established.\"\n\nIn a separate statement, the Premier League said it would support both clubs \"in their pursuit of any perpetrators and call for appropriate action to be taken by the authorities and the clubs\".\n\nChelsea captain Cesar Azpilicueta told referee Anthony Taylor of Rudiger's complaint during the second half of Sunday's fixture.\n\nThree announcements over the public address system warned that \"racist behaviour is interfering with the game\" between the incident and full-time.\n\nThe Uefa protocol says if a message over the public address system does not stop the racist abuse in a stadium, a second announcement should follow and the temporary suspension of play should be enforced.\n\nIf discriminatory behaviour continues, authorities can decide to abandon the fixture.\n\nSpurs said the fact they repeated the announcement created a \"misconception\" that the issue was ongoing in their stadium.\n\nThe club added: \"In respect of protocols - when the incident was conveyed to the referee Anthony Taylor, he took the decision to call for the implementation of Stage 1 of the Uefa protocol - rather than the Premier League protocol - and asked for an announcement to be made, as well as requesting a further announcement which created a misconception that any issue was ongoing.\n\n\"The Premier League protocol differs from Uefa protocol in that it does not call for an announcement rather that the individual(s) be dealt with by the Safety Team in the first instance.\n\n\"We have asked that the Premier League clarifies the position regarding the use of these protocols to all stakeholders going forward.\"\n\nIn the aftermath of the incident, the Professional Footballers' Association called for a government inquiry.\n\nThe government has not ruled out taking \"further steps if required\".\n\nOn Monday, a host of Premier League managers were asked about the issue, with Newcastle's Steve Bruce stating he was \"sickened and saddened by it\", while Manchester City's Pep Guardiola said it will take \"a lot of time\" to \"eradicate\" the issue.", "US aviation regulators allowed Boeing's 737 Max aircraft to continue flying despite knowing there was a risk of further crashes.\n\nAnalysis after the first crash last year predicted there could be up to 15 disasters over the lifetime of the aircraft without design changes.\n\nDespite this, the Federal Aviation Administration did not ground the Max until a second crash five months later.\n\nFAA chief Steve Dickson, who started in August, said this was a mistake.\n\nThe FAA risk assessment was revealed during a US congressional hearing on Wednesday. Lawmakers are investigating Boeing following fatal 737 Max crashes in Indonesia in October 2018, and Ethiopia in March. The disasters killed 346 people in total.\n\nAir safety officials investigating the crashes have identified an automated control system in the 737 Max 8, known as MCAS, as a factor in both accidents.\n\nBoeing has said the system, which relied on a single sensor, received erroneous data, which led it to override pilot commands and push the aircraft downwards.\n\nThe FAA's investigation of the October Indonesia crash called for Boeing to redesign its system, warning of a risk of more than a dozen crashes over the 45-year lifetime of the roughly 4,800 737 Max planes in service.\n\nRegulators also issued an alert to airlines, but the agency did not ground the aircraft until after the 10 March Ethiopia crash, several days after action by other countries.\n\n\"Obviously the result was not satisfactory,\" said Mr Dickson. In response to later questions, he admitted the agency had made a mistake at some point in the process.\n\nBoeing is revising the MCAS software, but lawmakers say their investigation has shown that the aircraft manufacturer was aware of flaws in the system.\n\nBoeing staff have also raised concerns that the company was prioritising speed over safety at the factory that produced Max 737s, contributing to the crashes.\n\nEd Pierson, a former senior manager at the factory, told Congress he repeatedly warned Boeing's leadership of the safety risks caused by what he described as a \"factory in chaos\", but it had little effect.\n\nHe also said that, after the crashes, US government regulators have shown little interest in his concerns.\n\n\"I remain gravely concerned that... the flying public will remain at risk unless this unstable production environment is rigorously investigated and closely monitored by regulators on an ongoing basis,\" he said in prepared testimony.\n\nMr Dickson said the FAA is probing production issues. He also said he is considering further actions against Boeing.\n\nIn a statement, Boeing said Mr Pierson's own account showed the company took his concerns seriously.\n\n\"Company executives and senior leaders on the 737 programme were made aware of Mr Pierson's concerns, discussed them in detail, and took appropriate steps to assess them,\" it said.", "The injured inmates were transferred to a hospital in Tegucigalpa\n\nAt least 16 inmates have been killed in a fight between rival gangs at a Honduran prison, less than two days after deadly violence at another jail.\n\nOfficials said guns, knives and machetes were used in the fight on Sunday at El Porvenir prison east of the capital, Tegucigalpa.\n\nOn Friday, 18 inmates were killed and 16 hurt in the northern city of Tela.\n\nThere has been a wave of prison violence in Honduras, where prisons are notoriously overcrowded.\n\nThe government declared a state of emergency in the prison system last Wednesday, transferring control to security forces.\n\nPresident Orlando Hernandez made the decision after five members of the MS-13 gang were killed while in detention.\n\nIt was not immediately clear what had triggered the outbreak of violence at El Porvenir prison, but government security official Luis Suazo said gangs there were trying to \"reverse this process\" of intervention.\n\nAt least two other inmates were injured, officials added.\n\n\"The dead and wounded were attacked with bullets and sharp weapons,\" said Lt Antonio Coello.\n\nHonduran prisons house more than 20,000 inmates, despite only having capacity for about 8,000.\n\nFights are common, as rival street gangs vie for control.\n\nAn inmate's relatives pictured after an earlier riot in the port city of Tela", "The pack of cards cost £1.50 from Tesco\n\nA factory in China has denied it used forced labour after a six-year-old girl found a message from workers inside a Tesco charity Christmas card.\n\nThe card supplier, Zhejiang Yunguang Printing, told China's Global Times it had \"never done such a thing\".\n\nTesco halted production at the factory over the message, allegedly written by prisoners claiming they were \"forced to work against our will\".\n\nThe Chinese foreign ministry said the allegation was \"a farce\".\n\nSpeaking to the nationalist newspaper Global Times on Monday, a spokesman for the card supplier said: \"We only became aware of this when some foreign media contacted us. We have never done such a thing.\n\n\"Why did they include our company's name?\"\n\nA spokesman for Tesco said it had launched an on-site investigation at the factory on Friday \"before suspending the site and communicating this decision to factory management over the weekend\".\n\nHe added: \"Our product team have also spoken to the supplier to communicate this decision.\"\n\nThe supermarket added that it has further meetings scheduled for this week with representatives from both the factory and the supplier, and that it has not placed any orders from the site since October.\n\nThe message - first reported by the Sunday Times - was found by Florence Widdicombe, who was writing cards to her school friends. She found that one of them - featuring a kitten with a Santa hat - had already been written in.\n\nIn block capitals, it said: \"We are foreign prisoners in Shanghai Qingpu prison China. Forced to work against our will. Please help us and notify human rights organisation.\"\n\nFlorence Widdicombe, aged six, says finding the message made her feel shocked\n\nThe message in the card asked whoever found the message to contact Peter Humphrey, a British journalist who was himself imprisoned there four years ago.\n\nChinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told reporters on Monday the allegation was \"a farce\" created by Mr Humphrey.\n\n\"Shanghai's Qingpu prison has no such foreign prisoners undergoing forced labour,\" Mr Shuang said.\n\nZhejiang Yunguang Printing's factory manager, Shu Yunjia, told the BBC it had not outsourced any of its work to the Qingpu prison.\n\nChina's denial is a specific one: Shanghai's Qingpu prison \"does not at all have...forced labour by foreign convicts\".\n\nThe key word there is 'forced'.\n\nThe convicts who allegedly wrote the note found in the card claimed they were being forced to work against their will.\n\nBut China's foreign ministry is likely making that denial in light of article 69 of the country's Prison Law, which stipulates that \"criminals with working capacity must participate in labour\".\n\nMaking Christmas cards - even ones destined to raise money for UK charities - is almost certainly the least worst outcome in China's penal system.\n\nA politicised judiciary, controlled by the Communist Party, is one step on a road for some prisoners which can involve disappearing, torture and forced confession.\n\nForced hard labour has been used as a tool of punishment and political persecution.\n\nFlorence, from Tooting in south London, said she was writing her \"sixth or eighth card\" when she saw \"somebody had already written in it\".\n\n\"It made me feel shocked,\" she said, adding that when it was explained to her what the message meant she felt \"sad\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Florence Widdicombe was writing the cards last Sunday when she discovered the message\n\nA Tesco spokeswoman previously said: \"We were shocked by these allegations and immediately halted production at the factory where these cards are produced and launched an investigation.\"\n\nTesco added that it would de-list Zhejiang Yunguang if it was found to have used prison labour.\n\nThe supermarket said it has a \"comprehensive auditing system\" to ensure suppliers are not exploiting forced labour.\n\nThe factory in question was checked only last month and no evidence of it breaking the ban on prison labour was found, it said.\n\nSales of charity Christmas cards at the company's supermarkets raise £300,000 a year for the British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK and Diabetes UK.\n\nTesco has not received any other complaints from customers about messages inside Christmas cards.\n\nThe message in the card urged the recipient to contact Mr Humphrey, who was formerly imprisoned at Qingpu on what he described as \"bogus charges that were never heard in court\".\n\nAfter the Widdicombe family sent him a message via Linkedin, Mr Humphrey said he then contacted ex-prisoners who confirmed inmates had been forced to work.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Peter Humphrey: \"I think I know who it was but I will never disclose the name\"\n\nMr Humphrey told the BBC that the cell block of foreign prisoners has about 250 people in it, who are living a \"very bleak daily life\" with 12 prisoners per cell.\n\nHe added that when he was in there, manufacturing labour work was voluntary - to earn money to buy soap or toothpaste - but that work has now become compulsory.\n\nMr Humphrey told the BBC: \"I spent two years in captivity in Shanghai between 2013 and 2015 and my final nine months of captivity was in this very prison in this very cell block where this message has come from.\n\n\"So this was written by some of my cellmates from that period who are still there serving sentences.\n\n\"I'm pretty sure this was written as a collective message. Obviously one single hand produced this capital letters' handwriting and I think I know who it was, but I will never disclose that name.\"\n\nIt is not the first time that prisoners in China have reportedly smuggled out messages in products they have been forced to make for Western markets.\n\nIn 2012, Julie Keith from Portland, Oregon, discovered an account of torture and persecution by a prisoner who said he was forced to manufacture the Halloween decorations she had purchased.\n\nAnd in 2014, Karen Wisinska from Co Fermanagh in Northern Ireland, found a note on a pair of Primark trousers reading: \"Our job inside the prison is to produce fashion clothes for export. We work 15 hours per day and the food we eat wouldn't even be given to dogs or pigs.\"\n\nUnder the UN's guidance for human rights and prisons, prisoners \"should not be subordinated merely to making a profit either for the prison authorities or for a private contractor\".\n\nThe standard minimum rules for the treatment of prisoners state: \"Prison labour must not be of an afflictive nature.\"", "The work, which depicts workers enjoying a day off, is expected to sell for up to £1m\n\nA painting by LS Lowry that was lost to the art world for more than seven decades has been unearthed.\n\nThe 1943 work, entitled The Mill, Pendlebury, depicts workers enjoying a day off and children playing cricket.\n\n\"There are no records of it, we simply didn't know it existed,\" said British art expert Nick Orchard of Christie's auction house in London.\n\nThe painting, which Lowry gave away, is expected to fetch between £700,000 and £1m when it goes on sale next month.\n\nIt has spent the majority of its life in the US, owned by influential medical researcher Leonard D Hamilton, who died earlier this year.\n\nLowry gave the painting to Mr Hamilton's parents more than 70 years ago, when the family were living in Manchester.\n\n\"Of course today we think 'oh wow, a Lowry' but in the 1940s he wasn't represented by a major dealer or gallery,\" Mr Orchard told the BBC.\n\n\"He most likely would've only shown his work locally or maybe to people he knew,\" he added.\n\nThe couple later gave it to their son who hung it on the wall of his student accommodation while studying at the University of Oxford.\n\nThe Lowry seen (top left) hanging in Mr Hamilton's accommodation at the University of Oxford\n\nMr Hamilton, who played a key role in discovering the structure of DNA, later moved to New York where he lived in one of the city's last standing brownstone buildings which were demolished in the 1950s. The house went on to feature in a Life magazine article.\n\nIn the 1970s, Mr Hamilton moved to a larger home in Long Island where he was able to better house his extensive art collection - including the Lowry.\n\n\"I don't think you can call it a unique painting but it's a very special one\", Mr Orchard added.\n\n\"It's a lovely composition - and it has everything you would want in a Lowry: factory, chimneys, people scurrying around.\"\n\nLS Lowry pictured near his home in Pendlebury, Lancashire, in 1964 with the mill behind him\n\nEarlier this year Lowry's 1938 work A Cricket Match sold for nearly £1.2m at auction.\n\nTwo works hold the record auction sale price for a Lowry: The Football Match and Piccadilly Circus both sold for £5.6m in 2011.\n\nBorn in 1887, Laurence Stephen Lowry gained recognition for his seemingly simple depictions of working-class life in the industrial parts of northern England. He died in 1976.", "Rescue teams clambered over vehicles to free those trapped in the crash\n\nMore than 60 vehicles have been involved in a pile-up in foggy conditions on a motorway in the US state of Virginia.\n\nThere were no reports of fatalities in the crash on Interstate 64 near Williamsburg but more than 50 people were injured, two critically.\n\nThe cause of the accident is being investigated.\n\nPolice said that the fog, combined with icy conditions, would have been factors.\n\nThe crash happened at about 08:00 on Sunday (13:00 GMT) on the westbound carriageway.\n\nImages from the scene showed a mass of crumpled cars rammed into each other along a stretch of the road. Rescue teams carefully picked their way through the vehicles to reach and treat the injured.\n\nIt took several hours to clear away the damaged cars and reopen the road to traffic.\n\nLorry driver Ivan Levy told the Associated Press that he saw thick fog up ahead and started to slow down, turning his hazard lights on.\n\n\"Next thing I know I see cars just start piling up on top of each other,\" he added.\n\nHis wife, who was travelling in a separate car, was involved in the crash but not seriously injured.\n\nCrumpled cars covered a long stretch of the I-64 in York County, Virginia\n\nFog played a part in the crash, police said", "IS was uprooted after a long fight in Iraq, but it was never completely defeated\n\nThere are growing indications that the Islamic State (IS) group is re-organising in Iraq, two years after losing the last of its territory in the country.\n\nKurdish and Western intelligence officials have told the BBC that the IS presence in Iraq is a sophisticated insurgency, and IS attacks are increasing.\n\nThe militants are now more skilled and more dangerous than al-Qaeda, according to Lahur Talabany, a top Kurdish counter-terrorism official.\n\n\"They have better techniques, better tactics and a lot more money at their disposal,\" he said. \"They are able to buy vehicles, weapons, food supplies and equipment. Technologically they're more savvy. It's more difficult to flush them out. So, they are like al-Qaeda on steroids.\"\n\nThe veteran intelligence chief delivered his stark assessment in a London accent - the legacy of years in the UK after his family had to flee from the regime of Saddam Hussein.\n\nAt his base in Sulaimaniya, nestled in the hills of the Kurdistan region of Northern Iraq, he painted a picture of an organisation that has spent the past 12 months rebuilding from the ruins of the caliphate.\n\n\"We see the activities are increasing now, and we think the rebuilding phase is over,\" said Mr Talabany, who heads the Zanyari Agency, one of two intelligence agencies in Iraqi Kurdistan.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A top Kurdish intelligence official says IS in Iraq is now 'like al-Qaeda on steroids'\n\nA different kind of IS has emerged, he says, which no longer wants to control any territory to avoid being a target. Instead - like their predecessors in al-Qaeda before them - the extremists have gone underground, in Iraq's Hamrin Mountains.\n\n\"This is the hub for ISIS [Islamic State group] right now,\" said Mr Talabany. \"It's a long range of mountains, and very difficult for the Iraqi army to control. There are a lot of hide-outs and caves.\"\n\nCaves (left) where IS fighters have been hiding\n\nHe warned that IS would be nourished by the current unrest in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, and would exploit the sense of alienation among their fellow Sunni Muslims - a minority community. In Iraq, this is a familiar and bloody pattern.\n\n\"If we have political unrest,\" he said, \"this is Heaven or Christmas come early for ISIS.\"\n\nThe militants are also benefitting from strained relations between Baghdad and the Kurdistan regional government, following a Kurdish independence referendum in 2017.\n\nThere is now a vast area of no man's land in northern Iraq between Kurdish Peshmerga security forces and Islamic State 'getting stronger again in Iraq' their Iraqi counterparts. According to Mr Talabany, the only ones patrolling in this area are IS.\n\nA Peshmerga soldier looks out across no man's land where IS fighters roam\n\nAt a sandbagged outpost on a hilltop overlooking the town of Gwer, Major General Sirwan Barzani has a commanding view of this no man's land, and a worried expression. The Kurdish Peshmerga commander says IS now have free rein across this swathe of uncontrolled territory.\n\n\"In the delta between the Great Zab and Tigris rivers we can say they are permanently there,\" he said. \"There is too much activity from IS in the area close to the Tigris. Day by day we can see the movement of ISIS, and the activities.\"\n\nAccording to Peshmerga intelligence reports, IS ranks in the area have recently been reinforced by about 100 fighters who crossed the border from Syria, including some foreigners with suicide belts.\n\n\"If the situation continues, IS will become more organised in 2020,\" warns Maj Gen Sirwan Barzani\n\nIt was from this hilltop at Gwer that the Peshmerga launched their first offensive against IS in August 2014. The major general - and others here - say history is repeating itself.\n\n\"I can compare 2019 with 2012, \" he said, \"when they were beginning, organising themselves, and getting taxes from the people. If the situation continues as it is, in 2020 they will reorganise themselves more, be more powerful and carry out more attacks.\"\n\nKurdish intelligence officials estimate that IS is 10,000 strong in Iraq with between 4,000 and 5,000 fighters, and a similar number of sleeper cells and sympathisers.\n\nThe international community should be worried, according to Lahur Talabany. \"The more comfortable they get here,\" he says, \"there more they will think about operations outside of Iraq and Syria.\"\n\nThe top US military commander on the ground in Iraq says IS is trying to reconstitute itself but faces a different response from Iraqi and Kurdish security forces this time around.\n\nAccording to Brigadier General William Seely, Commander of Task Force-Iraq, these forces are better prepared than in 2014 when IS gained control of a third of Iraq and took Mosul, its second largest city, virtually unopposed.\n\n\"The ISF [Iraqi security forces] and the Peshmerga are not the same forces as when Mosul fell,\" said Brig Gen Seely. \"We have been here adding to their training. The ISF is keeping their foot on the pedal to ensure the momentum against Daesh [IS] remains steady.\"\n\nHe cites a single month, from mid-October to mid-November, in which the ISF carried out 170 \"clearance operations\" and destroyed almost 1,700 components for improvised explosive devices.\n\nHe says IS fighters are now hiding out in caves and in the desert \"in conditions that no one can handle for too long\", and they can't move in large formations. \"The largest I have seen in my six months here is 15, he says, adding that even one ISIS fighter is too many.\n\nFor now the extremists are confined to the shadows - emerging at night to carry out hit-and-run attacks. But Iraq has seen terror grow from these beginnings before, and some here fear a new threat is coming, for the region and the West.", "Two women were found dead outside the property and a man was found inside\n\nA man arrested on suspicion of murdering two women in a village in West Sussex is in a \"very unstable condition\" in hospital, police said.\n\nOne of the victims of the attack in Crawley Down has been named locally as 76-year-old Sandy Seagrave.\n\nShe was found dead outside a house in Hazel Way, alongside the body of a 32-year-old woman, on Sunday.\n\nThe 37-year-old suspect, who knew one of the women, is at the Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton.\n\nHe was found injured inside the property by police at 10:20 GMT, on Sunday.\n\nRetired milkman Tony Jones, 74, said of Ms Seagrave: \"Everybody knows Sandy because she used to walk round the village.\n\n\"Everybody used to see her, wave to her... a lovely lady.\n\n\"I can't believe what happened to her,\" he said.\n\nA message written on a bouquet of flowers at the police cordon read: \"A terrible tragedy. Rest in peace.\"\n\nResidents near the scene turned off their Christmas lights on Sunday night in tribute to those who had been killed, according to a homeowner.\n\n\"It was all the village lights. It was quite dark and eerie but it was a mark of respect,\" she said.\n\nPolice in Hazel Way, Crawley Down\n\nEarlier reports suggested a knife was used in the attack, but Sussex Police has since said \"this is not a knife crime\".\n\nDet Ch Insp Alex Geldart of Sussex Police said: \"This is a tragic incident which has led to the death of two local women, one of whom was known to the suspect.\n\n\"Members of the public, police and paramedics did all they could to help the victims but sadly the two women died at the scene.\n\n\"I extend my heartfelt sympathies to their families, who are being supported by specialist officers. I ask that people respect their privacy at this distressing time.\n\n\"Extensive inquiries are taking place along with a forensic examination, and any speculation by the media as to what has happened is unhelpful. This was not a knife attack.\n\n\"A cordon will remain in the area while we gather evidence and we appreciate the support and understanding of local residents.\"\n\nThe force gave no further details about the cause of the women's deaths.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Two women killed and man hurt at house\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Florence Widdicombe was writing the cards last Sunday when she discovered the message\n\nTesco has suspended production of charity Christmas cards at a factory in China after a six-year-old girl found a message from workers inside one.\n\nThe note, found by Florence Widdicombe, was allegedly written by prisoners in Shanghai claiming they were \"forced to work against our will\".\n\n\"Please help us and notify human rights organisation,\" the message said.\n\nTesco said it was \"shocked\" by the report, adding: \"We would never allow prison labour in our supply chain.\"\n\nThe supermarket said it would de-list the supplier of the cards, Zhejiang Yunguang Printing, if it was found to have used prison labour.\n\nFlorence was writing cards to her school friends when she found that one of them - featuring a kitten with a Santa hat - had already been written in.\n\nThe pack of cards cost £1.50 from Tesco\n\nIn block capitals, it said: \"We are foreign prisoners in Shanghai Qingpu prison China. Forced to work against our will. Please help us and notify human rights organisation.\"\n\nIt asked whoever found the message to contact Peter Humphrey, a British journalist who was himself imprisoned there four years ago.\n\nFlorence, from Tooting in south London, told BBC News she was writing \"my sixth or eighth card\" when she saw \"somebody had already written in it\".\n\n\"It made me feel shocked,\" she said, adding that when it was explained to her what the message meant she felt \"sad\".\n\nHer father, Ben Widdicombe, said he first felt \"incredulity\" at discovering the message, adding he first thought it was \"some sort of prank\".\n\n\"But on reflection we realised it was potentially quite a serious thing,\" he said. \"I felt very shocked but also felt a responsibility to pass it on to Peter Humphrey as the author asked me to do.\"\n\nHe said: \"It hits home. There are injustices in the world and there are people in difficult situations and we know about that and we read about that each and every day.\n\n\"There is something about that message hitting home at Christmas... that really does make it very poignant and very powerful.\"\n\nFlorence Widdicombe, aged six, says finding the message made her feel shocked\n\nHe added: \"It could have ended up anywhere. And indeed we have many cards as all families do that are left over and we put them in a drawer and forget about them. There is an incredible element of chance in all of this that the card was written, it got to us and we opened it on the day we did.\"\n\nA Tesco spokeswoman said: \"We were shocked by these allegations and immediately halted production at the factory where these cards are produced and launched an investigation.\"\n\nThe supermarket said it has a \"comprehensive auditing system\" to ensure suppliers are not exploiting forced labour.\n\nThe factory in question was checked only last month and no evidence of it breaking the ban on prison labour was found, it said.\n\nSales of charity Christmas cards at the company's supermarkets raise £300,000 a year for the British Heart Foundation, Cancer Research UK and Diabetes UK.\n\nThe retailer has not received any other complaints from customers about messages inside Christmas cards.\n\nThe message in the card urged the recipient to contact Peter Humphrey, who was formerly imprisoned at Qingpu on what he described as \"bogus charges that were never heard in court\".\n\nAfter the Widdicombe family sent him a message via Linkedin, Mr Humphrey said he then contacted ex-prisoners who confirmed inmates had been forced to work.\n\nHe then wrote the story for the Sunday Times.\n\nMr Humphrey told the BBC: \"I spent two years in captivity in Shanghai between 2013 and 2015 and my final nine months of captivity was in this very prison in this very cell block where this message has come from.\n\n\"So this was written by some of my cellmates from that period who are still there serving sentences.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Peter Humphrey: \"I think I know who it was but I will never disclose the name\"\n\n\"I'm pretty sure this was written as a collective message. Obviously one single hand produced this capital letters' handwriting and I think I know who it was, but I will never disclose that name.\"\n\nHe said the cell block of foreign prisoners has about 250 people in it, who are living a \"very bleak daily life\" with 12 prisoners per cell.\n\n\"They sleep in very rusty iron bunkbeds with a mattress which is no more than about 1cm thick underneath,\" he said.\n\n\"In the winter it's extremely cold, there's no heating in the building and in the summer it's extremely hot because there is no air conditioning.\n\n\"They get up around 5:30-6:00am every day they have to go to bed again at about 9.30.\"\n\nHe said when he was in there, manufacturing labour work was voluntary - to earn money to buy soap or toothpaste - but that work has now become compulsory.\n\n\"Everyone I know in there at the time was in there for very questionable reasons,\" he said. \"I met so many people who I considered to be the victims of wrongful imprisonment or at least reckless sentencing for minor offences.\"\n\nMr Humphrey said he believes those who wrote the note \"knew very well what risks they were taking and they were prepared to take this risk\".\n\n\"They know very well that if they're caught, they will be punished. They could be punished for example by losing some merit points or having some kind of deprivation of some of their food allowance.\n\n\"They could be punished by sending them to solitary confinement for a month or something like that where conditions are fairly harsh.\"\n\nMr Humphrey also said that censorship in the prison had increased, cutting off his usual methods of contacting prisoners he had met before his release in 2015.\n\n\"They resorted to the Qingpu equivalent of a message in a bottle, scribbled on a Tesco Christmas card,\" he said.\n\nIt is not the first time that prisoners in China have reportedly smuggled out messages in products they have been forced to make for Western markets.\n\nIn 2012, Julie Keith from Portland, Oregon, discovered an account of torture and persecution by a prisoner who said he was forced to manufacture the Halloween decorations she had purchased.\n\nAnd in 2014, Karen Wisinska from Co Fermanagh in Northern Ireland, found a note on a pair of Primark trousers reading: \"Our job inside the prison is to produce fashion clothes for export. We work 15 hours per day and the food we eat wouldn't even be given to dogs or pigs.\"\n\nUnder the UN's guidance for human rights and prisons, prisoners \"should not be subordinated merely to making a profit either for the prison authorities or for a private contractor\".\n\nThe standard minimum rules for the treatment of prisoners state: \"Prison labour must not be of an afflictive nature.\"", "Both vehicles were destroyed by fire after a collision in Battersea\n\nA woman has died in a crash between a National Express coach and a car, in which both vehicles caught fire.\n\nThe coach, travelling from Gatwick to London Victoria, was in collision with a car on Queenstown Road, Battersea, south-west London, at 04:30 GMT.\n\nA 26-year-old woman, who was a passenger in the car, died at the scene. The car driver and a bus passenger were taken to hospital.\n\nAll other passengers boarded a replacement coach, National Express said.\n\nFootage of the scene shows a blaze erupt between the two vehicles\n\nFootage circulating on social media of the scene shows both vehicles on fire on Queenstown Road close to Chelsea Bridge.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade said the grey Volkswagen Polo Zipcar and the coach were destroyed by fire.\n\nA National Express spokeswoman said: \"One of our vehicles on the A3 service from Gatwick to London Victoria was involved in an incident with a car on Queenstown Road in the early hours this morning.\n\n\"Emergency services attended the scene and we will continue to provide every assistance with the ongoing investigation.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the family and friends of the occupant of the car, who sadly passed away.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nQueenstown Road is currently closed in both directions between Queens Circus and Chelsea Bridge due to the collision.\n\nInquiries into the circumstances continue, the Met said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A football match in Tanzania was briefly stopped when a swarm of bees invaded the pitch.\n\nTwo local teams, Young Africans and Iringa United, were playing at Uhuru Stadium in Dar es Salaam.", "Chloe Haines also scratched a crew member who tried to stop her opening the door mid-flight\n\nA woman has admitted trying to open an aeroplane door mid-flight prompting two fighter jets to be scrambled.\n\nChloe Haines, 26, of High Wycombe, also scratched a crew member who tried to stop her opening the door on the Jet2 flight to Dalaman, Turkey, on 22 June.\n\nTwo RAF fighter jets rushed to escort the plane back to Stansted Airport, causing a sonic boom across Essex.\n\nHaines, who admitted two charges, is due to be sentenced at Chelmsford Crown Court on 24 January.\n\nShe pleaded guilty on Monday to endangering the safety of a passenger plane and assault by beating.\n\nHaines' barrister Oliver Saxby told Chelmsford Crown Court there was \"no question\" Haines was drunk at the time.\n\nMr Saxby told the court: \"On any analysis, she's a troubled young person with a number of serious issues.\n\n\"Seventeen days before this incident, she had been sentenced to a community order for not dissimilar offences, not committed in the air but with alcohol and a loss of control.\n\n\"That order had not had a chance to bite.\"\n\nHe said Haines, of Station Road in Loudwater, had \"to her credit engaged more fully with Alcoholics Anonymous\".\n\nHer bail conditions include that she does not travel from any UK airport.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The dhow was spotted by Sailors and Royal Marines\n\nThe Royal Navy says it has seized 11 \"mailbag-sized\" sacks of crystal meth in the Middle East, worth an estimated £3.3m.\n\nHMS Defender spotted the \"suspicious\" ship while patrolling the Arabian Sea for smugglers and traffickers.\n\nSailors and Royal Marines boarded the ship, and found a total haul of 131kg.\n\nHMS Defender's commanding officer said he was \"proud\" they had seized a \"significant quantity\" of drugs that could have potentially reached the UK.\n\nCdr Richard Hewitt added: \"This has been a real boost for the ship's company as they face Christmas away from their loved ones.\"\n\nThe Navy said the drugs contained in the bags would have had an estimated street value of £3.3m in the UK.\n\nHMS Defender has been deployed to the Middle East since August\n\nThe Portsmouth-based warship HMS Defender carried out the day-long search of the boat - a dhow - after being alerted by the destroyer's helicopter.\n\nThe Navy said the Wildcat helicopter discovered a solo ship without a flying flag and could not find evidence it was carrying out fishing.\n\nThat prompted the destroyer to investigate, sending Royal Marines to secure the ship and its crew.\n\nHMS Defender is one of more than a dozen British warships, submarines and Royal Fleet Auxiliary support vessels on duty over the Christmas period.\n\nThe vessel has been deployed to the Middle East since August, safeguarding merchant shipping entering and leaving the Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said about 11,000 troops are involved in operations in more than 30 countries across the world over the Christmas period.\n\nThey include personnel serving in Somalia, South Sudan, Estonia, Afghanistan, the Falkland Islands and the Caribbean.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said: \"Over the festive period we should all take a moment to be grateful for the selflessness of our armed forces personnel and their families at this time of year.\"", "The teenager was found \"unresponsive and unconscious\" at the Holiday Inn Express hotel\n\nA 17-year-old girl has died while on a school trip to New York.\n\nThe sixth form student at Bristol Grammar School was found \"unresponsive and unconscious\" at the Holiday Inn Express hotel on 19 December, New York police said.\n\nShe was taken to Mount Sinai hospital, where she was pronounced dead.\n\nPolice said there were no suspicious circumstances, but they understood the teenager may have been ill during the trip.\n\nThey are awaiting the results of a post-mortem examination.\n\nIn a statement, the school's headmaster Jaideep Barot said everyone at the school was devastated and support was being provided for those affected.\n\n\"We have opened a book of condolence and we will consider further remembrance with the family's support in the New Year,\" he added.\n\nThe students had been on a trip to New York and Washington DC.\n\nThe fee-paying school, which was founded in 1532, has more than 1,300 students aged 4-18 enrolled.\n\nStudents from Bristol Grammar School were on a trip to New York and Washington DC\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman has denied personally ordering the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.\n\nBut he told CBS News' 60 Minutes that he took \"responsibility as a leader in Saudi Arabia\" for what happened.\n\nMr Khashoggi was killed in Saudi Arabia's consulate in Turkey on 2 October 2018.", "Dozens of homes have been flooded and villages left under water after parts of England were again deluged by rain.\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued 79 flood warnings for the South, Midlands, East and Yorkshire, meaning immediate action is needed.\n\nA mother and her three sons had to be saved after their car got stuck in flood water in Buckinghamshire.\n\nAnd rivers including the Medway in Kent, Cuckmere in East Sussex and Loddon in Berkshire burst their banks.\n\nThe mother and her family were rescued in Edgcott, near Aylesbury, on Saturday night.\n\nMeanwhile, homes and gardens were damaged when a tornado hit Surrey, earlier on Saturday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This tornado was filmed on the M25 near Chertsey in Surrey, where homes and gardens were damaged\n\nTravellers embarking on the Christmas getaway have been advised to check their routes in advance and drivers have been warned not to move or ignore \"road closed\" signs.\n\nThe Medway has flooded towns and villages including Maidstone, Yalding and Teston. Alfriston, in East Sussex, has been flooded.\n\nHomes in Yalding have been flooded\n\nCars in the village were swept away and the Environment Agency warns there is more rain forecast for Tuesday.\n\nPolice in Bedfordshire said they had received calls from people out walking who had become stuck in rural areas because of the flooding.\n\nThey urged people to be aware of weather conditions in secluded locations, with Bedford Borough Council saying several bridges had been closed in its district because they are \"no longer safe to use\".\n\nSupermarket workers at Sainsbury's in Tonbridge continued to push trolleys despite rising levels of rain water.\n\nA Sainsbury's worker continued to push trolleys despite the rising water levels\n\nResidents of Little Venice Caravan Park in Yalding, Kent, had to be rescued by motorboat.\n\nOn Friday night, one officer had to strip down to his boxer shorts to check on a car stuck in Kingsey.\n\nThe tornado struck a number of houses in the Chertsey area on Saturday, according to firefighters.\n\nResident Verity Boultwood said it blew the roof off her conservatory.\n\nPhilip Passey said he \"froze\" when he saw the tornado, which he thought lasted about 40 seconds.\n\n\"A trampoline lifted up in the air, like it weighed nothing, and was thrown across the garden,\" he said.\n\n\"My daughter came downstairs and said the shed roof had gone.\"\n\nThe tornado struck after roads were flooded and rail lines blocked on Friday.\n\nThe M23 was closed between junctions 10 and 11 in both directions in West Sussex, but was later reopened.\n\nYoung people had to be ferried across a car park at Leicester Outdoor Pursuits Centre, next to the River Soar\n\nA tractor was used to carry guests to and from the Hilton Doubletree hotel at Sindlesham near Reading, where the car park has been inundated by overflow from the River Loddon.\n\nA hotel car park at Sindlesham near Reading was inundated when the River Loddon burst its banks\n\nHighways England has urged motorists to adapt their driving for wet weather by slowing down, keeping well back from the vehicle in front and easing off the accelerator if steering becomes unresponsive.\n\nHave you been affected by flooding? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jessica Jing Ren was a visiting academic at Swansea University from Huanghuai University in China\n\nA woman who was injured after a bus hit a railway bridge has died.\n\nJessica Jing Ren, 36, was travelling on the bus - which was bound for Swansea University - when it crashed into the bridge on Neath Road on 12 December.\n\nMs Ren, a mother of one, was a visiting academic at the university's accounting and finance department from Huanghuai University in China.\n\nSouth Wales Police said a 63-year-old man, who was arrested at the scene, has been released under investigation.\n\nMs Ren's family said in a statement: \"Jessica was the loving wife of Wenquang Wang, a devoted mother to five-year-old Yushu Wang and the cherished Daughter of Mingqi Ren.\n\n\"A much loved and talented academic, Jessica will be deeply missed by her family and her friends both in China and in Swansea and will leave a great void in their lives.\"\n\nAn inquest into Ms Ren's death has been opened and adjourned until 17 June 2020.\n\nEight people were injured in the crash, including Olympic gold medallist and 400m hurdles world record holder Kevin Young, who is studying at the university.\n\nAfter the crash, Ms Ren was airlifted from Swansea to University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, while two others suffered serious injuries.\n\nSwansea University said: \"We are deeply shocked and saddened to hear of the death of Jessica Jing Ren. Our thoughts are with Jessica's family at this time and we extend our deepest condolences at their tragic loss.\"\n\nThe scene inside the bus after it crashed into a railway bridge in Neath Road, Swansea\n\nThe crash happened at about 09:40 GMT while the bus was travelling from Swansea University's Singleton campus to its Swansea Bay campus.\n\nA First Cymru spokesman said the bus was off its normal route due to a temporary road closure.\n\nNetwork Rail said the height restriction on the bridge is 3.3m (11ft) but the sign was dislodged in the crash.\n\nAlastair Hawkes, 22, who was on the top deck of the bus, said: \"There was a crunch and smashing glass and screaming.\n\n\"Everyone was thinking 'what just happened?' as there was a bridge halfway up the bus.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpeaking two days after the crash Mr Young, 53, said he and the woman in front of him hit the windscreen of the bus and he suffered a cut to the top of his head.\n\n\"I hit it and I fell straight down onto the floor,\" he said.\n\nHe said he was \"extremely lucky to be alive\".", "I walked along a tree-lined street in a quiet area of Istanbul and approached a cream-coloured villa, decked with CCTV cameras.\n\nA year ago, an exiled Saudi journalist took the same journey. Jamal Khashoggi was caught on CCTV. It would be the last image of him.\n\nHe entered the Saudi consulate and was murdered by an assassination squad.\n\nBut the consulate was bugged by Turkish intelligence - the planning and the execution were all recorded. The tapes have only been heard by very few people. Two of those people have now spoken exclusively to the BBC's Panorama programme.\n\n\"The horror of listening to somebody's voice, the fear in someone's voice, and that you're listening to something live. It makes a shiver go through your body.\"\n\nKennedy made detailed notes of the conversations she heard between members of the Saudi hit squad.\n\n\"You can hear them laughing. It's a chilling business. They're waiting there knowing that this man is going to come in and he's going to be murdered and cut up.\"\n\nKennedy was invited to join a team headed by Agnès Callamard, the UN's special rapporteur for extrajudicial killing.\n\nCallamard, a human rights expert, told me of her determination to use her own mandate to probe the killing, when the UN proved reluctant to mount an international criminal investigation.\n\nIt took her a week to persuade Turkish intelligence to let her and Kennedy, along with their Arabic translator, listen to the tapes.\n\n\"The intention clearly on the part of Turkey to give me access, was to help me prove planning and premeditation,\" she says.\n\nThey were able to listen to 45 minutes, extracted from recordings made on two crucial days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJamal Khashoggi had been in Istanbul - a city where opponents of regimes across the Middle East have long sought refuge - for a few weeks before he was killed.\n\nThe 59-year-old divorced father of four had recently become engaged to Hatice Cengiz, a Turkish academic researcher.\n\nThey were hoping to build their life together in this cosmopolitan city, but to remarry, Khashoggi needed his divorce papers.\n\nOn 28 September, he and Cengiz visited the Turkish municipal office but were told they needed to get the papers from the Saudi consulate.\n\n\"This was the last resort. He had to go and get those documents from the consulate for us to get officially married because he couldn't go back to his country,\" Cengiz tells me when I meet her in a cafe.\n\nKhashoggi hadn't always been an outcast, exiled from his own country. I met him 15 years ago at the Saudi embassy in London's Mayfair. He was then at the heart of the Saudi establishment - a smooth-talking aide to the ambassador.\n\nWe discussed a recent terror attack by al-Qaeda. Khashoggi had known its Saudi leader, Osama bin Laden, for decades. Initially Khashoggi had some sympathy for al-Qaeda's aim to overthrow autocratic Middle Eastern regimes. But later, he spoke out against the group's atrocities as his views became more liberal and he championed democracy.\n\nIn 2007, he returned home to edit the pro-government newspaper al-Watan. But he was fired three years later for what he described as \"pushing the boundaries of debate within Saudi society\".\n\nBy 2011, inspired by the events of the Arab Spring, Khashoggi was speaking out against what he saw as the repressive and autocratic Saudi regime. By 2017 he had been banned from writing and went into self-imposed exile in America. His wife was forced to divorce him.\n\nKhashoggi became a contributor for the Washington Post, for whom he wrote 20 hard-hitting columns in the year before he died.\n\n\"When he was an editor in the Kingdom he would cross red lines,\" says his friend David Ignatius, the Post's senior foreign affairs columnist and investigative journalist. \"What I saw with Jamal was that he kept getting himself in trouble by speaking his mind.\"\n\nMuch of Khashoggi's criticism was targeted at the new crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman.\n\nMBS, as he is known, was admired by many in the West. He was seen as a reformer and moderniser with a new vision for his country.\n\nBut at home in Saudi Arabia, he was cracking down on dissent and Khashoggi was highlighting it in the pages of the Post.\n\nThis was not the image the crown prince wanted to project.\n\n\"I think that particularly aggravated the crown prince, and he kept asking his aides to do something about this Jamal problem,\" says Ignatius, who regularly visits Saudi and writes about its politics.\n\nIn Istanbul, the Saudis were presented with an opportunity to \"do something\" about Khashoggi.\n\nOn the day of his first visit to the consulate, Cengiz had to remain outside.\n\nShe remembers Khashoggi coming out of the building with a smile on his face. He told her that officials had been surprised to see him and had offered him tea and coffee.\n\n\"He said there was nothing to be afraid of, he missed his country so much and breathing that familiar air had made him feel really good.\"\n\nKhashoggi was told to come back in a few days.\n\nBut as soon as he was gone, phone calls were being made back to Riyadh in Saudi Arabia - all recorded by Turkish intelligence.\n\n\"What was interesting about this phone call is that it referred to Mr Khashoggi as one of the persons that was being sought,\" says Callamard.\n\nThe first call is believed to have alerted the powerful aide who ran MBS's so-called communications office - Saud al-Qahtani.\n\n\"Someone in the communication office had authorised the mission. It makes sense to see that reference to the communication office as being a reference to Saud al-Qahtani,\" she continues.\n\n\"He has been named directly in various other campaigns against individuals.\"\n\nAl-Qahtani had already been accused of involvement in the detention and torture of dissidents in Saudi, such as female activists who dared to drive before the ban was lifted, and high-profile individuals suspected of disloyalty.\n\nIn his writings, Khashoggi had accused al-Qahtani of operating a \"blacklist\" for the crown prince.\n\n\"Qahtani began doing extraordinary services - secret black operations,\" says Ignatius, who has investigated the royal aide. \"That became part of his portfolio and he managed it with a particular ruthlessness.\"\n\nThere are recordings of at least four phone calls on 28 September between the consulate and Riyadh. These include conversations between the consul general and the head of security at the ministry of foreign affairs, who told him a top-secret mission - \"a national duty\" - was planned.\n\nThere's no doubt in my mind this was a seriously, highly organised mission coming from the top,\" says Kennedy.\n\n\"This was not some flaky, maverick operation on the side.\"\n\nOn the afternoon of 1 October, three Saudi intelligence officers flew into Istanbul. It's known that two worked in the office of the crown prince.\n\nCallamard believes they were on a reconnaissance mission.\n\n\"They probably assess the consulate building, they determine what can and cannot be done.\"\n\nOn a quiet and shady terrace in Istanbul, overlooking the Bosphorus, I meet a former Turkish intelligence officer with 27 years' experience.\n\nMetin Ersöz is an expert on Saudi Arabia and its special operations missions. He says its intelligence services became more aggressive after Mohammed bin Salman became crown prince.\n\n\"They started the kidnapping operations and pressuring dissidents,\" he says.\n\n\"Khashoggi was late in recognising the threat and taking precautions and he would pay a heavy price for it.\"\n\nIn the early hours of 2 October, a private jet landed at Istanbul airport.\n\nOn board were nine Saudis - including a forensic pathologist named Dr Salah al-Tubaigy.\n\nAfter probing their identities and backgrounds, Callamard believes this was the Saudi hit squad.\n\n\"The operation was conducted by state officials, they were acting in their official capacities,\" she says.\n\n\"Two of them had diplomatic passports.\"\n\nErsöz says that this kind of mission - a special operation - would have needed approval from either the Saudi King or the crown prince.\n\nThe Saudis checked into the large and impersonal Mövenpick Hotel, located within a few minutes' walk of the consulate.\n\nJust before 10:00, CCTV shows one of the hit squad entering the Saudi consulate.\n\nFrom listening to the tapes, Kennedy believes that Maher Abdulaziz Mutreb was the man who ran the operation.\n\nMutreb was regularly seen travelling with the crown prince, discreetly in the background, close to him as part of his security detail.\n\n\"In the calls between the consul general and Mutreb, there's a reference to the fact that 'we received the information Khashoggi will be coming on Tuesday',\" says Kennedy.\n\nLater on the morning of 2 October, Khashoggi received a call to come to the consulate for his documents.\n\nAs he and Cengiz walked towards the consulate, a macabre and shocking phone conversation was taking place inside between Mutreb and the forensic pathologist, Dr al-Tubaigy.\n\n\"He talks about how when he's doing autopsies. You can hear them laughing,\" Kennedy says.\n\n\"He says, 'I often play music when I'm cutting cadavers. And sometimes I have a coffee and a cigar at hand.'\"\n\nThen the tapes reveal the doctor knows what he is expected to do, according to Kennedy.\n\n\"It's the first time in my life, I will have to cut (up) pieces on the ground,\" she recalls him saying. \"Even if you are a butcher you hang the animal up to do so.\"\n\nAn upstairs office in the consulate had been made ready. The floor was covered in plastic sheeting. Local Turkish staff had all been given the day off.\n\n\"They speak about… when is Khashoggi to arrive, and they say, 'Has the sacrificial animal arrived?' That's how they refer to him,\" says Kennedy.\n\nShe is reading to me from her notebook, horror in her voice.\n\n\"I remember we walked there hand-in-hand and when we arrived in front of the consulate, Jamal gave me his phones and said, 'See you later darling, wait for me here,'\" says Cengiz.\n\nKhashoggi knew his phones would be taken at the entrance and did not want the Saudis to access his private information.\n\nThe tapes reveal that he is met by a reception committee and told that there is an Interpol warrant out for his arrest and he must return to Saudi Arabia.\n\nHe is heard refusing to text his son to assure the family he is fine.\n\nThe silencing of Jamal Khashoggi then begins.\n\n\"There was a point where you can hear Khashoggi moving from being a man who's a confident person, towards a sense of fear - rising anxiety, rising terror - and then knowing that something fatal is about to happen,\" says Kennedy.\n\nShe continues: \"There's something absolutely horrifying about the voice changing. The cruelty of it comes across by listening to the tapes.\"\n\nCallamard is not sure how aware Khashoggi was of the Saudis' plans: \"I don't know whether he thinks he could be killed, but he certainly thinks that they could try to abduct him. He is asking, 'Are you going to give me an injection?' to which he's being told 'Yes'.\"\n\nKennedy says she heard Khashoggi asking twice whether he is being kidnapped and then saying, 'How could this happen in an embassy?'\"\n\n\"The sounds that are heard after that point will tend to indicate that he's suffocated. Probably with a plastic bag over his head,\" says Callamard. \"His mouth was also closed - violently - maybe with a hand or something else.\"\n\nKennedy believes the forensic pathologist now takes over on the orders of the team leader.\n\n\"You hear a voice saying, 'Let him cut,' and it sounds like Mutreb.\n\n\"Then somebody shouting, 'It's over,' and someone else shouting, 'Take it off, take it off. Put this on his head. Wrap it.' I can only assume that they had removed his head.\"\n\nFor Cengiz, only half an hour had passed since Khashoggi left her outside the consulate.\n\n\"During that time, I was dreaming of my future - like how our wedding would be. We were planning a small ceremony,\" she says.\n\nAbout 15:00, CCTV shows consular vehicles leaving and arriving at the consul general's residence two streets away.\n\nThree men enter with suitcases and plastic bags. Callamard believes they may have contained parts of the body.\n\nA car later drives away. Khashoggi's body has never been found.\n\nWhat about the most disturbing detail reported at the time of the murder - the bone saw used to dismember the body?\n\nKennedy says she did not hear the kind of grating noise she would have associated with that type of surgical instrument on the tape. But she says there was a low-level humming sound. Turkish intelligence officials believe this was the sound of the saw.\n\nAt 15.53, CCTV shows two members of the hit squad leaving the consulate.\n\nI retraced their footsteps down the street past the cameras that detailed their route between the consulate and the heart of old Istanbul.\n\nOne man is dressed in Khashoggi's clothes, but wearing different shoes. The other man, his face obscured by a hoodie, is carrying a white plastic bag.\n\nThey head towards Istanbul's famous Blue Mosque. When they re-emerge, the man previously dressed in Khashoggi's clothes has changed.\n\nThey hail a taxi back to their hotel, dumping the plastic bag - thought to contain Khashoggi's clothes - in a bin nearby, before going down into a subway and back to the Mövenpick Hotel.\n\n\"There was a very large degree of planning used to give the impression that nothing harmful had happened to Mr Khashoggi,\" says Callamard.\n\nAll this time, Cengiz was still waiting outside the consulate.\n\n\"I waited and waited and waited there past 15:30. Then, when I realised the consulate had closed, I started running towards it. I asked why Jamal didn't come out. A guard told me he didn't know what I was talking about.\"\n\nAt 16:41, Cengiz was desperate and phoned an old friend of Khashoggi's. He had given her the number in case he was ever in trouble.\n\nDr Yasin Aktay is a member of Turkey's ruling party with contacts at the highest levels.\n\n\"I received a call from an unknown number, a really worried voice from a lady I didn't know,\" he says. \"She said, 'My fiance Jamal Khashoggi went into the Saudi consulate and didn't come out.'\"\n\nYasin swiftly called the head of Turkish intelligence and alerted the office of President Tayyip Erdogan.\n\nBy 18:30, the members of the hit squad were on a private jet to Riyadh, less than 24 hours after they had arrived.\n\nThe next day, the Saudi and Turkish governments issued contradictory statements about what had happened inside the consulate. Saudi Arabia insisted Khashoggi had left the consulate. The Turks said he was still inside.\n\nTurkish intelligence was already poring over the consulate recordings - including the calls made four days before Khashoggi disappeared.\n\nSo did they know at that time that his life was in danger and, if so, why did they not warn him?\n\n\"I don't think they knew. There is no evidence that they were listening live to what was happening,\" says Callamard.\n\n\"This kind of intelligence is done on a regular basis, and it's only because there is a trigger that they may return to the tapes. It was only because Mr Khashoggi was killed and disappeared that they returned to the tape.\"\n\nErsöz tells me his former intelligence colleagues reviewed the tapes retrospectively and went through between 4,000 and 5,000 hours of material to find the key days and the 45 minutes presented to Callamard and Kennedy.\n\nFour days after Khashoggi was killed, another Saudi team arrived - claiming they had come to find out what had happened.\n\nCallamard believes they were really a clean-up team. For two weeks, the Saudis would not allow Turkish investigators to enter the consulate.\n\n\"By the time they were able to collect some evidence, there was nothing there, not even DNA evidence of Mr Khashoggi having been there,\" says Callamard.\n\n\"The only logical conclusion is that the place was thoroughly, forensically cleaned.\"\n\nThat evening, the Turkish authorities told the media that Khashoggi had been murdered in the Saudi consulate.\n\n\"Jamal really didn't deserve this, He deserved so much better,\" says Cengiz. \"The way they killed him, it killed all my hope in life.\"\n\nThe killing in Istanbul, inside an embassy with diplomatic immunity, put the Turkish authorities in a quandary.\n\nFor weeks, despite mounting pressure from the Turks, the Saudis refused to admit the murder, saying first there had been \"a fist fight\" in the consulate and then claiming it was \"a rogue operation\".\n\nProtest outside the Saudi Embassy in the United States, six days after the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi\n\nThe Turkish authorities' strategy was to leak some of what they knew to local and international press. They then invited representatives from the CIA and a few handpicked intelligence agencies, including MI6, to listen to the tapes, proving Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi state operatives.\n\nThe CIA reportedly came to the conclusion there was \"medium to high certainty\" that Mohammad bin Salman had ordered the killing. They briefed Congressmen who were left in no doubt about the finding.\n\nIn January, the Saudi government finally put 11 people on trial in Riyadh for the murder of Khashoggi, including Mutreb and Dr al-Tubaigy, but not the alleged mastermind - Saud al-Qahtani.\n\nHe has not been indicted or even summoned to court to give evidence. I have been told he is being kept in seclusion away from everyone, including his own family, but is still in contact with the crown prince.\n\nCallamard's report for the UN Human Rights Council has reached a decisive conclusion.\n\n\"There is no indication under international law that this crime could be qualified under any other way but as a state killing,\" she says.\n\nKennedy says the revelations of the Khashoggi murder tapes must be acted on.\n\n\"Something treacherous and terrible happened in that embassy. The international community has a responsibility to insist on a high-level judicial enquiry,\" she says.\n\nTurkey has demanded the extradition of those involved to face trial in Istanbul. But Saudi Arabia has refused.\n\nThe Saudi government declined to give an interview to Panorama, but said it condemned the \"abhorrent killing\" and it was committed to holding the perpetrators accountable.\n\nIt said that the crown prince had \"absolutely nothing to do\" with what it called a \"heinous crime\".\n\nOne year on, as we leave the cafe, I can see the pain still suffered by the woman left behind when her fiance's life was cut short so brutally.\n\nIn her parting words to me, Hatice Cengiz warns of the true significance of the killing of Jamal Khashoggi.\n\n\"It's not only a tragedy for me - but for all humanity, all the people who think like Jamal and who took a stance like him.\"\n• None 'Did you order the murder of Jamal Khashoggi?'", "Taylor Swift is just one member of Cats' all-star cast\n\nThe movie version of Cats has failed to live up to expectations at the box office, taking just $6.5m (£5m) at the North American box office.\n\nThe $100m (£77m) film, which was expected to make double that amount, debuted fourth on the US chart, with the new Stars Wars movie on top.\n\nIn the UK and Ireland, it grossed £3.4m, having been panned by critics.\n\nAccording to the Hollywood Reporter, an updated print of Cats was sent out to cinemas on Friday.\n\nThe trade paper reported that the film's director, Tom Hooper, had ordered re-edits to his film with \"some improved visual effects\".\n\nIt is highly unusual for a finished title already on release to be altered in this way.\n\nThe movie has an all-star cast that includes Taylor Swift, Idris Elba, Rebel Wilson and Jason Derulo and is based on the hit stage musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber.\n\nWith Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker at number one at the US box office, Cats trailed after Jumanji: The Next Level and Frozen 2.\n\nHooper, who made Oscar-winning film The King's Speech, has been open about the fact that he only just managed to finish his CGI-heavy movie before its world premiere in New York.\n\nAt the event, Hooper told Variety it was completed in a 36-hour sprint on the Sunday.\n\nCats started on a bad footing even before release, with critics almost unanimously branding it a flop, even though social media reaction after the premiere had been more flattering.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph's Tim Robey called it a \"sinister, all-time disaster from which no one emerges unscathed\", giving the film no stars.\n\n\"Everything feels off, from the scale of the purpose-built set (which makes the cats look more like Borrowers) to the erratic interpretations of its musical numbers... Regarding cats or humans, Hooper, it seems, has nothing to say,\" said Simran Hans in the Guardian in her one-star review.\n\nBBC News Arts Editor Will Gompertz said wrote that while he didn't think Cats was \"terrible\", he felt Tom Hooper had \"missed the spot\".\n\n\"The harsh truth is the film feels plastic, it has no heart or soul. That might well be a problem with the source material and its suitability for a transfer from stage to screen. Notwithstanding notable successes, the fact is not everything that is a hit in one medium works in another,\" he continued, giving the film two stars.\n\nBut the movie could still make up some ground after the main Christmas festivities are over and people head out to be entertained.\n\nTwo years ago, The Greatest Showman made $8.8m (£7m) over Christmas but ended up pulling in $435m (£334m) globally.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Men who are dependent on alcohol or drugs are six or seven times more likely to be involved in domestic abuse against women than others, according to an extensive new study.\n\nThe research, published in the online journal PLOS-Medicine, analysed hundreds of thousands of medical records and police data from Sweden over a 16-year period.\n\nIt also found an increased risk of partner violence among men with mental illnesses and behavioural disorders, though it was not as marked as in the group with a drink or drugs problems.\n\nUniversity of Oxford Professor Seena Fazel, who led the study, said the findings suggest domestic violence could be reduced with improvements in drug and alcohol treatment services and better monitoring of offenders.\n\n\"Treatment programmes for perpetrators have not been very effective to date - probably reflecting lack of high-quality evidence on risk factors that can be targeted,\" Prof Fazel told BBC News.\n\n\"Prevention and intervention programmes should prioritise substance misuse and perpetrators should be assessed for substance misuse to prevent recidivism,\" he said.\n\nThe study, which also involved experts from the US, Sweden and King's College, London, tracked 140,000 men who had been clinically diagnosed with a drink or drug problem between January 1998 and December 2013.\n\nResearchers explored how many had later been arrested for threatening, attacking or sexually assaulting their wives, girlfriends or female ex-partners.\n\nThey found that 1.7% of men dependant on alcohol had subsequently been arrested for such offences - six times as many as those in a sample of the overall male population with a similar age profile.\n\nFor men with a drug problem, 2.1% had been arrested, which was seven times higher than average.\n\nWhile undoubtedly there is some link between alcohol and drugs and domestic abuse, this research should be treated with some caution, said Dame Vera Baird, victims' commissioner for England and Wales.\n\nShe said: \"Many perpetrators who commit domestic violence while drunk will also be violent and controlling while sober.\n\n\"And many perpetrators of domestic violence and coercive control do not have a drink or drug problem, and therefore it would be a mistake to divert resources from domestic violence perpetrator programmes to tackling drink and drugs misuse.\"\n\nThe researchers also carried out \"sibling comparisons\" to check whether the increased risk of domestic abuse among those with alcohol and drug problems could be explained by other factors, such as family background and genetics.\n\nThey found there was still a heightened risk among men dependant on drink or drugs - but it was slightly less pronounced when compared with their brothers who did not have substance misuse problems.\n\n\"Alcohol and drug use disorders decrease an individual's inhibition, which in turn can lead to the use of violence to solve conflicts in intimate relationships,\" the research says.\n\nIt also found a link between some mental health problems and domestic abuse, with those suffering from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), personality disorders and clinical depression among those more likely to face arrest.\n\n\"People with mental disorders are also likely to use alcohol and drugs as coping strategies to deal with difficult symptoms associated with their illnesses,\" the study says.\n\n\"Therefore, alcohol and drug use disorders could be underlying mechanisms linking other mental disorders to later [domestic violence] perpetration.\"", "Evidence of the strike at the centre of the stone circle was found during a geophysics survey\n\nEvidence of a \"massive\" lightning strike has been found at the centre of a stone circle in the Western Isles.\n\nA single large strike, or many smaller ones on the same spot, left a star-shaped magnetic anomaly at the 4,000-year-old site in Lewis.\n\nScientists made the discovery at Site XI or Airigh na Beinne Bige, a hillside stone circle now consisting of a single standing stone.\n\nThe site is at the famous Calanais Standing Stones.\n\nScientists said the lightning strike, which was indentified in a geophysics survey, could show a potential link between the construction of ancient stone circles and the forces of nature.\n\nThey said the lightning struck some time before peat enveloped the stone circle at Site XI 3,000 years ago. The discovery is detailed in new research published online.\n\nThe stone circle may have attracted the lightning, say the scientists\n\nDr Richard Bates, of the University of St Andrews, said: \"Such clear evidence for lightning strikes is extremely rare in the UK and the association with this stone circle is unlikely to be coincidental.\n\n\"Whether the lightning at Site XI focused on a tree or rock which is no longer there, or the monument itself attracted strikes, is uncertain.\n\n\"However, this remarkable evidence suggests that the forces of nature could have been intimately linked with everyday life and beliefs of the early farming communities on the island.\"\n\nThe discovery was made by the Calanais Virtual Reconstruction Project, a joint venture led by the University of St Andrews with standing stones trust Urras nan Tursachan and the University of Bradford and supported by funding from Highlands and Islands Enterprise.\n\nThe same project has also produced a 3D virtual model recreating another of the area's \"lost\" stone circle, Na Dromannan.\n\nIts stones are today either lying flat or buried under peat.\n\nThe new discovery was made at the famous Calanais Standing Stones", "A backlog of hundreds of tonnes of clinical and human waste piled up at a failed disposal firm for the last 12 months is being cleared.\n\nHealthcare Environmental Services (HES) stopped trading last December after becoming embroiled in a waste stockpiling scandal.\n\nThe collapse left about 300 tonnes of waste at the firm's plant in Shotts, North Lanarkshire.\n\nBut now HES liquidator BDO has said work to clear this backlog has begun.\n\nBDO said a licence has been agreed with Cliniwaste Ltd to operate the Shotts site, and two more in Nottingham and Newcastle, with an option for the Glasgow-based firm to also buy them.\n\nSpecialist officers from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency have been working with BDO will oversee the clearance operation.\n\nIt comes as BBC Scotland can also reveal the firm appointed to take over the contract to remove waste from every hospital, GP surgery, dental practice and pharmacy in Scotland will not be operating at full capacity until April next year.\n\nTradebe Healthcare was due to start removing hazardous waste in April this year but this was delayed and the Spanish-owned firm is now implementing the deal on a phased basis.\n\nThis means that some NHS contingency measures, which have cost more than the previous contract, will stay in place until then.\n\nWaste was pictured piling up at health centres in Coatbridge, Kilsyth and Cumbernauld in January but has since been collected\n\nMonica Lennon MSP, Scottish Labour's health spokeswoman, said: \"It's encouraging that steps are now being taken to clear the mountain of stockpiled waste from the Shotts yard.\n\n\"The local community has had to endure this blight since 2018 and it's important the waste is removed quickly and safely.\n\n\"The clinical waste scandal has cost the NHS in Scotland millions of pounds and it is staggering that emergency payments to private firms will continue well into 2020.\"\n\nMs Lennon added that it was \"hard to see where lessons have been learned\" from the saga.\n\nThe collapse of HES, which previously had the NHS Scotland waste collection contract, saw 150 workers in Scotland lose their jobs and forced contingency measures to be put in place across the health service.\n\nIn the eight months following the collapse of HES these contingency measures cost the taxpayer a total of £14.8m.\n\nBy contrast the ten-year deal with Tradebe Healthcare will be worth about £10m a year.\n\nHowever, the Scottish government has said the higher costs for the contingency measures come as a result of them being put in place at short notice following the collapse of HES.\n\nAbout 150 workers in Scotland lost their jobs when HES collapsed, the majority of whom worked at the firm's headquarters in Shotts\n\nA spokeswoman for BDO said: \"The joint liquidators have agreed a licence with Cliniwaste Ltd to operate the Shotts, Newcastle and Nottingham sites.\n\n\"This agreement provides an option to purchase after three months. As part of this licence, Cliniwaste Ltd is already on site clearing waste.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for NHS National Services Scotland said: \"Contingency plans were introduced last year when HES was no longer able to provide waste collection services to NHS boards across Scotland.\n\n\"Contingency arrangements will reduce as Tradebe Healthcare implement the new contract on a phased basis until Spring, 2020.\n\n\"During the phased introduction, the cost of contingency will decrease, and the amount paid to Tradebe Healthcare will increase because they will be paid for the services they provide.\"", "Josh Quigley fractured his skull during the accident\n\nA cyclist badly injured after being hit by a car in the US says he feels like the \"luckiest guy in the world\" for surviving the 70mph crash.\n\nJosh Quigley, 27, from Livingston, was attempting to cycle round the world when he was struck by a vehicle in Temple, Texas on Saturday.\n\nHe suffered fractures to his pelvis, 10 ribs and his skull, as well as a pierced lung.\n\nHe was due to undergo surgery on a broken ankle and heel.\n\nMr Quigley began his round-the-world trip in Edinburgh in April. He was 2,000 miles short of his 18,000 target when he was hit.\n\nSpeaking from his hospital bed, he said: \"It hurts to talk, it hurts to breath, it hurts to lie in this bed, my ribs and my back are in agony and my ankle is sore but mentally, psychologically and emotionally I've never been better because I feel like the luckiest guy in the world.\n\n\"These things are here to help me in mental toughness, resilience, strength and this is another obstacle, probably the biggest one I've faced so far, but I will find a way to finish what I started.\n\n\"Why I feel in such good spirits is because I know how lucky I am to be alive. Being hit by a car at 70mph is a big deal to get hit that hard and to fly 50ft through the air so I know how lucky I am to be alive and I will make the most of it.\n\nJosh Quigley is undergoing an operation on his ankle\n\nMr Quigley was airlifted from the scene by helicopter. He said he was knocked down at night despite wearing reflective clothing and using strong rear lights.\n\nIt is Mr Quigley's seventh attempt at cycling around the world.\n\nHe said he was unsure when he would be able to return to riding his bike but that he hoped it would be in April.\n\nJosh Quigley was stranded in the desert after four punctures at night on an earlier part of his journey through the US\n\nThe incident is one of a number of setbacks faced by Mr Quigley since he started his trip including sweat ruining his passport in Australia, which meant he had to fly back to Britain to get a new one before carrying on with his tour.\n\nIn April, just weeks into his world attempt, thieves stole his bike, which he nicknamed Braveheart, from outside a hostel in London.\n\nMr Quigley had been planning to cycle from Los Angeles to New York for the latest leg of his trip. But after his water bottles kept freezing in the US winter, he changed course to finish in the warmer climate of Florida.\n\nHe embarked on the trip to beat depression and alcohol abuse.", "The government says it will not rule out taking \"further steps\" if football authorities fail to deal with racism.\n\nPlay was stopped during Chelsea's win at Tottenham on Sunday after Antonio Rudiger said he heard monkey noises.\n\nThe Professional Footballers' Association has called for a government inquiry following the alleged abuse.\n\n\"Racism of any kind has no place in football or anywhere else and we must confront this vile behaviour,\" said a Downing Street spokesperson.\n\n\"Clearly there remains more work to be done by the football authorities in tackling this issue and we are committed to working with them on this to stamp it out.\n\n\"The FA, Premier League and English Football League have significantly stepped up their efforts, but we expect them to continue to prioritise this issue and to consult with both players and supporter groups, and we will be monitoring how the football authorities implement their plans through the season.\n\n\"We will continue working with the authorities on this, including the Professional Footballers' Association and we don't rule out taking further steps if required.\"\n\nTottenham, who have been working with the Metropolitan Police to investigate what happened on Sunday, have promised to \"take the strongest possible action\" against anyone guilty of racist behaviour.\n\nSpurs say their initial findings regarding the alleged racist abuse of Rudiger are \"inconclusive\".\n\nMeanwhile, a Chelsea fan has been arrested for allegedly abusing Son Heung-min.\n\nSports minister Nigel Adams said he had held positive talks with Tottenham, the Premier League and the PFA, adding: \"I am in no doubt that Tottenham are doing all they can to identify anyone responsible, and that they will take the strongest possible action.\"\n\nChelsea centre-back Rudiger reported the alleged racist abuse from the crowd to his captain Cesar Azpilicueta, who told referee Anthony Taylor and the game was stopped.\n\nShortly after the stoppage, an announcement made over the public address system warned that \"racist behaviour is interfering with the game\".\n\nSecond and third addresses followed with the game heading towards its conclusion.\n• None 'It's disgusting, the PFA need to act'\n\nIffy Onuora, the Professional Footballers' Association's equalities coach told BBC Sport that racism has increased in the UK since Brexit referendum.\n\n\"There is upheaval following the [Brexit] referendum and the election and that's caused this fracture,\" he said.\n\n\"That emboldens people. It's been legitimised by some of the language from the politicians. We lost an MP only four years ago and we think that was such a seminal moment but that's been and gone and we've used that as a moment to think what are we doing here.\n\n\"Things have got worse if anything and how can that be? Somehow we have to look at this differently and be bolder.\"\n\nThe FA said: \"We are working with the match officials, the clubs and the relevant authorities to fully establish the facts and take the appropriate steps.\"\n\nSpeaking in August, Premier League chief executive Richard Masters said the organisation was \"determined to tackle discrimination\".\n\n\"One incident is one incident too many,\" added Masters. \"We want to encourage fans when they see other supporters making discriminative comments, abusing other people they do report it and that's important.\"\n\nSpurs defender Jan Vertonghen says anyone responsible for racist abuse are \"idiots\" and do not identify with the club.\n\n\"I have got no idea how people still, or ever, thought this way,\" said the Belgium international.\n\nVertonghen says he \"loves\" and the UK because its multi-cultural society and that reports of racism \"hurts\".\n\n\"I didn't hear anything, but if these things are still happening it is a disgrace and we should act strongly against it,\" he added.\n\n\"Sometimes you think people are smarter than this. I am very convinced it is just a minority, but it is very wrong.\n\n\"I don't know if it is getting worse. It shouldn't be there in any way. I just can't get my head around how people still do this. I have got no words for it.\n\n\"If any of their players or our players are affected then I apologise in the name of Spurs, but they are minority idiots. We don't identify with these people.\"\n\nTottenham manager Jose Mourinho: \"I feel very sorry every time something happened and I will always support every decision the authorities can make.\n\n\"Society needs help. And then football is a micro-society. Do we need help? Yes. But society needs help. We need to eradicate any form of discrimination and this case we are talking about racism. Football and society needs help.\"\n\nNew Everton boss Carlo Ancelotti: \"It is a problem everywhere. I had a big fight last year in Italy (as Napoli manager) when Kalidou Koulibaly was abused in the stadium in Milan. We have to be strong.\n\n\"Football cannot allow people to abuse others. Every federation in the world has to be strong against this.\"\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola: \"I don't think [racism] will be completely eradicated. We have to fight but we will need a lot of time to eradicate it. It is a battle we have to fight it every day, in schools especially, in the families at home to try to do a better society in the future for the next generation. It is a battle day-by-day.\"\n\nSheffield United boss Chris Wilder: \"I have always thought that it's a societal problem and is attached to football grounds.\n\n\"If you are sat next to someone who is doing it, saying terrible, terrible things, just out them. Out the people next to you. Be brave and police your own football ground. Isolate them and let's get them out.\"\n\nNewcastle manager Steve Bruce: \"I think I'm like everybody else, you're sickened and saddened by it.\n\n\"We criticise Europe and parts of it, and unfortunately it's creeping back into our game. Really, it's a society thing and I don't think it will be long before we see teams walk off the pitch. Nobody wants to see it.\n\n\"You just can't come to terms that somebody wants to go to a football match and do that to an individual. I'm like everybody else, let's find out whoever it was and ban them for life.\"", "Labour has announced plans to slash rail fares by 33% and simplify ticket prices for part-time workers if it wins the election on 12 December.\n\nThe party also wants to make train travel free for young people under the age of 16 and build a central online booking portal with no booking fees.\n\nThe proposal is part of broader plans by the party to nationalise the UK's train system.\n\nConservative Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said the plan was \"desperate\".\n\nThe Conservatives and Liberal Democrats have also pledged to improve transport.\n\nLabour said privatisation had \"created one of the most expensive ticketing systems in the world\", which discriminated against part-time workers, discouraged rail travel and excluded the young and low-paid.\n\nAndy McDonald, Labour's shadow transport secretary, told the BBC's Today programme: \"[Our pledge] is much overdue given that passengers have had to suffer rises amounting to about 40% since 2010.\n\n\"And if we really want to make the shifts that we need to get people from cars into public transport this is a major contribution to it, because obviously that's critical to addressing the climate change crisis.\"\n\nLabour's manifesto contained a pledge to make rail travel cheaper but no details about what that would entail.\n\nThe party said the proposal to slash fares by a third would cost £1.5bn per year and be covered by Vehicle Excise Duty - money the Conservatives have earmarked for roads.\n\nMore generally, Labour says nationalisation - which it plans to achieve within five years of coming to power - will allow fares to be capped and improve the reliability of services.\n\nThe Conservatives' Mr Shapps said: \"This is another desperate attempt from Labour to distract from their inability and unwillingness to be straight with people on where they stand on Brexit, and the fact they would raise taxes on low and middle-income workers across the country.\n\n\"You simply cannot trust [Jeremy] Corbyn to deliver what he claims. His ideological plans would wreck our economy, cost people their livelihoods and with the help of Nicola Sturgeon, would waste the whole of next year on two more chaotic referendums.\"\n\nIn keeping with their proposals to nationalise the railways, Labour's plans to significantly cut fares would see a reverse in the direction of travel for policies on train fares since privatisation.\n\nSince 1995, successive governments have tried to move the day-to-day cost of running the railways onto fare-payers and away from the taxpayer. At that time, it used to be split 50/50 - now it's more like 75% on the shoulders of the passenger.\n\nThe argument goes that by raising fares in line with the Retail Prices Index inflation figure each year, government spending on the railways can be reserved for investment in infrastructure.\n\nAnnounced just two days after the average train fare rise of 2.7% was published, and coinciding with major industrial action on several lines in the run-up to Christmas, Labour's proposal for a significant cut to fares could prove popular with commuters.\n\nThe future of ticketing and rail fares is just one of the issues being looked at by a major review into the UK's railways due to report after the election.\n\nIt is led by Keith Williams, the former boss of British Airways, who is particularly interested in how innovation in aviation fares and ticketing could be applied to the railways.\n\nMeanwhile, the Liberal Democrats have pledged to freeze peak-time and season ticket train fares for the next five years and cancel the 2.7% rise in rail tickets from 2 January 2020. They also plan to complete the HS2 high-speed rail link.\n\nAnd the Conservatives are pledging to improve transport links as part of a £3.6m Towns Fund.\n\nThey have also promised to give more funding to local combined authorities to improve bus and train services and put £500m into reversing cuts to the railway network made in the 1960s.\n\nThe Brexit Party's flagship transport policy is scrapping the HS2 rail project - a goal it shares with the Green Party.\n\nRegulated fares include season tickets for most commuter journeys, as well as saver returns, standard returns and off-peak fares between major cities. They make up about 45% of all fares.\n\nThe average change in these figures is capped at July's Retail Prices Index (RPI) measure. They are due to rise 2.8% in January.\n\nAcross England, Wales and Scotland regulated fares raised about £3.3bn for the rail operators, according to the Office of Rail and Road.\n\nLabour says they will pay for this by ring-fencing income from Vehicle Excise Duty, which the Conservatives plan to allocate to a special road-building fund from 2020-21 onwards.\n\nSo, an interesting question will be which road projects will be defunded to pay for this pledge.", "Lewis Hamilton dominated the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix to end the season in which he won a sixth world drivers' title on a high.\n\nThe Mercedes driver led away from pole position and cruised off into the distance, untroubled by anyone behind.\n\nIn a soporific race, Red Bull's Max Verstappen took a comfortable second after Ferrari slipped backwards.\n\nCharles Leclerc ran second in the early laps, ahead of Verstappen, but slipped back to third.\n\nLeclerc held off an attack from Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas in the closing stages, the Finn right on his gearbox on the final lap, after an excellent race from the back of the grid.\n\nLeclerc was at risk of losing third place because governing body the FIA discovered before the race that the amount of fuel Ferrari said was in his car was different from the amount that was when it was checked.\n\nBut after a post-race investigation, Ferrari were fined €50,000 for what had been a 4.88kg discrepancy and the result stood.\n\nHamilton's victory was his 11th of the 21 races that have been held this season, and equals his previous best performance - in 2014 and 2018.\n\nIt also moves his career total to 84 wins, just seven behind the all-time record held by Michael Schumacher.\n\nThat sets the 34-year-old Briton up to potentially exceed Schumacher's win tally and match his all-time record of seven world championships in 2020.\n\nHe was in a race of his own from the start, quickly opening a sizeable gap over Leclerc and never looking under any threat thereafter.\n\nHamilton, who tied up the title last month at the US Grand Prix, said: \"I'm proud but just super-grateful for this incredible team and all at Mercedes who have continued to push this year.\n\n\"Even though we had the championship won we wanted to keep our head down and see if we could extract more from this beautiful car.\"\n\nLeclerc initially appeared to have an advantage over Verstappen but his race began to fall apart when Ferrari decided to call him in for a pit stop on lap 12, early for his starting tyre choice of the medium compound.\n\nVerstappen ran 13 laps longer before his first stop and quickly caught and passed Leclerc from four seconds back when he rejoined, despite a problem with his engine's throttle response.\n\nLeclerc switched on to a two-stop strategy and finished third, measuring his pace to hold off Bottas.\n\nThe Finn's task was made harder by the fact the DRS overtaking aid was not operating for the first 18 laps of the race because of a technical problem.\n\nBut he made good progress anyway and by the second part of the race was pressuring Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull's Alexander Albon behind the top three.\n\nVettel pitted out of Bottas' way, then Bottas passed Albon on track.\n\nMercedes had hopes that Leclerc's new soft tyres, fitted at his second pit stop, might fade in the closing laps, but Leclerc did enough to just hang on, despite his car's high tyre usage.\n\nVettel, who dropped to sixth when he made a second stop on the same lap as Leclerc, homed in on Albon in the closing stages and passed him for fifth with two laps to go.\n\nBehind the top six cars, the main interest was how the minor points places would settle the battle for sixth in the championship, with Toro Rosso's Pierre Gasly and McLaren's Carlos Sainz tied on points before the race but the Frenchman ahead on results countback.\n\nGasly's hopes looked done on the first lap, when he was hit by Racing Point's Lance Stroll and punted into the Canadian's team-mate Sergio Perez at the first corner, damaging his front wing.\n\nGasly needed to stop for a new wing and his race never recovered.\n\nBut his hopes increased as Sainz's race looked like it might be undone by his need to start on the unfavourable soft tyre because he qualified in the top 10, which gave the advantage to the quicker runners just outside the top 10 on the grid, such as Perez and Toro Rosso's Daniil Kvyat.\n\nMcLaren gambled on a late pit stop for fresh tyres, which dropped Sainz out of the points place he needed, but gave him the speed he required in the closing laps.\n\nHe climbed back up from 14th place and passed Renault's Nico Hulkenberg for 10th on the last lap, giving him the point he needed to seal sixth - a well-deserved achievement after an excellent first season with McLaren.\n\nWhat happens next?\n\nA well-earned break from travelling for everyone in F1 after a long, hard season. There is some testing in Abu Dhabi this coming week, to settle the detail of the tyres to be used in 2020, and then it will be all hands on deck at the teams' headquarters as they prepare their new cars and the drivers take a short break over Christmas, before preparations begin for the start of next season in Australia on 13-15 March.\n\nWhat they said\n\nHamilton: \"I'm so grateful to Team LH. I travel around the world to different countries and I get to see people who inspire me and send me messages that lift me up. Thank you for watching, thank you for supporting. I feel so happy.\"\n\nVerstappen: \"To be P3 in the championship was a nice ending. We are all working hard, but good to take some time off and be with family and friends and come back stronger next year.\"\n\nLeclerc: \"I've learned a huge amount thanks to Seb, it's been a great year a realisation of the dream since I was child to be with Ferrari and in Formula 1 and it's up to me to get better and give them the success they deserve.\"\n\nAnd your moment of the 2019 season is...", "Angelene Perry's children donned blankets and woolly hats as the family struggled to stay warm\n\nThousands of homes could be without heating for \"several days\" after a gas main failure in central Scotland.\n\nGas infrastructure company SGN said about 8,000 properties in the Falkirk area had been left without supplies,\n\nSGN engineers were working to fix equipment that regulates gas pressure but warned each property would have to be visited.\n\nElectric heaters and cookers were being offered to elderly or sick customers, and those with young children.\n\nTemperatures in the Falkirk area were barely above freezing for much of Sunday and were forecast to fall to minus 2C overnight.\n\nFalkirk Council said schools may have to close on Monday and it would be working with SGN to care for vulnerable people affected.\n\nSGN said it had a large team of engineers working to fix the problem\n\nSGN said homes in Bainsford, Carron, Carronshore, Larbert, Langlees, New Carron Village, Skinflats and Stenhousemuir were affected by a faulty \"gas governor\" which regulates pressure in the network.\n\nIn its latest update it said it would need to visit every property to turn off the gas supply at the meter.\n\n\"With so many homes affected, it's likely you could be without your gas supply for several days,\" it added.\n\n\"We're sorry for the inconvenience this will cause. We're doing all we can to restore gas supplies to the area as soon as possible. \"\n\nA customer information centre at the Camelon Community Centre in Falkirk will be stocked with portable cooking and heating appliances for elderly, disabled and chronically sick customers, as well as those with young children or other special needs.\n\nCustomers can request the appliances by calling 0800 9121717.\n\nOne customer, Angelene Perry, who has four young children including a baby, said the family woke on Sunday morning to find the boiler off and displaying an error message.\n\nGas customers woke to find error messages on their boilers\n\nShe said: \"It's really cold in the house and we're all huddled in the living room where we've got a small heater. I've dressed the baby in plenty of clothes and a hat.\n\n\"I spoke to the gas company and was told a valve had been broken by the cold but they didn't know how long it would take to fix it.\n\n\"I think we're going to have to leave here and go to my sister's as we don't have any hot water or anything.\"\n\nFalkirk Council said it had alerted housing and social work services to be on standby to support SGN and was contacting head teachers to let parents know if schools would be affected.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We have a list of vulnerable people in the area so we know were people who may have the most difficulty are.\"\n\nHe said schools could potentially close if the buildings are very cold, though all care homes in affected areas are currently fine.\n\n\"We are ready to support SGN in any way we can,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In an interview with the BBC's Andrew Marr, Boris Johnson was asked how many other convicted terrorists have been released early from prison in similar circumstances to London Bridge attacker Usman Khan.\n\nThe 28-year-old convicted terrorist was shot dead by police on London Bridge on Friday after stabbing two people to death. He had been released from jail in 2018.\n\nAn urgent review of the licence conditions of people jailed for terror offences has been launched by the Ministry of Justice following the attack.\n\nOn Saturday Met Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said that Khan was subject to an \"extensive list of licence conditions\".\n\nYou can watch the full interview on The Andrew Marr Show on the BBC iPlayer.\n\nRead more: Why was Usman Khan out of prison?", "London Bridge attacker Usman Khan came to the attention of counter-terrorism investigators because he was involved in a highly active cell around Stoke-on-Trent, part of a wider network of radicals then headed by the preacher Anjem Choudary.\n\nMI5 and the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit had intelligence that a group of nine men from London, Cardiff and Stoke, including Khan, wanted to bomb the London Stock Exchange. The plot was supremely incompetent and amateur.\n\nKhan also wanted to set up a terrorism training \"madrassah\", or school, in Kashmir to train a new generation of British militants to either fight out there or bring their skills home.\n\nKhan and the others were convicted and jailed in 2012 - and the ultimate dilemma for the authorities was whether the men were simply fantasists who, hopefully, would grow up.\n\nThe West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit and MI5 team who worked on the investigation had no doubt the men were dangerous - even if they did not have capability.\n\nAnd while Mr Justice Wilkie, the judge presiding over the case, received a letter from Khan saying he had recanted, he had his own doubts - not least because of the nature of the conversations that had been caught during surveillance.\n\nThe judge gave Khan a special prison term known as Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP).\n\nThat meant he would serve at least eight years and could not be released unless he had convinced the Parole Board he was no longer a threat.\n\nSome of the other members of the cell received a sentence which dealt with their dangerousness differently.\n\nThey would serve the second half of it in the community on a licence to monitor their behaviour. And following that, additional years of monitoring.\n\nWhen Khan appealed against his sentence, senior judges agreed he should have been treated the same way as his co-defendants.\n\nUsman Khan, circled, with his fellow defendants in a surveillance image released by police in 2012\n\nHis IPP was replaced by the same extended sentence (reflecting dangerousness) given to some of the others, meaning he would definitely still spend eight years in jail before release and monitoring.\n\nIf he broke the licence he could be immediately sent back to prison.\n\nKhan had also been asking to join a deradicalisation programme - including sending a letter in October 2012 asking for the Home Office to provide someone to work with him.\n\nHis solicitor, Vajahat Sharif, has told the BBC that Khan repeatedly asked him for help in finding someone.\n\nMr Sharif said he wanted a very specific jihadist ideology expert to work with his client because he feared Khan's hate was so deeply-rooted.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. London Bridge attacker \"wanted to deradicalise\" at time of conviction - lawyer\n\nSo while he may have received some help, his lawyer, for one, thinks it was not enough.\n\nWhen Khan was released on licence, he was subject to a variety of forms of management in the community, as is largely standard for terrorism offenders:\n\nDDP is now a key part of the counter-terrorism strategy and involves tailored counselling and psychological intervention in the lives of terrorism convicts leaving jail.\n\nMore than 100 individuals went through the course between the beginning of its trial in October 2016 and September 2018. There is now funding in place to accommodate up to 230 individuals a year.\n\nThe scheme aims to address many of the triggers that lead someone to turn against society - from a personal identity crisis and chronic self-esteem problems, through to personal grievances and immersion in extremist ideology.\n\nOne of Khan's associates, jailed alongside him in 2012, was Mohibur Rahman.\n\nHe attended a deradicalisation course while in jail - but he also met other extremists inside.\n\nHe was subsequently released and then jailed for life for his part in an embryonic plan to carry out a vehicle and knife attack in Birmingham.\n\nThe end of that plot was a major win for the police and MI5 - but it also involved two other former terrorism prisoners who had not changed their ways.\n\nEach regional counter-terrorism unit is also supposed to take an interest in the activity of released individuals on their patch.\n\nKhan would have required police permission to travel to London before his attack so as to not trigger an alert. On Saturday, Scotland Yard said Khan was, to the best of their knowledge, complying with all his release conditions.\n\nMI5 may have been monitoring Khan too, as it has a role in looking at prisoners leaving jail - although they are typically considered a low risk because it takes time for them to re-engage.\n\nAnd so the biggest problem is knowing for sure that someone has reformed - even if they have been on a deradicalisation programme.", "Typhoons can travel at twice the speed of sound\n\nA sonic boom has woken people and shaken houses across parts of London and the northern Home Counties.\n\nPeople tweeted that a loud \"explosion\" had woken them at about 04:20 GMT - with houses shaking and reports of police sirens straight after.\n\nThe noise was generated by two Royal Air Force Typhoons, which launched from Coningsby in Lincolnshire and intercepted an unresponsive aircraft.\n\nThe sonic boom was heard across London, Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire.\n\nLondon's Metropolitan Police subsequently confirmed the bang was the result of the RAF aircraft being cleared to go faster than the speed of sound.\n\nRAF jets are only given permission to go supersonic in emergencies, usually when they are required to intercept another aircraft.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Typhoon aircraft from RAF Coningsby were scrambled this morning, as part of the UK's Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) procedures, after an aircraft lost communications in UK airspace,\" an RAF spokeswoman said.\n\n\"The aircraft was intercepted and its communications were subsequently re-established.\"\n\nShe added the Typhoons had since returned to their base.\n\nMil Radar, which monitors RAF activity, tweeted when the jets were scrambled:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Mil Radar This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nJanet, from Hertfordshire, told the BBC she heard a \"huge thud\" and felt her house shake at 04:17 GMT.\n\nShe wondered whether her boiler had blown up or a tree had fallen on the house, she said.\n\n\"I got up, looked around and out of the window, things looked fine,\" she said.\n\n\"I went downstairs, went from room to room looking for cracks in the walls and ceilings.\"\n\nShe went outside with a torch to check her roof and then checked the nearby road to see if there had been a crash, but saw \"nothing and no sign of anyone else investigating\", she said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWhen an aircraft approaches the speed of sound (768mph or 1,236km/h), the air in front of the nose of the plane builds up a pressure front because it has \"nowhere to escape\", said Dr Jim Wild of Lancaster University.\n\nA sonic boom happens when that air \"escapes\", creating a ripple effect which can be heard on the ground as a loud thunderclap.\n\nIt can be heard over such a large area because it moves with the plane, rather like the wake on the bow of a ship spreading out behind the vessel.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPassers-by who tackled a man wielding a knife on London Bridge have been praised as \"amazing heroes\".\n\nThe man had stabbed two people to death and wounded three others in a terror-related attack.\n\nFootage on social media shows the knifeman being held down by members of the public before firearms officers intervene and shoot him dead.\n\nOne man who helped restrain the attacker said they had been trying to dislodge a knife from this hand.\n\nThe suspect, Usman Khan, 28, was a convicted terrorist who had been released on licence.\n\nThe Queen praised the emergency services and \"the brave individuals who put their own lives at risk to selflessly help and protect others\".\n\nMembers of the public also expressed their admiration for those involved.\n\nGeorge Robarts tweeted about the \"bravery\" of one man, filmed walking away from the attacker holding a knife.\n\nBritish Transport Police (BTP) said the man seen holding the knife was a plain-clothes officer.\n\nBTP Chief Constable Paul Crowther, said: \"The courageous actions he took when faced with the horrors of this attack are remarkable.\n\n\"He, as well as other members of the public, should be extremely proud of what they did to stop this man on London Bridge.\"\n\nAmy Coop, who was inside Fishmongers' Hall where the attack began, tweeted her praise of a man who went to confront the attacker.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Amy Coop This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA chef, known as Lukasz, was joined by another man who used a fire extinguisher and let it off in the face of the attacker to try to keep him at bay.\n\nFishermans' chief executive Toby Williamson said both men thought a bomb might be involved.\n\nHe confirmed Lukasz was among the injured, but said he was \"doing all right\".\n\n\"They are two of the most humble people you would know. They would have used their fists if they had to,\" he said.\n\nHe praised all his staff adding they were \"determined to level the odds against a madman\".\n\nToby Williamson, chief executive officer of Fishermans' company, was \"proud\" of his team\n\nTour guide Stevie Hurst was one of those who helped restrain Khan on the bridge.\n\nHe told BBC 5 live he saw the suspect being held down.\n\nPeople were screaming that the attacker had \"stabbed a couple of women\", he said.\n\nStevie Hurst said he \"doesn't know\" why he was compelled to restrain the attacker\n\n\"Everyone was just on top of him, trying to bundle him to the ground.\n\n\"We saw that the knife was still in his hand... I just put a foot in to try and kick him in the head.\n\n\"We were trying to do as much as we could to try and dislodge the knife from his hand so he wouldn't harm anyone else.\"\n\nMr Hurst's colleague, Thomas Gray, 24, said he stamped on the terrorist's wrist to try to make him release one of two large knives he was carrying.\n\nThe tour manager said: \"I was brought up on rugby and the rule is 'one in, all in'. I did what any Londoner would do and tried to put a stop to it.\n\n\"He had two knives on him, one in each hand, and it looked like they were taped to his hands.\n\n\"I stamped on his left wrist while someone else smacked his hand on the ground and kicked one of the knives away.\"\n\nIt has also emerged that one of the people who helped tackle Khan was James Ford, who in 2004 was jailed in Kent for the murder of 21-year-old Amanda Champion.\n\nMet Police Commissioner Cressida Dick said she wanted to thank the members of the public who helped, \"showing extraordinary courage by stepping in to tackle this attacker\".\n\nBrendan Cox, whose wife MP Jo Cox was murdered, said: \"I hope the front pages tomorrow are full of the stories of the everyday heroes who helped stop the attack, not fixated on the low-life attention seekers who carried it out.\"\n\nSimilarly, Kera Stewart said, rather than see the face of the attacker, she wanted to see the faces of the \"brave, heroic pedestrians who took him down, disarmed him and saved people's lives.\"\n\nOn Twitter, Harvey Bateman added: \"It takes a lot of courage to do something like that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sadiq Khan called members of the public who intervened in the incident \"the best of us\"\n\nMayor of London Sadiq Khan and Prime Minister Boris Johnson both offered their thanks to the general public for intervening.\n\nMr Johnson also praised emergency services while Mr Khan said, \"They are the best of us.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"Our country will never be divided or intimidated... our values will prevail\"", "The first victim of yesterday's London Bridge attack has been named as Jack Merritt, a Cambridge University law ad criminology graduate.\n\nEarlier this year, Jack Merritt spoke on a BBC Radio 4 Law in Action podcast about his work helping inmates at Warren Hill prison in Suffolk to study law.", "Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Home Secretary Priti Patel visited the scene at London Bridge\n\nA row has erupted between the home secretary and a former government minister over the early release of the London Bridge attacker, Usman Khan.\n\nKhan, who was released from prison on licence in December 2018, was shot dead by police during Friday's attack.\n\nLabour's Yvette Cooper said the government were \"warned about the risks\" of ending Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP).\n\nBut Priti Patel blamed legislation brought in by Labour in 2008.\n\nThe IPP regime, which was brought in by the then Home Secretary David Blunkett to protect the public from dangerous prisoners, was scrapped by the coalition government in 2012.\n\nIn a series of tweets, Ms Cooper, shadow home secretary from 2011-2015, said the government was \"warned\" about the risks of ending IPPs citing a \"lack of resources for probation, monitoring and rehabilitation\".\n\nThe home secretary responded to Ms Cooper on Twitter, saying the law was changed \"to end Labour's automatic release policy\".\n\nMs Patel added that Khan was convicted before the Labour legislation was changed by the Tories in 2012.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Priti Patel This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe row comes after Ms Patel joined Prime Minister Boris Johnson at London Bridge where two people were killed by Khan on Friday.\n\nKhan, 28, was convicted of a terrorism offence in 2012. He was released from prison in December last year, after agreeing to wear an electronic tag.\n\nVisiting the site of Friday's stabbings, the PM vowed to \"toughen up sentences\".\n\nMr Johnson said: \"I've said for a long time now, that I think the practice of automatic, early release where we cut a sentence in half and let really serious and violent offenders out early, simply isn't working.\n\n\"And I think you've had some very good evidence of how that isn't working, I'm afraid, with this case,\" he added.\n\nTwo people were killed in the attack and another three were taken to hospital for stab injuries\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said there were questions to be answered.\n\n\"I think there is also a question about what the Probation Office were doing - were they involved at all?\n\n\"Whether the Parole Board should have been involved in deciding whether or not he should have been allowed to be released from prison in the first place, and also what happened in prison?\"\n\nThe Parole Board said it had no involvement in the 28-year-old's release, saying Khan \"appears to have been released automatically on licence (as required by law)\".\n\nMs Patel backed up the Parole Board's comments, with a tweet claiming they \"could not be involved\" in the decision to release Khan because of Labour's change to the law in 2008.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Priti Patel This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn 2012, Khan was sentenced to indeterminate detention for \"public protection\" with a minimum jail term of eight years after being convicted for his part in a plot to bomb the London Stock Exchange.\n\nThis sentence would have allowed him to be kept in prison beyond the minimum term.\n\nBut in 2013, the Court of Appeal quashed the sentence, replacing it with a 16-year-fixed term of which Khan should serve half in prison. He was released on licence in December 2018.\n\nKhan was living in Stafford and wearing a GPS police tag when he launched his attack on Friday, in which a man and a woman were killed and three others were injured.\n\nA house in Stafford linked to Usman Khan has been searched by officers\n\nAs part of his release conditions, Khan was obliged to take part in the government's desistance and disengagement programme - the purpose of which is the rehabilitation of people who have been involved in terrorism.\n\nFriday's attack started inside Fishmongers' Hall where the 28-year-old was attending a rehabilitation event for convicted prisoners run by the University of Cambridge.\n\nFormer chief crown prosecutor Nazir Afzal said he repeatedly warned Mr Johnson of the risk posed by convicted terrorists being released from prison while still radicalised.\n\nMr Afzal said: \"He asked me what keeps me awake at night and I told him it was this issue.\n\n\"When he wanted to know what to do about it, I told him it was more resources for one-to-one de-radicalisation.\n\n\"Back then, he hadn't found the 'money tree' so he frustratingly said there was no money.\"\n\nThe Prime Minister said: \"A great deal of working is being done to make sure the public is protected.\"", "Labour has highlighted NHS figures which it claims show a decline of GP services under the Conservatives.\n\nThe figures show that in October there were six million GP appointments - out of 31 million - for which patients had a wait of more than two weeks.\n\nLabour said it was \"yet more damning evidence of the crisis our NHS is in after a decade of Tory cuts\".\n\nThe Tories responded by highlighting their plans to deliver 50 million more GP appointments by 2024-25 if elected.\n\nThe figures, from NHS Digital, do not distinguish between those patients who were content to wait for a more routine meeting at their local surgery and those who wanted a more immediate appointment and could not get one.\n\nThe latest data from NHS Digital show that 2.45 million patients waited between 15 and 21 days in October to see a GP or other practice clinician, which was 8.3% of the total number of appointments, compared with 8% in October 2018.\n\nAnother 1.69 million waited between 22 and 28 days for a GP appointment while 1.66 million waited more than 28 days.\n\nIn both cases there was an increase in the percentage of patients affected compared to October last year.\n\nThe overall number of appointments increased to 30.8 million in October 2019 from 29.7 million in the same month the year before.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"You can't get an appointment\" - patients and staff at one GPs' practice\n\nShadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said: \"More families are struggling to get a GP appointment after the Tories have allowed the numbers of family's doctors in our communities to fall.\"\n\nHe said Labour had a £40bn rescue plan to invest in general practice which would see more doctors recruited and provide millions more GP appointments.\n\nLabour also quoted new figures on the GP workforce in England which show that the number of fully qualified doctors in general practice had fallen by more than 1,600 since September 2015 to just under 27,000 in September this year.\n\nThe Conservative government had promised in 2015 to add 5,000 GPs by 2020.\n\nHowever, the Tories refer to a different measure which includes qualified doctors training to be GPs - this group has increased by about 400 since September 2015.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock said: \"It's great news that we've seen an increase in the number of GPs, and that more people are getting a GP appointment the same or next day.\n\nHe said: \"A Conservative majority government will create 6,000 more GPs and deliver 50 million more GP appointments - to make sure everyone can get the care and treatment they need faster.\"\n\nLabour has pledged, if elected, to increase the number of GP training places in England from 3,500 to 5,000 a year.\n\nThe Conservatives say they would raise training places to 4,000 and recruit more GPs from abroad along with measures to boost retention.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats say they first identified on Thursday - from the NHS' own figures - that the number of GP practices has fallen to a record low.\n\nThe party accused the Conservatives of failing to keep their promises on GP numbers.\n\nIt wants to end the GP shortfall within five years, with more training and what they say will be easier foreign recruitment if the UK stays in the EU.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police and forensics teams inspect the scene in Canal Street\n\nPolice in New Orleans say there have been 11 victims of a shooting incident near the French Quarter tourist hub.\n\nTwo people are in critical condition, with shots to the chest and torso respectively. No fatalities have been reported.\n\nThe incident took place on Canal St between Bourbon and Chartres streets at about 03:20 local time (09:20 GMT).\n\nPolice said on their Twitter feed that \"one suspect had been apprehended near the scene\".\n\nThey later said the person's possible involvement was still under investigation and that no arrests had yet been made. No other details have been given.\n\nThe victims have all been taken to hospital.\n\nVideo footage from the scene showed numerous police vehicles cordoning off the area as forensic teams made checks.\n\nCanal St file image. The street is on the edge of the famous French Quarter tourist hub\n\nLocal media quoted Police Superintendent Shaun Ferguson as saying officers on the 700 block of Canal Street at the time believed that they were being fired upon.\n\nHe said: \"Unfortunately, there were so many people out here we were unable to determine who was actually firing shots at the time. We do not know how it started.\"\n\nThe French Quarter has been hosting holidaymakers marking the weekend after Thanksgiving.\n\nThousands of fans and alumni have also been drawn to the city for the Bayou Classic football game traditionally played on Thanksgiving weekend between Southern University and Grambling State University.\n\nOn the same weekend in 2016, a man was killed and nine other people wounded in a shooting on Bourbon St.\n\nIn June 2014, another shooting incident on Bourbon St left one person dead and nine injured.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bullets and bills: The cost of getting shot in America", "Video footage has shown the moment members of the public stepped in to confront the London Bridge attacker.\n\nA fire extinguisher and a tusk were used to contain Usman Khan, who was later shot dead by police at the scene.\n\nTwo people were killed and three more injured in the attack.", "Facebook has deleted a Conservative election ad that used BBC News footage because it infringed the corporation's intellectual property (IP) rights.\n\nThe BBC said the material had been used out of context in a way that \"could damage perceptions of our impartiality\".\n\nOn Thursday, the Tories rejected a request from the BBC's lawyers to remove the 15-second video.\n\nThe BBC also complained to Facebook, which has now deleted the ad.\n\nIn a statement, Facebook said: \"We have removed this content following a valid intellectual property claim from the rights holder, the BBC.\n\n\"Whenever we receive valid IP claims against content on the platform, in advertising or elsewhere, we act in accordance with our policies and take action as required.\"\n\nA BBC spokesperson said: \"We welcome the decision.\"\n\nThe Conservative Party said: \"All political parties make use of BBC content. We will be asking the BBC if in the interests of fairness they intend to complain about other political parties who use their content.\"\n\nThe unprecedented and unpredictable campaign tactics being used during this election are putting Facebook's policies under increasing amounts of scrutiny and strain.\n\nThe decision to remove the Conservative advert is significant; not because of the action the platform took, but the grounds on which it acted.\n\nThe row between the BBC and the Conservative Party was about the ethics of the party's advert. The BBC believes that the ad misled viewers into thinking that its news reporters were supporting the Conservatives. The Conservatives disagreed.\n\nFacebook were aware of the row on the night the ad began running but didn't get involved until a copyright claim was lodged days later.\n\nThe decision to take it down then was effectively a black and white one - and easy enough for the social media giant to act on without getting into the icky business of judging what counts as disinformation.\n\nIt's another example of the platform taking action on simple technical grounds and helps us to build a clearer picture of the fuzzy policies that the platform and its sister site Instagram adheres to.\n\nFacebook will take action on political adverts but only when it has an excuse to stay out of the politics.\n\nThe move also brings into sharp focus the need for regulation of what elements of news coverage are or aren't allowed during an election campaign.\n\nClips of BBC presenters - political editor Laura Kuenssberg and News at Ten presenter Huw Edwards - speaking in recent broadcasts about Brexit delays were used in the ad.\n\nThe clips were edited into a montage of protest footage and video of debate in the House of Commons, all set to dramatic music.\n\nThe advert, which was used to target three separate groups of Facebook users, was seen by at least 350,000 people.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt began running on Thursday afternoon and, according to the Facebook Ad Library, was mainly aimed at 35-54 year olds and cost the party around £7,000.\n\nThe advert, along with two others, was removed so it is no longer visible online and a message reads: \"This ad was taken down because it goes against Facebook's intellectual property policies.\"\n\nIn Facebook's policy guidelines it states that \"ads must not contain content that infringes upon or violates the rights of any third party, including copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity or other personal or proprietary rights\".\n\nWhen it rejected the BBC's initial request to stop running the ads, the Conservative Party said it was \"clear the footage was not edited in a manner that misleads or changes the reporting\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"At times I felt my death was imminent\"\n\nAn Australian academic freed by the Taliban in a prisoner swap has spoken of his \"long and tortuous ordeal\" as a hostage in Afghanistan.\n\nTimothy Weeks said he believed US special forces had tried six times to rescue him and an American captive, Kevin King, who was also released.\n\nMr Weeks said he did not hate the Taliban, saying some of his guards were \"lovely people\" he hugged as he left.\n\n\"I never, ever gave up hope... I knew I would leave eventually,\" he said.\n\nMr Weeks and Mr King, also an academic, were freed this month in exchange for three senior militants held by the Afghan authorities, in a deal aimed at kick-starting peace talks.\n\nThe pair had been held for three years after being abducted outside the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul, where they worked as professors.\n\nMr Weeks, a 50-year-old from Wagga Wagga in New South Wales, was speaking at a press conference after returning to Australia on Thursday night.\n\nHe said he believed numerous attempts were made to rescue him and that he was held in several locations, often small windowless cells in both Afghanistan and Pakistan.\n\n\"I believe, and I hope this is correct, that they (special forces) came in six times to try to get us, and that a number of times they missed us only by hours,\" Mr Weeks said.\n\nTimothy Weeks with his sisters Alyssa Carter (L) and Joanne Carter (R)\n\nHe recalled one such mission in April, when his guards told him they were under attack by militants of the rival Islamic State (IS) group.\n\n\"I believe now that it was the Navy SEALs coming in to get us,\" Mr Weeks said.\n\n\"I believe they were right outside our door. The moment that we got into the tunnels, we were one or two metres underground and there was a huge bang at the front door.\n\n\"And our guards went up and there was a lot of machine-gun fire. They pushed me over the top into the tunnels and I fell backwards and rolled and knocked myself unconscious.\"\n\nMr Weeks (L) and fellow hostage Kevin King during their capture\n\nHe said he had accepted that his guards were soldiers acting under orders and that they \"don't get a choice\".\n\n\"I don't hate them at all,\" he said. \"And some of them I have great respect for, and great love for, almost. Some of them were so compassionate and such lovely, lovely people. And it really led me to think about... how did they end up like this?\"\n\nMr Weeks also recalled his release, saying his ordeal \"ended as abruptly as it had begun\" as two US Black Hawk helicopters descended from the skies.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Is peace with the Taliban possible?\n\n\"Out of a big dust cloud came six special forces and they walked towards us and one of them stepped towards me and he just put his arm around me and he held me and he said, 'Are you OK?' And then he walked me back to the Black Hawk.\"\n\nMr Weeks said that his time as a hostage had had a \"profound and unimaginable effect\".\n\nBut he never gave up hope because \"if you give up hope, there is very little left for you\".\n\nHe said: \"At times, I felt as if my death was imminent, and that I would never return to see those that I loved again. But, by the will of God, I am here, I am alive and I am safe - and I am free.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Listen to Jack Merritt speak on a BBC podcast about his work helping inmates at a prison to study law.\n\nOne of the people stabbed to death in Friday's attack at London Bridge has been named as 25-year-old University of Cambridge graduate Jack Merritt.\n\nHe was one of two people killed when 28-year-old Usman Khan launched the attack at a Cambridge University conference on prisoner rehabilitation.\n\nKhan, who had been jailed over a terror plot, was shot dead by police after members of the public restrained him.\n\nMr Merritt was described by his father on Twitter as a \"beautiful spirit\".\n\nA woman who died in the attack - declared by officers as a terrorist incident - has not yet been named. Three others were injured.\n\nMr Merritt, from Cambridge, was a course coordinator for Learning Together, a prisoners' rehabilitation programme which was hosting the conference at Fishmongers' Hall, at the north end of London Bridge.\n\nKhan had taken part in the scheme while in prison and was one of dozens of people - including students and offenders - at the event.\n\nDavid Merritt said on Twitter that his son Jack was a \"a beautiful spirit who always took the side of the underdog\".\n\n\"Jack spoke so highly of all the people he worked with & he loved his job,\" he added.\n\nMr Merritt graduated from the University of Manchester with a bachelor's degree in law in 2016.\n\nHe went on to study at the University of Cambridge, where he worked in the criminology department running Learning Together.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said the attack is believed to have started inside Fishmongers' Hall at 13:58 GMT on Friday, before continuing onto London Bridge itself, where Khan was shot by armed officers.\n\nKhan was known to the authorities, having been convicted of a terrorism offence in 2012.\n\nHe was released from prison half way through his 16-year sentence in December 2018 - subject to an \"extensive list of licence conditions\", Met Police Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said.\n\nMr Basu said, on Saturday, that \"to the best of my knowledge, he was complying with those conditions\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nKhan took part in Learning Together while at HMP Whitemoor in Cambridgeshire.\n\nHe appeared as a \"case study\" in a report by the initiative. Identified only as \"Usman\", Khan was said to have given a speech at a fundraising dinner after being released from prison.\n\nUsman Khan appeared as case study in a report by Learning Together\n\nHe was also given a \"secure\" laptop that complied with his licence conditions, to allow him to continue the writing and studying he began while in jail.\n\nKhan contributed a poem to a separate brochure, in which he expressed gratitude for the laptop, adding: \"I cannot send enough thanks to the entire Learning Together team and all those who continue to support this wonderful community.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Usman Khan speaking to the BBC in 2008: \"I ain't no terrorist\"\n\nMr Basu said officers had been working \"flat out\" to try to establish the \"full circumstances\" of the stabbing.\n\nHe praised the \"incredible acts of bravery\" by members of the emergency services and the public who intervened - even after they realised Khan was wearing a \"very convincing\" fake explosive vest.\n\nMr Basu added officers had found no evidence to suggest anyone else was involved in the attack.\n\nNHS chief executive Simon Stevens said three victims remained in hospital following the attack - two in a stable condition and one with less serious injuries.\n\nPolice carried out searches at two addresses in Stafford and Stoke-on-Trent as part of the investigation.\n\nStaffordshire Police's Deputy Ch Con, Nick Baker, said it was \"vitally important everyone remains alert but not alarmed\".\n\nThe Met Police is urging anyone with information - particularly anyone who was at Fishmongers' Hall - to contact them.\n\nMembers of the public were widely praised for intervening to tackle Khan to the ground before police arrived on the scene.\n\nOne man pictured in many newspapers, as he removed a knife from the scene, was a British Transport Police officer in plain clothes.\n\nChief Constable Paul Crowther, of British Transport Police, said his officer \"bravely ran towards danger\".\n\n\"He, as well as other members of the public, should be extremely proud of what they did to stop this man on London Bridge,\" he added.\n\nWitnesses were widely praised for intervening in the attack\n\nVideos posted on social media show the knifeman being held down by members of the public.\n\nOne witness described how a man at the event at Fishmongers' Hall grabbed a narwhal tusk - a long white horn that protrudes from the whale - that was on the wall, and went outside to confront the attacker.\n\nAnother person let off a fire extinguisher in the face of the attacker to try to keep him at bay.\n\nSome of those who helped were believed to be former prisoners attending the conference.\n\nOn a visit to the attack site, the prime minister said the practice of cutting jail sentences in half and letting violent offenders out early \"simply isn't working\".\n\nMr Johnson vowed to \"toughen up sentences\", while Labour's Jeremy Corbyn said there were questions to be answered.\n\nBut Mr Merritt's father said, in a now deleted post, on Twitter: \"My son, Jack, who was killed in this attack, would not wish his death to be used as the pretext for more draconian sentences or for detaining people unnecessarily.\"\n\nPolitical parties cancelled some events on Saturday, which had been planned ahead of the general election on 12 December.\n\nFlags on UK government buildings were flown at half-mast on Saturday as a mark of respect to all those affected by the attack.\n\nThe Queen said in a statement: \"Prince Philip and I have been saddened to hear of the terror attacks at London Bridge.\n\n\"We send our thoughts, prayers and deepest sympathies to all those who have lost loved ones and who have been affected by yesterday's terrible violence.\"\n\nLondon Bridge was the scene of another attack, on 3 June 2017, in which eight people were killed and many more injured.\n\nThe Dean of Southwark Cathedral, the Very Revd Andrew Nunn, said Friday's events had brought back memories.\n\n\"It's only two-and-a-half years since the June attack and that's not long for healing, and actually it feels as though wounds have been reopened,\" he said.\n\n\"Where people felt they had come to terms with what had happened in their community, now I think they're wondering whether they really had - so a lot of work for us to do,\" he added.\n\nThe latest attack comes after the UK's terrorism threat level was downgraded on 4 November from \"severe\" to \"substantial\", meaning that attacks were thought to be \"likely\" rather than \"highly likely\".\n\nThe terror threat level is reviewed every six months by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre, which makes recommendations independent of government.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLeading figures from the UK's political parties have clashed on Brexit, the NHS and terror legislation in the latest televised general election debate.\n\nLabour's Richard Burgon declined to say during the ITV programme which way he would vote in the EU referendum his party is promising, if it wins power.\n\nTory Rishi Sunak was pushed to rule out a no-deal Brexit if the Conservatives won, but did not give a direct answer.\n\nThe UK goes to the polls on 12 December.\n\nLabour's shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon defended Jeremy Corbyn's decision to remain neutral in the event of a second referendum, saying the Labour leader was \"determined to bring the country together and heal divisions, not try to exploit them for votes\".\n\nPressed by presenter Julie Etchingham on whether he would vote to stay in the EU or leave in another referendum, he said: \"I want to speak to my local Labour Party members after a Labour government comes back with that deal and then we'll decide how we approach that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour's Richard Burgon on Brexit: 'It would be for the people to decide'\n\nLib Dem leader Jo Swinson said being neutral showed Mr Corbyn was a \"bystander not a leader\", but Mr Burgon said her party's policy of cancelling Brexit was \"not very liberal, not very democratic\".\n\nSNP leader Nicola Sturgeon, who also wants another referendum, added it was \"dreadful\" that the Conservatives want \"Brexit at any cost\" and Labour \"can't even decide what side they're on\".\n\nShe pushed Conservative minister Mr Sunak to rule out a no-deal Brexit at the end of next year if the Conservatives failed to negotiate a trade deal with the EU.\n\nThe chief secretary to the Treasury insisted \"we already have a deal\", prompting Ms Sturgeon to say that that was a withdrawal deal, not a trade deal.\n\nMr Sunak said a trade deal was \"in the future\", adding that \"we can only get to that future\" by respecting the result of the EU referendum and leaving.\n\nThe UK would continue to abide by EU rules under the terms of Boris Johnson's EU deal until 31 December 2020, by which time he says a permanent trading relationship will be agreed with Brussels.\n\nBut his opponents say that raises the prospect of a no-deal Brexit at the end of next year, if an agreement is not reached by then.\n\nGreen party co-leader Sian Berry said the best way to finish off the Brexit process was \"more democracy\" by having a \"people's vote\".\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price and Ms Swinson said Brexit should be cancelled altogether.\n\nMr Price said the economic effect of leaving the EU would divide the rich from the poor and \"will not be the answer to our problems\".\n\nBut Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage said a second referendum would cause \"even more division and acrimony\".\n\nHis party has pledged to leave the EU and move to World Trade Organisation trading rules if a free trade agreement cannot be struck by the end of next year.\n\nIn a particularly spiky exchange, Ms Swinson attempted to use Mr Farage's defence of US President Donald Trump against him.\n\nThe Brexit Party leader acknowledged that some of Mr Trump's comments about grabbing women were \"wrong\" .\n\n\"It was crass and it was crude and it was wrong - men say dreadful things sometimes,\" he said.\n\n\"If all of us were called out for what we did on a night out after a drink...\", he said, before being interrupted by the Lib Dem leader.\n\n\"Is that what you do on a night out after a drink?\" she asked.\n\nMr Farage replied: \"He is president of the USA and that relationship matters. You are so anti-American you are prepared to put your hatred of Trump above our national interest. That is a great mistake.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Farage on Trump: 'Men say dreadful things sometimes'\n\nScotland's first minister Ms Sturgeon accused Mr Johnson of modelling himself on Mr Trump.\n\nBut Mr Sunak said the UK's relationship with the US was \"incredibly important for keeping us safe\" and was \"not something to turn your nose up at\".\n\nThere were also heated exchanges over the the release from prison of Usman Khan, who went on commit the London Bridge terror attack.\n\nMr Sunak said the Conservatives wanted \"tougher sentences\" and he defended Mr Johnson against claims he had politicised the attack, saying it was \"incumbent\" on the prime minister in an election \"to explain to people how they will keep them safe\".\n\nMr Burgon said he was \"very uncomfortable with the way the discussion from the Conservatives moves straight from a tragedy to reheating pre-packaged political lines smearing the Labour Party\".\n\n\"I think our democracy, regardless of our parties, should be better than that\".\n\nMr Farage said: \"I think these people should never ever be let out prison unless we are absolutely convinced they do not have the jihadi virus. But political correctness stops us from doing that.\"\n\nMr Sunak accused Labour of making \"baseless allegations\" that the Conservatives would sell the NHS, as part of a post-Brexit trade deal with the US.\n\nHe told Mr Burgon: \"The real risk to the NHS are your reckless plans for the economy, Richard, which will mean there isn't money to invest, and silly plans like the four-day week.\"\n\nBut the Labour shadow minister replied: \"It is not Labour's policy to have a four-day week in the National Health Service.\"\n\nChallenging the comment, Mr Sunak said: \"John McDonnell stood there and said very clearly that it would apply to everyone. Are you now saying that he was wrong?\"\n\nMr Burgon replied: \"No, I'm reiterating what he said before which is the idea of people working a four-day week at some point in the future - in maybe 10 years - is something which could be considered.\"\n\nShadow chancellor Mr McDonnell said last month that Labour's plans for a 32-hour working week will apply to all employees, including those in the NHS, and will be implemented over a decade.\n• None Who should I vote for? Election 2019 manifesto guide", "Second Test, Seddon Park, Hamilton (day three of five):\n\nJoe Root returned to form as he and Rory Burns hit centuries for England, but the second Test against New Zealand remains in the balance after day three.\n\nRoot made 114 not out off 278 balls - his first Test century in 15 innings - as England closed on 269-5, 106 behind.\n\nCaptain Root put on 177 with opener Burns, who reached his second Test ton before being run out for 101.\n\nNew Zealand fought back with two wickets after tea before rain ended play 45 minutes early in Hamilton.\n\nBen Stokes made an attractive 26, while 21-year-old debutant Zak Crawley fell for one.\n\nEngland will still hope to bat beyond the Black Caps' first-innings 375, before attempting to bowl their hosts out cheaply.\n\nHowever, further rain is forecast on the final day, with England needing to win to draw the two-Test series.\n\nRoot made two and 11 in the first-Test defeat at Mount Maunganui and was averaging 27.40 from 10 matches in 2019, form which had seen him drop out of the top 10 of the Test batting rankings for the first time since 2014.\n\nHe began the day on six and batted very patiently, not playing in his trademark busy fashion until a flurry of boundaries when he reached the nineties.\n\nHe did not play many memorable shots but did not offer a chance either, the only scare coming when he was given out caught down the leg side on 47. The decision was overturned when replays showed the ball flicked his pad.\n\nThat said, Root reached his slowest Test hundred in fortuitous fashion, bottom-edging a cut past his stumps then over wicketkeeper BJ Watling for four.\n\nThe century, his 17th in Tests, has come on a very flat pitch but it will also quieten questions around his batting since taking the captaincy - for a while at least.\n\nThis is his sixth hundred as captain and his longest innings in terms of balls faced since he succeeded Alastair Cook as skipper.\n\nAs England faltered late in the day against a disciplined New Zealand attack, Root held firm and will likely need to push on on day four to set up a chance of victory.\n\nAfter the innings-and-65-run defeat in the first Test, Root stressed the importance of England batsmen converting starts into hundreds and it will please him that both he and Burns were able to do so.\n\nIt is the first time England have had two centurions in the same innings of a Test since Alastair Cook's final match in September 2018.\n\nBurns, who was dropped twice on day two, was more fluent than Root, although not as solid. He capitalised when New Zealand bowled too short and played a number of pleasing pulls, reaching his century from 208 balls.\n\nHe was run out two balls later, ambling the first run and falling a couple of inches short when he opted not to dive for his ground.\n\nStill, Burns' stand with Root was the first time England have had a partnership over 150 since Cook's retirement, and further enhances his reputation at the top of the order.\n\nAfter Burns' departure it looked like the in-form Stokes would continue to build England's score, but he was well taken by Ross Taylor at slip off a fine delivery from Southee which seamed away.\n\nKent opener Crawley, batting at number six, was almost run out as he scampered his first run in Test cricket before Neil Wagner found the outside edge with one angled across him.\n\n'The style of Root's innings has become alien' - what they said\n\nEngland opener Rory Burns on BBC Test Match Special: \"It's pleasing to get the hundred. I'd like to still be out there. It was a disappointing end to it, but I'm pretty happy with how I played.\n\n\"I knew I had to get some things right from last night. I tried to do that overnight in terms of my mindset and how I was going about it. I got my tempo and rhythm back to how I wanted to bat.\"\n\nFormer England batsman and batting coach Mark Ramprakash: \"I really liked the way Root played today. The risk was very low. He kept the ball on the ground, he waited for the long half-volley and his pull shots were well executed.\n\n\"The style of Root's innings has almost become alien. A lot of players these days play cricket in fast-forward mode.\"\n\nNew Zealand bowler Tim Southee: \"It was a docile pitch throughout. Burns and Root played nicely but the run-out opened up a little bit of an end for us.\n\n\"We got a couple of rewards late in the day and if we pick up a couple tomorrow, who knows?\"", "The Welsh Government has already declared a \"climate emergency\"\n\nA five-year blueprint to tackle climate change in Wales has been launched by the Welsh Government.\n\nProsperity for All: A Climate Conscious Wales sets out plans to improve flood defences, secure water supplies, and other environmental improvements.\n\nEnvironment minister Lesley Griffiths said the plan is \"challenging\".\n\nBut Welsh Conservative Andrew RT Davies said \"questions must be answered\" over if the plans are \"workable\" and \"economically viable\".\n\nThe plans build on the climate emergency declaration made earlier this year and Wales' first climate change conference, the Welsh Government said.\n\nMs Griffiths added: \"But we must all adapt and we must all commit to protect our nation for current and future generations.\n\n\"Success will mean Wales is a climate conscious nation, aware of the risks facing us, whilst being prepared and ready to adapt to the impacts before they occur.\"\n\nEnvironment minister Lesley Griffiths said \"we must all adapt\"\n\nEnvironment spokesman for the Welsh Conservatives in the assembly, Mr Davies said: \"The devil, as ever, is not only in the detail, but also in the practical application of any plan.\n\n\"Questions that must be answered include is it workable? Is it economically viable?\"\n\nHe said the Welsh Labour government's record on the environment \"has been appalling\".\n\nPlaid Cymru said the blueprint was \"more of the all-talk, no-action approach\" from Labour.\n\n\"Emissions have risen in Wales and tree planting targets cut, we don't need more plans, we need delivery,\" said Plaid's assembly environment spokesman, Llyr Gruffydd.\n\nThe Brexit Party's Mark Reckless said he welcomed the \"continued cross-party approach and support\" for his party's proposals to \"increase tree planting outside the EU's anti-environmental agricultural policy\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson has so far refused to commit to an interview with Andrew Neil, who interviewed him during the Tory leadership election\n\nBoris Johnson will be interviewed on Sunday's Andrew Marr Show as it is \"in the public interest\" following the London Bridge attack, the BBC says.\n\nIt had been reported that the BBC would not allow the PM to appear on Sunday's programme unless he also agreed to be interviewed by Andrew Neil.\n\nMr Johnson has so far refused to commit to a one-to-one with Mr Neil - who has already grilled other party leaders.\n\nLabour called the BBC's move to allow the PM on the Marr show \"shameful\".\n\nThe BBC said in a statement that as the national public service broadcaster its first priority \"must be its audience\".\n\n\"In the wake of a major terrorist incident, we believe it is now in the public interest that the prime minister should be interviewed on our flagship Sunday political programme.\n\n\"All parties' election policy proposals must - and will - face detailed scrutiny from us and we continue to urge Boris Johnson to take part in the prime-time Andrew Neil interview as other leaders have done.\"\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn and SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon took part in 30-minute interviews with Mr Neil earlier this week.\n\nThe BBC's interview with Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson is set to air on 4 December. Another, with Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage, will be shown on 5 December.\n\nLabour candidate and former culture secretary Ben Bradshaw tweeted that it was a \"shameful and abject surrender\" by BBC management to allow the PM to be interviewed by Mr Marr.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ben Bradshaw This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIlford North Labour candidate Wes Streeting posted that he loved the BBC but its decision was \"wrong\", adding: \"The BBC have been played by the Tory leader and shouldn't dance to his tune.\"\n\nMr Johnson, who also turned down Channel 4's request to appear on a leaders' debate about climate change on Thursday, has been accused of avoiding media scrutiny by Labour.\n\nOn Friday, shadow chancellor John McDonnell said Mr Johnson was \"running scared\" from being grilled by Mr Neil, adding that it was a \"matter of honour\" that he subjected himself to the fullest possible questioning.\n\nThe PM - who was interviewed by Mr Neil during the Conservative leadership election in July - told LBC the public was more interested in his vision and plans for the country rather than which programmes he appeared on.", "Last updated on .From the section European Championship\n\nEngland have been drawn against Croatia and the Czech Republic at UEFA EURO 2020, with Wales alongside Italy, Switzerland and Turkey in Group A.\n\nGermany will face world champions France and reigning European champions Portugal in Group F.\n\nThe winners of Scotland's play-off path, which includes Norway, Serbia and Israel, will join England in Group D.\n\nGareth Southgate's World Cup semi-finalists will begin their campaign against Croatia at Wembley on 14 June.\n\nThe tournament's opening game will see Italy host Turkey in Rome on 12 June.\n\nScotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland all feature in the play-offs next March, where 16 teams will compete to fill the final four places.\n\nThe tournament, which will take place in 12 cities across Europe, will be hosted across the continent for the first time to mark the 60th anniversary of the competition.\n• None Everything you need to know about Euro 2020\n• None 'Favourable draw but black cloud on horizon for England'\n• None Giggs says Wales 'are a match for anyone'\n\nWhere and when do England play?\n\nEngland, joint bookmakers' favourites along with France to win the tournament, will benefit from hosting all three of their group games at Wembley.\n\nSouthgate's side already knew they would be placed in Group D, with the qualified countries of the 12 host cities purposefully placed in specific groups to ensure at least two home games.\n\nEngland's tournament begins against Croatia in a repeat of the 2018 World Cup semi-final, which was won by Zlatko Dalic's side.\n\nIf England win their group, their last-16 tie would be in Dublin against the runner-ups in a hugely competitive looking Group F - which already includes Germany, France and Portugal - with a potential quarter-final in Rome.\n\nShould they finish second, it would be a trip to Copenhagen against the runner-ups from Group E, which features Spain, before a quarter-final in St Petersburg. There are other possibilities if they are one of the best third-place finishers.\n\nReacting to the draw, England manager Southgate said: \"I'm never sure whether it's a good draw. We have played two of the teams before and for us to play at Wembley is something special. We are looking forward to the tournament.\n\n\"We have to accept that expectations have changed from where we were. We are very critical of ourselves. We would rather be a team that are fancied than a team with no chance.\"\n\nWhere and when will Wales play?\n\nWales, semi-finalists in 2016, land in Group A alongside 1968 winners Italy, who won all 10 of their qualification matches and conceded just four goals.\n\nThey are joined by Switzerland, winners of their qualification group, and a Turkey side that earned a win and a draw against world champions France.\n\nItaly will play their three group games at Rome's Stadio Olimpico, with the other venue in the group Baku's Olympic Stadium.\n\nGuaranteed to face at least one trip to Azerbaijan or Russia prior to the draw, Wales boss Ryan Giggs will be pleased with his side's travel plans which sees them play twice in Baku before a final group match in the Italian capital.\n\nOn his side's draw, Giggs said: \"Logistically looking at it, it's Baku, Baku, Rome, rather than having Rome in the middle - so for the fans it's much better. Switzerland are a good team, talented. Turkey were in a group with France and Iceland so have done well to come through that. And Italy have won every game so that will be tough.\n\n\"I'll get around and watch the players as much as I can. You hope that come June you have a group of healthy players to choose from and if we have that, we're a match for anyone. We want to take our chance, just like in 2016.\"\n• None Pick your starting line-ups for Wales and England\n• None The 'Group of F' and familiar foes - the draw on social media\n\nWhat do Scotland and Northern Ireland need to do?\n\nTriumph in the Euro 2020 play-offs in March, and Steve Clarke's Scotland would end a 22-year wait for major tournament football.\n\nThat wait would come to an end against the Czech Republic in Glasgow on 15 June, with a trip to face England at Wembley following on 19 June and a final group game at Hampden Park against Croatia four days later.\n\nBut first, Clarke's side must find a way past Israel at home on 26 March.\n\nSucceed, and they will then face an away tie against the winner of Norway's play-off semi-final with Serbia five days later to battle for qualification.\n\nMeanwhile, Northern Ireland are away to Bosnia-Herzegovina in their play-off semi-final, with the winner at home to the Republic of Ireland or Slovakia in the Path B final.\n\nSaturday's draw means Spain, Sweden and Poland would await Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland in Group E should they qualify.\n\nHowever, with the play-off winners not being decided until 31 March, there remains a bit of a wait yet for the final groups to be confirmed.\n\nThe most difficult group ever?\n\nWorld champions France, European champions Portugal and the previous World Cup winners Germany are all together with one play-off team in Group F.\n\nThis is only the second major tournament where the world champions and the European champions will have met in the group stage - after Euro 1992, when the Netherlands beat Germany.\n\nGermany, who won the 2014 World Cup, will host their three group games in Munich, with the other matches in Budapest. If Hungary win their play-offs, they will be in the group, hosting two games.\n\nOne big boost for the trio is that four of the tournament's six third-placed teams go into the last 16.\n\n\"This is a group of death,\" said Germany boss Joachim Low.\n\n\"The games in Munich will be football festivals. The expectations will be quite high. For our young team, this will be a huge challenge but also a big motivation. This is the reward for winning the qualifier group.\"\n\nWould England be better finishing second?\n\nIn a similar vein to the 2018 World Cup, England may well be better off finishing second in their group.\n\nThe winners of England's Group D will face the runners-up in Group F - probably Germany, France or Portugal - in Dublin.\n\nBut if England finish as runners-up, they would face the team who finish second in the group containing Spain, Poland, Sweden and possibly Northern Ireland or the Republic in Copenhagen.\n\nHowever, the quarter-finalists either way are likely to be difficult - possibly Spain in St Petersburg if they win their group, or the winners of Group F in Russia if they finish second.\n\n\"If you can win and be top seeds then you have to take control of your destiny,\" England boss Gareth Southgate told BBC Sport. \"Let's hope we have the decision to make. We will take on whoever comes. Everyone will be thinking the same about playing us.\"", "Witnesses described armed police arriving at the scene and shooting a man\n\n\"A police officer came up to me and said 'turn off your engine, get out and run'.\"\n\nMustafa Salih was behind the wheel of a bus heading towards London Bridge when he was ordered to join the crowds fleeing a sudden violent attack at one of the city's most well-known locations.\n\nThat was the moment he realised the bridge had been targeted for the second time in three years.\n\nMr Salih joined scores running from the scene where two people had been stabbed to death and the suspected attacker shot dead by police.\n\nJust before 14:00 GMT bars and restaurants on the south side of the bridge had been filling up with tourists and office workers.\n\nIn an instant that all changed - and London Bridge was in lockdown yet again.\n\nMr Salih, 62, was travelling from Borough High Street when he saw a stream of people, including some in tears, running towards him.\n\n\"A police officer came up to me and said 'turn off your engine, get out and run',\" he said.\n\n\"I looked up and I could see a crowd of people coming towards me. One woman was crying. It was all very scary as we did not know what was happening.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video shows the moment before a man was apparently shot by police on London Bridge\n\nNurse Jackie Bensfield, 32, described how she asked to be let off a bus on the bridge after she heard gunshots.\n\nMs Bensfield, who was on her way home from work, said she got off the bus and \"ran like hell\" to escape the shots.\n\nAnother witness, Connor Allen, who was in his van on the bridge at the time, said: \"Everyone just started running, you heard these pops and that was it.\n\n\"We just got out [of] the van and started running.\"\n\nShop worker Juan Rios, 35, realised something was wrong when he \"heard people running and screaming\" and a noise that sounded \"like popcorn\".\n\n\"Then I heard this distant sound coming from the market direction,\" he said.\n\n\"There was one American couple who were separated from their daughter, they were obviously really scared. Afterwards the police came and told us to evacuate.\"\n\nJuan Rios described hearing a sound like \"popcorn\" coming from the direction of Borough Market\n\nThe bridge remains cordoned off, while nearby Borough Market has also been blocked off by officers and no-one is being allowed through towards the crime scene.\n\nBusinesses have been evacuated of shoppers but there is a constant flow of police officers heading into - and out of - the cordon.\n\nLondon Bridge station was closed and restaurants and bars which had been filling up earlier - and would normally be a hive of activity on a Friday night - were empty.\n\nWorkers are being allowed to leave down Borough High Street, but no-one is being allowed through towards the scene of the incident.\n\nResidents have been told to find elsewhere to stay as the police cordon remains in place around the London Bridge area.\n\nMeanwhile, the November night sky is lit up by blue flashing lights, and a helicopter continues to hover overhead.\n\nShop worker David Lockwood was among those caught up in the incident.\n\n\"Most people were very calm, we have practised this after the last attack here two Junes ago,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a shame we have to practise this kind of stuff, but I'm glad we do when things like this happen.\"", "The chief executive of Fishmongers Hall, Commodore Toby Williamson, describes how his staff fought back against Usman Khan during the London Bridge attack.", "Police have named the London Bridge attacker as Usman Khan, who was previously part of a group that plotted to bomb the city's stock exchange.\n\nKhan, 28, was out on licence from prison when he killed two people and injured three others in the stabbing attack on Friday, before being shot dead by armed police.\n\nSince being released in December 2018 - his conditions requiring him to wear an electronic tag - Khan had been living in Stafford.\n\nHe also took part in the government's \"Desistance and Disengagement Programme\", the purpose of which is the rehabilitation of those who have been involved in terrorism.\n\nIn 2012, he was sentenced to indeterminate detention for \"public protection\" with a minimum jail term of eight years after pleading guilty to preparing terrorist acts.\n\nThe sentence would have allowed him to be kept in prison beyond the minimum term, should the authorities have deemed it necessary.\n\nIn a reference to Khan and two other defendants, the trial judge said: \"In my judgement, these offenders would remain, even after a lengthy term of imprisonment, of such a significant risk that the public could not be adequately protected by their being managed on licence in the community, subject to conditions, by reference to a preordained release date.\"\n\nHe added that the \"safety of the public in respect of these offenders can only adequately be protected if their release on licence is decided upon, at the earliest, at the conclusion of the minimum term which I fix today.\"\n\nWithin months of his conviction Khan had been upgraded to a \"high risk\" prisoner at HMP Whitemoor.\n\nA government source told BBC Look East that Khan became an increased security risk in 2012 \"after making threats to senior prison staff\".\n\nHe was said by the source to have been a \"model prisoner\" afterwards.\n\nHowever, a prison source told the BBC Khan had \"played everyone\" and was involved in lots of security incidents during his imprisonment.\n\nIn 2013 the Court of Appeal quashed Khan's sentence, replacing it with a 16-year-fixed term of which half was to be served in prison. He was then released automatically at that point.\n\nKhan was moved to another maximum security prison, HMP Woodhill, prior to his release on license in 2018.\n\nBorn and raised in Stoke-on-Trent, Khan was originally jailed along with eight others, who were arrested in 2010.\n\nThe nine, inspired by al-Qaeda, had been under surveillance by MI5.\n\nThe men - who were from Stoke, Cardiff and London - were engaged in several plans, one of which involved a plot to place a pipe bomb in the London Stock Exchange.\n\nThose from Stoke were overheard discussing potential attacks in their city, including leaving explosive devices in pubs and clubs.\n\nKhan described members of the public as \"kuffar\" and \"dogs\".\n\nUsman Khan, circled, with his fellow defendants in a surveillance image released by police in 2012\n\nAt one point Khan was monitored in conversation about \"how to construct a pipe bomb\" from a recipe in an al-Qaeda magazine.\n\nThe men had also been funding a proposed madrassa - a college for Islamic instruction - abroad, which was to be used for firearms training and would have been attended by Khan.\n\nThe court of appeal judgement said: \"The groups were clearly considering a range of possibilities, including fundraising for the establishment of a military-training madrassa in Pakistan - where they would undertake training themselves and recruit others to do likewise - sending letter bombs through the post, attacking public houses used by British racist groups, attacking a high-profile target with an explosive device and a Mumbai-style attack.\"\n\nIt added that they had \"serious long-term plans\" to send Khan and other recruits for \"training and terrorist experience\".\n\n\"Should they return to the UK, they would do so trained and experienced in terrorism,\" the judgement continued.\n\nAnother man from Stoke who was jailed alongside Khan - Mohibur Rahman - was later convicted of another terrorist plot following his release from prison.\n\nKhan had spent years proselytising in Stoke on so-called \"dawah stalls\" linked to the proscribed terrorist organisation al-Muhajiroun, which was once led by the hate preacher Anjem Choudary.\n\nAfter Khan was jailed, the Daily Star quoted Choudary saying that the Stoke plotters \"were students of mine\" and \"I knew them for quite a while\".\n\nIn 2008 Khan's address was one of five properties in Stoke raided by counter-terrorism police. None of those investigated was ultimately charged.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Usman Khan speaking to the BBC in 2008: \"I ain't no terrorist\"\n\nSpeaking at the time, Khan publicly complained about being under suspicion, saying: \"I've been born and bred in England, in Stoke-on-Trent in Cobridge.\"\n\nHe said \"all the community knows me\" and that \"I ain't no terrorist\".\n\nWhile incarcerated, Khan attended some counter terrorism programmes and first came into contact with the educational initiative Learning Together, whose event in London he later so brutally attacked.\n\nAfter leaving prison, Khan appeared as a \"case study\" in a report by the initiative focused on its work at HMP Whitemoor in Cambridgeshire.\n\nIdentified only by his first name, Khan was said - since leaving prison - to have given a speech at a fundraising dinner and been provided with a \"secure\" laptop that complied with his licence conditions.\n\nKhan contributed a poem to a separate brochure in which he also expressed gratitude for the computer, stating: \"I cannot send enough thanks to the entire Learning Together team and all those who continue to support this wonderful community.\"\n\nThe attacker, who was restricted in who he could meet and where he could go, was managed by a panel comprising public bodies - including the police and probation service - under the system of multi-agency public protection arrangements.\n\nThe day of the attack was the first time Khan had been allowed to visit London since he left prison.\n\nThe panel that permitted his attendance - in order to attend the Learning Together event - also decided he could travel there unescorted.\n\nBut when Khan had attended an event elsewhere in the country in May he had been escorted, and - later in the year - Khan was refused permission to travel to Stoke to attend a social event.\n\nHe was formally under investigation by MI5 at the time of the attack, classed as one of its 3,000 subjects of interest. He was not placed in the top tiers of those under scrutiny.", "Lisa Smith was interviewed by the BBC in July\n\nAn Irish citizen who became an Islamic State bride has been arrested after arriving back in Dublin.\n\nLisa Smith and her daughter travelled from Turkey after being deported, arriving in Ireland on Sunday.\n\nShe was arrested on arrival and it is expected she will now be interviewed by police about suspected terrorist offences.\n\nPlans have also been made for the care of her two-year-old daughter, who was born in Syria but is an Irish citizen.\n\nMiss Smith is a former member of the Irish Defence Forces.\n\nIn a statement, Irish Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan said: \"This is a sensitive case and I want to reassure people that all relevant state agencies are closely involved.\"\n\nIrish state broadcaster RTÉ has posted footage on social media of her being escorted by gardaí (Irish police) on the runway in Dublin.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by RTÉ News This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC interviewed her in Syria earlier this year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lisa Smith had denied training girls after becoming an IS bride\n\nShe said was not involved in fighting and did not train girls to become fighters.\n\nShe also claimed she had been visited more than once by the FBI for questioning, and agents had taken her fingerprints and DNA.\n\nLisa Smith was brought to a south Dublin police station after her arrest, covering herself with a pink blanket\n\nMs Smith had been living with her daughter in a Syrian refugee camp.\n\nThe taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Leo Varadkar had previously said she would \"certainly\" be investigated if she returned to Ireland.", "University vice-chancellor: 'Not the time' for policy discussion\n\nThe vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge says \"now is not the best time to be trying to formulate public policy\" on the early release of prisoners. He was speaking amid a row between the Tories and Labour over the timing of the introduction of the laws that allowed attacker Usman Khan to be released from prison last year. Asked about the debate, Prof Stephen J Toope says: \"Frankly I'm not a politician.\" He says he is thinking about the grieving families and the injured recovering in hospital. \"This is an attack on our community and it was intended as such,\" the vice-chancellor says. \"It was meant to produce a form of terror and sadness and it's clearly done that... it's made people very very sad,\"", "Typhoons can travel at twice the speed of sound\n\nTwo Royal Air Force Typhoons caused sonic booms as they went to intercept an aircraft which had lost its radio contact over south-east England.\n\nThe fighters from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire were cleared to go supersonic because of the emergency.\n\nThe booms were heard in the early hours across London, Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire.\n\nThe aircraft first developed problems as it flew across Germany on its way to the US, said one of its pilots.\n\nThe pilot praised the speed of the RAF response, but said he was shocked when he first saw the fighters.\n\nSteven Giordano told the BBC: \"It took us about 10 minutes to realize that the radio wasn't working and then about 10 minutes to resolve that problem.\n\n\"Amazing how fast the RAF reacted. I applaud them for that.\"\n\nHe said the crew was busy checking frequencies when the radio came back online and had not noticed the RAF fighters.\n\n\"I looked left and about had a heart attack when I saw one - so close - strobes on and with blueish 'glow strips' along the side of his fuselage.\n\n\"We flashed our landing lights to acknowledge and established radio contact on 'guard'... with the fighters.\n\n\"We were already talking to London control at that point.\n\n\"They remained with us for about five minutes.\"\n\nHe said the empty aircraft eventually landed safely in the US.\n\nThe sonic booms woke people at about 04:20 GMT - with houses shaking and reports of police sirens sounding immediately after.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police subsequently confirmed the bang was the result of the RAF aircraft being cleared to go faster than the speed of sound.\n\nRAF jets are only given permission to go supersonic in emergencies, usually when they are required to intercept another aircraft.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAn RAF spokeswoman said: \"Typhoon aircraft from RAF Coningsby were scrambled this morning, as part of the UK's Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) procedures, after an aircraft lost communications in UK airspace.\n\n\"The aircraft was intercepted and its communications were subsequently re-established.\"\n\nJanet, from Hertfordshire, told the BBC she heard a \"huge thud\" and felt her house shake at 04:17 GMT.\n\nShe wondered whether her boiler had blown up or a tree had fallen on the house, she said.\n\n\"I got up, looked around and out of the window, things looked fine,\" she said.\n\n\"I went downstairs, went from room to room looking for cracks in the walls and ceilings.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Kiran Topan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Earlier this year, the BBC got exclusive access to the Quick Reaction Alert Typhoon team at RAF Coningsby\n\nWhen an aircraft approaches the speed of sound (768mph or 1,236km per hour), the air in front of the nose of the plane builds up a pressure front because it has \"nowhere to escape\", said Dr Jim Wild of Lancaster University.\n\nA sonic boom happens when that air \"escapes\", creating a ripple effect which can be heard on the ground as a loud thunderclap.\n\nIt can be heard over such a large area because it moves with the plane, rather like the wake on the bow of a ship spreading out behind the vessel.", "Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt were stabbed to death in Friday's terror attack at London Bridge\n\nTributes have been paid to two friends stabbed to death in Friday's terror attack at London Bridge.\n\nJack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, had been at a conference celebrating the five-year anniversary of the Learning Together prison programme when knifeman, 28-year-old Usman Khan, attacked them and three others.\n\nHe was shot dead by police minutes after he fatally wounded the University of Cambridge graduates.\n\n\"Saskia was a funny, kind, positive influence at the centre of many people's lives,\" the family of Ms Jones said in a statement.\n\n\"She had a wonderful sense of mischievous fun and was generous to the point of always wanting to see the best in all people,\" they added.\n\n\"She was intent on living life to the full and had a wonderful thirst for knowledge, enabling her to be the best she could be.\n\n\"Saskia had a great passion for providing invaluable support to victims of criminal injustice, which led her to the point of recently applying for the police graduate recruitment programme, wishing to specialise in victim support.\"\n\nMs Jones had completed a Masters degree in criminology in 2018.\n\nProf Loraine Gelsthorpe, director of the University of Cambridge's institute of criminology, said Ms Jones had a \"determination to make an enduring and positive impact on society in everything she did\".\n\n\"Saskia's warm disposition and extraordinary intellectual creativity was combined with a strong belief that people who have committed criminal offences should have opportunities for rehabilitation,\" she added.\n\nColleen Moore, a former tutor of Ms Jones at Anglia Ruskin University, paid tribute, telling the BBC: \"She was fearless, she was a warrior, she was going to change the world - maybe she will.\"\n\nShe added: \"She stood out above everyone else, partly because she wanted to. She was not afraid to say anything, there was no fooling her… she said things that she knew would be a bit risky but they were always right.\"\n\n\"She was a lovely, lovely woman, she made me laugh. She called me out on things - a lot of people were scared of me, she wasn't.\"\n\nOlivia Smith, a lecturer in criminology who marked Ms Jones' dissertation when she was at Anglia Ruskin, described her as \"one of a kind\" who \"would have been a force for good\".\n\nDr Smith said: \"I'm so sorry that the world won't get to see what she could have achieved.\n\n\"Saskia's dissertation was so good that I cried with pride when I marked it.\"\n\nA friend, Sebastian Lefeuvre, described the young woman's death as senseless.\n\n\"She was just the most perfect soul and she's gone,\" he said.\n\nJack Merritt's family said he was a \"friend and colleague\" of Ms Jones.\n\n\"Our beautiful, talented boy, died doing what he loved, surrounded by people he loved and who loved him,\" a statement said.\n\n\"He lit up our lives and the lives of his many friends and colleagues, and we will miss him terribly.\n\n\"Jack lived his principles; he believed in redemption and rehabilitation, not revenge, and he always took the side of the underdog.\n\n\"Jack was an intelligent, thoughtful and empathetic person who was looking forward to building a future with his girlfriend, Leanne, and making a career helping people in the criminal justice system.\n\n\"We know Jack would not want this terrible, isolated incident to be used as a pretext by the government for introducing even more draconian sentences on prisoners, or for detaining people in prison for longer than necessary.\n\n\"Our thoughts go out to the relatives and friends of his friend and colleague who died with him in this incident, to the colleagues who were injured, and to his brilliant, supportive colleagues at the University of Cambridge Department of Criminology.\"\n\nMr Merritt had completed the same masters degree Ms Jones had, but a year earlier.\n\nHe had previously gained a degree in law at the University of Manchester.\n\nOne woman who called Mr Merritt her \"best mate\" described him in a tribute posted on Twitter as \"quite simply the best thing, completely golden\".\n\n\"I wanted so much for you. Your life had so much enjoyment in it, and you gave us all so much happiness,\" she wrote.\n\nThe friend, who calls herself Holl on Twitter, said she went to the pub and \"kept expecting you to turn up, swanky coat, Dr Martens on\".\n\n\"I need you to be known for who you were, your beliefs and voice. I'm so angry Jack,\" she said.\n\n\"Your voice won't be lost, you will never be lost and I will never let you be forgotten.\"\n\nShe added Mr Merritt \"could have done anything\" but \"you chose to help others, you championed the underdog\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Listen to Jack Merritt speak on a BBC podcast about his work helping inmates at a prison to study law.\n\nProf Gelsthorpe said: \"Jack's passion for social and criminal justice was infectious. He was deeply creative and courageously engaged with the world, advocating for a politics of love. He worked tirelessly in dark places to pull towards the light.\"\n\nLegal commentator Joshua Rozenberg interviewed Mr Merritt for the BBC in February, when he was working with Learning Together at HMP Warren Hill in Suffolk.\n\nMr Rozenberg described him as \"a fine young man, dedicated to improving people's lives\".\n\nRapper Dave said Mr Merritt was \"the best guy\" and the news of his death was \"one of the most painful things\".\n\nDave's Mercury Prize-winning album was inspired by rehabilitation therapy his brother Christopher Omoregie has received while serving a life sentence for murder.\n\nThe Streatham-born rapper said Mr Merritt had \"dedicated his life to helping others\" and it was \"genuinely an honour to have met someone like you\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Boris Johnson has praised members of the public and the emergency services after the London Bridge attack.\n\nTwo people were killed and three more injured before Usman Khan, who had previously been jailed for terrorism offences, was shot dead by police.\n\nThe prime minister said that the system that had allowed him out on early release \"does not make sense\".", "The London Bridge attacker was 'complying' with conditions set out by Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA) according to the Metropolitan Police.\n\nUsman Khan, a convicted terrorist released from prison in December 2018, killed two people before being shot dead by police on Friday.\n\nAssistant Commissioner Neil Basu said a series of raids had been carried out, but that it was believed Khan was acting alone.", "Train ticket sales could be transformed under Labour plans for a central online booking portal.\n\nThe party wants to replace what it sees as a confusing system of sales by private train operators - with around 55 million types of fare available.\n\nInstead, it is proposing a \"one-stop shop\" for fares with no booking fees if it wins the election on 12 December.\n\nThe proposal is part of broader plans by the party to nationalise the UK's train system.\n\nLabour says nationalisation - which it plans to achieve within five years of coming to power - will allow fares to be capped and improve the reliability of services.\n\nThe plan to introduce a ticketing service to simplify rail ticket sales could create a competitor to existing third party ticket sellers such as Trainline, which floated on the London Stock Exchange in June.\n\nLabour says passengers can already buy tickets directly from train companies, and that nationalisation would just simplify the process.\n\nIts regional manifestos contain a number of transport pledges to be paid for by a £250bn Green Transformation Fund - a pot of money raised through borrowing - such as:\n\nThe price of rail tickets is set to rise by an average of 2.7% from 2 January, industry body the Rail Delivery Group announced this week.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"While apps and websites perform a useful function, they are limited by only being able to offer the same confusing and sometimes contradictory range of fares as today, because these were baked in to the system in the mid-1990s.\n\n\"That's why train companies have put forward proposals to reform underlying regulations and make ticket buying simpler and easier for passengers.\"\n\nIndependent watchdog Transport Focus said a majority of rail users did not feel they were getting value for money.\n\nThe Conservatives are promising to improve transport links as part of a £3.6bn Towns Fund.\n\nThey have also promised to give more funding to local combined authorities to improve bus and train services and put £500m into reversing cuts to the railway network made in the 1960s.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have also made pledges on transport, promising to freeze peak time and season ticket train fares, and to complete the HS2 rail project. The SNP want more powers devolved to Scotland, including on transport.\n\nThe Brexit Party's flagship transport policy is scrapping the HS2 high-speed rail link - a goal it shares with the Green Party.", "The Lib Dems would not support Labour's plans to renationalise key industries in the event of a hung Parliament, the party's leader Jo Swinson has said.\n\nShe told the BBC Radio 5's Pienaar's Politics the policy was a \"distraction\" and not \"the way forward\".\n\nThe Lib Dems and Labour have both ruled out a coalition deal if there is no clear general election winner.\n\nAsked if she would try to block Labour from forming a minority government, she said it was a \"fantasy situation\".\n\n\"Nobody is expecting, on the current scenario, that Jeremy Corbyn is getting anywhere near Downing Street and the Liberal Democrats are going to put him there.\n\n\"So the Labour manifesto, it's a wish list, they cannot deliver it.\"\n\nMs Swinson, who was a business minister in the Conservative/Lib Dem coalition government, began the general election campaign by saying she was aiming to be the prime minister of a Liberal Democrat government but has since conceded that would be a \"big step\" given the opinion polls.\n\nIf her party ends up holding the balance of power after 12 December's election, she has said her MPs would not actively support a Labour or Tory programme of government as she believes neither Jeremy Corbyn nor Boris Johnson are fit to be prime minister.\n\nThe party's foreign affairs spokesman Chuka Umunna refused to speculate about what his party would do in this situation, in an interview with the BBC's Andrew Marr.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chuka Umunna: \"We don't know who the Queen is going to approach to be prime minister.\"\n\nJo Swinson has not ruled out allowing a Conservative or Labour leader to take office - by abstaining in a vote on their first Queen's Speech - if they agreed to hold another EU referendum.\n\nLabour is committed to holding another EU referendum, on a renegotiated deal with the EU.\n\nBut the party's first Queen's Speech would be likely to include plans to take the Royal Mail, rail companies, energy supply networks, water and sewerage companies back into public ownership.\n\nAsked whether she would support Labour's plans, Ms Swinson told Pienaar's Politics: \"No, I think renationalisation is a distraction.\n\n\"I don't think it's a way to deliver better public services and I think it's taking us away from, actually, how do you make things better for people?\"\n\nPushed for further clarity on whether the Lib Dems would block the renationalisation of water, Ms Swinson said: \"We don't think that renationalisation is the way forward.\"\n\nAs well as criticising Jeremy Corbyn's economic plans, Ms Swinson condemned Boris Johnson's actions in the aftermath of Friday's London Bridge terror attack.\n\nShe accused the prime minister of trying to make Friday's terror attack an election issue.\n\n\"This was an opportunity for Boris Johnson to be a statesman, and yet again he has failed in that and has just shown why he is not fit for the job of Prime Minister,\" she said.\n\n\"You've got a community which is coming together in a brilliant way and straight out of the door the prime minister's trying to make it an election issue - I just think it's pretty distasteful.\n\n\"I think we ought to be able to behave with respect, even when these things happen in the middle of a general election campaign.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Watford\n\nWatford have sacked manager Quique Sanchez Flores after Saturday's 2-1 loss to Southampton, saying \"ultimately results have dictated our decision\".\n\nChris Hughton is a possible successor and the Hornets said a replacement will be appointed \"imminently\".\n\nSanchez Flores, who was in charge for the 2015-16 season, was reappointed on 7 September, replacing Javi Gracia.\n\nBut he won just one of his 10 league games in charge with Watford bottom of the Premier League.\n\nIn an open letter to Watford fans published on the club website, the 54-year-old Spaniard said the club \"will always be in my heart\".\n\nWatford have eight points after 14 games and are six points from safety - their worst return at this stage of a Premier League campaign.\n\n\"Quique is a man of great integrity and it was clear how much he wanted to have a positive impact, but ultimately results have dictated our decision,\" said chairman Scott Duxbury.\n\n\"The appointment of a new head coach is imminent, and with nearly two-thirds of the season remaining, we will provide all the support necessary to make the coming months successful.\"\n\nDuring Sanchez Flores' latest spell in charge, they have only beaten Norwich in the league, while losing to Wolves, Chelsea, Burnley and Manchester City, where they were hammered 8-0. They were also knocked out of the Carabao Cup by Everton in the fourth round.\n\nSince Gianfranco Zola's exit in December 2013, Watford have had nine managers, including Sanchez Flores twice.\n\nFellow Spaniard Gracia had been in charge for 21 months - making him the first Hornets boss to last more than one full season since Zola.\n\nSanchez Flores becomes the the third Premier League boss to be sacked in the past two weeks, following Unai Emery at Arsenal on Friday and Mauricio Pochettino at Tottenham on 19 November.\n\nWatford are in their fifth season back in the Premier League since promotion in May 2015.\n\nGracia had led the club to the FA Cup final last season where they lost 6-0 to Manchester City, as well as 11th place in the Premier League.\n\nThey also reached the FA Cup semi-final in 2016 during Sanchez Flores' first spell as manager.\n\nAnalysis - 'Watford can't get next appointment wrong'\n\nWatford gambled by bringing back Sanchez Flores as manager in September - but have reacted with typical speed after realising the decision has failed.\n\nFor all the perceived managerial instability, Watford have a stable set-up behind the scenes overseen by the Pozzo family and chief executive Scott Duxbury. They realise that Premier League status is everything to a club that has worked so hard to achieve it.\n\nThis is why Gracia was sacked after losing three of his first four games this season and why Sanchez Flores has followed him after less than 90 days.\n\nWatford are rarely caught without a plan when it comes to managerial succession. Sanchez Flores' appointment was announced 30 minutes after the departure of Gracia.\n\nThis will be arguably the most important decision the club's hierarchy will make.\n\nWatford will appoint their third manager this season before the turn of the year and they know, with the Hornets bottom of the table with only eight points from 14 games, that if they get it wrong they may well be sealing their return to the Championship.\n• None Where did it go wrong for Sanchez Flores at Watford?", "The mammal was found motionless on the river banks under Battersea Bridge\n\nA dead whale has washed up in the River Thames for the second time in two months.\n\nThe mammal, believed to be a minke whale which can grow up to 33ft (10m) long, was found motionless on the river banks under Battersea Bridge late on Friday.\n\nThe Port of London Authority (PLA) said it will \"endeavour to get the whale recovered safely\" over the weekend.\n\nA humpback whale was found dead in Greenhithe in October.\n\nClio Georgiadis said her 11-year-old son spotted the whale on Friday evening\n\nClio Georgiadis said she was left \"very emotional \" after finding the whale while walking her dog at about 21.30 GMT.\n\n\"We tried to see if there was any life in it but there was no breath coming out of it,\" Ms Georgiadis said.\n\n\"It was very sad to see.\"\n\nA post-mortem examination will be held on the whale to establish a cause of death\n\nThe PLA believe the mammal is a minke whale, which can weigh up to 10 tonnes.\n\nThey are occasionally spotted in British waters, preferring cooler regions to tropical areas, and can also be found in the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and Arctic Oceans.\n\nThe PLA confirmed that it had received reports of a large mammal in the River Thames on Friday afternoon.\n\n\"The first clear indication we knew it was a whale was sadly when it washed up dead,\" PLA spokesman Martin Garside said.\n\nTwo marine experts from the British Divers Marine Life Rescue were dispatched to assist the PLA removing the whale from the water.\n\nThe whale will be sent to the ZSL London Zoo for a post-mortem examination.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jack Merritt was a co-ordinator of the Learning Together programme and Saskia Jones was a volunteer on the programme\n\nThe woman killed in Friday's London Bridge attack has been named by police as Saskia Jones.\n\nThe 23-year-old Cambridge University graduate, from Stratford-upon-Avon, was fatally stabbed alongside another ex-student, Jack Merritt.\n\nThe boss of the venue where the attack began which killed the pair said \"the building turned into a nightmare\".\n\nToby Williamson, of Fishmongers' Hall, said staff who fought attacker Usman Khan believed he was wearing a bomb.\n\nTwo men took chairs, fire extinguishers and narwhal tusks, which were hanging on the wall, to fend off Khan, driving him out of the building.\n\nKhan, 28, a convicted terrorist who was released from prison in December 2018, was later shot dead by police on London Bridge.\n\nThe families of Mr Merritt and Ms Jones have both paid tribute to their loved ones.\n\nJack Merritt's family said he was 'looking forward to building a future with his girlfriend, Leanne'\n\nIn a statement, Mr Merritt's family described him as a \"talented boy\" who \"died doing what he loved\".\n\n\"Jack lived his principles; he believed in redemption and rehabilitation, not revenge, and he always took the side of the underdog.\n\n\"Jack was an intelligent, thoughtful and empathetic person.\n\n\"We know Jack would not want this terrible, isolated incident to be used as a pretext by the government for introducing even more draconian sentences on prisoners, or for detaining people in prison for longer than necessary,\" the statement read.\n\nThe family of Saskia Jones said her death \"will leave a huge void in our lives\"\n\nMs Jones' family said their daughter, from Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, had a \"great passion\" for supporting victims of criminal injustice.\n\n\"Saskia was a funny, kind, positive influence at the centre of many people's lives,\" the family statement read.\n\n\"She had a wonderful sense of mischievous fun and was generous to the point of always wanting to see the best in all people.\n\n\"She was intent on living life to the full and had a wonderful thirst for knowledge, enabling her to be the best she could be.\n\n\"This is an extremely painful time for the family. Saskia will leave a huge void in our lives and we would request that our privacy is fully respected.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCambridge University's vice-chancellor said he was \"devastated to learn that among the victims were staff and alumni\".\n\nProfessor Stephen J Toope said the victims were taking part in an event \"to mark five years of the university's Learning Together programme\" - which focuses on prisoner rehabilitation.\n\nHe added: \"What should have been a joyous opportunity to celebrate the achievements of this unique and socially transformative programme, hosted by our Institute of Criminology, was instead disrupted by an unspeakable criminal act.\n\n\"Among the three people injured, whose identities have not been publicly released, is a member of university staff.\n\n\"Our university condemns this abhorrent and senseless act of terror.\"\n\nVice-chancellor Professor Stephen J Toope said he only met Jack Merritt once but was \"impressed by his charm\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Prof Toope said the fact Mr Merritt was killed by someone he was trying to help \"is the greatest tragedy of all\".\n\n\"I have profound sadness for the family,\" he added.\n\n\"This is an attack on our community and it was intended, in such, to produce a form of terror and sadness - and it has clearly done that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for rights reasons\n\nSpeaking about the chain of events inside Fishmongers' Hall on Friday, where Khan launched his fatal attack, chief executive Mr Williamson praised the bravery of his staff who intervened to stop the attacker, hailing their actions as \"extraordinary things done by ordinary people\".\n\n\"There was a scream, there was blood. People thought it was an exercise at first,\" Mr Williamson told the BBC.\n\nHe recounted how two men, named as Lukasz and Andy, \"used fire extinguishers, chairs and narwhal tusks ripped off the wall\" to take the fight back to Khan\n\n\"They took a decision, one that enough was enough. They were determined it wasn't going to go on.\"\n\n\"They are two of the most humble people... but in the heat of the moment, people do extraordinary things.\n\n\"I am very proud to know them.\"\n\nFloral tributes have been laid on the south side of London Bridge\n\nEarlier in the day, hundreds attended a service at Southwark Cathedral for the victims of Friday's attack on London Bridge.\n\nThe Dean of Southwark Cathedral, the Very Revd Andrew Nunn, said many people were struggling with what happened.\n\nOn Friday, the cathedral was put into lockdown as people ran away from London Bridge.\n\nAs crowds ran towards the cathedral, Mr Nunn recalled having \"that sense of déjà vu\", adding that it brought back memories of the nearby attack in Borough Market two years ago, which left eight dead and 48 injured.\n\nThe Dean of Southwark Cathedral said Friday's attack brought back memories of the London Bridge terror attack in 2017\n\nPrayers were held for the victims of the London Bridge attack\n\nSpeaking at Sunday's service, Mr Nunn said \"memories have been stirred and wounds have been re-opened\".\n\nHe added: \"What seemed to have been put to the back of people's minds has now been brought to the fore.\n\n\"We have to stand with them. We have to help bear their pain but also speak to that pain with words of hope.\"\n\nMr Nunn, too, praised the bravery of the people who confronted Khan as he carried out his attack.\n\n\"Every event of this nature produces stories of such selfless acts of bravery.\"\n\nLondon Bridge was cordoned for most of the weekend while forensic officers searched the scene\n\nDr Vin Diwaker, medical director for the NHS in London, gave an update on the conditions of the three people who were injured in the attack.\n\nHe said: \"One of the people injured in the London Bridge incident has now been able to return home.\n\n\"Two people remain in a stable condition and continue to receive expert care in hospital.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thomas Gray spoke to BBC 5 Live about how he helped to stop the London Bridge attacker\n\nOver the weekend counter-terrorism officers searched a house in Stafford linked to Khan and another property in Stoke-on-Trent.\n\nOn Sunday night, Staffordshire Police said a 34-year-old man was arrested in connection with a \"review of existing licence conditions of convicted terrorism offenders\".\n\nThe man was arrested on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts, but Staffordshire Police added there was no information to suggest the man was involved in the London Bridge attack.\n\nVehicles abandoned as the attack unfolded on Friday have since been removed, the Met Police has said.\n\nFriday's attack comes after the UK's terrorism threat level was downgraded on 4 November from \"severe\" to \"substantial\", meaning that attacks were thought to be \"likely\" rather than \"highly likely\".\n\nThe terror threat level is reviewed every six months by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre, which makes recommendations independent of government.", "The 52-year-old entertainer said he was having an MRI scan on his neck\n\nJohn Barrowman has been forced to cancel shows at the start of a UK tour after suffering \"a severe neck injury\".\n\nThe star of Doctor Who and Torchwood was due to begin his eight-date \"Fabulous Christmas Tour\" at the Bristol Hippodrome on Saturday.\n\nBut in a tweet he said he had been rushed to hospital with a neck injury that made it \"impossible to sing and move\".\n\nPerformances are still scheduled for next week.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe 52-year-old entertainer later tweeted that he was having an MRI scan on his neck.\n\nHe said it was a \"very difficult decision\" to \"cancel my performances\", adding: \"I am so disappointed and upset as I was looking forward to seeing you all.\n\n\"I feel I am letting everyone down, but it's simply not possible for me to do the show in my current condition.\"\n\nTicket holders for the Bristol performance have been told they can receive a refund or transfer to the performance in Oxford on December 14.\n\nA performance at the SEC Armadillo in Glasgow on December 1 has been postponed to December 3.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Bristol Hippodrome This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In his interview on the Andrew Marr Show, the Conservative leader Boris Johnson was questioned about his refusal to commit to an interview with the BBC's Andrew Neil.\n\nHe is the only main party leader not to so far have agreed to an interview with the presenter.\n\nYou can watch the full interview on The Andrew Marr Show on the BBC iPlayer.", "The impact on survival rates was even greater if the grandmothers were post-menopause\n\nGrandmother killer whales boost the survival rates of their grandchildren, a new study has said.\n\nThe survival rates were even higher if the grandmother had already gone through the menopause.\n\nThe findings shed valuable light on the mystery of the menopause, or why females of some species live long after they lose the ability to reproduce.\n\nOnly five known animals experience it: killer whales, short-finned pilot whales, belugas, narwhals and humans.\n\nWith humans, there is some evidence that human grandmothers aid in the survival of their children and grandchildren, a hypothesis called the \"grandmother effect\".\n\nThese findings suggest the same effect occurs in orcas.\n\n\"If a grandmother dies, in the years following her death, her grand-offspring are much more likely to die,\" said lead author Dan Franks from the University of York.\n\nHe said the effect was even greater when a post-reproductive grandmother died.\n\n\"It can explain the benefits of females living a long time after reproduction,\" he said. \"From an evolutionary standpoint, they can still pass on their genes and genetic legacy by helping their grand-offspring.\"\n\nIn other words, by not continuing to reproduce, the grandmother whales might actually be doing more to ensure their genes get passed on than if they were reproducing.\n\nGrandmother killer whales usually lead the group when foraging for food\n\nThe researchers analysed 36 years of photographic census data on two populations of killer whales off the North Pacific coast of Canada and the United States. Each population was made up of multiple pods with various family groups.\n\nThe study was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.\n\nWhen explaining why grandmothers might have such an impact on calf survival rates, Mr Franks said past research has shown the important leadership role that grandmother killer whales play.\n\nThey tend to be at the front of the group when searching for food, relying on their vast ecological knowledge. He said by being unable to reproduce, \"they may be in a better position to lead the group\".\n\nHe noted the impact of grandmothers on their grand-offspring was especially strong in times of need, such as a shortage of salmon.\n\nOlder female orcas have even been observed directly feeding fish to their children and grandchildren.\n\nResearchers will use drone footage to further understand whale interactions and behaviour\n\nThe researchers also suspect grandmothers are filling a role that's familiar to humans - babysitting.\n\n\"When a mother dives to catch fish, the grandmother can stay with grand-offspring,\" Mr Franks said.\n\nHe said moving forward researchers will capture drone footage to observe orca behaviour and better understand interactions between different family members.\n\nAnother reason the menopause might make grandmothers more helpful to their family's survival is decreasing competition.\n\nIf grandmothers and their daughters were having children at the same time, those children would be competing for resources, including their grandmother's attention.\n\nMr Franks said this could explain why the grandmothers don't continue to reproduce throughout their lives and also help look after their grand-offspring.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Battle of Britain pilot recalls being shot down\n\nOne of the last surviving pilots who fought in the Battle of Britain during World War Two has died aged 101.\n\nFlight Lieutenant Maurice Mounsdon was one of only four remaining members of The Few - a group of 3,000 airmen who defended the skies above southern England from the Nazis in 1940.\n\nThe head of the RAF, Air Chief Marshal Mike Wigston, said Mr Mounsdon's bravery should never be forgotten.\n\nThe Battle of Britain led to the deaths of 544 RAF pilots and aircrew.\n\nTheir bravery and sacrifice in withstanding the greater numbers of German pilots of the Luftwaffe and a possible invasion was recognised by then Prime Minister Winston Churchill.\n\n\"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few,\" he told MPs.\n\nChurchill's \"Few\", as RAF crew, who included Polish, Canadian and New Zealand pilots among others, became known, have been celebrated ever since.\n\nMr Mounsdon was described by his nephew, Adrian Mounsdon, as a \"great man\" who would be missed by his family, the Daily Mirror reported.\n\nACM Wigston said he was \"deeply saddened\" by Mr Mounsdon's death, saying the veteran had \"fought for and won our freedom\".\n\n\"His was a remarkable story, which will continue to inspire this and future generations of the Royal Air Force, his bravery and sacrifice should never be forgotten,\" he added.\n\nIn 2015, Mr Mounsdon told the BBC he was serving with 56 Squadron out of North Weald when he was sent out to intercept some bombers on 31 August 1940.\n\nHe managed to shoot at one of them, but then a German cannon shell hit the fuel tank of his Hawker Hurricane.\n\n\"I was on fire. There was only one thing to do and that was to get out as fast as possible,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"I was badly burned, but I rolled the aircraft over and came down by parachute from 14,000ft.\"\n\nMr Mounsdon suffered terrible burns to his hands and legs\n\nHe said it was the first time he had used a parachute and he was \"jolly lucky\".\n\nMr Mounsdon, who had terrible burns to his legs and hands, landed in a field in the village of High Easter, Essex, where he was found by local people.\n\nHe spent a number of years in various hospitals, where he had skin grafts.\n\nWhile in hospital, he married his childhood sweetheart Mary.\n\nThe couple moved to the Spanish island Menorca in the late 1970s and lived there until she died in 1993.\n\nFor Mr Mousdon's 100th birthday in September last year the Red Arrows paid tribute to him with a flyover off the coast of Menorca.\n\nThe three surviving members of the Few are Flt Lt William Clark, 100, Wing Commander Paul Farnes, 101, and Flying Officer John Hemingway, 100.\n• None The pilot who parachuted in flames", "A Christmas tree that was chopped down outside the BBC's Broadcasting House this weekend \"will be replaced soon\", the corporation has said.\n\nThe 7m (20ft) tree was put up outside the building in central London on 30 November.\n\nHowever, staff pictured the tree being destroyed by maintenance workers on Saturday.\n\nA BBC spokesman said the tree had been removed \"due to activity on the piazza\" in the week of the general election.\n\nThe exit poll and the election result will be projected on to Broadcasting House after polls close on Thursday.\n\nLive music performances for the weekday programme, The One Show, are also filmed in the piazza.\n\nAlice Bortolotto, 31, who manages nearby coffee house Caffè Nero said it was \"sad\" the tree had gone.\n\n\"We love to see the tree every year when they put it up,\" she said.\n\n\"On Saturday, when I came in and didn't see it, I felt a bit like, 'Where's Christmas gone?'\"\n\nBBC Africa editor Will Ross posted a picture of the tree being chopped up, suggesting the tree \"has had a traumatic day at the barbers\".", "The maximum punishment for revenge porn is two years in prison\n\nA woman was shocked to discover her personal details on a website listing names of women who men were discussing attacking and raping.\n\nBecky, which is not her real name, found her details and location on a so-called \"revenge porn\" forum, alongside those of thousands of others.\n\nThe 22-year-old from Middlesbrough found words had been uploaded in a coded way to avoid search engines.\n\nThe site, which the BBC is not naming, said it removed illegal content.\n\nBecky found her name and those of three of her friends had been posted on the site, alongside those of other women and girls from Teesside and around the world.\n\nShe wrote about her shock in a Twitter post that went viral and thousands of other women who were alerted to the site found videos of rapes, posts rating women's bodies, and images of child abuse.\n\nMen could also request details about women in their area.\n\nThe site promised VIP members \"over one terabyte of porn that is growing daily\"\n\nBecky told BBC Tees: \"I've been put up with three other people, two of them are my best friends, another is a girl I went to school with, and we all lived within five minutes of each other.\n\n\"So it's obviously someone we know who was asking for our details and for pictures of us.\n\n\"It's like 'Do we see this person every day? Do we speak to this person?' And now I've posted it on to Twitter, their comments [on the site] have been deleted.\n\n\"It's as if they've seen it and they don't want to be caught. It's scary.\n\n\"It's been going on for nearly 10 years, it goes back to 2010. I phoned the police and they said they can't do anything about it because they don't know who owns the website.\"\n\nThe website boasted about the number of images it hosted\n\nThe site promised VIP members \"over one terabyte of porn that is growing daily\". The BBC understands it is based in Finland.\n\nThousands of women have now signed a petition calling for it to be closed after Becky brought it to their attention.\n\n\"It's absolutely massive and the police are doing nothing about it,\" she said. \"The police are meant to be there to protect you. I can't believe people are actually that twisted.\n\n\"I've spoken to a number of girls, one was 13 at the time her photos were put up, that's the youngest I've spoken to, I know there's girls my age, it's all between the ages of 13 and 25.\"\n\nThe BBC emailed the website's operators, and they replied: \"All posts to our services are posted by our anonymous users around the world not by [website name].\n\n\"We carry out daily active moderation and have clear rules on what is allowed to be posted, we also offer removal forms in the rare cases for content that is deemed illegal or breaks copyright rules.\n\n\"As we have a global audience that totals 28 million users a year across our networks, we strive to ensure that any posts that do break the rules get removed in a timely manner.\"\n\nDet Insp Jim Forster from Cleveland Police said: \"The offence [of revenge porn] relates to the person that does the sharing of the images, we can arrest that person, they can be dealt with and they can get up to two years in prison.\"\n\nHe said if a case involved a big company such as Facebook or Snapchat they would generally comply with requests to take material down, but lesser-known websites, or ones run by criminals, could tend to ignore the police.\n\n\"It's unlikely we'd be able who trace who owns the website if it's foreign based,\" he said. \"The reality is getting those images removed is nigh-on impossible.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Disability Sport\n\nBaroness Tanni Grey-Thompson was 37 weeks pregnant when a woman approached her in Cardiff.\n\n\"This woman stopped me and said: 'How did you get pregnant?'\" Grey-Thompson recalled.\n\n\"I remember screaming at her in the street: 'I had sex. How do you think I got pregnant?'\n\n\"She was like: 'Oh, that's disgusting.' And I said: 'I think he's quite good looking, actually.'\"\n\nGrey-Thompson was a nine-time Paralympic gold medallist when she became pregnant with her daughter Carys in 2001, but later won two more gold medals.\n\nPeople struggled to understand how her body would adapt - and they were not afraid to tell her so.\n\n\"I lost count of the number of people who asked me how I got pregnant,\" the 50-year-old told the Stumps, Wheels and Wobblies podcast.\n\n\"The first thing I was offered at my first scan was a termination because people were like: 'You should not have children.'\"\n• None How to talk about disability without being awkward\n\n'Fear that we might breed'\n\nGrey-Thompson has spina bifida , a condition caused when a baby's spine and spinal cord does not develop properly in the womb.\n\n\"We had a discussion [with the medical staff] about if I was trying for babies and that individual had some quite complicated views on disability - [an attitude of] we might breed,\" Grey-Thompson said.\n\n\"I had to answer lots of questions about what you do if it's disabled.\n\n\"I said I would make sure they have a really cool chair, not like the horrible chair I had until I was 15!\"\n\nOne in every 1,000 pregnancies is affected by a spine or brain defect.\n\nDoctors at King's College Hospital carried out groundbreaking keyhole surgery to repair a baby's spine in the womb earlier this year.\n\nGrey-Thompson has previously spoken about terminating a disabled baby, adding that her parents would \"probably have ended the pregnancy\" had they known about her disability.\n\n'Not every disabled person is inspirational'\n\nThe term 'inspiration porn' was coined in 2012 to describe the portrayal of people with disabilities as inspirational solely, or in part, on the basis of their disability.\n\nParalympian and BBC podcaster Hannah Dines has said that labelling athletes as \"inspirational\" can be insulting, and Grey-Thompson agrees.\n\n\"It is almost like you have to have had something dramatic or traumatic happen to you to justify your position as a disabled athlete,\" she added.\n\n\"There are lots of athletes on the programme who have been through war and lost limbs in really horrible ways.\n\n\"I really struggle if that back story is part of the sports coverage because that does send out a message that you have to be inspirational and not every disabled person is inspirational.\n\n\"I don't wake up every day and say: 'Today I'm going to be inspirational.'\"", "Everyone's had a quick break while the adverts have been on, but now we're back with host Cathy Newman who is asking the audience what they want to hear.\n\nThe next question is on the subject of crime. Should convicted terrorists serve the whole of their sentence without the chance of early release?\n\nPlaid Cymru's Adam Price answers first, saying \"public protection needs to be at the heart of the policy\".\n\nBut he adds that, in the most recent case at London Bridge, the lessons will only be known once there has been an investigation into what happened.\n\n\"So I think it's important not to rush to judgement in terms of that specific case.\"\n\nLabour's Angela Rayner says \"the most important thing is that the public are kept safe\".\n\nShe says prisons are \"overstuffed\" and \"lots of people re-offend on petty crime doing time for that\".\n\nShe gets a brief clap after saying that if convicted terrorists need to spend 10 or 20 years in prison \"they should do that\" - but adds that rehabilitation must be part of the justice system.\n\nMs Rayner says that when people are allowed out, then \"they have to be watched and monitored\".\n\nLib Dem leader Jo Swinson says there must be a proper assessment \"before anyone is released\".\n\n\"One of those grieving parents, David Merritt, he has called on politicians not to politicise his son's death,\" says Ms Swinson.\n\nMs Rayner interjects: \"That's why I didn't mention that.\"\n\nMs Swinson says she is angry at Boris Johnson for ignoring Mr Merritt's request.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nell Gifford said performing at the circus she founded helped her cope with advanced cancer\n\nThe co-founder of one of the UK's best-known traditional travelling circuses has died at the age of 46.\n\nNell Gifford, who had breast cancer, died on Sunday surrounded by family, Stroud-based Giffords Circus said in a statement.\n\n\"We know many tears will be falling as Nell touched so many hearts,\" it said.\n\nMs Gifford, a mother of two, told the BBC when she was undergoing chemotherapy last month that the circus gave her \"a reason to live\".\n\nShe had fought breast cancer on three separate occasions before the disease advanced to her bones and lymph nodes.\n\nMembers of the public have posted tributes on social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDaniella Askew wrote: \"Her legacy lasts in family traditions with Giffords Circus around the Cotswolds and beyond. Our love to her family, including the circus. A queen of magic and dreams.\"\n\nPeter Wilson said: \"This is so sad. Nell created an extraordinary phenomenon that helped my own family through times of grief. Love to all who knew her.\"\n\nNell Gifford co-founded Giffords Circus with her then husband Toti in 2000\n\nMs Gifford, who studied English at Oxford, was 18 when she took a gap year and ran away to New York, where she joined the circus.\n\nShe fell in love with the lifestyle and met the man who would become her husband, Toti. They co-founded their own circus in 2000. The couple later divorced.\n\nMs Gifford said the circus was a \"land of pure magic\" that rejuvenated her after chemotherapy.\n\nGiffords Circus said she wanted to \"bring happiness, imagination and enliven people's souls\".\n\n\"Nell was a creative genius, a daughter, stepdaughter, sister, friend, leader and mother. She leaves behind the next generation - her twins Cecil and Red, who are both part of the Giffords Circus DNA.\"\n\nGiffords Circus chairman Irene Molodstov added: \"She took us all on a journey. The circus was her first child, and the show will go on.\"\n\nBased on a farm in the Cotswolds, Giffords Circus tours around England each summer.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It's that time of night when we can share a few of tomorrow's front pages with you. One story in particular is dominating the newspapers...\n\nThe Metro calls the situation a \"war of words\" which led to a backlash for Boris Johnson Image caption: The Metro calls the situation a \"war of words\" which led to a backlash for Boris Johnson\n\nThe Guardian claims Mr Johnson’s team tried to turn the story on to Labour by wrongly briefing that a Tory aide was punched outside the hospital by a left-wing activist Image caption: The Guardian claims Mr Johnson’s team tried to turn the story on to Labour by wrongly briefing that a Tory aide was punched outside the hospital by a left-wing activist\n\nThe Financial Times describes the situation as the \"first significant stumble\" the PM has made - and it's come in the \"final straight\" of campaigning Image caption: The Financial Times describes the situation as the \"first significant stumble\" the PM has made - and it's come in the \"final straight\" of campaigning\n\nThe Telegraph looks instead at a memo which says the chances of Labour forming a coalition government have been seriously underestimated Image caption: The Telegraph looks instead at a memo which says the chances of Labour forming a coalition government have been seriously underestimated", "British stars are well represented in this year's Golden Globe nominations, with Rocketman's Taron Egerton and Phoebe Waller-Bridge up for awards.\n\nWaller-Bridge is up for a lead actress prize for Fleabag, while her Irish co-star Andrew Scott is also nominated.\n\nMarriage Story, a Netflix production, is the most nominated film, having received six citations in all.\n\nThe Irishman, another Netflix film, and Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, have five nominations each.\n\nThe Crown, Chernobyl and US crime thriller Unbelievable lead the way on the TV side of things, having received four nominations apiece.\n\nMarriage Story and Martin Scorsese's The Irishman are both up for best film drama, as are Joker, The Two Popes and Sam Mendes' World War I epic 1917.\n\nTarantino's film is up for best musical or comedy, alongside Nazi satire Jojo Rabbit, murder mystery Knives Out, Elton John biopic Rocketman and comic biopic Dolemite Is My Name.\n\nScorsese, Mendes and Tarantino are up for the best film director award, with Joker's Todd Phillips and Parasite's Bong Jong Ho completing the all-male line-up.\n\nThe South Korean film-maker is also up for best screenplay for Parasite - a dark comedy about his homeland's social divides that is also up for best foreign language film.\n\nNetflix has been throwing huge amounts of cash at both making and marketing its awards hopefuls this year. With that kind of spending, the streamer will be hoping for not just a good, but a great return on its investment. At this stage of awards season, it potentially looks like it might pay off.\n\nThe film with the most nominations is Netflix's Marriage Story, starring Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson, which has six. Just behind with five, another Netflix production - Martin Scorsese's epic The Irishman starring Oscar winners Robert de Niro, Joe Pesci and Al Pacino.\n\nIt's still early days though. Last year, the Dick Cheney biopic Vice led the way with six Globe nominations and went on to win a grand total of one Academy Award (for make-up and hairstyling). Still, for the last few years, the eventual best picture winner at the Oscars has come from one of the films with either the most or almost the most nominations at the Globes.\n\nThe Globes' real power comes less from those who decides on the winners but rather from its position in awards season. While it may from time to time make some unusual choices, it gives some films the chance to build momentum at the crucial time when Oscar voters are deciding not only which films to vote for, but just as importantly, which films they'll actually make time to see.\n\nAnd in what can be a tight race, just having a film labelled as a Golden Globe nominee or winner can make a difference.\n\nChristian Bale is in the running for the best actor in a film drama award for Ford v Ferrari - released as Le Mans '66 in the UK.\n\nBale's competition includes fellow Brit Jonathan Pryce for The Two Popes, as well as Antonio Banderas, Adam Driver and Joaquin Phoenix for Pain and Glory, Marriage Story and Joker respectively.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. With 27 nominations, it's a strong year for British talent\n\nDaniel Craig is up for best actor in a film comedy or musical for Knives Out, as is Egerton for Rocketman and Jojo Rabbit's young British lead Roman Griffin Davis.\n\nLeonardo DiCaprio and Eddie Murphy are also nominated in this category, for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Dolemite Is My Name respectively.\n\nThe best actress in a film drama shortlist includes Britain's Cynthia Erivo for Harriet, a biopic of anti-slavery activist Harriet Tubman.\n\nErivo's competition includes Scarlett Johansson for Marriage Story, Saoirse Ronan for Little Women and Judy's Renee Zellweger - widely considered to be the favourite for both this award and 2020's best actress Oscar.\n\nThe best actress in a film comedy or musical shortlist includes Dame Emma Thompson for Late Night and The Farewell's Awkwafina.\n\nI'm Gonna Love Me Again, a new track written for Rocketman by Sir Elton John and Bernie Taupin, is up for the best original film song award.\n\nSo is Beautiful Ghosts, written by Taylor Swift and Andrew Lloyd Webber for the upcoming film version of Cats.\n\nIt is the only nomination for Cats, which has been left out of the major categories despite reports it was screened for voters at the last minute.\n\nSwift expressed delight on Twitter that \"one of the most fun, fulfilling creative experiences\" in her life had been recognised by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA).\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nInto the Unknown from Frozen 2 and Beyonce's song Spirit from Disney's The Lion King also make the cut.\n\nBoth films are up for best animated film - an award The Lion King will not be eligible for at the Oscars or Baftas, as it was not submitted for consideration.\n\nThe remake of Disney's 1994 animation uses computer animation to create photorealistic facsimiles of real-life animals.\n\nOlivia Colman, Helena Bonham Carter and Tobias Menzies are all up for awards for their royal roles in the latest series of The Crown.\n\nColman is up for best actress in a TV drama, where her competition includes Killing Eve's Jodie Comer and the stars of Apple TV series The Morning Show - Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon.\n\nDame Helen Mirren, Kit Harington, Emily Watson and Sacha Baron Cohen are among other British actors who are up for TV prizes.\n\nHarington's consideration for best actor in a TV drama is the only nomination for the final series of fantasy saga Game of Thrones.\n\nMenzies, Colman and Bonham Carter play Prince Philip, The Queen and Princess Margaret in The Crown\n\nOverall there are 27 Britons in contention for the awards, which recognise both film and television.\n\nNetflix - the streaming giant behind Marriage Story, The Irishman, The Two Popes and The Crown - has 34 nominations in all - 17 each for film and TV.\n\nHBO have 15 TV nominations, four of them coming for their mini-series about the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.\n\nRicky Gervais will return to host the awards on 5 January, having previously hosted them in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2016.\n\nTom Hanks will receive a lifetime achievement award at the event, following in the footsteps of such recent honourees as Meryl Streep and Oprah Winfrey.\n\nHanks is also nominated for a best supporting actor prize for his role as children's TV star Mr Rogers in A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. More than 60 firefighters were involved in tackling the blaze\n\nSixty firefighters are tackling a major blaze at a block of flats in Glasgow.\n\nThe alarm was raised at Lancefield Quay, on the north bank of the Clyde, at 18:43.\n\nThe fire service sent 12 appliances to the \"well-developed\" fire in the second floor of the three-storey building. There were no reports of injuries.\n\nCrews appeared to be containing the fire, which at one point saw flames shooting from the roof, but smoke was still billowing from the flats.\n\nBBC reporter Graham Fraser said: \"There were lots of flames earlier. Now I can see a hole, about 15m long in the roof of the building with smoke pouring out still.\"\n\nThe fire destroyed part of the building's roof\n\nOne resident told the BBC she was sure the building would have to be demolished.\n\nSheena Anderson, who has lived in the block for 17 years, said her home had been destroyed.\n\n\"It will be demolished,\" she said. \"They've got all the water that's coming down from the house above me.\n\n\"If a wee trickle comes, it pours down the walls, so my house will be demolished. Nothing surer. I can't believe it.\n\n\"I've got what I'm standing up in.\n\n\"OK, it could be worse, but that's a terrible fire. What caused it, they don't know.\"\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said: \"Operations control mobilised 12 appliances to the city's Lancefield Quay where firefighters were met with a fire on the second floor of a three-storey building.\"\n\nGlasgow City Council said Lancefield Quay, the main road that runs alongside the Clyde in Glasgow, had been closed between Elliot Street and Hydepark Street.\n\nResidents of the building have been asked to go a local hotel, where support is being offered.", "Last updated on .From the section Olympics\n\nRussia has been handed a four-year ban from all major sporting events by the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada).\n\nIt means the Russia flag and anthem will not be allowed at events such as the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics and football's 2022 World Cup in Qatar.\n\nBut athletes who can prove they are untainted by the doping scandal will be able to compete under a neutral flag.\n\nRussian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev said the ban was part of \"chronic anti-Russian hysteria\".\n\n\"It is obvious that significant doping problems still exist in Russia, I mean our sporting community,\" he said. \"This is impossible to deny.\n\n\"But on the other hand the fact that all these decisions are repeated, often affecting athletes who have already been punished in one way or another, not to mention some other points - of course this makes one think that this is part of anti-Russian hysteria which has become chronic.\"\n\nRussian president Vladimir Putin said the country had grounds to appeal against the decision.\n• None Can Russia still play at the 2022 World Cup and Euro 2020?\n• None Promoters 'confident' race will go ahead despite sporting ban\n\nWada's executive committee made the unanimous decision to impose the ban on Russia in a meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Monday.\n\nIt comes after Russia's Anti Doping Agency (Rusada) was declared non-compliant for manipulating laboratory data handed over to investigators in January 2019.\n\nIt had to hand over data to Wada as a condition of its controversial reinstatement in 2018 after a three-year suspension for its vast state-sponsored doping scandal.\n\nWada says Rusada has 21 days to appeal against the ban. If it does so, the appeal will be referred to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas).\n\nWada president Sir Craig Reedie said the decision showed its \"determination to act resolutely in the face of the Russian doping crisis\".\n\nHe added: \"For too long, Russian doping has detracted from clean sport. The blatant breach by the Russian authorities of Rusada's reinstatement conditions demanded a robust response.\n\n\"That is exactly what has been delivered.\n\n\"Russia was afforded every opportunity to get its house in order and rejoin the global anti-doping community for the good of its athletes and of the integrity of sport, but it chose instead to continue in its stance of deception and denial.\"\n\nBut Wada vice-president Linda Helleland said the ban was \"not enough\".\n\n\"I wanted sanctions that can not be watered down,\" she said. \"We owe it to the clean athletes to implement the sanctions as strongly as possible.\"\n\nA total of 168 Russian athletes competed under a neutral flag at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang after the country was banned following the 2014 Games, which it hosted in Sochi. Russian athletes won 33 medals in Sochi, 13 of which were gold.\n\nRussia has been banned from competing as a nation in athletics since 2015.\n\nDespite the ban, Russia will be able to compete at Euro 2020 - in which St Petersburg will be a host city - as European football's governing body Uefa is not defined as a 'major event organisation' with regards to rulings on anti-doping breaches.\n\nFifa said it had \"taken note\" of Wada's decision, adding: \"Fifa is in contact with Wada to clarify the extent of the decision in regards to football.\"\n\nThe promoters of the Russian Grand Prix also said they were \"confident\" the race would go ahead because their contract was signed before the Wada investigation and runs until 2025.\n\nAn F1 spokesman reiterated the comments of the promoters, adding: \"We will monitor the situation to see if there is an appeal and what would be its outcome.\"\n\nIn a statement, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) said: \"Those responsible for the manipulation of data from the Moscow laboratory before it was transferred to Wada appear to have done everything possible to undermine the principles of fair and clean sport, principles that the rest of the sporting world support and adhere to.\n\n\"This sincere lack of respect towards the rest of the global sporting movement is not welcome and has zero place in the world of sport. It is only right that those responsible for this data manipulation are punished.\"\n\nThe International Olympic Committee (IOC) said it \"supported\" Wada's decision.\n\nHow did we get here?\n\nRusada was initially declared non-compliant in November 2015 after a Wada-commissioned report by sports lawyer Professor Richard McLaren alleged widespread corruption that amounted to state-sponsored doping in Russian track and field athletics.\n\nA further report, published in July 2016, declared Russia operated a state-sponsored doping programme for four years across the \"vast majority\" of summer and winter Olympic sports.\n\nIn 2018, Wada reinstated Rusada as compliant after the national agency agreed to release data from its Moscow laboratory from the period between January 2012 and August 2015.\n\nHowever, positive findings contained in a version courtesy of a whistleblower in 2017 were missing from the January 2019 data, which prompted a new inquiry.\n\nWada's compliance review committee (CRC) recommended a raft of measures based \"in particular\" on a forensic review of inconsistencies found in some of that data.\n\nAs part of the ban, Russia may not host, or bid for or be granted the right to host any major events for four years, including the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.\n\nWhat was the reaction?\n\nWhistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov, the former Russian anti-doping official who fled to the United States after his allegations about a state-sponsored doping programme, says there remains \"more to do\".\n\n\"Finally, fraud, lies and falsifications of unspeakable proportions have been punished in full swing,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"Those involved in the corruption of certain sports such as track and field, weightlifting, skiing, biathlon and bobsled, should be punished retroactively. The results of the London and Sochi Olympic Games should be reanalysed and reconsidered with the new knowledge available today.\n\n\"We only have a few months to reanalyse the samples from the 2012 London Games because, according to Wada rules, we only have eight years to review.\n\n\"There is a whole generation of clean athletes who have painfully abandoned their dreams and lost awards because of Russian cheaters. We need to take the strongest action to bring justice back to sport.\"\n\nUK Anti-Doping (Ukad) chief executive Nicole Sapstead said Wada's decision to impose a ban on Russia was the \"only possible outcome\" to \"reassure athletes and the public and continue the task of seeking justice for those cheated by Russian athletes\".\n\nHowever, Travis Tygart, chief executive of the US Anti-Doping Agency, said not imposing a blanket ban on all participation by Russian athletes - even under a neutral flag - is a \"devastating blow\" to clean athletes.\n\n\"The reaction by all those who value sport should be nothing short of a revolt against this broken system to force reform,\" he said, adding that it was \"another horrendous Groundhog Day of Russian corruption and domination\".\n\n\"Wada promised the world back in 2018 that if Russia failed yet again to live up to its agreements, it would use the toughest sanction under the rules. Yet, here we go again; Wada says one thing and does something entirely different.\"\n\nBritish powerlifter and Paralympic medallist Ali Jawad, who is a member of UK Anti-Doping's athlete commission, said Wada had been \"soft\".\n\n\"To protect the next generation of Russian athletes, we need to make sure Russia and the system is punished to the fullest extent,\" Jawad told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\n\"The only way we can change that is meaningful change and what kind of message does this send out to the future generation? That, actually, state-sponsored doping, we are going to treat it softly.\"\n\nBaroness Tanni Grey-Thompson told Radio Wales that Wada has now \"stepped up\" and moved forward after \"not taking it as seriously\".\n\n\"There are a couple of things; there will be clean Russian athletes, it is a shame for them, but there are lots of clean athletes that have been affected by anyone who has doped,\" she said.\n\n\"For the athletes who are clean, the British athletes that have lost out, Goldie Sayers, the British bobsleigh team who get their medals years later, it is no recompense.\"\n\nTriple Olympic medallist Kelly Sotherton, who was retrospectively awarded her 2008 heptathlon bronze after Russia's Tatyana Chernova failed to have a doping ban overturned, says she understands why tougher sanctions were not imposed.\n\n\"I think they are thinking of the majority of athletes who are doing the right thing, not the wrong thing,\" she said.", "US puppeteer Caroll Spinney, famous for playing Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on children's TV show Sesame Street, has died at the age of 85.\n\nHe passed away at his home in Connecticut after living with dystonia for some time, a Sesame Workshop statement said.\n\nHe had retired last year at the age of 84.\n\nSpinney had portrayed the characters - including providing their voices - since the show's start in 1969.\n\n\"Caroll was an artistic genius whose kind and loving view of the world helped shape and define Sesame Street from its earliest days in 1969 through five decades, and his legacy here at Sesame Workshop and in the cultural firmament will be unending,\" the statement said.\n\nHe had previously spoken of the show's importance to his life.\n\n\"Before I came to Sesame Street, I didn't feel like what I was doing was important,\" he said. \"Big Bird helped me find my purpose.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSpinney developed a love for puppetry at the age of five after watching a performance of Three Little Kittens.\n\nHe explored puppeteering throughout his childhood and teenage years and used his performances to raise money for college tuition.\n\nAfter serving in the US Air Force, Spinney performed as a professional puppeteer in Las Vegas and Boston in the 1950s and 1960s, eventually meeting Muppets creator Jim Henson, who also starred in Sesame Street.\n\nSpinney later joined the cast for the show's inaugural series in 1969.\n\nSpinney's work on the children's programme has earned him two Grammy honours and six Emmy awards, plus a Lifetime Achievement Emmy award which he received in 2006.\n\nThe puppeteer also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1994 and the Library of Congress' Living Legends award in 2000.\n\nHis life and career have been documented in the widely acclaimed 2014 film, I Am Big Bird.\n\nAnd perhaps one of his greatest achievements was meeting his wife of 40 years, Debra, on the Sesame Street set in 1973.\n\n\"His genius and his talent made Big Bird the most beloved yellow feathered friend across the globe,\" said Joan Ganz Cooney, co-founder of the Sesame Workshop.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "HM Coastguard and police are involved in the search off Gourock\n\nRescuers have halted their search for a man missing in the Firth of Clyde on the west coast of Scotland.\n\nTwo men were recovered from a vessel near Cardwell Bay, Gourock, on Saturday night.\n\nBut one man, who was in a separate boat, has not been found during the search which has involved an RNLI lifeboat and coastguard helicopter.\n\nThe Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) said it had \"terminated\" the operation pending further information.\n\nThe alarm was raised at about 23:35 on Saturday when Greenock Coastguard were called to two small drifting vessels.\n\nTwo men aged 33 and 36 were helped from one of the boats by Helensburgh RNLI lifeboat.\n\nThey were passed into the care of the Scottish Ambulance Service and the lifeboat returned to search for the third man on the second boat.\n\nA coastguard search and rescue helicopter, Police Scotland, Ministry of Defence police and coastguard teams from Kilgreggan and Greenock also joined the search.\n\nA RNLI spokesman said weather conditions at the time were poor with heavy rain, force five to seven winds and poor visibility.\n\nThe search was stood down at 04:00 due to darkness and weather conditions, according to Greenock Coastguard.\n\nIt resumed on Sunday though stormy weather conditions meant the helicopter could not take part.\n\nAn MCA spokeswoman said they had carried out an extensive search of both shorelines in the area up towards the Erskine Bridge.\n\nHowever, the missing man had not been found.\n\n\"The decision has been taken to terminate the search, pending any further information,\" she added. \"Our thoughts are with the family at this time.\"", "The claim: Boris Johnson said goods entering Northern Ireland from Great Britain would only be checked if they are expected to be moved onwards into the Republic of Ireland. He told Sky News \"the only checks that there would be, would be if something was coming from GB via Northern Ireland and was going on to the Republic, then there might be checks at the border into Northern Ireland\".\n\nReality Check verdict: Some goods entering Northern Ireland from Great Britain will have to be checked even if they are staying in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe Brexit Withdrawal Agreement signed in October means that Northern Ireland will remain part of a \"single regulatory zone\" with the Republic of Ireland, a zone that will apply EU rules.\n\nA Treasury document leaked a few days ago suggested this would mean new checks on goods being traded between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nFor example, the EU has particularly strict rules on importing \"products of animal origin\" - that is to say meat, fish and dairy products.\n\nThose products must enter the EU through a border inspection post where all shipments are subject to document checks and a high proportion are physically checked.\n\nProducts of animal origin from Great Britain entering Northern Ireland would be subject to these checks whether they are destined to remain there or be moved to the Republic of Ireland.\n\nThe island of Ireland is already a single regulatory zone for animal health.\n\nThis means that all livestock entering Northern Ireland from GB is currently checked at the point of entry.\n\nA few countries, such as New Zealand, have a deal with the EU where only 1% of consignments of meat and dairy product are checked.\n\nIt is possible that the UK could negotiate a similar deal but it would not be able to get rid of checks entirely unless the whole of the UK was going to stay in the single market.\n\nThe current political declaration, which sets out the broad shape of the future EU-UK relationship, suggests that is unlikely .", "Rosslyn (far left) pictured with Bob Hawke and his wife Hazel in 1987\n\nThe daughter of former Australian PM Bob Hawke has alleged she was raped in the 1980s but he asked her to stay silent to avoid harming his career.\n\nRosslyn Dillon's allegations are made in court documents seen by Australian site the New Daily.\n\nShe says she was raped by Bill Landeryou, an MP in Hawke's Labor Party. Both men are now dead.\n\nMs Dillon, 59, is currently pursuing an A$4m (£2m; $2.7m) claim on her father's estate.\n\nIn an affidavit, Ms Dillon alleges she was raped by Landeryou while working for his office. At the time Hawke was attempting to become Labor leader.\n\nAccording to the papers, Ms Dillon says she was sexually assaulted three times, in 1983.\n\nAfter the third time she told her father she had been raped and wanted to go to the police, but he responded by saying: \"You can't. I can't have any controversies right now. I am sorry but I am challenging for the leadership of the Labor Party,\" the documents show.\n\nMs Dillon's sister, Sue Pieters-Hawke, told The New Daily the family was aware of the allegation.\n\n\"She did tell people at the time. I believe there was a supportive response but it didn't involve using the legal system,\" she told the site. Other family members have not commented to Australian media.\n\nA former union official, Landeryou served as an MP from 1976-1992. He and Hawke are said to have been on good terms throughout Hawke's premiership.\n\nHawke was the dominant figure in 1980s Australian politics, winning four general elections.\n\nHe introduced sweeping economic and social change to his country, while cultivating a public persona of a down-to-earth, beer swigging rogue.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Boris Johnson has toured Brexit-voting Labour-held seats in north-east England, with three days to go before polling day.\n\nIn a speech in Sunderland - 61% of which voted to Leave - the PM told voters: \"The Labour Party has let you down.\"\n\nHe attacked Parliament, saying it had \"delayed\" and \"denied\" Brexit.\n\nMr Johnson will also travel to south-west England, where he will warn against voting for the pro-EU Lib Dems.\n\nAt the event in Sunderland, Mr Johnson took questions from the public and the press.\n\nMr Johnson spoke of his \"oven-ready\" Brexit deal with the EU, saying the alternative to voting for the Conservatives was \"yet more delay\" and \"division and deadlock\".\n\nHe criticised Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, arguing he did not have a credible Brexit plan, adding that every Conservative election candidate had pledged to support his own withdrawal deal with the EU.\n\nMr Johnson also challenged Labour shadow chancellor John McDonnell's plans, which he said \"will put up taxes\" and be a \"recipe for disaster\".\n\nMeanwhile, Mr McDonnell promised to deliver a budget to \"end austerity\" within its first 100 days if the party wins Thursday's election.\n\nIn a speech in London setting out his priorities, he also pledged to get \"money moving out of Whitehall and the City\".\n\nThe Conservative Party says the prime minister is intending to \"visit every region in England and Wales\" in the final three days of the election campaign, with a message that a vote for his party is a vote to \"get Brexit done and unleash Britain's potential\".\n\nMr Johnson started the day at a fish market in Grimsby, one of a number of longstanding Labour areas that voted heavily to leave the EU in the 2016 referendum that both the Conservatives and the Brexit Party are targeting.\n\nOn his visit to Sunderland, Mr Johnson said it had been 1,264 days since the city voted to leave the EU. \"People voted to get out of the European Union - our democratic duty to do so.\n\n\"Our economy is suffering right now because of the uncertainty\" created by the Brexit delay, he said.\n\nMr Johnson has repeatedly warned that the only alternative to a Conservative majority is a hung Parliament, with Mr Corbyn and SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon forming a coalition and resulting in further referendums on Brexit and Scottish independence.\n\nMs Sturgeon has said she is confident an agreement on a second independence vote could be done if Labour needed SNP support to form a government if there is a hung parliament.\n\nBut Mr Corbyn has ruled out supporting a Scottish independence referendum until after the next Holyrood election in 2021.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats are, meanwhile, pledging to table legislation to stop Brexit immediately after the election by introducing two draft bills they say would pave the way for another EU referendum.\n\nThe first would enable the Electoral Commission to start the necessary consultation around a referendum question and lead campaign designation - and the second would provide a referendum on the government's Brexit deal versus remaining in the EU.\n\nLib Dem leader Jo Swinson told Radio 4's Today programme the \"most likely way\" to stop Brexit was through another vote as the possibility of her party winning power on its own and revoking Article 50 looked increasingly remote.\n\nBetween now and the election on 12 December, we want to help you understand the issues behind the headlines.\n\nKeep up to date with the big questions in our newsletter, Outside The Box.\n\nSign up to our Outside The Box here (UK users only).", "Politicians have \"ducked\" the big issues in health and social care during the election, a leading NHS boss says.\n\nAt the start of the campaign, NHS Providers chief Chris Hopson urged parties not to make \"empty promises\" or create \"unrealistic expectations\".\n\nThere have since been manifesto pledges of millions more in NHS funding and extra staff from both main parties.\n\nBut Mr Hopson says they have not offered \"credible answers\" to the NHS's biggest challenges.\n\nThe NHS has been a major issue during the campaign, with some polls suggesting voters place it of higher importance to them than Brexit.\n\nAll three parties are promising above-inflation increases to the budget for frontline care. The pledges only apply to England as health and care issues are devolved.\n\nThere have also been promises to increase staffing. Labour has pledged to boost nurse numbers by 24,000, while the Conservatives have promised 50,000 nurses, factoring in the retention of current staff.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have promised to put a penny on income tax to help fund health and social care.\n\nBut despite the numerous announcements, Mr Hopson said the election debate had \"fallen short\".\n\nWriting in The Times, he said the extra funding commitments were helpful, but added: \"In reality, they go no further than restoring NHS funding growth to what they've been in past.\n\n\"But it's not just about money. Whilst we are pleased that parties are committing to increase staff numbers, it's still not clear how that will actually happen.\"\n\nMr Hopson said there had also been a \"genuine opportunity\" for parties to tackle social care.\n\n\"The offers from the main parties have varied in scope and ambition, but none has developed a compelling worked-through and credibly funded long-term solution.\"\n\nHe added: \"Once again we see politicians responding to popular support for the NHS, presenting themselves as its advocates and champions, but not really addressing what's needed to sustain the NHS long-term.\n\n\"Health service staff and leaders will continue to do all they can to provide outstanding care, but they need more support, more realism and more forward-thinking from a political class which has once again talked a good game, but ducked too many of the big tackles.\"\n\nProfessor Carrie MacEwen, chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, said there had been \"all sorts of claims\" about the NHS during the election campaign.\n\n\"In all the noise, what's been most noticeable is the fact that there's been precious little debate on tackling the really big issue - the lack of decent social care. Only when this is dealt with will the NHS be able to function as it was intended,\" she said.\n\nDr Katherine Henderson, president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, said she was \"deeply concerned\" about emergency departments which she says are \"struggling to cope and increasingly difficult places for staff to deliver the standard of care they want to\".\n\nShe added: \"Emergency departments are the NHS safety net and the safety net is buckling.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "On a street in the Nottinghamshire town of Arnold, there is a Liberal club, a Labour club and a Conservative club, all within a five-minute walk of one another. But how much do the people who patronise these establishments actually care about politics?\n\nThere's an intense silence among the members of Arnold's Balfour Conservative Club as the president calls out numbers. That's because Wednesday night is bingo night - and bingo night is taken seriously. Certainly more seriously than politics.\n\nIn the lull between the rounds, 82-year-old Shirley Wilmot, who has always voted Labour, says she's never really thought about the club's Conservative connections.\n\n\"I'm a member of the Liberal club and the Labour club as well,\" she says. \"But this is my favourite because it's so friendly.\n\n\"I go to the Liberal on a Saturday because they have two artists on, here on the Wednesday for the bingo and the Labour club on Sunday for the dinner. They're not political places.\"\n\nThe Labour club is seen by its regulars as a handy place to go for a cheap pint served by friendly staff\n\nJust down the road at the Arnold Labour Club, president John Wood, 60, would agree with that sentiment.\n\nHe says its link to the party ended about 10 years ago and that the association had become \"damaging\". He is even looking to change the club's name.\n\nOf the nine people asked at the Labour club, not one could say they would definitely vote for the Labour Party, and a few know they certainly will not.\n\nAmong them is Ann Rogers, 50, a member of a motorbike group which meets there weekly.\n\n\"I come for the friendly people and the amazing bar staff,\" she says. \"I've been here for four years and never heard anyone talk about politics. It's just a name over the door. It doesn't matter if you support Labour or Conservative, you're welcome here.\n\n\"I used to be an avid Labour supporter and always voted for them. I voted for them last election. But not this time. It's hard for me but I feel they've let us down, and I don't like Jeremy Corbyn.\"\n\nMr Wood says the club and local party used to support one another financially and political meetings were once held here. But he understands they went their separate ways well before he took over two years ago.\n\nHe says some of his regulars refuse to become full club members because of the name and he has even been denied loans from banks and grants for renovation work because of the perceived political ties.\n\n\"I couldn't be tied to any party,\" Mr Wood says. \"The only one I've ever supported is UKIP. But I don't get involved and we never talk politics.\"\n\nInstead, they host events ranging from coffee mornings for the elderly and a Parkinson's support group, to weddings and weekly discos.\n\nInside are four rooms, each with its own bar. One room is dominated by a snooker table, and another has a skittles alley where members sometimes play against members of the Conservative club and the Liberal club - although the rivalry isn't fuelled by differing political allegiances.\n\nAlex Hunt says he has no idea who he will vote for on 12 December\n\nOne of the team members is 27-year-old handyman Alex Hunt. Snooker cue in hand, he says: \"I love the company, all my friends are here, it's lively and you can drink.\n\n\"I used to be a member of the Liberal and Conservative club but they don't have the same atmosphere.\"\n\n\"I've not got a clue who I'm voting for this election,\" he says. \"I don't know anything about politics. It just doesn't matter to me.\"\n\nThe club's bar manager, Paula Martin, says she gets a call about twice a month from people asking to speak to the local Labour candidate. A man came in a couple of weeks ago asking why there were no pictures at the club of the candidate, she says.\n\n\"I told him it's just not like that any more.\"\n\nAt both the Labour and Conservative clubs, located either side of an Asda supermarket, members pay £10 to join in their first year and £5 every year after\n\nIn the Conservative club, there's also an absence of political chat and certainly no division along party lines.\n\nIndeed, a number of the Labour club's members and some of its bar staff are here to play \"sticky 13s\", a form of card bingo popular in Nottingham pubs.\n\nUnlike its Labour counterpart, the Balfour Conservative Club is still affiliated to the political party and pays an annual subscription to the Association of Conservative Clubs. Its rules state that every member should also be a member or supporter of the Conservative Party, but the secretary admits this is not something that is enforced these days.\n\nThe same rulebook's stated aim is to \"promote the principles of Conservatism and the implementation of the Conservative Party's policies\", although this does not seem to go much further than hosting a few party meetings and a Christmas meal.\n\nThe blue interior and a portrait of the early 20th Century prime minister Arthur Balfour suggest a Tory heritage - but one club member sitting below a picture of the Queen admits he now supports the Brexit Party.\n\nClub president Rob Whalley, 66, says the strength of its association with the Conservatives has weakened in the five decades he has been coming here.\n\nClub president Rob Whalley in front of a portrait of Arthur Balfour\n\nAs he prepares to set up the bingo, he says: \"I don't talk politics at the club. The days when you were a member of just one of the political clubs are done. If we said you had to be a Conservative Party member to join, we'd have no-one in.\"\n\nFor the members, the subsidised pints, the friendly atmosphere, the snooker and pool tables seem to be the main draw.\n\nThat's certainly the case for Labour supporter Andy Gallagher, who has come here for a game. \"This is the most convenient pool table - I don't care what the place is called,\" he says. \"I know I'm not the only Labour voter but we never discuss politics.\n\n\"If Boris Johnson walked in here I wouldn't talk to him but I'd not tell him to get out either.\"\n\nTony Barnsley: \"I do have a political opinion - I don't think politics works\"\n\nBack at the Labour club, 37-year-old industrial truck driver Tony Barnsley says he's been a member for the past four years, because the staff \"treat him well\" and \"pull a great pint of Stella\".\n\nBut he has only voted once in his life, almost 20 years ago. \"If anyone tries to talk politics they walk out because no-one is bothered; they won't even listen to it,\" he says.\n\n\"If Jeremy Corbyn walked in here I'd say 'get me a drink'.\"", "An island volcano erupted while tourists were visiting on Monday in New Zealand's Bay of Plenty.\n\nBy Tuesday, six people were confirmed dead. Eight others were feared to have died and about 30 have serious burns.\n\nTourist Michael Schade tweeted pictures of the eruption (seen above and below), saying: \"My god, White Island volcano in New Zealand erupted today for first time since 2001.\n\n\"My family and I had gotten off it 20 minutes before, were waiting at our boat about to leave when we saw it.\"\n\nTour guides could be seen evacuating people minutes after the eruption.\n\nA photo taken by the Auckland Rescue Helicopter Trust, below, shows the volcano from the air.\n\nA video released by New Zealand's Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences (GNS), screenshot seen below, shows the volcano spewing steam and ash.\n\nA combination photo from GNS, below, shows the volcano shortly before and after the eruption.\n\nCoastguard rescue boats are seen, below, next to a marina near Whakatane, about 40km (25 miles) south of White Island.\n\nRescue workers treated survivors in Whakatane, on the North Island's mainland.\n\nOn Tuesday, steam continued to rise from the White Island volcano.\n\nNew Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern (below, centre) gave a press conference with Police Supt Bruce Bird (left) and Whakatane mayor Judy Turner.\n\nMs Ardern said she shared the \"unfathomable grief\" of those who had lost family and friends.\n\nThe prime minister also met first responders at the Whakatane fire station.\n\nA flag in Whakatane could be seen flying at half mast.\n\nIn Sydney, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison addressed media with Foreign Minister Marise Payne. Twenty-four of the people affected were from Australia.\n\nPeople leave tributes at the port of Tauranga, next to the cruise ship which had carried passengers to White Island when it erupted.\n\nWhite Island, also called Whakaari, is the country's most active volcano, seen below in 1999.\n\nTourist Ron Neil visited the island in January 2017 and took the photos below.\n\n\"We were obliged to wear helmets and gas masks as a condition of climbing the volcano,\" Mr Neil said.\n\n\"We were only allowed on the island because the risk of eruption that day was measured as 1, on a scale of 1-5.\n\n\"Still the sulphur fumes were choking.\"\n\nMr Neil is seen above, wearing a gas mask.", "UN negotiators meeting in Madrid have been accused of \"playing politics\" while the climate crisis grows.\n\nThe talks - now in their final week - are bogged down in technical details as key countries seek to delay efforts to increase their pledges, observers say.\n\nMinisters are due to arrive in the Spanish capital this week to try to secure an ambitious outcome.\n\nUS presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg is due to attend, while Greta Thunberg will also address the meeting.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Greta Thunberg at UN climate change talks - one year apart\n\nUp to half a million people took part in a march in Madrid in support of rapid climate action, but according to observers, negotiators haven't got the message.\n\n\"The problem is while hundreds of thousands of people are marching outside in Madrid, and school children are striking, countries are playing politics with the negotiations,\" said Mohammed Adow, director of Power Shift Africa, a climate and energy think tank based in Nairobi, who's an observer at these talks.\n\n\"We need ministers to arrive this week and make some real progress.\"\n\nNegotiators huddle to try and find common ground\n\nInside the convention centre, the central question of increasing country pledges to cut their carbon has been pushed aside as negotiators resort to protecting national interests.\n\nBack in 2015, everyone signed up to the Paris agreement and put new plans on the table that are due to run from 2020.\n\nHowever the richer countries were supposed to undertake specific carbon cutting actions in the years between 2015 and 2020, which many haven't yet achieved.\n\nHere in Madrid a group of countries including China, India and Saudi Arabia are pushing for these pre-2020 commitments be adhered to - even if it means achieving them post-2020.\n\nObservers believe this is partly a negotiating tactic designed to put pressure on richer nations in any discussions about improving pledges in the period after 2020.\n\nMichael Bloomberg is expected to arrive at the talks this week\n\nThere is frustration that countries are focussing on trying to get advantages in the talks, instead of working together to increase ambition.\n\n\"The Paris agreement is clear: all countries agreed to deliver new climate targets by 2020, and as the recent UNEP emissions gap report made clear, the onus is on the top 10 polluters to deliver,\" said Laurence Tubiana, one of the key architects of the Paris agreement, now with the European Climate Foundation.\n\n\"I know leaders in Brussels, Delhi, Beijing, Tokyo and Ottawa care about global action, but we need them to deliver this week. We need their leadership to deliver on their Paris commitments.\"\n\nAs well as the pre-2020 question, the talks are stuck on two tricky, technical issues - one about the question of loss and damage, the other about carbon markets.\n\nArticle 6 of the Paris climate agreement deals with the trading of emissions reductions credits that might arise from a country beating its own pledges or from a public or private initiative that cut emissions, such as a renewable energy plant or the restoration of a forest.\n\nHere in Madrid, as last year in Katowice, countries are struggling to agree the rules of how these markets would work.\n\nA number of countries including Brazil want to carry over credits that were created under previous versions of this scheme.\n\nThe worry is that many of these historical credits are not real reductions.\n\nIf they are used by countries to meet part or all of their pledges they simply dilute real efforts to cut carbon.\n\nThe question of loss and damage sees developing countries looking for a new facility in the UN talks that would deal with the impacts of events like sea level rise or major storms that have a climate component.\n\nThey argue that the poorest are the ones feeling the impacts of a climate they didn't create.\n\nRich countries have long resisted the idea feeling they will be on the hook for billions of dollars for centuries to come.\n\nUp to now these discussions have been led by civil servants, but the arrival of ministers will likely clarify if both can be resolved by political horse trading.\n\nIt's possible that a compromise could be arrived at that would see both issues resolved here. Or not!\n\nDelegates from Easter Island arrive at the talks\n\nWhile the interventions of Michael Bloomberg and Greta Thunberg will likely gain headlines, there is still uncertainty over whether a final decision can be taken here that will be ambitious and set out a clear timeline for countries to get their pledges on the table ahead of COP26 in Glasgow in November 2020.\n\nThere is hope that a large number of countries will sign up to long term net-zero emissions targets, and if that happens it will be significant progress.\n\nBut many eyes here will be closely watching Brussels this week where the new EU commission is due to present a European Green Deal.\n\n\"What happens in Brussels will resonate in Madrid,\" said David Waskow from the World Resources Institute.", "* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment, the older person’s bus pass and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* Rights for workers to be notified of their shifts one month in advance * The right to bereavement leave following a death in the immediate family * Lower cap on pension fund management fees * Tax breaks for companies that offer longer-term secure career contracts to staff\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* End the Work Capability Assessment and replace it with a system using qualified medical practitioners * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * No benefits paid to foreign nationals resident in the UK until they have paid tax for five years * Minimise the use of zero-hour contracts\n\n* £35 a week payment for every child in a low-income family * Tax credit of up to £25 a week for tenants in the private sector who spend more than 30% of their income on rent and utility bills * Powers over social security devolved to Wales * Abolish the \"bedroom tax\" * Universal free childcare for 40 hours a week\n\n* Demand UK government halts the rollout of Universal Credit until \"fundamental flaws\" are addressed * Oppose and increase to the state pension age and campaign against decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s * Press for the statutory living wage to rise to at least the level of the real living wage * Increase shared parental leave from 52 to 64 weeks, with the additional 12 weeks to be the minimum taken by the father * Make the minimum wage for 16 to 24-year-olds the same as for over 25s, and ban unpaid trial shifts\n\n* Stronger regulation of the gig economy, and oppose deregulation of employment rights * Stronger focus on careers advice * Support a fairer UK-wide welfare system and revised package of welfare mitigations for NI * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * Overhaul bereavement benefits\n\n* Personal tax allowance should rise in line with inflation each year * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 by the end of the parliamentary term * End the freeze on benefits by increasing them in line with inflation * Restore free television licences for over-75s but in the longer term abolish the licence fee entirely * Retain the pensions triple lock and retain winter fuel payments\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts * Introduce a real living wage * Establish a new \"welfare mitigation package\" that protects the most vulnerable\n\n* Increase childcare provision from 12.5 hours per week to 20 hours per week, potentially increasing to 30 hours once new budget is agreed * Regulation of zero-hours contracts * Introduce a \"true living wage\" to reflect rising costs of living * Scrap universal credit, the bedroom tax and the two-child limit * End the freeze on benefits\n\n* Extend mitigation measures on key issues such as the bedroom tax, which are due to expire in March * Restore TV licenses for over-75s and retain the triple-lock protection for pensions * Create and implement a new childcare strategy\n\n* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Increase the number of employers paying a living wage in Wales and introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system * New \"collective\" workplace pension schemes and new controls on transferring pensions and a review of state pension inequality for Waspi women\n\n* Introduce a real living wage of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16, giving about 700,000 Scottish workers a pay rise * Scrap universal credit and increase child benefit * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66 and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay\n\n* Reverse cuts to universal credit * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment * Introduce universal access to basic services * Increase provision of free meals for children, with a particular focus on breakfast * Increase access to free sanitary products\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts, close the gender pay gap, and ensure that everyone is paid a \"real living wage\" * Bring in a universal basic income * Remove differential rates of minimum wage for under-25s and introduce a living wage for everyone * Scrap universal credit * Support for the Waspi women (Women Against State Pension Inequality)\n\n* Scrap welfare reforms include PIP, Universal Credit and the bedroom tax * Develop a state-owned National Childcare Agency * Repeal all anti-trade union laws * Ban zero hours contracts and implement a real living wage\n\n* 40% of board members in public companies and public sector boards to be women * Worker representation to be established on the boards of larger companies * Ban “zero-hours” contracts * Increase child benefit", "Jack waited for four hours in a room without a bed, despite being admitted under blue light to Leeds General Infirmary\n\nBoris Johnson has been criticised after initially refusing to look at a picture of a sick four-year-old boy who had to sleep on the floor of a Leeds hospital.\n\nThe picture in the Daily Mirror of Jack, who had suspected pneumonia, spurred complaints about NHS cuts.\n\nAn ITV reporter tried to show Mr Johnson the picture on his phone, but he refused to look, before taking the device and putting it in his pocket.\n\nHe later looked and returned the phone.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn tweeted: \"He just doesn't care\", while Independent Group for Change leader Anna Soubry called his actions \"appalling\".\n\nMr Johnson was asked by other reporters why he had not looked at the photo, but he did not answer the question directly, instead repeating Conservative pledges for the NHS and promising to rebuild \"the whole of Leeds General Infirmary from top to bottom\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHealth Secretary Matt Hancock later visited the hospital to speak to management about the case.\n\nHe said he was \"horrified\" by the incident involving Jack, adding: \"It's not good enough and I have apologised.\"\n\nBut Mr Hancock would not comment on the PM's reaction, saying: \"What people care about is what are we doing to improve care at Leeds General and across the NHS.\"\n\nAs he left, the health secretary was met by a group of protesters shouting at him.\n\nThe boy's mother has said she does not want her son's treatment being used as a \"political football\".\n\nIn a formal complaint to press regulator IPSO, she said she had initially given permission to two newspapers to use her son Jack's image but - after the story was widely reported across other news outlets - she now wanted to prevent any further publication of the picture or his details.\n\nIn her letter, she said the actions of the media were \"causing significant distress\" to Jack and his family.\n\nJack was taken into Leeds General Infirmary last week after being ill for six days, his mother told the Mirror.\n\nHis mother said he had been seen as soon as he arrived and given a bed and oxygen, but a few hours later the bed had to be given to another patient and Jack was left without one for more than four hours.\n\nHis mother said she then made a makeshift bed for her son with coats and took the picture.\n\nShe told the newspaper the doctors and nurses were \"lovely people\", but she was \"angry at the lack of funding and the lack of beds\", accusing the government of \"failing our children\".\n\nBoris Johnson was on the campaign trail when he was shown the picture of Jack\n\nDr Yvette Oade, chief medical officer at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, said: \"Our hospitals are extremely busy at the moment and we are very sorry that Jack's family had a long wait in our emergency department.\n\n\"We are extremely sorry that there were only chairs available in the treatment room, and no bed. This falls below our usual high standards, and for this we would like to sincerely apologise to Jack and his family.\"\n\nITV reporter Joe Pike tweeted about his interview with Mr Johnson, which took place in Grimsby on the campaign trail.\n\nHe asked the PM to look at the photo of Jack on his phone several times.\n\nMr Johnson said he had not seen the picture yet but refused to look at it while Mr Pike questioned him.\n\nEventually, he took Mr Pike's phone and put it in his pocket, saying: \"If you don't mind, I'll give you an interview now.\"\n\nMr Pike said: \"You refuse to look at the photo. You've taken my phone and put it in your pocket, prime minister.\n\n\"His mother says the NHS is in crisis. What's your response to that?\"\n\nMr Johnson then removed the phone from his pocket and looked at the screen.\n\n\"It's a terrible, terrible photo, and I apologise, obviously, to the family, and all those who have terrible experiences in the NHS,\" he said.\n\n\"But what we are doing is supporting the NHS, and on the whole I think patients in the NHS have a much, much better experience than this poor kid has had.\n\n\"That's why we're making huge investments into the NHS, and we can only do it if we get Parliament going, if we unblock the current deadlock, and we move forward.\"\n\nThe PM then apologised to Mr Pike for taking his phone and returned it.\n\nShadow health secretary Jon Ashworth called refusing to look at the picture \"a new low\" for the PM, adding: \"It's clear he could not care less.\n\n\"Don't give this disgrace of a man five more years of driving our NHS into the ground. Sick toddlers like Jack deserve so much better.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson also said Mr Johnson would not look at the photo because \"he simply does not care\".\n\nShe tweeted: \"He doesn't care about Jack. He doesn't care about anyone other than himself.\"\n\nAnd the SNP's Westminster leader, Ian Blackford, called Mr Johnson \"a man with no empathy and no moral compass\".\n\nHe tweeted: \"The picture of the young boy in Leeds is horrific. His unwillingness to even show remorse proves just how unfit he is to serve as prime minister.\"", "The \"immense\" rise in sales of high-emission sports utility vehicles means they now outsell electric cars in the UK by 37 to one, research has found.\n\nAs a result, overall exhaust emissions from new cars have been increasing, not declining, for the past three years, says the UK Energy Research Centre.\n\nSUV sales are jeopardising the UK transport sector's ability to meet EU emissions targets, it said.\n\nProf Jillian Anable of the UKERC said this made \"a mockery\" of UK policy.\n\n\"Effectively, we have been sleepwalking into the issue,\" she said.\n\n\"The decarbonisation of the passenger car market can no longer rely on a distant target to stop the sales of conventional engines. We must start to phase out the most polluting vehicles immediately.\n\n\"It is time to enact a strong set of regulations to transform the entire car market towards ultra-low carbon, rather than focusing solely on the uptake of electric vehicles.\"\n\nUKERC was founded in 2004 and is funded by UK Research and Innovation, the UK government's research and innovation funding agency.\n\nIt carries out research into sustainable future energy systems.\n\nOver the past four years, there have been 1.8 million SUV sales, compared to a total of 47,000 for battery electric vehicles (BEV).\n\nIn 2018, SUVs accounted for 21.2% of new car sales, up from 13.5% three years earlier.\n\nHowever, BEV sales are coming from a low base, as the technology is still relatively new.\n\n\"SUVs are larger and heavier than a standard car, emitting about a quarter more CO2 than a medium-size car and nearly four times more than a medium-sized battery electric vehicle,\" said the UKERC.\n\n\"Assuming the majority of these SUVs will be on UK roads for at least a decade, it is estimated the extra cumulative emissions to total around 8.2 million tons of CO2.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UKERC said the \"extraordinary leap\" in SUV sales over the past four years seemed to be due to \"attractive car financing packages which divert attention from running costs\".\n\nAlthough vehicle excise duty is higher for gas-guzzlers, more than 90% of new cars in the UK are now sold by way of deals that wrap the excise duty into the monthly cost, \"rendering the only clear policy signal to discourage high-carbon vehicles somewhat useless,\" it said.\n\nAll-electric vehicles still represent only a fraction of total car sales. The UKERC said they remained at less than 1% of new car sales in 2019.\n\nThere are also challenges to uptake, including a lack of charging points on roads and too few low-cost models.\n\nThe UKERC warned against abandoning the EU's emissions targets after Brexit, although no political party is currently advocating this.\n\nIt said EU regulations had been structured to allow makers of larger, heavier cars to have higher levels of emissions per km.\n\n\"Yet, despite its flaws, there are dangers of Britain choosing not to align with the EU vehicle regulations post-Brexit,\" it added.\n\nRAC spokesman Simon Williams said: \"It's important to remember that the SUV trend has been developing for around two decades, arguably really taking off in the mid-2000s, whereas the electric vehicle (EV) market is only just beginning to accelerate as battery technology improves, along with the availability of public charge points.\n\n\"As a result, there are some very strong EV sports utility vehicles on sale now.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said: \"Manufacturers respond to consumer demand and dual-purpose cars are an increasingly popular choice, available in a range of sizes, and valued for their style, practicality, higher ride and commanding view of the road.\n\n\"Thanks to ongoing investment, like all vehicles, they're also ever more efficient, with average CO2 emissions from new dual-purpose cars having fallen more than 43% on 2000 levels.\"\n\nThey're tall, spacious, and styled to look as though they belong halfway up a mountain, even though most will never ever venture more than a few metres off-road.\n\nSUVs are undoubtedly popular with drivers. But they're also big and heavy - and that means they emit more CO2 than smaller cars.\n\nBut it would be wrong to see these figures as a sign that the market doesn't want more environmentally friendly vehicles.\n\nTo put it simply, most people still drive petrol or diesel cars, and if they want a bigger car, right now they'll probably choose a petrol or diesel SUV, because they're familiar and widely available.\n\nBut just take a look at the tiny, yet rapidly growing market for electric cars. Among the models now on the market are the Kia e-Niro, Hyundai's Kona Electric, the Jaguar I-Pace, the Audi E-tron and the Mercedes EQ.\n\nAll of them are SUVs. The manufacturers think they can surf the wave of enthusiasm for big cars - and use it to sell more electric vehicles.\n\nThe two are certainly not mutually exclusive.", "The Banksy artwork shows Ryan on a bench being \"pulled\" by two reindeer\n\nElusive artist Banksy has created new artwork in Birmingham, a festive-themed piece highlighting homelessness.\n\nThe artwork features in a film on Instagram that shows a man named Ryan on a bench being \"pulled\" by two reindeer painted on a brick wall in the city's Jewellery Quarter.\n\nIt has been viewed over 1m times since it was posted earlier.\n\nHours later though, the work was defaced by a vandal who sprayed red noses on the reindeer.\n\nBarriers had been installed, but the person managed to jump them, BBC Midlands Today reporter Ben Sidwell tweeted.\n\nA vandal sprayed the artwork with red noses on Monday evening\n\nUnveiling the work, Banksy praised the generosity of people who gave Ryan food and drink while they filmed.\n\nThe post said: \"God bless Birmingham. In the 20 minutes we filmed Ryan on this bench passers-by gave him a hot drink, two chocolate bars and a lighter - without him ever asking for anything.\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by banksy This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPete Smith's jewellery studio and workshop Vault 88 is located on Vyse Street, opposite the artwork.\n\nHe saw it when he arrived for work on Friday and said it had been attracting a lot of attention since the Instagram post.\n\n\"The world and his mother is outside,\" he said.\n\n\"There's been people taking pictures of themselves on the bench. It's brilliant. It's very, very clever.\"\n\nVisitors have been recreating the artwork at the scene\n\nHe added the artist's praise was \"good for Brummies\", and showed \"they care\".\n\nLuke Crane from the Jewellery Quarter Business Improvement District said it was now a priority to protect the artwork.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'God bless Birmingham', says Banksy as artwork appears in city\n\n\"We are very keen to make sure it is a part of our community and not something that is taken away,\" he said.\n\n\"I think it comes at a great time of year - we obviously didn't know it was coming, but what a great time.\n\n\"And it's obviously about giving at a time of need for the homelessness that we have in these areas, and it's something that we've been working in partnership with the council and other organisations to try and tackle, so it's great to see it in our area.\"", "Conservative chairman James Cleverly has apologised for cases of Islamophobia in his party.\n\nMr Cleverly said he was \"sorry\" when Tory members and candidates \"do or say things that are wrong\".\n\nBut he added that he was \"confident\" there was now \"a robust mechanism\" in place to deal with the issue.\n\nThe Muslim Council of Britain has accused the Tory party of having a \"blind spot for this type of racism\" and of not doing enough to tackle it.\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 5 Live's Pienaar's Politics, Mr Cleverly said an investigation into prejudice in his party will get under way before the end of the year.\n\nHe said: \"We said it will be initiated this calendar year.\n\n\"We have been doing, in parallel to the general election campaign, preparatory work ahead of that and we'll be making a more formal announcement as soon as the election is done.\n\n\"It will specifically look into Islamophobia in my party. It will, by definition, also have to look at other stuff as well, because you can't always unpick this.\n\n\"But we are and absolutely have always been clear on this. We recognise that in mass membership organisations that there will always be people that say and do things which are completely inappropriate.\"\n\nTory leader Boris Johnson has also come in for criticism for a newspaper column last year in which he said Muslim women wearing burkas \"look like letter boxes\".\n\nTory election candidate Parvez Akhtar said the effect of the column has been \"to reinforce the widely held view that the Conservative Party has a blind spot when it comes to Muslims\".\n\nMr Cleverly told John Pienaar the prime minister had already apologised for his comments.\n\nPushed again after being informed that Mr Johnson only apologised for any offence caused by the comments, not the comments themselves, he added: \"If you read the piece, the points that he was making in that piece was that unlike other European countries who have put a blanket ban on the wearing of the burka or hijab, the UK does not do that.\n\n\"The point he was making was that actually in a healthy liberal democracy like we have here in the UK, just because someone has, you know, a personal discomfort with that does not mean that it should be banned.\n\n\"That is a defence of our liberal democracy.\"\n\nEarlier in the election campaign, Mr Johnson himself apologised for the \"hurt and offence\" caused by Islamophobia within the Conservative Party ranks.\n\nMr Cleverly claimed there was a \"massive gulf\" between the scale of Labour's problems with anti-Semitism and the issue of Islamophobia in the Conservative Party.\n\nAsked if he would apologise for cases of Islamophobia in his party, Mr Cleverly said: \"Well, of course, I'm sorry. And I'm sorry when, you know, people do or say things that are wrong.\n\n\"I am confident that my party has a robust mechanism for dealing with it.\n\n\"We investigate this. It's done independently. We have independent people looking at this and they come to adjudications and where people have had to be either sanctioned or expelled from the party. That has happened.\"\n\nThe Conservative Party suspended a number of members last month after the Guardian supplied it with a dossier produced by an anonymous Twitter user containing examples of allegedly Islamophobic social media posts.\n\nA number of members were also suspended in September, after the BBC highlighted 20 cases to the party of members posting or endorsing Islamophobic material online.\n\nThe Scottish Conservatives suspended a Glasgow election candidate, Flora Scarabello, after she was accused of using \"anti-Muslim language\".\n\nAnd the party's candidate in Aberdeen North, Ryan Houghton, was suspended over alleged anti-Semitic, Islamophobic and homophobic comments he made seven years ago.\n\nMr Houghton has apologised for any hurt caused but insisted the comments were taken out of context.", "Fifty years ago, the way people voted in the UK was largely determined by social class, but different influences are at play in the 21st Century.\n\nBack in the 1960s, political scientist Peter Pulzer famously stated that \"class is the basis of British party politics; all else is embellishment and detail\". People in middle-class jobs were more likely to vote Conservative, and the working class were more inclined to vote Labour. Any other differences were relatively unimportant.\n\nThe picture is now very different. The kind of job that someone does is expected to make very little difference to how they will vote at this election. On the other hand, whether they are young or old may matter a great deal.\n\nPolling companies divide voters into ABC1s (those employed in middle-class \"white collar\" jobs) and C2DEs (those in a working-class \"blue collar\" occupation). These two groups differ little in how they propose to vote at this election.\n\nAt 42%, support for the Conservatives is the same in both, while at 33%, support for Labour - a party originally founded to advance the interests of the working class - is only five points higher among the working class than the middle class.\n\n(The polls are GB-wide. Because of this, they cannot tell you anything meaningful about the demographic variation on the votes for SNP and Plaid Cymru).\n\nThis trend has been in evidence for some time. At each of the last three elections, the Conservatives have advanced more strongly than Labour among working-class voters. In the last election, the difference between the two groups had become quite small. This election looks set to repeat that pattern.\n\nConversely, the Liberal Democrats used to pride themselves on attracting support from both sides of the class divide. That claim is now more difficult to sustain. At 19%, the party's support among middle-class voters is markedly higher than among working-class supporters (10%).\n\nAlso striking, however, is the strength of support for the Lib Dems among graduates. On average, support is some 14 points higher among those with a degree than among those without. This reflects the fact that nearly all Lib Dem supporters voted Remain in the EU referendum, and that, in turn, university graduates are especially likely to back staying in the EU.\n\nSupport for the Conservatives is higher among those without a degree than among graduates - as might be expected, given that most of the party's support comes from those who voted Leave. This, in turn, helps explain why the party is no longer more popular among middle-class voters than those in working-class occupations.\n\nHowever, if voting no longer differs much between working-class and middle-class voters, it does differ between other groups.\n\nAt present the Conservatives are 15 points ahead of Labour among men, but by 11 points among women. According to Ipsos Mori, such a pattern - with Labour performing a little more strongly among women than men - has been in evidence since the 2005 election.\n\nA much bigger difference is to be observed between those from different ethnic backgrounds.\n\nIn contrast to the position in the polls in general, Labour are well ahead among those from a black, Asian or other minority ethnic (BAME) background. According to ICM, 56% of BAME voters intend to vote for Labour, while only 23% are likely to support the Conservatives. BMG puts the figures at 40% and 27% respectively.\n\nThe most striking difference of all is between younger and older voters.\n\nAbout three-fifths of those aged 65 or older are currently proposing to vote Conservative, compared with less than a quarter of those aged under 35. Conversely, nearly half of those aged less than 35 are backing Labour - but only 17% of those aged 65 or over.\n\nThere has always been a tendency for the Conservatives to be favoured in greater numbers by older rather than younger voters, with the opposite being true for Labour. Nevertheless, the gap widened noticeably in the 2015 election and even more so in 2017. It looks as though the generational gap could be just as big this time.\n\nYounger and older voters also disagree about Brexit. Younger voters are more likely to have voted Remain and older ones for Leave. This helps explain why younger voters are less willing to vote Conservative.\n\nHowever, the generational gap was widening before the EU referendum was held, so it must be about more than Brexit.\n\nSome other generational differences in the UK may be playing a role, such as attitudes towards immigration, ease of getting on the housing ladder, and the cost of university tuition.\n\nEither way, it is clear that age, not social class, is the division that nowadays lies at the heart of British party politics and will play a significant role on 12 December.\n\nThis analysis piece was commissioned by the BBC from an expert working for an outside organisation.\n\nThis piece uses Opinium polling on the leaders of the parties competing in the general election across the UK. Comparable results for parties with candidates in individual nations, including the SNP, are not available.", "The late owner of the collection kept his prized bottles in his \"pub\" at his home in Colorado\n\nAuctioneers have unveiled what is believed to be the largest private collection of whisky ever to go on public sale.\n\nMore than 3,900 bottles of primarily single malt Scotch will be sold by online whisky auction specialists Whisky Auctioneer next year.\n\nThe \"perfect collection\" includes very rare bottles from The Macallan, Bowmore and Springbank distilleries.\n\nIts collective value has been estimated at a hammer price of £7m to £8m.\n\nPerth-based Whisky Auctioneer described it as \"the most extensive private collection we have seen in terms of the completeness of representation of 20th Century Scottish distilleries\".\n\nThe collection has been put up for sale by the family of an American businessman who died in 2014.\n\nColorado-based Richard Gooding, who once owned one of the largest soft-drink distributors in the US, spent more than 20 years amassing his collection.\n\nWhisky Auctioneer founder Iain McClune said the collection was \"truly one of a kind\"\n\nThe eclectic mix of whiskies includes bottlings from some of Scotland's lost distilleries, such as Stromness and Dallas Dhu.\n\nIt also features some of the most sought-after bottles in the world, including The Macallan 1926 60-year-old Valerio Adami label and The Macallan 1926 60-year-old Fine and Rare.\n\nIn October a bottle of The Macallan 1926 sold for nearly £1.5m, including buyer's premium.\n\nOther stars of the auction include a Springbank 1919 50-year-old (estimated hammer price: £180,000-£220,000) and The Macallan 50-year-old Lalique Six Pillars Collection (£90,000-£100,000)\n\nUntil recently, the collection was housed in what Mr Gooding called his \"pub\" - a dedicated room in his Colorado family home that was specially designed to showcase his whiskies.\n\nMr Gooding's grandfather, James A Gooding, started the Pepsi Cola Bottling Company of Denver in 1936.\n\nWhen he retired, Richard's Gooding's father took over the business before Richard became owner and chief executive in 1979.\n\nHe sold the company to PepsiCo in 1988.\n\nColorado-based Mr Gooding died at the age of 67 in June 2014 after being diagnosed with skin cancer.\n\nAccording to his family, Mr Gooding sought to create \"the perfect collection\" of whisky, travelling regularly to Scotland in his private jet in search of special bottles at auctions and distilleries.\n\nHis wife Nancy said: \"It was clear to us as a family that collecting Scotch was one of Richard's greatest passions - an endeavour that spanned over two decades.\n\n\"He loved every aspect of it; from researching the many single malt distilleries to visiting them and tasting their whiskies.\n\nThe collection includes an extensive range of The Macallan\n\n\"He was always so pleased to acquire the bottles that he was searching for over the years.\n\n\"His mission was to collect a bottle that represented every single distillery, but his favourite was always Bowmore, with his preferred whisky being Black Bowmore.\"\n\nWhisky Auctioneer founder Iain McClune said Mr Gooding's collection was \"truly one of a kind\".\n\nHe added: \"Its sheer scale and rarity makes it one of the most exciting discoveries in the whisky world, and we're thrilled to unveil it to the public ahead of it going live on our online auction site next year.\"\n\nThe Gooding auction will go live on Whisky Auctioneer from 7-17 February and from 10-20 April 2020.", "Juice Wrld, real name Jarad Anthony Higgins, was considered to be a rising star of rap music\n\nJuice Wrld, a US rapper who shot to fame on music streaming platforms, has died at the age of 21.\n\nCelebrity news website TMZ said he died after suffering a seizure at Chicago's Midway airport on Sunday morning.\n\nThe Cook County Medical Examiner's Office said the cause was unknown.\n\nJuice Wrld, real name Jarad Anthony Higgins, was best-known for his viral 2018 hit Lucid Dreams. Mental health, mortality and drug use were common themes in his music.\n\nHis record label, Interscope Geffen A&M Records, said Juice Wrld was an \"exceptional human being\" who \"made a profound impact on the world in such a short period of time\".\n\nChicago police told the BBC a 21-year-old man suffered a medical emergency at around 02:00 local time (08:00 GMT) and was taken to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.\n\nPolice spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told the Chicago Sun Times there were \"no signs of foul play\" and it was unclear whether drugs played a role in his death.\n\nBorn in Chicago, Illinois, in 1998, Juice Wrld was raised by his single mother, described as a religious and conservative woman who forbade him from listening to hip hop.\n\nHe started rapping in high school, using online music streaming platform SoundCloud to upload and promote his music.\n\nJuice Wrld went on to release his debut full-length EP, 999, on the platform in 2017, garnering him attention from fellow Chicago-based artists such as G Herbo and Lil Bibby.\n\nJuice Wrld shot to fame in 2018, when hit single Lucid Dreams reached number two in the charts\n\nThe rapper rose to fame in 2018, when hit singles All Girls Are the Same and Lucid Dreams, which peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, drew the attention of music fans and record labels.\n\nMore plaudits followed the release of his first studio album, Goodbye & Good Riddance, in 2018, cementing him as one of the rising stars of US rap.\n\nIn early 2018, he was signed by Interscope Records, landing a record deal reported to be worth more than $3m (£2.2m). He topped the Billboard chart this year with his second album Death Race for Love.\n\nIn one of his songs, Juice Wrld rapped about the short lives of artists, saying \"all the legends seem to die out\".\n\nThe song, titled Legends, was dedicated to two late rappers, 20-year-old XXXTentacion and 21-year-old Lil Peep, who died in 2018 and 2017, respectively.\n\nIn the song Juice Wrld rapped: \"What's the 27 Club? We ain't making it past 21. I been going through paranoia.\"\n\nJuice Wrld had celebrated his 21st birthday last week. In a tweet, he said it was \"one of his best\" birthdays yet.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grime artist Ransom FA spoke to the BBC about the challenges of breaking into the music industry\n\nHis music has been described as emo rap, a genre that draws influences from hip hop and alternative rock.\n\nIn a four-star review of his second album, music publication NME said the rapper \"makes songs that stick, his vocal dissonance capturing what it feels like to be young and in pain, and feeling a sense of indifference towards authority figures\".\n\nIn a 2018 interview with the New York Times, Juice Wrld opened up about his use of cannabis and Xanax, an anti-anxiety medication.\n\n\"I smoke weed, and every now and then I slip up and do something that's poor judgment,\" he told the paper.\n\nIn other interviews, he has been candid about his use of lean, a liquid concoction containing prescription-strength cough syrup and soft drinks. In another of his songs, titled Empty, he references lean, saying it solves problems.\n\nIn a statement, Juice Wrld's record label said he was \"a gentle soul whose creativity knew no bounds\", adding: \"To lose someone so kind and so close to our hearts is devastating.\"\n\nIn a tweet, British singer-songwriter Ellie Goulding, who collaborated with Juice Wrld on her 2019 single Hate Me, described the rapper as \"such a sweet soul\" who had \"so much further to go\".\n\nChicago-based artist Chance the Rapper paid a heartfelt tribute on Instagram, writing: \"Millions of people, not just in Chicago but around the world are hurting because of this and don't know what to make of it.\"\n\n\"Wow, I cannot believe this. Rip my brother juice world,\" tweeted fellow rapper Lil Yachty.\n\nUS rapper Lil Nas X, also writing on Twitter, said it is \"so sad how often this is happening lately to young talented rising artists\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Putting Boris Johnson's plan for Brexit into action will be a \"major\" challenge for government due to new customs arrangements for Northern Ireland, according to a leaked document.\n\nThe PM has said the UK will fully exit the EU by December 2020 if he wins the election and MPs approve his plan.\n\nBut the document says government will struggle to deliver the infrastructure and staffing needed by that deadline.\n\nThe PM did not directly comment on the report when asked.\n\nBut Mr Johnson instead said his plan was a \"great deal\" for both Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK, and would \"give the country real momentum\".\n\nThe SNP said the leak was \"just the latest evidence that Boris Johnson can't be trusted\".\n\nIt comes as the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, Arlene Foster, said Mr Johnson \"broke [his] word\" after promising there would be no checks between Great Britain and Northern Ireland after Brexit - a red line for her and her candidates.\n\nThroughout the election campaign, the PM has denied there will be checks in the Irish Sea, despite telling the BBC in the days after his deal was agreed that some checks would be needed.\n\nMr Johnson's deal with the EU does mean there will be checks on goods going from Great Britain to Northern Ireland but there has been confusion on whether there will be checks on goods going in the other direction.\n\nMr Johnson has pledged to finalise leaving the EU by 31 January, and said a trade deal will be done with the bloc by the following December.\n\nHowever, he has also said if no deal is done by that deadline, the UK will still leave - meaning all transition agreements will come to an end by the close of 2020.\n\nFirst reported by the Financial Times, the document from the Department for Exiting the European Union (DExEU) has cast doubt on whether the government will be ready to meet this proposal when it comes to new arrangements between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe BBC has also seen the document - which was circulated to senior officials in Whitehall last week - that warns of \"high levels of checks and controls\" as a result of the deal, and says there may be \"legal and political\" impacts.\n\nIt reads: \"Delivery of the required infrastructure, associated systems, and staffing to implement the requirements of the protocol by December 2020 represents a major strategic, political and operational challenge.\"\n\nDExEU said it would not comment on leaks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut Chief Secretary to the Treasury Rishi Sunak - who sits on the \"exit operations committee\" for Brexit planning - told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he had been \"incredibly impressed by all the preparations that have gone on\".\n\nHe said such planning meant the UK was in \"very good shape, not just to deal with new trading relationships, but all the other things\".\n\nCommenting on the leak, the SNP's Stephen Gethins said: \"Even his own civil servants know the UK government aren't in a position to deliver Brexit on his promised timescale.\n\n\"If we leave the EU, the UK faces years of difficult and contentious trade talks. If you've not liked Brexit so far, you ain't seen nothing yet.\"\n\nThe pro-Leave DUP has previously backed the Conservative Party, giving Theresa May a working majority in Parliament, but it has been critical of both her withdrawal agreement with the EU and Mr Johnson's.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In full: Laura Kuenssberg grills Johnson in October on Brexit deal\n\nSpeaking to Today, Ms Foster said the DUP had spoken to HMRC officials after Mr Johnson's deal was done, and they had made it \"very clear\" to her that there would need to be checks on goods travelling between Northern Ireland and Great Britain.\n\n\"This is very concerning for us as it goes to the heart of the act of union,\" she said.\n\n\"Boris wants to, in his words, 'get Brexit done', and I completely understand that. But you can't leave part of the UK in a worse-off position.\"\n\nAsked repeatedly whether she could now trust anything the prime minister said, Ms Foster added: \"It is very important for us in Northern Ireland not just to have the words but the detail. It says more about the person who broke their word.\"", "Sarah Lewis said Chris Davies became \"substantially more critical and negative\" towards her\n\nA former Conservative MP's constituency office manager was subjected to \"constant bullying\", an ex-treasurer of the local party has told a tribunal.\n\nMark Rhydderch-Roberts spoke in support of Sarah Lewis, who is suing Chris Davies for constructive dismissal.\n\nShe said there was a \"climate of fear\" as Mr Davies turned against her after she uncovered £700 of false invoices.\n\nMr Davies later admitted making false expense claims and lost his seat as MP for Brecon and Radnorshire.\n\nMs Lewis told the employment tribunal in Cardiff she noticed discrepancies with invoices for photography work in 2016.\n\n\"I made the decision not to submit the invoice to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) as I knew it was a false invoice,\" she said.\n\nAfter that Ms Lewis said Mr Davies's attitude towards her became \"substantially more critical and negative\" and he \"distanced\" himself from her.\n\nThe tribunal also heard about an earlier incident where errors in submitting expenses meant Mr Davies had to pay back £4,000 to IPSA.\n\nMs Lewis described how he banged on the filing cabinet in her office and said: \"I thought the whole point of becoming an MP was to get rich\".\n\nShe said she did not know if this was a joke or not.\n\nWhen challenged about this incident by Mr Davies's solicitor Irvine McCabe, Ms Lewis said: \"I've sworn to tell the truth - and I'm telling the truth.\"\n\nSarah Lewis said Mr Davies had been \"belittling the work I do\"\n\nMr McCabe then referred to a meeting the then-MP called in November 2017 to discuss the way Ms Lewis was doing her job, saying he had \"perfectly legitimate\" reasons to speak to her.\n\n\"He knew you'd received money to which you were not entitled... and he had evidence that you weren't in the office when you should have been,\" the solicitor said.\n\nMs Lewis explained she had been overpaid after her working hours were cut because Mr Davies had not submitted her amended hours by the monthly deadline.\n\nShe also claimed that messages and emails had gone unanswered as she had taken a two-week holiday and no-one had been brought in to cover for her.\n\n\"He was belittling the work I do,\" she said.\n\nMr Rhydderch-Roberts, who was constituency treasurer at the time, told the tribunal he was aware of constant bullying and intimidatory tactics against Ms Lewis.\n\nAfter hearing about the November meeting, he said he emailed Mr Davies to say: \"I have just had a distraught Sarah Lewis on the phone following what appears to be a very ill-natured and unnecessary conversation.\n\n\"Just to be clear, Sarah has been a tremendous asset to the association and behaves with impeccable integrity in everything she does.\"\n\nThe tribunal heard there were already tensions between local officers and their MP, with the treasurer saying in an email to Ms Lewis in August 2017 that it would be \"a blessed relief to be free of any further interaction with Chris and his motley kitchen cabinet\", referring to them as \"cheats\" and \"liars\".\n\nMs Lewis went on sick leave in January 2018 and quit her job at the constituency office in Brecon a few months later.\n\nFollowing an investigation, Mr Davies was charged in connection with false expenses claims in February this year, and was fined in April after pleading guilty.\n\nHe was unseated as MP for Brecon and Radnorshire following a recall petition by constituents and lost to the Liberal Democrats after seeking to win the seat back at a subsequent by-election.\n\nThe tribunal will resume on Wednesday.", "New Zealand is a wealthy Pacific nation dominated by two cultural groups - New Zealanders of European descent, and the Maori, who are descendants of Polynesian settlers.\n\nIt is made up of two main islands and numerous smaller ones. Around three-quarters of the population lives on the North Island, which is also home to the capital, Wellington.\n\nAgriculture is the economic mainstay, but manufacturing and tourism are important. Visitors are drawn to the glacier-carved mountains, lakes, beaches and thermal springs. Because of the islands' geographical isolation, much of the flora and fauna is unique to the country.\n\nNew Zealand plays an active role in Pacific affairs, and has special constitutional ties with the Pacific territories of Niue, the Cook Islands and Tokelau.\n\nChris Hipkins became prime minister in January 2023 following the unexpected resignation of his Labour Party predecessor Jacinda Ardern, who had won second term in October 2020 - Ardern had said she no longer had \"enough in the tank\" to lead the country.\n\nJacinda Arden had won praise at home and abroad for her handling of two major crises - the 2019 Christchurch mosque shooting, and the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nMr Hipkins now faces the uphill task of retaining power in the upcoming general elections in October. Opinion polls have suggested that his party is trailing its conservative opposition, the National Party, in popularity.\n\nThe country was among the first to close borders, this won plaudits for keeping New Zealand virus-free early in the pandemic, but frustration set in later when people tired of the zero-tolerance strategy, which saw nationwide lockdowns over a single infection.\n\nBroadcasters enjoy one of the world's most liberal media arenas.\n\nThe broadcasting sector was deregulated in 1988, when the government allowed competition to the state-owned Television New Zealand (TVNZ). Privately-owned TV3 is TVNZ's main competitor.\n\nSatellite platform SKY TV is the leading pay TV provider. Freeview carries free-to-air digital terrestrial and satellite TV.\n\nThe New Zealand Herald newspaper has the biggest circulation.\n\nSome key dates in New Zealand's history:\n\nc.1200-1300AD - Ancestors of the Maori arrive by canoe from other parts of Polynesia. Their name for the country is Aotearoa (land of the long white cloud).\n\n1642 - Dutch explorer Abel Tasman sights the south island and charts some of the country's west coast. It subsequently appears on Dutch maps as Nieuw Zeeland, named after the Dutch province of Zeeland.\n\n1769 - British captain James Cook explores coastline, also in 1773 and 1777.\n\n1840 - Treaty of Waitangi between British and several Maori tribes pledges protection of Maori land and establishes British law in New Zealand.\n\n1845-72 - The New Zealand Wars, also referred to as the Land Wars. Maori put up resistance to British colonial rule.\n\n1893 - New Zealand becomes world's first country to give women the vote.\n\n1907 - New Zealand becomes dominion within British Empire.\n\n1914-18 - New Zealand commits thousands of troops to the British war effort during World War One. They suffer heavy casualties in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey in 1915.\n\n1939-45 - Troops from New Zealand see action in Europe, North Africa and the Pacific during World War Two.\n\n1951 - Anzus Pacific security treaty signed between New Zealand, Australia and USA.\n\n1985 - New Zealand refuses to allow US nuclear-powered or nuclear-armed ships to enter its ports. French secret service agents blow up Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbour. One person killed.\n\n2011 - Scores of people are killed in a major earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand's second-largest city, on South Island.\n\n2017 - A New Zealand-US firm, Rocket Lab, launches its first rocket into space, ushering New Zealand into the select group of countries which have carried out a space launch.\n\n2019 - Fifty people are killed when a far-right gunman attacks worshippers in two mosques in Christchurch. Government tightens gun laws.\n\n2020 - Jacinda Ardern wins landslide victory for Labour in parliamentary elections, in part over her handling of the Covid-19 pandemic.\n\nNew Zealand's parliament building, The Beehive, was officially opened in 1981", "Last updated on .From the section Snooker\n\nChina's Ding Junhui won his third UK Championship by dispatching Scotland's Stephen Maguire 10-6 in an absorbing final featuring seven century breaks.\n\nDing, 32, had not won a ranking event since 2017 and last lifted the UK trophy a decade ago - four years after his first triumph as a teenager.\n\nBack-to-back centuries secured a 5-3 first-session lead and he sealed victory with successive tons.\n\nMaguire made three tons in four frames, but his poor start proved costly.\n\nDing, who won the first four frames in a confident start, becomes only the fifth player to win the UK title on three or more occasions.\n\nHe joins snooker greats Ronnie O'Sullivan (7), Steve Davis (6), Stephen Hendry (5) and John Higgins (3) on an elite list and collected a tournament record £200,000 in prize money.\n• None 'You have to keep believing' - Ding after ending trophy drought\n\n\"This is very special,\" Ding told BBC Sport. \"It has been two years and I have done nothing but I have played very well this week.\n\n\"I worried about not doing well and asked myself 'can I win again?'\n\n\"But this week I played so well and when I beat Ronnie on the way to the final I started to believe I could lift the trophy again.\n\n\"My family give me full support and take the pressure off. I want to do my best for my daughter so that when she grows up she has the best daddy.\"\n\nDing back to his best\n\nDing has consistently been his country's best player since winning his first ranking title aged 18 at his home China Open event in 2005, before ascending to become the number one player in the world in 2014.\n\nChina has since seen numerous players break through into the top 32 but none has come close to matching Ding's achievements - Yan Bingtao, 19, is the latest rising star but he was easily beaten by Ding in the semi-finals.\n\nThe Sheffield-based player has admitted feeling the burden of pressure from the huge audiences in his homeland and has struggled with confidence and commitment issues over the last couple of years - becoming a father for the first time in August 2018 may well have played a part in his turnaround.\n\nHis last silverware came at the 2017 World Open and he remains one of the sport's best players never to have won the world title.\n\nDing's fragile mental strength has often been called into question, his record in majors not matching his undoubted talent as this was just his fourth success at a Triple Crown event, and first since winning the 2011 Masters.\n\nHe has suffered three first-round defeats this season but was back to his devastating best with impeccable cueball control, notching 10 centuries during the tournament, including four in the final.\n\nHis place in the top 16 was under threat at the start of the tournament, but the run to the title allowed him to leap seven places to ninth in the world and drew him alongside world number one Judd Trump on 14 ranking events.\n• None Trump to face Murphy in Masters first round\n\nGlasgow's Maguire, 38, won the title 15 years ago and has arguably underachieved in his career, winning just five ranking titles in his career, the last of them at the 2013 Welsh Open.\n\nHe has, though, been in decent form this season, winning the World Cup team event in June alongside Higgins and beating his countryman in the Six-red World Championship in September.\n\nHis fiery temperament has often let him down but it has been kept well in check this year, and he produced a sensational 6-0 thrashing of Northern Ireland's Mark Allen in the last four in York, saying afterwards he \"can't remember ever playing like that\".\n\nAt times in the tournament he was visibly struggling with the fractured foot he suffered in China in October and, against Ding, his high-scoring run came too late as Ding proved too good.\n\n\"Every time you let him in he scores 100,\" said Maguire. \"I told him a couple of frames ago 'it's not darts we're playing, it's snooker'.\n\n\"I thought if I get in I could maybe do it but it's tough when his safety is good as well. I've had a great week. The Barbican has been great, York's been great, the crowd were unreal and I've competed with the best.\"\n\nDing, who beat defending champion Ronnie O'Sullivan in the last 16, snatched a 30-minute opening frame and fired in further breaks of 56, 105 and 128 for a 4-0 lead.\n\nMaguire hit back after the mid-session interval by taking another frame that lasted over half an hour and counter-attacked with an important 67 break after Ding broke down on 49.\n\nThe Glaswegian took the next as well to trail by a single frame and had the chance to square the contest at 4-4 but missed a blue to the middle, allowing Ding to make 66 to lead by two frames.\n\nThe standard of snooker rose in the evening session. Ding opened with 83 and Maguire missed a red on 53 allowing his opponent to pinch the next for a 7-3 lead, but Maguire hit back by fluking a red and stroking in 103.\n\nDing made 67 to close in on victory, but Maguire compiled another 103 and then an even better 124 to stay in the contest.\n\nHowever, Ding's nerveless 131 clearance in the 15th frame and 103 to win the match - the fifth century in the last six frames - secured victory to a standing ovation.\n\nSeven-time world champion Stephen Hendry told BBC Sport: \"This is almost like a second part of Ding's career. I didn't know if we'd see him winning major titles again. He didn't look happy at the table and didn't seem to be enjoying the pressure but his performance today was incredible.\"\n\nSix-time world champion Steve Davis: \"A lot of people had written Ding off for the World Championship but that has been blown right open now.\n\n\"I think Ding on his best form is a match for anybody in the world. He's a headache for the other top players.\"\n\nApril 2005 - Beats Stephen Hendry 9-5 to win his first ranking title at the China Open - two days after his 18th birthday Dec 2005 - Wins UK Championship for first time with 10-5 win over Steve Davis Jan 2007 - Breaks down in tears after 10-3 defeat by Ronnie O'Sullivan in Masters final Dec 2009 - Secures second UK Championship title with 10-8 victory over John Higgins Jan 2011 - Lifts third Triple Crown title by beating Marco Fu 10-4 in the final of the Masters Feb 2014 - Claims fifth ranking title of the season when he beats Judd Trump 9-5 in German Masters final Dec 2014 - Becomes first Asian player to become world number one May 2016 - Reaches first World Championship final but loses 18-14 to Mark Selby Sept 2017 - Clinches World Open with 10-3 win over Kyren Wilson - his last ranking title before a barren spell Dec 2019 - Wins third UK Championship and 14th ranking title with 10-6 triumph over Stephen Maguire\n\nThe seven centuries the players shared in the final ensured a new UK Championship record with 139 scored in total throughout this year's tournament.\n\nSign up to My Sport to follow snooker news on the BBC app.", "United midfielder Fred said he was hit by an object during Saturday's derby\n\nA man has been arrested after objects and racist abuse appeared to be targeted at Manchester United players during Saturday's derby.\n\nPolice said they received a report of a fan making alleged racist gestures in the game against Manchester City.\n\nCity said they were working with police \"regarding an instance of objects being thrown on to the field of play\".\n\nA 41-year-old man has been held on suspicion of a racially aggravated public order and remains in custody.\n\nOn Saturday, a man was filmed apparently making monkey gestures and sounds towards Manchester United players during the derby at City's Etihad Stadium.\n\nIt happened as United midfielder Fred went to take a corner in the second half and appeared to be hit by an object hurled from the crowd.\n\nAfter the match, the 26-year-old Brazilian said: \"On the field, I didn't see anything. I saw it only in the locker room afterwards. The guys showed me. [A man] even threw a lighter and it hit me.\"\n\nUnited boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said: \"Fred and Jesse [Lingard] were in the corner, taking a corner, and I've seen the video, heard from the boys.\"\n\nHe said the apparent behaviour of the supporter caught on camera was \"unacceptable\".\n\nIn a statement, Manchester City said they were working with police to identify offenders, adding: \"The club are also working with GMP regarding an instance of objects being thrown on to the field of play.\n\n\"The club operates a zero-tolerance policy regarding discrimination of any kind, and anyone found guilty of racial abuse will be banned from the club for life.\"\n\nFred later joined United players as they celebrated their 2-1 victory at City's Etihad Stadium\n\nAfter social media speculation that the person allegedly making the monkey gestures worked for the infrastructure firm Kier Group, the company tweeted an employee had been suspended \"pending an investigation\".\n\nThe company added: \"We're aware of a video circulating on social media. We take allegations and instances of racism very seriously and are currently investigating potential links between the individual involved and Kier.\n\nThe FA said it would investigate the incident, while the Premier League said it \"will not tolerate discrimination in any form\".\n\n\"If people are found to have racially abused Premier League players they deserve to be punished and we will support any action taken by the authorities and the clubs,\" a Premier League spokesperson said.\n\nThe incident comes a year after racism in football hit the headlines after City striker Raheem Sterling was subjected to racist abuse at Stamford Bridge, which led to a permanent ban for a Chelsea supporter.\n\nSterling was also one of a number of England players who faced monkey chants and Nazi salutes in Euro 2020 qualifiers this year.\n\nRacism hit the headlines again when Raheem Sterling and other black players faced abuse in the past year\n\nFred said the alleged incidents on Saturday showed \"we are still in a backward society\".\n\nUnited won the match 2-1 after goals from Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Shante Turay-Thomas fell ill at her family home in Wood Green last year\n\nA call handler with the NHS non-emergency 111 service has admitted he made mistakes when dealing with a student who was suffering a fatal suspected allergic reaction.\n\nShante Turay-Thomas, 18, died after falling unwell at her family home in Wood Green, north London, last year.\n\nAdemola Dada told an inquest he should have asked \"more questions\" about her condition while speaking to her mother.\n\nBut he added he had just been \"wanting to get that ambulance out\".\n\nMs Turay-Thomas died in hospital hours after she fell ill on 14 September last year.\n\nThe inquest at St Pancras Coroner's Court has previously heard how her mother told Mr Dada that her daughter had a rash and tingling at the back of her throat, and explained that she might have eaten nuts.\n\nAsked by coroner Mary Hassell if he should have considered whether the Ms Turay-Thomas could have been having an allergic reaction, the call handler replied there were \"a number of things I didn't do correctly\".\n\nChanges he would have made included speaking with the 18-year-old to gauge how significant her breathing issues were and speaking to a clinician sooner, the inquest heard.\n\nHowever, Mr Dada added that the call happened during a \"busy\" period and had previously been told to keep details about patients \"short and sweet\" by clinicians.\n\nThe call handler also said he should have checked the caller's address was correct.\n\nThe inquest previously heard one ambulance was initially dispatched to the victim's grandmother's house six miles (9.7 km) away, despite Ms Turay giving her Wood Green address several times.\n\nThe inquest is due to last until at least Thursday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Storm Atiyah has already had an impact in County Kildare, with felled trees disrupting traffic in Newbridge\n\nStorm Atiyah has made landfall, with winds hitting speeds of up to 80mph (130km/h).\n\nEarlier on Sunday a \"status red\" wind warning was issued by Met Éireann for County Kerry.\n\nExtreme caution is advised, especially in coastal areas and on high ground.\n\nESB Networks has said its crews have dealt with several thousand power outages across the Republic of Ireland. Irish broadcaster RTÉ reports that the south-west area is the worst affected.\n\nThe \"status red\" warning for Kerry was in place from 16:00 to 19:00 local time on Sunday. It is now under a \"status orange\" wind warning.\n\nKerry County Council has reported a number of incidents following the \"status red\" wind warning.\n\nIt said a tree fell on a car near Mountcoal Cross on the N69.\n\nMet Éireann said there was a possibility of coastal flooding due to a combination of high seas and a storm surge.\n\nThe UK is not expected to be as badly hit by the storm\n\nA number of flights from Cork Airport were cancelled while there was also disruption at Shannon Airport.\n\nTrains in Cork and Kerry were forced to travel at reduced speeds, resulting in delays.\n\nStorm Atiyah was tracking between Iceland and Ireland on Sunday.\n\nAlthough the UK is not expected to be as badly hit by the storm, the Met Office has issued a yellow wind warning for Wales, with gales of up to 70mph set to hit coastal areas.\n\nThe warning is in force until 19:00 GMT on Monday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOrange wind warnings have also been issued for Donegal, Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Sligo, Clare, Cork and Limerick, which came into effect from 13:00.\n\nThe warnings will remain in place until 06:00 on Monday, with a yellow wind warning in place for the rest of the Republic of Ireland until 13:00 on Monday.\n\nKerry County Council advised people to stay indoors during the status red warning.\n\nAn emergency helpline has been set up by the council to report fallen trees, flooding or debris on roads. Anyone wishing to use it should call 066 718 3588.\n\nA status red marine warning has also been put in place, with winds reaching gale force eight to storm force 10 in all Irish coastal waters.\n\nThe Republic of Ireland's National Parks and Wildlife Service said Killarney National Park and Gardens and Muckross Park and Gardens are closed.\n\nSeven other parks in the west of the country are also closed while the weather warnings remain in place.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC News NI's Barra Best explains how weather warnings are set, and why they may differ.\n\nThe UK Met Office works in partnership with both Met Éireann and KNMI (The Dutch national weather forecasting service) to name storms.\n\nThe criteria used for naming storms are based on both the impact the weather may have, and the likelihood of those impacts occurring.\n\nA storm will be named when it has the potential to cause an amber or red warning.\n\nWhen the criteria for naming a storm are met, any of the three partners - the Met Office, Met Éireann or KNMI - can do so.\n\nThat does mean that sometimes, like today, Met Éireann have named Storm Atiyah and issued a Red Warning in County Kerry.\n\nNo warnings have been issued for Northern Ireland by the Met Office, however gusts close to 60mph (100km/h) can be expected in western areas on Sunday evening.\n\nThis is the first named storm of the season, last year there were eight storms - the last was Storm Hannah in April.\n\nMet Éireann issue weather warnings based on a criteria, for example, if winds are set to reach a certain speed, whereas the Met Office issues warning based on the impact the weather is expected to have.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The woman died at the scene in Wellingborough Road, Rushden\n\nA 13-year-old boy and a 27-year-old man have been arrested on suspicion of murdering a woman who was stabbed in the street.\n\nThe 25-year-old was attacked at 20:30 GMT on Saturday in Wellingborough Road, Rushden, Northamptonshire.\n\nParamedics were called but she died at the scene, near St George's Way.\n\nPolice said the arrested man has serious injuries, and another 27-year-old man was being questioned on suspicion of his attempted murder.\n\nDet Insp Pete Long, said: \"This was an extremely tragic incident in which a young woman has lost her life and I want to reassure people that we are doing all we can to bring those responsible to justice.\n\n\"A large team of detectives have been working on this case around the clock and a number of lines of inquiry are being pursued as part of this fast-paced investigation.\n\n\"This incident has really shocked the Rushden community, many of whom were on the scene last night, and I would ask anyone who was there and saw what happened to please come forward with your information.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Weeks of discussion, debates, doorknocking and deliberation are nearly at an end and it's almost time to vote. But have you been paying attention?\n\nIf you can't see the quiz above tap this link", "The star recorded his new single with his wife, Roxanne, at Abbey Road studios\n\nYouTube star LadBaby, who scored last year's Christmas number one with an ode to sausage rolls, is mounting a second assault on the charts.\n\nThe \"dad blogger\" has rewritten Joan Jett's I Love Rock & Roll for this year's attempt; once again extolling the virtues of pork-stuffed pastry.\n\nI Love Sausage Rolls was recorded at Abbey Road, but LadBaby maintains he's \"no more professional\" than before.\n\n\"Brace yourself, my singing voice is back,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThe single was announced on LadBaby's YouTube channel on Sunday, but won't be revealed in full until Friday, 13 December. But, rest assured, it's crammed full of meaty puns, leading to the inevitable chorus: \"I love sausage rolls / So put another one in the oven, baby\".\n\nThe comedian, whose real name is Mark Hoyle, said the parody was written in \"about five hours\" after he and his wife Roxanne chose it from a playlist of the UK's favourite karaoke songs.\n\n\"We basically went down the Top 50 karaoke songs in the UK - because we wanted a song, like last year, where everyone knows the words and you can sing along to it and the kids can join in and have fun.\"\n\nProceeds from the single will support food banks, which see a surge in demand over Christmas\n\nLast year, the YouTube star captured the public's imagination with the comedy hit We Built This City On Sausage Rolls. The song went straight to number one, beating the likes of Ava Max and Ariana Grande, as well as seasonal favourites by Mariah Carey and The Pogues.\n\nAll of the proceeds went to The Trussell Trust, a foodbank charity, funding about 70,000 emergency food packages over the festive period.\n\nHoyle said he had intended to end the story there, until he saw the charity's work first-hand.\n\n\"We basically spent a few days meeting the volunteers and understanding how the food banks work,\" he said, \"and while we were there, the doorbell rang once every two or three minutes with more people coming in.\n\n\"Once we saw how far the money goes, we thought, 'Do you know what? If we can get anywhere near raising that sort of money again, then why not?'\"\n\nAccording to The Trussell Trust's own research, more than 823,000 parcels were provided by food banks in the UK between April and September this year - an increase of 23% increase from the same period as last year.\n\n\"They said the Christmas period is the worst - that's when they have the most people in,\" Hoyle added. \"So for us, it was a no-brainer to try to help those guys again.\"\n\nThe single's artwork parodies The Beatles' classic Abbey Road album sleeve, starring Mark, Roxanne and their two sons\n\nI Love Rock and Roll was originally written and released by British-American band the Arrows in 1975, but didn't become popular until Joan Jett covered it in 1982.\n\nIf LadBaby's parody tops the chart, he'll be only the third act in UK chart history to have consecutive Christmas number ones.\n\n\"There's a chance we can be in there with the Beatles and the Spice Girls,\" says Hoyle. \"There's never been a novelty act with back-to-back Christmas number ones, so we could make some history.\"\n\nHowever, the record faces stiff competition this year, with the likes of Lewis Capaldi and Taylor Swift taking a swing at the festive chart.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAustralian artist Tones & I could also cling on to the top spot - she's currently enjoying a 10th week at number one with the quirky pop single Dance Monkey; while fans of Wham! are trying to propel Last Christmas to number one (for the first time) in honour of the song's 35th anniversary.\n\nLadBaby isn't even the only charity single in the running: Broadchurch actor Shaun Dooley has teamed up with the Grimethorpe Colliery Band to cover Taylor Swift's Never Grow Up in aid of Children In Need; while six-year-old Lyra Cole has recorded a version of When A Child is Born for Brain Tumour Research, which helped her through emergency surgery as a baby.\n\n\"It feels like there's more competition this year,\" agrees Hoyle, \"so the chances of doing it again seem very slim.\"\n\nBut if they reach their goal, he promises to go one better next year.\n\n\"We were joking the other day, 'How do you get bigger than Abbey Road?'\" he says. \"And I think we'd have to fly to LA and do an album with Dr Dre.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Another weather warning has been issued for Tuesday\n\nWales faces another day of high winds after gales took out power and hit roads and rail lines.\n\nMore than 1,300 homes were left without electricity, as gusts reached almost 80mph (129km/h) on the Llŷn Peninsula in Gwynedd.\n\nBy Monday evening, engineers said supplies had been restored to most areas and it was \"business as usual\".\n\nHowever, forecasters have issued another yellow warning for wind on Tuesday.\n\nThe Met Office said gusts could hit 70mph (113km/h) in coastal areas between 05:00 GMT and 17:00.\n\nAll north Wales counties, and northern parts of Powys and Ceredigion are covered by the alert.\n\nOfficials said disruption to road, rail and ferry services is possible.\n\nIt follows Monday's Storm Atiyah, which swept across the Irish Sea into Wales overnight, leading to power cuts in Caerphilly, Ceredigion, Gwynedd, Pembrokeshire, Powys, Rhondda Cynon Taff and Swansea.\n\nWind speeds hit 77mph (120km/h) at Aberdaron in Gwynedd, and 74mph (113km/h) at Aberporth in Ceredigion.\n\nA number of roads were also closed by falling trees, leading to a safety warning for motorists in Carmarthenshire by Dyfed-Powys Police.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWestern Power Distribution said it had restored power to 30,000 properties overall across Wales and south-west England.\n\n\"We are heading towards 'business as usual' as the conditions ease but please be assured we will continue to closely monitor the weather forecasts and work towards timely restoration of any customers still experiencing a power cut,\" said an official.\n\nSP Energy Networks - which covers north Wales - has also restored power to several coastal parts, including the Llŷn Peninsula.\n\nHowever, power is still off in parts of Pwllheli.\n\nEarlier restrictions on the M48 Severn Bridge due to high winds have been lifted.\n\nHowever, delays remain on some ferry services between Wales and Ireland.\n\nStena Line said its 14:00 service from Holyhead was delayed by an hour, and its 14:50 crossing from Dublin to Holyhead was also subject to delays.\n\nIrish Ferries' 14:10 crossing to Dublin has been delayed by three hours.\n• None Winds of up to 70mph set to hit Wales coast\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nArsenal came from behind to end their nine-match winless streak as Freddie Ljungberg enjoyed his first victory as interim manager at the expense of his former club West Ham.\n\nEighteen-year-old Gabriel Martinelli marked his full Premier League debut by side-footing an equaliser which cancelled out Angelo Ogbonna's deflected first-half opener at London Stadium.\n\nWithin nine minutes, Nicolas Pepe had curled a magnificent second into the top corner and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang fired in a third.\n\nThe salvo turned the game on its head and piled the pressure on West Ham boss Manuel Pellegrini, whose side have taken four points from their past nine league games and conceded three times in three successive home games.\n\nThe Hammers remain a point above the relegation zone in 16th and face a trip to third-bottom Southampton on Saturday. Arsenal move up two places to ninth.\n• None Pellegrini 'not worried' about relegation after loss to Arsenal\n• None West Ham v Arsenal as it happened, reaction and analysis\n• None Football Daily: Ljungberg's Arsenal pull three points out of the bag\n\nArsenal's victory was all the more remarkable because until Martinelli added to the seven goals he has scored in cup competitions this season, the visitors had been utterly woeful.\n\nClub officials had spoken before kick-off about the improved atmosphere triggered by Ljungberg's appointment as Unai Emery's replacement but it appeared this game would end in frustration, just as the previous two had done under the Swede.\n\nThe visitors were bereft of confidence and mild boos from the travelling support accompanied the end of a first half in which their side failed to have a shot on target and went behind when Ogbonna's header bounced in off Ainsley Maitland-Niles.\n\nTrue, they did not have much luck. Hector Bellerin was injured in the warm-up and when Kieran Tierney was helped off in obvious pain with a shoulder injury sustained in a seemingly innocuous tangle with Michail Antonio, Ljungberg had lost both his first-choice full-backs in the space of half an hour.\n\nNevertheless, it was pitiful stuff and when Aubameyang surged down the right wing and sent over a cross that flew over everyone and straight out for a throw-in on the other side of the pitch, it was symptomatic of a club apparently heading nowhere fast.\n\nIt was 1977 when Arsenal last went 10 matches without a win. With an away Europa League game against Standard Liege followed by a home encounter with Manchester City to come, at the interval it was not beyond the realms of possibility that the 12-game barren sequence from 1974 was going to be threatened.\n\nWith Alexandre Lacazette and David Luiz on the bench, it was two of Arsenal's most inexperienced players who sparked the change in fortune.\n\nLjungberg had obviously seen enough of Martinelli in two substitute appearances to trust the Brazilian with his first league start. The reward was a nerveless finish when his side needed it most. Sead Kolasinac provided the cross but there was still a lot to do for the Brazilian, who steered a first-time effort into the corner.\n\nEmery paid a club record £72m for Pepe in August. With one league goal all season, the Frenchman has not really lived up to his billing but his goal here, a curling shot into the right-hand corner of David Martin's net, was perfect in its execution.\n\nAubameyang made certain of a win few would have anticipated 10 minutes earlier when his clinical finish took his tally for the season to 13. It disguised the fact he had been a virtual spectator for the first hour.\n\nAt the final whistle, Ljungberg ran to applaud the visiting fans, knowing he had given his own chances of replacing Emery a significant boost.\n\nWhat now for the unhappy Hammers?\n\nWhen they beat Chelsea 1-0 nine days ago to end their own winless sequence, it appeared West Ham were on an upward curve.\n\nThe combination of boos and thousands of empty seats that accompanied the final whistle on Monday underlined the truth of the matter.\n\nWest Ham are perilously close to dropping into the relegation zone, something the club cannot countenance after moving to the 60,000-capacity London Stadium.\n\nEven if Pellegrini survives this defeat, if West Ham lose again at Southampton on Saturday the calls for his dismissal will become piercingly loud.\n\nThis was the third home game running in which they had conceded three goals.\n\nThe Hammers were not particularly convincing when they were in front. Once they lost the advantage, the lack of confidence so clear in Arsenal's play transferred to theirs.\n\nRecord signing Sebastien Haller was left on the bench and even when he was introduced 20 minutes from time, he made no noticeable impact.\n\n'Like a Duracell battery' - what they said\n\nArsenal interim boss Freddie Ljungberg told BBC Sport: \"The players have belief and tried to move the ball with more tempo. West Ham got tired.\n\n\"The players ran their socks off and fought. I believe in them. When I could see them put their shift in, I could see the quality. I thought 'it is here for the taking'.\n\n\"Martinelli did amazingly. He is like a Duracell battery, he keeps going. Laca [Alexandre Lacazette] is a tremendous player but I had to make a tough decision.\"\n\nWest Ham manager Manuel Pellegrini told BBC Sport: \"For 60 minutes there was just one team on the pitch. But football can be like this.\n\n\"We made mistakes in moments of defending. The problem was a lack of patience and quality to decide the game with a second goal and we made important mistakes in defence.\n\n\"The pressure for me is exactly the same if we win or lose. When you don't have results things are more difficult. If I had not seen the team play the way they did in the first 65 minutes, I might have doubts [about his ability to turn things around].\n\n\"After Southampton at the weekend we have a break. We must try to recover as quickly as we can and we must try to win those three points.\"\n\nRare Arsenal recovery away from home - the stats\n• None West Ham have lost three in a row at home in the Premier League for the first time since August 2015.\n• None Arsenal came from a half-time losing position to win a Premier League away game for the first time since October 2011 (5-3 v Chelsea).\n• None Gabriel Martinelli is Arsenal's fourth-youngest scorer in the Premier League (18 years 174 days), after Cesc Fabregas, Serge Gnabry and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.\n• None Arsenal's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has been involved in 12 goals in his past 11 Premier League London derbies (nine goals, three assists).\n• None Since his Premier League debut in February 2018, Aubameyang has scored 43 goals in the competition, a joint-high along with Jamie Vardy.\n\nArsenal conclude their Europa League group phase campaign at Standard Liege on Thursday (17:55 GMT), still needing a draw to be sure of qualification before entertaining Manchester City at Emirates Stadium in the Premier League on Sunday (16:30). West Ham visit Southampton on Saturday (17:30).\n• None Attempt blocked. Gabriel Martinelli (Arsenal) right footed shot from the right side of the six yard box is blocked. Assisted by Mesut Özil.\n• None Ainsley Maitland-Niles (Arsenal) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt blocked. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.\n• None Offside, West Ham United. Pablo Fornals tries a through ball, but Sébastien Haller is caught offside.\n• None Substitution, Arsenal. Matteo Guendouzi replaces Granit Xhaka because of an injury.\n• None Attempt saved. Nathan Holland (West Ham United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Ryan Fredericks.\n• None Attempt blocked. Lucas Torreira (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Gabriel Martinelli. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Former EastEnders star Jacqueline Jossa has won I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! after spending three weeks in the Australian jungle.\n\nThe actress was named queen of the jungle, following in the footsteps of previous winners like Harry Redknapp, Stacey Solomon and Kerry Katona.\n\nCo-presenters Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly revealed the winner at the end of the final of the ITV reality show.\n\nActor Andy Whyment was the runner-up, with radio DJ Roman Kemp in third.\n\nJossa played Lauren Branning in BBC soap EastEnders between 2010 and 2018.\n\nAfter she was named queen of the jungle, she said: \"I have no words.\"\n\nThis year's series - the 19th - was the first not to have live insects eaten as part of the show's \"bushtucker trials\".\n\nCoronation Street actor Andy Whyment took part in a \"bushtucker bonanza\" before he came second\n\nAny insects consumed on the show were already dead - though live creepy-crawlies were still dumped on its celebrity contestants.\n\nBut the show was not without controversy, with former sports stars James Haskell and Ian Wright being accused of bullying their fellow campmates.\n\nViewers also contacted media watchdog Ofcom to complain that some of the show's challenges were too hard and thus unfair.\n\nThere was contention before the series even aired, with former Commons Speaker John Bercow demanding a newspaper apologise for claiming he had asked for £1m to appear.\n\nDJ Tony Blackburn was the first celebrity to be crowned King of the Jungle when the show first aired in 2002.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Joseph McCann was found guilty of 37 offences against 11 victims\n\nA serial rapist who carried out a string of sex attacks on 11 women and children across England has been given 33 life sentences.\n\nJoseph McCann's victims were aged between 11 and 71 and included three women who were abducted off the street at knifepoint and repeatedly raped.\n\nHe was found guilty of 37 offences at the Old Bailey on Friday.\n\nMr Justice Edis said McCann, who must serve a minimum of 30 years, was \"a threat to children\" and \"a paedophile\".\n\nThe judge described him as a \"classic psychopath\" and called for an \"independent and systematic\" investigation into why \"the system failed to protect\" McCann's victims.\n\nThe convicted burglar had been released from prison following a probation error in February before he embarked on a cocaine and vodka-fuelled rampage.\n\nThe 34-year-old's \"spree of sex attacks\" started in Watford in April before he moved to London, Greater Manchester and Cheshire over a two-week period.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSentencing McCann at the Old Bailey, Mr Justice Edis described him as \"a coward, a violent bully and a paedophile\".\n\nHe said his victims would probably \"never properly recover\", adding: \"This was a campaign of rape, violence and abduction of a kind which I have never seen or heard of before.\"\n\nIn a victim impact statement, a 25-year-old woman who was subjected to a 14-hour ordeal spoke about how she deeply traumatised she is.\n\nShe said she was paying for her own therapy because there was an eight-month to one-year wait for NHS treatment and criticised the \"under-resourcing\" of services for survivors.\n\nThe attacks began on 21 April, when McCann grabbed a 21-year-old woman at knifepoint as she walked home from a nightclub in Watford and took her to a house where he raped her.\n\nFour days later, the 25-year-old woman was abducted as she walked home in Walthamstow, east London, just after midnight. She was repeatedly raped in a number of locations over many hours.\n\nLater the same day, he snatched a 21-year-old woman in Edgware, north London, as she walked along the street with her sister.\n\nThe pair finally managed to escape when McCann drove to Watford, where he had booked a hotel room, and one of them hit him over the head with a vodka bottle before they fled to get help.\n\nMcCann was filmed on CCTV at a Watford hotel where he had booked a room for two nights\n\nIn the early hours of 5 May, McCann tricked his way into the home of a woman he had met in a bar in Greater Manchester.\n\nOnce inside, he tied her to a bed and molested her 11-year-old son and 17-year-old daughter, telling them: \"You are going to Europe tomorrow - you are mine.\"\n\nThe girl, who said she feared becoming a sex slave, managed to escape by jumping naked from a window, and she alerted police.\n\nMcCann then abducted and raped a 71-year-old woman and sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl he had taken from the street.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn 5 May, McCann abducted two 14-year-old girls after threatening to \"chop them up with a machete\".\n\nAfter crashing his car when a patrol vehicle gave chase, a police helicopter finally located him up a tree. He was coaxed down and arrested early on 6 May.\n\nThree days after delivering their guilty verdicts, the 12 jurors returned to the Old Bailey for sentencing.\n\nThey didn't have to be in court but they clearly wanted to see the conclusion of a most traumatic case.\n\nTwo of McCann's victims, a teenage girl and her mother, were also present, having travelled to London from the north-west of England.\n\nThe teenager, who in May had jumped naked from a first-floor window to bring her ordeal to an end and save her mother and younger brother, was praised by the judge for her courage, as he added some personal observations after the formal sentencing process had ended.\n\nMr Justice Edis said he'd read statements from all the victims about the impact of McCann's campaign of sexual violence and wished them all well.\n\n\"I hope that things turn out for them as well as we all hope they will, rather than as we fear they might,\" the judge said, surely echoing the thoughts and feelings of everyone at today's hearing.\n\nMcCann was filmed at a McDonald's while one of his victims was in the car\n\nThe court heard that McCann had 10 meetings with probation officers following his release in February, and his last meeting with an officer in Watford took place three days before the sex attacks began.\n\nMcCann was served with a warning letter because he had failed to inform authorities of a new relationship, in breach of his licence conditions.\n\nThe officer wrote that McCann was \"not happy\" about this and thought he was being treated unfairly, the court heard.\n\nRegarding his two-week engagement, McCann explained that \"if you get with someone in the travelling community then you marry them\".\n\nThe officer revealed that when the woman's parents found out about the licence condition, they broke off the relationship because they thought he was a sex offender.\n\nMcCann, who had addresses in Aylesbury and Harrow, refused to attend his Old Bailey trial and hid under a prison blanket rather than give evidence.\n\nHe also failed to attend his sentencing, citing a \"bad back\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSenior politicians faced questions on housing, climate change and trust from an audience of young people in a Question Time election special.\n\nThe election debate also saw exchanges over Brexit and the possibility of another referendum.\n\nLabour's Angela Rayner clashed with Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage over what she said was a racist referendum poster, in one of the fieriest clashes.\n\nThe UK goes to the polls in a general election on Thursday.\n\nSitting on the panel were:\n\nThis special edition of Question Time certainly didn't lack passion or drama. At times it was lively and bad tempered, with the politicians talking over one another as they tried to win over younger voters.\n\nWe heard the now familiar arguments about Brexit which have been at the heart of this election campaign, but the politicians were also challenged over other issues such as changing the voting system which haven't made the headlines.\n\nThis wasn't a debate that saw seven party leaders go head-to-head, although four did take part, and as such was unlikely to deliver a knockout blow or even produce a clear winner.\n\nAnd it probably won't have converted anyone who was already determined to vote for a particular party.\n\nThe young voters in the audience will deliver their verdict, along with the rest of the country on Thursday.\n\nBut the gap between the current generation of political leaders and the under 30s was most vividly illustrated by the question about home ownership and underlined the challenge facing whoever is in power on Friday morning.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. General election 2019: Politicians on when they bought their first house\n\nOn the subject of housing, the panel were asked what age they were when they bought their own home.\n\nMr Farage was the youngest, buying a property at 22, and Mr Price was the oldest at 30.\n\nMr Farage linked housing problems to population growth which prompted Mr Yousaf to accuse the Brexit Party leader of blaming \"everything on immigrants\".\n\nHe argued that \"One of the best things that we [the Scottish government] did was abolish the right to buy when it came to council houses.\"\n\nMr Jenrick said it was his \"personal mission to help more young people on to the housing ladder\" adding that his party would \"offer discounts and help with deposits\".\n\nWhile Ms Rayner said she would \"make no apologies\" for Labour wanting to build 100,000 council homes or introduce rent controls.\n\nAudience member Aiden Booth asked the panel how governments could say they are serious about climate change without dealing with one of the biggest contributors, meat consumption.\n\nMr Jenrick said the Conservatives would not \"ban people from eating meat\", but would instead encourage people to live environmentally by investing in public transport and energy efficient measure.\n\nBut Ms Swinson attacked the government's record saying it had abolished the climate change department and blocked subsidies for wind farms.\n\nShe said tackling climate change \"cannot wait\" drawing attention to the case of Ella Kissi-Debrah who died aged nine in 2013 after having seizures for three years.\n\nMr Bartley said: \"We can solve the climate emergency and reverse austerity if we're willing to make the right choices.\"\n\nHe added: \"If the climate were a bank, we would have bailed it out by now.\"\n\nOn Brexit, Ms Rayner said in another referendum she would vote to leave the EU if \"we get a deal that protects jobs and the economy\". Labour has said that, if elected, it would renegotiate a new Brexit deal which would then be put back to the country in a referendum along with an option to remain in the EU.\n\nMr Price, whose party wants another referendum, argued that \"the people are entitled to change their mind\". He said \"the opinion polls show a shift\" in opinion but added that \"only the people can end the impasse\".\n\nAsked if he took responsibility for the instability in politics in the years since the referendum, Mr Jenrick said he wished \"we had managed to get Brexit done a long time ago\", claiming that Parliament had blocked the process.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Yousaf said Scotland was the only nation \"to get shafted\" in the wake of Brexit. He argued that England and Wales voted to Leave, while Northern Ireland who voted to Remain would get a \"differentiated deal\".\n\nMr Farage accused the other five parties of having \"broken their promise\" to respect the result of the referendum.\n\nThe debate became particularly heated over a poster on immigration Mr Farage unveiled during the 2016 Brexit referendum.\n\nMs Rayner told the Brexit Party leader to \"stop peddling hate in our country\". Mr Farage hit back accusing the Labour politician of \"bile and prejudice\".\n\nThe panellists were also asked about how they would improve trust in politics.\n\nMr Price said he would introduce a bill to \"make lying by politicians a criminal offence\" while Mr Farage promised to tackle postal vote fraud and abolish the House of Lords.\n\n\"I won't lie and I'll call out the people who do,\" replied Ms Rayner.\n\nMr Jenrick vowed to \"deliver the outcome of the referendum\" while Ms Swinson said she would \"stick to my principles\" on Brexit \"whether it is popular or not\".\n\nMr Yousaf said his party would \"fulfil the promise of the manifesto we stood on\".\n\nAnd Mr Bartley proposed lifting \"the ceiling on the fines\" that can be implemented by the Electoral Commission.\n\nYoung people make up a big share of non-voters in the UK - the British Election Study estimates that between 40-50% of those aged 18 to their mid-20s voted in 2015 and 2017 compared with about 80% of voters aged in their 70s.\n\nPolling expert Sir John Curtice says age is \"the division that nowadays lies at the heart of British party politics and will play a significant role on 12 December\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister is asked whether he would scrap the TV licence fee\n\nBoris Johnson has said the possible abolition of the BBC licence fee needs \"looking at\".\n\nSpeaking at a rally in Sunderland, the prime minister questioned how much longer funding a broadcaster out of \"a general tax\" could be \"justified\".\n\nMinisters have agreed the licence fee will stay in place until at least 2027, when the BBC's Royal Charter ends.\n\nThe fee for a colour TV licence is currently £154.50 a year. It will rise in line with inflation until 2022.\n\nLicence fee income was worth £3.6bn to the BBC in 2018-9, accounting for approximately 75% of the broadcaster's revenues and funding TV, radio and online content. Last year, 25.8 million households had TV licences.\n\nThe government and the BBC are currently involved in a dispute over the funding of free TV licences for the over-75s.\n\nMr Johnson was asked by a member of the public whether he would consider axing all TV licences.\n\nThe prime minister said that, while he would not make up policy with three days to go before the election, it was an issue that was worth \"looking at\" in the future.\n\n\"You have to ask yourself whether that approach to funding a media company still makes sense in the long term given the way that other organisations manage to fund themselves,\" he said.\n\n\"The system of funding out of what is a general tax bears reflection. How long can you justify a system whereby everybody who has a TV has to pay to fund a particular set of TV and radio channels.\"\n\nVarious alternatives to the licence fee have been floated over the years, including subscription services or a compulsory broadcasting levy.\n\nIt is customary for election campaigns to strain relations between the BBC and whoever happens to be in government.\n\nBut the advent of social media - where criticism of the BBC frequently goes viral - and the rise of streaming giants which operate a different model, has increased pressure on the BBC recently.\n\nSo too has the prime minister's refusal to be interviewed by Andrew Neil for the BBC. Last week, Mr Neil, who interviewed all the other party leaders, issued a challenge to Mr Johnson, and showed an empty chair.\n\nThat clip has been viewed several million times on social media. No 10 didn't appreciate that much, and doubled down on its position.\n\nLured by the internet, many younger viewers now spend much more time on Netflix or YouTube than watching BBC services. That does pose a significant, perhaps existential, challenge to the BBC in the long term.\n\nThe BBC has always argued, however, that the licence fee is vital to its public service model and that if it moved to a subscription model it would necessarily be driven only by those who could afford a subscription, and not the whole country.\n\nSooner or later, a decision needs to be made about how best the BBC can compete, and satisfy the British public, in today's global media. It's probably best that discussion takes place when there isn't an election on.\n\nAt the time of the last Charter Renewal in 2016, the government said the licence fee was likely to become \"less sustainable in the long run\".\n\nWhile ministers said there were no plans to replace it with a subscription model, they said the BBC should be given an opportunity to explore whether to make any of its content available on a subscription-only basis.\n\nIn its manifesto, Labour says it will ensure a \"healthy future\" for all public service broadcasters, while the Liberal Democrats are promising to \"protect the independence of the BBC and set up a BBC Licence Fee Commission\".\n\nThe Brexit Party is pledging to \"phase out\" the licence fee.", "New Zealand officials say a number of people are \"unaccounted for\" after the White Island volcano, also known as Whakaari, erupted.\n\nThe island is a popular attraction, and tour groups were said to have been on the volcano when the eruption took place.\n\nOne witness on the mainland took this video of the incident.", "European clinical guidelines on how to treat a major form of heart disease are under review following a BBC Newsnight investigation.\n\nEurope's professional body for heart surgeons has withdrawn support for the guidelines, saying it was \"a matter of serious concern\" that some patients may have had the wrong advice.\n\nGuidelines recommended both stents and heart surgery for low-risk patients.\n\nBut trial data leaked to Newsnight raises doubts about this conclusion.\n\nThousands of people in the UK and hundreds of thousands worldwide will be treated for left main coronary artery disease each year. This is a narrowing of one of the main arteries in the heart.\n\nThe guidelines on how to treat it were largely based on a three-year trial to compare whether heart surgery or stents - a tiny tube inserted into a blocked blood vessel to keep it open - was more effective.\n\nThe trial called Excel started in 2010 and was sponsored by big US stent maker, Abbott.\n\nIt was led by eminent US doctor Gregg Stone and aimed to recruit 2,000 patients. Half were given stents and the other half open heart surgery.\n\nSuccess of the treatments was measured by adding together the number of patients that had heart attacks, strokes, or had died.\n\nThe research team used an unusual definition of a heart attack, but had said that they would also publish data for the more common \"Universal\" definition of a heart attack alongside it. There is debate around which is a better measure and the investigators stand by their choice.\n\nIn 2016, the results of the trial for patients three years after their treatments were published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine. The article concluded stents and heart surgery were equally effective for people with left main coronary artery disease.\n\nBut researchers had failed to publish data for the common, \"Universal\" definition of a heart attack.\n\nNewsnight has seen that unpublished data and it shows that under the universal definition, patients in the trial that had received stents had 80% more heart attacks than those who had open heart surgery.\n\nThe lead researchers on the trial have told Newsnight that this is \"fake information\". But Newsnight has spoken to experts who say they believe the data is credible.\n\nStents are a less invasive option for patients too ill to have surgery\n\nProf Rod Stables, clinical lead for research at the British Heart Foundation, said this information should have been published and knowing it would have made a \"substantial contribution to our ability to appreciate the nuances of the results\".\n\nShortly after Excel was published, the professional bodies for heart surgeons and cardiologists got together to write a new set of guidelines.\n\nBut they had not seen the unpublished Universal definition data.\n\nCurrently, European guidelines recommend either a stent or open heart surgery for people who have less severe forms of this disease.\n\nThe European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery (EACTS), which helped draw up the guidelines, told Newsnight if the information on the trial is proven to be correct, \"the recommendation is unsafe\".\n\n\"It is a matter of serious concern to us that some results in the Excel trial appear to have been concealed and that some patients may therefore have received the wrong clinical advice,\" Prof Domenico Pagano, EACTS secretary general, said.\n\nNewsnight has also learned that as the guidelines were being drawn up, the trial's Data Safety Monitoring Board - an independent body that looks after the interests of patients - was raising concerns.\n\nNewsnight has seen emails where they raised concerns about the higher mortality rate amongst those patients who were receiving stents.\n\nThe board thought this information should be made public, as they were aware new guidelines were being drawn up that would recommend stents or surgery.\n\nHowever, the main investigators chose not to do so at the time. They point out that the board allowed the trial to continue unchanged.\n\nProf Nick Freemantle worked on the guidelines. He told Newsnight he would \"never\" have agreed the treatments were interchangeable if he had seen the leaked data.\n\nHe said that the result of making the \"wrong recommendation\" is that \"patients who have received stents [for left main coronary artery disease] will have died who otherwise would have lived for longer, survived for longer, if they'd had open heart surgery\".\n\nThe European Society of Cardiology, the other professional body involved in writing the guidelines, rejected the claim that the guidelines may have caused harm to patients. They stand by the guidelines, which they say were based on more than the Excel trial.\n\nThis year the trial published a further set of its results, showing what had happened to the patients five years after their treatment.\n\nThis found for every 100 who died after having open heart surgery, 135 people with stents died. Overall, 10% of people who had surgery died in the trial compared with 13% who had stents.\n\nProf David Taggart, a surgeon at Oxford University, resigned from the trial. He says he \"had no choice\" as he believed the academic paper describing the five-year results did not give enough prominence to the mortality data in the trial.\n\nThe NEJM had recommended that the researchers should give it greater prominence too.\n\nProf Taggart said he believed the paper's final paragraph, which concluded that there was \"no significant difference\" between stents and open heart surgery was \"dangerous for patients\".\n\nWhen challenged by Newsnight, the trial's principal investigator, Dr Gregg Stone, said he believed that it had been given sufficient prominence and had been considered to meet NEJM's standards.\n\nSponsors of trials like this are also responsible for making sure all results are published.\n\nWhen Newsnight contacted Abbott, the sponsors of the trial, they directed the BBC towards the trial's main researchers.\n\nThe EACTS has now urged their members to \"disregard the guidelines relating to left main disease for the time being\".\n\n\"We recommend that patients seek the advice of the multidisciplinary heart team at their hospital before deciding which treatment option is most appropriate for them,\" said Prof Domenico Pagano.\n\nIn the course of the investigation, Newsnight found a larger debate within the medical community about the way that conflicts of interest are handled.\n\nThere is one school of thought that says they raise questions and need to be carefully managed because of potential bias - conscious or unconscious.\n\nOthers say that interactions between research and business are vital and there is a real public good to be gained by them.\n\nIn the Excel trial, the four main investigators all declared conflicts of interest.\n\nLead investigator Prof Gregg Stone declared he had received personal fees or held equity in 20 private medical companies, several of which made tools that helped with putting in stents.\n\nHe's also the course director for TCT, an annual medical conference where the results were presented.\n\nTCT makes money from exhibitors including some of the biggest stent makers - Abbott, who sponsored the trial, Boston Scientific and Medtronic.\n\nProf Pieter Kappetein, who worked on the trial and on the body that worked on the guidelines, declared that he had left the guidelines body to go and work for Medtronic, a medical device manufacturer that makes stents.\n\nNewsnight found that he'd become chief medical officer of Medtronic Structural Heart.\n\nBy Newsnight's count, around half of the investigators on the trial had declared personal fees from companies that made stents, and around a third of those on the taskforce writing the guidelines.\n\nThese relationships are all within the rules.\n\nYou can watch Newsnight on BBC Two at 22:30 on weekdays. Catch up on iPlayer, subscribe to the programme on YouTube and follow it on Twitter.", "A segregation board separates women and families from men at a McDonalds restaurant in Riyadh\n\nSaudi Arabia will no longer require restaurants to have separate entrances segregated by sex, the government says.\n\nPreviously, it was mandatory to have one entrance for families and women, and another for men on their own.\n\nThe restrictions had already been quietly eased in practice, with many restaurants, cafes and other meeting places no longer enforcing segregation.\n\nA series of sweeping social reforms in Saudi Arabia has been accompanied by an intensified crackdown on dissent.\n\nEarlier this year, a royal decree allowed Saudi women to travel abroad without a male guardian's permission, and in 2018 the Gulf kingdom ended a decades-long ban on female drivers.\n\nBut activists complain that many laws discriminatory against women remain in place. And several prominent women's rights advocates have been arrested even as the government has made reforms.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Saudi woman receives driving licence as the kingdom prepares to end its ban\n\nOn Sunday, the Saudi ministry of municipalities said that restaurants would no longer need to maintain sex-segregated entrances. Instead it would be left up to businesses to decide.\n\nUntil now, inside restaurants, families and women were usually cut off and separated from men on their own by screens.\n\nSince Mohammed bin Salman was elevated to crown prince in 2017, he has made moves to open up Saudi Arabia's extremely conservative society.\n\nHis reforms have won praise in the international community but have been accompanied by a wave of repression.\n\nThe murder of prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 in the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul drew intense international condemnation but key world leaders, including US President Donald Trump, have continued to stand by Saudi Arabia.\n\nSaudi officials have said Khashoggi, a high-profile critic of the government in Riyadh, was killed in a \"rogue operation\" by a team of agents. But many critics believe otherwise and a UN expert concluded that the death was an \"extrajudicial execution\".", "Former Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson has hinted she may return to politics when the Tories are in opposition at Westminster, even suggesting she could lead the party.\n\nShe said: \"I've probably got more experience than anyone in the party on how to lead from opposition.\"\n\nMs Davidson stood down as leader in August, citing Brexit and changing priorities after the birth of her son.\n\nShe does not plan to stand for re-election in the 2021 Holyrood election.\n\nIn an interview for The Sunday Telegraph's Stella Magazine, she hinted she could make a bid to lead the UK party - perhaps re-entering politics when the Conservatives are in opposition at Westminster.\n\nShe said: \"It may well be that my time in politics doesn't come again until we're in opposition.\n\n\"I've probably got more experience than anyone in the party on how to lead from opposition.\"\n\nMs Davidson continued: \"If someone tapped on my door and asked me to help, I'd be there in a heartbeat.\n\n\"But at the moment, I've got four or five years when my son isn't at school and that is not a time that I'm contemplating moving 450 miles away for the majority of the week. It's just some things are more important than politics.\"\n\nMs Davidson tweeted a picture of herself with Finn and her partner Jen Wilson\n\nMs Davidson stood down as Scottish Conservative leader in August. She said her personal priorities had changed after she and her partner, Jen Wilson, had a son, Finn, last October.\n\nOver the eight years she led her party, she was widely credited with turning around the fortunes of the Tories in Scotland\n\nShe has previously ruled out wanting to be prime minister because she valued her \"mental health too much\".\n\nIn the wide-ranging interview for Stella, she also spoke about coming out her family as gay and about the abuse she receives as a politician.\n\nShe said: \"I've never really spoken about it because the relationship I have with my family [now] is not the same as the [one] I had with them at the time I came out.\n\n\"It's to protect them. I put myself in this position. I'm not naive. But there are people in my life who didn't choose that.\"\n\n\"I was in my mid-20s [when I came out] - quite late. I didn't know for ages, which is surprising, looking back,\" she added.\n\n\"I came out to one member of my very close family, it didn't go well, so I didn't come out to the rest for two years.\"\n\nMs Davidson said she had to learn to be \"a bit of a street fighter\" in Scottish politics, saying she could get up to 1,000 abusive tweets a day.\n\nShe said: \"It wears you down. I've had a lot of 'string her up by a lamppost' type stuff; 'unionists, turncoats, traitors'... And I had an incident where someone got my phone number and made threats.\n\n\"It turned out not to be that sinister, but I didn't know that when I was being told they wanted to burn all gays.\"\n\nEarlier this year, Ms Davidson was at the centre of controversy after she accepted a \"contentious\" job with a lobbying firm.\n\nSome opposition politicians said it was a conflict of interest and in October she said she would not take the job.\n\nWhat are your questions about the general election? You can let us know by completing the form below.\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question.\n• None Ruth Davidson on motherhood, coming out and quitting politics The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Utilities burning fossil fuels could lose value, a study has said\n\nCarbon-intensive firms are likely to lose 43% of their value thanks to policies designed to combat climate change, a report says.\n\nMeanwhile the most progressive companies will see an uplift of 33% in their value.\n\nThe forecast was commissioned by the UN-backed Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI).\n\nRepresentatives of fossil fuel companies told the BBC they were already adapting their businesses to take climate change into account.\n\nBut the PRI study suggests major winners and losers will emerge between, and within, big sectors.\n\nCar-makers with the swiftest transition to electric vehicles (EVs), for instance, are projected to increase in value by 108%, according to the study by Vivid Economics.\n\nManufacturers slow to move to EVs will see their value fall, as governments realise that petrol and diesel models must be phased out faster for climate targets to be met.\n\nMeanwhile, the study predicts that the world’s largest listed coal companies could fall in value by 44%. And the 10 biggest firms in oil and gas could lose 31% of current value.\n\nElectric utilities with the strongest strategy for renewables could see values increase by 104%, while laggards could see them fall by two-thirds.\n\nMiners producing minerals critical for the transition may see a 54% upside, while those with the smallest share of “green minerals” will witness valuations almost halving.\n\nCar firms should switch to making electric vehicles quickly, said the study\n\nAgricultural firms with high exposure to “sustainable” biofuels and non-beef protein sources could gain at least 10% of current value.\n\nThose exposed to under-pressure sectors such as cattle may lose between 15% and 43% - depending on their links with deforestation.\n\nThe figures are inevitably speculative, and rely on an assumption that politicians will be forced to respond strongly to the growing climate crisis – which, given current political progress, remains debatable.\n\nBut they do echo the warnings issued by the Bank of England governor Mark Carney, who said firms ignoring the climate challenge would go bankrupt.\n\nAlready some insurance firms are refusing to offer cover to new coal-fired power stations because the risk of policy change is so great.\n\nThe giant AXA, for instance, says it will stop insuring any new coal construction projects, and totally phase out existing insurance and investments in coal in the EU, by 2030.\n\nFiona Reynolds, CEO of the PRI, said: “This analysis underscores the extent to which markets are under-pricing climate transition risk.\n\n“One in five of the world’s most valuable companies are impacted by at least 10% in either direction.\n\n“While the market-level effects of an abrupt policy response to climate change may appear manageable, this masks a much more complex and significant story, with some huge winners and losers emerging between sectors and within them.\n\n“We are calling on investors to get real on climate policy risk, and this robust modelling exercise and analysis will enable them to do that.”\n\nMike Tholen, from industry body Oil and Gas UK said: “The (oil and gas) majors targeted in this report are actively reducing their carbon footprints, pursuing technologies including Carbon Capture and Storage and diversifying their businesses into a broader mix of renewable energy.\n\n“Oil and gas remain an important part of the energy mix for decades to come, and will be used in an increasingly low carbon manner to meet global energy needs.”\n\nThis confident response will alarm scientists who were warning at the UN climate conference last week that emissions from oil and gas were growing strongly, as coal growth slows.\n\nAnd a spokesperson for the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said: “Vehicle manufacturers and suppliers are investing vast sums in ultra-low and zero emission vehicles to help meet the same environmental goals.\n\n“[Now] we need the right conditions to encourage investment, innovation and a competitive market.\n\n“This must include giga-scale battery production and electrified supply chains, massive skills and infrastructure investment and long-term incentives to help companies and consumers make the shift sustainably.”", "The skin of an adult tiger was found along with the foetuses\n\nFive people in Indonesia have been arrested for poaching after authorities found the skin of a protected Sumatran tiger and four foetuses in a jar.\n\nSumatran tigers are critically endangered, with fewer than 400 believed to be left in the wild.\n\nIt's not clear if the foetuses were taken from the adult tiger whose skin was taken.\n\nTiger cubs are born blind and are totally dependent on their mother for the first few months of their lives.\n\nAn official from the Environment and Forestry Ministry said the suspects, from Riau province, were arrested after police received a tip-off.\n\nTwo suspects are believed to have been acting as sellers. They face a maximum of five years in prison and a fine of 100 million rupiah ($7100; £5403).\n\nThe Sunda subspecies of tiger was once found on the Indonesian islands of Java, Bali, and Sumatra. They are now found only on Sumatra.\n\nAccording to the WWF: \"Accelerating deforestation and rampant poaching mean this noble creature could end up extinct like its Javan and Balinese counterparts.\n\n\"In Indonesia, anyone caught hunting tigers could face jail time and steep fines.\n\n\"But despite increased efforts in tiger conservation - including strengthening law enforcement and anti-poaching capacity - a substantial market remains in Sumatra and other parts of Asia for tiger parts and products.\"\n\nAccording to wildlife trade monitoring network Traffic, poaching for trade is responsible for almost 80% of Sumatran tiger deaths - amounting to 40 deaths a year.\n\nSome parts of the tiger, like the bones, are believed to have medicinal values in parts of Asia.\n\nSome parts of the tiger, like the bones, are believed to have medicinal value", "It could have been a double blow for Corryn Banham and boyfriend Jordon Parkinson. He planned a surprise proposal to Corryn, 24, during a holiday to Crete, but this had to be abandoned after Thomas Cook collapsed in September.\n\nLuckily Corryn's mum and dad, who were in on the plan, stepped in to pay for a holiday to Majorca and Jordon, 27, was able to pop the question. \"It could have ruined everything,\" said Corryn, a sales assistant who lives in Strood, Kent.\n\nNow they want to repay the hundreds of pounds back to Corryn's parents, but face more months of delay until the refund is processed. \"We couldn't afford another holiday, but my parents said we could pay them back when our refund arrives,\" she said.\n\nLike thousands of other disappointed Thomas Cook customers, she registered for a refund on 7 October, the first day the process opened. Travel regulator the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) - which has vowed to refund all Atol-protected payments - had told those customers to expect their money within 60 days.\n\nBut last week the CAA warned thousands of customers that payment would be delayed while further details are collected - and Corryn and Jordon are among them.\n\nShe said: \"I was contacted on the 59th day after submitting my claim, advising that because our package flights were with EasyJet, I have to declare either: 1) I have no plans to fly on my future flights (even though our holiday was 2 October), or 2) I did not fly on my past flight.\n\n\"They've sent us two identical forms. I emailed the claims company asking for the correct form and they've got back to say it takes 60 working days for a response to an email.\n\n\"So by the time I get a response, fill the correct form out, and send it back. We're looking at nine months total time for my refund to be correctly processed.\n\n\"This is disgusting. I am stressed, having panic attacks, and now my parents have been left short before Christmas when we should have received our refund.\"\n\nOn Monday, the CAA said about 40,000 customers owed money had been paid within the 60-day period, but that some 27,000 faced delay.\n\nLast week CAA boss Richard Moriarty thanked consumers for their patience, saying the regulator was working through \"the UK travel industry's largest ever refunds programme\".\n\nHe added that the refunds operation had been challenging due to the potential for fraudulent claims.\n\n\"I appreciate that this is a concerning time for Thomas Cook customers who are waiting for their refunds, particularly at this time of the year,\" Mr Moriarty said.\n\nWhile the CAA said it had paid all first-day claims not requiring extra verification, some told the BBC they had still not received their money on Monday.\n\nBilly Latham said: \"I contacted the CAA on Saturday and was told my money was paid on Friday and if it did not hit my bank account on Monday to call back.\n\n\"Well Monday is here and no payments whatsoever, no one at the CAA is picking up the phones and even putting an answer message on stating they are too busy to speak with me due to high call volumes.\n\n\"The only question on my lips and the thousands of others with valid claims is 'when will we get our money back?'\"\n\nSome 300,000 Thomas Cook claims have been received so far, 215,000 of which have been confirmed as valid. However, this figure includes about 90,000 direct debit customers in October whose money was automatically returned.\n\nThe CAA says about 40,000 of the cancelled holidays eligible for a refund have still not been claimed for. Customers have until September next year to submit the online form.\n\nThomas Cook collapsed on 23 September, after failing to obtain rescue funds from its banks. Some 150,000 travellers had to be repatriated back to the UK during a two-week operation run by the CAA.", "The government's Brexit legislation is on hold as the UK gears up for the general election on 12 December.\n\nBut where do the parties stand on Brexit?\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson wants the UK to leave the European Union (EU) with the revised deal he agreed.\n\nHe says that with a majority Conservative government, he would start the process to \"get Brexit done\" on day one of the new Parliament.\n\nHe previously said the UK would leave on 31 October \"do or die\".\n\nHowever, Mr Johnson was forced to write a Brexit extension letter to the EU, after MPs failed to approve his revised deal.\n\nMr Johnson secured changes to the deal previously negotiated by Theresa May. It includes scrapping the controversial Irish backstop and replacing it with a new customs arrangement.\n\nBoris Johnson's revised Brexit deal has not yet been approved by the UK Parliament\n\nBrexit left the Conservative Party heavily divided, with 21 MPs expelled for failing to follow the government's line. Ten were later welcomed back.\n\nIf it wins the election, Labour wants to renegotiate Mr Johnson's Brexit deal and put it to another public vote. It says it will achieve this within six months.\n\nLabour says its referendum would be a choice between a \"sensible\" Leave option versus Remain.\n\nUnder its Leave option, Labour says it will negotiate for the UK to remain in an EU customs union, and retain a \"close\" single market relationship.\n\nThis would allow the UK to continue trading with the EU without checks, but it would prevent it from striking its own trade deals with other countries.\n\nIf a referendum was held, Mr Corbyn has said he would remain neutral if he was prime minister \"so I can credibly carry out the results\".\n\nJust like the Conservatives, Labour has had to deal with internal divisions over its Brexit policy. More than 25 Labour MPs wrote to Mr Corbyn in June, saying another public vote would be \"toxic to our bedrock Labour voters\".\n\nWhile Labour's election strategy early on was to emphasise that the vote was about more than Brexit, it is changing its focus.\n\nThe message now is that Labour's leadership is not opposing Brexit by opposing Mr Johnson's deal - it wants to find what it believes is a better one.\n\nThe SNP is pro-Remain and wants the UK to stay a member of the EU.\n\nIt has been campaigning for another referendum on Brexit. Alternatively, it wants Article 50 revoked if it is the only alternative to a no-deal Brexit.\n\nScotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, said the possibility of a no-deal Brexit is \"catastrophic\"\n\nThe SNP's ultimate objective is for an independent Scotland that is a full member of the EU.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats have pledged to cancel Brexit if they win power at the general election.\n\nThe policy was endorsed in September by party members at the Lib Dem party conference.\n\nIf the Lib Dems do not win a majority, they would support another referendum.\n\nLeader Jo Swinson says that stopping Brexit would free up £50bn, over five years, to spend on public services.\n\nShe says that so-called \"Remain bonus\" would pay for 20,000 new teachers, extra money for schools and to help support low-paid workers.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) had an agreement with the Conservatives whereby it lent it support in the Commons during the last Parliament.\n\nHowever, while the DUP wants the UK to leave the EU, it opposes elements of Mr Johnson's Brexit deal which relate to Northern Ireland,.\n\nThe DUP is unhappy with the revised Brexit deal\n\nAt its manifesto launch, the party said it will seek further changes to the deal if he is still prime minister after the election.\n\nThe deal includes special arrangements for Northern Ireland. One gives the Northern Ireland Assembly a majority vote on how customs arrangements would work after Brexit.\n\nThe DUP wants such a vote to be taken on a cross-community basis, rather than a straight majority.\n\nThis party is made up of MPs who left the Conservatives and Labour, in part because of their positions on Brexit.\n\nIt backs another referendum, or \"People's Vote\", and wants the UK to remain in the EU.\n\nThe party backs remaining in the EU, despite Wales voting Leave in the referendum. It wants a further referendum and to Remain.\n\nIn a bid to get as many pro-Remain MPs as possible into Parliament, Plaid Cymru, the Liberal Democrats and Greens have agreed an electoral pact in 11 of the 40 seats in Wales.\n\nThe party's one MP, Caroline Lucas, has been a vocal campaigner for another referendum, and believes the UK should stay in the EU.\n\nThe Brexit Party wants the UK to leave the EU without a deal, in what it calls a \"clean-break Brexit\".\n\nIt says that is the way to \"start changing Britain for good from day one\" and that the transition period after leaving would not be extended.\n\nIt also says Mr Johnson's revised Brexit plan is a bad deal.\n\nUse the list below or select a button\n\nBrexit - British exit - refers to the UK leaving the EU. A public vote was held in June 2016, to decide whether the UK should leave or remain.\n• None What are the PM's remaining election options?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I just wanted to get her body out of the sea'\n\nA woman who died after a group of swimmers got into difficulty in the sea off a County Antrim beach was midwife Deirdre McShane.\n\nThe Northern Health Trust described the mother of two as \"kind, dedicated and passionate about providing excellent maternity care to mothers and babies\".\n\nAnother woman is in a stable condition in hospital after the incident at Ballycastle on Monday morning.\n\nPasser-by Aine Paterson described how she pulled both women out of the sea.\n\nShe told BBC News NI the first swimmer managed to indicate someone else was missing before losing consciousness.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Ambulance Service said it received a call about the incident shortly before 08:30 GMT.\n\nFriends and family of Ms McShane gathered on the beach later on Monday\n\nParamedics attended the scene along with the police, the air ambulance and the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service.\n\nMs Paterson was walking a dog along the beach when she spotted the swimmers in trouble.\n\nShe described how she saw \"what I thought was a big driftwood being washed into the shore and as I got closer I thought it was maybe a seal\".\n\n\"And then I realised it was a person as I got closer and she was trying to get out of the water,\" she said.\n\nMs Paterson ran into the water to help and described how waves came over their heads as she helped the first woman to safety.\n\n\"I just dragged her out of the water and... her legs failed and she kept passing out.\"\n\nBallycastle beach is located on the northern coast of Northern Ireland\n\nThe exhausted woman eventually managed to say her friend's name, at which point Ms Paterson realised there was a second person in the sea.\n\n\"When I realised her friend was still in the water I went into the water and there was just… she was gone at that point, I knew.\n\n\"I knew I just wanted to get her body out of the sea.\"\n\nMs Paterson pulled Ms McShane to shore and called the emergency services.\n\nAt that point, a man who was also at the beach stepped in to give first aid before paramedics arrived a short time later.\n\nBallycastle beach is a popular spot on the north Antrim coast\n\nHer rescued friend was taken to the Causeway Hospital in Coleraine, County Londonderry.\n\nMs Paterson said she was still in shock but her thoughts were with the swimmers' families.\n\nShe said she did not consider her actions to be brave.\n\n\"I don't think that brave comes into it, you just see somebody that needs help and you get them out,\" she said.\n\n\"It's a cold day, it's a stormy day - those waves are so dangerous. I'm just glad that, you know, we were able to try our best.\"\n\nThe Northern Health Trust said Ms McShane had a \"caring and compassionate manner which made a great difference to all the women and families she cared for\".\n\nThe trust said her colleagues in Ballycastle and Ballymoney would miss her \"incredibly\".\n\nIt added: \"We extend our most sincere and heartfelt sympathies to her partner, her two beloved children and the wider family circle.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ciaran Kinney from the Coastguard says the conditions at Ballycastle beach were treacherous\n\nCiaran Kinney from the Coastguard told BBC News NI he believed cold water shock was to blame for the woman's death.\n\nHe said it could affect anyone, regardless of swimming ability.\n\nMr Kinney said: \"You could be an Olympic swimmer into that sea today and it would have no bearing.\"\n\nHe praised the actions of the other members of her club and those who helped get her out of the water.\n\nFormer councillor Christopher McCaughan said there had been a huge rescue effort.\n\n\"There are a group of ladies who swim in here every day,\" he added.\n\n\"It takes the heart out of you - it's extremely sad.\n\n\"The waves at this time of year can sneak up on you.\n\n\"There are rip tides in the bay, there is a full moon and very strong tides.\"\n• None 'I just wanted to get her body out of the sea' Video, 00:01:42'I just wanted to get her body out of the sea'", "Clive Lewis: Labour needs to change itself\n\nWe told you half an hour or so ago that Clive Lewis has been setting out his leadership pitch. Writing in the Guardian , he says he is standing \"for the simple reason that if I don’t, certain necessary truths may go unspoken during the debates of the coming months\". \"The truth is that to change our country, we have to change ourselves,\" he says. The shadow treasury minister goes on to praise Jeremy Corbyn for his “enormous achievements in inspiring a new generation of members.” But he says the party was “never democratised on the scale” that members expected. He also distances himself from the Tony Blair and Gordon Brown years saying that the party often had “the legacy of the 2000s thrown back in our faces.” Of Labour's election defeat he says:\"We never painted a rich and textured picture of life in the society that we proposed to build - instead we offered a shopping list of rather disconnected policies.\"", "Camila Cabello has apologised for racist language she says she used when she was younger.\n\n\"I used language I'm deeply ashamed of and will regret forever,\" the 22-year-old wrote.\n\nScreenshots posted on Twitter this week accused the Senorita singer of using the N-word on an old Tumblr account.\n\n\"I apologised then and I apologise again now,\" she added, without being specific about any accusations.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by camila This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCamila, who's now 22, said that she would \"never intentionally hurt anyone\" and regrets her previous language \"from the bottom of my heart\".\n\n\"When I was younger, I used language I was deeply ashamed of and will regret forever.\n\n\"I was uneducated and ignorant and once I became aware of the history and the weight and the true meaning behind this horrible and hurtful language, I was deeply embarrassed I ever used it. I apologised then and I apologise again now.\"\n\nWe've not been able to see the Tumblr posts - with the account now deleted - but it reportedly shared racist jokes and memes between 2012 and 2013.\n\nCamila, who's had two number one singles in the UK since splitting from Fifth Harmony, says the \"mistakes\" she's made \"don't represent the person I am\".\n\n\"I'm 22 now, I'm an adult and I've grown and learned and am conscious and aware of the history and the pain it carries in a way I wasn't before.\"\n\nThe apology comes a week after the Havana singer released her second album, Romance.\n\nShe says she's \"only ever\" stood for \"love and inclusivity\".\n\n\"My heart has never, even then, had any ounce of hate or divisiveness. The truth is I was embarrassingly ignorant and unaware.\"\n\nShe added: \"I use my platform to speak out about injustice and inequality and I'll continue doing that.\n\n\"I can't say enough how deeply sorry and ashamed I feel, and I apologise again from the bottom of my heart.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Mohammed Ali Sultan, Mohammad Rizwan and Amjad Hussain were convicted by a jury\n\nUpdate 21 December 2020: The conviction of a fourth man, Shafiq Younas, for indecent assault was overturned at the Court of Appeal on 30 July.\n\nFour men have been jailed for sexually abusing a vulnerable girl who was \"passed around like a piece of meat\".\n\nThey were found guilty earlier this week of abusing the girl, who was forced to perform sex acts in a churchyard and was raped above a shop.\n\nOne of the defendants, Mohammed Ali Sultan, 33, had previously been jailed following the Operation Chalice inquiry into child sex abuse in Telford.\n\nAn independent inquiry is ongoing into child sexual exploitation in the town.\n\nAli Sultan, formerly of Telford, who was convicted after the trial at Birmingham Crown Court of rape and three counts of indecent assault, has been sentenced to eight years, with an extended licence of two years. He is already serving a sentence of six years for previous sexual offences.\n\nShafiq Younas, 35 of Regent Street, Wellington, has been sentenced to four and half years for indecent assault, as has Amjad Hussain, 38, of Acacia Drive, Leegomery, Telford.\n\nMohammad Rizwan, 37, of Mafeking Road, Telford, received a prison sentence of five and a half years for the same offence.\n\nJudge Melbourne Inman QC said Mohammed Ali Sultan was \"clearly, a very dangerous man\"\n\nSentencing the men, Judge Melbourne Inman QC said they had abused a \"helpless\" victim, who had been groomed until she was \"no longer in effective control of her own life\".\n\nAddressing the ringleader, Ali Sultan, the judge said: \"The victim was clearly extremely frightened of you, and you exercised significant control over her.\n\n\"When last at liberty, you clearly attacked a number of victims over a prolonged period.\n\n\"Now the full extent of your offending is apparent, you've shown no remorse in relation to the present allegations and no insight as far as I can see into the offending.\n\n\"You remain, clearly, a very dangerous man.\"\n\nTelford's MP Lucy Allan says the way the issue of child sexual exploitation (CSE) has been highlighted in Telford has encouraged more victims to come forward\n\nThe offences took place in the Telford area between 2000 and 2003, when the girl was in her early teens.\n\nThe victim said she was assaulted by other as-yet unidentified males, with the abuse continuing until she was in her mid teens.\n\nShe told the hearing how she was forced to perform sex acts and violently abused when she tried to refuse.\n\nJurors were told the vulnerable victim was sold for sex, first by a man named Tanveer Ahmed, who delivered for Perfect Pizza in the town and \"befriended her\" during a low point in her life.\n\nAhmed, formerly of Urban Gardens in Wellington, was not on trial alongside the other defendants, having been deported to Pakistan, the court heard.\n\nAn independent inquiry is taking place into CSE in Telford\n\nHe was jailed for two and a half years after admitting a charge of controlling a child sex abuse victim following West Mercia Police's Operation Chalice inquiry.\n\nProsecutor Michelle Heeley QC had said the victim was \"passed around like a piece of meat for the sexual gratification of several young men\".\n\nShe told police that, years after the abuse ended, she recognised photos of Ali Sultan and Ahmed from press reports on the Telford sex ring.\n\nDuring the trial, the victim said no action was taken by teachers when rumours of the abuse circulated at her school and she had \"lost count\" of how many men she was forced to have sex with.\n\nIn response to the claims made by the defendant about her teachers, Telford & Wrekin Council said it had no further comment to make \"on issues which we expect will be covered by the independent inquiry currently under way\".\n\nDet Insp Rob Rondel said West Mercia Police encouraged victims of child sexual exploitation to come forward\n\nDet Insp Rob Rondel, of West Mercia Police, said it had been a very complex and challenging investigation.\n\n\"The victim has shown real courage and determination to see this through to its conclusion,\" he said.\n\n\"No doubt the heinous offences that have taken place will have a lasting impact on the victim.\"\n\nDet Insp Rondel added: \"This investigation was part of Operation Vapour, which continues today.\n\n\"We encourage victims of child sexual exploitation to come forward, engage with police and find support with our partner agencies.\"\n\nTelford's MP, Lucy Allan, who had called for the independent inquiry to be held after claims thousands of girls may have been abused in the town since the 1980s, said: \"The way that we have been able to shine a light on the issue over the last few years has encouraged others to identify what happened to them as children and for them to come forward.\"\n\nA fifth defendant, Nazam Akhtar, 35, of Victoria Avenue, Wellington, was cleared of rape.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "First things first, I want you to know this is a safe space, free from feline puns. There'll be no talk of fur-from-purrfect performances that don't scratch the character's surface or give you paws for thought. That's not happening, not in this review - not a cat-in-hell's chance.\n\nWe all know about the social media hoo-ha the trailer caused when it was released in the summer. \"Urgh!\" was the general reaction. \"Cats with furry breasts, that's gross! And the scaling, that's rubbish.\"\n\nWell, those issues remain in the finished, full-length feature, although the director - Tom Hooper (The King's Speech, Les Misérables) - has spoken about throwing a large chunk of cash at fixing the more glaring problems made evident to him by the Twitterstorm.\n\nMoney has been spent. You can see that.\n\nCats the movie is a slick, computer-enhanced celeb-fest with meticulously choreographed set-pieces taking place in a version of London that sits somewhere between Dickensian squalor and Soho glamour. It is a shiny, colourful, sung-through piece with luxury hotel production values.\n\nThat the cats are still gendered and sexualised is not such a big deal. The geriatric bodies of the de-aged stars in Scorsese's film The Irishman are far more disconcerting and off-putting. Anyway, the figure-hugging outfits allow Francesca Hayward - a Principal Ballerina at the Royal Ballet - to treat us to her best moves playing Victoria, the white cat.\n\nShe is not exactly verbose, but her eyes talk plenty, wearing a nonplussed expression throughout as she tries to figure out what in the name of Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats is going on.\n\nThis is a thin tale (see, I can resist) about a gang of feral cats called the Jellicles, who gather once a year to see which of their number will be given the opportunity to ascend to the Heaviside layer.\n\nDame Judi Dench, who plays wise Old Deuteronomy, has the task of making the Jellicle choice under heavy lobbying from pantomime baddie cat Macavity (Idris Elba).\n\nA simple story based on the poems of T.S. Eliot, which Andrew Lloyd Webber illustrated with some very catchy numbers in his hit 1981 musical Cats. I saw that original production as a Clash-mad teenager and surprised my grumpy self by loving every single second. I really do have the T-shirt. Brian Blessed was wonderful as Old Deuteronomy.\n\nMore recently, I saw Nicole Scherzinger as Grizabella knock it out of the park in a 2014 revival, where she left absolutely everything in the auditorium with an unforgettable rendition of Memory.\n\nNicole Scherzinger as Grizabella (front left) starred in a West End production of Cats in 2014\n\nJennifer Hudson gives a strong performance as Grizabella in the film\n\nThat job falls to Jennifer Hudson in the film, who is convincing as the ostracised Grizabella, and - more importantly - nails the famous song with aplomb, as you would expect from such a talented individual.\n\nIt is a reflection of the singing throughout, which rarely dips below excellent, although both Dame Judi and Elba are clearly primarily actors not singers. That's fine, they know how to sell a song. As does Taylor Swift, who has a welcome cameo playing the mischievous Bombalurina.\n\nSir Ian McKellen rocks up for a turn as Gus the Theatre Cat, while Rebel Wilson and James Corden pitch in to bring a little light-hearted comedy to proceedings. Oh, and Ray Winstone makes an appearance too, just like he does in those betting ads.\n\nIt is a roll-call of stars that's a testament to Hooper's well-deserved standing as a top-notch, Oscar-winning director.\n\nBut you can't always hit the bullseye, and the helmsman has missed the spot with Cats.\n\nThe sum is a great deal less than the parts, however famous and gifted the people playing them happen to be. The story takes forever to get going, and when it does - eventually - it lacks any real conviction or emotion.\n\nThe harsh truth is the film feels plastic, it has no heart or soul. That might well be a problem with the source material and its suitability for a transfer from stage to screen. Notwithstanding notable successes, the fact is not everything that is a hit in one medium works in another.\n\nIt's not terrible, it's certainly got more going for it than the trailer, but it is some way short of Lord Lloyd-Webber's original.", "The boy was found wandering along the M6 on Wednesday night\n\nA 15-year-old boy was found on the M6 after police responded to reports of a pedestrian on the motorway.\n\nThe Central Motorway Police Group (CMPG) said they found the child, who had allegedly illegally entered the UK, on Wednesday night.\n\nWest Midlands Police said it was understood that the boy was from Iraq.\n\nHe was found walking on the central reservation towards junction 7 for Great Barr at about 22:00 GMT.\n\nThe teenager was picked up by a patrol car and taken into emergency care for the night.\n\nThe Home Office said Immigration Enforcement was contacted by West Midlands Police and the boy was taken into the care of social services.\n\nHis case will be dealt with according to the immigration rules, it added.\n\nIn a tweet, CMPG said: \"He was split up from his parents a few days ago, and doesn't know which country they're in.\n\n\"It's impossible to imagine how scared someone would be, not knowing where they are, not knowing where their parents are, unable to speak the language.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLiz Clegg, from the Meena Centre in Birmingham which supports refugee women and children, said while she was not involved in this case, there was a \"huge challenge\" in reuniting children separated from their parents.\n\nShe said she expected the authorities and charities would be working to trace the family and hoped \"the system in place would kick in quickly\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A radio host has lost his job after saying he would like \"a nice school shooting\" to interrupt the \"never-ending\" coverage of US President Donald Trump's impeachment.\n\nChuck Bonniwell apologised on Twitter for his \"inappropriate comment\" before deleting the post.\n\nThe station, based in Denver, Colorado, has confirmed it has now axed the news programme, the Chuck and Julie Show.\n\nA student was killed in a Denver school shooting earlier this year.\n\nThe right-leaning station, 710 KNUS, said it was cancelling the show \"given the history of school violence that has plagued our community\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Kyle Clark This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"You know, you wish for a nice school shooting to interrupt the monopoly,\" Mr Bonniwell said on air of the impeachment news coverage.\n\nHis wife and co-host of the show, Julie Hayden, hit back: \"No, don't even say that! He didn't say that.\"\n\n\"No one would be hurt,\" he clarified.\n\nJohn Castillo, whose son Kendrick was killed in a shooting at the STEM School Highlands Ranch near Denver in May, said the comments were \"unbelievable\".\n\n\"I made an inappropriate comment meant as a joke. I'm sorry it was not received that way,\" Mr Bonniwell said on Twitter, before the post was deleted.\n\nDenver's Columbine High School marked the 20th anniversary of a shooting that killed 13 people in April.\n\n710 KNUS has replaced the Chuck and Julie Show with America First, presented by Sebastian Gorka - a former aide to President Trump.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Students around the world on US school shootings and their biggest fears", "Magdalena Lesicka and Peter Chilvers had been in a relationship since 2010\n\nA woman stabbed her 23-month-old son to death following a mental breakdown triggered by her controlling pilot boyfriend, a court has heard.\n\nRyanair pilot Peter Chilvers repeatedly threatened to kill Magda Lesicka, 33, before she attacked their son, James, at her home in Wythenshawe in 2017.\n\nShe was jailed for 15 years last year after pleading guilty to manslaughter.\n\nChilvers, 33, has now been jailed for 18 months after being convicted of controlling or coercive behaviour.\n\nManchester Crown Court heard Lesicka, who met Chilvers while also working for the airline, was sentenced on the basis her mental illness emerged suddenly and without any warning, and she had no memory of committing the offence on 26 August 2017.\n\nThe couple had been in a relationship since 2010 but Chilvers cheated on Lesicka from 2014 with another cabin crew member, jurors heard.\n\nChilvers, from Northwich, Cheshire, warned Lesicka in a \"visceral\" phone call, which was played in court, that she did not have the financial resources to win a custody battle.\n\nHe had repeatedly threatened to kill her if she removed James from his care and demanded they continue to live together at a new home in the Cheshire village of Wincham.\n\nIn the days before the killing, Lesicka made internet searches about \"killing in self defence\" and contacted domestic abuse charity Women's Aid, the court heard.\n\nThe Crown accepted her defence that she killed James following a breakdown induced by the \"deliberate, relentless and ultimately overwhelming psychological torment\" inflicted by Chilvers who had portrayed a \"landscape of unending misery if she did not comply with his demands\".\n\nJames Chilvers was killed at Magda Lesicka's home in Beaford Road, Wythenshawe, in August 2017\n\nChilvers' controlling or coercive behaviour, between December 2015 and August 2017, included using or threatening physical violence, forcing her into degrading sexual acts, isolating her from her friends and restricting her finances.\n\nAs part of the evidence, the court heard a 33-minute phone call made by Chilvers on the morning of 26 August to Lesicka - before the killing - in which at times he screamed profanities at her.\n\nRob Hall, prosecuting, said such behaviour confirmed his \"bullying, controlling, self-centred nature\".\n\nLesicka, a Polish national, was jailed in July last year after pleading guilty to manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility.\n\nAt her sentencing hearing at Preston Crown Court, Mr Justice Dove said James was \"dearly loved and cherished\" by those around him and had been \"caught as a tragic innocent victim between two warring parents\".\n\n\"Whatever the rights and wrongs of that dispute, the last thing that should have happened is he lose his life - killed by a parent,\" he said.\n\nJames's grandmother, Hilary Chilvers, read out her victim personal statement in court and described her grandson as being \"full of potential and promise\".\n\n\"We have all been deprived of James's presence in our life,\" she said. \"He was adorable, beautiful, inquisitive and loving.\"\n\nLesicka gave evidence in the prosecution of Chilvers, of Hewitt Grove, and parts of her victim personal statement composed in prison were read out.\n\n\"It's hard to see myself as a victim given the tragic outcome. I know my life has been changed forever and there is nothing I can do change it back,\" the statement said.\n\n\"When I started a relationship with Peter Chilvers I had absolutely no idea he would be the controlling monster I discovered him to be.\n\n\"It is important that the public understand what Peter Chilvers' abuse did to me. It destroyed me.\"\n\nMark Ford QC, defending, said character references for Chilvers provided to the court painted a \"very different picture\" to that given by Lesicka.\n\nHe said his partner Lisa Spencer had attested to a supportive, co-operative and loving relationship with him.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Model and racing driver Jodie Kidd has told the BBC her anxiety in her teens was fuelled by claims in the press about her weight.\n\nKidd quit modelling as a 19-year-old, and is now hoping to raise awareness around mental health.\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on BBC Two and BBC News Channel, 10:00 to 11:00 GMT - and see more of our stories here.", "A woman who lost her job after saying that people cannot change their biological sex has lost an employment tribunal.\n\nMaya Forstater, 45, did not have her contract renewed after posting a series of tweets questioning government plans to let people declare their own gender.\n\nMs Forstater believes trans women holding certificates that recognise their transgender identity cannot describe themselves as women.\n\nBut that view is \"not worthy of respect in a democratic society\", a judge said.\n\nMs Forstater, who had worked as a tax expert at the think tank Center for Global Development, was not entitled to ignore the rights of a transgender person and the \"enormous pain that can be caused by misgendering\", employment judge James Tayler said.\n\nMs Forstater was \"absolutist\" in her view, he concluded in a 26-page judgement.\n\n\"It is a core component of her belief that she will refer to a person by the sex she considered appropriate even if it violates their dignity and/or creates an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment,\" he continued.\n\n\"The approach is not worthy of respect in a democratic society.\"\n\nMs Forstater had argued \"framing the question of transgender inclusion as an argument that male people should be allowed into women's spaces discounts women's rights to privacy and is fundamentally illiberal (it is like forcing Jewish people to eat pork)\".\n\nAuthor JK Rowling is among people who have come out in support of Ms Forstater.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Forstater, who raised more than £85,000 through crowdfunding to pay her legal bills, said in response that she was \"blown away by the support and interest in her case\".\n\n\"All I ever wanted on this was for people to be able to talk about the policy questions around sex and gender identity in a normal, open, democratic way\".\n\nGender identity is a matter of enormous public interest and there are a range of different and strongly held views.\n\nSome will regard this judgment as preventing people from expressing their honestly held belief that a person born in a male body cannot become a woman, without the threat of being dismissed from their job for doing so.\n\nOthers will see it as much needed protection for the rights of those who wish to identify as the gender they feel themselves to be.\n\nEmployment tribunal rulings are not binding legal precedents, but they do have weight, and this ruling could deter others who share Maya Forstater's views from bringing such cases in the future.\n\nMs Forstater's solicitor Peter Daly, of Slater and Gordon, said: \"The significance of this judgment should not be downplayed.\n\n\"Had our client been successful, she would have established in law protection for people - on any side of this debate - to express their beliefs without fear of being discriminated against.\"", "The government has laid out its legislative plans for the year in the Queen's Speech. From Brexit to health, trade to the environment, it gives us a sense of what politicians will be debating over the next few months.\n\nOur experts analyse what was, and wasn't, said and what it all means for you.\n\nAs well as the withdrawal agreement bill, which will pave the way for the UK's departure from the EU on 31 January, the government will have to pass a series of bills next year in other policy areas as a direct result of Brexit.\n\nSome of them will be major undertakings:\n\nThere will also be bills covering trade, financial services and cross-border legal disputes.\n\nBut passing legislation will be the easy bit - implementing it all will be the big challenge.\n\nNew systems will need to be up and running by the end of the post-Brexit transition period in just over a year's time, new staff will have to be trained, and businesses and consumers will have to be ready too.\n\nCivil servants will be under enormous pressure to deliver everything that is required under the tight timetable the government has imposed.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice and the Home Office will be among the busiest departments under Boris Johnson's new administration - a reflection of the importance he attaches to law and order.\n\nA number of measures, including those relating to domestic abuse, victims and policing, have been put forward before, but there are also new proposals on sentencing which could lead to a significant increase in the prison population among those jailed for violence, sexual assault and terrorism.\n\nPlans to extend the use of \"whole-life\" tariffs, where offenders can be ordered to spend the rest of their lives behind bars, are vaguely worded, indicating ministers are open-minded about the range of crimes for which offenders should be locked away for ever.\n\nThe idea which has the most potential to alter the criminal justice landscape is for a Royal Commission to examine the process from arrest to sentence. The last time there was such a review was in 1991.\n\nThe terms of reference and the chairperson have not been announced - they will be key to understanding which destination the government wishes the commission to steer towards. Interesting times lie ahead.\n\nEnvironmentalists have welcomed many of the provisions of the new environment bill.\n\nBut they point out that ministers are still committed to North Sea drilling, building roads that experts say will generate traffic, and blocking onshore wind power.\n\nThey have stayed silent on aviation expansion, and have imposed a moratorium on fracking, rather than the permanent ban which some in the north of England were demanding.\n\nCritics point out that the planned new green watchdog won't have the sort of powers to take legal action that prompted the UK to improve air quality under the threat of fines.\n\nAction on business rates was billed as a measure to \"keep town centres vibrant\" - but what's on the table for now will only bring limited relief.\n\nBusiness groups have long been calling for a revamp of the rates system, which raises more than £31bn for the government each year. A quarter of that burden falls on retailers, who pay regardless of profit, says the British Retail Consortium.\n\nSo a one-year extension of a discount for some retailers and an extension of the scheme to pubs, music venues and cinemas - with a saving of £320m - may feel tokenistic.\n\nThis is especially so as the cancellation of planned corporation tax rate cuts means that business across the country will have to fork out £3.2bn more in bills next year than envisaged prior to the election, rising to more than £6bn by 2024.\n\nFor greater relief, retailers will be looking ahead to the Budget and the much-touted overhaul of the rates system. However, it is questionable whether the government will be able to afford to relinquish much of what's become a key revenue raiser.\n\nMeanwhile, both business and the public sector will have to grapple with the government's plans to raise the national living wage to two-thirds median earnings by 2025 (projected to be £10.50), and lower the eligible age for the main rate.\n\nWhile the plans would in theory benefit more than four million people, alleviating in-work poverty, they have been given a cautious welcome by business groups and low-pay campaigners alike, who urge careful implementation and monitoring.\n\nWhile the increase in minimum wage to date hasn't had an impact on employment growth, these plans go into uncharted waters - at a time when there are already signs that the hiring spree of recent years is levelling off.\n\nSchools in England are promised more funding, rising by £7.1bn by 2022-23, which the Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank says will reverse the budget cuts of the austerity years.\n\nMinimum levels of per pupil spending are increasing to £5,000 in secondary and £3,750 in primary schools, and then £4,000 in the following year.\n\nMost schools already get significantly more than this - for instance, the average for secondary schools is currently about £6,200 per year and £5,000 in primary.\n\nOnly about one in five primary schools and a third of secondary schools are below the proposed new minimum, with the biggest number of these in the South East and South West and the lowest number in London.\n\nBut the overall increase should mean an uplift across schools which have been complaining loudly about funding shortages.\n\nSo far there is no decision on whether to cut university tuition fees, other than a promise of \"better value\" for students.\n\nThe future of the NHS in England has been put front and centre of the Queen's Speech.\n\nThis is understandable given that, behind the scenes, ministers and advisers are saying there has to be an improvement in English NHS performance for the government to keep hold of the voters that backed it at the election.\n\nMinisters are making big play of the extra funding, but experts within the health service have warned even with the above-inflation sums going in, it will take years to turn the NHS around and get it back to where it was a decade ago in terms of waiting times and performance - perhaps even a decade.\n\nThe idea of enshrining into law the multi-year NHS funding settlement sounds more significant than it actually is. Ministers want to put a law in place compelling them to keep to their promises, but it makes little difference in reality.\n\nThere are also measures promising to make it easier to recruit doctors from abroad, and the government knows it faces a tough task filling the vacancy rates and growing the workforce.\n\nThere is little detail about social care - despite Boris Johnson's promise to fix the \"crisis\" in the system in his first speech as PM.\n\nInstead, he wants to seek cross-party agreement on the way forward - something that is unlikely to happen quickly, given both Labour and the Liberal Democrats have been plunged into leadership races following the election.\n\nRead more from Nick here.\n\nThere are no big surprises in the busy environmental agenda outlined by the government.\n\nThe headline commitment to reduce the UK's carbon emissions to \"net zero\" by 2050 is there, as are the key elements of an environment bill and new measures on animal welfare. Left unspecified, so far, are the details of many of the initiatives.\n\nA plan to increase the power of local authorities to tackle air pollution makes no mention of whether there's new money to go with it (which is what many councils have been clamouring for).\n\nCampaign promises of new cash for flood defences, electric vehicles, and energy efficiency in homes, schools and hospitals are repeated - a key test will be how they are delivered.\n\nOpposition parties are already saying the government is failing to take the radical action needed.\n\nFor ministers, here's a moment of intense scrutiny on the horizon - COP26, the massive UN climate summit planned for Glasgow next November, when the eyes of the world will judge the sincerity of the UK's green ambitions.\n\nThe government has announced the first Royal Commission on the criminal justice system since 1991.\n\nThe last one met 44 times, took evidence from more than 600 organisations and groups, commissioned 22 research studies and lasted for more than two years.\n\nIt was part of a response to the miscarriage of justice cases, which included the Guildford Four and Birmingham Six and led to the establishment of Criminal Cases Review Commission, which investigates miscarriage of justice cases.\n\nThese are different times. Many will welcome the new commission addressing the problems of what is widely seen to be a criminal justice system under extreme stress, if not in crisis.\n\nMuch of the blame for that is put down to swingeing cuts to the police and Crown Prosecution Service, as well as modern-day challenges such as getting on top of vast amounts of digital evidence obtained from mobile devices.\n\nHowever, there is real fear that the commission could be a way of kicking immediate and solvable problems into the long grass and delaying across the board investment, which many lawyers see as critical to improving a complex system in its entirety.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why there were protests outside the match in Barcelona\n\nProtesters clashed with police outside a Barcelona and Real Madrid football match at the Nou Camp in Spain.\n\nThousands of fans inside Barcelona's stadium held banners urging the Spanish government to \"sit and talk\" with those demanding Catalan independence.\n\nThe match had been postponed in October over protests against the jailing of nine Catalan separatist leaders.\n\nMany Barcelona fans and other protesters want a legal independence referendum for the region.\n\nBefore the game a secretive Catalan protest group, Democratic Tsunami, said on Twitter it would distribute 100,000 banners to fans. It also told them to bring inflatable balls and to write on them a \"message for the world\".\n\nIt later posted footage of fans inside the stadium holding up the banners and chanting \"freedom\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tsunami Democràtic This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe group is classed by Spanish officials as a criminal organisation. In October it organised mass protests at Barcelona's airport in October and blocked a major motorway.\n\nMeanwhile, thousands of protesters gathered outside the stadium, chanting \"Independence\" and \"Free political prisoners\". They made makeshift barricades that were later cleared by police.\n\nAt least 12 people were reportedly injured in the clashes.\n\nThe match, known as \"El Clásico\", was been due to be played two months ago but was postponed due to unrest after Spain's Supreme Court in October sentenced nine Catalan separatist leaders to up to 13 years in prison.\n\nThe game ended in a 0-0 draw, leaving Barcelona top of the league ahead of Real Madrid on goal difference.", "Helen McCourt was murdered as she walked home from work in Merseyside\n\nProposals for a law which would deny parole to killers who refuse to disclose the location of bodies have been included in the Queen's Speech.\n\nThe Prisoners (disclosure of information about victims) Bill, known as Helen's Law, recently ran out of time when the election was called.\n\nHowever, it has been resurrected in the new Conservative government's agenda.\n\nThe bill is named after Helen McCourt, whose murderer Ian Simms has never revealed where her remains are.\n\nSimms, 63, was jailed for life in 1989 after killing Helen McCourt as she walked home from work in Billinge.\n\nHe was told he would have to serve at least 16 years before he could be considered for parole.\n\nHelen's mother, Marie, has campaigned for him not to be released until he says where her body was left.\n\nEarlier in December, she spoke of her relief that the Parole Board's decision to sanction his release was to be reviewed.\n\nShe had previously said she feared the law would come too late for her, as Simms was likely to be freed before it was passed.\n\nThe inclusion of Helen's Law in the Queen's Speech will be a bitter-sweet victory for Marie McCourt, who has fought a tireless campaign to see it introduced.\n\nShe was deeply disappointed that it was dropped at the last Parliament, ahead of the snap general election.\n\nA change in personnel at the top level of government has also been frustrating. David Cameron was prime minister when the campaign to introduce the legislation began.\n\nJustice Secretary David Gauke later backed Helen's Law, but he then quit the cabinet over Brexit.\n\nMore than 500,000 people signed the petition Marie McCourt started to introduce Helen's law in 2015.\n\nIn 2016, St Helens North MP Conor McGinn introduced the Unlawful Killing (Recovery of Remains) Bill 2016-17 under the Ten Minute Rule.\n\nIt did not go anywhere then, but his wish that it eventually be drafted into law by the government appears to have finally come true.", "Next year will continue the global warming trend with temperatures again likely to rise more than one degree above pre-industrial levels.\n\nAccording to the Met Office, 2020 will likely be 1.11C warmer than the average between 1850-1900,\n\nThe year ahead is set to extend the series of the warmest years on record to six in a row.\n\nScientists say the strongest factor causing the rise is greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nThe world first broke through one degree above pre-industrial temperatures back in 2015.\n\nEach year since then has seen temperatures close to or above this mark.\n\nThe warmest year on record is 2016 when a strong El Niño made a significant difference.\n\nWarming in the Arctic is more pronounced than in other parts of the world\n\nThis weather phenomenon sees sea surface temperatures increase in the central and eastern Pacific and it's associated with a range of impacts around the world, including the overall global level of warming.\n\nAccording to the Met Office, the chances of a strong El Niño in 2020 are low.\n\nThey forecast that the global average temperature next year will be in the range of 0.99C to 1.23C with a central estimate of 1.11C. The researchers say that the key factor will be emissions of CO2 and other warming gases.\n\n\"Natural events - such as El Niño-induced warming in the Pacific - influence the climate system, but in the absence of El Niño, this forecast gives a clear picture of the strongest factor causing temperatures to rise - greenhouse gas emissions,\" said Professor Adam Scaife, the Met Office head of long-range prediction.\n\nAccording to researchers, carbon dioxide emissions this year have risen slightly, despite a drop in the use of coal.\n\nThe Global Carbon Project's annual analysis of emission trends suggests that CO2 will go up by 0.6% in 2019.\n\nThe rise is due to continuing strong growth in the utilisation of oil and gas.\n\nThe scale of emissions has a direct bearing on temperatures, scientists say.\n\nProvisional figures released earlier this month by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) suggest 2019 is on course to be the second or third warmest year ever.\n\nIf those numbers hold, 2015-2019 would end up being the warmest five-year period on record.\n\nThe Met Office say they have confidence in their prediction for 2020 based on what's happened in previous years.\n\nThis time last year they estimated that 2019 would be 1.10C above the 1850-1900 mark. The actual temperature recorded this year from January to October shows a global mean 1.11C.\n\nThe BBC Briefing is a series of downloadable online guides to the big topics in the news. Click here if you want more context and facts about UK energy policy and the road to our net zero goals.\n\n\"The forecast for 2020 would place next year amongst the six warmest years on record, which would all have occurred since 2015,\" said Dr Doug Smith, a Met Office research fellow.\n\n\"All of these years have been around 1.0C warmer than the pre-industrial period.\"\n\nWith temperatures keeping close to the one degree mark, there will be renewed concern from scientists that the world is on track to breach the 1.5C limit that many researchers say is the threshold of increasingly dangerous impacts.\n\n2020 will see a major push to get countries to ramp up their plans to ensure the world stays below the 1.5C mark.\n\nThe recent COP25 summit in Madrid saw several key issues kicked down the road to Glasgow where countries from all over the world will meet next November.\n\nThe critical issue of increasing ambition to curb emissions is set to dominate the discussions, which will be presided over by the UK.\n\nThe Committee on Climate Change has warned the government that Britain needed to do better to meet its own targets if it wanted to have credibility with negotiators in Glasgow.", "Experts are warning that people eating a vegan diet need to make sure they get enough B12 - because the risk of deficiency is \"not a myth\".\n\nThey were speaking ahead of 'Veganuary', when increasing numbers turn to a vegan diet each January.\n\nThe diet is generally high in fibre and low in cholesterol, but some nutrients are harder to get enough of - including B12.\n\nThe Vegan Society said it was available in supplements or fortified foods.\n\nAdults need around 1.5 micrograms of B12 a day.\n\nIt is found in meat, fish, eggs and dairy products, but not in fruits, vegetables or grains - so those eating a vegan diet are advised to eat fortified foods, like cereals, or take supplements.\n\nB12 deficiency, which can lead to nerve damage, tends to take three or four years to cause symptoms - usually first appearing as pins and needles in the hands or feet.\n\nTim Key, professor of epidemiology and deputy director of the Cancer Epidemiology unit at Oxford University, said: \"You're not going to get B12 deficiency in Veganuary.\"\n\nBut Prof Key, a vegan for many years who takes B12 supplements himself, added: \"If people become vegan because of that, and don't ever bother to read up about what you need to eat as a vegan, I would be worried they won't know about B12.\"\n\nSuggestions online or on social media that vegans do not need extra B12 are not based on evidence, scientists say.\n\nTom Sanders, emeritus professor of nutrition and dietetics at King's College London, said: \"Of all the micronutrients, B12 is the one we're most concerned about. I'm concerned many people think B12 deficiency is a myth.\"\n\nHe highlighted the case of a breastfeeding mother who had B12 deficiency, and whose child developed neuropathy, leading to long-term damage.\n\n\"It's something that can be easily avoided, and what concerns me is that many new people becoming vegan are unaware of the need to combine sources of plant proteins. And they're not aware of the need to ensure they have adequate levels of B12.\"\n\nThere is limited data on the health effects of a vegan diet - with one UK and one US study covering around 10,000 people.\n\nSo far, the evidence suggests people who are vegan are less likely to be overweight, and at less risk of type 2 diabetes and heart disease.\n\nBut they appear to have a higher risk of bone fracture, and a recent study suggested an increased risk of haemorrhagic stroke.\n\nHeather Russell, dietitian at the Vegan Society, said: \"Whether you're vegan or not, nutritional planning is essential for everyone.\n\n\"Going vegan is an opportunity to learn more about nutrition, including how to balance food groups, and the roles of fortified foods and supplementation.\n\n\"For example, vegans obtain vitamin B12 from fortified foods or supplementation, and guidance is available on on the Vegan Society's website.\"", "Universities in England have been told to be more transparent about how they recruit students and not to make exaggerated marketing claims.\n\nThe Office for Students' annual report warns against sales tactics such as financial inducements or \"unconditional\" exam-grade offers.\n\nThe higher education watchdog's chief executive, Nicola Dandridge, has promised a review of admissions.\n\nThe OFS warned increasing competition between universities was raising concerns about unfair pressure being put on students looking for places.\n\n\"Students can be offered enticements and inducements which are often not in their best interests, at a time when they may be especially vulnerable,\" Ms Dandridge said\n\nAnd they could face a \"sales pitch with questionable incentives\" - exaggerated claims about degree courses or the promise of bursaries for students looking for places in the clearing system after A-level results are released.\n\n\"We cannot have a situation where students' expectations are raised unrealistically before they go to university, only to be dashed when they get there,\" Ms Dandridge said.\n\nThe concern over admissions also includes unconditional or so-called \"conditional unconditional\" offers, when students are promised a place whatever their eventual A-level grades, as long as they accept an offer as their first choice.\n\nThis has raised worries about students not trying hard and ending up with poor A-level grades - or that they will take a course that does not suit them, just to guarantee a place.\n\nDespite warnings, including from the OFS, figures this week showed unconditional offers were increasing - with a quarter of applicants receiving such an offer this year.\n\nMs Dandridge called for more openness in the admissions process - such as whether students were being given accurate information about what A-level grades were really needed to get on to a course.\n\nThe OFS could impose fines - and, in recent years, a number of universities have been criticised by the Advertising Standards Authority for marketing claims that could be misleading.\n\nThe annual report also reveals a number of universities do not have adequate plans in place for students in the event of a university, or a department or a course, having to shut down.\n\nThe watchdog's review of the admissions system will begin next year - with the aim of making recommendations before the end of the year.\n\n\"To the extent that the existing system is not serving students' needs in a fair, transparent and inclusive way, it must change and we will consult widely with students, schools, providers and others to understand their views and perspectives,\" Ms Dandridge said.\n\nThe admissions review will also consider whether there is fair access to universities, including for disadvantaged youngsters.\n\nFigures from the Department for Education published this week showed 26% of young people eligible for free school meals went into higher education, compared with 45% of those better-off students not eligible for free school meals.\n\nWhite British boys eligible for free school meals had among the lowest entry rates, with 13% progressing to higher education.\n\nThe proportion for girls eligible for free school meals from black African families was 67%.\n\nWhite British boys eligible for free school meals have among the lowest entry rates to higher education\n\n\"There is work to do to dispel wider, persistent myths and misperceptions about access and participation,\" Ms Dandridge said.\n\nUniversities Minister Chris Skidmore said the higher sector's \"world leading\" reputation could be harmed by poor practice.\n\nHe said the OFS should hold universities to account and could use \"financial penalties or deregistration in the most serious cases\".\n\nUniversities UK, which has launched its own review of admissions, said it was \"already engaging with the Office for Students on the issues raised in this report\".\n\nA spokesman for the universities' group said this included \"ensuring the fairness of the admissions process, being more transparent in how students' university fees are spent and committing to ending grade inflation\".", "The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and is now in an 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK effectively remains in the EU's customs union and single market and continues to obey EU rules.\n\nHowever, it is no longer part of the political institutions. So, for example, there are no longer any British MEPs in the European Parliament.\n\nNegotiations on a trade deal with the EU have been proceeding for several months. The UK wants as much access as possible for its goods and services to the EU.\n\nBut the government has made clear that the UK must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBoth sides say there a still significant areas of disagreement - for example, on EU proposals for a so-called \"level playing field\", which would see the UK and EU maintain similar minimum standards on things like workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nThe deadline for the two sides to agree an extension to the transition period has now passed.\n\nIf no trade deal has been agreed and ratified by the end of the year, then the UK faces the prospect of tariffs on exports to the EU.\n\nThe prime minister has argued that as the UK is completely aligned to EU rules, the negotiation should be straightforward. But critics have pointed out that the UK wishes to have the freedom to diverge from EU rules so it can do deals with other countries - and that makes negotiations more difficult.\n\nIt's not just a trade deal that needs to be sorted out. The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement. The UK is set to leave the European Arrest Warrant scheme and will have to agree a replacement. It must also agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.\n\nIt's also important to recognise that major changes will take effect on 1 January 2021 whether or not a trade deal is agreed. Free movement of people will end and businesses trading with the EU will have to follow new rules.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "Shadow Treasury minister Clive Lewis has become the second MP to officially enter the race to replace Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader.\n\nIn an article for the Guardian, he said he feared \"necessary truths may go unspoken\" if he didn't put himself forward.\n\nShadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry is also standing, and others are expected to join the contest.\n\nMr Corbyn will stand down \"early next year\" after Labour's election defeat.\n\nOthers who have said they are considering a pitch for the leadership include Sir Keir Starmer, Yvette Cooper and Lisa Nandy.\n\nShadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey, thought to be the favoured candidate of the current party leadership, has yet to say whether she will stand.\n\nIt comes as Laura Parker, the most senior staff member in the Momentum group which backed Mr Corbyn's leadership bid, said she is stepping down.\n\nIn an email to members, she said she would not be leaving the group but wanted to spend more time with her family.\n\nIn the article announcing his candidacy, Mr Lewis praised Labour's outgoing leader for \"inspiring a new generation of members\".\n\nBut he said \"indecisiveness\" on the issue of Brexit and \"disconnected policies\" were behind the party's poor election performance, its worst since 1935.\n\nHe added that Labour was \"never democratised on the scale\" that members expected after Mr Corbyn won the leadership in 2015.\n\nThe party, he wrote, needs an \"army of activists\" who have a \"serious democratic stake in the movement\".\n\n\"I don't want to manage the labour movement, I want to unleash it,\" he added.\n\nHe distanced himself from the Blair and Brown years, saying that the party often had \"the legacy of the 2000s thrown back in our faces\".\n\nMs Thornberry became the first official Labour leadership candidate\n\nAn early supporter of Jeremy Corbyn, Mr Lewis became a shadow energy minister shortly after Mr Corbyn became party leader.\n\nHe has been an MP since 2015, after taking the previously Liberal Democrat-held seat of Norwich South.\n\nHe rejoined Labour's frontbench in January last year, having resigned in February 2017 in order to oppose the bill triggering the Brexit process.\n\nAt the time, he said he could not in \"all good conscience, vote for something I believe will ultimately harm the city I have the honour to represent\".", "The Cap of Maintenance and the Sword of State precede the Queen into the House of Lords chamber\n\nIt may have been billed as a less ornate affair than usual, but even a dressed-down State Opening of Parliament is hard to mistake for a casual do.\n\nThe twinkling of the tiaras and clip-clop of horses' hooves were gone, as the Queen swapped her traditional horse-drawn carriage for a Bentley.\n\nBut with the glittering gold throne and bejewelled crown sitting on a velvet cushion, there was still more than enough pomp to go round.\n\nThe Queen normally arrives by horse-drawn carriage\n\nThis time she travelled the short journey to Parliament by Bentley\n\nThe day begins in the gentle drizzle outside Parliament, as patient police officers redirect irate commuters around the cordoned-off streets, while sleek BMWs and Jaguars with personalised number plates and national flags affixed to the bonnets transport diplomats to the building.\n\nThe foreign dignitaries pack out their small section of the House of Lords - a contrast to the ample elbow room available to peers on the rest of the red benches.\n\nPerhaps the relatively sparse attendance is not surprising - it is, after all, only two months since the last Queen's Speech.\n\nOn that occasion, the Queen read out the list of her government's priorities - but it was far from clear if any of the proposed laws would be passed by such a divided Parliament.\n\nThings are very different now. After last Thursday's general election, the government has a healthy majority of 80 and is likely to have no trouble getting its policies into law.\n\nThe Queen is accompanied by her son Prince Charles, who sits on an imperceptibly smaller throne\n\nThe snap general election meant less time to prepare for the ceremony and, therefore, certain elements were dropped - the Queen wore a day dress instead of sparkly court dress and tiara.\n\nThe 93-year-old monarch no longer wears the heavy, jewel-encrusted Imperial State Crown for state openings, describing it in a documentary last year as \"unwieldy\".\n\nShe also arrived by car rather than horse and carriage - a sort of Cinderella in reverse.\n\nDespite these changes, the event, which can be traced back to the 16th Century and marks the formal start of the Parliamentary year, is still governed by tradition, and there is certainly nothing casual about the House of Lords chamber.\n\nStained glass windows line the walls, ancient coats of arms hang below the balcony, while the golden throne wouldn't look out of place in a fairy tale castle or a Donald Trump hotel.\n\nThe bright crimson robes trimmed with snow white ermine, worn by members of the House of Lords, gives the whole place a Christmassy feel, like a Santa Claus convention - appropriate for a rare December Queen's Speech.\n\nWatching the speech from the gloom of the upper gallery of the House of Lords\n\nThe grandeur of the lower part of the Lords chamber distracts from the comparatively drab upper half, where the dark statues of those lords who signed the Magna Carta, hands resting on their swords, are just about visible through the gloom.\n\nFor the Queen, it must be a slightly strange experience to read out a speech setting out your government's priorities beneath the stern gaze of those men who demanded the monarch of the day - King John - share more of his powers with them.\n\nNevertheless, Her Majesty is treated with absolute reverence as she enters the chamber. The audience rises and only sits down again when the Queen grants permission.\n\nThere is total silence as she sits awaiting the arrival of the MPs. A sign outside the Strangers' Gallery - \"all demonstrations are out of order and will be treated accordingly\" - offers an ominously vague warning to would-be hecklers.\n\nAs the elected politicians - from both the victorious party and those that were defeated - arrive in the chamber, the Queen begins her eponymous speech.\n\nAfter weeks of hearing politicians passionately repeat their election pledges in the hurly burly of the campaign trail, it feels strange to hear those same phrases filtered through the clipped, neutral tones of the monarch to a solemn, respectful audience.\n\nShe concludes her speech, picks up her black handbag and heads for the exit.\n\nAnd with that Parliament is officially opened, the tricky business of getting to power is over, the even-trickier business of governing begins.", "Mark De Kretser said he faced 'relentless' racism during his time serving in the armed forces\n\n\"Racism is prevalent\" within the armed forces, the independent ombudsman overseeing complaints has warned.\n\nIn an exclusive interview with the BBC, Nicola Williams, the first person to hold the office of Service Complaints Ombudsman, said \"incidents of racism are occurring with increasing and depressing frequency\".\n\nShe urged the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to do more to root it out.\n\nThe MoD has insisted it has a range of measures in place to tackle racism.\n\nCases of bullying, harassment and discrimination account for 25% of all the complaints the armed forces receive, and Ms Williams says a \"disproportionate\" number of those come from ethnic minorities who make up just 7% of service personnel.\n\nThe BBC has interviewed one former soldier whose complaint of racism was at first dismissed by the Ministry of Defence, but then upheld by the Ombudsman.\n\nMark De Kretser, whose father came from Sri Lanka, served as a regular soldier and then as a reserve for nearly 30 years.\n\nHe did tours of both Iraq and Afghanistan. But it wasn't combat which left him with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, it was racism.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former soldier Mark de Kretser: \"People called me Apu from The Simpsons\"\n\nHe describes it as \"relentless\". He says he was asked whether someone in his family ran a corner shop.\n\n\"I'd be referred to as Apu, out of the Simpsons, I'd be referred to as Gary Coleman, Buddha… and there's a common theme to all of them.\n\n\"It got to the point where I wasn't worried about how I performed at work. I was worried about what was going to be said to me next\".\n\nMark had a breakdown and was medically discharged from the Army in 2017. He sued the MoD and has now received a financial settlement.\n\nHis solicitor, Ahmed Al-Nahhas, the head of military claims at Bolt Burdon Kemp, says he sees many more servicemen and women who ask about their legal rights, but who don't make a formal complaint \"because they're afraid for their careers or they don't have faith in the system\".\n\nHis point was reinforced in a report by MPs earlier this year which expressed \"concern\" that pressure had been put on some complainants not to proceed.\n\nThat lack of trust in the system was highlighted earlier this year when two former paratroopers took their complaint of racism to an employment tribunal instead.\n\nHani Gue (L) and Nkululeko Zulu claimed they were subjected to racial harassment\n\nThe court found that Hani Gue and Nkululeko Zulu has been working in a \"degrading, humiliating and offensive environment\" at their Colchester barracks with racist graffiti written across personal photos.\n\nMr Nkululeko said he believed the army suffered from \"systemic racism\".\n\nNicola Williams says she \"would not go as far\" as to describe the army as \"institutionally racist\".\n\nBut she adds \"I would absolutely say the Army and the armed forces have issues with racism which need to be tackled\".\n\nDespite improvements she says the complaints system is still not operating efficiently and fairly. Her office is still short staffed.\n\nShe's still waiting for the MoD to follow up on a number of her recommendations.\n\nNicola Williams said the armed forces have racism issues they must tackle\n\nMs Williams has repeatedly called on the MoD to commission an independent report to find out why so many people with BAME backgrounds and women are making complaints.\n\nThe MoD insists it's committed to stamping out racism.\n\nIt says it has a range of measures to ensure the issue is tackled including regular diversity and inclusion training. The Army has also set up a unit and a help-line to deal with \"unacceptable behaviours\".\n\nLt. Colonel Jonathan Buxton , who runs the unit, says the fact the Army has invested in his team of six shows \"it is taking the problem seriously\".\n\nIn a statement the MoD said \"racism has no place in the military and anyone found to be behaving in such a way can expect to be disciplined, discharged or dismissed\".\n\nSolicitor Ahmed Al-Nahhas says he's seen no evidence that any action was taken against those responsible for bullying Mark De Kretser.\n\nAs for Mark himself, he's still trying to put his life back together.\n\nHe says the Army \"broke me. I was really quite a strong character. But I'm a mouse now\"", "The A5 dual carriageway scheme would link Dublin to the north west of Northern Ireland\n\nEleven major capital projects in NI have not been completed on time and have run millions over budget, according to an Audit Office report.\n\nThey include the A5 road upgrade, Casement Park, Ulster University's (UU) new Belfast campus and the Royal Jubilee Maternity Hospital.\n\nSeven of the 11 were identified by the executive in 2015 as flagship projects.\n\nThe report highlights funding, planning and legal issues, and a lack of construction industry interest.\n\nA spokeswoman for UU said the new campus would \"deliver a progressive student experience in a state-of-the art city centre campus\".\n\nShe added: \"An independent assessment of this project's overall regeneration impact details benefits to the NI economy of £1.4bn, through this significant investment in the aspirations of our young people, the city and beyond.\"\n\nThe Audit Office report also says the Strule Shared education campus in County Tyrone will be further delayed until at least 2024 and has also gone about £45m over budget.\n\nThe biggest school building project in Northern Ireland will eventually see six schools built on the site of the former Lisanelly army base in Omagh.\n\nAlthough work began on the Strule campus in 2013, only one school is currently open despite the original target date of 2020 for the entire project.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department of Education (DE) said it remained fully committed to delivering the programme.\n\nShe added: \"The next phase of construction for Strule Shared Education Campus has been delayed as a result of tendering issues in appointing a contractor.\n\n\"In light of this delay the campus go live date has been revised, and the Department is provisionally working towards September 2024.\"\n\nThe 11 projects identified by the Audit Office:\n\nKieran Donnelly, auditor general, said major capital projects are complex and delivery problems are not unique to Northern Ireland.\n\n\"Existing, cumbersome governance and delivery structures within the Northern Ireland public sector can be a barrier to achieving value for money,\" he added.\n\nThe campus is being built on the site of the former Lisanelly army base in Omagh\n\nThis is not the first report that has raised questions around how capital projects are delivered in Northern Ireland.\n\nIn 2013, a review of commissioning and delivering major infrastructure projects found that \"the system as a whole is not fit for purpose\".\n\nThe report did not receive universal support. Proposed reform stalled and consequently some of the improvements were not realised.\n\nThe Audit Office echoes previous reports that highlighted the need to eliminate duplication, improve project prioritisation, reduce bureaucracy, and drive better deals by increasing innovation.\n\nAn aerial view of the proposed stadium at Casement Park\n\nCapital projects are identified in the Investment Strategy, a rolling 10-year plan prepared by the Strategic Investment Board on behalf of the executive.\n\nThe original strategy ran from 2005-2015, and was updated for the period 2011-21.\n\nA further update has been put on hold following the collapse of devolution in Northern Ireland.", "Natalie McGarry was jailed for 18 months but then released pending an appeal\n\nFormer MP Natalie McGarry has had her conviction for embezzlement quashed after judges ruled she had suffered a miscarriage of justice.\n\nMs McGarry, 38, burst into tears at the appeal court in Edinburgh after the ruling was announced. She now faces a retrial.\n\nIn June the former SNP Glasgow East MP was jailed for 18 months for embezzling £25,000 from pro-independence groups.\n\nAt the time Ms McGarry was freed on bail after lodging an appeal.\n\nJudges Lord Carloway, Lord Glennie and Lord Turnbull quashed the ex-politician's embezzlement convictions following a hearing at the Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh.\n\nThe judges made their ruling after hearing submissions, which cannot be reported for legal reasons, from defence advocate Gordon Jackson QC.\n\nMs McGarry started weeping as Lord Carloway, Scotland's most senior judge, told her of the court's decision and informed her she would have to stand trial again.\n\nShe made no comment as she left court.\n\nMs McGarry was elected as an SNP member in 2015 but did not seek re-election in 2017.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "London Victoria was left \"at a standstill\" because of a \"major signal failure\" during rush-hour.\n\nPart of the station, the country's second busiest, was closed due to overcrowding fears. Services faced delays and cancellations until the end of Wednesday.\n\nSouthern Rail, which operates many of the services, advised passengers not to travel from Victoria.\n\nAbout 75 million passengers passed through the station last year.\n\nImages posted on social media showed hundreds of passengers held on the station concourse, unable to catch Southern, Southeastern and Gatwick Express trains.\n\nThameslink services out of London Bridge were also affected by the problems.\n\nTrains were running in the area at 20:00 GMT on Wednesday, but disruption lasted until the end of service.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Network Rail Kent and Sussex This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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You have been let down badly this evening.\"\n\n\"The woman next to me is in floods of tears as she's missing her flight from Gatwick.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Rob Broomby This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRob Broomby, a TV producer, stuck at Victoria said it was the \"worst transport chaos\" he had seen.\n\nHe added: \"There was a lot of good humour in the bar as people settled in for a long wait, but when the platform indicators began flashing on and off it felt more like a Christmas tree with dodgy wiring.\"\n\nNetwork Rail apologised and warned that disruption could continue into Thursday morning's rush-hour.\n\nIt said: \"Some trains will be finishing the day in the 'wrong' place, so we do expect there to be some disruption tomorrow morning as operators move their stock and crew around.\"\n\nHave you been affected by the signal failure at Victoria station? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "The head of the Alzheimer’s Society says that the UK is facing a humanitarian crisis, because the care system is failing those with dementia and their families.\n\nThe number of us who will provide care at home for a loved one with dementia is set to rise by almost one million by 2035.\n\nHere are the stories of Anne and Julia – who both care full time for their husbands.\n\nAnne’s husband John has been assessed as having no mental capacity and goes to a day centre two days a week.\n\nJulia spent months fighting for social services and occupational therapy help for her husband Bob.\n\nHe is currently being assessed in a home, after he went missing and was found during an extensive police search.", "Trains were delayed as a result of issues\n\nTrains have been delayed at one of Manchester's main railway stations after workers left platforms when a customer threatened staff.\n\nNorthern said workers withdrew from the concourse at Victoria \"for a short period\" at about 17:00 GMT.\n\nServices were delayed up to 30 minutes with others cancelled and disruption is expected until the end of the day, according to Network Rail.\n\nChris McKeon, of the Local Democracy Reporting Service, said he was on a train to Liverpool when he heard an announcement about \"a threat of serious assault against a member of staff\".\n\n\"The driver said we were waiting for a despatcher and they've all walked out,\" he said.\n\n\"He said earlier one staff was abused and he walked out and there was another incident just before we got on the train and they all walked out.\"\n\nIt led to issues relating to platform allocation for trains, Northern said.\n\nThe disruption was expected to last until the end of the day\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A reconstruction of Homo erectus - the first known human to walk fully upright\n\nAn ancient relative of modern humans survived into comparatively recent times in South East Asia, a new study has revealed.\n\nHomo erectus evolved around two million years ago, and was the first known human species to walk fully upright.\n\nNew dating evidence shows that it survived until just over 100,000 years ago on the Indonesian island of Java - long after it had vanished elsewhere.\n\nThis means it was still around when our own species was walking the Earth.\n\nDetails of the result are described in the journal Nature.\n\nIn the 1930s, 12 Homo erectus skull caps and two lower leg bones were found in a bone bed 20m above the Solo River at Ngandong in central Java.\n\nIn subsequent decades, researchers have attempted to date the fossils. But this proved difficult because the surrounding geology is complex and details of the original excavations became confused.\n\nProf Russell Ciochon with replicas of the Homo erectus skull caps found at Ngandong\n\nIn the 1990s, one team came up with unexpectedly young ages of between 53,000 and 27,000 years ago. This raised the distinct possibility that modern humans overlapped with Homo erectus on the Indonesian island.\n\nNow, researchers led by Prof Russell Ciochon of the University of Iowa in Iowa City opened up new excavations on the terraces beside the Solo River, reanalysing the site and its surroundings.\n\nThey have provided what they describe as a definitive age for the bone bed of between 117,000 and 108,000 years old. This represents the most recent known record of Homo erectus anywhere in the world.\n\n\"I don't know what you could date at the site to give you more precise dates than what we've been able to produce,\" Prof Ciochon told BBC News.\n\nProf Chris Stringer, research leader on human evolution at London's Natural History Museum, who was not involved with the work, commented: \"This is a very comprehensive study of the depositional context of the famous Ngandong Homo erectus partial skulls and shin bones, and the authors build a strong case that these individuals died and were washed into the deposits of the Solo River about 112,000 years ago.\n\n\"This age is very young for such primitive-looking Homo erectus fossils, and establishes that the species persisted on Java for well over one million years.\"\n\nResearchers think the collection of remains represent a mass death event, possibly the result of a lahar upriver. A lahar - which comes from a Javanese word - is the slurry that can flow down the slope of a volcano when heavy rainfall occurs during or after a volcanic eruption. These violent events will sweep away anything in their path.\n\nPreviously, team-member Frank Huffman, from the University of Texas at Austin, had tracked down the descendants of the Dutch researchers who excavated the Homo erectus remains back in the 1930s.\n\nThe excavation sites lie along the Solo river in central Java\n\nThe relatives were able to provide him with photographs of the original dig, maps and notebooks. Huffman was able to resolve much of the uncertainty that had hampered previous attempts to understand the site.\n\n\"He was able to tell us exactly where to dig,\" Prof Ciochon said of the University of Texas researcher.\n\nCiochon and his colleagues excavated part of an untouched reserve area left alone by the Dutch team in the 1930s. Informed by records of the original excavations, the team was able to identify the gravelly deposit - or bone bed - from which the Homo erectus fossils had come, and date it.\n\nOn other islands in South-East Asia, Homo erectus appears to have evolved into smaller forms, such as Homo floresiensis - the \"Hobbit\" - on Flores, and Homo luzonensis in the Philippines. This probably occurred because there were limited food resources on these islands. But on Java, there appears to have been enough food for erectus to maintain its original body size.\n\nThe specimens at Ngandong appear to be between 5ft and 6ft in height - comparable to examples from Africa and elsewhere in Eurasia.\n\nThe findings further underline the shift in thinking this field of study has undergone over the decades. We used to think of human evolution as a progression, with a straight line leading from apes to us. This is embodied in the so-called March of Progress illustration where a stooping chimp-like creature gradually morphs into Homo sapiens, apparently the apex of evolution.\n\nThese days, we know things were far messier. The latest study highlights a mind-boggling truth: that many of the species we thought of as transitional stages in this onward march overlapped with each other, in some cases for hundreds of thousands of years.\n\nBut why did Homo erectus survive so late on Java? In Africa, the species was probably gone by 500,000 years ago; in China it vanished some 400,000 years ago. Russell Ciochon thinks that it was probably outcompeted by other human species elsewhere, but Java's location allowed it to thrive in isolation.\n\nHowever, the results show the fossils came from a period when environmental conditions on Java were changing. What were once open woodlands were transforming into rainforest. Prof Ciochon thinks this could mark the exact point of extinction of Homo erectus on the island.\n\nNo Homo erectus are found after this time, he explained, and there's a gap with no human activity at all until Homo sapiens turns up on Java around 39,000 years ago. Prof Ciochon believes H. erectus was too dependent on the open savannah and too inflexible to adapt to life in a rainforest.\n\n\"Homo sapiens is the only hominin species that lives in a tropical forest,\" he explained. \"I think it's mainly because of the cultural attributes of Homo sapiens - the ability to make all these specialised tools.\"\n\n\"Once this rainforest flora and fauna spread across Java, that's the end of erectus.\"\n\n\"The authors claim that this is therefore the last known occurrence of the species, and that this indicates there was no overlap of the species with Homo sapiens in Java, as H. sapiens arrived much later,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm not convinced about that as other supposedly late Homo erectus material from Javanese sites like Ngawi and Sambungmacan remain to be properly dated, and they may be younger still. Alternatively, they may correlate with the ages of the Ngandong fossils, but that should be the next stage of investigation.\"", "The mother of a British teenager accused of lying about being raped by Israeli tourists has said the British embassy failed to provide adequate support.\n\nHer daughter is on trial for falsely claiming to have been attacked at an Ayia Napa hotel in July.\n\nThe 19-year-old has said Cypriot police made her falsely confess to lying about the incident.\n\nThe UK Foreign Office said it \"continues to support\" the woman.\n\nThe teenager claims she was gang-raped in a hotel room in the resort.\n\nTwelve young Israelis were arrested in connection with the allegations but were later released and returned home.\n\nProsecutors say she willingly wrote and signed a statement retracting her initial claims.\n\nBut she says this happened under duress with the threat of arrest and she had been denied access to a lawyer.\n\nHer mother, \"Jenny\" - not her real name - told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme the past few months had been a \"living nightmare\".\n\n\"The hardest part of it is being absolutely sure your daughter is telling the truth and then to see a group of men in court say that she's lying,\" she said.\n\nThe trial began at the start of October but the verdict has been delayed until 30 December.\n\nThe 19-year-old has post-traumatic stress disorder and her mother said a psychological assessment had determined the symptoms had become \"much, much worse\" since the alleged rape.\n\n\"[Initially] being in prison and the ongoing uncertainty means she had not been able to get appropriate medical attention or treatment,\" she said.\n\n\"She sees things, she hears things and is jumpy and uncertain about whether things are there or not.\"\n\nJenny also criticised what she sees as a lack of government support.\n\nShe said after the alleged rape \"a consular officer went to see my daughter a few times and helped me get into the prison\" but at a higher level \"I've seen nothing\".\n\n\"You have to question what they're there for,\" she said.\n\n\"I understand there is a judicial process but the issue is her human rights have been violated the whole way through [by the Cypriot authorities].\n\n\"I'm shocked that neither the EU or the Embassy or the government through my MP have stepped in to ensure fundamental rights under European law are observed.\n\n\"You have this concept that if something goes wrong, you'll be helped by having a British passport - but that's not my experience.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office said in a statement: \"Our staff continue to support a British woman and her family following her arrest in Cyprus.\n\n\"We have made a number of visits to her in detention, attended court hearings, and are in contact with her legal representatives and the local authorities about her case.\"\n\nThe family's lawyer, Michael Polak, told BBC News he was \"shocked about the failings\" of the Cypriot police's rape investigation and \"how determined\" they were \"to get her to retract her statement\".\n\nHe said his main aim was to stop the woman being convicted and then \"she will be a victim again\" and police \"would have a discretion\" as to whether to investigate the alleged rape.\n\nA police spokesman has previously told newspaper Philenews that \"police handled the case with professionalism from the beginning.\n\n\"The 19-year-old British woman asked to make additional statements, by which she withdrew the allegations she had made the first time.\"\n\nNir Yaslovitch, a lawyer representing some of the Israelis, has previously said video clips made by at least one of those initially accused of rape had contradicted the woman's account.\n\nJenny said the family were optimistic about the outcome of the trial, but were also \"preparing for the worst\".\n\n\"I have no life, I don't see my friends and family and both of our normal lives are on hold,\" she said.\n\n\"Being out here over Christmas is a nightmare.\"\n\nFollow the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on Facebook and Twitter - and see more of our stories here.", "Mia Austin lost her power of speech and movement after a stroke in 2009\n\nA woman with locked-in syndrome died at a holiday park after choking on a marshmallow, an inquest has concluded.\n\nMia Austin, 30, from Lower Heswall, Wirral, Merseyside, died at The Warren in Abersoch, Gwynedd, in June.\n\nThe inquest in Caernarfon heard Ms Austin had lost her power of speech and movement after a stroke 10 years ago and was unable to cough up the sweet.\n\nMs Austin's mother Carol told the inquest Mia had noticed some large marshmallows during a lunchtime visit to a shop.\n\n\"Apparently on Love Island they did a marshmallow challenge, you put marshmallows in the mouth. That's what she wanted to do with two friends,\" she said.\n\nMs Austin returned to her accommodation with her carer, who then put a marshmallow in her mouth.\n\nShe had shaken her head to say \"no\" when the carer had suggested it needed cutting.\n\nShe began choking and panicked. She lost consciousness and paramedics attended the scene.\n\nMs Austin's mother told the inquest her daughter was Merseyside \"woman of the year\" and won the award posthumously the day after the tragedy.\n\nShe also described her daughter as \"perfectly well and healthy\" before having the stroke at home in November 2009, and since communicated through a spell chart and a computer.\n\nThe coroner said the result of the stroke meant Ms Austin did not have the ability to cough up the marshmallow, which had blocked her airway and caused her to suffocate.\n\nDespite having locked-in syndrome, Ms Austin continued to travel and undertook lots of charity work, including sleeping out on the streets of Liverpool to raise money and awareness of homelessness.\n\nShe went to Africa to support communities, visit orphanages and schools and deliver donations of stationery and toys.\n\nMs Austin also wrote a book, called In the Blink of an Eye, which was published in 2018 and describes short snippets of her memories after her stroke and documents her journey from hospital to returning home.\n\nSpeaking after the inquest, organisers of the Merseyside Women of the Year awards said: \"Mia was a truly inspirational young woman and an extremely popular and deserving winner of two Merseyside Women of the Year awards, Inspirational Woman and overall Woman of the Year.\n\n\"Her legacy will live on in the fantastic work that she did and the lives that she touched.\"", "Stormzy has praised a school in Stoke-on-Trent for the reworking of his hit Blinded By Your Grace in their nativity play.\n\nThe children at Belgrave St Bartholomew's Academy tweeted the rapper the new version of the song and he retweeted saying they \"smashed it\".\n\nThe school has now invited him along to see a performance for himself.", "Police officer Amjad Ditta is among 16 men charged with sex offences against children\n\nSixteen men including a police officer have been charged with historical sex offences against children aged between 13 and 16.\n\nWest Yorkshire PC Amjad Ditta, also known as Amjad Hussain, 35, has been charged with sexual touching.\n\nHe and 15 other men are charged with offences against three girls in the Halifax area, dating from 2006 to 2009.\n\nThe allegations include several counts of rape, sexual assault, supplying drugs and trafficking.\n\nMr Ditta, who was attached to West Yorkshire Police's Protective Services Operations, was a serving officer at the time of the offence he has been accused of.\n\nHe has been suspended from duty, the force said.\n\nThe 16 men, all from Halifax, will appear at Bradford Magistrates' Court on 6 January 2020.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mohammed Shah Subhani had been missing for nearly eight months\n\nThe body of a man feared to have been murdered has been found in woodland.\n\nMohammed Shah Subhani, 27, was reported missing after failing to return home in Hounslow, west London, on 7 May. He is thought to have had thousands of pounds on him when he disappeared.\n\nThe father of one's remains were found near Gerrards Cross in Buckinghamshire, about 15 miles from his home.\n\nSeven men and one woman have been arrested in connection with the death of Mr Subhani, who was known as Shah.\n\nMr Subhani's sister Quirat Subhani said: \"We kept our faith high and believed our beloved brother will return.\n\n\"It broke our hearts and shattered our world when we were told Shah's body was discovered in an abandoned woodland 15 miles from home.\n\n\"Someone maliciously killed the apple of our eye, turned our world upside down and dumped him in an isolated woodland for his body to decompose, and for us to be left with nothing but his bones - this will haunt us for a lifetime.\n\n\"Someone must know something... they must come forward and help us get justice for Shah. Our hearts will never heal but what our brother does deserve is for justice to be served.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp Noel McHugh, from the Metropolitan Police, said Mr Subhani had \"everything to live for and was loved by everyone\", adding: \"Not only was he murdered, he was prevented a decent and dignified burial.\"\n\nPolice revealed for the first time that they were searching at Hedgerley Lane, near Gerrards Cross, because a stolen black BMW X5 on cloned plates had been seen in the area in the days after Mr Subhani disappeared.\n\nThis vehicle had two occupants who \"appeared to be loitering\", Mr McHugh said.\n\nHe said he believed the killers were \"confident [this search] would never happen\" and that Thursday's discovery presented a \"significant springboard for our investigation\".\n\nMr McHugh described the land officers have been searching as \"very challenging terrain\", and said those involved had to \"build bridges and walkways, and divert significant volumes of water\".\n\nThe crime scene is expected to be examined for a further three weeks.\n\nThe discovery was made in a wooded area near Gerrards Cross\n\nPolice say they know Mr Subhani went to Acton police station on the afternoon of 7 May where he may have picked up a set of number plates and two mobile phones.\n\nThey say he possibly intended to have £3,800 returned to him, although this did not happen.\n\nHe then went to Hounslow where he was due to collect £5,000 at a business premises on Derby Road, police said.\n\nOfficers believe he drove his white Audi Q3 there but that someone else drove it away.\n\nThe Met previously said Mr Subhani might have become \"out of his depth in some kind of criminal activity\".\n\nA reward of £20,000 remains on offer for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of those responsible.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "First things first, I want you to know this is a safe space, free from feline puns. There'll be no talk of fur-from-purrfect performances that don't scratch the character's surface or give you paws for thought. That's not happening, not in this review - not a cat-in-hell's chance.\n\nWe all know about the social media hoo-ha the trailer caused when it was released in the summer. \"Urgh!\" was the general reaction. \"Cats with furry breasts, that's gross! And the scaling, that's rubbish.\"\n\nWell, those issues remain in the finished, full-length feature, although the director - Tom Hooper (The King's Speech, Les Misérables) - has spoken about throwing a large chunk of cash at fixing the more glaring problems made evident to him by the Twitterstorm.\n\nMoney has been spent. You can see that.\n\nCats the movie is a slick, computer-enhanced celeb-fest with meticulously choreographed set-pieces taking place in a version of London that sits somewhere between Dickensian squalor and Soho glamour. It is a shiny, colourful, sung-through piece with luxury hotel production values.\n\nThat the cats are still gendered and sexualised is not such a big deal. The geriatric bodies of the de-aged stars in Scorsese's film The Irishman are far more disconcerting and off-putting. Anyway, the figure-hugging outfits allow Francesca Hayward - a Principal Ballerina at the Royal Ballet - to treat us to her best moves playing Victoria, the white cat.\n\nShe is not exactly verbose, but her eyes talk plenty, wearing a nonplussed expression throughout as she tries to figure out what in the name of Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats is going on.\n\nThis is a thin tale (see, I can resist) about a gang of feral cats called the Jellicles, who gather once a year to see which of their number will be given the opportunity to ascend to the Heaviside layer.\n\nDame Judi Dench, who plays wise Old Deuteronomy, has the task of making the Jellicle choice under heavy lobbying from pantomime baddie cat Macavity (Idris Elba).\n\nA simple story based on the poems of T.S. Eliot, which Andrew Lloyd Webber illustrated with some very catchy numbers in his hit 1981 musical Cats. I saw that original production as a Clash-mad teenager and surprised my grumpy self by loving every single second. I really do have the T-shirt. Brian Blessed was wonderful as Old Deuteronomy.\n\nMore recently, I saw Nicole Scherzinger as Grizabella knock it out of the park in a 2014 revival, where she left absolutely everything in the auditorium with an unforgettable rendition of Memory.\n\nNicole Scherzinger as Grizabella (front left) starred in a West End production of Cats in 2014\n\nJennifer Hudson gives a strong performance as Grizabella in the film\n\nThat job falls to Jennifer Hudson in the film, who is convincing as the ostracised Grizabella, and - more importantly - nails the famous song with aplomb, as you would expect from such a talented individual.\n\nIt is a reflection of the singing throughout, which rarely dips below excellent, although both Dame Judi and Elba are clearly primarily actors not singers. That's fine, they know how to sell a song. As does Taylor Swift, who has a welcome cameo playing the mischievous Bombalurina.\n\nSir Ian McKellen rocks up for a turn as Gus the Theatre Cat, while Rebel Wilson and James Corden pitch in to bring a little light-hearted comedy to proceedings. Oh, and Ray Winstone makes an appearance too, just like he does in those betting ads.\n\nIt is a roll-call of stars that's a testament to Hooper's well-deserved standing as a top-notch, Oscar-winning director.\n\nBut you can't always hit the bullseye, and the helmsman has missed the spot with Cats.\n\nThe sum is a great deal less than the parts, however famous and gifted the people playing them happen to be. The story takes forever to get going, and when it does - eventually - it lacks any real conviction or emotion.\n\nThe harsh truth is the film feels plastic, it has no heart or soul. That might well be a problem with the source material and its suitability for a transfer from stage to screen. Notwithstanding notable successes, the fact is not everything that is a hit in one medium works in another.\n\nIt's not terrible, it's certainly got more going for it than the trailer, but it is some way short of Lord Lloyd-Webber's original.", "History was made when Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi banged the gavel and made the impeachment of President Donald Trump official.\n\nAfter hours of debate, the House had voted 231 to 197 on the first charge of abuse of power.\n\nBut as members of her party began to clap in celebration, Ms Pelosi shot them a glare to cut it out.\n\nShe has always maintained that impeaching a president was a solemn exercise.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Corbyn 'badly let down' by advisers, says Thornberry\n\nShadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry has become the first MP to officially enter the race to replace Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg, she said she thinks she can win the contest because she comes \"from the heart of the party\".\n\nShe also accused Jeremy Corbyn's advisers of \"badly letting him down\".\n\nSir Keir Starmer, Yvette Cooper, Lisa Nandy have said they are also considering standing to be leader.\n\nMeanwhile Tony Blair has accused Labour of \"letting the country down\" and attacked the Labour leadership for going into the election with a \"strategy for defeat\".\n\nMr Corbyn has said he will stand down as leader \"early next year\" and the race to replace him could start on 7 January.\n\nIn an interview with BBC's political editor, Ms Thornberry said she had warned Mr Corbyn it would be \"catastrophic\" for Labour to go into \"an election about Brexit when we weren't sufficiently clear on what our position was\".\n\n\"Because we had a single issue election on an issue on which we weren't clear, we were in grave danger,\" she said.\n\nShe said, as leader, Mr Corbyn had brought Labour \"back to who we really are\" and offered a \"clarity of vision that was incredibly appealing, but that then that got lost\".\n\n\"I think that Jeremy has been really badly let down by people who advised him badly and picked up their own agenda,\" she said.\n\nSeeking to underline her own leadership credentials, she said she was \"tested\" at taking on Boris Johnson because she had shadowed him for Labour when he was foreign secretary, and knows how to \"get under\" his skin.\n\nMaking reference to a description of ex-PM David Cameron by Mr Johnson, she said she was a \"girly swot\" who was able to \"look at the details\".\n\nIn a Guardian article announcing her candidacy, she said she had \"pummelled\" Mr Johnson every week in Parliament when she was his opposite number.\n\nMs Thornberry has been the MP for Islington South and Finsbury since 2005.\n\nWe're off - Emily Thornberry is the first to formally say she's definitely going to stand to replace Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader.\n\nThere's been an awful lot of huffing and puffing without people putting their heads above the parapet, and I think she's decided she might as well get on with it.\n\nShe's the shadow foreign secretary and was was highly critical of Mr Corbyn for his neutral stance over the UK's membership of the EU.\n\nThe fact that the party membership is still overwhelmingly Remain will help her cause, as will the fact that she was seen to have done pretty well when she stood in for Jeremy Corbyn at Prime Minister's Questions.\n\nShe's been loyal to Mr Corbyn but, at the same time, she doesn't identify closely with Mr Corbyn's team.\n\nI suspect her difficulty, maybe, is that she will be fishing in similar waters to a number of other female MPs who may enter the leadership race such as Jess Phillips, Lisa Nandy and Yvette Cooper.\n\nThey've got to get 22 Labour MPs to back them if they want to get on the ballot paper - so that is the first hurdle they've got to get over.\n\nShadow justice secretary Richard Burgon, a close ally of Mr Corbyn, said he welcomed the fact Ms Thornberry had entered the race, although he said he would prefer shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey to become leader.\n\nHe told BBC 2's Politics Live it was important that someone \"from the left of the Labour party\", who had backed Mr Corbyn's original leadership bid, should be among the list of leadership contenders.\n\nHe said that Ms Long-Bailey - who has not formally declared her candidacy - understood why the party lost support in seats that had supported Brexit, and knew how to help areas that have lost industrial jobs.\n\n\"But I think it's welcome that the members are going to have a real choice,\" he added.\n\nMeanwhile, Sir Keir Starmer has told the BBC he is \"seriously considering\" putting himself forward for the Labour leadership.\n\nThe shadow Brexit secretary said Labour has \"a mountain to climb\" following its general election defeat.\n\nAnother potential contender Yvette Cooper, who lost to Mr Corbyn in the 2015 Labour leadership contest, said she would \"decide over Christmas\" about whether to stand.\n\nShe told Radio 4's Today programme that Labour had \"a long road to travel,\" adding that the party needed to tackle anti-Semitism, restore \"kindness to our politics\" and be more \"inclusive\".\n\nReflecting on Labour's defeat, Sir Keir - who was calling for another EU referendum - said the party had failed to \"knock back\" the Conservatives' \"get Brexit done\" slogan.\n\nHe also attacked the Labour's manifesto arguing it \"had too much in it\" adding \"we couldn't see the wood for the trees\".\n\nLooking to the party's future, he said: \"What Corbyn bought to the Labour party was a change of emphasis - radicalism that really matters - we need to build on that, not oversteer and go back to a bygone age.\"\n\nAsked whether he considered himself to be a Corbynite, Sir Keir said: \"I don't need someone else's name tattooed on my head to make decisions.\"\n\nLabour's defeats in the North of England constituencies has led some to say the next leader should not come from London.\n\nHowever Sir Keir said the Labour leader needed to \"be able to talk to everyone\" in the UK.\n\nThe former director of public prosecutions also insisted that \"my background isn't what people think it is\", adding that he had \"never been in any other workplace than a factory\" before he went to university.\n\nOther candidates believed to be considering running to be leader include:", "Carina Lepore said hearing the words 'You're hired' was \"an incredible feeling\"\n\nLord Sugar has hired his new Apprentice - and will be going into business with Carina Lepore after picking the artisan bakery owner as this year's winner.\n\nCarina, 30, from south London, beat 32-year-old recruitment consultant Scarlett Allen-Horton in the final of the BBC One contest on Wednesday.\n\nCarina will now use Lord Sugar's £250,000 investment to attempt to build an empire of high street bakeries.\n\n\"It's been an amazing, amazing achievement for myself,\" she said.\n\nCarina currently runs the Dough Artisan Bakehouse in Herne Hill - with her father as head baker - and has said she wants a branch on \"every high street across the UK\".\n\nCarina impressed Lord Sugar by being on the winning team in nine out of the 10 tasks during the series, including winning all three episodes in which she was project manager.\n\n\"First of all, I think the amount of tasks she won and the manner in which she won really showed that she knows what she's doing as far as business is concerned,\" the business mogul said afterwards.\n\nLord Sugar took into account the high demand for cafés and food outlets, whereas he had invested in two recruitment firms in the past.\n\nWhile weighing up his decision, he told the finalists: \"When you look at the high street these days, that's all it's packed with - food.\n\n\"Scarlett - two past winners are recruitment companies, and do I want to throw more eggs into that basket?\"\n\nIn Wednesday's final, Carina and Scarlett were asked to create digital screen and TV adverts for their proposed businesses, and present them to Lord Sugar and 250 experts at London's City Hall.\n\nAfter being hired, Carina told the Press Association news agency: \"It's like this euphoric relief. I was so overwhelmed and so happy. It's a feeling that I haven't really felt.\n\n\"Me and Scarlett said it the whole way through - we have got massive respect for each other. She is a great businesswoman and she was tough competition for me. I knew that.\n\n\"To get told 'You're hired' by Lord Sugar, it was an incredible feeling.\"\n\nThe 15th series of the BBC One programme was popular with viewers but also made headlines away from the screen.\n\nIn October the BBC told candidate Lottie Lion that comments she made to a fellow candidate on a WhatsApp group were \"unacceptable\".\n\nIt followed reports that she said \"shut up Gandhi\" to Lubna Farhan.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "When scrolling through Instagram, you've probably seen celebrities advertising loads of products like make-up and weight loss drinks.\n\nBut do the influencers try the product and check the ingredients they're promoting to their followers?\n\nNot always, according to a BBC investigation.\n\nThree big name Instagram influencers - Lauren Goodger, Mike Hassini and Zara Holland - have been caught auditioning to promote a poisonous cyanide drink.\n\nThe reality TV stars were secretly filmed being asked to promote a fake diet drink in the BBC Three series Blindboy Undestroys the World, despite it not being ready for production.\n\nThe made-up drink - called Cyanora - included the ingredient hydrogen cyanide, which is a chemical that can kill you.\n\nThe toxic substance was used during the second world war by Nazi Germany in gas chambers.\n\nMike Hassini appeared on The Only Way Is Essex\n\nLauren, Mike and Zara - who collectively have more than 1.3m Instagram followers - were informed the product wasn't being launched for a few months.\n\nThey were told they would not be able to drink it until it was.\n\nZara's agent did point out she couldn't do that without trying it first.\n\nWe see them film video clips promoting the drink, mentioning the ingredient \"hydrogen cyanide\".\n\nThe undercover filming was part of an investigation by the show into whether celebrities actually use the products they're paid to promote on social media.\n\nAccording to the advertising watchdog, the brand and the celebrity promoting a product are \"responsible for the claims that are made in the advert\".\n\nBut the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) told Radio 1 Newsbeat: \"The issue of whether a celebrity who is promoting a product has actually tried/used it themselves is not something we've had cause to investigate.\"\n\nLove Island star Zara Holland said she would never \"deliberately mislead\" her followers.\n\nIn response to the investigation, she said: \"My agent did state that I would not promote a product without trying it first, and we needed to be provided with more details.\n\n\"I would never deliberately mislead my followers or promote a product that was dangerous.\"\n\nLauren Goodger's former agent replied: \"Our client would not endorse the promotion of products that contained harmful or suspect ingredients, or without knowing the contents.\n\n\"Our client was told the product was in production.\"\n\nThe ex-TOWIE star is also seen talking about a product she promoted called Skinny Coffee - which she previously said helped her lose two stone.\n\nDuring filming, she says: \"I've not tried skinny coffee.\"\n\nThe ASA has previously ruled that Lauren Goodger was involved in making misleading claims for other weight loss products.\n\nA statement by Lauren - posted on her talent agency's Instagram story - says she agreed to promote the drink without trying it \"in the heat of the moment\".\n\nIt read: \"This script was given to me at that precise moment. No deals were signed and it was an audition. They asked me would I promote the drink without using it.\n\n\"In the heat of the moment I said yes and also said I hadn't tried Skinny Coffee in the hope of getting the job.\n\n\"Of course I would never promote anything that contains poison and proper checks would have been made before any promotion.\"\n\nIt's not the first time Lauren's been in trouble about a product she's promoted\n\nShe also denied saying she'd lost two stone through the coffee.\n\nLauren's fellow Towie star Mike Hassini has not yet responded to the BBC's request for comment.\n\nIn a statement to Radio 1 Newsbeat, the ASA said: \"Our primary concern is whether the claims a celebrity (or anyone else) makes about a product in an ad, which can include social media posts, are not misleading and are socially responsible.\n\n\"When considering claims around weight loss products, our investigations tend to focus on whether the advertiser is making any unauthorised health claims or promoting unsafe dietary practices.\n\n\"If a celebrity claimed that using a dietary product had helped them lose weight when, in fact, they had never used the product that could potentially be a problem under our rules. Though we'd have to carefully assess the context in which the claims appeared.\"\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Neil Shipperley's lawyer said that \"everything came to a crescendo on the day in question\"\n\nA former Premier League striker who masturbated in front of a mother and her 16-year-old daughter has been given a 12-month community order.\n\nEx-Crystal Palace star Neil Shipperley, 45, exposed his genitals from inside his van, in Hillingdon, west London, on 17 September.\n\nThe mother said she was \"disgusted\" by the sight.\n\nShipperley must complete 20-days of rehabilitation as part of the order given at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court.\n\nProsecutor Shaan Sethi told the court Shipperley had driven his van up to the victims, winding down his window and stopping the vehicle.\n\nMr Sethi said the pair had turned to thank Shipperley for letting them cross the road but \"they then noticed he was holding his penis in his hand and staring directly at them\".\n\nThey walked away from the vehicle, but Shipperley, from West Drayton, west London, followed in his van.\n\nShipperley (right) was a professional footballer for 15 years\n\nIn a victim impact statement, the mother said: \"Some people may see flashers as pests or a nuisance to society. My view of Neil Shipperley is as a predator. His aim was to intimidate us, to violate us, to shock us and to scare us.\"\n\nShipperley, who admitted intentionally exposing his genitals intending that someone would be caused alarm or distress, had \"expressed anguish, embarrassment, shame, but above all remorse,\" the court heard.\n\nHe is said to have sought counselling for personal issues, including the death of his father, gambling problems and debts.\n\nMitigating for Shipperley, Sarah O'Kane said: \"Everything came to a crescendo on the day in question. This was, he thinks on reflection, a cry for help.\"\n\nShipperley, who played for among others Nottingham Forest, Wimbledon, Chelsea and Southampton during his 15-year career, must also complete 120 hours' unpaid work and pay a £90 victim surcharge, £85 in costs and £200 in compensation.\n\nHe is subject to a five-year sexual offences notification requirement order and must report to Hayes police station within three days.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon: \"We will continue to pursue the democratic case for Scotland's right to choose\"\n\nScotland's first minister has called on the UK government to negotiate a transfer of powers to Holyrood to allow another referendum on independence.\n\nNicola Sturgeon said there was an \"unarguable\" mandate for a new vote after her SNP won 48 of Scotland's 59 seats in last week's general election.\n\nA document containing her arguments and draft legislation to transfer powers has been sent to the UK government.\n\nHe has argued that the result of the independence referendum in 2014 - when voters backed remaining in the UK by 55% to 45% - should be respected.\n\nAnd the government used the Queen's Speech at Westminster to say that the \"integrity and prosperity\" of the UK is of the \"utmost importance\".\n\nBut Ms Sturgeon warned the prime minister that a \"flat no\" to her request for another referendum would not be the end of the matter.\n\nMs Sturgeon has published a document outlining her case for another referendum to be held\n\nThe first minister says she wants to hold indyref2 in the second half of 2020, and believes the election result has made the case for this \"overwhelmingly clear\".\n\nBut she wants the UK government to agree to a so-called section 30 order, which would give the Scottish Parliament the power to hold a referendum and put its legality beyond doubt - as happened ahead of the 2014 referendum.\n\nAnd Ms Sturgeon has ruled out the possibility of holding an unofficial referendum similar to the one in Catalonia in 2017.\n\nThe argument over Scottish independence will not be settled anytime soon.\n\nNicola Sturgeon will not stop pursuing her case, no matter how many times she is rebuffed by Westminster.\n\nAnd she clearly believes that if she keeps arguing that Scotland's democratic voice is being ignored she will build the case in voters' minds not just for another vote, but for independence itself.\n\nThe longer she has to wait, the more convinced she is that she will win. She may be asking for a vote before the end of next year, but she is really playing a much longer game.\n\nThe pro-independence SNP won a landslide in Scotland in the general election, while the Conservatives lost seven of their 13 seats north of the border despite winning a big majority across the UK as a whole.\n\nMs Sturgeon has published a paper arguing that \"consensus is growing by the day\" in Scotland for a second referendum, and that there is a \"clear mandate for this nation to choose its own future\".\n\nIn a statement at her official Bute House residence, she said: \"We are therefore today calling for the UK government to negotiate and agree the transfer of power that would put beyond doubt the Scottish Parliament's right to legislate for a referendum on independence.\n\n\"I anticipate that in the short term we will simply hear a restatement of the UK government's opposition. But they should be under no illusion that this will be an end of the matter.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon wants Boris Johnson to agree to hold a new referendum - but the prime minister \"remains opposed\"\n\nThe paper published by Ms Sturgeon includes draft legislation which would give Holyrood the power to call referendums, although she said she was open to negotiations about the details of how this would work.\n\nShe said: \"It is a fundamental democratic principle that decisions on Scotland's constitutional future should rest with the people who live here.\n\n\"The Scottish government has a clear democratic mandate to offer people a choice on that future in an independence referendum, and the UK government has a democratic duty to recognise that.\n\n\"The mandate we have to offer the Scottish people a choice over their future is, by any normal standard of democracy, unarguable.\"\n\nAnd in a letter to the prime minister, Ms Sturgeon said Mr Johnson had \"committed to engaging seriously with our proposals\" in their telephone conversation last Friday.\n\nShe added: \"I believe that on this - as on any issue - you have a duty to do so in a considered and reasonable manner. I therefore look forward to discussing matters further with you in the New Year.\n\nThe move comes on the same day as the devolved Scottish Parliament passed legislation that could help pave the way to a referendum.\n\nThe Referendums (Scotland) Bill passed on Thursday afternoon with the backing of the SNP and Scottish Greens, although Holyrood's three pro-union parties - the Conservatives, Labour and the Lib Dems - voted against it.\n\nThe legislation sets the general rules for any referendum, but a separate bill would need to be passed for any new independence ballot.\n\nA series of pro-independence rallies have been held across Scotland in recent months\n\nWhile the polls have narrowed in recent months, they still generally give a slender lead to the pro-UK side.\n\nThe Conservative election campaign in Scotland was centred on opposition to independence and a referendum, and the prime minister told Ms Sturgeon in a telephone conversation last week that he \"remains opposed\" to a new vote.\n\nMichael Gove, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, said Ms Sturgeon and the SNP \"should concentrate on improving Scotland's hospitals and schools rather than trying to re-run an independence referendum they promised would be a once in a generation event\".\n\nMr Gove added: \"I think on that basis we should respect the referendum result and politicians across the United Kingdom should be concentrating on the issues that really matter to people: improving the NHS, fighting crime and helping to improve education.\n\n'The Scottish government have a lot on their plate. My friends and family in Scotland want them to concentrate on improving the NHS, making sure Scottish schools are better. I want to work with the Scottish government to make sure that Scottish people's lives are better.\"\n\nBut his colleague Andrew Mitchell, a Conservative MP and former government minister under David Cameron, told the BBC it would be \"extremely difficult\" for the prime minister to continue to \"resist the strong argument\" for people to have another vote on independence,\n\nHe added: \"I think it will stand for now, and I think it will stand until the end of the Brexit process and the new settlement is clear. They can resist it for a bit, but it would not be possible to resist it forever.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Queen's Speech: Brexit, the NHS and what happened next\n\nBoris Johnson has claimed his programme for government is the \"most radical Queen's Speech in a generation\".\n\nThe prime minister said planned new laws to toughen up criminal justice and increase NHS spending would deliver on the \"people's priorities\".\n\nBut his main priority is the UK's exit from the EU on 31 January.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said many of the PM's promises mimicked the \"language of Labour policy but without the substance\".\n\n\"They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, even when it's a very pale imitation, but I fear those swayed by the prime minister's promises will be sorely disappointed,\" added the Labour leader.\n\nAnd SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford accused the PM of \"denying [Scotland] the right to choose our own future\" referring to the SNP's desire for another referendum on Scottish independence.\n\n\"Why did democracy stop in the prime minister's world with the independence referendum in 2014?\" he asked.\n\nBut Boris Johnson said he felt a \"colossal sense of obligation\" to the voters.\n\nHe told MPs that \"a new golden age for this United Kingdom is now within reach\" adding that the government would \"work flat out to deliver it\".\n\nAddressing Parliament for the second time in less than three months, the Queen said the priority for her government was to deliver Brexit on 31 January, but ministers also had an \"ambitious programme of domestic reform that delivers on the people's priorities\".\n\nOf the more than 30 bills announced in the Queen's Speech, seven were on Brexit.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt comes as the government says it will close its Department for Exiting the European Union on 31 January.\n\nThe seven bills announced that were devoted to Brexit cover legislation on trade, agriculture, fisheries, immigration, financial services and private international law.\n\nThe first to be put to Parliament will be the Withdrawal Agreement Bill - the legislation that enables the UK to leave the EU - on Friday before the Christmas recess.\n\nBoris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn walked to the House of Lords together in silence\n\nFollowing last week's general election, the prime minister has a Commons majority of 80 - the largest enjoyed by a Conservative leader since Margaret Thatcher in 1987.\n\nThe prime minister's increased parliamentary authority and command of his party means it is likely to pass without major changes in the New Year in time to meet the 31 January deadline.\n\nIn another move welcomed by Tory MPs, the bill will also enable more British judges to depart from previous rulings of the EU's top court.\n\nOn the NHS, the government says it will enshrine in law a commitment on the health service's funding, with an extra £33.9bn per year provided by 2023/24.\n\nThe PM's commitment on the NHS amounts to a 3.4% year-on-year increase in expenditure, a significant increase on what the NHS received during the five year Tory-Lib Dem coalition government as well as under his predecessors David Cameron and Theresa May.\n\nBut it is significantly lower than the 6% average annual increases seen under Labour leaders Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. And when adjusted for inflation, and factoring in the increased cost of equipment, medicines and staff pay, it could actually be worth £20.5bn by 2023-4.\n\nLabour's health spokesman Jonathan Ashworth said: \"If the Conservatives' plans to put funding increases into law is to be anything other than an empty gimmick, we would urge them to pledge the extra £6bn a year which experts say is needed to start to make up the cuts they've imposed for a decade.\"\n\nThere was also a commitment announced for ministers to seek cross-party consensus for long-term reform of the social care system and the government will continue work to reform the Mental Health Act.\n\nThis government wants to try to give the appearance that they are completely new, completely different, even though the Conservatives have been in power for nearly a full decade.\n\nThat is quite a political stunt to try to pull off.\n\nBut it's clear also that Boris Johnson came to the Commons today to present a vision that he hopes can straddle left and right, or what has traditionally been seen as Labour's place in politics and the Conservatives' place in politics.\n\nThat is what the results of the general election gave him as an opportunity.\n\nAnd the challenge for Boris Johnson is not just to hold onto that for five years, but show to people who voted Tory for the first time that the party was worth the risk - that their vote was the right decision.\n\nThe test will be enormous - whether or not all that rhetoric actually matches up to the reality of the actions and decisions that this government will make.\n\nMr Johnson has had a reputation for years of being hungry with ambition to get to this place.\n\nWe're going to find out in the next months and years whether he's hungry to take the decisions that actually will cement his place in history.\n\nPlans for longer sentences for violent criminals, were also unveiled, as well as the establishment of a Royal Commission to improve the \"efficiency and effectiveness\" of the criminal justice process and there are bills that will ensure the most serious violent offenders serve longer prison terms.\n\nAnd those charged with knife possession will face \"swift justice\".\n\nOther announcements in the Queen's Speech included:\n\nThursday's State Opening of Parliament was the 66th time the Queen has opened Parliament - and has come only weeks after the last one on 14 October.\n\nThere was less pageantry than usual, as was the case the last time a snap election was held in 2017.\n\nThe Queen travelled by car from Buckingham Palace to Parliament, rather than by horse-drawn carriage, and she did not wear ceremonial dress.\n\nGentlemen at Arms prepare for the Queen's arrival in Parliament\n• None Why do prisoners serve only half their sentence?", "Trump is the third president in US history to be impeached by Congress.\n\nIn a vote that went along party lines, the House voted in favour of two articles of impeachment: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.\n\nAbuse of power was passed with 230 in favour, 197 against.\n\nAround a quarter of an hour later, obstruction of Congress was approved - 229 in favour, 198 against.\n\nBefore casting her vote, top Democrat Nancy Pelosi called this a \"solemn\" moment and called for lawmakers to vote according to their conscience.\n\nBut as applause broke out, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned Democrats not be celebratory.\n\nThe votes came after nearly 12 hours of rancorous debate and weeks of deliberation in committees.\n\nTrump delayed his rally in Michigan by nearly an hour, and appears to have timed his appearance to coincide with the historic vote.", "Last updated on .From the section League Cup\n\nHolders Manchester City will face local rivals Manchester United in the Carabao Cup semi-finals.\n\nLeicester City will take on Aston Villa in the other last-four clash, with the ties to be played over two legs in the weeks commencing 6 and 27 January.\n\nManchester United and Leicester will be at home in their first legs.\n\nPep Guardiola's Manchester City have won the tournament in each of the last two seasons and four times in the last six years.\n\nManchester City beat League One Oxford United 3-1 on Wednesday, while Manchester United overcame League Two Colchester United 3-0 at Old Trafford.\n\nLeicester City, who won the competition in 1999-2000, beat Everton 4-2 on penalties after a 2-2 draw at Goodison Park.\n\nAston Villa, who reached the semi-finals for the first time since 2012-13, beat a youthful Liverpool 5-0 on Tuesday.\n\nManchester City were beaten 2-1 by Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's Manchester United in the Premier League on 7 December.\n\nThe two sides last met in the competition at the fourth round stage in 2016 with United winning 1-0.\n\nThey last met at this stage in 2010 with United winning 4-3 on aggregate.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt least one person has been killed and five wounded in a shooting at the headquarters of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) in central Moscow, Russian media say.\n\nA gunman who opened fire with an automatic weapon at the entrance of the building was killed by an armed officer, Interfax news agency reports.\n\nSecurity forces cordoned off the area and moved bystanders into buildings.\n\nThe shooting came hours after President Putin's annual press conference.\n\nArmed officers ushered bystanders into nearby buildings for their safety\n\nDetails of the incident, which began shortly after 18:00 (15:00 GMT), remain unclear.\n\nThe FSB denied earlier reports suggesting there were three gunmen in the attack on its headquarters. The unconfirmed reports said two had been killed in the lobby while the third ran off to a nearby building where he was later killed in a shootout with police.\n\nAmong the injured were two seriously hurt officers, the Health Ministry told Russian media. Shortly afterwards, the intelligence agency itself confirmed the death of one FSB officer - though it is not clear if he is one of the two reported injured in the earlier report.\n\nPolice vehicles blocked the streets outside the FSB building in Moscow\n\nRussian investigators have opened criminal proceedings into the attempted murder of law enforcement officers.\n\nThey are looking into whether the attack was timed to coincide with Vladimir Putin's four-hour press conference, which ended during the afternoon.\n\nThe area around the FSB's two main buildings in central Moscow has been completely sealed off with large numbers of police and special forces - some armed with assault rifles - in the area.\n\nEyewitness Vladimir Adyasov told the BBC that he was in the vicinity of the FSB's main building on Lubyanka Square when he heard loud bangs. Mr Adyasov said he initially thought it was fireworks, but quickly realised that it was gunfire. Police officers shouted for people to flee, he added.\n\nVideos on social media appear to show the attacker firing an assault rifle indiscriminately at the heavily-guarded building.\n\nThe attack took place on the eve of security services day - a special holiday for security staff - in Russia, and Mr Putin was addressing a meeting at the time to mark the occasion.\n\n\"We must not reduce the intensity of your work... and above all it applies to counter-terrorism,\" Mr Putin said, a short distance away from the attack in Moscow.\n\n\"Terrorism is an insidious and dangerous enemy, and the fight against it must continue systematically and decisively... with an emphasis on the prevention of terrorism, on preventive, offensive operations.\"\n\nSome footage posted on social media appeared to capture the sound of gunshots in the area of the attack, while other video showed armed men running away from the FSB headquarters on Lubyanka Square.\n\nFive ambulances were also seen leaving the scene.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I saw a member of the traffic police running down the road, hiding behind vehicles,\" one eyewitness told Reuters news agency.\n\nWitnesses reported seeing five ambulances at the scene in the Russian capital", "None of the original members of the breakaway group remains an MP\n\nThe Independent Group for Change is being disbanded after failing to win any seats at the general election, leader Anna Soubry has said.\n\nThe party was founded last March by Labour and Tory MPs unhappy with the direction their parties were going in.\n\nThe 11 MPs aimed to create a new centre ground force in politics.\n\nBut some left to join the Lib Dems, quit politics or run as independents, and the remaining three lost to candidates from their former parties.\n\nEight Labour MPs left the party to form the breakaway group, citing Labour's Brexit policy and record on tackling anti-Semitism.\n\nThey were later joined by three Remain-supporting Conservative MPs, Anna Soubry, Sarah Wollaston and Heidi Allen.\n\nDr Wollaston later joined the Lib Dems - and lost her seat to a Tory candidate last Thursday - and Ms Allen did not stand for re-election.\n\nFormer Labour MPs Chuka Umunna and Luciana Berger stood as Liberal Democrat candidates but were also defeated in last Thursday's election.\n\nIndependent Group for Change leader Ms Soubry came a distant third in Broxtowe, which was won by the Conservative candidate.\n\nFormer Labour MPs Chris Leslie and Mike Gapes, who stood as Independent Group for Change candidates, also lost their seats.\n\nGavin Shuker, who quit Labour to join Change UK before deciding to run as an independent in the Luton South poll, also failed to be elected.\n\nEarlier on Thursday, the group, which was briefly known as Change UK, tweeted: \"We came together & took a stand when others wouldn't.\n\n\"It was right to shine a spotlight on Britain's broken politics. But having taken stock and with no voice now in Parliament, we begin the process of winding up our party. Thanks to all who stood with us.\"\n\nIn a statement to members, Ms Soubry said the party's failure to make an impact at May's European elections, and the subsequent defection or retirement of most of its MPs, made it \"harder for us to cut through as a distinctive political force in our own right\".\n\nBut, she added, \"we nevertheless believed it was important for us to have the courage of our convictions and to stand in the general election so that our constituents would have a full choice\".\n\n\"Whilst there is clearly a need for massive change in British politics,\" Ms Soubry went on, \"now that we no longer have voices within Parliament, a longer-term realignment will have to take place in a different way.\n\n\"Honesty and realism are at the core of our values, and we therefore must recognise that the political uncertainty of recent months has now given way to a settled pattern in Parliament for the next five years. So this is the right time for us to take stock.\"\n• None The party that didn't quite change UK politics", "The boy was thrown five floors in the attack\n\nA six-year-old boy who was thrown off the 10th floor of the Tate Modern has started to speak again, his family has revealed.\n\nThe French national, who had been visiting London when he was attacked on 4 August, suffered a \"deep\" bleed to the brain in the fall.\n\nHis family wrote on their fundraising page: \"Our little knight begins to speak.\"\n\nThe boy's family said the six-year-old was making \"wonderful progress\"\n\nThe boy sustained a fractured spine, along with leg and arm fractures, when he fell five floors from a 10th floor viewing platform.\n\nHis injuries have been described as life-changing but his family said he was making \"wonderful progress\".\n\n\"He pronounces one syllable after another, not all of them, and most of the time we have to guess what he means but it's better and better,\" they wrote on their GoFundMe page, which has raised more than €169,000 (£143,500).\n\nThey also said he was now able to move his arms and legs but it meant \"he feels more pain\" as he regains sensation in his body.\n\n\"It is very difficult to see... but he is very courageous and we stay strong for him.\"\n\nBravery, from Ealing, told police he carried out the attack because he wanted to be on TV news to highlight his autism treatment.\n\nHe will be sentenced at the Old Bailey in February.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Harley Watson's family described him as a \"good, kind, helpful and lovely boy\"\n\nA man has been accused of murdering a 12-year-old boy who was killed in a hit-and-run crash outside a school.\n\nHarley Watson died after being struck by a car near Debden Park High School in Loughton, Essex, on Monday.\n\nTerence Glover, 51, of Newmans Lane in Loughton, has been charged with murder, 10 counts of attempted murder and dangerous driving.\n\nHe is due to appear before magistrates in Chelmsford on Friday.\n\nThe 10 charges of attempted murder relate to a 23-year-old woman, six boys and three girls who were also injured in the collision, said Essex Police.\n\nDebden Park High School opened the day after Harley's death for staff and pupils to support each other\n\nHarley's family described him as a \"good, kind, helpful and lovely boy\", adding: \"We are so devastated by what has happened.\"\n\nIn a statement earlier this week, they said: \"We are so devastated by what has happened.\n\n\"We would like to thank everyone for their kind wishes and concern.\n\n\"However, as a family we would like people to respect our privacy and allow us to grieve in peace.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp Rob Kirby thanked the local community for their help since Monday's \"tragic event\", and urged anyone with information to come forward.\n\nChristian Cavanagh, executive head teacher, described Harley's death as \"a young life so tragically lost\".\n\nHe said: \"This young man had made his mark on the school and was liked and loved by staff and students.\n\n\"We will consult with the family and our school community to decide how best to commemorate his life.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The seismograph recorded the quake at 22:49 GMT\n\nAn earthquake has struck in the west of England, causing homes to shake in several villages, the British Geological Survey has said.\n\nThe 3.2 magnitude quake's epicentre was recorded near the town of Bridgwater in Somerset, the BGS confirmed.\n\nResidents reported the \"whole house rattled\", with another another saying there was a \"big rumble and [the] house [was] given a definite shove\".\n\nThe quake hit at 22:49 GMT at a depth of three miles (5km), the BGS said.\n\nResidents in several towns and villages across Somerset including Taunton, Weston-super-Mare, Bridgwater and Cheddar said they had felt the earthquake.\n\nReports submitted to the BGS said houses had rattled, one person \"physically felt my bed shake\" and others heard \"low rumbles\" and \"short cracking sounds.\"\n\nThe 3.2 magnitude earthquake was recorded near the Somerset town of Bridgwater\n\nPeople tweeted to describe how there was a boom which had shaken their houses, with one person saying the quake had felt like their house had been hit by a lorry.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe earthquake is the latest to be felt in the UK following a series of tremors in Surrey and Lancashire.\n\nA 2.5 magnitude quake, centred on Newdigate near Gatwick Airport, struck in May, following a 3.0 magnitude earthquake on February 27, a 2.0-magnitude tremor on February 19 and 2.4 and 0.2 quakes on February 14.\n\nEnergy company Cuadrilla, which has been fracking for shale gas at its site at Preston New Road, in Lancashire, was forced to suspend work in August after a series of tremors.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJeremy Corbyn has said a leaked document obtained by Labour shows Boris Johnson is \"misrepresenting\" his Brexit deal and the \"devastating\" impact it will have on Northern Ireland.\n\nHe called the paper \"hard evidence\" NI would be \"symbolically separated\" from the rest of the UK after Brexit, with customs checks on goods.\n\nMr Johnson has repeatedly said there will be no border in the Irish Sea.\n\nAsked about the document during a campaign visit in Kent, Mr Johnson said he had not seen it but insisted his agreement would offer \"unfettered access\" to the British market for Northern Ireland businesses.\n\nThe Conservatives said the leaked Treasury document was an \"immediate assessment, not a detailed analysis\".\n\nIt had not been written for \"decision-making purposes\" or been seen by the PM, the chancellor or \"any of the senior officials involved in the negotiations\", the party added.\n\nBut the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), who oppose the agreement, said it had warned Mr Johnson that it would be bad for Northern Ireland and this was \"further evidence\".\n\nThe row comes as the leaders prepare for the last TV debate of the election on BBC One on Friday at 20:30.\n\nAhead of the encounter, Labour sought to increase the pressure on the prime minister, who has claimed his agreement with the EU on the terms of the UK's withdrawal will \"get Brexit done\" by 31 January.\n\nMr Johnson has said the whole of the UK will leave the EU at the same time and that there will be no checks on any goods moving from Northern Ireland to the rest of the UK.\n\nAt a press conference in London, Mr Corbyn said the 15-page Treasury document - titled Northern Ireland Protocol: Unfettered Access to the UK Internal Market - disproved this and showed Mr Johnson's claims about his own deal were \"fraudulent\".\n\nBy John Campbell, the BBC's Northern Ireland business and economics editor\n\nThe analysis in this leaked document matches that published in a government risk assessment in October.\n\nThe initial study said the PM's deal could mean a reduction in business investment, consumer spending and trade in Northern Ireland. But this time the language is even blunter and confirms the worst fears of unionists.\n\nIt concludes that the deal would see \"Northern Ireland symbolically separated from the Union.\"\n\nAnd it once again suggests the government has not been straight about the extent of new red tape on trade across the Irish Sea. Page one of the document says \"at a minimum exit summary declarations will be required when goods are exported from NI to GB\".\n\nThe prime minister has repeatedly said those declarations would not be required.\n\n\"What we have here is a confidential report by Johnson's own government, marked official, sensitive, that exposes the falsehoods that Boris Johnson has been putting forward,\" he said.\n\n\"This is cold, hard evidence that categorically shows the impact a damaging Brexit deal would have on large parts of our country, 15 pages that paint a damning picture of Johnson's deal on the issue of Northern Ireland in particular.\"\n\nAs well as customs and security checks on goods moving from Great Britain to Northern Ireland, he said goods moving the other way would be subject to regulatory and rules of origin checks and potentially tariffs - which would force up prices and be highly \"disruptive\".\n\n\"This drives a coach and horses through Boris Johnson's claim that there will be no border in the Irish Sea.\"\n\nBefore he succeeded Theresa May as prime minister, Mr Johnson told the DUP's annual conference in 2018 that no UK government could agree to any border in the Irish Sea. Mr Corbyn said this showed Mr Johnson's word could not be trusted.\n\nBut the prime minister said his agreement was superior to his predecessor's as it would give the Stormont Assembly the power to decide whether to remain aligned with the EU after four years.\n\nMr Johnson said the only checks would be on British exports to the Republic of Ireland going via Northern Ireland.\n\nBBC Reality Check correspondent Chris Morris said this was not correct, as the agreement actually envisaged checks at Northern Irish ports on British goods not formally bound for the Republic, with items \"at risk\" of being transported on there being liable for duties.\n\nThis Treasury document sets out things that trade experts have been saying pretty clearly, but that the government has refused to accept.\n\nBoris Johnson's EU Withdrawal Agreement says customs declarations and documentary and physical checks on trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland will be \"highly disruptive to the Northern Ireland economy\".\n\nThe document notes that 98% of businesses that export to Great Britain are small and medium businesses that are \"likely to struggle\" to bear the cost.\n\nNone of this is a huge surprise to anyone committed enough to have read the Protocol on Ireland and Northern Ireland carefully, but it is not what the prime minister has been saying about his own deal.\n\nAnother striking line from the leaked document says the withdrawal agreement \"has the potential to separate Northern Ireland in practice from whole swathes of the UK's internal market\".\n\nThat is why, in a nutshell, Mr Johnson lost the support of the Democratic Unionist Party in Northern Ireland, and it was his lack of a working majority in Parliament that led in turn to this.\n\nUnder the PM's agreement, Northern Ireland will continue to follow many EU rules on food and manufactured goods, while the rest of the UK will not. Northern Ireland will also continue to follow EU customs rules but will remain part of the UK's customs territory.\n\nA government risk assessment published in October said it would lead to new administration and checks on goods from west to east.\n\nBut Mr Johnson has insisted Northern Irish businesses will not be hit with additional paperwork or fees, telling a BBC phone-in during the campaign that \"we will make sure that businesses face no extra costs and no checks for stuff being exported from NI to GB\".\n\nThe DUP said it would use whatever influence it had in the next Parliament to push for changes to the agreement.\n\n\"Despite the prime minister's protestations, the facts are in black and white,\" said spokesman Sir Jeffrey Donaldson. \"We have demonstrated over the last three years that we will stand up and speak up for Northern Ireland to ensure our economy is not decimated by a bad deal.\"\n\nMr Corbyn said Labour's promise of another referendum within six months of his winning power would \"end the division\" over Brexit as well as protecting jobs and the peace in Northern Ireland.\n\nUnder Labour's plans, voters would get to choose between a \"credible\" renegotiated Leave deal, including a customs union with the EU and a close single market relationship, and staying in the EU under current terms.\n\nHowever, Mr Corbyn again declined to say which way he would vote - saying he would not \"take sides\" so he could faithfully carry out the result. In contrast, his chief Brexit spokesman Sir Keir Starmer said he would campaign against the new deal Labour negotiated and back remain.\n\nConservative Party chairman James Cleverly said: \"Once again, Jeremy Corbyn is brandishing leaked documents that don't back up his wild conspiracy theories.\"\n\nBut Liberal Democrat Brexit spokesman Tom Brake said the document showed Mr Johnson's Brexit deal \"would be in fact a knockout blow to the economy of Northern Ireland\".\n\nSNP foreign affairs spokesman Stephen Gethins said it made it \"clear\" that \"Scotland will take a disproportionate hit from Boris Johnson's disastrous Tory Brexit deal\".\n\nSpeaking in Dublin, EU Trade Commissioner Phil Hogan said that under Mr Johnson's Brexit deal Northern Ireland would \"remain in the UK customs territory and, at the same time, benefit from access to the single market without tariffs, quotas, checks or controls\".\n\n\"EU state aid and VAT rules will continue to apply in Northern Ireland, under the control of the European Court of Justice,\" he added.", "Selwyn Francis died after choking on a piece of sausage at Mountain Park Hotel\n\nThe death of a man who choked on a piece of meat five months after his brother died in the same way was accidental, an inquest has concluded.\n\nSelwyn Francis, 63, choked on food at a restaurant in Flint on 2 July and died in hospital two days later.\n\nThe cause was brain injury and cardiac arrest due to choking.\n\nHis death came a day after an inquest heard his brother Gwyn Francis had died after choking on a piece of steak at a pub, the hearing in Ruthin was told.\n\nA statement from their brother Kenneth was read to the inquest.\n\nHe said Selwyn Francis' ability to swallow food had been affected by him suffering a series of strokes last year.\n\nThe pair went to the Mountain Park Hotel for lunch to celebrate their other brother's birthday when Selwyn choked.\n\nThe statement said: \"Selwyn suffered from osteoarthritis in his fingers and wasn't able to cut things up and had a habit of putting over sized food in his mouth and trying to swallow without chewing sufficiently.\"\n\nThe hearing was told he quickly became distressed and began to choke. A similar incident happened about 18 months previously.\n\nHe turned blue, CPR was performed and paramedics initially struggled to see the piece of sausage in his throat.\n\nMr Francis was taken to Countess of Chester hospital and he died two days later.\n\n\"All three of us were fast eaters, none of us chewed food the recommended amount,\" his brother's statement added.", "Joseph McCann had a history of violent offending and should have been recalled to prison\n\nThe crimes of serial rapist Joseph McCann shocked the country and sparked a nationwide manhunt. But he was a violent offender out on licence from prison. How did justice system failures leave him free to start his spree?\n\nJoseph McCann struck terror and fear into his victims.\n\nOne teenage girl, who'd been held at knifepoint and raped in front of her young brother, said he had eyes of \"pure evil\".\n\nAlthough the 34-year-old never appeared in front of the jury during his trial, his threatening and menacing presence was clear from the testimony of those he attacked - and it seems to have been a theme throughout his life.\n\nBorn in February 1985, McCann had problems controlling his anger as a child and was in trouble with police from the age of 11, before going on to commit a series of offences including theft, criminal damage and handling stolen goods.\n\nWhile in his teens, there were warning signs of his tendency to carry weapons when he was convicted of possession of a bladed article.\n\nThen, in 2008, aged 23, he was jailed for a violent burglary at the home of an 85-year-old man. He broke in through a side door and threatened the pensioner with a knife.\n\nMcCann was said by his barrister to be \"thoroughly ashamed\" of what he'd done. According to a newspaper report of the court case, his \"goal\" was to live a crime-free life and provide for his family legitimately. He'd missed the birth of his partner's first child because he was in prison and would be locked up when she gave birth again.\n\nBut because the judge considered him to be dangerous, McCann was ordered to serve a sentence of Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP), which meant that after a minimum term of two-and-a-half years he'd be freed only when the Parole Board decided it was safe to do so.\n\nThese sentences, designed to protect the public from dangerous prisoners, were scrapped in 2012. They formed part of the recent row between political parties over the release of London Bridge attacker Usman Khan.\n\nIt's an indication of how entrenched McCann's offending behaviour was that the board rejected his applications for parole three times, in 2010, 2012 and 2014.\n\nMcCann's crimes sparked a nationwide manhunt as he kidnapped and attacked women and children\n\nHowever, while in prison, in an effort to convince the authorities he could be safely let out, McCann completed a wide range of rehabilitation programmes, among them courses on thinking skills, victim awareness and building healthy relationships.\n\nHe was moved to a unit at Wymott Prison, Lancashire, for inmates with complex offending needs, including those with a personality disorder. He was also sent to Warren Hill jail, in Suffolk, which specialises in helping prisoners show they are suitable for release through a programme of \"risk reduction\".\n\nBy the time of his fourth parole hearing probation and prison officials said McCann's behaviour had improved, and he was freed in March 2017 on condition that he stay initially at an approved premises, also known as a bail or probation hostel, abide by a curfew, undergo drug testing and inform the authorities of any new relationship he entered into.\n\nBut within months McCann was back in trouble. He was arrested and charged with burglary and, in August, remanded in custody.\n\nCrucially, however, the authorities had not followed the correct procedures.\n\nBecause McCann had been on licence from prison when he was arrested, he should have been recalled to jail - a process that would have ensured the Parole Board was informed by the Probation Service about his case. But that didn't happen.\n\nThe failure to do so was hugely significant - it meant the board had no control over decisions about his future release.\n\n\"There were shocking consequences, life-changing consequences,\" said Prof Nick Hardwick, who was chair of the Parole Board at the time.\n\n\"If the case had been referred back to the Parole Board, as it should have been, he wouldn't have been re-released and those awful events wouldn't have happened.\"\n\nNick Hardwick, former chair of the Parole Board, says wider failures in the system must be looked at\n\nIn January 2018, after being found guilty of burglary, McCann was sentenced.\n\nLuton Crown Court heard that he'd broken into a house, stolen car keys and, along with an accomplice, driven off in two BMWs.\n\nJudge Richard Foster said McCann had told the jury a \"pack of lies\" and described his record as \"appalling\".\n\nHe noted the offences had been committed while on licence, telling him: \"You're pulling the wool over the eyes of your supervising officers.\"\n\nJudge Foster acknowledged that McCann's case should have been referred to the Parole Board. \"You certainly should have been recalled,\" he said, suggesting it was not too late to do so.\n\n\"You will serve three years in custody... to run concurrently with your current sentence if you are recalled,\" he said, adding that his jail term should not be reduced because of \"time served\" in prison while on remand.\n\nBut in spite of being given such a heavy hint by the judge, the recall process was not applied, the Parole Board was not informed about the case and time served on remand was counted as part of his sentence.\n\nAs a result McCann was dealt with as any offender given a fixed-term, or determinate, sentence would be. He was released at the halfway point, after 18 months, in February 2019.\n\nTwo months later, he began his devastating spree of offending.\n\nMcCann left one of his victims in the car as he paid for petrol at the start of his offending spree in April 2019\n\nHad McCann been referred to the Parole Board, it would not have considered his release until the summer. A panel would have assessed his case in great detail and the expectation is that he would not have been let out at that stage.\n\nQuestions about the failure to notify the board centre on the National Probation Service - and in particular, its office at Watford, Hertfordshire, where McCann's case was being handled.\n\nIan Lawrence, general secretary of the probation union NAPO, said there was a variety of problems there, including a number of senior staff changes.\n\n\"It was pretty much chaos in the office in terms of the supervisory system,\" he told BBC News. \"It was not a happy place.\"\n\nMcCann, wrapped in a blue sheet, was finally arrested by police after hiding up a tree for several hours\n\nIn September 2019, an inspection report found that performance in the wider region was undermined by workloads that were \"too high\", with officers having to manage an average of 42 cases each.\n\nThe report said there were \"significant staff shortages\", with gaps filled by agency workers, and identified problems assessing the threat posed by offenders.\n\n\"Staff did not sufficiently analyse the risk of serious harm or consider victims and potential victims,\" it added.\n\nAs a result of the failings, four probation officers from the Watford office faced disciplinary proceedings, one of whom was found guilty of gross misconduct and has since been demoted.\n\nTwo other workers were investigated for poor performance, including their handling of the McCann case. One employee was sacked and the contract of the other individual, who was from an agency, was terminated.\n\nBut Nick Hardwick believes individual members of staff should not be made scapegoats for more fundamental weaknesses within a system that has had to contend with budget cuts and a controversial re-structuring in 2014.\n\n\"What we don't know is whether the context of the pressures and resource shortages the probation service are under were contributory factors,\" he said.\n\n\"So, it's no good just looking at the person on the front line who made the decision - we need to look at the wider system failures here to see where the buck should stop.\"\n\nDr Jo Farrar, chief executive of HM Prisons and Probation Service, offered sympathy to McCann's victims for his \"appalling crimes\".\n\n\"We recognise that there were failings and we apologise unreservedly for our part in this,\" she said.\n\n\"We are committed to doing everything we possibly can to learn from this terrible case.\"\n\nIn addition to action against those who managed McCann's case, she said the organisation was taking \"significant steps to improve intelligence-sharing between agencies\".\n\nNew mandatory training on recall is being developed for all probation officers, and guidance on when prisoners should be recalled has been updated, added Dr Farrar.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dany Cotton, second from right, in Grenfell Tower on the night of the fire\n\nGrenfell Tower residents and firefighters were let down by London Fire Brigade's leaders, a lawyer for the victims has said.\n\nSam Stein QC told the public inquiry into the fire that commissioner Dany Cotton and her leadership team were \"not fit to run\" the emergency service.\n\nThe brigade said it would be unfair for it to be judged before all the evidence was heard.\n\nA total of 72 people were killed as a result of the fire in June 2017.\n\nMr Stein told the inquiry in London that Ms Cotton should have been well aware of the \"dreadful failings\" within the fire brigade that had been identified in the hearings, by the time she came to give her evidence.\n\nBut he added: \"This condemnation of the leadership of the fire brigade of London should not be taken to be an insult to those on the front line.\"\n\n\"No-one can or should forget the sheer bravery and determination of the individual firefighters who risked their lives in the Grenfell Tower.\"\n\nAnother victims' lawyer, Danny Friedman QC, said there was \"overwhelming evidence\" the brigade had failed to plan for such a scenario.\n\nMr Friedman said the fire service knew there was a risk of a high-rise fire which could require evacuation.\n\nBut he said that knowledge did not filter down to firefighters in a \"terrible gulf between paper and practice\".\n\nDany Cotton speaking to Theresa May the day after the fire\n\nHe also said that the brigade had been brought into disrepute by Ms Cotton's evidence to the inquiry from September, in which she said she would not change any part of the brigade's response to the fire.\n\n\"Not only were these comments insulting to the bereaved, survivors and residents, but they were irresponsible,\" Mr Friedman said.\n\n\"They sent a wholly negative message about the LFB's capacity as an organisation to acknowledge its shortcomings and to make any real change in the future.\"\n\nThe first phase of the inquiry has been examining what happened when the fire broke out on 14 June 2017.\n\nPhase two of the inquiry, due to begin early next year, will look at the refurbishment of the tower block, including the cladding and insulation.\n\nIt will also look at the concerns and warnings residents expressed about the fire safety of the building.\n\nStephen Walsh QC, representing the London Fire Brigade, said the fire was the \"biggest challenge to any fire service in the UK in living memory\".\n\n\"Its policies, procedures and training were strained to their limits and in some respects well beyond, that is accepted,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dany Cotton says she wanted firefighters to know she was there for them as they went into the tower\n\nMs Cotton previously told the inquiry that she provided \"direct leadership\" on the night of the fire.\n\nShe said she hoped by going into the tower herself she was showing the firefighters they were all in it together.", "Jeremy Corbyn said he taken has a neutral stance on Brexit because \"the country has to come together\".\n\nIn the BBC election debate, the Labour leader said he would implement whatever the public decide in another referendum on the EU.\n\nBut Boris Johnson said it's a \"failure of leadership\" not to have a position.", "Work is being carried out after a train hit a tree on the track in the Fishguard area in October\n\nTrain passengers in west Wales say they feel their service is being treated as \"dispensable\" after a 40-mile section of line was closed for five weeks.\n\nA replacement bus service is running between Carmarthen and Milford Haven until 22 December as Network Rail clears vegetation alongside the tracks.\n\nRail campaigners and businesses have said it is causing major disruption.\n\nIn a joint statement, Network Rail and Transport for Wales (TfW) said the work was \"essential\" for passenger safety.\n\nThe bus journey between Carmarthen and Milford Haven can take up to two hours and some businesses say they are losing valuable time and money working around the delays.\n\nThe replacement bus journey between Carmarthen and Milford Haven can take up to two hours\n\n\"We've got a client in Dale who needs 24-hour care,\" said a manager at a Pembroke Dock care agency.\n\n\"We're having to pick the carers up and take them to the replacement bus service and then take the replacement carer back - it means that we're out of the office for three-and-a-half hours at a time.\n\n\"It's frustrating, there's work we should be doing but we're doing this instead.\"\n\nNetwork Rail explained the work includes clearing dying and diseased trees after a train hit a tree on the track in the Fishguard area in October.\n\nNo-one was injured, but the line was closed for more than a week.\n\nErene Grieve says the closure should have been staggered\n\nErene Grieve of the Pembrokeshire Rail Travellers' Association said some passengers had arrived at the station in the morning and \"there was no train\".\n\n\"People have been terribly affected and the thought that it's going on for five weeks - it just trails on.\n\n\"I don't know whether closing the whole line was absolutely necessary. It could have been staggered more. They seem to do that on this line - as though it was dispensable.\"\n\nNetwork Rail and TfW said they were working together to keep disruption to a minimum and were advising passengers to check before travelling.\n\n\"We are pleased to be carrying out this essential work on the Milford Haven line to improve the safety for passengers, the public and our staff,\" said Bill Kelly of Network Rail.\n\n\"We would like to thank passengers and line-side neighbours for bearing with us as we carry out this essential upgrade work.\"\n\nTfW insisted it had publicised the cancellation of services well ahead of the line closure on 18 November.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Llinos Môn Owen was dependent on the drug for a decade\n\nDeaths from cocaine poisoning in Wales have more than quadrupled in the past five years, official figures show.\n\nThirty-one people died from cocaine poisoning last year - compared to seven in 2014, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.\n\nHospital admissions in the same period have almost doubled, from 272 to 560.\n\nLlinos Môn Owen, 32, from Anglesey, started taking cocaine aged 18 and would spend £1,000 a month on the habit rather than pay rent or buy food.\n\nShe soon spiralled into dependency and the drug took over her life to the detriment of her mental health and relationships.\n\nMs Owen says she \"was living on an animal level\" after her addiction spiralled\n\n\"As the years went by and I went on to take stronger cocaine, I just couldn't stop,\" she said.\n\n\"I was living on an animal level. The only thing I was worried about was using cocaine. I had nothing in the fridge but that didn't matter because I was taking as much cocaine as I could.\"\n\nAfter the death of a 34-year-old mother of six last month, north Wales coroner Dewi Pritchard Jones expressed concern at the numbers of deaths in the area connected to the drug.\n\n\"People think that cocaine doesn't have a lasting effect, and it does,\" he said at the time.\n\nThis is reflected in what medical staff see during post-mortem examinations.\n\nAvril Wayte says staff who conduct toxicology reports are seeing an increase in deaths where cocaine was involved\n\n\"We find more and more cocaine these days,\" said Avril Wayte, head of the department at Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor that carries out toxicology reports for the coroner.\n\n\"In the 1990s, we wouldn't find anything much. But in the first six months of this year we've found cocaine in 20 post mortems,\" she said.\n\n\"People think that cocaine isn't that bad. They think 'I can take cocaine on Saturday night, no problem, fine, it won't affect me.\n\n\"But someone can have a stroke or heart attack. Cocaine really affects the heart. There are so many things that can happen where the heart stops beating and someone dies.\"\n\nFor the past two years, Ms Owen has been attending recovery sessions at Bangor's Penrhyn House and now wants to raise awareness about the potential harm of the drug.\n\n\"Addiction doesn't just affect one person, it affects families and all those around that person,\" she explained.\n\nMs Owen has turned her life around and now wants to raise awareness about how harmful the drug is\n\n\"I lost my job, I lost my sanity. I almost lost my family.\n\n\"They just didn't know what to do with me anymore.\n\nHelp and advice on drug addiction and recovery is available from the BBC Action Line.", "The US naval air base in Pensacola, Florida\n\nThe gunman who killed three people at a US naval base in Pensacola, Florida, was a Saudi student, officials say.\n\nHe has been named as Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani - a Saudi military member in training at the site. He was shot dead by officials.\n\nThe local sheriff's office confirmed eight others were injured in the attack including two officers. The shooter used a handgun.\n\nIt is the second shooting to take place at a US military base this week.\n\nA US sailor shot dead two workers at the Pearl Harbor military base in Hawaii on Wednesday.\n\nAuthorities were alerted to the shooting at the base on the waterfront southwest of Pensacola at 06:51 (12:51 GMT).\n\n\"Walking through the crime scene was like being on the set of a movie,\" said Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan.\n\nTwo officers were shot in the limbs but are expected to recover.\n\nAccording to its website the naval airbase, which is still in lockdown, employs more than 16,000 military and 7,400 civilian personnel.\n\n\"There's obviously going to be a lot of questions about this individual being a foreign national, being a part of the Saudi air force and then to be here training on our soil,\" said the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis.\n\n\"Obviously the government of Saudi Arabia needs to make things better for these victims and I think they're going to owe a debt here, given that this was one of their individuals,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Florida governor: 'The Saudi government will owe a debt here'\n\nPresident Donald Trump said that King Salman of Saudi Arabia had called to \"express his sincere condolences and give his sympathies to the families and friends of the warriors who were killed\".\n\nMr Trump said the Saudi King told him that \"this person in no way shape or form represents the feelings of the Saudi people who love the American people\".\n\nTimothy Kinsella, the base commanding officer, said he was \"absolutely in awe of the response\" to the attack.\n\n\"There was some real heroism today,\" he said. \"I'm devastated. We are in shock. This is surreal, but I couldn't be prouder to wear the uniform that I wear because of my brothers and sisters in uniform, civilian or otherwise, that did what they did today to save lives.\"\n\nAn investigation was taking place and names of victims would not be released until next of kin had been notified, the US Navy said in a statement.\n• None Two killed in shooting at Pearl Harbor navy base", "Two British pilots have touched down on home soil, after flying around the world in a restored Spitfire, with the paintwork stripped to a shining aluminium finish.\n\nSteve Brooks, 58, from Burford, Oxfordshire, and Matt Jones, 45, from Exeter, took four months to circumnavigate the globe in the first trip of its kind in a Spitfire.\n\nThey stopped off in 100 locations, across 30 countries.\n\nThe project, called Silver Spitfire - The Longest Flight, started and finished at Goodwood Aerodrome, the base of Boultbee Flight Academy, the first-ever school for Spitfire pilots, in West Sussex.", "Fiona Mackenzie set up the campaign group We Can't Consent To This\n\nWomen in Scotland are frequently \"appalled\" at the violence they experience during sex with men they are on a date with, activists say.\n\nCampaign group We Can't Consent To This said it knew of victims - many aged in their 40s or 50s - who had been strangled, slapped and spat on.\n\nThe group said brutality that features in pornography was often to blame.\n\nThey are calling for the law surrounding the issue of consent in sexual violence crimes to be toughened.\n\nIt follows a number of recent murder trials in which a \"rough sex\" defence has been used by the accused.\n\nThis argument is sometimes used in court when a man has been accused of killing or attacking a woman while having consensual sex.\n\nAn accused's legal team may bring up the victim's sexual preferences or argue she \"asked\" for the act of violence that led to her death or injury.\n\nIn the recent case of Grace Millane, a 21-year-old British backpacker who was murdered while on a date in New Zealand, the defence unsuccessfully argued she died after being consensually choked during sex.\n\nUniversity of Lincoln graduate Grace Millane was on a round-the-world trip at the time of her death\n\nWhile her killer was convicted of murder, campaigners say they have now seen a surge in this sort of defence being used during trials in the UK - often resulting in a lesser conviction such as manslaughter.\n\nWe Can't Consent To This is pushing for clarification that individuals cannot consent to violent acts during consensual sex in Scots law.\n\nFounder Fiona Mackenzie said women often do not see this sort of violence as assault, rather as something they've \"put themselves into\".\n\n\"There's one thing that's extremely concerning which is the widespread normalisation of violence against women in sex,\" she said.\n\n\"We hear from women who have been choked, punched, slapped and spat on. I think that's really concerning and I think that's meaning that these defences are much more likely to work.\"\n\nLast week, the BBC published research that suggests that more than a third of women, aged between 18 and 39, had experienced unwanted slapping, choking, gagging or spitting during consensual sex.\n\nHowever, Ms Mackenzie said that since launching her campaign, a large proportion of the women she has heard from are aged in their 40s and 50s while some have even been in their 60s.\n\nShe said: \"We hear particularly from women who return to dating after maybe a long relationship who are appalled by the level of violence they are being subjected to.\n\n\"I don't think it is just the younger age groups.\"\n\nMs Mackenzie opened up about her own experience of violence during sex after being choked by a partner.\n\nShe continued: \"I'd like to say it was a long time ago but I think even at the time I blamed myself, I thought it was something that I was responsible for.\n\n\"Many of these women live with quite extreme trauma, they can't wear clothing that's close to their neck or jewellery.\n\n\"Many of them say they just don't date men anymore because it's too scary and they've been assaulted too many times. Being subjected to that kind of assault is absolutely terrifying.\"\n\nIn 2009, the law in Scotland changed to clamp down on the possession of violent pornography.\n\nThe law was clarified to ban \"realistic depictions\" of rape attacks as well as life-threatening and violent sexual acts, bestiality and necrophilia.\n\nA 2016 study indicated a majority of children are exposed to online pornography by their early teens, which researchers called \"worrying\".\n\nMs Mackenzie said that while the effort to clamp down on violent pornography in Scotland was important, it is \"almost never enforced.\"\n\nShe continued: \"If you go onto any of the main porn sites you see again and again, women being strangled to unconsciousness.\n\n\"I would hope that porn companies would take action to crack down on that - I don't think they have any incentive to at the moment.\n\n\"We hear that pornography is normalising the choking of women in sex - we hear from men who use pornography that that's where it's coming from.\"\n\nAt present the campaign has no concrete changes to present to Holyrood but has urged the Scottish Law Commission to clarify that a person cannot consent to violence leading to injury.\n\nMs Mackenzie, whose campaign has backing from charities such as Zero Tolerance, said that societal changes were crucial.\n\nShe has called for more public bodies to collect data on the issue as well as better sex education in schools and a review of how police handle complaints from potential victims.\n\nPrior to the suspension of the Westminster parliament, changes to the Domestic Abuse Bill were proposed in England and Wales to reinforce the fact that consent can be no defence for death. There have been calls for the bill to be reintroduced after the general election.\n\nThe Scottish government said it was aware of cases in Scotland where the accused has argued the victim consented to the acts resulting in their death, but these resulted in conviction for murder or culpable homicide.\n\nIt said it had strengthened the criminal law on sexual offences, that the law was being kept under review and it will carefully consider any proposals to reform it.", "Officials have issued fresh warnings for blazes around Sydney\n\nAbout 100 bushfires are raging in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW), with the most severe forming into a \"mega blaze\" north of Sydney.\n\nMore than 2,000 firefighters are battling bushfires, which escalated in intensity late on Thursday.\n\nFootage of one blaze on the southern fringe of the city showed firefighters fleeing as flames surged forward.\n\nAustralia's largest city has been blanketed by thick smoke all week, causing a rise in medical problems.\n\nSince October, bushfires have killed six people and destroyed more than 700 homes across Australia.\n\nThe severity of the blazes so early in the fire season has caused alarm, and prompted calls for greater action to tackle climate change.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Firefighters flee intense flames in Sydney, in a video shared by them to show the dangers of bushfires\n\nMore than 1.6 million hectares of land in NSW have been burnt already. Fires have also raged across Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania.\n\nFires spanned the entire NSW coastline on Friday, with some sparking emergency warnings amid hot and windy conditions.\n\nAuthorities confirmed three fires had merged into a \"mega blaze\" north of Sydney on Friday, covering more than 300,000 hectares. That blaze is about the size of greater Sydney, officials said.\n\n\"We have also seen the fires coming in very close proximity to major population centres,\" said NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMany fires have raged for weeks, feeding off tinder-dry conditions from a severe drought which has affected much of the nation.\n\n\"We are in for another tough day,\" said NSW Rural Fire Service assistant commissioner Rob Rogers, adding that several properties had been destroyed in the past 24 hours.\n\nFire crews from the US and Canada arrived in NSW this week to help tackle the blazes.\n\nIn Queensland, authorities said at least two homes had been destroyed in the past day.\n\nSydney's air quality deteriorated beyond \"hazardous\" levels this week as smoke from the fires again blanketed the city. The front page of the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper on Friday read: \"Sydney chokes as state burns\".\n\nThe smoke haze over the city on Thursday\n\nHospital admissions have risen 25% in the past week said officials, with people reporting asthma and breathing problems. About five million people live in greater Sydney.\n\nPeople have been warned to stay indoors, but the smoke in some areas has also seeped into buildings.\n\nEarly on Friday, the NSW capital ranked number 19 on the Air Visual global rankings of cities with the worst air pollution - putting it ahead of Shanghai and Mumbai.\n\nThe smoke has also affected towns closer to the fires for weeks. The state government said on Thursday that the air pollution event was \"the longest and most widespread in our records\".\n\nBushfires are common in Australia, but this year's fire season is more intense and has begun earlier than usual - something meteorologists say is exacerbated by climate change.\n\nAustralia's Bureau of Meteorology says that climate change has led to an increase in extreme heat events and raised the severity of other natural disasters, such as drought.\n\nLast week, the bureau noted that NSW had endured its driest spring season on record. It also warned that Australia's coming summer was predicted to bring similar conditions to last year's - the nation's hottest summer on record.\n\nOfficial figures have shown 2018 and 2017 were Australia's third and fourth-hottest years on record respectively.\n\nAs the fires rage on, the Australian government has been criticised over its efforts to address climate change. Prime Minister Scott Morrison has dismissed accusations linking the crisis to his government's policies.\n\nHundreds of bushfire survivors and farmers converged on the nation's capital, Canberra, this week in protest. One woman displayed the charred remains of her home outside Parliament - on which she had written: \"Morrison, your climate crisis destroyed my home.\"\n\nMelinda Plesman called for the government to take action on climate change\n\nLast week the UN reiterated that Australia is among seven G20 nations needing to do more to meet their climate promises. The list also includes Brazil, Canada, Japan, the Republic of Korea, South Africa and the US.\n\nThe UN has previously noted that Australia is falling short of its Paris agreement commitments to cut CO2 emissions.\n\nAustralia has pledged to a 26-28% cut on its 2005 levels by 2030. The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has said that global emissions of CO2 need to decline by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030 to keep temperature rise under 1.5C.", "Thomas Griffiths was 17 when he killed Ellie in her family home\n\nA teenager who stabbed his ex-girlfriend to death will not have his 12-and-a-half year sentence increased.\n\nThe family of Ellie Gould, 17, had called for a tougher sentence for Thomas Griffiths, who was also 17 when he murdered her at her home in Calne, Wiltshire, in May.\n\nThe Attorney General ruled he could not refer the case to the Court of Appeal as the sentence was not unduly lenient.\n\nMs Gould's family said they were \"bitterly disappointed\".\n\nLast month, Griffiths admitted stabbing Ellie repeatedly in the neck in a \"frenzied attack\" before trying to make it appear her wounds were self-inflicted.\n\nThe court heard Griffiths spent an hour at the house before he drove home, changed his clothes and dumped a bag of Ellie's items in a wood.\n\nEllie's family said they were \"bitterly disappointed\" the sentence would not be increased\n\nHis case was referred to the Attorney General's office under the unduly lenient sentence scheme which received \"in excess of 101\" referrals asking him to examine the prison term handed down by Bristol Crown Court last month.\n\nA spokesperson said: \"After careful consideration the Attorney General has concluded that he could not refer this case to the Court of Appeal.\"\n\nThey said a referral could only be made if a sentence \"is not just lenient but unduly so, such that the sentencing judge made a gross error or imposed a sentence outside the range of sentences reasonably available in the circumstances of the offence\".\n\n\"The threshold is a high one, and the test was not met in this case,\" it said.\n\nEllie's body was found at a house in Springfield Drive, Calne\n\nFollowing the decision, the Gould family said they were disappointed that \"once again the British justice system has not only let us but also the nation down\".\n\n\"When the Attorney General quotes in his letter to us that Griffiths' crime not only shocked him, but also the nation, yet doesn't feel it is appropriate to refer it to the Court of Appeal to have the lenient sentence reviewed, there is something very wrong with criminal justice in Britain today.\n\n\"All we can do as a family is fight Griffiths' parole when the time comes, to keep such a dangerous individual off Britain's streets and keep the public safe.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Harley Watson's family described him as a \"good, kind, helpful and lovely boy\"\n\nA man has appeared in court charged with murdering a 12-year-old boy who was killed in a hit-and-run crash outside a school.\n\nHarley Watson died after being struck by a car near Debden Park High School in Loughton, Essex, on Monday.\n\nTerence Glover, 51, of Newmans Lane in Loughton, spoke only to confirm his name and age at a hearing at Chelmsford Magistrates' Court on Friday.\n\nHe is also charged with 10 counts of attempted murder and dangerous driving.\n\nHe was remanded in custody and will appear at Chelmsford Crown Court on Monday.\n\nHarley's family described him as a \"good, kind, helpful and lovely boy\", adding: \"We are so devastated by what has happened.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp Rob Kirby thanked the local community for their help since Monday's \"tragic event\", and urged anyone with information to come forward.\n\nChristian Cavanagh, executive head teacher, described Harley's death as \"a young life so tragically lost\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Celeste follows such recent winners as Rag'n'Bone Man (left) and Sam Fender (right)\n\nSoul singer Celeste has won the Brits' Rising Star award, priming her for success in 2020.\n\nBorn in Los Angeles and raised in Brighton, the musician has turned heads with her beguiling, soulful voice.\n\nAfter winning the Rising Star award, the 25-year-old will get to perform on stage at the Brit Awards in February.\n\nThe British-Jamaican singer said the award was \"a huge honour\" and that she hoped \"to make the most of this incredible opportunity\".\n\n\"Like many others, I grew up watching the Brits and have been continually inspired by its nominees, winners and the performances,\" she went on.\n\nThe prize, formerly called the Critics' Choice award, has previously been awarded to Adele, Sam Fender and Rag'n'Bone Man.\n\nCeleste started singing in her teens, taking inspiration from Elton John's Your Song.\n\nShe picked up support from Radio 1 DJs after uploading her song North Circular to the BBC Music Introducing site.\n\nHer debut EP, The Milk and Honey, was produced by Lily Allen's Bank Holiday Records label shortly after and she was signed to Polydor Records last year.\n\nHer melancholy ballad Strange was recently playlisted by BBC Radio 1 and she is currently touring Europe with R&B star Michael Kiwanuka.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by BBC Music This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nEarlier this week, Celeste was named BBC Introducing's artist of the year. She also appeared on Radio 4's Woman's Hour to talk about her musical upbringing.\n\n\"The first music I heard was my granddad playing Aretha Franklin and then later Ella Fitzgerald and Otis Redding,\" she said, citing the likes of Solange and Neneh Cherry as more modern inspirations.\n\n\"Something I love about Neneh Cherry is she seems unbreakable. She's remained very cool, and an icon I think.\"\n\nDescribing herself as \"headstrong\" and an \"independent thinker\", Celeste said \"being yourself [was] one of the most important things\" while pursuing music.\n\nThe Rising Star award is decided by a panel of music editors, critics, radio and music TV station heads, songwriters, producers and live bookers.\n\nCeleste topped a shortlist of three female singer-songwriters that also included musical polymath Joy Crookes and indie heroine Beabadoobee.\n\nAll three got the chance to record a session at London's famous Abbey Road Studios.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video 2 by celesteVEVO This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\nAfterwards Celeste said she had been awestruck by \"passing through the corridors and seeing all the pictures of Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra and Kanye West on the walls\".\n\n\"You can feel the atmosphere when you come to places like this, which I love,\" she continued.\n\nThe 2020 Brit Awards will be broadcast live on ITV on 18 February from the O2 Arena in London.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Joseph McCann was arrested after climbing a tree in Cheshire\n\nSerial rapist Joseph McCann had spent two weeks on the run, kidnapping and sexually assaulting women across the country before finally being cornered in Cheshire. This is how it unfolded.\n\nI'd spent a Sunday afternoon with family visiting our daughter in Liverpool on the day it all happened.\n\nIt was still daylight as we made our way back to our home town of Congleton, Cheshire, when we noticed the police helicopter circling above the town centre.\n\nWe'd seen it dozens of times and paid little more attention. But soon social media was buzzing with reports of a man armed with knife on the loose.\n\nWe decided to drive into the town to investigate and, after a while, came across a car that had crashed on a roundabout close to the fire station.\n\nBefore long it became clear police were closing in on serial rapist Joseph McCann.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOne person told us the crash had happened as McCann tried to escape after, unsuccessfully, trying to attack two women in the town centre.\n\nHe was now on foot and heading north.\n\nIt didn't take long to come across dozens of police, paramedics and firefighters in the Hulme Walfield district, to the north of the town centre.\n\nSoon we were witnessing McCann's last stand.\n\nMcCann fled on foot after crashing a car into a Mercedes\n\nHe'd abandoned his car - and two would-be victims - before attempting to evade the net closing around him.\n\nJumping over garden hedges and fences, he had headed across country to a row of trees just off Smithy Lane.\n\nDesperate to escape the huge manhunt, he then took refuge in the branches of a tree, believing he'd be safe. In fact, he'd cornered himself and was discovered helpless and cowering.\n\nThe police helicopter pinpointed his hideout and McCann was finally surrounded and arrested.\n\nHe was driven from the scene, shrouded from view by a blanket in a police vehicle.\n\nTen hours after arriving in Congleton and abducting two terrified victims, Britain's most wanted man was finally in custody.", "The rapper's set at Lovebox will be his only London festival performance in 2020\n\nTyler, the Creator will headline both Lovebox and Parklife in 2020.\n\nThe shows will be the rapper's first UK festival appearances since he was banned from the UK in 2015.\n\nHe was blocked from entering by then-Home Secretary Theresa May because of claims his lyrics encouraged \"violence and intolerance of homosexuality\".\n\nThe American will play at Manchester's Parklife on 13 June before closing Lovebox the following evening in London's Gunnersbury Park.\n\nTyler's been donning a blonde wig and yellow suit at shows for his latest album IGOR\n\nTyler's last UK festival set was supposed to be at Reading and Leeds in 2015 but he was forced to pull out the week of the show because he had trouble getting into the country.\n\nHe made his official UK return back in May, popping up outside Buckingham Palace to announce a surprise performance of his latest album IGOR, which is nominated for best rap album at the Grammys.\n\nThe gig in Putney, south west London, was later cancelled by the police after \"rowdy\" fans attempted to climb the gate outside the venue in anticipation of the show.\n\nFour months later he returned to the capital to play two sold-out gigs in Brixton, which went ahead as planned.\n\nTyler presented Rihanna with an award at the British Fashion Awards earlier this week\n\nNext year's Lovebox festival will for the first time be three nights instead of two and has been moved forward from its usual mid-July slot, to the 12 June.\n\nThe rest of the line-up will be announced in the coming weeks. The 2019 edition was headlined by Solange and Chance the Rapper.\n\nOther names on the bill at Parklife - are due to be announced in the new year.\n\nThis year Cardi B cancelled her headline slot two days before the show.\n\nIt came shortly after the Grammy-winning rapper postponed a string of US shows to recover from cosmetic surgery.\n\nListen to Newsbeat live at 12:45 and 17:45 weekdays - or listen back here.", "Most Christmas jumpers expected to be sold in the UK this year are made with plastic, a study has found.\n\nEnvironmental charity Hubbub has warned against buying the seasonal garments after finding that up to 95% of them are made using plastic.\n\nConsumers are urged to buy them second-hand or to swap old ones with friends.\n\nThe charity estimates UK shoppers will buy 12 million festive jumpers this year, despite already owning 65 million from previous years.\n\nA spokeswoman for Hubbub described the Christmas jumper as \"one of the worst examples of fast fashion\" and warned that such consumer habits are a \"major threat\" to the planet.\n\nIn a survey, the charity found that two-fifths of the festive tops are worn just once during the Christmas period.\n\nThe survey of more than 3,000 UK adults also suggested that one in three people under 35 buy a new sweater every year, while only 29% of shoppers know that most Christmas jumpers contain plastic.\n\nHubbub analysed 108 jumpers available to buy this year from 11 High Street and online retailers, and found that 95% were made wholly or partly of plastic materials.\n\nThree-quarters of the garments tested contained acrylic, making it the most commonly used plastic fibre. Some 44% were made entirely from acrylic.\n\nIn 2016, a study by Plymouth University found that acrylic was responsible for releasing nearly 730,000 microfibres per wash - five times more than polyester-cotton blend fabric, and nearly 1.5 times as many as pure polyester.\n\nIn a statement, Hubbub project co-ordinator Sarah Divall said fast fashion is a \"major threat\" to the natural world, adding that \"Christmas jumpers are particularly problematic as so many contain plastic\".\n\n\"We'd urge people to swap, buy second-hand or re-wear - and remember a jumper is for life, not just for Christmas,\" she said.\n\nThe warning comes ahead of Save the Children's annual Christmas Jumper Day, which returns on Friday 13 December.\n\nThe event sees tens of thousands of schools and workplaces across the UK take part by encouraging people to wear a festive jersey.\n\nThe charity urges participants to wear their \"daftest woollies\" and donate £2 each.", "In lots of ways this is a complicated election.\n\nDerbyshire is not the same as Dundee, Birmingham is not the same as Bangor.\n\nWestminster sure isn't the same as Widnes - and London, maybe above all else, isn't the same as Linlithgow, Leeds or Ludlow.\n\nThere are a multitude of contenders as well - not just the traditional parties, but the SNP and Plaid Cymru, the Brexit Party, what remains of the Independent Group for Change, moveable tribes of party defectors and a clutch of independents as well.\n\nBut as we enter the last seven days of this election, in our first-past-the-post system, whether you believe it is the best or the worst of all worlds, the choice irrevocably, and inevitably perhaps, moves towards the two big teams - the reds and the blues, and the two big, flawed, characters of Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nAt the start of this campaign we talked here about how, in a strange way, they are an odd couple who share some traits.\n\nAnd on the trail that has been shown, again and again, to be the case.\n\nBoris Johnson fascinates some people, who are desperate to shake his hand, eager as children when there are free sweets on offer.\n\nBut for others he is simply not someone they can trust, who they may even back, but will fill in their ballots wearing kid gloves.\n\nAs one voter in Cardiff told me last week, she had backed Labour all her life, but then had voted Leave, so will now back Boris Johnson, having flirted with the idea of voting for the Brexit Party.\n\nShe had this parting shot: \"I hope he's not lying.\"\n\nBoris Johnson delivers a speech to factory workers in the Midlands\n\nNone of our campaign journeys have provided scientific evidence of the Conservatives cruising to an enthusiastic majority.\n\nSeeing Jeremy Corbyn on the trail, there is no doubting how much the party members who turn up to Labour's organised election events believe in him.\n\nThey talk of \"the movement\", of big change coming. He is greeted by smaller crowds, perhaps, than in 2017, but by big Labour audiences nonetheless, delighted to see him and sing along to the now-familiar, \"Oh Jeremy Corbyn\" chorus.\n\nBut Labour candidates talk privately, again and again, of how his perceived unpopularity among many traditional voters is the block to a Labour majority.\n\nBut the enthusiasm for Boris Johnson, where it exists, is more jaded than during the referendum of 2016.\n\nLikewise, the delight at Jeremy Corbyn is dimmed compared with the crowds that we saw greet him in 2017.\n\nOne man today told me, with tears gathering in the corner of his eyes, that he was so cross about this election because he believed that it had to happen because politicians have made such a mess of the last few years, and obviously upset that the choices were limited in his view, to a decision between two men, neither of whom he trusts.\n\nAs we enter the final week of this campaign though, we will see from the two main protagonists a repetition of their core messages, rather than a grand invitation to inspire.\n\nFor the Tories that will be - yes, you guessed it - to resolve Brexit, to remove the biggest question mark that's been hanging over British politics for three years now.\n\nNot, of course, what the world will look like after the trade deal that could be done with Brussels (or not) - but whether we actually leave or not.\n\nAnd for Labour, it will be punching at the bruises that nearly a decade of a squeeze on public spending has created.\n\nThere are of course many other issues that might and will raise their heads in the time that's left.\n\nIt's of course extremely hard to read how the national polls and sentiment on the ground will translate into the final numbers.\n\nBut - unless something very strange happens in the next seven days - those pretty stable party positions are likely to result in the Conservatives being the biggest party, but not necessarily clearing the hurdle that will see them returning to government with a majority.\n\nAnd unlike the deeply dramatic election and referendum campaigns we have seen in the past few years, perhaps - just whisper it - in the run-up to this particular polling day, nothing has changed.", "Footage of a high-speed chase between police officers and violent rapist Joseph McCann has been released by the Met.\n\nMcCann, 34, has been convicted of 37 offenses including rape, abduction and kidnap at the Old Bailey.\n\nThe manhunt, during April and May, involved hundreds of officers from five forces.", "A former power station's cooling towers have been demolished in a series of controlled explosions.\n\nHundreds gathered to see the four towers at Ironbridge, in Shropshire, be blown up at 11:00 GMT.\n\nWhen it opened in 1969, the power station was one of the largest of its kind in the UK, producing enough electricity for the equivalent of about 750,000 homes.\n\nIt stopped producing in 2015 and will ultimately make way for about 1,000 homes, a school, shops and other infrastructure.", "As the leaders gave their closing speeches, the spin room noise level began to rise - and as soon as it was a wrap, the scurrying began.\n\nThe desks for journalists are laid out like tight little warrens, and every reporter, politician and spinner is navigating their way through, hoping not to trip up and cause a different kind of headline.\n\nWe now have big names from both Labour and the Tories who want to be in front of the camera and sell their guy as the top dog.\n\nThe first (and loudest) row was between Labour's shadow international trade secretary, Barry Gardiner, and Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab over Brexit.\n\nAll the crews gathered around the face-off, as one shouted and another rolled their eyes. It's worth watching our coverage on the BBC News channel for the full glory.\n\nThe next was Tory Nicky Morgan and Labour's Baroness Chakrabati, who, while friendly off camera, laid into each other on air.\n\nIt was quite a moment to watch, as the two women spoke over each other to accuse the other of interrupting...\n\nBut that is the nature of a spin room. You want to be first, fast and furious, fighting for your candidate, and telling voters who won what they just watched.\n\nAnd it isn't over yet. We have spotted some more people heading in.\n\nExcuse us while we go and see what Mr Gardiner has to say to Health Secretary Matt Hancock...", "* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment, the older person’s bus pass and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* Rights for workers to be notified of their shifts one month in advance * The right to bereavement leave following a death in the immediate family * Lower cap on pension fund management fees * Tax breaks for companies that offer longer-term secure career contracts to staff\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* End the Work Capability Assessment and replace it with a system using qualified medical practitioners * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * No benefits paid to foreign nationals resident in the UK until they have paid tax for five years * Minimise the use of zero-hour contracts\n\n* £35 a week payment for every child in a low-income family * Tax credit of up to £25 a week for tenants in the private sector who spend more than 30% of their income on rent and utility bills * Powers over social security devolved to Wales * Abolish the \"bedroom tax\" * Universal free childcare for 40 hours a week\n\n* Demand UK government halts the rollout of Universal Credit until \"fundamental flaws\" are addressed * Oppose and increase to the state pension age and campaign against decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s * Press for the statutory living wage to rise to at least the level of the real living wage * Increase shared parental leave from 52 to 64 weeks, with the additional 12 weeks to be the minimum taken by the father * Make the minimum wage for 16 to 24-year-olds the same as for over 25s, and ban unpaid trial shifts\n\n* Stronger regulation of the gig economy, and oppose deregulation of employment rights * Stronger focus on careers advice * Support a fairer UK-wide welfare system and revised package of welfare mitigations for NI * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * Overhaul bereavement benefits\n\n* Personal tax allowance should rise in line with inflation each year * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 by the end of the parliamentary term * End the freeze on benefits by increasing them in line with inflation * Restore free television licences for over-75s but in the longer term abolish the licence fee entirely * Retain the pensions triple lock and retain winter fuel payments\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts * Introduce a real living wage * Establish a new \"welfare mitigation package\" that protects the most vulnerable\n\n* Increase childcare provision from 12.5 hours per week to 20 hours per week, potentially increasing to 30 hours once new budget is agreed * Regulation of zero-hours contracts * Introduce a \"true living wage\" to reflect rising costs of living * Scrap universal credit, the bedroom tax and the two-child limit * End the freeze on benefits\n\n* Extend mitigation measures on key issues such as the bedroom tax, which are due to expire in March * Restore TV licenses for over-75s and retain the triple-lock protection for pensions * Create and implement a new childcare strategy\n\n* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Increase the number of employers paying a living wage in Wales and introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system * New \"collective\" workplace pension schemes and new controls on transferring pensions and a review of state pension inequality for Waspi women\n\n* Introduce a real living wage of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16, giving about 700,000 Scottish workers a pay rise * Scrap universal credit and increase child benefit * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66 and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay\n\n* Reverse cuts to universal credit * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment * Introduce universal access to basic services * Increase provision of free meals for children, with a particular focus on breakfast * Increase access to free sanitary products\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts, close the gender pay gap, and ensure that everyone is paid a \"real living wage\" * Bring in a universal basic income * Remove differential rates of minimum wage for under-25s and introduce a living wage for everyone * Scrap universal credit * Support for the Waspi women (Women Against State Pension Inequality)\n\n* Scrap welfare reforms include PIP, Universal Credit and the bedroom tax * Develop a state-owned National Childcare Agency * Repeal all anti-trade union laws * Ban zero hours contracts and implement a real living wage\n\n* 40% of board members in public companies and public sector boards to be women * Worker representation to be established on the boards of larger companies * Ban “zero-hours” contracts * Increase child benefit", "Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn have clashed over Brexit, the NHS, security and the economy in a head-to-head live debate.\n\nIt was the last head-to-head between the Tory and Labour leaders before polling day on 12 December.\n\nRead more:Johnson and Corbyn clash over Brexit in BBC debate", "The man stabbed to death in Knightsbridge died near the luxury department store Harrods\n\nThree men have been stabbed to death in London in little over 12 hours.\n\nExauce Ngimbi, 22, was attacked in Hackney, east London, on Thursday afternoon and four people have been arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nOvernight, Muhammed Abdullah Al Araimi was killed near Harrods in Knightsbridge, while another man was killed in Deptford, south-east London.\n\nThe deaths mean 136 murder investigations have been launched in the capital this year.\n\nIt is the same amount as during the whole of 2018.\n\nThe deaths mean 136 murder investigations have been launched in the capital this year\n\nMr Al Araimi, 26, was found unconscious near to Harrods just after midnight after police had been called over reports of a stabbing.\n\nHe was treated by paramedics but pronounced dead at the scene at 00:39 GMT.\n\nAnother man was found injured and taken to hospital \"in a serious condition\", police said.\n\nHarrods said the store was open as usual but some entrances into the building had been closed due to the police cordon.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEmergency services were also called to Bronze Street, Deptford, at 03:00 GMT after another man was fatally stabbed.\n\nCrosslom Davis, 20, has been named by the Met Police as the victim.\n\nNo arrests have been made over either of the overnight killings and the Met have appealed for witnesses.\n\nThe first victim died in Clarence Mews, Hackney, on Thursday afternoon\n\nDetectives believe Mr Ngimbi, who was killed in Clarence Mews in Hackney, died following \"an altercation involving a group of people\".\n\nA 14-year-old boy is among the four people to have been arrested and has been taken to a police station, the Met said.\n\nTwo 26-year-old men and a 23-year-old man have also been arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Artwork: Scientists are trying to work out the likely paths meteorites took as they fell toward Earth\n\nIn January 2018, a falling meteorite created a bright fireball that arced over the outskirts of Detroit, Michigan, followed by loud sonic booms.\n\nThe visitor not only dropped a slew of meteorites over the snow-covered ground, it also provided information about its extra-terrestrial source.\n\nAlthough tens of thousands of meteorites have been recovered by humans, scientists have only been able to trace the orbits of a small number. Most of these have been calculated in the last decade.\n\nScientists can use information about how the meteorite burned through Earth's atmosphere to calculate how the rocky object moved through space before it transformed into a fireball.\n\nResearchers cannot trace the specific path of an object back through time - there are too many variables that could have affected its motion. But they can determine the most likely paths. Studying the likely orbits of similar asteroids can help to reveal their parent body, the larger asteroid they once were part of.\n\nVideo of the fireball over Michigan:\n\nSorry, we're having trouble displaying this content. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\n\"This is a great way to do what amounts to a low-cost asteroid sample return mission,\" says Dr Peter Brown, who studies asteroids at Canada's University of Western Ontario. \"In this case, the sample comes to us. We don't have to go to the sample.\"\n\nDr Brown and his colleagues gathered information from fireball surveys as well as videos posted on social media to reconstruct a potential orbit for the Hamburg meteorite, named after the small Detroit suburb it buzzed.\n\nThe team then worked with several of the amateur photographers to calibrate their observations. \"We spent a lot of time scouring YouTube and Twitter,\" he says.\n\nThe researchers found that the Hamburg meteorite was a fairly typical fireball. It likely entered the atmosphere with a mass ranging from 60kg to 220kg and a diameter between 0.3m and 0.5m.\n\nTravelling at about 16 km/s, it produced two major flares at 24.1km and 21.7km above the ground. The total energy produced by the fireball equalled somewhere between two and seven tonnes of TNT.\n\nWhile some researchers took to the ground to hunt for dark meteorites in the Michigan snow, Dr Brown and his colleagues took to the internet to find reports of the fall. Because the region was densely populated, Dr Brown said there were a lot of video recordings that captured the fall.\n\nOut of the wealth of camera phone and security footage, they tracked down almost 30 unique videos that were sharp enough to reveal their location. Of these, only a handful was good enough for the team members to perform detailed calibration.\n\nHow do you calibrate a casual fireball video? First you need to have a positional reference that helps to pinpoint where the video was taken from. Ideally, the same camera would be placed in the exact spot where the meteorite fall was originally viewed - though often a similar camera was used instead.\n\nMeasurements from those videos revealed the angle that the incoming meteorite was travelling on.\n\nThe Chelyabinsk meteor in 2013 was also filmed from multiple locations\n\n\"A lot of the legwork was just talking to people,\" Dr Brown says.\n\nIn addition to the casual imagery, the researchers looked at images from fireball surveys, where the calibration had already been performed.\n\nWhile the official data was easier to work with, Dr Brown says that smart phones and dashboard cameras often tend to have higher resolution, providing better precision data if they can be calibrated. The growing prevalence of these kinds of cameras \"has almost revolutionised this area,\" he says.\n\nWhile humans have collected meteorites for thousands of years, it wasn't until 1959 that the first meteorite orbit was recovered. Cameras operated by the Ondrejov Observatory in the Czech Republic recorded the fall of the Pribram meteorite, allowing the researchers to trace its orbit back to the asteroid belt.\n\nFor the first time, astronomers were confident that meteors came from asteroids. \"That orbit really sort of sealed it,\" Dr Brown says.\n\nFireball networks came online through the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, and by 2000, four meteorite orbits were known. Three of those were H-chondrites, the iron-rich class of meteorites that most commonly falls, and the group that Hamburg belongs to.\n\nSince 2000, those meteorites with orbits that can be calculated have increased. Another 10 were spotted by 2010. The last few years have produced a handful of traceable meteorites annually, Dr Brown says.\n\nH-chondrites, like this example that fell in Kansas in 1929, are the most common type of meteorite falls\n\nToday, there are about 30 meteorites whose orbits have been calculated. While the spread of cameras dedicated to tracking fireballs has played an important role, Dr Brown says that casual recordings have also advanced the field.\n\nThe Hamburg fall \"was very well recorded, and that's what makes it so interesting\", Dr Brown says. After the more powerful 2013 Chelyabinsk fireball, \"there's no other fall that had so many video records\".\n\nBut casual video recordings have their downfall. Because they are so much more difficult to calibrate than official surveys, they take more time. That can move them down the priority list for swamped scientists.\n\nDr Brown knows of researchers working on nearly 10 more meteorite orbits, but he estimates that others exist. \"There are data for probably another 20 that people just haven't tried to do because it's so much work,\" he says. \"It's a difficult process.\"\n\nAlthough H-chondrites make up the bulk of the meteorites that survive the plunge through Earth's atmosphere, their origin remains a mystery. In 1998, astronomers proposed the large main-belt asteroid (6) Hebe as the primary parent body because it resembled H-chondrites.\n\nHebe's orbit sits in a location where Jupiter's gravitational forces can stir up material, allowing it to escape from the asteroid belt. Near-Earth asteroids similar to Hebe have also been spotted, suggesting that something - probably the giant planet Jupiter - slung material from the asteroid belt.\n\nHowever, other main-belt asteroids similar to H-chondrites have been identified in recent years, muddying the picture.\n\nThe asteroid (6) Hebe has been proposed as one source of H-chondrites\n\nOf the 30 or so meteorites with known orbits, nearly half are H-chondrites. So far, however, those objects don't seem to be coming from the outer asteroid belt - the side facing Jupiter - where Hebe orbits. Instead, they appear to start their journey from the middle and inner belt, closer to the Sun. And the new discovery isn't helping.\n\n\"Hamburg, unfortunately, adds more questions about the orbit of H-chondrites than it answers,\" Dr Brown says.\n\nNarrowing things down will take more meteorite samples. Dr Brown estimates that doubling the existing known orbits for H-chondrites will allow researchers to make more solid associations with a parent body.\n\nThat assumes the iron-rich asteroids come from a single source; it's possible they come from two or more locations in the asteroid belt.\n\n\"It's a very complicated story,\" Dr Brown says. \"We need to get more of these if we're going to answer these questions more fully.\"", "Thousands of demonstrators are gathering in Madrid as the Spanish city hosts climate negotiations by the UN.\n\nThey are calling for more ambitious climate change policy.\n\nThe rally was joined by speakers including actor Javier Bardem and activist Greta Thunberg. A concert was also held near to Nuevos Ministerios, a government complex in the city centre.\n\nOrganisers say around 500,000 people are taking part in the demonstrations. Officials have not given a figure.\n\nSimultaneous protests are also being held in the Chilean capital of Santiago, which was initially expected to host the UN conference.\n\n\"The change we need is not going to come from people in power,\" Ms Thunberg told the crowds. \"The change is going to come from the people, the masses, demanding change.\"\n\nThe talks - known as the COP25 - were due to be held in Chile but the Chilean government cancelled following weeks of civil unrest.\n\nThey began on Monday with the UN secretary general warning that time to avoid the worst effects of climate change was running out and that negotiators should be guided by the science.\n\nBy the end of the meeting on 13 December, negotiators hope to resolve disagreements over the implementation of the Paris Climate Accords.\n\nBut countries continue to disagree on targets for cutting carbon emissions, and plans to increase these targets have not been included in the agenda for COP25's final agreement.", "Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump during happier times in 2018\n\nNorth Korea has renewed its verbal attacks on President Trump, after he threatened military action.\n\nThe foreign ministry said if Mr Trump was confrontational, it \"must really be diagnosed as the relapse of the dotage of a dotard\".\n\nThe North first called Mr Trump a dotard, meaning old and weak, in 2017.\n\nIt is the first time in over a year that Pyongyang has been openly critical of Donald Trump, the BBC's Korea correspondent Laura Bicker said.\n\nThe Oxford English Dictionary defines a dotard as \"a person whose mental faculties are impaired, specifically, a person whose intellect or understanding is impaired in old age\".\n\nDotage, meanwhile, is defined as \"having impaired intellect or understanding in old age\", or in general use as \"old age\".\n\nThe two men held face-to-face talks in Singapore in June 2018, and in Vietnam in February this year, aimed at denuclearisation.\n\nBut talks have stalled since then, and despite another impromptu meeting at the demilitarised zone (DMZ) that separates North and South Korea in June, the North has restarted testing of short-range ballistic missiles.\n\nNorth Korea has repeatedly fired off missiles throughout 2019\n\nIn recent months the hostile language has also come back.\n\nPyongyang has set Washington an end-of-year deadline to offer it new concessions and has said it will adopt a \"new way\" if that does not happen.\n\nAt the Nato summit in the UK on Tuesday, Mr Trump referred to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as \"rocket man\".\n\nHe also said that the US reserved the right to use military force against Pyongyang.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The war that never officially ended\n\nIn a statement carried by North Korea's state news agency, Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui warned that the \"war of words\" from two years ago may be resuming.\n\n\"If any language and expressions stoking the atmosphere of confrontation are used once again on purpose at a crucial moment as now, that must really be diagnosed as the relapse of the dotage of a dotard.\"\n\nIn 2017, the two leaders engaged in tit-for-tat arguments, with Mr Trump dubbing Mr Kim \"little rocket man\" and \"a madman\", while Mr Kim called the US president a \"mentally deranged dotard\".", "Dany Cotton was one of only 30 female firefighters when she joined London Fire Brigade\n\nLondon's first female fire commissioner has said she will retire next year.\n\nAnnouncing her departure, Dany Cotton, 50, said the \"utter devastation\" of the Grenfell Tower fire was something that would never leave her.\n\nMs Cotton joined London Fire Brigade (LFB) at the age of 18 and was one of only 30 female firefighters in the capital at the time.\n\nLondon's mayor called her \"truly exceptional\" but she has faced criticism over her work at Grenfell.\n\nSadiq Khan described the fire commissioner as a \"truly exceptional firefighter\"\n\nSpeaking about Grenfell, in which 72 people died, she said: \"The utter devastation of the Grenfell Tower fire and its impact on so many people will never leave me.\"\n\nMs Cotton revealed she suffered with traumatic memory loss and had received counselling since the fire.\n\nThe commissioner said she would \"remain dedicated to leading LFB through any findings\" from the ongoing inquiry into the blaze.\n\nMs Cotton previously told an inquiry into the fire that she would not have changed anything about the way her crews responded.\n\nHowever, a lawyer for the victims of the fire said Ms Cotton and her leadership team were \"not fit to run\" the emergency service.\n\nShe was also criticised by survivors after telling the inquiry she had not spent much time thinking about the disaster as \"it would be no good for me to fall apart\".\n\nGrenfell United, a group which represents bereaved families and survivors, said they would not allow her to evade responsibility through a \"carefully choreographed retirement\".\n\nMs Cotton attended the rail crash at Clapham Junction in 1988\n\nMs Cotton said she had worked on \"some of the most painful incidents to have occurred in LFB's history\" during her 32 years with the service.\n\nThree months into the job, she attended the Clapham Junction rail disaster where 33 people died.\n\nShe also led crews when tackling the fire which ravaged the Cutty Sark in 2007.\n\nLondon mayor Sadiq Khan said Ms Cotton was \"a true role model who has broken down barriers for women in London\".\n\nLFB said plans to appoint a new commissioner for when Ms Cotton leaves in April next year had not yet been finalised.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jonty Bravery was 17 years old when he was charged\n\nA teenager said he threw a boy from the 10th floor of the Tate Modern in London because he wanted to be on the TV news.\n\nThe six-year-old boy was visiting London from France with his family when Jonty Bravery, 18, threw him from a viewing platform on 4 August.\n\nThe boy suffered a bleed to the brain in the five-storey fall. His injuries have been described as life-changing.\n\nBravery, from Ealing, admitted attempted murder at the Old Bailey and will be sentenced in February.\n\nAfter his arrest he told police he planned in advance to hurt someone at the South Bank gallery, to highlight his autism treatment on TV.\n\nThe court heard Bravery had approached a member of Tate Modern staff, saying: \"I think I've murdered someone, I've just thrown someone off the balcony.\"\n\nThe boy was taken to hospital after he was found on a fifth floor roof\n\nIn his police interview, Bravery said he had to prove a point \"to every idiot\" who said he had no mental health problems, asking police if it was going to be on the news.\n\n\"I wanted to be on the news, who I am and why I did it, so when it is official no-one can say anything else.\"\n\nThe court heard Bravery, who has autistic spectrum disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder and was likely to have a personality disorder, had been held at Broadmoor Hospital since mid-October.\n\nIn social media posts, now deleted, the defendant's father, Piers Bravery attempted to raise awareness of autism and its treatment.\n\nBravery was 17 when he was charged but could not be named until his 18th birthday in October.\n\nThe child's family said their son continued to require intensive rehabilitation as he had not recovered mobility in his limbs or full brain function.\n\n\"He is constantly awoken by pain and he can't communicate that pain or call out to hospital staff.\n\n\"Life stopped for us four months ago. We don't know when, or even if, we will be able to return to work, or return to our home, which is not adapted for a wheelchair.\n\n\"We are exhausted, we don't know where this all leads, but we go on,\" they added, thanking supporters.\n\nA GoFundMe page raised almost €153,000 (£129,000) for the boy and his family to help with \"medical funds\".\n\nEmma Jones of the Crown Prosecution Service said: \"The boy was singled out by Bravery who threw him from the viewing platform intending to kill him.\n\n\"That he survived the five-storey fall was extraordinary.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What Andrew Neil wants to ask Boris Johnson\n\nThe BBC's Andrew Neil has issued a challenge to Boris Johnson to take part in a sit-down interview with him before next week's general election.\n\nMr Johnson is the only leader of a main party not to have faced a half-hour, prime-time BBC One grilling by Mr Neil.\n\nThe Conservative leader has denied claims he is avoiding scrutiny.\n\nBut Mr Neil addressed the PM directly at the end of his fourth leader interview at this election, with Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage.\n\n\"It is not too late. We have an interview prepared. Oven-ready, as Mr Johnson likes to say,\" he said, in a monologue.\n\n\"The theme running through our questions is trust - and why at so many times in his career, in politics and journalism, critics and sometimes even those close to him have deemed him to be untrustworthy.\n\n\"It is, of course, relevant to what he is promising us all now.\"\n\nMr Johnson has also declined an invitation to be grilled by ITV's Julie Etchingham, as part of her series of leader interviews.\n\nMr Neil said that no broadcaster \"can compel a politician to be interviewed\".\n\nBut he added: \"Leaders' interviews have been a key part of the BBC's prime-time election coverage for decades.\n\n\"We do them, on your behalf, to scrutinise and hold to account those who would govern us. That is democracy.\n\n\"We have always proceeded in good faith that the leaders would participate. And in every election they have. All of them. Until this one.\"\n\nMr Neil then listed the questions he wanted the prime minister to answer.\n\nThese include whether he can be trusted to deliver on his promises for the NHS - and keeping the health service \"off the table\" in any post-Brexit trade talks with the US.\n\nMr Neil said he would also ask the PM about his claim that he has always been an opponent of austerity, another \"question of trust\".\n\nHe ended the monologue by saying: \"The prime minister of our nation will, at times, have to stand up to President Trump, President Putin, President Xi of China.\n\n\"So it was surely not expecting too much that he spend half an hour standing up to me.\"\n\nAndrew Neil grilled Jeremy Corbyn about anti-Semitism and other issues\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn, the SNP's Nicola Sturgeon, Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson and Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage have all faced a grilling by Mr Neil.\n\nIn his interview with Mr Neil, the Labour leader repeatedly declined to apologise to the Jewish community for anti-Semitism in his party, something he has now done in an interview with ITV's This Morning.\n\nJo Swinson apologised for supporting welfare cuts when she was part of the Lib Dem/Conservative coalition in her Neil interview.\n\nNicola Sturgeon was pressed about Scottish independence and the EU, and her party's record on the NHS in Scotland, while Nigel Farage was forced to defend his decision not to contest Tory seats.\n\nMr Johnson was quizzed by the BBC's Andrew Marr on Sunday, on why he had not yet agreed to be interviewed by Andrew Neil.\n\nHe denied avoiding prime-time scrutiny, saying he had done TV debates, interviews and a \"two-hour phone-in\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Why are you avoiding being interviewed by Andrew Neil?'\n\nSeparately, on Thursday evening, The Labour Party complained about BBC bias, in a letter to Director General Tony Hall.\n\nLabour's co-campaign coordinator Andrew Gwynne highlighted Mr Johnson's failure to be interviewed by Andrew Neil.\n\nIn his letter, Mr Gwynne claimed the Conservatives were being allowed to \"play\" the corporation, making the BBC effectively \"complicit in giving the Conservative Party an unfair electoral advantage\".\n\nHe said Labour had agreed Mr Corbyn's interview with Mr Neil based on the \"clear understanding\" that Mr Johnson had agreed the same terms.\n\n\"Instead, the BBC allowed the Conservative leader to pick and choose a platform through which he believed he could present himself more favourably and without the same degree of accountability.\"\n\nThe BBC is expected to respond in writing to the Labour complaint.\n\nBut a spokesperson said in a statement: \"The BBC will continue to make its own independent editorial decisions, and is committed to reporting the election campaign fairly, impartially and without fear or favour.\"\n\nIn another development, the prime minister's team have confirmed that Mr Johnson will not find time for an interview with ITV before the general election.\n\nHe is the only leader of a major party to turn down the request from the channel's Tonight programme.\n\nA spokesman for ITV said the programme had bid for Mr Johnson when the general election was called.\n\n\"They have contacted his press team on repeated occasions with times and dates offered to film an interview,\" the spokesman said.\n\n\"Boris Johnson's team have today confirmed he will not be taking part.\n\n\"The programme will instead feature a profile of the prime minister using fresh interviews with other contributors and archive footage.\"\n\nITV Tonight presenter Julie Etchingham has recorded an interview with Jeremy Corbyn, which was broadcast on Thursday evening.\n\nLabour Party chairman Ian Lavery said: \"Boris Johnson thinks he's born to rule and doesn't have to face scrutiny.\n\n\"He's running scared because every time he is confronted with the impact of nine years of austerity, the cost of living crisis and his plans to sell out our NHS, the more he is exposed.\"\n\nLiberal Democrat Leader Jo Swinson said: \"Boris Johnson must stop ducking scrutiny. His cowardly behaviour shows why he simply isn't fit to be prime minister.\"\n\nShe said it was \"bad enough\" that her party had been \"excluded\" from the BBC's head-to-head debate between Mr Johnson and Mr Corbyn, and \"even worse that right now Boris Johnson won't be held properly to account for his lies and extreme Brexit plans\".\n\nMr Johnson will face Mr Corbyn in a prime ministerial debate at 2030 GMT, on BBC One, on Friday.", "For two politicians who pride themselves on telling it straight, Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn were both markedly on their best behaviour tonight.\n\nThey didn't harangue each other, there was no heckling from the audience.\n\nThere was a wide range of subjects certainly, and profound disagreements - naturally.\n\nBut there was no moment that burst into fireworks. No massive gaffe on either side, or political car crash in the most public of forums.\n\nThey both stayed true to the tramlines that were long set out in this election.\n\nFor Boris Johnson, it was again and again making the case that the country can only move on if we leave the EU as soon as humanly possible.\n\nFor Jeremy Corbyn, the task was to pull the debate back as often as possible to the changes that nearly a decade of a squeeze on public spending has made to the fabric of millions of peoples lives.\n\nTo that end, it's likely that tonight they will have confirmed in their respective supporters minds, the reasons why they are the chosen candidate to run the country.\n\nEven though there were no obvious shocks or surprises, tonight may well have mattered for the many voters who would have been watching who are yet to make their decision.\n\nThose floating voters, yet to be convinced, are the ones who will decide the ultimate result.\n\nBut the pattern of this campaign, however, has been long set.\n\nThe Conservatives have been in front, Labour struggling to close the gap.\n\nSo tonight, for Boris Johnson's team, it was another hurdle they have crossed without a huge stumble.\n\nFor Jeremy Corbyn, another missed chance perhaps to make a break that didn't come.\n\nSixty minutes of important clashes with only six days to go didn't shake up the big picture of this election, which was sketched out weeks ago, leaving Labour with less and less time to make a difference.\n\nThat does not mean though for a second the Conservatives leave Maidstone tonight sure of a clean victory.\n\nThe margins are too tight, politics too unpredictable, there is still time to go, and the public too savvy to give their votes without a pause.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. LFB chief Dany Cotton said in October: \"We are truly sorry we couldn't save everyone's life that night\"\n\nLondon Fire Brigade's commissioner is to step down four months early in the wake of criticism over the service's response to the Grenfell fire.\n\nDany Cotton, 50, previously announced she was standing down from the London Fire Brigade (LFB) in April 2020.\n\nShe was facing calls to resign after a critical public inquiry report into the Grenfell Tower fire which killed 72 people in June 2017.\n\nGrenfell United said the change in leadership would \"keep Londoners safe\".\n\nThe statement on behalf of survivors and bereaved families of the fire, added: \"Sir Martin Moore-Bick raised serious concerns that the London Fire Brigade was an institution at risk of not learning the lessons of Grenfell.\n\n\"The phase one report has important recommendations for the LFB. The incoming commissioner must ensure that they move swiftly to ensure those recommendations are implemented.\n\n\"The LFB leadership must be determined in their efforts to ensure the lessons of Grenfell are learnt.\"\n\nMs Cotton, who will leave her role at the end of December, said Grenfell Tower was \"without doubt the worst fire\" that LFB had ever faced.\n\nDany Cotton, second from right, in Grenfell Tower on the night of the fire\n\nAn inquiry into the Grenfell fire, which examined what happened on the night of 14 June 2017, concluded that \"many more lives\" could have been saved if the advice to residents to \"stay put\" had been abandoned earlier than 02:35 BST.\n\nIt said LFB's preparations for such a fire were \"gravely inadequate\".\n\nSurvivors called for senior fire brigade staff to be sacked and prosecuted, saying that the brigade is \"in the hands of people that are incapable of their jobs\".\n\nNabil Choucair, who lost six family members in the Grenfell Tower fire, said it was a \"disgrace\" it had taken this long for Ms Cotton to step down.\n\n\"It's a shame that it's taken pressure from the families,\" he added.\n\n\"If she cared and understood, she would have done it a long time ago. It should not have taken this long, it's a disgrace.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Grenfell families: 'There was a serious lack of common sense'\n\nMs Cotton said she had worked on \"some of the most painful incidents to have occurred in LFB's history\" during her 32 years with the service.\n\nThree months into the job, she attended the Clapham Junction rail disaster where 33 people died.\n\nShe also led crews when tackling the fire which ravaged the Cutty Sark in 2007.\n\nThe inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire opened in September 2017\n\nThere was a sense of inevitability about the decision of Dany Cotton to stand down early.\n\nIn his report, retired judge Sir Martin Moore-Bick recalled her evidence to the inquiry - in which she said she wouldn't have done anything different on the night of the Grenfell fire - branding her remarks \"remarkably insensitive\".\n\nHer words had infuriated the Grenfell families who called for Ms Cotton to go and now she has, after a month of \"discussions\" with the mayor.\n\nHe clearly believes she is no longer the person to see the brigade through the changes it needs to make, despite appointing her as London's first female fire commissioner at the start of 2017.\n\nThe Mayor of London Sadiq Khan praised Ms Cotton for more than three decades with the fire brigade but added that her decision to go was \"the right one\".\n\nHe said he would be appointing a new fire commissioner shortly and added that they will \"quickly take on the responsibility\" of delivering the Grenfell Tower Inquiry report recommendations.\n\nDany Cotton speaking to Theresa May the day after the fire\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManagerless Arsenal's season plummeted to a new low as they were beaten by Brighton in interim manager Freddie Ljungberg's first home match in charge.\n\nAlexandre Lacazette marked his 100th Gunners appearance by heading his side level after Adam Webster had given the visitors a first-half lead.\n\nWith the score 1-1, there was frustration for Ljungberg and Arsenal when David Luiz thought he had made it 2-1 with a volley but it was correctly ruled out following a VAR check for offside.\n\nNeal Maupay headed Brighton's winner from Aaron Mooy's cross to leave Arsenal on their worst winless run since 1977 - and 10 points off a Champions League spot.\n• None Ljungberg should not get manager's job - Sutton\n• None 'I've had to leave all my WhatsApp groups' - how fans reacted to Gunners' loss\n\nWhere do Arsenal go from here?\n\nArsenal, who are 10th in the table, have now failed to win any of their last nine games in all competitions and fans who stayed for the final whistle booed their team off the pitch after a tepid performance.\n\nTwelve years after his last appearance for Arsenal as a player, Ljungberg was given a chance to show fans inside a far-from-full Emirates he is capable of managing the club where he won two Premier League titles and three FA Cups.\n\nIt started well, with the Swede given a decent reception by the crowd, before rapidly going downhill as Brighton, who had lost their previous four away games, took control.\n\nLjungberg dropped Shkodran Mustafi from his 18 after last Sunday's 2-2 draw with struggling Norwich, yet Arsenal were still a shambles at the back.\n\nMaupay had already forced Bernd Leno into a one-handed save when Webster struck from a corner after lashing home following Dan Burn's downward header.\n\nArsenal improved with the introduction of club record signing Nicolas Pepe after half-time and France forward Lacazette lifted the mood by climbing above the Brighton defence to head his side level after Mesut Ozil's first Premier League assist since February.\n\nYet the Gunners were short on confidence and ideas - while Mat Ryan produced a superb save at the end to frustrate the home side further.\n\nThe Brighton keeper flung himself across his line to keep out substitute Gabriel Martinelli as Arsenal, who have home games against Manchester City, Chelsea and Manchester United on the horizon, failed to win for the 11th time in 15 top-flight attempts.\n\nThe home side's night was summed up towards the end of the first half when Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang had a go at team-mate Joe Willock after a home move had broken down.\n\nBrighton boss Graham Potter was making his first return to Arsenal since his Ostersunds team beat the Gunners in the Europa League in February 2018.\n\nAsked before the game whether he would be a Premier League manager if Ostersunds had not had a good run in Europe, Potter said: \"Probably not. We all get to a certain point by doing something and everyone's path is different. Ostersunds was mine.\"\n\nThe Seagulls had given leaders Liverpool a late score on Saturday and, on a night to remember, they carried on from where they left off at Anfield to climb three places up the table to 13th - one point behind Arsenal.\n\nBrighton's first Premier League win since 2 November was built on guts and determination.\n\nWhile Maupay, who now has five goals this season, and 19-year-old Aaron Connolly tormented lacklustre Arsenal, Webster and Dunk were solid at the back for the visitors.\n\nIn addition, Potter's arrival at Brighton has seen them become a menace at set-pieces.\n\nSeven of Brighton's last 10 league goals have been scored via set-piece situations.\n\n'This is not Arsenal' - what they said\n\nArsenal interim boss Freddie Ljungberg: \"We didn't show up in the first half, didn't work hard and want to play.\n\n\"Second half we had a word and were better but we are suspect on the counter and we have no confidence. I need to work on that and get confidence back into the boys.\n\n\"At half-time we said 'This is not Arsenal, we have to give it a crack.'\n\n\"We're in a difficult situation, we've lost a lot of games and the confidence has gone down.\"\n\nBrighton boss Graham Potter: \"It's a nice moment for us. It gives us a little bit of belief. It was a good game for us, not perfect but we showed real courage and belief.\n\n\"Credit to our players, they did what I think an away team has to do in terms of frustrating but it still takes courage from the players and that's what I'm pleased with.\n\n\"We dug in, I'm very pleased.\"\n• None Arsenal have faced 52 shots on target in Premier League home games this season - in the entire Invincibles season in 2003-04, they allowed just 48 opposition shots on target at home.\n• None Including caretakers, only one of Arsenal's last five managers has won their first home game in charge - Pat Rice against Sheffield Wednesday in September 1996.\n• None Brighton have beaten 'big six' opposition away from home in the Premier League for the very first time at the 17th attempt; they had lost 15 of the previous 16 such games.\n• None Arsenal's Alexandre Lacazette has scored 25 of his 32 Premier League goals at the Emirates Stadium.\n• None Brighton ended a six-match winless run away from home in the Premier League this season.\n\nArsenal do not play again until Monday when they visit West Ham (20:00 GMT) in a London derby while Brighton are in action on Sunday when they host in-form Wolves (16:30 GMT).\n• None Attempt missed. Leandro Trossard (Brighton and Hove Albion) left footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.\n• None Offside, Arsenal. Kieran Tierney tries a through ball, but Mesut Özil is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Nicolas Pépé (Arsenal) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt saved. Gabriel Martinelli (Arsenal) header from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Kieran Tierney with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Nicolas Pépé (Arsenal) left footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom right corner. Assisted by Granit Xhaka.\n• None Goal! Arsenal 1, Brighton and Hove Albion 2. Neal Maupay (Brighton and Hove Albion) header from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Aaron Mooy with a cross. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Demolition 'too emotional' for some former staff\n\nPeople who used to work at Ironbridge Power Station have said there was a great sense of community among the staff and some will miss the cooling towers when they are gone. Trevor Sidaway from Wiltshire (second right) worked there for 20 years, before leaving in 1997 and said: \"If you had a problem you could ask anyone and they would help you. You were never stuck for anything.\" Trevor Childs (far left) from Much Wenlock agreed and said \"power stations tend to be like that, but Ironbridge was particularly so. We looked after each other.\" Some will watch the cooling towers come down and they were invited to be part of the event, but Andy Holden from Shrewsbury (second left) said: \"I've spent nearly 40 years maintaining the place, running the place, looking after it, doing my job as best that I could. Don't want to be part of the demolition.\" He explained: \"The power station has been part of my life, it was nearly 40 years. It's helped me raise my children, it's helped me pay off my mortgage and it's gone now and I do miss the place, I miss the camaraderie and the work.\" Trevor Childs said: \"They looked nice, they blended in, but they were part of a power station, the cooling towers. The problem is, to keep them would have cost an absolute fortune.\" Do you have memories of the power station or its cooling towers? Email us", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sally-Ann Hart was appearing at a hustings in Hastings on Thursday\n\nA Tory candidate has been filmed saying some people with learning difficulties \"don't understand about money\".\n\nSally-Ann Hart was defending sharing an article that said disabled people could be paid less than the minimum wage.\n\nShe told the audience at an election hustings for the Hastings and Rye seat on Thursday: \"It's to do with the happiness they have about working.\"\n\nMs Hart later said her comments had been taken out of context but apologised for any offence caused.\n\nShe had posted \"This is so right\" in response to a story in The Spectator in 2017 titled \"Why people with learning difficulties should be allowed to work for less than the minimum wage\".\n\nThe Facebook post has now been deleted.\n\nSally-Ann Hart gave her support for the article in 2017 but has since deleted the Facebook post\n\nSpeaking at the event at East Sussex College in Hastings, she defended her support for the article saying: \"It was about people with learning difficulties, about them being given the opportunity to work, because it's to do with the happiness they have about working.\n\n\"Some people with learning difficulties, they don't understand about money.\n\n\"It's about having a therapeutic exemption and the article was in support of employing people with learning disabilities.\"\n\nHer explanation was met with jeers from the audience.\n\nSally-Ann Hart later apologised for any offence caused\n\nNick Perry, the Liberal Democrat candidate for the constituency, said: \"It gave the impression of not valuing those with learning disabilities sufficiently and undermining their position in the work place.\n\n\"I think she answered in a way that shows her political ineptitude.\"\n\nLabour candidate Peter Chowney said: \"I was somewhat shocked by her comments as many people in the audience were.\n\nI would like to see the opposite - of getting people with neurodiversity in properly rewarding well paid jobs.\"\n\nIt's a hugely controversial argument, should people with learning disabilities be paid less in order to improve the employment rate of those in paid work, which currently stands at just 6% in England.\n\nAt a Conservative party fringe meeting back in 2014, Lord Freud got into hot water for making comments similar to Sally-Ann Hart's. He suggested people with learning disabilities could be paid \"£2 per hour\" if they wanted to work.\n\nThere was a huge uproar and the then welfare reform minister apologised. But it's not a new argument and one that some parents of those with learning disabilities believe should be up for discussion.\n\nI've met parents who have seen their working-age sons and daughter thrive in employment, but they've also seen how challenging it can be for them to get and stay in work.\n\nMany people with learning disabilities thrive in supported employment, believed by many to be the answer. One of the ways it works is by having someone with you to get you up to speed on those first few months in a new job. That's often all it takes.\n\nBut not everyone has access or even knows about such schemes.\n\nOf all disabilities, the employment rate for people with learning disabilities is the lowest. Ms Hart's remarks have offended many disabled people but for those with learning disabilities who just want to work, this has simply scratched the surface of a much wider issue.\n\nMs Hart, who is also a councillor on Rother District Council, later said: \"I was trying to emphasise that more needs to be done to help those with learning disabilities into the workplace and having properly paid work.\n\n\"I did not say anyone should be paid less.\"\n\nJames Taylor, from disability equality charity Scope, said: \"These opinions are outdated, inexcusable, and should be consigned to history.\n\n\"Disabled people should be paid equally for the work that they do.\"\n\nThe candidates standing for the Hastings and Rye constituency are: Peter Chowney (Labour), Paul Crosland (Independent), Sally-Ann Hart (Conservative) and Nick Perry (Liberal Democrat).\n\nThe BBC has contacted Mr Crosland for a comment.\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.", "Police were called to the scene\n\nThe deaths of a woman and man in Aberdeenshire are not being treated as suspicious, police have said.\n\nOfficers were called to the building - believed to be a holiday home - in the Rickarton area of Stonehaven at about 13:30 on Thursday.\n\nPolice said a woman aged 24 and man aged 28 were found. Next of kin have been informed.\n\nDet Insp Sam Buchan said: \"Our thoughts are with the family and friends of the man and woman who have sadly died.\"\n\nDet Insp Buchan added: \"Officers remain at the property and I would like to thank members of the community for their patience whilst our inquiries continue.\"\n\nA report will be sent to the procurator fiscal.", "It was a 38-year wait - but the hard work paid off for Christina Tham at the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in the Philippines this week.\n\nTham first represented Singapore at the SEA Games - a regional Olympic-style event - in 1981, winning silver in swimming at the age of 12.\n\nNow aged 50, she returned to the games and finally went one better.\n\nTham won not one, but two gold medals in underwater hockey - a sport making its debut in the games.\n\n\"I never thought I would be back [at the] SEA Games and winning golds and scoring goals,\" she said.\n\n\"I never thought I could perform at this level again.\"\n\nTham decided to get back into professional competition in 2005\n\nTham got into swimming aged seven, when her father had a near-miss while canoeing on a lake during a family trip to Malaysia.\n\nHer father, who was in his late 40s, could not swim and initially resisted wearing a life jacket - but relented on her mother's insistence.\n\n\"I remember I was in another canoe across the lake when I heard a loud shrill,\" Tham told the BBC. \"I saw my dad floating on the water, held up by the life jacket. That saved his life.\"\n\nAfter her dad was rescued, he quickly signed up the whole family for swimming lessons - and Tham hasn't stopped swimming since.\n\nAt the age of 12, she represented Singapore at the 1981 SEA Games in Manila, claiming her first silver in the 4 x 100m medley relay.\n\nThe SEA Games, which are held every two years, sees athletes from the region compete in a variety of events.\n\n\"I was very young and didn't appreciate the significance [of my] achievement. I come from a typical Singaporean Chinese family where [you're] expected to [accept] achievements with modesty,\" she says.\n\n\"It was only after I became an adult that I realised the enormity of my achievements - I was 12 and had won a medal in the SEA Games and was in the top 10% in the country in the [national examinations that year].\"\n\nTwo years later, she was back at the SEA Games, clinching another silver in the 200m breaststroke.\n\nBut that's where her journey as an athlete stopped - at least for the next three decades or so.\n\nTham (fifth from right) and her team\n\nTham pursued a career in the legal industry, training as a solicitor and eventually heading up her own section of a legal department within a real estate company.\n\nIt wasn't until 2005 that her sporting career resumed - and it started with a story in a newspaper.\n\n\"I saw an article [about underwater hockey]. It sounded so interesting and intriguing, [so I] went to try it out,\" she said.\n\n\"I thought that playing a team sport would really round me up as a person. I found I missed a dimension doing only solitary sports my whole life.\"\n\nThe high-speed game, which involves a heavy underwater puck, was added to the SEA Games this year. And so, 38 years after her debut, Tham found herself back where it all began - the Philippines.\n\nShe scored two goals - one in a 4 v 4 event and one in a 6 v 6 event - as the Singapore team won both golds.\n\nAnd Tham has no plans to stop - with the next SEA Games due in Vietnam in 2021, the gold medallist intends to continue training.\n\n\"I train because I love to compete,\" she said. \"I love the intensity and the process of getting there and doing my best when it really counts.\"\n\nAnd what would she say to her 12-year-old self?\n\n\"I would say believe in yourself. Self-belief is almost everything - mind over matter.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Players use a short stick to hit the puck, which lies on the floor of the pool", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. M&D's Tsunami rollercoaster had passed its annual safety check just weeks before\n\nTen victims of the M&D's rollercoaster crash in 2016 have secured £1.2m in damages.\n\nSeven children were among the people injured in the crash at the theme park in Motherwell, North Lanarkshire.\n\nIt happened after five gondolas on the Tsunami inverted rollercoaster detached from their rails at a bend and fell to the ground.\n\nThe 10 victims have now successfully sued theme park bosses over physical or psychiatric injuries.\n\nM&D's owners have already been fined £65,000 over health and safety breaches.\n\nThe company pleaded guilty to charges relating to the Health and Safety at Work Act at Hamilton Sheriff Court in March this year.\n\nLawyers for the victims said the lives of some of them had been \"permanently and irreversibly affected\".\n\nTwo boys, aged 11 and 12, suffered serious injuries in the crash\n\nDavid Nellaney, of Digby Brown Solicitors in Glasgow, said it had been proved that the accident would not have happened if the rollercoaster had been properly inspected and maintained by M&D's bosses.\n\nHe added: \"The failure to do so has had a dramatic and lasting impact on the victims and their families.\n\n\"These victims had their lives changed through no fault of their own and while no amount of compensation can undo their pain, it may at least contribute to improving their future.\"\n\nTwo boys, aged 11 and 12, suffered serious injuries - including chest and limb damage - in the incident.\n\nFour other boys, a 14-year-old girl and a man and a woman, both aged 19, were also treated in hospital.\n\nCraig Chalmers' son Ben was the youngest victim and suffered two punctured lungs, a triple pelvic fracture, bruised spleen, bruised kidney and broken femur.\n\nThe schoolboy also had to be resuscitated twice and spent six days in an induced coma at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow.\n\nMr Chalmers told BBC Scotland the settlement offered some closure but said he still had concerns about the park.\n\nHe said: \"They said they have made changes to improve health and safety.\n\n\"Why did they not make it pre-accident? They had numerous near misses, shall we say.\n\n\"If they had acted on them could they have prevented the accident? I think 100%.\"\n\nA police cordon was put in place following the crash\n\nThe Tsunami, which travelled at up to 40mph through corkscrew turns and loops, never reopened and it was finally dismantled in February 2017.\n\nAn inspector an inspector who passed the ride as safe 16 days before the accident was subsequently banned.\n\nThe theme park was shut for investigations but a partial reopening was sanctioned four days after the accident.\n\nIt was fully reopened to the public just over three weeks later.\n\nM&D Leisure later pleaded guilty to failing to ensure that the rollercoaster was maintained, in efficient working order and in good repair.\n\nA health and safety investigation revealed weld repairs on axles of the passenger cars were inadequate, leading to the failure of the axle suspension on the five-car train.", "Robbie Williams has become the joint most successful solo act in UK album chart history after scoring his 13th number one, level with Elvis Presley.\n\nRobbie's The Christmas Present has moved to the top spot after entering at number two behind Coldplay last week.\n\nThe Beatles hold the overall record with 15 UK number one albums.\n\nMeanwhile, Dance Monkey by Australian singer Tones & I equalled the record for the longest-running number one single by a female artist, on 10 weeks.\n\nThat matched the stints at the singles summit achieved by Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You in 1992 and Rihanna's Umbrella in 2007.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by Tones And I This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Google’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. End of youtube video by Tones And I\n\nLewis Capaldi is at number two, but is the bookmakers' current favourite to top the chart when the Christmas number one is announced in two weeks.\n\nRobbie's rise means only two of his solo albums have failed to reach number one. His 2003 live album from Knebworth and 2009's Reality Killed the Video Star both reached number two.\n\nThe star also sang on four number one albums as part of Take That, meaning he has appeared on 17 chart-topping albums as a solo artist or part of a group.\n\nThat's still some way behind Sir Paul McCartney, who has had a total of 22 number one LPs with The Beatles, Wings and across his solo career.\n\nWhile Robbie's festive collection heads the albums chart, a host of Christmas songs have shot up the singles chart as people start streaming festive classics in their droves. The top Christmas songs in this week's chart are:\n\nEllie Goulding's new cover of Joni Mitchell's wintry classic River has also entered the top 40 at number 14.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Greta at UN climate change talks - one year apart\n\nSwedish activist Greta Thunberg says young people are \"bringing change\" to the Madrid climate talks and will not be silenced.\n\nAt a news conference Miss Thunberg said that she hoped the negotiations would yield \"something concrete\"\n\nThe 16-year-old was mobbed by press and spectators when she visited the conference centre earlier on Friday.\n\nShe had to be escorted away for her own safety amid shouts of \"leave her alone\" from concerned observers.\n\nHaving arrived via overnight train from Lisbon to large crowds waiting for her in Madrid, Miss Thunberg was set to join a large demonstration in favour of rapid climate action this evening.\n\nSpeaking before the gathering she said that the voices of the young would not be drowned out.\n\n\"People want everything to continue like now and they are afraid of change,\" she told reporters.\n\n\"And change is what we young people are bringing and that is why they want to silence us and that is just a proof that we are having an impact that our voices are being heard that they try so desperately to silence us.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Greta Thunberg was protected by police as she arrived in Madrid\n\nMiss Thunberg is due to address the climate negotiations that have been going on in Madrid for the past week. She remains hopeful that they will lead to a positive outcome.\n\n\"I sincerely hope that COP25 will lead to something concrete and it will lead to also to an increase in awareness in people in general and that the world leaders and people in power grab the urgency of the climate crisis because right now it doesn't seem like they are,\" she said.\n\n\"We will do everything we can to show that this is something that cannot be ignored, that they cannot just hide away any longer.\"\n\nMiss Thunberg has arrived in Europe after a voyage across the Atlantic by yacht.\n\nThe hope among many here is that the scale of the march and her speech to the COP next week will give a big boost to the talks process that seem badly in need of a lift.\n\nThis COP started with great hope last Monday, with strong words from the UN secretary-general and others, warning that time is running out and that negotiators should be guided by the science.\n\nSince then, the urgency has given way to frustration.\n\nLittle obvious progress is being made on the central question of raising countries' ambitions to cut carbon.\n\nIndeed, UN climate chief Patricia Espinosa said the issue of increased pledges wasn't even on the agenda for the final outcome of this conference.\n\n\"We don't have in the agenda one item that's called 'ambition' and, therefore, it's not like we are expecting to have a specific decision on that.\"\n\nIn the face of several recent scientific reports stating that countries were falling further behind when it came to meeting the Paris agreement targets, this was a little disturbing, to say the least.\n\nAccording to some experts at these talks, extra ambition would be great but equally important would be a firm timetable to deliver their pledges over the next 12 months, ahead of the Glasgow COP this time next year.\n\nRight now, that's not certain.\n\n\"It would be extremely concerning if the countries here in Madrid did not agree that there is a timeline for next year in coming forward with their commitments,\" said David Waskow from the World Resources Institute.\n\n\"That is a key outcome that we have to see here. It is not something that you can keep punting further and further away, this is something that requires immediate action.\"\n\nEven the Pope is concerned.\n\n\"We must seriously ask ourselves if there is the political will to allocate with honesty, responsibility and courage, more human, financial and technological resources to mitigate the negative effects of climate change,\" Pope Francis said in a message to participants here.\n\nMuch of what happens in Madrid could be governed by what happens in Brussels next week where a European Green Deal is set to be outlined by the incoming EU Commission.\n\n\"What the European Union does next week is a critical signal to the rest of the world that will shape the outcome in Madrid,\" said David Waskow. \"What happens in Brussels will resonate in Madrid.\"\n\nProtestors at the COP showed the continuing influence of coal on the climate\n\nAnother ongoing issue that is making people upset here is the question of climate justice.\n\nMuch attention has been focussed on the attempts by poorer countries to finally get some traction around the question of loss and damage, the impacts of climate change from events that just can't be adapted to, such as sea-level rise or storms made more likely by rising temperatures.\n\nThe hope from many is that here in Madrid, the developing nations would be heard and a mechanism with funding would be set up to deal with loss and damage.\n\nAgain, there's been very little progress.\n\nOf course the question of climate justice is not just between countries but often within countries as well.\n\n\"The ones who contributed the most are the ones who feel the impacts the least,\" said Isadora Cardoso from campaign group GenderCC - women for climate justice.\n\n\"Even within developed countries the poorest are the most affected whenever there are climate disasters or impacts, but they are not the ones who consume more and contribute the most to the causes of climate change.\"\n\nThere is still time to ensure a strong outcome in Madrid and the arrival of ministers next week will increase the sense of urgency - but right now there's a big disconnect between the size of the task and the willingness of countries to step forward with the pledges and the money needed to deal with the biggest challenge facing Planet Earth.", "Reena and Sandeep Mander said they wanted to \"ensure discrimination like this doesn't happen to others\"\n\nA couple who were rejected by their local adoption service because of their Indian heritage have won their legal discrimination battle.\n\nSandeep and Reena Mander sued The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead Council after they were turned away from Adopt Berkshire three years ago.\n\nJudge Melissa Clarke said the couple were discriminated against on the grounds of race.\n\nThe Sikh couple have now been awarded nearly £120,000 in damages.\n\nThe Manders, from Maidenhead, said they felt \"directly discriminated against\" when they were told by Adopt Berkshire \"not to bother applying\" because of their Indian heritage.\n\nFollowing the ruling, they said: \"This decision ensures that no matter what race, religion or colour you are, you should be treated equally and assessed for adoption in the same way as any other prospective adopter.\n\n\"We felt there needed to be a change. This is what this case has all been about for us, to ensure discrimination like this doesn't happen to others wishing to do this wonderful thing called adoption.\n\n\"And today's landmark ruling will ensure this doesn't happen again.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Reena and Sandeep Mander say they don't want the same thing to happen to other couples\n\nThey were unable to register with the agency in 2016 and were told their chances would be improved if they looked to adopt in India or Pakistan.\n\nBoth the council and the adoption agency denied making that statement during the hearing, claiming the service was prioritising adopters for older children and sibling groups.\n\nAt Oxford County Court, Judge Clarke said: \"I find that the defendants directly discriminated against Mr and Mrs Mander on the grounds of race.\"\n\nShe added the Manders suffered \"hurt, stress, and anxiety\" because of the agency's actions and described them as \"particularly vulnerable, being a childless couple who had gone through numerous rounds of IVF and a sad early pregnancy loss\" who were \"desperate to adopt\".\n\nThe couple said Adoption Berkshire had told them \"not to bother applying\" because of their heritage\n\nJudge Clarke awarded the couple general damages of £29,454.42 each and special damages totalling £60,013.43 for the cost of adopting a child overseas.\n\nThe couple have since adopted a child from the United States.\n\nThe lawyer representing the couple, Georgina Calvert-Lee, said: \"Today's judgment is a victory for all British children who need loving adoptive homes, and for all the eligible, loving adoptive British families hoping to welcome them into their lives.\"\n\nA council spokesperson said: \"We are very disappointed by the judgement in this case, which we will now take time to consider in full.\n\n\"We have reviewed our policies to ensure they are fit for purpose and are confident that we do not exclude prospective adopters on the grounds of ethnicity.\n\n\"Finally, we always put the best interests of the children at the heart of any adoption decisions and are committed to best practice in our provision of adoption services.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Labour plans to make England's entire bus fleet electric by 2030 with a £4bn investment, if it wins the general election.\n\nThis would reduce bus emissions by more than 70%, cutting air pollution and helping to tackle climate change, the party said.\n\nBut Conservatives claim the plans are part of \"Labour's war on the motorist\".\n\nMore than 3,000 bus routes have been cut or reduced over the past decade, campaigners said in October.\n\nLabour said its plans would boost British manufacturing and help \"revitalise our high streets and rebuild local communities\".\n\nThere are 35,000 buses in England but only 700 are electric, and mostly in London, Labour said.\n\nLabour says the cost of this policy will be under £4bn over a 10-year period and will come from Labour's Green Transformation Fund.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: \"The Westminster bubble doesn't care about buses but cuts to bus routes leave so many people isolated, stuck at home and unable to make vital trips out.\n\n\"Away from London, many people have approached me in this election to talk about their local bus route closing down.\"\n\nAndy McDonald, shadow transport secretary, added: \"The Tories' manifesto didn't pledge a penny to reverse a decade of cuts to local bus services.\"\n\nLabour would give local authorities the power to create council-owned bus companies, replace cuts to bus funding and invest more (at a cost of £1.3bn a year), and provide free bus travel to under-25s in areas that bring bus services under local ownership (at a cost of £1.4bn a year by the end of the parliament), it said.\n\nThe funding will be drawn from Vehicle Excise Duty - formerly known as road tax - with Department for Transport money directed away from road building.\n\nThe pricing is based on the cost of buying new electric buses, and reimbursing bus owners for phasing out fossil fuel vehicles before the normal end of road life.\n\nWhile bus services are devolved, Labour said it would make money available across the UK.\n\nTransport Secretary Grant Shapps said: \"Labour's war on the motorist continues apace.\n\n\"Labour won't be able to deliver a modern bus network because they would raid the roads budget and scrap vital new roads and upgrades to fund their fantasy giveaways.\"\n\nThe Conservatives have pledged to \"help local authorities to partner with bus companies to create new superbus networks\" and make £50m available \"to develop the first all-electric bus town or city\".\n\nRoad campaigners said in October that bus service funding has been slashed over a decade.\n\nLocal authority funding for bus services fell by more than 40% over that time, while central government funding fell by 19%, the Campaign for Better Transport said in October.\n\nHowever, the Department for Transport said at the time it supported local bus services with a £250m annual grant to keep fares lower.\n\nLiberal Democrat shadow transport secretary Wera Hobhouse said on Friday: \"The steady degradation of bus services by the Conservatives across the UK is a disgrace.\n\n\"The Liberal Democrats would spend £4.8bn on restoring bus routes over the next five years.\n\n\"We would also spend £970m on funding electric buses and coaches, reducing emissions and ensuring our transport system plays its part in tackling the climate emergency.\"", "Joseph McCann was found guilty of 37 offences against 11 victims\n\nA man who carried out a string of sex attacks on 11 women and children across England over two weeks has been found guilty of 37 offences.\n\nJoseph McCann's victims were aged between 11 and 71 and included three women who were abducted off the street at knifepoint and repeatedly raped.\n\nThe 34-year-old also tricked his way into a woman's home before tying her up and molesting her son and daughter.\n\nMcCann, of Harrow, was found guilty of offences including rape and kidnap.\n\nThe convicted burglar had been released from prison following a probation error in February before he embarked on a cocaine and vodka-fuelled rampage.\n\nMcCann's \"spree of sex attacks\" started in Watford before moving to London, Greater Manchester and Cheshire over two weeks in April and May.\n\nHundreds of officers from five forces were deployed in the manhunt before he was finally caught while hiding in a tree.\n\nDet Ch Insp Katherine Goodwin, who led the investigation, described him as \"one of the most dangerous sex offenders the country has ever seen\".\n\nJo Farrar, chief executive of HM Prisons and Probation Service, \"apologised unreservedly\" for \"failings\" which led to McCann being released early, adding that \"strong and immediate action\" had been taken against those involved.\n\nIt can now be reported that four men and two women have been arrested on suspicion of assisting McCann while he was on the run from police following the initial attacks in London.\n\nThey have been released under investigation.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOn 21 April, McCann grabbed a 21-year-old woman at knifepoint as she walked home from a nightclub in Watford.\n\nShe was bundled into a car and taken to a house where she was raped until being released later that morning.\n\nFour days later, a 25-year-old woman was abducted as she walked home in Walthamstow, east London, just after midnight.\n\nShe was driven off in a car then repeatedly raped in a number of locations over 14 hours, including outside a school where McCann told her he \"wanted to make her rape a child\".\n\nLater the same day, and while still holding the woman prisoner, he snatched a 21-year-old woman in Edgware, north London, as she walked along the street with her sister. She suffered a similar fate to the 25-year-old woman.\n\nThe pair finally managed to escape when McCann drove to Watford, where he had booked a hotel room, and one of them hit him over the head with a vodka bottle before they fled to get help.\n\nMcCann was filmed on CCTV at a Watford hotel where he had booked a room for two nights\n\nIn the early hours of 5 May, McCann tricked his way into the home of a woman he had met in a bar in Greater Manchester.\n\nOnce inside, he tied her to a bed and molested her 11-year-old son and 17-year-old daughter, who he told \"you are going to Europe tomorrow, you are mine\".\n\nThe girl, who said she feared becoming a \"sex slave\", managed to escape by jumping naked from a window and alerted police.\n\nAt about 13:30 the same day, he pounced on a 71-year-old woman while she was loading shopping into her car outside a supermarket and abducted and raped her.\n\nThree hours later he also abducted and assaulted a 13-year-old girl in the same car before both managed to get away at Knutsford service station.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt about 18:30 on 5 May, McCann abducted two 14-year-old girls after threatening to \"chop them up with a machete\".\n\nHe was filmed at a garage buying condoms but was spotted by a police patrol who pursued him while the girls were inside the car.\n\nAfter crashing into a Mercedes, he fled on foot, then caught a taxi.\n\nThe car was stopped at a police road block but he fled across a field and was finally caught in the early hours of 6 May.\n\nThe 12 jurors decided the fate of Joseph McCann without ever seeing him in the dock. Only once did he leave his prison cell for the Old Bailey - and that was to answer questions from the judge when the jury wasn't there.\n\nMcCann opted out of court proceedings from the moment he was charged in May, refusing to appear before chief magistrate Emma Arbuthnot.\n\nInstead, in an unprecedented move, she travelled to Belmarsh Prison and convened the hearing there.\n\nBefore and during the trial, hours were wasted waiting for updates about McCann, with barristers and the judge in almost daily discussions about whether he would turn up and why he had not.\n\nLetters were sent to his cell and prison officers were called to give evidence by videolink to confirm he had received them.\n\nAt one stage, McCann requested a four-week adjournment because he hadn't had enough sleep.\n\nEven towards the end, with the prosecution case nearly completed, the jury was kept waiting while McCann weighed up whether he was going to go in the witness box.\n\nThere were concerns about his health - he didn't eat for days and threatened suicide - but the court's main preoccupation was ensuring he had a fair trial and understood the process even though he chose to be absent from it.\n\nHowever, in the face of overwhelming evidence, it's hard to avoid the conclusion that McCann was playing the system because that was the only option left open to him.\n\nScotland Yard believe McCann used contacts across the country to evade justice as he moved across five police force areas.\n\nHowever, it has been revealed police forces involved in the hunt for McCann failed to share information, meaning he was not identified earlier.\n\nOn his arrest, McCann even told officers: \"If you had caught me for the first two, the rest of this wouldn't have happened.\"\n\nHertfordshire Constabulary identified him the day after the first attack in Watford and added his name to the police national computer.\n\nBut the Met did not identify McCann as being involved in the two London attacks until 28 April after a call from a member of the public, despite them liaising with their Hertfordshire counterparts on 25 April.\n\nMcCann was filmed at a McDonalds drive-thru while one of his victims was in the car\n\nMcCann fled on foot after crashing a car into a Mercedes\n\nMcCann, who is facing a life sentence, is due to be sentenced on Monday.\n\nAfter the verdicts were reached, the jury sent a note to the judge saying they wished to acknowledge the bravery of the victims and the hard work of the police forces involved.\n\nThe 34-year-old never appeared in court during the trial but was convicted of:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir John Major has urged people to re-elect three MPs who were expelled from the Conservatives for voting against Boris Johnson over Brexit.\n\nThe ex-Tory PM is backing independent candidates David Gauke, Dominic Grieve and Anne Milton, all running against his party in the general election.\n\nSir John said \"tribal loyalties\" had been loosened by Brexit.\n\nBut Mr Johnson described the comments as \"very sad\" and \"wrong\", calling his predecessor's views \"outdated\".\n\nThe Conservatives say they will take the UK out of the EU in January if they win a parliamentary majority.\n\nThey say this honours the result of the 2016 referendum, in which 52% of people backed Leave.\n\nIn September, 21 MPs were expelled from the parliamentary Conservative Party after they had voted against the possibility of the prime minister pursuing a no-deal exit from the EU. Later, 10 of the MPs were allowed back.\n\nOf the remainder, Mr Gauke, Mr Grieve and Ms Milton are all running as independents in the seats they held at the 2017 general election.\n\nIn a video message, Sir John, a prominent Remain campaigner, described Brexit as \"the worst foreign policy decision in my lifetime\".\n\nHe added: \"None of them has left the Conservative Party; the Conservative Party has left them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Without such talent on its benches, Parliament will be the poorer, which is why - if I were resident in any one of their constituencies - they would have my vote.\"\n\nIn response, Mr Johnson said he disagreed with his \"illustrious predecessor\".\n\nHe added: \"I think it's very sad and I think that he is wrong, and I think that he represents a view that is outdated, alas, greatly that I respect him and his record\n\n\"And I think that what we need to do now is honour the will of the people and get Brexit done.\"\n\nAnother former prime minister, Labour's Tony Blair, warned that Brexit \"won't be over\" in January.\n\nHe added that it was \"undemocratic\" to be \"mixing up Brexit with a general election\" .\n\nMr Blair also said: \"Brexit is the substitute of a comforting delusion for the discomforting challenge of a changing world.\"\n\nMr Johnson says a Conservative government would be able to reach a post-Brexit trade deal with the EU by the end of 2020.\n\nMr Gauke was among those who disputed whether this was possible within the timeline suggested by the prime minister.\n\nBut Mr Johnson said the UK was in a \"zero-tariff, zero-quota position\" already, which would make the talks easier.\n\nMr Gauke said he was \"delighted\" to have backing from Sir John, who \"represents the best traditions of the Conservative Party\".\n\nAnd Mr Grieve said he had been an \"outstanding PM and Conservative whose moderation and common sense put Mr Johnson to shame\".\n\nSpeaking on a visit in Hampshire, Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson said the ex-PM's intervention showed Mr Johnson had taken the Conservative Party \"off to the extreme\".\n\n\"This is a party that bears no resemblance to the One Nation Conservatives that many moderate people in this country have appreciated and that's one of the reasons so many of those people are now going to be voting Liberal Democrat,\" she said.\n\nSir John, who was prime minister between 1990 and 1997, is a long-standing critic of the government's Brexit plans.\n\nIn September, he joined a lawsuit against the suspension of Parliament by Mr Johnson, arguing it was designed to stop MPs being able to prevent a no-deal Brexit on the then deadline of 31 October.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nigel Farage says portraying his party as harbouring candidates with extreme views is \"completely wrong\".\n\nNigel Farage has defended his \"difficult\" decision not to contest Tory-held seats, insisting he was putting \"country before party\".\n\nThe Brexit Party leader told the BBC's Andrew Neil that his party had stopped the \"Lib Dem surge\" and were \"tearing chunks out of the Labour vote\".\n\nHe said his party was the challenger in Labour-Leave areas in next week's poll.\n\nIt comes as three Brexit Party MEPs quit to support the Tories, saying the party will split the pro-Brexit vote.\n\nAnnunziata Rees-Mogg, Lance Forman and Lucy Harris resigned the whip on Thursday, with Ms Rees-Mogg - Tory minister Jacob Rees-Mogg's sister - saying it was \"tragic\" that the Brexit Party \"are now the very party risking Brexit\".\n\nMr Farage announced in November that his party would not contest the 317 Westminster seats the Conservatives won in 2017, in order to help Leave-supporting candidates win.\n\nSome have been critical of this decision, including MEP John Longworth, who lost the Brexit Party whip in the European Parliament on Wednesday for not support his leader's strategy. He is now backing the Conservatives.\n\nAndy Wigmore, from the Leave.EU group Mr Farage fronted at the 2016 referendum, said the former Brexit Party MEPs had made the \"right decision at the right time\" to back the Conservatives.\n\n\"It's time for Nigel to join them,\" he added in a tweet.\n\nDuring the 30-minute interview with Andrew Neil, Mr Farage was asked about his election strategy, Islamophobic remarks made by two of his candidates and whether the NHS should be \"on the table\" in any post-Brexit trade talks with the US.\n\nThe Brexit Party leader denied being marginalised at the general election.\n\nMr Farage said: \"I don't think if you came with me and visited some of the Labour heartlands in the north you would think that and I also think that what we've done is have a very dramatic effect on this election.\n\n\"I think, number one, the decision, difficult decision, I took in 317 seats to stand down.\n\n\"What that's done is that's poleaxed the Liberal Democrats. They were going to win in south London down through Surrey, right out to the west of England they were going to win a lot of seats if we'd stood. And I knew that wasn't the right thing to do.\"\n\nThe four former Brexit Party MEPs are urging voters to support the Conservative Party\n\nMr Farage claimed the Brexit Party had prevented a \"surge\" from the pro-EU Lib Dems and had, therefore, blocked a second EU referendum.\n\n\"What we are actually doing now is tearing chunks out of the Labour vote,\" he said.\n\nHe blamed his failure to form a so-called \"Leave alliance\" between his party and the Conservative Party for the election on the Tories.\n\n\"The Conservative Party didn't want to do it,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nigel Farage says three of the MEPs who have left his Brexit Party have links to the Conservative government\n\nOn his call for political reform, including scrapping the House of Lords and changing the voting system, he said: \"At this stage we don't look like fundamentally reforming British politics, but do I think there is an appetite for it? Absolutely.\"\n\nMr Farage said he believed Boris Johnson would win the election and that was his preference in a choice with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nBut he said he was undecided who to vote for in the Conservative-held constituency where he lives.\n\nAndrew Neil also challenged Mr Farage on Islamophobic comments made by two of his candidates in in Edinburgh South West and Birmingham Ladywood.\n\n\"Any attempt that gets made to try and paint the Brexit Party into being a right-wing political party that would harbour anybody with extreme views is completely and utterly wrong,\" he said.\n\n\"We are, in terms of the mix of our candidates, if I look at what we put forward for the European elections, we had more diversity of background, of class, of race, than any other party.\"\n\nOn Brexit, Mr Farage said he wanted to see \"some amendments\" to Mr Johnson's Brexit deal, saying: \"If we don't we are not going to get a clean break from the EU.\"\n\nAnd on whether he thinks NHS drug prices would be \"on the table\" in post-Brexit trade deal talks with the US, Mr Farage said the suggestion was \"ludicrous because no British government will sign up to more expensive drugs\".\n\nHe said he believed that \"wealthier people should be encouraged to take out private insurance to lift the burden off a system that is struggling to cope\".\n\n\"When it comes to opening up the NHS for privatisation, do you want the truth? It's already happened.\"\n\nIn a special series of election interviews, Andrew Neil has already questioned Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, the SNP's Nicola Sturgeon and Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has yet to agree a date to taking part, which has prompted a political row and accusations from Labour that he is \"running scared\".\n• None What are the Brexit Party's 12 key policies?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Private investment is bringing down the cost of renewable energy'\n\nNationalising UK energy companies will delay the UK's move towards a zero carbon future, according to the chief executive of Scottish Power, Keith Anderson.\n\nHe said that investment by the private sector had seen the cost of renewable energy plummet over the last decade and that debates about nationalisation would only serve as a distraction from averting a climate emergency.\n\n\"We need to focus on hitting zero carbon by 2050. Anything else is a distraction.\n\n\"Having big arguments about who owns what is the worst thing we could do right now. It would slow everything down when what we need to do is speed up.\"\n\nA Labour spokesman said Mr Anderson's comments were \"hardly surprising\" as they represented \"vested interests\".\n\n\"Labour has set out our plans to dramatically expand the rollout of renewable generation - so that we can hit net zero by the 2030s - not 2050,\" he said.\n\n\"While generous public subsidies have led to some private sector investment in renewable generation, private ownership of the UK's grid has been a disaster, with shareholder dividends prioritised over investment.\"\n\nMr Anderson told the BBC: \"We estimate we need to install 4,000 electric car charging points a day between now and 31 December 2050, and if we delay that for a year arguing about ownership that is 1.5 million charging points that won't get installed in time.\"\n\nLabour says it would increase charging points at a faster rate than the private sector has managed. But Mr Anderson said that competition and innovation had revolutionised his company and the industry.\n\n\"If you look back 20 years we were predominantly a coal burning generator. Now, we have shut down all our coal mines, got rid of gas and we are now a 100% renewable energy company. That's what we want us and other companies to deliver.\"\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell has described Labour's plans as radical\n\nLabour plans to nationalise the big six energy providers and divide their assets, workforce and customers into 14 state-owned regional agencies.\n\nIt's not just energy. A Labour government would also take water, the Royal Mail and BT's broadband business into public ownership.\n\nSo how much would this cost?\n\nThat's a tricky question to answer. Labour say parliament would decide how much to pay the current owners - which of course includes many worker's pension funds - but the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies estimates it would add at least £200bn to government debt.\n\nHowever, the government would collect the associated revenue - apart from broadband which it eventually wants to give away for free.\n\nArguments about who is better at delivering key public services and utilities are not new.\n\nBut the Labour Party manifesto proposes one of the most radical overhauls of how companies are owned and run in decades.\n\nThe private sector will tell you that the prospect of nationalisation is deterring private investment at a crucial time - while Labour would say only the state has the power to borrow and invest at the scale and pace that's needed.\n\nIn Scotland, as in most of Europe, the water industry is already nationalised and the SNP wants to extend public ownership of rail, buses and ferries.\n\nProf Andrew Cumbers of Glasgow University says that many breakthroughs in innovation and technology - particularly in renewable energy - have been achieved thanks to state subsidies.\n\n\"It sounds radical but it's only what happens in many other countries. The government can borrow much more cheaply than companies. If you leave it all to the private sector, research and development inevitably gets cut to divert profits into shareholder dividends.\"\n\nSmaller companies - such as Bulb, Ovo and Octopus in energy, and Virgin Media and Talk Talk in broadband - would not face nationalisation. That would leave them competing with the state.\n\nTough if you are giving services like broadband away for free or others at less than market prices.\n\nEven Labour describe their own policies as radical. On that at least business would agree.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Saudi Aramco traces its history back to the 1930s\n\nState-owned oil giant Saudi Aramco has raised a record $25.6bn (£19.4bn) in its initial public offering in Riyadh.\n\nThe share sale was the biggest to date, surpassing that of China's Alibaba which raised $25bn in 2014 in New York.\n\nAramco relied on domestic and regional investors to sell a 1.5% stake after lukewarm interest from abroad.\n\nThe IPO will value it at $1.7tn when trading begins - short of its $2tn target, but making it the most valuable listed company in the world.\n\nThe share sale is at the heart of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's plans to modernise the Saudi economy and wean it off its dependence on oil.\n\nThe country urgently needs tens of billions of dollars to fund megaprojects and develop new industries.\n\nAramco has found the journey to its public offering testing.\n\nIt initially sought to raise $100bn on two exchanges - with a first listing on the kingdom's Tadawul bourse, and then another on an overseas exchange such as the London Stock Exchange.\n\nBut it scaled back its plans after foreign investors raised concerns about climate change, political risk and a lack of corporate transparency.\n\nInternational institutions also baulked at the firm's $1.7tn valuation, prompting Aramco to pull marketing roadshows in New York and London.\n\nInstead, it focused its marketing efforts on Saudi investors and wealthy Gulf Arab allies. Saudi banks also offered citizens cheap credit to bid for the shares following a nationwide advertising campaign.\n\nShares were priced at 32 Saudi riyals ($8.53) on Thursday and were heavily oversubscribed, according to reports.\n\nBut it remains to be seen whether the share price rises or falls when trading begins, most likely later this month.\n\nThe IPO's pricing came as Saudi Arabia met with Russia and other members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) in Vienna to discuss oil production.\n\nThe allies - who together pump 40% of the world's oil - agreed to deepen output cuts as part of ongoing efforts to prop up global prices.\n\nOil prices collapsed in mid 2014 and have yet to fully recover, leaving oil-dependent economies under pressure.\n\nThe market is struggling with slower global growth and a flood of new production from countries such as the US.\n\nThree years after it was first announced Saudi Arabia is finally taking the world's most profitable company public. The market valuation is less than the $2tn target that Crown Prince Bin-Salman - had initially hoped to achieve.\n\nThe company has committed to a large annual dividend until 2024 to ensure investors don't sell shares in the near future leading to a drop in market valuation.\n\nBut analysts believe the biggest challenge for the company will be if it decides to list on an international stock exchange in the future to expand its investor pool. The core business of Saudi Aramco - oil - is considered by many experts its biggest risk.\n\nDemand for crude has been falling, which could make it difficult for the company to grow in the long term. The climate crisis and geopolitical risks are also key factors that could deter potential investors.", "Workers at insurance market Lloyd's of London have been told to behave during the Christmas party season.\n\nChief executive John Neal told trade magazine Financial News that staff have been emailed warning them to be \"particularly careful\".\n\nThe move by Lloyd's comes after it vowed in September this year to tackle its male-dominated culture.\n\nA survey it commissioned found 8% of workers said they had seen sexual harassment in the past 12 months.\n\nThe centuries-old specialist insurance market, where brokers and insurers meet to do business, commissioned the research after a highly critical report by Bloomberg Businessweek in March.\n\nLloyd's chief John Neal says staff have been told to be \"careful\"\n\nIt found that female workers had faced inappropriate comments, as well as physical attacks by male colleagues. This followed earlier complaints about excessive alcohol consumption and boorish behaviour during working hours.\n\nOne in five workers said that they did not believe they had equal opportunities at Lloyd's, regardless of gender.\n\nMeanwhile, a quarter said they had observed excessive consumption of alcohol at the marketplace during the past year, while 22% had seen people in the organisation \"turn a blind eye\" to inappropriate behaviour.\n\nAs part of its plan to encourage a better atmosphere, Lloyd's decided to put posters up in the toilets of pubs near its office in the City of London, urging its staff to report instances of sexual harassment they had witnessed.\n\nLloyd's emphasised that it expected professional behaviour all-year round, not just at Christmas.\n\nA spokesman said: \"The message is part of our wider speaking-up campaign in which we have been clear about the standards of behaviour that we expect and our ongoing commitment to cultural change in the market.\"\n\nThe moves by Lloyd's come amid a shift in attitude towards traditionally drink-soaked office parties which can lead to accidents, harassment and lawsuits, as well as excluding teetotallers.\n\nAccounting firm BDO will have sober chaperones at its Christmas gatherings, who will be responsible for dealing with emergencies and ensuring workers get home, the Financial Times reported.\n\nLloyd's is not like a traditional insurance firm. It employs about 1,000 staff directly, while about 45,000 work in the market it organises, brokering everything from shipping insurance to cover for space exploration.\n\nIt is unrelated to Lloyds Banking Group, which owns Halifax and Bank of Scotland.", "Labour is promising to base a network of small business advisers in Post Office branches if it wins next Thursday's general election.\n\nThe party says the advisers would form part of a wider agency to help firms access advice and bid for government contracts.\n\nThe party says it would also help small firms by replacing business rates with a tax based on land value.\n\nBut the Conservatives said Labour would bring higher taxes and uncertainty.\n\nThe Tories have pledged to reduce business rates for smaller firms, and give them a bigger discount on National Insurance payments.\n\nLabour's shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey said smaller companies are \"being stretched to breaking point by global corporations which evade their taxes and fail to pay their suppliers on time\".\n\n\"Labour wants business support and finance to be available for entrepreneurs from the moment the seed of an idea is planted,\" she said. \"Labour's Business Development Agency will create thriving businesses within our communities, bringing life back to local economies.\"\n\nThe party also plans to set up a website offering support to smaller firms, and free full-fibre broadband for every business and home by 2030.\n\nIt also says it will establish a £250bn national investment bank providing loans for businesses.\n\nIn addition, it says it would requiring government contractors to pay their suppliers on time or else face a ban from bidding for public cash.\n\nBut the Liberal Democrats said Jeremy Corbyn's pledge to renegotiate the PM's Brexit deal and put it to a referendum undermined Labour's plans to support business.\n\nLabour has pledged to offer voters a choice between its deal or remaining in the EU - it has not said which option it would back and Mr Corbyn has said he would stay \"neutral\" during the campaign.\n\nLib Dem business spokesman Sam Gyimah said smaller firms have \"made it abundantly clear that any form of Brexit - be it red or blue - will harm their ability to hire staff, make it more difficult to export to our closest partners and ratchet up the cost of doing business\".\n\n\"It is only the Liberal Democrats who will stop Brexit and bring forward a bold vision to support small businesses in the UK,\" he added.\n\nHis party also wants to replace business rates with a levy on commercial properties based on land values, and create a new \"start-up allowance\" to help those setting up businesses with their living costs.\n\nParties are competing to offer more help to high streets ahead of the general election\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses said it welcomed Labour's plan for an agency to support small firms, as well as the party's commitment to clamp down on suppliers that make late payments.\n\nHowever its chairman Mike Cherry said the party needed to provide \"urgent clarity\" on its tax changes to dividend payouts.\n\n\"The party promised that no business owner making less than £80,000 would be targeted if it wins power,\" he said\n\n\"But, as things stand, it's hard to see how that will be the case.\"\n\nThe Conservatives also criticised Labour plans to raise the corporation tax rate paid by smaller companies from the current 19% to 21% by 2023/24.\n\nThe party also said Labour plans to introduce a 32-hour working week within ten years would \"hit businesses hard\".\n\nInternational Trade Secretary Liz Truss said: \"Despite what they claim, Labour are not on the side of small businesses\".\n\nShe added that smaller companies \"don't need a new quango, they need certainty\".\n\n\"All Corbyn's Labour will bring is higher taxes and uncertainty with no plan for Brexit\".\n\nThe Liberal Democrats' business spokesman Sam Gyimah said: \"Labour under Jeremy Corbyn has dropped any pretence of being friendly to industry, returning to plans from the 1970s to take over company shares and nationalise swathes of the economy.\"\n\nHe also accused both Labour and the Conservatives of being united by Brexit, \"the most anti-business policy of all\".", "Uber said it received almost 6,000 reports of sexual assault in the United States in 2017 and 2018.\n\nWhile the number of cases rose in 2018, the rate of incidents dropped by 16%, as the number of journeys was higher.\n\nPassengers - as opposed to drivers - accounted for nearly half of those accused of sexual assault.\n\nThe data was published in a report which Uber said showed its commitment to \"improving safety for Uber and the entire industry\".\n\nUber is facing growing scrutiny around the world, and recently lost its licence to operate in London.\n\nThe report showed 5,981 sexual assault incidents were reported out of the 2.3bn US trips over the two-year period.\n\nUber claimed 99.9% of the total journeys were concluded without safety issues.\n\nUber said the report was the first comprehensive safety review of its ride-hailing business.\n\n\"Voluntarily publishing a report that discusses these difficult safety issues is not easy,\" said Tony West, chief legal officer at Uber.\n\n\"Most companies don't talk about issues like sexual violence because doing so risks inviting negative headlines and public criticism. But we feel it's time for a new approach.\"\n\nThe company told the BBC there were currently no concrete plans to release safety reports for any non-US markets.\n\nThis is a hugely significant document that for the first time details the extent to which the gig economy puts people in harm's way.\n\nUber described it as a complex project that was two years in the making, with much of that time spent auditing the data to ensure accuracy.\n\nIt should be noted that, knowing it would provoke grim headlines, the firm opted to release this data voluntarily.\n\nThe firm has committed to releasing the report every two years.\n\nNow that Uber has proven it can produce this data in a digestible form, it must keep doing so at regular intervals and, eventually, for all its markets around the world.\n\nThat's not an easy undertaking, but the company can afford it.\n\nContinual publication of the report would bring focus and urgency: is Uber's record on safety getting better or worse? Why might that be? Are certain regions safer than others? What can we learn from that?\n\nAttention must also turn to the other gig economy firms out there. Lyft - which is facing a lawsuit over sexual assault filed just this week - has no excuses now that its bigger rival has acted.\n\nUber said 3,045 sexual assault reports were made in 2018 compared with 2,936 in 2017.\n\nLast year, 1.3 billion trips were completed in the US, up from one billion in 2017.\n\nThe head of the US National Sexual Violence Resource Center, Karen Baker, welcomed the report, saying it \"provides an opportunity to shed light on how this information-sharing emboldens our work for a safer future\".\n\nPassenger safety, in particular sexual violence, have been major challenges for Uber and its US rival Lyft, as well as China's Didi.\n\nIn November, London's transport regulator announced that Uber would not be granted a new licence to operate after repeated safety issues.\n\nThe firm has appealed against the ruling and continues to operate during the process.", "The collapse caused congestion between junctions 25 and 29\n\nThe M25 was closed for about 12 hours after a crane collapsed on the motorway.\n\nThe crane toppled at Junction 27 for the M11 in Epping, Essex, at about 16:45 GMT on Friday.\n\nIt caused huge tailbacks in both directions, with more than 10 miles of near-stationary traffic.\n\nThe crane was later removed and the road resurfaced. The clockwise carriageway re-opened at 04:00 GMT, and anti-clockwise at 07:00 GMT.\n\nOne lane remained closed in both directions to repair the central reservation, but there were no delays.\n\nEarlier, Essex Police said no-one has been seriously injured.\n\nThe crane overturned over both sides of the carriageway\n\nEssex Fire and Rescue Service said six engines were sent to the scene, where traffic stretched back to Junction 29 (A127) on the anti-clockwise carriageway.\n\nConcrete had been scattered across the motorway by the crane, making it impossible for cars to pass.\n\nConcrete was scattered across the carriageway by the crane, making it impossible for cars to pass.\n\nWork continued through the night to clear away debris and resurface the road as Highways England warned motorists to avoid the area.\n\nA spokesperson for the organisation said the road was damaged due to a diesel spillage, but specialist contractors had been brought in to get the motorway re-opened.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former US Vice-President Joe Biden angrily challenged a man at a town hall hustings in Iowa.\n\nThe local claimed the 2020 presidential hopeful had sent his son to work in Ukraine.\n\nDuring his response Mr Biden appeared to call the man 'fat', although his team suggested he had used the word 'fact'.", "Welsh singer Katherine Jenkins has been mugged in London after intervening in a street robbery.\n\nThe 39-year-old was on her way to a rehearsal for a charity carol concert in Chelsea at around 15:10 GMT on Wednesday when she witnessed an older woman being attacked, her agent said.\n\nThe Neath-born mezzo-soprano was then mugged herself after trying to help.\n\nBut she went on to perform at the Henry van Straubenzee concert at St Luke's Church in Chelsea.\n\n\"She didn't want to let the charity down,\" her agent added.\n\nTwo 15-year-old girls were arrested on suspicion of robbery following the incident, a spokeswoman for the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nThey were released under investigation, but one was re-arrested on Thursday in connection with the same incident after further information was received.\n\n\"A female member of the public had attempted to intervene,\" the Met spokeswoman added.\n\nIn a statement, Jenkins' agent said: \"Katherine was in London to sing at the Henry van Straubenzee memorial charity carol concert at St Luke's Church.\n\n\"On her way to rehearsal she witnessed an older lady being mugged and intervened to help.\n\n\"As a result of her stepping in, Katherine was then mugged herself.\n\nThe agent added that Jenkins was able to help police identify the suspected mugger.\n\nA police officer was allegedly assaulted during the incident but did not require hospital treatment.", "A UK diplomat in charge of Brexit at the British embassy in the US has quit.\n\nIn her resignation letter, seen by US broadcaster CNN, Alexandra Hall Hall said she could no longer \"peddle half-truths\" on behalf of political leaders she did not \"trust\".\n\nShe said she has become \"dismayed\" by the reluctance of politicians to \"honestly\" address the \"challenges and trade-offs\" involved in leaving the EU.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it would not comment on details of her resignation.\n\nHowever, it did confirm Ms Hall Hall had resigned as UK Brexit Counsellor at the British embassy in Washington - a post which involves explaining the UK Brexit policy to US lawmakers and policymakers.\n\nIn her letter, dated 3 December, she wrote: \"I have been increasingly dismayed by the way in which our political leaders have tried to deliver Brexit, with reluctance to address honestly, even with our own citizens, the challenges and trade-offs which Brexit involves.\"\n\nShe also criticised the use of \"misleading or disingenuous arguments\" and \"some behaviour towards our institutions\" by politicians, adding that \"were it happening in another country, we would almost certainly as diplomats have received instructions to register our concern\".\n\nMs Hall Hall added: \"It makes our job to promote democracy and the rule of law that much harder, if we are not seen to be upholding these core values at home.\"\n\nBBC diplomatic correspondent Paul Adams described her letter as \"stunningly blunt\".\n\nMs Hall Hall, who is a former ambassador to Georgia and has worked in the diplomatic service for 33 years, did not name any specific politicians in the letter, but took aim at the current Conservative government.\n\nShe wrote: \"I am also at a stage in life where I would prefer to do something more rewarding with my time, than peddle half-truths on behalf of a government I do not trust.\"\n\nWhen the BBC put Ms Hall Hall's comments to Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab on Friday evening, he said: \"I'm not going to talk about employment issues in the civil service.\"\n\nDiplomats are supposed to be politically neutral and Ms Hall Hall stressed her decision to resign was not tied to her personal views on leaving the EU.\n\n\"I took this position with a sincere commitment, indeed passion, to do my part, to the very best of my abilities, to help achieve a successful outcome on Brexit,\" she wrote, but added her position had become \"unbearable personally and untenable professionally\".\n\nWith a week to go until the UK heads to the polls, Ms Hall Hall insisted she had stood down before the election to avoid her resignation being portrayed as a reaction to its outcome.\n\nCNN reported that she had also filed a formal complaint about being asked to convey overtly partisan language on Brexit.\n\nMs Hall Hall suggested her role as a diplomat had been diverted to convey messages that were \"neither fully honest nor politically impartial.\"\n\nThe UK has been without an ambassador to the US since Sir Kim Darroch resigned in the summer over a row about leaked emails critical of President Trump's administration.", "About 30,000 children in care live outside their local area, with nearly 12,000 placed 20 miles or more from friends and family, a report suggests.\n\nIt says 2,000 are housed more than 100 miles from wherever they call home.\n\nA growing number are isolated from support and at increased risk of going missing, says children's commissioner for England Anne Longfield.\n\nThe government says children are moved away only as a \"last resort\", with \"safety and suitability\" the priority.\n\nAccording to the Department for Education, there were 78,150 children in care at 31 March.\n\nThe commissioner's report, titled Pass the Parcel, identifies a 13% increase in the number of minors housed outside their English local authority area over four years.\n\nA rise in numbers of older children in care has also left cash-strapped councils without enough suitable places locally, meaning many end up in privately run children's homes in cheaper areas but without the family structure of a foster place, it adds.\n\n\"Some children in care have told me they feel like parcels - passed from pillar to post, unsure where they even are on a map,\" Ms Longfield said.\n\n\"We wouldn't want this for our own children, and we shouldn't accept it either for those children who rely on the state to look after them.\"\n\nThe post of children's commissioner for England was created to act as an independent representative of young people, with the aim of influencing policy that affects them.\n\nThe report says the London boroughs of Westminster, Hammersmith and Fulham, and Tower Hamlets send the most children out of area.\n\nIt acknowledges some need to be moved owing to the risk of violence, sexual predators or of being groomed by gangs, but says a lack of suitable council places is often the reason.\n\nMark Russell, chief executive of charity the Children's Society said: \"It is simply not good enough that so many of these vulnerable children are being placed because that is where a bed is free and not because that is where the child is most likely to receive the care, support and sense of belonging they deserve.\"\n\nMs Longfield is calling for an independent review into the children's social care system, in particular looking at their emotional and safety needs.\n\nA government spokesman said placements were approved by local authority children's services directors and that Ofsted would challenge poor decisions.\n\n\"We know there are challenges in finding the right placements, and we've already pledged an extra £1.5bn for child and adult social services, as well as a review of the system so children receive the best possible care,\" he said.", "The winning number for Spain's annual Christmas lottery was 26590\n\nA Spanish TV reporter who told her colleagues live on air that she was \"not coming to work tomorrow\" while clutching a winning lottery ticket had only won a fraction of the total prize.\n\nNatalia Escudero, who works for public broadcaster RTVE, started screaming on camera - before later learning she had won just €5,000 ($5,550; £4,285).\n\nThe Christmas lottery's top prize is €4m, but can be shared among winners.\n\nMs Escudero later apologised over the way she reacted during the broadcast.\n\nShe said she regretted behaving in such an \"emotional\" manner and wanted to explain her actions to viewers who \"felt cheated\".\n\nMs Escudero's response came after she was accused of a lack of professionalism over the footage, which was widely shared on social media.\n\nIt showed her jumping for joy while champagne was sprayed into the air as it was announced that the winning number for the top prize in the Christmas lottery known as El Gordo (The Fat One) was 26590.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nResponding to criticism on Twitter, Ms Escudero said she had recently had a \"difficult\" few months \"for personal reasons\", but that - in her 25 years working as a professional journalist - she continued to have a \"clear conscience\" and was proud of her \"rigorous and proven work\".\n\n\"It is sad that Natalia Escudero is today [known as] the manipulative and lying journalist from RTVE,\" she tweeted.\n\nShe apologised for any confusion caused, but said she was being honest about taking time off because \"I am going on holiday\".", "PC Shazad Saddique's family said he \"had a real passion for the outdoors and helping others\".\n\nA policeman drowned after being sucked into a whirlpool during an adventure holiday in Scotland, an inquest heard.\n\nPC Shazad Saddique, 38, died while swimming near the Fairy Pools waterfall on the Isle of Skye on 19 July.\n\nTourists including a French policeman pulled the father-of-three, of Oldham, Greater Manchester clear but they could not revive him.\n\nThe Greater Manchester Police (GMP) officer's wife was expecting their fourth child at the time.\n\nRochdale Coroner's Court heard PC Saddique, who was a student officer based in Ashton-under-Lyne, was involved in outreach work with local youths to get them into the countryside.\n\nHe had arranged the Scottish trip for 30 people including his brother and 13-year-old son.\n\nThe court heard that he jumped into the water at Fairy Pools - a natural waterfall phenomenon in the Cuillin Mountain Range in Glen Brittle - with goggles, wetsuit and swimming shoes.\n\nHe had been swimming for about an hour when tragedy struck.\n\nPC Shazad Saddique was also a keen runner who ran marathons around the world and hiked\n\nFamily friend Temour Ahmed said: \"I heard people shouting and went to the pool I could see Shazad was unresponsive in the water.\n\n\"I tried to get into the water but there was a very strong undercurrent which was pulling my trousers down so I got out.\"\n\nHe added: \"It was looking like a whirlpool effect.\n\n''Eventually we were able to get to Shazad from the water but sadly his lips where blue and he was totally unresponsive.\"\n\nPC Saddique, who joined GMP in 2018, was praised by the coroner for being a \"role model\"\n\nRecording a conclusion of death by drowning Coroner Joanne Kearsley recorded a conclusion of death by drowning and said it was a \"very, very sad case\".\n\nShe added: ''More likely than not he became caught up in a strong current which created a vortex effect.\"\n\nThe coroner also praised PC Saddique for touching \"the lives of many\".\n\nHis family said he was \"the most selfless person you could ever hope to meet\".\n\nTheir statement added: \"He was the best dad, and his wife and kids were his absolute world.''\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Teresa Xu said she felt she was representing many other single women too\n\nA woman in China is suing a hospital after doctors refused to freeze her eggs because she is unmarried, in line with a law on assisted reproduction.\n\nTeresa Xu visited Beijing Obstetrics and Gynaecology Hospital last year with the aim of freezing her eggs while she focused on her career.\n\nThe freelance editor, 31, said hospital staff had urged her to have a child instead of freezing her eggs.\n\nShe said she had been told later she could not proceed with treatment.\n\n\"I came here for a professional service, but instead I got someone who was urging me to put aside my work and have a child first,\" Ms Xu told Reuters news agency.\n\nChao Wei, a spokesman for the hospital, said the facility was complying with government regulations on assisted reproductive technologies, the New York Times reported.\n\nOn Monday, a court in Beijing heard Ms Xu's lawsuit against the hospital. The case, which is expected to go on for several months, has been widely discussed on Chinese social media, where many have voiced support for Ms Xu.\n\nSpeaking after her hearing, Ms Xu said: \"For me I didn't feel like I was at court as an individual. I felt I was standing there with the weight of many other single women's expectations.\"\n\nA woman's eggs deteriorate in quality as she ages, making it more difficult for older women to have a child. There is a high demand for egg freezing in China, while women who can afford to tend to travel overseas for the treatment.\n\nIn 2013, popular Chinese actress Xu Jinglei announced that she had frozen nine of her eggs. She travelled to the US at the age of 39 for the treatment.\n\nMs Xu said she had considered going abroad but it was too expensive. She said she had been quoted prices of 100,000 yuan (£11,016) for the treatment in Thailand and 200,000 yuan (£22,032) in the US.\n\nMany users of China's social media site Weibo voiced their support for Ms Xu using a hashtag that translates as \"China's first unmarried frozen egg case\". One person wrote: \"Fertility should not be the sole value of women. Apart from being a mother, you are first and foremost an independent person.\"\n\nAnother said: \"If Chinese law changes, make sperm banks open to unmarried women! The population problem can be solved a little bit. There are still many people who don't want to get married and want to have a baby.\"\n\nChinese women's bodies have been subjected to stringent strict control by the state since a birth control policy was introduced in the 1970s. China replaced its one-child policy with a universal two-child policy in 2015, but there are still significant restrictions on fertility treatments and unmarried women are still not allowed to freeze their eggs.\n\nSome Weibo users asked why the woman was suing the hospital. \"I don't think there is any problem in the hospital's affairs and work. The parties should not sue the hospital but the State Family Planning Association,\" one person said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Melania Geymonat (right) and Christine Hannigan both needed hospital treatment\n\nA teenager who abused a same-sex couple on a London bus is to attend diversity lessons as part of his punishment.\n\nThe 15-year-old had pleaded guilty to abusing Melania Geymonat and Christine Hannigan.\n\nThey were injured with pelted coins and had a handbag stolen while on a Camden night bus on 30 May.\n\nThe youth was given an eight-month youth referral order, extended from six due to the homophobic nature of the attack.\n\nHe and two other youths, aged 16 and 17, had surrounded the women and asked them questions such as: \"How do you have sex?\", Highbury Corner Youth Court was told.\n\nThey each admitted using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour to cause harassment, alarm or distress against the two women.\n\nThe court heard the 15-year-old had handed the eldest teenager coins which he then pelted at the couple, prompting a scuffle between Ms Hannigan and one of the teenagers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'I was and still am angry at bus attack'\n\nHe had also made \"degrading gestures\" towards the pair, including references to the sex act of scissoring.\n\nA second charge of handling stolen goods, related to Ms Geymonat's bank card, was included in his sentence.\n\nHe was also sentenced to do 20 hours of community reparation.\n\nDistrict Judge Nicholas Rimmer said: \"You need the close supervision of the youth offending service to think carefully about your behaviour.\n\n\"This will include diversity sessions which will make you think about hate crime, the protected characteristics and minority groups.\"\n\nThe 17-year-old boy was previously given a four-month youth rehabilitation order while the 16-year-old was given an eight-month youth referral order.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dany Cotton stepped down in the wake of criticism in the Grenfell inquiry\n\nLondon Fire Brigade's commissioner who was forced to retire early following the Grenfell Tower blaze inquiry has had tributes paid on her last day.\n\nThousands of firefighters formed a \"guard of honour\" for Dany Cotton, the first female LFB commissioner.\n\nMs Cotton was due to retire in April 2020 after 32 years of service.\n\nIn response to the parade, which came after she revealed on 6 December she would step down, the Grenfell Action Group dismissed it as \"a street party\".\n\nBut as Ms Cotton joined the parade she was hugged by supporters and met with bagpipes and applause.\n\nThousands of firefighters, and a dog, lined the streets to pay tribute to Dany Cotton on Monday\n\nTaking to an impromptu stage on top of a 1937 Leyland Metz fire engine, she said: \"Things have been a bit difficult recently, but the messages of support I've received, the emails, the messages on social media, have just made everything okay.\n\n\"It makes me feel proud, the fire service looks after each other.\"\n\nShe said she thought all the work over three decades were her legacy, \"but especially recently [on] mental health awareness.\"\n\n\"I'm very very sad to be leaving but I think the legacy of all these people here shows that I must have done something alright,\" she added.\n\nFirefighters held up a sign saying 'We Are Dany'\n\nBut Joe Delaney, from Grenfell Action Group, said: \"Given the findings of the recent inspection, LFB would be better off if efforts were directed at providing its personnel with the training they have been denied and its funding were directed at providing them with the equipment they desperately require.\"\n\nMs Cotton will officially step down on New Year's Eve and will be replaced by Andy Roe, who has served with the LFB since 2002.", "Floral tributes to \"Sandy\" and \"Amy\" have been left outside the house where the women were killed\n\nTributes have been paid to two women murdered outside a house in a West Sussex village.\n\nThe victims were found dead in Hazel Way, Crawley Down, on Sunday morning.\n\nOne woman, aged 76, has been named locally as Sandy Seagrave. Floral tributes have also been left at the scene to a woman called Amy.\n\nA 37-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder is in a \"very unstable condition\" in hospital, after he was found injured inside the property.\n\nA double murder investigation was launched after the discovery of the dead women, one of whom was known to the suspect, Sussex Police said.\n\nThe force confirmed a 76-year-old woman and a 32-year-old woman had died.\n\nAmong the flowers left at the scene was a handwritten card dedicated to \"Amy\"\n\nA marked police car and uniformed officers were outside the house on Christmas Eve, as people laid flowers and paid their respects.\n\nA candle with the message \"RIP Sandy XX\" on its glass holder was placed near a small cuddly toy bear among the collection of flowers, while a red rose had been drawn on the front of a handmade condolence card marked \"Amy\".\n\nIt read: \"To Amy, Rest in peace. You were such a lovely neighbour to us and the rest of the village. We wish the best to all of the family.\"\n\nAnother card alongside the flowers said: \"A beautiful lady. Taken far too soon. So many fond memories of Amy growing up and blossoming into a fine young lady. Our thoughts are with you at this sad time.\"\n\nOfficers from Sussex Police continued their inquiries in the area on Christmas Eve\n\nFollow BBC South East on Facebook, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex welcomed their first child, Archie, in May\n\nBaby Archie has made his first appearance on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's annual Christmas card.\n\nA black and white photograph shows the seven-month-old crawling towards the camera, while his parents smile in the background.\n\nThe message reads: \"Merry Christmas and a happy new year... from our family to yours\".\n\nThe greeting was emailed to friends and colleagues on Monday, although hard copies were sent to family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Queen's Commonwealth Trust This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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End of twitter post by The Queen's Commonwealth Trust\n\nHarry and Meghan revealed their greeting via the Queen's Commonwealth Trust Twitter account.\n\nThe couple are taking a break from royal duties and are spending some time in Canada with their son, born in May.\n\nIn September, they revealed during their tour of southern Africa that they were struggling with media attention\n\nMeanwhile the Queen will use her Christmas Day message to say 2019 has been \"quite bumpy\", following a year of intense political division and a number of personal events affecting the Royal Family.", "Loch Duart co-founder Andy Bing said he had to take action to protect his company's brand\n\nA high-end Scottish salmon producer is taking on the illegal food fraud trade with forensic science, ahead of a big push into the US.\n\nLoch Duart has used the technology to launch sting operations on outlets suspected of selling inferior fish, falsely bearing the company's brand.\n\nThe Sutherland-based firm says it prides itself on farming salmon in an ethical and sustainable way.\n\nFood fraud is estimated to cost UK firms up to £12bn a year.\n\nThe practice of intentionally mislabelling cheap products as premium brands led to the 2013 horsemeat scandal, and has also hit the olive oil and coffee industries.\n\nAndy Bing, who co-founded Loch Duart 20 years ago, said: \"It's illegal, but people are very rarely caught. We want to change that.\"\n\nHe told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme: \"It normally happens in big cities where you get less scrupulous fish wholesalers who will go to a high-end restaurant, say they've got Loch Duart salmon, but they're selling something from a cheaper provenance and invoicing it as Loch Duart salmon.\"\n\nMr Bing said his company now exported its fish to 20 countries and protecting the brand was vital, given its ethos of farming salmon on a smaller, greener scale, using more expensive fish feed.\n\nLoch Duart teamed up with New Zealand-based firm Oritain, which uses science to find out exactly where products come from.\n\n\"Nature gives everything specific markers that is unique to its origin,\" said Mr Bing, who has been in the salmon business for 30 years.\n\n\"This technology can take trace elements from the loch in which it's farmed. You have a bank of information and you can match our salmon taken from any market in the world to that bank, and work out whether it's ours.\"\n\nThe technology used to spot fake products is based on forensic science\n\nMr Bing added: \"We've tried to do a couple of stings. We've been led to somewhere by a loyal customer who says, 'I think I've been delivered something which is not the real deal'.\n\n\"We've gone down there with our sample bags and tried to apprehend them.\n\n\"We've been doing several checks in the south of England over the last few months. A couple of restaurants refused to give us samples. You can draw your own conclusions from that.\"\n\nMr Bing said the science, which requires 100 grams of uncooked salmon for a test to be carried out, could be used as evidence in a court case.\n\nAnd he said the science could be used across the food and drink industry.\n\n\"Next year we're gong to make a push into America where our brand's very strong, and we're taking this technology with us,\" said Mr Bing.\n\nHe added: \"We're heavily export-orientated, but we've got to get through Brexit.\n\n\"We've got to get the right trade deal, but we believe people want our salmon, they want Scottish whisky and, on a trade level, we'll find a way.\"\n\nFor the latest business news as it happens, follow BBC presenter Andrew Black's updates each weekday morning on BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme between 0600 and 0900.", "Winona Jane Langford, 17, and Hayden Bryan Marshall-Inman, 40, have been missing since the eruption\n\nNew Zealand police are calling off the search for two bodies still missing after the White Island eruption.\n\nThe volcanic eruption earlier this month killed 19 people, including two people who were never found.\n\nIt's thought the bodies of Winona Jane Langford, 17, and Hayden Bryan Marshall-Inman, 40, are in the water off the island.\n\nPolice said their decision \"follows extensive shoreline and substantial aerial searches\".\n\nBut despite those searches, \"no further items of significance have been located\".\n\n\"The families of the two missing people have been informed of this decision,\" said Superintendent Andy McGregor. \"Police remain ready to respond if new information comes to light.\"\n\nThe eruption on White Island - a popular tourist destination - happened on 9 December.\n\nThere were 47 people on the island, with 24 from Australia, nine from the US, five from New Zealand, four from Germany, two from China, two from the UK, and one from Malaysia.\n\nLast week, police released the names of 17 victims - all of them from Australia, New Zealand, or the US.\n\nThey said Mr Marshall-Inman, a local tour guide, and Ms Langford, who was visiting the island with her family from Sydney, were missing but presumed dead.\n\nThe eruption killed Ms Langford's parents, Anthony and Kristine, but her brother, Jesse, survived.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Toxic gases and ash\": The BBC's Shaimaa Khalil flies around White Island\n\nAfter the eruption, a helicopter pilot who flew to White Island to rescue survivors said he saw Mr Marshall-Inman \"beyond help\".\n\nTom Storey - who knew Mr Marshall-Inman - told Newshub: \"I just pulled him out from where he was and made him as comfortable as I could, just so he's there as we go back to get him.\"\n\nAfter moving his friend, Mr Storey carried on saving other tourists. He wanted to go back but, with the volcano still erupting, was told not to, which he found \"pretty hard to take\".\n\n\"You kinda want a bit of closure for the families and yourself,\" he said. \"You never want to start a job and not finish it.\"\n\nWhen Mr Marshall-Inman's family confirmed his death, a local supermarket said he would regularly leave $5 ($3.30US, £2.50) to help pay for others' shopping.\n\nThe Langford family were passengers on the Ovation of the Seas cruise ship and visited White Island on a day tour.\n\nThe surviving son, Jesse, is believed to have suffered severe burns.", "Marley keeps a close eye on the near fatal festive feast\n\nMarley, a five-year-old Staffie from Stoke-on-Trent, was found by his owner Polly Bloor \"with the remains of the Christmas pudding and an empty box of chocolates\".\n\nShe had left her pet with the puddings while picking up her granddaughter from school.\n\n\"We had just been shopping and left the bag on the side while we went to pick my granddaughter up from school,\" Ms Bloor said, when Marley entered the Christmas spirit, via the bag.\n\n\"This is our first Christmas with Marley and I thought we were going to lose him,\" Ms Bloor said.\n\nElsewhere in Staffordshire, a two-year-old Labrador, Ozzie, snaffled a mulled wine-soaked Christmas pudding at his home in Uttoxeter.\n\nOzzie was also unable to resist a Christmas pudding\n\nHe needed activated charcoal to absorb the toxic substances in his stomach.\n\nVets have warned pet owners that a lot of traditional Christmas fare is harmful to dogs and \"should be kept safely out of paws' reach\".\n\nAmong the cautioned against Christmas cooking is mince pies, stuffing, Christmas cakes and pudding as well as chocolate, onions, raisins, grapes and nuts.\n\n\"We see a big rise in poisoning cases involving raisins and alcohol at this time of year,\" Laura Playforth, from Vets Now, said.\n\n\"Largely due to dogs eating things like mince pies, Christmas puddings and fruitcake.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Philip was seen leaving the King Edward VII's Hospital in London on Tuesday morning\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh has returned to Sandringham in time for Christmas after four nights in hospital.\n\nPrince Philip, 98, was taken to the King Edward VII's Hospital in London on Friday on the advice of his doctor.\n\nBuckingham Palace said the duke had returned to the Queen's Sandringham Estate in Norfolk on Tuesday and thanked people for \"their good wishes\".\n\nIt comes after the revelation the Queen will use her Christmas Day message to acknowledge 2019 has been \"bumpy\".\n\nThe monarch herself travelled to Sandringham on Friday.\n\nThe palace, meanwhile, said the duke's hospital admission had been a \"precautionary measure\".\n\nPrince Philip retired from public life in August 2017 after decades supporting the Queen and attending events for his own charities and organisations.\n\nHis last public appearance was Lady Gabriella Windsor's wedding in May.\n\nBuckingham Palace said the admission was a \"precautionary measure\" in relation to a \"pre-existing\" condition\n\nThe Prince of Wales said on Monday his father had been \"looked after very well\" by hospital staff.\n\nBut Charles, who was visiting flood-hit communities in South Yorkshire, added: \"When you get to that age things don't work so well.\"\n\nRoyal commentator Caroline Aston told the BBC it was \"entirely in keeping with the man\" for Prince Philip to have seemingly had no visitors during his hospital stay, because he likes to make \"no fuss about anything\".\n\nThe Queen, 93, recorded her annual Christmas Day message before Prince Philip was admitted to hospital.\n\nIn the message, to be broadcast on BBC One at 15:00 GMT on Christmas Day, the monarch will say the path is never \"smooth\" but \"small steps\" can heal divisions.\n\nQueen Elizabeth II recorded her annual Christmas message from Windsor Castle in Berkshire\n\nAfter a year of intense political debate over Brexit, as well as a number of personal events affecting the Royal Family, the Queen will say: \"Small steps taken in faith and in hope can overcome long-held differences and deep-seated divisions to bring harmony and understanding.\"\n\nIn January, the Duke of Edinburgh was involved in a car crash while driving near Sandringham. He escaped uninjured, but two women required hospital treatment.\n\nIn September, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex publicly revealed their struggles under the media spotlight during their tour of southern Africa.\n\nAnd last month, the Duke of York withdrew from public life after a BBC interview about his ties to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself in August.\n\nAs is customary, family photos can be seen positioned near the Queen for her annual speech.\n\nAddressing speculation about the absence of a photo of the Sussexes, the BBC's royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell said it was not in the Queen's nature \"to snub anybody\", adding: \"Certainly not her grandchildren.\"\n\nHe said that the photos on the Queen's desk focus on the line of succession.\n\nThere has also been speculation surrounding which members of the royal family will attend the church service tomorrow morning.\n\nBBC news correspondent Charlotte Gallagher said it was believed Prince Andrew would be at the service, as well as Prince George and Princess Charlotte.\n\nIt has been a year which, at times, may have felt \"quite bumpy\", so the Queen will say in her Christmas broadcast.\n\nIt is a choice of words which will inevitably prompt speculation about what it is that she's referring to.\n\nShe does not offer any clarification herself, though the remark is made in the context of overcoming what she calls \"long-held differences\" and how \"small steps taken in faith and in hope can overcome deep-seated divisions\".\n\nThe obvious interpretation is that this is the Queen's - as ever - coded message to the country to try to move on from the divisions of the Brexit debate, but the reference to a \"bumpy\" year may also be taken to refer to events within her own family after a year which has seen the Duke of Edinburgh's car accident, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex complaining about the difficulties of being in the public eye and the controversies around Prince Andrew.\n\nLast Christmas, Prince Philip missed the royals' traditional Christmas Day trip to church but was said to be in good health.\n\nIn February, it was announced the duke had given up his driving licence. It came after he was involved in a collision with another vehicle near the Sandringham Estate.\n\nThe treatment he has received for various health conditions over the years include being treated for a blocked coronary artery in 2011.\n\nThe following year, the prince suffered a bladder infection and was forced to miss the Queen's Diamond Jubilee concert.\n\nHe was also taken to hospital for an abdomen operation in 2013 and, in 2014, underwent surgery on his right hand.\n\nLast year he had a hip replacement at the same central London hospital that he is now attending.", "This koala was filmed drinking from a water bottle offered by firefighters tackling bushfires in south Australia.\n\nAfterwards, the animal was seen running back into an area of unburnt scrub.\n\nRead more: The sacrifices of Australia's unpaid firefighters", "Firefighter Anthony Knott was due home in the early hours of 21 December\n\nA firefighter who went missing on a Christmas work night out \"may have come to some harm,\" police have said.\n\nAnthony Knott was last seen at a pub in Lewes, East Sussex, with a group of 12 London firefighters on 20 December.\n\nSussex Police said there were no signs the 33-year-old, who had been due to return home in the early hours of Saturday, had left the town.\n\nHis partner Lucy Otto said: \"I just feel numb... it's very strange. It's the not knowing, it's terrible.\"\n\nExtensive inquiries and searches of CCTV recordings have been carried out to find Mr Knott, from Orpington.\n\nVolunteers have been helping emergency services with the search, which has included scouring the nearby River Ouse.\n\nCh Insp Anita Turner said police were \"grateful\" for the assistance, but, for their own safety, asked that \"the ongoing search is left to the emergency services\".\n\nThe River Ouse is being search by the coastguard\n\nPolice described him as a \"family man\" and Ms Otto told BBC Radio Sussex he had been in a happy mood before he disappeared, adding: \"He loved his job, he loved his family, it was just simply a Christmas night out.\"\n\nMr Knott, who is 5ft 8ins (1.73m) tall, was wearing a black long-sleeve top, dark denim coat, dark denim jeans and black shoes.\n\nThe group were moving between various pubs, but he was last seen at 19:30 GMT in The Lamb in Fisher Street.\n• None Concern for firefighter missing after night out\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "King Charles III and Queen Camilla have been crowned in Westminster Abbey.\n\nFind out more about the Royal Family and the line of succession below.\n\nCharles became King the moment his mother Queen Elizabeth II died.\n\nThe now former Prince of Wales married Lady Diana Spencer, who became the Princess of Wales, on 29 July 1981. The couple had two sons, William and Harry. They later separated and their marriage was dissolved in 1996. On 31 August 1997, the princess was killed in a car crash in Paris.\n\nHe married Camilla Parker Bowles on 9 April 2005. When Charles became King, she became Queen Consort, as per the wishes of Queen Elizabeth II. Following the coronation she is now known as Queen Camilla.\n\nPrince William is the elder son of King Charles III and Diana, Princess of Wales, and is now first in line to the throne.\n\nHe was 15 when his mother died. He went on to study at St Andrews University, where he met his future wife, Kate Middleton. The couple were married in 2011.\n\nOn his 21st birthday he was appointed a Counsellor of State - standing in for the Queen on official occasions. He and his wife had their first child, George, in July 2013, their second, Charlotte, in 2015 and third, Louis, in 2018.\n\nThe prince trained with the Army, Royal Navy and RAF before spending three years as an RAF search-and-rescue pilot with RAF Valley on Anglesey, north Wales. He also worked part-time for two years as a co-pilot with the East Anglian Air Ambulance alongside his royal duties. He left the role in July 2017 to take on more royal duties on behalf of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nWilliam has inherited his father's Duchy of Cornwall and is now the Prince of Wales. Catherine is now the Princess of Wales.\n\nAs heir to the throne, his main duties are to support the King in his royal commitments.\n\nPrince George of Wales was born on 22 July 2013 at St Mary's Hospital in London. His father was present for the birth of his son, who weighed 8lb 6oz (3.8kg).\n\nPrince George is second in line to the throne, after his father.\n\nCatherine, Princess of Wales gave birth to her second child, Charlotte Elizabeth Diana, on 2 May 2015, again at St Mary's Hospital. William was present for the birth of the 8lb 3oz (3.7kg) baby.\n\nShe is third in line to the throne, after her father and older brother, and is known as Her Royal Highness Princess Charlotte of Wales.\n\nThe new Princess of Wales gave birth to her third child, a boy weighing 8lbs 7oz, on 23 April 2018, at St Mary's Hospital in London.\n\nWilliam was present for the birth of Louis Arthur Charles, who is fourth in line to the throne.\n\nPrince Harry trained at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and went on to become a lieutenant in the Army, serving as a helicopter pilot.\n\nDuring his 10 years in the armed forces, Capt Wales, as he became known, saw active service in Afghanistan twice, in 2012 to 2013 as an Apache helicopter co-pilot and gunner. He left the Army in 2015 and now focuses on charitable work, including conservation in Africa and organising the Invictus Games for injured members of the armed forces.\n\nHe has been a Counsellor of State since his 21st birthday and stood in for the Queen on official duties.\n\nHe married US actress Meghan Markle on 19 May, 2018, at Windsor Castle. In January 2020, the royal couple said they would step back as \"senior\" royals and divide their time between the UK and North America. They said they intended to \"work to become financially independent\".\n\nJust over a year later, Buckingham Palace confirmed the couple would not be returning to royal duties, and would give up their honorary military appointments and royal patronages.\n\nThe Sussexes' first child, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, was born on 6 May 2019, weighing 7lbs 3oz, with the duke present for his birth.\n\nArchie was not automatically a prince when he was born because he was not a grandson of the monarch. But he gained the right to that title when King Charles acceded to the throne. Harry and Meghan are understood to want their children to decide for themselves whether or not to use their titles when they are older.\n\nThe Duchess of Sussex gave birth to her second child in Santa Barbara, California, on 4 June 2021. Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor - to be known as Lili - is named after the Royal Family's nickname for the Queen and is her 11th great-grandchild.\n\nShe was given the middle name Diana in honour of Prince Harry's mother, who died in a car crash in 1997 when he was 12 years old. Like her brother, she gained the right to use the royal title when her grandfather became king.\n\nPrince Andrew, eighth in line to the throne, was the third child of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh - but the first to be born to a reigning monarch for 103 years.\n\nHe was created the Duke of York on his marriage to Sarah Ferguson, who became Duchess of York, in 1986. They had two daughters - Beatrice, in 1988, and Eugenie, in 1990. In March 1992 it was announced the duke and duchess were to separate. They divorced in 1996.\n\nThe duke served for 22 years in the Royal Navy and saw active service in the Falklands War in 1982. In addition to royal engagements, he served as a special trade representative for the government until 2011.\n\nPrince Andrew stepped away from royal duties in 2019 after an interview with the BBC about his relationship with US financier Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking and conspiracy charges.\n\nIn February, he agreed to pay an undisclosed sum to settle a civil sexual assault case brought against him in the US by one of Epstein's victims, although he made no admission of liability and had repeatedly denied the allegations.\n\nPrincess Beatrice is the elder daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York. Her full title is Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice of York. She has no official surname, but uses the name York.\n\nShe married property tycoon Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi at The Royal Chapel of All Saints at Royal Lodge, Windsor, in July 2020. The couple had been due to marry in May, but coronavirus delayed the plans.\n\nPrincess Beatrice had a baby girl, Sienna Elizabeth, in September 2021, who is 10th in line to the throne and is the Queen's 12th great-grandchild. Princess Beatrice is also stepmother to Mr Mapelli Mozzi's son Christopher Woolf, known as Wolfie, from his previous relationship with Dara Huang.\n\nPrincess Eugenie is the younger daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah, Duchess of York. Her full title is Her Royal Highness Princess Eugenie of York and she is 11th in line to the throne.\n\nLike her sister Princess Beatrice, she has no official surname, but uses York. She married her long-term boyfriend Jack Brooksbank at Windsor Castle on 12 October 2018.\n\nPrincess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank's son, August, born on 9 February 2021, was Queen Elizabeth's ninth great-grandchild.\n\nErnest Brooksbank was born on 30 May and weighed 7lb 1oz\n\nPrincess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank's second son was born on 30 May 2023. It is the first royal birth since the coronation of King Charles, Eugenie's uncle.\n\nErnest is 13th in line to the throne, moving the Duke of Edinburgh down to 14th place.\n\nEugenie said the baby's names were inspired by \"his great-great-great grandfather George, his grandpa George and my grandpa Ronald\".\n\nMajor Ronald Ferguson, who died in 2003 was the Duchess of York's father.\n\nPrince Edward was given the title Duke of Edinburgh on his 59th birthday, almost two years after the death of his father Prince Philip, who previously held the title. It was understood that Philip had wanted Edward to take on the title, but the decision was left to King Charles.\n\nPrince Edward's wife Sophie becomes the Duchess of Edinburgh and the prince's former title, the Earl of Wessex, has now been given to his son James, Viscount Severn. The couple also have a daughter, Lady Louise, born in 2003.\n\nAfter a brief period with the Royal Marines, the prince formed his own TV production company. He subsequently supported the Queen in her official duties and carried out public engagements for charities. He is 14th in line to the throne.\n\nJames, Earl of Wessex is the younger child of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh. He was given the title after his father Prince Edward became the Duke of Edinburgh in March 2023. When James was born, he was given the title Viscount Severn - a \"courtesy\" title as son of an earl, rather than using prince. It is thought his parents made this decision to avoid some of the burdens of royal titles.\n\nBorn in 2003, Lady Louise Windsor is the elder child of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh. However, she is lower in the line of succession than her younger brother because she was born before a law came into force scrapping the system that meant a younger son could displace an older daughter.\n\nAnne, Princess Royal is the Queen's second child and only daughter. When she was born she was third in line to the throne, but is now 17th. She was given the title Princess Royal in June 1987.\n\nPrincess Anne has married twice; her first husband Captain Mark Phillips is the father of her two children, Peter and Zara, while her second is Vice-Admiral Timothy Laurence.\n\nThe princess was the first royal to use the surname Mountbatten-Windsor in an official document, in the marriage register after her wedding to Capt Phillips. She competed in equestrian events for Great Britain in the 1976 Montreal Olympics and is involved with a number of charities, including Save the Children, of which she has been president since 1970.\n\nPeter Phillips is the eldest of the Queen's grandchildren. He married Canadian Autumn Kelly in 2008 and together they have two daughters, Savannah, born in 2010, and Isla, born in 2012.\n\nThe children of the Princess Royal do not have royal titles, as they are descended from the female line. Mark Phillips refused the offer of an earldom when he married so their children do not have courtesy titles.\n\nPeter Phillips and his wife announced they were getting divorced in February 2020.\n\nSavannah, born in 2010, is the elder daughter of Peter and Autumn Phillips and was the Queen's first great-grandchild.\n\nIsla, born in 2012, is the second daughter of Peter and Autumn Phillips.\n\nZara Tindall followed her mother and father with a highly successful riding career - including winning a silver medal at the London 2012 Olympics. She married former England rugby player Mike Tindall in 2011 and the couple had their first child, Mia Grace, in 2014.\n\nThe children of the Princess Royal do not hold a royal title, as they are descended from the female line, but she remains 21st in line to the throne. Their father, Mark Phillips, turned down an earldom when he married Princess Anne, so they do not have courtesy titles.\n\nThe Queen's granddaughter Zara Tindall gave birth to her first child, Mia Grace, in January 2014.\n\nThe couple's second child was born on 18 June 2018 at Stroud Maternity Unit, Gloucestershire, weighing 9lb 3oz.\n\nLena Elizabeth was named in honour of her great-grandmother.\n\nLike her sister, Lena Elizabeth does not have a royal title and so will also be known as Miss Tindall.\n\nZara and Mike Tindall's son Lucas Philip, their third child - the Queen's 10th great-grandchild - was born on 21 March 2021 weighing 8lbs 4oz.\n\nRead the latest from our royal correspondent Sean Coughlan - sign up here.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sophie Skill, from Sheffield, spent days on life support after she swallowed a coin-sized button battery.\n\nBattery acid burned through her gullet (oesophagus) and into her lung, causing agonising pain and putting her life in danger.\n\nDoctors say her case is not unique - about two UK children a year die from swallowing batteries.\n\nButton batteries are used to power many gadgets and toys that will be opened as gifts on Christmas Day, experts warn.\n\nThey can be found in gaming headsets, fitness trackers, some robotic toy bugs or fish, key fob finders and light-up yo-yos.\n\nFestive lights, flameless candles, TV remotes, singing Santas and musical Christmas cards and jumpers may also contain them.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. See what a battery can do to a child's throat\n\nShiny, silver button or coin batteries can be very attractive to small children. If swallowed, they can cause catastrophic burns and choking.\n\nSophie's mum, Clare, is warning other parents about the dangers.\n\nShe says she still has no idea where her daughter got hold of the battery from that she swallowed. Sophie was two when the accident happened.\n\nClare recalls: \"She was still breathing all right and crying. But she was really, really screaming. I'd never heard anything like it before.\"\n\nClare immediately took Sophie to hospital and once the doctors there discovered what was wrong, they took the toddler to the operating theatre to remove the battery.\n\nAlthough Clare acted fast, the injury the battery caused to Sophie was severe.\n\nClare said: \"Within two hours it had already done the damage. They did an X-ray and found it had burned through her oesophagus and her lung. She had to go on a ventilator.\"\n\nSophie, now six, made a full recovery after spending days on life support and weeks in hospital.\n\nSaliva in the body will react with the battery, creating caustic chemicals and so time is very much of the essence in these cases, say experts.\n\nDead or flat batteries can still be dangerous and contain enough electrical charge to badly injure a child.\n\nAshley Martin, from The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, warned people to:\n\nNHS England Medical Director, Prof Stephen Powis, said: \"For toddlers, button batteries can look like sweets.\n\n\"We want to ensure parents are aware of the dangers of these potentially lethal batteries.\n\n\"The best way to protect children is simply by keeping batteries out of reach for children, and ensure that any toys that require the batteries are firmly locked into the battery compartment.\"\n\nIf you think a child has swallowed one, seek medical advice immediately - take them to A&E.\n• None Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Donald Trump has confessed that he is yet to get a Christmas present for his wife, Melania.\n\nDuring a Christmas Eve video conference with American military personnel stationed overseas, the president was asked what gift he had bought for the First Lady.\n\nMr Trump said he was \"still working on\" on a present, but had picked her \"a very beautiful card\".\n\n\"There's a little time left\" to buy a present he added. \"Not too much, but there's a little time left.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nCoverage: Live text commentary and The Cricket Social on the BBC Sport website\n\nBen Stokes did not train with England on Tuesday because his father had been admitted to hospital in South Africa after suffering a serious illness.\n\nStokes' father, Ged, was in a critical condition after being taken to hospital in Johannesburg on Monday.\n\nAll-rounder Stokes, 28, did not attend England's training session at SuperSport Park so he can be at his 64-year-old father's bedside.\n\n\"It puts things in perspective,\" said England captain Joe Root.\n\n\"We're here to play good, hard cricket, but it's important as a squad that we want Ben and his family to have all the support they can get.\"\n\nRoot said he did not know whether Stokes would be available for the first of four Tests against South Africa, which begins on Thursday (08:00 GMT).\n\n\"What's most important is we support him and his family. It's crucial that comes first,\" he added.\n• None England need intelligence in South Africa but I expect them to win - Agnew\n• None 'The greatest game of cricket ever' - England's World Cup winners recall thrilling final\n\nMeanwhile, all-rounder Chris Woakes is the latest player to miss training because of illness in the England camp.\n\nBowlers Jofra Archer, Stuart Broad and Jack Leach all missed the warm-up matches but have returned to training.\n\n\"We're trying to manage it as best we can,\" said Root.\n\n\"We have some very talented players who, given an opportunity, will be desperate to prove a point and stand their mark on this series.\n\n\"We will probably have to pick a side at the last minute.\"\n\nEngland's leading Test wicket-taker James Anderson, 37, is set to feature against South Africa in what will be his 150th Test appearance.\n\n\"It's a phenomenal achievement - but to do it as a fast bowler, putting your body through that for that amount of time, shows incredible stamina,\" said Root.\n\n\"He physically looks in as good a shape as I have ever seen him. He is a great example to any young player and the rest of our squad.\"", "The Queen has arrived in Norfolk to begin her Christmas break at Sandringham.\n\nShe caught the 10:42 GMT Great Northern service from London King's Cross, arriving in King's Lynn just after 12:30.\n\nShe was escorted from the station to a Range Rover to complete the 30-minute journey to her private estate.\n\nHundreds of people are expected to gather at Sandringham on Christmas Day as the royals make their way to the traditional morning church service.\n\nIt is unknown if the Duke of Edinburgh will be with them as he has travelled to King Edward VII Hospital in London for treatment on a pre-existing condition.", "Zipporah Kuria met with the European Aviation Safety Agency about the Boeing 737 Max\n\nBoeing is not a trustworthy company anymore, according to Zipporah Kuria, whose father was killed when a 737 Max plane crashed earlier this year.\n\nMs Kuria, who met with Europe's aviation watchdog on Wednesday, said: \"I wouldn't even use the word trust anywhere near Boeing.\"\n\nBoeing is fighting for its reputation while the 737 Max remains grounded.\n\nA company spokesman said: \"The safety of passengers and crews flying on our aircraft is our absolute priority.\"\n\nHe said: \"We are truly sorry and we continue to offer our deepest sympathies to the families and friends who lost loved ones in the accidents of Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302.\n\n\"We know we have a deep responsibility to everyone who flies on our airplanes to ensure that the 737 Max is one of the safest aircraft ever to fly.\"\n\nMs Kuria met with European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) along with other family members who lost loved ones, to gain reassurances that the Boeing 737 Max will not return to the skies until rigorous tests are carried out.\n\nThe British woman's father, Joseph Waithaka, died with 156 others on board an Ethiopian Airlines flight in March.\n\nIt was the second crash involving a Boeing 737 Max following the Lion Air disaster in Indonesia which killed all 189 people onboard.\n\n\"They are not trustworthy anymore - if they had been in the past,\" Ms Kuria said.\n\nShe said the EASA's executive director Patrick Ky had reassured her that \"he would not be caving\" to either the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the US regulator, or Boeing in terms of reclassifying whether the 737 Max is safe for European air travel.\n\nBoeing will temporarily stop making the 737 Max in January\n\nBoeing is hoping that the FAA will allow the Max back into the air in the early part of next year but the FAA's close relationship with Boeing has been under intense scrutiny.\n\nIt recently emerged that the FAA allowed the 737 Max to keep flying after the first disaster in October last year despite knowing there was a risk of further crashes.\n\nMs Kuria said: \"I think the more discovery is done, the more reason we are finding not to trust [Boeing] when it comes to the 737 Max.\n\n\"There are so many things that were hidden that shouldn't have been, so many things that were bypassed that shouldn't have been and I think every time we sit down and have a hearing or hear from an aviation authority on documents of discovery we just find out how preventable the death of our loved ones was.\"\n\nMr Ky said that the European regulator will \"take their time to recertify\" the plane.\n\nMs Kuria also said her safety concerns not only relate to the plane's automated flight control system which malfunctioned before both crashes but other critical safety systems on board the 737 Max.\n\nDuring the meeting, EASA said \"they would reassess all the critical safety systems that are on the 737 Max\", according to Ms Kuria.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A man has been taken to hospital following the collision near Falkirk\n\nResidents of villages in the Falkirk area were left without power after a car left the road and hit an electricity pole.\n\nThe incident happened shortly after 07:00 on the A905 at Airth.\n\nThe Scottish Ambulance Service said a 29-year-old male casualty was taken to the Forth Valley Royal Hospital. His condition was described as \"stable\".\n\nThe road is closed between Bowtrees and the approach to Airth, with local diversions busier than usual.\n\nIt is understood that the road is likely to remain shut for most of the day.\n\nPolice Scotland said the closure was to enable repairs to be carried out to the pole.\n\n\"Inquiries are continuing in to the cause of the crash,\" added a spokeswoman.\n\nThe road was closed while the emergency services dealt with the incident\n\nThe Scottish Ambulance Service said it had sent an ambulance, its special operations team, and an air ambulance to the scene.\n\n\"We transported one male patient to Forth Valley Royal Hospital by road,\" it said.\n\nLocal councillor Laura Murtagh said it was a \"very sad incident\" and her prayers were with anyone who may have been injured.\n\nShe said the power had been cut to a number of local villages as a result of the crash but most had now been restored.\n\nThe councillor advised HGV drivers \"not to attempt\" the A905 due to other local diversions.", "Sniffer dogs are used in anti-terrorism programmes in a number of countries\n\nThe US says it has stopped sending explosive-detecting dogs to Jordan and Egypt after the deaths of a number of animals due to negligence.\n\n\"Any death of a canine in the field is an extremely sad event,\" a US state department spokesman said.\n\nIn September, a US report highlighted cases of negligence in the care of more than 100 dogs sent to Jordan, Egypt and eight other countries in recent years.\n\nThe US-trained dogs were provided as part of anti-terrorism programmes.\n\nJordan and Egypt have so far made no public comment on the issue.\n\nThe US announced its temporary ban on Monday. The US state department official said the measure was aimed at preventing any further deaths.\n\nTwo of the malnourished sniffer dogs found in Jordan\n\nThe dogs \"play a critical role in our CT (counter-terrorism) efforts overseas and in saving American lives,\" the official said.\n\nThe official added that the dogs already sent to Jordan and Egypt would remain there for the time being.\n\nThe report by the US state department's Office of Inspector General said that one dog died in Jordan in 2017 of hyperthermia (heat stroke).\n\nAnother two dogs \"were returned to the US in critically ill conditions\", the document said.\n\nUS officials \"ultimately had to euthanize one of those canines... and had to nourish the other back to health... because it was severely underweight\".\n\nAll three dogs were of the Belgian Malinois breed.\n\nA follow-up report earlier this month found that two more dogs sent to Jordan died of \"unnatural causes\": one due to heat stroke and the other after insecticide was sprayed by police, according to the AFP news agency.\n\nJordan is by far the biggest recipient of US-trained sniffer dogs, with nearly 100 sent to the Middle East kingdom.\n\nThe US report also said that three of the 10 dogs sent to Egypt succumbed variously to lung cancer, a ruptured gall bladder and heat stroke in 2018-19.", "Prince Philip was once described by the Queen as \"my strength and stay all these years\" and his lifetime of public service is testimony to that.\n\nWhen the Duke of Edinburgh does finally stand down from his royal duties this autumn, it will bring to a close the decades of him being at Her Majesty's side at all kinds of events at home and abroad.\n\nAnd that is not to mention the 22,191 solo engagements he has undertaken in his role as the longest-serving consort in British history.\n\nHe is involved with more than 780 different organisations. When he reached the grand old age of 90, his only concession to his passing years was that he gave up his connections to about a dozen of them.\n\nOne of the most successful associations has been with the Duke of Edinburgh's Award, a youth self-improvement scheme, which began in 1956.\n\nBut in an interview with the BBC's Fiona Bruce when he turned 90, the Duke said he could not take credit for the highly successful scheme.\n\n\"I don't run it - I've said it's all fairly second-hand the whole business. I mean, I eventually got landed with the responsibility or the credit for it.\n\n\"I've got no reason to be proud of it. It's satisfying that we've set up a formula that works - that's it.\"\n\nHis reluctance to claim credit for that scheme resonates with what the Queen said of him in a speech when celebrating their golden wedding anniversary in 1997.\n\nShe described him as \"someone who doesn't take easily to compliments, but he has, quite simply, been my strength and stay all these years, and I and his whole family, in this and many other countries, owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim or we shall ever know\".\n\nIn 1961 the duke became the first president of the World Wildlife Fund UK, but then faced criticism over his shooting of a tiger while in India that same year.\n\nHe eventually became the organisation's international president in 1981.\n\nPart of Prince Philip's distinguished naval career was spent in Malta\n\nThe Greek-born prince's life of service to the UK began when he joined up with the Royal Navy in 1939.\n\nHe saw active service in World War Two, from the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean, being mentioned in despatches for his service on battleship HMS Valiant in 1941.\n\nBy that time he had met his distant cousin, Princess Elizabeth. Their friendship blossomed into love and they married in 1947, at which point he renounced his Greek title to become a naturalised British subject, and was made Duke of Edinburgh by King George VI.\n\nPrince Philip's naval career, which saw the newly-married couple stationed in Malta, ended when George VI died in February 1952, and the princess became Queen.\n\nNow Prince Philip had a new role, accompanying Her Majesty around the world, on Commonwealth tours, state visits and trips across the UK.\n\nThat globetrotting has seen him visit 143 countries in an official capacity in the decades that followed.\n\nAnd the prince is credited with helping to save engineering in Britain in the 1970s, being described as playing a vital role in creating a national engineering academy.\n\nIn 2015 he told the BBC that after World War Two the UK was \"completely skint - it seemed to me that the only way we were going to recover was through engineering\".\n\nThe prince has been at the Queen's side for nearly 70 years\n\nWhen talking about a footman training programme which he began at the Palace, he said: \"I tried to find useful things to do.\"\n\nAnd he oversaw the modernisation of Buckingham Palace, as well as reorganising the Balmoral and Sandringham estates and becoming ranger of Windsor Great Park.\n\nHe played polo regularly until 1971 and then took up four-in-hand carriage driving, representing Britain at several European and world championships. He competed at international level carriage events until the age of 85.\n\nAnd he became a qualified pilot, gaining his RAF wings in 1953, helicopter wings in 1956 and private pilot's licence in 1959. He also kept up his love for the sea, competing regularly at Cowes Regatta.\n\nHis public statements have been rare over the years and even rarer has been any direct dealings with the media.\n\nWhen he did agree to take part in an ITV documentary last year to mark 60 years of the Duke of Edinburgh's award, he only spent a very small amount of time on screen with host Phillip Schofield and famously asked ahead of their last meeting \"How many more times have we got to do this?\".\n\nChristopher Lee, a historian who wrote the radio documentary series This Sceptred Isle, said the prince was the first man in Buckingham Palace to put computers in his office.\n\n\"He will want to know about the big issues. He will know every single touch, nuance on Brexit, for example. He is briefed on everybody he is likely to meet, even people he will never meet and he takes it in.\n\n\"I think he's never stopped being an admiral. Admirals are like that, they have to be, and admirals never retire.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Caudwell: \"Nearly every wealthy person I know, including me, is thinking of leaving the UK if Labour get in\"\n\nThe Conservative Party received £1.4m in donations in the final two days of the general election campaign, according to the Electoral Commission.\n\nThe SNP got £14,929 and the Brexit Party £50,000, according to the register of donations above £7,500.\n\nThe biggest donor was Phones4U founder John Caudwell, who gave the Conservatives £500,000.\n\nLabour, the Lib Dems and other parties did not get any donations above £7,500 in the final two days.\n\nBillionaire businessman and philanthropist Mr Caudwell told the Daily Telegraph he decided to make the donation on the Monday before the general election over fears that Labour would get in.\n\nHe said he had never donated to a political campaign before, apart from to Tory MP Sir Bill Cash's campaign for Brexit.\n\nIn total, across the six pre-poll donations reports, political parties in the UK reported receiving a combined total of £30,721,998 in donations, the Electoral Commission said.\n\nJust £231,333 was donated to parties in the final two days of the 2017 general election campaign, with most going to the Conservatives.\n\nThe second biggest donor in the final two days of the 2019 campaign was Sir Ehud Sheleg, the Conservative Party's co-treasurer, who gave the party £375,000.\n\nSir Ehud, an Israeli-born entrepreneur who owns an art gallery in Mayfair, has donated more than £3.4m to the party in recent years.\n\nHedge funds and property companies also splashed out big money on Boris Johnson's campaign for Number 10, the Electoral Commission figures reveal.\n\nThe SNP received a £14,929 donation from one individual, Moira Louise Stratton, in the final two days.\n\nFormer Tory Donor Christopher Harborne made two gifts of £25,000 to the Brexit Party in the final two days, having already handed the party more than £3m since the summer.\n\nMr Harborne is the boss of private plane dealers Sherriff Global Group and the owner of AML Global, which sells jet fuel.\n\nThe latest figures put the Conservatives on nearly £20m in registered large donations, compared with £5.4m raised by Labour, although this does not include small donations from party members and supporters.\n\nThe biggest non-individual donor across the entire reporting period was the union Unite, which has given £3.2m to the Labour Party.", "Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn have both paid tribute to NHS staff and other public sector workers in their Christmas messages.\n\nMr Johnson used his first festive message as prime minister to thank those staff working over the holiday.\n\nHe also expressed \"solidarity\" with Christians around the world who face persecution for their beliefs.\n\nLabour's Mr Corbyn said it was a time of year when \"the scale of injustice and inequality\" is in \"plain sight\".\n\nHe praised people working in food banks and emergency shelters over Christmas.\n\nScotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon also thanked volunteers and those working in the public sector over the festive period.\n\nIn his message, the PM wished the public \"a merry little Christmas\" and thanked those working in the NHS, the police and other public services as well as military personnel on deployment with the armed forces.\n\nBoris Johnson spoke to British troops stationed in Estonia during a one-day visit at the weekend\n\nMr Johnson, who will be spending his first Christmas as PM in Downing Street with his partner Carrie Symonds, said the government \"stands with\" Christians around the world who are facing persecution for their beliefs.\n\n\"For them, Christmas Day will be marked in private, in secret, perhaps even in a prison cell,\" he said.\n\n\"As prime minister, that's something I want to change.\n\n\"We stand with Christians everywhere, in solidarity, and will defend your right to practice your faith.\n\n\"So as a country let us reflect on the year, and celebrate the good that is to come.\"\n\nIn his sign off, he urged the public to enjoy the festive period, joking: \"Try not to have too many arguments with the in-laws - or anyone else.\"\n\nMr Johnson and his partner are due to see in the New Year on the private Caribbean island of Mustique, the BBC understands.\n\nIn what is likely to be his last Christmas message as Labour leader, Mr Corbyn reflected on his general election defeat, while expressing his hope for a \"better world\".\n\nHe said: \"This has been a difficult year for many of us.\n\n\"We didn't succeed in delivering the change that so many people so desperately need,\" he said.\n\nMr Corbyn helped at a food bank during the Labour Party Conference in Brighton in September\n\n\"But Christmas is a chance to listen, reflect and remember all the things that bind us together: our compassion, our determination to tackle injustice and our hope for a better world.\"\n\nMr Corbyn praised those working in food banks and emergency shelters, helping the less fortunate.\n\n\"While we celebrate being together, we are reminded of the many who will be alone and sadly lonely at Christmas,\" he said.\n\n\"But our communities are built on generosity and the solidarity that comes from that.\n\n\"So we do not walk by on the other side.\"\n\nMr Corbyn has previously said he will stand down as leader \"early next year\".\n\nThe race to replace him has already begun, with shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry the first MP to officially throw her hat in the ring.\n\nIn her Christmas address, Ms Sturgeon praised those who give up their time to help others and urged people to \"spread some Christmas cheer\" by volunteering or \"by being a good neighbour or friend\".\n\nThe SNP leader called for Scots to be \"especially thankful\" for those working in the public sector over the Christmas period.\n\n\"For many Christmas isn't a holiday at all - for example, for the people in our NHS and indeed all of our public services,\" she said.\n\n\"Your efforts are appreciated all through the year. But they are particularly appreciated at Christmas time.\"\n\nIn his message, acting Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey spoke about his Christian faith and the \"hope, joy and love\" of Christmas.\n\nHe said: \"What could possibly represent hope, joy and love better - than a newborn baby.\n\n\"When I held my first child, in the crook of my arm in Kingston Hospital, just minutes after he'd been born, that was the first time I really understood how my own father and mother must have loved me.\n\n\"So you don't actually have to believe in Jesus to recognise that for Christians, Christmas has a deep, profound meaning.\"", "Boeing has fired its chief executive, Dennis Muilenburg, in a bid to restore confidence in the firm after two deadly crashes involving its 737 Max plane.\n\nMore than 340 people died in the disasters, prompting accusations that Boeing put profit before safety.\n\nFamilies of the victims welcomed Mr Muilenberg's resignation as overdue.\n\nBut they said Boeing's decision to replace him with a long-time board member raised questions about its commitment to change.\n\nBoeing named David Calhoun, who has served on the firm's board since 2009 and is its current chairman, as chief executive and president.\n\n\"While the resignation of Mr Muilenburg is a step in the right direction, it is clear that the Boeing Company needs a revamp of its corporate governance,\" said Paul Njoroge, who lost his wife, three children and mother-in-law when Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed in March.\n\nMr Calhoun \"is not the right person for the job\", he added.\n\nZipporah Kuria, whose father was also killed on the Ethiopian Airlines flight, said Mr Muilenburg should have been replaced \"a long time ago\" but responsibility for the crashes is shared.\n\n\"I feel as though a lot more people should have resigned including the person who's becoming CEO,\" she told the BBC.\n\nBoeing has been under intense scrutiny since two 737 Max planes crashed within five months of each other, first in Indonesia and then in Ethiopia.\n\nThe 737 Max fleet has been grounded worldwide since March.\n\nWhile the company had been hoping to have the best-selling jet back in the air by the end of this year, US regulators have made it clear that it would not be certified to return to the skies that quickly.\n\nLast week, Boeing said it would halt production of the aircraft.\n\nThen on Friday, the company's reputation took another hit when its Starliner spacecraft suffered technical problems that prevented it from taking the right path to the International Space Station.\n\nBoeing's board said it had \"decided that a change in leadership was necessary to restore confidence in the company moving forward as it works to repair relationships with regulators, customers, and all other stakeholders\".\n\nMr Calhoun, a private equity executive, will take over from 13 January.\n\nLawrence Kellner, a board member since 2011, is to become non-executive chairman immediately.\n\n\"Under the company's new leadership, Boeing will operate with a renewed commitment to full transparency, including effective and proactive communication with the FAA [Federal Aviation Administration], other global regulators and its customers,\" it said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Senator says he \"would walk before I got on a 737 Max\"\n\nDespite the ouster, some of the firm's harshest critics in Washington said they still had questions about the firm's commitment to change.\n\nSenator Richard Bumenthal said: \"The company needs new leadership across the board who will take safety seriously.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Richard Blumenthal This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMichael Stumo, who lost his daughter Samya Rose on the Ethiopian Airlines flight and has organised victims' families against Boeing, called the resignation a \"good first step toward restoring Boeing to a company that focuses on safety and innovation\".\n\n\"The next step is for several board members who are underperforming or unqualified to resign,\" he said.\n\nAir safety officials investigating the tragedies have identified an automated control system in the plane, known as MCAS, as a factor in both crashes.\n\nBoeing has said the MCAS software system, which relied on a single sensor, received erroneous data, which led it to override pilot commands and push the aircraft downwards.\n\nIt has said it is fixing the software and has overhauled its review procedures.\n\nBut US lawmakers, who are investigating the company, have said the firm was aware that the software system could be unreliable. They have accused the company of trying to hide the risks and rush the plane back into service.\n\nDennis Muilenburg had faced calls or his resignation\n\nCongressman Peter DeFazio, who leads a committee investigating Boeing, had called for Mr Muilenburg's resignation in an interview with the New York Times, published over the weekend.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, he said the shake-up was \"long overdue\".\n\nMr Muilenburg first joined Boeing in 1985. He led the company's defence, space and security division prior to his appointment as chief executive in 2015.\n\nHe was stripped of his role as chairman of Boeing's board of directors in October and later agreed to give up his bonus. However, Boeing, including Mr Calhoun, had continued to express confidence in him.\n\nDennis Muilenburg's departure was inevitable, although the timing was unexpected.\n\nSince the two accidents, he has faced intense criticism over the corporate culture that existed at Boeing on his watch, and over the company's relationship with regulators.\n\nQuestions have been asked about how a seemingly flawed aircraft was allowed into service in the first place, and why it was allowed to continue flying after the first accident. There have been claims - emphatically denied by the company - that it prioritised profits and speed of production over safety.\n\nHis response to the crisis has also come under fire. Although he insisted that Boeing \"owned\" its failures, he also repeatedly said that the crashes were the result of a chain of events. This was seen by some as an attempt to divert blame away from the aerospace giant.\n\nThe final humiliation came last week, when Boeing announced it would have to suspend production of the 737 Max, because regulators had yet to clear the aircraft as safe to fly again. For months, Mr Muilenburg had insisted the plane would be back in the air by the end of the year.\n\nHe had lost credibility, and the board decided he had to go.", "Police remained at the scene of the incident overnight on Monday\n\nA murder inquiry is under way following the discovery of two bodies in a flat in north Belfast on Monday.\n\nThe victims were a 37-year-old woman, Frances Murray, and 47-year-old Joseph Dutton.\n\nTheir bodies were discovered at the property in Kinnaird Close at about 12:55 GMT, after a report was made by a member of the public.\n\nA 35-year-old man arrested on Monday evening on suspicion of murder remains in police custody.\n\nPSNI Det Ch Insp Peter Montgomery said police believed \"some form of altercation took place within the flat where Frances and Joseph were found\".\n\n\"I also want to locate a bag of blood soaked clothing that I believe was discarded in the local area,\" he said.\n\n\"The bag is described as being a white carrier type bag with orange lettering on it. If you see a bag matching this description please do not touch it and contact police immediately.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp Montgomery appealed to anyone who was in the area at the time or who may have information about the incident to contact police.\n\nHe added the deaths were being treated as murder even though a post-mortem examination had yet to take place.\n\nSDLP councillor Paul McCusker said it was \"horrific news\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The bodies of two people have been found in a flat in north Belfast\n\n\"There is a sense of shock across the community, a lot of anger, a lot of sadness,\" he said.\n\n\"Lots of children and lots of families live in this area. It is fairly settled.\"\n\nSinn Fein councillor JJ Magee said it was a \"tragic scene\".\n\nA police forensic officer at the scene in Kinnaird Close\n\n\"Absolutely shocked, the community is shocked by the news that has come from this very, very serious situation,\" he said.\n\nMr Magee said there would have been many children in the area around the time of the incident due to the Christmas holidays.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police asked photographers to \"move back\" as they helped Ms Flack to a waiting car\n\nFormer Love Island presenter Caroline Flack has pleaded not guilty to assaulting her boyfriend with a lamp.\n\nPolice found her partner Lewis Burton covered in blood after being called to reports of a man being assaulted at the 40-year-old's home in north London on 12 December, a court heard.\n\nHowever, Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court was told tennis player Mr Burton did not support the prosecution.\n\nMs Flack will stand trial at the same court on 4 March.\n\nThe court heard the alleged attack occurred after Ms Flack found texts on her boyfriend's phone while he was asleep, leading her to believe he was cheating.\n\n\"He said he had been asleep and was hit over the head by Caroline with a lamp, causing a visible cut to his head,\" prosecutor Katie Weiss said.\n\n\"She had also smashed a glass and she had sustained an injury.\"\n\nThe court heard how Mr Burton made a call to 999 in which he was \"almost begging the operator to send help\".\n\nWhen a police officer arrived at the Islington flat, both Ms Flack and Mr Burton were covered in blood and the officer \"likened the scene to a horror movie\", Ms Weiss said.\n\nMs Weiss told the court Ms Flack was disruptive while in police custody, saying she flipped over a table and had to be \"restrained on the ground\".\n\nHer solicitor Paul Morris told the court Mr Burton had \"never supported\" the prosecution's case, adding: \"He is not the victim, as he would say, he was a witness.\"\n\nHowever, Ms Weiss replied: \"Mr Burton is a victim, he received significant injury to his head.\"\n\nMs Flack put her head in her hands as the judge refused an application to remove bail conditions preventing her from contacting Mr Burton\n\nMs Flack was released on bail on the condition she does not contact Mr Burton directly or indirectly or attends his address.\n\nMr Morris had made an application to have these bail conditions lifted, arguing that they \"remain a couple\" and wanted to spend Christmas together.\n\nCaroline Flack struggled to get through a scrum of photographers as she walked into the court building. Once in, she burst into tears.\n\nIn the courtroom itself she was accompanied by a security officer who walked her to the dock.\n\nShe passed her boyfriend, the man she's accused of assaulting, who was sitting in the packed public gallery.\n\nThey're still a couple, the court heard, and he insists he isn't a victim.\n\nWhen asked how she would plead she quietly said \"not guilty\".\n\nAs the case was laid out against her there were moments when she cried.\n\nTowards the end, when she was told her bail conditions would remain and that she couldn't contact her boyfriend, she burst into tears again and turned to look at him.\n\nHe was looking down with his head in his hands.\n\nMs Flack began presenting Love Island in summer 2015, having fronted the 12th series of The X Factor alongside Olly Murs, and winning Strictly Come Dancing in 2014.\n\nShe stood down from the show after she was charged last week, saying it was the \"best thing I can do\".\n\nMs Flack was due to present the forthcoming winter edition of the popular ITV2 show - which is expected to start on 12 January\n\nIrish TV presenter Laura Whitmore will take over hosting duties on Love Island and its companion show Aftersun when filming starts in South Africa in January.\n\nMs Flack's trial is expected to last one-and-a-half days.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mossman Farm was losing around 30 animals after each TB test - but around 170 were culled who did not need to be killed\n\nA Welsh dairy farm described as a \"sinking ship\" after being plagued by bovine TB is trialling an innovative new test for the disease.\n\nThe developers claim it is a faster, more effective way of identifying infected cattle.\n\nMossman Farm near Llangrannog, Ceredigion has lost more than 300 cows over the last three years.\n\nWales' chief vet has given permission for the experimental test to be tried out on the remaining herd.\n\nTB testing is always a real stress on everybody, a big operation\n\nDescribing the moment he was first told one of his cows had tested positive for TB, farmer Chris Mossman said \"quite literally your stomach falls through the floor\".\n\n\"You know things are going to change dramatically, but even then I could never have guessed how significantly it would have impacted on our business and not just our lives but the lives of our staff.\n\n\"No-one wants to get onto a sinking ship every morning and that's how it feels when we're constantly losing animals - between 25 to 35 every test.\"\n\nHe is now paying to try out the new test in the hope it will lead to fewer cattle being removed.\n\nKnown as Actiphage, it can detect the presence of bTB bacteria directly in the animal's blood or milk, within a matter of hours.\n\nCurrent tests used on cattle look instead for an immune response - which is not always as obvious.\n\nIt means that at the moment some diseased cows slip through the net, continuing to spread infection on farms.\n\nTo try to get on top of the situation, the Welsh Government has insisted that all animals with inconclusive results from farms with long-standing problems have to be removed.\n\nFarmers say this means significant numbers of potentially healthy animals are being culled.\n\nA record 12,799 cattle were slaughtered in the year to August, a 28% increase compared with the same period in 2018.\n\nMossman Farm is the first in Wales - and one of only a handful across the UK - to trial Actiphage.\n\nThe developers, Suffolk-based agri-tech firm PBD Biotech, said they wanted to work with other Welsh farms in TB hotspots as they attempt to get the test validated by the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).\n\nIt could then be adopted more widely as part of the government's TB eradication strategy.\n\nFarm vet Robert Price-Jones from Llandysul, Ceredigion is preparing a paper on the findings from the Mossman Farm trial, to be published in early 2020.\n\n\"The potential here is to be far more certain of test results. When you can show that there's bacteria present in the animal's blood you're 100% sure it has TB,\" he said.\n\n\"We tested 30 cows that had just come up as negative on the normal skin and blood tests and found that over half were in fact positive.\n\n\"It offers some hope to vets because at the moment we often feel like we're fighting against this disease without seeing much improvement across the country.\n\n\"This offers us a way forward towards eradicating TB in cattle\".", "Last updated on .From the section Tottenham\n\nTottenham say their initial findings following the alleged racist abuse of Antonio Rudiger are \"inconclusive\" - but a Chelsea fan has been arrested for allegedly abusing Son Heung-min.\n\nPlay was stopped during Chelsea's win at Spurs on Sunday after Chelsea's Rudiger said he heard monkey noises.\n\nSpurs said they are \"exhaustively investigating\" the incident.\n\nMeanwhile, police arrested a Chelsea fan for a racially aggravated public order offence against Spurs' Son.\n\nA total of six arrests were made as part of the Metropolitan Police operation at the fixture but none were linked to the incident involving Rudiger.\n\n\"We have engaged lip readers to study the footage and contacted Chelsea for further information from their players,\" Spurs said in a statement. \"The police will be reviewing our evidence alongside us.\"\n\nThe club added: \"Please be assured we shall be exhaustively investigating this matter.\"\n• None Players should be empowered to walk off - Neville\n\nSpurs said they are able to \"track every fan\" using cameras at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and that any supporter found to be guilty of racism will \"receive a lifetime ban\".\n\n\"This club has a proud track record of anti-racism work across all our communities and we are determined to ensure that we conduct a thorough investigation,\" the club added.\n\n\"At this time however we should point out that our findings are inconclusive and would ask that comment is reserved until the facts are established.\"\n\nIn a separate statement, the Premier League said it would support both clubs \"in their pursuit of any perpetrators and call for appropriate action to be taken by the authorities and the clubs\".\n\nChelsea captain Cesar Azpilicueta told referee Anthony Taylor of Rudiger's complaint during the second half of Sunday's fixture.\n\nThree announcements over the public address system warned that \"racist behaviour is interfering with the game\" between the incident and full-time.\n\nThe Uefa protocol says if a message over the public address system does not stop the racist abuse in a stadium, a second announcement should follow and the temporary suspension of play should be enforced.\n\nIf discriminatory behaviour continues, authorities can decide to abandon the fixture.\n\nSpurs said the fact they repeated the announcement created a \"misconception\" that the issue was ongoing in their stadium.\n\nThe club added: \"In respect of protocols - when the incident was conveyed to the referee Anthony Taylor, he took the decision to call for the implementation of Stage 1 of the Uefa protocol - rather than the Premier League protocol - and asked for an announcement to be made, as well as requesting a further announcement which created a misconception that any issue was ongoing.\n\n\"The Premier League protocol differs from Uefa protocol in that it does not call for an announcement rather that the individual(s) be dealt with by the Safety Team in the first instance.\n\n\"We have asked that the Premier League clarifies the position regarding the use of these protocols to all stakeholders going forward.\"\n\nIn the aftermath of the incident, the Professional Footballers' Association called for a government inquiry.\n\nThe government has not ruled out taking \"further steps if required\".\n\nOn Monday, a host of Premier League managers were asked about the issue, with Newcastle's Steve Bruce stating he was \"sickened and saddened by it\", while Manchester City's Pep Guardiola said it will take \"a lot of time\" to \"eradicate\" the issue.", "US aviation regulators allowed Boeing's 737 Max aircraft to continue flying despite knowing there was a risk of further crashes.\n\nAnalysis after the first crash last year predicted there could be up to 15 disasters over the lifetime of the aircraft without design changes.\n\nDespite this, the Federal Aviation Administration did not ground the Max until a second crash five months later.\n\nFAA chief Steve Dickson, who started in August, said this was a mistake.\n\nThe FAA risk assessment was revealed during a US congressional hearing on Wednesday. Lawmakers are investigating Boeing following fatal 737 Max crashes in Indonesia in October 2018, and Ethiopia in March. The disasters killed 346 people in total.\n\nAir safety officials investigating the crashes have identified an automated control system in the 737 Max 8, known as MCAS, as a factor in both accidents.\n\nBoeing has said the system, which relied on a single sensor, received erroneous data, which led it to override pilot commands and push the aircraft downwards.\n\nThe FAA's investigation of the October Indonesia crash called for Boeing to redesign its system, warning of a risk of more than a dozen crashes over the 45-year lifetime of the roughly 4,800 737 Max planes in service.\n\nRegulators also issued an alert to airlines, but the agency did not ground the aircraft until after the 10 March Ethiopia crash, several days after action by other countries.\n\n\"Obviously the result was not satisfactory,\" said Mr Dickson. In response to later questions, he admitted the agency had made a mistake at some point in the process.\n\nBoeing is revising the MCAS software, but lawmakers say their investigation has shown that the aircraft manufacturer was aware of flaws in the system.\n\nBoeing staff have also raised concerns that the company was prioritising speed over safety at the factory that produced Max 737s, contributing to the crashes.\n\nEd Pierson, a former senior manager at the factory, told Congress he repeatedly warned Boeing's leadership of the safety risks caused by what he described as a \"factory in chaos\", but it had little effect.\n\nHe also said that, after the crashes, US government regulators have shown little interest in his concerns.\n\n\"I remain gravely concerned that... the flying public will remain at risk unless this unstable production environment is rigorously investigated and closely monitored by regulators on an ongoing basis,\" he said in prepared testimony.\n\nMr Dickson said the FAA is probing production issues. He also said he is considering further actions against Boeing.\n\nIn a statement, Boeing said Mr Pierson's own account showed the company took his concerns seriously.\n\n\"Company executives and senior leaders on the 737 programme were made aware of Mr Pierson's concerns, discussed them in detail, and took appropriate steps to assess them,\" it said.", "A white-bearded man robbed a bank two days before Christmas then threw the money in the air and enthusiastically wished passers-by a merry Christmas, witnesses have said.\n\nPolice said \"an older white male\" robbed the Academy Bank in Colorado Springs on Monday lunchtime.\n\n\"He robbed the bank, came out, threw the money all over the place,\" witness Dion Pascale told Colorado's 11 News.\n\n\"He started throwing money out of the bag and then said, 'Merry Christmas!'\"\n\nWitnesses said the hirsute suspect then wandered over to a nearby Starbucks coffee shop, sat down in front of it, and waited to be arrested.\n\nIn a particularly festive gesture, the passers-by are reported to have scooped up all the money from the street and taken it back inside the bank.\n\nColorado Springs police named the suspect as David Wayne Oliver, 65. He is not believed to have had any little helpers.", "The net independence plan is seen as a way for Russia's government to get more control over online life\n\nRussia has successfully tested a country-wide alternative to the global internet, its government has announced.\n\nDetails of what the test involved were vague but, according to the Ministry of Communications, ordinary users did not notice any changes.\n\nThe results will now be presented to President Putin.\n\nExperts remain concerned about the trend for some countries to dismantle the internet.\n\n\"Sadly, the Russian direction of travel is just another step in the increasing breaking-up of the internet,\" said Prof Alan Woodward, a computer scientist at the University of Surrey.\n\n\"Increasingly, authoritarian countries which want to control what citizens see are looking at what Iran and China have already done.\n\n\"It means people will not have access to dialogue about what is going on in their own country, they will be kept within their own bubble.\"\n\nThe initiative involves restricting the points at which Russia's version of the net connects to its global counterpart, giving the government more control over what its citizens can access.\n\n\"That would effectively get ISPs [internet service providers] and telcos to configure the internet within their borders as a gigantic intranet, just like a large corporation does,\" explained Prof Woodward.\n\nSo how would the government establish what some have dubbed a \"sovereign Runet\"?\n\nCountries receive foreign web services via undersea cables or \"nodes\" - connection points at which data is transmitted to and from other countries' communication networks. These would need to be blocked or at least regulated.\n\nThis would require the co-operation of domestic ISPs and would be much easier to achieve if there were just a handful of state-owned firms involved. The more networks and connections a country has, the more difficult it is to control access.\n\nThen Russia would need to create an alternative system.\n\nIn Iran, the National Information Network allows access to web services while policing all content on the network and limiting external information. It is run by the state-owned Telecommunication Company of Iran.\n\nOne of the benefits of effectively turning all internet access into a government-controlled walled garden, is that virtual private networks (VPNs), often used to circumvent blocks, would not work.\n\nAnother example of this is the so-called Great Firewall of China. It blocks access to many foreign internet services, which in turn has helped several domestic tech giants establish themselves.\n\nRussia already tech champions of its own, such as Yandex and Mail.Ru, but other local firms might also benefit.\n\nThe country plans to create its own Wikipedia and politicians have passed a bill that bans the sale of smartphones that do not have Russian software pre-installed.\n\nOne expert warned that the policy could help the state repress free speech, but added that it was not a foregone conclusion that it would succeed.\n\n\"The Russian government has run into technical challenges in the past when trying to increase online control, such as its largely unsuccessful efforts to block Russians from accessing encrypted messaging app Telegram,\" Justin Sherman, a cyber-security policy fellow at the New America think tank, told the BBC.\n\n\"Without more information about this test though, it's hard to assess exactly how far Russia has progressed in the path towards an isolatable domestic internet.\n\n\"And on the business front, it remains to be seen just how much domestic and foreign pushback Russia will get.\"\n\nLocal news agencies, including Pravda, reported the deputy head of the Ministry of Communications had said that the tests of the scheme had gone as planned.\n\n\"The results of the exercises showed that, in general, both the authorities and telecoms operators are ready to effectively respond to emerging risks and threats, to ensure the stable functioning of both the internet and unified telecommunication network in the Russian Federation,\" said Alexey Sokolov.\n\nThe state-owned Tass news agency reported the tests had assessed the vulnerability of internet-of-things devices, and also involved an exercise to test Runet's ability to stand up to \"external negative influences\".", "The Queen was accompanied by the Countess of Wessex\n\nThe Queen has attended a carol service in Sandringham after the Duke of Edinburgh spent a second night in hospital in London.\n\nPrince Philip, 98, travelled from the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk to London's King Edward VII Hospital on Friday as a \"precautionary measure\".\n\nBuckingham Palace said the admission was for \"observation and treatment in relation to a pre-existing condition\".\n\nThe Queen was at St Mary Magdalene with Prince Edward and his family.\n\nShe is expected to attend the same church on Christmas Day.\n\nThe monarch was pictured stepping out of a car before walking into church ahead of her grandchildren, Lady Louise Windsor and Viscount Severn.\n\nViscount Severn watches as the Queen, his grandmother, steps out of the car at St Mary Magdalene\n\nThe palace said the duke went to hospital on the advice of his doctor.\n\nBut it refused to confirm or deny reports the duke was flown to London by helicopter and then driven by car for the last part of the journey.\n\nThe duke, who retired from official solo royal duties in 2017, walked into hospital and is expected to remain there for a few days.\n\nPrince Edward was pictured after the service with his son\n\nPolice have been stationed outside King Edward VII hospital during Prince Philip's stay", "Several people were injured in a balloon drop at Westfield Parramatta mall in Sydney.\n\nHundreds of shoppers tried to grab balloons which were stuffed with prizes. The incident took place at the end of a marathon Christmas shopping event.\n\nThere were children among those injured in the crush and several were sent to hospital.\n\nThe mall's owners have said they will investigate the incident.", "Rey, played by Daisy Ridley, is not one of the characters in the scene\n\nDisney has cut a brief scene of two women kissing in the Singaporean version of its latest Star Wars film.\n\nThe Rise of Skywalker features the first same-sex kiss in the franchise's history - described by reviewers as \"a brief flash of two women kissing... among a crowd of characters\".\n\nBut the version released in Singapore omits the scene.\n\nSingapore's media regulatory body told the BBC that Disney cut the scene so it didn't get a higher age rating.\n\n\"The applicant has omitted a brief scene which under the film classification guidelines would require a higher rating,\" said a spokesperson from IMDA.\n\nWithout the kiss, the film is rated PG13 in Singapore.\n\nIt is not clear if Disney - the owners of Lucasfilm, the Star Wars production company - cut the scene in other countries. It was reportedly shown in China but not in the UAE.\n\nDisney has not responded to the BBC's requests for comment.\n\nA supporter attends the annual \"Pink Dot\" event in a public show of support for the LGBT community in Singapore\n\nFilms in Singapore are typically classed under six different ratings:\n\nIt is not clear what rating the film would have had if the same-sex scene was included. A previous gay teen rom-com, Love Simon, was rated R21 by the IMDA.\n\nIn comparison, Love Simon is rated PG13 on movie listing site IMDB.\n\nBrokeback Mountain, which featured two gay cowboys, was aired in Singapore in its entirety in 2006 - but was similarly hit with an R21 listing.\n\nSame-sex marriages are not recognised in Singapore and gay sex is illegal - though the law is not enforced.\n\nThere are gay bars and clubs in Singapore, as well as an annual pride rally.\n\nIn 2018, a gay Singaporean man won a landmark case allowing him to adopt a child he fathered through a surrogate.", "Three members of the same family are reported to have drowned at a holiday resort on the Costa del Sol in Spain.\n\nThey were found unresponsive in a swimming pool on Christmas Eve at Club La Costa World, near Fuengirola, a statement from the owners said.\n\nIt has been reported that a nine-year-old British girl got into difficulties in the water and her brother and father attempted to rescue her.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was assisting a British woman in Spain.\n\nIt is understood the father and daughter were both British while the brother was American.\n\nHotel firm CLC World Resorts said first response teams and emergency services attended and administered first aid.\n\nA local journalist, Fernando Torres, told the BBC it was a shocking scene.\n\n\"The resort workers heard the screaming and they tried to do CPR (resuscitation) as well, but they couldn't help them.\n\n\"Then the emergency doctors came and they tried for 30-35 minutes, but they couldn't revive them.\"\n\nThe sprawling resort near Fuengirola has several pools\n\nCLC World Resorts said it offered its \"heartfelt condolences to the family affected by the loss of three family members on 24th December 2019\".\n\n\"The management are assisting the authorities fully with their investigation into the deaths.\n\n\"We would like to thank our first response team and the emergency services for their quick and appropriate responses, and our staff for the continuing support of the family at this difficult time.\"\n\nA Foreign and Commonwealth Office spokesperson said: \"We are offering assistance to a British woman following an incident in Spain.\"\n\nAre you in the area? Have you been affected by what's happened? You can get in touch by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rescuers search for survivors after the bus plunged into the ravine\n\nAt least 26 people have been killed and 13 injured after a bus plunged down a steep ravine and landed in a river in Indonesia.\n\nAbout 50 passengers were on board the bus in South Sumatra province when it plunged some 150m (500ft) on Monday night.\n\nThe bus had left Bengkulu city and was heading for Palembang, a journey of several hours.\n\nAbout 120 rescuers are searching for survivors.\n\nThe cause of the accident is being investigated.\n\nThe accident happened in the Liku Lematang area at about 23:15 local time (16:15 GMT).\n\nPagar Alam police chief Dolly Gumara said officers were currently prioritising evacuating survivors.\n\nThe police chief also called for victims' families to identify their relatives at the hospital.\n\nRoads around the site of the accident have been closed and police say they have issued warnings to motorists.\n\nSerious road accidents are common in Indonesia with roads and vehicles often poorly maintained.\n\nLast year, 27 people died after a tourist bus ran off a road and overturned in West Java province. It had been taking 40 passengers to visit thermal springs.\n\nTwo months later, two accidents in West Java killed at least 15 people.", "Elsie has a number of epileptic fits each day\n\nA three-year-old girl with a rare form of epilepsy will be home for the first time in a year on Christmas Day.\n\nElsie has Dravet syndrome, which can cause seizures thought to be linked to developmental delays and learning difficulties.\n\nShe has been on the children's ward at Ysbyty Gwynedd, Bangor since having a seizure on Christmas Eve last year.\n\nDoctors hope her temporary release on Christmas Day will be a first step to eventually returning home full-time.\n\n\"We need the house to have space for two carers to come live with us, more or less 24-hours,\" said her mother Gwennan Owen, who has five other children.\n\nThe family has had to move to a new house near Caernarfon which is better adapted.\n\nOnly about two or three people out of every 500 with epilepsy have Dravet syndrome and life expectancy for those diagnosed is short.\n\nElsie has a number of seizures every day and she is currently being treated with cannabis oil to improve her quality of life.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Elsie has a rare form of epilepsy which can cause seizures thought to be linked to developmental delays\n\nJo Douglas, the hospital's clinical services manager for paediatrics and neonatal services, said staff were pleased Elsie would have Christmas with her family.\n\n\"We're very happy - it feels like, eventually, a light at the end of the tunnel for Elsie,\" she said.\n\n\"We can see her developing, we see her growing in confidence, she attends school from here.\n\n\"It's just a fantastic transition to take her home and we can't wait for that to happen.\"\n\nMs Owen calls the staff at the ward her \"rock\" and said that Elsie \"wouldn't be where she is now\" without them.\n\nBut coming to see Elsie daily and caring for the rest of the family is a difficult balance.\n\n\"I've had to give up working, but [partner] Dave obviously is still working,\" she added.\n\n\"It's just... we had no choice and you've just got to carry on.\n\n\"A lot of sweat and chocolate, and you keep going.\"\n\nHaving Elsie at home for Christmas will be the return of \"normality\" for the family.\n\n\"It will be magical for her,\" her mother said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA bagpiper has surprised a terminally ill man outside his home on Christmas Eve.\n\nTony Occleshaw, who worked for Nottinghamshire Police, is having end-of-life care at home for cancer.\n\nHe wanted to see the Edinburgh Military Tattoo in August but was too ill so his daughter organised for a piper, who plays for the same force to perform.\n\nMr Occleshaw, from Arnold, said he and his wife were \"both in tears\" during the performance.\n\nHe said: \"I absolutely love pipers. I heard something and opened the front door- it was a real surprise.\"\n\nMr Occleshaw said about 30 people came out to watch.\n\n\"It was really wonderful. The best surprise I have ever had.\"\n\nTony Occleshaw has been in a lot of pain over the last few months after developing another tumour\n\nSally Bates said her dad was diagnosed with bladder cancer about a week after her wedding in August 2018, and a couple of months later was told he only had a year to live.\n\nMrs Bates said: \"It was a huge shock to my dad. He had just turned 63 and was looking forward to retiring.\"\n\nHe has since developed another tumour, she said.\n\n\"He was discharged from hospital about one month ago to have end-of-life care at home.\"\n\nMr Occleshaw worked as a station assistant for Nottinghamshire Police for 20 years\n\nMrs Bates put out an appeal on Facebook looking for a bagpiper to play for her dad and a man got in touch saying his 14-year-old son would be happy to do it.\n\n\"It was an absolute miracle,\" she said.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The dhow was spotted by Sailors and Royal Marines\n\nThe Royal Navy says it has seized 11 \"mailbag-sized\" sacks of crystal meth in the Middle East, worth an estimated £3.3m.\n\nHMS Defender spotted the \"suspicious\" ship while patrolling the Arabian Sea for smugglers and traffickers.\n\nSailors and Royal Marines boarded the ship, and found a total haul of 131kg.\n\nHMS Defender's commanding officer said he was \"proud\" they had seized a \"significant quantity\" of drugs that could have potentially reached the UK.\n\nCdr Richard Hewitt added: \"This has been a real boost for the ship's company as they face Christmas away from their loved ones.\"\n\nThe Navy said the drugs contained in the bags would have had an estimated street value of £3.3m in the UK.\n\nHMS Defender has been deployed to the Middle East since August\n\nThe Portsmouth-based warship HMS Defender carried out the day-long search of the boat - a dhow - after being alerted by the destroyer's helicopter.\n\nThe Navy said the Wildcat helicopter discovered a solo ship without a flying flag and could not find evidence it was carrying out fishing.\n\nThat prompted the destroyer to investigate, sending Royal Marines to secure the ship and its crew.\n\nHMS Defender is one of more than a dozen British warships, submarines and Royal Fleet Auxiliary support vessels on duty over the Christmas period.\n\nThe vessel has been deployed to the Middle East since August, safeguarding merchant shipping entering and leaving the Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence said about 11,000 troops are involved in operations in more than 30 countries across the world over the Christmas period.\n\nThey include personnel serving in Somalia, South Sudan, Estonia, Afghanistan, the Falkland Islands and the Caribbean.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace said: \"Over the festive period we should all take a moment to be grateful for the selflessness of our armed forces personnel and their families at this time of year.\"", "The teenager was found \"unresponsive and unconscious\" at the Holiday Inn Express hotel\n\nA 17-year-old girl has died while on a school trip to New York.\n\nThe sixth form student at Bristol Grammar School was found \"unresponsive and unconscious\" at the Holiday Inn Express hotel on 19 December, New York police said.\n\nShe was taken to Mount Sinai hospital, where she was pronounced dead.\n\nPolice said there were no suspicious circumstances, but they understood the teenager may have been ill during the trip.\n\nThey are awaiting the results of a post-mortem examination.\n\nIn a statement, the school's headmaster Jaideep Barot said everyone at the school was devastated and support was being provided for those affected.\n\n\"We have opened a book of condolence and we will consider further remembrance with the family's support in the New Year,\" he added.\n\nThe students had been on a trip to New York and Washington DC.\n\nThe fee-paying school, which was founded in 1532, has more than 1,300 students aged 4-18 enrolled.\n\nStudents from Bristol Grammar School were on a trip to New York and Washington DC\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Evidence of the strike at the centre of the stone circle was found during a geophysics survey\n\nEvidence of a \"massive\" lightning strike has been found at the centre of a stone circle in the Western Isles.\n\nA single large strike, or many smaller ones on the same spot, left a star-shaped magnetic anomaly at the 4,000-year-old site in Lewis.\n\nScientists made the discovery at Site XI or Airigh na Beinne Bige, a hillside stone circle now consisting of a single standing stone.\n\nThe site is at the famous Calanais Standing Stones.\n\nScientists said the lightning strike, which was indentified in a geophysics survey, could show a potential link between the construction of ancient stone circles and the forces of nature.\n\nThey said the lightning struck some time before peat enveloped the stone circle at Site XI 3,000 years ago. The discovery is detailed in new research published online.\n\nThe stone circle may have attracted the lightning, say the scientists\n\nDr Richard Bates, of the University of St Andrews, said: \"Such clear evidence for lightning strikes is extremely rare in the UK and the association with this stone circle is unlikely to be coincidental.\n\n\"Whether the lightning at Site XI focused on a tree or rock which is no longer there, or the monument itself attracted strikes, is uncertain.\n\n\"However, this remarkable evidence suggests that the forces of nature could have been intimately linked with everyday life and beliefs of the early farming communities on the island.\"\n\nThe discovery was made by the Calanais Virtual Reconstruction Project, a joint venture led by the University of St Andrews with standing stones trust Urras nan Tursachan and the University of Bradford and supported by funding from Highlands and Islands Enterprise.\n\nThe same project has also produced a 3D virtual model recreating another of the area's \"lost\" stone circle, Na Dromannan.\n\nIts stones are today either lying flat or buried under peat.\n\nThe new discovery was made at the famous Calanais Standing Stones", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jack Savoretti offers help to girl with cancer\n\nA girl's Christmas wish to receive a new cancer treatment has been granted after an anonymous donor helped her campaign reach its funding target.\n\nAnna Drysdale, eight, was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer, when she was five years old.\n\nHer family launched a crowdfunding page four months ago to pay for immunotherapy treatment in New York to prevent the cancer returning.\n\nTheir £460,000 target was reached after \"an incredible anonymous donation\".\n\nAnna's mother Keeley, from Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire, said the family \"just couldn't believe it\" when they heard of the funding.\n\n\"We wondered, is it true? Is it really happening? It's definitely the best Christmas present we could ever have wished for,\" she added.\n\nAnna Drysdale will travel across the Atlantic for treatment in the new year\n\nAnna's campaign hit the headlines when Oxfordshire-based singer Jack Savoretti backed her campaign.\n\nOther stars, including Lewis Capaldi, Ricky Astley, Jo Whiley and Olly Murs also gave their support.\n\nAnna was first diagnosed in February 2017 and is currently in remission for a second time.\n\nHer family said the risk of the cancer returning was \"extremely high and very likely\", which is why they started their campaign for her to get new preventative treatment, which costs $500,000 (£386,600), at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.\n\nAnna will head to New York for the treatment in the new year.\n• None Jack Savoretti backs campaign for girl with cancer. Video, 00:02:06Jack Savoretti backs campaign for girl with cancer", "Around 11,000 troops are serving on operations in countries including Iraq and Afghanistan\n\nThousands of UK troops will spend Christmas away from home in more than 30 countries this year.\n\nDefence Secretary Ben Wallace praised the \"selflessness\" of the armed forces personnel and their families.\n\nAround 11,000 Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force personnel are serving on 35 overseas operations in countries including Iraq and Afghanistan.\n\nThe troops have already begun sending messages to loved ones, the Ministry of Defence said.\n\nMore than 1,000 personnel are stationed in the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic, while in the Caribbean the air force remains on alert over the hurricane season, the MoD added.\n\nThe Royal Navy will have 14 ships at sea on Christmas Day, including HMS Defender, which was used to seize £3.3m of crystal meth in the Arabian Sea on Monday.\n\n\"Over the festive period we should all take a moment to be grateful for the selflessness of our armed forces personnel and their families,\" Mr Wallace said.\n\n\"This Christmas, like any other day, our servicemen and women will be displaying their unique professionalism around the world and at home.\"\n\nMr Wallace, who was an officer in the Scots Guards before entering politics, said he knew what it was like to work away from home over Christmas and New Year.\n\nMeanwhile, the MoD has donated more than 14,000 unused ration packs to food waste charity FareShare, which will distribute the packages to charities running homeless outreach programmes in London over the Christmas period.\n\nThe packages do not need to be refrigerated and include ingredients for breakfasts, lunches and dinners such as porridge, sausages, pasta and baked beans.\n\nOn Thursday, the defence secretary confirmed that there was a shortfall of funding in the MoD's budget.\n\nThe armed forces were given an extra £2.2bn in September's spending review when the chancellor announced a 2.6% increase in defence funding in 2020-21.\n\nBut a defence spending squeeze between 2010 and 2015 has prompted questions about whether the UK is equipped to meet future security threats.\n\nIn February, the House of Commons' spending watchdog reported the MoD faced a £7bn black hole in its 10-year-plan to equip the armed forces.", "Bethany Haines spoke to officers from the YPG who showed her places her father had been\n\nThe daughter of a Scottish aid worker who was beheaded by the Islamic State group in Syria has vowed to return there to recover her father's remains.\n\nBethany Haines is convinced she has worked out the location of her father's grave near the Turkish border.\n\nDavid Haines, 44, who lived in Perth, was abducted by IS in 2013 while working in a Syrian aid camp.\n\nHis execution was filmed and released in 2014 as part of IS propaganda footage.\n\nHe was murdered, with fellow aid worker Alan Henning, by the so-called \"Beatles\" cell of four British militants.\n\nEarlier this year, the 22-year-old mother-of-one made the journey out to Syria to retrace her father's last movements.\n\nShe met aid workers at the camp where her father worked. She spoke to \"Isis brides\" and saw the spot in Raqqa where her father's executioner Mohammed Emwazi - dubbed Jihadi John - was killed in a drone strike in 2015.\n\nMr Haines was working for a French aid agency when he was captured by Islamic State militants\n\nShe spoke to officers from the YPG - the People's Protection Unit, the home-grown defence force of the Kurdish area of Syria.\n\nHowever, it was not safe to travel to the spot where she believes her father's remains are buried.\n\nBut she has vowed to return until his remains are located. She says she will not rest until she finds out where he is.\n\nMs Haines told the BBC: \"Since the word go, I was never told anything substantial or accurate.\n\n\"It made the situation much more difficult, my dad being taken and having to fight for information.\n\n\"I watched the videos and I looked at Google maps and I was pretty sure I had found the location from features in the landscape I saw on the video and located on the map.\n\nMs Haines spoke to IS wives at a camp in Syria to understand more about what happened and to ask if they knew anything about her father's execution\n\n\"The area they were executed in wasn't entirely safe. But I wanted to go and even see it from a distance to know it was really there.\"\n\nShe said: \"I thought it was going to be the last piece of the puzzle to my research and it seemed the logical thing to do, to go out there and speak to people who were involved.\"\n\nWhile there, she visited the site of a mass grave and saw Syrian people conducting digs and recovering victims.\n\nIt made her feel close to her father.\n\nMs Haines visited a mass grave where Syrian people were helping to excavate and recover other victims' remains\n\nShe said: \"For that short time I felt like I had him back, I felt so close to him.\n\n\"Returning to Scotland, I have found it hard to settle back into normal life. But knowing his possible remains were only a few miles away has been really difficult.\n\n\"The story's not finished, I need to go out again, speak to more people and see what they think.\n\n\"The YPG agreed with me that he was in that area. I would want to do a dig to see.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt least 150 houses have been destroyed by fast-moving woodland fires in the Chilean city of Valparaíso.\n\nThe fires, which spread through the Rocuant and San Roque hills, reached two poor residential areas and were still burning on Christmas Day. There have been no reports of any casualties.\n\nInterior Minister Gonzalo Blumel said evidence gathered so far indicated the fires had been started deliberately.\n\nResidents returned to see the charred remains of their homes\n\nPower was cut to about 90,000 customers in the area as a precautionary measure. Two schools were turned into shelters for the affected residents, who were forced to flee in the middle of Christmas Eve celebrations.\n\nMayor Jorge Sharp said a state of emergency had been declared in the city, some 100km (62 miles) from the capital, Santiago.\n\nA video posted on social media showed a car next to where a fire started. Prosecutors were investigating the footage as well as reports from residents that cars were seen in the hills affected moments before the fires began, Emol website reports.\n\nA number of houses were gutted by the fires\n\nAll of Valparaíso's firefighters were deployed\n\nAgriculture Minister Antonio Walker visited the areas and admitted that the firefighters were struggling to contain the fires.\n\nNearly 120 hectares (445 acres) of grassland have already been ravaged.\n\nFirefighting helicopters have also been deployed\n\nResidents have desperately tried to salvage their personal belongings in the festive period\n\nOn Twitter, President Sebastián Piñera said: \"We deeply regret the fire that affects so many families in the hills of Valparaíso and especially on Christmas Eve.\"\n\nValparaíso, in central Chile, is one of country's largest cities and a major port on the Pacific. It is also a popular tourist destination in South America.\n\nIn 2017, the central Chilean town of Santa Olga was destroyed by wildfires.", "The tiny emerald ash borer arrived in the US in 2002 and has since killed tens of millions of ash trees\n\nFor the first time, a study has attempted to assess the devastation caused by the emerald ash borer in US forests that shape river systems.\n\nResearchers discovered a range of ways that the ecologically vital habitat is being systematically changed at a landscape level.\n\nSince it was discovered in the US in 2002, the invasive insects have wiped out tens of millions of ash trees.\n\nThe findings will appear in the journal Forest Ecology and Management.\n\nSince it was first recorded in Michigan, the tiny wood-boring beetle has spread across the north-eastern reach of the US, killing tens of millions of ash trees.\n\nThe cost to the nation's economy has been estimated to exceed $10bn.\n\nHowever, a team from Michigan State University saw that little attention had been paid to how the invasion was changing the face of riparian (water/river system) forests.\n\n\"In North America, green and black ash [trees] are two very important species, ecologically speaking,\" explained co-author Patrick Engelken from the university's department of entomology.\n\n\"The wetland habitats are often inundated during spring wet months. The tree species that grow there have to be really tolerant of having lots of water on their roots,\" he added.\n\n\"And they are functionally linked to these waterways where the nutrient supply within these stream systems is directly mediated by these surrounding forests\"\n\nGreen and black ash trees dominate riparian forests in Michigan, but are vulnerable to the invasive beetle\n\nMr Engelken also said that other factors were also regulated by these forests, such as nutrition distribution, leaf litter depositions, temperature moderation and shading.\n\nWhen the team examined the impact of 15 years of the invasive emerald ash borer across forests in three watersheds, although there was widespread mortality, the legacy on the ground varied widely.\n\n\"The trees in south east Michigan had begun to really decay and break down and accumulate,\" Mr Engelken told BBC News.\n\n\"We were climbing over piles of dead ash trees in open canopy areas that used to be dense overstorey (the uppermost canopy level of a forest, formed by the tallest trees).\n\n\"And about 120 miles to the west, we would see the standing dead trees. These were going to have really large scale impacts on the environment; the riparian forest floor and in the streams as well.\n\nThe researchers also found a lot of log jamming in the water system, which had the potential to change the way the river systems behaved during periods of flooding.\n\nHowever, they said that some of the other effects that they encountered were not what they had necessarily expected to see.\n\n\"Ash trees still remain highly abundant in the sapling strata, in the understory. By far, the dominant species - in canopy gaps at least - were species of ash, primarily green ash.\n\nMr Engelken explained that this was probably the result of emerald ash borer densities being much lower than they were during the invasion's peak. This was primarily a result of the insects' food source, mature ash trees, being gone.\n\n\"We have this healthy cohort of ash in the understory (a layer of vegetation below the forest's main canopy) where if the (ash borer) pressure remains low on them, you might start to see some ash begin to recover and begin to create a new overstorey of ash in the coming years,\" he said.\n\nAnother thing that surprised the researchers was the dense growth of herbaceous (non-woody) plants in the places where the canopy had gone.\n\n\"We had expected to see invasive plant species move in and dominate,\" Mr Engelken explained.\n\n\"But what we saw in almost every single site was that the understorey is completely covered in dense herbaceous masses. Sedges that not only seemed to be outcompeting seedlings but invasive species as well.\"\n\nMr Engelken warned that the conversion of these areas of habitat to open sedge meadows from ash-dominated riparian forests could have lasting effects as far as providing shade or nutrients to watercourses.\n\nHe said that riparian forests had been overlooked or neglected when it came to the effects of the emerald ash borer invasion.\n\nHowever, he said that if policymakers placed a little more urgency on these important habitats then the legacy from the emerald ash borer will have been much reduced.\n\n\"Ash trees are really good mass trees; they put out a lot of seeds and they grow fast or hardy,\" he observed.\n\n\"It would just take a little bit of foresight to try to keep some big, mature trees to perhaps maintain these habitats.\n\n\"Restoration is difficult. It's a lot more difficult than thinking about them beforehand. I would say just think about these riparian corridors and the species occupying them, as they are... really important ecosystems.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Queen will use her Christmas Day message to acknowledge that 2019 has been \"quite bumpy\".\n\nShe will say the path is never \"smooth\" but \"small steps\" can heal divisions.\n\nIt comes after a year of intense political debate over Brexit, as well as a number of personal events affecting the Royal Family.\n\nHer husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, 98, has left hospital after four nights of treatment for a \"pre-existing condition\".\n\nBuckingham Palace said the duke had gone to the King Edward VII's hospital on his doctor's advice for \"observation and treatment\".\n\nPrince Charles told reporters on Monday that hospital staff had looked after his father \"very well\".\n\nIn January, the Duke of Edinburgh was involved in a car crash while driving near the Queen's Sandringham Estate in Norfolk. He escaped uninjured, but two women required hospital treatment.\n\nIn September, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex publicly revealed their struggles under the media spotlight during their tour of southern Africa.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Sussex welcomed their first child, Archie, in May\n\nLast month, the Duke of York withdrew from public life after a BBC interview about his ties to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself in August.\n\nThe Queen, 93, recorded her annual message, to be broadcast on BBC One at 15:00 GMT on Christmas Day, before Prince Philip was admitted to hospital.\n\nShe refers to the life of Jesus and the importance of reconciliation, saying \"small steps taken in faith and in hope can overcome long-held differences and deep-seated divisions to bring harmony and understanding\".\n\n\"The path, of course, is not always smooth, and may at times this year have felt quite bumpy, but small steps can make a world of difference.\"\n\nIt has been a year which, at times, may have felt \"quite bumpy\", so the Queen will say in her Christmas broadcast.\n\nIt is a choice of words which will inevitably prompt speculation about what it is that she's referring to.\n\nShe does not offer any clarification herself, though the remark is made in the context of overcoming what she calls \"long-held differences\" and how \"small steps taken in faith and in hope can overcome deep-seated divisions\".\n\nThe obvious interpretation is that this is the Queen's - as ever - coded message to the country to try to move on from the divisions of the Brexit debate, but the reference to a \"bumpy\" year may also be taken to refer to events within her own family after a year which has seen the Duke of Edinburgh's car accident, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex complaining about the difficulties of being in the public eye and the controversies around Prince Andrew.\n\nThe head of state - who is publicly neutral on political matters - will also use her message to highlight the 75th anniversary of the World War Two D-Day landings, and how former \"sworn enemies\" joined together in friendly commemorations to mark the milestone this year.\n\nIn June, the UK hosted an event in Portsmouth commemorating the 75th anniversary of D-Day and attended by world leaders including US President Donald Trump, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron.\n\nWorld leaders gather at an event to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day\n\nThe Queen said: \"By being willing to put past differences behind us and move forward together, we honour the freedom and democracy once won for us at so great a cost.\"\n\nThe broadcast was produced by the BBC and recorded in the green drawing room of Windsor Castle after the general election.\n\nThe Queen wore a royal blue cashmere dress by Angela Kelly, and the sapphire and diamond Prince Albert brooch, a present from Albert to Queen Victoria on the eve of their wedding in 1840.\n\nShe is filmed sitting at a desk featuring photographs of her family, including one of the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall, and a black-and-white image of the Queen's father, King George VI.\n\nThere is also a photograph of of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their children - Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis - perched on and around a motorbike and sidecar - an image used for the couple's Christmas card.\n\nOn Monday, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex revealed their festive greeting via the Queen's Commonwealth Trust Twitter account.\n\nIt features a photograph of Harry and Meghan with their seven-month-old son Archie crawling towards the camera, and a message reading: \"Merry Christmas and a happy new year... from our family to yours\".\n\nThe card was emailed to friends and colleagues on Monday, with hard copies sent to family.\n\nThe couple are currently spending time in Canada while taking a festive break from royal duties with their son, who was born in May.\n\nPrince Andrew has faced criticism over his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein\n\nPrince Andrew's appearance on BBC Newsnight last month was one of the year's biggest news stories involving the monarchy.\n\nIn the interview, Prince Andrew defended his relationship with Epstein, who took his own life in August while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.\n\nThe prince was heavily criticised for showing a lack of empathy towards Epstein's victims and little remorse over his friendship with the disgraced US financier.\n\nHe later issued a statement saying he continued to \"unequivocally regret my ill-judged association with Jeffrey Epstein\" and he deeply sympathised with everyone who was affected.", "Bieber said he was \"excited\" to perform and tour with his new material\n\nJustin Bieber has given fans an early Christmas present - confirmation he is to make a 2020 comeback.\n\nThe Canadian pop star chose 24 December to announce he will release a new single, called Yummy, on 3 January - the debut track from an upcoming, as yet untitled fifth album.\n\nThe 25-year-old also revealed he is to tour the US and his home nation between May and September.\n\nThe singer announced as well he is to appear in a new documentary TV series.\n\nBieber took an extended break from music in 2017 after cancelling the last 14 dates of his Purpose World Tour.\n\nYet this year saw him appear as a guest vocalist on Ed Sheeran's I Don't Care and a remix of Billie Eilish's Bad Guy.\n\nThis - together with an appearance with Ariana Grande at Coachella in April - led to speculation that he might be about to return with new solo material.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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YouTube content may contain adverts.\n\n\"As humans we are imperfect,\" he can be heard saying in a teaser \"super trailer\" for his New Year plans.\n\n\"My past, my mistakes, all the things that I've been through… I believe that I'm right where I'm supposed to be and God has me right where he wants me.\"\n\nEarlier this year he wrote about his struggles with drug use and depression in an emotional essay, in which he described himself as \"the most hated person in the world\".\n\n\"I feel like this is different from the previous albums just because of where I'm at with my life,\" he goes on in the video. \"I'm excited to perform it and to tour it.\n\n\"We all have different stories, I'm just excited to share mine. It's the music I've loved the most out of anything I've done.\"\n\nThe promo video finds Bieber, wearing his trademark baggy hoodie and woolly hat, sitting outside a petrol station and wandering around a trailer park near Los Angeles as he contemplates his next move.\n\nBieber shot to fame as a teenager after impressing manager Scooter Braun with his cover versions online.\n\nWith his first EP, 2010's My World, he became the first act to have seven tracks from a debut in the US top 100.\n\nThroughout his career the star has amassed more than 50 billion streams and shifted more than 60 million album equivalents worldwide.\n\nHis North American tour begins in Seattle, Washington, on 14 May and concludes in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on 26 September.\n\nHis tour dates make it unlikely - though not impossible - he will perform at the Glastonbury Festival in June.\n\nThis will be Bieber's first album and tour since marrying girlfriend Hailey Baldwin.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The teenager was found \"unresponsive and unconscious\" at the Holiday Inn Express hotel\n\nA 17-year-old girl from Bristol Grammar School who died while on a school trip to New York has been named by police.\n\nAnastasia Uglow, from the Redland area of Bristol, was found \"unresponsive and unconscious\" at the Holiday Inn Express hotel on 19 December.\n\nA New York Police spokeswoman said there were \"no signs of trauma and no criminality was suspected\".\n\n\"The medical examiner [coroner] will determine the cause of death and the investigation is ongoing,\" she said.\n\nHer family has been notified.\n\nStudents from Bristol Grammar School were on a trip to New York and Washington DC\n\nThe sixth form student was taken to Mount Sinai hospital, where she was pronounced dead.\n\nIn a statement, the school's headmaster Jaideep Barot said everyone at the school was devastated and support was being provided for those affected.\n\n\"We have opened a book of condolence and we will consider further remembrance with the family's support in the New Year,\" he added.\n\nThe students had been on a trip to New York and Washington DC.\n\nThe fee-paying school, which was founded in 1532, has more than 1,300 students aged four to 18.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The BBC's Panorama investigated London's child begging, connected to the police probe, in 2011\n\nA Romanian court has upheld the acquittals of 25 men accused of running a major child-trafficking operation.\n\nThe men were arrested in 2010 as part of a large joint operation with British police - where children were rescued in London raids.\n\nThe men were accused of running a scheme where children were sent across the continent to beg and steal.\n\nHuman rights groups have criticised Monday's ruling, which puts an end to the almost-decade long legal saga.\n\nThe men were previously acquitted by a lower court in February and the appeal court, based in Targu Mures, said prosecutors had failed to present evidence.\n\nThey were originally arrested in 2010, along with another man who has since died, in raids with the help of UK police.\n\nThey had faced charges for trafficking and criminal exploitation of more than 160 unnamed children, being members of an organised criminal network and money laundering.\n\nThe case centred around the village of Tandarei in south-eastern Romania. The victims and suspects were members of the Romanian Roma community.\n\nBernie Gravett, who led the British investigation, told the BBC that he had personally seen \"truckloads\" of evidence being sent to Romanian officials in 2010.\n\n\"I know the evidence is there, I've seen it with my own eyes...\" he said.\n\n\"We convicted 120 people in the UK of child trafficking, child neglect, child exploitation, money laundering, benefit fraud and a range of other crimes. Yet Romania have not convicted a single individual.\"\n\nAccording to Europol, their Joint Investigation Team worked with London's Metropolitan police as well as the Romanian National Police force from 2008.\n\nThe 2010 operation involved 300 Romanian and British police officers and about 30 raids, AFP reports.\n\nAfter one raid in Ilford, east London, 28 children aged between three and 17 years old were placed in protective custody.\n\nPolice at the time said proceeds from the criminal enterprise were being sent back to fund luxury lifestyles in Tandarei.\n\nSilvia Tabusca, coordinator of the Human Security Programme at the European Centre for Legal Education and Research, was quoted as saying the case represented a \"huge failure\" of the Romanian justice system.\n\n\"We are talking on the one hand about an extremely vulnerable group of people that need to be protected, a very large group of Roma children. On the other hand, this is cross-border organised crime that puts in jeopardy the entire security of Europe,\" she said.\n\nThe initial acquittal, issued nine years after the men's initial arrest, caused a number of NGOs to ask international bodies to \"remind Romania of its responsibilities\" regarding trafficking.", "Josh Quigley fractured his skull during the accident\n\nA cyclist badly injured after being hit by a car in the US says he feels like the \"luckiest guy in the world\" for surviving the 70mph crash.\n\nJosh Quigley, 27, from Livingston, was attempting to cycle round the world when he was struck by a vehicle in Temple, Texas on Saturday.\n\nHe suffered fractures to his pelvis, 10 ribs and his skull, as well as a pierced lung.\n\nHe was due to undergo surgery on a broken ankle and heel.\n\nMr Quigley began his round-the-world trip in Edinburgh in April. He was 2,000 miles short of his 18,000 target when he was hit.\n\nSpeaking from his hospital bed, he said: \"It hurts to talk, it hurts to breath, it hurts to lie in this bed, my ribs and my back are in agony and my ankle is sore but mentally, psychologically and emotionally I've never been better because I feel like the luckiest guy in the world.\n\n\"These things are here to help me in mental toughness, resilience, strength and this is another obstacle, probably the biggest one I've faced so far, but I will find a way to finish what I started.\n\n\"Why I feel in such good spirits is because I know how lucky I am to be alive. Being hit by a car at 70mph is a big deal to get hit that hard and to fly 50ft through the air so I know how lucky I am to be alive and I will make the most of it.\n\nJosh Quigley is undergoing an operation on his ankle\n\nMr Quigley was airlifted from the scene by helicopter. He said he was knocked down at night despite wearing reflective clothing and using strong rear lights.\n\nIt is Mr Quigley's seventh attempt at cycling around the world.\n\nHe said he was unsure when he would be able to return to riding his bike but that he hoped it would be in April.\n\nJosh Quigley was stranded in the desert after four punctures at night on an earlier part of his journey through the US\n\nThe incident is one of a number of setbacks faced by Mr Quigley since he started his trip including sweat ruining his passport in Australia, which meant he had to fly back to Britain to get a new one before carrying on with his tour.\n\nIn April, just weeks into his world attempt, thieves stole his bike, which he nicknamed Braveheart, from outside a hostel in London.\n\nMr Quigley had been planning to cycle from Los Angeles to New York for the latest leg of his trip. But after his water bottles kept freezing in the US winter, he changed course to finish in the warmer climate of Florida.\n\nHe embarked on the trip to beat depression and alcohol abuse.", "I'm Richard Osman. Welcome to my Election Night Quiz.\n\nThe ballot boxes are closed, the votes are in and the counting has begun.\n\nAfter the back-and-forth of the campaign and the big day itself, we have the excitement of the exit poll and then... usually nothing for a while. So I thought we could pass some time with a little election quiz using some of the games we play on Richard Osman's House of Games.\n\nYou can follow the election results all night across the BBC, with live coverage on television, radio and online.", "Huw Edwards announces that the combined BBC, ITV and Sky exit poll suggests that Boris Johnson is on course for a majority.\n\nRead more: Tories on course to win majority - exit poll", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John Crilly describes how the attack unfolded, and what he did next\n\nA reformed ex-prisoner who fought the London Bridge knife attacker with a fire extinguisher has said he was prepared to die to protect others.\n\nJohn Crilly, who was jailed for murder after a burglary went wrong, said he tackled Usman Khan while believing he was wearing a live suicide belt.\n\n\"I was screaming at him to blow it. I was prepared to lose my life.\"\n\nAs he and others fought Khan on the street, he shouted at police to shoot the attacker.\n\nIn his first broadcast interview since the attack, Crilly, 48, told of the moment armed police confronted the knifeman on London Bridge.\n\nHe said: \"It seemed like ages before they shot him. It wasn't all gung-ho and trigger happy, they proper took their time, to the point where I did scream 'shoot him'.\"\n\nKhan, convicted of terrorist offences in 2012, killed two people - Cambridge University graduates Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones - and wounded three others when he launched a knife attack on 29 November at 13:58 GMT during a prisoner rehabilitation conference at Fishmongers' Hall.\n\nJohn Crilly (left) with Jack Merritt, the Cambridge University graduate killed in the London Bridge terror attack\n\nCrilly had been attending the Learning Together conference and remembers hearing a \"very high-pitched girl's scream\" when he knew something was wrong.\n\nHe went downstairs to find Miss Jones, 23, lying wounded, before he saw Khan in the corridor, armed with two knives.\n\nAfter shouting at Khan, asking him what he was doing, Crilly remembers his chilling reply: \"He says something like 'kill everyone' or 'kill you', something about killing people.\"\n\nWhen asked if he thought Khan was targeting specific people, he said: \"It seemed like everyone there was fair game.\n\n\"I just assume now that he just saw it as a big target. A room full of establishment people - judges, probation, police, security.\"\n\nJack Merritt and Saskia Jones were killed during a conference to rehabilitate offenders\n\nStaff and participants of the conference attacked Khan with whatever they could find.\n\nCrilly fought him first with a wooden lectern and then a fire extinguisher, all the while believing he was wearing a live suicide belt.\n\nHe said he acted on \"instinct\" and \"was screaming at [Khan] to blow it [the belt]... calling his bluff.\"\n\nBut he said Khan told him he was \"waiting for the police\" to arrive before detonating the belt, which police later found to be fake.\n\n\"I was prepared to probably lose my life\", he said.\n\nTwo men used a pole and a whale tusk ripped from the venue's wall to fight off Khan and force him out of the building.\n\nCrilly and others used their makeshift weapons to pursue Khan onto the street on London Bridge.\n\nIn video footage, he is seen using the spray from a fire extinguisher to blind Khan, while another man held him back with the whale tusk.\n\nHe said: \"The spray distracted him if you watch the footage. And the guy with the tusk has been able to give him a prod which has unbalanced him.\"\n\nOther bystanders intervened to pin Khan down before police shot him dead at 14:03.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for rights reasons\n\nCrilly was close friends with Mr Merritt, 25, the co-ordinator of the Learning Together programme who he says changed his life.\n\nHe described Mr Merritt as \"easy to talk to\" and who \"made you feel comfortable, even important\".\n\n\"He actually listened and you could tell he was really genuinely interested.\"\n\nThe people that intervened to try and halt Khan's attack have been widely praised as \"amazing heroes\".\n\nAsked if he considers himself a hero, Crilly said: \"No. Jack gave up his life, he would be my hero.\"\n\nJack Merritt was \"easy to talk to... and made you feel comfortable\"\n\nCrilly was given a life sentence for murder and robbery in 2005 after he and his associate David Flynn broke into the home of 71-year-old man in Manchester.\n\nThe pensioner died after being punched in the face by Flynn.\n\nCrilly was convicted under the joint enterprise law - which can apply to all crimes, but has recently been used to convict defendants in gang-related cases even if they did not strike the fatal blow, but could have foreseen that their associates might inflict serious harm or kill.\n\nIt was known as the \"foresight\" test and some believed it set the prosecutorial bar too low, allowing bit-part players or those on the periphery to be convicted of murder and given life sentences.\n\nHowever, in February 2016, the Supreme Court ruled the law had been interpreted wrongly for more than 30 years.\n\nThe foresight test went and a higher test was introduced.\n\nTo be guilty of murder, the prosecution had to prove that the defendant intended to assist or encourage the crime.\n\nHowever, most of those who wanted to appeal against their convictions were out of time, and the Supreme Court said they had to show they would suffer a \"substantial injustice\" if they were not allowed to appeal out of time.\n\nWhen he heard about the overturning of the joint enterprise law in 2016, he believed it would apply to his case.\n\nAfter a successful appeal against his murder conviction, Crilly pleaded guilty to manslaughter, becoming the first person since 2016 to have a joint enterprise murder conviction quashed.\n\nHe was released on licence last year after serving 13 years in prison. No-one else has successfully appealed such a conviction since 2016.\n\nCrilly pleaded guilty to manslaughter after his murder conviction was overturned\n\nSpeaking at the time, the victim's family said the \"incident had a devastating effect on the family who took a number of years to come to terms with their father's death\".\n\nThey said it was \"sickening\" to hear of his early release from prison \"for his part in the murder of our father\".\n\n\"We wish him well but also wish that our father were alive and free to live his life.\"\n\nThe campaign group Joint Enterprise Not Guilty by Association (Jengba), which helped bring about the law change, works with people who have been convicted of murder or manslaughter under joint enterprise.\n\nCo-founder Jan Cunliffe said the group is always mindful of the victims of crime. She claims that although the law change is welcome, the introduction of a \"substantial injustice\" test for retrospective cases has made it harder for people to appeal against their convictions.\n\nShe said although Crilly did commit crimes when he was younger, \"everybody should have the opportunity to turn their life around\".\n\n\"If John hadn't been there and been kept in prison for life, he wouldn't have been there to save lives that day.\"\n\nIn the new year, the group will campaign for the abolition of life sentences for children convicted of murder under the joint enterprise law.", "Jimi Hendrix was wrongly blamed for the parakeet explosion after releasing two birds in Carnaby Street, London\n\nThe rumour parakeets arrived in the UK when rock star Jimi Hendrix released a pair in London's Carnaby Street in the swinging 60s has finally been scotched.\n\nThey also did not escape across the country during the wrap party for the movie The African Queen, in 1951.\n\nIn fact, reported sightings from the 1860s have been uncovered, Goldsmiths, UCL and Queen Mary universities say.\n\nIntentional releases may have also been encouraged in 1929-1931 and 1952 when fatal \"parrot fever\" hit the headlines.\n\nThe bright green non-native ring-necked parakeets now thrive across the UK.\n\nOriginally from Africa, it has become a successful invasive species in 34 countries on five continents, the study's lead author, the late Steven Le Comber, says.\n\nIn 2016 there were more than 8,500 breeding pairs of parakeets, mostly in south-east England\n\nAs well as the rumour from the Bogart and Hepburn classic, in 1951, another suggests that a flock kept at Syon Park escaped when a plane crashed through the aviary roof, in the 1970s.\n\nHowever, the researchers found their spread across the UK is more mundanely down to repeated intentional releases and not to do with publicity stunts.\n\nNumerous sensational accounts of human deaths due to psittacosis infections from birds were published in 1929.\n\nA Daily Herald report in 1952 warns of infections from parakeets\n\nAnd in 1932, the Middlesex County Times reported parakeets had been spotted in Epping Forest, with the paper blaming the \"parrot disease scare\" of 1931 for the observations in the wild.\n\n\"Scary\" health stories often prompt a strong public reaction, said Sarah Elizabeth Cox, postgraduate history student at Goldsmiths.\n\n\"If you were told you were at risk being near one, it would be much easier to let it out the window than to destroy it,\" she said.\n\nThis latest study used geographic profiling, a statistical technique originally developed in criminology to prioritise large lists of suspects in cases of serial crime, to analyse spatial patterns of parakeet sightings.\n\nWhen applied to biological data, the model can identify the origin sites of diseases or introduction sites of invasive, non-native species.\n\nRumours said after the movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn was shot, parakeets used were released from the UK studios\n\nNone of the \"suspect sites\" connected to origin myths showed up prominently in the geoprofile of more than 5,000 unique records dating from 1968 - 2018.\n\nBy 1961, birds were more popular pets than cats and dogs in the UK, with 11 million birds in captivity, of various species, and it seems obvious there would be an increase in escapes, researchers said.\n\nThe bird is considered non-native as it was introduced by human activity\n• None 'Most northerly' parrots cause flap in park\n• None BBC - Earth - These small birds are common in London but nobody knows why\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "Asian stock markets rose on Friday as the US and China moved toward striking a trade deal to avert a new round of tariffs.\n\nThe deal could be announced later in the day, after US President Donald Trump reportedly signed off on the terms.\n\nWashington is said to have agreed to remove some tariffs, while Beijing would boost purchases of US farm goods.\n\nHowever, many of the more difficult issues are still to be addressed.\n\nOptimism surrounding a trade deal pushed Asian markets higher, with Japan's Nikkei 225 index rising 2.3% while Hong Kong's Hang Seng put on 2%. The Shanghai Composite added 1.2%.\n\nEarlier, US markets also gained ground with the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq closing at fresh record highs.\n\n\"It's a good starting point,\" Chamber of Commerce head of international affairs Myron Brilliant told broadcaster CNBC after meeting with White House officials.\n\nA deal would deliver a victory to Mr Trump, who is under political pressure, with debate on his impeachment underway in the US Congress.\n\nHe tweeted on Thursday that the US and China were \"very\" close to an agreement.\n\n\"They want it and so do we!\" he wrote.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPrevious truces have collapsed and without a formal announcement or presentation of a written agreement, many remained wary.\n\nThe US reportedly offered to halve tariff rates on about $350bn (£260bn) worth of Chinese goods, some of which had climbed as high as 25%.\n\nHowever, the deal is not expected to address many of the more difficult issues that triggered the fight, like China's subsidies for certain industries.\n\n\"This should NOT be described as a trade agreement,\" Jennifer Hillman, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a former trade official, wrote on Twitter.\n\n\"It is a purchase and sale agreement that does virtually nothing to address substantive concerns of US (+rest of the world) with China's trade practices.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Trump has repeatedly declared progress toward a deal that would end the trade war, which has seen tariffs imposed on more than $450bn worth of US-China trade and weighed on the global economy.\n\nIn October, he announced that the two sides had agreed to terms for a \"Phase One\" deal, but negotiations dragged on.\n\nWithout progress, the US had threatened to impose tariffs on more than $150bn worth of Chinese exports on 15 December.\n\nUnlike earlier rounds of tariffs, this one was slated to fall largely on everyday items, including smartphones, children's books, footwear and clothing, heightening the economic stakes, since the US economy is driven by consumer spending.\n\nOptimism about a trade deal may be running high, but it's worth casting your mind back to why Mr Trump started this trade war with China in the first place.\n\nIt was about levelling the playing field, he declared during his campaign, and to stop Beijing's unfair trade practices.\n\nThe US said China unfairly subsidises its firms, and steals intellectual property from American companies which gives China an unfair advantage.\n\nIt's unclear whether these issues will be in the final text of any agreement. Which means that Mr Trump's trade war has yet to achieve what it set out to.\n\nMeanwhile, economic growth forecasts around the world have been cut, companies have had to shift their supply chains out of China, and businesses have struggled to make hiring and expansion decisions in the face of trade war uncertainty.\n\nWashington's advantage over China has always been the threat of more tariffs. Suspending or rolling them back could be giving away the only leverage Mr Trump has, risking a deal with actual substance in favour of a quick and easy win.", "Online orders account for billions of square metres of cardboard every year. Many objects packed very inefficiently, leading to waste.\n\nHowever, a new machine being trialled in Dijon, France, can customise cardboard boxes for specific objects. Emma Simpson was given an exclusive tour by Alex Manisty of DS Smith.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch clips from the BBC Sound Of 2020 nominees\n\nA selection of bedroom musicians, indie bands and retro-futuristic soul singers are being tipped for success on BBC Music's Sound of 2020 list.\n\nThe longlist features 10 rising acts, from punk-pop firebrand Yungblud to soul-baring songwriter Celeste.\n\nOther nominees include DIY musician Beabadoobee, who is signed to the same management company as The 1975; and Dublin rock band Inhaler, fronted by Bono's son Elijah Hewson.\n\nThe winner will be revealed in January.\n\nNow in its 18th year, the Sound of... list showcases the hottest new artists for the coming year. Past winners includes Adele, Sam Smith, Years & Years, 50 Cent, Sigrid and, earlier this year, Octavian.\n\nIt is voted for by 170 music critics, broadcasters and DJs, as well as former nominees such as Billie Eilish, Lewis Capaldi and Chvrches.\n\nCeleste has been hotly tipped following the success of her heart-rending single Strange\n\nThe 2020 selection sees a retreat from grime and UK rap, which had established a strong presence on the list over the last five years.\n\nIn their place are a clutch of female artists who represent the rise of British R&B - from the sweet-but-gritty sounds of Joy Crookes to the soulful poetry of Arlo Parks.\n\nBut the one to beat is Celeste, a \"shy singer with a star's voice\", who has already won the Brits' Rising Star award and been named BBC Music Introducing's artist of the year.\n\nHailing from Dublin, Inhaler have built an impressive live following since forming at school over a shared love of bands like Joy Division, The Strokes, The Stone Roses and The Cure.\n\nOnce you know the U2 connection, it's hard not to notice the similarities between Eli Hewson's soaring vocals and those of his father - but the band have worked hard to stand on their own two feet.\n\n\"For me and for us as a band, we've known that there's going to be doors open,\" Hewson told the NME. \"But those doors will shut just as fast as they open if we're not good.\"\n\nThey're not the only act on the longlist with famous connections. Georgia, who scored a major club hit this year with About Work The Dancefloor, is the daughter of Leftfield's Neil Barnes, while Yungblud is the grandson of Rick Harrison, who played with T Rex in the 1970s.\n\nYungblud has built up a huge following with singles like Original Me and 11 Minutes\n\nThe Doncaster-born singer is the most high-profile name on the 2020 longlist, with 11 million monthly listeners on Spotify - more than all the other artists combined.\n\nBorn Dominic Harrison, the 22-year-old has positioned himself as the voice of a generation, singing about topics like sexual assault, corporate greed, anxiety and \"the underrated youth\".\n\n\"I never want to be predictable,\" he told the BBC earlier this year. \"If people know what I'm going to do next, then I'm completely shafted.\"\n\nSensitive singer-songwriter Joesef, meanwhile, has been branded one to watch in Scotland - where he became the second artist to sell out Glasgow's legendary King Tut's Wah Wah Hut before releasing any music online (the first was Lewis Capaldi).\n\nThe longlist is completed by two bands who defy categorisation - Leicester quintet Easy Life, who started out as jazz musicians before exploring the outer reaches of hip-hop, funk and pop; and Brighton's Squid, who describe their music as \"the Coronation Street theme tune played on flutes by angry children\".\n\nThe annual Sound of list celebrates musicians who have not been the lead artist on a UK top 10 single or album by 21 October 2019. Artists who have appeared on TV talent shows within the last three years are also ineligible.\n\nThe top five will be revealed in the New Year on BBC Radio 1 and BBC News, with one artist announced each day from Sunday 5 January until the winner is unveiled on Thursday 9 January.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and is now in an 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK effectively remains in the EU's customs union and single market and continues to obey EU rules.\n\nHowever, it is no longer part of the political institutions. So, for example, there are no longer any British MEPs in the European Parliament.\n\nNegotiations on a trade deal with the EU have been proceeding for several months. The UK wants as much access as possible for its goods and services to the EU.\n\nBut the government has made clear that the UK must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBoth sides say there a still significant areas of disagreement - for example, on EU proposals for a so-called \"level playing field\", which would see the UK and EU maintain similar minimum standards on things like workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nThe deadline for the two sides to agree an extension to the transition period has now passed.\n\nIf no trade deal has been agreed and ratified by the end of the year, then the UK faces the prospect of tariffs on exports to the EU.\n\nThe prime minister has argued that as the UK is completely aligned to EU rules, the negotiation should be straightforward. But critics have pointed out that the UK wishes to have the freedom to diverge from EU rules so it can do deals with other countries - and that makes negotiations more difficult.\n\nIt's not just a trade deal that needs to be sorted out. The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement. The UK is set to leave the European Arrest Warrant scheme and will have to agree a replacement. It must also agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.\n\nIt's also important to recognise that major changes will take effect on 1 January 2021 whether or not a trade deal is agreed. Free movement of people will end and businesses trading with the EU will have to follow new rules.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "Jaden Moodie was the youngest murder victim in London this year\n\nA man has been found guilty of murdering a 14-year-old boy in a \"violent and frenzied\" knife attack.\n\nJaden Moodie was knocked off a moped and repeatedly stabbed by Ayoub Majdouline in Bickley Road, Leyton, in January.\n\nJurors heard the defendant's DNA was found on a knife and yellow washing-up gloves, which had been thrown into a drain.\n\nMajdouline, from Wembley, north London, is due to be sentenced on 18 December.\n\nA jury of eight men and four women at the Old Bailey also found the 19-year-old guilty of having an offensive weapon.\n\nJaden was the youngest murder victim in London this year.\n\nMajdouline was one of five men linked to the stabbing who drove around east London in a stolen Mercedes looking for members of a rival gang to attack on the night of 8 January, the court heard.\n\nAyoub Majdouline was found guilty of Jaden's murder by majority of 11 to one\n\nThe group, linked to drug gang the Mali Boys, had covered their faces and two of them, including Majdouline, wore yellow rubber gloves to avoid being identified, the jury was told.\n\nOnce they spotted Jaden, the Mercedes rammed into the teenager and knocked him off the moped before some of the gang members got out of the car and stabbed him while he lay on the ground.\n\nJaden, who was dealing drugs for rival gang the Beaumont Crew, suffered nine stab wounds and bled to death in the road as the attackers ran back to the car and sped off, the court heard.\n\nCCTV of the moment Jaden was knocked off a moped and stabbed to death was shown to jurors\n\nProsecutor Oliver Glasgow QC said: \"Fourteen seconds was all it took - Jaden did not stand a chance.\"\n\nHe told jurors the \"cowardly\" attack was part of a \"shocking wave of gang crime\" across London that attracted ever younger people.\n\nJurors heard the day before the murder, Majdouline was caught on CCTV at a Travelodge hotel in Walthamstow with the same distinctive Nike Air Max trainers he had been wearing during the knife attack on Jaden.\n\nBurnt clothes, including the trainers, were later found in a churchyard not far from the murder scene.\n\nMajdouline admitted dealing drugs for the Mali Boys but denied being present during the fatal attack.\n\nMajdouline captured on CCTV with a purple JD Sports bag found amongst the burnt piles of clothing\n\nAfter a troubled up-bringing, the defendant turned to county lines dealing \"to survive\", the court was told.\n\nHe had been caught with drugs and carrying knives, but despite serving time behind bars, went straight back to dealing.\n\nThe jury heard he was identified by the National Crime Agency in 2018 as a victim of \"modern slavery\", amid concerns of exploitation by older youths.\n\nJaden had also been in trouble with police since he was 13.\n\nHe was handed a youth conditional caution in March last year after police seized an air-powered pistol, Rambo knife and cannabis during an altercation in Nottingham.\n\nAccording to agreed facts read to the court, his mother moved her family to east London due to \"ongoing issues\" with youths.\n\nJaden's attackers burnt the clothes they wore during the stabbing in a churchyard not far from the murder scene\n\nJaden's family said \"yes\" and appeared emotional in court as Majdouline was convicted.\n\nFollowing the verdict, Det Ch Insp Dave Hillier, of the Met Police, described it as a \"cold-blooded\" murder.\n\nHe said Majdouline and the other attackers went out with \"the clear intention of causing, at the very least, serious harm to someone as they prowled the streets of Leyton looking for their target\".\n\nJaden's attackers \"tried to destroy any evidence, but they failed, and officers were soon able to link Majdouline to Jaden's murder\", he said.\n\nHe added: \"However, our work is not over yet. We know that there were five people in that black Mercedes and we will continue to work until all those responsible for Jaden's murder are brought to justice.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Election night could be a long one for financial market traders.\n\nThe most sensitive market to political events is almost always the value of the pound. And, given the political stakes could scarcely be higher, it could be very volatile as exit polls and results begin to come in.\n\nMarkets care A LOT about the outcome of the election, but why should we even discuss them - and what do we even mean when we say \"markets\"?\n\nMarkets is shorthand for the collective confidence that investors (individuals, pension funds, hedge funds) have in the financial prospects of a company, a country, a commodity, a currency, etc.\n\nWhen it comes to politics, markets react to the effect they think political events will have on the economic prospects of the UK.\n\nBut markets are not always right.\n\nMarkets - and most economists - think Brexit is overall a bad thing for the UK economy because it makes doing business with our largest and closest trading partner, the EU, more difficult and more expensive. The harder the Brexit, the worse for the economy and the currency.\n\nMarkets also think Labour proposals - to nationalise industries, force big firms to hand over a tenth of the company to workers and government, plus a plan to borrow hundreds of billions of pounds - is bad for business confidence, the economy and the pound.\n\nMarkets do matter because a fall in the pound tends to push up the cost of living, while falls in company share prices affect the value of pensions.\n\nWith these rough principles in mind, let's take a look at the potential market reaction to the most probable outcomes.\n\nA Conservative majority: The pound goes up, but by how much and for how long depends on size of majority.\n\nThis is the outcome the markets are currently predicting. The value of the pound has risen significantly since the summer, rising from $1.19 to over $1.32 as the majority of polls have pointed to a Tory majority and a functioning government. That lead in the polls has also reduced the chance of an outright labour victory, a result markets dislike more than Brexit.\n\nHowever, even if markets get the Tory majority they expect, it doesn't mean that markets will be calm. A great deal depends on the size of that majority.\n\nA very small majority, some argue, would give hard line Brexiters more influence over negotiations with the EU and prevent the PM from extending the transition period, thereby increasing the likelihood of leaving the EU without a deal in December 2020 - an outcome that investors consider bad for the UK economy and consequently the value of the pound.\n\nOthers argue that the Tory party is a lot more stable than it was. Rebel MPs have been crushed and all have signed up to Johnson's deal in blood as the price of standing in the election. Whatever you think, it seems uncontroversial to say that the bigger the majority, the more short-term certainty for the direction of travel.\n\nBased on soundings from foreign exchange traders a solid majority (say 25-plus) see pound rise a bit ($1.33). A big win could see it rise a bit more ($1.35-$1.40) while a slim majority or falling short altogether would potentially see a sharp fall in the pound back towards $1.20-$1.25.\n\nA Labour-led coalition: Short term fall for pound but supported by potential path to reversing Brexit.\n\nThe process of assembling a coalition, choosing a leader, the possibility of a second referendum - with a potentially different result - would create uncertainty in the short term and stall business investment further. The pound would probably fall in value in the short term. However, markets have consistently delivered the message: the closer the UK is to the EU, the better for the economy - and therefore the pound might find some support after an initial dip.\n\nA Labour Party in coalition with other parties would probably have to ditch some of the more radical proposals (mass nationalisations, etc) that the markets don't like. No radical overhaul of capitalism and a potential route to a softer or non-existent Brexit would probably create a bit of a short term shock, but it wouldn't lead to a bloodbath.\n\nHowever, some say the price of the SNP joining a Labour-led coalition would be a promise for a second Scottish referendum. A possible fracture in the UK could add another whole level of uncertainty and political angst, which would offset any hopes for a softer Brexit.\n\nAn outright labour majority: The most radical overhaul of the way business and the economy is run in decades. Pound falls very sharply.\n\nThis would come as a big surprise to markets - and they hate those. It's not just the element of surprise - markets fear Labour's plans to nationalise large swathes of the economy and change the ownership of companies, etc, would spook investors.\n\nTraders expect that would lead to a sharp fall in the pound and the price of shares in the companies they want to nationalise, which would hit savers and workers' pensions.\n\nIn summary, markets know they are not oracles but they don't react well to being wrong and can act with a violent jerk of the knee when that happens. The markets right now are balanced between fears and desires.\n\nA desire for the certainty of a functioning government, while fearing both a hard Brexit on one side and a makeover of capitalism on the other.", "Climate activist Greta Thunberg has changed her Twitter bio to mock US President Donald Trump's outrage at her winning Time Person of the Year 2019.\n\nHe said she had an \"anger management problem\" and should go to \"a good old fashioned movie with a friend\".\n\nShe then adapted her Twitter bio to say she was \"a teenager working on her anger management problem. Currently chilling and watching a good old fashioned movie with a friend\".\n\nThe Swedish 16-year-old was named as Time magazine's Person of the Year on Wednesday after leading a global movement against climate change.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis is not the first time she has changed her Twitter bio to reflect Mr Trump and other leaders' criticism of her.\n\nOn Tuesday Ms Thunberg changed her bio to \"pirralha\" - the Portuguese word for brat - after Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro criticised her highlighting the plight of Brazil's indigenous people.\n\n\"Greta's been saying Indians have died because they were defending the Amazon,\" Mr Bolsonaro told reporters. \"It's amazing how much space the press gives this kind of pirralha.\"\n\nIn October she changed the bio to \"a kind but poorly informed teenager\". This was exactly how Russian President Vladimir Putin had described her at a conference in Moscow.\n\nIn September President Trump posted a video of her speaking emotionally at the UN conference and sarcastically commented: \"She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future.\"\n\nShe changed her bio accordingly: \"A very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "\"This year I have taken two hangover days when I've been out with my friends, and I've taken three from when I've been out on work nights.\"\n\nEllie is 19 and works as a PR manager for a digital marketing agency. Like a growing number of employers, her boss offers flexible working arrangements, including flexible hours and unlimited holiday.\n\nIt also lets employees take \"hangover days\" where they work from the comfort of their own sofa - or even bed.\n\n\"The perk has a lot in it,\" Ellie told BBC 5 Live's Wake Up To Money. \"It is about honesty, it's about people being able to not lie to their managers.\n\n\"But also, the idea behind it is that parents have a lot of perks at our business but there are not necessarily any for people who don't have children.\n\n\"So this is a perk for people who don't have kids.\"\n\nEllie's boss is Claire Crompton, co-founder and director of The Audit Lab. The company is based in Bolton and she says that offering attractive perks is key to attracting talent out of Manchester.\n\n\"We wanted to offer something to younger millennials who typically go out mid-week and do the pub quiz. My team book a hangover day in advance, if they know they are going out.\n\n\"They just work in their PJs, sat at home on the couch,\" she said.\n\nClaire Crompton (purple dress) and some of her team at Audit Lab\n\nClaire added: \"If people used it two or three times a week and missed important client meetings then we'd have to have a think. But everyone has been really respectful of it so far.\n\n\"It's basically a work-from-home day, but we've sexed it up a bit to appeal to the younger generation,\" she said. \"It promotes honesty as well.\"\n\nFor Claire, one of the motivations is the expectation that staff will sometimes go out in the evening for work events and client entertainment.\n\nAbout 84% of official workplace social events involve alcohol, according to research carried out for the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, and shown exclusively to Wake Up To Money.\n\nWith the Christmas party season in full flow, 40% of businesses that are planning a Christmas event say that alcohol will be freely available and paid for by the company, while 39% say alcohol will be available to buy with no limit.\n\nThe impact can be positive and negative. Four out of 10 HR managers surveyed said that alcohol can cause problems at work. But almost 50% of the managers said having some drinks at social events had a positive effect on morale and team bonding.\n\nDr Jill Miller, diversity and inclusion adviser at the CIPD, thinks the branding could cause concerns.\n\n\"Focusing on flexible working is really positive, especially showing it's not just for working parents,\" she says. \"Looking at why each age group wants flexibility is important.\n\n\"But labelling them as 'hangover days' might not be as helpful if it's encouraging excessive alcohol consumption. Employers have a duty of care and need to consider that when designing policies. Is it promoting drinking? I'd suggest a rethink on the labelling.\"\n\nEllie says it's not a benefit anyone would think to abuse. She said: \"Everyone is pretty much the same, they take them as and when they need them, no one really takes the mick or takes too many. Everyone just used them when they're needed.\n\n\"Most recently, I was on a date night with my partner. We'd just gone out to a restaurant and we'd had a bottle of wine, and then a few of my friends were out and I thought 'well, we'll go to the pub with them'.\n\n\"Before you know it, we'd had a few and we got back a bit late. So the next morning I rang Claire and I just said: 'I am feeling a bit worse for wear.'\n\nClaire Crompton co-founder and director of The Audit Lab\n\n\"I would have been more embarrassed trying to pretend that I was ill. If I'd had to ring her and pretend to be ill I would have felt really bad every time I saw her and would have had to keep up a lie.\n\n\"Because I knew I was just being honest with her I wasn't embarrassed at all,\" she said.\n\nFlexitime is a well-recognised benefit, and unlimited holiday is slowly gathering traction. But most of us will have to make it through December without hangover days as a workplace perk.\n\nHear an interview with Claire Crompton and her employee Ellie by downloading the Wake Up To Money podcast.", "SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon was in buoyant mood as she arrived at the Glasgow count\n\nThe SNP has made big gains across Scotland, with Nicola Sturgeon saying the country had sent a \"clear message\" on a second independence referendum.\n\nThe party won 48 seats after securing 45% of the vote - 8.1% more than in the last general election in 2017, when it won 35 seats.\n\nThe SNP also defeated Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson in East Dunbartonshire.\n\nMs Sturgeon said the result had exceeded her expectations.\n\nThe Conservatives have won six seats, the Liberal Democrats four and Labour one.\n\nNeale Hanvey's victory in Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath is counted as an SNP gain from Labour because he was on the ballot paper as an SNP candidate.\n\nMr Hanvey had been suspended by the party over allegations he made anti-Semitic posts on social media, and will sit as an independent MP.\n\nThe Conservatives and Prime Minister Boris Johnson have won an overall majority across the UK after taking a string of former Labour strongholds in England and Wales.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said it was a \"very disappointing night for the Labour Party\" and confirmed he would not lead the party into the next election.\n\nThe other main developments from Scotland's election night include:\n\nMs Sturgeon, the Scottish first minister, had already pledged to send a letter to the prime minister before Christmas requesting that Holyrood be given the power to hold indyref2.\n\nSpeaking at the Glasgow count, she said she would not pretend that everyone who voted for her party will necessarily support independence.\n\nBut she said it was a \"clear endorsement Scotland should get to decide our future and not have it decided for us\".\n\nMs Sturgeon added: \"Scotland has sent a very clear message - we don't want a Boris Johnson government, we don't want to leave the EU.\n\n\"The results across the rest of the UK are grim but underlines the importance of Scotland having a choice.\n\n\"Boris Johnson has a mandate to take England out of the EU but he must accept that I have a mandate to give Scotland a choice for an alternative future.\"\n\nNicola Sturgeon says she won't pretend that every single person who voted SNP necessarily supports independence. But she will insist this result is a thumping endorsement of her demand for a second referendum.\n\nShe will make an official request in the next few days to be granted the legal power to hold an independence vote.\n\nAnd we know that Boris Johnson will refuse, sparking a huge debate about whether the Conservatives are ignoring the democratic choice of Scottish voters.\n\nIt's a debate that can only escalate as we leave the EU - and one which may fuel support for independence itself.\n\nScottish Secretary Alister Jack, who held Dumfries and Galloway for the Conservatives, said more people cast votes for unionist parties in Scotland than for the SNP.\n\nAnd he was adamant the prime minister should continue to block Ms Sturgeon's calls for power to hold an independence ballot.\n\nThe Conservative vote had fallen by 3.5% to 25.1% across Scotland, while the Labour vote was down by 8.5% to 18.6%. The Liberal Democrat vote actually increased by 2.8% to 9.5% despite the loss of the party's leader.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon: \"I have a mandate to offer that choice\"\n\nRutherglen and Hamilton West was the first Scottish constituency to declare its result at 01:25, with Margaret Ferrier - who previously held the seat between 2015 and 2017 - polling 23,775 votes, giving her a majority of 5,230 over her Labour rival Ged Killen.\n\nThat early success was quickly followed by the SNP's David Doogan defeating Conservative Kirstene Hair in Angus.\n\nJohn Nicolson won the Ochil and South Perthshire seat after defeating Luke Graham of the Conservatives, while the SNP also won back Midlothian from Labour's Danielle Rowley,\n\nThe SNP's Mhairi Black comfortably held her Paisley and Renfrewshire South seat with a greatly increased majority, while Kenny MacAskill, the former Scottish justice secretary, won the East Lothian seat from Labour.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jo Swinson lost her seat in Dunbartonshire East to the SNP\n\nSNP MEP Alyn Smith won Stirling from Stephen Kerr of the Conservatives, but Scottish Secretary Alister Jack held Dumfries and Galloway for the Tories.\n\nDouglas Ross also held his Moray seat for the Conservatives, while his colleague David Mundell held Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale.\n\nThe SNP's Stephen Gethins lost by 1,316 votes to Wendy Chamberlain of the Liberal Democrats in Fife North East. Mr Gethins had won the seat by just two votes in 2017.\n\nAnd Labour's Ian Murray held on in Edinburgh South, meaning he is the party's only MP in Scotland.\n\nMr Murray, a longstanding critic of Mr Corbyn, warned that his party's ideology must change or else it will \"die\" and said voters he spoke to on the doorsteps during this campaign did not see Mr Corbyn as prime minister and could not see Labour as a credible alternative government.\n\nFor a nationwide breakdown of results, see our results page.\n\nOr you can browse the A-Z list.\n\nThe SNP are once again the undoubted winners of the night, taking a slew of seats from their opponents including a big scalp in the form of Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson.\n\nThe party haven't had it all their own way - running up against Tory resistance in a few seats and losing North East Fife to the Lib Dems - but Nicola Sturgeon's team have piled on thousands of votes in every seat and have already secured a landslide.\n\nLabour, meanwhile, have collapsed across Scotland, with their share of the vote down sharply. They even lost the shadow Scottish secretary, Lesley Laird, to a candidate disowned by the SNP and who will sit as an independent.\n\nThe Conservatives have clinched victory UK-wide, but have lost a clutch of Scottish seats to the SNP - and will be wondering what this means for their campaign to \"stop indyref2\".\n\nThe Lib Dem vote share is up in most places, but any progress will be massively overshadowed by the loss of Ms Swinson. The party's leader has just gone from touting herself as a future prime minister to losing her seat for the second time in four years.", "This previously unpublished picture shows London Bridge soon after the attacker was shot - with the bus on the right that was hit\n\nA ricochet from a police bullet could have passed through the entire top deck of a bus during the London Bridge terror attack, pictures reveal.\n\nThe police have suggested a ricochet could have hit the bus, stopped near to where attacker Usman Khan was shot.\n\nA picture given to BBC News by an eye witness on the bus behind shows a round hole and a shattered back window.\n\nBut a closer examination of other photos from the bridge reveals a hole in the front window of the bus as well.\n\nThe front window of the bus also appears to have been hit - with a forensic examination taking place\n\nThe eye witness, who does not want to be named, believes the bus he was on was also clipped.\n\nHe was at the front of the upper deck when he saw, heard and felt the impact of the back window of the bus in front shattering, and immediately dived to the floor.\n\n\"We are talking about a split-second of noise,\" he said.\n\nThe picture given to BBC News by a passenger on the bus directly behind shows a round hole and a shattered back window\n\n\"In no more than a half-a-second I was on the floor.\"\n\nIt suggests there was more of a fortunate near miss than had previously been recognised - and might explain how the ricocheting bullet had reached the back window.\n\nArmed officers shot Khan after he had been tackled by members of the public using improvised weapons including fire extinguishers and a narwhal tusk.\n\nKhan had been chased from nearby Fishmongers' Hall, after a knife attack in which he had killed Jack Merritt and Saskia Jones, who had been working at a prison rehabilitation event at the hall.\n\nThe damage to the bus seems to have happened after the initial shots that had stopped Khan, raising questions about further shots that might have been fired.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct, which is investigating, said that establishing the cause of damage to the bus was \"a line of enquiry for us\".\n\nDr Rachel Bolton-King, associate professor of forensic science at Staffordshire University says the specifics of what happened will have to be established by the formal investigation.\n\nBut she says it might be possible for a ricocheted bullet to \"pass through one window, through the length of the bus and out the window at the opposite end of the bus\".\n\n\"Ricochet bullets are often unstable once they have hit their first target surface,\" she said.\n\nA close-up shows the hole in the front window of the bus, along with the reflections of nearby buildings\n\nThey could continue \"nose on\" in the normal direction of flight but could also be deflected sideways or into other angles.\n\nAnd investigators would be able to find the direction of travel by examining the front and back surfaces of the window.\n\nPhilip Boyce, of forensic services company Forensic Equity, said the bullet could have entered through the front window and glanced off the ceiling of the bus before going out through the back.\n\nRicochets could carry for hundreds of yards, depending on the surfaces they hit but well within the distance between the bus and the site of Khan's shooting, he said.\n\nAnd their path could be altered by what they hit or passed through, such as laminated or toughened glass.\n\nTransport for London confirmed that a bus was damaged during the incident - with the Metropolitan police suggesting that it could have been a ricochet from a police bullet.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BedMachine Antarctic: Fly over the new map\n\nThe deepest point on continental Earth has been identified in East Antarctica, under Denman Glacier.\n\nThis ice-filled canyon reaches 3.5km (11,500ft) below sea level. Only in the ocean are the valleys deeper still.\n\nThe discovery is illustrated in a new map of the White Continent that reveals the shape of the bedrock under the ice sheet in unprecedented detail.\n\nIts features will be critical to our understanding of how the polar south might change in the future.\n\nThe new map, called BedMachine Antarctica, shows, for example, previously unrecognised ridges that will impede the retreat of melting glaciers in a warming world; and, alternatively, a number of smooth, sloping terrains that could accelerate withdrawals.\n\n\"This is undoubtedly the most accurate portrait yet of what lies beneath Antarctica's ice sheet,\" said Dr Mathieu Morlighem, who's worked on the project for six years.\n\nDenman's deep trough (dark blue) is 20km wide and 100km long - all filled with ice\n\nThe University of California, Irvine, researcher is presenting his new compilation here at the American Geophysical Union's Fall Meeting. It is also being published simultaneously in the journal Nature Geoscience.\n\nThe map essentially fills all of the gaps in airborne surveys of the continent.\n\nFor decades, radar instruments have crisscrossed Antarctica, sending down microwave pulses to peer through the ice and trace the underlying rock topography. But there are still vast areas for which there is little or no data.\n\nDr Morlighem's solution has been to use some physics - mass conservation - to plug these holes.\n\nFor instance, if it's known how much ice is entering a narrow valley and how fast it's moving - the volume of that ice can be worked out, giving an insight into the depth and roughness of the hidden valley floor.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mathieu Morlighem: \"The shape of the underlying bedrock influences how glaciers flow\"\n\nFor the 20km-wide Denman Glacier, which flows towards the ocean in Queen Mary Land, this approach reveals the ice to be descending to over 3,500m below sea level.\n\n\"The trenches in the oceans are deeper, but this is the deepest canyon on land,\" explained Dr Morlighem.\n\n\"There have been many attempts to sound the bed of Denman, but every time they flew over the canyon - they couldn't see it in the radar data.\n\n\"The trough is so entrenched that you get side-echoes from the walls of the valley and they make it impossible to detect the reflection from the actual bed of the glacier,\" he told BBC News.\n\nFor comparison, the deepest ocean point - in the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific - goes to just shy of 11km below the sea surface. There are land canyons that can be described as having taller sides, such as Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon in China, but their floors are above sea level.\n\nThe lowest exposed land on Earth, at the Dead Sea shore, is a mere 413m (1,355ft) below sea level.\n\nByrd Glacier is a giant ice stream that cuts through the Transantarctic Mountains\n\nMuch of what is in BedMachine Antarctica may not - at first glance - look that different from previous bedmaps. But, on closer inspection, there are some fascinating details that will generate considerable discussion among polar experts.\n\nFor example, along the Transantarctic Mountains there is a series of glaciers that cut through from the continent's eastern plateau and feed into the Ross Sea. The new data shows a high ridge sits under these glaciers that will limit the speed at which they can drain the plateau. This will be important if future warming destabilises the floating shelf of ice that currently sits on top of the Ross Sea. Removal of this platform would ordinarily be expected to speed up the flow of feeding glaciers.\n\n\"If something happened to the Ross Sea Ice Shelf - and right now it's fine, but if something happened - it will most likely not trigger the collapse of East Antarctica through these 'gates'. If East Antarctica is threatened, it's not from the Ross Sea,\" Dr Morlighem said.\n\nAirborne instruments are used to map Antarctica, but there are still huge data gaps\n\nIn contrast to the situation in the Transantarctic Mountains, BedMachine Antarctica finds few impediments to the rapid retreat of Thwaites Glacier. Roughly the size of the UK, this mighty ice stream terminates in the Amundsen Sea in the west of the continent.\n\nIt worries scientists because it sits on a bed that slopes back towards the land - a geometry that tends to assist thinning and withdrawal. And the new map reveals only two ridges, some 30km and 50km upstream of Thwaites' current grounding line, that could act as potential brakes. Go past these and the melting glacier's pull-back could be unstoppable.\n\nBedMachine Antarctica will be fed into climate models that try to project how the continent might evolve as temperatures on Earth rise in the coming centuries.\n\nGetting realistic simulations out of these models depends on having more precise information on the thickness of the ice sheet and the type of terrain over which it must slide.\n\nCo-worker Dr Emma Smith from Germany's Alfred Wegener Institute uses this analogy: \"Imagine if you poured a bunch of treacle on to a flat surface and watched how it flowed outwards. Then pour the same treacle on to a surface with a lot of lumps and bumps, different slopes and ridges - the way the treacle would spread out would be very different. And it's exactly the same with the ice on Antarctica,\" she told BBC News.\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "Pharmacists are calling for better regulation of products claiming to contain cannabis derivative CBD.\n\nThere has been a spike in demand within the last twelve months, according to manufacturers.\n\nNon-medicinal CBD is now on sale in High Street shops across the country, including chemists.\n\nBut the National Pharmacy Association says the products need clearer information and better checks on content.\n\nCBD - cannabidiol - isn't marketed as medicinal cannabis. It doesn't have a psychoactive element that makes the user high.\n\nSome studies indicate it can help with childhood epilepsy seizures, and other people think it helps them too.\n\nCannabidiol oil is being added to a range of products - from water, to chocolate, to make-up, tea and coffee.\n\nManufacturers claim sales in the UK are as much as £300m at the moment.\n\nIt's illegal to print any health claims on the products, but it's a grey area as to who checks the ingredients, or the amount of CBD oil actually contained in each product, many of which can be very expensive.\n\nJasmine Shah from the National Pharmacy Association, which represents hundreds of independent pharmacies, says an increasing number of pharmacists are stocking CBD products, despite the fact that she says \"at the moment there is very limited research on the safety and efficacy of these products\".\n\nShe says pharmacists would like \"clear authoritative guidance which makes it easy for healthcare professions, consumers and patients to make informed choices\".\n\nCBD is classed as a food supplement, so it's governed by the Food Standards Agency.\n\nBecause it's a brand-new type of food there's a grace period, where it's allowed to be sold in stores, but the FSA has now asked manufacturers to give specific information about the product.\n\nManufacturers will have to include important scientific details like what it contains, purity levels, manufacturing practices, as well as providing detailed information to demonstrate it is safe for people to consume.\n\nThe FSA says that despite ample time and repeated requests to CBD manufacturers they've not heard enough from any company in this multimillion pound industry to give them authorisation yet.\n\nThat leaves those selling the product in a difficult position. Ms Shah doesn't think that selling CBD in pharmacies gives the products extra legitimacy.\n\nShe says \"It's for each pharmacist to decide whether its suitable to stock a CBD product or not, but in terms of the safety and efficacy of it more research is required.\"\n\nThe Association for the Cannabinoid Industry is a new group representing around 20 CBD brands.\n\nIt says members are \"unequivocally committed to achieving Novel Foods status via the Food Standards Agency\".\n\nBut the FSA appears to be losing patience with the industry and said it expects \"companies to comply with the novel foods process, which includes submitting safety information about their products\".\n\n\"The FSA is considering the best way to ensure CBD food-related products currently on the market move towards compliance,\" it added.\n\nIn the meantime, customers buying any CBD product have no guarantees if the product is safe, or indeed if it contains any CBD oil at all.", "Ben Roberts orders takeaways five or six nights a week - and he often orders food to the office at lunchtime as well.\n\nThe 25-year-old software salesman reckons that some months he and his girlfriend might spend as much as £1,600 on takeaways.\n\nHe says that, on average, they will spend between £30 and £35 a night on an evening meal, and he'll also fork out around £6 a day for lunch.\n\nThey'll normally order Indian, Chinese or pizza but every so often they will go for the \"healthy\" option, like Nando's, he says.\n\nHe acknowledges that his food bill is extortionate but he blames \"disgusting\" hours and a windowless London kitchen for his reluctance to cook.\n\n\"It's inherent laziness,\" he says.\n\nPeople like Mr Roberts might explain why London tops the rankings for spending on takeaways.\n\nThe typical Londoner forks out £709 a year ordering in, significantly more than the UK average of £451, according to a study by KPMG.\n\nBehind London, the next biggest spenders on takeaway food are in Sheffield, where the average person spends £548 a year ordering in. People in Cardiff spend the least, forking out just over £200 for takeaways.\n\nTypically, people in the UK order 34 takeaways a year, spending between £10 and £15 a time.\n\nPerhaps surprisingly, the most common way to order is on the phone, with just 32% of people saying they turned to apps like Just Eat, Deliveroo or Uber Eats.\n\nBut not everyone is like Mr Roberts - 42% of people said a takeaway remains a treat.\n\nNevertheless, that is changing. In fact, the report's author, Will Hawkley, global head of leisure and hospitality at KPMG, said takeaways used to be reserved for a Friday night - but now his two kids pester him to order in more often.\n\n\"It's an overall lifestyle change,\" he says about the heavy spending on takeaways in the UK. \"People are just looking for more and more convenience, they're busier, working harder.\"\n\nThat's borne out by the numbers, with 29% of people saying they order in for convenience.\n\n\"The introduction of the apps and the ordering platforms have made it so much easier,\" Mr Hawkley says. But he also says there is an excitement attached to ordering food in, which is not necessarily matched by cooking at home.\n\nAnd that is helped by the range of options available. The survey showed that one in 20 people turned to take-out because of the variety of options available.\n\nBut it found that more than a fifth of people would order more often if there was a wider range of dishes on offer - and 25% said they wanted healthier dishes.\n\nMr Hawkley said the popularity of takeaway apps was changing the economics of High Street dining because restaurants can make money from their kitchen, even when its tables are empty.", "The haul was made up of some legal tender and some old notes\n\nStaff at a scrap metal dealer who found about £20,000 as they cut up a safe to be recycled will donate the money to charity after no-one claimed it.\n\nThe safe was being opened at Sackers, near Ipswich, when staff noticed one was stuffed with notes and coin bags.\n\nThe money has been in police stores since April waiting for the \"rightful owner\" but they did not come forward.\n\nIt will now be given to the East Anglian Children's Hospice (EACH) and St Elizabeth Hospice.\n\nDavid Dodds, managing director of the Great Blakenham-based dealer, said the two charities to receive the money, which is between £15,000 and £20,000, were \"very close to us\".\n\nThe cash was made up of some legal tender and some old notes and at the time it was found a spokeswoman for the yard said \"it had clearly been in there for many years as it was dusty and wet from being in the rain\".\n\nThe cash-stuffed safe was one of four being cut up for scrap\n\nMr Dodds said: \"The suspicion is it could have been an old factory that was due for demolition and it was in the corner of their offices. When it's demolished then all the scrap goes into the bin, comes into the works and then we treat it.\"\n\nThe money was handed over to police, who Mr Dodds said had told him \"one person came forward but within about 30 nanoseconds they realised they weren't the correct owner of it\".\n\nA magistrates' court has now decided that Sackers is the legal owner. The dealer will take the money to the Bank of England in London to transfer it to legal tender before handing it over to the charities.\n\nLiz Baldwin, corporate account executive for St Elizabeth Hospice, said it was \"an amazing discovery\".\n\n\"We're so pleased that they have decided to split the findings with the hospice and EACH,\" she said.\n\n\"It's such a lovely surprise for us just before Christmas.\"\n\nRachel Dally, EACH Suffolk corporate fundraising assistant, said \"we're very grateful to hear of the company's intention to make another such generous donation\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Champions League\n\nRyan Sessegnon marked his first Tottenham start with a goal but could not prevent Spurs from losing 3-1 to Bayern Munich in their final Champions League group game.\n\nBoth sides had already qualified for the last 16, with Bayern progressing as Group B winners and Tottenham going through as runners-up, and consequently they made numerous changes for Wednesday's encounter at the Allianz Arena.\n\nBayern beat Spurs 7-2 in their first meeting in this season's competition at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and took an early lead through Kingsley Coman.\n\nSpurs hit back soon after when Sessegnon showed great composure to bring a pass under control inside the area and rifle a powerful finish beyond Manuel Neuer.\n\nThomas Muller, on as a first-half substitute after Coman picked up an injury, then struck just before the break when he tapped in after Alphonso Davies had hit the post.\n\nPhilippe Coutinho went close to scoring a spectacular third for the hosts but his fierce drive from distance bounced off the underside of the crossbar before being cleared.\n\nThe former Liverpool forward got on the scoresheet in the second half when he curled into the bottom corner from the edge of the area.\n\nSpurs will face one of Barcelona, Juventus, Paris St-Germain, Valencia or RB Leipzig in the last 16, with the draw on Monday.\n\nAfter the game, Bayern said France forward Coman would be out for \"some time\" with a capsule tear in the left knee\".\n• None What have we learned in Champions League?\n• None Which teams are into Champions League last 16?\n\nWith qualification to the last 16 and positions in the group already sorted before this game, Spurs boss Jose Mourinho understandably opted to give his fringe and young squad players a chance to shine.\n\nAfter a testing start to his Spurs career, Sessegnon grasped his opportunity with both hands. The 19-year-old signed from Fulham on deadline day but a hamstring injury he picked up in the summer while with England Under-21s had limited him to just three first-team appearances from the bench.\n\nHe took just 20 minutes to make an impression in Munich, thundering an unstoppable strike past Neuer after first taking a touch to control Giovani lo Celso's deflected pass.\n\nAt 19 years and 207 days, Sessegnon became Spurs' youngest Champions League scorer and went on to put on an assured performance.\n\nHe was the standout player for an otherwise flat Spurs who struggled to compete against a Bayern team that barely got out of third gear.\n• None Bayern Munich became just the second club to win all six of their group games in a single Champions League campaign (in the competition's current format, since 2003-04) after Real Madrid, who have done so twice (in 2011-12 and 2014-15).\n• None By collecting maximum points (18) and a goal difference of +19 Bayern became the best group winner in the history of the competition.\n• None Spurs manager Jose Mourinho has lost each of his three away games at Bayern Munich, with all three coming in the Champions League in charge of different teams (3-2 with Chelsea, 2-1 with Real Madrid and 3-1 with Spurs).\n• None Bayern Munich have gone unbeaten at home in the Champions League group stage for the sixth consecutive campaign, winning 17 of their 18 games at the Allianz Arena since the 2014-15 season (D1).\n• None Spurs have conceded at least two goals in five of their six games under Jose Mourinho in all competitions (11 in total), including in all three of their away games.\n• None Bayern Munich's Thomas Muller scored his 28th Champions League goal at the Allianz Arena - only four players have ever scored more at a single venue in the competition (Lionel Messi at the Nou Camp and Cristiano Ronaldo, Raul and Karim Benzema at the Bernabeu).\n• None Ryan Sessegnon is the third-youngest player to score a Champions League goal under Jose Mourinho, after Carlos Alberto (19y 167d) and Mario Balotelli (18y 84d).\n\n'I learned important information' - what they said\n\nTottenham boss Jose Mourinho said: \"It would be unfair to speak about conclusions. No conclusions, just information and that is very important for me.\n\n\"Some of the players played their first minutes with me. Some of the players like Foyth was the first time he played.\n\n\"It was important to collect some information, information you normally collect in the season or in pre-season. I just arrived and I need information.\n\n\"I am happy with the decisions I made, I hope our supporters understand what I did. Internally we made this decision and we think it was the best decision for the team.\"\n\nTottenham return to Premier League action this weekend when they travel to Wolves on Sunday (14:00 GMT). Meanwhile, the draw for the last 16 of the Champions League is on Monday (11:00 GMT).\n• None Attempt saved. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ryan Sessegnon with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Son Heung-Min (Tottenham Hotspur) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Christian Eriksen with a through ball.\n• None Attempt saved. Philippe Coutinho (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Thiago.\n• None Attempt blocked. Serge Gnabry (FC Bayern München) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Thomas Müller.\n• None Attempt saved. Joshua Kimmich (FC Bayern München) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Attempt saved. Christian Eriksen (Tottenham Hotspur) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment, the older person’s bus pass and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* Rights for workers to be notified of their shifts one month in advance * The right to bereavement leave following a death in the immediate family * Lower cap on pension fund management fees * Tax breaks for companies that offer longer-term secure career contracts to staff\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* End the Work Capability Assessment and replace it with a system using qualified medical practitioners * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * No benefits paid to foreign nationals resident in the UK until they have paid tax for five years * Minimise the use of zero-hour contracts\n\n* £35 a week payment for every child in a low-income family * Tax credit of up to £25 a week for tenants in the private sector who spend more than 30% of their income on rent and utility bills * Powers over social security devolved to Wales * Abolish the \"bedroom tax\" * Universal free childcare for 40 hours a week\n\n* Demand UK government halts the rollout of Universal Credit until \"fundamental flaws\" are addressed * Oppose and increase to the state pension age and campaign against decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s * Press for the statutory living wage to rise to at least the level of the real living wage * Increase shared parental leave from 52 to 64 weeks, with the additional 12 weeks to be the minimum taken by the father * Make the minimum wage for 16 to 24-year-olds the same as for over 25s, and ban unpaid trial shifts\n\n* Stronger regulation of the gig economy, and oppose deregulation of employment rights * Stronger focus on careers advice * Support a fairer UK-wide welfare system and revised package of welfare mitigations for NI * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * Overhaul bereavement benefits\n\n* Personal tax allowance should rise in line with inflation each year * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 by the end of the parliamentary term * End the freeze on benefits by increasing them in line with inflation * Restore free television licences for over-75s but in the longer term abolish the licence fee entirely * Retain the pensions triple lock and retain winter fuel payments\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts * Introduce a real living wage * Establish a new \"welfare mitigation package\" that protects the most vulnerable\n\n* Increase childcare provision from 12.5 hours per week to 20 hours per week, potentially increasing to 30 hours once new budget is agreed * Regulation of zero-hours contracts * Introduce a \"true living wage\" to reflect rising costs of living * Scrap universal credit, the bedroom tax and the two-child limit * End the freeze on benefits\n\n* Extend mitigation measures on key issues such as the bedroom tax, which are due to expire in March * Restore TV licenses for over-75s and retain the triple-lock protection for pensions * Create and implement a new childcare strategy\n\n* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Increase the number of employers paying a living wage in Wales and introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system * New \"collective\" workplace pension schemes and new controls on transferring pensions and a review of state pension inequality for Waspi women\n\n* Introduce a real living wage of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16, giving about 700,000 Scottish workers a pay rise * Scrap universal credit and increase child benefit * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66 and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay\n\n* Reverse cuts to universal credit * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment * Introduce universal access to basic services * Increase provision of free meals for children, with a particular focus on breakfast * Increase access to free sanitary products\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts, close the gender pay gap, and ensure that everyone is paid a \"real living wage\" * Bring in a universal basic income * Remove differential rates of minimum wage for under-25s and introduce a living wage for everyone * Scrap universal credit * Support for the Waspi women (Women Against State Pension Inequality)\n\n* Scrap welfare reforms include PIP, Universal Credit and the bedroom tax * Develop a state-owned National Childcare Agency * Repeal all anti-trade union laws * Ban zero hours contracts and implement a real living wage\n\n* 40% of board members in public companies and public sector boards to be women * Worker representation to be established on the boards of larger companies * Ban “zero-hours” contracts * Increase child benefit", "The wife of a jailed banker is fighting to overturn the UK's first Unexplained Wealth Order (UWO).\n\nZamira Hajiyeva, who spent £16m in Harrods, faces losing her £15m Knightsbridge home and a Berkshire golf course to the National Crime Agency.\n\nHer husband is in prison in their native Azerbaijan for stealing millions from a state-owned bank he once headed.\n\nMrs Hajiyeva denies all allegations of wrongdoing and the Court of Appeal was told she has been unfairly targeted.\n\nJames Lewis QC, who is representing Mrs Hajiyeva, said the NCA's entire case was based on unsupported claims that she had benefited from political corruption.\n\n\"UWOs are available against 'politically exposed persons' and their families even in the absence of any reasonable grounds to suspect criminal activity on their part,\" said Mr Lewis in legal submissions.\n\n\"They are therefore the most draconian and intrusive powers available to financial investigators in the UK today - and by some margin.\"\n\nMrs Hajiyeva's husband, Jahangir Hajiyev, was given a 15-year jail sentence for corruption following an unjust trial and was not able to defend the source of the family's wealth in court in London, said Mr Lewis.\n\nHe added a judge's earlier conclusion that Mr Hajiyev was a potentially corrupt foreign official was flawed because he had merely headed a commercial bank with state shareholders, rather than a bank that was carrying out state functions.\n\nThat meant, argued Mr Lewis, Mrs Hajiyeva should no longer have to prove to the NCA where her wealth came from.\n\nDuring proceedings last year, the High Court was told that she spent an average of £4,000 a day in Harrods over 10 years to 2016 - spreading the cost of the jewellery and designer clothes over 54 credit cards, the majority issued by her husband's bank.\n\nIn fresh papers disclosed at the Court of Appeal, the National Crime Agency revealed new details about its concerns over the family's activities in London.\n\nThe documents state that following Mrs Hajiyeva's attempt last year to stop the UWO being imposed, her daughter, Leyla Mahmudova, took 49 items of jewellery worth £400,000 to the Christie's auction house.\n\n\"[Mrs Hajiyeva's] daughter attempted to sell high-value jewellery (some of which had been purchased by Mr Hajiyev), and that ZH is under investigation in Azerbaijan for fraudulently spending significant sums on air tickets, jewellery, tuition fees, beauty products, restaurants and hotels,\" said the NCA.\n\nJonathan Hall QC, for the agency, said its order simply required Mrs Hajiyeva to respond to reasonable suspicions - including why her home was owned by a company based in the British Virgin Islands.\n\nClaims that her husband had made his money selling fridge-freezers were wholly implausible, he added.\n\nA judgement in the case is expected next year.\n\nThe result will indicate whether this tool has a powerful enough legal punch to help seize billions of pounds worth of British property belonging to suspected corrupt foreign officials and their families.", "We have just all lived through some of the most turbulent times in politics any of us can remember.\n\nIf the exit poll is correct, and Boris Johnson has secured a majority, then he will have the backing of MPs on the green benches behind him to take us out of the European Union next month.\n\nA huge junction in our history - a moment that will redraw our place in the world.\n\nBut not just that - if correct, these numbers could mean five more years of a Conservative government - tipping across a decade.\n\nAfter the fourth defeat for Labour in a row - after several years when they have moved further to the left - this is a serious and historic loss.\n\nThe SNP have increased their dominance in Scotland, clearing out Conservatives there in a way that leaves most of the country yellow, rather than blue.\n\nAnd it is a failure for the Lib Dems to break through after a campaign that started with high hopes.\n\nIf these results are correct, this election has been won by a leader, Boris Johnson, who just a year ago was on the backbenches, with many of his own colleagues having written him off.\n\nBut it appears that his bid to hold Leave voters together and split the Remain vote has seen him safely into Downing Street.\n\nBut it is early. This is only the beginning of the night that will decide who has the power to make decisions that affect all of our lives.", "Days after a sudden eruption that has killed several visitors, the White Island volcano in New Zealand continues to spew gas and ash.\n\nThe volcanic activity has hindered search and recovery efforts, with bodies thought to still be on the island.\n\nThe BBC's Shaimaa Khalil took a helicopter ride to see the island, also known as Whakaari, and describes the scene.", "Whether you want to watch, listen, or follow the drama online or on social media, the BBC has you covered on election night.\n\nThe BBC News website will have results for every constituency as they are announced, with a postcode search, interactive map and scoreboards. Our politics live page will have minute-by-minute updates in text and video, as well as expert analysis as the night unfolds.\n\nThe BBC's Election 2019 results programme will be led by Huw Edwards on BBC One, the BBC News Channel, and BBC iPlayer. Edwards will be joined by Reeta Chakrabarti, Andrew Neil and Tina Daheley, as well as Jeremy Vine, who will also be in the studio with his famous swingometer.\n\nThe programme began at 21:55 GMT on Thursday and runs until 09:00 GMT on Friday, when Emily Maitlis takes the helm from Westminster, with Clive Myrie broadcasting from Downing Street, as the overall election result becomes clear.\n\nThe overnight programme is also being shown on BBC World News and streamed live on the BBC News website internationally.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Behind the scenes of the general election 2019\n\nLive coverage on BBC One Scotland started at 21:55 GMT on Thursday.\n\nResults will be displayed on a giant constituency map of the UK\n\nElection night on BBC One Wales began at 21:55 GMT on Thursday. It will also be broadcast live on BBC Radio Wales.\n\nCoverage on BBC One Northern Ireland begins at 21:55 GMT on Thursday and it joins with BBC One from 06:00 GMT on Friday\n\nBBC local radio stations will carry results and analysis overnight and throughout the day on Friday, with special programmes across the network. You can find your local station's schedule here.\n• None A really simple guide to the election", "Last updated on .From the section Europa League\n\nMason Greenwood scored twice as Manchester United got four in 11 minutes to defeat AZ Alkmaar and secure a seeding for the Europa League knockout phase.\n\nAfter a mundane first half, the game burst into life in the 53rd minute when Ashley Young drove home Juan Mata's cross for his first goal since February.\n\nGreenwood stole the headlines though, firing home from the edge of the box before producing a fine left-footed finish to end the scoring frenzy.\n\nIt was the first time the 18-year-old had scored two in a first-team game and took his overall tally for the season to six. He is now United's leading scorer in Europe this season and only Marcus Rashford has scored more in all competitions.\n\nIn between the striker's double, Mata converted a penalty for the Spain midfielder's first goal of the season.\n\nThe victory was United's biggest in Europe since 2016 when they beat another Dutch side, Feyenoord, by the same score and means they will avoid Benfica, Ajax and Inter Milan in Monday's last-32 draw.\n• None 'A killer in the box' - how good can Greenwood be?\n\nThe victory was United's third in a row in all competitions, coming after impressive triumphs against Tottenham and Manchester City.\n\nIt is only the third time United have done that since Ole Gunnar Solskjaer began his spell as United manager with eight successive wins after he replaced Jose Mourinho on 19 December last year.\n\nThe opening period lacked a competitive edge but Solskjaer will be delighted at the way it turned out, particularly as, from the team that started against Manchester City, only Harry Maguire and Martial kept their places.\n\nThis is crucial as, with a Carabao Cup quarter-final against Colchester in which they are overwhelming favourites, Solskjaer's side were starting what could turn out to be 19 games in 77 days, which will end with the second leg of their Europa League last-32 tie.\n\nThe volume of fixtures is one of the reasons why it is still felt United need to make signings when the transfer window opens next month.\n\nWhen they entertain Everton on Sunday, United will reach an astonishing 4,000 consecutive games where a player they have been responsible for developing has been part of their matchday squad.\n\nIt is a staggering statistic, one that dates back to October 1937 and a game against Fulham at Craven Cottage.\n\nTwo of their modern-day products are Tahith Chong and Greenwood, who shared the memorable experience of being introduced as late substitutes in the memorable Champions League victory at Paris St-Germain in March.\n\nGreenwood has bounded along since then. Against Alkmaar he made his seventh start in 18 overall appearances that have now yielded six goals. He is an automatic member of Solskjaer's matchday squad and in October signed a new contract that will keep him at Old Trafford until 2023.\n\nBy contrast, Chong has stalled. A Netherlands Under-21 player, he came on as a substitute here, his sixth appearance of the season - and only his second since 6 October. The midfielder's contract runs out at the end of the season and an extension offer remains unsigned amid rumours of excessive demands that United officials do not feel justify his performances.\n\nAt 20, Chong is nearly two years older than Greenwood and the suspicion is growing that an impactful United career might prove beyond him. He tried hard enough on Thursday but the quality showed by Greenwood was missing.\n\n'Greenwood is different class as a finisher' - what they said\n\n\"I told them to be more us [at half-time], be more Man United. I know it's difficult for players when you change but in the second half we just found a rhythm, made more passes forward, more runs forward, were pressing and got our goals.\"\n\n\"He's different class as a finisher, if there's anything around the box you expect him to get a shot off and on target, he's good at creating space for himself and right foot, left foot it doesn't matter. I'm very pleased with his performance.\n\n\"He's a different type to Wazza [Wayne Rooney] and the good thing about Mason is he is just going to look forward to Sunday. It's natural for him to score goals, it doesn't matter what level it is.\"\n• None Manchester United have won seven of their nine previous home games against Dutch sides in all competitions, keeping clean sheets in the last three.\n• None Juan Mata has been directly involved in three goals (one goal, two assists) in a single European match for the first time since March 2013, scoring once and assisting twice for Chelsea against Steaua Bucharest.\n• None Ashley Young has scored his first European goal for Manchester United since February 2012 when netting against Ajax.\n• None Only Marcus Rashford (13) has scored more goals than Mason Greenwood (six) in all competitions for Manchester United this season.\n• None Greenwood is the youngest player to score a double in major European competition for Manchester United, aged 18 years and 72 days.\n\nManchester United return to action in the Premier League on Sunday (14:00 GMT) when they welcome Everton to Old Trafford.\n• None Offside, AZ. Jordy Clasie tries a through ball, but Ferdy Druijf is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Mason Greenwood (Manchester United) right footed shot from the left side of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Nemanja Matic.\n• None Attempt blocked. Andreas Pereira (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Juan Mata.\n• None Attempt saved. Andreas Pereira (Manchester United) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner. Assisted by Mason Greenwood.\n• None Teun Koopmeiners (AZ) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Ethan Laird (Manchester United) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt saved. Calvin Stengs (AZ) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal. Assisted by Ferdy Druijf with a headed pass. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "This page has been archived and is no longer updated.\n\nFind out more about page archiving.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It's as if they just dropped down dead from the sky\"\n\nHundreds of birds found dead on a north Wales road are to be tested to discover how they died.\n\nAbout 225 starlings were discovered with blood on their bodies in a lane on Anglesey, North Wales Police said.\n\nDafydd Edwards, whose partner found the birds, said it was as if \"they had dropped down dead from the sky\".\n\nThe Animal and Plant Health Agency has collected them for testing and will examine whether they could have been poisoned.\n\nNorth Wales Police said it was investigating the \"very strange\" discovery and has appealed for information.\n\n\"We don't know how it has happened,\" said PC Dewi Evans.\n\nMr Edwards, 41, said his partner Hannah Stevens first saw the birds alive as she went to an appointment on Tuesday afternoon.\n\n\"She said she saw hundreds of them flying over and thought it looked amazing but on her way back around an hour later they were all dead in the road.\n\nThe birds have been collected for testing\n\nMs Stevens reported seeing the birds eating something in the road.\n\n\"I counted 150 last night but I gave up as there's just hundreds of them littered everywhere.\n\n\"It's as if they just dropped down dead from the sky.\"\n\nA spokesman for the RSPB said: \"This is obviously very concerning for us and we will await the test results.\n\n\"It would be inappropriate for us to speculate as to how they have died.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Sudd: Microbes in saturated soils will produce methane\n\nScientists think they can now explain at least part of the recent growth in methane (CH4) levels in the atmosphere.\n\nResearchers, led from Edinburgh University, UK, say their studies point to a big jump in emissions coming from just the wetlands of South Sudan.\n\nSatellite data indicates the region received a large surge of water from East African lakes, including Victoria.\n\nThis would have boosted CH4 from the wetlands, accounting for a significant part of the rise in global methane.\n\nPerhaps even up to a third of the growth seen in the period 2010-2016, when considered with East Africa as a whole.\n\n\"There's not much ground-monitoring in this region that can prove or disprove our results, but the data we have fits together beautifully,\" said Prof Paul Palmer.\n\n\"We have independent lines of evidence to show the Sudd wetlands expanded in size, and you can even see it in aerial imagery - they became greener,\" he told BBC News.\n\nMethane is a potent greenhouse gas, and - just like carbon dioxide - is increasing its concentration in the atmosphere.\n\nIt's not been a steady rise, however. Indeed, during the early 2000s, the amount of the gas even stabilised for a while. But then the concentration jumped in about 2007, with a further uptick recorded in 2014.\n\nCH4 (methane) is now climbing rapidly and today stands at just over 1,860 parts per billion by volume.\n\nThere's currently a debate about the likely sources, with emissions from human activities such as agriculture and fossil-fuel use undoubtedly in the mix. But there is a large natural component as well, and a lot of current research is centred on contributions from the tropics.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Lunt: \"There is still huge uncertainty about methane sources\"\n\nThe Edinburgh group has been using the Japanese GOSAT spacecraft to try to observe the greenhouse-gas behaviour over peatlands and wetlands in Africa, and found significant rises in methane emissions above South Sudan centred on the years 2011-2014.\n\nBelieving the region called the Sudd could be the culprit (soil microbes in wetlands are known to produce a lot of methane), the team started looking through other satellite data-sets to make the link.\n\nLand surface temperature observations supported the idea that soils in the region had become wetter; gravity measurements across East Africa also detected an increase in the weight of water held in the ground; and satellite altimeters had tracked changes in the height of lakes and rivers to the south.\n\n\"The levels of the East African lakes, which feed down the Nile to the Sudd, increased considerably over the period we were studying. It coincided with the increase in methane that we saw, and would imply that we were getting this increased flow down the river into the wetlands,\" explained Dr Mark Lunt.\n\nMuch of the extra water likely resulted as a consequence of dam releases upstream.\n\nTropomi detects a methane hotspot right over the Sudd (green square)\n\nThe Edinburgh group published its findings on Wednesday in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, and, as an update to the story, Dr Lunt is presenting new data here at the American Geophysical Union meeting.\n\nHe's been looking at methane observations made by the EU's Sentinel-5P satellite. Its Tropomi instrument sees CH4 at a finer resolution than GOSAT, and it's clear from the European mapper that methane emissions are still elevated over South Sudan.\n\nThe level of activity is nothing like the same as in the early 2010s, but the Sudd wetlands remain an important source.\n\n\"It's a huge area so it's not surprising that it's pumping out a lot of methane. To give context - the Sudd is 40,000 sq km: two times the size of Wales. And being that big we expect to see the emissions from space,\" Dr Lunt told BBC News.\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Never been more happy to be rejected from a film\"\n\nFilm star Karen Gillan says she struggled to win roles in school plays and the local pantomime when she was a young girl in Inverness.\n\nGillan, who is now one of Scotland's biggest movie stars, tells BBC Scotland's The Edit she had to overcome many knockbacks while trying to break into acting.\n\n\"I got rejected from everything growing up,\" the 32-year-old says.\n\nThis might be something of a surprise given she has rarely been far from cinema screens since her breakout role as Doctor Who companion Amy Pond about seven years ago.\n\nShe has appeared in the Marvel blockbusters Guardians of the Galaxy and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, starred opposite Hollywood stars such as Tom Hanks and provided voices for characters in a Will Smith and a Harrison Ford film.\n\nNext year, she will be the lead character in an all-female assassin movie Gunpowder Milkshake also starring Game of Thrones' Lena Headey and action movie actress Michelle Yeoh.\n\nBefore that, this Christmas sees her reprise her role as Ruby Roundhouse in Jumanji: The Next Level, the sequel to 2017's hit Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle.\n\nHer fellow cast members include Dwayne \"The Rock\" Johnson and comedy actors Kevin Hart and Jack Black.\n\nBut Gillan said she struggled to win roles in her youth.\n\nKaren Gillan as Amy Pond in Doctor Who\n\n\"The local pantomime, I couldn't get in,\" she says.\n\n\"The school plays I couldn't get in, and somehow I knew that it didn't mean I couldn't do this profession.\"\n\nShe adds: \"My drive wasn't 'I'm going to show them', but 'I know I can do this and you just can't see it yet'.\n\n\"A lot of people might have been put off by those rejections, so that is why I think it is so important to have self-belief.\"\n\nHer perseverance paid off with her becoming a member of Inverness' Eden Court Theatre's youth dance company and senior youth theatre. She later studied acting and performance in Edinburgh and London.\n\nShe says her advice to young people wanting to break into acting would be to have self-belief, work hard and not let rejections end their dreams.\n\nJumanji: Welcome to the Jungle represents one of Gillan's biggest films to date. The movie made more than £730m worldwide.\n\nIts popularity was evident on a trip home to Inverness.\n\nGillan and her fellow Jumanji: The Next Level cast members\n\n\"I tried to go to see Jumanji but couldn't get in because the cinema was full. I've never been more happy to be rejected from a film,\" she says.\n\nGillan says among the reasons for the film's success, and what she hopes will also help the sequel, is the chemistry among its cast.\n\nShe says: \"It's so much fun. It's as much fun as you imagine it would be. Filming a scene there are tears in my eyes because I had just been laughing.\"\n\nFor the sequel, Gillan was encouraged to do some of her own stunts which included being thrown from a bridge and fight scenes using nunchucks martial arts weapons.\n\n\"I'm covered in bruises because I had to learn how to use nunchucks. I kept hitting myself with them,\" she says.\n\nFor Gillan, Christmas offers the chance of a break from her career, and injuring herself, as well as an opportunity to indulge in a Scottish delicacy.\n\n\"I'll be eating everything under the sun including eating black pudding in the morning because I miss that,\" she says, before adding: \"And I am going to be working out - a lot - because of all the eating.\"", "Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and Benny Gantz (R) could not agree a power-sharing deal\n\nIsrael will hold an unprecedented third general election in less than a year after politicians again failed to form a majority coalition in parliament.\n\nMembers of the Knesset voted to set the election date for 2 March hours after a midnight (22:00 GMT) deadline passed.\n\nPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main rival, Benny Gantz, were unable to secure majorities following September's inconclusive election.\n\nThe two leaders also could not agree on a power-sharing arrangement.\n\nMr Netanyahu's legal problems were a big obstacle to negotiations. He was indicted on corruption charges last month.\n\nIn the end, Mr Gantz demanded that he promise not to seek parliamentary immunity from prosecution as a precondition for further talks.\n\nIn September, Mr Gantz's centrist Blue and White alliance won 33 seats in the 120-member Knesset, while Mr Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party got 32 seats.\n\nWith neither party able to build a coalition that could command a 61-seat majority, President Reuven Rivlin called on them to form a national unity government.\n\nBut the negotiations broke down over who would serve as prime minister first; Mr Netanyahu's insistence that ultra-Orthodox parties allied to him be included; and Mr Gantz's refusal to serve under a prime minister facing criminal charges.\n\nIsrael's attorney general has charged with Mr Netanyahu with bribery, fraud and breach of trust in connection with three separate cases. He is alleged to have accepted gifts from wealthy businessmen and dispensed favours to try to get more positive press coverage.\n\nThe prime minister has denied any wrongdoing and described the charges as an \"attempted coup\", blaming them on a \"tainted\" process.\n\nMr Netanyahu has not yet announced whether he will ask parliament to grant him immunity from prosecution. But most analysts believe he is hoping to improve his chances of obtaining immunity with a third election.\n\nThe Knesset is voting on a bill to dissolve itself and schedule a election for 2 March\n\nAhead of Wednesday's deadline for any member of the Knesset to form a majority coalition, the prime minister released a video accusing Blue and White of \"creating a flood of political spin\".\n\n\"They want to hide the fact that they did everything possible to avoid the establishment of a broad national unity government that would annex the Jordan Valley, apply Israeli sovereignty on the settlements in Judea and Samaria,\" he said, referring to the occupied West Bank.\n\n\"They forced new elections on us. It is unnecessary and in order to avoid it happening again there is one thing to do and that is to win, and win big - and that is what we'll do.\"\n\nIn response, Blue and White suggested on Twitter that Mr Netanyahu \"save a few lies for the campaign\".\n\nYair Lapid, Mr Gantz's deputy, earlier told a debate in the Knesset: \"What used to be a celebration of democracy has become a moment of shame for this building.\"\n\n\"There are only three reasons for this election - bribery, fraud and breach of trust.\"\n\nIt is not clear if another election will break the deadlock. An opinion poll published by Israel's Channel 13 News on Tuesday suggested that Blue and White would win 37 seats and Likud 33 seats.\n\nMr Netanyahu will also face a challenge from within Likud, which said on Wednesday that it was likely to hold a leadership primary on 26 December.\n\nFormer Interior Minister Gideon Saar, who intends to stand, tweeted: \"There is a national need for a breakthrough that will end the ongoing political crisis, enable the formation of a strong government, and to unite the people of Israel.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Greta Thunberg criticised CEOs and politicians for their lack of action\n\nGreta Thunberg, the Swedish schoolgirl who inspired a global movement to fight climate change, has been named Time magazine's Person of the Year for 2019.\n\nThe 16-year-old is the youngest person to be chosen by the magazine in a tradition that started in 1927.\n\nSpeaking at a UN climate change summit in Madrid before the announcement, she urged world leaders to stop using \"creative PR\" to avoid real action.\n\nThe next decade would define the planet's future, she said.\n\nLast year, the teenager started an environmental strike by missing lessons most Fridays to protest outside the Swedish parliament building. It sparked a worldwide movement that became popular with the hashtag #FridaysForFuture.\n\nSince then, she has become a strong voice for action on climate change, inspiring millions of students to join protests around the world. Earlier this year, she was nominated as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize.\n\nAt the UN Climate Conference in New York in September, she blasted politicians for relying on young people for answers to climate change. In a now-famous speech, she said: \"You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. We'll be watching you.\"\n\nReacting to the nomination on Twitter, the activist said: \"Wow, this is unbelievable! I share this great honour with everyone in the #FridaysForFuture movement and climate activists everywhere.\"\n\nTime magazine's cover for its Person of the Year edition\n\nThe teenager's message, however, has not been well received by everyone, most notably prominent conservative voices. Before her appearance in Madrid, Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro called her a \"brat\" after she expressed concern about the killing of indigenous Brazilians in the Amazon.\n\n\"Greta said that the Indians died because they were defending the Amazon,\" Mr Bolsonaro told reporters. \"It's impressive that the press is giving space to a brat like that,\" he said, using the Portuguese word for brat, \"pirralha\".\n\nThe activist responded by briefly changing her Twitter bio to \"Pirralha\".\n\nShe has previously been at odds with US President Donald Trump, who has questioned climate science and rolled back many US climate laws, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, who once called her a \"kind but poorly informed teenager\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Greta at UN climate change talks - one year apart\n\nAnnouncing Time's decision on NBC, editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal said: \"She became the biggest voice on the biggest issue facing the planet this year, coming from essentially nowhere to lead a worldwide movement.\"\n\nThe magazine's tradition, which started as Man of the Year, recognises the person who \"for better or for worse... has done the most to influence the events of the year\". Last year, it named murdered and imprisoned journalists, calling them \"The Guardians\".\n\nAt the COP25 Climate Conference in Madrid, Greta Thunberg accused world powers of making constant attempts \"to negotiate loopholes and to avoid raising their ambition\".\n\n\"The real danger is when politicians and CEOs are making it look like real action is happening when, in fact, almost nothing is being done apart from clever accounting and creative PR,\" she said, drawing applause.\n\n\"In just three weeks we'll enter a new decade, a decade that will define our future,\" she added. \"Right now, we're desperate for any sign of hope.\"\n\nThis was meant to be a big moment in the talks, the elixir of the \"Greta effect\" bringing new energy to a flagging process. The teenager is almost certainly the most famous person here, attracting far more attention than other celebrities like Al Gore, and the UN badly needs a boost.\n\nHer talk came over as measured, grounded in the latest research, and avoided the flash of hurt and anger she displayed in New York in September. Looking around the hall, it was striking how many of the national delegations had not turned up for this morning session at the conference.\n\nA snub by the big fossil fuel economies? Or maybe they were too busy in the negotiations themselves?\n\nIn any event, the passion among the millions of young people who have taken to the streets to demand action on climate change feels very remote from the diplomatic struggles in these halls.\n\nMeanwhile in Brussels, the European Commission - the EU executive - announced ambitious environmental proposals to cut the bloc's dependency on fossil fuels, hoping to make Europe carbon neutral by 2050.\n\nCommission President Ursula von der Leyen, who took office on 1 December, called the European Green Deal Europe's \"man on the Moon moment\". It includes proposals that affect everything from transport and buildings to food production, and air and water pollution.\n\nThe package will be debated by EU leaders at a summit on Thursday and includes:\n\nReacting to the proposals, Jagoda Munic, director of environmental group Friends of the Earth Europe, said they were \"too small, too few and too far off\", adding: \"We're on a runaway train to ecological and climate collapse and the EU Commission is gently switching gears instead of slamming on the brakes.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why does this cattle farmer moves his cows every day?", "The photograph of the Routh family enjoying a day out at Stonehenge in 1875 was sent in by descendants\n\nAn 1875 photograph of a family dressed in finery enjoying a day out at Stonehenge may be the earliest such snap taken at the monument.\n\nEnglish Heritage asked people to send in their pictures to mark 100 years of public ownership of the stones.\n\nAfter sifting through more than 1,000 images historians said they believed the photograph of Isabel, Maud and Robert Routh was the oldest.\n\nIt will be part of a new exhibition of personal photos titled Your Stonehenge.\n\nMembers of the Routh family enjoying a picnic with Champagne at Stonehenge\n\nOne picture shows the group sitting on the stones with a picnic rug and what appears to be a bottle of Champagne.\n\nIn another, some of them are in a horse-drawn carriage.\n\n\"Right up until the 1920s and '30s people did dress up for days out like this, in their Sunday best, suits and hats.\"\n\nThis photo by Nan Noble is of her brother John and Aunt Nell. She said the stones were \"our private playground\" where they played tag and hide-and-seek\n\nWomen in 1932 dressed up for a day out at the monument\n\nThe exhibition shows how photography has changed - illustrated by \"the way that people pose\" and how \"their faces have got closer to the camera until they are taking a picture of themselves more than they are of Stonehenge\", said Ms Greaney.\n\nEnglish Heritage is now asking people to get in touch if they know of an earlier family snap at Stonehenge.\n\nThe earliest known photograph of Stonehenge, not featuring a family, is thought to date from 1853 - 22 years earlier.\n\nRichard Woodman-Bailey visited Stonehenge during the school holidays in the 1950s when his father was the senior architect responsible for ancient monuments in England and Wales and took personal charge of the work at Stonehenge\n\nThe Olivers from Cornwall on their annual camping holiday in 1962 - Michael, Robert with Teddy, Mum and Carolyn all \"dressed in our finest camping clothes and Clarks sandals\"\n\nSuzie Deaves' family was able to walk around and sit on the stones in 1967\n\nThis picture was taken in 1970 when access to the monument was still open\n\nThe most recent photo in the exhibition was taken by renowned photographer and guest curator of the exhibition, Martin Parr, at the 2019 Autumn Equinox.\n\nIt features an unknown couple kissing while taking a selfie against the backdrop of the stones.\n\nMr Parr chose 10 of the images in the exhibition and said he hoped to track down the couple in his picture.\n\nHe said the photographs people sent in \"really show what the stones mean to people and how our relationship with a site like Stonehenge has changed and yet stayed the same through time\".\n\nPhotographer Martin Parr hopes to track down the couple in this photo he took earlier this year\n\nYour Stonehenge - 150 years of personal photos runs from 12 December to late August 2020.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The pound and shares have surged after the Conservatives won a clear majority in the UK general election.\n\nSterling rose above $1.35 at one point - its highest level since May last year - on hopes that the big majority would remove uncertainty over Brexit.\n\nThe pound also jumped to a three-and-a-half-year high against the euro.\n\nOn the stock market, the FTSE 100 share index rose 1.1%, while the FTSE 250 - which includes more UK-focused shares - briefly hit record highs.\n\nIt closed 3.4% higher, while at the same time the pound traded at $1.33 and €1.20\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson said the election result meant that the Conservative government \"has been given a powerful new mandate, to get Brexit done\".\n\nMr Johnson has pledged to take the UK out of the European Union by 31 January.\n\nPolitically sensitive shares saw sharp rises on UK markets. Shares in water companies such as Severn Trent, which faced the possibility of nationalisation under a Labour government, rose 9%, while UK housebuilders also saw big gains, with Barratt up 14% and Persimmon 12% higher.\n\nShares in banks exposed to the UK economy rose sharply. Barclays, RBS and Lloyds were up 6%, 8% and 5% respectively.\n\nNeil Wilson, chief market analyst at Markets.com, said housebuilders had been undervalued and rose \"on hopes that construction will benefit from the Conservative victory\".\n\n\"We should also consider the potential risk that a Labour government could have posed to their profits being removed,\" Mr Wilson said.\n\nWhile many FTSE 100 shares saw big gains, this was offset slightly by the rise in the value of the pound, which affected companies with big international operations. A rise in sterling cuts the value of companies' overseas earnings when they are brought back to the UK and converted back into pounds.\n\nIn contrast, the FTSE 250 index - which generally contains firms with more exposure to the domestic economy - jumped more than 5% at one point, before slipping back slightly.\n\nThe financial bookies had already installed Boris Johnson as the favourite but did not expect him to romp home by such a distance.\n\nThe pound moved sharply higher as soon as the exit poll was published and went on to post one of its biggest one-day gains against the dollar in years as Johnson's thumping victory removed one layer of political uncertainty.\n\nShares in politically-sensitive sectors such as house building and banking rocketed, as did water, rail and energy companies, as the threat of nationalisation under a Corbyn government evaporated.\n\nMarkets have given the prospect of a government with a functioning majority a round of applause but the euphoria may be short-lived.\n\nTraders are already talking about the formidable challenge of completing a trade deal with the EU by this time next year, along with the prospect of a new Scottish independence referendum.\n\nThe election may be settled, but there are big political questions that are not.\n\nGuy Foster, head of research at wealth manager Brewin Dolphin, said that \"the potential for a smooth Brexit removes some of the downside risk for the UK economy\".\n\n\"This should be positive for both business and consumer confidence, at least in the short term, with a gradual acceleration in GDP growth and confidence.\n\n\"However, a lot can change over the coming months as the finer detail of the UK's future trade relationship with the EU is negotiated.\n\n\"This is still, after all, just the beginning of the exit process. Even with the passing of the withdrawal agreement, the UK could still leave the EU without a deal at the end of 2020 if trade negotiations don't proceed successfully.\"\n\nSterling hit a 19-month high of $1.3516 at one point overnight, but then gave up some of its gains.\n\nAndy Scott, associate director at financial risk adviser JCRA, said: \"What will be interesting to see - assuming that Brexit will now follow a set course, at least [until] 31 January - is if economic data is given a significant boost from the perceived certainty, and [whether it] starts to influence sterling again.\n\n\"In recent months, the market has almost completely ignored the slowdown in the economy and the potential for monetary stimulus from the Bank of England, with election and Brexit expectations driving fluctuations in sterling's value.\n\n\"The performance of the economy is likely to be key to whether we see a further recovery in 2020.\"", "The UK is going to the polls for the country's third general election in less than five years.\n\nThe contest, the first to be held in December in nearly 100 years, follows those in 2015 and 2017.\n\nPolling stations in 650 constituencies across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland opened at 07:00 GMT.\n\nAfter the polls close at 22:00 GMT, counting will begin straight away. Most results are due to be announced in the early hours of Friday morning.\n\nA total of 650 MPs will be chosen under the first-past-the-post system used for general elections, in which the candidate who secures the most votes in each individual constituency is elected.\n\nIn 2017, Newcastle Central was the first constituency to declare, announcing its result about an hour after polls closed.\n\nElections in the UK traditionally take place every four or five years. But, in October, MPs voted for the second snap poll in as many years. It is the first winter election since 1974 and the first to take place in December since 1923.\n\nAnyone aged 18 or over is eligible to vote, as long as they are a British citizen or qualifying citizen of the Commonwealth or Republic of Ireland and have registered to vote. Registration closed on 26 November.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. General election 2019: From the count, to your TV\n\nDetails about where to vote can be found on the Electoral Commission website and are also listed on polling cards sent to households.\n\nPeople do not need a polling card to be able to vote but will need to give their name and address at their local polling station. People can only vote for one candidate or their ballot paper will not be counted.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson has cast his vote - he visited a polling station in central London, taking his dog, Dilyn, along with him, and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn posed for pictures when he went to vote in north London.\n\nSNP leader Nicola Sturgeon visited a polling station in Glasgow, while Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson cast her vote at a polling station in East Dunbartonshire, accompanied by her husband Duncan Hames.\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price voted in Carmarthenshire and Green Party co-leader Jonathan Bartley did so in south London.\n\nBoris Johnson took his dog to the polling station when he cast his vote\n\nJeremy Corbyn posed for pictures at his local polling station in north London\n\nJo Swinson also voted in East Dunbartonshire, accompanied by her husband Duncan Hames\n\nAhead of the poll, the elections watchdog has reminded voters that taking selfies and other photos inside polling stations is not permitted and may be a breach of the law.\n\nMany people have already put a cross next to the name of their favoured candidate by voting by post - more than seven million people used a postal vote two years ago.\n\nThose who applied for a postal vote but have yet to return it to their Electoral Office must do so by 22:00. Alternatively, they can hand it into their local polling station by the close of polls.\n\nAccording to the BBC's weather forecast, showery spells will continue into the evening in much of the UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Election night timings: What? Where? When?", "Terrence has spent Christmas day alone for the last 20 years. He'll now be spending Christmas with a good friend he's met through his work with the charity Age UK.\n\nAfter mentioning he didn't have a Christmas tree of his own during his BBC Breakfast interview, presenter Dan Walker and some people from Oldham College set out to deliver some Christmas cheer to his door by surprising him with a tree.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nPremier League interim chief executive Richard Masters has been given the job on a permanent basis.\n\nIt comes two weeks after media executive David Pemsel resigned before starting the role following newspaper allegations about his private life.\n\nMasters, formerly the organisation's managing director, was the fourth person to be offered the job.\n\nHe has been in temporary charge since the departure of Richard Scudamore in November 2018.\n\nMasters' appointment will bring to an end a protracted 18-month search for a new boss of the organisation.\n\nSusanna Dinnage was originally named as Scudamore's successor but later declined the role to remain at media organisation Discovery.\n\nSenior BBC executive Tim Davie also turned down the chance to take up the post.\n\nMasters has impressed club bosses, who voted through his appointment during a conference call on Thursday.\n• None The 10 challenges facing the new Premier League boss\n\nChelsea chairman Bruce Buck said Masters had \"risen to the occasion\" since being appointed interim chief.\n\n\"The clubs believe that this is the right appointment now in the long-term interests of the Premier League,\" added Buck.\n\nMasters said: \"This is one of the most incredible jobs in the world of sport and I now look forward to leading the league in the many opportunities and challenges that lie ahead.\"\n\nFootball Association chairman Greg Clarke said Masters has \"ably guided\" the Premier League during his interim post and is a \"proven leader.\"\n\n\"His knowledge and experience of the Premier League and the English game is invaluable and we look forward to working closely with him in the future,\" added Clarke.\n\nMasters will initially have to overcome being viewed as the Premier League's fourth choice after an embarrassing and shambolic recruitment saga that has lasted 18 months.\n\nBut alongside acting chair Claudia Arney, the Aston Villa fan has impressed the clubs while holding the fort over the past year, and has now been rewarded with one of the most powerful and lucrative administrative roles in world sport.\n\nHe takes up the reins at a fascinating and challenging time for the league, from controversy over VAR, racism and illegal streaming, to the future of European club competitions and the negotiation of the next all-important domestic live TV rights deal after a dip in value last year.", "* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment, the older person’s bus pass and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* Rights for workers to be notified of their shifts one month in advance * The right to bereavement leave following a death in the immediate family * Lower cap on pension fund management fees * Tax breaks for companies that offer longer-term secure career contracts to staff\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* End the Work Capability Assessment and replace it with a system using qualified medical practitioners * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * No benefits paid to foreign nationals resident in the UK until they have paid tax for five years * Minimise the use of zero-hour contracts\n\n* £35 a week payment for every child in a low-income family * Tax credit of up to £25 a week for tenants in the private sector who spend more than 30% of their income on rent and utility bills * Powers over social security devolved to Wales * Abolish the \"bedroom tax\" * Universal free childcare for 40 hours a week\n\n* Demand UK government halts the rollout of Universal Credit until \"fundamental flaws\" are addressed * Oppose and increase to the state pension age and campaign against decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s * Press for the statutory living wage to rise to at least the level of the real living wage * Increase shared parental leave from 52 to 64 weeks, with the additional 12 weeks to be the minimum taken by the father * Make the minimum wage for 16 to 24-year-olds the same as for over 25s, and ban unpaid trial shifts\n\n* Stronger regulation of the gig economy, and oppose deregulation of employment rights * Stronger focus on careers advice * Support a fairer UK-wide welfare system and revised package of welfare mitigations for NI * Scrap the \"bedroom tax\" * Overhaul bereavement benefits\n\n* Personal tax allowance should rise in line with inflation each year * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 by the end of the parliamentary term * End the freeze on benefits by increasing them in line with inflation * Restore free television licences for over-75s but in the longer term abolish the licence fee entirely * Retain the pensions triple lock and retain winter fuel payments\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts * Introduce a real living wage * Establish a new \"welfare mitigation package\" that protects the most vulnerable\n\n* Increase childcare provision from 12.5 hours per week to 20 hours per week, potentially increasing to 30 hours once new budget is agreed * Regulation of zero-hours contracts * Introduce a \"true living wage\" to reflect rising costs of living * Scrap universal credit, the bedroom tax and the two-child limit * End the freeze on benefits\n\n* Extend mitigation measures on key issues such as the bedroom tax, which are due to expire in March * Restore TV licenses for over-75s and retain the triple-lock protection for pensions * Create and implement a new childcare strategy\n\n* No rises in income tax or National Insurance rates * Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system\n\n* Increase the number of employers paying a living wage in Wales and introduce a \"real living wage\" of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16 * Scrap universal credit, the \"bedroom tax\" and the two-child benefits limit, and increase the Carer’s Allowance for unpaid full-time carers * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66, and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay\n\n* Increase work allowances under universal credit enabling people to work for longer before benefits are cut and introduce a second earner work allowance * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment from five weeks to five days * Scrap the two-child limit on family benefits, the \"bedroom tax\" and the overall benefits cap * Scrap the Work Capability Assessment and reinstate the Independent Living Fund * Right to request a fixed-hours contract after 12 months for zero-hours and agency workers\n\n* £86.2bn a year for a universal basic income, replacing the tax and benefits system, to be paid for by a carbon tax * Increase the living wage to £12 and extend it to workers aged between 16 and 21 * Merge income tax, National Insurance, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and dividend tax into a single consolidated income tax * Replace council tax and business rates with a land value tax * 40% quota for women on major company boards\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Raise the threshold at which individuals pay National Insurance to £9,500 in the first Budget and, later, to £12,500 * Raise the national living wage to £10.50 an hour by 2024 for those over the age of 21 * Keep the triple lock, the winter fuel payment and other pensioner benefits * Continue the roll-out of universal credit system * New \"collective\" workplace pension schemes and new controls on transferring pensions and a review of state pension inequality for Waspi women\n\n* Introduce a real living wage of £10 an hour in 2020 for all workers over the age of 16, giving about 700,000 Scottish workers a pay rise * Scrap universal credit and increase child benefit * Scrap the rise in the state pension age, leaving it at 66 and compensate women hit by the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising the age * Move to a 32-hour average working week within the next decade, with no loss of pay * Increase statutory maternity pay from nine to 12 months, double paternity leave from two weeks to four and increase statutory paternity pay\n\n* Reverse cuts to universal credit * Reduce the wait for the first benefits payment * Introduce universal access to basic services * Increase provision of free meals for children, with a particular focus on breakfast * Increase access to free sanitary products\n\n* 12-month review of universal credit and bring in reforms within two years * Review the decision to accelerate the timetable for raising women's state pension age, affecting women born in the 1950s\n\n* Abolish zero-hours contracts, close the gender pay gap, and ensure that everyone is paid a \"real living wage\" * Bring in a universal basic income * Remove differential rates of minimum wage for under-25s and introduce a living wage for everyone * Scrap universal credit * Support for the Waspi women (Women Against State Pension Inequality)\n\n* Scrap welfare reforms include PIP, Universal Credit and the bedroom tax * Develop a state-owned National Childcare Agency * Repeal all anti-trade union laws * Ban zero hours contracts and implement a real living wage\n\n* 40% of board members in public companies and public sector boards to be women * Worker representation to be established on the boards of larger companies * Ban “zero-hours” contracts * Increase child benefit", "The owner of the Supercuts and Regis hairdressing chains, Regis UK, has been bought out of administration, saving 1,000 jobs.\n\nEntrepreneur Lee Bushell has agreed to buy 140 outlets trading under the two brands across the UK.\n\nBut, as first reported by Sky News, the deal will also involve the closure of about 60 sites risking 200 jobs.\n\nRegis fell into administration in October blaming a \"perfect storm\" of pressures.\n\nIt has been struggling with a fall in customer numbers in shopping centres where many of its salons are located. It also said higher wage costs had worsened its \"cash flow issues\".\n\nLast year, it negotiated a cut in the rent it paid through a legal process known as a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA), but landlords challenged the proposals in court.\n\nRegis UK was sold by its US parent company to the private equity firm Regent in 2017. But it has faced a challenging retail environment since then, as people rein in their spending.\n\nLast week, card chain Clintons struck a deal to stop it going bust before Christmas, while baby goods retailer Mothercare announced its UK operation was going into administration last month.\n\nA string of other firms has gone under including electronics retailer Maplin and discount chain Poundworld, while Homebase, Debenhams and Carpetright have all been forced to restructure.\n\nCommenting on the Regis deal, Matt Cowlishaw, of administrators Deloitte, said: \"We are pleased to have concluded the sale and for being able to preserve a significant number of jobs at two well-known brands.\"", "These students at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington DC are taking a constitution law class, a few miles from the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump.\n\nProfessor Susan Bloch takes them through the key legal questions.", "Sir Paul McCartney has revealed he once recorded a secret Christmas album \"just for the family\" that \"gets brought out each year\" at the McCartney household.\n\n\"Years ago I thought, there's not very good Christmas records,\" he told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.\n\n\"So I actually went into my studio over a couple of years and I made one.\"\n\nSir Paul said he would never release the demo of traditional Christmas carol instrumentals, despite it being popular with his children and grandchildren.\n\n\"The kids like it,\" he told Sarah Montague. \"It's something they've heard through the years, you know, and now it's the grandkids getting indoctrinated with my carols record.\"\n\nThe Fab Four member last played at the Glastonbury Festival in 2004\n\nSir Paul has five children and eight grandchildren - six boys and two girls.\n\nEarlier this year he revealed he had written a children's book inspired by the \"Grandude\" nickname one of his grandchildren had given him.\n\nIt was confirmed last month the 77-year-old would be headlining at next year's Glastonbury Festival in Somerset.\n\nThe former Beatle will top the bill on the Pyramid Stage on 27 June, a week after he celebrates his 78th birthday.\n\nSir Paul admitted he might get nervous, but would prepare for his appearance by playing 10 concerts beforehand \"to get up to speed\".\n\n\"You don't get an athlete just coming into the Olympics not having done a few races beforehand,\" he said.\n\n\"The idea is by the time I get to Glastonbury it'll just be just like another gig. But of course it won't be, because it's very special.\"\n\nHe also discussed the 10th anniversary of Meat Free Monday, climate change and Christmas presents during the interview, which will be broadcast on Thursday's World at One on BBC Radio 4 from 13:00 GMT.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "You’re also going to hear Boris Johnson talking a lot about one nation conservatism in the next few months.\n\nBut what is it?\n\nWell, in some ways that’s down to whoever is defining it. There is no strict definition by which we can judge Boris Johnson over the next few years. It’s an idea which has been around in Tory circles for some time.\n\nBut broadly, it refers to the idea the Conservative Party should act for everybody in the UK.\n\nThat means policies that work for people from different economic backgrounds, from different regions and from the different nations of the UK.\n\nThere was a one nation group in the last parliament – which was in part seen as a counterbalance to the pro-Brexit ERG who had been pulling their weight when Theresa May was PM.\n\nThis is how they defined what they were fighting for:\n\nMr Johnson’s focus on the one nation pitch suggests he will seek to offer policies to people beyond the Tory heartlands – more public spending for example after years of austerity. More focus on infrastructure outside London. A lot more talk about the north of England.\n\nThat has become even more important now that a number of his MPs are from former Labour strongholds – sometimes with very different experiences of the British economy.\n\nIt might not be easy though – especially when it comes to the idea the UK is indeed one nation.\n\nLast night’s result puts Scottish independence firmly back on the agenda – and the electoral maps in England and Scotland look very different indeed.", "Use the search box to find full results and updates from every constituency.\n\nOr you can browse the A-Z list.", "Online coverage of election night comes from the BBC newsroom in central London\n\nThe BBC, like other broadcasters, is not allowed to report details of campaigning or election issues while polls are open on Thursday for elections in England.\n\nThe BBC is required by electoral law to adopt a code of practice, ensuring fairness between candidates, and that is particularly important on polling day.\n\nThe code of practice is contained in more detailed election guidelines which are written and published for each election, and they include guidance about polling day.\n\nOn polling day, the BBC does not report on any of the election campaigns from 00:30 BST until polls close at 22:00 BST on TV, radio or bbc.co.uk, or on social media and other channels.\n\nHowever, online sites do not have to remove archived reports, including, for instance, programmes on iPlayer. Any lists of candidates and the guide to parties' policies remain available online during polling day.\n\nCoverage of what is happening on the day is usually restricted to uncontroversial factual accounts, such as the appearance of politicians at polling stations, or the weather.\n\nIt tends to focus on giving information that will help voters with the process of going to polling stations.\n\nSubjects which have been at issue or part of the campaign - or other controversial matters relating to the election - must not be covered on polling day itself; it's important that the BBC's output cannot be seen to be directly influencing the ballot while the polls are open.\n\nThe BBC, however, is still able to report on other political events and stories which are not directly related to the elections.\n\nNo opinion poll on any issue relating to politics or the election can be published until after the polls have closed.\n\nWhile the polls are open, it is a criminal offence to publish anything about the way in which people have voted in that election.\n\nFrom 22:00 BST normal reporting of the election resumes.", "Jo Hamilton is celebrating \"one of the best days I've ever had\".\n\nHer life was turned inside out after the sub-postmistress was accused by the Post Office of taking £36,000 from the village shop she ran in Hampshire.\n\nBut now the Post Office is to pay almost £58m to settle a long-running dispute with sub-postmasters and postmistresses.\n\n\"You dream about victory, but now it's actually here,\" said Mr Hamilton.\n\nThe settlement brings an end to a mammoth series of court cases over the Horizon IT system used to manage local post office finances since 1999.\n\nA group of postmasters said faults in Horizon led to them wrongly being accused of fraud. And on Wednesday the Post Office accepted it had \"got things wrong in our dealings with a number of postmasters\" in the past.\n\nMrs Hamilton's fight echoes that of other postmasters seeking justice. She said issues in the Horizon system led to big discrepancies in her accounts, which she reported to her Post Office area manager.\n\nBut that manager could find nothing wrong with the system, and she was put in a situation where \"you had to prove your innocence\".\n\nAfter a distressing two-year process, she eventually pleaded guilty to false accounting at Winchester Crown Court in order to escape a more serious charge of theft.\n\nShe soon gave up her shop and found it difficult to get a new job due to her criminal record. She made ends meet by doing cleaning jobs for people in her village who didn't believe she was guilty.\n\n\"I couldn't get car insurance,\" she said, and had to go to a specialist provider with higher premiums. \"I couldn't be left alone with my grand-daughter in her classroom.\"\n\nHer fight for justice is not completely over, as her conviction is still going through the review process.\n\nBut Mrs Hamilton feels vindicated. \"I just feel like I'm in a daze,\" she said.\n\nSub-postmasters run Post Office franchises across the UK, which typically provide some but not all of the services of a main post office.\n\nThe group of 550 claimants joined a civil action to win compensation last year, but their complaint goes back much further.\n\nThey alleged that the Horizon IT system - which was installed between 1999 and 2000 - contained a large number of defects.\n\nSome said their lives had been ruined when they were pursued for funds which managers claimed were missing. Some even went to jail after being convicted of fraud.\n\nThe claimants were half way through a series of four trials when the Post Office sought mediation. It could take several weeks for individual compensation payments to be worked out.\n\nThe Post Office apologised to the claimants, saying it was grateful to them \"for holding us to account in circumstances where, in the past, we have fallen short.\"\n\nMr Read said: \"I am very pleased we have been able to find a resolution to this longstanding dispute.\n\n\"Our business needs to take on board some important lessons about the way we work with postmasters, and I am determined that it will do so. We are committed to a reset in our relationship with postmasters, placing them alongside our customers at the centre of our business.\"\n\nAlan Bates, former sub-postmaster of the Craig-y-Don branch in Llandudno, and one of the lead claimants, said: \"[We] would like to thank Nick Read, the new chief executive of Post Office, for his leadership, engagement and determination in helping to reach a settlement of this long-running dispute.\n\n\"It would seem that from the positive discussions [we have had] there is a genuine desire to move on from these legacy issues and learn lessons from the past.\"\n\nThe Horizon system, which is provided by Fujitsu, is still being used in all 11,500 Post Office branches in the UK.\n\nThis is a major climb down by the Post Office which has made multiple appeals to try to see off the court case.\n\nBut legal costs were stretching into the tens of millions, so the price of losing at the end of this mammoth legal process could have been a great deal higher.\n\nIt's not clear yet how much individual postmasters and mistresses will receive.\n\nLawyers' fees have to be taken off, along with a charge from the litigation backer, Therium.\n\nBut just looking at the £58m suggests payouts could be in the tens of thousands and even higher for the worst affected.\n• None 'I did not steal £16,000 from Post Office'", "Botanist and broadcaster David Bellamy has died aged 86, the Conservation Foundation he formed has said.\n\nLondon-born Bellamy, who became a household name as a TV personality, scientist and conservationist, died on Wednesday, according to the foundation.\n\nHis colleague, David Shreeve, described him as a \"larger-than-life character\" who \"inspired a whole generation\".\n\nIn later life Bellamy, who lived in County Durham, attracted criticism for dismissing global warming.\n\nIn 2004 he described it as \"poppycock\" - a stance which he later said cost him his TV career.\n\nBellamy worked in a sweet factory and as a plumber before embarking on his broadcasting career.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Bellamy on the interview that started his career\n\nHis scientific career began when he got a job in the biology department of a technical college in Surrey, he told BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs programme in 1978.\n\nIt was there that he met his future wife, Rosemary.\n\nBut it was on a trip to Scotland where he discovered his love for plants, he told the programme.\n\n\"I got really turned on by plants and I found out that if somebody told me what a plant was, I just couldn't forget it,\" he said.\n\nDavid Bellamy takes a walk with his granddaughter Tilly, then aged four, around the Scottish Seabird Centre after unveiling a new remote wildlife camera in North Berwick in 2007\n\nThe broadcaster stood, unsuccessfully, against the then prime minister John Major for the eurosceptic Referendum Party during the 1997 general election\n\nHe gained public recognition for his work as an environmental consultant over the Torrey Canyon oil spill, when a tanker was shipwrecked off the coast of Cornwall in 1967.\n\nHe went on to present programmes such as Don't Ask Me, Bellamy On Botany, Bellamy's Britain, Bellamy's Europe and Bellamy's Backyard Safari.\n\nAnd in 1979 he won Bafta's Richard Dimbleby Award, for best presenter of factual programmes.\n\nHis distinctive voice also inspired comedian Sir Lenny Henry's catchphrase \"grapple me grapenuts\".\n\nBBC arts correspondent David Sillito described Bellamy as \"the enthusiastic face of botany on television\" for more than 30 years.\n\nIn 2003, Bellamy told BBC News that he was sceptical about mankind being responsible for rising temperatures and suggested that they might be part of the Earth's natural cycles.\n\nHe said: \"We have got to get this thing argued out in public properly and not just take one opinion.\"\n\nTen years later, he told the Independent newspaper: \"It (global warming) is not happening at all, but if you get the idea that people's children will die because of CO2 they fall for it.\"\n\nWell-known figures have paid tribute to Bellamy, including fellow naturalist and broadcaster Bill Oddie who described him as a \"first-class naturalist, with boundless skills to convey his enthusiasm\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Bill Oddie Official This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by Bill Oddie Official\n\nGood Morning Britain presenter Piers Morgan said Bellamy was a \"brilliant naturalist, broadcaster and character\", in a tribute posted on Twitter.\n\nComedy writer and broadcaster Danny Baker described him as a \"truly brilliant and canny broadcaster\".\n\nThe Walking Dead actor David Morrissey tweeted that Bellamy \"cared about nature and our environment deeply.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by David Morrissey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd former England footballer Stan Collymore called him a \"childhood icon\", adding that he \"learnt about botany and shrubs and trees as a kid because of this man's love and infectious enthusiasm.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Election 2019: The story of the night as the results came in\n\nBoris Johnson will return to Downing Street with a big majority after the Conservatives swept aside Labour in its traditional heartlands.\n\nWith just a handful of seats left to declare in the general election, the BBC forecasts a Tory majority of 78.\n\nThe prime minister said it would give him a mandate to \"get Brexit done\" and take the UK out of the EU next month.\n\nJeremy Corbyn said Labour had a \"very disappointing night\" and he would not fight a future election.\n\nThe BBC forecast suggests the Tories will get 364 MPs, Labour 203, the SNP 48, the Lib Dems 12, Plaid Cymru four, the Greens one, and the Brexit Party none.\n\nThat means the Conservatives will have their biggest majority at Westminster since Margaret Thatcher's 1987 election victory.\n\nLabour, which has lost seats across the North, Midlands and Wales in places which backed Brexit in 2016, is facing its worst defeat since 1935.\n\nMr Johnson has addressed cheering party workers at Conservative headquarters, telling them there has been a political earthquake, with the Tories winning a \"stonking\" mandate, from Kensington to Clwyd South.\n\nSpeaking earlier at his count in Uxbridge, west London, where he was elected with a slightly higher majority, Mr Johnson said: \"It does look as though this One Nation Conservative government has been given a powerful new mandate to get Brexit done.\"\n\nHe added: \"Above all I want to thank the people of this country for turning out to vote in a December election that we didn't want to call but which I think has turned out to be a historic election that gives us now, in this new government, the chance to respect the democratic will of the British people to change this country for the better and to unleash the potential of the entire people of this country.\"\n\nMr Johnson became prime minister in July without a general election, after the Conservative Party elected him as leader to replace Theresa May.\n\nSpeaking at his election count in Islington North, where he was re-elected with a reduced majority, Mr Corbyn said Labour had put forward a \"manifesto of hope\" but \"Brexit has so polarised debate it has overridden so much of normal political debate\".\n\nLabour's vote is down around 8% on the 2017 general election, with the Tories up by just over 1% and the smaller parties having a better night.\n\nThe result so far is remarkable for the Conservatives - better than many of them had hoped for.\n\nThey have won a majority which will allow Boris Johnson to make sure Brexit happens next month.\n\nThere were some astonishing results, with a number of historic Labour heartlands falling to the Conservatives.\n\nLabour, by contrast, could hardly be in a worse position.\n\nJeremy Corbyn has made it clear he will go before the next election - but he wants to stay for a period of reflection. Many in his party want him to go immediately.\n\nIn Scotland, the picture is quite different.\n\nThe SNP have come close to sweeping the board - gaining seats from all their rivals.\n\nA Tory majority at Westminster means one constitutional quarrel - Brexit - might be over, but another - on Scottish independence - will be back with a vengeance.\n\nScottish National Party leader and Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said it had been an \"exceptional night\" for her party.\n\nShe said Scotland had sent a \"very clear message\" that it did not want a Boris Johnson Conservative government and the prime minister did not have a mandate to take Scotland out of the EU.\n\nIt was also a \"strong endorsement\" for Scotland having a choice over its own future in an another independence referendum, she added.\n\nLabour looks set for one of its worst election results since World War Two.\n\nSome traditional Labour constituencies, such as Darlington, Sedgefield and Workington, in the north of England, will have a Conservative MP for the first time in decades - or in the case of Bishop Auckland and Blyth Valley - for the first time since the seat was created.\n\nLabour took Putney, in south-west London, from the Tories, in a rare bright spot for Jeremy Corbyn's party.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. John McDonnell: \"I think most people thought the polls were narrowing\"\n\nA row has already broken out at the top of the Labour Party, with some candidates blaming Jeremy Corbyn's unpopularity on the doorstep and others blaming the party's policy of holding another Brexit referendum.\n\nLeave-supporting Labour chairman Ian Lavery, who held his seat with a reduced majority, said he was \"desperately disappointed\", adding that voters in Labour's \"heartlands\" were \"aggrieved\" at the party's Brexit stance.\n\nDowning Street said earlier that if Mr Johnson was returned to Downing Street, there would be a minor cabinet reshuffle on Monday.\n\nThe Withdrawal Agreement Bill, paving the way for Brexit on 31 January, would have its second Commons reading on Friday, 20 December.\n\nA major reshuffle would take place in February, after the UK has left the EU, No 10 added, with a Budget statement in March.\n\nThis is the UK's third general election in less than five years - and the first one to take place in December in nearly 100 years.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour's Stella Creasy was re-elected - and appeared at the count with her two-week-old daughter in a sling\n\nMr Johnson focused relentlessly on a single message, to \"get Brexit done\", while Labour primarily campaigned on a promise to end austerity by increasing spending on public services and the National Health Service.\n\nNigel Farage said his Brexit Party had taken votes from Labour in Tory target seats, although he himself had spoiled his ballot paper \"as I could not bring myself to vote Conservative\".\n\nWhat questions do you have about the election result?\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nUse this form to ask your question:\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question or send them via email to YourQuestions@bbc.co.uk. Please include your name, age and location with any question you send in.\n• None When do we find out who has won the election?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEnvironmentalists and observers have been barred from UN climate talks in Madrid after a protest inside the conference.\n\nAround 200 climate campaigners were ejected after staging a sit in, preventing access to one of the negotiating halls.\n\nProtesters said they were \"pushed, bullied and touched without consent.\"\n\nIn the wake of the disruption all other observers were then barred from the talks.\n\nObservers play an important role in the talks, representing civil society. They are allowed to sit in on negotiations and have access to negotiators on condition that they do not reveal the contents of those discussions.\n\nJust hours after Greta Thunberg had delivered a powerful speech to COP25, young campaigners staged a noisy demonstration in front of the main halls where the UN secretary general was due to update the conference on the progress of the talks.\n\nThey were expressing a rising sense of disappointment with the slow progress of the conference, which is in marked contrast to the urgency of scientists and the clamour for action from school strikers.\n\nGreenpeace executive director Jennifer Morgan has attended 25 COPs and this is the first time she has been barred from entry\n\nAs the group banged pots and pans and chanted slogans, UN security staff intervened to move the protestors outside \"abruptly and roughly,\" from the building, protesters said.\n\nJulius Mbatia, 25, a climate youth leader in Africa who works with Christian Aid said: \"It's displeasing that young people here to peacefully make the case for strong action on climate change, are being kettled and kicked out of the summit so that the UN climate process can conclude an outcome that will seemingly be weak and doesn't protect their future.\"\n\nAround 200 had their badges removed, preventing them from returning to the talks.\n\nProtestors were forced outside by UN security staff\n\nThe executive director of Greenpeace International, Jennifer Morgan, was one of those who went outside in solidarity with the protestors. Ms Morgan was also barred from entry when she tried to return, despite playing no part in the protest.\n\nEarlier in the day, Ms Morgan had sat on a panel with Greta Thunberg - part of an effort by the UN to include the voices of young people around the world.\n\n\"I call on the UN secretary general to intervene here to make sure that youth and citizens around the world can engage and have their voices heard in these negotiations - it's absolutely imperative that he get involved,\" Ms Morgan said, speaking outside the venue.\n\nThe protest took place a few hours after Greta Thunberg had spoken to the conference\n\nThe UN described the incident as \"an unfortunate security incident.\" After consultations with observer groups, the UN has agreed to allow those barred after the protest to return for the rest of the conference.\n\nDiscontent with the way the talks have been going has been rising in recent days with the sense that major emitting countries are doing all they can to block progress.\n\nThe UN on Wednesday released more details about the scale of the challenge.\n\nAll countries who signed the Paris agreement are due to put new climate pledges on the table by the end of next year. So far, 84 countries have promised to enhance their national plans by then. Some 73 have said they will set a long-term target of net zero by the middle of the century.\n\nBut many in attendance at the meeting believe that this is far short of where the world needs to be to avoid dangerous levels of warming.\n\n\"Frankly, I'm tired of hearing major emitters excuse inaction in cutting their own emissions on the basis they are 'just a fraction' of the world's total,\" said the prime minister of Fiji, Frank Bainimarama.\n\n\"The truth is, in a family of nearly 200 nations, collective efforts are key. We all must take responsibility for ourselves, and we all must play our part to achieve net zero. As I like to say, we're all in the same canoe. But currently, that canoe is taking on water with nearly 200 holes -- and there are too few of us trying to patch them,\" Mr Bainimarama said.\n\nThere are also worries that the final statement of ambition from this meeting may be watered down, with all the major decisions kicked down the road towards the key meeting in Glasgow at the end of next year.", "Artisanal mining is common in DR Congo as people do it as a means to make a living\n\nApple, Google, Tesla and Microsoft are among firms named in a lawsuit seeking damages over deaths and injuries of child miners in the Democratic Republic of Congo.\n\nThe case has been filed by the International Rights Advocates on behalf of 14 Congolese families.\n\nThey accuse the companies of knowing that cobalt used in their products could be linked to child labour.\n\nDR Congo produces 60% of the world's supply of cobalt.\n\nThe mineral is used to produce lithium-ion batteries used to power electric cars, laptops and smartphones.\n\nHowever, the extraction process has been beset with concerns of illegal mining, human rights abuses and corruption.\n\nThe lawsuit filed in the US argues that the tech companies had \"specific knowledge\" that the cobalt sourced for their products could be linked to child labour.\n\nThey say the companies failed to regulate their supply chains and instead profited from exploitation.\n\nDR Congo produces more than 60% of the world's cobalt\n\nOther companies listed in the lawsuit are computer manufacturer Dell and two mining companies, Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt and Glencore, who own the minefields where the Congolese families allege their children worked.\n\nGlencore said in a statement to the UK's Telegraph newspaper that it \"does not purchase, process or trade any artisanally mined ore\" adding that it also \"does not tolerate any form of child, forced, or compulsory labour.\"\n\nThe BBC has sought comment from Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why are people in mineral-rich DR Congo among the world's poorest?\n\nThe court papers, seen by the UK's Guardian newspaper, give several examples of child miners buried alive or suffering from injuries after tunnel collapse.\n\nThe 14 Congolese families want the companies to compensate them for forced labour, emotional distress and negligent supervision.\n\nIn a response to the Telegraph, Microsoft said it was committed to responsible sourcing of minerals and that it investigates any violations by its suppliers and takes action.\n\nA spokesperson for Google told the BBC that the company was \"committed to sourcing all materials ethically and eliminating child mining in global supply chains\".\n\nAn Apple spokesperson said the company was \"deeply committed to the responsible sourcing of materials\" and \"if a refiner is unable or unwilling to meet our standards, they will be removed from our supply chain. We've removed six cobalt refiners in 2019\".\n\nThe BBC has also sought comment from Tesla.\n\nUpdate 18 December: This article has been amended to include the comments from Google and Apple.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Seema Misra is fighting to overturn her conviction.\n\nHundreds of post office workers have won a key victory against the Post Office and the controversial accounting software they were forced to use\n\nIt is the first step towards overturning the convictions of postmasters accused of fraud or theft after using the Horizon IT system.\n\nTheir lawyer said they could \"now walk with their heads held high\" after the ruling which ends years of campaigning.\n\nIt comes after the Post Office had said it would pay £58m to settle claims.\n\nLast week the Post Office had acknowledged problems with the IT system but Monday's judgment has been made as part of a court case launched before that settlement was reached.\n\nIn the case, brought by six lead claimants, the judge looked at allegation that the system contained a large number of software defects, which caused shortfalls with sub-postmasters and postmistresses' accounts.\n\nIn Monday's High Court judgment, Mr Justice Fraser said the Horizon IT system was not \"remotely robust\" and even when improved it had a significant number of bugs.\n\nHe said there was a \"material risk\" that shortfalls in Post Office branch accounts were caused by the system.\n\nThe Post Office workers blame the system for creating big shortfalls in their accounts, discrepancies which led to some being made bankrupt and others prosecuted and sent to prison.\n\nHomes, businesses and reputations have been lost, as well as years spent in prison.\n\n\"These claimants can now walk with their heads held high,\" said James Hartley, partner at Freeths law firm\n\nAmong those involved in the case is Seema Misra, who was pregnant with her second child when she was convicted of theft and sent to jail in 2010.\n\nShe was accused of theft after using the Post Office Horizon IT system, which is provided by Fujitsu.\n\nSeema became a sub-postmistress in West Byfleet in Surrey in June 2005 and was suspended in January 2008 after an audit found a discrepancy of £74,000 in her accounts.\n\nShe had been feeding at least £100 per day from her shop into the Post Office tills, because of discrepancies in balancing the accounts. One day there was a £10,000 hole.\n\nRubbina Shaheen hopes her conviction will be overturned\n\nThis went on for two years, she said, with very little support from the Post Office.\n\n\"If I hadn't had been pregnant, I definitely would have killed myself,\" she said. \"It was the worst thing. It was so shameful.\"\n\nShe is now focused on trying to get her conviction overturned.\n\nAnother worker, Rubbina Shaheen is also among those fighting to clear her name. She ran the Greenfields post office in Shrewsbury and was convicted and jailed in 2010 and while she is not one of the 557 Post Office claimants, but is now hoping her conviction will be overturned.\n\nThe 400-page judgment comes after the Post Office had agreed a payout with 557 claimants after a long-running dispute over the system.\n\nThe Criminal Cases Review Commission, which investigates miscarriages for justice, is looking into more than 30 criminal convictions of former sub-postmasters.\n\nJames Hartley, partner at Freeths law firm which represented the claimants, said: \"This judgment is vindication for the claimant group of postmasters - they have finally been proved to have been right all along when they have said that the Horizon system was a possible cause of shortfalls in their branch accounts.\n\n\"These claimants can now walk with their heads held high after all these years.\n\n\"This judgment, together with the settlement reached last week, are important stepping stones to achieving much-needed closure for these postmasters.\n\n\"They can now start to move on with their lives.\"\n\nMr Justice Fraser said he would refer the case to the Director of Public Prosecutions after evidence given by employees of Fujitsu, which developed and maintained the Horizon system, in previous court cases.\n\nHe said: \"Based on the knowledge that I have gained, I have very grave concerns regarding veracity of evidence given by Fujitsu employees to other courts in previous proceedings about the known existence of bugs, errors and defects in the Horizon system.\"\n\nPost Office Chairman, Tim Parker, said the judgment acknowledged that the current Horizon system was robust and related to previous version of the systems.\n\n\"In reaching last week's settlement with the claimants, we accepted our past shortcomings and I, both personally and on behalf of the Post Office, sincerely apologised to those affected when we got things wrong.\n\nWe have given a commitment to learning lessons from these events, and today's judgment underlines the need to do so.\"\n\n\"Importantly, our new chief executive [Nick Read] has made clear the need to reset our relationship with postmasters and started the process to build a much better relationship with them.\"", "A third of the poorest countries in the world are dealing with high levels of obesity as well as under-nourishment, which leaves people too thin, according to a report in The Lancet.\n\nIt says the problem is caused by global access to ultra-processed foods, and people exercising less.\n\nThe authors are calling for changes to the \"modern food system\" which they believe to be driving it.\n\nCountries in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia are most affected.\n\nThe report estimates that nearly 2.3 billion children and adults on the planet are overweight, and more than 150 million children have stunted growth.\n\nAnd many low and middle-income countries are facing these two issues at once - known as the 'double burden of malnutrition'.\n\nThis means that 20% of people are overweight, 30% of children under four are not growing properly, and 20% of women are classified as thin.\n\nCommunities and families can be affected by both forms of malnutrition, as well as individual people at different points in their lives, the report says.\n\nAccording to the report, 45 out of 123 countries were affected by the burden in the 1990s, and 48 out of 126 countries in the 2010s.\n\nBy the 2010s, 14 countries with some of the lowest incomes in the world had developed this 'double problem' since the 1990s.\n\nThe report authors say action should be taken by governments, the United Nations and academics to address the problem, and it points the finger at changing diets.\n\nThe way people eat, drink and move is changing. Increasing numbers of supermarkets, easy availability of less nutritious food, as well as a decrease in physical activity, are leading to more people becoming overweight.\n\nAnd these changes are affecting low and middle-income countries, as well as high-income ones.\n\nAlthough stunted growth of children in many countries is becoming less frequent, eating ultra-processed foods early in life is linked to poor growth.\n\n\"We are facing a new nutrition reality,\" says lead author Dr Francesco Branca, director of the department of nutrition for health and development at the World Health Organization.\n\n\"We can no longer characterise countries as low-income and undernourished, or high-income and only concerned with obesity.\n\n\"All forms of malnutrition have a common denominator - food systems that fail to provide all people with healthy, safe, affordable, and sustainable diets.\"\n\nDr Branca said changing this needed changes in food systems - from production and processing, through trade and distribution, pricing, marketing, and labelling, to consumption and waste.\n\n\"All relevant policies and investments must be radically re-examined,\" he said.\n\nAccording to the report, it contains:\n\nHigh-quality diets reduce the risk of malnutrition by encouraging healthy growth, development, and the body's protection against diseases throughout life.", "The British and Irish governments will work “night and day” over the next few weeks to restore devolution, Tanaiste Simon Coveney has said.\n\nThe Irish deputy prime minister was speaking after a meeting with Northern Ireland Secretary Julian Smith at Stormont.\n\nFresh efforts are being made to restore the Northern Ireland Assembly, with the five main parties engaged in new talks.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Assembly has been inactive since January 2017, when its two biggest parties, the DUP and Sinn Féin, split in a bitter row.\n\nMr Coveney said there would be “intensive” discussions between the five parties over the course of this week.\n\nHe will hold his own meetings with them on Monday night and Tuesday, ahead of a roundtable discussion scheduled for Wednesday.\n\nHe said the two governments did not “want to bounce” the parties into an agreement – but said they had been discussing the same issues for many months now.\n\n“This is not about trying to force the parties into a space they don’t want to move into,” he added.\n\n“But we’ve had a reality check with the nurses’ strike, and I think it’s a reminder to everyone that now is the time to get this done.”\n\nNurses in Northern Ireland have been striking for their pay to be bought into line with that of their colleagues in the rest of the UK.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nicola Sturgeon told the BBC's Andrew Mar Show that Scotland 'cannot be imprisoned' in UK\n\nScotland \"cannot be imprisoned in the union against its will\" by the UK government, Nicola Sturgeon has said.\n\nThe Scottish first minister says the SNP's success in the general election gives her a mandate to hold a new referendum on independence.\n\nHowever, UK ministers are opposed to such a move with Michael Gove saying the vote in 2014 should be \"respected\".\n\nMs Sturgeon told the BBC that if the UK was to continue as a union, \"it can only be by consent\".\n\nShe told The Andrew Marr Show that the UK government would be \"completely wrong\" to think saying no to a referendum would be the end of the matter, adding: \"It's a fundamental point of democracy - you can't hold Scotland in the union against its will.\"\n\nHowever Mr Gove told the Sophy Ridge programme on Sky that \"we were told in 2014 that that would be a choice for a generation - we are not going to have an independence referendum in Scotland\".\n\nThe SNP won a landslide of Scottish seats in the snap general election, making gains from the Conservatives and Labour and unseating Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson.\n\nHowever UK-wide the Conservatives won a comfortable majority, returning Boris Johnson to Downing Street and setting up a constitutional stand-off over Scotland's future.\n\nThe Scottish government wants a referendum deal with UK ministers similar to that which underpinned the 2014 vote, to ensure that the outcome is legal and legitimate - but are facing opposition from the UK government.\n\nMs Sturgeon said it was \"fundamentally not democratic\" for Mr Johnson to rule out a referendum when his party had been \"defeated comprehensively\" in Scotland - losing seven of its 13 seats while standing on a platform of opposition to independence.\n\nMs Sturgeon was speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show\n\nThe SNP leader said: \"I said this to him on Friday night on the telephone - if he thinks saying no is the end of the matter then he's going to find himself completely and utterly wrong.\n\n\"It's a fundamental point of democracy - you can't hold Scotland in the union against its will. You can't lock us in a cupboard and turn the key and hope everything goes away.\n\n\"If the UK is to continue it can only be by consent. If Boris Johnson is confident in the case for the union he should be confident enough to make that case and allow people to decide.\n\n\"Scotland cannot be imprisoned within the United Kingdom against its will. These are just basic statements of democracy.\"\n\nMs Sturgeon added: \"The risk for the Conservatives here is the more they try to block the will of the Scottish people, the more utter contempt they show for Scottish democracy, the more they will increase support for Scottish independence - which in a sense is them doing my job for me.\n\n\"The momentum and the mandate is on the side of those of us who think Scotland should be independent, but also on the side of those who want Scotland to be able to chose its own future.\"\n\nMr Johnson returned to Downing Street on Friday after the Conservatives won a big majority in the election\n\nMr Johnson spoke to Ms Sturgeon on the phone after being returned to government, and told her that he \"remains opposed\" to a second independence vote.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said the prime minster was \"standing with the majority of people in Scotland who do not want to return to division and uncertainty\".\n\nThis was echoed on Sunday morning by Mr Gove, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, who said the result of the previous referendum in 2014 should hold for \"a generation\".\n\nHe said: \"In this general election we have just seen what happens when politicians try to overturn a referendum result, and in the same way we should respect the referendum result in 2014 in Scotland.\n\n\"Scotland is stronger in the United Kingdom. You can be proudly Scottish and proudly British together.\n\n\"The best of this country are British institutions like the NHS and the BBC, and therefore we should be proud of what we have achieved together and confident that the UK is a strong partnership that works in the interests of all.\"\n\nMeanwhile some senior figures in the Scottish Labour party are backing Nicola Sturgeon's calls for Holyrood to decide the timing of another independence vote.\n\nThe party's health spokeswoman Monica Lennon said she insists she would still oppose separation from the UK but accepts the SNP now have a mandate for a referendum in 2020.\n\nHer views were supported by former Labour MP Ged Killen, who lost his seat on Thursday.\n\n\"I campaigned on a promise to vote against indyref2, but I lost,\" he wrote on Twitter. \"The SNP made massive gains on a promise to hold another referendum and, as democrats, we must accept it even if we don't like it.\"\n\nAnother former MP Paul Sweeney said it was important for Labour to \"reflect\" on the constitutional position.\n\nHe told the BBC's Sunday Politics Scotland programme: \"A more federal relationship is something that urgently needs to happen, and I think we need to be galvanised to present an argument that that needs to happen.\"", "James Le Mesurier received an OBE for his work with White Helmet volunteers in Syria\n\nA British ex-soldier who helped found Syria's White Helmets volunteer group died as a result of a fall, Turkish forensic experts have concluded.\n\nJames Le Mesurier was found dead on a street below a window of his flat in Istanbul's Beyoglu area on 11 November\n\nA post-mortem examination found the cause of death was \"general body trauma linked to a fall from height\", state broadcaster TRT said on Monday.\n\nNo DNA belonging to another person was found, it added.\n\nThe private news channel NTV meanwhile said a toxicology report showed Le Mesurier, 48, had taken sleeping pills.\n\nJames Le Mesurier was found dead on a street in Istanbul, outside his home\n\nLast week, the state-run Anadolu news agency said Le Mesurier's Swedish wife, Emma Winberg, had told police that he contemplated suicide in the days before his death and had started taking medication for a \"stress disorder\".\n\nShe said that on the night of his death Le Mesurier had taken a sleeping pill at 02:00, Anadolu cited a police statement as saying.\n\nHe awoke when she went to bed about two-and-a-half hours later and asked her if she wanted a sleeping pill as well, it added.\n\nMs Winberg reportedly said she woke up between 05:30 and 06:00, when the police knocked on the door of their flat. She then saw her husband's body.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. After the bombs go off in Syria, the White Helmets go in\n\nMr Le Mesurier was widely considered a founder of the White Helmets.\n\nThe organisation, which is also known as the Syria Civil Defence, helps rescue civilians caught up in attacks in areas of Syria controlled by the opposition to President Bashar al-Assad.\n\nIn 2016, the White Helmets received the Right Livelihood Award in recognition for \"outstanding bravery, compassion and humanitarian engagement in rescuing civilians\". Later the same year the group was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.\n\nBut the Syrian government and its allies Russia and Iran have accused the White Helmets of aiding terrorist groups - something the organisation has denied.\n\nA week before he died, the Russian foreign ministry accused Le Mesurier of being a former agent of the UK's Secret Intelligence Service, better known as MI6. The UK's ambassador to the UN said the claim was \"categorically untrue\".\n\nLe Mesurier received an OBE from the Queen in 2016 for \"services to the Syria Civil Defence group and the protection of civilians in Syria\".", "Cancellations and delays have led to overcrowding on trains and at stations such as Manchester Victoria\n\nRail commuters in the north of England have been hit by cancellations and delays as new winter timetables were launched.\n\nNorthern had cancelled 19 trains by 10:00 GMT and 31 were delayed, which it said was down to \"operational issues\" rather than the timetable change.\n\nThe issues largely affected commuters in Yorkshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside.\n\nTranspennine Express services hit included those linking Manchester Airport with Edinburgh and Newcastle, and trains from Liverpool Lime Street to Scarborough.\n\nThe firm's managing director Leo Goodwin said he was \"really sorry\" for the disruption to customers at such a busy time of year.\n\nHe said: \"Due to a number of issues with crew training caused by the late delivery of some of our new trains, along with a maintenance backlog and some infrastructure issues we have had to implement a temporary timetable, cancelling some journeys along one of our routes.\"\n\nNorthern services which were affected were between Blackpool North and Manchester Airport, from Leeds to York and Sheffield, and Darlington to Saltburn.\n\nA spokesperson for the rail firm said: \"Very few of our services have seen any changes as a result of the timetable coming in.\n\n\"The small number of delays and cancellations are due to operational issues including driver sickness, signalling failure and train faults.\"\n\nMany services were cancelled and delayed around the north of England\n\nGreater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said rail issues had \"gone on far too long\" and called for Northern to be stripped of its franchise.\n\n\"If the government is serious about supporting the north, then it needs to show it by acting this week to sort out our failing rail services,\" he said.\n\n\"As a first step, it should strip Northern of its franchise. That would send a clear signal to all rail operators - notably Transpennine Express - that we will not accept a second-class rail service for people in the North.\n\n\"If Transpennine Express fail to respond to that message, they should be next.\"\n\nThe National Rail timetable is changed in May and December each year.\n\nIn the west of England, passengers using Great Western Railway (GWR) services were also hit with cancellations and delays between Reading and London Paddington, due to a fault with the signalling system at Maidenhead.\n\nA new, super-fast GWR service from Bristol to London, due to leave at 08:53 GMT, was among the cancellations.\n\nTranspennine Express also cancelled 29 of its services on Monday morning\n\nNorthern had said the new timetable would see 50 new trains being introduced across its services.\n\nIn October, fewer than half of Northern rail services ran on time, the firm's figures showed.\n\nCancellations were also at their highest level since July and August.\n\nThe operator had said the changes in its new winter timetable would focus on \"reliability and stability\" and add to the services each week.\n\nCommuters shared train travel issues on social media on Monday, as the hashtag #northernfail was trending.\n\nKeri Lewis Brown shared an image of a departures board which read a service to Blackpool North had been cancelled \"due to a train stopping in the wrong position\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Keri Lewis Brown This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Jane Scullion This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBen Simmonds wrote on Facebook: \"So Northern have gone ahead and cancelled the 7:53 from Sowerby Bridge to York in the new timetable (despite promising not to) which means the 7:58 to Leeds will now have triple the normal passenger count. Why in God's name would you cancel a peak commuter train?!?!\"\n\nTranspennine is running a pre-planned temporary reduced timetable on some routes as a maintenance backlog and infrastructure problems have delayed staff training on new trains.\n\nIts managing director Mr Goodwin said as new trains were introduced improvements to services would be made.\n\nSophie Lichfield tweeted that commuting between Liverpool and Manchester was \"near impossible\" due to the cancellations and delays.\n\nWhile another, Pippa Jackson, tweeted: \"8.17 to Dewsbury cancelled. Having to wait nearly an hour for the next one. No lunch for me today then. Or I don't get home till 7pm. And I see my kids for an hour before they go to bed. Truly shambolic service @TPExpressTrains.\"\n\nOne passenger, posting on Twitter with the username leylandski, wrote: \"Every day you get worse. Now you've cancelled both my train to and from work until Jan? Why? They were during peak time, this is totally unacceptable.\"\n\nAnthony Smith, chief executive of watchdog Transport Focus, said: \"Passengers don't care what causes the disruption - they just want things running again as soon as possible, and plenty of visible staff on hand to help them in the meantime.\n\n\"Train operators should ensure every eligible passenger knows how to claim compensation so that they get the money they are entitled to.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There was a Blank Space on this year's Glastonbury's line-up… and that's where Taylor Swift has written her name.\n\nShe will make her Glastonbury debut in June - the festival's 50th anniversary - headlining the Pyramid Stage.\n\nSwift announced on Twitter that she was \"ecstatic\", while holding up a photo of the festival's in-house newspaper with the headline: \"Sunday Night Taylor Made For Glastonbury.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Taylor Swift This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSwift, who performed on this weekend's Strictly Come Dancing final, joins previously-announced Saturday night headliner Paul McCartney; and Motown star Diana Ross, who will play the Sunday afternoon \"legends slot\".\n\nShe is the first female artist to top the bill since Adele in 2016.\n\nGlastonbury founder Michael Eavis said he was excited to welcome the singer to Worthy Farm next year.\n\n\"She's one of the biggest stars in the world and her songs are absolutely amazing,\" he said. \"We're so delighted.\"\n\nTaylor Swift will join Paul McCartney and Diana Ross in headlining Glastonbury festival on its 50th anniversary\n\nFriday's headliner is still to be revealed but festival organiser Emily Eavis recently said it would be a male artist, playing the festival \"for their first time\".\n\nMany Glastonbury-watchers expect the slot to be taken by US rapper Kendrick Lamar.\n\nThe festival sold out in just 34 minutes when tickets went on sale in October. A resale for unwanted and unpaid tickets will take place on April 16, 2020 for coach tickets and April 19 for general tickets.\n\nSwift topped the charts everywhere from the UK to China with her seventh album, Lover, earlier this year. It has since become the only album of 2019 to sell more than one million \"pure\" copies - ie CD, vinyl and downloads, not including streams - in the US.\n\nThe star, who celebrated her 30th birthday on Friday with a Christmas-themed party, recently announced a new approach to touring for 2020.\n\nAfter 2018's ambitious, 53-date Reputation stadium tour, which played to 2.8m fans and took $345.7m (£259.3m) at the box office, she's taking her show to festivals around the world, in an effort to meet new and unfamiliar audiences.\n\n\"The Lover album is open fields, sunsets, and summer,\" she wrote on social media. \"I want to perform it in a way that feels authentic. I want to go to some places I haven't been and play festivals.\"\n\nThe star will play one further date in the UK next summer: At London's BST festival in Hyde Park.\n\nHowever, general admission tickets for the show sold out within hours of going on sale earlier this month.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Lewis Burton said Caroline Flack is \"loyal and kind\" and \"doesn't deserve any of this\"\n\nThe boyfriend of Caroline Flack says the Love Island host has been subject to a \"witch hunt\" since she was charged with assault at their home last week.\n\nOn Thursday, police were called to the 40-year-old TV presenter's house in Islington, north London, where she lives with tennis player Lewis Burton.\n\nMr Burton described her as \"the most lovely girl\" on Instagram on Monday.\n\n\"I'm tired of the lies and abuse aimed at my girlfriend. This is not a witch hunt this is someone's life,\" he wrote.\n\nCaroline Flack is a TV presenter and also won Strictly Come Dancing in 2014\n\nMs Flack is due to host the winter series of Love Island next month in South Africa, but has found herself in the spotlight for a different reason since being charged with assault by beating.\n\nShe was bailed and will appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court on Monday, 23 December.\n\nMr Burton's message comes after Ms Flack's former fiance Andrew Brady posted screenshots of what appeared to be a heavily-redacted non-disclosure agreement (NDA) on his social media.\n\nBurton wrote: \"I have not signed any NDA. Why would I?\n\n\"Caroline is the most lovely girl. Loyal and kind. She doesn't deserve any of this.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Whoever vandalised the grave of Reinhard Heydrich (inset) is thought to have inside knowledge\n\nBerlin police are trying to find out who opened the unmarked grave of SS officer Reinhard Heydrich, a top Nazi killed by Czechoslovak agents in 1942.\n\nAn employee at the Invalids' Cemetery in central Berlin found on Thursday that the grave had been opened.\n\nNo bones were removed, police say.\n\nHeydrich was a key organiser of Nazi Germany's mass murder of European Jews. He chaired the Wannsee Conference in January 1942, where Hitler's genocidal \"Final Solution\" was planned.\n\nTampering with a grave can be prosecuted under a German law against \"grave defilement\".\n\nThe Allied occupation forces at the end of World War Two decreed that the graves of prominent Nazis should not be marked, to prevent Nazi sympathisers turning them into shrines.\n\nWhoever violated Heydrich's grave is thought to have had inside knowledge of its location.\n\nThe unmarked grave of Heydrich is in the foreground (16 Dec 19)\n\nA similar incident happened at Berlin's Nikolai Cemetery in 2000, when a left-wing group opened what they claimed was the grave of Horst Wessel, a Nazi stormtrooper murdered in 1930, who was turned into a martyr and honoured with a Nazi anthem.\n\nThe group claimed to have thrown Wessel's skull into the River Spree, but police denied that, saying the grave was that of Wessel's father and no bones had been removed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Holocaust survivors: The families who weren’t meant to live\n\nHeydrich, nicknamed \"the Butcher\", headed the Reich Main Security Office under SS leader Heinrich Himmler. Adolf Hitler called Heydrich \"the Man with the Iron Heart\".\n\nHe ruled over Bohemia and Moravia until May 1942, when British-trained Czechoslovak agents attacked his limousine, and he died later of his injuries.\n\nIn retaliation, the Nazis destroyed Lidice village, murdering all the men and adolescent boys and deporting the women and children to concentration camps.", "Weinstein used a walker at a court appearance last week\n\nA group of women, including actors Rose McGowan and Ashley Judd, have hit back at Harvey Weinstein after he described himself as \"the forgotten man\".\n\nThe movie mogul told the New York Post he'd been a \"pioneering\" force for females in cinema.\n\nBut he said no-one would remember it now due to multiple accusations of sexual misconduct, which he denies.\n\nA statement from 23 female accusers said: \"Harvey Weinstein is trying to gaslight society again.\"\n\nIt continued: \"He says in a new interview he doesn't want to be forgotten. Well, he won't be.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by TIME'S UP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by TIME'S UP\n\nIn the interview at the weekend, the 67-year-old producer, whose alleged behaviour sparked the #MeToo movement in 2017, told the US publication: \"I made more movies directed by women and about women than any film-maker, and I'm talking about 30 years ago.\n\n\"I'm not talking about now when it's vogue. I did it first! I pioneered it!\n\n\"It all got eviscerated because of what happened,\" he went on. \"My work has been forgotten.\"\n\nRose McGowan and Rosanna Arquette, pictured in 2012, have both accused Weinstein\n\nIn response, the group of women, known as the \"silence breakers\", added: \"He will be remembered as a sexual predator and an unrepentant abuser who took everything and deserves nothing.\n\n\"He will be remembered by the collective will of countless women who stood up and said enough. We refuse to let this predator rewrite his legacy of abuse.\"\n\nThe group also includes actresses Rosanna Arquette and Jessica Barth, and Weinstein's former assistant Rowena Chiu.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. November 2019: Rowena Chiu and Zelda Perkins worked for Weinstein in the 1990s\n\nThe BBC has asked Weinstein's representatives for a comment.\n\nLast week Weinstein reached a tentative $25m (£19m) settlement with dozens of women who have accused him of sexual misconduct, lawyers said.\n\nHe faces a separate criminal trial next month on rape and sexual assault charges, which he also denies.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "PewDiePie was at one point the world's highest earning YouTuber\n\nYouTube star PewDiePie has announced he is taking a break from the platform, saying he is \"feeling very tired\".\n\nThe 30-year-old Swedish star, real name Felix Kjellberg, found fame with video game commentaries and was at one point the world's highest earning YouTuber.\n\nBut he was more recently involved in controversies around accusations of racism and anti-Semitism.\n\n\"Early next year I'll be away for a little while. I'll explain that later,\" PewDiePie said in a video post.\n\nEarlier this year, PewDiePie, who currently has 102 million subscribers, was overtaken as the biggest YouTube channel in the world by Bollywood record label T-Series, which now has more than 121 million subscribers.\n\n\"I'm taking a break from YouTube next year. I wanted to say it in advance because I made up my mind. I'm tired. I'm feeling very tired. I don't know if you can tell,\" PewDiePie said, laughing.\n\nDisney cut ties with him in 2017 after some videos he released were found to contain Nazi references or anti-Semitic imagery. He accepted the material was offensive, but said he did not support \"any kind of hateful attitudes\".\n\nPewDiePie had been linked to Disney through Maker Studios, a company with a network of YouTube stars.\n\nLater that year, he apologised for using the N-word during a live stream. And last year, he apologised again for reposting a meme which appeared to mock Demi Lovato's hospital treatment for a suspected drug overdose.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The PewDiePie Hackers: Could hacking printers ruin your life?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the moment the Strictly Come Dancing 2019 winner was announced\n\nThe final of this year's Strictly Come Dancing, which saw former Emmerdale actor Kelvin Fletcher lift the glitterball trophy, was watched by an average of 11.3 million people.\n\nKelvin and partner Oti Mabuse topped a public vote to win the BBC One show.\n\nOvernight ratings show the Saturday night programme had a peak audience of 12.5 million viewers, and was the most-watched show across all channels.\n\nKelvin only joined the programme after another contestant suffered an injury.\n\nDrafted in as a last-minute replacement, he replaced Made In Chelsea star Jamie Laing who injured his foot while recording the launch show.\n\nAfter scooping the prize, Kelvin said: \"I am absolutely speechless. I did not expect that, it's just been such a privilege to be here.\"\n\nBreaking down in tears, he said: \"I think this show represents everything that is amazing with this country. I think the people personify what is great and it's just been an absolute privilege.\"\n\nKelvin left his role as Andy Sugden in the long-running ITV soap, which he had played for two decades, three years ago.\n\nSaturday night's show saw him triumph over Karim Zeroual, the CBBC presenter, and his dance partner Amy Dowden; and EastEnders actress Emma Barton, who was paired with Anton Du Beke.\n\nThe couples all performed three dances - a judges' pick dance, their own favourite routine from the series and a new showdance.\n\nAlthough Kelvin and Mabuse came second on the judges' scoring, only the public vote counted in the final.\n\nThe couple began their routines with a sensual rumba to Ain't No Sunshine by Bill Withers for which they scored 39 points, followed by a perfect-score showdance to Shout by The Isley Brothers.\n\nJudge Bruno Tonioli said their showdance was \"almost like watching 13 weeks of all the best of Strictly Come Dancing condensed into one dance\".\n\nMabuse's sister and fellow judge Motsi Mabuse, who joined the panel this year, said: \"I have no words...\"\n\n'You just put the show in showdance,' said presenter Tess Daly\n\nFor their final dance, they revisited their samba to La Vida Es Un Carnaval by Celia Cruz, which they performed in week one.\n\nJudge Shirley Ballas said to Kelvin: \"Which part of that body doesn't move? Fantastic, congratulations, I have no words, you've left me speechless.\" He scored 39 for the second time of the night.\n\nIt is also the first time Mabuse has lifted the trophy.\n\nSpeaking through tears, she said: \"I've been on this show for five years and I have never ever met any celeb who gives his heart, his soul...\n\n\"If something is not working we stay in training and rehearse, not because he wanted to win but because he genuinely, genuinely loves dancing, and for me that is the best gift and the best ending to my year, so thank you.\"\n\nSaturday's viewing figures made Strictly one of the most watched TV programmes of the year. But they were a slight fall on last year's Strictly final, which attracted an average audience of 11.7 million and a peak of 12.7 million when Stacey Dooley and Kevin Clifton won.\n\nCBBC presenter Karim and his partner Amy performed the quickstep to Mr Pinstripe Suit and topped the judges' leaderboard\n\nEmma and Anton opened with the Charleston to Thoroughly Modern Millie - Tonioli told Emma that she was his \"favourite flapper ever\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Mr Frith said he felt \"blessed and proud\" of his campaign, which was supported by comedian Eddie Izzard\n\nThe general election brought surprise victories and shock defeats for MPs across the UK. Former politicians who failed to win the vote have shared how it feels to lose their seat in the House of Commons.\n\nHours after losing his seat in Bury North by 105 votes, former MP James Frith said it was \"too soon\" to say what the \"full impact\" of the defeat would be on him and his family.\n\nHowever, he said he did feel \"a degree of release\" from the weeks of intense campaigning.\n\nMr Frith was one of the 60 Labour candidates to lose out in the general election, and one of 54 to see their seat turned over to the Conservatives. Although, in Bury North, this was more like a return to the Conservatives, after Mr Frith ousted David Nuttall in 2017.\n\n\"I'm still processing it, the grieving is at the 'stunned' stage,\" the former rock band front-man said. \"We had a re-count where the results changed twice, but I conceded on the third re-count, congratulated my opponent and went home.\n\n\"I stayed up the rest of the night, and in the morning I spent time with the children explaining it to them, one of my sons got very upset, but the younger two didn't really understand.\"\n\nWhen Parliament dissolved, Mr Frith said he understood running in a marginal seat meant losing was \"a possibility\", but added he felt the impact of being \"inches from winning\".\n\nAsked about the future, he said he'd like to be involved in \"rebuilding the party\", but said for now he was going to take some \"well deserved time off for Christmas\".\n\nBen Howlett was the Conservative MP for Bath between 2015 and 2017\n\nBen Howlett became the Conservative MP for Bath in 2015 and lost his seat in the 2017 general election. \"I was back home after the count taking the washing out of the machine when Mrs May phoned to say sorry which was a bit surreal,\" he said.\n\nThe 33-year-old described his defeat as \"a bit like losing a close relative\".\n\n\"You don't do it as a nine to five Monday to Friday job - it's basically your life,\" he said. \"The people you work with become your family, you've got your team and the hundreds of people you've been helping.\n\n\"Suddenly you have that ability to help people taken away. I got emotionally attached to some of the people I was trying to help with immigration cases and I had to hand them over to my successor.\"\n\nMr Howlett said he felt emotionally drained by the end of the count and had been living off adrenalin and coffee. \"I went out with my family for a Sunday dinner and it dawned on me that I had to close down my constituency office on Monday,\" he said.\n\n\"Everyone else goes back to work and you're on your own for the first time in months or years. You're physically on your own and you're emotionally on your own. I remember sobbing on my own in my kitchen. You need a lot of support and people to turn to.\"\n\nMr Howlett now owns a policy advisory and development organisation in the health, care and local government sectors. \"I know MPs who carry on acting as MPs because that's all they've known and their families never get them back,\" he said.\n\nTania Mathias said her work in conflict zones put losing her seat into perspective\n\nTania Mathias is an NHS doctor and was Conservative MP for Twickenham between 2015 and 2017.\n\n\"Losing your seat is disappointing but it's not as bad as the worst night in hospital or in a conflict zone - nobody died,\" she said. \"At first I wasn't telling colleagues that because I felt it was downplaying how people were feeling. But my politician friends who are doctors understood.\"\n\nDr Mathias now works as an ophthalmology doctor and has continued to campaign for the Conservative Party.\n\nShe is a volunteer medical doctor with the charity Freedom from Torture and has led workshops in Kosovo, Bosnia Herzegovina and Sierra Leone for people standing in elections for the first time.\n\n\"I tried my best and I wanted every single vote but when you lose you think 'hey I'm part of democracy' and you're really, really proud of that. The voters had their say and there was no violence so I'm happy.\n\n\"[The murder of MP] Jo Cox puts everything into perspective. Every good conversation, every honest conversation is worth it. We have to keep this basic thing of being able to knock on a stranger's door and have that discussion about what you believe in.\n\n\"If you've managed to put your message across and used every single minute of the day and night to communicate with your voters then be happy.\"\n\nSimon Wright and wife Anna Thorpe have done more than 200 Parkruns between them\n\nSimon Wright was the Liberal Democrat MP for Norwich South between 2010 and 2015. \"I once heard losing your seat described as the most public sacking imaginable and there's no escaping from that,\" he said.\n\n\"By the time the results came in we had a fair sense of how things were going. So when the declaration came, it was more a sense of accepting what had increasingly become inevitable.\n\n\"You always fight an election campaign as you want to win it so it will always come as a crushing blow and a bitter shock. But in the weeks that followed I took heart in the positive words and kind support from my former constituents and even my rivals.\"\n\nMr Wright said he felt \"very fortunate\" to find a new position as chief executive officer of children's bereavement charity Nelson's Journey within a matter of weeks.\n\nHe married wife Anna Thorpe in April 2019 and 100 friends joined them at Parkrun at Catton Park in Norwich on the morning of their wedding.\n\n\"Circumstances lined up and I was able to find a new job that I really wanted to do and that I was really enthusiastic and passionate about,\" he said.\n\n\"The time and emotional energy that goes into being an MP is very significant and you're pulled in lots of different directions. I've had more time for family, friends and hobbies and the running community has become a really big part of my life.\n\n\"There is life after parliament so that doesn't have to be what defines your future.\"\n\nMatthew Green said losing his seat was gut-wrenching\n\nMatthew Green was the Liberal Democrat MP for Ludlow between 2001 and 2005.\n\n\"I was aware that I was going to lose from the weekend before because I did the number crunching,\" he said. \"But I didn't tell anyone in my team because I wanted to keep campaigning up to the end.\n\n\"I had a few days of this surreal situation where I knew I was heading for defeat but I couldn't tell anyone. But when it came to it, it's a gut-wrenching thing. It's comparable to what I envisage would be a fairly sudden sacking or a company going bust.\n\n\"It's a very uncertain time, you've still got a mortgage to pay. You've lost your job and you've got to close down your operation and make your team redundant, it's not pleasant.\"\n\nMr Green said he applied for jobs before creating a planning and architecture consultancy \"almost by accident\".\n• None 'I will miss the House of Commons'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Conned by My Church: Young worshippers left in debt\n\nAn evangelical church praised for helping ex-gang members has been accused of financially exploiting young people from its congregation.\n\nOne member of charity SPAC Nation said she was persuaded to commit benefit fraud by a trustee, while another said she had a £5,000 loan taken out in her name without her knowledge.\n\nA former senior insider told the BBC that the church \"has to be shut down\".\n\nThe church's leader, Pastor Tobi Adegboyega, ignored BBC Panorama's request for an interview\n\nKurtis, 23, was one of the church's trusted inner circle until his departure in January this year.\n\nHe appears in a BBC Panorama investigation into SPAC Nation, which is accused of leaving young people with debts of thousands of pounds.\n\n\"Certain leaders shouldn't be around youth, they shouldn't be around anywhere where people are vulnerable,\" he said.\n\nThe church's leader Pastor Tobi Adegboyega \"has to be held accountable\", Kurtis added.\n\nKurtis was one of the church's inner circle until his departure in January\n\nGracy was 21 when she joined SPAC in 2017. She told Panorama she was encouraged to apply for Universal Credit after her Pastor Ebo Dougan - who is also a trustee of the charity - noticed she had stopped giving money to the church.\n\nShe handed over her details to Pastor Dougan and someone filled out an online application form on her behalf. She then attended a meeting at the job centre.\n\nThe BBC has seen messages and documentation that confirm her version of events.\n\nGracy's online application shows that after she left the appointment someone changed her details to show that she had two children. This made her eligible for a £1,200 payment.\n\n\"Even sometimes when we know things are wrong, in that moment I'm just thinking like 'OK, my father figure would not tell me to do something bad',\" she said.\n\nGracy was told to pay £900 of the sum into two accounts. She kept the rest, but was later investigated by the Department for Work and Pensions, who fined her £600 and ordered her to repay the £1,200.\n\n\"I can't afford it obviously,\" she said. \"I feel heartbroken because I thought this was supposed to be a family.\"\n\nGracy said she was encouraged to apply for Universal Credit\n\nLovis was 18 when a loan was taken out in her name and without her knowledge, she said.\n\nShe was diagnosed with kidney cancer in November 2017.\n\nThe illness left her unable to continue working as an assistant sous chef and she began looking for a job with less demanding hours.\n\nShe was invited to an interview at a firm called Zuriel Recruitment. The agency was run by Tobi Adegboyega's second in command Samuel Akokhia, who has a conviction for attempted robbery.\n\nAt the interview Lovis provided Zuriel Recruitment with personal details including a photocopy of her passport, her home address, her mobile number and bank account details.\n\nAt the end of the process, her interviewer - a pastor at SPAC Nation - encouraged her to attend a service that week.\n\n\"It was a bit weird,\" she said. \"But at the end of the day it's church - so I didn't really think much of it.\"\n\nLovis started going to SPAC Nation services and several months later moved into a safe house - known as a \"TRAP house\" - run by Pastor Samuel Akokhia.\n\nIn March Lovis discovered a £5,000 four-year loan had been taken out in her name without her knowledge.\n\nThe money never reached her, instead being transferred to a company called E. R. Management Group. That company is run and owned by Emmanuel Akokhia, Samuel's brother.\n\nBBC Panorama has seen paperwork confirming the money trail. It is not known what happened to the money after it arrived in E. R. Management Group's account.\n\n\"They basically said the loan was for the greater good and they were going to use the money to buy a bigger TRAP house to accommodate more people,\" she said.\n\n\"And I was thinking 'that's all well and good - but why did I not know about it?'\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. SPAC Nation has been praised for helping people to leave gangs\n\nOn Friday the charities regulator revealed it had opened its own investigation into SPAC Nation's safeguarding and finances.\n\nThe Charity Commission also ordered SPAC Nation to \"bank its money\".\n\nThe Metropolitan Police is reviewing allegations of possible fraud and other offences before deciding whether to investigate further.\n\nSPAC Nation denies that the church's lead pastor Tobi Adegboyega is financially exploiting young people.\n\nIt said the church had a \"robust complaints procedure\" and \"a well run disciplinary system\".\n\nSPAC Nation told the BBC that the church \"is not responsible what goes on inside individual leaders' or members' houses\".\n\nTobi Adegboyega ignored BBC Panorama's request for an interview.\n\nWatch the full investigation on Panorama at 19:30 GMT or afterwards on BBC iPlayer.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Every Welsh Government department will see an increase in funding from next April.\n\nIt is the first time in a decade that has happened, and follows the announcement of £600m extra from the UK government earlier this year.\n\nBut finance minister Rebecca Evans said funding remains below 2010 levels.\n\nAs part of the plans the Welsh NHS will receive around £340m extra from April, while council funding will rise by 4.3%.\n\nThe latter is the first significant increase in council funding for 12 years, according to the Welsh Local Government Association.\n\nMinisters in Cardiff have revealed their £20bn draft budget for the next financial year, 2020-21.\n\nIt includes what is described as \"significant funding\" for low carbon transport and housing in the first Welsh Budget since it declared a climate emergency earlier this year.\n\nThere will be £4.5m for a National Forest, planned to extend the full length of the country, and £25m of capital funding to develop near-zero carbon homes.\n\nThere will also be £30m for electric buses and refuse vehicles.\n\nFinance Minister Rebecca Evans said: \"This draft budget delivers on our promises to the people of Wales and invests for the future of our planet.\"\n\nExpenditure in the main areas from the Welsh Government budget over the last four years\n\nAnnual spending on services funded by the health and social services department will increase from £8bn to £8.366bn by April next year.\n\nLocal councils are being given £4.474bn to spend on day-to-day services - including schools and social care - an above-inflation increase of 4.3%.\n\nIndividual increases in central funding range from 3% for Monmouthshire to 5.4% for Newport, to which local authorities will add their own revenue from council tax, charges for services and other income.\n\nLocal government is under pressure because of rising wage and pension bills.\n\nMost of the political representatives in the Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA) said the council settlement was positive.\n\nRhondda Cynon Taf leader Andrew Morgan, who has just taken over as WLGA leader as well, said: \"I welcome this exceptionally good finance settlement.\n\n\"I am pleased that our positive engagement with the Welsh Government has paid dividends for our services, for our workforce, and for our residents.\"\n\nHowever Peter Fox, the Conservative leader of Monmouthshire County Council, said it was disappointing.\n\n\"The UK Government gave sufficient resource to the Welsh Government to do significantly better than this and they have failed local government in Wales again,\" he said.\n\nMr Fox called the difference between his council's 3% rise and the 5.4% for Newport \"ridiculous\".\n\nCash for education - which includes higher and further education but excludes most school spending - will rise by 3.7% to £1.56bn.\n\nTotal spending on environment, energy and rural affairs rises by 2.5% to £216m.\n\nHowever the main pot of cash for running Natural Resources Wales - the country's environmental regulator and Wales' biggest quango - is staying about the same at £69m.\n\nMoney for the Welsh Government's central administration is rising by 8.3% to £357m - mostly accounted for by more money on Brexit staff.\n\nMuch of the reason the Welsh Government has had more money to give to its main departments is thanks to Chancellor Sajid Javid announcing in September that he was increasing public spending.\n\nWales' share of that amounted to a very welcome £600m. On one hand, the Welsh Government is pleased to have it, but at the same time it argues that had the spending kept up with inflation during the past 10 years it would have had an extra £300m to spend.\n\nHealth spending continues to take up about half of overall Welsh Government spending. The finance minister described the 4% increase as inflation busting.\n\nThat it may be, but it is generally recognised the NHS doesn't just have to cope with price rises, but also increasing pressure on its services from an aging population and more people living with long-term conditions such as diabetes.\n\nThe budget reflects a growing emphasis on us all living healthier lives - encouraging walking and cycling and eating more healthily. In other words, the government is using its money to try to encourage behaviour change rather than just trying to treat problems when they occur.\n\nThe harsh reality that climate change is affecting many different aspects of our life is reflected in the budget with money for a wide variety of measures - from a national forest, initiatives to improve air and water quality and measures to protect communities against flooding.\n\nCampaigners in both health and the environment are likely to argue that these measures are not enough to cope with growing pressures.\n\nThe Welsh Government's Welsh Language budget remains static at £20.9m. Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg - the Welsh Language Society - said it amounted to a real terms cut.\n\nTamsin Davies from Cymdeithas yr Iaith said: \"Such cuts cannot be justified. The Welsh Government has more than one billion extra pounds for next year so, at the very least, we would expect them to increase Welsh language budgets in line with inflation.\"\n\nCapital spending on infrastructure and other major projects will rise from £1.7bn to £2.3bn between 2019 and next April.\n\nThis includes £785m for the economy and transport, which the Welsh Government says has risen by 29%, and £735m for housing and local government - up by 38%.\n\nThe latter includes an extra £35m on social housing grants.\n\nMs Evans said that \"despite a decade of austerity, we have consistently prioritised our NHS\".\n\n\"Even though our like-for-like funding remains below 2010 levels, this Budget strives for a greener, equal and prosperous Wales.\"\n\nWelsh Conservative finance spokesman Nick Ramsay said the budget was a \"missed opportunity\".\n\nHe said: \"Welsh Conservatives welcome the considerable sums of money now coming to Wales as a result of the spending decisions of the UK Government.\n\n\"We now need a budget that delivers a dynamic, forward-thinking, and agile Wales but this budget falls sadly short.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru said the budget \"delivers only in its lack of ambition\" and claimed councils were still not getting the funding they needed.\n\nEconomy spokesman Rhun ap Iorwerth said: \"Twenty years of Labour rule in Wales has shown us that more money for our NHS doesn't in itself mean better services.\n\n\"What we need to see from this Labour government is a strategic plan on how this extra funding will be spent on preventative measures instead of the continued mismanagement of our NHS and health boards that are still in special measures.\"", "The man was shot by armed officers on Hessle Road\n\nA man is in a critical condition after being shot in the street by police.\n\nOfficers were called to reports of a man \"believed to be in possession of a firearm\" in Hessle Road in Hull in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nThe man was shot by officers and taken from the scene for treatment at an unnamed hospital.\n\nHumberside Police Assistant Chief Constable Paul Anderson said he did not believe the incident had any connections to terrorism.\n\nThe force said no-one else was injured and a cordon remained in place.\n\nA 100-metre section of Hessle Road - one of the busiest routes in Hull - was cordoned off, with a large number of police vehicles and officers in the area.\n\nForensics officers are examining a grey BMW four wheel drive vehicle that remains parked inside the cordon.\n\nForensic officers are working at the scene of the shooting\n\nDep Ch Con Chris Rowley said: \"In incidents like this our officers have to make very difficult decisions in very difficult circumstances.\n\n\"I would like to reassure the local community that incidents like this are very rare.\n\n\"We do have officers in the area and if anyone in the area is concerned I would encourage them to speak to one of those officers.\"\n\nHe said the man who had been shot was in a \"critical but stable \" condition in hospital.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the family of the man and also with those officers who were involved in the incident,\" he added.\n\nIn a statement the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said: \"We were notified by Humberside Police about a police shooting in Hull in the early hours of this morning.\n\n\"We understand a man was shot by police and is in hospital being treated for serious injuries.\n\n\"We have attended the scene at Hessle Road and the police post-incident procedure.\n\n\"We are carrying out an assessment to determine whether the IOPC needs to be involved in any investigation.\"\n\nFollow BBC Yorkshire on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Parliament tends to be dominated by its grandest figures, the party leaders, and their cabinet or shadow cabinet teams.\n\nBut others can cut a dash in the Commons by weight of expertise, through passion for an issue, by sheer street-smarts, or simply by being in the right place at the right time.\n\nSo here are a few MPs who - while not aspiring to the top table - could exert serious leverage in the newly elected House of Commons.\n\nAfter a strong performance in the race to succeed John Bercow as Speaker - and in a House of Commons with many more Conservatives - she must surely be the front runner to become Chairman of Ways and Means, the senior deputy speaker.\n\nShe would then have the key responsibilities of chairing budget debates and selecting amendments for consideration by committees of the whole house - a key task when the government begins to push through its Withdrawal Agreement Bill.\n\nHe pulled off a considerable coup in 2017, when, as a junior backbencher, he wrested the chairmanship of the Foreign Affairs Committee from ex-minister Crispin Blunt.\n\nAn ex-army officer - he served in Iraq and Afghanistan - Tugendhat writes notes to himself on an office whiteboard in Arabic to preserve privacy. He's a reasonable bet for a ministerial job, perhaps in the Foreign Office.\n\nHawkish on Russia - he said the Salisbury poisoning was \"if not an act of war… certainly a warlike act by the Russian Federation\" - expect him to be an influential voice on foreign policy if he remains on the backbenches.\n\nChairwoman of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee - where she performed impressively - she is being tipped as the person around whom the remains of the Blairite-Brownite group of Labour MPs might coalesce.\n\nThat may not translate into an attempt on the leadership, but she may now become an important factional leader.\n\nFew MPs come into Parliament with a clearly defined policy mission, but the ex-army officer who won Plymouth Moor View against the expectations of his own party, announced himself with a blistering maiden speech on the need for better care for military veterans.\n\nHe was an early backer of Boris Johnson's leadership campaign and was frequently seen shepherding the would-be leader around Westminster. His support was rewarded with the job he always wanted - defence minister responsible for veterans. Mercer will expect the political support and funding to reform the system.\n\nBriefly Leader of the House in the dog days of Theresa May's premiership, the former Treasury minister found himself surplus to requirements when Boris Johnson took over. But with gazelle-like agility, he leapt into the vacancy created when Nicky Morgan left as chairwoman of the Treasury Committee.\n\nHe didn't have much time to make an impact in this key committee corridor job before the election was called, but if he is re-elected as Parliament's scrutiniser-in-chief of economic policy (and others may cast covetous eyes on the post) he will get to pronounce on levels of spending and public debt at a ticklish moment for the UK economy.\n\nDouble-hatted as Metro Mayor of South Yorkshire and MP for Barnsley Central. In a Parliament where one of the big themes looks certain to be devolution - and demands for greater powers for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - the mayor of a fair chunk of left-behind territory could find himself \"speaking for England\".\n\nOnce talked up as a possible Labour leadership contender, he defied pressure to give up his Commons seat and maintains a perch in Westminster. He is a Parachute Regiment veteran with service in Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan.\n\nSeen as a bit of a star of the 2017 intake, Afolami is on the Commons end of the Constitution Reform Group, a cross-party pressure group which wants to rebalance a constitution destabilised by an uneven devolution settlement.\n\nThis is the group behind the Act of Union Bill, a private member's bill proposed by the former clerk of the Commons, Lord Lisvane. It may all sound high-powered and rather nerdy, but the tug of war between the nations and regions of the UK is set to be a big theme of the new Parliament, and Afolami looks set to be a player.\n\nSmart, personable, and articulate in two languages he seized and held a seat which has see-sawed between Plaid and the Lib Dems since the 1990s. In his maiden speech, he complained of the steady, silent haemorrhage of young people leaving their communities to seek opportunities elsewhere. A future leader?\n\nNewly elected, he is nonetheless an experienced figure, having served in the European Parliament since 2004. He looks ready-made to become the SNP's new Brexit spokesman in Westminster.\n\nThe Lib Dems' Wendy Chamberlain has taken the North East Fife seat from the SNP's Stephen Gethins\n\nShe contested the most marginal seat in the country (the SNP won with a majority of just two votes in 2017) in North East Fife.\n\nAn ex-police officer who is already attracting rave reviews. Part of an infusion of new blood into a rather bruised and diminished Lib Dem parliamentary contingent.\n\nThose leaving Parliament include Dr Sarah Wollaston, a GP who was originally elected as a Conservative in 2010 but ended up in the Lib Dems, by way of the short-lived Independent Group of MPs. Labour's Frank Field, a maverick Labour MP, almost permanently at odds with his constituency party, and the SNP's Stephen Gethins, who might have been a candidate to lead their Westminster group had he enjoyed a more comfortable majority, also both lost their seats.\n\nLabour's Mary Creagh led a series of high-profile inquiries into the environmental issues around the fashion industry and toxic chemicals in everyday life. And Dennis Skinner - the Labour stalwart would have been the father of the House, the longest serving MP, had he survived the election - also departs. He was first elected in 1970, and fell just short of half a century in the Commons.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC royal correspondent Daniela Relph gives us a sneak peak of A Berry Royal Christmas\n\nOne of Prince Louis' earliest words was \"Mary\" after he recognised TV chef Mary Berry on a cookbook, the Duchess of Cambridge has said.\n\nCatherine told the story to the former Bake Off presenter in a BBC Christmas special, which airs on Monday evening.\n\nShe said 19-month-old Prince Louis, was \"fascinated by faces\" and would say \"that's Mary Berry\" when he saw her on cookbooks in the family's kitchen.\n\n\"One of Louis' first words was Mary, because right at his height are all my cooking books in the kitchen bookshelf,\" Catherine tells the cook on A Berry Royal Christmas.\n\n\"And children are really fascinated by faces, and your faces are all over your cooking books and he would say 'That's Mary Berry'... so he would definitely recognise you if he saw you today.\"\n\nPrince Louis is the couple's third child\n\nThe Duchess was speaking to Mary Berry during a Christmas TV special\n\nThe duchess also shared snippets of family life, including how the family uses Berry's recipes when making pizza, which the children \"loved\".\n\nAsked by Berry if she cooked with the children, she replied: \"Yes, I really enjoy it. Again, for them to be creative, for them to try and be as independent as possible with it.\"\n\nPrince William was also interviewed by Berry on the programme and spoke about how his relationship with his mother, the late Princess Diana, had influenced his style of parenting.\n\nThe Duke and Duchess made Christmas meringue roulades with Nadiya Hussain and Mary Berry\n\nMary Berry described the royal couple's charity work as \"remarkable\"\n\nSpeaking at homelessness charity The Passage, in London, Prince William said the centre was one of the first places to which he made an official visit and it had had a \"profound impact\" on him.\n\n\"My mother knew what she was doing with it,\" he said.\n\n\"She realised that it was very important when you grow up - especially in the life that we grew up - that you realise that life happens beyond palace walls, and that you see real people struggling with real issues.\"\n\nHe added that his mother \"liked to challenge the social norms about charities and about disadvantages and vulnerable people\".\n\nAsked whether he speaks to his children about such issues, he told how Prince George, six, and Charlotte, four, would quiz him about the world on the way to school in south-west London.\n\nHe said: \"Absolutely, and on the school run - I know it sounds a little bit contrite - but on the school run already, bear in mind six and four (George and Charlotte's age), whenever we see someone who is sleeping rough on the street I talk about it and I point it out and I explain.\"\n\nDuring the programme, Berry helps the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge prepare food for a royal event held to thank all those working and volunteering over the festive period.\n\nIn one scene, Kate serves non-alcoholic cocktails to people at a dry bar in Liverpool which has been set up by the charity Action on Addiction.\n\n\"It reminded me of my university days when I did a bit of waitressing,\" she said.\n\nAsked by Berry whether she was any good, the duchess replied: \"No - I was terrible.\"\n\nThe duke and duchess took part in a Bake Off competition during the programme\n\nThe programme, which culminates in a Christmas party hosted by the royal couple, also features some of Berry's favourite Christmas recipes.\n\nThere is also a special guest appearance from Nadiya Hussain, who won Bake Off in 2015 when Berry was a judge on the show, which is now broadcast on Channel 4.\n\nBerry described the charity work carried out by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge as \"remarkable\".\n\n\"They don't just arrive and shake a few hands make a few smiles and a speech, they want to get involved, and they want to see what they can do,\" she said.\n\n\"And it isn't just one visit, they come back again and ask for the results and they remember who they spoke to last time. I think that's remarkable.\"\n\nA Berry Royal Christmas airs on Monday 16 December at 20:30 GMT on BBC One", "Sales discounts on clothing and products in the lead up to Christmas could be the biggest in almost ten years, according to one consultancy.\n\nDeloitte, which has monitored the prices of 800,000 products online and in shops since 2011, expects average discounts to hit 50% by Christmas Eve.\n\nIts forecast came as data provider Springboard said shopper numbers were lower than the same time last year.\n\nThe firm said shoppers were waiting for deeper discounts before buying.\n\n\"Consumers clearly took advantage of early discounts to purchase Christmas presents, and are now waiting for discounts to deepen once again in the days immediately before Christmas as retailers do their best to shift unsold stock,\" said Diane Wehrle, insights director at Springboard.\n\nDeloitte said current discounts ranged from 8% to 78% with the biggest discounts on clothing, but said the coming weekend - the last before Christmas - could see \"a tipping point in promotions\".\n\nThe consultancy said the price cuts had been driven by UK shops discounting earlier in the season due to Black Friday - the day after the American holiday of Thanksgiving, when retailers drop their prices for 24 hours. The tradition has increasingly been adopted by UK retailers too.\n\nDeloitte said this had created a long run-up for pre-Christmas discounting, with prices falling steadily in the lead up to Christmas Day.\n\n\"Consumers have come to expect an increasing amount of pre-Christmas discounting. The result is a blending of promotions, one seeping into the next, and a steady price decline rather than a steep Boxing Day drop, reminiscent of Christmases past,\" said Jason Gordon, consumer analytics partner at Deloitte.\n\nPost Christmas, Deloitte is expecting deeper discounts, with average reductions of up to 54% on Boxing Day.\n\nRetail expert Natalie Berg said the current retail environment is worrying: \"This is the most important time of the year for retailers, and this is a sign of distress.\"\n\nShe added that retailers have become worried and started discounting earlier due to consumers buying less, and once a few big brands start discounting, it is difficult for the rest of the High Street not to join in.\n\n\"It's a combination of pent-up demand and the late timing of Black Friday being on 29 November, not 23 November,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"Generally, there's been a lot of political and economic uncertainty this year so consumers have been quite cautious about spending. That pent-up demand has been released at Christmas, when you spend, but consumers have cottoned on to the fact that there will be pre-Christmas discounts now.\"\n\nBut consumers might not even have to wait for the Boxing Day sales. Deloitte predicts that many Boxing Day discounts could go live online on Christmas Day itself, and on Christmas Eve in bricks and mortar shops.\n\n\"The operational challenges that sales present in-store mean some retailers could be offering Boxing Day sale prices on Christmas Eve, for those willing to hit the shops early,\" says Mr Gordon.\n\nWhen's the best time to get a bargain? What's the best bargain you've ever purchased? Share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and is now in an 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK effectively remains in the EU's customs union and single market and continues to obey EU rules.\n\nHowever, it is no longer part of the political institutions. So, for example, there are no longer any British MEPs in the European Parliament.\n\nNegotiations on a trade deal with the EU have been proceeding for several months. The UK wants as much access as possible for its goods and services to the EU.\n\nBut the government has made clear that the UK must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBoth sides say there a still significant areas of disagreement - for example, on EU proposals for a so-called \"level playing field\", which would see the UK and EU maintain similar minimum standards on things like workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nThe deadline for the two sides to agree an extension to the transition period has now passed.\n\nIf no trade deal has been agreed and ratified by the end of the year, then the UK faces the prospect of tariffs on exports to the EU.\n\nThe prime minister has argued that as the UK is completely aligned to EU rules, the negotiation should be straightforward. But critics have pointed out that the UK wishes to have the freedom to diverge from EU rules so it can do deals with other countries - and that makes negotiations more difficult.\n\nIt's not just a trade deal that needs to be sorted out. The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement. The UK is set to leave the European Arrest Warrant scheme and will have to agree a replacement. It must also agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.\n\nIt's also important to recognise that major changes will take effect on 1 January 2021 whether or not a trade deal is agreed. Free movement of people will end and businesses trading with the EU will have to follow new rules.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "Russia's third-largest internet company is suing streaming service Twitch for 180bn roubles (£2.1bn) over pirate broadcasts of English Premier League games.\n\nRambler Group alleges its exclusive broadcasting rights were breached by the service more than 36,000 times between August and November.\n\nIt is seeking to permanently ban the Amazon-owned platform in Russia.\n\nRussia is the third-largest user of Twitch, which has more than 15 million daily active users worldwide.\n\nIts terms and conditions state users cannot share content without permission from the copyright owners, including films, television programmes and sports matches.\n\nThe streaming giant's lawyer, Julianna Tabastaeva, told Russian-language news website Kommersant Twitch \"only provides users with access to the platform and is unable to change the content posted by users, or track possible violations\".\n\nShe added the company took \"all necessary measures to eliminate the violations, despite not receiving any official notification from Rambler\".\n\nThe Moscow City Court will hear the case on 20 December.\n\nIt has ordered a temporary suspension of English Premier League streams on Twitch pending the outcome.\n\n\"Our suit against Twitch is to defend our exclusive rights to broadcast English Premier League matches and we will continue to actively combat pirate broadcasts,\" said Mikhail Gershkovich, head of Rambler Group's sports project, in a statement.\n\nRambler bought exclusive digital distribution rights for the English Premier League in 2019, for three seasons.\n\nIt is holding talks with Twitch in the hope of reaching a settlement agreement.\n\nAmazon holds the exclusive rights to a number of Premier League matches in the UK over the next three years.\n\nThe company bought Twitch for $970m (£585m) in 2014.", "The world's biggest bottle of single malt holds the equivalent of 150 standard bottles\n\nThe world's biggest bottle of single malt whisky has sold at auction for £15,000.\n\nThe 105.3 litre bottle of 14-year-old Tomintoul is nearly 1.5m (4.9ft) tall, weighs more than 180kg (396lbs) and would serve up about 5,250 drams.\n\nThe bottle was part of an online Christmas auction which ended at 20:00 on Sunday.\n\nThe giant Speyside bottle holds 150 standard bottles of whisky and holds a 20cm (7.8in) cork.\n\nThe bottle was filled at the Tomintoul Distillery in August 2009 by a team of 14 people.\n\nIt left the Highland village for the first time since it was created to go on display at the the Scotch Whisky Experience in Edinburgh in 2012 when it was worth about £5,000.\n\nGraham Crane, director and co-founder of auctioneers Just Whisky, said ahead of the sale: \"Every now and then the opportunity to purchase a truly unique bottle of whisky occurs - this is one of those times.\n\n\"We're delighted to be auctioning this supersized bottle this month and hope that the lucky buyer has either an appropriate sized stocking for Christmas if it's a gift, or is planning a memorable Hogmanay celebration to welcome in 2020.\"", "Northern Ireland has had no devolved government since January 2017\n\nNow is the moment to restore devolution in Northern Ireland, Julian Smith has said.\n\nThe Northern Ireland secretary was speaking after talks aimed at restoring the assembly began on Monday.\n\nThe Northern Ireland Assembly has been inactive since January 2017, when its two biggest parties, the DUP and Sinn Féin, split in a bitter row.\n\nMr Smith said the biggest issue in the negotiations should be dealing with the current crisis in the health sector.\n\nHe met the leaders of Northern Ireland's five biggest parties.\n\nMeanwhile, the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, Simon Byrne, wrote to the leaders on Monday calling on them to agree on how to deal with the legacy of the Troubles and requesting support to hire more officers.\n\nThe British and Irish governments will work \"night and day\" over the next few weeks to restore devolution, said the Tánaiste (Irish Deputy Prime Minister) Simon Coveney.\n\nThe Irish deputy PM was speaking after a meeting with the NI Secretary Julian Smith at Stormont.\n\nMr Coveney said there would be \"intensive\" discussions between the parties over the course of this week.\n\nHe will hold his own meetings with the five parties on Monday night and Tuesday, ahead of a roundtable scheduled for Wednesday.\n\nHe said the two governments did not \"want to bounce\" the parties into an agreement - but said they had been discussing the same issues for many months now.\n\n\"This is not about trying to force the parties into a space they don't want to move into,\" he added.\n\n\"But we've had a reality check with the nurses' strike, and I think it's a reminder to everyone that now is the time to get this done.\"\n\nRound-table talks are set to happen later in the week which will involve the parties, Mr Smith and Mr Coveney.\n\nSeveral rounds of talks to restore the executive have ended in failure, with the two parties unable to resolve differences over issues such as the Irish language or how to deal with the legacy of the Troubles.\n\nIn the general election last Thursday both the DUP and Sinn Féin saw their share of the vote fall.\n\nMr Smith said the results had given the five parties \"serious issues\" to reflect on - but maintained he is obliged to call a fresh assembly election if a deal is not reached by 13 January.\n\nThe Sinn Féin team speak to the media after fresh talks at Stormont on Monday\n\nSpeaking after meeting Mr Smith, Alliance Party leader Naomi Long said their discussion was \"constructive and positive\" but she added her party would not go back into an assembly that was \"a stop-start mess\".\n\nMrs Long also said there was a draft document regarding a deal but that it is not complete.\n\nShe said discussions between the parties over the next week would seek to build on it.\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said the general election result showed people were \"sick of the Stormont standoff\".\n\nAfter meeting Mr Smith, he said the British and Irish governments should, in the next couple of days, publish a document detailing what has been agreed so far.\n\n\"They should force the parties to say yes or no,\" he added.\n\nUlster Unionist leader Steve Aiken said he did not believe a deal was likely before Christmas.\n\nHe called for reforms to be made, and said the \"core issues which undermined devolution previously\" must be addressed.\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster said she hoped there would be an assembly up and running at the beginning of the year.\n\nShe added that all politicians had to take responsibility for the lack of devolution.\n\nArlene Foster was first minister before the assembly collapsed\n\nSinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald said the Stormont talks process was at a \"crucial and pivotal moment\".\n\nShe said the talks needed to be about resolution and delivery, but that Sinn Féin had also asked for a \"big cash injection\" for public services.\n\nShe did not say how much exactly the party had asked for, or what the government's response was.\n\nShe also said her party would not be drawn into publicly discussing negotiating red lines - but would enter into the talks with goodwill.\n\nOne by one the parties emerged optimistic from talks, claiming a deal is possible.\n\nThe general election results have changed the mood, and Julian Smith maintains if power sharing is not restored by 13 January, a fresh assembly election will be called.\n\nThe DUP and Sinn Féin are unlikely to relish that prospect, and seem to be softening their respective negotiating stances.\n\nAlliance and the SDLP say they do not fear another election while the Ulster Unionists wants direct rule, if a deal isn't reached soon.\n\nThe five parties will hold a roundtable meeting with the British and Irish governments on Wednesday, but so far it seems unlikely that a pre-Christmas compromise is on the cards.\n\nDuring a phone call on Friday evening, Mr Johnson and Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar said they would work closely with the Northern Ireland parties to help bring back devolution.\n\nThe prime minister made clear in the phone call his top priority was the restoration of a functioning executive as soon as possible.", "England cricketer Ben Stokes has been voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2019.\n\nThe all-rounder was man of the match as England won the World Cup for the first time with a dramatic super over victory against New Zealand at Lord's.\n\nStokes, 28, also hit an unbeaten 135 in the one-wicket third Ashes Test triumph against Australia at Headingley.\n\nIn a public vote, Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton finished second while sprinter Dina Asher-Smith was third.\n\nManchester City and England footballer Raheem Sterling, world heptathlon champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Welsh rugby union legend Alun Wyn Jones were also shortlisted for the main award.\n\nDurham's Stokes was presented with his award by the Princess Royal and former Manchester United and Scotland footballer Denis Law.\n\nHe becomes the first cricketer since Andrew Flintoff in 2005 to win the prize.\n\nNew Zealand-born Stokes is missing the first warm-up match of England's Test tour of South Africa, which starts on Tuesday, in order to attend the show in Aberdeen.\n\n\"First of all, I think congratulations to all the nominees. What you've managed to achieve as individuals and do for your sport is simply sensational, so well done to you too.\n\n\"There's so many people you feel you have to thank when you're up here. It's an individual award, but I play a team sport and one of the great things about that is you get to share special moments with those team-mates, coaches and without that effort you put in, I wouldn't be up here receiving this award so thank you so much.\n\n\"Two years ago was a tough time for me in my life and I've had so many people help me through that. My fantastic manager and friend Neil Fairbrother, you're more than an agent, you're an incredible man. I don't know how you've put up with Andrew Flintoff and me, you and [Fairbrother's wife] Audrey, you're incredible people.\n\n\"My parents, they live on the other side of the world, they don't get to share moments like this, the World Cup and be there with me, but the time you dedicated to me growing up, the selflessness to get me to training camps and around the country, this is for you. I love you so much, thank you.\n\n\"To my amazing wife, Clare. Family to me is more important than what I do for a living. It puts perspective on everything, after the good and bad days they are there for me no matter what. My two kids too, they are awesome I love you so much.\n\n\"Back to Clare, you're a rock. You always have been. You always will be. I wish you could come here and share it with me, you deserve it just as much. I love you so much and I'm so proud to call you my wife.\n\n\"I'm guessing I should leave it there.\"\n• None '2019 will be very hard to top and wipes away anything that happened the year before'\n• None Stokes can inspire the next generation - Agnew\n\nThe very best in British and world sport celebrated a magnificent year at a sold-out P&J Live Arena in Aberdeen.\n\nScottish singer Lewis Capaldi and Aberdeenshire-raised Emeli Sande wowed the crowds with emotional performances while there were special moments to treasure as other awards were handed out.", "Firefighters smashed through this wall to rescue the boy\n\nA teenage boy is \"unbelievably lucky\" to be alive after he fell 30ft from a shopping centre roof and got trapped in a cavity between two buildings.\n\nFirefighters smashed through the wall of a shop at the Thames Centre in Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, to free the 13-year-old at about 19:30 GMT.\n\nHe had become trapped in the 1.6ft-wide cavity three hours earlier.\n\nThe boy, who sustained a broken ankle, has been taken to Middlesbrough's James Cook University Hospital.\n\nIncident commander Rob Cherrie, of County Durham and Darlington Fire and Rescue, said the boy had been on the phone to his mother at the time of the fall.\n\nHe added: \"We used cutters, grinders and hammers. Essentially you had the cladding then the plasterboard through to the breezeblocks and external bricks.\n\n\"We managed to get some oxygen down to him and reassure him. By the time we got to him he was very cold and very tired.\"\n\nPolice and fire services were called to the scene\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A Brexit activist who was \"obsessed\" with former MP Anna Soubry has been jailed for 28 days for harassing her.\n\nAmy Dalla Mura, 56, was found guilty after a trial of repeatedly targeting the ex-Independent Group for Change MP earlier this year.\n\nDalla Mura then also stood as an English Democrat candidate in Broxtowe, Nottinghamshire, against Ms Soubry.\n\nChief magistrate Emma Arbuthnot said Dalla Mura \"showed an obsession and fixation\" with the politician.\n\nDalla Mura, of Eton Villas, Hove, was found guilty of harassment last month.\n\nShe was banned from campaigning in Broxtowe after the verdict, as well as contacting or mentioning Ms Soubry on social media.\n\nThe court heard Dalla Mura targeted the MP between January and March this year, turning up at events and calling her a \"traitor\" on live television.\n\nShe disrupted an event where Ms Soubry was speaking, repeatedly interrupting her and live streaming the event on Facebook, and had to be escorted from the premises before the event continued.\n\nA second incident saw Dalla Mura shouting \"traitor\" as Ms Soubry was interviewed live on BBC's Newsnight in Parliament's Central Lobby, while once again filming her on her phone.\n\nMs Soubry was elected as Conservative MP for Broxtowe in 2010 but resigned from the party this year\n\nMs Soubry said she was left \"frightened\" following the incidents, but Dalla Mura did not accept this and claimed her behaviour was politically motivated.\n\nShe shouted \"democracy is dead\" and \"shame on you\" as she was sentenced on Monday.\n\n\"Ever since the murder of Jo Cox, MPs no longer feel able to put up with sustained intimidation,\" said magistrate Ms Artbuthnot.\n\n\"This damages our democracy. Because who wants to put up with this sort of harassment?\"\n\nShe said the bullying and intimidation that Dalla Mura used could \"stop ordinary, decent people\" becoming MPs.\n\nCdr Adrian Usher, from the Met Police, said the outcome showed the force's \"commitment to dealing robustly with incidents of harassment and abuse against MPs\".\n\n\"Strong political opinions are absolutely no excuse for intimidating elected representatives and police will always treat such allegations seriously and seek to bring offenders to justice,\" he added.\n\nMs Soubry, who became a target for Brexiteers after quitting the Tory party earlier this year, lost her seat to Conservative candidate Darren Henry.\n\nShe received 4,668 votes as a candidate for the Independent Group for Change, while Dalla Mura received 432 votes.\n\nFollow BBC East Midlands on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Send your story ideas to eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thousands of Brussels sprouts covered the road and pavement\n\nA trailer full of Brussels sprouts has spilled over a road and pavement in Fife.\n\nThe vehicle pulling the trailer full of the Christmas dinner vegetable overturned in Queensferry Road in Rosyth at about 10.45.\n\nPolice Scotland said it had closed the road and was urging drivers to avoid the area.\n\nA spokesman tweeted: \"There's been a bit of a BrusselSprouts accident at the roundabout at Admiralty Road.\"\n\nThe tweet added: \"Please avoid the area if possible. Traffic and Christmas dinners may be affected. Apologies for any delays.\"\n\nThere are not thought to be any injuries.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The pup was surrounded by people and had to be abandoned by its mother\n\nBeachgoers have been blamed for the deaths of three seal pups in three days at a colony on a Norfolk beach.\n\nThe Friends of Horsey Seals said one of the animals drowned on Sunday after being chased into the water, while another was abandoned by its mother after being surrounded by people.\n\nA third died after being attacked by a dog two days earlier.\n\nThe charity said deaths due to \"human intervention\" were \"not acceptable\" and urged visitors to keep their distance.\n\nA spokesman said in one case on Sunday \"two young children were allowed by their mother to chase the young unweaned, non-waterproof pup into the water where it drowned\".\n\nAnother seal pup died on the beach at Winterton, Norfolk, after its mother was unable to reach it after it was surrounded by visitors, he said.\n\nProf Ben Garrod, from the University of East Anglia, said: \"The action of visitors to Horsey and Winterton are killing seals. Actually killing them.\n\n\"The vast majority of people are amazing it's just a handful of absolute idiots. It is a criminal offence to cause death to any protected species.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "They have made gains in Labour heartlands across northern England and Wales. The SNP have made gains across Scotland.\n\nLabour have had their worst return of seats in any general election since 1935.\n\nBoth Labour and the Liberal Democrats now have more female than male MPs.\n\nThe interactive map below shows all the seats that have changed from one party to another. Select the \"results\" tab to see what has happened in the rest of the UK.\n\nThe Conservatives increased their vote share in many areas that voted Leave in the 2016 EU referendum.\n\nBy contrast they lost votes in strong Remain constituencies such as those in Scotland and London. But Labour lost votes in both strong Remain and strong Leave areas.\n\nStrong Leave and strong Remain constituencies are those where an estimated 60% or more of the electorate voted for that option at the EU referendum.\n\nThese estimates of constituency Brexit votes were modelled by Professor Chris Hanretty, as the 2016 referendum result was only recorded by local authority and not by Westminster constituency.\n\nThe Conservatives were clear winners in constituencies estimated to have voted majority Leave in 2016. They won almost three quarters of all these seats.\n\nBy contrast, there was no clear winner among Remain backing constituencies, with a crowded field of parties all winning substantial numbers of seats.\n\nLabour did best of all those parties but only took 40% of the constituencies that backed Remain.\n\nLabour also straddled the Brexit divide taking a roughly equal number of Leave (106) and Remain (96) seats.\n\nMost other parties had a clearer Brexit divide.\n\nOverall, the Conservatives broke new ground, moving into many traditional Labour heartlands.\n\nIn 2017, Labour held 72 of the 100 constituencies with the most working class households (defined as C2DE using data from the 2011 census).\n\nIn 2019, this figure fell to 53 and the Conservatives increased their share from 13 to 31.\n\nIn every nation and region of Britain, the scale of Labour's losses outweighed any gains made by the Conservatives.\n\nThe Conservatives did lose votes in the south of England and Scotland, but these were balanced by gains in the rest of England and Wales.\n\nThe Lib Dems increased their share of the vote across the UK, but failed to translate these gains into more seats.\n\nIn Scotland, the SNP made 14 gains, and lost just one seat, while the Conservatives lost seven and Labour lost six seats.\n\nIn Wales, the Conservatives gained six seats and Labour lost six, mostly in the north east. Overall, Labour's share of the vote was down to 41% from 49% in 2017.\n\nThe Conservatives polled consistently well across England and most of Wales, reflecting their overall 44% share of the UK vote.\n\nYou can use the interactive map below to show the vote share for other parties as well as the turnout.\n\nLabour's strength was concentrated in London and areas around cities in south Wales, the North East and North West. At 32%, Labour's share of the vote is down around eight points on the 2017 general election.\n\nOverall, they lost 60 seats and gained only one, Putney in London.\n\nA total of 220 female MPs have been elected. This is 12 more than the previous high of 208 in 2017.\n\nFor the first time, both the Liberal Democrats and Labour have more women MPs than men. Of Labour's 202 MPs (excluding Speaker Lindsay Hoyle), 104 are women and of the Liberal Democrats' 11 MPs, seven are women.\n\nTurnout, on what was a cold and damp polling day, was 67.3%. slightly lower than the last election in June 2017.\n• None What is the result in my area?", "A Google street view picture with a warning that the building is not earthquake safe\n\nThe Japanese city of Hiroshima plans to knock down two buildings that survived the 1945 atomic bomb - but some locals want them preserved as landmarks.\n\nThe two blocks - built in 1913 - were first used as a military clothing factory, and later as university student accommodation.\n\nThey were also used as a makeshift hospital after the bomb itself.\n\n\"They could be used as facilities toward (promoting) the abolition of nuclear weapons,\" said one survivor.\n\nAround 80,000 people were killed as a direct result of the bomb, and another 35,000 were injured.\n\nThe attack flattened most of the city, and - as of last year - only 85 buildings built before the bomb remained within five kilometres of \"ground zero\".\n\nThe blocks survived, at least partly because they were made from reinforced concrete. Some bomb damage to the metal windows and doors is still visible.\n\nIn 2017, authorities found the structures - now publicly-owned - were highly likely to collapse in a strong earthquake.\n\nAnd - as the buildings are not in use, and are not open to the public - the local government decided they should be demolished by 2022.\n\nA third building at the site will be preserved, and its walls and roof will be repaired and reinforced to protect it from earthquakes.\n\nThe atomic bomb destroyed thousands of buildings in Hiroshima\n\nIwao Nakanishi, 89, was in one of the buildings when the city was bombed. He is now the head of a local group demanding the preservation of the buildings.\n\n\"Considering the historical significance of telling the tragedy to the future generation, we can no way accept the demolition,\" he told the Mainichi newspaper. \"We strongly oppose it.\"\n\nMr Nakanishi said the buildings could be used to promote \"the abolition of nuclear weapons\".\n\nIn recent years, they have not been used - although visits were possible via the local authority.\n\n\"These are valuable buildings that are telling us the horror of the atomic bomb,\" one 69-year-old who visited the site told Hiroshima paper Yomiuri.\n\n\"I felt strongly after looking at them directly for the first time so I want all of them to be preserved.\"\n\nHiroshima's most famous ruin from the bomb is the dome in the city's Peace Memorial Park.\n\nA Unesco World Heritage site, it has undergone reinforcement work to make it more earthquake resistant.\n\nThe ruin of the Genbaku dome is preserved as a memorial\n\nAfter Germany had surrendered in May 1945, Japan continued the war in Asia.\n\nThe US hoped that dropping a nuclear bomb - after Japan rejected an earlier ultimatum for peace - would force a quick surrender without risking US casualties on the ground.\n\nThe first bomb, dropped on Hiroshima, killed an estimated 140,000 people in total, once long-term radiation illness was taken into account.\n\nThe attack was the first time a nuclear weapon was used during a war.\n\nWhen no immediate surrender came from the Japanese, US forces dropped a second bomb three days later, on the city of Nagasaki.\n\nJapan surrendered six days later and officially brought about the end of World War Two.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A brief history of nuclear weapons - in 90 seconds", "The suspected robbery happened outside this hotel in the exclusive Puerto Madero area\n\nA British man has been killed and his stepson wounded after being shot during a suspected robbery outside a five-star hotel in Buenos Aires, officials say.\n\nThe victims are believed to be Matthew Gibbard, 50, a businessman from Northamptonshire, and Stefan Zone, 28.\n\nThey were taken to hospital after the attack in the Puerto Madero area of the Argentine capital.\n\nFour people have been arrested after police investigating the crime carried out 18 raids, local officials said.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was supporting the family of two British men after an incident in Buenos Aires.\n\nSecurity camera footage shows the two men getting out of a white van outside the Faena Art Hotel in Puerto Madero, an exclusive waterfront district popular with tourists.\n\nAt about 11:00 local time (14:00 GMT) on Saturday, they were approached by at least two men on a motorbike, apparently accompanied by another vehicle.\n\nThe images show the two British nationals resisting the attempt to steal their baggage, and a fight goes on for some 40 seconds. The suspects left the scene and police are still searching for them.\n\nPolice are trying to establish whether the men were victims of a random attack or followed by the robbers from the airport, Clarín newspaper reports (in Spanish). According to the newspaper, the 50-year-old's mother and wife as well as the 28-year-old's wife and his brother were with them.\n\nA Foreign Office spokeswoman said: \"We are supporting the family of two British men following an incident in Buenos Aires, and are in contact with the local authorities there.\"\n\nThe hotel is located in an exclusive neighbourhood of Buenos Aires\n\nArgentina's newly elected president, Alberto Fernandez, who lives near the hotel in Puerto Madero, has responded to the robbery.\n\n\"We must be tough,\" he said. \"We can't put up with this. We need to find the people responsible for this and make them pay with the full force of the law.\"\n\n\"It was an atrocious incident, like many that happen in Argentina, because criminality hasn't gone down, despite what the official figures say.\n\n\"I urge everyone to stand up to it and be uncompromising when facing crime.\"\n\nAttacks by robbers on motorbikes, known as motochorros, are not uncommon in Buenos Aires. The city is generally safe, but other foreigners have been targeted in the past.\n\nTravel expert Simon Calder told the BBC that crime in parts of Latin America is \"opportunist\".\n\n\"This is an awful tragedy,\" he said. \"I'm afraid crime, particularly aimed at well-to-do tourists, is all too common, not just in Buenos Aires but in the big South American cities.\n\n\"Argentina is a superb a destination, very safe, and a welcoming country.\n\n\"Unfortunately, like elsewhere in Latin America, there are criminals who will use violence if they need too.\n\n\"My advice is to run away if you can or hand over what they want.\"\n\nMore than 111,000 British nationals visited Argentina in 2018, according to the Foreign Office, which said most visits are \"trouble-free\".\n\nTourists are warned to be alert to street crime, including armed robberies, and advised to hand over cash and valuables without resistance.", "All of Tamara Ecclestone's jewellery is said to have been stolen in the raid on her house next to Hyde Park\n\nThieves have reportedly stolen £50m worth of jewellery from the Kensington home of Tamara Ecclestone.\n\nThe daughter of ex Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone was left \"shaken and angry\" after the burglary on Friday.\n\nAccording to The Sun, rings, earrings and a Cartier bangle worth £80,000, which was given to the heiress as a wedding present, were all taken in the raid.\n\nThe Met said no arrests had been made and it was looking for three men.\n\nTamara Ecclestone, pictured with father Bernie, worked on F1 magazine and also modelled for Armani\n\nA spokesman for Ecclestone said: \"I can sadly confirm there has been a home invasion. Internal security are co-operating with police in this matter.\n\n\"Tamara and family are well but obviously angry and shaken by the incident.\"\n\nOfficers were called to the home in Palace Green, Kensington, shortly after 23:00 GMT.\n\nDet Sgt Matthew Pountney said the force had been \"called by security within the building\" about \"three males being present inside the property\".\n\nHe added that the suspects had already left before the Met was called and \"a fast-paced investigation is under way to locate the suspects and missing items\".\n\nA police spokesman earlier said it was \"reported that an amount of high value jewellery had been stolen\".\n\nA Cartier bangle worth £80,000 was reportedly stolen in the burglary\n\nEcclestone bought the 55-room Kensington home in 2011 for £45m, according to Forbes magazine.\n\nThe 35-year-old also spent millions renovating the property to include an \"Amazonian crystal bathtub, a private nightclub, a bowling alley, a subterranean swimming pool, a beauty salon, a dog spa and a car lift\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for right reasons\n\nActor Nicky Henson, who appeared in TV shows including Fawlty Towers, EastEnders and Downton Abbey, has died at the age of 74.\n\nHenson starred in Fawlty Towers as Mr Johnson, a guest who got into trouble with John Cleese's Basil Fawlty after trying to sneak a woman into his room.\n\nA statement from the actor's family said: \"Nicky Henson has died after a long disagreement with cancer.\"\n\nHe was first diagnosed with the disease almost 20 years ago.\n\nNicky Henson played the father of Honey in EastEnders\n\nHe told the PA news agency last year: \"For the last 18 years, I've regarded myself as 'being in extra time', which I never expected to have, so I'm very thankful for it.\"\n\nHe played Honey Edwards' father Jack in EastEnders, and was entertainer Charles Grigg in Downton Abbey. His film credits included Vera Drake and Syriana, which starred George Clooney.\n\nHe also enjoyed a host of stage roles at the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre, and was a founder member of the Young Vic.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Stephen Mangan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Gyles Brandreth This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile, he recorded a pop single in 1961 and had a three-year contract writing songs for The Shadows and Cliff Richard.\n\nFellow actor Ian Ogilvy posted news of Henson's death on Facebook, describing him as \"my oldest and dearest friend\".\n\nHenson was married twice, firstly to fellow actor Una Stubbs. They had two sons but the marriage ended in divorce.\n\nHenson later wed ballerina Marguerite Porter, with whom he had another son. They were married for more than 30 years.\n\nSybil (Prunella Scales) was very taken with Nicky Henson's Mr Johnson\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Instagram is to warn users when their captions on a photo or video could be considered offensive.\n\nThe Facebook-owned company says it has trained an AI system to detect offensive captions.\n\nThe idea is to give users \"a chance to pause and reconsider their words\".\n\nInstagram announced the feature in a blog on Monday, saying it would be rolled out immediately to some countries.\n\nThe tool is designed to help combat online bullying, which has become a major problem for platforms such as Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook.\n\nInstagram was ranked as the worst online platform in a cyber-bullying study in July 2017.\n\nIf a user with access to the tool types an offensive caption on Instagram, they will receive a prompt informing them it is similar to others reported for bullying.\n\nUsers will then be given the option to edit their caption before it is published.\n\n\"In addition to limiting the reach of bullying, this warning helps educate people on what we don't allow on Instagram and when an account may be at risk of breaking our rules,\" Instagram wrote in the post.\n\nEarlier this year, Instagram launched a similar feature that notified people when their comments on other people's Instagram posts could be considered offensive.\n\n\"Results have been promising and we've found that these types of nudges can encourage people to reconsider their words when given a chance,\" Instagram wrote.\n\nChris Stokel-Walker, internet culture writer and author of the book YouTubers, told the BBC News the feature was part of a broader move by Instagram to be more aware of the wellbeing of its users.\n\n\"From cracking down on promoting images of self-harm, to hiding 'likes' so people outwardly are less likely to equate their self-worth with how many people press 'like' on their photos, the app has been making moves to try and roll back some of the more damaging changes it's had on society,\" he said.\n• None Instagram now asks bullies: 'Are you sure?'", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sports Direct's financial director Chris Wootton says reforming business rates is \"critical\".\n\nMore House of Fraser department stores will be closing in 2020, Sports Direct boss Mike Ashley has warned.\n\nMr Ashley - whose business bought the department stores a year ago - said that while some stores were not paying rent they were still \"unsustainable\".\n\n\"We are doing as much as we can to realistically save as many jobs and stores as possible,\" said Mr Ashley.\n\nShares in Sports Direct ended the day 30% higher after it reported a rise pre-tax half year profits to £193.4m.\n\nSports Direct shareholders met on Monday and voted to change the retailer's corporate name to Frasers Group, as part of plans to move upmarket and away from sports.\n\nAnimal rights activists gathered outside the meeting, campaigning for House of Fraser to renew its ban on animal fur products.\n\nApart from the sportswear retailer and House of Fraser, the group also owns designer fashion brand Flannels, video game shop chain Game Digital, clothing retailer Jack Wills, cycle retailer Evans Cycles and online furniture shop Sofa.com.\n\nThe move comes after House of Fraser customers discovered that the retailer was back to selling fur products in November, after pledging not to use it in 2017.\n\nIn its latest results, the retailer also reiterated that a €674m (£605m) bill from Belgium's tax authority would not lead to \"material liabilities\" and said it would find a resolution soon.\n\nMr Ashley used the results statement for the six months to 27 September to set out a number of reasons for the problems at House of Fraser, including \"serious under-investment\" in stores and appropriate support services.\n\nMr Ashley said: \"We are continuing to review the longer-term portfolio and would expect the number of retained stores to continue to reduce in the next 12 months\".\n\nWhen House of Fraser went into administration, it had 59 stores, two warehouses and employed almost 16,000 staff. It has been reported that seven of those stores have been closed.", "(1/10) The Conservatives won 365 seats, giving Boris Johnson a majority of 80. Their 44% share of the vote was the highest since Margaret Thatcher came to power in 1979. So how did this happen?\n\n(2/10) Right at the beginning of the night it was clear something unusual had happened. The third seat to declare, Blyth Valley, had been Labour for nearly 70 years and was predicted to stay that way. Labour lost here by 712 votes.\n\n(3/10) This story was repeated again and again, as Labour's \"Red Wall\" in the North crumbled. Labour's vote share reduced by 13% in the North East and 10% in Yorkshire & Humber. Many of these seats voted strongly to leave the EU.\n\n(4/10) Many northern Conservative wins were due more to a reduced Labour vote than a large boost for the Tories. However, in Wakefield, which had been Labour since 1932, the Tories won a majority of over 3,000.\n\n(5/10) By around 02:00 GMT the Conservatives started to win seats in Wales, taking six from Labour in total. Plaid Cymru held on to their four seats, but a Remain pact with the Greens and Liberal Democrats failed to create a breakthrough.\n\n(6/10) The Liberal Democrats had hoped to win back seats in the South West that they lost to the Tories in 2015. Despite increasing their share of the vote by 3%, the Lib Dems failed to win any new seats here.\n\n(7/10) Jo Swinson, the Liberal Democrat leader, narrowly lost her seat of East Dunbartonshire in Scotland to the Scottish National Party, who had a good night.\n\n(8/10) The SNP won 14 seats overall, from the Liberal Democrats, Tories and Labour. They now have 48 seats, up 13 from 2017 and only slightly down from their 2015 landslide.\n\n(9/10) In Northern Ireland the DUP, who had backed the Conservatives since 2017, lost two of their seats, including their Westminster leader Nigel Dodds. The SDLP picked up two and the Alliance Party won one.\n\n(10/10) Across the UK Labour suffered 60 losses. Their only gain was Putney in London, but Kensington, which they'd won in 2017, went back to the Conservatives. Despite breaking even in London, a largely Remain voting area, Labour's vote share still declined by 6%.\n\nTo read more about the election go to BBC News", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRoads remain closed after a major blaze \"devastated\" shops and restaurants in Glasgow's southside.\n\nAbout 60 firefighters and 12 appliances tackled the fire in Seaward Street, in the Kinning Park area, after the alarm was raised just after 03:30.\n\nAt the height of the fire a huge plume of smoke could be seen from across the River Clyde.\n\nSeaward Street was closed to traffic between Paisley Road West and the M8 eastbound off-slip to Scotland Street.\n\nThe Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said there were no reported casualties.\n\nThe traffic disruption hit drivers both during the morning and evening rush hours.\n\nGarry Mackay, area commander at the fire service, said the \"challenging\" fire had been contained by crews.\n\nBBC journalist Linda Sinclair said the roof of the large building had collapsed. There are fears the front of the building might also give way.\n\nThe affected properties on Seaward Street include a furniture and flooring showroom, a locksmith, a function suite and a Middle Eastern restaurant.\n\nIn a Facebook post, Modish Furnishing said: \"A fire tore through the buildings on our street in Kinning Park in the early hours of this morning. Unfortunately our showroom has been devastated.\"\n\nThe Dojo, a martial arts centre on Seaward Lane, is one of the buildings closed by the fire.\n\nInstructor Mike McCusker tweeted: \"Although the Hokushin Honbu Dojo is untouched by this incident the road remains closed and we will not have access today. We should be back to normal tomorrow.\"\n\nMr MacKay said: \"This was a complex and challenging incident with significant fire spread and crews worked hard to prevent further spread to neighbouring properties.\n\n\"We are now confident we have contained the blaze and are scaling back our response.\"\n\nHe said the fire service was working with police to manage traffic.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Katie Hunter This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPower was cut from the area for several hours, affecting traffic lights and leaving dozens of businesses and homes without electricity.\n\nScottish Power Energy Networks said the emergency shutdown, which affected properties in Admiral Street and the surrounding area, was requested at 08:28 by the emergency services and ended shortly before 18:00.\n\nThe fire is the third serious blaze near the centre of Glasgow within a week. Last Monday dozens of flats in the Lancefield Quay area were evacuated and about 40 firefighters tackled a blaze in Pitt Street in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nInvestigations into all three are ongoing. They are not being linked.", "Both leaders agreed there was a \"significant opportunity\" to restore the Good Friday Agreement institutions\n\nThe UK and Irish governments have pledged to restore Stormont following the general election result.\n\nIt comes ahead of fresh talks on 16 December to try to revive power sharing in Northern Ireland.\n\nStormont has been inactive since January 2017, when the DUP and Sinn Féin split in a bitter row.\n\nOn Saturday, Sinn Féin's Conor Murphy said it would be \"possible\" to get an agreement. The DUP's Paul Givan said his party \"don't have any red lines\".\n\nTaoiseach (Irish prime minister) Leo Varadkar congratulated Prime Minister Boris Johnson on his victory during a phone call on Friday evening.\n\nThey agreed the election had created a \"significant opportunity\" to restore the Good Friday Agreement institutions.\n\nThe legal date for an assembly election to be called if no power-sharing government is formed at Stormont is 13 January.\n\nSpeaking on Saturday, Mr Varadkar said his focus was on getting an executive in place by that date.\n\nHe also told RTÉ's Marian Finuance show that now is not the time for a border poll on Irish unity.\n\nNI has been without a devolved government since January 2017, when the DUP and Sinn Féin split in a bitter row\n\nHe said such a poll would \"probably be defeated, it would probably be very divisive\", given the fact that there is not a nationalist majority in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"What I think all sides should now do, all communities in Northern Ireland, the two governments, is to recommit to the Good Friday Agreement.\n\n\"The philosophy that lies behind the Good Friday Agreement - the two communities working together, power sharing in Northern Ireland, closer co-operation north/south, and all done in the context of British/Irish relations that John Hume vision, if you like, of 20 years ago - is actually as strong and a relevant now as it was then even if there have been changes in demographics and politics.\"\n\nConor Murphy ( left) and Paul Givan have been speaking about next week's Stormont talks\n\nSinn Féin MLA Conor Murphy told the same programme: \"I think it will be possible to get an agreement.\"\n\n\"Now that the DUP are out of the arrangement with the Tory government, which in our view was the central blockage to an agreement, I sincerely hope the British government can step up to the plate.\"\n\nDUP MLA Paul Givan said his party \"don't have any red lines\" going back into the negotiations.\n\n\"We will have our senior team there on Monday we will be entering into the talks in a spirit in which we want to reach a resolution to outstanding issues,\" he told BBC Radio Ulster's Saturday with Dearbhail programme.\n\nDuring a phone call on Friday evening, Mr Johnson and Mr Varadkar said they would work closely with the Northern Ireland parties to help bring back devolution.\n\nThey also agreed on the importance of a close relationship between the UK and Ireland.\n\nMr Johnson updated the taoiseach on the timings for the reintroduction of the Withdrawal Agreement Bill next week and its passage through Parliament to ensure the UK leaves the EU on 31 January.\n\nThe prime minister made clear in the phone call, his top priority is the restoration of a functioning executive as soon as possible.\n\nBoris Johnson said NI Secretary Julian Smith will dedicate himself to the talks process\n\nHe said Northern Ireland Secretary Julian Smith will dedicate himself to the talks process.\n\nMr Smith has previously said the consequences are \"profound\" if the assembly was not restored soon.", "Scottish Labour were key drivers of the No campaign in 2014 - but could they now back a second vote?\n\nScottish Labour is having a very public debate about its future in the wake of a humbling defeat in the general election. So, could the party be about to back a second independence referendum?\n\nThe Labour Party is searching for answers - and a new leader - after a devastating night of general election results, which consigned the party to five more years of opposition at Westminster and near irrelevance in Scotland.\n\nNorth of the border, Labour lost six of their seven seats and almost a third of their voters from 2017, taking less than 20% of the vote for the first time in the modern era.\n\nThe party which once dominated Scottish politics hasn't just been supplanted at the top by the SNP - they have now fallen far behind the Conservatives as the third party.\n\nLeader Richard Leonard has promised a \"swift evidence-based review\" - and has said the party \"must develop a clear constitutional offer that wins back the confidence of voters who in this election felt that we did not offer clarity over Scotland's future\".\n\nFor all Mr Leonard would probably prefer this to be an internal review, many of his MSPs, councillors and former MPs have already started the debate in the press and on social media.\n\nDuring the election campaign, Labour's position on the holding of a second independence referendum softened somewhat.\n\nThe party had previously sought to take a firm line against independence and indyref2, but seemed to accept that should SNP votes be needed to prop up a Labour administration at Westminster, this could eventually shift.\n\nThey ended up going with a sort of \"maybe later\" position, that a second referendum would be justified if pro-independence parties won a majority in the 2021 Holyrood elections - a position which sat slightly uncomfortably with the fact there was already a pro-independence majority of MSPs.\n\nIn light of the SNP's landslide win in the general election, some have suggested the party needs to go further and come off the fence entirely.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ged Killen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTo be clear, we are not yet at the point where senior Labour figures are actually backing independence. But many seem to be coming around to the idea of backing a referendum.\n\nFormer MP Ged Killen, who lost his Rutherglen and Hamilton West seat to the SNP, wrote on Twitter that he had \"campaigned on a promise to vote against indyref2 - but I lost\".\n\nHe said: \"The SNP made massive gains on a promise to hold another referendum, and as democrats we must accept it even if we don't like it.\"\n\nThis was echoed by Labour councillor Alison Evison, who chairs council umbrella body Cosla. She said that a \"fragile\" democracy could be strengthened by \"enabling the voice of Scotland to be heard through its formal processes, and that must mean a referendum on independence\".\n\nThis position is not universal, though - MSP Jenny Marra replied to Ms Evison's tweet about a referendum saying: \"We had one, just five years ago. Once in a generation. Fully democratic.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Richard Leonard: \"We have to look at what we said about Brexit and about the whole constitutional question in Scotland\"\n\nA number of prominent Labour MSPs have suggested that the decision on whether there is a referendum should be put in the hands of the Scottish Parliament.\n\nMonica Lennon, the party's health spokeswoman, said that \"if Boris Johnson isn't prepared to grant this request [for indyref2], he should allow the Scottish Parliament to decide...the future of Scotland must be decided by the people of Scotland\".\n\nThere might be a subtext here though that the decision on whether or not to hold a referendum would take place on the other side of the 2021 elections - making them effectively the crunch moment of decision.\n\nNeil Findlay, who is stepping down as an MSP at those elections, has also said that \"we cannot deny the people of Scotland a referendum where the majority is calling for it\".\n\nBe he added that \"there would need to be a clear proposition - something that is impossible until we know the outcome of Brexit, and that will not happen in 2020\". By necessity, this would kick the referendum off into 2021.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Daniel Johnson MSP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnother MSP, Daniel Johnson, tweeted that the general election result was not a mandate for indyref2 and that \"the Scottish Parliament is Scotland's expression of self governance, it is Holyrood elections that were the source of the last mandate\".\n\nCouncillor Paul O'Kane said many voters had told him they were voting SNP as a \"one time thing\", and that \"surely 2021 is the true test of feeling on the issue\".\n\nMr Leonard has also phrased his thinking in the context of the 2021 elections, and how how Labour needs to go into that campaign offering \"a clear prospectus for a transformed society and economy\".\n\nAs well as having a position on a referendum, though, Labour are going to have to decide which side they are on when it comes to the issue itself. Jeremy Corbyn's attempt to have a \"neutral stance\" on Brexit doesn't appear to have done him any favours.\n\nAs MSP Colin Smyth pointed out, \"whether or not to have a referendum isn't a position, it's a process - it still leaves the public wondering what we stand for\".\n\nOn election night, several Labour figures observed that the party was standing in the middle of the road on the big constitutional issues - that being an ideal place to get run over.\n\nThe SNP and the Conservatives have found success (one more than the other, but still) by occupying firm positions on either side of the binary issues - one is the party of independence, the other is the party of the union. In 2019, one was pro-EU, the other pro-Brexit.\n\nLabour meanwhile were caught in the middle on both issues, plaintively asking if voters wouldn't rather talk about something else, like inequality or the NHS.\n\nAnd yet, some still see a third way through the independence debate, a compromise position of sorts - federalism.\n\nThis would rebuild the structure and constitution of the UK so that it more resembles the United States, with formal separation of powers between state governments and the central one.\n\nPaul Sweeney, who lost his Glasgow North East seat to the SNP, said that \"the British state as it is currently constructed is not sustainable\", calling for a \"radical\" change.\n\nHe said: \"A more federal relationship is something that urgently needs to happen, and I think we need to be galvanised to present an argument that that needs to happen.\"\n\nMr Findlay campaigned heavily for a federal solution in 2014 - but interestingly is now even thinking about what Labour's position should be after independence.\n\n\"If the people accept a new prospectus for independence, so be it,\" he wrote. \"That is democracy, and if it happens, Labour should offer its own prospectus for a progressive, socialist, outward-looking and egalitarian independent country.\"\n\nIs Scottish Labour's leadership too close to the UK party?\n\nAlmost as important as where Labour ends up on indyref2 is who is actually seen to make the decision.\n\nSome in the party north of the border are concerned that they have become too closely entwined with the UK party leadership, giving Scottish Labour less ability to appeal specifically to Scots.\n\nThis was a key concern voiced by Johann Lamont when she quit as party leader in 2014, accusing Westminster colleagues of treating Scotland like a \"branch office\". This was something Kezia Dugdale, never a supporter of Jeremy Corbyn, sought to rectify in her time in charge.\n\nBut some think the party - now led by a Corbyn ally in Mr Leonard - has drifted too much back into that \"branch office\" role.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Anas Sarwar This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nColin Smyth wrote on Twitter that \"the rolling back of anything resembling autonomy for Scottish Labour by the UK Labour leadership meant we had nothing to say on the big constitutional issues facing Scotland except what the London leadership decided the party could say\".\n\nHe added: \"Let's begin by deciding the party in Scotland agrees our position, not London, then setting out a radical alternative to independence and the status quo.\"\n\nAnas Sarwar, who lost out in the leadership election to Mr Leonard, said that \"rather than making rash pronouncements on indyref2, I think that we need a genuine period of reflection and some humility from those who led us to our worst EU election result and worst general election results in living memory\".\n\nAs much as the party would like to take a moment to lick their wounds and regroup, time is not on their side. Nicola Sturgeon is heading into a constitutional confrontation with Boris Johnson, and is pushing to hold a referendum inside the next year.\n\nIf Labour are to play a meaningful part in the debate to come and avoid being caught in the middle of the road, they will need to come to a position quickly.\n\nWhat are your questions about the general election? You can let us know by completing the form below.\n\nIn some cases your question will be published, displaying your name and location as you provide it, unless you state otherwise. Your contact details will never be published. Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions.\n\nIf you are reading this page and can't see the form you will need to visit the mobile version of the BBC website to submit your question.", "Hundreds of thousands of people could have their Christmas ruined by flu, say England's top doctors, who are predicting a rise in cases.\n\nThey say the flu season has started early this year, with lots of the virus circulating.\n\nGP consultations for flu-like illness were up by a quarter to nearly 7,500 visits in the week ending 8 December.\n\nExperts are urging anyone who has not yet had their flu vaccine to get immunised.\n\nGrandparents visiting their grandchildren could be particularly at risk, they say.\n\nChildren are \"super-spreaders\" of flu and the over-65s are one of the \"at-risk\" groups that can develop health complications, such as pneumonia, if they catch it.\n\nFree NHS flu vaccines are available for people who are:\n\nWhile more over-65s have had a free flu jab than this time last year, coverage among two- to three-year-olds is lagging behind previous seasons, following delays in delivery of the nasal flu vaccine.\n\nThe delays have now been resolved but some school programmes will not take place now until January.\n\nPublic Health England and the NHS are urging parents of at-risk children to contact their GP instead to get the vaccine this side of Christmas to help stop the virus spreading.\n\nNHS national medical director Prof Stephen Powis said: \"Our message is simple: the flu season is here, get your jab now. It might be the difference between a Christmas to remember and one to forget.\"\n\nPublic Health England's Prof Yvonne Doyle said: \"No-one wants to see their children suffering with flu - far from a common cold, flu can have serious consequences for young children and those with underlying medical conditions.\n\n\"There's still a week before Christmas, parents of two- to three-year-olds or those with underlying medical conditions should not delay, get your children vaccinated as soon as possible.\"\n\nFor most people, flu lasts for just a few days and gets better after some rest at home.\n\nTo reduce the risk of spreading flu:\n\nCurrent evidence shows vaccinations available this year are well matched to the main strain of flu circulating.\n• None 'Flu nearly killed me last winter'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Archbishop of Canterbury has said he is concerned about the direction the UK is travelling in, citing an increase in homelessness and a decline in tolerance toward minority groups.\n\nJustin Welby was speaking to the Big Issue magazine for its Christmas edition, which is published on Monday.\n\nHe said that in the last decade rough sleeping, use of food banks and debt counselling services had worsened.\n\nHe also said people's tolerance for minority groups had decreased.\n\nResponding to a range of questions, including whether atheists were welcome in Church and the potential impact of a no-deal Brexit, Archbishop Welby said the situation for vulnerable people in the country had become worse over the last 10 years.\n\n\"I'm not saying we are in a crisis\", he said. \"I'm just saying the direction of travel is not what we want.\"\n\nArchbishop Welby was also asked about the controversy involving the Duke of York's ties to Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nHe refused to comment on any particular member of the Royal Family, but said it was wrong to expect them to be \"superhuman saints\".\n\nThe interview - which was conducted before last Thursday's general election - concluded with the Archbishop quoting from the First Letter of John in the New Testament, which says that \"perfect love casts out fear\".\n\nHe said that people should reject fear and, instead, accept that love of God which - he said - \"changes the world dramatically\".", "Once, you would have got long odds on the first Conservative election win coming from Blyth Valley in Northumberland.\n\nAs a former mining community, it hardly seemed natural Tory territory. But mental health care assistant Ian Levy overcame a Labour majority of almost 8,000 to secure it.\n\nIn his victory speech, he pledged to bring investment and change to the community as soon as he arrived in Westminster.\n\nSo what do Mr Levy and Prime Minister Boris Johnson need to deliver to ensure that promise to the people of Blyth Valley means something?\n\nUnemployment in Blyth Valley is above the national average. That is typical of many communities in the North East that are still wrestling with the impact of industrial decline.\n\nIt's a community proud of its mining heritage, but the days when coal was king are slipping into memory. The town council says that in 1961 Blyth was one of the busiest ports in England, shipping more than six million tonnes of coal. But \"the late 1960s had seen a rapid decline in the traditionally male-dominated heavy industries\".\n• None £520.40average weekly wage, compared to £587 for whole of the UK\n• None 1 in 5work in manufacturing, compared to fewer than 1 in 10 in GB\n\nInstead its seafront now faces a cluster of offshore wind turbines, and it has ambitions to service a new generation of turbines in the North Sea. Its port also remains an important employer, and manufacturing a significant part of the economy.\n\nAnd some new industries are moving in. Sir Paul McCartney's former wife Heather Mills is planning to build a vegan food factory there.\n\nBut like many communities of its size, Blyth has a struggling town centre – though it is in the running for money from the government's Future High Street Fund.\n\nPerhaps the new MP and Mr Johnson will need to deliver more jobs - and better paid ones - to ensure local people have money to spend there. At the moment many of the constituents commute into Tyneside for work and leisure.\n\nEconomic studies suggest the exporting North East economy has most to lose from leaving the European Union in terms of lower economic growth.\n\nThe constituency did vote for Brexit though, with more than 6 in 10 backing leaving the EU in the 2016 referendum.\n\nHow the Blyth Valley vote divided up\n\nBlyth lost its railway station in 1964 in the Beeching cuts. Trains still pass through the town, but they are only carrying freight at the moment.\n\nVoters, then, might have been attracted by the Conservative election pledge to look at reversing some of those 1960s cuts.\n\nThe Tories have promised a £500m Beeching reversal fund, and have mentioned the return of passenger services to Blyth as one of the projects which could win support from that fund.\n\nBut the estimated cost of £99m to return services to the Ashington, Blyth and Tyne line has yet to be committed.\n\nThat leaves many locals relying on buses, so they will also want to see the prime minister deliver on promised investment into the network.\n\nThe local health trust that covers the constituency outperforms much of England, though in the most recent figures it still missed A&E and cancer targets.\n\nIt performed well though when it came to meeting mental health targets.\n\nThe Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as \"outstanding\" by the Care Quality Commission.\n\nAnd this is one community where Boris Johnson might not have to deliver a new hospital.\n\nA new purpose-built emergency care hospital opened in Cramlington in the constituency in 2015. It was the first of its kind, and has been seen as a model of how hospitals should operate.\n\nAlthough the constituency as a whole is about average for life expectancy, it has an above average number of over-65s - an ageing population that will want to see the government come up with a solution to social care funding.\n\nThe North East of England has some of the best performing primary schools, but some of the worst performing secondary schools.\n\nBut actually Blyth Valley has a better educational record than much of the region. Although achievement was slightly below average at primary level, secondary standards are above average.\n\nIt is one of the few parts of the country where at least some students are in a three-tier schooling system, with First, Middle and High Schools.\n\nYou can bet the schools though will want to see more funding delivered by the prime minister and their new MP.\n\nThe local further education college will also hope Mr Johnson makes good on promises to put money into a sector which suffered a funding squeeze under David Cameron and Theresa May.\n\nNorthumbria Police has suffered some of the worst funding cuts - in fact its chief constable described them as the worst in the country in 2018.\n\nThe force has lost more than 1,000 officers since 2010 and had to dip into its financial reserves to avoid deeper cuts. Part of the problem was a narrow base for council tax - meaning cuts from central government were not replaced by local funds.\n\nMr Johnson has already committed to increasing the number of police. The Home Office expect 185 extra officers to be recruited in the Northumbria force area by 2021, but that does not replace all those that have been lost.\n\nThe prime minister and new MP will be under pressure to show they will go further in a community which is in the top 10% of the country when it comes to crime.\n\nImmigration into the area is negligible. Figures aren't available purely for Blyth Valley, but from mid 2016-2017, it is estimated that the short-term international migration flow to the entire Northumberland region was made up of just 47 people.\n\nGiven the county's population is over 300,000, this is not a community struggling to cope with the weight of inward migration.\n\nBlyth Valley is also an overwhelmingly white constituency.\n• None 60.5%voted for Brexit, compared with the UK average of 51.9%\n• None 97.7% were born in the UK compared to 87.3% average (2011 census)\n• None 42%are aged 50+, compared with 37% of the UK population\n• None 5% of live birthsin 2018 were to non-UK mothers. England's average is 29.1%\n\nThat does not mean voters are not concerned about immigration into the UK more widely.\n\nBut in a region with skill shortages, some employers will be keen to retain access to workers from overseas – and the PM will have to balance those two competing demands.", "Water firms in England and Wales are facing the toughest restrictions on investor payouts since privatisation 30 years ago, the regulator has said.\n\nOfwat also said water firms would have to cut the average customer bill by £50 over the next five years.\n\nIt is also forcing firms to invest billions of pounds to improve their performance and reduce leaks.\n\nChief executive Rachel Fletcher said she was \"firing the starting gun on the transformation of the water industry\".\n\n\"Now water companies need to crack on, turn this into a reality and transform their performance for everyone,\" she added.\n\nWater companies listed on the stock market - such as United Utilities and Severn Trent - initially fell, but later traded higher.\n\nOfwat wants water companies to spend more on tackling leaks\n\nThere has been widespread dissatisfaction with the performance of many water companies over the past few years. Criticism has centred around some high profile pollution incidents as well as leaks, water quality and high bills.\n\nIn January, a review of water companies' business plans found only three out of 17 water firms in England and Wales were of an acceptable standard.\n\nOfwat's five-year assessment, which comes into effect on 1 April 2020, has been hammered out over the course of this year. The draft determinations were set out in July.\n\nBut the latest announcement includes a tougher stance on the return on capital - a measure of the returns that can be paid to investors - in part because of lower interest rates which makes it cheaper for companies to borrow to invest.\n\nLabour's threat to renationalise the water companies had rather overshadowed another looming issue for them - a regulator that had had enough of having sand kicked in its face, and had decided to get tough.\n\nOfwat's plan to cut bills over the five years from 2020 to 2025 has its roots in water companies' own decision to load up with debt, pay generous dividends to shareholders (often via tax havens) and their failure to deliver service of a sufficiently high quality.\n\nDespite water companies' protestations that service levels have continued to improve, public anger has grown.\n\nThames Water, the largest of the water and sewage companies in England and Wales, was the focal point - it was fined £1.4m for a serious leak of raw sewage in 2017 - as was Southern Water, which deliberately misreported monitoring failures at its sewage treatment plants.\n\nAn analysis for the Financial Times suggests that since privatisation the companies have taken on a combined £51bn in debt, and paid out £56bn in dividends.\n\nThe question now is whether the companies whose spending plans have not been cleared by Ofwat will appeal. They have two months to do so.\n\n\"This is the lowest allowed return on capital since privatisation 30 years ago but is consistent with market expectations for returns in 2020-25,\" Ofwat said.\n\nMs Fletcher said in an interview with the Today Programme that it would now be harder for companies to pay shareholders dividends.\n\n\"We are seeing increasingly the penny drop with companies, some announcing they expect no dividend in the next five years.\"\n\nShe said firms had the option of appealing to the Competition and Markets Authority over the price targets.\n\nAs it is cheaper for these companies to borrow, bills should come down, she said.\n\nThe Thames Tideway tunnel is being built in London as part of an overhaul of its sewage systems\n\n\"We've said all along this was going to be a tough review,\" she said. \"We think this is the greenest package ever for water companies.\"\n\nPopulation growth and climate change will be the big challenges for them in the long term, she added.\n\nWater companies will be able to increase their returns to investors if they meet customer service target and increase their investment.\n\n\"Where a company outperforms our allowed costs or expected service levels it should earn a higher equity return; where a company underperforms our allowed costs or expected service levels it should earn a lower return,\" Ofwat said.\n\nIn response the regulator drew up plans outlined in draft form in July which it said would mean \"better services, a healthier natural environment and lower bills\".\n\nWater UK, the industry trade body, said companies would now work through the details of the \"tough price review\".\n\n\"Today's announcement is a highly important one as the industry looks to deliver for customers and for the environment, today and in the future, said Christine McGourty, Water UK's chief executive, said.\n\nOffice of Water Services is the government regulator tasked with overseeing the privatised water market in England and Wales. Scotland has its own separate regulator, the Water Industry Commission for Scotland.\n\nOfwat monitors the market to see if it needs to intervene to protect customers and to set limits on the price they're asked to pay.", "Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has said he takes responsibility for Labour's \"catastrophic\" election defeat.\n\nParty leader Jeremy Corbyn has now also apologised for the result in two newspapers articles.\n\nInterviewed on Saturday, Mr McDonnell was challenged over whether he really did, in his own words, \"own this disaster\" by the BBC's Andrew Marr.", "They have made gains in Labour heartlands across northern England and Wales. The SNP have made gains across Scotland.\n\nLabour have had their worst return of seats in any general election since 1935.\n\nBoth Labour and the Liberal Democrats now have more female than male MPs.\n\nThe interactive map below shows all the seats that have changed from one party to another. Select the \"results\" tab to see what has happened in the rest of the UK.\n\nThe Conservatives increased their vote share in many areas that voted Leave in the 2016 EU referendum.\n\nBy contrast they lost votes in strong Remain constituencies such as those in Scotland and London. But Labour lost votes in both strong Remain and strong Leave areas.\n\nStrong Leave and strong Remain constituencies are those where an estimated 60% or more of the electorate voted for that option at the EU referendum.\n\nThese estimates of constituency Brexit votes were modelled by Professor Chris Hanretty, as the 2016 referendum result was only recorded by local authority and not by Westminster constituency.\n\nThe Conservatives were clear winners in constituencies estimated to have voted majority Leave in 2016. They won almost three quarters of all these seats.\n\nBy contrast, there was no clear winner among Remain backing constituencies, with a crowded field of parties all winning substantial numbers of seats.\n\nLabour did best of all those parties but only took 40% of the constituencies that backed Remain.\n\nLabour also straddled the Brexit divide taking a roughly equal number of Leave (106) and Remain (96) seats.\n\nMost other parties had a clearer Brexit divide.\n\nOverall, the Conservatives broke new ground, moving into many traditional Labour heartlands.\n\nIn 2017, Labour held 72 of the 100 constituencies with the most working class households (defined as C2DE using data from the 2011 census).\n\nIn 2019, this figure fell to 53 and the Conservatives increased their share from 13 to 31.\n\nIn every nation and region of Britain, the scale of Labour's losses outweighed any gains made by the Conservatives.\n\nThe Conservatives did lose votes in the south of England and Scotland, but these were balanced by gains in the rest of England and Wales.\n\nThe Lib Dems increased their share of the vote across the UK, but failed to translate these gains into more seats.\n\nIn Scotland, the SNP made 14 gains, and lost just one seat, while the Conservatives lost seven and Labour lost six seats.\n\nIn Wales, the Conservatives gained six seats and Labour lost six, mostly in the north east. Overall, Labour's share of the vote was down to 41% from 49% in 2017.\n\nThe Conservatives polled consistently well across England and most of Wales, reflecting their overall 44% share of the UK vote.\n\nYou can use the interactive map below to show the vote share for other parties as well as the turnout.\n\nLabour's strength was concentrated in London and areas around cities in south Wales, the North East and North West. At 32%, Labour's share of the vote is down around eight points on the 2017 general election.\n\nOverall, they lost 60 seats and gained only one, Putney in London.\n\nA total of 220 female MPs have been elected. This is 12 more than the previous high of 208 in 2017.\n\nFor the first time, both the Liberal Democrats and Labour have more women MPs than men. Of Labour's 202 MPs (excluding Speaker Lindsay Hoyle), 104 are women and of the Liberal Democrats' 11 MPs, seven are women.\n\nTurnout, on what was a cold and damp polling day, was 67.3%. slightly lower than the last election in June 2017.\n• None What is the result in my area?", "Simon Hart only became a junior minister under Boris Johnson in July\n\nSimon Hart has been named the new Welsh secretary after Boris Johnson's election victory for the Conservatives.\n\nHe succeeds Alun Cairns, who resigned at the start of the campaign amid a row over what he knew about an aide's role in the collapse of a rape trial.\n\nThe Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire MP was previously a junior minister in the Cabinet Office.\n\nMonmouth MP David TC Davies has been made junior minister in the Wales Office and will be deputy to Mr Hart.\n\nMr Davies, the former chairman of the Welsh Affairs Committee, will also serve as an assistant government whip, No 10 confirmed on Monday evening.\n\nHe is the sixth person to hold the ministerial role in the past two years.\n\nMr Hart said: \"It's great to have this opportunity. I've got my orders and I'm going to try and do it as best I can.\"\n\nBoris Johnson led the Tories to their biggest election win in more than 30 years with a majority of 80, after pledging to \"get Brexit done\" by the end of January.\n\nThe Welsh secretary oversees relations between the Welsh Government and Whitehall departments.\n\nThe appointment was welcomed by Welsh Assembly Conservatives - Senedd party leader Paul Davies gave him his \"huge congratulations\".\n\nSouth Wales Central Assembly Member David Melding said it was an astute appointment \"which promises much for Wales as we begin a new political chapter\".\n\nDavid TC Davies has been made junior minister in the Wales Office\n\nWales' First Minister Mark Drakeford, from Welsh Labour, said he was \"pleased to see a new Secretary of State for Wales appointed so quickly\".\n\n\"I hope to meet soon to discuss Welsh Government priorities and ensure they are heard at the UK Government's cabinet table,\" he added.\n\nMr Hart came to Parliament in 2010 with a background in rural affairs as chief executive of the Countryside Alliance and a former master of the South Pembrokeshire Hunt.\n\nA chartered surveyor by profession, he served on the backbenches until July when Boris Johnson took power and appointed him as a junior minister at the Cabinet Office.\n\nHe backed Remain in the 2016 EU referendum, but later emerged as leader of the Brexit Delivery Group, made up of MPs from both sides of the argument who sought a pragmatic approach to Brexit.\n\nHe has also been prominent in calls for greater protection for candidates and activists, claiming abuse was driving people out of politics.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The chief executive of Hallmark Cards has apologised for its decision to withdraw television advertisements featuring same-sex couples.\n\nThe company's cable network pulled the ads for wedding registry and planning site Zola under pressure from the conservative group One Million Moms.\n\nThe decision drew criticism on social media and calls for a boycott.\n\nHallmark said it would reinstate the adverts and attempt to re-establish its partnership with Zola.\n\n\"We are truly sorry for the hurt and disappointment this has caused,\" Hallmark's president and chief executive Mike Perry said.\n\nIn a statement posted to its website, Hallmark said it would \"be working with [advocacy group] Glaad to better represent the LGBTQ community across our portfolio of brands.\"\n\nThe original decision to withdraw the adverts drew criticism from a number of high-profile gay figures, including Democratic presidential contender Pete Buttigieg and talk show host Ellen DeGeneres.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Netflix US Twitter account also criticised the decision, as did California Governor Gavin Newsom.\n\nThe #BoycottHallmarkChannel hashtag, which was launched by Glaad, featured in over 16,000 tweets as of Sunday afternoon.\n\nSaturday Night Live performed a skit which mocked Hallmark's decision, concluding with the line: \"This is Emily Cringle for Hallmark, reminding you to stay straight out there.\"\n\nThe original decision to withdraw the advert was prompted by complaints from a conservative activist group.\n\nOne Million Moms is an online project of the American Family Association, which is a long-time opponent of gay rights.\n\nOne Million Moms said it had personally spoken to Bill Abbott, who's the chief executive of Hallmark's parent company Crown Family Networks.\n\nAccording to the site, Mr Abbott told them Hallmark had withdrawn the commercial and the advertisement aired in error.\n\nCrown Media notified Zola that four of its ads would no longer be airing, with the explanation that Crown Media is \"not allowed to accept creatives that are deemed controversial\".", "Two former executives at the private security company Serco have been charged over an alleged scandal involving the electronic tagging of criminals.\n\nNicholas Woods and Simon Marshall have been charged with fraud by false representation and false accounting.\n\nEarlier this year, Serco was fined £19.2m over its electronic tagging service for the Ministry of Justice.\n\nSerco lost its contract to tag criminals in the UK in late 2013.\n\nMr Woods is the former finance director of Serco Home Affairs while Mr Marshall is a former operations director of field services within Serco.\n\nThe Serious Fraud Office said both men had been \"charged with fraud by false representation and false accounting in relation to representations made to the Ministry of Justice between 2011 and 2013\".\n\nIn July, Serco was fined £19.2m after claims it had charged the government for electronically monitoring people who were either dead, in jail, or had left the country.\n\nMr Woods is also charged with false accounting in relation to the 2011 statutory accounts of Serco Geografix Ltd, the SFO said.\n\nThe SFO statement added: \"This follows the SFO's completion of a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) with Serco Group subsidiary Serco Geografix Ltd, which was approved by Mr Justice William Davis on 4th July 2019.\n\n\"The investigation remains active and we are unable to comment further at this time.\"\n\nMr Woods and Mr Marshall were charged by postal requisition and will appear in court on a date to be fixed.\n\nSolicitor Andrew Katzen who is representing Mr Woods, said his client was \"very disappointed that the SFO has decided to charge him with criminal offences dating back to his work at Serco about 10 years ago.\n\n\"The SFO has spent six years investigating this matter and Mr Woods fully co-operated throughout.\n\n\"He denies the allegations and looks forward to the opportunity of clearing his name.\"", "There are about 40 volcanoes worldwide thought capable of doing what Anak Krakatau (centre island) did\n\nShattered remnants from the volcano that generated a devastating tsunami in Indonesia a year ago have been pictured on the seafloor for the first time.\n\nScientists used sonar equipment to image the giant chunks of rock that slid into the ocean when one side of Anak Krakatau collapsed.\n\nSome of these blocks are 70-90m high.\n\nTheir plunge into the water produced tall waves that tore across the shorelines of Java and Sumatra on 22 December 2018.\n\nOver 400 people around the Sunda Strait died in the nighttime disaster, and thousands more were injured and/or displaced.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dave Tappin recalls the event and describes the blocks of rock on the seabed\n\nResearchers have been trying to reconstruct what happened ever since. But all their studies to date have been based on what can be seen above the water.\n\nProf Dave Tappin and colleagues realised they had to investigate the island volcano's missing mass - now under the ocean's surface - or they would never truly get a full description of Anak Krakatau's failure.\n\nA multibeam echosounder was brought in to map the seabed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Updated: This simulation shows how the volcano's flank slipped into the water\n\n\"Early models of the collapse were based on satellite imagery that only looked at the subaerial parts of the volcano,\" the British Geological Survey scientist told BBC News.\n\n\"Our bathymetry is imaging at 200m water depths and we are seeing triangular-shaped blocks, which are basically coherent and they formed, before the collapse, the southwestern flank of Anak Krakatau.\"\n\nThe debris field runs out to 2,000m from the volcano. A seismic survey also conducted by the team shows how this material is layered on top of older deposits.\n\nCrucially, the underwater imaging has allowed Prof Tappin's team to revise its estimate for the volume of rock involved in the flank failure. And it's smaller than previously thought.\n\nCalculations based on above-water measurements of what was left of the once 335m-high volcano had suggested a figure of 0.27 cubic km.\n\nThe new assessment now points to 0.19 cubic km sliding into the ocean, almost 200 million cubic metres.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Stephan Grilli: New simulations reproduce the damage observed on nearby islands\n\nThis smaller volume might have presented something of a problem for tsunami modellers.\n\nTheir original simulations of how the waves generated in the collapse moved across the Sunda Strait had already proved a good match for what had been observed at tide gauges and from what was known of the extent of damage along nearby coasts.\n\nNow, the models are having to be re-run but with a smaller input.\n\nThe simulations still work, however - and with good reason. Prof Tappin's team has also discovered that the failure plane on the volcano - the angle of slope along which the rock mass slid - was shallower than earlier assumptions.\n\nWhereas it was once thought the failure plane cut down steeply into the basin created when the old volcano on the site blew its top in 1883, it's now obvious the collapse slope entered the water much nearer the surface.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This simulation, based on the new data, shows how the tsunami moved outwards\n\n\"We've already redone the near-field modelling with a finer resolution based on the new bathymetry and the results are about the same, despite having a smaller volume of rock,\" explained tsunami expert Prof Stephan Grilli from the University of Rhode Island.\n\n\"The shallower slide occurs almost like a ski jump, maintaining the collapse material closer to the surface and making it more tsunamigenic than a steeper failure, which would have brought the sediment down deeper, much quicker.\"\n\nProfs Tappin and Grilli were speaking here in San Francisco at the American Geophysical Union's annual Fall Meeting. This is the first chance they've had to present their findings to the wider scientific community.\n\nAlso speaking was Prof Hermann Fritz from the Georgia Institute of Technology.\n\nHe reviewed the damage on nearby shores, describing from on-the-ground studies how high the tsunami waves must have been and how far inland they reached.\n\nOn the islands in the immediate vicinity of Anak Krakatau, trees up to 80m above the normal sea surface were torn from their roots.\n\nUjung Kulon National Park is due southwest of Anak Krakatau, some 50km away\n\nMuch of the wave energy took a path away from the volcano in the same direction of the collapse - to the southwest. This resulted in 10m-high waves laying waste to a corner of Ujung Kulon National Park on Panaitan Island - a distance of 50km from Anak Krakatau.\n\n\"Local residents were very fortunate that the collapse was in the southwest direction, in the direction where few people were living - towards the national park,\" said Prof Fritz.\n\n\"Had the collapse direction been different, the outcome could have been very different as well in terms of tsunami heights on populated areas.\"\n\nLessons learned from Anak Krakatau are being used to assess the hazards at other volcanoes. There are about 40 other locations around the world where flank collapse into surrounding water is considered a danger.\n\nThe map shows the area covered by the bathymetric survey, to the southwest and northeast of Anak Krakatau\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "The government is to consider whether failure to pay the TV licence fee should cease to be a criminal offence, a Treasury minister has said.\n\nRishi Sunak confirmed Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered a review of the sanction for non-payment of the £154.50 charge, which funds the BBC.\n\nProsecution for non-payment of the fee can currently end in a court appearance and potential fine of up to £1,000.\n\nBut the BBC warned decriminalisation could cost it £200m a year.\n\nThe Sunday Telegraph reported the consultation had been ordered by the PM after the Conservatives won a majority of 80 at last week's election.\n\nAsked whether non-payment of the fee should be decriminalised, Mr Sunak told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show: \"That is something the prime minister has said we will look at, and has instructed people to look at that\".\n\n\"I think it's fair to say people find the criminalisation of non-payment of the licence fee to be something that has provoked questions in the past,\" he said.\n\nMr Sunak did not elaborate on an alternative method that could be used to enforce payment of the TV licence.\n\nHowever a previous government review in 2015 looked into whether a fine for non-payment could be issued under civil law instead, similar to the fees for breaking parking, bus lane and congestion charge rules.\n\nThe review also examined whether unpaid TV licence fees should be considered a civil debt in the same way as unpaid utility bills or council tax.\n\nHowever, it recommended against changing the criminal sanctions regime, saying decriminalisation could bring with it an increased risk of evasion.\n\nIt added that penalties brought under civil law could still be enforced using the criminal law as a last resort.\n\nIncome from the licence fee was worth £3.6bn to the BBC in the last financial year, accounting for approximately 75% of the broadcaster's revenues.\n\nDuring the election campaign, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he thought replacing the licence fee entirely needs \"looking at\".\n\n\"You have to ask yourself whether that approach to funding a media company still makes sense in the long term given the way that other organisations manage to fund themselves,\" he said.\n\n\"The system of funding out of what is a general tax bears reflection\".\n\nMr Sunak said he would not \"speculate\" on the long-term future of the licence fee itself, adding that it had been \"secured\" through to 2027, when the current Royal Charter governing the corporation ends.\n\nBut he added: \"How people consume media is changing, and it is of course right we continue to look at those things over time.\"\n\nA BBC spokesman said the previous government review recommended the existing criminal sanctions regime should be maintained.\n\n\"The government has already commissioned a QC to take an in-depth look at this matter and he found that 'the current system of criminal deterrence and prosecution should be maintained' and that it is fair and value for money to licence fee payers,\" the spokesman said.\n\n\"The review also found that non-payment cases accounted for 'a minute fraction' - only 0.3% - of court time.\"", "Residents had to queue up to 45 minutes for bottled water being handed out at a local supermarket\n\nResidents have been queuing for bottled water after thousands of homes were left without supplies on Friday evening due to a faulty valve.\n\nAt its peak about 12,000 properties in Leighton Buzzard, Toddington, Hockliffe and surrounding areas were affected.\n\nUp to 2,000 homes in Bedfordshire are still without water and residents have been queuing for up to 45 minutes at a nearby supermarket for bottles.\n\nAnglian Water handed out the bottles and was working to restore supplies.\n\nLocal resident Maria Power said: \"The situation is disgraceful it should have been resolved by now.\"\n\n\"I'm angry at the water company that they are going to leave people without water for nearly 48 hours,\" she told the PA news agency.\n\nThe valve was fixed on Saturday evening but properties in Leighton Linslade are still without water because of air in the system, Anglian Water said.\n\nThe firm apologised and warned that water was unlikely to return to the areas until Monday afternoon.\n\nOne resident said shops in the area had run out of bottled water.\n\nAnglian Water said 12,000 properties in Bedfordshire were without water at one point\n\nAnglian Water said customers who were in its \"priority list\", such as elderly people or families with young children, had been delivered bottled water.\n\nIt said engineers were installing an overland pipe to bypass the airlocked water main.\n\nRegan Harris, from the company, said: \"Most of our customers will be coming back to water soon.\n\n\"There is an area on the northern part of Leighton Buzzard where people may be without water for a little while longer due to an air pocket.\"\n\nConservative MP for Leighton Buzzard Andrew Selous said queues have \"dropped down and everyone got their allocation\".\n\nMr Selous tweeted that \"many customers supportive given what a complex issue Anglian Water dealing with.\"\n\nA map shows areas where water supply has been affected\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Didier Lombard had denied his reforms led staff to take their own lives\n\nThe ex-boss of France Télécom and two former executives have been jailed over a restructuring policy linked to suicides among employees in the 2000s.\n\nDidier Lombard was jailed for a year, as were Louis-Pierre Wenès and Olivier Barberot, although eight months were suspended.\n\nThe company, since renamed Orange, was fined €75,000 ($83,000; £64,000).\n\nThe court examined 39 cases of employees, 19 of whom had taken their own lives and 12 who had attempted to.\n\nThe others had lived with depression or had been otherwise unable to work.\n\nIt happened during a major restructuring of the company that affected thousands of employees.\n\nFour other executives were found guilty of complicity and given four-month suspended sentences and €5,000 fines.\n\nLombard, the former president and chief executive officer; Wenès, his deputy; and Barberot, the former director of human resources, were also given fines, of €15,000.\n\nLombard's lawyer, Jean Veil, said his client would appeal against the conviction.\n\nIt is the first time that a French court has recognised \"institutional harassment\".\n\nThe BBC's Paris correspondent, Hugh Schofield, says the trial has been seen in France as a landmark case for relationships between workers and management.\n\nJean Perrin, whose brother Robert took his own life in 2008, expressed satisfaction at the verdict, but told Libération: \"They never had any remorse during the trial; they constantly put the blame on subordinates. I have only disgust and contempt for them.\"\n\nAt the time, the newly privatised company was in the throes of a major reorganisation. Lombard was trying to cut 22,000 jobs and retrain at least 10,000 workers.\n\nSome employees were transferred away from their families or left behind when offices were moved, or assigned demeaning jobs.\n\n\"I'll get them out one way or another, through the window or through the door,\" Lombard was quoted as telling senior managers in 2007.\n\nHe accepted that the restructuring had upset employees, but rejected the idea that it had led to people taking their own lives.\n\nFor help and support on mental health visit the BBC Advice pages.\n\nYou might be interested in watching:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince William and Lady Gaga's video call discusses how important it is to talk about mental health", "Heathrow has said its project to build a third runway has been delayed by \"at least 12 months\" after the aviation regulator rejected its spending plans.\n\nThe Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has refused Heathrow's request to lift spending from £650m to £2.4bn before it even gets planning consent.\n\nThe CAA is concerned passengers will end up shouldering the cost if Heathrow does not win permission to expand.\n\nThe airport now expects to complete a third runway between 2028 and 2029.\n\nIn a consultation published by the CAA, it said \"the best approach in the interest of consumers\" is to limit certain early construction costs to £1.6bn.\n\nThe consultation also said an assessment by an independent fund surveyor of Heathrow's plan to open a new runway by 2026 was an \"aggressive schedule\" which would require \"maximum activity\" even before the airport knew whether it had been granted a development consent order.\n\nPaul Smith, group director of consumers and markets at the CAA, said: \"We believe that more runway capacity at Heathrow will benefit air passengers and cargo owners.\n\n\"Its timely delivery is required to prevent future consumers experiencing higher airfares, reduced choice and lower service quality.\n\n\"However, we have also been clear that timeliness is not the only factor that is important to consumers.\n\n\"Passengers cannot be expected to bear the risk of Heathrow Airport Limited spending too much in the early phases of development, should planning permission not be granted.\"\n\nThe CAA has approved Heathrow's proposal to increase its spending on planning costs from £265m to £500m.\n\nHeathrow said the CAA's announcement was \"an important milestone\" in the expansion of the airport.\n\nA spokesman added: \"We will now review the detail to ensure it will unlock the initial £1.5bn to £2bn of private investment over the next two years at no cost to the taxpayer.\n\n\"While this is a step forward, the CAA has delayed the project timetable by at least 12 months. We now expect to complete the third runway between early 2028 and late 2029.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Boeing company has cut short the uncrewed demonstration flight of its new astronaut capsule.\n\nThe Starliner launched successfully on its Atlas rocket from Florida, but then suffered technical problems that prevented it from taking the right path to the International Space Station.\n\nIt appears the capsule burnt too much fuel as it fired its thrusters, leaving an insufficient supply to complete its planned mission.\n\nStarliner came back to Earth on Sunday.\n\nIt landed in New Mexico's White Sands testing range, using parachutes and airbags to make a soft touchdown on desert terrain.\n\nIt marked the first US land-landing for this type vehicle. Past crewed capsules have always made splashdowns in the ocean.\n\nBoeing and the US space agency (Nasa) must now review the truncated mission before deciding when to allow crew to fly aboard future Starliners.\n\nWhile this automated demonstration ticked off many of its objectives, such as a safe entry, descent and landing - it failed to achieve other key ones, the most significant being a rendezvous and docking with the space station.\n\nArtwork: The capsule ticked off many of its mission objectives - but failed to get to the ISS\n\nThe Administrator of Nasa, Jim Bridenstine, said in a press conference on Friday that Starliner had experienced a timing \"anomaly\" shortly after launch. This led the capsule to become confused over where it was in its mission sequence. Starliner then expended an excessive amount of propellant trying to maintain very precise pointing, or attitude.\n\nFlight controllers recognised the problem but were unable to intervene quickly enough because the capsule was passing between satellite links.\n\nMr Bridenstine remained upbeat, taking the positives out of the day's events.\n\n\"A lot of things went right,\" he said. \"This is why we test.\"\n\nThe Administrator then suggested that had astronauts been in the capsule, they could have helped re-direct the craft to the space station.\n\nNasa astronaut Mike Fincke, who has already been selected to fly on a future Starliner, agreed with this assessment.\n\n\"Had we been on board, we could have given the flight control team more options on what to do in this situation,\" he said.\n\nNot since 2011, when the shuttles were retired, have Americans launched from their own soil; US astronauts have been hitching rides in Russian Soyuz capsules instead.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The capsule launched on an Atlas rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida\n\nThe Starliner, and another capsule called Dragon from the SpaceX company, have been developed to reinstate the capability.\n\nThe business model will be different from the past, however.\n\nInstead of owning and operating the new capsules, Nasa will simply buy seats in the craft. And Boeing and SpaceX will also be free to sell any spare capacity to others - to other space agencies and commercial concerns.\n\nThe agency \"seeded\" Starliner and Dragon under its Commercial Crew Program (CCP). The companies were given milestone payments to encourage the development of their capsules.\n\nThe vehicles are late, however; they should have been flying in 2017.\n\nMike Fincke and Nicole Mann are looking forward to flying in Starliner\n\nThat they are still at the demonstration stage is due in part to Congress squeezing the amount of money Nasa could spend on the initiative. But also because of technical set-backs, such as the explosive destruction of a Dragon capsule on a test stand.\n\nThe SpaceX craft does look closer to entering service, though, after completing its own uncrewed trial in March. Whether Boeing will now have to repeat its test flight, going all the way to the station, before it can join Dragon on the \"taxi rank\" is uncertain. \"I think it's too early to make that assessment,\" Mr Bridenstein said.\n\nIt's still possible Boeing and Nasa may decide to move directly to crewed flights.\n\nMike Fincke's Nasa astronaut colleague on the upcoming Starliner mission will be Nicole Mann. \"We are looking forward to flying on Starliner. We don't have any safety concerns,\" she commented.", "Magdalena Lesicka and Peter Chilvers had been in a relationship since 2010\n\nA woman stabbed her 23-month-old son to death following a mental breakdown triggered by her controlling pilot boyfriend, a court has heard.\n\nRyanair pilot Peter Chilvers repeatedly threatened to kill Magda Lesicka, 33, before she attacked their son, James, at her home in Wythenshawe in 2017.\n\nShe was jailed for 15 years last year after pleading guilty to manslaughter.\n\nChilvers, 33, has now been jailed for 18 months after being convicted of controlling or coercive behaviour.\n\nManchester Crown Court heard Lesicka, who met Chilvers while also working for the airline, was sentenced on the basis her mental illness emerged suddenly and without any warning, and she had no memory of committing the offence on 26 August 2017.\n\nThe couple had been in a relationship since 2010 but Chilvers cheated on Lesicka from 2014 with another cabin crew member, jurors heard.\n\nChilvers, from Northwich, Cheshire, warned Lesicka in a \"visceral\" phone call, which was played in court, that she did not have the financial resources to win a custody battle.\n\nHe had repeatedly threatened to kill her if she removed James from his care and demanded they continue to live together at a new home in the Cheshire village of Wincham.\n\nIn the days before the killing, Lesicka made internet searches about \"killing in self defence\" and contacted domestic abuse charity Women's Aid, the court heard.\n\nThe Crown accepted her defence that she killed James following a breakdown induced by the \"deliberate, relentless and ultimately overwhelming psychological torment\" inflicted by Chilvers who had portrayed a \"landscape of unending misery if she did not comply with his demands\".\n\nJames Chilvers was killed at Magda Lesicka's home in Beaford Road, Wythenshawe, in August 2017\n\nChilvers' controlling or coercive behaviour, between December 2015 and August 2017, included using or threatening physical violence, forcing her into degrading sexual acts, isolating her from her friends and restricting her finances.\n\nAs part of the evidence, the court heard a 33-minute phone call made by Chilvers on the morning of 26 August to Lesicka - before the killing - in which at times he screamed profanities at her.\n\nRob Hall, prosecuting, said such behaviour confirmed his \"bullying, controlling, self-centred nature\".\n\nLesicka, a Polish national, was jailed in July last year after pleading guilty to manslaughter by reason of diminished responsibility.\n\nAt her sentencing hearing at Preston Crown Court, Mr Justice Dove said James was \"dearly loved and cherished\" by those around him and had been \"caught as a tragic innocent victim between two warring parents\".\n\n\"Whatever the rights and wrongs of that dispute, the last thing that should have happened is he lose his life - killed by a parent,\" he said.\n\nJames's grandmother, Hilary Chilvers, read out her victim personal statement in court and described her grandson as being \"full of potential and promise\".\n\n\"We have all been deprived of James's presence in our life,\" she said. \"He was adorable, beautiful, inquisitive and loving.\"\n\nLesicka gave evidence in the prosecution of Chilvers, of Hewitt Grove, and parts of her victim personal statement composed in prison were read out.\n\n\"It's hard to see myself as a victim given the tragic outcome. I know my life has been changed forever and there is nothing I can do change it back,\" the statement said.\n\n\"When I started a relationship with Peter Chilvers I had absolutely no idea he would be the controlling monster I discovered him to be.\n\n\"It is important that the public understand what Peter Chilvers' abuse did to me. It destroyed me.\"\n\nMark Ford QC, defending, said character references for Chilvers provided to the court painted a \"very different picture\" to that given by Lesicka.\n\nHe said his partner Lisa Spencer had attested to a supportive, co-operative and loving relationship with him.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A woman who lost her job after saying that people cannot change their biological sex has lost an employment tribunal.\n\nMaya Forstater, 45, did not have her contract renewed after posting a series of tweets questioning government plans to let people declare their own gender.\n\nMs Forstater believes trans women holding certificates that recognise their transgender identity cannot describe themselves as women.\n\nBut that view is \"not worthy of respect in a democratic society\", a judge said.\n\nMs Forstater, who had worked as a tax expert at the think tank Center for Global Development, was not entitled to ignore the rights of a transgender person and the \"enormous pain that can be caused by misgendering\", employment judge James Tayler said.\n\nMs Forstater was \"absolutist\" in her view, he concluded in a 26-page judgement.\n\n\"It is a core component of her belief that she will refer to a person by the sex she considered appropriate even if it violates their dignity and/or creates an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment,\" he continued.\n\n\"The approach is not worthy of respect in a democratic society.\"\n\nMs Forstater had argued \"framing the question of transgender inclusion as an argument that male people should be allowed into women's spaces discounts women's rights to privacy and is fundamentally illiberal (it is like forcing Jewish people to eat pork)\".\n\nAuthor JK Rowling is among people who have come out in support of Ms Forstater.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Forstater, who raised more than £85,000 through crowdfunding to pay her legal bills, said in response that she was \"blown away by the support and interest in her case\".\n\n\"All I ever wanted on this was for people to be able to talk about the policy questions around sex and gender identity in a normal, open, democratic way\".\n\nGender identity is a matter of enormous public interest and there are a range of different and strongly held views.\n\nSome will regard this judgment as preventing people from expressing their honestly held belief that a person born in a male body cannot become a woman, without the threat of being dismissed from their job for doing so.\n\nOthers will see it as much needed protection for the rights of those who wish to identify as the gender they feel themselves to be.\n\nEmployment tribunal rulings are not binding legal precedents, but they do have weight, and this ruling could deter others who share Maya Forstater's views from bringing such cases in the future.\n\nMs Forstater's solicitor Peter Daly, of Slater and Gordon, said: \"The significance of this judgment should not be downplayed.\n\n\"Had our client been successful, she would have established in law protection for people - on any side of this debate - to express their beliefs without fear of being discriminated against.\"", "The government has laid out its legislative plans for the year in the Queen's Speech. From Brexit to health, trade to the environment, it gives us a sense of what politicians will be debating over the next few months.\n\nOur experts analyse what was, and wasn't, said and what it all means for you.\n\nAs well as the withdrawal agreement bill, which will pave the way for the UK's departure from the EU on 31 January, the government will have to pass a series of bills next year in other policy areas as a direct result of Brexit.\n\nSome of them will be major undertakings:\n\nThere will also be bills covering trade, financial services and cross-border legal disputes.\n\nBut passing legislation will be the easy bit - implementing it all will be the big challenge.\n\nNew systems will need to be up and running by the end of the post-Brexit transition period in just over a year's time, new staff will have to be trained, and businesses and consumers will have to be ready too.\n\nCivil servants will be under enormous pressure to deliver everything that is required under the tight timetable the government has imposed.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice and the Home Office will be among the busiest departments under Boris Johnson's new administration - a reflection of the importance he attaches to law and order.\n\nA number of measures, including those relating to domestic abuse, victims and policing, have been put forward before, but there are also new proposals on sentencing which could lead to a significant increase in the prison population among those jailed for violence, sexual assault and terrorism.\n\nPlans to extend the use of \"whole-life\" tariffs, where offenders can be ordered to spend the rest of their lives behind bars, are vaguely worded, indicating ministers are open-minded about the range of crimes for which offenders should be locked away for ever.\n\nThe idea which has the most potential to alter the criminal justice landscape is for a Royal Commission to examine the process from arrest to sentence. The last time there was such a review was in 1991.\n\nThe terms of reference and the chairperson have not been announced - they will be key to understanding which destination the government wishes the commission to steer towards. Interesting times lie ahead.\n\nEnvironmentalists have welcomed many of the provisions of the new environment bill.\n\nBut they point out that ministers are still committed to North Sea drilling, building roads that experts say will generate traffic, and blocking onshore wind power.\n\nThey have stayed silent on aviation expansion, and have imposed a moratorium on fracking, rather than the permanent ban which some in the north of England were demanding.\n\nCritics point out that the planned new green watchdog won't have the sort of powers to take legal action that prompted the UK to improve air quality under the threat of fines.\n\nAction on business rates was billed as a measure to \"keep town centres vibrant\" - but what's on the table for now will only bring limited relief.\n\nBusiness groups have long been calling for a revamp of the rates system, which raises more than £31bn for the government each year. A quarter of that burden falls on retailers, who pay regardless of profit, says the British Retail Consortium.\n\nSo a one-year extension of a discount for some retailers and an extension of the scheme to pubs, music venues and cinemas - with a saving of £320m - may feel tokenistic.\n\nThis is especially so as the cancellation of planned corporation tax rate cuts means that business across the country will have to fork out £3.2bn more in bills next year than envisaged prior to the election, rising to more than £6bn by 2024.\n\nFor greater relief, retailers will be looking ahead to the Budget and the much-touted overhaul of the rates system. However, it is questionable whether the government will be able to afford to relinquish much of what's become a key revenue raiser.\n\nMeanwhile, both business and the public sector will have to grapple with the government's plans to raise the national living wage to two-thirds median earnings by 2025 (projected to be £10.50), and lower the eligible age for the main rate.\n\nWhile the plans would in theory benefit more than four million people, alleviating in-work poverty, they have been given a cautious welcome by business groups and low-pay campaigners alike, who urge careful implementation and monitoring.\n\nWhile the increase in minimum wage to date hasn't had an impact on employment growth, these plans go into uncharted waters - at a time when there are already signs that the hiring spree of recent years is levelling off.\n\nSchools in England are promised more funding, rising by £7.1bn by 2022-23, which the Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank says will reverse the budget cuts of the austerity years.\n\nMinimum levels of per pupil spending are increasing to £5,000 in secondary and £3,750 in primary schools, and then £4,000 in the following year.\n\nMost schools already get significantly more than this - for instance, the average for secondary schools is currently about £6,200 per year and £5,000 in primary.\n\nOnly about one in five primary schools and a third of secondary schools are below the proposed new minimum, with the biggest number of these in the South East and South West and the lowest number in London.\n\nBut the overall increase should mean an uplift across schools which have been complaining loudly about funding shortages.\n\nSo far there is no decision on whether to cut university tuition fees, other than a promise of \"better value\" for students.\n\nThe future of the NHS in England has been put front and centre of the Queen's Speech.\n\nThis is understandable given that, behind the scenes, ministers and advisers are saying there has to be an improvement in English NHS performance for the government to keep hold of the voters that backed it at the election.\n\nMinisters are making big play of the extra funding, but experts within the health service have warned even with the above-inflation sums going in, it will take years to turn the NHS around and get it back to where it was a decade ago in terms of waiting times and performance - perhaps even a decade.\n\nThe idea of enshrining into law the multi-year NHS funding settlement sounds more significant than it actually is. Ministers want to put a law in place compelling them to keep to their promises, but it makes little difference in reality.\n\nThere are also measures promising to make it easier to recruit doctors from abroad, and the government knows it faces a tough task filling the vacancy rates and growing the workforce.\n\nThere is little detail about social care - despite Boris Johnson's promise to fix the \"crisis\" in the system in his first speech as PM.\n\nInstead, he wants to seek cross-party agreement on the way forward - something that is unlikely to happen quickly, given both Labour and the Liberal Democrats have been plunged into leadership races following the election.\n\nRead more from Nick here.\n\nThere are no big surprises in the busy environmental agenda outlined by the government.\n\nThe headline commitment to reduce the UK's carbon emissions to \"net zero\" by 2050 is there, as are the key elements of an environment bill and new measures on animal welfare. Left unspecified, so far, are the details of many of the initiatives.\n\nA plan to increase the power of local authorities to tackle air pollution makes no mention of whether there's new money to go with it (which is what many councils have been clamouring for).\n\nCampaign promises of new cash for flood defences, electric vehicles, and energy efficiency in homes, schools and hospitals are repeated - a key test will be how they are delivered.\n\nOpposition parties are already saying the government is failing to take the radical action needed.\n\nFor ministers, here's a moment of intense scrutiny on the horizon - COP26, the massive UN climate summit planned for Glasgow next November, when the eyes of the world will judge the sincerity of the UK's green ambitions.\n\nThe government has announced the first Royal Commission on the criminal justice system since 1991.\n\nThe last one met 44 times, took evidence from more than 600 organisations and groups, commissioned 22 research studies and lasted for more than two years.\n\nIt was part of a response to the miscarriage of justice cases, which included the Guildford Four and Birmingham Six and led to the establishment of Criminal Cases Review Commission, which investigates miscarriage of justice cases.\n\nThese are different times. Many will welcome the new commission addressing the problems of what is widely seen to be a criminal justice system under extreme stress, if not in crisis.\n\nMuch of the blame for that is put down to swingeing cuts to the police and Crown Prosecution Service, as well as modern-day challenges such as getting on top of vast amounts of digital evidence obtained from mobile devices.\n\nHowever, there is real fear that the commission could be a way of kicking immediate and solvable problems into the long grass and delaying across the board investment, which many lawyers see as critical to improving a complex system in its entirety.", "Helen McCourt was murdered as she walked home from work in Merseyside\n\nProposals for a law which would deny parole to killers who refuse to disclose the location of bodies have been included in the Queen's Speech.\n\nThe Prisoners (disclosure of information about victims) Bill, known as Helen's Law, recently ran out of time when the election was called.\n\nHowever, it has been resurrected in the new Conservative government's agenda.\n\nThe bill is named after Helen McCourt, whose murderer Ian Simms has never revealed where her remains are.\n\nSimms, 63, was jailed for life in 1989 after killing Helen McCourt as she walked home from work in Billinge.\n\nHe was told he would have to serve at least 16 years before he could be considered for parole.\n\nHelen's mother, Marie, has campaigned for him not to be released until he says where her body was left.\n\nEarlier in December, she spoke of her relief that the Parole Board's decision to sanction his release was to be reviewed.\n\nShe had previously said she feared the law would come too late for her, as Simms was likely to be freed before it was passed.\n\nThe inclusion of Helen's Law in the Queen's Speech will be a bitter-sweet victory for Marie McCourt, who has fought a tireless campaign to see it introduced.\n\nShe was deeply disappointed that it was dropped at the last Parliament, ahead of the snap general election.\n\nA change in personnel at the top level of government has also been frustrating. David Cameron was prime minister when the campaign to introduce the legislation began.\n\nJustice Secretary David Gauke later backed Helen's Law, but he then quit the cabinet over Brexit.\n\nMore than 500,000 people signed the petition Marie McCourt started to introduce Helen's law in 2015.\n\nIn 2016, St Helens North MP Conor McGinn introduced the Unlawful Killing (Recovery of Remains) Bill 2016-17 under the Ten Minute Rule.\n\nIt did not go anywhere then, but his wish that it eventually be drafted into law by the government appears to have finally come true.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFlooding is causing travel disruption across the south east of England after heavy rain overnight.\n\nThe M23 was closed between junctions 10 and 11 in both directions in West Sussex, but has now reopened.\n\nOn the railways, Southern, Thameslink and Gatwick Express passengers have been advised not to travel, with disruption on the Brighton mainline.\n\nSoutheastern said there were no trains between Strood and Maidstone West, and between Tunbridge Wells and Hastings.\n\nMotorist Ellis Hart was on his way to a work Christmas meal, but missed it when he got stuck in the M23 backlog for more than two hours.\n\nThe 26-year-old stone restorer said: \"We were all going for a curry in London, paid for by the boss. It was our Christmas bonus.\n\n\"I was looking forward to that, but I've missed it now.\n\n\"I'm just glad I didn't bring my three kids with me. I was going to drop them off with my mum on the way.\"\n\nHighways England said the stream of water on to the M23 had to been stemmed and pumps were on the scene.\n\nSoutheastern posted on its website: \"A tree blocking the railway between Strood and Maidstone West means all lines are blocked. Train services running between these stations will be suspended.\"\n\nDisruption had been expected until the end of the day, but Southeastern later tweeted that the line would remain closed until Sunday due to the damage and repair work required.\n\nServices through Tonbridge have been disrupted due to a failure of the electricity supply.\n\nA subsequent landslip at Robertsbridge meant there were no trains running between Tunbridge Wells and Hastings, with replacement buses serving the route.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Roads and trains in Kent, Surrey and Sussex are closed after heavy rain caused flooding\n\nSoutheastern said it would be introducing a phased reintroduction of trains on the line in both directions from about 17:00 GMT.\n\nIssues with flooding at Frant had been resolved, the rail company said.\n\nAlmost 50mm (2in) of rain fell in some areas in 36 hours, and the Met Office issued severe weather warnings for heavy rain, saying water on roads would cause delays in some areas on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Highways England This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDetails of Southern, Thameslink and Gatwick Express services affected have been posted on Southern's website.\n\nIt said all lines had reopened but services may be cancelled, delayed or revised, with disruption expected until the end of the day.\n\nEarth is still at risk of moving following a landslide in the Guildford area, Great Western Railway says\n\nSouth Western Railway said all lines between Guildford and Godalming were blocked after a landslip, but the lines had later reopened. Lines were also blocked between Epsom and Ewell West.\n\nGatwick Airport is \"running as usual\", but it advised customers to allow extra time for their journeys due to the flooding on the M23 and the disruption to rail services.\n\nA fallen tree and landslip at Halling has closed the Medway Valley line between Strood and Maidstone West\n\nKent Fire and Rescue Service said crews were helping a man who had become stuck after driving through floodwater in Coppins Road, Leigh, near Tonbridge.\n\n\"Firefighters in water-safety suits are working to release the man from his vehicle and people are asked to avoid the area due to the floodwater,\" a spokesman said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Bishop’s Stortford Police 🎄🎅☃️ This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe service warned drivers: \"Floodwater is often deeper than it looks and may be moving quite fast. Your vehicle could be swept away or become stranded.\n\n\"If you see a sign to say that the road is closed due to flooding, remember the sign is there for a reason and find an alternative route.\"\n\nDaniel Grimmett Batt took these photos of flooding in Burgess Hill, West Sussex\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued flood warnings and alerts across England.\n\nYellow weather warnings are in place for large parts of the south of England until midday on Sunday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Will there be more flooding?\n\nA Met Office spokesman warned that more rain was \"coming from the south through the night and tomorrow\".\n\nIn Leatherhead in Surrey horses were left stranded in a flooded field after the River Mole burst its banks.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Adrian Harms This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn Cornwall, the A30 was closed on Thursday due to flooding, with Devon and Cornwall Police declaring a major incident in Hayle.\n\nMet Office meteorologist Mark Wilson said there could be up to 30mm of rain in the south on Saturday, with localised flooding.\n\nThe village of Cardinham in Cornwall saw 52mm of rain over 36 hours, while Bastreet Downs got 53mm.\n\nDevon & Cornwall Police said flooding across the force area had made \"a number of roads impassable\", and Great Western Railway services between Exeter St Davids and Taunton have been disrupted.\n\nNorfolk and Suffolk Police said roads in both counties had been affected by floodwater.\n\nThe Environment Agency has issued about 60 flood warning across England - where flooding is expected - as well as 200 flood alerts, which warn of possible flooding.\n\nAre you in the area? Have you been affected by the floods? 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Send your story ideas to southeasttoday@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The A5 dual carriageway scheme would link Dublin to the north west of Northern Ireland\n\nEleven major capital projects in NI have not been completed on time and have run millions over budget, according to an Audit Office report.\n\nThey include the A5 road upgrade, Casement Park, Ulster University's (UU) new Belfast campus and the Royal Jubilee Maternity Hospital.\n\nSeven of the 11 were identified by the executive in 2015 as flagship projects.\n\nThe report highlights funding, planning and legal issues, and a lack of construction industry interest.\n\nA spokeswoman for UU said the new campus would \"deliver a progressive student experience in a state-of-the art city centre campus\".\n\nShe added: \"An independent assessment of this project's overall regeneration impact details benefits to the NI economy of £1.4bn, through this significant investment in the aspirations of our young people, the city and beyond.\"\n\nThe Audit Office report also says the Strule Shared education campus in County Tyrone will be further delayed until at least 2024 and has also gone about £45m over budget.\n\nThe biggest school building project in Northern Ireland will eventually see six schools built on the site of the former Lisanelly army base in Omagh.\n\nAlthough work began on the Strule campus in 2013, only one school is currently open despite the original target date of 2020 for the entire project.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department of Education (DE) said it remained fully committed to delivering the programme.\n\nShe added: \"The next phase of construction for Strule Shared Education Campus has been delayed as a result of tendering issues in appointing a contractor.\n\n\"In light of this delay the campus go live date has been revised, and the Department is provisionally working towards September 2024.\"\n\nThe 11 projects identified by the Audit Office:\n\nKieran Donnelly, auditor general, said major capital projects are complex and delivery problems are not unique to Northern Ireland.\n\n\"Existing, cumbersome governance and delivery structures within the Northern Ireland public sector can be a barrier to achieving value for money,\" he added.\n\nThe campus is being built on the site of the former Lisanelly army base in Omagh\n\nThis is not the first report that has raised questions around how capital projects are delivered in Northern Ireland.\n\nIn 2013, a review of commissioning and delivering major infrastructure projects found that \"the system as a whole is not fit for purpose\".\n\nThe report did not receive universal support. Proposed reform stalled and consequently some of the improvements were not realised.\n\nThe Audit Office echoes previous reports that highlighted the need to eliminate duplication, improve project prioritisation, reduce bureaucracy, and drive better deals by increasing innovation.\n\nAn aerial view of the proposed stadium at Casement Park\n\nCapital projects are identified in the Investment Strategy, a rolling 10-year plan prepared by the Strategic Investment Board on behalf of the executive.\n\nThe original strategy ran from 2005-2015, and was updated for the period 2011-21.\n\nA further update has been put on hold following the collapse of devolution in Northern Ireland.", "The UK left the EU on 31 January 2020 and is now in an 11-month transition period.\n\nDuring this period the UK effectively remains in the EU's customs union and single market and continues to obey EU rules.\n\nHowever, it is no longer part of the political institutions. So, for example, there are no longer any British MEPs in the European Parliament.\n\nNegotiations on a trade deal with the EU have been proceeding for several months. The UK wants as much access as possible for its goods and services to the EU.\n\nBut the government has made clear that the UK must leave the customs union and single market and end the overall jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice.\n\nBoth sides say there a still significant areas of disagreement - for example, on EU proposals for a so-called \"level playing field\", which would see the UK and EU maintain similar minimum standards on things like workers' rights and environmental protection.\n\nThe deadline for the two sides to agree an extension to the transition period has now passed.\n\nIf no trade deal has been agreed and ratified by the end of the year, then the UK faces the prospect of tariffs on exports to the EU.\n\nThe prime minister has argued that as the UK is completely aligned to EU rules, the negotiation should be straightforward. But critics have pointed out that the UK wishes to have the freedom to diverge from EU rules so it can do deals with other countries - and that makes negotiations more difficult.\n\nIt's not just a trade deal that needs to be sorted out. The UK must agree how it is going to co-operate with the EU on security and law enforcement. The UK is set to leave the European Arrest Warrant scheme and will have to agree a replacement. It must also agree deals in a number of other areas where co-operation is needed.\n\nIt's also important to recognise that major changes will take effect on 1 January 2021 whether or not a trade deal is agreed. Free movement of people will end and businesses trading with the EU will have to follow new rules.\n\nUse the list below or select a button", "Revellers in the bar rushed to the aid of two women who were trapped after a car crashed through the window\n\nRevellers lifted a car off two women who were trapped when it smashed through the window of a wine bar.\n\nPolice believe the driver of the car, a man in his 70s, had \"a medical episode\" before crashing into Twelve All Saints in Stamford, Lincolnshire, on Thursday night.\n\nOne woman was taken to hospital with injuries not thought to be life-threatening, police said.\n\nThe driver sustained minor injuries and was also taken to hospital.\n\nWitness Helen Scarr said: \"There was rubble and glass everywhere, it was pretty scary.\n\n\"So, all the guys in the bar managed to lift the car clean off them and push it back out into the road.\"\n\nRevellers moved the car back into the road\n\nPolice believe the driver of the car had a \"medical episode\" before the crash\n\nBar owner Stephen Miskell said: \"Thankfully, they were both conscious and talking - so we are hoping and praying they are fine.\n\n\"It is times like this you see the good in people.\"\n\nThe bar has now been boarded up\n\nFollow BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Send your story ideas to yorkslincs.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Cap of Maintenance and the Sword of State precede the Queen into the House of Lords chamber\n\nIt may have been billed as a less ornate affair than usual, but even a dressed-down State Opening of Parliament is hard to mistake for a casual do.\n\nThe twinkling of the tiaras and clip-clop of horses' hooves were gone, as the Queen swapped her traditional horse-drawn carriage for a Bentley.\n\nBut with the glittering gold throne and bejewelled crown sitting on a velvet cushion, there was still more than enough pomp to go round.\n\nThe Queen normally arrives by horse-drawn carriage\n\nThis time she travelled the short journey to Parliament by Bentley\n\nThe day begins in the gentle drizzle outside Parliament, as patient police officers redirect irate commuters around the cordoned-off streets, while sleek BMWs and Jaguars with personalised number plates and national flags affixed to the bonnets transport diplomats to the building.\n\nThe foreign dignitaries pack out their small section of the House of Lords - a contrast to the ample elbow room available to peers on the rest of the red benches.\n\nPerhaps the relatively sparse attendance is not surprising - it is, after all, only two months since the last Queen's Speech.\n\nOn that occasion, the Queen read out the list of her government's priorities - but it was far from clear if any of the proposed laws would be passed by such a divided Parliament.\n\nThings are very different now. After last Thursday's general election, the government has a healthy majority of 80 and is likely to have no trouble getting its policies into law.\n\nThe Queen is accompanied by her son Prince Charles, who sits on an imperceptibly smaller throne\n\nThe snap general election meant less time to prepare for the ceremony and, therefore, certain elements were dropped - the Queen wore a day dress instead of sparkly court dress and tiara.\n\nThe 93-year-old monarch no longer wears the heavy, jewel-encrusted Imperial State Crown for state openings, describing it in a documentary last year as \"unwieldy\".\n\nShe also arrived by car rather than horse and carriage - a sort of Cinderella in reverse.\n\nDespite these changes, the event, which can be traced back to the 16th Century and marks the formal start of the Parliamentary year, is still governed by tradition, and there is certainly nothing casual about the House of Lords chamber.\n\nStained glass windows line the walls, ancient coats of arms hang below the balcony, while the golden throne wouldn't look out of place in a fairy tale castle or a Donald Trump hotel.\n\nThe bright crimson robes trimmed with snow white ermine, worn by members of the House of Lords, gives the whole place a Christmassy feel, like a Santa Claus convention - appropriate for a rare December Queen's Speech.\n\nWatching the speech from the gloom of the upper gallery of the House of Lords\n\nThe grandeur of the lower part of the Lords chamber distracts from the comparatively drab upper half, where the dark statues of those lords who signed the Magna Carta, hands resting on their swords, are just about visible through the gloom.\n\nFor the Queen, it must be a slightly strange experience to read out a speech setting out your government's priorities beneath the stern gaze of those men who demanded the monarch of the day - King John - share more of his powers with them.\n\nNevertheless, Her Majesty is treated with absolute reverence as she enters the chamber. The audience rises and only sits down again when the Queen grants permission.\n\nThere is total silence as she sits awaiting the arrival of the MPs. A sign outside the Strangers' Gallery - \"all demonstrations are out of order and will be treated accordingly\" - offers an ominously vague warning to would-be hecklers.\n\nAs the elected politicians - from both the victorious party and those that were defeated - arrive in the chamber, the Queen begins her eponymous speech.\n\nAfter weeks of hearing politicians passionately repeat their election pledges in the hurly burly of the campaign trail, it feels strange to hear those same phrases filtered through the clipped, neutral tones of the monarch to a solemn, respectful audience.\n\nShe concludes her speech, picks up her black handbag and heads for the exit.\n\nAnd with that Parliament is officially opened, the tricky business of getting to power is over, the even-trickier business of governing begins.", "The last time the Duke of Edinburgh was seen in public was at Lady Gabriella Windsor's wedding in May\n\nThe Duke of Edinburgh has been admitted to hospital as a \"precautionary measure\", Buckingham Palace has said.\n\nPrince Philip travelled from the Queen's Sandringham Estate in Norfolk to the King Edward VII Hospital in London on Friday morning.\n\nIn a statement, the palace said it was for observation and treatment in relation to a pre-existing condition on the advice of Prince Philip's doctor.\n\nHe was not taken by ambulance and it was a planned admission.\n\nThe duke, 98, retired from public life in August 2017.\n\nHe spent decades supporting the Queen and attending events for his own charities and organisations.\n\nSince retiring from official solo royal duties, he has appeared in public alongside the Queen and other members of the Royal Family at events and church services.\n\nThe duke has not been seen in public since attending Lady Gabriella Windsor's wedding in May.\n\nPolice officers are stationed outside the hospital in Marylebone where the duke has been admitted\n\nPrince Philip's other public appearance in May was at the Order of Merit lunch, with Sir David Attenborough among the guests\n\nIn the statement, the palace said: \"The Duke of Edinburgh travelled from Norfolk this morning to the King Edward VII Hospital in London for observation and treatment in relation to a pre-existing condition.\n\n\"The admission is a precautionary measure, on the advice of His Royal Highness' doctor.\"\n\nThe duke walked into hospital and is expected to remain there for a few days.\n\nIt comes as the Queen arrived at her Sandringham Estate on Friday for the start of her Christmas break.\n\nShe caught the 10:42 GMT Great Northern service from London's King's Cross and was later pictured stepping off the train at King's Lynn railway station.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Queen will be spending Christmas at her Sandringham Estate\n\nGiven his age, Prince Philip is in pretty good shape. He walked away from a car accident in January - that sent his car spinning - shaken but uninjured, bar a few cuts and bruises.\n\nHe has had a series of health challenges in the past few years.\n\nHowever, the suggestion coming from the palace is that there is no immediate cause for alarm.\n\nThe Queen arrived at Sandringham this morning as planned; the duke went to hospital in a car rather than ambulance.\n\nThe hope and expectation of the Royal Family must be that he will spend Christmas back at home in Sandringham.\n\nLast Christmas, Prince Philip missed the royals' traditional Christmas Day trip to church but was said to be in good health.\n\nIn February, it was announced the duke had given up his driving licence. It came after he was involved in a car crash with another vehicle near the Sandringham Estate.\n\nThe treatment he has received for various health conditions over the years include being treated for a blocked coronary artery in 2011.\n\nThe following year, the prince suffered a bladder infection and was forced to miss the Queen's Diamond Jubilee concert.\n\nHe was also taken to hospital for an abdomen operation in 2013 and, in 2014, underwent surgery on his right hand.\n\nLast year he had a hip replacement at the same central London hospital that he is now attending.", "Adolfo Martinez, 30, admitted to his crimes in a jailhouse interview\n\nA US judge has handed down a sentence of at least 15 years to a man who stole an LGBT pride flag from a church and burned it outside a strip club.\n\nAdolfo Martinez, 30, admitted to the media that he took the flag from Ames United Church of Christ due to his animosity towards homosexuals.\n\nHe was found guilty last month of hate crime harassment, reckless use of fire and being a habitual offender.\n\nThe incident occurred around midnight on 11 June in downtown Ames, Iowa.\n\nPolice say the crime spree began at Dangerous Curves, a strip club, when police were called because a man was making threats. By the time they arrived, he had already been kicked out by bar staff.\n\nAfter leaving the club, Martinez then travelled to the church and ripped down its flag. He then returned to the strip club where he used lighter fluid to burn the flag in the street. He also threatened to burn down the bar.\n\nHe was arrested later that day, and told local media in a jail house interview that he was \"guilty as charged\".\n\n\"It was an honour to do that. It's a blessing from the Lord,\" he said, explaining that he did it because he \"opposed homosexuality\".\n\n\"I burned down their pride, plain and simple,\" he told KCCI-TV. The interview was entered into the trial as evidence against him.\n\nChurch pastor Eileen Gebbie, who identifies as gay woman, says she agrees that Martinez' actions were motivated by hatred.\n\n\"I often experienced Ames as not being as progressive as many people believe it is, and there still is a very large closeted queer community here,\" she told the Des Moines Register when he was convicted in November.\n\n\"But 12 people that I don't know, who have no investment in me or this congregation, said this man committed a crime, and it was a crime borne of bigotry and hatred.\"\n\nStory County Attorney Jessica Reynolds said Martinez was the first person in the county's history to be convicted of a hate crime.\n\n\"The hard reality is there are people who target individuals and commit crimes against individuals because of their race, gender, sexual orientation,\" she told the Ames Tribune.\n\n\"And when that happens it's so important that as a society we stand up and people have severe consequences for those actions.\"", "Claudine Auger, pictured in London in 1968, shot to global stardom in Thunderball\n\nFrench actress Claudine Auger, best known for her role alongside Sean Connery in the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball, has died at the age of 78.\n\nShe died on Wednesday in Paris following a long period of illness, her agency Time Art said.\n\nAuger started out as a model, representing France and coming first runner-up in Miss World in 1958.\n\nBut she quickly developed a talent for acting, and landed roles including one in the 1962 film The Iron Mask.\n\nA few years later in 1965, she shot to global stardom as Domino in Thunderball, the fourth film in the Bond franchise.\n\nShe was the first female co-star to the James Bond character, known as a \"Bond girl\", to be from France.\n\nClaudine Auger, pictured with Sean Connery on the set of Thunderball, went on to have a fruitful career in French and Italian cinema\n\nIt was later revealed that the production team had rewritten the character for Auger. Domino was initially supposed to be Italian, but she became French.\n\n\"Bond girls\" were rarely given recognition for their acting talents, with the focus at the time instead being on their physical appearance and swimsuits.\n\nHowever, Auger approached the role as she would if she were \"playing Molière\" at a prestigious theatre, she told a TV interview in 1965.\n\nIt was \"a game, the same thing\", she said.\n\nAfter Thunderball, Auger went on to have a fruitful career in French and Italian cinema throughout the late 1960s and 1970s.\n\nAmong her best known films are crime thrillers That Man George and Flic Story, and the romantic tragedy A Few Hours of Sunlight.", "Lawyers for the Security Service told a court that the rules were \"critical\" to national security\n\nRules allowing MI5 informants to commit crimes are lawful, a tribunal has ruled.\n\nHuman rights groups had argued that the government's policy was unlawful and could hide serious abuses.\n\nBut the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), in a 3-2 ruling, said MI5 has \"an implied power\" to allow crimes under the Security Service Act, although not to grant immunity.\n\nCampaigners said they will appeal the \"knife-edge\" ruling.\n\nThe case came a year after the government confirmed the existence of a previously secret document, dubbed the \"Third Directive\".\n\nSigned by former Prime Minister David Cameron, it confirmed that MI5 officers could allow their informants and agents to commit crimes in the national interest, without any duty to tell police and prosecutors.\n\nAnnouncing the decision, IPT president Lord Justice Singh said: \"This case raises one of the most profound issues which can face a democratic society governed by the rule of law.\"\n\nUnder the Security Service Act 1989, Lord Singh said MI5 had \"implied power ...to engage in the activities which are the subject of the policy under challenge\".\n\nHowever, he added: \"It is important to appreciate that this does not mean that it has any power to confer immunity from liability under either the criminal law or the civil law ...on either its own officers or on agents handled by them.\n\n\"It does not purport to confer any such immunity and has no power to do so.\"\n\nThis case reveals a fundamental tension between two vital interests: preventing crime and protecting national security.\n\nGovernment lawyers were insistent that MI5 needs to be able to send agents deep inside terror networks, and, in practical terms, how else could they appear to be credible if they were not seemingly prepared to go along with the plotting?\n\nSecondly, if the rules around such criminality were published, would the targeted suspects not just use them to sniff out the rat?\n\nThe IPT, behind closed doors, is thought to have examined records of crimes dating back to October 2000 - around the time the Human Rights Act came into force.\n\nThis raises a question: are there records of crimes that occurred before these important safeguards were introduced?\n\nIn Northern Ireland there are unresolved allegations of collusion by the security forces in serious crimes during the Troubles.\n\nAnd while security chiefs will welcome this case as protecting the work of brave agents - it doesn't provide answers to the secrets of the past.\n\nThe legal action was taken against the government by four human rights groups.\n\nPrivacy International, Reprieve, the Committee on the Administration of Justice, and the Pat Finucane Centre asked the IPT to declare the policy unlawful and grant an injunction \"restraining further unlawful conduct\".\n\nThey argued that the policy \"purports to permit (MI5) agents to participate in crime\" and effectively \"immunises criminal conduct from prosecution\".\n\nA redacted document shows some of the guidance governing how MI5 can authorise its agents to commit crimes\n\nDuring the tribunal, lawyers for the Security Service had said: \"This is not a 'nice to have power'... it is critical.\n\n\"The whole point of the agent involvement is to avoid loss of life and limb.\"\n\nResponding to the ruling, Maya Foa, director of Reprieve, said the narrow 3-2 majority ruling showed \"just how dubious the government's secret policy is\".\n\n\"Our security services play a vital role in keeping this country safe, but history has shown us time and again the need for proper oversight and common sense limits on what agents can do in the public's name.\"\n\nIlia Siatitsa, a legal officer at Privacy International, said the group would seek to appeal what it called an \"abusive secretive power\". She added: \"We think the bare majority of the IPT got it seriously wrong.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt least one person has been killed and five wounded in a shooting at the headquarters of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) in central Moscow, Russian media say.\n\nA gunman who opened fire with an automatic weapon at the entrance of the building was killed by an armed officer, Interfax news agency reports.\n\nSecurity forces cordoned off the area and moved bystanders into buildings.\n\nThe shooting came hours after President Putin's annual press conference.\n\nArmed officers ushered bystanders into nearby buildings for their safety\n\nDetails of the incident, which began shortly after 18:00 (15:00 GMT), remain unclear.\n\nThe FSB denied earlier reports suggesting there were three gunmen in the attack on its headquarters. The unconfirmed reports said two had been killed in the lobby while the third ran off to a nearby building where he was later killed in a shootout with police.\n\nAmong the injured were two seriously hurt officers, the Health Ministry told Russian media. Shortly afterwards, the intelligence agency itself confirmed the death of one FSB officer - though it is not clear if he is one of the two reported injured in the earlier report.\n\nPolice vehicles blocked the streets outside the FSB building in Moscow\n\nRussian investigators have opened criminal proceedings into the attempted murder of law enforcement officers.\n\nThey are looking into whether the attack was timed to coincide with Vladimir Putin's four-hour press conference, which ended during the afternoon.\n\nThe area around the FSB's two main buildings in central Moscow has been completely sealed off with large numbers of police and special forces - some armed with assault rifles - in the area.\n\nEyewitness Vladimir Adyasov told the BBC that he was in the vicinity of the FSB's main building on Lubyanka Square when he heard loud bangs. Mr Adyasov said he initially thought it was fireworks, but quickly realised that it was gunfire. Police officers shouted for people to flee, he added.\n\nVideos on social media appear to show the attacker firing an assault rifle indiscriminately at the heavily-guarded building.\n\nThe attack took place on the eve of security services day - a special holiday for security staff - in Russia, and Mr Putin was addressing a meeting at the time to mark the occasion.\n\n\"We must not reduce the intensity of your work... and above all it applies to counter-terrorism,\" Mr Putin said, a short distance away from the attack in Moscow.\n\n\"Terrorism is an insidious and dangerous enemy, and the fight against it must continue systematically and decisively... with an emphasis on the prevention of terrorism, on preventive, offensive operations.\"\n\nSome footage posted on social media appeared to capture the sound of gunshots in the area of the attack, while other video showed armed men running away from the FSB headquarters on Lubyanka Square.\n\nFive ambulances were also seen leaving the scene.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"I saw a member of the traffic police running down the road, hiding behind vehicles,\" one eyewitness told Reuters news agency.\n\nWitnesses reported seeing five ambulances at the scene in the Russian capital", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMPs have backed Prime Minister Boris Johnson's plan for the UK to leave the EU on 31 January.\n\nThey voted 358 to 234 - a majority of 124 - in favour of the EU (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill, which now goes on to further scrutiny in Parliament.\n\nThe bill would also ban an extension of the transition period - during which the UK is out of the EU but follows many of its rules - past 2020.\n\nThe PM said the country was now \"one step closer to getting Brexit done\".\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn told his MPs to vote against the bill, saying there was \"a better and fairer way\" to leave the EU - but six of them backed the government.\n\nMr Johnson insists a trade deal with the EU can be in place by the end of the transition period, but critics say this timescale is unrealistic.\n\nThe bill had been expected to pass easily after the Conservatives won an 80-seat majority at last week's general election.\n\nMPs also backed the timetable for further debate on the bill over three days when they return after the Christmas recess - on 7, 8 and 9 January.\n\nPlease upgrade your browser to view this interactive How did your MP vote? Enter a postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP\n\nThe government says it will get the bill into law in time for the 31 January Brexit deadline.\n\nThe legislation, which would implement the Brexit agreement the prime minister reached with the EU in October, was introduced in Thursday's Queen's Speech, setting out the government's priorities for the next year.\n\n\"Getting Brexit done\" turned out to be a useful slogan, and no doubt it helped Boris Johnson win the election.\n\nBut almost nothing in politics is truly simple - least of all Brexit.\n\nToday he passed an historic milestone - but the destination is still some way off.\n\nRuling out any extension to the Brexit transition period might mean Britain leaves with no deal - equally some in government believe it's possible we could see a kind of phased trade deal with the EU, thrashed out over the months and maybe years ahead.\n\nThere are changes to the previous bill, which was backed by the Commons in October, but withdrawn by the government after MPs rejected a three-day deadline for getting it through Parliament.\n\nThe bill also loses a previous clause on strengthening workers' rights.\n\nThe government now says it will deal with this issue in a separate piece of legislation, but the TUC has warned that the change will help \"drive down\" working conditions.\n\nBeginning the debate in the Commons, the prime minister said his bill \"learns the emphatic lesson of the last Parliament\" and \"rejects any further delay\".\n\n\"It ensures we depart on 31 January. At that point Brexit will be done. It will be over,\" he told MPs.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"We still believe this is a terrible deal\"\n\nLabour leader Mr Corbyn said the government's \"mishandling of Brexit\" had \"paralysed the political system,\" divided communities and was a \"national embarrassment\".\n\nHe said MPs \"have to respect the decision\" of the EU referendum in 2016 \"and move on\".\n\n\"However, that doesn't mean that we as a party should abandon our basic principles,\" he said.\n\n\"Labour will not support this bill, as we remain certain there is a better and fairer way for this country to leave the EU.\"\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader, Ian Blackford, said: \"Scotland still totally and utterly rejects Brexit, yet the prime minister is blindly hurtling towards the cliff edge with these Brexit plans that will leave us poorer, leave us worse off.\"\n\nOn the change in the bill that would legally prohibit the government from extending the transition period beyond 31 December 2020, Mr Blackford said: \"By placing that deadline, that risk of a no-deal Brexit, that we all fear is very much, is on the table again.\"\n\nAnd the Democratic Unionist Party's Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said there was a \"major contradiction\" in the prime minister's deal \"that causes us great concern\".\n\nHe said, while it mentioned \"unfettered access\" for Northern Ireland when it comes to trade in the UK, it also had customs arrangements \"that inhibit our ability to have that unfettered access\".\n\nIn the 2016 referendum, the UK voted by 52% to 48% to leave the EU. But the subsequent difficulties in getting Brexit through Parliament have caused gridlock at Westminster.\n\nAn earlier withdrawal agreement - reached between previous PM Mrs May and the EU - was rejected three times by MPs.", "Model and racing driver Jodie Kidd has told the BBC her anxiety in her teens was fuelled by claims in the press about her weight.\n\nKidd quit modelling as a 19-year-old, and is now hoping to raise awareness around mental health.\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on BBC Two and BBC News Channel, 10:00 to 11:00 GMT - and see more of our stories here.", "Alun Cairns has already been replaced as Welsh secretary by Simon Hart\n\nA former Welsh secretary has been cleared of breaking the ministerial code over claims he knew a former aide had collapsed a rape trial.\n\nAn inquiry found it \"unlikely\" Alun Cairns had not been made aware of Ross England's role in the collapse.\n\nThe investigator said those involved said they did not inform Mr Cairns of Mr England's role, and there was \"no direct evidence to contradict this\".\n\nMr Cairns insisted he did not know the details of the case.\n\nHe resigned from the cabinet in November after the row broke out, just before the official start of the general election campaign.\n\nThe position of Welsh secretary remained vacant during the campaign, in which Mr Cairns successfully defended his Vale of Glamorgan seat.\n\nHowever, Prime Minister Boris Johnson named Simon Hart as the new Welsh secretary following the Conservative victory.\n\nIn his resignation letter to the prime minister in November, Mr Cairns said: \"I will co-operate in full with the investigation under the ministerial code which will now take place and I am confident I will be cleared of any breach or wrong-doing.\"\n\nIn April 2018, as a witness at the rape trial of his friend James Hackett, Mr England told Cardiff Crown Court he had a casual sexual relationship with the complainant - which she denied - despite the judge making it clear that evidence of the sexual history of the victim was inadmissible.\n\nRoss England gave a speech at the Welsh Conservatives' conference in 2016\n\nJudge Stephen John Hopkins QC said to him: \"Why did you say that? Are you completely stupid?\n\n\"You have managed single-handed, and I have no doubt it was deliberate on your part, to sabotage this trial… get out of my court.\"\n\nHackett was subsequently convicted of rape at a retrial.\n\nMr England was chosen in December 2018 as the Vale of Glamorgan candidate for the 2021 Welsh assembly election.\n\nAt the time of his selection, Mr Cairns endorsed Mr England as a \"friend and colleague\" with whom \"it will be a pleasure to campaign\".\n\nIn October this year, BBC Wales discovered an email sent on 2 August 2018 to Mr Cairns by Geraint Evans, his special adviser. It was also copied to Richard Minshull - the director of the Welsh Conservatives - and another member of staff.\n\nIt said: \"I have spoken to Ross and he is confident no action will be taken by the court.\"\n\nWhen the story came to light, Welsh Conservative party chairman Lord Davies of Gower said he could \"categorically state\" he and Mr Cairns were \"completely unaware of the details of the collapse of this trial until they became public\".\n\nMr England was suspended as a candidate and as an employee after details of the court case emerged, with the party saying a full investigation would be conducted.\n\nAlun Cairns endorsed Ross England as a \"friend and colleague\" after his selection as a Welsh assembly candidate\n\nThe rape victim previously said Mr England's selection \"shows how little respect they have for me\" and she called for Mr Cairns to quit.\n\nA UK Government Cabinet Office investigation was launched following Mr Cairns' resignation from Boris Johnson's cabinet in November.\n\nSir Alex Allan, the prime minister's independent adviser on ministerial standards, has concluded that the evidence does not uphold the allegations against Mr Cairns.\n\nIn his report, Sir Alex said: \"I find it unlikely that Mr Cairns would not have been told something about Mr England's role when he was told about the collapse.\n\n\"But all those involved state that they had not informed Mr Cairns of Mr England's role, and there is no direct evidence to contradict this.\n\n\"On that basis, I do not find that the evidence upholds the allegations of a breach of the Ministerial Code.\"\n\nThe rape victim told BBC Wales that she was \"disappointed but not surprised\" by the investigation's conclusion.", "Fardin Kazemi had been delivering raisins when his lorry broke down in central Poland\n\nA Polish crowd-funding initiative has raised nearly 250,000 zlotys (£50,000) to buy a new lorry for an Iranian driver, who was stranded when his vehicle broke down.\n\nFardin Kazemi was delivering raisins to Poland, and was due to continue to the Czech Republic to pick up goods for import to Iran.\n\nHe had to sleep in his vehicle, when he was unable to afford repairs.\n\n\"The Polish people have been angels for me,\" said Mr Kazemi.\n\nBased in Khoy in north-western Iran, Mr Kazemi has been driving to Europe for more than a quarter of a century.\n\nHowever, before he can return home in the new vehicle, he needs to obtain permission from the Iranian authorities to import the lorry, waiving sanctions Iran has imposed on certain goods from the European Union.\n\nFardin Kazemi's problems began on 3 December, when his 30-year-old lorry broke down in the central Polish town of Koziegłowy, north of Katowice.\n\nRepairing the lorry turned out to be uneconomic\n\nPolish lorry drivers launched an online appeal to raise money to repair the vehicle, as well as providing the Iranian with food and a place to sleep.\n\nThe initial target of 100,000 zlotys was reached within 24 hours and the total now stands at more than double that, with donations still coming in.\n\nHis mother has yet to hear about Fardin Kazemi's adventures\n\nIt has proved uneconomic to repair the lorry, so the plan is now to buy a new one.\n\nUnder Iranian law, only vehicles less than three years old can be imported, so the Polish fundraisers intend to buy a secondhand 2017 DAF XF 106 tractor unit to pull Mr Kazemi's lorry trailer.\n\nHowever, the plan may yet fall foul of Iranian sanctions against certain imports from EU countries. An exemption is now being sought for the replacement vehicle.\n\n\"I have travelled all over Europe for 27 years… so far I have not had the chance to get to know Poles better, although they have always been nice. Now it turns out that they are wonderful people, and it is difficult for me to believe their help,\" he told Dziennik Zachodni.\n\n\"We didn't tell my mother any of the details of this, so as not to worry her. She just thinks I'm at work.\"", "An armed police officer accidentally shot a driver in the arm while trying to stop his car, a police watchdog report has concluded.\n\nOfficers stopped the Mercedes car in Castle Lane West, Bournemouth, on 7 August 2018.\n\nThe officer put their hand on the driver's door but accidentally fired their Glock pistol when the car pulled away, the report said.\n\nThe two people in the car later had proceedings against them dropped.\n\nThe Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) inquiry concluded the officer had not committed a criminal offence or behaved in a manner that would justify disciplinary proceedings.\n\nInvestigators also looked into the planning and safety of the operation by Dorset Police.\n\nThe police watchdog said the stop was carried out in line with national guidelines\n\nThey concluded it was carried out where no members of the public were in the immediate vicinity and the Mercedes had slowed to a crawl close to a roundabout.\n\nCatrin Evans, IOPC regional director, said: \"We are satisfied the shot fired by a Dorset Police officer into the car window was unintentional, and brought about by the Mercedes moving off.\"\n\nThe officer has been advised to complete a refresher armed response training course before returning to full firearms duties.\n\nDorset Police Assistant Chief Constable Julie Fielding said a \"full debrief\" would be held into the events of the night to see if there were any \"learning points\".\n\nThe passenger in the Mercedes was later charged in connection with a stabbing but no evidence was offered on the first day of his trial and a not guilty finding was returned.\n\nThe driver was charged with dangerous driving in relation to the police stop and assisting an offender. His case was discontinued and not guilty verdicts returned.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "\"Getting Brexit done\" turned out to be a useful slogan, and no doubt it helped Boris Johnson win the election.\n\nBut almost nothing in politics is truly simple - least of all Brexit.\n\nToday he passed an historic milestone - but the destination is still some way off.\n\nRuling out any extension to the Brexit transition period might mean Britain leaves with no deal - equally some in government believe it's possible we could see a kind of phased trade deal with the EU, thrashed out over the months and maybe years ahead.\n\nAt home, no-one's ever really spoken about Johnsonism.\n\nHe's maybe been too busy facing challenges and dangers day-to-day, hour-to-hour, for a guiding philosophy to take shape, let alone find a name.\n\nBut the PM's goal of ending austerity and reuniting the country, north and south, richer and poorer, behind the Tory flag could fairly be described as a new. highly ambitious, political idea.\n\nEven so, giving a political mission a name - calling it Johnsonism - is a lot easier than pulling it off.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA US woman will be charged with causing the death of teenage motorcyclist Harry Dunn by dangerous driving.\n\nMr Dunn, 19, died in a road crash in Northamptonshire in August that led to suspect Anne Sacoolas leaving for the US under diplomatic immunity.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said it had started extradition proceedings through the Home Office.\n\nUS officials said it was not \"a helpful development\" and Mrs Sacoolas' lawyer said she would not return to the UK.\n\nLawyer Amy Jefress said: \"Anne will not return voluntarily to the UK to face a potential jail sentence for what was a terrible but unintentional accident.\"\n\nMr Dunn's mother Charlotte Charles said the family was \"relieved\" Mrs Sacoolas had \"finally\" been charged.\n\nOutside the CPS headquarters she said: \"We feel that we have made a huge step in the start of achieving the promise to Harry that we made.\n\n\"We made that promise to him the night we lost him to seek justice thinking it was going to be really easy.\n\n\"We had no idea it was going to be so hard and it would take so long.\"\n\nHarry Dunn died in hospital after his motorbike was involved in a crash outside RAF Croughton\n\nMr Dunn died after his motorbike was in collision with a car owned by Mrs Sacoolas outside RAF Croughton where her husband Jonathan worked as an intelligence officer.\n\nMrs Sacoolas, 42, left the UK and returned to her native US, claiming diplomatic immunity.\n\nA statement from the US State Department said that at the time of the crash Mrs Saccolas had \"status that conferred diplomatic immunities\" and added the foreign secretary \"stated the same in Parliament\".\n\nIt added: \"It is the position of the United States government that a request to extradite an individual under these circumstances would be an egregious abuse.\n\n\"The use of an extradition treaty to attempt to return the spouse of a former diplomat by force would establish an extraordinarily troubling precedent.\n\n\"We do not believe that the UK's charging decision is a helpful development.\"\n\nAnne Sacoolas pictured on her wedding day in 2003\n\nA statement via her lawyer said Mrs Sacoolas had \"co-operated fully with the investigation and accepted responsibility\".\n\nIt added: \"This was an accident, and a criminal prosecution with a potential penalty of 14 years' imprisonment is simply not a proportionate response.\n\n\"We have been in contact with the UK authorities about ways in which Anne could assist with preventing accidents like this from happening in the future, as well as her desire to honour Harry's memory.\n\n\"We will continue that dialogue in an effort to move forward from this terrible tragedy.\"\n\nThis has been a tortuous, raw, unrelenting, four months for Harry Dunn's family.\n\nThey cannot bear to be at the centre of what they regard as an prolonged, unnecessary, international spat between lawyers, diplomats and politicians over what, to them, was a tragic family road accident.\n\nMeeting presidents, foreign secretaries and chief constables has been an alien, disorientating experience for them.\n\nThey sometimes feel that Harry has been forgotten amid all their efforts to keep his case prominent in the minds of those who carry influence.\n\nThey know that the Home Office will now start the extradition process. They realise that although extradition may take some time, their efforts on behalf of their son now have some meaning.\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab previously urged Mrs Sacoolas to return to the UK voluntarily\n\nForeign Secretary Dominic Raab said a review into the immunity arrangements at Croughton for US personnel and their families had concluded.\n\nIt found that it was an \"anomaly\" that family members had \"greater protection from UK criminal jurisdiction than the officers themselves\".\n\nHe said he welcomed the decision to charge Mrs Sacoolas.\n\nMr Raab added: \"I hope that Anne Sacoolas will now realise the right thing to do is to come back to the UK and cooperate with the criminal justice process.\"\n\nChief Crown Prosecutor Janine Smith said it had authorised Northamptonshire Police to charge Mrs Sacoolas.\n\nShe said the director of public prosecutions had met Mr Dunn's family to explain the decision.\n\nThe extradition request is sent via the British Embassy to the US State Department.\n\nA lawyer will then decide whether it falls under the dual-criminality treaty, where the alleged offence is a crime in both countries and carries a prison sentence of at least a year.\n\nThe maximum sentence for causing death by dangerous driving is 14 years' imprisonment, although this is usually reserved for the most serious cases.\n\nThe US may reject the request for extradition, arguing that Mrs Sacoolas is still entitled to diplomatic immunity.\n\nMr Dunn's parents Tim Dunn and Mrs Charles had previously been critical of the lack of communication from the CPS.\n\nHis father said on Friday he was \"overwhelmed\" by the CPS's decision.\n\nMr Dunn's parents rejected a \"bombshell\" offer from Donald Trump to meet Mrs Sacoolas at the White House in October.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government's Withdrawal Agreement Bill (WAB), which will take the UK out of the EU on 31 January, has passed all its stages in Parliament and been given Royal Assent.\n\nThe WAB turns Boris Johnson's withdrawal agreement, which is a draft international treaty, into UK law and gives the government permission to ratify it.\n\nNo new clauses or amendments were passed by MPs, who also rejected changes made in the House of Lords.\n\nWhat does the WAB actually cover? Among other things:\n\nA number of clauses in the previous version of the bill have been removed. They include:\n\nBetween 2016 and 2018, 426 unaccompanied children came to the UK in this way.\n\nAfter the WAB becomes law, the withdrawal agreement also needs to be ratified by the European Parliament.\n\nThen the stage will be set for Brexit on 31 January, when the post-Brexit transition period will begin.\n\nFor 11 months, the UK will still follow all the EU's rules and regulations, it will remain in the single market and the customs union, and the free movement of people will continue.\n\nThe challenge for the government will be to get all its new rules and policies in place by the end of this year.\n\nThis article was originally published on 21 October and has been updated to reflect changes to the Withdrawal Agreement Bill and its passage towards becoming law.", "Boeing has launched an unmanned capsule to the International Space Station. It was aboard an Atlas rocket which took off from Cape Canaveral in Florida.\n\nThe test flight has a dummy on board but, if it is successful, Nasa hopes that astronauts will be able to start using the craft from 2020.\n\nAstronauts haven't launched from US soil since 2011.\n\nThe capsule is due to return to Earth in New Mexico, using parachutes and airbags to make a soft landing on desert terrain on 28 December.", "The ringleaders of a nationwide drug gang who lived a lavish lifestyle which included gambling in Monte Carlo have been jailed.\n\nLiam Cornett, Michael Rice and Kieran Eves headed up the gang which spread across Hull, south Wales and Cornwall.\n\nGang leader Cornett was jailed for 26 years, while Rice was sentenced to 12 years and eight months and Eves was jailed for 13 years and nine months.\n\nTwenty-five others were also jailed at Liverpool Crown Court.\n\nAn investigation was launched after a grenade exploded at a property on Beresford Road in Dingle, Liverpool, in March 2017.\n\nA search of the house led police to discover 160kg of amphetamines and 11kg of heroin.\n\nThis lead to an investigation led by the North West Regional Organised Crime Unit featuring Merseyside Police, Devon and Cornwall Police, South Wales Police and Humberside Police.\n\nMembers of the group were seen transporting drugs and money in a County Lines operation, trying to take funds out of the country to fund Cornett's lifestyle and buying expensive cars with money.\n\nRice and Eves were stopped by armed police in Liverpool\n\nRice, 26, and Eves, 28, both of no fixed address, were stopped by police in December 2017 in a car on Smithdown Road, with a Glock handgun found in the vehicle.\n\nPolice said Cornett, 29, of Huyton in Merseyside, lived a life of luxury in Spain and gambled in Monte Carlo.\n\nHe was arrested at Manchester Airport in October 2018.\n\nDet Insp Paul McVeigh, from Merseyside Police, said: \"For a time, Cornett enjoyed a lavish lifestyle off the back of the misery of others, living most of the year in Spain, driving expensive cars and wearing expensive watches. But his web of conspiracy and deceit quickly unravelled.\n\n\"While he made some last ditch efforts to pretend he dealt only cannabis and no Class A drugs, in a desperate attempt to reduce his sentence, he failed to pull the wool over the eyes of police or the courts.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It is going to be tricky - though not impossible - for Clive Lewis (pictured) and some other candidates to be the next Labour leader to get on to the ballot in the first place.\n\nUnder former leader Ed Miliband's reforms, MPs were the gatekeepers in the process - the sole nominees of candidates, with no role for the unions nor the grassroots.\n\nBut under Mr Corbyn, two more criteria were added.\n\nA candidate now also has to be nominated by \"5% of affiliates\" - translated, this means basically two of the dozen affiliated unions, or one big union and a \"socialist society\" such as the Fabians.\n\nIf this proves impossible then 5% of constituency parties would have to nominate - that is, more than 30 local groups.\n\nMr Lewis has told me that, so far, he has no union nominations, but would expect some left-led constituencies to come behind him if they want a debate.\n\nHis championing of Remain from the left and not the Blairite/centrist wing of the party endeared him to many grassroots activists.\n\nBut his difficulty is he will be fishing in the same waters as Rebecca Long-Bailey, another left-winger who is more likely to get union support.", "The use of Taser stun guns by police and England and Wales reached a record high last year, Home Office figures show.\n\nThey were deployed in 23,000 incidents in the 12 months to the end of March - up by more than a third on the previous year and double the 2016 total.\n\nIn most cases, the devices were aimed at a suspect without being fired.\n\nCivil liberty campaigners say Tasers can be lethal, but the police argue they are vital to ensure safety.\n\nThey have the support of the Home Office, which is providing funding to enable an extra 10,000 officers to carry them.\n\nA Home Office spokesman said: \"Police officers put themselves in harm's way to protect us and it is vital we give them the powers and equipment they need to fight crime and stay safe on the job.\"\n\nThe weapons - which deliver a high-voltage electric shock - were fired on 2,500 occasions between April 2018 and March 2019, which is thought to be the highest number recorded.\n\nConductive Energy Devices (CEDs) - known by their brand name, Tasers - were first trialled in UK police forces in 2003, and their use by specially trained officers was authorised five years later.\n\nThe roll-out to all forces was completed in 2013, when they were used 10,000 times.\n\nThe latest figures (23,000 deployments) represent a significant increase on the numbers recorded the previous year (17,000 deployments) and in 2016 (11,000 deployments).\n\nThe Home Office report in which the statistics were published says the increase in recent years may reflect the rise in \"the number of CED-trained officers and CEDs available\", or \"officers dealing with more incidents with the potential for conflict\".\n\nThe report looks more broadly at the use of force by police in England and Wales.\n\nIn total, there were 428,000 recorded incidents in which a police officer used force.\n\nRestraint tactics, such as handcuffing, were the most common type of force - and were used 401,000 times.\n\nThe statistics also reveal that specially trained firearms officers in England and Wales discharged baton rounds, sometimes known as plastic bullets, 43 times last year.\n\nThey were fired twice at children aged between 11 and 17.\n\nTo be issued with a Taser, police officers must have completed 18 hours of training and are then required to undergo a compulsory refresher course every year.\n\nA petition demanding all police officers in the UK are issued with Tasers has reached more than 113,000 signatures.\n\nJohn Apter, national chair of the Police Federation, told the BBC in August that officers say they feel \"vulnerable and often isolated due to the lack of this vital protective equipment\".\n\n\"Ultimately, having a Taser gives them the capability to defend not only themselves but also the public they want to protect,\" he said.\n\nHowever, Taser use remains controversial. According to Amnesty International, 18 people in the UK have died after a Taser was discharged against them by police since the device was introduced 16 years ago.\n\nOliver Feeley-Sprague, Amnesty UK's police and security programme director, said: \"A large number of officers fail the Taser training course, either in the proficiency of using it or their judgement about when to use it. This demonstrates very clearly that a Taser is not suitable for every officer.\"\n• None Should all frontline police officers use Tasers?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson 'Now is the moment to reunite our country'\n\nMPs are voting on whether to back the PM's plan for the UK to leave the EU on 31 January.\n\nThe EU (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill would also ban the government from extending the transition period - where the UK is out of the EU but follows many of its rules - past 2020.\n\nBoris Johnson said it would allow the UK to \"move forward\".\n\nBut Jeremy Corbyn said Labour would oppose the bill, and there was \"a better and fairer way\" to leave the EU.\n\nMr Johnson has insisted a trade deal with the EU can be in place by the end of the transition period, but critics say this timetable is unrealistic.\n\nThe result of the Commons vote is expected at about 14:30 GMT.\n\nThe withdrawal bill, which would implement the Brexit agreement the prime minister reached with the EU in October, was introduced in Thursday's Queen's Speech, setting out the government's priorities for the next year.\n\nBeginning the debate in the Commons, the prime minister said his bill \"learns the emphatic lesson of the last Parliament\" and \"rejects any further delay\".\n\n\"It ensures we depart on 31 January. At that point Brexit will be done. It will be over,\" he told MPs.\n\n\"The sorry story of the last three years will be at an end and we can move forward.\"\n\nMr Johnson said it also \"paves the way\" for a \"ambitious free trade deal\" with the EU.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"We still believe this is a terrible deal\"\n\nThe bill's second reading is the first chance MPs have had to debate its main principles in the House of Commons.\n\nWith the Conservatives having won an 80-seat majority at last week's general election, the bill is expected to pass easily, before it moves on to further scrutiny by MPs and the House of Lords.\n\nMPs have been given a further three days - 7, 8 and 9 January - to continue their debate.\n\nThe government says it will get the bill into law in time for the 31 January Brexit deadline.\n\nThere are changes to the previous bill, which was backed by the Commons in October, but withdrawn by the government after MPs rejected a three-day deadline for getting it through Parliament.\n\nThe bill also loses a previous clause on strengthening workers' rights.\n\nThe government now says it will deal with this issue in a separate piece of legislation, but the TUC has warned that the change will help \"drive down\" working conditions.\n\nIt was back in January that Theresa May embarked on a series of Commons defeats as she tried and failed to begin the process of getting her Brexit plans approved.\n\nIt was only in October that Boris Johnson paused his own efforts when MPs rejected the proposed timetable for getting the Withdrawal Agreement through parliament.\n\nBut now, following the general election and with an 80-strong Conservative majority, things look very different.\n\nAnd Boris Johnson knows it, claiming that it's time for \"certainty\" after years of \"delay and rancour\".\n\nBut the bill will come in for criticism. Gone are clauses about workers' rights - Downing Street says that will be dealt with in separate legislation.\n\nAnd added: a provision ruling out any extension to the transition period beyond December 2020.\n\nThe process of ratifying the Withdrawal Agreement Bill will continue in the New Year but Friday's vote is, in part, designed to signal that the UK is now motoring towards that January 31 departure date.\n\nLabour leader Mr Corbyn said the government's \"mishandling of Brexit\" had \"paralysed the political system,\" divided communities and was a \"national embarrassment\".\n\nHe said MPs \"have to respect the decision\" of the EU referendum in 2016 \"and move on\".\n\n\"However, that doesn't mean that we as a party should abandon our basic principles,\" he said.\n\n\"Labour will not support this bill as we remain certain there is a better and fairer way for this country to leave the EU.\"\n\nHe said there had to be something better than this \"terrible\" Brexit deal that would not \"sell out public services\" or \"sacrifice hundreds of thousands of jobs in the process\".\n\nHowever, Labour MP for South Shields, Emma Lewell-Buck, said she would vote for the bill, adding: \"The party opposite have a mandate they did not have before.\n\n\"It is with the heaviest of hearts that I cannot vote with my party today but I will always put my constituents first.\"\n\nThe Queen outlined the government's agenda at Thursday's State Opening of Parliament\n\nThe SNP's Westminster leader, Ian Blackford, said: \"Scotland still totally and utterly rejects Brexit, yet the prime minister is blindly hurtling towards the cliff edge with these Brexit plans that will leave us poorer, leave us worse off.\"\n\nOn the change in the bill that would legally prohibit the government from extending the transition period beyond 31 December 2020, Mr Blackford said: \"By placing that deadline, that risk of a no-deal Brexit, that we all fear is very much, is on the table again.\"\n\nAnd the Democratic Unionist Party's Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said there was a \"major contradiction\" in the prime minister's deal \"that causes us great concern\".\n\nHe said, while it mentioned \"unfettered access\" for Northern Ireland when it comes to trade in the UK, it also had customs arrangements \"that inhibit our ability to have that unfettered access\".\n\nMeanwhile, Labour 's Lord Dubs said it was \"appalling and deeply distressing\" that his amendment to the previous Brexit bill, which proposed that the UK would continue to enable unaccompanied child refugees to be reunited with their families, had been removed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Alf Dubs This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBut Mr Johnson said: \"We remain proud of our work in receiving unaccompanied children. We'll continue to support fully the purpose and spirit of the Dubs amendment but this is not the place, in this bill, to do so.\"\n\nIn the 2016 referendum, the UK voted by 52% to 48% to leave the EU. But the subsequent difficulties in getting Brexit through Parliament have caused gridlock at Westminster.\n\nAn earlier withdrawal agreement - reached between previous Prime Minister Theresa May and the EU - was rejected three times by MPs.", "Laura Whitmore took part in Strictly Come Dancing in 2016\n\nLaura Whitmore is to step in as host of ITV2's winter edition of Love Island after Caroline Flack stood down after being charged with assault.\n\nThe broadcaster will front the show when the contestants move into a new villa in South Africa in January.\n\nShe previously replaced Flack as host of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here's ITV2 spin-off in 2011, and has a weekly show on BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\nFlack was charged after police were called to an incident on 12 December.\n\nPaul Mortimer, head of ITV's digital channels and acquisitions, said: \"I'm delighted that Laura is able to step in this winter on ITV2's biggest show.\n\n\"She is the best person for the job and is a popular and experienced presenter of live television. Whilst Caroline is away, we know that Love Island will be in very safe hands.\"\n\nFlack had hosted Love Island since it returned to screens in 2015\n\nWhitmore said she was \"excited\" to step into the role but wished her opportunity had come under \"better circumstances\".\n\n\"Caroline is a brilliant host and also a friend,\" she said in a statement. \"We've spoken a lot in the last few days since she stepped down. She has been very kind to me and strongly pushed me for this role. I've watched her host every series and know I have big boots to fill. I will try and do it justice.\"\n\nShe added: \"Above all, I am a massive fan of this show. I've never been to a Love Island villa, and I can't wait to get in there to meet all the new Islanders looking for love. The Love Island team are the best in the business… including the voice and heart of the show, Iain. He thought he was getting a holiday away from me… not a chance!\"\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip instagram post by iaindoesjokes This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe incoming Love Island host is guaranteed to be greeted in South Africa by one familiar face at least, in the form of boyfriend and Scottish comedian Iain Stirling - who does the voiceovers on the show.\n\nHe greeted the announcement of her arrival by joking: \"I wonder if she's single...\"\n\nCaroline Flack has given her approval online over the decision to replace her with Laura Whitmore\n\nFlack gave her approval to the decision to appoint Whitmore too, via her Instagram story on Friday.\n\n\"She loves the show as much as I do,\" she noted.\n\nFlack was charged with assault by beating following an incident at her Islington home in north London.\n\nPolice were called to her house, where she lives with her partner, tennis player Lewis Burton, at 05:25 GMT last week.\n\nOfficers attended after reports of a man being assaulted. The man was not seriously injured, police said.\n\nThe 40-year-old will appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court on 23 December.\n\nAnnouncing her decision to step aside, she said: \"There have been a significant number of media reports and allegations into my personal life.\n\n\"While matters were not as have been reported, I am committed to working with the authorities and I can't comment further on these matters until the legal process is over.\"\n\nShe added: \"In order not to detract attention from the upcoming series I feel the best thing I can do is stand down for series six. I want to wish the incredible team working on the show a fantastic series in Cape Town.\"\n\nITV announced the winter spin-off in July following the show's success over the past five summers. The company said the 2019 series reached more than six million viewers and was the most-watched programme of the year at the time among adults aged between 16 and 34.\n\nIn November, Whitmore took up her new role as a BBC Radio 5 Live broadcaster, as part of the station's shake-up to their weekend line-up, which also saw Scott Mills join.\n\nThe 34-year-old had previously filled in on occasion and said at the time she was \"thrilled\" to return on a permanent basis with \"big name guests from the worlds of politics, music and showbiz\".\n\nThe Bray-born star studied at Dublin City University and made her breakthrough as a TV presenter with MTV Ireland from 2008 onwards.\n\nShe hosted I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! NOW; a companion series to the popular ITV reality show from 2011-2015, before appearing as a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing in 2016.\n\nUnlike Flack, who won the competition in 2014, Whitmore was voted off the show following a dance-off with eventual winner Ore Oduba.\n\nWhitmore has also worked as a model and as a co-commentator for BBC Three on the Eurovision Song Contest Semi-Finals in 2014.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The Glen Sannox is one of two ferries being built to serve CalMac routes\n\nTwo CalMac ferries at the centre of a political storm over cost and delays should be scrapped and work started again, it has been claimed.\n\nIndustrialist Jim McColl has spoken out against the Scottish government's plan to spend at least £110m on the part-finished ferries.\n\nHe was in charge of the shipyard where the ferries were being built before it collapsed and was nationalised.\n\nManagement of the yard has been sharply criticised in a new government report.\n\nThe ferries were being constructed at Ferguson shipyard in Inverclyde to replace old ferries on Clyde and Hebridean routes operated by CalMac.\n\nThey are more than a year overdue.\n\nIn an exclusive interview with BBC Scotland, the former chairman of Ferguson Marine Engineering said he was taking legal advice on whether the Scottish government's attack on his management was defamatory.\n\nHe said the report into the ferry fiasco, drawn up for the government after it took ownership of the yard, was \"outrageous\" and a \"snow job\" to cover up the role of the government agency involved in procuring the ferries.\n\nMr McColl said Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited, which required numerous design changes, was the key reason why the budget and timetable went out of control.\n\nJim McColl is taking legal advice on the Scottish government's report\n\nThe ship design uses a novel hybrid power system, using marine diesel for getting in and out of ports, and liquefied natural gas while at sea. The need for new safety certificates also caused delays.\n\nMr McColl challenged the Scottish government's plan to continue building the two ships, after months of neglect. One has been moored at the quayside and the other sits on the slipway at the Port Glasgow yard.\n\nThat would effectively write off more than £80m already spent on them, while more than £45m in loans from the Scottish government have been written off.\n\nThe businessman said some materials could be used in new hulls, but that it would be better value for taxpayer money to start building again, to a simpler design. He suggested three smaller ferries could be built for the same original £97m budget.\n\nThe report published this week was strongly critical of the management of Ferguson Marine while Mr McColl was chairman, saying it lacked project and financial controls.\n\nInternal controls were reported as poor or non-existent. It said that there had been a \"major departure from the specification\" and as a result of defects, most of the pipe work would have to be removed from the engine rooms.\n\nThe attack on Mr McColl's competence is despite his success in running engineering companies around the world. He gets closely involved in management and is reckoned to be a billionaire. His advice was sought by the Scottish government as a member of its Council of Economic Advisers.\n\nThe report went on to estimate a £13m bill for remedial work on the hulls taking seven months, including removal of rust and a dry dock inspection of the first ferry's hull. There would then be a £95m bill to complete the vessels.\n\nFerguson Marine in Inverclyde was nationalised by the Scottish government in August\n\nWhereas the ships were due to be delivered in summer 2018, the first one, the Glen Sannox, is now scheduled for delivery by December 2021 and the second, known as Vessel 802, by October 2022. But that is with only an 80% probability.\n\nThere is, in addition, a warning of \"significant challenges\" to get the yard working effectively, to improve productivity, recruiting the right people and it flags up a problem in \"controlling and managing\" the sub-contracted design firm.\n\nMr McColl, who accurately predicted the doubling in cost, said: \"It'll become more than that and the vessels will take longer than they're saying.\n\n\"You'd be better building from scratch and to a design that's more suited to what's needed. They could probably build three smaller vessels for less than £100m and it would give them more flexibility.\"\n\nFacing criticisms for his own management, Mr McColl drew attention to the reports commissioned by Scottish ministers from an expert adviser over the past two years, which he says were \"damning\" of the role of the government-owned procuring company, CMAL.\n\nLuke van Beek was appointed by economy secretary Derek Mackay to report back on the state of the project, with advice on whether government loans should be released.\n\nIn a private report to ministers released under Freedom of Information law in October, Mr van Beek said that the breakdown of relations between the client and the shipbuilder should be addressed through mediation, and he advised against nationalisation of the yard.\n\nMr McColl said the minister was \"trying to put people off the scent\". Criticism of his management team was \"outrageous and unacceptable - the team selected were some of the best in the UK, and head and shoulders above those in there now. I've asked if we can sue them for defamation of character\".\n\nHe added: \"There needs to be an inquiry. The way they've handled this is incompetent\".\n\nThe Holyrood committee for the rural economy and connectivity is to carry out an inquiry into ferry procurement, looking into the contract that has gone so badly wrong and at the implications for future ferry services.\n\nThe committee convener, Conservative MSP Edward Mountain, said the aim would be to avoid mistakes being made with future orders.\n\nHe said: \"These developments clearly have important implications, not only for the completion of the two vessels but also for future plans for the replacement and refurbishment of vessels to meet the ongoing needs of the Clyde and Hebrides ferries network more generally.\n\n\"The committee wants to find out not only what has gone wrong and how things will be put right but how these problems can be avoided in the future.\"\n\n\"We need to make sure that the relevant lessons from this saga are learned for the procurement and construction of new ferries in future.\"\n\nA Scottish government spokesman said: \"Our efforts saved Ferguson Marine from closure, saving over 300 jobs, ensured that the two vessels under construction will be completed, and secured a future for the yard.\n\n\"Scottish ministers are committed to transparency on these issues. We have kept parliament informed of progress and have proactively published information on our website.\n\n\"We welcome the opportunity to respond to any additional inquiries that the committee might wish to raise.\"", "There was a \"gross failure\" in the care of a women who died from sepsis after a three hour ambulance wait outside A&E, an inquest has found.\n\nSamantha Brousas, 49, from Gresford, Wrexham, died on 23 February 2018, two days after she was forced to wait outside Wrexham Maelor Hospital.\n\nCoroner Joanne Lees issued a prevention of future deaths report to the Welsh Ambulance Service.\n\nBut she said the failings did not cause Ms Brousas's death.\n\nMs Lees recorded a narrative verdict at the inquest in Ruthin.\n\nA spokesman for Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) said \"lessons must be learnt\" from Ms Brousas's death.\n\nMs Brousas's daughter Sophie (centre), a medical student, questioned paramedics as to why her mother had not been given antibiotics\n\nThe inquest previously heard Ms Brousas had been suffering from a common cold over the New Year period of 2017, but her condition deteriorated around 19 February 2018.\n\nThe next day, she went to see her GP and said she felt as if she was going to die.\n\nOn 21 February, she was assessed at home and taken to hospital by ambulance, but she was forced to wait outside for three hours after being told there were no hospital beds and that the A&E department was \"under siege\".\n\nMs Brousas's daughter, a fourth year medical student at the time, said no staff came out to see her and she was not given antibiotics.\n\nSepsis, sometimes called septicaemia or blood poisoning, happens when the body's immune system goes into overdrive in response to an infection.\n\nWrexham Maelor Hospital was \"dangerous and unsafe\" because it was so busy the day Samantha Brousas came in\n\nProf Solomon Almond, an expert witness to the inquest, said Ms Brousas was already \"desperately sick\" by the time she was taken to hospital.\n\nHe said she was \"destined to die\" and the \"point of no return\" had been reached prior to her calling an ambulance on the afternoon of 21 February.\n\nThe inquest was previously told paramedics should have pre-alerted A&E staff that a severely ill woman was on her way to hospital under the guidelines.\n\nParamedic Steffan Jarvis told the hearing ambulance staff knew the hospital was so busy it was \"dangerous and unsafe\" and had not pre-alerted the hospital, despite having assessed Ms Brousas as \"high-risk, critically ill\".\n\nThe inquest also heard from Dr Kate Clark, a consultant in emergency medicine, who revealed coroners had issued a total of six regulation 28 reports aimed at preventing future deaths involving ambulances having to queue outside hospitals in north Wales.\n\nConcluding the inquest on Friday, Ms Lees said she had seen some improvements to the Wrexham Maelor A&E department, but issued a regulation 28 report to the Welsh Ambulance Service Trust citing issues regarding pre-alert policy, whether paramedics can issue antibiotics and \"absence of a meaningful escalation policy\".\n\nMs Brousas' partner Simon Goacher and her daughter Sophie Brousas said they were frustrated by what happened\n\nIn an interview with BBC Wales, Ms Brousas's long-term partner Simon Goacher said: \"They immediately recognised how ill she was and that she had sepsis.\n\n\"It isn't a case they simply don't diagnose it quickly enough, they did diagnose it straight away they just didn't treat it at all, let alone effectively.\n\n\"I didn't realise how bad it was... I knew it was dangerous but I still thought 'they can't think it's that bad otherwise they would have got her in to hospital, they wouldn't be leaving her in the back of an ambulance, they'd be treating her'.\n\n\"It's impossible to describe it if you've not been through it. It's just a nightmare. To have to be there and watch someone you love go through that is just indescribable.\"\n\nSimon Goacher and Samantha Brousas had been together for eight years before her death\n\nHer daughter, Sophie Brousas, said: \"As soon as I saw her I was just shocked at how ill she looked. Mum was quite a glamorous, well put-together lady and she looked about 20 years older, she was grey - I was really just shocked by the sight of her.\"\n\nShe said there was \"no sense of urgency\" in trying to treat her mother.\n\n\"The most frustrating thing is it wasn't a misdiagnosis. Everyone knew how ill she was and still no action was taken. I just don't understand how that could happen.\"\n\nStephen Jones, clinical negligence solicitor at law firm Leigh Day, added: \"The evidence that we have heard over the course of the inquest has been truly shocking.\n\n\"The absolute tragedy of this case is that all those healthcare professionals who came into contact with Sam on 21 February recognised at the time that she had sepsis and understood that sepsis is a potentially fatal time critical condition.\"\n\nDr Brendan Lloyd of the Welsh Ambulance Service said: \"Our ambulance service exists to preserve life so it was with a heavy heart that we learned of the death of Miss Brousas.\"\n\nHe said there were lessons to be learned for the service and health board and they had been working to reduce the risk of anything similar happening again.\n\nA number of steps have already been taken, including giving advice for paramedics to pre-alert a hospital to a patient's condition.\n\n\"We accept the conclusions of the coroner and would once again extend our thoughts and sympathies to the family of Miss Brousas,\" he added.\n\nA spokesman for Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board said: \"We fully accept the coroner's verdict today and we would like to extend our deepest condolences to Miss Brousas's family.\n\n\"We know that lessons must be learnt. Over the past 18 months we have worked with our partners in the ambulance service to improve the way patients are transferred when they arrive at hospital.\n\n\"This has already brought about significant improvements.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nUpdate 21 December 2020: The conviction of a fourth man, Shafiq Younas, for indecent assault was overturned at the Court of Appeal on 30 July.\n\nA woman who was sexually abused and raped by men in Telford as a child says she believes young girls are still at risk in the town.\n\nFour men were jailed on on Thursday for sexually abusing Sarah - not her real name - in the latest conviction in the town's child sexual abuse scandal.\n\nAn independent inquiry is ongoing into child sexual exploitation in Telford.\n\nSarah said: \"It makes me feel sad that some girls could be out there right now going through what I did.\"\n\nSarah, who spoke to the BBC anonymously after four of her abusers were convicted, said her life was \"ruled by them\" when she was raped and abused in her early teens between 2000 and 2003.\n\n\"Every day, getting picked up, taken here there and everywhere, meeting so many men - I can't even put a number on it - it was living hell,\" she said.\n\n'Sarah' was abused in Telford in the early 2000s when she was a teenager\n\nDuring the trial, which ended in the convictions of Mohammed Ali Sultan, Shafiq Younas, Amjad Hussain and Mohammad Rizwan, jurors heard how Sarah was \"passed around like a piece of meat\" and violently abused if she resisted having sex with numerous men.\n\n\"It's gone through my mind every day and I've suffered every day,\" Sarah said.\n\n\"These men, they're vile, they're dangerous, they don't care about what they did.\"\n\nShe said she is \"very sure\" young girls are still being abused in Telford.\n\n\"These men, they're clearly all linked, and I suppose maybe because they've got away with it for so long it's still going on,\" she said.\n\nSentencing the men, Judge Melbourne Inman QC told Ali Sultan, who was already serving a sentence for previous sexual offences, \"you remain, clearly, a very dangerous man\".\n\nMohammed Ali Sultan was described as \"a very dangerous man\"\n\nFor nearly 20 years Sarah felt too frightened to come forward, having been threatened by her abusers.\n\n\"They said if I ever told anybody they would burn my house down with my family in it,\" she said.\n\n\"I was too scared to say anything to anyone\".\n\nAfter coming forward, Sarah said she feels relief, although she doesn't know how she found the strength to face her abusers in court, which she said was \"very, very hard\".\n\n\"It brought all those feelings and everything back but I have no regrets,\" she said.\n\n\"I was just determined to finally stand up to these men for what they did. Why should they get away with it?\"\n\nNow, she wants other victims to come forward.\n\n\"It feels like now I can have peace and move on. I want to put this behind me as best I can, and I want to help others to tell their story.\n\n\"I know they must be feeling scared, I know how that feels, but they've just got to be brave and they've got to speak.\n\n\"We've got to put a stop to it.\"\n\nDet Insp Rob Rondel encouraged victims of child sexual exploitation to come forward\n\nDame Vera Baird QC, the Victims' Commissioner for England and Wales, told the BBC there is a sense within the authorities that exploitation is ongoing within the country.\n\n\"The likelihood of trying to trigger a [police] operation to try and detect this is when someone discloses, so it's absolutely vital that we make it as easy and as safe as possible for people to do that,\" she said.\n\n\"[It is] highly unlikely a girl who has been brought into drink and drugs is going to go to the police because they don't expect to be believed. Furthermore they expect to get into trouble themselves.\n\n\"We have to have a very good set of support services, so we need third sector organisations properly funded so wherever a disclosure comes from there is a pathway to get people the support they need, which sometimes is life-long.\"\n\nShe said covert work, engaging a community and using organisations like Barnardos and Child Line will help build up a picture of abuse.\n\n\"In a way you need that same sort of 'see it, say it, sorted' approach to keep a vigilant watch on anything that's off that we have now got all used to with terrorism,\" she added.\n\n\"The most important thing is that when there is a disclosure we move very quickly to protect people.\"\n\nDet Insp Rob Rondel, from West Mercia Police, said: \"Our enquiries as part of Operation Vapour continue and will continue as we look to bring to justice those responsible for sexually exploiting others, even if that exploitation took place years ago.\n\n\"We encourage victims of child sexual exploitation to come forward, engage with police and find support with our partner agencies.\"\n\nIf you have been affected by the issues raised in this article, help and support can be found at BBC Action Line.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands have demonstrated against the controversial reforms, with some brandishing EU flags and copies of Poland's constitution\n\nPoland has approved a controversial law which makes it easier to dismiss judges critical of the governing party's judicial reforms.\n\nThe legislation passed by 233 votes to 205 in the lower house of parliament in Warsaw on Friday.\n\nIt came just hours after the European Commission urged Poland to reconsider the proposed changes.\n\nDemonstrators rallied in their thousands across Poland earlier this month to protest against the law.\n\nOn Wednesday, the country's Supreme Court warned that Poland could be forced to leave the EU over its reforms.\n\nThe law now goes to the Senate after passing on Friday. The upper chamber cannot block the legislation, though it can delay it.\n\nUnder the legislation, championed by the socially conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party government, judges can be punished for engaging in \"political activity\".\n\nAny judge that questions the legitimacy of other judges nominated by the National Council of the Judiciary might be handed a fine, have their salaries cut, or in some cases be dismissed.\n\nThe PiS changed the law in 2018 allowing the lower house of parliament - which it controls - to choose the members of that council.\n\nDemonstrators have called for a judge who was suspended for questioning another judge's independence to be reinstated\n\nPiS alleges that Poland needs the reforms to tackle corruption and make the judicial system more efficient, arguing it is still haunted by the communist era. The party also insists that other EU countries allow politicians to take part in selecting judges.\n\nBut critics fear it has curtailed the independence of the judiciary in Poland. The EU has accused the party of politicising the judiciary since it came to power in 2015.\n\nEarlier on Friday, European Commission Vice-President Vera Jourova wrote to Poland's president, prime minister and parliamentary speakers, calling on them to consult legal experts before proceeding with the law change, and asking them not to break EU legal norms.\n\nAnd a spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said the law \"risks further undermining the already heavily challenged independence of the judiciary in Poland\".\n\nThe governing party fast-tracked the bill in a little over 24 hours during an often stormy parliamentary session.\n\nOpposition MPs cried out \"Shame!\" as Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro called judges a privileged caste who ignored citizens' interests.\n\nThe minister said judges could not have the right to question the status of hundreds of newly appointed judges selected by a council which is now controlled by the governing party.\n\nSome judges have already done so after Poland's Supreme Court ruled the council was no longer an independent body.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFuneral services have taken place to remember the two victims of the London Bridge attack.\n\nJack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, were stabbed to death by Usman Khan at a prisoner rehabilitation event on 29 November.\n\nFamily and friends celebrated Mr Merritt's life at his funeral at Great St Mary's Church in Cambridge.\n\nA memorial service for Miss Jones also took place at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Stratford-upon-Avon.\n\nHer mother Michelle Jones, her grandmother and other family members had earlier attended a private funeral.\n\nMr Merritt and Miss Jones were at a conference organised by the University of Cambridge programme called Learning Together when Khan attacked them with a knife in Fishmongers' Hall.\n\nTwo women and a man were also injured before Khan was shot dead by armed officers on London Bridge.\n\nMr Merritt's girlfriend Leanne O'Brien told his funeral service the pair had been \"inseparable\" and that he gave her \"the best two and a half years of my life\".\n\n\"I'll miss your big heart and how loved you made me feel. Most of all I'll miss a future that we had planned together,\" she added.\n\nMr Merritt's father David said the family had received letters from prisoners praising his son who worked for the rehabilitation programme Learning Together.\n\n\"Jack's death was a tragedy but his short life was a triumph,\" he added.\n\nAmong the mourners was musician Nick Cave, who performed Into My Arms at the end of the service.\n\nLeanne O'Brien (second from left) at the funeral service for her boyfriend\n\nFriends and family of Miss Jones, who volunteered for Learning Together, were among 500 people gathered at a private memorial service.\n\nThere were readings by her uncle Phil Jones, who read Psalm 121, and her mother who recited Nicole Lyons' I Hope That Someday When I Am Gone.\n\nRev Michael Price, deputy headteacher of Bloxham School where she had studied, said Miss Jones was a \"life-shaper\" and a woman of \"courage\".\n\n\"She made me laugh - she could be funny, she could be very funny,\" he said.\n\nA performance of I Dreamed A Dream, from the musical Les Miserables, was followed by the James Blunt track The Greatest to conclude the service.\n\nThe front cover of the booklet given to mourners at Jack Merritt's funeral\n\nThe family of Saskia Jones said her death \"will leave a huge void in our lives\"\n\nIn his end-of-year message, Cambridge University vice-chancellor Stephen Toope said the \"unspeakably tragic loss\" of Mr Merritt and Miss Jones had \"hurt us deeply\".\n\n\"I ask that we do not let the manner of Saskia and Jack's deaths eclipse the manner in which they lived their lives and helped others to do so,\" he said.\n\n\"As we prepare for the holiday period, let us instead remember the values they embodied.\"", "Police were called to Bromley Road at about 19:15 GMT on Thursday\n\nTwo men have been stabbed to death and two others injured in separate attacks across London.\n\nA man in his 20s was pronounced dead at the scene in Bromley Road, Walthamstow, at about 19:15 GMT on Thursday.\n\nIn an unrelated incident, a man in his 30s died after being attacked and was found dead in a car near Scratchwood Park in Barnet at around 20:30.\n\nAnother man in his 20s suffered stab wounds in the same incident and was taken to hospital.\n\nAn arrest has been made in connection with the Walthamstow stabbing, police said.\n\nThe Met added that a man in his 20s who was also found injured in Bromley Road, was taken to hospital with non life-threatening injuries.\n\nIt is the third killing in London in as many days after Albert Amofa, 33, died in hospital on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch the explosive performance that won Camille Schrier the Miss America crown\n\nA Virginian biochemist has been named winner of Miss America 2020 after performing a live science experiment that defied stereotypes of the contest.\n\nCamille Schrier defeated 50 women to take the crown at Thursday's final in Uncasville, Connecticut.\n\nWearing a lab coat, the 24-year-old impressed judges with a chemistry demonstration in the talent show.\n\nIn her acceptance speech, Ms Schrier said she hoped to \"break stereotypes about what it means to be a Miss America in 2020\".\n\nMs Schrier has two undergraduate science degrees and is studying a doctorate in pharmacy at Virginia Commonwealth University.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Miss America Org This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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End of twitter post by The Miss America Org\n\nShe reportedly told the celebrity panel, comprised of Kelly Rowland, Queer Eye's Karamo Brown and Superstore actress Lauren Ash, that \"Miss America is someone who needs to educate\".\n\nIn her role as Miss America, Ms Schrier will spend a year advocating for Mind Your Meds, a drug safety and prevention programme.\n\nMs Schrier's victory is expected to be viewed as another progressive step away from Miss America's traditional beauty contest format.\n\nCamille Schrier defeated 50 women to take the crown at the final in Uncasville, Connecticut\n\nSince 2018 the competition has attempted to re-brand its image, scrapping its swimwear segment and appearance-based judging criteria.\n\nInstead, contenders showcase their talents and are interviewed about their passion, intelligence and understanding of the Miss America role.\n\n\"We will no longer judge our candidates on their outwards, physical appearance. That's huge,\" said former Miss America winner Gretchen Carlson, who announced the reforms in 2018.\n\nOrganisers say the changes have encouraged more young women to participate.\n\nEarlier this year Ms Schrier, a self-confessed \"quirky scientist\", told the BBC she wanted to \"break people's stereotypes\" of those competing for the Miss America title.\n\nShe said her science experiment - the catalytic decomposition of hydrogen peroxide - was a \"big factor\" in her winning Miss Virginia in June this year.\n\nWhile acknowledging there was still \"controversy\" over these types of competitions, Ms Schrier said Miss America has \"re-branded\" and was being more \"progressive\" by focusing more on women's achievements than appearances.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Councillor Saskia Hogbin said she joined the council \"partly to put something back\" into the community\n\nA town councillor has called for rules to be changed to allow parents to claim for the cost of babysitting or childcare while they attend meetings.\n\nAs a town councillor, she cannot apply for a carers allowance payable for the care of children under 14 that is offered by Devon County Council.\n\nThe National Association of Local Councils said it would like to see the law \"reviewed and changed\".\n\nThe national body said it wanted more people from \"all backgrounds\" to stand for election but \"the current law is a barrier\" and has resulted in councillors having to stand down.\n\nThe mother of three told the BBC she had to pay £100 for childcare in order to attend meetings in August, which she had not predicted when she volunteered for the role.\n\n\"My motivation to join the council was because there wasn't any representation of young families,\" Ms Hogbin said.\n\nThe councillor said she agreed a change would encourage more people to get involved in local politics.\n\n\"Although I raised the issue initially because of my personal circumstance, I believe that all councils, whatever level they are, should be a representation of the communities that they serve.\"\n\nCouncillor Hogbin said her colleagues in the council \"are trying to do all that they can\"\n\nThe Ashburton town clerk said the legislation allowing a councillor to claim these allowances only applied at a county and district level.\n\nA Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government spokesman said: \"Allowances paid to elected and unelected council members are decisions for individual councils.\"\n\nThe carers allowance is not applicable to town and parish councillors but other allowances such as \"basic allowance and travelling and subsistence allowance\" would be.\n\nThere were currently no plans to review the legislation governing parish councillor allowances, the government spokesman said.\n\nDevon County Council's carers allowance would also apply to an elderly person or a councillor with a \"recognised physical or mental disability\" who should not be left unsupervised.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The race for 2019's Christmas number one has been won by LadBaby, who is top of the UK's festive chart for the second year in a row.\n\nThe YouTube star, whose real name is Mark Hoyle, beat Stormzy and Wham! to claim the title with his sausage roll-themed cover of I Love Rock 'n' Roll.\n\nThe Official Charts Company said it was the year's fastest-selling download.\n\n\"How have we done this again?\" said Hoyle, whose song is raising money for food bank charity The Trussell Trust.\n\n\"Thank you everybody for supporting us once again, and all for an amazing cause.\"\n\nLadBaby is only the third act in chart history to score consecutive Christmas number one singles. The others were The Beatles and the Spice Girls.\n\nHoyle, from Nottingham, found fame making YouTube videos about his journey from \"lad to dad\" after the birth of his two sons with wife Roxanne.\n\nHis single I Love Sausage Rolls racked up 93,000 chart sales this week - 18,000 more than his Christmas number one last year, We Built This City On Sausage Rolls.\n\nMore than 90% of this year's sales (approximately 85,000) came from digital purchases, making it the fastest-selling download since June 2017's Artists For Grenfell charity single.\n\nThis YouTube post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on YouTube The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. YouTube content may contain adverts. Skip youtube video by LadBaby This article contains content provided by Google YouTube. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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In an era when the charts chiefly measure consumption via streaming services like Spotify and YouTube, it is incredibly hard to break into the top 40 with a charity record, particularly at Christmas.\n\nMore than a dozen attempts were made to scale the chart this year, raising money for causes including The Children's Society and The British Heart Foundation - but only LadBaby reached the top 40.\n\nA Facebook campaign to propel Jarvis Cocker's Running The World into the countdown, organised by people disappointed with the result of last week's general election, also fell short, with the song landing at number 48.\n\nAs the number one was announced on BBC Radio 1, LadBaby livestreamed his reaction on YouTube.\n\nHoyle was overcome with emotion, burying his head in his hands, while his wife screamed and jumped up and down - both wearing sausage roll-themed jumpsuits they'd had printed for the occasion.\n\nAsked by Radio 1's Scott Mills if they planned to make a third attempt on the charts next year, Hoyle replied: \"Who knows? I don't want it to become a joke. It needs to still be funny and it needs to still be right. I don't want people to start boycotting it next year if we go for it.\"\n\nAt the age of 74, Rod Stewart is the oldest male solo artist to have a number one album in the UK\n\nDespite losing the chart race, Stormzy had a stellar week, placing three tracks from his new album Heavy Is The Head in the top 10.\n\nThey included Own It, which ended the week at number two, followed by Audacity at six and Lessons at nine.\n\nBut the Glastonbury headliner missed out on the top spot in the album chart, where he was pipped to the post by Rod Stewart's You're In My Heart.\n\nThe record, which features new orchestral arrangements of hits like Maggie May and Stay With Me, is the star's 10th number one.\n\nWith Stormzy in second place, while Harry Styles' second album, Fine Line, is a new entry at three.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Queen's Speech: Brexit, the NHS and what happened next\n\nBoris Johnson has claimed his programme for government is the \"most radical Queen's Speech in a generation\".\n\nThe prime minister said planned new laws to toughen up criminal justice and increase NHS spending would deliver on the \"people's priorities\".\n\nBut his main priority is the UK's exit from the EU on 31 January.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said many of the PM's promises mimicked the \"language of Labour policy but without the substance\".\n\n\"They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, even when it's a very pale imitation, but I fear those swayed by the prime minister's promises will be sorely disappointed,\" added the Labour leader.\n\nAnd SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford accused the PM of \"denying [Scotland] the right to choose our own future\" referring to the SNP's desire for another referendum on Scottish independence.\n\n\"Why did democracy stop in the prime minister's world with the independence referendum in 2014?\" he asked.\n\nBut Boris Johnson said he felt a \"colossal sense of obligation\" to the voters.\n\nHe told MPs that \"a new golden age for this United Kingdom is now within reach\" adding that the government would \"work flat out to deliver it\".\n\nAddressing Parliament for the second time in less than three months, the Queen said the priority for her government was to deliver Brexit on 31 January, but ministers also had an \"ambitious programme of domestic reform that delivers on the people's priorities\".\n\nOf the more than 30 bills announced in the Queen's Speech, seven were on Brexit.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt comes as the government says it will close its Department for Exiting the European Union on 31 January.\n\nThe seven bills announced that were devoted to Brexit cover legislation on trade, agriculture, fisheries, immigration, financial services and private international law.\n\nThe first to be put to Parliament will be the Withdrawal Agreement Bill - the legislation that enables the UK to leave the EU - on Friday before the Christmas recess.\n\nBoris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn walked to the House of Lords together in silence\n\nFollowing last week's general election, the prime minister has a Commons majority of 80 - the largest enjoyed by a Conservative leader since Margaret Thatcher in 1987.\n\nThe prime minister's increased parliamentary authority and command of his party means it is likely to pass without major changes in the New Year in time to meet the 31 January deadline.\n\nIn another move welcomed by Tory MPs, the bill will also enable more British judges to depart from previous rulings of the EU's top court.\n\nOn the NHS, the government says it will enshrine in law a commitment on the health service's funding, with an extra £33.9bn per year provided by 2023/24.\n\nThe PM's commitment on the NHS amounts to a 3.4% year-on-year increase in expenditure, a significant increase on what the NHS received during the five year Tory-Lib Dem coalition government as well as under his predecessors David Cameron and Theresa May.\n\nBut it is significantly lower than the 6% average annual increases seen under Labour leaders Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. And when adjusted for inflation, and factoring in the increased cost of equipment, medicines and staff pay, it could actually be worth £20.5bn by 2023-4.\n\nLabour's health spokesman Jonathan Ashworth said: \"If the Conservatives' plans to put funding increases into law is to be anything other than an empty gimmick, we would urge them to pledge the extra £6bn a year which experts say is needed to start to make up the cuts they've imposed for a decade.\"\n\nThere was also a commitment announced for ministers to seek cross-party consensus for long-term reform of the social care system and the government will continue work to reform the Mental Health Act.\n\nThis government wants to try to give the appearance that they are completely new, completely different, even though the Conservatives have been in power for nearly a full decade.\n\nThat is quite a political stunt to try to pull off.\n\nBut it's clear also that Boris Johnson came to the Commons today to present a vision that he hopes can straddle left and right, or what has traditionally been seen as Labour's place in politics and the Conservatives' place in politics.\n\nThat is what the results of the general election gave him as an opportunity.\n\nAnd the challenge for Boris Johnson is not just to hold onto that for five years, but show to people who voted Tory for the first time that the party was worth the risk - that their vote was the right decision.\n\nThe test will be enormous - whether or not all that rhetoric actually matches up to the reality of the actions and decisions that this government will make.\n\nMr Johnson has had a reputation for years of being hungry with ambition to get to this place.\n\nWe're going to find out in the next months and years whether he's hungry to take the decisions that actually will cement his place in history.\n\nPlans for longer sentences for violent criminals, were also unveiled, as well as the establishment of a Royal Commission to improve the \"efficiency and effectiveness\" of the criminal justice process and there are bills that will ensure the most serious violent offenders serve longer prison terms.\n\nAnd those charged with knife possession will face \"swift justice\".\n\nOther announcements in the Queen's Speech included:\n\nThursday's State Opening of Parliament was the 66th time the Queen has opened Parliament - and has come only weeks after the last one on 14 October.\n\nThere was less pageantry than usual, as was the case the last time a snap election was held in 2017.\n\nThe Queen travelled by car from Buckingham Palace to Parliament, rather than by horse-drawn carriage, and she did not wear ceremonial dress.\n\nGentlemen at Arms prepare for the Queen's arrival in Parliament\n• None Why do prisoners serve only half their sentence?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIdris Elba has been given citizenship of his father's native Sierra Leone.\n\nThe British film star landed in the capital Freetown on Wednesday for his first visit to the country.\n\nElba told the BBC's Umaru Fofana that citizenship was \"the biggest honour I could get from my country\".\n\n\"I'm no stranger to Africa: I've been in Africa, I've made films in Africa, I've championed Africa,\" he said. \"But Sierra Leone, it's a very different feeling because it's my parent's home.\"\n\n\"The welcome has been incredible, and I've plugged straight into that energy that I think Sierra Leone is rising with.\n\n\"The son of the soil is coming back to fertilise the soil.\"\n\nAs part of that commitment, the Avengers actor said that he wanted to invest in developing tourism, but also spoke about boosting the entertainment industry.\n\n\"America or England cannot house my ambition. Africa can house my ambition, I can create another Disney here [and] I can't do that in America.\"\n\nElba was born in London in September 1972. His late father grew up in Sierra Leone, and his mother is from Ghana.\n\nThe son of the soil is coming back to fertilise the soil\"\n\nThe star, who was named People magazine's \"sexiest man alive\" in 2018, is best known for his work in Marvel films, including the Avengers, as well as for the lead role in Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.\n\nHe also starred in a Netflix movie about child soldiers, Beasts of No Nation, which was filmed in Ghana.\n\nSierra Leone was hit hard by a civil war between 1991 and 2002, and between 2014 and 2016 nearly 4,000 people died in an Ebola outbreak which also damaged the economy.\n\nElba said he wanted to help rejuvenate and \"rebrand\" the country.\n\nHe believes that a Sierra Leonean entertainment industry has the potential to tell its own stories to the rest of the world.\n\n\"There are a lot of bright kids here who are techno-heads, [they're] really really smart. I feel like I could contribute to building a workforce that supports other nations in film and that's part of my journey.\"\n\nThe passport, Elba told the BBC, would allow him to \"come back home as a son of the soil\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The moment Idris Elba proposed to his then-girlfriend (now wife) in London", "Bears are not just for markets where Andrew Bailey is concerned\n\nThe appointment of Andrew Bailey as the 121st Bank of England governor is a safety-first move from the government after its re-election.\n\nThe former deputy governor has long-standing experience at the Bank and takes over at a tumultuous moment in the UK's economic history.\n\nAs the current chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), he is well known internationally for his role in the regulation of the banking system and helping clean up the financial crisis.\n\nMr Bailey's challenge now will be keeping inflation low and maintaining the stability of the banking system, particularly through the Brexit process. Both require co-operation with the government, but on occasion, having to stand up to them.\n\nFocus not on the fact that Chancellor Sajid Javid has a rescue puppy coincidentally called \"Bailey\", but the reality that the new governor once helped his wife Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey fight off a grizzly bear, albeit from a distance.\n\nAccording to the Financial Times, Ms Schonhardt-Bailey, a professor and head of the government department at the London School of Economics, was confronted by the bear in 2007, after it wandered into their home in New Meadows, Idaho.\n\nMr Bailey gave her \"moral telephonic support\" on the line from London, where he was trying to halt the collapse of Northern Rock.\n\nMr Bailey was the \"stand-out candidate\", Mr Javid said when making the announcement, which was confirmed after Prime Minister Boris Johnson made the recommendation to the Queen to appoint Mr Bailey.\n\nThe chancellor said it was one of the most important decisions he would have to make, denying that Brexit views were a consideration in the process. For example, Gerard Lyons, a key ally of Mr Johnson, was overlooked for the post.\n\nMr Bailey has, however, stressed the importance of being a public servant, and while applying Bank of England modelling which assumes the economy could have faced a severe hit from a no-deal Brexit, he has also suggested new options for the UK from greater regulatory freedom outside the European Union.\n\nBut the FCA, the City misconduct watchdog, has also been right at the heart of a number of some recent financial controversies, such as the closure of the Neil Woodford investment funds and the \"mini-bond\" scandal.\n\nThe government was not tempted down the path of creating a more compliant, less independent central bank, as is an emerging pattern elsewhere. It is difficult to see Boris Johnson tweeting abuse at Andrew Bailey for not cutting interest rates, as does now occur in the US.\n\nI asked the chancellor if he would welcome the Bank continuing to make frank and occasionally unflattering assessments of its Brexit plans.\n\nMr Javid said the Bank needed to be completely independent. Indeed, he chose on purpose to host the announcement in the same room where 22 years previously, Gordon Brown had announced the Bank would be responsible for setting interest rates.\n\nAt that time, Mr Bailey was the private secretary to Eddie George, a key official in the \"Ken and Eddie show\" that had decided rates up until then with Chancellor Ken Clarke.\n\nSetting interest rates and avoiding financial crises is now his show, alongside the Bank's expert committees for the next eight years. He will take over in mid-March, as Mark Carney has agreed to extend his tenure by a few weeks.", "Glenda Kenyon owns \"Gwen's house\", one of the main locations on Gavin and Stacey\n\nWhen a letter from a TV company scouting for locations in Barry came through Glenda Kenyon's door in 2006, she thought it was a wind-up.\n\nBut she phoned to check, and after a few visits the company confirmed they would like to film a new BBC comedy in her home - a terraced house, set on a steep street overlooking the Bristol Channel and the hills of Somerset.\n\nGavin and Stacey was about to change Glenda's life, after she had spent several years signed off work with chronic and severe depression.\n\n\"It was a lonely life - I was going through hell with the depression,\" she said.\n\nOriginally from England, she settled in the seaside town in south Wales and worked for 28 years in a factory assembling fruit machines.\n\n\"I used to go to the pub, out for meals, but all that stopped. I never went out; I never had many people to talk to.\"\n\nGlenda says she knew exactly what was occurring when Ruth Jones visited with her niece in April\n\nDuring filming of the first series - which told the story of a couple who fell in love during a whirlwind romance - she was put up in hotels around the Vale of Glamorgan town.\n\nSo she was not sure what to expect when she settled into her sofa in her front room to watch the debut episode.\n\n\"I kept saying, 'That's my house, that's my ornament'. I really got into it and absolutely loved it.\"\n\n\"Gwen's house\", one of the main locations of the show, is really Glenda's house - and as the show became a massive hit, people started to arrive to take photos.\n\n\"I started to talk to people, something I'd not done in a long time,\" she said.\n\n\"I still have ups and downs - but it brought me out of this silence I was in.\"\n\nGlenda leaves out a frying pan so visitors can pretend to cook one of \"Gwen's omelettes\"\n\nThe house is part of an official Gavin and Stacey tour, and 66-year-old Glenda calculates she has welcomed thousands of visitors.\n\nShe no longer has \"Gwen's\" cream sofa because the seats began to collapse - she thinks because so many people sat on it.\n\nThe living room is decorated in Gavin and Stacey memorabilia and photographs of the cast and crew, with thank you cards from guests on the shelves.\n\nGlenda calculates thousands of fans have signed her visitor book\n\nWhile she is not a fan of Gwen's signature omelettes, she leaves a frying pan on the kitchen hob which visitors can use as a prop for pictures.\n\nA stack of visitor books have been signed by people from as far afield as Australia and Hawaii.\n\nGlenda was not expecting to see the show's creators again, but Jones suddenly appeared on her doorstep in April this year, accompanied by her young niece, which the writer and actress has since admitted was a ruse.\n\n\"Ruth said, 'Hope you don't mind if I bring my niece in - can I sign your book? Can I get your phone number?'\"\n\nGlenda's memorabilia includes this photo of her from over 10 years ago on Barry Island with show creators Ruth Jones and James Corden\n\n\"I'd not seen anyone from the show for 10 years. I knew exactly what she was doing, but I never let on,\" added Glenda.\n\n\"Having said that when she was leaving, there was a couple outside who asked me if it was her and I said yes. She smiled, called me a snitch, and got out of the car to have a photo with them.\"\n\nThe cast took over Glenda's street in Barry - where Stacey's mother lives - in the summer\n\nThree months later, on a hot and sunny Friday in July, the crew began to dress the street for Christmas.\n\nIt was quiet to begin with, but the crowds began to build in the afternoon, possibly because residents in the immediate area were given notice of the filming and someone had posted the dates on a local community Facebook group.\n\n\"I don't think they were expecting those crowds,\" said Glenda, who spent the first day of filming in an upstairs bedroom. \"To be honest, I was bored stiff because I had to keep quiet.\"\n\nHowever, she did watch the actors coming and going in the street, and met James Corden, who gave her a hug and showed her pictures of his children \"because he was missing them\".\n\nMost of the rest of the filming she spent in a hotel, and she does not know any details of the storyline. Like everyone else she will find out on Christmas Day.\n\n\"I can't wait. I'm going to be glued to it from 8.30pm.\"\n\nOh! Look who's back: Ruth Jones returned as Nessa\n\nThe Christmas special was completed in the summer, and the tours and visitors have continued.\n\nGlenda said she would be prepared to open up her home again for filming, if required.\n\n\"The visitors are fantastic,\" she said. \"I love it - it has changed my life for the better.\"\n\nMatthew Horne and Joanna Page will be back on Christmas Day as Gavin and Stacey", "After a lengthy search for the next Bank of England governor, the Treasury has gone back to the candidate it first thought of.\n\nAs far back as June, Andrew Bailey was being spoken of as the favourite for the job.\n\nHowever, his time as head of the City watchdog, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), has been marked by a number of high-profile controversies.\n\nThese included the FCA's handling of complaints into the Royal Bank of Scotland's treatment of small businesses in the aftermath of the financial crisis.\n\nThe FCA has also faced criticism in recent months over the demise of the flagship fund of one of the UK's best known money managers, Neil Woodford.\n\nMany thought these issues might have harmed his chances for the top job. But in the meantime, other big names cited as possible candidates for the governorship fell by the wayside and Mr Bailey emerged as the victor.\n\n\"Mr Bailey has played a slow and steady campaign,\" Simon French, chief economist at Panmure Gordon, told the BBC.\n\nMr Bailey, 60, is married with two children. He was born in Leicester and went to Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys.\n\nHe studied at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he gained a BA First Class Honours in history and PhD in economic history.\n\nHe then became a research officer at the London School of Economics, before working at the Bank of England from 1985 to 2016.\n\nHe was chief cashier from January 2004 until April 2011, which meant his signature appeared on billions of UK banknotes.\n\nDuring the financial crisis, he was also responsible for the Bank's special operations to resolve problems in the banking sector. As a result, he was involved with the 2008 government rescue of Royal Bank of Scotland and HBOS.\n\n\"The [RBS] treasurer, John Cummins, came in and I thought he was going to have a heart attack… and he looked at me and said, I need £25bn today, can you do it? I said, 'Yes, I can do that,'\" Mr Bailey said in an interview.\n\nHe then served as the Bank's first deputy governor for prudential regulation from April 2013 to July 2016.\n\nHe is highly thought of by colleagues and civil servants. Mark Carney, the man he will be succeeding as governor, has described his work in helping to manage the financial crisis and then to develop the post-crisis regulatory framework as \"exemplary\".\n\nFormer Permanent Treasury Secretary Lord McPherson described Mr Bailey as the most able and competent Bank of England official he had ever worked with.\n\nLord McPherson added that while Mr Bailey would not make waves for the government, he had the backbone to stand up to it.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHouse of Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has revealed he was diagnosed with diabetes shortly before the general election.\n\nThe 62-year-old MP learned he had the condition, most likely Type 1 diabetes, after losing three stone\n\nSir Lindsay was urged by his family to visit doctors after becoming ill.\n\nHe said the symptoms had been so severe that he was advised to stay in hospital, but he refused to miss the election campaign.\n\nSir Lindsay was elected as Speaker shortly before Parliament was dissolved for the general election, succeeding John Bercow.\n\nHe added: \"I'm on tablets, as well as having to inject insulin, but it doesn't stop me carrying on and nothing is going to be a barrier to me.\n\n\"I'm going to cope with it. I'm going to manage it. I'm going to get through this.\"\n\nSir Lindsay also said: \"The fact is I feel really well. We know what it is - that's the good news - and of course, I have got to get over it and get on with my job.\n\n\"The House of Commons elected me to be the Speaker and there's nothing that's going to stop me from doing that.\"\n\nSir Lindsay cited former Prime Minister Theresa May as inspiration for dealing with the condition. She was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in 2013, when she was home secretary.\n\nType 1 diabetes is a result of the pancreas failing to produce any insulin, which causes deregulated blood sugar levels.\n\nSymptoms can include feeling thirsty, losing weight, blurred vision, tiredness and urinating more often than usual.\n\nSir Lindsay revealed his condition during an interview with filmmaker Rob McLoughlin for the forthcoming documentary series Mr Speaker.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC News Channel, he discussed the decision to reveal his diagnosis in the documentary.\n\nHe said: \"What I wanted to do is show where I'm at and the fact I have to get on with the job I've got. And I'll live with this, I'll manage it and I want to inspire others.\"\n\nSir Lindsay also said it had been \"hard to accept\" and that the initial diagnosis had come as a \"shock to the system\".\n\nHe encouraged viewers to go their doctor if they were concerned about their health and added that he now felt \"great, full of energy and ready to get on with my role.\"\n\nChris Askew, chief executive of Diabetes UK, said: \"Living with type 1 diabetes can be hard, but as Sir Lindsay's experiences have shown, with the right support from your healthcare team - and careful management - people can live full and healthy lives following their diagnosis.\"", "The family of a retired school teacher murdered during a burglary at his house in Crumlin in 2018 have said his killer should spend longer in prison.\n\nMichael Gerard Owens, 35, of Lisburn Road, Glenavy, pleaded guilty to the murder of Robert Flowerday in October and was given a life sentence.\n\nOn Friday at Belfast Crown Court, Owens was jailed for a minimum of 16 years.\n\nSpeaking outside court, Mr Flowerday's brother Alan said: \"Life should mean life.\"\n\nOwens killed Mr Flowerday at his home on Mill Road in Crumlin during a burglary he carried out to help clear a drugs debt.\n\nThe body of 64-year-old Mr Flowerday was found in January 2018.\n\nHis family said they would never be the same again.\n\nSpeaking outside Belfast Crown Court, Alan Flowerday and his sister Pat said: \"No sentence could ever make up for the devastation Owens has done to our family.\"\n\n\"The family have been devastated by Robert's murder and our hearts ripped apart,\" added Alan.\n\n\"Today, after almost two years, we hear the judge committing this brutal murderer to a life imprisonment with a tariff of 16-and-a-half years.\n\n\"This is not justice for taking our brother's life so cruelty. Life should mean life.\n\n\"Robert's house - which was once the happy, warm, welcoming family home - is now a cold, desolate shell that presents constant reminder of the heinous crime, the tragedy, the cruelty and the torture and pain.\"\n\nThe body of Mr Flowerday was found in his home in January 2018.\n\nA hammer, hatchet and poker were used in the murder.\n\nOwens had initially denied the murder, but later pleaded guilty.\n\nMr Flowerday, who lived alone, was still involved in tutoring after he left his job at Antrim Grammar School.\n\nThe alarm was raised on 28 January 2018 after he failed to turn up for a tutoring session, something that was very out of character.\n\nThe parents of his pupil went to Mr Flowerday's home to find an \"unknown male\" inside.\n\nThey knocked the door but no-one answered and the lights were turned out.\n\nPolice then gained access to the property and found his body sitting on an armchair, covered in a duvet and one cushion.\n\nThe court was told Owens had owed money because of his cocaine addiction.\n\nThe judge said his \"attempt to steal money escalated into a violent assault\" and Mr Flowerday had suffered a \"vicious and prolonged attack in his own home\".\n\nA post-mortem examination found Mr Flowerday had 18 lacerations to his scalp, face and neck and 20 bruises on his hands, arms, legs and torso.\n\nHis nose and jaw were also broken.\n\nThe judge said Mr Flowerday had led a \"worthy and blameless\" life.\n\nOwens also admitted one charge of burgling Mr Flowerday's home on an unknown date between 27 January and 30 January 2018.\n\nHe was sentenced Owens to a minimum of 16 years and six months for the murder, and two years for burglary, to be served concurrently.", "At Thursday's US Democratic debate, presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren criticised rival Pete Buttigieg for how he funds his campaign.\n\nShe said that Mr Buttigieg held a fundraiser in a wine cave where $900 (£690) bottles of wine were served.\n\nSeven candidates took part in the debate, as they seek the nomination to take on President Donald Trump in the November 2020 election.", "Last updated on .From the section Arsenal\n\nArsenal have appointed their former captain Mikel Arteta as head coach on a three-and-a-half-year deal.\n\nThe 37-year-old won the FA Cup twice in a five-year career with the Gunners and succeeds fellow Spaniard Unai Emery, who was sacked in November.\n\nArteta had been working as a coach under Pep Guardiola at Manchester City, joining the club in 2016 after retiring as a player.\n\n\"We need to be competing for the top trophies in the game,\" Arteta said.\n\n\"That's been made very clear to me in my discussions with [owners] Stan and Josh Kroenke and the senior people from the club.\"\n• None 'A move Arteta has prepared all his life for' - Balague analysis\n• None 'This is a good decision' - Emery backs Arteta as Gunners successor\n\nHe will take over as Gunners boss on Sunday, leaving Freddie Ljungberg in interim charge for the trip to Everton - another of Arteta's former clubs - on Saturday (12:30 GMT kick-off).\n\nArsenal are 10th in the Premier League with 22 points, seven points adrift of fourth-placed Chelsea and a potential Champions League qualifying place.\n\n\"We all know there is a lot of work to be done to achieve that but I am confident we'll do it,\" added Arteta.\n\n\"I'm realistic enough to know it won't happen overnight, but the current squad has plenty of talent and there is a great pipeline of young players coming through from the academy.\"\n\nArsenal's head of football Raul Sanllehi said the Premier League club met \"several top-class candidates\" before choosing Arteta as Emery's replacement.\n\n\"Mikel stood out to every single one of us as the perfect person for us,\" he said.\n\nArteta's coaching team has not yet been announced.\n\nLjungberg has won once in five matches since being appointed on a caretaker basis on 29 November, and the Swede called for some clarity on the situation after Sunday's 3-0 home defeat by champions Manchester City.\n\nThe Gunners have now gone six games without a win at Emirates Stadium, their longest run without a home victory since 1995. Arsenal are seven points behind fourth-placed Chelsea, after five victories in 17 matches this season.\n\nFormer midfielder Arteta, who made 150 appearances for the Gunners between 2011 and 2016 and captained the side, was linked with replacing Arsene Wenger at the Emirates in 2018 before the club appointed Emery.\n\nBefore joining Arsenal, Arteta spent six years at Everton, making 209 appearances. The Toffees are without a permanent manager since Marco Silva was dismissed on 6 December and also showed interest in the Spaniard.\n\nEarlier in his career, Arteta spent two years at Scottish Premiership side Rangers before joining Real Sociedad in 2004.", "Shadow Treasury minister Clive Lewis has become the second MP to officially enter the race to replace Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader.\n\nIn an article for the Guardian, he said he feared \"necessary truths may go unspoken\" if he didn't put himself forward.\n\nShadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry is also standing, and others are expected to join the contest.\n\nMr Corbyn will stand down \"early next year\" after Labour's election defeat.\n\nOthers who have said they are considering a pitch for the leadership include Sir Keir Starmer, Yvette Cooper and Lisa Nandy.\n\nShadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey, thought to be the favoured candidate of the current party leadership, has yet to say whether she will stand.\n\nIt comes as Laura Parker, the most senior staff member in the Momentum group which backed Mr Corbyn's leadership bid, said she is stepping down.\n\nIn an email to members, she said she would not be leaving the group but wanted to spend more time with her family.\n\nIn the article announcing his candidacy, Mr Lewis praised Labour's outgoing leader for \"inspiring a new generation of members\".\n\nBut he said \"indecisiveness\" on the issue of Brexit and \"disconnected policies\" were behind the party's poor election performance, its worst since 1935.\n\nHe added that Labour was \"never democratised on the scale\" that members expected after Mr Corbyn won the leadership in 2015.\n\nThe party, he wrote, needs an \"army of activists\" who have a \"serious democratic stake in the movement\".\n\n\"I don't want to manage the labour movement, I want to unleash it,\" he added.\n\nHe distanced himself from the Blair and Brown years, saying that the party often had \"the legacy of the 2000s thrown back in our faces\".\n\nMs Thornberry became the first official Labour leadership candidate\n\nAn early supporter of Jeremy Corbyn, Mr Lewis became a shadow energy minister shortly after Mr Corbyn became party leader.\n\nHe has been an MP since 2015, after taking the previously Liberal Democrat-held seat of Norwich South.\n\nHe rejoined Labour's frontbench in January last year, having resigned in February 2017 in order to oppose the bill triggering the Brexit process.\n\nAt the time, he said he could not in \"all good conscience, vote for something I believe will ultimately harm the city I have the honour to represent\".", "Three years late and £100m over budget. The deal to build two new CalMac ferries for Arran and the Hebrides has run into serious trouble.\n\nBack in 2015, the £97m order was seen as a lifeline for Ferguson shipyard in Port Glasgow - the last commercial yard on the Clyde which had been rescued by industrialist Jim McColl the previous year.\n\nThat contract ended up dragging the yard back into administration. The yard has been nationalised and the final cost of building the ferries will be at least double the original estimate.\n\nSo what's gone wrong? You'll get very different answers to that question, depending on who you're talking to.\n\nFinance Secretary Derek Mackay visited the shipyard after the Scottish government stepped in\n\nMinisters have published email correspondence and a report by marine engineer Tim Hair - the \"turnaround manager\" appointed after they took the shipyard into public ownership.\n\nHe blames an \"immature design\" along with poor project management and cost controls. Here are some of the key points.\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon joined Jim McColl and the Ferguson workforce for the slipway launch of Glen Sannox in 2017\n\nA self-made billionaire who transformed the ailing Clyde Blowers into a successful portfolio of engineering investment companies, Jim McColl claimed he was \"begged\" to step in and rescue the Ferguson shipyard when it went bust in 2014.\n\nOne of the most prominent business figures to support Scottish independence ahead of the referendum of that year, he enjoyed a close relationship with the Scottish government, sitting on its council of economic advisers.\n\nBut the ferry problems have strained that relationship, with Mr McColl laying the blame at the door of Caledonian Marine Assets Ltd (CMAL) the Scottish government-owned company that owns the ferries used by CalMac.\n\nCaledonian Marine Assets Ltd is the Scottish government-owned body that owns the ships and other infrastructure used by the state-owned ferry operator CalMac. CMAL - the customer in the ferry deal - emphatically rejects Jim McColl's versions of events.\n• None Call to 'scrap CalMac ferries and start again'", "Funerals have taken place for two people killed in November's attack on London Bridge.\n\nJack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, were at a prisoner rehabilitation event when Usman Khan stabbed them in Fishmongers' Hall. He hurt three others before being shot dead by police.\n\nServices were held for Mr Merritt at Great St Mary's Church in Cambridge and for Miss Jones at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Stratford-upon-Avon.\n\nThe pair were both graduates from the University of Cambridge.", "None of the original members of the breakaway group remains an MP\n\nThe Independent Group for Change is being disbanded after failing to win any seats at the general election, leader Anna Soubry has said.\n\nThe party was founded last March by Labour and Tory MPs unhappy with the direction their parties were going in.\n\nThe 11 MPs aimed to create a new centre ground force in politics.\n\nBut some left to join the Lib Dems, quit politics or run as independents, and the remaining three lost to candidates from their former parties.\n\nEight Labour MPs left the party to form the breakaway group, citing Labour's Brexit policy and record on tackling anti-Semitism.\n\nThey were later joined by three Remain-supporting Conservative MPs, Anna Soubry, Sarah Wollaston and Heidi Allen.\n\nDr Wollaston later joined the Lib Dems - and lost her seat to a Tory candidate last Thursday - and Ms Allen did not stand for re-election.\n\nFormer Labour MPs Chuka Umunna and Luciana Berger stood as Liberal Democrat candidates but were also defeated in last Thursday's election.\n\nIndependent Group for Change leader Ms Soubry came a distant third in Broxtowe, which was won by the Conservative candidate.\n\nFormer Labour MPs Chris Leslie and Mike Gapes, who stood as Independent Group for Change candidates, also lost their seats.\n\nGavin Shuker, who quit Labour to join Change UK before deciding to run as an independent in the Luton South poll, also failed to be elected.\n\nEarlier on Thursday, the group, which was briefly known as Change UK, tweeted: \"We came together & took a stand when others wouldn't.\n\n\"It was right to shine a spotlight on Britain's broken politics. But having taken stock and with no voice now in Parliament, we begin the process of winding up our party. Thanks to all who stood with us.\"\n\nIn a statement to members, Ms Soubry said the party's failure to make an impact at May's European elections, and the subsequent defection or retirement of most of its MPs, made it \"harder for us to cut through as a distinctive political force in our own right\".\n\nBut, she added, \"we nevertheless believed it was important for us to have the courage of our convictions and to stand in the general election so that our constituents would have a full choice\".\n\n\"Whilst there is clearly a need for massive change in British politics,\" Ms Soubry went on, \"now that we no longer have voices within Parliament, a longer-term realignment will have to take place in a different way.\n\n\"Honesty and realism are at the core of our values, and we therefore must recognise that the political uncertainty of recent months has now given way to a settled pattern in Parliament for the next five years. So this is the right time for us to take stock.\"\n• None The party that didn't quite change UK politics", "Labour has announced plans to slash rail fares by 33% and simplify ticket prices for part-time workers if it wins the election on 12 December.\n\nThe party also wants to make train travel free for young people under the age of 16 and build a central online booking portal with no booking fees.\n\nThe proposal is part of broader plans by the party to nationalise the UK's train system.\n\nConservative Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said the plan was \"desperate\".\n\nThe Conservatives and Liberal Democrats have also pledged to improve transport.\n\nLabour said privatisation had \"created one of the most expensive ticketing systems in the world\", which discriminated against part-time workers, discouraged rail travel and excluded the young and low-paid.\n\nAndy McDonald, Labour's shadow transport secretary, told the BBC's Today programme: \"[Our pledge] is much overdue given that passengers have had to suffer rises amounting to about 40% since 2010.\n\n\"And if we really want to make the shifts that we need to get people from cars into public transport this is a major contribution to it, because obviously that's critical to addressing the climate change crisis.\"\n\nLabour's manifesto contained a pledge to make rail travel cheaper but no details about what that would entail.\n\nThe party said the proposal to slash fares by a third would cost £1.5bn per year and be covered by Vehicle Excise Duty - money the Conservatives have earmarked for roads.\n\nMore generally, Labour says nationalisation - which it plans to achieve within five years of coming to power - will allow fares to be capped and improve the reliability of services.\n\nThe Conservatives' Mr Shapps said: \"This is another desperate attempt from Labour to distract from their inability and unwillingness to be straight with people on where they stand on Brexit, and the fact they would raise taxes on low and middle-income workers across the country.\n\n\"You simply cannot trust [Jeremy] Corbyn to deliver what he claims. His ideological plans would wreck our economy, cost people their livelihoods and with the help of Nicola Sturgeon, would waste the whole of next year on two more chaotic referendums.\"\n\nIn keeping with their proposals to nationalise the railways, Labour's plans to significantly cut fares would see a reverse in the direction of travel for policies on train fares since privatisation.\n\nSince 1995, successive governments have tried to move the day-to-day cost of running the railways onto fare-payers and away from the taxpayer. At that time, it used to be split 50/50 - now it's more like 75% on the shoulders of the passenger.\n\nThe argument goes that by raising fares in line with the Retail Prices Index inflation figure each year, government spending on the railways can be reserved for investment in infrastructure.\n\nAnnounced just two days after the average train fare rise of 2.7% was published, and coinciding with major industrial action on several lines in the run-up to Christmas, Labour's proposal for a significant cut to fares could prove popular with commuters.\n\nThe future of ticketing and rail fares is just one of the issues being looked at by a major review into the UK's railways due to report after the election.\n\nIt is led by Keith Williams, the former boss of British Airways, who is particularly interested in how innovation in aviation fares and ticketing could be applied to the railways.\n\nMeanwhile, the Liberal Democrats have pledged to freeze peak-time and season ticket train fares for the next five years and cancel the 2.7% rise in rail tickets from 2 January 2020. They also plan to complete the HS2 high-speed rail link.\n\nAnd the Conservatives are pledging to improve transport links as part of a £3.6m Towns Fund.\n\nThey have also promised to give more funding to local combined authorities to improve bus and train services and put £500m into reversing cuts to the railway network made in the 1960s.\n\nThe Brexit Party's flagship transport policy is scrapping the HS2 rail project - a goal it shares with the Green Party.\n\nRegulated fares include season tickets for most commuter journeys, as well as saver returns, standard returns and off-peak fares between major cities. They make up about 45% of all fares.\n\nThe average change in these figures is capped at July's Retail Prices Index (RPI) measure. They are due to rise 2.8% in January.\n\nAcross England, Wales and Scotland regulated fares raised about £3.3bn for the rail operators, according to the Office of Rail and Road.\n\nLabour says they will pay for this by ring-fencing income from Vehicle Excise Duty, which the Conservatives plan to allocate to a special road-building fund from 2020-21 onwards.\n\nSo, an interesting question will be which road projects will be defunded to pay for this pledge.", "Fashion retailer Ted Baker has said it may have overstated the value of its stock by between £20m and £25m.\n\nLaw firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is to carry out a review, and independent accountants will also be appointed to investigate.\n\nShares in Ted Baker fell to a 10-year low as analysts described the news as \"less than ideal\" and a \"blunder\".\n\nThis year, former boss Ray Kelvin stepped down over misconduct claims, while sales and profits have tumbled.\n\nIn the latest setback, Ted Baker said it may have accounted for up to £25m of stock, mainly clothing, on its balance sheet that did not exist.\n\nThe company said in a statement: \"Ted Baker is committed to ensuring the independent review is completed in an efficient and transparent manner and will update the market as appropriate. Whilst the review is ongoing, the company will not comment further.\"\n\nTed Baker added, however, that it did not expect any cash impact from the overstatement of inventory.\n\nThe problems are the latest setback in a difficult year for the firm.\n\nIn March, Mr Kelvin - who had been chief executive since the company's launch in 1988 - resigned over claims he presided over a culture of \"forced hugging\". He has denied all allegations of misconduct.\n\nThe company has also seen its sales, profits and share price tumble. In October, the retailer reported a £23m loss for the six months to 10 August, down from a £24.5m profit last year.\n\nFor years Ted Baker bucked the trend with growing sales and profits, a business which knew its customers and pitched its products at the right price. But it's had a turbulent 2019.\n\nRay Kelvin turned the business from a single store in Glasgow into a global brand. He was one of the UK's most successful retailers. In many ways Ray Kelvin was Ted Baker.\n\nHis departure was bound to have some impact on the brand, especially when it came to innovation and quirkiness.\n\nBut some wonder whether its troubles point to far deeper issues within the business. For instance, has Ted Baker become too expensive in a very competitive market where rivals are discounting like mad. This blunder is the last thing it needs.\n\nNews of the inventory problems come just weeks after the company appointed Rachel Osborne as its new finance head.\n\nThe issue was also mentioned in Ted Baker's last annual report based on information from its auditors, KPMG.\n\nThe accounting giant said it had uncovered mis-statements but concluded they were too small to affect the fashion label's accounts.\n\nRetail analysts at Liberum said: \"Today's latest news from Ted Baker, regarding the overstatement of last year's inventory value, is less than ideal.\"\n\nAJ Bell's investment director Russ Mould said it appeared that \"Ted Baker has found another banana to slip up on\".\n\n\"Discovering that the value of inventory on its balance sheet has been overstated is a huge blunder on its behalf,\" he said.\n\n\"It suggests that the business hasn't got a grip on its numbers which is a bit worrying considering that new chief executive Lindsay Page used to be the finance director.\n\n\"Appointing a law firm and the intention to bring in independent accountants will raise questions about whether more serious problems are bubbling under the surface at the business.\"\n\nThe company is due to publish its latest trading next week.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Virginia Giuffre and Prince Andrew have very different accounts of what happened in March 2001 - so how do they differ?\n\nFive women who accuse Jeffrey Epstein of abusing them say Prince Andrew witnessed how people were given massages at the sex offender's homes.\n\nThe lawyer for the women has told BBC Panorama he plans to serve subpoenas to force the Duke of York to testify as a witness in all five cases.\n\nHe says the prince could have important information about sex trafficking.\n\nThe prince says he did not witness or suspect any suspicious behaviour during visits to Epstein's homes.\n\nEpstein took his own life in a jail cell in August, aged 66, while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.\n\nThe lawyer for victims of the US financier, David Boies, said: \"One of the things that we have tried is to interview Prince Andrew and to try to get what his explanation is. He was a frequent visitor. They ought to submit to an interview. They ought to talk about it.\"\n\nThe subpoenas - court summonses to give testimony - have been prepared for all five cases and would have to be signed off by a judge once the prince was on US soil.\n\nHe would then be able to challenge the subpoena in court if he did not want to give evidence.\n\nAnother lawyer, Spencer Kuvin, who questioned Epstein a decade ago and now represents several of his unnamed alleged victims, made a personal plea for Prince Andrew to give a sworn testimony.\n\n\"Be a man, stand up for what you believe and what you're saying is the truth and come forward,\" said Mr Kuvin on BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nMr Kuvin said he is not planning to serve a subpoena but added: \"If he truly wants to help these victims, then step forward.\"\n\nPanorama also uncovered new information about the infamous photo of Prince Andrew with his arm around 17-year-old Virginia Giuffre - then called Virginia Roberts.\n\nShe said that she, the prince, Epstein and his then girlfriend, the socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, went to Tramp nightclub in London.\n\nMs Giuffre said that in the car on the way back \"Ghislaine tells me that I have to do for Andrew what I do for Jeffrey and that just made me sick\".\n\nWhen they got back to the house, she said she asked Epstein to take a picture of her to show her family. She then carried out the instructions to entertain the prince.\n\n\"Well there was a bath and it started there and then it led into the bedroom and it didn't last very long, the whole entire procedure.\n\n\"It was disgusting. He wasn't mean or anything, but he got up and he said thanks and walked out.\"\n\nPrince Andrew emphatically denies any form of sexual contact or relationship with Virginia Giuffre and says any claim to the contrary is false and without foundation.\n\nHe said he has no recollection of ever meeting her.\n\nOn Tuesday, lawyer Lisa Bloom - who represents five other Epstein accusers - told ITV's This Morning that she has a witness who says she was at Tramp nightclub on the night when the alleged incident happened, and \"saw Prince Andrew with Virginia\".\n\n\"She remembers it vividly because she was told 'this is a member of the Royal Family',\" said Ms Bloom. \"That was a very big thing to her, she was shocked and she saw Virginia there with him and so I'm going to take her to the FBI.\"\n\nVirginia Giuffre describes how she asked Jeffrey Epstein to take this picture of her with Andrew\n\nThe photo of them together was first published in 2011 after the Mail on Sunday tracked down Ms Giuffre and paid her $160,000 for her story.\n\nThis year palace sources started suggesting the photo was a fake - but Prince Andrew stopped just short of that in his interview with BBC Newsnight.\n\nHe said: \"You can't prove whether or not that photograph is faked because it's a photograph of a photograph of a photograph.\"\n\n\"It's very difficult to be able to prove it but I don't remember that photograph being taken. That's me but whether that's my hand… I have simply no recollection of the photograph ever being taken.\"\n\nThe prince also said he thought he had never been upstairs in his friend Ghislaine Maxwell's house, where the photo appears to have been taken.\n\nBut Ms Giuffre told Panorama the photo is genuine and she gave the original to the FBI in 2011.\n\n\"I think the world is getting sick of these ridiculous excuses. It's a real photo,\" she said. \"I've given it to the FBI for their investigation and it's an authentic photo. There's a date on the back of it from when it was printed.\"\n\nShe said the date on the back of the photo is 13 March 2001 - two days after she left London on her trip with Epstein and Ms Maxwell.\n\nPanorama also spoke to the freelance photographer Michael Thomas who first copied the picture in 2011.\n\nHe is convinced the picture is genuine because he found it in the middle of a bundle of photos that Ms Giuffre handed him from her travels with Epstein and Ms Maxwell.\n\nHe said: \"It was nothing sophisticated. These were 5x7 photos that looked like they had come from Boots the chemist. They were typical teenage snaps.\"\n\nThe programme also found evidence that supports Ms Giuffre's claim that she gave the original to the FBI.\n\nA redacted court document shows she gave 20 photos to the FBI in 2011 and they were scanned front and back.\n\nBut there are only 19 photos shown in the public version.\n\nPanorama has been told the Prince Andrew photo was removed from the public document to protect his privacy.\n\nThe news that five women say that Prince Andrew witnessed Epstein and his guests receiving massages and have prepared subpoenas should he travel to the US is bad for the prince on several fronts.\n\nHe says he had at no time seen, witnessed or suspected suspicious behaviour at Epstein residences. This flatly contradicts that.\n\nThe existence of subpoenas - court-backed demands for sworn testimony - makes any visit to the US by the prince vanishingly unlikely. It's pretty extraordinary: the Queen's second son is now effectively unable to travel to the US, unless he fancies being forced to give a deposition.\n\nThe subpoenas can be challenged, but it would be a huge risk getting embroiled in the US legal system.\n\nThis news, and the rest of the programme, with a powerful interview by Virginia Giuffre, puts Prince Andrew, his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, and his denials, back into the spotlight. The controversy refuses to go away; instead, it grows.\n\nAnother Epstein victim, Sarah Ransome told Panorama Ghislaine Maxwell, one of Prince Andrew's oldest friends, worked hand in hand with Epstein.\n\n\"Ghislaine controlled the girls. She was like the Madam,\" she said.\n\n\"She was like the nuts and bolts of the sex trafficking operation and she would always visit Jeffrey on the island to make sure the girls were doing what they were supposed to be doing.\n\n\"She knew what Jeffrey liked. She worked and helped maintain Jeffrey's standard by intimidation, by intimidating the girls, so this was very much a joint effort.\"\n\nMs Maxwell could not be reached for comment but has previously denied any involvement in or knowledge of Epstein's abuse.\n\nAllegations of sex abuse against her were first made public in court documents in 2009, but Prince Andrew has maintained the friendship.\n\nPanorama uncovered an email from 2015 which suggests he even asked for Ms Maxwell's help in dealing with Virginia Giuffre's claims. She was known at the time by her maiden name Virginia Roberts.\n\nIn the email the prince told Ms Maxwell: \"Let me know when we can talk. Got some specific questions to ask you about Virginia Roberts.\"\n\nShe replied: \"Have some info. Call me when you have a moment.\"\n\nPrince Andrew declined to answer Panorama's detailed questions but he said in a statement that he deplores the exploitation of any human being and would not condone, participate in or encourage any such behaviour.\n\n\"The Duke of York unequivocally regrets his ill-judged association with Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein's suicide left many unanswered questions, particularly for his victims. The duke deeply sympathises with those affected who want some form of closure.\n\n\"It is his hope that, in time, they will be able to rebuild their lives. The duke is willing to help any appropriate law enforcement agency with their investigations, if required.\"", "Angelene Perry's children donned blankets and woolly hats as the family struggled to stay warm\n\nThousands of homes could be without heating for \"several days\" after a gas main failure in central Scotland.\n\nGas infrastructure company SGN said about 8,000 properties in the Falkirk area had been left without supplies,\n\nSGN engineers were working to fix equipment that regulates gas pressure but warned each property would have to be visited.\n\nElectric heaters and cookers were being offered to elderly or sick customers, and those with young children.\n\nTemperatures in the Falkirk area were barely above freezing for much of Sunday and were forecast to fall to minus 2C overnight.\n\nFalkirk Council said schools may have to close on Monday and it would be working with SGN to care for vulnerable people affected.\n\nSGN said it had a large team of engineers working to fix the problem\n\nSGN said homes in Bainsford, Carron, Carronshore, Larbert, Langlees, New Carron Village, Skinflats and Stenhousemuir were affected by a faulty \"gas governor\" which regulates pressure in the network.\n\nIn its latest update it said it would need to visit every property to turn off the gas supply at the meter.\n\n\"With so many homes affected, it's likely you could be without your gas supply for several days,\" it added.\n\n\"We're sorry for the inconvenience this will cause. We're doing all we can to restore gas supplies to the area as soon as possible. \"\n\nA customer information centre at the Camelon Community Centre in Falkirk will be stocked with portable cooking and heating appliances for elderly, disabled and chronically sick customers, as well as those with young children or other special needs.\n\nCustomers can request the appliances by calling 0800 9121717.\n\nOne customer, Angelene Perry, who has four young children including a baby, said the family woke on Sunday morning to find the boiler off and displaying an error message.\n\nGas customers woke to find error messages on their boilers\n\nShe said: \"It's really cold in the house and we're all huddled in the living room where we've got a small heater. I've dressed the baby in plenty of clothes and a hat.\n\n\"I spoke to the gas company and was told a valve had been broken by the cold but they didn't know how long it would take to fix it.\n\n\"I think we're going to have to leave here and go to my sister's as we don't have any hot water or anything.\"\n\nFalkirk Council said it had alerted housing and social work services to be on standby to support SGN and was contacting head teachers to let parents know if schools would be affected.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We have a list of vulnerable people in the area so we know were people who may have the most difficulty are.\"\n\nHe said schools could potentially close if the buildings are very cold, though all care homes in affected areas are currently fine.\n\n\"We are ready to support SGN in any way we can,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An icebreaker (red) escorts Russian cargo ships on the Northern Sea Route\n\nNatural riches come in two conflicting types in Russia's Arctic north: valuable minerals and spectacular wildlife.\n\nBut sadly for many threatened species, the decline in Arctic sea ice has created a new economic opportunity for Russia in their remote habitat.\n\nIn a decree last year President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian firms to boost cargo traffic on the Northern Sea Route to an annual 80m tonnes by 2024.\n\nAmbitious energy co-operation deals were signed with India in Vladivostok, in Russia's far east, in October.\n\nOne centres on a big open-cast coal mining project in the Taymyr Peninsula, in the far north of central Siberia.\n\nThe area is rich in high-quality coking coal (anthracite), used to make steel and aluminium.\n\nDharmendra Pradhan, India's Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas, said: \"We are the second largest coal importer in the world, and we intend to achieve production of 3m tonnes of steel per year by 2030, so we need to increase coal supplies.\"\n\nThe Taymyr coal mining is open-cast, like at this mine in Yakutia, eastern Russia\n\nBut Taymyr is a haven for wildlife. It has Russia's largest nature reserve - Bolshoi Arkticheskiy - covering 4.2m hectares (16,200 sq miles).\n\nOn TV President Putin presents himself as a caring conservationist, famously relaxing in Siberia's unspoilt wilderness.\n\nBut he is also championing the expansion of fossil fuel projects in that wilderness.\n\nRussia is boosting trade with China, India and other growing Asian markets hungry for raw materials. Coal is to contribute to meeting that 80m-tonne target for Arctic deliveries, which will go via Russia's far east.\n\nDespite global warming, icebreakers still play a key role, as winter temperatures plunge below minus 20C. Remote settlements lack equipment to deal with any pollution emergency. And long voyages to India will mean more greenhouse gas emissions from shipping.\n\nThe Arctic is estimated to have 72% of Russia's total gas reserves. Oil and gas mega-projects are far advanced further west, notably on the Yamal Peninsula.\n\nThe snowy owl (L) and red-breasted goose: many bird species flock to Taymyr\n\nIn Taymyr the coastal tundra - marshland with permanently frozen subsoil - is a nesting ground for migratory birds, which fly there for the brief Arctic summer.\n\nPolar bears sometimes come ashore on Taymyr while, inland, vast reindeer herds roam and snowy owls hunt lemmings.\n\nAlong with the pollution threat, reindeer are now seriously threatened by poaching, says Alexey Knizhnikov, a conservationist at WWF Russia.\n\n\"Developing new projects in such an ecologically sensitive area is madness, in our view,\" he told the BBC.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Human-polar bear confrontations are becoming ever more common due to the effects of climate change\n\nThere is already pollution with heavy metals and sulphur dioxide (SO2) around the city of Norilsk, from the Norilsk Nickel ore smelter.\n\nA Greenpeace study published in August said: \"In terms of individual hotspots, the Norilsk smelter complex continues to be the largest SO2 emission hotspot in the world.\"\n\nIt also found India to be the world's top SO2 emitter.\n\nNow a bay just south of Dikson - a tiny weather-beaten port and one of the world's remotest settlements - is a new, ecological danger zone.\n\nAn anthracite coalfield lies at Medusa Bay, part of the Bolshoi Arkticheskiy nature reserve.\n\nThe bay attracts big flocks of birds, including six rare or endangered species: the small swan, peregrine falcon, gyrfalcon, white-headed loon, white-tailed eagle and red-breasted goose.\n\nBolshoi Arkticheskiy nature reserve in Taymyr: a wilderness now at risk from mining\n\nThe open-cast coal company, Vostokugol, is embroiled in a legal battle with the state environmental monitoring agency, Rosprirodnadzor, over mining violations.\n\nVostokugol is appealing against a ruling that it abused the licensing system: a Moscow court found it had mined and exported coal from Medusa Bay, yet only had permits for prospecting. It was fined 601m roubles (£7.3m; $9.4m).\n\nThe company has a joint production deal with Coal India Limited, an industrial giant.\n\nMeanwhile, Greenpeace urged Russia's chief prosecutor in August to intervene, after the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources more than halved the size of a buffer zone protecting Medusa Bay nature reserve.\n\nThe zone - where mining and related construction are banned - was reduced to 1,150 hectares (2,842 acres), from 3,020 ha.\n\nThat government move in July came despite a 2016 plea from the ministry itself and the Taymyr nature reserve authority to site a planned new coal terminal well away from the reserve.\n\nIn line with Mr Putin's Arctic ambitions, Vostokugol is developing - albeit slowly - the Medusa Bay coalfield and two coal terminals for loading on to ships.\n\nGreenpeace says the Chaika terminal is just 1km (0.6 miles) from the nature reserve. \"At that distance, when coal is loaded at the terminal, coal dust will pour down on the nature reserve,\" says the Greenpeace legal complaint against the natural resources ministry.\n\nVostokugol plans to export 20m tonnes of coal from there by 2024. Another firm, Severnaya Zvezda, also has licences to mine coal in Taymyr.\n\nVostokugol's shiny new office block in Dikson contrasts with old buildings nearby\n\nVostokugol started mining and building infrastructure at Medusa Bay in 2016, but later suspended operations. The company did not respond to the BBC's questions.\n\nJust 2km from the open-cast coal mine stands an international bird monitoring centre - the Willem Barents Biological Station. It was set up with Dutch government funding in 1994.\n\nDr Sergey Kharitonov, a biologist, was there last year. Coal dust from the mine had already reached as far as Dikson, he told the BBC.\n\n\"The bird populations are in danger, I'm worried about their future,\" he said. \"The place has lots of coal, and it's apparently easy and profitable to mine it.\"\n\nWWF's Alexey Knizhnikov said \"there is little transparency in this project - there is a lack of regulation and they didn't do any public consultations\".\n\nMore than 500,000 reindeer migrate across Taymyr\n\nStrategic priorities however are driving this mining and energy extraction in the polar wilderness.\n\nRussia is the world's third-largest coal exporter (210m tonnes in 2018), after Indonesia (439mt) and Australia (382mt), the World Coal Association reports.\n\nPayakha oilfield in Taymyr is another new industrial project\n\nIndia has become increasingly dependent on imported coking coal for metallurgy, says Rohit Chandra, a coal expert at Delhi's Centre for Policy Research.\n\nIndia and Russia signed an energy co-operation agreement in Vladivostok in September\n\nRussia aims to boost its coal exports to India six-fold by 2025, to 28m tonnes annually.\n\nMr Chandra told the BBC such a volume was \"realistic - it's not massive by international standards\". China consumes vastly more coking coal than that every year.\n\nA steel furnace fuelled by coal in Jharkhand, a mineral-rich area in northeastern India\n\nHe noted that even back in the 1970s the then-communist Russian state had been helping India to industrialise.\n\n\"India's co-operation with Russia is deeper than with other coal-exporting countries,\" he said. \"It's a reliable partner, and there are lots of other commercial deals [with Russia].\"\n\nMoreover, he said, \"renewable energy is not replacing traditional power sources any time soon in India\".", "An American academic has spoken of the moment the convicted terrorist, Usman Khan, launched an attack during a conference near London Bridge on Friday.\n\nJack Merritt and Saskia Jones were stabbed to death and three others were wounded.\n\nBryonn Bain, a professor at UCLA, was running a workshop about prisoner rehabilitation at the Fishmonger's Hall.", "Volkswagen \"cheated\" European emissions rules designed \"to save lives\" by installing unlawful \"defeat devices\" in diesel cars, the High Court has heard.\n\nTens of thousands of UK motorists who bought VW, Audi, Seat and Skoda diesel cars are taking legal action in the aftermath of the \"dieselgate\" scandal.\n\nThe claimants' QC Tom de la Mare said: \"It is difficult to think of a more obvious cheat than the one VW used.\"\n\nVolkswagen has said it will \"defend robustly its position\".\n\nIn 2015, VW admitted 11 million cars worldwide - including 1.2 million in the UK - had software that reduced readings of emissions in tests. However, the UK hearing, expected to last two weeks, centres on whether that software constitutes a \"defeat device\" under EU regulations.\n\nIn his opening remarks, Mr de la Mare told the court that VW engines were \"optimised to minimise the amount of pollutants\" in emissions tests, meaning the vehicles operated in a \"completely different way in the street to how it operated in the test\".\n\nHe added: \"It is difficult to think of a more obvious cheat than the one VW used.\" Mr de la Mare said European emissions standards were designed \"to save lives\", adding that \"the most up-to-date evidence\" showed that pollution was \"killing approximately 1,000 people a day in Europe\".\n\nHe said internal VW documents showed that the company has \"long known that the software was unlawful and indefensible\", pointing to one document in which a VW employee said the vehicles would \"flunk\" emissions tests without the software.\n\nHe submitted that the documents showed a \"clear acceptance that the software was the only basis on which they were meeting the emissions limits\".\n\nVW's barrister, Michael Fordham QC, argued in written submissions that the claimants had misunderstood the legal definition of a defeat device.\n\nIn a statement before the hearing, a VW spokeswoman said: \"Volkswagen Group continues to defend robustly its position in the High Court in London.\n\n\"It remains Volkswagen Group's case that the claimants did not suffer any loss at all and that the affected vehicles did not contain a prohibited defeat device.\"\n\nVolkswagen has faced a flurry of legal action worldwide, and has been forced to pay out more than €30bn (£26bn) in fines, recall costs and civil settlements. The carmaker's current and former senior employees are facing criminal charges in Germany.\n\nThe English litigation was filed back in 2016, but has now reached what the claimants' lawyers have called \"a decisive court battle\".\n\nGareth Pope, head of group litigation at Slater and Gordon, which represents more than 70,000 of almost 90,000 claimants, said before the start of the hearing: \"This trial will establish once and for all whether VW installed prohibited 'defeat devices' in affected vehicles and is a significant milestone in our clients' attempts to hold VW accountable in the UK.\n\n\"This is a decisive point for VW. For years, the carmaker has deceived its customers, marketing cars as complying with emissions standards while all the time knowing they were emitting many times more than the allowed level of toxic pollutants, perpetrating an environmental and health scandal.\n\n\"VW has had plenty of opportunity to come clean, make amends and move on from this highly damaging episode.\n\n\"But instead it's chosen to spend millions of pounds denying the claims our clients have been forced to bring against it rather than paying that to their own customers in compensation.\"\n\nOne of the claimants, Brian Levine - who bought two affected Volkswagens - told the Press Association: \"VW's tactics have been to delay and prevaricate - anything but face a day when it would have to explain what this software did. Well, that day has finally come.\n\n\"More than four years after the emissions scandal broke, the tens of thousands of customers will be able to hold VW to account in a British court of law and expose its efforts to cheat us.\"\n\nBuying a car is one of the big financial decisions we make. We pay a hefty price for a brand we trust and expect the specifications to be as promised.\n\nBut VW argues that the drivers claiming they were fooled by a defeat device will not qualify for compensation whatever the merits of their case, because they haven't suffered a loss.\n\nAnd VW denies having a defeat device, anyway, despite findings against the carmaker in other countries.\n\nWaiting for a result from this case will feel like being trapped in the mother of all traffic jams. Lawyers involved are expecting the whole process could take two to three years.", "The First Lady Melania Trump revealed \"The Spirit of America\" as this year's theme in a video posted on social media.\n\nThe elaborate decorations were put on display with the help of over 100 volunteers and include displays made from gingerbread.", "A Kenyan fisherman has been airlifted from an island where he was marooned since Friday because of heavy flooding.\n\nVincent Musila had gone fishing at a river near Thika town in central Kenya when it burst its banks.\n\nCrowds watched helplessly for three days as they waited for emergency services to rescue him.\n\nWhy the floods in East Africa are so bad", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDonald Trump has insisted the US wants \"nothing to do\" with the NHS in post-Brexit trade talks as he sought to repudiate opposition claims that the health service would be \"up for sale\".\n\nOn a visit to the UK, the US President claimed he had no interest in increased market access to the NHS for US firms even if handed on a \"silver platter\".\n\nBut Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said he still had \"very serious concerns\".\n\nAnd the SNP said MPs should pass a law to exclude the NHS from discussions.\n\nBoris Johnson said the Conservative election manifesto had \"categorically ruled out\" any NHS services, or drug prices, being up for negotiation.\n\nIn June, the US president suggested the health service would form part of negotiations over a possible future trade deal after the UK leaves the EU, saying: \"When you're dealing in trade, everything is on the table.\"\n\nBut speaking on Tuesday morning as he and other world leaders prepared for a summit to mark the 70th anniversary of Nato, he issued a different message.\n\n\"I don't even know where that rumour started,\" he told journalists. \"We have absolutely nothing to do with it. If you handed it [the NHS] to us on a silver platter, we want nothing to do with it.\"\n\nMr Trump's visit comes at hugely sensitive time, with less than 10 days to go before the election - and with the issues of Brexit and the NHS having largely dominated the campaign so far.\n\nThe US President insisted he would be \"staying out\" of the election. While he remained a \"fan of Brexit\" and thought Mr Johnson was \"very capable\", he said he would be prepared to \"work with anybody\" in No 10.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Corbyn: \"Our NHS will not be put up for sale to anybody\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jo Swinson: Trump is \"not someone who shares our values\"\n\nIn October, he suggested Mr Corbyn would be \"bad\" for the UK and declined an offer to meet the Labour leader during his state visit.\n\nMr Corbyn has repeatedly claimed that the NHS would be \"up for sale\" if the Conservatives hold onto power. At a campaign event last week, the Labour leader showed an unredacted report that gave details of meetings between US and UK officials.\n\nThe document shows the US is interested in discussing drug pricing - mainly extending patents that stop cheaper generic medicines being used - and refers to the US policy of making \"total market access\" a starting point in any trade talks.\n\nThe Labour leader welcomed Mr Trump's latest comments but said he was far from reassured by them.\n\n\"I'm pleased that he's said that but, if that's the case why have these talks gone on for two years?\" he told BBC Radio 2's Jeremy Vine show.\n\n\"Why have they been kept secret? I think there is very very legitimate grounds for very very serious concern here.\"\n\nMr Corbyn said if he was introduced to Mr Trump at a reception at Buckingham Palace later, which both are attending, he would impress on him how \"precious\" the NHS was to the British people and make clear a Labour government would discontinue trade talks if it was not excluded.\n\nOn a trip to Salisbury, the prime minister described the opposition's claims as \"pure Loch Ness Monster, Bermuda triangle stuff\".\n\n\"I can categorically rule out any part of the NHS will be on the table in any trade negotiation... including pharmaceuticals.\"\n\nAnd Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab suggested Labour was only raising the issue because it had \"no plan for Brexit and no plan for the economy\".\n\nSpeaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Mr Raab ruled out any privatisation of the NHS \"under the Conservatives' watch or this prime minister's watch\". Trade decisions would be made by the next government \"in the best interest of patients and consumers\", he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nigel Farage says Donald Trump should comment on the NHS\n\nThe Liberal Democrats' foreign affairs spokesman, Chuka Umunna, said Mr Trump's comments should be taken \"with a lorry load of salt\".\n\nHe added: \"Trump has repeatedly made clear in the past that everything including the NHS will be on the table in future negotiations.\"\n\nAnd SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon said its MPs would be pressing for legislation to ringfence the NHS from any involvement in a future deal.\n\n\"I don't want the future of our NHS to be dependent on trusting the word of Boris Johnson or Donald Trump,\" she said at a campaign rally in Perth.\n\n\"Let's have legislation that explicitly and in statute takes any risk of trade negotiations to the NHS away, and make absolutely clear that the NHS not just will not be on the table but could not be on the table in any trade negotiations.\"\n\nNigel Farage called on the US president to challenge the \"complete fib\" that the Tories would \"sell the NHS\" to him in a trade deal.\n\n\"He has been accused by the Labour Party of wanting to buy the National Health Service,\" the Brexit Party leader told BBC Breakfast. \"It isn't true, I know it isn't true, and I think it would be wholly appropriate for him to say that.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nSecond Test, Seddon Park, Hamilton (day four of five):\n\nCaptain Joe Root made a double century on day four of the second Test but England's hopes of winning the match and drawing the series with New Zealand may be hampered by the weather.\n\nRoot's painstaking 226 from 441 balls and 75 from Ollie Pope helped England to 476 and a first-innings lead of 101.\n\nThe Black Caps fell to 28-2 but Kane Williamson and Ross Taylor guided them to 96-2, trailing by only five runs.\n\nHeavy rain is forecast to fall in Hamilton for much of the final day.\n\nAnd on a pitch that is still good for batting, New Zealand will be confident of seeing out what play is possible from 21:30 GMT on Monday.\n\nThis was the first time England - 269-5 overnight - have made 400 in the first innings since Alastair Cook's double century against Australia in Melbourne two years ago.\n\nRoot led by example. While he was patient - he was in the middle for just over 10 hours - there was a busyness about his innings that had been missing on the third day.\n\nHe played well off his legs, used soft hands to dab the ball down to third man, took quick singles and, when England decided to push towards a declaration, he hit out, striking pace bowler Matt Henry back down the ground for six.\n\nRoot's only real miss-step came when, on 199, he called Pope through for a quick single and his partner was almost run out at the striker's end. Pope dived, however, and Root was able to celebrate his third Test double century.\n\nHe was well supported by Pope in a 193-run stand for the sixth wicket. Playing in his fourth Test and keeping wicket in Jos Buttler's absence, Pope struggled at first to keep up with Root's tempo.\n\nWhile his drives often found the fielders, Pope ran well and found the backward point boundary more frequently as New Zealand's bowlers tired.\n\nThe only disappointment for England will be the way their innings ended as the final five wickets fell for 21 runs.\n\nIt was just reward for Neil Wagner, though. After Pope and Root were caught in the deep, the indefatigable Wagner had Chris Woakes caught behind, outfoxed Jofra Archer with a slower ball and bowled Stuart Broad to secure his fourth five-wicket haul in his past four Tests.\n\nThe stats you need to know\n• None Root's previous highest Test score away from home was 182 not out in the West Indies in 2015.\n• None He is now the 10th leading Test run-scorer for England.\n• None It is the fourth time an England captain has made a double century overseas, after Alastair Cook, Ted Dexter and Len Hutton.\n• None Only three Englishman have more Test double tons than Root: Wally Hammond (7), Cook (5) and Hutton (4).\n• None Root is the first visiting captain to make a double century in New Zealand.\n• None Root's double century, off 412 balls, was the slowest for England since Dennis Amiss' 432-ball effort against West Indies in 1974.\n\nEngland made early inroads with the ball, but Root admitted at the end of play that the tourists hoped the pitch would do \"a little bit more\" in the final session.\n\nJeet Raval, who has scored only 24 runs in the series, was lbw to Sam Curran for a two-ball duck, although replays suggested there was an inside edge.\n\nWhen Tom Latham, who made a century in New Zealand's first innings, edged Chris Woakes to Root at a wide first slip, New Zealand were struggling.\n\nWilliamson was ruffled by Jofra Archer, who bowled short and into his body, while Ben Stokes tried the same tactic with Taylor later in the evening.\n\nBut Williamson and Taylor are two of New Zealand's most experienced players and they played carefully on a placid surface.\n\nWilliamson ducked and Taylor pulled in an unbroken 68-run partnership across 25 overs.\n\nThere were, however, encouraging signs for England. Stokes, who struggled to bowl on the opening day with a left knee problem, found some awkward bounce, while Woakes was economical after his past struggles overseas.\n\n'We can still win' - what they said\n\nEngland captain Joe Root on BBC Test Match Special: \"I have been close for a long time in terms of a real big score. I have never felt like it has been far away.\n\n\"Once I got in I had the bit between my teeth and wanted to make a big one. We have got ourselves in a position where we can still win.\"\n\nNew Zealand bowler Neil Wagner: \"We had to graft really hard. I was lucky enough to get the rewards. I felt a bit sorry for the other guys because they bowled well without much luck. A big shout goes to the other bowlers.\n\n\"It will be tough. We don't want to look too far ahead of ourselves. We want to get in a good position first and once you earn the right to strike that is when you can try to dictate terms.\"\n\nEngland & Middlesex bowler Steven Finn: \"Even from the beginning of Root's innings, you could see he meant business.\n\n\"It will give him great satisfaction. It is one of the best feelings in cricket when you have worked so hard and come out of the other side of it.\"\n\nEx-England batsman Mark Ramprakash: \"England will come and give it everything tomorrow morning.\n\n\"Whether or not England get a result, with the process they have put in place, the captain will be delighted. It is the type of tough cricket they want to play.\"", "Andreas Dowling admitted 30 counts of communicating false information with intent at a previous hearing\n\nA computer enthusiast who made 107 hoax bomb threats to targets including schools, the Palace of Westminster and the Super Bowl, has been jailed.\n\nAndreas Dowling from Torpoint, Cornwall admitted 30 counts of communicating false information with intent.\n\nHe was sentenced at Exeter Crown Court to four years and five months.\n\nJudge Mrs Justice May said the 24-year-old's actions were \"pernicious and nasty\" and calls targeting Jewish schools were racially motivated.\n\nDowling made threats to about 70 schools in the UK, affecting more than 44,000 pupils, and various locations in the US and Canada.\n\nHe was fascinated by computers from the age of six and studied network and software development at Cornwall College. The court was told he also had a good knowledge of security systems.\n\nHis motivations varied and included racism, punishing the US Government for perceived corruption, and closing schools for pupils in return for payment, the court heard.\n\nHe lived with his mother and used software to disguise his voice.\n\nIn 2015 he made repeated bomb threats to the Super Bowl in Arizona but the event went ahead.\n\nThe following year he targeted the Palace of Westminster - his only non-education target in the UK - saying a bomb was attached to a parked vehicle and there was 30 minutes to evacuate, but it was correctly identified as a hoax.\n\nThe court heard Jewish schools were \"over-represented\" as targets in the UK-based hoaxes and were selected \"based on racial or religious identity of the students\".\n\nThe prosecution said threats to the Jewish schools referred to bombs going off at \"4.20pm\", which was a reference to Adolf Hitler's birthday of April 20.\n\nSentencing, Mrs Justice May said: \"One has only to imagine the extreme anxiety head teachers must have felt receiving news of a bomb threat and how pernicious and cruel it was to make those calls\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Conor Whooley's family said they were relieved to know his final resting place\n\nA body found on an Anglesey beach in 1983 has been identified as a missing Irishman thanks to DNA testing.\n\nConor Whooley, from Greystones, County Wicklow, was 24 when he disappeared.\n\nHis body was buried in an unmarked grave at Menai Bridge Cemetery on Anglesey after being found on the beach.\n\nBut thanks to Operation Orchid - which uses DNA testing to solve cold cases of unidentified human remains - Mr Whooley's body has now been identified.\n\nHe was found at Rhoscolyn, Anglesey, and later buried locally after police were unable to identify him.\n\nIn 2013, the body was exhumed after police believed it could be a match for a missing person.\n\nThat did not prove to be the case, but as a result of the publicity Mr Whooley's family contacted North Wales Police.\n\nHe had been missing from Dublin since 1983 and his family heard about Operation Orchid on RTÉ television in Ireland.\n\nDet Con Don Kenyon said: \"I hope that this positive news will encourage other families of missing people to provide DNA samples to help solve other outstanding cases in North Wales and beyond.\"\n\nIn a statement, Mr Whooley's family said they were relieved to know his final resting place and the community in Anglesey, and Menai Bridge, had cared for his grave.", "Alexander Lewis-Ranwell was arrested twice in the two days before he killed the three men\n\nA man who killed three elderly men because he wrongly believed they were paedophiles has been cleared of murder.\n\nExeter Crown Court heard Alexander Lewis-Ranwell battered his victims - all in their 80s - with a shovel and a hammer in a \"whirlwind of destruction\".\n\nHe has paranoid schizophrenia and was having delusions about saving girls from a paedophile ring, jurors heard.\n\nThe 28-year-old was found not guilty by reason of insanity after jurors decided he \"did not know it was illegal\".\n\nTwins Richard and Roger Carter, 84, and Anthony Payne, 80, were bludgeoned on 10 February.\n\nThe court heard Lewis-Ranwell was arrested and released by police twice in the lead-up to the killings.\n\nHe began the first fatal attack just three hours after he had been released from police custody, where he had been held for wounding a farmer with a saw.\n\nIt was his second arrest in the space of 24 hours and came just seven hours after he was arrested over an attempted burglary at another farm.\n\nAnthony Payne was killed at his home near Exeter St David's station\n\nThree psychiatrists agreed Lewis-Ranwell was insane when he battered his victims.\n\nBut the prosecution had argued the defendant bore some responsibility for what happened.\n\nThe court heard evidence of Lewis-Ranwell's interaction with various health professionals during his three spells in custody between 8 and 11 February.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Stasys Belevicius says Alexander Lewis-Ranwell attacked him at the hotel he was managing\n\nLewis-Ranwell was released from Barnstaple police station at about 09:30 on 10 February and travelled to Exeter.\n\nHe entered Mr Payne's home at about 12:30 and bludgeoned the pensioner to death with a rusty hammer.\n\nLess than three hours later he scaled the wall of the Carter brothers' home in Cowick Lane, took a spade from the garden and beat them both to death with it.\n\nAfter his final arrest the defendant told a psychiatrist at Broadmoor secure hospital: \"I cannot believe no-one helped me - they let me out twice when I was unwell.\"\n\nIn sentencing, Mrs Justice May described the case as \"disturbing... on so many levels - three dead, two injured at the hands of someone floridly psychotic at the time and therefore not criminally responsible\".\n\nShe said she would be making a hospital order with restrictions to ensure Lewis-Ranwell \"won't be allowed into the community until agencies are absolutely content it is OK for him to be released\".\n\nThe judge informed the court that, prior to returning their verdicts, the jury had passed her a note raising concerns about the \"state of psychiatric services in Devon and the failings in care in Alexander Lewis-Ranwell's case\".\n\nLewis-Ranwell caught on CCTV on the day of the killings\n\nIn a statement, the head of custody for G4S Health Services, Jon Allen, said the company \"stood by their decision\" that \"Lewis-Ranwell was not suicidal and did not meet the requirements of a full Mental Health Act assessment in the out-of-hours period\".\n\nHead of major crime at Devon and Cornwall Police, Det Supt Mike West, said: \"We fully accept our responsibilities to look after those detained in our custody units.\n\n\"However, it is unreasonable to suggest that police officers or staff, in these circumstances, should have over-ridden decisions made by those who are trained, qualified and skilled in health care.\"\n\nFollowing the trial Mr Payne's family said they were \"still profoundly shocked\" and described the victims as \"gentle, kind and caring gentlemen\".\n\nThe family of the Carter brothers said they were \"quiet\" twins who \"loved the outdoors, wildlife and bird watching\" and \"were born, lived and died at the house in Cowick Lane\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Football\n\nMegan Rapinoe of the United States has won Women's Ballon d'Or for 2019, with England's Lucy Bronze the runner-up.\n\nWinger Rapinoe, 34, co-captained the US to victory at this summer's World Cup, where she was named player of the tournament and finished joint-top scorer with six goals.\n\nBronze, 28, the Uefa Women's Player of the Year, played a key part in England's run to the semi-finals.\n\nRapinoe's compatriot Alex Morgan came third in the Ballon d'Or ranking.\n\nLyon striker Ada Hegerberg, who became the first winner of the women's version of the award last year, finished fourth, while Arsenal and Netherlands forward Vivianne Miedema rounded out the top five.\n\nThe men's award was won by Argentina and Barcelona's Lionel Messi for a record sixth time.\n• None Football Daily podcast: Another Messi milestone and Rodgers to Arsenal?\n\nRapinoe, who was not in attendance at the awards ceremony, said in a recorded message: \"I'm so sad I can't make it tonight. It's absolutely incredible, congrats to the other nominees.\n\n\"I can't believe I'm the one winning in this field, it's been an incredible year. I want to thank my team-mates and the US federation.\"\n\nRapinoe has had a memorable 2019, becoming a global star for her performances during the World Cup but also for her willingness to use the spotlight to speak out on causes such as LGBTQ+ rights and equal pay.\n\nShe also made headlines after saying she would refuse to visit the White House if the US won the World Cup and joined the national team squad in suing their federation over equal pay.\n\nAfter winning the women's award at the Best Fifa Football Awards in September, she was the favourite to become the second ever recipient of the Women's Ballon d'Or.\n\nA runner-up spot for Bronze is an impressive achievement, finishing ahead of star forward Morgan and Women's Champions League record scorer Hegerberg.\n\nRegarded as the best right-back in the world, Bronze will be familiar with finishing second to Rapinoe, having won the Silver Ball for second-best player at the World Cup.\n\nThe months since the World Cup have been tough for Bronze in an England shirt, having been played out of position in an experimental midfield role and being part of a side that has won just two of their last six games.\n\nBut she has experienced an incredible 2019 with club side Lyon, winning the French league and cup double and the Women's Champions League.\n\nBronze's Lionesses team-mate Ellen White was ninth in the Ballon d'Or ranking after finishing as joint top scorer at the World Cup with six goals.\n\nBBC Sport has launched #ChangeTheGame to showcase female athletes in a way they never have been before. Through more live women's sport available to watch across the BBC in 2019, complemented by our journalism, we are aiming to turn up the volume on women's sport and alter perceptions. Find out more here.", "Our live updates have come to an end\n\nWe'll leave you with the key points after what police described as an \"incredibly difficult day\" in Loughton:\n• A boy, 12, has been killed in what police called as a \"deliberate\" hit-and-run crash near a secondary school\n• Five others - four teens and a woman - were injured\n• Police want to trace Terry Glover, 51, from Loughton, in connection with the incident\n• A silver Ford KA failed to stop after the crash\n• Debden Park High School confirmed the boy killed in the crash was one of its pupils You can read back here to catch up on what happened. For the latest updates overnight, follow our news story.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Virginia Giuffre: \"I knew I had to keep him happy\"\n\nA US woman who says she was brought to Britain aged 17 to have sex with Prince Andrew has implored the British public to \"stand beside her\" and \"not accept what has happened to her\".\n\nVirginia Giuffre, one of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's accusers, says she was trafficked to London by Epstein in 2001.\n\nShe describes how Epstein's girlfriend told her what \"to do for Andrew\".\n\nThe prince has \"categorically\" denied any sexual contact with Ms Giuffre.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Virginia Giuffre: \"I implore the people in the UK... to not accept this as being OK\"\n\nVirginia Giuffre, formerly Virginia Roberts, has given her first interview for British television as part of a special hour-long Panorama. Her interview includes her account of how she was introduced to Prince Andrew.\n\nShe said that she, the prince, Epstein and his then girlfriend, the socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, took her to Tramp night club in London, where the Prince asked her to dance.\n\n\"He is the most hideous dancer I've ever seen in my life\", she says. \"His sweat was like it was raining basically everywhere\".\n\nWhen they had left the club, Ms Giuffre said Ghislaine Maxwell gave her instructions.\n\n\"In the car Ghislaine tells me that I have to do for Andrew what I do for Jeffrey and that just made me sick.\"\n\nShe said that later that evening, she had sex with Prince Andrew upstairs at Maxwell's house in Belgravia.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn an interview with BBC Newsnight's Emily Maitlis last month, the prince said he didn't recall meeting Virginia Roberts, and that he had a medical condition that meant he did not sweat. However, of the claim that he had sex with her, the Prince said he could \"absolutely and categorically\" say \"it never happened\".\n\nAnd in a court statement, Ghislaine Maxwell has said the allegations are lies.\n\nAsked about a photo that appears to show him with his arm around Virginia Giuffre's waist in Maxwell's house, the prince said he didn't recall the photograph ever being taken and questioned whether it was his hand in the picture.\n\nVirginia Giuffre describes how she asked Jeffrey Epstein to take this picture of her with Andrew.\n\nBut in the Panorama interview, which was recorded before Prince Andrew's interview, Ms Giuffre said: \"The people on the inside are going to keep coming up with these ridiculous excuses like his arm was elongated or the photo was doctored.\n\n\"I'm calling BS on this,\" she said. \"He knows what happened, I know what happened. And there's only one of us telling the truth.\"\n\nIn response to tonight's Panorama, Buckingham Palace said the Duke \"unequivocally regrets his ill-judged association with Jeffrey Epstein\" and \"deeply sympathises with those affected who want some form of closure.\"\n\nThey said \"it is emphatically denied that the Duke of York had any form of sexual contact or relationship with Virginia Roberts. Any claim to the contrary is false and without foundation\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Andrew says he has wracked his brains but cannot recall any incident involving Virginia Roberts.\n\nPrince Andrew - the Queen's third child - has been facing questions over his ties to Epstein, a US financier who took his own life in August awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.\n\nThe prince has faced a growing backlash since the Newsnight interview about his friendship with the US financier.\n\nHe stepped back from royal duties last month because he said the Epstein scandal had become a \"major disruption\" to the Royal Family.\n\nCompanies he had links with, such as BT and Barclays, also joined universities and charities in distancing themselves from him.\n\nAfter his BBC interview he said he deeply sympathised with sex offender Epstein's victims and everyone who \"wants some form of closure\".\n\nPanorama: The Prince and the Epstein Scandal will air at 21:00 GMT on BBC One.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Southampton rail commuters speak out on first day of strike\n\nCommuters are facing disruption as workers on South Western Railway (SWR) begin a 27-day strike.\n\nIt comes after talks between the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union and SWR over a long-running dispute over guards on trains broke down.\n\nThe operator called the action \"unnecessary\" and said \"more than half\" of weekday trains would run, but warned of queues at stations.\n\nThe union said the strike is \"in defence of passenger safety\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Sophia Griffiths This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe RMT said SWR had \"point-blank refused\" to show any serious movement at talks held at the conciliation service Acas.\n\nThe union has been demanding that guards should oversee the operation of doors and perform other safety functions in dispatching trains.\n\nIt said the company's proposals would leave guards as \"glorified porters\" without any safety responsibilities.\n\nAs the strike got under way earlier, disruption was compounded when a man seen carrying an air rifle led to a train being evacuated.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Hattie C This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nElsewhere, Sophia Griffiths, who travels from Earlsfield station into central London, said: \"Usually when they strike the station is not too bad but today was just nuts.\n\n\"I saw the queue outside and thought 'no way' - I've never seen it that long so I took the bus to Tooting and got the Tube from there.\"\n\nShe said she was supportive of the striking workers and said it was \"crazy they (SWR) would let it get to this\".\n\nThe communications officer at Nuffield Council on Bioethics said she was considering cycling to work during the prolonged action and working from home more.\n\nCharlotte Burnell said it took almost an hour to travel from Claygate, Surrey, to Waterloo - a journey which usually takes 34 minutes.\n\n\"You can manage a couple of days of strike action but the thought of it going on for 27 days is pretty overwhelming,\" she said.\n\n\"It's physically uncomfortable. I was forced to stand awkwardly and my back was killing me.\"\n\nSteve Nagioff described passengers \"rammed\" into a carriage on his commute from Whitton in south west London.\n\n\"A woman next to me said that she couldn't breathe. The train stopped at Richmond and I fell out - luckily other passengers got off the train so I got back on it again.\n\n\"It's just not right - I pay full ticket prices. If the service is going to be like this then it should be free,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Transport Correspondent Paul Clifton explains the background to the strikes\n\nBecky Bartlett, from Wokingham in Berkshire, said she was an hour late for work in London after her regular train was cancelled.\n\n\"I have various theatre and gig plans for the month, plus Christmas parties and events, which I have either had to cancel, some at loss of the ticket price, or I'm going to have to pay for a £30+ taxi from Reading just to get home.\n\n\"This whole experience is going to be horrific. I'm one day in and I've already had enough.\"\n\nPassengers faced packed carriages on the line from Guildford to Waterloo\n\nRMT assistant general secretary Steve Hedley said members were \"absolutely furious\" with SWR following the Acas talks.\n\n\"Of course our members don't want to lose a month's money running up to Christmas but they're prepared to do that to show that safety and accessibility for disabled people is non-negotiable.\"\n\nRegional organiser Mick Tosh said the union would consider financial support for any members who suffered particular hardship because of the strike.\n\nSWR said it had offered \"a guard on every train, and a safety critical role for that guard\".\n\nManaging director Andy Mellors said the action was \"unnecessary\" and the issue needed to be settled before a new fleet of modern suburban trains was introduced next year.\n\n\"Our assessment is that by having drivers opening and closing doors, that will actually optimise the performance of the network by getting more trains to Waterloo on time.\n\n\"We've been very clear that we're committed to keeping a guard on our trains and those guards will have safety critical competencies. Our proposals will make guards more customer facing and improve safety, security and accessibility.\"\n\nCommuters at Bracknell station are among those affected by the strike\n\nAt Chandler's Ford station this morning, the ticket office door was locked. The platform was empty and all the signs were blank.\n\nIt's going to stay that way for a month. The next train isn't due until 2 January 2020.\n\nIt's the same story at Swaythling, Millbrook, Dean, Dunbridge and a few other small stations popular with children heading to school as well as daily commuters.\n\nThe two sides are trading insults and blaming each other. They haven't budged in more than two years of strikes.\n\nI don't think many passengers have any goodwill left at all for either the RMT or South Western Railway - because this month-long strike is going to cause real hardship for hundreds of thousands of people each day.\n\nUnion members took part in a picket at Waterloo Station\n\nSWR released a revised timetable and said it would provide longer trains to increase capacity where possible.\n\nThe operator runs services between London Waterloo and Portsmouth, Southampton, Bournemouth and Weymouth as well as Reading, Exeter and Bristol. It also operates suburban commuter lines in south-west London, Surrey, Berkshire, and north-east Hampshire.\n\nStrike days are as follows:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People have paid their respects to two former Cambridge University students who were killed in the London Bridge terror attack.\n\nSaskia Jones, 23, and Jack Merritt, 25, died after they were attacked by a knifeman in the capital on Friday.\n\nCrowds gathered outside the Guildhall in Cambridge city centre and at nearby Anglia Ruskin University where vigils and minutes of silence took place.\n\nAmong the attendees at the Guildhall was the girlfriend of Mr Merritt, Leanne O'Brien.", "More than 70 terror attack survivors have demanded that all political parties agree a \"charter\" protecting their wellbeing after the election.\n\nThey want quicker access to mental health support and faster compensation.\n\nThe group, which includes survivors of the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing and attacks in London, also says all venues must set up anti-terror security plans.\n\nIts demands follow Friday's London Bridge attack, in which two people were stabbed to death.\n\nJack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, are being honoured in a remembrance service at Guildhall Yard in the City of London on Monday.\n\nBoris Johnson launched an urgent review after it emerged that convicted terrorist Usman Khan - who was shot dead by police following Friday's attack - had been released having served half his sentence.\n\nThe prime minister blamed legislation introduced when Labour was in power and said there were currently 74 people convicted of terrorist offences who had been released early.\n\nBut Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn accused the Conservatives of trying to keep people safe \"on the cheap\" and called for more funding for public services, including probation and mental health.\n\nThe survivors' group, which has written to the Daily Telegraph outlining its demands, includes Brendan Cox, whose wife the Labour MP Jo Cox was killed in 2016 and Gina Van Dort, whose husband Chris Dyer died in the Tunisia attack in 2015, in which 30 Britons were murdered.\n\nIts letter says: \"We are sick of the promises [made by politicians] that never materialise. The promises to look after victims who then face months of delay for mental health support or years of waiting for compensation.\n\n\"We ask all of the parties to agree to consult on and implement a new 'Survivors' Charter' that would guarantee basic rights and services for survivors.\"\n\nJack Merritt and Saskia Jones were killed during a conference to rehabilitate offenders near London Bridge\n\nThe group wants MPs to back \"Martyn's Law\", compelling all owners of events spaces to have in place a \"basic security plan\". This is named after Martyn Hett, killed in the Manchester Arena bombing in May 2017, in which 22 people were killed.\n\nThe group says it is \"sick of promises that never materialise\" but praises the \"heroes\" who confronted Khan on London Bridge, preventing him from continuing his attack.\n\nIt also asks the public not to \"give the terrorists what they want by sharing videos or views from attackers or by blaming whole groups or giving in to hate\".\n\nAnd it wants the media to \"allow survivors the space to recover after terrorist incidents and to focus coverage on the heroes rather than the attackers\".\n\nThree people were injured in Friday's attack, which Khan began at a prisoner rehabilitation conference, organised by Cambridge University, at Fishmongers' Hall, next to London Bridge.\n\nTwo of the injured remain in hospital and are described as being in a stable condition.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police and forensics teams inspect the scene in Canal Street\n\nPolice in New Orleans say there have been 11 victims of a shooting incident near the French Quarter tourist hub.\n\nTwo people are in critical condition, with shots to the chest and torso respectively. No fatalities have been reported.\n\nThe incident took place on Canal St between Bourbon and Chartres streets at about 03:20 local time (09:20 GMT).\n\nPolice said on their Twitter feed that \"one suspect had been apprehended near the scene\".\n\nThey later said the person's possible involvement was still under investigation and that no arrests had yet been made. No other details have been given.\n\nThe victims have all been taken to hospital.\n\nVideo footage from the scene showed numerous police vehicles cordoning off the area as forensic teams made checks.\n\nCanal St file image. The street is on the edge of the famous French Quarter tourist hub\n\nLocal media quoted Police Superintendent Shaun Ferguson as saying officers on the 700 block of Canal Street at the time believed that they were being fired upon.\n\nHe said: \"Unfortunately, there were so many people out here we were unable to determine who was actually firing shots at the time. We do not know how it started.\"\n\nThe French Quarter has been hosting holidaymakers marking the weekend after Thanksgiving.\n\nThousands of fans and alumni have also been drawn to the city for the Bayou Classic football game traditionally played on Thanksgiving weekend between Southern University and Grambling State University.\n\nOn the same weekend in 2016, a man was killed and nine other people wounded in a shooting on Bourbon St.\n\nIn June 2014, another shooting incident on Bourbon St left one person dead and nine injured.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bullets and bills: The cost of getting shot in America", "Facebook has deleted a Conservative election ad that used BBC News footage because it infringed the corporation's intellectual property (IP) rights.\n\nThe BBC said the material had been used out of context in a way that \"could damage perceptions of our impartiality\".\n\nOn Thursday, the Tories rejected a request from the BBC's lawyers to remove the 15-second video.\n\nThe BBC also complained to Facebook, which has now deleted the ad.\n\nIn a statement, Facebook said: \"We have removed this content following a valid intellectual property claim from the rights holder, the BBC.\n\n\"Whenever we receive valid IP claims against content on the platform, in advertising or elsewhere, we act in accordance with our policies and take action as required.\"\n\nA BBC spokesperson said: \"We welcome the decision.\"\n\nThe Conservative Party said: \"All political parties make use of BBC content. We will be asking the BBC if in the interests of fairness they intend to complain about other political parties who use their content.\"\n\nThe unprecedented and unpredictable campaign tactics being used during this election are putting Facebook's policies under increasing amounts of scrutiny and strain.\n\nThe decision to remove the Conservative advert is significant; not because of the action the platform took, but the grounds on which it acted.\n\nThe row between the BBC and the Conservative Party was about the ethics of the party's advert. The BBC believes that the ad misled viewers into thinking that its news reporters were supporting the Conservatives. The Conservatives disagreed.\n\nFacebook were aware of the row on the night the ad began running but didn't get involved until a copyright claim was lodged days later.\n\nThe decision to take it down then was effectively a black and white one - and easy enough for the social media giant to act on without getting into the icky business of judging what counts as disinformation.\n\nIt's another example of the platform taking action on simple technical grounds and helps us to build a clearer picture of the fuzzy policies that the platform and its sister site Instagram adheres to.\n\nFacebook will take action on political adverts but only when it has an excuse to stay out of the politics.\n\nThe move also brings into sharp focus the need for regulation of what elements of news coverage are or aren't allowed during an election campaign.\n\nClips of BBC presenters - political editor Laura Kuenssberg and News at Ten presenter Huw Edwards - speaking in recent broadcasts about Brexit delays were used in the ad.\n\nThe clips were edited into a montage of protest footage and video of debate in the House of Commons, all set to dramatic music.\n\nThe advert, which was used to target three separate groups of Facebook users, was seen by at least 350,000 people.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt began running on Thursday afternoon and, according to the Facebook Ad Library, was mainly aimed at 35-54 year olds and cost the party around £7,000.\n\nThe advert, along with two others, was removed so it is no longer visible online and a message reads: \"This ad was taken down because it goes against Facebook's intellectual property policies.\"\n\nIn Facebook's policy guidelines it states that \"ads must not contain content that infringes upon or violates the rights of any third party, including copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity or other personal or proprietary rights\".\n\nWhen it rejected the BBC's initial request to stop running the ads, the Conservative Party said it was \"clear the footage was not edited in a manner that misleads or changes the reporting\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLeading figures from the UK's political parties have clashed on Brexit, the NHS and terror legislation in the latest televised general election debate.\n\nLabour's Richard Burgon declined to say during the ITV programme which way he would vote in the EU referendum his party is promising, if it wins power.\n\nTory Rishi Sunak was pushed to rule out a no-deal Brexit if the Conservatives won, but did not give a direct answer.\n\nThe UK goes to the polls on 12 December.\n\nLabour's shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon defended Jeremy Corbyn's decision to remain neutral in the event of a second referendum, saying the Labour leader was \"determined to bring the country together and heal divisions, not try to exploit them for votes\".\n\nPressed by presenter Julie Etchingham on whether he would vote to stay in the EU or leave in another referendum, he said: \"I want to speak to my local Labour Party members after a Labour government comes back with that deal and then we'll decide how we approach that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour's Richard Burgon on Brexit: 'It would be for the people to decide'\n\nLib Dem leader Jo Swinson said being neutral showed Mr Corbyn was a \"bystander not a leader\", but Mr Burgon said her party's policy of cancelling Brexit was \"not very liberal, not very democratic\".\n\nSNP leader Nicola Sturgeon, who also wants another referendum, added it was \"dreadful\" that the Conservatives want \"Brexit at any cost\" and Labour \"can't even decide what side they're on\".\n\nShe pushed Conservative minister Mr Sunak to rule out a no-deal Brexit at the end of next year if the Conservatives failed to negotiate a trade deal with the EU.\n\nThe chief secretary to the Treasury insisted \"we already have a deal\", prompting Ms Sturgeon to say that that was a withdrawal deal, not a trade deal.\n\nMr Sunak said a trade deal was \"in the future\", adding that \"we can only get to that future\" by respecting the result of the EU referendum and leaving.\n\nThe UK would continue to abide by EU rules under the terms of Boris Johnson's EU deal until 31 December 2020, by which time he says a permanent trading relationship will be agreed with Brussels.\n\nBut his opponents say that raises the prospect of a no-deal Brexit at the end of next year, if an agreement is not reached by then.\n\nGreen party co-leader Sian Berry said the best way to finish off the Brexit process was \"more democracy\" by having a \"people's vote\".\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Adam Price and Ms Swinson said Brexit should be cancelled altogether.\n\nMr Price said the economic effect of leaving the EU would divide the rich from the poor and \"will not be the answer to our problems\".\n\nBut Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage said a second referendum would cause \"even more division and acrimony\".\n\nHis party has pledged to leave the EU and move to World Trade Organisation trading rules if a free trade agreement cannot be struck by the end of next year.\n\nIn a particularly spiky exchange, Ms Swinson attempted to use Mr Farage's defence of US President Donald Trump against him.\n\nThe Brexit Party leader acknowledged that some of Mr Trump's comments about grabbing women were \"wrong\" .\n\n\"It was crass and it was crude and it was wrong - men say dreadful things sometimes,\" he said.\n\n\"If all of us were called out for what we did on a night out after a drink...\", he said, before being interrupted by the Lib Dem leader.\n\n\"Is that what you do on a night out after a drink?\" she asked.\n\nMr Farage replied: \"He is president of the USA and that relationship matters. You are so anti-American you are prepared to put your hatred of Trump above our national interest. That is a great mistake.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Farage on Trump: 'Men say dreadful things sometimes'\n\nScotland's first minister Ms Sturgeon accused Mr Johnson of modelling himself on Mr Trump.\n\nBut Mr Sunak said the UK's relationship with the US was \"incredibly important for keeping us safe\" and was \"not something to turn your nose up at\".\n\nThere were also heated exchanges over the the release from prison of Usman Khan, who went on commit the London Bridge terror attack.\n\nMr Sunak said the Conservatives wanted \"tougher sentences\" and he defended Mr Johnson against claims he had politicised the attack, saying it was \"incumbent\" on the prime minister in an election \"to explain to people how they will keep them safe\".\n\nMr Burgon said he was \"very uncomfortable with the way the discussion from the Conservatives moves straight from a tragedy to reheating pre-packaged political lines smearing the Labour Party\".\n\n\"I think our democracy, regardless of our parties, should be better than that\".\n\nMr Farage said: \"I think these people should never ever be let out prison unless we are absolutely convinced they do not have the jihadi virus. But political correctness stops us from doing that.\"\n\nMr Sunak accused Labour of making \"baseless allegations\" that the Conservatives would sell the NHS, as part of a post-Brexit trade deal with the US.\n\nHe told Mr Burgon: \"The real risk to the NHS are your reckless plans for the economy, Richard, which will mean there isn't money to invest, and silly plans like the four-day week.\"\n\nBut the Labour shadow minister replied: \"It is not Labour's policy to have a four-day week in the National Health Service.\"\n\nChallenging the comment, Mr Sunak said: \"John McDonnell stood there and said very clearly that it would apply to everyone. Are you now saying that he was wrong?\"\n\nMr Burgon replied: \"No, I'm reiterating what he said before which is the idea of people working a four-day week at some point in the future - in maybe 10 years - is something which could be considered.\"\n\nShadow chancellor Mr McDonnell said last month that Labour's plans for a 32-hour working week will apply to all employees, including those in the NHS, and will be implemented over a decade.\n• None Who should I vote for? Election 2019 manifesto guide", "The tiger has walked across two states in India\n\nA tiger has undertaken the longest walk ever recorded in India, travelling some 1,300km (807 miles) in five months.\n\nExperts believe the two-and-a-half-year-old male is possibly in search of prey, territory or a mate.\n\nThe tiger, which is fitted with a radio collar, left its home in a wildlife sanctuary in the western state of Maharashtra in June.\n\nIt was then tracked travelling back and forth over farms, water and highways, and into a neighbouring state.\n\nSo far, the tiger has come into conflict with humans only once, when it \"accidentally injured\" one person who was part of a group that entered a thicket under which it was resting.\n\nThe tiger, called C1, was one of three male cubs born to T1, a female tiger in Tipeshwar wildlife sanctuary, home to 10 tigers in Maharashtra state.\n\nHe was fitted with a radio collar in February and continued to roam the forests until the onset of monsoon rains to \"find a suitable area to settle\".\n\nThe animal left the sanctuary at the end of June, and since then has travelled through seven districts in Maharashtra and the neighbouring state, Telangana. At the weekend, he was located in another wildlife sanctuary in Maharashtra.\n\nWildlife officials say the big cat has not travelled in a \"linear manner\". He is being tracked through GPS satellite information every hour and has been recorded in more than 5,000 locations in the past nine months.\n\n\"The tiger is possibly looking for territory, food and a mate. Most of the potential tiger areas [in India] are full and new tigers have to explore more,\" Dr Bilal Habib, a senior biologist with the Wildlife Institute of India, told the BBC.\n\nThe tiger hid during the day and travelled in the night time, killing wild pigs and cattle for food.\n\nDr Habib confirmed the one accidental injury to a man who entered the thicket where the tiger was resting, but said there had been no serious conflict with humans.\n\n\"People don't even know that this tiger is travelling in the backyard,\" he said.\n\nIndia is now estimated to be home to 70% of the world's tigers\n\nHowever, wildlife officials say the tiger may need to be captured and relocated to the nearest forest to \"avoid any untoward accidents\", forest officials said.\n\nThey also fear they will lose communication with the animal in the near future as the battery of the radio collar has been drained by 80%.\n\nTiger numbers have increased in India, but their habitat has shrunk and prey is not always plentiful, say experts.\n\nEvery tiger requires a breeding prey population of 500 animals in its territory to ensure a \"food bank\", say experts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tigers 'on brink of extinction' brought to wildlife park", "Pat and Donna Workman say they may now have to live in a caravan\n\nA family who left their home two years ago after it was contaminated by fuel and sewage are demanding action from those they hold responsible.\n\nPat and Donna Workman believe work carried out by the local authority is to blame for their situation.\n\nThey said it cost them their life savings, with an estimated £250,000 clean-up bill for their Cardigan home.\n\nCeredigion council said it was continuing to work to resolve the situation and was offering advice.\n\nMr and Mrs Workman said they began to notice problems with damp at their home after asphalt was laid on an adjacent lane in 2013.\n\nThe work was part of a refurbishment programme on Ceredigion council buildings.\n\nAn extra toilet was also installed in the council building, leading to sewage overflows leaking into the ground around their home, the couple said.\n\nThey said surveys of their property pinpointed the road-surfacing as the cause of damp.\n\nLand under the house has become contaminated by fuel and sewage\n\nIn 2017, they began smelling petrol fumes in the house.\n\nInvestigations revealed a fuel line at a neighbouring petrol station had been damaged.\n\nThe garage owner, Peter Williams, has accused the council of being responsible for damaging pipes during the refurbishment project - but said that has been rejected by the authority.\n\n\"The council said we had to move out because it's unsafe,\" said Mr Workman.\n\n\"We've been out for two years. We've been paying £600 rent and also paying the mortgage in this house which we can't live in.\n\n\"All the land underneath the house and around the house has been contaminated.\"\n\nThe Cardigan couple were forced to leave their home two years ago\n\nThe Workmans said the council offered to pay half the cost of rental accommodation for the first six months.\n\n\"After that, they expected us to take a mortgage break, so to stop paying the mortgage,\" said Mr Workman.\n\nNow, with all their savings gone, the couple said they are considering living in a caravan next to the house.\n\n\"All we want is for them to to pay for our accommodation somewhere else, because we don't know how long this is going to last.\n\n\"It could last six years - it could take 60 years,\" added the couple.\n\n\"Great sympathy\" for the family, says garage owner Peter Williams\n\nMr Williams said he remained in a legal dispute with the council over the pipe issue, and was convinced their work was responsible for causing the damage.\n\n\"They're saying it's my fault, and I'm saying it's not,\" he said.\n\n\"We're at stalemate. It's dragging on and we don't seem to be getting anywhere. I think the council should be responsible for it.\"\n\nHe said he had great sympathy for the Workman family: \"I've seen the family grow up. They've been good neighbours to me.\"\n\nCeredigion council says it is still trying to resolve the situation\n\nIn a statement, Ceredigion council said it was \"sympathetic\" to the Workman's situation and remained committed to offering advice and assistance.\n\n\"The council is also working towards resolution of the contamination issue, but the matter remains extremely complex with a number of technical obstacles present, as well as a number of different parties involved.\"\n\nThe authority said it had commissioned detailed investigations of the site and is considering all available options to enable the family to return to their home.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mark Bloomfield died two days after being found injured outside a pub in Swansea\n\nA charity worker died after being struck by a martial arts expert with two \"ferocious\" blows following an argument in a pub, a court has heard.\n\nMark Bloomfield, 54, who had previously worked as a special assistant to Mother Teresa, was found injured outside the Full Moon pub on the High Street in Swansea in July.\n\nColin Payne, 61 and from the city, denies murder but has admitted manslaughter.\n\nSwansea Crown Court heard Mr Bloomfield had been sitting on a stool at the bar near Mr Payne and his partner.\n\nThe jury was shown CCTV of a can of alcohol Mr Bloomfield was holding touching the back of Mr Payne's partner, and Mr Payne is then seen arguing with Mr Bloomfield before grabbing him by the throat and throwing him to the floor.\n\nHe then kicked him in the head \"for good measure\", prosecuting barrister Christopher Clee QC said.\n\nHe told the jury it will be up to them to decide whether Mr Payne \"overreacted.\"\n\nMr Bloomfield is then seen sitting back in his seat while Mr Payne's partner attempts to keep him away from the charity worker. Mr Payne then follows Mr Bloomfield outside.\n\nA second CCTV clip shown to the jury showed Mr Bloomfield arguing with Mr Payne outside the premises.\n\nMr Clee said the footage shows Mr Payne \"spoiling for a fight\" before \"delivering two powerful blows in quick succession to Mark Bloomfield's face\" which knock him to the ground.\n\nThe court heard Mr Payne then returned to the pub while Mr Bloomfield was treated by paramedics.\n\nMr Clee says it was \"immediately apparent\" Mr Bloomfield had sustained a \"very serious head injury\".\n\n\"Blood was coming from inside his nose, his mouth, and very significantly, his ear,\" Mr Clee said, adding he sustained a \"traumatic brain injury and multiple fractures across his face\".\n\nThe incident took place in Swansea's High Street\n\nMr Payne gave \"no comment\" answers during his first police interview but in the second he said he did not intend to kill or cause grievous bodily harm to Mr Bloomfield, the court heard.\n\nMr Payne said he was \"acting in self-defence of another\" when he threw Mr Bloomfield to the floor and kicked him, \"inadvertently\" striking him on the head.\n\nHe said Mr Bloomfield \"offered to fight me outside\" and, concerned he may have had a weapon such as a glass, followed him.\n\nIn his statement, Mr Payne said he threw two punches as he thought Mr Bloomfield was about to strike him.\n\nMr Clee said the claims of self defence were \"desperate attempts to cover up what he'd done\" and his \"martial arts expertise means he knew how to hurt somebody.\"\n\nThe prosecution is expected to continue with its case on Tuesday before the defence begins on Wednesday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The chief executive of Fishmongers Hall, Commodore Toby Williamson, describes how his staff fought back against Usman Khan during the London Bridge attack.", "The family of Jack Merritt take part in a vigil at the Guildhall in Cambridge\n\nVigils for the victims of the London Bridge attack have been held in London and Cambridge.\n\nJack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, were commemorated at the services, which included a minute's silence.\n\nThey were stabbed to death by Usman Khan - convicted of terrorism in 2012 - at a prisoner rehabilitation event.\n\nThe BBC has learned Khan, 28, was put under MI5 investigation when he left prison a year ago but was given one of the lowest priorities.\n\nMr Merritt and Ms Jones were both graduates of the University of Cambridge's institute of criminology and had been taking part in an event for its Learning Together programme - which focuses on education within the criminal justice system - when they were killed on Friday.\n\nMr Merritt's family and his girlfriend attended the service in Cambridge outside the Guildhall.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPrime Minister Boris Johnson and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn were among those at the vigil at the Guildhall in the City of London.\n\nThey were joined London Mayor Sadiq Khan who said the best way to defeat the hatred shown in the attack was to focus on the values of hope, unity and love.\n\nJack Merritt was a co-ordinator of the Learning Together programme and Saskia Jones a volunteer\n\n\"The best way to defeat this hatred is not by turning on one another, but it's by focussing on the values that bind us, to take hope from the heroism of ordinary Londoners and our emergency services who ran towards danger, risking their lives to help people they didn't even know,\" he said.\n\nThe London service happened less than a mile from Fishmongers' Hall, where Usman Khan launched his attack.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A moment of silence was held at the vigil for the victims in London\n\nBishop of London Sarah Mullally said the vigils remembered \"academics celebrating rehabilitation and finding only danger\".\n\nShe paid tribute to the workers at Fishmongers' Hall, who she said went to work to offer hospitality, but found themselves needing to give protection.\n\nA book of condolences is open at Guildhall Art Gallery and members of the public are invited to lay flowers outside nearby Mansion House.\n\nThe vigil in Guildhall Yard in London was led by Bishop of London Sarah Mullally\n\nMembers of the public also paid their tributes\n\nA vigil was also held at Anglia Ruskin University, where Saskia Jones attended before taking her masters at Cambridge\n\nThe victims' families paid tribute to their loved ones over the weekend.\n\nMr Merritt was a co-ordinator of the Learning Together programme and Ms Jones a volunteer\n\nMs Jones's family said their daughter, from Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, had a \"great passion\" for supporting victims of criminal injustice.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Merritt's family described him as a \"talented boy\" who \"died doing what he loved\".\n\nMr Merritt's father went on to criticise the Daily Mail and Daily Express newspapers for their coverage of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's promise to review licence conditions placed on convicted terrorists released from jail.\n\nOn Twitter, David Merritt shared images of the Mail and Express front pages - which reported a \"blitz on freed jihadis\" - and wrote: \"Don't use my son's death, and his and his colleague's photos - to promote your vile propaganda. Jack stood against everything you stand for - hatred, division, ignorance.\"\n\nJack Merritt's family said he was 'looking forward to building a future with his girlfriend, Leanne'\n\nThe family of Saskia Jones said her death \"will leave a huge void in our lives\"\n\nCambridge University's vice-chancellor Prof Stephen J Toope said he was \"devastated to learn that among the victims were staff and alumni\".\n\nToby Williamson, chief executive of Fishmongers' Hall, praised the bravery of his staff who intervened to stop the attacker, hailing their actions as \"extraordinary things done by ordinary people\".\n\nMr Williamson told how Polish chef Lukasz suffered five wounds to his left-hand side as he fended off the knifeman with a narwhal tusk during \"about a minute of one-on-one straight combat\" - allowing others time to escape danger.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The chief executive of Fishmongers Hall, Commodore Toby Williamson describes how his staff fought back\n\nTwo others grabbed makeshift weapons including a fire extinguisher before the attacker fled down a staircase and then got trapped in reception.\n\nDr Vin Diwakar, medical director for the NHS in London, said two people injured in the attack remained in a stable condition in hospital, while one had been able to return home.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for rights reasons\n\nKhan, who was released from prison in December 2018 after serving half of his sentence was shot dead by police on London Bridge.\n\nThe BBC understands Khan was formally under investigation by MI5 as he left jail but placed in the second-to-bottom category of investigations as his initial risk to the public was thought to be minimal.\n\nThis was consistent with the grading given to most other people convicted of terrorism offences as they go back into the community under a release licence.\n\nA low level of prioritisation is assigned to offenders such as Khan because their release comes with a strict set of licence conditions.\n\nThese conditions theoretically provide suitable monitoring and oversight, such as alerts if they contact other suspects or travel outside an approved area.\n\nKhan, the BBC has learned, was on the highest-level of such community monitoring. The overall package, in theory, relives pressure on MI5 so the security service can focus on more immediate threats.\n\nThe prime minister said on Sunday that 74 people jailed for terror offences and released early will have their licence conditions reviewed.\n\nLater that day, Staffordshire Police said a 34-year-old man had been arrested on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts - but added there was no information to suggest the man was involved in the London Bridge attack.\n\nThe man has been named as Nazam Hussain, who was jailed in 2012 alongside Usman Khan and received the same sentence - 16 years with half of that served in prison - after pleading guilty to preparing acts of terrorism.\n\nFollowing his arrest, Hussain was recalled to prison due to a suspected breach of his licence conditions. Inquiries by detectives into the potential terrorism offences are continuing, police said.\n\nAnother man, Yayha Rashid, 23, of north London, has been charged following his arrest on Sunday on suspicion of breaching notification requirements.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said Rashid's arrest was not connected with the London Bridge attack.\n\nFriday's incident comes after the UK's terrorism threat level was downgraded on 4 November from \"severe\" to \"substantial\", meaning that attacks were thought to be \"likely\" rather than \"highly likely\".\n\nThe terror threat level is reviewed every six months by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre, which makes recommendations independent of government.\n\nFriday's attack took place close to where eight people died and 48 were injured by three men who drove into pedestrians on London Bridge, before stabbing people in Borough Market in June 2017.", "Lisa Smith was interviewed by the BBC in July\n\nAn Irish citizen who became an Islamic State bride has been arrested after arriving back in Dublin.\n\nLisa Smith and her daughter travelled from Turkey after being deported, arriving in Ireland on Sunday.\n\nShe was arrested on arrival and it is expected she will now be interviewed by police about suspected terrorist offences.\n\nPlans have also been made for the care of her two-year-old daughter, who was born in Syria but is an Irish citizen.\n\nMiss Smith is a former member of the Irish Defence Forces.\n\nIn a statement, Irish Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan said: \"This is a sensitive case and I want to reassure people that all relevant state agencies are closely involved.\"\n\nIrish state broadcaster RTÉ has posted footage on social media of her being escorted by gardaí (Irish police) on the runway in Dublin.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by RTÉ News This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC interviewed her in Syria earlier this year.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lisa Smith had denied training girls after becoming an IS bride\n\nShe said was not involved in fighting and did not train girls to become fighters.\n\nShe also claimed she had been visited more than once by the FBI for questioning, and agents had taken her fingerprints and DNA.\n\nLisa Smith was brought to a south Dublin police station after her arrest, covering herself with a pink blanket\n\nMs Smith had been living with her daughter in a Syrian refugee camp.\n\nThe taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Leo Varadkar had previously said she would \"certainly\" be investigated if she returned to Ireland.", "It’s an old story but I’ll tell it anyway.\n\nDuring the 1964 general election campaign Harold Wilson was trumpeting his support for the navy at a vast public meeting in the dockyard town of Chatham.\n\n“And why am I saying all this?\" he asked rhetorically. \"Because you're in Chatham!” shouted a voice from the crowd.\n\nA famously fine heckle from an era where prime ministers had to contend with the electorate face to face. They still do from behind their TV studio podiums of course but the public meeting and town centre walkabout has mostly gone.\n\nWe’re 10 days from polling day and from my perch in the Tory campaign I’ve yet to hear a heckle. Not one.\n\nToday Boris Johnson turned up at a deserted cruise liner terminal at Southampton docks to plug his party’s policies for border control after Brexit.\n\nHe chugged around the quiet port in a boat and did a quick television interview on his response to Friday’s terror attack before heading off to a rally for Tory activists this evening.\n\nThe PM was in and out before the city’s voters twigged he was there. It’s the same wherever Mr Johnson goes.\n\nThe Conservative campaign feels efficient, focused and sterile. Clips for broadcasters are provided, Tory social media content is recorded and pictures of the prime minister in different bits of Britain are taken that will appear online and in tomorrow’s newspapers.\n\nBut spontaneous encounters between the PM and the general public hardly ever happen.\n\nIt’s now impossible to imagine Boris Johnson copying John Major’s 1992 campaign and plunging into the crowd to argue his case.\n\nDuring the 2016 referendum, Mr Johnson seemed to relish the chaotic cut and thrust of town to town campaigning but there’s none of that now.\n\nThe Tory battle bus still ploughs up and down the country’s motorways carrying the media from one event to the next but it feels the real electioneering is happening somewhere else.", "Years have been knocked off official projections of children's life expectancies in the UK, an Office for National Statistics (ONS) report shows.\n\nA baby girl born in 2019 is now expected to celebrate three fewer birthdays on average, than under previous calculations.\n\nOfficial 2014 data thought that girl would make it to 93.6. Now the figure is 90.4.\n\nThe report also slashed the likelihood of children reaching 100.\n\nAlthough life expectancies have been and are still improving, experts say previous estimates were too high.\n\nThe improvement is much smaller than previously thought, as part of a widely acknowledged slowdown in life expectancy since 2011.\n\nIn 2018, life expectancy growth stalled for the first time in more than 30 years.\n\nThis has led statisticians to re-evaluate their assumptions about future improvements in life expectancy, resulting in the figures released today.\n\nThe ONS report calculates the impact of this less-rosy picture on children's prospects of a long life.\n\nSo a boy born in 2019 is now expected to live for 87.8 years.\n\nBut the 2016 data thought he would reach 89.7 and the 2014 data said 91.1.\n\nAnd looking to the future, to children born in 2043, there is a dramatic drop in the chances of reaching 100.\n\nBut the projections two years ago thought:\n\nThe ONS said: \"There has been considerable public debate about the causes of the slowdown in life expectancy improvements.\n\n\"Researchers have suggested a range of possible explanations for the slowdown... several factors are at play, none of which can be singled out as being the most important with any certainty.\"\n\nMany reports, including by Public Health England and the Health Foundation think tank, have attempted to get to the bottom of the issue.\n\nA lack of a recent blockbuster moment in medicine could be an issue.\n\nLife expectancy in the 20th Century improved with the creation of the NHS, falls in smoking, childhood immunisation (the last case of polio in the UK was in 1984) and medical advances particularly for the big killers - heart disease, stroke and cancer.\n\nBut now dementia is listed as the leading cause of death and it is incurable.\n\nPublic Health England says a more elderly population - with dementia and other long-term health problems - may also be more vulnerable to diseases like flu.\n\nBut there are issues affecting life expectancy well before old age. Deaths from drug misuse, with Scotland having the highest drug death rate in the EU, are also quoted.\n\nOne of the most politically charged questions has been around austerity - the programme of government cuts that coincides with the slowdown in life expectancy.\n\nThe evidence either way is hotly contested.\n\nBut Public Health England's report says the poorest people have felt the impact on life expectancy the hardest and that \"could indicate a role for government spending\".\n\nStalling life expectancy in the UK has attracted plenty of attention from academics, but they offer no definitive answers on the causes.\n\nWhen you are talking about shifts in predictions of lifespans, it needs more than a few years of data.\n\nBut there is concern about why it's a different story to that in most other developed economies.\n\nAn analysis by the ONS last year concluded that the slowdown in life expectancy growth in the UK since 2011 was one of the largest of the countries analysed.\n\nThat's led to speculation on UK specific factors.\n\nCuts in government spending in the policy period dubbed by some as \"austerity\" might, according to some commentators, have been a factor.\n\nIt's worth noting, though, that cuts in social care in England were not replicated to the same extent in other parts of the UK.\n\nThe decline in living standards and the reduced ability of some households to pay for heating and food in the decade since the financial crisis in 2008 have also been mentioned.\n\nThe gap between life expectancy in the richest and poorest neighbourhoods in England has increased according to research last year.\n\nThe debate will continue though it may take a while before firm trends and causes can be identified.", "A 12-year-old boy has died and five others were injured in a \"deliberate\" hit-and-run crash near a school.\n\nPolice have launched a murder inquiry and want to speak to Terry Glover, 51.\n\nCh Supt Tracey Harman, of Essex Police said: \"We believe that the collision was deliberate, and have launched a murder investigation\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ch Supt Tracey Harman: \"We believe that the collision was deliberate, and have launched a murder investigation\".\n\nA 12-year-old boy has died and five others were injured in a \"deliberate\" hit-and-run crash near a school.\n\nThe crash happened near Debden Park High School in Loughton, Essex, at about 15:20 GMT.\n\nTwo 15-year-old boys, a 13-year-old boy, a 16-year-old girl and a 53-year-old woman were also hurt but their injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.\n\nPolice have launched a murder inquiry and want to speak to Terry Glover, 51.\n\nCh Supt Tracey Harman, of Essex Police, said officers were looking to speak to Mr Glover, from Loughton, \"in connection with the investigation\".\n\nMs Harman said officers were investigating whether the crash was linked to \"another incident nearby\" and made a \"direct plea\" to Mr Glover to contact police.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe force has appealed for help locating a silver Ford KA, with registration number LS08 OKW, which was \"likely to have damage to [its] front\" and failed to stop at the scene.\n\nIt is thought all the injured children were also pupils at the school on Willingale Road.\n\nA 15-year-old boy who was hurt told the BBC he believed the driver had deliberately targeted the group.\n\nSpeaking from an east London hospital, he said he was walking on the pavement with a friend when he heard a car revving behind him.\n\nHe described how the Ford KA sped up, mounted the pavement and hit the pair of them, throwing his friend over the bonnet.\n\nThe GCSE student, who is awaiting treatment for injuries to his arm, back, leg and head, said all those hit by the car were walking near to him.\n\nPolice said there was likely to be a \"serious and prolonged investigation\"\n\nDebden Park's head teacher Helen Gascoyne said she was \"devastated\" to confirm the boy who died was a student at the school.\n\nShe said: \"It is with great sadness that we must report that a 12-year-old student from our school has sadly died.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with the family and all those affected....The school will be open tomorrow with a number of counsellors on hand to support our community.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp Rob Kirby, of the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate, called the crash \"truly shocking\" and appealed for dash-cam footage.\n\n\"I would like to thank the many members of the public who have called us with information and spoken to our officers, as well as those who provided crucial medical assistance at the scene,\" he added.\n\nPolice have called the crash \"truly shocking\"\n\nInsp Rob Brettell said: \"We are trying to locate and find a silver Ford KA which is likely to have damage to the front of the car.\"\n\nHe urged anyone who has seen the car or knows where it is to contact the force, and said it was likely to be a \"prolonged and serious investigation\".\n\nWillingale Road cannot be accessed from junctions on either side of the school and the area remains cordoned off.\n\nSebastian Fontanelle, who lives near the scene of the crash, said police arrived \"rapidly\" and he saw the air ambulance land at about 16:00.\n\nFather Sam Stuart said St John's Church in Loughton would also be open on Tuesday \"for prayer, lighting candles and if anyone needs to talk\".\n• None Murder probe as boy killed and five hurt in crash\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt were stabbed to death in Friday's terror attack at London Bridge\n\nTributes have been paid to two friends stabbed to death in Friday's terror attack at London Bridge.\n\nJack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, had been at a conference celebrating the five-year anniversary of the Learning Together prison programme when knifeman, 28-year-old Usman Khan, attacked them and three others.\n\nHe was shot dead by police minutes after he fatally wounded the University of Cambridge graduates.\n\n\"Saskia was a funny, kind, positive influence at the centre of many people's lives,\" the family of Ms Jones said in a statement.\n\n\"She had a wonderful sense of mischievous fun and was generous to the point of always wanting to see the best in all people,\" they added.\n\n\"She was intent on living life to the full and had a wonderful thirst for knowledge, enabling her to be the best she could be.\n\n\"Saskia had a great passion for providing invaluable support to victims of criminal injustice, which led her to the point of recently applying for the police graduate recruitment programme, wishing to specialise in victim support.\"\n\nMs Jones had completed a Masters degree in criminology in 2018.\n\nProf Loraine Gelsthorpe, director of the University of Cambridge's institute of criminology, said Ms Jones had a \"determination to make an enduring and positive impact on society in everything she did\".\n\n\"Saskia's warm disposition and extraordinary intellectual creativity was combined with a strong belief that people who have committed criminal offences should have opportunities for rehabilitation,\" she added.\n\nColleen Moore, a former tutor of Ms Jones at Anglia Ruskin University, paid tribute, telling the BBC: \"She was fearless, she was a warrior, she was going to change the world - maybe she will.\"\n\nShe added: \"She stood out above everyone else, partly because she wanted to. She was not afraid to say anything, there was no fooling her… she said things that she knew would be a bit risky but they were always right.\"\n\n\"She was a lovely, lovely woman, she made me laugh. She called me out on things - a lot of people were scared of me, she wasn't.\"\n\nOlivia Smith, a lecturer in criminology who marked Ms Jones' dissertation when she was at Anglia Ruskin, described her as \"one of a kind\" who \"would have been a force for good\".\n\nDr Smith said: \"I'm so sorry that the world won't get to see what she could have achieved.\n\n\"Saskia's dissertation was so good that I cried with pride when I marked it.\"\n\nA friend, Sebastian Lefeuvre, described the young woman's death as senseless.\n\n\"She was just the most perfect soul and she's gone,\" he said.\n\nJack Merritt's family said he was a \"friend and colleague\" of Ms Jones.\n\n\"Our beautiful, talented boy, died doing what he loved, surrounded by people he loved and who loved him,\" a statement said.\n\n\"He lit up our lives and the lives of his many friends and colleagues, and we will miss him terribly.\n\n\"Jack lived his principles; he believed in redemption and rehabilitation, not revenge, and he always took the side of the underdog.\n\n\"Jack was an intelligent, thoughtful and empathetic person who was looking forward to building a future with his girlfriend, Leanne, and making a career helping people in the criminal justice system.\n\n\"We know Jack would not want this terrible, isolated incident to be used as a pretext by the government for introducing even more draconian sentences on prisoners, or for detaining people in prison for longer than necessary.\n\n\"Our thoughts go out to the relatives and friends of his friend and colleague who died with him in this incident, to the colleagues who were injured, and to his brilliant, supportive colleagues at the University of Cambridge Department of Criminology.\"\n\nMr Merritt had completed the same masters degree Ms Jones had, but a year earlier.\n\nHe had previously gained a degree in law at the University of Manchester.\n\nOne woman who called Mr Merritt her \"best mate\" described him in a tribute posted on Twitter as \"quite simply the best thing, completely golden\".\n\n\"I wanted so much for you. Your life had so much enjoyment in it, and you gave us all so much happiness,\" she wrote.\n\nThe friend, who calls herself Holl on Twitter, said she went to the pub and \"kept expecting you to turn up, swanky coat, Dr Martens on\".\n\n\"I need you to be known for who you were, your beliefs and voice. I'm so angry Jack,\" she said.\n\n\"Your voice won't be lost, you will never be lost and I will never let you be forgotten.\"\n\nShe added Mr Merritt \"could have done anything\" but \"you chose to help others, you championed the underdog\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Listen to Jack Merritt speak on a BBC podcast about his work helping inmates at a prison to study law.\n\nProf Gelsthorpe said: \"Jack's passion for social and criminal justice was infectious. He was deeply creative and courageously engaged with the world, advocating for a politics of love. He worked tirelessly in dark places to pull towards the light.\"\n\nLegal commentator Joshua Rozenberg interviewed Mr Merritt for the BBC in February, when he was working with Learning Together at HMP Warren Hill in Suffolk.\n\nMr Rozenberg described him as \"a fine young man, dedicated to improving people's lives\".\n\nRapper Dave said Mr Merritt was \"the best guy\" and the news of his death was \"one of the most painful things\".\n\nDave's Mercury Prize-winning album was inspired by rehabilitation therapy his brother Christopher Omoregie has received while serving a life sentence for murder.\n\nThe Streatham-born rapper said Mr Merritt had \"dedicated his life to helping others\" and it was \"genuinely an honour to have met someone like you\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Typhoons can travel at twice the speed of sound\n\nTwo Royal Air Force Typhoons caused sonic booms as they went to intercept an aircraft which had lost its radio contact over south-east England.\n\nThe fighters from RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire were cleared to go supersonic because of the emergency.\n\nThe booms were heard in the early hours across London, Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire.\n\nThe aircraft first developed problems as it flew across Germany on its way to the US, said one of its pilots.\n\nThe pilot praised the speed of the RAF response, but said he was shocked when he first saw the fighters.\n\nSteven Giordano told the BBC: \"It took us about 10 minutes to realize that the radio wasn't working and then about 10 minutes to resolve that problem.\n\n\"Amazing how fast the RAF reacted. I applaud them for that.\"\n\nHe said the crew was busy checking frequencies when the radio came back online and had not noticed the RAF fighters.\n\n\"I looked left and about had a heart attack when I saw one - so close - strobes on and with blueish 'glow strips' along the side of his fuselage.\n\n\"We flashed our landing lights to acknowledge and established radio contact on 'guard'... with the fighters.\n\n\"We were already talking to London control at that point.\n\n\"They remained with us for about five minutes.\"\n\nHe said the empty aircraft eventually landed safely in the US.\n\nThe sonic booms woke people at about 04:20 GMT - with houses shaking and reports of police sirens sounding immediately after.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police subsequently confirmed the bang was the result of the RAF aircraft being cleared to go faster than the speed of sound.\n\nRAF jets are only given permission to go supersonic in emergencies, usually when they are required to intercept another aircraft.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAn RAF spokeswoman said: \"Typhoon aircraft from RAF Coningsby were scrambled this morning, as part of the UK's Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) procedures, after an aircraft lost communications in UK airspace.\n\n\"The aircraft was intercepted and its communications were subsequently re-established.\"\n\nJanet, from Hertfordshire, told the BBC she heard a \"huge thud\" and felt her house shake at 04:17 GMT.\n\nShe wondered whether her boiler had blown up or a tree had fallen on the house, she said.\n\n\"I got up, looked around and out of the window, things looked fine,\" she said.\n\n\"I went downstairs, went from room to room looking for cracks in the walls and ceilings.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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Earlier this year, the BBC got exclusive access to the Quick Reaction Alert Typhoon team at RAF Coningsby\n\nWhen an aircraft approaches the speed of sound (768mph or 1,236km per hour), the air in front of the nose of the plane builds up a pressure front because it has \"nowhere to escape\", said Dr Jim Wild of Lancaster University.\n\nA sonic boom happens when that air \"escapes\", creating a ripple effect which can be heard on the ground as a loud thunderclap.\n\nIt can be heard over such a large area because it moves with the plane, rather like the wake on the bow of a ship spreading out behind the vessel.", "A vigil to pay tribute to the victims of the London Bridge attack has been held at Guildhall Yard in the capital.\n\nJack Merritt, 25, and Saskia Jones, 23, were killed by Usman Khan, 28, in a knife attack on Friday.", "A sperm whale which died after stranding on the Isle of Harris had a 100kg \"litter ball\" in its stomach.\n\nFishing nets, rope, packing straps, bags and plastic cups were among the items discovered in a compacted mass.\n\nWhale experts said it was not immediately clear whether the debris had contributed to the whale's death.\n\nBut locals who found the carcass on Seilebost beach on Thursday said it highlighted the wider problem of marine pollution.\n\nNetting and bundles of rope were among the items found inside the whale\n\nDan Parry, who lives in nearby Luskentyre, said: \"It was desperately sad, especially when you saw the fishing nets and debris that came out of its stomach.\n\n\"We walk on these beaches nearly every day and I always take a bag to pick up litter, most of which is fishing-related.\n\n\"This stuff could have easily been netting or the like lost in a storm, we just don't know, but it does show the scale of the problem we have with marine pollution.\"\n\nMembers of the Scottish Marine Animal Stranding Scheme (Smass), an organisation that investigates the deaths of whales and dolphins, dissected the whale to try and determine its cause of death.\n\nA post on the group's Facebook page stated: \"The animal wasn't in particularly poor condition, and whilst it is certainly plausible that this amount of debris was a factor in its live stranding, we actually couldn't find evidence that this had impacted or obstructed the intestines.\n\n\"This amount of plastic in the stomach is nonetheless horrific, must have compromised digestion, and serves to demonstrate yet again the hazards that marine litter and lost or discarded fishing gear can cause to marine life.\"\n\nThe debris is believed to have originated from both the land and the fishing industry.\n\nThe Coastguard and workers from Western Isles Council helped with the examination of the whale on Saturday, as well as digging a giant hole on the beach to bury the sub-adult male.\n\nAccording to Smass figures reports of whale and dolphin strandings in Scotland are on the increase.\n\nThere were 204 reports in 2009, rising to more than 930 in 2018.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bryonn Bain was giving a workshop at Fishmongers' Hall when the attack began\n\nAn American academic has given a graphic account of the moment the London Bridge stabbing attack began, saying it \"felt like a warzone\".\n\nBryonn Bain told the BBC that victim Jack Merritt had been the first person to confront Usman Khan when he launched his knife assault during a prisoner rehabilitation conference on Friday.\n\n\"I saw people die, I saw things that I will never be able to unsee,\" he said.\n\nVigils have taken place for Mr Merritt, 25, and second victim Saskia Jones, 23.\n\nTwo women and a man were also injured in the attack before Khan was shot dead by armed officers on London Bridge - the two women are still in hospital in a stable condition.\n\nProf Bain said former offenders attending the University of Cambridge-linked conference \"stepped up and intervened\" to tackle Khan, and people at Fishmongers' Hall owed their lives to the actions of those who had previously spent time in jail.\n\nHe said two men from his performance poetry workshop immediately ran towards shouts from elsewhere in Fishmongers' Hall in the City of London as the attack began, and as shouts grew louder he also went to assist.\n\n\"That's when I ran down and saw the scene unfolding there,\" he said. \"I was able to see the attacker.\"\n\nHe added: \"It felt like a warzone... it felt like total chaos.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The chief executive of Fishmongers Hall, Commodore Toby Williamson describes how his staff fought back\n\nProf Bain said course co-ordinator Mr Merritt was \"the first line of defence\".\n\n\"I want to honour him,\" Prof Bain said of Mr Merritt. \"I want to honour his father's wishes which have been explicit to not have his life be used for political purposes to ramp up draconian policies, because that's not what he was about.\"\n\nMr Merritt's father criticised newspaper coverage of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's pledge to review the early release of convicted terrorists.\n\nWriting in the Guardian, David Merritt says his son \"would be seething at his death, and his life, being used to perpetuate an agenda of hate that he gave his everything fighting against\".\n\nThe article calls for a justice system that focuses on rehabilitation, rather than revenge, and criticises indeterminate sentences, saying his son worked for \"a world where we do not lock up and throw away the key\".\n\nJack Merritt was a co-ordinator of the Learning Together programme and Saskia Jones a volunteer\n\nProf Bain added: \"I want to make sure that as much as possible that we uphold the heroes of the day, were formerly incarcerated people, some of the folks who are often easiest to dehumanise.\n\n\"They stepped up and many of the folks in that space would not be here today if it weren't for these guys who did time in prison and literally saved lives.\"\n\nIn other developments on Monday:\n\nVigils for the victims of the attack were also held in Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin University, which Ms Jones had previously attended.\n\nMr Merritt and Ms Jones both studied for masters degrees at the University of Cambridge's institute of criminology and had been taking part in an event for its Learning Together programme - which focuses on education within the criminal justice system - when they were killed.\n\nThe family of Jack Merritt take part in a vigil at the Guildhall in Cambridge\n\nMr Merritt, from Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, was a co-ordinator of the Learning Together programme and Ms Jones, from Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, a volunteer\n\nThe victims' families paid tribute to their loved ones at the weekend.\n\nMs Jones's family said their daughter had a \"great passion\" for supporting victims of criminal justice.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Merritt's family described him as a \"talented boy\" who \"died doing what he loved\".\n\nToby Williamson, chief executive of Fishmongers' Hall, praised the bravery of his staff who intervened to stop the attacker, hailing their actions as \"extraordinary things done by ordinary people\".\n\nMr Williamson told how Polish chef Lukasz suffered five wounds to his left-hand side as he fended off the knifeman with a narwhal tusk during \"about a minute of one-on-one straight combat\" - allowing others time to escape danger.\n\nA group of hall staff, ex-offenders, prison and probation staff are believed to have drawn Khan out on to London Bridge where he was subsequently shot dead by armed police.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said in an update on Monday night that detectives were continuing extensive inquiries but had so far found nothing to suggest other people were involved in the attack.\n\nKhan, who admitted preparing terrorist acts in 2012, was released from prison in December 2018 after serving half of his sentence.\n\nThe BBC understands Khan was formally under investigation by MI5 as he left jail but placed in the second-to-bottom category of investigations as his initial risk to the public was thought to be minimal.\n\nThis was consistent with the grading given to most other people convicted of terrorism offences as they go back into the community under a release licence.\n\nA low level of prioritisation is assigned to offenders such as Khan because their release comes with a strict set of licence conditions.\n\nThese conditions theoretically provide suitable monitoring and oversight, such as alerts if they contact other suspects or travel outside an approved area.\n\nKhan, the BBC has learned, was on the highest-level of such community monitoring. The overall package, in theory, relieves pressure on MI5 so the security service can focus on more immediate threats.\n\nFriday was the first time that Khan, who wore a GPS tag, had been permitted to travel to London since he left prison. The BBC has been told that - earlier in the year - Khan was refused permission to travel to Stoke-on-Trent, which is where he grew up, in order to attend a social event.\n\nThe prime minister said on Sunday that 74 people jailed for terror offences and released early would have their licence conditions reviewed..\n\nPolice said two terror-related arrests following Friday's incident, in Staffordshire and north London, were not directly connected to the London Bridge attack.\n\nIt came after the UK's terrorism threat level was downgraded on 4 November from \"severe\" to \"substantial\", meaning that attacks were thought to be \"likely\" rather than \"highly likely\".", "A Norwegian pensioner convicted of spying in Moscow says he was wrong to trust an intelligence officer who recruited him to pass on payment for secrets about Russia’s atomic submarine fleet.\n\nFrode Berg has just returned home after complex negotiations led him being included in a spy swap between Russia and Lithuania.\n\nHis arrest and conviction for espionage has caused controversy in Norway, where many criticise the Nato country’s use of a civilian in risky intelligence operations - especially when tensions between the West and Russia are so high.\n\nSarah Rainsford has been to meet Frode Berg in Norway where he is preparing to return to his hometown.", "Simon Parkes disappeared after spending the evening in bars in Gibraltar\n\nPolice have begun to search a cemetery for the remains of a Royal Navy sailor who was thought to have been murdered in Gibraltar in 1986.\n\nNaval rating Simon Parkes, 18, from Kingswood near Bristol, disappeared after going ashore with crewmates from HMS Illustrious.\n\nPolice said a member of the ship's crew had provided \"credible\" information.\n\nThe case was reopened in 2001 after a shipmate, petty officer Allan Grimson, was convicted of two murders.\n\nPolice said they had received \"credible\"new information relating to Trafalgar Cemetery\n\nHMS Illustrious docked in Gibraltar on 12 December 1986 during its return to Portsmouth from a deployment to Asia and Australasia.\n\nMr Parkes spent the evening in bars before telling friends he was leaving to buy food, police said.\n\nThe Royal Navy conducted a search when the radio operator failed to rejoin the ship, but found no trace of him.\n\nMr Parkes' parents said they hoped his remains would be found and brought home\n\nIn 2003, a number of Gibraltar cemeteries were searched after a police review concluded Mr Parkes was likely to have been murdered.\n\nDet Insp Roger Wood said the new information made Trafalgar Cemetery \"more interesting and more significant than it was in the early 2000s\".\n\nHe said: \"This year Hampshire Constabulary has received new information from a witness which has been assessed as credible.\n\n\"Based on that information, today we are beginning a search operation and conducting further inquiries over in Gibraltar with the hope of finally locating Simon's remains.\"\n\nDet Insp Roger Wood said the cemetery search would take about a week\n\nMr Parkes' parents said they hoped his remains would be found and brought home.\n\nHis mother Margaret said: \"We're getting older, time's getting on, we desperately need to know.\"\n\nHampshire Constabulary has issued a new appeal to trace more of Mr Parkes' crewmates, including those who were with him on the evening he vanished.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Yang Hengjun, a popular blogger and former Chinese diplomat, was detained in January\n\nAustralia says the treatment endured by one of its citizens in criminal detention in China is \"unacceptable\".\n\nChinese-Australian writer Dr Yang Hengjun has been held in Beijing since January. He has been accused of espionage - charges denied by him and the Australian government.\n\nHe now faces daily interrogations while being shackled, and has been increasingly isolated, Canberra said.\n\nAustralia has consistently lobbied Chinese authorities for his release.\n\nBut China's foreign ministry has told Australia to not interfere in the case, and to respect the nation's \"judicial sovereignty\".\n\nOn Monday, Foreign Minister Marise Payne said she was \"very concerned\" about his condition, which was reported in a recent consulate visit.\n\nMr Yang, a former Chinese diplomat, has been allowed one visit from Australian officials per month.\n\nBut he has been barred from contact with his lawyers and his family for close to 11 months and has not been given any of their letters.\n\nSupporters say his health has deteriorated in recent months. China formally charged him in August.\n\nMr Yang, a scholar and novelist based in New York, was detained when he travelled to China in January with his wife Yuan Ruijuan and her child.\n\nPrior to the arrest he had maintained an active presence on Chinese social media.\n\nNicknamed \"the democracy peddler\", he maintained a blog on the country's current affairs and international relations. However, he had not been directly critical of Chinese authorities in recent years.\n\nBeijing has held him for alleged \"involvement in criminal activities endangering China's national security\". Australia has called for clarification of the charges.\n\nAustralia has also repeatedly requested that he receive \"basic standards of justice, procedural fairness and humane treatment\" during his detention.\n\nHis lawyers say his treatment has got worse as Chinese authorities attempt to extract a confession from him. His case must be brought before a court by March.\n\nCanberra's rebuke comes as tensions remain heightened with Beijing.\n\nAustralia's political class was rocked last week by allegations of Chinese espionage and interference in domestic issues. China has strongly dismissed the claims as \"imaginary fears\".", "The Lib Dems would not support Labour's plans to renationalise key industries in the event of a hung Parliament, the party's leader Jo Swinson has said.\n\nShe told the BBC Radio 5's Pienaar's Politics the policy was a \"distraction\" and not \"the way forward\".\n\nThe Lib Dems and Labour have both ruled out a coalition deal if there is no clear general election winner.\n\nAsked if she would try to block Labour from forming a minority government, she said it was a \"fantasy situation\".\n\n\"Nobody is expecting, on the current scenario, that Jeremy Corbyn is getting anywhere near Downing Street and the Liberal Democrats are going to put him there.\n\n\"So the Labour manifesto, it's a wish list, they cannot deliver it.\"\n\nMs Swinson, who was a business minister in the Conservative/Lib Dem coalition government, began the general election campaign by saying she was aiming to be the prime minister of a Liberal Democrat government but has since conceded that would be a \"big step\" given the opinion polls.\n\nIf her party ends up holding the balance of power after 12 December's election, she has said her MPs would not actively support a Labour or Tory programme of government as she believes neither Jeremy Corbyn nor Boris Johnson are fit to be prime minister.\n\nThe party's foreign affairs spokesman Chuka Umunna refused to speculate about what his party would do in this situation, in an interview with the BBC's Andrew Marr.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Chuka Umunna: \"We don't know who the Queen is going to approach to be prime minister.\"\n\nJo Swinson has not ruled out allowing a Conservative or Labour leader to take office - by abstaining in a vote on their first Queen's Speech - if they agreed to hold another EU referendum.\n\nLabour is committed to holding another EU referendum, on a renegotiated deal with the EU.\n\nBut the party's first Queen's Speech would be likely to include plans to take the Royal Mail, rail companies, energy supply networks, water and sewerage companies back into public ownership.\n\nAsked whether she would support Labour's plans, Ms Swinson told Pienaar's Politics: \"No, I think renationalisation is a distraction.\n\n\"I don't think it's a way to deliver better public services and I think it's taking us away from, actually, how do you make things better for people?\"\n\nPushed for further clarity on whether the Lib Dems would block the renationalisation of water, Ms Swinson said: \"We don't think that renationalisation is the way forward.\"\n\nAs well as criticising Jeremy Corbyn's economic plans, Ms Swinson condemned Boris Johnson's actions in the aftermath of Friday's London Bridge terror attack.\n\nShe accused the prime minister of trying to make Friday's terror attack an election issue.\n\n\"This was an opportunity for Boris Johnson to be a statesman, and yet again he has failed in that and has just shown why he is not fit for the job of Prime Minister,\" she said.\n\n\"You've got a community which is coming together in a brilliant way and straight out of the door the prime minister's trying to make it an election issue - I just think it's pretty distasteful.\n\n\"I think we ought to be able to behave with respect, even when these things happen in the middle of a general election campaign.\"", "Henrik Stiesdal has been thinking about wind turbines since he was a teenager and now he wants to take the next big step.\n\nHenrik thinks offshore wind farming, using floating turbines, is the key and he talked to the BBC's Freya Cole about his vision.\n\nProduced by the BBC's Stephen Hounslow, filmed by Helene Daouphars and edited by Franz Strasser.\n\nClimate Defenders is a five-part series highlighting people who lead the battle to protect the planet from rising temperatures.", "Gogglebox is now in its 14th series\n\nComments about former SNP leader Alex Salmond, who is facing a sexual assault trial, have been edited out of catch-up versions of Channel 4's Gogglebox.\n\nIn Friday's episode, the Siddiqui family referred to Scotland's former first minister - who denies all charges - while watching Question Time.\n\nBut the comments were cut after the programme became available on catch-up.\n\nA Channel 4 spokesperson said: \"This episode of the programme has been edited and is now available on All 4.\"\n\nContempt of court laws mean the media must not broadcast or publish anything that might influence jurors and prejudice a trial.\n\nThe Scottish legal system has a stricter attitude to contempt of court than in England.\n\nMr Salmond is to plead not guilty to charges including one attempted rape, one intent to rape, 10 sexual assaults and two indecent assaults. The trial date is set for 9 March next year.\n\nSpeaking outside court after a brief hearing last month, Mr Salmond said he was innocent and would defend himself \"vigorously\" during the trial.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, or on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. COP25: What you need to know about the climate conference\n\nThe president of an island nation on the frontline of climate change says it is in a \"fight to the death\" after freak waves inundated the capital.\n\nPowerful swells averaging 5m (16ft) washed across the capital of the Marshall Islands, Majuro, last week.\n\nBut President Hilda Heine said the Pacific nation had been fighting rising tides even before last week's disaster.\n\nPolitical leaders and climate diplomats are meeting in Madrid for two weeks of talks amid a growing sense of crisis.\n\nThis conference of the parties, or COP25, was due to be held in Chile but was cancelled by the government due to weeks of civil disturbances.\n\nSpain then stepped in to host the event, which will see 29,000 attendees over the two weeks of talks.\n\nSchool protesters are among those who have taken to the streets\n\nThe world's average surface temperature is rising rapidly because human activities release greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2). These gases trap heat in the atmosphere, a bit like the glass roof of a greenhouse.\n\nAt the meeting, Ms Heine commented: \"Water covers much of our land at one or other point of the year as we fight rising tides. As we speak hundreds of people have evacuated their homes after large waves caused the ocean to inundate parts of our capital in Majuro last week.\"\n\nShe added: \"It's a fight to the death for anyone not prepared to flee. As a nation we refuse to flee. But we also refuse to die.\"\n\nMs Heine is not alone in the view that small nations like the Marshall Islands face an imminent existential threat. At the Madrid summit, ambassador Lois Young, from the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), which represents low-lying coastal countries and small island nations, launched a rebuke to the world's big polluters.\n\n\"We are disappointed by inadequate action by developed countries and outraged by the dithering and retreat of one of the most culpable polluters from the Paris Agreement,\" she said.\n\n\"In the midst of a climate emergency, retreat and inaction are tantamount to sanctioning ecocide. They reflect profound failure to honour collective global commitment to protect the most vulnerable.\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this map\n\n\"With our very existence at stake, COP 25 must demonstrate unprecedented ambition to avert ecocide.\"\n\nThe COP25 meeting will aim to step up ambition so that all countries increase their national commitments to cut emissions. The meeting follows on the heels of three UN reports which stressed the increased urgency of limiting dangerous climate change.\n\nAccording to UN Secretary General António Guterres, \"the point of no return is no longer over the horizon\".\n\nSpeaking ahead of the meeting, he said political leaders had to respond to the imminent climate crisis.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The man who took wind power to another level\n\n\"In the crucial 12 months ahead, it is essential that we secure more ambitious national commitments - particularly from the main emitters - to immediately start reducing greenhouse gas emissions at a pace consistent to reaching carbon neutrality by 2050.\n\n\"We simply have to stop digging and drilling and take advantage of the vast possibilities offered by renewable energy and nature-based solutions,\" Mr Guterres said.\n\nAlmost every country in the world has now signed and ratified the Paris climate agreement and under the terms of the pact they will all have to put new climate pledges on the table before the end of 2020.\n\nThe UN secretary general says no new coal-fired power stations should be built after 2020\n\nThis meeting in Madrid signals the start of a frantic 12 months of negotiations that will culminate in Glasgow with COP26 in November next year.\n\nSome 50 world leaders are expected to attend the meeting in the Spanish capital - but US President Donald Trump will not be among them.\n\nThe US became a signatory to the landmark Paris climate agreement in April 2016, under the Obama administration. But President Trump has said the accord - which has been signed by more than 190 countries - would lead to lost jobs and lower wages for American workers.\n\nLast month, he began the process of withdrawing from the Paris deal.\n\nHowever, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, will attend the conference with a congressional delegation.\n\nWhile her presence has been welcomed, US environmentalists want to see concrete steps on climate.\n\n\"While it's great Speaker Pelosi is coming to Madrid in place of Trump, symbolic gestures are no substitute for bold action,\" said Jean Su from the US Center for Biological Diversity.\n\n\"America remains the number one historic contributor to the climate emergency, and even Democratic politicians have never committed to taking responsibility for our fair share.\"\n\nUnderlining the real world impacts of climate change, a report from the charity Save the Children, says that what it calls \"climate shocks\" are threatening tens of millions of people in East and Southern Africa.\n\nThe charity says 33 million people are at emergency levels of food insecurity due to cyclones and droughts. More than half of these are believed to be children.\n\nThe situation has been made worse because the two strongest cyclones ever to hit the African continent, affected the same region just weeks apart.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCyclone Idai struck Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi last March, while six weeks later Cyclone Kenneth slammed Mozambique with millions affected by flooding.\n\n\"The climate crisis is happening here, and it's killing people, forcing them from their homes and ruining children's chance of a future,\" said Ian Vale from Save the Children.", "Almost 200 countries are meeting in Madrid to discuss what they're doing to tackle climate change.\n\nThe 25th annual Conference of the Parties (COP 25) is a key moment for the world to come together and explore how they'll reduce rising temperatures.\n\nSo what can we expect from it? BBC Minute's Shivani Dave explains.\n\nTo find out more, check out BBC Minute's Instagram page", "The Conservatives are publishing plans to improve the UK's border security after Brexit.\n\nIf the party wins the general election, it says it will introduce automated exit and entrance checks.\n\nIt would also make it harder for people with serious criminal convictions to enter the UK from EU countries.\n\nLabour says the UK would no longer have access to EU databases or the European Arrest Warrant, undermining the fight against terror and organised crime.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats say the Conservative plans would lead to \"bureaucracy, more red tape and - because the EU will implement a mirrored system for the British public - fees for anyone travelling to the EU for their holiday\".\n\nAnnouncing the proposals, Home Secretary Priti Patel said: \"When people voted to leave in 2016, they were voting to take back control of our borders.\n\n\"After Brexit we will introduce an Australian-style points based immigration system and take steps to strengthen our border and improve the security of the UK.\"\n\nThe party says introducing automated entry and exit checks and a requirement for biometric passports will enable the government to \"know who and how many people are in the country, and to identify individuals who have breached the terms of their visa and restrict illegal immigration\".\n\nSuccessive UK governments have attempted to introduce a more reliable system for counting people in and out of the country, with limited success.\n\nThe Conservatives say they would also introduce an American-style visa waiver scheme, called Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA), which travellers would have to obtain before reaching the UK border.\n\nIt would provide an enhanced ability to screen arrivals against watchlists and block those deemed to be a threat from entering the UK, the party claims.\n\nAs the technology becomes available, a future Conservative government would hope to record biometric data - which might include things like fingerprints or retina scans - on all ETAs to provide a further security layer, although the party does not go into details.\n\nIn last year's White Paper setting out its post-Brexit immigration plans, the government said: \"It is our intention to require EU citizens to obtain an ETA, but we intend to discuss this further with the EU in the next phase of negotiations.\"\n\nMs Patel is also proposing broader powers to deny entry to EU foreign nationals who have serious criminal convictions.\n\nMinor criminality will not be a bar to entry in itself, just as is the case with people from non-EU countries at the moment, but would be assessed on a \"case by case\" basis.\n\nThe Conservatives say they would also end the use of European ID cards as proof of identity for travel at the UK border.\n\nThe plans also include more checks on goods entering the UK from the EU using \"pre-arrival data\", which the Tories say would cut revenue \"leakage\" caused by smuggling by £5bn.\n\nThe details of how this would work will be hammered out in trade talks with the EU and the rest of the world, the party says.\n\nThe BBC's Reality Check team said the £5bn figure was composed of a number of different sources, including £1.5bn of VAT fraud and error in online marketplaces.\n\nThere is also a tension between gathering data and keeping trade flowing smoothly without burdening business with red tape.\n\nShadow home secretary Diane Abbott said: \"Tory claims to be strengthening the border through their sell-out Brexit deal are groundless.\"\n\n\"By quitting the entire system of EU security and justice, we will no longer have real-time access to a host of critical databases or access to the European Arrest Warrant,\" she said.\n\n\"This will undermine the ability of our police and border agencies to apprehend terrorists and organised criminals, and could even make us a safe haven for fugitives fleeing the justice systems in the EU.\"\n• None Why don't we know how many people come to the UK?", "Jack Merritt was a co-ordinator of the Learning Together programme and Saskia Jones was a volunteer on the programme\n\nThe woman killed in Friday's London Bridge attack has been named by police as Saskia Jones.\n\nThe 23-year-old Cambridge University graduate, from Stratford-upon-Avon, was fatally stabbed alongside another ex-student, Jack Merritt.\n\nThe boss of the venue where the attack began which killed the pair said \"the building turned into a nightmare\".\n\nToby Williamson, of Fishmongers' Hall, said staff who fought attacker Usman Khan believed he was wearing a bomb.\n\nTwo men took chairs, fire extinguishers and narwhal tusks, which were hanging on the wall, to fend off Khan, driving him out of the building.\n\nKhan, 28, a convicted terrorist who was released from prison in December 2018, was later shot dead by police on London Bridge.\n\nThe families of Mr Merritt and Ms Jones have both paid tribute to their loved ones.\n\nJack Merritt's family said he was 'looking forward to building a future with his girlfriend, Leanne'\n\nIn a statement, Mr Merritt's family described him as a \"talented boy\" who \"died doing what he loved\".\n\n\"Jack lived his principles; he believed in redemption and rehabilitation, not revenge, and he always took the side of the underdog.\n\n\"Jack was an intelligent, thoughtful and empathetic person.\n\n\"We know Jack would not want this terrible, isolated incident to be used as a pretext by the government for introducing even more draconian sentences on prisoners, or for detaining people in prison for longer than necessary,\" the statement read.\n\nThe family of Saskia Jones said her death \"will leave a huge void in our lives\"\n\nMs Jones' family said their daughter, from Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, had a \"great passion\" for supporting victims of criminal injustice.\n\n\"Saskia was a funny, kind, positive influence at the centre of many people's lives,\" the family statement read.\n\n\"She had a wonderful sense of mischievous fun and was generous to the point of always wanting to see the best in all people.\n\n\"She was intent on living life to the full and had a wonderful thirst for knowledge, enabling her to be the best she could be.\n\n\"This is an extremely painful time for the family. Saskia will leave a huge void in our lives and we would request that our privacy is fully respected.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCambridge University's vice-chancellor said he was \"devastated to learn that among the victims were staff and alumni\".\n\nProfessor Stephen J Toope said the victims were taking part in an event \"to mark five years of the university's Learning Together programme\" - which focuses on prisoner rehabilitation.\n\nHe added: \"What should have been a joyous opportunity to celebrate the achievements of this unique and socially transformative programme, hosted by our Institute of Criminology, was instead disrupted by an unspeakable criminal act.\n\n\"Among the three people injured, whose identities have not been publicly released, is a member of university staff.\n\n\"Our university condemns this abhorrent and senseless act of terror.\"\n\nVice-chancellor Professor Stephen J Toope said he only met Jack Merritt once but was \"impressed by his charm\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Prof Toope said the fact Mr Merritt was killed by someone he was trying to help \"is the greatest tragedy of all\".\n\n\"I have profound sadness for the family,\" he added.\n\n\"This is an attack on our community and it was intended, in such, to produce a form of terror and sadness - and it has clearly done that.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for rights reasons\n\nSpeaking about the chain of events inside Fishmongers' Hall on Friday, where Khan launched his fatal attack, chief executive Mr Williamson praised the bravery of his staff who intervened to stop the attacker, hailing their actions as \"extraordinary things done by ordinary people\".\n\n\"There was a scream, there was blood. People thought it was an exercise at first,\" Mr Williamson told the BBC.\n\nHe recounted how two men, named as Lukasz and Andy, \"used fire extinguishers, chairs and narwhal tusks ripped off the wall\" to take the fight back to Khan\n\n\"They took a decision, one that enough was enough. They were determined it wasn't going to go on.\"\n\n\"They are two of the most humble people... but in the heat of the moment, people do extraordinary things.\n\n\"I am very proud to know them.\"\n\nFloral tributes have been laid on the south side of London Bridge\n\nEarlier in the day, hundreds attended a service at Southwark Cathedral for the victims of Friday's attack on London Bridge.\n\nThe Dean of Southwark Cathedral, the Very Revd Andrew Nunn, said many people were struggling with what happened.\n\nOn Friday, the cathedral was put into lockdown as people ran away from London Bridge.\n\nAs crowds ran towards the cathedral, Mr Nunn recalled having \"that sense of déjà vu\", adding that it brought back memories of the nearby attack in Borough Market two years ago, which left eight dead and 48 injured.\n\nThe Dean of Southwark Cathedral said Friday's attack brought back memories of the London Bridge terror attack in 2017\n\nPrayers were held for the victims of the London Bridge attack\n\nSpeaking at Sunday's service, Mr Nunn said \"memories have been stirred and wounds have been re-opened\".\n\nHe added: \"What seemed to have been put to the back of people's minds has now been brought to the fore.\n\n\"We have to stand with them. We have to help bear their pain but also speak to that pain with words of hope.\"\n\nMr Nunn, too, praised the bravery of the people who confronted Khan as he carried out his attack.\n\n\"Every event of this nature produces stories of such selfless acts of bravery.\"\n\nLondon Bridge was cordoned for most of the weekend while forensic officers searched the scene\n\nDr Vin Diwaker, medical director for the NHS in London, gave an update on the conditions of the three people who were injured in the attack.\n\nHe said: \"One of the people injured in the London Bridge incident has now been able to return home.\n\n\"Two people remain in a stable condition and continue to receive expert care in hospital.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thomas Gray spoke to BBC 5 Live about how he helped to stop the London Bridge attacker\n\nOver the weekend counter-terrorism officers searched a house in Stafford linked to Khan and another property in Stoke-on-Trent.\n\nOn Sunday night, Staffordshire Police said a 34-year-old man was arrested in connection with a \"review of existing licence conditions of convicted terrorism offenders\".\n\nThe man was arrested on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts, but Staffordshire Police added there was no information to suggest the man was involved in the London Bridge attack.\n\nVehicles abandoned as the attack unfolded on Friday have since been removed, the Met Police has said.\n\nFriday's attack comes after the UK's terrorism threat level was downgraded on 4 November from \"severe\" to \"substantial\", meaning that attacks were thought to be \"likely\" rather than \"highly likely\".\n\nThe terror threat level is reviewed every six months by the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre, which makes recommendations independent of government.", "Sixteen men have been sentenced for their roles in a \"terrifying\" street brawl after an England World Cup match.\n\nThe fight broke out in Park Street, Bristol on 24 June last year, after the Three Lions beat Panama.\n\nTables and signs were thrown, with several men injured, including one who suffered a broken leg.\n\nAfter the 16 men were sentenced for affray Avon and Somerset Police said: \"This type of violence has absolutely no place in our society.\"\n\nThirteen of the men were jailed, with three receiving suspended sentences.\n\nThe brawl was witnessed by families with children, with one bystander describing it as a \"vicious attack\".\n\n\"[I] found it distressing to watch that level of violence in real life, watching people get hurt and bleeding in the street,\" they said.\n\n\"What I was seeing really disturbed me. I felt terrified.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOver the past week, the defendants have all been sentenced at Bristol Crown Court.\n\nSupt Rhys Hughes said: \"This incident of violent disorder was quickly brought under control on the arrival of police officers.\n\n\"However, those few minutes were enough to put many of those enjoying a Sunday afternoon in the city in fear of being injured.\n\n\"This type of violence has absolutely no place in our society.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Duke of York has answered questions about his links to Jeffrey Epstein for the first time in a BBC interview.\n\nHe spoke to BBC Newsnight's Emily Maitlis in an interview recorded at Buckingham Palace.\n\nPrince Andrew & the Epstein Scandal: The Newsnight Interview was shown on BBC Two on 16 November 2019 and can be seen on BBC iPlayer in the UK and the full interview can also be seen on YouTube.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage appears to shows Prince Andrew inside Jeffrey Epstein's New York residence in 2010\n\nPrince Andrew has given an unprecedented interview to the BBC about his relationship with US financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nThe friendship between the 59-year-old member of the Royal Family and Epstein has come under close scrutiny since the American killed himself in August while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.\n\nPrince Andrew said it was wrong of him to visit and stay at Epstein's house in 2010 after the financier's conviction but that he did not regret their entire friendship.\n\nHe also categorically denied having sex with Virginia Roberts, who alleges she was forced to have sex with the prince when she was 17 years old.\n\nHere's what we know about the links between Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein.\n\nPrince Andrew said he first met Epstein, a wealthy hedge fund manager, in 1999 through Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's British girlfriend and a woman the prince said he had known since she was at university. That year was the first time the prince and the businessman were linked in press reports in the UK and US.\n\nPrince Andrew reportedly flew with Epstein on his private Gulfstream jet in February 1999, according to a log book seen by the Daily Mirror in 2015.\n\nThe destination was said to have been Epstein's private island, Little St James in the US Virgin Islands.\n\nThe Daily Mail also reported that 10 months earlier Epstein's logbook showed he had flown to the same location to meet the prince's ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson. The couple had divorced in 1996.\n\nEpstein and Ms Maxwell were among a star-studded guest list at a party hosted by the Queen in June 2000.\n\nThe Dance of the Decades event, which saw more than 600 guests descend on Windsor Castle, marked four royal birthdays including Prince Andrew's 40th. Prince Andrew, the Queen's third child, told the BBC that Epstein was there at his invitation, not the Royal Family's, but was to some extent Ms Maxwell's \"plus one\".\n\nThe duke at the time appeared to be part of the social circle of Ms Maxwell, whom Epstein later described as his best friend.\n\nPrince Andrew was pictured accompanying Ms Maxwell - daughter of the late newspaper tycoon Robert Maxwell - at private parties and celebrity functions both in the UK and in the US that year.\n\nThey were photographed together at the wedding of the prince's former girlfriend, Aurelia Cecil, near Salisbury in Wiltshire in September 2000.\n\nThe Duke of York and Ghislaine Maxwell leaving the wedding of his former girlfriend Aurelia Cecil in September 2000\n\nThe Duke of York and Ghislaine Maxwell were pictured at the event in Wiltshire\n\nPrince Andrew and Ms Maxwell were again photographed together at a Halloween party thrown by model Heidi Klum in Manhattan.\n\nMs Maxwell was pictured dressed in gold lame and wearing a blonde wig for the Hookers and Pimps-themed party.\n\nJust over a month later, in December 2000, the then 40-year-old prince threw Ms Maxwell a surprise birthday party at Sandringham, the Queen's estate in Norfolk, with Epstein among the guests.\n\nHe described it in the BBC interview as a \"straightforward shooting weekend\".\n\nJeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at Sandringham in December 2000\n\nMs Maxwell and Epstein were photographed on a pheasant shoot at the estate around that time.\n\nPrince Andrew and Ms Maxwell went on a number of trips together including to Florida and Thailand, according to an Evening Standard report from January 2001, which claimed Epstein had joined them on five such occasions over the previous 12 months.\n\nPrince Andrew told the BBC that he used to see Epstein a maximum of three times a year but confirmed he had been on his private plane, stayed at his private island, and stayed at his homes in Palm Beach, Florida and New York.\n\nAllegations against Jeffrey Epstein started surfacing in 2005 when the parents of a 14-year-old girl told police in Florida that Epstein had molested their daughter at his Palm Beach home.\n\nThe financier was accused of paying girls under the age of 18 to perform sex acts at his Manhattan and Florida mansions between 2002 and 2005.\n\nHowever, a controversial secret plea deal in 2008 saw him plead guilty to a lesser charge of soliciting a minor for prostitution.\n\nHe received an 18-month prison sentence and was released on probation after 13 months.\n\nIn July 2019 he was charged in New York with further allegations of sex trafficking and conspiracy and was due to face trial next year.\n\nHe pleaded not guilty to all the charges but was facing up to 45 years in prison if convicted.\n\nIn July 2006, Jeffrey Epstein was invited to a masked ball at Windsor Castle to celebrate the 18th birthday of Princess Beatrice, Prince Andrew's elder daughter.\n\nThe theme of the evening was 1888, and the 500 guests donned period costumes.\n\nThe previous month, Epstein was charged with one count of solicitation of prostitution.\n\nPrince Andrew said Epstein had been invited via Ms Maxwell but that he wasn't aware at the time the invitation was sent out \"what was going on in the United States\".\n\nHe said Epstein never mentioned that he was under investigation.\n\nThe duke was photographed with Epstein in New York's Central Park in December 2010 - after the tycoon had served his sentence.\n\nPrince Andrew said he had travelled across the Atlantic to end his friendship with Epstein and was having that conversation with him when they were photographed in the park.\n\nPrince Andrew with Jeffrey Epstein in New York's Central Park in 2010\n\nThe prince told the BBC: \"I said, 'Look, because of what has happened, I don't think it is appropriate that we should remain in contact.'\"\n\nPrince Andrew said he attended a small dinner party while he was there but denied it was to celebrate Epstein's release.\n\nFootage released by the Mail on Sunday in August showed Prince Andrew inside the financier's Manhattan mansion around the same time.\n\nThe prince told the BBC that he regretted staying at Epstein's house during the visit, saying he \"let the side down\" by doing so. Pressed on reports that many young girls were coming and going from the house at the time, he said: \"I never saw them.\"\n\nEpstein's house was like a \"railway station\" with \"people coming in and out of that house all the time\", he added.\n\nPrince Andrew's connection to the convicted sex offender did attract criticism at the time.\n\nAfter several days of newspaper reports on the Epstein connection in spring of 2011, Prince Andrew was hit with a further blow when Sarah Ferguson admitted having accepted £15,000 from Epstein, to help pay off her debts.\n\nPrince Andrew's ex-wife Sarah Ferguson in 2011 - she is said to have accepted £15,000 from Epstein that year\n\nThe fallout saw him quit his role as a UK trade envoy in July 2011. Prince Andrew later acknowledged his friendship with Epstein had been a mistake.\n\nIn 2015 the duke was named in court papers as part of a US civil case against Epstein.\n\nPrince Andrew was not party to the proceedings but was identified when a motion was filed in the court, as part of the evidence.\n\nAccording to the Guardian, one of Epstein's accusers, Virginia Roberts - now Virginia Giuffre - said she was ordered to give the prince \"whatever he required\".\n\nPrince Andrew with Virginia Roberts in early 2001, said to have been taken at the home of Ghislaine Maxwell, who is standing behind the pair\n\nMs Giuffre claimed in court papers in Florida she was forced to have sex with the prince on three occasions - in London, New York and on a private Caribbean island owned by Epstein - between 2001 and 2002, including when she was underage under Florida law.\n\nThe details were later officially struck from the court records when a judge ruled they were unnecessary to the case, saying they were \"immaterial and impertinent\" to the \"central claim\".\n\nSeparately, an allegation by a woman called Johanna Sjoberg that Prince Andrew touched her breast while they sat on a couch in Epstein's Manhattan apartment in 2001 was contained in documents from a defamation case. These documents were made public when they were released by a judge in August 2019.\n\nMs Giuffre had brought the defamation case against Ms Maxwell. She was alleged to have procured underage girls for Epstein and his friends, but she has always denied the allegations.\n\nPrince Andrew said he had \"no recollection\" of ever meeting Ms Giuffre. He said he was looking after his children on the day in March 2001 that she alleges they went to a nightclub in London and later had sex in Ms Maxwell's house in the Belgravia area.\n\nThe prince said he had taken his daughter Beatrice to a Pizza Express restaurant in the town of Woking that afternoon for a party.\n\nHe said he remembered it \"because going to Pizza Express in Woking is an unusual thing for me to do, a very unusual thing for me to do\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Andrew: \"I would like to reiterate and reaffirm the statements that have been issued on my behalf by the palace\"\n\nPrince Andrew said he had no recollection of a photo being taken, reportedly by Jeffrey Epstein, of him and Virginia Giuffre together in Ms Maxwell's house where his arm is around her waist.\n\n\"Nobody can prove whether or not that photograph has been doctored but I don't recollect that photograph ever being taken,\" he said, adding that \"hug[s] and public displays of affection are not something that I do\".\n\nAsked whether he had sex with her in a bedroom in that house, he said: \"I can absolutely categorically tell you it never happened.\"\n\nBuckingham Palace has issued outright denials of all allegations against Prince Andrew.", "Disabled employees are paid 12.2% less than their non-disabled peers, according to official data.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) found that in 2018 the median pay for non-disabled workers was £12.11 an hour, against £10.63 for disabled.\n\nLondon had the widest disability pay gap at 15.3%, with the narrowest in Scotland, at 8.3%.\n\nThe gap was the widest for those in their 30s and 40s, the ONS said in its report.\n\nThe data underlines the struggle facing many disabled workers, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) said.\n\n\"Too many disabled people continue to face prejudice and struggle to get into employment or to remain in work, and are less likely to progress to senior management roles or to work in professional occupations,\" said the CIPD's Dr Jill Miller.\n\n\"Businesses that aren't inclusive - and don't manage health and disability effectively - risk missing out on hard-working and talented individuals, and damaging their reputation among staff and customers.\"\n\nAngela Matthews, head of policy and research at Business Disability Forum, added: \"Disabled workers are not 'one group'. Some people with disabilities do not experience many barriers in work, and others experience many, multiple barriers.\n\n\"But we know that unjustified attitudes about what various groups of disabled people can and can't do are still widespread, and affect many employment related issues, including equal pay, bonus pay, and pay increases,\" Ms Matthews said.\n\nThe ONS report is the first analysis of disability pay gaps in the UK using newly reweighted earnings data from the Annual Population Survey.\n\nTo define disability, the ONS uses the Government Statistical Service (GSS) definition. This identifies \"disabled\" as a person who has a physical or mental health condition, or illness that has lasted or is expected to last 12 months or more, that reduces their ability to carry out day-to-day activities.\n\nThe ONS said disabled females were in general paid 10.1% less than non-disabled females in 2018 - narrower than the pay gap between disabled and non-disabled male employees who had a gap of 11.6%.\n\nHowever, employment rates for disabled men and women were similar at 51.7% and 50.4%.\n\nThe ONS also found that those disabled employees with mental impairments had the biggest pay gap at 18.6%, while the gap was 9.7% for the physically impaired.\n\nMuch of the difference in pay can be put down to factors such as what employees do and how qualified they are, the agency said.\n\nUsing the GSS definition of disability, the ONS said 18.9% of people in the UK aged 16 to 64 years were disabled in 2018. 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